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All Categories Armament Comm Brevity Equipment/System Facility/Organization Maneuver Mission/Tactic/Formation Personnel
One versus one. aka ACMAir Combat Maneuvering. aka Dogfighting. Close-quarters A/A combat where each pilot tries to shoot down the other, preferably first., dogfighting.
A public address system used by an aircraft carrier Air Boss1) The officer in charge of all aircraft carrier operations involving aircraft on the flight deck and airborne in the immediate vicinity of the carrier. 2) Nickname for the Vice Admiral serving as Commander, Naval Air Forces who is responsible for the manning, training, and equipping of all aircraft, personnel, and the US Navy’s fleet of aircraft carriers. to communicate with personnel working on the flight deck and in various spaces on the interior of the ship.
A-LOC
Almost G-induced Loss of Consciousness. Nearly passing out due to lack of blood in the brain as a result of pulling G’s.
Comm Brevity
Air-to-air. An aerial fight between two or more aircraft.
Air-to-Surface. A general term for the missions and/or equipment involved in the aerial attack of surface (land or sea) targets.
Armament Comm Brevity
Anti-aircraft artillery. Large-caliber guns and cannon used to shoot down aircraft. Often armed with exploding rounds.
AARGM
Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile. A follow-on improvement to the HARMHigh-speed Anti-radiation Missile. A missile designed to home in on surface-to-air radar emitters, such as those affiliated with early warning detection and SAMs..
Facility/Organization
Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. A secret investigatory effort funded by the US Government to study unidentified flying objects.
A term bestowed on aircrewGeneric term for any aircraft crew member, whether at the flight controls or not. who have downed five or more enemy aircraft in A/AAir-to-air. An aerial fight between two or more aircraft. combat.
Aviation Combat Element. A MAGTFMarine Air Ground Task Force. A principal United States Marine Corps organization that combines air-, land-, and sea-borne forces to conduct a wide array of military operations and humanitarian responses anywhere in the world. Comprised of a CE, ACE, GCE, and LCE. May take the form of a MEB, MEF, or MEU. component that contributes the force. Includes all aircraft (fixed- and rotary-wing), their pilots and maintenance personnel, and those units necessary for aviation command and control.
Air Combat Maneuvering. aka Dogfighting. Close-quarters A/A combat where each pilot tries to shoot down the other, preferably first.
ADIZ
Air Defense Identification Zone. Airspace over land or water in which the identification, location, and control of civil aircraft is performed in the interest of national security. This airspace may extend beyond a country’s territory to afford more time to respond to possibly hostileA Bandit for which engagement is authorized. aircraft.
Air Defense Variant. A variant of the Panavia Tornado intended to perform A/A missions.
Active Electronically Scanned Array. A type of phased array radar where the beam is steered electronically, vice mechanically.
AFCS
Automatic Flight Control System. The computer-directed system that accepts a pilot’s flight control inputs, then factors in current pitot static and aircraft information before deflecting flight control surfaces.
Artificial Feel System. A spring attachment used by the US Navy Blue AngelsThe height of an aircraft in thousands of feet. to add tension to the control stick, thus increasing the ability to make small, precise control inputs.
Active Guard Reserve. A full-time air national guard reservist. Similar to FTSFull Time Support. A US Navy program that allows reservists to perform in positions as full-time active duty members, supporting the Navy Reserve Force..
AGSM
Anti-G Straining Maneuver. A technique that employs muscle-tightening and quick breathing in an effort to maintain blood in the cranium when pulling GsGravitational Force. The pull of earth’s gravity that people and objects experience as “one G” in an unaccelerated state or “zero G” when falling..
Air Intercept Controller. A ground-, sea-, or air-based radar operator who controls the A/A intercepts of combat aircraft.
AIM-120 AMRAAM
Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile. An active radar-guided missile capable of being provided target updates in flight and consummating intercept with its own radar seeker, allowing the firing aircraft to shoot more than one target simultaneously and turn and run from the fight once the missile takes over. When fired, “Fox-3” is called.
AIM-7 Sparrow
A short-medium range semi-active radar-homing A/A missile. When fired, “Fox-1” is called.
AIM-9 Sidewinder
An infrared-seeking short-range A/A missile. When fired, “Fox-2” is called.
Air Boss
1) The officer in charge of all aircraft carrier operations involving aircraft on the flight deck and airborne in the immediate vicinity of the carrier.
2) Nickname for the Vice Admiral serving as Commander, Naval Air Forces who is responsible for the manning, training, and equipping of all aircraft, personnel, and the US Navy’s fleet of aircraft carriers.
Aircrew
Generic term for any aircraft crew member, whether at the flight controls or not.
Air-launched anti-radiation missile. A British version of the US-made HARM.
ALE-39 / ALE-47
Equipment/System
Airborne countermeasures dispenser systems found on many US fighters, such as F/A-18 and F-16. The ALE-47 is an updated, more modern version.
Air Land Sea Application. A multi-service organization established to develop tactical-level solutions of multi-service interoperability issues, such as communications brevity.
The height of an aircraft in thousands of feet.
Astral-inertial System. An SR-71 Blackbird navigation system that incorporates celestial data to derive positional information.
Angle of Attack. The difference, measured in degrees, between the flight path of an aircraft and that aircraft’s longitudinal axis (i.e. where the nose is pointing).
Area of Responsibility. A geographic region of the world where related military activities occur.
APKWS
Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System. Laser-guided 2.75-inch forward-firing aerial rockets.
Auxiliary Power Unit. A small jet engine used to provide aircraft systems power (hydraulic, electrical, etc.).
Area Defense
Comm Brevity Mission/Tactic/Formation
A DCADefensive Counter Air. An A/A mission where fighters reactively engage an adversary, typically over neutral or friendly territory, in the defense of some protected asset(s). mission where fighters defend a large area, such as a geographic area or carrier strike group.
ASCAN
Astronaut Candidate. Someone who is new to the astronaut corps and undergoing training.
ASMOD
ASWAnti-submarine Warfare. The process of detecting, tracking, and in some cases–destroying, enemy submarines. Module. A combat center on a naval warship where ASW operations are coordinated and controlled.
Anti-submarine Warfare. The process of detecting, tracking, and in some cases–destroying, enemy submarines.
ATARS
Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System. An image acquisition, data storage, and data link system mounted under the nose of US Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornets.
Automated Terminal Information System. Recurring aerodrome information, such as weather conditions and duty runway(s), that is repeatedly broadcast on a particular frequency.
Air Tasking Order. A document that disseminates schedules, targets, and tasking for air forces with a joint operational environment.
(See Meatball)
A positively identified enemy aircraft. Does not imply authority to engage.
BARCAP
Mission/Tactic/Formation
Barrier CAPCombat Air Patrol. A general name for A/A missions.. A defensive A/A mission designed to protect an asset, such as an aircraft carrier, from enemy aircraft.
Bullets at Target Range. A HUD cue depicting where previously-fired bullets are in space when they reach the range of the radar-locked target. Used to assess guns employment effectiveness in training.
Basic Fighter Maneuvers. Aerial maneuvers employed during ACM.
Boundary Layer Control. A high-lift system that diverts bleed air from the engine and injects it into the airflow over the wings at slow speeds to prevent or postpone boundary layer separation from the wing, and thus loss of lift.
Blivet
A baggage container, often converted from a fuel tank, that attaches to aircraft weapons stations.
Bomb Live Unit. A series of warheads that contain improved explosive fill compared to the Mk 80 series. Variants include the 500-pound BLU-111; low-collateral damage 500-pound BLU-126/B; 1,000-pound BLU-110 (1,000); and hard target-penetrating, 2,000-pound BLU-109.
An air contactEngagement of enemy forces. whose identity (friendly, enemy, or neutral) is unknown.
Bachelor Officer Quarters. On-base lodging for officer service members who do not have, or when away from, family members.
The front or forward-most portion of a vessel. Opposite of SternThe back or aft-most portion of a vessel. Opposite of Bow..
A formation of four aircraft where two aircraft abeam each other are followed by two other aircraft abeam each other. When viewed from above or below the four aircraft appear to be in the corners of a quadrilateral.
BRA(A)
Bearing Range Altitude (Aspect). The format of an air intercept communication call when referenced to the fighter position.
The room on a ship from which it is steered and controlled.
Bring Back
The ability of an airplane to land on an aircraft carrier with a given amount of fuel and/or ordnance.
Bomb Rack Unit. An adapter housed in an aircraft weapons pylon that supports the loading and wiring of various A/SAir-to-Surface. A general term for the missions and/or equipment involved in the aerial attack of surface (land or sea) targets. racks, rails, launchers, and munitions.
The increased and, subsequently, decreased lift an aircraft experiences as it approaches an aircraft carrier for landing as a result of the relative wind as it flows around and off the ship.
Beyond Visual Range. A/A engagements that take place farther than the human eye can see.
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence. The exercise of authority and direction by a designated commander over assigned forces in the accomplishment of a mission.
Cartridge Actuated Device. An explosive cartridge, similar in size and shape to a shotgun shell, installed in a BRUBomb Rack Unit. An adapter housed in an aircraft weapons pylon that supports the loading and wiring of various A/S racks, rails, launchers, and munitions. used to forcibly release or jettison whatever store may be attached to the BRU.
An obsolete but more-easily spoken term for CVWCarrier Air Wing. A US Navy aviation organization composed of approximately eight independent squadrons that join as one team when deployed aboard an aircraft carrier.. Also, informal title for the CVW Commander, typically a US Navy Captain (O-6).
A nickname aircrew use to address one another on the ground and in-flight, in lieu of using real names and ranks.
Combat Air Patrol. A general name for A/A missions.
Close Air Support. Aerial attack that occurs in close proximity to, and with the detailed coordination of, friendly ground forces.
CATM
Captive Air Training Missile. An A/A missile used for training that lacks many, or all, of the components found on live missiles.
Cross Deck Penant. aka arresting gear wire. An approximately 1.5-inch steel cable strung across the landing area of an aircraft carrier that is engaged by a landing aircraft’s tailhook.
(See Close EscortAn OCA mission where fighters operate as part of a strike package in close proximity to the A/S strike aircraft..)
Command Element. The headquarters element of a MAGTF that directs the other elements.
Circular Error Probability. A concept used to describe the accuracy of a particular aircraft / munition combination.
CFACC
Combined (alternatively, Coalition) Forces Air Component Commander. A military commander tasked to plan, direct, and control joint air operations within a specific theater of operations. See also, JFACCJoint Forces Air Component Commander. A military commander tasked to plan, direct, and control joint air operations within a specific theater of operations. See also, CFACC..
Center of Gravity. The balancing point of an object.
Chaff
Comm Brevity Equipment/System
A radar countermeasure consisting of numerous small, thin dipoles of aluminum-coated fiberglass.
CHange of OPerational Control. The act of military units transferring assignments from one commander to another.
Combat Information Center Officer. One of the five crew members aboard an E-2 Hawkeye and the senior of the three NFOs manning the radar and communications equipment.
Combined Interrogator / Transponder. An aircraft avionics system that combines an IFF and an IFF interrogator. Used to help solve positive identification of other aircraft.
Close Escort
An OCAOffensive Counter Air. An A/A mission where fighters preemptively seek aerial engagements with an adversary, typically over their territory. mission where fighters operate as part of a strike package in close proximity to the A/S strike aircraft.
CNATRA
Chief of Naval Air Training. A one star-admiral-led command responsible for training US Navy and Marine Corps student aircrew. Also overseas the Navy’s flight demonstration squadronAn aviation organization composed of aircrew, support personnel, aircraft, and equipment. (aka Blue Angels).
CNO
Chief of Naval Operations. The highest-ranking officer in the US Navy who reports directly to the Secretary of the Navy for the command, utilization of resources, and operating efficiency of the operating forces of the Navy.
Commanding Officer. aka “Skipper”. The senior-ranking officer and individual in charge of a particular unit, such as a squadron.
Combat Spread
An aerial formation where two aircraft fly 1 to 1.5 miles abeam each other, headed in the same direction, and from level up to several thousand feet off each other’s altitude.
Engagement of enemy forces.
Crew Resource Management. A management system which makes optimum use of all available human factor and other resources to promote safety and enhance the efficiency of flight operations.
CSAR
Combat search and rescue.
CVIC
Aircraft Carrier Intelligence Center. A facility within an aircraft carrier where intelligence is gathered, collated, and used to mission plan, brief, and debrief aerial missions. The space is manned by intelligence personnel and frequented by aviators.
CVOA
Aircraft Carrier Operating Area. Air and sea space designated for the launch, recovery, and training flights of aircraft carrier-borne aircraft.
Carrier Air Wing. A US Navy aviation organization composed of approximately eight independent squadrons that join as one team when deployed aboard an aircraft carrier.
Dissimilar Air Combat Training. A/A training between differing aircraft, such as F-15s and F/A-18s.
Defensive Counter Air. An A/A mission where fighters reactively engage an adversary, typically over neutral or friendly territory, in the defense of some protected asset(s).
1) Decompression Sickness. A condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body due to depressurization.
2) Digital Combat Simulator. A digital battlefield game offering authentic and realistic simulation of military aircraft, tanks, ground vehicles and ships.
Distinguished Flying Cross. The fourth highest service medal by precedence awarded to service members who distinguishes themselves in support of operations by heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight.
aka Four-ship. A coordinated flight of four aircraft operating in close proximity to one another.
E-M Diagram
Energy-Maneuverability Diagram. An aircraft performance comparison method developed by USAF Colonel John Boyd that incorporates energy, thrust, weight, aerodynamic drag, wing area, flight characteristics and more.
A formation of two or more aircraft all lined out to one side and slightly behind the preceding aircraft.
Electronic Countermeasures Officer. An NFO who crews the backseat of an EA-18G Growler.
Electric Combat / Reconnaissance. A West German variant of the Panavia Tornado.
Electronic Identification. The use of onboard systems to determine the identity of another aircraft.
A device designed to propel an aircrew occupant safely out of and away from a distressed aircraft.
Electronic Intelligence. Covert intelligence-gathering by electronic means.
Electromotive Force. The electrical intensity or pressure developed by a source of electrical energy such as a battery or generator.
Emergency Procedure. A scripted procedure to follow, oftentimes from memory, in the event of an aircraft malfunction or emergency.
Extravehicular Activity. A space walk.
A generic term for inflight-deployable countermeasures such as chaffA radar countermeasure consisting of numerous small, thin dipoles of aluminum-coated fiberglass., flares, and jammer decoys. Also known as “items.”
Forward Air Controller. A pilot serving alongside ground forces, acting as a liaison with combat support aircraft.
Full Authority Digital Engine Control. A system consisting of a digital computer and related accessories that control all aspects of aircraft engine performance.
FAIP
First Assignment Instructor Pilot (aka SERGRADSelectively Retained Graduate. A flight student who completes training and immediately remains at the squadron as an instructor despite having no fleet experience.). An instructor pilot who has not yet served in an operational squadron.
An enclosure designed to block electromagnetic fields.
FCLP
Field Carrier Landing Practice. A flight where the purpose is to perform repeated aircraft carrier-style landings ashore in preparation for later carrier qualifying afloat.
Fighter Even, BogeyAn air contact whose identity (friendly, enemy, or neutral) is unknown. Odd. An obsolete deconfliction strategy intended to prevent mid-air collisions. Requires fighters to arrive at the mergeThe point in time and space where opposing aircraft meet in an A/A engagement, generally heading in opposite directions. on even, whole thousand altitudes (e.g. 22,000 ft, 30,000 ft, etc.) and the adversaries at odd (e.g. 25,000 ft).
Fence Checks
The act of preparing an aircraft for possible combat prior to entering into a designated area (fence in) and then ensuring the aircraft is safely ready to RTBReturn to Base. The act of returning to the place of origin or other friendly place of refuge, following a mission. when egressing combat areas (fence out).
Flag Officer
A commissioned military officer who has attained the rank of general (land forces) or admiral (maritime forces), at the rank of O-7 or above.
See AAAAnti-aircraft artillery. Large-caliber guns and cannon used to shoot down aircraft. Often armed with exploding rounds..
A countermeasure deployed by aircraft to decoy infrared-seeking weapons systems and missiles.
Fox-1/2/3
A communications brevity term used when launching semi-active radar / infrared seeking / and active radar missiles, respectively.
Fleet Replacement Squadron. aka RAGReplacement Air Group. An obsolete but sometimes-used name for the FRS.. A US Navy training squadron that prepares pilots for operational service in fleet-specific aircraft.
Full Time Support. A US Navy program that allows reservists to perform in positions as full-time active duty members, supporting the Navy Reserve Force.
Gravitational Force. The pull of earth’s gravity that people and objects experience as “one G” in an unaccelerated state or “zero G” when falling.
G-LOC
G-induced Loss of Consciousness. Passing out due to lack of blood in the brain as a result of pulling G’s.
Ground Combat Element. A MAGTF component usually comprised of infantry and supported by armor (tanks), and artillery. May also include special units such as scouts or Force Reconnaissance, snipers and JTACJoint Terminal Attack Controller. A qualified service member, often an aviator, who directs the action of combat aircraft engaged in close air support and other offensive air operations from a forward position.s.
GCI
Ground-Controlled Intercept. AICAir Intercept Controller. A ground-, sea-, or air-based radar operator who controls the A/A intercepts of combat aircraft. provided by a ground controller.
Geedunk
Slang for either candy or other edible treats (normally sugary), or various trinkets such as stickers, t-shirts, shot glasses, etc. So named because of the gee-dunk sound a coin makes when dropping into a vending machine.
(See Fighter Pilot)
Global Positioning System. A constellation of satellites that afford precision location information and coordinate generation on earth.
High-speed Anti-radiation Missile. A missile designed to home in on surface-to-air radar emitters, such as those affiliated with early warning detection and SAMs.
HEMC
High Explosive, Medium Capacity. A 1,000-lb bomb fielded by Great Britain.
HMLA
Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron. A US Marine Corps squadron comprised of AH-1 Cobra / Viper and UH-1 Huey helicopters.
A BanditA positively identified enemy aircraft. Does not imply authority to engage. for which engagement is authorized.
HOTAS
Hands On Throttle-And-Stick.
Horizontal Situation Indicator.
HVAAP
High Value Airborne Asset Protection. An A/A mission where fighters actively defend an aircraft that is unable to defend itself. Could be a standalone mission or in conjunction with OCA or DCA missions.
IADS
Integrated Air Defense System. A system of radar, weapons, command and control nodes, and communications networks that operate together to defend a geographic area or high value asset.
Interdictor / Strike. A variant of the Panavia Tornado intended for surface attack.
Introductory Flight Screening. A civilian, FAA-certified flight school experience that exposes prospective US Navy and Marine Corps flight students to the rigors of pilot training.
Immelman
An aerial maneuver where the aircraft pulls up vertically, performing half a loop, then rolls upright at the top of the loop.
Inertial Navigation System. A navigation aid that uses a computer, and motion, rotation, and occasionally magnetic sensors to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity of a moving object without the need for external references.
Initial Operational Capability. A date where a military aircraft is sufficiently fielded and units prepared for the aircraft to be declared operationally ready for combat.
Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar. A technique using radar imaging to generate a two-dimensional high resolution image of a target, such as a submarine periscope.
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance. Integrated and synchronized collection efforts designed to provide warfighters information on the surrounding battlespace.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations. A US regulatory regime that restricts and controls the export of defense and military related technologies to safeguard national security and further US foreign policy objectives.
JASSM
Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. A low observable stand-off air-launched missile.
JBD
Jet Blast Deflector. A large shield that raises out of the flight deck of an aircraft carrier that protects other aircraft and equipment by deflecting the exhaust of an aircraft at high power settings just prior to launch.
JDAM
Joint Direct Attack Munition. A GPS-guided free-fall bomb available in the 500- / 1,000- / and 2,000-pound classes.
JFACC
Joint Forces Air Component Commander. A military commander tasked to plan, direct, and control joint air operations within a specific theater of operations. See also, CFACCCombined (alternatively, Coalition) Forces Air Component Commander. A military commander tasked to plan, direct, and control joint air operations within a specific theater of operations. See also, JFACC..
JMEMs
Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals. A compilation of data and methodologies designed to allow selection of the best weapon to attack a given target based on certain constraints and damage / kill requirements.
(See God)
JSOW
Joint Stand Off Weapon. A GPS-guided glide bomb.
JTAC
Joint Terminal Attack Controller. A qualified service member, often an aviator, who directs the action of combat aircraft engaged in close air support and other offensive air operations from a forward position.
Knot(s)
Nautical mile(s) per hour.
Landing Area. The part of an aircraft carrier where aircraft land.
Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System. A US Navy program that developed manned helicopters that assist the surface fleet with ASW.
Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night. A sensor pod adapted from the F-15 Eagle for use on the F-14 Tomcat, which afforded precision strike capability.
Launch Acceptability Region. A visual depiction of the intercept capability of a selected A/A missile based on both the ownship and target’s current altitude, airspeed, heading, and maneuvering.
LCAC
Landing Craft, Air Cushion. An amphibious vehicle used to transport, ship-to-shore and across the beach, personnel, weapons, equipment, and cargo of the assault elements of the MAGTF.
Logistics Combat Element. A MAGTF component comprised of all support units such as communications, combat engineers, motor transport, medical, supply units, and certain specialized groups such as air delivery and landing support teams.
Leading Edge Extension(s). The structural portion of an F/A-18 where the fuselage and wings meet which improves airflow at high AOAAngle of Attack. The difference, measured in degrees, between the flight path of an aircraft and that aircraft’s longitudinal axis (i.e. where the nose is pointing). and low airspeeds, to improve handling and delay stall.
Laser-guided Bomb. An aerial free-fall weapon that homes on laser energy reflected off a designated target.
LGTR
Laser-guided Training Round. A low-cost, inert laser-guided training munition that allows aircrew to simulate employing LGBs.
Low Rate Initial Production. Manufactured aircraft that are one step beyond prototypes but not yet full production models.
Landing Signal Officer. A pilot who has the collateral duty of assisting in the safe and expeditious recovery of aircraft, usually aboard an aircraft carrier but also as required at airfields ashore.
Live, Virtual, Constructive. A cost- and asset-conserving strategy that includes manned aircraft, manned aircraft simulators, and computer-generated aircraft for the training and testing of various missions.
Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies (*phew!*). A computer-software PLMPrecision Landing Modes. (See MAGIC CARPET) integration system that works with an aircraft’s digital flight control system to reduce pilot workload and improve safety during aircraft carrier landings.
MAGTF
Marine Air Ground Task Force. A principal United States Marine Corps organization that combines air-, land-, and sea-borne forces to conduct a wide array of military operations and humanitarian responses anywhere in the world. Comprised of a CE(See Close Escort.), ACEAviation Combat Element. A MAGTF component that contributes the force. Includes all aircraft (fixed- and rotary-wing), their pilots and maintenance personnel, and those units necessary for aviation command and control., GCEGround Combat Element. A MAGTF component usually comprised of infantry and supported by armor (tanks), and artillery. May also include special units such as scouts or Force Reconnaissance, snipers and JTACs., and LCELogistics Combat Element. A MAGTF component comprised of all support units such as communications, combat engineers, motor transport, medical, supply units, and certain specialized groups such as air delivery and landing support teams.. May take the form of a MEBMarine Expeditionary Brigade. A MAGTF constructed around a reinforced infantry regiment, a composite Marine aircraft group, and a brigade service support group. Task-organized to meet the requirements of a specific situation. It can function alone, as part of a joint task force, or as the lead echelon of a MEF., MEFMarine Expeditionary Force. A MAGTF comprised of a MEF Headquarters Group, Marine Division, MAW, and Marine Logistics Group., or MEUMarine Expeditionary Unit. The smallest type of MAGTF with customizable composition based on the task at hand. Additional artillery, armor, or air units can be attached, including squadrons of MV-22B Osprey and AV-8B Harriers..
Marine Air Wing. A USMC organization that provides combat ready expeditionary aviation forces capable of short notice world wide deployment to MAGTF, fleet, and unified commanders.
MAWTS-1
Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One. A US Marine Corps command that provides advanced tactical training and unit instructor certification in the support of Marine Aviation training and readiness.
Slang term for the optical landing system employed to provide glideslope information to pilots landing on an aircraft carrier.
Marine Expeditionary Brigade. A MAGTF constructed around a reinforced infantry regiment, a composite Marine aircraft group, and a brigade service support group. Task-organized to meet the requirements of a specific situation. It can function alone, as part of a joint task force, or as the lead echelonA formation of two or more aircraft all lined out to one side and slightly behind the preceding aircraft. of a MEF.
MECEP
Marine Corps Enlisted Commissioning Educational Program. A program that affords enlisted U.S. Marines an opportunity to finish a bachelor’s degree and receive a commission as a Marine officer.
A backup flight control mode of the F/A-18 where the pilot controls the aircraft through direct connection to horizontal stabilator hydraulic actuators. Usually considered an emergency situation.
MEDEVAC
Medical Evacuation. The immediate removal of wounded service members from the battlefield.
Marine Expeditionary Force. A MAGTF comprised of a MEF Headquarters Group, Marine Divisionaka Four-ship. A coordinated flight of four aircraft operating in close proximity to one another., MAWMarine Air Wing. A USMC organization that provides combat ready expeditionary aviation forces capable of short notice world wide deployment to MAGTF, fleet, and unified commanders., and Marine Logistics Group.
The point in time and space where opposing aircraft meet in an A/A engagement, generally heading in opposite directions.
Merge Plot
A communication term indicating that a fighter aircraft has entered the visual arena with a target of interest.
Marine Expeditionary Unit. The smallest type of MAGTF with customizable composition based on the task at hand. Additional artillery, armor, or air units can be attached, including squadrons of MV-22B Osprey and AV-8B Harriers.
MIDS
Multifunctional Information Distribution System. An advanced C4ICommand, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence. The exercise of authority and direction by a designated commander over assigned forces in the accomplishment of a mission. system incorporating high-capacity, jam-resistant, digital communication links for exchange of near real-time tactical information, including both data and voice, among air, ground, and sea elements.
A college student enrolled either at the US Naval Academy or in a Navy ROTCReserve Officer Training Corps. An officer commissioning program that allows students to attend non-service academies (i.e. public and private universities and colleges) where students pursue a bachelor’s degree while preparing for service as a commissioned officer in the military. program.
MIGCAP
An offensive A/A mission flown in an effort to stir up and shoot down enemy aircraft.
Massive Ordnance Air Blast (a.k.a. GBU-43). A high-yield air-dropped bomb said to be the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the US military inventory.
Military Occupational Specialty. A code that identifies a particular military job or area of expertise.
MRCA
Multi-Role Combat Aircraft. An aircraft designed and/or intended to perform more than one mission in combat.
Naval Aerospace Medical Institute. A US Navy organization that supports Navy and Marine Corps aviation units through aeromedical consultation, services development and application of aeromedical standards, and training of aeromedical personnel for operational assignments. Aspiring naval aviators often refer to medical rejection by this institution as the “NAMINaval Aerospace Medical Institute. A US Navy organization that supports Navy and Marine Corps aviation units through aeromedical consultation, services development and application of aeromedical standards, and training of aeromedical personnel for operational assignments. Aspiring naval aviators often refer to medical rejection by this institution as the "NAMI whammy." whammy.”
Naval Academy Preparatory School. An institution that enhances midshipmanA college student enrolled either at the US Naval Academy or in a Navy ROTC program. candidates’ moral, mental, and physical foundations to prepare them for success at the U.S. Naval Academy.
NATOPS
Naval Aviation and Training Operations Procedures Standardization (*phew*). Flight and operating instructions and procedures applicable to the operation of all US naval aircraft and related aviation activities.
Nautical Mile
A unit of measure based on the circumference of the earth, equal to one minute of latitude. Equivalent to approx. 6,072 feet or 115% of a statute mile.
Naval Air Systems Command. A US Navy organization whose mission is to provide full life-cycle support of naval aviation aircraft, weapons and systems operated by Sailors and Marines. This support includes research, design, development and systems engineering; acquisition; test and evaluation; training facilities and equipment; repair and modification; and in-service engineering and logistics support.
NAWDC
Naval Aviation Warfare Development Center. The Fallon, Nevada-based center of excellence for naval aviation training and tactics development. Parent command to TOPGUNaka Navy Fighter Weapons School. A US Navy institution that develops and provides graduate-level strike-fighter tactics..
Noncombatant Evacuation Operation. The ordered (mandatory) or authorized (voluntary) departure of civilian noncombatants and nonessential military personnel from danger in an overseas country to a designated safe haven.
Naval Flight Officer. A US Navy commissioned officer assigned to non-pilot-in-control aerial duties such as weapons control, radar intercept, or electronic countermeasures.
NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command. A combined command between the US and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection of North America.
Notices to Airmen. A written notification issued to aircrew before flight, advising of circumstances relating to the state of flying.
A first-tour aviator.
Offensive Counter Air. An A/A mission where fighters preemptively seek aerial engagements with an adversary, typically over their territory.
Officer Candidate School. A program for college graduates who did not attend a service academyA federal university that provides students an undergraduate degree and the preparation needed to serve as a commissioned officer in the US armed forces after graduation. or participate in ROTC. Successful program completion results in commissioning as a military officer.
Operations Duty Officer. A squadron aviator responsible for executing the flight schedule. Manned by an instructor at a training squadron.
OFP
Operational Flight Program. A particular software used to control computer avionics.
Ordnance Handling Officer. A aircraft carrier-assigned officer in charge of the ship’s ordnance.
OLF
Outlying Field. An airfield used by military aircraft for landing practice.
Operations Specialist. A rating for enlisted US Navy personnel who specialize in providing AIC.
Slang term for an LSOLanding Signal Officer. A pilot who has the collateral duty of assisting in the safe and expeditious recovery of aircraft, usually aboard an aircraft carrier but also as required at airfields ashore..
Probability of destruction. A derived probability that a target will receive the desired level of damage or destruction based on a variety of factors such as weapon selection and delivery type.
PDSTT
Pulse Doppler Single Target Track. A radar tracking mode where pulse doppler is used to track one target, to the exclusion of any other target.
Pilot Landing Aid Television. A system of low-light TV cameras and displays positioned as a tool for, and to record, aircraft carrier landings and flight deck operations.
Precision Landing Modes. (See MAGIC CARPETMaritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies (*phew!*). A computer-software PLM integration system that works with an aircraft’s digital flight control system to reduce pilot workload and improve safety during aircraft carrier landings.)
Point Defense
A DCA mission where fighters defend a very small asset, such as a downed aircrew.
Petroleum Oil Lubricants. A class of supplies consisting of various fuel, hydraulic, and lubrication fluids.
The left side of an aircraft or vessel when facing the front of the aircraft or vessel. Opposite of StarboardThe right side of an aircraft or vessel when facing the front of the aircraft or vessel. Opposite of Port..
Plain Old Telephone System. A ship-based communication system that facilitates telephone-type calls via satellite from ship to shore. Notorious for the delay between spoken and heard transmissions, leading to awkward conversations.
President of the United States.
Personnel Qualification Standard. A publication that guides the training of a Navy sailor in the attainment of increased qualifications and experience.
Replacement Aircrew. An FRSFleet Replacement Squadron. aka RAG. A US Navy training squadron that prepares pilots for operational service in fleet-specific aircraft. student. Subdivided into one of four categories:
Cat 1: initial training
e.g. A newly-winged pilot
Cat 2: conversion training
e.g. An F-14 converting to the F/A-18
Cat 3: refresher training following a long absence from flying
e.g. A pilot returning to duty after a non-flying tour of duty
Cat 4: miscellaneous
e.g. A current F/A-18A-D pilot undergoing initial F/A-18E/F training).
Replacement Air Group. An obsolete but sometimes-used name for the FRS.
Ram Air Turbine. A small, propeller-driven generator deployed in response to an aircraft malfunction to provide limited electrical power and/or hydraulic pressure.
Reduced Afterburner Thrust System. A protective feature of the F-14 Tomcat that prevented in the inadvertent selection of afterburner during aircraft carrier takeoffs and landings.
Radar Cross Section. The measure of a target’s ability to reflect radar signals in the direction of the radar receiver.
Ready Room
A common area where squadron aircrew congregate, socialize, and brief & debrief missions.
Radar Intercept Officer. An NFONaval Flight Officer. A US Navy commissioned officer assigned to non-pilot-in-control aerial duties such as weapons control, radar intercept, or electronic countermeasures. who crewed the backseat of an F-4 Phantom or F-14 Tomcat.
Radar Operator. One of the five crew members aboard an E-2 Hawkeye, and typically the most junior of the three NFOs manning the radar and communications equipment.
Reserve Officer Training Corps. An officer commissioning program that allows students to attend non-service academies (i.e. public and private universities and colleges) where students pursue a bachelor’s degree while preparing for service as a commissioned officer in the military.
Reconnaissance Systems Officer – An SR-71 Blackbird backseater.
Return to Base. The act of returning to the place of origin or other friendly place of refuge, following a mission.
Replacement Training Unit. (Air Force term.) A squadron that prepares pilots for operational service in fleet-specific aircraft.
Radar Warning Receiver. Passive sensors used to detect the presence of off board radar emitters.
Situational Awareness. The perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time and space.
SADL
Situation Awareness Data Link. An air communication and data sharing system.
Surface-to-air Missile. Homing or guided missiles designed to shootdow aircraft.
SAMBUSH
SAMSurface-to-air Missile. Homing or guided missiles designed to shootdow aircraft. Ambush. A tactic where aircraft attempt to draw opposing aircraft into a particular geographic area so that they can be engaged by SAMs.
Search and Rescue. The process of locating and recovering distressed personnel.
An OCA mission where fighters operate in conjunction with a strike package some coordinated time / distance behind.
Software Configuration Set. A set of OFPs used to operate a modern military aircraft.
Small Diameter Bomb. A 250-lb precision-guided glide bomb intended to provide aircraft with the ability to carry a higher number of more accurate bombs.
Squadron Duty Officer. A squadron aviator who assists the ODOOperations Duty Officer. A squadron aviator responsible for executing the flight schedule. Manned by an instructor at a training squadron. during execution of the flight schedule. Manned by a student at a training squadron.
SEAWARS
Seawater-activated Release System. A device intended to release a parachuting aircrew from the parachute upon landing in the ocean to minimize entanglement and possible drowning.
aka Two-ship. A coordinated flight of two aircraft operating in close proximity to one another.
Self-Escort Strike
A combination OCA/strike mission where aircraft fight their way into a target, strike it with A/S ordnance, then fight their way out again.
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape. A military program designed to prepare military and other personnel to cope when in enemy territory.
SERGRAD
Selectively Retained Graduate. A flight student who completes training and immediately remains at the squadron as an instructor despite having no fleet experience.
Service Academy
Facility/Organization Personnel
A federal university that provides students an undergraduate degree and the preparation needed to serve as a commissioned officer in the US armed forces after graduation.
(See Self-Escort StrikeA combination OCA/strike mission where aircraft fight their way into a target, strike it with A/S ordnance, then fight their way out again..)
SFARP
Strike Fighter Advanced Readiness Program. A unit-level training evolution designed to hone aerial combat skills as an initial step in preparation for follow-on workups for deployment. Administered by a Type Wing Weapons School.
SFTI
Strike-Fighter Tactics Instructor. A TOPGUN graduate.
Signals Intelligence. The collection of electronic emissions in the interest of gaining information.
A comm brevity term used when a fighter has employed all of its active missiles.
SLAM ER
Stand-off Land Attack Missile Expanded Response. A GPS-guided, cruise missile-like weapon that beams television imagery back to the launching or supporting aircraft in order for real time ‘pilot-in-the-loop’ aim point updates and success determination.
Subject Matter Expert.
Stores Management System. A computerized aircraft system that acts as the conduit between the aircrew and any stores (i.e. racks, rails, launchers, fuel tanks, ordnance) that may be loaded on the aircraft.
An aviation organization composed of aircrew, support personnel, aircraft, and equipment.
Surface Surveillance Control. A patrol mission flown to build a consolidated picture of surface vessel contacts in a particular area.
The right side of an aircraft or vessel when facing the front of the aircraft or vessel. Opposite of PortThe left side of an aircraft or vessel when facing the front of the aircraft or vessel. Opposite of Starboard..
The back or aft-most portion of a vessel. Opposite of BowThe front or forward-most portion of a vessel. Opposite of Stern..
The deliberate act of retiring an aircraft from active service.
An OCA mission where fighters act autonomously without being tied to any other fighter elements or strike package.
SWOS
Surface Warfare Officer School. The academic institution where naval officers learn how to control and employ warships.
Tactical Air-Launched Decoy. An unmanned air-launched radar decoy used to stimulate enemy air defense systems by presenting a realistic threat signature of actual manned aircraft, in radar cross sectionaka Two-ship. A coordinated flight of two aircraft operating in close proximity to one another. and flight characteristics
Training and Administration of the Reserve. A predecessor program to FTS.
Targeteer
A military intelligence officer who specializes in generating precise targets for ground targets and assists with weapon-to-target match determination.
Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System. A camera pod fitted to the F-14 Tomcat which afforded an aerial reconnaissance capability.
Tactical Crew Coordination. A standardized system to maximize the effectiveness of multi-crew tactical aircraft.
Television Camera Set. An optical system installed in the F-14 Tomcat that permitted crews to visually identify and track aircraft beyond visual range.
TILD
Thermal Imaging Laser Designation. An externally-mounted infrared used on the Panavia Tornado.
A 1986 American romantic military action drama motion picture.
aka Navy Fighter Weapons School. A US Navy institution that develops and provides graduate-level strike-fighter tactics.
Tactical Situational Display. A display installed in the F-14 Tomcat to increase the crew’s situational awareness tactically.
TTLR
Turning Tanker Last Recovery. An aerial refueling-equipped aircraft manned and ready on an aircraft carrier to launch in the event more fuel is needed airborne to recover aircraft.
Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle. An unmanned aerial vehicle that carries ordnance used for offensive strikes.
UNREP
Underway Replenishment. The act of transfering supplies, fuel, and/or ammunition between two or more ships while underway at sea by means of direct connection between ships.
UTTR
Utah Test and Training Range. A military testing and training area located approximately 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah.
V/STOL
Vertical / Short Takeoff and Landing. A characteristic of aircraft that can takeoff and land either vertically or in distances much shorter than tradtional fixed-wing aircraft.
Variable Exhaust Nozzle(s). An adjustable nozzle on the aft-most portion of a jet engine designed to optimize performance.
VERTREP
Vertical Replenishment. The act of transfering supplies or ammunition between ships at sea by use of vertical-flight-capable aircraft, such as helicopters.
Vestibular System
aka inner ear. An anatomical apparatus involved in maintaining balance and spatial orientation.
Visual Identification. A tactic employed to determine the identity of another aircraft by passing by closely and observing visually.
Virtual Reality. An interactive computer-generated experience that takes place within a simulated environment.
A formation of four aircraft abeam each other in a relatively-straight line, albeit possibly at different altitudes.
Weapons System Officer. An NFO who crews the backseat of an F/A-18D Hornet or F/A-18F Super Hornet.
WVR
Within Visual Range. A/A engagements that take place within a distance that the human eye can see.
Ziplip
A no radio communications event or activity, such as landing on an aircraft carrier during daytime, favorable weather conditions.
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League Cup: Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says mid-game change of tactics might have confused players
Sports AFP Jan 12, 2017 16:59:00 IST
Southampton: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admitted he may have bamboozled his players by jotting down a change of tactics on a scrap of paper during his team's 1-0 defeat to Southampton in the League Cup semi-final first leg.
Striker Daniel Sturridge appeared nonplussed when passed the details on the note in the second half at St Mary's, with other Liverpool players also bemused by Klopp's switch.
Former Borussia Dortmund manager Klopp revealed he had altered Liverpool's tactics to 3-5-2, and admitted failing to get the message across to his players quickly enough.
File photo of Jurgen Klopp. Reuters
"It was just a new system, however you want to call it, 3-5-2," said Klopp. "Two wingers, two strikers, that's all. No more information, but it was enough.
"I think we were a little bit too late when we gave him the paper when the game was already running on. That was our mistake.
"Seven or eight could see it but Roberto (Firmino) needed a bit longer. So things like this happen."
Despite the loss, Klopp insisted Liverpool will strike back against Southampton in the second leg despite being well below their best in the opening salvo of the semi-final in which Nathan Redmond's cool first half finish gave the Saints a 1-0 victory at St Mary's.
Redmond missed two more good chances as the home side wasted the opportunity to take complete control of the tie.
Relieved only to lose by one goal, Klopp knows the Anfield atmosphere will propel his players to a more dynamic effort in the return leg on 25 January and he believes that could be enough to secure a Wembley date with Manchester United or Hull.
"The performance doesn't feel too good, that's how it is. But for the final everything is open," Klopp said.
"At this moment there's two disappointed managers after the game, one because he lost, the other because he won 1-0 and has to go to Anfield, and that's how it is.
'Strike back'
"We will strike back, we will be a different team, different side -- everything will be different at Anfield.
"So for us it's still possible to go to Wembley, and that's the target. That's the only comfort to take from tonight.
"Losing 1-0 is the third-best result you can get. I don't like it too much, but it's still possible."
Liverpool take on Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Sunday and Klopp demanded an immediate improvement from his side, who have failed to win their last three matches in all competitions.
"I'm not used to a reaction like this from my boys but we have to accept that tonight it was not good," he said.
"We have to show a reaction against Southampton, but it would be cool to show a reaction at the weekend because we'll probably need a better performance at Old Trafford."
Southampton boss Claude Puel admitted his side should probably have secured a greater winning margin.
But the Frenchman is confident Saints can still progress to their first League Cup final since 1979.
"It's a little frustration that this win was just 1-0," Puel said.
"With just a little more luck we could have been further ahead.
"But I think it was important to keep this result with a clean sheet, with a win, and to sustain our chances of qualifying for the final.
"It was a great performance here, and I believe they had just one chance in the whole game, so it's a good performance from my players."
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Shelter interventions prevent and mitigate displacement
Davina Wadley
wadley.pdf
In hazard-prone developing countries, shelter interventions are an important way to prevent or mitigate natural disaster-induced displacement. To be effective, however, they need to be multi-faceted and carried out with the involvement of the communities affected.
Each year millions of people are driven from their homes by natural disasters and often remain displaced because their homes have been damaged or destroyed. The likelihood that climate change will increase the force and frequency of storms, floods and other weather-related events makes the need to improve shelter all the more urgent. Governments, donors and local and international NGOs must focus on a combination of both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ shelter adaptation and mitigation interventions, and do so in consultation with communities.
Hard interventions refer to physical shelter structures and include strengthening their resilience through repairing or retro-fitting existing structures, and building new disaster-resilient structures.
(Retro-fitting is the process of modifying an existing structure to make it more disaster-resistant. For example, the shelter can be improved by adding bracings and reinforcements to make it better able to withstand earthquakes or strong winds, or by including higher waterproof storage areas to protect belongings from flood damage.)
In some situations, repairing and retro-fitting a shelter will not prevent displacement and, instead, communities will need new, disaster-resistant homes. A good example of this is a flood-resistant shelter design implemented in 2008 by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in consultation with communities in India’s disaster-prone states of West Bengal and Orissa. The project involved the construction of 157 houses that were elevated above flood-water levels and built using locally available materials like concrete mix and chicken wire which do not wash away in flood waters. All 157 shelters withstood Cyclone Aila in May 2009.[1] The plinth, walls, roof and pillars remained intact, and only the mud daub (which washed away) needed to be replaced.
Repairing, retro-fitting and building new disaster-resilient shelters stop the cycle of displacement in a number of ways. Firstly, disaster-prone areas tend to experience frequent, sometimes annual, disasters. Not only does this cause recurrent displacement but it also creates a cycle of poverty that further prevents people from safeguarding against future displacement. For example, CRS found that displaced flood victims in Orissa were forced to seek substantial loans from local money lenders, which could take a year or more to repay. However, because they were only able to afford cheap, inferior building materials to reconstruct their homes, these households often lost their homes in the next flood.[2] One participant in the project reported that he had lost his house 10-15 times. Secondly, small pilot programmes such as these encourage other community members to build similar shelters, and can promote greater community awareness of disaster adaptation and mitigation practices and strategies.
Soft interventions include mapping, usage zoning, erosion control, drainage, land-use assessments, investments in community shelter management and maintenance programmes, and policy and advocacy regarding land rights and tenure.
For example, projects that assist local governments to map out disaster-prone areas and to implement better zoning and land-use planning can be particularly helpful in preventing displacement by discouraging communities from building homes in identified hazard-prone areas. Such projects should in principle incorporate risk mapping and disaster planning as well. Strengthening land rights and tenure can assist and empower communities to invest in protections against displacement (such as insurance) and encourage communities to better maintain their homes. And investments in community training programmes on the management and maintenance of existing housing – such as repairing roofing and maintaining bracing and joints[3] – is a cost-effective strategy for making shelter more disaster-resilient.[4]
Complementary interventions
If communities are not consulted or involved in the implementation of shelter interventions, such interventions are unlikely to be sustained by the community in the long term. Also, a failure to consult and involve local communities can lead to unrealistic expectations by local communities about the outcome of the shelter intervention and can undermine trust between local communities and NGOs, and hinder future access by NGOs to implement shelter interventions in disaster-prone areas.
Shelter interventions should be accompanied by disaster risk reduction measures such as early warning systems, weather forecasting, and improving water management and flood control through flood defences and protection or restoration of wetlands, mangroves and other natural ecosystems.
Disaster risk reduction measures will only protect against displacement if they are locally implemented, and if local communities have the capacity to effectively implement such measures. For example, in early 2012 Refugees International travelled to Colombia and interviewed people who were still displaced 15 months after heavy rains and flooding had forced them to flee. Colombia had a disaster risk management plan in place before the flooding started in 2010 and was considered a leader in disaster risk management in the Latin American region. But its plan failed to effectively protect the three million Colombians who were either displaced or otherwise affected by the disaster. The scale of displacement exposed serious flaws in the system – most notably the lack of local implementation and capacity.[5]
Despite extensive research and expertise in effective shelter interventions, the biggest challenge has been the failure of governments, donors and NGOs to proactively undertake preventive shelter interventions. Most often, disaster-resistant shelter is built with humanitarian funding after a disaster and only a small fraction of donor money goes to stand-alone, proactive measures. This is not an effective use of limited resources and it does not prevent displacement in the long term. For example, shelter construction after a disaster is often focused on building the largest number of shelters within the shortest time frame, often at the expense of community consultation, education, mapping, zoning and erosion control, all of which are essential to preventing displacement in the long term.
Given all the above, it is important that governments, donors and NGOs:
implement both hard and soft shelter interventions
focus on shelter interventions which involve community consultation and encourage capacity building and mobilisation of communities
complement shelter interventions with investments in disaster risk reduction measures, such as local implementation of early warning systems
focus in hazard-prone areas on proactive shelter interventions rather than on short-term humanitarian responses to shelter needs.
Davina Wadley is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Bacon Centre for the Study of Climate Displacement, Refugees International www.refugeesinternational.org/who-we-are/our-issues/climate-displacement
[1] http://tinyurl.com/CRS-Shelterposter
[2] http://tinyurl.com/CRS-FloodResistantShelter
[3] http://tinyurl.com/UNHabitat-SaferShelter
[4] http://tinyurl.com/CCCEP-ClimateRisk
[5] http://tinyurl.com/RefsIntl-ColombiaFloods
Book traversal links for Shelter interventions prevent and mitigate displacement
‹ Recognising the land rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities
Voluntariness to remaın ›
The history and status of the right not to be displaced
International Humanitarian Law: a short summary of relevant provisions
To prevent or pursue displacement?
The ‘tool box’ at states’ disposal to prevent displacement: a Swiss perspective
Driving displacement: explosive weapons in populated areas
Predicting disasters and protecting rights
Towards a uniform legal system of protection
Flooding in Thailand: flee, fight or float
The management of climate displacement
Recognising the land rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities
Voluntariness to remaın
The ICRC approach in situations of pre-displacement
Businesses’ human rights responsibilities
Undermining development: forced eviction in Bangladesh
The UN Security Council and prevention of displacement
Preventing re-displacement through genuine reintegration in Burundi
Post-conflict land insecurity threatens re-displacement in northern Uganda
Education as an essential component of prevention of youth re-displacement
The role of women defenders of human rights in Colombia
Property restitution in Colombia
Natural disasters and indigenous displacement in Bolivia
Attempts to prevent displacement in the occupied Palestinian territories
East African refugees adapting to life in the UK
The conveniently forgotten human rights of the Rohingya
North Koreans in China in need of international protection
From a lab in Luxembourg to satellites in South Sudan
Making work safe for displaced women
Lessons from mobilisation around slum evictions in Tanzania
From the Nansen Principles to the Nansen Initiative
Are refugees an economic burden or benefit?
Overseas cultural orientation programmes and resettled refugees’ perceptions
Challenging RSD clients’ preferences for foreign service providers
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Samsung updates the Galaxy S to be better, brighter, faster
Leigh D. Stark May 27, 2011
Last year’s Galaxy S smartphone was one of the hottest iPhone competitors around, and this year Samsung looks to be pushing the envelope even more in the S2 with upgrades that make it better for just about every reason.
Launched this week in Australia, the Samsung Galaxy S2 takes what worked about the original Galaxy S and improves it substantially. It’s not just a new look for the S2; no, Samsung has upgraded security, brought in some new grunt, and make this into what it claims is “the smartest of smartphones”.
“Following on from the outstanding success of the Galaxy S smartphone, which has sold a record 14 million units globally to date, we are excited to unveil our new flagship smartphone,” said Tyler McGee, Samsung Australia’s Vice President of Telecommunications. “We believe the Galaxy S2 is the smartest of smartphones on the Australian market. Its sophisticated hardware features deliver first class connectivity and app experiences.”
Physically, not much has changed. Much like last year’s Galaxy S, you’ll get a tall, dark, and handsome handset (not a stranger) that’s a little larger and still a few grams lighter. The S2 comes in at only 116 grams and is 8.49mm thin, which apparently makes it one of the world’s thinnest phones. There’s more power under the hood here with a 1.2GHz processor Cortex A9 processor, similar to what’s under the hood of Apple’s iPad 2. Even the mobile connection is faster, supporting HSPA+ and a downlink of 21Mbps, giving it one of the fastest links to the web (provided your telco supports it).
The Galaxy S2 practically screams multimedia from the spec list, and our play with the new device leads us to believe that Samsung is serious with the handset. You’ll find a ridiculously bright 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus screen coated in Gorilla Glass so that your screen is better protected against keys and drops. There’s 16GB of built-in memory plus up to 32GB extra that you can take advantage of with the microSD slot, as well as a new feature called “Second TV” that lets you connect to a new Samsung TV and watch programs on your phone.
