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The dataset generation failed
Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 143
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 143
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Peter Vogel: The Sou
Peter Vogel: The Sound of Shadows Documentary
A documentary by Jean Martin and Conall Gleeson A documentary film investigating the life and work of pioneering sound artist Peter Vogel
Jean Martin’s documentary Peter Vogel: The Sound of Shadows is a lasting document complementing the artist’s first solo exhibition in Britain. It provides viewers with a rich context to understand the artist and his works, whether or not they were able to visit the exhibition itself. The film offered an appropriately dynamic medium to explore and reflect on Vogel’s time-based, interactive objects, yet nobody anywhere in the world had previously made a full-length documentary about Vogel. Due to the artist’s age and health, it was imperative to take the opportunity to complement the exhibition premiere of his sonic interactive sculptures at the University of Brighton in 2011 with a comprehensive DVD. You can watch a shortened version on vimeo
Two prime research questions emerged: how best to demonstrate the ways in which time-based, interactive sound objects work; and what made Peter Vogel’s work pioneering and different?
Over the two-year evolution of this project, Martin’s method included filming Vogel in his Freiburg studio and elsewhere (including his solo exhibition in Paris, 2009) as he talked about what motivated him to create his interactive, dynamic works, given that he started out as a painter. Closely allied to this, Martin filmed examples of Vogel’s artworks in action, with the artist explaining his creative and technical approaches. Martin examined the context in which Vogel worked and his role in sound art history through an interview with Professor De La Motte, a leading German academic in the field. He explored aspects of sound theory and philosophy, including the roles played by interaction, chance and causality, and the practice (which can be termed the ‘aestheticisation of technology’) of showing the electronic circuitry in the artworks themselves.
In addition to the DVD, a comprehensive website devoted to Vogel’s work includes exhibition details, published essays and examination of key works.
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OR2012 Developer Challenge:
Linking CRISes to Research Discovery
Steffen Godskesen, Rikke Willer and Christian Tonsberg from the Technical University of Denmark presented an idea for linking CRIS systems to repositories to aid research discovery at the DevCSI Open Repositories 2012 Developer Challenge.
In their original entry, Steffen gave the following description of the idea:
We would like to pitch the idea of facilitating recording of research output by building a bridge between a Discovery Interface (DI) and a Current Research Information System (CRIS). Assume for the following that, (1) researchers consider recording research output as tedious and unnecessarily complicated, and (2) the bulk of the metadata required to fill in a record in the CRIS will at some point be accessible in a DI (at least if we restrict ourselves to academic papers and books). We would like to exploit this last assumption in order to invalidate the former be enabling either the researcher herself or an assistant to create a new record in the CRIS based on metadata retrieved from DI.
http://www.vimeo.com/45751200
This video is also available on Vimeo.
Slides to follow
Are you interested in collaborating with Steffen and the team, or discussing how this idea could be taken further?
Please leave a comment on this page.
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About Bill Mundell
[William Mundell’s biography in Chinese]
Mr. Mundell is currently chairman of IKM(www.ikmnet.com), an e-learning company which provides web-based knowledge assessments.
Previously he served as Chairman of ZBB Energy Corporation, a New York stock exchange alternative energy company focused on the development of battery technology. He is the former Chairman and CEO of Vidyah Inc., a company founded out of Knowledge Universe(a joint venture fund of Larry Ellison and Mike Milken) to create a second generation of e-learning.
From 1989 through 1998, Mr. Mundell was with WEFA (now part of IHS Global Insight), serving first as President and later as President and Chief Executive Officer under Bain Capital’s ownership. WEFA, the world’s premier economic forecasting authority, was founded in 1963 as Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates by the Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Lawrence Klein.
He was also Chairman of Trade, Inc. a leading competitive intelligence company specializing in international trade information controlled by Bain Capital and Sutter Hill.
Mr. Mundell was an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management and is an honorary professor at Tsinghua University in China. He is the author of numerous articles published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science at Carlton University in Canada where he was the recipient of the U.S. Ambassadors Award. He completed his graduate studies at Columbia University, earning an MBA in Finance and a Masters in International Economics and Public Finance.
In 2005, Mr. Mundell formed Californians For Fair Redistricting to advance fair redistricting reform. In 2010, he was the executive producer of “Gerrymandering”, a national documentary directed by Academy Award winner Jeff Reichert, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and focuses on the use of gerrymandering to fix elections and protect incumbents.
In 2013, inspired by his longstanding interest in China, Mr. Mundell embarked on a five-year project to create the feature documentary BETTER ANGELS, directed by Academy Award winner Malcolm Clarke. Released in 2019, the film explores the true potential of the U.S.-China relationship and was the recipient of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Beijing International Film Festival.
Bill Mundell appointed Chairman of the Board of ZBB Energy Corporation
ZBB Energy Corporation (Amex: ZBB) today announced that Mr. Bill Mundell has accepted the position as Chairman of the Board of Directors, taking over from Australian-based Mr. Richard Payne, who will continue to serve as a non-executive Director. Mr. Mundell joined the Board of ZBB following completion of the Company’s IPO in mid 2007 and his appointment as Chairman is a further move to strengthen the management of operations from the United States. More…
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King Lear (1967 Radio)
Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by John Richmond. With John Gielgud as Lear. The music is composed and conducted by John Hotchkis and performed by a section of the English...
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Tragedy of King Lear, The (1967 Radio)
Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by John Richmond. With John Gielgud in the title role, Derek Godfrey as Edmund and Timothy Bateson as the Fool. The music by John Hotchkis is played by a...
Richard II (1961 Radio)
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by John Richmond starring John Gielgud as Richard II and Ralph Richardson as John of Gaunt. With music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis. Richard Bebb...
Senior English II: Twelfth Night (1956 Radio)
Schools broadcast of four programmes based on scenes from Shakespeare’s play arranged for radio by John Allen with Deryck Guyler, Denys Blakelock and Pamela Allan. Stanley MacKenzie narrates. Introduction...
Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only
King Henry IV, Part 1 (1954 Radio)
Wilfrid Grantham
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by Wilfrid Grantham. With Robert Harris as King, Donald Wolfit as Falstaff and William Fox as Prince Henry. Incidental music composed by Norman Demuth. Noel...
Henry the Eighth (1954 Radio)
aka: Henry VIII
Peter Watts; Audrey Cameron
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for radio by Clemence Dane (pseudonym for English novelist Winifred Ashton) and produced by Peter Watts and Audrey Cameron. The all-star cast includes Sybil...
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1953 Radio)
Raymond Raikes
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced by Raymond Raikes. With Michael Hordern in the title role, Diana Maddox as Marina and Cyril Shaps as Gower. The music is composed and conducted by...
Julius Caesar (1951 Television)
Stephen Harrison (2); Leonard Brett
Televised adaptation of the play produced by Stephen Harrison and Leonard Brett, with Walter Hudd as Julius Caesar and Anthony Hawtrey as Mark Antony.
Romeo and Juliet (1949 Radio)
Hugh Stewart
Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by Hugh Stewart. The script of the broadcast has been edited by M. R. Ridley. With Robert Edison, Marius Goring and Celia Johnson. Duncan...
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Matt Reeves | 2022
Ever since Frank Miller revitalized the shopworn Batman character in 1986 with his four-issue comic book series The Dark Knight Returns, filmmakers of various stripes have tried to replicate its brooding, nihilistic tone. Tim Burton was first out of the gate but his 1989 Batman now seems as cartoonish as Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, released a year later. Christopher Nolan's trilogy certainly set the franchise back on course although his trademark polish lacked the noirish grit of the Miller comics. I passed on the Zack Snyder/Ben Affleck Batman outings, but now we have Matt Reeves's coal-black, rain-drenched The Batman. It may be the closest thing to Miller's 1986 comics, but it's far from perfect.
Robert Pattinson now steps into the Batboots after doing enough wacko indie dramas to convince audiences that he's not just the vampire toyboy from Twilight. I have no doubts about the actor's chops, but I never quite bought him as either Batman or Bruce Wayne. Although Pattinson is reportedly 6'1", there's something small and fragile about him: when his Batman towers over a roomful of policemen, I kept wondering, "How high did the costume department have to make his platform boots?" In short, he fails to intimidate. In his Bruce Wayne guise – maybe just 20% of his screen time – Pattinson's boyishness is especially apparent, in spite of or perhaps because of his floppy emo hair. It's suggested that his Wayne is about 30 years old and not the billionaire playboy of previous iterations but a gloomy loner. (Ample use of Nirvana's "Something in the Way" drives this point home.) Within the world of the film, this approach makes sense. But "Patt-man" just didn't work for me.
No matter: character development takes a backseat to plot here, with Batman and Commissioner Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) teaming up to catch a taunting serial killer who calls himself Riddler (Paul Dano). Although Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz) and Penguin (Colin Farrell, unrecognizable under makeup) factor into the plot somewhat, The Batman is mostly just a riff on David Fincher's Se7en, albeit with a grander finale.
I didn't hate this film. It's too long and it takes itself way too seriously – Reeves seems unaware how silly the Caped Crusader looks as he pushes his way through a crowded nightclub or studies a crime scene with a bunch of cops – but its visuals are stunning. You can thank Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser for much of that. After his work on Dune and this film, he is poised to become the new Roger Deakins. And let's not forget the score by the dependable Michael Giacchino, showing a bit of nerve by reducing The Batman's main theme to just four bombastic notes, even if it's overly redolent of John Williams's "Emperor's March" from The Empire Strikes Back.
Despite its stylishness, The Batman is sort of irrelevant. Minus a deeper message or a galvanizing performance like Heath Ledger's in The Dark Knight, it feels like just another installment in a never-ending franchise. A scene at the end, featuring the naturally terrifying actor Barry Keoghan, promises better things to come. We'll see.
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PSAV Announces Agreement to be Acquired by Blackstone
SCHILLER PARK, ILL., AND NEW YORK, N.Y. – PSAV, a global leader in event experiences, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity and real estate funds affiliated with Blackstone (NYSE:BX) (“Blackstone”) from affiliates of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Olympus Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
PSAV delivers on its purpose of connecting and inspiring people by creating impactful event experiences. Through its deep expertise in creative, production, advanced technology and staging services, PSAV is an invaluable partner to meeting and event planners. It is the trusted provider of choice at leading venues across the globe.
“We are very excited to partner with Blackstone, one of the world’s preeminent investors in the hotel, tradeshow, travel and leisure, and business services sectors, to support the next phase of PSAV’s growth,” stated Mike McIlwain, President and CEO of PSAV. “Blackstone is an ideal partner who is highly supportive of our team members and their commitment to our purpose, mission and values. Through this partnership, we and Blackstone intend to drive further innovation and growth alongside our world-class roster of venue partners and meeting planner customers. We are very appreciative of the successful partnership we have had with Goldman Sachs and Olympus Partners.”
Peter Wallace and David Kestnbaum of Blackstone’s Private Equity team commented, “We are thrilled about the future of PSAV’s partnership with Blackstone. PSAV is the market leader in event experiences, and we look forward to working with the company’s world-class management team to provide the broad array of value-added support and expertise that Blackstone offers. This is a great fit given our firm’s deep and long-standing record and relationships in the hospitality industry and other sectors relevant to supporting PSAV’s attractive growth prospects.”
Tyler Henritze and Scott Trebilco of Blackstone’s Real Estate team added, “Blackstone is already a significant partner to PSAV, using its services within nearly all our existing hotel portfolio. We are excited about pursuing additional ways to enhance the company’s growth and value-add to its venue partners and meeting planners via our industry presence going forward.”
“We are extremely proud of the growth that PSAV and its management team have achieved over our ownership period,” said Brad Gross and Leonard Seevers of Goldman Sachs.
Manu Bettegowda and Evan Eason, partners at Olympus, also commented, “We have been fortunate to partner with Goldman Sachs and with a very talented and experienced management team led by Mike McIlwain. PSAV is extremely well positioned to continue its stellar growth. We look forward to watching the team continue to drive that growth and market leadership.”
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are serving as financial advisors to PSAV, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is serving as legal counsel to PSAV. JP Morgan served as an advisor to management.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is serving as legal counsel to Blackstone. AGM Partners, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Moelis & Company are serving as financial advisors to Blackstone.
About PSAV
PSAV is a global leader in event experiences, providing creative, production, advanced technology and staging services to help meeting planners deliver more dynamic and impactful experiences at their meetings, trade shows and special events. The team consists of more than 9,000 professionals across 1,500 on-site venue locations and 49 branch offices within the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. It is the trusted partner and exclusive on-site provider of choice at leading venues worldwide. PSAV was recently named to the Forbes 2018 America’s Best Employer list. The company is headquartered in Schiller Park, Ill. www.psav.com.
