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Watch Christy Uffelman accept the 2012 ATHENA Young Professional Award
Article written by: Eleanor Hofstedt
News, Our Blog, Pittsburgh, SWSG in the Press
“Christy really personifies the core values of ATHENA,” says Brienne Terril, who nominated Christy Uffelman for the 2012 ATHENA Young Professional Award. “She has achieved professional success, she is committed to improving the Pittsburgh community, and most importantly, she is a champion of women.”
Christy Uffelman, Vice President of Employee and Organization Development at Mascaro Construction, joined the SWSG Pittsburgh Advisory Council in 2011 and is also joining the SWSG National Board of Directors this year. In just her first year on the Advisory Council, Christy worked to pilot and develop SWSG’s Strong Leaders program. She was specifically nominated for the Young Professional Award for her outstanding hard work on the Strong Leaders program.
In her acceptance speech, Christy eloquently describes the uniqueness of all-female groups and how they work together. She highlights the importance of female- to-female mentoring relationships in providing a supportive environment for women in the work force, particularly in male-dominated fields. Christy also shares a few kernels of wisdom: the top-five lessons learned from female mentors in the last few years.
“I think it’s easy to talk the talk when it comes to mentoring women. It’s harder to walk the walk, and Christy walks the walk. Usually while wearing fabulous shoes.” – Brienne Terril
Fellow Advisory Council member, Latasha Wilson-Batch, was also a finalist for the 2012 ATHENA Young Professional Award. Along with Pittsburgh Advisory Council Member Charlie Batch, Latasha has actively supported SWSG for five years. Latasha, as Executive Director of the Best of the Batch Foundation, has provided both financial and programmatic support for SWSG as a member of the Pittsburgh Advisory Council. The Best of the Batch Foundation office is one of 26 Pittsburgh-area SWSG program sites, and it fills a unique niche as a site for 5th-grade girls from two elementary schools in the Steel Valley School District. In all of her work, both with SWSG and the Best of the Batch Foundation, Latasha displays an unending commitment to helping girls, women, and youth throughout Pittsburgh.
“The kids mentor me, too,” says Latasha. “I get energy from them, because I am so proud of them.” Learn more about Latasha and her passion for helping youth work towards a successful future and realize their full potential.
“The program that comes to mind is Strong Women, Strong Girls. [Latasha] is a strong woman herself; she fits the mold of the program’s name.” – Ryan McConnell, Volunteer, Best of the Batch Foundation
SWSG is honored to work with these two extraordinary women. Christy and Latasha, thank you for everything you have contributed to Strong Women, Strong Girls and Pittsburgh!
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Tips: Find Family Friendly Videos For #Kids With YouTube Kids #App
February 23, 2015 by Beth B. Leave a Comment
Because kids have access to browsers on many devices they can roam the internet which can result in kids seeing inappropriate content. The best defense for parents is to make sure they educate their kids on internet safety and have regular safety talks -so communication between kids and their parents is key. Along with that, introducing family friendly apps can also help kids stay within the boundaries of family friendly content. I am excited to announce that YouTube has created the YouTube kids app as a step to help families provide a safer place for kids to view videos online. While I could not attend the press event in New York, I will be meeting with YouTube to get a demo soon. Event though the ideal age for this app is only 2-8, this is a great step in the right direction for family friendly apps in general. National Geographic Kids shared “We are so excited to be a part of the new YouTube Kids app launch with National Geographic Kids original and curated video content,” says Michelle Sullivan, VP Digital. “We want kids of all ages–and their grownups– to enjoy our playlists and spark their curiosity to go out in the world and learn more.”
For now I wanted to share the information from the YouTube kids press release so parents can test it out for themselves:
The YouTube Kids app is available now on iOS and Android:
LINK FOR YOUTUBE KIDS iOS APP on the Apple Store
LINK FOR YOUTUBE KIDS ANDROID APP on Google Play
Photo Credit: YouTube
FAQ’S FROM YOUTUBE KIDS PRESS RELEASE:
Parental Controls:
Timer: Let the app be the bad guy with a built-in timer that lets you limit kids’ screen time. The app alerts your child when the session is over, so you don’t have to. (You’re welcome. 😉
Sound settings: Sometimes you need a little peace and quiet! You have an option to turn off background music and sound effects, so your kids can keep watching while you catch a breather.
Search settings: If you’d rather limit your children to just the pre-selected videos available on the home screen, you can turn off search.
Product feedback: Our goal is to improve YouTube Kids all the time, so we’ve included a space for you to give us your feedback.
What age group is this app appropriate for?
Right now, YouTube Kids delivers enriching and entertaining, early literacy content, ideal for kids 2-8.
Which devices are supported?
Launching in Google Play and the App Store, YouTube Kids is a fun and interactive place designed for families to explore and enjoy a vast selection of videos on tablet or smartphone. You can use YouTube Kids on your smartphone or tablet with:
iOS 7 or above
Android 4.1 or above
Can I log in to the app with my YouTube account?
No, we currently only support a logged out experience.
When will YouTube Kids be available in other countries and languages?
YouTube Kids is currently available to users in the United States, but we’re working to expand to other countries.
What kind of content is available in the app?
The app is a kid-appropriate experience built around the breadth and depth of content that kids love. With a vast selection of videos, across a variety of topics, the choices match a child’s endless curiosity and interests, offering something for every kid; find how-to build a volcano, countless train videos, sing-along versions of favorite songs, crafting projects, match tutorials, answers to questions (what if we lived on the moon?), and much more. You’ll also find popular programming like National Geographic Kids, Sesame Street, DreamWorks Animation and Thomas & Friends, online hits like Mother Goose Club, Super Simple Songs and TuTiTu, plus kid-friendly content from filmmakers, teachers and creators all around the world.
Are you COPPA compliant?
Yes. YouTube Kids is a signed-out app experience, so it does not collect, use or disclose information connected to a Google account, including the user’s name, address, contact or other personal information.
Here is a YouTube video demo of the new YouTube Kids app:
NEW SHOWS ON YOUTUBE KIDS (from press release):
The Furchester Hotel is a series for 3 to 6-year-olds set in an ‘almost’ world-class hotel run by a close-knit family of cheerfully incompetent monsters. The series, which is designed to encourage creative problem-solving, introduces brand new characters and also welcomes the beloved Elmo and Cookie Monster from Sesame Street.*
New digital videos for Thomas & Friends features Thomas the Tank Engine™ as fans have never seen him before, having adventures off the Island of Sodor in fascinating destinations like London, Paris, and New York City, and coming to life in children’s playrooms.
Explore the amazing technology that surrounds our everyday lives, in this exciting new original series called uTech, presented by Reading Rainbow and YouTube. In the first episode, join host LeVar Burton as he takes a look at some of the places you may have not realized we encounter technology (from the moment we wake up to an alarm clock, until we go to bed at night and brush our teeth).
National Geographic Kids playlists are an exciting and educational way to explore the very best of YouTube. Hosted by kids for kids, these curated playlists on awesome animals, cool science, natural phenomenons, and more are perfect for curious kids who want to explore, laugh, and learn.
Two new shows from Hank and John Green, the Vlogbrothers: SciShow Kids will tap into kids’ curiosity and answer their many “why” questions with animated explanations, live-hosted experiments and field trips. And Crash Course Kids will empower both educators and students with customized elementary school lessons, hosted by some of your favorite YouTube stars
WONDER QUEST: Set in the world of Minecraft, one of the most popular kid’s video games today, and starring Joseph Garrett, better known to millions of fans as Stampylonghead, “Wonder Quest” brings audiences family-friendly adventure with an educational twist. Will Stampy accept the quest from a friendly wizard? Will Stampy and his friends save the town of Wonderberg from a fate of really bad jokes? A fun way for kids to explore, Stampy invites friends to build an online world that encourages wonder — all based on Core Curriculum and Next Generation Science Standards.
A new series from Outfit7, Talking Tom and Friends will chronicle the adventures, hijinks, and inventions of Talking Tom and the gang as they shoot their own reality television show.
I can’t wait to try out the new YouTube kids app with my kids. How about you?
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The Scent of Gulal
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Posted on 24/10/2018 by Moinak Dutta wrote in Academic. It has 0 Comment.
About Moinak Dutta
Name: Moinak Dutta
Occupation: teacher, published fiction writer, poet.
Date of birth: 5th september,1977,
Nationality : Indian
Born on 5th September, 1977, he has been writing poems and stories from school days.Done postgraduation in English. Presently engaged as a teacher of English.Many of his poems and stories are published in national and international anthologies and magazines and also dailies including 'The Statesman' ( kolkata edition), ' World Peace Poetry anthology ' ( United Nations), 'Setu' , ' The Indian Periodical' ' Pangolin Review' ' Tuck Magazine' ' Duane's Poetree', ' Tell me your story' ( literary and travel magazine), ' The Literary Fairy Tales' ' Defiant Dreams' ( a collection of stories on women empowerment published by Readomania, New Delhi ), etc;
Written reviews of books and fictions, among which notable ones are : on ' The Upanisads ' ( translated by Valerie J. Roebuck) which can be found at www.blogapenguinindiaclassic.blogspot.com and the review of ' The Ballad of Bapu' ( written by Santosh Bakaya). Written some essays and articles on education and literature and other topics which had been published in both e- books/e - journals ( like Cafe Dissensus) and as printed books/ papers ( like one on ' Amalgamation of social media and literature: pros and cons, published by Viswa Bharati Research Centre and Sahitya Anand).
He is first full length english( genre: literary/romance ) fiction ‘Online@Offline’' had been published in 2014, by Lifi Publications.His second fiction(genre: literary/quest) titled ' In search of la radice' was published in 2017 by Xpress Publications. Also worked as an editor of a poetry collection titled ' Whispering Poeisis' , which had over one hundred poems from sixty poets from different parts of India and abroad, published in 2018 by Poeisis. Loves to do photography apart from listening to music and watching films and traveling.
email :moinakdutta@yahoo.co.in
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Ronza had gone to attend the birthday party. It was a beautiful Spring day; scent of gulal wafted through. Scent of nascent dreams that she had escaped from came back though she tried to escape. Like the way she tried to escape her own shadow. She knew all the trees in front of their house would blossom. The birds would start singing; Ronza would try to console herself. So, to escape from the memories she would immerse herself more and more into work. She will keep herself busy.
The college conducted some activities. A conference was taking place in the campus. Ronza wasn’t interested in poetry, hence decided to skip the session. But this stupid season of spring and that stupid boy, Tirtho. Few years senior to her in college when she was herself a student. How many years had passed? Some twelve years? Tirtho. The name itself evoked a series of slides before her eyes.
She found him walking down the corridor towards the library. He was taking notes in his scrapbook. He would be sitting under a tree at the playground adjacent to the main building of the college. He would be asking the professor about that aspect of Santiago’s character required to be discussed, which prompted him to imagine Marlin as a friend in that Hemingway novel, in spite of both Santiago and Marlin being engaged in a rigorous battle for their own survival. She found him writing down for her those notes of missing lectures. Tirtho. She found him everywhere in her consciousness. Even after twelve years!
In her sleep, she found him more. She remembered Tirtho’s face the day she went out to party with her friends after their class. He said nothing. Not spent a single word out of his mammoth vocabulary. He just asked Ronza the next day how did the party go. Ronza probably showed extra excitement. She probably wanted to incite a tinge of jealousy in Tirtho. She flaunted her dresses, her attitude, her acquired possessions. Tirtho said nothing. He never had much to say. That made Ronza more obstinate.
But this Spring! The season should have been banned. The birds should all remain shut, Ronza thought. The birthday party got over by nine. Ronza thought of jumping into the car.
The car was about to be start. Just then, she thought she saw him.
Tirtho! Grown fatter. But his walk had remained the same. He had got all the time to walk. Ronza came out of the car. Tirtho?
Tirtho looked at her. Through his glasses he saw her and at once broke into a smile. That infectious smile of his.
‘You? Here? Thought you had moved to another city…’ Ronza said.
‘Yes, came here to attend a workshop.’
‘Work shop? What? Where?’
‘At that hall nearby…something on poetry’. Tirtho said.
Ronza smiled, though her throat went dry.
‘Got to get back this evening only…it is really nice to see an old friend.’ Tirtho shook Ronza’s hand and started walking away. Ronza looked at her hands. She thought she found that scent of gulal there.
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Patrick finalizes Senate committees
The Texas Tribune reports that Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has finalized committee assignments in the senate for the 84th Legislature. Making good on two longstanding committees, Patrick both consolidated the number of committees and significantly reduced the number of Democratic chairs for those committees that remained. Three committees (Government Organization, Jurisprudence and Open Government) got the ax, and a further two committees (Economic Development and Natural Resources, respectively) were merged. This had the overall effect of slashing the total number of committees from 18 to 14.
All three folded committees had been chaired in the 83rd session by Democrats, as did a further three committees. Thus, 1/3rd of the committees had Democrats at the helm, roughly the proportion of the chamber controlled by the minority party. Patrick kept State Senator John Whitmire (D-Harris County), the dean of the chamber, in charge of the Criminal Justice Committee, a position he has held for many years. He also tapped State Senator Eddie Lucio Jr. (D-Cameron County) as the chair of Intergovernmental Relations, a rather low-ranking post. Reportedly, this was an olive branch extended to the upper house’s most centrist Democrat. Lucio was the one Democrat this past week to vote for the elimination of the 2/3rds rule, as well as for the omnibus anti-abortion bill HB2 (the one Wendy Davis filibustered) in 2013.
Among other important picks and retentions was State Senator Kel Seliger (R-Potter County) staying on as the chairman of the Higher Education Committee. Seliger has been, according to the Tribune article, an “occasional critic” of the Lieutenant Governor. He also is especially pro-Bill Powers and anti-Wallace Hall, for what it’s worth. State Senators Robert Nichols (R-Cherokee County) and Kevin Eltife (R-Smith County), respectively, also retained their chairmanships (Transportation and Business & Commerce, respectively).
State Senator Craig Estes (R-Wichita County), a two-time chair in the 83rd (Agriculture & Rural Affairs and State Affairs), was stripped of both titles. Harvey Kronberg at Quorum Report opined this could be because Estes was the sole Republican against the 2/3rds rule’s demise. Estes was replaced at Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs by State Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock County), a freshman. I found it somewhat interesting and telling that the one freshman tapped was not a right-wing activist like State Senators Don Huffines (R-Dallas County), Konni Burton (R-Tarrant County) or Bob Hall (R-Van Zandt County), to name a few.
Finally, all eyes were on the Senate Education Committee, of which Patrick previously chaired when he served in the upper chamber. He selected State Senator Larry Taylor (R-Galveston County) as the replacement, which garnered a wide variety of responses. Breitbart Texas appears particularly stoked. Many observers prognosticate that Patrick — now flanked by Taylor — will pursue a wide variety of educational reforms, including a more extensive use of vouchers for charter and private schools.
Say what you want about Patrick, but his first few days in office have featured nothing but him staying true on his word. Unfortunately, that means he was not bluffing on the campaign trail about implementing a very conservative agenda if sent to high office.
This is just a preview of things to come. Patrick is looking more and more like a boisterous and powerful lieutenant governor (the anti-Dewhurst, if you will). Meanwhile, Abbott looks as though he may not continue Perry’s mega-powerful theme. Texas politics may very well regress back to the mean, with a more powerful lieutenant governor and a less powerful governor. Still, don’t be surprised if Patrick runs for governor (and wins) in 2018.
Standard | | Tagged 2018 Election, 84th Legislature, Abortion, Bob Hall, Charles Perry, Craig Estes, Dan Patrick, David Dewhurst, Don Huffines, Eddie Lucio, Greg Abbott, John Whitmire, Kel Seliger, Kevin Eltife, Konni Burton, Larry Taylor, Rick Perry, Robert Nichols | 0 comments
Duncan leaves the Senate
The Texas Tribune reports that State Senator Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock County) will be resigning from the Senate in order to become the next Chancellor of Texas Tech. Admittedly, I heard a rumor about this a couple of months ago and utterly refused to accept it until I saw it confirmed. I do not especially care about the wonky higher education implications of this, and considering that I do not even talk about the (albeit fascinating) inside politics at the UT system on this publication, I will not bore you with the Ivory Tower tales from Lubbock, Texas (Editorial note: Carl, this is not elitist against your alma matter, it is a general comment that details of inner squabbles with universities, even involving my own college, are not meant to be published here).
Rather, I think the implications of someone like Duncan leaving the Texas Senate are quite significant for two key reasons. First, Duncan is definitely one of the most noble Senators in the upper chamber, and likely the most noble among Republicans. Avid followers of the chamber will surely remember Duncan for his kindness, integrity and all around good graces toward those on both sides of the aisle. However, much more pressing is that he was a foe to ideologues and partisan-over-policy attitudes, especially those in the Tea Party and other fringes of the right wing. In fact, early this year, Duncan strongly repudiated the so-called “race to the right,” a move that garnered him some positive press from an op-ed of mine in The Daily Texan.
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Standard | | Tagged 2014 Election, 84th Legislature, Bob Deuell, Bob Perry, Dan Patrick, Delwin Jones, John Carona, Kel Seliger, Kevin Eltife, Robert Duncan, Robert Nichols, Tommy Williams | 0 comments
Deuell backs Patrick
I promise you that this is very significant. State Senator Bob Deuell (R-Hunt County), a long time stalwart of the upper chamber hailing from the east, has endorsed Dan Patrick in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor. Patrick (R-Harris County), yet another member of the State Senator, did not always appear to have the most amiable of relationships with Deuell. Not so much for any centrism, but his bipartisanship and general decency around Democrats did him in with the Tea Party. Accordingly, he drew a Tea Party backed, far-right challenger in Bob Hall this primary cycle. Deuell and Hall will face off against one another next month in a runoff election, though polls generally put Deuell at an advantage.
Deuell supporting Patrick in a desperate attempt to improve his conservative credentials should not be seen as surprising in the least, but it is extremely important because of what it means for the future of the Texas Senate. Simply put, Deuell was an invaluable part of coalition I conjured up to combat the reign of terror from Dan Patrick, who –barring an incredibly strange turn of events– will be the next Lieutenant Governor of Texas. The point I made last month was that, assuming Wendy Davis’ Senate seat falls into Republican hands (Dems were too lazy to find a candidate worth their weight in paper), 5 Republicans would have to defect and join with the Democrats to strip Lt Gov Patrick of all his power at the start of the 84th Legislative session in January 2015. As I explained previously, the broad powers that the Lieutenant Governor has as the President of the Senate is by tradition not constitutional mandate. A majority of the Senate could easily strip the Lt Gov of her or his powers.
Standard | | Tagged 2014 Election, 84th Legislature, Bob Deuell, Dan Patrick, Don Huffines, John Carona, Kel Seliger, Kevin Eltife, Robert Duncan, Robert Nichols, Tommy Williams, Wendy Davis | 2 Comments
Eltife defends Two-thirds rule
Patricia Kilday Hart at the Houston Chronicle expands upon an issue I lightly touched upon last week: if and how Dan Patrick and recent primaries might move the general temperament of the upper chamber significantly to the right. Specifically, she noted at least three examples of those Republicans most amenable to maintaining the current balance of order in the chamber.
As I have expanded upon in the aforementioned previous post, the venerable 2/3rds rule in the Senate has been incessantly under attack by both State Senator Dan Patrick or Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst. I wrote about this issue at length in The Daily Texan, but the gist of the matter is that some of the Republican top brass want to make the Democratic minority powerless to stop the proposals of the Republican majority. This would run hand-in-hand with the oft-controversial Patrick taking the helm of power as Lieutenant Governor, which also serves as President of the Senate. However, as I mentioned in my other article (which, I insist, you should really read), a majority of the Senate may strip the Lieutenant Governor of his power. This majority (16 Senators) would require 5 Republicans join with the Democrat caucus, assuming Wendy Davis’ seat falls into Republican hands.
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Lieutenant Governor Patrick?
Let us assume that Dan Patrick wins the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor. Further, let us assume that –no matter what the Washington Post may say– Patrick wins the general election. What, then, will become of our Texas? Liberals are preaching about a tentative apocalypse that may occur if Patrick takes the dais at the Senate. Tea Partiers are giddy at the prospect of having one of their own in office.
This leads us to examine just what would, in fact, happen if (when) Patrick is inaugurated into office at the commencement of the 84th Legislature in January 2015. An article in the San Antonio Express-News begins to answer that question, but stops shy of the pronouncement I will go on to say. Simply put, the article notes the continuing hostility between Patrick and many of the Republican members of the State Senate. In my opinion, the article focuses too much on the prospect of what the Senate majority would do if State Senator Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio), the Democratic nominee, is elected, given how quixotic that proposition could be. Instead, I would like to focus on how the Senate majority may react to the –far more likely– result of Dan Patrick being elected Lieutenant Governor.
Standard | | Tagged 2014 Election, 84th Legislature, Bob Deuell, Dan Patrick, David Dewhurst, Joe Straus, Kel Seliger, Kevin Eltife, Leticia Van de Putte, Rick Perry, Robert Duncan, Robert Nichols, Tom Craddick, Wendy Davis | 3 Comments
Transportation deal in the works
The Texas Tribune reports that a very select Conference Committee, including Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Sen. Finance Cmte. Chair Tommy Williams and Sen. Transportation Cmte. Chair Robert Nichols, has come up with the framework for a deal on Transportation funding. As the astute may recall, this was the issue added immediately after redistricting to the call of the first special session. However, the filibuster and other misplaced priorities on the part of the Republicans lead to the issue dying at sine die. The issue, along with Miller compliance and abortion, was added to this session’s call.
The House and the Senate have both previous passed Transportation funding bills. The key difference between the two bills rest on what money from the rainy day fund (RFD) is used for, as well as how much money to use. The House’s version included a convoluted project which would entangle education funding, by switching around lots of earmarks for RDF-bound taxes.
The Conference Committee’s bill would divert lots of money earmarked for the RDF, originally form oil & gas taxes, for transportation funding, predominantly highway maintenance. While many originally wanted a provision setting a minimum RDF balance at $6 Billion, this new bill requires the Legislative Budget Board (LBB), dominated by Republicans, to set the amount. This bill is a constitutional amendment, meaning it requires 2/3 of both Houses and must be endorsed by a majority of voters in November–although the new bill pushes the referendum back to 2014.
Since 2/3 is required, 5 House Democrats and 2 Senate Democrats are needed for approval. This is not just a rule or a tradition, but part of the State’s Constitution. Dewhurst cannot get around it. Accordingly, it is worth noting that Democrats are somewhat unified in opposition to setting a limit to the RDF balance.
This is somewhat noteworthy, because the session ends on Tuesday. The Houston Chronicle reports that Perry has absolutely no problems calling lawmakers for a third special session on this issue, and this issue alone.
Accordingly, it may be in the Democrats’ interest to compromise.
UPDATE: Off the Kuff has more.
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Legislative update 5/3
I’d like to apologize for my lacking activity in the last few days, it’s finals week. I’ll be done on Monday evening, and will be heading back to Houston on Wednesday morning for nearly four months. My day job this summer will be at the Federal Courthouse downtown, but I can’t go into any more detail than that. I will probably visit Austin 2-3 times in the next couple weeks, though.
Texas Energy Resources Commission
I talked at length a few days ago about a House bill that would, among other things, rename the Railroad Commission to something more relevant to what they actually do. That bill being highlighted was, from what I understand, a House bill, but it has recently passed the Senate **UPDATE: House Committee passed the original legislation as well**. The Trib reports that SB 212, proposed by Senator Robert Nichols, has passed unanimously. The Tribune says it was a “21-0” vote, but it was actually 31-0, hence the unanimity. The new name will be the “Texas Energy Resources Commission.”
Protecting Good Samaritans and victims
The Trib reports that Lon Burnam’s HB 3738 has passed committee. The bill would prohibit police officers from inquiring about the immigration status of either victims of crimes, or witnesses thereto. The online thing-a-ma-bobber doesn’t do roll calls for committee votes, but the number was 8-4-1. The Committee consists of 8 Republicans and Five Democrats. Rene Oliveira has made MIA from the House recently, and he is a member of the committee. Therefore, it looks like four of the Republicans voted for this measure. Good for them.
I discussed a few weeks ago that Senator Watson’s hit-and-run punishment bill had passed the Senate. Now, according to the Statesman, it has done so in the House of Representatives. HB 72 by Allen Fletcher was unanimous and increases the penalty of a hit-and-run to the same level as intoxication manslaughter. The bill is now sent to Perry, and, if he signs it, it would become law immediately.
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Tag Archives: Susan Criss
Predictions and hopes
Longtime readers of this blog will recall that I am not much for predictions. Well, to be fair, I used to predict things all the time, but I was notoriously wrong too many times to count. Accordingly, in an effort to save face, I will not field my own electoral predictions, which are only slightly less reliable than the Tribune polls.
Rather, I want to note what I am looking for and what I am hoping for; admittedly, they are nearly mutual exclusive categories. Within those categories, I would like to look most specifically at both the Republican & Democratic primaries, as well as both Statewide races and those in Harris County. Within these four categories, there are quite a few overlapping key points, however.
1. HOW BIG IS THE STUPID VOTE?
This is one for the Democratic primary. I am using the official academic term, of course, to describe these so-called stupid voters. They are the voters who will cast their lots for Kesha Rogers (US Senate), Lloyd Wayne Oliver (District Attorney) and Lori Gray (115th District Court), in that order. Albeit, plenty of otherwise unintelligent voters may coincidentally vote for the non-egregious candidates, but there is no way to discern them from Adam.
Click here to read all my other points!
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Civil Affairs: Judges
CIVIL AFFAIRS
Noah M. Horwitz published a weekly column, “Civil Affairs,” in a Boston newspaper from 2012-2014. He has since transferred the column’s home to ‘The Daily Texan’ in Austin.
The first time I voted in a general election (2012), I was shocked at just how long the ballot was. The presidential election had obviously garnered a fair amount of coverage, as did local races for Congress, sheriff and the state Legislature. However, what took up the vast majority of the ballot were the myriad judicial contests. Pages upon pages of district and county benches were to be filled by the voters, in partisan elections. Democratic and Republican nominees had been selected in their respective parties’ primaries to run for the posts: civil, criminal, family, juvenile and probate courts.
Read the whole op-ed in The Daily Texan!
Standard | | Tagged Civil Affairs, James Horwitz, John McCain, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Larry Taylor, Mike Engelhart, Rick Perry, Susan Criss, Wallace Jefferson | 1 Comment
Criss to run for HD23
The Houston Chronicle reports that Susan Criss, a longtime District Judge and Democrat from Galveston, will resign her bench in order to run for the State Legislature. The astute will recall that in May, amidst my coverage of the mishegas in the Galveston court system (i.e., Christopher Dupuy), I noted that longtime State Representative Craig Eiland would be retiring. Eiland, a Democrat, represents a nominally Republican district that includes the arch-conservative Chambers County as well as parts of Galveston County. While the island itself and most the coastal mainland is still deep blue, more and more of the County has turned bright red as a result of being assimilated into Houston’s suburban community. Accordingly, this seat provides a pickup opportunity for Republicans that was not even in play in 2010.
Criss is a political celebrity in Galveston, being the next-in-line of a politically aristocratic family. He father, Lloyd Criss, is the longtime Chairman of the Galveston County Democratic Party and previously served as the Representative in the same Galveston district from 1979 to 1991. The younger Criss, to my knowledge, is the only Democrat running for the post and the Chronicle article notes that they could not find any Republicans either. The filing deadline is on Monday.
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A basic recap of Legislative retirements
The Texas Tribune reports that yet another longtime Republcan State Representative, Bill Callegari of Katy, will not seek re-election in 2014. Callegari, who has been in office since 2001, is not by any means one of the most moderate of Representatives, though he is still far more pragmatic than most members of the Tea Party caucus.
Among the other retirements from the lower chamber among the Republican caucus are technocrats, pragmatists and longtime representatives. These include Harvey Hilderbran (who is running for Comptroller), Tyron Lewis, Rob Orr and Jim Pitts, among other names. Further Republicans, not necessarily more moderate, such as Dan Branch, Stefani Carter and Van Taylor, are forgoing re-election to the House in order to run for higher office.
Among Democrats, Craig Eiland is probably the only Democrat retiring whose district has been put in jeopardy (this is assisted by the fact that the Democrats, holding a pitiful 55 seats, have already been reduced to the studs. Eiland’s district, consisting of most of Galveston, has eyed a few hopeful Democrats, including District Judge Susan Criss & former Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski.
From what I understand, about half the Legislature has announced intention to run for re-election, with another big share of the lower house still assumed to do so.
A larger share of the State House’s Republican caucus that is filled with far-right reactionaries is bound to be a brutal result for the Democrats. The most odious quality of this increased polarization is that it is not easily fixed. Jim Pitts’ successor, for example, will most likely be a Tea Party favorite out of Waxahachie. His constituents in Waxahachie will not be inclined to dump a Tea Party representative any time soon, because for the forseeable future, Republican primaries in Ellis County will be tantamount to election.
Another issue with all these retirements is that Joe Straus’ days as Speaker may be numbered. Paul Burka first prophesied this conclusion about a month ago, well before the cards of retirement started falling.
51 current Republicans were elected in the post-Tea Party era (2010 or 2012). This is added to the six currently retiring Representatives who did not take office in one of those years. After that point, only 19 of the 44 remaining Republicans are needed to oust Straus. The math does not look good for him if an organized opposition effort actually comes to pass.
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What’s going on in Galveston?
A few months ago, I was surfing YouTube, watching a plethora of random videos. One of the advertisements that popped up before the videos was a political insurgency campaign of some sorts by someone named “Don Tequila.” The video, which was set to Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” played a montage of newspaper headlines outlining the many controversies a Galveston County Court at Law Judge, Christopher Dupuy, had found himself in since taking office in early 2011.
The case involving Judge Dupuy has officially blown up in the last week (I have been putting off writing this because it is still a breaking story). He has been accused of countless felonies, including abuse of power and official oppression.
An exhaustive summary of all of the controversies Dupuy has been involved in in the past roughly two years would be too onerous to detail at this time. Rather, there are three distinct issues currently affecting the Galveston Judge.
First, Dupuy was recently indicted and suspended without pay for eight crimes. These included corruption, oppression, abuse of power and retaliation. After the original arrest and indictment, Dupuy simply showed up for work like nothing had happened. It was only at that time that Dupuy was ordered by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct into official unpaid suspension.
Second, Dupuy has been historically quite erratic and possibly dangerous. A Chron article from February describes Susan Criss, another Galveston judge, fearing for her safety and the safety of her staff after frightening encounters with Dupuy. Judge Criss also claimed that Dupuy had posted inflammatory comments on his personal Facebook page, insinuating that he was carrying handguns “in a zipped pocket in his jacket” to the courthouse regularly.
Lastly, Dupuy has been involved in extensive family drama. During a recent court hearing of which Dupuy was a party to, rather than presiding over, Dupuy was alleged told his then-girlfriend that he was planning on killing his ex-wife and kidnapping his children and bringing them out of the country. FOX26 reports that this girlfriend, Tara Compton, plead the fifth when taking the stand, out of fear for her life. “I’m afraid something bad will come of this. I don’t want to end up having a bad accident after all of this. I fear what could happen to me,” the woman said. Dupuy also allegedly mailed a picture of a gun with a silencer on it to his ex-wife.
This guy is nuts. He was noted a few times to start laughing during court proceedings “when there did not appear to be anything humorous happening.” I had heard stories over the years of an absolutely psychotic lawyer my father once faced off against, but didn’t realize it was Dupuy until somewhat recently. I hope he can get kicked out of office sooner, rather than later, so that Galveston can reclaim some of their dignity.
Speaking of Galveston, there is another newstory going on. Craig Eiland, the Galveston Democratic State Rep and former Speaker Pro Tem, will not be seeking re-election in 2014. He fought hard to win in both 2010 and 2012, so this is going to be a hard seat for the Democrats to keep. According to the Trib article on the topic, Eiland prophesied not about the importance of purple, but of brown–and obvious reference to the changing demographics.
I haven’t heard of anyone running for this seat, but it is going to be a messy race. Personally, I think this is a lost cause for the Democrats. Dems aren’t going to win this seat fighting over rural white districts. Let them go, keep your eye on the real prize: the cities and the south. Off the Kuff has more on Eiland.
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Texas has become a laboratory for bad ideas when it comes to reproductive rights. In recent years state lawmakers have passed some of the toughest anti-abortion measures in the country, essentially making the procedure almost inaccessible for many Texas women.
The Texas Freedom Network supports efforts to ensure women have access to abortion and other reproductive health care services. That access requires adequate state funding and broad availability of birth control, especially for low-income women.
Just Texas: Faith Voices for Reproductive Justice
Just Say Don’t Know: Sex Education in Texas Public Schools (2009 report)
Sex Education in Public Schools: Progress in the Lone Star State (2011 report)
Texans Stand Up for Access to Birth Control: Results from a Statewide Survey of Texas Voters (2013 report)
TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK STATEMENT ON THE SUPREME COURT’S ABORTION DECISION TODAY
Press Releases, Reproductive Rights
This Victory Doesn’t End the Fight for the Dignity of Women and their Constitutional Right to Make their Own Health Care Decisions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2016
Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller has the following statement on today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court striking down key provisions of Texas’ extreme anti-abortion law:
“This decision is a huge victory for the dignity of women and their constitutional right to make their own health care decisions. But extremists from the Governor’s Office to the state Capitol are already preparing more legislative efforts to deny women their constitutional right to access safe and legal abortion care in Texas. They refused to listen to the experts who said this law was medically unnecessary and to the voices of thousands of women who came to the Capitol three years ago. But the Supreme Court listened to those voices and today honored the constitutional right of women to access abortion care no matter their zip code. This fight continues until our lawmakers trust Texas women and families to make their own decisions about their health care and their future.”
### Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of religious and… Read More
Will You Be There for the SCOTUS Ruling on TX Abortion Laws?
Blog, Reproductive Rights
We're expecting a decision on the Texas abortion law, HB2, in the next week. Whichever day the ruling comes down, TFN has several ways you can get involved immediately: Read More
TFNEF Launches Ad Campaign Pushing Back Against Political Attacks on State Health Researchers
April 21, 2016 by Dan Quinn
Blog, News, Reproductive Rights
The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund today is launching a new statewide campaign confronting Texas politicians who have attacked state health researchers for telling the truth about the negative impact their policies are having on women’s health care. This bold new public engagement strategy, Texas: State of Denial, aims to shed light on the war on women being waged by state politicians.
“For too long, Texans have endured tremendous political interference that has undermined the health of women and eroded access to quality health care across the state,” said TFNEF President Kathy Miller. “Now efforts by politicians to discredit and even silence health researchers represent another shocking betrayal of trust. Texans have a right to know about the harmful consequences of misguided laws their elected officials pass.”
The campaign launch comes after a top Texas health researcher left his job following harsh attacks by state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, and other state officials for co-authoring a recent study on controversial changes to family planning policies in the state. The study, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in February, found that the number of Texas women obtaining… Read More
Activists Call on Supreme Court to Stop Politicians from Restricting Access to Safe, Legal Abortion
March 2, 2016 by Dan Quinn
News, Press Releases, Reproductive Rights
AUSTIN – Recounting the state’s central place in a decades-long battle, reproductive health care advocates in Texas today called upon the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a draconian law that undermines the court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 establishing the right to abortion. Read More
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Tag Archives: San Jose City College
North Central graduate Lozer embraces bullpen as U. of Michigan, Mets organization pitcher
January 25, 2018 stvkrh905 Leave a comment
Mac Lozer has come to relish the relief role.
A starting pitcher much of the time at North Central High School in Indianapolis, where he graduated in 2013, the right-hander was asked to go to the bullpen for the University of Michigan.
“I pitched how I would benefit the team most,” says Lozer. “They put me in late-inning, high-leverage situations.”
In four seasons with the Wolverines, Lozer made 100 mound appearances (all in relief) and went 4-1 with three saves and a 2.22 earned run average. In 77 innings, he produced 94 strikeouts and 44 walks.
Along the way, Lozer grew from 5-foot-11 and throwing 84 mph to 6-1 and with deliveries of 89 to 92 mph was selected in the 33rd round of the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the New York Mets.
In 16 games and 23 innings at Kingsport (Tenn.) of the rookie-level Appalachian League, Lozer went 2-1 with a 4.30 ERA. He whiffed 20 and walked nine.
Lozer was pitching in the summer for the Indiana Bulls when he was approached by Michigan assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Nick Schnabel about coming to Ann Arbor.
“It was a perfect fit academically, athletically and socially,” says Lozer, 22. “To this day, it’s one of the best decisions of my life.”
At Michigan, he played for head coach Erik Bakich. A nutritionist and trainer before becoming a coach, the former head coach at the University of Maryland, assistant at Vanderbilt University and Clemson University and player at East Carolina University after San Jose City College attends to more than just what happens between the white lines.
“He’s an amazing guy and an amazing coach,” says Lozer of the man who runs the Maize and Blue program. “He’s a life coach. He is concerned with the full human being. He develops you in leadership skills and makes you a better future father and current brother and son. He has a perfect formula for coaching a baseball player.
“I’m glad I stayed one more year and had another year with Coach Bakich.”
Lozer says the nutrition component at Michigan offers a “killer foundation.”
Whether a player is looking to gain, lose or maintain weight, needs to know how much water to drink or what supplements to take, there is a program in place to help players maximize their bodies.
“It’s not rocket science, but a lot of hard work,” says Lozer.
The right-hander learned to work at the mental side of the game and follow many of the principles laid out by sports psychologists Dr. Ken Ravizza and Dr. Tom Hanson in their book, “Heads Up Baseball.”
Michigan did mental strength training nearly everyday and Lozer focused on concepts like awareness, confidence and releasing negative energy. In the off-season, the Wolverines attended leadership sessions twice a week.
“Mental toughness is a learned trait,” says Lozer. “It’s not inherited.
“You have to be mentally tough in the real world. It’s truly a life skill.”
As a college reliever, Lozer needed to be prepared to pitch three or four times a week as compared to a starter who pitches once a week.
“As a reliever, you can have a bad outing one day and redeem yourself the next day and get it off your mind,” says Lozer. “It’s all about mental preparation. You want to be in that moment and not hesitant.
“It’s a synergy of mental and physical preparation. You close your eyes and take mental reps. I do a lot more mental reps than I do pitches. I make sure my confidence is at its highest point before I go in.”
Lozer credits former Michigan pitching coach Sean Kenny (now at the University of Georgia) for making him into an effective pitcher, teaching him the attack mindset while helping him develop his four-seam fastball (which has two-seam action), slider and change-up (which became game-ready in 2017).
“He’s going to do great things at Georgia,” says Lozer of Kenny. “I thank him for everything he did at Michigan.”
Staying at Michigan for four years also helped Lozer complete his degree in sociology with a sales certificate.
Lozer played baseball from age 7 to 11 at First Baptist Athletic Association. From 12U to 14U, he was with the Indiana Prospects. Coaches included his father Jeff Lozer plus Mike Nash and Andy Upchurch.
At 14U and 15U, Mac was with North Central Panther Summer Select. That team was coached by North Central High School head coach Phil McIntyre.
Lozer appreciates how McIntyre allowed him to play multiple positions during his high school career. Mac was a center fielder, first baseman, shortstop and catcher as well as a pitcher at NCHS.
From 16U to 18U, Lozer played in the summer for the Indiana Bulls — the first two years for coaches Jeff Mercer (now head coach at Wright State University) and Emmitt Carney and the last for Matt Campbell (now head coach at Lapel High School).
“The best thing about (the Bulls) is they are not going for trophies,” says Lozer. “They are developing players to match their potential.”
Mac is the son of attorney and former Davidson College baseball player Jeff Lozer and Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis professor Staci Lozer.
“She takes care of all the boys in the house,” says Mac of his mother.
One younger brother, Alan Lozer, is studying investment banking at Miami University after playing baseball at DePauw University. Youngest brother Scott Lozer is a North Central freshman and Indiana Nitro player.
Mac Lozer, a graduate of North Central High School in Indianapolis and the University of Michigan, is a pitcher in the New York Mets organization. (Kingsport Mets Photo)
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Fifth Doctor television stories, Regeneration television stories, Season 21 stories,
Sixth Doctor television stories
Four part serials
Stories set in the 51st century
The Caves of Androzani (TV story)
The Caves of Androzani
6R — Season 21, Serial 6
Novelised as:
Tegan, Turlough, Kamelion, Nyssa, Adric, Sixth Doctor
Sharaz Jek, Morgus, Stotz
Androzani Minor and Major, 51st century
8 - 16 March 1984
4x25-minute episodes
One more memorable moment
Planet of Fire The Twin Dilemma
The Caves of Androzani was the sixth serial of season 21 of Doctor Who. It was the final regular appearance of Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and introduced Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor in the closing moments of part four.
It was also Graeme Harper's first credited Doctor Who directorial job. Widely praised by fans, Caves was voted the single best televised Doctor Who story in a 2009 poll conducted by Doctor Who Magazine. (DWM 413)
As a regeneration story, it offered many unusual elements. Perhaps the most obvious was that it was written by Robert Holmes. Although the most prolific writer of the 1963 version of the programme, this was his only regeneration story. Caves was also the first regeneration story to allow for a brief scene with the incoming Doctor. Unlike any of his predecessors, the new Doctor was given the final words of the story — something that would happen in regeneration stories of the revived series. It was also the first time the Doctor willingly and explicitly underwent a regeneration solely to save a companion, which the Doctor would only do again in his ninth incarnation, (TV: The Parting of the Ways) and his tenth incarnation. (TV: The End of Time) Furthermore, it was the first time since 1966's The Tenth Planet that the Doctor regenerated before the end of the then-current series, and the first since The Tenth Planet that occurred inside of the TARDIS.
From a behind-the-scenes perspective, Harper's direction was hailed by those involved with the production as highly innovative. Particularly noteworthy were Harper's more free use of camera movement than usual at the time and his direction from the studio floor. Harper's energetic and more personal directorial style sharply contrasted most who preceded him. Unlike Harper, most directors of the 1963 version of Doctor Who generally preferred to work in the booth and relay their messages to the actors and crew through the production assistant stationed on the floor. Peter Davison, in particular, found Harper's more direct style much to his liking. He lamented he had waited until his last story to receive this bolder style of direction, and that he would've stayed on the series longer if this directorial style was present during more of his tenure. (DCOM: The Caves of Androzani)
Another unique aspect of the production was its use of Shakespearian soliloquy. Morgus, the principal villain of the piece, sometimes turned away from the characters and spoke his thoughts aloud, often appearing to break the fourth wall in the process by gazing into the camera. Though apparently the result of a mistaken impression about the script by actor John Normington, Harper kept the asides in, feeling they effectively ramped up the dramatic tension. (DCOM: The Caves of Androzani)
Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the heart of the conflict is a substance called Spectrox - both valuable and deadly! The Doctor & Peri wind up being poisoned by the material, which is killing them slowly and painfully unless they can find a cure. As the conflict heats up and the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor realises time is running out - both for Peri and himself...
Part one Edit
The TARDIS lands on Androzani Minor, one of the twin planets in the Sirius star system. The Doctor and Peri decide to explore a set of tracks that lead into some nearby caves.
The Doctor finds a spaceship has arrived, carrying a strange cargo. Deep in the caves, a soldier is killed by a monster. In another part of the caves, Peri catches her foot in an unknown, sticky and stringy substance. As the Doctor pulls her leg free, he gets some of the substance on his hand. Despite noticing that the substance has a strange stinging sensation to it, something Peri also complains about, he is unconcerned. As they keep exploring deeper into the cave system, Peri asks why the Doctor wears a stick of celery, he explains that it is a safety precaution. He is allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spectrum; in their presence, celery turns purple. They discover a hoard of weapons and hear several footsteps. Soldiers capture them and take them to their leader, General Chellak. As the two explain their innocence to Chellak and Major Salateen, there is a call from Trau Morgus, a business conglomerate leader on Androzani Major and CEO of the Sirius Conglomerate. Believing the two to be working for gunrunners Stotz and Krelper, he loses all interest in them and orders their deaths after seeing that Chellak's "gunrunners" are not his own men over holographic communication.
Deep in the caves, the masked madman Sharaz Jek has monitored the broadcast between Morgus and Chellak. He is delighted at Peri's beauty. Meanwhile, Chellak tries to reason with Morgus in an attempt to get him to relent on his decision to execute the prisoners, telling him that Peri and the Doctor have been fully cooperative and might give them more information if they are kept alive. But Morgus refuses, telling Chellak that there can be no negotiations with traitors.
In their cell, the Doctor and Peri await their deaths. The Doctor ponders what they have stepped into, noticing how Morgus lost all interest in them once he had had his look at them and his talk of fighting against android rebels. Peri comments that it hardly matters; the authorities seem bent on making the two of them fall guys for whatever is going on. The Doctor apologises to Peri for getting them into this mess, telling her that curiosity has always seemed to be his downfall. Their conversation then turns to the strange fungus Peri stepped in; Peri complains that the rash on her leg is starting to develop into blisters, and the Doctor tells her that the same is happening to his hand, noticing that the substance must have some highly toxic properties. Peri grimly points out that whatever it was, it probably will not manage to kill them before the executioners can.
Meanwhile, in his lair, Sharaz Jek keeps the military base under close surveillance through hidden cameras. Looking at the Doctor and Peri in their cell and the soldiers preparing for the execution outside, he starts issuing orders to his androids.
In the cell, the Doctor's thoughts turn to the "spectrox," which both Chellak and Morgus were discussing during their interrogation of them. He wonders what it is and why Morgus named it the "most valuable substance in the universe". Peri asks him if he really does not know, and the Doctor answers that even his knowledge is not limitless. As they talk, a secret door in the back of the cell opens and a figure steps inside...
A business conversation between Morgus and the President of Androzani Major reveals the full picture of the Spectrox crisis. Spectrox is a powerful drug produced by bats in Androzani Minor's caves, which is the only known source of the drug. Spectrox is highly valued by the people of nearby Androzani Major for its ability to extend life and keep ones youthful looks somewhat intact.
The impending execution.
The spectrox mines are controlled by Morgus, but the operation is threatened by the masked Sharaz Jek and his army of androids, causing public tension on Androzani Major over limited supplies. Morgus has funded a military operation by Androzani Major's government against Jek's androids. He has also secretly backed a gunrunning group to deliver weapons to Jek to profit from the war.
As Morgus and the President watch on a monitor, the Doctor and Peri are brought to the execution squad, dressed in red to hide the blood of their impending wounds. General Chellak asks if they have any last words; the Doctor tells him the whole thing is a mockery of justice, while Peri tells him just to get it over with. The soldiers step forward and take aim. On command, they pump bullets into the Doctor and Peri.
Part two Edit
Chellak has the soldiers check their weapons. As the bodies are cut free of the execution posts, Morgus switches off the monitor. He tells the President anyone without a valid work permit has been sent to Eastern labour camps to reduce crime. The President realises Morgus has been closing plants in the West and opening them again in the East. If he accepts Morgus' suggestion, the same people will be working for him without pay.
It turns out that the Doctor and Peri have been rescued by Sharaz Jek, who was watching them and had prepared android duplicates to take their place in the execution. They are taken to his base to become his companions in exile. Chellak and Salateen go to look at the bodies. When they turn out to be androids, Chellak realises his career is at risk. He decides to not let anyone know about it. Meanwhile, the Doctor asks Jek if he could show him and Peri the way to the surface, but Jek explains that he intends to make them stay with him and keep him company. He assures them, with a hint of threat in his voice, that he will take care of their every need. Meanwhile, Stotz is having trouble. Krelper is getting fed up with the lack of pay and their recent string of failures and wants to leave the gunrunning enterprise. But when Stotz threatens with killing him, Krelper relents and Stotz decides to let him live for the time being.
At Jek's base, the Doctor and Peri complain of rashes and cramps where they touched the sticky substance in the caves. Jek returns, and Peri asks him why he wants to keep them prisoners here. Jek answers that he is attracted to her beauty and that he likes the idea of having the Doctor as an intellectual sparring partner. He then tells the Doctor that he sees him as the most expendable person in this arrangement and he, therefore, expects him to be obedient towards him, warning him if he does not submit, then he will kill him, but Peri, on the other hand, he intends to keep alive forever.
When Peri answers that eternal life is impossible, Jek explains that refined spectrox can extend someone's life, forever if need be, and he now owns all of it. "Until the army takes it away from you," comments the Doctor dryly, but Jek angrily retorts it will not happen. Thanks to his monitoring equipment, he knows the army's every move, and so far their fight against his androids have been slow and very costly in manpower for them; at the current rate it will take five years for the army to actually threaten his operations and by that time he expects the people of Androzani Major to have already risen up and forced the Presidium to agree to his terms: they can have all the spectrox they want once the head of Morgus lies at his feet.
Meanwhile, at Morgus' headquarters, Morgus is surprised to hear from Timmin that the copper mine has exploded. This takes care of overproduction and makes the price of copper rise. Morgus wants every employee to leave their place and stand in silence for a minute but then changes his mind and says half a minute.
Back at Jek's base, the Doctor meets Salateen. He has been a prisoner here, too. Jek captured him months ago and replaced him with an android that looks like him. The real Salateen resignedly realises Jek will probably kill him now he has them for company. When the Doctor tries asking him about the weird symptoms he and Peri are experiencing and explains how they got them, Salateen breaks into a bitter laugh. He tells that they are in the first stages of spectrox toxaemia, a very serious form of poisoning contracted from exposure to unrefined spectrox. Their symptoms are only going to get worse from here and the condition will eventually kill them in a few hours. While there is an anti-toxin, it requires the milk of the queen bat. Due to the mining activity, all the bats have fled to deeper levels of the caves, where there is no oxygen, making it next to impossible to acquire.
Timmin labours in Morgus' shadow.
Stotz contacts Jek and tells him his ship is in good shape and it wasn't his fault that the androids didn't show up. Before Jek leaves to meet with Stotz and the gunrunners, Peri asks why he wears a mask. Jek flies into a rage. Shaking with anger, he explains that he was once Morgus' business partner in the spectrox business. One day when he was working on Androzani Minor, a mud burst erupted, but Morgus had betrayed him by giving him faulty detection instruments, so he had no warning of the burst. Though Morgus left him to die, Jek managed to survive but was horribly scalded and disfigured. He has ever since tried to exact revenge on Morgus. Done with his explanation, he leaves them under the watch of his androids as he ventures out to meet up with Stotz.
In the lower levels of the caves, Jek meets up with Stotz and the gun-runners and announces that he will only hand over half of the promised spectrox, as they have failed to deliver the shipment. This greatly angers Stotz who demands all of the payment he was promised, but Jek refuses, telling him that it is their own fault they lost the weapon shipment. Fuming, Stotz threatens to stop doing business with Jek for good, but Jek says he fully well knows the value of spectrox and can very easily find himself another weapon supplier.
In Jek's HQ, the Doctor manages to get close to and reprogram the android guarding the entrance to the lair. Him, Peri, and Salateen then uses this opportunity to make their escape. Meanwhile, Stotz pretends to relent to Jek's offer, but as Jek leaves to get the spectrox, he points out to his fellow gun runners that they can just follow Jek back to his base, walk past his androids, kill him and steal his spectrox. The Doctor, Peri and Salateen head into the lower levels of the caves to find the queen bat. Unfortunately, they encounter one of Jek's android guards who opens fire at them. One shot grazes the Doctor on the temple which knocks him unconscious. Salateen, using Peri as a human shield, fires back at the android and destroys it, he then forcibly drags her away from the Doctor despite her protests. The Doctor regains consciousness and discovers Peri has vanished. He goes to find her. Jek returns to his base but flies into a rage when he discovers that Peri has gone. The Doctor takes cover behind a rock as Stotz and the gun runners enter. One of the gun runners is attacked and killed by a fierce Magma Beast. The other gun runners open fire on the beast and it kills another gun runner. It ignores the bullets and approaches the rock where the Doctor is crouching.
Part three Edit
The beast is distracted by the gun runners. It turns on them again. The Doctor escapes as the gun runners retreat. Meanwhile, Peri is taken with Salateen to General Chellak. She tells him what has happened. Stotz and the gun runners meet Jek. The Doctor meets Jek again. He tortures the Doctor and the Doctor finally tells him that Peri has been taken to Chellak. Stotz arrives. Jek tells him to take the Doctor to Androzani Major to see if he is a government spy. The Doctor is in the third stage of spectrox toxaemia and is feeling unwell, but Stotz doesn't care; the Doctor will live long enough to be questioned. In the army base, Peri also isn't feeling well, but General Chellak doesn't care; she and the Doctor have been working with Jek. Chellak orders an assault on Jek's base. Salateen agrees to tell Morgus about the assault and to throw Jek off guard when he broadcasts a message.
Jek discovers the real Salateen is free to walk around the planet, leaving Peri unguarded. Meanwhile, Stotz chains the Doctor in the bridge of his spaceship and calls Morgus. As Stotz discusses the situation with Morgus, the businessman sees the Doctor still alive. He tells Stotz that Chellak faked the attack on Jek's base. Morgus is worried the President will see his double dealings. He tells Stotz to remain in orbit and Stotz, furious, leaves the Doctor on his own. When Stotz is gone, the Doctor tries to escape. He pulls himself free of the wall and uses the power core in the centre of the ship's bridge to sear the chains from his hands. He is still very weary from the Spectrox but programs the spaceship to land or "crash" on Androzani Minor.
Meanwhile, Morgus, fearing deception, invites the President into his office and opens his private lift so the President can leave. The President doesn't realise it's just an empty shaft. Morgus pushes the President into the lift and he falls to his death. Morgus orders Timmin to have the lift maintenance engineer shot and makes his own plans to travel to Androzani Minor to put the situation right himself. Meanwhile, Jek has kidnapped Peri and taken her back to his HQ, where he finds the Doctor has gone. He is now insane and needs Peri's beauty to forget the trouble that Morgus has put him in. Peri tells him the army will attack soon, but Jek already knows that - he has changed the recognition code for the belt buckle. General Chellak and his men are in for a shock...