DLNA is included out of the box, making sharing multimedia around the home easier, and Samsung has included a rear 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture, so expect to be sharing those home movies quickly.
Outside of the multimedia, you’ll find Samsung’s Reading Hub with digital books and magazines, a new Game Hub with access to Gameloft’s HD games, a comprehensive Navigon turn-by-turn GPS software, Swype keyboard, and the most recent version of Google Android for phones – “Gingerbread”.
And over on the side of security, Samsung is providing a service called “Samsung Dive”. This new service will allow customers to track their Galaxy S2 if lost, as well as lock the handset, see if the SIM has been removed, and even wipe the phone.
Outright pricing is $899, but the Galaxy S2 will be released on every telco, starting with Optus. Also of interest is the subject of accessories, with Belkin making skins and cases for the S2 and Samsung releasing both a USB and HDMI connector for the handset.
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Pocophone F1 gets tested for durability
How does its plastic body fare?
Marvin Velasco
Xiaomi’s budget-friendly Pocophone F1 earned a solid reputation for being a great performer for its price point. Unfortunately, to maintain the low cost, some compromises had to be made.
The more obvious one is the mostly plastic body. This caused both consumers and media outlets to speculate how durable this phone is in the long run.
Leave it up to Zack Nelson of YouTube channel JerryRigEverything to speed up the process with a harsh durability test in this video:
Despite the generous use of plastic for most of its body, the Pocophone did surprisingly well in most sections of the test.
Even though the rear couldn’t handle a blade that well, the front’s Gorilla Glass protection managed to withstand scratches like most higher-end smartphones. The same couldn’t be said for the sides of the frame.
The more important test, however, involves bending, which the Pocophone was able to somewhat survive. It’s definitely not in the realm of glass-and-metal smartphones, but this is a step-up from plastic handsets of the past.
Considering that more expensive products have done much worse, we can’t complain about these results. In this case, plastic was certainly the way to go.
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Up your business game with these new devices
Gab Orlina
Business professionals have to stay on top of their game while at work. Whether it’s in the office or in coffee shops, a professional’s business skills has to be coupled with a performance-driving machine. For Lenovo, their next generation ThinkPad and ThinkVision devices hope to provide the level of efficiency and portability for modern-day businesses.
Lenovo Philippines launched five new ThinkPad devices for the Philippine business market. The next generation ThinkPad brings the company’s longstanding premium features and performance.
The new Lenovo T490 spearheads the lineup, with an 8th-gen Intel processor and an optional NVIDIA MX250 graphics card. This device also has a high memory capacity that expands up to 48GB of RAM to couple with a solid state drive up to 512GB.
All other ThinkPad devices contain features on portability and enhanced performance. The Lenovo X390 is a lightweight device packed with a battery that lasts for 18 hours and charges fast through its Rapid Charge feature.
Meanwhile, the Lenovo L390 features a 13.3-inch touchscreen display for a more interactive experience with complex data sets. Finally, the entry level Lenovo E490 and E490s feature performance boosting features like Intel Optane memory and an optional AMD Radeon 540X graphics card.
New ThinkVision displays
Lenovo did not stop there as they’ve also announced their new ThinkVision displays in the ThinkVision M14 and S24e-10. The Lenovo ThinkVision M14 is a portable monitor that will serve as a secondary display on the go. The Lenovo ThinkVision S24e-10, meanwhile is 1080p FHD display that will deliver clear, crisp image quality fit for business presentations.
The new Lenovo ThinkPads start at PhP 43,990 (US$ 864), with the Lenovo 7490 starting at PhP 73,990 (US$ 1453). Meanwhile, the Lenovo ThinkVision displays start at PhP 8,990 (US$ 177) for the ThinkVision S24e-10 and PhP 13,990 (US$ 275) for the ThinkVision M14.
Most affordable stock Android phone
The Philippine market is welcoming a new budget contender with the Nokia 2.2. Best of all, this one comes with stock Android.
The Nokia 2.2 has a 5.71-inch LCD display with an HD+ resolution. A small notch houses the front camera and the back is made of plastic but designed to look like glass.
The phone is equipped with a quad-core MediaTek A22 processor and storage is expandable thanks to a microSD card slot. It has a 3000mAh battery that supports 5W charging and even has a 3.5mm headphone jack.
On the rear is a 13-megapixel single lens camera while the front has a 5-megapixel selfie shooter. A new low-light image fusion mode captures multiple pictures in dark surroundings to generate a better picture with less noise and improved sharpness. Other standard features include HDR, Colorize, and Beautify.
The Nokia 2.2 will retail for PHP 5,990 (US$ 118) and will be available in all Authorized Nokia Mobile reseller, official Nokia stores and kiosks nationwide.
Nokia 3.2 also coming to PH
Another Android One phone coming to the Philippines is the Nokia 3.2. It’s a slight step-up from the 2.2 featuring a Qualcomm Snadragon 420 processor along with 3GM of RAM and 32GB of storage that’s expandable up to 400GB thanks to a microSD card slot.
It has a 13MP rear camera along with a 5MP selfie shooter. The device looks like it’ll have plenty of juice with its 4000mAh battery. It also has a plastic body with the same glass-like design found on the Nokia 2.2.
The Nokia 3.2 will retail for PHP PHP 7,990 (US$ 157) exclusively at Shopee with a PHP 1,000 (US$ 20) discount voucher.
Both phones will be available for purchase starting July 19, 2019.
First announced back in December 2018, the Nokia 8.1 finally makes its way to the Philippines.
The smartphone also known as Nokia 7X in certain markets is part of the Android One program. This means the phone will run a stock Android OS out of the box.
Powering this device is the Snapdragon 710 SoC along with 4GB of RAM with 64GB of internal storage that’s expandable via a microSD card. It has a 6.18-inch Full HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 18.7:9 aspect ratio. The brand has emphasized its PureDisplay screen technology that offers a higher contrast ratio and sharper output along with HDR10 support. Backing these internals is a 3500mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging.
The phone ZEISS-powered 12- and 13-megapixel dual-cameras while the front has a single 20-megapixel selfie shooter. It has a very premium all-glass back. The body is built with 6000-series aluminum that has dual tone color coating.
The Nokia 8.1 will retail for PHP 19,999 (US$ 393) exclusively at Lazada starting July 19, 2019. It will come in a glamorous limited-edition Iron Steel color variant. The first 700 buyers will also get a free Philippine Airlines (PAL) travel voucher worth PHP1,000 and an extra special treatment CARE card for after sales support with VIP services.
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Pokemon Sword & Shield Direct: Were Our Predictions Correct?
Not too shabby.
By Kallie Plagge | @inkydojikko on June 5, 2019 at 5:43PM PDT
Pokemon Sword / Shield
E3 2019 begins in just a few days, but even before that, Pokemon fans can look forward to some announcements. On Wednesday, June 5 at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET, Nintendo will be holding a special Pokemon Sword and Shield Direct that will contain "roughly 15 minutes of new information" about the Nintendo Switch games. The original Sword and Shield announcement showed off the three new starter Pokemon, the new Galar region, and a few other details, but there's still a lot left to learn. Here are our big predictions for the Pokemon Direct.
A Release Date: Correct!
When Pokemon Sword and Shield were announced, they were given a late-2019 release window. That's fast approaching, so it stands to reason that the June 5 Direct will confirm the exact date. The most recent Pokemon games--Sun and Moon, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, and Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee--all released in November, so I'll go ahead and predict a November 2019 release date.
Was this a stretch? No. But was I right? You bet! Pokemon Sword and Shield have been confirmed for a November 15, 2019 release date. You can learn more in our pre-order guide.
Pokemon Sword And Shield Trailer Impressions: Secrets, Starters, And What To Know
More Pokemon, Including Legendaries: Correct!
So far, the only new Pokemon we've seen for Gen 8 are the three starters: Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble. The Pokemon Direct will include a mix of run-of-the-mill Pokemon--think the Pidgey and Rattata of Galar--and Sword and Shield's legendary Pokemon, which would presumably be on the games' boxes. It would also be great to see the starters' evolved forms, but because they've already had their day in the sun, I think we'll have to wait to see those.
Right again! We were introduced to several new Galar Pokemon as well as the two legendaries, Zamazanta and Zacian (who are good boys).
A New Battle Mechanic: Correct!
The basic Pokemon formula has largely stayed the same over the years, but the series has been good about regularly introducing new battle mechanics to keep things interesting. X and Y had Mega Evolution, Sun and Moon had Z-Moves (and Battle Royals), and Sword and Shield will probably have something spicy to try out. There's even a circular red-and-blue symbol seen throughout the announcement trailer, including in the games' Japanese logos, that would seem to indicate a new mechanic--a crystal logo appeared in Sun and Moon's Japanese logos, representing Z-Crystals--but there's otherwise no indication of what it might be. I don't have a guess, either.
I really nailed this, I think. Sword and Shield are introducing a new mechanic called Dynamax, which makes your Pokemon giant and adds other benefits in battle. Like Mega Evolution, only one Pokemon can be Dynamaxed at once, and it only lasts for three turns on top of that, so you have to use it wisely.
Story Details And Version Differences: Mostly Correct!
Finally, I'm willing to bet the Pokemon Direct will include some story info. What's the deal with the Galar region? What sort of Team will you be up against, if any? The Pokemon Direct will have character intros and some basic details to lay out Sword and Shield's vibe. I'll go one step further and say that we'll also learn what some of the version differences are, whether it's a gameplay gimmick like Sun and Moon's day-night shift or simply what Pokemon you might find in each.
Okay, so this is the one that I maybe didn't do as well with. We did get to meet some of Sword and Shield's characters and learned more about the vibe of the Galar region, but we didn't hear anything about the version differences or a Team Rocket equivalent.
What's Left For E3?
It seems a bit premature holding a Sword and Shield Direct right before E3, right? What will be left? While it's unlikely Nintendo will reiterate much from the Pokemon Direct during its June 11 E3 presentation, that presentation will be followed by three days of Treehouse streams. In previous years, those streams have featured in-depth gameplay demos, sometimes with developer commentary; Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee got the spotlight last year. The Treehouse streams would be a great opportunity to expand upon what we learn during the June 5 Direct without having to spend precious time going over specifics.
Kallie Plagge
Kallie Plagge is GameSpot's Reviews Editor. She loves Pokemon, anime, and Grunt Birthday Party.
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Not Being An Open-World Game, It's The Magic Animals That Will Encourage Exploration In Greedfall
26 June 2017 | 2 comments | By Josh Brown
We're starting to expect more and more combat/adventure games to be set in a wide open world for us to explore these days. We've been spoiled by the genre. So when we're looking down a more linear path, developers need to give us a reason to venture off the beat track. For Spiders with Greedfall, that incentive is magical animals.
Set across the 17th century, Greedfall takes its cues from music and Flemish-style paintings according to Marie-Cecile Jacq - with whom our own TJ Denzer managed to interview during E3 earlier this month.With a mysterious illness becoming a death sentence across the land, the main factions of the world begin to converge on the one island free of the disease.
A whole new island to explore? That's likely what most would expect - a perfect excuse for an open-world environment. Not so. Not for Spiders, anyway. Though the world of Greenfall may not wide-open enough to have you roaming for days on end while the story carries on without you, you're not trapped in some form of linearity, either.
As Always, The Full Interview Is A Fascinating Read About An Upcoming Game. Get The Full Picture Here
During the interview, TJ quizzed the developers about how we can explore this new world. The answer? Magic animals, essentially. "You’ll come across various occurrences, such as magic animals that are far apart from the normal animals on the island and it will lead into a quest to explore new places and solve puzzles to figure out where that magic animal came from."
Set to launch sometime next year, Greenfall sees you act as the prince (or princess) of the Merchant nation.You have a number of roles throughout this whole ordeal, butt as a tactical-RPG, there's every reason you'll be out there hunting game from time to time. So if you see a magicked version of your pray nearby, it seems you'll likely want to run on after it.
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Josh is the MMO/JRPG guy with an addiction he won't admit. Soppy manga is his retreat.
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We can gain in Spain
Boro have placed the emphasis on digging up a bit of Spanish gold as they look to strengthen for the new season.
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The club's European scout, Don Mackay, has spent a lot of time watching Spanish League games and producing dossiers on players.
It means that Boro will have detailed information on any top players who become available this summer - so that they can move quickly to try to snap them up.
Patience is the key. Boro boss Steve McClaren is happy to sit back and monitor the Continental market, which he expects to take off towards the end of next month.
But McClaren is ready to make a move at the drop of a hat, just as he did when snapping up Geremi from Spanish giants Real Madrid on a season long loan last summer.
Mackay has been busy recently travelling between Paris and Spanish League grounds, and has provided all the details which McClaren needs.
Mackay told the Evening Gazette today: "Last weekend, I watched four games in four days between the Confederations Cup and the Spanish League, but that's not unusual.
"What we are doing is building up a library of quality players.
"Things can change so dramatically and so quickly and players who are not currently available can suddenly become so.
"We want to be ahead of the game so that if something does change we know exactly the type of player they are."
Mackay's comments suggest that one - or possibly two - players could be brought in from Spanish clubs this summer.
He said: "I've been able to look at a lot of Spanish League games recently because it has gone on for longer than the other leagues.
"There is real quality in Spain. I've no doubts that it's the best league in Europe.
"The Premiership is certainly more physical and demanding but, from my travels, I'm sure that Spanish football is the strongest.
"There is a lot of talent in Italy but they appear to be going back to negative ways.
"However, judging by the success they have had in the Champions League, that's not necessarily a bad thing!"
Mackay has left no doubts that midfield is the area where he has been concentrating most of his efforts.
He said: "Everyone knows we are short in the middle of the park.
"That's where we are looking to strengthen the squad."
Mackay added that not all of Boro's potential European targets would be experienced men.
He said: "We are not necessarily looking for players who can come straight into the team.
"But we need players who can strengthen the squad and give us more options.
"No stone is being left unturned to ensure we are in a position to do better than last season."
* BORO have once again dismissed reports that they have held talks with Arsenal midfielder Edu.
In fact, agent Barry Silkman goes even further by stressing: "Edu is not in talks with any club. He is currently honeymooning and is on a cruise. He has been since June 12.
"There is no offer for him from anybody and I don't imagine that Arsenal will be selling him.
"Boro did have an interest when he was with Corinthians, but he went to Arsenal and that was that."
* BORO are looking for suitable opponents for a friendly match at the Riverside on Saturday, August 9 - seven days before the new season.
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LOREN DENIS
Director Loren Denis‘s latest spot, shot for Burt’s Bees, is a sensory overload – a tribute to the vastness of nature. Images and sound envelop us and conjure up the power of waterfalls, rocks, mountains, and evergreens. This approach is par for the course with Loren’s work. French born Loren, [...]
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SARA DUNLOP x HP
The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it, the rollout of holiday ad campaigns. For this year’s “Reinvent Giving,” campaign, HP and their agency BBDO, early adopters of Free The Bid, were intent on breaking the cycle of hiring from the typical list of male directors who would normally [...]
ALMA HAR’EL x P&G
Imagine a world where everyone could see one another through a mother’s eyes. P&G‘s magnificent Olympics 2018 campaign, continuing their ‘Thank You Mom’ series of ads, showcases the beauty of #LoveOverBias. The kind of love that rewards determination, perserverance and ambition even in the face of bullying and black eyes. [...]
There’s a word in German, “gesamtkunstwerk,” that means “total work of art.” It’s an accurate term to use to describe Cara Stricker‘s video for music project DROOL‘s “Down”, fittingly shot in Berlin. Since DROOL is Stricker’s musical collaboration with musician John Kirby, the video allows her to fully flesh out [...]
REI NADAL
“Impressions of Stolen Space,” Rei Nadal‘s pastel-tinged short film for Nicholas Kirkwood SS18, is full of contrasts. There’s the lightness and calm of the setting, compared against the somber and introspective mood of its three inhabitants. Are they all different versions of the same woman? Rei, as a director, plays [...]
EVA MICHON
Happy Halloween, from the Free The Bid team (hey, that almost rhymes)! Eva Michon‘s “All Shook Up,” is a perfect way to celebrate this ghouliest of holidays. A bruised man endures an absurdly convoluted automated phone menu after having his wallet stolen on his way home from a Halloween party [...]
It’s hard to imagine a tougher conversation than breaking the news of a serious health condition. One of director Lisa Gunning‘s latest works for Kaiser Permanente, created with pledged agency Campbell Ewald, shows the way that life-changing news like this can seem to slow or stop time and alter your [...]
FREE THE BID AWARDS
On Tuesday, October 17th, the inaugural Free The Bid Awards were presented as part of the One Screen Film Festival in NY! Our awards, in partnership with The One Club, honored the amazing directorial achievements of women in 5 categories: Best Commercial, Best Branded Content, Best Music Video, Best Cinematography, and Best New Director. Our incredible panel [...]
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MUNDO SISTERS x PEPSI
“I feel like there’s this duality in the color black,” fashion designer Alexander Wang muses over a pulsing bassline. The screen flickers with projections of light, images of choppy seas and chopped-up film strips in the Mundo Sisters‘ latest video for Pepsi x Alexander Wang (created for the Chinese market). [...]
MELANIE BRIDGE x JWT
Sleek, sumptuous and elegant, Melanie Bridge‘s spot for Period Equity (created with pledged agency J. Walter Thompson NY) starts out like many other ads for luxury goods. An intimately lit and lavish-looking interior, overlaid with a seductive voiceover, leads to a closeup on a model twirling a diamond-studded chain. But [...]
FREE THE BID x LAMVF
On October 4th, we had the pleasure of celebrating our one-year anniversary with an event at The Downtown Independent in LA as part of the Los Angeles Music Video Festival. “Directing Music Videos: Women of Color Behind The Camera,” was a discussion offering a range of perspectives to women of [...]
S-HEKH SHEM HETEP
In celebration of our one-year anniversary, Free The Bid hosted “Directing music videos: Women of color behind the camera,” as a part of the Los Angeles Music Video Festival. Actress Kiersey Clemons and Free The Bid founder Alma Har’el led an inspiring panel, consisting of singer Macy Gray; Rhea Scott, [...]
LP FOR THE NEW YORKER
Wondering how easy it is to find the perfect woman director on our amazing database? The team at The New Yorker put our site to the test when searching for a comedy director for one of their latest issues. Hoping to find an experienced comedy director to shoot TV comedy [...]
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EBAY x FREE THE BID
Suzy Deering, CMO of eBay, and PJ Pereira, CCO of ad agency Pereira & O’Dell, are among Free The Bid’s earliest supporters. “The first time I heard about Free The Bid was – I received a phonecall from PJ,” recalls Suzy Deering of pledging soon after Free The Bid’s 2016 [...]
ANNA ROSE HOLMER
Portrait photo by Tayarisha Poe Anna Rose Holmer is a name to remember. Hot off the heels of her narrative feature debut, the critically acclaimed “The Fits”, she made headlines once again with her music video for James Blake’s “My Willing Heart,” starring Natalie Portman. With impressive documentaries, shorts, music [...]
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“The big problem we have is management,” Trump said. “When I was in a certain state, I won’t say which, the governor said, ‘You know, we’ve tested it. We clean out areas and we actually set the fire just to see, we lose almost nothing, we can put it out right away. And then we leave areas unmaintained, he said, ‘We’ll lose 100,000 acres before you even know it.’”
Trump criticized California over the fuel management issue in recent tweets that angered state officials and first responders, saying, “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.” He threatened to cut off federal funding for forest management.
Congressional Republicans have called for easing the bureaucratic process involved in thinning forests in California, which Democrats and environmental groups have resisted. And while federal agencies work to clear dead trees and other possible kindling for wildfires, the amount of federal land in California makes the job difficult to do effectively.
LaMalfa said he has had repeated conversations with Trump about a visit to the area, and while logistics are still being planned, LaMalfa said he believes the priority is recognizing the work of first responders, confronting the humanitarian problem and highlighting issues with fuel management.
“This situation is one that has developed that has opened that window to not only console and bring aid and send aid, but that we need to do things better with our fuel management all across the West,” LaMalfa said. “These fires are underlying the need that we need to do more — much more.”
Trump’s administration proposed slashing tens of millions of dollars from the Department of Interior and U.S. Forest Service budgets dedicated to tree clearing and other forest management work earlier this year.
Maria Shriver, former first lady of California, expressed concern that Trump would make similar comments on the visit, tweeting Thursday that she hopes Trump doesn’t “try to lecture or shame us.”
“Instead, I hope (Trump) shows gratitude to our firefighters, first responders and all those stepping up to help their fellow Californians,” she said. “Tell us the money we need to rebuild is on the way. If not, don’t come.”
LaMalfa said that, setting aside the president’s tweets, Trump genuinely cares for those who have been hurt in the fire and is coming to show those people the federal government is ready to help.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke blamed environmentalists for blocking projects to thin national forests. But environmentalists are working with loggers to reduce fire hazards. We take a look at one project in September 2018.
“That’s why he sent FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) within 28 hours when the major disaster declaration was asked for,” LaMalfa said.
He said while it’s kind of Walmart and other businesses to allow people to use their property to camp out temporarily, everyone knows FEMA has a lot of work in front of them to provide appropriate short- and long-term housing for those displaced by the fires. Trump is on the same page, according to LaMalfa.
“Let’s get people new housing that’s appropriate, and not tents in the Walmart parking lot,” he said. “It’s a monumental amount of work that needs to be done.”
Kate Irby
Kate Irby is based in Washington, D.C. and reports on issues important to McClatchy’s California newspapers, including the Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee and Modesto Bee. She previously reported on breaking news in D.C., politics in Florida for the Bradenton Herald and politics in Ohio for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Things to Do in Curacao
The "C" in the Dutch ABC islands, Curacao is the largest, most populous, and most cosmopolitan of the former Lesser Antilles. It has in the colorful capital of Willemstad a picturesque trove of colonial Dutch architecture and a World Heritage Site. Like Aruba, Curacao boasts a warm, friendly polyglot populace, but it also offers a rich history, a vibrant art scene and world-class diving. Just six miles wide and 37 miles long, this semi-arid landscape is dotted with spiny-leaf aloe, mesquite and divi-divi trees.
Curacao has nearly 40 beaches, ranging from tranquil bays to secluded coves. Seaquarium Beach (Mambo Beach), just east of Willemstad, offers placid waters perfect for swimming and bars and restaurants on site. The largest and most popular destination for sunbathing, Blauwbaai has showers and changing facilities and plenty of shade. Hang with the locals on pristine sand at Daaibooi, south of Willemstad, where you can snorkel in clear reef waters. Shallow, tranquil seas tucked inside a narrow cove make Playa Lagun a prime spot for families.
Sip a cool drink at a Willemstad cafe as you gaze upon the colored lights illuminating the Queen Emma Bridge, a floating pontoon across Saint Anna Bay. A short walk away, scores of schooners parked along the canal comprise a Floating Market selling crafts and tropical fruits and vegetables. Admire the colorful Dutch architecture in the colonial capital, Willemstad. The unusual collection of artifacts and oddities in the Museum Kurá Hulanda includes fertility dolls, fossils, musical instruments, and even slave quarters.
The island's Dutch heritage surfaces in specialties such as keshi yena, a traditional baked dish with spicy chicken, dates, raisins, olives, and Gouda cheese. Feel the warm breeze at the open-air Belle Terrace, a 200-year-old mansion where you can dine on international fare fused with such island flourishes as tu tu (local polenta with beans). Soul-satisfying Creole cooking reigns at rustic, leisurely Jaanchie's Restaurant in Westpunt, with iguana soup, goat stew, and fresh fish served with rice and beans.
Locals kick back here more than the tourists -- or so it seems. The biggest party is Carnival, which runs for several weeks and ends on Mardi Gras. Otherwise, the capital's Salinja district forms the scene's thumping heart. In Penstraat, Blues, a restaurant and bar perched over the water, features live jazz. Sundays are devoted to salsa at Mambo Beach's bar, which sometimes shows classic movies under the stars. Casinos offer live music nightly and great people-watching.
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Pensions crisis
Pension rights
Josephine Cumbo
Millions of workers have been affected by changes to their pension schemes which have largely resulted in less generous terms for most. Until recently, scheme members had no say in these decisions. However a recent, but little publicised, change in the law means private sector workers can now have a say over significant changes to their schemes.
What has changed?
Before April 6, employers were not bound to consult employees about amendments to their pension arrangements, such as scheme closures or raising the retirement age. The first time many members would hear about changes – which could have a major impact on their retirement income – was in the papers or by letter which often arrived months after the changes had been made. In practice, many better employers would consult unions on more controversial changes to future benefits. But new measures now in force ensure that all employers follow this good practice.
What are employers now bound to do?
Rules contained under Sections 259-261 of the Pensions Act 2004 require employers to consult in a set manner whenever they intend to make a prescribed change to their occupational scheme or a work-based personal pension arrangement. This consultation must run for at least three months. Employers can be fined if they don’t stick to the rules.
What is involved in the consultation?
Before beginning a formal consultation, the employer must write to members who may be affected and their representatives, such as a trade union. The employer must describe what the change is and state what effect it would have on the scheme and its members.
The employer must also provide any relevant background information and indicate the timetable for proposed changes. Information on the changes must also be given “in a fashion and with such content as are appropriate to enable, in particular, representatives of affected members to consider, conduct a study of, and give their views to the employer on, the impact of the listed change on such members”. Finally, employers must inform all affected parties when the consultation will start and end and of the closing date for written submissions. The consultation must not be less than 60 days.
What are the changes which trigger a formal consultation?
Under the rules, prescribed changes include closing a scheme to future accruals, closing a scheme to new members, changing from a defined benefit (final salary) to a defined contribution (money purchase) or hybrid scheme. Other prescribed changes include proposals to raise the retirement age, to increase contribution levels, and significantly reducing or removing an employer contribution to a defined contribution scheme or group personal pension scheme.
Will my views make any difference?
Not really, as members have no veto over the final decision of their employers. Employers are only required to consider submissions, not act on them. However, both employer and members have a duty to “work in a spirit of co-operation”, recognising both sides’ interests.
What is the point of these rules if they don’t give me any real power?
The main benefit is that you are given some notice of any changes which could affect you and this will give you time to get advice on the necessity and feasibility of taking early action.
I work for a small business which wants to make a prescribed change to my scheme yet I haven’t been consulted. Why not?
Small businesses are largely immune from the rules. In the current tax year, the requirement to consult only applies to employers with 150 or more staff. From April 6 2007, this drops to 100 employees and then to 50 from 2008. Public sector schemes are excluded.
What if my employer hasn’t followed the rules?
If you believe an employer hasn’t followed the consultation procedure to the book, you could complain to the Pensions Regulator which will investigate on your behalf.
What can the regulator do?
If the regulator finds a breach, it will ask the employer to consult. It can also fine firms that have breached the rules. You can also take your complaint to the Pensions Ombudsman which can investigate and resolve disputes.
I am not sure how I will be affected bychanges to my scheme. What should I do?
The first step is to go back to your employer or the Trustees for more information about the changes or for an explanation. You could also speak to a independent financial adviser if you believe the changes will have a significant impact on your financial security.
The Pensions Advisory Service can also act on your behalf. It is an independent non-profit organisation that provides information and guidance on the whole spectrum of pensions covering state, company, personal and stakeholder schemes. It can also help any member of the public who has a problem, complaint or dispute with their pension arrangement.
Pensions Regulator: 0870 6063636 or www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk
The Pensions Advisory Service 0845 601 2923 or www.opas.org.uk
Pensions Ombudsman 020 7834 9144 or www.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk
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Ancient Greek Coins of Apameia
Apamea is believed to be the Biblical city Shepham (Num. xxxiv. 11). After the Mithridatic Wars it became a great center for trade, largely carried on by resident Italians and Jews. Apamea is mentioned in the Talmud (Ber. 62a, Niddah, 30b and Yeb. 115b). By order of Flaccus, nearly 45 kilograms of gold, intended by Jews for the Temple in Jerusalem was confiscated in Apamea in 62 B.C. On the outbreak of the Jewish War, the inhabitants of Apamea spared the Jews who lived in their midst, and would not suffer them to be murdered or led into captivity (Josephus, Bell. Jud. ii. 18, § 5).
Tiberius, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D., Apamea, Phrygia
Apamea or Apameia, Phrygia (also called Apamea Cibotus, Apamea ad Maeandrum, or Apamea on the Maeander) was an ancient city in Anatolia founded in the 3rd century B.C. by Antiochus I Soter, who named it after his mother Apama. It was in Hellenistic Phrygia, but became part of the Roman province of Pisidia.
This magistrate also struck coins for Livia. That, and the youthful portrait resembling Augustus, indicate this type was struck early in Tiberius' reign, before 19 A.D.
RP89870. Bronze AE 19, RPC I 3131 (3 spec.); Imhoof-Blumer KM p. 210, 17; Waddington 5703; BMC Phrygia -, SNGvA -, SNG Cop - , F, brown tone, weak strike, weight 3.818 g, maximum diameter 18.8 mm, die axis 0o, Phrygia, Apameia (Dinar, Turkey) mint, magistrate M. Manneius, 14 - 18 A.D.; obverse ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate head right; reverse MAPKOΣ MANNHIOΣ (Marcus Manneius [magistrate]), Athena standing left, helmeted, spear in right hand, round shield on left arm, AΠA-MEΩN divided across field; rare; $70.00 (€61.60)
Vespasian, 1 July 69 - 24 June 79 A.D., Apamea, Phrygia
This type, the only issue by Apamea in Phrygia during the Flavian Period, may have been issued to finance recovery from an earthquake and fire mentioned by Suetonius (Vesp. 17).
Apamea or Apameia, Phrygia (also called Apamea Cibotus, Apamea ad Maeandrum, or Apamea on the Maeander) was an ancient city in Anatolia founded in the 3rd century B.C. by Antiochus I Soter, who named it after his mother Apama. It was in Hellenistic Phrygia, but became part of the Roman province of Pisidia.RP77369. Bronze AE 26, RPC II 1389; SNG Cop 210; SNGvA 3491; SNG München 152; BMC Phrygia p. 95, 150, Fair, nice portrait for grade, nice green patina, weight 9.728 g, maximum diameter 25.9 mm, die axis 0o, Phrygia, Apameia (Dinar, Turkey) mint, struck under Plancius Varus, Praetorian Legate; obverse AYTOKPATΩP KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ OUEΣΠAΣIANOΣ, laureate head right; reverse EΠI ΠΛANKIOY OYAPOY KOINON ΦPUΓIAΣ AΠAMEIΣ, bundle of five stalks of grain; $45.00 (€39.60)
Apameia, Phrygia, 150 - 140 B.C.
Apameia was named for Apama, the mother of the founder, the Seleucid king Antiochos I.
The cista mystica was a basket used for housing sacred snakes in connection with the initiation ceremony into the cult of Bacchus (Dionysus). In the Dionysian mysteries a snake, representing the god and possibly symbolic of his phallus, was carried in a cista mystica on a bed of vine leaves. The cista in the mysteries of Isis may also have held a serpent, perhaps associated with the missing phallus of Osiris.SH63587. Silver cistophoric tetradrachm, Kleiner-Noe, issue XI, 21; SNGvA 3451 and 8333; cf. BMC Phrygia p. 69, 7 (no star); SNG Cop -, VF, uneven toning, weight 12.522 g, maximum diameter 28.0 mm, die axis 0o, Phrygia, Apameia (Dinar, Turkey) mint, 150 - 140 B.C.; obverse Cista mystica with half open lid, from which a snake emerges left, all within ivy wreath; reverse two coiled serpents with heads erect, between them an ornamented bow-case with strap on right, bow sticking out from the top left side of case, snake on the right wrapped around two flutes, AΠA monogram left, pileus surmounted by star right; interesting ornate cista mystica; SOLD
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Shares of Energy Transfer Equity Gained 13% in June Thanks to the Williams Split
By Tyler Crowe Published July 05, 2016 MarketsFool.com
What: Shares of Energy Transfer Equity jumped 13.7% in June after the company won a court decision that it could terminate its proposed merger with Williams Companies , and then swiftly moved to pull out of the deal. At the same time, shares of Williams lost close to 3% over the same time frame.
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So what: Investors shouldn't have been completely shocked by the news that Energy Transfer had decided to get out of this deal. The company had more or less tried every move under the sun to stall or find some reason to nix the deal. When a judge decided that Energy Transfer could walk away from the deal if it couldn't get the required information as to whether or not this deal would cause a taxable event for its shareholders. With that judgement in hand, the company quickly headed for the exits.
Ultimately, this is probably helpful for Energy Transfer. The price tag for Williams was pretty steep, and raising the cash portion of the deal would have really pushed Energy Transfer's debt load even more than it already is. By getting out of the deal, it can focus more on its multiple subsidiary partnerships that have more than enough places to invest in growth without having to take on Williams and its grand plans for growth.
Now what: Without the Williams deal in place, Energy Transfer has some options it can explore for either further growth or cleaning up the balance sheet. After all, some of its subsidiary partnerships are coming under strain from credit ratings agencies or having bloated balance sheets. Once we get an idea of where Energy Transfer plans to go from here, then we can evaluate whether it's a good idea or not. While that path forward is still up in the air, maybe it's best to sit on the sidelines for a bit.
The article Shares of Energy Transfer Equity Gained 13% in June Thanks to the Williams Split originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Greater Manchester launches first city-region wide plan to drive down single-use plastics
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High-profile names from the hospitality and tourism industry have launched a campaign, backed by Mayor Andy Burnham, to make Greater Manchester the first UK city-region to ditch single-use plastics.
Hotel Football owner and ex-Manchester United player, Gary Neville, launched the ground-breaking “Plastic-Free Greater Manchester” campaign at today’s Green Summit, along with 43 other business leaders from the hospitality sector.
The campaign is set to put Greater Manchester at the forefront of taking action to eliminate single-use plastics. The campaign targets businesses and local people, encouraging them to make the shift away from single-use plastics to renewable alternatives.
Those leading the campaign and aiming to be plastic-free by 2020 include: GG Hospitality, Manchester Central, Manchester Marriot Victoria and Albert Hotel, Grafene Restaurant and Bar, Eclectic Hotels, Manchester Art Gallery, Best Western Plus Pinewood in Wilmslow and Real Junk Food Manchester. Over the next six months these businesses will be setting out a plan to achieve their goal and, as a first step, are starting to replace plastic straws with recyclable alternatives.
As part of this effort, the Mayor will help the campaign to establish a Green City Business Consortium that will bring together Greater Manchester businesses looking to make change from single-use plastics to reusable, recyclable plastics and other alternative materials.
The consortium would be designed to make sure that smaller businesses, which are looking to make the transition from plastic to more sustainable options, are not disadvantaged by cost. By buying in bulk and making the switchover together, businesses can make a speedy, more affordable transition.
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said: “People have been horrified by the images on our televisions showing just how polluted our oceans and rivers have become through plastic waste. But this isn’t just happening on the other side of the world. Last week we heard the difficult news that Greater Manchester’s rivers were some of the most polluted. It’s clear that we cannot just carry on as usual – the time has come for action.
“Greater Manchester is a region renowned for innovation – we’re large enough to experiment at scale, yet small enough to come together and innovate at speed. Just look at what we’re doing today – the Green Summit is a unique event that’s brought all sorts of people together to reduce our carbon emissions, crowdsource ideas to make Greater Manchester one of the greenest city-regions in Europe.
“I’m proud that major figures from Greater Manchester’s hospitality and tourism industry have chosen the Green Summit as a platform to launch this campaign that could help make Greater Manchester the first UK city-region that eliminates single-use plastics. It’s got my full support.
“It won’t be without challenges, but Greater Manchester is all about leading the way and doing things that bit differently. If we’re successful in our efforts to drive down our use of single-use plastics and accelerate our ambitions for carbon neutrality, there’s no reason why similar models couldn’t be adopted across the UK.”
Gary Neville said: “Reducing the use of plastics across the GG Hospitality portfolio is a key priority for us. We have already removed plastic straws from our businesses, including Hotel Football, all three Cafe Football sites and GG Events and Catering. We’re pleased to add our support to the Plastic-Free Greater Manchester Campaign and respond to the Mayor’s challenge of making Greater Manchester one of the greenest city-regions in Europe.”
“This step is just the start however, we are committed to continually help reduce the impact of plastic packaging on the environment and pledge to decrease our plastic use even further.”
As well as straws, local cafes, hotels and restaurants are also being encouraged to ditch single-portion pats of plastic-wrapped butter and jams in plastic pots. Single-use coffee cups and water bottles will also be targeted.
And it’s not just the hospitality sector getting involved. BBC North have put an end to single use plastics in their canteen and coffee shops, while the Co-op has changed its pizza packaging to prevent 200 tonnes of polystyrene boards going to landfill, amongst a range of other measures.
Today’s campaign was launched at Greater Manchester’s inaugural Green Summit. The summit brought local people, academics, climate change experts and business leaders together to pave the way forward for making Greater Manchester one of the leading green cities in Europe.
At the summit, the Mayor, along with local leaders also set out his ambitions to bring Greater Manchester’s carbon neutrality target forward by at least a decade from 2050. To help achieve this, proposals put forward at the summit included an emissions-free bus fleet, doubling the provision of charging points for electric vehicles, and building zero carbon homes.
The Green Summit was livestreamed on the Greater Manchester Combined Authority website and online audience participation has been promised to give everyone a chance to have a say and get involved.
Local people, businesses, the public and voluntary sector are also being encouraged to get involved and add their plastic-free pledges on the campaign’s website: www.plasticfreegm.com.
The pledge reads: “Greater Manchester’s tourism and hospitality sector will aim to eradicate the use of single use plastics by 2020. Within the next 6 months, local businesses will set out a plan to achieve this and, as a first step, have begun to replace plastic straws with more sustainable alternatives. This is part of a wider scheme to make our industry more sustainable.”
A full list of businesses signed to the pledge is as follows:
Holiday Inn Express, Manchester Oxford Road
DoubleTree by Hilton, Piccadilly Manchester
Alston Bar & Beef
Conference Partners UK
Elizabeth Gaskell's House
City Centre Cruises
Ziferblat
The Victorian Chop House Company Ltd
Castlefield Gallery
Eastlands Trust
Lennox Lea Hotel
Manchester Conference Centre and Pendulum Hotel
The Stock Exchange Hotel
Hospitality & Events, The University of Manchester
Junkyard Golf Club
Radisson Blu Edwardian, Manchester Hotel
The Townhouse Hotel
Randall & Aubin
Eclectic Hotel Collection
Gaucho MCR
The Monastery Manchester
GG Hospitality
Clayton Hotel Manchester Airport
Manchester Marriott Victoria & Albert Hotel
BSC Manchester
Hallmark Hotels
The Crystal Maze Live Experience
Real Junk Food Project
Grafene
Lancashire Cricket Club
AC Hotel Manchester
Pinewood Hotel
Lowry Hotel
Hey Little Cupcake
Princess St Hotel
Article Published: 14/12/2018 11:41 AM
Copyright Greater Manchester Combined Authority 2018
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TEAM NEWS: PENULTIMATE EVENT TAKES AUDI AND ENGEN XTREME TEAM BACK TO SUCCESSFUL CIRCUIT
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Just two national championship rounds remain for the Engen Xtreme Team – one event scheduled for Zwartkops Raceway in November and the finale set for East London in December. Both Engen Xtreme Audi A3s are in the top three of the championship, with Michael Stephen leading and Simon Moss in third place.
The first four rounds of the season has seen Engen Xtreme’s Michael Stephen amass 511 points and, with just the last two events to go, he is 153 points ahead of his nearest rival. This is at a point in the championship where the Sasol GTC Africa competitors are heading to the circuit where they started the season – and Stephen made a clean sweep, winning both races, claiming both pole position starts and set the fastest lap in each race.
Moss returns to Zwartkops Raceway on a strong footing, with an eye on second place in the championship – which is within reach with more than 200 points still up for grabs this season.
Moss has become progressively stronger this season, recovering from a technically difficult start this year to be amongst the top three racers as the inaugural GTC season builds to the climax.
Between Stephen and Moss, they have successfully campaigned their Audi A3 GTC entries to place a stamp of Engen Xtreme Team dominance on the new GTC series. Ten races have taken place, Stephen has won seven and appeared on the podium in every race and Moss has been on the podium four times, his best result so far in second place.
No other team even comes close to these results and it is going to be tough for anyone to change that with just two rounds remaining.
The Engen Xtreme team contests the Zwartkops event in Pretoria on Saturday, November 26, where they will show what has made them such a force to be reckoned with in national competition. Michael Stephen and Simon Moss will be showcasing their driving talent in the Engen Xtreme Audi A3 GTCs in two races of the Extreme Festival.
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Two rubella cases detected at MGM Macau: Macau govt
Macau’s Health Bureau says two people recorded as working at the MGM Macau casino are confirmed to have caught rubella, a disease also known as German measles.
MGM Macau (pictured) is the third Macau casino property this month to have cases of rubella confirmed by the city’s authorities. The others were City of Dreams and StarWorld Hotel.
MGM Macau, located on Macau peninsula, is run by MGM China Holdings Ltd.
City of Dreams, in Cotai, is operated by Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd. StarWorld Hotel, on Macau peninsula, is a casino resort run by Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd.
According to data from Macau’s Health Bureau, in the first 24 days of this month, a total of 14 people recorded as working at Macau casino resorts was confirmed to have caught rubella.
Macau had an aggregate of 24 rubella cases reported citywide so far this year.
Earlier this month, the Health Bureau had confirmed seven staff from City of Dreams had been diagnosed with rubella. In addition, five workers at StarWorld were also confirmed to have caught rubella.
The two MGM Macau casino staff with rubella each hold Macau residency, but both were born in mainland China, and had an “unclear history” of vaccination against that virus, the bureau noted in a Wednesday release.
Rubella is a disease preventable by vaccination, according to World Health Organization. Complications linked to the disease include the risk of miscarriage or foetal abnormality for women who contract it in the early stages of a pregnancy.
The Health Bureau said in its Wednesday release it had sent – earlier this month – staff to extract blood samples from all pregnant staff at City of Dreams to check their antibody profile for signs of immunity to rubella. A total of 30 pregnant staff – out of an aggregate 32 – displayed signs of immunity to the virus, the release stated.
A similar operation had previously taken place at StarWorld Hotel.
On April 16, a Macau gaming labour activist group delivered a letter to the city’s Labour Affairs Bureau to “reflect concerns” it had regarding the number of rubella infection cases reported this month among casino staff.
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Glion Ranked No.1 Best Hospitality School for Employer Reputation
by Glion Institute of Higher Education | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Industry Insights | 0 comments | Reading Time: 6 minutes
Over the past decade, Glion Institute of Higher Education has received top rankings and awards for the best hospitality management schools from a variety of academic and industry sources.
This year, Glion was ranked among the five top hospitality management schools in the world according to the QS World University Rankings 2018 for Hospitality and Leisure Management and placed first in employer reputation.
Here are some tips for understanding ranking studies, the highlights from the QS hospitality school ranking and the reasons why Glion consistently ranks among the best hospitality schools in the world.
What do university and hospitality school rankings mean?
In general, university or hospitality school rankings evaluate higher education institutions and programs based on a set of criteria, using data collected through surveys, and then compare those results to establish an order of ranking. When researching university programs, ranking studies can help you to compare similar institutions based on relevant criteria.
There is no such thing as a globally recognized ranking study, so it’s important to do your own research on each ranking. A reliable ranking study will always provide a methodology statement explaining the metrics for the study, the population surveyed and the results in a clear, concise manner. In the end, a ranking is just one of the factors to consider as you look for the best university or hospitality management program for you.
2018 Hospitality Schools Ranking by QS Top Universities
For the field of higher education, QS Top Universities is a leader in international ranking studies that publishes a yearly ranking by program category. For the Hospitality and Leisure Management category, the ranking evaluates top hospitality schools around the world according to six metrics:
Faculty/Student Ratio
Citations per faculty
International Faculty Ratio
International Student Ratio
QS Top Universities employs a consistent, transparent methodology for compiling these metrics and you can learn about the methodology of the hospitality schools ranking here.
Swiss Hotel Schools Rank High Among Top Hospitality Schools in the World
According to the QS hospitality school ranking study, four out of the ten top hospitality schools in the world are Swiss hotel schools. Since Switzerland is where the traditions of hospitality management education were formed, it’s no surprise to see Swiss hotel schools ranking high among the best hospitality schools in the world. Furthermore, the results of the study’s Employer Reputation metric show that Swiss hotel schools achieved the top four scores demonstrating that Swiss hospitality schools remain the masters in this career field retaining the preference of industry professionals and hiring managers.
Glion is the Best Hospitality School for Employment
In the QS ranking, Glion earned a perfect score (100), making it the best hotel school in the category of Employer Reputation. This metric evaluates how well the university or program prepares students for the employment market. The QS Employer Reputation metric “is based on over 40,000 responses to our QS Employer Survey, and asks employers to identify those institutions from which they source the most competent, innovative, effective graduates. The QS Employer Survey is also the world’s largest of its kind.”
Why Glion ranks among the top hospitality management schools in the world
Over the past decade, Glion Institute of Higher Education has consistently figured among the top hospitality management school rankings and awards nearly every year. These acknowledgements come mainly from the industry, where 14,000 Glion alumni are working as successful managers, leaders and entrepreneurs and where around 750 Glion student interns also attest to the quality of the school’s curriculum and international culture.
Here are the reasons why Glion is known as one of the world’s best hotel management schools following the six categories evaluated in this most recent hotel school ranking study:
Academic Reputation – Glion Institute of Higher Education offers high-quality bachelor’s and master’s hospitality programs with university-level accreditation combining three unique elements: practical learning in five-star hospitality facilities, a curriculum for business skills and leadership development, and industry-relevant specializations. These are the elements that make our graduates stand out from the rest and have earned our reputation for academic excellence.
Employer Reputation – The QS findings reflect Glion’s solid reputation among hiring managers and employers in the hospitality and service industries. Indeed, Glion graduate employment data indicates that 98% of job-seeking students have one or more employment opportunities on graduation day, more than 150 companies come to the Glion campuses every year to recruit top talent, and the school receives an average of 3.2 internship offers per student, every semester.
Faculty/Student Ratio – Among the world’s top hotel management schools, Glion is a close-knit, private institution with around 1,650 students on three campuses. The school aims to maintain small class sizes for one-on-one interactions and student teacher ratios that range from approximately 1 to 15 for the practical arts classes to 1 to 35 for the academic classes.
Citations per Faculty- Industry research is an important aspect of academic life at Glion. Our senior faculty members bring industry challenges and trends into the classroom as they conduct and publish research, contribute to industry panels and host conferences on campus.
International Faculty Ratio – Glion has a distinguished and diverse range of faculty members allowing students to learn from the very best in their respective fields and to gain unique cultural perspectives from the industry. For example, among the senior culinary and service instructors at Glion, many have achieved the distinguished title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
International Student Ratio – On two campuses in Switzerland and one in London, Glion offers an exciting, multicultural student life experience. Glion is home to international students representing 99 nationalities (56% Europe, 6% Americas, 32% Asia-pacific, 6% Africa and Middle East). This close-knit, diverse community creates a unique learning and living environment for future hospitality professionals.
Learn more about Glion’s Hospitality Management programs.
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Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie visit Prince Philip in hospital
June 14, 2013 - 15:23 BST hellomagazine.com Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are the latest royals to visit Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in hospital
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are the latest royals to visit their grandfather Prince Philip in hospital, as he recovers from an exploratory operation on his abdomen.
The close sisters were photographed arriving at the London Clinic on Harley Street, where the Duke of Edinburgh was admitted last Friday. He is expected to remain there for about two weeks.
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Princess Beatrice, 24, and Princess Eugenie, 23, donned black and navy blue dresses respectively for the visit. They appeared to be in high spirits and smiled at cameras, which is most likely contribution to their grandfather's strong recovery.
The ladies' visit comes after their father, Prince Andrew, paid a brief visit to the Duke of Edinburgh. The royal family have shown their love and support with a string of trips to the hospital.
Sophie, Countess of Wessex, was spotted entering the clinic on Tuesday afternoon with what looked to be a picnic bag, perhaps containing a few of the Duke of Edinburgh's favourite foods.
The Queen visited her husband the night before on his 92nd birthday, bearing a card addressed to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
Buckingham Palace released a statement on his birthday, saying, "His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh is progressing according to plans at this early stage.
"He will remain in hospital for up to two weeks, and it is expected he will then be taking a period of convalescence of approximately two months."
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All The Food and Drink Millennials 'Killed' in 2018 Gallery
All The Fo...
Dearly beloved, we've gathered here to say our goodbyes. Here they lie, all the food- and drink-related things that millennials mercilessly killed in 2018. These items and activities weren't necessarily good for us, but they were nonetheless absolutely treasured traditions for previous generations.
Now they've been taken from us too soon! Those convenience-hungry, healthy alternative-seeking millennials born between 1981 and 1996 went on a killing spree in 2018, digging early graves for the beer industry, the bar industry, mayonnaise, canned tuna, American cheese and more. Not only would millennials rather Postmates sushi, take selfies and stay home to drink, they'd also rather buy trendy cheeses and healthier fats and guzzle craft beer than fill their shopping carts with the foodstuffs their parents and grandparents consumed.
R.I.P. to the good times! The Daily Meal has trolled the internet (while the internet trolled millennials) collecting the names of the deceased and compiling a list of foods and drinks that you probably grew up enjoying but that millennials - now the world's most powerful consumers - have stopped buying. We're here to pay our respects to all the food and drink millennials killed in 2018.
American cheese, we knew you well. Alas, millennials would rather buy fancy cheeses from Trader Joe's or at the very least enjoy a cheese product that doesn't taste like plastic - and it has killed the American cheese business, according to Bloomberg. Because of millennials, the price of processed American cheese slipped below $4 a pound for the first time since 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes to going out at night! Millennials are reportedly too lazy to go to bars. But that doesn't stop them from drinking. According to a survey conducted by market research firm Mintel, millennials prefer drinking at home more than other generations. So they still get drunk - they just do it in the privacy of their own homes.
R.I.P. to the beer industry. Those dag-nab millennials aren't drinking as much beer as their parents, according to Business Insider, and it was digging an early grave for the beer industry even before 2018. Goldman Sachs, which downgraded Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) and Constellation Brands (Corona, among others) in 2017, says that millennials are just drinking too much wine, spurring beer's decline. According to trade group Beer Institute (as cited by The Wall Street Journal), drinkers picked beer less than half of the time when deciding on an alcoholic beverage in 2017. On the flip side, millennials love a good craft brew.
