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Becquerel winners submit resolution for revival of solar industry to the EU
At the EU PVSEC in Brussels this week, prominent representatives of the solar industry joined an appeal to rebuild a major European PV production line along the entire value chain. They called on the EU Commission and member states to introduce eco-labels and recycling criteria for solar modules, to stimulate PV expansion and align research policy with the revival of the solar industry.
September 28, 2018 Sandra Enkhardt
The Becquerel Prize winners' resolution comprises four points.
Image: pv magazine
On the occasion of the 35th EU Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC), which ended on Friday, prominent solar industry representatives submitted a resolution to the European Commission.
Numerous Becquerel winners – one of the most important PV awards in Europe – are demanding the expansion of the European solar manufacturing industry, along the entire PV value chain and on a large scale.
This is particularly important for the development of solar power by 2050, they say, as it will take a dominant role in energy supply, with European research institutions leading PV technology development.
The scientists are concerrned that the European PV industry, particularly cell and module manufacturers, will be completely lost to Asian competition, according to a statement sent to pv magazine by the Fraunhofer-ISE today.
The Becquerel Prize winners’ resolution comprises four points:
1. The European Commission and the governments of all member states are called upon to create framework conditions that allow the reconstruction of new, large-scale European PV production. They should cover the entire value chain, including wafers, solar cells and modules. Appropriate credit lines, production locations and transnational cooperation will be needed for such a framework, the resolution said.
2. All EU countries should again be actively involved in support of PV installations, for example through financial incentives or regulations that stipulate PV in all new buildings.
3. The scientists also demand that an eco-label for solar modules must be introduced with immediate effect, that also takes recycling aspects into account.
4. The final point of the resolution states that the EU’s research policy should focus on the rebuilding of PV production in Europe. This could be done, for example, under the new Horizon Europe program for the period from 2021 to 2027, or through the financing of PV research projects directly related to manufacturing issues.
A total of 16 Becquerel winners have signed the resolution, including Fraunhofer ISE scientists, Andreas Bett, Stefan Glunz and Adolf Goetzberger. Award winners Peter Würfel and Winfried Hoffmann, Wim Sinke and Richard Swanson are also among the signatories of the resolution.
The Becquerel Prize has been awarded by the EU Commission since 1989 at the EU PVSEC for outstanding achievements in terms of photovoltaics.
At the beginning of the EU PVSEC in Brussels on Monday, the founding of a new alliance was announced: The European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC) has brought together research institutes, mechanical engineers, material and component manufacturers from Europe. They want to give the upstream sector a stronger voice again.
The construction of PV production on a gigawatt scale is also at the center of efforts at ESMC. The Alliance wants to make its voice heard in politics, in order to create the necessary framework conditions for the rebuilding of the solar industry in Europe.
For the involved research institutes this is crucial, in order to be able to continue their work and to get a technological lead, for example against the competition from Asia.
Sandra Enkhardt
Sandra is Senior Editor of pv magazine Deutschland. She has been reporting on solar since 2008.
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Karl- Heinz Remmers says:
I feel it`s time for costumers, researchers and new EU manufacturers to sit together and talk about the products needed in 2025. At present we have two worlds- divided after 5 years of “duty civil war”.
Should be worth the effort – to quote pv magazine newsletter from 28th of September:
“This week, the 35th EV PVSEC conference and exhibition opened its doors in Brussels. The opening session began with a presentation from Conference Chair, Pierre Verlinden, who described the PV industry’s current outlook as “exciting but scary”. He also made bold predictions that we will see products with efficiencies above 30% by 2022, that the PV industry will grow to a production capacity of 1 TW per year by 2028, and that prices will fall below $0.10/W by 2035.”
Ok- I feel $0,10/W will been seen until 2025 and 30% for Mainstream maybe before 2030. Makes Solar even greater but the way should be a new “close together”: Research, producers and costumers as we need more diverse products to use our potential from BiPV to light weight Solar for mass application on roofs that have no structural reserveres to Multi- GWp power plants. In different conditions all around the world.
Much more to research the 60 or 72 Cells mainstream products, much more opportunities for different new value chain beyond today`s rat race on cheaper and cheaper mass products. Of course with the best eco- record available and highest social standards, tought globally and able to be controlled worldwide.
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Hardcore Ford GT teaser hints at possible WEC hypercar entry
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James Brodie 2019-06-21 15:55
A bewinged and faster roadgoing Ford GT is set for Goodwood Festival of Speed debut early next month
Ford will arrive at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on 4 July with news of a new version of the 647bhp, V6-powered GT hypercar, which has been teased in typical shadowy fashion.
Officially, the brand has not communicated anything beyond confirmation of the “special” announcement, which will take place on the Ford stand on Goodwood’s opening Thursday.
• The fastest Nurburgring lap times
The image above all but confirms that it will be either a hardcore, more track focussed variant of the GT, or a new version of the GTE racer competing in the World Endurance Championship (WEC).
The most obvious change is the adoption of a massive new rear wing, spanning the full track of the car and featuring enormous side planes. Elsewhere, we can spot a new air inlet placed on the roof too, aping the GTE spec racer.
However, the teaser image reveals a set of production-spec headlights lifted directly from the road going version of the GT and not the racer. As such, the car that will be revealed at Goodwood will almost certainly be roadworthy, but with track intent.
It could even be a new homologation special. The FIA has just announced new top-division ‘Hypercar’ rules for the WEC from the 2020/21 season onwards, requiring just a production run of 20 roadworthy models for cars to qualify. Aston Martin has already confirmed that the V12 powered Valkyrie will compete in the class, while Toyota is preparing a version of its upcoming GR Super Sport hypercar for the competition too.
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A concept rendering of what the exterior of Virginia Tech's new student-athlete performance will look like.
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A concept rendering of what the interior of Virginia Tech's new student-athlete performance will look like.
Virginia Tech athletic department seeks additional funding for student-athlete performance center
By Mike Niziolek mike.niziolek@roanoke.com 981-3126
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BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors is expected to approve a request for additional funding for the student-athlete performance center project when it hosts a meeting of the executive committee next weekend in Richmond.
The athletic department is seeking an addition $3.735 million in supplemental funds (increasing the total budget to $20.417 million.) for the project after receiving construction bids in June. The request doesn’t impact the university’s timeline for the project with construction expected to get under way in the coming weeks and a targeted completion date in fall 2020.
“The university and the Athletics department have reviewed the project bids, analyzed opportunities for cost controls, and determined an additional $3.735 million is required to deliver the necessary scope for this project,” the board materials state. “The complicated logistics required for this project, including partial occupancy during construction and football practices adjacent to the site, are the main drivers of the increased costs.”
The board approved the project in March 2018 with a $15.165 million budget. The university received a $15.2 million donation for the project in December 2017. The resolution included a provision that allowed the university to increase the budget up to 10 percent ($1.517 million). The athletic department committed to raise that additional funding in the full amount in June 2018.
The new student-athlete performance center is set to replace the Jamerson Athletic Center’s Bowman Room, which has existed since 1982.
“This project includes a complete renovation and expansion of the fourth floor of the Jamerson Center, construction of a balcony cantilevered from the fourth floor, and a new elevator tower,” previous board material stated. “The project will provide approximately 17,000 square feet for dining, nutrition, recruiting, donor hospitality, and allow for a seamless transition to the Cassell Coliseum concourse.”
According to the board materials, the university has developed a financing plan (five-year loan) for the newest round of funding.The athletic department will seek to raise additional private funding to repay the loan and any amount not covered by donations will be repaid out of the department’s operating revenues.
Virginia Tech’s board has the authority to approve “the budget, size, scope, and funding of non-general fund capital outlay projects” based on the 2006 Management Agreement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the university.
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By Alec Meer • 1 year ago • 21
We've just passed the half-way point of 2018, so Ian Gatekeeper and all his fabulously wealthy chums over at Valve have revealed which hundred games have sold best on Steam over the past six months. It's a list dominated by pre-2018 names, to be frank, a great many of which you'll be expected, but there are a few surprises in there. 2018 releases Jurassic World…
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As you stare out into the world, at the tumult and turmoil, perhaps you feel the only hope is to turn to the Steam Charts for its comforting predictability and stability. I'm sorry folks, but it's all gone batshit crazy in here too.
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Koei Tecmo have announced a sequel to 2017's neat-o action-RPG Nioh, imaginatively named Nioh 2. So far it's only confirmed for PlayStation 4, but I wouldn't worry too much: the original wasn't even announced for PC until it had been out on PS4 for months. A PC release for this too would seem likely. Hopefully. The game you might've heard described as "Dark Souls but…
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Describing a game as X meets Dark Souls is a sure way to invite mockery and contempt. It's lazy critical short-hand, people will say, and they're often correct. Well, prepare to mock. But only a little. I promise I'm not being lazy when I say that Nioh is Dark Souls meets Sengoku period Japan though, and to prove it I'm going to use that short-hand…
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While the release of Team Ninja's samurai Souls-like Nioh is still a couple days off yet (due this Tuesday, November 7th), the PC launch trailer hopes to impress upon you that the game was very well received by the press on consoles, as dense with effusive praise as it is with angry demons. It might read a little like that overly enthusiastic Batman: Arkham City GOTY box, but…
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How do I contact the Historic District Study Committee?
Please contact our chairperson, Ruth Cleaveland, at 248-547-6217.
1. What does the Royal Oak Historic District Study Committee (HDSC) do?
As stated in Royal Oak’s municipal code, the Historic District Study Committee (HDSC) was established to “provide for the establishment of historic districts in carrying out the public purpose of historic preservation in the City of Royal Oak, consistent with the State of Michigan Local Historic Districts Act” (§ 82-3). A historic district is “an area, or group of areas not necessarily having contiguous boundaries, that contains one resource or a group of resources that are related by history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture” (§ 82-3).
2. What properties in Royal Oak have been designated historic by the HDSC?
There are currently 13 historic districts within the city of Royal Oak that have been designated as such by the HDSC. These districts are listed in the Royal Oak municipal code Ch. 82, Articles IV-XVI:
Royal Oak Savings Bank Block (at the southwest corner of Fourth and Main Streets and Haberman's Fabric Store at 117 West Fourth Street-originally known as the A.G. Miller Building).
Hilzinger Block Building (106-110 South Main Street)
B&C Grocery Store (417, 419 and 421 South Main Street and 101 East Fifth Street”)
Royal Oak Woman’s Club (404 South Pleasant Street)
McDowell House (402 North Troy Street)
Orson Starr House (3123 North Main Street)
George and Anna Hilzinger House (211 Knowles)
Stauch House (4620 Elmhurst Avenue)
Hermann’s Bakery (317 South Main Street)
Baldwin Theater (415 South Lafayette)
Knowles House (524 East Lincoln Avenue)
Fleming Goodrich House (319 Crane Avenue)
L.A. Young Historic District (11 homes on North Altadena Avenue: 1016, 1021, 1036, 1107, 1110, 1111, 1114, 1115, 1118, 1122, 1123)
Properties in Royal Oak cannot be designated historic without owner permission.
3. What are the criteria for a property to be deemed historic?
“In evaluating the significance of historic resources, the Committee shall be guided by the selection criteria for evaluation issued by the United States Secretary of the Interior for inclusion of resources in the National Register of Historic Places, as set forth in 36 CFR Part 60, and criteria established or approved by the Bureau, if any” (§82-9).
A property may be designated historic if it is a “publicly or privately owned building, structure, site, object, feature or open space that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture of the City of Royal Oak, the State of Michigan, or the United States” (§82-2). More specifically, the HDSC applies criteria from the US Department of Interior,
National Park Service: “the quality of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and:
A. That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the
broad patterns of our history; or
B. That are associated with the lives of significant persons in our past; or
C. That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of
construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
D. That have yielded or may be likely to yield, information important in history or
prehistory.”
4. What are the benefits of having a property historically designated?
The most important benefit is preserving Royal Oak history, both in neighborhoods as well as downtown (and perhaps spurring cultural heritage tourism). According to the Michigan Historic Preservation Network’s report published in 2016, there is also less of a possibility of demolition, as well as some economic benefit, such as higher actualized resale value. The Local Historic Districts Act of 1970, which allows cities to establish ordinances to “regulate the construction, addition, alteration, repair, moving, excavation, and demolition of resources in historic districts within the limits of the local unit,” describes the following as reasons for historic preservation:
(a) Safeguard the heritage of the local unit by preserving 1 or more historic districts in
the local unit that reflect elements of the unit's history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture.
(b) Stabilize and improve property values in each district and the surrounding areas.
(c) Foster civic beauty.
(d) Strengthen the local economy.
(e) Promote the use of historic districts for the education, pleasure, and welfare of the citizens of the local unit and of the state.” (§399.202)
The State of Michigan discontinued tax incentives for historic properties, but it is possible these incentives may be reinstated in the future.
7. What is the process for designation?
Quite a bit of research, verification, and writing go into designating city properties as historic. The State requires a great deal of information and adherence to specific guidelines. (Consult the link to Local Historic Districts in Michigan manual for more information regarding everything that must go into the reports.) However, the HDSC cannot designate properties in Royal Oak as historic without owner permission. This is the first step. A property owner must first contact the HDSC and attend a meeting to request a study on the property, should they have a reasonable belief that their property meets a criterion/criteria for designation. The HDSC then conducts some research into the property to establish facts, and if enough is available, committee members visit the property to take measurements, photos, and observe documents or specific
features of the property. Research continues by the committee, who write a preliminary report following State guidelines. This preliminary report is sent to the State, City Planning Department, Mayor and City Commission. The State Historic Preservation Office must review the report (which could take six to eight weeks) and the HDSC must address any comments, and make additions or corrections before publishing the final report that is once again distributed to the State and City members. The Planning Department reads the report and meets with the HDSC to determine whether it recommends or disapproves of the study. If approved by the Planning Department, the report is forwarded to the City for their review at a City Commission meeting. When the City approves the historic designation, the property owner must be present at the meeting to verify their acceptance. Following this, the City Attorney prepares an ordinance regarding the property and the owner receives a copy of the final report for their records.
8. Is there a cost to having a property historically designated?
The HDSC charges a modest cost to cover the clerical work (primarily printing costs) involved in preparing the preliminary and final reports. If a property is designated historic, the property owner may choose to purchase approved official signage through the HDSC.
9. Can changes be made to a historically designated property?
Changes to the interior, unless they affect the integrity of the exterior, do not require review, or approval by the Historic District Commission (HDC).
Changes to the exterior need to be addressed as follows:
• The request for change is taken to the Building Department at City Hall along with any contracts.
• The Building Department contacts the HDC chairperson.
• The HDC chairperson convenes its members, sets a date for review, and notifies the Building Department, who in turn, notifies the property owner of the date to attend this review. Contractors should be included.
• Following review and discussion, the HDC will vote to
1. Approve
2. Not approve
3. Partial approval
• Notification is given to the Building Department within the next business day.
• The HDC reports are the methods for noting changes in the historically designated properties for future reference.
10. How do I contact the Historic District Study Committee?
11. Resources & Links
Royal Oak municipal code “Ch. 82: Historic Preservation”: https://ecode360.com/8258731
Michigan Historic Preservation Network’s 2016 report “Local Historic Districts and Property Values in Michigan Neighborhoods”: http://www.mhpn.org/?page_id=3818
State of Michigan Local Historic Districts Act, Act 169 of 1970: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(wnep31dhcifmvmqid3mlxmxh))/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=mcl-act-169-of-1970
Local Historic Districts in Michigan manual, State Historic Preservation Office: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mshda/mshda_shpo_20150930_local_historic_district_manual_501562_7.pdf
National Register Criteria for Evaluation, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb15/nrb15_2.htm
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The Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) was created in 2004 to help the nation's largest metropolitan areas develop the ability to provide life-saving medications in the event of a large-scale biological terrorist attack or naturally occurring disease outbreak. In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked RAND to provide an initial evaluation of the impact of the Cities Readiness Initiative on awardees' readiness and capability to conduct mass countermeasure dispensing above and beyond what would be the case without the program. The subsequent study drew on available empirical evidence, including data from the Technical Assistance Review, a CDC-administered assessment of jurisdictions' capabilities in 12 core functional areas associated with countermeasure distribution and dispensing, as well as qualitative data collected through discussions with personnel involved with countermeasure dispensing in nine metropolitan areas (both CRI awardees and non-CRI jurisdictions). The evaluation showed that, overall, CRI awardees had benefited from the program's preparedness guidance and scenario focus and that the program had strengthened or encouraged the development of partnerships with other stakeholders. The program also encouraged a variety of changes to awardees' training plans and had spillover effects on non-CRI sites. However, this evaluation did not address questions of how the documented benefits compare to the program costs.
Federal Program Has Improved Health Agencies' Preparedness for Large-Scale Bioterror or Disease Outbreaks
Are Communities Ready to Conduct Rapid and Large-Scale Dispensing of Medications During a Public Health Emergency?
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Evidence of CRI's Impact in Technical Assessment Review Program Assessment Data
CRI's Impact on Resources Available for Countermeasure Dispensing
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Willis, Henry H., Christopher Nelson, Shoshana R. Shelton, Andrew M. Parker, John A. Zambrano, Edward W. Chan, Jeffrey Wasserman, and Brian A. Jackson, Initial Evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, TR-640-CDC, 2009. As of July 16, 2019: https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR640.html
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Our recent achievements
The Rangers Charity Foundation is making an even bigger difference than ever before to people living in our local community and beyond.
Now delivering over 25 programmes in the Glasgow area connected to health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, education and employability, we reach more than 5,000 people every year.
During season 2016/17 we worked in partnership with 10 local, national and international charity organisations. Not only did we donate £131,400 to them over the season but we also helped increase their profile which remains an important aspect of our partnership approach. Additionally we contributed £5,000 to the Govan Ward Community Budgeting initiative.
Our commitment to helping others raise funds for causes close to their hearts is more powerful than ever before. Last season we had over 2,800 requests for support and 90% of those received a donation in response. We strive to be as generous as we possibly can and donate items such as tickets, signed memorabilia, tours and souvenir packs to individuals or organisations in need of a boost. Our total cash and in kind donations since we were formed now stands at £4.6 million.
This season we continue to go from strength to strength.
Our new Rangers Charity Dream Fund saw us invite a group of supporters in need of a boost to the training ground to meet the Manager and team, watch training, then have lunch and a stadium tour with us back at Ibrox. The fund has also seen guests given tickets to watch a Rangers game in style in a hospitality box at Ibrox and many dream letters and photographs sent out from Rangers players.
At Christmas, the Rangers first team squad visited Glasgow Children’s Hospital to make a £10,000 donation from the Foundation and spent some time with the kids. The under 17 and under 20s squads also visited the hospital to help put up decorations on the wards to spread some festive cheer.
Our National Partnership with Scottish Autism has seen us pledge to raise £20,000 to help pay for the charity's advice line and to create a social area in its new residential service Founders House. In addition we are working together help our supporters to learn more about autism, which affects approximately 1 in 100 people.
2018 also sees us enter the 10th anniversary year of our partnership with Unicef. Over the last decade some of our most notable achievements have included funding 1 million vaccines for vulnerable children around the world, and making a significant contribution to the health and education of children via projects in India, West Africa and across the globe. This season we are entering the second year of our work supporting Unicef’s Children’s Emergency Fund. This fund exists to allow the charity to respond immediately when children are in danger whether it is through a natural disaster or conflict.
Closer to home, our Big Ibrox Sleepouts continued to be popular, raising over £60,000, which is helping our partners Simon Community Scotland launch its new Street Cycles Project and Glasgow City Mission’s Housing First scheme.
Support for our Armed Forces Partnership also continues. The sacrifice and dedication shown by the Armed Forces is something we have always admired at the Rangers Charity Foundation and our Armed Forces Partnership this year is made up three services related charities, the Coming Home Centre in Govan, Erskine and AA Veterans Support in Northern Ireland.
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‘Be ashamed’: Anthony Scaramucci’s wife deletes tweet after Soledad O’Brien opens a can of whoop ass on her
Soledad O’Brien, a former CNN anchor, clashed with the wife of Trump surrogate Anthony Scaramucci over the weekend.
In a tweet on Friday, O’Brien complained that cable new networks were continuing to book the former White house communications director even though he has little of substance to add to the discussions.
“Why do you guys put this crap on tv?” O’Brien wrote after seeing an interview with Scaramucci. “Seriously it’s an insult to your viewers. And also absurd. Is there no one else in the whole world to book but this mediocre dude?”
Scaramucci’s wife, Deidre, was moved to criticize O’Brien.
“This kind of stuff makes me sad,” she complained on Twitter. “I used to love @soledadobrien until she dissed the ever loving $h*t out of @Scaramucci & it popped in my newsfeed. Twitter is a real live portal of just spewed hatred & negativity.”
O’Brien fired back.
“Ma’am,” O’Brien wrote back. “Your husband awkwardly defends a woman who lied chronically and diminished the office she held. And a network puts him on tv to be an expert on a job that he held for ten days. Don’t be sad, be ashamed.”
By Sunday morning, Deidre Scaramucci had deleted her tweet attacking O’Brien.
Read the tweets below.
You can delete your tweet and ‘try’ to hide your hypocrisy, @DeidreScaramuc2, but: were you #disappointed & #dismayed by the hatred and negativity spewed by your husband when he publicly stated that Steve Bannon tries to suck his own cock?
Asking for a friend. pic.twitter.com/Z0LeLGebiX
— Tom Schopper (@SchopperPhoto) June 16, 2019
Here you go! pic.twitter.com/Y02aFd8Mdr
— Thirteen (@Thirteen_IN) June 16, 2019
Ma’am.
Your husband awkwardly defends a woman who lied chronically and diminished the office she held. And a network puts him on tv to be an expert on a job that he held for ten days. Don’t be sad, be ashamed. https://t.co/O5Qfc5pjd7
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) June 16, 2019
Trump is facing massive criticism for his attacks on young women of color in Congress
US President Donald Trump came under fire from Democrats and even some members of his own Republican Party on Monday after launching an extraordinary xenophobic attack on four progressive Democratic congresswomen.
"All they do is complain," Trump told reporters at a White House event featuring products "Made in America."
"These are people that hate our country," he said of the four lawmakers. "If you're not happy here, you can leave."
Trump also accused the four first-term congresswomen -- who are of Hispanic, Arab, Somali and African American origin -- of having "love" for US "enemies like Al-Qaeda."
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Access to consultant opinion in PAUs - Basildon Hospital
This page provides a best practice example for standard 6 of Facing the Future: Standards for acute general paediatric services, which outlines how consultant opinion is provided within Basildon Hospital's 24-hour paediatric assessment unit (PAU). PAUs can help to reduce the number of inpatient admi...
Breastfeeding in the UK - position statement
The UK has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in Europe. We strongly support national policies, practices and legislation that are conducive to breastfeeding, as well as promotion, advice and support to new mothers. Our messages and recommendations in this statement are specific to the UK.
Care pathways for common acute conditions - Luton and Dunstable Hospital
This page provides a best practice example for standard 10 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which describes the clinical assessment tools used in Luton as common pathways for conditions in emergency care. The tools have been embedded in practice to increase confidence in cl...
Facing the Future - care outside the hospital
Community child health - sub-specialty
These doctors work with vulnerable groups of children, including those with developmental disorders and disabilities, complex behavioural presentations, and at risk of abuse or are being abused. Find out more about this sub-specialty and its curriculum.
Consultant paediatrician link with GP - Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
This page provides a best practice example for standard 3 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which describes how general paediatric referrals are seen in a community setting by a consultant paediatrician and a GP with a special interest in Aberdeen. The joint paediatric commu...
Consultant presence during 'peak activity' - Barnsley Hospital
This page provides a best practice example for standard 1 of Facing the Future: Standards for acute general paediatric services, which outlines the consultant 'hot week' system at Barnsley Hospital, which ensures that there is consultant presence in the hospital during self-defined periods of 'peak ...
Covering all bases: Community child health - a paediatric workforce guide
Community Child Health (CCH) is the largest paediatric sub-specialty, focusing on the care of vulnerable children and families, children with long-term conditions and child public health. Our resources support workforce planning.
CYP representatives at senior meetings - Morriston Hospital
This page provides a best practice example for standard 11 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines how children, young people and parents are involved in meetings and decision making at Morriston Hospital. Children and young people have shaped service design and use...
Disability Matters - online learning
This free, flexible learning resource helps those who work, volunteer or engage with disabled children and young people (from 0 to 25 years) and their families. It covers both physical and intellectual disabilities.
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As the hunt for that perfect place in that perfect spot continues, know that there will be many important decisions to make when buying a new home and one of the most critical ones is answerable by the question "where". Here, we're giving you the chance to get to know one of the most vibrant destination cities in the whole of Puget Sound - Kirkland.
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Just a stone's throw from Seattle and located on the shore of Lake Washington, Kirkland has all the conveniences of a big city but with a "small town feel".
Kirkland is endowed with a beautiful physical setting, a strong sense of community, and takes pride in its 13 distinct neighborhoods each with its own unique character. It places a strong emphasis on maintaining a highly desirable quality of life for its residents. Neighborhood Associations feature community members who take an active role in preserving their neighborhood’s character and style.
Quick Trivia: "In 2014 Money Magazine ranked Kirkland the 5th best place to live in the US. Kirkland has also been voted “Best City“ by 425 Magazine readers in 2012 and 2013 and named one of the Best Overall Neighborhoods by Seattle Magazine in 2008 and 2009." - Explore Kirkland
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Kirkland is a highly walkable and pedestrian-friendly city. In fact, in 2006 Kirkland was the first city in Washington to adopt a Complete Streets ordinance, whereby pedestrian and bicycle facilities are addressed as a part of all road construction and improvement planning projects. In terms of accessibility via different types of transportation, you will not have a problem getting to and around the city.
By Car: located on the eastern shores of Lake Washington, just 12 miles east of Seattle via the I-90 or the I-520 Evergreen Point floating bridge, and 20 miles from SeaTac International Airport. To get to downtown Kirkland take 405-N and exit 85th Street.
By Boat:The City of Kirkland and Carillon Point marinas offer guest moorage with excellent access to downtown shops and dining, waterfront parks, overnight accommodations, and local events. Kirkland’s Marina Park and 2nd Street docks are year-round transient moorage facilities available on a first-come, first served basis.
By Bus: Take the 255 bus from Downtown Seattle to Downtown Kirkland or the 235 from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Kirkland. (For details on public transport and routes, click here)
By Uber: Uber is available in Kirkland.
By Taxi: Eastside for Hire: 425-453-9000; Stita: 206-697-2532; Kirkland Limo Service: 425-406-6333
Kirkland is part of the Lake Washington School District and is the fifth largest school district in Washington and one of the wealthiest in the Puget Sound area. It is also home to Lake Washington Technical College and Northwest University, a small Christian school and bordered on the northwest by the campus of Bastyr University in Kenmore. Below are some of the elementary and secondary schools in the city
Peter Kirk Elementary School
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Kirkland is a dynamic waterfront destination with an unprecedented mix of outdoor recreation, art, dining, and boutique shopping. Since it is located right on the shores of Lake Washington, no other city in the Puget Sound region has as much waterfront parks and beaches as Kirkland. It is also a city that has a collection of public art - primarily bronze statues - and throughout the year, you will find bald eagles dipping into the water to fish as the sailboats and windsurfers catch air currents and sail by.
As previously mentioned, Kirkland is a pedestrian-friendly city, so a quick stroll through its tree-lined streets would reveal a wide array of options in terms of cuisine provided by local restaurants and their nationally-acclaimed chefs; their creations showcasing the best of Northwest ingredients and paired with exquisite Washington wine.
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Celebrate Your Business Wins Like a True Football Fan
It’s Super Bowl time. As a big football fan, I always love the Big Game (although it is a lot more fun when my team is in it). But at this time of the year, I always think about the odd way that fans like me react while watching a game in which we have zero control over the outcome.
For instance, I am superstitious when watching games (wearing my “lucky” t-shirt), I find myself yelling at the TV, and I often cheer so loud that I know my neighbors down the street can probably hear. I refer to my team as “we” – “We really need to start calling more aggressive plays” – assimilating myself to the team. And when the team wins, I feel like I’ve won too. Winning can feel euphoric, and losing can trigger the opposite. Why do these things happen to our brain and bodies?
–Do these reactions happen when “winning” and “losing” in business too? The answer is YES.–
According to medical research (see this quick video), when your team is winning, your brain starts releasing the neurotransmitter dopamine, which helps to regulate the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. And when your team is losing, there is a higher production of cortisol, a stress triggered hormone made in your adrenal glands and a lower production of serotonin, which can lead to feelings of depression. In addition, the release of dopamine makes us feel like we are a part of the team. This is all in response to a game that we have no control over, are not playing in, and theoretically have only a remote connection.
So how can we relate this response to business? In business we have more control. Our “wins” and “losses” are much more a result of our own direct actions. What if we focused more time on recognizing and celebrating our own wins – the little wins as well as the big triumphs? We can actually produce similar brain/body reactions in ourselves and that of our team. You can’t deny that winning feels good and it is scientifically proven. Let’s recognize more business wins and celebrate them. It’s good for the body, the brain and the business!
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Tail Tidy for the Yamaha R25 '14-, MT-25 '15-, MT-03 '16 -and R3 '15- modelsLP0172BK
Tidy up the rear end of the Yamaha R25 '14-, MT-25 '15-, MT-03 '16- and R3 '15- models with an Aluminium R&G Tail Tidy/Licence Plate Holder.
Made from Aluminium for strength and weight saving, powder coated black for great looks and durability. Our tail tidy units are easy to fit and transform the rear of the bike removing the expansive OEM licence plate holders replacing them with a much slicker looking unit, tucking the number plate up underneath the rear seat unit.
This mo...
Crash Protectors - Aero Style for Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19- CP0465BL
R&G Aero Crash Protectors feature our stylish, aerodynamic Aero Bobbins and are available in Black & White options. Suitable for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19- models.
R&G Crash Protectors offer core motorcycle protection, keeping the frame, engine, fairing and other critical components off the ground in the event of a crash, drop or slide.
Crash Protectors - Aero Style Yamaha R25 '14-'18 and R3 '15-'18 Race VersionCP0391BL, CP0391WH
These crash protectors feature our stylish, aerodynamic Aero Bobbins and are available in black. Suitable for the Yamaha R25 '14-'18 and the R3 '15-'18 models. These crash protectors are the low profile race version. These are designed to protect the frame, and therefore fairing protection is minimal. Suited to racing use only.
R&G Aero Bobbins from R&G - the market leaders in crash protection and the only insurance-approved crash protectors on the market. As used by some of the world's...
Aero Crash Protectors for Yamaha R25 '14-'18 and the R3 '15-'18 modelsCP0379BL, CP0379WH
These crash protectors feature our stylish, aerodynamic Aero Bobbins and are
available with Black or White bobbins.
Suitable for the Yamaha R25 '14-'18 and the R3 '15-'18 models.
This kit requires NO fairing modification to install thanks to its specially designed brackets and mounts.
Available with either Black or White bobbins.
Radiator Guards for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- and the MT-25 and Yamaha MT-03 '15- modelsRAD0205BK, RAD0205DKBLUE, RAD0205RE, RAD0205TI
Available in black, titanium, dark blue and red powder coat finishes to fit the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- and the MT-25 and Yamaha MT-03 '15- models. Made from pressed aluminium and feature a neat, seamless frame (where applicable). They improve the looks of your bike and help to protect your expensive and vulnerable radiator from flying debris.
Please note, Dark Blue and Red are special order and have a slightly longer lead time.
Downpipe Grille for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19-
R&G downpipe grille is made from aluminium, improve looks and protects your expensive and vulnerable downpipes and other parts below the radiator from flying debris and damage.
The product is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19- models.
Available in Black or Titanium powder coat finishes.
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Downpipe Grille for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-'18, R3 '15-'18DG0019BK, DG0019DKBLUE, DG0019RE, DG0019TI
The product is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-'18 and the R3 '15-'18.
Available in Black, Titanium, Red and Dark Blue powercoat finishes.
Titanium Radiator Guard for Yamaha R25 '14-, R3 '15-RAD0181RACINGTI
Available for the Yamaha R25 '14-, R3 '15- models, this R&G Titanium radiator guard is both lightweight and super strong, thanks to its real Titanium (ASTM B265 Grade 1) mesh construction, encased in a seamless aluminium frame.
This specific R&G radiator guard is made from an expanded ASTM B265 Grade 1 Titanium sheet and features a neat, seamless aluminium frame, securely holding the guard in place (utilising existing mounting or brackets).
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Engine Case Covers - RACE SERIES - for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models (LHS)ECC0184R
This specific Race Series Engine Case Cover is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models protecting the exposed Left Hand Side Engine Casing from damage in the event of a crash, drop or slide.
Please note that this case is NOT compatible with the road fairings, and as such can only be used with race fairings.
R&G Race Series Engine Case Covers have been specifically developed in collaboration with selected high level race teams and crash tested in BSB level racing ev...
Engine Case Covers - RACE SERIES - for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models (RHS)ECC0185R
This specific Race Series Engine Case Cover is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models protecting the exposed Right Hand Side Engine Casing from damage in the event of a crash, drop or slide.
R&G Race Series Engine Case Covers have been specifically developed in collaboration with selected high level race teams and crash tested in BSB level racing e...
Engine Case Covers for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models (LHS)ECC0184BK
Suitable for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models. Protecting the left Hand Engine Casing from damage in the event of a crash, drop or slide.
R&G’s entire range of Engine Case Covers (ECCs) have been approved by the British Superbike Championship (BSB) and the American Motorcycling Association (AMA) for use in any competition sanctioned by the Organisations.
Engine Case Covers for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models (RHS)ECC0185BK
Suitable for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models. Protecting the right Hand Engine Casing from damage in the event of a crash, drop or slide.
Engine Case Cover Race Kit (2pc) for Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15-, MT-25/MT-03 '16-KEC0078R
Suitable for the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- and MT-25/MT-03 '16-.Our industry leading race series engine case covers are now available in kit form containing all the engine case covers R&G offer for your bike in one go. Developed on track and brought to the road, R&G Engine Case Covers bring BSB and AMA race series approved levels of engine cover protection to your bike for complete peace of mind.
R&G’s entire range of Engine Case Covers (ECCs) have been ...
Engine Case Cover Kit (2pc) for Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15-KEC0078BK
Our industry leading engine case covers are now available in kit form containing all the engine case covers R&G offer for your bike in one go. Developed on track and brought to the road our engine case covers are made from 4mm polypropylene for strength, durability and good looks, they complement our other crash protection perfectly and come approved by the California Superbike School (www.superbikeschool.co.uk).
Suitable for both the Yamaha YZF-R25 and Yamaha YZF-R3 models.
Dashboard Screen Protector Kit for Yamaha R3 2019- / R25 2019-DSP-YAM-008CL
The all-new R&G Second Skin Dashboard Protection kit is made from high quality, anti-scratch material. This bespoke screen protector kit has been designed to protect the delicate dashboard screen on your bike from unwanted scratches and marks.
Kit includes detailed instructions to aid in the dashboard protector placement, 2x dashboard protectors (1x spare), mini spray bottle, suede polishing cloth, wet & dry wipe, squeegee and dust removal strip.
R&G Second Skin for Yamaha YZF-R3 & R25 '15-'18SCPYAM002
R&G Second Skin stone chip protection film is a non-yellowing (UV Stable), ultra-tough, easy-to-apply, polyurethane protective film. Designed to protect your road or track motorcycle from stone chips, road salt, tar, abrasions, fairing stress fractures and bodywork/fuel tank scratches from general use. The unique properties of our protection film enable it to disperse the impact energy of gravel and small stones, bouncing them off and leaving your bodywork untouched beneath.
R&G Second Skin for Yamaha YZF-R3 '19- & YZF-R25 '19-SCPYAM009
Bar End Sliders for Yamaha R25' 14-, MT-25 '15-, Yamaha R3 '15-, MT-03 '16- and NMAX 125 '17-BE0082BK
These bar end protectors have been specially developed for the Yamaha R25 '14-, MT-25 '15-, Yamaha R3 '15-, MT-03 '16- and NMAX 125 '17- models.
Helping to protect those expensive levers and handlebars from damage in the event of a drop or crash.
Easy to install they simply screw into the end of the OEM bars.
Moulded Lever Guard - Universal Fit (13-21mm Expanding design)MLG0001BK, MLG0001BL, MLG0001GR, MLG0001OR, MLG0001RE
This R&G Moulded Lever Guard kit can be fitted to either the brake or clutch sides and comes with our universal fitting kit, its expanding design clamps to the inside of the clipon/handlebar (13-21mm diameter) and is available in a range of colour options.
Originally conceived in Moto2 but now adopted by almost every motorcycle body worldwide (ACU, MSVR, FIM, AMA) and required for racing, the 'Lever Guard' was developed to help avoid the accidental engagement of the front brake/clutch l...
Carbon Fibre Lever Guard (Universal)LG0001C
Originally conceived in Moto2 but now adopted by almost every motorcycle body worldwide (ACU, MSVR, FIM, AMA) and required for racing, the 'Lever Guard' was developed to help avoid the accidental engagement of the front brake lever during close wheel to wheel racing (either from accidental contact with another bike or even a rider) but can equally be applied to road riding, protecting your lever(s) from wing mirror strikes while filters; again potentially causing front brake engagement.
Cotton ReelsCR0002BK, CR0002WH
These cotton reels mount directly into the mounting points on the rear swingarm offering the best of both worlds in terms of crash protection and functionality with the ability to use R&G cotton reels, which offer excellent crash protection to those components located towards the rear as well as the ability to lift up the rear of the bike with a paddock stand for maintenance and tyre changes.
Available in Black or White.
Fork Protectors for Yamaha R25 '14-, MT-25 '15-, R3 '15-, MT-03 '16- modelsFP0162BK
These fork protectors are suitable for the Yamaha R25 '14-, MT-25 '15-, R3 '15-, MT-03 '16- models.
Easy to install, they help to eliminate damage to the front forks, fork bottoms and brake calipers during a crash or drop by keeping them lifted off the ground and out of harms way.
Swingarm Protectors for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-, MT-25 '15- and the YZF-R3 '15- modelsSP0063BK
These swingarm protectors, for the Yamaha R25 '14-, MT-25 '15- and R3 '15- models fit into the rear spindle and provide added protection to the swingarm area and swingarm components.
Easy to install, they help keep those core components found in the swingarm area such as the rear brake caliper, disc, Rear sprocket and swingarm lifted up off the ground and out of harms way in the event of a crash.
Please note: Paddock stand bobbins / Paddock stand (as seen in pictures) are NOT i...
R&G Tank Traction Grips for Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19-EZRG933
This 2 piece R&G Tank Traction Grips have been specially designed for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19- model.
R&G Tank Traction Grip kits are available for many different bike styles and brands, with new applications released regularly. The unique R&G texture was specifically designed to be both soft and durable, providing the rider with the grip and feel he/she needs to assist in better bike control, enabling the rider to maintain a stable body position while cornering and braking...
R&G Tank Traction Grip for Yamaha R25 '14-'18, MT-25 '15- and R3 '15-'18 modelsEZRG918BL, EZRG918CL
R&G Tank Traction Grips have been specially designed for the Yamaha R25 '14-'18, MT-25 '15- and R3 '15-'18 models.
R&G Tank Traction Grip kits are available for many different bike styles and brands, with new applications released regularly. The unique R&G Traction Grip texture was specifically designed to be both soft and durable, providing the rider with the grip and feel he/she needs to assist in better bike control, enabling the rider to maintain a stable body position while corneri...
R&G Boot Guard Kit for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15-EZBG905BL
This Boot Guard kit has been specially designed for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models and comes as a 2 piece kit.
R&G Boot Guard kits are available for a large range of bike styles and brands, with new applications released regularly. The unique R&G texture was specifically designed to be durable, providing the rider with a buffer between his boot on the exposed areas of the swingarm which can (on occasion) come into contact with each other during cornering causing wear and...
Shocktube ®SHOCK16BK
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Tank Sliders for Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 2019-TS0052C
This Tank Slider (pair) kit is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 2019- models.
As used by the California Superbike School. (http://www.superbikeschool.com/)
Our Tank Sliders are made from Carbon fibre reinforced with DuPont™ Kevlar®, offering excellent crash protection and wear resistance. Specially moulded to fit perfectly onto the tank, they are designed to fit onto the most pronounced corners and likely areas to get hit in the event of a crash or drop.
Made in t...
R&G Carbon Tank Sliders for Yamaha R25 '14-'18 and R3 '15-'18TS0027C
This Tank Slider (pair) kit is compatible with the Yamaha R25 '14-'18 and R3 '15-'18 models.
Our Tank Sliders are made from Carbon fibre, offering excellent crash protection and wear resistance. Specially moulded to fit perfectly onto the tank, they are designed to fit onto the most pronounced corners and likely areas to get hit in the event of a crash or drop.
The application takes only minutes and they could save you having to replace your tank which...
Carbon Fibre Tail Sliders for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- modelsTLS0022C
This Tail Slider kit is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models.
Our Tail Sliders are made from Carbon fibre reinforced with DuPont™ Kevlar®, offering excellent crash protection and wear resistance. Specially moulded to fit perfectly onto the tail, they are designed to fit onto the most pronounced corners and likely areas to get hit in the event of a crash or drop.
Made...
Exhaust Protector for Yamaha YZF-R1/R1M '15-, Yamaha MT-10 '16-, YZF-R25/ R3 '19-, Kawasaki ZX10R '16-, Z125 '19-, Ninja 125 '19- and Honda CBR1000RR / SP / SP2 '17-, BMW F850GS '18- & Royal Enfield Himalayan '17- modelsEP0020BK
Suitable for the Yamaha YZF-R1/R1M '15-, Yamah...
Exhaust Hanger Kit for Yamaha R25 '14- and R3 '15-EH0063BKA
This Exhaust Hanger kit includes an Exhaust Hanger and Rear Footrest Blanking Plate enables the removal and the pillion pegs for that racing bike look, whilst also allowing for your exhaust to be properly supported. Finished in black the stylish Exhaust Hanger has been specially designed to fit the Yamaha R25 '14-, R3 '15- models.
Both parts are made from 6mm aluminium and featuring a modern design, the Exhaust Hanger really gives the bike a more aggressive racing look, ditching those u...
Exhaust Hanger for the Yamaha R25 '14- and R3 '15- modelsEH0063BK
This stylish R&G Exhaust Hanger has been specifically designed for the Yamaha R25 '14- and R3 '15- model and not only reduces weight, but also gives the bike a sportier, sleeker look. With a classy, black, powder coated finish and vivid R-Series graphics, it is made from sturdy, aircraft-grade aluminium and will retain its good looks for many years.
Rear Foot Rest Blanking Plate Kit for Yamaha R25 '14- and R3 '15- modelsBLP0037BK
Tidy up the rear of your Yamaha YZF-R25/YF-R3 with an R&G Foot Rest Blanking Plate kit.
Once you have removed the rear footrest pillion hangers, fill the void left behind and cover those otherwise exposed holes in the subframe with an R&G blanking plate.
Suitable for the Yamaha R25 '14- and R3 '15-.
R&G blanking plates are easy to install, simply screwing into place, covering those otherwise exposed subframe holes, that if left uncovered could result in corrosion of ...
Tie-Down Hook for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-'18 and YZF-R3 '15-'18TH0001SS
Whether you are transporting your bike to a track or down to your local mechanic for some work, make securing your bike a lot easier with the R&G Tie-Down Hook.
This single Tie-Down Hook has been specially designed to fit the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-'18 and YZF-R3 '15-'18 models.
This product can only be fitted in conjunction with our tail tidy (P/N LP0172BK). If you do not have our tail tidy fitted, please see product TH0008.
Please note;- no ratchet straps are ...
Tie-Down Hook for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15-TH0008BK, TH0008GO
This pair of Tie-Down Hooks have been specially designed to fit the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14- and YZF-R3 '15- models.
If you have our tail tidy (p/n LP0172BK) fitted you can use TH0001SS as an alternative.
Please note;- no ratchet straps are included with this product!
Kickstand Shoe for Yamaha R25 '14-, R3 '15-PKS0078SI
This particular model fits the Yamaha R25 '14-, R3 '15-.
Never forget your sidestand puck again!
Kickstand Shoes bolt onto the bottom of the sidestand, to enlarge the original’s footprint by up to 100%, significantly spreading the load placed upon it, to help prevent the stand ‘piercing’ the ground. Despite this enlargement, the Shoe does not affect ground clearance or interfere with the chain run during normal riding.
Headlight Shields for YAMAHA YZF-R25 '14-'18 / YZF-R3 '15-'18HLS0038CL
These R&G Headlight Shields are specially designed to fit YAMAHA YZF-R25 '14-'18 / YZF-R3 '15-'18 models.
R&G Headlight shields are engineered for protection and style. Protecting your expensive headlights from debris kicked up from the road, our headlight shields are easy to fit, with no modification needed to your bike and they are easily removed for cleaning. R&G Headlight Shields are made from clear acrylic and specially designed to fit a range of bikes that's ever growing.
Headlight Shield for Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19-HLS0095CL
This R&G Headlight Shield is specially designed to fit Yamaha YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19- models.
Indicator Adapter Kit for Micro Indicators (without resistors) for the Yamaha YZF-R3 '19- & YZF-R25 '19-
When using micro indicators for the Yamaha YZF-R3 '19- & YZF-R25 '19- you will need the R&G Indicator Adapter kit (IA0008BK) which contains connectors and small rubber seals for one pair of indicators.
Resistors are not included!
*Please note that the LED Indicators DO NOT come with this kit*
R&G LED Flasher Relay : OEM block for Honda, Kawasaki & YamahaRGRELAY003
The all-new R&G LED Flasher Relay has been designed to fix flash rate problems on indicators for the following manufacturers: Honda, Kawasaki & Yamaha.
Please check the existing Indicator Relay where possible before ordering - if you are still unsure please ask your local dealer.
Front Indicator Adapter Kit for Yamaha modelsFAP0003BK
These indicator adapters are made to suit the Yamaha YZF-R1, Yamaha MT-07 , Yamaha MT-09 & SP model, Yamaha YZF-R25, Yamaha XSR700, Yamaha R3 and Yamaha Tracer 700 models and allow the use of our own micro indicators (RG370/RG371/RG372) as front indicators, getting rid of those large OEM indicators and helping give your bike a more sporty look.
Micro Indicators not included.
Toe Chain Guards - Toe Guard Yamaha YZF-R1/R1M '15- and MT-10 '16- modelsTG0012BK
R&G Racing's road-racing inspired toe guard has been developed and designed to give maximum protection combined with great looks. Made from aluminium for a lightweight and strong product it features pre-drilled holes attaching to the existing mounts on the swingarm, ensuring effective coverage of the sprocket.
This racing Toe Guard is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R1/R1M '15-, R25 '14-, MT-25 '15-, MT-10 '16-, MT-03 '15- and the R3 '15- models.
No modifications to the bike a...
Mirror Blanking Plates for Yamaha YZF-R125 '19-, YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19-MBP0034BK
Lose your mirrors for that rebellious look or simply to stop your fairings flapping whilst on track days or racing!
These stylish R&G Mirror Blanking Plates improve the looks of your bike by covering up the otherwise exposed mounting points from the mirrors.
This product is suitable for the Yamaha Yamaha YZF-R125 '19-, YZF-R25 '19- & YZF-R3 '19- models.
Mirror Blanking Plates for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-'18 and Yamaha YZF-R3 '15-'18 modelsMBP0020BK
Made from acetal for a fantastic finish, these neat little blanking plates fit over the mounting point for the mirrors and can be fitted in seconds - (comes supplied with bolts for installation).
This product is suitable for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-'18 and Yamaha YZF-R3 '15-'18 models.
Fender Extender for Yamaha YZF-R3 '15-'18FERG0012BK, FERG0012CL
This R&G Fender Extender is compatible with the Yamaha YZF-R3 '15-'18 models.
R&G Fender Extenders offer additional protection to front-mounted coolers, downpipes and fairing panels from debris, road grit, mud and water kicked up by the front wheel. Attaching to the motorcycle's front mud guard / fender via included adhesive strips and push rivets, installation takes only minutes.
M6 Elevation Paddock Stand BobbinsITBO001BK, ITBO001SI, ITBO001TI
These anodised aluminium paddock stand bobbins are suitable for most Aprilia, Triumph and Yamaha models.
Supplied in pairs and available in 3 colour options.
Ideally suited to work with our Elevation series paddock stands.
Please carefully check your bike to ensure the Paddock Stand/Cotton Reel mounts are the correct size before purchasing.
Superbike Outdoor Cover BC0006BK, BC0006SI
The R&G Superbike Outdoor Cover has been redesigned for 2017 to include many new features. Based off our original award winning design and made of quality waterproof material, the cover also features elasticated rim and Belly straps as standard ensure the cover stays fixed in place and stops wind, mud or water getting up inside the cover and ensure a tight fit around the base. Front and rear chain loops for security devices covered by a velcro® closing flap to ensure the cover is fully waterpro...
Scorpion Exhaust for the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- (Serket Taper Style)SCORP-RYA98CEO, SCORP-RYA98SEO, SCORP-RYA98TEO
These specific slip on Scorpion exhausts fits the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- models in the "Serket Taper" style.
Scorpion utilises the latest technologies and extensive R&D in the development and manufacture of its exhausts. Its experience in high-level motorsport, BSB (British SuperBikes), amongst many others allows it to develop high-quality, durable and performance-enhancing products. Utilising aerospace-grade materials such as stainless steel, carbon fibre and titanium in their construc...
Scorpion Exhaust for Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- (RP-1 GP Style)SCORP-YA1001CEM, SCORP-YA1001TEM
This specific Scorpion Slip on exhaust fits the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- models in the "RP-1 GP" styles.
Scorpion utilises the latest technologies and extensive R&D in the development and manufacture of its exhausts. Its experience in high-level motorsport, BSB (British SuperBikes), amongst many others allows it to develop high-quality, durable and performance-enhancing products. Utilising aerospace-grade materials such as stainless steel, carbon fibre and titanium in their construction, ...
Scorpion Full Exhaust System for the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- (Serket Taper Style - FULL SYSTEM)SCORP-RYA98SYSCEO, SCORP-RYA98SYSSEO, SCORP-RYA98SYSTEO
This specific Scorpion exhaust is a full system and fits the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- models in the "Serket Taper" style.
Scorpion utilises the latest technologies and extensive R&D in the development and manufacture of its exhausts. Its experience in high-level motorsport, BSB (British SuperBikes), amongst many others allows it to develop high-quality, durable and performance-enhancing products. Utilising aerospace-grade materials such as stainless steel, carbon fibre and titanium in the...
Scorpion Full Exhaust System for the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- (RP-1GP Style - FULL SYSTEM)SCORP-YA1001SYSCEM, SCORP-YA1001SYSTEM
This specific Scorpion exhaust is a full system and fits the Yamaha YZF-R25/R3 '15- models in the "RP-1GP" style.
Scorpion utilises the latest technologies and extensive R&D in the development and manufacture of its exhausts. Its experience in high-level motorsport, BSB (British SuperBikes), amongst many others allows it to develop high-quality, durable and performance-enhancing products. Utilising aerospace-grade materials such as stainless steel, carbon fibre and titanium in their con...
Red Dynamic Carbon Fibre Fuel Cap Protector for Yamaha motorcyclesRD-FC4C
Red Dynamic offer an expanding range of stylish Carbon Fibre effect motorcycle fuel cap and yoke protectors. The resin topped carbon fibre effect protectors offer a rich luxury finish whilst adding both style and providing protection from key and keyring damage to those otherwise exposed metal components.
BMC Air Filter for Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-, YZF-R3 '15-, TMAX 500 08-, TMAX 530 12- & Suzuki GSX-R/ GSX-S 125's '18-BMC-FM528/20-01
This specific BMC Air Filter has been made for the Yamaha YZF-R25 '14-, YZF-R3 '15- & Suzuki GSX-R/ GSX-S 125's '18- models.
100% handmade in Italy, BMC filters are trusted by almost every high-level automotive and endurance team in racing - a testament to their quality. They are used by such teams as the Yamaha Factory team (MotoGP), Pata Yamaha Official (WSBK),
plus many other top teams in WSS, BSB, BSS and more!
The knowledge and experience gained on track is transferr...
RD Moto Paddock Stand Bobbins RDM-EM10B, RDM-EM10G, RDM-EM10K, RDM-EM10N, RDM-EM10O, RDM-EM10R, RDM-EM10S, RDM-EM125B, RDM-EM125G, RDM-EM125K, RDM-EM125N, RDM-EM125O, RDM-EM125R, RDM-EM125S, RDM-EM6B, RDM-EM6G, RDM-EM6K, RDM-EM6N,
RDMoto Paddock Stand Bobbins are available in a range of style and size options to fit most bike models and allows the use of a hook equipt paddock stand to lift the rear of the motorcycle off the ground to aid in tyre changes and motorcycle chain and wheel maintenance.
Available in a range of colour options to suit your bike including: Blue, Gold, Black, Green, Orange, Red and Silver
RD Moto Oil Filler Cap for Yamaha YZF-R1, YZF-R6, MT07 (FZ-07) and MT10 models.RDM-OC5B, RDM-OC5G, RDM-OC5K, RDM-OC5N, RDM-OC5O, RDM-OC5R, RDM-OC5S
Available in a range of coloured anodised Aluminium options, RD Moto Oil Filler Cap directly replace the OE oil cap with a more colourful and stylish variant. Installation and tightening is a breeze thanks to the hex key/Allen key socket atop the cap and they include a replacement O ring seal to ensure a perfect seal.
This RD-Moto Oil Filler Cap (sized M27x3.0) is suitable for the Yamaha YZF-R1, YZF-R6, MT07 (FZ-07) and MT10 models (see application list above for more compatible bikes).
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Renter report: Reno apartment hunters leaving own city at higher rate than rest of US
Apartment hunters in Reno are leaving the city at a rate that’s nearly as high as San Francisco’s, according to Apartment List migration study.
Renter report: Reno apartment hunters leaving own city at higher rate than rest of US Apartment hunters in Reno are leaving the city at a rate that’s nearly as high as San Francisco’s, according to Apartment List migration study. Check out this story on rgj.com: https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/06/19/reno-apartments-for-rent-prices-renters-leaving-city/1492425001/
Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette Journal Published 6:00 a.m. PT June 19, 2019 | Updated 9:41 a.m. PT June 19, 2019
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Many Reno apartment hunters are apparently bidding au revoir to The Biggest Little City.
More than 2 in 5 apartment hunters who live in the Reno-Sparks metro area are looking to move elsewhere, according to the first-ever Apartment List Renter Migration Report. The report analyzed millions of searches on the Apartment List site.
While the report includes searches by users who might just be looking around, the bulk of the data involves registered members of the site, who are typically considered to have a high intent of moving, Apartment List told the Reno Gazette Journal.
The report found that 43.2% of apartment hunters who reside in Reno-Sparks are looking to move to a different city. The number is significantly higher than the national rate of 29% for renters who are moving out of the city they live in. Reno’s rate of outbound renters is also nearly as high as San Francisco’s, which was 46%.
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A jobs surge has made Reno-Sparks a popular destination for new residents in recent years as Tesla, Switch and a slew of companies either move or expand operations into the area.
“The metro of Reno-Sparks added 48,000 jobs within the last five years alone,” said Angelina Bader, a spokeswoman for Apartment List. “All in all, 29 companies, including Tesla and Apple, have either completely relocated or expanded into the area.”
The influx of new residents, however, has also fueled record-high home prices and skyrocketing rents as housing inventory fails to keep up with rising demand. While this has been tough for locals, housing in Reno is still affordable compared to the Bay Area.
Fountainhouse on Victorian Square in Sparks, Nevada Jan. 10, 2018. (Photo: Andy Barron)
“The combination of lack of income tax and cheaper rent attracts many renters to Reno,” Bader said. “Affordable rent could especially explain the high percentages of searches coming from Sacramento and San Francisco, where people are looking to escape increasing housing costs.”
The high number of out-of-area residents moving into Reno is reflected in Apartment List’s migration study. Of the people looking for an apartment in Reno-Sparks, 50.2 percent come from outside of the area.
Sacramento topped the list for inbound migration, accounting for 21.8% of the people looking for an apartment in Reno. San Francisco was second at 9.2% while Las Vegas was third at 6.6%. The San Jose metro area was next at 6.4 percent. Other cities where new residents are coming from include Los Angeles, Phoenix and New York.
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Where are Reno renters leaving to go?
As far as renters looking to leave Reno, Sin City proved to be the most popular destination. Nearly 15% of renters leaving Reno ended up looking for an apartment in Las Vegas. Interestingly, San Francisco — which has a less affordable housing market than Reno — was the second most popular destination at 8.6%, followed by Sacramento at 8%. Other popular destinations that Reno renters are moving to include:
Phoenix: 7.3%
Los Angeles: 6.6%
San Jose: 4%
Seattle: 3.7%
San Diego: 3.6%
Portland: 3.6%
Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., made the list of destinations as well.
As part of its analysis, Apartment List says jobs are typically a prime motivator for moving to a new area.
“Long-distance moves are often motivated by employment opportunities, with research showing that residential mobility is closely intertwined with economic mobility,” the report said.
Check out the full Apartment List Renter Migration Report.
Jason Hidalgo covers business and technology for the Reno Gazette Journal, and also reviews video games as part of his Technobubble features. Follow him on Twitter @jasonhidalgo. Like this content? Support local journalism with an RGJ digital subscription.
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Award-winner police dog Oz retires after six years of service
PUBLISHED: 13:11 11 January 2019 | UPDATED: 14:15 11 January 2019
Georgia Barrow
Oz and his handler's hard work and dedication was recognised at Hertfordshire Constabulary's annual award ceremony as they scooped the Joint Protective Services Officer of the Year Award. Picture: Herts police
The handler of an award-winning police dog who is retiring after six years of service has spoken about the "great memories" the pair have shared together.
PD Oz – formerly called Woz – started working with his handler in the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Dog Unit in 2013. Most recently, he was the face of the unit’s Facebook relaunch.
Throughout his career, Oz has attended a wide range of incidents – successfully locating missing people, tracking and detaining suspects and locating vital evidence at crime scenes.
Award-winning police dog Oz has retired after six years. Picture: Herts police
His handler of six years said: “Oz’s desire, willingness and commitment to his role have led to numerous successful results and his no-nonsense and determined approach to incidents has led to lengthy prison sentences for offenders and justice for the victims.
“This has been achieved utilising his natural abilities. He clearly enjoyed the part he played and his larger than life character and reputation preceded him.
“It’s been a real pleasure and honour to work alongside him. From the moment I met him there was a connection and a glint in his eye. We have learned together and I’ve got some great memories and had some excellent experiences along the way.”
German Shepherd Oz was also specially trained as a public order and firearms support dog, which saw him attend football matches in Luton to maintain order and spontaneous and pre-planned firearm incidents and operations around the three counties.
In October last year Oz – who was predominantly based in Hertfordshire – and his handler’s hard work and dedication was recognised at Hertfordshire Constabulary’s annual award ceremony as they scooped the Joint Protective Services Officer of the Year Award.
Also in October, two men were sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison for their role in a series of burglaries in the Potters Bar area after help from Oz.
“It’s been a real pleasure and honour to work alongside him." said Oz's handler. Picture: Herts police
Following an incident in the town in April last year, three men ran from officers. One was caught, but two disappeared after climbing fencing into gardens.
Seven-year-old Oz was deployed, and he and his handler systematically worked their way through numerous gardens. After continuing to track for around 30 minutes, Oz located the two men in an outbuilding.
In August, Oz supported officers in Stevenage – which saw him help contain a suspect who was subsequently arrested on suspicion of assault and public orders offences.
Oz’s nose was in action for a different reason in Hitchin in April as he searched for and located a discarded knife, which led to an arrest over possession of an offensive weapon.
And, at the beginning of last year, a burglar was sentenced to four years in prison after being caught by Oz following a Hatfield break-in. Oz searched through alleyways, roads and parks before leading officers to the front door of a block of flats. Once inside the communal area, officers identified a flat where there was activity inside. The man was then arrested.
Oz will be remaining with his handler, who added: “There are two sides to Oz. He’s a real softy at home, but there was a distinctive difference when he was at work. He’s been a loyal and committed partner who has been ready to work at a moment’s notice. He has earned a long and healthy retirement.”
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Contest Sections 2019
UKO (UK and CD Entrants Open)
Standard licence conditions and no antenna restrictions
UKL (UK and CD Entrants Low Power)
The power output must be not more than 100W PEP at the final output stage or external amplifier connection to the antenna. Only one antenna may be used. Stacked or bayed antennas are not allowed. Backfire or parabolic dish type antennas must not exceed 2 metres in diameter.
Sweeper (VHF NFD Overall Sweeper Results)
. VHF NFD Sweepers
SO (Single Op Others)
. Single Operators not located at a fixed station address as defined in the SF section.
SF (Single Op Fixed)
. Stations must operate from permanent and substantial buildings located at the main station address as shown on the licence validation document. The spirit of the contest will be paramount.
SAR (SHF UKAC Restricted)
The power output at the final output stage or external amplifier connection to the antenna must be no more than 50W on 2.3 GHz, no more than 10W on 3.4 & 5.7 GHz and no more than 5W on 10 GHz.
No antenna restrictions.
SAO (SHF UKAC Open )
Standard licence conditions and no antenna restrictions, the power output must be greater than 50W on 2.3GHz, more than 10W on 3.4 and 5.7GHz, and more than 5W on 10GHz.
R (Restricted Section of VHF NFD)
(i) The power output of any band must not exceed 100W PEP at the transmitter, except on 4m where output power is restrcited to 40W
(ii) The height of any part of the antenna's driven element must not exceed 10 metres above ground level.
(iii) Only one antenna per band may be used (i.e. no stacked, bayed or colinear arrays or switching between two or more antennas). A slot fed Yagi or Quad antenna is permitted. Dish or Backfire antennas must not exceed 2m diameter.
(iv) Operate on up to 5 bands from the following list, only the best 4 normalised scores will count to the final total.
50MHz (6m) 1400 to 2200 Saturday (all mode)
70MHz (4m) 0800 to 1400 Sunday (all mode)
144MHz (2m) 1400 Saturday to 1400 Sunday (all mode)
432MHz (70cm) 1400 Saturday to 1400 Sunday (all mode)
1.3GHz (23cm) 1400 Saturday to 1400 Sunday (all mode)
Stations entering in this section must use the /P callsign suffix.
. Overseas entrants
Open (Open section of VHF NFD)
(i) Maximum output power as permitted by standard licence conditions.
(ii) General rules apply
(iii) Operate on any bands from the following list, but only the best 4 normalised scores will count to the final total:
O (Open)
. Single-op stations not located at the address on the validation document (e.g when operating as /P, /A or /M) and all Multi-op stations
MS (Single Transmitter Section of VHF NFD)
(i) Open to Portable Stations Only
(ii) All antennas must be installed on a single mast and only one antenna for each band may be installed on that mast. Backfire or parabolic dish type antennas must not exceed 2 metres in diameter. No stacked or bayed arrays are permitted. The maximum height for any part of the driven element of any antenna is 12 metres above ground level. Note: a mast of greater than 12 metres in height is permitted as long as the antenna height restriction is complied with.
(iii) Operate on up to 3 bands, however simultaneous transmision on more than one band at a time is not allowed. The chosen bands must be selected during registration and operation on any other bands is not allowed. Indicated output powers are PEP measured at the transmitter. All 3 normalised scores will count towards the final total:
50MHz (6m) 1400 to 2200 Saturday (all modes 100W maximum output power)
70MHz (4m) 0800 to 1400 Sunday (all modes 40W maximum output power)
144MHz (2m) 1400 Saturday to 1400 Sunday (all modes 100W maximum output power)
432MHz (70cm) 1400 Saturday to 1400 Sunday (all modes 50W maximum output power)
1.3GHz (23cm) 1400 Saturday to 1400 Sunday (all modes 10W maximum output power)
NOTE: Single band entries are not valid for this section and other than the selected entry bands, operation on any other band or bands is not permitted, even for the purposes of talk-back.
(iv) Operation for no more than 16 hours out of the 24 hours on 2m, 70cm and 23cm. Any break must last for at least 1 hour.
Entries in this Section cannot form part of an entry in the Mix and Match Section.
See FAQ list http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/rules/2019/multisinglefaq.shtml
MO (Multi-Op)
. Multi Operator stations
M (Mix and Match Section of VHF NFD)
7.4 Mix and Match (M)
(i) A group can elect to place different bands into Restricted, Low-Power or Open sections. E.g. 4m in Restricted, 2m and 70cm in Open, and 23cm in Low Power. This decision must be made at registration time. Only three stations can be in the same section (e.g. 6m, 4m and 2m in the Open section, 70cm in the Restricted section). Only the best 4 normalised scores will count to the final total.
(ii) Individual band entry will be tabulated in the appropriate main section, and a normalised score for the band produced on this basis.
(iii) The sum of the normalised scores will appear in a separate Mix and Match section table.
(iv) Operate on up to 5 bands from the following list:
(v) Note that 2m, 70cm or 23cm stations entered in the Low Power section may be operated for no more than 16 hours during the contest period. Each rest period must last at least 1 hour.
. This Section is for Local Clubs
LP (Single Operator, Fixed, 25W - Single Antenna)
This section is open to single operator fixed stations using 25W or less output and a single antenna.
When applied to the VHF Championship, if a station enters some contests with high power or extra antennas, and some with low power and a single antenna, only the low power, single antenna scores will count towards the championship.
L (Low Power Section of VHF NFD)
(i) The power output on any band must not exceed 25W PEP at the transmitter, except on 4m where ther power must be restricted to 10W.
(v) Each band may be operated for no more than 16 hours (except for 6m and 4m: see 7.3 (iv) above) during the contest period. Each rest period must last at least 1 hour.
. This Section is for General Clubs
FSR (Fixed Station Sweepers Restricted)
(i) Open to fixed stations only. (See Section 3 of general rules for definition)
(ii) Scoring is 1 point per kilometre for each QSO.
(iii) The final score on each band will be the number of points multiplied by the number of QSOs made with stations in the list of "VHF NFD Registrations" on that band and who are active during the contest.
The list of registered stations can be found at http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/vhfposted.pl?Contest=VHF%20NFD%20Registration
(iv) The power output on any band must not exceed 100W PEP at the transmitter, except on 4m where output is restricted to 40W. Only one antenna per band may be used (i.e. no stacked, bayed or colinear arrays or switching between two or more antennas). A slot fed Yagi or Quad antenna is permitted. Dish or Backfire antennas must not exceed 2m diameter.
(v) Operate on up to 5 bands from the following list.
(vi) An award will be made to the leading Sweeper on each band and additionally bronze, silver and gold awards for contacting 50, 75 and 90% of registered NFD stations.
FSO (Fixed Station Sweepers Open )
(iv) Maximum output power as permitted by standard licence conditions. No antenna restrictions.
(vii) An award will be made to the leading Sweeper on each band and additionally bronze, silver and gold awards for contacting 50, 75 and 90% of registered NFD stations.
EUO (Non-UK Entrants Open)
EUL (Non-UK Entrants Low Power)
AR (Restricted)
The power output must be not more than 100W PEP (40W on 4m) at the final output stage or external amplifier connection to the antenna.
Only one antenna may be used. Stacked or bayed antennas are not allowed. Backfire or parabolic dish type antennas must not exceed 2 metres in diameter.
AO (Open )
Standard licence conditions and no antenna restrictions.
ALL (All)
. This contest has a single section for all stations, single or multi-operator, fixed or portable in any combination.