The Doctor is in the centre of the ship's bridge. Suddenly an extreme tiredness overtakes him, and his vision becomes distorted. However, he manages to shake it off and return to clarity as he hears shouting at the door. It is Stotz, who has been alerted by the loud, rumbling noise from the landing procedure. He demands the Doctor unlocks the door, but the Doctor refuses. Stotz shouts for something to cut the door open with and tries to coax the Doctor into opening the door willingly, but the Doctor rebuffs him, telling him he rather should focus on finding something to hold on to, as their landing could easily be a rough one. Stotz's men proceed to cut a hole in the door open with a blowtorch, but the edges of the cutout is too hot for Stotz to reach the door controls, so instead, he points his weapon at the Doctor and threatens to shoot him. The Doctor notices that it is hardly a persuasive argument since he will die soon anyway unless he can cure his toxaemia. Stotz gives him to the count of three to surrender, but the Doctor is unmoved by this, and he tells Stotz that he owes it to Peri to find the antidote as he got her into danger in the first place. "So you see," shouts the Doctor defiantly as Stotz finishes his countdown, "I'm not gonna let you stop me now!"
Part four Edit
The ship's rocket pods fire at the last moment, throwing Stotz's aim off and allowing the Doctor to violently land the ship on the surface of Androzani Minor. Still experiencing the effects of the Spectrox poisoning, the Doctor escapes from the spaceship. Krelper and another gun runner chase after him. Meanwhile, General Chellak plans the real assault on Jek's base, making him believe an attack lies elsewhere. As the assault force, guided by Salateen, heads towards the base, they come to a hold as they run into an android. Salateen assures them that there is nothing to fear, as the belt buckles will protect them, but as he moves towards the android to prove this, he is immediately gunned down. Panic erupts in the ranks as the soldiers realise that the signal is not working, and they frantically return fire. They eventually manage to disable all of Jek's androids, but at a very high cost of lives. Meanwhile, Krelper and his cohort are still chasing the Doctor. He approaches a cliff and falls from it. Rendered helpless for a moment, he is unable to get up as Krepler and the other gunrunner approaches him, but just they are about to kill him, a mudburst begins and they decide to leave the Doctor be and retreat to the safety of the ship. The Doctor gets to his feet and makes his way into the caves to save Peri.
Jek and Morgus' Showdown - Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani - BBC
Jek and Morgus fight.
Chellak and the few remaining soldiers have no choice but to push against the mudburst. Chellak sees Jek and chases him to his base. Once there, he struggles with Jek until he pulls his mask off. He is so horrified at Jek's scalded face that Jek is able to push him outside into the path of the mudburst. Jek goes to Peri. She screams at the sight of Jek's face and Jek himself lets out a cry of agony. The Doctor arrives, struggling to hold off the effects of the Spectrox poisoning, and the regeneration that would rid him of the infection. When the Doctor explains that he can hold his breath much longer than a human and therefore has a better chance to survive in the lower parts of the caves, Jek provides him with an oxygen tank and directions, so he can find and milk the queen bat. As the Doctor departs to get the milk, Morgus arrives on the planet. He finds Timmin has betrayed him and taken his dirty dealings to the government, which means he is now deposed from power and isolated from his wealth.
Morgus declares that he is not beaten yet, and quickly works out a deal with Stotz. Krelper and his friend, however, have decided to cut their losses and want no part in it. Stotz pretends to accept this only to shoot and kill them as soon as their guard is down. Morgus and Stotz continue on ahead, plotting to secure Jek's private stash of spectrox so they may disappear quietly to another planet. The two make their way to Jek's base, lured by extractor fans that Jek is using to keep the base temperature cool for Peri. Morgus orders Jek to give him the Spectrox.
Jek sees Morgus and, consumed by rage, forgets all about Peri and everything else. He pulls off his mask, showing Morgus his scalded face. As Morgus looks at Jek in shock, Jek throttles him. Stotz opens fire on Jek, but the Salateen android returns and kills him. With his last ounce of life, Jek pushes Morgus' head into his extractor fans. Morgus dies in seconds and the extractor fans short circuit and burst into flames. Jek dies in the arms of the Salateen android, giving it his last orders to hold him. The Doctor arrives just after the battle and escapes, but the Salateen android stays where it is as the fire destroys Jek's base.
Fifth Doctor regenerates - Peter Davison to Colin Baker - Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani - BBC
The Doctor sees visions of his former companions as his body attempts to regenerate.
The Doctor takes the unconscious Peri back to the surface and the TARDIS, but a mud burst is on its way. While he unlocks the TARDIS, the Doctor spills half the bat's milk in the sand. He manages to open the door, get inside the TARDIS and dematerialise as the planet's surface explodes in boiling mud.
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor feeds Peri all of the remaining bat's milk, then collapses on the floor of the TARDIS, now so close to death that he is starting to doubt that regeneration is possible, saying aloud "Is this death?". Peri recovers to find the Doctor lying in pain on the floor. The Doctor quickly explains he cured her with the bat's milk, but he only had enough for her. He tells Peri that there's nothing she can do, that he will be going soon, and it's time to say goodbye. Peri encourages him not to give up and pleads that he can't leave her now. He then says that he "might regenerate", but he doesn't know for certain that he will be able to, because the process "feels different this time".
A bright glow surrounds the Doctor as his image distorts; he begins hallucinating his previous companions urging him to live, telling him the universe still needs him. He is particularly affected by the vision of someone who died, and his final word is, "Adric?" A vision of the Master appears, laughing at the Doctor and telling him to die. The visions of his companions begin to swirl, all their voices overlapping together and drowning out the taunts of his foe. The glow grows brighter and covers the Doctor. As the visions subside all at once, it fades to reveal the Doctor's new incarnation, a man with a sharp gaze and curly blond hair atop his head. Peri moves toward the regenerated Doctor and addresses him by name. The Doctor, now sitting up and fully alert, challenges his now-detoxified assistant with the words, "You were expecting someone else?" Speechless, she trips up, "I, I, I..."
He ironically scolds her, "That's three I's in one breath. Makes you sound a rather egotistical young lady." Peri asks, "What's happened?" He grandly declares, "Change, my dear, and it seems not a moment too soon," staring forward with a proud grin and a glint in his eye.
The Doctor - Peter Davison
Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
Sharaz Jek - Christopher Gable
Morgus - John Normington
Salateen - Robert Glenister
Stotz - Maurice Roëves
Chellak - Martin Cochrane
Krelper - Roy Holder
Timmin - Barbara Kinghorn
President - David Neal
Soldier - Ian Staples
The Master - Anthony Ainley
Adric - Matthew Waterhouse
Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
Turlough - Mark Strickson
Voice of Kamelion - Gerald Flood
The Doctor - Colin Baker
Uncredited cast Edit
Gun-runners - Les Conrad, Robert Smythe, Gerry O'Brien (DWM 279)
Assistant Floor Manager - Sue Hedden
Camera Supervisor - Alec Wheal
Costumes - Andrew Rose
Design Effects - John Peyre
Designer - John Hurst
Film Cameraman - John Walker
Film Editor - Roger Guertin
Film Sound - Malcolm Campbell
Incidental Music - Roger Limb
Make-Up - John Nethercot, Shirley Stallard
Producer - John Nathan-Turner
Production Assistant - Juley Harding
Production Associate - June Collins
Production Managers - Elizabeth Trubridge, Corinne Hollingworth
Script Editor - Eric Saward
Special Sounds - Dick Mills
Studio Lighting - Don Babbage
Studio Sound - Scott Talbott
Technical Co-ordinator - Alan Arbuthnott
Theme Arrangement - Peter Howell
Title Music - Ron Grainer
Videotape Editor - Steve Newnham
Video Effects - Dave Chapman
Vision Mixer - Dinah Long
Visual Effects - Jim Francis, Stuart Brisdon
Planets Edit
Androzani Major and Androzani Minor are "twin planets."
Individuals Edit
Morgus is or was, rather, before being deposed by Timmin, "the richest man in the Five Planets," chairman of the Sirius Conglomerate and a descendant of the first colonists.
The Doctor claims to be able to store oxygen for several minutes.
The Doctor confesses to Peri he tried to keep a diary, but he never finds the time to update it.
Boze is one of the people killed by the Magma Beast. Rones was killed in a gas attack.
The Doctor's last word before regenerating is "Adric?"
Peri mentions a reticular vector gauge.
In the smugglers' cave, the Doctor and Peri find gas carbines, bombs and poison volatisers.
Analysing traces of fused silica on the ground of Androzani Minor, the Doctor deduces a small spaceship had recently landed.
The Doctor also demonstrates tracking skill by studying monoskid tracks and deducing it had departed with a heavy load and returned unloaded.
Sharaz Jek's androids come in various models; some of them are simple soldiers that can follow orders but are programmed to shoot humans on sight. More specialist models include the duplicates of the Doctor and Peri.
Belt plates are used by Jek and the gun runners to protect themselves from the androids. Salateen gets hold of one and they're mass-produced by the army. Jek changes the frequency code before the army attacks so the androids attack them.
Substances Edit
The Doctor wears a stick of celery because he is allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spectrum, the presence of which causes the celery to turn purple.
When refined, Spectrox can slow the ageing process of the taker. When unrefined, it causes Spectrox toxaemia on contact.
Illnesses Edit
Spectrox toxaemia causes a rash, cramp, spasms, slow paralysis of the thoracic spinal nerve and finally thermal death. Milk from a Queen Bat is the only known cure besides regeneration (though the latter is unique to Time Lords.).
Despite the title, the Doctor notes that the caves are in fact blowholes.
The maps of the caves shown on screen bear an uncanny resemblance to the video game Dig Dug.
This story had the working title of Chain Reaction.
The regeneration sequence features specially recorded cameos by Matthew Waterhouse, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Mark Strickson, Gerald Flood and Anthony Ainley. Because Waterhouse & Sutton had left the show in previous seasons, special contracts had to be written for their cameos. Furthermore, Nyssa's appearance in the episode required the producers to pay her creator, Johnny Byrne, royalty fees.
The closing credits for Part 4 were altered specially for the incoming Doctor. As the credits started rolling, it fades directly from the close up of Colin Baker having just delivered his line, to a multi-coloured image of him with a similar expression superimposed over the regular credit sequence before his credit as the Doctor appears, followed by Davison's credit. The face moves back along the screen and fades out as soon as Davison's face in the regular credit sequence disappears and it then continues as normal.
This was the second instance where Peter Davison is credited second in a regeneration story. The first being the ending of TV: Logopolis, which was Tom Baker's final appearance in the lead role.
This is the first time an explanation has been given for the Doctor wearing celery on his lapel.
This story marks the first occasion since 1980's TV: The Keeper of Traken or 1977's TV: Horror of Fang Rock if Nyssa's pre-companion role in Season 18 is discounted that the Doctor has spent a complete adventure with only a single incumbent companion, and the first time since 1977's TV: The Invisible Enemy or, again, TV: Horror of Fang Rock if K9 Mark I's pre-companion role is discounted, that the Doctor has travelled without any non-human companions.
In DWM 400, The Caves of Androzani was voted the readers' favourite televised story. Conversely, The Twin Dilemma, the very next serial, bottomed out at #200 as the least favourite, effectively bookending the charts.
The only characters who do not die during this story are Peri and Timmin, who are also the only female characters: counting the Doctor's regeneration as the death of his fifth incarnation, every male character dies. The Salateen android is not destroyed on-screen, but it is not definitely shown as surviving the story's events and it's debatable whether an android would count as being "alive" in the first place.
This story was rife with on-screen mishaps that ended up causing minor injuries to Peter Davison; Davison himself would later jokingly claim that the staff were actually attempting to kill him. Among these accidents are two notable instances:
During a scene in which Sharaz Jek backhands the Doctor, the mask Christopher Gable was wearing impaired his vision enough to make him legitimately strike Davison by mistake.
As the Doctor carries Peri back into the TARDIS at the end of the story, he flinches at a nearby mud burst. This is because the explosion was prematurely triggered by the technicians, shooting sand into Davison's eyes and forcing him to recoil in pain.
The effect used for the Doctor's distorted vision near the end of Part 3 is the same effect used for his regeneration at the end of the serial. It was also used in Resurrection of the Daleks for the destruction of the space station.
This story is notably one of few where the eventual outcome negates the importance of the plot. The Doctor's role provided no historical accomplishments and instead caused an inadvertent massacre, a gigantic power collapse, and even his own "death", all of which could've been prevented had the Doctor never been involved or even went to Androzani Minor, for that matter.
This story was chosen by fans to represent the Peter Davison era by fans to be rebroadcast for Doctor Who @40.
This is the first regeneration story to include the new Doctor's first words, rather than waiting until their first full story. This practice would become the standard in the revived series.
Graeme Harper recalls in the DVD commentary that he and Christopher Gable had worked together on numerous occasions in the past but never with Harper as a director. Over the years they knew each other, Gable affectionately called Harper 'twinkle' and had even embarrassed him by calling him it at a public event. Harper made Gable promise not to call him the name on the set of this story for fear of what it might do to his reputation. Peter Davison admitted he would have found it very hard to take Harper seriously if he had heard Gable use the name.
A concrete date was finally made in Diamond Dogs, which takes place in the 51st century and refers to Sharaz Jek as being an active criminal.
Peter Davison has since stated that he felt that his performance during the regeneration sequence was overshadowed at the time by the obvious visibility of Nicola Bryant's cleavage during the shot. (DOC: The Ultimate Guide)
The story was the last of a consecutive three serials, along with Resurrection of the Daleks and Planet of Fire, that saw the departure of one of the season's regular cast members. In this serial, Peter Davison departs as the Fifth Doctor.
Influences Edit
Frank Herbert's Dune (people being killed over a drug that extends life; the unstable "tripod of power" between the rulers of Androzani; the "mud bursts" and Androzani Minor's generally arid climate)
The Phantom of the Opera (a mentally unbalanced but brilliant recluse wears a mask to conceal his facial disfigurement; develops an obsessive fascination with an attractive young woman and eventually abducts her)
Part one - 6.9 million viewers
Part two - 6.6 million viewers
Part three - 7.8 million viewers
Part four - 7.8 million viewers
Masters Pit, Hansons Aggregates, Stokeford Heath, Dorset
BBC Television Centre (TC6), Shepherd's Bush, London
Nicola Bryant, or her stunt double, bounces after falling through the hole in part one, obviously having landed on a safety cushion of some kind.
In part one, Nicola Bryant accidentally lets slip her natural English accent, particularly when she says the word 'glass'.
The electronic device that Morgus uses in his office during his first scene in part one is obviously a TV/teletext remote control, with John Normington's thumb conveniently placed to hide the manufacturer's logo.
When Stotz cuts through the door of his ship, the polystyrene is visible on the fake door.
Androzani Minor is supposed to be barren, deserted and uninhabited. Yet in part four, shots of the Doctor being chased by the gunrunners show a house and tree-lined hills.
During the end of the scene in part four where Stotz shoots Krelper, a tiny sliver of the studio lights and the actual studio floor can be seen.
The background changes position as the TARDIS dematerialises.
Speaking about the mud in the Androzanian landscape, Peri says it's "a change from lava". (TV: Planet of Fire)
Peri and the newly-regenerated Sixth Doctor quickly become immersed in another adventure. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)
AUDIO: Winter takes place during the Doctor's regeneration, which reveals that the Master's appearance as the Doctor dies is the result of him using his and the Doctor's old telepathic link to Kamelion to try and 'block' the Doctor's regeneration, requiring indirect support from the Fifth Doctor's other companions to keep him alive.
The Doctor survives in the vacuums of Androzani Minor's caverns through use of an oxygen cylinder, and later his respiratory bypass system. (TV: Pyramids of Mars)
Following this story, the Sixth Doctor goes through a brief period where he subconsciously blames Peri for his previous self's death. He tries to distance himself from her while telling himself that he is working towards a greater good, until he finally realises this in PROSE: Burning Heart.
In PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation, it is revealed that after the Fifth Doctor dies, he becomes the mental personification of the Doctor's conscience, but is buried by the Seventh Doctor following his regeneration.
An alternative version of the Doctor never visited Androzani Minor. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)
In PROSE: Matrix, an alternative timeline is referenced where the influence of the Dark Matrix, wielded by the Valeyard, the Doctor's dark future self, provokes the Fifth Doctor to take the bat's milk himself while leaving Peri to die, turning the Fifth Doctor into a wraith loyal to the Valeyard until this is undone by the Seventh Doctor.
Trees, technology, and soldiers from Androzani Major all play a major factor in a Christmas adventure for the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
The Doctor was stated to have died on Androzani Minor after the Great Intelligence had entered the Doctor's time stream. He was, presumably, saved by a version of Clara Oswald. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
Due to her infection with spectrox toxaemia, Peri was rendered infertile. (AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin)
DVD, VHS and audio releases Edit
Released as Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani, this release was the third of 2001.
Region 2 - 18 June 2001
PAL - BBC DVD BBCDVD1042
Region 4 - 7 January 2002
Region 1 - 2 April 2002
NTSC - Warner Video E1606
Audio Commentary by actors Peter Davison (the Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri) and director Graeme Harper
Chain Reaction - Making of
Directing Who: Then and Now - with Graeme Harper
Behind the scenes - The Regeneration - Footage of final studio session, with commentary.
Behind the scenes - Creating Sharaz Jek - Interview with Christopher Gable.
BBC News - Report of Peter Davison's departure (28 July 1983).
South East at Six News - Peter Davison and John Nathan-Turner talk about the future of the series.
PDF materials - Radio Times Listings
Extended Scene
Music-only Option
Production Subtitles
Rear Credits:
Starring Peter Davison
By Robert Holmes
Produced by John Nathan-Turner
Directed by Graeme Harper
Incidental Music by Roger Limb
Editing for the DVD release was completed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team.
Region 1 cover
Special Edition release Edit
This story was released as Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani: Special Edition.
UK 4 October 2011 Region 2
Australia 2 December 2010 Region 4
US 14 February 2012 Region 1
Chain Reaction - The making of The Caves of Androzani
Directing Who, Now and Then - Graeme Harper
Russell Harty - chat show excerpt with Peter Davison and Colin Baker
New Photo Gallery
It is only available in Australia as part of the Revisitations 1 box set, out in Region 2 on 4 October 2010. It was released with special editions of The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Doctor Who. It is additionally available in the UK, rather bizarrely, as part of the HMV-exclusive An Introduction to the Fifth Doctor box set, along with Castrovalva and Earthshock.
Region 2 box set cover
VHS releases This story was released as Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani.
UK February 1992
PAL - BBC Video BBCV4713
Australia/NZ February 1992
US October 1992
UK VHS cover
AUS VHS cover
US VHS cover
The Caves of Androzani at the BBC's official site
The Caves of Androzani at RadioTimes
The Caves of Androzani at BroaDWcast
The Caves of Androzani at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
The Caves of Androzani at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
The Caves of Androzani at The Locations Guide
Footnotes Edit
Regeneration stories
For the purposes of this list, a "regeneration story" is one in which a regeneration is actually and initially depicted. For this reason The War Games is not included below, even though it is commonly thought of as a "regeneration story". It doesn't actually include a clear scene of regeneration, and the preponderance of stories in other media confirm that the Second Doctor did not regenerate at the end of it. Additionally, immediate post-regeneration stories, like the 2005 Children in Need Special — and ones like Castrovalva, where the regeneration sequence was replayed — are not included.
The Tenth Planet • Planet of the Spiders • Logopolis • The Caves of Androzani • Time and the Rani • Doctor Who • The Parting of the Ways • The Stolen Earth • The End of Time • The Night of the Doctor • The Day of the Doctor • The Time of the Doctor • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls / Twice Upon a Time
The Night Walkers
Interference - Book Two • Spiral Scratch
The Brink of Death
Non-DWU
The Curse of Fatal Death
First Frontier
Fast Asleep • Doorway to Hell
Destiny of the Daleks
The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe
Renaissance • Enemy Lines
Other Time Lords
Planet of the Spiders • Hell Bent
Timewyrm: Exodus • Goth Opera • Lungbarrow • Tears of the Oracle • The Shadows of Avalon • The Suns of Caresh • The Book of the War • Newtons Sleep • Engines of War • What Keeps Their Lines Alive
Unregenerate! • Panacea • Spring • The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel • Intervention Earth • The Black Hole • The Doomsday Chronometer • Songs of Love • The Side of the Angels • Mel-evolent • Partisans
Gallifreyans
Cold Fusion • Interference - Book Two • The Taking of Planet 5
Proto-Time Lords
Day of the Moon • Let's Kill Hitler
The Lady in the Lake • My Dinner with Andrew
Underworld • Mawdryn Undead • Regeneration • The Witch's Familiar
Happy Endings • The Scarlet Empress • Divided Loyalties • Tears of the Oracle
Regeneration is usually considered a biologic process exclusive to Time Lords and a few other species. However, some consider Regeneration and The Eclipse of the Korven to also be "regeneration stories", though neither describes anything close to a biological process. Korven is a particularly hard one to include in this list, because K9 is said to "regenerate" but is largely physically unchanged.
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Fifth Doctor television stories
Regeneration television stories
Season 21 stories
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Mediawan buying France’s AB Groupe
By Stuart Thomson
30th January 2017 @ 11:30
Mediawan, the media investment consortium set up by producer Pierre-Antoine Capton, Iliad Telecom founder Xavier Niel and Lazard France chief Matthieu Pigasse, is buying French production, channels and distribution player AB Groupe for €270 million (US$288 million).
The investment group, which said that the acquisition would be a “first step towards building a leading independent premium content platform”, has entered into exclusive negotiations with AB Group’s management, majority shareholder Claude Berda and TF1, which respectively control 13.5%, 53% and 33.5%, to take 100% control of the company.
Berda welcomed Mediawan’s proposal, while TF1 has already confirmed that it has accepted the offer, subject to conditions.
Under the proposed agreement, Capton, who serves as CEO and chairman of Mediawan, would be appointed as chairman of AB Groupe. AB chef exec Orla Noonan would remain and would join the strategic committee of Mediawan. She already sits on the Iliad board.
Mediawan has said that the acquisition is a first step in a broader strategy of aggregating independent companies involved in cinema or TV content. The group is considering a number of further acquisition opportunities, some of which it said were at an advanced stage of discussion and could bear fruit within weeks.
In relation to AB Groupe, Mediawan plans to raise €130 million in debt to finance the transaction, with the balance of the purchase price funded by using part of the available funds raised byMediawan at the time of its IPO and deposited since then on a secured deposit account.
The purchase is subject to approval by two thirds of Mediawan’s shareholders, and will be put to a vote at a meeting on March 13. Subject to regulatory approval by the Luxembourg authorities and consultation with AB Group’s employee representatives, the deal is expected to close in the first half.
Mediawan, which floated on the Paris Euronext exchange last year, is a ‘Special Purpose Acquisition Company’ (SPAC), created by Niel, Troisième Oeil Productions founder Capton, who serves as chairman, and Pigasse, who is Lazard Group’s global head of acquisitions as well as CEO of Lazard France, to acquire one or more operating businesses with an intention to focus on “target businesses or companies with principal operations in the traditional and digital media content and entertainment industries in Europe”.
Other board members include Molotov co-founder Pierre Lescure, ex-Canal+ chief Rodolphe Belmer, Sky Italia content chief Andrea Scrosati and Danone CFO Cécile Cabanis.
in addition to being a producer of series including Section de Recherches and Alice Nevers, le Juge est une Femme, AB Groupe distributes a catalogue of about 12,000 hours of content and owns a portfolio of 19 channels including RTL9, AB3, Sciences et Vie TV and AB Moteurs. The company posted revenues of €158 million last year, and EBITDA of €36 million.
Mediawan said in its presentation that the European content market presented “attractive fundamentals”, with an opportunity to use viewer segmentation to deliver more targeted advertising and distribute content across a wider variety of platforms. It said that European content had proved its attractiveness globally with the success of series such as Gomorra.
“With Groupe AB, we have the opportunity to acquire a leading player with a strong potential for growth acceleration through channels, digital and production,” said Capton. “Groupe AB is an excellent first step in Mediawan’s objective to create a large dynamic platform to aggregate premium content through future acquisitions, in line with objectives set at the time of the IPO. This platform will aim to aggregate premium traditional and digital media content in all dimensions and provide strong value creation for all stakeholders.”
“I am very happy that Groupe AB will be the starting point of Mediawan’s growth story by becoming its first acquisition. The proposed transaction is a great opportunity to increase the visibility of Groupe AB while providing it with additional access to financing to accelerate its growth and its international and digital expansion,” said Berda.
Deutsche Bank is acting as financial and lead capital market advisor to Mediawan. JP Morgan and Société Générale CIB are acting as joint capital market advisor to Mediawan.
Tags: AB Groupe, Andrea Scrosati, Cécile Cabanis, Claude Berda, Iliad Telecom, Lazard France, Matthieu Pigasse, Mediawan, Pierre Lescure, Pierre-Antoine Capton, Rodolphe Belmer, TF1, Xavier Niel
Mediawan plans 'leading content platform in Europe'
Mediawan plans to use its acquisition of AB Groupe to build “the leading premium content platform in Europe”, combining production and channel distribution, according to Lazard France CEO Matthieu Pigasse, one of the three principals behind the creation of the publicly-listed investment outfit. Speaking on a conference call after the AB deal was announced yesterday, […]
Molotov streaming service preps Euro expansion
Molotov, the French streaming service founded by Canal+ founder Pierre Lescure and other Gallic TV veterans, plans to launch in new European territories, and ultimately, in the international market. Molotov, which counts UK pay TV operator Sky among its backers, will expand beyond France in the next twelve months, co-founder Jean-Marc Denoual told TBI. “There is […]
TF1 orders local Ninja Warrior
TF1 has ordered a local version of the popular physical gameshow format Sasuke/Ninja Warrior. The show, which was created by Japanese free-to-air broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, has been remade around the world, including in the US where American Ninja Warrior is on NBC. In France, TF1’s in-house programming department TF1 Production, which also makes the […]
Fremantle nabs Sky Italia exec for COO
Fremantle has appointed Sky Italia’s Andrea Scrosati to the position of group chief operating officer. Scrosati, currently executive VP of programming at Sky Italia, will succeed Sangeeta Desai, who stepped down as COO and CEO of emerging markets earlier this year. She was in the role for five years. Scrosati joins in November and will […]
News brief: Chinese VOD net add Turtles
Bolloré plans to bring Canal+ closer to Vivendi
Broadcasters buy A Deadly Adoption
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Betsy Broder
BPO fraud becoming an increasing concern for US agencies
A direct impact of such fraud operations is on the Indian BPO sector, whose image is being tarnished by fraud operators who are “blasting phone calls.Neha Alawadhi | ET Bureau | July 22, 2016, 07:03 IST
Business process outsourcing fraud is an increasing concern for American agencies, both in civil and criminal cases, and the United States hopes Indian businesses will be open to using existing legislation to help expedite the process, a senior US Federal Trade Commission attorney said.
Betsy Broder, counsel for international consumer protection at FTC said that the commission has received 400,000 complaints about what it calls “impostor scams”, where the caller claims to be from a well-known technology company or a law enforcement authority and threatens them that either their computer is going to seize up or they owe money to taxes.
“Many of these are traced back to India,” Broder said. More than 40,000 complaints in the past year and a half pertained to consumers identifying the callers as having an Indian accent, she said.
A direct impact of such fraud operations is on the Indian BPO sector, whose image is being tarnished by fraud operators who are “blasting phone calls to consumers in the US, Canada Australia, the UK and even non-English speaking countries”, Broder said.
“What we’re talking about here are criminal enterprises but most people don’t distinguish. All they know is that they get a call that appears to be from a business from India, and that they were defrauded of money. And so that makes them distrust the next time they call for customer support for their bank and they hear an Indian accent,” she said.
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Harold Review: Racing To The Top
Game Reviews / Gaming / PC / Reviews
By Matt Lyons
It’s been a long time coming for Moon Spider Studios and their puzzle racing game Harold. First appearing back in 2012 with its vibrant Saturday morning cartoon-inspired graphics and fast-paced puzzle solving, the game seemingly disappeared only to re-emerge late last year and finally get a launch date of February 12th on Steam. Was it worth the wait? Read on for our Harold review to find out.
Where to begin in Harold. At its heart, the game is pegged as a racer, but that’s hardly the case. On the surface you are racing, sure, but in reality what you do along the path to pass other racers is solve puzzles quickly on the fly. To start every race, Harold invariably does something stupid or messes something up that causes him to start behind the pack by several yards. Game mechanics wise, this is to set you up in an F-Zero type situation where you are constantly chasing down other racers.
You don’t actually play as Harold himself, however. Instead you are a guardian angel tasked with protecting Howard and helping him win races so you yourself can win a scholarship to Archangel Academy. Being a merciful guardian angel, you have the ability to zap Harold and give him a speed boost. Collecting rings scattered throughout the tracks and hindering your opponents both grant you this ability (called a “puff power”) and also serve as an extra life for Harold should you fail to complete a puzzle in time and fall into a spike pit. If you’re inexperienced, it makes you strike a balance between boosting as much as possible, and keeping one puff power on hand in case you bite the dust on a difficult section of the track. Run out of puff power and you fail the race.
In order to catch those other racers you need to solve puzzles in each small quadrant of the race. This is accomplished using the same basic mechanics: jump, push, pull, turn, cut, hit, and lift. Each of these are used throughout the race first and foremost to get Harold over obstacles scattered throughout the courses. Platforms will need to be moved and lifted, ropes will need to be cut in order to make a route slippery so Harold speeds up, and handles need to be turned to lower bridges lest your racer smacks face-first into it. It sounds easy on the surface, but performing two and three of these in the few seconds that Harold is on any given screen gets extremely hectic, especially when the other elements of the race come into play.
Those same abilities that you use to aid Harold are also used to disrupt the other five runners. If you pull a platform out while another running is about to go over it, they’ll fall to their death and you’ll be granted another ring to charge your puff power. This brings to the forefront the challenge of having to balance taking out your opponents and keeping your own Harold alive. If you’re just playing to get through the races, or find something to be extremely hard, you can mostly skip these disruption techniques. On the other hand, if you’re going for high scores or to win every race, it’s going to become essential to master each of these techniques and flip between screens to do so.
Flipping back and forth between sections of the race is an ability you gain rather quickly. It’s one that – if you hope to master the game – you’ll have to learn to use effectively. For those keeping track at home, you now have to balance Harold avoiding traps, keep Harold’s speed boosted, take out opponents, and do all this between several screens at once. Like previously stated, it becomes extremely hectic and downright challenging. Throughout your dozens (if not more) failures in any given race you definitely start to feel it when everything begins to click. Guiding Harold through several sections of a track flawlessly, while also taking out your opponents and constantly boosting your own racer, is a feeling of satisfaction I haven’t felt in mainstream big budget games in a long time. It’s that release of dopamine you get from solving a difficult puzzle combined with the satisfaction of doing it all in an almost musical rhythm.
Just mastering the mechanics within the race isn’t enough to get a perfect time and win, however. Before you unlock each race, the course is broken up in 10-15 mini practice sessions. Each of these practice stages places three stars along the optimal path for that particular segment of the track. If you consistently are able to get three stars in a segment, you’ll likely be ready for that part in the real race. This serves several great purposes. For one, it allows you to practice a tricky section of a race near the end, so you’re not playing through the entire race only to lose in the last stretch several times over. Instead, you can go into practice and just bang out that one section until you have it down then plug it into your strategy to try and get the best time. Collecting every star in the practice mode will also give you another puff power slot to use in the race – another thing you’ll need for a perfect time.
Similar to disruptions and finding an optimal path, gathering the stars is mostly optional and only useful if you plan on trying for high scores or to actually win races instead of just coming in the required third place finish.
While the basic mechanics of the races (using abilities to aid Harold and hinder opponents) don’t change much throughout the game’s various courses, how they are used is extremely varied in each level. Sometimes moving one platform left will also move another up, down, or right; it really tests your dexterity and hand-eye coordination. More than once I was tied up during a race because I forgot which way a platform moved in the heat of the moment. With that said though, I can think of very few slip ups where it felt like the game was at fault and it was not just an error on my part. Even during the 20th attempt at the same spot in a track it never gets frustrating.
Also hidden within each track are two secret paths. They are extraordinarily hard to find, and I only found one serendipitously. I did find a few others, but only while purposefully hitting everything and falling into every trap-looking area I could find until I hit one. Each secret path has its own creative cutscene to go with it as well, such as Harold being frozen then thrown by a polar bear to the far end of the track, or other bizarre situations.
The only real issue is telling where Harold’s hit box is precisely. Animation in the game is absolutely gorgeous (more on that later) but with all the flailing body parts and burning feet spinning during a boost, it can be hard to tell when to jump exactly from a platform. Some platforms will have parts jutting out that look otherwise harmless but will often come back to bite you. One too many times Harold will fall from a platform when it looks like he should have another 2-3 steps left before he needs to jump. No matter how many hours I played (and it’s been quite a few) I never got over this little hiccup, it’s just always a little bit off.
All of this is tied together using an extremely intuitive control scheme that manages to get the most out of your controller (mouse and keyboard play is unavailable). Every trap can easily be controlled with the joystick, switching between them is done with the shoulder buttons, and lighting a fire under Harold to speed him up is done by pressing both bumper buttons simultaneously. Some kind of customization would have been nice, but the way everything is laid out was more than adequate for me.
Simply put, Harold is absolutely gorgeous. It’s modeled after, as the developer puts it, “Saturday morning cartoons,” and it nails the look perfectly. It also looks heavily inspired by ’90s Disney films such as Aladdin and Hercules. Every character, background image, or object you interact with is beautifully animated. Colors are vibrant, and it’s almost always easy to tell at a quick glance what the objects you can interact with are. I say almost always, because there are times that they may blend in, but after running through a track more than once you quickly notice the objects that had you hung up on last time.
In between races, cutscenes are a simple style with mostly 2D images sliding around interacting with each other. Even then, everything is handled with such care and given such a personality that it still works. Seeing the fully-animated intros to each race are always visually interesting, and usually consist of Harold doing things like kicking a coconut that turns out to be a crab, getting a brainfreeze, or using the bathroom at the wrong time. Whatever it takes for him to start an extra 3-4 seconds late will be done.
Harold’s story is extremely simple, but very effective. In a nice little twist on common stories, you play as Gabe – the cocky, overly talented guardian angel who has never had to try a day in his life during his time at angel school. One of the angels competing against you is the character who would be the main character in most other games. Seraphiel is the underdog that is looked down on by her family and constantly one-upped by Gabe.
The head of the guardian angels’ school holds a raffle of sorts where each guardian is given a racer that they have to guide to test their powers. Sadly for our douchey hero, Gabe, he gets stuck with the bumbling Harold. This gives the game a reason to have you be controlling such a slow and otherwise useless character in each race, and start so far behind as he fumbles at the beginning of each event.
Being that Gabe is such a great guardian angel, he only needs to get third in order to advance in his quest for that scholarship. It may seem like a small thing, but not having to win every race comes in huge later when some tracks are damn near impossible without mastering every single aspect of the game.
The music in Harold is another aspect where the game absolutely shines. Songs were created with a 30-person choir, and it shows. Each tune sounds like an epic piece from a big-budget cartoon, and they somehow never feel repetitive in the way. Often times in a game that requires as much failure such as Harold, I’ll get frustrated and end up annoyed at the soundtrack for playing the same song while I fall in a hole 15 times in a row, but that never happens here.
It’s also a nice touch how the choir interacts with the game. When you fall into a hole, the music will stop and the group will gasp, then resume singing once Harold is poof’d back into existence. In the same vein, when you pass another racer or enter a particular exciting part of the track, the choir will begin to cheer. All of this is yet another aspect of Harold that jams an extraordinary amount of personality into a simple little puzzle racer.
Sound design is ok, but mostly forgettable. I had to go back and purposefully find some things to interact with to even remember what they sounded like, but it’s mostly what sound like stock sound effects.
Voice acting is limited, but what is there is generally enjoyable. The main narrator for the sparse cutscenes is some kind of mix between a Saturday morning cartoon DJ and an excitable gameshow announcer; it fits perfectly. There are also some brief moments during tutorials or certain cutscenes where other angels will talk and their voices weren’t grating at the very least, which is more than you can ask out of a lot of indie-developed games.
Part racer, part puzzler, and part Saturday morning cartoon, Harold is a game chock full of original ideas and concepts. Everything that happens in the game has a simple story element to explain it, and the actual design of the individual tracks and obstacles you have to overcome are extremely well-done. In an age where it seems like big AAA games are all shooters and all indie games are pixel art platformers, Harold is a refreshingly unique concept both visually and in its core game design.
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We were given a copy of Harold for the purposes of this review.
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News Press Release: F|W|V Acquires 50% Stake in AMP3
Press Release: F|W|V Acquires 50% Stake in AMP3
Art Stevens • December 7, 2018News
French|West|Vaughan is acquiring a 50 percent stake in New York-based fashion, beauty and lifestyle shop AMP3. The two agencies will operate together as AMP3 PR in the New York market.
AMP3 PR co-founders Dion and Alyson Roy will continue to direct the operation of the firm. FWV executive vice president and principal Natalie Best will work to integrate AMP3 into the FWV portfolio of agencies, which includes FWV Fetching; RGAA, its Hispanic market offering; and Prix Productions, the company’s longform feature and documentary film division.
Rick French and Alyson and Dion Roy
“Our investment in AMP3 is a new way for FWV to approach the NYC market,” French told O’Dwyer’s. “We are a large midsize agency with multiple practice areas, whereas Dion and Alyson have built a strong reputation in high-end lifestyle marketing and fashion, which really takes us back to our own roots in New York when our office there was primarily focused on the same categories.”FWV’s New York staff will combine with AMP3 PR and its staff in new offices at 210 W. 29th Street.
The Stevens Group’s Art Stevens and Rich Jachetti brought the parties together and assisted in the negotiations.
FWV reported net fees of $25.2M in 2017 and AMP3 had $500K, according to O’Dwyer’s annual ranking.
This article was originally published on O’DwyerPR.com.
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Trafficking Info
The Abolitionist Tree
Hu·man traf·fick·ing
The illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.
There are an estimated 27 million slaves in the world today.
That’s the highest recorded number of slaves in history.
What is done
Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons both male or female, children, adults, and elderly.
The Means
How it is done
Threat or force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power, payments to person in control of the victim.
Why it is done
Exploitation, which includes sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery or similar practices, and the removal of organs.
ENDIT – Awareness Video
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One Minute Facts: Human Trafficking
The One Minute Facts are to enlighten and bring awareness about the human trafficking atrocities taking place in every continent in the world. 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year. Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into America yearly. As the truth is being exposed we can now uphold justice and restore lives.
Melissa Woodward: Becoming a Sex Slave
Melissa Woodward speaks about being sold as a child into the sex trade industry in America and her life as a child prostitute and stripper. Melissa is now the executive director of a nonprofit organization whose mission it is to prevent, rescue and heal children victimized by sex trafficking in America.
Chosen – Trailer
“Chosen,” a 20-minute film, tells the shocking true story of two all-American teenage girls deceived into trafficking. Eighteen-year-old Brianna was an honor-roll student and cheerleader and worked at a local café. Thirteen-year-old Lacy was an active member of her youth group and a volunteer in her community. Both were manipulated. Both were exploited. Both were chosen. Each year in the United States, at least 100,000 children are exploited in the commercial sex industry. Because sex trafficking is an issue rarely discussed at home, in school, or in church, parents and children are unaware of the dangers that face America’s youth. Shared Hope International is reaching out with the truth — to equip and protect kids from being “Chosen.”
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Women and girls represent 55% of trafficked victims 55% 55%
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We assist victims in overcoming trauma and rejection through love. By providing shelter and education, we help to rebuild their lives.
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The Butterfly House will act as modern-day abolitionists to bring an end to sex trafficking and the exploitation of young women and children and support the prosecution of the traffickers. We will empower the victims through the love of Christ, providing a safe haven and quality training. This will enable them to function and to live healthy lives. The victims will become victors. They will believe again…trust again…dream again…and love again.
Become a modern day abolitionist today!
The Butterfly House is a faith based organization working toward building a safe home for minor girls rescued from sex trafficking. Our vision is to also build a safe home for boys. Our mission is to educate and bring awareness about sex trafficking through participation in the community. Awareness can help prevent the atrocities taking place and defend and protect the innocent. Our mission is to provide a safe haven filled with love and compassion to ensure wholeness is manifested in sex trafficked children.
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America don’t be fooled. “Fake Tears” Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have a history of killing Muslims
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They scream that the ban is undermines “American values” and is “evil”.
Do we need to go over the numbers as to how many people of Muslim faith were killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya? One million, five million?
“Fake Tears” Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are anything but sympathetic toward Muslims.
Their voting record in Congress and the Senate show two Democrats who have a history of supporting destructive wars in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, while pushing for sanctions against Iran and Syria…sanctions with the sole purpose of creating unrest and suffering.
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Democrat Senator from NY, “Fake Tears” Chuck Schumer:
Voted YES on designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists. September 2007.
Voted YES on $86 billion for military operations in Iraq & Afghanistan. October 2003.
Voted YES to authorize force in Iraq. October 2002.
Voted YES on allowing all necessary force in Kosovo. May 1999.
Voted YES on authorizing air strikes in Kosovo. Mar 1999.
Sponsored shutting down Iranian foreign reserves. May 2013.
Sanctions on Iran to end nuclear program. Apr 2009.
Democrat Representative from California, Nancy Pelosi.
1998: Saddam has engaged in development of WMDs. August 2011.
2002: No question Saddam has WMD. October 2008
Voted NO on removing US armed forces from Afghanistan. March 2011.
Pelosi on the destruction of Libya (via The Hill)…
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the White House violated neither the Constitution nor the War Powers Resolution when it launched military operations in the war-torn African nation in March without Congress’s endorsement.
“The limited nature of this engagement allows the president to go forward,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol. “I’m satisfied that the president has the authority he needs to go ahead.”If we had boots on the ground … then that’s a different story,” Pelosi added. “I don’t think they should stop the support that they’re giving to NATO to stop the humanitarian disaster.”
Key Democrats were supporting US action to prevent the impending humanitarian catastrophe in Libya…
March 23, 2011 – Nancy Pelosi: “Acting upon the United Nations Security Council’s resolution to use ‘all measures necessary’ to protect the Libyan people and the Arab League’s call for a no-fly-zone, the United States joined the international community in preventing an imminent humanitarian crisis in Libya. Actions taken by the international community have already prevented Qaddafi from implementing his threat to ‘show no mercy’ to his own people, including those living in the city of Benghazi.”
“Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There’s no question about that.”
–Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Nov. 17, 2002
“Fake Tears” Schumer on Syria sanctions (via USA Today)…
Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are pushing the Syrian Human Rights Accountability Act, which would bar officials in President Bashar Assad’s regime implicated in human rights abuses from traveling to or doing business with the United States and ban companies from selling weapons or sensitive technology to the Syrian government.
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“Syria continues to show it has no desire to curb the bloody crackdown that has become synonymous with Assad’s regime,” Schumer said. “We must do everything that we can to make it clear to Assad that his time is up.”
“If Syria won’t willingly change its brutal approach and continues to violate the human rights of those seeking to exercise their voices, then we will do everything we can to send the strongest message possible to that nation’s leadership that this behavior is beyond the pale and not without consequence,” Schumer said.
Nancy Pelosi on supporting up the removal of Assad in Syria (via The Hill)…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that it was time for the United States to “take it to the next step” in Syria in response to possible chemical weapons use, although she said that did not include putting “troops on the ground.”
“I myself think that we have tolerated for too long all of the assaults on the Syrian people made by its own government,” Pelosi told reporters. “I think we have to take it to the next step. That does not mean troops on the ground.”
House members leaving the briefing said that Kerry had discussed the potential steps the U.S. could take.
“The secretary laid out what some of those options would be,” said Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.). “It’s everything from diplomatic opposition to Assad, to supporting refugees, to cash for groups, to weapons for groups, to a no fly zone — all of those are on the table.”
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Hozier Announces Second Leg to Headlining Tour
February 4, 2019 · by TER Staff · in News. ·
There’s a good chance that Hozier is coming to a city near you this year, as the multi-platinum singer just announced a second leg to The Wasteland, Baby! Tour.
Titled after his forthcoming sophomore album, Wasteland, Baby!, currently scheduled for a March 1st release, the tour’s second leg will make stops in Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Madison, Detroit and many more. In additional to his headlining tour, Hozier will also deliver sets at a number of music festivals (Bonnaroo, Hangout, Boston Calling, LaureLive).
Tickets for the new dates go on sale on Friday, February 8th at 10AM local time via LiveNation.com.
Check out Hozier’s 2019 tour dates below.
THE WASTELAND, BABY! TOUR
03/10 Buffalo, NY Shea’s Performing Arts Center
03/11 Albany, NY Palace Theatre (SOLD-OUT)
03/13 Baltimore, MD Hippodrome Theatre (SOLD-OUT)
03/14 Norfolk, VA Chrysler Hall
03/16 Raleigh, NC Raleigh Memorial Auditorium (SOLD-OUT)
03/17 Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium
03/19 Miami, FL The Fillmore Miami Beach (SOLD-OUT)
03/20 Saint Petersburg, FL Mahaffey Theater
03/21 Orlando, FL Walt Disney Theater (SOLD-OUT)
03/23 Atlanta, GA Coca Cola Roxy Theatre (SOLD-OUT)
03/24 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry House (SOLD-OUT)
03/26 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre (SOLD-OUT)
03/27 New Orleans, LA The Fillmore New Orleans – Music Hall (SOLD-OUT)
03/29 Dallas, TX Southside Ballroom (SOLD-OUT)
03/30 Houston, TX Revention Music Center (SOLD-OUT)
03/31 Austin, TX ACL Live at the Moody Theater (SOLD-OUT)
04/02 Oklahoma City, OK The Criterion
04/03 Tulsa, OK Brady Theater
04/05 Denver, CO Bellco Theatre (SOLD-OUT)
04/06 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center (SOLD-OUT)
04/07 Las Vegas, NV The Pearl (Las Vegas)
04/09 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Forever Cemetery (SOLD-OUT)
04/10 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington Theatre (SOLD-OUT)
04/12 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort & Casino (SOLD-OUT)
04/13 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert House (SOLD-OUT)
04/14 Spokane, WA First Interstate Center for the Arts (SOLD-OUT)
NEW DATES
05/19 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Music Festival
05/21 Jacksonville, FL Times-Union Center
05/22 Columbia, SC Township Auditorium
05/23 Richmond, VA Altria Theater
05/25 Boston, MA Boston Calling
05/26 Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Center for the Performing Arts
05/28 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
05/29 Grand Rapids, MI 20 Monroe Live
05/30 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
06/01 Madison, WI The Sylvee
06/02 Minneapolis, MN State Theatre
06/04 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
06/06 St. Louis, MO Stifel Theatre
06/07 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
06/08 Russell Township, OH LaureLive Music Festival
06/10 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
06/11 Fort Wayne, IN Clyde Theatre
06/13 Louisville, KY Iroquois Amphitheater
06/15 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
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Review: The Sharp Hook of Love by Sherry Jones
December 4, 2014 December 1, 2014 ~ The Lit Bitch
For her entire life, Heloise has known what her future would hold. She has been preparing to become an abbess.
All her education, grooming, and introductions have been carefully planned for her to ascend to that position.
She has long accepted that she will likely never know love or a life outside the service of God and she is ok with that, until she meets Pierre Abelard.
Pierre is the headmaster at the Notre Dame Cloister School. He has had many intelligent pupils and is well known in many academic circles as simply ‘the best’ and he is equally as notorious in those circles when it comes to women.
Heloise’s uncle manages to convince Pierre to tutor his niece as part of her final preparation into her future career. Pierre is immediately captivated by Heloise.
She is intelligent, spirited, and he can’t help but be drawn to her and her alone. Their relationship grows from a mutual friendship and admiration to one of fiery passion that consumes them.
But neither of these tragic lovers are prepared for what their love will cost them.
I will agree with another reviewer, this book has been everywhere! I have seen it promoted all over the place so I simply had to know what the big deal was because it has literally been EVERYWHERE.
Based on a true story, this novel has a lot going for it as a historic romance/fiction read, but is still a little rough around the edges.
I found this book a little bumpy to start with, which is unusual for me. In my experience, the beginning of the book is typically more structured and detailed since the author is often more fresh in their writing. That was not the case for me with this book.
For me it seemed like the author had a great story but had no idea how or where to start it. I felt like I was dropped into the middle of this story without a lot of orientation. There was a flimsy intro and background about Heloise’s childhood and upbringing so when the actual story began, I wasn’t entirely invested in her character.
Same with the introduction of Pierre, I felt like he was loosely introduced and as a reader I struggled to understand him.
There wasn’t a lot of build up when it came to the romance either. To me that was the heart of the story but instead of building anticipation, it seemed like we were thrown into the romance without any real ‘courtship’.
My other issue with the book was there wasn’t a feel for the setting. It seemed like the characters were just existing in a specific time period rather than interacting with the setting….if that makes sense.
All that said though, there was still a lot of things to like about the tale….the passion between the two for one.
While the book lacked a ‘build up’ to the romance, the romance itself was undeniably passionate. It was evident that Pierre and Heloise were in love and it felt as though they had each met their ‘match’. I think one of the reasons I felt that their love was genuine was because of the letters.
Throughout the book, Jones featured actual excerpts from the love letters between Pierre and Heloise. That brought the authenticity of love and passion to the overall story. It was clear from Jones’s writing style that the two shared something unique for the age, a deep mutual respect and love for each other. I thought that Jones did a wonderful job maintaining that theme throughout the book.
This book is very much a philosophical read…..which makes sense as both main characters are educated individuals with a love for philosophy. I love books that are both entertaining and thought provoking so for me this was a win-win.
Because it was so philosophical I found myself questioning love and life circumstances throughout the book and I love books like that. I love when books make me think and question things. I very much enjoyed this aspect of the novel.
Please check out other stops on the tour for author interviews, giveaways, and guest posts as well as a number of other reviews! The schedule is listed below!
Book: The Sharp Hook of Love by Sherry Jones
Published November 25th 2014 by Gallery Books
Review copy provided by: Publisher as part of the HFVBT book tour in exchange for an honest review
This book counts toward: NA
Hosted by: NA
Books for Challenge Completed: NA
Genre: Historic fiction, Romance
Memorable lines/quotes: NA
The Sharp Hook of Love Blog Tour Schedule
Monday, November 24
Review at Bibliophilia, Please
Review at Book Babe
Guest Post at Historical Fiction Connection
Guest Post at Historical Tapestry
Spotlight & Excerpt at The Lusty Literate
Monday, December 1
Review at Book Lovers Paradise
Interview at Mina’s Bookshelf
Guest Post at Let Them Read Books
Spotlight & Giveaway at Passages to the Past
Spotlight & Excerpt at Historical Fiction Obsession
Feature at Romantic Historical Lovers
Interview at To Read or Not to Read
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Sherry Jones says:
Why, this isn’t a bitchy review at all! Thank you for reading and reviewing THE SHARP HOOK OF LOVE. I’m so glad that you enjoyed my book.
The Lit Bitch says:
LOL you are most welcome, I enjoyed reading it 🙂
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Woman, 31, suffers serious injuries after being struck at bus stop in Ajax
by News Staf
Posted Sep 13, 2018 3:40 pm EDT
Last Updated Sep 13, 2018 at 4:11 pm EDT
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Durham police say a 31-year-old woman has been airlifted to hospital after being struck by a car while waiting at a bus stop in Ajax.
Officers were called to the scene at Taunton Road East between Harwood Avenue and Salem Road around 11 a.m.
An investigation revealed the woman was struck after two vehicles came in contact with each other. One of the cars rolled into a ditch and landed upside down. The driver had to be extricated and suffered minor injuries.
The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.
The pedestrian was taken to a Toronto trauma centre with serious injuries.
Taunton was closed for several hours as police investigated the collision.
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Doctor arrested after 90 are infected by HIV syringe
At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with HIV in Pakistan by a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials said.
“We have arrested a doctor after receiving complaints from the health authorities,” said Kamran Nawaz, the local police chief heading the case in the southern city of Larkana, on Friday.
“We are told that the doctor also has HIV,” he said. How bad.
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Robert Pattinson Joins Lily-Rose Depp in Netflix’s ‘The King’
A lot of fan favorites are in this one
Sarah Fox May 31, 2018
Slanted > Film > Robert Pattinson Joins Lily-Rose Depp in Netflix’s ‘The King’
Netflix began production on “The King” this week, the film is scheduled to begin shooting in-and-around the United Kingdom on June 1, 2018. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird); Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton (Bright, Loving, The Great Gatsby); Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Macbeth); Golden Globe nominee Ben Mendelsohn (The Land of Steady Habits, Ready Player One, Bloodline); Robert Pattinson (Good Time, The Lost City of Z); Lily-Rose Depp (The Summoning, The Dancer); Tom Glynn-Carney (Dunkirk); and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace). The film itself is being directed by David Michôd (War Machine, Animal Kingdom, The Rover).
In the film Edgerton will be playing Falstaff; Chalamet will be playing Hal; Pattinson will be playing The Dauphin; Mendelsohn will be playing King Henry IV; Depp will be playing Princess Catherine; Harris will be playing William; Glynn-Carney will be playing Hotspur; McKenzie will be playing Philippa.
Netflix described the film adding, “Inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V, a young, disgraced prince, Hal inherits the crown and must learn what it means to be a king, guided by his one true friend, Falstaff.” Netflix will release the film in 2019.
Fans of Robert Pattinson can see him in his new western-comedy “Damsel,” he will be starring with Mia Wasikowska. The film was directed by David and Nathan Zellner, and will release in theaters later this summer. Joining Pattinson and Wasikowska on-screen are Robert Forster, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, and Joseph Biligiere. In the film, Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson) ventures deep into the American wilderness to reunite with and marry the love of his life, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). During his journey he brings along the adorable Butterscotch, a miniature horse intended as a wedding present for his bride. Along the way he also enlists drunkard Parson Henry (David Zellner) to conduct the ceremony. As they traverse the lawless frontier their once simple journey grows treacherous, and the lines between hero, villain, and damsel are blurred. The studio teases the film stating, “A loving reinvention of the western genre from the Zellner brothers (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter), DAMSEL showcases their trademark unpredictability, off-kilter sense of humor, and unique brand of humanism.” We should also note that David and Zellner also wrote the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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How I Tried to Invest in a Better World
My attempt to make money on investments while avoiding fossil fuels. First of three parts.
By Christopher Pollon 30 Jul 2018 | TheTyee.ca
Christopher Pollon is a freelance journalist covering business, environment and the politics of natural resources. He’s the author of The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam. He tweets @C_Pollon.