As the New York Post suggested in 2017, millennials officially ruined brunch - and the terror continued into 2018! According to numerous outlets, millennials actually love brunch too much, and it's killing everybody's vibe. So be aware: Millennials are killing brunch and vibes.
Here lies tuna, sleeping with the fishes. The Wall Street Journal argued that millennials are killing the canned tuna industry - because they don't own can openers. They say that the consumption of canned tuna has declined by more than 40 percent nationwide over the last three decades, and that it's all millennials' fault. Millennials took to Twitter to argue back that it's not because they don't own can openers - it's because canned tuna is kind of super-gross.
Millennials have effectively killed all chain restaurants. Never mind that places like Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings and TGI Friday's are still in business, they're dead. R.I.P. No, but seriously, millennials were blamed for the decline of Buffalo Wild Wings by BDub's own CEO, Sally Smith. Millennials are so powerful! Mwahaha. Smith blames the fact that millennials would rather cook at home or order delivery than eat deep-fried wings surrounded by TVs blaring sports. Weird!
We've already established that millennials are killing chain restaurants because they would rather cook at home, but they're also killing kitchens. You might be wondering: How is this possible? Well, according to Forbes, it's all because they can't stop ordering delivery for everything from Flamin' Hot Cheetos to late-night Thai noodles. Curse you, Postmates!
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How big was your Thanksgiving turkey this year? If a millennial bought it, probably not that big. Why? Because millennials have killed big turkeys! Well, actually they're killing more small turkeys. According to Forbes, millenials prefer smaller holiday birds because 1) nobody ever eats that much and 2) massive turkeys often endure unhealthy conditions while they are alive, and millennials would rather eat healthy birds over super-sized ones.
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Meal kit services, we hardly knew ye! According to data from Dealspotr, only 3 percent of millennials order meal kits like Blue Apron because most of them think they're too expensive. Looks like millennials would rather spend their hard-earned cash paying off student loans than learning how to make a decent chicken piccata.
The old mayonnaise can't come to the phone right now. Why? Because it's dead! According to a 2018 article in Philadelphia magazine, millennials are killing mayo. The author spends most of the piece reminiscing on her own mayonnaise-soaked childhood and blaming her college-age daughter - a women's and gender studies major, naturally - and others like her for the condiment's undeserved decline. Maybe the daughter and her mayo-hating friends are just focused on living longer and healthier lives! Most millennials are. Here are 10 ways millennials are healthier than their parents.
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Piranesi Vedute di Roma 16-11 Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano
Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778)
was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'Invenzione).
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Title of the print: Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano
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Memories in a box
A new edition to the Oral History Team’s tool kit is the Memory Box which is proving its worth by assisting people to discuss and reminisce about their life.
There are now lots of companies producing memory boxes for use, especially in the care of dementia sufferers. Most use replica items and they often focus on a narrow theme. The Oral history team wanted a memory box to use in their oral history work and for external events but decided to create their own using a broader range of genuine items. This was quite easy to do using goods from local charity and junk shops, familiar brands in the supermarket, as well as shopping on eBay.
The team have done some research and spoken to carers about what sort of things to include. It became clear that touch, smell and taste would be as important as the look of the items. They thought about how items might lead to reminiscing and conversations about the past.
The team were advised that it was good to include craft items, so have included some dress patterns and some knitting. They wanted to recall important events, both personal milestones and events in the news, and so the memory box contains vinyl records, birthday cards and a newspaper announcing the start of the Falklands War. The team are adding to the Memory box all the time. The latest addition is this British Postal order from 1959, worth 3 shillings and 6 pence.
Coins have interesting marks and textures and money is important to everyone so generates lots of conversations. The box also contains a savings book and stamps. Smell is very evocative and the bar of Wrights Coal Tar Soap provokes a strong reaction from everyone who picks it up. One sniff seems to transport people back to a particular place and time. Taste is also powerful and a can of Carnation Milk has sparked conversations about Sunday teas.
The box has proved a great conversation starter with people old and young and between generations and even across the world, with one visitor at a recent event taking pictures of our items to send to relatives in South Africa.
Reminiscence event in St Albans
The Oral History team were invited to reminisce with members of the Kingfisher Club, an activity group for people with dementia. This event was part of the Twenty Five 'Lives seen through food' Exhibition organised by Food provision in later life.
The team helped the group to reminisce about baking, recipes and food traditions. They used a variety of objects, including older cooking utensils and recipes, as well as the smells of spices. Professor Anne Murphy even shared some of her homemade cakes that had been baked using old-fashioned methods.
All of these objects were used as a prompt to generate discussion and help members to share their memories. This type of reminiscence is beneficial for people with dementia, as it is a non-confrontational way to talk and think about the past without feeling under pressure to ‘remember’ something specific. One member of the group was able to bring his wife’s 60 year old recipe book that was bought before they married. It included the recipe that was used to make their wedding cake.
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The Memory Box was used by staff and students at the Cumberland Lodge conference to create an instant exhibition entitled 'Do You Remember? Everyday Treasures'. Eureka Henrich, a member of the History team, introduced the group to the skill of exhibition curating.
Eureka led the group to create an exhibition that was planned, designed, installed, launched and packed away in a matter of hours. People were invited to view the exhibition, and reminisce about the items in the box. Some chose to share these memories on the note cards provided. Visitors recalled their own experiences with View-Masters and album covers, as well as remembering their Grandmother knitting multi-coloured blankets and Teddy Bears for charity.
One visitor to the exhibition had a memory prompted by the section of the exhibition on memories surrounding food:
I remember buying a chocolate tea cake with a Threepence piece once a week at school.
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I remember the Post Office Savings book. I still think I never drew the last money from my account and often wonder 50 years later if it is still there.
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Hyundai Announces 2010 Business Results
- Sales revenue rises 15.4%, net profit up 78% on gains from overseas units
- Hyundai sells 3.6 million units globally in 2010
- Hyundai aims to increase sales and enhance brand image in 2011
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, posted global sales of 3,612,487 units (domestic plants: 1,730,682, overseas plants: 1,881,805) in 2010, a 16.3 percent gain from a year earlier.
Sales revenue rose 15.4 percent to 36.8 trillion won from a year earlier as the company sold more cars and improved its product mix, while operating profit also rose 44.4% to 3.2 trillion won. Net profit increased 77.8 percent to 5.3 trillion won, buoyed by robust performance at Hyundai’s overseas plants and subsidiaries.
In spite of the persistent uncertainties in recent business conditions, Hyundai achieved some significant milestones in major markets last year. In the U.S., Hyundai achieved both quantitative and qualitative growth: Hyundai’s annual sales surpassed 500,000 units for the first time since entering the U.S. market in 1986, boosted by strong sales of its game-changing Sonata and Tucson. Brand loyalty to Hyundai has also increased, ranking its highest-ever No.3 spot in the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Customer Retention Study as a result of strict quality management.
By introducing new models specifically designed for local customers, Hyundai’s sales in China and India are also at an all-time high, reaching over 700,000 units and 600,000 units, respectively. In Russia, Hyundai this month began mass production of its customized Solaris model, further increasing its presence in emerging markets.
In 2011, Hyundai plans to reinforce its internal competitiveness and achieve a global sales target of 3.9 million units. Hyundai will also focus on securing core competency for future growth, as well as strengthening cooperation with suppliers and actively carrying out Corporate Social Responsibilities.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White laid out a list of SEC priorities in her appearance at ICI’s General Membership Meeting. In the May 26, 2016, edition of Focus on Funds, ICI General Counsel David Blass breaks down the list for funds and their investors.
Stephanie Ortbals-Tibbs, ICI Director, Media Relations: SEC Chair Mary Jo White says the agency has a very full agenda set for this year and in the coming years ahead—much of it impacting the fund industry. What are some of the key takeaways from her discussion at the ICI General Membership Meeting? Here’s ICI General Counsel David Blass.
David Blass, ICI General Counsel: Well, Chair White clearly is focused, and has focused the staff like a laser on completing the rulemaking agenda she’s set for them. She said their target is—and their priority is—to adopt the three rules that have been proposed so far in 2016. So, that includes data modernization, the liquidity risk management proposal, and the derivatives risk management proposal.
She alluded to some other proposals that might come out this year. I think she had in mind transition planning, which was also part of her agenda, and she mentioned stress testing as well, as a proposal.
Ortbals-Tibbs: David, her agenda for this year is very proactive, but she she’s not stopping there. She has a very proactive agenda laid out for the next several years beyond that, and she’s going ahead and getting the staff and her colleagues looking at several significant issues for the industry.
Blass: Well, she had four items that she mentioned that she had directed the staff to take on. One was a review of fund disclosure effectiveness, and she pointed to disclosure of risks and expenses. And, as you know, the expense disclosure was an item that the Investor Advisory Committee recommended to the SEC to take on, and she mentioned that.
The second area of focus was market structure issues. So, on August 24 [when certain market disruptions occurred in 2015]—she mentioned the way that the market for underlying securities can play with an ETF portfolio—the interplay between those two. She mentioned the role of market makers and how they operate on a day where you have dislocations, like you did on August 24, and one could understand why she would make that a high priority for the Commission.
The third item was the use of technology and service providers by the fund industry. She pointed to cybersecurity—which is a high priority for the entire financial industry—and the use of single vendors who might, if there’s a failure, cause problems for a number of funds. So that’s a third area of focus.
And then fourth was valuation pricing around instruments that really don’t trade very much or instruments that have contractual limits on when they trade, and being sure the pricing and valuation of those are appropriate.
So those are the four areas that she focused on, and said that she had directed her staff to spend time and effort working on those going forward in 2017 and beyond.
Ortbals-Tibbs: She picked up on a lot of issues that our funds and their investors really care about. You can see that they’re firing on all cylinders over there, and that did not go unnoticed by our president and CEO, Paul Schott Stevens.
Blass: You’re absolutely right. Our CEO and President Paul Schott Stevens introduced Chair White and really praised her leadership in moving the rulemaking agenda forward in the asset management space. He also praised the SEC in general as one of the reasons for the success of the fund industry over the last seven-plus decades. He called out the high competence that the SEC and its staff has, the independence they have, the bipartisan nature of the dialogue at the SEC, and the international presence that the SEC has really grown over the past decade and beyond.
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08/30/2014 10:01 am ET Updated Sep 02, 2014
You Cannot Unsee The Air Sex World Championships (NSFW VIDEO)
Andy Campbell
The 6th-annual Air Sex World Championships reached its climax in New York City Thursday, when a handful of New York’s biggest libidos drank enough beer to get on stage and simulate sex. Alone. With (most of) their clothes on.
The nationwide tour -- which we’ve covered for years -- features a “sport” that’s a lot like air guitar, if you replace guitars with your imaginary friend’s air-privates and comedy. HuffPost videographers Oliver Noble and Ben Craw erected video evidence of New York’s night moves above, and we should warn you, it’s extremely NSFW and profoundly hilarious.
But why is air sex getting everyone so hot and bothered?
“The Air Sex Championship is not only the world’s greatest form of entertainment -- it’s also educational and inspiring,” the tour’s commissioner, Chris Trew, told HuffPost Weird News. “It’s a celebration of sex, a positive sex show. You’re making love to an invisible person or object.”
There are only two rules on stage at the Air Sex World Championships: all climaxes must be simulated, and there must always be another (imaginary) person on stage during your routine. A panel of judges -- featuring fornication legends like porn star Lisa Ann -- critiques each contestant, and the audience chooses the winner.
This year, Adam Wilson -- stage name “Tootenanny” -- was the crowd favorite and won for a second time, likely based on his weird prop. Watch the video above to see for yourself, and if you think you’re breezy enough to be a Casanova of air sex, sign up at a city near you next time.
Video by Ben Craw and Oliver Noble
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James Corden To Host The 2015 CFDA Awards
ByDana Oliver
04/02/2015 09:24am EDT | Updated April 2, 2015
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 20: Actor/comedian James Corden arrives at the Tom Ford Autumn/Winter 2015 Womenswear Collection Presentation at Milk Studios on February 20, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Fashion's next big trend: late-night hosts? It was reported Wednesday that James Corden, the host of CBS' "The Late Late Show," will be emceeing the 2015 CFDA Awards, following in the footsteps of 2014's host, Seth Meyers.
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Amritsar Tourist and Pilgrimage Guide
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Amritsar Tourist and Pilgrimage Guide - Destination Overview
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Amritsar is a home to the Harmandir Sahib (referred to as the "Golden Temple"), the spiritual and cultural center for the Sikh religion. This important Sikh shrine attracts more visitors than the Taj Mahal with more than 100,000 visitors on week days alone and is the most popular destination for Non-resident Indians (NRI) in the whole of India. The city also houses the Sikh temporal and political authority, Akal Takht, as well as the Sikh Parliament.
Amritsar Tourist and Pilgrimage Guide: Rates & Dates
Package Duration: 3 night 4 days
Package Category Hotel City Package cost Per Person
Peak season Rates (Oct to Mar) Off Season Rates (April to Aug)
Standard Hotel Puri Palace Amritsar Rs.9,999 Rs.8,999
Delux The Grand Galaxy Hotel Amritsar Rs.12,499 Rs.11,499
Luxury Radisson Blu Amritsar Amritsar Rs.17,999 Rs.16,499
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Amritsar Tourist and Pilgrimage Guide: Itinerary
Day 01 : Arrive Amritsar
Arrive Amritsar Railway Station. On arrival reception at Railway Station and transfer to the select hotel.
Evening visit India-Pakistan Attari Border to watch Flag Retreat Ceremony- Attari Wagah, an army Joint Check Post on India-Pakistan border 30 Kms from Amritsar where the daily highlight is the evening "Beating the Retreat" ceremony. Soldiers from both countries march in perfect drill, going through the steps of bringing down their respective national flags. Return to hotel. Overnight stay at Amristar
DAY 2: Amritsar local excursion
After Breakfast , Start your city tour with the blessings of Golden Temple-the most important sikh shrine also known as Harmandir Sahib and Darbar Sahib. Then visit Jallianwala Bagh- the place that reminds every Indian of the brutal and hearless massacre by british general Dyer.
Visit Durgiana Temple :- The temple The complex houses Shree Laxmi Narayan Mandir with a huge pond on its periphery. Overnight stay at Amristar
DAY 3: Amritsar Pilgrimage Tour
After breakfast, you will visit for some famous gurudwaras i.e. Gurudwara Baba Atal, Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh ji, Gurudwara Manji sahib Ji, Gurdwaras Chheharta Sahib and Gurudwara Ramsar Sahib. Overnight stay at Amristar
DAY 4: Departs Amritsar
After Breakfast , you will visit for Central Sikh Museum later transfer to Railway station to board train for onward journey.
Places to visit in Amritsar
Golden Temple: It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage spots for Sikhs. The temple derives its name from its fully golden dome. The temple is built over marble and is two storied high structure. Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru of Sikhs had initially built a pool here which currently houses the Temple. It is the epicenter of Sikhism.
(Golden Temple)
Durgiana Temple :- The temple The complex houses Shree Laxmi Narayan Mandir with a huge pond on its periphery.
(Durgiana Temple)
Jallianwala Bagh : This is a public Park in Amritsar, Punjab and is a symbol of Independence and tragedies related to it. Once it so happened that a British Lady named Marshella was cornered by an Indian mob and beaten up. She was rescued by a man who was the father of her pupil. Hearing this General Dyer issued an order that every Indian had to cover the distance by crawling and the English officers could shoot and hit any Indian whom they saw. To protest against this, around 15000 men, women and children gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh and were protesting peacefully. After around an hour General Dyer and his army blocked all the exit ways of the park and ordered random shooting resulting which thousands of men and women died. This was one of the most tragic massacres of the Indian History. A memorial to honor those who died in this incident is made over here with a lamp which burns 24 hours. There is lush greenery in this park with a number of flowering plants as well.
(Jallianwala Bagh)
Wagah Border : Also known as Gurmukhi, this is a village and also the border where India and Pakistan was once divided to become two different countries. On this side of the border, the region is more popularly known as Attari and falls in Amritsar. On the other side, it falls in the Lahore city of Punjab of Pakistan and is known as Wahgah. On both sides the flags of the respective countries are raised up everyday and again lowered 2 hours before sunset. There is also the famous Wagah Rail line over here which forms a part of the Grand Trunk Road which continues in Pakistan as well. The Wagah Border Ceremony is worth seeing and is carried on by the Indian Army and the Pakistan Rangers on the respective sides of the border gate.
(Wagah Border)
Central Sikh Museum: This museum within the Golden Temple complex contains a huge number of paintings, which uphold the courage and mettle of Sikh martyrs of the past. It also contains the teachings of several Gurus and is a venue that must not be missed.
(Central Sikh Museum)
How to reach Amritsar
Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport in Amritsar, located about 11 kilometeres away from the city-centre, is well connected to other cities in India and also to a number of international cities. There are daily flights to and from Delhi, Chandigarh, Jammu, Srinagar, Dubai, London, Toronto and Tashkent, among other cities.
There are bus services available that connect Amritsar with cities like Delhi, Dehradun, Shimla, Jammu and other towns in North India. These include both government-run buses and coaches operated by private companies.
Amritsar Railway Station is the main station in the city and is well connected to almost all major cities in India including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Agra, and Chandigarh, among others. A train journey from Delhi to Amritsar takes a little over 6 hours.
Best time to visit Amritsar
Seasons in Amritsar
The best time to visit Amritsar is between October and March, when the climate is pleasant and ideal for sightseeing. During the winter season, stretching from November to March the level of mercury can fall up to 4°C. The maximum temperature observed during this season is 18°C.
The summer months, from April to June are extremely hot with temperature rising up to 49 °C. It is better not to visit Amritsar during this time. Summer months are followed by monsoon, stretching from July to October. Amritsar receives heavy shower during this season. You can visit this place during the monsoon months but be prepared for the heavy showers.
Where to eat in Amritsar
Amritsar lies in the heart of Punjab and is home to the iconic Golden Temple. It beckons travellers from all over the world in search of healing and happiness, Some of Amritsar’s dhabas and restaurants have no ambience to write home about, but have become the stuff of legends.
Guru Ka Langar: If the Golden Temple is number one on your list, we strongly suggest you partake in the Guru Ka Langar. Langar is a community feast prepared in a kitchen within the temple premises on a large scale (for at least 40,000 people). Everybody is welcome and is seated in rows while they are served by volunteers. The devotion of service to community is absolutely tear jerking. Jostling with other devotees and visitors for a taste of Kada Prasad is worth it, considering that it has a taste like no other. Maybe it's because discrimination and inequality are things that are not tolerated within the walls of the temple.
Kesar da dhaba: Winding through small alleys and bylanes you’ll reach this vegetarian restaurant that goes back nearly a century. They have got their basics bang on – the laccha paranthas are crisp yet tender, the maa ki daal has been simmering for 24 hours and comes with dollops of ghee, the lassi, served in a tall brass glass, is so rich you have to wade through a creamy layer to sip the drink. It’s almost like a treasure hunt. And if you still have a wee space in your stomach, don’t leave without trying the famous phirni served in earthen bowls.
Chowk Passian, Shastri Market
Beera Chicken: Warning: Take a bite of tandoori chicken at this tiny roadside joint on Majitha Road and chances are you won’t be able to enjoy this north Indian dish anywhere else. Not tarnished with orange food colour or too many spices – it is made the way tandoori chicken was meant to be – soft, succulent and nearly dropping off the bones. Squeeze a bit of lemon and have it in your car, because the seating may not be quite to your liking.
Majitha Road
Kulcha Land: Another place that does not hand out menu cards because they keep it simple. In this city of many breads, whether it is parathas or naans, they concentrate on the famous Amritsari kulcha. As you tuck into their regular, stuffed kulchas or paneer kulchas, which arrive piping hot and fresh from the tandoor with oodles of butter– crisp on the outside, soft and flaky inside, you realise why their counterparts in the rest of the country are just not the same.
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Ahuja Lassi: Situated near the Hindu College and Durgiana Temple, every autowallah knows how to get here so you're not alone. Churned the way lassi is, the Ahuja's secret ingredient is a natural essence the many patrons still cannot decipher. The original lassi is hands down the best so far, and we suggest a tall steel glass of it first thing in the morning.
Festivals and Events in Amritsar
All the festivals celebrated in Punjab are celebrated here. Lohri is held in mid January and denotes the end of the winter harvest. people dance and sing around a bonfire that is kept going by throwing in popcorn and peanuts and puffed rice.
On the 13th of April every year Amritsaris celebrate Baisakhi with great gusto. On this day which denotes the advent of spring, the Khalsa panth was also founded by Guru Gobind Singh. It is joyous occasion and the people come out on the streets dressed in colorful clothes dancing the boisterous bhangra.
Guru purabs are religious special events and celebrated by all Sikhs in Amritsar, with the anniversary of Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh being the most prominent ones.
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Fellenberg, C.; Ziegler, J.; Handrick, V.; Vogt, T. Polyamine homeostasis in wild type and phenolamide deficient <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> stamens. Front Plant Sci. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00180 3, 180, (2012)
Polyamines (PAs) like putrescine, spermidine, and spermine are ubiquitous polycationic molecules that occur in all living cells and have a role in a wide variety of biological processes. High amounts of spermidine conjugated to hydroxycinnamic acids are detected in the tryphine of Arabidopsis thaliana pollen grains. Tapetum localized spermidine hydroxycinnamic acid transferase (SHT) is essential for the biosynthesis of these anther specific tris-conjugated spermidine derivatives. Sht knockout lines show a strong reduction of hydroxycinnamic acid amides (HCAAs). The effect of HCAA-deficient anthers on the level of free PAs was measured by a new sensitive and reproducible method using 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC) and fluorescence detection by HPLC. PA concentrations can be accurately determined even when very limited amounts of plant material, as in the case of A. thaliana stamens, are available. Analysis of free PAs in wild type stamens compared to sht deficient mutants and transcript levels of key PA biosynthetic genes revealed a highly controlled regulation of PA homeostasis in A. thaliana anthers.
Kopycki, J.; Schmidt, J.; Abel, S.; Grubb, D. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of diverse thiohydroximates from gluconsinolate-utilizing enymes from <i> Helix pomatia</i> and <i> Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus</i> Biotechnol. Lett 33, 1039-1046, (2011) DOI: 10.1007/s10529-011-0530-y
Thiohydroximates comprise a diverse class of compounds important in both biological and industrial chemistry. Their syntheses are generally limited to simple alkyl and aryl compounds with few stereocenters and a narrow range of functional groups. We hypothesized that sequential action of two recombinant enzymes, a sulfatase from Helix pomatia and a β-O-glucosidase from Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus, on glucosinolates would allow synthesis of thiohydroximates from a structurally broad array of abundant precursors. We report successful synthesis of thiohydroximates of varied chemical classes, including from homochiral compounds of demonstrated biological activity. The chemoenzymatic synthetic route reported here should allow access to many, if not all, of the thiohydroximate core structures of the ~200 known naturally occurring glucosinolates. The enrichment of this group for compounds with possible pharmacological potential is discussed.
Abel, S.; Savchenko, T.; Levy, M. Genome-wide comparative analysis of the <em>IQD</em> gene families in <em>Arabidopsis thaliana</em> and Oryza sativa BMC Evolutionary Biology 5, 72 (1-25), (2005)
We identified and analyzed 33 and 29 IQD1-like genes in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa, respectively. The encoded IQD proteins contain a plant-specific domain of 67 conserved amino acid residues, referred to as the IQ67 domain, which is characterized by a unique and repetitive arrangement of three different calmodulin recruitment motifs, known as the IQ, 1-5-10, and 1-8-14 motifs. We demonstrated calmodulin binding for IQD20, the smallest IQD protein in Arabidopsis, which consists of a C-terminal IQ67 domain and a short N-terminal extension. A striking feature of IQD proteins is the high isoelectric point (~10.3) and frequency of serine residues (~11%). We compared the Arabidopsis and rice IQD gene families in terms of gene structure, chromosome location, predicted protein properties and motifs, phylogenetic relationships, and evolutionary history. The existence of an IQD-like gene in bryophytes suggests that IQD proteins are an ancient family of calmodulin-binding proteins and arose during the early evolution of land plants. Comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that the major IQD gene lineages originated before the monocot-eudicot divergence. The extant IQD loci in Arabidopsis primarily resulted from segmental duplication and reflect preferential retention of paralogous genes, which is characteristic for proteins with regulatory functions. Interaction of IQD1 and IQD20 with calmodulin and the presence of predicted calmodulin binding sites in all IQD family members suggest that IQD proteins are a new class of calmodulin targets. The basic isoelectric point of IQD proteins and their frequently predicted nuclear localization suggest that IQD proteins link calcium signaling pathways to the regulation of gene expression. Our comparative genomics analysis of IQD genes and encoded proteins in two model plant species provides the first step towards the functional dissection of this emerging family of putative calmodulin targets.
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Trip idea: great gardens of Ireland
Home Trip Ideas Kylemore Abbey, County Galway
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Get ready to lose yourself in the riotous colour, lush foliage and quirky charm of Ireland's great gardens
Blessed with a mild temperate climate, fertile soil and maybe just a little bit of magic, Ireland is a plant-lover's paradise. The sheer variety of gardens you encounter as you travel around the island will beguile even the most exacting gardening enthusiast. Tidy city gardens planted with verve and imagination, formal gardens built on an epic scale, wild gardens, walled gardens, sub-tropical gardens, even Japanese gardens – each one is uniquely beautiful and each has its own story to tell. Come with us and take a stroll through Ireland's glorious gardens.
Great gardens of Ireland
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Go green and get wandering through the many historic gardens dotted around this colourful city.
A driving 22 mins
National Botanic Gardens
Botanical bliss
At the heart of Ireland's horticultural history lies the Botanic Gardens, a place of pilgrimage for gardeners in Glasnevin, Dublin city. Admire exquisitely restored glasshouses, explore Victorian plant houses, a Palm House and a labyrinth of flower-filled borders and tranquil wooded walks at this urban oasis.
Iveagh Gardens
Iveagh Gardens has acted as a cultural centre for Dublin’s citizens since the 19th century when for a time the space was owned by the Guinness family. Positioned right at the heart of Dublin’s thriving commercial centre, the gardens blossom in a cascade of colour. Check out the exotic tree ferns that create a sense of wonder in the Secret Garden, while a miniature copy of London’s Hampton Court Maze is another must-see.
Come at festival time
Explore this enchanting beauty during June, and take in some exquisite food and a welcoming atmosphere at Taste of Dublin, one of Ireland’s premier foodie festivals.
Get ready to fall in love with the wild woodlands and scenic trails of Ireland's Ancient East’s celebrated gardens.
C driving 57 mins
Located beside the Irish National Stud, Ireland’s most prestigious spot for thoroughbred horse breeding, County Kildare’s Japanese Gardens are a fine example of botanical beauty on Dublin's doorstep. Be dazzled by an array of exotic plants, cherry trees, stone lanterns, tunnelled pathways and an ancient fir tree amidst an explosion of colour at this stunning homage to eastern culture. Follow the tranquil pathways and explore an ethereal haven at the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East.
D driving 1 hour, 5 mins
Powerscourt Estate
A garden party
Known as the Garden County of Ireland, Wicklow is where you’ll find 47 acres of gardens so impressive that they have been voted the third best in the world by National Geographic. Let your imagination run wild at Powerscourt Estate and Gardens amongst the lakes, valleys, walled gardens and secret hollows of a vast and historic estate. Don’t forget to climb to the top of Pepperpot Tower for sweeping panoramic views, and, while you’re here, why not pay a visit to Ireland's largest waterfall located on the grounds of the estate?
If you have more time
Founded in the 1860s, Mount Usher Gardens enchant and intrigue in equal measure – pop into the nearby Avoca café for some great local produce after your ramble. And, just a short drive away, you’ll find the scenic gardens and a delightful Tea Room at Kilruddery House, one of the great houses of Ireland.
Wells House and Gardens
Magic and wonder
Put on your comfortable shoes and take a walk through a stunning Victorian terrace garden and beautiful woodlands at Wells House and Gardens. A must-see for gardening enthusiasts, you’ll also discover magical happenings at Wells Fairy Trail amidst the lush green countryside of County Wexford. Drop into the old stables that have now been converted into a Craft Courtyard – a great place to pick up handmade trinkets – or try some locally sourced artisan produce at Mrs Stone’s Restaurant.
Visit during the August bank holiday weekend for Carlow Garden Festival and explore the large selection of garden trails on offer. A particular highlight is a riverside ramble amongst rare snowdrops at the wonderfully atmospheric Altamont Gardens.
Slip beneath the surface of the Wild Atlantic Way and discover its ethereal and ever-changing gardens – and a world of adventure.
F driving 5 hours, 3 mins
Garnish Island
It's been called Ireland’s Garden of Eden and is known to horticulturists all around the world. Take the ferry from the sheltered harbour of Glengarriff and discover Garnish Island, a garden island of rare beauty. Located off the scenic Beara peninsula, Garnish Island is home to a colony of seals as well as the famous subtropical woodland gardens. Before leaving, climb the stone steps of the Martello Tower, an original feature of the island dating from 1805, where you’ll be rewarded with inspirational views of Bantry Bay and the mountains beyond.
Just a stone’s throw away in the garden paradise of West Cork along the Wild Atlantic Way lie the seven terraces and stately estate of Bantry House and Gardens.
G driving 4 hours, 10 mins
Its landscape is famously wild and rugged, but the Wild Atlantic Way also boasts some of the most beautiful gardens in Ireland. Set against the backdrop of the Connemara mountains, the Victorian walled garden at Kylemore Abbey allows visitors to feel like intrepid explorers. Wander through the green corridors and explore this vibrant garden’s treasures: see bananas and grapes grow in glasshouses, and delve into the wild gardens and meandering woodland walks.
Discover more gems along the Connemara Garden Trail. Or for nature at its rugged best, the Connemara National Park serves up something pretty special. Before arriving in Connemara enjoy the Lough Derg Garden Trail – the arched gateway and beautiful stone walls at Knappogue Castle and Gardens are a particular highlight.
Glenveagh National Park
A romantic vision
Glenveagh National Park, in north-west County Donegal is home to a castle and gardens unlike any other you’re likely to encounter. Famous for their Tuscan Garden, Italian Terrace and 67 steps, these characterful gardens act as the perfect counterpoint to the wild untamed Irish landscape of the national park that surrounds them. Tree rhododendrons and magnolias grace the woods, while the Walled Garden is packed with fruit, vegetables and herbs.
There are plenty of green retreats along Donegal’s Garden Trail on this picturesque stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way – pop into a hidden world surrounded by native woods and moorland at Glenalla House, or take a trip on a diesel and steam train through the beautiful woodlands of Oakfield Park.
As you journey to the fantastical landscapes of Northern Ireland, you’ll discover magnificent gardens set in impossibly picturesque locations.
I driving 1 hour, 55 mins
Florence Court
Fascinating flora
Green-fingered visitors should make a beeline for 18th century Florence Court to find inspiration from its spectacular gardens and flourishing flora. Take a gentle stroll around the forest park and pleasure grounds on the Blue Trail, or take some time to tackle the Red Trail through native Irish woodland. Trust us, the spectacular views across the lakeland county of Fermanagh are ample reward for walkers who explore this lush landscape.
Take a boat to beautiful Devenish Island and, just like the ancient Celts, Christian monks and Vikings, fall in love with this lush green isle on glistening Lower Lough Erne.
J driving 26 mins
Belfast Botanic Gardens
A romantic escape
Belfast’s Victorian Botanic Gardens have been enjoyed as a city sanctuary since they were first opened in 1828. Wander the grounds at your leisure and admire the geraniums, fuchsias, begonias and 150-year-old ferns dotted around this romantic spot. A sense of imagination has turned these gardens into a wonderland of horticulture: the garden’s Tropical Ravine houses banana, cinnamon and orchid plants, while at the Palm House you’ll find tropical plants and exotic birds of paradise.
Visit Belfast during July for Rose Week, a celebration of the spectacular Rose Garden at Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park.
Rowallane Garden
Ancient tranquility
In picturesque County Down, you’ll find the historic walled garden of Rowallane. This wonderfully wild haven is the perfect place to immerse yourself in nature’s beauty. It’s a riot of colour: spectacular splashes of herbaceous plants, shrubs and bulbs combine to excite the senses. After admiring an extensive collection of azaleas and rhododendrons – as well plants and trees from North and South America, Japan, China, Tibet and New Zealand – stop for a brew in the tea room in the old farm stables.
The mild climate beside Strangford Lough in County Down and the imaginative planting of Edith, Lady Londonderry have produced an astonishingly varied garden at nearby Mount Stewart.
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Michigan man to be resentenced for 1980 slaying while a juvenile
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man sentenced to life in prison as a juvenile will have a chance at freedom after a judge granted him a resentencing.
Berrien County Trial Court Judge John M. Donahue vacated Michael Johnson’s life sentence for second-degree murder on Tuesday, the Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph reported . Donahue cited new evidence regarding juvenile brain development in his decision to resentence Johnson.
A resentencing hearing hasn’t been scheduled yet.
Johnson pleaded guilty to killing 16-year-old Sue Ellen Machemer in 1980, when he was 17.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a life sentence without the possibility of parole is unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. Prosecutor Aaron Mead has argued that the 2012 ruling doesn’t have to be retroactively applied to Johnson because he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and his sentence carries the possibility of parole.
But Johnson has said that the Michigan Parole Board has never expressed interest in paroling him. He has repeatedly been denied of any meaningful opportunity for release, Johnson’s lawyers argued.
Johnson’s attorneys also said that the Parole Board has taken no notice of Johnson’s numerous accomplishments in prison. Johnson obtained a GED diploma and an associate degree. He has completed vocational training for office jobs and received a certification as a paralegal.
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#HygieneRap
Israeli hospital’s hygiene rap goes viral
Breakdancing during surgery? Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem gets its staff to sing and dance about hand-washing.
By Viva Sarah Press September 30, 2013, 2:57 am
Most hospitals shy away from being linked to anything viral. But Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem has released a viral video that is winning them big points with viewers.
Hygiene – especially in hospitals – is crucial to keeping viruses and bacteria at bay.
Millions of people around the world get sicker from infections they contract in hospitals than from whatever they had upon checking in.
While Israeli companies have come up with numerous inventions and innovations in this field, the old-school practice of washing one’s hands continues to be the gold standard in cleanliness.
So, doctors, nurses and medical personnel at Shaare Zedek – which opened its doors in 1902 — made a rap about washing hands. It’s witty and highly entertaining. Within the first week of being posted on YouTube, the video scored more than 130,000 hits.
The original lyrics are in Hebrew and although they are quite punny, the video can be understood without knowing the language. But the hospital fielded high demand for an English version and has now released a subtitled video a month after the original.
The hospital reworded lyrics to the popular Israeli rap song “Raise Your Hands” by TACT and instead sings: “So put your hands under the water, add soap and wash away the virus.”
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#MatingRitual
Israeli study shows fruit bats trade food for sex
Egyptian fruit-bat females consistently take food right from the mouths of their male peers. Now scientists know why the males put up with it.
By Naama Barak June 19, 2019, 7:00 am
An Egyptian fruit bat mother leaving the cave with its pup. Photo by Sasha Danilovich
Fun fact of the day: Egyptian fruit-bat females are quite the cunning seductresses, trading food for sex, at least according to new Israeli research.
The female bats living in captivity were observed by researchers from Tel Aviv University to be consistently taking food right from the mouths of their male peers. This led the scientists to wonder why exactly the latter put up with such behavior. Their discovery was a surprising one – the male bats were repaid for their accommodating behavior with sex.
“Originally, we wondered, ‘Why do the producers of food allow scroungers to take food from their mouths? Maybe they’re stronger?’ But we found that most of the scroungers are female and so we considered the possibility that females trade mating for food. This was our hypothesis, and, indeed, we found that this is the case,” explains Prof. Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University.
There are various reasons why animals might be willing to share food. In some cases, food is shared with relatives. In others, the cost of defending food resources may be too great. But, as the study now published in Current Biology shows, sharing food sometimes comes with other delayed benefits – including sex.
To explore the food-for-sex hypothesis in the study, researchers monitored producer-scrounger interactions of a captive Egyptian fruit-bat colony for over a year. They later determined the paternity of the pups that were born in the colony.
“The results were quite clear. Females gave birth to the young of males from which they had scrounged food,” Yovel says.
The research also showed that there was almost no overlap between males preferred by each female. This suggests that females choose males to scrounge from based on some form of individual preference, which changed from year to year.
“Going forward, we intend to explore how these relationships evolve and change over many years,” Yovel concludes. “We would also like to find out how these interactions observed in captivity play out in wild populations.”
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Naama Barak is a writer at ISRAEL21c. A PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she loves all things history and politics. Food and fashion come a close second. Prior to joining ISRAEL21c, Naama worked for Israel's leading English-language dailies and cutting-edge startups.
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Issue 02/2013
A CA System for marine energy?
IEC working on new conformity assessment structure
By Claire Marchand
Oceans offer an enormous source of renewable energy with the potential to satisfy an important percentage of the world's demand for electricity. Marine energy however has not evolved at the same rate as other types of renewable energy. While research in this field has been ongoing for more than 30 years, the technologies used to harness the energy from waves and from tidal and water currents are still in development. Driven by the necessity to look for alternative options to increase the amount of energy produced, some countries have started to invest in projects that convert ocean power into electric power.
The CAB WG 15 meeting last January in Singapore was hosted by IEC-APRC (IEC Asia-Pacific Regional Centre)
Reducing production costs through efficient design and reasonably-priced quality materials and components is crucial to improving the overall economic viability and acceptability of wave energy converters as well as of tidal and water current energy converters. This is where standards, IEC International Standards in particular, can play a major role.
First IEC International Standards issued
More than 10 years ago, the IEC identified the need to address the standardization of marine energy and in 2007 established IEC TC (Technical Committee) 114 to prepare International Standards for marine energy conversion systems. The primary focus of the TC is on the conversion of wave, tidal and other water current energy into electrical energy, although other conversion methods, systems and products are included.
At the end of 2011, TC 114 issued its first publication, IEC/TS 62600-1, Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current converters - Part 1: Terminology, which was followed in August 2012 by IEC 62600-100, Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other water current converters - Part 100: Electricity producing wave energy converters - Power performance assessment. The TC is currently working on several other International Standards addressing the design and performance of marine energy converters.
A CA solution for marine energy
Establishing a TC to develop standards was a first step for the IEC. The logical next step was to address the CA (Conformity Assessment) aspect. At the request of TC 114, in 2010, IEC CAB (Conformity Assessment Board) authorized the establishment of an ad hoc WG (Working Group) to explore the CA needs of this sector.
Since then, the ad hoc WG has been transformed into WG 15 to develop possible CA solutions. The group has met on several occasions and produced a “Blueprint”, endorsed by CAB, as the basis for CA in the marine energy industry.
The fifth meeting of WG 15 took place in Singapore on 29-30 January 2013. Its main objectives were to reach an agreement on the proposed structure for the new CA System. Also on the agenda was consideration of a pathway leading to the operation of a common approach to certification for the industry, and a draft set of rules that would enable the establishment of a new CA System was included.
Outlining a structure
During various WG 15 meetings, members received presentations and information on the current CA Systems and their Schemes, namely IECEE (IEC System of Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components), IECEx (IEC System for Certification to Standards Relating to Equipment for Use in Explosive Atmospheres) and IECQ (IEC Quality Assessment System for Electronic Components). While the IECEx System and Schemes provided a likely model, the unique aspects of the marine energy industry required more of a “Systems Approach” to cover stages from design concept to prototype, in addition to production of equipment and components, transportation, installation and commissioning. WG 15 Convenor Chris Agius, who is also the IECEx Executive Secretary, along with Co-Convenor Melanie Nadeau, from Emera, both agreed on the unique CA aspects of the marine energy industry.
In the discussions that ensued, several options were reviewed, including a proposal for a RE (Renewable Energy) System within which different RE sectors will be able to operate schemes. Contact with CAB WT CAC (Wind Turbine Conformity Assessment Committee), the group that is working on a CA solution for the wind energy sector, will be sought to allow for an exchange of views on this issue.
CAB will consider a report from WG 15, along with that from the CAB WT CAC, at its CAB June 2013 meeting – the WT CAC meeting is scheduled to take place in early April in Kyoto, Japan.
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WG 15 Blueprint
The Standards being developed by IEC TC 114 address a critical need for an industry that is characterized by a diverse range of technology concepts that will be deployed in harsh environmental conditions. The International Standards will provide a basis for ensuring the reliability of these technologies and their safe deployment.
As is the case with other industries, device developers will additionally have to provide evidence to interested parties (financiers and insurers) that they have designed, manufactured and tested their devices in accordance with an accepted protocol. In general, this type of assurance is best served through third-party verification and certification.
While device developers, purchasers and interested parties will benefit from a framework that will provide them with independent assurance risk mitigation and a route map of compliance through Standards, the IEC framework for a common approach for certification provides that added confidence in both the process and the certification providers themselves.
The CAB WG 15 Blueprint covers the CA needs of the new and burgeoning marine energy industry (within the scope of TC 114) with the goal of building confidence among existing and new stakeholders.
IEC experience in operating CA Systems and Schemes under the control of the CAB, coupled with expertise from the marine energy industry drawn from TC 114 will ensure that the marine energy industry will be well served.
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Home NEWS Energy Oxford aims to become first zero-emission city in 2035
Oxford aims to become first zero-emission city in 2035
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Carrie Ann , October 12, 2017 / 1536 0
We have often heard that automakers are trying to make a difference by creating zero-emission vehicles. It can’t be said that this move is a noble cause alone as it also gives the companies monetary benefits. Also, electric cars are a trend which has become essential to adapt to. If we talk about a city planning to go emission-free, this is a clear sign that the city actually cares about the environment. Implementing this goal can be a difficult task but it can give significant long-term results. Taking this into consideration, Oxford has declared its aim to become the first ever zero-emission city.
A number of cities are planning to adopt the same for the betterment of the environment as well as a reduction in respiratory diseases. But Oxford has beaten all these cities and has become the first one in the world to establish the Zero Emission Zone. This means that the Oxford city center is bidding to reduce air pollution on a drastic scale. For this, the Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Center submitted a joint proposal. This proposal instructs to ban all vehicles which run on petrol or diesel. The ban will be effective from the year of 2020.
Oxford will become the first one in the world to establish the Zero Emission Zone.
Oxford looking forward to becoming the first zero-emission city
After the ban becomes effective from 2020, Oxford will become a zero-emission city in the truest sense by 2035. This means that after 2020, the people of Oxford can’t enjoy the smell of petrol at the next gas station. This change will begin with the vehicles used for public transport. The first step will be to restrict the movement of conventional vehicles. Such cars, taxis, buses, and other commercial vehicles will be restricted to six streets. This is because only when transportation will become inconvenient, then the people will accept change.
The administration is confident that this step will reduce toxic nitrogen oxide by a drastic level. Under this plan, nitrogen oxide will come down by 74 percent in the most polluted area. In the past decade, this city has also witnessed a 36.9 percent downfall in pollution levels. In order to become a zero-emission city, the administration will begin with a six-week consultation to make the public understand this plan. The ban on the sales of fossil fuel cars will be possible by 2040. The City Council has received £800,000 for charging ports and £500,000 for chargers for electric taxis.
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An Interview with Andrea Lechner-Becker
May 18, 2018 / Jack Messenger author blog / 0 Comments
Andrea Lechner-Becker lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Her debut novel, Sixty Days Left, was published on 15 May 2018.
What would you do with just sixty days left?
That’s the question Willow must ask when, after a terminal diagnosis, she moves from Wyoming’s wide-open spaces to Portland for Death with Dignity. In this diary-format novel, Willow explores her present and her past, while realizing that every decision forms her future.
Andrea, would you describe Sixty Days Left as fitting into any particular genre?
I don’t really know what genre I’m in! The difference in literary fiction vs. contemporary fiction vs. women’s fiction confuses me, frankly. I write stories with strong female leads, so does that make them women’s fiction? They take place in the present day, so it’s contemporary? But they’re smart and deep and psychological, so are they literary? I don’t know. I just like telling stories that smart people want to read. Whatever genre that is, works for me.
How realistic is Sixty Days Left?
Sixty Days is very realistic. There are many people across the United States who move to Oregon for a Death with Dignity. And I think that’s a total bummer, which is why I wrote this story.
How long did it take you to write?
Sixty Days Left took me three years because I only did it Saturdays! I think, having the focused time to work on a piece full-time, it would probably take me a few months.
What was your hardest scene to write?
The begining/end of Sixty Days gave me a real go of it. That chapter is the most dramatically different chapter from my original drafts. How do I bring the reader in to care about Willow, even though they’ll know she’s dying?
Loneliness is a major theme in Sixty Days Left. Talk to me about its inclusion.
Part of the research I did for this book included reading a lot of writings from cancer patients, whether terminal or not, and I was struck by how much one of the main things everyone wanted was to share. They wanted to talk to people without judgement, without hearing ‘you’ll fight this!’ and all the things most people say. They mostly wanted to be heard and to feel less alone. In a disease, whether terminal or not, the person with that disease is the only one who can really understand it. It’s a very intimate relationship that very squarely no one else will or could ever truly understand. That can all feel really isolating and very lonely.
It’s another theme that doesn’t require that the reader have terminal cancer to understand. We can all feel lonely and be inspired by Willow’s refusal to wallow in it.
People often have strong views on physician-assisted suicide. What are yours?
‘… don’t use the term suicide. It’s aid in dying, think of it as a fluffy pillow or morphine, a way to alleviate the pain of death.’ Sixty Days Left
Willow makes a point in the book to please not call it that and I stand behind her on the principle. From what I understand, terminally ill people do not like the term suicide because there’s an insinuation that the person who commits the act does not want to live. There are a lot of semantics that could go into the definition, and the terminally ill have to struggle with a disease ending their life prematurely. If they don’t like it, I don’t like it.
Do you have any views on the religious implications of aid-in-dying?
There are certainly sects of religious beliefs that disagree with someone ending their life naturally. I believe strongly in hearing out people with these beliefs, which is why I wrote this blog. However, I don’t understand where the line is in this belief. What is so much more right about allowing a doctor to keep someone alive via feeding tubes? If the concern is someone thwarting God’s plan, doesn’t modern medicine also have a responsibility to abide? Death is the natural order of things. As the Bible says, ‘You sweep people away in the sleep of death – they are like the new grass of the morning’ (Psalm 90.5).
You are young and healthy. What was it like constantly to be thinking about death?
It was great! One of the main themes of Sixty Days Left is essentially that we are all on a countdown clock. Willow’s is just more obvious. So don’t take your days for granted, which is something people always say, but when you’re writing a book and constantly thinking about it, you really have to hold yourself accountable to that state of mind. I found it incredibly helpful. If I hadn’t been thinking about what I’d do with just sixty days left, I likely would have not quite quit my job and be publishing this book.
What do you wish to provoke in readers of Sixty Days Left?
I hope readers think about their own mortality and what types of things they can do today to really enjoy the life they have. It’s also why I started the Sixty Days Club, which provides members with a daily act of gratitude to participate in, which is completely free. See www.andrealechnerbecker.com/sixty-day-club.
‘As I look around, indebted for my sight, I see life in everything. In something like beyond-sight, I see the pulsing, rhythmic beat of the universe. I can almost make out the atoms floating, separating, and joining together to fill space in my mind’s interpretation of this moment. Smiling faces of visitors only half appreciate the absolute magic happening all around them. Put down your phones; you’re missing this world’s bounty! Unbothered by their ignorance, life continues in this garden. There’s no better place to touch the heartbeat of existence than right here.’ Sixty Days Left
How important is research to you when writing a book?
Super. I love imagining things one way and writing a draft using just my imagination and then I’ll go to the places or find out the actual medical details to see how different it is. That juxtaposition served me well in Sixty Days Left.
Injustice and hypocrisy. And making people feel the human experience.
Who are your favourite authors?
Milan Kundera is my favourite writer. I tend to go back to Western Lit any time I want to read for inspiration. Then, I’m a self-published author and I like supporting that community. So I try to read a self-pub author once a week.
Do you have any current projects?
I’m working on a retelling of the Sirens in modern times. It’s a completely different kind of book and I’m excited about that.
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Sleigh Bells Rocks VEVO Showcase
With Reign of Terror coming out earlier this year, Sleigh Bells has been playing a ton of concert dates in support of their sophomore album.
Last week, that included a slew of shows at the South by Southwest music festival. One popular set came at the VEVO-sponsored showcase at ACL Live at the Moody Theater alongside rapper Nas.
Watch Derek Miller, Alexis Krauss and touring guitarist Jason Boyer doing their thing in the videos below:
“Riot Rhythm”
“Infinity Guitars”
Check out their official website for more information.
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Taking Over: Jasmine Azarian & Friends
2nd August 2018 | by the_hungerrr
This Sunday, Jaded bears witness to the start of a series that we hope will be an accelerator of anarchic new UK talent. Jasmine Azarian has curated the lineup of her most unruly mates. We caught up with her to find out more…
Jasmine, you’re kicking off a new Jaded chapter this Sunday, curating a line-up of techno ruffians with the guideline: ‘things that you can’t even play in Room 1.’ Can you tell us how you discovered each artist, and give us a track that exemplifies their sound?
I discovered Lacchesi in Paris. He was playing after me, usually people don’t like to play after me because I play too hard or fast but he was perfectly able to take over and did a great job. I knew he would be perfect for this line up.
I’ve played with Witch Trials & Ceili before so I know they are capable of doing some damage. They have a techno collective called Ceili Collective which throw some pretty sweet parties in a brewery in Hackney Central.
I work with Niamh at MOTZ and we learnt how to DJ together many moons ago so I trust her taste and skills and believe she will do a killer job!
I did a competition for the slot but the person I chose canceled last minute so I curated a line up with people I knew to prevent further problems but I really enjoyed the mixes and definitely will consider for another line up.
You recently moved to London from Berlin. Can you tell us some of the discoveries (musical and otherwise) that have endeared this city to you so far?
The techno scene is completely different in London in comparison to Berlin, it’s a lot smaller. There are some great parties like hotbox, Kaos and other very underground parties. Jaded has stolen my heart (not because I’m writing this interview haha) it’s so nice to go somewhere and feel at home with the crew and staff, that’s something I didn’t experience in Berlin. So I’m very happy to have that in Corsica Studios.
The Uk techno sound is very different, you have genres like jungle, bass, d’n’b and you can hear it influencing the techno sound here. Labels like THEM, Pls.Uk etc give you a taste of that sound. Artists like Randomer, j.tijn, Mumdance, Tessela are examples of techno artists who incorporate elements of Uk genres. It’s quite raw which I like.