AL (Low Power)
The power output must not exceed 10W PEP (4W on 4m) at the final output stage or external amplifier connection to the antenna.
Only one antenna may be used Stacked or bayed antenna arrays may not be used. Backfire or parabolic dish type antennas must not exceed 2 metres in diameter
A (All)
6S (6 hours Single Op Fixed)
. Rules as per section "SF" except stations may only operate for a maximum of 6 hours. Entrants may choose between any continuous 6 hour period in which to operate (e.g. 1500-2100, or 1917-0117) or alternatively split the 6 hour period into any number of segments as long as they are separated by at least 1 hour off time.
In order to increase activity we recommend the following times to operate in this section
1900-2100 UTC Sat and 0700-0900 and 1200-1400 UTC on the Sunday.
Operation after this 6 hour window is allowed but will not count for points. All contacts must be included in the log.
Serial numbers must start at 001 for this 6 hour period, and you cannot enter both this section and the full contest.
In multi-band contests the same single 6 hour period must be used on all bands.
6O (6 hours others)
. Rules as per section "O" except stations may only operate for a maximum of 6 hours. Entrants may choose between any continuous 6 hour period in which to operate (e.g. 1500-2100, or 1917-0117) or alternatively split the 6 hour period into any number of segments as long as they are separated by at least 1 hour off time.
5B (2m 5W Backpacker)
a) 5W maximum output from the transmitter
b) Single antenna with no more than 20 half-wave elements (or equivalent)
c) Antenna height: Driven element no more than 4m above the ground
d) No operation from a motor vehicle. The vehicle supply must not be used to power any equipment used during the contest or to recharge batteries for the equipment.
e) All equipment used during the contest must be battery, wind or solar powered.
f) Equipment must be carried and operated at least 100m from the transportation vehicle.
g) Stations entering in this section must use the /P callsign suffix
25H (25W Hill Toppers)
a) 25W maximum output from the transmitter.
b) One or more antennas with no more than 20 half-wave elements (or equivalent) in total.
d) Operation from a motor vehicle permitted.
e) All equipment used during the contest must be battery, wind or solar powered. If equipment is powered from a vehicle supply, the engine must be switched off for the duration of the contest.
f) Stations entering in this section must use the /P callsign suffix.
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Named for its rusty look, the blister rust infection starts at the pine needles and works its way through the branch. If the infection makes it to the trunk, a “canker” appears there and eventually spreads around the trunk, damaging the bark so nutrients and water can’t flow through and usually resulting in the tree’s death.
The infection progresses more quickly in young trees because their smaller size means the distance the fungus has to move to the trunk is shorter.
When blister rust ravages an area, some of the trees are unaffected. They are either resistant or just lucky. Between 3 percent to 5 percent of the trees in the forest possess genes that give them resistance to the blister rust.
The U.S. Forest Service collects seeds from trees that might be resistant and grows seedlings from them at a nursery in Placerville to plant at forest restorations, including sites once burned by fires. In the Tahoe Basin, the Forest Service works with the Sugar Pine Foundation to do this work.
It starts by retrieving a few pine cones from the enormous trees. They use a giant slingshot to knock the cones to the forest floor, said Maria Mircheva, executive director of the Sugar Pine Foundation.
They plant the seeds and wait for the seedlings grow and then try to infect them to see whether they’re able to resist the blister rust. This process takes years.
UC Davis researchers David Neale and Charles Langley knew it could go a lot faster if they could test the cones for blister rust resistance genes.
The first step was to sequence the sugar pine DNA. This itself was no small feat.
“It’s the current world record holder in terms of the largest genome … almost 10 times the size of the human genome,” Neale said.
Armed with genetic information, scientists went looking for genes that held the resistance. Neale said they’re on the verge of identifying resistance that’s controlled by one gene in the tree.
But there isn’t just one way for the tree to have the ability to resist blister rust. They’re also working to find a set of a few genes that provides a different path for sugar pines to thwart blister rust.
Neale likens the ability to screen for these genes in the pines to using a rapid diagnostic test like those in human medicine.
“You could snip a pine needle off a tree and five minutes later, it would tell you whether it was resistant … we’re just about ready to deliver that diagnostic.”
Not having to plant the seeds could save the Forest Service 15 years or more and tens of thousands of dollars for each tree, said Amanda De La Torre, a UC Davis scientist.
At the site of the Little Valley Fire, the Sugar Pine Foundation recently planted new seedlings where everything was charred black or brown.
“It just really feels like you’re creating life when you plant seedlings in the ashes,” Mircheva said.
And using genetics could make the process of getting trees to places like these a whole lot faster.
Carolyn Wilke: 916-321-1073, @xu_hattie
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Federal Columbia River Power System 2016 Comprehensive Evaluation
The Comprehensive Evaluation provides a cumulative report of progress made by the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bonneville Power Administration, known as the Action Agencies, in carrying out the salmon and steelhead conservation actions included in the NOAA Fisheries 2008 Biological Opinion and 2014 Supplemental Biological Opinion for the operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS).
The FCRPS Biological Opinion reflects an extensive effort by the Action Agencies in partnership with regional federal agencies, states and tribes to protect listed species of Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead, and improve their designated critical habitat.
FCRPS 2016 Comprehensive Evaluation Section 1
Citizen's Guide to the 2016 Comprehensive Evaluation
This publication serves as a user-friendly guide to understanding the more technical 2016 Comprehensive Evaluation and highlights eight years of accomplishments to protect and conserve Endangered Species Act listed salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin.
Read the 2016 Citizen's Guide to learn about how the Action Agencies and their partners are helping expand the distribution and abundance of Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead by making multipurpose federal dams safer for fish, removing barriers to fish migration in tributaries, reducing the time it takes juvenile fish to travel downstream, managing predators, and restoring tributary and estuary habitat.
View the 2016 Citizen's Guide
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Resident Killer Whales and Chinook Salmon
Southern Resident Killer Whales and West Coast Chinook Salmon
Endangered Southern Resident killer whales prey primarily on Chinook salmon that historically returned in great numbers to rivers up and down the West Coast. NOAA Fisheries analyzed Chinook salmon stocks based on their estimated importance to the whales and found that the most crucial stocks are those returning to the Fraser River in British Columbia, other rivers draining into Puget Sound and the Salish Sea, and the Columbia, Snake, Klamath, and Sacramento rivers. Tracking studies show that some of the whales visit the mouths of these West Coast rivers in search of their preferred Chinook salmon prey, but all of the rivers help support the whales over the course of each year.
Recent declines underscore the urgency of addressing the threats facing the Southern Residents:
• reduced prey (Chinook salmon) in some areas,
• vessel traffic and noise,
• toxic contaminants, and
• health risks such as inbreeding.
The number of juvenile salmon produced by West Coast rivers has increased since the 1970s, as have adult returns to the Columbia and Snake rivers. Puget Sound rivers have not seen the same increases but remain very important because Southern Residents can access them throughout much of the year. This makes salmon stocks around the Salish Sea and Puget Sound a primary target for recovery as described in NOAA Fisheries’ Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Recovery Plan.
For more information >>
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Roselynn Tuuaga is top new female cop
(Photo: Adel Fruean)
By Adel Fruean, 09/12/2018
A newly recruited female police officer has taken out top honours after a grueling 20-week training programme in order to become a police woman.
Constable Roselynn Tuuaga, 25, of Gagaifo Lefaga was yesterday named the dux of the 2018 Recruit Class after she topped her group in overall marks and was presented with an award by the Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sa’ilele Malielegaoi.
She credited her success to God and the support of her family, who stood by her as she went through a rigorous training regime, which comprises training modules focusing on policing, human rights, ethics, UN conventions, public relations, crime scene protocols and evidence collection.
Her mother, Malelega Tuuga, was full of pride and joy with her daughter’s accomplishment.
The other graduates who were given special awards included constable Benjamin Mulitalo (student choice award), constable Atonio Tufuga (most discipline award) and constable Ionita Tusi Alafau (best all-rounder award).
Police Commissioner, Fuiavailili Egon Keil, said that the recruitment process was thorough and the applicants’ personal and work record, criminal history if any, medical history, character references, communication skills, and literacy and computer skills were checked before they were accepted.
“In an effort to increase professionalism, Samoa Police has pushed for high standards by focusing recruiting efforts on candidates with university-level education and those with high ethical standards.”
“To the new police officers, do not forget the oath of office that you voluntarily took. Do not take it lightly – they are not just words – they mean something. Use the police powers entrusted to you by the people of Samoa to help the weak and instill pride in our culture.”
“Do not play favourites. Do not look for personal gain but be brave, honest, gracious, and be a great public servant,” he said.
A total of 114 policemen and women passed out yesterday with 60 per cent of the new recruits from Savai’i. The eldest of the class is 45 years old and the youngest 21.
Fuiavailili said out of the 114 new policemen and women, six dropped out along the way. Eight of the new graduates have diplomas from either the National University of Samoa or the University of South Pacific and 36 hold certificates from the National University of Samoa.
Pacific Islands should mimic the concept of unison displayed by Samoa: Clint Flood
“There is one word that I will use 'excellent' and I am very impressed, not just the facilities and the maintenance done over the years and the hospitality. It is top notch,” he said.
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New Technique to Probe Solids
By Kristin Leutwyler on September 25, 2000
Image: Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2749
Seeing the atomic details deep inside solid materials is no easy feat. Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) resolves only surface features, and transmission electron microscopy is limited to samples readily traversed by electrons. But Robert Magerle of the University of Bayreuth in Germany has found a way to best both of those approaches. His "nanotomography" method turns a scanning probe microscope on successive layers of a material to build up three-dimensional images of its innards at the nanometer scale. The work appears in today's issue of Physical Review Letters.
For proof of concept, Magerle imaged a synthetic rubber consisting of two polymers, polystyrene and polybutadiene. He first depicted its surface using SPM and then repeated the process 12 times, shaving away a 100 nanometer layer of the sample with a beam of oxygen ions before each step. A computer added up the individual two-dimensional pictures to produce a composite volume image (right). As a bonus, Magerle found, the image offered new structural information about the copolymer, showing exactly how cylinders of its constituents were joined.
Magerle's technique, which lends itself to full automation, should prove especially useful on hard materials, such as metals, crystals, semiconductors and ceramics, and might be able to flesh out defects in transistors that are now missed. "This approach may be quicker, cheaper and more straightforward than competing methods," notes Christopher Harrison of Princeton University. "The combination of SPM and etching techniques should support novel observations, while opening up new avenues for discovery."
Kristin Leutwyler
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4 things we love about EXO’s repackaged ‘The Power of Music’ album
by Denise Fernandez
Photos courtesy of SM Entertainment
We got a whimsical “Ko Ko Bop” from famous K-pop group EXO not too long ago. Now, they’re back again with a repackage of their album The War, including a brand new single released yesterday, “Power,” and a lot of other fun stuff any fan will definitely enjoy. Chinese member Lay may not have returned yet for this repackage, but the group is compensating with these things you can expect and come to love, like we did.
1. A colorful concept
The new concept for this particular repackage traces back to the group’s debut with the song “MAMA,” bringing back EXO’s different ‘superpowers’ into play. This comeback is more superhero and video game-inspired than past ones, dressing up the members in cartoonish outfits and placing Nerf guns in their hands. The boys even have their own player cards, both in the music video and the physical album.
2. A funny and playful music video
Placing all members on one battlefield, EXO is tasked to defeat robots from space (yes, it sounds and actually looks ridiculous, but you’ll actually have a good time watching if you just take it without question), seemingly brought to life by a mischievous Xiumin. It’s a lot more fun than EXO’s previous videos because it’s clear that they aren’t taking themselves seriously in this (looking at you, “MAMA”).
3. New tracks to listen to
This is actually the best part of the repackage. All new songs on The Power of Music are total bops–we have two fun electronic pop tracks in “Power” and “Boomerang,” and one sensual R&B track in “Sweet Lies.” Netizens are actually saying that the latter is better than the single itself.
4. Comic books in the album
It seems that SM Entertainment has outdone themselves this time. True to the new concept, the repackaged album includes an actual comic book (the conclusion to the “Power” music video marks the beginning of the comics) as well as collectible character cards. Looks like they’re tapping into every fangirl’s geeky side. Not that we’re complaining.
What else do you like about EXO’s new repackage? Tweet us at @scoutmagph.
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After CA Senator banned from hugging at work, we talk hugging etiquette at the office
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State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, hugs Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego, after his storm water bill was approved by the Assembly, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, in Sacramento.
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Last week, an investigation into the behavior of California state Senator Bob Hertzberg, nicknamed “Huggy Bear,” found that though his hugs weren’t sexually motivated, they made people uncomfortable.
He was told to stop hugging people at work.
Hertzberg is one of a string of California lawmakers, including former Sen. Tony Mendoza and former Assemblymen Raul Bocanegra and Matt Dababneh, who have resigned due to sexual harassment findings, spurred by the larger conversation around #MeToo. Others, such as Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, are currently under investigation.
Is Sen. Hertzberg being treated differently from other lawmakers, and if he is, is the difference legitimate? We get the latest on Hertzberg and sexual harassment investigations in the capitol.
Plus, Sen. Hertzberg has a long reputation of hugging at work. In a letter that he sent around last week, he wrote, “all my life, a hug has been a way of greeting friends and colleagues – a gesture of warmth and kindness and a reflection of my exuberance.”
So when is hugging appropriate in the workplace, if ever? Are you a non-hugger in a touchy feely workplace and how do you navigate unwanted physical affection? And if you’re a hugger, is the current conversation surrounding Hertzberg changing your behavior?
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Melanie Mason, reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering state government and politics in Sacramento; she tweets @melmason
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Raymond briefs
RAYMOND — The Planning Board is still conducting public hearings on the quarry proposed by Thibeault Sand & Gravel LLC that would sit atop the aquifer that holds the town's future drinking water.
The Thibeault Corporation is seeking to excavate and then quarry this land for the next 40 years.
The next planning board public hearing is Thursday, April 10 at 6:30 p.m. (note earlier time) at the Raymond High School. All are encouraged to give their opinion about this proposal. A local group has organized against the quarry. Its Web site is www.stoptheraymondquarry.com.
RAYMOND — Families First Health and Support Center will offer a free weekly Family Morning Out program, in Raymond in March.
All families are welcome. Advance signup is required for all classes, and for free child care; call 603-422-8208 ext. 2 or the numbers listed below. The evening class includes pizza dinner for parents and children. Details are below:
Family Morning Out in Raymond. Every Tuesday, 9:30 to 11 am. Held at Easter Seals N.H. The Family Place, Cozy Corners Plaza #5, 61 Route 27, Raymond. For children ages birth through 6 and their parents. The first half of the morning is full of activities, circle time, songs, stories and snack. During the second half, our child care staff will entertain your children while you take a break to talk with other parents. To sign up, call Sherry at Easter Seals (895-1522) or Families First. Facilitator: Susie Bright.
Learn more at www.FamiliesFirstSeacoast.org.
RAYMOND — The town clerk/tax collector's office will be closed on Thursday, April 17 for annual tax collector training.
RAYMOND — Come to the third Annual Raymond Earth Day 2008 celebration on Saturday, April 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to have fun and celebrate the Earth.
It will be held at Raymond's Riverside Park or Lamprey River Elementary School depending on weather and condition of fields. There will be Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Recycling Committee, Recreation, Raymond Arts, and other groups participating.
The Earth Day committee needs help with:
Tables or Displays about Earth Day, Going Green, Conservation etc. Do you know any groups or anyone with information that we can hand out or that would want to participate?
Activities for Kids — recycling crafts, Earth Day contest, and physical games, Nature hunt, etc.
Raffle Items —— Earth Day related items — (we have compost bin thanks Kathy MacDonald, Organic Lawn Care Book, World Wildlife Fund Blue Booby Bird, so far.
Performing Arts — anyone interested in performing, please contact Susan Hilchey
Food or Water.
You don't have to come to committee meetings — just a commitment to help on Saturday, April 19. Contact Susan Hilchey or Joan and Bob Gonser 895-0377 for questions or to offer to help.
RAYMOND — Internationally known singer, songwriter and storyteller John Farrell will present a concert celebrating families Saturday, April 19 at 3 p.m. at Walnut Hill, Route 102, Raymond.
Farrell travels the world working with children, teachers and families presenting workshops and concerts. He has made over a thousand presentations in schools from Japan to Ireland, the Ukraine to South Africa, and all across North America.
This concert will bring together adults and children to create an experience in which everyone is a part of the performance.
The fee for the concert is $20 for adults and $10 for children under 16 years. Each family that joins in this celebration concert will receive one of Farrell's CDs.
The concert will be preceded by a workshop for teachers and parents from 9 a.m. to noon entitled: "Sing, Write and Learn: Songwriting, Nature, Science and More & Using Songs to Build Bridges." During this participatory session, Farrell will present songs, methods and activities that will allow teachers and students to write and perform their own songs about science, nature or any topic. The fee for the workshop is $55 and each participant will receive two of John Farrell's CD's. To register call 895-2437, or e-mail creativenh@ttlc.net. Additional information can be obtained at www.creativeclassrooms.org.
Library to host writers' group
RAYMOND — Are you a writer or would you like to be one? There has been some interest lately in starting a writer's group at the Dudley-Tucker Library. The group will meet monthly and both new and experienced writers are welcome. If you have an interest in joining this new group, call the library at 895-2633.
RAYMOND — The Friends of the Dudley Tucker Library have announced the availability of up to three, individual, $200 scholarships to be used for books for higher education. Each scholarship will be made payable to the bookstore at your college for your use for books.
Applications for the scholarships are open for: Anyone pursuing post high school education, who maintains a legal residence in Raymond and those who hold a valid Dudley Tucker Library card.
Application are available at the library, 6 Epping Street, and must be submitted with a 500-word, typed essay titled, "How the Dudley Tucker Library Has Helped Me with My Education." This essay should only have your library card number in the top right-hand corner; do not put your name on the essay.
Your application and essay need to be submitted, in person, to the library main desk, by Friday, June 6.
For more information call the library at 895-2633.
RAYMOND — Raymond Recreation swim program will run May 10 to June 14.
Raymond Recreation is offering a five week spring swim program for children ages 4 and up. Swim lessons will be held at Seacoast YMCA. Classes will be held on Saturdays, from May 10 to June 14 (with no class on May 24). The bus will leave the Gove Middle School at 10:30 a.m. and return at 2 p.m.
The price for this five-week session is $50. This fee includes lessons, free swim time and bus transportation. Certified water safety instructors from Seacoast YMCA will be teaching our swimming lessons this year. Space is limited. Non-residents may register for an additional $5. Registration forms are available at the recreation office and also from our web site at www.raymond-nh.com.
RAYMOND — Are you part of a local band or music group, amateur or professional? Do you play an instrument or sing? Would you like to share your talents with others? "All Around Raymond" producer Kevin Woods has an idea for a new show on Raymond Community Television that would highlight area musicians. All you need to do is perform. If you are interested contact Woods at 895-9010 or e-mail him at kevin.woods@comcast.net.
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Andromeda Botnet Dismantled by International Law Enforcement Coalition
Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2017
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A group of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, are claiming a victory over the massive Andromeda botnet, which infected at least 1 million PCs each month and spawned a wave of malware families.
Andromeda, which was also known by the name Gamarue, has been active at least six years and was used to create about 80 different malware families. The botnet was also used to create the Avalanche network, which launched a massive global cyberattack, mainly targeting online banking systems, which caused about 6 million Euros ($7.09 million) in damages in Germany alone.
Avalanche was shut down about a year ago, and information from that case led authorities to Andromeda, according to Europol.
(Source: VISHNU_KV via Pixabay)
Avalanche remains ongoing as more than half of the infected computers are still in operation.
In addition to the FBI, the coalition that investigated and stopped Andromeda included the Luneburg Central Criminal Investigation Inspectorate in Germany, Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the Joint Cybercrime Action Task Force (J-CAT) and Eurojust.
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), ESET , along with other private companies, also played a role.
The coalition shut down Andromeda on November 29, but did not officially announce that the botnet was dismantled until December 4.
The process to close the Andromeda botnet involved "sinkholing," where the traffic flowing between infected computers and the cybercriminal that control the network are diverted to other servers overseen by law enforcement. In this case, the authorities used about 1,500 domains as part of the sinkholing operation.
Within 48 hours, Microsoft found about 2 million unique IP addresses infected with Andromeda malware from 223 different countries. Law enforcement made several arrests in Belarus, but no information about who was arrested and what the charges filed against them were released.
However, it was the original Avalanche investigation in 2016 that led the Andromeda botnet.
"Insights gained during the Avalanche case by the investigating German law enforcement entities were shared, via Europol, with the FBI and supported this year’s investigations to dismantle the Andromeda malware last week," according to a statement.
Created in 2011, Andromeda or Gamarue has been sold as a kit on the dark web and was used to steal credentials, as well as being able to download and install additional malware onto PCs.
"This malware family is a customizable bot, which allows the owner to create and use custom plugins. One such plugin allows the cybercriminal to steal content entered by users in web forms while another enables criminals to connect back and control compromised systems," according to ESET.
Researchers were also able to find independent Gamarue botnets in the wild and samples of it spread across the web through social media, instant messaging, removable media, spam and other exploit kits.
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— Scott Ferguson, Editor, Enterprise Cloud News. Follow him on Twitter @sferguson_LR.
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Semtech LoRa Technology to Enable Ireland’s Nationwide IoT Network
Ireland’s LoRa-based network, Pervasive Nation, aims to accelerate the advancement of IoT technology and support new applications
Camarillo, California - November 1, 2016 -
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq:SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced that its LoRa® devices and Wireless RF Technology will be used in a new low power, wide area network (LPWAN) deployed across Ireland called Pervasive Nation. The nationwide network is a program of CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Center for Future Networks and Communications, headquartered at the world-famous Trinity College Dublin. The LoRaWAN network will be used to facilitate Internet of Things (IoT) research and innovation.
Semtech LoRa Technology was chosen for its extensive feature set that includes long-range capability and long battery lifetime for end-devices. It also offers geolocation, deep signal penetrability, and adherence to the open, standardized LoRaWAN protocol. The network design and management is a collaborative effort by Davra Networks, a cloud-based software provider, OrbiWise, a leading provider of infrastructure solutions for IoT, and the CONNECT Centre at Trinity College Dublin, which will manage the program. CONNECT aims to use Pervasive Nation to catalyze IoT research and development in Ireland.
LoRa Technology aims to improve day-to-day activities for both consumers and enterprises by automating processes ranging from public infrastructure to domestic applications. CONNECT’s Pervasive Nation will be used, for example, to improve campus management by monitoring temperature in buildings and lighting control.
“LoRaWAN network infrastructure gives maximum capacity, range and signal strength, while operating on low battery to ensure limited maintenance and operating expenses,” said Val Jelinic, Program Manager for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Product Group. “The robust feature set of LoRa is ideal for a large scale network rollout like Pervasive Nation, which will enable the adoption of IoT in Ireland so residents, businesses and municipalities can implement more efficient, automated processes for a variety of applications, such as campus and infrastructure management, asset tracking, traffic monitoring, and more.”
“The Pervasive Nation network combines LoRa’s robust feature set with OrbiWise’s flexible and cost-effective technology to enable IoT Research, innovation and education throughout Ireland,” said Professor Linda Doyle, Director of CONNECT and Professor of Engineering and the Arts at Trinity College Dublin. “By using the standardized LoRaWAN protocol, and being part of the LoRa Alliance, we aim to provide this national resource to individual researchers, educational institutes or businesses in order to shape the IoT future.”
Key Features of LoRa RF Technology:
Long Range: A single LoRa base station enables deep penetration capability for dense urban environments and indoor coverage, while also providing the ability to connect to sensors more than 15-30 miles away in rural areas.
Low Cost: LoRa reduces up front infrastructure investments and operating costs, as well as end-node sensor costs.
Open Standard: LoRaWAN ensures interoperability among applications, IoT solution providers and telecom operators to speed adoption and deployment.
To learn how LoRa enables IoT visit Semtech’s LoRa/IoT site.
View LoRa FAQs: www.semtech.com/wireless-rf/lora/LoRa-FAQs.pdf
Learn more about Pervasive Nation: www.pervasivenation.ie
Engage with the LoRa Community or contact Semtech’s support team for technical support or general product inquiries.
Follow Semtech on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.
About Davra
Davra Networks develops a cloud-based software platform, RuBAN, that allows system integrators and network VARs to build managed network and data services in the area of transportation and the “Internet of Things.” This emerging industry is expected to add over 50 billion new Internet connected devices by 2020 in what should become a service-driven marketplace. Davra is ideally placed to serve this market with its intelligent system for gathering only the most relevant data at the edge and presenting it in a way that helps system integrators impact costs and performance. For more information about Davra Networks, visit www.davranetworks.com.
About OrbiWise
OrbiWise SA is a leading international solution provider for LPWA IoT networks based on LoRa technology and is a contributing member of the LoRa Alliance. OrbiWise’s customers deploy LPWA networks in smart city, precise agriculture and industrial applications – amongst others. OrbiWise’s UbiQ LoRa Core Network Solution is an industry-leading product that provides the intelligence to run, maintain and observe the operations of LoRa Networks. The company is headquartered in Plan- Les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland.
CONNECT is the world leading Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications. CONNECT is funded under the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres Programme and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund. www.connectcentre.ie
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The Company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.
All statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact, including statements that use the words “will,” “aims to,” or other similar words or expressions, that describe Semtech Corporation’s or its management’s future plans, objectives or goals are “forward-looking statements” and are made pursuant to the Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the actual results of Semtech Corporation to be materially different from the historical results and/or from any future results or outcomes expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors are further addressed in Semtech Corporation’s annual and quarterly reports, and in other documents or reports, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov) including, without limitation, information under the captions “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Risk Factors”. Semtech Corporation assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release, except as required by law.
Semtech, the Semtech logo, LoRa and LoRaWAN are registered trademarks or service marks of Semtech Corporation and/or its affiliates. Third-party trademarks or service marks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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More people are retiring with high mortgage debts
The number of mature age Australians carrying mortgage debt into retirement is soaring. And on average each mature age Australian with a mortgage debt owes much more relative to their income than 25 years ago.
By Rachel Ong ViforJ and Gavin Wood.
Microdata from the Bureau of Statistics survey of income and housing shows an increase in the proportion of homeowners owing money on mortgages across every home-owning age group between 1990 and 2015. The sharpest increase is among homeowners approaching retirement.
Half a million Australians aged 50 and over lost their homes in the first decade of this century. Shutterstock
More mortgaged for longer
For home owners aged 55 to 64 years, the proportion owing money on mortgages has tripled from 14% to 47%.
Among home owners aged 45 to 54 years, it has doubled.
Source: Authors’ own calculations from the Surveys of Income and Housing
Meanwhile, the average mortgage debt-to-income ratio among those with mortgages has pretty much doubled across every home-owning age group.
In the 45-54 age group the mortgage debt-to-income ratio has blown out from 82% to 169%.
For those aged 55-64 it has blown out from 72% to 132%.
Three reasons why
The soaring rates of mortgage indebtedness among older Australians have been driven by three distinct factors.
First, property prices have surged ahead of incomes.
Since 1970 the national dwelling price to income ratio has doubled.
Prices and wages in 1970 are assigned an index of 100. Sources: Treasury, ABS, Committee for Economic Development of Australia
Despite weaker property prices, the ratio remains historically high. This means households have to borrow more to buy a home. It also delays the transition into home ownership, potentially shortening the the remaining working life available to repay the loan.
Second, today’s home owners frequently use flexible mortgage products to draw down on their housing equity as needed for other purposes. During the first decade of this century, one in five home owners aged 45-64 years increased their mortgage debt even though they did not move house.
Third, older home owners appear to be taking on bigger mortgages or delaying paying them off in the knowledge that they can work longer than their parents did, or draw down their superannuation account balances.
Super could be changing our behaviour
For mortgage holders aged 55-64 years, there is evidence to suggest that larger debts prolong working lives.
In 2017 around 29% of lump sum superannuation withdrawals were used to pay down mortgages or purchase new homes or pay for home improvements, up from 25% four years earlier.
In the Netherlands, where a mandatory occupational pension scheme along the lines of Australia’s super scheme has been in place for much longer, over one-half of home owners aged 65 and over are still paying off mortgages.
The base is the total number of uses of lump sums rather than the number of people taking lump sums. ABS 6238.0 Retirement and Retirement Intentions
The implications are huge
Internationally, studies have found that indebtedness adds to psychological distress. The impacts on wellbeing are more profound for older debtors, without the ability to recover from financial shocks.
Debt-free home ownership in old age used to be known as the fourth pillar of the retirement incomes system because of its role in reducing poverty in old age. It allowed the Australian government to set the age pension at relatively low levels.
Growing indebtedness will increase after-housing-cost poverty among older Australians and create pressure to boost the age pension.
Mortgage debt burdens late in working life will also expose home owners to unwelcome risks, as health or employment shocks can ruin plans to pay off their mortgages.
During the first decade of this century, around half a million Australians aged 50 years and over lost their homes.
Taxpayers will be under pressure to help
Those losing home ownership are often forced to rely on rental housing assistance. Moreover, as older tenants they are unlikely to ever leave housing assistance. This will put pressure on the government to boost spending on housing assistance, which is likely to further boost demand for housing assistance.
Super and government housing assistance could become the safety nets that allow retirees to escape their mortgages.
It wasn’t the intended purpose of superannuation, and wasn’t the intended purpose of housing assistance. It is a development that ought to be front and centre of the inquiry into the retirement incomes system announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
It is a change we’ll have to come to grips with.
Read more: Home ownership foundations are being shaken, and the impacts will be felt far and wide
Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University and Gavin Wood, Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Laughter: A diagnosis, and some personal prescriptions
Vikas Datta
Laughter is our audible reaction, usually involuntary, to something that amuses us — yet, it is a complex emotional expression that can also serve as a gesture of bravado, contempt or even desperation or a sign of mental imbalance. Consequently, it has been viewed variously down the ages and, likewise, so used in literature. Life, however, is not always happy, a key prerequisite for humour, and thus, this fundamental sense is seldom encountered in most manifestations of laughter in high classics.
Take the peculiar, unrestrained version beloved of the gods in Homer, often portending some problem for a poor mortal hero, or the various (non-humorous) senses the Bible is full of: “And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh…” (Genesis 18:13), or “… the virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn…” (Isaiah 37:22).
Then there is Shakespeare with: “O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up” (“Henry IV, Part II”, Act V, Scene 1), proverbs like “He laughs best who laughs last” or the mid-18th century Earl of Chesterfield’s stern admonitions: “In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter” or “The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh”. It may, however, be better for our sakes to deem laughter the best medicine — like the popular “Readers’ Digest” section — and believe those who prescribe it as a relief for the absurdities and unfairness we face in life, say authors with a proven ability to evoke laughs. More significant — in these days of limited time for reading — is that you don’t even have to read the full book, but wherever you open it, there may be passages of such comic virtuosity that it will be hard to keep a straight face.
For most readers, laughter-evoking humour can be a very subjective choice. (A good friend deems my humour poverty-stricken and ailing, or simply that it “sucks” — though why she should choose to render it “sux” is beyond me.) Let’s take a few English works full of such sections, which may evoke at least a chuckle, due to the marvellous way their writers transform the mundane into the uproariously funny, use extravagant metaphors and similes, and draw vivid characterisations and so on.
While P.G. Wodehouse may be one of the most celebrated, there are many capable forebears, contemporaries or successors. An unrivalled collection of comic set pieces can be found in Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)” (1889). Be it the author (“J”) diagnosing himself with all possible diseases after reading a medical encyclopaedia and what happens subsequently, how he and his friends George and Harris decide on a river cruise, the perils of travelling with cheese or getting up too early, the episode of the maze and much else complement its two most anthologised pieces — the episode of the “trout” trophy and the author’s Uncle Podger hanging a picture at home. As funny — though lesser-known and lesser-regarded — is the sequel “Three Men on the Bummel” (1900) in which the author and his friends go on a cycling trip across the German and Austro-Hungarian empire.
This too has many funny scenes — our heroes’ experiences in using a foreign phrase book in London, Harris’ encounter with a German road-waterer who has drenched a woman cyclist, what George’s attempts to buy a cushion lead to, how J and Harris cure George of his growing fondness for German beer, how George makes himself a criminal on German trains, the German police’s functioning and many more. Uncle Podger returns to show us how to “correctly” plan packing (will be much useful to single males) and how to be in time to catch a train.
Then, George MacDonald Fraser also deserves a place with his real (though fictionally presented) depiction of his service as an officer in a Highland Scots regiment just after the Second World War. (ians)
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Action Abroad - 26-04-05
It was a busy week for many of our overseas stars, with a lot of interest in the Everton/Liverpool for the 4th spot in the EPL, while Parma's fight for relegation hit a setback with a big thumping from AC Milan. Click here to see how all the players fared over the past week.
ACTION IN THE UK... ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Date: 23-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Tony Popovic (pictured right) played a full game (his first start of the 2005), as Crystal Palace won 1-0 at home against Liverpool. Qantas Socceroo Harry Kewell was not in the Liverpool squad. With games three games remaining, Palace is in 17th, and out of the relegation zone, albeit on goal difference only. Liverpool is in 5th and now four points adrift of Everton in the race for the last European Champions League place. * Qantas Socceroo Tim Cahill played a full game, as Everton drew 1-1 at home with Birmingham City. For Birmingham, Qantas Socceroo Stan Lazaridis played a full game. Everton (four games remaining) is in 4th and four points clear of Liverpool and Bolton. Birmingham (three games remaining) slips one place to 13th position. * Socceroos Lucas Neill and Brett Emerton both played full games, as Blackburn Rovers drew 0-0 at home with Manchester City. Blackburn (four games remaining) is in 12th position. * Qantas Under 23 Brad Jones (gk) played a full game, while Socceroos Mark Viduka (hamstring) and Mark Schwarzer (gk) (back) were not in the squad, as Middlesbrough won 4-0 at home against West Brom. Boro (four games remaining) is in 7th position and still in the hunt for a place in Europe. Date: 20-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Harry Kewell was not in the Liverpool squad that won 2-1 away at Portsmouth. * Qantas Socceroo Tim Cahill was replaced in the 86th minute, as Everton won 1-0 at home against Manchester United. * Qantas Socceroo Stan Lazaridis came on in the 41st minute, as Birmingham City lost 3-0 away at Manchester City. * Socceroos Lucas Neill and Brett Emerton both played full games, as Blackburn Rovers won 1-0 at home against Crystal Palace. For Palace, Qantas Socceroo Tony Popovic came on in the 76th minute. Date: 19-04-05 * Qantas Under 23 Brad Jones (gk) played a full game, while Socceroos Mark Viduka (hamstring) and Mark Schwarzer (gk) (back) were not in the squad, as Middlesbrough drew 1-1 at home against Fulham.
ENGLISH LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP Date: 24-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Kevin Muscat played a full game and received a yellow card, as Millwall drew 1-1 away at West Ham. Millwall is 9th place. Date: 23-04-05 * Paul Reid played a full game, as Brighton & Hove Albion drew 2-2 at home with West Ham. With two games remaining, Brighton is in 22nd position (of 24) and in the relegation zone, but only on goal difference. * Qantas Socceroo Danny Tiatto played a full game, as Leicester City lost 2-1 away at Sunderland. Leicester (three games remaining), is in 16th position, but only three points clear of the relegation zone. * John Filan (gk) played a full game, as Wigan Athletic drew 0-0 at home against QPR. Wigan remains in 2nd position (in place for automatic promotion to the EPL), five points behind leaders Sunderland and two points ahead of 3rd place Ipswich. * Qantas Socceroo Tony Vidmar was replaced in the 28th minute, as Cardiff City won 2-0 at home against Reading. Cardiff has jumped to 17th place, but is still only three points clear of the relegation zone. Date: 19-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Danny Tiatto played a full game, as Leicester City drew 1-1 at home with Cardiff City. For Cardiff, Qantas Socceroo Tony Vidmar played a full game.
ENGLISH LEAGUE ONE Date: 23-04-05 * Shane Huke was replaced in the 71st minute, as Peterborough won 1-0 away at Bournemouth. With two games remaining, Peterborough, despite the win, remains in 22nd position and will be relegated to the League Two competition. * Chris Coyne played a full game and scored in the 59th minute, as Luton won 2-1 away at Wrexham and be crowned League One Champions. * Gareth Edds & Qantas Young Socceroo Trent McClenahan were both replaced in the 86th minute, with McClenahan also receiving a yellow card, while Nick Rizzo remained on the bench, as Milton Keynes Dons lost 2-1 at home against Bristol City. For Bristol, Qantas Socceroo Luke Wilkshire was replaced in the 72nd minute. The Dons have slipped a place and into the relegation zone, and are three points behind the safety zone. Bristol is in 8th spot, but just three points behind the promotion play-off zone. * Richard Garcia was replaced in the 73rd minute, as Colchester drew 0-0 at home with Bradford. For Bradford, Paul Henderson (gk) remained on the bench. Colchester remains in 14th place, while Bradford stays in 11th place. * Jacob Burns played a full game and received a yellow card, while David Scarsella (gk) remained on the bench, as Barnsley lost 5-0 away at Port Vale. Barnsley is in 12th position. * Les Pogliacomi (gk) played a full game, as Oldham Athletic lost 2-1 at home against Torquay. Oldham is in 19th place and just four points clear of the relegation zone. * Jamie McMaster came on in the 81st minute, while Qantas Young Socceroo Aaron Downes remained on the bench, as Chesterfield lost 1-0 away at Blackpool. Chesterfield remains in 16th place and is now safe from relegation. * Mark Robertson (back) was not in the Stockport County squad that drew 0-0 away at Sheffield Wednesday. Stockport is in 24th position and already relegated to League Two next season. * Joel Porter (thigh) was not in the Hartlepool squad that lost 2-0 away at Doncaster. Hartlepool stays in 4th place, but is just one point ahead of three teams, in the race for a promotion play-off berth.
ENGLISH LEAGUE TWO Date: 23-04-05 * Scott Guyett (knee) was not in the Yeovil squad that drew 1-1 at home against Wycombe Wanderers. For Wycombe, Frank Talia (gk) played a full game, while Adrian Caceres was not in the squad. Yeovil is in 1st place with two games remaining, but only on goal difference, and needs just one more win to virtually guarantee promotion to League One next season. Wycombe is in 9th place, six points adrift of the last play-off spot. * Adrian Webster came on in the 36th minute, as Darlington won 2-0 at home against Rushden & Diamonds. Darlington is in 7th place and holding onto the last play-off spot, two points ahead of 8th place Northampton. * Predrag Bojic was not in the Northampton squad that won 1-0 at home against Lincoln City. Northampton is in 8th place, two points adrift of Darlington, who hold down the last promotion play-off spot. . * Ruben Zadkovich (Qantas Young Socceroos) was not in the Notts County squad that drew 1-1 away at Shrewsbury. Notts is in 19th place and guaranteed safety from relegation.
ENGLISH CONFERENCE Date: 23-04-05 * Jon Brady played a full game, as Stevenage won 2-0 at home against Leigh RMI. Stevenage finished in 5th position, clinching the final play-off spot. Date: 19-04-05 * Jon Brady played a full game, as Stevenage won 2-1 away at Crawley Town.
SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE Date: 23-04-05 * Scott McDonald (hamstring) was not in the Motherwell squad that lost 1-0 at home against Aberdeen. Motherwell remains in 6th place, * Danny Invincibile came on in the 22nd minute, as Kilmarnock won 1-0 at home against Dundee. Kilmarnock remains in 8th place. * Qantas Socceroo Patrick Kisnorbo (knee) was not part of the Hearts squad that drew 2-2 away at Hibernian. Hearts remain in 5th place.
SCOTTISH DIVISION ONE Date: 23-04-05 * Daniel McBreen played a full game, as Falkirk lost 2-1 at home against St. Mirren. Falkirk remains in 1st spot having already secured promotion to the Scottish Premier League next season and winning the Championship. * Qantas Socceroo Adrian Madaschi remained on the bench, as Partick Thistle won 1-0 at home against Clyde. Partick remains in 9th place with two games to go and is almost certain to be relegated. * Stuart Lovell played a full game, as Queen of South drew 1-1 away at Ross County. QoS is in 7th place, but can finish as high 4th.
SCOTTISH DIVISION TWO Date: 23-04-05 * John Maisano was replaced in the 55th minute, as Morton drew 0-0 at home with Dumbarton. Morton is in 3rd place, but still four points adrift of Stranraer, who hold down the second promotion spot with two games to go.
ACTION IN EUROPE…
AUSTRIA RESULTS Date: 23-04-05 * Ned Zelic was not in the FC Wacker Tirol squad that won 2-0 at home against Sturm Graz. Wacker remains in 6th place with six games to go.
BELGIAN RESULTS Date: 24-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Archie Thompson was replaced in the 65th minute, as Lierse won 2-0 at home against Cercle Brugge. For Brugge, Andrew Vlahos did not play. With four games remaining, Lierse is in 11th place, while Cercle has slipped to 8th place. Date: 23-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Paul Okon and Adam Griffiths both played full games, while Brendan Santalab was replaced in the 89th minute, as Oostende won 1-0 at home against Brussels. Oostende jumped a place to 17th, but is still in the relegation zone, albeit on goal difference only. * Qantas Socceroo Alex Brosque came on in the 74th minute, as Westerlo lost 3-2 away at Bergen. Westerlo remains in 10th place. * Qantas Socceroo Stephen Laybutt played a full game, as AA Gent lost 1-0 at home against Racing Genk. Gent remains in 6th place and the loss virtually ended any hopes of European football next season. Date: 22-04-05 * Michael Turnbull (gk) remained on the bench, as Standard Liege lost 3-2 away at Anderlecht. Standard remain in 3rd place and still holding down the last European spot for next season.
DANISH SUPERLIGAEN Date: 24-04-05 * Qantas Under 23 Shane Cansdell-Sherriff played a full game, as AGF Aarhus won 1-0 away at FC Midtjylland.
DANISH WOMEN-S CUP Date: 21-04-05 * Alison Forman (concussion) was not in the squad, as Fortune Hjorring lost 3-0 against Brondby.
DANISH WOMEN-S ELITEDIVISION Date: 24-04-05 * Alison Forman (suspended) was not in the squad, as Fortune Hjorring won 4-0 at home against Viborg.
DUTCH EREDIVISE Date: 24-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Jason Culina played a full game, as Twente Enschede drew 2-2 away at FC Utrecht. With four games remaining, Twente is in 6th place and in contention for a spot in Europe next season. * Peter Zois (gk) remained on the bench, as Willem II won 1-0 away at NAC Breda. Willem is in 12th place.
DUTCH GOLDEN GIDS Date: 22-04-05 * Qantas Under 23 Brett Holman played a full game and scored in the 53rd and 90th minutes, as Excelsior won 2-1 at home against Emmen. With five games remaining, Excelsior is in 11th place. * Lindsay Wilson was replaced in the 76th minute, as Helmond Sport drew 1-1 at home with FC Volendam. Helmond has slipped to 6th and further away from promotion.
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA Date: 24-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Craig Moore played a full game and received a yellow card, as Borussia Monchengladbach drew 0-0 away at Nurnberg. With four games remaining, Borussia is in 15th place, one place and two points above the relegation zone. * Christophe Teinert remained on the bench, as FSV Mainz 05 won 2-0 at home against Hannover 96. For Hannover, Frank Juric (gk) remained on the bench. Mainz is in 14th place, five points clear of the relegation zone, while Hannover is in 12th and safely away from the relegation.
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA 2 Date: 23-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Paul Agostino was replaced in the 82nd minute, as 1860 Munich drew 0-0 away at RW Oberhausen. 1860 remains in 4th place with four games remaining, just two points from 3rd place and promotion back to the Bundesliga. * Peter Buljan did not play, as FC Saarbrucken won 2-1 at home against SpVgg Greuther Furth, to move to 11th and move them four points clear of the relegation zone. * Joshua Kennedy played a full game and scored in the 79th minute, as Dynamo Dresden won 3-1 at home against LR Ahlen. Dynamo remains in 9th place, eight clear of the relegation zone.
GREEK DIVISION ONE Date: 23-04-05 * Kyriakos Tohourglou (gk) did not play, as PAOK Saloniki drew 1-1 away at Ionikos Nikea. PAOK has slipped to 5th place with three games remaining.
ITALIAN SERIE A Date: 23-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Mark Bresciano played a full game, while Qantas Socceroo Vince Grella (knee) was not in the squad, as Parma lost 3-0 away at AC Milan. With five games to go, Parma is in 19th place and back in the relegation zone, although two points separates them from 15th place. Date: 20-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Mark Bresciano played a full game, while Qantas Socceroo Vince Grella (knee) was not in the squad, as Parma drew 1-1 at home with Sampdoria.
ITALIAN SERIE B Date: 23-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Zeljko Kalac (gk) played a full game, as Perugia lost 1-0 at home against Piacenza. Perugia is in 6th place , with seven games remaining. * Qantas Socceroo Max Vieri remained on the bench, as Ternana drew 1-1 at home against Verona. For Jess Vanstrattan (gk) played a full game. Ternana is in 10th place, while Verona is in 5th place. Date: 20-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Zeljko Kalac (gk) played a full game, as Perugia drew 2-2 away at Vicenza. * Qantas Socceroo Max Vieri remained on the bench, as Ternana won 2-0 away at Piacenza. * Jess Vanstrattan (gk) remained on the bench, as Verona won 2-1 at home against Treviso.
NORWAY TIPPELIGAEN Date: 25-04-05 * Dylan Macallister came on in the 78th minute, as SK Brann drew 0-0 at home against Tromso. Date: 24-04-05 * Kasey Wehrman played a full game, Sasa Radulovic was replaced 67th minute and received a yellow card, while Shane Stefanutto did not play, as Lillestrom lost 3-1 away at Viking.
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND PREMIER DIVISION Date: 22-04-05 * Qantas Young Socceroo Chris O-Connor (gk) played a full game, as Bray Wanderers won 2-1 at home against Waterford United.
ROMANIAN DIVIZIA A Date: 24-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Jon McKain, Wayne Srhoj and Michael Thwaite all played full games, with Srhoj receiving a yellow card, while Qantas Under 23 Ryan Griffiths came on in the 76th minute, as FC National won 5-1 at home against Dinamo Bucuresti. FC National is currently in 4th place, with nine games remaining.
SPAIN PRIMERA LIGA Date: 23-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo John Aloisi was replaced in the 58th minute, but not before scoring in the 3rd minute, as Osasuna won 1-0 at home against Atletico Madrid. With six games remaining, Osasuna is in 14th place and pushing further clear of the relegation zone.
SPANISH SEGUNDA DIVISION Date: 23-04-05 * Jose Bello Amigo (gk) played a full game, as Racing Ferrol won 2-1 away at Cordoba. Ferrol are 10th place with eight games remaining.
SWEDISH SUPERETTAN Date: 23-04-05 * Chay Hews played a full game, as Vastra Frolunda IF drew 0-0 at home with Orebro SK FK.
SWISS NATIONALIGA Date: 24-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Scott Chipperfield played a full game, while Qantas Socceroo Mile Sterjovski came on in the 91st minute, as FC Basel won 3-2 at home against Zurich. With six rounds remaining, Basel remains in 1st place. * Joel Griffiths and his Neuchatel Xamax team did not play. * Qantas Socceroo Ljubo Milicevic played a full game, as FC Thun won 4-0 at home against Schaffhausen. Thun is in 2nd place and has two games in hand of Basel. Date: 20-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Scott Chipperfield was replaced in the 66th minute by Qantas Socceroo Mile Sterjovski, with Chipperfield receiving a yellow card, as FC Basel won 5-0 away at Aarau.
TURKISH 1.SUPER LEAGUE Date: 24-04-05 * Michael Petkovic (gk) played a full game, as Trabzonspor won 3-1 at home against Ankaragucu. Trabzonspor is 3rd and just two points behind Galatasaray in the battle for the second Champions League place for next season with three games remaining. Date: 23-04-05 * Qantas Socceroo Josip Skoko played a full game, as Genclerbirligi drew 0-0 at home with Kayserispor. Genclerbirligi is in 10th place. * Jason Petkovic (gk) remained on the bench, as Konyaspor lost 2-1 away at Besiktas. Konyaspor is in 9th position.
ACTION IN ASIA…
SINGAPORE S-LEAGUE Date: 24-04-05 * Jon Angelucci played a full game, as Woodlands Wellington lost 4-0 away at Home United. Date: 22-04-05 * Christian Cevenini was not in the Geylang United squad that drew 2-2 away at Sichi FC. Date: 19-04-05 * Alex Duric played a full game, as Singapore Armed Forces won 3-2 away at Albirex Niigata FC.
Joeys squad for 2019 AFF U-15 Championship in Chonburi confirmed
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Twitch Prime will take its Prime Day celebration beyond the big day, as Twitch plans giveaways for Apex Legends and EA Sports titles.
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One of the biggest days of the year for Amazon is Prime Day, the once-a-year occasion in which the online storefront offers discounts across a chunk of its fairly large website. It would stand to reason that part of the Prime Day celebration would include Amazon acquisition Twitch and, indeed, Twitch Prime will take part in this year's festivities. On Thursday night, Amazon announced a slew of giveaways planned for Prime Day and beyond, with items including Apex Legends and EA Sports content.
Twitch Prime actually plans to get in on the action early. Prime members that log into Twitch on July 3 can pick up an exclusive Legend skin and weapon skin for Apex Legends. Giveaways will continue throughout the months of July and August, going well beyond the July 15 Prime Day date. This will include additional items for Respawn's free-to-play battle royale title and also extend into the EA Sports catalog, which includes Madden, FIFA, and more.
Twitch will take things even farther with two special tournaments set to unfold in the weeks ahead. On July 13, players can check out the Twitch Prime Crown Cup, an eight-hour tournament centered around Apex Legends and an unnamed EA Sports game. The tournament will be held back-to-back in London and Las Vegas, with celebrities, streamers, and run-of-the-mill Twitch Prime members participating in the action.
Among the celebrities set to take part in the London tournament are Olympic gold medalist Sir Mo Farah, soccer legend Thierry Henry, and five-time X Games gold medalist skateboarder Leticia Bufoni. They will be engaging in the unnamed EA Sports game, which as far as we can tell is not Skate 4. The scene will then shift to Las Vegas, where music producer Murda Beatz and DJ Dillon Francis are among the celebrities taking part in what's being called the longest Apex Legends king of the hill free-for-all. Prime members in attendance will be given the opportunity to participate in the festivities. The full Twitch Prime Crown Cup can be viewed on the Twitch Prime channel.
Prime Day begins on Monday, July 15 and will run for 48 hours. Shacknews will be on the lookout for the best deals, so stay tuned, as we continue watching for any and all Prime Day news.
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CNN Tonight With Don Lemon : CNNW : March 28, 2017 7:00pm-8:01pm PDT
russian investigation. the white house denying that administration blocked sally yates from testifying on the russian trump connection but chairman nunes would not say if the white house asked him to scrap the hearing. listen and then we'll discuss. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation? >> why would i not? you need ask them why these things are being said. >> can this investigation continue? >> why would i not. aren't i briefing you continuously and keeping you up to speed. that sounds like their problem. my colleagues are perfectly fine. they know we're doing an investigation and that will continue. >> did the trump administration seek to have sally yates not testi testify? >> you're speculating. whenever there's time we'll hold a press conference. >> did they ask you to cancel the hearing today? >> come on. >> why did you cancel the hear sng. >> nothing's been canceled. >> the answers are perplexing np democrats say this looks liking a cover up and now the first gop congressman is calling for nunes, his recusal. what is going on here? >> i think
russian investigation. the white house denying that administration blocked sally yates from testifying on the russian trump connection but chairman nunes would not say if the white house asked him to scrap the hearing. listen and then we'll discuss. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation? >> why would i not? you need ask them why these things are being said. >> can this investigation continue? >> why would i not. aren't i briefing you...
Wolf : CNNW : March 28, 2017 10:00am-11:01am PDT
investigation and that will continue. >> did the trump administration seek to have sally yates not testify before your committee? >> look, you guys are just speculating. whenever there's time, we'll do a -- >> did they ask you to cancel the hearing today? >> come on, guys. >> mr. nunes saying that well, the hearing today was not canceled, but in fact it was. on friday he actually went out publicly and said the hearing today was not going to take place. not just sally yates, her testimony, but also john brennan. we were supposed to hear from him as well as another intelligence official at this hearing. john bren onan former obama intelligence official. that not happening. but they wanted to hear in a private briefing from james comey the fbi director and mike rogers the nsa director. also that private classified briefing will cancel today as the committee is scrapped all of its meetings and private briefings this week because of this acrimony. they don't like the way he went and briefed the president of the united states on surveillance information that he got from a secret source on the wh
investigation and that will continue. >> did the trump administration seek to have sally yates not testify before your committee? >> look, you guys are just speculating. whenever there's time, we'll do a -- >> did they ask you to cancel the hearing today? >> come on, guys. >> mr. nunes saying that well, the hearing today was not canceled, but in fact it was. on friday he actually went out publicly and said the hearing today was not going to take place. not just...
The 11th Hour With Brian Williams : MSNBCW : March 28, 2017 8:00pm-8:31pm PDT
waiting to hear back from comey before you schedule yates? >> yes. look, we have a -- we have the witnesses that we want. but we don't know who the democrats want to bring in. >> okay. >> we're still waiting on them to -- >> can you tell us who signed you in at the white house. >> we are not going to ever talk about any of that. >> house speaker paul ryan also today resisting calls to remove chairman nunes. here he is taking questions from our own kasie hunt. >> two questions, if i may. one -- >> two? >> should devin nunes recuse himself from the russia investigation? and two, do you know the source of his information? >> no, and no. >> that was quick. the other story that unspoold a bit more today involves sally yates. she was the obama holdover acting as attorney general who was fired by president trump because she said the justice department would not defend the trump administration's first travel ban. but just before she was fired, she was the very same sally yates who tipped off the white house to the fact that michael flynn wasn't telling the truth about his meetings with ru
waiting to hear back from comey before you schedule yates? >> yes. look, we have a -- we have the witnesses that we want. but we don't know who the democrats want to bring in. >> okay. >> we're still waiting on them to -- >> can you tell us who signed you in at the white house. >> we are not going to ever talk about any of that. >> house speaker paul ryan also today resisting calls to remove chairman nunes. here he is taking questions from our own kasie...
At This Hour With Kate Bolduan : CNNW : March 28, 2017 8:00am-9:01am PDT
. >> did the trump administration seek to have sally yates not testify? >> all right, there's devin nunes speaking to manu raju and a slew of reporters in the capitol. let's go to manu raju live now, following. so, manu, house speaker paul ryan was asked about this awes well. his take on this, because devin nunes for his part is standing firm. >> reporter: yeah, he is, and paul ryan's standing behind him, only saying no and no when he was asked a question about whether or not mr. nunes should recuse himself from this investigation or if he knows of the source of that information, this coming after ryan's office issued a statement yesterday saying they have full confidence behind nunes running what they consider a credible investigation. but notably, also, ryan was nearly an hour late for this press conference, only took four questions, only one on nunes, and of course, that was something that a lot of reporters had questions on, whether or not this intelligence committee can move forward. now, nunes is, of course, signaling that he's ready to move forward, continue as chairman, but
. >> did the trump administration seek to have sally yates not testify? >> all right, there's devin nunes speaking to manu raju and a slew of reporters in the capitol. let's go to manu raju live now, following. so, manu, house speaker paul ryan was asked about this awes well. his take on this, because devin nunes for his part is standing firm. >> reporter: yeah, he is, and paul ryan's standing behind him, only saying no and no when he was asked a question about whether or not...
Anderson Cooper 360 : CNNW : March 28, 2017 9:00pm-10:01pm PDT
acting attorney general, sally yates. they were supposed to testify today at the second public hearing but late last week chairman nunes abruptly canceled without saying why. and was supposed to testify about communications between flynn and russian ambassador. they denied they tried to block yates from testifying. sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point it went off the rails. >> how does this administration try to revamp its image two 1/2 months in? you got other things going on, you've got russia, wire tapping -- >> no. we don't have that. >> on capitol hill -- >> i've said it from the day i got here that there is no connection. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad, that's a russian connection. that's -- i appreciate your agenda but the reality is -- no. at some point report the facts. >> so let's talk about the facts tonight. the facts about this white house and those close to it and ties to russia. we want to show you a flow chart because it's confusing. there are the facts about former national security advisoadvisor michael fly
acting attorney general, sally yates. they were supposed to testify today at the second public hearing but late last week chairman nunes abruptly canceled without saying why. and was supposed to testify about communications between flynn and russian ambassador. they denied they tried to block yates from testifying. sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point it went off the rails. >> how does this administration try to revamp its image two 1/2 months in? you got other...
MSNBC Live With Craig Melvin : MSNBCW : March 28, 2017 10:00am-11:01am PDT
acting attorney general sally yates from testifying to congress today. she was set to testify before the house intel committee on the investigation into the trump campaign's ties with russia. that hearing was canceled by house intel chairman devin nunez, under fire for his leadership in that investigation this afternoon. meanwhile, today, the criticism that nunez has been getting continues to mount. the house speaker, paul ryan, sticking by his colleague. let's get right to our team of correspondents following the latest developments. peter alexander in the briefing room, kasie hunt is on capitol hill and justice correspondent pete williams is in the washington bureau for us. pete, let's start with you. what do we know about the white house actions as they pertain to sally yates' testimony? >> here's the sequence of events as we understand it. in late january sally yates and another government official went to talk to the white house counsel and said we're concerned that michael flynn may not have been completely candid about his contacts with the russians in the view of sally
acting attorney general sally yates from testifying to congress today. she was set to testify before the house intel committee on the investigation into the trump campaign's ties with russia. that hearing was canceled by house intel chairman devin nunez, under fire for his leadership in that investigation this afternoon. meanwhile, today, the criticism that nunez has been getting continues to mount. the house speaker, paul ryan, sticking by his colleague. let's get right to our team of...
Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer : CNNW : March 28, 2017 3:00pm-4:01pm PDT
the report the administration sought to block testimony of sally yates. but democrats are questioning whether a house intelligence committee hearing that had been scheduled for today had been cancelled to prevent yates from talking publicly. this is another cloud over the investigation led by republican devin nunez. house intelligence committee chairman. tonight, nunez is rejecting growing calls for him to step aside from the probe as even some republicans are joining democrats and raising concerns about his credibility. also tonight, the senate intelligence committee is moving forward with plans to question the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, about his russia context. the panel's chairman revealing kushner's testimony will be conducted in private and likely under oath. the president meantime is making good on a campaign promise to gut obama era environmental policies. his just signed executive order is designed to put energy independence and jobs over efforts to combat climb at change. this hour, i'll talk with leon panetta who served as defense secretary and cia director unde
the report the administration sought to block testimony of sally yates. but democrats are questioning whether a house intelligence committee hearing that had been scheduled for today had been cancelled to prevent yates from talking publicly. this is another cloud over the investigation led by republican devin nunez. house intelligence committee chairman. tonight, nunez is rejecting growing calls for him to step aside from the probe as even some republicans are joining democrats and raising...
New Day : CNNW : March 29, 2017 4:00am-5:01am PDT
testimony from sally yates. fired by president trump. >> it is evidence of a coverup. there is no rational explanation for the cancelling of the hearing. >> i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. if they choose to move forward, great. we have no problem with her testifying. >> reporter: that is after the washington post published letters saying yates' testimony could violate presidential privilege. all on the same day that nunes canceled the hearing. >> should nunes cancel himself from the investigation and do you know the source of the information? >> no and no. >> reporter: republican leadership standing by the investigation despite criticism. with walter jones becoming the first republican to suggest that nunes step aside. >> if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that is a russian connection. >> reporter: sean spicer offering a color answer. >> it seems you are hellbent to ensure the image you want about the white house -- please stop shaking your head. >> reporter: and tweeting about hillary clinton and trying to shift the focus back to his leg
testimony from sally yates. fired by president trump. >> it is evidence of a coverup. there is no rational explanation for the cancelling of the hearing. >> i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. if they choose to move forward, great. we have no problem with her testifying. >> reporter: that is after the washington post published letters saying yates' testimony could violate presidential privilege. all on the same day that nunes canceled the hearing. >> should...
MSNBC Live With Steve Kornacki : MSNBCW : March 28, 2017 1:00pm-2:01pm PDT
the first 100 days. topping our agenda right now, sally yates. >> i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. >> the former acting attorney general was supposed to testify today in an investigation into russia's meddling in the election until her hearing was canceled. we will take you through what we know at this hour. also on the agenda, the status of chairman devin nunez. >> he has to step down. even if it were only the appearance of what he has done. >> it's not just the issue of sally yates. every hearing of the house intelligence committee this week on russian meddling has been canceled as chairman devin nunez faces calls from democrats and even some concerns from republicans now to step down about his leadership of that committee. can he survive? also this hour, debate and switch. >> we've never had anything like this happen in any of our elections before. >> that was a great pivot off the fact that she wants open boarders. >> we never had anything like this happen in any of our elections before. >> ta was a great pivot off the fact that he wants open boarders. >> you saw
the first 100 days. topping our agenda right now, sally yates. >> i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. >> the former acting attorney general was supposed to testify today in an investigation into russia's meddling in the election until her hearing was canceled. we will take you through what we know at this hour. also on the agenda, the status of chairman devin nunez. >> he has to step down. even if it were only the appearance of what he has done. >> it's not just...
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon : CNNW : March 28, 2017 11:00pm-12:01am PDT
administration denying it blocked former acting attorney general sally yates from telling the house intelligence committee what she knows about the trump campaign and russian officials. that hearing was supposed to happen today but was canceled. the man who canceled it, committee chairman devin nunez. saying he's moving forward with the probe. but democrats charge he's too close to the white house and must step aside. they want to know who signed him into the white house grounds to view classified information which he briefed president trump about before sharing it with the rest of his committee. all these questions about russia waiting to be answered, this from the press secretary spicer. >> if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. >> that happened. i want to begin with senior political analyst and gloria borger, april ryan the white house contour for american radio networks, the woman who got spicer talking about that russian salad dressing. welcome to all of you. it's appropriate to start with you, ms. ryan because you have the qu
administration denying it blocked former acting attorney general sally yates from telling the house intelligence committee what she knows about the trump campaign and russian officials. that hearing was supposed to happen today but was canceled. the man who canceled it, committee chairman devin nunez. saying he's moving forward with the probe. but democrats charge he's too close to the white house and must step aside. they want to know who signed him into the white house grounds to view...
Anderson Cooper 360 : CNNW : March 28, 2017 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT
hear today. we did not hear former director of national intelligence jake clapper. or sally yates, they were supposed to testify today at the house intelligence committee's second public hearing, but late last week, congressman nunes cancelled the hearing with no reason why. congressman jake was supposed to testify about michael flynn and russian ambassador kislayak. at today's briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. listen. >> reporter: how does this administration try to revamp its image, 2 1/2 months in, you've got this yates story today, you've got other things going on, you've got russia, you've got wiretapping. >> no, we don't have that. >> regarding the allegations of capitol hill. >> i have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. you've got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. but every single person -- >> no, sean -- >> i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is,
hear today. we did not hear former director of national intelligence jake clapper. or sally yates, they were supposed to testify today at the house intelligence committee's second public hearing, but late last week, congressman nunes cancelled the hearing with no reason why. congressman jake was supposed to testify about michael flynn and russian ambassador kislayak. at today's briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails...
CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin : CNNW : March 28, 2017 11:00am-12:01pm PDT
white house denying that it blocked the testimony of former acting attorney general, sally yates, who was fired by president trump, a holdover from the obama administration. yates had been scheduled to testify on this investigation of the trump campaign's ties to russia. but that hearing was scrapped. they played a key role in investigating trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn, and his conversations with the russians. here was sean spicer in the white house briefing a little while ago. >> there are reports that even though the hearing that was set for the 27th was not scheduled t was canceled by devon nunez to prevent this white house from publicly invoking the claim of executive privilege. could you speak to that? >> i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. the hearing was never notified. if they choose to move forward, great. we have no problem with her testifying, plain and simple. the report in "the washington post" is 100% false. the letters that they published on the website back up what i just read. all thelers a letters are availn their website. we didn't
white house denying that it blocked the testimony of former acting attorney general, sally yates, who was fired by president trump, a holdover from the obama administration. yates had been scheduled to testify on this investigation of the trump campaign's ties to russia. but that hearing was scrapped. they played a key role in investigating trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn, and his conversations with the russians. here was sean spicer in the white house briefing a little...
yates before the house intelligence committee. yates who was fired by the president in january for refusing to enforce his travel ban had investigated former national security adviser michael flynn and his contacts with russian officials. yates was supposed to testify publicly testify, but that hearing and others were cancelled by the panel's republican chairman devin nunes who is rejecting calls by democrats to step aside from the entire russia investigation. critics say nun eds is too close to the white house to lead that probe after he made a secret visit to the white house complex and then publicly declared he found evidence of potential surveillance of trump campaign officials briefing the president before his own committee and vowing to put coal miners back to work, president trump today swung a sledgehammer at obama-era regulations aimed at limiting climate change. his latest executive order seeks town do those rules which he says limit economic growth and energy independence. the white house press secretary sean spicer won't say whether the president still believes climate
yates before the house intelligence committee. yates who was fired by the president in january for refusing to enforce his travel ban had investigated former national security adviser michael flynn and his contacts with russian officials. yates was supposed to testify publicly testify, but that hearing and others were cancelled by the panel's republican chairman devin nunes who is rejecting calls by democrats to step aside from the entire russia investigation. critics say nun eds is too close...
MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson : MSNBCW : March 28, 2017 7:00am-8:01am PDT
reviewed a series of letters to the former acting attorney general sally yates in which she was notified by the justice department that the administration considers his possible testimony in front of your committee or other committees to be barred from discussion in a congressional hearing because the topics are covered by the presidential communication privilege. i know you haven't had time to process this piece, but on first glance here, in my read, does that sound like it holds water to you? >> it sounds like an effort to try and muzzle persons who have information and the ability to shed light on this investigation. >> what can you do about it? you have asked congressman nunes or you've asked chairman nunes to not just recuse himself but resign from the committee altogether. seems like that's not going to happen. >> let me tell you why i think that's important. if this is going to be a true investigation, most of the staff in the intelligence committee are placed there by the chair on the republican side. so how do you separate yourself from your boss if your boss asks you a
reviewed a series of letters to the former acting attorney general sally yates in which she was notified by the justice department that the administration considers his possible testimony in front of your committee or other committees to be barred from discussion in a congressional hearing because the topics are covered by the presidential communication privilege. i know you haven't had time to process this piece, but on first glance here, in my read, does that sound like it holds water to...
All In With Chris Hayes : MSNBCW : March 29, 2017 12:00am-1:01am PDT
intelligence james clapper and former deputy attorney sally yates. yates was briefly held over and fired by the white house, the trump administration, for refusing to enforce the president's original travel ban. and she was expected to testify about former national security adviser michael flynn, who was forced out last month after being revealed to have lied about his contacts with the russian ambassador. weeks earlier, it was yates who had warned the white house that flynn was lying and might be vulnerable to russian black mail. according to washington post, yates had made clear to government officials that her testimony to the committee probably would contradict some statements that white house officials had made. but yates was not ultimately called to testify today. and according to documents obtained be i the "post," the trump administration may not have wanted her to. in a letter dated last friday, march 24th, a justice department official notified yates' testimony. her testimony would be likely covered by executive privilege. as such, quote, she needs to consult with the white house
intelligence james clapper and former deputy attorney sally yates. yates was briefly held over and fired by the white house, the trump administration, for refusing to enforce the president's original travel ban. and she was expected to testify about former national security adviser michael flynn, who was forced out last month after being revealed to have lied about his contacts with the russian ambassador. weeks earlier, it was yates who had warned the white house that flynn was lying and...