Use what you have wisely. Photo by Tax Credits via Flickr, Creative Commons licensed.
Money for Something
Divesting from Fossil Fuels Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis
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For more than three years, $10,000 has been sitting in my RRSP holding account doing nothing — shrinking with inflation — as I struggled with a paralysis unique to our age. I need to make this money grow, but at the same time, we are in the midst of a climate emergency caused by the very growth I need to embrace.
My paralysis is driven by a suspicion that the financial markets are designed to extract money from small investors. Ever since a cabal of corrupt bankers caused about $7 trillion in shareholder wealth to disappear in 2008 — only to be rewarded with taxpayer bailouts — my investing strategy has been to ignore the need to invest.
Until this year, that is. In January, New York City dropped a bomb on the investment world, announcing it would not only sue the world’s most powerful fossil fuel companies for billions in damages, but divest US $5 billion in fossil fuels from city pension funds. Considering the total share value of the world’s top 10 oil companies is over US $1.5 trillion, it’s a drop in the bucket — but to paraphrase NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, investing in fossil fuels is not only incompatible with fighting climate change, it’s an increasingly risky investment too.
Thus inspired, I am launching an experiment: is it possible for me — a small fry retail investor with a moderate appetite for risk — to invest and grow my $10,000 with zero direct exposure to fossil fuels, while avoiding tobacco, weapons, and everything else I don’t want to support? Can I grow this money and make the world a better place at the same time?
I’m cynical it’s possible, but I’m going for it anyways.
Fund times
My first stop is Vancity Savings and Credit Union, where my funds currently languish, earning 0.7 per cent annual interest (the inflation rate for the year ending January 2018 was 1.7 per cent). I meet with an investment adviser from Vancity Investment Management — a wealth management firm owned by the credit union — who asks my age, income, and when I plan to retire — the latter a question I’ve never pondered.
VCIM sells mutual funds — which pool money from people like me and invest it, typically in stocks or bonds. The rise of mutual funds in Canada as an investment vehicle has been astronomical — since 1980, fund net assets under management have grown from $3.6 billion to about $830 billion in 2012.
Mutual funds today cater to an amazing variety of people and investment philosophies — BMO’s “Women In Leadership” fund) is focused on companies with a “gender diverse leadership environment” — there is a “Terror Free” fund that screens out countries like Syria and Iran; and for cynical contrarians, there is VICEX — focused on tobacco, weapons, gambling and booze. Even Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media has some kind of investment fund — with proceeds apparently supporting the high-quality editorial content.
Based on my goal of avoiding fossil fuels and other sectors, the adviser recommends two mutual funds from IA Clarington Inhance SRI Funds: the two funds are not directly invested in any fossil fuels, and beyond that, all the investments are socially assessed using seven different criteria.
One fund is invested in corporate and government bonds (a bond is like an IOU you get for loaning someone money, which will often pay a predetermined return at the end of a fixed period), and the other is invested in many global stocks. If I want to proceed, the plan will be to buy a combination of the bonds (relatively low risk) and the stocks (more volatile) — how much of each will be determined by my appetite for risk and how soon I need the money.
The fees seem kind of high — for the equities fund, I’ll have to hand over about 2.6 per cent of the total value of my investment each year.
There’s a much bigger problem when I look closer at the stocks: I can’t see where all of my money is going. The stock fund only reveals the top 25 companies invested, by size of investment. (This list is not current, and the companies can change without notice). The rest? I will never know. So buying this mutual fund is a bit like eating cheap hot dogs — only the manufacturer really knows the ingredients.
Buying so-called ethical/socially responsible mutual funds, says the manager, entails trusting the fund manager to invest only in the companies that reflect the alignment of the fund. If this is too much of a leap of faith, he adds, “this investment is not for you.”
Dealing with stocks is nowhere near as transparent as this glass jar. Photo by Tax Credits via Flickr, Creative Commons licensed.
Automatic for the people
My next step is to reach out to the big banks — I call ScotiaMcLeod (Scotiabank’s full-service brokerage) and find a Vancouver “wealth adviser” who has certification through the Responsible Investing Association. My plan is to set up an in-person appointment, but I do not get past the phone call — when he finds out I have $10,000 to invest, he suggests I reach out to Vancity.
At this point I stop talking to humans altogether — it’s time to let a robot do the heavy lifting of socially responsible investing. Wealthsimple is the vanguard of a new generation of online, do-it-yourself “robo-investment” firms, which automatically take the research and effort out of investing. It’s popular with younger investors — with the advantage that you don’t have to meet with advisers in person, or fill out “getting to know your goals” forms in an office.
Wealthsimple does not sell mutual funds — it sells exchange traded funds (ETFs). According to Fidelity, an ETF is a basket of securities that can be bought and sold on an exchange like stocks. Through an ETF, you can invest in stocks, bonds, commodities (e.g., gold) or currencies. Unlike mutual funds, such products are not actively managed — they usually replicate a particular index or follow a currency or another financial asset.
Buying ETFs online through Wealthsimple is everything mainstream investing is not — easy, fast, intuitive — with an interface that is truly beautiful to behold. In five minutes I have inputted my info, and with the check of a box, my robot adviser creates a “socially responsible” investment portfolio — “primarily in low-carbon, clean tech or sustainable growth companies.” A few minutes later, I am looking at a custom portfolio that is 50-50 stocks to bonds — estimated to earn me $7,000 over the next decade if I put $10,000 down now.
The transparency is appealing — with two clicks I get a full list of every single investment inside the fund, unlike mutual funds. ETFs are much cheaper than mutual funds too. The trade-off of course is that mutual funds are actually managed — they don’t just follow an index, and for mutual funds like the Inhance equity fund above, the managers do “shareholder engagement” — proactively reaching out to change corporate practices from within. For example, the managers of the above Inhance fund recently engaged with a paint company to eliminate toxic ingredients, Walt Disney on labour issues in its supply chain, Facebook on providing better info on managing climate risk, and food waste issues with Costco. They have also participated in a process to improve working conditions for Bangladeshi textile workers.
The engagement details provided are super-vague though — so again, you have to trust that the managers are seriously pressing to solve the most important issues — and not just going through the motions.
But no portfolio is perfect. When I look closer at my Wealthsimple portfolio, I discover that the devil is in the details. It contains five ETFs, including a “low carbon” offering from iShares promising a “lower carbon exposure than that of the broad market.” I go to the fund website and discover that the fund invests in British American Tobacco, Pembina Pipelines, at least three major auto makers, Monsanto, Haliburton, Goldman Sachs and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, to name just a few. Another “socially responsible” ETF in the same portfolio has almost 10 per cent of its total investment in oil sands company Suncor. Social investing feels a lot like business as usual. Maybe worse.
Friendly advice and DIY
ETFs (and mutual funds) that screen for fossil fuels do not necessarily include a social screen; and conversely, a fund that calls itself “socially responsible” might avoid weapons and tobacco, for instance, but still invest in bitumen, coal, pipelines and more.
“There is another way,” assures Tim Nash, a college economics prof and blogger who sidelines as a for-hire “investment coach” — helping investors design sustainable portfolios. Based on my goals, Nash says he can help me create a portfolio (mostly of ETFs), revisiting it every six months to make adjustments. It starts with setting up my own online brokerage account — all the major banks and credit unions have them, but Nash recommends Questtrade because its fees are lower (provided you invest at least $5,000).
As a guide, Nash has created what he calls model portfolios — including a fossil free one — that is moderate risk, including about 60 per cent global stocks and 40 per cent bonds.
Regarding the latter, Nash is a big fan of investing at least 10 per cent of a given portfolio in green bonds — which are identical structurally to traditional bonds, but the proceeds are invested exclusively in green projects that promise to deliver an environmental benefit.
Investing in the latest green bond offering from a Canadian company like CoPower for example — I can help finance things like LED lightbulb retrofits in condo towers and geothermal projects. CoPower CEO and co-founder David Berliner, whose latest bonds offer a five per cent annual interest rate over six years, tells me that the bond is backed by loans that the company makes to a pool of clean energy infrastructure projects. “There is always a real project behind the bonds,” he says.
Community bonds are a similar “impact” investment — for example, a Montreal nonprofit is selling bonds to fund construction of affordable housing. The bond pays out annually and is secured against the land and building that is owned by the group.
Taking the do-it-yourself route emulating Nash’s fossil-free ETF/bond model portfolio is the investing strategy I like the best. But unlike the robo-site Wealthsimple, which automatically makes adjustments as your portfolio gains or loses (so-called “set it and forget it” investing) — I’ll be on my own to do that. Which means I have just found myself a new hobby, whether I want it or not. Or I can hire Nash to help review my portfolio every six months or so.
But many questions remain before I drop my 10G’s on the table — and most revolve around trust. Do I trust this knowledgeable, personable coach I found online (who cannot by law call himself a financial adviser) to research and help choose my investments? And how profitable will my fossil fuel free/ESG investments be compared to business as usual investing?
A final test for Nash: I tell him it’s only a matter of time until the market crashes again, just like in 2008. Probably even more spectacularly. Where will my investments be then?
“If the stock market crashes, don’t sell, wait for it to come back,” he fires back. “Every time in the history of the market, it has always come back up. And if it’s a big [unrecoverable] crash, frankly you’ve got bigger fish to fry than your RRSP.”
This reply cures my paralysis — for now. Sitting on this shrinking pile of money is no longer an option. It’s time to take my chances at the casino of global markets.
In part two of this series, we’ll examine whether divestment can have a real effect on the climate change crisis.
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Apple hit $1 trillion. Now what?
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The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web:
"Apple has crossed a psychological threshold as much as a numerical one," said Brad Stone at Bloomberg Businessweek. Last week the company, already "the most valuable business in modern history," attained a market capitalization of $1 trillion, a remarkable number for the personal-computing upstart founded in a Silicon Valley garage by Steve Jobs and his buddy Steve Wozniak in 1976. Twenty years later, Apple almost died: Businessweek's 1996 Apple cover had the words "The Fall of an American Icon" on an all-black field. That was the year Apple brought back Jobs. His homecoming presaged the introduction of the iMac, iPod, iPad, and the iPhone as Jobs and his lieutenants "parlayed their uncommon obsession with design and ease of use into a historic run." Today, under Jobs' successor, Tim Cook, Apple's valuation is in line with the total economic output of Indonesia, the world's 16th-largest economy; its annual revenue is about the same as the gross domestic product of Finland. This is a corporate scale so great that Apple could acquire any emerging competitor, and no government has the appetite to take it on.
Things would be different were it not for the success of the iPhone and "the smartphone era it birthed," said Tripp Mickle and Amrith Ramkumar at The Wall Street Journal. The iPhone's triumph — 1.4 billion sold and counting — led to "a broader tech boom that has made a handful of giant companies central in people's daily lives and investment portfolios." The iPhone changed how we interact with tech and powered the giant mobile advertising businesses at Google and Facebook. But economists worry that Apple and its brethren are "contributing to the lackluster wage growth, shrinking middle class, and rising income inequality in the U.S.," said Matt Phillips at The New York Times. Apple's rise coincides with "a profound shift" in "the distribution of corporate profits among American companies." In 1975, 109 companies banked half of all the profits produced by publicly traded businesses. Today, only 30 companies capture that share. Just five banks control almost half of all assets in the American financial system. Four companies rule 98 percent of the American wireless market. "Consolidation begets profits." For the markets, that's fine, just "as long as profits keep pouring in."
Cook isn't crowing about his company's trillion-dollar milestone, says Guadalupe Gonzalez at Inc. As Cook wrote in a memo to employees, the financial returns are "simply the result of Apple's innovation." But can this supersize Apple keep innovating? asked Zachary Karabell at Wired. It's massively profitable and still growing, yet "its products appear set and essentially static." The areas in which it is investing research and development — such as AI, cars, robotics, and voice — are already brimming with "a host of deep-pocketed competitors and hungry upstarts." Previous market leaders, such as Exxon and IBM, generated huge profits but eventually lost momentum and dominance as the world changed. Still, these are problems Apple's rivals can only envy. Even if it turns out that $1 trillion "is at or near its apex," Apple will "still be one of the most successful companies the world has ever seen."
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May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 leocookman
In a sea of hot-takes and off-the-cuff put-downs regarding the current snap election in the UK, I realise adding yet another one to all the noise has all the effect of a fart in a tannery but I want to look specifically at the aesthetics of these campaigns and how it reveals more than you might think. A close look at the Labour and Conservative manifesto’s graphics can tell you just as much as the policies inside. In addition I want to look at some of the language used by both sides and how that also – literally – speaks volumes for their ideologies. I won’t be looking at policies necessarily and while there is some cross over this isn’t necessarily a criticism of either parties pledges or policies. Here is a link to Labour’s manifesto and the Conservative manifesto so we are all singing from the same hymn sheet.
Let’s start with the most glaring difference between the two: Web optimisation. Labour has dedicated an entire subsection of their site to their manifesto, each section of it has its own webpage making it quicker to load. You scroll or swipe down to carry on reading and on the desktop version an image is justified to the left and remains static. There is a menu for each chapter allowing you to jump easily to the section of the chapter you want to read. This all speeds up load times and is very efficient. The Conservative manifesto is pdf in a media player on a single page of their website. In the page it is small and difficult to read but you can full screen it, however it still displays as a pdf in a book format (complete with animated page turning) and does not fill the browser. The player is much slower to load too due to the more complicated requirements of the animated elements. In addition Labour’s is more web native so downscales well for mobile devices which is how a majority of people will get their first access to it whereas the Conservatives’ relies on the ISSUU player and does not alter its appearance depending on what device you view it from, whilst this maintains consistency cross platform it makes it much harder to read if you’re viewing it on a smaller device. Now, importantly, the Conservative web manifesto is less friendly to the differently abled, certainly people without finger dexterity or who have vision problems, whereas Labour’s is much simpler to use and easier to read.
Now let’s look at font and text layout. The Conservatives have gone for a classical serif-based approach with Garamond (the font this article is written in), Labour instead have gone for the sans-serif, clean lines of Helvetica. As well as being visually opposite to one another the history of these fonts is poles apart too. Garamond was designed by engraver Claude Garamond in the 16th century for old printing presses, Helvetica on the other hand is a modernist font from the 50s by designer Max Miedinger. Generally in English we are used to seeing the printed word in a serif type like Baskerville or Times New Roman (named after the paper it was designed for) as it more readily appeals to our eyes that seek more human handwriting patterns, whereas Helvetica is much more a display font due to its clarity (used in the logos for American Airlines, Toyota, North Face, FedEx). Now on the printed page I’d argue Garamond works better in the lengthier prose sections except it has the effect of making the Conservative manifesto look dense an impenetrable, like the long form prose of a novel. Labour’s font may be plain and rather flat but it looks much easier to take in at a glance and therefore more welcoming. Online however it’s a different story. There are more sans-serif fonts on websites than serif, Helvetica is a fit for purpose multi-platform font that is clear and simple whatever device you read it on, Garamond is not (he said, writing in Garamond). Whilst it is definitely not like other web fonts and certainly looks ‘classier’ it is neither inviting nor easy to read. Unfortunately the Conservatives further compound this illegibility by seriously messing up the kerning (the spacing between characters). The Initial (those big letters that start the chapters) is really badly cramped against the paragraph, to the point of nearly overlapping – a design no no. Labour’s kerning is on point however, plenty of spacing between characters, aided by Helvetica’s clean lines, and a pronounced white box around the Initials Also the Conservatives’ page layout is cluttered and dense, Labour’s is sparse and minimal. The Conservative Manifesto reads more like a text whereas Labour’s reads like a power point presentation. The former is undoubtedly ‘powerful’, with more gravitas, but Labour’s is much more like the bulletin board it should be.
Labour’s Manifesto is much more in keeping with the design aesthetic of today (specifically web design) whereas the Conservatives’ is more like what we picture a formal legal or government document to look like. The latter is very much in keeping with the repeated dirge of ‘Strong and Stable’ and portrays the Conservatives as a more classical, traditional party but it is undeniably drab with it’s dour palette of Black, White and Blue. Labour’s on the other hand looks like every pamphlet you get dropped through the door: bright red, with the white shining cleanly through and – importantly – full colour images and colour coded sections. This speaks of Labour’s idea of inclusion, it is open and inviting with pictures of different people of varying gender and ethnicity. The Conservatives’ speaks more of its belief in individualism and the state stepping back to allow you to imprint you personality on to the policies and their presentation. In both cases both designs are not bad at all, they both reflect the message the party wishes to impart in the content of the writing itself and does so admirably, the point I’m making is that these designs are specifically tailored to appeal to their core voter and any undecided voter. Personally I find the Conservatives’ design to be an ugly, cluttered, austere mess with kerning issues and a shocking lack of understanding about web optimisation, whereas Labour’s is a minimalist, modernist’s wet dream i.e. Me.
Then there is the question of cost. Labour provided a financial break down of their manifesto promise in a separate sheet that broke down the costing. This was due to constant criticism by the press and the other parties that the socialist program was a myth and could not be properly funded. The Conservatives, with no such pressure, have provided no information on how their manifesto pledges will be paid for.
Now let’s look at the language of these manifestos and their respective launches. The Conservatives seem to be pushing the party to the background by constantly referring to Theresa May and her team, her foreword is littered with “I” and “My”, promoting the idea of individuality and (rather ironically given her and the party’s criticism of the ‘identity politics’ around Corbyn) that you would be voting for the leader who is much more popular than her party because apparently people still have the Mummy issues left over from the Thatcher era. Ahem. Labour talk about “we” “us” and “our” promoting their ideology of a shared society, community and a government integrated with the populace instead of one that steps back at times of crisis. Then there was the way the leader’s introduced their manifestos. Alright this is where I really get on my soapbox. Jeremy Corbyn used the same language in introducing his policies in an open airy space, unmolested or delayed by protesters. Theresa May’s however was delayed not just on the day but the manifesto’s printing itself was delayed four times (allegedly). Corbyn spoke of we and you and us and our where May talked of I and me and my. For all the talk of not trusting Corbyn you had better really bloody trust May as her words were that this was “My manifesto … a vision of the country I want this to be after Brexit”. That to me is terrifying and the true politics of identity. She spoke of wanting “to build a country” and that is telling. Brexit to her means destruction. It means the collapse of the previous Britain with its worker’s rights and moves toward equality, so the Conservatives would then have the ability after Brexit to build the country anew in their own image, or should I say hers. Corbyn’s introduction spoke of “unleashing Britain’s potential” after Brexit not attempting to reconstruct and introduced the policies saying “I am very proud to present OUR manifesto”. Believe what you like about the cult of Corbyn he is not the one publicising it, Theresa May – despite point blank denying it – most definitely is relying on the cult of her own.
My personal politics and loathing for the Tories and Theresa May aside what the manifesto launches and the manifestos themselves make plain is what is on offer from either party and not just in the policies themselves. On the one hand you have a severe, cold, austere, classical, stately manifesto of gravitas and great circumstance and on the other you have an open, warm, colourful, modern, simple manifesto of inclusion and assistance. I know which one I’ll be buying a hard copy of.
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lesley2cats says:
Fascinating. Do either of them use cliches?
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Adult website offers to double reward for arrest of Texas beehive vandals
Samson X Horne
Sat., May 4, 2019 4:37 p.m. | Saturday, May 4, 2019 4:37 p.m.
Destroyed beehives in Brazoria County in Texas.
Charred remains of torched beehives in Brazoria County in Texas.
Adult video streaming website YouPorn is offering to double the reward for the information that leads to the apprehension of those responsible for killing more than 500,000 bees earlier this week.
According to the New York Times, someone torched, toppled and tossed into a nearby pond more than 20 European honeybee hives in Brazoria County, Texas.
The bees have already had a rough go of it in recent years courtesy of pesticides, poor nutrition and a parasite that shortens their lifespan, according to the Times.
“We are deeply alarmed with the news that 500,000 bees were senselessly burned to death at a Texas bee yard this week. The bee population is very important to us,” said YouPorn Vice President Charlie Hughes in a statement.
“We heard of the rewards that are being offered to find the person responsible for this unspeakable crime. We’d like to double what both the Brazoria County Crime Stoppers and the Beekeepers Association are offering, and will be rewarding $12,000 to anyone who turns in this criminal,” Hughes added.
Samson X Horne is a Tribune-Review digital producer. You can contact Samson at 412-320-7845, [email protected] or via Twitter .
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John Egan
The following narrative prepared by Keith Armstrong from conversations with John Egan, a 92-year-old from Trimdon Grange now living in the old people’s home in the Village, is the basis of a touring show put together by Keith and members of the Red Lion Folk Club.
The poems ‘Mother’ and ‘I Live Alone’ are as recited by John Egan. The ‘Ballad of John Egan’, ‘The Gala’ and ‘Spring’ are by Keith Armstrong.
BALLAD OF JOHN EGAN
John Egan is a meek man, a miner, a meek man;
and ‘The meek shall inherit the Earth’, they say, ‘The meek shall inherit the Earth’.
John Egan mined for 50 years, he slaved for 50 years.
He mined in the morning, he mined all those days, he served for 50 years.
John Egan has a tale to tell, he has a life to tell, and ‘It’s time that tale was told’, time his life was told.
The bells toll, the bells toll, John Egan sleeps and dreams:
He dreams of Heaven, he dreams of His Maker and he dreams of Paradise Row.
He dreams that the meek shall inherit the Earth, that the meek shall inherit the Earth.
John Egan is a meek man, a miner;
a meek man;
and this is the tale, the bell tolls, this is the tale he tells:
Keith Armstrong
The atmosphere was very good among the neighbours in them days, they were all friendly. The conditions were bad. We lived in a little wooden house, one up, one down, only one bedroom. Toilet across the road. There was my brother Jimmy and I and my sister in that house. Then we moved to the other house. It had a back kitchen, pantry, two bedrooms.
I remember when I was very young a chap was killed in the pit. I remember them bringing him home, of course, in them days there was no pit-bath. They put him on a stretcher and carried him home as he was, black, dead, they put a blanket over him. There were no street lights then and I remember one man had a torch at the front another man had a torch at the back, about six men carried him. I remember his wife screeching crying, she took the poor fellow in. She had to wash him. Them was the days. I was about 8 or l0 then, I remember it well.
ME DADDY WAS A COAL MINING MAN
My father was a pitman. He was the aged miners’ delegate for 30 years.
He worked at Trimdon Grange all his life. He once went 10 year at the pit and never lost a shift (this could be a record). My father was born at a place called Tutnam, then they moved to the Grange, and my mother was born at Thornley.
My mother had a hard life, she worked on a farm when she was 13-yearold at a place called Marley Hill. She worked there when she was a bit of a child. And she worked at Kelloe, she worked at two farms at Kelloe. They both had hard lives.
There were six family, four brothers and two sisters. Of course, two brothers and two sisters died.
My father was a lovely chap, never lost a shift and we always had an income. In them days he had a garden and used to grow all sorts to feed us.
Spring cabbage, shallots, lettuce. The wages were just coppers. Father worked at the pit until he was 70-year-old. I said to my mother ‘I am going to finish my dad, he’s working at the pit no more, he’s not going to the pit tomorrow.’ When he came in she says to him, ‘Do you hear what our John says, you’re going to the pit no more.’ ‘No’, I says ‘You’re not, I’ve put your pit clothes on the fire, you’re going to the pit no more, you’ve done your bit’. Seventy-year-old, worked like a slave all his life. He didn’t go and that was the finish.
He suffered a lot with pains, he had a stick.
THE TRIMDON GRANGE EXPLOSION
The Trimdon Grange Explosion was in the high main, my father was in the low main. My father and his mate were putting in the low main. They were getting their baits, a bit dry bread and cheese and a drink of water, that was his bait. Water was precious down the pit. They could feel something in the air, it was the Explosion. They were told something had happened at the pit-head. My father and his mate got out because they were in a different seam. When they came out there were hundreds of people at the pit, some crying. My father tells me that one woman came to him and said ‘Did you see Bill?’ (That was Billy Jennels, his mate). My father says ‘No, I didn’t see him Mrs. Jennels, but he’ll be alright.’ He wasn’t alright, he was in the high main, he was lost. He was my father’s mate, lovely mates.
There was lads 14 and l5-years-old lost in the Explosion. In them days the returns for the air weren’t what they should have been, it was gassy, they are different nowadays. There is a memorial in the churchyard, Billy Jennels’ name is on it, but somebody is scratching the names off.
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Top Of The Bank
Trimdon’s Young
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Trimdon Grange Explosion
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The Wheel (Song)
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Home > Arts > REVIEW: Jiving Sisters of Swing (History Theatre)
REVIEW: Jiving Sisters of Swing (History Theatre)
by Bev Wolfe - May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017
Cat Brindisi, Katie Hahn, and Jen Burleigh-Bentz in the History Theatre’s production of Sisters of Swing.
The Andrew Sisters were the sweethearts of the World War II generation. When my mother was in nursing school during the war, the students in the girls’ dorm would congregate around the dorm piano and sing Andrew Sisters’ songs. When my mother was in her waning years and fighting Alzheimer’s, she was always delighted and able to stay focus when I took her to see Sisters of Swing at the History Theatre. The History Theatre commissioned Beth Gilleland and Bob Beverage to write this musical about the Andrews sisters and it premiered in 2002. I reviewed the 2009 revival of the show at History Theatre and, in this latest revival, Director Ron Peluso has taken the popular show on the road – including a two-night stand at the Dakota Jazz Club.
Read Basil Considine’s Q&A with the cast of Sisters of Swing.
For those unfamiliar with the group, the Andrew Sisters were from Minnesota. Their national career started when they won a talent contest at Minneapolis’s Orpheum Theatre in the 1930s. They went on to New York City where they started their recording career and had a consistent string of hit songs through World War II. They extensively toured with the USO throughout the war performing before military troops in Africa, Italy and the United States. Their father controlled both their career and their lives until his death in the early 1950s; only after his death did the sisters marry. Their music became known to my generation when pop artists started covering their songs. When Bette Milder covered their World War II hit “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” the success of that record launched Milder’s career as a major artist.
The road show is the same show that has been performed at the History Theatre several times since 2002. In this road tour, Cat Brindisi plays Patty, Jen Burleigh-Bentz plays LaVerne, and Katie Hahn plays Maxene. LaVerne was the oldest, Maxene the middle sister, and Patty was the youngest and the lead singer for the group. Although I have seen the show performed several times, these three actors still pulled me into the illusion with their convincing performances as the sisters. Their enthusiasm in their singing of the group’s countless hits showed why the trio was so popular over the years. The three actors do a delightfully campy performance with the song “Carmen Boogie” which is used to tell the tale of how Patty went over to Doris Day’s house and terrorized Day’s mother with a baseball bat (Patty’s then-husband, Marty Melcher, had run off with the actress).
Jake Endres is referred to as, simply, “The Man” in the program, and he ably plays various roles in the women’s story, including the Danny Kaye parts in several of their songs as well as the part of Lou, their manager, who ultimately married and divorced Maxene. Nic Delcambre plays their piano accompanist who at one time dated Patty. The sisters’ parents are often talked about but are never seen.
Most of the Dakota’s stage was taken up with band members whose brassy sound blended well with the sisters’ songs. But it left very limited room for the actors to perform Jan Puffer’s energetic choreography. From my view at the far back side table, I often found myself looking at the video screen to see the dance numbers because from my side view the three sisters blended into one person.
Most of the attending audience were persons who were even older than me, but it was obvious they enjoyed this evening of nostalgia. But for those who are unfamiliar with the Andrew Sisters’ music, the evening provides a new opportunity to experience this legendary and extremely talented trio.
Bev Wolfe
Bev Wolfe is a Staff Reviewer at the Twin Cities Arts Reader. She is an attorney and avid theatre fan who has written theatre reviews for local publications since 2008. She is also an Ivey Awards evaluator.
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Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Amp
By Charles Jefferies Jan 30, 2019
The best value yet in the GeForce RTX 20-series lineup, the RTX 2060 is a worthy, if more expensive, successor to the venerable GTX 1060.
Higher performance, ray tracing, and AI capabilities have been at the forefront of our GeForce RTX 20-series graphics card reviews. However, our conclusions about the models released thus far (the GeForce RTX 2070, the RTX 2080, and the RTX 2080 Ti) have found that the value of their generational performance gains over the preceding GeForce GTX 10 series, although significant, have been offset by higher prices. In fairness, we've yet to see games take advantage of many of the new technologies in the GeForce RTX 20 series. But using today's games, we haven't seen the per-dollar performance increase we've seen from previous generations. At least, that was the case until now. The GeForce RTX 2060 is the first GeForce RTX 20-series card to offer a substantial per-dollar performance improvement over the prior generation, a distinction that helps this Zotac version of the card ($369.99) earn an Editors' Choice laurel for upper-mid-level graphics cards.
GeForce RTX 2060: The Essentials
The new GeForce RTX 2060 is here to make us rethink the economic angle of RTX. On paper, its technical specifications are relatively close to those of the $499-starting-price GeForce RTX 2070, but RTX 2060 cards are priced starting at "just" $349. That makes the GeForce RTX 2060 more expensive than its predecessor, the GeForce GTX 1060 ($299). However, it's close enough still to be considered mainstream turf. As our benchmark test results will show, the GeForce RTX 2060 delivers gaming performance well above what we've come to expect from a mid-level performer. No question, it's faster than the GeForce GTX 1060, and it even outperforms the GeForce GTX 1070 by double-digit percentages.
SEE ALSO: What Graphics Card Do I Have?
First, though, let's run through some quick background on the GeForce RTX 2060 and the GeForce RTX 20-series before getting into the finer details. Based on the new "Turing" architecture, Nvidia's latest generation of graphics processors (GPUs) brings improved gaming performance and new technologies over the outgoing "Pascal" architecture of the GeForce GTX 10 series. Two of the hallmark new technologies with Turing are hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI-driven Deep Level Super Sampling (DLSS). Both have seen a slow adoption among game developers, although some lenience is due; it's been less than six months since the GeForce RTX 20-series launch, and that's not a long time in the game-development world.
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That's about all I'm going to say about Turing nitty-gritty in this article. Our GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition review has a comprehensive look at Turing and is well worth a read if you need the background.
Under review is the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp edition from the well-established Nvidia board partner Zotac. This card shares nearly all of its technical specifications with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition, but is priced at $369 ($20 higher) because of its factory overclock.
Here's how the GeForce RTX 2060 compares to the outgoing GeForce GTX 1060. (Note I used Nvidia's reference specifications for the GeForce RTX 2060 in the tables below; I'll explain the minor differences with the Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Amp in the next section.)
RTX 2060 Founders Edition ("Turing") GTX 1060 Founders Edition ("Pascal")
Recommended Price $349 $299
Base/Boost Clock 1,365MHz / 1,680MHz 1,506MHz / 1,708MHz
Nvidia CUDA Cores 1,920 1,280
Memory Speed/Standard Memory Config 14Gbps / 6GB GDDR6 8Gbps / 6GB GDDR5
Memory Interface Width 192-bit 192-bit
Memory Bandwidth 336GB per second 192GB per second
Graphics Card Power 160 watts 120 watts
Manufacturing Process 12nm FinFET 16nm
Power Connectors Single eight-pin Single six-pin
The 50 percent increase in CUDA core count is a good estimator of the raw performance increase we'll see from the GeForce RTX 2060. According to Nvidia, the Turing-based CUDA cores are more efficient than those from Pascal, so the performance increase could be greater. A 75 percent improvement in memory bandwidth is sure to help when gaming at high resolutions, too. The 14Gbps GDDR6 memory is new for the GeForce RTX 20 series.
The GeForce RTX 2060 maintains the 6GB memory loadout of the GeForce GTX 1060. It would have been nice to see 8GB this time around, but you'll have to spend for a GeForce RTX 2070 if you want that much. For 1440p gaming, for which the GeForce RTX 2060 is ideally suited, 6GB of video memory is just fine. It would be barely sufficient for 4K gaming, but running that resolution in most of today's AAA titles is too demanding for the GeForce RTX 2060 without reducing the visual quality settings. (Look for the benchmarks later in this review.)
RTX 2060 Versus RTX 2070
Now here's how the GeForce RTX 2060 stacks up against its more expensive stablemate, the GeForce RTX 2070:
RTX 2060 Founders Edition RTX 2070 Founders Edition
Shading Multiprocessors (SMs) 30 36
CUDA/Tensor/RT Cores 1,920 / 240 / 30 2,304 / 288 / 36
Rated Giga-Rays Per Second/RTX-OPS 5 / 37 6 / 42
Memory Speed/Interface Width 14Gbps / 192-bit 14Gbps / 256-bit
Standard Memory Config/Bandwidth 6GB GDDR6 / 336GB per sec 8GB GDDR6 / 448GB per sec
Power Connectors Single eight-pin Single eight-pin
You'll notice several specifications in this comparison that weren't present when I compared the GeForce RTX 2060 to the GeForce GTX 1060, namely the number of Tensor and ray tracing (RT) cores. Both were introduced with the Turing architecture. (Be sure to reference that GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition review I linked earlier for the details.)
It's possible to use Nvidia's proprietary RTX-OPS metric to estimate the performance gap between GeForce RTX 20-series cards, which would make the GeForce RTX 2070 about 14 percent faster than the GeForce RTX 2060. However, RTX-OPS assumes a workload that includes CUDA, Tensor, and RT core operations, among other things, and hardly any games use the former two right now. Going off the CUDA core count alone, then, the GeForce RTX 2070 should be 20 percent faster than the GeForce RTX 2060, but that's a rough estimate only. The GeForce RTX 2070 has other specifications that work in its favor, namely its larger memory configuration (8GB versus 6GB) and wider memory bus (256-bit versus 192-bit).
Interestingly, the total board power rating difference between the two is a mere 15 watts, and both use a single eight-pin connector for power.
Now that we're past the essentials, let's see what makes the Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Amp different from Nvidia's reference card.
The Zotac Tour
As I noted before, Zotac is an Nvidia board partner company. It takes Nvidia's reference card designs and builds its own graphics cards around them. The GeForce RTX 2060 Amp under review here is almost identical to Zotac's other GeForce RTX 2060-based offering, the GeForce RTX 2060 Twin Fan. (See a tour of all of the RTX 2060 board designs we could find at launch.)
The lone difference between them is that the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp is factory-overclocked to 1,800MHz on its boost clock, a 120MHz or 7 percent increase over the 1,680MHz boost clock of the Twin Fan model. The latter shares its clocks with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition. I'll explore whether the $20 price bump for the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp is worthwhile in the overclocking section of this review.
The GeForce RTX 2060 Amp is a true two-slot card, and a compact one at that. Its length of 8.3 inches is less than expected for a card in this performance class. It's 0.7 inch shorter than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition. Its 4.7-inch width is a few tenths of an inch over what I'd consider truly compact, but it's hard to imagine that causing fitment problems.
The cooling solution on the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp consists of two 90mm fans, and three 6mm heatpipes connected to an aluminum heatsink. It looks robust enough for a card with a 160-watt board power rating. I'll look at cooling performance after the benchmarks section.
Here on the bottom edge, you can see more heatpipe detail …
The intricately-cut aluminum backplate is mostly there for strength, but it also adds a measure of passive cooling to the underside.
The Zotac logo along the top edge of the card is backlit in white.
It's not an RGB LED with changeable colors. The LED is so small, though, that it's not much of a selling point in either event, in my eyes. The lighting can be disabled in the Zotac Firestorm software. Note the lack of an SLI connector up here. On the GeForce RTX 20 series, SLI is supported only on the GeForce RTX 2080 and up.
The GeForce RTX 2060 Amp has a single eight-pin power connector like the GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition...
Some competing GeForce RTX 2060-based cards from other board partners offer a six-pin connector in addition, although that is not a common practice. As I'll detail later, this card has plenty of wattage for mild overclocking.
The back of the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp has an HDMI 2.0b video-out port, and three DisplayPort 1.4 video-out connectors...
What it doesn't have is a VirtualLink USB Type-C port, something that is present on the GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition. This is a potential deal-breaker if you're interested in one of the next-generation virtual-reality headsets. Meanwhile, the cooling grate back here is mostly aesthetic, as the twin-fan cooling solution on this card sends most of its exhaust air into the case.
RTX 2060 Performance Analysis
PC Labs put the Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Amp through its paces using a variety of the latest DirectX 11- and DirectX 12-based games and benchmarks. Our test rig is equipped with an Intel Core i7-8700K processor, 16GB of G.Skill DDR4 memory, a solid-state boot drive, and an Aorus Z370 Gaming 7 motherboard.
The commentary in the following benchmarks will focus on the performance of the GeForce RTX 2060 relative to the outgoing GeForce GTX 1060 and the GeForce GTX 1070. Nvidia theoretically replaced the latter with the GeForce RTX 2070, but at a price point higher than that of its predecessor. That gives the GeForce RTX 2060 the unique opportunity to provide something we haven't seen too strongly from the GeForce RTX 20-series lineup: more performance per dollar than the outgoing cards.
Note the GeForce RTX 2070 in our charts will be represented by the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Armor. For the TLDR version of all this, just skip down to the conclusion. Otherwise, away we go.
Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra
Synthetic benchmarks can be good predictors of real-world gaming performance. Futuremark's circa-2013 Fire Strike Ultra is still a go-to for 4K-based gaming. We're looking only at the graphics subscore, not the overall score.
The GeForce RTX 2060 Amp is already showing promise. Based on the graphics sub-scores, it's just 15 percent behind the more expensive MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Armor, and 5 percent ahead of the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition. It scored nearly 50 percent higher than the GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition.
3DMark Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme
This is Futuremark's DirectX 12-enabled benchmark for predicting the performance of DirectX 12-enabled games. It uses major features of the API, including asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading.
The gap between the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp and the GeForce RTX 2070 Armor narrows to just 8 percent, again focusing on the graphics sub-scores. It even shows a 6 percent advantage over the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition, which isn't likely to continue. However, the greater percentage gains the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp shows over the GTX 10-series cards in this benchmark, compared to the older 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra test, indicates the RTX 20 series is better optimized for DirectX 12 workloads.
Unigine Superposition
Our last synthetic benchmark is Unigine's 2017 release, Superposition. This benchmark does incorporate ray tracing, but it's done in software, not hardware, and thus doesn't utilize the RT cores of the RTX 20 series.
The GeForce RTX 2060 Amp is consistently 12 to 14 percent behind the GeForce RTX 2070 Armor. Its advantage over the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition narrows as the resolution increases, but it is always in the double-digit range.
Real-World Gaming
The following benchmarks are games that you can play. The charts themselves will list the settings we used (typically the highest in-game presets and, if available, DirectX 12).
Square Enix's recent title is our first real-world test. This game is well-optimized for the PC platform, but very demanding at its higher visual quality settings. (PC Labs had some issues running the game on the RTX 2070, thus the blanks here for that card.)
The 1440p results show a healthy 19 percent lead for the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp over the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition, while it was almost dead-even with the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition.
The 2015 predecessor to Shadow of the Tomb Raider is still a great benchmark.
The results are starting to seem familiar; the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp is anywhere from 13 to 15 percent behind the GeForce RTX 2070 Armor, and 13 to 18 percent faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition. Its lead over the GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition remains around the 50 percent mark.
Far Cry 5 and Far Cry Primal
The fourth and fifth installments in the Far Cry series are based on DirectX 11, but still demanding. We're looping the benchmark charts together since they benchmark similarly.
The GeForce RTX 2060 Amp shows some of its best performance so far in these games, nipping the heels of the GeForce RTX 2070 Armor and matching or slightly bettering the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition.
We'll take a respite from fps-based benchmarks for Final Fantasy XV.
Consistency is an asset for the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp. It continues to stay well ahead of the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition, and sits closer to the GeForce RTX 2070 Armor than might have been expected given the disparity in their price points.
World of Tanks Encore
This is another non-fps-based benchmark that's available as a free download. It's not super demanding, but still a reliable test.
Consistency is consistency, and I'm not complaining. The GeForce RTX 2060 continues to put the GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition way in the back seat.
Tom Clancy: The Division
A 2016 release that remains tough to handle, here's our final DirectX 12-specific game test.
Good stuff. At all resolutions, the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp had no trouble putting up numbers that, relative to the other cards, keeps it consistent with the other benchmarks we ran.
Overclock Away!
Using Nvidia's Scanner utility is a good way to start overclocking a GeForce RTX 20-series graphics card. It's built into various overclocking software tools, like EVGA Precision X1. The latter gave me a recommended 55MHz bump on the core and boost clocks of the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp. That's minimal; it's just 4 percent on the base clock (to 1,420MHz) and 3 percent on the boost clock (to 1,855MHz), but bear in mind this card is already factory-overclocked by Zotac.
The before-and-after benchmark results shown below were predictably minimal. (Note I used a different test rig than PC Labs used for the formal benchmarks in this review, so the results aren't comparable. My test rig has a Core i7-7700K processor and 16GB of RAM.)
RTX 2060 Amp (OC with Nvidia Scanner) RTX 2060 Amp (Stock) Overclock Vs. Stock
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (Graphics Score) 4,432 4,344 +2%
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) 7,856 7,741 +1%
Rise of the Tomb Raider (1080p, Very High Preset, DX12) 127.4fps 125.5fps +2%
Rise of the Tomb Raider (1440p, Very High Preset, DX12) 84.9fps 83.2fps +2%
Rise of the Tomb Raider (4K, Very High Preset, DX12) 44.7fps 43.8fps +2%
Far Cry 5 (1080p, Ultra Preset) 109fps 108fps +1%
Far Cry 5 (1440p, Ultra Preset) 79fps 80fps -1%
Far Cry 5 (2160p, Ultra Preset) 37fps 36fps +3%
The minimal gains on the core seemed conservative to me, so I fired up a beta version of MSI Afterburner to do some manual overclocking. (I didn't initially use MSI Afterburner because the Nvidia Scanner utility built into it kept crashing the test rig.)
The core clock didn't go much further than it did with the Nvidia Scanner utility; I made it 90MHz past stock. Another 10MHz past that caused the 3DMark Fire Strike Stress Test I was using for stability testing to crash. Pushing the core voltage, which I didn't do, will likely let the core clock go higher. I was also able to get a 250MHz (or 14 percent) overclock on the memory.
Here's how the manual overclock stacked up versus the stock card...
RTX 2060 Amp (Manual OC via MSI Afterburner) RTX 2060 Amp (Stock) Overclock Vs. Stock
Far Cry 5 (4K, Ultra Preset) 40fps 36fps +11%
Those gains are more substantial than those from the Nvidia Scanner-only overclock, though they ultimately average in the single-digit range. Gains of less than 10 percent are hard to notice in most situations; they won't take a game that's unplayable and make it fluidly playable. Nonetheless, it could make a game that's teetering on the 60fps average mark slightly smoother. That's well worth about an hour of effort and zero dollars.
Here's how the core clock of the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp behaved during a 10-minute (20-loop) run through the 3DMark Fire Strike Stability test with the manual overclock applied. (I left the memory clock off the chart since it never deviated from its overclock, staying stable at 2,000MHz.)
Oscillation in the core clock (blue line) is normal for a GeForce RTX 20-series card. That's the boost clock in action; it averaged 2,017MHz in this test, which is well above the 1,890MHz boost clock I set in MSI Afterburner. The boost clock will go above its rated clock if possible. Temperatures were a non-issue; the core averaged just 64 degrees C, a low number considering Nvidia rates the GeForce RTX 2060 for a maximum of 88 degrees C.
More for the Money
The Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Amp delivers the value we've been looking for in the GeForce RTX 20-series all along. Averaging all our benchmark results, the $369 Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Amp model we reviewed was just 8 percent behind the much pricier $499 GeForce RTX 2070, and was 61 percent faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition it replaces. The latter still sells between $250 and $300, so if you can spend just outside of that, the GeForce RTX 2060 will give you more gaming performance for your money. It even beat out the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition by 19 percent, a card that was $399 at its launch.
Our sole reservation with the Zotac card we reviewed is its lack of a VirtualLink USB Type-C port, which is present on the GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition. In terms of value, The Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Amp carries slightly higher clocks and, consequently, a $20 premium over the GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition ($349). It may not seem like a lot of cash, but we found overclocking this card to be all but painless using the Nvidia Scanner utility built into many overclocking tools. Zotac sells a non-overclocked GeForce RTX 2060 Twin Fan model that is otherwise identical to the GeForce RTX 2060 Amp for $349, so that would be our choice to get the most value.
But even a small price bump for factory overclocking doesn't change our minds about the overall value of the GeForce RTX 2060. Here, at last, is the GeForce RTX 20-series offering with it the generational per-dollar performance gain we were hoping for. The fact it has ray tracing and DLSS certainly doesn't hurt its prospects. Well played, Nvidia.
Bottom Line: The best value yet in the GeForce RTX 20-series lineup, the RTX 2060 is a worthy, if more expensive, successor to the venerable GTX 1060.
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Microsoft Launching $22 Xbox Console Subscription Service
By Matthew Humphries
27 Aug 2018, 4:18 p.m.
Xbox All Access will offer an Xbox One console, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass for a monthly subscription fee. You'll no longer need to buy anything Xbox, just rent it all month-to-month as long as you sign up for two years.
UPDATE: Today, Microsoft made its Xbox All Access announcement live on the official Xbox website, but it was taken down quickly clearly signaling someone jumped the gun. However, that's all the confirmation we needed that Xbox All Access is real, and VentureBeat was quick enough to jot down the details before the post disappeared.
As reported last week (details below), Xbox All Access gives gamers access to an Xbox One console, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass in return for 24 monthly payments. However, the pricing is lower than we expected and it's setup in the same way as smartphone payment plans work.
If you want an Xbox One S, then Microsoft will charge $22 per month for 24 months. That works out cheaper than buying an Xbox One S outright and subscribing to Live Gold and Game Pass separately. At the end of the 24 months you can keep paying for access to the services, but you then own the console. If you want an Xbox One X instead, then the price rises to $35 per month. Attempting to end the contract early means paying Microsoft the outstanding monthly payments owed in order to keep your Xbox.
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Clearly Microsoft wants to use this as a way to get more people playing and entertaining themselves on Xbox hardware, which is why the price of entry is so low. At the same time, it will be hoping you continue to pay long after the 24 mandatory months are up.
All we need now is for Microsoft to re-post the full details along with a launch date. Seeing as they managed to leak their own news, I doubt it will be long before the details re-appear and you can start a subscription.
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Recently we've heard rumors that Microsoft if planning to launch two very different Xbox consoles for the next generation of hardware. One of those will be a typical games console, but the other is more like a set-top box with access restricted to streamed games you pay monthly to access. However, it looks like Microsoft may be going all-in on the subscription gaming model much sooner than that.
As The Verge reports, sources familiar with Microsoft's plans believe the company is preparing to launch a new Xbox subscription service codenamed Project Largo, but at launch will be called Xbox All Access.
What differentiates this from Microsoft's existing Xbox subscriptions is the fact it includes hardware. For a monthly fee, Microsoft will give you an Xbox One X or Xbox One S along with access to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass. The price is thought to start at $34.99 per month based on a subscription term of 24 months.
So that's $839.76 for two years of Xbox gaming, and probably more if you opt for an Xbox One X. That's the equivalent of buying an Xbox One S 1TB model and nine full price games.
This wouldn't be the first time Microsoft has experimented with hardware subscriptions. You may remember the Xbox 360 with Kinect bundle, which cost $99 but required a $15 per month subscription for two years. This looks to be another attempt at that, but with no upfront cost and a larger monthly charge.
On the face of it, $35 a month for a complete Xbox setup with access to hundreds of games sounds like a good deal. But it's still $420 a year to rent your entertainment and therefore quite expensive unless you already buy lots of games every year, and just as importantly, don't already own an Xbox One.
For now, this remains unconfirmed, but if Xbox All Access does launch expect it to be available only in the US to begin with. Only after Microsoft assesses its popularity will it consider expanding the offer to other markets.
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Marco Rubio staggers under attacks by Chris Christie at GOP debate
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Is the junior senator from Florida ready for prime time, not to mention the presidency?
by Mark Whittington
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The good news for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida was that he entered Saturday night’s GOP debate in New Hampshire with the wind at his back, having gotten an unexpected third place performance in the Iowa Caucus. The bad news for Rubio was that he arrived at the debate with a target drawn at his back. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired at that target with both barrels, staggering the young presidential candidate.
Rubio did not help himself by making the rookie mistake of repeating a line about President Barack Obama at least four times, suggesting that he was preprogrammed and not capable of original thought.
The gist of Christie’s attack was that, unlike a governor of a state, Rubio lacked any accomplishments to boast about. Christie managed to suggest that Rubio is just like Barack Obama, whom the senator from Florida correctly suggested, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, is a failed president.
Rubio, like Obama, has blown into the Senate and is a first termer without much to show for it. The comparison is at once accurate and unfair.
One of the truisms that many in politics like to repeat is that being a state governor, because it involves making administrative decisions, prepares one far better for being president of the United States than any other office, say a United States senator.
Christie obviously has someone in mind, though John Kasich is also a governor and Jeb Bush a former governor. Two men who have been governors, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Rick Perry of Texas, are no longer in the race.
Christie’s potential point has a mixed result in the real world. Ronald Reagan was a former governor and became a world-historical figure as president. However, Jimmy Carter was also a former governor and is widely considered a failed president.
The maxim that governors make better presidents would have excluded George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and John. F. Kennedy from the presidency.
It remains to be seen whether Christie’s attacks and Rubio’s subpart performance will have an effect on the results of the New Hampshire primary.
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Karl Lagerfeld’s signature white shirt to be interpreted by Diane Kruger, Tommy Hilfiger, Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne
By Godfrey Deeny
If Karl Lagerfeld had a fetish garment it had to have been his signature white shirt; worn most generally with a black silk tie. Those well-starched chemises will be the inspiration for the latest homage to the late great designer this fall with A Tribute to Karl: The White Shirt Project, when a score of creatives will celebrate Lagerfeld by interpreting his iconic shirt.
Photo: Karl Lagerfeld - DR
The project will be curated by Lagerfeld’s long-time preferred stylist, Carine Roitfeld, who has invited a slew of fashion VIPs to create their own versions of his white shirt, including Diane Kruger, Tommy Hilfiger, Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne, Amber Valletta, Lewis Hamilton, Alessandro Michele, Sébastien Jondeau, Takashi Murakami, and more.
“When I think of Karl’s most iconic designs from his career, I always I think of his white shirts. This tribute will allow us to honor his legacy while incorporating his unwavering love of fashion and giving back; I can’t imagine a better way for us to celebrate his passion for creativity,” said Roitfeld.
Seven of the final designs will be replicated 77 times each and sold for charity at a price of €777 per piece. The number seven was Karl’s lucky number: from his favorite arrondissement in Paris, the 7th; to the name of his bookshop and publishing house, 7L - for 7 rue de Lille. Lagerfeld had his shirts personally made by Hilditch & Key, ordering unique multi-button, Prussian officer high collar, multi-button versions from the UK shirt-maker’s boutique on rue de Rivoli.
“My love and respect for Karl has much more than a white shirt so I had to celebrate our relationship with a red, white and blue stars version. Obviously, I’m honored to have been asked to do this as I will always remember the day he gave me a beautiful black shiny gift box and it was one of his favorites from his own closet: high-collar, button back, starch and all!” Tommy Hilfiger told FashionNetwork.com.
The development comes at a busy time for the house of Karl Lagerfeld, which has unleashed a series of capsule collections; by Roitfeld; his long-time pal, PA and bodyguard Jondeau and by fashion "It-gal" Olivia Palermo, which launched in Berlin last month.
All proceeds of the shirt sales will be donated to the French charity “Sauver la Vie,” which funds medical research at the Paris Descartes University and which Karl quietly supported for many years. All of the final shirts will be displayed at an exhibition at the Maison Karl Lagerfeld during Paris Fashion Week in September 2019.
“After Karl’s passing, so many people wanted to share their admiration for Karl and express their emotions. The participants in this tribute are all people who Karl knew, who he felt connected to, or who inspired him. Sending a personal message through the creation of an individual bespoke version of Karl’s iconic shirt makes it, for each participant, a very unique and intimate way of relating back to Karl,” said Pier Paolo Righi, CEO of Karl Lagerfeld.
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Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
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He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold. There were six steps to the throne and a footstool in gold attached to the throne, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— 4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, 5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. 6 Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you: Christian Art and Gifts
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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” ... Christian Art and Gifts
"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father. Christian Art and Gifts
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Date Nights DC
The 28 Most Romantic Spots & Things to Do in Washington, DC
The nation’s capital has a wealth of scenic arched bridges, waterfront walks and majestic landmarks that all add up to one seriously romantic city.
There's no denying that Washington, DC is a romantic city. It’s built on not one, but two rivers, the Potomac and Anacostia, has no shortage of iconic architecture and regularly ranks atop the country’s most walkable cities. What does all that mean? There’s endless possibilities for romantic strolls and dazzling sights in this 68-square-mile city.
The nation's capital really is the capital of romance, where the date possibilities are seemingly infinite. Discover DC’s most romantic spots and do date night right.
1 National Mall
For some QT with your cutie, grab a seat on the National Mall and take in the world around you while gazing at DC's famous monuments and memorials.
The Lincoln Memorial is breathtaking at night. Lead your sweetheart up the stairs for a moment that will surely go down in history.
3 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
A date night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a must, but be sure to step out during intermission and admire the dazzling cityscape from the the wrap-around terrace. Or you can also keep the Kennedy Center in your sights with a walk along the Georgetown waterfront.
4 National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Grab your mittens and your sweetie as you ice skate in the middle of the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. Afterwards, make a beeline for hot chocolate and cookies at the on-site Pavilion Café. In warm weather, this rink transforms into a stunning fountain.
5 Robert Indiana's AMOR
Step further into the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden and you’ll come face to face with the Spanish-language version of Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE sculpture.
6 Yards Park
DC’s lively Capitol Riverfront neighborhood is home to the always-exciting Yards Park, which has an iconic bridge and plenty of adventures nearby, like Ice Cream Jubilee for when you’re feeling extra sweet.
7 Ritz-Carlton, Washington DC
Set up camp by the fire with your babe inside the cozy lobby of the Ritz-Carlton, Washington DC. Grab cocktails from the lounge at Quadrant Bar & Lounge, where you can listen to live jazz every Saturday, and settle in for a long night.
8 Georgetown
Use your one-of-a-kind charm on your date as you walk through historic Georgetown. The beauty of the neighborhood's waterfront, cobblestone sidewalks and grand homes will draw you and that special someone further into this picturesque area.