MOTZ has exploded onto our consciousness this year. You girls have been regularly scooping the music mags, premiering releases from the likes of The Prodigy and Ancient Methods. How did MOTZ come about, and can you share a proud moment from the journey so far?
Thanks, yeah it’s been some ride! I wanted to start a music site for years but only had time after I finished my degree in 2016 so the birth of MOTZ happened shortly after that in Berlin. I asked my friends to be involved that I knew had the passion and the right skills to make it work. It was also interesting because they lived in different cities so we could report from different places. We cover Ireland, Berlin and London and soon planning to cover other places. MOTZ is the nickname for girls in Dublin so that’s were the name comes from! We also have some new additions to the team so we are expanding. I’m always really proud of the girls and how they continue to strive and amaze me, without them MOTZ wouldn’t be the same!
Finally, we’re dying to hear what you’ve got for us this Sunday – what can the children of Jaded expect from your set?
I always like to change up my sets and play stuff that’s a bit different. I’ve gone back in time and stolen some old gems that haven’t been dusted off in a while so expect a lot of old skool bangers! This will be a Room 2 that people won’t forget anytime soon!
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Do ethnic restaurants have more food safety violations? (Maybe, but it's complicated)
Several pieces of research show that ethnic restaurants have more violations than other restaurants. But the story gets a bit more complicated.
Do ethnic restaurants have more food safety violations? (Maybe, but it's complicated) Several pieces of research show that ethnic restaurants have more violations than other restaurants. But the story gets a bit more complicated. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://on.jconline.com/2tci92V
Jeong Park, Lafayette Journal & Courier Published 6:27 a.m. ET June 20, 2018 | Updated 12:12 p.m. ET June 20, 2018
Safe refrigerator storage measures for food posted in Chinese in the kitchen Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Ichiban Restaurant, 2 S. Fourth Street in Lafayette. The restaurant is in jeopardy of losing its food license after a history of critical health violations. Owner Will Weng said he and his staff are working with the Tippecanoe County Health Department.(Photo: John Terhune/Journal & Courier)Buy Photo
LAFAYETTE — It's easy to think Ichiban is just another example of ethnic restaurants having trouble with the health code.
Chinese restaurant Harbor City closed in 2016 after cockroaches and maggots were found on the floor. Another Chinese restaurant, Tasty Buffet, faced a hearing a few months ago because it had repeatedly stored food inappropriately.
A woman sued Agave Azul Authentic Mexican Restaurant in October because she believes its food had poisoned her and her daughter and eventually killed her husband.
Ichiban will learn its fate in a hearing Wednesday. The restaurant faces potential closure due to repeated critical violations such as preventing contamination. The restaurant vowed to change.
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Tippecanoe County Health Administrator Craig Rich said the county does not have data on whether ethnic restaurants have more violations than others.
However, several pieces of research show that ethnic restaurants in the United States score lower in sanitation scores and have more violations than other restaurants. As to why that's the case, the story gets a bit more complicated.
Owner Will Weng shows temperature conversion charts and safe refrigeration storage measures for food written in Chinese in the kitchen Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Ichiban Restaurant, 2 S. Fourth Street in Lafayette. The restaurant is in jeopardy of losing its food license after a history of critical health violations. Weng said he and his staff are working with the Tippecanoe County Health Department. (Photo: John Terhune/Journal & Courier)
Why ethnic restaurants have more violations
Junehee Kwon, a professor at Kansas State University, spoke to 20 Chinese restaurant owners and operators. She asked them why many of them don't offer food safety training to their staff.
Lack of time, money, labor and the staff's language barrier were identified as a few of the main causes.
But there's another cause: Restaurant owners don't see a need.
For instance, the owners told her that their workers store fried rice at room temperature, a direct violation.
"My mom does it all the time (too), and it drives me crazy," Kwon said.
But doing so rarely led to foodborne illness, the owners told Kwon.
"Even though you don't do it right, often times, you don't get sick," she said. "We are dealing with a very remote possibility, and when they don't see the risk ... it's hard to change."
Cultural differences also are a factor. For instance, Korean cuisine stresses son-mat, or "flavor of hand." Older Koreans are inclined to touch food with their bare hands to bring son-mat to their dish, as they believe putting on gloves detracts from the flavor, Kwon said.
Ichiban acknowledged the role that cultural differences played in their problems with inspections.
"What we have in China doesn't work here," said the restaurant's manager, Echo Yim, last week.
The restaurants also prepare and cook foods differently, sometimes with ingredients that had never been seen in the area. Rich said the county wrestled a few years ago on inspecting duck eggs, commonly used in Chinese cuisine.
Ichiban's owner, Will Weng, said last week that he hopes Wednesday's hearing will clarify how the restaurant should use ingredients, such as pork blood, that are not as familiar to health inspectors.
But Kwon said she can't deny the existence of bias against ethnic, especially Chinese, restaurants. A 2012 research found that people tend to trust Mexican restaurants more than Asian restaurants, despite Mexican restaurants having a higher incidence of foodborne illnesses.
Many inspections arise from complaints, which may be biased because of complainants' relative lack of familiarity with ethnic food or perception that ethnic restaurants are less clean therefore less safe, Kwon said.
"You can have a sparkling clean kitchen and not follow any of the safety practice," she said.
How Tippecanoe County Health Department approaches the subject
Rich said violations represent a snapshot of how restaurants operate. But the focus should be on whether the restaurants correct their violations, he said.
Some restaurants may employ methods – such as pre-cooking stock – that may be more conducive to violations, Rich said, but he doesn't believe ethnic restaurants to be less safe than non-ethnic restaurants.
Out of 25 complaints the county had received this year, only five of them were from ethnic restaurants.
But Rich acknowledged the cultural, culinary and language barriers his staff faces with ethnic restaurants.
"Even the state code has a lot of gray areas," he said.
He said his inspectors are getting training in cultural competency. The health department has recently signed a contract with the translation and interpretation company Luna, based in Indianapolis.
A staff from Luna will be present for Wednesday's hearing.
He said his staff's primary goal is to educate, through inspections early in a restaurant's life and continued training. He said his inspectors have developed a strong relationship with many of the ethnic restaurants.
Ake Waratap and Nan Jayaphorn have owned Basil Thai and Thai Essence for more than a decade.
They are sympathetic toward the struggles faced by restaurants like Ichiban. But they said they have found working with the health department to be helpful.
When a customer complained to the restaurant about food safety a few months ago, Waratap asked the health department for an inspection.
"You can't think they are the enemy," Waratap said.
Contact J&C reporter Jeong Park at 765-420-5339, jpark@jconline.com and follow him on Twitter: @jeongpark52.
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Buchan Alpha decommissioning to create 35 new jobs in Lerwick
French group Veolia will decommission the vessel at its Dales Voe site in Lerwick on behalf of Repsol Sinopec Resources UK
12:32, 2 JUN 2017
The Buchan Alpha floating production vessel
The Buchan Alpha floating production vessel is to be decommissioned on Shetland after 36 years in service.
French group Veolia will decommission the vessel at its Dales Voe site in Lerwick on behalf of Repsol Sinopec Resources UK.
Veolia expect 35 jobs will be created during the 17 month dismantling and recycling project.
The Buchan Alpha floating production vessel, which started life as a drilling rig, was first moved to the Buchan field 120 miles off Aberdeen in 1981 and was then moved to the nearby Hannay field in 2002.
Production at the field ended on May, 12 and in its lifetime delivered more than 150 million barrels of oil.
Estelle Brachlianoff, senior executive vice-president for UK & Ireland at Veolia, said: “We will be targeting a recycling rate of over 98 per cent at the new Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Lerwick where we will work closely with our partners, Peterson and Lerwick Port Authority, to boost the local economy by creating 35 jobs and develop strong relationships with the local community.”
Bill Dunnett, managing director of Repsol Sinopec Resources UK, added “Buchan Alpha has made a huge contribution to the UK economy throughout its life, producing more than three times the volume of oil that was originally predicted.
“We are pleased the decommissioning phase will create further sustained value for the UK supply chain and additional employment for Shetland, building a new model for full facility decommissioning in the UK.”
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Home News Brief El Salvador Gang Members Sentenced to 200 Years
El Salvador Gang Members Sentenced to 200 Years
David Gagne
Gang members in El Salvador
A judge in El Salvador has sentenced members of the MS13 street gang to 200.5 years in prison on extortion charges, another sign that the judicial system is moving in lockstep with the government’s security apparatus to combat the gangs.
A sentencing tribunal in the eastern city of San Miguel handed down the ruling to six MS13 members for running an extortion network from within the prison facility La Esperanza (The Hope), reported El Diario de Hoy. The network, which was reportedly comprised of 17 gang members, made phone calls from within the prison to extort victims on the outside.
The same court convicted 76 other gang members of attempting to murder a police officer and belonging to a terrorist organization, reported the Associated Press. Eight ringleaders were sentenced to 44 years in prison, while the other 68 members received 38.5 years.
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The court’s decision to sentence the extortionists to such a lengthy prison sentence is eye-catching, especially in light of the much shorter sentences other gang members received for attempted homicide of a police officer. The ruling comes within the context of a wider government push to crack down on illegal activity within the country’s prisons, which have long served as recruitment and operations centers for the gangs and are where many of the extortion rackets originate. Earlier this month, Vice President Óscar Ortiz extended the state of emergency in seven penitentiary facilities for one year.
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This is not the first time the courts have taken a tough stance against the gangs in tandem with a government crackdown. In August 2015 the Supreme Court labeled the MS13 and Barrio 18 as terrorist organizations, paving the way for more militarized anti-gang strategies at a time when security officials were already talking of waging all out “war” against the gangs.
The Salvadoran government appears set to continue employing so-called Mano Dura, or Iron Fist, tactics to combat the gangs. However, this hardline strategy has so far failed to pay security dividends. Last year El Salvador became the most homicidal nation in the world not at war, with a significant amount of the violence attributed to the gangs.
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Commerce Commission says P2P lender Harmoney pleading guilty to misleading consumers into believing they had been pre-approved for a personal loan
1st Aug 16, 9:41am
The Commerce Commission says it has filed charges under the Fair Trading Act against peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Harmoney alleging it misled consumers into believing they had been pre-approved for a personal loan.
The six Fair Trading Act charges Harmoney faces relate to 27 versions of a pre-approval letter sent to over 500,000 New Zealanders, across a range of demographics, between October 2014 and April 2015. Each letter featured a similar message and the same misleading representations, the consumer watchdog says.
The Commission alleges that the letters misled recipients by representing that they had been pre-approved to borrow money from Harmoney. The letters stated that in order to find out how much money the recipient had been approved for they needed to visit Harmoney’s website.
"In fact, recipients of the letter had to go through the normal application process of lodging a loan request and passing the approval process. Only at that point would their loan request be presented to potential lenders via Harmoney’s platform," the Commerce Commission says.
"Harmoney has co-operated with the Commission’s investigation and has indicated that it intends to plead guilty to the charges. As this matter is before the Court the Commission cannot comment further at this time."
The charges have been filed in the Auckland District Court.
Pre-selected recipients
For its part Harmoney says the recipients of its marketing material were pre-selected through a credit screening process. Nonetheless Harmoney says it acknowledges the information qualifying the offer wasn’t sufficiently prominent so as to be clear there was still a credit process to go through.
"Once Harmoney was made aware of the issue it took immediate action, stopping the campaign completely and ensuring a more robust process in the sign off of marketing campaigns. Harmoney has co-operated fully from first contact with the Commerce Commission," Harmoney says.
Second case still on cards
The Commerce Commission says the Fair Trading Act charges are unrelated to its Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA) investigation into Harmoney’s P2P lending transaction. The regulator says it intends to provide an update on this investigation shortly.
This investigation is in relation to whether fees charged by P2P lenders are covered by the fees provisions of the CCCFA. Against the backdrop of this Commerce Commission probe, Harmoney quietly made major changes to fees charged to borrowers late last year.
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by Boatman | 1st Aug 16, 11:53am 1470009180
What were they thinking ? Surely these new-fangled entrants to the market would at least play fair ......... think of Youi, et al .
by childofthesun | 1st Aug 16, 11:58am 1470009480
Oh dear, I think that's the problem, they weren't thinking. Either, they're complete cowboys or their legal oversight was absent or ignored.
by ham n eggs | 1st Aug 16, 12:23pm 1470010980
credit where credit is due, Harmony is the brighter future ... loan sharking high priced debt to those who cant afford it.
by imhenry | 2nd Aug 16, 7:01am 1470078060
thats a silly comment
by Boatman | 1st Aug 16, 1:47pm 1470016020
You have to laugh at the Harmoney website , they offer loans to borrowers at from 9% and offer interest to lenders of 13.12%
It begs the question as to how anyone makes any money at all from this arrangement which has all the signs of some sharp practice
by Chris101 | 1st Aug 16, 2:25pm 1470018300
9.99% is the interest rate offered to borrowers assigned the A1 risk grade and that loan is offered to lenders at the same interest rate of 9.99%. See the interest rates and fees for yourself at https://www.harmoney.co.nz/how-it-works/interest-rates-and-fees
Who's laughing now?
I have looked at the link , and I still don't understand how it can lend at 9% and pay funders at 12%
by JRSNZ | 1st Aug 16, 3:31pm 1470022260
Boatman, I think my 22% RAR over the 24 months to date is evidence enough to answer your question.
by J.C. | 1st Aug 16, 4:56pm 1470027360
Similarly, 9.5% net return (from 11.71% RAR) over past 12 months. 0.0007% of loan value in arrears. 0 defaults.
by linklater01 | 2nd Aug 16, 9:09am 1470085740
J.C,
My experience is very similar. My net RAR is 9,91% from 228 A grade loans with no defaults and current arrears of 0.0008% of the total amount loaned.
Where I have been disappointed is the manner in which they have made a couple of major changes to the original terms without adequately explaining them. I have made my views known on several occasions. The latest change would cut my RAR significantly to between 8/9% on new loans. Despite this, I want Harmoney and other P2P lenders to succeed in disrupting the personal loan market.
One of my fundamental rules for investing in anything is : -
IF I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS OR WHERE IT MAKES ITS MONEY , I DON'T INVEST IN IT
Sure. I don't think that Harmoney's business model is too difficult to understand.
Several other commentators would be wise to take notice of your comment
by ian64 | 2nd Aug 16, 7:15am 1470078900
IF you are thick it's not Harmony,s fault. The lender lends directly to the borrower, Harmony charges a fee for facilitating this. I get 15.9 rar before tax, investing in lesser risky loans.
by keywest | 1st Aug 16, 8:02pm 1470038520
What do they mean robust sign off for marketing campaigns, nonsense, the head person signed off on this, and was not like some junior marketing exec making a stuff up...
by philip east | 2nd Aug 16, 8:13am 1470082380
Harmoney rate their loans according to risk so the loans average out as to the level of risk you take . i think i get about 11% return but i only go for low risk loans .
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This Is Me Benj Pasek & Justin Paul/arr. Audrey Snyder
Come Alive Benj Pasek & Justin Paul/arr. Mark Brymer
Moment of Truth Wayne Kirkpatrick & Karey Kirkpatrick/arr. Andy Beck
Best Day of My Life arr. Audrey Snyder
4 Chords : A Choral Medley 4 Chords : A Choral Medley
This is an awesome salute to an incredible roster of pop hits through the ages, all with only four chords! A blast to perform, your audience will love identifying these great songs! Includes snippets of 26
Can't Stop the Feeling! Can't Stop the Feeling! (from "Trolls")
Justin Timberlake, Max Martin & Shellback/arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
Everyone is dancing to this phenomenal song from the DreamWorks animated feature "Trolls." The video has gone viral too, so your choir will insist on performing this arrangement in their next concert - it's
Fight Song Fight Song
arr. Roger Emerson - Hal Leonard Corporation
Here is the song that was Rachel Platten's breakout moment! Topping the charts in 2015, this melodic anthem is irresistible and inspires us to keep fighting no matter what life brings us! Now available in
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Flashlight Flashlight (from "Pitch Perfect 2")
arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
Featured in "Pitch Perfect 2" at the heartwarming conclusion to the film, this song by British pop sensation Jessie J offers a musical and emotional impact that is instantly appealing. Weaving through the
For Good For Good (from "Wicked")
Stephen Schwartz/arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
From the Broadway show "Wicked," which is a new take on "The Wizard of Oz" from the witches' point of view, this is a tender, expressive ballad with a touching lyric. "Like a comet pulled from orbit as it... view details
Get Back Up Again Get Back Up Again (from "Trolls")
From the incredible soundtrack from the animated comedy "Trolls," this song recorded by Anna Kendrick is a relentlessly cheerful manifesto for overcoming life's obstacles. Fun and energetic, your singers
Grease Grease (Choral Highlights)
Now your students at all grade levels can get in on the fun and excitement of this phenomenal show! Roger's six-minute medley combines five of the most often requested songs from the movie and the
Happy Happy (from "Despicable Me 2")
Pharrell Williams/arr. Mark Brymer - Hal Leonard Corporation
The arch-villain Gru is back with his little yellow Minions for another round of mayhem! You won't be able to resist this creative, upbeat song from "Despicable Me 2" by the superstar producer and
How Does a Moment Last Forever How Does a Moment Last Forever (Our Song Lives On, from "Beauty and the Beast")
Alan Menken & Tim Rice/arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
A stunning new song written for the 2017 live-action adaptation of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" and performed by Celine Dion for the soundtrack. A tender narrative of the touching story of Belle's
How Far I'll Go How Far I'll Go (from "Moana")
Lin-Manuel Miranda/arr. Ed Lojeski - Hal Leonard Corporation
The showstopping ballad from Disney's "Moana!" Sung in the film by Auli'i Cravalho and in the pop version by Alessia Cara, this powerful song offers a superb message of confidence for choirs of all ages.
I See the Light I See the Light (from "Tangled")
Alan Menken & David Slater/arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
Nominated for an Academy Award, this love ballad from the Disney animated film "Tangled" is simply gorgeous! Choirs at all levels will want to perform this lovely song, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics
(I've Had) The Time of My Life (I've Had) The Time of My Life (from "Dirty Dancing")
This powerful duet by Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley was #1 in 1987 and won the Oscar the following year for the blockbuster film "Dirty Dancing." It remains one of the most often-performed ballads ever,
The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (Choral Highlights)
A four-minute show-stopping medley from the 2016 live-action remake of "The Jungle Book" for younger mixed and treble choirs. Your singers won't be able to help but sing along to the classic
Love Can Build a Bridge Love Can Build a Bridge
arr. Cristi Cary Miller - Hal Leonard Corporation
Here is a popular country ballad from The Judds with a powerful message: that we are better together than apart. Optional solo opportunities open the texture, before gentle harmonies surround the melody and
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A Million Dreams A Million Dreams (from "The Greatest Showman")
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul/arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
Perhaps the most memorable song from the blockbuster movie, this inspirational text and captivating melody combine to create a song that is beloved by young and old. Dreams are the fuel that motivate our
Moana Moana (Choral Highlights)
The Disney film "Moana" is tremendously entertaining, with stunning oceanic animation, a captivating adventure tale, a feisty heroine - and tuneful musical numbers by "Hamilton's" Lin-Manuel Miranda with
The Music Man The Music Man (Choral Highlights)
Meredith Willson/arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
This four-minute medley of songs from Meredith Willson's Broadway classic is designed for developing choirs. This accessible arrangement includes Gary, Indiana; Seventy-Six Trombones and
Octopus's Garden Octopus's Garden
This lighthearted song from the Beatles' Abbey Road album will be a blast to perform with your younger singers when sung with gusto. Perfect for your developing mixed and treble choirs, the melodic material
Oo, Barbecue! Oo, Barbecue!
Kirby Shaw - Hal Leonard Corporation
A unique and lighthearted original that sings the praises of tasty Southern barbecue! In a Zydeco style, which is a combination of blues, R & B, and Louisiana Creole tradition, these crazy, fun lyrics
Scales and Arpeggios Scales and Arpeggios (from "The Aristocats")
arr. Audrey Snyder - Hal Leonard Corporation
"Every cultured person knows you must learn your scales and your arpeggios!" This charming song from Disney's "The Aristocats" is set in a quasi-classical style that can't miss! Everyone will enjoy the
Seize the Day Seize the Day
From award-winning composer Alan Menken, this is the exciting show-stopper from the Disney movie "Newsies." Featuring a very strong "brotherhood" text, it begins with a chorale-like opening and then drives to... view details
"Roll the windows down, hands in the air! Sing it out as hard as you can!" Pentatonix has done more to encourage singing than just about any group in decades! Singers and choirs of all levels will love this
"Sing of good things, not bad" is certainly a wonderful mantra for all of us, and it is the theme of this iconic Joe Raposo song from Sesame Street. A fresh jazzy feel accompanied by a rhythmic piano part
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Arrgh! Viola Jokes!
From JIHalpern@aol.com
Fri Nov 29 21:05:05 1996
To: bassman@kellerjazz.com
This is the "astonishing trove
of viola jokes" that Alex Beam
mentioned in his Boston Globe column
(p. 65), and that John Hayward-Warburton
mentioned in his article in BBC Music.
How is lightning like a violist's fingers?
Neither one strikes in the same place twice.
How do you keep your violin from getting stolen?
Put it in a viola case.
What's the difference between a violin and a viola?
1.The viola burns longer.
2.The viola holds more beer.
3.You can tune the violin.
We all know that a viola is better than a violin because it burns longer. But why does it burn longer?
It's usually still in the case.
How do you get a viola section to play spiccato?
Write a whole note with "solo" above it.
How do you get a violist to play a passage pianissimo tremolando?
Mark it "solo."
What's the difference between a viola and a coffin?
The coffin has the dead person on the inside.
What do you do with a dead violist?
Move him back a desk.
What's the difference between a viola and a trampoline?
You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline.
What's the difference between a viola and an onion?
No one cries when you cut up a viola.
What's the definition of a minor second?
Two violists playing in unison.
What's the definiton of "perfect pitch?"
Throwing a viola into a dumpster without hitting the rim.
Why do violists stand for long periods outside people's houses?
They can't find the key and they don't know when to come in.
What's the difference between a seamstress and a violist?
The seamstress tucks up the frills.
What's the difference between a washing machine and a violist?
Vibrato.
Why do so many people take an instant dislike to the viola?
It saves time.
How can you tell when a violist is playing out of tune?
The bow is moving.
How was the canon invented?
Two violists were trying to play the same passage together.
Why is playing the viola like peeing in your pants?
They both give you a nice warm feeling without making any sound.
Why is a viola solo like a bomb?
By the time you hear it, it's too late to do anything about it.
Why is a viola solo like premature ejaculation?
Because even when you know it's coming, there's nothing you can do about it.
Why do violists leave their instrument cases on the dashboards of their cars?
1. So they can park in "handicapped" parking places.
2. If someone mistakes them for mafia, they might get some respect.
Why don't violists play hide and seek?
Because no one will look for them.
Why do violists smile when they play?
Because ignorance is bliss and what they don't know can't hurt them.
Why shouldn't violists take up mountaineering?
Because if they get lost, it takes ages before anyone notices that they're missing.
What's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a crushed viola in the road?
Skid marks before the skunk.
How do you get a violin to sound like a viola?
1.Sit in the back and don't play.
2.Play in the low register with a lot of wrong notes.
If you throw a violist and a soprano off a cliff, which one would hit the ground first?
1.The violist. The soprano would have to stop halfway down to ask directions.
2.Who cares?
A conductor and a violist are standing in the middle of the road. which one do you run over first, and why?
The conductor. Business before pleasure.
Why is a violist like a terrorist?
They both screw up bowings (Boeings).
What's the most popular recording of the William Walton viola concerto?
What do a viola and a lawsuit have in common?
Everyone is happy when the case is closed.
What is the range of a Viola?
As far as you can kick it.
What do a SCUD missile and a viola player have in common?
They're both offensive and inaccurate.
Why are violas so large?
It's an optical illusion. It's not that the violas are large; just that the viola players' heads are so small.
What's the difference between a chain saw and a viola?
If you absolutely had to, you could use a chain saw in a string quartet.
What is the definition of a cluster chord?
A viola section playing on the C string.
Why do violists get antsy when they see the Kama Sutra?
All those positions!
If you're lost in the desert, what do you aim for? A good viola player, a bad viola player or an oasis?
The bad viola player. The other two are only figments of your imagination.
Why shouldn't you drive off a cliff in a mini with three violas in it?
You could fit in at least one more.
How many violists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. They're not small enough to fit.
Why do people tremble with fear when someone comes into a bank carrying a violin case?
They think he's carrying a machine gun and might be about to use it.
Why do people tremble with fear when someone comes into a bank carrying a viola case?
They think he's carrying a viola and might be about to use it.
What's the difference between the first and last desk of a viola section?
1. half a measure
2. a semi-tone
Why can't you hear a viola on a digital recording?
Recording technology has reached such an advanced level of development that all extraneous noise is eliminated.
Did you hear about the violist who bragged that he could play 32nd notes?
The rest of the orchestra didn't believe him, so he proved it by playing one.
Why is viola called "bratsche" in Germany?
Because that's the sound it makes when you sit down on it.
Why can't a violist play with a knife in his back?
Because he can't lean back in his chair.
What instrument do violists envy most?
The harp. You only ever have to play pizzicato on open strings.
What's another name for viola auditions?
Scratch lottery.
What is the difference between a violist and a prostitute?
1. A prostitute knows more than two positions.
2. Prostitutes have a better sense of rhythm.
What is the similarity between a violist and a prostitute?
Both are paid to fake climaxes.
How do you get a dozen violists to play in tune?
1. Shoot 11 of them.
2. Shoot all of them.
3. Who the hell wants a dozen violists?
What's the latest crime wave in New York City?
Drive-by viola recitals.
How does a violist's brain cell die?
What do you call a violist with two brain cells?
Pregnant.
Why do violists have pea-sized brains?
Because alcohol has swelled them.
How many violists does it take to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies?
Ten. One to stir the batter and nine to peel the M & M's.
What's the similarity between the Beatles and the viola section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra?
Neither has played together since 1970.
What is the longest viola joke?
Harold in Italy
What do you call a bunch of violists in a hot tub?
Vegetable soup.
Did you hear about the violist who played in tune?
Neither did I.
What is the main reqirement at the "International Viola Competition?"
Hold the viola from memory.
Why did the violist marry the accordion player?
Upward mobility.
How do you transcribe a violin piece for viola?
Divide the metronome marking by 2.
Why do you always bury a viola player three feet under?
Because deep down they are all very nice people.
How do you keep a violist from drowning?
Take your foot off his head.
Note: the following joke is very funny in German, but doesn't translate well into English. Was sind die drei Lagen auf der Bratsche?
Erste Lage, Notlage, und Niederlage. (What are the three positions of the viola? First position, emergency, and defeat.)
Conductor: "Start three measures before the da capo."
Principal violist: "Hold on! We don't have measure numbers."
At a rehearsal, the conductor stops and shouts to the bass section: "You are out of tune. Check it, please!" The first bassist pulls all his strings, says, "Our tuning is correct: all the strings are equally tight." The first violist turns around and shouts, "You bloody idiot! It's not the tension. The pegs have to be parallel!"
Radio presenter, Tim Pollard, on BBC Radio Jersey, when introducing a piece of music by the well-known British composer, Eric Coates, said: "All Eric Coates ever wanted to do was to write music to entertain. But for a while he was a professional viola player."
After his retirement the violist arrived home carrying his viola case. His wife saw the case and asked "What's that?" (In Germany it is a standing joke that some players leave their instruments in their lockers, removing them only for rehearsals and performances.)
A violist and a 'cellist were standing on a sinking ship. "Help!" cried the 'cellist, "I can't swim!" "Don't worry," said the violist, "just fake it."
A violist came home and found his house burned to the ground. When he asked what happened, the police told him "Well, apparently the conductor came to your house, and ..." The violist's eyes lit up and he interrupted excitedly, "The conductor? Came to my house?"
A 'cellist and three violists walked into a restaurant. Presently a waiter came over to serve them. "Good Evening, sir," he said to the 'cellist. "And what would like tonight?" "I'd like a rump steak, medium rare," replied the 'cellist. "Would you like anything with that?" "What do you have?" "Salad?" suggested the waiter. "No, thank you," said the cellist. "Potatoes?" "Ah, no." "Vegetables?" "Oh, they'll have what I'm having."
A viola player went to a piano recital. After the performance he went up to the pianist and said, "You know, I particularly liked that piece you played last--the one that started with a long trill." The pianist said, "Huh? I didn't play any pieces that started with trills." The viola player said, "You know--[he hums the opening bars of Für Elise.]"
A violist in an orchestra was crying and screaming at the oboe player sitting directly behind him. The conductor asked, "What are you so upset about?" The violist replied "The oboist reached over and turned one of the pegs on my viola and now it's all out of tune!" The conductor asked "Don't you think you're overreacting?" The violist replied "I'm not overreacting! He won't tell me which one!"
A violinist noticed at the end of each rehearsal break, one of the violists would look at the inside flap of his jacket before he sat down to resume rehearsal. This continued for several decades, and the violinist became quite curious about it. One day, during hot weather, the violist took off his jacket and went off on break. The violinist waited until everyone was off the platform, looked around, and sneaked over to the jacket. He pulled back the flap and saw a little note pinned on the inside. It read: "viola left hand, bow right."
A man went into a novelty shop and saw an item that caught his fancy almost immediately. It was a stuffed rat. The man couldn't take his eyes off it, and finally asked how much it cost. The answer was "$79.95, but if you buy it, you can't return it for any reason." The man thought this was a bit odd, but he was really taken by the stuffed rat so he bought it. As he headed down the street with the stuffed rat, several live rats started following him. He thought this was really odd, but he kept walking. Within a few blocks, he had a huge pack of rats behind him. When he got to the river, he threw the stuffed rat into the river, and all the live rats jumped into the river and drowned. The man returned to the shop. As soon as he walked in, the owner said "I told you you couldn't return the stuffed rat!" The man said "No! I don't want to return it! I was wondering if you had any stuffed violists."
A viola player decides that he's had enough of being a viola player--unappreciated, all those silly jokes. So he decides to change instruments. He goes into a shop, and says, "I want to buy a violin." The man behind the counter looks at him for a moment, and then says, "You must be a viola player." The viola player is astonished, and says, "Well, yes, I am. But how did you know?" "Well, sir, this is a fish-and-chip shop."
An American orchestra had just arrived in Europe for a two-week tour. One hour before the first concert, the conductor became very ill and was unable to conduct, and the orchestra suddenly had to find a substitute. The orchestra manager asked everyone in the orchestra whether they could step in and conduct, and the only person who was willing was the last chair violist. The manager was very nervous about this. "We can't audition you," he said. "No problem," replied the violist. "There's no time to rehearse. You'll have to do the concert cold." "I know. It'll be all right." The violist conducted the concert and it was a smashing success. Since the conductor remained ill for the duration of the tour, the violist conducted all of the concerts, getting rave reviews and standing ovations at each one. At the next rehearsal, the conductor had recovered, and the violist took his place at the back of the viola section. As he sat down, his stand partner asked him "Where've you been for the last two weeks?"
Once there was a violist playing in the Winnipeg Symphony. He wasn't that wonderful a player, so he sat at the back of the section. One day he was cleaning out his attic and discovered an old lamp. He gave it a rub and out popped a genie. "For letting me out of my lamp I'll grant you three wishes!" he said. The violist thought for a moment and replied, "Make me a far better musician than I am now." The genie told him that this would be done. He was to go to sleep, and in the morning he would be a much better musician. The next day he woke up to find himself the principal violist of the Symphony. Well, this was just great, he thought! But he knew he could do better. He rubbed the lamp again, and out popped the genie. "You have two more wishes!" he said. "I want you to make me a better musician than I am even now!" Once again, the genie told him to go to bed, and when he woke up it would be so. When the violist awoke, he found he was now the principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic. Well, the violist thought this was pretty grand, but knew he could do better yet. He rubbed on the lamp again, and once more out came the genie. "This is your last wish." the genie said. "I want you to make me yet a better musician still!" Yet again, he was told to go to sleep. The next morning, he woke up to find himself back in Winnipeg, sitting in the last desk of the second violin section.
A musician from the Chicago Symphony one day ran across an old lamp at a garage sale, took it home, washed it up, and out popped at genie. "Thank you kind sir for releasing me from this old lamp. I regret to say that you have encountered a poor, less powerful genie, and I can only grant you one wish, but wish away." said the genie. "Oh that's wonderful. I think I would really like to make a difference in the world with my one wish.", said the musician. He thought for a moment and then reached for his atlas. "Here's a map of the Middle East. The people who live there have been fighting for years and years. For my one wish, I would like to to bring peace to this land." The genie, a little caught off gaurd, said "Oh, well, ah... that's a little bit too much for even this old master to handle. Aah, ya see, these people... they're involved in that touchy religious stuff, and aah, the kids, aah, they begin fighting when they're just teenagers. I'm afraid you're going to have to make another wish." "Well, okay." said the musician. "For my one wish, I would just once like to hear the Chicago Symphony viola section play in tune." The genie quickly thought for a moment and replied, "Um, let me take a look at those maps again."
A violist was hiking in the mountains, and he came upon a shepherd who was tending a large herd of sheep that were grazing in the alpine meadow. The violist took a fancy to the sheep, and asked the shepherd: "If I can guess how many sheep you have, can I have one?" The shepherd thought this was an odd request, but thought that there was little chance that the man would guess the exact number of sheep, so he said "Sure." The violist guessed "You have 287 sheep," to the shepherd's astonishment, since this was exactly how many sheep he had. The violist got all excited and asked "Can I pick out my sheep now?" and the shepherd grudgingly gave his permission. The violist selected his sheep, bent over, and swung the sheep over his shoulders, to carry home with him. The shepherd then got an idea and asked "If I guess what your occupation is, can I have my sheep back?" The violist was a bit surprised by this, but figured that it was unlikely that the shepherd would be able to guess his occupation, and went along with the deal. The shepherd then guessed "You're a violist, aren't you?" The violist was very surprised and asked, "How did you know?" The shepherd responded, "Put the dog down and we'll talk about it."
When "Oetzi," the famous glacier-mummy, was found in the Alps, archeologists and anthropologists were mystified by the riddle of "Oetzi's" nature, the chief question being: "How did he get under the ice-fields?" Thanks to a joint venture operation by leading music-anthropologists the mystery has found its solution: "Oetzi" must have been a violist. How else could the glacier have caught up with him?
In order to save money, the musicians decided to build their Union Hall themselves. As they proceeded to do the job, gradually the hierarchy of the musicians was reflected in the jobs that they did. The violists found themselves at the bottom of a ditch doing the nastiest of the digging. Above them, supervising, was a trumpet player. One violist turned to another and asked, "How come we're working down here and he's working up there?" The other responded, "I don't know, but I'll go up there and ask." The violist crawled up to the top of the ditch. "Why are we down there digging while you're up here supervising?" the violist asked the trumpeter. "Because I'm smarter than you," was the reply. "Huh, I don't understand," the confused violist said. "Allow me to demonstrate," said the trumpeter. He walked up to the nearest tree, put out his open hand in front of the tree and said to the violist, "Hit my hand!" The violist reared back with his fist and shot a punch at the trumpeter's open hand. At the last instant, the trumpeter moved his hand out of the way so that the violist's fist went slamming into the tree. "OW!," cried the violist, "I see what you mean." He then returned to the ditch and his friend waiting below. "Well," said the other violist, "did you find out why he's up there and we're down here?" "Yes," said the violist, whose hand was still throbbing, "it's because he's smarter than us." "I don't understand," said his friend. "Let me explain it to you," said the violist. He then took his open hand and placed it in front of his own face. "Now," he said, "hit my hand with your shovel!"
A group of terrorists hijacked a plane full of violists. They called down to ground control with their list of demands and added that if their demands weren't met, they would release one violist every hour.
Once upon a time there was a hospital where they made brain transplantations. A client asked about the prices. The doctor said, " Well, this Ph.D. brain costs $10,000...this brain belonged to a NASA top scientist and costs $15,000...oh yes, here we a violist's brain as well. It costs $50000." The client asked, "What? How's that possible?" The doctor replied, "You see, it's totally unused."
A noted bon vivant and comic was recently flying to Berlin. He decided to strike up a conversation with his seat mate. "I've got a great violist joke. Would you like to hear it?" "I should let you know first that I am a violist". "That's OK. I'll tell it real slow!"
A psychiartrist walks into a brain shop, and says to the propriator "Hello. I am here to do some reasearch on human brains. What do you have in stock?" "Well," propriator began, "We have some Harvard MBA brains at $10 a pound. We also have a few NASA brains going for about $100 a pound. And, just in today, we have some fresh violist brains." "How much are they?" the scientist inquired. "$1000 a pound." "Wow! That's expensive! Every orchestra has them. Why are they so expesive? Are they really high quality?" "Well, no, they're about average. But, do you know how many violists you have to kill to get a pound of brains?"
A violist and a percussionist were walking in a park. The percussionist saw a dead crow and said to the violist, "Look, a dead crow." The violist looked up and asked, "Where?"
One day Timmy came home from school very excited. "Mommy, Mommy, Guess what? Today in English I got all the way to the end of the alphabet, and everyone else got messed up around 'P'!" His mother said, "Very good, dear. That's because you're a violist." The next day, Timmy was even more excited. "Mommy, Mommy, guess what! Today in math I counted all the way to ten, but everyone else got messed up around seven!" "Very good, dear," his mother replied. "That's because you're a violist." On the third day, Timmy was beside himself. "Mommy, Mommy, today we measured ourselves and I'm the tallest one in my class! Is that because I'm a violist?" "No dear," she said. "That's because you're 26 years old."
Two years ago an orchestra was on tour in France. One evening they decided to go find some snails so they could have escargot for dinner. Everybody was given a bag and send into the vineyards. Gradually everybody came back with their bags filled with snails. All sections were there except the violists, who returned several hours later. The concertmaster asked, "Were have you been for so long and why are your bags empty?" "Well," they said, "I don't know how you managed, but It was a disaster. We saw a lot of snails, but they were quick! Just as we went to get them, rush...and they were gone!"
A man (call him Horace) went on a safari in darkest Africa with a bunch of other people and some native guides. They traveled on foot, going deep into the jungle where they could hear the screeching of birds and howling of wild cats and other fierce wild animals. After a few days of travel, Horace came to notice that there was a constant drumming noise in the background. He asked the leader of the guides what the drumming was. He got no answer, just a stony silence. The drumming continued all day and all night for the next several days. In fact, as they traveled deeper into the jungle the drumming got even louder. Horace tried again to find out what the drumming meant by asking the other native guides, but he still got no answer. Finally one morning, after days of marching to this drumming (which by now was sounding quite ominous), the drums suddenly stopped. The native guides screamed and ran into the jungle to hide in the undergrowth. The leader remained behind with his charges, but he was trembling with fear. Horace asked "What is wrong? Why have the drums stopped?" The native guide replied "Very bad." "What?" asked Horace, who was expecting the worst. The guide answered "When drum stops, very bad--next comes viola solo!"
For sale: Viola, German, 19th century, 405mm. Excellent condition. Recently tuned.
Established string quartet requires two violinists and a 'cellist.
Entry Exam For The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Viola Players: The pass mark is 10% but be careful--over 45% and you are overqualified.
Who wrote the following: a) Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 b) Fauré's Requiem c) Wagner's Ring Cycle [5 pts.]
Tschaikovsky wrote 6 symphonies including Symphony no. 4. Name the other five. [5 pts.]
Explain "counterpoint" or write your name on the reverse of the paper. [10 pts.]
Which of the following would you tuck under you chin? a) a timpani b) an organ c) a 'cello d) a viola [1 pt.]
Can you explain "sonata form"? (Answer yes or no.) [5 pts.]
Which of the following literary works was made the subject of a Verdi opera? a) First among Equals -- Jeffrey Archer b) Macbeth -- William Shakespeare c) Noddy and Big Ears -- Enid Blyton [5 pts.]
Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 harpsichord sonatas for which instrument? [5 pts.]
Arrange the following movements in order of speed, starting with the slowest first. a) Quickly b) Slowly c) Very Quickly d) At a Moderate Pace [4 pts.]
Where would you normally expect to find the conductor during a performance? [5 pts.]
Which of the following wrote incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream? a) Des O'Connor b) Mickey Mouse c) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy d) Terry Wogan [5 pts.]
Which of the following is the odd one out? a) Sir Colin Davis b) Andrew Davis c) Sir Peter Maxwell Davies d) Desmond Lynham [5 pts.]
Arrange the following words into the name of a well known Puccini opera. Bohème, La [5 pts.]
Within five minutes, how long is Chopin's Minute Waltz? [5 pts.]
From which of the following countries did Richard Strauss come? a) Venezuela b) Sri Lanka c) Germany d) Japan [5 pts.]
For what town were Haydn's "Paris" Symphonies written? [5 pts.]
Which is the odd one out? a) Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet -- Tchaikovsky b) Romeo and Juliet -- Berlioz c) Romeo and Juliet Ballet -- Prokofiev d) Ten Green Bottles -- anon. [5 pts.]
From which song do the following lines come? "God save our gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen." [5 pts.]
Spell the following musical terms. allegro rallentando crotchet pizzicato intermezzo [5 pts.]
Tosca is a character found in which Puccini opera? [5 pts.]
Arrange the following letters to form the abbreviation for a well known British broadcasting corporation. C, B, B. [5 pts.]
Can't find your favorite joke here?
Maybe it's on my other instrument jokes page.
Research about Viola Jokes
Carl Rahkonen presented his paper: No Laughing Matter: The Viola Joke as Musician's Folklore at the National Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 21, 1994.
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Fjord XLR: Classic microphone cables
Professional microphone cables with 100% cotton, patterned fabric jackets. Made in the US.
Spencer Tweedy
Project We Love Chicago, IL Sound
What is a prototype?
A prototype is a preliminary model of something. Projects that offer physical products need to show backers documentation of a working prototype. This gallery features photos, videos, and other visual documentation that will give backers a sense of what’s been accomplished so far and what’s left to do. Though the development process can vary for each project, these are the stages we typically see:
Explorations that test ideas and functionality.
Functional Prototype
Demonstrates the functionality of the final product, but looks different.
Appearance Prototype
Looks like the final product, but is not functional.
Design Prototype
Appearance and function match the final product, but is made with different manufacturing methods.
Production Prototype
Appearance, function, and manufacturing methods match the final product.
Prototype Gallery
These photos and videos provide a detailed look at this project’s development.
Design Prototype, Proof of Concept
Working in recording studios, podcast studios, on stages and in DIY bedrooms and basements, we're used to seeing thoughtfully designed equipment. We have compressors with classic faceplates and microphones with precision-milled grates. But the little things, like cables, usually go uncared for. Just because they're little.
I want to change that with a line of microphone cables that:
Sound great (star-quad wire, good shielding)
Look cool (patterned cotton jackets by Conway Electric)
Are made with equitable US labor
Are not stupid-expensive
In California, there’s a company called Conway Electric that makes extension cords with beautiful, patterned cotton jackets. My family has used their products for years and I’ve always admired the way they made something thoughtful out of a tool that’s usually farted out of a plastic extruder and into our lives.
Extō extension cord box by Conway Electric
I wanted to do something similar for recording studios, so last summer, I asked Conway Electric if it would be possible to wrap XLR microphone cables in the same patterned cotton fabric that they use on their extension cords. Their founder, Kevin Faul, said yes, and I started work on a new company called Fjord Audio to make and sell those cables.
I’ve spent the past year making prototypes (with help from Alchemy Audio, an awesome guitar pedal builder/modifier in Chicago), finding the right parts, and deliberating about details like the diameter of the cable and the texture of the fabric. I think we’ve finally found something that sounds great, looks cool, and doesn’t cost absurdly too much, so I'm running this campaign to see if other people like them, too.
Fjord XLR is a “pretty face” product—its main feature is that it looks nicer than other cables. But its looks are backed up by components that make it sound great and feel great to use, too.
The wire inside is Canare star-quad cable, which is an industry standard for noise rejection and durability. The point of four conductors (the “quad”) wrapped around each other (the “star”) is that it reduces EM and RF interference by a factor of ten. It also has a braided inner shield instead of a spiral one, which is more durable.
The connectors are Switchcraft AAA series, which I chose because they feel good when you “click” them into inputs or outputs and because they have gold-plated contacts. Gold sounds like a gimmick, but it actually reduces the rate of oxidization, so the contacts last longer.
The jacket is a 100% American cotton braid woven by Conway Electric in California on badass 20th century machines. You may have seen other cables with colorful patterns or woven jackets on them, but it’s likely that those were nylon braids. I think our cotton ones look nicer, and they feel better to the touch. Conway Electric even has patents pending on this "X" pattern and others.
These thread colors might vary slightly in the actual cables you receive.
It doesn't cost that much more to make a 20-foot cable than it does to make a 5-foot cable (the "fixed" costs, like connectors, are the greatest), so I'm trying something kinda weird: I'm making all three lengths of cable the same price, and offering price breaks for bundles instead. It makes things simpler. And I think the cable is similarly valuable whether it's a small one for your desk or a long one for your tracking room, so it makes sense in that way, too. If that is really disagreeable to you, let me know.
I've sunk a lot of the money I've earned from touring and recording music into this project, and I want to make sure that people actually want it before I spend any more. It's also a cool opportunity to build a community around my new company, Fjord Audio, which I hope will start developing other products for music and sound after Fjord XLR is off the ground.
The company that dyes our cotton thread has been late in deliveries, which could affect the fulfillment of our orders. Also, it's really hard to photograph these colors correctly. The thread colors you receive may differ slightly from those which you see here.
I produced a first run of cables in collaboration with Alchemy Audio in Chicago, and they work great. They're in use in a few different studios. For the full run on this Kickstarter, I've narrowed it down to a few different manufacturing partners in Illinois and Massachusetts, and which one I go with will depend on the order quantity we get here. I'm only going to pick one that will meet all our quality control, and that treats their employees equitably. I'm still defining what that means in concrete, specific terms. If you want to talk about that, please write to me (contact button above).
A handwritten thank-you note featuring a classic piece of gear (e.g. UA 1176, Neve 1073, Fairchild 670).
1 Fjord XLR microphone cable in your choice of 5, 10, or 20 feet. We'll collect your color preference at the end of the campaign.
Fjord XLR
Two-Pack
2 Fjord XLR microphone cables in your choice of 5, 10, or 20 feet. We'll collect your color preference(s) at the end of the campaign.
2× Fjord XLR
Three-Pack
Live Room Pack
Set up your whole tracking room, or drum/vocal booth, with 8 Fjord XLR microphone cables in your choice of 5, 10, or 20 feet. We'll collect your color preference(s) at the end of the campaign.
Studio Buy-out ♬
12 Fjord XLR microphone cables in your choice of 5, 10, or 20 feet, so that your whole studio can run on Fjord! We'll collect your color preference(s) at the end of the campaign.
12× Fjord XLR
We'll work together on a custom color combination for your band, studio, or brand. 24 cables with the option to purchase more.
24× Custom Fjord XLR
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VERIFY: Have Washington sheriffs refused to enforce laws before?
Twenty Washington sheriffs have said they will not enforce I-1639.
Author: Casey Decker
Published: 10:42 PM PST February 13, 2019
Updated: 9:07 AM PST February 14, 2019
Initiative 1639 passed with just under 60 percent of the vote in Washington state. It implements a number of gun control measures, including more strict background checks and raising the legal purchase age of semi-automatic guns from 18 to 21.
Since it passed, 20 sheriffs have said they believe the law is either unconstitutional or unenforceable.
That's led many to wonder: Has anything like this ever happened before? Have other laws been ignored by law enforcement officers in this way?
To answer that, we talked with some of the sheriffs involved.
A spokesman for the Yakima County Sheriff's Office could not recall any law similar to 1639.
In Wahkiakum County, Sheriff Mark Howie said I-1639 is the first law he has ever refused to enforce in his 29 years there.
In Klickitat County, Sheriff Bob Songer said this was the first law he has found to be unenforceable in his 48 years.
RELATED: Grant County Sheriff joins others who say they won't enforce I-1639
Some comparisons have been made to the issues of marijuana and immigration.
For instance, the city of Seattle refused to cooperate with federal agents to enforce anti-marijuana laws.
There are also sanctuary cities and counties who refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement to varying degrees.
But neither side of the I-1639 debate finds those analogies particularly comparable.
Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich has said law enforcement officers should not pick and choose which laws to enforce. He said he does not believe there is anything for him to enforce within I-1639.
RELATED: 'There is no such thing as an assault weapon': Spokane Sheriff Knezovich discusses I-1639
RELATED: Spokane County Sheriff Knezovich says FBI involved in threat investigation
Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson sent a letter to the various sheriffs calling them out for their decision. In that letter, he stated I-1639 is different from marijuana and immigration because both of the latter cases involved federal government trying to force states to impose federal laws, whereas I-1639 is a state law passed by the voters.
RELATED: Washington attorney general fires back at sheriffs over I-1639 enforcement
When it comes to sheriffs and state law, we can verify that the I-1639 situation is a first.
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HOME - The fine arts > Modern Art > Boccioni - Street noises
Boccioni - Street noises invade the House
Umberto Boccioni - Street Noises invade the House
On one square metre of painting surface the painter has crowded together a universe or a chaos show. We see from the back from above a woman who bends over balcony down. The woman is rather luxuriant, almost she falls down forward on the street - lines which from the point of the futurists should influence the state of mind of the viewer . As in a triangle is connected the stout Signora with two women in balconies on the left and on the right, is there as it were completely in stereo. The women with the surrounding buildings, so to speak, a form a gigantic empty well shaft, on ground it bubbles from work and noise. Bricklayers and carpenters, plumbers and other construction people give to do themselves, as if they had become mad. Everything makes noise and penetrates in the walls up into the houses and flats. Everything penetrates on the centre of the picture, and this is the left ear of the woman.
What the woman looks on the street, in the square, is fully in motion. Also the houses bend, tremble, stagger, stand up anew. And off the road everything grows vertically up, the woman must feel pressed. As an imaginary window behind her already her apartment fills with noise. There it is built, there's something going on, since new happening and is much to see.
We see shovels and ladders, nags and carts, bricks and sand piles - there are still no cranes or heavy machinery. A gigantic excavation has been created there and points to something enormous in the near future. Huge structures attest to the Babylonian tower that has begun there. This will take months and years, it will be the future of the modern era. From the perspective of women, permanent houses and walls are changing and making way for the almost hellish noise and works. One small detail should not be overlooked, the hint of horse figures. One is located to the right of the woman while merging with her at the same time. Another is suggested in the bottom left. James Watt's horsepower as a measure of the performance of steam engines, the watts and kW still used today?