About Blackstone
Blackstone is one of the world’s leading investment firms. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our asset management businesses, with $450 billion in assets under management, include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow Blackstone on Twitter @Blackstone.
About Goldman Sachs
Founded in 1869, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division is the primary center for the firm’s long-term principal investing activity. With nine offices across seven countries, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division is one of the leading private capital investors in the world with equity and credit investments across corporate, real estate, and infrastructure strategies. Since 1986, the group has invested approximately $180 billion of levered capital across a number of geographies, industries and transaction types. www.gs.com.
About Olympus Partners
Founded in 1988, Olympus Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing equity capital for middle market management buyouts and for companies needing capital for expansion. Olympus’ primary investment thesis is to back high quality management teams in their growth plans with strategic advice and capital. Olympus is an active, long-term investor across a broad range of industries, including business services, industrials, consumer products, healthcare services and financial services.
Olympus manages in excess of $8.5 billion on behalf of corporate pension funds, endowment funds and state-sponsored retirement programs. www.olympuspartners.com.
Bob Niersbach
rniersbach@psav.com
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‘The Novice’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 17, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Alex Weston, Lauren Hadaway, score, Soundtrack, The Novice
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the thriller The Novice. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alex Weston (The Farewell, Wander Darkly, What Breaks the Ice). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Novice is written and directed by Lauren Hadaway and stars Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone, Kate Drummond, Jonathan Cherry and Charlotte Ubben. The movie centers on an obsessive college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. The thriller premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and is being released in select theaters and on VOD today by IFC Films.
Here’s the track list of the album:
1. The Novice (1:24)
2. Dall (2:15)
3. Best Novice Out of All of Us (1:12)
4. Making Varsity (0:50)
5. Rachel Also Got an Offer (1:33)
6. Legs Body Arms (Arms Body Legs) (2:20)
7. God Knows – Paper Shakers (3:49)
8. Preparing for Battle (0:47)
9. That’s My Erg (1:04)
10. Training (2:09)
11. Who Said It Was a Date? (0:43)
12. Scrimmage (2:13)
13. Alex Confronts Jamie (1:03)
14. Breaking Point (2:07)
15. Everything I Am – Dilone and HXLT (4:56)
16. Breakfast (0:34)
17. So Don’t Watch Anymore (1:29)
18. There’s a Record? (2:21)
19. Night Before Seat Race (1:40)
20. Seat Race (2:47)
21. Like Honey Needs a Spoon – Collin Hegna (2:59)
22. They Wanted Me to Lose (2:02)
23. Around the Lake Row (3:32)
24. Dall Wins (0:37)
25. Funny – Sammy Taylor (2:29)
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Does Tax Payer Money Pay For High School Football Stadium The Braves Seek Out Suburbia
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Cinematic baseball wisdom holds that if you build it, they will come.
The Atlanta Braves seem to want to add a caveat: “… as long as you build it in the right place.”
In a move characterized as “surprising” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, team officials announced the Braves would leave their downtown Atlanta home for Cobb County, a suburban area northwest of the city whose largest city is Marietta. (1)
The Braves have played in downtown Atlanta since moving from Milwaukee in 1966, but their current home, Turner Field, is newer. It was built for the 1996 Olympics and became Braves Park in 1997. The team said it would relocate for the 2017 season, the first opportunity to do so since the 20-year lease at Turner Field expired.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Turner Field. Its only major drawback is that it is not enclosed, making it difficult to play or sit out a one-day game in Atlanta in July. But the weather isn’t giving up on the Braves. (The new arena will also be open-air, team officials have said.) A website the team launched to explain the move “cites some issues that are insurmountable and will become more problematic as the years go by.” (2) These include inadequate parking and lack of mass transit.
I assume these are real issues, but I suspect the Braves have other considerations. As always, money is high on the list. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed released a statement following the Braves’ announcement that keeping the team in downtown Atlanta would cost taxpayers “hundreds of millions of dollars.” He also claimed that Cobb County is providing a $450 million grant for the new ballpark, a figure neither the Braves nor Cobb County would confirm. Citing Reed, ESPN reported that the city plans to tear down Turner Field once the Braves leave.
Still, the Braves chose not to take Cobb County’s offer easy. As with metropolitan Atlanta, the area surrounding the proposed stadium is frequently gridlocked, even without the added traffic a major-league venue would create. As for mass transit, skeptics immediately noted that the MARTA transit system does not serve Cobb County.
But the green suburban hills have other advantages, not the least of which is proximity to the Braves’ fan base — a sizable suburban crowd whose kids play softball and hardball on the mindlessly manicured fields. Baseball struggles to attract young players in urban areas where basketball is particularly popular. In some places, like Atlanta, the central city is not where most fans live, especially those who can afford major-league prices. Derek Schiller, a Braves executive, said their new stadium would be “near the geographic center of our fan base.”
The Braves understandably want to get as many fans into the ballpark as possible. Despite the Braves’ consistent success on the field, they don’t particularly draw crowds at their current home stadium. In 2013, they averaged 31,465 in attendance per home game, although Turner Field could hold just under 50,000. The new Cobb County Stadium will seat approximately 41,000 to 42,000 people.
Downtown Atlanta is now lagging behind the nationwide trend of revitalizing urban cores. Unlike Miami, which is full of shiny new condo towers, Atlanta hasn’t attracted a large pool of new downtown residents in recent years. Atlanta is a high crime city by national standards. Very little happens downtown after dark. The city center is hollowed out as people move out of the city onto major open avenues or into more popular urban areas such as Buckhead, Little Five Points, and Druid Hills.
While I can’t blame team management, the Braves’ departure looks like a financial disaster for the city. The Braves and Turner Field were one of the primary draws to downtown Atlanta. The decision also reinforces the position of skeptics who argue that publicly financed sports facilities do not add much value to established big cities, whether stadiums are built for the Olympics (in Atlanta or, this year, Rio de Janeiro) or for professional sports franchises.
A big-league team, however, can put a small municipality on the map. This happened in Arlington, Texas, which hosts the Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys. It takes place in Anaheim, California, which is home to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the NHL team, the Anaheim Ducks. It could happen in Marietta soon. As Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes, Atlanta’s loss will be Cobb County’s gain, making it “a major destination point throughout the Southeast.” (1)
Downtown partygoers can take solace in the consolation prize — a new downtown stadium on the drawing board for the city’s National Football League franchise, the Atlanta Falcons. The team plans to move a short distance from its current home, the 21-year-old Georgia Dome that sits on the edge of downtown.
Football is more popular nationally than baseball, and nowhere more so than in Georgia, where even high school teams have their scores reported on the front page of the metropolitan daily. There is no doubt that the NFL is a treasure and baseball’s Braves are a consolation prize. But the Falcons play just eight regular-season home games a year, compared to the Braves’ 81. They also play mostly on Sundays, when traffic is less. You can get people to travel almost anywhere for an NFL game, but an eight-date schedule isn’t much to build a city on.
The Braves are the day-to-day attraction. Too bad the city doesn’t offer more attractive downtown locales to house them.
1) Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Surprising news: Atlanta Braves move to Cobb”
2) House of the brave
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Catch Up with MSU Female Athlete of the Year, Allyssa Ferrell
Tony Garcia, host of 19th Hole, catches up with former Michigan State golfer Allyssa Ferrell after she finished her senior year in the spring on a high note by placing 10th individually at the NCAA Championships.
Allyssa reflects on her time in high school and winning three Big Ten Championships with the Spartans. Ferrell also gives the inside scoop on her future path and what her plans are as far as going to qualifying school to make the LPGA Tour.
Find out the latest from one of the most decorated female Spartan golfers of all time, on this episode of 19th Hole.
Tony Garcia is the host of 19th Hole for Impact Sports.
Photo: Michigan State University Women’s Golf
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Court Case Over Blight Reveals Decrepit System
by Gary H. London
The recent San Diego Superior Court decision (Community Youth Athletic Center v. City of National City, et al.) to reverse the City of National City’s redevelopment plan amendment is more than meets the eye.
Touted as a victory for land owners not desirous of being paid “just compensation” for the taking of their property when, in fact, they want to keep their property (in this case an “at-risk” youth boxing club), the decision has the potential to form the basis for new law or interpretations on how eminent domain is administered by every city in the state.
Local land surveyor, planner and engineer Michael Pallamary, who represented the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Justice (which provided attorneys for the youth athletic center) as an expert witness called it “arguably one of the most important land use cases to be decided in years.”
He testified on the absence of valid information on how to correctly apply the state’s eminent domain findings relative to blight in California. Among other things, he opined that the city “came to the table with a foregone conclusion and then developed a fabricated set of ‘facts’ to support that conclusion.”
In analyzing the “findings” of economic blight asserted by the city, Pallamary said that the city had cherry picked select data and that this became the basis of what he termed a “planned deceit.”
Antiquated System
I have no doubt he is right, although, I find it difficult to fault the City of National City entirely on this matter. They are a victim of California’s redevelopment legal requirements and an antiquated system of redevelopment.
The issue came about when the city determined that the boxing club sat on “blighted” property — a must-have determination in order to proceed with obtaining the property under state law. Once declared “blighted,” the city could then buy the property and redevelop it.
The boxing club didn’t think it was blighted property.
The city did.
The irony is that blighted or not, nothing could have been or will be built on that site for years to come. There was a brief moment when a proposed high-rise residential tower might have been built. However, the city dragged its heels — as it did on most of their other redevelopment projects — and missed the market window. No project of this magnitude is feasible on this site now.
In other words, this has been an exercise of redevelopment promiscuity, with no real, achievable development outcome.
Actually, that is a good thing. If the project had been built, it probably would have ended up more blighted than it actually is because few of the units would have been sold, and the project would long ago have ended in failure, either foreclosure, bankruptcy, bank sale or some other decrepit end.
What happened here is actually at the heart of the redevelopment debate. Cities need the redevelopment tool to create new development and investment in older urban communities. Redevelopment law has been that tool. The law’s ability to designate certain geographical areas as “blighted” gives cities the ability to redevelop.
A Key Tool
First and foremost is the use of “tax increment financing,” a key financial tool which allows a city to project for tax purposes a value of property based on the eventual, realizable value of a new, dense project that might be built on the property.
Tax increment financing “moves time ahead” by creating a bondable value on the incremental difference between the “today” value and the value once the redevelopment is completed. This allows that value differential to be bonded against, so that investors provide upfront dollars. These upfront dollars are then, in turn, used by the city to pay for preparation costs such as better streets, sewers, fire stations, parks, etc.
Without this key tool, most of these projects would not be built within a reasonable time frame — if ever. It is a classic problem associated with the fact that in real estate development the costs to build are realized upfront, but the revenues and profits are only achieved at the end of the development period.
Tax increment funding bridges this timing gap.
What National City sought to do is essentially no different than what many of the municipalities and other public agencies throughout the state accomplish through the redevelopment laws: They employed a broad definition of “blight” in order to get the use of this property.
Many property owners love this, because they get paid a good price for property that would not otherwise be fungible. In other words, they are able to make “liquid” a classically nonliquid property asset in a run-down area. Some (like the boxing club apparently) just do not want to sell or move, and are not moved by the city’s need to relocate them.
Throughout this whole process, the system has been “gamed.” Too many cities have used a very broad designation of “blight” to squeeze more property into the redevelopment areas so that they may use redevelopment law as a transformative tool in their neighborhoods.
Stories are legendary of communities in San Diego and throughout the state that have done this. Ultimately, the tool worked.
But the Institute for Justice lawyers have now successfully argued that the game is dishonest.
But I do not agree with those who will now use this decision to criticize or otherwise seek to terminate redevelopment.
The problem is not with the idea of redevelopment. Rather, the problem is with the idea of having to make something “blighted” before it is redeveloped.
Surely, we can explore more honest and creative fiscal strategies to redevelop communities. One idea that should be vetted is the creation of infrastructure overlay zones. These would be geographic areas that are large enough to be bonded against but where “blight” does not have to be designated or properties necessarily “taken.” No city should have to declare an entire area “blighted” to accomplish its civic objectives of improving a community.
Blight should not be the standard, as currently defined.
Cities must retain the right to use eminent domain. It is important to access properties and more importantly, to bring property owners “to the negotiating table” to discuss a fair deal. Strategic acquisitions are important for cities and other agencies.