9 U.S. National Arboretum
Watch your love grow like a tree with a trip to the National Arboretum, a 446-acre living museum brimming with gardens, cherry blossom trees, as well as the original columns of the U.S. Capitol building. One of the most romantic ways to see the Arboretum is during a full moon hike.
10 CityCenterDC's Palmer Alley
The atmosphere under the stringed lights in CityCenterDC’s Palmer Alley is something you can only feel when you’re here. Shop for a sharp evening outfit at Paul Stuart, share a treat from the market at Centrolina, or dine at any of its courtyard-facing restaurants.
11 Rock Creek Park
Walk, jog or bike with your love through the rustic expanse of 2,100 acres that comprise Rock Creek Park. The historic park also includes attractions such as Peirce Mill and the Old Stone House, as well as a nature center, riding stables, tennis courts, a golf course, picnic areas and playing fields.
12 POV Rooftop
The chic POV Rooftop Lounge and Terrace at the W Hotel serves as a beacon for cupids, casanovas and the like. Sip some bubbly and pass the hors d’oeuvres while taking in awe-inspiring views of the National Mall and White House.
13 National Gallery of Art
With its luscious Impressionist masterworks by iconic artists such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, it’s easy to get dreamy while spending the day at the National Gallery of Art.
14 Dumbarton Oaks
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The beautiful, serene and quiet gardens at Dumbarton Oaks are just a few minutes stroll from the hustle and bustle of Georgetown proper. Chart a course through the European designed garden to locate the ornaments and inscriptions.
15 District of Columbia War Memorial
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Nestled in a clearing among trees along the flank of the Mall (beyond the World War II Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Memorial) sits the elusive District of Columbia War Memorial. The domed temple serves as a romantic hideaway and is one of the few sites on the National Mall where you can get married.
16 9:30 Club
Take in the sweet sounds of live music with your sweetheart at the 9:30 Club on V Street NW. The music venue has made DC cool since its opening in 1980, catering to national acts.
17 Georgetown's Graffiti Cliffs
The ultimate date night event is taking in a sunset together. You can’t go wrong catching the sunset from the Graffiti Cliffs near the C&O Canal and Key Bridge, which connects Georgetown to Virginia.
18 Logan Circle
Sometimes, the most romantic spots are neighborhood fixtures. Plop down on a park bench at Logan Circle before a hot date on always-exciting 14th Street.
19 Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
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The expansive Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens of heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in Upper Northwest is perfect for snuggling up with your sweetie as you stroll the gardens and take in the museum’s lavish treasures.
20 Dupont Circle
If you’re looking for more of a social atmosphere, Dupont Circle is especially woo-worthy (and people-watching friendly).The gorgeous fountain serves as the epicenter of one of DC’s most exciting neighborhoods, with a surrounding plaza that frequently features locals playing chess or lounging on benches.
21 Kogod Courtyard
Visit with your love under the elegant glass canopy in the Kogod Courtyard, situated in between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.
22 On the Tidal Basin
Get in sync with your partner as you pedal a Tidal Basin paddleboat and cruise by the Jefferson Memorial.
23 By the Tidal Basin
Back on dry land, the Tidal Basin offers a serene setting for you and yours. You’ll also have direct access to the Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, Jr. memorials.
24 The Phillips Collection
Peruse DC’s museums and pick a favorite artwork, like Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party at The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art.
25 On the Potomac River
DC is a waterfront city, so get out on the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and cruise under all of those romantic arches. Book a trip through Entertainment Cruises, or for something more intimate, book with Embark, which can hold up to six people.
26 The Watergate Steps
Drop some knowledge on your honey at the Watergate Steps, which look out over the Potomac River. These steps were first created as a way to welcome foreign dignitaries and heads of state, and now they welcome in-the-know romantics.
27 Meridian Hill Park
Stop by Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, and marvel at the longest cascading fountain in North America. Also, keep an eye out for the Joan of Arc statue, the only equestrian statue of a woman in the city.
28 Spanish Steps
Make a dash for the Spanish Steps, located on 22nd Street in Dupont Circle. This little lovers nook is a prime picnic spot and off-the-radar gem.
Alright, now that you’ve got the most romantic spots sorted out, you’ve laid the groundwork for a great date. For more ideas to woo your boo, check out how to do date night right in Washington, DC.
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Category: Stockholm legends
Olle the star gazer
Long, long ago there lived a little boy called Olle. He lived in the dirtiest, coldest, noisiest part of Stockholm’s Old Town. He shared his squalid shack with his mum and dad, grandparents and five sisters and brothers, all of them squeezed into one simple room. From inside the room, you could hear the noise of the horses hooves on the cobblestones and the bustle of people outside.
Olle was always hungry but he was also a dreamer. Whenever he didn’t have to work, he could be found standing outside gazing up at the stars. He loved the way they blinked in the night sky and how the moon lit up the dark alley ways of the Old Town.
One cold winter night, he was outside as usual looking up at the sky when he heard a whisper of voices. Looking around, he noticed that the voices came from inside a cellar, and the door was slightly open. It was so cold outside and the yellow light from the cellar stairs seemed warm and cosy, so he decided to go in. Once inside, he walked slowly down the stairs until he came to a little room with an open fire. The ceiling was very low in this room and it was lovely and warm. By the fire place, he saw a rocking chair and a side table laden down with thick pies. He looked around cautiously. The whispers had stopped, and the room was empty. He felt the hunger in his stomach and stared at the pies. Gradually, he moved closer to them, mouth watering, and in a mad moment, he grabbed a pie and shoved it into his mouth.
The door to the room slammed shut and in the shadows behind he saw a shape. He heard the whispers beginning again and from the shadows emerged an ugly old woman.
‘Oh Child,‘ she whispered ‘Are you hungry?’
Olle nodded, scared. He could hear the noise from the street above and the crackling of the fire.
‘Take Another one then. Go on. Eat’
Olle turned to the pies and took another. He was so hungry. And he stuffed it into his mouth.
‘You like my pies?’ said the old woman
Olle nodded but he started to feel a little strange. The room starting spinning slowly and he felt a odd feeling in his body. The floor seemed to be getting closer, and the ceiling further away. His clothes felt too big for him. What was happening? Was he shrinking??
A few minutes later, Olle opened his eyes. The old woman was towering over him and laughing. Everything in the room was huge, he had shrunk to the size of a tin soldier.
Bending over, the old woman grabbed him in her hand and lifted him up to her face. He could see the milky colour of her eyes and smell the foul odour of her breath.
‘So you liked my pies! You know what’s in them?‘
Olle shook his head.
‘Curious little boys!’ screamed the old woman.
Olle never made it home that day. No one really knows what happened to him. But you can still visit him if you like. Just behind the Finnish Church in the Old Town, there’s a little statue in his honour. There he sits, little Olle, and gazes up at the stars that he loved so much.
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The Giant of the North’s weakness for lions
Long, long ago, when Stockholm was still a village, the people had built a big wall to protect themselves from the outside. You see Stockholm wasn’t as safe as it is today. Packs of lions, tigers and wolves roamed the countryside. And just outside the wall, there lived four one-eyed giants. The giant of the North, the giant of the South, the giant of the East and the giant of the West. These giants were brothers and of all of them, the giant of the North was the largest and the strongest and the most scary. He lived on a hill overlooking the village and watched and waited for his opportunity to attack.
Now, the people of the village couldn’t remain behind locked gates all the time. Merchants sometimes had to leave in order to trade with other towns. Builders had to leave in order to reinforce the walls and bridges from the outside. And shepherds and herdsmen had to pass through the gates in order to exercise and feed their sheep and cattle. But leaving the village was a treachorous endeavour – often people fell into the grasps of a patrolling giant and were gulped up whole.
The giant of the North didn’t care too much for people. He thought they tasted gristly and bony. His favourite food was lions. Not only were they fat and tasty but he liked the way their manes tickled his throat as he swallowed them. But lions were rare, so he had to satisfy his great hunger with sheep. Whenever the shepherds left the village, he pounced and ate as many as he could before they ran back to safety behind the wall.
The King of the village was worried about this and he announced a competition for the villagers to come up with the best idea for beating the giant of the North. Various suggestions were made but, when they tried them, none seemed to work. There were no more ideas and the King became more and more desparate.
Now, the King had a wife, Drottning Matilda. Drottning Matilda was a clever woman and she thought she might have the solution. She went to the King and asked for an audience with him.
‘How can we solve this terrible problem?’ said the King ‘the sheep are disappearing and the people are cold and starving’
‘It’s easy,’ said Drottning Matilda, ‘if he wants lions, let’s give him lions’.
The next day they set about their plan.
Anybody capable of sowing was instructed to sow sacks together and attach bushes of golden hay to one edge of the sacking. They were also told to add a long rope with a frayed knot at the other end. Then, they gathered together some sheep and draped the sacking over the top of them. The golden hay hung down to disguise the sheep’s face and the frayed rope hung from their rear ends like a long tail. Along the main street of the village, the villagers fastened two of the sheep at various intervals and they placed heavy stones under their wool. The villagers then ran to their homes and locked themselves in behind bolted doors and windows and the church bells started to ring. This was the gatekeeper’s signal to open the Northern gate. And then the villagers waited.
Up on his hill, the giant of the North was busy eating a cow when he saw the gates open, and stay open. ‘At last!’ he thought, ‘Here’s my chance!’ and he thundered down the hill and across the footbridge.
As he approached the gates, he saw that the village seemed abandoned. It was quiet and still. And then he couldn’t believe his eyes! Just inside the gates he saw two lions tied to the side of the street. As fast as he could, he pounced upon them and gobbled them up. Looking further along the road, he saw two more lions tethered by the road side and devoured the animals in two quick bites. Then incredibly he saw two more lions further along the road and ate them up as fast as he could.
And so it went on.
Slowly, the giant of the North ate himself to the end of the road and to the final two sheep disguised as lions. But he was starting to feel a bit odd. Strangely, he felt heavy, as though he’d eaten stones! But that wasn’t possible, he’d eaten lions – not stones! He looked over at the final two lions, which were tied atop a wooden platform, and the giant, mad with gluttony, moved heavily towards them. Finally his big heavy feet reached the wooden platform and his increased weight made the wooden planks bend and groan.
And then suddenly, they snapped! And the giant fell. He feel deep and far into the river rapids below. Struggling to keep his head above the water, the weight of the stones he had eaten pulled him under until eventually he could no longer struggle and was flushed lifelessly downstream and into the sea.
The people of the village rejoiced! The giant is dead!
The King, overjoyed, decided to rename the street after his wife – Drottninggatan and he commanded the village sculptor to make and place statues of lions all along the road to commemorate her cleverness.
The street is still there today, and so are the statues. And if you follow the road to the end, you’ll even see the rapids where the giant perished.
So that’s how the people of Stockholm defeated the giant of the North. But what about the giants of the East, West and South?
Well, that’s another story all together.
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Riddusola the Gorgon and the stone statues
Long, long ago, in Stockholm there was a very grand building which stood alone on its own private island.
This grand building was the place where all the decisions were made. The King, the Prime Minister, the Mayor and the other dignitaries used to meet there to discuss the problems of their times. To get to the building, they had to take a small boat from the town and cross the choppy waters of lake Mälaren.
Around the same time, slightly to the North of the town, there was a deep grotto and inside lived a gorgon that went by the name of Riddusola. Riddusola was a terrible, terrible gorgon. She had the head of a black goat and the slimy body of a snake. Attached to her back, she had huge wings which were covered in sharp spikes. Riddusola could travel fast over land and water, and she had a terrifying stare. With one look into her eyes, a person would be immediately turned to stone.
Now and again Riddusola would appear from her grotto and descend upon the town. She would slither down streets and across squares, she would glide through the canals and lakes and she would hunt her prey. She wasn’t so fussy. She would eat anything as long as it was alive. But what she liked best was the taste of human flesh. On regular occasions, pigs would go missing, or even children, and their dull cries would be heard from the deepest depths of the gorgon’s grotto.
Early one autumn evening, Riddusola was out in the town hunting for pray when she saw the little boat carrying passengers across to the grand buidling which stood on its own island. Quickly, she jumped into the water and eeled her way towards the boat. As she neared, she saw the boat arrive at the island and the passengers disembarked. There were some lovely, juicy fat people in that boat she thought as she ploughed closer. Suddenly a soldier looked into the water and saw the gorgon approaching. He urgently ushered the dignitaries into the building and slammed the door. But that pathetic door was nothing for a gorgon and Riddusola crashed into the building sending its occupants fleeing in all directions. Oh how she feasted that day! And those she didn’t eat had looked her in the eyes and were immediately turned to stone.
Then Riddusola had an idea. The grand building was rather comfortable she thought – the perfect place for her to live. It was close to the town and also on the edge of the lake. But how could she live here undisturbed? She knew if she was so close then the townspeople would try to kill her in her sleep. So she had another idea – she would have to terrify them!
The next morning, the townspeople of Stockholm awoke and went about their daily business. Down by the waterside, they were doing their laundry when they noticed something strange about the grand building on the ísland. They approached it and looked from the other side of the water. No! Could it be true? They witnessed a horrific sight and they ran as fast as they could back to the safety of their homes. There, on the grand building, Riddusola had made a change. Stone figures now ordaned the roof. The stone figures were facing different directions and were clearly the putrified remains of the King, the Prime Minister, the Mayor and other dignitaries,
The grand building is still there, although no longer on an island. It is surrounded by roads and is today called Riddarhuset, Thankfully, the gorgon is long gone. But if you look to the roof, you will see them. The stone remains of the people who looked Riddusola in the eyes.
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Alid’s Lightening Catcher
Posted on December 16, 2013 December 16, 2013 by Neil Shipley's watching the Swedes
Long, long ago on a remote southern island in Stockholm, there lived a small group of people. These people supported themselves on fishing and foraging in the woods.
And they were a nasty bunch.
Whenever they got the chance, they would steal from other villages, or they would shout abuse from the hill tops or urinate in the lake water. For years this went on until one day Thor, from his heavenly position, got tired of listening to their behaviour and profane language. Now Thor, being the God of Thunder, had resources at his fingertips. With one swift movement of his hammer, he shot a bolt of lightning down at the villagers and blew them straight off the hillside.
But this didn’t stop the villagers. Laughing at Thor, they shook their fists and shouted abuse up into the sky. This made Thor more angry and for every time they laughed, he continued to bombard them with lightning. The years went by and with new generations, the behavior of the villagers changed. Tired of being blasted from above, they began to speak more kindly, to stop their stealing and to use appropriate methods of hygiene. But Thor was an unforgiving God and lividly continued to shoot his burning bolts down onto them.
More time went by and the villagers realized that Thor would not cease. Instead they would have to combat his attacks. They dug a fire pit to engulf the lightning, but it did not work. They built a fountain to extinguish the lightning but this didn’t work either. They sacrificed goats and pigs. But nothing worked and Thor’s wrath continued to rain down.
In despair, they turned to the wisest woman in the village – Ancient Alid. Alid was somewhat of a witch and the villagers were rather scared of her. But she had an idea. She told them to build a lightning catcher. So the villagers set to work.
For years they built, until one day their masterpiece was finished. Upon the highest point of the hill, they had constructed a lightning catcher. The structure had two mighty towers reaching high up into the sky. And it worked! Every time Thor threw a lightning bolt, it was dissolved into one of the towers first and did not hit the village. The people of the village rejoiced! They were saved and slowly they could start to grow their community in the safe shadow of their construction. In honour of the wise lady, they gave the structure a name. Hög Alid – High Alid.
You can still see it there today, high on the hilltop of Södermalm. Today Stockholmers use it as a church but long ago it was built to protect the people from a very different god.
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Gloria and the giant egg
Posted on February 14, 2012 March 28, 2012 by Neil Shipley's watching the Swedes
Long, long ago in the southern lakes of Stockholm, there lived a duck called Gloria and Gloria was a special duck indeed. Sure, she had white feathers, a yellow beek and big webbed feet. But it was something else that made her special.
Gloria was a giant duck. She was, to put it simply, huge. She was so huge that she towered above the tree-tops.
The townspeople at that time didn’t know about Gloria. She kept herself to herself far away from civilisation and deep in the forests to the south of the town. She fed off fish, but they were so small that she had to eat tons and tons of them to feel full. She was eating all of the time. And the more she ate, the more she grew.
Now it just so happened that one day a group of townspeople were riding through the forest along a wide river. As they approached the lake known as Flaten, they saw something curious on the ground – a giant webbed footprint. They looked quickly around and noticed that the footprints led deeper into the forest. Slowly, they followed the trail until they arrived at a big pile of sticks in a circular form – some kind of nest. They climbed up the outside of the nest and peeked over the top. And there in the centre of the nest they saw a big, white egg.
‘Oh my’ they thought, ‘that egg would feed the people of Stockholm for many months’
‘We have to take it back to town’ said one of the men in the group.
‘But how does one carry such a big egg to town?’ asked another
The giant egg was certainly too massive to carry. Rolling it might break it. They looked around the forest for inspiration.
‘I have an idea’ said one of the men, ‘if we can break the side of the nest, we can roll the egg down to the lake and float it on the river all the way back to Stockholm’.
What a brilliant idea! And this is exactly what they did. Soon the giant egg was bobbing along the wide river on its way to the town.
A short while later, Gloria returned from a day eating fish from another lake. When she saw her empty nest and the missing egg, she quacked inconsolably. Seeing the broken sticks on the ground she understood what had happened. Thieves! They were taking her egg to the town to eat. Angrily, she dove into the lake and swam towards Stockholm as fast as her webbed feet could paddle.
Soon in the distance she saw her egg, floating on the river. And she saw the townspeople with ropes and sticks urging it along. ‘I’ll teach them not to steal’ she quacked, and she swam towards them.
The egg might have been in water but it was still heavy. The group of men were struggling to make it move and making slow progress. Suddenly, from behind them, they heard an angry quacking. They turned around but before they knew what had hit them, Gloria had lifted the giant egg on her beak and rolled it to the bank of the river. Then, with a horrifying screech, she ate up every single man.
Gloria climbed up to the bank to her egg. The bottom of it had flattened out with the speed that it had hit the ground. It wasn’t round any more, so she couldn’t roll it. She tried to push it back into the water but it was stuck fast to the earth. Realising moving the egg was an impossible task, Gloria sat down on the grass beside the egg and hung her head in sorrow. And there she stayed for many many years, protecting her giant egg from any townspeople that might want to steal it again.
Nobody knows what happened to Gloria. She probably got very old and disappeared into the forest to die. But her egg is still there. Just to the south of Stockholm, you can see it towering above the treetops. A long time ago, the townspeople hollowed it out and used it as a shelter. Now, we use it as a place of entertainment.
We call it Globen, but we should really call it Gloria.
Eldvind and the iron steeple
Long, long ago the city of Stockholm wasn’t as big as it is today. In fact, it was comprised only of two small islands surrounded by sea on one side and a lake on the other. One of the islands, known today as Gamla Stan, where the city people lived and worked. On the other island, known as Riddarholmen, there was a monestry and a church, with a large iron steeple.
Now, the people of Gamla Stan had a problem. Every day, from the southern forests, a large dragon called Eldvind would come flying and swooping over them. He would screech and breathe fire and, if you were unlucky, he would grasp you in his mouth and swallow you up. Eldvind the dragon always circulated over Gamla Stan a few times before he landed on the steeple of the church on Riddarholmen. Then, perched up high, he would breath fire on the steeple until the iron melted. Opening his jaws, he would take a huge bite and swallow a bit of iron in a loud gulp. And then, with a screech, he would take off and fly away over the water to the southern forests.
This went on day after day, week after week.
But after a while, the people of Gamla Stan started to notice something odd. Eldvind seemed to be flying lower in the sky like he was heavier. He seemed to be slower and more tired. Could the iron he was eating be making him heavier? Yet still Eldvind would continue perch on the church, melt some iron, eat a big piece and then disappear across the water.
Time went on and soon the church steeple had hardly any iron left on it.
One day, it was in early spring, Eldvind appeared again. He flew so low that he skirted the top of the water, he couldn’t lift any higher. He landed at the bottom of the church, too heavy to climb to the roof. Blowing fire upwards, he melted the remaining iron and opened his mouth to catch the last drops as they fell to the ground.
Heavy stomached, Eldvind turned to fly back over the water. With great effort, he lifted and flew in the direction of Gamla Stan. Huffing and puffing, he tried and hard as he could to reach the forests but the iron he had eaten had made him too heavy and he sunk lower and lower until he crash- landed on his stomach in the middle of the town. The townspeople watched with amazement as the dragon tried to get to his feet and fly away, but he couldn’t.
Suddenly, a knight on horseback came riding through the town to slaughter the injured dragon. He raised his sword. But then he stopped. He watched as Eldvind’s feet turned to iron. Then his legs, his body, his tail, his wings and finally his head and jaws stiffened and became iron.
If you look over the water at Riddarholmen you can still see the church with the curious steeple there today. It looks like a skeleton, but once upon a time, it was covered in iron. Until the dragon devoured it.
And if you walk through Gamla Stan you can still see Eldvind.
Most people think that it’s a statue of St George fighting a dragon – but it’s not. It is really Elvind – the frozen dragon that terrorized the people of Stockholm long, long ago.
The legend of Huskahinni the ogre
Posted on January 31, 2012 March 28, 2012 by Neil Shipley's watching the Swedes
Long, long ago in Stockholm there was an ogre called Huskahinni. Huskahinni was a friendly but rather arrogant ogre with one eye in the middle of his forehead. But Huskahinni thought, quite simply, that he was the best ogre in the whole of the land of Norden.
Huskahinni lived in the tower that stretched above the city hall. From his viewpoint, he could look out over the whole city, the waterways and the islands. Every morning, he would lean out of the tower and shout out over the city, ‘I am Huskahinni, King of the Mountain!’
Now, at that time, the land of Norden had a real King and he didn’t take at all kindly to the ogre’s claim. He called his advisors to him and aksed how to stop Huskahinni’s jeering from the top of the city hall.
‘We could shoot him’, said one advisor. The King said no.
‘We could send soldiers up and bring him down’. The King said no,no.
‘We could burn down the tower’, said another. No, said the King, no, no, no.
Finally, a fourth advisor stepped forward. Clearing his throat, he announced that the best way to silence the offensive ogre was to ridicule him into silence. To make fun of him. The King seemed interested in this idea. Yes, the best way to shut someone up is to make them feel silly.
‘Quite right,’ he said. ‘If he claims to be the king, let’s make him the king’.
The next day, the King called to him the city’s goldsmith. He ordered him to forge three large crowns out of gold.
The weeks went by, the goldsmith forged, the King waited and Huskahinni kept peering out from his tower and claiming he was the king of the mountain.
Finally, the day arrived when the three golden crowns were ready. The King arranged for the goldsmith, and the rest of the townspeople, to meet him by the city hall. When everyone was gathered the King looked up at the enormous tower, and shouted, ‘Huskahinni, Huskahinni, who are you?’. The ogre popped his head over the edge of the tower and shouted ‘I am the king of the mountain!’. ‘Well’. said the King, ‘you deserve a crown’. At this moment, the King signalled to his soldiers to catapult one of the crowns up to the top of the tower. Hitting Huskahinni in the head, the ogre yelped and fell backwards. And the townspeople laughed and laughed and laughed.
The next day, the crowd gathered again at the base of the city hall tower. And once again, the King called, ‘Huskahinni, Huskahinni, who are you?’. The ogre popped his head over the edge of the tower again and shouted ‘I am the king of the mountain!’. ‘Well’. said the King, ‘then you deserve another crown’. Once again the soldiers catapulted the second of the crowns up to the top of the tower. Hitting Huskahinni in the eye, the ogre screamed in pain and fell backwards. And the townspeople laughed and laughed and laughed.
The third day came and the King shouted for the ogre again.’Huskahinni, Huskahinni, who are you?’. ‘I am the king of the mountain!’. ‘Well’. said the King, ‘a king should have a crown’. And yet again, a golden crown was catapulted one to the top of the tower. Hitting Huskahinni in the neck, the ogre fell backwards, bleeding. And the townspeople laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.
‘That should do it,’ thought the King, ‘that stupid ogre’.
The townspeople danced back to their homes laughing at the hilarious way in which the King had tricked the ogre. High up in the tower, Huskahinni looked down. His head and his eye were hurting and his neck was bleeding. And all alone, at the top of the city hall, he started to cry.
The next day, the townspeople went about their work as usual, laughing at the memory of what had happened to the stupid ogre the days before. Suddenly a little girl pointed to the top of the tower – ‘Look!’ she shouted. The townspeople looked up and couldn’t believe their eyes. High up at the top of the tower, there was a golden pole. And stuck to the top of the pole were the three shiny golden crowns, glistening in the sun for all to see.
Today, Huskahinni is long gone. But his crowns are still there, perched on the top of the city hall.
A reminder to us all that, once up on a time, Huskahinni was king of the mountain.
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Unlimited FastPass+ With Park-Hopping Begins 4/28/14
Tom Corless @wdwnt
Starting Monday April 28th, after guests have used their first three FastPass+ selections that they arranged before arriving, they will be able to select another one at one of the kiosks located in each of the WDW parks. When they’ve used that one, they’ll be able to select another, and so on. Guests will also be able to select and use their additional FastPass+ entitlements when they hop from park to park.
Stay tuned to WDW News Today as more information on the rollout of MyMagic+ becomes available.
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Tom has been regularly visiting the Walt Disney World® Resort from the time he was 4 months old. While he has made countless visits in the last 28 years, he did not become a truly active member in the Disney fan community until the summer of 2007, when he decided to launch the WDW News Today website and podcast. Tom has since become an Orlando-local and is a published author on Walt Disney World.
Contact Tom at [email protected]
Will this be available to do through the My Disney Experience app? That is, will we be able to schedule those other fastpass times through the app, or is that even in the works.?
Synopsis of Seven Dwarfs Mine Train in New Fantasyland, What We Know So Far
PHOTOS, VIDEO: Anna & Elsa from Frozen Move to Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom
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Category Archives: public accommodation
Worker safety vs. civil rights laws ?
Posted on February 18, 2019 by Jon Rehm
A bank teller window protected by bulletproof glass
Recently I noticed that the two bank branches where I bank have implemented security measures that would improve workplace safety for their employees. One bank branch put in a clear glass wall to protect tellers while the other bank branch is locked and requires customers to call at the door to be let in to the bank.
The two banks deserve credit for increasing employee safety, but does increased security at banks raise public accommodation issues?
“Banking while black”, a shorthand phrase describing the denial of service of African-Americans at financial institutions, has drawn media attention recently. Is there a way to reconcile two important interests – workplace safety and public accommodation or civil rights laws — that might be in conflict?
At first glance, I don’t see why increased security at banks should conflict with public accommodation laws.
How security at banks promotes workplace safety
I have been writing about retail worker safety for a few years and bank tellers are particularly vulnerable in bank robberies. A study by the Indiana Department of Labor found that glass barriers were one effective way to protect retail workers, like bank tellers, from violence. Even if a bank teller is fortunate enough to avoid physical injury in a robbery, they are still vulnerable to mental trauma. Mental injuries are particularly troubling because bank tellers, like all workers besides certain workers involved in public safety, have no coverage for purely mental injuries under Nebraska workers’ compensation law.
Workers could bring a negligence case which could be part of the impetus for banks putting in increased security measures at their branches.
But security measures can have downsides. Anybody who has been delayed at a TSA checkpoint can attest to that fact, but security can also raise public accommodation issues.
Public accommodation laws and “banking while black”
African-Americans in Ohio, Florida and Washington have reported being unable to complete financial transactions at banks due to their race. A 40-something professionally dressed white male, like me, shouldn’t have a problem being let into a locked bank branch. It might be different if I were a person of color.
In Nebraska being hassled or refused service by a financial institution on the basis of race would run afoul our state’s civil rights laws. It would also run afoul federal civil rights laws as well as potentially leading to cases for breach of contract and interference with contractual rights.
In the Ohio, Florida and Washington cases, physical entry into the bank branch has not been an issue. The issue has been the inability to complete a transaction despite meeting the requirements of the financial institution such as having an account and or having proper identification. For now, it doesn’t appear that physical security at a bank has been used to deny service based on race. The problem of banking while black appears to be one of applying procedures differently to the detriment of African-Americans based on their race. I hope that lessons learned by banks in cases about applying procedures differently to African-Americans can be implemented into how banks apply heightened security at their branches.
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Three ways to make sense of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Posted on June 14, 2018 by Jon Rehm
The Supreme Court’s decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop was not as harmful to LGBT rights or civil rights laws in general as feared. In fact, Masterpiece was cited by the Arizona Court of Appeals in upholding a Phoenix municipal ordinance prohibiting LGBT discrimination in public accommodation.
But court watchers were left scratching their collective heads by the mixed signals sent by the court. Given a week to digest the decision and read over the commentary, I think Masterpiece is understandable in the broader context of other decisions made by the Roberts court. I think three trends explain Masterpiece: 1) The Court’s favor of protected status over protected activity) 2 skepticism of the “administrative state” and 3) the use of federal supremacy by the court to rein in progressive-leaning states and cities.
Protected Status > Protected Activity
Sexual orientation and gender identity are considered a type of protected class. Sometimes theses these statuses are protected expressly, like they are in state and municipal laws, or they are covered by sex as held by many federal courts. Civil rights laws protect everyone based on various protected statuses such as race, nationality, religion, sex, disability and age. Everybody is covered by multiple protected classes. Protected class discrimination is fairly non-controversial because most people agree that someone should not be discriminated against based on immutable traits like race or sex. Sexual orientation and gender identity are just additional protected classes that would apply some people.
This isn’t to say that LGBT rights are universally accepted. The fact there are so many litigated cases, like Masterpiece, based on direct evidence of discrimination should be proof of that statement. But even in conservative-leaning states like Nebraska, business interests have pushed to expand anti-discrimination laws to LGBT individuals in an effort to have cities and states be seen as “open for business”. That’s part of the reason that Omaha, like Phoenix, has a municipal ordinance prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Materpiece decision could be very persusasive to a Nebraska court hearing a challenge to Omaha’s laws prohibting discrimination agains the LGBT community.
Business looks less favorably upon protected activities than protected statuses. These are activities that individuals cannot be sanctioned for or retaliated against for engaging. From a business point of view the most problematic problematic activity is engaging in unionization or striking. Striking has re-emerged as a popular tactic for workers in the wake of teachers strikes and a possible strike by UPS drivers. The Supreme Court generally takes a business-friendly view on protected activity. In Epic, the court took a narrow view of what constituted protected concerted activity under the National Labor Relations Act. Earlier this term, in Somers v. DRT, the court narrowed the definition of a whistleblower under Dodd-Frank. The split between how the court treats protected activities and protected statuses became apparent to me in 2013 when the court decided the landmark LGBT civil rights case Windsor in the same term they decided Nassar which raised the burden of proof for employees in Title VII retaliation cases. The same split between protected activity and protected activity is apparent in 2018 with Epic and Somers contrasted with Masterpiece.
Dislike of the Administrative State
The reason why Jack Phillips “won” Masterpiece was because of negative comments about religion made by a lone commissioner on the Colorado Commission on Human Rights. Phillips was being civilly charged by state administrative agency. The Roberts court, Justices Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito in particular, are skeptical of the role of administrative agencies on separation of powers grounds. That skepticism was evidenced by Justice Gorsuch’s comments about the National Labor Relations Board in Epic. ThIS terrm the court also heard what could be a close case about whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can use Administrative Law Judges to punish misconduct in the securities industry that could have broad — if not disruptive — implcations. If nothing else, Masterpiece is a bench slap to an administrative agency.
I also believe that Masterpiece could have a chilling effect on state and local human rights commissions. I have served on the Lincoln Commission on Human Rights since 2014. Even before Masterpiece was decided, commissioners were given a memo describing the concerns expressed by Justice Kennedy in oral arguments in Masterpiece about the comments made by the Colorado Civil Rights Commissioner. Civil rights commissioners often engage in spirted discussions about what constitutes unlawful discrimination in a particular case. It would be unfortunate if Masterpiece lead commissioners to self-censor over fears that those comments could be used by the parties they believe could be engaged in unlawful discrimination.
Federal supremacy over states and cities
Jack Phillips succeeded in making a first amendment argument that the Colorado Commission on Civil Rights violated his freedom of religion by making impermissible comments about his religion. Phillips resorted to federal law to strike down a decision made by the state agency of a progressive-leaning state. Much of the arbitration case law that supported the Epic decision was based on the Federal supremacy of the Federal Arbitration Act over state laws that prohibited arbitration. Many of these state laws were passed by “blue” states such as California. By overruling a decision made by the Colorado Commssion on Civil Rights, the Roberts court was able to assert some measure of federal supremacy over a progressive-leaning state.
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Writing As Resistance
October 2, 2018 By Nancy Johnson 46 Comments
Over the past week, I’ve struggled to write. I’ve struggled to do many of the things that typically bring me joy or at least make me feel remotely content. Sleep has been elusive. These are difficult times for our country. We’re living in a moment when our democracy demands our attention, stirring our passions, forcing us to decide who and what we believe. It gnaws at our consciousness even as we may try to ignore it. We can’t turn away. And we shouldn’t. As citizens and especially as writers, we must engage.
I agonized over writing this post thinking that taking space here to address this topic may be labeled inappropriate. I might be subverting the unwritten writer code that we can’t risk being perceived as polarizing. Some would assert that this forum for writers is not the place for anything remotely political. They may be right, but I believe that silence is also political.
We often look to fiction as a means to escape the inescapable. Every summer, publishers promote the pastel covers of our favorite beach reads and many of us curl up with them well into fall and winter to cocoon ourselves in the warmth of stories we hope will have happy endings. Alternately, some of us read dystopian novels where humanity scrambles for survival in a dark, nightmarish world. We cloak ourselves in the illusion that dystopia is far-off and unimaginable to make our current reality more bearable. Unfortunately, we’re living the cautionary tale we fear.
When I talk to my friends in writing organizations, we often lament about how helpless we feel in this time when objective truth is pilloried, marginalized people are re-victimized, and hard-won rights are in danger of being stripped away. Our hand-wringing remains constant.
Now is not the time to stop writing or to write only to help our readers and ourselves escape reality. We can use our writing to fight our way out of what scares and overwhelms us. Some have labeled this “writing as resistance.” Yes, I want to resist injustice and intolerance, but I also want to foster understanding and build empathy. I’m not advocating that we write novels that promote a partisan stance. That’s didactic propaganda that keeps us kicking and screaming from our ideological corners. The best fiction remains a place where we can immerse ourselves in the world of characters who grapple with systems of oppression, demand agency, and struggle to make sense out of a complex world. It’s still all about story first.
As writers, we’re equipped for battle with our laptops and smartphones, or typewriters and pens, and access to Wi-Fi practically anywhere we go. Our bunkers may be our home offices, subway trains, or coffee shops. Our greatest weapon is our gift for writing. A talent we can use to create characters and tell stories that make people think and feel, challenge our assumptions about each other, and help us move forward in turbulent times.
Throughout history and in contemporary works, literature has held up a mirror to society, showing us who we are and asking us who we want to be. When I first read The Grapes of Wrath as a young student, I had no idea how political it was. John Steinbeck set this American classic during the Great Depression and followed a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers who rebelled against a corrupt political system and authoritarian institutions such as banks and farm owners. It’s a story of laborers, disenfranchised migrants traveling west seeking the American Dream while social inequality keeps it just outside their reach.
Sometimes, the most effective resistance in fiction is a story that upends the predominant narrative about a group of people. The contemporary short story collection Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires does just that. After the election of Barack Obama as president, some declared we had entered a post-racial era. Not so fast. Thompson-Spires introduces readers to blackness outside of the typical struggle narrative. She explores trauma visited upon black bodies in the nuanced, unexpected stories of everyone from university professors and yogis to anime cosplayers.
Immigration has been at the center of our national debate in recent years and I’m drawn to novels that humanize this issue, which divides us politically. Currently, I’m listening to the audio version of The Book of Unknown Americans, the story of two families – one from Mexico and the other from Panama – that came to America for the sake of their children. The author, Cristina Henriquez, lets us hear the voices and stories of men and women from all over Latin America who are redefining home. However, at the core of this novel is a love story between two immigrant teenagers. What I’ve understood of the immigrant experience has been limited to news stories. Hernriquez doesn’t address the political context in which her novel takes place; instead, she lets us get close to Maribel and Mayor, two kids finding love and figuring out what it means to be American.
At a time in our nation’s history when so many of us believe our voices are being diminished, this is the time for writers to tell the untold stories. We can amplify the voices of the unheard. We can change minds and hearts. Sometimes that feels like an added burden when we’re already depleted and perhaps disillusioned. Still, I believe that the choices we make about what to write and what stories we tell are how we reclaim our power. That’s where our hope lies. Yes, that’s political and I don’t apologize for it.
How do you view your role as a writer during these troubled political times? Do writers have a unique responsibility right now? Why? Why not? Which authors and novels are helping us fight our way back to our best selves and a place of hope?
About Nancy Johnson
Nancy E. Johnson is a writer with an Emmy-nominated, award-winning television journalism background. Her stories often explore life’s complexities at the intersection of race and class. She was named runner-up for the 2018 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Award. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine and has received support from the Tin House Summer Novel Workshop and Kimbilio Fiction. Also, Nancy is an advisory board member for Author Accelerator’s diversity scholarship program. When Nancy’s not writing, you can often find her exploring bookstores, festivals, and restaurants in her hometown of Chicago. Nancy is represented by Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic.
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When you look at royalty statements you may think that the impact of one novel is not great. Tens of thousands of sales in a country of hundreds of millions. Leaders who only watch TV. What impact can a work of fiction have?
However, every novel is a rock dropped in the stream. Over time I have seen the stream change course. Sometimes the stream seems ready to change course, too.
The recent influx of new voices in all genres is encouraging but consider that the decisions to publish have been made by people in corporations who have no financial incentive to disturb the river of English (note) literature. But many, me included, have recognized that need and imperative and are doing something about it.
Best of all, the writing is happening. Even in a dystopia there is resistance, and we’re not (yet anyway) living in a true dystopia. If the writing and publishing continue, we won’t be.
The stream wants to change, and it is doing so. Keep it up, Nancy. All stories are political. All stories have power. Your post today too.
Nancy Johnson says
Hi, Don. Thanks for your perspective as a leader in the publishing industry. I’m glad to hear the stream is changing even in the face of financial incentive to advance the status quo. It’s been exciting to see all the bold, new voices in fiction making necessary waves for change. Many of those books are getting the widespread recognition they deserve.
Thank you for the reminder of the power of one book, one author, one story.
I look forward to adding my novel as one more rock in the stream.
I’m so glad you wrote this, Nancy! Even stories that, at first glance, offer escape or entertainment can help people take heart in difficult times. I think it’s important that, as distracting as things are right now, we channel our upset and outrage into motivation. I agree with Don that all stories are political. Even (maybe especially!) fairytales. Disney aside (don’t get me started), they are potent metaphors for recognizing wolves and speaking truth to power.
Susan, thanks for your comment! Like many of us, I often vacillate between outrage and helplessness, but I believe my book and yours can be forces for change.
It’s empowering to know our stories can make a difference, whether it’s creating empathy or making people see the world in new ways.
Deborah Makarios says
“…can help people take heart in difficult times” – yes, yes, yes! This is what I aim at with my writing – to be a heartening respite.
I’ve been battling what feels like constant illness this year (five respiratory infections in seven months), along with wondering whether what I’m doing makes any difference.
But this is what God wants me to be doing, so I press on as best I can, in and around the bouts of sickness.
I have a piece of paper in front of me on my desk which simply says I will not be stopped.
Ruth F. Simon says
Thank you for this post. It was the reminder I needed today.
Writing has been hard. It feels like shouting into the abyss. I’ve been accused of being self-indulgent and privileged. The tone was, “You’re just sitting there and writing while the world burns. What a despicable little Nero you are.”
But you noted that now is the time when the voices of those being silenced most need a microphone. My writing can play a role in that. Especially since I often write LGBTQ characters.
Writing alone won’t fix everything, and I know that. So I’m adjusting the budget to donate to worthy causes. I’m calling my elected officials and writing letters in hopes of swaying their actions.
But I write stories. Because it’s how I process what I think and feel. It’s how I engage the world. And it’s what I do best.
I also recommend the books of N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Rebecca Roanhorse, Saladin Ahmed, Attica Locke, and Fonda Lee. These authors have crafted critically acclaimed books that feature diversity.
They’re all commercial fiction writers, but commercial fiction is rewarding women writers and writers of color for their originality. These authors craft worlds that ask questions about our own.
Ruth, what you said about “shouting into the abyss” resonates so well with me. When we post on social media about the state of our country and world, it feels as if we’re shouting across a divide that can never be bridged. Then we sink into helplessness, thinking our voices don’t matter. But they do.
Yes, writing is how we engage the world. What an incredible way to amplify our voices and help people see “the other”…whether it’s people they don’t truly know and understand or another perspective they hadn’t considered.
I love Attica Locke’s work. I’ll have to check out the others.
Jane Hollinger Clark says
Oh, my dear. Writiing (and art) is precisely what one should do while the world burns. As poet Adrienne Rich observed, “the personal is political.” So, do your civic duty—write something about what you know to be true!!! I agree that the current is begging to change course with new voices.
Nancy, I think my writing is always coming from a place of me attempting to explore why people behave the way they do, what came before, cause and effect, and what, if anything, can actually change people. It’s me trying to understand other people and myself, where our beliefs and prejudices came from, perhaps in order to pinpoint the very event or person or influence that pushed us in one direction rather than another, and from there to work out what kind of person or event or influence could push us in a better, more loving, more understanding direction.
I think the key to writing that addresses the political but doesn’t feel like propaganda is that it tends toward self-examination and pointing the finger toward “us” rather than “them.” At least, those are the books that feel transformative to me–whether I’m reading them or writing them. The ones that show me my own faults in a gentle way and allow me to realize for myself what needs to change. Descriptive rather than prescriptive. Because when we come up with our own solutions to our own issues, it’s more likely to lead to change than someone else telling us how we *should* be, which, in our stubborn humanity, we bristle against. You know?
I don’t think I’ve ever set out with the intention that, “in writing this story, I’m going to right this wrong.” But as stories develop, they often inform the public conversation in some way.
Erin, yes, “descriptive rather than prescriptive.” That’s exactly it. I think fiction is one of the safest spaces for people to do that important work of self-examination. The characters and the story raise questions that force us to interrogate our own biases and understanding of the world.
Your upcoming novel explores racial prejudice. The stories you share from our painful past inform where we are today as a country. That’s political. And important.
Thanks, Nancy. I do think that one of the reasons We Hope for Better Things resonates is that it’s a story about people who are coming to terms with their *own* beliefs and prejudices, not wagging a finger at others’ issues. It’s coming to see the issues you have inside you, even when you’re well-intentioned, as a problem. “Interrogating” ourselves, as you said.
At first glance, my WIP seems entirely off topic in relation to this culture and these times. In trying to process the overwhelming news of each day, I’ve often thought “What’s the use?” as my writing appears to shrink and shrivel by comparison. Yet, inspired by this excellent essay, I realize that my work does make its own tiny contribution to honest reflection, and I’m encouraged to proceed. Thanks, Nancy.
Anna, we’ve all thrown up our hands and asked “What’s the use?” during these difficult days for our nation. As you realize, now is not the time for you to shrink. Now more than ever, we need your voice and your novel in the conversation.
I’m glad you’re encouraged and I look forward to reading your book one day!
Barry Knister says
In the 1996 film “A Time to Kill,” Samuel Jackson plays a father whose child is killed by whites. He takes revenge, and is put on trial for murder. Matthew McConaughey plays the young defense attorney. The climax of the movie is McConaughey’s closing argument, in which he asks the jury to visualize what he now describes in grim detail–the child’s horrible fate. “Now, picture the little girl as white.”
For me, the scene conveys what words can do. They can create experiences that compel readers to imagine lives other than their own. The words have the power to short-circuit our egos long enough to admit a different reality from the one we know.
Barry, that scene from “A Time to Kill” is a perfect example of forcing people to check their own prejudices and recognize the humanity in others. That’s something we can all do in our stories. That’s how we resist a single narrative. That’s how we change things.
Kathleen M. Rodgers says
“We’re living in a moment when our democracy demands our attention, stirring our passions, forcing us to decide who and what we believe.”
Thank you for writing this article! Your words speak to my soul as I prepare a book proposal to send to my agent. I’m taking big risks with my 4th novel, but your article gives me the courage to press on.
Best wishes to you on your novel.
Ah, Kathleen, I’m glad my piece resonated with you. Kudos to you for taking big risks with your fourth novel! It sounds like an important book, a rock that will cause ripples in the stream as Donald Maass said above. I look forward to reading it one day!
Tiffany Yates Martin says
Nancy, thank you! This post is so welcome and needed–I’ve been thinking lately how much social change throughout history has been predicated or carried along on a wave of art–literature or visual art or movies or even TV shows that shine light on the dark places and open us up to new ways of thinking or looking at social, political, moral issues. More than ever I realize how important art is to a functioning, growing society, and how incumbent on all of us it is to use our voices to shine that light, especially now–even in stories or other works that may not seem revolutionary at first blush (who would have imagined Ellen or Will and Grace or Modern Family could help change the world?). Thanks for this wonderful post.
Tiffany, yes, art has had such a huge impact on culture and politics for a long time. Your examples from television are spot-on. I’d add Norman Lear’s shows from back in the day, too. The current YA bestseller “The Hate U Give” (and upcoming movie) is another example of political art taking center stage.
In terms of lighter, funnier fare, you’re absolutely right. Those books and shows are often the most disarming and thus revolutionary of all.
Thanks again for sharing!
S.K. Rizzolo says
My story set in Victorian England doesn’t always feel relevant to me right now, though it’s about a woman struggling for truth in a world that wants to refuse her any active role.
This is my 6th novel, but it seems as if it’s taking me longer than any of the others. Last week, I could not look away from the news. New rule this week: no news in the mornings!
Thank you for this thoughtful and important post, Nancy.
S.K., I couldn’t turn away from the news this past week either. As a former journalist, I’m a news junkie. Still, it overwhelms me these days. That’s when I know it’s time to turn to my manuscript because that’s where I have a voice. My novel is a small, but important form of resistance and empathy-building in a world that sorely needs it.
Your novel about a woman struggling for truth is more important than ever. There are lessons that your character in Victorian England can teach us today about the power of a woman’s voice!
Lynn Diener says
Story has always been a bridge to understanding what we can’t possibly experience ourselves. If we don’t use these magic portals to grow empathy, compassion, and stir action, then we’ve missed our chance, misspent our fortune as writers. Readers know when we’re preaching, so our stories have to be organic and accessible.
Writing as resistance? Count me in.
Lynn, you’re absolutely right that we need to avoid preaching or being didactic. Fiction provides one of the best ways to challenge people’s thinking in a non-threatening way. Again, the story and the characters must lead always.
Hi, Nancy: Nothing meaningful to add that hasn’t already been ably expressed, if not by you by others. I will, however, contribute this, from someone who knew:
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues….”
― George Orwell, Why I Write
Thanks for overcoming your reluctance and posting this.
Ah, David, I was not familiar with this George Orwell quote. Yes, all issues are political issues. I agree wholeheartedly and will be quoting Orwell extensively going forward.
Jane Rosenthal says
Nancy, thank you for this post. It was just what I needed to read today. I wrote your words”silence is political” on a post-it and stuck it on my computer to remind myself to push through my own silences, times when the words won’t come, times when I feel no one will want to read about my world of California’s desperately poor Central Valley. You reminded me that not only do I have a right to tell this story I have an obligation as a woman , a writer and a citizen to let these voices be heard. Thank you.
Jane, I have to constantly remind myself to push through the silence. We often question whether our stories and voices matter. They do. Will they make a difference in a nation where the political noise is deafening? They will.
Jen Sinclair Johnson says
Great post! I find that NOT including perspective(s) is difficult even in my “nonpolitical” WIP. Fiction writers are in a unique position to help show truths wrapped in entertainment. As I’m studying history while writing a contemporary mystery tied to our history, it’s impossible not to see corollaries that reflect in my work. I wish everyone would take the time/effort to learn how we got to this political moment, how it’s similar to our past, and why (to understate) it’s not okay. We need to do everything we can, as citizens and writers, to help correct the course.
Jen, I definitely believe that we tell universal truths in our fiction. The best novels do it without overtly espousing political views. That being said, when we reveal how our characters make money, their status, their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., it becomes inherently political in my view.
I agree that we have a responsibility to be part of the change for the better through the stories we choose to tell.
Nancy, I would be here commenting early on, but I’ve been on line posting my recent blog that deals with equality for women. I thank you for this and find all the comments uplifting in many ways. I believe from my core that writers fuel the page with empathy. Yes, not all characters are going to possess qualities that we might want to see in MORE people than in FEWER. But the writer has access to the basics of character, to creating so many interesting variants on human nature. As you wrote above:
We can use our writing to fight our way out of what scares and overwhelms us. Some have labeled this “writing as resistance.” Yes, I want to resist injustice and intolerance, but I also want to foster understanding and build empathy.
Creating characters who inspire us to be better or who demand that we question our own decisions and prejudices is all about the conversation. We must have it–in many forms. That one aspect of our culture gives me hope. We are free to explore and to question and to CHANGE. May that always be part of our culture, freedom of speech, so precious and necessary.
Hi, Beth. As writers, we have the storytelling tools we need to start these important conversations.
I like your emphasis on how we can change. I’m definitely a work-in-progress, too, and I love engaging with books that make me question my assumptions and see the world through a new lens.
Bethany says
This is SUCH an important topic. Thank you for the kick in the pants.
Bethany, I needed the kick in the pants, too! Thanks for commenting.
Thank you for this post, I really, really needed to see it today!
I’m glad my post came right on time for you, Sara!
Sherrey Meyer says
You have spoken on a difficult yet very important topic for writers. Thanks for give us a shove in the right direction.
Sherrey,
I debated over whether to write this particular post. I’m glad I did since it resonated with you and others.
Nancy, there’s a quote I like that says, “The poet is the truest historian.” To me that says that works of imagination can plumb depths of human character, situation and consequence. As many have suggested here, it’s not that our fictional works have to hit some cultural or political nails with a sledgehammer, but that a story can be woven with threads of conscience and consciousness, and implicitly lead to, if not answers, honest questions.
Incidentally, I’d first heard that quote attributed to Homer, but later read that Homer perhaps never existed, and his works (The Iliad, The Odyssey, and probably lots of comic books) might have been written by a committee of sorts. But even if he didn’t say it, I would have voted “aye” for the quote at the 10am Tuesday meeting.
Thanks for an important post. We resist in many ways, some large, some small, but all can have meaning.
Thanks for your insightful perspective. Even if Homer didn’t exist in human form, this idea attributed to him is very much alive in our conversation. I’ve always thought of historians being obligated to immutable, objective accounting of events, while the poet can explore shades of meaning. That being said, I like your interpretation. Often, it’s the questions we’re after in fiction, not necessarily answers.
I agree that we resist in many ways, large and small. That word “resistance” sometimes has a subversive connotation and people tend to shy away from it. But when we’re sitting alone at our writing desks damning the muse that hasn’t come, it’s motivating to think of our smallest of stories as being revolutionary.
Robin Mason says
Every writer in every era has a voice, and should be heard. No different to voices in a crowd – or a choir. As an actress and musician (besides a writer) the each voice or part or instrumental contributes to the whole of the choral piece or symphony. in the same way, each story told contributes to the whole of our story as a society.
I agree, Robin, about writers having a voice and being heard. Unfortunately, some voices throughout history have been marginalized and diminished. I’m doing what I can personally and in my own sphere of influence to amplify those voices.
Yolanda says
The words “silence is also political” pierced my soul. For many years, my role as a PR practitioner has required me to represent the voice of others. Think I’d like to stop being silent and voice my own stance through the written word. Thanks for the inspiration Nancy.
Hi, Yolanda! Having worked for many years as a journalist and in PR like you, we are always telling other people’s stories. Sometimes we forget that we have a voice, too. An important one.
I’m glad this piece resonated with you.
Sarahlyn Bruck says
This article really resonated for me–thank you. And the books you shared as examples are so powerful. The Book of Unknown Americans in particular has haunted me since reading it a few years ago. Storytelling is so essential, especially in such a polarized political climate like now. We have to continue adding our voices to the conversation.
Exactly, Sarahlyn. There are so many phenomenal books that can help light our path and lead the way. Yes, The Book of Unknown Americans has stayed with me, too. You’ll have to also check out the memoir, Heavy, by Kiese Laymon, which releases next week. I met the author at Tin House and have read excerpts. Another important book to add to your list.
Shar says
hello there, a lot of what you have written had me nodding as I read it. The first paragraph up to sleep being elusive, having no joy for doing things is a sadly big part of my life (harassment which goes undealt by the Council landlord, despite an Executive visiting me and seeing that I’m crippled with lack ofsleep and still in pyjamas in the afternoon ..)
The point you make about writing the frustration out and being equipped for battle with laptops gave affirmation to what I’m forced to do with painful and bloodshot eyes, blurry vision, fighting against what is a punitive landlord. Some other points I got lost with, maybe due to an exhausted brain. Overall, this article resonates and I thank you for the points you raise about fighting back, making a point to encourage people to think differently; my landlord has a disability prejudice against me and I am determined (armed with laptop -as you said) to fight my point out, despite his bias in favour of the woman who tortures me every night (2 years now) with his blessing. His stance was “I have a television in my bedroom too you know. It’s quite normal, hehe.” I was appalled, gobsmacked and shocked at his words. Thankfully, I recorded the meeting on audio. If the litigation person I sent all paperwork to upon her request – has interest in my case, the executive may soon eat his words (I would hope for him collecting his P45, but maybe that is a fairy tale..) As you can see, your post inspired my response with a lot of emotion. We shall fight what is wrong, and for me personally I say, “tell people when they are wrong or have done wrong to you. Only then can they know to put it right.” – In this scenario the Director of Housing is reluctant to do his job (local government..) so I take the matter up with the Chief executive, then further if needed. Stay strong! One day at a time. A song that helps me stay on the track, John Taylor – Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (One Day At A Time). During his solo period away from Duran Duran. That’s all for now, I hope you have a lovely day. Bless.