The 11th Hour With Brian Williams : MSNBCW : March 29, 2017 11:00pm-11:31pm PDT
from sally yates, the former acting attorney general. and i'm told she had interesting things to tell the committee too, tell the public about when she told white house counsel that mike flynn had in fact been lying to the vice president and she was only going to be able to speak those things in the concept of the congressional hearing. this was an elaborately coriaographed gag order on sally yates. >> this headline from the washington post says the trump administration sought to block sally yates from testifying on behalf of russia. in addition to his work, remembered his former kouns thool house intelligence committee. so i guess the way to get at this again is how, by the treatment of yates, can you discern perhaps what yates has to say or had to say in past tense. >> well, let's break it down. my understanding is that yates' testimony would have differed from the official white house accounts. now we don't know exactly in what way her testimony would have differed from the official white house accounts but we can think about two potentialities. what she told to white house counsel
from sally yates, the former acting attorney general. and i'm told she had interesting things to tell the committee too, tell the public about when she told white house counsel that mike flynn had in fact been lying to the vice president and she was only going to be able to speak those things in the concept of the congressional hearing. this was an elaborately coriaographed gag order on sally yates. >> this headline from the washington post says the trump administration sought to block...
For the Record With Greta : MSNBCW : March 28, 2017 3:00pm-4:01pm PDT
trump administration tried to block sally yates from testifying on capitol hill about russia. >> the white house did not respond and took no action that present pre vented miss yates from testifying. that's the story. that's what the documents show. the view here was great. go share what you know. so, no and that's why "the washington post" should be ashamed of how it handled this story. it was 100% false. >> we're taking what you're saying as assurances that chairman nunes' decision to call off that hearing did not have anything to do with any pressure from the white house. >> no. >> with me, democrat from the great state of california and he is calling for chairman nunes to leave the investigation. nice to see you, sir. >> you, too, greta and i was hoping right now i'd be report ing to you what we heard earlier today from sally yates, directors clapper and brennan. unfortunately, those hearings and any future hearings on russia interference in our elections have been canceled. >> why? what did chairman nunes tell you the reason why? >> no reason. that's what is so frustrati
trump administration tried to block sally yates from testifying on capitol hill about russia. >> the white house did not respond and took no action that present pre vented miss yates from testifying. that's the story. that's what the documents show. the view here was great. go share what you know. so, no and that's why "the washington post" should be ashamed of how it handled this story. it was 100% false. >> we're taking what you're saying as assurances that chairman...
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former deputy attorney general sally yates. hello everyone i'm sandra smith. sean spicer questioned on the washington post reports that the trump administration sought to block sally yates from testifying in the house probe of hreufrpbs between russian officials and trump's campaign. things at the presser got even more heated when spicer was pressed on the russian investigation. >> there is no connection. you've got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing somehow that's a russian connection. i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is -- at some point report the facts. facts are that every sinle person who has been briefed on this subject has come to the same conclusion. i'm sorry that disgusts you. you're shaking your head. >> sandra: salad dressing made its appearance today. john roberts live at the white house. john, every day is different when it comes to that press briefing. what did we say today? >> reporter: i have to admit that's probably one of the better lines sean spicer has used. there was talk about sally yates. you mentioned this at the top. story wa
former deputy attorney general sally yates. hello everyone i'm sandra smith. sean spicer questioned on the washington post reports that the trump administration sought to block sally yates from testifying in the house probe of hreufrpbs between russian officials and trump's campaign. things at the presser got even more heated when spicer was pressed on the russian investigation. >> there is no connection. you've got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing somehow that's a...
Adam Schiff Expresses Concerns About White House Handling of Classified Documents : CSPAN : March 30, 2017 10:27pm-10:52pm EDT
in bringing sally yates or director comey. it is my understanding you are withholding your signature on a letter inviting director comey back. is there any progress involving this impasse? mr. schiff: i wouldn't say we are withholding anything. we signed the letter that the chairman wanted. we invited comey and rogers to come back and we have presented a letter for the chairman's signature for inviting sally yates and clapper and brennan. the chairman has yet to sign that letter. i hope he will. that will be in the interest of the public. the white house has made clear now they want sally yates to testify. we want sally yates to testify and she is fully prepared to testify, so the only obstacle is the signature of the chairman and we hope we get that. reporter: you wrote a letter first? mr. schiff: white house counsel wrote a letter to us, i think 's press secretary referred to, we received that effectively at the same time with him announcing it during the press conference and that letter invited the chair and i, in response to questions i had raised, to review these mater
in bringing sally yates or director comey. it is my understanding you are withholding your signature on a letter inviting director comey back. is there any progress involving this impasse? mr. schiff: i wouldn't say we are withholding anything. we signed the letter that the chairman wanted. we invited comey and rogers to come back and we have presented a letter for the chairman's signature for inviting sally yates and clapper and brennan. the chairman has yet to sign that letter. i hope he...
CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley : KPIX : March 28, 2017 5:30pm-6:01pm PDT
canceled. it was supposed to feature testimony from former acting attorney general sally yates about the justice department's investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. in january, yates informed the white house that flynn had misled the vice president about his contacts with the russian ambassador. cbs news has obtained this letter from the trump justice g partment to yates' attorney warning that there was a limit to what she could reveal in her testimony and that she needs to consult with the white house. yates followed up with the white house lawyers on friday. they never responded, and the same day nunes canceled the s aring. press secretary sean spicer said technically the white house didn't stop her testimony. >> the white house did not respond and took no action to preventing miss yates from testifying. >> right now i should be sitting in a hearing and the american people should be hearing from sally yates. >> reporter: democrat eric swalwell is a member of the intelligence committee. >> this is what cover-up behavior looks like. >> that's pretty strong to sa
canceled. it was supposed to feature testimony from former acting attorney general sally yates about the justice department's investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. in january, yates informed the white house that flynn had misled the vice president about his contacts with the russian ambassador. cbs news has obtained this letter from the trump justice g partment to yates' attorney warning that there was a limit to what she could reveal in her testimony and that she...
Shepard Smith Reporting : FOXNEWSW : March 28, 2017 12:00pm-1:01pm PDT
attorney general, sally yates. fox news obtained letters showing department told yates earlier this month that she could not discuss a great deal of her possible testimony without permission from the white house. according to the letters, the doj told sally yates is because her testimony would include presidential communications that the trump administration considers privilege information. president trump fired sally yates from the justice department after she told the department's lawyers not to defend his controversial travel ban. the white house calls the post reporting false. the white house says they have no problems with her testifying. the hearing was tentatively planned for today. former national intelligence director james clapper and john brennan were also set to appear. but devin nunes on friday abruptly decided not hold the hearing after all. the committee's ranking member, adam schiff has accused congressman schiff of scrapping the hearing to protect the white house. it's all very complicated. chairman nunes says he postponed the hearing to allow the committee to hear
attorney general, sally yates. fox news obtained letters showing department told yates earlier this month that she could not discuss a great deal of her possible testimony without permission from the white house. according to the letters, the doj told sally yates is because her testimony would include presidential communications that the trump administration considers privilege information. president trump fired sally yates from the justice department after she told the department's lawyers...
The Lead With Jake Tapper : CNNW : March 28, 2017 1:00pm-2:01pm PDT
regarding former acting attorney general sally yates who was fired by the president and was scheduled to testify before the house intelligence panel. the letter from the justice department to yates' lawyer appeared to advise that yates would need to consult with the white house before testifying stating she needs to consult with the white house. show need not obtain separate consent from the department of justice but the white house insisted it would not stand in the way. >> i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. it was never -- let's be honest. the hearing was never -- was actually never notified. if they choose to move forward, great. we have no problem with her testifying, plain and simple. . >> reporter: yates was scheduled to testify before the house intelligence committee along with the former director of national intelligence and former cia director, but that hearing was scrapped by nunes, and there's no word yet as to when yates will be rescheduled to testify and we should point out white house press secretary sean spicer was asked whether he could provide new information ab
regarding former acting attorney general sally yates who was fired by the president and was scheduled to testify before the house intelligence panel. the letter from the justice department to yates' lawyer appeared to advise that yates would need to consult with the white house before testifying stating she needs to consult with the white house. show need not obtain separate consent from the department of justice but the white house insisted it would not stand in the way. >> i hope she...
Democracy Now! : KCSM : March 29, 2017 12:00pm-1:01pm PDT
yates who served as acting attorney general before trump ousted her after she refused to defend his muslim travel ban. but nunes canceled the hearing last week, a day after yates and former cia head john brennan, who was also slated to testify tuesday, informed the government they would contradict some statements that white house officials had made. the "washington post" is reporting white house sought to block yates' testimony. white house press secretary sean spicer called this report 100% false. the house intelligence committee has now canceled all meetings this week amid the ongoing turmoil, as lawmakers call on nunes to step down as chair, after it emerged he'd met with a source on the grounds of the white house and viewed secret u.s. intelligence reports before supposedly briefing president trump about the reports. nunes says the reports indicate trump or his associates might have been "incidentally" swept up in surveillance carried out by american spy agencies as they conducted foreign surveillance. nunes continues to reject the calls to step down and to this day has not shar
yates who served as acting attorney general before trump ousted her after she refused to defend his muslim travel ban. but nunes canceled the hearing last week, a day after yates and former cia head john brennan, who was also slated to testify tuesday, informed the government they would contradict some statements that white house officials had made. the "washington post" is reporting white house sought to block yates' testimony. white house press secretary sean spicer called this...
Hardball With Chris Matthews : MSNBCW : March 29, 2017 4:00pm-5:01pm PDT
south korea. will he be able to get from the fbi what he needs to. >> will they get sally yates to talk and explain what she did with regard explaining the role that michael flynn played with the russians? >> i tnk they will. she's willing to testify. the white house says they're not going to stop her. from that public testimony today from burr and warner, it sounds like they're going to bring her before the committee. >> what about christopher steele, who did the famous dossier, which is getting a lot more credibility than it did? >> i think it's important that the dossier which looked sort of out there at first is getting truer and truer as facts come out. i don't think there's going to be a few good men moment here. it's not going to be testimony that's going to break this thing wide open. >> you can't handle the truth let me go to ken on this. ken, what about these other witnesses? do you think they'll be able to get them, first of all, christopher steele? they're going to get manafort. he's already agreed to show. senator murphy has a good point, and, david, that there might be som
south korea. will he be able to get from the fbi what he needs to. >> will they get sally yates to talk and explain what she did with regard explaining the role that michael flynn played with the russians? >> i tnk they will. she's willing to testify. the white house says they're not going to stop her. from that public testimony today from burr and warner, it sounds like they're going to bring her before the committee. >> what about christopher steele, who did the famous...
Early Start with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs : CNNW : March 29, 2017 1:00am-2:01am PDT
one of which the former acting attorney general sally yates was expected to testify. >>> "the washington post" reported tuesday that the white house sought to block yates from testifying a claim press secretary sean spicer rejected. >> miss yates sent a letter to the white house counsel requesting that consent specifically stating that if they did not receive a response by march 27th at 10:00 a.m. they would conclude that the white house does not assert executive privilege over these matters. the white house did not respond and took no action that prevented miss yates from testifying. >> i hope she was the. i look forward to it. >>> there's one investigation moving forward in a bipartisan spirit today that's the chairman and ranking democrat on the senate intel. they will offer an update today at 2:30. >>> spicer, sean spicer may be running out of ways to downplay the administration's ties to russia. listen to the press secretary getting into a heated exchange with reporters after suggesting that reporters are looking for a kremlin connection that don't exist. >> i said it fro
one of which the former acting attorney general sally yates was expected to testify. >>> "the washington post" reported tuesday that the white house sought to block yates from testifying a claim press secretary sean spicer rejected. >> miss yates sent a letter to the white house counsel requesting that consent specifically stating that if they did not receive a response by march 27th at 10:00 a.m. they would conclude that the white house does not assert executive...
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agencies. chairman nunes canceled all hearings scheduled for this week including testimony from sally yates. joining me is karoun demirjian from the washington post. welcome. >> good to be back. >> charlie: tell me where you think this is with respect to the house intelligence committee and chairman nunes. >> i think they're in disarray right now. you have democrats calling for him to step aside when it comes to the investigation that is front and center. he's saying i won't go. he's accusing them of just trying to take a political point right now. that does not bode well for progressing with the investigation. there was supposed to be a hearing with the director of intelligence and sally yates. that got canceled late last week. nunes said that was to make room for the fbi and nsa director to come back to capitol hill and talk to committee members behind closed doors and that was never scheduled either so it's ab and people aren't sure how long the pause is going it last. >> charlie: what's happened to the credibility of the committee? >> it's taken a hit in other parts of the congress. you
agencies. chairman nunes canceled all hearings scheduled for this week including testimony from sally yates. joining me is karoun demirjian from the washington post. welcome. >> good to be back. >> charlie: tell me where you think this is with respect to the house intelligence committee and chairman nunes. >> i think they're in disarray right now. you have democrats calling for him to step aside when it comes to the investigation that is front and center. he's saying i won't...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : March 29, 2017 6:00pm-7:01pm EDT
know when they are coming. charlie: and saudi yates, what could she tell the committee? -- d sally yates sally yates, what could she tell the committee? karoun: she was the first acting attorney general. going back when we sought a reports about who was meeting with various russian officials, it appears some of that information came from the justice department, whether or not it was yates herself. those are the earlier chapters that we have probably almost forgotten about. issue is how forthcoming and open they were about meetings more so than the fact they met with an ambassador. that is a fairly commonplace thing when you are open about it. that is what they were not, in this case. a lot of people are curious to hear what yates does now. i'm assuming she might be more open to talking about it. as we reported earlier today the white house went, through length to keep yates from testifying in front of the committee as she was originally scheduled to do today. it is supposed to be happening at some point in the future, but not the four comey and rogers come back from behind closed d
know when they are coming. charlie: and saudi yates, what could she tell the committee? -- d sally yates sally yates, what could she tell the committee? karoun: she was the first acting attorney general. going back when we sought a reports about who was meeting with various russian officials, it appears some of that information came from the justice department, whether or not it was yates herself. those are the earlier chapters that we have probably almost forgotten about. issue is how...
Happening Now : FOXNEWSW : March 28, 2017 10:00am-11:01am PDT
report regarding former acting attorney sally yates. as a matter of fact, i would like to walk you through the sequence of events to make sure everyone is abundantly clear on what happened. march 14th, chairman nunes and reiki membership invited sally yates to testify on march 28th it on march 23rd, sally yates attorney sent a letter to the department of justice asking for their consent to testify without restraint peer march 24th, the department of justice said they could only discuss those issues they were authorized to talk about and referred them to the white house but also on the 20th, the lawyer sent a letter to the white house counsel requesting that consent specifically saying if they did not receive a response by march 27th at 10:00 a.m. they would "conclude that the white house does not exert executive privilege over these matters" p the white house did not respond and took no action that prevented miss sally yates from testifying peer that is the story peer that is with the documents show. with that, i'm glad to take some questions. >> reporter: i would like to follow up
report regarding former acting attorney sally yates. as a matter of fact, i would like to walk you through the sequence of events to make sure everyone is abundantly clear on what happened. march 14th, chairman nunes and reiki membership invited sally yates to testify on march 28th it on march 23rd, sally yates attorney sent a letter to the department of justice asking for their consent to testify without restraint peer march 24th, the department of justice said they could only discuss those...
ABC World News With David Muir : WPVI : March 28, 2017 6:30pm-7:00pm EDT
tonight, was there an effort by the white house to keep the fired acting attorney general, sally yates, from testifying? the white house firing back tonight, and you'll hear it. >>> also tonight, tracking severe storms hitting now. the tornado watch, large hail, damaging winds. the new system we're watching as we come on the air, million of americans in the path tonight. >>> the police officers ambushed, rushed to the hospital in the back of a pick-up truck. their unmarked vehicle riddled with bullet holes. >>> good evening. we begin with several major developments involving the white house and the pressure mounting on capitol hill. the congressman who's leading what suppose to be an independent investigation into russian meddling with the trump team. from democrats saying his on jikt ifr jiktivety is under question. a secret meeting on white house grounds on on the night before that happened. no word who he met with. will this investigation truly be independent. the white house was asked about the cloud of this investigation hanging over the president. the press secretary lashing out.
tonight, was there an effort by the white house to keep the fired acting attorney general, sally yates, from testifying? the white house firing back tonight, and you'll hear it. >>> also tonight, tracking severe storms hitting now. the tornado watch, large hail, damaging winds. the new system we're watching as we come on the air, million of americans in the path tonight. >>> the police officers ambushed, rushed to the hospital in the back of a pick-up truck. their unmarked...
America This Morning : WPVI : March 29, 2017 4:00am-4:26am EDT
administration tried to block former acting attorney general sally yates from testifying before the house intelligence committee. >> suggesting any way, shape or form that we stood in the way of that is 100% false. >> reporter: yates who was a holdover from the obama administration was the first official to inform the white house that trump's then national security adviser michael flynn lied about his conversations with the russian ambassador. flynn later resigned and yates was ultimately fired for refusing to defend the president's travel ban. she was supposed to testify tuesday as part of the russia investigation but in a letter the justice department warned her conversations with the white house were, quote, likely covered by presidential communications privilege adding she needs to consult with the white house about whether she could testify. yates' attorney wrote to the white house counsel insisting she should be allowed to speak because top administration officials have already been speaking publicly about the matter. but she got no response and that same day congressman nunes
administration tried to block former acting attorney general sally yates from testifying before the house intelligence committee. >> suggesting any way, shape or form that we stood in the way of that is 100% false. >> reporter: yates who was a holdover from the obama administration was the first official to inform the white house that trump's then national security adviser michael flynn lied about his conversations with the russian ambassador. flynn later resigned and yates was...
Adam Schiff Expresses Concerns About White House Handling of Classified Documents : CSPAN : March 31, 2017 6:37am-7:01am EDT
with a signature inviting yates to come back. the chairman has yet to sign that letter. i hope he will. certainly t would be in the interest of the public. the white house has made clear yates to ant sally testify. we want sally yates to testify. i think she's fully prepared to testify. so the only obstacle at this point is the signature of the we rman, and we hope that get that. reporter: okay. the rote a letter first or white house council? rep. schiff: the white house wrote a letter to us that i the president's press secretary referred to in his conference. e received that simultaneously announcing during the press conference, in that letter, invited the chair and i to -- in to questions i had raised, to review these materials. we've accepted. i'll go read them. i look forward to it. be s ultimately going to necessary if the white house eally wants us to answer the questions they've raised, with the full committee to look at ranking and t the chair, and we'll need the full support of the agencies, because information d the about how the materials were gathered and what procedur
with a signature inviting yates to come back. the chairman has yet to sign that letter. i hope he will. certainly t would be in the interest of the public. the white house has made clear yates to ant sally testify. we want sally yates to testify. i think she's fully prepared to testify. so the only obstacle at this point is the signature of the we rman, and we hope that get that. reporter: okay. the rote a letter first or white house council? rep. schiff: the white house wrote a letter to us...
Inside Politics : CNNW : March 28, 2017 9:00am-10:01am PDT
this week including one today in which the former deputy attorney general sally yates. she was told she couldn't testify. the trump yagz toadministration her she was covered under executive communication therefore you can't testify. the white house is denying it had anything to do with blocking her from testifying but it muddies the water. >> there are letters, there are black and white words on paper or how they received them, maybe electronically saying they were trying to assert this privilege and then the chairman conveniently coincidentally -- >> canceled the meeting so they didn't have to. >> so they don't have to push the issue and go public with it. >> the odd nunes behavior bubbled up, but served under george b. bush e-mailed me. >> where does this go? can the democrats now because this is embarrassing, can the democrats say we have to have this hearing? we're going to bring james clapper back in who by the time he left had seen no evidence of collusion. they wanted him back to see if he would pull that back. they were going to bring in john brennan who was the cia director
this week including one today in which the former deputy attorney general sally yates. she was told she couldn't testify. the trump yagz toadministration her she was covered under executive communication therefore you can't testify. the white house is denying it had anything to do with blocking her from testifying but it muddies the water. >> there are letters, there are black and white words on paper or how they received them, maybe electronically saying they were trying to assert this...
Action News at 4:30 AM : WPVI : March 29, 2017 4:30am-4:58am EDT
white house are both denying reports the administration tried to block former. yates from testifying before the house intelligence committee. >> suggesting any way shape or form that we stood is 100 percent false. >> reporter: yates who was aholdover from the obama administration was the first house that trump's then national security adviserchael flynn lied about his conversations with the russian ambassador. flynn resigned and yates was fired for travel ban. she was supposed to testify tuesday as part investigation but in a letter the justice department warned her conversations with the white house wereikely covered by that presidential communications privilege." adding she needs to e could testify. yates' attorney then wrote to the white house counsel insisting she should be allowed to als have already been speaking publically about the matter but she no response and that same day congressman nunes postponed the russiar. did anyone at the white house direct you to postpone the yates testimony. ver and over again but did they, did in itone at the white house. >> no, that's a total
white house are both denying reports the administration tried to block former. yates from testifying before the house intelligence committee. >> suggesting any way shape or form that we stood is 100 percent false. >> reporter: yates who was aholdover from the obama administration was the first house that trump's then national security adviserchael flynn lied about his conversations with the russian ambassador. flynn resigned and yates was fired for travel ban. she was supposed to...
supposed to have with clapper and bendian arendan and yates. now we have the white house saying we would like sally yates to testify. we would like it hear what she would say. there is no obstacle to having her come in except a decision by the chair to not reschedule that hearing. what we have proposed for days, still waiting for a response from the chair. is let's schedule both hearings. >> is there stalemate now? he won't let this open hearing take place with clapper or brendon and yates that was scheduled for tuesday unless you sign a letter inviting comey to come and testify mibehind close doors before the house intelligence committee. is that the stalemate right now? >> that's one of the issues as far as the hearings are concerned. we propose, let's do both. we're more than happy to do both and waiting to hear back on that. where does the committee go from here? not just on the hearings. here is the challenge we face. we have a chairman who got information on the white house grounds that he won't share, not just with democrats, but with his own committee. and i just don't know
supposed to have with clapper and bendian arendan and yates. now we have the white house saying we would like sally yates to testify. we would like it hear what she would say. there is no obstacle to having her come in except a decision by the chair to not reschedule that hearing. what we have proposed for days, still waiting for a response from the chair. is let's schedule both hearings. >> is there stalemate now? he won't let this open hearing take place with clapper or brendon and...
CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin : CNNW : March 28, 2017 12:00pm-1:01pm PDT
asked about sally yates today. here is how he responded in the daley briefing. >> i know this would be a shocker. part of it is that i think we have been very clear. when you actually get to the bottom of the facts, every single person that's been briefed on this, they have been very clear there is no connection between the president or the staff here and anyone doing anything with russia. i think that the view here was great, go share what you know. thelers they published back up exactly what we are saying. she was asked about this information. her attorney asked the doj and they said she had to ask the white house. if you don't do this, we are going to go forward. we had no objection it her going forward. >> let's go to manu raju in washington, our senior congressional correspondent. back up. these ac significanccusations te house wanted to block her testimony, where did that come from? >> it quam in the aftermacame ia surprising decision where sally yates was expected to testify as well as two other former intelligence officials, john brennan. among those and james clapper expected to
asked about sally yates today. here is how he responded in the daley briefing. >> i know this would be a shocker. part of it is that i think we have been very clear. when you actually get to the bottom of the facts, every single person that's been briefed on this, they have been very clear there is no connection between the president or the staff here and anyone doing anything with russia. i think that the view here was great, go share what you know. thelers they published back up...
CBS This Morning : KYW : March 29, 2017 7:00am-8:53am EDT
acting attorney general sally yates. we'll talk with congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house committee. >>> a car crash killed three storm chasers tracking a live tornado. >>> plus they're many the studio today before they host the country academy music awards. they'll tell us what to expect in vegas sunday night. >>> but we begin this morning's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> why did you cancel? >> nothing's been canceled. >> it reaches a fever pitch. >> it's very obvious the white house wanted this meeting canceled. >> if they hadn't canceled, she would have testified today. >> we have no problem with her testifyi testifying. plap and simple the report from the "washington post," false. >> coming from sean spicer's mouth. >> if it's coming from sean spicer's mouth, the opposite is probably happening. >> it's spinning really fast. >> oh, my fosh. it's right in front of me. >> tornados, rain and wind and hail hitting texas, arkansas, and louisiana. >> it's going to be another storm maker. >> britain begins its official exit from the european union. >> the fir
acting attorney general sally yates. we'll talk with congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house committee. >>> a car crash killed three storm chasers tracking a live tornado. >>> plus they're many the studio today before they host the country academy music awards. they'll tell us what to expect in vegas sunday night. >>> but we begin this morning's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> why did you cancel? >> nothing's been...
CBS This Morning : KPIX : March 29, 2017 7:00am-9:01am PDT
russia from former acting attorney general sally yates. we'll talk with congressman adam schiff, the top democrat at the house committee investigating russian meddling. >>> more severe storms hammer the plains after a car crash killed three storm chasers tracking a live tornado. >>> plus luke bryan and dierks bentley here live in studio 57. before they host the academy of country music awards, they'll tell us what to expect in vegas sunday night. >>> but we begin with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> why did you cancel the hearing? >> there's no -- nothing has been cancelled. >> controversy around the house intelligence committee reaches a fevered pitch. >> it is very obvious the white house wanted this meeting cancelled. >> if they hadn't cancelled it, she would have testified today. >> we have no problem with her testifying. plain and simple. the report in "the washington post" is 100% false. >> that coming from sean spicer's mouth just a few moments ago. >> that's coming from sean spicer's mouth. the opposite is probably happening. >> it's really spinning fa
russia from former acting attorney general sally yates. we'll talk with congressman adam schiff, the top democrat at the house committee investigating russian meddling. >>> more severe storms hammer the plains after a car crash killed three storm chasers tracking a live tornado. >>> plus luke bryan and dierks bentley here live in studio 57. before they host the academy of country music awards, they'll tell us what to expect in vegas sunday night. >>> but we begin...
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SHOWHOMES NORTH SHORE - BARRINGTON
Showhomes Franchisee Shares Top Colors and Trends for Home Design This Spring
For over three decades, the Showhomes franchise system has helped sell more than 30,000 high-end residences to the tune of $10 billion by transforming them into fully-furnished, welcoming homes through staging.
One of Showhome's greatest staging secrets to success? Staying on trend.
Whether it's a modern home or one with a rich history, every vacant property benefits from updated staging.
"You have to stage accordingly. I'm getting ready to stage a house built in the 1920s, and people who like that house are not necessarily going to like modern furniture," said Cindi Stringer, a Showhomes franchisee in North Carolina. "But if you make it look too period, it will feel dated. I'm going to mix traditional furnishings with some that are on-trend to achieve the look I want."
Stringer, a retired nurse, has been a Showhomes owner for a little over eight years. To keep ahead of decorating trends, she frequents events such as the High Point Market, the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world, and is currently enrolled in an online interior design class. Showhomes also offers design certifications and shares many helpful insights at annual conferences.
For Showhomes franchisees that have a flair for design, home staging can be a way to show off their creativity in a way that has tangible results. "It's a lot of fun to see a house come together, and so quickly," said Stringer.
Spring Color Trends
Neutrals are a key element of all interior design. They serve as a blank canvas on which to add personality. "In staging, we put a neutral color on the walls so that anybody's furniture will look good in the room," explained Stringer. "Even with our bigger pieces of furniture, we stay pretty neutral."
For the last seven years, Stringer said, most neutral palettes have been shades of gray, but now the hues are turning softer.
"Colors are popular for around a ten-year timeframe, so design experts are starting to trend away from gray and more toward creamy white and taupe," she said. "We'll still see grays, but they'll be softer, like Benjamin Moore's 2019 Color of the Year, Metropolitan."
Showhomes staging experts then incorporate pops of color to add life and interest to the room. Adding vibrancy through artwork, throw pillows and in rugs and drapery can go a long way. This spring, designers are gravitating toward soft oranges, soft blues, forest greens and even black.
"For these pops of color, we are looking at the colors of the year, like Pantone's 2019 Color of the Year, Living Coral, which is a softer orange," said Stringer. "We're also seeing Craven Clay, which is kind of like a terra cotta color, but again, softer. Leather can take on that color well."
While navy dominated the market last year, this year, it's also getting a "makeunder," as demonstrated by Behr's Color of the Year, Blueprint. A calming and toned-down gray-blue, Blueprint is nearly denim. Along the same lines, earthy greens are going to be big this spring as tastemakers look toward a more natural aesthetic.
Stringer tips her hat to Joanna Gaines of HGTV's "Fixer Upper" fame for bringing black into vogue. "With the modern farmhouse revival-where everything is white and black-we're seeing black windows, shower frames, kitchen cabinets or islands, especially among people in their 20s and early 30s," Stringer said. "You can't overdo it, but black is really trending."
Spring Materials Trends
Rose Gold, a metal that's been trending in everything from iPhones to engagement rings, will be popular in decorating this year-and it can be paired with other metals.
"Previously, if you wanted to use silver, you'd want everything to be silver," said Stringer, adding that softer brushed gold will also continue the momentum it has built over the last couple of years. "Now, it's very okay to mix and have silver and gold in different areas of the same room."
With the trend towards a more natural aesthetic, decorators can also expect to see plenty of wicker, rattan and other earthy fibers coming into vogue this spring in the form of accents like baskets. On an even more natural note, plants have long been a beneficial method of bringing a little more life to a room, too.
Spring Decorating Trends
With the rising popularity of decluttering and simplifying, minimalism is trending this spring more than ever. Stringer notes that this pared-down style has always been a traditional staging staple, but this spring, keep an eye out for a twist. "This year, we're trending toward allowing some personal touches to remain in the staged home-even family photos. Buyers don't want it to be a sterile model home; they want it to be welcoming," she said.
Natural light can open up a room and make it feel much warmer, and as the weather turns sunnier, this is especially crucial. Stringer recommends avoiding heavy drapes and positioning curtain rods to extend out from the window so opened drapes are pushed completely over the walls. "Use beige or white panels only, and they should be floor-to-ceiling," she added.
Stringer says that while clean furniture lines have been popular for several years, specifically sharp-cornered mid-century modern pieces, spring trends are moving more toward softer frames and edges. This also lends itself to a more comfortable, lived-in staged home that's attractive to buyers.
Making A Great First Impression
Incorporating trends works perfectly to update spaces, but a little classic upkeep and attention can go a long way this spring as well. Stringer says to make sure the home's exterior is power washed, the landscaping is mulched and weeded, walkways are swept, the front door is freshly painted and the hardware works as well as it looks.
"You have eight to 15 seconds from the time someone walks in the door to really wow them," she said. "They'll have an immediate emotional attachment if they love it. If they find things that aren't quite right, they'll say 'I can deal with that.' But if they're in a negative frame of mind from the beginning, everything becomes an unsolvable problem."
Have an eye for interior design and enjoy staying in the loop on all the latest trends? Find out more about franchising opportunities with Showhomes at https://www.showhomesfranchise.com/.
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Livigno: how to get there
Livigno is situated in the Lombardi region and is well known as a ski resort.
Milan – Livigno
Unfortunately, Livigno is rather difficult to reach, however it is certainly worth it. There is no direct connections between Milan and Livigno. At first, you should arrive to Tirano. In order to do that you need to take a train from the station Milano Centrale. Direct trains to Tirano leave every day, the average journey time is 2 hours. The journey is very beautiful, as the train passes Lake of Como.
Then, from Tirano you should take a bus to Livigno. Please note that it is necessary to change a bus in Bormio. During the winter period such bus connections are garanteed. It takes 2 hours to get from Tirano to Livigno. In Livigno a bus makes 4 stops: BIVIO TEOLA/ALEXANDER, (S.ROCCO), SCI FONDO, VIA LI PONT/S. MARIA.
Timetable (updated 08.09.16): Tirano – Livigno
Livigno, city center
Milan airports – Livigno
There are two bus companies that connect Livigno with Linate airport, Malpensa airport and Bergamo Orio al Serio airport: Bormio Livigno Transfer e Livigno Express.
1. Bormio Livigno Transfer offers direct connections between all 3 Milan airports and so called Alta Valtellina (that include Livigno, Bormio, Valdidentro and Santa Caterina Valfurva). A Livigno the bus stops near Centro Sci Fondo, the bus also stops in Bormio (Agenzia Terralta Viaggi), Valdidentro/Isolaccia (Piazza IV Novembre) and Santa Caterina Valfurva (Piazza Magliavaca).
During the winter period that is from 03/12/2016 to 25/04/2017, the bus leaves every day, whilst during the sumemr perido from 09/06/2016 to 18/09/2016 – only on Thursday and on Sunday. During the winter period the bus leaves only once a day from Sunday to Friday and twice on Saturday. Tickets can be bought online on the official website of Bormio Livigno Transfer. The booking is obligatory and it should be made at least 3 days before the departure. You can check the timetables here:
– At Bergamo Orio al Serio airport the bus stops in Arriving International Zone. The price is from 37 EUR.
Bergamo al Sero – Livigno (summer: till 18.09.16)
Bergamo al Sero – Livigno (winter: 03.12.16 – 25.04.17)
Livigno during the winter
– At Malpensa airport the bus stops in Terminal 1/exit 7. Tickets cost from 42 EUR.
Malpensa – Livigno (summer: till 18.09.16)
Malpensa – Livigno (till: 03.12.16 – 25.04.17)
Livigno, mountains
– At Linate airport the bus stops in the International Arrival Zone/uscita 7. Tickets cost from 37 EUR.
Linate – Livigno (summer: till 18.09.16)
Linate – Livigno (winter: 03.12.16 – 25.04.17)
2. Livigno Express connects Livigno with Linate airport, Malpensa airport and Bergamo Orio al Serio airport from 26.11.2016 to 30.04.2017. Beside Livigno, the bus stops in Bormio and in Valdidentro. Tickets can be bought online on the official website of Livigno Express. The booking is obligatory and it should be done at least 2 days before the depature.
Timetable and prices (from 26.11.2016 to 30.04.2017): Milan Airports – Livigno
Bormio: how to get there
The autumn and winter seasons are upon us, so it’s time to think about doing something warm and active. One of the best places to do that is a charming town Bormio that is situated in the Lombardia region, not far from Milan. Bormio is well-know for its spa and wellness centers and skiing.
Milan – Bormio
To get to Bormio from Milan you can first arrive to Tirano with the train. From the train station Milano Centrale to Bormia every day leave direct trains that connects two cities in 2 hours. The journey is very beautiful because the train passes the magnificent panorama of the lake Como. You can check the timetable on the official website of Trentitalia.
From Tirano you can take a direct bus to Bormio. The bus company Perego offers direct conenctions between Tirano and Bormio. The average journey time is one hour.
Timetable (updated 07-09-2016): Tirano – Bormio
Milan Airports – Bormio
There are two bus companies that connect Bormio with Linate airport, Malpensa airport and Bergamo Orio al Serio airport: Bormio Livigno Transfer e Livigno Express.
1. Bormio Livigno Transfer offers direct connections between all 3 Milan airports and so called Alta Valtellina (that include Bormio, Livigno, Valdidentro and Santa Caterina Valfurva). A Bormio the bus stops near Agenzia Terralta Viaggi, the bus also stops in Livigno (Centro Sci Fondo), Valdidentro/Isolaccia (Piazza IV Novembre) and Santa Caterina Valfurva (Piazza Magliavaca).
During the winter period that is from 03/12/2016 to 25/04/2017, the bus leaves every day, whilst during the sumemr perido from 09/06/2016 to 18/09/2016 – only on Thursday and on Sunday. During the winter period the bus leaves only once a day from Sunday to Friday and twice on Saturday. A Bormio the bus stops near Agenzia Terralta Viaggi. Tickets can be bought online on the official website of Bormio Livigno Transfer. The booking is obligatory and it should be made at least 3 days before the departure. You can check the timetables here:
– Bergamo Orio al Serio airport is situated 175 km from Bormio. It is the closest airport to Bormio. At the airport the bus stops in Arriving International Zone. The price is from 37 EUR.
Bergamo al Sero – Bormio (summer: till 18.09.16)
Bergamo al Sero – Bormio (winter : 03.12.16 – 25.04.17)
– Malpensa airport is situated 236 km from Bormio. At the Malpensa the bus stops in Terminal 1/exit 7. Tickets cost from 42 EUR.
Malpensa – Bormio (summer: till 18.09.16)
Malpensa – Bormio (winter: 03.12.16 – 25.04.17)
– Linate airport is situated 200 km from Bormio. At Linate airport the bus stops in the International Arrival Zone/uscita 7. Tickets cost from 37 EUR.
Linate airport – Bormio (summer: till 18.09.16)
Linate airport – Bormio (winter: 03.12.16 – 25.04.17)
2. Livigno Express connects Bormio with Linate airport, Malpensa airport and Bergamo Orio al Serio airport from 26.11.2016 to 30.04.2017. Beside Bormio, the bus stops in Livigno and in Valdidentro. Tickets can be bought online on the official website of Livigno Express. The booking is obligatory and it should be done at least 2 days before the depature.
Timetable and prices (from 26.11.2016 to 30.04.2017): Milano airports– Bormio
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How to get to Pavia
Pavia is situated in the Lombardia region, that is 35 km from Milan. Pavia is a city of art, culture and nature and has a lot to offer. It can be easily reached by both trains and buses from airports of Milan and nearby cities.
Milan airport Linate – Pavia
Milano airport Linate is situated 58 km from Pavia. There are 2 options to get there:
1. Autoservizi Botti offers such connections every day. One way tickets cost 15 EUR, two way tickets – 27 EUR. For children, who are less than 12, there are some discounts. The average journey time is 40 minutes.
You can check the timetable and prices here (from 01.06. 2016): Milano Linate airport – Pavia
2. At first, you should arrive to the Stazione Centrale of Milan. For more information: Linate airport: connections. From the train station you can easily reach Pavia by train. The average journey time is 30 minutes. Tickets cost from 4 EUR.
Milano Malpensa airport – Pavia
Milano Malpensa airport is situated 85 km from Pavia. Unfortunately, there are no direct connections with Pavia. At first you should arrive to the Stazione Centrale of Milan. For more information: Malpensa airport: connections. From Milano Stazione Centrale it is possiblie to reach Pavia by train. The average journey time is 30 minutes. Tickets cost from 4 EUR.
Coperto Bridge, Pavia
L’aeroporto Bergamo Orio al Serio – Pavia
Unfortunately there are no direct connections between Bergamo Orio al Serio airport and Pavia as well. At first, you should arrive to the train station of Bergamo or of Milan. For more information: Bergamo Orio al Serio airport: connections. Then it is possibile to reach Pavia by train.
Milan – Pavia
From Milan it is also possible to get to Pavia by bus, not only by train. However, please note, that buses do not live from the Stazione Centrale of Milan but from different bus stops of the city. There are two bus companies that offer direct connections between Milan and Pavia: PMT ed Arfea.
1. PMT offers several bus lines:
a) Line t094: buses leave from Milano Romolo, that is from the bus stop near the metro station Romolo (green line M2) The average journey time is one hour as a bus makes many intermediate stops along the way.
– (updated 19/01/2016) PMT:t094 Milan-Vidigulfo-Pavia
b) Line t172: buses leave from Milano, via Vittadini.
– (updated 10/09/2015) PMT: t172 Milan-Siziano-Pavia
c) Line t175: buses leave from Famagosta, that is from the bus stop near the metro station Famagosta (green line M2)
– (updated 31/07/2015) PMT:t175 Milano-Binasco-Pavia
2. Bus company Arfea, in turn, offers only one bus line between Milano Famagosta and Pavia. As you can see, buses leave from Famagosta, that is from the bus stop near the metro station Famagosta (green line M2). Average journey time is 30 minutes. Tickets cost I biglietti costano circa 4-5 €.
You can check the timetable here (from 07.10.15): Arfea: Milan Famagosta – Pavia
Streets of Pavia
Posted on June 14, 2016 August 24, 2016
Linate Airport Milan connections
Linate Airport is situated just within 7 km from Milan. It’s easy to reach both by car or by public transport.
In this article you can find the information about the bus connections to/from Linate Airport and Milan train station Milano Centrale, EXPO/FIERA MILANO CITY , Malpensa Airport and Monza.
Train Station Milano Centrale – Linate Airport
Buses Airbus of the ATM company provide daily connection Linate Airport – Milano Centrale. One way tickets cost 5 €, two way tickets – 9 € and for children from 0 to 12 cost 2,50 €. The tickets can be bought on board without any additional charges as well as in all authorized tickets selling points and automatic ticket vending machine in the Milan metro. Buses operate from 6:00 a.m. till 24:00 Average time journey is 25 min.
From Milano Centrale (the bus stops on Piazza Luigi di Savoia): the bus leaves at 6:00, 6:15, then every 30 min till 20:15. After 21:00 buses leave every 30 min till 23:00.
From Linate Airport (the bus stops near Arrival zone 6): buses operate from 6:30 a.m. with 30 min time interval till 23:30.
The bus also make one stop during this itinerary:
Direction Linate: P.le Dateo, at the corner with via Uberti
Direction Milano Centrale: P.le Dateo, after via Poma in front of civico n° 6
More detailed timetable you can find here: Airbus: Linate – Milan
Autostradale
Buses Autostradale provide daily connection Lenate Airport – Milan train station Lambrate – Milan train Station Milano Centrale.
Buses leave every 30 min. Buses operate from 05.30 a.m. till 22.00. You can buy tickets on board. It is also possible to buy tickets online on the official website of Autostradale. One way ticket costs 5 EUROS, two way ticket costs 9 EUROS, for children from 2 till 12 – 3,EUROS. The journey time is 25 min.
More detailed timetable you can find here: (valid from 28/05/2015): Autostradale: Linate – Milan
Duomo, Milan
Airport Linate – Milan
City bus 73
Buses 73 that are managed by ATM provide daily connection between Lenate Airport and Piazza San Babila in Malian, metro station of the same name, line M1. Buses operate from 05.35 till 00.37. Tickets cost 1,5 EUROS.
More detailed timetable you can find here: ATM 73: Linate – Milan
Linate Airport — Fiera Milano City/RHO FIERA
Malpensa shuttle
These buses provide the connection between Linate Airport and Fiera Milano City only during exhibitions. Tickets cost 10 EUROS. Tickets can be bought on board.
More detailed timetable you can find here: Malpensa Shuttle Linate— FIERA MILANO
From Linate buses leave at 08.15, 10.15, 11:00
From RHO FIERA (Gate EST) at 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30
The ticket costs €10,00
Malpensa Airport — Linate Airport
Air Pullman
Air Pullman buses provide daily connection between Malpensa Airport and Linate Airport. Average journey time is one hour and a half. Tickets can be bought on board.
From Linate buses leave at 09.30 – 11.15 – 13.40 — 15.30 — 16.30. Buses arrive at Malpensa Airport to Terminal 1. Request stop at Terminal 2 is possible.
From Malpensa Airport the bus leaves from Terminal 1 at 09.30 – 11.15 – 13.30 — 15.15 — 18.20
From Terminal 2: 09.40 – 11.25 – 13.40 — 15.25 — 18.30
More detailed timetable you can find here (valid now): Air Pulman: Linate — Malpensa
Modern Milan
Lenate Airport — Monza
From Linate the bus leaves at 06.30 — 07.40 — 09.10 — 17.30 — 18.30 — 19.40 — 20.40.
From Monza – (the bus stop is at via Borsellino e Falcone) at 06.00 — 07.00 — 8.20 — 18.00 — 19.10 — 20.10
Average journey time is 20-30 min. One way tickets cost 8 EURO and two way tickets cost 15 EURO.
More detailed timetable you can find here (valid from 10/05/2016): Malpensa Shuttle: Linate — Monza
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Airport Milan Malpensa – Milan, connections
Here You will find some of the companies that perform service of connection between the city of Milan and Milan Malpensa airport
The company provides a connection service between the Central Station of Milan and Malpensa Airport. The rides are served daily, including public holidays, with a frequency of 20 minutes. The ride takes about 55 minutes and costs € 10.00 the one way ticket and € 16.00 for the return ticket. Children (from 2 to 12 years old) are charged € 5.00 each way.
The first departure from Milan Central Station is set at 03:45, the last at 00:15.
The first departure from Malpensa terminal 1 and 2 are set: the first is at 05:00 and the second is at 5:10. The last departure from Malpensa terminal 1 is at 01.20 and the last one is at 1.30.
You can check the winter timetable here (from 23.11.2015): Malpensashuttle
Summer timetable (from 16.06.2016 till 15.09.2016): Malpensashuttle
The company connects Malpensa Airport to Milan Central Station and the Fiera di Milano. The rides run every 20 minutes. The service is provided daily, including holidays. The ride lasts about 55 minutes and cost € 8.00 for this single ticket and € 14.00 for the return ticket, while children, aged from 2 to 12, are charged € 5.00 each way.
The first ride from Milan Central Station is set at 04:30 and the last at 23:00.
The buses from Malpensa, T1 and T2, leave the first at 06:00 and the last at 00:30.
You can check the timetable here (updated on March 2016): Autostradale
Terravision
The company connects Malpensa Airport to Milan Central Station. The rides run every 20-30 minutes. The service is provided daily, including holidays. The ride lasts about 55 minutes and cost € 8.00 for this single ticket and € 14.00 for the return ticket, while children, aged from 2 to 12, are charged € 5.00 each way. Children under 4 – free.
You can check the timetable here (updated on March 2016): Terravision: Milano-Malpensa
SADEM
Also the bus company SADEM connects Malpensa Airport to Turin.
The service is provided daily, including holidays except of 25th of December.One way ticket cost 22 EUR. The tickets should be bought beforehand on their official website or in the points of sales.
In Turin bus stops at Bus Terminal Turin/ital. TORINO Autostazione on Corso Bolzano, that is situated in front of Porta Susa
In Malpensa Airport the bus leaves from Malpensa Terminal 1 and 2
You can check the timetable here (valid from 01.02.2016): Turin-airport of Malpensa
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Our 98% customer retention is a testament to our team’s hard work and dedication, their local knowledge and gold-accredited management services securing tenants in record times. We consistently go above and beyond to guarantee you income security and growth, working evenings and weekends to keep properties properly maintained and residents happy.
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Sat 9th February
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C Palace 1 1 West Ham FT
Huddsf'ld 1 2 Arsenal FT
Liverpool 3 0 B'mouth FT
So'ton 1 2 Cardiff FT
Watford 1 0 Everton FT
Brighton 1 3 Burnley FT
Results February 2019
Crystal Palace vs West Ham United
3:00pm Saturday 9th February
Selhurst Park (Att: 25552)
W Zaha (76)
West Ham 1
M Noble (27 pen)
C Palace vs West Ham
Premier League 3:00pm Saturday 9th February Selhurst Park (Att: 25552)
By James Kilpatrick
Crystal Palace 1-1 West Ham: Wilfried Zaha scores on return from suspension
Report and highlights as Crystal Palace and West Ham play out an entertaining draw
FT Crystal Palace 1 - 1 West Ham
Wilfried Zaha scored on his return from suspension as Crystal Palace drew 1-1 with West Ham at Selhurst Park in the Premier League on Saturday.
West Ham took the lead in a lively first-half through Mark Noble from the penalty spot (27) after goalkeeper Vicente Guaita clattered into Michail Antonio inside the area.
In an entertaining clash where two golden opportunities for Palace to equalise were spurned by James McArthur and Michy Batshuayi, Zaha found the long-awaited leveller in the 76th minute when he sneaked in a deflected strike at Lukasz Fabianski's near post to extend West Ham's winless run to four matches.
A point apiece means West Ham move into 10th on 33 points by goal difference. Palace, meanwhile, have moved up to 13th on 27 points.
Crystal Palace Guaita (5), Wan-Bissaka (6), Kelly (6), Sakho (6), Van Aanholt (6), McArthur (7), Milivojevic (5), Schlupp (6), Townsend (6), Zaha (8), Benteke (6)
Subs: Batshuayi (6), Meyer (7)
West Ham: Fabianski (8), Fredericks (7), Diop (6), Ogbonna (7), Cresswell (7), Noble (7), Rice (6), Antonio (8), Anderson (7), Snodgrass (6), Hernandez (6)
Subs: Arnautovic (5), Obiang (6), Zabaleta (N/A)
Man of the Match: Michail Antonio
West Ham had two good chances to take the lead in quick succession. In the 13th minute, Ryan Fredericks' close-range attempt was stopped by Guaita moments before Felipe Anderson slipped through Robert Snodgrass, whose shot was blocked by the Spanish goalkeeper.
There were three yellow cards in a hotly-contested first half
James McArthur unleashed a driven shot from close range in the 16th minute which Fabianski batted away with a strong right hand, but it was West Ham who took the lead in an end-to-end half.
West Ham were correctly awarded a penalty when Guaita clattered into Antonio before Noble sent the 32-year-old 'keeper the wrong way from the spot to score his first goal of the season.
Christian Benteke came close to equalising on the half-hour mark, but Fabianski was there again to make a fine diving stop.
Two changes for Crystal Palace. Wilfried Zaha came in for Jordan Ayew and Martin Kelly took the place of the injured James Tomkins.
West Ham named the same team from their 1-1 draw with Liverpool.
Palace were reinvigorated in the second half and should have taken the lead in the 52nd minute when Patrick van Aanholt slipped through McArthur, but he smashed his effort wide from six yards out.
Batshuayi was introduced midway through the second half and was presented with a glorious chance to send Palace level in the 68th minute, but he swept a similar effort wide of Fabianski's right post.
And with the clock winding down, Palace finally got the goal they were searching for through Zaha, who played a neat one-two with McArthur before his smashed shot off Pedro Obiang deflected into the top corner.
To round off a game of many missed chances, Zaha then had a great opportunity to win the game for Palace in the 80th minute, but his curled strike from a narrow angle was claimed by Fabianski and the points were shared.
Opta stats
West Ham are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League meetings with Crystal Palace (W4 D4).
Only Southampton (12) and Huddersfield (5) have picked up fewer home points in the Premier League this season than Crystal Palace (13).
West Ham didn't manage a single attempt on goal in the second half, while allowing Crystal Palace 17 shots after half-time.
Wilfried Zaha scored his first home goal in 11 games in all competitions for Crystal Palace, since netting against West Brom on the final day of the 2017-18 campaign.
55% of West Ham midfielder Mark Noble's Premier League goals have come from the penalty spot (21/38). Of players with at least 30 goals in the competition, only Leighton Baines (63%) and David Unsworth (58%) have scored a higher proportion from the spot.
Wilfried Zaha had six shots on goal for Crystal Palace in this game, as many as the entire West Ham team managed.
Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson says he was disappointed with the result but very pleased with his side's performance in their 1-1 draw with West Ham in the Premier League.
Roy Hodgson: "If you don't miss chances, and we took every chance we got, every game would end 10-8.
"But I was disappointed in them. I really did think with the James McArthur one and the Michy Batshuayi one we were definitely going to score.
"Other chances we created the goalkeeper (Lukasz Fabianski) was very good."
West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini says that the draw was 'the logical result' after his side's game against Crystal Palace ended 1-1 in the Premier League.
Manuel Pellegrini: "They were a little bit lucky with the goal, but they had other chances and we didn't create one in their own box.
"I thought there was 45 minutes for each team and the draw was a logical result."
Man of the Match - Michail Antonio
Michail Antonio (left) impressed against Crystal Palace
Antonio was a constant thorn in the side of the Palace defence with his tireless running and physicality. He was rewarded for his efforts by winning West Ham a penalty in the first-half.
The 28-year-old continued to cause Palace problems in the second half and was a useful outlet to help relieve some of the pressure on the visitors' defence.
Crystal Palace travel to Doncaster for their FA Cup fifth round tie on Sunday. West Ham's next game sees them host Fulham in the Premier League on February 22.
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Bangkok blast: Thailand's police urge patience, say probe is slow due lack of 'modern equipment'
People ride their motorcycles past a digital billboard showing a sketch of the main suspect in Monday's attack on Erawan shrine, in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug 23, 2015.PHOTO: REUTERS
Aug 23, 2015, 2:59 pm SGT
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BANGKOK (AFP) - The authorities in Thailand on Sunday urged patience in their hunt for the Bangkok shrine bomber, as the police chief admitted Thailand lacks some of the "modern equipment" to find the prime suspect captured on security cameras.
"The slowness of the investigation is not because the police lack capacity," national police chief Somyot Poompanmoungyot told reporters.
"But it's because we don't have the modern equipment that supports the work."
He did not reveal the equipment the police need, but it is likely to be facial recognition technology or programmes to enhance security camera footage.
Despite their technological limitations, Thai police say the investigation is progressing.
"We cannot give details of that progress... let the police work," police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said.
"We are working around the clock... but this kind of a case is not easy."
Earlier in the week, junta chief Prayut Chan-o-Cha bristled at suggestions his government should seek overseas help in a complicated inquiry, with both Britain and Australia offering their expertise.
Anxiety is mounting six days after the attack, which killed 20 people in the capital's commercial heart, with the bomber still on the run.
The hunt has so far focused on a suspect in a yellow T-shirt seen on CCTV placing a rucksack under a bench at the Erawan shrine minutes before the blast.
A sketch of the man has been widely circulated. He is described on his arrest warrant as "foreign", but the police have since said he could in fact be Thai or of mixed race.
Unverified footage, time-stamped just a few minutes after Monday's blast, shows a second man in a blue T-shirt kicking a package into water near a bridge in the same spot where a device exploded on Tuesday without injuries.
But the police have not publicly linked the two blasts despite pressure to reveal more.
The shrine bomb killed mostly ethnic Chinese tourists from across Asia. More than 50 people remain in hospital.
With no one claiming responsibility, rumours and speculation have swirled in Thailand over the country's worst single mass-casualty attack in living memory.
Two people have been arrested for spreading rumours and hoaxes over social media, a junta spokesman said on Sunday.
The potential perpetrators named by police and experts alike include foreign Islamic militants, members of Thailand's southern Malay-Muslim insurgency, militants on both sides of Thailand's festering political divide or even someone with a personal grudge.
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Victoria’s Secret Launches First Flagship Store In Australia
The Victoria’s Secret Australia flagship, located in Melbourne at the Chadstone Shopping Centre, Malvern East, is set up to mirror the 5th Avenue store in New York. The new store carries a broad range of the brand’s signature lingerie lines which Include; Victoria’s Secret Pink, Dream Angels, Very Sexy, the Bombshell bra range and Body by Victoria.
For many who have been following the brand’s progress, this move seems like a wise move since the home-based stores have continued to struggle. There’s also a lot of talk of other upcoming expansions and extensions.
The brand hopes to spread more than its wings internationally as it attempts to leave footprints as well. There’s also talks about entering the French market. We also believe they might employ the same tactics they used for the Australian expansion. Prior to the Victoria’s Secret Australia flagship opening, the brand brought small installations and pop-up boutiques to Australia. But the pop-ups weren’t anything compared to this flagship as they never offered a full range of the label’s many lines.
This opening and talks of more expansion came after the brand recorded low rating during their annual runway show in November. The low ratings came as a surprise as the show had a good number of supermodels like Adriana Lima (who walked for the last time on the runway), Kendall Jenner, The Hadids, Behati Prinsloo (who walked for the first time since giving birth) and a host of other powerhouse models.
Low ratings now in the past and expansion in its forecast, the brand is set to display 12,000 pairs of panties for shoppers to peruse. Asides from bra and panties, beauty products, teddies and sleepwear and more will also be available in the store.
Via us.fashionnetwork.com
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About the University of Surrey
Vice-Chancellor's Office
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At Surrey, we’re building on our past and looking to our future.
Leading the University of Surrey
The management and strategy of the University is led by the President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor G Q Max Lu. Working with the senior advisory body of the Executive Board, he defines the academic direction of Surrey and ensures that it is well managed.
"As we move forwards into Surrey's second half century, our people continue to grow our community, making new discoveries and unforeseen connections."
Prof Gaoqing Lu, President and Vice-Chancellor
Our annual review and strategic plan offer an insight into the recent past, the present and the future of the University, alongside Financial Statements, policies and insurance information that give a detailed insight into the operations of the organisation.
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View the University's senior management structure chart (PDF) and Executive Board structure chart (PDF).
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New DISH Network Satellite Launched
By Stephen Clark 2006-02-16T14:22:00Z Spaceflight
The Zenit rocket lifts off with EchoStar 10 from an oil-drilling platform in the Pacific Ocean.
(Image: © Sea Launch)
Witha booming burst of fire and smoke, a Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket began itsjourney toward orbit from the tranquil Pacific Ocean today on a mission to deploy a communications satellitethat will become part of DISH Network's space-based broadcasting system.
Launch of the 200-foot Zenit3SL rocket occurred on time at 2335 GMT (6:35 p.m. EST) from the Odyssey launch platform - a retrofitted Norwegianoil-drilling platform. Odyssey was positioned in the central Pacific along theEquator at 154 degrees West longitude, a perfect locale to take advantage ofEarth's increased rotation speed at lower latitudes.
The liftoff had beenpostponed for a week after two separate issues plagued the launch team duringearlier attempts. First, a hold was called in the final minutes of thecountdown last Wednesday because of an undisclosed problem with a groundsupport system. Strong ocean currents further delayed the launch from theweekend. The rocket had to be lowered from its launch mount twice during thescrubs.
On its 19th flight, themodified version of Ukraine's Zenit rocket worked flawlessly.The first two stages of the launcher fired as planned to propel the Block DMupper stage and EchoStar 10 payload into a suborbital trajectory. The Block DMthen assumed control of the mission to first put itself into a low parking orbit,then to finish the task of deploying EchoStar 10 in its planned ellipticalorbit.
It took just over one hourto successfully complete the job of placing the EchoStar 10 spacecraft into itstargeted geosynchronous transfer orbit. More than a half-hour later,Earth-bound controllers heard the first signals from the 9,553-pound satelliteto confirm the high-powered broadcasting platform was in good health followingits fiery launch.
EchoStar10 was delivered into an orbit with a high point of around 22,207 miles, aboutseven miles higher that the pre-launch predictions, a low point right on theplanned mark of 1,047 miles, and an inclination of zero degrees to the Equator.The craft will use on-board thrusters in five burns to gradually nudge its patharound the planet higher until it is circularized at an altitude of 22,300miles within about seven to ten days.
There, EchoStar 10 willmaneuver to a testing location where engineers will put the craft's systemsthrough a series of tests for up to four weeks. After a successful completionof this checkout period, EchoStar 10 will park itself above the Equator at 110degrees West, where it will appear to hover above a fixed area in the easternPacific Ocean. At that geosynchronous slot, the satellite will be co-locatedwith EchoStar 6 and EchoStar 8.
Expectations are that EchoStar10 will be deemed operational by late April, said EchoStar vice president ofsatellite programs Rohan Zaveri.
Built by Lockheed Martin, EchoStar10 carries a Ku-band communications payload tailored for direct-to-homebroadcasting needs. The new satellite's capability will add to EchoStar'sexisting lineup of core television channel offerings on the company's DISHNetwork system that currently has a roster of over 12 million customers acrossthe United States.
"I would tell ourcustomers to look for good things," Zaveri said in a post-launch TVinterview. "It was a great day and a spectacular launch."
DISH Network provideshundreds of audio and video channels - ranging from national cable networks tolocal television affiliates - directly to homes, offices and schoolsnationwide. EchoStar 10 will work with its nine counterparts in space to helpexpand those programming choices over its planned 15-year service life.
EchoStar 10 willspecifically work to provide programming to individual markets across the United States. The spacecraft features 10 uplinkspot beams that will be pointed at six locations inside the continental United States and four additional sites in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. The satellite's 49 downlink spot beams will bepointed at over four dozen locations inside the United States, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, according to filings with the FederalCommunications Commission.
"This is our secondmission with EchoStar and we are very happy to have achieved another missionsuccess for DISH Network with EchoStar 10," said Sea Launch president andgeneral manager Jim Maser. "We want to congratulate EchoStar in their 25thanniversary year and their 10th year of DISH Network, providing outstandingsatellite TV service to households across the United States."
"We are pleased withthe success of the launch mission and want to thank Sea Launch and LockheedMartin for their efforts for launching our satellite," Zaveri said inpost-launch remarks. "We look forward to testing and use of the satellitewithin the next few months."
Wednesday's launch was thefirst of 2006 for Sea Launch - an international launch services provider formedin 1995 by Boeing, RSC Energia, the Ukrainian rocket-builders Yuzhnoye and Yuzhmash,and Norwegian ship-builder Kvaerner. Five more missions are planned for thisyear, Sea Launch says.
"Like our colleaguesin the launch industry, we are excited at the prospect of a promising upturn inthe launch services market," Maser said. Sea Launch flew four times lastyear, and added nine new commercial contracts to its ever-growing backlog.
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Sneak Peak at Parade Entry #9...
With the Northern Colorado Parade of Homes almost here, Katelyn Shields of Booj caught up with our very own Barb Spanjer to discuss Spanjer Homes' 2015 entry.
1. Have you participated in the Parade of Homes before?
Spanjer Homes most recently participated in the 2014 Parade with a beautiful
two-story farmhouse-inspired plan we named “The Homesteader.”Our team was delighted that the home was recognized by the Home Builder’s Association of Northern Colorado for Best Kitchen and Best Overall Home, and honored by Parade attendees with the People’s Choice Award.
2. What is your favorite part about the Parade of Homes?
It's always exciting to see the variety of approaches to building and design that the Parade encompasses, but the real highlight for us is conversing with the visitors we get at our home, because it's their interest and appreciation of our industry that bring us together. It is rewarding that such a diverse range of people take the time out of their weekend to see the hard work that we pour into design, construction, energy efficiency, finish work and decoration. It's enlightening—and fun—to learn about what our market likes and doesn't like, what aspects of a home are most valuable to them, and what experiences with their current or previous homes have shaped their plans for the future.
3. How would you describe the home Spanjer has in the parade?
This year’s entry, "The Lucerne," is a 3-bedroom/3-bathroom contemporary Colorado ranch-style plan that showcases a large master bedroom suite and spa-inspired bath. Its space planning and design is great, but the home really stands out because of its luxurious selections, including site-finished walnut floors, custom cabinetry and one-of-a-kind built-ins. Over the years, Spanjer Homes has come to be known for furniture-quality woodworking and fine craftsmanship; this home is no exception. But it also has all the creature comforts you'd expect from a high-end custom home, such as KitchenAid Pro Series appliances, an oversized 3-car garage, 5-star plus energy rating, and it's Smart Home technology-ready. Finally because it's on a generous WildWing lot, The Lucerne's future owners will always come home to a beautiful mountain view of the Front Range and the breezes off Timnath Reservoir.
4. What is your favorite part about the home you have in the parade?
It's hard to pick only one favorite! But for people (like me) who are used to a busy, fast-paced lifestyle, the master bathroom will feel like an oasis. It's spacious yet private, has a sleek free-standing tub, a stylish curbless shower, a two-sink vanity and lots of natural light! We've chosen elegant Moen faucets, Mesquite granite counter top and the clean look of Topcu and Florida Tile. When it's ultimately time to return to reality, the bathroom's functionality is a major plus—it opens directly into couples' closets and provides easy access to the laundry.
5. What advice would you give someone looking to start the process of building a new home? Where is the best place to begin?
This is a common question, and can have a tremendous effect on whether your custom home process is a smooth one. The optimal time to contact a builder is prior to purchasing a lot, and prior to making any firm architectural or design decisions. At this stage, we are available to "walk" any lots you are considering and/or meet to discuss the many pros and cons you may not be aware of that can help you decide which property will provide the best fit and the best value for your needs. Spanjer Homes has been building in Northern Colorado for almost 40 years, which has resulted in a wealth of knowledge about how the attributes and characteristics of a lot—such as its composition, orientation, location, etc.—will influence the home's design and overall budget. Most homeowners have found this type of insight invaluable, and many have been able to use our advice to make small adjustments in the early planning stages of their home that result in dramatically positive results.
6. Who should customers contact if they wanted to begin working with Spanjer?
Barb Spanjer barb@spanjer.com 970-223-2664
Spanjer Homes takes home 3 awards for 2014 Parade of Homes
From Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce Member News
The Northern Colorado Home Builders Association (NoCo HBA) honored outstanding participants in the 2014 Parade of Homes by naming winners in nine categories at the reception on September 25th. Spanjer Homes won three awards with its entry, The Homesteader, a contemporary craftsman farmhouse in Timnath’s WildWing subdivision.
Spanjer’s home was recognized with awards for Best Kitchen, Best Overall Home and People’s Choice.
Notable kitchen details included: an expansive floor plan open to the great room and breakfast nook, a super pantry, high-performance Kitchen-Aid appliances, custom hood with remote control capabilities, and farmhouse details such as an apron-front sink and beadboard ceilings. The home also showcased a number of emerging trends such as textured carpet, drum lighting, glass accent tiles and dark solid-plank hardwood flooring. Additional novel features include Comcast’s “Connected Home” technology, which allows homeowners to remotely monitor energy use and activity in targeted areas of the home and Kohler’s touchless flush toilet feature. Energy saving features, such as the sealed combustion furnace, fireplace, and tankless water heater, earned this home a HERS 5+ star energy rating.
The home at 2968 Majestic View Dr. will remain open for viewing during the month of October, Thursdays through Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information and directions, please visit www.spanjer.com.
Founded in 1978, Spanjer Homes is a local, custom home builder that has emphasized craftsmanship and long-term relationships throughout its many collaborations with homeowners, designers and trades in Northern Colorado. Spanjer Homes, an NAHB Certified Green Professional builder, was awarded the Better Business Bureau’s 2010 Torch Award for Business Ethics and has been recognized by the City of Fort Collins with the Practical Housing for All© Certification for its accessible line of homes in Sunstone West.
2968 Majestic View Drive Added to Northern Colorado HBA 2014 Parade of Homes
The Parade of Homes, sponsored by the Northern Colorado Home Builders Association, is an annual event which offers the general public a first-hand look at the current trends and greatest innovations in new home design. Northern Colorado homes ranging from affordable luxury to high end custom builds will be showcased for three weekends in September: 6th & 7th, 13th & 14th and 20th & 21st.
Spanjer Homes is proud to participate in this event by showcasing 2968 Majestic View Drive in Timnath's WildWing subdivision. Situated on a secluded loop drive, this home offers Craftsman-revival styling in its richly detailed, nature-inspired exterior—plus the modern efficiencies of an updated floor plan.
We are excited to collaborate with the Parade platinum sponsor, Comcast, by showcasing their "Connected Home" technology. This will give home buyers a chance to see the latest innovations and enhancements from security to home automation and management services that Xfinity has to offer. Featured technologies will include in-wall lighting, smart thermostat controls, water sensors, indoor/outdoor wireless cameras, and remote video monitoring capabilities.
This brief video clip from a similar home tour in Seattle, WA highlights some of the technologies that will be featured in our home during the Northern Colorado parade of homes in September.
Snapshot of Northern Colorado HBA Economic and Housing Statistics
By the National Association of Home Builders
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently released an on-line tool that provides economic and housing statistics for all local associations. The tool allows users to easily compare local area statistics to other associations, state and national figures.