No Fairy Tale Deals
But no fairy tale deals. The problem with the National City deal was that it was never real.
We need to create incentives for everyone — developers, the community, private property owners and the public agencies (in terms of their fiscal needs) — to facilitate private redevelopment without the city having to intervene.
One lesson in the National City debacle is that cities don’t do a good job at redevelopment. For their few successes (locally that would be downtown San Diego), there are mostly failures and delay. Cities don’t have the same sense of timing and entrepreneurial instinct as the private citizens who actually build.
We need better facilitation tools, but not necessarily intervention tools.
We need to review the entire redevelopment concept at the “30,000-foot level.” It has become a whipping boy for all who despise municipal intervention in community upgrading.
Yet, redevelopment is needed to facilitate change that will inevitably be necessary if the region is going to continue to accommodate economic growth and improvement. In the coming years, this region will be almost wholly dependent on revitalizing existing urban areas. That means “redevelopment” in one form or another.
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Queer Ontario Responds to the Tory Omnibus Crime Bill
December 6th, 2011 admin Comments off
Tory’s Tough on Crime Bill may be Tough on Consensual Sex, says Queer Ontario
The Harper government’s harsh and ideologically motivated “tough on crime” omnibus legislation, Bill C-10 (The Safe Streets and Communities Act), contains a new provision that may be tough on consensual sex if the police and the courts decide to use it to keep sex strictly confined to the bedrooms of the nation. An amendment to s. 173.(1) of the Criminal Code (indecent acts) will make it possible for anyone who “willfully does an indecent act in a public place in the presence of one or more persons” to be found guilty of an indictable offence and be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years. This marks a significant change from the current s. 173.(1) which designates “indecent act” as a summary conviction offence for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for not more than six months. The amendment will give a Crown prosecutor the discretion to determine whether to proceed with a case against someone charged with the offence as a summary conviction offence or an indictable offence.
“The problem with the ‘indecent act’ section of the Criminal Code, all along, has been its vagueness as to just what constitutes an ‘indecent act’ because that term is not defined in the Criminal Code,” says Richard Hudler, of Queer Ontario. “It is left completely to the police, in terms of laying charges, and to the courts, in terms of a finding of guilt, to determine whether a place is ‘public’ and whether an act committed in that place is ‘indecent’”.
What constitutes a “public place” is equally vague. S. 150 of the Criminal Code defines it as including “any place to which the public have access as of right or by invitation, express or implied.” People of any gender could be charged and convicted of an “indecent act” for engaging in consenting sexual acts on a beach, in a park, in a parked car, at a sex party or in a bathhouse. Historically, police have laid indecent act charges during raids on bathhouses and sex clubs and against people having sex in secluded places in parks late at night. Even a sex party with invitations and advertising could be argued to be a public place and could be raided by the police, with indecent act charges being laid against the participants they find having sex. Queer liberation groups have long called for the abolition of the “indecent act” offence because of the way in which it has been used to target and repress consensual sex and to enforce morality.
“Now, the Harper government, in a gesture clearly aimed at catering to its social conservative constituency and their anti-sex morality agenda, is about to make a vague and odious law even more severe,” Richard Hudler states. “It is appalling and deplorable that adults engaging in consensual sex could potentially be sent to prison for up to two years. This amendment to s.173.(1) must be defeated.”
Richard Hudler
info@queerontario.org
Download: Queer Ontario Omnibus Crime Bill Statement
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Queer Ontario Urges Harper to Reverse New Regulations to Bawdy House Laws
August 6th, 2010 admin Comments off
Queer Ontario is fundamentally opposed to the regulatory changes to the bawdyhouse laws that were secretly passed by the Conservative government on July 13, 2010, and the undemocratic process that was used to pass them.
By designating bawdyhouses as ‘criminal organizations’ and by designating their operation as a ‘serious offence’ under the law, the Harper government has once again demonstrated that it is incapable of passing provisions that are publicly accountable. In advancing their tough-on-crime agenda above any nuanced understanding of organized crime in Canada; above any consideration for the lived realities of sex professionals; and above polls demonstrating the statistical drop in crime and the low priority crime-fighting has among Canadians, the Conservative government has made yet another unwarranted decision. Unfortunately, these measures are only exacerbated by the fact that the regulation was passed behind closed doors, without any opportunity for informed debate from either fellow MPs or the stakeholders who were to be affected by these amendments.
Categories: Releases Tags: Canada, Conservative, law, sex work
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CARLOS PANDO
Carlos Pando is a professional player from Buenos Aires Argentina, who has been playing polo for over 20+ years. For the last couple of years, he has played for Harald Link and his Thai polo team during the Malaysian and Thai Seasons, with immense success winning every tournament of High Goal and Malaysian league for the last few years.
SYLVIO COUTINHO
COLONEL RAVI RATHORE
Colonel Ravi Rathore has served in the army for 20 plus years and has had the distinguished honour and privilege to serve and Command the 61st Cavalry, the most elite regiment in the Indian Army and the only active mounted Regiment globally. Ravi is a recipient of the Arjuna Award for excellence in Polo, India’s most prestigious award for sport, awarded by the President of India. He has played in more than 25 countries all over the world and had the unique distinction of representing India in 5 successive World Cups - 2003, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2017 and captained the Indian Polo team in the last two FIP Polo World Cups. At present, he's an Ambassador to Federation of International Polo (FIP) from India.
For his distinguished service, he has been awarded Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) by Indian Army for having attained a handicap of +5 and being a prominent member of Indian Polo team for 20 years. Along with Polo, he has the passion for equestrian sports as well having excelled in the field of Equestrian, being the National Champion for medium grade show jumping and winning Silver medal in FEI Category ‘A’ show jumping.
HUMBERT JACQUES
PATRICK FURLONG
Patrick Furlong is an Argentine Banker and longstanding polo player. Patrick has played extensively in Argentina, England, US and more recently in Asia and has a 3 goal handicap. He has been the captain of the Hong Kong polo team since 2014 and has been based at the Singapore Polo Club since 2015. Patrick is a Senior Banker at Lloyds Bank, responsible for the Financial Institutions business of Lloyds Bank in Asia Pacific.
WAQAS KHAN
Waqas started riding and playing since a very young age. He currently holds a Polo handicap of 3 goals. He has participated in many local tournaments and has played Polo in United Kingdom, Thailand Malaysia, Argentina and Pakistan. He is currently one of the local professionals at the Singapore Polo Club.
ANG ROON KAI
Roon Kai, born and raised in Singapore, was introduced to the sport at an early age by his father, Ang Ban Tong, an avid polo player and a Silver medalist at the 2007 SEA Games. Roon Kai first joined the Riding Section of Singapore Polo Club at the age of 9, before getting his polo handicap at 15.
Over the past three years, Roon Kai has toured Argentina, Australia, Chile, England and New Zealand to train and compete on young and world-class polo ponies for renowned polo professionals and organizations. He has also competed in other countries, including Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and USA.
Highlights of Roon Kai's polo career include being the manager and coach of Leadenham Polo Club in England over the summer of 2015, and getting selected for the Singapore national team in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games and once again in 2017.
ALEX DE LISLE
Alex de Lisle is from the U.K. and started playing polo aged 11. Alex was part of His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales team which won the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup in 2017. Alex has also won the British Young Player of the Year Award in 2003. He was honored to represent Young England and has played polo professionally in the U.K. for five years before moving to Singapore in 2009. Alex is a Partner at St. James’s Place Wealth Management, a FTSE 100 Company.
MARC HOGBERG
SATINDER GARCHA
Polo blood runs deep in Satinder Garcha’s veins, The President of the Singapore Polo Club and son of retired Colonel Kuldeep Singh Garcha, who was captain of India’s national polo team. With a 2 goal handicap, Satinder has a passion for the sport that has seen him play and garner honours in low, medium and high goal tournaments around the world including captaining the national team of his adopted homeland Singapore to a Silver medal at the Southeast Asian Games in 2007, and more recently in 2014 winning the Copa Presidente in Argentina, the most hotly contested 20 goal tournament in the world, beating out 64 teams to lift the coveted trophy. Over the years, he has also had notable victories in the Indian Open, Barcelona Open, Malaysian Open, Sotogrande Bronze Cup and St. Tropez Masters.
SANAULLAH KHAN
Sanaullah Khan is a polo instructor at the Singapore Polo Club and holds a polo handicap of 2 goal. He has participated in many club tournaments and also in polo tournaments in Asia, Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Pakistan.
ALI REDA
Ali Reda has participated in tournaments around the region, including Singapore, Australia, Argentina, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand and Dubai. Ali, the principal founder of a boutique design firm ar+d, caught the "polo bug" while creating the well-known Desert Palm Polo Estate in Dubai, UAE. Ali has been playing for the last twelve years at SPC. He plays off +1 handicap.
AMEER JUMABHOY
Ameer Jumabhoy is the 3rd generation of polo players in the Jumabhoy family. He is also a brand ambassador for Argentine fashion house, La Martina.
He started playing with the team at 18 years old playing in the medium goal league (6-8 goals) in Malaysia. The next season in 2009, Ameer became a part of the team in the International League Tournaments (12-14 goals) and was part of the team that won the 2010 RSPC International. Since then, Ameer has won the RSPC International in 2014 Royal Pahang Polo Classic in 2015.
Ameer is also a member of the Singapore National Team and has won the Audemars-Piguet International Gold Cup in Singapore twice.
ASAD JUMABHOY
Asad Jumabhoy started riding at the Singapore Polo Club in 1966. Since then he has participated in both polo and equestrian competitions internationally. He came second in the First Asian Showjumping Championships held at in Tokyo, Japan in 1982 and participated in the Asian Games trials in 1986, Seoul.
Asad's affair with polo started in 1971 and his experience ensured that he held a handicap of +3 for over two decades. Asad has played in the SEA Games in 1983 and again in 2007 winning the bronze and silver medals respectively as part of Team Singapore. He also bore the Singapore banner at the 2003 Polo World Cup.
The defensive player is now an Ambassador of the Federation of International Polo and enjoys mixing with polo-loving people from across the globe.
ALI NAMAZIE
Ali Namazie started riding in the late 1960s and began playing polo in his teen years. He has participated in numerous Club tournaments and has also played polo in Malaysia and Thailand. Ali is a Physics Professor by profession.
ALI JUMABHOY
Ali Jumabhoy is Singaporean polo player. Ali has been playing polo from the age of 14 and is the third generation of polo player in the Jumabhoy family. Ali is currently the Captain of the University of London Polo Club and has competed in tournaments around the world. Aside from polo Ali is currently a law student at King's College London.
ANNA LOWNDES
Anna has been playing polo at the Singapore Polo Club since 2005. She plays off a 0 handicap and has played in the UK, Thailand and Australia. Anna and her husband Graham Cox have 3 children, Thomas 11, Scarlett 9 and Georgia 6, who were all born in Singapore.
ANG BAN TONG
Ban Tong started playing polo in 1991 and has participated in many local and overseas tournaments. His team won the Singapore International Polo Tournament 2011 and he was awarded the Most Valuable Player in the Singapore Open 2012. He has also participated in overseas tournaments held in Australia, Argentina, China, Korea, Thailand and Malaysia.
BRUNO MASCART
CYRILLE COSTES
GERRY GAN
Gerry Gan, a former golf addict who one day discovered polo being played next to his home golf course in Shanghai, threw his clubs out of bounds and changed them for polo mallets and has never looked back since. Now playing off 0 goal handicap, Gerry is a partner in WongPartnership LLP, a leading law firm in Singapore.
GREG PARKHURST
HUGO VIRAG
IAN LANDER
Ian has been a long standing member of the Club. He is a certified HPA umpire and umpires and referees regularly in the tournaments at the Club. He is an architect and has his own practice in Singapore since 1976.
IMRAN JUMABHOY
Imran currently holds a 0 goal handicap and has been playing polo for about 15 years. He started playing at the Singapore Polo Club, but has also played all over the world including in the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand to name a few.
IQBAL JUMABHOY
Iqbal Jumabhoy learnt to play Polo at the Singapore Polo Club in the 1970s. He has been fortunate to play all over Asia, Anz, USA and Argentina over the years. In the teens, he was part of the team called the “rebels” which won almost every trophy in Singapore and Malaysia during its existence and was disbanded in 1978.