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‘Zombie-like’ attacker in New Cairo thought to under influence of synthetic drug flakka
Taha Sakr
Last Friday night a young man believed to have been under the influence of synthetic drug flakka, attacked and bit a young boy several times on the neck in the streets of New Cairo, with witnesses describing the bizarre incident as zombie-like in nature.
The assailant, a Nigerian national, was in the street in the Third Settlement of New Cairo where three boys were playing football. Witnesses said that the attacker suddenly came over and started biting the boy after asking them to pass him the ball — to which they refused.
According to the victim’s testimony, when he refused to pass the ball to the man, he came over and started violently biting him in the neck “exactly like an animal attacks prey.”
Witness testimonies, quoted in newspapers and on TV, described the scene as being like out of a zombie movie.
The victim’s father said in a phone interview to the privately-run TV channel of Dream that he rushed to the scene of the attack when he heard his son screaming loudly.
“I rushed directly to the incident place where I found the young Nigerian man violently biting my son and anyone who tried to approach him , exactly like a zombie, so I started to use any thing I could find to hit the man — my son was bleeding severely,” the father said.
Psychiatrists and psychologists told the media that the attacker was believed to have been under the influence of the dangerous synthetic drug flakka.
Flakka started gaining notoriety in Florida in 2015. Videos of people acting strangely, running naked in public and talking nonsense were appearing online.
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The pharmaceutical name for the designer drug is a-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone – otherwise known as a-PVP or alpha-PVP – a chemical compound originally synthesized in the 1960s.
The US Drug Policy Alliance calls it “second-generation bath salts.” Flakka comes as a foul-smelling white or pink crystal that, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, can be snorted, eaten, injected or vaporized.
The Texas Poison Centre Network explains that the active chemical of flakka can cause “excited delirium,” which results in hyper stimulation, paranoia, and hallucinations that can lead to “violent aggression.”
The New Cairo incident ended when residents of the street managed to apprehend the attacker and tie him down following a fight. He was taken to a police station where preliminary investigations allege that the man was enjoying biting the boy and was ready to bite anyone who crossed his path, according to local media.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment.
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Posted 9:21 pm, May 15, 2019, by Jeremy Tanner
ARCHBALD, Pa. -- An investigation is underway in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna County after officials say a dead dog was found in a backpack.
Archbald police say a man walking his dog made a gruesome discovery just feet off a path inside Ed Staback Regional Park shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Police say after his dog ran up to a backpack, the man opened it up and found a dead dog inside.
Other dog owners in the park were stunned to hear the news.
“Why would anybody do that to a dog?” asked Anne Armezzani from Montdale. “Just let the dog alone. Don’t bother them. Don’t kill them. Don’t do that to them.”
Police say the dog is small with black, brown, and possibly white fur, and it was wrapped in a pillowcase before being put into the pack.
Lackawanna County Humane Officer Laura Vitali was called in to help with the investigation.
“We can see by looking at the dog that there was definitely neglect. There’s severe matting on the dog,” said Vitali. “The fur appears in some areas to be white. It’s been yellowed by urine. It could be the extended amount of time it’s been out here, but it only appears to have been here for a week.”
Archbald police say they now want to know how the dog died and how it got in the park.
Police say the backpack is pink and black and had a pencil case in the front pocket. They’re hoping someone recognizes the pack and calls police.
“It’s a defenseless animal, no reason why anyone should do this to any animal,” said Archbald Police Officer Brian Munley. “If they can’t take care of it by any means there’s always shelters or other people who will take the animal and give it the love and care that it deserves.”
“I think that’s awful. There are so many places that will take dogs. Bring it to the humane society if they don’t want the dog,” said dog owner Wendy Rosetti from Archbald.
Vitali says the dog will be taken for a necropsy to determine the cause of death.
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Women and Whiskey: The Trail Continues
By Rose McInerney 19,October, 2017 January 25th, 2018 No Comments
WomanScape is kicking its heels up with the second of this two-part series on whiskey and women. It looks beyond the history of the industry and the women who kept the distilling fires burning.
Today’s spotlight focuses on the current landscape for women producers and consumers of whiskey. They’re changing old adages and bringing an artful creativity to the industry by reframing expectations about gender roles and cultural stereotypes.
Women & Whiskey Taboos
While women were always involved in the production of whiskey, they weren’t encouraged to be consumers in North America until the 20th century. Society frowned on women who consumed alcohol, particularly during Prohibition in the 1920’s and 1930’s. As well, traditional expectations for women actually linked alcoholic consumption to prostitution.
Ironically though, women helped to keep alcohol production and consumption alive. During the Temperance Movement, it was illegal for the police to search women so they helped hide the sale of alcohol. Fanelli’s Bar is one of the oldest, storied bars in New York where women helped front a grocery store while secret bootlegging runs were funneled through basement cellars. See recent photos of Fanelli’s sign and cellar.
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What’s neat is the women’s movement benefited from women’s new-found freedoms in dress and alcohol consumption. Pauline Morton Sabin advocated for the legalization of alcohol with her Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform. She successfully lobbied for state regulations in 1929.
In Europe, alcohol taboos were different. Mothers used whiskey as remedies for colds and illness. Women didn’t work in whiskey sales but they had jobs in production plants and worked on bottling lines. However, most people wouldn’t know Bushmill Whiskey’s success at the turn of the 20th century is indebted to Ellen Jane Corrigan.
Corrigan was widowed and became the owner of the Bushmills company. She increased production and garnered accolades across Ireland, England and France for her 1889 Expo entry in the spirits competition in Paris. As Ireland’s oldest whiskey producer, Bushmills sales continue to climb with increasing global demands for whiskey.
Increasing Number of Women Producing Whiskey
There is definitely a growing list of women producing whiskey in the U.S. A recent article in Epicure and Culture lists the Top Ten Women Distillers. Yet what stood out was how many producers mention the mentoring network of other women who have helped them navigate the industry. Each spoke to their passionate love of whiskey and new ideas about product or the process improvements.
For example, Becky Harris from Catoctin Creek Distilling in Virginia (their photo above) makes whiskey using 100% rye that is kosher and organic. Her engineering background in chemical and process engineering helped her develop the recipe and production process. WomanScape will feature her walnut old fashioned recipe on Instagram and FB.
The Science of Women’s Tastebuds
Molly Wellman from Wellman Brands is another producer who says her success in the industry is also related to gender. The science of taste and smell seems to point to some pretty convincing evidence for why women actually have better tasting buds than men. A Health.com study says female brains have 43% more cells and 50% more neurons in their olfactory centers, and more taste buds on their tongues.
The story gets better when we look to Japan. Ann Soh Woods discovered new ways to produce whiskey despite her atypical entry into whiskey production. (Woods is pictured in this Forbes photograph below.) I discovered her story and brew at my local wine retailer a few months ago when I wanted to purchase an affordable bottle of whiskey.
The store owner recommended Kikori. He said the smooth finish and elegant notes of this Japanese whiskey were surprisingly sophisticated. He was right! The whiskey taste didn’t have the burn of harder brands, but its velvety, complex character was remarkable.
Woods, who was born in Japan, grew up watching her father’s love of whiskey. But what fascinated her were the rituals and culture surrounding it. Woods’ whiskey recipe is unusual because it uses rice, which brings out a lighter taste with bright floral notes. She is marketing her whiskey as a cocktail blend and it’s 2016 Gold Medal win at the San Francisco Spirits competition illustrates why it’s taken the industry by storm.
Today, Woods is proud to thrive in what she calls a male dominated industry. The company has grown rapidly across Japan and the United States, and Woods admits more women are becoming educated, savvy consumers. It also makes sense that women are more interested in whiskey because it’s now legal to market to women. Until 1987, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States banned commercials on television or radio.
I can see other evidence of change in the industry. Back in 2000, I did a strategic management study of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) – the government arm that regulates all liquor sales. The industry was dominated by men but stores were just starting to build marketing campaigns that appealed to women. When the LCBO appointed Bonnie Brooks as vice-chairman of the LCBO in 2016, I knew the industry was definitely evolving.
Women shaping the industry as consumers
According to Fred Minnick, the author of Whiskey Women, only 15% of women enjoyed whiskey in the 1990’s. This number has grown to 37 percent in the U.S. and a new book by Heather Greene adds a further punch. Heather is New York City’s first female whiskey sommelier. In her new book, Whiskey Distilled: A Populist Guide to the Water of Life, she dispels whiskey myths that may intimidate women. She also speaks to the nuances of tasting and flavors, and claims whiskey is a natural aphrodisiac.
Other evidence suggesting the number of whisky-loving women is on the rise is manifest in Kevin Schlittenhardt’s Supercall publication. The publication is dedicated to the spirit of cocktails and culture and lists “ 8 Badass Women Who Love Their Whiskey.” Turns out a surprising number of iconic figures from all walks of life are cracking the whiskey barrel wide open.
In the music industry, Lady Gaga (pictured below performing in Toronto) and Rihanna love their whiskey as much as presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and Kate Middleton. In fact, Clinton’s tour of the Maker’s Mark Distillery in Kentucky in 2016 lead to a special bottling of Rodham Rye!
So here’s the rub. I like the sound of whiskey loving women being badass. That is, if badass means we are simply free to do and drink what we want. But if badass means we are aggressively keeping up with the boys and the benchmark is still a male marker, no thanks! Who wants to be on par with the same dumb cultural stereotypes that keep women pushing that relentless boulder up hill.
When whiskey isn’t a some kind of male bravado, chest-thumping drink, women won’t have to endure funny looks or silly jokes when ordering a whiskey at the bar. A bartender friend recently told me a woman ordering a whiskey still drew unusual reactions. Someone inevitably jokes about feminine sensibilities or women whiskey drinkers as “ball-busting types”.
But the bartender also said progress is happening. Social attitudes are shifting when people go to a bar. They want conversation and many friendships evolve over a whiskey tumbler. I’m hopeful whiskey will continue to be a small way that women gain equality but I’ll keep checking back with my bartender friend. She always has something interesting to share. Women & Whiskey: The Trail Continues
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Alan v.Drake
AGS source refactoring
« on: 12 Feb 2012, 23:08 »
I have set up a repository so we can start to refactor the engine code. Any developer willing to join is welcome to.
https://github.com/AlanDrake/Adventure-Game-Studio/tree/Refactoring
One of the top priorities is splitting up AC.CPP into smaller organized files, 30k lines of code just won't do.
I have started analyzing the code, I hope to be able soon to organize functions into groups and then make classes of what necessary.
In the meanwhile, we should also discuss coding conventions, ScummVM's seem to be a good starting point.
Let's get to work!
EDIT: I wrote souce and nobody said anything ?!
- Alan
« Last Edit: 16 Feb 2012, 12:22 by Alan v.Drake »
dreammaster
Re: AGS souce refactoring
« Reply #1 on: 13 Feb 2012, 04:25 »
Quote from: Alan v.Drake on 12 Feb 2012, 23:08
Particularly given that you're in favour of following the ScummVM code formatting guidelines, it may be worthwhile considering merging your effort with that of fuzzie, who's recently started a combination refactoring of the code and porting it to the ScummVM framework.
See https://github.com/fuzzie/scummvm/commits/ags for the repository, and http://logs.scummvm.org/log.php?log=scummvm.log.12Feb2012&format=html around 14:15 where there's a brief discussion about it.
Given how much work I understand refactoring the source code at all will take, it seems worthwhile to merge efforts. I know there's a lot of talk in the AGS Source Code release thread recently that I haven't weighed in on, but there doesn't seem like any major issues that would prevent collaboration on cleaning up the code.
fuzzie
Quote from: dreammaster on 13 Feb 2012, 04:25
That discussion is with Alan v.Drake, in fact! As noted, I am not advocating the use of my code because it's the start of a fairly drastic rewrite of many parts of the runtime and that might well introduce too many new bugs (and cause problems for things like the editor), but am hopeful that it might (at some point) be a helpful reference to those refactoring.
I hope you guys aren't expecting me to do all the work, I'm not a great C++ developer. I'd rather follow the lead of someone more experienced.
Step up so I can add you to the collaborators!
As fuzzie said, she's working on a complete rewrite, but sharing insight between the two parties will result in positive things for sure.
EDIT: What about JJS repo, I had simply uploaded the original source from the svn, but if his one is better and works for all the platforms right off the bat, then I should start sweat on that instead...
EDIT: Double post
I am certainly basing my refactoring on JJS's work - it has useful bugfixes, compatibility improvements, etc.
timofonic
Someone said me Calinleafshade did a tool named AGSpull, it was able to extract information about the game like version and such. He cancelled and removed it because ethical reasons, he feeled it was wrong or something like that.
Now that things changed, maybe this tool can be useful again. It can be useful to identify the version interpreter of each game to "emulate" the features of that specific version and quirks of it.
Or ar least that information can be provided to the interested developers of the currenct or future AGS projects, because interpreters would benefit of that kind of detection.
Maybe isn't so difficult and other developers figured the same kind of information too.
Calin, what do you think? Would you provide that information for the goodwill of the community? Please
« Last Edit: 15 Feb 2012, 23:33 by timofonic »
Quote from: timofonic on 15 Feb 2012, 23:16
Actually some of these information are already readily available to people. If you right click and check the properties of a game executable you can already check the version of the interpreter (under windows of course), so if the tool just retrieves the interpreter version of a game there shouldn't be any ethical problem. However, there may be other aspects of a game that its author may not want people to hack into, so what we need is to find out what information should we retrieve and what should be avoided.
The game data contains a version number, so when the engine loads a file it can check the version and set compatibility options accordingly.
For reading the meta information stored in the exe file (what you can see in the file properties in Windows), I have platform independent C code in my repository (/PSP/launcher/pe.c). The ports use it to detect valid game files by only accepting exe files with "acwin.exe" as the "original name" and a version that is supported by the interpreter.
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Indeed; there's really complete version information (target interpreter version, game data version, GUI data version, room data version, etc etc) available in the game data file anyway. I hadn't thought about poking at the resources - my ScummVM engine detection just jumps straight to "searching for the game data in the binary" if it can't find a game file with a version in it, since that way I get the game name too. :-)
Note that here's also various pieces of (unused) code/structures for earlier runtime versions in the source code - probably very helpful for backwards-compatibility work.
It would be ideal if someday there would be a list of "target" games to test against, and that there be at least one for each interpreter version, but indeed you can just look at which interpreter was bundled (even if it isn't clear, you can just compare with the archived versions) without even needing to poke at the data.
« Reply #10 on: 16 Feb 2012, 09:50 »
Quote from: fuzzie on 16 Feb 2012, 07:27
I agree about that, it can be a nice idea to do.
Also, a test suite for each AGS version would be interesting to have. A small demo testing each feature of AGS for all the available versions could be nice to have for testing regressions and such too.
Maybe people that know AGS a lot more can help on this
Calin Leafshade
Long live King Cat!
Re: AGS source refactoring
Well I did make a library to read game data but it read things like the games name and resolution, which would have been useful for Nimbus. It was basically just a C# implementation of Clib which is AGS's internal data packer.
It was never called "AGSPull" and I didn't not release it for ethical reasons. I didn't release it because it didnt work for all versions of Clib.
Kinda useless for this purpose though.
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July 1, 2008 – Ithaca , NY – Advion BioServices, Inc., a specialty contract research organization, today announced that it has expanded its bioanalytical service capabilities by adding five new triple quadrupole mass spectrometers to its laboratory in Ithaca, New York. Included in this investment are the industry-leading API 5000™ LC/MS/MS System and API 4000™ LC/MS/MS System from Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies, a leader in mass spectrometry.
With this purchase, Advion brings its total of new mass spectrometers acquired in the past year to seven. These additional instruments provide Advion with increased LC/MS capacity to meet growing client demands and the ability to provide its clients with an expanding array of bioanalytical services.
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The API 5000 and API 4000 systems provide the company with the sensitivity and selectivity in analysis necessary to obtain precise and reliable testing results. The API 5000 System is ideal for the detection of low-level molecules. It couples liquid chromatography with Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies’ QJet™ ion source technology and triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS), a widely used laboratory technique for measuring pharmaceutical compounds and metabolites.
Tom Kurz, President of Commercial Operations, comments, “The increased capacity and flexibility afforded by this investment will allow us to better serve our clients’ need for timely bioanalytical services of the highest quality.”
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June 5, 2015 – Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc., a leading systems and consumables developer for the life sciences industry, announces it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Bohui with an expected close date on June 30, 2015. The acquisition is strategic for both companies and will enable Advion to broaden its investments in the areas of life science, clinical, and food safety applications. Advion will continue to trade under its current name and brand, with all employees and executives remaining with the company. All three (3) operations and locations in Ithaca, NY are expected to remain unchanged into the future.
Commenting upon the acquisition, Advion’s CEO Dave Patteson stated “Our company’s business progression has been quite notable over the past three years since we launched the expression CMS line of compact mass spectrometers. Following substantial inbound interest to acquire Advion, we utilized an investment banking partner to conduct a formal process. Our strategic alignment with Bohui is remarkable. Their commitment to the development of clinical applications of MS technology, and substantial footprint in the world’s fastest growing economy have created an ideal combination.”
Bohui’s CEO, Lu Xinqun continued, “We have been impressed by Advion’s deep technical skills and operational excellence. Bohui intends to fully fund Advion’s R&D projects to strengthen its market position, and to promote Advion’s products in the Chinese Market. Advion’s strong presence in North America and the EU also allow for Bohui to gain a more balanced global footprint. Advion’s academic and life science focus is a perfect pairing with Bohui’s traditional markets and clinical presence.”
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Preview: Season 5 Episode 6 | 28s
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Man faces Melbourne court over drug-fuelled crash that killed young pharmacist
By Eliza Rugg • Reporter
Jo Lim was banned from driving and on bail when he smoked ice for breakfast and got behind the wheel of a borrowed car in Melbourne.
He lost control of the vehicle and slammed into Lisa Di Donato, a 27-year-old pharmacist on her way home from yoga on February 15 this year.
Lisa Di Donato, 27, died at the scene of the crash. (9NEWS)
Lim faced the Melbourne County Court today, he will be sentenced over the fatal crash at a later date. (9NEWS)
Ms Di Donato died at the scene outside a shopping centre in Rowville. Her devastated family was in the Melbourne County Court today to face her killer.
“This man has destroyed our life, he’s destroyed our lives,” the victim’s mother, Elena, told 9News.
“The consequence was we lost our daughter Lisa and nothing that happens will ever bring her back.”
The crash occurred in Rowville in February this year. (9NEWS)
Lim, 33, has pleaded guilty to culpable driving causing death and possessing methamphetamines and cannabis.
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Crash investigators found he made no attempt to brake, slow down, or control the vehicle before the collision.
The court today heard that Lim has an acquired brain injury from a previous car crash in 2011, and has a decade-long history of serious driving offences.
The victim's family spoke outside court today. (9NEWS)
When being assessed by a doctor, he described his hobbies as, “golf and drug-taking”.
During the hearing, Lim put his head in his hands when one of the victim’s friends told him he would never understand the impact of his “reckless actions”.
Lim is now facing up to 20 years, along with a lifetime ban from driving and deportation back to Malaysia.
He will be sentenced at a later date.
“Whatever he gets is deserved, but it will never bring Lisa back to us,” Mrs Di Donato said.
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Where and how can the camp community do more to expand our impact and transform our communities?
Understand Your Purpose
Often, when embarking on a new endeavor or challenge, it can be tempting to jump right into what it is you are trying to achieve. It’s important, however, to first spend some time understanding why you’re doing it. Without understanding your “why,” your “what” may end up being misdirected, or you may miss opportunities that were sitting right under your nose. By understanding your core purpose and what drives your camp culture, you’ll be better placed to find the unique points of leverage where your strengths and assets meet the specific needs of the communities you are looking to support.
Of course, it goes without saying that camps have an innate reason to be. They are safe spaces. They are places where campers can grow and seek enrichment. And they are a catalyst for youth development, keeping young minds and bodies active during the long school holidays. Knowing the fundamentals of why all camps exist, however, is not enough. To do your best work, it’s important to examine why your camp does the work it does:
What problems does your camp seek to solve?
What other factors contribute to those challenges?
What populations does it serve and what are their specific needs?
What is unique about your camp and your culture?
When your camp is at its best, what happens?
How do you know you’re succeeding in achieving your purpose?
What results or metrics guide you?
Who are the stakeholders that your camp should consider in pursuing your purpose?
Who else affected by the problems or needs you’re addressing could you reach?
The answers to these questions can be invaluable in identifying opportunities for scaling your social impact efforts.
Breaking Down Barriers: Opening Camp to the Local Community
Since 1956, Camp Rockmont for Boys — located in the rural community of Black Mountain, North Carolina — has provided a classic summer camp experience. The camp initially served boys and young men locally, and eventually expanded its reach across the United States and around the world, developing an international reputation for sought-after youth development and boys’ education experiences.
Despite this success, veteran camp director Dan Davis recalls a chance encounter with a young boy that led him to realize how much more work was still to be done.
The young boy — about eight years old — lived in a low-income community that bordered the camp property. He had been riding his bike in and out of camp, looking for a way to spend his time. As Davis approached him — initially to discuss the topic of trespassing — he was struck by another, much more important thought.
“We have found a way to bring young men here from as far away as San Francisco and Barcelona. Yet we don’t engage the kids who are 100 yards away.”
This thought led to a bigger discussion with his leadership team: How does a “storied boys’ camp” begin to break down the walls and tear down the gates? How does it make camp accessible to the children who are idle just down the road from camp? The result of these discussions was a new day camp program designed specifically to serve the children — both boys and girls — in the local community who might otherwise never have had an opportunity to attend a camp like Rockmont.
Davis saw that the kids in the community surrounding camp shared similar needs with the campers they served from all over the world. That understanding helped Camp Rockmont spread its impact in a new way into its surrounding communities.
Camp Doesn’t Have to Be at Camp: Bring the Experience to the People
For 25 years, Camp Twin Lakes has provided fully adaptive, medically supportive, and deeply impactful resident camp experiences to more than 10,000 young people living with serious illness, disabilities, or other life challenges. By creating an appropriate camp environment where children could be around their peers who live with similar challenges, Camp Twin Lakes has created an invaluable opportunity for children who are too often marginalized to experience life in the majority. After spending every other day of the year adapting to the world around them, for one week, camp adapts to them.
However, while the resident camp experience has been vital to those who could attend, the reality is that many other children and young adults who Camp Twin Lakes would like to serve are not able to take time out from medical treatment to attend camp.
So, they decided to take the camp to them with Camp Twin Lakes’ Camp-To-Go program.
Camp-To-Go is grounded in the same mission that Camp Twin Lakes has always pursued, but it rethinks traditional assumptions of what constitutes a “camp location.” By redesigning camp so rounds of archery could be played on hospital floors, camp cheers could fill clinic hallways, and arts and crafts could be completed in the unlikeliest of places, Camp-To-Go has demonstrated that the spirit of camp can make a difference in even the most challenging environments. Campers found that the core parts of their camp experience, like taking time out of the day-to-day to play, to cooperate, to challenge each other and rediscover what it is that makes each of us special, could happen anywhere.
Through deep understanding of their purpose, Camp Twin Lakes recognized that some of the young people they exist to serve couldn’t make it to camp to benefit from their programs. By taking the camp experience to patients, they forged a new way to further their purpose and expand their impact.
Using Camp Expertise to Benefit More than Just Campers
We all know that camps provide practical tools and life skills that are invaluable for individuals of all income levels and demographic backgrounds.
Identifying who else could benefit from the skills that your camp teaches can also be a great way to expand your impact.
For over a hundred years, the YMCA of the Rockies has been providing wilderness experiences and education for campers, as it is bordered on three sides by Rocky Mountain National Park. In assessing their impact, however, staff recognized that their expertise in this area could provide opportunities for economic development in the rural communities surrounding their camp. With limited job opportunities available for their neighbors, the YMCA of the Rockies realized they could help change that by using their knowledge to become a training center offering Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness First Responder, and Avalanche and Winter Safety courses to the local community at discounted rates. With those skills, their neighbors would have access to new opportunities to help visitors take advantage of their local outdoor opportunities safely. Brandon Reynolds, outdoor education director, explains more:
“Many of the people who live here share the passion for the wilderness that we, as a camp, have always celebrated. They want to play their own part in providing visitors an opportunity to enjoy those resources, but in a safe way. By becoming a training center, we can offer skills to the community at a reduced rate. This lowers the economic barriers for accessing such trainings, and it also removes the need to travel. By creating access, we are providing new opportunities to people who might otherwise not be able to benefit.”
The YMCA of the Rockies is just one of the many examples of camps that are leveraging a broader, deeper understanding of their own mission — and a wider sense of who they serve — to scale their impact and expand their reach.
Social Problems to Solve
From addressing literacy deficits to alleviating hunger, from tackling the psychological effects of poverty to building closer communities or increasing job opportunities, the good — and not so good — news is that we are not short of social problems that camps can play a role in solving.
By understanding who you are and why you exist, who you serve and what their needs are, and where the opportunities are in the communities around you, you can create new opportunities that don’t just advance social change — they enhance the experiences of your staff and campers too.
It’s important to recognize, however, that this work takes time. And it’s not easy. But if your efforts are fueled by your camp’s purpose and a desire to explore where else it is needed, then your new initiatives will likely organically complement the work you are already doing. Before you know it, you’ll be fueling change in ways that never occurred to you before embarking on this journey.
To become the camp you wish to be, consider the following:
Start from your mission
Your desire for social impact in your community should align with your overall mission and reason for being, and may come from taking a deeper look at what other opportunities there are to accomplish it.
Consider what it is that you do well
What are the things that might only happen at your camp? What are the skills and sources of expertise that allow you to do what you do? Thinking about how else those can be used can also identify new opportunities.
Many of the problems camps work to address are complex. Exploring what factors cause the issues you work to change, and researching what other avenues there might be to address them, can point to new strategies to pursue.
What communities does your camp serve? What are their needs and challenges? When you recognize the needs specific to your communities, you can create plans to use what’s special about your camp in new ways.
Identify potential partners
Who are the other stakeholders who care about the problems you’re trying to solve? Who else is deeply engaged with your community? How might their strengths align with yours so you can do more good together?
Start small and fail forward
Initial efforts don’t have to be big, especially when they’re in a new direction. Finding the simplest way to test out a new idea is a key part of innovation, as getting early feedback on a new approach helps point you in the right direction.
Evaluate progress
There’s a lot of work to do, and your camp’s time and resources are limited. Getting clear on what success looks like and how you’ll measure it can both help you stay focused on the efforts that are doing the most good and convince others to follow your lead when you’ve found a model that works.
Thank you to the following camps and all the camps working to expand their positive impact:
Camp Twin Lakes —
camptwinlakes.org/about-us/camp-to-go/
Camp Rockmont — rockmont.com/
YMCA of the Rockies —
YMCARockies.org
Photo courtesy of Camp DeWolfe, Wading River, New York.
Dan Baum is the chief strategy officer for The Redwoods Group, which uses mission-aligned insurance to create safe communities. He is also the executive director of The Redwoods Group Foundation, which builds off of Redwoods’ impact to catalyze nationwide collective impact movements targeted at the root causes of community safety problems like child sexual abuse.
Katie Johnson has spent 20+ years as a youth development professional working with both resident and day camp programs, including eight years with the American Camp Association. Most recently, Katie joined The Redwoods Group as a consultant where she is sharing her professional experiences to help camps and youth-serving organizations provide safe environments and programs for children and families.
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Spanning two hundred years, the nine Crusades were among the most important events that shaped the Middle Ages. Western Europe, previously isolated and scientifically backward in comparison to the Turkish, Arab and Byzantine Empires, rediscovered the knowledge lost after the Roman Empire collapsed several hundred years earlier. Despite the fact that the Western European states failed to permanently dislodge Saladin and the Ayyubid Caliphate from the Near East, the cultural connections and trade routes developed from interacting with the various Muslim states proved critical to the economic growth of England and France. The Islamic empires felt a sense of superiority after repelling the Western European invaders, but the slow redevelopment of scientific knowledge in Europe improved on their advances and brought Europe on par technologically by the end of the Renaissance period...
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Former Maldives president makes comeback with landslide win
Politics > Former Maldives president makes comeback with landslide win
By 24matins.uk with AFP, published 7 April 2019 at 4h48 BST.
Former president Mohamed Nasheed is set to return to power after his MDP party headed for a two-thirds majority© AFP/File Ahmed SHURAU
The exiled former leader of the Maldives has led his party to a landslide victory only five months after returning to the country, preliminary results showed Sunday.
Ex-president Mohamed Nasheed, 51, was set for a dramatic return to the top of the national parliament, with his Maldivian Democratic Party headed for a two-thirds majority in the 87-member assembly.
Saturday’s poll was the first test of public opinion since autocratic former president and Nasheed’s arch-rival Abdulla Yameen was forced to stand down after his five-year term, facing charges of money laundering and embezzlement.
Nasheed returned to the country after his former deputy President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won an unexpected victory in September presidential elections for the MDP. Yameen had barred Nasheed from contesting.
Preliminary results from Saturday’s election showed the MDP winning 50 out of the 87 seats, while private media reports projected the party eventually getting up to 68 seats.
“The Maldives is about to welcome a new dawn, a golden yellow dawn,” Nasheed told his supporters in Male on Saturday. Yellow is the colour of his party.
Election officials estimated the final turnout to be between 70 and 80 percent, down from the 89 percent recorded at the September presidential election which unexpectedly toppled Yameen.
Nasheed, now set to take over the leadership of the legislature, has promised to turn the country into a parliamentary democracy by scrapping the executive presidential system adopted under political reforms in 2008.
President Solih said in a statement that the MDP had “secured a huge majority in Majlis (parliament)“.
“While we celebrate, we must also not forget the immense challenges that lie ahead of us,” he said.
Solih campaigned for the MDP asking voters to return a parliament that could work with him to deliver on his election promises in September to investigate corruption under Yameen.
While Yameen was not a candidate, his Progressive Party of Maldives was seen as the main challenger to the MDP — but ended up with a poor showing, and is projected to get only four seats.
Nasheed was jailed for 13 years on a controversial terrorism charge when Yameen was in power. However, the conviction was overturned last year after the presidency changed.
Election commissioner Ahmed Shareef told reporters there had been no complaints of irregularities in the runup to the vote, during balloting or at the count.
The Maldives was on the verge of being slapped with Western-led sanctions before Solih won the presidential election on a pledge to end corruption in the country best known for its luxury tourism.
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An empty parking lot near the Stone Mountain Tennis Center in the Evermore CID area on Tuesday, August 8, 2017. The stadium, which was built for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, is being torn down. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
Can former Olympic tennis site revive Gwinnett’s ‘southern gateway’?
Tyler Estep, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Stone Mountain Tennis Center is being destroyed.
Most of the bleachers are already gone, and the concrete walls that enclosed the on-court action of Atlanta’s 1996 Summer Olympics possible are coming down. In the coming months, the whole site — 24 or so acres tucked along U.S. 78 just inside Gwinnett County’s border with DeKalb — will be flattened out, covered with grass and left to await a new future.
Officials hope that future — which will come in some form of redevelopment — will be the catalyst for a new “southern gateway” to Gwinnett, the big, game-changing project that sets off a flurry of other exciting endeavors. Whether it be some type of urban-style mixed-use project, or office space, or something else altogether, the county believes the rebirth of the tennis center site could spur projects on the other 500 or so development-ripe acres in the U.S. 78 corridor.
The corridor is one of Gwinnett County’s most misunderstood areas, but one that could nevertheless use a breath of fresh life.
Or at least an ego boost.
“We’re gonna do something great on this site,” Gwinnett Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash said at an Aug. 1 ceremony at the tennis center. “I’m not talking about something little.”
RAW: Demolition starts at former Atlanta Olympics tennis venue
Fighting perceptions
Gwinnett’s U.S. 78 corridor — which runs along the southern part of the county from the Stone Mountain area through Snellville — often gets a bad rap.
There is the long-abdandoned tennis center, sure, and the former Cub Foods that’s seen better days (or decades). Further down, there are empty shells that used to hold Joe’s Crab Shack and Sports Authority. Further still, grocery giant Kroger recently decided to up and leave its home in an aging shopping center.
Often, though, the area’s poor reputation is undeserved.
Jim Brooks is the executive director of the Evermore Community Improvement District, which includes properties along much of the seven or so miles of U.S. 78 between Stone Mountain and Snellville (but not all of the empty buildings listed above).
“We fight perceptions all the time,”Brooks said.
The CID is a group of nearly 500 business owners that tax themselves to pay for, well, community improvements. Likely because many of its buildings are older, the CID area oftentimes has a reputation for being rundown, lifeless or, to put it bluntly, poor.
Statistics suggest that’s not the case.
The median household income within a three-mile radius of the Stone Mountain Tennis Center (which includes part of DeKalb County) is nearly $95,000, according to analysis by the CID. That’s far greater than the median income for Gwinnett County as a whole, which was just over $60,000 between 2011 and 2015, according to United States Census data.
The CID has about 159,000 residents and expects to add roughly 430 new homes between 2016 and 2018. A sprawling new senior living development just expanded, and the SpaceMax storage facility that took over a former Super Target next to the tennis center is thriving.
Netherworld, a world-renowned haunted house, plans to leave the Norcross area and move just down the street from the Olympic facility next year. That’s in addition to the 500 or so acres officials say are available in the area for development or redevelopment.
“A lof of good things are happening over there,” said Chris Poholek, a partner at developer Childress Klein, which owns the SpaceMax facility.
And now, folks are starting to notice.
The building on W. Park Place Boulevard where famous haunted house Netherworld plans to move next year, near the Stone Mountain Tennis Center in the Evermore CID area. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
Photo: Hyosub Shin/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So…what’s coming?
At a “ceremonial demolition” earlier this month at the Stone Mountain Tennis Center, Brooks, the CID director, made a big show of unveiling a posterboard that Nash, the county commission chairman, had brought along with her.
As the crowd of dignitaries mingled around, Brooks whipped a black sheet off of the posterboard, revealing…nothing. A blank slate.
Thanks to a complicated land swap with the Stone Mountain Memorial Association that was completed last October, Gwinnett County is the owner of the tennis center property and can control its destiny. Demolition of the tennis center is expected to be completed sometime in early 2018, but the county will likely issue a request for proposals for the site’s redevelopment before that.
Nash wants whatever’s built to serve as a “southern gateway” to Gwinnett, but has repeatedly said the county is open to any and all proposals — thus the blank posterboard. The closest the chairman has gotten to revealing a specific preference was telling The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she’d like to see some kind of “robust mixed-use” development at the site.
Others have offered more detailed suggestions.
Poholek, the developer and SpaceMax owner, called it a “very unique opportunity” and said it would make sense to include “build-to-suit” office space — perhaps with some kind of connectivity to nearby Stone Mountain Park.
Brooks got even more precise.
“I would like to see Class A office space there, transit-oriented development there, a parking deck there with housing that surrounds the perimeter of the property,” the CID director said, quick to point out that he doesn’t speak for anyone but himself.
There’s a dearth of Class A office space in the area, which is a relatively short drive to both Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and downtown Atlanta, Brooks said. Gwinnett County, like much of metro Atlanta, is currently exploring possiblities for future transit expansion.
“Taking down the tennis center,” Brooks added, “has really created a tremendous amount of interest in this area.”
The far southern end of Gwinnett — including the Evermore CID area along U.S. 78 — is one of the most misunderstood areas of the county. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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LSU going in-home with QB target
Sam Spiegelman, SEC Country
Tommie Robinson has been all across the state of Alabama this week and on Wednesday night is scheduled to see a critical piece of the 2018 recruiting class puzzle.
Robinson, LSU’s Alabama area recruiter, is set to go in-home with 3-star quarterback James Foster, he tells SEC Country.
The 6-foot-3, 210-pound dual-threat prospect from Sidney Lanier (Ala.) High School in Montgomery, Ala., was offered by Robinson last month. Coach Ed Orgeron evaluated his film during the team’s off-week in late October and then went to see Foster throw at his school the following day.
Foster, then a Missouri commitment, reopened his recruitment and told SEC Country that the Tigers and Florida State were his leading schools. The Seminoles offered a few days later.
Foster had hoped to officially visit LSU earlier this month for the Arkansas game, but the Tigers’ coaches pushed back the visit closer to a decision date. As of now, Foster has no specific timetable for making a decision.
LSU hosted 4-star quarterback and TCU commit Justin Rogers for an official visit last weekend and members of the staff will also be in Bossier City, La.,, to go in-home with him on Wednesday night. At the same time, Robinson will go in-home with Foster as the Tigers look to add a quarterback to their 2018 recruiting class.
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Tennessee has reached out to Purdue coach Jeff Brohm, per report
Stephen Pianovich, Land of 10
Tennessee’s chaotic coaching search might again set its sights on a coach from the Big Ten. Tennessee has reached out to Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm about the opening, according to FOX Sports’ Bruce Feldman.
The Volunteers are reportedly set to interview Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy. Tennessee has also reached out to N.C. State head coach Dave Doeren, Feldman said.
Jeff Brohm in mix for Tennessee job
I’m told #Tennessee is pursuing #okstate’s Mike Gundy as GoPokes has reported. Sources also tells me the #Vols have reached out to #Purdue’s Jeff Brohm & #NCState’s Dave Doeren in their coaching search.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) November 28, 2017
Brohm coached Purdue to 6-6 and bowl eligibility during his first season in West Lafayette. It will be the first bowl game for Purdue since 2012. Brohm, 46, was previously the coach at Western Kentucky.
Tennessee is still searching for a replacement for Butch Jones, who was fired earlier this month. It appeared the Vols had found their coach on Sunday when it was reported they had hired Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano. However, a few hours later, Tennessee backed out of the deal due to protests over Schiano’s ties to the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State.
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Naomi Campbell has ditched her signature straight hair once again. The supermodel shared a photo of herself in a new light on Instagram, showing off cornrows.
"Bare it all. 🙌🏽 ," she wrote in the caption of the photo, where she was positively glowing. "Done in Kenya 🇰🇪 #NAOMIAFRICA." In the last few posts Campbell shared, including the announcement that she was fronting a beauty campaign for Nars, the model had long straight hair.
Campbell has embraced her natural hair texture before, though, as recently as this past New York Fashion Week when she wore curls to take in Raf Simons' last show for Calvin Klein, for spring 2019 (as pictured above). According to Campbell, she has been wearing natural hair more and more, in part to reverse some of the damage that years of wigs and extensions have done on her head.
"I do take more care of my hair now, because I lost all of it with extensions," she told The Evening Standard in May of 2017. "I am more careful and I do different things." When asked if her natural hair has grown back after she experienced hair loss, Campbell replied, "Yes. Thank God."
She also talked about wearing wigs and extensions, saying, "Everybody in the world wears wigs. It doesn’t matter any more. I do what I want, or whatever the job calls for." As for other kinds of add-ons to her appearance, like Botox and fillers, Campbell said, "If I want to do anything to myself I go pay for it and do it. If I want to do it, I do it. It’s like if I want to get eyelashes, I get them."
Last fall, Campbell's hairstylist Ro Morgan talked about the importance of taking breaks from extensions and wigs to allow your natural hair to thrive. “As the name suggests, a weave break is a period of time one removes their hair extensions from their hair and wears their natural hair, whether it’s in its curly state or straightened," he told Essence. "People who wear weaves should give themselves a weave break to avoid the risk of traction alopecia. Also, to properly cleanse the scalp and make sure that the health of the hair and scalp is maintained... I believe one should take a weave break every six months or so, for a few weeks.” Morgan has also given his take on Campbell's latest natural hairstyle: "Her beauty is BEYOND!!!"
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The World of Althanas > Realm of Greeting (New Members Start Here) > Character Registration/Updates > Character Registration/Update Archive > Approved Like Smoke on the Wind (Phyr Level 4)
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Name: Phyr Sa'resh (Feer Sah-resh)
Age: 99 (considerably older, though he will not admit it)
Race: Drow
Hair Color: Grey
Skin Color: Azure
Occupation: Professional Ghost
Once an energetic youth with a lightning wit and silver tongue, Phyr's mind is as sharp as ever but his body lags behind. Althanas has taken its toll on the drow, and it shows through the omnipresent bitterness in his eyes and voice. Despite this, he is stubbornly, often aggravatingly polite. Although he has a good heart deep down, he is bitter on the surface, manipulative, and willing to exploit those he deems unworthy.
However, since leaving Underwood and resiging his post of Captain of the Watch he has quit drinking completely, inciting a significant increase in his mood, skills, and abilities.
Two things set Phyr aside from the main population in Corone: the dark azure color of his skin, and the fact that his right arm ends at the biceps. His shirts and jackets are normally knotted at the elbow or else missing the arm completely. He wears simple clothes most often except when others cajole him into ceremonial garb, and keeps his long silver hair loose or tied back. True to the token of his race Phyr is naturally slim, but sickeningly so due to malnourishment. Perhaps the only noteworthy thing about his appearance is his shocking deep blue eyes, which seem to have seen as much as the sky itself.
Phyr also has a tattoo on each side of his neck, angry red letters that say “prisoner” in Aleraran and Salvic. These are physical reminders he bears to his long years in jail cells in the respective countries. Although his garb is often random and ratty, he nearly always makes sure to keep the tattoos covered up, usually with his long silvery hair.
Light blades: Once an expert with lightweight swords and daggers, the loss of his dominant arm crippled Phyr's fencing skills. Although his grizzled head still houses a great knowledge of the art, his overall ability is average.
Aleraran Firearms: Phyr was an expert marksman with short and long guns during his time as a soldier. The loss of his right arm and the long years have reduced his skill level considerably.
One armed musketeer: Phyr is capable of loading and firing a musket with only his left arm. Not currently applicable as Phyr does not own a musket.
Practical Hand-to-hand combat: Although many Alerarans forsake the art for their technology and magic, Phyr received advanced unarmed combat training at a young age. In spite of the absence of his dominant arm he employs enough dirty tricks and unexpected attacks to make him dangerous at close range. Training with Joshua Cronen in Underwood has increased Phyr's melee fighting skill to the point he can best larger opponents swiftly using his lone arm and whatever else may come to hand. He employs the Aleraran Military Strategy of strike first, strike well, keep striking in most combat situations, but is a surprisingly well versed and vicious grappler at close range.
Military Experience: Having started out as a grunt and worked his way up to junior officer in the Aleraran Military, Phyr has all the basic skills one would expect from a trained soldier. Things such as survival, information assimilation, and camouflage are second nature to him.
Animal affinity: Having undergone the rudimentary Dragoon training in Ettermire, Phyr is capable of working with most mounts so long as they are properly trained to accept a rider.
Engineer: As a young adult Phyr apprenticed under a clockwork mechanic, and later studied the designs and concepts for Alerar's most advanced technology such as steam engines and airships. Though he could certainly not build these great devices, the training gives him unique insight to the way things work. Phyr has also found he is able to easily bypass most Coronian and Salvic locks because of his superior mechanical understanding.
Gunsmith: Having started as a weapon smith during his military career, Phyr knows how to design, make, and maintain basic firearms such as flintlocks, muskets, blunderbuss, and other single-shot weapons.
Master Tactician: A champion of strategy games since childhood, Phyr's rise through the ranks of Alerar's military was nigh unprecedented, and the powers that be had him earmarked as a potential general until his untimely arrest. Although he was never promoted past junior officer the drow has years of experience planning and executing military and covert operations.
Silver Tongue: Phyr's vast experience dealing with beings of every kind and the fact that much of his life has depended on having the right allies has made him a very persuasive individual.
Languages spoken: Aleraran and Common (Tradespeak), as well as some Salvic and Orcish picked up in various prisons.
Coronian Politics: Having spent some time as Captain of the Underwood Watch during wartime, Phyr developed an intimate understanding of the social elite, politics, and military strategies of Corone.
Coronian Lore: During the Adventurer's Crown Phyr became intimately familiar with many different regions across Corone, as well as their flora and fauna. He has become well versed at navigating the country as well as living off the land.
Greater Perception: Phyr can see approximately twice as well as an average human, even in the dark. Phyr's hearing is twice as accurate as the average human. His other senses were dulled by long prison sentences.
Greater Endurance (x5): The long journey from Salvar built lasting stamina into Phyr's ancient body. While he is still a shadow of his youthful self in some ways, he can push himself much longer and harder than ever before, even when the odds are fully against him.
Greater Speed and Strength x1.5: Cutting back on alcohol, eating healthier, and generally living a healthy active life have contributed to making Phyr fitter than ever before. His training with Joshua Cronen has also paid dividends to his speed and reflexes in combat.
Metal Manipulation: Through extensive work (and the frustration of being reduced to one hand) Phyr has learned to manipulate small amounts of metal. He may manipulate up to five pounds of plynt or lower tiered metals. In this way Phyr can telekinetically repair devices or reload weapons where his single arm handicaps him, as well as pick most locks and levitate items. He can also quickly sharpen/clean metal tools and do a number of other mundane things.Phyr's range of control is approximately a 5 meter radius around him, and he now has the ability to soften the metal he controls. Softened metal will retain all its other properties, so for example a thin bladed sword might function like a metal whip, but wide-bladed swords and bludgeons would become less useful. Phyr may use this to reduce impact from melee attacks or thrown projectiles, but anything that moves as fast or faster than an arrow would be too quick for him.
Shadow Manipulation: When Phyr is standing still or moving very slowly in a shadowy or dark area, he is capable of increasing the thickness of the shadows around him so only a character with increased perception who looks closely would see him. Use of magic is minimal enough to not be detected or considered true "shadow magic", this ability is more a representation of Phyr's unique ability to remain unseen. Phyr is now capable of summoning shadow or increasing the size/changing the shape of existing shadows. These can be used as distractions or hiding places. Phyr is only capable of controlling a body of shadows as large as two horses, and creating more than one "shadow illusion" at a time may cause him to lose focus. 10 meter radius range. Phyr's shadows now have the ability to contain the sound of his heartbeat/breathing and his body odor, making him all but undetectable in shadowy areas.
Shadow blinders: Phyr shoots a ball of shadows at an opponent with the speed of an ordinary arrow. If the ball strikes any part of their body, shadows are adhered to the opponent's face as an opaque blindfold that wears off after 1 minute but can only be removed sooner by arcane means. The "blinders" block the target's vision during the minute. Once a shadow blinder is adhered, Phyr does not need to focus on it anymore. Usable 12 times per IC day.
Shadowstep: Once per IC day Phyr is capable of teleporting from one shadowy place to another. This can be used to cross an ocean or continent if he knows the place he is going to intimately, however such a great step would be completely exhausting. Typically Phyr uses this ability for in-room teleportation, and this can be used in sequence with his ability to summon/manipulate shadows, allowing him to shadowstep in places where shadows do not naturally occur.
Shadow drain: Phyr summons a bank of shadows around or near an enemy or group of enemies, and dark ethereal tendrils reach out to touch them. The tendrils are slow, moving at 0.75x ordinary human speed, and can be avoided, but if they make contact they drain part of the target's life force, cutting their endurance for the day in half. Multiple drains on the same target are not possible. Any actions the target performs for the rest of the day will be twice as physically and mentally taxing as normal. Usable three times per day for up to a minute at a time, with a maximum of four tendrils.
Heavy iron bayonet
Hardwood walking stick (black eklan) which becomes a short spear w/bayonet
Iron hip flask
Pepper spray armlet: (http://www.althanas.com/oldworld/showthread.php?20231-Via-Dolorosa/page4) a six shot pepper spray armband with two shots already used. The contents of the cartridges is equal parts powder and liquid, and provides a chemical burn anywhere it meets skin, most severe in the face/nose/eyes/mouth, quite similar to Earth pepper spray. It resembles a short bracer, is made mostly from yew and steel, and must be re-designed in a quest in order to be "re loaded". It was designed to be worn on a Coronian's wrist, the revolver-like mechanism operated by the hand. Phyr wears it on his stump instead and can use his opposite hand or his metal manipulation to operate the mechanism.
Flintlock Cutlass (http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jupitercoins.com/images/French%2520Flintlock%2520Pistol-Cutlass.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jupitercoins.com/Weapons.html&h=238&w=240&sz=25&tbnid=NQXtix_FMH32NM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=91&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dflintlock%2Bcutlass%26tbm%3Disch%26tb o%3Du&zoom=1&q=flintlock+cutlass&usg=__Pag3XFoSydFl2dcLrTBYAdqNZpw=&docid=5v58DX9Jh4BjOM&sa=X&ei=QKRfUvXUEYPr2wWmiIGQDQ&ved=0CC4Q9QEwAQ): (purchased here (http://www.althanas.com/oldworld/showthread.php?26096-Swashbuckler-spoils)) A smallsword with a standard crossguaurd and a single smooth-bore barrel lining the flat of the blade. Device and handle in dehlar, blade in plynt.
-10 steel and 10 iron smooth-bore ammunition (ballshot)
-Black powder sufficient for 20 shots
Phyr grew up a child of Alerar's working class, studying hard in his classes and gazing at the technological wonders behind shuttered windows as he walked home each day. Being one of the few drow who excelled both physically and mentally, little could stand in the way of his dreams of becoming the greatest inventor on Althanas. As a young adult he apprenticed himself to a master mechanic, and learned to build and create all manner of things. When his interest eventually turned to weapon building, the papers and theories he published brought Military officials to his doorstep. Recently married and expecting children, and still seeking greatness, Phyr enlisted. His progression as a gunsmith and soldier paralleled that of some of Alerar's greatest Generals, and as a junior officer Phyr received the specialised training and dangerous covert missions reserved for the most promising among his peers.
Unfortunately, another drow of similar potential and skills found a way to fast-track his career by stealing an invaluable shipment of Adamantine and framing Phyr. This not only cemented the wicked drow's fortune but moved him up the military hierarchy. Unable to prove his innocence or produce the stolen ore, Phyr was arrested on charges of Treason. But the death penalty never quite found him. Instead he was imprisoned, first in the dungeons of the Royal Palace but later transferred to prison across Alerar and the Northlands. At first the torturous treatment seemed like a punishment worse than death, and Phyr clung to his memories of love and glory like a drowning man to driftwood. He soon realised that the intent of his treatment was not to kill him but to break him, to force him into subservience so his talents could still benefit the Crown. This catalysed the adoption of his impetuously polite attitude and the abandonment of his former allegiances. Although he still harbours fantasies about exposing the true traitor, re-uniting with his family and redeeming himself in the eyes of Alerar, they are compartmentalised deep within the cold, logical enigma that is Phyr Sa'resh.
In They've All Forgotten You (http://www.althanas.com/oldworld/showthread.php?22149-They-ve-All-Forgotten-You) Phyr attempts to escape a secluded, high-security Salvic prison despite the presence of Coronian Ranger Christina Bredith, whose strange presence is replaced by her uncanny interest in the one-armed drow. (Judge's Choice)
Christina pursues Phyr throughout the Northlands in the current project Another Day Colder (http://www.althanas.com/oldworld/showthread.php?22661-Another-Day-Colder), using all of her cunning in a vendetta to bring the sickly convict to justice.
After escaping from Salvar and a harrowing sea voyage, Phyr establishes a living as a beggar and informant in Radsanth. Via Dolorosa (http://www.althanas.com/oldworld/showthread.php?20231-Via-Dolorosa) follows him and fellow antihero Wynken as they individually seek to exploit an Aleraran arms smuggling operation. The mysterious and lethal Kron Sha'keth makes an appearance as a demon among villains.
Having fled Radasanth and the wrath of Kron Sha'keth, Phyr encounters Joshua Cronen in Your vices are in Order. (http://www.althanas.com/oldworld/showthread.php?22175-Your-vices-are-in-order) The drow and the demigod share a drink before finding themselves joined in a desperate attempt to save Underwood from a shadowy, half-crazed assassin. (Judge's Choice)
Presently Phyr resides in a room of the Last Night's Maiden, an inn near the Peaceful Promenade in Underwood. He regularly works out of Town Hall, and spends a suspicious amount of time at a nearby logging cabin.
After a harrowing night in which he lost the best woman he'd met in sixty years, Phyr resigned his post in Underwood and returned to Radasanth as a beggar. His lack of penchant for the drink drove him to distraction however, and he has taken to fighting at the Citadel for free meals and as a means to pass the time and meet potential benefactors.
In the Adventurer's Crown Phyr played a key role in defending Gisela from the cat-person invaders, and also traveled across the continent in the company of some well-known characters. This brought a significant amount of unwanted fame to his name, and this invariably led to the Aleraran spies and bounty hunters who are after him being able to successfully track him down, so Phyr went on the run once again.
Hello there Phyr
Having just read your updates, I have a few questions:
For Shadowstep, is there any distance maximum that Phr can teleport? Does he need to know of the place exactly that he is going to (i.e. have been there before)? And does it need to be in shadows entirely?
For Shadowdrain, how fast do the tendrils move? For instance, is this 0.5x normal speed if they are described as 'slow'? And also, can one person be hit by a tendril twice, effectively cutting their endurance by half again?
For the blinding a minute of complete blindness will use up a lot of points for your level - I am going to consult on this.
For now, it looks like you have some ideas for great new adventure.
Philomel x
No maximum distance on shadowstep, although I did specify that hopping across a continent or an ocean would exhaust him. He has to either have previously been to the place he is going (I specified intimate familiarity) or else be able to see where he is going (for short teleports). It doesn't need to be in shadows entirely, just shadowy enough that he has a less lit place to disappear/appear in.
I specified 0.75x average human speed for the tendrils, and that multiple drains are not possible on the same target.
Okay great. Thank you. I'll get this worked up today.
One last question: how many times can Phyr use Blind in a thread/per day?
I specified that "Shadow Blinders" can be used 12 times per IC day.
12 uses is a little high for a level 4 at this stage, and with the possibilities of the ability I would ask you to bring that down to possibly a 4 or 5 uses.
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Does P!ATD’s “High Hopes” sound like this Lil Wayne song?
Take a listen and ponder.
Philip Trapp
[Photos by: Jimmy Fontaine, Universal Music Group]
Does Panic! At The Disco‘s recent smash “High Hopes” bear a striking resemblance to an old Lil Wayne song? Was the Pray For The Wicked single from P!ATD’s Brendon Urie and company perhaps written as a tribute to the veteran rapper?
These questions are brought up today by Andy Cush at SPIN, the writer collating the similarities in the Panic! tune’s catchy refrain with the corresponding shuffle of the chorus in Wayne’s 2007 jam “Ride For My N*ggas (Sky’s The Limit).”