The statistics provided are NAHB tabulations based on an aggregation of county-level data from the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) and 2013 Building Permits Survey. The ACS and Building Permits Survey are conducted by the Census Bureau. The tabulations are based on the latest available data. For a description of the statistics provided, please visit this web page.
The Home Builders Association of Northern Colorado's (NoCO HBA) complete snapshot is listed below. Highlights of the snapshot included ranking 42nd among nationwide HBAs for single family permits in 2013 and 56th in multi family permits in the same year. Single family permits for the NoCO HBA increased 33.70% from 2012 to 2013 while the state-wide single family permits increased 25%. The single family vacancy rate in the NoCO HBA jurisdiction is 1.20% as compared to the statewide vacancy rate of 1.63%.
Spanjer Homes Marks its 35th Year of Business in Fort Collins
Steve and Barb Spanjer, longtime members of the Fort Collins community, commemorate Spanjer Homes’ 35 years in business this year. Founded in 1978, Spanjer Homes is a local custom home builder that has emphasized craftsmanship and long-term relationships throughout its many collaborations with homeowners, designers and trade contractors throughout the region.
“We feel extremely honored to have built a variety of unique homes for people in our area,” said Steve Spanjer, the company’s president. “It’s a source of pride to see that even second and third owners of a ‘Spanjer Home’ still treasure the level of craftsmanship and detail we worked hard to incorporate into homes we built five, 10 and 20 or more years ago. That, and the many friendships we’ve made have been the best achievements we could have asked for over the last 35 years.”
Spanjer credits the company’s longevity, in part, to an ongoing commitment to improve business procedures and internal operations through participation in industry alliances and professional organizations. One such group, the National Association of Home Builders “Builder 20 Club” has met twice yearly for the last 17 years to trade business strategy among similarly sized custom home companies. “Barb and Steve’s determination and focus to continually improve their business and better serve their clients through trust and integrity inspires me over and over again,” said Builder 20 Club member Doug Ford, president of DD Ford Construction in Santa Barbara. Adds Paul Magleby, president of Magleby Construction in Pleasant Grove, UT, “I attribute a large share of our company’s own success to the example, integrity and expertise the Spanjers have demonstrated, which we have emulated through our association with them.”
Spanjer Homes completes a select few fully custom homes each year, while also pursuing special multifamily or pocket developments to suit other market segments in the region. In 2003, Spanjer Homes successfully redeveloped a section of Bennett Road west of CSU into 16 authentic Craftsmen-style reproduction bungalow homes, and in 2013 completed a line of accessible homes in Sunstone West, which was recognized by the City of Fort Collins with the Practical Housing for All© Certification. Most recently, Spanjer Homes has been invited to participate as a preferred builder in the desirable Timnath development of WildWing.
Spanjer Homes, an NAHB Certified Green Professional builder, was awarded the Better Business Bureau’s 2010 Torch Award for Business Ethics, was a Bill Daniels Business Ethics Award Finalist in 2013, and is the only regional builder to have been named “Builder of the Year” two times by the Home Builders Association of Northern Colorado, in 1993 and in 2011.
Seeing things in a new light
By Molly Armbrister of the Northern Colorado Business Report
It's a bit of a family affair at The Light Center.
Larry and Kay Edwards founded the business -
across the street from its current location on
College Avenue in Fort Collins - in 1971. Now
Larry operates it in conjunction with daughter
Jennifer Guerriero, manager and a part-owner of the company.
But blood relation isn't the only kind of family that lives under The Light Center roof. Three of its 30 employees have been with the company for more than 25 years, sharing their knowledge of how best to light up a home, store, office or any other space with countless customers over the years. This year is the company's 40th anniversary.
The "family" extends further into the list of the builders and electrical contractors with whom Edwards and his employees have formed relationships over the years, including builders like ABD Design/Build and Spanjer Homes.
Its close ties to the construction industry meant that The Light Center felt the effects of the recession a bit more than other businesses without connections to the troubled housing market. Decades of experience, including having to weather earlier recessions, prepared the crew for the national meltdown.
Keeping a focus on the customer and introducing innovative, environmentally conscious products and features helped the company make it through the tough times, according to Guerriero. It also began doing retrofits.
The 20,000-square-foot store features a mix of commercial and residential lighting, with a variety wide enough so that most anyone, on most any budget, can find what they're looking for.
A visitor to The Light Center will be greeted, as you might expect, by the bright glow of thousands of bulbs of all shapes and sizes, strategically arranged around pieces of furniture to give the customer an idea of how any one of the fixtures might look in their home or office.
To give clients an even better feel for what affect their potential purchases will have on a room, The Light Center offers an in-store lab of sorts. The lab allows for the demonstration of overhead and under-cabinet lighting, lamps and pretty much any other kind of residential or commercial lighting imaginable.
The Light Center also provides a service that helps businesses learn about their options with energyefficient lighting and rebate programs from energy companies Xcel and Platte River Power Authority. LED lighting, one of the most common types of environmentally friendly lighting, is much more expensive than traditional options, but it's worth it, Edwards said, because LED lights last so much longer than incandescent lighting.
While the installation of its products is left to electrical contractors, The Light Center has two service providers on staff to help troubleshoot issues customers might have.
"It's all about accommodating the customer," Edwards said. That's more than a platitude at the Light Center. Its employees are trained by the American Lighting Association to ensure they have the latest and best thinking in the industry.
Like other smart business owners, Edwards and Guerriero are committed to giving to the community that has supported the business for the last four decades. They make contributions to 30 to 35 charitable causes every year, often donating lighting to theaters and lending equipment for local events.
Duo dedicated to building homes
By Cari Merrill of The Coloradoan
Steve and Barb Spanjer of Spanjer Homes sit at one of their construction sites at the new Harmony Subdivision in Timnath on Wednesday. The Spanjers just celebrated 30 years in business. (Christopher McGuire/The Coloradoan)
Question: How would you describe Spanjer Homes, and how long have you been in business in Northern Colorado?
Answer: Spanjer Homes is a small to medium-sized building company that has built in some of the finest Northern Colorado communities over the past 30 years.
I started in construction 38 years ago with another small Fort Collins custom builder, who performed almost every aspect of building a home. Then in 1978, I formed my own company, Spanjer Construction Corp. doing remodels, carpentry work and an occasional spec home, our company became notable for its distinctive interior trim work and its furniture-quality woodworking details. At one point, Spanjer Construction employed 17 specialty trim carpenters. In 2003, we decided to adopt a trade name to more accurately describe our primary focus, and now our company is widely known as Spanjer Homes.
Q. What kinds of building does your company do, and what do you specialize in?
A: Spanjer Homes has always specialized in building one-of- a-kind custom homes. Right now, we are building homes at the Harmony Golf Club in Timnath. But we also have a division that develops and builds small infill communities, like the Bennett Road Bungalows, which is located across from Bennett Elementary. That particular project is a community of 16 homes and was created to showcase the architectural details, colors and character of the early 1900s prairie or bungalow style.
Another division of Spanjer Homes has built a number of infill condominium projects throughout Fort Collins, such as Summerhill (81 residences), Landings Bay (47 residences) and Promontory (47 residences). Currently, we are building the Myrtle Court Townhomes (16 townhomes) in the Eastside Park neighborhood near Old Town. We also occasionally do major home remodeling projects.
Q: What's the secret to your company's success for the past 30 years?
A: I think it's the love for creating fine homes in our community, a dedication to the people we work with and a constant drive to improve what we are doing and how we are doing it.
Our success continues due to wonderful clients, devoted employees, loyal tradesmen, constant communication and hard work. Building homes is exciting, but building what our homeowners really want is extremely rewarding. We'd like Spanjer Homes to be remembered for establishing honest and long-lasting relationships, as well as for providing a good value and building distinctive homes that stand the test of time.
Q: How are you coping with the slumping housing market and the down economy?
A: We feel fortunate to be relatively stable. Because of the talents of our employees and our history in the community, we've stayed busy with several projects. Sometimes a change of pace calls for taking on a greater number of small projects where we self-perform a lot of the work rather than "subbing" it out, but we have managed to keep enough work in front of us to keep our full staff employed. Fortunately, we have a very versatile staff, which makes it possible for us to do a wider variety of work.
Q: What do you see for the future of Spanjer Homes?
A: We are passionate about building homes. Not too long ago, our business consultant asked me: "If you could choose anything to do as a hobby, what would it be?" I told him I would build houses. It is what gives me "juice." So, the plan is to continue building houses with our talented team of dedicated employees for as long as possible.
Construction; The homegrown home builder faces pressures
By Kimberly Stenberg of the Northern Colorado Business Report
With the constant barrage of regulations, impact fees and restrictions placed on home building and the increasing influx of competition from out-of-area builders in Northern Colorado, many of our local home builders are presumed to feel the squeeze. However, many of our local builders are viewing this challenge as an opportunity to shift gears and find their niche in a very busy building cycle.
During the past few weeks, I have spoken to several local builders to better understand how they are dealing with the added competition of large-production builders. What is most interesting is that none of the builders I spoke with considered the large-production builder to be a threat or competition for the local builder's product. Rick Myers of WestMark Homes put it best when he said, "Home builders are no longer just building homes, we have to be business managers in order to stay in the game." All of the builders I spoke with indicated that the greatest challenge they face is trying to buy developable lots to build their homes on. Land costs and development regulations are making it increasingly difficult to build on just a few lots at a time, so the local builder is being forced to buy larger parcels or participate in development co-ops with other local builders to afford the additional expense of development.
Due to our strong economy and a surge in the demand for homes the last few years, the development process is taking longer than ever. Local planning departments are understaffed and overworked, and land sits vacant while plans are being reviewed.
As the payments on vacant land rise higher and higher, builders struggle with the undue hardships of the longer development process. In most cases, it now takes upwards of 12 months just to get through the preliminary planning stage. By final plat, a landowner has lost more than 18 months of production time on that parcel of land. Another component to the time factor is the dramatic labor shortage the home-building industry currently faces. Contractors, subs and suppliers are all scrambling for and trying to keep good employees, and unfortunately, this demand is creating a frenzy for experienced help.
One builder relayed a story to me about a subcontractor new to the area who was demanding to be paid cash in order to stay on the job! As a result of the current labor shortage, many of our builders have been working with local community colleges to re-institute builder-trade programs into the curriculum for high-school seniors and
graduates.
According to Dennis Sovick of Sovick Design/Builders, being able to replicate the character of an old neighborhood with in-fill projects sets him apart from the pack. His strategy and that of many other builders is to specifically build what the production builder cannot.
Probably the greatest asset a local home builder can market is his (or her) personal experience and knowledge of the local community. Knowing the local political scene, understanding the building codes and having inside knowledge of the market is a huge advantage, said Brian Boos of Executive Homes in Greeley. "Working with and being trusted by other local land owners is important for our success" Boos said.
Steve Spanjer of Spanjer Construction relies heavily on his relationship with his customers for referrals and repeat business. Spanjer's proudest accomplishment is that his buyers become his friends. Even his employees hang around for a full career. One of his employees recently retired after being with the company for more than 16 years.
Myers of WestMark Homes and Dave Anastasio of ABBCO Builders both agree that personalizing their service to the specific needs of the customer is most critical to their success. Myers said that his customers see a value in the quality of the product he offers and their ability to work directly with him. He believes that having more flexible overhead helps with the cyclical nature of the business as well. Anastasio's customers become so close to the building project that he'll often find them sitting out on the job site
eating lunch. He believes in trying to customize his homes to the specific needs of his client while also accommodating their time schedule for purchase and move-in dates.
"My buyers meet with me and have one-on-one conversations with me," he said. "We build the home together. My buyers become a part of the project, and they enjoy it!"
All of the builders contributing to this article stated that they prefer to use local subcontractors and suppliers whenever possible.
"We're an endangered species" Anastasio said. "And we've got to stick together".
For the most part, our local guys are competitive in price, though not necessarily the cheapest. Anastasio likens the local home-building industry to a small mom-and-pop shop that used to be the only store in town. "Now we've got Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target all asking our customers to come buy from them," he said. Local home builders are a tight-knit group. They believe that no matter what the economy does, or how crazy
the market gets, they will prevail over all others. Because they are vested in the community, they take extra special care of their customers and the other companies they work with. As Greg Bever of G. Bever Construction put it, "As long as we can give the customer what they want, whether it's an acre-size lot or a townhome, we'll be in business."
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William Hague: EU rebel MPs are just spraying 'graffiti' on Parliament
Rebel MPs who vote for an EU referendum are effectively spraying "graffiti" on the walls of the House of Commons, William Hague has claimed.
The Foreign Secretary said a vote on a referendum on Britain’s relationship with Europe was "the wrong question at the wrong time". Photo: AFP/GETTY
William Hague: 'As a Conservative, I want to bring powers back from Europe' Photo: AFP
By Robert Winnett, and Andrew Hough
10:00AM BST 24 Oct 2011
A strongly eurosceptic Foreign Secretary said such a vote would also "create additional economic uncertainty" if the motion was passed, adding it was "the wrong question at the wrong time".
It comes as the Prime Minister faces the biggest rebellion of his Premiership.
The Prime Minister has infuriated right wing Euro-sceptics with Downing Street’s handling of the European Referendum issue and may now face opposition to other Government moves from his own MPs.
A weekend of furious lobbying by Conservative whips failed to win around rebel MPs.
Tonight, at least 60 Conservative MPs are set to defy Government pressure to vote in Parliament for a motion calling for a referendum to decide whether Britain should leave the EU. Mr Cameron will be forced to rely on the backing of Ed Miliband to block the calls.
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Ahead of the vote, Mr Hague claimed that a motion calling for a vote was similar to writing "graffiti" on the side of Parliament.
"This is not just something for the House of Commons to put up some graffiti on a Thursday afternoon," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"I've argued for more referendums than almost anybody else, I've argued against the euro more comprehensively than almost anybody else.
"But this proposition is the wrong question at the wrong time."
He added "It wasn't in the manifesto of either of the governing parties. It cuts right across the rules for holding referendums that we have just agreed by large majorities. It would create additional economic uncertainty in this country at a difficult economic time.
"Europe is undergoing a process of change and in an in-out referendum people would want to know where the change was going to finish up before they voted.
"Clearly an in/out referendum is not the right idea."
Conservative whips spent the weekend attempting to force MPs, including senior members of the influential 1922 Committee of backbenchers, to support the Government.
MPs preparing to rebel were threatened with not being promoted to the Government or even losing their Parliamentary seat when constituency boundaries are redrawn before the next election.
The Europe Minister said that Parliament risked being seen as a “funny debating society”.
A succession of Cabinet minister urged MPs to back down warning that Britain’s relationship with Europe was currently seen as a low priority by the public grappling with the ongoing economic turmoil.
Last night, the Prime Minister pledged to repatriate powers from Brussels to Westminster during talks to resolve the euro crisis.
However, the attempts to win round the rebels last night appeared to have failed and at least 60, and possibly as many as 100, Conservative MPs will vote against the Government – or abstain from voting – in the biggest rebellion of Mr Cameron’s premiership.
At least two ministerial aides are expected to resign from the Government payroll in protest and rumours were circulating in Westminster last night that a junior minister was considering resigning.
Only a “sobering” fall in financial markets today, caused by the ongoing turmoil from the euro crisis, may prevent Conservative MPs from rebelling in large numbers.
Although the Prime Minister is set to be on the winning side of the vote, with Labour support, the rebellion threatens to be a turning point in his leadership with many on the right wing of the Conservative Party furious at their treatment.
The rift was sparked after the backbench business committee of the House of Commons agreed to allow time for a debate and vote on the prospect of an EU referendum.
The motion, put forward by Conservative MP David Nuttall, suggests a public referendum on either leaving the EU or a renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with the EU. At least two other MPs have tabled suggested amendments which stop short of calling an immediate referendum but demand new Government plans for a watering down of Britain’s relationship with the EU.
The motion is not binding on the Government, but to the surprise of many MPs, Mr Cameron has ordered a three-line whip, the strictest order, on the vote.
This effectively orders Conservative MPs to vote against the motion and means that anyone on the Government payroll would have to resign if they failed to follow the instructions.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said he understood people's "frustrations" with Europe but that pulling out of the EU was not the answer - accusing Mr Cameron of putting party "squabbles" ahead of the national interest.
Speaking as he toured a small printing firm in south London, he said: "The problem with the Prime Minister is that he has actually spent the last six years putting his party interest before the national interest.
"Even today he is giving a nod and a wink to his backbenchers that maybe he can start a renegotiation of the terms of Britain's membership, get out of some of the employment and social rights which I think are actually necessary for Britain, things like four weeks' paid holiday.
"Actually what he should be doing is fighting for jobs and growth in Europe to help Britain and he's not doing it.
"The Conservative Party looks out of touch... turning inward and squabbling among themselves. That is not what our country needs.
"And frankly, the Prime Minister only has himself to blame because he has spent the last six years pandering to the eurosceptics in his own party and now he is getting his comeuppance."
Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP for North Essex, said he would be backing the motion for a referendum tonight.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast today, he said: "This is basically about democracy. The British people have long wanted a referendum on the European Union.
"We haven't had one since 1975. We tried to get a referendum on Maastricht. We wouldn't be in this mess in Europe now if there had been a referendum then.
"David Cameron is not just taking on the Conservative Party, he's taking on the whole of public opinion. The vast majority think it's time we had a say on our membership."
George Eustice, another Conservative MP, said: “The reason the Government has got a bit of a problem with its backbenchers is there is just an impression and a feeling, rightly or wrongly it is that the Government just wants to put this in the deep freeze and forget about the issue.”
The Liberal Democrats also oppose moves to hold a referendum on Europe and some Conservative MPs suspect that Nick Clegg stiffened Mr Cameron’s opposition to the Parliamentary motion.
However, Charles Kennedy, the former Liberal Democrat said that there may ultimately have to be a referendum to “to lance this boil for another generation” but not now.
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Barnhill House Boutique B&B
Brampford Speke, Devon, England
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9 out of 10 Telegraph expert rating
A gothic folly with an ultra contemporary interior. This bed and breakfast in the village of Brampford Speke near Exeter is a refreshing break from the norm. Light-filled rooms decorated with modern art and tasteful furnishings, healthy breakfasts and sociable hosts make it very close to perfect.
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Built on red sandstone cliffs overlooking the River Exe. Barnhill House’s location, in the sleepy village of Brampford Speke, is rural, yet only four miles from the cathedral city of Exeter. Killerton House, an 18th-century National Trust property housing a fine collection of 18th- to 20th-century costumes, is 10 miles away, while gothic estate Knighsthayes is 14 miles away. Riverside town, Topsham, is 10 miles away, with Dart’s farm shop making a good stop-off en route.
Style & character
The coolest, most contemporary b&b I’ve set eyes on in Devon. Barnhill House is an 1850s neo-Gothic folly that owners Geri and Kevin Carden have sensitively restored into a state-of-the-art, light-filled home. Arched gothic windows and doors, castellations and turrets belie an ultra-modern interior – all white walls, tiled floors and striking modern art.
It has a wonderfully calm, airy feel, softened by pretty displays of hydrangea blooms, tactile furnishings and decorative French furniture. Lulu and Coco, the couples’ friendly Labradors, round off the homely feel.
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Geri and Kevin are laid-back, sociable, generous hosts, opening up most of the house to guests, including the cupola, which has 360-degree views of the River Exe and surrounding countryside reaching as far as the Blackdown Hills. There’s a cosy lounge, with velvety sofas, mood lighting, a log-burning stove, piles of interior design and gardening hardbacks and a state-of-the-art sound system.
A complimentary evening drink is offered. Breakfast is served in a stylish dining room or on the terrace. There’s direct access through the garden to the River Exe and to hiking route the Exe Valley Way, with wild swimming spots upstream. Look out for the resident kingfisher and otter.
Of the three bedrooms, East Village has the biggest wow factor, with a king-sized bed looking out through a triple-aspect bay window. Smaller Nantucket has a double bed and fireplace, while Asia has a king-sized bed, scarlet-coloured Louis XV-style chair and views towards the back of the property.
The décor is a restrained palette of whites, greys and linens, with crisp white bed linen and cashmere blankets. All-white marble bathrooms have large walk-in showers (but no tubs) and Cowshed toiletries. Only East Village has a television.
Aga-cooked breakfasts are served in a communal dining room, which has a long cherrywood table, high-backed chairs and French doors leading to the terrace and topiary garden. In a break from tradition, there’s no full English (Geri is a vegetarian and can’t stomach cooking sausages) but eggs, bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms are on offer, along with healthier and more original options including smashed avocado on sourdough, a kale and avocado smoothie bowl and homemade granola.
In the village, The Lazy Toad, a Grade II listed inn with a classic Devon pub menu that has the Michelin seal of approval is a good option for dinner. Dishes, served by friendly staff, include fish and chips, Devon beef and sea bass served with bubble and squeak cake.
Double rooms from £110 in low season; and from £140 in high. Breakfast included. Free fast Wi-Fi.
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Not suitable.
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Babies and children aged over 12 only.
Chapel Road, Brampford Speke, Exeter, EX5 5HG, England.
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Is Britain really the most sexist country?
As a UN human rights official claims sexism in Britain is more pervasive than any other country, comedian Ava Vidal argues it's all relative and reveals the worst responses she gets whenever she calls out sexism
Rashida Manjoo, a South African human rights expert Photo: Carl Court/ Getty
By Ava Vidal
So, sexism in the UK is more ‘pervasive’ than in any other country she's visited, according to the UN spokeswoman on violence against women. Rashida Manjoo, a human rights expert from South Africa, says that there is a "boys’ club" sexist culture, which gives rise to perceptions about women and girls in this country.
Immediately, people disagreed with her. The reaction of former Tory MP Edwina Currie did not surprise me. She dismissed the claims taking them to be a criticism of British culture and denying there was nothing wrong with it at all. She claimed that women here had no huge problems and that Ms Manjoo should visit countries where women cannot drive or have maternity leave. Indeed.
Is Britain really the most sexist country in the world?
Perhaps, also, Ms Manjoo should visit Iraq where women used to enjoy six months fully-paid maternity leave until we decided to intervene and bring them ‘freedom’. Equal Rights for women enshrined in the Iraqi constitution have pretty much disappeared under the current US-backed government. That coupled with the crippling sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s meant that a country that had the highest female literacy rates in the region no longer has anywhere close to that. To boast that we have brought the women of this country or any other that we have invaded ‘freedom’ is laughable.
Despite what Mrs Currie thinks, however, Ms Manjoo actually has visited at least 10 other countries since 2009 where she has reported against violence against women, including Zambia, Jordan, Somalia and Algeria. She has said she has found levels of sexism in the UK that just do not exist in these countries.
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Mrs Currie displays the kind of binary thinking that is prevalent in Western countries. There is a level of arrogance that tends to believe that we are so much better off than those poor people in 'developing' countries that have such difficult lives. By failing to take a holistic view of the subject it is all too easy to ignore the glaringly obvious. Just because I stub my toe it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt because some people have no feet. And just because women can’t drive in Saudi Arabia it doesn’t mean that women in Great Britain have to accept being leered at in the streets or harassed on public transport.
Women can’t even eat on public transport these days without being photographed by strange men and uploaded onto the internet. There has also been a huge rise in sexist attacks on public transport.
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As with any discussion about any type of prejudice you only have to scratch the surface to find out how bad people’s attitudes towards sexism is. I often challenge sexism and so I am met with all types of nonsensical and patronising responses when I do. I recently wrote a list of Top 40 typical responses when I call out racism. Here is one for when I call out sexism. Apologies for any cross over, but is not me that lacks imagination - it’s the bigots.
Top 40 responses I get when I call out sexism
1) Well if you don’t like it then go and live in China. Except you wouldn’t be able to talk there as you would probably have been aborted.
2) Calm down femi-nazi! It was only a joke.
3) So why do women wear make up/ high heels if not to attract men?
4) Women often say no, when they mean yes.
5) Why do you have to get so emotional? Is it your time of the month or something?
6) Misandry does exist! I had a female boss once and she was really nasty to me.
7) It is not harassment. Learn to take a compliment. I suppose you would prefer it if we all walked down the street and ignored each other.
8) Everyone is a feminist now that it is trendy.
9) I am not anti-feminist. I liked the Suffragettes as they actually stood for something. They would be ashamed of you lot today.
10) I would definitely prefer to have sons rather than daughters. Much less trouble.
11) By speaking like this you risk alienating men like me that could be your allies.
12) Why are you complaining about half naked women in music videos? Are you jealous because they are hot and you are not?
13) Women want to be treated badly. If they didn’t why would they only go for the bastards?
14) Women are nastier to each other than men ever could be.
15) She cheated? What a slag! He cheated? Boys will be boys!
16) Men get paid more because they do better jobs.
17) Women shouldn’t be allowed to do certain jobs like drive trains or fly planes. That is man’s work.
18) You either have babies or equal pay. You can’t expect to do both.
19) The trouble started when they removed ‘obey’ from the wedding vows.
20) Why does she let him hit her if she doesn’t like it? She keeps going back for more so she must do.
22) Haven’t you got anything better to worry about?
23) Why aren’t you at home looking after your children?
24) She has three kids by different fathers so that tells you all you need to know about her. He has three kids by three different mothers? Boys will be boys!
25) Women need to wear the right clothes if they don’t want to be raped.
26) Women only cover themselves to get attention. I hear that they are actually naked under those burkhas.
27) Just ignore it.
28) You should be flattered!
29) In Saudi Arabia women aren’t allowed to drive. (We should really implement that here.)
30) If you lot would just stop nagging then maybe we would do what we promised to do six months ago.
31) If you hadn’t have let yourself go after delivering those three eight pound babies of his, maybe he wouldn’t have strayed.
32) What would do if you had to face real sexism?
33) That Everyday Sexism thing was interesting at first but now it is just boring. Stop going on about it!
34) No sorry. We don’t let girls join this football/rugby/cricket club. There is no real point investing anytime in the females as these are men’s sports.
35) Why should women athletes receive the same pay as men? If they want to then they should play against the men!
36) Why is your daughter wearing blue? Are you trying to make her weird?
37) I bought a doll for your daughter and a truck for your son.
38) At least white men don’t treat their women badly like black and brown ones do. We let them wear as little as they like!
39) I can’t be sexist. I am a gay man.
40) Lesbian!
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Opinion Politics Posted on March 3, 2019 March 3, 2019
THE STORY OF ADAMAWA AND GOV. BINDOW
Stories in the lips of many people, coming from different angles are stories of celebration, having a hero, a Lion controlling the affairs of the jungle, a leader who lead with a passion, a Man who is into business,means business and doing business for the people of Adamawa state.
Senator Mohammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindow was sworn -in into office on 2th May, 2015 haven came from business environment and loaded with parliamentary experience from the House of Senate.
This gentle man, down to earth Governor even at the serious dwindling harshness of economy the nation is engulfed with in the last few years ,he maintain a good spirit that Adamawa must be good and better in all faces of life.His panache mind set of no “matter what “Adamawa state deserve the best and the best is meant for them.
Within three months in office when every state is struggling for salaries sustainability,Bindow awarded contract worth billions of Naira that is having direct bearing to the people of the state.
It right to say for the past 25 years of the birth of Adamawa state no Governor in In less than one year and half in office have turned up and change the state with good Physical infrastructures of roads.
Adamawa state is known to be one of the most multi dialectal,multi religion and multi what i call high profile personalities who will always want to be the de-factor Governors. Seeing the complexity nature of the state, Bindow,after 25 years of the state existence he vowed to work and nothing than to work for the common people that gave him the Mandate to work.
After 25years its pains well spirited individuals of the state that Adamawa is still what is it, before his coming on board as the present Governor of the state, the state is generally considered one of the most backward state in Nigeria,where virtually nothing is going on well with the people of the state.
But it took Bindow Every thing to simply say I want to be the pilot or the driver that can drive my people to a safe place,my driver Governor vowed to work (Drive) hard to save everyone on board to where they are best suppose to be.
From May last year to date i was privilege to traveled to 27 states of the country and haven known Adamawa well infrastructurally without mixing words one will say Bindow is relatively doing too well to reshape the state to it’s original name: which is the land of beauty that have been bastardised because of bad leadership.
Despite the scourge of insurgency that retardate the speed of economy growth in the Northern areas of the state, my driver Governor is still driving fast to revive the economy activities of all those LGs that was initially been ravaged by Boko Haram, Mubi,Michika, Hong, Gombi,Maiha are economically gaining strength.
Jimeta,Yola and Mubi are now taken new shape with roads construction,vowed to touch every land and race in the state with his people connection policies:Bindow for social Change ( BSC).
Being a driver and born with business concepts,he travels far and near to woo investors to come and do business with the people of Adamawa state that is endowed with all kinds of natural resources and good arable land for Agriculture which will jack up the internally generated revenue (IGR) of the state.
From Toungo to Madagali, Fufore to Shelleng Bindow is driving to safe lives, driving to take all and sundry to a resting place because the journey with the past Governments was a bad experiences haven had so many James Bombs holding the wheels of the steers.
From Gondola to Adamawa today is 25years old, from the military regime to the civilian regime of Governor is a story of “had I know “,were the much desire of the expected dream of a new Adamawa state was high owing to the miriads problems of the defunct Gongola state in many facets of life.
One of his Senior Adviser shape the adminstration of Bindow this way and I quote :”The expectations of the people were turned to total futility story with so many recurrently developmental problems that dashed the hope of many indigenes of the state.
“One critical area in which these disappointment keep raising it’s ugly head is in the area of infrastructural development. There are many other key sectors that have suffered similar fate but my focus in this piece, shall be the provision of basic infrastructure with emphasis on intra and inter city roads.
“The roads in Adamawa state have been associated with pot holes, you rarely have a smooth drive within the state capital even on major roads. Visitors and other Nigerians have often mocked residents on the dilapidated nature of roads in the city despite the big name and people Adamawa is known for.
“Neighbouring states like Gombe and Taraba which were newly created began to outpace Adamawa in the provision of infrastructure and setting the pace for what deliberate modernisation of cities and towns should be, providing for the people the dividends of democracy making life near comfortable for the people.
“As neighbouring states continue to outpace Adamawa in the provision of infrastructure, the already existing ones in the state began to age and deteriorate and in no time comparisons of developmental strides between Adamawa and it’s neighbouring states became unpalatable.
“These trend continued with successive Governments. Little wonder then that when the wind of change began to blow across the country Adamawa state unequivocally embraced change in a bid to try something new may be it’s population will also sing the song of infrastructural development.
“The mantra of change brought into power Senator Muhammadu Umar Jibrilla as the Executive Governor of Adamawa State under the platform of the All progressives Congress (APC).
People prayed for this jinx of underdevelopment that has become a monster in the state to be broken. There were mixed feelings when the new Government which took over on May 29th declared a debt profile of about 45 Billion Naira in the state, but Governor Jibrilla quickly comforted the people by saying it is no excuse to not deliver on His campaign promises, he promised to use his connections and business acumen to weather the storm. Not many people believed the Governor will be focused, committed and proactive. Many concluded that the debt profile of the state will be used as an excuse and the state will go through another four years of stagnation. There is an enormous task of repositioning the state for growth, for indeed Adamawa has been left behind and has been playing catch-up for many years.
“But within 30 days in Office, Senator Muhammadu Umar Jibrilla has flagged off Road constructions that worth billions of Naira in the state that previous Governments haven’t done in their entire tenures in office. He promptly paid the state civil servants as at when due despite the financial mismanagement of the previous government.
“Questions began to pop up in every official and unofficial public discuss.
where is Governor Bindow sourcing money to pay for these constructions?
A total of over 300 kilometres of rural roads constructions are ongoing within 30 days of the Governor in Office. Another network of inter city roads construction was flagged off and the projects ongoing.
“What magic is Governor Bindow performing? How is the Governor managing these debts and at the same time delivering on His campaign promises? Questions, questions and mstions, questions and many more questions.
“Governor Muhammed Umar Jibrilla has brought to light the fact that, what Adamawa State lacked since the advent of the fourth Republic was leadership. How else can you explain a situation where salaries are paid up to date and at the same time developmental projects are been flagged off almost on a weekly basis in the state?
“The recurrent decimal of stagnation and lack of infrastructure is gradually been eliminated by the Governor and interestingly within 30 days in Office.
Permit me to say that the jinx of underdevelopment in Adamawa state has been broken and standard set.
On the 2nd of July 2015. Nigeria’s Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbanjo visited the state for an on the spot assessment of the situation of the internally displaced persons, but because of the enormous construction work going on in the state he spared sometime out of his busy schedule, led by the state Governor, he flagged-off a network of urban roads construction at Wauru-jebbe in Jimeta Yola.
“Construction companies have since the advent of this Government continue to troop into the state and many more including foreign investors are showing great interest in contributing to the development of the state in many sectors. Given much assurance to have a good partnership with the Bindow’s who they believe in his government which is a people oriented one.
“As I write this piece, the deputy Governor, is leading a team of foreign investors in accessing four major general hospitals in the state to be evaluated for either reconstruction or rehabilitation to meet global standards in health care delivery.
The long awaited change has finally arrived in Adamawa State, a new dawn has come.
“Governor Bindow has finally come to the rescue and residents have begun to chant the slogan of a new Adamawa under Governor Bindow.
“The Governor seems unrepentantly determined to change the norm and prove that with a sincere, honest and transparent leadership a lot can be achieved in the provision of infrastructure, leadership is the only thing that is required and leadership he is providing.
“With the pace at which the present Government is going, many residents in the state believe that Adamawa is set to compete with states like Kano, Kaduna and other advanced states in the country. If what is been achieved within the first thirty days in Office of the Governor is sustained, it is not yet imagined what Adamawa State will look like at the end of Governor Bindow’s four-year tenure.
“The people of Adamawa State are having a sigh of relief, hope is been rekindled, trust earned, expectations met, promises kept and leadership provided. Has the jinx of underdevelopment been broken finally? This is the question on the lips of everyone in the state.”
Summing it up for 25years of the birth of Adamawa state Bindow is giving a new story, a testimony of “all is well ”
I say Congratulations Adamawa,thank you Governor Bindow for availing yourself to give us a new story in the state after many years of our stagnation.
IT’S WISDOM TO VOTE BINDO AGAIN
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Installed five electric vehicle charging stations in city garages
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CSED continued to meet monthly in 2017, discussing such issues as local tax and labor policies, affordable housing, renewable energy, and energy efficiency. Development projects such as City Centre, East Hill Village, new facilities for GreenStar, and mining expansion at Cargill were also a major topic of discussion.
CSED members weighed in at public meetings on solar development in Dryden, heat pumps for Harold’s Square, Tompkins County housing strategy, and the non-pipeline alternative to the proposed West Dryden Road pipeline, among other issues.
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CSED also published in October an opinion piece in the Ithaca Voice, calling for the City to take “a new direction … in its thinking about the issues of gentrification and affordable housing.”
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Bulk Wood Pellet Infrastructure Boost Program: $1.7M NYSERDA-funded 4-year program (2014-18) to spur the adoption of wood-pellet-fired high-efficiency commercial heating equipment across the Southern Tier Region, and the infrastructure to support it (bulk pellet delivery trucks, large regional pellet storage, outreach and education to raise awareness in key demographics). (more information available at http://ccetompkins.org/energy/renewable-energy/biomass/southern-tier-bulk-wood-pellet-program).
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Energy Efficiency Appointments: Part of a larger Park Foundation-funded program. These are focused on low- and moderate-income residents who are directly engaged through home visits where Energy Educator discusses simple DIY energy-saving measures and instructs tenant/owner on installation up to four, benefits of professional energy assessment, and access to incentives and programs to help with energy upgrades. In just the last half of 2017, 43 one-on-one appointments led to 10 Weatherization Assistance Program Applications, resulting in free upgrades including insulation, air-sealing, new furnaces, windows (and non-energy improvements including handicapped ramp, roof, electrical).
Clean Energy Communities: One of our Energy Educators is the CEC Coordinator for the Southern Tier, working with municipal officials to save energy in their facilities and communities through targeted steps (they become “designated” by tackling 4 of 10 “high-impact actions”, which makes them eligible to apply for grants to fund additional clean energy projects). For a sample CEC newsletter, go to http://mailchi.mp/78fa3809e733/state-of-the-region-grant-funding-high-action-spotlight-and-more-246935.
Button-Up Enfield: A pilot project of CCETC, endorsed by the Enfield Town Council and Enfield Neighbors for Clean Air and Water, this initiative used the “Tupperware Party” or house party approach to engage groups of residents who heat with oil and propane to improve their homes in order to use less energy, reduce thermal leakage, and be more comfortable.
Green Buildings Open House: This is one of the premier tours of its kind in the country, featuring some of the best examples of green building methods, materials, and technologies in Tompkins County (focused on residential but at times including commercial and municipal; annual from 1998 to 2014, biannual since). In 2017, we scaled the event back to one day, showcasing 10 houses. (More information available at http://ccetompkins.org/gboh.)
Student Housing Energy Reduction Program: The goal of this program is to create “Certified Tenants,” students who have the information and skills they will need for energy-efficient off-campus living. This initiative also hopes to increase energy efficiency upgrades among rental properties by making building energy efficiency part of the market consideration. The program reaches roughly 250 students, two dozen faculty members, and dozens of staff members each year through workshops, presentations, events, and trainings, and currently enlists 15 Eco-rep students delivering workshops and doing peer education, and 3 student leaders taking responsibility for organizing the work.
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Energy Smart Community: a collaborative project focused on modernizing our electricity system through smarter infrastructure, reduced peak demand and increased customer engagement. CCETC and Cornell University are partnering with New York State Electric and Gas, the local utility, to develop and test the technologies, educational approaches, and customer options that lead to greater adoption of cleaner and distributed energy sources; improved grid reliability, resilience and safety; and reduction of overall energy use and shifted use off of times of peak demand achieved when businesses and residents have expanded choices and increased energy literacy.
Alliance for Non-Pipeline Alternatives: This is a diverse group of community members working to find alternatives to build-out of the natural gas pipeline (or other gas infrastructure), specifically in the Lansing gas moratorium area. To date the group has succeeded in spurring NYSEG to propose a combination of measures to reduce overall gas consumption and pressure boosters to increase the pressure in the line, which NYSEG and the community is continuing to work through.
Green Building Policy Project: The City and Town of Ithaca has been leading an effort to look at possible green building policies that could be adopted and either made into recommendations, incentivized, or mandated. Energy Outreach Team Leader is active on the Advisory Committee and he and other members of the Team provided substantial comments leading to the draft report that came out in early 2018. The intent is to develop a report of recommendations and what is possible that could be adopted by the City Council and Town Board and then, in a second phase, written into policy.
Residential Energy Score Project: In collaboration with others, CCETC provided leadership and organization in designing and implementing an energy rating system for homes in order to make energy efficiency a significant part of the market for home sales. A scoring system was designed and we are waiting for completion of a similar statewide effort to be rolled out by NYSERDA partly based on recommendations developed through RESP.
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Microgrid Islands of Energy—CCETC has been involved in the early feasibility stages of several microgrid projects in the Ithaca area, including one involving the city and town’s wastewater treatment facility.
Cornell University has been approved as an EPA Green Power Partner as of September 2017. During its initial 12-month reporting period, Cornell used 15.4 million kilowatt-hours of green power. The EPA provides technical assistance and recognition for partners, who voluntarily commit to using green power for all or a portion of their electricity consumption. Cornell's five regional 2MW solar farms and on-campus hydroplant and rooftop PV arrays now generate the equivalent of 10% of the Ithaca campus’ annual electricity use.
Campus energy use forecasts for 2018 are below 2000 (despite a 20% growth in campus square footage) due to the Energy Conservation Initiative.
Snee Hall energy conservation project will save $76,000 and 177 Tons CO2 annually. The project upgraded space controls in a majority of the spaces throughout the building.
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Cornell launched the Climate Change Seminar-Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge in February, and an EdX Climate Change Science, Communication, and Action online course in September – both free and open to the world.
Staff Sustainability Champions program launched as a collaboration between the Campus Sustainability Office and the Employee Assembly to recognize and motivate staff in acts of sustainability leadership across campus.
The Sustainability Life Recipes initiative launched to promote the Get Your Green Back Tompkins program’s steps in the Cornell community. Campus Sustainability Office communications team created the Recipes which are included in major campus communications channels.
Cornell’s Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics recently obtained a premium thermal imaging camerafor Mann Library. This free resource is now available for check-out at the Mann Library circulation desk to anyone with a Cornell ID! It enables users to discover energy inefficiencies as a result of abnormal heat distributions, building structural defects, and plumbing issues, among others. In addition to assisting in academic projects, the camera can be used by students, faculty, and staff for exploring highly-frequented built environments such as offices, classrooms, and even homes to pinpoint and reduce heat waste.
Cornell participated in the national Freezer Challenge designed to optimize cold storage management practices in laboratories, the Freezer Challenge harnesses a spirit of competition and a score sheet to target five areas of freezer management. 2 participating labs save $5460 and 68,000 kWh/year.
Cornell is leading the Ivy League in sustainability, recently earning a Gold rating for the sixth year in a row from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS). — a program under the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)that helps colleges keep track of their environmental progress.
Cornell University is ranked #7 in the country in the 2017 Princeton Review’s Guide to Top 50 Green Schoolsand Guide to 375 Green Colleges. Cornell University is the only Ivy League school in the top 20, and is one of two New York State universities recognized in the top 15 schools.
Cornell launched a new online Sustainable Campus and Community Map in 2017. In just a click you’ll find reusable bottle water filling stations, bike share and car hare locations, environmentally friendly trails, electric car charging stations, campus sustainability centers and institutes, and reuse centers.
Cornell researchers will use a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create, test and optimize new residential electric storage systems. The grant, titled “Energy Smart Community - Leveraging Virtual Storage to Turn Advanced Metering Infrastructure Into a Smart Service System,” seeks to bolster grid flexibility, integrate distributed renewable energy sources and reduce household electricity costs. The project will test whether adding rechargeable batteries (electric residential storage) to individual residential smart meters can produce significant benefits.
The Maplewood Apartments – graduate student residences under construction between Mitchell Street and Maplewood Avenue by EdR Collegiate Housing – will be an all-electric neighborhood with 444 units and 872 beds. A Cornell team received a $25k grant to deploy wireless monitors and systems in a living laboratory. Their goal is to obtain performance detail on how air-source heat pumps – which extract heat from outside air to put indoors – perform under Ithaca’s severe winter conditions.
In June, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack and the presidents of 11 other major U.S. research universities known as the “Ivy-Plus” group signed the following statement: "In 2015, we were proud to be among 318 institutions of higher education in signing the American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge, affirming our commitment to accelerate the global transition to low-carbon energy while enhancing sustainable and resilient practices on our campuses. Today, we reaffirm that commitment, which is consistent with the Paris Agreement and recognizes the concerted action that is needed at every level to slow, and ultimately prevent, the rise in the global average temperature and to facilitate the transition to a clean energy economy. Universities have a critical role to play in reducing our own greenhouse gas emissions, continuing to advance evidence-based understanding of the causes and effects of climate change on the environment, the economy and public health, and developing solutions. The scientific consensus is clear that the climate is changing largely due to human activity, that the consequences of climate change are accelerating, and that the imperative of a low carbon future is increasingly urgent. As institutions of higher education, we remain committed to a broad-based global agreement on climate change and will do our part to ensure the United States can meet its contribution."
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The DIA, in collaboration with Ithaca Carshare and Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT), is currently implementing a pilot Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan with the immediate goal of removing up to 100 single occupancy vehicles from the city garage system. This will optimize downtown land use and taxpayer revenue by forestalling the construction of a new garage.
It will also reduce carbon emissions by millions of pounds and promote health, social engagement, and employee goodwill. NYSERDA grant funds were applied for to capitalize a project that will create individualized TDM plans and offer one-on-one planning assistance along with a suite of new transit services (including remote parking and an emergency ride home program) to workers and residents in downtown Ithaca.
Downtown projects, such as the additional bike racks that are being installed as a result of a grant from a local foundation, will decrease dependency on automobiles and increase walkability and access to public transit.
Downtown Ithaca’s newly built granite fountain, located on Bank Alley on The Commons, is a recirculating fountain that reuses water, an excellent water conservation measure.
New structures such as The Hotel Ithaca expansion, Ithaca Marriott, Monks on the Commons, and the Carey Building addition include many green features such as energy efficient windows and lighting. The new Tompkins Trust Company building, which is nearly complete, will include similar energy efficient features as well.
Downtown Ithaca continues to be a “walker’s paradise” where daily errands can be completed without the use of a vehicle, according to Walk Score. Walk Score is a tool that rates the walkability of more than 10,000 neighborhoods throughout the continent. The numerical Walk Score for the Ithaca Commons is 97 out of a possible 100, the same as 2016. Our Walk Score is just three percentage points shy of Greenwich Village; by contrast, Lansing ranks in at 38, and Cayuga Heights ranks in at 28. We were also listed as number one on MSN Real Estate s“Ten Cities Where You Want to Walk to Work.”
Solar trash compactors along The Commons help to reduce the carbon footprint. These compactors compress their contents to allow more trash per bag so they don’t have to be emptied as often. Fewer collections mean cost-savings for labor, fuel and maintenance and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Powered by the sun, these eco-friendly compactors work in every kind of weather — snow, rain or shine. The DIA has coordinated a shared recycling and trash compactor program to encourage proper disposal of recyclable materials generated by over 300 businesses and residents on and around the Commons.
The DIA continues to work on a transit corridor plan to improve bus service between downtown Ithaca and the campus communities. Downtown Ithaca is the regional transit hub for Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT), which was recently recognized by its industry peers as being the best transit system of its size in North America. TCAT contributes greatly to the community by reducing traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions. It saves the cost of building parking facilities. Its fleet currently includes eight electric-diesel hybrid buses.
Downtown Ithaca is home to the headquarters of Ithaca Carshare, a non-profit car sharing service with a growing fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles shared by over 1,500 members. Users can save hundreds of dollars per month in avoided gas, maintenance, and insurance costs while reducing traffic congestion, pollution, and space and money devoted to parking. Independent studies show that for each Carshare vehicle, over 15 privately-owned vehicles come off the road.
Bike Walk Tompkins, a Ithaca Carshare managed program, has taken the lead on bringing a bike-share program to downtown Ithaca as part its Blueprint for Better Bicycling program. As the number of people who use this program bikeshare program increases, we’ll see a reduced number of people using their vehicles to travel around downtown, thus reducing greenhouse gases in our area.
Press Bay Alley, two blocks southwest of the Ithaca Commons, serves as a pickup spot for the Full Plate Farm Collective CSA each Thursday. CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a cooperative relationship between a farmer and consumers; consumers commit to buying a crop “share” and growers commit to growing that amount of produce. Full Plate Farm Collective farms grow over 50 acres of organic vegetables and share the vision of building community, farming with integrity, and growing high-quality food with fair prices for all involved.
Downtown Ithaca is an important green retailing showcase, with at least 14 independent, locally-owned stores that specialize in reused and recycled products. Shopping at reuse stores means no additional energy was used. Such stores include Sheldon Hill Vintage & Estate Jewelry, SewGreen, The Vintage Industry, Pastimes Antiques, Trader Ks, Autumn Leaves Used Books, and Home Green Home.
Watershed, located in the Downtown Ithaca Business Improvement District, is committed to reducing environmental waste. Behind the bar, they use high-end citrus products instead of fresh fruit to decrease food waste without compromising on drink quality. In a standard bar, it takes about 4 pounds of ice to chill a glass and shake a cocktail, but at The Watershed many of the drinks are built in the glass to lessen the amount of ice and water used in the bartending process. With a menu constantly changing based on what’s available, Watershed opted for digital menu boards instead of going through a wasteful cycle of updating printed menus on the regular.
Decorative lighting in Downtown Ithaca is energy efficient. The DIA uses LED lighting to decorate the poles on The Commons during the holiday season.
Downtown living is sustainable living. According to the Center for Sustainable Economy, a couple living in an apartment in downtown Ithaca, using TCAT, and adopting excellent green habits (e.g. unplugging appliances, composting, buying organic food) would have a carbon footprint approximately 34 percent of the national average. A couple with the same commendable habits but residing in a single-family home outside of town and commuting in a mid-size car would be at 76 percent. Allowing for more vertical growth will allow more in our community to take part in this “green revolution”.
The DIA has implemented composting and recycling systems for its major downtown events, including Apple Harvest Festival, the Summer Concert Series, Chowder Festival and Chili Cook-Off, which are attended by over 100,000 locals and tourists. Local service organizations like the Cornell Rotary Club have helped to oversee these composting stations.
Downtown Ithaca is home to Coltivare, a farm-to-table restaurant and bar as well as a major culinary education facility. Coltivare, an initiative of Tompkins Cortland Community College, offers a unique hands-on experience alongside working professionals for students studying sustainable food systems and entrepreneurship. The team aims to find all their menu items within a 300-mile radius, with some food sourced from the college’s own farm. Their new waste management system, which reduces food scraps to a grain-like compostable material to be used by the farm, is the first of its kind in the United States.
Finger Lakes Land Trust
The Finger Lakes Land Trust completed six land protection projects within Tompkins County during 2017, securing approximately 600 acres of forest and frontage on a number of streams. In addition, the Land Trust completed three more projects just outside the county, securing wetlands bordering Taughannock Creek and adding a key parcel to Finger Lakes National Forest.
With the county, highlights include the protection of 166 acres of forest within the Six Mile Creek Watershed – the source of Ithaca’s drinking water supply; the addition of 194 acres to Danby State Forest – a key link in the Emerald Necklace Greenbelt that features a mile of the Finger Lakes Trail; a 69-acre addition to the Land Trust’s Charles Spencer Preserve in Newfield; and the protection of 79 acres on Ithaca’s West Hill – a key link within the proposed West Hill Wildway.
In addition to its land protection work, the Land Trust also offered a variety of educational programs to the public and initiated efforts to rehabilitate a popular stretch of the Finger Lakes Trail at Lick Brook. The organization also partnered with the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County to secure a commitment from New York State of $640,000 to advance protection of sensitive lands within the Six Mile Creek Watershed.
Finger Lakes ReUse
Finger Lakes ReUse is expanding its capacity in the face of a growing global waste problem, currently working to develop its Ithaca ReUse Center to accommodate more processing and retail of reused materials. ReUse was honored for its environmental impacts by receiving a 2017 eTown “eChievement award.”
Two ReUse Community Centers in Tompkins County (open daily) provide convenient ways to donate and purchase furniture, building materials, housewares, electronics, books and textiles which in turn support job training, work experience programs and waste reduction programs.
Shoppers made 104,000 visits to the two ReUse Community Centers in 2017, which earned a combined $994,000 in register sales, supporting nearly 80% of total organizational expenses.
Volunteers donated 13,000 hours of labor at our stores, averaging 34 volunteers per month, alongside 26 living-wage permanent employees.
An estimated 420 tons of materials were diverted from potentially ending up in landfills this year, a 27% increase over 330 tons in 2016
Through a Collective Impact grant from the Community Foundation of Tompkins County, ReUse adapted the ReSET (ReUse Skills and Employment Training) program to serve formerly incarcerated participants with a longer, paid program and expanded, formalized supportive services.
Fossil Free Tompkins
In 2017, Fossil Free Tompkins focused its efforts on defeating the West Dryden Rd pipeline and securing NY State's first proposal for Non-Pipe Alternatives.
The year started on an encouraging note, with NYSEG drafting a letter to our anti-pipeline leadership group and the Public Service Commission outlining a plan to implement a compressor solution to maintain system pressure in the Lansing area and to issue a non-pipe RFP to support growth/development in Lansing. Soon thereafter, however, the Chair of the Public Service Commission resigned, followed by the retirement of NYSEG's CEO, causing a 6-months delay.
In August, things were back on track - NYSEG submitted a petition to the PSC for permission to install the compressors and issue an RFP.
In September, we met with NYSEG's new CEO and with PSC's new Chair - and both were supportive of the project.
In November, PSC approved the State's the compressor project and ordered NYSEG to issue an RFP for non-pipe alternatives - the first in the State - perhaps even the country!
The RFP was issued in December - and responses are due in Apr 2018. Unfortunately the RFP created many barriers to application by heat pump installers, and it appears CNG/LNG "virtual pipeline" solutions may be proposed - so our work continues.
Get Your GreenBack Tompkins
In its second year of operation, Get Your GreenBack’s personalized system of energy advising—which includes a cadre of volunteer Energy Navigators who do outreach and follow up with interested individuals—is showing results.
Through presentations and tabling we engaged directly with over 800 local residents on energy programs and incentives. Over 500 of these were through the efforts of volunteer Energy Navigators, who used their contacts with large employers, libraries, service groups, as well as tabling at fairs, to connect with interested residents.
15 people started, and 12 finished the training and did some volunteering this year. Together, with those who continued from last year, there are currently over 15 active Energy Navigators.
We developed three separate engagement activities to use when tabling, all of which have been tested and refined by Energy Navigators, and used to engage over 200 people of all ages: a fishing game, a Twister-like game, and a spinning wheel with questions.
Even though our energy advising program is just in its beginnings, it has attracted significant outside attention. NYSERDA and NYSEG, in particular, will be supporting the continuation and expansion of the energy advising system and Energy Navigators to surrounding counties.
Get Your GreenBack worked closely with Healthy Food for All, the agriculture leader at CCE-Tompkins, and a dozen local farms to produce a brochure about CSAs. The Cayuga Medical Center paid for its printing, and a number of doctor’s offices were happy to distribute them.
Fourteen stores with the support of Tompkins County Solid Waste, Local First Ithaca, and the Sustainability Center contributed almost $3,000 to cover the printing and design costs of the fifth edition of the Reuse Store Rack Card, which has been rebranded the “Reuse Trail.”
We received a $1,300 Tompkins County tourism grant which we used for a “Treasure Hunt,” an event which took place during October in which participants had to visit between 3-10+ stores to find clues to complete a game card and enter a raffle to win gift cards. Fourteen stores and over 1,600 people participated in the Treasure Hunt.
Cornell University, Ithaca Sustainability, and TCCPI are all taking advantage of Get Your GreenBack content to share with their respective readers. This year Cornell’s Sustainability Office (CSO) created a “Life Recipes” article series with GYGB content to use in a newsletter that goes out to all university employees.
We developed and printed a brochure with the three steps needed to go “Net-zero”, that is have a home that produces all the energy it uses. It was developed with the support and input of the CCE Energy Team, HeatSmart, and area contractors. A companion slide presentation was developed which has been used both by the GYGB coordinator and Energy Navigators to give presentations.
With the help of a student intern, GYGB compiled eight mostly local surveys that looked at what is getting in the way of people riding bikes. The three main obstacles in order of importance were perceptions of safety of riding on Ithaca’s roads, owning a bike, and the terrain and weather.
HeatSmart II
HeatSmart II is now finished with enrollment and installation, and only some final reports are still forthcoming.
Public Outreach has again reached every town in Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca. Two public meetings were held in each municipality. These meetings featured an overview talk, by the HeatSmart Program Director, on the technologies and essential role of heat pumps in meeting climate goals. They also provided opportunity to interact with the three vetted installer partners prior to enrollment.
HeatSmart was less productive than hoped in 2017, producing only 42 final contracts for installers. Perhaps another dozen or two benefitted from HeatSmart’s educational program but ultimately chose an installer other than one of the three HeatSmart installer-partners to do the work. These are still a success from HeatSmart’s perspective. We have also been contributing substantially to successful efforts to convince commercial projects to use heat pumps. A great deal of the cause for the lower than expected number of contracts was simply a depressed market for such building improvements throughout the state. These extrinsic factors will be better in the year ahead because fuel prices have gone up modestly for two years in a row, there was some good cold weather this past winter, and the federal tax cuts for Ground Source Heat Pumps has been restored.
HeatSmart has developed close ties with the NYSERDA Office of Renewable Heating and Cooling. We have benefitted from interactions and resources. We have members serving on advisory panels and stakeholder groups for both demonstration projects and policy formulation. When NYSERDA gave its webinar on the formal policy proposal on heat pump incentives, HeatSmart received praise at two or three points in the presentation.
A NYSERDA funded demonstration project on replacing boilers with ASHP is being led by Taitem. One of the strong recommendations they received during negotiations with NYSERDA’s advisory panel was that they should collaborate with HeatSmart in finding suitable sites. HeatSmart now has a subcontract within that effort.
HeatSmart has been an inspiration for new programs throughout the northeast These include HeatSmart Massachusetts as well as the current NYSERDA PON 3723 to fund HeatSmart like groups throughout the state. Our logo now has multi-state recognition. The HeatSmart program is featured in the “Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Air-Source Heat Pump Market Strategies Report 2016 Update,” published in January 2017 by Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP). See pages 45-46, 57-58 and download the report here: http://www.neep.org/sites/default/files/NEEP_ASHP_2016MTStrategy_Report_FINAL.pdf. This report sets a goal of having 40% of NE households using ASHP as primary heat source by 2030.
HeatSmart has applied for ongoing funding from both the Park Foundation and PON 3723. If fully successful, the Program will feature three different enrollment periods during a funded period lasting through the summer of 2020.
We are currently running final program assessments and developing new materials such as a set of purchaser case studies to distribute through our website. The case studies are being done in conjunction with some Cornell seniors from Professor Max Zhang’s course [MAE 5010] which critically examines the technology of energy systems that will be acceptable in a world faced with global climate change, and local pollution. The HeatSmart case studies will constitute a Term Project for the class.
HOLT Architects
HOLT continued championing, and participating in, the accomplishments of TCCPI with in-kind contribution of Andrew Gil’s time, serving as a member of the TCCPI Steering Committee and also of the Ithaca2030 Advisory Board. This included Andrew’s contributions to the NYSERDA Grant for establishing the Ithaca2030 District, attending monthly steering committee meetings and HOLT’s hosting the first several Ithaca2030 District Members’ Quarterly meetings.
HOLT has continued to investigate methodologies for better understanding the energy needs and uses of it’s 619 West State Street offices as well as potential actions for lowering the overall energy use. Presently 85% of all heating and lighting energy used is produced by the photovoltaic array on the roof, but HOLT hopes to get ever closer to being truly Net Zero. Toward this end, HOLT the generous offer to engage in a pilot program of real-time energy monitoring, a program administered through Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Graham Gillespie, President of HOLT Architects, served on the TCAD and Tompkins County “Energy and Economic Development Task Force”, the community-based work group charged with making recommendations to the Tompkins County Legislature to meet the community’s energy and economic development goals in concert with meeting the Tompkins County Legislature’s goals for GHG emissions reductions.
HOLT completed a 4-year LEED certification process for The Park Foundation Offices, achieving LEED Platinum certification in June 2017
HOLT played an active role in the meetings of the Green Building Policy Advisory Committee.
Currently, member buildings in the District include the following:
Argos Inn
Cascadilla Oasis, LLC
Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins County
Gateway Commons
Ithaca Bakery
Press Bay Alley
Purity Ice Cream
Space@GreenStar
Taitem Engineering
Tompkins County Human Services Annex
Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce
Monthly utility data is being collected for the property owners and uploaded to Portfolio Manager to determine EnergyStar scores.
An energy and water dashboard to track monthly consumption has been established. The dashboard pulls data automatically from Portfolio Manager every few days.
We launched a real-time energy and water monitor pilot demonstration involving four District buildings.
Energy, water, and transportation baselines for the 2030 District have been established.
The NYSERDA grant team produced a detailed market analysis report, district strategy plan, and public outreach strategy.
In addition, the team put together a small commercial building toolkit and financing guide. All of these materials as well as other relevant resources can be found at http://www.2030districts.org/ithaca/resources.
The first two quarterly District Partner meetings were held in July and December, and the first quarterly e-newsletter was issued in December.
The District Partner meetings bring together the property owners and other stakeholders to discuss issues of mutual concern and provide updates on the progress of the 2030 District.
In August the executive director attended the 2030 Districts Network Summit in San Francisco and presented on “Driving Innovation in Ithaca: Affordable Real-Time Energy Monitoring & Modular Solar Nanogrids.”
Ithaca Carshare
The organization continued to broaden focus beyond just carsharing to include Bike Walk Tompkins and other transportation initiatives that meet the mission of enhancing transportation access in our community while reducing the negative environmental and economic impacts of cars.
New in 2017, we worked with project partners Way2Go and Randall West to develop the TrueCost. Tompkins TrueCost focused on the combined costs of Transportation and Housing. A locally calibrated index map was developed, 12 case studies were gathered and published, and the "Meeting in a Box" model was used to present the index map and case studies to 12 community stakeholder groups. These tools were designed to easily be used by stakeholders in future meetings or presentations around the community.
Carsharing Impacts
558 new Ithaca Carshare members reported that they would sell or avoid the purchase of 152 vehicles
1,416 members took a combined 19,588 trips totaling 227,044 miles (or 14 trips and 160 miles per member)
Fleetwide fuel economy increased to 33 mpg, 29% above the national average of 25.2 mpg
As a result of the shifted driving habits of these members and higher than average fuel economy, an estimated 14,116 gallons of gasoline and 126 metric tons of carbon dioxide were avoided.
Bike Walk Tompkins
Received a $218,000 grant from NYSERDA to develop a Blueprint for Better Biking and facilitate the introduction of a bikeshare in Ithaca, with an 18 month project goal of doubling bike mode share. This project created one new job at Bike Walk Tompkins.
Kept a strong focus on building awareness and culture around biking in the community:
Organized the 10th and 11th editions of Streets Alive!, with each event closing 10-15 city blocks to cars and opening them up to people to bike, walk, roll, dance, play, etc. for 4 hours. Each event uses 50-80 volunteers and draws an estimated 2500 participants.
Facilitated two intersection murals at Auburn/Lewis and South Titus/Fair, and one temporary traffic calming demonstration at Clinton and Plain.
Hosted 4 community bike rides with the Fingerlakes Cycling Club
Hosted the 5th Streets Alive! Film Festival at Cinemapolis
Participated in awareness and advocacy efforts for bike infrastructure improvement projects including the University Ave. and West State/MLK Jr. St redesigns and the extension of the South and East Hill Rec ways.
Office of Facilities
9 MW solar farm celebrated its one year anniversary and, to date, has produced 3.46 GWh of electricity for the College and prevented 2,574 MT of CO2e emissions.
Garden Apartments, Emerson Hall, the old tennis courts, the Park School quad area, Fitness Center, Campus Center quad area, and A&E all received LED walkway lighting upgrades.
Circle Apartments and Boothroyd Hall bathroom LED lighting conversion
Campus Center Dining Hall renovation including LED lighting upgrades
Ceracche updates including LED lighting upgrades
West Tower window replacement
Williams Hall LED lighting upgrade
School of Business LED lighting upgrade
Office of Energy Management & Sustainability
Installed additional building-level water and electricity sub-meters to identify usage patterns
Completed an energy audit in the Center for Natural Sciences with assistance from ECT and GreenerU. Energy conservation recommendations are under consideration.
Climate Action Plan Reassessment Team established to consider progress made during the “first five years,” and what we should focus on during the “next ten years.”
Completed comprehensive Scope 3 emissions assessment with help from Parking Services, Travel Services, and International Programs.
Improved our internal marketing and communication efforts
Established monthly sustainability themes including Waste, Transportation, Water, Food, Energy, Health, Social Justice, Business, and Climate Change.
Continued the Eco Reps and OEMS Intern programs, hiring 12 students throughout the year.
Secured Staples funding to establish off-campus sustainability internship positions within the School of Business and Environmental Studies.
Attended the AASHE conference in San Antonio, Texas
Hosted off-campus speakers whose work is dedicated to renewable energy.
Hosted first Sustainability Luncheon, which included faculty and staff from across disciplines discussing the problems and opportunities associated with current American diet trends.
Participated in Orientation and First Year Residential Experience (FYRE) events.
Eco Reps began sorting compost, recycling, and trash at football games in Butterfield Stadium, which will continue every fall. Eco Reps also promoted recycling at the annual Cortaca game.
Conducted a student project in a class of 20+ students to research and present potential sustainability PAR projects.
Participated in annual Recyclemania competition, which resulted in 16th place for diversion of food organics.
Further engaged FYRE Community Council with Eco Rep program to encourage FYRE student participation in targeted competitions and events.
College Circles Energy project provides the Circles apartment residents with electricity and gas bills that also include CO2 equivalents.
Presented monthly Student Leadership Initiative (SLI) discussions geared at engaging students in a new sustainability dialogue surrounding the monthly themes.
Participated as presenters for the Ithaca College Seminar (ICSM) Series – a program of interdisciplinary liberal arts courses for freshmen students.
Strengthened relationship with Student Housing Energy Reduction Program (SHERP) and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE). Presented SLIs to students interested in saving energy in off-campus housing.
Continued to guest-lecture in various courses.
Hosted monthly events to engage students is sustainability dialogue surrounding monthly themes
Increased circulation and improved monthly “Installments”, a quick read posted in campus restrooms that highlight global sustainability issues.
Participated in “Lights Out IC” – a campus-wide effort to turn off lights for 1 hour in December
Continued Office Supply Collection and Reuse (OSCAR) with improvement to space and communication of what is considered reusable
Continued Take It Or Leave It (TIOLI), a free program that encourages students to donate and reuse gently used dormitory and school supplies. TIOLI also includes an end-of-year clean-up of campus residential buildings where items are donated to Ithaca Reuse.
Continued College Circle composting initiative with plans to expand to the program to Garden apartments.
Installation of shower timers and targeted water-saving messaging in campus residential hall bathrooms.
Supported sustainable transportation through partially-subsidized TCAT bus services.
Support ride-sharing through the Finger Lakes Ride Share Coalition, in partnership with a number of local higher educational institutions and Zimride.
Improved accessibility of Ithaca College Natural Lands by building turnpike-style paths.
Held IC Transportation Day – a day dedicated to encouraging alternative transportation to campus.
Hosted Forward Food, an event dedicated to training food service employees on the benefits of plant-based foods as well as equipping them with recipes and preparation advice.
Continued to communicate message of plant-based eating benefits to students (received award from Humane Society of the U.S. for exceptional plant-based options in early January 2018)
Continued work on Dining Services Energy Master Plan in partnership with Sodexo
Supports student organization, Stop Wasting Ithaca’s Food Today (SWIFT), which packages surplus meals for donation to the Rescue Mission.
Made improvements to portion control for catered and dining hall meals to further eliminate food waste.
Continued back-of-house composting initiative.
Expanded message to encourage use of reusable items in dining halls and retail dining locations.
Continued to collect used cooking oil for biofuel purposes.
Continued the Integrated Core Curriculum themes of “The Quest for a Sustainable Future” and “Power and Justice”, two of more sustainably-focused program elements. Course offerings under each theme were expanded.
Student Affairs and Residential Life continued to engage faculty and staff with First Year Residential Experience. Staff and faculty partnered with residents to plan events that focus on sustainability, social and emotional learning, and diversity and inclusion.
Continued campus GREEN tour with First Year Residential Experience
South Hill Forest Products is a student-run business dedicated to providing high quality, all natural non-timber forest products to the community, using the natural resources within the Ithaca College Natural Lands. This experiential learning based class focuses on sustainable production methods including honey from our bee hives, maple syrup from the sugar bush, mushroom farming, and other medicinal remedies.
School of Business hosted the first ever Ithaca College Sustainability Week from April 17th – April 22nd with daily educational and recreational opportunities focused on the 3 pillars of sustainability. Events included guest speakers, participation in the Climate March, panel discussions, and hosted meals.
Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council
From mid-2016 to mid-2017 Tompkins County and its consultant, Energetics, Inc., developed a NYSERDA funded Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Plan for Tompkins County. This project includes a description of strategies and technologies for EV recharging stations with particular attention to local (Ithaca-Tompkins County) conditions, developed an Excel spreadsheet site evaluation tool for EV charging station suitability, applied the tool evaluation to numerous sites around the county and, finally, prepared a detailed analysis/plan for EV charging station installations at preferred locations. A study description and all reports (including the evaluation tool) are available at http://www.ccofcny.com/tompkins-county.html and http://tompkinscountyny.gov/itctc/projects#EV . The site evaluation tool is available for anyone to use.
Tompkins County and the ITCTC are currently engaged with Energetics, Inc. to coordinate local participation in a NYSERDA project that identifies Tompkins County as an EV Deployment Community. Subsidies where offered for installation of 11 charging stations in 2017. During 2018 there will be substantial community outreach and education to promote EV use in Tompkins County.
The ITCTC continued to advance online ridesharing in the greater Tompkins County area. The effort has a new name, Finger Lakes Rideshare, and can be found at https://www.zimride.com/flxrideshare/ or www.fingerlakesrideshare.org . The system is seeking to expand to a regional rideshare program powered online by Zimride. Binghamton University joined the FLX Rideshare Coalition in 2017. Coversations are ongoing with Cortland Countyu, SUNY Cortland and Tioga County. Implementation of the regional rideshare program is ongoing. Current partners include: Tompkins County, Way2Go, Cornell University, Ithaca College, TC3, TST-BOCES, Wells College, Binghamton University and ITCTC. This list will grow as neighboring counties and institutions decide to participate.
The ITCTC is working with a consultant firm, RSG, Inc., in a NYSERDA funded project to develop an enhanced model to determine greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. This work started towards the end of 2017 and will continue through 2018.
Learn@EcoVillage Ithaca
We introduced a new educational program for Learn@EcoVillage, the Ithaca Biodiversity Project. This program empowers youth to help wildlife and our planet, at a local level, through establishing native habitat for birds, butterflies and other wildlife.
Ian Shapiro and Liz Walker taught two Net Zero Energy Building workshops, for architects, developers, and green builders. Architects were able to earn 14 Learning Units for each of the two-day workshops, and LEED professionals earned 14 GBCI CE hours. The May and October workshops were held at EcoVillage, and featured building examples from the three neighborhoods.
We held a successful kick-off event in February for SouthSUP, our partnership with Quinn Energy and Southside Community Center. We are doing an experiment - providing free meals on cold winter nights to neighbors, and then monitoring peak energy saved. This is based on research conducted at EcoVillage. It's a win-win: saving energy, providing yummy meals, and building community.
We hosted student groups and professors from Syracuse University, Temple University, College of Saint Rose, and SUNY Potsdam.
EVI was featured in FLOW magazine (both digital and hard copy) in France, and will be re-published in the German FLOW magazine as well. Michele Foin, the reporter, spent over a week here, and has published multiple articles in French and Swiss magazines about EcoVillage Ithaca.
EcoVillage Ithaca is one of 20 ecovillages around the world to be included in a new book, EcoVillage Design. EVI was also featured in Awakening Into Unity, volume 1 in The Global Awakening series, and in an online magazine, Independence Monthly.
Liz Walker led a 3-day visioning workshop for Waterloo Cohousing in Canada.
We received a $25,000 grant from the Park Foundation for "Asking the Right Questions: Green Building Knowledge for Local Decision Makers." This allowed us to offer workshops to Town Planning Board members, local elected officials, planners, and others who interface with developers. We partnered with Taitem Engineering and the County Planning Department to teach the latest in green building information.
Local First Ithaca
Produced our 7th Annual Guide to Being Local
Continued our work with the Ithaca 2030 District and Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative Steering Committees
Worked with the nationally known group Civic Economics to produce the first, comprehensive analysis of the economic impact in our community of local, independently owned businesses
New Roots Charter School
New Roots was identified as one of ten leading schools in the field of education for sustainability in the nation by the Green Schools National Network. As an inaugural member of the Catalyst Network, New Roots will prepare to become a replication hub for other schools in 2020.
A team of New Roots teachers, students, and administrators visited schools with environmental stewardship missions across the Northeast as part of Teaching Our Cities, an EPA-funded project in 2017, and hosted other project participants for a two-day workshop at New Roots and EcoVillage at Ithaca in August. The project goal is to develop and refine curriculum that engages students with a study of the environmental and human landscape of their cities and regions.
All New Roots students participated in a course called A Sense of Place in September, investigating the relationship between people and the natural environment in our region through the lens of Education for Sustainability (EfS) standards.
New Roots mathematics students worked with Cayuga Nature Center staff to learn about physical plant challenges they were facing due to climate change, then used mathematics to develop and present solutions to those problems.
New Roots environmental chemistry students continued work on their longitudinal study of water quality in Cayuga Lake to test the efficacy of indigenous ecological knowledge in remediating water quality problems in Stewart Park. Students petitioned Ithaca City Council and the Department of Public Works for permission to plant a 50x50’ test plot of cattail and calamus, then worked with a local native plant nursery to obtain plants and establish the plot.
Students studying urban gardening planted and cared for cherry tomatoes, strawberries, basil, parsley, kale, and perennial herbs in containers on the porch of the Clinton House and along the street.
Students in our LEAP year program learned about permaculture and did community service at the Permaculture Park.
Spanish students visited Cornell to learn about migrant workers in our region.
Students purchase healthy snacks from a low-impact snack machine in our lobby!
All students and staff enjoy a free, healthy Farm to School lunch each day featuring locally and regionally-sourced foods.
Paleontological Research Institution, Museum of the Earth, and Cayuga Nature Center
We are curating the New York Climate Change Science Clearinghouse and Resilient MA: Climate Change Clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (to launch soon). These sites are intended to help New York and Massachusetts local governments, businesses, and residents find reliable climate data and maps, decision-support tools, documents, and other resources to help adapt to climate change.
We published The Teacher–Friendly Guide to Climate Change, the latest in our series of Teacher-Friendly Guides to help secondary school teachers in their classrooms.
We started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to send the Teacher-Friendly Guide to teachers across country, starting with the Northeast. This campaign has inspired donations to send the guide to other parts of the country as well. As of this writing we have raised over $100,000.
We conducted sessions on climate change education at national and regional conferences (e.g., Geological Society of America, Science Teachers Association of New York State, Association of Math Teachers of New York State, and more), and teacher professional development workshops on climate and energy literacy.
We worked with New Roots High School 9th graders and elementary school-age summer campers on climate change-related outdoor education activities at Smith Woods and the Cayuga Nature Center. This work was funded by the Park Foundation.
We continue to offer climate change education programs for the general public, such as guided phenology walks, an Ask-a-Scientist table about hurricanes and climate change, and demonstrations of climate and weather concepts using a Weather-in-a-Tank apparatus.
Park Foundation
Sustainable Ithaca awarded 8 grants for a total of $495,000 for renewable energy and efficiency education and policy in Tompkins County.
The Environment Program made 56 grants nationally and in New York state for a total of $2,242,500 on climate end energy issues.
The Foundation filed or co-filed shareholder resolutions with ExxonMobil, Chevron, Dominion, Anadarko, Hess and Entergy on issues such as climate change risk and fugitive methane emissions. Approvals ranged from 23.7% to 39%, with one resolution successfully withdrawn (Anadarko) when the company agreed to issue the report requested.
Renovus Solar
Interconnected over 100 residential systems in Central NY
Notable commercial clients include Ithaca Beer, Fort Locks Storage, Northeast Pediatrics, Stick and Stone Farm, Town of Danby, Datthyn Farms, and Candor Central School District
Built over 1 MW of community solar, began construction on another 1.2MW
Snug Planet
2017 marked a shift in Snug Planet’s focus. Energy efficiency is, and always will be a part of Snug’s mission. But over the last few years it’s become clear to us that more efficient use of fossil fuels alone will not get us to our climate targets. We can achieve deeper cuts in residential emissions by replacing fossil-fuel based heating and hot water systems with modern heat pump technologies.
In 2017, we installed over 30 air-source heat pumps. At this point, we believe that we have a scalable, cost-competitive approach to fossil-free homes, for both retrofit and new construction.
In addition, we expanded our delivery of traditional efficiency work, including energy audits, insulation, and air sealing. One noteworthy project we insulated was Ithaka Terraces, a cluster of 12 net-zero townhouses built on an infill site within walking distance of Ithaca Commons.
Sustainable Tompkins -- Finger Lakes Climate Fund
The Finger Lakes Climate Fund continued its work in 2017, encouraging people to offset their carbon emissions generated by vacations, commuting, and their home, using our recently redesigned website.
Offsetters had the option to form teams for the ‘Carbon Races.’ The Mothers Out Front Corning Team took first place in our 2017 Carbon Races -- they offset more than 252,000 lbs of carbon last year.
Our most recent carbon offset grants went to Habitat for Humanity to help pay for the 4.7 Kw of solar panels going onto each roof of a duplex in the Northside neighborhood in Ithaca.
The Sustainable Finger Lakes Map took flight in 2017 with the assistance of many community members. A team of “Greeks Go Green” and Alpha Phi Omega students from Cornell, for example, worked in November on adding new sites to the map. Over 500 regional green businesses and sustainability initiatives are now on the Map.
We shared the story of the Finger Lakes Climate Fund at the NY Climate Solutions Summit in October, the Grassroots Festival in June, and the Ithaca People’s Climate March in April, which was sponsored by Sustainable Tompkins.
We continued to post timely articles and other information about climate change on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
netZero Village, a new low-rise apartment complex in Rotterdam, New York supported by NYSERDA, was monitored from construction through occupancy to gauge whether it achieved net zero energy status. It did!
Taitem produced a Design Toolkit for LED lighting, available here: www.taitem.com/wp-content/uploads/led-design-toolkit.pdf . This was created as part of a NYSERDA-funded research project conducted with Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which demonstrated the benefits of sensor-controlled LED lighting in multifamily common spaces.
Ian Shapiro continued his Zero Energy Building Design training series this year. Hosted at EcoVillage, Ian focused on fundamentals and strategies for zero energy design, emphasizing different green building approaches.
Two Taitem Senior Energy Analysts began working onsite with regional industries as part of NYSERDA’s Onsite Energy Manager Program. Rob Rosen is working at Corning, Inc., and Jim Holahan is working at Gutchess Lumber. They are each tasked with supporting the development of an energy management plan for a manufacturing facility.
Taitem’s Solar PV department had a busy year, culminating in the December installation of a 12,600 square-foot, 548.4 kW solar carport with 540 PV panels at King + King Architects in Syracuse.
The PV department also participated in regional solarize initiatives, including Solar Schuyler, Solar Southern Tier Central, and Go Solar Tompkins. Taitem was also a qualified vendor in the first two rounds NYSEG’s Smart Solutions program.
Taitem is providing energy modeling services through NYSERDA’s New Construction Program for three new energy-efficient multifamily buildings in Ithaca: Harold’s Square, City Centre, and Amici House. Taitem also provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, and fire protection design for Amici House, a project of Tompkins Community Action.
Taitem’s Aeroseal group completed a comprehensive ventilation and indoor air quality upgrade project at the WYCA in Brooklyn, as part of a large renovation project to provide modern, energy-efficient, affordable housing for 300 women.
Taitem’s Energy + Sustainability staff completed about 40 agricultural energy audits, including dairies, greenhouses, wineries, and more.
Beginning as a NYSERDA Existing Facilities Program consultant in 2014, Taitem has continued to help implement the Energy Reduction Plan at two UHS Hospitals in Binghamton. Construction will begin this Spring to convert nearly 100% of their lighting to LED, which is projected to reduce electric demand by close to 700kW and annual usage by 3,300 MWh.
Taitem is continuing its relationship with TST BOCES; the Energy Management Services team of TST BOCES relies on Taitem for energy consulting and design engineering support for their clients. Projects in 2017 included lighting upgrades at Trumansburg High School, HVAC upgrades at Cayuga Onondaga BOCES, and exploring applications for wireless energy management controls in school facilities.
Taitem’s QA team, working for the Natural Resources Defense Council and NYSERDA, finalized a new standard for the physical needs assessments required by public housing authorities. Called the Integrated Physical Needs Assessment (IPNA), this new tool promotes saving energy in PHA capital planning.
Taitem is continuing its consultancy with Avangrid/NYSEG, on building out its energy efficiency programs and implementing its Community Energy Coordination/Smart Solutions program.
TC Action
Our Building Performance Institute certified energy technicians performed energy audits, efficiency upgrades and resident education to save energy for little or no money. This year, 45 households with low incomes benefited from our Weatherization Assistance Program.
Three families made energy improvements through Assisted Home Performance with Energy Star, which provides income-eligible households with a 50% subsidy for efficiency upgrades.
Through Green Jobs-Green New York twelve additional families from all income levels chose TCAction to complete their home energy assessments.
Fifty- seven households with low-incomes received electricity reduction measures through TCAction’s Empower NY, 21 of these households received Energy Reduction Measures and 36 received Home Performance Measures.
TCAction also was successful in receiving grant awards to build the Harriet Giannelis Childcare Center (5 classroom Head Start/Early Head Start Center) and Amici House (23 apartment Supportive Housing Program for singles and families aged 18-25 with or without young children, experiencing homelessness).
We also applied and were approved to participate in NYSERDA’s Multifamily New Construction Program for Amici House.
We are working with Taitem Engineering to reach Performance Tier 2 with a maximum incentive of $23,000. Our plans are to open the new Childcare Center September 2018 and March 2019 for Amici House.
NYSERDA Clean Energy Community – Formally achieved CEC designation by submitting required documentation of actions.
DEC Climate Smart Community Certification – Formally achieved CSC certification by tracking actions Tompkins County government has taken as a smart community.
Business Energy Navigator – Applied to NYSERDA for funds to develop a targeted program to assist businesses in making energy improvements to their facilities.
Municipal Tools to Promote Deployment of Renewable Energy Systems – Worked with municipalities to develop tools to encourage widespread deployment of renewable energy systems.
Energy Task Force – Established an Energy Task Force to provide advice to the Planning Department and the County Legislature on energy, climate change, and energy-related economic development.
Energy Strategy – Initiated work to develop updated the 2020 Energy Strategy based on conclusions and recommendations from the Energy Roadmap and the Energy and Economic Development Task Force.
Disaster Recovery Plan – Applied to NYS Dept of State funds to develop a disaster recovery plan to prepare the community to take the actions necessary, including those that build economic resilience, to bounce back from a disaster should it occur. This plan will include an assessment of the vulnerability of the County government’s critical facilities to the impacts of climate change to ensure continuity of services post-disaster.
Energize NY Finance – Continued to collaborate with the City of Ithaca and Energize NY staff to implement the Energize NY Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program to help commercial properties make energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades to buildings by offering access to low-cost, long-term financing.
Electric Vehicle Deployment Community – Serve as local liaison for NYSERDA grant-recipient, Energetics Inc., to install EV charging stations to establish a comprehensive charging network for all EV drivers, and conduct extensive community engagement to inform and educate residents and businesses about the benefits of EVs. Charging station deployment took place in 2017, the promotional component of the project is envisioned for 2018.
County Facility Energy and Fleet Record Management – Enhanced recordkeeping and record sharing among County personnel for critical energy use and fleet data.
County Government Electric Vehicle Fleet – In 2017, the County purchased five Chevy Volts for the Department of Social Services with funding assistance from a state grant. EV charging stations were also installed at the Mental Health and Health and Human Services Building parking lots to charge the vehicles purchased in late 2016 for the Department of Mental Health as well as those purchased for the Department of Social Services.
The LED lighting project, begun in 2016, was completed in 2017.
Chamber President Jennifer Tavares continued to serve on the County’s Energy Task Force and the Electric Vehicle Steering Committee, and Dominick Recckio, Member Relationship Manager, is engaged with the 2030 District Partner’s Group.
The Chamber continues to share important information with our members regarding ways to reduce their energy consumption, finance upgrades to their HVAC equipment, or construct their projects using cleaner/alternative energy supplies. We are a member of Chambers for Innovation & Clean Energy (CICE).
Tavares, in her role on the Industrial Development Agency Board, has participated in the development of new policies advancing the installation of commercial grade solar in Tompkins County, and voted to approve several projects during 2017. Additionally, the IDA has enhanced incentives available to support projects which are meeting energy efficiency requirements.
Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative
The Ithaca 2030 District is now the flagship program of TCCPI. Fifty percent of the coordinator’s hours have been committed to this project. The 2030 District is vital to achieving two important strategic goals for TCCPI: 1) strengthening the involvement of the business community; and 2) establishing a process for collecting building performance data in downtown Ithaca and benchmarking it against both national and local baselines. For more details, see the Ithaca 2030 District report above.
The TCCPI monthly general meetings continued to be very well attended, with an average of 25 participants. That the meetings continue to attract a sizeable number of community leaders after eight years, together with the high number of requests made to present at the meetings (at least two-thirds of the agenda topics come about this way) and the fact that the agendas for the meetings are usually set several months in advance, suggest interest in TCCPI remains strong.
Topics in 2017 included:
Cornell Climate Neutral Campus Options – Bob Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology at Cornell University.
NYSEG and Alternatives to the West Dryden Pipeline – Irene Weiser, Caroline Town Board and the TCAD Task Force on Energy and Economic Development
HeatSmart II – Jonathan Comstock, HeatSmart II Program Director
Energy Smart Community Survey & Focus Group Results – Rosalyn Bandy, Energy Smart Community Leader at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County; Rich Stedman, Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University; and Dylan Bugden, Graduate Assistant in the Human Dimensions Research Unit in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
The Datalogger Project: Enabling Sustainable Communities – Howard Chong, Assistant Professor of Economics and Sustainability at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Clean Energy Communities Program – Terry Carroll, Clean Energy Communities Coordinator and Energy Educator at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
Changing Climate and Changing Energy Infrastructure: Implications for Regional Land and Water Conservation Efforts – Andy Zepp, Executive Director of the Finger Lakes Land Trust
Why the Future Of Building Heating and Cooling Belongs to Heat Pumps -- Jens Ponikau, Vice President and Co- Founder of NY-Geothermal Energy Organization; Bruce Harley, Air-Source Heat Pump Technical Consultant; and Scott Smith, Senior Program Manager at NYSERDA
Green Building Policy Project– Nick Goldsmith, City and Town of Ithaca Sustainability Coordinator, and David West from Randall + West
New York Climate Change Science Clearinghouse – Ingrid Zabel, Climate Change Education Manager at PR/Museum of the Earth
Sustainability and Climate Action at Ithaca College – Greg Lischke, Director of Energy Management and Sustainability
The TCCPI Newsletter, which comes out every two months, had a subscriber base of about 400 this past year, with an open rate of 36% for its six issues. In March 2017 this high open rate again earned the TCCPI Newsletter a “Constant Contact All Star Award,” which the company presents to only 10% of its users; it marked the fifth year in a row that our newsletter has been recognized in this way.
The TCCPI website, which has become a rich resource on climate change and clean energy issues, was updated on a monthly basis. All of the meeting notes, annual reports, and newsletters can be found archived on the site, dating back to 2009. The website continued to attract, on average, monthly hits of 3,000 in 2017.
On the social media front, regular postings were made on TCCPI’s Facebook page, including articles from the TCCPI Newsletter, and we increased our “likes” from 324 to 368 during the year. In addition, the TCCPI coordinator continued to post information about energy, climate change, and sustainability issues on Twitter, and has over 2,700 followers.
The TCCPI coordinator served on the steering committee of Get Your GreenBack and regularly attended its meetings this past year, providing input on GYGB’s strategies, priorities, and assessment of the program and serving in rotation as meeting facilitator. Articles on GYGB appeared in each issue of the TCCPI Newsletter.
The coordinator was also a member of the Tompkins County EV Campaign Steering Committee and the Ithaca Green Building Policy Advisory Committee.
In addition, he served on the boards of the New Roots Charter School, Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming, Cayuga Health System, the PRI/Museum of the Earth/Cayuga Nature Center, and EcoVillage at Ithaca, Inc. In October he delivered a keynote address at an international conference in Milan, Italy on climate activism in the U.S.
Tompkins County Council of Governments
In 2017, the Tompkins County Council of Governments Sustainability Committee formed two working groups
An Energy committee, to help propagate the County's energy road map into municipalities and
A Community Choice Aggregation exploratory committee.
The Energy Committee, under leadership of Elizabeth Thomas, supervisor, Town of Ulysses, had a very successful year. With the help of Terry Carroll, a NYSERDA staff person serving the Southern Tier, assisted several municipalities (Ulysses, Caroline, Danby, City of Ithaca) in achieving designation as Clean Energy Communities and winning grant money as a result.
In addition, stemming from discussions in the Energy Committee, municipalities across the County have teamed together in a shared-services initiative that will save both taxpayer money and GHG emissions by converting our streetlights from Halogen to LED. The City of Ithaca's Department of Public Works is taking the lead on this project.
Community Choice Aggregation is a relatively new concept in NYS. The idea is that municipalities can, by passage of a local law, allow the town to procure energy on behalf of its residents. If enough towns band together, they can hopefully achieve lower prices than electricity supplied by the utility.
Also exciting - and the reason several municipalities were interested in exploring this possibility - is that CCA can be used to help promote local renewable energy projects, local jobs, and energy efficiency - still at lower costs than the utility!
At least that was the theory... In our year of exploration we learned that it was not so easy. In particular, while Community Solar Farms are becoming a more popular idea - the laws for Community Solar and CCA were incompatible.
Community Solar requires each individual household to personally enroll into a community solar farm, whereas CCA buys on behalf of all residents at once. Fortunately, the State set up a working group to determine what was and was not working about CCA. We raised this concern, as did other orgs working to establish CCA in their communities. Good news! At their March 2018 meeting, the PSC authorized CCA's to enroll their residents into Community Solar farms en masse! TCCOG's CCA committee will re-engage in 2018 to pursue this opportunity!
Tompkins County Environmental Management Council
The TCEMC engaged in a Strategic Planning Session in March 2017. The TCEMC is an advisory committee to the County Legislature. At this session, it was decided to recommend the replacement of the Energy Committee with a Climate Adaptation Committee. The County Legislature has appointed an Energy Task Force to advise it on energy issues. Given the plethora of existing organizations in the community with an energy focus, it was concluded that a continued assignment of resources to this work was not warranted. With the pace of climate change accelerating, it was believed that a Committee solely focused on this issue would provide added value to the County Legislature and the community as a whole.
The Climate Adaptation Committee selected as its first project to study the protection of the community from intensifying precipitation events. Negative flood risk is all too often translated to communities which do not directly benefit from urban development in upstream municipalities. Many low-lying areas of Tompkins County are facing elevated flooding risks with limited resources to study these problems directly. The overarching goal of the EMC Climate Adaptation Committee was to collect information necessary for beginning a flood hazard and risk analysis at the County level.
The Committee sought to create a central database of historical flooding events to develop a complete picture of flooding across Tompkins County. Opportunities to design for multiple flooding problems at once requires that all problem locations are well documented prior to design.
The second goal of the Committee’s work was to document the flooding perceptions of community leaders in order to understand the degree of disparity in expectations. Mitigation efforts seek to reduce the current frequency and/or magnitude of flooding to some level deemed acceptable.
Finally, the Northeast U.S. is likely to experience some climate variability in the future, necessitating a discussion of how flood mitigation practices should incorporate climate uncertainty. Recent research suggests that there is large uncertainty surrounding future flooding due to intensifying rain, changes in snow-melt dynamics, and potentially increasing drought conditions during summer. Simplistic analysis and decisions can become difficult in the face of highly uncertain problems, sometimes leading to inaction. The third goal of our effort was to better understand the level of knowledge and prior beliefs of community leaders with respect to climate change and the need to incorporate climate uncertainty into the design of flood mitigation practices.
To evaluate the response to these challenges, the Committee on Climate Adaptation has developed a 15 minute survey to gather information on local flooding risks. The Committee developed a list of known community leaders who actively engage with flooding through policy, outreach, education, science and engineering. Results from this survey will be used to build the beginning of a County-wide flood map, to establish a baseline for community expectations for completed flooding projects, and to better understand our prior beliefs about the need to design for future climate conditions
Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency
New Mission Statement - The Tompkins County IDA adopted a new mission statement to better reflect its work:
“The Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency delivers economic incentives to business and industry to diversify and strengthen Tompkins County’s tax base and enhance community vitality, by supporting job creation, business and industrial development, and community revitalization. We strive to develop the local economy in an organized, sustainable and environmentally beneficial manner.”
Commercial Solar Policy – The TCIDA adopted an off-site commercial solar policy, providing a property tax incentive to promote community solar projects. Community solar projects allow residential and commercial customers to purchase renewable energy generated from the sun without the high cost of installing solar on-site. Property taxes have been one of the hurdles for community solar in New York State and the TCIDA is helping to stabilize property taxes and jump-start solar development. This policy supports consumer choice for renewable energy generation, Tompkins County’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050, and the State’s goal to generate 50% of New York’s electricity from renewables by 2030.
Community Solar Projects – Six projects were approved by the TCIDA that will generate approximately 12 megawatts of solar power, enough to power 2,400 to 3,600 homes. Projects are located in the Towns of Newfield, Enfield, and Ulysses.
Enhanced Energy Incentive – The TCIDA and the Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability jointly funded a study by Taitem Engineering that made recommendations for an enhanced energy incentive offered by the IDA for significant energy efficiency and renewable energy in new building construction. Two projects were approved using the drafted policy in 2018. City Center, a 192 unit rental housing project and Harold’s Square, a 138 unit mixed retail and office project committed to significant energy saving measures in these downtown developments including participating in NYSERDA’s Multi-Family New Construction Program.
Town of Caroline
Caroline worked on two key sustainability actions in 2017: 1) revision of our land use local laws to enhance energy and water conservation and 2) achieving NYSERDA’s Clean Energy Communities designation by achieving four “high-impact action items” and qualifying for a Clean Energy Communities Program grant.
We are in the final stages of revising our Subdivision and Site Plan Review Laws after conducting three public meetings and then working on improving each law by incorporating public input, making them consistent with one another, and clarifying process and expectations for builders and developers in minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and water use. An important aspect of the revision was to highlight New York State (SEQRA) and Tompkins County’s 239 Review Guidelines, especially regarding the new 239 Addendum focused on minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. We held a Public Information Session on the new draft laws on February 14th. We expect to adopt the new laws by April or May 2018.
On September 5th, 2017, NYSERDA officially designated Caroline as a Clean Energy Community with completion of four High-impact Action Items: we conducted a community Solarize Program, established a Benchmarking Policy for town buildings, adopted the New York State Unified Solar Permit, and completed Energy Code Training for New Construction.
By being among the first municipalities in our region to accomplish this designation, we qualified for a $100,000 grant. We are proposing to convert the town’s lighting to LED bulbs, a projected 75% energy savings over incandescent lights.
The first prong of our project will be to change the town’s streetlights to LEDs, an involved process that will require us to purchase lamps and fixtures from NYSEG. The City of Ithaca is providing key support for this effort by sharing information and resources.
The second phase of our project will be to convert the lighting in Caroline residences to LEDs with an outreach and engagement campaign. We have been working with a Cornell environmental sustainability class, Cornell Cooperative Extension, NYSEG, and Alternatives Federal Credit Union to develop an effective program.
The outcome of this project will be dramatically reduced lighting energy use and costs, engagement and education with Caroline residents to understand their energy issues and obstacles, and a legacy fund to support financing incentives to help folks move forward. The LED streetlight conversion will be our 5th High-impact Action Item under NYSERDA’s Clean Energy Communities Program.
A sixth High-impact Action Item that we have nearly completed is installation of an electric vehicle charging station at the Town Hall. The charging station was installed this fall at the town hall Park-N-Ride lot. The station requires a legitimate cell signal and we have none, so we are working on installing a cell-signal booster. Once that happens, we’ll be good to go. Another positive sustainability impact of this initiative is that we are expanding Park-N-Ride space at the town hall, which will encourage more commuters to take advantage of TCAT.
Key players from the Town’s energy committee (Energy Independent Caroline) continue work on Solar Tompkins HeatSmart Program, promoting home energy efficiency and heat pumps for space heating and cooling. We have applied for funding and are hopeful for a third HeatSmart Program to begin in 2018.
Town of Ithaca Secured $40,000 in grant funding
Awarded $35,000 by Park Foundation for shared Sustainability Planner position (grant shared with City of Ithaca)
Awarded $4,885 by Urban Sustainability Directors Network to bring staff from Burlington, VT, Fort Collins, CO, and Evanston, IL to Ithaca for two days to discuss green building policies (grant shared with City of Ithaca)
Administered these plus two existing grants (Partners for Places and Park Foundation)
Achieved NYS DEC Climate Smart Communities designation
14th NYS community to receive award
Featured in press release from Governor Cuomo’s office and in local news
Adopted benchmarking policy for Town facilities
Mandates tracking of energy use in Town facilities over 1000 sq. ft.
Supported analysis of LED streetlight conversion
Provided research and analysis to evaluate feasibility
Retrofits would annually save $40,000 and reduce GHG emissions by 50%-60%
Option to join Tompkins Streetlight Collaborative to take advantage of reduced costs through shared services
Travis Hyde Properties
In 2017 we commenced a water efficiency project for our property portfolio which consisted of replacing kitchen and bath faucet aerators, shower heads and toilets. We tested the fixtures in 2016 in a 19 unit building for proof of concept and saw an average consumption reduction of 40%. In 2017 we installed the new water fixtures in 200 more units and will complete installation across the balance of our portfolio.
At Gateway Commons in 2017 we agreed to installing real time energy monitoring to identify and ultimately mitigate demand spikes in our energy usage. The infrastructure will be installed during the second quarter of 2018.
Weaver Wind Energy
We completed design work on our new 2 kW wind turbine and have begun prototype testing at our wind lab. The W2 features Active Furling (AF), our innovative wind turbine control technology that greatly improves performance and durability. AF technology is paired with grid-interactive energy storage, real-time remote monitoring and control, a tilt-over hydraulic lift tower, and optional tower-mounted solar to create a hybrid Wind + Solar + Storage system (WSS). A working demonstration system is on display at our Freeville office.
In April, Art was a featured speaker at the Small Wind Conference, the annual event of the small wind industry. His talk was entitled Active Furling Control of Small Wind Turbines.
In May we hosted an Open House prior to the Village of Freeville PlanningBoard’s review of our application to install a tower and turbine at our facility. Despite local support, our proposal was denied, but one positive outcome of our effort was that the Board created a Solar/Wind Ordinance for the Village and fostered a community-wide discussion about a sustainable energy future.
In September, one of our customers was featured on the local Green Buildings Tour. Dr. William Bassett’s WSS home energy system consists of our W5 (a 5 kW turbine), 11 kW of solar, and 16 kWh of lithium ion battery storage. This system powers his entire home including the charging of his Nissan Leaf.
Art was invited this year to join the Renewable Energy Advisory Board at Morrisville State College. The College has received a $12.9 million grant for a new building to house their many RE-related courses and activities.
Several groups visited our wind turbine manufacturing facility this year, including summer interns from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County and USDA Rural Development Program specialists.
We continued to offer on-site CNC machining services at a substantial discount to the local renewable energy and entrepreneurial community with the aims of supporting their activities and building effective collaborations.
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Average Teacher Salary in A-c Central Community Unit School District 262
The average teacher salary in A-c Central Community Unit School District 262 is $41,696.
Pre-school $30,360 $18,380 $21,480 $29,140 $37,420 $43,020
Kindergarten $41,320 $27,900 $34,260 $40,010 $47,600 $59,510
Elementary $43,410 $25,710 $32,740 $41,260 $52,500 $65,650
Middle school $41,700 $26,610 $30,280 $38,600 $50,890 $65,370
High school $51,690 $28,280 $35,070 $43,780 $57,740 $72,100
How to Become a Teacher in A-c Central Community Unit School District 262
To learn how to become a teacher in the A-c Central Community Unit School District 262, read our how to become a teacher in Illinois article. For average salary information, read our average teacher salary in Illinois article.
General Facts
Staff: 41
Full time teachers: 37
Pupil to teacher ratio: 13 to 1
Teacher assistants (instructional aides): not available
Instructional Coordinators: not available
Elementary Teachers: 21
Kindergarten Teachers: 2
Pre-K Teachers: not available
High School Teachers: 14
Pre-K to 12 Students: 454
Financial Statistics for A-c Central Community Unit School District 262
Revenue from local sources: $2,073,000
Revenue from state sources: $2,189,000
Revenue from federal sources: $243,000
Total revenue: $4,505,000
Expenditures on instruction: $1,908,000
Expenditures on teacher salary: $2,331,000
Expenditures on teacher benefits: $547,000
Expenditures per student: not available
Total expenditures: $4,015,000
Breakdown of Teacher Salary Expenses
Teacher salary expenses on regular education: $1,211,000
Teacher salary expenses on special education: $101,000
Teacher salary expenses on vocational education: $62,000
Information on Schools within A-c Central Community Unit School District 262
Elementary Schools within the A-c Central Community Unit School District 262
Student to Teacher Ratio
Full Time Certified Teachers
Lowest Grade Offered
Highest Grade Offered
A-c Central Elementary School
601 West Buchanan St
Ashland, IL 62612
Kindergarten: 42
1st grade: 38
2nd grade: 34
3rd grade: 26
4th grade: 30
16 to 1 13 Prekindergarten 5th Grade
Middle Schools within the A-c Central Community Unit School District 262
A-c Central Junior High School
191 South Bluff St
Chandlerville, IL 62627
14 to 1 7 6th Grade 8th Grade
High Schools within the A-c Central Community Unit School District 262
A-c Central High School
10th grade: 33
9 to 1 16 9th Grade 12th Grade
General District Statistics
Per capita income: $19,233
Median family income: $47,179
Median male income: $26,853
Median female income: $19,207
Median income of a renter: $27,708
Median income of a home owner: $43,472
Number of Households making:
10 - 25k
60 - 100k
145 165 250 210 69
Information for Nearby School Districts
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Bethalto Community Unit School District 8
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Community Unit School District 3 Fulton County
East Moline School District 37
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Freeburg Community High School District 77
Geneseo Community Unit School District 228
Grant Community Consolidated School District 110
Havana Community Unit School District 126
Jacksonville School District 117
Madison Community Unit School District 12
Moline Unit School District 40
Northwestern Community Unit School District 2
Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8
Prairie Du Rocher Community Consolidated School District 134
River Bend Community Unit School District 2
Signal Hill School District 181
Southwestern Community Unit School District 9
Venice Community Unit School District 3
Waterloo Community Unit School District 5
West Carroll Community Unit School District 314
Whiteside School District 115
Wolf Branch School District 113
Belleville Township High School District 201
Brooklyn Unit District 188
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East Alton-wood River Community High School District 14
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High Mount School District 116
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TVs and Tablets to Get the "Retina Display" Treatment
Gadget manufacturers are adopting a manufacturing technique that will significantly increase resolution in coming months.
by Tom Simonite
A manufacturing technique being adopted by companies that make gadgets for some of the biggest names in consumer tech will help them significantly improve the resolution of TV and tablet displays later this year.
Applied Materials, which makes electronics manufacturing equipment, has introduced machines that make it feasible to use an advanced approach for making displays—previously limited to R&D—at a large scale. This will enable consumer electronics companies to put screens with much higher resolution into many gadgets, Applied Materials says.
Sharper display resolution has become a popular feature with gadget buyers, and both Apple’s iPhone 4 and the latest version of the iPad come with a very-high-resolution “retina display.” Some competitors of Apple have launched phones with similarly high resolution displays, but no other tablets are available that can match the latest iPad’s sharpness. Apple’s competitors are eager to catch up. An engineer at Microsoft posted an article online this week about efforts to ready Windows 8, the next version of the company’s flagship operating system, for tablets with very-high-resolution displays.
Applied Materials’s new machines perform plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), a process that deposits thin films of material onto surfaces. The machinery makes it possible to produce displays that use a different material for the display’s backplane—the layer of transistors that sits behind the display and controls its pixels. That material, known as indium gallium zinc oxide, or IGZO, makes it easier and cheaper to build displays with extra-dense pixels, like the one Apple installed in the latest iPad. Making displays with this kind of resolution larger than seven inches diagonally would be impossible without using IGZO, Applied Materials claims.
“I would expect to see products this year,” says Doug Hayden, senior director of global product management at Applied Materials’s displays division, AKT. “It will probably be tablets followed by TVs, but it will be close.” In TVs, the new material will mean both higher resolution and faster refresh rates.
Although Applied Materials announced the new production equipment just this week, five customers have already installed the new machines and are using them to produce displays, says Hayden. He wouldn’t name those customers, but Applied Materials is known to supply display-making equipment to Samsung, Sharp, and LG, and Sharp and Samsung are believed to supply Apple with displays for its iPad tablet.
LCD televisions and monitors, as well as mobile devices, all have displays that rely on a backplane of many thin film transistors (TFTs), each of which turns one pixel on or off. That TFT layer is typically made using a layer of amorphous silicon, so called because its atoms are not arranged in a neat crystal. However, amorphous silicon doesn’t have the right electrical properties for controlling very large, or very-high-resolution, displays, says Hayden.
Electrons can’t travel fast enough in amorphous silicon to drive very high refresh rates in large TVs, he says, and that same limitation is a problem for the smaller TFTs needed to build very pixel-dense high-resolution displays. Although the new iPad does use amorphous silicon, some reports suggest that the device gets significantly hotter than previous models because it pushes a low-efficiency backplane to its limit. Hayden says the best way to make similarly dense displays at this size is to switch to a different backplane material and that making displays with a pixel density matching that of the new iPad, but in larger sizes, requires using IGZO. “Amorphous silicon is a limitation,” he says.
One alternative to amorphous silicon, called partially crystallized silicon, or LTPS, is already used in the iPhone 4S and other smart phones, but LTPS is about twice as expensive to use in a backplane as amorphous silicon. IGZO is only a third more expensive, says Hayden–low enough to enable a flood of TVs and tablets with significantly improved displays. IGZO could even become almost as cheap to use as amorphous silicon, as Applied Materials and its customers ramp up production, Hayden says.
Charles Annis, an analyst with DisplaySearch who tracks display manufacturing technology, says that before the year is out, Apple may be making iPads using IGZO displays. “We believe IGZO-based LCDs from Sharp are currently being evaluated by Apple, and they have a good chance of being adopted this year,” he says.
That would make the iPad one of the first gadgets to use the new design. “Although several companies are close to commercializing IGZO-based displays, they are not quite there yet,” says Annis. He says that Applied Materials’s new equipment should help change that, and that IGZO will also likely help establish the next upgrade to TV picture quality, known as “ultra definition,” which has four times the resolution of 1,080-pixel HD images.
However, Annis notes, the new equipment introduced by Applied Materials can’t perform every step in the process of making a display backplane using IGZO. The machines make building up the layers of the material needed easier, but they cannot be used to pattern the actual transistors of a backplane. Methods exist for making those transistors, says Annis, but they could stand to improve.
Looking further ahead, Applied Materials’s Hayden says that making it easier to use IGZO should also make flexible displays more practical to manufacture. The process takes place at room temperature, which is compatible with the plastic needed to make a bendy display. Amorphous silicon and other technologies in use today involve temperatures of several hundred degrees.
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Established in 1962, Tillamook School of Dance was founded by by Jan Lommen Colleknon, or “Little Miss Dynamite” as some liked to call her. With over five decades of experience entertaining Tillamook County and beyond, Tillamook School of Dance prides itself in helping the kids of our community find their passion through dance, creativity, friendships and fun...we truly believe their possibilities are endless!
While in school, Jan traveled all over the Pacific Northwest taking lessons and performing as both an amateur and a professional, oftentimes making TV appearances for her stunning tap performances. After graduating from Neahkanie High School, Jan brought dance to the kids of Tillamook when she opened up her studio. In her 35 years of teaching, Jan's studio grew and so did her Legacy. Not only did Jan teach tap and jazz, she directed and choreographed plays and musicals at Tillamook High school for 25 years and was the head coach of the Tillamook High School Dance team for 15 years. Kids were Jan's passion. Jan took kids to New York multiple times to attend and study Broadway Musicals. She also led groups of dancers to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Miami, Florida to perform in the halftime show of the Hall of Fame Bowl and the Orange Bowl.
Dance runs strong in Jan's family. Her daughters, Tracy and Pink followed in her footsteps as both dancers and coaches. Her nieces and cousins all danced and her granddaughter, Mackensi, her pride and joy, is carrying on the family tradition as an eager student and leader in both the studio and on the high school dance team. Sadly, Jan passed away in January 2011, but her sparkle and legacy will live on through the hundreds of students that she mentored over the years.
After Jan's retirement in 1998, the family business was passed from mother to daughter. Although the times changed, the legacy of the studio will always remain the same. Today, Tillamook School of Dance offers a variety of classes for all ages; Performing Arts Preschool, Toddler Creative Movement & Rhythm, Tap & Jazz Combo. Classes, Hip Hop, Ballet, Stretching, Turns & Technique, Contemporary, Teen Latin and Tumbling. We feel that each child's passion about dance, either competitive or recreational, is just as important as the other. We like to instill hometown pride in our dancers by showcasing their hard work for our community as well as offering performance opportunities on a national level. Students from the Tillamook School of Dance can be seen performing at the Tillamook June Dairy Parade, Moonlight Madness, Farmers Market, the Tillamook County Fair, Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremonies, local talent shows, high school basketball and wrestling events and our first annual “Jan Colleknon, a dancing angel” benefit show at Tillamook High School. All proceeds from the show will be donated to Tillamook County Hospice.
Our students have also been seen performing at halftime of the Portland Trailblazer games, the Holiday Bowl Halftime show and the Big Bay Balloon Parade in Diego California where they were honored to work with world famous choreographer Mandy Moore from “So You Think You Can Dance”, the San Diego Charger Cheerleaders and the Rockettes. Students recently traveled to Disneyland in November with “Dance The Magic” to perform with the cast of Teen Beach Movie and the crew from Monsters University in the pre-taping of the ABC Disneyland Christmas Day Parade which aired ABC Christmas morning!
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We feel that each child's passion about dance, either competitive or recreational, is just as important as the other. We like to instill hometown pride in our dancers by showcasing their hard work for our community as well as offering performance opportunities on a national level. Students from the Tillamook School of Dance can be seen performing at the Tillamook June Dairy Parade, Moonlight Madness, Farmers Market, the Tillamook County Fair, Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremonies, local talent shows, high school basketball and wrestling events and our first annual “Jan Colleknon, a dancing angel” benefit show at Tillamook High School. All proceeds from the show will be donated to Tillamook County Hospice.
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Koala Rescue phone number 0418 628 483
In Port Stephens there are three Eucalyptus species that koalas prefer for food.
Swamp Mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta)
Parramatta Red Gum (Eucalyptus parramattensis)
Forest Red Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis)
Koalas breed once a year and mate from August to January. At this time they tend to move outside their normal territories looking for a mate. The male has a deep, guttural call and the female a high pitched catlike voice. The male has an oily gland on the centre of his chest which emits a strong odour. He rubs his scent against tree trunks and limbs to mark his territory.
When a female is 2 years old she is ready to mate. Males are capable of reproducing at 2 years of age but often not up to competing against older, larger males. The female comes on heat for only a few days and only then she will display her readiness for the male. 35 days after mating the female gives birth to a single Joey.
Occasionally twins are reported but a single young is the most common. At birth the Joey weighs less than 1 gram, has no fur, their eyes and ears are closed and are the size of a peanut. On average koalas on mainland Australia tend to produce one young every two years.
When the Joey weighs about 250 grams at about 22 – 30 weeks, the mother koala passes a green slimy substance called ‘pap’ which the Joey laps up to help its transition from milk to leaves. Pap allows the mother to pass on micro-organisms, present in her digestive system, which are essential to the digestion of eucalyptus leaves. Full fur and first teeth erupt. Joeys can be observed nibbling leaf tips at about 31 weeks.
By about 7 months of age, the Joey leaves the pouch for longer periods of time and rides on mother’s abdomen or back.
A Joey is independent at about 12 months old but will stay longer with its mother before moving away and establishing its own home range. It will usually remain until the appearance of the next season’s Joey outside the pouch.
Koalas are fully grown by year 3 or 4.
The koala is able to take a daily dose of eucalyptus oil that would kill most mammals.
Each population of koala has adapted to species of trees in their area and cannot always digest leaves of trees from other areas. This makes the relocation of koalas a more difficult task.
Koalas eat about 200 – 500 grams of leaves each night.
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Gingerline: ‘The Grand Expedition’ review
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'The Grand Expedition' by Gingerline
Gingerline’s latest culinary odyssey mixes mind-blowing food with some iffy national stereotypes
Trying to write a review of ‘The Grand Expedition’ might well be a tremendous exercise in point-missing because Gingerline’s immersive dinner theatre show is all about the joyful thrill of surprise. You’re texted a secret address. Then, after a bit of excitedly milling about in a car park, you get one of the night’s best moments: the one where you step inside a vast space that’s been artfully designed to transport you to a retro world, complete with ’30s style aeronauts, gasp-worthy set pieces and endearing vintage picture-book-style illustrated projections. Oh, and enough food to put Enid Blyton’s most extravagant midnight feast to shame.
Gingerline creators Suzannah Montfort and Kerry Adamson have excelled in creating something that both looks heart-tuggingly, nostalgically gorgeous, and somehow manages to function with military precision. Five carefully tuned courses find their way to each table, through a hubbub of dancing, miming and projected storytelling. They’re designed to be (very mildly) interactive, which means unwrapping an adorable checked cloth parcel of bread, or having a go at artfully arranging dumplings on a plate. The real interaction comes courtesy of a chorus of performers, who invite booze-primed audience members to play a series of increasingly riotous games with them using a series of non-verbal signals – it’s like being in a scout camp for tipsy people, wrangled by outlandishly dressed mime artists.
‘The Grand Expedition’ is tremendously good at sounding some notes: ‘joy’, ‘surprise’ and ‘nostalgia’ are there in abundance, with a side-serving of ‘yum’. Perhaps because of the child-like framing, what it doesn’t offer is much to chew on. There’s no real storyline, and the interactive elements are mostly just larking about, rather than feeding into any greater narrative. Depending on your perspective (and/or level of drunkenness) its worldview might feel shortsighted, rather than endearingly naive, too.
The picture books for kids that it sources its aesthetic from aren’t always innocent: they’re there to inculcate the next generation with their parents’ worldviews, and in the golden age of children’s fiction, those worldviews were unashamedly colonialist. Here, different countries are portrayed by an almost all-white cast frolicking about in sexed-up versions of their national get-ups; painting-by-numbers cultural stereotypes that are retro in all the wrong ways. The ‘Japanese’ section is something to behold, and not in a good way.
In its best moments, ‘The Grand Expedition’ feels vivid and transportative: a great deal of care has gone into almost every moment, from its ever-shifting wall projections and its emotive soundtrack to its cloud-painted toilets. If they put the same care into the narratives it sells, it could really take flight.
By: Alice Saville
Posted: Wednesday February 27 2019
https://www.thegrandexpedition.co.uk/tickets
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Nancy X
We are not allowed to share any details of the event - so I will just say this is a beautifully crafted experience down to the smallest detail. Delicious food and amazing performers. Come dressed in your best aeronaut gear as you will go on a flight that is out of this world.
Katrina W
We thoroughly enjoyed our evening on the Grand Expedition. It was a feast for all the senses. At first I was put off that our group of 4 would have to share a table with 6 strangers. I must admit that the people we spent the evening with totally contributed to the excellence of the evening. We so enjoyed meeting the others and felt the entire matching was serendipitous. The food was all lovely and presentation and delivery was truly unique. It was a very memorable evening that we 4 Canadians considered a highlight of our holiday.
tan l
Reviews are interesting as people are generally quite moved to express an opinion if they had a terrible time. I hope the clutch of poor review here don't put people off as it would be a shame to miss out on this. I think you have to be pretty cynical to not enjoy it, we went as a group of 10, that certainly added to my enjoyment as I knew everyone on my table. I am in my mid-40s and have seen a lot of theatre and eaten a lot of meals - I thought the food was superb and it is a bit unfair to pick on the sticks of cucumber as this was one element of a 'british picnic'. The vegetarian/venga food was imaginative and I did not feel palmed off with a lesser meal as I often do. I had a fabulous evening having gone with no expectations. I can't really give it less than full marks as it delivered on all fronts. An immersive dining and theatrical experience that will not be forgotten.
Reetta K
All I can say is that I had an amazing time! Music, scenes, dance, food. Performers were brilliant and food was delicious. Really clever use of lighting and narration. If you are joining, please remember it is immersive, so expect to be asked to participate!!
Nadine W
Agree with all points below. Food was awful and wine was bitter and distasteful. The actors probably are great at their jobs but again, really awful production/directing. I would most definitely not recommended, it was the most awkward I've been to in the whole of London in my 25 years of living here!
Natalie A
Having been to Chamber of Flavours, we were really excited about going to the Grand Expedition. Boy we shouldn't have been. It was awful. I agree with everything from the reviews below. The food was poor. The acting 'scenes' were so childish and un-entertaining I was embarrassed for them. And unless you are a large group you have to share your table for the whole evening with other guests. Save your money and avoid.
Jay G
Food was terrible, cheaply made, and luke warm in temperature. You know things are not looking good if you get served a stick of cucumber with celery salt as part of your starter. The interactive theatre was on a par with a bad children’s party. The mime ‘actors’ pull you up to participate in conga lines, silly gestures and awkward dancing. Save your money and avoid feeling ripped off. Amateur and not worth wasting hours of your precious life. Can I give no stars?
Awful. Left early. Had been before and this seemed a million miles away from previous productions.
mple v
I disagree with the time out review. This gingerline experience was mediocre at best. Not worth the visit.
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Denver & Rio Grande train AI (A freight train AI)
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Re: Denver & Rio Grande train AI (A freight train AI)
Post by wozzar » 31 Aug 2009 10:31
Lord Aro wrote: works fine for me
I see he updated the file this one works.
Brumi
Post by Brumi » 31 Aug 2009 13:13
{028}
Another occurence of the terraforming problem, this time the AI drove itself into bankruptcy, that 1 train didn't have a consumer station...
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This one is quite a common problem when multiple instances of your AI are started. The red company's one train had a similar problem, the consumer station did not exist.
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Post by Dustin » 31 Aug 2009 21:15
wozzar wrote: Does this work in 0.72 because it wasn't building anything. It kept saying path was blocked.
It only works in 0.7.2 for sure. Care to post a screenshot and some details? What map, setting, newgrfs, etc.
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Post by 1009 » 01 Sep 2009 07:38
I've been digging into the Unkinker-code a bit, trying to see how I could recreate the weird ant crawling path that doesn't get unkinked.
It unkinks once for every route, right? And doesn't only do Ant, but the whole path, as far as I understand. It quits when FixPath() has failed more than 10 times (broke infite loop in fixpath) -- FixPath ONLY fails if TilesAreSameLevelAndFlat( tile, path2.Begin() ) returns true. That sounds a little weird to me, shouldn't it fail if they are NOT the same level and flat?
Anyway, to recreate, we should let that function return true 10 times. I'm trying to get it to do that now x__x;;'
EDT *screams* I was right XD gosh, this has puzzled me for some time. OK, I have a scenario where it displays this behaviour three times (:P, sorry) at the first route. Takes some time to PF though, so take a cup-a-coffee meanwhile.
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DandRG_UnKinkV2.scn
{015} Let AI pathfind when there isn't enough money
- Good idea. Probably work on it later. However, the map changes over time, so the routes would have a higher failure rate.
You can check path before building.
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Post by Vemarkis » 02 Sep 2009 10:17
I like this AI, but it has some problems. Even when the minimum route lenght is set to short, it still prefers 200 to 400 tile long routes. Usually it won't have money to completely doubletrack the route, so it ends up with a huge stretch of single track. In that situation, its wasting money on a 3rd train when it will end up just being unprofitable, or very near to unprofitable which it ends up selling anyways. Is it possible for the AI to check the average time that a train waits at a signal? It could always complete the doubletracking after it has more money. This seems to be my experience in tropical climate, with NARS, and Pikka's Basic Industries & a grf that increases all the building costs with a max loan of £500,000. Many times, a DRG ai won't get off the ground cause it decides it wants this 500 tile route, which it cannot afford, and it has no trains. So it keeps waiting for more money that won't appear according to the debug log. Also, the AI does not seem to recognize a situation where 90 degree turns are forbidden which is a major downer.
Good thing I noticed is that it has a very keen eye for profitable routes, and when it does succeed in building one its train profits are usually 2 or 3 times as much as its competitors(AdmiralAI).
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Post by Lord Aro » 02 Sep 2009 10:22
its not supposed to build it completely double tracked
they're called passing tracks - the old ai did it
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Lord Aro wrote: its not supposed to build it completely double tracked
Passing loops actually. And anyways, my point was it usually has at least over 50 to 100 squares of single track at places just cause it couldn't build the passing loops the first time. I just tested by giving the AI tens of millions of pounds, and it preferred not to have that much single track.
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Post by Michiel » 02 Sep 2009 15:21
Eliandor wrote: EDT *screams* I was right XD gosh, this has puzzled me for some time. OK, I have a scenario where it displays this behaviour three times (:P, sorry) at the first route. Takes some time to PF though, so take a cup-a-coffee meanwhile.
Dude, you are one hell of a software tester
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Michiel wrote: Dude, you are one hell of a software tester
XD thanks. If you add in an options that a. shows PF with signals and B. enables/disables the first three lines I can also extensively bug test yours. If you want me to .
Cool I'm just using the library pathfinder though, but it can use some debugging aids in the form of signs showing what it's doing, that's for sure.
Dustin, sorry for hijacking your thread
Post by Dustin » 03 Sep 2009 00:31
Eliandor wrote: I've been digging into the Unkinker-code a bit, trying to see how I could recreate the weird ant crawling path that doesn't get unkinked.
I love that obstacle course! I can't wait to get time to try it out. So it sounds like you had a code fix for the unkinker. Did you test it?
Vemarkis wrote: I like this AI, but it has some problems. Even when the minimum route lenght is set to short, it still prefers 200 to 400 tile long routes. Usually it won't have money to completely doubletrack the route, so it ends up with a huge stretch of single track. In that situation, its wasting money on a 3rd train when it will end up just being unprofitable, or very near to unprofitable which it ends up selling anyways. Is it possible for the AI to check the average time that a train waits at a signal? It could always complete the doubletracking after it has more money. This seems to be my experience in tropical climate, with NARS, and Pikka's Basic Industries & a grf that increases all the building costs with a max loan of £500,000. Many times, a DRG ai won't get off the ground cause it decides it wants this 500 tile route, which it cannot afford, and it has no trains. So it keeps waiting for more money that won't appear according to the debug log. Also, the AI does not seem to recognize a situation where 90 degree turns are forbidden which is a major downer.
NARS is supported.
Pikka's Basic Industries is not currently supported. Sounds like it works OK though.
a grf that increases all the building costs with a max loan of £500,000 is not supported and not likely to be. Be sure to turn up "fiscal restraint" all the way that might help a little.
"No 90 degree turns" is not supported, and probably never will be.
Yeah, the minimum is just that. Here is how it works in some detail.
* PRODUCER LOOP
* Pick an unused producer from the top 5.
* Check if a station will fit without terraforming, otherise go back to start.
* CONSUMER LOOP
* Find the (next) closest consumer that is at least min-distance away. (If out of consumers, go to start)
* Check if a station will fit. Otherwise go back to the top of CONSUMER LOOP.
* Try to find a path. If that fails, go back to the top of CONSUMER LOOP.
* Estimate the cost of the path, if to high, go back to the top of CONSUMER LOOP.
* Build the path and the trains.
[edit]So there is Bias for shorter routes, but practically speaking middle distance routes will happen first due to the sort order. Changing the sort order based on route length would be pretty major. It might help your (edge) case where you are using a very harsh newgrf. It would have the side effect of filling the map with shorter routes that don't make as much money. The fact that the choosen routes tend to be winners is a side effect of how they are chosen.
Is it possible for the AI to check the average time that a train waits at a signal?
Not without having to check a lot.
It could always complete the doubletracking after it has more money.
In theory yes, but once trains are rolling, it's hard. It would have to recall all the trains. Wait for them to depot. Lay the passing lane. Start the trains back up. All the while it would either have to put pathfinding for new routes on hold, or have a more complex state machine to juggle more things at once. If the first route is profitable, then the second route can have passing lanes. The first route is really just to get off the ground.
Many times, a DRG ai won't get off the ground cause it decides it wants this 500 tile route, which it cannot afford, and it has no trains.
That's a bug. It shouldn't try to build a route it doesn't have enough money for. The route estimation function might need to be tweaked upwards. It should be possible for it to not find any worthwile routes, then terraform itself into bankruptcy. But if you don't see a message about lifting restrictions, it shouldn't go bankrupt.
The only thing in here I am likely to fix soon is to make fiscal restraint have more effect on routes being considered.
[edit] Maybe I should add a mission statement to the main post so it's clear what the AI is likely to support in the future.
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Kogut wrote:
True, but what do you do when they fail? I am just saying caching routes isn't super helpful. And the AI currently doesn't have the ability to pathfind the end of a half done, but errored route. Maybe in a later version.
Dustin wrote: I love that obstacle course! I can't wait to get time to try it out. So it sounds like you had a code fix for the unkinker. Did you test it?
Didn't test it yet, will soon. The code /looked/ to me as if it unkinks a maximum of 10 tiles -- I'll try it in an hour.
Edit: tested, no fix. must be something else.
Dustin wrote:
fail - nothing wrong, you can start a new one (as so far)
OK - very good, you find route (so far: you start pathfinder)
One bug I noticed today while running multiple DRG Ai's, sometimes one DRG AI will try to connect their line to the network of an another DRG AI. Usually this happens when it decides it has found a consumer at the same place as another DRG Ai. It will complete the tracks all the way to the another AI's station, it even finds a proper place at the junction to connect at, and then sell the route when it finds out it cannot buy trains for that route(sadly, stupid me I forgot to take a screenshot of the debug log, but thats what it said at the moment). However, this bug seems to be a rather rare instance, and quite usually they just place their stations next to each other.
[edit]here is a save where it has happened, see Blue player's station "Consumer 17". Included a list of grf's with the screenshot of the place. This time, the ai trying to connect to the other AI's station even built trains..
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Vemarkis wrote: One bug I noticed today while running multiple DRG Ai's, sometimes one DRG AI will try to connect their line to the network of an another DRG AI. Usually this happens when it decides it has found a consumer at the same place as another DRG Ai. It will complete the tracks all the way to the another AI's station, it even finds a proper place at the junction to connect at, and then sell the route when it finds out it cannot buy trains for that route(sadly, stupid me I forgot to take a screenshot of the debug log, but thats what it said at the moment). However, this bug seems to be a rather rare instance, and quite usually they just place their stations next to each other.
Good bug. DR&G will consider a consumer station to "exist" if it could have built one there at the start of pathfinding. So there is a race condition here. Whichever player gets to the flat spot first wins. The loser needs to figure out that it lost and do something about it.
Your screenshot also shows 17 consumer didn't hook up it's depot with track. That happens from time to time and I have no idea what causes it.
Dustin wrote: Your screenshot also shows 17 consumer didn't hook up it's depot with track. That happens from time to time and I have no idea what causes it.
It looks like {22}, when removing a producer route, it removes one tile too many near the consumer station.
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Mr. Mike Kumar, RIP
It is with great sadness that the Archdiocese marks the passing of Mr. Mik Kumar, RIP who died at his home in Abbeyknockmoy last night. He was only 60 years old and had been ill for quite some time, an illness he bore with great dignity and courage. Mike was a native of India and came to Ireland to work in the supermarket trade. He was a Hindu originally but 12 years ago took instruction and was baptised a Catholic. Mike did outstanding work for several different charitable and Church based organisations and helped out with hundreds of needy causes. He was remembered with great gratitude in Galway city for helping out with bereaved families at times of funeral sending provisions from his store, free of charge to help with catering. He did pioneering work at diocesan and national level in organising Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in parishes. Archbishop Neary in paying tribute to Mike said he was a man of outstanding integrity, generous to a fault and gave great witness to Gospel values and prayer ministry. May he rest in peace. He is pictured below praying this year in Knock along side Sr. Teresina Daly and also with the organising committee for Perpetual Adoration.
Funeral Arrangements : Reposing at his residence tomorrow in Abbey, Sunday from 2.00 pm to 8.00 pm. Removal at 8.00 pm to St. Bernard’s Church, Anneyknockmoy. Funeral Mass on Monday at noon.
Message of the Eucharistic Adoration Committee
Apostolate of Eucharistic Adoration
The great Apostle of Eucharistic Adoration Mike Kumar has died very peacefully as the Chaplet of Divine Mercy was complete at his bedside.
Mike from India and a great convert to Catholicism was an extraordinary man. He was passionate about the promotion of Eucharistic Adoration
in the dioceses of Tuam, Galway, Elphin Achonry and other places. Mike loved daily Mass and had a great devotion to Mary.
He has been the Chairman of Tuam and Elphin Diocesan Adoration Committees for many years. His work in the promotion of Adoration took him all over the west of Ireland
Two weeks ago in his sick bed in hospital he wanted to hear how adoration was progressing and how the previous weekend presentations had gone in Galway and a few other places.
He was an outstanding benefactor for our Apostolate of Adoration and most of our printed materials are due to his generosity. We will miss him dearly but
I am certain that he will do even greater work for our Apostolate in Heavin.Eternal rest grant onto him O Lord and let Perpetual Light shine upon him. May he rest in peace .Amen
I know that you will remember him in your prayers especially at Eucharistic Adoration and at Mass. Remember too in prayer those who have looked after him so well.
Reposing in his home in Moyne Tuam Co Galway from 3 pm on Sunday.
Removal to his local Church Abbeyknockmoy on Sunday at 8 pm
Mass on Monday at 12 mid day and burial immediately afterwards.
Please pass on word to others.
National Committee
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Atavistic Nationalism? — Reflections From a Murky Pond
The American people have been excoriated for decades by Liberals and Progressives over our love of our country and culture. But finally, in the wake of Donald Trump's rise to political power, our domestic enemies have shown their true colors and their core problem with Americans they're allowed to live alongside. That problem, as the New York Times so gloatingly states, is our "atavistic nationalism." As language, idiom, and rhetoric have a certain importance - admittedly, one vastly overstated by certain sorts - allow me to dissect this. Atavistic Function: adjective Date: 1835 Definition(s): Of or relating to the return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence. Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral ~*~ Nationalism Function: noun Date: 1844 Definition(s): loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially: a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups So we have our domestic enemies ranting and raving in fear of- and in hate for something that they feel is part of our past that has been left behind; that something being the love of- devotion to our country, the United States of America. Think about that. Digest it. Understand what the root cause of the Left's issue with we, the American people is.
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Tell Apple: Don't Allow Police to Remotely Disable iPhone Cameras
by: Julie Mastrine
recipient: Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
Imagine: you're walking down the street when you see police officers slamming a woman to the ground. They're exhibiting a shocking use of force -- one officers pushes her face into the ground. Another sticks his knee into her back. You become worried. You pull out your phone to record the incident -- only to have your camera mysteriously shut off.
With Apple's newly patented technology, this incident could become a reality.
The technology allows cameras to be disabled through special infrared sensors, allowing a third party to disable your camera remotely. The release of this technology would have huge implications, including the censoring of political dissidents, activists, and citizens who are recording police brutality.
Sign this petition to send a message to Apple: Don't release technology that would allow third parties to remotely disable our iPhone cameras!
Apple has justified the technology by saying it could protect intellectual property. It gave an example: making sure no one can record at a concert venue. But this example comes from the flawed premise that someone can truly own and control experiences and ideas. In reality, this technology blatantly tramples on freedom of expression.
Recordings of police brutality come to mind in particular. These videos have been critical in garnering investigations into incidents like the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. Without videos of these incidents, the public may have never known they occurred.
Apple's newly patented technology would allow this incident to become a reality. We the undersigned are asking you not to release technology that would allow third parties to remotely disable our iPhone cameras.
You have justified the technology by saying it could protect intellectual property, like making sure no one can record at a concert venue. But this example comes from the flawed premise that someone can truly own and control experiences and ideas. In reality, this technology blatantly tramples on freedom of expression.
Recordings of police brutality come to mind in particular. Cell phone videos have been critical in garnering investigations into incidents like the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. Without videos of these incidents, the public may have never known they occurred.
Please don't release technology that would allow third parties to remotely disable our iPhone cameras. Thank you.
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The Sunday Giveaway: Two Tickets to La Soirée!
Genre bending entertainment is the theme lately here at the Sunday Giveaway, with Fuerza Bruta last week, and this week . . . ooooh la la, La Soirée!
La Soirée is a “heady cocktail of cabaret, burlesque, circus sideshow and contemporary variety” which has been seen all over the world, from Paris to London to Sydney. (I actually saw the production in Sydney when I was there for My First Time, and I’m still in awe – think Cirque de Soleil produced on a slightly dirty dime – which makes it even that much more impressive.)And it’s going to be at the Union Square Theatre here in NYC for a limited engagement beginning October 29th.
Want to win two tickets to see it before it heads back to Sydney?
Let’s take a simple little poll. Did you go to the circus when you were a kid? If so, which one? Let’s see what % of Producer Perspective readers attended a circus, any circus, while growing up. And if any of you have clown phobias as a result, tell us that too.Yes or no to attending a circus in the comments below gets you entered to win! Go!
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Yes I went to Barnum and Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden. I was afraid of the clowns.
Yes, many Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circuses in NYC and Massachusetts as a kid. Also Big Apple Circus but my favorite was the Clyde Beatty Circus. I even still have the program.
Yes! Circus Oz, a famous Australian circus.
I love clowns. I want to be one when I grow up.
Liz Wollman says:
Yes, Barnum and Bailey. Clowns rule, dude.
Barnum & Bailey defined my childhood circus experience. Saw La Cirque in Edinbrgh and that defined my adult circus experience.
Rafi Levavy says:
Yes, I did. I went to Ringling Bros. when it was at Madison Square Garden. Additionally, less frequently I went to a much smaller one in the suburban town that I grew up in.
And I don’t believe that I ever had a clown phobia. I even worked at a clown school (as a stage manager, not as a teacher/clown) a few years ago.
I think we only went once or twice Ringling Bros. when I was a kid at MSG or Nassau Coliseum. I was never afraid of clowns; I think I was always more afraid of choking on a circus peanut shell!
Scott Briefer says:
Definitely a circus guy. Growing up it was always Ringling Brothers. Now, as an adult, its Cirque du Soleil (spelled incorrectly in your blog). Love clowns – when their good. Hate them when they’re boring.
Does it count as going to the circus if I protest outside of them? 🙂 Ha, nope, as a long-time animal rights activist, I’ve avoided circuses that use and abuse animals (the majority of the big name circuses), except for the aforementioned protesting. So a circus-like event without any animal abuse sounds awesome!
Yes Ringling Brother Circus
Matthew Mezzacappa says:
Yes once
Kathleen Smith says:
I went to the circus at times. It was usually in Tucson. I do not remember what circus. My step grandfather loved the circus. Whenever there were guests, he would take us. He went often with 46 step grandchildren.
Yep, Ringling Brothers as a kid. Happily no fear of clowns.
Kyle Abraham says:
Ringley Bros. and Barnum & Bailey as a kid. No fear of clowns.
Leslie Rosenberg says:
Another vote for Ringling Brothers-Barnum Bailey Circus while growing-up- no clown terrors!
More recently I saw the Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson Tribute Show- the first, touring one-
It was stupendous!!
Yep. B & B.
(ps the elephants are mistreated, sign something online)
I have a phobia about candy apples and clowns in tutu’s… not necessarily in that order.