JEFF HARDEE
Jeff Hardee has a 0 goal handicap. He started riding at the age of 12 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and began his polo career at the age of 13. He has also participated in amateur horse racing. Jeff stopped playing polo at the age of 15 and then resumed his polo career in Singapore in 1993. He has participated in many tournaments in Singapore and Malaysia, including the Rolex Cup. His favourite horse at the Singapore Polo Club is Tobiana as she is agile, dependable and has a lot of heart. In addition to polo, Jeff enjoys playing squash, running and spends a considerable amount of time running a business software alliance.
JED GABLER
JOHN WONG
JONATHAN GABLER
Jonathan started playing polo in 2009, after watching his wife (and team mate), Lynly, launch back into the sport after moving back to Singapore from Hong Kong. Having previously competed in triathlon and adventure racing, Jono now has fully embraced the Polo life and is busy in Queenstown, NZ developing Queenstown’s first Polo Club.
KEITH YEO
Keith is the second son of our polo player, Yeo Kuo Lee and started playing polo at the age of 12 years old.
He played polo in Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and Mongolia. He has participated in tournaments in Malaysia and Mongolia and holds a polo handicap of 0.
He has won the Royal Selangor Polo Club Merdeka League 2010 as well as the British Polo Day, Pelham Bell Pottinger Cup in 2011.
KEVIN WILKINSON
Kevin Wilkinson has been playing polo in Singapore for over 25 years....and still only -1! He was in his forties when he started, so these days claims 'advancing youth' as an excuse for his many lapses in quality of play and forgetfulness of the rules. He is the MD of licensed financial adviser, Unicorn Financial Solutions. He has served at the Singapore Polo Club as Polo Captain, Secretary and Treasurer amongst other committee posts.
KOH PEI BEI
Koh Pei Bei, playing for 7 years so far now. Has 5 horses in the club and is playing off 0 handicap.
LAWRENCE KHONG
Lawrence Khong is the founding pastor of a mega-church in Singapore. In addition, he is also an award winning magician who has performed in some of the most prestigious stages around the world in the United States of America, China, Korea, Japan, Hongkong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. However, what he is most proud of is the fact that he has been married to one woman, Nina, for 46 years having dated her for 9 years since high school. Together they have two sons and two daughters who are married as well as one 18 year old grandson and a 6 year old grand-daughter. This July Lawrence turns 70 years old and hopes to be able to compete in Polo tournaments in our club as long as he could
LEE JOO BAE
Lee who is the founder of Korea Polo Club started polo at SPC in 2004. He has represented the Korean national team twice for the All Asian cup in Thailand.
LUIZ ENRIQUEZ
LYNLY FONG
Lynly Fong started riding and playing Polo at the Singapore Polo Club. Her whole family is horse crazy and spend much of their free time around polo and horses. She is super happy with her string of horses this year, and is looking forward to an enjoyable tournament.
OLIVIER DUGUET
Olivier Duguet spent his younger years riding in South West of France, and discovered polo in Jamaica in 2004. He received his first handicap from the French Polo Federation in 2006. He has been a member of the Polo Club de Chantilly since 2007. Olivier won the Low Goal French Championship (0-4 goals) in 2010 as well as the Megeve Polo Masters, an International Snow Polo, that same year. Having moved to Singapore with a 0 handicap in 2013, Olivier continues his love for the sport at the Singapore Polo Club.
RICKARD HOGBERG
Formerly the ex- captain for the Swedish national team in 1995 and 1997, Rickard Hogberg was also part of the team which represented Singapore in the 2006 World Cup qualifier. Having played in Australia, Europe, Argentina, South Africa, Brunei and so much more, he is a force to be reckoned with having won the Rolex Cup and other major cups!
MARIE GODENIR
Marie is from Belgium originally but has been living in Singapore for more than 10 years with her family. This is where she picked polo. She enjoys traveling to play in other countries including Argentina.
RAJIV MENON
The first time Rajiv Menon sat on a horse was in June 2011 and immediately fell in love with horses and riding. Wanting to progress quickly, he went to Thailand early in 2012 and put himself through polo boot camp over a 5-day stretch. He repeated that twice over the following couple of months, passed the polo test in August 2012 and played his first tournament in Nov 2012. His most memorable tournament was perhaps his first one, where he scored 7 of the winning side’s 8 goals in a well contested match with a final score of 8 to 7 ½.
STIJN WELKERS
Stijn Welkers: all about fun, games and enjoying life to the full, Stijn is a polo tourist playing wherever and whenever he can. Playing off 0 goal handicap, he has travelled to many countries during a sabbatical in 2011 and visited polo clubs in South Africa, Argentina, Nicaragua, Wellington Florida, Barbados, New Zealand, Korea, China and Thailand. Stijn’s most memorable polo experience overseas was with the Genghis Khan Polo Club in Mongolia in 2010. Stijn started polo in 2006 and was voted “Most Improved Player” of the Thai Polo League as well as the Singapore Polo Club in 2009. In 2010, Stijn was part of the winning team of the International Pro/Am and the Audemars Piguet International Polo Tournament in Singapore. In 2012, he won his first ever "Most Valuable Player" award in Tang Polo Club in China. Stijn works in the computer games industry and is married to Hema and father of Serafin (2016).
STEPHANIE MASEFIELD
Stephanie has been a member of the Singapore Polo Club since 1978 when her parents Brian and Maureen Miller both started playing polo. She learnt to ride at the Singapore Polo Club and spent most of her time riding polo ponies. It was only in 1998 after returning from Hong Kong that she decided to start playing polo and has played on and off for the last 20 years. Stephanie has been married for 20 years to Paul Masefield and has 2 children, Ryan who is 16 and Zoe who is 14 years old and equally passionate about riding.
TAN HOCK
Tan Hock has been playing polo since 1989 in Argentina, Australia, China, Korea and Malaysia. He has also participated in many tournaments and his most memorable experience was winning the Rolex International Polo tournament in 1999.
Growing up, Vinod knew that he wanted a career in global business. That dream is in full bloom since he works as the CEO of Tata Communications, which operates in more than 100 countries. If he could go back in time, he would add professional polo players to his childhood wish list! Vinod started riding and playing polo 4 years ago and is consumed by the sport. He enjoys chasing the white ball around on horseback. Luckily, his global travels have enabled him to play and engage with the polo community in Argentina, England, Sotogrande, Thailand and Malaysia, in additional to his home club in Singapore.
WEE TIONG HAN
YEO KUO LEE
Kuo Lee has been playing polo since 1970s. He has participated in many local tournaments and played in many countries such as Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, India, Brunei and Malaysia. His 3 sons, Clifton, Keith and Creighton are all playing polo at the club. Clifton and Keith were awarded the Most Valuable Players in the last British Polo Day tournament.
ADELINE JEN
ALEX SOERENSEN
Alexander has been riding since the age of 4. At 10 he picked up polo and never looked back. At age 15, Alex has now played polo on three different continents and this is his first tournament.
ALI MIRZA
ANN WILKINSON
APRIL MCKENNA
April learnt to play polo in England and has been playing polo in Singapore since 2007. She currently plays off -1 handicap.
CHRISTIAN LUCKETT
BIRGITTA ELFVERSSON
CLIFTON YEO
Clifton is the eldest son of our polo player, Yeo Kuo Lee and started playing polo at the age of 13 years old. He played polo in Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and Mongolia. He has participated in tournaments in Malaysia and Mongolia and holds a polo handicap of -1.
Clifton has also won the Young Player of 2012 awarded by the Equestrian Federation of Singapore.
DANIEL CHUA
Daniel learnt to play polo in Singapore Polo Club. had the opportunity to play polo in Thailand, Argentina and Sotogrande.
DAVE ALDEN
ELAINE PARNELL
While working in Pakistan in the 1980s Elaine got her first taste of polo when she was invited to ride at Shandur Top, the highest polo field in the world. Unfortunately work kept getting in the way so it was another 20 years before she finally picked up a polo stick.
The polo bug has now been caught by the rest of her family: son Warwick plays for Loughborough University and her husband Ross has also decided to give it a go. Elaine’s polo has had some inconvenient interruptions over the years but she is forever thankful to her faithful steed Jota for her loyal support!
ELBERT PATTIJN
IVAN CHUA
HENRY LANCASTER
JANE DRUMMOND
Jane plays off -1, she has been playing polo for 6 years after switching from dressage. Jane has been able to play around the world Including trips to Argentina, and the whole family are now involved in the sport.
JOHANNA MONANGE
JOHN BERVEN
KARAN NARULA
A polo enthusiast at heart, Karan started riding at a very young age of 6. He started his polo journey with Sam Gardiner in Melbourne in the early 2000s and has been playing ever since. Comes from a Lineage of Serial Entrepreneurs and is married with two children.
KUNAL NARULA
LARRY LIM
LARS ELFVERSSON
LEE TAYLOR
LEON CHU
Leon Chu started playing polo at the Singapore Polo Club in 1986. Leon is a jeweller by profession. He has two children, Elliott and Carmen, and together with his wife Crystal, are frequent visitors to the Singapore Polo Club. Leon was Singapore Polo Club president in 2011/2012. He has played polo in China, Korea, Mongolia, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand, and has also played elephant polo tournaments in Thailand.
LOUISA LIM
MARIE HESSELMAN
MATTHEW MA
MAX PARKHURST
MELISSA KO
Melissa Ko started riding at the Singapore Polo Club when she was 10 years old, and made the move from the dressage arena to the polo field to try her hand at a new sport. Besides playing regularly in Singapore, Melissa has also played in Argentina, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. She has participated in mixed and women’s tournaments and enjoys the challenge of playing competitive polo. She is an active member of the Singapore Polo Club, and has served on the Club’s Committee in various capacities. She currently keeps her horses in the UK, and looks forward to playing polo in Europe. Melissa’s other interests include travelling, skiing, gastronomy and music.
PURVISH SHAH
PAUL HODES
Paul really enjoys his time on the field, especially with the camaraderie among the players. He spends much of his weekends at the club along with his two daughters who are avid riders.
RANBIR SINGH
Ranbir Singh learned to play polo at the Singapore Polo Club. It all started when Ranbir attended a corporate function at the club and was so impressed by the game that he bought a membership a few days later and never looked back (notwithstanding a few hiatuses). Ranbir is married with two children all of whom have caught the “polo bug”. Ranbir is currently regional head of legal & compliance at an international bank (but somehow finds time to play!).
RONNIE LIM
Ronnie Lim, as a boy, had dreams of riding a horse like the cowboys, a dream he realized in his adult years. (Four years on and) Fuelled by his passion for horses riding and polo, he established Paisano Polo Academy in Singapore in 2012. That same year, his team won the inaugural Singapore Open held at the Singapore Polo Club (SPC). A member of SPC, Ronnie plays and trains regularly in Argentina with Canchi Andrada, in Singapore with his professional Nicolas Pieroni, and in Thailand, where his team recently won the King’s Cup. Ronnie currently plays off a -1 handicap and off the field, Ronnie is a dedicated husband and father of five.
TIM ZEE
Tim is originally from Dallas where he started to play polo in his teens and through his 20s in the US, Argentina and England ... after stopping for over 2 decades, he picked it up again at SIngapore Polo Club in 2018. Tim is a private equity investor, married and father of four children.
ALICE DUGUET
ALEXANDER PHANG
ANDY SOH
ANKA CHAN
ANDY CLARK
BYRON HARRISON
ANNE HANSEN
BEN COULTON
COREY KOH
Corey Koh holds a -2 handicap and graduated from our Atoms Polo Academy last month. He has played in several of the Club's tournaments with the recent being the Spring International Tournament 2022.
CEDRIC JEANSON
CHUA BOON KANG
CHUA BOON LAI
DAVID HENWOOD
CLARINDA TJIA-DHARMADI
A familiar face on the social circuit, Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi, HPA handicap 0, is also an accomplished lawyer whose name appears on international lists of leading lawyers. The founding patron of Semper Anticus Polo Team based in England, Clarinda plays in high, medium, low goal and ladies polo in the U.K. and around thé world, and this summer, she won the British Ladies Open, the most coveted tournament in ladies polo, as well as the HPA’s entire Victrix Ludorum series, with championship wins at Guards, Cowdray, Cirencester, Blackbears and Beaufort. She also won the 22 goal Bathurst Cup with Barto and Jeta Castagnola, and was a finalist in the 18 goal Apsley Cup with Jeta Castagnola and Poroto Cambiaso.
DOMINIC GOH
A lawyer by training and a diplomat by profession, Dominic started learning polo in Australia. He is currently hooked and has been playing since 2010. Apart from Singapore, he has also played in Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and in the USA.