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Hear it for yourself. Below, take a listen to “High Hopes,” the chorus of which starts right at the top of the track. Then, listen to the Lil Wayne tune, a non-single from the rapper’s mid-aughts mixtape Da Drought 3. The chorus starts around 1:23.
Did you notice an equivalence in sound among the two choruses? Cush sure does. He writes that the two refrains, recorded a decade apart, share a sameness not only in sonics, but also in their triumphant, rise-from-the-ashes lyrics:
“The rhyme scheme, the way the syllables fall across the beat, the type of fanfare-ish production that makes you want to run a few sets on the Rocky stairs, the lyrics about having faith in yourself and celebrating victory in the face of struggle—both songs have all of these things in common.”
Whether Urie consciously copied Wayne’s rhyme scheme and melodic shamble for his act’s biggest hit since 2006’s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” is certainly a fascinating question to consider. And it’s one that crops up often in modern music, especially since Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” got nabbed for being too close in sound to a Marvin Gaye tune.
What do you think? Does the Panic! At The Disco chorus of “High Hopes” sound a bit close to Lil Wayne’s meter in the Drought 3 tune? Sound off in the comments section, down below, and let us know your take on this song comparison!
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Sony World Photography Awards: Winners
Hollie Latham Hucker
Winners of the Open categories and National Awards in the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 are announced
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Ten stunning photographs from around the world are crowned the winners of the Open categories in the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. The winners of the Open competition were selected from more than 105,000 entries, with the expert panel of judges looking for the best single photographs across ten categories.
Each of the ten winning photographs display huge photographic talent and creativity, from a stunning wildlife shot of flamingos in Walvis Bay, Namibia (Alessandra Meniconzi) to the ice blue and white of winter (Hiroshi Tanita) and a beautifully simple portrait (Alexander Vinogradov). Scale is used to stunning effect to capture more than 1300 people practicing Tai-Chi in China (Jianguo Gong) and architecture in Berlin (Tim Cornbill) while a crucial goal-scoring moment in an underwater rugby match is photographed by Camilo Diaz. A subtle palette of colour is used in both the Enhanced (Lise Johansson) and Travel (Ralph Gräf) category winners while black and white photography is the choice for the Street Photography winner (Constantinos Sofikitis).
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The ten Open category winners are:
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Culture – Jianguo Gong (China)
Enhanced – Lise Johansson (Denmark)
Motion – Camilo Diaz (Colombia)
Nature – Hiroshi Tanita (Japan)
Portraits – Alexander Vinogradov (Russia)
Still Life – Sergey Dibtsev (Russia)
Street Photography – Constantinos Sofikitis (Greece)
Travel – Ralph Gräf (Germany)
Wildlife – Alessandra Meniconzi (Switzerland)
Each winning photographer receives a Sony α7 II with lens kit and will now compete to win the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards’ Open Photographer of the Year title, a trip to the winners’ awards ceremony in London in April and $5,000 US dollars in cash prizes. The overall winner will be announced on the 20th April alongside the winners of the Professional competition (judged on a body of work).
Sony World Photography Awards National Awards
Also announced are the winners of the National Awards. The National Awards is a global program to find the best single photographs taken by local photographers in 66 countries. The National Awards is now in its fourth year and for the first time this year it opened up to photographers from Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates.
Click here to see the entire winners gallery, see a selection below…
Copyright: © Camilo Diaz, Colombia, 2nd Place, National Awards, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards
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Copyright: © Shashanka Chitrakar, Nepal, 1st Place, National Awards, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards
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The Xbox 360 controller has been the de facto standard for years (NVIDIA copied it almost exactly for the SHIELD line), and the Xbox One has a refined and streamlined version of that design. So when Microsoft announced that a shiny new revision of the Xbox One controller would not only let you choose your colors and engraving Moto Maker-style, but also include a Bluetooth connection for easy dongle-free pairing with PCs, I couldn't help but get excited. Might Android gamers finally get access to the best controller around without any USB frippery or root-enabled work-arounds?
Minecraft: Pocket Edition gets a big update for E3, including Xbox cross-platform play, Realms servers, and more
Microsoft is the owner of Mojang, developer of the ultra-popular Minecraft sandbox building game. And at the E3 video game conference, they want everyone to know it. In between the usual slew of console exclusives and hype about the future, the company dedicated a little time to Minecraft exclusively. At least some of the new additions for Minecraft were released immediately for the Android version, most notably access to Realms servers and cross-platform play with the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Xbox Smartglass App Now On Par With Windows 10 Xbox App, Renamed 'Xbox'
2016/06/13 4:45pm PDT Jun 13, 2016
The Xbox Smartglass app has been available on Android for a while, letting users control the Xbox's media functions, such as play, pause, and menu navigation, directly through the app. Today, at Microsoft's E3 press conference, the app is getting a big update, being renamed to just 'Xbox' and with features comparable to the equivalent on Windows 10. With the app, you can use Xbox Live, buy games, or watch game content shared by other users, making it the ultimate companion to the Microsoft-made box sitting near your TV.
Updated home – The Activity Feed is the home of the Xbox app
Added Trending content – Find out what's popular on Xbox Live
Facebook friend finder – Add your Facebook friends who are also on Xbox
Contact list friend finder – Use your phones contact list to add friends to Xbox Live
Real name sharing – Be able to share your real name with your friends
Game hubs – Game Hubs now added to Xbox app
Updated profiles – Redesigned user profiles in Xbox app
The banner features of the update are mostly to do with Xbox Live, Microsoft's online gaming network.
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Throne of Heresy – Antioch Review
By Kronos On January 23, 2016 · 27 Comments · In 2016, Death Metal, Reviews, Swedish Metal, The Sign Records
I have a long standing joke with friends that about fifty percent of death metal bands out there derive their identity with respect to the phrases “Lovecraftian horror” and “anti-Christian,” and Throne of Heresy isn’t out to prove me wrong. So find a bucket, because Antioch is the perfect chance to revisit a favorite conceit of mine; the album review as a drinking game. Those of you who are veterans of Angry Metal Guy will have hopefully recovered as much as possible from the first episode, which leaves us in the perfect position to relapse with an even more thorough inebriation initiative. Guided by the talented gentlemen of Throne of Heresy, we’re about to embark on a dangerous journey of discovery (mainly with regards to liver functionality) known to its players as The Death Metal Drinking Game.
Throne of Heresy are a Swedish (drink, drink) five-piece (sip) blackened death metal band and Antioch (reference to history of Christianity, take a sip) is their sophomore effort. It’s ten tracks long, lasts 40 minutes and comes in at DR6 (do you see what you’re getting into here?). But hey, metadata can only tell you so much; what matters is what’s on the inside – half a workout’s worth of trope-filled, predictable, but ultimately competent death metal. One needn’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the genre to nail down Throne‘s biggest influence right off the bat. One power chord into “The God Delusion” (keep them coming) and the Bloodbath-ism is clear as the nose sawed off a cadaver’s face. In fact, I’d say that if you were disappointed by Grand Morbid Funeral, this is the album you may have been looking for in its place; if Mikael Åkerfeldt had been replaced by Decapitated‘s Rafał Piotrowski rather than Nick Holmes, Bloodbath and Throne of Heresy would be completely indistinguishable.
In an astonishing display of restraint, that very singer, Thomas Clifford, waits until the third song, “Nemesis Rising” to utter the words “Leviathan” (take a shot), “Cthulu” (finish your drink), and “death may die” (fill a horn with mead, set aside). In keeping with these highly original themes, most of these songs ride on pretty tried and true chugging, buzzing power chords, and blast beats of somewhat different tempos (drink). Though the majority of the album is set at a middling pace, the band does shuffle the deck with faster tempos in songs like “Phosphorus,” which sounds a lot like Abysmal Dawn when it kicks into high gear. Occasional breakdowns break down as well, accompanied with stronger melody on “Souls for the Sepulchre.”
Once you’ve downed that horn of mead at seeing the above jean jackets, the thought might wind its way into your pickled brain that Throne of Heresy doesn’t seem to have a lot going for them; yet in terms of digestibility this album is exemplary. Though I certainly won’t be returning to it come the year’s end, Antioch is structured quite well as an album, saving its best song for last and keeping a remarkably steady pace. Beyond that, its songs are enticing in their simplicity; you know what’s coming next because they often follow a simple rock song structure, and the band knows when to bring back important riffs.
Antioch lacks the creativity of Abysmal Dawn or the lovable ham-fistedness you get from Gluttony or Jungle Rot, and though it’s a very competent release – the band makes a good stab at writing songs – it’s just not fun or interesting enough to stay on rotation. Throne of Heresy can follow their idols punch-for-punch, but that’s not worth much when the ring is so stuffed with other boxers. If you’re looking for a fun death metal record that doesn’t try to impress, you can stop here, but I can’t recommend it for anything other than passive listening because of how ultimately unoriginal and fleeting the experience is.
It’s now safe to stop drinking [We deny any and all responsibility for excessive consumption of alcohol, drugs or Viking horns. – Steel Druhm].
Label: The Sign Records
Websites: throneofheresy.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/throneofheresy
Release Dates: February 12th, 2016
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Kyōmen no Silhouette Manga with Art by Chibi Vampire's Kagesaki Ends Next Month
posted on 2013-09-08 08:46 EDT by Sarah Nelkin
Manga with story by Tamase Nagayama about pauper turned princess's shadow began in 2010
This year's 35th issue of Kodansha's good! Afternoon magazine announced on Friday that the last chapter of Tamase Nagayama and Yuna Kagesaki's Kyōmen no Silhouette (Silhouette on the Mirror's Surface) manga will be published in the magazine's next issue. The November issue of the magazine will ship in Japan on October 7.
The story of the manga begins when Teshio, a boy who has a complex about his feminine face, changes his class from rags to riches when the princess with a similar face hires him as her “shadow.” In the presence of a beautiful princess and conspiracies abound, a high-class romance begins to blossom.
The manga began serializing in 2010, and Kodansha released the third compiled volume of the manga in July. Manga publisher Tokyopop licensed Kagesaki's Chibi Vampire and AiON manga in North America, and released all of Chibi Vampire and AiON 's first three compiled volumes before shutting down its North American manga publishing division in May 2011.
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Facebook confirmed Thursday in a blog post, prompted by a report by cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, that it stored “hundreds of millions” of account passwords in plaintext for years.
The discovery was made in January, said Facebook’s Pedro Canahuati, as part of a routine security review. None of the passwords were visible to anyone outside Facebook, he said. Facebook admitted the security lapse months later, after Krebs said logs were accessible to some 2,000 engineers and developers.
Krebs said the bug dated back to 2012.
“This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable,” said Canahuati. “We have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them,” but did not say how the company made that conclusion.
Facebook said it will notify “hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users,” a lighter version of Facebook for users where internet speeds are slow and bandwidth is expensive, and “tens of millions of other Facebook users.” The company also said “tens of thousands of Instagram users” will be notified of the exposure.
Krebs said as many as 600 million users could be affected — about one-fifth of the company’s 2.7 billion users, but Facebook has yet to confirm the figure.
Facebook also didn’t say how the bug came to be. Storing passwords in readable plaintext is an insecure way of storing passwords. Companies, like Facebook, hash and salt passwords — two ways of further scrambling passwords — to store passwords securely. That allows companies to verify a user’s password without knowing what it is.
Twitter and GitHub were hit by similar but independent bugs last year. Both companies said passwords were stored in plaintext and not scrambled.
It’s the latest in a string of embarrassing security issues at the company, prompting congressional inquiries and government investigations. It was reported last week that Facebook’s deals that allowed other tech companies to access account data without consent was under criminal investigation.
It’s not known why Facebook took months to confirm the incident, or if the company informed state or international regulators per U.S. breach notification and European data protection laws. We asked Facebook but a spokesperson did not immediately comment beyond the blog post.
The Irish data protection office, which covers Facebook’s European operations, said the company “informed us of this issue” and the regulator is “currently seeking further information.”
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The Doom of the Unknown Book Critic, or, Who Mourns for Margaret Wallace?
We all know Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple, redeemer of Zora Neale Hurston's work, and fine commentator on The Big Read's CD about Hurston's masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God -- but whatever happened to Margaret Wallace? If not for Walker's championing in the pages of Ms. magazine, Hurston might still be languishing out of print. We'd have lost not just Their Eyes but Hurston's wonderful essays, like the unreconstructedly joyful ?How It Feel to Be Colored Me," so bracing in expression, so sad in retrospect, which I read last night in Best American Short Stories of the Century. But without Margaret Wallace, Walker might never have read Hurston in the first place.
Margaret Wallace will be long dead now, and just 13 Googles mark her passing. She apparently reviewed for the New York Times quite a lot in the '30s and '40s, including pieces about Thomas Wolfe and Edna Ferber. Maybe she put other important writers on the map too, and we just don't know it because some publisher credited her review to the Times, but omitted her name. Yet it's just possible that without her Times rave of Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine on May 6, 1934, datedly but earnestly headlined "Real Negro People," this early Hurston novel might have sunk without a trace, and Hurston with it. Instead, Margaret Wallace had the discernment to write the following words -- hundreds more like them in the same vein too, sadly beyond Googling -- and Hurston's bones were made:
Jonah's Gourd Vine can be called without fear of exaggeration the most vital and original novel about the American Negro that has yet been written by a member of the Negro race...Unlike the dialect in most novels about the American Negro, this does not seem to be merely the speech of white men with the spelling distorted. Its essence lies rather in the rhythm and balance of the sentences, in the warm artlessness of the phrasing...Not the least charm of the book, however, is its language: rich, expressive, and lacking in self?conscious artifice. From the rolling and dignified rhythms of John's last sermon to the humorous aptness of such a word as "shickalacked," to express the noise and motion of a locomotive, there will be much in it to delight the reader. It is hoped that Miss Hurston will give us other novels in the same colorful idiom.
This is a model of fine, necessary book reviewing. Margaret Wallace states her case, and then she makes it. She says what the book isn't, and then what it is. She says it well, too. 'Much in it to delight the reader" is a mite starchy, but "in the rhythm and balance of the sentences, in the warm artlessness of the phrasing' uses Wallace's own different rhythm to get at precisely what made Hurston such a revelation. Someone actively "looking to be offended,? in Pynchon's rueful, useful phrase about political correctness, could take issue with the repetition of the word 'rhythm' to describe a black writer's work, but please. 'colorful' is a bit on the cute side, too, the kind of inside joke a working reviewer tosses in occasionally to keep herself amused -- not unlike 'unreconstructedly,' up above -- but who knows how many other books Margaret Wallace was weighing that week?
I can just picture Alice Walker's mother seeing this notice, or another one assigned by an editor who read this one and then decided to send Jonah's Gourd Vine out for review after all. I can imagine Mrs. Walker going down to the local department store and buying a copy instead of renting it, which was also an option in those days, and taking it home and enjoying it, and Alice finding it in the attic, and remembering it years later, and finally writing the piece that sent Zora Neale Hurston shickalacking down the track to resurrection.
This is the way that natural selection has usually worked in the swampy ecosystem of literary reputation. What I can't imagine is where we'll be now that reviewers like Margaret Wallace, the indicator species in that particular pond, are dying out in most newspapers and magazines. To cite just one example among many, The New Republic lost its book critic, the estimable James Wood, to the New Yorker a few months ago, and he has not been replaced.
This is not news anymore. If editors would just give half the column inches to book reviews that they're spending on handwringing about the lack of book reviews, we'd be out of the woods already. Instead, like Zora Neale Hurston before Alice Walker found her unmarked grave and paid to put a proper stone over it, Margaret Wallace lies in a potter's field somewhere, unmourned, unrisen. Whatever happened to Margaret? Will no one lift her up again?
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Dr J S Doyle BM BS BMedSci DRCOG MRCGP FRCGP Nottingham 1983
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Dr S V Gadiyar MBBS MRCP(UK) MRCGP DRCOG DFFP Mysore (India) 1991
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Dr Stephen Doyle’s special interest is respiratory medicine, looking after asthma and COPD care in the practice. He has obtained his diploma in Asthma and COPD management.
Dr Doyle has 22 years’ experience in performing minor surgery and provides an acupuncture service to patients. He also has a further interest in men’s health issues and has responsibility for NHS health checks.
Along with Dr Osborne, Dr Doyle is an approved GP Trainer who is also involved in the training of junior medical students and training doctors. Following a peer review of his work and role in education he was awarded the FRCGP (Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners).
Dr D C Osborne
Dr David Osborne has worked as a GP in Rochdale since 1995. He has been an accredited trainer of new general practitioners since 2003.
His clinical responsibilities in the surgery are coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke. He has a postgraduate Diploma in Minor Surgery and undertakes a minor surgery clinic at the surgery on alternative Friday afternoons.
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Dr Jenny Nelson has worked at Ashworth Street Surgery since November 2001 as a part-time partner. She has over 18 years’ experience working within General Practice.
Her main interests are women’s health: obstetrics and gynaecology, family planning, osteoporosis, menopause and HRT and teenage health. Dr Nelson is certified to fit contraceptive and mirena coils.
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Dr Shalini Gadiyar has worked as a GP since 2002. She trained initially as a paediatrician in this country after qualifying as a doctor in India. She became attracted to General Practice after four years of hospital medicine and since then has gained experience in ENT, Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She offers contraceptive advice, fits IUDs and implants and is also involved in child health along with Dr Simmons and Dr Knott.
She gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Gynaecology in 2011 and her other clinical interests include family planning, mental health and dermatology.
Dr M J Mudalige
Dr Mark Mudalige joined the practice full time in October 2011. He has recently completed the Certificate in GP Education and is now involved in the training of new GPs.
His clinical interests include diabetes and chronic kidney disease and he has recently gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes.
Dr A Simmons
Dr Adam Simmons joined the Practice in October 2013. He completed his training as a junior doctor at Rochdale Infirmary and went on to undertake his GP training across the Pennine region. He is involved in supervising medical students at the practice.
His clinical interests involve child health and he runs the baby clinic. He is safeguarding lead and is involved in coordinating patient care plans, as well as overseeing developments in the practice.
Dr K Cody
Dr Kevin Cody completed his GP training in July 2014 and joined the practice as a partner in October 2016. He initially studied Medical Microbiology at Newcastle University before completing his studies in Medicine at Warwick Medical School. He spent the first part of his career in hospital medicine working in the Northwest and then Sydney Australia for two years. Prior to his GP training he worked in Emergency Medicine.
Dr E Knott
Dr Elizabeth Knott joined the practice in August 2013 having completed her GP training in the Pennine region. Prior to commencing GP training she spent two years as a junior doctor in Newcastle before completing a further two years as a paediatric trainee in Yorkshire.
Dr S L Tan
Dr Swee Tan obtained her medical degree from the University of Manchester and underwent training as a Foundation doctor at North Manchester General Hospital. She subsequently completed GP training within the Pennine region before joining the practice in September 2017. Her clinical interests include general adult medicine and palliative care.
Dr F Zafar
Dr Feroz Zafar undertook part of his GP training at the practice in August 2015 before joining as a GP in September 2018. He achieved his medical degree at the University of Manchester in 2012, during which he took a year out to obtain a Masters in Research. After qualifying as a doctor, he completed his Foundation training in Preston and subsequent GP training in the Pennine region.
Practice Manager Pauline A Mayor
Assistant Practice Manager Rachael Dowsing
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There are seven doctors, three salaried GP's, GP registrars, and training doctors who already have hospital experience who are supported by the practice manager, nurse practitioner, practice nurses, health care assistants and a total of 18 reception/admin staff. The receptionists, like all staff, are there to assist you - making appointments, taking requests for home visits and answering other queries. Please be patient if you are kept waiting, or if you feel they are asking too many questions. They have to judge the urgency of the request so please give them the information they require. They are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the doctors and nurses.
The practice manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of the practice. Problems regarding registration or other administrative matters should be brought to her attention if the reception staff cannot help.
Kaye Peacock
Kaye Peacock is our advanced nurse practitioner, who joined the practice in March 2002. Kaye completed the MSc Clinical Nursing Course at Liverpool University in September 2001. Prior to that she was a district nursing sister in Bolton.
What is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Who Should See Her?
Advanced nurse practitioners are nurses who specialise in diagnosing and treating minor ailments. They work alongside GPs to offer an alternative point of GP contact for patients. This enables GPs to have more time to deal with patients who have complicated medical conditions.
Advanced nurse practitioners are highly trained to carry out this role and are able to recognise more serious conditions as well as minor ones. Nevertheless, a GP is always on hand to advise the nurse practitioner if needed. Kaye has also been fully trained to prescribe medication.
Kaye can see a wide range of conditions, some examples of which are:-
Skin problems - eg eczema, acne and rashes
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Coughs/colds
Muscular injuries - eg back, neck
Many of these problems come on quickly and the nurse practitioner's appointments are more readily available. We hope this enables patients to be seen more quickly. If you are unsure if your illness should be seen by the nurse practitioner or GP, the reception staff are often able to clarify which would be best, so just ask.
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Nicola Eaton
Nicky Eaton is our Community Nurse Practitioner who joined our practice on 1st May 2017. Many of our patients will already know Nicky as she was previously the Community Matron employed by Pennine Acute NHS Trust for Ashworth Street surgery for over two years and continues to support many of our patients.
Nicky has an extensive knowledge and experience in dealing with acute/chronic and long-term conditions/illnesses and will be working alongside the GP's to manage patients in a variety of settings and local nursing homes.
Nicky is currently studying for her MSc in Advance Clinical Practice and will be able to offer an alternative point of contact for patients in the community.
Nicky has over 20 years experience of a variety of nursing roles and is fully trained to prescribe and manage patients with a wide range of conditions.
Debbie Clubman and Choosita Barton are the surgery practice nurses. They are very highly skilled and undertake regular training to enable them to deliver a high standard of evidence-based care to all our patients.
An appointment can be made at reception for any of the following:
Travel Immunisations - Ideally 6-8 weeks prior to travel
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In addition to our nurse practitioner and practice nurses, we also have Joanne Holland, Christine Thompson and Daryl Thompson who are our health care assistants. They have been fully trained in phlebotomy and blood pressure monitoring and have completed their training to assist in the management of health care. This currently includes the following:
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The health visitors are available for advice, especially with children and also to monitor the health and development of children and families. They are based at Ings Lane and can be contacted on 01706 676300.
The district nurses service aims to provide high quality nursing care to patients who are housebound. They have an open referral policy and can be contacted at Croft Shifa Surgery Monday to Friday between 8.30 - 9.30am and 2.00 - 4.00pm on 861692. At any other time they can be contacted via their Liaison Department on 0161 763 8525. Any patients who are able to, are requested to attend the clinic for treatment at Croft Shifa Clinic; appointments can be made by ringing 0161 655 7401.
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This practice is a teaching practice in association with the University of Manchester. Students may be present at your consultation but you will be given notice of this in advance. If you wish to see the doctor on their own please inform the receptionist.
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John R. Welch has spent three decades facilitating research, resource management, and outreach partnerships with tribes in upland Arizona and New Mexico, as well as First Nations in coastal British Columbia. Welch served as the archaeologist and historic preservation officer for the White Mountain Apache Tribe from 1992 to 2005, and continues on the board of the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, a tribally chartered non-profit he helped found in 1997. Welch joined the faculties of Simon Fraser University’s Archaeology Department and School of Resource and Environmental Management as a Canada Research Chair (tier 2) in 2005, and has published widely on opportunities and challenges at the interface of cultural and resource management in indigenous settings. Welch authored the 2011 nomination of the Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt School district as a U.S. National Historic Landmark. He edited Kinishba Lost and Found, a book on legacy collections from Kinishba Ruins National Historic Landmark published in 2013 by the Arizona State Museum. Welch’s Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881 was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2016.
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Opinion | Impeach Donald Trump? - The New York Times
"April 21st, 2019 Chaeles Blow
President Trump at a White House event on Thursday.
Photo by: Erin Schaff/The New York Times
The Mueller report has been released, with redactions of course, and it is a damning document. Not only does it detail Russian efforts to attack our election to help the Trump campaign and the Trump campaign’s eager acceptance of that help, it paints a picture of Donald Trump as an unethical man with no regard for the rule of law.
In this report, we see a president who doesn’t deserve to be president. We see attempts over and over to obstruct justice, which in some cases succeed.
The question is: What are we going to do about it? Obstruction of justice is a crime. If Trump committed that crime, he’s a criminal. Are we simply going to allow a criminal to sit in the Oval Office and face no consequence? Are we simply going to let the next presidential election be the point at which Trump is punished or rewarded?
It is maddening to think that we are at such a pass. But, my mind is made up: I say impeach him.
I know all the arguments against.
First, even if the House voted to impeach Trump, the Senate would never vote to convict and remove him. This is the “failed impeachment” theory.
But, I say that there is no such thing as a failed impeachment. Impeachment exists separately from removal. Impeachment in the House is akin to an indictment, with the trial, which could convict and remove, taking place in the Senate. The Senate has never once voted to convict.
So, an impeachment vote in the House has, to this point, been the strongest rebuke America is willing to give a president. I can think of no president who has earned this rebuke more than the current one.
And, once a president is impeached, he is forever marked. It is a chastisement unto itself. It is the People’s House making a stand for its people.
Then there is the idea that an impeachment would be contentious and increase public support for Trump the way it did for Bill Clinton.
But I find the conflation of Clinton and Trump ill-reasoned on the issue of the public’s response in polling.
First, Clinton’s approval was subject to change in a way Trump’s is not. Clinton experienced a 40-point swing in his approval over his presidency, according to Gallup. Trump’s seems almost impervious to change, no matter the news.
People either love Trump or hate him. Impeachment will most likely not change that any more than Trump seeing fine people among Nazis or locking children in cages.
Furthermore, Clinton jumped 10 points, from 63 percent 73 percent, just after the House voted to impeach him. But, five month later, those gains had vanished and then some. His approval rating sank to 53 percent.
I’m tired of all the fear and trepidation.
Senate Republicans are worried about getting on the wrong side of the Republican base.
Mitt Romney wrote in a statement on Friday, “I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President.”
But, will that sickness give birth to action? No, if the last two years is our guide. This is the strongest statement among Republican senators, but it is as toothless as a baby’s mouth. This admonition is idle.
House Democrats, at least the leadership, are afraid of looking like they have a blood lust and inadvertently increasing Trump’s chances of re-election.
Folks, this is not the 1990s. Until 1996, CNN was the only cable news network. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram didn’t exist. Google wasn’t founded until 1998. Cellphones were in their infancy, and few people had them.
Furthermore, the massive — and growing — amount of campaign spending will drown out anything that happened months prior.
In 1996, Clinton raised $42 million for his re-election bid; in 2012, Obama raised a billion for his.
And finally, there was no President Trump in the 1990s producing a head-scratching number of headlines each day. Trump can’t ride a victory nor will he be crestfallen in defeat. There would likely be untold new outrages even after an impeachment.
As for me, I’m afraid of lawlessness and the horrible precedent it would set if Congress does nothing.
On Friday, Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on Twitter that “the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.”
In another tweet she explained:
“To ignore a President’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways.”
I worry that inaction enshrines that idea that the American president is above America’s laws. I worry that silent acquiescence bends our democracy toward monarchy, or dictatorship.
As Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, “In America the law is king.” He continued: “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
Who will we let be king in this country, the president or the law?"
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Western Maryland Scenic Railraod 2-8-0 No.734 Departs the Depot
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Strasburg Railroad 2-10-0 No.90; the Locomotive Is Ex-Great Western
Sunrise At Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron, Ardea Herodias, in Flight over the Occoquan River
Tall Grasses Growing Up to the Door and Windows of a Building
Fall Leaves Peek Through the Morning Fog on the Occoquan River, Near the Potomac River
Lava Flows from a Massive Eruption of Nyamuragira Volcano, from the Kimanura Vent
A Red-eared Slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, on the move.
An Immature Cooper's Hawk, Accipiter Cooperii, Perches on a Branch at Sunset
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A Burrowing Owl, Athene Cunicularia, Near its Burrow
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An Osprey, Pandion Haliaetus, in Flight with a Fish in its Talons
A Juvenile Osprey on a Nest at Sunset on the Occoquan River in Northern Virginia
A Pair of Ospreys, Pandion Haliaetus, Perched on the Branch of a Tree
Juvenile Ospreys on a Nest at Sunset on the Occoquan River in Northern Virginia
An Osprey Perches on a Tree Branch Along the Occoquan River in Northern Virginia
Silhouette of Birds Perched on the Branches of a Dead Tree Above the Occoquan River
An Osprey, Pandion Haliaetus in a Tree with a Fish Along the Occoquan River
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Recaps of key Week 3 high school football games
We're at these games: Washington at Arcadia, Skyline at Desert Ridge, Notre Dame Prep at Gilbert, Mountain Ridge at Westview, Desert Mountain at Betty Fairfax, Ironwood at Cactus, Independence at Glendale, McClintock at Tempe.
Recaps of key Week 3 high school football games We're at these games: Washington at Arcadia, Skyline at Desert Ridge, Notre Dame Prep at Gilbert, Mountain Ridge at Westview, Desert Mountain at Betty Fairfax, Ironwood at Cactus, Independence at Glendale, McClintock at Tempe. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://azc.cc/2LFML3r
The Republic Published 10:55 p.m. MT Aug. 31, 2018 | Updated 1:49 p.m. MT Sept. 1, 2018
Photos: Week 3 high school football
Liberty takes the field before their game against Sunrise Mountain on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Cactus High School's Matthew Herrera enters the field before their game with Ironwood at Cactus High School in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Darryl Webb
Liberty fans celebrate after the game-winning touchdown against Sunrise Mountain in the 4th quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Centennial's Derek Jodarski (40) leads the team onto the field to play Bishop Gorman during a game at Centennial High School in Peoria, Ariz. on Aug. 31, 2018. Patrick Breen/The Republic
Sunrise Mountain's Ezekiel Marshall returns a kickoff against Liberty in the 4th quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Centennial's Jonathan Morris throws a pass on the run under pressure from Bishop Gorman during a game at Centennial High School in Peoria, Ariz. on Aug. 31, 2018. Patrick Breen/The Republic
Bishop Gorman's head coach Kenny Sanchez argues with an official during a game against Centennial at Centennial High School in Peoria, Ariz. on Aug. 31, 2018. Patrick Breen/The Republic
Liberty's Jett Kinsch rushes for the game-winning touchdown against Sunrise Mountain in the 4th quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Liberty's Jett Kinsch celebrates after rushing for the game-winning touchdown against Sunrise Mountain in the 4th quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Sunrise Mountain head coach Steve Decker watches the game against Liberty on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Liberty's Jonah Guevara looks to pass against Sunrise Mountain in the 4th quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Sunrise Mountain's Jay Anderson returns a punt against Liberty in the 4th quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Sunrise Mountain's Keegan Freid rushes for a touchdown against Liberty in the 4th quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Liberty's Jett Kinsch celebrates after rushing for a touchdown against Sunrise Mountain in the 3rd quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Liberty's Jett Kinsch rushes for a touchdown against Sunrise Mountain in the 3rd quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Liberty's Jett Kinsch rushes against Sunrise Mountain in the 3rd quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Bishop Gorman's Micah Bowens (1) scrambles away from Centennial's Derek Jodarski (40) during a game at Centennial High School in Peoria, Ariz. on Aug. 31, 2018. Patrick Breen/The Republic
Bishop Gorman's Treven Ma'ae (8) tackles Centennial's Tawee Walker (7) during a game at Centennial High School in Peoria, Ariz. on Aug. 31, 2018. Patrick Breen/The Republic
Centennial fans cheer on their team at kickoff against Bishop Gorman at Centennial High School in Peoria, Ariz. on Aug. 31, 2018. Patrick Breen/The Republic
Centennial's Tawee Walker (7) breaks away from Bishop Gorman during a game at Centennial High School in Peoria, Ariz. on Aug. 31, 2018. Patrick Breen/The Republic
Glendale players pose for a school photographer after winning the Pride Cup over Independence Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Glendale head coach Rob York watches his team against Independence in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Glendale's Colby Derosier gets stuffed by the Independence defense during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Glendale players celebrate winning the Pride Cup over Independence in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Glendale's Andre Neal pushes away from Independence's Samuel Espindola during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Independence's Brandon Allison spins out of a tackle during their game against Glendale in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Independence quarterback Ryan Kelly slips past the referee and a Glendale player during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Independence head coach Santiago Maldonado III talks to his team during their game with Glendale in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Independence quarterback Ryan Kelly runs into the referee during their game against Glendale in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Independence quarterback Ryan Kelly looks for a receiver during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Glendale's Kevin Daniels scores a touchdown against Independence during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Glendale's Tj Owens finds running room against Independence during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Glendale's Kevin Daniels slip past two would be tacklers from Independence during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Liberty's Jett Kinsch rushes for a touchdown against Sunrise Mountain in the 2nd quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Head coach George Prelock of the Notre Dame Prep Saints (L) and head coach Derek Zellner of the Gilbert Tigers (R) shake hands following the game at Gilbert High School on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Head coach Derek Zellner of the Gilbert Tigers stands during the game against the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Head coach Derek Zellner of the Gilbert Tigers speaks to Junior defensive lineman Jordan Mendez (58) during the game against the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Senior wide receiver Zack Gray (9) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints scores a touchdown against the Gilbert Tigers at Gilbert High School on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
The Gilbert Tigers react to a 47-0 deficit against the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Senior wide receiver Zack Gray (9) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints attempts a catch against the Gilbert Tigers at Gilbert High School on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Cactus' Anthony Flores (6) celebrates his touchdown with teammate Garrett Monroe (3) during their game against Ironwood in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Ironwood head coach Ian Curtis cheers on his team after a touchdown against Cactus during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb Darryl Webb
Sunrise Mountain's Keegan Freid rushes against Libery in the 2nd quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Sunrise Mountain's Jay Anderson runs after a catch against Liberty in the 2nd quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Sunrise Mountain's Keegan Freid throws against Libery in the 1st quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Sunrise Mountain's Drake Flores scores a touchdown reception against Liberty in the 2nd quarter on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz. #azhsfb Sean Logan/The Republic
Ironwood's Alex Panduro finds running room against Cactus during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Darryl Webb
Senior wide receiver Zack Gray (9) and senior tight end Luke Roberts (25) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints celebrate a touchdown against the Gilbert Tigers at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Junior wide receiver Tyler Hironaka (2) of the Gilbert Tigers runs the ball against the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Junior running back Briggs Dupree (5) of the Gilbert Tigers attempts a catch against junior defensive back Connor Butt (3) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Notre Dame Prep fans during the game against the Gilbert Tigers at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Senior wide receiver Zack Gray (9) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints runs the ball in for a touchdown against the Gilbert Tigers at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Junior quarterback Will Plummer (15) of the Gilbert Tigers throws a pass against the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Senior quarterback Jake Farrell (12) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints throws a pass against the Gilbert Tigers at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Junior quarterback Will Plummer (15) of the Gilbert Tigers throws the ball against the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Senior wide receiver Alex Klassen (21) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints runs the ball for a touchdown against the Gilbert Tigers at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Senior wide receiver Anthony Elzy (9) of the Gilbert Tigers attempts a catch against junior defensive back Ethan Chantler (32) of the Notre Dame Prep Saints at Gilbert High School on Friday, August 31, 2018 in Gilbert, Arizona. Billy Hardiman/Special for The Republic
Ironwood's Anthony Zavala gets the facemask of Cactus' Bryce Crawford during their game at Cactus High School in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Darryl Webb
Ironwood's Devante Wimbish slips the tackle of Cactus' Robert Lipsey lll during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Darryl Webb
Ironwood's Alex Panduro (17) gets a pat on the head from teammate Jesus Reyna (70) after scoring a touchdown against Cactus during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Darryl Webb
The Cactus High School Color Guard lineup before their game with Ironwood at Cactus High School in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Darryl Webb
Arcadia hosted Washington in high school football on Aug. 31, 2018. Kynan Marlin/The Republic
Rivals Tempe and McClintock play on Aug. 31 Jacob Rudner
Glendale's Kevin Daniels slip past two would be tacklers from Independence during their game in Glendale Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. #azhsfb(Photo: Darryl Webb)
The Republic's Week 3 Game of the Week featured Peoria Centennial playing host to Las Vegas Bishop Gorman. Richard Obert has complete coverage of that game.
Katherine Fitzgerald was at another huge game this week, as 6A Peoria Sunrise Mountain battled 5A Peoria Liberty in a cross-sectional matchup.
Tell us who should be a Boys or Girls Athlete of the Week or an Academic All-Star
Other games we're following this week:
Westview shuts out Mountain Ridge
by Brittany Bowyer
Avondale Westview was able to shut out Glendale Mountain Ridge 23-0 at home on Friday to secure its first win of the season.
The Knights made it look easy, with a strong defensive front that completely paralyzed the Mountain Lions.
Gehrts touts his defense in shutout-win over Mountain Ridge. Brittany Bowyer, Special to azcsports
The Knights now are 1-1, while the Mountain Lions now are off to an 0-3 start, with two blow out losses. Despite shutting out Mountain Ridge, Westview head coach Nick Gehrts said he still was not pleased with the offensive performance and his team has a lot to work on.
Highlight of the game
The Knights dominated the game, but a play in the first quarter really set the tone. Westview went for it on a fourth-and-one play and was able to convert. The Knights capitalized on that with a pass to wide receiver Nathan Young for a touchdown. The extra point attempt put the Knights up 7-0, which kept them rolling for the rest of the night.
Quote of the game
Gehrts: "Defensively I thought played really well tonight. But again, there’s things they’ve gotta clean up on that side of the ball, and we’ve gotta get a lot better on offense, too.”
Mountain Ridge will travel to Laveen Cesar Chavez looking for their first victory of the season, while Westview travels to Alhambra looking to build off of the momentum.
Glendale routes Independence in rivalry game
by Jake Goodrick
The Glendale Cardinals defeated the Independence Patriots in a 47-14 route to claim this year’s rivalry trophy between the two schools, The Pride Cup.
“It’s not a rivalry like it used to be 10-15 years ago when there was nastiness,” Glendale Head Coach Rob York said. “It’s more of a good camaraderie and a good sportsmanship rivalry.”
“Our defensive kids, they play hard, they kept us in in the beginning of the game when we started off slow offensively,” York added. “They were tired but they fought through it and the defense did a great job.”
York credits defense for holding on for the Glendale offense to catch up. Arizona Republic
Glendale (2-0) set the tone defensively, holding Independence (0-2) scoreless in the second and third quarters, while its offense eventually got going behind junior Kevin Daniels, opening up a lead too big for Independence to overcome.
Standout performers
Glendale RB Kevin Daniels: Scored four first-half touchdowns and finished with five in all. “He’s definitely a catalyst for us. When he gets it going the rest of the team starts getting behind him and gets going,” York said about Glendale running back Daniels. “He’s a horse, and we’re going to work the crap out of him all year.”
Glendale DB Ray Hardwick: Returned an interception for a touchdown in the first quarter, the first score of the game.
“I want to go 10-0. Go to the playoffs, hopefully win. That’s all I want,” Daniels said on his expectations for the season.
Glendale faces the Thunderbird Chiefs on the road next Friday, while Independence plays the Sierra Linda Bulldogs at home next Friday. Both games are scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m.
Notre Dame Prep devours Gilbert
by Damian Adams
The Notre Dame Prep Saints are now 3-0 after easily defeating the Gilbert Tigers 47-0 on Friday in Gilbert.
Notre Dame started off the game on a bad note as senior quarterback Jack Farrell threw an interception to Ray Vega on the first play from scrimmage.
Unfortunately for Gilbert that was their lone highlight of the evening as Farrell would bounce back from the interception to throw five touchdowns.
Notre Dame's defense also suffocated Gilbert's offense the entire night.
In the first quarter with 3:36 remaining on the clock, Notre Dame was up 6-0.
The Saints kicked the ball off to Gilbert but Notre Dame forced a fumble and recovered it.
The next play was a 25-yard touchdown pass from Farrell, a sequence that summed up Notre Dame's dominance in the game.
Notre Dame is home next week as the will host the Apollo Hawks (1-2). Gilbert (2-1) will be going on the road to face the Goldwater Bulldogs.
Both games kick off at 7 p.m.
Cactus offense picks up momentum in rout of Ironwood
by Jennifer Jimenez
Joseph Ortiz earned his first home win as Glendale Cactus head coach on Friday, beating Glendale Ironwood 43-14.
“I’ve heard about all the hype at games here with the student section, band and atmosphere and it lived up to it. I’m just happy to be a part of it,” coach Ortiz said.
Cactus junior running back Anthony Flores put his team on the board in the first quarter with a 6-yard run.
Meanwhile, Ironwood’s first score came on a 20-yard run by Elijah Sanders, after a seven-play, 75-yard scoring drive.
Nicc Quinones finished the game with two interceptions off Ironwood quarterback Devante Wimbish and scored a rushing touchdown.
Standout performer
Anthony Flores scored five touchdowns, including a 61-yard run.
“I have to give credit to my o-line and quarterback. Once we knew we could run on this team, we started to build confidence in each other.”
Flores said their defense came up with big stops and those two turnovers showed how good they are.
Cactus junior running back Anthony Flores gives the credit to his offensive line play. Jennifer Jimenez, Special for the Republic
“We struggled mightily this game. To be up 22-7 at the half, we just struggled on offense, but that’s a testament to how good we can be and we got a little better in the second half,” Ortiz said. “There were so many execution mistakes and mental errors we had and its encouraging this we still scored 43 points, but still have a lot to correct on offense.”
Cactus (2-0) will travel to Estrella Foothills (1-2) for a 7 p.m. kickoff, while Ironwood (1-1) will host Camelback (0-3). Both games are on Friday.
Editor's note: More recaps will be posted here, so keep checking back for more.
Desert Ridge edges out Mesa rival Skyline
by Will Tyrrell
Mesa Desert Ridge kicker Brock Edwards hit a 40-yard field goal with just over a minute to go in the fourth quarter clinching the 17-14 win over rival Mesa Skyline.
Edwards missed a long field goal early in the game that would have put the Jaguars up 17-0.
After the missed field goal and a trick play on fourth-and-seven, Skyline stormed back to tie it at 14 in the fourth.
Desert Ridge head coach Jeremy Hathcock talks about the importance of Mike Thompson and what his legacy leaves. Arizona Republic
On a third and very long Desert Ridge ran a trick play, one that they never practiced before, to help set up the game-winning field goal.
Desert Ridge quarterback Austin Kolb threw a backward pass to running back Lucas Wright, who hit wide receiver Andrew Chino for a 35 yard gain to set the Jaguars up inside of Skyline's 30.
"We just drew up a play in the sand and that worked," Desert Ridge head coach Jeremy Hathcock said.
In memory of Coach Thompson
Prior to the game, Desert Ridge honored late assistant coach Mike Thompson, who passed away this past May. He was a huge figure in the Desert Ridge football program as well as the Pop Warner leagues in the East Valley.
Stats of the game
There was a dramatic swing from both offenses from the first half to the second half.
In the first half Desert Ridge dominated, running 29 plays for 171 yards; 24 of those plays were runs. Skyline finished the first half with 16 total plays with a total of two yards.
In the second half Desert Ridge ran only 17 plays for a total of 85 yards. Skyline, however, had 25 total plays for 101 yards.
"I said nothing changes," what Hathcock told Edwards before he went out and kicked the game-winning field goal.
Desert Ridge welcomes Peoria Liberty. Skyline has a home game against Gilbert Highland. Both games are set for 7 p.m.
Arcadia continues its win streak in shootout against Washington
by Kynan Marlin
Phoenix Arcadia’s coach Kerry Taylor has already led the team to more victories - three- in his first year than the school had in the previous two seasons combined (2-18).
Running back Paxton Earl and quarterback Kadin Beler led the Titans (3-0) to a 38-30 victory. Last season the team only scored 29 points in the entire season, but the offensive is looking sharp under Taylor.
Arcadia's Paxton Earl throws 50-yard touchdown pass to Noah Richardson on flea flicker. Kynan Marlin, azcentral sports
However, the team wasn’t too pleased that it only scored eight points in the second half while up 18 points to Phoenix Washington (1-1).
“Our game tonight was very sloppy, I’m not overly excited with how we played, particularly in the second half,” Taylor said. “I don’t think we finished the game as well as we should have, so we got to get back to work Monday and get this figured out, so we can hopefully get a fourth win.”
Kadin Beler tore apart the defense as he had two passing touchdowns in the first half and one two-yard rushing touchdown against Washington.
As Arcadia running back Earl was ran the ball down Washington’s throat for the first touchdown of the game, nobody was expecting him to come out and throw a long pass against the defense.
“We got they win but I’m not satisfied because i know what this team can do a lot bigger things and do better.” -@TitanFootballAZ QB @kbeler23pic.twitter.com/9lJ2wQdWsU
— Kynan Marlin (@kynan_marlin) September 1, 2018
Except, that’s exactly what he did after being given the ball on a flea flicker. Earl ended up throwing a 50-yard touchdown Noah Richardson in the second quarter.
“We got the win but I’m not satisfied because I know what this team can do a lot bigger things and do better,” Beler said.
Next week Arcadia will stay at home as they host Phoenix St. Mary’s. Washington will travel to Phoenix Moon Valley as they look to bounce back from the loss. Both games are on Friday at 7 p.m.
McClintock tops rival Tempe
by Jacob Rudner
From start to finish, Tempe McClintock was in charge of their rivalry at host Tempe en route to a 21-7 victory.
The Chargers played a sound brand of football, working hard on both offense and defense. The Buffaloes, on the other hand, struggled to find their way and suffered their first loss of the season as a result.
Offensively, McClintock wide receiver Bryce Tate had two receiving touchdowns, highlighted by a 45-yard bomb from quarterback Xavier Benitez.
On defense, the Chargers worked to make huge stops including two fourth-quarter interceptions.
McClintock head coach Corbin Smith talked very highly of his stout defense.
“We told them all week to bend but not break, meaning we’ll probably give up some yards but don’t let them in the end zone. They did that. We had a huge stop on the one and a couple late interceptions” Smith said.
For Tempe, defensive star Sione Tonga’uiha made a few huge stops and made his presence felt all over the field. The Chargers stopped running the ball on his side of the field after halftime. Offensively, BJ Prince had the team’s only score.
“There was no single player of the game. It was the coaches the players, honestly, everyone was great tonight and I’m very happy” Smith said.
Tempe travels to Flagstaff, coming off a 28-7 win against Dysart, while Tempe will look to get back in the wins column.
Up next for McClintock is Phoenix Central
Fairfax tops Desert Mountain in a shootout
by Eric Norwood Jr.
Anthodius Ashley keyed the Laveen Betty H. Fairfax run game as they blew past Scottsdale Desert Mountain 62-49 in a shootout on Friday night in Laveen.
The two sides combined for 70 points in the first half, which was highlighted with plenty of big plays. Both sides entered with no wins, but the Stampede pulled out the victory at home thanks to over 400 rushing yards.
Ashley put up 235 rushing yards on 33 carries and six touchdowns for Fairfax, wearing down the Wolves defense.Scottsdale Desert Mountain quarterback Kedon Slovis passed for three touchdowns and ran for another in the loss.
Fairfax coach Dylan Winemiller after win over Desert Mountain Eric Norwood, Jr., Special for the Republic
With the Stampede clinging to a one touchdown lead late in the first halt, Ashley gashed for Wolves for a 27-yard touchdown that made it a two-possession game. Fairfax led 42-28 after that score and never looked back in a high-scoring affair.
“He’s the man. He’s our man. We’re proud of him he comes to work every day and he’s fun to watch," Fairfax head coach Dylan Winemiller on running back Anthodius Ashley.
Fairfax (1-2) is back at home next Friday against Glendale Kellis. Desert Mountain slips to 0-and-3 and will try to get its first win next week at home versus Scottsdale Saguaro.
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Is 'The Real Housewives of New York City' getting a facelift?
By By Becky Quinn
Sep 16, 2011 | 12:39 PM
Has Bravo finally had enough of "The Real Housewives of New York City's" diva antics and outrageous outbursts? According to multiple sources, four of the housewives — Cindy Barshop, Alex McCord, Kelly Bensimon and Jill Zarin — will not be returning for the show's fifth season.
For anyone who watched this past season, especially the reunion specials, it was plain to see tensions were high and the relationships between some of the women had reached a point of no return. The women had even divided into their own set of catty cliques- "The Brunettes" vs. "The Blondes." Zarin, who is notoriously the most vocal of the cast, seemed to be captain of Team Brunette, with Cindy, Kelly and Luann serving as her minions, and launched multiple verbal attacks against the Blondes.
Ramona, Sonja and Alex made several futile attempts to defend themselves against Team Brunette with some screeching of their own, but Jill's squawks and Kelly's unsuccessful attempts to be the voice of reason tuned Team Blonde out. At one point, reunion host and Bravo exec Andy Cohen had to yell at the women like a kindergarten teacher to take turns speaking. There has been no report that this behavior had anything to do with Bravo's casting decisions, but perhaps some new blood will ground these women and deflate the swollen egos this show has cultivated.
Despite the rumors, sources from Bravo say no final casting decisions have been made. Zarin's rep told Us Weekly, "The truth is that Jill is still in discussions with Bravo for season 5 and hasn't made a final decision about returning to the show," while Barshop tells HuffPost Celeb, "Nothing is 100 [percent] decided yet, it could go either way." McCord and Bensimon have released similar statements, maintaining that nothing is certain. In a statement on her and husband Simon van Kempen's Facebook, McCord says, "Simon & I are still under consideration for season 5 & we'll know one way or another very soon. I have to laugh at all the purported 'insiders' giving 'off the record' quotes. Some of the things I've read are frankly just absurd." However, in an interview with New York Live, Countess Luann de Lesseps reveals, "Apparently there are 3 or 4 women being traded in and out."
If these rumors are true, the series will be left with recording artist and author de Lesseps, entrepreneur and pinot grigio enthusiast Ramona Singer, and sweet and sassy Sonja Morgan, but can these three women carry the show? Although de Lesseps has always been the most logical of the housewives, graciously providing the other women with helpful etiquette tips (which you can read more about in her book Class with the Countess), she may be lost without her BFFs Jill and Kelly, especially since Ramonja (the nickname for the dynamic duo of Ramona and Sonja) will still be intact. Jill's strong opinions and Jewish chutzpa and Kelly's endless supply of sweets and nonsensical commentary will be missed, but whether or not anyone will miss Alex's newfound confidence and blind loyalty to her husband is still to be determined.
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Lutherville church's Black Lives Matter sign is repeatedly vandalized
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This sign was vandalized last November on the property of the Towson Unitarian Universalist Church in Luthervillle. ((Rachael Pacella/Capital Gazette))
A Lutherville church says that a series of "Black Lives Matter" signs it has erected have been stolen or vandalized in the past year, and it has issued on invitation to the community to discuss its reasons for posting the banners .
Members of Towson Unitarian Universalist Church first erected a sign last October to show support for the sentiment and the national movement behind it, according to the Rev. Clare Petersberger, the church's leader.
Since then, nine versions of the sign have been torn and defaced or stolen from the property.
The first sign, which cost the church about $250, was torn down and its frame destroyed five days after it was erected last fall. It consisted of three 4-foot-by-2-foot banners, each containing one word of the phrase.
The congregation bought cheaper $8 yard signs to provide a temporary replacement, according to Petersberger, but those signs were also vandalized when on the night of Nov. 8-9, someone covered the word "black" on the temporary signs with white spray paint.
The church has continued to replace the signs since.
Baltimore County police installed security cameras for six weeks in January and February to catch who was stealing and vandalizing the signs but the investigation did not produce a suspect, according to police spokesman Cpl. Shawn Vinson.
Police continue to investigate the destruction of subsequent signs, Vinson said.
Three churches in the Annapolis area, which all put up signs supporting the movement, have seen their signs either stolen or defaced since 2015, according to news reports.
The church hung its 10th "Black Lives Matter" sign Oct. 7 and rededicated itself to the message during services the following Sunday, Petersberger said.
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The church also announced an open invitation to members of the community who would like to learn more about its decision to display the banner. Members will host a discussion from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 12 at the church, 1710 Dulaney Valley Road.
"One of the ones taken in February ... had underneath it, 'Join us for the Conversation.' That's what we'd like to do — invite people to come for a conversation going forward," Petersberger said.
The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2012 after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, according to the group's website.
Its members and supporters have received criticism for being "anti-police," but the church does not see it that way and has appreciated the support of the Baltimore County Police Department throughout its investigation, Petersberger said.
Towson congregation's Black Lives Matter sign repeatedly vandalized
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B&G V60 VHF is perfect addition to mid-level sailboats
New V60 VHF radio has internal GPS, support for wireless handset and advanced features
Southampton, UK - B&G®, the world’s leading sailing navigation and instrument specialist, announced today the release of its V60 mid-level VHF radio. Designed as a replacement for the V50 , the B&G V60 includes a large, intuitive interface, built-in AIS receiver, a front mountable mechanical design for easy installation and optional wireless handsets with inductive charging.
With its integrated GPS receiver, the V60 now has four ways to ensure GPS reliability in the event of an emergency. A GPS antenna in the face of the radio is perfect for open-air installations and the SMA connector can be coupled with a GPS-500 antenna. NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000 connections allow the user to get GPS data from a chartplotter or from another antenna that’s already in the system.
The B&G V60 also answers the call for increased situational awareness on the water. The built-in dual channel AIS receiver monitors the position of nearby AIS-equipped vessels to assist in collision avoidance in crowded waterways. The information is clearly viewable on the V60’s built-in screen or can be overlaid on top of a chart or radar through a compatible multifunction display. Share location details and keep track of up to five friends using Track Buddy, which requests the location of another VHF radio when the MMSI is entered into the VHF contact list.
Provided with the B&G V60 is the option to pair up to two wireless handsets so the radio can be taken anywhere onboard. The H60 handset was designed as an intuitive portable companion to the V60 and each handset duplicates the radio’s display and controls, enabling remote access to all key functions. The V60 doubles as a handy on-board intercom as a result of having multiple stations.
A number of other features have been added including Navigation mode, which displays speed and course, and Man Overboard (MOB) function, which drops a waypoint in the current location and provides distance and steering instructions to retrieve a person in the water. The waypoint is also transmitted over NMEA 2000 to the rest of the network.
The B&G V60 is simple to install with a low profile front mount design that matches perfectly with B&G MFD’s. A start-up wizard, easy channel scan and favorites option enhance the user-friendly functionality of the large, clear white dot matrix LCD screen. The remote mountable fist mic can be connected to the front or rear of the radio and optional extension cable allows the radio and mic to be mounted separately. This offers a simple, cost-effective solution without cable clutter.