Apart from the complete all-round perspective from the painter's point of view, it is the colours that interpret and explain. The delicate blue of the women in their almost festive clothes (even if a broom does project menacingly from the railing on the right) and the surrounding buildings are defined by the narrow horizon. In contrast to this, a yellow or even yellowish-gold colour shines from the foundations of the new building - and probably from the lopsided living quarters at the top centre of the painting, which are clearly to be restructured. This would actually have been the location of the municipal administration and the Mayor! It is, therefore, that which is to be created that is lit in gold and yellow - "Fa tutto il commune" the Italians say, the state will do everything! Money must work! The noise is only waste, but it makes people sick - but Boccioni had not painted this yet, because Futurism only became overrun by ecological demands and environmental problems at a later stage.
The greatest attention was given to the new world, the new inventions and developments at the beginning of the 20th century. And art reacted sensitively to these, virulently as well as through "Visioni simultanee" (simultaneous visions), as a second painting by Boccioni from the same period is aptly titled. Much has been written about the relationship between Cubism and Futurism (and Divisionism etc.). However, the awakening and optimism of that time was abruptly and terribly halted by the Great War in Europe. Like many artists of this era, Boccioni and his painter friends dreamed of a "cleansing bloodbath" in old Europe - the bloodbath happened, but history and art then continued on in a different manner.
Italian Futurism
Through Futurism, Italy found its connection to the art of modernity in Europe during the highly creative period before World War I. For too long, Italian artists had been almost paralysed as descendants of a past "immortal" fame.
On an artistic level, Umberto Boccioni in particular distinguished himself and to this day his works are considered to be on par with the most significant modern artists in Europe. Like many of his colleagues and friends, at the age of 34 he fell during the war in Europe and was the victim of a riding accident at the Alpine front.
Umberto Boccioni - Veneration of Technology
Boccioni venerates the new technologies, their speed, movement and dynamics. In various ways, he works convey dynamic form and movement, typically depicting motifs such as streets and traffic.
In order to implement his dynamic forms, Boccioni experimented with the fragmentation and composition of colour and moulded surfaces. Using light, he tried to make an inherently "still" object appear dynamic, because "dynamism" was not limited to motion in itself for the artist Boccioni. He claimed that the dynamism of the universe underlies everything.
Themes such as space and time are reflected repeatedly in his works, illustrated by the breakdown of the image into successive motion sequences.
It is not just the use of colour that is important for Boccioni; form is also a key element. He wanted to create dynamism in his paintings using "forms" . He wanted to create an "environmental experience", for example by creating movement and noise, as an effect of his works on the viewer. Snapshots together with continuous action form an entirity in a series of his works. By contemplating the work of art from different angles, a mixture of dynamism and stillness are created for the viewer.
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Rapid Differentiation of Monocytes into Type I IFN-Producing Myeloid Dendritic Cells as an Antiviral Strategy against Influenza Virus Infection
Weiping Cao, Andrew K. Taylor, Renata E. Biber, William G. Davis, Jin Hyang Kim, Adrian J. Reber, Tatiana Chirkova, Juan A. De La Cruz, Aseem Pandey, Priya Ranjan, Jacqueline M. Katz, Shivaprakash Gangappa and Suryaprakash Sambhara
J Immunol September 1, 2012, 189 (5) 2257-2265; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1200168
Weiping Cao
Immunology and Pathogenesis Branch, Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333
Andrew K. Taylor
Renata E. Biber
William G. Davis
Jin Hyang Kim
Adrian J. Reber
Tatiana Chirkova
Juan A. De La Cruz
Aseem Pandey
Priya Ranjan
Jacqueline M. Katz
Shivaprakash Gangappa
Suryaprakash Sambhara
Myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) have long been thought to function as classical APCs for T cell responses. However, we demonstrate that influenza viruses induce rapid differentiation of human monocytes into mDCs. Unlike the classic mDCs, the virus-induced mDCs failed to upregulate DC maturation markers and were unable to induce allogeneic lymphoproliferation. Virus-induced mDCs secreted little, if any, proinflammatory cytokines; however, they secreted a substantial amount of chemoattractants for monocytes (MCP-1 and IP-10). Interestingly, the differentiated mDCs secreted type I IFN and upregulated the expression of IFN-stimulated genes (tetherin, IFITM3, and viperin), as well as cytosolic viral RNA sensors (RIG-I and MDA5). Additionally, culture supernatants from virus-induced mDCs suppressed the replication of virus in vitro. Furthermore, depletion of monocytes in a mouse model of influenza infection caused significant reduction of lung mDC numbers, as well as type I IFN production in the lung. Consequently, increased lung virus titer and higher mortality were observed. Taken together, our results demonstrate that the host responds to influenza virus infection by initiating rapid differentiation of circulating monocytes into IFN-producing mDCs, which contribute to innate antiviral immune responses.
Influenza is a disease of global public health significance. Each year in the United States alone, influenza results in an average of 20,000–40,000 deaths (1). Influenza viruses possess a negative-sense ssRNA genome and are classified into types A, B, and C (2), according to their serologically distinct major internal proteins: the nucleoprotein (NP) and matrix protein (3). Annual seasonal influenza epidemics are mainly caused by influenza A virus (IAV) and influenza B virus, whereas influenza A also causes sporadic pandemics. Upon viral infection, the immune system uses a number of mechanisms that are aimed at eradicating the viral attack. Innate immune cells, including NK cells, alveolar macrophages (AMs), and dendritic cells (DCs), all contribute to the direct control of viral replication and the induction and regulation of virus-specific adaptive immune responses (4, 5). DCs are the most potent professional APCs and play a central role in bridging innate and adaptive immune responses. Lung-resident DCs are distributed throughout the respiratory tract in an immature state. Upon the recognition of unique pathogen motifs, pattern recognition receptors of DCs initiate signaling cascades that activate and mature the DCs. Activated DCs express increased levels of costimulatory molecules, produce cytokines and chemokines (6, 7), and migrate to the draining lymph nodes where they induce Ag-specific CD8 T cells, as well as CD4 T cells, which aid in cellular and humoral immunity (7). Lung DCs are a heterogenous population and consist primarily of myeloid DCs (mDCs)/conventional DCs and plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs).
Histiocytic precursors and monocytes can differentiate into immature DCs in vitro upon stimulation with GM-CSF and IL-4 (8). However, during infection or inflammation, DCs differentiate more readily from the circulating monocytes than from bone marrow precursor cells (9, 10). Inflammatory stimuli, such as viral or bacterial products or environmental pollutants, trigger the production of chemokines that attract monocytes and other inflammatory cells to the lungs. These monocytes can be the immediate precursor to inflammatory DCs (11–14). Patients with influenza virus infection tend to have greater numbers of monocytes and DCs in their nasal wash samples (15). However, the source of these DCs in the respiratory tract is not known.
In this study, we investigated whether monocytes are a possible source of DCs in the respiratory tract and characterized the function of these cells in influenza virus infection. Our results provide evidence that influenza virus infection, but not TLR ligand stimulation, induces rapid differentiation of human blood-derived monocytes into mDCs. These influenza virus-induced mDCs are not classical professional APCs because they failed to undergo maturation and present alloantigens to CD4 and CD8 T cells. However, they secrete type I IFN and upregulate IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs), thereby contributing to host antiviral defenses. We confirmed our findings in murine studies, demonstrating that the depletion of monocytes prior to influenza virus infection leads to a reduction in type I IFN-secreting mDCs and reduced survival of mice. Taken together, these findings implicate a novel role for mDCs in antiviral innate immune responses against influenza virus infection.
Cells and cell lines
NHBE cells and A549 cells were obtained from Lonza (Basel, Switzerland) and the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), respectively. MDCK cells were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Scientific Resources. Citrated whole blood was collected from healthy volunteers under a protocol approved by the CDC’s institutional review board, and PBMCs were isolated by centrifugation through Ficoll-Hypaque solution (Lymphoprep; Axis Shield, Oslo, Norway).
Influenza viruses
Influenza viruses used in this study include the laboratory H1N1 virus A/WSN/33, A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8 [H1N1]), and H3N2 virus A/X-31; seasonal H1N1 virus A/Brisbane/59/2007 (A/Bris/59/07) and H3N2 virus A/Brisbane/10/2007; pandemic H1N1 viruses A/California/08/2009 and A/Mexico/4108/2009; and influenza B virus strain B/Brisbane/60/2008. All viruses were propagated for 2 d in the allantoic cavity of 10-d old embryonated chicken eggs. Pooled allantoic fluid was clarified by centrifugation, aliquoted, and stored at −80°C until use.
Female C57BL/6 mice, 6–8 wk old, were purchased from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME).
TLR ligands and regents
Ultrapure Escherichia coli LPS (0111:B4), polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid [Poly(I:C)], and R848 and CpGA (ODN 2336) DNA (all from InvivoGen, San Diego, CA) were used. RIG-I inhibitor (epigallocatechin gallate) was from Sigma.
In vitro influenza virus infection
Human PBMCs were cultured in RPMI 1640 containing 10% FBS, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 μg/ml streptomycin solution, and 2 mM l-glutamine (RPMI complete medium). A549 cells, a human epithelial cell line derived from lung adenocarcinoma (American Type Culture Collection), were grown in complete DMEM. For in vitro infection, viruses were diluted in medium containing 0.3% BSA. Cells were washed twice with medium only, and virus was added, at a volume of 100 μl at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 1.0, to each well. After 1 h of incubation with the virus, cells were washed with PBS and cultured in complete medium for FACS staining or in medium with 0.3% BSA and 1 μg/ml N-p-tosyl-l-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone-treated trypsin (Sigma-Aldrich) for the virus-titer assay. For the virus-inhibition assay in A549 cells, they were preincubated with UV-inactivated supernatants from purified monocytes infected overnight with A/Bris/59/07 virus or treated with PBS (mock infection). In some experiments, A549 cells were pretreated with mock supernatant plus rIFN-α and IFN-β (PBL InterferonSource, Piscataway, NJ) or A/Bris/59/07 supernatant with anti-IFN-α (clone 2 and 13) and anti-IFN-β (clone 3 and 15)-neutralizing Abs (PBL InterferonSource). For virus inactivation by UV irradiation, viruses or supernatants from virus-infected cultures were placed on ice and irradiated using a 254-nm UV stratalinker (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) for 30 min. For heat inactivation, virus was incubated in a 56°C water bath for 40 min. To assess the impact of cytokines and chemokines on influenza-induced monocyte differentiation, NHBE cells or PBMCs were infected with A/Bris/59/07 overnight; supernatants were collected and UV inactivated. Fresh human PBMCs were then primed with the UV-inactivated culture supernatants for 4–6 h, followed by infection with A/Bris/59/07 (MOI = 1) overnight.
Activation of PBMCs with TLR ligands
Human PBMCs were cultured with Poly(I:C) (10 μg/ml), LPS (1 μg/ml), R848 (5 μg/ml), and CpGA (10 μg/ml) for 16 h. Cells were then analyzed by flow cytometry to assess the frequencies of various cell types.
PBMC staining
PBMCs were isolated from citrated blood samples. Cells were resuspended in PBS containing 10% FBS and stained for flow cytometry. The following Abs were used for analysis of DC subsets in PBMCs: CD3–PE–Cy7, CD14-Alexa Fluor 700, CD19–PE–Cy7, CD56–PE–Cy7, CD123–PerCP–Cy5.5, CD11c–allophycocyanin, and HLA-DR–allophycocyanin–Cy7 (BD Bioscience). For detection of the expression of α-2,6–linked sialic acids and α-2,3–linked sialic acids, lectin Sambucus nigra agglutinin (SNA) and Maackia amurensis agglutinin (MAA I) (both FITC conjugated) (EY Laboratories) were used. For analysis of monocyte, macrophage, and neutrophil infiltration in mouse lung tissue, CD11c-allophycocyanin, CD45-Alexa Fluor 700, CD11b-Pacific Blue, B220–PE–Cy7, F4/80-PE, Ly6C–allophycocyanin–Cy7, Gr-1–allophycocyanin, and Ly6G-FITC (BD Bioscience) were used. For analysis of DC infiltration in mouse lung tissue, CD11c-allophycocyanin, CD45-Alexa Fluor 700, CD11b-Pacific Blue, B220–PE–Cy7, I-A/E-PE, and CD103–PerCP–Cy5.5 (all from BD Bioscience) were used. The following Abs were used for analysis of cell activation: HLA-DR–allophycocyanin–Cy7, CD40-PE, and CD86-FITC (all from BD Bioscience). Samples were analyzed using an LSRII flow cytometer (BD Biosciences), and the cytometry data were analyzed using FlowJo software (Tree Star).
Cytokine detection
Human and mouse IFN-α and IFN-β in culture supernatant and mouse lung homogenates were quantified by ELISA kits (PBL Biomedical Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ). A customized panel of 12 inflammatory cytokines and chemokines (IP-10, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-8, RANTES, VEGF, IL-1α, IL-12p70, MCP-1, MIP-1β, IL-4, and IFN-γ) was used to measure cytokines with a Bio-Plex suspension array system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA).
A549 cells were washed with chilled PBS and then lysed in 200 μl ice-cold lysis buffer (50 Mm Tris-Cl [pH 8], 150 mM NaCl, 1% v/v Triton X-100, 2 mM EDTA, 1 mM PMSF, 20 μM leupeptin containing aprotinin 0.15 μg/ml) for 20 min at 4°C. Equal quantities of solubilized protein were resolved by 10% SDS-PAGE, blotted to nitrocellulose membrane, and probed with either a mouse monoclonal anti-influenza A NP Ab or an anti–β-actin Ab (Sigma). Proteins were visualized with SuperSignal West Pico chemiluminescent substrate (Pierce, Rockford, IL).
Virus titration by MDCK cell-based plaque assay
Confluent monolayers of MDCK cells in six-well plates were washed with DMEM and infected with serial 10-fold dilutions of cell culture supernatant for 1 h at 37°C in 5% CO2. Cells were washed with DMEM and overlaid with 1.6% SeaKem LE agarose (Lonza) mixed 1:1 with 2× L15 medium (Lonza) containing 4 mM HEPES, 2 mM l-glutamine, 5 μg/ml gentamicin, 1.5 mg/ml sodium bicarbonate, and 1 μg/ml N-p-tosyl-l-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone-treated trypsin (Sigma-Aldrich). Virus plaques were stained with 0.3% crystal violet solution (BD, Sparks, MD) after 72 h of incubation at 37°C in 5% CO2 and counted.
MLR assay
FACS-sorted mDCs (5 × 104) from mock- or A/Bris/59/07 virus-infected PBMCs were cultured together with CFSE-labeled naive CD4+CD45RA+CD45RO− or CD8+CD45RA+CD27+ T cells from a different donor (1 × 105) in 200 μl RPMI complete medium in 96-well round-bottom plates. After 5 d, cells were collected and analyzed directly for cell proliferation.
Total RNA was isolated from sorted mDCs using the RNeasy Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Carlsbad, CA), and cDNA was generated using the Superscript First-Strand Synthesis System for RT-PCR using random hexamer primers (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Resulting cDNA was diluted 1:5, and 2 μl was used in a SYBR Green (SA Bioscience, Frederick, MD)-based real-time PCR reaction using a Mx3000 real-time PCR instrument (Stratagene, Cedar Creek, TX). GAPDH or β-actin was used to normalize the Ct values. Primer sets used for these studies are listed in Table I.
Table I. Primers used for real-time PCR
In vivo studies
Female C57BL/6 mice were anesthetized with 2,2,2-tribromoethanol in tert-amyl alcohol (Avertin; Sigma-Aldrich) before intranasal inoculation with 100 50% mouse infectious dose (MID50) of PR8 virus or PBS as a control. Lung tissues were collected on days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 postinfection (p.i.) to characterize cellular infiltrates by flow cytometry. In some animals, monocytes were depleted by clodronate-containing liposomes (5 mg/ml, 50 μl/each mouse; Encapsula NanoSciences, Nashville, TN) administered i.v. daily for 6 consecutive days, starting 18 h before PR8 infection. Control mice received an equivalent volume of PBS liposome. Cellular infiltrates in the lung were characterized on day 5 p.i. by flow cytometry. The animals were monitored for 14 d p.i. to assess morbidity. To determine lung viral titers, lungs were collected on days 3 or 5 p.i., each lung was homogenized in 1 ml cold PBS, and clarified homogenates were titrated in eggs to determine virus infectivity, starting at 1:10 dilution (limit of detection, 101.5 50% egg infective dose/ml). To assess the infection of monocytes in vivo, lung tissue was collected on day 5 p.i.; a single-cell suspension was prepared and stained for mDC markers, together with anti-NS1 Ab, to assess the presence of intracellular NS1 (an indication of virus infection). Animal research was conducted under the guidance of the CDC’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee in an animal facility accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International.
All data were analyzed using Prism software (GraphPad Software). Data are expressed as mean ± SD, and the significances of differences were determined by the unpaired Student t test; p values < 0.05 were considered significant.
Influenza virus induced rapid differentiation of monocytes into mDCs
To examine the effect of influenza virus infection and TLR ligation, human PBMCs were infected with IAV or stimulated with Poly(I:C) (TLR3 ligand), LPS (TLR4 ligand), R848 (TLR7/8 ligand), and CpGA (TLR9 ligand) and analyzed by flow cytometry. As shown in Fig. 1A, 16 h p.i. with A/Bris/59/07 (MOI = 1), the percentage of HLA-DR+ lineage (CD3/CD19/CD56/CD14) marker-negative (Lin−) cells in total PBMCs were markedly increased. However, stimulation with ligands of TLRs 3, 4, 7/8, and 9 failed to increase the percentage of the HLA-DR+Lin− population (Fig. 1A). The Lin− and HLA-DR+ cells were further characterized for the expression of CD11c and CD123. mDCs were defined as CD11c+CD123low/−, and pDCs were defined as CD11c−CD123+. As shown in Fig. 1B, although influenza virus stimulation induced a >10-fold expansion of HLA-DR+Lin−CD11c+CD123low/− mDCs, it had no such impact on pDC precursors. Similar data were obtained using PBMCs from multiple donors (Supplemental Fig. 1). DCs can originate either from common progenitor cells in the bone marrow or blood monocytes in the periphery (16, 17). Accumulating evidence suggests that during infection or inflammation, DCs differentiate more readily from monocytes (9, 10). Therefore, we examined whether the expanded mDCs were derived from monocytes. Monocytes were defined as CD14+HLA-DR+ cells within the entire PBMC population. Upon influenza virus infection but not LPS stimulation, monocytes in PBMCs differentiated into CD11c+CD123low/− mDCs (Fig. 1C). To rule out the role of other cell types in PBMCs on the rapid differentiation of monocytes into mDCs, monocytes were purified from PBMCs using CD14 MicroBeads (Miltenyi Biotec, Auburn, CA) and infected with A/Bris/59/07. As shown in Fig. 1D, purified monocyte cultures differentiated into mDCs in vitro. Infection of cells with IAV can occur through the binding of viral surface hemagglutinin to sialylated glycans on the appropriate host cell (18, 19). We then assessed the expression of influenza virus receptor on the surface of monocytes. Monocytes strongly bound to lectin SNA, which primarily detects influenza receptor α-2,6–linked sialic acids, but not to MAA I, which primarily detects α-2,3–linked sialic acids (Fig. 1E). These findings suggest that monocytes expressed receptors used by human influenza viruses for entry into cells, which is consistent with a previous publication (20). Indeed, 16 h p.i., ∼20–30% of monocyte-derived mDCs expressed IAV protein NS1, as detected by flow cytometry (Fig. 1F). Collectively, our results suggest that blood-circulating monocytes can be infected by influenza virus, because NS1 can only be found in infected cells and then differentiated into mDCs.
Influenza virus induces rapid differentiation of monocytes into mDCs. (A) Human PBMCs were cultured with Poly(I:C) (10 μg/ml), LPS (1 μg/ml), R848 (5 μg/ml), CpGA (10 μg/ml), or A/Bris/59/07 at an MOI of 1 for 16 h. Cells were then analyzed by flow cytometry to assess the frequencies of various cell types. Total DC populations were defined by a lack of lineage marker expression (CD3−CD14−CD19−CD56−) and expression of HLA-DR. (B) The percentages of CD11c+CD123low/−HLA-DR+Lin− mDCs and CD11c−CD123+HLA-DR+Lin− pDCs in PBMCs cultured with TLR ligands or A/Bris/59/07, as assessed by flow cytometry. **p < 0.01, versus mock-treated group. (C) The percentages of CD14+HLA-DR+ monocytes and DCs in PBMCs cultured with LPS or A/Bris/59/07, as assessed by flow cytometry. (D) Monocytes were isolated from fresh PBMCs by FACS sorting and cultured with A/Bris/59/07 or A/Brisbane/10/2007 at an MOI = 1. The percentages of monocytes and mDCs were analyzed by flow cytometry. (E) Expression of α-2,6–linked sialic acids was detected by lectin SNA, and expression of α-2,3–linked sialic acids was detected by MAA I on monocytes. (F) Expression of NS1 by CD11c+ mDCs as detected by intracellular flow staining. Data are representative of three independent experiments. *p < 0.05 versus mock-treated group.
Live influenza virus infection is required for monocyte differentiation
To determine whether rapid monocyte differentiation could also be induced by other strains of influenza viruses, we infected PBMCs with A/X-31 (H3N2), A/WSN/33 (H1N1), A/Brisbane/10/2007 (H3N2), A/Mexico/4108/2009, and A/California/08/2009 and found that these different IAV strains are capable of inducing rapid monocyte differentiation into mDCs (Fig. 2A). This ability to induce mDCs is not restricted to A viruses; type B influenza virus (B/Brisbane/60/2008) has the same effect on monocyte differentiation (Fig. 2B). These results suggest that monocyte differentiation into mDCs is a common mechanism in response to influenza virus infection. To examine whether viral replication is needed for the induction of mDCs, we infected PBMCs with live virus or heat- or UV-inactivated viruses. As shown in Fig. 2C, live virus infection was required for monocyte differentiation. Both UV- and heat-inactivated virus failed to induce monocyte differentiation. In vitro differentiation of DCs from monocytes using GM-CSF and IL-4 requires 5–7 d (8). In contrast, almost 100% of influenza virus-induced monocytes in PBMCs differentiated into mDCs by 16 h p.i. (Fig. 2D). Supernatants from A/Bris/59/07-activated PBMCs or primary NHBE cells failed to induce differentiation of fresh monocytes (Supplemental Fig. 2). These data suggest that influenza virus-induced monocyte differentiation is live virus dependent and is not triggered by soluble mediators secreted by activated cells.
Live influenza virus infection is required for monocyte differentiation. (A) The percentages of monocytes, mDCs, and pDCs in PBMCs stimulated with TLR ligands or infected with different strains of IAVs (MOI = 1 for A/X-31, A/WSN/33, A/Bris/59/07, and A/Brisbane/10/2007; MOI = 10 for A/Mexico/4108/2009 and A/California/08/2009), as assessed by flow cytometry. (B) The percentages of monocytes, mDCs, and pDCs in PBMCs cultured with B/Brisbane/60/2008 at an MOI = 1 for 16 h, as assessed by flow cytometry. (C) Flow cytometry analysis of the percentages of monocytes and DCs in PBMCs stimulated by live A/Bris/59/07 virus or UV- or heat-inactivated virus. Numbers indicate the percentages of CD14+HLA-DR+ monocytes (middle panels) and DCs (right panels). (D) Flow cytometric analysis of the percentage of monocytes in PBMCs cultured with A/Bris/59/07 for 6 or 16 h. Data are representative of three independent experiments. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 versus mock-treated group.
Influenza virus-induced mDCs exhibit impaired ability to mature and stimulate alloreactive T cells
As professional APCs, the typical DC function is to present Ags and trigger adaptive immunity. We next investigated whether influenza virus-induced mDC act as APCs. Activated DCs upregulate the expression of MHC class II and costimulatory molecules (CD86 and CD40). As shown in Fig. 3A, the expression of CD40, CD86, and MHC class II was substantially upregulated on mDCs activated by TLR ligands. However, there was little or no upregulation of these molecules on virus-induced mDCs (Fig. 3A). Next, we purified the mDCs following A/Bris/59/07 infection or LPS stimulation and determined the expression of proinflammatory cytokines. Although LPS-stimulated mDCs had increased expression of proinflammatory cytokine genes, including IL-12p35, IL-12p40, TNF-α, and IL-6, A/Bris/59/07 infection failed to induce the expression of these genes assessed by real-time RT-PCR using primers listed in Table I (Fig. 3B). Consistent with the gene-expression profile, Bio-Plex assay of cell culture supernatants of virus-induced mDCs demonstrated lower levels of proinflammatory mediators compared with LPS-activated mDCs (Fig. 3C). Interestingly, mDCs differentiated from circulating blood monocytes upon influenza virus infection secreted large amounts of MCP-1 and IP-10, which are strong chemoattractants for monocytes (Fig. 3D). Next, we evaluated whether the differentiated mDCs were able to stimulate T cells in an allogeneic T cell-proliferation assay. Naive CD45RA+CD45RO− CD4 T cells and CD45RA+CD27+ CD8 T cells from donors were sorted, labeled with CFSE, and cultured together with blood mDCs sorted from mock- or virus-stimulated PBMCs from a different donor. After 5 d of coculture, as demonstrated by CFSE dilution, the uninfected blood mDCs triggered substantial CD4 and CD8 T cell proliferation. However, virus-induced mDCs could not induce a proliferative T cell response (Fig. 3E). Collectively, these results indicate that influenza virus-induced mDCs are poor in Ag presentation but could actively recruit more monocytes to the site of infection through production of MCP-1 and IP-10.
Influenza virus-induced mDCs exhibit impaired ability to mature and stimulate alloreactive T cells. (A) PBMCs were cultured with TLR ligands and different strains of IAV for 16 h, as in Fig. 2A. The mean fluorescent intensities of HLA-DR, CD86, and CD40 of mDCs were assessed by flow cytometry. (B) Lin−HLA−DR+CD11c+CD123low/− mDCs from LPS-activated or A/Bris/59/07 virus- or mock-infected PBMCs were purified by FACS sorting. The mRNA expression of inflammatory cytokines (IL-12p35, IL-12p40, TNF-α, and IL-6) in mDCs was assessed by real-time RT-PCR using primers listed in Table I. (C) FACS-sorted mDCs were cultured overnight in complete RPMI medium, and the production of IL-12p70, TNF-α, IL-6, RANTES, and IL-8 was examined by Bio-Plex assay. (D) Isolated mDCs were cultured overnight in complete RPMI medium, and the production of MCP-1 and IP-10 was examined by Bio-Plex assay. (E) PBMCs were infected with A/Bris/59/07 for 16 h. Lin−HLA−DR+CD11c+CD123low/− mDCs were purified by FACS sorting. A total of 2 × 104 isolated mDCs was cocultured with 1 × 105 CFSE-labeled naive alloreactive CD45RA+CD45RO− CD4 or CD45RA+CD27+ CD8 T cells for 5 d. T cell proliferation was assessed by CFSE dilution. Data are representative of three independent experiments. **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 versus mock-infected group.
Influenza virus-induced mDCs exhibit antiviral activity
Because influenza virus-induced mDCs failed to function as conventional APCs as a result of their inability to upregulate costimulatory molecules and activate the allogeneic T cell proliferative response, we examined their ability to contribute to the antiviral response through the secretion of type I IFN. PBMCs were stimulated with LPS or A/Bris/59/07 for 16 h. mDCs were isolated for RNA extraction, and IFN-α/β mRNA expression was detected by real-time PCR. A significant increase in IFN-α/β mRNA expression was detected in virus-activated mDCs compared with mock-infected or LPS-activated mDCs (Fig. 4A). Furthermore, both IFN-α and IFN-β were detected in the culture supernatants of virus-activated mDCs, but neither was detected in the culture supernatant of mock-infected or LPS-activated mDCs (Fig. 4B). Type I IFN exerts antiviral effects through the induction of antiviral proteins encoded by ISGs. A/Bris/59/07 infection, but not LPS, induced a potent induction of the IFN-stimulated antiviral genes tetherin, viperin, and IFITM3 in mDCs (Fig. 4C). In addition, the cytosolic RNA sensors, RIG-I and MDA5, were upregulated in virus-differentiated mDCs (Fig. 4C). Release of type I IFN and the expression of ISGs and RIG-I/MDA5 by virus-differentiated mDCs suggest a possible role for mDCs in the antiviral response. Using an in vitro infection model, we tested whether the differentiated mDCs mediate a direct antiviral response. Purified monocytes were mock infected or infected with A/Bris/59/07 overnight. The culture supernatants were collected and inactivated with UV to prevent the replication of any virus present. A549 cells were preincubated with UV-inactivated culture supernatants for 30 min, followed by infection with A/Bris/59/07 virus. Viral replication was assessed by NP expression in the cell lysates, as well as the viral titer in the culture supernatant. Preincubation of A549 cells with supernatant from virus-induced mDCs resulted in a marked decrease in NP protein expression (Fig. 4D), as well as a 60% reduction in virus titer in the culture supernatant (Fig. 4E). Furthermore, the addition of 100 ng/ml of recombinant type I IFN decreased the virus titer in the culture supernatant. Similarly, the addition of anti–IFN-α and anti–IFN-β Abs significantly increased the virus titer (Fig. 4E). In summary, influenza virus-induced mDCs exhibited a direct antiviral activity by producing type I IFN and upregulating the expression of ISGs/RIG-I/MDA5.
Influenza virus-induced mDCs exhibit antiviral activity. (A) Lin−HLA−DR+CD11c+CD123low/− mDCs in LPS- activated or mock- or A/Bris/59/07 virus-infected PBMCs were purified by FACS sorting. The mRNA expression of IFN-α and IFN-β was examined by real-time RT-PCR. ***p < 0.001, versus mock-treated group. (B) Isolated mDCs were cultured overnight in complete RPMI medium, and the production of IFN-α and IFN-β in the supernatant was assayed using Bio-Plex. Assay range: 12.5–500 pg/ml. (C) The mRNA expression of tetherin, viperin, IFITM3, RIG-I, and MDA5 in purified mDCs was examined by real-time RT-PCR using primers listed in Table I. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, versus mock-treated group. (D) A549 cells were preincubated for 30 min with UV-inactivated supernatants from mock- or A/Bris/59/07 virus-infected monocytes; A549 cells were then infected with A/Bris/59/07 for 16 h. Cell lysates were analyzed for influenza virus NP expression by immunoblot. (E) A549 cells were preincubated for 30 min with UV-inactivated supernatants from mock- or A/Bris/59/07 virus-infected monocytes, or A549 cells were pretreated with mock supernatant plus recombinant type I IFN (50 pg/ml or 100 ng/ml) or A/Bris/59/07 supernatant plus 10 μg/ml each of anti–IFN-α and anti–IFN-β Abs. A549 cells were then infected with A/Bris/59/07 for 16 h, and supernatants were collected to measure virus titer by an MDCK cell-based plaque assay. Data are representative of three independent experiments. *p < 0.05 versus mock-treated group, **p < 0.01 versus A/Bris/59/07 supernatant-treated group. ND, Undetectable level of cytokine.
Influenza virus infection accumulates monocytes and mDCs in vivo in C57BL/6 mice
To validate our in vitro findings with human PBMCs, we used an in vivo mouse model of influenza infection. Groups of mice were inoculated intranasally with 100 MID50 of PR8 virus. At different time points p.i., lung cell suspensions were prepared for flow cytometry to characterize infiltrating cells. Monocytes were defined as CD11bint, Gr-1int, F4/80low, Ly-6Chigh cells (21). Two main populations of DCs were identified in the lung based on the expression of CD11c and B220. The main subset is CD11c+B220− myeloid (conventional) DCs with a minor population of the CD11cintB220+ subset defined as pDCs. mDCs were further divided into two main subpopulations on the basis of CD11b and CD103 expression; CD11c+MHCII+CD11b+ cells localize to the submucosa and the lung parenchyma, whereas CD11c+MHCII+CD103+ DCs preferentially localize to airway mucosa (22, 23). As shown in Fig. 5A, the total number of monocytes in the lung increased significantly, peaking between 4 and 7 d p.i. As expected, influenza virus infection also promoted a significant increase in the number of DCs in the lung, with peak levels occurring on day 7 p.i., concomitant with the peak of monocytes (Fig. 5B). Although mDCs, especially CD11b+ mDCs, were the most numerous following influenza infection, pDCs and CD103+ mDCs were minor populations. As is the case with human monocytes, mDCs in mice were infected; 13–15% of mDCs expressed IAV protein NS1 (Fig. 5C). Furthermore, on day 5 p.i., the CD11b+ mDCs expressed type I IFN mRNA (Fig. 5D) and secreted type I IFN in the culture supernatant (Fig. 5E). Taken together, our results demonstrate that, in vivo, IAV infection indeed recruited a substantial number of monocytes to the lung, with a corresponding increase in the number of type I IFN-producing mDCs.
Influenza virus infection accumulates monocytes and mDCs in vivo. (A) Total number of monocytes in lung tissue from influenza virus-infected (PR8, 100 MID50) C57BL/6 (n = 3–6/group) mice was examined by flow cytometry on days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 p.i. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, versus day 0. (B) Total number of different subsets of DCs in lung tissue from influenza virus-infected (PR8, 100 MID50) C57BL/6 (n = 3–6/group) mice were examined by flow cytometry on days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 p.i. *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001, versus day 0. (C) Expression of NS1 by CD11c+ mDCs in lung tissues 5 d post-PR8 infection, as detected by intracellular flow staining. ***p < 0.001, versus mock-treated group. (D) CD11b+CD11c+ mDCs were isolated by FACS sorting from lung tissue on day 5 p.i. The mRNA expression of IFN-α was examined by real-time RT-PCR. *p < 0.05, versus mock-treated group. (E) Isolated lung CD11b+CD11c+ mDCs were cultured overnight in complete RPMI medium, and the production of IFN-α in culture supernatants was detected by ELISA. Data are representative of three independent experiments.
Monocyte depletion results in increased mortality and lung viral titer in influenza-infected mice
To determine the source and antiviral function of virus-induced mDCs in vivo, we selectively depleted monocytes by treating mice with clodronate liposomes. Intravenous injection of clodronate liposome was shown to substantially reduce Gr-1high monocytes, but not neutrophils and AMs (24), up to 24 h posttreatment. The depletion of monocytes was confirmed by the significant reduction in monocytes in lungs at 5 d p.i. by FACS staining (Fig. 6A). Interestingly, at day 5 p.i., the number of mDCs in the lung tissue of clodronate liposome-treated mice was also substantially reduced (Fig. 6A). Fifty percent of mice treated with clodronate liposome succumbed to infection (Fig. 6B). Furthermore, there was a significant reduction in type I IFN in lungs of monocyte-depleted mice (Fig. 6C). The virus titer in lungs was increased by 12-fold in monocyte-depleted mice on day 5 p.i. (Fig. 6D). These data indicate that monocyte depletion significantly reduced the number of virus-induced mDCs in lungs upon influenza virus infection. Furthermore, following influenza virus infection, monocyte depletion was associated with reduced type I IFN secretion and increased virus replication in the lungs and mortality.
Monocyte depletion results in increased mortality and lung viral titer in influenza virus -infected mice. (A) Monocyte-depleted or control C57BL/6 mice (n = 3–6/group) were intranasally infected with PR8 (100 MID50) and sacrificed on day 5 p.i. to examine the total number of monocytes and DCs in lung tissues by flow cytometry. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, versus mock-treated group. (B) Survival kinetics of monocyte-depleted or control C57BL/6 mice (n = 5/group) inoculated with PR8 virus. (C) Lung tissue homogenates from monocyte-depleted or control mice (n = 3/group) were analyzed for type I IFN secretion by ELISA. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, versus PBS liposome group. (D) Lung tissue homogenates from monocyte-depleted or control mice (n = 3/group) were assayed for virus titer on days 3 and 5 p.i. Data are representative of three independent experiments. *p < 0.05 versus PBS liposome group.
Early protection against viral infections relies on the rapid detection of viruses and optimal induction of the type I IFN response. DCs are pivotal in mounting an effective innate and adaptive response to influenza virus infection. Differentiation of monocytes into DCs with GM-CSF and IL-4 is the classical protocol for generating monocyte-derived DCs in vitro (8). A range of different inflammatory stimuli that can induce monocyte-to-DC differentiation has been reported, including TLR ligand stimulation and viral or bacterial infections (25). In our study, we demonstrated that monocytes differentiate into mDCs in response to influenza virus infection. More importantly, unlike the classical mDCs induced by TLR ligands and other pathogens, the influenza virus-induced mDCs acts like pDCs in that they produce type I IFN and subsequently upregulate ISGs as well as cytosolic virus sensors, RIG-1/MDA5, to facilitate antiviral responses.
Monocytes in the blood stream do not usually get infected by influenza virus, but they can be recruited into respiratory mucosa where they could come in contact with the progeny virus released from the infected airway epithelial cells. A recent study reported the inhibition of monocyte differentiation by IAV using in vitro GM-CSF– and IL-4–treated equine monocytes (26). However, in our study, we demonstrated the differentiation of human blood circulating monocytes into DCs in response to IAV. Our results are consistent with the published clinical observations that patients with influenza virus infection had greater numbers of mDCs and monocytes, but not T cells, in nasal wash samples (15).
TLR activation was reported to trigger the rapid differentiation of human monocytes into CD1b+DC-SIGN− DCs to promote T cell activation and secrete proinflammatory cytokines (27). In our study, activation of TLR3, -4, -7/8, and -9 receptors using Poly(I:C), LPS, R848, and CpGA failed to generate Lin−HLA-DR+CD11c+CD123low/− mDCs from human blood circulating monocytes. However, influenza virus infection can effectively induce the monocytes’ differentiation into mDCs. Furthermore, the monocyte differentiation induced by influenza virus is live virus dependent because only live virus, and not heat- or UV-inactivated virus, efficiently induced monocyte differentiation into mDCs. The cellular machinery responsible for the induction of mDC after virus infection remains unidentified. Cellular recognition of influenza virus is thought to be mediated by TLR3 and TLR7/8, which recognize dsRNA/ssRNA (28). RIG-I and MDA5 recognize cytoplasmic uncapped 5′triphosphate RNAs and cytoplasmic dsRNA, respectively (29). More recently, NLRP3 was reported to mediate key innate and healing responses to IAV via the regulation of caspase-1 (30). We demonstrated that TLR3 or TLR7/8 ligand stimulation is unable to differentiate mDCs from monocytes. In addition, influenza virus-induced monocyte differentiation does not rely on RIG-I recognition, because RIG-I inhibitor (epigallocatechin gallate) failed to block the differentiation of monocyte (Supplemental Fig. 3). Further studies are required to determine the role of other cellular proteins in the induction of mDC generation after virus infection. Furthermore, we did not observe any influenza virus strain and type dependency on monocyte differentiation, suggesting that this is a rather common innate immune mechanism in response to influenza virus infection.
Monocyte-derived mDCs generated by different inflammatory stimuli may differ in their functions. They can act as sentinels of the immune system, capturing Ags from infectious agents, and maturing to induce an optimal priming environment to generate adaptive immunity. It was also suggested that mDCs are pivotal players in the peripheral tolerance (31). Although influenza virus-infected DCs in the PBMCs stimulate strong proliferative and cytolytic responses in human CD8 T cells after 5–6 d in culture (32), this study showed that influenza virus-induced mDCs differentiated from monocytes failed to exhibit a functionally mature phenotype and did not produce proinflammatory cytokines. Furthermore, they failed to activate naive T cells in an allogeneic MLR. Therefore, the influenza virus-induced mDCs is not the primary DC subset that presents Ags to naive T lymphocytes. Our findings of the deficiency in the functional Ag-presenting capacity of influenza-induced DCs were similar to the findings of the effects that other viruses have on DCs (33–37). Although influenza virus-induced mDCs failed to produce proinflammatory cytokines, they secreted substantial amounts of monocyte chemoattractant cytokines: IP-10 and MCP-1. The selective induction of monocytes, but not neutrophil-attracting chemokines, upon IAV infection of human monocytes was reported by another study (38). MCP-1 concentrations in nasal wash samples were also shown to be significantly increased in patients with influenza virus infection (15). Therefore, the differentiated mDCs actively provide a positive feedback to attract more monocytes to the site of infection as their precursors.
The rapid and massive induction of mDCs in the early stages of virus infection prompted us to investigate the role of this subset in antiviral immunity. The rapid production of type I IFN serves as primary host defense mechanisms against infection by many viruses (39–41). As expected, influenza virus-induced mDCs produce type I IFN. The expression of tetherin, viperin, and IFITM3, antiviral genes induced by type 1 IFN, was significantly increased in virus-induced mDCs. Furthermore, the expression of RIG-I and MDA5, two intracellular detectors of viral pathogen-associated molecular patterns, was also increased. RIG-1 and MDA5 establish an antiviral state and mediate an IFN amplification loop that supports immune effector gene expression during virus infection (42). Therefore, our study showed that mDCs differentiated from monocytes serve as an early host defense mechanism in response to influenza virus infection. Lung DCs are a heterogenous population of APCs, of which mDCs and pDCs are the main subsets. There is a highly specialized division of labor between different DC subsets in the lung. mDCs play a crucial role in Ag presentation but show rather limited capacities in type I IFN production; pDCs can produce large amounts of type I IFN and are thought to be the major source of the cytokines in vivo (43, 44). The results presented in this article add to the current understanding about early antiviral activity in specialized immune cells and show that type I IFN production in response to virus replication is not solely a function of pDCs. A recent study showing that mDCs and AMs, but not pDCs, could be the primary producers of IFN-α in response to Newcastle disease virus infection (45) is consistent with our finding. It is possible that pDCs and mDCs complement each other in the early antiviral response by surveying different anatomical compartments or by responding to different pathogen components early in infection. Furthermore, the relative abundance of this novel subset of mDCs, compared with pDCs, at the infection site facilitates a more robust antiviral effect. Such type I IFN production may be critical for an early amplification of IRF-7, RIG-I, and other IFN-inducible proteins, allowing the host to mount a strong antiviral response before virally encoded antagonists are produced. In the in vitro A549 model of virus infection, we demonstrated that incubating A549 cells with UV-inactivated supernatants from A/Bris/59/07 virus-stimulated monocytes rendered them resistant to subsequent viral infection. Therefore, our data demonstrated that influenza virus-induced mDCs secreted type I IFN and upregulated antiviral ISGs and RIG-I/MDA5 to exhibit direct antiviral immune function.
Consistent with in vitro findings with human PBMCs, the number of monocytes and mDCs in mouse lung tissue increased significantly upon influenza virus infection. Furthermore, the purified mDCs from lung tissue secreted substantial amounts of type I IFN. To further dissect out the critical role of influenza virus-induced mDCs and their source in vivo, we performed monocyte-depletion experiments using clodronate liposomes. The number of lung mDCs decreased as a result of the lack of precursors recruited to the lung; the mortality and virus titer in the lung increased in the monocyte-depleted animals. The increased susceptibility to influenza infection after depletion of monocytes was consistent with a significant reduction in type I IFN secretion in the lungs. Thus monocyte-depleted mice lacked the optimal innate immune response to combat the viral infection. These findings confirm the important role of monocytes in limiting influenza virus replication and further suggest that their antiviral effect is a result of serving as precursors to mDCs in response to influenza virus infection. McGill et al. (46) and Aldridge et al. (47) showed that protective influenza-specific CD8 T cell responses require interactions with DCs in the lung. Therefore, in our in vivo experimental setting, we cannot rule out the potential loss of DC:T cell interactions on increased mortality and lung viral titers, because we depleted monocytes that serve as precursors to DCs. Several recent studies emphasized the important role of lung macrophages in limiting virus replication and disease severity (48, 49) through intranasal, but not i.v., inoculation with clodronate liposome. Our data suggest that, in addition to lung macrophages, virus-induced mDCs could be a component of the early innate defense mechanism against influenza virus infection. Innate immunity is critical in the early containment of influenza virus infection. After primary exposure to a novel influenza virus, it takes 5–7 d for T cells to arrive in the lung to clear the virus. Hence, this defines an earlier time frame during which innate immunity is critical to detect virus and initiate an antiviral response prior to the synthesis of viral proteins that act as antagonists of antiviral-signaling pathways.
In summary, our findings indicate that the host responds to influenza virus infection by recruiting blood-circulating monocytes to the site of infection in the respiratory tract. The recruited monocytes then rapidly differentiate into mDCs as a result of virus infection/stimulation and secrete substantial amounts of monocyte chemoattractant (MCP-1 and IP-10) to actively recruit more monocytes as precursors to mDCs. More importantly, virus-induced mDCs secrete type I IFN and induce antiviral molecules, including tetherin, IFITM3, and viperin, as well as RIG-I/MDA5, which are crucial players in the induction and activation of antiviral immunity.
The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.
We thank various members of the Influenza Division, CDC, for provision of reagents and constructive comments on procedures and the manuscript. Special thanks to Vickie Scott for assistance with cell sorting and to J. Brad Bowzard and Neetu Singh for data discussion and technical advice.
The online version of this article contains supplemental material.
Abbreviations used in this article:
A/Bris/59/07
A/Brisbane/59/2007
Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
IAV
IFN-stimulated gene
MAA I
Maackia amurensis agglutinin
myeloid dendritic cell
MID50
50% mouse infectious dose
multiplicity of infection
nucleoprotein
plasmacytoid dendritic cell
postinfection
Poly(I:C)
polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid
A/Puerto Rice/8/34
Sambucus nigra agglutinin.
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Re: THE FLAME - Leonard's New Collection of Poetry
Postby Mabeanie1 » Thu Oct 05, 2017 12:52 pm
Thanks Jarkko. This is going to be a treat worth waiting for.
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Postby Maarten » Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:10 pm
Thanks for the info. Just one year to go... Counting down the days already!
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Postby Ria Bellen » Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:06 pm
Thank you so much for sharing Jarkko !!!
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Postby mutti » Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:16 pm
Thank you Jarkko! Really looking forward to this new collection. Great news to wake up to.
Leonard we are forever grateful on so many levels...
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2010 Sligo x 2/Victoria/Vancouver/Portland/Las Vegas x 2.
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2013 Oakland x 2/New York City x 2/Winnipeg...
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Postby brightnow » Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:25 pm
Well, this is something to look forward to!
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Postby LisaLCFan » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:36 am
Fantastic! A bit of a wait, but something to look forward to. Thanks for the heads-up!
Postby Cate » Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:41 am
I was hoping for something like this. Thanks for the good news Jarkko.
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Postby B4real » Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:59 am
SOLD A thousand times over!
We are going to have to put the "P" word into serious practice now.....but a year goes by so fast these days!
This will surely be the brightest light to come. What an aptly named title.
The Flame "kindles a light for the lost"..... The Flame is "A million candles burning"
I'm sure "there's a blaze of light in every word"...
I'll stop now
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Postby Diane » Fri Oct 06, 2017 12:59 pm
Marvellous news!
B4real wrote: ↑
... What an aptly named title ...
... Sure it failed my little fire
But it's bright the dying spark ...
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Postby MarieM » Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:34 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... CMP=twt_gu
Alison Flood
Friday 6 October 2017 06.00 EDT
Leonard Cohen's last book, finished 'days before his death', due out next year
The Flame collects unpublished poetry, as well as notebook entries and song lyrics, and offers ‘an intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist’
A book of Leonard Cohen’s final poems, completed in the months before his death and tackling “the flame and how our culture threatened its extinction”, according to his manager, will be published next year.
Describing the collection, The Flame, as “an enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen’s storied literary career”, publisher Canongate said that the Canadian singer-songwriter had chosen and ordered the poems in the months before his death in November 2016. The overwhelming majority of the book, which will be published next October, will be new material, it added.
Cohen, who died at the age of 82, originally focused his career on poetry, publishing the collections Let Us Compare Mythologies in 1956, The Spice-Box of Earth in 1961, and Flowers for Hitler in 1964. By the late 60s, he was concentrating more on music, releasing his first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, in 1967.
Cohen’s manager and trustee of his estate Robert Kory said that pulling The Flame together had been a key ambition for the singer-songwriter at the end of his life. “During the final months of his life, Leonard had a singular focus – completing this book, taken largely from his unpublished poems and selections from his notebooks. The flame and how our culture threatened its extinction was a central concern,” said Kory.
“Though in declining health, Leonard died unexpectedly. Those of us who had the rare privilege of spending time with him during this period recognised that the flame burned bright within him to the very end. This book, finished only days before his death, reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire.”
In an interview with the New Yorker last October, Cohen spoke of how “my natural thrust is to finish things that I’ve begun”, and of how he was getting up well before dawn to write.
“I don’t dare attach myself to a spiritual strategy. I don’t dare do that. I’ve got some work to do. Take care of business. I am ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable. That’s about it for me,” he told the magazine’s editor David Remnick.
“In a certain sense, this particular predicament is filled with many fewer distractions than other times in my life and actually enables me to work with a little more concentration and continuity than when I had duties of making a living, being a husband, being a father. Those distractions are radically diminished at this point. The only thing that mitigates against full production is just the condition of my body … At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order.”
The Flame will also include an extensive selection from Cohen’s notebooks, which Canongate said he “kept in poetic form throughout his life”, and which it promised would offer “an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker”. The full lyrics of his final three albums, along with those he wrote for the album Blue Alert by his collaborator Anjani, will also be included, along with prose pieces and Cohen’s own illustrations.
Canongate’s Francis Bickmore, who acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, called it “a towering final book, hulking with morbid wit and lit up with insight … This substantial parting work, from a great artist now gone, will speak to anyone who has been moved by Cohen’s unique voice.”
The Flame will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and McClelland & Stewart in Canada.
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Postby jarkko » Fri Oct 06, 2017 2:04 pm
The book will have 452 pages.
(From Dominique Boile)
Postby phillip » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:59 pm
Cant wait
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Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
Postby Okudzhava » Fri Oct 06, 2017 8:38 pm
Great news, much better than the Montreal Tribute Concert one. Thanks for the info!
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Postby tularosa » Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:22 pm
Same thing for me Okudzhava. Happy to see that I am not alone ... And now I am waiting for a CD, may be soon ?
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Re: Roberto Firmino Player Thread
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Quote from Kopite78 on May 03, 2019 02:01:25 pm
Yeah let's have everyone in the team score 15-20 a season
Our team is built to get the best out of Mo and Sadio..