Roger Gindi says:
Ringling Bros. many years, and the Clyde Beatty Circus a few times.
Elisa Christina Clayton says:
Yes, our family attended Ringling Brothers in Denver, Colorado when my twin sister, who’s a fantastic artist, entered and won a contest where you had to draw a clown and the prize was free tickets to the circus.
christine kromer says:
Yes. Went to a local circus that use to come every summer to Forest Park in Woodhaven. That stopped though the year the lion got loose and was running along the Jackie Robinson Pkwy (Interboro back then). Imagine the drivers faces as they were driving alone and there is a lion running next to you. I still have the picture somewhere in the house. And that was the end of our circus fun. LOL
Yes! Saw Ringling Bros. a few times when I was a kid, a traveling circus in Paris when I was in my twenties, and the last time, later, I saw the Moscow Circus in San Francisco. I have ventriloquist dummies so o fear of clowns at all.
Imani says:
I went to many different circuses as a kid but my favorite was the UniverSoul Circus! It was incredibly creative, so much fun, and there were very limited creepy clown appearances if my memory serves me correctly, which was great. I wouldn’t say that I have a fear of them exactly, more of an intense aversion.
Rick Shulman says:
I went to the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus in Washington, DC several times as a kid and then Cirque du Soleil as an adult. Clowns don’t scare me.
LARRY ABRAMSKY says:
‘OLYMPIC PARK’, AN AMUSEMENT PARK IN IRVINGTON, NJ, 1955. MY FIRST LIVE CIRCUS AT TWO YEARS OLD, EVERY SUNDAY. THEY HAD THREE DIFFERENT ‘ACTS’ EVERY WEEK, ONE OF WHICH WAS ALWAYS A TRAPEZE ACT. MY FATHER LOVED THE CIRCUS, SO HE TOOK THE FAMILY TO THE RINGLING BROTHERS & BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS AT THE OLD MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. WE ALSO WATCHED DON AMECHE’S ‘INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME’ CIRCUS TV SHOW EVERY WEEK TOGETHER. WHEN HE WAS 80 TEN YEARS AGO, I RETURNED THE FAVOR BY TAKING MY FATHER TO THE RINGLING BROTHERS BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS AT THE ‘NEW’ MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. HE ATE POPCORN AND CANDY AND BOUGHT A TWIRLY WHIRLY FLASHLIGHT LIKE ALL THE OTHER 8 YEAR OLDS !!! I HAVEN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT EVENING IN YEARS AND YEARS. THANKS! MY FATHER JUST TURNED 90 ON OCTOBER 13TH. I THINK ITS TIME TO TAKE HIM TO THE ‘BIG APPLE CIRCUS’ THIS YEAR IN HIS WHEELCHAIR!!! HE’LL LOVE IT!
Nope. I don’t think I’ve ever been to the circus.
Francie-Sue Rothstein says:
Oh Yes!!!!! The circus was a constant source of enjoyment in my younger days. We went as a family to Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers, Ringling Brothers-Barnum Bailey and the Royal Hanniford Circus. As an adult, most recently Cirque de Soleil and Cirque Dreams on Broadway and also on a cruise ship! No fear of clowns here!
I’ve been to the circus many times now and
years ago. My first experiences were at the
Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey shows. I’ve been
to Sarasota and visited the Ringling Museum there.
I’ve attended Big Apple and Cirque du Soleil
performances too. No clown phobia but amazement at
the number of clowns exiting a mini car. Attended
an all day clown workshop for teachers. Fun!
I used to go to the Ringling Bros. Circus at Madison Square Garden! No clown phobias here but I swear Cotton Candy ruined my life! I think I used to go through 4 or 5 of those things! High blood sugar much?
I think it was Big Apple Circus…it’s a little fuzzy…I was already scared of clowns at this point. I also saw 2 different Cirque De Soliel.
I grew up in rural Penna. and I remember the day the circus came to town… you see I was raised by the movies, my dad had the bijoux, and I must have seen Walt Disney’s Toby Tyler at least six times. I, too, wanted to run away to the circus, but not on my own…with Toby Tyler. So when the real circus, a rather small affair, actually showed up, I was disappointed that no one wanted to abduct me. In lieu of that thrill, I fell in love with elephants’ giant toenails, the wonderful dolls on a stick that parents had to buy their kids, and the red mouthed clown who performed with his little poodle. The clown wasn’t so funny, but the dog was a scream.
Cheryl Dzubak says:
Yes. I have attended Ringling Bros./Barnum and Baily Circus several times. No clown phobia, but I do have a phobia about their alleged cruel treatment of the animals who perform. Knowing what I now know, I will not ever attend another circus again. I do feel guilty about attending the circus in the past and feel like I contributed to circus animal cruelty.
Yes. I believe i went to Barnum and Bailey. And I love clowns.
Yes! It was Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey. I don’t remember much about the scary clowns, but I remember the circus had a bunch of acrobats from China who were amazing.
Alan B. says:
I got to see Emmett Kelly in person at The Garden.It was like seeing the Babe Ruth of clowns!
In Canada it was the Shrine Circus that came through every year, and we’d get free tickets in school. Of course, the parents who took us there had to pay, plus they’d sell loads of food and toys and stuff. Nowadays we seem to have Circus Gatti coming every year. And clowns? Never a problem.
Madison Decker says:
Ringling Brothers! All I remember is getting shaved ice in a cool elephant cup.
Stewart E says:
Yes ringling brothers
Rick Hinkson says:
yes, RBB&B circus when i was a kid. cirque du soleil and big apple circus as an adult.
Marcus Allen Cooper says:
Yes, we went to Barnum & Bailey every year and I always remember the smell of the elephants, the taste of the circus peanuts and the twirly, clackety noise makers. This sounds much more palatable for adults!
Ed Ertle says:
Yes, to the local rinky-dink circus that came to my small Ohio town once every other year. They pitched a tent in the mornimg and were gone the next day. You were literally in the middle of the action.
I liked clowns. In fact, until I was 7 or 8, I actually believed they were a race unto themselves, not just everyday people dressing up.
Yes! Went to many ringling bros tours at the staples center in LA. I also remember seeing “kalidascape” a cirque show.
Jeannie Z says:
Ringling at Madison Garden many times.
Mary M. says:
Yes, Barnum & Bailey, plus a local traveling circus that set up a tent in the mail parking lot in the suburbs 🙂
Tom L says:
Ringling Bros @ MSG as a kid– LOVED clowns. Find them creepy now.
Stuart Green says:
Throw my hat in the ring with both the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus as well as the Big Apple Circus. Also Cirque du Soleil if you want to throw that into the mix!
Two Stories:
First: It was Ringling Brothers at MSG. I loved all the spectacle, including clowns. Was a theater major and took stage make-up as an elective.
After I graduated, I worked for Macy’s for a while and signed up for the parade. I wanted to be a clown. They asked if I could do a somersault or handstand. I said no but I could do the makeup.
When I got my assignment, I was a balloon handler, assigned to Underdog, if that wasn’t ironic! It was windy that year and I got blown down most of Central Park West. Saw many clowns; no one did a somersault or handstand.
Second – it’s an old joke that I love, here it is as well as I remember it:
A guy graduates college as an actor. He’s living at home. His parents want him to get a job; he keeps going on acting interviews,, but doesn’t get anything. Parents really start to pressure him.
Then he gets a callback. And he gets hired… for the circus! His parents are appalled. They plead: please stay home; we’ll double your allowance; you don’t have to find a job; please don’t join the circus. The guy goes off with the circus.
Six months later, the parents get a postcard: (I told you this is an old joke, before email!!) The circus is coming to MSG next month. I’ve got two tickets for you at the box office.
The parents are overjoyed. They tell all their friends: My son the actor is playing MSG.
The day comes and the parents get all dressed up and head to MSG. They get their tickets and ask if they can see their son. Someone points them in the right direction. They pass several animal cages. Then they finally see their son. He is shoveling elephant manure.
They are stunned, They plead with him: come home. Your room waits for you. We’ll give you your allowance, … The son stops shoveling and just stares at them, then says:
What? And give up show business?
Mary M says:
I did go to the circus: Ringling Bros/Barnum & Bailey. I don’t have any clown phobias. My favorite RB/B&B act was always the motorcycle ball o’death-they retired it for a while & I was so happy they’ve brought it back!!
Yes, Barnum & Bailey! …no fear of clowns though.
YES! Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in Boston, at the Garden. My sister and I won a local contest that involved decorating sandwiches with olives, carrot sticks, cheese triangles, and so on to look like a face, I think. Our family went to the circus for the first time, and we went back for many years. I love clowns!
Yes. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
Alex Bishop says:
Yes! Ringling Bros as a kid! Favorite part was the huge tent
Ryan McCurdy says:
I actually never made it to a circus until I was 18 and worked in FOH for a summer on Cirque’s Quidam.
Yes, I went to Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus at MSG. I loved clowns and used to draw them as a child. I used vibrant colored pencils to render their faces. They were all happy looking. I tried to draw the Emmett Kelly type sad clown, but it made me cry, so I stuck to the happy faces.
Coles Circus in Brooklyn – Coney Island and Ringling Brothers at MSG and the Big Apple Circus in Damrosch Park, by Lincoln Center. Love the clowns, especially “Grandma” from Big Apple Circus. Love the circus and the feats of courage like trapeze and tight-rope walking. I like Cirque de Soleil, but my friends and I always joke, “It needs animals”.
Ging says:
My family was too poor to go to the circus when my siblings and I were kids.
We got to see the Ringling Bros. Circus when we were adults and none of us have any fears of clowns.
I have seen three different Cirque du Soleil shows but I don’t think of them as a circus; no animal acts and no clowns.
If one considers clowns to be a major element of a circus, then the biggest circus is in Washington, DC. Those clowns put Ronald McDonald, Clarabelle and Bozo to shame.
Joanne Theodorou says:
Yes, and as with so many baby boomer kiddies, it was the iconic Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey at MSG that initiated me….then after my parents refused to let my dog sleep in my room, I tried to run away and join the circus with my doggie, I truly believed my dog could run rings around Lassie, and we could get an act together, the circus folks would be so glad to have us, and we could live in a colorful trailer .. so it was goodbye cruel world!
Needless to say, I barely made it two blocks, I had no idea how to get to Madison Square Garden and my dog barely knew the “sit” command..ah, youth!
shirley staley says:
yes I went when I was a kid to ringling brothers ,it was so exciting I loved all of it and the clowns make the circus special.
Jeremy C says:
Yes. Ringling Brothers, and Barnum and Bailey’s at the old Boston Garden.
Patrick Varner says:
Yes! Barnum and bailey several times throughout my childhood. Instilled my deep fear if clowns.
Alexandra Buckalew says:
My mother took me to the Barnum & Bailey Circus when I was about 5 or 6. She claims I hated it, cried, mental break down, therapy. All I remember is the kid sitting next to us had a fun light-saber-ish glow wand-like toy.
Emily Herschbein says:
Yes, I’ve been to the circus. It’s perhaps the only place where there’s no judgement passed.
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PROTECT CITIZENS, DON’T ASSAULT THEM – AKUFO-ADDO to Police
By Justice Dzido Last updated Jul 22, 2018
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says he supports the sanctions meted out against the L/Cpl Godzi Frederick Amanor, the police officer who was seen in a video brutalizing a woman at the Midland Savings and Loans.
In the video, which has since gone viral, L/Cpl Amanor, armed with a rifle, is seen beating Madam Patience Osafo, who was at the time holding her grandchild, several times on the head, first with an umbrella, and then with his fists, after she had gone to Midland Savings and Loans to retrieve GH₵270 she had deposited with the company.
The Ghana Police Service has since condemned the behavior of L/Cpl Amanor, describing it as “being contrary to professionalism and tenets of the ongoing Police Transformation Programme”, and have, thus, commenced investigations into the conduct of the officer.
Speaking on the matter at Nalerigu, on Saturday, 21st July, 2018, at the commencement of his 3-day tour of the Northern Region, President Akufo-Addo described the incident as unfortunate, stressing that “Police men are meant to protect citizens, and not to assault citizens.”
Following the interdiction of L/Cpl Amanor, the President indicated that “the measures that the IGP has taken to sanction the erring policeman, and to make sure these things don’t happen again, have my complete support. I support 100% the measures he has taken, so that we can stop these incidents from proliferating.”
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Court sends Afoko back to Prison despite ailment
PDS Staff Chased With Gun …As Director Weeps
3 Killed In Kumasi Over Land …120 Arrested
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This is a breakdown of recent ratings for ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH and Empire State Realty Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.
ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH 0 0 5 0 3.00
Empire State Realty Trust 0 3 0 0 2.00
ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH currently has a consensus target price of $10.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Empire State Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.33%. Given Empire State Realty Trust’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Empire State Realty Trust is more favorable than ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH.
Empire State Realty Trust beats ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH Company Profile
Annaly Capital Management, Inc., a diversified capital manager, invests in and finances residential and commercial assets. The company invests in various types of agency mortgage-backed securities, non-agency residential mortgage assets, and residential mortgage loans; and originates and invests in commercial mortgage loans, securities, and other commercial real estate investments. It also provides financing to private equity-backed middle market businesses; and operates as a broker-dealer. The company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT). As a REIT, it is not subject to federal income tax to the extent that it distributes its taxable income to its shareholders. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York.
Empire State Realty Trust Company Profile
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building, the world's most famous building. Headquartered in New York, New York, the Company's office and retail portfolio covers 10.1 million rentable square feet, as of December 31, 2018, consisting of 9.4 million rentable square feet in 14 office properties, including nine in Manhattan, three in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and two in Westchester County, New York; and approximately 700,000 rentable square feet in the retail portfolio.
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You’ve never seen freshwater sport fish like the ones in Saskatchewan’s 100,000 lakes and rivers. Below are some of the more common species.
Record size: 8.33 kg/18.40 lbs, Tobin Lake, 2005 (ice fishing)
Average weight: usually 0.5-1.5 kg (1-3 lbs)
Also known as a pickerel, walleye is the provincial fish of Saskatchewan. It prefers deeper waters but can be found throughout Saskatchewan in all but the shallowest lakes. It’s renowned for its flavor and can be caught with light tackle – jigs, live bait or spoons.
Northern pike
Record size: 19.4 kg (42 lb. 12 oz.), Lake Athabasca, 1954
Live release record: 141 cm (55 in.), Mirond Lake, 2008
Average weight: 1-2.5 kg (2-5 lb.)
Northern pike, the most widely distributed sport fish in Saskatchewan, is considered one of the fiercest and most thrilling of all freshwater game fish. The northern pike generally prefers shallow weed areas in lakes. Use in-line spinners, crank baits or spoons to catch one of these monsters.
Record size: 24.6 kg (54 lb. 4 oz.), Wollaston Lake, 1995
Live release record: 132 cm (52 in.), Lake Athabasca, 2000
Saskatchewan’s only native trout is common to the cool, clear and deep waters in the northern half of the province. In summer, the lake trout prefer cold, deep holes in all but the far northern lakes; therefore steel line or jigging is usually advised. In early spring and fall, it is closer to the surface. Casting or trolling crankbaits, spoons, or even flies work best.
World record: 21.77 kg (48 lb.), Lake Diefenbaker, 2009
Average weight: 0.5-1.8 kg (1-4 lb.)
Rainbow trout is known for its flashy and exciting fighting style when hooked, often treating anglers to spectacular jumps and long runs. Use light spinning or fly tackle, lures with worms or miniature marshmallows, or a variety of small spoons or spinners to catch it.
Arctic grayling
Record size: 1.96 kg (4.3 lb.), Fond du Lac River, 1966
Live release record: 96.5 cm (22 in.), Grease River, Lake Athabasca, 2002
Average weight: usually under 1 kg (2 lb.)
Favouring the cold, clear lakes and fast-moving streams of northern Saskatchewan, the Arctic grayling is a spectacular fighter, known to leap clear out of the water when hooked. Try dry fly-fishin with dark flies such as black gnats, dark cahill or brown hackle. Casting very small spinners or jigs also works well.
Record size: 3.5 kg (7 lb.), Loch Leven, 2004
Average weight: 0.5-1 kg (1-2 lb.)
Yellow perch
Record size: 1.26 kg (2 lb. 12.4 oz.), St. Brieux Lake, 2012
Average weight: around 250 g (0.55 lb.)
Other species commonly caught in Saskatchewan include:
Whitefish, commonly distributed across the province;
Sauger, found in the Saskatchewan and Churchill River systems;
Goldeye, found in the Saskatchewan River system and Cumberland Lake area;
Brown trout, stocked in several waters of southern Saskatchewan;
Splake, a brook and lake trout cross, stocked in several waters;
Largemouth bass, stocked around the Rafferty reservoir in southeast Saskatchewan.
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The capital, Lefkada Town, sitting at the northern tip of the island is a textbook Greek town built on a natural harbour. First established by the Venetians, this traditional yet cosmopolitan town is laid-back, peaceful and serene. Tread the maze of narrow alleys lined with colourful buildings, a true delight to explore on foot. As you stroll around the town you’ll discover architecture, dating back to the 17th and 18th Century, of impressive steeples and exquisite temples. As the sun goes down behind the mountains the town comes alive, with traditional tavernas, stylish cocktail bars and dreamy ice cream parlours!
Along with unspoilt beaches Lefkada offers an array of attractions including historic sites, monasteries and natural beauties. The mountainous terrain is ideal for all sorts of outdoor activities and after all there’s no better way to explore the island than along the network of green trails and through unspoiled landscapes on foot. Head to the mountains of Elati – enjoy the breath-taking views, serenity and the eye-opening nature.
A real treat for nature lovers - enjoy a stroll or a bike ride through the immortal olive trees of the Venetian olive grove, dating back to the 17th Century. Or take a horse ride through the unspoilt countryside to enjoy the rare flora, springs, streams, dilapidated ruins and abandoned monasteries. If you’re lucky you may still spot a local with their donkey loaded with baskets of kindling along the way!
The Dimosari waterfall near Nidri is a must see during your holiday. Follow a shady path under the planes until you reach this stunning waterfall with its dense vegetation and picturesque lake. Plunge into the crystal-clear refreshing water falling with great force from the mountain heights above – you’ll feel like you’re in the jungle!
If you are a culture lover a visit to Agia Mavra Castle, located north of Lefkada Town is a must. Built in the 14th Century to protect the island against enemy attacks, it is a superb example of fortressing architecture and it has undergone extensive renovation over the years. The fortress was built amphitheatrically on the cliffs of the north-eastern side of the island. During the summer the castle hosts a variety of cultural events.
Finally, one of the most interesting sights is the Cape of Lefkada in the southern part of the island – locals say Lefkada takes its name from the white chalk cliffs of the south – Lefko meaning white. Legend has it that the poetess Sappho threw herself over the sheer cliffs into the raging sea at the Cape because of her love for Phaon. Here once stood a temple to the ancient god Apollo; in its place, a lighthouse has been built from the ruins of the temple.
Lefkada is renowned for its award-winning beaches scattered around the island. Vast idyllic fine white sand, sheltered bays of smooth white pebbles, crystal clear turquoise water, majestic cliffs that swoop into the sea, backed by tall pine trees emitting that unforgettable natural pine fragrance that lasts in your senses long after you leave the island. For a soul-cleaning swim head to one of the many blue-flag beaches - Pefkoulia, Egremni, Agiofili, Kathisma and Milos are just a few of the best. Not forgetting Porto Katsiki, described by many as ‘a slice of paradise’. Experience a breath-taking sunset on the beach of Egremni and make memories that last forever.
Lefkada is full of gastronomic surprises!
Enticing fish tavernas across the island serve exquisite fresh fish and seafood dishes. Many village and harbour tavernas offer mezedes or meze, small plates of food served with ouzo. Why not try an authentic local dish like bakaliaros skordalia (battered salted cod with traditional Greek potato and garlic dip) or bourdeto (fish cooked in tomato sauce with onion, garlic and spicy red pepper). Taste the local fish recipe mpourdeto - a typical dish of the Ionian Islands. The flavoursome local lentils of Englouvi are a must - cooked with garlic and oregano to a thick creamy consistency.
Head to a waterfront taverna and try a glass of one of the Siflogo wines, produced locally since 1994, Siflogo is Greek for blazing passions! Somada is a local soft drink made from barley or almond and orange-flower – typically locals will enjoy this refreshment on their Sunday afternoon stroll.
Karidopita (walnut cake with syrup), Pasteli (honey candy) with almonds and mandolato (nougat) with honey and almonds are to be enjoyed by those with a sweet tooth! Take home a jar of the local delectable thyme-infused honey from one of the many roadside vendors throughout the island.
Local Festivities
6th August celebrates Agios Donatos Lentil festival. The extremely rare and delicious Englouvi lentils are cooked in large cauldrons by the village women at the plateau above the village. In the evening after the church service, everybody gets together in the church square where the locals from Englouvi offer bowls of the tasty lentil soup, sardines and free flowing wine – the party continues into the night with Greek music and traditional dancing.
Something a little different to experience is the enactment of a village wedding in Karya held on the evening of the first Sunday in August. Karya is a sleepy traditional village, known for its stone houses and centred on the local kafenio, where you’ll discover traditional embroidery made by women of the village who continue to dress in the regional costume. On this special day, the village comes alive, overflowing with locals enjoying live music and traditional Greek dancing, in hope of preserving old customs and local traditions.
Various religious feasts and cultural events are held throughout the year on Lefkada. One of the most significant being the international Folklore festival, held around the last week of August – the main venue is in Lefkada where you’ll find parades of dancers performing cheerfully, dressed in their traditional costumes, holding their flags and singing songs from around the world.
Island hop to Meganisi, Kefalonia or Ithaca by ferry. Cruise around the island in a private water taxi or take a boat trip from Nidri to peek at the private island of Skorpios, once owned by the billionaire Aristotle Onassis. Liz Taylor, Winston Churchill, dukes, aristocrats and of course, Jackie O are just a few of the many to have joined in the famous parties and celebrations on Skorpios.
Lefkada enjoys characteristic Mediterranean climate, bright sunshine, blue skies and seldom cloudiness. The prevailing winds make for a welcoming cool breeze. Summer temperatures begin in May and continue through until October - the hottest months being July and August when temperatures can reach 40°C.
The superb weather conditions make Lefkada a top destination for sailing and yachting. The katabatic wind blowing in the early afternoon makes Vasiliki a dream location for windsurfers, kite surfers, catamaran and dingy sailing, whilst underwater divers will be amazed in the deep azure waters among reefs rich in marine life.
Getting to Lefkada
Lefkada (or Lefkas), the fourth largest of the Ionian islands is connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. Drepanos, a narrow canal, just 50 metres wide separates Lefkada from the mainland.
The Town of Lefkada is only about 20 minutes from the Aktion Airport. As Lefkada does not have its own airport flights arrive to Aktion National Airport also known as Preveza airport. There is a good choice of direct flights from UK airports including Gatwick, Manchester, and Birmingham.
If you need to place a 'hold' on your chosen property whilst you are booking your flights we are more than happy to do this for you. We can book flights on your behalf if you would like us to, for this service we charge a fee of £30 for each return flight booked
Villages and towns in Lefkada
Discover the sleepy seaside village of Sivota in the southern eastern corner of the island. By far one of the most picturesque harbours on the island, Sivota is perfectly located in a pretty sheltered bay where the sea looks like a lake, surrounded by wooded hills, olive groves and backed by verdant mountains. The picturesque fishing harbour offers some of the island’s most renowned fish tavernas serving delicious fresh fish, seafood and tasty lobster. Well known for its yachting community, Sivota resembles a peaceful little village by day but as the sun goes down the waterfront comes alive with a bustling atmosphere.
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Lygia
Lygia, 6km south of Lefkada town, is a wonderful base for family holidays. Originally a fishing village, the picturesque harbour offers traditional fish tavernas where you can savour the fresh catch of the day. Take a walk in the hills around Lygia and enjoy its natural beauty perfectly framed by pine trees and olive groves, then head to its charming pebble beach with calm clear waters for a relaxing dip.
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BLAKE ZWEIG w/ Idea Garden (Aaron Dorfman & Dan Andree) - 8PM | $12
Uncommon Ground (Edgewater) 1401 West Devon Avenue Chicago, IL, 60660 United States (map)
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Blake Zweig is a psychologist by day and singer-song writer by night. Blake’s musical career began in 1998, when he formed the band Sleeping for Sunrise and played shows with bands like Braid, Promise Ring, American Football, and other memorable indie-emo rock bands of that era. His first solo album, Other People Make Me Do This, was released in 2001, and consisted of Blake’s somber voice and delicate guitar style with minor accompaniment from Mike Kinsella of American Football and Owen. Blake's song "White Sail," from Other People Make Me Do This was used poignantly at the climax of the Norwegian independent film Sagas Øy. In 2007, Blake formed Small Town which added drums, bass, and cello to his singer-song writer style. Their song, "Daisy," was highlighted on Chicago radio WXRT's Local Anesthetic show with Richard Milne. Years later, Blake’s song, "Spain," from his most recent album, Dandelion, was also featured on Local Anesthetic. Come join Blake at Uncommon Ground on September 7th as he performs new and old songs, breaks out the harmonica, and sings his heart out with no regrets.
Aaron Dorfman, former guitarist and vocalist for Chicago’s own Henhouse Prowlers, has traveled the world playing guitar; from Kenya to Kyrgyzstan, Ireland to Pakistan and a whole host of incredible places in between. With a flatpicking style strongly inspired by Bryan Sutton, David Grier and Doc Watson alike, Dorfman strives to inject as much energy as possible into the music he creates, writes and performs.
Dan Andree was born to fiddle. As a youngster growing up in DeKalb corn country, he fashioned his first fiddling fingers under the tutelage of Ann Montzka-Smelser. He started gigging after joining his first bluegrass group, The Corn Desert Ramblers, down in Urbana, IL way back in 2006. Upon graduating bluegrass college, and actual college, Dan made his way to the big city to start his 4 year tenure with the Chicago bluegrass powerhouse, The Henhouse Prowlers. These days, he can be found fiddling everywhere–wherever you can look–and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise, and livin’ in the houses they build, he’ll be there too.
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Forum UnternehmerTUM – Strong network for tech start-ups
At Forum UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s leading centre for innovation and foundation presented itself as a strong network for tech start-ups. Professional support and inspiring surroundings make it possible for even a “unicorn” to grow up here. The optimistic atmosphere which prevailed at the annual international technology conference and at the networks in the BMW Welt that followed was only darkened in one regard: in Europe there is not sufficient venture capital available for investment.
Of the 850 participants, Poh Kam Wong, entrepreneurship professor at the NUS Business School in Singapore, travelled the furthest distance to attend. He was happy to make the trip because he is convinced that networking entrepreneurs internationally is an important factor for success. That’s why he sends his students to start-ups located in technological hotspots worldwide, to Silicon Valley, New York, Shanghai – and Munich.
For Professor Thomas Hofmann, the designated President of TU München, this is precisely the right way to go: “We need to set up an ecosystem internationally in which young entrepreneurs can move freely and learn from one another,” said Thomas Hofmann at the opening event of the Forum.
Copyright: UnternehmerTUM / Bert Willer
And he emphasised that Munich has just as much to offer founders as Silicon Valley: outstanding universities, big DAX corporations and an inspiring environment.
The first unicorn from Munich
How inspiring Munich is shown by the success of Celonis, the first spin-off of TUM that can join the ranks of globally successful “unicorns”. Celonis offers enterprises solutions for analysing business processes and designing them more efficiently. SAP was an important partner on the road to success, as Bastian Nominacher, co-founder of Celonis, and Christian Klein from SAP reported. “I understood two minutes into the pitch which problem was to be solved with which technology,” said Christian Klein, explaining one of the reasons why he is convinced about Celonis.
He thus put in a nutshell what is most important to a founder: passion and the power of persuasion.
Or as Helmut Schönenberger, CEO of UnternehmerTUM, said at the opening round: “People are the secret to success, people who think entrepreneurially, who enthusiastically back new solutions.”
„We need 50 billion a year“
But in addition to passion, every founder needs a pile of money. Experts discussed the state of start-up financing in Europe at one of four parallel sessions. Klaus Hommels, founder of the investment company Lakestar, made a passionate appeal to the auditorium that it is crucial to invest considerably more in the founder ecosystem in Europe than has previously been the case. “If European enterprises disappear from DAX, we need new companies to take their place in order to secure the wealth of our children. 200 or 300 million dollars a year won’t do the trick, we need 50 billion.”
Hauke Stars, member of the executive board of the Deutsche Börse, observes that investors are becoming more and more interested in technological start-ups. She also reported on the successful venture network with UnternehmerTUM: “We bring investors and start-ups together and have already listed seven enterprises from the network on the stock exchange.”
Artificial intelligence and ethics
But the Forum wasn’t just about money and success. There was also discussion about what the world of tomorrow should look like. How will we work? What will the cities of tomorrow look like? How will digitalisation change out lives?
Professor Alexander Filipovic, ethicist and theologian, from the Hochschule für Philosophie München, illustrated which societal challenges artificial intelligence will usher in. He is a member of the committee of enquiry of the German Bundestag on artificial intelligence (AI). “The questions raised as a result of AI are as manifold as the various applications,” said Filipovic.
Whose fault is it when an autonomous system makes a mistake? Do we want robots taking care of our elderly? How can we develop AI systems which have internalised our values? “Experts inside and outside of the committee of enquiry are currently looking for answers to many questions of this kind,” explained Alexander Filipovic. “I think that the voice of ethicists is essential here.”
Kai Schmidhuber, Chief Digital Director of L’Oréal Deutschland, provided insight into how digitalisation is changing traditional trading. Thomas Bachem, founder and chancellor of CODE University in Berlin, outlined how the university of the future may look. And the pitches of successful start-ups such as deepC, shyftplan, Innoactive, blik, Isar Aerospace and TWAICE imparted a sense of the business ideas for strong growth which are supported by the UnternehmerTUM network.
More Information at forum.unternehmertum.de
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Restaurant delivery biz to expand under new name
Lafayette-based restaurant delivery service Takeout Express recently merged with Houston-based restaurant delivery company ZulaFood.
Restaurant delivery biz to expand under new name Lafayette-based restaurant delivery service Takeout Express recently merged with Houston-based restaurant delivery company ZulaFood. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/entertainment/food/grubcity/2016/11/07/restaurant-delivery-biz-expand-under-new-name/93282956/
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Megan Wyatt, mbwyatt@theadvertiser.com Published 8:00 a.m. CT Nov. 7, 2016 | Updated 10:14 p.m. CT Nov. 7, 2016
Takeout Express owners James Perkins and Osh Leveque-Perkins are now part of ZulaFood. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE / USATODAY Network)
Takeout Express founder James Perkins and his wife, Osh Leveque-Perkins, say their homegrown business will have the opportunity to grow and thrive with the ZulaFood name and resources.
"The economy has prevented us from doing what we wanted to do with Takeout Express," Leveque-Perkins said. "Our marketing budget wasn't what we wanted it to be. Joining a national company gives us a lot more access to marketing materials and frees us up to do what we want to do, which is meet with restaurants and clients."
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ZulaFood started in July and has expanded into about a dozen markets in Texas, Colorado and now Louisiana.
"This acquisition in particular brought with it an abundance of experience and allows ZulaFood to retain that strong, local presence our restaurants and delivery customers come to expect," said ZulaFood President and CEO Shane Parker.
Perkins now serves as Louisiana regional director ZulaFood, and Leveque-Perkins heads up business development. They own a portion of ZulaFood and stress that Takeout Express wasn't bought out by a national company.
"We had other people make us offers before, but none were enticing because we didn't share the same values," Perkins said. "This one shared our values in focusing on customer service, customer satisfaction and creating relationships."
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Perkins is focused on expanding ZulaFood into nearby markets, such as Opelousas, New Iberia and Abbeville, before expanding in other parts of the state. Eventually, Perkins hopes to expand across the Gulf.
Perkins first learned about the restaurant delivery service industry when he worked as a driver for Takeout Taxi while attending school at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Takeout Taxi soon ceased Lafayette operations, however.
He started James' Delivery Service in January 1999, which became Takeout Express later that year.
It was a tough business to manage on his own.
When a call would come in as he was delivering another order, Perkins would pull over, jot down the order and enter the information into a database he created on his laptop.
"Within a couple of months, I hired one driver, then two, and so on," Perkins said. "Initially, I had to go to restaurants and sign them up, but eventually, they started to call me."
By 2005, Takeout Express opened a call center and offered online ordering. A smartphone app launched in 2012.
Takeout Express expanded into the Baton Rouge market in 2010 and the New Orleans market in 2011. ZulaFood is now part of those markets.
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Restaurant delivery services have exploded in popularity in recent years.
Competition has grown in some markets between large operations such as GrubHub and UberEats and more regional operations such as ZulaFood and Waitr.
"What we've noticed is that a lot of these companies are software based," Leveque-Perkins said. "They want to get in your phone and in the restaurant system. We're out there marketing the restaurants. The difference is that we're service based, and they're software based. We are a restaurant marketing company that provides professional delivery."
ZulaFood's goal is to offer value to the restaurant customer as well as the delivery customer, according to Parker.
"We sincerely care," Parker said. "And though we are as tech driven as any of the competition, we consider ourselves to hold onto that analog feel."
The base charge for restaurant delivery service through ZulaFood is $4.99. ZulaFood can also be used to place pick-up orders at no cost. Get 10 percent off an order now through Dec. 31 when you use the code "APP" at checkout.
Learn more about ZulaFood by visiting zulafood.com, downloading the ZulaFood smartphone app or calling 337-237-6368.
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Large crowd attends Independence Day Celebration
Marisa HicksLog Cabin Democrat
WOOSTER — Hundreds of Faulkner County residents attended the city of Wooster’s annual Independence Day Celebration on Saturday, which included family-friendly games, a tractor pull and a fireworks show.
The annual event kicked off at 4 p.m. Saturday at Wooster City Park. City leaders were concerned about the 2019 festivities after the Arkansas River Flood heavily impacted the area. However, the park “survived and is still standing proud” for residents to be able to enjoy the annual event.
The tractor pull got the crowd ready for the evening activities, which continued until dusk, when Mayor Terry D. Robinson headed the Patriotic Program.
Robinson said the annual celebration was not only a way to bring local families together, but a means to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence “and the birth of the USA as an independent nation.”
As the small-town mayor welcomed the crowd Saturday evening, he talked of the importance behind the Fourth of July holiday. Following his opening remarks, Wooster First Baptist Church Pastor Keith Hicks said a prayer.
The Heber Springs Post 64 Color Guard presented the colors as County Judge Jim Baker led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Hanna Stubbs, a Wooster resident, sang the “National Anthem” before Saturday’s crowd. Rep. Stephen Meeks, Patriotic Hymn Lee Greenwood and Ret. Lt. Col. Eugene Duderstadt also participated in the Patriotic Program.
This portion of the ceremony ended as Van Lamar played taps.
Prior to the Patriotic Program, families gathered and enjoyed carnival eats while their children either enjoyed the park’s amenities or the activities offered for the day including the bounce houses, potato sack races and more.
Throughout the event, the Tonky Honks played live music from the pavilion.
David Garner, the group’s vocalist, helped amp up the crowd as the rest of the crew – Ty Candler, Keith Gresham, Danny Candler, Tommy Lynn Browning, Kelly Sanner and Mike Bowie – jammed.
Resident Todd Patton served his locally-famous meals, and the Wood’s Rodeo Mud Bugs concessions from Damascus were also onsite.
Tracy Fornter, who has attended the annual Wooster Independence Day Celebration for the past 15 years, attended Saturday’s event.
The Wooster woman’s 4-year-old daughter Emma Grace enjoyed the day’s activities, and later placed first for her age division in the potato sack races.
Tracy said she looks forward to the event each year.
Following the event, Mayor Robinson said he was pleased to see such a large crowd attend the celebration.
“It went well,” he said of the annual event. “The attendance was great considering we had to change the date and move it up a week. we had a lot of people parked up on the corner in downtown Wooster to watch the fireworks also.”
Children sat atop the park’s jungle gym and slide as other families filled the pavilion and other portions of the park to watch as the fireworks began to light up the sky at 9:15 p.m.
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Square Feet to/from Cubic Feet
Use this calculator tool to convert between square feet and cubic feet. Should you wish to calculate cubic feet for a width, length and height, please use the cubic feet calculator. To calculate the square feet of an object using width and length, try the square footage calculator.
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Cubic feet to square feet
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How do I convert square feet to cubic feet?
Before we discuss how to do this calculation, it is important to note that the square foot is a unit of area (two dimensions) and the cubic foot is a unit of volume (three dimensions). So, it is not a conversion as such, as we are not comparing like for like.
It's worth noting that we have a separate calculator for calculating cubic yards from square feet.
To calculate cubic feet based upon a square feet figure requires us to know an extra dimension: height/depth. You could, in theory, fit many different measurements of square feet into a cubic foot. Picture a swimming pool - it could be very long, wide and shallow. Or, it could be shorter in length and width and be very deep. Both of these swimming pools could, in theory, have the same cubic feet volume. But, their surface area would be very different. Here's an example of two boxes, both measuring 6 cubic feet.
Your reasons for wanting to calculate cubic feet from a square feet figure may vary. One common reason is for landscaping. You might want to buy mulch or topsoil for your garden - these materials are commonly sold in cubic feet. Let's assume you know how many square feet your garden measures, now you need to work out how many cubic feet of topsoil you'll need. Here's what we need to know:
Note: these formulae assume all measurements are in feet.
Formula for cubic feet
Cubic feet = width × length × height (or depth)
Cubic feet = square feet × height (or depth)
Let's say you have a garden measuring 20 square feet, and you want to cover it in 3 inches of topsoil. The topsoil you want is sold by the cubic foot, so we need to do a conversion and calculation.
Convert our depth figure from inches to feet (so that units are the same). There are 12 inches in a foot. 3 ÷ 12 = 0.25 ft.
Our topsoil depth is 0.25 ft.
Cubic feet = square feet × depth.
So: 20 × 0.25 = 5.
We have our total: 5 cubic feet.
How do I convert cubic feet to square feet?
As we discussed above, it is important to note that this is not a conversion, due to the fact that a cubic foot is a unit of volume (three dimensions) and a square foot is a unit of area (two dimensions). So, you're not comparing like for like. In order to calculate how many square feet of area there are in your cubic feet of volume, you need to know one of the dimensions. In our calculator, above, we've stated this as 'height', but it could equally be length or width, depending on which side of the object you're trying to measure. Once you have one of the dimensions, your calculations can be carried out using the formulae below.
Formula for square feet
Square feet = width (ft) × length (ft)
Square feet = cubic feet ÷ height (ft)
Using our topsoil example above, and working backwards, you'll see how it works. As a reminder, we have 5 cubic feet of top soil and a depth of 0.25 feet (3 inches). What is the square feet measurement?
Square feet = cubic feet ÷ depth.
So: 5 ÷ 0.25 = 20.
We have our total: 20 square feet.
Of course, if you use our calculator at the top of the page, it'll work these calculations out for you.
If you have any problems using this square feet and cubic feet calculator, please contact me.
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Community Interest Companies are limited companies, with special additional features, created for the use of people who want to conduct a business or other activity for community benefit, and not for private advantage. Registration of a company as a CIC has to be approved by the Regulator who also has a continuing monitoring and enforcement role.
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Night trek to Anthargange
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Escape2Explore
Fri, 19 Jul, 2019
Sat, 20 Jul, 2019
On this night trek to Anthargange, you will summit a hill over 5,600 feet above sea level and explore a cave in the ghostly hours of the night. Located in the Shathashrunga mountain range, Anthargange is accessible via is a moderately easy trek, with all the thrill of a cave exploration. Rugged adventure meets serene nature as you make your way through broken rocks and crawl through volcanic rock formations. The magic of the night unfolds and reveals a different side as you explore a cave with your flashlight. The next day, you'll wake up to scenes of a gorgeous sunrise as it bathes the surrounding valley in a golden hue.
Antaragange (or ‘Ganges from the deep’ in Kannada), is a hill, 65 kms away from Bangalore city. A popular pilgrimage site, the Kasi Vishweshwara temple is the main attraction of this place and is referred to as the Kashi of the South. A route from behind the temple leads to the forest and into the hills. These hills have several volcanic rocks of various sizes and naturally carved caves around it. A clear view of the entire town of Kolar can be seen from the top of Anthargange. The vantage point makes for an amazing, panoramic view of Kolar, bathed in the golden light during the morning sunrise.
• Trek to an altitude of 5,600 feet that leads you to a volcanic cave.
• Crawl through volcanic formations of rock during cave exploration.
• Experience trekking at night and discover the cave in the moonlight.
• Witness a golden sunrise over Kolar from Anthargange.
Travellers are required to follow instructions of the trek leader during the trek to Anthargange.
Consumption of alcohol, drugs and tobacco products like cigarettes is strictly prohibited during the trek to Anthargange.
For cancellations made 24 hours or more before departure date of the Anthargange trek: 90% refund.
For cancellations made less than 24 hours before departure date of the Anthargange trek: no refund.
You'll can be picked-up from one of the multiple pick-up locations all around Bangalore. These locations include: Gopalan Arcade at 23:00 hrs, Banashankari bus stop at 23:30 hrs, Udupi Garden bus stop at 23:50 hrs, Silk Board at 00:10 hrs, Marathahalli at 00:30 hrs and Tin Factory bus stop at 00:50 hrs.
The tour operator reserves the right to cancel or alter the itinerary of the trek to Anthargange to maximize the safety of travellers as well as staff.
Travellers will be required to bear any additional costs arising due changes in the itinerary of the trek to Anthargange due to unforeseen circumstances such as bad weather, road blocks etc.
Gopalan Arcade, RR Nagar, Mysore Road, Bangalore
Anthargange base
Average per day distance
Day 1 of the trek to Anthargange: Depart from Bangalore
You'll be picked-up from one of the multiple pick-up locations all around Bangalore, starting from 23:00 hrs. From here, you'll travel to the base of Anthargage in a private bus. You'll arrive at your destination after a 65-km/5-hr drive from Bangalore.
Day 2 of the trek to Anthargange: Complete the trek and return
Upon arriving at the base, you'll attend a short briefing session and begin trekking. You'll trek alongside over a meandering route toward the caves, with great views of the night. Explore the caves with your fellow trekkers, using a flashlight to guide you. Crawl through gaps, climb boulders and negotiate narrow spaces to discover the depths of the cave. As the sun begins to dawn in the morning, you'll begin the return trek to the base of Anthargange. At the base, you'll have breakfast at a local restaurant and board the private bus back to Bangalore. Subject to traffic conditions, you'll arrive at Bangalore by 11:00 hrs. Your trip ends here.
You will explore a cave with your flashlight at night on this trek
Trekking distance
Trekking time
Travel arrangements between Bangalore-Anthargange base in private bus
Breakfast on day 2
Services of experienced trek leader
Additional costs incurred due to weather or other unforeseen situations.
Anything not mentioned above in the inclusions
A pair of quick dry trousers/ track pants - 1
Raincoat/ Poncho
Sun cap
Comfortable trekking/hiking shoes
Expensive jewellery
Suitcases, trolleys or any other hard luggage
Transport by private vehicle from Bangalore to Anthargange and back
Waterproof rucksack
1 torch/flashlight per person
Extra batteries for flashlight
Personal medication if needed
Sweater/jacket for the night
Energy bars/dry fruit/snacks
Overnight in bus.
You'll board the bus at about 21:00 hrs, and will reach Anthargange shortly after midnight. Try and catch some sleep on the bus. The trek begins by about 01:00 hrs, and you'll end by 03:00 hrs. Enjoy a campfire and then retire for the night in sleeping bags under the open skies.
Trip ends by noon.
You'll wake up to a spectacular sunrise, and will head back to the base by 07:15 hrs. There's an unlimited breakfast waiting for you, and you'll enjoy a hot meal and unlimited tea and coffee. You're free to use the washroom facilities here too. After that, you will board vehicles and will be driven back to Bangalore. You'll reach by about 11:00 hrs.
No meals will be provided today
The pick-up schedule begins in RR Nagar at 21:00 hrs, and goes on to five other pick-up points. Please find the closest pick-up spot to you from the Additional Instructions section.
The operator will arrange your transport to the start point of the Anthargange trek.
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2.4 Changing Legal Structure
With the introduction of the Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) legal structure in 2011 providing a more convenient alternative for establishing an incorporated charity, many existing charities and non-charities have taken the opportunity to ‘convert’ to this new charitable form. Although particularly beneficial for organisations with unincorporated legal structures such as trusts and unincorporated associations, existing incorporated organisations including Community Interest Companies (CICs) and companies are also applying to change to SCIOs. The table below describes the process involved when changing to a SCIO from each common third sector legal structure.
Unincorporated associations & trusts >SCIO
(steps 3 and 5 do not apply to unincorporated associations and trusts that are not charities)
Apply to OSCR to incorporate a SCIO. The SCIO’s name must be different to that of the existing charity as OSCR cannot enter two charities with the same name on the Charity Register. ‘SCIO’ or ‘2018’ can simply be added to the existing name (which can be reverted back to once the existing charity has been dissolved).
Charitable status awarded. If the SCIO successfully passes the charity test, charitable status will be awarded.
Apply for consent to dissolve the exiting charity. Complete and submit the Application for Consent to Wind-up or Dissolve a Charity to OSCR, giving at least 42 days’ notice of the effective date of dissolution (the next AGM or an EGM called for that purpose).
Dissolve the existing charity & transfer its assets. Dissolve the existing charity in accordance with its governing document and transfer the assets and liabilities to the new SCIO. Independent legal advice is advised if contracts are involved.
Notify OSCR that the existing charity has been dissolved. Within three months of the existing charity being dissolved, complete and return to OSCR the declaration sent when permission to dissolve is granted along with any evidence requested (closing bank statements etc.).
Company > SCIO
Pass the necessary resolutions. At a general meeting of the company’s members or via a written resolution, the company must pass a resolution that it is to be converted into a SCIO and another adopting the proposed SCIO constitution. OSCR provides template resolutions.
Complete the Conversion into a SCIO application form. The form should be submitted to OSCR along with the proposed SCIO constitution, existing articles of association, trustee declaration forms and copies of both resolutions.
Application approved. If OSCR grants the application it will add a note to the company’s listing on the Charity Register and send both of the resolutions to Companies House. Companies House will register the resolutions and cancel the registration of the company. Once this has been completed the company will automatically convert into a SCIO.
CIC > SCIO
Apply to OSCR to incorporate a SCIO. The SCIO’s name must be different to that of the CIC as the Registrar’s Index of Company Names cannot have two names that are the same or similar. (Once the CIC has been dissolved, the SCIO can apply to change its name accordingly if desired.)
Amend the CIC’s articles of association. A special resolution should be passed to amend the CIC’s articles of association so that the new SCIO is nominated as the asset locked body that will receive the CIC’s assets on dissolution.
Transfer the assets. Once the CIC’s resolution and amended articles have been filed at Companies House, the assets can be transferred to the SCIO without the involvement of the CIC Regulator’s Office.
Dissolve the CIC. With the SCIO now delivering its services, the CIC can apply for voluntary dissolution by submitting the DS01 form to Companies House along with a cheque for £10.
< 2.3 Voluntary Organisations and Tax
1.0 Getting Started
2.0 Developing and Growing
2.1 Project and Business Planning
2.2 Recruiting Employees
2.3 Voluntary Organisations and Tax
2.4 Changing Legal Structures
3.0 Taking on an Asset
4.0 What is Social Enterprise?
5.0 Volunteering
6.0 Funding
7.0 Dissolving an Organisation
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Cochran and McDaniel officially headed to Mississippi runoff
By Sean Sullivan
Reporter covering national politics
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) at a rally on Monday. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Joe Ellis)
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) was officially forced into a runoff Wednesday against tea party challenger Chris McDaniel, setting off a three-week sprint to the finish in a nasty, expensive campaign that is perhaps the last best chance for conservative activists to replace a longtime Republican senator with one of its own in 2014.
The outcome of the GOP primary race was the latest complication for Cochran, who is at risk of becoming the first U.S. senator to be dislodged this year. Conservative groups have already spent more than $5 million against the senator and have vowed to keep up their intensity heading toward the June 24 election.
The Associated Press called the race a runoff nearly 24 hours after polls closed Tuesday.
Chris McDaniel speaks to supporters Tuesday night. (AP Photo/George Clark)
With all precincts reporting, McDaniel outpaced Cochran 49.5 percent to 49 percent, with a third candidate finishing well behind the two. Because no candidate won a majority, the campaign will continue.
The more than $12 million battle has tested the might of two starkly different Republicans split along generational and ideological lines. Tuesday's result came as other tea party challengers have fizzled against more moderate Republican senators. The result of their struggles, some Republicans said, was a coalition of national tea party groups itching for a win.
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The EpiPen Price Increase Almost Killed This Woman's Daughter
The life-saving medication's drastic price hike is making some kids and parents question whether they can actually afford it — to dangerous consequences.
By Charlotte Hilton Andersen
Courtesy of the Speeds + Getty
As she licked a drop of sauce off her finger while making dinner for the kids she was babysitting, 18-year-old Abbie Speed didn't realize she'd made a life-threatening mistake — until the familiar tickle in her throat started. Abbie, who has been allergic to peanuts her whole life, was all too familiar with that feeling and what it could mean. She frantically looked at the sauce; there was nothing to indicate it had any nuts in it. So she scrambled for her purse to find her EpiPen, a device that automatically injects a dose of epinephrine into the muscle of your outer thigh to prevent anaphylaxis, a whole-body allergic reaction that can be deadly.
But as she held the tube in her hand, she hesitated. "Do I really need it yet?" she asked herself. Her mouth and throat started to burn. "Is this situation bad enough?"
Abbie knew her EpiPens cost hundreds of dollars each, and she wasn't sure her family could afford another one. This one was meant for only the direst of emergencies. She put the EpiPen down and called her mom instead.
In the past, Abbie's allergic reactions had varied, depending on the amount she'd ingested, and Carrie Speed wasn't sure how much peanut oil was in "a lick." When she arrived at the house where Abbie was babysitting, her daughter was still conscious. But as Abbie vomited repeatedly during their ride to the hospital, Carrie wondered how exactly they'd gotten in this situation.
"Just last year, her EpiPens were $300 for a two-pack. We thought that was crazy. Kids are supposed to have multiple EpiPens — some at home, in the car, at school, in their bag — so it adds up to a lot of money. Because of that, we'd let our supply drop to just one," Carrie says.
Abbie received life-saving treatment at the hospital and recovered, but it was a clear reminder that the family needed to have more than one EpiPen on hand. This week, the Speeds headed to the pharmacy to purchase an extra pack (EpiPens are only sold in packs of two in case one fails). The family has a high-deductible health insurance plan, so Carrie knew it was going to be expensive. But she had no idea how much the price had skyrocketed in just the past few months.
"When we went to the pharmacist to pick it up, he was like, 'I'm so sorry, you're not going to believe this...'," she says.
Her total: $611.
She was fortunate to have a $100 coupon from the Mylan, the manufacturer, but that still meant paying $511 out of pocket.
The actual cost of the epinephrine in each EpiPen is only a few dollars, according to CBS News. But Mylan, the company that sells EpiPens, is the sole manufacturer of auto-injecting epinephrine devices, and they've hiked prices by 400 percent since 2008, reports NBC News. EpiPen users are forced to buy in packages of two since the company claimed an extra was necessary in case of a malfunction, essentially doubling the cost. And the devices expire after 12 months, so a new supply is required each year — even if the old ones were never used.
Parents like Carrie Speed are scared and frustrated. Over 176,000 people have signed a petition to Mylan to drop the price, while an additional 104,000 have signed a petition asking Congress to investigate the matter. Two U.S. senators, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have vowed to take Mylan to task, asking the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation.
"I'm not normally a conspiracy person," Carrie says. "But the fact this latest increase happened right before school started? They know we all need to buy it right now and it feels like the company is putting profits over our children's lives. It isn't right."
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We Found a Hat (PB)
Children's Books > Picture Books
Author: Jon Klassen
Hold on to your hats for the conclusion of the celebrated hat trilogy by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen, who gives his deadpan finale a surprising new twist.
Two turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat. . . . Evoking hilarity and sympathy, the shifting eyes tell the tale in this brilliantly paced story in three parts, highlighting Jon Klassen's visual comedy and deceptive simplicity. The delicious buildup takes an unexpected turn that is sure to please loyal fans and newcomers alike.
"A different but wholly satisfying and thought provoking ending to an outstanding collection of books. Not to be missed." * The School Librarian *
Jon Klassen is the author-illustrator of I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat, the only book to ever win both the Kate Greenaway and Caldecott Medal. He also illustrated Extra Yarn and the Caldecott Honor book Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, both written by Mac Barnett, as well as Ted Kooser's House Held Up By Trees. Before making picture books, he served as an illustrator on the animated feature film, Coraline. Originally from Niagara Falls, Canada, Jon now lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife. Find Jon online at www.burstofbeaden.com, on Twitter as @burstofbeaden, and on Instagram as @jonklassen.
Publisher : Walker Books Australia Pty, Limited
Imprint : Walker Books Australia
Illustrator : Jon Klassen
Author : Jon Klassen
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What Are Your Actual Chances of Getting Lyme Disease?
Find out if you should really be worried.
By Krissy Brady
Fact: Lyme disease is a big deal. With about 35,000 cases of the tick-transmitted bacterial disease being reported each year—and it now spreading to new parts of the country thanks to climate change—it's safe to say that being outdoorsy also means being on high-alert. But if it turns out a tick has latched onto your body, what are the odds you'll contract it?
You can breathe a sigh of relief: There's only a one to three percent chance you're at risk, say experts. "The likelihood of an individual tick bite transmitting Lyme [disease] depends on the type of tick, where you acquired it, and how long it was attached," says Amesh Adalja, M.D., a board-certified infectious disease physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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There are many types of ticks that bite people, but it's only the deer tick (lxodes scapularis) and Western black-legged tick (lxodes pacificus) that can carry the Lyme disease bacteria. "The percentage of these specific ticks that harbor the bacteria can vary geographically, and that will influence the rates of Lyme disease in the population of those areas, as well as the likelihood that any given lxodes tick bite will transmit the bacteria," says Adalja.
Which means where you live can seriously up the ante: Approximately 95 percent of confirmed Lyme disease cases are reported from 14 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The current chart-toppers include Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. (See where your state ranks.)
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Luckily, if you're on top of your game and check your body for ticks on the regular—especially if you spend a lot of time outside and live in the above states—the odds of getting Lyme disease lower considerably. A tick can only transmit the disease if they've been attached to your body for at least 36 hours, says Damon Raskin, M.D., a board-certified internist in California. This is because your blood needs to activate the bacteria, which then makes its way through your system.
If you do find a tick, give it a once-over: If it's brown and the size of a sesame or poppy seed, then it's potentially a Lyme-carrying critter. Immediately remove it using a pair of fine tweezers, says Raskin. Make sure to grasp it as close to the skin as possible so as to get rid of the entire (nasty) thing, then wash the area with soap and water.
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If the tick is flat, not attached, or not filled with blood, there's no chance it could cause Lyme disease, says Raskin. (Phew.) But if it's filled with blood and you're not sure how long it's been attached, check in with your doc and get started on antibiotics. The most frequently prescribed antibiotics are amoxicillin, doxycycline, and cefuroxime axetil—so even if the tick did spread Lyme your way, getting treated in the early stages usually means rapid and complete recovery, says Raskin. (Double phew.)
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Work-Life Balance: A Break Dance for Brains and Bodies
A few people perform fabulously in a trance, like the Whirling Dervishes, the dizzying Turkish dancers who spin themselves into human tops, but for most of us a trance-like, mechanical work style doesn't deliver a transcendent outcome. It produces a a rote commotion and busyness that fuels stress, undercuts productivity, and keeps work-life balance on the sidelines.
Nonstop motion makes everything seem urgent when we haven’t taken the time to think about what is urgent and what isn’t. Mindless frenzy is not the same as forward movement and mobility. The default is to acting before we think, kicking decisions down to the rote parts of the brain that don't have our full attention.
The mechanical momentum, can't-stop-for-a-second approach, plays to the autopilot of stress, which is itself all about reflex action before thought. The more we are driven by default behavior, the less control we have and the more stress.
With the proliferation of devices and information overload, it’s easy to wind up on mechanical output, devoid of the input needed to tailor the right effort to the job. Just because there’s activity doesn’t mean it’s the right activity. Most of the action in this state is reflexive, coming from a defensive posture. That’s not a prescription for critical thinking.
In the tunnel vision of reaction, there’s no time or inclination for proactive managing, planning, or even the upkeep of health. We get so far on task that there is little maintenance of the equipment.
ARE YOU A HARD DRIVE WITH HAIR?
And there needs to be, because our physiology prepared us for hunting and gathering, not for hours on end at workstations. Sitting at a computer monitor for eight to ten hours a day is an act loaded with reasons to take a breather. Repetitive motion injuries—carpal tunnel, back problems, neck problems, stress—thrive on the continuous motion loop. Unlike the computer we're working on, we don't have Pentium procesors.
A study by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health found that brief but frequent breaks can reduce the risk of a host of injuries. Four five-minute breaks a day for walking or stretching resulted in less discomfort in the neck, arms, shoulders, and back for study participants. Workers also reported less eyestrain. Short walks at regular intervals buoyed energy and helped people recover from fatigue, which enhanced performance.
Cutting stress and improving work-life balance is a "break" dance, knowing when to step back and energize on a regular basis to charge up full engagement.
Time-outs rejuvenate brains and break up rigid postures. They can help prevent an assortment of back injuries, from bulging discs to lumbar strain. Medical experts advise frequent breaks and exercise to prevent and treat carpal tunnel syndrome, the painful and sometimes disabling inflammatory disorder that affects wrist, hands, and fingers, now an epidemic among office workers.
Another injury triggered by unbroken sessions at the keyboard is computer vision syndrome, a complex of eye and vision problems caused by staring for hours at computer monitors and screens. The syndrome afflicts 90% of people who use a computer for more than three hours a day, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Chances are very good that includes you.
The problems include eyestrain, dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, change in color perception, excessive fatigue, and double vision. Sitting at the computer for hours can also aggravate existing conditions, such as farsightedness, nearsightedness, and astigmatism. Scientists have found that we blink less when we’re zoning into the glow, which creates dry-eye problems.
Since humans were designed to spot dinner on a savanna off in the distance, not Internet fine print, the muscles of the eye are in their most relaxed state when looking at faraway objects. The eyes need to stretch, which is why excessive close-up duty can disrupt distance vision. People who have been in a submarine for a while have trouble with distance vision when they emerge from close quarters. Their eyes have adjusted to see only short distances.
Ergonomic experts recommend frequent brief breaks for those with intensive computer usage—30 seconds every 10 minutes, or if you can’t do that, five minutes every hour. One study showed that microbreaks every 15 minutes were very effective in reducing physical discomfort at computer monitors (Balci, Aghazadeh). During the breaks, get up and move around, gaze out the window, do some stretches, walk down the hallway. Once your body starts aching, you concentration has already left.
POPPING BLOOD VESSELS
The traditional approach to fighting mental fatigue has been to press harder and pop those blood vessels to the finish line. But the evidence shows that brains don’t respond well to this approach. On study found that mental fatigue took hold after three hours of continuous attention (Boksem). Mistakes and false alarms increased with time on task, and goal-oriented planning decreased. Other studies show that too much time on task reduces the ability to prepare future actions.
Jim Goodnight, CEO of North Carolina software giant SAS Institute, believes software developers can’t do more than two hours of great work a day. As mental fatigue increases, so do the number of errors.
As logic would have it, the way around the fatigue factor is to step back and recharge the spent mind with a Strategic Pause. Never fear, it’s only a “pause,” not a dereliction of duty. You are coming back to the action, refueled.
Since physical movement drives energy and creativity, it’s important to get away from the desk and out of the office to get the most out of your Strategic Pauses. Take two 10-15 minute pauses in the morning and two in the afternoon. Use the time to make a mental break from the work. Walk a few blocks. Listen to some music you like, plan your weekend. These are energy opportunities to fortify flagging gray matter.
Recharging throughout the day increases vitality and productivity. Studies show that breaks from a few seconds on the assembly line to 15 minutes to vacations increase productivity. Response times go up and fatigue goes down.
It's easy to get caught up in the action and forget that we're not on a sprint to the death. It's a marathon. We have to allow bodies and brains to refuel regularly to avoid breakdowns and brownouts.
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What Is The Ethnic Composition Of Swaziland?
The Nguni, Sotho, and Tsonga are the main tribes of Swaziland.
A woman in Swaziland. Editorial credit: Attila JANDI / Shutterstock.com.
The Kingdom of Swaziland is a small landlocked country, covering approximately 17,363 square kilometers in Southern Africa. The natives of Swaziland call it the land of the Swati. The Swati people were originally a clan in Central Africa under the leadership of Dlamini I. This royal clan was called Dlamini after the chief of the clan. The Dlamini established a kingdom in the sixteenth century under King Sobhuza I and migrated southwards through Tanzania and Mozambique. The Swazi people are named after King Mswati II who served between.
Ethnic Composition of Swaziland
The population of Swaziland comprises of 97% Africans and 3% Europeans. The Swazi people are a Bantu community, with three-quarters of the African clan groups being the Nguni tribe. Other main tribes include the Sotho and Tsonga. There is a small difference between the Swati clans owing to the free intermarriage and exchange of cultures between both the locals and the foreigners. The Swati obtain their unique identity through their loyalty to the twin monarchs, Ngwenyama and Ndlovukati. Ngwenyama is the king while Ndlovukati is the queen mother.
Despite the influence of the western culture, the Swati still maintain a high degree of traditional beliefs and methods. The various ethnic groups share some common cultures such as maintaining a difference in status between the people living in rural and urban centers. Different clans are also accorded different status, the closer the clan is to the king, the higher its status.
The official languages are SiSwati and English. SiSwati is unofficially known as the language of the Nguni and is closely related to Zulu. The four administrative areas of Swazi each has its own unique dialect which is further broken down as either the royal style or crude style.
The Tsonga
This clan also inhabits southern Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Limpopo and Mpungala province of South Africa. They are a mixture of subgroups such as Shagaan, Thongas, Tongas and other smaller groups. Farming is their main economic activity with cassava being the principal crop. They also practice pastoralism and cattle trade. They mainly speak Tsonga.The main heritage of the Tsonga is the famous face carving ritual. This practice started as a punishment by slave traders in the past but has evolved into an element of beauty. The ritual in addition to colorful dresses and decorations has enriched their culture.
The Nguni
The Nguni are divided into the Zunda and Tekela subgroups. Zunda has given rise to Zulu, Xhosa, and Ndebele languages which are majorly spoken in other countries. The Swazi fall under the Tekela subgroup. Nguni are also farmers but are essentially nomads. Their main crops include sorghum and maize, with the latter being their staple diet. The identity of the Nguni language is a characteristic "click sound" that suggests adverse intermarriage with San and Khoi women. Their most significant cultural belief is their belief that ancestors actively influence events in their life, prompting frequent sacrifices to appease them.
The Sotho
They are a small group of around 6,200 and are non-indigenous to Swaziland. Majority of Sotho are Christians. They are famous in the use of proverbs and idioms in their communication. The main staple food among the Sotho is maize. The Sotho ethnic heritage is in their music culture, comprising of singing, chanting and clapping during performing.
% Of Population
1 Black 97%
2 European 3%
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Tanks enter Sinai
General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Report: Israel, Egypt reach understandings on Sinai
Al-Hayat report states Egypt's defense minister stressed Cairo's commitment to peace treaty in conversation with Ehud Barak
Roi Kais|Published: 08.24.12 , 09:00
Egypt's newly-appointed Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed Cairo's commitment to the 1979 peace treaty in a telephone call with his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak, the London-based al-Hayat newspaper reported Friday.
Al-Sisi spoke to Barak before meeting with President Mohammed Morsi.
FM: Don't let Egypt get away with violations
Egypt official calms fears over Sinai deployment
Op-ed: Morsi trying to erode peace treaty
The talk was held amid Israeli concerns over Egypt's decision to deploy fighter jets and tanks in the Sinai Peninsula – a move which violates the Camp David agreement.
Senior Egyptian officials told al-Hayat that al-Sisi had reassured his Israeli counterpart about the Sinai operation and confirmed that Cairo and Jerusalem had reached understandings on the matter.
Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel must make sure that the peace treaty is upheld and not stay silent as troops enter Sinai.
In a closed meeting with ambassadors in Jerusalem, Lieberman said, "We must make sure that every detail is upheld, otherwise we'll find ourselves in a slippery slope as far as the peace treaty is concerned."
Also this week, an unnamed member of Egypt's Higher Military Council said that his country was not violating the peace treaty and that this has been communicated to Israel when it asked Egypt to pull its tanks out of Sinai.
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Man o'War was the second foal of his dam, the first having been a full sister named Masda. Masda was a stakes winner but is probably more important as the third dam of Triple Crown winner, Assault. Man o'War's dam, Mahubah was sometimes referred to as "Fair Play's wife" as she produced foals only to that stallion.
Man o'War was born a few minutes before midnight, on March 29, and quickly grew into a big horse of great power. His chestnut coat and imposing presence earned him the nickname "Big Red."
When his trainer, Louis Reustel, first laid eyes on him as a yearling, he described him as "very tall, gangly and thin. So leggy as to give the same impression one gets when seeing a week-old foal." Perhaps not the powerhouse as a yearling that he would be later in life, he sold at Saratoga's yearling sale in August 1918 for $5000.
Man o'War debuted at Belmont Park on June 6th, 1919, in a purse race against six other contenders. He won easily by 6 lengths. Three days later, he stepped up to stakes company and dusted five others in the Keene Memorial Stakes.
Rested for eleven days, he reappeared to win the Youthful Stakes at Jamaica Park. Then, two days after that, was showed up at Aqeduct where he was entered in the Hudson Stakes. With only three races to his record to this point, he was already attracting great weights. For the Hudson, he carried 130 lbs (unheard of these days in the juvenile ranks.) Conceding lumps of weight to his competition, he stretched out easily and won unchallenged. Violet Tip finished 2nd, 1 1/2 lengths away, but was receiving 21 lbs in the bargain.
Another break of 12 days, and he was back with 130 lbs to steal the Tremont Stakes from two competitors. From here he traveled upstate to Saratoga and conceded weight all around to win the United States Hotel Stakes, defeating Upset by a length while carrying 15 lbs greater weight.
Eleven days later, on August 13, 1919, came a race they are STILL talking about, and one which undoubtedly earned Saratoga its nickname as "the house of upsets" and the "graveyard of favorites". This was the Sanford Memorial. Chief opposition was to come from Golden Broom, at level weights. Upset was not considered much of a threat - Man o'War had already beaten him in their last meeting, although Upset would again carry 15 lbs less.
These were the days before starting gates, and the group circled, approached the starting line as a team, and were released by signal of the starter's flag. On this day, Man o'War was still circling when the flag fell, and was in fact, not even yet facing the right direction. It was a horrible for him - the group was gone before he got himself righted, placing him at a distinct disadvantage in this 6 furlong race. He shot straight away after them, and very soon had passed Captain Alcock, The Swimmer and Armistice. Assuming the rail would be the shortest route, jockey Loftus steered Big Red to the rail and aimed for the leader, Golden Broom. Upset was challenging for the lead, and Donnacona was starting to fade. Unfortunately, Donnacona was on the rail also, and Man o'War was forced to check go to the outside to continue his run. The 130 lbs was beginning to tell on Golden Broom, and he relinquished the lead to the courageous Upset. Man o'War continued to close resolutely, but ran out of track with a half length to go.