The B&G V60 Radio is available November 2018 and priced at $619.00.
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CJEU - Case C-473/16, F
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Credibility assessment, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Persecution Grounds/Reasons, Sexual orientation
National authorities can order experts’ reports with the purpose of assisting in the assessment of the facts and circumstances relating to a declared sexual orientation of an applicant, provided that the procedures for these reports are consistent with fundamental rights. However, the examining authority, courts or tribunal must not base their decision solely on the conclusions of an expert’s report and are not bound by these conclusions when assessing the applicant’s statements relating to his or her sexual orientation.
Moreover, national...
UK - R (FR and KL (Albania)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, 23 June 2016
Country of Applicant: Albania
Keywords: Best interest of the child, Child Specific Considerations, Country of origin information, Credibility assessment, Internal protection, Manifestly unfounded application, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Non-state actors/agents of persecution, Personal circumstances of applicant, Protection, Real risk, Refugee Status, Safe country of origin, Vulnerable person, Well-founded fear
This case dealt with the issue of whether the Secretary of State’s certification of the asylum claims of the two independent applicants as “clearly unfounded” was flawed on public law grounds, and the important difference between a decision on refugee status itself and a decision on a claim being “clearly unfounded”.
Austria – Federal Administrative Court, 24. August 2015, W149 1433213-1/29E
Country of Decision: Austria
Keywords: Actor of persecution or serious harm, Assessment of facts and circumstances, Country of origin information, Credibility assessment, Individual assessment, Internal protection, Legal assistance / Legal representation / Legal aid, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Non-state actors/agents of persecution, Previous persecution, Real risk, Refugee Status, Subsidiary Protection, Well-founded fear
If an appellant provides substantiated reasons that call into question the consideration of evidence in the administrative proceedings, the facts cannot be regarded as “well established on basis of the records in combination with the complaint”. Thus, an oral hearing has to be held. The same applies if there is a necessity to consider up-to-date country of origin information as well as an up-to-date medical report due to the long duration of the judicial proceedings.
In the opinion of the court, the absence of a legal representative in the oral hearing, in spite of an explicit...
Ireland - J.G. (Ethiopia) v Refugee Appeals Tribunal, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Attorney General Ireland, 2015 No. 1175 JR
Country of Applicant: Ethiopia
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Country of origin information, Credibility assessment, Individual assessment, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Obligation to give reasons, Procedural guarantees, Refugee Status
The applicant challenged by way of judicial review the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal (hereinafter RAT) (adverse credibility findings) on the grounds that it failed to have reasonable regard to the documents submitted. The Court held that the Tribunal failed to provide reasons rejecting a medico-legal report and further held that the Tribunal’s analysis of documentary evidence supportive of ethnicity submitted was wrong in fact. The Court quashed the decision of the Tribunal.
Poland - Regional Administrative Court in Warsaw, 7 March 2013, V SA/Wa 910/12
Country of Applicant: Cameroon
Keywords: Actor of persecution or serious harm, Duty of applicant, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Refugee Status, Sexual orientation
It is the duty of the Applicant to show that he has been persecuted or is at serious risk of persecution. He should describe that persecution and present it to the fullest extent possible, showing how it relates to him in particular. Lack of acceptance by one’s family, social ostracism, and the negative perception of people of a different sexual orientation do not constitute grounds for according refugee status. However, given that the foreigner’s illness (AIDS) is at a very advanced stage and that he is undergoing treatment for epilepsy, it is necessary to consider whether deportation to...
Poland - Polish Council for Refugees, 12 March 2012, RdU-495-2/S/11
Country of Applicant: Uganda
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Relevant Facts, Sexual orientation, Standard of proof
The authorities of first and second instance—the Head of the Office for Foreigners and the Polish Council for Refugees—refused to grant refugee status or other forms of protection to an applicant from Uganda who had applied for refugee status because of his sexual orientation. They made the same decisions but on fundamentally different grounds and factual findings. The first instance authority found that the applicant was homosexual but that the information about the country of origin indicated that his fear was not well-founded. The second instance authority found that homosexuals are...
Hungary - Metropolitan Court, 15 October 2009, I.A.Z. v. Office of Immigration and Nationality, 21.K.31555/2009/6
Country of Decision: Hungary
Keywords: Persecution Grounds/Reasons, Race, Nationality, Membership of a particular social group, Gender Based Persecution, Humanitarian considerations, Internal protection, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports
The decision of the asylum authority was annulled on the basis that there was insufficient evidence that an internal protection alternative existed.
ECtHR - T.I. v. The United Kingdom, Application No. 43844/98, Decision as to the Admissibility, 7 March 2000
Country of Applicant: Sri Lanka
Keywords: Credibility assessment, Effective remedy (right to), Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manifestly unfounded application, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Personal circumstances of applicant, Procedural guarantees, Protection, Real risk, Refugee Status, Torture
The case involved a Sri Lankan asylum seeker whose application was rejected in Germany, and upon seeking asylum in the UK, was rejected on the basis of the Dublin Convention and that his application corresponded to Germany. The Court found no breach of a Convention obligation from the UK by its decision to remove him to Germany.
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Roswell Real Estate
Roswell Homes for Sale
Real Estate offerings in Roswell are diverse. Atlanta luxury homes along both Riverside Drive and Azalea Drive are some of the most beautiful homes anywhere in the Atlanta area. Golf country clubs like Horseshoe Bend and Willow Springs are well established and offer fantastic country club lifestyles. Many other swim/tennis neighborhoods, first time homebuyer subdivisions and townhomes can be found in Roswell at an excellent value.
From downtown, Roswell is located approximately 20 miles north (on the northern banks of the Chattahoochee River) just on the outskirts of Atlanta.
For more information on available homes for sale in Roswell contact Dillard & Company at info@dillardandcompany.com or call us at 404-974-4478.
About Roswell
Gold was discovered in the northern part of Georgia in 1828 which created a flux of settlers to relocate to the area including Roswell King of Darien, Georgia. Traveling via horseback, Mr. King proceeded along the Chattahoochee River and soon discovered vast natural resources that he believed would be perfect for a mill.
In 1839, Roswell King incorporated The Roswell Manufacturing Company. This cotton mill became extremely successful and continued to grow. Mr. King soon began to present investment opportunities to his colleagues and shortly thereafter a community was founded.
Roswell King’s wife, passed away before she could relocate from Darien, Georgia. She never had the opportunity to visit the town that was named after her husband.
In the past 15 years Roswell has developed into a thriving city of approximately 84,000. Roswell residents boast that with this growth they have managed to hold onto the small-town atmosphere where a strong sense of family and community still dominates.
Sites you will want to experience:
Chattahoochee River & Trail System – Includes 16 miles of glorious trails which wind throughout the city.
Bulloch Hall – This mansion was built in 1840 by one of the first settlers in Roswell, Mayor James Stephens Bulloch. On December 22, 1853 Mr. Bulloch’s daughter, Mittie, married Theodore Roosevelt. They soon became the proud parents of our 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Barrington Hall – This historic house museum was the home of Barrington King- Roswell King’s (whom the city was named after) son.
Smith Plantation Home – Located in Historic Roswell this 1840’s home still includes the original inside furnishings and outbuildings.
Roswell Annual Events Festivals:
Roswell Roots – This festival of black history and culture takes place in February.
Roswell Criterium Bike Race – A professional bicycle race in Roswell’s Historic District takes place in May.
Colors Festival of Arts – A great opportunity for artists and craftsmen takes place in May.
Memorial Day Ceremony – Always held on Memorial Day in the Memorial Garden of Roswell City Hall at the Faces of War Memorial Site.
The Roswell Magnolia Storytelling Festival – Storytellers and interpreters all throughout the Southeast assemble in Roswell, to share stories passed from one generation to the next. Takes place in June.
Roswell’s 4th of July Fireworks Extravaganza – Celebrate the 4th at Roswell High School. Enjoy the fireworks and musical entertainment- fun for all ages!
The Roswell Arts Festival – Is open to all artists and is held on the town square. Takes place in September.
The Roswell Woman – A health, beauty and lifestyle expo. Takes place in October.
A Taste of Roswell – Enjoy the culinary talents of many Roswell Restaurants. Takes place in October.
Roswell Heritage Music Festival -Features Bluegrass and Old Time Bands. Takes place in October.
Christmas In Roswell – Experience the holiday season in Historic Roswell. Many of the historic homes will be seasonally adorned and open for tours to the general public. Take the opportunity to partake in a High Tea ceremony or enjoy the winter lighting of Town Square
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With more Cesar Awards to her name than any other French actor and a host of Academy Award nominations, Isabelle Adjani (Possession, Nosferatu the Vampyre) is perhaps the most celebrated French screen star of all time. In 1983 she hit a career defining high, in Jean Becker’s much-lauded crime classic One Deadly Summer (L’Été meurtrier), a potent blend of neo-noir and erotic thriller that picked up four Cesar Awards including Best Actress for Adjani.
Adjani plays Elle, a provocative nineteen-year-old who returns home to rural Provence with her mother and sick father. Her arrival turns heads in the sleepy village where the male inhabitants are mesmerised by her looks. She soon finds a suitor in the naive Pin-Pon (Alain Souchon, Agnès Varda’s Jane B. par Agnès V.), moving into his mother’s house with him but soon a dark secret from her past emerges as the film reaches its shattering conclusion.
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Special Comfort Care Contract
The technicians and staff at Atteberry & Marshall Heating & Air are a dedicated group of individuals, working together as a team to ensure quality work and customer satisfaction.
Starting 2018
Our team is always changing and growing. 2018 will be no exception.
Sara has been with Dad (Ed) and Atteberry and Marshall for over ten years now. And Dad is ready to be retired. Our customers may have noticed Ed has been stepping back not doing as much over the last four years and that is because Sara will be purchasing the business.
Ed’s thirty years’ experience can never be replaced and his commitment to customer satisfaction. As a team, Atteberry and Marshall will be stepping up to fill the hole he will leave here. But don’t worry he will be still here for consult as we need him.
We may hit a few bumps in the road as we make the transition, but for all of our customers we hope the transition is as smooth as possible.
Ed Marshall
Tom Lane
Lead Service Tech / Sales
Tom is married is married to Jessi for over twenty years with two boys and lives in Toledo. Recently moving to the family farmland he has started raising chickens for their farm fresh eggs. None of the Lane chickens ever end up in a pot of boiling water, as his wife and kids have given them all names and made them part of their family. Tom started with A & M as an installer and worked his way up to his present position. Tom is our Lead Technician and is our Training Coordinator. He has been with A&M since early 2008. He has since absorbed knowledge like a sponge by attending GeoComfort Service and Application School and has completed over 70 hours of E-Learning courses. Tom has also completed his NATE (North America Technician of Excellence) certification with three specialties. Getting your NATE certification is about as good it gets and we are very proud of him. Tom has become a favorite with most customers due to his work ethic and polite nature.
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Mark is Mattoon native and lives with his other half Mary Lou. The have two chocolate labs that run their house. They spend lots of their weekends with Lou's kids and grandkids. Don't be surprised if you go by Mark’s house on Sunday to find him doing all of his favorite things eating Villa pizza and watching Nascar. He will get out of his PJ’s to head to the dirt track every Saturday Night. Mark worked for A & M back in the late 90's and then moved down to Florida. He worked on and off in the HVAC industry while down there doing maintenance for hotel and condo complexes. He then reconnected with Mary Lou and found his way back to Mattoon. He has been with us since 2011. He is EPA certified and is our resident R-22 specialist. He has really done a good job investigating the online HVAC community and brought new ideas to the table that we didn\'t know existed. He also is a qualified Comfort Specialist and can help you with all of your estimates.
Sara Marshall
Office Manager / Sales / Marketing
Sara is the Boss's daughter. She lives in Allenville with her dog, Lucy. She has been with Atteberry & Marshall now for almost 10 years. Sara held a similar position for a large HVAC firm in Indianapolis and brought those skills home to put them to work in the family business. Our customers’ needs and concerns are always first to Sara and that is reflected in the high esteem they have for her.
Mike Upton
Lead Installer
Mike is married to Shari with two children and is a Champaign County native. His new pride and joy is Grayson his grandson. He has lived in Mattoon area for the last 15 years. He spends lots of his free time tinkering with things which have led to small appliance repair shop. Mike is a graduate of Lakeland College with his HVAC Certificate and also attended the Geothermal Applied service and installation classes. As well as passing the electrical certification test for the city of Charleston, he has proven to be a real asset at A & M. Mike's Metal work is what garners the most attention here at the shop. His smooth transitions into existing ductwork are things of beauty. It really takes a lot of patience and practice to make the new furnace fit in the old hole. Mike has been with us since 2011.
Tony Ayers
Tony Ayers, a Charleston Native, has been married to Dana since 2014 and has two children: Dallas, who proudly serves in the Airforce and Ivy, who attends high school. Tony considers himself an avid sports fan. Unfortunately, this leads to much harassment at the shop during football season, because he is a Cowboys fan. Tony also likes to get to the woods and do some hunting and fishing when time permits.
Tony is our newest service technician. He has been with Atteberry and Marshall since 2016. He came to us as a Lakeland Graduate from their HVAC program. He also had been working with another company for a few years as an installer. He has made a great addition to our team bringing fresh ideas. Our customers have really started to get to know him and like him.
Master Installer
Scott Jones has been with his girlfriend Baillie for a while and they have been blessed with twins. Leland and Stella have been a double blessing for the entire family in many ways. Scott has two grown children Carter and Cierra and a teenager, Chase. And Carter has given Scott two grandchildren Journee and Bryndall. As you can imagine this keeps Scott very busy. He also volunteers several hours of time with a social club referred to as the HMWHIL. These guys get together for several civic causes including the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics, St. Jude's bags tournament, and a Poker Run for multiple charities every year.
Scott has been with us since 2014 and is our Master Installer. Scott came to us with an HVAC certificate from Lake Land and a strong construction background. Scott is also a graduate of the Build a Tech Program in Dallas, Texas. With his solid background in construction, Scott can transition to any position here at Atteberry and Marshall while specializing as an installer.
Ryan Cherry
Ryan Cherry from Shelby County has just joined the team in 2017. He is an avid sports fan with no taste, as he routes for the Denver Broncos. He has been married to his wife, Donna since 2002. They have been blessed with teenage twins Madison and Dakota. They have two grown children as well, Nick and Tyler. The twins keep them in busy in sports playing traveling softball and basketball at the high school. Ryan has volunteered as a coach for their softball team and enjoys camping when they can get away.
Ryan has several years in the HVAC business, even running his own business for a while. Ryan has joined our team as an installer but will be filling in as a service tech when necessary. Ryan’s sense of humor keeps us rolling most mornings and we are glad to have him.
Conner Sanders
Conner Sanders from Moultrie County has been added to the install team in 2016. Recently married to Schuyler they have been trying to get their life started. They have two children Jude and Raylen. Starting just as a canine foster family they have now added Gus as a permanent member of their family. Conner comes from a large family and is a busy son, uncle, and brother to all of them. Although he enjoys his HVAC career his true passion is in music and movies. He keeps the guys hoping during the day with playing all kinds of different music.
Conner didn't have any HVAC experience when he came here. He has been a quick learner and our strong back around here. He passed his EPA test and his electrical test in Charleston with flying colors to be a valued member of the Atteberry & Marshall team.
Dolly Cook
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Dolly (Billy) is married to Rick Cook for over 30 years in the rural area of Gays. She has been with us in the office since 2014, primarily doing anything she can to stay busy all the time. Often Ed and Sara have to remind her she is not everyone's mother, but her heart is in a good place. She spends her free time with her three Rottweilers, Ellie, Lilly, Duke, and her three horses. She hopes to start breeding them soon. She swears she doesn't spoil the dogs but feeds them most of the time from a spoon with boiled chicken breast mixed in their food. But they are her babies and they know it. Dolly can help all of our customers with her sunshine and positivity.
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The Cosma Hypothesis
Implications of the Overview Effect
By: Frank White
Narrated by: Lawrence Tobias
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As a follow-up to the seminal work, The Overview Effect, Frank White explores life's destiny in the universe and a compelling new hypothesis.
©2018 Morgan Brook Publishing (P)2018 Morgan Brook Publishing
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution
Sean D. Mcclinton
The Definitive "Why" of Space Exploration
At the Space Entrepreneurs in Seattle, WA, we are focused on the what of space exploration - the what being helping people advance their careers in space. Frank White has done an amazingly thorough job of exploring the "why" of space exploration in the Cosma Hypothesis. As Simon Sinek would say, it starts with why. We have the option to do things as we have always done them, or we could pursue a higher destiny and be a better version of ourselves through space exploration. It's my firm belief that by reading the Cosma Hypothesis, it will help you more firmly ground your reasons for exploring space in the why, and at a more planet-wide level. We all have our own reasons for being interested in space exploration, but Cosma will help you understand those within our society and the world as a whole. As a world-renonwed space philosopher and author of the now cult classic "Overview Effect," Frank takes his thinking to the next level about what this all means. With the rise of the commercialization of space, it's important that we think consciously about why we do this, so we can better inform our how, and Frank helps us do just that in the Cosma Hypothesis.
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Interview with Michael Nilsson Ph.D, Sonic Innovations, Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael Nilsson, PhD
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Topic: Sonic Innovations new product - Innova
Beck: Good Morning Michael. Hard to believe, but it's been about 5 years since you and I last did an interview!
Nilsson: Hi Doug. Nice to join you again!
Beck: If you don't mind, I'd like to tell the readers a little about your professional background and then we'll talk about the new Sonic Innovations product -- the Innova.
Nilsson: Sure thing, Doug.
Beck: I know your Ph.D. was in Psychology from the Cognitive Science Department at the University of California at Irvine, and you were at the House Ear Institute from 1990 to 1998 where you helped develop the HINT (Hearing In Noise Test, Nilsson et al., 1994, J.Acoust. Soc. Aa., 95(2), 1085-1099), which is a set of recordings used to measure speech intelligibility in quiet or noise. And you've been at Sonic since 1998, since the first product launch?
Nilsson: That sounds about right. The first launch was September, 1998, and I got here a few months earlier.
Beck: I believe you're a patent holder for the noise reduction algorithm used at Sonic Innovations?
Nilsson: Yes, my engineering colleague, Xiaoling Fang Ph.D., and I patented the noise reduction technology used at Sonic.
Beck: Which product generation are you guys about to introduce?
Nilsson: The Innova is based upon our third generation DSP. The first generation was Natura, and then the second generation came out in 2001, that was the Natura II which added our noise reduction, and Innova is the third generation.
Beck: I know there are many new features, but is the Innova actually a whole new chip?
Nilsson: Yes it is. Although Innova uses our same underlying core philosophy regarding how to amplify sound for sensorineural hearing loss, there are many changes.
For example, with regard to how sound gets into the chip, the Innova has two A-D converters which allows a "Dual Omni" design and 8 combinations of two inputs. For example we can use Telecoil & Omni, Dual Omni and other options, too.
Also, rather than the previous 9 channel system, we now have a 16 channel system, allowing narrower channel design. The major advantage to 16 channels is the independent activity of the 16 channels. In other words, each channel has it's own noise reduction, feedback canceller, directionality, expansion and compression ability, so we can do more "real time" analysis and processing, simultaneously.
The combination of changes form what we are referring to as our S.M.A.R.T. technology. This refers to our core system that monitors sound, analyzes the level and SNR, etc. and responds transparently to provide users with the best signal possible. We don't want a system where you can hear it changing to try and optimize settings.
Beck: Michael, let's go back to the dual omni directionality?
Nilsson: Well, Doug, as you know, there are essentially two ways to create a directional microphone system. One can use a physical filter between mic ports to create a delay in the sound delivery between the two ports, or you can accomplish the same thing electronically. In the Innova, we do it electronically. In this way, the clinician can choose between common polar plots to maximize directionality. After that, our proprietary system called "Directionalfocus" helps compare phase differences between the two mics, estimates the location of the dominant sound in each of the 16 channels, and then the gain is manipulated to maximize the sensitivity of the system to sounds from the front, while attenuating sounds from the sides and behind.
Beck: What is the total bandwidth of the circuit itself, and what are the spectral constants of the channels?
Nilsson: In the low bands the channels are 375 Hz wide and they're 750 Hz wide in the high frequencies. The total bandwidth of the chip is 10 thousand hertz, but the mic and receiver limit the practical output to less than 8 thousand hertz.
Beck: OK, so going back, each feature acts independently in each of the 16 channels?
Nilsson: Yes, that's correct. The noise reduction, feedback control, compression, directionality and other features can be controlled within each channel, to maximize performance. I should note that the directionality features are available in all shell configurations from ITC to BTE, and VCs are available from ITC to BTE too. The circuit is available in a CIC with a programming button, but the size constraints prohibit the dual omni mic ports in the CIC.
Beck: Have you tested actual patients with this technology, and do you have outcomes data available to support the technology?
Nilsson: Yes. Excellent question. We are undergoing trials with the Innova and we hope to publish the results very soon. The preliminary results and comments have been quite good, and we're very pleased. We're still cleaning up the software and the algorithms, but it's coming along very nicely.
Beck: Do you have expansion in this circuit?
Nilsson: Yes, thanks for asking about that. Innova has "Noise Limiting" and it's based on the combination of noise reduction and expansion. Expansion is a terrific tool in the Innova, and it's an important part of the noise limiting system. Expansion is particularly important to help reduce soft sounds, such as the hum of a refrigerator or other soft annoyances. Once the input gets louder, noise reduction takes over and attenuates the channels where unmodulated sound is present. In Innova, noise reduction increases as the loudness of the noise increases, so this is adaptive, or level dependent noise reduction.
Beck: Are the vents in the Innova wider diameter than previously available?
Nilsson: Yes, the vents are wider. We're able to make the vent wider across the whole product line because we have better feedback control. Further, larger vents allow less occlusion and more natural sound quality, and better immediate patient acceptance during the first fitting.
Beck: And as far as quantitative tests in the lab?
Nilsson: The lab results are great. We have some fabulous bench-top data that confirms the output signal-to-noise ratio of the devices is actually better than the input signal-to-noise ratio by over 10 dB with the appropriate features turned on. This technique for looking at changes in signal-to-noise ratio has been with us for many years, and was originally used with the telephone sciences many decades ago.
Beck: Is the T-Coil programmable?
Nilsson: Yes it is, and the T-coil is calibrated to the input of the omni microphone, so the T-coil circuit reflects the way the hearing aid is programmed. There are 4 memories and we also have "Smart Tones" to help the patient know if they're in program one, two, three or four, and they can tell if the VC is going louder or softer, and we also have a power-on delay to avoid feedback. There are also audible "low battery" signals...so all in all, the Smart Tones really are useful and they help the patient to better understand what the hearing aid is doing!
Beck: Michael, this is really very exciting technology. Before I let you run, would you please tell me a little about how the feedback management system, works?
Nilsson: The feedback system has an inverse phase filter, which is somewhat similar to other feedback cancellers, but our feedback canceller can be "trained" without hooking it up to the software, using the push-button retraining program. So it can be retrained "on the fly" as cerumen or other environmental issues impact the sound path. You can also train the canceller in preprogrammed devices without having to hook up to the software, allowing feedback cancellation in preprogrammed devices. That reminds me, we have a new cerumen protection system too, and this will be tremendously beneficial in keeping cerumen out of the instrument. The No Wax System is our new standard, but we have other cerumen options too. The Innova will have less plugging-up of the receiver because we are moving to screen-less receivers; it'll be a more reliable instrument with less potential for failure based on cerumen issues.
Beck: Michael, thanks for the update on the Innova, this is very exciting product.
Nilsson: Thank you too Doug. Nice to visit with you again.
For more information, visit the Sonic Innovations website.
Vice President of Auditory Research and Director of the Center for Amplification and Hearing Research, Sonic Innovations
Michael Nilsson is the Vice President of Auditory Research and Director of the Center for Amplification and Hearing Research at Sonic Innovations in Salt Lake City, Utah. Michael has been with Sonic since 1998, and previously worked in the Hearing Aid Research Laboratory at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Michael holds his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine
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January 16, 2019 AustinEvans The Best of Technology 0
– Hey guys, this is Austin And today it's time for the best of CES
First we have the Royole FlexPai This is the first commercially available foldable smart phone, so you actually can buy one of these right now, and the entire thing is built around a super thin OLED panel, so the actual display itself is a 78 inch OLED with a 1920 by 1440 resolution It's not exactly the sharpest or the crispiest thing in the world, but considering that it is a flexible phone, I can give it just a little bit of props there for, you know, actually working Even though the display is so thin, it actually feels reasonably sturdy
A big part of that is that the hinge actually does have a lot of strength to it, and on top of that it does have magnets so when you close up the phone, it does stay flat Now it does actually kind of fit in the pocket, although just like the Surface Book, it doesn't actually go completely flat You do have a little bit of a book shape What's cool about this is this is actually on sale right now Now at $1,300, probably not a lot of people are on board, but it is really cool to see something like this, which even though it's in a little bit of a rough state right now, it's actually coming out
I feel like this in a couple years is going to be super cool Uh, RED Hydrogen – [Ken] Really? – Yeah – [Ken] Are you sure? – Yeah, look It's cool
The main issue is is that it doesn't quite have that level of polish, right? The hardware is decent, but especially the software has a lot of bugs, and of course it's an early unit, but this is something that's shipping right now It tries to detect sort of if I'm using it from one side or the other, but in my experience, it just wasn't particularly smooth or worked well Next up is the Honor View 20 Now this bypasses the standard notch of 2018, or what is known as a hole punch display The front facing camera is literally right in the middle of the screen
Or well I guess in the corner of the screen Personally, I don't really mind notches all that much, unless it's something like the Pixel 3XL, but I will say that something like the OnePlus XT is probably closer to what a lot of people will appreciate Now this does have a little bit of a cutout, which means stuff like the status bar does come down a little bit, so in reality it's actually not a huge difference than having a notch, but you still get to get rid of the bezels, as far as watching video content, it's not quite as much of an obstruction There's a lot more going for the View 20 than just the display though First of all, it has a really cool laser edged finish on the back, which I personally think looks cool, and on top of that, it has some serious specs
Around back, you have a 48 megapixel camera, and that is augmented by a 24 megapixel camera up front That my friends is a lot of pixels So if it is in the same 500 dollar price range as its predecessor, you're getting a lot here 4000 milliamp hour battery You got that Kirin 980, and the headphone jack
No, when you talk about CES, especially this year, there are so many displays, so first of all we took a look at some of the stuff that LG has cooking up So not only do they have a fully rollable OLED, so when you're not using it, it can just disappear, and on top of that, they have a killer looking 88 inch 8K OLED What's also impressive is the Samsung QLED 8K So 8K is actually a little bit of a buzzy thing this year at CES There's quite a few TVs around, and the Samsung one is seriously impressive
It is a massive 98 inches Even if you look past the size, what you're getting is such a bright and clear picture The dynamic range, in especially some of the really bright areas, was super, super impressive I've gotta say, I've seen a lot of really cool TVs here at CES, but some of these 8K units from both LG as well as Samsung are way, way better than I expected Last year, Samsung showed off the Wall, the first foray into micro LED, but this year it's pretty much ready for prime time
All it is is a series of panels that you can put together, and what's really nice about this is it does give you a lot of flexibility So yes, it's not quite as nice looking as something like that 8K QLED, but especially when you have a giant, giant display of them, it looks really impressive Now if you haven't had enough of 8K yet, well how about a camera to shoot it that doesn't cost $50,000? Well that's what Sharp has So this is a mirrorless camera that has a micro four thirds sensor Definitely a little bit on the small side, but the idea here is that for less than $5,000, you have a consumer-ish camera that can shoot that full 8K video
Now Sharp says that it will be able to do this onto an SD card, so if you wanna light your SD card on fire with 8K footage, I guess that'll be nice, but the important thing about this is that it is still slightly a concept They'll be showing a more final version a little bit later in the year, but this is something that should be on sale this year My main concern though is that because it has that micro four thirds sensor, what kind of lenses are you going to be able to put on it that will be able to resolve full 8K detail? I mean that's something like well north of 30 megapixels And that's a lot That's sharp, so, oh I said sharp
Oh, sorry Next up, NVIDIA has the BFGD Omen Emperium X 65 It stands for big format, okay? It stands for big format gaming display Get your minds out of the gutter Now when you're talking about specs, this thing has it all
65 inch HDR display It's a full 4K It runs at 144 hertz It has G-Sync, and it costs $5,000 So it's a cool idea, and essentially this is a giant gaming TV, which is a little bit more on the monitor side
It does have an NVIDIA SHIELD built in, but I mean if you really want the ultimate gaming display, this is probably it Or you could buy a car Coming back down to earth, we have the Samsung Space Monitor Now there are two sizes, a 27 inch 1440p, as well as a 32 inch 4K, but what's really cool about these is not necessarily the displays but the stands So what's cool about it is that it's super flexible
You can drop it all the way down You can pull it forward You can push it back There's a lot of flexibility here, which is nice to see Monitors have been kind of boring lately
The Space Monitor is actually available on Amazon right now for pre order I'll have a link in the description, but what is not available just yet is the Razor Raptor Now we did cover this in our Razor video, but essentially to catch you up, this is a 27 inch 1440p high refresh rate FreeSync display, with a really cool stand and some interesting functions, but it's also 700 dollars, so yeah LG also had a brand new ultra light monitor, with a massive 49 inch size Now the name of it is the LG 49WL95C 49 inch Ultra Wide monitor
(exhales) What's cool about this though is it is not only a giant, giant screen, but importantly it's basically a pair of 2560 by 1440p monitors stuck together So with a 5K by 1440 resolution, this is going to be awesome for gaming It's not going to be out just quite yet, but you better believe I'm gonna get my hands on one to take a video of NVIDIA took CES as a great opportunity to finally announce RTX for laptops, so there are a few options right now There's RTX 2080, 2070, as well as 2060, as well as the various Max-Q implementations, and there are a ton of laptops that are updated at the show
If it's time for you to maybe consider upgrading a gaming laptop, this is probably a really good time to do so There are way too many designs for me to go over in one video, but some of my highlights were definitely the Razor Blade, which can go all the way up to a 2080 Max-Q Also side note, the Razor Blade is getting a full 240 hertz display option soon as well as a 4K OLED touch screen I'm excited about that But on top of that, Asus showed off the ridiculous ROG Mothership concept
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Home > Eat with Me > 8 places to eat in Bangkok that you must try: From street food to fine dining
Bangkok Thai cuisine
Long before I touched down in Bangkok, Thailand, the images of Thai food in my head were already taunting me. There are many foods from around the world that I love, but the freshness, simplicity and absolute knockout flavours of Thai food always has me salivating.
Bangkok is a crazy, lively melting pot of food. From some of the finest restaurants holding sought after Michelin stars to the grungy backstreets and laneways where the street vendors are the most important people to be found. World-renowned chefs create theatre on a plate, combining locally sourced ingredients and using all the inspiration of this vibrant city to deliver modern Thai food.
Then, in a world that couldn’t be further away from the heights of fine dining, and yet only a street or two away, the food of the streets is the centre of the Thai universe.
Eating street food in Bangkok
The smell will get you first. This will be closely followed by the heady mix of heat, congestion and the competing smells of everything that is being chopped, cooked and stirred. Big pots of broth bubble away atop hot coals, whilst the bright orange ducks, so easily identifiable as being Asian, are lined up and hanging from a rod. Fresh fish is being filleted whilst locals call out which part of the fish they want to buy.
Chestnuts are swirled around a machine that is keeping them warm and a lady in her market stall is scooping up dried prawns for her customer. There’s a myriad of leafy greens, stinky durian, mushrooms, rice cakes and all kinds of offal. Locals are eating. The Thai people love to eat, and they graze all day, stopping by a food vendor for a juicy satay stick, or taking a seat on an upside-down milk crate to slurp noodles from a bowl. With every step, a new food experience can be found.
Here’s a list of some great places to eat in Bangkok that we discovered recently.
R.Haan: Fine dining restaurant Bangkok
Sharing food is a significant part of Thai culture and Michelin-starred restaurant R.Haan creates such an experience for its diners. The food here is served in the style of what I would call a degustation. Locally, it’s known as a samrub, a set menu where a variety of dishes are served around a bowl of rice. It’s a term that in practice, doesn’t seem justified by such a basic definition.
A welcome drink kicks off the evening then for several hours, we sat back watching as one dish after another was carried either individually to our table or via a trolley.
Welcome drink
“Rainy Storm” – Maekhong, Lime juice, Spice Syrup, Soda
The end result was a table packed to overflowing with copper bowls and steaming plates of food. By the time we finish, we will have worked our way through 18 dishes.
Various plates of food at R.Haan
There are several plates of appetisers to get us going. Most of these are seafood-rich. There are mini tortillas, cucumber gels and rich caviar.
Aromatic Tha Mae Klong Mackeral salad with Hauhin sturgeon caviar
Large bowls of Thai Tom Yam soup grace the table, along with one of my Thai favourites, Massaman curry with Black Angus beef ribs. There are chilli dips, salted duck eggs, endless seafood and pork belly.
Stir fried pork belly with red curry and crispy pork
The food just keeps on coming until finally, it is time for dessert, a tasting plate that looked too good to eat. A delicately carved pumpkin rose in bitter honey syrup joined pandan custard, mango, sticky rice and coconut ice cream. A taste sensation followed by a high tea platter of petit fours.
Dessert tasting plate
Where: 131 Pai Di Ma Di Klang Alley, Khwaeng Khlong Tan Nuea, Khet Watthana, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10110, Bangkok
Spirit by Jim Thompson
I loved everything about Spirit by Jim Thompson. From the outside, the timber structure and the heavy presence of green foliage make it feel a little like a treehouse. The huge tree growing up through the floorboards of the deck didn’t help to dispel this feeling. I felt immediately at home here, and it was as though I had been cocooned from the frantic pace of Bangkok life. Outside, there are chairs and tables that are perfect to catch up with friends for a drink or to have a quick bite to eat.
Indoors, the attention to detail that has been given to design and decor turns the casual outdoor vibe to a more grown-up level. It’s sophisticated inside and yet, through the clever design I still feel as though I am outside. This is aided by the floor to ceiling glass that surrounds us on three sides of our private dining room. There’s no sign of the conspiracy here that surrounds the life of its namesake. What is on show here is Jim Thompson’s vital role in the reinvigoration and growth of the silk industry in Thailand.
(Left) Tum Khao Phod Moung Korat with Korat Purple Corn Som Tam Jelly; (back) La Phate Thote (Myanmar Specialty) / Fermented Tea Leaves, Assorted Myanmar Nuts, Toasted Coconut, Sesame, Pickled Ginger, Diced Tomato, Garlic and Chili Served on a Four-Flavored Crispy Cup; (front) Sakoo Sai Pla Tuna Kha Hom / Sa Koo Sai Pla Tuna Kha Hom Seared Galangal-Infused Tuna, Steamed Sago and Crispy Sago on Green Lettuce Leaves
Two coloured deep fried sticky rice
Goong Phad Phong Kari Gab Sapparod (Chinese-Malay Peranakan Specialty) / Stir Fried King Prawns and Pineapple with Free Range Eggs and Curry Powder Sauce Served with Steamed Pandan and Saffron Rice
Thinly Sliced Cucumber, Cherry Tomatoes, Sliced Spring Onion, Chinese Celery, Roasted Cashew Nuts, Chantaburi Dried Shrimp, Stir-Fried Pork, Steamed Farm-Raised Chicken and Boiled Quail Eggs served with Pickled Garlic Dressing
Lotus root and lotus stem coconut ice cream
Where: 16 Soi Som Khit, Lumphini, Bangkok
The Gingerbread House
In another inner city oasis, the Gingerbread House had a queue and a waiting list when we arrived. Under the huge mango tree that occupies a large part of the front garden the hardest choice to make here is which ice cream or ice-cold drink you’d like to quench your thirst. Built in 1913, the house was the residence of a nobleman attached to the King.
These days, the Gingerbread House has been given a new lease on life after it was lovingly restored into a cafe. It’s one of the cool places to go in Bangkok.
Choose from one of the many flavoured cold coffee drinks or coloured sodas which can be ordered from the parlour-style counter inside. The Thais, who love all things sweet, also love the many different ice cream combinations on offer. My favourite of those we tried below was the black tea jelly with tea ice cream.
Lod Chong noodles and ice cream
Bua Loi rice balls with pandan ice cream and Foi Thong
Black jelly with Thai tea ice cream
Where: 18 4Thanon Phra Athit, Khwaeng Chana Songkhram, Khet Phra Nakhon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10200, Bangkok
Krua Apsorn Bangkok
Finding somewhere to eat in Bangkok is never difficult. If you are a first time visitor to Bangkok (or even if you are not) having too much choice can make it harder to make a decision. That’s why finding local gems like Krua Apsorn is perfect. Inside the glass doors of a nondescript looking shop, the local lunch crowd had arrived and were in full swing.
Plates of food were being carried from the kitchen to the front, covering the melamine tables with steaming goodness. The restaurant extends further down the back through a narrow walkway and then opens up into a much larger seating area. This too was at capacity, confirming what we could already see. This was a great place to eat. The food here is simple, using fresh ingredients, and cooked in the traditional Thai way. My chicken dish was packed full of flavour from the chillis and the Thai Basil and the green papaya salad was fresh, crunchy and full of heat. Just the way I like to eat it.
This was high quality, cheap and cheerful food.
Chicken with chilli and Thai basil
Pork belly and greens
Where: 169 Dinso Road, Bangkok
Summerhouse Project
The riverfront in Bangkok is an emerging foodie scene with many new restaurants, cafes and bars opening up here. The Jam Factory built not surprisingly on the site of old warehouses and factories is a creative space full of artisanal handicrafts. It’s a beautiful store and well worth a visit. It is also surrounded by cafes and restaurants. The Never Ending Summer has been drawing a steady crowd since it opened. so much so that it opened a sister restaurant in a warehouse building right next door.
The Summerhouse Project, a bright airy space enclosed in glass takes on the feeling of an English conservatory. Inside, the lush green foliage hangs from the ceiling, softening the minimalist, modern glass design.
Inside the Summerhouse Project
It’s my kind of place, and with a large number of options on the menu, there’s something for everyone. The food is modern looking and vibrant and unmistakably Thai.
Where: 41/5 Charoen Nakorn Rd., Bangkok
Natthaphon Coconut Ice Cream
For a taste of authentic coconut ice cream head to Natthaphon Coconut Ice Cream. Located on the ground level of a house in some back street, it’s a place you will have to seek out as it’s definitely not on the tourist trail. It’s worth taking the effort to find it as the pure coconut ice cream is delicious.
With no other additives, it’s light and creamy, yet icy at the same time. I kept mine simple, but there are many things you can add to the ice cream. Peanuts are popular, so are lychees. The black sesame also offers a different flavour sensation. Pull up a chair outside and sit down to a bowl or two of this wonderful ice cream.
Where: Phraeng Phuthon Rd, Khwaeng San Chao Pho Sua, Khet Phra Nakhon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10200, Bangkok
IconSiam
Bangkok is no stranger to massive shopping centres, with some of the largest in the world. On the surface, it would seem strange for me to include them in a roundup of some of the best places to eat in Bangkok. There is method in my madness, however. IconSiam, with over 500,000 square metres of retail space also has a brand new foodie space that is a must visit.
SookSiam, at the street level of the IconSiam building, is a celebration of the food of Thailand and other cultures. It is also where you can find many local handicrafts and artists. There’s an indoor floating market and a street food appearance, as vendors operate from the side of a waterway and small carts.
Street food being made inside Sook Siam
Indoor floating market
There’s plenty of tasting opportunities too. It’s just like walking outside in the streets without the heat!
Where: 299 ซอยเจริญนคร 5, Charoen Nakhon Rd, Khlong Ton Sai, Khlong San, Bangkok 10600, Thailand
Eating in Bangkok
Whether you are a food adventurer or a little more cautious with your food choices, there is something in this city for everyone. If you are a first time visitor to Bangkok, don’t miss giving the street food a try. Street food can carry with it such a bad reputation but it’s not always valid or fair. Look for locations where the locals are eating and you’ll know you are onto a good thing. Food prices in Bangkok are incredibly inexpensive and eating street food is the cheapest of it all, although the fine dining menus aren’t over the top either.
Whichever way you do it, come to Bangkok to get to know its food a little more. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.
How to get to Bangkok
Major airlines from all over the world fly into Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport. We flew from Australia with Thai Airways, who operate from my home town three times a week, direct into Bangkok. Low-cost airlines like AirAsia also fly here from Australia and other Asian destinations into Don Muang Airport.
The Suvarnabhumi Airport Express train runs between 6am and midnight every day. It connects with Makkasan City Interchange Station where you can connect to the MRT at Petchaburi.
Airport express buses also transfer passengers into the city. Taxis are also available from the airport, just make sure they switch on the meter.
Visitors from other Asian countries can also take the train.
Tip: If you can, taking the train will always be much faster as the traffic in Bangkok is very heavy.
Just like there are so many places to try Bangkok Thai cuisine, there are also thousands of places to stay in Bangkok. Before making a decision on exactly where to stay, thinking about the following.
The area you will be spending the most time
Access to public transport if you need it
Distance and access to airport
Features of the accommodation that you require
We’ve stayed at a number of great hotels in Bangkok, changing areas each time to get a better feel for the city. All have had good access to places we wanted to see in Bangkok and public transport.
I absolutely loved staying at the Shanghai Mansion Bangkok. Right at the door of Chinatown, this hotel is unique, luxurious and decadent. Plus, it’s pretty handy in terms of access to key parts of the Bangkok city.
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Read my comprehensive review of Shanghai Mansion Bangkok
The Millenium Hilton Bangkok holds a commanding position right on the Chao Phraya River. The views of the river and the city, especially at night are fantastic. Head up to the roof top bar for an even better view and a cocktail or two. Recently refurbished, the rooms are spacious and have plenty of things that make me happy like good lighting and heaps of places to plug my gadgets in. Its location close to many of the main attractions in Bangkok, amazing food and markets, the IconSiam and public transport makes it a good place to base yourself.
The Pathumwan Princess is located in the heart of Bangkok’s shopping area and sits alongside the MBK Shopping Centre and the BTS station. Access into MBK can be achieved by walking directly from the hotel without having to go outside.
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Claudio Majorana’s Head of the Lion
As a medical student specialising in youth and cognitive neuroscience, Claudio Majorana is not a typical documentary photographer. Having grown up with a mother in fine arts and a father in medicine, his attraction to the symbiosis between art and science was initiated at a young age, and his interest in photography – an artistic medium rooted in scientific process – came to him naturally. When Majorana was accepted into medical school at 19, he also began photographing voraciously. In the summer of 2011, he encountered a group of kids in the suburbs of Catania, his hometown in Sicily, and began documenting moments in their daily life, rooted in skateboarding culture and the general struggles and raucous habits that colour adolescent life.
From Head of the Lion © Claudio Majorana
John Myers’ Looking at the Overlooked
John Myers is back with new book called Looking at the Overlooked – a good title for a photographer who specialises in images of the unremarkable, and who himself nearly fell from photographic history. Working in Britain’s post-industrial Midlands from 1973-1981, Myers created an archive of the unspectacular that attracted attention at the time but then lay undisturbed for 30 years until a chance meeting with a curator. Looking at the Overlooked is a glorious compendium of “the claustrophobia of the suburban landscape in the 1970s”, focusing in on substations, shops, houses, televisions, and so-called “landscapes without incident” – or as Myers puts it, “boring photographs”.
Television no 4, 1973. From Looking at the Overlooked © John Myers, published by RRB PhotoBooks
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“The way food is photographed says a tremendous amount about significant aspects of our culture,” says Susan Bright, co-curator of Feast For The Eyes – The Story of Food in Photography, which is on show at FOAM, Amsterdam from 21 December-03 March 2019. The exhibition, co-curated with Aperture’s senior photography editor, Denise Wolff, covers the many ways in which food has been imaged and imagined, and includes image-makers such as Daniel Gordon, Jo Ann Callis, Harold Edgerton, Nobuyoshi Araki, Martin Parr, Rinko Kawauchi, and Lorenzo Vitturi, as well as vernacular photographers from the history of the medium.
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From a blue painted fence © Jamie Hawkesworth
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From La Vertigine © Federico Clavarino
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Has any person spent as many summers at camp as Bobby Gersten?
In about a month, Bobby Gersten, known fondly as Bobby G, will make his annual summer move to Brant Lake, NY, more specifically to Brant Lake Camp. Bobby first attended Brant Lake Camp as a 6 year old in 1927. Having missed two summers due to military service during World War II, the summer of 2019 will be Bobby’s 91st at Brant Lake Camp!
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While now a Director Emeritus, Bobby still makes it to camp each day circulating the grounds in a golf cart (now driven by a driver), shouting encouragement, making corrections and telling stories. Not too many years removed from teaching tennis, Bobby still kicks off the weekly variety shows by singing a song from his repertoire that campers scream for. In recent years, he shares the song (“Nutsy Fagen”) with his grandson, Max, a 4th generation director of Brant Lake Camp from the Gerstenzang/Gersten lineage (Bobby is 2nd generation, his son, Richard is 3rd).
A Bobby G rendition of Nutsy Fagen is legendary at Brant Lake
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As many of us in the USA head to camp soon, we doubt that many, if any, will be doing so for their 91st summer. But Bobby G will be...at Brant Lake Camp!
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Though the winter at Brant Lake, New York came early and was quite harsh, we hope to be able to open our new 120 yards by 80-yard lacrosse/flag football/soccer field on August 1, 2019. With the increased interest/growth in flag football and lacrosse, we at Brant Lake Camp felt we needed another full-size field in addition to our present full-size field and our turf practice field. We are excited for the completion of our new field and look forward to this impressive addition to our already existing four baseball fields, fourteen tennis courts, and eleven basketball courts. We look forward to playing flag football leagues, lacrosse tournaments, and major soccer matches on Brant Lake Camp’s newest addition.
The new field at Brant Lake will be similar in dimensions to MetLife Stadium
Volleyball at Brant Lake Camp over recent years has become a major activity in our Senior Camp, as well as being one of the core sports in our Brant Lake Sports Academy for girls. With this increased interest we will be opening our new volleyball facility this summer 2019. We will have two new beautiful court areas lighted for both day and night play. This will be another exciting addition to our facilities at BLC and will be of great benefit to our Senior Camp. With the easily adjustable net heights we plan for its use by our younger campers as well.
We have also decided to move our archery range to a new area behind our soccer field. Just recently land has been cleared to accommodate this new area. Nestled in the Brant Lake woods our young William Tells will be able to enjoy this always popular hobby at BLC.
Volleyball has continued to rise in popularity here at Brant Lake
Last summer at Brant Lake Camp we were proud to unveil our newly refurbished Junior Clubhouse, the site of countless outstanding shows and spirited Song Contests. The changes afforded all audiences a most comfortable and clear view of our stage. This summer we plan on the grand opening of the Libbie Gersten Memorabilia room. Libbie for so many years was the keeper and driving force behind all of Brant Lake Camp’s treasures. Now with the completion of this room in her honor, all of Brant Lake Camp’s storied past will be on display for all to see and experience. With the multiple touchscreen monitors, present day and past Brant Lakers will be easily able to access photos of themselves as well as their old buddies and other remembrances.
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BRANT LAKE, NY – For a boys’ summer camp to last 100 years, the oldest under the same family ownership, a lot has to go right. And for Brant Lake Camp, in the Adirondacks just north of Lake George, it did not happen by accident. Generations have begotten generations with what might be termed super-connectivity.
“Brant Lake is about growing up, making lifelong friends, and creating an extended family that remains a part of us forever,” says David Lauren, Executive Vice President at Ralph Lauren Corporation, who attended the camp the 1980s.
The strongest link in what seems like a boundless bond is a little thing called Green and Gray; little because it lasts a mere four days in a summer of seven weeks. But the secret sauce of Green and Gray is if you’re a Green your first year at Brant Lake, you’re a Green for life. Same with Gray. And it’s a life that extends long after your last scraped knee in a basketball game on center court.
That unique identification in what other camps call color war has lasted a century, become the envy of rival camps that split up their teams randomly each summer, and continues to pop up regularly and humorously among alumni that include some of the wealthiest and most prominent men in America.
Greg Luckman is the great-great nephew of Brant Lake Camp’s founder, Bob Gerstenzang, and in the fourth generation of the family that has owned and operated the camp since 1917 (and has since changed its sir name to Gersten). Luckman, 42, is one of the most successful sports marketers in the country, having “handled” among other celebrities Tiger Woods during his endorsement days with American Express.
As a Vice President at GroupM, Luckman twice made the Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40. Now the head of Global Marketing for Creative Artists’ Agency (CAA), where he was so cited a third time, Luckman continues to put together complicated deals in the sports and entertainment industry. He goes into numerous meetings with Brant Lake alumni on the other side of the table and their first words to each other are, “Green or Gray?”
Luckman says those meetings always have a different dynamic and often end up with the two sides doing business because of the loyalty and camaraderie factors. “There’s an automatic connection,” he says. “You know you went through the same thing, even if it’s 20 years apart. It’s why I have hired so many Brant Lakers and will continue to do so. You are going to work with stand-up people with high values and strong character.”
Green and Gray can find its way into less formal but equally high-profile banter.
Jesse Itzler, the entrepreneur who wrote and recorded, “Go, New York, Go!” for the Knicks (along with songs for more than 50 other professional teams) that rocks Madison Square Garden and has since amassed a family fortune with his wife, Sara Blakely, founder of SPANX, owns a piece of the Atlanta Hawks. When current Brant Lake Camp Executive Director Richie Gersten emailed the four alumni who own or run NBA franchises to ask if he could mention them in publicity for their centennial reunion the last weekend in August, Itzler agreed only if he was identified as a Gray. Brett Yormark, CEO of Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment at the Barclays Center, fired back, “Go, Green!”
Green and Gray stories go back for decades, longer if anyone can remember. Bob Gersten, the second generation Brant Lake owner who took over the camp with Gerstenzang’s daughter, Karen, turned 96 the weekend of the reunion; he recalls captaining Green in 1942 against Gray captain William Kunstler, the now-deceased leftist lawyer who defended the Chicago Seven and other radical groups.
“He claimed he wanted to show good sportsmanship, and that we should walk around together,” Bob Gersten said. “We were supposed to meet at the waterfront, and he never showed up; he was already on the ball field cheering on his troops. When I asked him years later how he could do that when he hated the dirty tricks of politicians, he said, ‘Well, Green and Gray was important.’”
Brant Lake has a rich history of notable friends, from composers Arthur Schwartz and Lorenz Hart writing several camp songs in the 1920s that they still sing to Frank Sinatra and some of his Rat Pack summering there through the ’80s. But that has little to do with thousands of men, some rich and famous, most others successful in their future endeavors, who attended BLC as kids and ever since have refused to get it out of their hearts and minds.
Luckman, Itzler and Yormark were among the 500-plus former campers, counselors and staff who came for the centennial weekend and climbed the hill from the waterfront to central campus, some still young enough to put their hamstrings and Achilles heels at risk on the tennis and basketball courts of the magnificent 60 acres with first-class amenities for the campers. At some point earlier, G. Gordon Liddy, the Nixon lawyer who was imprisoned for organizing the Watergate break-in, paid a secret visit. Liddy attended Brant Lake as a kid. In his 80s and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, he showed up perhaps to say goodbye to his childhood playground and rode around in a golf cart with Bob Gersten sharing camp stories.
For so many young, middle-age and older men to retain such passion for the summers of their youth, there has to be more to it than their lifetime loyalty to Green and Gray. And there is. The camp is dedicated to “excellence” over “efficiency” and a unique, well-honed philosophy of togetherness through the years that fosters friendships forever and millions of moments to share.
Brant Lake Camp’s philosophy also permeates its two girls’ programs held each summer with capacities of 45 girls each. Brant Lake Dance Camp established in 1980 runs for four weeks and specializes in ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop and modern dance. It is followed by Brant Lake Sports Academy, founded in 2011, a two- and- a- half week program featuring instruction and competition in volleyball, soccer, basketball, softball and lacrosse. The girls also have use of Brant Lake’s expansive waterfront as well as arts, tennis and the fun and camaraderie of a high- quality sleepaway camp.
The Dance Camp was founded by Sharon Gersten Luckman, the long-time executive director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and presently directed by Mieks Gersten. The Sports Academy director, Rachel Milim, is a former All-American lacrosse player at Cornell.
The girls’ campus is separate from the boys but on the same grounds, and some supervised co-educational events are held among the older boys and girls. The Sports Academy girls participate in many Green and Gray activities.
All of it fits together in a well-conceived camping concept that has been tweaked over the years by the Gersten family. “We are proud of our girls’ programs in their own right and feel that they enhance Brant Lake Camp for boys”, says Rich Gersten.
“That system basically divides Brant Lake into three camps, Sophs and Juniors, Inters and Seniors. Their cabins and playing courts are separated and bunk counselors and key staff remain within their age groups all summer as they plan and move from activity to activity. Two college-age counselors live in every Soph bunk of 7–9 year olds, and one female counselor is assigned to every two cabins on Soph Row. Key staffers who might be in their 30’s or 60’s also stay within their groups so they too get to know their campers as a family. The ratio is 2–1 for the younger campers and never worse than 4–1 for Seniors. Merl Norcross, 88, has been at Brant Lake since 1950; supposedly retired, he remains visible and beloved as the unofficial “camp uncle.”
Each of the divisions has the same inclusivity, a head counselor, at least two bunk counselors per cabin and anywhere from six to eight key staff who are trained to be acutely tuned in to whether their campers are comfortable with their surroundings and developing deep friendships. And if a problem occurs that warrants an email or call to parents, the head counselor or a key staff member is at the computer or the phone being “out in front” with positive reinforcement before the camper writes a letter home with his own version of what happened.
“We believe in EXCELLENCE not EFFICIENCY,” Richie Gersten says. “We are also unusual in that we are a community much like a family with grandparents, parents, college students and campers. We believe having adults is hugely important because they are our problem-solvers as well as lead coaches and guidance personnel. College-age counselors, while great, have a major flaw?—?they are college age, meaning that if given lots of chances sometimes poor judgment can occur. The job of our college-age counselors is to be a great friend, role model and problem recognizer, not solver. Our key staff gives counselors and campers clear expectations and supervision, guidance and feedback.”