Bobby, the midfield and the full backs are integral in that.. the midfield don't really break beyond the front three to get the numbers that say a Stevie or Lamaprd got in their hay day, they narrow the pitch to allow the full backs space
If they decide to blam shots from all sorts of angles then you'd likely find us easily countered on with our full backs so high and the retention on the ball gone
Bobbys numbers are good to say he's mainly a creative pivot for the rest of the side and a first line of the press.. he's got 43 goals all comps over the last two season which is pretty much one in two
The essence here is if we brought in a "traditional" number 9 he wouldn't likely be the first line of the press as effectively as Bobby is and because those type are (rightfully so on the right system) selfish would the increase on Bobbys 21.5 a season to maybe 30 a season take away from Mo and Sadios numbers? (Sadio more this year than last because if you look at Sadio and Bobby over the last two years there's like one goal between them)
I personally think dropping a "proper number 9" into this side would change the dynamics of it too much and not in a positive way
Personally I'd prefer we have more better options of the types we have now than have a different option
We'd be far better off having rotation that suited our current style than a different style
Agree with most of your post mate just some parts I think different.
the midfield don't really break beyond the front three to get the numbers
IMO this part is not Klopp's specific plan but more like his midfielders of Milner/Wijnaldum/Henderson not capable to do it well enough. So he bring in AOC and Keita to doing so.
Quote from fields of anny rd on May 03, 2019 10:51:39 pm
A lot of muddying the waters going on. We dont need a 9, but if we had one that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
Preferably we would look at bringing in a player who like the current front 3 can play to a high standard anywhere along that front line.
But at this stage it would be nice if we could turn to somebody who is a level above the backup we have now.
I wouldn't advocate blowing the whole budget on that position but I trust in Klopp and his team to find that player who will allow us rest and rotate the front 3 more and then also be able to play 4 or 5 in a row if injury occurs for less than 40 million.
There’s no doubt the debate does get distorted.
I tend to react to the idea that a more prolific no.9 than Bobby would be a net gain. He offers us so much more than just his goals.
Another versatile forward - ideally one who can play centrally - I’m all for.
Kopite78
Quote from Scotia on May 04, 2019 09:13:19 am
He's got 43 all comps last two seasons
We aren't talking Diouf numbers here like some would like you to think
Let alone as you rightly say everything else he brings to the team which is invaluable
Quote from Kopite78 on May 04, 2019 09:26:23 am
Amen bro
I think you are right in your analysis and role for Bobby which slightly contradicts your statement that all three interchange all match, they don't, Bobby is the link player setting up Sadio and Mo. I would though like to see more goals from midfield, we need to develop that aspect of our game as it will mean opposition teams will find it virtually impossible to stop us from scoring, even more than they currently do.
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Quote from PurpleMonkey on May 03, 2019 07:05:25 pm
Pundits do talk utter sh*t, but sometimes sense, just like managers , fans ( Klopp, Rafa, Rodgers etc) and players. But when you give people sh*t for questioning Klopp because they don't have the same info and experience, maybe you should shut the f**k up and stop critising pundits(or anything where you hold less info/experience) because you don't have the same info and experience, right?
When pundits stop talking in cliches and make some sense I might give them some credit.
Example; when a pundit says "a traditional 9" what they mean is big bloke to hoof it up to, and players picking up the scraps.
This, they invariably describe as "The English way" as though aimlessly hoofing it for a big bloke to try and knock down is the height of sophistication.
Pundits have access to no more information than anyone else.
Why the f**k should anyone be given credit for spouting cliche'd bollocks, and not understanding a system or team.
F***ing hell, it took MOTD pundits 3 years to work out that Klopp uses the fullbacks as a main attacking outlet.
And you want me to respect the dozy cu*ts and give them credit? HA!
I understand this might be difficult for you, but try watching with the sound off, use your eyes, and you might actually learn something.
My point was that you think every player at the highest level has similar ability, therefore, Firmino the most rounded forwards can play as a poacher if needs be according to you.
Firmino can play as a poacher.
We've seen him score what pundits would stupidly describe as "poachers goals" a number of times.
But the bottom line here is that "poacher" is yet another meaningless cliche, because the pundits who say it are lazy cu*ts caught in the past with no real understanding of a game that has left them behind.
Fabinho is a DM and playing more or less a DM role for us, just like Hendo did in which you said he has been playing the DM role when people called him out for his lack of support to our attacking players, so what has changed for you not to think Fabinho is playing a DM role? Or do you simply not see him as a DM player, but more a utility player? If so, being 5th choice CB and 4th(?) choice RB doesn't neglect the fact that he is best played in the 6 role as a DM which is considered his speciality... by pretty much everyone except you.
And yet gain you completely ignore Klopp's systems.
He doesn't play a "traditional 6" any more than he plays a "traditional 9".
I know it's difficult for you to understand without some talking head walking you through it, but again, try, for once in your life, to think for yourself.
Seriously, which gobs***e pundit is saying this? Please link me because I haven't seen any saying we should go for a 9. The irony of it all, It is you who is wasting your time watching these pundits you hate so much.
Heard it on MOTD, live matches, in the media, all spouted by ex players who are also English.
It's bollocks, there is no "traditional English way of playing" unless they mean getting beaten by teams who actually play football.
I am not talking about the brain, and Balotelli is a fine example, but I don't know wtf you even bring that up? You just can't seem to accept that players have different levels of ability, some similar , some not. Look at your Kante and Masch, similar size to your Pjanic, Verratti and Arthur, all with that elite brain, yet they don't play like them. Maybe ask yourself why? Or do you think they can if asked to?
It's no surprise that you cannot understand the importance of what's between the ears in football.
I've seen so many players who are hugely talented but fail because they re not quick enough in thought.
Messi isn't light years ahead in terms of pure ability, he is light years ahead in what he see's, how quickly he reacts to it, and how quickly he exploits it.
It's exactly the same with all great players. They see things a step ahead of everyone else.
I understand what he is saying about the Barca match, and I was for Wijnaldum as the false 9 vs Barca. We created enough chances to win the game, my wanting a striker has nothing to do with the tactics we started with, but when you are behind, when you are looking to score a goal, when Firmino isn't working as the false 9, this is where your alternative can come in and bring in something different, a player more clinical in and around the box. And I bet my life, if Klopp had Aguero or a peak Sturridge, he'd be playing one of them instead of Wijnaldum.
You wanting a "traditional 9" has to do with some random gobs***e pundit saying it.
It's nothing to do with what you think, it's just bullshit repeated, hence why you get so angry when anyone criticises pundits.
Turn the sound off, wtch the mtch, and maybe you'll actually see and learn something that hasn't been spoon fed to you by some ropey ex-player.
Klopp has used Salah as the 9, he has used a 9 at Dortmund. Klopp has shown it can work.. FACT.
And now you've turned all the way into Alan Partridge.
Shouting "FACT" doesn't make something a fact, it makes you look like an idiot.
All our forwards have played in the "9" position as you call it, but you completely miss the point that they rotate in and out of that position.
I'll wait until a pundit spots it in 3 years time, then you'll repeat it. But still not understand it.
Versatile, on the same level as our current 3, and able to play across the line.
In other words, backup and a bit more depth.
Surely any one of us would welcome that.
But a "traditional 9"?
In the English sense of a big bloke knocking it down?
Quote from Swab on May 04, 2019 12:10:20 pm
We certainly don't need a 9 like that. Reports are that next season will be Brewsters breakthrough season and if hes ready and Klopp trusts him then that's fine.
If he would rather put Wijnaldum up front than Rhian when push comes to shove though then that's still an issue for me.
« Last Edit: May 04, 2019 12:52:40 pm by fields of anny rd »
Wijnaldum up front?
I've heard people describe him as a "false 9" against Barca, but I don't think that was the case.
If I was forced to apply a label, I'd say "defensive 10", and I think he played the role pretty well.
I'd say his defensive work was the reason we kept Barca pressed back/in for long periods.
I'm looking forwards to seeing how Brewster comes through.
He looks the part, but that final step is the hardest.
PurpleMonkey
Seriously. You basically said it in your own words, how can you criticise anything when you don't have the same level of information and experience. Maybe, as you have said, try to understand why they are saying the things they said because you don't have the same information and experience as them, right?
I have seen Fabinho, Hendo and even Wijnaldum play hollywood balls, doesn't mean they can play as a DLPM like your Alonso or Gerrard.
Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe if we are in desperate need of a goal, the better option would be to bring on a more clinical striker, a poacher or a Suarez, Cavani, D.Costa, Lewandowski type instead of moving Firmino into that role?
And I don't see the problem in using the term, poacher for players like, Inzaghi, Fowler , Hernandez etc, just like I have np with target man/traditional 9 etc being used to describe players like Benteke or Carroll etc.
Who is talking about Fabinho playing as a traditional 6? What is a traditional 6? Someone that sits in front of the defence 99% of the time? You called Hendo a DM without any explanation of how Klopp likes his DM, yet when I call Fabinho a DM, you oddly try to twist things to suit your weird agenda and try to put it out there I am talking about him sitting in front of the CB's 24/7. When I put the DM tag on Fabinho or Hendo, it is under the assumption people know I am talking about a DM under Klopp rather than being a traditional DM role.
But you still haven't answered my question, what sets Kante apart from the likes of Verratti, Pjanic, Xavi or Arthur? Why can't Kante play like them? Maybe, just maybe they have different levels of technical ability? Just face it, some players are similar in ability, some are not and miles off.
Quote me where I say I want a traditional 9, please? I said it a few times a while back where I wanted a striker like a Cavani, Suarez, Lewandowski or D.Costa, but I wouldn't be against a poacher like Alcacer.
And no, Swab, you fail to understand I don't care if someone calls pundits out for being stupid or clueless, I actually agree with them when they do post on the pundits thread. What I do is, I call you out for your hypocrisy, idiocy and arrogance after you attack people for criticising Klopp and not having the same information and experience, and that information and experience the pundits have you do not have
No one is denying how fluid we are up front, but what you can't understand is, a striker up top can be fluid too, a striker can occupy wide areas and make runs as good as, if not better than Firmino.
And what you refuse to accept is, having a alternative as the 9 can work. Maybe we will be lesser in the counter pressing department, but we have also shown we are capable of the patient game without that aggressive counter pressing approach.
Fair enough if you want a lesser version of Firmino over a natural 9, but to say an alternative wouldn't work and to suggest we would fall apart or a complete system change to how we have played this season is ludicrous. Like I said before, Klopp has shown it can work without us playing Firmino as the false 9.
Oh, and Swab, I think Firmino is world class and first name on the team sheet, saves you from calling me a hater or wanting Firmino to be replaced.
« Last Edit: May 04, 2019 02:50:01 pm by PurpleMonkey »
You seem to be having trouble processing information.
I said Klopp has all the information (which he does)
None of these thick as sh*t pundits have that information.
They have monitors, same as I do, y'know TV screens where you watch? That's what they have, so f**k off with this lame sh*t about how they have "all the information".
And experience is only any good if you have the intelligence to use it to properly analyse what's in front of you.
Again, most pundits don't.
Try thinking for yourself instead of relying on what some thick as sh*t, jobs for the boys bullshit artist tells you
Where's the yawn emoji
Yes, we should take away attacking threat from the side in favour of doing what the thick as sh*t pundits say.
No, you wouldn't see the problem, because you can't think for yourself ad have to rely on thick as sh*t pundits to do your thinking for you.
You were talking about it, and more to the point, you won't stop banging on about "I said it all along" when we don't (and never have) played a "traditional 6" or "DM" under Klopp.
Again, you lack the intelligence to understand the subtle differences between roles.
This is what happens when you rely on thick as sh*t pundits to d your thinking for you.
Again, you have herd the term "technical ability" thrown out by some thick as sh*t pundit and now keep using it like you know what it means.
You clearly don't
No hypocrisy here.
Just because you lack the intelligence to understand that a pundit does not have the same information that Klopp has, does not indicate hypocrisy.
It indicates the fact that you equate thick as sh*t pundits with top managers who have masses of information that pundits don't.
It's hard to believe that some could be thicker than Phil Neville, but damn if you aren't giving it a go.
And what you refuse to accept is, having a alternative as the 9 can work. Maybe we will be lesser in the counter pressing department, but we have also shown we are capable of the patient approach without that aggressive counter pressing approach.
Nope, you stated "a traditional 9" (and now trying to change it to a "natural 9", whatever that means) and in the context of getting it from a thick as sh*t pundit from Engerlund, that means a big bloke up top.
They bang on about it constantly, and it's as ridiculous when you say it as it is when they say it.
VVD started off as a striker, was he "natural 9" or a "traditional 9" or just "not a 9".
Stop throwing out bullshit jargon that you think sounds clever (it isn't)
So, here you are saying that no other forward in world football can be taught/coached to play the role Firmino plays.
This crap of yours just gets more stupid with every post.
I don't think there's a player who can come straight in and do the same job to the same standard immediately (as I said before) but there are players who can be taught.
Get a f**king grip, "a natural 9" is just more bullshit pundit speak, but then that's your shtick isn't it.
What a strange little man you are.
You want a "traditional 9" or now you've changed it, "a natural 9" and want to change a brilliant system because some random thick as sh*t pundit says we should and you thought it was clever to repeat it.
It it's not broke, don't fix it.
84 league goals, with 2 to play.
91 points, with 2 to play.
16 goals, 7 assists for Firmino but you want to put Giroud in there.
They have more information and experience than you. They get to go watch live games, probably a wider tv angle than us, more detailed stats and stuff to bounce off ex professionals. They certainly know more than you.
And what makes you think we will be less of a threat?
You said Hendo plays a DM role under Klopp when people questioned his lack of attacking support!!!!! And show me where I talk of our DM's playing as the traditional DM/6? Seriously, please show me.
Just bloody google it and read up on what technical ability means ffs. Imagine thinking Drinkwater being similar in terms of technical ability to Wijnaldum...
It's not about the same information as Klopp, it's about having more information than you, therefore, with your logic, they are the superior over you and you don't have the right to criticise them.
Quote me then, show me where I talk of wanting a target man? I said, proper 9 which I deem it as a natural 9, but not once did I talk of wanting a target player. Like I said, quote me, please.
Omg , where did I say there are no forwards that can be taught or coached to play in the Firmino role? I can give you a name right now , a player similar but lesser of a player that would fit in with how Firmino players. Yussuf Poulsen from Leipzig!
Jesus Christ, Swab!!!!!! I am talking about an alternative 9, someone like a Lewandoski or a Torres type. Whether someone with potential or established. A player who can offer something different to our attack like what Alcacer offers to Dortmund, like what Giroud offers to Chelsea etc.
Omg Swab, have a second read, seriously! I was giving examples!
Behave yourself, that's f**king pathetic.
You really are an angry little fella aren't you?
So easily triggered and so desperate to to "prove" that because you get your opinions from pundits, they simply must talk sense.
Honestly, this is hilarious, but I'm not wasting any more time on this nonsense.
Tell you what fella, you keep parroting the pundits, and I'll keep laughing at you for doing it.
"They get to go to watch live games" like that's something special
I've watched literally thousands of "live games" from conference sides right up to European and International games and everything in between.
So using your logic, I also have what you think is "expert knowledge"
Maybe laziness on my part but if he would rather resort to playing Wijnaldum as a false 9 or some sort of inverted triangle with the wide boys then Indont think that's great.
I can see he would only do that against a strong side like Barca (Sturridge against Hudersfield) but I believe if he had a viable forward option he trusted he would still rather have played them.
It's not something he would consider doing if Firmino was fit and I'd rather we improved plan A than went to that as plan B.
I think we can all agree we need more depth up front.
A player who could do the same as Firmino, once he's been Klopp'd would be ideal, and I hope we see someone come in who can give us that extra depth.
I think it's an area where we are short, and I'm probably not alone in that.
Certainly, the question is is that man Brewster? or do we need someone else in as well?
I think we need someone else in, maybe even 2 if Origi goes, but as ever, only time will tell.
AussieRed
For fucks sake, worst possible time to get injured.
ConzS
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LondonRed83
One of the classiest forwards in world football. What a signing by Rodgers and Co.
Firmino is already a Liverpool legend
Do you think it’s one of the reasons Klopp agreed to come to Liverpool?
https://twitter.com/jdnalton/status/1139815653630595072?s=21
I f**king love his silky skills and work rate
https://twitter.com/lfc/status/1141235664521793536?s=21
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linking up with with countinho in the copa america too.
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Steve Hofmeyr lashes out at Charlize Theron over trans daughter
Article by Roberto Igual | April 23, 2019 | In HEADLINES, Mambagirl News
Steve Hofmeyr (Pic: Facebook)
Controversial South African singer Steve Hofmeyr has slammed Charlize Theron’s decision to accept her transgender daughter’s identity.
The actress recently revealed that her seven-year-old adopted South African child, Jackson, identifies as a girl. (The star is also raising an adopted American girl.)
“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” Theron told the Daily Mail about Jackson. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: ‘I am not a boy!’
“So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” the 43-year-old said.
Taking to Twitter, Hofmeyr attacked Theron for her parenting choices.
“Dear Charlize,” he wrote in Afrikaans. “My daughter sometimes wears pants. She is 20-months-old. Do you think it’s time to ask whether she’s also feeling an excess of Y-chromosomes?”
Hofmeyr’s sarcastic comment reveals his ignorance about what it means to be transgender. It also suggests that he believes Theron’s daughter is too young to know who she is.
The post sparked a flurry of transphobic comments from Hofmeyr’s followers, which he chose not to curtail or condemn. Some called Theron “sick” and a “slut” and asked if a child should be indulged if they believe they are a cat or a dolphin.
Johann Fourie accused Hofmeyr of mocking transgender people’s struggles. “There is no correlation between chromosomes and identity. Biological sex and identity are not the same thing,” he said.
Writing on Facebook, Elliott Kotze, who identifies as transqueer, condemned Hofmeyr’s transphobia.
“Prejudice never walks in single file; hatred loves spreading; fear consumes everything in its path. Racism, transphobia … oppression by any other name would smell as vile,” said Kotze.
In recent years, Hofmeyr has styled himself as a political commentator and a ‘defender’ of white Afrikaners (whom he asserts are being oppressed and murdered in post-apartheid South Africa). Critics have accused him of being a racist and of peddling right-wing conspiracies.
Liewe Charlize
My dogter dra soms broekies. Sy is 20 maande oud. Is dit dalk die regte tyd om haar te vra of sy ‘n oorwig aan y-chromosoom aanvoel?
— Steve Hofmeyr (@steve_hofmeyr) April 21, 2019
Anton J Jansen
Nevermind “controversial”; Steve Hofmeyr is an ignorant asshole. He should rather be paying attention to himself and his own kids before pointing to those of others.
Reply - April 23, 2019
Well thats just the sort of rather misinformed remark that one has come to expect from Steve Hofmeyer. I am not even vaguely surprised really. What I find sad is that he has any following at all and I am truly proud that Charlize is doing so well as a mother and a star. We all know who she is internationally. Thank God Steve is just a large idiot in a small pond
What I find interesting is that Charlize’s son is 3, not comprehending what it means to be trans neither a female. At that age I wanted to be a train, Yes A TRAIN! I didn’t understand the concept, and neither does that boy. He probably doesn’t even know how to string words in order so it makes a coherent sentence! I say Steve is right!
Toddlers and small children have a wild and vivid imagination. If you have children u will know that a toddler is not able to distinguish between fantasy and reality. To believe a 3 year old boy when he says im actually a girl is really absurd…
The fact is that she is proud of her child and not ashamed like your typical homophobic parent would be. That’s the difference. Whether or not it’s the child’s imagination is irrelevant.
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love your comment…. Craig
Anne-Mare Kotze
I don’t think Steve was disrespectful but I agree that a 3 year old child’s hormones must still develop. It is too early yet. I talk out of experience.
Well said Craig!
I’m open to more thought on the subject but I do question Charlize’s judgement here. I went through a short phase at age 3/4 where I wanted to be a girl, largely because I had a sister two years older than me. My Mom didn’t discourage nor encourage, and I settled back into what was natural for me, and that was to be a boy. Perhaps greatly premature on Charlize’s part to decide based on the whim of a three year old?
Steve Hofmeyr is an ignorant plonker who doesn’t know what being a star (and therefore worthy of being taken seriously.)
Having a small following of a minority language group in an irrelevant does not make you a star. Charlize Theron on the other hand is true star quality and worthy taking note of. Sorry Steve, you are a has-been nothing and a complete waste of space.
tobias harvey
As a three year old toddler I had no comprehension whatsoever of who I was let alone Gender identification, to identify as a Girl is purely innocent childish ramblings I’m not in anyway condoning Gender identification to embrace your true inner self but surely a three year old child does not understand the concept of Gender or Identity.
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A driver is fighting for his life after his car ploughed into a building in Wigan
The man, aged in his 20s, was taken to hospital where he remains in a critical condition
Alexandra Rucki
A driver is fighting for life in hospital after his car collided with a building on Pottery Road, in Wigan. (Image: Google StreetView)
A driver is fighting for his life in hospital after his car ploughed into a building in Wigan.
Emergency services scrambled to Pottery Road after a silver Nissan Micra left the road and smashed into a building.
The driver, who is believed to be in his 20s, was taken to hospital.
A statement released by Greater Manchester Police said he remains in a critical condition.
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No other vehicles were involved in the incident which took place last night at 9.20pm.
PC Mark Ratcliffe, from GMPs Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: “The driver has sustained life-threatening injuries and our thoughts are with him and his family at this difficult time.
“As our investigations continue into the circumstances of the collision, we are appealing for witnesses who saw the silver Nissan Micra and anyone who may have dash-cam footage of the vehicle to come forward.”
Anyone with information should contact police on 0161 856 4741 quoting reference 2376 of 23/06/19 or anonymously using the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Home News First Derivatives first half 2014 Revenues up 9%, Profit up 24%
First Derivatives first half 2014 Revenues up 9%, Profit up 24%
News November 5, 2014 —by Andrew Saks-McLeod 0
British financial services software provider First Derivatives (AIM:FDP.L, ESM:FDP.L) has today announced its interim results for the period ended August 31, 2014, which show a considerably robust financial situation for the publicly listed company.
With First Derivatives’ core business being the provision of its Delta Suite set of enterprise components which includes automated surveillance systems which are used by not only executing venues and FX companies, but also national financial markets regulatory authorities including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), it is clear that diversification and intelligent corporate strategy in engaging with specific sectors can bear fruit at times of low FX volatility.
Indeed, whilst many companies whose income relies directly on the FX market itself experienced low revenues during the first six months of this year, First Derivatives made substantial progress, with investment in sales capacity delivering further revenue growth of 9% compared with the same period last year, notoriously a time of good fortunes for most firms. Indeed, market surveillance has heralded growth for First Derivatives, as ASIC has made several bi-annual enforcement reports, referring to the effectivity of the surveillance in ensuring good practice, therefore proving that even in times of low volumes, providing a solution of this nature to a regulator, which carries out its work regardless of market conditions, is a boon.
Strong growth in consulting was recorded for this period, with a 19% increase, bringing more new customers to the group, and the growing momentum in market surveillance with new contract wins during the period , one being Yieldbroker, and subsequently the newly founded IEX, as well as a strong pipeline of additional opportunities.
First Derivatives continued its investment in software products with new clients for Delta Flow, Delta Stream and Delta Algo. The company has also received commitment from Northern Ireland to support up to 484 new jobs at the company.
Financial Highlights:
– Revenue £37.5m (2013: £34.4m) +9%
– EBITDA £6.8m (2013: £5.8m) +17%
– Profit before tax £3.7m (2013: £3.0m) +24%
– Adjusted Profit before tax* £4.5m (2013: £3.8m) +18%
– Reported Diluted EPS 13.5p (2013: 12.4p) +9%
– Adjusted* Diluted EPS 16.5p (2013: 15.7p) +5%
– Interim dividend 3.3p per share (2013: 3.2p) +3%
– Net cash from operating activities £3.3m (2013: £3.2m) +2%
– Net debt £9.1m (2013: £15.0m)
– Performance remains in line with current market expectations for the full year
Seamus Keating, Chairman of First Derivatives, commented: “The high revenue visibility in our consulting division combined with the software deals we are working on or have signed during the first half of the year underpin our confidence in meeting market expectations for the full year. The second half has started strongly across the Group, both in terms of business performance and growth in our sales pipeline. We expect a modest enhancement to adjusted earnings in the current year from the Kx Systems transaction, with greater impact in the year to February 2016, despite increasing investment in Kx to maximize its growth potential.”
“In summary, the Group is well positioned to deliver in the current year and beyond with numerous business development opportunities to accelerate our growth. We view the future with confidence.”
An interesting matter of importance for First Derivatives is that it, along with many firms which provide software to electronic trading firms, has an interest in big data. The company states that big data continues to represent one of the most fundamental shifts in IT in recent decades, with 87% of enterprises believing its use will redefine the competitive landscapes of their industries within the next three years, according to a recent survey by General Electric.
“First Derivatives’ Delta platform, powered by kdb+, is a leader in one of the key challenges, namely the capture and analysis of high volumes of structured data in real time. We continue to develop our market position in Big Data and during the period have advanced our relationships with many of the key vendors including the leaders in handling unstructured data, who increasingly appreciate our ability to complement their solutions. We have also a number of new products in development which will take Delta to new industries” is Mr. Keating’s position on this matter.
To read the full report from First Derivatives, click here.
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Gates has to navigate two traditional political minefields — the need for a long-term strategy and constraints forced on government by a deep economic recession.
Defense experts in and out of Congress agree that the Pentagon is still stuck with too many Cold War-era weapons and ways of operating, but they sharply disagree on whether Gates' plan moves boldly in a new direction. Indeed, nations such as China and India are feverishly developing conventional warfare means, and some worry that if the United States doesn't keep developing those weapons and skills, it could eventually fall behind.
Gates has said the wars of the future will be a "hybrid" mix of irregular warfare and traditional fighting, with foes ranging from other states to rogue groups. He asserts that U.S. conventional capabilities will remain superior under his budget.
Anthony Cordesman, a national security expert for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that Gates' plan should be viewed as a set of short-term fixes aimed at helping "a serious cost containment problem," not a new national security policy.
Cordesman branded the plans incomplete. "What is dangerous is thinking this is the broad restructuring of the U.S. defense posture that has to be made," he told McClatchy.
Loren Thompson, defense expert at the Lexington Institute, a think tank, warned that the plans focus too much on the here and now. "Other nations will respond to U.S. cuts by becoming bolder," he said.
However, Lawrence Korb, an assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration , called Gates' plans "strategically sound." Korb, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who's close to Obama administration officials, found the Gates plan "moves us in a direction where we should have moved several years ago."
Throughout its history, the military has tried to balance fighting current wars with potential future threats, spending billions to train troops and create weapons that may never be needed. Experts point out, however, that so far, the U.S. hasn't done a great job of predicting the conflicts that lie ahead.
"U.S. policymakers have been notoriously bad at forecasting future threats. Think of all the surprises recently — Pearl Harbor, North Korea's invasion of the South, Sputnik, the Cuban missile crisis, the Tet Offensive, the collapse of communism, 9/11 and so on," Thompson wrote in an issue brief. "The record says we rarely know what's coming next, so basing our defense posture on the belief that we do isn't smart."
The Bush administration funded the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with supplemental bills, rather than the Pentagon's base budget. Gates, who traveled around the country last week to present his budget to the troops, has said that asking for money in such intervals was dangerous.
Gates said he plans to start a new era with the new budget he'll present to Congress this week.
"I kept running into the fact that the Department of Defense as an institution �which routinely complained that the rest of government wasn't at war — was itself not on war footing, even as young Americans were fighting and dying every day," Gates said last week," adding: "These proposals, then, begin the effort to establish an institutional home in the Department of Defense for today's war fighter as well as tomorrow's."
Gates said he hasn't heard directly from any members of Congress, who've been on break since he announced the budget April 6. At Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, however, he told airmen that when lawmakers return Monday, "I anticipate the next few weeks will be fairly exciting on acquisitions."
(William Douglas contributed to this article.)
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Blog Q & A with Dr. Dana Suskind
Q & A with Dr. Dana Suskind
By LENA Team September 8, 2015
Dana Suskind, MD, is founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative and a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. In her book “Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain“ she shares powerful anecdotes of the families she has worked with and translates the latest language and neuroscience research for a wider audience. Here Dr. Dana Suskind talks about the origins of the book, closing the language gap, and why we all need to “spread the words.”
Q: Why did you write this book?
Dr. Dana Suskind: What’s really interesting is back in 2013 all of a sudden there was a lot of momentum around the idea of closing the 30-million-word gap, but there was a superficial interpretation of the power of parent talk. I really wanted this book to help explain the science in a much deeper way, really connecting it to early brain development. It’s not just quantity, it’s not just quality; parent talk is really the lens into the whole parent-child relationship, because most of what we do is through language.
Q: What impact do you hope the book will have?
Dr. Dana Suskind: The foundation of the entire program that I run is this idea that if we can get the powerful message out about the power of parent talk in building children’s brains, we can impact at a population level how people think. While most of our work is related to developing curriculum and intervention and working with LENA, there’s always the larger mission of getting this idea out. This book is not about the program that I run — it’s really about the important science that’s out there and the amazing work that people are doing.
Q: How did researching the book impact your thinking on the language gap?
Dr. Dana Suskind: It really bolstered my belief that if we’re going to try to give a child a chance at reaching their potential, it is only through the 0-3 period and the power of language that we’re going to get to that point. The science of brain development is pretty clear.
Q: Whom do you see as the audience for this book?
Dr. Dana Suskind: The book has many audiences, and obviously there’s the audience of the collaborators we work with, but my real hope is to get these ideas of the importance of early childhood, the power of parent talk, and an understanding of the science into the broader population.
Q: How does LENA’s phrase “Parents have the Power” align with your message and your work?
Dr. Dana Suskind: When you hear phrases like “parents have the power,” at some level it sounds like a platitude; but at the most fundamental scientific level, it is absolutely the truth. And unless parents understand it, society understands it, and policy makers understand it, we’re never going to be able to really change the trajectory of so many of the children in this country.
Q: Do you think using LENA as a feedback tool enables parents to have more power?
Dr. Dana Suskind: There’s something very intuitive about the idea of closing the 30-million-word gap and language providing the power, but operationalizing it effectively is not so easy. It’s just like healthy eating and exercising — they don’t always happen just by telling people that they need a scale or a pedometer. In the same way, LENA has allowed people in the field and families to not only understand where they are from a language input standpoint, but really reflect on it and goal set and improve their children’s language environments. It’s a perfect example of how powerful technology can be. So much of the technology that we see out there is a competition for language interaction and attention to our children, but this is a positive example of technology helping families be more interactive.
Q: Any parting thoughts?
Dr. Dana Suskind: Really, that people should “spread the words.” I want to get this message into the general population, and the only way is if people spread it beyond our world.
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A unique read about fearsome predators that shows off some stellar research
If you read Polly Clark's Helensburgh-set debut novel Larchfield and fell for her tale about a mother and WH Auden, then you might be surprised that her second offering focuses on a fierce predator. The story begins with a prologue located in the Russian Taiga of 1992, depicting a hunter who is taught a lesson about the forest's natural order. This leads the novel to unfold in three individual parts, all unique in place and character but connected through the force of one tiger and the universal fight for survival.
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James Neiss/staff photographerPatrick Beilein was introduced as the 22nd head coach in the history of the Niagara University men’s basketball program at a press conference Tuesday at the Gallagher Center.
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James Neiss/staff photographerSupporters welcome new Niagara University men’s basketball coach Patrick Beilein during an introductory press conference Tuesday at the Gallagher Center.
Beilein promises big things at Niagara introduction
By Mike Meiler mike.meiler@gnnewspaper.com
LEWISTON — The Beilein Era is officially underway at Niagara University.
New men’s basketball coach Patrick Beilein was welcomed by NU fans, students, coaches, staff and administrators at an introductory press conference Tuesday at the Gallagher Center.
The 36-year-old was joined by his wife, Kristen, and their 1-year-old son, Tommy, as well as his parents, John and Kathleen. John Beilein, of course, is a Burt native and the wildly successful coach of the Michigan Wolverines.
In his first public appearance as Niagara’s coach, Patrick Beilein, who has the name, looks, confidence and charisma to impress even John F. Kennedy, pushed all the right buttons for a fan base that desperately needed a shot in the arm.
“We are going to win at an extremely high level, we are going to do it the right way, we are going to win championships,” Beilein said in his introductory speech. “... With our culture, we’ll hang a lot of banners going forward.”
He also promised to pack the Gallagher Center, the way he remembered it from John’s days coaching rival Canisius College back in the 1990s. He promised fans they “will not be disappointed” and John “that one day I’ll be just as good as you and win a national championship, as I’m sure you will in the next few years.” He promised his Purple Eagles are “going to be hard-nosed and not too many teams are going to enjoy playing Niagara.”
He even promised a victory for the Sabres, who showed Patrick and John on the jumbotron as they attended Tuesday night’s game at KeyBank Center. Brian Duff and Martin Biron interviewed him on MSG during the first intermission.
(They lost 3-2. An improvement, but maybe he can’t work miracles.)
To keep those promises, Beilein will have to turn around a program that went 64-129 in six years under Chris Casey. He said that starts with changing the culture, “one step at a time.”
He used the acronym UPAID — unity, passion, appreciation, integrity and diligence — to outline his plan.
“Coach your team one day at a time,” Beilein said his famous father told him.
“I kind of embrace the pressure.
I enjoy it. I lived it as a player being a coach’s son. ... So that pressure kind of gets me going — it’s my engine.
And I won’t back down from it.”
Beilein also said his Purple Eagles might not be as far off as one might think.
He watched some film over the weekend to get a feel for his new players, whom he met for the first time after the press conference.
“There are some parts here,” Beilein said, “... but like I said in the press conference, it’s got to start off the court with the little things, the attention to detail.”
All 10 returning Niagara players — James Towns, Kierell Green, Greg Kuakumensah, Justin Roberts, Keleaf Tate, Dominik Fragala, Marcus Hammond, Raheem Solomon, Ousmane Diop and Steve Levnaic — were in attendance.
While all of those players were recruited by Casey, the potential of playing for Beilein wasn’t lost on them.
“In a couple years, this program could be really good,” said Solomon, a freshman. “Coach Beilein, he knows a lot. As you can see, he knows what he’s doing.
The time he’s been coaching, he’s been winning championships, so I think that’s going to be very (good) for the program.”
Also in attendance were assistant coach Fred Dupree, who played for John Beilein at Canisius, and director of basketball operations Tavares Campbell, who are still under contract at Niagara.
Patrick Beilein said he had not made any decisions as to his staff.
He said he had a few names in mind but would also interview the current coaches.
“Once I evaluate the players and what I believe we need, I kind of will slowly evaluate what I need as a coaching staff,” he said.
“I have a few guys in mind who I think I’ll bring along, but I have yet to reach out to them.”
Beilein will have at least three scholarships to play with, if no players transfer.
He sees big things for Niagara and believes he can convince recruits of the same.
“This conference is great,” he said. “... I consider this a mid-major. This is not a low-major. This is a mid-major that you can sell to these kids.”
Beilein’s first Niagara practice is scheduled for today.
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Lancashire told it's trailing Manchester in green energy race
Where will Lancashire get its energy from in the decades to come?
Paul Faulkner
Lancashire is lagging behind Greater Manchester in planning how to reduce carbon emissions, according to the organisation responsible for distributing electricity across the two conurbations.
Representatives from Electricity North West (ENW) even suggested councillors attend a Green Summit being hosted by Manchester metro mayor Andy Burnham to see what the county could be achieving.
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“They’re way ahead of you,” Mike Taylor, ENW’s customer engagement manager, told a meeting of Lancashire County Council’s external scrutiny committee.
“We did try to do some work last year with the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) on looking at a carbon vision for the county, but it’s gone very quiet. We’re here, waiting to help - [but] it’s not something we can impose on you,” he said.
The LEP, the region’s growth and development body, did produce an energy strategy in 2018 - and several of its recommendations suggest timescales which stretch across this year and next. Priorities included developing existing strengths in low carbon technologies and promoting energy efficiency in homes and business.
But Manchester has stolen a march after announcing that it will become a net carbon neutral city by 2038 and that all of its new buildings will be carbon neutral within the next decade.
The committee heard that ENW’s own decarbonisation targets apply to the whole of the region it serves, but that Manchester is “moving at a faster pace”.
Lancashire’s energy strategy reveals that several areas of the county - including Preston, Blackpool and Blackburn - are generating less than 20 percent of their potential capacity across all types of renewables.
Even notable exceptions - like the near 60 percent of biomass capacity being used in Chorley or the close to maximum hydropower generated in Wyre - are usually balanced out by very low production of other renewables in the same area.
The report reveals that there is significant potential for growth in wind power in the county, in spite of one district - Rossendale - already having one of the biggest windfarms in England at Scout Moor. The development of heat networks - which use a centrally-located power source to heat homes in an area - is listed as another priority.
The meeting heard that incentives for commercial consumers to use energy at certain times of the day - and avoid times of peak demand - could also come to the domestic market.
Members were told that the market in energy generation now involves those who were previously just users of it.
“Some of the businesses that are taking their [energy use] seriously, make more money from supplying electricity back to the grid than they do from the products they make. Capacity trading will become the norm,” Mike Taylor said.
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The UK is committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 57 percent by 2030, compared to the level they were at in 1990. There is no binding target for individual local authorities.
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John, one of three kittens rescued from a boom lift truck on May 1, looks with interest at the open gate of the cage he shares with siblings Peter and Wendy at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA Kitten Nursery on May 5, 2017. (John Orr / Daily News)
A kitten is spotted inside a boom truck by the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA inspection camera on Monday, May 1, 2017, in Redwood City. (Jeff Christner / PHS&SPCA)
A kitten snuggles in a towel held by volunteer Lisa Dornell at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA Kitten Nursery on May 5, 2017. (John Orr / Daily News)
Volunteer Debbie Lloyd gives a kitten some TLC on May 5, 2017, in the Kitten Nursery at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA's Lantos Center for Compassion in Burlingame. (John Orr / Daily News)
Marmalade goes on the attack against a pipe cleaner wielded by a volunteer at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA Kitten Nursery in Burlingame on May 5, 2017. (John Orr / Daily News)
A baby bird gets a lift from Lead Wildlife Technician Ashley Damm in the Wildlife Nursery at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA's Lantos Center for Compassion in Burlingame on May 5, 2017. (John Orr / Daily News)
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2017 at 7:32 pm | UPDATED: May 11, 2017 at 4:44 am
John, Wendy and Peter, the three kittens rescued May 1 from inside the axle box of a boom lift in Redwood City, are doing just fine and gaining weight at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA facility in Burlingame.
The siblings share a cage in the Kitten Nursery, where they, and a number of other tiny felines, are cared for by staff and an army of volunteers.
Debbie Lloyd, who has volunteered at the facility for five years, said, “I love the kittens, love giving back to them. It helps save them — the TLC, the syringe feeding. They give me so much love.”
Another volunteer, Lisa Dornell, who was also cuddling a very tiny bit of mewling fluff on May 5, said she had just adopted a cat from Peninsula Humane Society. Her cats “bring so much love into our homes. I want other people to have what we have.”
The Kitten Nursery, overseen by Lisa Fogleman, takes in abandoned kittens, deals with any medical issues (such as Hannah, about 3 weeks old, who had conjunctivitis), feeds them and gets them used to humans, thanks to the volunteers.
When they reach 2 1/2 pounds, they are neutered and put up for adoption.
Dornell has also volunteered to help with other animals at the Humane Society’s Lantos Center for Compassion, which adopts out an average of 1,594 cats and 1,158 dogs a year. Dornell said she has helped with the bigger cats, dogs, snakes and lizards.
A visit on May 5 to the center’s Wildlife Nursery found a more intense situation, as dozens of baby birds, squirrels and other wildlife, including a young crow, were cared for by a combination of staff and volunteers.
Lead Wildlife Technician Ashley Damm, while using tweezers to stuff wriggling meal worms down the gullets of tiny baby juncos, said the baby birds need to be fed every half-hour around the clock.
Nearby, cloth sacks hold abandoned baby squirrels, which also need regular feedings.
In another room, around the corner of the big building, Damm tries to get a young crow, who came in showing it had maybe been attacked, to eat some food — a mix of kibble and chopped-up bits of rat.
The Wildlife Center has seen almost every sort of wild animal known to live on the Peninsula, from baby raccoons to opossums to bobcats.
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FOCUS: Iron ore grade differentials may narrow, but not drastically
While the winter season begins in China, the ferrous market is wondering whether Chinese steelmakers will continue to move toward higher-grade, lower-impurity iron ore - an affinity they have demonstrated over the last two years.
This affinity is the result of the Chinese government’s policy shift that put more focus on protecting the environment as well as its supply-side reforms for the steel industry, which made iron ore of higher grade and containing lower impurities the preferred raw material for blast furnaces while steel mills seek to increase their productivity and lower their emissions.
This preference is well demonstrated by the gap between the daily MB 65% Fe Iron Ore Index and the MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index, both published by Fastmarkets MB.
Since this gap exceeded $10 per tonne in October 2016, it has not returned below that level.
Environmental protection measures implemented over the last two years have been in the form of curbs on blast furnace operations, iron ore sintering and iron ore pelletizing - activities that produce harmful emissions.
While such restrictions are in place throughout the year, they were particularly strict during the winter months last year due to air quality typically worsening during the colder months.
This year, many market participants expect steelmaking production cuts to not be as strict as last year’s on the belief that the Chinese government is keen to avoid an overarching policy.
While milder steelmaking restrictions are expected to continue to underpin demand for raw materials such as iron ore, a segment of the market thinks the looser restrictions on steel output could erode end users’ tolerance toward iron ore costs.
China is taking a more case-by-case approach with its measures to protect the environment this winter, market participants have said.
This is underlined by the classification of steel mills in the country’s steel production hub of Tangshan into four grades based on their emissions. Production cuts are based on which grade a mill falls under.
Mills in the top grade, among which is one major steelmaker, are exempt from any restrictions.
Such measures are more refined than the government’s approach last winter when more broad-stroke restrictions were implemented.
Li Ganjie, China’s minister of ecology and environment, said late last month that his ministry would overrule measures instituted by local authorities to cut emissions that were considered too crude, such as a blanket ban on industrial production.
He said that local authorities responsible for implementing environmental protection measures needed to ensure that businesses were allowed to operate in a fair environment.
In Tangshan, blast furnace production will be lowered by 18.59 million tonnes between October 1 and March 31, according to a government notice reported by local information providers last week.
These targets are actually “much smaller than expected” on a monthly basis, since they are spread over six months instead of four previously, according to sources.
The other change this year is the region affected by the cutbacks, which is now bigger.
While most of the steel production restrictions were targeted at the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and its surrounding areas last year, this has now been widened to include the Fenwei Plain in north China and parts of east China.
But market participants caution that a wider region may not necessarily translate into a bigger overall cut in production. This is because the newly added areas are not as steel-intensive as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
Beijing, Tianjin and the four provinces surrounding them collectively make up the heart of China’s steelmaking capacity. They accounted for 44% (or 270.53 million tonnes) of the 617.4 million tonnes of crude steel produced in China in the first eight months of this year, according to data from the country’s National Bureau of Statistics.
An official scheme released recently to tackle air pollution in the Fenwei Plain from October to March requires a 4% year-on-year decrease in pollutants. This compares with the 6% required in an earlier draft.
In east China’s Jiangsu province, a few mills were asked to trim blast furnace production in November, likely due to the China International Import Expo held in Shanghai over November 5-10.
The province’s major steelmakers Shagang and Yonggang are required to suspend the operation of several small and medium-sized blast furnaces over selected periods this month, but these measures are less severe than previously expected, sources said.
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Steel production cuts last year, combined with robust downstream demand, resulted in strong mills’ margins, which have been at the heart of demand for high-grade and lower impurity ore.
Fastmarkets MB Research senior analyst Marina Maliushkina expects steel prices in China to weaken in the last quarter of this year, “keeping steel producers’ margins below the average level we have seen in 2018 so far.”
“Long steel products benefitted from a very strong performance in the residential construction sector, with rebar prices outperforming hot-rolled coil, but we are now approaching a period of seasonally weak demand from the construction industry in China,” she said.
According to Fastmarkets MB’s assessments, the domestic rebar prices in China had been trending upward since August, moving in an opposite trajectory to HRC prices.
East China’s rebar prices rose from 4,300-4,350 yuan ($618-625) per tonne on August 13 to 4,670-4,700 yuan per tonne on October 31, while HRC prices fell from 4,320-4,340 yuan per tonne on August 13 to 4,080-4,100 yuan per tonne on October 31.
But in November both prices dropped. Rebar prices fell to 4,480-4,520 yuan per tonne on November 9 while those for HRC tumbled on to 3,900-3,930 yuan per tonne.
“The downside risks to [iron ore] prices are looming with shrinking operating margins for steel mills, an anticipated slowdown in crude steel output and dampened construction activity over the winter months,” Fastmarkets MB Research senior analyst Miriam Falk added.
Expecting narrower margins amid less stringent restrictions, some mills are already paying more attention to cost-effectiveness when choosing iron ore products.
Sales of high-priced Brazilian iron ore fines, which had been quite popular earlier this year, have slowed down while cheaper Australian materials such as Jimblebar fines and Super Special fines are finding favor again among buyers.
Cost concerns over iron ore can be explained by the spread between the MB 65% Fe Iron Ore Index and the MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index, which narrowed to $20-22 per tonne since late October, after staying around $26-29 per tonne in the July-September period.
At ports in Tangshan in northern China, the transaction price for Super Special fines rose by over 16% in a month to 363 yuan per wet metric tonne on November 9, or about $44.85 per tonne cfr China in the seaborne market - outperforming the benchmark Pilbara Blend fines’ 12% increase to 595 yuan per wmt.
The movement in Fastmarkets MB’s weekly iron ore pellet index demonstrates end users’ sensitivity toward high-priced ore.
“As we anticipated, the soaring premium for iron ore pellets has reached a turning point while Chinese buyers have developed some resistance to the surging prices,” Falk said.
Macro-economic concerns
The Chinese Communist Party’s politburo - a 25-member policymaking body headed by President Xi Jinping - last month said that there was “growing downward pressure” on the economy with “profound changes” in the external environment, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
China’s macro-economic data also highlights the pressure on its economy, with the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growing 6.5% in the third quarter of this year, the slowest since 2009.
“It was specifically the construction sector that helped China reach its GDP growth target, as the recent third-quarter results showed, but the question is how long this growth can be maintained,” Falk added.
Pressure on the Chinese macro-economy and the country’s trade war with the United States have adversely weighed on the Chinese yuan in recent months, a factor that some participants have cited to explain the pressure on seaborne ore prices.
The macro-economic situation, however, may find support now that the politburo has made it clear that infrastructure spending to stimulate domestic economic activity is a priority.
Will demand for high-grade ore persist?
Even though market participants unanimously expect steel mills’ margins to come under pressure during the winter months, they also believe demand for high-grade iron ore will continue to find support.
The MB 65% Fe Iron Ore Index has steadily risen since August this year when it averaged $94.65 per tonne cfr China.
In October, the index averaged $97.33 per tonne cfr, and this month, it is averaging just under $97 per tonne cfr so far.
“The spread between the 65% Fe index and the benchmark 62% Fe index is narrowing but it could find support at around $20 per tonne,” a Chinese trader said.
The spread between Fastmarkets MB’s indices for these two grades has stayed above $20 per tonne since May 31.
“Even at the ports, though sales for higher-grade ore have been much slower than we had expected, prices are not performing badly,” a Chinese trader told Fastmarkets MB.
The MB 62% Fe Low-Alumina Iron Ore Index, which was launched on August 27, averaged $77.33 per tonne cfr China last month, up from $74.24 per tonne cfr in the preceding month. It has risen to an average of $78.75 per tonne cfr so far this month.
The recent strength in the domestic metallurgical coke market in China amid coking restrictions and robust coking coal prices also make a strong case for high-grade iron ore demand to remain underpinned in the winter months.
The longer-term outlook on Chinese acceptance of higher-grade ore also looks positive.
Supply-side reforms implemented in China’s steel industry have brought Chinese mills’ capacity utilization to 70-80%, and while market participants expect margins to retreat in the winter months, they are unlikely to drop to levels before these reforms, when mills were barely breaking even.
Several global miners have described China’s environmental focus as a structural change and responded to it by investing in the production of higher-quality ore.
Upcoming iron ore projects are also focused on meeting demand for higher-grade ore from the world’s top steel producer and iron ore importer.
Chinese steel production may be approaching its peak but it is unlikely to show any significant drop, at least in the short term, many market participants said.
In the first seven months of this year, China’s steel production reached 533 million tonnes, up 6.3% year on year, with the country’s steel production in a “stable peaking stage” with little volatility, Liu Zhenjiang, secretary general of the China Iron & Steel Association, said in September this year.
“This ‘peak stage’ will not pass quickly because steel demand from China will remain supported. The stability in steel demand will also result in fewer ups and downs in demand for iron ore,” he added.
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McLaughlin & Harvey, Barratt London and Chandos Tennis Club were on-site to mark the start of the new facility’s structural steelwork on Wednesday 3 June 2015.
The event was also attended by the Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Mark Shooter and his wife Mellissa, and guest of honour Bobby Wilson, who has been head coach at the club for 30 years and is a former Davis Cup tennis player.
The new state-of-the-art tennis club includes 4 outdoor courts, 1 junior court, 4 covered tennis courts with a bespoke tent style canopy roof, and a club house equipped with a lounge, café and meeting room. The new facility will also have 26 secure cycle racks and 41 car parking spaces for members to use.
Chandos Tennis Club is due to open to its members in the winter of 2015, with special access now available for local schools and children.
Greg Tillotson, Regional Land and Development Director, Barratt London, said: “We are working with the very best architects and contractors to ensure we deliver a state-of-the-art facility that will not only meet the high expectations of Chandos Tennis Club’s existing members, but attract new players from across Barnet. Hopkins Architects designed both the London 2012 Velodrome and the Lawn Tennis Association’s National Tennis Centre, whilst McL&H worked on the redevelopment of Tollcross International Swimming Centre used during the 2014 Commonwealth Games. During its 93 year history, Chandos Tennis Club has produced 16 Wimbledon qualifiers and we hope that the new facilities will help us uncover Barnet’s answer to Andy Murray.”
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Keith Millen was pleased that MK Dons could sign off their 2017/18 campaign with a victory and give the supporters something to smile about heading into the offseason.
Millen’s side beat third-placed Shrewsbury Town 1-0 at the Montgomery Waters Meadow courtesy of Kieran Agard’s second-half penalty.
While the result did little to affect the Dons’ fate, it did provide a moment of delight for the travelling supporters, which was the Millen’s aim for the afternoon.