It was an unfair start, and Man o'War was boxed into a hopeless position during the running. Despite the injustice, Man o'War was heaped with glory for a superhuman effort in defeat. Everyone at Saratoga that day knew the best horse had not won. Upset would face Man o'War a total of six times in their careers, and would lose all the other meetings, but his single victory, a feat no other horse could claim, was enough to immortalize him.
Ten days later Man o'War avenged his loss with a triumph in the Grand Union Hotel Stakes. Upset was relegated to his more familiar second-place position.
A week later, making his fourth Saratoga start, he put on an exhibition of his family's bad habits, holding up the start of the Hopeful Stakes by a full 12 minutes. Once the race was underway, however, he was all business and swept to a four length victory over the filly Cleopatra.
Although it was Upset who once defeated the champ, there was only one horse who could run with Man o'War, and that was John P Grier, a son of Whisk Broom II. The two met for the first time at Belmont for the Futurity Stakes. The field also boasted a stellar cast of supporting players - Dominique, Cleopatra, Upset, On Watch, Paul Jones, etc. John P Grier was not yet matured to his potential and Man o'War passed him easily to beat him into second place.
Man o'War himself was not done growing. At Saratoga he was a scrawny kid of 970 lbs. At Belmont, he was up to 1,020. By the time he debuted as a three-yr-old he tipped the scale at 1,150 lbs. He did not run in the Kentucky Derby. Owner Sam Riddle did not like racing in Kentucky, nor did he think 3-yr-olds were ready to go 10 furlongs as early as May. (He would change his mind by the time War Admiral came around.) Man o'War stayed in the east, and prepared for the Preakness.
Without Man o'War, the Kentucky Derby drew a large field of 17 entrants. It was won by Paul Jones who held off Upset by just a head. The Preakness came 10 days later, and several in the Derby field ventured on to face Man o'War. The champ assumed the lead soon after the start, set a terrific pace, and soon killed off the attempt of King Thrush to pace him. Man o'War cruised by a comfortable 4 length margin on the turn, and had plenty in reserve to fend off Upset in the homestretch. Man o'War won by 1 1/2 lengths from Upset and Wildair. Donnacona ran fifth, and might have done better but was cut off at the start.
Man o'War ran next in the Withers and somehow managed to be assigned a feathery impost of 118 lbs in a three horse field. He defeated Wildair by 2 lengths and set a new American record for the mile in 1:35 4/5. Next came the Belmont Stakes where only Donnacona accepted the challenge. Donnacona thus became only the 3rd horse in history to run in all three Triple Crown events. Before him were War Cloud (1918) and Sir Barton (1919).
At level weights, Man o'War drew off from Donnacona to win by 20 lengths. In doing so, he set another American record - 1 3/8th miles in 2:14 1/5, which bettered Sir Barton's old mark by over three full seconds. Ten days later, he faced one challenger in the Stuyvesant Handicap, and although carrying 32 lbs more than his rival Yellowhand, his betting odds were at the microscopic price of 1-to-100, meaning you'd have to wager $100 to earn back $101. Man o'War left no one wondering. He bounded out to an almost immediate 5 length margin and stretched it to 8 lengths at the wire.
Next came the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct. Only John P Grier opposed him. They went head to head for almost a mile, then Man o'War drew off to win by a length and a half. Grier was no cart horse. In a year when Man o'War was gobbling up stakes races anywhere and everywhere he pleased, John P Grier will managed to score some impressive stakes victories of his own. Considered by most to be the second best colt of that generation, Grier (unlike Upset) had the good sense not to go running around in Man o'War's shadow all the time. Perhaps it is a testament to John P Grier's quality that he finished only a 1 1/2 lengths behind Man o'War in the Dwyer, after running with him for so long. Man o'War's time of 1:49 1/5 in the Dwyer set another American record.
He ventured back to Saratoga and won the Miller Stakes and Travers Stakes. In the latter, he faced old rivals Upset and John P Grier once again. Man o'War put in a great race, winning by 2 1/2 lengths. Grier put in an uncommonly bad race and finished 3rd behind Upset.
Big Red returned to Belmont for the Lawrence Realization, but by this time, no one had mucch interest in running their horses against him. Only Hoodwink came forward to meet him in this event, and he was openly racing for the second-place purse money. Knowing there would be no real challenge, Feustel set Man o'War against the clock. The old time record, 2:45 flat, for the mile and five eights, would be his competition. Poor little Hoodwink, who was clearly not in the same league, was not persevered with, while Man o'War stormed away, out of sight, and won by an estimated 100 lengths, in a new American time of 2:40 4/5.
The following week, he set another American record, 2:28 4/5 for the 1 1/2 mile Jockey Club Stakes. He then won the Potomac Handicap defeating Wildair, Blazes, and Derby winner Paul Jones. That was the largest field he had faced in months! But he had struck himself in this race, and he started to bow a tendon. The leg began to cause him some trouble, but Feustel kept him fit for one more race.
The final start of Man o'War's career came in Canada, in the Kenilworth Park Gold Cup. For this 1 1/4 mile event, he was pitted against Sir Barton who was having a fabulous handicap year. This time it was Sir Barton who was high-weighted. Man o'War got in with 120, against Sir Barton's 126. Man o'War drew off to win easily by 7 lengths, but it was discovered afterward that Sir Barton was suffering from sore feet. Following the race, a good numbers of rumors and ill-will were flying. Willis Sharpe Kilmer had been offended because Exterminator had not been invited to participate. Moments before the race jockey Earle Sande was removed from Sir Barton, and Frank Keogh was substituted. Feustel said he found after the race that Man o'War's stirrup leather had been cut, but the job had been done badly and the leather held.
Matt Winn offered a $50,000 special versus Exterminator, but it was declined. An offer came from England, but it too was declined. Man o'War was shipped back Glen Riddle farm for the winter. He arrived in Lexington on January 27, 1921 and was ridden under silks before a huge crowd the following day at the Lexington Association track. While it is true that our greatest horse never raced in Kentucky, he DID set foot on a Kentucky racetrack.
Man o'War stood his first stud season at Hinata Farm, then the following year moved to Faraway Farm where he joined an old acquaintance Golden Broom. His groom at Faraway was Will Harbut who came to be closely associated with the horse. Harbut gladly showed the stallion to farm visitors and spoke at length of Man o'War's victories. Before long, Harbut's words were picked up through national magazines, and the whole country was quoting his now famous phrase "He wuz de mostest hoss... "
Man o'War was an outstanding sire, and might have been even better if Riddle had offered more than a handful of public seasons each year. Some of his famous offspring are WAR ADMIRAL, CRUSADER, AMERICAN FLAG, BATEAU, MARS, MAID AT ARMS, CLYDE VAN DUSEN, WAR RELIC, and BATTLESHIP (who won the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree England even though they said he was too small to be a good jumper.) One of his famous grandsons was SEABISCUIT.
Man o'War died quietly on November 1, 1947 at the age of 30. He was embalmed and lay in state for three days while his final resting place was prepared in a portion of his old paddock. He was lowered into a moated enclosure, beneath a green marble pedestal from which rose Herbert Hazeltine's heroic bronze statue of the champion. Man o'War was eventually moved to the Kentucky Horse Park, where the original burial site was faithfully recreated. More than 50 years after his death, he still attracts thousands of visitors anually. And they still consider him to be the "mostest hoss."
Born: March 29, 1917, at Nursery Stud, Lexington, Kentucky
Died: November 1, 1947 (age 30), at Faraway Farm, buried at the Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, Kentucky
Man o'War, ch.c.
foaled 1917 Fair Play, 1905 Hastings, 1893 Spendthrift
*Cinderella
*Fairy Gold, 1896 Bend Or
Mahubah, 1910 *Rock Sand, 1900 Sainfoin
Roquebrune
*Merry Token, 1891 Merry Hampton
(female family # 4)
Racing Record:
unp.
1919 2 10 9 1 0 0 $ 83,325
1920 3 11 11 0 0 0 166,140
total 21 20 1 0 0 $249,465
Stakes Record:
at 2:
won - Keene Memorial Stakes
won - Youthful Stakes
won - Hudson Stakes ............ (carrying 130 lbs)
won - Tremont Stakes ........... (carrying 130 lbs)
won - United States Hotel Stakes (carrying 130 lbs)
won - Grand Union Hotel Stakes.. (carrying 130 lbs)
won - Hopeful Stakes ........... (carrying 130 lbs)
won - Belmont Futurity ......... (carrying 127 lbs)
2nd - Sanford Stakes
Champion 2yo Colt
won - Preakness Stakes
won - Belmont Stakes ........... (won by 20 lengths)
won - Dwyer Stakes
won - Withers Stakes
won - Stuyvesant Handicap ...... (carrying 135 lbs)
won - Miller Stakes
won - Travers Stakes
won - Lawrence Realization ..... (won by estimated 100 lengths)
won - Jockey Club Stakes ....... (won by 15 lengths)
won - Potomac Handicap ......... (carrying 138 lbs)
won - Kenilworth Park Gold Cup
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By: Sebastian Pellejero
This month, the North Star LGBTQ Community Center celebrates its fifth year at 930 Burke St., Winston-Salem. In that time, the North Star has provided refuge and resources to those in need, as well as a springboard of knowledge to the community. With this anniversary comes new changes meant to add more bullets to North Star’s burgeoning list of accomplishments.
This past February, Nyles Claire Suer was appointed the director of the center. A volunteer since last June, the 27-year-old is the North Star’s sole employee, serving a vital role in overseeing North Star’s varied slate of programs it operates on a limited budget.
Much of the support for the North Star comes from the greater community—individual donations, sponsorships, grants, as well fundraisers. Suer said the community had shown enormous support since the North Star’s inception, as have the center’s volunteers, a group of near 30 who regularly help keep the center open.
“But you don’t have to be a member to come in,” Suer said. “[North Star] is open to the public during our open hours. Folks can come in and to any of our programs, most of which are free.”
Some of these programs include Safe Zone Trainings, a three-hour group workshop that delves into issues of gender and sexuality, and an LGBT Veteran’s group, which Edward Henik, a 49-year old veteran who moved to Winston from Long Island in 2016, is a part of. Henik credits the North Star for hosting an accepting space.
“I think [North Star] is a great idea,” Henik said. “It’s a place for people of any orientation and gender, to be themselves. You don’t have to worry about anyone giving you a hard time. It’s a safe space—you can be who you are and do what you want.”
The LGBTQ youth community is a central focus of the North Star. Each year the center puts together Alt Prom, an alternative prom for the area’s high school LGBTQ+ students. Soon it will offer a youth support group facilitated by a licensed therapist.
In whatever it way it can, the North Star aspires to be a resource for local youth. But for Brice Kroll, a 19-year old sophomore at Forsyth Tech, choosing to walk through its doors was no simple decision.
Though now he volunteers his free time to the center, it took the insistence of a friend to get Kroll to finally visit. Now he credits the North Star with providing him with the guidance needed as a blossoming young adult.
“We came in and started talk to other people, and it felt like a place where I actually would want to be,” Kroll said. “One of the reasons why I keep on coming back is that the people that come here slowly change you and help you have a better life. It allowed me to accept myself, but also allowed me to accept other people.”
Looking toward the future, the North Star hopes to expand in every which way, a goal that has Suer both busy and optimistic. There is excitement in her voice as she details the center’s long-term aspirations. A new meeting space tops the list, one with enough room to host parties and youth games comfortably, along with the hope of being able to hire another staff member.
“We want this to be a community center for all,” Suer said. “To represent all kinds of diversity, everybody across the LGBTQ spectrum, ability, language, culture, all those things. That keeps us pretty busy.”
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Confounding critics, 'Roe & Roeper' top all radio talkers
Last fall Roe Conn was being given up for dead.‚ Ratings for his weekday afternoon show on Citadel Broadcasting news/talk WLS-AM (890) were so low that some critics were confidently predicting his imminent demise.
The Sun-Times' Lewis Lazare cited unnamed "observers in the local radio market" who asserted that "the high-priced WLS talent might not be able to hold on at the station much longer," while ChicagolandRadioandMedia.com went even further, flatly declaring it "the end of the line for Roe Conn at WLS," and identifying three potential replacements for him.
Now, just 10 months after those dire words were written, Conn is presiding over the top-rated talk show of any kind -- at any hour -- among adults between the ages of 25 and 54, according to Arbitron Portable People Meter figures released last Friday. He even outperforms syndicated behemoth Rush Limbaugh on his own station -- to say nothing of the competition on Tribune Co.-owned news/talk WGN-AM (720). I can't recall a more dramatic turnaround for any Chicago radio show in the last 30 years.
In hindsight, it's clear that Conn's worst enemies last year weren't his competitors or his critics but his own bosses, who'd made so many hasty and ill-advised changes to the show that listeners were bailing out in droves. It just wasn't fun anymore. "
In all of my years at WLS, I've never had one as crazy as 2009," recalled Conn, a 21-year veteran of the station. "Managers throughout the market were making dramatic changes reacting to the twin perils of a weak economy and the unpredictability of a new rating system. Those running WLS were no different. They literally dismantled the show."
The promotion in January of Michael Damsky to president and general manager of WLS -- followed almost immediately by the return of Drew Hayes as operations director -- began the process of turning everything around. "We all understood that when you remove popular members of an ensemble, the audience is going to get mad and disoriented," Conn said. So they moved quickly to bring Chicago's preeminent anchorman, Ron Magers, back as a daily contributor to Conn's show, and they restored Christina Filiaggi to her former role as traffic reporter and female foil. Other improvements followed.
But perhaps the biggest factor in the show's resurgence was the arrival in April of Richard Roeper, star columnist for the Sun-Times and nationally known movie critic, as Conn's full-fledged partner. It proved to be a masterstroke. "He added a dimension the show had never had before," Conn said. "I've been blessed to have had some really talented and funny partners, but I've never had one like Richard, who combines a scathing wit with the voracious curiosity and experience of a veteran reporter. He can dive into any topic or situation and know how and when to make it funny or compelling."
In deciding to return to the station where he'd first honed his radio skills in the early '90s, Roeper turned down a solid offer from WGN and interest from others. Said Roeper:
"After Day One on the air with Roe, I knew I'd made the right choice. Having been friends with him for 20 years and having been a guest on his show many times, I knew we'd have a good on-air rapport, but I was amazed at how quickly everything jelled. I've worked with a lot of first-rate radio talents, but I've never seen someone as brilliant and versatile as Roe. Even the guests who come in marvel at his ability to do four things at once while making it sound as if we're having a great conversation that just happens to be in front of a bunch of microphones."
The high point for "Roe & Roeper" so far may have been the afternoon of Aug. 17 when the verdict was announced in the trial of Rod Blagojevich. During the 4 p.m. hour that day, according to Arbitron, WLS attracted a 6.2 percent share of adult listeners -- second only to CBS Radio all-news WBBM-AM (780) with a 7.4. WGN and all others lagged far behind.
"This station could not 'own' the big story a year ago at this time," Damsky said. "They didn't even try. Now people turn to Roe for news and especially for perspective. He had all his sources working and did an amazing job on Blagojevich. It was pure Roe Conn at his best, with Richard Roeper making a tremendously strong contribution."
What's next for the show? If its ratings continue to grow, some say national syndication could be in the offing. Damsky discourages such talk, however, stressing the importance of keeping "Roe & Roeper" locally focused -- particularly with a mayoral election and another Blagojevich trial looming in the year ahead.
For his part, Conn cryptically says there are "some very exciting things on the horizon," adding: "There's clearly a buzz, because we've been presented with some pretty interesting opportunities. We're hoping to be able to make an announcement about one of them by the end of the month." In other words, stay tuned for more.
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Polio vaccine suspected as cause of fatal mutant form of encephalitis
November 14th 2011 in Encephalitis, Polio
The polio vaccine isn't protecting children - and, worse, it appears to be causing a new and sometimes fatal form of the disease
The polio vaccine isn't protecting children - and, worse, it appears to be causing a new and sometimes fatal form of the disease.
Concerns about the vaccine have arisen following a high number of deaths and hospital admissions from encephalitis and polio in the Uttar Pradesh region of India - where there has been an intensive vaccination programme.
Around 400 children have died, and a further 2,300 admitted to hospital, following an outbreak of a new form of viral encephalitis, and doctors admit they do not know its cause.
Most of the children have been vaccinated up to seven times in a programme designed to eradicate Japanese encephalitis from the region. While the strategy appears to have reduced incidents of the disease from 2005 when the polio vaccine was introduced, that was also the year when the new form started to appear.
These suspicions have been supported by separate reports from India of a new variant of polio that is a mutation from the live vaccine virus used in the programme.
(Sources: BBC; www.gaia-health.com)
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Youth Perspectives
Cities and Urbanization
Cities are key to tackling global challenges. But we need to learn to work better with them
Just as most urbanists are not diplomats, most diplomats are not trained urbanists.
Image: REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
This article originally appeared on citylab.com
Ian Klaus Non-Resident Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
This week, representatives from United Nations member states will gather in Quito, Ecuador for Habitat III to discuss a global agenda around sustainable urbanization. The following week, representatives from cities around the world will gather in Miami for CityLab 2016 discuss urban innovation. Although there will be some overlap in the participation of both events, it’s still worth asking what role foreign ministries have to play in urban innovation.
Cities are rising powers, as their populations, economic production and carbon emissions indicate. This rise is sometimes coupled, in a zero-sum logic, with observations on the diminished stature of the nation-state but the dichotomy is false. Cities will continue to rise, and nation-states will continue to be at the forefront of managing the norms and structures that have undergirded international security, economic growth and development since World War II.
Nonetheless, if national governments want to make progress on pressing transnational challenges such as terrorism, food security and climate change, the international community will need to identify approaches and structures that enable, rather than encumber, the innovative policy approaches of cities around the world. This is not as easy as it sounds. Just as most urbanists are not diplomats, most diplomats are not trained urbanists.
Image: UN
So what roles should the international community be looking to play?
Let’s consider four approaches the international diplomatic community can take almost immediately. The first draws upon the traditional areas of competency and expertise of diplomatic corps. As a recent C40 and Arup report Potential for Climate Change made clear, political and regulatory barriers at the national level can place a ceiling on the work cities can do themselves. Foreign ministries are the natural channel for capital-to-capital policy sharing as it comes to national policies that can unlock progress on global challenges at the local level. This is true from funding for infrastructure crucial to economic growth to information sharing for security and during a terrorist attack. Encouraging vertical policy integration can be done in bilateral settings but is also a diplomatic conversation especially appropriate for multilateral platforms such as the G20.
The second approach involves amplifying and expanding the work beyond done by the leading city networks. These networks, such as C40 and the Rockefeller 100, have enabled cities to emerge as policy innovators at the forefront of countering climate change and building resilience. They do not, however, include all potential cities or address the wide array of transnational challenges that directly affect cities. Capitals around the world should encourage the expansion of networks to cities currently left out of them, and encourage and support network building around policy issues that currently lack them.
A third, and related, approach for national governments is in the realm of applying civic technology, or civic tech. While utopic visions of technology-driven peace and prosperity may have faded, new technologies to help make cities safer and more prosperous—and thus their countries more stable—have been developed around the world. Notable examples include the Safecity, a mobile phone application developed by a non-profit to report and deter sexual harassment in India, and Opengov, a platform which helps municipalities not only analyze but also share their budgets and performance measures. The developments in the civic tech space are noteworthy in their own right, but they also have an intriguing international dimension. Solutions developed for a set of problems in one city might well be applicable to a completely separate set of problems—often with geopolitical dimensions—in another city.
A fourth approach is something of a moonshot, the sort of policy objective only achieved through large-scale international accords, and requires participation from foreign ministries to finance ministries, as well as development banks. There has been no accord on city data such as the one consummated after World War II that makes national economic data comparable. Just take a look at the limits of the municipal debt market in the developing world, where only four percent of the 500 fastest growing cities have international credit ratings. A uniform standard for data would be a huge step for finance and other urban efforts, including public health and good governance.
In the September/October 2015 issue of Foreign Affairs, former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg announced the rise of the “Metropolitan Generation” in what he called the “City Century.” In describing the rise of cities, Bloomberg’s frustrations with Washington, London, Berlin, and beyond shine through. Cities are collaborating across borders to solve global challenges that, he noted, national capitals encumbered by political paralysis are failing to meet. However, Bloomberg resisted announcing the end of the nation-state, noting that city leaders are not seeking to “displace their national counterparts but rather to be full partners in their work—an arrangement that that national leaders increasingly view as not just beneficial but necessary.”
The nation-state is not over and the city-state is not the future. As a group, cities have neither the coherence nor independence of powerful nation-states. If the international community is going to address the global challenges it so often speaks of, it must learn how to better work with and harness cities. Expanding networks, integrating policy hierarchies, and applying new technologies: as a programmatic approach it’s not nearly as sexy as the subject matter itself, but it would enable cities to continue to iterate, innovate and help deliver on global goals. Rather than encumbering cities, it’s time to fully enlist them.
Ian Klaus, Non-Resident Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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OPENINGS & CLOSINGS: MANHATTAN BREW & VINE, POULETTE, DIESEL, MORE
Posted on August 26, 2015 at 7:09 pm by West Sider
A new restaurant and a wine bar have just opened on the Upper West Side. Check out lots of recent news about openings and closings below.
Manhattan Brew & Vine, a new wine bar that also sells craft beers has opened its doors at 109th street and Columbus Avenue. The lounge will also have nightly dj’s, and appears to be trying to attarct a celebrity clientele. The soft opening brought out several celebrities from the hip hop and R&B worlds, including Ne-Yo, Fabolous and Fat Joe. The executive chef is also named Denzell Washington, which is kind of great. Here’s the website.
A new Diesel clothing store is opening on the second floor of the Time Warner Center, in the former C. Wonder space. It’s expected to open in late November, a rep told our tipster Andrew. Thanks to D.R. for the tip.
Sabon has also reopened its store at 2052 Broadway between 70th and 71st. “They must have engaged a really savvy interior designer for the affect that they achieved in the little space that they occupy,” writes D.R.
French-style rotisserie chicken restaurant Poulette opened this week at 426 Amsterdam Avenue between 80th and 81st street. They will even bring your chicken to your car if you call ahead! “We know how difficult it is to park in NYC.” Here’s the menu.
TOYS on Broadway between 84th and 85th says it’s closing for good, and there was a For Rent sign up in the window earlier this month. “The guy behind the counter had a familiar story, rent increases being the root cause. Apparently he’s trying to get someone to take over the lease so there’s no official end date yet,” writes Jeff.
J&E Hair Salon has opened in the former home of frozen yogurt store OO Wonder on Columbus between 72nd and 73rd streets. Thanks to Andrew for the tip.
FOOD, NEWS, OPEN/CLOSED | 12 comments | permalink
Young Sally says:
Do you mean TOYS on b’way or westside kids on Amsterdam – they both are on 84/85? Any closing is a loss…but WS Kids would be a real disappointment.
West Sider says:
Toys on Broadway. Fixed, thanks.
Malcolm. says:
MVB looks great. I’ll make sure to swing by there if I want to get shot.
Babs says:
Re Poulette menu – why no prices?
The Repeater says:
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it
MDR says:
You are rude & obnoxious. Menus should display prices.
Sez who?
If you click Order Online you can see Poulette’s prices.
wcsnyc says:
Just ordered from Poulette through Seamless last night. Not bad at all. Chicken was moist and tender and flavored with an interesting spice mixture, including a touch of anise (quite good actually). The ratatouille was a tad bland, but tasty and the red potatoes and arugula salad were both good. Delivery was polite and fast … 20 minutes. (I live close by.) One caution … the cardboard containers and paper bag that they use for delivery are perfectly adequate for warm summer evenings, but they’ll have to devise better insulation as the winter months approach.
dannyboy says:
Poulette is drive up service. Is it like White Castle?
92nd street says:
you mean the chicken instead of burgers?
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1 Kingsdown Road, St Margarets At Cliffe, CT15
4 bedroom house in St Margarets At Cliffe
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An attractive Grade II listed former public house commanding an imposing corner plot in the desirable village of St Margarets at Cliffe, marrying the historical character of the building with a new stylish and contemporary interior.
The former Red Lion public house has now been sympathetically converted to provide a fantastic modern property with high ceilings and large spaces occupying what was once a thriving hostelry.
Ian Fleming was a regular visitor having bought his house in the village from Noel Coward. A reference to the pub appears in the 1959 novel, Goldfinger. Fleming also took inspiration from the area by reportedly choosing the famous Bond number 007 from a Dover to London bus he used to see while living there.
The first nod to its origins is the imposing frontage, this Grade II listed property was built in 1825, and the exterior is finished in a picturesque flint with red brick tile hung dressings.
Enter into the large gated area and you will appreciate the sheer size of the plot, with parking for three cars on a granite pebble drive looking out onto the newly landscaped garden.
On entering the property from the rear you join a spacious breakfast and sitting area fronting the beautifully presented kitchen with high ceilings and stylish lighting. The floor is tiled in natural stone stretching all the way through to include the large utility room at the far end.
The kitchen’s oak work surfaces and breakfast bar benefits from integrated AEG appliances with modern ceiling extractor fan and induction hob looking out onto the garden.
The kitchen leads into an expansive living and dining room, formerly occupying the main bar but now transformed by the original pine flooring that has been refitted, inglenook fireplace at one end and wood burning stove at the other. Plenty of large sash windows bring in light and the extra finishes such as the brushed chrome switches add style and character.
A door leads to the old basement area, with the original barrel delivery chute still in evidence, providing extra space for a games area or play den.
At the inglenook end there is access to a fourth bedroom/reception area that comfortably accommodates a double sized bed for guests or for someone requiring downstairs living with it’s own en-suite shower room and private access onto the patio and garden area.
The stylish interior continues upstairs with a further three bedrooms. The main bedroom has a luxury wet room en suite with rainfall shower. The large main bathroom is dual function comprising a wet room with open rainfall shower on one side and a bath along the opposite wall, beautifully tiled in ceramic and porcelain from floor to ceiling.
Outside is where you really appreciate the scale of the plot. It is an unusually large garden for the village, built on three levels. A side access reached from the utility room is the perfect store for bins and located opposite the original outside wc that is still there. This leads round to a large patio in front of the french doors and opens out onto a semi circular graduated seating area with steps to a good sized lawn flanked by newly planted trees.
In 2012 the garden area, now laid to lawn, was the subject of a planning application for another dwelling but refused on the ground that at the time there was no access from the boundary wall. This objection has now been overcome with the new access and may provide an opportunity for development in the future if desired and subject to a new planning approval being accepted.
The village of St Margarets at Cliffe offers local shopping, post office, doctor's surgery with pharmacy, newsagent/general store, health club with swimming pool, primary school and churches, whilst The Bay itself is sheltered for bathing, fishing, sailing etc. The cliff top to either side of The Bay is mainly in the care of the National Trust and offers some delightful walks. There are golf courses at nearby Kingsdown and Deal with St George's at Sandwich (the venue of the British Open).
The Cathedral City of Canterbury offers an excellent shopping centre together with leisure interest, theatres and county cricket. Excellent links to the continent via the Port of Dover, the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar from Ashford and the high speed train to London (St Pancras), 75 minutes from Martin Mill station (approx. 2 miles).
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Grazing Tame Pastures Effectively
To be effective, the nutrients supplied by the pasture must be in balance with the nutrients required by grazing cattle. Given a choice, cattle tend to select plants higher in protein and lower in fibre than that of the total available forage. However, plants not selected or unpalatable plants do not necessarily have poor nutritive value. To maximize overall utilization and potential weight gain per acre, cross fencing can be used to obtain more uniform grazing.
Grazing should be managed according to how much is left, rather than how much has been grazed. To get forage grazed to a shorter height takes more time and effort and results in a lower dry matter intake of forage. Consequently, animal performance will decline. The highest individual animal production will occur when forage supply exceeds demand, providing quality is maintained. Figure 1 illustrates how the optimum grazing range is calculated.
Figure 1. Influence of grazing pressure on animal gain and unit area gain (Mott, 1973)
Pasture Production
The amount of pasture produced and available to livestock varies from year to year. The quality of this forage, especially if over mature, may also affect palatability and daily intake. Various research results show that an annual yield of 1,365 kg (3,000 lb) dry matter per acre can be achieved on a well managed pasture. If more intensive management is used, the amount of available forage will increase. However, a lack of fertilizer and lack of moisture are the two most important factors contributing to low pasture production. These factors, combined with severe overgrazing, can easily reduce the availability dry matter to less than 454 kg (1,000 lb) per acre.
The fastest growth of forage occurs before mid-summer or mid-July. At the Pembina Forage Association pasture in north-central Alberta, approximately two-thirds of the forage was produced in the first third of the season. At the Melfort Research Station, results from a seven-year study on a smooth brome-alfalfa pasture showed that 70 per cent of the forage was produced by the first week of July. With early growing grass species lacking the ability to regrow, the amount produced by early July can be as high as 90 per cent of the total for the season.
These conditions explain why shortages of pasture occur late in the season if stocking rates are not adjusted to the decreasing amount of forage available. Regrowth sometimes does not occur, resulting in low forage production after mid-July. Factors affecting regrowth are the species involved, low fertility, moisture or lack of it and overgrazing especially. With good regrowth throughout the year, forage quantity and quality become more constant, making stocking rates much easier to determine.
However even with species known for good regrowth and with appropriate management, forage growth ceases after a killing frost. Late fall grazing and winter grazing must be done on fields that show optimum yields, 680 to 900 kg (1,500-2,000 lb) per acre of good quality regrowth. A legume mixture would improve quality. The most commonly used grass species for late season grazing are the "hard" grasses such as creeping red fescue, crested wheat grass and Russian wild rye grass.
Determining Stocking Rates
Since forage production depends on soil and climatic conditions as well as the condition of the pasture stand, calculating a stocking rate for each individual pasture and farm is necessary. Applying average values to a specific situation could lead to a forage surplus or to overgrazing.
The stocking rate is expressed as the number of Animal Unit Months (AUM) supplied by one acre of pasture for one year. An Animal Unit (AU) is considered to be one mature 454 kg (1,000 lb) cow with or without calf, or the equivalent, and is based on an average daily forage consumption of 12 kg (26 lbs) of dry matter. Table 1 provides the stocking rates for seeded tame pastures in Alberta. Because animals are not of equal size, animal unit equivalents are given below:
Animal Unit Equivalents
A U
mature cow - with or without calf
mature bull
yearling steer or heifer
weaned calf
Table 1: Stocking rates for seeded tame pastures in four condition classes AUMs/ACRE in Alberta. (Wroe, 1983)
Pasture Condition Class
Precipitation Zones
This table assumes average inputs and continuous grazing. Use stocking rates from the next higher precipitation zone when using a fertilizer program and rotational grazing. This only applies to the 350 to 550 mm zones.
Pasture Conditions Classes
1. 75 to 100% of the top yield for the area
2. 95% of the production coming from adapted grasses and legumes*
3. 10 to 50% of the production coming from an adapted legume
4. Less than 5% of the total production coming from weeds or undesirables
5. Fertilizer program is average to above average
1. 60 to 75% of the top yield for the area
2. 90% of the production coming from adapted species*
3. Less than 5% legume in the stand
4. Less than 10% of the production coming from weeds or undesirables
5. Fertilization program average
3. 20% or more of the total production coming from weeds or undesirables
4. Fertilization program below average or non-existent
2. Less than 50% of the production coming from adapted species*
3. Should be cultivated and reseeded to adapted grasses and legumes
4. Fertilizer response questionable.
*Adapted grasses and legumes or species means those names in Varieties of Hay and Pastures for Alberta - Agdex 120/32
Example: Calculating Number of Pasture Acres Required
Assume 450 to 550 mm annual precipitation zone
excellent pasture condition class (2.0 AUM/acre)
grazing season 165 days (5.5 months)
80 cow/calf pairs (80 AU)
Required Pasture = AU x Months Grazing
AUM/acre
= 80 x 5.5
= 220 acres for the season
NOTE: If using superior management and rotational grazing, the pasture required could be as low as 135 acres.
Example: Calculating Pasture Capacity
Assume - annual precipitation zone 450 to 550 mm
- 200 acre grass-legume pasture (excellent condition - 2.0 AUM/acre)
- want 120 days grazing (4 months)
Pasture Capacity = Acres x AUM/acre
months grazing
= 200 x 2.0
= 100 AU
100 AU equivalents are 100 cow/calf pairs or 133 yearlings
The Modern Cow and Calf - Adjusting for Size
A generation ago, most cows were of the traditional British breeds, weighed 750 to 950 lb. and weaned a 305 lb. calf. Crossbreeding programs with mostly continental European breeds have increased cow size to an average of 1,200 to 1,300 lb. The range in cow weights extends from 1,000 to 1,600 lb. These larger cows require more energy for maintenance and for greater milk production.
Calves are bigger too. The genetic changes that boost cow size also yield a larger-framed calf. This calf size combined with a general shift towards earlier calving, clearly suggests the modern calf requires more nutrition than the standard calf. The bottom line is that bigger cows and heavier calves graze more grass, so adjustments need to be made when matching livestock needs with available forage.
Critical factors to consider are cow size (live weight), milk production level and calf size. In Table 2, the energy requirements of the 1,000 lb. AU with standard milking ability and an average calf are compared with those of a large 1,500 lb. cow and her calf. The comparison is somewhat extreme; nonetheless, it illustrates the effect that genetics can have on feed requirements. A 1,500 lb. cow will require 33 per cent more energy. If she is a heavy milker as well, she will need 58 per cent more energy. Add to that a large-framed calf (500 lb.) and energy needs rise to 71 per cent more than the standard cow. The forage required is more or less proportional to the increase in live weight, particularly when you consider that, generally, larger cows will be heavier milkers and raise larger than average calves.
Table 2. Effect of cow size, milk production and calf size on energy requirements1.
Cow Class
Energy/forage Requirements
(Mcal/d or lb./d)2
(%)3
1,000 lb. cow,
standard milker and
average calf
1,500 lb. cow4
heavy milker and
larger calf
1 Adapted from Beef Cattle Allowance Tables, 1987, Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
2 Assumes forage has 1.0 Mcal/lb. of dry matter
3 % of energy/forage requirements based on the 1,000 lb. cow as the standard
4 Standard milker produces 10 lb./d, heavy milker producers 20 lb/d; average calf weighs 300 lb., large calf weight 500 lb.
If producers stock their pastures with the same numbers of these larger animals as they once did with standard-sized animals and if they do not reduce the grazing period appropriately, overgrazing will result. The total livestock demand for forage will exceed the capability of the land to supply forage, and the grazed pasture will suffer. A practical solution is to adjust for changes in cow size on an Animal Unit equivalent basis by adding 0.1 AU for every 100 lb. increase in live weight above the standard AU.
For example, a 1,250 lb. lactating cow would constitute 1.25 AU. Figure 2 shows how this adjustment for cow size would be put into practice for 1,000 lb., 1,250 lb. and 1,500 lb. lactating cows with calves. The pasture with a carrying capacity of 100 AUMs would provide one month of grazing for 100, 80 and 67 head, in the preceding weight classes. This simple adjustment can also be applied to other classes of stock.
Figure 2. The number of cows that can graze a field with a carrying capacity of 100 AUMs for one month declines as cow size increases.
The Grazing System
No one grazing scheme is best for all situations. A combination of deferment, rotation, seasonal rest and late season grazing of first cut hay fields can be incorporated into a grazing plan. Of particular importance in any plan are stock density and frequency of grazing. These factors are more important than the kind of grazing schedule developed. Stock density refers to the number of animal units per acre at any one time and frequency, the length of grazing period and rest interval (i.e. 12 head per acre for 2 days, rested for 22 days).
Well planned fencing, including a central water supply system, will facilitate the easy movement of livestock and allow water to be available to all pastures. A central water system also reduces alleys and eliminates extra fences. Effective cross fences can be expensive, utilizing one or two wires, preferably electrified, with 13.5 meters (30 feet) post spacings.
Rotational (short duration) grazing is the most versatile way to manage pasture production and control feed quality. The system may vary from area to area although the key is to have smaller pastures (minimum four) and rotate livestock from one to another. The success of this system is related to having the stocking rate and forage production in balance plus allowing a sufficient regrowth period (three to five weeks) before re-grazing.
Rotational grazing requires a high stocking intensity for a short period. If stock remain in a field too long, the more palatable regrowth is grazed prematurely, which decreases subsequent production. The number of fields is more important than the actual size of the fields.
If fields cannot be grazed uniformly, stock density should be increased either by increasing the number of animals or dividing the field. Fields are best divided according to topography, soil type and forage species present rather than by simply cross fencing the field into neat squares. Fencing is especially necessary to separate woodland from cultivated land, tame from native pastures and wetland from highland areas.
Spring Grazing
In the spring, the first grazing on tame pasture should begin when there is 15 cm (6") growth. At this stage of development, the field will be approaching 454 kg (1,000 lb)/acre on pastures with a dense plant stand. If there is a high proportion of legumes, especially alfalfa, an increased height should be used [20-30 cm (8-12") growth]. Grazing too soon, especially on rangeland, is a major factor leading to deteriorating pasture condition. Grazing a pasture too early will result in the vegetation being removed before the plants have had a chance to replenish root reserves. The result is poor pasture performance for at least the remainder of the growing season and usually longer. For each day of grazing before the pasture is ready, the grazing season can be reduced by up to three days.
Table 3 gives the approximate relationship between three yields of a dense pasture stand and the approximate consumption of mature beef cattle.
Table 3: Animal intake as influenced by pasture yield (Bjorge, 1982)
Yield of Forage
at START
Monthly Intake
kg/acre
lb/acre
454 (1,000) 15 (32) 450 (960)
227 (500) 9 (20) 270 (600)
If it is necessary to remove beef cattle and calves from wet winter quarters in the spring, providing free access to the summer pasture is not a good idea. It is much better to provide a spring pasture, saved specifically for early spring use and rested after use. Continue to provide preserved feed until other pastures are ready for grazing. Beginning the grazing season correctly will facilitate higher stocking rates later on, better plant and animal performance and a longer grazing season.
Grazing Frequency
Cattle should not be moved from pasture to pasture simply by the calendar, but based on the growth rate of the pasture and the specific height of forage. In the spring, when forages are growing rapidly, rotate pastures quickly, 4 days or less) grazing to a higher height 15 to 20 cm (6-8") but sufficient to avoid heading and physiological maturity of the forage. As summer progresses and grass growth rate declines, decrease the frequency of rotation.
Allow the cattle to graze the grass to as low as 10 cm (4"), thereby increasing the rest period between grazings. Slowing the rotation enables a feed reserve to be carried from periods of rapid growth to periods of slower growth. The final grazing should allow 5 to 7.5 cm (2-3") of carryover for rapid growth the next spring.
Rest Period
Since grazing puts a stress on pasture plants, a successful grazing system must include a sufficient rest period. After a uniform grazing, the livestock should be removed for a time. This period will vary with the species, management and climatic factors, but as suggested in Figure 3, a three- to five-week rest period is required before the next grazing.
This period is especially important when some overgrazing is evident in the pasture. If the pasture is grazed very close to the ground, the lack of leaf material causes slower regrowth for up to two weeks. After this time, regrowth proceeds at the same rate as it would if clipped at higher heights.
Figure 3. The effects of cutting height on subsequent regrowth rate (Porter, 1983)
Handling Pasture Excesses and Shortages
Since one-half to three-quarters of the annual production generally occurs by the first week of July, there is usually an excess of forage relative to the number of livestock grazing during the late spring period. If the pasture is not clipped, growth stops after heading occurs. On large continuously grazed pastures, heading may be more prominent because of selective grazing. Smaller pastures are easier to manage correctly.
Use mechanical clipping to remove stems and heads, but retain the leaves for rapid photosynthesis. Clipping after grazing also provides for more uniform regrowth, resulting in less selective grazing and better survival of the original forage mixture. The alternative to clipping is to leave one or two pastures out of the rotation after initial spring grazing and to stockpile the forage for hay, emergency use or fall use.
It is better to defer grazing one or two pastures to maintain high quality in the remaining pastures. The deferred pastures need not be grazed all at once since the performance of young stock may be reduced. In the fall, mature cows can effectively clean up these pastures and still gain weight.
Pasture shortages normally start to appear mid-July to mid-August. The following factors should be considered in eliminating pasture shortages and preventing overgrazing:
use second growth hay field for pasture
use annual crops such as late seeded oats, fall rye seeded in early August or spring seeded fall rye, Norstar winter wheat or annual rye grass
reduce stocking rates (cull cows or sell yearlings) before the shortages occur.
Keeping Records
Good records can be valuable in assessing grazing performance. Past records can be useful in indicating future use. Mapping pastures to illustrate areas of overuse, sufficient use and under use can be a guide for future pasture developments such as locating fences or water, or the distribution of salt-mineral areas. An interim weighing of cattle can be used to project gain for the season. Similarly, a nutrient analysis of forage clippings and an estimate of daily intake can determine when and what supplementation is required.
References and Useful Reading Material
Alberta Forage Manual, Alberta Agriculture, Agdex 120/20-4
Evaluating Forage Production in Forages, Mott, G.O. 1973, Iowa State University Press, Ch 12
Pasture Management Manual, Northwest Region, Alberta Agriculture
Grazing Management for Central Interior Cattlement, Porter, G. 1983, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Guide to Range Condition and Stocking Rates for Alberta, Wroe, R.A. et al 1981, Alberta Energy and Natural Resources
Prepared by:
Rob Hand, Regional Livestock Specialist, Barrhead, Alberta
Ken Lopetinsky, Regional Forage and Special Crops Specialist, Barrhead, Alberta
Some information adapted from: Range Notes Issue No. 5 January 1990
Source: Agdex 130/53-1. Revised June 1998.
For more information about the content of this document, contact Karin Lindquist.
This document is maintained by Jennifer Rutter.
This information published to the web on June 1, 1998.
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Third novel I wrote when I was studying Alchemy, Holistic and Traditional medicine mixed with Sumerian mythology. It is transcendental in nature–spiritual path in a world where it no longer has its place. The critics didn’t particularly like it…they found it…claustrophobic! It did make sense since it was supposed to be about the psychological struggle that one has to go through when evolving in an alien world. It did well nonetheless 🙂
You can read it for free by downloading the following pdf file: Cleansing_by_Fire
Y.S.H.
Marc Lacroix—Angibil, the name given to him by Elu—was twenty-five years old and was about to graduate from a prestigious university of Paris and become the youngest Adept Minor of the Order! He had become an expert in many disciplines, mastering not only traditional areas of study but also the most complex of arcane arts.
Angibil hastily went to the consecration chamber in the campus undergrounds. There, in an incredible show of character, he summoned forth a legendary mystical blade to the surprise of the council. He was quickly greeted to the rank of Adept Minor and rewarded by being cast away from all the institutions controlled by Elu! Rumors about Angibil being the long awaited heir to Immaru—the founder—spread among the elders.
Angibil courageously readied himself and left to accomplish his new trials, dreaming of the day he would return to Elu to claim the title of Adept Major.
Guided by an enigmatic symbiotic blade, Angibil traveled the world and the social structures, determined to unearth his enemy. The most elusive and lethal lower demon of ancient Sumer, hiding amongst the unaware and secretly enslaving their souls.
“A boisterous but oddly claustrophobic sword-and-sorcery epic.”
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Selling Ad Spaces through Auctions
网络：朋友、金钱和比特
普林斯顿大学
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You pick up your iPhone while waiting in line at a coffee shop. You google a not-so-famous actor, get linked to a Wikipedia entry listing his recent movies and popular YouTube clips of several of them. You check out user reviews on Amazon and pick one, download that movie on BitTorrent or stream that in Netflix. But suddenly the WiFi logo on your phone is gone and you're on 3G. Video quality starts to degrade, but you don't know if it's the server getting crowded or the Internet is congested somewhere. In any case, it costs you $10 per Gigabyte, and you decide to stop watching the movie, and instead multitask between sending tweets and calling your friend on Skype, while songs stream from iCloud to your phone. You're happy with the call quality, but get a little irritated when you see there're no new followers on Twitter. You may wonder how they all kind of work, and why sometimes they don't. Take a look at the list of 20 questions below. Each question is selected not just for its relevance to our daily lives, but also for the core concepts in the field of networking illustrated by its answers. This course is about formulating and answering these 20 questions. All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.
It is really a exceptional course which illustrates networking problems and answers with real life examples.
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How Does Google Sell Ad Spaces?
How does Google sells the ads that appear on its search results page through auctions? We learn about different types of auction mechanisms, including those for single and multiple items. QUESTION 3: We explore PageRank, the famous algorithm that underlies how Google orders its list of search results whenever we type in a query.
Selling Ad Spaces through Auctions19:18
Auction Definitions10:59
Second Price Single Item Auction20:52
Generalized Second Price (GSP) Auction and Numerical Example20:14
Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) Auction8:38
Mung Chiang
Christopher Brinton
选择语言中文（简体）英语（English）西班牙语（Spanish）
Welcome to the second lecture of Networks: Friends, Money and Bytes.
In this lecture, we'll try to formulate and answer this question, how does Google
sell advertising spaces? Now you must have used Google's search
results. And indeed, in the next lecture, we will
be looking at the PageRank algorithm that computes the order of the search results.
But, on a search page, here's Google's bar.
There are these search results that we'll talk about next lecture.
There's also often advertising space, shaded region on the right hand side, with
some so-called sponsored content. These are basically advertisements that
tag along on a search result page. Sometimes, they're even placed in the main
panel on top. Now, you may wonder, what decides which
advertisement shows up here or here, versus here or here.
Well, we have to go back a little bit, and just think about the general space of
online advertising, which reached 95 billion worldwide, in the year 2012.
And, in this ecosystem there are sellers, for example Google, and there are buyers,
which are the advertising companies. Back in the early days of the web, for
example, around 94, 95, advertise, advertisement on web, was sold on a
impression based mechanism. So as long as I show you an advertisement,
then you've got to pay me. For example, you know, $50 per 1000
impresssions. And then a company called Goto, which later became Overture in 97
introduced a different mechanism called click based. So if I just show you and no one actually
clicked on it, then I won't charge you. But if I show this to people and then some
of them actually clicked on it, then for every click I would charge you.
Then along came Google in 1998 with the Google search engine.
Then a few years later Google introduced an auction based mechanism to sell the
advertisements on the search result page. It's called Google's AdWords system.
And anyone like you or me can go there and say, each time somebody search on Google's
page for certain keywords, let's say burgers, then please link to my wonderful
burger shop. Now the question is you have to tell
Google how much you're willing to pay for different spaces.
And then Google will decide who gets what. So the very first question you have to
answer is where will your advertisement appear.
Now of course, where it appears matters a lot.
We all know how important the Google search results and the advertisements there
are in driving the traffic to different websites.
So, different spots on the given page have different values.
We can summarize that value through a single number called C.
This is a positive, real number. And it is the expected click through rate.
Since rate, so we are talking about how many per unit of time, for example.
If C is 80, is 80 clicks per hour. Based on some historical data that, the
advertisement placed at this spot will generate 80 clicks every hour.
Of course, this is an expected. It's not necessarily the actual click
through rate when your advertisement is placed there.
We'll also assume that this number C is independent of the actual ad placed there.
Of course, some ads are just more attractive than others, so that will also
impact C. But we'll assume that's not the case.
Now, throughout this whole course, you see that whenever we say assume something, it
means the rest of the sentence is an incorrect statement.
That's why we call them assumptions, rather than facts.
But some assumptions will lead to still useful models and conclusions, whereas
other assumptions will destroy the predictive power.
Now, this assumption turns out to be not particularly bad.
So now we know that we have a single number C for each advertising spot.
It's called the expected click through rate.
The second question is, how do advertisers pay Google?
So when you acually click, then the advertiser has to pay Google.
But we'll assume that this actual click through rate say, you know, C1 for the
first hour your advertisement is there, C2 and so on, they will just be the same as
the expected the click through rate. The third question is, that what's in it
for the advertisers? They pay Google based on the click through
rate which we will assume to be the same as expected click through rate and Google
got a revenue stream. That's good for it.
But what about the advertisers? Well, presumably, some people who look at
the advertisement will actually click on it, and some of those that click on it
will actually buy the product or the service.
Let's say 80 percent of the people who click will actually buy it, and then each
time they buy it you generate a $10 revenue.
Then you multiply the two together. You say $8 per, is the average revenue
in dollar that I can expect from each click.
We call this number R. It's the average revenue per click that
you can anticipate. Now remember we just talked about
another symbol C, denoting the average number of clicks per hour.
So if you multiply the two together, C times R this is the average click per hour
this is the average revenue per click and therefore the total count by this
multiplication is the average revenue, in dollars per hour.
And this is a very important quantity we'll come back to many times today called
the valuation of this advertisement space to this buyer.
The different ad spaces, the different Cs, and different buyers have different Rs.
Either, because your product sells for different revenue or because the
percentage of people you can expect among those who clicked the advertisement will end
up buying it is different. Either way, R will be different for
different buyers, but in any case the multiplication of these two numbers is the
valuation. So you may think maybe I should bid the
valuation. What we'll see if you do that, we call
that truthful bidding in an auction. If you don't do that then it's called
non-truthful bidding. What kind of auction will induce truthful
bidding? That is one of the main themes in this
lecture. We'll come back to that, but first we have
to define what is an auction. So auction is a particular way to do
resource allocation, in a crowd or in a network.
In this case the resource, is not signal interference ratio like in last lecture.
The resource in this case is the list of advertising spaces.
And the allocation mechanism is auction. Now, auctions have been used since over
2,000 years ago. It was used in Roman, ancient Roman Empire,
and of course, today it's used very heavily on platforms that we know, all
know, like eBay in the U.S. And Google's search sponsored content.
So in these kind of auctions, we just have one seller, say Google.
And buyers and advertisers in K items. It's the K advertisement spaces.
We will first focus on the Ks of K equals to one.
Which, perhaps, suits eBay modeling better before we generalize to any number
of items. Now, these buyers, and there are N of
them, will submit this in an auction. And then, the seller will make two
decisions. The first is the allocation decision.
Which item goes to which buyer? If there's only one item, then, where does
this item go? Which buyer will get it?
And you may think, whoever bids the highest should get it, and that's indeed a
very reasonable intuition. We'll come to that in a minute.
And then the second decision you have to make is, how much do you charge for that?
And this is where things start to get a little tricky, even for a single item.
So let's take a look at some very well known kind of auction mechanism,
focusing on single-item for now. So you've got one item you want to sell
through an auction. Let's say you have a public venue.
There's a podium, there's auctioneer standing behind it, holding the item.
And there is a crowd of people, potential buyers sitting there.
And then this auctioneer is going to say, I got something I want to sell.
Okay? I don't know who will get it.
I don't know how much you will be charged.
But let's go through the process. One possibility is the so-called ascending
price. Perhaps, by far, the most popular one.
You've seen this in some movies or TV series for sure.
The auctioneer will say, well we start with $10 for this lamp.
And each time you at least have to go above the current highest bid by $1.
So please let's get started, $10 anyone? And then somebody say yeah, $10 me.
And then, another person say eleven, $12 then somebody jump ahead and say
$20, somebody jump ahead said 10,000. At some point a guy stand ups and say 155
billion. Alright, and nobody want to go up further.
The auctioneer will say 155 billion once, twice, three time, okay?
Gone. This item is yours and please give us the
$155 billion. So, the highest bidder wins and pays
the price whenever this auction stops. However, notice that, that price, 155
billion, may not be the true valuation of this particular buyer.
She might be willing to go even higher. She stops because no one matches that
price. And that's a subtle but important point
we'll come back to in a minute. There's a less popular version, a
descending price, where the auctioneer start with a big number, okay?
$4 billion for this lamp. Anyone?
Everybody silent. Then start dropping the price on some
regular or irregular increment, or decrement, I should say.
Eventually, it goes down to, alright, so this goes to one cent.
Anybody? And then one person raise their hand.
Yeah, okay. one cent for me.
So say, okay. You got the lamp, and you pay one cent.
And notice that in the descending price, when it stops, it actually matches the
valuation of that particular user. Alright, so that's public auction.
But, many cases you don't have a public venue, or you have one but you just don't
want to use it. In auctioning off many things, for
example, government auctioning off municipality projects and so on.
You use a so-called sealed envelope. So, here's the auctioneer okay and all
these buyers standing here. They will each pass an envelope to the
auctioneer, and the envelope has a number written on it.
And then the auctioneer will say alright I'm going to go back to my room, open all
the envelopes at the same time, and I see what are the numbers in there.
Okay, ten, fifteen, twelve and so on. Then I have to make the two decisions, a
allocation. Well, I guess whoever bids the highest
will get the item. We're still talking about single item
right now. But then comes the more tricky part, how
much should I charge it? You might say, well charge whatever she
wrote down in the envelope. That will be first price.
But it turns out that first price is necessarily not a smart arrangement.
We will come to defining what is a smart auction,
what's a good auction mechanism, in a minute.
But suffice to say that, actually, there is an alternative that most governments
and corporations use. It's called second price.
That is, she gets the item but she pays not her own price, but the price of the
second highest bidder. Whoever that might be in this case at
$12. You say, hold on a second, that doesn't
make any sense, right? Because, if this is the case, if I know
this is the rule, I'm going to bid in the following way.
I'm will bid a huge amount, ridiculously. Okay?
$85 trillion so I get the item, and then I will pay the low price by someone else.
Well, it turns out that intuition itself, is flawed.
And it's easy to see why. Because you're not the only smart person
in the room. You think this way.
Others seem to think so as well. Everybody strategizes at the same time.
So nobody was going to bid a ridiculously small bid just so that, you can pay the
small price. And indeed, actually, we will soon see why
second price is a smart arrangement. In particular, it induces truthful bidding
that we just talked about briefly. Now how to prove that it does that.
We're going to spend some, ten minutes or so, very soon.
But first, let's finish this quick intro. Going from one item to general K item.
For example, this is the Google search result page and on the right panel there
are these say, three good spots. And the top one of course, will have a
higher click through rate, in general, than the second,
in turn, than the third. And let's say there are also three buyers,
three advertisers. So K = N in this case.
It doesn't have to be. But to make it simple for now.
And then they will submit bid to Google. The question is, what should the bids look
like? Let's say, and we'll come back to justify
this in a minute, that they would each submit a single
number, okay? You'd think they should submit three numbers
because there are three things to bid. But, let's say they submit one number,
which they could choose to be the average revenue per click R, for each one.
R1, R2, R3, or they can pick some, any other non-truthful bidding strategies.
And then Google will say, alright, I got three items.
I got three bids from three buyers, respectively.
How should I allocate? One way to allocate is to say, well,
highest bidder get the best spot. Second highest bidder get the second best spot.
Third highest bidder get the third best spot,
there's allocation. Now how much should I charge it?
Well. I trust the belief that the second price
is a good one. We'll come to justify that but let's say,
for now, that's a good idea. Alright.
So the first winner will pay the price that's the same as the bid from the one
below it, the second highest bid. And let me generalize that second price
idea to say the second highest buyer will pay the price of the third highest bid and
if there's more than three you can keep on going like that.
So basically. The top advertiser pays the bid that got
the other advertisement, advertiser the second best spot.
The second highest buyer will pay the price that's the bid from the third
highest bid. And it keeps on going like that, till you
pay the price coming from the person who got the spot right below you.
In this generalizes the second-price idea to multiple item and we indeed give it an
intuitive name, Generalized Second Price auction, GSP, and this is the one used to
buy Google. In fact, I think before Google, this one
was not seriously considered by the auction research community.
But since Google started doing that, people started analyzing it.
Now, the question is, does this actually generalize second price?
As we just saw, that second price has a wonderful property.
That it induces truthful bidding, truthful bidding.
So the question is, GSP, does it induce truthful bidding, too,
in the multiple auction, multiple item auctions?
Turns out the answer is no. There are special cases where it does, but
generally speaking GSP does not. So, there must be something else going on
here, and indeed, if you want to induce truthful bidding you need something called
Vickrey-Clarke-Groves, VCG auction for multiple items named after three
economists. We'll come to the intuition of why second
price for single items induces truthful bidding,
but generalized second price is not the right to generalization if you want to
keep that property. We'll come to that intuition towards the
end of the lecture, and then we will save the VCG details, what is it and
why does it induce this truthful bidding, to the advanced material part of the lecture.
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THREE MORE PRE-SEASON FIXTURES ANNOUNCED
Town have announced three more pre-season fixtures ahead of the 2014-2015 Sky Bet League One campaign.
The Glovers have added trips to Plymouth Argyle, Frome Town and Dorchester Town to their itinerary.
Gary Johnson will take him squad to play former Town striker Adrian Foster's Frome Town on Wednesday 9th July (7:45pm kick off).
On Wednesday 30th July the team will head to Devon to take on Plymouth Argyle at Home Park where the game will kick off at 7:45pm.
Johnson's men will make the short trip down the A37 on Monday 4th August to The Avenue Stadium to take on Dorchester Town. The game kicks off at 7:30pm.
Ticket prices for all pre-season fixtures will be released when we have them.
Confirmed pre-season fixtures:
Frome Town - Away - Wednesday 9th July - 7:45pm
Basingstoke Town - Away - Saturday 12th July - 3:00pm
Torquay United - Away - Tuesday 15th July - 7:45pm
Bristol Rovers - Home - Tuesday 22nd July - 7:45pm
Plymouth Argyle - Away - Wednesday 30th July - 7:45pm
Dorchester Town - Away - Monday 4th August - 7:30pM
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Mocking Mueller's Collusion-Free Collusion Indictment Of Roger Stone
Authored by Andrew McCarthy via National Review,
There was no crime until the investigations started...
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Roger Stone may be the most peculiar document to emerge from the Trump–Russia “collusion” saga. It is an instant classic in the Mueller genre: lots of heavy breathing, then sputtering anti-climax.
After a 20-page narrative about Russian cyber-ops, WikiLeaks’ role as a witting anti-American accomplice, and Trump supporters enthralled by thousands of hacked Democratic emails and visions of the Clinton campaign’s implosion, Stone, a comically inept hanger-on, ends up charged with seven process crimes. No espionage, no conspiracy, no commission of any crime until the investigations started.
This is not to say that obstruction of congressional investigations is trifling. Nor is it to say the accused has a good chance of beating the case. Some of Stone’s alleged lies were mind-bogglingly stupid. Why deny written communications with people you’ve texted a zillion times? Why deny conversations with interlocutors (such as Trump-campaign CEO Steve Bannon) who have no reason to risk a perjury charge to protect you? And don’t even get me started on the witness-tampering count, which, if I were Mueller, I’d have hesitated to include for fear of suggesting an insanity defense. (Do it for Nixon? Pull a “Frank Pentangeli”?)
That said, the case is overcharged. The tampering count carries a 20-year penalty. Adding an obstruction or false-statements count (five years each) would have given Stone (who is 66 years old) prison exposure of up to 25 years. The most central “colluder” in the Mueller firmament to be bagged so far, George Papadopoulos, was sentenced to a grand total of two weeks’ imprisonment. Surely a quarter-century of “potential” incarceration would have sufficed to give prosecutors the “this is serious stuff” headline they crave while allowing for the more representative sentence Stone will eventually receive — who knows, maybe three weeks? But true to form, Mueller instead included six of these five-year counts — so the press can report that Stone faces up to 50 years in the slammer.
This inflated portrait of Stone as a major criminal was further bloated by the scene of his arrest: a well-armed battalion of FBI agents sent to apprehend him as the media, conveniently on hand at 6 a.m., took it all in. But Stone is just a cameo. The big picture is the overarching Trump–Russia investigation. It’s still being inflated, too.
Prosecutors ordinarily do not write an elaborate narrative about crimes they cannot prove. Here, though, Mueller uses Stone as the pretext to spell out the Big Collusion Scheme: Candidate Donald Trump instructs Stone to coordinate with WikiLeaks on the dissemination of Clinton dirt stolen by Russia; Stone directs his associate, Jerome Corsi, to have Corsi’s man in London, Ted Malloch, make contact with WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, who is holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Malloch must have succeeded, because next thing you know, Corsi is reporting back to Stone: Our friends the Russian hackers have given WikiLeaks all this damaging information on Hillary, including the Podesta emails; it will all be rolled out in October, right before the election.
It’s a sensational story. Only . . . it’s just a story.
Mueller doesn’t even pretend he can prove it. No shame in that: During a long investigation, prosecutors always develop a theory of the case. Often, the hypothesis doesn’t pan out. No problem. You narrow your indictment down to what you can prove and call it a day. In Stone’s case, that would dictate omitting the ambitious collusion narrative and stripping down to a two-page obstruction-of-Congress indictment. Instead, Mueller gives us the fever dream: Stone as a key cog in the collusion wheel. Where reality intrudes, the prosecutors float suggestions they cannot prove or leave out key details that blow up the narrative.
The special counsel could have contented himself with easy-to-prove false-statements charges against Stone: lying about whether his WikiLeaks communications were documented in writing; lying about whether he asked his friend Randy Credico to pass a request for specific Hillary Clinton information to Assange; lying about whether he ever told the Trump campaign about his WikiLeaks conversations with Credico.
But no, Mueller strains to accuse Stone of falsely denying that he had a second WikiLeaks “intermediary” — whom the indictment indicates was Jerome Corsi, Stone’s Infowars associate. Depending on how charitable you want to be, this claim is either risibly weak, flatly wrong, or dependent on a distortion of the word “intermediary.” To repeat, the “intermediary” thread adds nothing to the case against Stone. It is a pretext for weaving the collusion narrative without having to prove it.
To amplify the indictment a bit with reporting by the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, Credico — a left-wing comedian and radio host — got access to Assange through a radical lawyer, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, who has done work for WikiLeaks. That apparently did not happen until shortly before August 25, 2016, when Assange appeared as a guest on Credico’s radio show. According to the indictment, Credico first texted Stone about Assange’s imminent appearance on August 19.
Prosecutors, however, suggest that Stone had a line into Assange and WikiLeaks starting at least two months earlier. “By in or around June and July 2016,” goes the slippery allegation, Stone was telling Trump officials he had information that WikiLeaks possessed damaging Hillary Clinton documents. In Mueller’s telling, this makes Stone seem like a potentially valuable WikiLeaks insider when, on July 22, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of DNC emails. Immediately, a “senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information [WikiLeaks] had regarding the Clinton campaign.”
If not from Credico, from whom, pray tell, did Stone learn what WikiLeaks was up to? Who is the other intermediary?
In truth, he didn’t need one. He had two sources of information about WikiLeaks — neither of them Corsi, neither of them sensibly thought of as an “intermediary.” These sources go unmentioned in the indictment. Worse, while the prosecutors finger Corsi as Stone’s hidden “intermediary,” their evidence does not support this claim — and they know it, so they fudge it.
Let’s start with the two sources Mueller omits.
Turns out it is not just Stone who was alerted long before the Democratic convention that WikiLeaks might have damaging information on Clinton. Everyone on the planet who cared to be informed about such things knew. On June 12, 2016, in an interview that was widely reported, Assange said that WikiLeaks planned to expose documents relating to Hillary Clinton that could affect the 2016 election. Was Stone, the self-styled dark-politics devotee, pressing sources for an entrée into WikiLeaks? Sure he was. But that doesn’t mean he had one. And he didn’t need one in order to direct the Trump campaign’s attention to WikiLeaks; Assange was calling the world’s attention to himself.
The second omitted source? It was James Rosen, then a top reporter at Fox News — though Rosen seems to have had no idea he was playing that role. To understand what happened, we need to consider the July 25 Stone–Corsi email that the indictment treats like a smoking gun — but consider it in the context of an earlier July 25 email that the indictment fails to include.
As noted above, on July 22, someone very high up in the Trump campaign — perhaps the candidate himself, though we are not told — ordered a top campaign official to reach out to Stone. Just three days later, Stone sent Corsi an email with the subject line “Get to [Assange].” Stone exhorted Corsi to try to reach the WikiLeaks leader “at Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending emails . . . they deal with the [Clinton] Foundation allegedly” (emphasis added).
So why did Stone believe WikiLeaks had Clinton Foundation documents? Well, Stone is acquainted with Charles Ortel, an investor who dabbles in investigative journalism and has focused intently on the Clinton Foundation. Ortel has occasional correspondence with James Rosen. In an email exchange on July 25, Rosen told Ortel, “Am told WikiLeaks will be doing a massive dump of HRC emails related to the CF [i.e., the Clinton Foundation] in September.” Ortel proceeded to forward this email to Stone. Only after seeing Rosen’s email did Stone contact Corsi to say that Assange “allegedly” had Clinton Foundation emails that Corsi should try to acquire.
Obviously, Stone did not need a WikiLeaks intermediary to give him a heads-up about a possible Clinton Foundation dump. He happened upon that information indirectly from a member of the press (Rosen), through an acquaintance (Ortel). And he did not need Corsi as an intermediary — Stone is the one who alerted Corsi, not the other way around.
The indictment says that, shortly after receiving Stone’s July 25 email imploring him to make contact with Assange, Corsi forwarded it to a “supporter of the Trump campaign” in the United Kingdom — reported by Chuck Ross to be Ted Malloch, a London-based American who used to be a business professor at Oxford and has ties to British populists. Subsequently, on Sunday July 31, Stone emailed Corsi to “call me MON,” stressing that Corsi’s associate should “see [Assange].”
Well, did that happen? Did Corsi’s man Malloch make contact with WikiLeaks?
If you read nothing but Mueller’s indictment, you assume he must have. After all, the next thing we are told about is Corsi’s email report to Stone on Tuesday, August 2. Corsi (then vacationing in Italy) wrote: “Word is friend in embassy [i.e., Assange] plans 2 more dumps, one shortly after I’m back [which was to be in mid August]. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.” Corsi added:
Time to let more than [Podesta] to be exposed as in bed w enemy if they are not ready to drop HRC [Clinton]. That appears to be game hackers are now about. Would not hurt to start suggesting HRC old, memory bad, has stroke — neither he nor she well. I expect that much of next dump focus, setting stage for foundation debacle.
The implication is clear: Malloch must have reached Assange, gotten the critical information, and passed it along to Corsi so it could be communicated to Stone and the Trump campaign. Corsi is the intermediary! Coordination! Collusion!
But Mueller is hiding the ball again. The indictment makes no mention of the facts that Malloch denies knowing anything about WikiLeaks, that Corsi denies having any sources with inside knowledge about WikiLeaks, and that prosecutors appear to accept these denials.
So how did Corsi get the “2 more dumps” of information (or gossip) that he dished to Stone? He made it up — or, more benignly, he claims to have figured it out on his own. Reportedly, Mueller’s prosecutors were as frustrated as they were incredulous over Corsi’s unlikely claim. But they don’t have a better explanation. In the negotiations over a plea offer (on a charge of lying to investigators), which Corsi has resisted, Mueller’s prosecutors drafted an agreed-upon “Statement of the Offense.” In it, Corsi was to admit that “his representations to [Stone], beginning in August 2016, that he had a way of obtaining confidential information from [WikiLeaks] were false.”
Corsi is another strange character in this drama. He is a notorious bomb-thrower, and his memory is spotty. But one can understand why the special counsel seems to accept his story about not having a WikiLeaks source: His information was spectacularly wrong. He surmised that Assange would release information that Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, had serious medical problems; this would be a prelude to devastating disclosures about the Clinton Foundation. Corsi’s fever dream never came true, either.
But how can Corsi have been Stone’s intermediary to WikiLeaks if he had no way of obtaining confidential information from WikiLeaks?