DOREEN PATTIJN
ELIZABETH HAZENBERG
ELLA SANTOSA
Ella learnt to ride at the SPC riding section at the age of 7. In her teens, she had competed in show jumping before moving to the polo section in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. She soon fell in love with the team sport and its excitement. She obtained her handicap overseas in America, where she had played in a tournament.
EMIL TEO
EMMA GORDON
Emma started playing polo at SPC in 2019 and holds a polo handicap of -2 goals. She plays regularly at SPC and has played polo and participated in tournaments in Ireland, the UK, Spain and South Africa.
ERIC SIMON
FEDERICO VESCOVI
Federico Vescovi, Italian, from Rome, learned to play polo here in Singapore and playing since 4 years, played earlier tournaments in Rome and of course Singapore.
FAHAD YASER ALI
Fahad is from Pakistan and started playing Polo at the Lahore Polo Club in his pre-teens. He stopped playing regularly before going off to college and tries to play whenever he can. A banker by profession, Fahad is married and a father of two beautiful children.
FLORENCE PROTAIN
GRACE CARISS
JANSHER SINGH
KAREN CARISS
LUCAS FURLONG
MARCEL SATRIA
MARGARET ANG
MARIE-CHRISTINE FUCHS
MARTIN TEO
MATTIAS FURLONG
MARCUS SANDSTROM
MASOOD FAIZULLAH
MAUREEN MILLER
MELANIE MILOVAC
MAYA BROWN
MICHAEL MA
MIGUEL PALANCA
Miguel first started riding in 2016, eventually starting polo in earnest in March of 2022. He currently holds a handicap of -2 after progressing through the Atoms Academy program. He has played in the Atoms tournament at the club and is actively looking to play in more tournaments both locally and abroad.
NORHANA ABDULLAH
OSCAR MA
REZA BEHNAM
ROBIN CLARK
QUENTIN DE MENTEN
SANDY DENG
Sandy started horse riding in 2021 and started playing polo in 2022. She has participated in international chukkas held in Argentina, Australia and United Kingdom.
SEBASTIAN LO
SARAH JANE CLARK
SHAREL HO
WAN KAI RUI
TOM LOWNDES-COX
WILLIAM PEACOCK
William Peacock currently holds a -2 handicap and recently graduated from our Atoms Polo Academy. He has played in several of the Club's tournaments with the recent being the Spring International Tournament 2022.
WU JIAT HUI
Jiat Hui has been a member of SPC for over a decade. She is an avid equestrian who spent many years in the riding section before she switched to polo in 2019. She enjoys the adrenaline rush from the sport and will be looking to play more tournaments locally and abroad.
YVONNE TWISS
Yvonne Twiss has been playing polo since 2000. She joined the Singapore Polo Club because she wanted her children to learn to ride. After a short return to show jumping, she decided to switch polo. Polo has become a great family sport for Yvonne, with both her sons, Alex and Giles playing to a high standard. Yvonne is single and has travelled to many other countries including Australia, USA, India, Malaysia and England to experience the game. Aside from polo, Yvonne has spent her entire career in Singapore spanning some 20 years in the commodities derivatives industry.
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In a first, De Anza College passes divestment motion in support of Palestinian rights
March 22, 2017 by sjpwest
De Anza College is the first community college to support divestment from Israel’s human rights abuses
Student body passes resolution supporting Palestinian rights in the occupied territories by 12-4-2
Students at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA, representing a wide coalition of students from all backgrounds and sectors of campus, celebrated a milestone victory for social justice with the passage of a resolution “In Support of Divestment from Companies That Profit from the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories.” The resolution was approved by De Anza Associated Student Body by an overwhelming majority, and marks the first time a community college student body has voted in support of divestment from corporations violating Palestinian human rights.
The resolution, sponsored by Viana Marie Roland and Kenneth Gabbard, passed by a 12-4-2 margin. Noting that De Anza College is “committed to the values of civic engagement for social justice,” and had previously “selectively and publicly, divested from companies engaged in fossil fuel emissions,” the resolution named Hewlett-Packard Enterprises, Motorola Solutions, G4S, and Caterpillar as companies that “affect the De Anza community directly, including students whose families experience occupation, systematic discrimination, death, injury, and other forms of human rights violations,” and called upon the Foothill-De Anza Foundation to “adopt a Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) policy that includes a human rights screen for human rights violations,” and to “accordingly divest from companies that violate international human rights.”
Invigorated by the student body’s support for Palestinian rights, as well as the overwhelming support they received from community members, Students for Justice at De Anza (SFJ) is now ready to take the resolution to the Foothill-De Anza Foundation Board to request a socially responsible investment policy and divestment from the named companies, and others determined to be engaged in similar human rights violations. SFJ believes this vote lays a principled foundation from which students from myriad backgrounds can continue to educate and organize in support of all social justice causes, of which Palestinian rights is just one.
The full text of the resolution is available here and reprinted below:
De Anza Associated Student Body Government, De Anza-Foothill Community College District, Foundation Board Resolution
In Support of Divestment from Companies That Profit from the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories
WHEREAS, the students of De Anza College and the De Anza Associated Student Body Government as their representative body, have a rich history in student advocacy and progressive leadership;
WHEREAS, De Anza College is committed to the values of civic engagement for social justice;
WHEREAS, “As a public institution, De Anza College contributes to the development of local, state, national and global communities. De Anza College views their students and themselves as agents of change, responsible for building the world in which all people are able to realize their dreams in ways that are environmentally sustainable and in alignment with the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights” [1];
WHEREAS, Foothill-De Anza Foundation is “dedicated to developing a broadly educated and socially responsible community” [3] and has selectively and publicly divested from companies engaged in fossil fuel emissions [2];
WHEREAS, as defined by Foothill-De Anza Foundation, “It is the responsibility of the Investment Committee to consider how the social and ethical goals of the Foundation, as expressed by the Board, should be reflected in the portfolio. In this regard, the Investment Committee may issue periodic restrictions of specific investments or related strategies [6];
WHEREAS, international human rights law recognizes the rights of all people, including Palestinians, to life, security [4] and political and economic self-determination;
WHEREAS, Israel has been recognized by international law since 1967 as an occupying power in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza [11];
WHEREAS, the following is an illustrative and non-exhaustive list of companies which enables human rights abuses and violence;
WHEREAS, Caterpillar, G4S, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Motorola Solutions have violated the universal right “to life, liberty, and security of person;” “to education;” to “privacy, family [and] home;” “to own property, and …[not to] be arbitrarily deprived of property” as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [4];
WHEREAS, Caterpillar is responsible for supplying Israel with D9 bulldozers, which are used by the governing regime, to demolish Palestinian homes and violate human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories [10];
WHEREAS, Motorola Solutions services “MotoEagle Surveillance,” which is used by the Israeli regime to control Palestinian movement through security maintenance of illegal Israeli settlements, the West Bank separation wall, the wall around Gaza, and military bases [9];
WHEREAS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has provided biometric identification systems used at Israeli military checkpoints, which restrict the freedom of movement of Palestinians, facilitate discrimination against Palestinians, and reinforce a stratification of citizenship [8];
WHEREAS, HPE profits from global mass incarceration and provides prisoner data systems for the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs (ICE) Law Enforcement Support Center [8];
WHEREAS, G4S provides security services to businesses in the illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. G4S has also provided full body scanners and luggage scanning equipment to various checkpoints throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories [7];
WHEREAS, the consequences of these companies’ actions also affect the De Anza community directly, including students whose families experience occupation, systematic discrimination, death, injury, and other forms of human rights violations;
WHEREAS, the only way to achieve financial neutrality in such situations is to end our investment in and implicit support for such companies through divestment;
WHEREAS, investment in these companies shows implicit support for the decisions and actions of these companies, as well as their consequences, which include the killings of civilians;
WHEREAS, our peers in numerous university student associations, including Wesleyan University, Oberlin College, DePaul University, Evergreen State College, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Davis, San Jose State University, and Stanford University have passed resolutions calling for divestment from companies that violate international law and human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories;
LET IT BE RESOLVED, by the De Anza Associated Student Body Government exercising its representative authority on behalf of all students;
LET IT FURTHER BE RESOLVED, that the DASB (De Anza Associated Student Body) calls upon the Foundation to adopt a Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) policy that includes a human rights screen for human rights violations such as but not limited to those listed below, and to accordingly divest from companies that violate international human rights law by:
Maintaining the illegal infrastructure of the Israeli occupation, in particular settlements and separation wall. This includes companies like Caterpillar Inc. [10]
Facilitating Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians. This includes companies like Hewlett Packard Enterprise [8]
Facilitating state repression against Palestinians by Israeli security forces. This includes companies like G4S [7] and Motorola Solutions Inc. [9]
UNTIL the Israeli Government:
Ends its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantles the Israeli West Bank Barrier
Recognizes the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality
Respects, protects, and promotes the rights of Palestinian refugees, to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in United Nations Resolution 194
LET IT FINALLY BE RESOLVED, that the DASB calls upon the Board of Directors of the Foothill-De Anza Foundation to withdraw investments in securities, endowments, mutual funds, and other monetary instruments with holdings in Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard, Motorola Solutions, G4S, and all corporations that are similarly complicit in violating these criteria, at such time and in such manner as to be determined by the Board of Directors with the goal of maintaining the divestment until they cease these specific practices deemed as unethical by the De Anza College community.
[1] https://www.deanza.edu/emp/EMP_Approved_by_College_Council_6_11_15.pdf
[2] http://deanza.edu/news/2013fossildivest.html
[3] http://www.fhda.edu/_about-us/#sthash.xlppUoLz.dpuf
[4] Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
[5] https://www.dodgeandcox.com/pdf/shareholder_reports/dc_international_holdings.pdf page 1
[6] https://foundation.fhda.edu/what-we-do/statement_of_investment.html
[7] http://investigate.afsc.org/company/g4s-plc
[8] http://investigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise
[9] http://investigate.afsc.org/company/motorola-solutions-inc
[10] http://investigate.afsc.org/company/caterpillar-inc
[11] Geneva Convention, UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch;
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/007/2009/en/4c407b40-e64c-11dd-9917-
ed717fa5078d/mde150072009en.html#2.2.1.2.%20Law%20of%20occupation|outline
RESOLVED, that DASB will make this document public and will present this resolution to all affected parties, including: De Anza College President, Brian Murphy; Associated Vice President, Marisa Spatafore; Vice President of Finance and College Operations, Susan Cheu; Vice President of Student Services, Stacey Cook; Vice President of Instruction, Christina Espinosa-Pieb; Foothill-De Anza Foundation President Don Aoki and affiliated Foothill-De Anza Foundation Board members; Chancellor, Judy C. Miner, Vice Chancellor of Business, Kevin Mcelroy; Director of Office Of College Life, John Cognetta; La Voz Newspaper; and the CEOs of Hewlett Packard, Motorola Solutions, Caterpillar, and G4S.
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Airlink flight number change to 4Z from 11 June 2020
UPDATE: Airlink flight numbers will now change from SA813x to 4Z13x on 20 April 2020, and not on 11 June 2020 as previously planned. Please substitute 20 April for 11 June throughout the following text. All of the other information remains correct.
On 16 January 2020, Airlink announced a change to their flight numbers which will become effective from 11 June 2020. From that date, flight numbers to and from St Helena will change from SA813x to 4Z13x. So for example, the current flight number SA8131 will change to 4Z131, and SA8132 will change to 4Z132. This means that tickets issued from today for travel on Airlink’s flights after 10 June 2020 will reference the new flight number.
Tickets already issued for travel after 10 June 2020 on flights with SA813x flight numbers will remain valid for travel subject to re-accommodation; Airlink will work with travel agents, tour operators and customers to expedite the re-accommodation.
In the meantime, Airlink will continue to sell tickets for flights operated on the SA813x code up to 10 June 2020. These are available through travel agents, tour operators, on both the www.flyairlink.com and www.flysaa.com as well as all other online booking platforms.
Airlink CEO and Managing Director, Rodger Foster said “Marketing and selling flights under our own 4Z code is an exciting development for Airlink as we propagate our business and take advantage of new market opportunities. At the same time, we will be able to strengthen our vital partnership with SAA.”
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Hollywood Subsidies
La Crosse was initially in the running to become one of the locations for the new Johnny Depp “Public Enemies” movie. Wisconsin was chosen for several reasons, one of which was probably the newly passed tax considerations. Maybe we should look at the evidence and research done by other states. This headline says it all:
Rich stars pocket subsidies, state says
The analysis by the Department of Revenue this week estimated that at least half the film-industry payroll spending will go to out-of-town residents, mainly actors, directors, and producers commanding salaries of more than $1 million each. The Revenue Department assumes they will spend only a fraction of their paychecks in Massachusetts, limiting the benefits to the local economy.