“I told them to forget about the season for today, go out there and show some pride in themselves,” he said in his post-match press conference.
“Shrewsbury are quite rightly in the play-offs and we had to try and match them- we did and I couldn't ask any more from them.
"I thought, in difficult conditions, we could have been sloppy and flat but we were excellent. Our game plan worked well, we had a threat up front, we had pace and movement and we looked very solid.
“It doesn't mask the season - nothing has changed after today except being a little happier because we won but at least I can go in there and tell them well done.
"Hopefully today will help not just for the players but also the fans - it is a nice way to finish.”
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“I tried to pick a team of players who will be here next season. I didn't think it was right to play all the youngsters because we knew it would be a tough game and we didn't want to just throw them in there. I wanted to get Sam [Nombe] on the pitch so we put him on at half-time and he proved to be a threat. He has to learn the game but he’s a good prospect. David [Kasumu] is a good prospect too.”
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“To the ones coming back, I told them to make sure to be ready. We want them to be like Shrewsbury with their endeavour, work-rate, pace and quality. If we can do that, we will be very strong next year.”
On the defensive showing...
“We've not won enough first contacts in the box this year but today, even when they did win the first ball, we won the second ball. It was good to get a clean sheet for Wieger [Sietsma] - it will give him a bit of confidence.”
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buggy April 6, 2015 at 11:12 pm
Best way of a payment would be a donation system,and why?because you can play a game for free,and if you like it and you want to support it,then why you would not donate for it to keep the game alive,the good thing would be,that there will be no cash shop with any items that you would consider P2W,and everything can be taken from game itself with its game currency,bad thing is,the same thing,if people dont like the game,they would just pass out to other game and so on…this system is good and bad at same time,but its quite impossible to be achieved and its not a system that you can rely on it.But would be great a system like that,people would not consider the game crap just because of the shop items or whatever they cant get in the game.
The main point is that no matter what type of game is (B2P,P2P,F2P)those who make those game they think first on money,and then on other things.They forget what is a game for,people dont play games just to be the king or whatever else there,they play to spend they`r time on virtual world and forget about real world,and people play for fun,that is most important thing on games,to have fun.You cant have fun when you see someone pay few money and then he can kick your ass whenever he want its,that ruin all the fun and that goes to rage and being toxic.
NeoS April 6, 2015 at 2:36 am
If players ever want to pay to make a game less dreary, then that game is not free-2-play. The only games that are truly free are the ones with donation style cash shops, where you can only buy cosmetic items and whatnot. All of these other F2P games are nothing more than ‘limited demos’, designed strictly to prey on peoples impatience and envy.
cum now April 5, 2015 at 1:41 am
Black Desert and Blade and Soul, please… I need a good MMO.
BeastslasheR April 6, 2015 at 5:26 pm
If u want to play something good, then u shouldn’t wait for blade and soul. I played chinese version for a few weeks, i really gave it a long try, but I was really disappointed, almost as much as when I tried archeage.
archeage was one of the most hyped games, but then one of the most hated. I don’t think blade and soul will be hated like that, but it won’t be very popular.
I can’t say anything about black desert, I didn’t play it.
(just my opinion, no flame pls)
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Guide to Make the Most of FIFA Mobile Campaign
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:30:16 AM America/Los_Angeles
Campaign is the brand new single player experience coming to the summer season that players might have been wishing for in FIFA Mobile for quite a long time. Progress your way through each challenges of Campaign mode in order to obtain new Players and rewards! The campaign isn't the most significant part of fifa mobile but you can not miss this part in the new season. Why? Let's have a brief look at this article.
What you Need to Know for Campaign Mode
Campaigns was announced as a new way to experience FIFA Mobile single player in another exciting development. Think Live Events but interconnected with one another and much better than ever. You will have the ability to make your way through "Chapters" in unique efforts to unlock both gamers and other rewards.
The sport is composed of a series of single activity, the activity on the map, which contains either matches or skills challenges. Campaign games can be half of a game can also be a complete game In between, some of which start from you or AI, the target is two or. Skills challenge will be one of them from dribbling to passing the ball to a penalty.
Here are some of the special Campaigns that need to be mentioned. The first one is League Rewards map, in which you can get the league and the league award (LVL) exclusive rewards in the league and start with Elite Dele Alli. To champion the path map is more mobile guide to all aspects of the FIFA mobile, was the only place where this article, you can get what you need here to ascend Elite Cristiano Ronaldo you get things done this tutorial.
You can challenge clubs all over the world and obtain Campaign Master Players in Campaign mode. From England clubs to Spain Clubs, from Primera Division in Argentina to Dawry Jameel in Saudi Arabia. Check for the official site for FIFA mobile you will find the full list of Fifa Mobile Campaign Players and from the list you may find the beloved player that bring you luck.
Other Mode for New Season
The Live Events was not completed. In addition to their original packaging and ability, through a period of time, almost all the most love you return a shiny new coat is not: Team of the Week, Domination, Scouting, Team Heroes, and Daily Warm-Ups all return in Campaign in Season 2.
In the new season of FIFA Mobile you'll have the opportunity to train Players. You'll be able to train any Bronze, Silver, Gold, Elite or Master when the new season comes in November! Build YOUR Ultimate Team!
You'll have the opportunity to train players in the new season. You will be able to train any Bronze, Silver, Gold, Elite or Master when the new season comes! Build Your Ultimate Team in FIFA mobile!
Last but not least, we want to remind you to earn enough FIFA Mobile Coins to be ready for the new season. FIFA Mobile new mode contains various contents for this fall and The Campaign is just one of them but will be the one that you will end up playing the mos through out the fall season. It's time you get get to have more understanding of The Campaign.
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Peter Fitzpatrick
Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal (2002) (EU voiceover Coordination, Ireland)
The Great Green Mouse Disaster (1996) (Sound Consultant)
Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores th... (1994) (Sound Engineering (Ingénierie du son))
Halo: The Master Chief Collection (2014) (Localization Teams - Ireland)
Halo 3 (2007) (EMEA (Europe/Brazil))
Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack (2005) (Localization)
Halo 2 (2004) (Localization)
Amped 2 (2003) (Localization)
Halo: Combat Evolved (2003) (Ireland Localization Team Program Manager)
Links 2004 (2003) (Localization)
Top Spin (2003) (Localization)
Blinx: The Time Sweeper (2002) (Localization)
Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal (2002) (Localization)
Azurik: Rise of Perathia (2001) (Internation Localization Project Manager)
Fuzion Frenzy (2001) (International Localization PM)
Links LS Classic (2001) (Localization)
Links LS 2000 (1999) (Localization)
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (2007) (Senior Program Manager)
Peter Fitzpatrick has been working in the arena of CD-ROM and Console Entertainment since 1991. Initially he worked as a Sound Designer and Music Composer for Music Pen Inc. in New York City. His New Media award winning work was heard on 'Lenny's Musictoon's as published by Paramount Interactive. In 1993 his work also appeared on MediaVision's 'Wiggins In Storyland'. During 1992 and 1993 he worked on 'The Magic School Bus In The Human Body' which was developed by Music Pen Inc. for Microsoft and Scholastic Inc. Subsequently Peter returned to his native Dublin, Ireland where he began work for Microsoft. He managed audio and video production for several entertainment titles including Bookshelf, Encarta, Explorapedia and others. In 1997 he began work as a project manager in the Microsoft Games Studios and worked as project manager with responsibility for international versions of PC games such as 'Links' , 'Freelancer' and 'Halo' ; he was project manager on Xbox titles 'Fuzion Frenzy' 'Azurik' 'Top Spin' 'Amped2' 'Quantum Redshift' 'Blinx' 'Sneakers' 'Kakuto Chojin'
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Manhattan Beach high school evacuated after…
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Manhattan Beach high school evacuated after bomb threat
PUBLISHED: December 7, 2015 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 13, 2018 at 12:00 am
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) Officials have evacuated a Southern California high school after receiving an anonymous bomb threat.
Spokeswoman Carolyn Seaton with the Manhattan Beach Unified School District says the caller contacted Mira Costa High School shortly after 8 a.m. Monday and stated there was a bomb on campus.
Seaton characterized the threat as “very vague” and said the campus was being evacuated out of an abundance of caution.
Manhattan Beach police officers were doing a room-by-room search of the campus, a process expected to take up to five hours.
All classes have been canceled as the search is conducted.
Seaton says the superintendent”s office has communicated with all parents and guardians and is supervising all students not immediately able to go home.
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Marie and William: A Performance by Alex Cecchetti
Alex Cecchetti knows that “a story is an object, but one that does not take any space for storage, or not as much as a painting or a sculpture.” Indeed, the story of Marie and William, a performance by the artist, assumes the shape of a book. The content—photography, drawings, and captions—is stylishly arranged on the pages, visually akin to a collage—scanned, not 3D-printed. The story is rendered flat, but like so many stories captured in surfaces, it deals with movement. “Think of a dance manual, or a script made of stills. In fact, does not even know it is a book, it thinks itself to be a record on a turn table.” A MIDI book. MIDI is an imprint of Mousse Publishing directed by Åbäke.
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Alex Cecchetti knows that “a story is an object, but one that does not take any space for storage, or not as much as a painting or a sculpture.” Indeed, the story of Marie and William, a performance by the artist, assumes the shape of a book. The content—photography, drawings, and captions—is stylishly arranged on the pages, visually akin to a collage—scanned, not 3D-printed. The story is rendered flat, but like so many stories captured in surfaces, it deals with movement. “Think of a dance manual, or a script made of stills. In fact, does not even know it is a book, it thinks itself to be a record on a turn table.”
A MIDI book. MIDI is an imprint of Mousse Publishing directed by Åbäke.
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What is Army Special Operations and how can you join this elite group?
The U.S. Army’s Special Operations Forces consists of a group of Soldiers who operate in a way unlike any other Army unit. This group of Soldiers supports a unique mission globally and has the opportunity to interact with individuals from a variety of cultures and backgrounds
Interested yet and want to learn more? Well, this unit also works diligently to recruit Soldiers from within the Army and that includes the skills you share as a Military Police Soldier.
The Special Operations team has three distinct career fields: Psychological Operations, Civil Affairs, and Special Forces. Let’s take a look at the different career options available and how they could enhance your military career.
Psychological Operations:
Psychological Operations are influence experts, who assess the information needs of a population and craft messaging to influence and engage target audiences, assisting in shaping the operational environment in support of allied operations.
The application process for Psychological Operations can take anywhere from one to two months depending on whether or not waivers are required. Soldiers applying need a General Technical (GT) score of 107 or higher and a Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) test score of 85 or higher. Those interested will also need to pass a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) Airborne physical.
Staff Sgt. (First name) Brown, psychological operations recruiter, considers Soldiers who have strong leadership and communications skills excellent candidates for these positions.
“MPs are a good fit for Psychological Operations because at a young age and early on in their careers, they are given autonomy in their jobs and are asked to function on their own. They also develop good communication skills through interacting with the public as part of their job,” Brown said.
Civil Affairs:
Sgt. 1st Class Tray Basnight, civil affairs recruiter, spends his time recruiting Soldiers for the Special Operations Forces Civil Affairs team. Civil Affairs Soldiers focus on humanitarian missions, diplomacy, and they also work as moderators between government agencies and non-government agencies located in assigned areas of operation. The average Civil Affairs team consists of four Soldiers who function autonomously with little oversight.
“Our Civil Affairs Soldiers need a strong moral foundation because they’re given a lot of responsibility and financial assets without the command being present,” Basnight said.
Soldiers with a willingness to serve the civilian population and build and foster relationships with varied cultures make great additions to the Civil Affairs team. Basnight specifically acknowledges the importance of being flexible in understanding different cultures and thinking outside of the box.
Soldiers from any MOS between the ranks of E-4 – E-6 (P) without an age restriction may apply. Those interested in Civil Affairs must pass a SERE-C physical, achieve a GT score of 107, score a 65 on the DLAB, and have scored a 240 on the APFT.
Special Forces:
Soldiers looking to earn the coveted Green Beret and become an unconventional warfare expert can speak to Special Forces Recruiter Sgt. 1st Class Alexander Stevens. He recruits Soldiers into Special Forces and encourages them to take advantage of this opportunity today.
As part of a Special Forces Team, Soldiers will conduct operations focused primarily in one of five core missions including Unconventional warfare, Foreign internal defense, Counterinsurgency, Special reconnaissance and Direct action.
Once selected, Soldiers have the choice to select one of four MOS assignments. The four MOS choices include:
18B: Weapons Sergeant – These Soldiers learn about all types of weapons systems and how to diagnose weapons systems’ problems. They become experts, able to teach other team members and partner forces about each weapons system.
18C: Engineer Sergeant – These Soldiers become construction and demolition specialists able to build structures from bridges to buildings to field fortifications and carry out targeted demolition raids.
18D: Medical Sergeant – These Soldiers receive extensive, in-depth training in battlefield and trauma medical care, as well as the routine exam card. They also receive dental and vet training to respond to any medical issue that may occur. At training completion (approximately 2 years), they have the same level of knowledge as a Physician’s Assistant.
18E: Communications Sergeant – Soldiers in this field learn every kind of radio system, as well as everything from LAN systems, Wi-fi, video/teleconferencing to how to set up the Armed Forces Network. As a communications expert they can establish communications systems in any environment.
Soldiers interested in one of these four MOS areas, must have a GT or a combat score of 107, the best APFT score possible (minimum of 49 pushups, 59 sit-ups, a 15:12 on a 2-mile run, and 6 dead hang pullups with your palms facing away), and take the DLAB, which may be completed prior to or at selection.
Stevens believes MPs make good candidates for these MOS positions because of their previous training in crisis management, their knowledge about how to operate outside of a military situation, and their previous side arms training. He also advises anyone who wants to join Special Forces to make the decision now, add it to their calendar, and to move forward toward that goal.
“Soldiers who have made a total commitment to achieve this goal are successful. My best advice is to be there at the right time, be in the right place, have the right uniform, and be a mature, team player,” Stevens said.
Soldiers interested in joining Special Operations Forces, are encouraged to visit their website: www.goarmysof.com or to reach out to the Special Operations Recruiting on social media. You can also contact the three recruiters listed below for more information about each different specialty.
Psychological Operations: Staff Sgt. Christopher Brown
Civil Affairs: Sgt. 1st Class Tray Basnight
Special Forces: Sgt. 1st Class Alexander Stevens
All can be reached at: 270-798-9818
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Charita Goshay: Americans love celebrity more than geography
Pretty Miss Teen South Carolina had some trouble answering a question during a pageant about Americans' ignorance of geography.
Lauren Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina, is the kind of girl who probably makes her schoolmates cry in their pillows at night.
Blond and willowy, she possesses the kind of beauty that could stop a bar fight.
Just so long as she keeps quiet.
Upton’s virtually incoherent answer last week to a simple question about Americans’ ignorance of geography during the Miss Teen USA pageant is cutting a swath through the Internet.
In a panicked response that included Osama, “the Iraq” and South Africa, the 18-year-old sounded just like a deer in headlights would, if it could talk.
One of my friends noted, “I was hoping she would say something really bad, like, ‘The reason so many people in America can’t locate America on the map is because most of the people here are foreigners. We should limit immigration.’ ”
That certainly would have made more sense.
It stands to reason in this kidcentric culture, which insists every child is special, that everyone deserves a trophy for everything they do, even when they don’t do it well, that someone like Upton should be so confident; that is, until she runs into a buzz saw. Such children are swathed and enabled by their boomer parents -- the original self-involved generation -- and are inevitably devastated when the Simon Cowells of the world dare to tell them the truth.
But don’t cry for Upton. Americans love celebrity more than geography. She’s already making the rounds of the network talk shows, explaining that she misunderstood the question and that she was nervous. It can be nerve-wracking and easy to blank out in front of a live audience -- I’ve done it -- but most women and girls who participate in beauty pageants are programmed from pre-school to expect “world peace” questions. It’s doubtful that it was Upton’s first time at the rodeo.
Where y’at?
Still, it begs the question: Why can’t one in five Americans identify their own country on a map? How long can we afford to remain willfully ignorant about an increasingly interconnected world?
Bet one in five Chinese can find us.
Actually, Upton’s meltdown is the best thing that could have happened to her “career.” Anyone recall the name of the actual pageant winner?
Only in America can ignorance serve as a springboard to fame and fortune.
Even in an era when women outnumber men on college campuses, more passes still are made at girls who don’t wear glasses.
Jessica Simpson, a hotsy-totsy, minor-league pop singer, became an overnight A-list millionaire, thanks to a vapid remark on a reality-TV show in which she expressed confusion as to whether “Chicken of the Sea” was tuna ... or chicken.
For someone who grew up in Kuala Lumpur, it might be a legitimate question. Don’t believe for a second that Simpson didn’t know what she was doing.
People were talking about it for weeks. So, who’s really dumb?
Reach Canton Repository writer Charita Goshay at (330) 580-8313 or e-mail:
charita.goshay@cantonrep.com
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Penny's Diner in Connecticut Alleges Racist Harriet Tubman Tweets Were a Hoax
By Jamilah King
Penny's Diner and Restaurant is a small business in Norwalk, Connecticut, with a big problem on its hands.
Penny's Diner and Restaurant IIISource: Google Street View
On Wednesday, after the Treasury Department announced that former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on new $20 bills, an unidentified person tweeting from an account identified as the restaurant's noted their displeasure:
Source: @nyctaylor/Twitter
Then, the account took it one step further, tweeting out a picture of Tubman on the $20 bill with the message, "Quick poll: who is this? @Michelle Obama, #HarrietTubman or @officialmutumbo (Dikembe Mutombo) #AllLookTheSame." The last reference was to former NBA star Dikembe Mutombo, who is a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But a worker at the restaurant said that the account was fake, and that they do not have any Facebook or Twitter accounts. "It's a hoax," the worker, who declined to give his name in a phone interview, said Thursday morning. "It's a repulsive statement that's totally, totally untrue. Uncategorically, unequivocally, we deny we posted anything like that."
The restaurant official said that they'd filed a police report Thursday morning and that Norwalk police were investigating the incident. "The Norwalk Police Department Detective Bureau is investigating a complaint made by the owners of Penny's Diner into fraudulent posts made to social media," Lieutenant Terrance Blake, public information officer for the Norwalk Police Department, wrote in an email to Mic. "Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation I cannot disclose any additional information."
Prospective customers from across the country have been sounding off online. A Facebook business page for the restaurant, which is apparently not run by the restaurant itself, has been overrun with outraged comments. Angry critics have left messages on the restaurant's Yelp page denouncing the business:
Source: Yelp
And locals are calling for a boycott:
That's left the restaurant's workers scrambling. "We've been part of this community for 40 years and we wanna stay part of this community," the worker said. "Only a fool would [send those tweets] if he wanted to stay in business."
April 21, 2015, 10:57 am: This post has been updated.
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Anti-'Dear White People' Twitter rant accidentally proves show's point about white people
By Zak Cheney-Rice
On Sunday evening, Twitter user and self-described nationalist Steve Hirsch weighed in on Dear White People, the Netflix series about race relations at a fictional Ivy League college campus that premiered on Friday.
"Can you imagine the outrage if there was a show called Dear Black People?" Hirsch tweeted. "Cities would burn. This anti-white rhetoric needs to stop."
Ironically, "Dear Black People" is the name of a so-called anti-political correctness house party that takes place on the show. The party features white students in blackface. It is conceived, initially, by white students who are upset that the main character, Samantha White, hosts a radio show about race called Dear White People. The white students view the party as an attempt to expose how racist Sam is — but do so by being even more racist themselves.
It's a biting indictment of racial illiteracy that went completely over the heads of the respondents to Hirsch's Twitter post — most of whom appear to be white, and likely did not watch the show. Instead, they replied by lambasting the series' purported racism, threatening to cancel their Netflix accounts and, in one case, complaining that black people have never "thanked" white people for the U.S. Civil War:
Several Twitter users weighed in to point out the irony of the anti-Dear White People outrage:
Overall, this is exactly the kind of debate the show aimed to provoke — and ridicule. Dear White People is currently streaming on Netflix.
Correction: May 4, 2017
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About to Turn 65? Your Health Insurer May Be Automatically Enrolling You in Its Own Medicare Plan
About to Turn 65? Your Health Insurer May Be Automatically Enrolling You in Its Own Medicare Plan2016-07-292016-07-29https://www.millselderlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/logo.pngMills Elder Law LLChttps://www.millselderlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/logo.png200px200px
As people approach age 65, they should be thinking about their Medicare enrollment choices, including whether to sign up for traditional Medicare or with a Medicare Advantage plan, and if so, which one. But it turns out that some Medicare-age people are having these important decisions made for them, often without their knowledge.
Before they become eligible for Medicare, many Americans are covered by a commercial or a Medicaid health care plan run by an insurance company. These insurers often also operate Medicare Advantage plans, which are the privately run managed-care alternative to traditional Medicare. Under a little-known process authorized by the federal government, insurers can shift their beneficiaries who are turning 65 to their own Medicare Advantage plan. It’s called “seamless conversion,” and all it requires is that the health plan obtain Medicare’s prior approval and send a letter to the beneficiary explaining the new coverage, which takes effect unless the member opts out within 60 days.
The idea is to preserve continuity for those who want to stay with the same company, but some seniors are unaware that they have been signed up, in part due to the flood of mail they get from insurers around age 65. In a recent Kaiser Health News expose, reporter Susan Jaffe related the stories of several new Medicare beneficiaries who were shocked to learn that they had been enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan. One, Judy Hanttula of Carlsbad, New Mexicio, signed up for traditional Medicare and then ignored the subsequent mail, which apparently included the notice from her insurer telling her that it had automatically enrolled her in its Medicare Advantage plan.
“I felt like I had insured myself properly with Medicare,” she said. “So I quit paying attention to the mail.”
Unfortuantely for Ms. Hanttula, before she became aware of the automatic assignment to a Medicare Advantage plan, she had surgery that her new plan subsequently refused to cover, leaving her with a $16,622 bill. Eventually, with the help of David Lipschutz, a senior attorney at the Center for Medicare Advocacy in Washington, Medicare officials disenrolled Ms. Hanttula from her unwanted Medicare Advantage plan, restored her traditional Medicare coverage and agreed to cover her medical bills, reports Jaffe.
Medicare officials won’t say which insurance companies have sought or received approval to seamlessly convert their members to their own Medicare Advantage plans, but Jaffe reports that among the insurers that are already automically enrolling members into Medicare plans in at least some parts of the country include Aetna and United Healthcare, and that Humana, he nation’s second largest Medicare Advantage provider, has asked for federal permission to also do auto-enrollment.
Medicare officials are developing procedures for seamless conversion requests and implementation, but in response to complaints from her contituents and health care advocates, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) wants to build in stronger consumer protections.
In the meantime, those enrolled in a health plan offered by a Medicare Advantage organization when they become eligible for Medicare should “be attentive,” advises attorney Lipschutz of the Center for Medicare Advocacy. “Be on the lookout for written notice regarding conversion and carefully consider whether to opt-out of the [Medicare Advantage] plan.”
For a Center for Medicare Advocacy case study on the seamless conversion issue. click here.
To read the Kaiser Health News article, click here.
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Barbara Pinto
ABC Leads by Trumpeting ‘Anger in the Streets’ from ‘Hundreds’ in Phoenix
By Brent Baker | July 30, 2010 1:48 AM EDT
“Anger in the streets and we’re there for the protests,” ABC anchor Diane Sawyer teased in making reaction from a few opposed to Arizona’s immigration enforcement efforts her top story on Thursday night. She led: “Emboldened by a judge's rebuke of that law yesterday, hundreds of opponents of the crackdown took to the streets today. But the state's unyielding Governor stood by the law.” ABC’s Barbara Pinto touted over video which included a protester waving a Che Guevara flag:
Demonstrations started at dawn – hundreds of protesters, dozens of arrests, tempers flaring. Tensions are running high here outside this jail, where protesters have gathered and it's turned into a standoff with sheriff's deputies who are trying to push their way out of the building. Demonstrations were loud, disruptive, but mostly peaceful.
After a clip of a woman complaining “Joe Arpaio has picked the easy targets, the day laborers. Let's go after the real criminals and stop wasting our money,” Pinto fretted: “This afternoon, Sheriff Arpaio launched one of his controversial crime raids, targeting illegal immigrants.” She concluded with a warning: “Tonight's rally intended to send a clear signal to lawmakers and to Governor Brewer from those who think even a partial law is too much.”
ABC Heralds 'Relief Replaced Dread, Hope Replaced Fear' While NBC Fears 'Backlash' from 'Angry' Arizonans
By Brent Baker | July 28, 2010 9:00 PM EDT
“In a matter of minutes, relief replaced dread, hope replaced fear,” ABC's Barbara Pinto trumpeted in framing a Wednesday night look, at reaction to a federal judge's ruling barring implementation of key provisions of Arizona's immigration enforcement laws, around those pleased by it.
NBC's Lee Cowan relayed how the ruling “certainly came as welcome news” for illegals, “but while some were relieved, others fear the crackdown may come anyway.” An unidentified woman despaired: “I'm worried for my family. I'm worried for my friends. I worry for my people.” Cowan then warned of danger posed by the majority: “And there are those who worry about a backlash from those angry the court undid what the people of Arizona largely approved.”
On ABC, a grocer exclaimed “it's a happy emotion” and “there's a hope,” before Pinto explained: “Rosario Peralta, who is here legally, watched customers at her family's grocery store disappear, frightened families moving out of state. This afternoon, some of them came back.”
Pinto moved on to “undocumented immigrant” Erika Andiola who “crossed the border with her mom, sister and brothers illegally when she was 11 years old, running from domestic abuse.” Andiola celebrated: “Yesterday, I went to bed really depressed, but, this morning, like everything just came back. Like, the hope, the faith, knowing that all these prayers are really, you know, working.”
As AZ Immigration Law Looms, ABC Touts Harm to Small Businesses
By Alex Fitzsimmons | July 26, 2010 3:41 PM EDT
ABC's "World News" on Sunday caught up to CBS and NBC in fretting about the potential problems caused by illegal immigrants who may be leaving Arizona before the state's new law takes effect on Thursday. Correspondent Barbara Pinto devoted her entire piece to lamenting the possible damage to small businesses whose customers are presumably now leaving the state, but offered less than a sentence to the idea that illegal immigrants are already an expensive burden on state social services.
"The loud and bitter battle over Arizona's immigration law has reached fever-pitch," claimed Pinto. "But Rosario Peralta worries about the quiet exodus – immigrant families already leaving the state in droves. In the past few months, she's seen business and customers at her family grocery store disappear."
NBC and CBS Repeatedly Touted Liberals' 'Boycott' of Arizona; Silent on Offer to Turn Out L.A.’s Lights
By Rich Noyes | May 20, 2010 6:16 PM EDT
All three broadcast evening newscasts have repeatedly touted, as if it is a valid representation of national sentiment, the “boycott” of Arizona by liberal municipalities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles. But when the Arizona Corporation Commissioner on Tuesday made a tongue-in-cheek offer to help Los Angeles out in its boycott by shutting off the electricity flow, CBS and NBC were silent.
The only network to mention the proposal to test the depths of the city’s commitment to liberal sanctimony was ABC, MRC intern Matthew Hadro discovered. White House correspondent Jake Tapper first noted how President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon both criticized Arizona’s new immigration law at the White House, then reported:
JAKE TAPPER: The debate is intense. The Los Angeles City Council voted last month to boycott all official business in Arizona, prompting an Arizona utilities commissioner to all but threaten to cut off the electricity Arizona power plants provide L.A.
GARY PIERCE, ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSIONER: You can’t call a boycott on the candy store, and then decide to go in and pick and choose candy you really do want.
As Polls Show Overwhelming Support for Arizona's Law, Nets Focus on 'Uproar' and 'Spreading' Boycotts
By Brent Baker | May 13, 2010 9:34 PM EDT
The night after two major national polls confirmed overwhelming majorities support Arizona's impending immigration enforcement statute (59 percent per Pew and 64 percent per NBC/WSJ), CBS and ABC promoted the cause of activists in the minority. Both devoted full stories to the “uproar” and “emotional civil war” over the law and moves by a few liberal local government bodies to enact boycotts, only getting late in their stories to those who like the law.
The Thursday night stories were pegged to a boycott vote by the Democratic city council of Los Angeles, but CBS's Bill Whitaker and ABC's Barbara Pinto both also played a three-day old clip of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger mocking Arizona and pointed to the cancellation of a trip to Arizona by a suburban Chicago high school's girls basketball team – not to deride adults for using teens to grind a political axe, but to illustrate the supposed depth of opposition to Arizona's law.
“The boycott of Arizona is spreading,” Katie Couric trumpeted before Whitaker touted: “The city of Los Angeles, the latest to react strongly to Arizona's tough new anti-illegal immigration law.” He pushed how “a growing number of states and municipalities are boycotting or considering boycotting Arizona,” citing how “Highland Park High School in Chicago's suburbs is pulling its champion girls' basketball team from a tournament in Arizona because of the law.”
ABC and NBC Champion ‘Growing National Backlash’ Against ‘Laughing Stock’ Arizona
By Brent Baker | April 27, 2010 11:06 PM EDT
Extending the kind of respect they never provided the Tea Party activists, ABC and NBC on Tuesday night promoted what NBC anchor Brian Williams embraced as “the growing national backlash against the state of Arizona over its tough new immigration law that says police can stop people just on the suspicion they might be there illegally.”
ABC’s Barbara Pinto touted how “the call for an economic boycott here has caught fire on the Internet” while NBC’s Andrea Mitchell trumpeted how “anger over the law has gone viral,” as both pointed to how the American Immigration Lawyers Association had canceled a conference – of a mere 400 attendees -- scheduled for the state.
NBC’s Mitchell played clips from two left-wing comedians, as she asserted: “It's now gone beyond protest to threats of a boycott, as Arizona becomes a laughing stock to some.” Viewers then heard a joke from Saturday Night Live about “fascism” followed by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart: “It's not unprecedented, having to carry around your papers. It's the same thing free black people had to do in 1863.” After showcasing a Facebook page (“Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, welcomes you unless you're a Mexican or look like one”), Mitchell cited “a slap in the face” from Mexico which, ironically, warned its citizens about traveling to Arizona.
ABC Distorts Economic Horror Stories, Pushes GOP to ‘Make Deal’ on Massive Spending Bill
By Rich Noyes | January 28, 2009 12:40 PM EST
Wednesday’s Good Morning America led into an interview with House Republican Leader John Boehner about the massive Democratic “stimulus” package with a deluge of horror stories about the awful economy: an elderly man who froze to death after failing to pay his power bills; a new report declaring the need for $2 trillion in new infrastructure spending; and an unemployed man who killed his family and himself.
“You know this situation -- you don't need me to tell you about it, we hear about job losses being reported every day,” news anchor Chris Cuomo told viewers, “so the pressure is on lawmakers” to “get past the age-old battle over tax cuts versus spending” and pass the massive spending bill. Making it perfectly obvious which side he’s on, Cuomo declared “a promising signal for all of us” that Boehner seemed to come out of a meeting with President Obama “looking to make a deal.”
But the economic horror stories that ABC pushed prior to showing the interview with Boehner (taped Tuesday afternoon) all contain significant omissions. The “unregulated” power company being blamed for the elderly man’s death is owned by the local government, not some greedy capitalist utility. The new report arguing for massive spending on roads and bridges was released two months early to influence the stimulus vote. And the man who tragically killed his family did not lose his job because of cost-cutting or anything related to the economy, but after being investigated for possible fraud.
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The Census Bureau announced a drop in the poverty rate, but NBC and, especially CBS, on Tuesday night managed to turn the good news into bad by emphasizing an increase in the number of Americans without health insurance while ABC, in contrast, portrayed the decrease in poverty as good news. “A bright spot of economic news today,” fill-in ABC anchor Kate Snow announced, “the percentage of Americans living in poverty dropped last year” by “three-tenths of a percent from the year before.” Reporter Barbara Pinto actually acknowledged some positive trends during the Bush years, pointing to how “in the past four years, the country has added nearly 7 million jobs. And in those four years, the average household income has risen about $700.” Pinto didn't ignore liberal class-warfare arguments, but after a left-winger asserted “there's very little that trickles down to those at the bottom,” Pinto countered: “Obviously, some of that growth is trickling down.”
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Saudi teen who fled family has left Thailand for Canada
An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family saying she feared for her life has been granted asylum in Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, as Thai officials confirmed the teen was en route to Toronto.
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Home » Posts » Publication types » systematic review » Barriers to parenting programmes for children with behavioural problems: recommendations from parents and professionals
Barriers to parenting programmes for children with behavioural problems: recommendations from parents and professionals
Jennifer Lau
Disruptive behaviour problems (DPB) such as conduct problems or being oppositional and defiant affect a large proportion of young children. Many of these early behavioural problems predict negative outcomes such as underachieving at schools, future unemployment and criminal behaviour. Treatment of DPBs often begins during the school years once the condition is well-established, and when DPBs are still responsive to interventions.
Psychological treatments are usually regarded as the frontline treatment with younger children with DPB. Within this umbrella of treatments, parenting programmes are commonly used and have been shown to be largely effective at improving a number of outcomes including children’s behavioural problems and parents’ well-being. In these programmes, parents are taught a range of skills to promote positive interactions with their children, and more specifically, to reinforce appropriate behaviours from their children.
Implementation of parenting programmes has, however been challenging: many families with children who have DPBs decline to take part in available programmes, and even when families agree to take part, many drop out. These figures are worse for ‘hard to reach’ families, such as minority groups and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet very little is known about the reasons for the low uptake and completion of programmes.
In this paper, a synthesis of qualitative studies (mainly interview studies or studies based on focus groups) was undertaken to determine the perceived barriers against attending and continuing parenting programmes and suggestions for how to facilitate better access.
Several search strategies were used to identify relevant studies. Initial searches produced 10,992 papers but after exclusion of studies that did not focus on treatment of child DBPs, 2,621 studies remained. These were subjected to further scrutiny on quality, broadly whether the research question was clearly stated, whether the method of analysis was appropriate, and whether there was demonstrated rigour in sampling, data collection and data analysis.
The review included interview data from over 350 different parents, carers and professionals.
Twelve studies were included in the synthesis. These included studies conducted in the UK, Australia, US and Canada. Altogether, the views of 353 participants were represented: 171 parents/caregivers of children aged 2-17 years with DPB and 202 professionals involved in either the delivery of parenting programmes, worked in the health or social services, or worked with hard to reach families. An attempt was made to include views of hard to reach groups and families who had dropped out from programmes.
A thematic synthesis approach was used. This involved three stages: (i) line-by-line coding of the findings section, (ii) organisation of codes into ‘descriptive’ themes, and (iii) development of ‘analytic’ themes (which evolved with common descriptive themes across studies).
Across studies, four main topics were covered. Briefly, these included: barriers to service access, barriers to continued engagement, how to facilitate service access and how to facilitate continued engagement.
Five major barriers to service access were identified:
Situational barriers: practical difficulties attending services and time constraints due to other commitments.
Psychological barriers: fears and worries, stigma and distrust
Lack of information/misconception about services: unawareness and misconceptions of services, general lack of advertising and beliefs that services are for others.
Availability of services: actual limited availability, long waiting times, needs not recognised by professionals, and the feeling that parents have to be assertive to get help.
Poor collaboration between those involved in care of child: disorganised and sometimes inappropriate referral routes and poor sharing of information or communication across professionals/agencies.
Four major barriers to continued service use were identified:
Dislike of group activities: feeling like an outsider in the group, finding it difficult to talk in front of a group and the inconsistent participation of other group members
Programme regarded as unhelpful: finding the programme stressful, disagreement with the strategies used and feeling that the recommended strategies had already been tried and used before by the parent
Difficulty following the programme: no support from other family members, not being able to fully understand the content and therefore finding it difficult to implement some of the exercises and strategies.
Change in circumstances: illness of another family member or a move to another area.
Three strategies for increasing access to services were identified:
Promoting services through effective advertisements: multiple methods of promotion, ensuring that content of the advert is clear and easy to understand, trying to specifically target hard to reach groups and offer other more fun activities or open events.
Direct recruitment of families: through personal contact with particular parents, or through word of mouth.
Better collaboration between professionals/agencies involved in child’s care: improve referral routes and train staff working in such agencies about other available services.
Parenting programmes work best when they are targeted at the specific needs of the parents, carers or children.
Two strategies for increasing continued engagement with services were identified:
Targeting the programme: ensuring that the programme actually targets the family’s needs, ensuring positive group experiences and considering additional contact outside of the parenting group sessions.
Targeting the therapist: emphasising to therapists the need to build good and non-judgemental relationships and rapport with parents, and continually training therapists in a wide range of skills.
Generally, parents and professionals converged on similar themes in terms of barriers to service engagement and continued usage (though there were some subtle differences in emphasis of specific factors/issues). However parents were far more vocal about their views on barriers than they were on strategies to improve their engagement with services.
Based on these findings, the authors emphasise that there is a clear need for assessment tools that can be used to collect information about specific barriers that families face when considering using or continuing to use services – and where possible, this information could bse used to tailor interventions towards individual families, in the manner of recent consumer modelling techniques.
In addition four specific recommendations are made regarding the development and delivery of parenting programmes:
Ensuring awareness and availability of services
Creating individually tailored support
Increasing therapist skills and matching them to programmes and families
Making group-based programmes more acceptable to parents and making available one-to-one versions of effective programmes
Finally, rather than narrowly focusing on the efficacy of the treatment, clinical guidelines such as NICE should also be aware of barriers and develop ways of targeting these barriers, when assessing parenting programmes for the early treatment of DPB.
Koerting J, Smith E, Knowles MM, Latter S, Elsey Hm McCann DC, Thompson M & Sonuga-Barke EJ. Barriers to, and facilitators of, parenting programmes for childhood behaviour problems: a qualitative synthesis of studies of parents’ and professionals’ perceptions. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, Published online 6th April 2013.
Tagged with: parenting, qualitative research, systematic review
Jennifer is University Lecturer at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where she directs the Researching Emotional Disorders and Development (REDD) lab. Her research group focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which anxiety and depression develop in children and adolescents. She completed her PhD in 2005 at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, before taking up a brief postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She will be moving back to the Institute of Psychiatry as a Reader in September 2013.
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Published Dec 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM | Updated at 4:44 AM EST on Dec 4, 2012
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Hats off to Kate. The newly pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has fashion followers thrilled at the prospect of royal maternity wear.
"Looks like there's a best-dressed baby on the way!"
So tweeted Vanity Fair following the news that Kate, The Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William, is pregnant Monday. Accompanying the tweet was a link to an Instagram picture showing Kate, 30, on the cover of the magazine's annual style issue.
So important to the fashion community is the mother of a future British monarch that style bibles such as Harper's Bazaar heralded the news, while In Style breathlessly proclaimed that "A new Prince or Princess is on the way!" Fashionista.com revealed the announcement with the headline, "Kate Middleton is Really Pregnant," in reference to the "is she/isn't she?" baby rumors that have circulated since the couple tied the knot a mere 20 months ago.
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Kate has become a sartorial icon in the period following her nuptials, with women across the globe emulating her chicly elegant approach to dressing. Her influence on clothing purchases has been dubbed the "Duchess Effect." And her impact on the business of fashion retailing will only continue to grow in tandem with her bump, observers say.
The potential frenzy for Kate-influenced maternity fashion may have as big an effect on the world of style as her choice of that Alexander McQueen wedding dress back in 2011, says Shannon Guyton, site director of TheBump.com
"As soon as she stepped out of the car on her wedding day, dress designers went into action," says Guyton. "They designed replica versions of her gown and they were purchased by brides everywhere. We see the same thing happening for her maternity style."
"The big maternity style designers will be keeping a close eye on what she is wearing and then designing pieces that they will actually market as Kate Middleton style," Guyton adds. "And moms everywhere will start mimicking whatever elements she brings - like sleeved gowns following her wedding."
So fashionably inspiring is the mother-to-be, when she stepped out recently sporting a new hairstyle with long bangs, Manhattan salons reported a rush on the cut, according to the Daily Mail.
“The first thing that attracted young women to her is that here was a princess-to-be and she is going out in a dress from Reiss that they all recognize,” Hal Rubenstein, fashion director of In Style magazine told NBC of the Duchess's influence at the time of the couple's first anniversary. “You also see her wear clothes more than once. Women feel that she actually goes into a wardrobe and chooses what to wear rather than grabbing something off of a rack the way most actresses do for a red carpet.”
That high/low practicality is something we will continue to see, believes Guyton: "She'll stick with the way she dresses normally, she'll just incorporate that into her bump style. She'll probably wear dresses with ruching across the stomach, and she'll probably wear bold shades of blue which is one of her favorite colors. Really curve-hugging, flattering silhouettes, nothing too drapey like we have seen from Jessica Simpson and Kourtney Kardashian, she'll wear more form-fitting pieces."
Guyton is also excited at the prospect of seeing maternity clothing highlighted on the red carpet and at formal evening events, thanks to the Duchess' continuing public role as a member of the royal family. Though she warns fashion followers not to expect any major shifts in personal style.
"She won't be too revealing, just as she dresses now," says Guyton. "You won't see her exposing too much, no plunging necklines. I think we will see her to continue to wear above-the-knee hemlines. People will want to emulate her. She's is in the spotlight and will obviously be in the spotlight even more now. However much she decides to show us her bump, we'll be watching."
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"The organization needs more starting pitching, both at the big-league level and in the minor leagues," Cubs president Theo Epstein said in a conference call Friday after the trade became official. "You've got to start somewhere. We're really happy to acquire Travis Wood.
"Twenty-four-year-old left-handed starters who have already had success in the big leagues don't grow on trees. We had to give up a great relief pitcher in Sean Marshall, somebody we were proud to call a Cub. We think to acquire Wood and the two young guys, it was worth doing."
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"We still think all the ingredients are there to make him an excellent starting pitcher in the big leagues," Epstein said. "You're not be able to get guys like that after their strong rookie years. Sometimes, you have a chance to get them after they take a little bit of their lumps on the learning curve and that was how we see last year.
"It was a good developmental year for him. Hopefully he can come in and learn from what he went through last year and pick up where he left off in 2010."
When the Reds traded for Mat Latos last weekend, Wood was kind of the odd man out in the Cincinnati rotation.
"This trade is a great opportunity for me," the Arkansas native said his southern twang. "The Reds do have a lot of depth in their rotation, whether they'd fit me in there or not. I was kind of back and forth between the rotation and starting in 2011, so hopefully I'll get to Chicago and be able to make a difference."
Besides the opportunity to have an impact in the rotation, Wood will probably benefit just from leaving Cincinnati.
In 15 career games (13 starts) at Great American Ballpark -- a notorious hitter's paradise -- Wood has a 5.30 ERA, 1.49 WHIP and .294 batting average against. In 24 games (22 starts) on the road, those numbers drop to 3.58, 1.18 and .237.
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"I think I'm feeling very comfortable," Wood said. "I like Wrigley Field and everything, so we're just going to go out there and take it a day at a time and see what happens."
The former second-round pick will turn 25 in February, but is under team control through 2016, a point that was very important to Epstein and his front office staff.
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While the Cubs put the finishing touches on a lackluster loss to the Reds Monday night at Wrigley Field, the game quickly took a backseat as reports of a trade filtered through Baseball Twitter.
In came a veteran catcher — Martin Maldonado — from the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Mike Montgomery, who will live on in Cubs history books forever as the guy who threw the curveball that notched the final out in the 2016 World Series to break a 108-year championship drought.
There are many layers to this move, including the corresponding aspect of Cubs All-Star catcher Willson Contreras hitting the 10-day injured list with a strain in the arch of his right foot. Contreras had an MRI Monday afternoon/evening, which revealed the issue.
Contreras felt like he could play through it and passionately pleaded his case, but the Cubs want to exercise an abundance of caution with one of their most important players.
"Our medical staff feels like if he were to try to play on it, that he'd be risking exacerbating the injury and turning it into something long-term," Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said. "So we have to get ahead of it, take it out of Willy's hands and take him off his feet.
"We don't expect it to be longer than 10 days — that's what we hope for, anyways."
But even before the severity of Contreras' injury was known, Epstein said the team was already in talks with the Royals front office.
"We've been having discussions with Kansas City and they had an opening in their rotation after trading [Homer] Bailey and they'd been talking to a couple teams about Maldonado and we knew that," Epstein said. "We'd actually been working on a version of the deal beforehand and it was something we wanted to quickly finalize once it became clear that Willson was gonna miss some time."
That's interesting.
So the Cubs' interest in Maldonado is not solely based on Contreras' injury, which means they value the veteran catcher as more than just a short-term, couple-week insurance policy to pair with Victor Caratini.
On the one hand, that leaves the Cubs free to trade Caratini over the next couple weeks if a deal developed.
But the move for Maldonado also shores up a major area of depth for the Cubs, which is exactly what Epstein talked about before Monday's game, referencing the change in MLB rules that eliminated the August waiver wire deadline. Now, every team has to make their moves ahead of the July 31 deadline and that's it.
"Teams need to keep depth in mind a little bit more, that you have to anticipate where you might be vulnerable to an injury and try to build that depth up in advance — preemptively, really — knowing that there's no escape valve in August," Epstein said. "So you gotta really do all your work this month as much as possible and really take a hard look at your organizational depth."
Well, despite fantastic seasons from Contreras and Caratini, the Cubs actually have very little in the way of catching depth beyond those two. Taylor Davis is the only other backstop on the 40-man roster and he has almost no big-league experience. When Caratini was on the IL earlier this year with a hand injury, Davis rarely played in the month-plus he was on the roster.
Even if Contreras' injury is as minor as it appears, it underscores the point that the Cubs' depth is very fragile at the most physically demanding position on the field. What would the team do if Contreras or Caratini suffered an injury in August or September?
Now, they can add Maldonado into the mix — a veteran catcher who draves rave remarks for his defense and game-calling.
The right-handed-hitting catcher is due to turn 33 next month and is in his ninth big-league season. He hasn't done much with the bat in his career (.289 on-base percentage, .351 slugging) and that hasn't changed this year (.647 OPS), but his work behind the plate was enticing to the Cubs and their veteran-laden pitching staff.
"He's an established catcher in the league who does a lot of great things behind the plate," Epstein said. "He can really receive, he can really throw. He's caught playoff games. He's handled some of the best pitchers in the game; he's a favorite for pitchers to throw to.
"He's very calm back there, very prepared, calls a great game, really soft hands, lot of experience, lot of savvy and someone who we think can step in and share the job with Vic and get up to speed really quickly in what we hope is a brief absence from Willson."
The Cubs haven't yet shared a plan for how they plan to manage the roster crunch for all three catchers when Contreras returns from injury in a week or two, but that might be because they don't yet have a plan. That's more of a "cross that bridge when it comes" type of situation.
When everybody is healthy — if everybody is ever healthy all at the same time — the Cubs could carry three catchers and utilize Contreras' ability to play the outfield and Caratini's first/third base versatility. They could also option Caratini to the minors for a couple weeks and bring him back up when rosters expand in September or if another injury strikes.
Either way, the Cubs front office, coaching staff and pitching staff can rest easier knowing they have another experienced backstop on the roster.
The other aspect to all this, obviously, is in the Cubs bullpen and starting depth. Montgomery is out, which means there is an easy open spot on the roster for Alec Mills, who is making a spot start Tuesday while Cole Hamels continues to rehab his oblique injury.
In the longer term, this could be a good thing for the Cubs bullpen, as Montgomery was miscast and rarely used as a short-inning reliever. The 30-year-old southpaw last threw on July 2 and has only made five appearances in the last month.
Montgomery was slowed by injury in spring training and then again in the first couple weeks of the season, but he had been building up his workload of late - throwing at least 2.1 innings in each of his last three outings. Still, the Cubs opted to go with Mills Tuesday against the Reds instead of Montgomery and they also had Tyler Chatwood and Adbert Alzolay in the rotation at various points earlier this season.
Montgomery hasn't started once in 2019, but he made 28 starts in a Cubs uniform, including 19 last year while filling in for the injured Yu Darvish.
The Cubs clearly feel good enough with their rotation depth as is (Mills, Chatwood, Alzolay) and Hamels' return looks to be right around the corner, so the writing was on the wall that Montgomery wouldn't get many chances to start in the short or long term in Chicago.
It's also good for Montgomery, a guy who got the last out in the World Series and did everything asked of him in his three-plus years in Chicago, bouncing between the rotation and bullpen.
Now he gets an opportunity to start, which he's been vocal about wanting to do, and he'll be thrown right into the fire — the Royals have him penciled in to start Friday...in Cleveland.
How's that for full circle?
Tags: Alec Mills, Adbert Alzolay, Theo Epstein, Willson Contreras, Tyler Chatwood, Victor Caratini, Martin Maldonado, Mike Montgomery, Chicago Cubs
By Dan Santaromita July 15, 2019 10:54 PM
It’s not a blockbuster move, but the Cubs have reportedly made a trade with more than two weeks until the trade deadline.
Theo Epstein confirmed previous reports after the game that the Cubs traded left-handed pitcher Mike Montgomery to the Kansas City Royals for catcher Martin Maldonado. Epstein added that Willson Contreras is heading to the 10-day IL with a strain in the arch of his foot, but he didn’t expect Contreras to be out much longer than those 10 days.
Montgomery, 30, joined the Cubs in the middle of the 2016 season, but struggled this season. He had a 5.67 ERA with 18 strikeouts and 13 walks in 27 innings this season.
Maldonado, 32, was hitting .224/.288/.359 with the Royals. Maldonado can fill in at catcher with Victor Caratini while Contreras is out. Maldonado is known for his defensive ability behind the plate.
Meanwhile, Montgomery's exit means the pitcher who recorded the last out of the 2016 World Series is no longer in the organization. Epstein addressed that to reporters after the game.
"Obviously you can't talk about his contributions without talking about getting the last out of the World Series that changed everybody's life," Epstein said.
Montgomery talked to reporters from his locker after it was announced that he was traded.
"I look back at that and it's an emotional experience," Montgomery said. "At the time, I didn't realize how much impact it was. Especially now, as I leave this team and the city, it's going to be something I can look back on and really be proud of. I was able to accomplish a lot here and now it's time to move on and see what else I can accomplish somewhere else."
Montgomery may have an opportunity to join the Royals rotation. The Royals traded starting pitcher Homer Bailey to the A's on Sunday. Montgomery didn't make any starts in 2019, but had 38 in his previous two and a half years with the Cubs.
"It's definitely an emotional thing to think of the last three and a half, four years here and obviously the World Series," Montgomery said. "I grew up a lot here. I'm definitely going to miss playing here in the city and with a lot of these guys. It's going to take a little while to settle in."