Stone, meantime, points out that neither he nor Corsi made reference to Podesta’s emails. He denies any awareness that Assange had them, and plausibly contends that the reference to Podesta in his conversation with Corsi (and in his later tweet on August 21 that “the Podesta’s [sic] in the barrel” was coming) related to a lobbying company started by John Podesta and his brother Tony. That company had done work for the same Kremlin-backed Ukrainian political party served by Paul Manafort — Trump’s campaign manager, and Stone’s former business partner. It was at the very time when Stone and Corsi were discussing WikiLeaks and Podesta that a July 31 New York Times exposé appeared, outlining Manafort’s lobbying entanglements with these Ukrainians. Tellingly, Mueller does not contend that Stone’s denial of foreknowledge about WikiLeaks’ Podesta dump is false.
Again, understand: It is not just that Mueller can’t prove Corsi was Stone’s intermediary. Mueller has no need to try to prove it. He has an overwhelming obstruction and witness-tampering case against Stone without it. The indictment’s “intermediary” plot line is just a device for prosecutors to spin the Trump–Russia–WikiLeaks collusion yarn. They are careful not to plead it in a conspiracy count; just an “introductory” narrative — no formal charge, no burden to prove it, and no need to reveal stubborn facts that undermine it. Since it is superfluous to the process charges against Stone, he may not even challenge it. Maybe he will plead guilty, and the narrative will stand as the government’s unrebutted version of events.
And this is just the indictment of a bit player. Makes you look forward to the special counsel’s final report, no?
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Girls chase boys
We all chase each other and in the end we are all chasing after the same thing: The song peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Hot This song became Michaelson's highest charting single and biggest airplay hit since " The Way I Am " hit number 37 in , peaking at number 52 on the Billboard Hot , as well as her highest appearance on the Adult Pop Songs chart number 6.
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Girls Chase Boys on YouTube. We all chase each other and in the end we are all chasing after the same thing: User does not igrls.
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At the end of the day, "girls chase boys chase girls," meaning that everyone should essentially subscribe to the same sense of sexuality or orientation. Views Read Edit View history. It's a bit like saying "boys will be boys" or some other sweeping cuase that overlooks a large community of people who don't feel the same way.
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. It's a very sarcastic and satirical chorus that exposes the insensitive thoughts of people who fail to recognize multiple perspectives. Girls don't exclusively chase boys. It is also her first appearance on the magazine's Pop Songs chart, debuting at number 40 and reaching number Retrieved December 21, By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The music video for the song includes Ingrid Michaelson's attempt to level the playing field of sexuality by turning the tables on Robert Palmer, who at one point had a very similar music video portraying women in a very sexual way.
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The Gear 2 also includes a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a heart-rate sensor. It also can control a TV or set-top box remotely using a built-in IR blaster, and it has the ability to function as a stand-alone music player. And its built-in camera—handily built into the watch itself rather than on the band, like the original Galaxy Gear—takes 2-megapixel stills and 720p video.
Waterproof to 165 feet, the Versa handles swimming as well as any other exercise, with the screen surprisingly visible underwater. As is standard with many other non-smartwatch Fitbit models, heart rate tracking is built in, which allows for detailed sleep tracking. There’s no GPS, though — if you want to track your running route, you’ll need to carry your phone or pay the extra for the Ionic model.
As a piece of hardware, the Gear Sport is probably the best smartwatch we’ve used. It’s not stylish, it has deep flaws in its voice software, and it’s only a beginner-level fitness tracker. But if you want a smartwatch that has a bit of fitness motivation—and if you also happen to have a Samsung phone, or might get a deal on a bundle of phone and watch—the Gear Sport is a good option.
The Martian Passport wants to give you the best of both watch worlds, by offering a mechanical, analog watch face and a small LCD. If you prefer a traditional-looking watch and want the “smart” component to be unobtrusive, this model may work for you. It comes in three varieties, all with silver bezels: a white face with a black or white band or a black face with a black band.
Battery life for the Q watches is unremarkably reliable, and that’s the best thing you can say about a touchscreen smartwatch. The Q Explorist never ran out of juice entirely while wearing it, even after having it be the primary turn-by-turn direction notifier on two 1-hour drives, followed by 30 minutes of actively tracked cycling and the usual all-day text/app notifications. While we didn’t wear the Venture for full days of testing, most reviews find no fault with the battery. The USB charger is a basic magnetic disc that slides onto the rounded back of the watch (though it could stand to stick onto the watch more strongly, like the Apple Watch’s similar disc).
Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch is the one to get if you need a smartwatch that can do it all. In our full review, we mentioned that it’s a fantastic all-around smartwatch, fitness, and health tracker. It has a great display, solid build, comes with Samsung Pay support, and offers wireless charging. Plus, the Tizen operating system has tons of great apps and watch faces.
348 x 250 Resolution Touchscreen Display/ Color LCD/ Dynamic Personal Coaching/ PurePulse Heart Rate/ Popular Apps/ SmartTrack/ Sleep Stages And Insights/ Store And Play Music/ Water Resistant Up To 50M And Tracks Swims/ Built-In NFC Chip/ All-Day Activity/ Built-In GPS/ Multi-Day Battery/ Multi-Sport Modes/ Smartphone Notifications/ Charcoal And Smoke Gray Finish
Although rectangular is the most common design, there are smart watches that have a circular display similar to regular watches. The Apple Watch is only available in the rectangular design. The circular design is available in the Samsung Gear S2, Moto 360, and LG G Watch R models. Many models have changeable straps, so you can dress casual, sporty, and formal.
Since the early days of modern smartwatches, we’ve sought to test as many relevant models as we can and recommend the watches that do the best job of making a smartwatch convenient and useful. We test Wear OS watches by wearing them while they’re connected to Android phones. Whenever possible, we ask other people to try out our potential picks to get an idea of how others react to a watch’s size, style, interface, and other features.
16GB Capacity/ Supports Voice And Data Over LTE And UMTS/ Built-In GPS And GLONASS/ Dual-Core Processor/ W2 Chip/ Barometric Altimeter/ Heart Rate Sensor/ Accelerometer And Gyroscope/ Water Resistant 50 Meters/ Ion-X Strengthened Glass/ Ceramic Back/ Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz)/ Bluetooth 4.2/ Up To 18 Hours Of Battery Life/ WatchOS 4/ Band Fits 140-210mm Wrists/ Space Gray Aluminum Case With Anthracite/Black Nike Sport Band Finish
If you like traditional analog watches and want just a few smart features, the Cookoo 2 might be more appealing than its more full-featured rectangular competitors. Behind its hands is a monochrome display that delivers basic notifications: incoming calls (with Caller ID), missed calls, texts, e-mail, social media alerts (for WhatsApp, Line, QQ, WeChat, Skype, Facebook, Twitter), and calendar alerts. Just bear in mind that it's a very basic smartwatch, with little configurability.
How frustrating. I really -like- the idea of a smart watch... but it's so hard to find the right one. I'm not an exercise freak so heartrate monitors etc are useless to me. I really like the design of the Samsung watches with their bezels to control it, but the Tizen OS with it's limited apps puts me right off. The Access Grayson watch is beautiful, but the lack of NFC is a deal breaker for me - Google Pay with the convenience of a watch is part of the reason I'd buy one. I don't need to be able to put a sim in it... that's what my phone's for, but GOS would be nice for when I travel, and as a motorbike rider some level of waterproofing is a must. Guess I'm waiting for the next round of watches to see what's on offer.
My personal favorite watch for Android on the market today actually isn’t an Android Wear device, rather coming from Samsung and running atop Tizen. The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier is all the smartwatch you’ll ever need, with a sporty, circular gray design with a 1.3-inch Super AMOLED display that is the best I’ve personally ever used and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass SR+.
Bottom line: If health and fitness tracking is your priority, opt for a dedicated fitness tracker that gives you basic time and date information but includes the essentials of health tracking - accelerometer and altimeter, heart rate monitor and GPS chip to track distance and location. Carefully consider your exercise habits to match them to the right fitness tracker.
For deeper integration with your Android phone, you can give Google's Wear OS platform a try with Fossil's $275 Q Control touchscreen smartwatch. It lacks GPS and support for NFC payments, which is why the Gear Sport is a better fitness-focused smartwatch for Android users, but Fossil's Google Assistant integration and stylish design make it a solid contender. However, smartwatches with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor start shipping in October, so you may want to hold off until we put them to the test.
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Academic Cambridge English Education
Cambridge University Press Bookshop opened in 1992, but the shop itself has been around for a great deal longer and selling books all the while; since 1581 in fact when it was run by a William Scarlett. The first University printer, Thomas Thomas, was based just over the road on what was Regent Walk and is now Senate House Lawn, in an area that was really the bookselling centre of the town.
Passing from hand to hand over the centuries, 1 Trinity Street was taken over in 1846 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who employed their nephew Robert Bowes as an apprentice. He would later become partner and eventually take on the premises.
The shop remained Bowes & Bowes until 1986 when it became Sherratt & Hughes before we took it on in 1992. We are still going strong today, showcasing around 50,000 different titles in the shop and able to get hold of a huge backlist of print on demand editions which get those hard-to-find books right to the people who want to read them all over the world. In 2008 we expanded round the corner into 27 Market Hill where we opened our specialist Education and English Language Teaching shop the following year.
We are proud to continue the fine old tradition of selling books here and contributing our bit to the fine history of 1 Trinity Street.
Here's the original video footage from an Anglia News item on the opening of the bookshop 25 years ago - it's rather different today!
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China-India border settlement unlikely, given Beijing’s insecurity over Tibet
Even as President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi prepare to discuss a growing economic relationship and a Chinese role in building infrastructure in India, public interest centres on whether the two leaders might make headway in resolving the Sino-Indian boundary dispute.
Beijing and New Delhi agree that the Sino-Indian border --- the 4000-kilometre Line of Actual Control (LAC) --- has remained entirely peaceful for 40 years. Yet, even as a series of military confidence building measures (CBMs) have forestalled any shooting, low-grade confrontation continues as both armies patrol territory that they claim, ignoring the other side’s claim to the same area.
With an activist Indian media playing up each incident, perceived violations by Chinese army patrols have cast shadows over Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to India in 2013, and then President Xi Jinping’s visit in 2014.
While the Chinese media has been restrained in comparison, there is equal jingoism on Chinese social media platforms, especially micro-blogging sites like Weibo. Even the Chinese government, for all its untrammelled power, appears unable to buck Chinese nationalist sentiment with any concessions to India.
Yet speculation continues about a possible border settlement. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, visiting Beijing earlier this year, declared, “an out-of-the-box solution may still come on this”. Noted China expert, Shyam Saran, says that former Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, after discussions in China, revealed in March to interlocutors in New Delhi that Beijing would present a “surprise package” on the border during Mr Modi’s visit to China this week.
In fact, this would seem unlikely, given Beijing’s core concerns. China’s leaders have consistently viewed the Sino-Indian boundary question as directly linked with anti-China unrest in Tibet, a concern that remains unaddressed. Indian analysts are wrong in believing that Beijing’s unwillingness to settle the border stems from the wish to keep India off-balance.
Rather than the calculating dragon of Indian apprehensions, China is an insecure country when it comes to Tibet. Given India’s proximity to Tibet, its hosting of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan government-in-exile (called the Central Tibetan Administration, or CTA) and a network of Buddhist monasteries that mirror counterparts in Tibet, India is the only country in the world that can keep the pot bubbling in that restive region of China.
Notwithstanding repeated Indian statements that it recognizes Tibet as Chinese, Beijing clearly worries that settling the border would free up India to make mischief in Tibet.
Noted Chinese specialist on South Asia, Zhang Li, argues that Tibet has gone up in flames each time China has tried to settle relations. Following the Panchsheel Agreement of 1954 came the Tibetan Uprising of 1958-59; and following the “Political Parameters” agreement of 2005 came the uprising in 2008-09.
Explicitly pointing to the connection between Tibet and the border settlement, Li says: “If Tibet is more stable then the Chinese government will be more flexible in discussing the border issue with India. For the Chinese government it is much more important to stabilize Tibet than it is to settle the border issue early as India has expected.”
In other words, Beijing would be willing to settle the border only once the Dalai Lama issue is resolved, preferably with him returning to Lhasa under close Chinese supervision and the closing down of the CTA.
Indian policymakers, however, reject outright any possibility of “delivering” the Dalai Lama to China, after having provided him political asylum for 56 years.
Nor is India about to hand over Tawang --- a border district in Arunachal Pradesh that Beijing insists must be ceded to it. Populated by vehemently anti-China Buddhist Monpa tribals, New Delhi cannot throw them under the Chinese bus.
Furthermore, Beijing and New Delhi agreed in the “Political Parameters” agreement of 2005 that “settled populations” --- code for Tawang --- would not be unduly disturbed in a final boundary settlement. Beijing is seeking to back off from this commitment, but that would be unacceptable to New Delhi.
China’s insistence on Tawang dates back only to 1983. Before then, China had proposed a clean “east-for-west swap”. This involved India ceding to China the 35,000 square kilometres Aksai Chin plateau, adjoining Ladakh, which is called the “western sector”. In exchange, Beijing would accept India’s ownership of the 90,000 square kilometres Arunachal Pradesh, or the so-called “eastern sector”. The 5,000 square kilometres “central sector” would see minor adjustments.
China already occupies the uninhabited Aksai Chin, while sparsely populated Arunachal Pradesh has long been held by India. Thus the proposed “east-for-west swap” would not require any significant exchange of territory.
In 1983, however, Chinese leader, Deng Xiao-ping hardened Beijing’s stance. He declared that India would have to make “significant and meaningful” concessions in the “eastern sector”, a game-changing demand that involved, as spelt out by Beijing, the “restitution” of Tawang to China.
The phrase “restitution” is significant. Tawang was administered by Tibet until 1951, when Indian authorities first arrived there and evicted the Tibetan ecclesiastical rulers appointed by the Dalai Lama from Lhasa.
Since then, the Dalai Lama has declared on several occasions that Tawang is a part of India. China, bent on asserting full control over Tibet, does not believe so. With India unwilling to part with Tawang and with China wanting a pacified Tibet as a pre-requisite to a border settlement, Modi and Xi have little space for moving forward on the border issue.
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OK, for the time being lets assume Tawang is disputed. But Tawang doesn't constitute entire 90,000 sq km area. So why the Chinese putting a question mark on entire Arunachal state. Territory dispute has nothing to do with religion. In that case Haji Langar in Akshai Chin had more cultural relation with India specially to Kashmir than China which must be put in the negotiations table. Now let China demand Bodh gaya & India demand Mansarovar. The list will be endless & it will be a never ending process.
Seems the Chinese are running out of bargaining reasons. The Tawang dispute clearly shows the illegal occupation of Tibet by China. The same logic they are applying in grabbing South China sea areas, as if these are forefathers property of the Han Chinese. Next they will demand any place on earth which have a Buddhist monastery or a sizeable population of mongoloid origin.
Tsering said...
India and China were never neighbours. Tibet was India's neighbour so if there is any border dispute, its between India and Tibet.
By occupying Tibet, China cannot become India's neighbour by force. Han crooks don't belong to Tibet. Forget about politically or culturally, Han crooks cannot even breathe in Tibet properly so even biologically, they don't belong there.
After Dalai Lama is dead, all restraints on violent methods for achieving freedom, stipulated by Dalai Lama will be gone. Then, the real struggle for Tibetan freedom will begin. The hardy Tibetans who are self-immolating themselves now, would also be willing to burn Han Crooks if its needed to achieve freedom.
Han Chinese crooks have only seen peaceful, Buddhist and harmless Tibetans so far. The real Tibetan warrior soul is yet to reveal itself.
Shukla,
Is this another op ad on the eve of PM Modi's visit to China articulating the Chinese views and demands ? There is nothing wrong in knowing what Chinese are up to but it takes great efforts to glibly and malevolently justify those demands without offering counter arguments.
Management of outer periphery in order to establish central control internally is well known Chinese strategic objective. Hoever in order to fecilitate that the Chinese can not start asking ownership of periphery. Can India ask Myanmar control of their territory to solve Naga problem? On the contrary India and Myanmar have sought to control that problem with mutual and consultative mechanism. Similarly, India has not rejected LOC with Pakistan in order to solve terrorism and separatism in J&K. Why should India not insist on China accepting and formalising LAC as a mechanism towards bringing in more stability in Tibet. Unlike Taiwan, Dalai Lama has no government ruling over Tibet, has no centralised standing Army with a nuclear umbrella and has not been a threat to CCP or PLA. Not formalising LAC could also be counter productive.
So your central theme of the two recent op eds have been - hand over Dalai Lama to China - Is not it ? Nehru might have done that but it would be difficult for Modi to do it.
In this background suspicion of "Lifafa Journalism" would be sustainable.
First and foremost mistake on India's part was to declare Tibet as part of china.India ,still can and has to change it's policy vis-a-vis china and accept Tibet as a independent nation illegally & forcefully occupied by China.
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Oil refineries need to heed concerns, implement safety improvements.
Antonia Juhasz | March 2, 2015 | Los Angeles Times
An aerial image taken from a video shot after an explosion occurred Feb. 18 at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance. (Photo: KTLA)
The most important thing is to shelter in place, stay indoors, no outdoor activity, turn the air conditioners off, keep the windows closed.” This was the instruction Torrance Mayor Patrick Furey gave to neighbors of the Exxon Mobil refinery, including the children at 14 schools, for three hours following a massive explosion at the facility Feb. 18.
Refineries: In an Op-Ed article about oil refinery safety, refineries were cited as California’s single largest stationary source of greenhouse gas emissions. The top five stationary emitters are refineries, but power plants in aggregate emit more greenhouse gases.
Four workers were injured. The force of the explosion, in a pollution control unit, was so great it registered as a magnitude 1.4 earthquake. Photographs showed a scene straight out of “Mad Max,” with heavy white ash coating twisted debris, and a blown-apart multi-story structure. For 28 hours, twin stacks shot flames into the air, burning off volatile gases.
Only a limited area of the 750-acre facility was affected, but Torrance residents from at least 3.5 miles away felt the rumble and cleaned up after the “white snow” that fell on streets, cars, playgrounds, homes, pets and people. Composed of “catalyst dust” — usually made up of aluminum oxide and smaller amounts of nickel and vanadium — the ash is considered nontoxic in the amounts released but it can irritate skin, eyes and throats, and those handling it are cautioned to wear protective gloves and face gear.
It was the third U.S. refinery explosion this year, and just the latest reminder of the very real dangers petroleum refineries and terminals pose for their workers, their neighbors, the air we breathe and the climate we share. For nearly a decade, the industry’s leading watchdogs have warned that American refineries are operating with shocking disregard for known risks and are failing to adhere to existing regulations, which are also dangerously insufficient.
That reality has also put nearly 7,000 refinery workers on picket lines at 15 refineries nationwide. Torrance isn’t among them, but the Tesoro refinery in nearby Carson is. The strike is not about wages or benefits. It’s about 12-hour shifts for 30 straight days, worker fatigue and accidents, and too many ill-trained, ill-paid contract workers (the injured workers at Torrance were contractors).
And it’s about companies that aren’t using the safest available technology; for example, they use unnecessarily dangerous materials, such as modified hydrofluoric acid, which was present in vessels and piping close to the unit that exploded in Torrance. Fortunately, the vessels and piping weren’t breached.
For nearly a decade, the industry’s leading watchdogs have warned that American refineries are operating with shocking disregard for known risks.
In fact, at least 50 workers have died in U.S. refinery incidents since 2007, according to my research. During the same period, according to the United Steelworkers, a fire or explosion has put refinery workers and communities at risk twice a month, on average, at facilities across the nation.
One of those accidents stands out in California’s memory. In 2012 a corroded pipe ruptured, causing an explosion and fire at Chevron‘s Richmond, Calif., refinery. Six workers were injured, a black cloud of toxic chemicals spread thousands of feet into the air and across San Francisco Bay, and about 15,000 nearby residents sought medical assistance, all because, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, the company didn’t do proper maintenance.
Five years earlier, after a BP Texas refinery blast killed 15 and injured 180, the Chemical Safety Board warned of pervasive “complacency toward serious safety risks” at all American refineries. After Richmond, it concluded the situation had not improved. The board specifically cited the need for California to “enhance and restructure” its deficient safety management regulations.
In response, Gov. Jerry Brown established an interagency working group on refinery safety. Its February 2014 report includes workers testifying about old, outdated and corroded structures, inadequate maintenance and retaliation against those who try to shut down unsafe operations. The report also reveals severe gaps in regulations, limitations on state regulators’ abilities to “cover all aspects of process safety,” and penalties that are “insufficient … to create meaningful deterrence.”
One of the things those penalties fail to deter is air pollution. Since 2005, Exxon Mobil has paid more than $15 million in fines (including fines for failing to address violations that led to previous fines) related to state and federal air standards at the Torrance refinery and terminals. Nonetheless, the Torrance refinery has been in “high priority violation” of the federal Clean Air Act in every quarter since at least 2011 and faces 12 Clean Air Act “significant violations,” which carry fines of nearly $100,000. These pollutants pose serious health risks to neighbors and the climate: California’s refineries are the single largest stationary source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state.
The governor’s report listed more than two-dozen necessary safety improvements, starting with new rules to force refineries to adopt “inherently safer systems.” Since then, just two new regulations have made it as far as the rule-making phase.
Clearly, much is left to be done. Oil refineries will always be hazardous, but they can be made much safer. Before there’s another Torrance, or Richmond, or another clean-air violation or refinery death, the demands of the striking workers should be met, the concerns of communities heard and the governor’s and Chemical Safety Board’s recommendations fully implemented.
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The Effect of Microwave Cooking on Nutrient Value of Fresh Vegetables
M. A. Rashid*, Md. Iqbal Hussain, Atiqur Rahman, Mst Khodeza Khatun, M. A. Sattar
Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
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M. A. Rashid, Md. Iqbal Hussain, Atiqur Rahman, Mst Khodeza Khatun, M. A. Sattar. The Effect of Microwave Cooking on Nutrient Value of Fresh Vegetables. International Journal of Nutrition and Food Sciences. Vol. 5, No. 4, 2016, pp. 273-277. doi: 10.11648/j.ijnfs.20160504.16
Received: May 17, 2016; Accepted: June 15, 2016; Published: June 30, 2016
Abstract: Microwave cooking has gained considerable importance as an energy-saving, convenient and time-saving cooking method. This study was performed to compare the effects of microwave cooking and conventional cooking method on proximate nutrient and health promoting contents of fresh Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Zhinggye (Luffa acutangula) grown in Bangladesh. The moisture and ash content in raw Cowpea were 92.19% and 0.48%, respectively, for Zhinggye they were 95.87% and 0.25%, respectively. After conventional cooking moisture and ash content were 93.37% and 0.33%, respectively, for Cowpea whereas 95.75% and 0.23%, respectively, for Zhinggye. On the other hand, after microwave cooking these values were 92.32% and 0.48%, respectively, for Cowpea and 95.53% and 0.25%, respectively, for Zhinggye. Total crude protein, fat and carbohydrate were significantly modified by both cooking methods. In both cases, microwave cooking decreased the vitamin-C content to some extent but the conventional cooking completely destroyed the vitamin-C contents.
Keywords: Microwave Cooking, Nutritional Value, Fresh Vegetables, Vigna Unguiculata, Luffa Acutangula
Abstract Keywords 1. Introduction 2. Materials and Methods 2.1. Preparation of Sample 2.2. Conventional Cooking 2.3. Microwave Cooking 2.4. Determination of Moisture Content 2.5. Determination of Ash Content 2.6. Determination of Protein Content 2.7. Determination of Fat Content 2.8. Determination of Carbohydrate Content 2.9. Determination of Vitamin C Content 2.10. Statistical Analysis 3. Result and Discussion 4. Conclusion References
Cooking as a domestic processing method has a great impact on food nutrients. In general, vegetables are prepared at home on the basis of convenience and taste preference rather than retention of nutrient and health-promoting compounds [1]. It is known that cooking induces significant changes in chemical composition, affecting the bioavailability and content of chemopreventive compounds in vegetables. Cooking methods were shown to affect the contents of nutrient and health-promoting compounds such as vitamin C, carotenoids, polyphenols, and glucosinolates [2-5]. The cooking procedures such as boiling and microwaving used in these studies were based on the dietary habit in Bangladesh. The microwave cooking process presents controversial results in the literature due to the different conditions that are employed (time, power, and added water).
Cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata L.) are one of the most important food legume crops in the semi-arid tropics covering Asia, Africa, Southern Europe and Central and South America. A drought-tolerant and warm-weather crop, cowpeas are well-adapted to the drier regions of the tropics, where other food legumes do not perform well. It also has the useful ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen through its root nodules, and it grows well in poor soils with more than 85% sand and with less than 0.2% organic matter and low levels of phosphorus [6]. Cowpea seed and its protein isolate are useful for remedying diet-induced hypercholesterolemia and steatosis, even in diets containing high levels of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. The effectiveness of the isolate is lower than that of the whole seed, probably because several components, such as plant sterols, saponins, resistant starches, and soluble fiber present in the intact seed can act synergistically [7].
Zhinggye (Luffa acutangula L.) is an important warm season cucurbitaceous vegetable crop grown in different parts of Bangladesh, India and in the tropical countries of Asia and Africa. Its immature fruits are cooked as vegetable and also used in the preparation of chutneys and curries. Being a warm season crop, it has the ability to tolerate hotter conditions, which makes it suitable for widespread cultivation throughout the tropics [8]. A natural jaundice remedy, the fruits of Luffa acutangula are grown, harvested before maturity and is very popular in Asia. Ridge gourd as whole, seeds and dried crusts are all used for medicinal purposes [9].
This study tried to reveal a suitable cooking method which will help to provide us more nutrient rich cooked food by comprising conventional cooking and microwave cooking method so that it is possible to overcome the nutrient lacking problems.
2.1. Preparation of Sample
Fresh vegetables Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) and Zhinggye (Luffa acutangula L.) were collected from local market (Sheikh Para, Kushtia, Bangladesh). Samples were washed properly and cut into small pieces from the edible part of the green vegetables.
2.2. Conventional Cooking
Among various methods of conventional cooking, boiling method was applied in the study for the cooking of the selected sample. In this case, the sample to be cooked was just immersed in water at 100°C and the water was maintained at that temperature till the sample was tendered. In this cooking method, each sample was cooked for 10 minutes.
2.3. Microwave Cooking
A weighed, chopped sample was placed in a 250-ml beaker. The sample in the microwave oven was cooked until it is tender (about 45 s in a 700W oven). Remove the sample from the oven and the nutrition values were estimated.
2.4. Determination of Moisture Content
Moisture was determined by oven drying method. A clean crucible was dried to a constant weight in air oven at 110°C, cooled in a desiccator and weighed (W1). Two grams of finely ground sample was accurately weighed into the previously labeled crucible and reweighed (W2). The crucible containing the sample was dried in an oven to constant weight (W3). The percentage moisture content was calculated as follows:
2.5. Determination of Ash Content
For the determination of ash, a clean porcelain crucible was dried in an oven at 100°C for 10 min, cooled in a desiccator and weighed (W1). Two grams of the finely ground sample was placed into a previously weighed porcelain crucible and reweighed (W2), it was first ignited and then transferred into a furnace which was set at 550°C. The sample was left in the furnace for eight hours to ensure proper ashing. The crucible containing the ash was then removed; cooled in a desiccator and weighed (W3). The percentage ash content was calculated as follows:
2.6. Determination of Protein Content
Protein in the sample was determined by Kjeldahl method [10]. 2 g of dried samples was taken in digestion flask. Add 10-15 ml of concentrated H2SO4 and 8 g of digestion mixture i.e. K2SO4:CuSO4 (8:1). The flask was swirled in order to mix the contents thoroughly then placed on heater to start digestion till the mixture become clear (blue green in color). It needs 2 hrs to complete. The digest was cooled and transferred to 100 ml volumetric flask and volume was made up to mark by the addition of distilled water. Distillation of the digest was performed in Markam Still Distillation Apparatus [11]. Ten milliliters of digest was introduced in the distillation tube then 10 ml of 0.5 N NaOH was gradually added through the same way. Distillation was continued for at least 10 min and NH3 produced was collected as NH4OH in a conical flask containing 20 ml of 4% boric acid solution with few drops of modified methyl red indicator. During distillation yellowish color appears due to NH4OH. The distillate was then titrated against standard 0.1 N HCl solution till the appearance of pink color. A blank was also run through all steps as above. Percent crude protein content of the sample was calculated by using the following formula:
2.7. Determination of Fat Content
The fat content was determined by ether extract method using Soxhlet apparatus [12]. Since all the fat materials e.g. fats, phospholipids, sterols, fatty acids, carotenoids, pigments, chlorophyll etc. are extracted together therefore, the results are frequently referred to as crude fat. Approximately 1 g of moisture free sample was wrapped in filter paper, placed in fat free thimble and then introduced in the extraction tube. Weighed, cleaned and dried the receiving beaker was filled with petroleum ether and fitted into the apparatus. Turned on water and heater to start extraction. After 4-6 siphoning allow ether to evaporate and disconnect beaker before last siphoning. Transferred extract into clean glass dish with ether washing and evaporated ether on water bath. Then placed the dish in an oven at 105°C for 2 hrs and cooled it in a desiccator. The percent crude fat was determined by using the following formula:
2.8. Determination of Carbohydrate Content
The total carbohydrate was determined by difference. The sum of the percentage moisture, ash, crude protein and crude fat was subtracted from 100 [13].
% Carbohydrate = 100 - (moisture content + ash content + protein content + fat content)%
2.9. Determination of Vitamin C Content
Vitamin C content was determined according to the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) Official Method 985.33 (2, 6-dichloroindophenol titrimetric method) [14]. Vitamin C content is expressed as mg/100 g fresh weight.
The nutrient contents from these samples were estimated in triplicate, and mean values were calculated. A Student’s t-test was computed for the statistical significance of the results.
3. Result and Discussion
Food preparation is an important step in meeting the nutritional needs of the family. Food has to be pleasing in appearance and taste in order to be consumed. Cooking as a conventional processing method has a great impact on food nutrients. Most foods are mainly consumed after being cooked and cooking considerably affects their health-promoting compounds, minerals and vitamins. In this study tried to picture the changes brought by cooking (microwave and conventional method) in the nutrient content of two fresh vegetables collected from local market named as Cowpea and Zhinggye.
Figure 1. The moisture congtent in Cowpea and Zhinggye cooked by different methods.
Previous studied showed that raw samples of Cowpea contained 87% moisture, 0.2% fat, 3% protein, 9% carbohydrate and Zhinggye contained 93% moisture, 0.6% fat, 1.8% protein, 4.3% carbohydrate. [15] In this study, the moisture content in raw Cowpea and Zhinggye were 92.19% and 95.87%, respectively. After conventional cooking moisture content in Cowpea and Zhinggye were 93.37% and 95.75%, respectively, whereas after microwaving, 92.32% and 95.53%, respectively, were found for Cowpea and Zhinggye (Figure 1). Ash content in raw Cowpea was 0.48%, but after conventional and microwave cooking it was found 0.33% and 0.48%, respectively. On the other hand, ash content in raw Zhinggye was 0.25%, but after conventional and microwave cooking it was found 0.23% and 0.25%, respectively (Figure 2).
Figure 2. The ash congtent in Cowpea and Zhinggye cooked by different methods.
Total crude protein of raw Cowpea was 2.50%. After conventional and microwave cooking it was found 2.00% and 2.50%, respectively. On the other hand, crude protein content in raw Zhinggye was 0.94%, but after conventional and microwave cooking it was found 0.88% and 0.94%, respectively (Figure 3). As showed in Figure 4, crude fat in raw Cowpea was 0.048%. After conventional and microwave cooking it was found 0.027% and 0.019%, respectively. On the other hand, crude fat content in raw Zhinggye was 0.52%, but after conventional and microwave cooking it was found 0.44% and 0.28%, respectively.
Figure 3. The portein congtent in Cowpea and Zhinggye cooked by different methods.
Figure 4. The fat content in Cowpea and Zhinggye cooked by different methods.
Figure 5. The carbohydrate content in Cowpea and Zhinggye cooked by different methods.
The cabohydrate content in raw Cowpea and Zhinggye was 4.78% and 2.42%, respectively. 4.27% carbohydrate was found in Cowpa after conventional cooking while 4.68% carbohydrate was found after microwave cooking. On the other hand, 2.7% carbohydrate was found in Zhinggye after conventional cooking while 3% carbohydrate was found after microwave cooking (Figure 5).
Figure 6. The Vitamin-C content in Cowpea and Zhinggye cooked by different methods.
Vitamin C is one of the most important nutrients in many other horticultural crops and has many biological functions in the human body [16]. The concentration of ascorbic acid (the predominant form of vitamin C) in fresh vegetables generally decreased after cooking [17]. Both cooking treatments caused a dramatic loss of vitamin C. 16.82% and 8.35% of vitamin C was observed in raw Cowpea and Zhinggye, respectively. After microwaving 10.78% and 5.24% of vitamin C was observed in Cowpea and Zhinggye, respectively, while conventional cooking completely destroyed the vitamin-C in both vegetables (Figure 6).
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Zhinggye (Luffa acutangula) have been cooked by microwave and conventional methods and compared these methods for protein, fat, carbohydrate, moisture, ash and vitamin C contents. Microwave heating has a number of quantitative and qualitative advantages over conventional heating techniques that make its adoption a serious proposition. One main advantage is the place where the heat is generated, namely the product itself. Because of this, the effect of small heat conductivities or heat transfer coefficients does not play such an important role. Therefore, larger pieces can be heated in a shorter time and with a more even temperature distribution. These advantages often yield an increased production. Bangladesh is an under developing country and many people of this country are suffering from nutritional problem. For this reason people should choice the best method of cooking by which nutrient content are present in high amount. Results of this study suggested that microwave cooking method is better than other methods because microwave cooked food contains high amount of nutrients.
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Adelia M. Hoyt papers
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The Adelia M. Hoyt papers consist of one folder and measure 0.25 linear inches. The folder contains Hoyt's memoir, "Unfolding Years," a postcard of the Iowa Home for Sightless Women, a 2011 article about the home by Peggy Chong, and a photograph of Adelia Hoyt and family in 1940.
Hoyt, Adelia M., 1865- (Person)
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Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to the University of Iowa/has been retained by the donor.
Photos and a memoir written by a blind woman who helped establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women in Des Moines.
Adelia M. Hoyt was born on December 3, 1865 in a prairie sod house near Cedar Falls, Iowa. At age five, Hoyt suffered a fever leading to degenerative eyesight. Recurring fevers during her childhood further damaged her vision as well as her physical health. As she grew older the fevers stopped and her physical health returned, but her eyesight had been permanently damaged. Her parents arranged for her to attend the Iowa School for the Blind. In 1915, Hoyt helped to establish the Iowa Home for Sightless Women, which provided housing and income for blind women.
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The papers (donor no. 1288) were donated by Beverly Tyree in 2013.
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International Safety Management Code (ISM)
The purpose of this Code is to provide an international standard for the safe management and operation of ships and for pollution prevention. The Code establishes safety-management objectives and requires a safety management system (SMS) to be established by "the Company", which is defined as the shipowner or any person, such as the manager or bareboat charterer, who has assumed responsibility for operating the ship. The Company is then required to establish and implement a policy for achieving these objectives. This includes providing the necessary resources and shore-based support. Every company is expected "to designate a person or persons ashore having direct access to the highest level of management". The procedures required by the Code should be documented and compiled in a Safety Management Manual, a copy of which should be kept on board. After completion of this part you should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding about the background of the ISM Code. International Safety Management Code - ISM https://youtu.be/kMqaQ26zG0g International Safety Management Requirements https://youtu.be/g55WkNZFWZc ISM Audits Checklist, Reports and Reviews https://youtu.be/-EWN_ESKvPs ISM Plans, Procedures and Work Permits https://youtu.be/JnOibCb1Vz4 Safety Management System - SMS https://youtu.be/LPNa7xZqLu4 Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
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What is Ballast Water Management System (BWMS)
According to IMO estimates, ships carry some 3 billion tons to 5 billion tons of ballast water globally each year. The IMO developed and adopted “The International Convention for The Control and Management of Ships Ballast Water Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004” (Ballast Water Management Convention) with the aim of protecting the marine environment from the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms in ballast water carried by ships. The BWM Convention will enter into force on 8 September 2017. Ballast water management for ships shall be made in accordance with the following Standards under this Convention. (1) Ballast water performance standard (Regulation D-2) (2) Ballast water exchange standard (Regulation D-1) Finally, ships shall conduct primary method that Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens in ballast water are treated with approved Ballast Water Management System (BWMS). #BWMS #IMO #BallastWater Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
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How To Start The Framo Pump
After successfully completing this lesson you should be familiar with the procedure for discharging and be able to describe the tests required prior to start up. To gain maximum benefit from this lesson you should successfully have completed the previous lesson. It is assumed that the hydraulic power packs have already been started. This lesson gives step-by-step instructions on how to start the pump. Pump and Cargo Handling System https://youtu.be/GNWv0-z74wE How To Purging The Cofferdam https://youtu.be/C47whpkmm2U How To Load Through The Pump https://youtu.be/wjQAUzxdl2w How To Start The Framo Pump https://youtu.be/S6GKZf7Y4bo Parallel Pumping https://youtu.be/pvSlKwldZPA Framo Pump Cargo Discharging Operation https://youtu.be/rC45x8NsseQ Cargo Stripping System https://youtu.be/H15_hayDxro Tank Cleaning Procedures https://youtu.be/9HnzDY-11t4 Filling and Circulating The Cofferdam https://youtu.be/MNEs7wvVtFI Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Lifeboat Davit Launching Procedure
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Forces Involved During Manoeuvring and Sailing of Ships
This video will provide you with a general overview of the forces involved during maneuvering and sailing of ships. Bernoulli’s Law. Forces. The pivot point. The turning lever and moment. The rudder force. Ship handling in practice. How to obtain relevant information. Ship maneuvering ability. The professional ship handler. What is ship handling? https://youtu.be/qre-PQXYcUI Forces Involved During Manoeuvring and Sailing of Ships https://youtu.be/49p8CHntVgA Manoeuvring Characteristics And Interaction https://youtu.be/moUiEdCFsAM Marine Useful Manoeuvres https://youtu.be/7edJ_1ZSErY Propulsion And Manoeuvring Systems https://youtu.be/mb-NjsxxOcc Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Rudder Arrangement - Types of Rudder
As a result of studying this video section you will: • Know the parameters essential for the size of the steering gear. • Be able to explain how the bearing forces act. • Know the principles of the most used rudder arrangements. Steering Gear Spare Parts https://youtu.be/_WIPl91pjBg Maintenance of Steering Gear System https://youtu.be/VYSpHE2ijJ0 Emergency Steering Gear https://youtu.be/VR0Etjwj04o Marine Steering Gear Operation https://youtu.be/dH9EFRwGIRs Steering Gear Safety, Rules and Regulations https://youtu.be/QPPPvr_Dw1g Steering Gear Control System and Types of Steering Modes https://youtu.be/uqspJnKcrW4 Steering Gear Actuator Parts https://youtu.be/WKE7CPpkDrA Working of Steering Gear Actuator and Types of Actuators https://youtu.be/M6h8vFicR0Y Rudder Arrangement https://youtu.be/qb3vnZ1u1iM Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Longitudinal Stability
This video section should explain the basic elements of the different stability matters, and enable the user to: • Define trim • Define moment to change trim 1cm (MCT), and be able to read the values from a loading scale. • Understand that trim can be changed by moving or adding masses different places onboard. • Know the effect on trim when adding or moving masses. • Know that excessive trim may have a negative effect on the transverse stability, and why. Ship Stability https://youtu.be/AvrHKPqL6Jk Transverse Stability https://youtu.be/jnQlLGGIh40 Longitudinal Stability https://youtu.be/yrPeP2h4QwE Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
What is ship handling?
This video will provide you with a short introduction to basic ship handling and an elementary understanding of the forces involved. Merchant ship design principles. Steering control. What is ship handling? Ship handlers. Ship handling simulators. What is ship handling? https://youtu.be/qre-PQXYcUI Forces Involved During Manoeuvring and Sailing of Ships https://youtu.be/49p8CHntVgA Manoeuvring Characteristics And Interaction https://youtu.be/moUiEdCFsAM Marine Useful Manoeuvres https://youtu.be/7edJ_1ZSErY Propulsion And Manoeuvring Systems https://youtu.be/mb-NjsxxOcc Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683
Boiler Safety Precautions
Boiler Safety Precautions Auxiliary Boiler https://youtu.be/hzOSn5WC-T8 Boiler Parts and Their Functions https://youtu.be/BRKXItzDajo Boiler Control Systems https://youtu.be/c0lq60Ys6J8 Boiler Operation https://youtu.be/2rEcGSEaqNA Boiler Safety Precautions https://youtu.be/uwIeCKK3HXI Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Ship Stability
This video section should explain the basic elements of the different stability matters, and enable the user to: • Know the different abbreviations, terms and their meanings. • Know and understand a transverse section of a ship. • Know and understand a longitudinal section of a ship. Ship Stability https://youtu.be/AvrHKPqL6Jk Transverse Stability https://youtu.be/jnQlLGGIh40 Longitudinal Stability https://youtu.be/yrPeP2h4QwE Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
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Filipino AB Beating Indian C/O on Maersk Ship
Violent Filipino AB beating Indian CO on Maersk Ship on OVER TIME issue. Now whole Indian Maritime Community is lodging a protest against him and most probably this Filipino will be Sacked from Maersk and his CDC will be cancelled by Filipino Maritime Authorities. Filipino Maritime Authorities are very strict on Crew Behavior and will not tolerate such kind of Filipino Ratings to safe-guard the jobs and reputation of other 1 Million Filipino Seaman. #MaerskLine #Ship #Sacked #MarineOnline Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Directional Control Valves - Fluid Flow and Positions
This video section will provide a short introduction to: Direction control valves and their construction and operation. What is Hydraulic System and its Advantages https://youtu.be/G9k8aua86To Hydraulic Symbols https://youtu.be/SwSekxd71LE Types of Hydraulic Pumps and Hydraulic Oil https://youtu.be/mNEMF_o2AS4 Directional Control Valves https://youtu.be/OWUYvfZ34Ew Flow Control Valves and Pressure Reducing Valve https://youtu.be/eOooWKNxxzs Hydraulic Actuators https://youtu.be/qt3WfeTdj5I Hydraulic Safety Precautions https://youtu.be/Hn8WhH-E38Y Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
ISPS Code Regulations
After successfully completing this video lesson, you will be familiar with ISPS Code Ch 11-2, and associated Regulations. ISPS Code Regulations https://youtu.be/jsj0gT4jae4 Ship Security Plans https://youtu.be/zH3VwOXmy3o What are the Duties of Ship, Company, and Port Officer https://youtu.be/1vB4OOv6cUU Training and Drills Required by the Ship Security Plan https://youtu.be/2oWx7ZT0EjM Ship Security Measures and Ship Security Levels https://youtu.be/izw31LJxnpU Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Familiarization for New Crew Members on board of the Ship
The new crew members joining the ship must be aware of their obligations regarding information security and safety on board. The main purpose of familiarization was to obtain new crew with important safety procedures on board at work or during emergencies. The captain shall appoint a qualified person responsible for training new members of the crew. Although all members of the crew joined the ship must pass a standardized training by STCW, there are specific instructions and requirements specific to each ship for his own. #PersonalSafety #SocialResponsibility #PSSR Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Beam Trolleys - How should you use Beam trolleys?
Beam Trolleys - How should you use Beam trolleys? Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Electric Vessel
Electric vessels the wave of the future in shipping. #ElectricVessel #ElectricShip Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Emergency Fir Drill Onboard Ship
The purpose of carrying out any kind of drill on the ships is to make the crew acquainted with various procedures to be followed during emergency situations. To prepare the crew in dealing with an emergency situation that may arise because of a fire on board ship. #FirDrill #EmergencyDrill #fireOnBoard Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Safety Management System - SMS
Safety management system (SMS) is a comprehensive management system designed to manage safety elements in the workplace. It includes policy, objectives, plans, procedures, organisation, responsibilities and other measures. As a result of this video section you will be able to demonstrate. How to use the SMS onboard your vessel? International Safety Management Code - ISM https://youtu.be/kMqaQ26zG0g International Safety Management Requirements https://youtu.be/g55WkNZFWZc ISM Audits Checklist, Reports and Reviews https://youtu.be/-EWN_ESKvPs ISM Plans, Procedures and Work Permits https://youtu.be/JnOibCb1Vz4 Safety Management System - SMS https://youtu.be/LPNa7xZqLu4 Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Hydraulic Safety Precautions and Hydraulic System Maintenance
This video section will provide a short introduction to: Safety precautions and maintenance regarding hydraulic systems. What is Hydraulic System and its Advantages https://youtu.be/G9k8aua86To Hydraulic Symbols https://youtu.be/SwSekxd71LE Types of Hydraulic Pumps and Hydraulic Oil https://youtu.be/mNEMF_o2AS4 Directional Control Valves https://youtu.be/OWUYvfZ34Ew Flow Control Valves and Pressure Reducing Valve https://youtu.be/eOooWKNxxzs Hydraulic Actuators https://youtu.be/qt3WfeTdj5I Hydraulic Safety Precautions https://youtu.be/Hn8WhH-E38Y Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Chain Slings - How should you use Chain slings?
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Hydraulic Problems
This video section will provide a short introduction to: Common system problems and their symptoms. What is Hydraulic System and its Advantages https://youtu.be/G9k8aua86To Hydraulic Symbols https://youtu.be/SwSekxd71LE Types of Hydraulic Pumps and Hydraulic Oil https://youtu.be/mNEMF_o2AS4 Directional Control Valves https://youtu.be/OWUYvfZ34Ew Flow Control Valves and Pressure Reducing Valve https://youtu.be/eOooWKNxxzs Hydraulic Actuators https://youtu.be/qt3WfeTdj5I Hydraulic Safety Precautions https://youtu.be/Hn8WhH-E38Y Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
IAMSAR Overview
This video will introduce you to: The responsibility of search and rescue organization. The responsibility of its Co-coordinator. Responsibilities and obligation to assist. National and regional SAR system organization. SAR coordination. SAR coordinators. SAR mission coordinator. On-scene coordinator. Search and rescue organization. Search Techniques and Operations https://youtu.be/r8kdFA1zDMk How On Scene Coordinator (SAR) https://youtu.be/l_AqdfC3DYk Procedures for Assisting Vessels https://youtu.be/VWz2Z32mi3c IAMSAR Overview https://youtu.be/qEyPbsC8NHg Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Transverse Stability
This video section should explain the basic elements of the different stability matters, and enable the user to: • Understand the principle and effect of free liquid surface, it’s importance, and practical precautions to avoid free surface as much as possible. • Understand GZ and its Importance. • Know how to read stability curves. • Know how G moves when mass is moved on-board. • Calculate GZ at small and large angles of heel. Ship Stability https://youtu.be/AvrHKPqL6Jk Transverse Stability https://youtu.be/jnQlLGGIh40 Longitudinal Stability https://youtu.be/yrPeP2h4QwE Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
What is an Inert Gas or IG System on Tankers?
Oil tankers carry oil of different grades and quality, having property to produce flammable vapors and gases when loaded for transportation. Even with no cargo on board, there can be harmful flammable gases present in the hold. When the vapor produced by an oil cargo is mixed with certain concentration of air primarily containing oxygen, it can result in explosion which results in damages to the property, marine pollution and loss of life For safety against such explosion, Inert gas system is used on board. It can be through as a separate inert gas plant or flue gas produced by ship’s boiler. #InertGas #IGSystem #InertGasGenerator Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Cruise Ship Crashes at Barcelona Port
The Port of Barcelona is one the busiest in the world and also is a major cruise hub for all of Europe. So when a 2,200 passenger cruise-ferry collides into the pier and crane, then it’s worth informing readers about. There are multiple reports of the Excellent cruise-ferry which was arriving in Barcelona from Genoa, Italy earlier when control of the ship was lost due to bad weather. The vessel crashed into one of the dock crane head on, and as a result one of the large cranes collapsed onto the containers below. When the crane fell onto the containers, there was also an explosion, and a fire broke out. This could have occurred from the materials which were within some of the containers. Local emergency services including fire crews managed to extinguish the fire. #CruiseCrash #CruiseAaccident #CruiseCollision Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Dangerous Goods Classes and Classification
The learning objective of this video are to give those personnel involved in handling dangerous goods: An understanding of the criteria used to determine whether goods should be considered as dangerous. A working knowledge of the nine classes and their respective divisions to which dangerous goods are assigned. The classification is described in Chapter 2 contained in Volume 1 of the IMDG Code. Hazardous chemicals and chemical reactions The purpose of classification Class overview Class 1 – Explosives Class 2 – Gases Class 3 – Flammable Liquids Class 4 – Flammable Solids Class 5 – Oxidizing substances and organic peroxides Class 6 – Toxic and infections substances Class 7 – Radioactive material Class 8 – Corrosive substances Class 9 – Miscellaneous dangerous substances Marine Pollutants Dangerous Goods Incidents https://youtu.be/ZpC_oCll5fc Dangerous Goods Regulations https://youtu.be/C_LmEgYLdWk The IMDG Code https://youtu.be/9k0LrU0Z1HU Chemical Terminology Found in The IMDG Code https://youtu.be/KrX3pfQrjTA Dangerous Goods Classes and Classification https://youtu.be/EX4zWiRmDoM IMDG Code Packing And Tank Provisions https://youtu.be/HfPVVaP0ACc Transport of Dangerous Goods By Sea https://youtu.be/xoCc6DKBt_0 Transport Operations Of Dangerous Goods https://youtu.be/k-WFC-Qf3bM IMDG Code Supplement https://youtu.be/tPftMWCseVc Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
What is EPIRB and How EPIRB Working #EPIRB #GMDSS Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
What are the Duties of Ship, Company, and Port Officer
After successfully completing this video lesson, you will be familiar with the duties of: • Company Security Officer Responsibilities(CSO) • Ship Security Officer Responsibilities(SSO) • Port Facility Security Officer Responsibilities(PFSO) ISPS Code Regulations https://youtu.be/jsj0gT4jae4 Ship Security Plans https://youtu.be/zH3VwOXmy3o What are the Duties of Ship, Company, and Port Officer https://youtu.be/1vB4OOv6cUU Training and Drills Required by the Ship Security Plan https://youtu.be/2oWx7ZT0EjM Ship Security Measures and Ship Security Levels https://youtu.be/izw31LJxnpU Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Jacket Cooling Water System
The main purpose of this section is to give all operation personnel a basic understanding of : • The engine most essential functions. • How the Jacket Cooling Water System Work. To ensure that all operating personnel are able to: • Locate, recognize and identify all essential components within the systems, • Execute the daily weekly and monthly inspections and maintenance routines. Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Types of Hydraulic Pumps and Hydraulic Oil
This video section will provide a short introduction to: Pump types, operation and hydraulic oil. Types of Hydraulic Pumps and How they works 1. Positive displacement pumps 2. Gear pumps 3. Vane pump 4. Unbalanced vane pump 5. Balanced vane pump 6. Unbalanced variable displacement vane pump 7. Piston pumps 8. Axial piston pump 9. Swash plate pump 10. Bent axis pump 11. Radial piston pump 12. Internal gear pump 13. External gear pump 14. How they work What is Hydraulic System and its Advantages https://youtu.be/G9k8aua86To Hydraulic Symbols https://youtu.be/SwSekxd71LE Types of Hydraulic Pumps and Hydraulic Oil https://youtu.be/mNEMF_o2AS4 Directional Control Valves https://youtu.be/OWUYvfZ34Ew Flow Control Valves and Pressure Reducing Valve https://youtu.be/eOooWKNxxzs Hydraulic Actuators https://youtu.be/qt3WfeTdj5I Hydraulic Safety Precautions https://youtu.be/Hn8WhH-E38Y Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Immersion Suit Or Survival Suit
An immersion suit, or survival suit (or more specifically an immersion survival suit) is a special type of waterproof dry suit that protects the wearer from hypothermia from immersion in cold water, after abandoning a sinking or capsized vessel, especially in the open ocean. They usually have built-in feet (boots), and a hood, and either built-in gloves or watertight wrist seals. The first record of a survival suit was in 1930 when a New York firm American Life Suit Corporation offered merchant and fishing firms what it called a safety suit for crews of ocean vessels. The suit came packed in a small box and was put on like a boilersuit. The ancestor of these suits was already invented in 1872 by Clark S Merriman to rescue steamship passengers. It was made from rubber sheeting and became famous by the swim records of Paul Boyton. It was essentially a pair of rubber pants and shirt cinched tight at the waist with a steel band and strap. Within the suit were five air pockets the wearer could inflate by mouth through hoses. Similar to modern-day drysuits, the suit also kept its wearer dry. This essentially allowed him to float on his back, using a double-sided paddle to propel himself, feet-forward. Additionally he could attach a small sail to save stamina while slowly drifting to shore (because neither emergency radio transmitters nor rescue helicopters were invented yet). The first immersion suit to gain USCG approval was invented by Gunnar Guddal. Eventually the suit became accepted as essential safety gear. #LSA #ImmersionSuit #SurvivalSuit Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Ship Security Measures and Ship Security Levels
After successfully completing this video lesson, you will know what security measures to take at the different Security levels. ISPS Code Regulations https://youtu.be/jsj0gT4jae4 Ship Security Plans https://youtu.be/zH3VwOXmy3o What are the Duties of Ship, Company, and Port Officer https://youtu.be/1vB4OOv6cUU Training and Drills Required by the Ship Security Plan https://youtu.be/2oWx7ZT0EjM Ship Security Measures and Ship Security Levels https://youtu.be/izw31LJxnpU Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Ship Security Plans
After successfully completing this video lesson, you will be familiar with Ship Security Plans. ISPS Code Regulations https://youtu.be/jsj0gT4jae4 Ship Security Plans https://youtu.be/zH3VwOXmy3o What are the Duties of Ship, Company, and Port Officer https://youtu.be/1vB4OOv6cUU Training and Drills Required by the Ship Security Plan https://youtu.be/2oWx7ZT0EjM Ship Security Measures and Ship Security Levels https://youtu.be/izw31LJxnpU Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Ballast Water Management Plan and Record Book
This Section will provide you with an understanding of the contents of a ballast water managements plan. Ballast water management plan Model Ballast water management plan Ballast water records What is Ballast Water? https://youtu.be/Sr2nCvOdGvE What is an Invasive Species? https://youtu.be/9PZOoVm1_jI Ballast Water Management Plan https://youtu.be/aPsGcCixTc0 Ballast Water Management Methods https://youtu.be/9g89KEbYd6I Duties Of Ballast Water Management Officer https://youtu.be/PFue0mIyC3Q Country Requirements Of Ballast Water Management https://youtu.be/-eLOE2M0vi0 Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683
How To Purging The Cofferdam
After successfully completing this lesson, you will have acquired the basic theoretical knowledge and skills needed to confidently purge the cofferdam on a Framo Pump. To gain maximum benefit from this lesson you should successfully have completed the previous lesson. This lesson gives step-by-step instructions on how to purge the cofferdam of a pump. Pump and Cargo Handling System https://youtu.be/GNWv0-z74wE How To Purging The Cofferdam https://youtu.be/C47whpkmm2U How To Load Through The Pump https://youtu.be/wjQAUzxdl2w How To Start The Framo Pump https://youtu.be/S6GKZf7Y4bo Parallel Pumping https://youtu.be/pvSlKwldZPA Framo Pump Cargo Discharging Operation https://youtu.be/rC45x8NsseQ Cargo Stripping System https://youtu.be/H15_hayDxro Tank Cleaning Procedures https://youtu.be/9HnzDY-11t4 Filling and Circulating The Cofferdam https://youtu.be/MNEs7wvVtFI Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Dynamic Positioning Systems, Principles, Design and Applications
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Vessel Collision Case Study 1
In this video will describe a real life maritime incident and explain the chain of events leading to a collision. it will highlight the rules of the Road being applied to the-situation and provide an opinion regarding the responsibility of each party involved an opinion regard the responsibility of each party involved in the collision. COLREG Rule 34 Warning Signals for Vessels In Sight Of Each Other https://youtu.be/dQ1VkgDt1x4 COLREG Rule 34 Signals When In Sight In A Narrow Channel https://youtu.be/8lOk46HFHe4 COLREG Rule 31 Seaplanes And WIG Craft https://youtu.be/7E5v1nSNmDk COLREG Rule 29 & Rule 35 Pilot Vessels On Duty https://youtu.be/HzVKJ9051dM COLREG Rule 27 Vessel Engaged In Mine Clearing Operations https://youtu.be/1G23KnMi66Y COLREG Rule 27 Vessel Engaged In Dredging OR Underwater Operations https://youtu.be/Gfry8xTJiuE COLREG Rule 27 & Rule 35 Vessel Restricted, But Not Mine Clearin https://youtu.be/OJpSE0cbB48 COLREG Rule 27 & Rule 35 Vessel Not Under Command https://youtu.be/8JflJu0Rd1k COLREG Rule 26 & Rule 35 Fishing Vessel Engaged In Trawling https://youtu.be/KEdFc53Czec COLREG Rule 26 & Rule 35 Fishing Vessel Engaged In Fishing Other Than Trawling https://youtu.be/n3PqV9rX7QA COLREG Rule 25 & Rule 35 Sailing Vessels and Vessels Under Oars https://youtu.be/z9rgrVvodZs COLREG Rule 24 Vessel Puching Ahead Or Rowing Other Vessels Alongside https://youtu.be/C1KE9IbQky8 COLREG Rule 24, Rule 27 And Rule 35 A Vessel Engaged In Towing https://youtu.be/kH1ZSgVhvdE COLREG Rule 23 & Rule 35 Power Driven Vessels https://youtu.be/0Jzo3AxowJU COLREG Rule 24 & Rule 35 A Vessel Being Towed https://youtu.be/jFSNvRtP3Ds COLREG Rule 21 & Annex 1 Light And Shapes https://youtu.be/m1Gmh2bJe9w COLREG Rule 20 & 32 Light And Shapes Signals https://youtu.be/P_WAz9cEYKo COLREG Rule 30 And Rule 35 A Vessel At Anchor https://youtu.be/DQz-TvHHobU COLREG Rule 30 A Vessel Aground https://youtu.be/v4FQt2NF6uk Don't Forget to subscribe US Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683
Procedures When a Crude Oil Tanker Arrives at Port
On completing this chapter you will have an understanding of: • The standard procedures when a crude oil tanker arrives at port • The formalities when port authorities and terminal representatives embark • The process for cargo tank survey and sampling by independent cargo surveyors • The process concerning connecting cargo hoses arms • The terminal requirements • The agreed discharge plan Tanker Environmental, Safety Security Operations https://youtu.be/pT_Lgvmr7eU Cargo Tank Cleaning and Slops Disposal https://youtu.be/GqXMPvpwLl0 Tasks and Requirements for Safe Voyage https://youtu.be/YluGJAVJQ1s Ship and Shore Formalities After Discharge https://youtu.be/cOiT-cjPZkU Crude Oil Discharging Operation https://youtu.be/xVMdzj6mS0I Procedures When a Crude Oil Tanker Arrives at Port https://youtu.be/wSZUfFLzyH0 Oil Tanker Discharge Operation https://youtu.be/NEAHz8xnNnI Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
How to Synchronize Generators an Incoming Generator
In this section you will learn how to synchronizes an incoming generator to alive bus bars. Electric Power Plant https://youtu.be/cwS4UppFwjo How Does Synchronous Generator Works https://youtu.be/T8zJKXkU_yM Voltage Regulation of Synchronous Generator https://youtu.be/dRfGGDoMh5g Frequency Control in Synchronous Generator https://youtu.be/0WOsYqvCg94 How to Synchronize Generators an Incoming Generator https://youtu.be/VyZBEO14lYA How to Operate Main Switchboard of Electric Power Plant https://youtu.be/RJgvfFF6W3U Power Management Systems on Modern Marine Electrical Power Plant https://youtu.be/gFqu4naSKhM Safety Precautions During General Electric Maintenance https://youtu.be/OPRfqhq_BK0 Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
ISM Plans, Procedures and Work Permits
As a result of this video section you will be able to demonstrate” • How and when to use work permits. • Understanding of plans and procedures. International Safety Management Code - ISM https://youtu.be/kMqaQ26zG0g International Safety Management Requirements https://youtu.be/g55WkNZFWZc ISM Audits Checklist, Reports and Reviews https://youtu.be/-EWN_ESKvPs ISM Plans, Procedures and Work Permits https://youtu.be/JnOibCb1Vz4 Safety Management System - SMS https://youtu.be/LPNa7xZqLu4 Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Load Lines OR Plimsoll Lines OR Water Lines
The waterline is the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water. Specifically, it is also the name of a special marking, also known as an international load line, Plimsoll line and water line (positioned amidships), that indicates the draft of the ship and the legal limit to which a ship may be loaded for specific water types and temperatures in order to safely maintain buoyancy,[1] particularly with regard to the hazard of waves that may arise. Varying water temperatures will affect a ship's draft; because warm water is less dense than cold water, providing less buoyancy. In the same way, fresh water is less dense than salinated or seawater with the same lessening effect upon buoyancy. #LoadLines #PlimsollLines #WaterLines Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Eye Bolts - How should you use eye bolts safely?
Eye Bolts - How should you use eye bolts safely? Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Ballast Water Management Methods
Ballast water treatment techniques to eliminating invasive aquatic species, reducing corrosion and complying with IMO ballast water guidelines. Ballast Water Management System for ships. Ocean-going ships take on ballast water to maintain stability when sailing without cargoes. This system ensures that ballast water is harmless when it is discharged into the sea at the loading port. Animal and plant plankton, bacteria, and other harmful materials in the ballast water are removed by the combined use of a high-performance filter, chemicals and venture tubes. This Section will provide you with information about various techniques for treating ballast water. Ballasting. Ballast water exchange at sea. Sequential method. Flow-through method. Ballast System. Precautions to be taken when exchanging ballast at sea . Non-release of blast water. Discharge to shore facility . Sediment removal. Ballast Techniques. Contingency procedures. Tang-ency procedures. Other not yet approved techniques. Mechanical treatment methods such as filtration separation. Physical treatment. Ballast Methods. Chemical treatment. Ballast water sampling. Location of sampling points. What is Ballast Water? https://youtu.be/Sr2nCvOdGvE What is an Invasive Species? https://youtu.be/9PZOoVm1_jI Ballast Water Management Plan https://youtu.be/aPsGcCixTc0 Ballast Water Management Methods https://youtu.be/9g89KEbYd6I Duties Of Ballast Water Management Officer https://youtu.be/PFue0mIyC3Q Country Requirements Of Ballast Water Management https://youtu.be/-eLOE2M0vi0 Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683
Safe Working Practices on Board of Vessels
Safe Working Practices on Board of Vessels Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Marine Useful Manoeuvres
This video will provide you with a basic introduction to some useful standard manoeuvres Useful manoeuvres. Pilot boarding arrangement. Picking up a pilot. Picking up a pilot in rough weather. Pilot by helicopter. Man over board. The single turn. The scarecrow turn. The Williamson turn. Man overboard – Immediate action. Search patterns. Re-supplying and transfers at sea. What is ship handling? https://youtu.be/qre-PQXYcUI Forces Involved During Manoeuvring and Sailing of Ships https://youtu.be/49p8CHntVgA Manoeuvring Characteristics And Interaction https://youtu.be/moUiEdCFsAM Marine Useful Manoeuvres https://youtu.be/7edJ_1ZSErY Propulsion And Manoeuvring Systems https://youtu.be/mb-NjsxxOcc Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Rigging & Slinging - Regulation and its Safety
This section will provide a short introduction to Rigging and Slinging. Definition Regulation Personal competence General safety issue Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Entering InTo Enclosed Spaces
A confined space also has limited or restricted means for entry or exit and is not designed for continuous occupancy. Confined spaces include, but are not limited to, tanks, vessels, silos, storage bins, hoppers, vaults, pits, manholes, tunnels, equipment housings, ductwork, pipelines, etc. An enclosed place can be used for several reasons; however, the main issue arises when one has to enter these enclosed places in order to do some repairing work or for cleaning purposes. Because of zero ventilation, these enclosed places generate and store toxic gases which are either produced from chemicals stored in the place or leakage from pipelines. If a person enters such place without taking precaution, he or she may suffer unconsciousness and sometimes even death. #EnclosedSpace #ConfinedSpace #IMO Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Main Lubricating Oil System
The main purpose of this section is to give all operation personnel a basic understanding of : • The engine most essential functions. • How the Main Lube Oil System Work. To ensure that all operating personnel are able to: • Locate, recognize and identify all essential components within the systems, • Execute the daily weekly and monthly inspections and maintenance routines. Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Maritime Labour Convention Brief Overview
Maritime Labour Convention Brief Overview Know of the existence of the MLC 2006 have an overview of the structure os the MLC 2006 Know the main responsibilities of the ship's Master and Senior Officers under the MLC 2006. Maritime Labour Convention Brief Overview https://youtu.be/-MF6arWcjok Maritime Labour Convention 2006 Certification https://youtu.be/cI6H1z542dE Onboard Areas of Inspection - Port State Control https://youtu.be/ZuanZ90H5Gk Onboard Requirements For Ongoing Compliance https://youtu.be/YtJXD7Nn_ds Consumes of Non-Compliance by the Ship https://youtu.be/UxgUHQWnMUM Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Manoeuvring Characteristics And Interaction
This video will provide you with basic understanding of typical maneuvering characteristics for different ship types. Ship steering. Maneuvering information. Turning circles. Comparison of turning circles – loaded/ballast. Passenger ferry – turning and stopping parameters. Bulk carrier – turning and stopping parameters. VLCC – Turning and stopping parameters. Shallow water influence. Squat. Zig Zag test. Emergency stopping. Launching and recovery of boats. Helicopter operations. What is ship handling? https://youtu.be/qre-PQXYcUI Forces Involved During Manoeuvring and Sailing of Ships https://youtu.be/49p8CHntVgA Manoeuvring Characteristics And Interaction https://youtu.be/moUiEdCFsAM Marine Useful Manoeuvres https://youtu.be/7edJ_1ZSErY Propulsion And Manoeuvring Systems https://youtu.be/mb-NjsxxOcc Don't Forget to Subscribe Us Like Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarineOnlineYoutube Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarineOnlineYou Follow Google+ https://plus.google.com/107450234425940445683 Website: https://marineonlineyou.blogspot.com/
Learning how to draw cartoon animals from the farm is not such a difficult task! Weve grown up surrounded by them! Farm animals are everywhere: In blockbuster movies, childs books, greeting cards. their shapes and images are printed in our minds! In this section, I will show you how to determine what are the physical uniqueness of each animal and how to work with them. Then, you can practice drawing each cartoon character using basic shapes. You will have the opportunity to make nice illustrations, practice sketching and cartooning using short easy lessons and complete your creation using a drawing software to create vector art if you want to! Cartoon drawing is really fun once you get into it!
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Dont be afraid to try until you get it right. This method is really simple, but requires practice and observation. So, sit back and relax. Learn how to draw animals from the farm and start your journey on a good note! Lets try s few basic characters to get started! :) A cute turkey to begin with. In this first tutorial, you can learn how to draw a fun turkey mostly made from small rectangles and large circular shapes. The posture of the character is really interesting. Not only is it easier to draw than a front version, but its also easier to add some perspective (as we can see with the legs). The fact that we just need to draw one wing is also interesting. Most of these cartoon animals are not filled with complex textures or digital effects. In this case, the subject is filled with plain colors and only a few basic details (inside the tail) were added. A nice turtle also from a side view.
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