The Revenue Department noted its analysis is consistent with a 2005 report on Louisiana’s film tax subsidies, which estimated 60 percent of spending eligible for tax credits would go out-of-state. And when The Providence Journal reviewed records for a Wesley Snipes film subsidized by Rhode Island, it found just $1.9 million of the $11 million in production expenses went to local residents and vendors – less than the $2.65 million in tax credits issued to support the 2006 movie, “Hard Luck.”
But in this week’s report, the Revenue Department found the subsidies probably wouldn’t generate enough money in income taxes and other revenue to offset the cost of the incentives, forcing the state to cut other government spending. Assuming $100 million a year in incentive spending, the state said it would only be able to recoup $18 million to $23 million in other tax revenue.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008
Categories: subsidies, tax
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Book review: "Edison", by Edmund Morris
By Wavefunction on Friday, November 15, 2019
An erudite, impressively detailed and wide-ranging chronicle of Thomas Edison’s life by a master biographer running to almost 800 pages. Edmund Morris won the Pulitzer Prize for his splendid three-volume biography of Teddy Roosevelt, and few people would be more qualified to write about another consequential American of similar stature. The book drives home what a towering genius and public personality of superior distinction Edison was. Edison’s fame surpasses that of pretty much any other American we may care to name; when he was alive presidents and senators used to come all the way to his house and laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ, newspaper and reporters used to cling to his every word, and when he died the lights in the White House and the torch on the Statue of Liberty were turned off for a full minute to symbolize the passing of the man who had expelled the darkness for good.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that without Edison the United States would not have become the technological powerhouse that it is today, not only because of his revolutionary inventions but because of his role as the founder of the modern industrial research laboratory. Pretty much every pioneering industrial lab that has come after him, including Bell Labs, IBM and Google, rests in one way or another on his shoulders; some of the companies that he founded himself such as GE also blazed the way. And his story is very much an American success story, that of a Midwestern boy born in poverty who pulled himself up by the bootstraps and by sheer grit and shrewd business acumen achieved unprecedented fame and success.
The book is best at weaving in and out of Edison’s technical accomplishments and his complicated family life. He was largely an absentee father who had a cheerful indifference to his children’s troubles; there were five of them from two wives. His wives had a rather thankless role, trying to revel in his shadow and fame and getting bored by themselves in their mansions and gardens. Morrison delves deeply – often too deeply – into Edison’s inventions which ranged across the entire mechanical, chemical and electrical universe. His intellectual oeuvre was astonishing, straddling inventions as disparate as nickel-iron batteries, carbonized lamp filaments, synthetic rubber, motion picture cameras, talking dolls, cement manufacture, automated telegraph machines and mining equipment. Three of his inventions – the phonograph, the light bulb and the first motion pictures – would be enough to enshrine him forever in history.
Morris’s technical descriptions of Edison’s work are sometimes overwhelming, since he casually tosses period-specific jargon around without the help of diagrams. But he does drive home the sheer range and the incessant torrent of Edison’s 1,093 patents that came out at an average rate of about fifty a year. And he communicates the sheer feeling of awe that the first mass lighting of a Manhattan block or the first words from the phonograph evoked: hearing someone’s voice – hitherto thought to be as ephemeral as the soul – captured permanently in a box was a scary, magical, otherworldly experience. Often Edison’s reactions to his inventions were terse and nonchalant; he left the rhapsodizing to more poetic souls and disdained the title the public had conferred on him – The Wizard of Menlo Park. Edison's real talent was not always in creating the first glimmer of an idea, and most of his famous inventions had at least precedents, but he was better than anyone else in exhaustively optimizing, implementing, industrializing and then marketing new technology. And a few innovations like the phonograph were startlingly original.
Morris is not averse to pointing out Edison’s considerable flaws. His ability to go without sleep or much food for days and work twenty-four hours was almost supernatural – the distinction between day and night essentially did not exist for him - but he expected nothing less from his workers, many of whom he worked mercilessly and at low wages. He had built up a first-rate team of mechanics, chemists and engineers, mostly German immigrants, who had to keep up with him, and those who dropped out were simply considered unequal to the task. In that sense Edison was a kind of social Darwinist who believed that people succeed and fail entirely on their own merits and defects and deserve little sympathy in case of failure; he seems to have applied this philosophy to his own children. He had no patience for intellectuals and academic scientists and seldom appreciated ideas that he hadn’t invented himself (it’s likely that his disdain for academic and European science cost him the Nobel Prize). He was merciless in squashing competing patent claims. And while he was an astute businessman, he was also a ruthless one who was not above using inhuman means to demonstrate the superiority of his ideas, such as his support of animal electrocution in the famous “war of the currents”. Edison's personal fortunes, while never waning to those of a pauper, fluctuated wildly as he sunk his own money into some spectacularly failed ventures, such as extracting oxygen from seawater and developing an alternative to rubber. The one thing he never did was cave in or become pessimistic, and no matter what the obstacles, whether technical or personal, he simply kept hammering at them and barreling through them until the end of his long life.
The book does a good job dispelling some Edison myths, most notably the myth almost purely borne of the Internet that Nikola Tesla was a greater intellect than Edison and somehow Edison had cheated the young immigrant from Serbia. As several chapters demonstrate, while the two were rivals and had different ideas regarding AC and DC, throughout their careers they retained a healthy, even warm respect for each other as indicated in their letters. Edison vs Tesla memes may warm the hearts of Internet underdogs, but they don't reflect reality. The book also dispels the myth that Edison hated mathematics; he had a good understanding of basic algebra related to electricity and for a long time employed a very talented mathematician named Francis Upton who worked out precise details of Edison’s contraptions (in a typical example of Edisonian pragmatic cheek, he asked Upton to calculate the volume of one of his new glass light bulbs, and while Upton was busy laboriously calculating the integral, he filled the bulb with mercury and measured its weight and therefore the volume).
Two problems mar this otherwise mammoth effort by Morris, who sadly died a few days before the book came out last month. For some curious reason, Morris writes the book in Benjamin-Button-like reverse chronology, starting with Edison’s death and ending with his poverty-ridden childhood in Michigan. Each decade is marked by a major achievement in some field such as chemistry or magnetism. This device seems to achieve no special purpose and often confuses the reader about chronology and names. Secondly, each chapter is arbitrarily divided into short sections that often jump from one topic to a completely unrelated one. The result is an unnecessarily fragmented reading experience.
Nevertheless, the book is a very considerable achievement, emerging as it did from Morris’s study of almost five million Edison documents in the archives. It convincingly presents Edison as a colossus of technology and entrepreneurship, a public celebrity without peer, a complicated but immensely interesting individual, and as one of the most important Americans of all time, a man who perhaps did more to lay the foundations of our modern world than anyone else.
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Hey Domingo!
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"Hey Domingo!"
Demo by Weezer
Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years
Demo circulating
(RC# 722) "Hey Domingo!"
(RC# 723) "Mo' Beats"
This song is part of the "Peace" (COR# 371) lineage of songs
"Hey Domingo!"/"The World Cup Song" (2002)
"Don't You Let My Heart Down" (2002)
"Peace" (2002)
"Hey Domingo!" (also known as "The World Cup Song"[1] and later "Don't Let My Heart Down") is a Weezer demo.
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4.1 Weezer demo
4.2 Rivers Cuomo demo
Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years (2020)
"Hey Domingo!" was recorded in 2002 during sessions for the band's planned fifth album. The song is most likely inspired by the 2002 World Cup, held in Korea and Japan. Daegu (South Korea) is mentioned in the song, as it was one of the cities where World Cup games were held. Rivers Cuomo, an avid soccer fan at the time, would reference the World Cup and Soccer in later songs "My Day is Coming" and "Represent".
The song shares a Catalog O' Riffs number with "Peace", written a few months later, which suggests that song was a later version of "Hey Domingo!". The song's guitar riff also somewhat resembles that of the song "The Dawn".
The significance of the phrase "Hey Domingo!", with regards to the song, is unknown, though the name was later briefly used as the name of a label created by Todd Sullivan (the A&R representative who originally signed Weezer to Geffen) in 2005.[2][3]
Rough demos of the song were released as part of the digital compilation Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years on November 22, 2020.
Weezer demo
One million people congregating
Fillin’ up the Daegu streets
They're joining in the celebration
Hey Domingo can’t be beat
Each body looks just like the last one
Twenty-one through twenty-five
Pity for you if you don’t belong here
Solidarity is nice
One voice united for the purpose
One voice to rise above the others
In the rage
Where is the rage?
Oh, is it the same?
Is it the same?
Rivers Cuomo demo
Fillin’ up the city streets
Joining in a youthful celebration
Hey there, man, we can't be beat
Pity for you if you can't belong here
One race united in a purpose
To reach the top of all the others
Rage, where is the rage? Oh,
Album 5 Demos
List of Weezer songs
↑ Karl's Corner - 06/25/2002
↑ "Moth - Immune to Gravity" Discogs. https://www.discogs.com/Moth-Immune-To-Gravity/release/9316372
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Speaker's Name: LIU, CL, Sc. D.
Job title: Chairman
Company name: LEDinside
Topic: Welcome address
Dr. C. L. Liu received his Sc.D. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962-72) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972-98), and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan from 1998 to 2002.
In addition, he serves as Board member and consultant at a number of high tech companies in Taiwan, and is active in educational as well as charitable services on a worldwide basis. His expertise is in the semiconductor area, particularly in the design and manufacturing aspects.
He is a member of Academia Sinica, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Speaker's Name: Shuji Nakamura Ph.D., (inventor of the first high brightness GaN LED)
Job title: Professor
Company name: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Topic: GaN-based Nonpolar/Semipolar Emitting Devices
Shuji Nakamura was born in Japan in 1954. He obtained B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokushima, Japan in 1977, 1979, and 1994, respectively. He joined Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd in 1979. In 1988, he spent a year at the University of Florida as a visiting research associate. In 1989 he started the research of blue LEDs using group-III nitride materials. In 1993 and 1995 he developed the first groupIII nitride-based blue/green LEDs. He also developed the first group-III nitride-based violet laser diodes (LDs) in 1995. He has received a number of awards, including: the Nishina Memorial Award (1996), MRS Medal Award (1997), IEEE Jack A. Morton Award, the British Rank Prize (1998) and Benjamin Franklin Medal Award (2002). He was elected as the member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2003. Also, he received the Millennium Technology Prize in 2006. Since 2000, he is a professor of Materials Department of University of California Santa Barbara. He holds more than 100 patents and has published more than 390 papers in this field.
Speaker's Name: Christian Geng , Ph.D.
Job title: Vice President Greater China
Company name: AIXTRON
Topic: 1.Productivity and Performance Factors in Compound Semiconductor Production by MOCVD
2.Day 1 Panel Discussion：Facing a Huge Demand Surge in the Near Future, How Can the LED Industry Strike a Balance between Supply and Demand?
Christian Geng studied at Florida Atlantic University, USA and University of Stuttgart, Germany. He received his Master Degree in Physics 1993 in Stuttgart working on MOCVD growth and characterization of AlGaInP. Extension in research experience was gained by working as a scientist on MOCVD growth of InP and related materials at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, a governmentally funded research institute in Padova, Italy. Returning to Germany, he resumed his work at Stuttgart University to lead the 'red laser team' and achieve a PhD degree on MOVPE growth of AlGaInP lasers. He then worked at TEMIC Telefunken Microelectronic in Heilbronn, Germany as a head engineer in charge of development and production of AlGaInP UHB-LEDs by MOVPE. In 1998, he joined AIXTRON SE as a Product Manager for the Asia-Pacific market and in 2001 moved to Taiwan to lead the local operations as General Manager. Today, he is Vice President Greater China with the responsibility for AIXTRON Group's South East Asia market. He is author of more than 80 publications on III/V semiconductors.
Speaker's Name: Jia Lee Ph.D.
Job title: VP of Marketing, MOCVD
Company name: Veeco Instruments
Topic: 1.Maintaining quality and cost-down in the highly competitive LED industry
Jia Lee Ph.D. is currently the Director of Marketing for Veeco's MOCVD business, serving the HB LED industry. Prior to joining Veeco, Jia held a variety of senior product marketing positions at Applied Materials, a leading global nanomanufacturing equipment provider to the semiconductor and related industries. Prior he was an Advisory Engineer at IBM Microelectronics, where he worked on low-k dielectric material development and integration technologies.