If all this sounds like the science of happy camping, that’s exactly what it is since Gersten took over 30 years ago and developed the together-but-separate system. Besides being something of a scheduling savant, Gersten and his wife, Annemiek, are the common denominators of the camp. They know the faces and names of every person and Richie spends the day constantly in motion, walking from group to group, meting out praise and thanks, always with a smile on his face. Not seeking credit he so richly deserves for taking Brant Lake to the elite level in camping, Gersten says, “I get my guilty pleasures by seeing the impact we have had on so many lives.”
Many campers throughout the years have pointed to their Brant Lake experience as being more influential than even their college days in preparing for adulthood, because they have been part of something bigger than just themselves. “Your group is like family, staying together all summer,” Luckman says. “You eat together, sleep together, travel together and play together in a structured environment that teaches you friendship, sportsmanship, loyalty, honesty, how to be a man.”
Three generations of teachers and coaches have run the camp. Bob Gersten, known to most as “Bobby G,” starred in basketball and baseball at the University of North Carolina and Tar Heel ties run deep at Brant Lake. Richie followed him to UNC and later coached at the Dalton School in New York City, where a similar pipeline has produced campers and counselors for decades. Max Gersten, 30, continues the connection as a coach and teacher at Dalton and has lived and learned at Brant Lake since the day he was born; that heritage will make him the most qualified executive director when his time comes to carry forth the philosophy refined by his father.
In the camps-within-a-camp structure, kids don’t face the pressure of competing with younger or older campers on a regular basis. Gersten cites ample opportunities for everyone to be together?—?shows and other special events, bonfires, cookouts and, of course, Green and Gray. The Sophs and Juniors know the Inters are there, the Inters know the Seniors are there and aspire to reach that age level and the expanded privileges that come with each next step, such as Seniors sleeping later and going to bed later after eating what amounts to a fourth meal because that’s what growing teenagers do in real life.
The older campers also take glamorous trips to Montreal, Toronto, Boston and Cooperstown, which is not lost on Sophs and Juniors, who hike and pitch tents at nearby state parks and mountain peaks.
“There are no words to describe what BLC has done for our family,” a parent of two sons at BLC emailed Gersten after the 2016 summer. “There is nothing like the magic you create at your camp. We give you our children in June and they come back better people in August.”
Gersten does not know of another camp in the country that runs the same way since “they want the best coaches to be specialists working primarily with an activity and less with getting to know their campers.” Brant Lake hires counselors who excel in certain sports and can teach at a high level, but Gersten’s first priority is always to find bunk counselors who want to be with their kids and establish a meaningful experience for all the campers in that age group. “At camp fairs, I don’t ask for the best basketball coaches or tennis instructors,” Gersten says, “I ask for those who were the best students or demonstrated leadership qualities. Most of them are pretty good athletes, anyway, or they wouldn’t want to be camp counselors.”
Brant Lake Senior athletic teams play unselfishly against other camps because they have long ago bonded in their group. Thus, it is far more a teaching, than a coaching, camp with a double major of sportsmanship and kindness called Citizenship, for which about 15 percent of each group is recognized at the end of the summer. Camper of the Year is the only award given out, and it’s for Leadership and Character. Counselor of the Year goes to the staff member who best emphasizes to youngsters the traits that Gersten hopes they carry into life away from camp.
That is the main reason Brant Lake works so hard, and puts considerable money back into the camp, to design a daily environment that is so memorable to so many. “It’s the one place where I was the happiest I have ever been,” Luckman says, “and I still feel that way in the moment every time I visit. Richie adds something new each year but the camp is still the same; it’s still home. That’s an amazing skill.” When campers arrive each summer, the message is always, “Welcome Home!”
From a daily key staff meeting at 6:30 a.m., the pre-set schedule is often changed to accommodate the weather or an opportunity for one age group to get to the expansive waterfront earlier on a torrid day. Gersten calls it being “quick and nimble?—?organized but flexible.” Head counselors communicate with each other through walkie-talkies and can change the schedule if they sense their kids need more, or less, rigorous activity. Bunk counselors get one day off a week, but otherwise are relating with campers. Those who wander off by themselves or spend time sending personal emails or texts generally do not last very long.
This “excellence” over “efficiency” has resulted in a full camp most summers of 350 boys, most from the East Coast, making all those memories and friendships, with well over a 90 percent retention rate and a $12,000 tab for the full seven weeks, although for years the altruistic Gersten’s have partnered with various foundations to award scholarships to less-affluent children. And while they are no better than some camps at visiting homes during the winter and sending out newsletters, DVDs and, more lately, Tweets, Snaps and Instagrams Brant Lake has built this unmatched connectivity that lasts lifetimes.
And it always includes three words: “Green or Gray?”
Art Chansky has written many books on the University of North Carolina and Duke Sports rivalry. His latest book is due out September, 2016, entitled Game Changers?—?Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and The Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
Upper Westchester Lacrosse Program, run by BLSA’s own Rachel Milim, Director
Check out this article about how Lacrosse is thriving in upper Westchester communities, featuring Brant Lake Sports Academy Director, Rachel Milim, recently named president of the Byram Hills Youth Lacrosse Board.
https://www.theinsidepress.com/dont-call-it-a-comeback-lacrosse-has-been-here-for-years/
Blog Post September 2017 – Brant Lake’s response to Time Magazine Cover Story
At Brant Lake Camp, we love sports and all that one can learn from them. We believe fervently that sports should be “about the journey, not the destination”. The following has been gleaned from the September 4, 2017 Time Magazine Cover Story, “How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry“. The article details the growing obsession with parents attempts to maximize their kids sports futures (mistakenly, in our opinion) and some of the pitfalls from their efforts.
“But as community-based teams give way to a more mercenary approach, it’s worth asking what’s lost in the process. Already, there are worrying signs. A growing body of research shows that intense early specialization in a single sport increases the risk of injury, burnout and depression. Fees and travel costs are pricing out lower-income families. Some kids who don’t show talent at a young age are discouraged from ever participating in organized sports. Those who do often chase scholarships they have a minuscule chance of earning.
The odds are not in anyone’s favor. Only 2% of high school athletes go on to play at the top level of college sports, the NCAA’s Division I. For most, a savings account makes more sense than private coaching. ‘I’ve seen parents spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars pursuing a college scholarship,’ says Travis Dorsch, founding director of the Families in Sport Lab at Utah State University. ‘They could have set it aside for the damn college.’
Children sense that the stakes are rising. In a 2016 study published in the journal Family Relations, Dorsch and his colleagues found that the more money families pour into youth sports, the more pressure their kids feel–and the less they enjoy and feel committed to their sport.
Even well-meaning parents, meanwhile, can find themselves swept up. ‘You say to yourself, Am I keeping up?’ says Rosemary Brewer, a nonprofit executive in Portland, Ore., who has mixed feelings about placing her two sons, 11 and 15, on travel lacrosse teams. ‘There’s pressure, especially if your kids have some talent. You feel it a little more. But we want the kids to have fun and be with their friends. We have to take a step back and keep asking ourselves, What’s the end goal?’
There are mounting concerns, however, over the consequences of such intensity, particularly at young ages. The average number of sports played by children ages 6 to 17 has dipped for three straight years, according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. In a study published in the May issue of American Journal of Sports Medicine, University of Wisconsin researchers found that young athletes who participated in their primary sport for more than eight months in a year were more likely to report overuse injuries.
Intense specialization can also tax minds. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘burnout, anxiety, depression and attrition are increased in early specializers.’ The group says delaying specialization in most cases until late adolescence increases the likelihood of athletic success.
Devotion to a single sport may also be counterproductive to reaching that holy grail: the college scholarship. In a survey of 296 NCAA Division I male and female athletes, UCLA researchers discovered that 88% played an average of two to three sports as children.
Other consequences are more immediate. As expensive travel teams replace community leagues, more kids are getting shut out of organized sports. Some 41% of children from households earning $100,000 or more have participated in team sports, according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. In households with income of $25,000 or less, participation is 19%.”
Blog Post July 2017 – Brant Laker’s success in our 5 core sports!
While we whole-heartedly believe that sports at BLC should be about the journey not the destination, we are always proud when BLC alums have great have great success in the sports areas.
Within the past year, a BLC alum has reached an admirable standard in each of our core activities.
Baseball: Spencer Kulman signs with the San Diego Padres
Basketball: Spencer Weisz is named MVP of Ivy League playing for Princeton
Soccer: Josh Goldstern is recrutied to play for UVA
Tennis: Aiden McHugh written up as Andy Murray protege at Wimbeldon
Waterfront, Sailing: Joan Herp sailed for the Spanish Olympic Team in Rio
Blog Post April 2017 – How to Leave a Mark
One of the most profound lessons I learned (or at least had reinforced) at our 100 year celebrations was how impactful. BLC has been to so many people.
I have never used the term thick for describing the BLC experience, but I think it is an apt categorization given the context in Brook’s article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/opinion/how-to-leave-a-mark-on-people.html?emc=eta1
Wishing you the best
Richie G
PS. Annual Alumni Basketball Game at Dalton School gym will be May 25
Green or Gray? Brant Lake’s 100 year rivalry
Art Chansky, writer of many books on the UNC versus Duke sports rivalry, and long-time friend of mine, came to the BLC Centennial Celebration at camp recently and wrote this in depth article. Hope you enjoy it. – Richie G.
https://medium.com/@richieg_8815/by-art-chansky-ff739665782b#.ds712hxlo
Brant Lake Camp featured in Town and Country Magazine again
We thought you would all like to see the recent article in ‘Town and Country’ magazine on today’s best summer camps– which we are proud to say included Brant Lake Camp, as well as our sister camp, Point O’Pines.
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/sporting/news/g2334/best-summer-camps/
The list of 19 camps, noted as the “Ivy League” of summer camps, also provides a short synopsis of all the top programs. Several years ago, we were noted by the same publication as the camp with the “Best Traditions”—largely driven by our ever-popular “Green and Gray” color war competition.
We very much look forward to BLC springing back to life with the arrival of all our campers in just a couple of short weeks– and we wish you all the best.
Brant Lake Camp – Where Sports Are Done Right
BLC has a credo: “Where Sports Are Done Right” – – and it drives so much of what we are about.
As you know, youth sports today in the USA has come under much scrutiny of late with many recent trends and practices being challenged and debated. It certainly is not a straightforward or simple subject.
The following article, from the Washington Post, is a very thought-provoking view on the emerging issues and is in concert with much of the BLC viewpoint. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/06/01/why-70-percent-of-kids-quit-sports-by-age-13/) We hope that you will take the time to read it and, as always, we welcome your thoughts.
The value of sports is neither black nor white, (all good or all bad)– but usually involves shades of gray; not versus green! At BLC, we spend much time in thinking through and then enacting an appropriate sports philosophy in which the intensity of instruction and competition are based on many factors– age being a significant one.
We are always conscious of making our instruction of high quality by not having big differences in ability levels within each teaching group. We are also careful not to “label” our campers with a certain skill level, form permanent varsity teams or limit opportunities for any boys to participate in a sport until the Senior Camp. Even then, we do so infrequently and with care as well as sensitivity.
Steve Kerr on AAU Basketball
with comment from Richie G.
“Even if today’s players are incredibly gifted, they grow up in a basketball environment that can only be called counterproductive. AAU basketball has replaced high school ball as the dominant form of development in the teen years. I coached my son’s AAU team for three years; it’s a genuinely weird subculture. Like everywhere else, you have good coaches and bad coaches, or strong programs and weak ones, but what troubled me was how much winning is devalued in the AAU structure. Teams play game after game after game, sometimes winning or losing four times in one day. Very rarely do teams ever hold a practice. Some programs fly in top players from out of state for a single weekend to join their team. Certain players play for one team in the morning and another one in the afternoon. If mom and dad aren’t happy with their son’s playing time, they switch club teams and stick him on a different one the following week. The process of growing as a team basketball player — learning how to become part of a whole, how to fit into something bigger than oneself — becomes completely lost within the AAU fabric.”
From Richie G:
Steve Kerr is a great coach and thoughtful man. His thoughts on AAU basketball, I think, are on point. His perspective is on how AAU ball affects the pro game. I see it also for its effect on younger players. Young players are doing things that not too many years ago would have been thought unthinkable. Many (most) are not as good with fundamentals nor playing as a member of a team. During the NBA playoffs, I will be rooting for teams that move the ball and players (Golden State, San Antonio) and against others that use the commonly seen stationery offense (where two shooters stay in the corner and a player uses the two high big men for pick and roll or pop opportunities). At Brant Lake we emphasize, at all ages, a motion or passing game style, in addition to developing fundamentals and working on individual improvement. It is imperative for players to learn what to do when the ball is NOT in their hand, as there are 10 players on the court at one time and one ball. Do the math!!
Bobby G. in the news again
In anticipation of the upcoming UNC Walk for Health, Bobby G is once again in the spotlight. Brant Lake Camp even gets a mention in this one! Check out the link for his latest TV interview.
https://uncwalkforhealth.com/video/
A Moving, Interesting Article
My Son Didn’t Start Today
A Couple of Interesting Articles
As most of you know, we love sports at BLC, as we think so many life lessons can be learned. We believe that it is “About the journey, not the destination”. Here is an article speaking to the importance of : Parents keeping their egos out of their children’s sports performances and that it’s best for children to play multiple sports rather than specializing, before their teenage years, in one sport.”
https://sportfactoryproshop.com/blog/how-to-destroy-your-childs-athletic-future-in-3-easy-steps/
Here’s the link to another interesting aritcle that you may wish to read:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/are-parents-ruining-youth-sports-fewer-kids-play-amid-pressure/2015/10/04/eb1460dc-686e-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html?postshare=4551444841709956
Blog Post July 2015
Another interesting article on the value of playing multiple sports as a youngster, which is something we strongly believe in at Brant Lake Camp.
http://on.wsj.com/1C2yLuY
Blog Post April 2015 – Richie G.
This article by David Brooks in the NY Times is interesting. He makes the point that today there is undeniably more attention and praise given by parents to their children– which is also clear from our perspective. Much of it is for the good.
We think that this constant feedback from parents, some of it as Brooks mentions is subtle and unintentional, points to the value of a good summer camp experience– like Brant Lake provides! It is a place away from home where campers receive lots of praise and positive attention but perhaps in a more neutral and balanced way.
http://nyti.ms/1ONmFGk
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New Relief Effort Records First Saved Migrant Lives in South Texas
Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector
Bob Price
A new program aimed at saving the lives of lost migrants recorded its first saves this week. The program places unique signs at key locations instructing lost migrants to call 911 for assistance. The calls help Border Patrol agents save time in the rescue and apprehension of those lost.
Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley Sector reported their first lives saved from a program launched recently where signs are placed on ranches where migrants are frequently abandoned by smugglers without food or water. The signs instruct the lost to call 911 for assistance when they are in distress. The signs also are numbered. The number allows agents to quickly learn the exact coordinates of the sign and quickly move in to rescue and apprehend the illegal immigrants, according to Rio Grande Valley Sector officials.
Emergency signs placed in key locations by the Missing Migrants Project carry a unique number that identifies the geographic coordinates of the sign’s location. (Photo: Missing Migrant Project)
Two Honduran migrants became the first to be rescued under the new program on July 31, officials stated. The Honduran brothers, ages 25 and 27, became lost on a ranch in Brooks County after being abandoned by human smugglers with no food or water. The 100-degree heat during the day had taken its toll on the brothers and they realized they were in trouble. Nighttime temperatures were still well into the 90s when the duo came across one of the new signs. One of the brothers called 911, as advised by the sign, and requested help.
The 911 dispatcher looked up the sign’s location with the number provided and quickly contacted Falfurrias Station Border Patrol agents to rescue the two men. Because of the information contained on the sign, the agents were able to find the two men within an hour of the call for help. Agents provided water to the two Honduran nationals and determined they needed no further medical assistance.
The agents transported the two illegal immigrants to the Falfurrias Station for processing.
“These are exactly the sorts of stories we were hoping to be able to tell when we started posting these signs last month,” Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla, Jr. said in a written statement. “We’re placing the signs almost as fast as we can get them made, and we have a lot of ground yet to cover, but this is certainly an encouraging start.”
Migrants frequently become lost in Brooks County as cartel-connected human smugglers attempt to march them around the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint located there. When a migrant becomes injured, dehydrated, weak, or otherwise unable to keep up with he group, the smugglers will simply abandon them without food or water. This results in numerous deaths in this county. Brooks County, located 80 miles from the Mexican border in South Texas, frequently leads the nation in the number of deceased migrants.
This year, the deaths of illegal immigrants in this county are up by 23 percent over last year, Brooks County Sheriff Benny Martinez told Breitbart Texas on Wednesday.
“We have recovered the bodies or skeletal remains of 34 people this year who died in our county after being abandoned by these ruthless human smugglers,” the sheriff said.
The Missing Migrant Project reports that 202 died after illegally entering the U.S. this year. The increasing rate of migrant deaths is quickly approaching record-setting levels. During the same period last year, 219 migrants’ remains had been recovered — 214 in 2016. This compared to only 104 in 2015 and 87 in 2014.
Border Patrol officials said these signs are important because other countries use different emergency call numbers. In Honduras, where these two brothers came from, residents have three different emergency numbers (195 or 378654 for EMS, 198 for fire, and 119 for police).
The signs also reduce the time required to prosecute rescue operations and reduce the need for the expense for helicopter aircrew support.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
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Netanyahu to European Leaders: Stop Funding Iran
AP/Markus Schreiber
Deborah Danan
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday urged European leaders to stop funding Iran, which he called a “sponsor of terrorism,” and slammed the four remaining partners in the nuclear deal for inviting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to meet with them while an Iranian terror plot was unfolding in France.
“Here’s my message to the European leaders: Stop funding the very regime that is sponsoring terrorism against you and against so many others. Stop appeasing Iran!” the prime minister told some 2,500 people at a U.S. Independence Day event near Tel Aviv.
The P4 planned a meeting with the Iranian president in Europe to discuss ways around U.S. sanctions that were reinstated with President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal.
“Remember that Iran nuclear deal? Remember that? President Trump decided to leave this bad deal and he did the greatest thing for the security of the world and for the security of Israel,” Netanyahu said.
“Now, you should know that this is not yet universally accepted and I can tell you that this week there’s going to be a meeting in Europe … by the P4 without the United States. They’re going to discuss how to go around the decision that President Trump and the United States made to leave this bad deal which is funding Iran’s terrorism and its aggression with billions of dollars,” the prime minister said.
Netanyahu expressed his shock that the P4 had invited Rouhani while Tehran had meanwhile “dispatched a terrorist cell to carry out a major terrorist action in France.”
The terror cell’s commander was an Iranian diplomat in Austria.
“At the time of their capture, the cell members had explosives, detonators and more. European authorities are now completing their investigation and are expected to charge the Iranian agents and cell members behind the plot,” Netanyahu said.
“This Iranian terror plot was planned on the soil of Europe in the same week that the European leaders are supposed to meet the president of Iran about circumventing the sanctions on Iran,” Netanyahu continued.
Iran denied any involvement after Austria said it was suspending the Iranian’s diplomatic immunity after his arrest in Germany.
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Charity gives Venus de Milo prosthetic arms in French campaign
Paris (AFP) – A replica of the Venus de Milo, the famous armless Greek goddess statue, was endowed with two prosthetic limbs made by 3D printers for a campaign by Handicap International carried out in Paris on Tuesday.
The operation at the Louvre metro station, just outside the museum in the French capital where the original Venus stands, urges an increased use of quickly made, but often more costly, 3D prosthetics instead of traditional devices.
The replica has the goddess holding a moulded apple in her left hand.
Other statues across Paris were also being fitted out with prosthetics, including several in the nearby Tuileries Garden such as the “Alexandre Combattant” (Alexander Fighting) by Charles Leboeuf.
It was part of the charity’s #BodyCantWait campaign, which has already given 19 people resin-based “printed” limbs in Togo, Syria and Madagascar, and will soon provide them to more than 100 people in India.
Handicap International says roughly 100 million people around the world need artificial limbs.
“We want to take this to the next level, bringing them to more countries and equipping more people,” Xavier de Crest, head of Handicap International France, told AFP.
He defended the charity’s push for devices made with 3D printers despite their higher price tag, saying they were easier to produce, in particular in developing countries.
“Before 3D printing, you had to make a plaster cast of the stump, adjust it four or five times, encase it in resin, things that required trained professionals and lots of equipment,” de Crest said.
“Now a tiny scanner can analyse the stump and transfer the measurements to modelling software, then to a 3D printer. You save time and it’s more practical, especially when we’re working in a conflict zone like Syria,” he said.
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SC shocked over "manipulation" of court's order in Amrapali case, says more heads will roll
Press Trust of India | New Delhi Last Updated at May 8, 2019 20:40 IST
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Shocked by "unfortunate" manipulation of its order in the high profile Amrapali case, the Supreme Court Wednesday issued a stern warning to the black sheep of its Registry and said some more heads will roll for destroying the institution.
Taking serious cognizance of the "sorry state of affairs", the apex court said: "People are trying to change orders by influencing and manipulating the court staff, which would not be tolerated at any cost."
The latest incident came to fore when the top court pointed out that the name of the forensic auditor in its order was changed.
The top court had in February sacked two of its staff and a case was lodged for allegedly tampering with an order which created an impression that industrialist Anil Ambani had been exempted from personal appearance in a contempt case filed by Ericsson.
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and U U Lalit Wednesday modified its earlier order and asked the directors of various Amrapali Group's supplier firms including Jotindra Steel and Tubes Ltd, a public listed company, to appear before forensic auditor Pawan Agarwal from May 9 for three days saying that non-compliance would be considered as contempt of court.
The bench said that when the court had ordered directors of various firms to appear before Agarwal, who has been investigating the case of Jotindra Steel, how did the name of other forensic auditor Ravinder Bhatia appear in the order sheet.
"It is unfortunate, shocking and surprising that orders of this court are being manipulated and influenced. It is sorry state of affairs in the Supreme Court. This cannot be tolerated. Few days back similar thing happened in Justice R F Nariman's court and now again this has happened," it said.
"Two persons were removed at that time. It seems that was not enough and some persons needs to go out. Institution is being destroyed like this and a strong message needs to be sent to who ever is responsible," it added.
On May 2, the bench said: "It is directed that all the Directors of M/s. Jotindra Steel and Tubes Ltd., M/s. Mauria Udyog Ltd., M/s. Bihariji Properties Pvt Ltd., M/s. Bihariji Developers Private Limited, M/s. Bihariji Highrise Private Limited and M/s. Sarvome Housing Private Limited, shall report at the Office of Ravinder Bhatia, Forensic Auditor along with all the documents required by them with respect to total transactions for next three days during 11 AM to 5 PM."
The bench, which is hearing a batch of pleas of 42,000 home buyers against the embattled Amrapali Group for failing to give the possession of flats, said the court has identified the person and efforts are on to contact him.
"It is really shocking what is happening in the Supreme Court. They think that they can manipulate the court staffs and the orders of this court. It cannot be done. We know who this person is. We are trying to contact me. The way it is being done is very unfortunate," it said.
The court said: "The said auditor, who was not involved in the case was named in the order while the other auditor who was involved and we told his name in the open court was not included".
It warned the court staff, who had dealt with the order, and asked him to be careful from next time.
The bench then told Agarwal that the directors of the Amrapali Group's supplier firms will meet him from tomorrow for three consecutive days and he should examine their relevant documents as required.
Agarwal has earlier told the court that directors of Jotindra Steel and Tubes Ltd and other supplier firms of Amrapali, which were accused of being used for diversion of home buyers money to the tune of over Rs 400 crore were not cooperating with him.
Akhil Sureka, a Managing Director in the company, was found to be a director in group companies of Amrapali in the forensic audit.
The court-appointed forensic auditors detected siphoning of over Rs 400 crore by Surekha, who according to them, is an authorised signatory of Amrapali in banks since 2016 on wards.
Senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for Surekha had told the court that he was duped by Amrapali and it owes him Rs 112 crore for the material they have supplied for construction of projects.
On February 28, the apex court had allowed the Delhi police to arrest Amrapali group CMD Anil Sharma and two directors on a complaint that home-buyers of their various housing projects were cheated and duped of their funds.
The top court, which is seized of several pleas of home-buyers seeking possession of around 42,000 flats booked in projects of the Amrapali group, also ordered attachment of personal properties of the CMD and directors -- Shiv Priya and Ajay Kumar.
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ITV could 'go dark' on Virgin Media unless an £80 million bill is settled
Jake Kanter
Nov. 6, 2017, 6:05 AM
ITV show "The X Factor."
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ITV has an £80 million commercial disagreement with Virgin Media.
It could pull its main chain nel from the cable service unless it's resolved.
ITV wants payment after a recent change in copyright law.
Virgin said it will not be "paying for channels that are meant to be free."
Negotiations will come to a head early next year.
ITV could pull its flagship channel from Virgin Media unless the cable TV company pays it up to £80 million ($105 million).
The two media companies have been locked in a stand-off for months over the bill. If unresolved, the dispute could lead to ITV depriving 3.7 million Virgin subscribers of its main channel, home to shows like "The X Factor."
The negotiations were set to come to a head in September, when ITV's existing channel deal with Virgin expired, but the broadcaster extended the agreement until early next year.
ITV is demanding payment of up to £80 million from Virgin, according to The Daily Telegraph, which is double an estimate analysts Liberum gave earlier this year.
The channel can demand payment for the first time, after the introduction of the new Digital Economy Act in April.
The legislation abolished a copyright exemption which cable TV platforms like Virgin had enjoyed since 1988, allowing them to carry channels like ITV without paying a penny.
ITV has so far stopped short of threatening to remove its main channel from Virgin, but insiders admit that it is an option available to the company if talks do not progress.
An ITV spokesman said: "Our position is very straightforward: ITV, and other public service broadcasters, should be paid fairly by pay-TV platforms that make money from our multi-billion pound investment in original UK content so that we can continue to invest in the programmes, particularly drama and entertainment, that our viewers enjoy."
Virgin admits ITV could "go dark"
Virgin disagrees, and has itself admitted that ITV could "go dark" on its platform unless some common ground is agreed.
A spokesman told Business Insider: "Neither Virgin Media nor our customers will be paying for channels that are meant to be free."
He added: "The UK government has been very clear and consistent — no fees for public service channels like ITV1... ITV is already fully compensated for this through its prominent position, with the audience reach and additional advertising revenue this delivers."
A similar dispute erupted in the UK only this year. Discovery threatened to remove its channels from Sky, claiming the pay-TV company was not prepared to pay a "fair price" to carry the stations.
The matter was only resolved in an eleventh-hour deal between the two companies.
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H&M Shares Jump as Early Summer Sales Shine
27 June 2019 • By Reuters
June sales were up 12 percent for the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, beating analyst forecasts. Second quarter sales were up 11 percent, beating Inditex's 10 percent.
H&M First-Quarter Earnings Beat Estimates on Fewer Discounts
29 March 2019 • By Bloomberg
Pretax profit fell 17 percent to 1.04 billion Swedish krona ($112 million) despite the retailer introducing new products at lower prices to try to avoid massive discounts later.
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Fashion Prepares for Brexit Disaster
14 February 2019 • By Sarah Kent
Thursday's debate left Britain in Brexit gridlock. While no deal may yet be averted, fashion giants from Kering to Burberry have started planning for worst-case scenarios.
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The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower discussed the way H&M can use artificial intelligence to curb waste production and his new role at the fast-fashion giant.
Online Clothing Retailers Hunt for Better Fit to Cut Costly Returns
21 December 2018 • By Reuters
Almost a third of shoes and clothes from brands like Adidas and Zalando are bigger or smaller than the size on the label indicates, according to fitting models.
H&M Backs AI-Powered Men’s E-tailer Thread
16 October 2018 • By Sarah Shannon
The London-based men’s personal styling service has raised a $22 million Series B round led by H&M’s venture arm.
H&M Shares Rise Despite Profits Falling
27 September 2018 • By Bloomberg
Swedish retailer reported a 19 percent fall in operating profit due to inventory issues, yet the company's shares jumped 13 percent.
Family Matters: The Pros and Cons of Clan-Run Companies
21 May 2018 • By Lauren Sherman
From Hermès and LVMH to H&M and Ralph Lauren, family control can be a benefit — or a liability.
A $140 Billion Asset Manager Bets on H&M Rebound as Others Flee
24 January 2018 • By Bloomberg
Chicago-based Harris Associates LP increased its stake in H&M fourfold last year and currently holds more than 5 percent of the Swedish fashion retailer’s shares.
Top Fashion Companies Come Together to Improve Children’s Rights
24 November 2017 • By Bloomberg
H&M, Kering and VF Corporation are among the companies that have joined a new network, set up by the world’s biggest wealth fund and Unicef, to address the plight of children in the garment production industry.
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California Bishops Statements
SB 360, Legislative Threat to Seal of Confession, Pulled from Committee
July 8, 2019 News, Faith in the Public Square
SACRAMENTO, CA -- The day before hundreds of Catholics were planning to voice their opposition by attending a hearing in the Capitol, SB 360 was pulled from the Assembly Public Safety Committee agenda effectively removing it from any further consideration this year.
SB 360 (Hill, D-San Mateo) attempted to deny the sanctity of confession when it comes to priests and to Catholics who work with priests in parishes, Church agencies and ministries.
Insights: Bill Targets Migrant Detention Centers; Before You Go
June 28, 2019 News, Public Policy Insights
Bill Aims to Increase Transparency at Migrant Detention Centers
It is no secret that conditions in Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) migrant detention camps in California and nationally have questionable living conditions. There have been consistent reports of human rights violations in overwhelmed detention facilities. According to NBC News, there have been 24 deaths in the last two years alone in these facilities.
June 27, 2019 Immigration, News, News
Reviews of the centers conducted by the California Attorney General (AG) has shown that available information regarding the treatment of immigration detainees in California is cursory and inconsistent.
U.S. Bishops Detail Accountability Reforms
June 27, 2019 News, News, Protecting Our Children
Earlier this month, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to on several proposals to hold bishops accountable for instances of sexual abuse of children or vulnerable persons, sexual misconduct, or the intentional mishandling of such cases. They also specifically committed to involving and utilizing lay professional experts and established a new, independent mechanism for the reporting of such cases.
Taking Action: Caring for our Common Home
June 27, 2019 News, News
Last week, the California Bishops released God Calls Us All to Care for Our Common Home, a pastoral statement in response to the growing ecological threats to our state.
In it, the Bishops challenge the people of California to appreciate the beauty of the state and to apply – both individually and collectively – the teachings of Laudato Si’ in safeguarding our natural gifts. Click here for a video on the calling.
Insights: Bishops Issue Call to Protect the Environment; Updates on SB 360
CA Bishops Issue Call to Protect Our Common Home
Cherishing the many natural blessings of the Golden State while expressing growing concern with escalating threats to our world, the Catholic Bishops of California have issued a pastoral statement calling on all people to “contribute to the ecological well-being of our state.”
Updates on SB 360 - #KeepTheSeal
Thousands of Catholics, through the efforts of dioceses around California, are contracting their Assembly Members to object to the infringement of religious freedom that SB 360 represents. The bill threatens to remove the right to privacy between a penitent and confessor during the Sacrament of Reconciliation and other spiritual counseling for priests and employees of the Church.
SB 360 will be heard next in the Assembly Public Safety Committee though no date has been announced.
Stockton‘s Bishop Emeritus Blaire Dies at 77
Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, who served as bishop of the Diocese of Stockton for 19 years before his retirement in 2018, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 77.
Even in retirement, Bishop Blaire was active in ministry and the Church. One of Bishop Blaire’s passions was care for the environment and the earth, and he was instrumental in the Bishops’ pastoral statement God Calls Us All to Care for Our Common Home. He passed on the same day the statement was released.
Founding San Jose Bishop DuMaine Dies
Bishop Pierre DuMaine, who was founding Bishop of the Diocese of San Jose and served there for 18 years, passed away peacefully on June 13. He was 87.
On January 27, 1981, DuMaine was named by Pope John Paul II the first bishop of the new Diocese of San Jose. Bishop DuMaine retired in 1998 and was succeeded by current San Jose diocese Bishop Patrick McGrath.
Insights: Bishops Establish Abuse Reporting Framework; Dioceses Highlight SB 360 Threat
Bishops Vote to Move Forward on Third-Party System for Reporting Abuse
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have taken three separate votes that will lead to the establishment of a third-party reporting system designed to receive confidentially, by phone or online, reports of possible violations by bishops per Pope Francis’s Vos estis lux mundi. (Read about the rules here.)
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MINISTER OF STATE WELCOMES SCHMITZ CARGOBULL’S INVESTMENT IN IRELAND
Trailer manufacturer Schmitz Cargobull has established a new company, Schmitz Cargobull Ireland, in support of the country’s rapidly expanding haulage market, in a move welcomed by Minister of State Damien English TD.
The new company will give operators easier access to the latest trailer technology – vital when, according to the Central Statistics Office, the total tonnage transported by Irish hauliers has increased by more than 10 per cent in the last year.
Operators will also be able to handle all elements of their trailer acquisition, including invoicing and payment, in Ireland.
The company was launched at an official event attended by Schmitz Cargobull Chief Sales Officer Boris Billich.
Minister English says: “The open nature of the Irish economy, with high levels of international trade combined with our geographical peripheral location, means that achieving excellence in freight transport continues to be vital for our competitiveness. It is very welcome therefore that Schmitz Cargobull is investing in Ireland to service the local operators in this growing sector.
“The Irish government has worked hard to ensure that we have the best possible conditions in place to encourage investments like this and I am delighted to see Schmitz Cargobull recognising this through their expansion here.”
The new country office will be run by experienced Schmitz Cargobull Sales Manager Paul Ò Ceallaigh, providing a direct contact point for sourcing advanced smart trailers equipped with the company’s own refrigeration unit and telematics system, leading to lower lifetime operating costs.
Boris Billich, Chief Sales Officer, Schmitz Cargobull, says: “We have worked closely with Irish hauliers for many years, so we are delighted to now launch Schmitz Cargobull Ireland, and provide our customers with direct representation in their own market.”
Bolstering the manufacturer’s presence in Ireland are six Service Partners, located in Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Ashbourne, Belfast and Dungannon, providing dedicated parts distribution. While out on the road, operators will also be able to call on the support of Schmitz Cargobull’s wider pan-European network of more than 1,700 Service Partners across 40 countries.
Alan Hunt, Managing Director, Schmitz Cargobull Ireland, says: “The Irish market is a crucial part of our business. By establishing a dedicated presence in Ireland for the very first time, we are making it easy for hauliers to source the latest equipment, reduce their operating costs and help their businesses to grow.”
Schmitz Cargobull Ireland is a subsidiary company of the German-owned Schmitz Cargobull Group.
With an annual production of some 61,000 trailers and around 6,400 employees, Schmitz Cargobull AG is Europe's leading manufacturer of semi-trailers, trailers and truck bodies for temperature-controlled freight, general cargo and bulk goods. The company achieved sales of more than € 2.2 billion in the 2017/2018 financial year. As a pioneer in the industry, the North German company developed a comprehensive brand strategy early on and consistently established quality standards spanning every level: from research and development, to production and specialist services such as consulting, trailer telematics, financing, spare parts and used vehicles.
Visit Schmitz Cargobull UK’s dedicated online press room at http://gk.news/schmitzcargobull
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Press Contact UK and Ireland:
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Garnett Keeler PR
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Company Contact Europe:
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Is California Spearheading the Fall into Darkness and Perversion?
May 7, 2018 Rev. Michael Bresciani Church News & Issues, Morality Comments Off on Is California Spearheading the Fall into Darkness and Perversion?
While New York is a close second to California, no state has done so much since the days of the repeal of California’s Prop 8 first introduced on August of 2008, to seal up the path for sexual deviancy, child endangerment and general lawlessness. It is barely recognizable as a U.S. state.
But the reversal of prop 8 was only the beginning. Under an almost completely democratic legislature and a governor, Jerry Brown, who has netted the title among journalists of ‘Governor Moonbeam’ the state is undergoing a decline un-paralleled in our history.
A State Beleaguered with Trouble
It is under a disaster watch for earthquakes at all times, but the last few years it has been ravaged by wildfires, storms, floods and mudslides all unprecedented in its history. Along the Santa Ana River are miles of homeless people in tents, and cardboard shelters. It has the worst quality of life in the nation, highest taxes, ridiculous prices for homes and Hollywood, that deep river of everything perverse and violent, keeps flowing out to the rest of the nation.
In Canada Free Press, Katy Grimes says, “Despite the dire circumstances, the ravenous left in California continues at breakneck speed to implement so many detrimental, dangerous laws and policies, that Jack, the amoral leader in “Lord of the Flies,” would blush. Stranded on an island, this group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery. It sounds like California, doesn’t it?
While illegal immigrants pour across the border, residents and businesses are leaving at a record pace. Some counties have decided to defy the state’s sanctuary law and other areas are considering a “Calexit” or a move to break the state into three separate states.
Lawlessness under the Guise of Law
Then along comes California’s AB 2943. It is a bill to make illegal all materials and counseling efforts to reverse or stop all sexual orientation changes. A clear look at what this bill proposes is enough to cause even the most nominal supporter of the first amendment and religious freedoms to shudder.
While it does not specifically include the Bible, it can be used to challenge it, and even ban it within the state. It also can be used to criminalize all counselors, authors and speakers and printed materials which claim that sexual orientation changes can and should be dealt with and reversed.
AB 2943 was passed on April 19, 2018 in the California Assembly in a bipartisan vote of 50 to 14. Now even the efforts of religious organizations and churches could be seen as illegal if they attempt to advise those who want to change their sexual orientations by means of biblical laws and principles.
California Ignores U.S. Constitution – and California Constitution.
While the bill must still be sent to the California Senate, it is wobbly and most assuredly will come under the scrutiny of the U. S. Constitution which prohibits the abridgement of free speech, not to mention California’s own constitution which states, “[e]very person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects,” and that “[f]ree exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed.”
Some authors are calling the law the ‘You must stay gay’ bill such as Dr. Michael Brown. California pastor and author Shane Idleman asks the question, Has California Lost Its Mind? AB 2943 could essentially “ban” certain books up to and including the bible. Can you spell “Nazi Germany?” Michael Brown asks the question, “Will California Go from Banning Religious Books to Burning Them?”
LGBT Agenda Exposed
In a piece published by Liberty Counsel is this quote by a California State Assembly Member which indicates the real purpose of AB 2943. It is an LGBT driven attempt to conform the church to the nascent cultural decline of the day.
“California State Assembly member, Al Muratsuchi, said, “The First Amendment does not prohibit banning fraudulent conduct. The faith community, like anyone else, needs to evolve with the times.”
During his speech on the California bill at Google headquarters, LGBT activist Samuel Brinton said he wanted to “figure out a way to stop” pastors and churches from offering counsel to help people change unwanted same-sex attractions. He went on to say, “I may not be able to FIND every little camp…every pastor, but I can make it something that is culturally unacceptable.” He added, “Yes, it’s directly affecting mental health professionals, but by proxy, it’s affecting everyone else.” (Source)
Four Facts That We Should All Know – And Make Known to Others
1. Evil will never be sanctioned by God, and if the church decides it is, they have become apostate and in the biblical realm known as the “Kingdom of God” they are no longer part of Christ’s church. The idea that God’s mind can be changed by the culture of the day is one of the greatest perversions of the day.
“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment” (Ex 23:2)
2. Working the “law” to accomplish an evil end is a sign that the people and the lawmakers have reached the place of no return, or a state of reprobation. The only thing left after that point is judgment.
“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?” (Psalm 94:20)
3. God has declared that sodomy and perversion are all an abomination to him. He is called the Rock of our Salvation, (Ps 18:2) not the sinking sand of the culture. If it ever was an abomination, it will always be an abomination.
“He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” (Jn 12:48)
4. We need not have a degree in philosophy or biological science to deduce the following. If even one person changes their mind about becoming gay, lesbian or transgender the rest of the argument is moot. Thousands have turned away from the temptation to be gay which causes an irreparable implosion to the entire LGBT argument.
Genetic science will not lie for the culture. You can change the body, the clothing and the mannerisms and all else imaginable, but men will always test as men, and women as women.
What to Do – A Summary
We need to pray vehemently that this bill will be defeated in the California Senate. If you are a California resident you should contact your Senator and demand that this evil idea never becomes law. If for some reason all prudence is suspended and it is passed, we must pray for and support any person or organization that will test the law against the U.S. Constitution.
The fact is that this law, like all homosexual and deviant practices, remains hidden from the full view of the American public. People never get outraged by what they don’t see. It is a deep and disgusting realm of ugly and un-natural behavior and the gory details are kept as quiet as possible.
We must all make it clear that under no circumstances will we ever concede, nor cease to proclaim that sodomy and perversion are culturally unacceptable, regardless of which way the crowd swings.
“Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)” (Heb 10: 23)
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The Detroit Project: A Plan for Solving America’s Greatest Urban Disaster
Series: Metropolitan Recovery and Spending Priorities
Bruce Katz Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on December 9, 2009 on The New Republic under the title: The Detroit Project.
For much of the United States, Detroit has become shorthand for failure—not just because of the dilapidation of the town’s iconic industry, but because the entire metropolis seems like a dystopian disaster. It is the second-most-segregated metropolitan area in the country; the city’s population is 82 percent African American. No other American city has shed more people since 1950–Detroit is only half its former size. Its city government fails at the most basic tasks. A call to 911 will bring a response, on average, in about 20 minutes. (Such emergency calls are depressingly common in the metropolitan area: There are 1,220 violent crimes per 100,000 people.) And that’s to say nothing of corruption in the municipal ranks. This year alone, at least 48 Detroit public-school employees have been investigated for fraud–which might help explain why only one in four high school freshmen ever receives a diploma. Unemployment in Detroit stands at a staggering 28 percent. And, in key measures of economic vitality in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan regions, Detroit finishes dead last.
All this might make Detroit seem like the most hopeless case in the global history of the city. But it is hardly the worst and certainly not hopeless. Europe is filled with cities that have risen from similarly miserable conditions.
Take Belfast, which suffered not only industrial decline and disinvestment, but also paralyzing religious guerrilla warfare. Although it received the same sort of hammer blow from globalization as Detroit, it now has steady job growth after decades of losses. Its economic output leapt 35 percent per capita between 2000 and 2005. And, throughout the European continent’s industrial belt–the parts that are distinctly not Disneyland for American yuppies–there are many other examples of old redoubts of manufacturing (Bilbao, Leipzig, Sheffield, St. Étienne) that have enjoyed the very same sort of dramatic recoveries. This is not to oversell the optimism that these cities should inspire. They will never recover their full manufacturing might or swell with quite so many residents as before. Still, they represent realistic models for the rescue of Detroit.
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Drug trafficker testifies that 'El Chapo' bragged of $100 million bribe to former Mexico president
By Tom Hays
Jan 15, 2019 | 6:59 PM
| NEW YORK
Mexico's outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto arrives at the National Congress for the inauguration of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City on Dec. 1, 2018. (Marco Ugarte/AP)
A Colombian drug trafficker testified Tuesday that Mexican cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman boasted about paying a $100 million bribe to the former president of Mexico to call off a manhunt for the notorious kingpin.
Alex Cifuentes spoke about the alleged bribe to former President Enrique Pena Nieto while being cross-examined at Guzman's murder and drug conspiracy trial in New York.
A spokesman for Pena Nieto, who left office last year, called the bribery claim "false and defamatory" when it first came up earlier in the trial. Pena Nieto was still president when Guzman was captured in 2016 and extradited to the U.S. in 2017.
Attempts to contact Pena Nieto and his representatives were unsuccessful Tuesday.
Cifuentes acknowledged that he first spoke with prosecutors about the bribery allegation when he began cooperating with U.S. authorities in 2016. After expressing confusion about the details, he acknowledged that he had told prosecutors that he was informed by Guzman that someone named "Comadre Maria" delivered money in Mexico City in October 2012, at a point when Pena Nieto had been elected president but before he took office.
Guzman's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, also confronted Cifuentes with his prior statements about another debriefing last year where Cifuentes questioned his own memory about the circumstance of the bribe.
"By 2018, suddenly the numbers became fuzzy?" Lichtman asked.
"Yes, sir," the witness responded.
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Guzman is on trial in New York on charges that could put him in a U.S. prison for the rest of his life. The trial has featured numerous allegations of bribes or attempts to bribe high-level officials in Mexico and Columbia, including police commanders and other officials in charge of fighting the drug cartels.
The defense strategy for eliciting testimony about Guzman making bribes wasn't immediately clear. At the start of the trial, Lichtman indicated that jurors would hear testimony about bribes paid to both Pena Nieto and another former Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, and suggested Guzman was the victim of a conspiracy by government officials and his narco-rivals to railroad him. At the time, Calderon dismissed the allegations as "absolutely false and reckless."
The judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan, admonished Lichtman after his opening statement to the jury, saying some of it included "inadmissible hearsay" about corruption.
"Your opening statement handed out a promissory note that your case is not going to cash," the judge said at the time.
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Aurora man facing weapons charges
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William O. Davila (Kane County Sheriff's Office)
An Aurora man is facing weapons charges after police said he was found with a semi-automatic rifle that was stolen during a burglary in Virginia.
William O. Davila, 25, of Aurora, has been charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful use of a weapon, Aurora police said in a statement. He was already wanted on outstanding warrants for domestic violence and traffic violations, police said.
Police said an officer saw a blue Lincoln LS strike and drive over a curb at Union and Kane streets in Aurora around 5:50 p.m. Monday.
The car then accelerated as it went down Kane, and then made a sudden right turn into a driveway in the 100 block of North Union Street, police said. Three men quickly got out of the vehicle and one squatted behind a vehicle parked in the driveway, according to police.
Based on their suspicious behavior, the officer ordered the three men back to the vehicle.
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After backup arrived and the three men were detained, the officer walked to the Lincoln and allegedly saw the semi-automatic rifle in plain view where Davila was previously sitting.
The rifle had been stolen in 2017 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said.
The driver of the Lincoln, a 24-year-old Aurora man, was cited for driving an uninsured vehicle and driving with a suspended license. The other person in the car, a 19-year-old from Aurora, was released without charges.
Davila is currently being held at the Kane County Jail, with bail set at $44,700.
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Jose Peraza's Reds-Angels fielding blunder shared by MLB Twitter account
It's probably a good thing Marty Brennaman wasn't in Anaheim.
Jose Peraza's Reds-Angels fielding blunder shared by MLB Twitter account It's probably a good thing Marty Brennaman wasn't in Anaheim. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/reds/2019/06/26/jose-peraza-reds-angels-mental-lapse-video-shared-mlb-via-twitter/1572465001/
Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 1:37 p.m. ET June 26, 2019 | Updated 1:54 p.m. ET June 26, 2019
Jose Peraza appeared to lack awareness about the number of outs when he caught Shohei Ohtani's sacrifice fly at the warning track and didn't immediately throw it toward the infield, allowing pinch-runner Wilfredo Tovar to score from second base on the play during the seventh inning of the Cincinnati Reds' 5-1 loss Tuesday night to the Los Angeles Angels.
Cincinnati Reds shortstop Jose Iglesias (4) and Cincinnati Reds second baseman Jose Peraza (9) walk off the field after the win in the ninth inning during an MLB baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Thursday, May 16, 2019, at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. Cincinnati won 4-2. (Photo: Kareem Elgazzar)
To make matters worse, MLB shared video via Twitter:
Scoring on a sac fly from 2nd base?! 😱 pic.twitter.com/grPjXLOkBQ
— MLB (@MLB) June 26, 2019
And WLW's Seg Dennison shared this astute observation:
WISH MARTY WAS IN ANAHEIM AFTER THAT PLAY....WE WOULD LOSE THE LICENSE
— Bill Dennison (@seg700wlw) June 26, 2019
The Enquirer's John Fay described it in his game story:
La Stella led off with a single. Wilfredo Tovar pinch-ran for him. Tovar moved to second on Mike Trout drive to center that Senzel caught with his back to the wall. Shohei Ohtani followed with a shot to wall in left. Jose Peraza caught it with his back to the fence. But he drifted toward center after the catch. Tovar kept running and scored on a two-base sacrifice fly.
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Anthony DeSclafani, who struck out the first six batters he faced, allowed eight hits and six runs in the Reds' 7-5 loss to the Brewers. Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati Enquirer
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The F Word With Gordon Ramsay Recap 8/2/17: Season 1 Episode 9
BY Cristie Geroux on August 2, 2017 | Comments: Leave Comments
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Tonight on FOX their highly anticipated new reality show The F Word With Gordon Ramsay airs with an all new Wednesday, August 2, 2017, episode and we have your The F Word With Gordon Ramsay recap below. On tonight’s The F Word With Gordon Ramsay season 1 episode 9 as per the FOX synopsis, “Families and friends battle it out in a high-stakes cook-off with hopes of impressing Ramsay and special celebrity and VIP guests. During the battle, Ramsay will host special cooking demos and out-of-the-kitchen adventures.”
So make sure to tune in tonight between 9 PM and 10 PM for our The F Word With Gordon Ramsay recap. While you wait for our recap make sure to check our all our television news, spoilers, recap, pics & more, right here.
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The F Word With Gordon Ramsay ‘Episode Nine’ begins tonight with Teams Sass and Class versus Papa Knows Best, they will be competing in the kitchen making Chef Gordon Ramsay’s famous chicken caccitore. Team Sass and Class is ran by team captain, Allison who is joined by her mother, MaryAnn, her brother Drew and sister Caroline; Drew is on the chicken, MaryAnn is on vegetables, Caroline is starch. Whitney Webster is their sous chef.
Team Papa Knows Best jokes that the father already cut his finger. Team Captain is Stephanie, she is joined by husband, Bob and son Greg and Jeanette. Bob says this is so important to him since he was cooking with his mom since he was 6 years old and she recently passed away. Ben Kronick is their sous chef.
The challenge this week is they both have 24 hours to add their own unique taste to make the dish their own. Chef Ramsay comes the Sass and Class team modified by using gnocchi in brown butter and sage sauce. He thinks its ambitious and learns that Allison was overruled when she wanted to risotto balls. She promises to change it up if it doesn’t work.
Papa Knows Best is modifying sofrito polenta with double fried plantains. She says they all agreed on the final product and wanted to bring their own flair to the dish. She is sure they will beat the gnocchi. Chef Gordon Ramsay takes the audience to his home kitchen and he makes his own version of the chicken caccitore.
Back in The F Word restaurant, Chef Ramsay walks over to Brad Garrett’s table, who introduces everyone at his table. He makes fun of Gordon saying he only has makeup people there but no one to do his hair. He congrats Brad Garrett on his Las Vegas show; he shouts for everyone to keep the sound down and use their inside voices. He jokes how bad the service is, that they have waited for 3 days for food now. He shares that his comfort food, saying he loves spicy food and anything Indian or Mexican.
There is a challenge coming up with Jalapeno Hot or Not Roulette. Brad gets a hot one while Gordon gets one that isn’t. Brad’s second number is hot and he accuses Gordon that he is doing this on purpose and Brad asks if its a ghost pepper. Gordon again has one that isn’t hot. Brad gets all 3 spins as HOT peppers.
The dinner service is nicely on a roll and Gordon has early feedback. He tells Sass and Class out of their first 10 diners, 8 are happy to pay for it. Papa Knows Best has served 10 diners and only 3 are happy to pay; the chicken is too dry and he tells Stephanie to not be afraid to switch it up and whoever is cooking the chicken needs to wake up.
Tonight’s Guinness Book of World Records is about getting the largest pizza base spun in under a minute. Joe Carlucci, owner of Joe’s World Famous Pizzeria, holds the Guinness World Record for the highest pizza toss and is determined to add this title to his collection. He arrives from Athens, Alabama at The F Word Restaurant. He needs to stretch a pizza dough over 42 centimeters in under 60 seconds, with no holes and usable. The judge reveals he had 72 centimeters and wins the new world record.
Gordon Ramsay returns to the kitchen with results of halfway through dinner service. Sass and Class has served 26 dishes and 20 agreed to pay, the chicken is under seasoned and he tells them to reign it in. Papa Knows Best has served 32 dishes and 22 are willing to pay, they are in the lead and shares they have regrouped and changed it up to give Bob a break. He reminds them only one of them can go on the Winner’s wall.
Gordon decides to go under cover in plain sight. He has hired an actor to make a documentary about Gordon Ramsay, himself. Everyone has a catch phrase and he jokes that if these people only knew he was hearing every word they were saying; people tore him down repeatedly choosing Jamie Oliver and Bobby Flay over Gordon Ramsay. The people are thrown for a loop when they see it is Gordon Ramsay holding the camera; he laughs at how people never notice the cameraman.
Gordon walks through the restaurant and welcomes Rob Riggle, asking how he stays so fit. He admits that he ate for comfort for a while and now is back in shape. They are sharing a drink as Rob says ice cream is his weakness; he doesn’t cook but he grills. They are bout to have a challenge, in their stall they are going to have a pasta challenge.
Rob is to listen to him as he guides him to make pasta. He tells Gordon he is going to fast as Gordon has already folded his pasta and Rob is still back at doing the egg wash on the pasta. Joe Carlucci joins Rob to make the pasta together as Gordon is already done making his.
Chef Ramsay calls Stephanie and Allison over to taste the dishes from each kitchen. Sass and Class’s dish is presented well and the chicken is beautiful. Stephanie says Jeanette plated and he said it looks beautiful. He encourages them both to finish strong as they share their feedback.
Gordon meets with super model Miranda Kerr in his home kitchen who challenged him to a cook off. They talk about the pressure of being s super model and remaining skinny. She says she eats 80% healthy and 20% indulgent. Gordon is frustrated that Miranda is able to cook so fast. He tastes the juice from her chicken and says its damn good. Three of the staff from The F Word Restaurant are there to do the blind taste test. They chose Gordon’s plate and Miranda says he would have been so sad if he lost. He says its refreshing to cook with a supermodel who loves to eat and cook.
Back in The F Word kitchen, Gordon announces the kitchen is closed after we are shown a little bit of the competitive spirit between sous chefs Whitney and Ben. Kayla brings the envelop to Chef Gordon Ramsay to see who will be the 9th team to join the winners’ wall.
For one team, 31 out of 50 diners said they would pay for their dish while 42 out of 50 would pay for the other team’s dinner. The winning team tonight is Sass and Class.
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