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CONWAY, S.C. -- As the Coastal Carolina football team looks to patch holes and get a number of new starters ready to pick up where last year's group left off, the news coming out of camp has been mostly positive through the first two weeks of practice.
If there has been one disappointing development, it's that intriguing offseason pickup Morgan Bailey, a veteran offensive lineman who transferred in from Georgia Tech, has been unable to practice due to injury. But even that situation has been buffered with encouraging news.
With two spots to plug on the offensive line, sophomores Sam Ekwonike and Voghens Larrieux have been taking the first-team reps at right guard and right tackle, respectively, and offensive coordinator Dave Patenaude had nothing but high praise for the two after the team's morning scrimmage earlier this week.
"I think Voghens Larrieux has improved drastically up front, and certainly we feel great about him," Patenaude said. "He's 6-6, 295, moves his feet really well. Both him and Sam Ekwonike, I think, have made great strides and I think are legitimate top-level 1-AA offensive linemen."
After having the benefit of five returning starters on the offensive line last season, the Chants have had to shuffle things up a bit this summer to fill the voids left by two-year starting right tackle Drew Herring and left guard Jamey Cheatwood, a four-year starter and decorated all-conference performer.
Senior Mo Ashley, who started the last two seasons at right guard, has moved to the left side to play between senior left tackle Chad Hamilton and senior center Kevin Hart. That leaves the two mostly untested sophomores to man the right side, and despite their lack of significant game experience, Patenaude doesn't seem concerned about a dropoff in performance for the unit -- as long as everyone stays healthy, that is.
"I think we're as athletic as we were last year," he said. "Now the biggest key going forward is finding who those sixth, seventh and eighth linemen are. We've had some guys get dinged up in camp -- mostly our whole second line has been in and out of practice for the last week -- so we'll look forward here over the next 10 days to getting those guys healthy and back in there so we can keep creating some depth up front."
That likely won't include Bailey just yet. The 6-foot-4, 295-pound graduate student joined the Chants for his final season of eligibility after four years with Georgia Tech. He started seven of the 10 games he played in as a sophomore before missing most of last season due to injury.
He was expected to compete for a starting job this summer with the Chants or at least fill a top reserve role, but the coaches say he has had a flare-up of an old groin injury and is unlikely to be ready to contribute when the season starts Aug. 30.
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"I don't know the exact medical [description]," head coach Joe Moglia said. "He's going to get better, but it's going to take a little while. I don't expect him to be a factor at the very beginning of the season. Even if he comes back, he hasn't been practicing so he's not going to be ready. But if he's able to get better and he's able to start to play, he's a good football player."
Said Patenaude: "They think he's got a little bit of a flare-up -- they don't think it's a major issue -- so he'll be on some heavy antibiotics and then [we'll] see where he is a week from now. Right now, I wouldn't really count on him for the opener, but hopefully in a few weeks he'll be [able to] practice."
His absence has opened the door all the way for Larrieux and Ekwonike to prove themselves with the starters.
Larrieux, out of New London, Connecticut, is officially listed at 6-foot-5, 295 pounds. Ekwonike, from Cinnaminson, New Jersey, is listed at 6-foot-2, 355 pounds. Both appeared in all 15 games last season as redshirt-freshmen, mostly on PAT and field goal units.
And both are eager to show what they can do in an expanded role.
"I feel pretty confident right now," Larrieux said. "I'm still competing throughout this camp. It's a great opportunity playing right tackle for Coastal Carolina. We've got to have great communication to play O-line here, and I'm happy that coach has trust in me that I can do the job."
Said Ekwonike: "It's a great opportunity. That's what everybody works for when they come to college, to get that starting spot and represent your university. I know I've got big shoes to fill and every day in practice [I] work at it, try to get better and try to live up to that standard that the guys who left set up."
That standard was helping the Coastal Carolina offense set 25 university and 17 Big South records last season while ranking eighth nationally among FCS teams in rushing (252.1 yards per game), 11th in total offense (477.5 yards per game) and giving quarterback Alex Ross enough time in the pocket to have a breakout season of his own.
Like Patenaude, Ross is also encouraged by what he's seen so far in camp from his blockers while acknowledging it's still a process for the new starters.
"They're coming along. It takes time, but they're definitely coming along," he said. "They're improving with every day we're out here so the more experience they get, the better they're going to get."
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One of the Parson Terriers rescued on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, is seen in a cage during transport.
Seven dogs that were among nearly 200 rescued from deplorable conditions at a property in New Jersey last week have been transferred to adoption centers in Massachusetts.
MSPCA-Angell said four of the dogs are being held at the organization’s Methuen adoption center while three are at the adoption center in Barnstable. All of the dogs are Parson Terriers.
A total of 188 dogs were rescued from the property of a former award-winning breeder in Stockton, New Jersey on June 11 over concerns about their treatment. The animals were allegedly living in squalid conditions, and some of them were pregnant or sick.
One co-owner of the kennel, Martin Strozeski, is a former Westminster Dog Show award winner. According to him, financial troubles doomed the kennel which had trouble giving the dogs away. He said the situation was a “hobby turned bad.”
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Ramu Upadhaya's second book Trial & Errors deal with bureaucratic corruption albeit metaphorically and sotires within stories.
Published On: 13-May-2019 01:00pm
In his book "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Milan Kundera, the Czechoslovakia-born French writer says: "Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with." Yet, paradoxically, they are an inescapable part of our daily lives.
Ramu Upadhaya, who works with the Autonomous Council of NC Hills in Haflong, loves to use metaphors in his fictions a lot. His first book, A Landless Alien, though he calls it a fiction, was an essay, penned down through metaphors, about the socio-political problems of the autonomous district in particular and the North East in general.
His second book Trial and Errors is no different but it deals with high level corruption in the officialdom not only with metaphors but also with stories within stories.
In TRIAL & ERRORS Upadhaya highlights the duplicitous spending from the public exchequer using metaphors. It points an accusing finger at the persons who are the movers and shakers of the make believe State called Telldeary. It expressively talks about bribery and transgressions at different levels of Government establishments such as the education system. It tries to reveal the truth about not to bow down up the system blindly but to arise against it.
It circuitously identifies some parts of the contemporary India, subtly meaning some hierarchies of the Northeastern region whose activities reflect their utter unawareness about the indirect impact of their actions that affect themselves in any democratic society.
The book uncovered the spade of irregular activities by entertaining tales within tales and stories, and defines with the delicacy of hitches that we contract to deal with as citizens today, even though it is set times ago. In the matter of the use of the public money, according to the book, it gave a hint at of the commission by the psychologically imbalanced persons only, and weakly recommends the psychological training for all the public servants of the Telldeary. The aim of the specific training being to help them understand the meaning of the term government of the people, for the people, and by the people and give up their unethical practices.
Burner and Brawn are the two main characters in the fiction. They undertake the mission of digging dirt, from the days walking on foot to travelling by plane. Their trip starts from the age of Dao (machete) to AK-47, let alone those days of the type-writer in use until the birth of the digital computer.
The book attacks against the unrestricted use of guns, faintly quizzing the human logic behind the sanction of arms. Thanks to the absence of the limitation of the supply of arms, the guiltless people, including children, are getting massacred due to the business of guns as well as arms in the world.
The novel of R.Upadhaya rests as if it were heaving a sigh of respite on the account of the evils in the contemporary world when placed alongside the contemplative suggestion.
Its other climaxes are the exposure of how to develop an autonomous region.
Overall, it is a cleverly regaled story on bribery, development and misconducts albeit explained through metaphors and stories within stories,
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Using Isotopes in Human Hair to Reveal Personal Characteristics for Forensic Investigations
Researchers investigate the potential of using isotopes in specific amino acids in human hair as a forensic tool to provide information about an individual's age, sex, race, body mass, genetic disorders, health, and region of origin.
For several years, forensic scientists have been able to use isotopes found in human hair as markers that can indicate a region of the country where a person was living because many water supplies have unique isotopic signatures that are captured in hair. A person drinks the local water, and an isotopic record of that water is recorded in the individual's hair. Such water-based isotopic information has assisted investigators in identifying the "region of origin" of several skeletal remains, leading to the eventual identification of the individuals.
Isotopes are different forms of the same chemical element that can be measured accurately and compared. For forensic purposes, isotope ratios of different elements like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen will vary based on a person's exposure to environmental factors such as drinking water and nutrients in food. Therefore, isotope ratios can be used as a molecular signature to reflect an individual's habits and daily exposure to the environment.
In this NIJ-supported project, researchers from West Virginia University wanted to increase the forensic value of hair as an investigative tool by studying the isotopic signature of specific molecular components of that hair, which might produce a more detailed forensic profile of a person. Analyzing the chemical signatures in hair is fundamentally different than the traditional, but limited, forensic practice of comparing hairs through examination under a microscope.
The isotopes, which are in the DNA-free keratin protein shaft of a hair, contain "a chronological record of dietary and metabolic activities of the donor, thus providing insight into the biochemical processes in the body as a function of time [and] distance," the researchers said. By conducting isotope analysis of hair, the researchers said, they can provide "elemental, proteomic (protein), and isotopic information about human hair samples which, because of their objectivity, scientific foundation, and statistical nature, offer many advantages over forensic hair microscopy."
"The criminal justice system could benefit enormously from an objective, instrumental method of analysis of human hair that could provide investigative leads such as the age, sex, race, dietary habits, region-of-origin, genetic disorders, disease state, or body mass index of the donor in the absence of a comparison sample," the researchers said in their report.
To develop that method, the researchers collected hair samples from 97 U.S. and 94 Jordanian subjects. Each of the participants completed a questionnaire on biometrics, nutritional habits, lifestyle, health, and region of origin. The samples were studied through bulk isotope-ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS), the traditional method of analyzing the whole hair sample, and then a portion of those samples were used for more detailed isotopic analysis of the individual types of amino acids that make up the hair. The results of the analysis were then incorporated into an already-existing global database of approximately 3,500 individual isotope samples. Geographic analysis of the U.S. subjects' data is pending.
Carbon isotopes were also studied, as they are correlated to the plants that serve as primary dietary sources (wheat and rice vs. corn). Scientists can roughly determine human regions of origin or residence by measuring carbon isotope ratios in relation to dietary plants and other foods.
Using various combinations of isotope measurements, the researchers tried to identify body mass index, age, and diet of members of the sample group. They also tried to predict the presence of Type II diabetes from the amino acids in the hair samples.
The sex of an individual was predicted with 94 percent accuracy; age group with 83 percent accuracy; and region of origin with 61 percent accuracy. They also said that they were able to detect Type II diabetes with 100 percent accuracy, for the sample studied.
The researchers noted that isotopic analysis of human hair for forensic investigations remains in the experimental stage. "At this time, we do not expect these fundamental research findings to affect public policy or routine casework in crime laboratories. However, we have made significant strides towards the development of novel investigative leads that law enforcement could use in the future to help solve crimes."
Learn about other NIJ-supported projects regarding isotope ratios:
Assessing automated image analysis and stable isotope signatures for small arms propellant differentiation and brand identification
A Comprehensive Test of the Methods and Models Used to Assign Geographic Origin to Human Skeletal Remains With Stable Isotope Data
Isotope Analyses of Hair as a Trace Evidence Tool to Reconstruct Human Movements: Establishing the Effects of the "Human Ecosystem" On Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Ratios
The research described in this article was funded by NIJ award 2013-DN-BX-K007, awarded to West Virginia University. This article is based on the grantee report "Biometrics from the Isotopic Analysis of Amino Acids in Human Hair" (pdf, 46 pages) by Glen P. Jackson, principal investigator, West Virginia University.
This research is part of a broader portfolio of trace evidence projects managed by NIJ Physical Scientist, Gregory Dutton, Ph.D. Learn more about NIJ's trace evidence research portfolio.
National Institute of Justice, "Using Isotopes in Human Hair to Reveal Personal Characteristics for Forensic Investigations." April 23, 2018, NIJ.gov: https://nij.gov/topics/forensics/evidence/trace/Pages/using-isotopes-in-human-hair-to-reveal-personal-characteristics.aspx
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NME readers vote Arctic Monkeys best festival headliners of 2013
Nick Levine Sep 17, 2013 12:29 pm BST
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The Rolling Stones are runners-up followed by Biffy Clyro in third place
Arctic Monkeys have been voted the best festival headliners of 2013 by NME readers.
The band received 32.7 per cent of the thousands of votes cast – nearly twice as many as runners-up The Rolling Stones, who collected 16.6 per cent. Biffy Clyro came third with 12.7 per cent of votes followed by Eminem with 4.9 per cent and Green Day with 4.8 per cent.
Arctic Monkeys headlined the Friday of this year’s Glastonbury Festival on June 28, delivering a career-spanning 21-song set which included the first ever UK performances of several songs from their new album ‘AM’, which came out last Monday (September 9).
‘AM’ entered the UK’s Official Albums Chart at Number One on Sunday (September 15) after selling 157,000 copies in the UK last week, making it the second fastest-selling album in the UK this year after Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’, which sold 165,000 copies in its first seven days on sale in May.
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NFL Training Camp Preview: 10 questions around the league
Here are 10 NFL storylines, and possible final outcomes, as the big fellows get ready to do a lot of sweating.
NFL Training Camp Preview: 10 questions around the league Here are 10 NFL storylines, and possible final outcomes, as the big fellows get ready to do a lot of sweating. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2uPBoBY
John Rowe, Staff Writer Published 8:30 a.m. ET July 21, 2017 | Updated 8:52 a.m. ET July 21, 2017
Ten questions for the start of 2017 NFL training camp season. Paul Wood
Quarterbacks, Christian Hackenberg, Bryce Petty and Josh McCown get ready to participate in passing drills during minicamp in June.(Photo: Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com)
An annual rite of summer begins in the coming week. Turn on any sportscast, and you should see videos of very large men carrying their flat-screen TVs, maybe even mattresses... into college dorm rooms.
The start of NFL training camps will be official. The Jets and Giants are spared the sometimes cramped dorm life because their teams stay at home and hold camps at their year-round headquarters -- the Jets at their Florham Park facility, and the Giants at their home digs in East Rutherford, adjacent to the MetLife Stadium parking lots.
But there’s no escaping the unanswered questions each team faces going into a new season.
Here are 10 NFL questions, and possible outcomes, as the big guys get ready to do a lot of sweating:
1. Are the Giants convinced this is Eli Manning’s last chance for another Super Bowl ring?
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning during the sixth day of NY Giants OTA's at the training center in East Rutherford, NJ on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Photo: Danielle Parhizkaran/Northjersey.com)
Yes and no. By selecting a tight end in the first round of the NFL Draft and signing former Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall, they’ve given Manning more weapons at his disposal. But they also drafted a young quarterback, hoping they can groom Manning’s successor.
The Giants are convinced their talent base is good enough to make the transition from Manning to another quarterback, whenever that may be.
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As for fans who’ve jumped on and off the Eli bandwagon in the past, remember what Bill Parcells told Giants fans who weren’t always Phil Simms supporters: “You’re going to miss him when he’s gone."
2. What’s the biggest positive the Jets can get out of this season?
Quarterback Christian Hackenberg looking to throw the ball downfield. (Photo: Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com)
Find a franchise quarterback.
If Christian Hackenberg or somebody else steps up, then the talent-hungry Jets can select another player with their presumed high draft pick to fill another hole. If nobody steps up, the Jets must draft a quarterback and go through another rebuilding process.
The Jets have other decisions to make: 1) How much will they be willing to pay Leonard Williams to make sure their best player stays in green and white? 2) What do they do with Sheldon Richardson, who has had a history of off-the-field problems?
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Many questions. Not as many answers.
3. Can the Patriots make another run at another Super Bowl championship?
Quarterback Tom Brady raises his arms after the New England Patriots scored a touchdown during overtime of Super Bowl 51 against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. (Photo: Darron Cummings, AP)
Why not? Unless Tom Brady loses interest (ain’t going to happen) or Bill Belichick joins a speakers bureau (ain’t going to happen), New England is favored to win its sixth Super Bowl in the Brady-Belichick era.
It helps that the rest of the AFC East, including the Jets, offers token resistance.
Brady watchers will continue to monitor how he handles the challenges of another season at his age.
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So far, he’s shown nothing to suggest he’s on the downside of his Hall of Fame career.
4. Can the Falcons recover from their record Super Bowl collapse?
Falcons QB Matt Ryan and WR Julio Jones (11) were both all-pros in 2016. (Photo: Jason Getz, USA TODAY Sports)
It won’t be easy, although Atlanta addressed a lot of its defensive shortcomings in the draft.
Head coach Dan Quinn also must deal with his team’s psyche. Their second-half collapse against New England ruined what had been a dream season for a franchise that’s yet to win a Super Bowl.
Then there’s quarterback Matt Ryan. He’s coming off a career regular season, but can he forget his mistakes that contributed to the Super Bowl debacle?
5. Will Ezekiel Elliott’s off-the-field antics catch up to him and the Cowboys?
Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott taking the field with teammates before a preseason game against the Seahawks in Seattle. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File) (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)
If the star running back receives a one- or two-game league suspension, as rumored, over a year-old domestic case, he’ll miss the season opener against the Giants, the team most likely to challenge Dallas in the NFC East.
Owner Jerry Jones needs to strongly emphasize to the second-year player that he’s of no good to the team if he’s suspended.
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Jones might want to enlist the support of former Cowboys such as Emmitt Smith and Deion Sanders, who navigated the demands of football-crazy Dallas in their days.
6. Will an NFL team sign Colin Kaepernick during training camp or the regular season?
Let’s handicap this as 50-50.
Too many owners and general managers remain leery of how their fans would react if they signed Kaepernick, who was a controversial figure in San Francisco last season when he decided to kneel during the national anthem to protest police shootings.
A season-ending injury to a front-line quarterback might test the resolve of those owners and GMs, especially if the injury occurs early in the preseason or regular season.
Kaepernick fans who’ve bemoaned the signings of lesser talents as back-ups should know that Kaepernick was seeking starter’s money during the offseason.
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He may be better than almost all of the back-ups, but he’s not the same player who led the 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance.
7. Can player-friendly coach Pete Carroll regain control of the Seahawks’ clubhouse?
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll and quarterback Russell Wilson on the field during warm-ups. (Photo: Danielle Parhizkaran)
Carroll has long prided himself as being a player’s coach, but his relationships took a hit when Seattle decided not to sign Kaepernick to back up Russell Wilson. Several veterans, including outspoken Richard Sherman, were pushing for the signing.
Now Carroll must convince a majority of the players that he had limited input in the quarterback decision and nothing has changed with his buddy approach to coaching.
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He might want to start with Sherman, who couldn’t have been happy with the Seahawks publicly admitting that they tried to trade him in the winter. Sherman is still a big leader in Seattle’s clubhouse.
8. Will the Redskins and Kirk Cousins ever agree to a multi-year contract?
Kirk Cousins (Photo: Patrick Gorski, USA TODAY Sports)
Maybe both sides are more comfortable with Cousins playing another season with the franchise tag payout of $24 million per.
But a third straight good season might convince Cousins he can get a bigger payday on the open market. It also might prompt Skins’ management to avoid that by upping their offer to the quarterback.
Owners, quarterbacks and agents are watching these developments from afar.
9. Which head coaches are headed to the unemployment line if they don’t win?
Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera reacts during the third quarter of the game against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50 at Levi's Stadium. (Photo: Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports)
How about Ron Rivera, John Fox and Marvin Lewis, to start.
A lot has happened in Carolina since the Panthers played in their only Super Bowl -- and most of it has been bad. An impatient owner and fan base could lead to Rivera’s dismissal. Fox, the Bears' coach, amazingly avoided a pink slip last season. But not this time. Lewis’ long run in Cincy could end if the Bengals don’t make the playoffs.
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How about a surprise candidate -- Jason Garrett. Dallas owner Jerry Jones likes his low-key coach, but it’s been a long time between Super Bowls for Jones, who always wants to win. Keep an eye on this one.
10. Who are the underdog candidates to play better than expected by others?
57. Jameis Winston QB Buccaneers (Photo: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports)
Let’s start with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Tampa Bay has surrounded Jameis Winston with offensive support, Tennessee’s defense should be better, and Jacksonville’s running game emphasis should cut down on quarterback Blake Bortles’ mistakes.
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Chocolate: women's favourite mood elevator?
A new independent survey has revealed that 44 percent of Australian women eat chocolate as a way of making themselves happier when they feel down or depressed.
The study, which was conducted on behalf of Jenny Craig, shows that chocolate and biscuits are the most popular snacks among Australian women, with 49 percent munching on biscuits throughout the day, 39 percent choosing potato chips and 33 percent opting for lollies.
The Weekly's diet and fitness guru, Karen Inge says there is "anecdotal evidence which shows that women with low self-esteem are prone to eating more biscuits and women who are premenstrual or have a disappointing love life crave chocolate because it contains high levels of magnesium".
"Women eat chocolate when they are depressed or stressed", she continues, which could well explain why one-third of women in Australia also name chocolate as their biggest weakness.
Chocolate has been linked to serotonin levels in the brain for some time, and these chemicals are believed to play an important role in regulating emotions such as anger, aggression, sexuality, appetite and mood. In fact, a study reported by the BBC indicated that melting chocolate in one's mouth produced an increase in brain activity and heart rate that was more intense than the rate associated with passionate kissing, and also lasted four times as long after the activity had ended.
Inge points out, however, that "it's important to work out whether our cravings for salty, oily, or sweet junk food are physical or in the mind. You may physically be craving junk food because you are low in blood sugar or you may be feeling stressed, anxious, lonely or frustrated."
"Moderation is key. Avoiding stress-based eating is learning to distinguish emotions from hunger. Be mindful of what you are feeling, and what situations make you crave unhealthy foods," Inge says.
With obesity rates reaching record highs in Australia, our attitudes and relationships to food cravings — particularly foods high in saturated fats — require addressing now. Inge believes people must be taught to change the unhealthy relationship they have with food to one of balance and positive behaviour. "It's about helping people understand what they eat, why they eat and how to eat better to be healthier," she says.
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Attack wasn't an issue in loss to Roosters: Elliott
Alicia Newton NRL.com Reporter
Thu 19 Apr 2018, 11:28 PM
Canterbury Bulldogs forward Adam Elliott has stuck up for his side's attack after they were kept scoreless in the 6-0 loss to the Sydney Roosters at ANZ Stadium on Thursday night.
The Bulldogs were tackled out of the game by the premiership favourites, who defended inside their 20-metre zone for close to 10 extra sets on the goal line.
Elliott credited the Roosters' defensive efforts rather than focus on the Bulldogs' inability to score points in the greasy conditions.
"I don't think many teams would've held us out to zero when we threw so much at them," Elliott told NRL.com after the game.
"You can have a go at our attack but we had a game plan and stuck with it. We built pressure and in this competition, that's the best way to score points ... they were just too good in response.
"Both teams were in the grind and hung in there for play after play. To their credit, they did so well to hold us out. At the end of the second half we had a lot of ball and just couldn't crack it.
"We did all the fundamentals well but it come down to one try and individual skill on their behalf."
Bulldogs coach Dean Pay offered similar comments, arguing his side had made further improvement on their 27-10 victory against the Cowboys in Townsville a week earlier.
"There wasn't much in it," Pay said.
"I just thought from where we were last week I thought we improved again tonight, I really did.
"You can never question their effort. Their effort is fantastic. There were three or four times there where you're one pass away from scoring. We got over the line probably four or five times and couldn't get the ball down.
"You jag one of those and it could be a different story."
The Bulldogs have an eight-day turnaround before heading to Penrith for a second clash against the Penrith Panthers within the space of a month.
"The thing is we're getting close," Pay said.
"If we had of played [the Roosters] the way we played tonight in the first month I think we could've jagged another couple of wins. We've improved from that time and that's what we want to do."
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The Northwestern Children’s Practice team educates parents to help them raise healthy and loving children and educates children to help them develop healthy habits. As one of the best pediatrician offices in Chicago, our health care providers are dedicated to providing anticipatory guidance to help families navigate from one visit to the next. Founded by Dr. Marc Weissbluth in 1973, the Northwestern Children’s Practice continues to thrive in Chicago’s Gold Coast, a few blocks away from Lurie Children’s Hospital. This welcoming team of experienced child health advocates cares for families in the Chicago-land area and beyond. The Northwestern Children’s Practice offers annual check-ups, lactation support, adolescent visits, sports physicals, vaccines, and more. Besides providing health care for children from infancy through young adulthood, the practice has doctors and nurse practitioners that specialize in sleep consultations, nutrition, and weight management counseling, treatment and prevention of childhood obesity and safe immunization practices. Several of our nurses are trained as lactation consultants to provide support during newborn well-visits. Our lactation consultants and doctors also lead a weekly support group for new parents. Topics often discussed are newborn feeding, including breastfeeding, sleep, development, and safety.
The Northwestern Children’s Practice has continued to grow throughout the years and now includes a team of doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and office staff who work together to provide comprehensive care with individualized attention. The office is located several blocks from Lurie Children’s Hospital, Prentice Women’s Hospital, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Patients can be seen at Northwestern Children’s Practice’s convenient walk-in clinic at 8-11 am, Monday through Friday and at 10 am on Saturday and Sunday. No appointments are necessary for the walk-in clinic. Scheduled visits are available Monday through Friday as well as a limited number of well-visits on both Saturday and Sunday.
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Yankees need pitchers to keep going at least six innings
By Bill Madden
Sep 10, 2015 | 12:47 AM
CC Sabathia fails to give the Yankees any distance on Wednesday. (Frank Franklin II/AP)
When the Yankees announced the other day that they were shutting down their biggest winner, Nathan Eovaldi, for the season because of a cranky elbow, the doomsday gallery made it sound as if the Bombers' road to October had just become impassable. How now to survive with this rotation, rife with question marks?
It depends on what you call question marks. If we're talking about Masahiro Tanaka's elbow, which supposedly could blow any time; or Michael Pineda's forearm, which shut him down for the month of August, or the expected inconsistency from recovered Tommy John patient Ivan Nova, or CC Sabathia's bum knee that has hampered him all season and gave him a mini-three-week vacation prior to his start Wednesday night, one supposes those could be considered "anything can happen" concerns. But assuming the Yankee starters have all gotten past their various degrees of disabling aches and pains, they have all largely demonstrated an ability to pitch what is now regarded as much more than just a quality start, but, rather, a stupendous start − at least six innings.
It was something Joe Girardi did not get from Sabathia Wednesday night, although the big guy could hardly be held responsible for the disheartening 5-3 Yankee loss to the Orioles. That falls squarely on Stephen Drew, who bobbled a potential double-play grounder in the first that helped set up the first Baltimore run and dropped a throw at second base in the fifth that led to two more runs. Before Drew's second fielding miscue, Sabathia had yielded just one run and was on the verge of getting through the fifth with a 3-1 lead and a chance for a win when he hit Chris Davis with a 1-2 pitch with two out, prompting Girardi to summon Adam Warren from the bullpen.
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"You get six innings out of your starters now, you've got a heckuva chance to win," said Orioles manager Buck Showalter, who hadn't had a whole lot of opportunity of late for that until Ubaldo Jimenez's seven-inning effort Wednesday night. Before that, Showalter had watched helplessly as his starters, who rank 24th in the majors in innings per start, failed to get out of the fifth inning five straight times. "And if you're (the Yankees), that's all you need with their bullpen. If you're going to beat them, you've got to do it in the first six innings."
Tell that to beleaguered Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams, who pulled his No. 1 starter, Jordan Zimmermann, after 5.1 innings (and 100 pitches) against the Mets Tuesday night and paid for it dearly. Somebody needed to tell Williams that this was the most important game of the year and no time to be worried about pitch counts.
It's almost as if six innings have become the modern equivalent of a complete game. Tanaka has gone six or more innings in 17 or his 21 starts; Pineda in 15 of his 22 starts; Nova in six of his 13, including the last two.
Luis Severino takes the mound on Thursday as the Yankees need him to go at least six innings for his sixth straight start. (Andrew Theodorakis/ for New York Daily News)
And then there's the rookie, Luis Severino, who has pitched through six five straight times now and through seven in his last start. By no means can this Yankee rotation, lacking a true ace, be considered five-deep stellar − other than the Mets' or Cardinals', whose is? − but Tanaka, Pineda, Nova and now Severino have all given Girardi enough confidence they can pitch well enough to get him to the postseason.
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By and large, they've kept the Yankees in games and thrown a few clunkers, such as the Blue Jays' Drew Hutchison did again on the road Wednesday night, being lit up for six runs in just 3.1 innings by the Red Sox at Fenway Park, and presenting the Yankees with an opportunity they were unable to cash in on. (Unlike Girardi's starters, Hutchison has been a model of inconsistency, with an 11-2 record and 2.91 ERA at home and a 9.94 ERA on the road.)
The Yankees lack a true ace but if Masahiro Tanaka can continue to pitch deep into games like he did Tuesday they will be playing in more than a one-game playoff come October. (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
One scout who watched Nova's last start Sunday versus Tampa Bay (in which he was trailing, 3-0, in the third inning but gutted it out, allowing no more runs into the sixth to wind up with the win) and Pineda's last start a day later (in which he gave up four second-inning runs to the Orioles, then shut them down the next four innings) said this about the Yankee rotation: "Other than Tanaka, who's been a pretty consistent with really only two bad starts way back in June, what you can say about the Yankee starters is they bend, but they very seldom break."
Girardi echoed that assessment Wednesday night, while pointing to the Yankees' last series against the Blue Jays in mid-August in which they won two and all three of their starters, Nova (7 IP, 3 runs), Tanaka (9 IP, one run) and Severino (6 IP, 3 runs, 9 strikeouts) pitched well. "You get six quality innings from your starters and you feel pretty good about the day," Girardi said. "Tanaka has pitched pretty good all year and the other guys have all stepped up. They did an especially good job in those Toronto games."
Before the game, Girardi would not commit to his rotation for the four-game Toronto series starting at the Stadium Thursday night, but once he was forced to use Warren for 2.2 innings and 47 pitches in relief of Sabathia, that extra day of rest he had thought about giving Tanaka on Sunday obviously got postponed. The only good news for the Yankees was the fact that Girardi wasn't able to use any of his back-end bullpen stalwarts, Justin Wilson, Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller, who will all be fresh for most of those last three innings against Jays this weekend.
Meanwhile, left unsaid, if the Yankees do get to the postseason, and avoid or get beyond the play-in wild-card game, they'll need only four starters. And as Girardi knows in this new era of baseball, they no longer have to be great. Just six innings quality.
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by D. C. Toedt III on 2010-09-10
Today the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower-court decision that could have been trouble for software companies: The appeals court held that Autodesk’s software license agreement imposed sufficient restrictions on customers’ use of their software copies, to avoid having the license be a “sale.” Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., No. 09-35969 (9th Cir. Sept. 10, 2010) (vacating and remanding district court’s summary judgment).
Here’s what happened, according to the appeals court: An Autodesk customer had upgraded its installations of the software — then sold its copies of the earlier release, along with handwritten license codes, to one Gregory Vernor, who sold some of the copies on eBay at a fraction of the Autodesk price.
The district court had held that Autodesk was powerless to stop Vernor. Its rationale was that Autodesk had “sold” the earlier-release copies to their original customer — because it did not require customers to return their outdated copies after upgrading — and therefore (said the district court), under the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, the Autodesk customer was free to resell its outdated copies to Vernor, who in turn was free to resell them to others.
Nope, said the Ninth Circuit: The restrictions in the Autodesk EULA were sufficient to prevent the original customer’s transaction from being a “sale.” True, said the court, it was worthy of note that Autodesk did not require its customers to return copies, but that fact alone was not dispositive:
We hold today that a software user is a licensee rather than an owner of a copy where the copyright owner (1) specifies that the user is granted a license; (2) significantly restricts the user’s ability to transfer the software; and (3) imposes notable use restrictions. * * *
Autodesk retained title to the software and imposed significant transfer restrictions: it stated that the license is nontransferable, the software could not be transferred or leased without Autodesk’s written consent, and the software could not be transferred outside the Western Hemisphere.
The SLA also imposed use restrictions against the use of the software outside the Western Hemisphere and against modifying, translating, or reverse-engineering the software, removing any proprietary marks from the software or documentation, or defeating any copy protection device.
Furthermore, the SLA provided for termination of the license upon the licensee’s unauthorized copying or failure to comply with other license restrictions.
Thus, because Autodesk reserved title to Release 14 copies and imposed significant transfer and use restrictions, we conclude that its customers are licensees of their copies of Releas 14 rather than owners.
Autodesk, slip op. at 17-18 (extra paragraphing added).
I didn’t have the impression that a lot of software vendors were worried about this case. Still, it’s nice that the Ninth Circuit did the sensible thing — at least if you think vendors should have the right to contractually prevent customers who get cut-rate upgrades from turning around and reselling their copies of the earlier version.
If the appellate court had gone the other way, I think we might well have to say goodbye to low-cost upgrades. At a minimum, vendors might start insisting that customers had to turn in their old copies in order to get an upgrade — which would be a pain for all concerned.
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Dan 2010-10-24, 12:43 pm
So, basically, you’re saying that the convenience of “upgrade” pricing (a concept with no basis in law) should trump personal property rights (a concept which is a cornerstone of much of our existing law). Wow, that’s quite a stretch. I think you are only examining the perceived benefits of this decision without examining its costs.
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Gehry on Construction Deficiencies
By Chris Jaglowitz on November 15, 2008
Posted in Construction Deficiencies, News and Events
The newly-transformed Art Gallery of Ontario opens its doors this weekend. The Globe and Mail reports that the final ($276 million) product has met with the approval of its designer and world-famous architect, Frank Gehry, although he would make a few changes if more money was available.
At about this time a year ago, the famous architect and his firm were named as defendants in a lawsuit for alleged defects in a new building commissioned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The construction company was also sued and the accusations began to fly as to whether the defects were the result of the architecture or the construction.
In responding to MIT’s lawsuit, Gehry told the New York Times that problems in complex buildings are inevitable, and that:
A building goes together with seven billion pieces of connective tissue. The chances of it getting done ever without something colliding or some misstep are small.
In commenting on that lawsuit and the parties’ response to it, lawyers at Stark & Stark in New Jersey made this observation in their Construction Litigation Law Blog:
It is disconcerting to see that a superstar architect, a global construction company and a world-class institute of higher learning, with $300 Million to spend cannot seem to create a water-tight building. Mr. Gehry seems to think that construction defects are par for the course. In that context, it comes as no surprise that we find problems with much simpler, mass-produced homes and condominiums.
The moral: First-year condo boards in a newly-constructed buildings should budget time and resources with the presumption that there will be defects and deficiencies that need to be addressed.
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TRIVIUM RELEASE VIDEO FOR “DEAD & GONE”. WATCH IT HERE!
Posted on March 10, 2016 by Oran
Taken from the bands last release “Silence In The Snow”, Trivium have just released their brand spanking new video for “Dead & Gone”, which you can see below!
TRIVIUM kick off their UK headline tour in Norwich on March 20th with a selection of intimate shows for their UK fanbase. The band are playing 11 shows across England and Scotland, deliberately going out to locations less-often visited by touring bands, in response to numerous requests via social media. Two of the most common questions the band sees from fans are “but when are you playing my [smaller] town?” and “why do most bands only play the big cities?” The dates will also mark the first UK shows for the group with their new drummer, Paul Wandtke.
Check out the bands new video for “Dead & Gone” below!
Support comes from As Lions and Heart Of A Coward. The shows and dates are listed on this tour graphic.
Snap up the last remaining tickets from this location.
Post – Oran O’Beirne
© OVERDRIVE 2016
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San Diego: This Weekend (April 20-23)
Yangervis Solarte #26 of the San Diego Padres tags out Brandon Drury #27 of the Arizona Diamondbacks as he tries to steal second base during the second inning of a baseball game at PETCO Park on April 19, 2017. (Denis Poroy/Getty Images)
(Denis Poroy / Getty Images)
By Leslie HackettEditor-in-Chief and Digital Director
This weekend is jam-packed with activities including Life In Color, comedian Lil Duval and Earth Day festivities.
4.21: Gary Owen
“If you’re a white guy and you’re sleeping with a black girl, there’s only one way you know if you’re putting it down like you should. Don’t listen to ‘Oh, you’re the biggest. You’re the best.’ Don’t listen to that-she says that to everybody. Don’t listen to that. The only way you know is, in the middle of sex, she grabs the back of your head, looks you dead in the face, and calls you the n-word. When you can make her ass forget you’re white, that’s when you know you’re putting it down.” - Gary Owen on I Agree with Myself
@ House of Blues, houseofblues.com/sandiego
4.21: Julian Jordan
This 21-year-old Dutch DJ has already collaborated with EDM powerhouses like Sander van Doorn and Martin Garrix in his young career. And he’s apparently wasting no time in 2017. He’s already released two singles this year: “Always” with CHOCO and “Say Love” with Sj.
@ Omnia, omnianightclub.com
April 21-23: Lil Duval
“I’m cheap as hell. Going to the mall with me is just like going to a museum. All we doing is looking and admiring. And I’m the tour guide.” -- Lil Duval on Cedric the Entertainer’s Starting Lineup
@ American Comedy Co., americancomedyco.com
4.22 The Boob Ride
This bike ride for breast-cancer awareness begins and ends in Solana Beach, offering routes for various levels of riders.
Solana Beach, theboobride.org
4.22 Chicano Park Day
Head to Barrio Logan to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Chicano Park, a neighborhood icon and now a designated National Historic Landmark. The colorful murals featured at the park have been noted on PACIFIC as some of the city’s top street art to check out (read the full story here). The free event, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature traditional music and dance, plus various speakers from the community.
Chicano Park (located in the Logan Heights community, south of downtown San Diego under the San Diego-Coronado Bridge). chicano-park.com
4.22: San Diego CityBeat Festival of Beers
Live musicians band together with an orchestration of craft ales and lagers to raise money for the San Diego Music Foundation at this annual outdoor brew-haha.
The Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bungalows, 2223 El Cajon Blvd., North Park, 1 p.m. (VIP) & 2 p.m. (General Admission). citybeatbeerfest.com
4.22 The Great Inflatable Race San Diego
Run, jump and bounce through an incredible course of inflatable obstacles.
Qualcomm Stadium, Mission Valley, thegreatinflatablerace.com
4.22 Cabrillo Under the Stars
Get a rare chance to see Cabrillo National Monument late at night while enjoying gourmet grub, craft beer and live music under the stars.
Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma, cnmf.org
4.22: EDX
Swiss-born Italian DJ and producer Maurizio Colella (aka EDX) released his latest single, “Dharma,” in February, and alongside Nora En Pure, released a remix of Alok’s “Hear Me Now” last month.
4.22 Earth Day
There are SO many ways to give back to your community and help keep it beautiful for generations to come. Check out our list of Earth Day events that help give back to our community here.
4.22-23: Life In Color
This 18-and-up, two-night, EDM paint-party extravaganza celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Life In Color concert series. It features N.Y.-based EDM trio Cash Cash, Canadian turntablist A-Trak, British DJ/producer Rusko and more. Read more about the event and how it got its start here.
@ Valley View Casino Center, valleyviewcasinocenter.com
4.23 La Jolla Shores 5K
Soak in seaside views while completing a hilly course that begins at La Jolla Shores Drive and runs along North Torrey Pines Road, Prospect Avenue and Coast Boulevard.
La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, lajollahalfmarathon.com
4.23 EarthFair in Balboa Park
Join other caring citizens of the planet in Balboa Park for what’s being billed as “the largest free annual environmental fair in the world."
Balboa Park, earthdayweb.org
4.23 Crafts and Drafts
Head down to the Midway District to Bay City Brewing and enjoy crafts from local artisans and new brews. The outdoor area of Bay City Brewing will be transformed for the better half of a day (noon to 6 p.m.) to showcase handmade products, including beer candles and ale-inspired attire. Two new brews will be on tap, In My Younger Haze (a hazy-style IPA) and The Sin Ship (a Baltic porter).
Bay City Brewing, 3760 Hancock St., Midway District
4.23 Fallbrook Avocado Festival
For 31 years Fallbrook has been celebrating the wonderful avocado. This year’s free event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday brings together art, entertainment, contests, and of course, lots and lots of avocados to eat.
Main Street between E. Mission Road and Fallbrook Street in Fallbrook, fallbrookchamberofcommerce.org
San Diego Padres home games
4.20 vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
4.21-23 vs. Florida Marlins
Petco Park, downtown, sandiego.padres.mlb.com
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Leslie Hackett
After graduating from San Diego State in 2005, Leslie Hackett started working for The San Diego Union-Tribune as a newsroom page designer. Since then she has moved through different positions at the company, including Content and Product Manager in advertising, Editor of DiscoverSD.com and now works on both the print and website products for PACIFIC magazine as Editor-in-Chief and Digital Director.
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Trevor Noah Asks Bernie Sanders Why We Need Another Old White Guy
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | April 5, 2019 |
Last night on The Daily Show, Trevor Noah asked Bernie Sanders a question a lot of people have been wondering. Noah said that despite the diversity of the Democratic field, it’s still being led by “old white men.” Noah asked, “How do you respond to criticism that sometimes people say, ‘Oh, isn’t this a time for you guys to step aside?”
Bernie dodged the question, but gave a decent answer, I suppose. “Look, I think the American people have to make that decision, nobody else makes it,” Sanders said. “But I think it is appropriate for people to say, OK, who has been talking about this issue when? Who had the courage to go forward and at what time? So it’s important not to look at just personalities. I think, in American politics, in general, we do too much of that.”
After Bernie answered, Noah said something that kind of surprised me given the political bubble of which I belong, which is to say: Among all of you. Noah talked about how well Bernie has connected with 18-29 voters (which is not a surprise), but also, how he is also leading in the polls among minority voters.
Actually, yes. I mean, it’s early, yada yada yada, but yes: He is leading among black voters. In fact, among the declared candidates (i.e., excluding Biden), Bernie is leading the field among all demographics basically except for one: People with post-graduate degrees who earn over $100,000 a year.
Oh. Huh.
As The Intercept put it, it’s not about race. It’s about class, because Bernie draws his biggest support among those who make less than $50,000, a category that, for systemic reasons, is disproportionately black among Democratic voters.
That’s interesting. It also makes me feel like I’m missing something as a dude with a post-graduate degree (although, sadly not a wealthy dude with a graduate degree), like I’ve suddenly got a blind spot where it comes to class, and well, that doesn’t feel good given my own class upbringing. I mean, I know roughly what the demo is here at Pajiba — the average reader is a 35-year-old woman with a liberal arts degree and a lot of post-graduate degrees in the mix — but if Bernie is the candidate of choice among younger people, minority voters, and those making less than $50,000, are we suddenly out of step with the demographic of the party with which many of us like to think we identity?
I don’t know, but it’s something to consider. All I know is that I don’t feel particularly comfortable identifying with candidates who most appeal to Democrats with post-graduate degrees who earn over $100,000. Are we liberal elitists?
I feel shook by this information.
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Shakespeare festival features swords, steampunk
Local actor: Gorgeous costumes, exciting swordplay and sitting close to the action among reasons to check out festival.
Shakespeare festival features swords, steampunk Local actor: Gorgeous costumes, exciting swordplay and sitting close to the action among reasons to check out festival. Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://pinews.co/28FqsCg
Millicent Martin Emery, mmartin@richmond.gannett.com Published 4:26 p.m. ET June 15, 2016 | Updated 3:53 p.m. ET June 22, 2016
Jeremie Korta as the Duke, Erica Pearson as the Abbess, Jeremiah Plessinger as Dromio of Syracuse, and Annie Evans as the Courtesan in "The Comedy of Errors" at Richmond Shakespeare Festival.(Photo: Supplied photo by Patrick Flick)
Gorgeous costumes, exciting swordplay and sitting close to the action are three of the reasons Erica Pearson says area residents should check out the Richmond Shakespeare Festival.
Pearson, a teacher at Charles Elementary, has roles in both "The Comedy of Errors" and "The Tragedy of King Lear."
Shows take place Wednesdays through Sundays at the recently renovated Starr-Gennett Building. The festival concludes June 26.
Pearson said people who aren't interested in reading Shakespeare should check out these performances because the plays are meant to be enjoyed on stage, not just studied in school.
"The characters in the plays are fascinating," Pearson said. "Even though they were created 400 years ago, all the emotions that they feel and the conflicts they face are immediately recognizable to modern audiences."
Fairies at Richmond Shakespeare Festival
Kids join fairies for a dance around the May pole as the Fae of Norsey Woods, a troupe featured in the Fishers, Ind., Renaissance Faire, provide entertainment Saturday, June, 20, 2015 at Earlham College as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item
Kids join fairies for a dance around the May pole as the Fae of Norsey Woods, a troupe featured in the Fishers, Ind., Renaissance Faire, provide entertainment as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item file
Kids help decorate a May pole with the Fae of Norsey Woods Saturday, June, 20, 2015 at Earlham College as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item
Kids play with bubbles as the Fae of Norsey Woods, a troupe featured in the Fishers, Ind., Renaissance Faire, provide entertainment Saturday, June, 20, 2015 at Earlham College as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item
Rebecca "Odonata" Holloway dances with kids around the May pole as the Fae of Norsey Woods, a troupe featured in the Fishers, Ind., Renaissance Faire, provide entertainment Saturday, June, 20, 2015 at Earlham College as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item
Erin "Queen Roshawn" Hamilton of the Fae of Norsey Woods, a troupe featured in the Fishers, Ind., Renaissance Faire, provides entertainment Saturday, June, 20, 2015 at Earlham College as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item
Jessica van Dyk helps kids decorate the May pole as the Fae of Norsey Woods, a troupe featured in the Fishers, Ind., Renaissance Faire, provide entertainment Saturday, June, 20, 2015 at Earlham College as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item
Haley Page, 2, plays with bubbles as the Fae of Norsey Woods, a troupe featured in the Fishers, Ind., Renaissance Faire, provide entertainment Saturday, June, 20, 2015 at Earlham College as part of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival in Richmond. Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item
Pearson calls "The Comedy of Errors" a "wonderful slapstick farce," with mistaken identities created when two pairs of twins who have no idea they have landed in the same town are mistaken for each other. Husbands, wives, masters, servants, debtors and creditors chase each other through a mythical steampunk society, with hilarious results.
Pearson said the costumes for "Comedy" remind her of the first season of "Downton Abbey," but she describes them as being "even more lush and outrageous, with a steampunk flair."
Steampunk is a style of science fantasy that includes technology and designs inspired by 19th-century steam-powered machinery.
"King Lear" is a classic for good reasons such as sibling rivalry and the struggle between generations fighting for power, loyalty and betrayal, Pearson said.
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She said the swordplay in "King Lear" is exciting and requires daily practice by actors at "fight call" so no one gets an arm sliced off.
The Shakespeare festival is produced by a professional company using actors from Actors Equity Association and some area talent.
This year, the festival hired a producing artistic director, Patrick Flick, who also is the executive director of the international Shakespeare Theatre Association.
King Lear is played by Steven Patterson, a professional actor from New York who has acted in many Shakespeare festivals around the country.
"He brings great insight and passion to the role," Pearson said.
Pearson also compliments the other actors, who include theater students and faculty from schools including Earlham College and Miami, Ball State and Wright State universities.
Pearson, who often is seen on Richmond Civic Theatre's stage, said she loves acting in Shakespeare plays because the language is full of wonderful wordplay and rhythm.
"The lines stay with you forever, while the lines from all other plays evaporate from an actor's mind a week after the last performance," Pearson said.
The Shakespeare festival returns to the Whitewater Gorge after spending last summer at Earlham College during renovations to the Starr-Gennett Building on South First Street just east of the Main Street Bridge.
Additions at the park include restrooms, more parking spaces and landscaping.
A huge set re-creates the Globe Theater in the Starr-Gennett factory, and brings the audience right up to the action on three sides of the stage.
"The festival is a great opportunity for people in Richmond to experience amazing theater in a unique setting in the newly renovated Starr-Gennett factory and park," Pearson said.
Mary Walker, executive director of the Wayne County Convention and Tourism Bureau, said a Shakespeare festival sets Richmond apart from other destinations for visitors.
"To be able to offer a Shakespeare festival in our community is really phenomenal," Walker said.
She said she applauds board president Ray Ontko and his team for organizing the festival. She's also glad it's receiving widespread media attention, such as features in Indianapolis Monthly magazine and the website BroadwayWorld.com.
2-day Whitewater Gorge Park reopening celebration set
• What: Richmond Shakespeare Festival productions.
Two plays rotate: "The Tragedy of King Lear," 7:30 p.m. June 22, 24 and 25; and "The Comedy of Errors," 7:30 p.m. June 23; 2 p.m. June 25-26. The plays last about 2½ hours with intermission.
• Special events: A group of fairies, called the "Fae of Norsey Woods," will present children's activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Also that day, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., more than 15 arts, music, and food vendors and entertainers will display their talents.
• Where: Starr-Gennett Building, Whitewater Gorge Park, 201 S. First St., Richmond. Turn south onto First Street from the east end of the Main Street Bridge at the railroad underpass, across the street from the entrance to the Veterans Memorial Park.
• Cost: Wednesday/Thursday shows are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors 65-plus and students (18 and younger or with college ID). Saturday and Sunday matinees are $25 for adults and $20 for seniors/students. Friday and Saturday night shows are $30 for adults and $24 for seniors and students.
• Tickets: At the door or in advance at www.richmondshakespearefestival.org or (800) 838-3006 ext. 1 (ask for “Richmond Shakespeare Festival”).
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Relief for consumers; no change in fuel prices
06 Mar, 2019 at 13:47 PM
New Delhi, Mar 6 : Fuel prices remained unchanged on Wednesday after several days of hike on Tuesday. In the national capital, petrol is being sold for Rs 72.24 per litre while diesel costs Rs 67.64 a litre. In Mumbai, a litre of petrol costs Rs 77.87 while diesel is at Rs 70.86 per litre.
According to Indian Oil Corporation website, petrol and diesel cost Rs 74.33 and Rs 69.43 per litre in Kolkata. Similarly, in Chennai petrol is retailing at Rs 75.02 and diesel Rs 71.49 a litre.
In Noida, petrol is retailing at Rs 71.75 a litre and diesel costs Rs 66.58. As per the country’s dynamic pricing mechanism, the domestic fuel prices depend upon international fuel prices on a 15-day average and the value of the rupee.
The price of the two fuels retailing at the petrol pumps is calculated after adding central excise duty, dealers commission and value-added tax (VAT) to the base price. The prices are revised at 6 am daily, earlier it used to be revised every fortnight. (UNI)
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