Lee Ph.D. earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and his M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a number of patents related to thin film chemical vapor deposition
Speaker's Name: Carson Hsieh Ph.D.
Job title: Vice-President of R&D
Company name: Epistar
Topic: 1.The Technology Break-through of LED Components for Lighting Fixtures
Ph.D. Carson Hsieh joined EPISTAR in 1998, and has served successively in many important positions from a Fabrication Manager, R&D Director to R&D Associate Vice President.
Currently, he serves as the Vice President of R&D at EPISTAR. His expertise includes LED structural design, LED process, LED application, as well as thermal dissipation management. He owns more than 100 domestic/overseas patents. Ph.D. Carson Hsieh received his Ph. D degree in Department of Power Mechanical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 1993.
Speaker's Name: Cheryl Diuguid
Job title: Vice President and General Manager, Sapphire Equipment and Materials Business
Company name: GT Advanced Technologies
Topic: Defining the Sapphire Metrics that Matter: A Data-Driven Approach
Cheryl Diuguid is GT Advanced Technologies’ vice president and general manager, sapphire equipment and material business. Cheryl brings over 20 years of extensive international leadership experience in numerous multibillion dollar industries, most recently as the CEO of Lumetric, a Silicon Valley start-up, where she led the commercialization of an innovative high-efficiency, energy-saving lighting technology.
At both Xerium Technologies Inc., a multinational company that designs and manufactures highly engineered consumables for the paper industry and Enersys, a global leader in the industrial battery market, Diuguid built the Asian businesses optimizing the global supply chain, rebranding and relaunching the product line, and expanding the business through acquisition and infrastructure investment. At Invensys Power Systems, Diuguid held leadership roles associated with new product development and optimizing multiplant, complex global supply chains. Diuguid began her professional career as a research chemist for Burroughs Wellcome (now Glaxo Smith Kline) before joining Data General’s manufacturing organization eventually becoming the plant manager.
Diuguid holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Lynchburg College, a masters degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from Duke University.
Speaker's Name: Holger Winkler
Job title: Head of R&D Solid State Lighting
Company name: Merck Display Technology
Topic: LED phosphors for Backlighting and General Lighting Applications
Holger Winkler studied chemistry at the universities of Heidelberg and Darmstadt, Germany, graduating in 1997. Afterwards he went to the University of Bochum, Germany, and received his PhD for a work in the field of gallium nitride semiconductors in 2001. In 2000, Holger Winkler joined Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, Germany, working as project leader for the development of photonic crystals. Some years later he became responsible for research and development of LED phosphor materials.
As head of R&D Solid State Lighting his main interests are improving of current phosphors, finding new materials that match the requirements of LED industry and solid state lighting application technology. Holger has filed over 60 patent families and is author of scientific papers on smart materials and their applications.
Speaker's Name: Yongliang Xu
Job title: Managing Director
Company name: YUNFNG GROUP
Topic: 1.New Situation of Sapphire Expansion
· Senior expert of Solar-Equipment & Semi-conductor
· Successively held the posts of the military representative of Chinese naval & R & D Director of Shanghai Hanhong Precision Machinery Co., Ltd.
· Own 20 years’ experience of complete machine design & manufacture
· Get "Shanghai-class Technology Progress Award“ many times
Speaker's Name: Eric Yang
Job title: Product Marketing Manager
Company name: KLA–Tencor
Topic: Process Control and Yield Management in HBLED Manufacturing
Eric Yang graduated from National Taiwan University for his Bachelor Degree in 2000 and Master Degree in 2002, both major in Physics with master thesis in compound semiconductor field. Eric just joined KLA-Tencor as Product Marketing Manager focusing on LED field and yield rate improvement, via the well established KLA-Tencor tools and experiences. Before KLA-Tencor, Eric spent past 8 years in Young Optics as sales manager on business development in various product lines, one of the main interests is the pico projector, using HBLED as the light source providing the ultra mobility sharing big screens.
Speaker's Name: Koukou Suu, Ph.D.
Job title: General Manager, Institute of Semiconductor & Electronics Technologies
Company name: ULVAC
Topic: 1.Development of LED Manufacturing Equipment Solution
．Technology Development of High Permittivity Thin Film Used on the High-Volume Capacitor for the Mass Production of the Next Generation DRAM
．Technology Development for the Mass Production of FeRAM (by Sputtering, MOCVD, Plasma Etching and Ashing etc.)
．Technology Development for the Mass Production of ReRAM
．Technology Development for the Mass Production of PCRAM (by Sputtering and MOCVD etc.)
．Research Development for the Thin Film Li-ion Battery.
．Ferroelectric MEMS Technology Development for the Mass Production of the Sensor.
．LED Mass Production Technology Development
Speaker's Name: Koh Matsumoto, Ph.D.
Job title: President
Company name: Taiyo Nippon Sanso EMC, Ltd
Topic: 1.GaN on Sapphire & Si Substrate to Improve LED Productivity Using Innovative MOCVD Tool
Koh Matsumoto, Ph.D. was born in Kyoto Japan in 1954.
He obtained his B.E. and M.S on materials science in 1977 and 1979 from Osaka University, respectively.
He obtained PhD degree on MOVPE from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1996. He joined TAIYO NIPPON SANSO corp. (NIPPON SANSO at the time) in 1979.
He was a visiting researcher at semiconductor device laboratory of Electro-Technical Laboratories of MITI from Oct. 1981 to Sept. 1982. He studied photo-sensitized process at ETL. He started to study MOVPE just after coming back to TAIYO NIPPON SANSO in late 1982. Since then, he has been working on the study of epitaxial growth of CS as well as developing reactor.
In Feb. 2008, he was appointed to president of TAIYO NIPPON SANSO EMC Ltd, which is 100% subsidiary of TAIYO NIPPON SANSO, and is dedicated to design and manufacturing MOVPE tool.
Speaker's Name: Roger Chu
Job title: Green Energy Division Research Director
Topic: LED Industry Outlook of 2012
Roger Chu oversees the Green Energy Business Unit of TrendForce Corp., and specializes in market research on the LED industry, including end-product makers ranging from LED components, lighting, backlight to manufacturers. Additionally, he also handles the research on batteries in the Green Energy Business Unit.
Mr.Chu once was an analyst at DRAMeXchange. He also worked for Hua Nan Securities as an analyst and Qunmao Management Consulting Company as a management trainee. His previous research scope covered DRAM, packaging and testing as well as other electronic industries.
Speaker's Name: George Craford, (Inventor of yellow LED)
Job title: SSL Fellow
Company name: Philips Lumileds
Topic: LED Innovations in Next Generation Lighting
Craford began his professional career as a research physicist at Monsanto Chemical Company. He advanced to the level of Technical Director of the Electronics Division, before joining the Hewlett-Packard Company in 1979. He is currently the Solid State Lighting Fellow at Philips Lumileds Lighting Company.
Craford's research has been mainly focused on the development of visible LED's using a variety of compound semiconductor materials. He first became known for the development of nitrogen-doped GaAsP technology in the early 1970’s, which became and remains one of the dominant commercial LED technologies. At Hewlett-Packard, Craford’s group pioneered the development of AlInGaP LEDs, and has developed AlGaAs and InGaN products.
Craford is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has also received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Award, the Holonyak Award of the Optical Society of America, the Welker Award of the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, the Material Research Society Medal, an IEEE Third Millenium Medal, the Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
In 2002, Craford received the National Medal of Technology from the President of the United States in recognition of Craford's contributions to LED technology.
Speaker's Name: Kai-Chong Cheng
Job title: Marketing Director, Asia Pacific
Company name: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Asia Ltd
Topic: Driving Force for Future Optimization in Solid State Lighting
KC Cheng is OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ Marketing Director for Asia Pacific region. He is responsible for all marketing, application engineering and customer quality activities in the region.
Cheng has over 10 years’ solid LED experiences in marketing, business development and application engineering; and also in several management positions in the optoelectronics and semiconductor industries. Prior joining OSRAM, he has served as Worldwide Marketing Director of Optoelectronics Product Division / Solid State Illumination Division in Avago Technologies/Agilent Technologies.
Cheng earned his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas.
Speaker's Name: Kent Lu
Job title: LED Sales Manager
Company name: Henkel (China)
Topic: Innovations in Assembly Solutions for LED Lighting
Kent Lu, Manager of LED sales in Henkel Adhesives Technologies, is head of LED sales team for China and Taiwan markets. He is responsible for sales operation and business development of Great China, and acting as an AP LED regional role in other markets as well.
Mr.Lu began his career as an electronic technical engineer in Henkel Taiwan in 2001. He took many positions in Henkel, such as Marketing Manager Taiwan, AP Regional Display team leader, Sales Director Taiwan, and AP Regional Market Development manager. Mr. Lu has extensive practices in new product development, distribution channel management, sales team establishment, market development, etc. He is technically experienced in Display, General OEM industry, and LED. Mr.Lu holds a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University, and a MBA from National Cheng Kong University (Taiwan).
Speaker's Name: Calvin Wang
Job title: Director of Lighting Power Business Unit
Company name: Delta Electronics
Topic: Tactics of Taiwanese LED Manufacturers to Obtain a Global Presence
-B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University
-Sales Engineer (Lighting Products), Philips Taiwan
-Marketing Manager (Lighting and Electronic Products), Philips Taiwan
-OEM/Channel Manager, Philips Taiwan
-Senior Manager of Lighting Power Business Unit, Delta Electronics, Inc.
-Director of Lighting Power Business Unit, Delta Electronics, Inc.(current position)
-Memeber,Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (current position)
-Committee Member, Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs (current position)
Speaker's Name: Ilkan Cokgor, Ph.D.
Job title: Vice President Global Marketing
Company name: Everlight Electronics, Co., Ltd.
Topic: 1.New Prospects of LED End-Market Applications
2.Day 2 Panel Discussion : Strategies to Enhance Product Competitiveness in Oversupplied LED Market
Ilkan Cokgor is the Vice President of Global Marketing at Everlight Electronics where he is responsible for all Everlight products worldwide. He has over 20 years of research, product development, marketing and sales experience in the fields of optoelectronics, LEDs and solid state lighting. He holds a PhD in Optelectronics from King’s College, University of London.
Speaker's Name: Arthur Huang
Job title: Founder & Managing Director
Company name: Miniwiz
Topic: LED Lighting in Global Green Building Applications
Rather then simply pointing out the earth’s eco challenges, Arthur Huang as an university professor, engineer, architect, and entrepreneur, has been dedicating all of his intellectual and physical capacity to create executable sustainable products and building solutions since 2004. Mr. Huang formally established MINIWIZ in 2006 and since then the company has gown organically into a profitable international eco-solution product brand employing over 40 full-time professional engineers, architects and designers.
Arthur Huang was born in Taiwan in 1978 and moved to the US at age 11. Educated as an Architect from Cornell University, armed with structural engineering knowledge, humanity studies, and hands-on execution skill, Mr. Huang furthered his professional training at well-known architecture and product design professional offices, like Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (NYC), Pentagram Design (NYC) and CYLee & Partners. Continuing his search for multi-disciplinary professional training, he graduated from Harvard University with a Master of Architecture degree in 2004 with special interest invested in green business development.
Teaching and communicating his eco passion became a day-to-day operation, when he was given the rare opportunity at age 26 to teach as a full-time faculty at the prestigious TUNGHAI University Architecture Program in Taiwan for two years. Mr. Huang subsequently continues his teaching as part-time Assistant Professor from one of the best national funded engineering university, NCTU, in Taiwan lecturing in MBA, material engineering, and architecture design courses. Joined forces with GSD, Harvard University, Prof. Huang started the “Innovation in Low Carbon Building Envelop” engineering program partnering with Prof. Bechthold, Director of Architecture Technology and Fabrication, sharing applicable green technology research between Greater China and the US starting Spring Semester of 2011. The three years Harvard+MINIWIZ joint research program involves professional engineers and architects from MINIWIZ, and design and business school students from Harvard University.
Recognizing for his creativity and innovative spirit, Arthur received his very first award from the renowned Disney’s Creative Challenge in 1995 in California selected as one of the three finalists for the 3D category and later won the Art Medallion from Villa Park High School. In Cornell University Arthur was awarded the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal and academic leadership award for his achievement in Design and technical performance. During his teaching appointment, Arthur was awarded a Special Recognition Award among university faculties for his contribution in teaching excellence by initiated, executed, and taught, the never thought possible, a privately funded semester-credit TUNGHAI in ROME program partnering with Cornell University in 2006, and the program is still running today. Four years later, Recognizing for his genuine innovation in Eco technology products, Arthur was awarded the EARTH AWARD, 2010 PRODUCT winner in London’s Common Wealth of Secretariats selected by the world’s most sophisticated leaders in Green. 2011, National Geographic Channel is featuring Arthur and the MINIWIZ R/D team in an hour-long “MEGASTRUCTURE-EcoARK” program airing internationally across 150 countries telling the vivid story of eco innovation today through HD resolution.
Speaker's Name: Sean Zhou
Job title: Regional Marketing Director
Topic: 1.LED's Application and Challenge in Indoor Lighting
Mr. Zhou Xuejun has more than 15 years of marketing experience, including nearly 5 years of marketing management at Philips Lighting (China) Co., Ltd. As the marketing director (Asia) of Philips Lumileds, he is now responsible for the promotion and business development of LUXEON LEDs in Asia. Prior to joining Philips Lumileds, Mr.Zhou took many positions in Philips lighting (China) Co., Ltd, such as senior consumer product marketing manager, conventional distribution channel manager, product manager and 6 sigma black belt. He also pocesses rich marketing management experience from previous positions at Sony, Whirlpool, and other Fortune 500 firms. Mr. Zhou has an extensive practice and a deep study in product & brand management, distribution channel establishment, marketing process improvement, etc.
Speaker's Name: Simon Lo
Job title: Research Manager
Topic: Overview of the LED Lighting Market in China
Simon Lo, the research manager of LEDinside, TrendForce, had years of experience as the Product Manager of LED package manufacturer, optoelectronic industry analyst at DigiTimes, and the Product Manager of Clientron. He specializes in the Chinese LED market research, covering LED chip and package industries, and the lighting / backlight market technology development, market supply and demand, LED price and LED lighting fixture price analyses and product application development study.
Speaker's Name: Renee Liao
Job title: Analyst
Topic: European LED Lighting Market Outlook
Renee Liao, the analyst of LEDinside, TrendForce, specializes in the LED industry researches including the LED chip and LED package business analyses, supply and demand study, price trend analysis, and products of end-market applications such as backlight and LED lighting. Prior to joining LEDinside, Mrs. Liao worked as the Sales Manager of ALUX Opto Light and the Marketing Manager of Helio Opto.
Speaker's Name: Doris Yang
Topic: Worldwide LED Lighting Market - Price Trend and Market Expansion
Doris Yang, the Research Manager/Analyst of LEDinside, TrendForce, is in charge of the LEDeXchange trading platform and specializes in the LED industry researches including the supply and demand, price analyses, and products of end-market applications such as backlight and LED lighting. Prior to working at LEDinside, Mrs. Yang worked as a Market Communications Specialist of Lite-On Technology and Philips Taiwan and the Marketing and Sales Manager of Unity Opto Technology Co..
Speaker's Name: Yi-Jen Chan Ph.D.
Job title: Vice President & General Director of Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratories
Company name: Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
Topic: Day 2 Panel Discussion : Strategies to Enhance Product Competitiveness in Oversupplied LED Market
Yi-Jen Chan is the VP & EOL General Director, ITRI and also a distinguished professor at the dept. of E. E. at National Central University.
He received his B.S.E.E degree from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, the M.S.E.E degree from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1982, 1984, and 1992 respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, as an Associate Professor in 1992, and became a Professor in 1996, and served as the Department Chair from 1998 to 2001. Since Dec. 2004, he joined the Electronics & Optoelectronics Laboratories (EOL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), as a Deputy General Director and was promoted to be the general director of EOL from July 2007.
He received Science Paper Award of Far Eastern Y. Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation in 2006. He has over 100 technical journal papers and 18 patents.
Currently he is responsible for flexible electronics, nano-electronics, ACLED and optoelectronics programs in the ITRI.
Speaker's Name: Li, Yun-Li, Ph.D.
Job title: CTO
Company name: Genesis Photonics Inc.
Dr.Yun-Li Charles Li received his Ph. D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Prof. Fred Schubert in 2003. Dr. Li’s research work focused on Gallium Nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and solid state lighting (SSL) applications.
Dr. Li joined Genesis Photonics, Inc (GPI) in 2008. He is currently in charge of R&D center of GPI. His research interests focus on GaN material and device applications. In addition, he is also interested in developing the solid state lighting system with multi-LED chips, so called “Smart Lighting System”. Smart lighting system takes advantages of the controllability of spectrum from multi-LED illumination sources.
Speaker's Name: Vincent Cheng
Job title: Associate Vice President of Lighting Biz Div
Company name: Lextar Electronics
Mr. Vincent Cheng joined Lextar in 2000 and leads Lighting Business Division. Under his governance, Lextar’s lighting business has a significant growth by running LSVP (Lighting Solution and Value Provider) model.
Prior to joining Lextar, Cheng was the Associate VP of Global Supply Chain Management at Qisda Corporations since 2007. Prior to that, Cheng had long experience at AUO from 1998 to 2007. At AUO, Cheng was responsible for notebook and monitor application BU since 2000, and transferred to USA branch office in 2003. He set up AUO South Asia District Branch in 2005, and returned to Taiwan in 2006.
Cheng has a proven track record of building deep marketing and sales competency. Cheng received Master Degree in Materials Science and Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1995.
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There’s something about a survival story that always piques my interest. Give me a survival story that is written by one of my favorite authors and I am over the moon.
Nature is the most unpredictable, formidable adversary. Let’s be honest, you would have to be a brave person to fly solo to a remote location to photograph wildlife, and Mallory Reynolds was definitely a brave woman. Despite her family’s concerns, she was living her life the way she wanted to and pursuing her life’s passion. Her bravery was put to the test when her plane crashed, leaving her seriously injured, cold, alone, and in an area that could be rife with animals looking for easy prey.
S.C. Stephens did a great job of describing every detail in this book. I felt as though I was right there alongside Mallory as she fought to keep herself alive. Even when doubts crept in with the gravity of her situation, her faith and her love of her family and her life kept her from just succumbing to the elements and her injuries. But luckily, she wasn’t as alone in the wilderness as she had assumed.
Michael Bradley was a man of few words, but then again, he was accustomed to living in complete isolation. He was definitely a welcome sight for Mallory. He took her back to his cabin, tended to all of her injuries, and took care of her. Mallory was more than a little curious to know more about the man who saved her life. What would make a man in his thirties want to live all by himself, essentially cut off from all human contact? I wanted to know, too.
I was settled into the book, watching the characters develop a comfortable routine and camaraderie together. It was easy to become invested in the characters and their story. They were likable, and I found myself rooting for them very early on.
Under the Northern Lights was a slow-burning romance. The author took her time to develop the relationship between the characters. I always enjoy the anticipation that comes with a slower paced romance. I prefer to witness the interactions between the characters, the push and pull that helps to build the chemistry. This book handled it just right.
*4 Stars
By S.C. Stephens
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How non Experimental Design is used in Sociological Research
There is rarely the opportunity to perform the classic and most rigorous form of experiment, or The True Experiment, because the first critical requirement is to randomize all selection of test subjects. Second, there must be randomization in all decisions as to which subjects are to be tested and which are not to be tested, or in selecting test and control groups. Third, there is complete control over all variables, and all variables are known. Fourth, detailed definitions and explanations of qualitative and quantitative matters, records, documentation, and identification of the exact formulas and procedures used in the test are sufficient for an objective and uninvolved party to replicate the selection and testing, and to obtain the same results.
That is a tall order.
Non experimental testing is a more realistic goal in the real world of humans and their social systems. Social scientists often seek the “sufficient”, the “substantial” or the “exceptional” rather than the “absolute” in determining whether an individual hypothesis or a system of hypotheses has been considered to be acceptable. Such terms as “supported” replace absolute terms such as “proved”.
In non experimental research, complete randomization is usually not possible, so meticulous documentation of how the test subjects were selected must be made, so that as much replication and correction of errors as possible can be done in future experimentation.
Controls over all variables is not possible in most sociological experimentation. All variables and their effects are not necessarily known, nor can they be known. Meticulous methods for identifying other variables and making sound alternative hypotheses, where inferences about other variables can be simultaneously tested, must be established and documented.
All variables may not be subject to complete isolation and control during the experiment, where one variable is changed or manipulated to see what happens to the hypothetical dependent variable.
As a result, Quasi Experimentation, Survey, interview, historical, statistical, and even the Anthropological methods of research are used by the social scientist. Quasi Experimentation is the closest method to true experimentation, but most commonly lacks the ability to randomize test subjects. Other aspects of the experiment may be well regulated in the documentary or qualitative, control, quantitative and other aspects.
The survey method uses either well controlled examination and summaries of documented or qualitative facts to support a hypothesis, or uses the responses of people to questions. The survey method is highly vulnerable to misinterpretations of the questions and answers, bias in the questions, and false responses by individuals. The survey method is most popular in the political, legal, urban planning, marketing, and other areas where social engineering protocols and programs are developed, and where exacting or immutable results are not possible or necessary.
The historical method can involve a grueling and disturbing form of the Anthropological method called Psycho Historical experimentation to confirm or to develop hypothesis which derive inferences about human behavior and experience during horrific events in history, or to understand such serious deviance as serial killing, generational drug abuse, and other deviant patterns in social and individual behavior. The historical method may involve comparing qualitative data from the past to quantitative date from the present in order to conform hypotheses.
The quantitative methods are legion in the social sciences. Models, algorithms, and statistical processes are complex analytical tools that are used to test hypothesis when the behavior of large populations can be quantified and examined. Other analytical tools involve qualitative information and data, such as the Marxian model and thought, the principles of Emile Durkheim, the Christian religion, the Capitalist economic system, or the Democratic political system.
In summary, the non experimental method is used in most sciences, and not just the social sciences when there is no chance that true randomization or control of variables is possible. There is many a null hypothesis, or hypothesis that leads nowhere in cancer research, where intervening or unknown variables cause a promising new treatment to fail.
In some cases, such as marketing, an experimental method may not needed at all to predict the responses of humans to the release of a new or improved product with enough accuracy to make a profit, then to end production when forecasts indicate that the product will be obsolete.
Chong-Ho Yu, PhD, CNE, MCSE, CCNA
How non Experimental Design is used in Sociological Research Types of Experimental Design used in Sociological Research How is Quasi Experimental Design used in Sociological Research Common Statistical Methods used in a Research Design
Explaining Pangaea
How the Iceland Volcano Impacted the Flower Industry
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Media release: Children and young people across Scotland to vote in ballot
CHILDREN and young people in Scotland will go to the polls early in more ways than one, as they vote this November in a Scotland-wide ballot.
Begins a spokesperson: “Tens of thousands will be asked to cast their votes and choose the top issues they’d like the policy makers and the Children’s Commissioner to take action on.
“More than 50,000 children and young people are expected to vote online at www.arightblether.co.uk/vote.html and in voting centres at hundreds of schools, youth centres and care units across Scotland.
“The ballot coincides with the 21st anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and follows a national consultation by Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner, Tam Baillie.
“The Commissioner spent the last six months travelling the country to promote children’s rights and listen to the views, experiences and ideas of children and young people.
“The list of issues they’ll vote on was selected by children and young people themselves, through partnership work with Scottish Youth Parliament and the Children’s Parliament.
“Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament became the first young people to vote in ‘A Right Blether’ and have pledged their support to encourage young people to take part.
“The count will take place during December and the results announced in January and then discussed at a major event in February 2011 – the Right Big Blether – where key policy makers will come together with children and young people.
“This event will determine the priorities that children and young people in Scotland feel should be actioned by the Commissioner and by other decision makers.
“The results will also be fed back to children and young people across Scotland through GLOW sessions, school communications and online networks.”
The vote: how it works
Voting centres at schools and youth organisations across Scotland have registered to take part and there will be voting booths at BBC studios and in the Scottish Parliament
Children and young people can vote online and in voting centres
The vote opens officially opens 01 November and closes on 30 November 2010
Tam Baillie, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, said:
“This vote is a chance for children and young people to tell me what things in their own life – or the lives of other children and young people – need to be made better.
“Their priorities will shape the work of my office over the next few years and help me to fulfil my aspiration to make Scotland a country where they can understand, exercise and enjoy their rights every single day of their lives.
“It’s a great way to mark the 21st anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a convention that is not an abstract concept but a useful tool to help achieve lasting change such as ending the detention of child asylum seekers in the UK and new, national guidance on how to move and handle children with disabilities – which came directly from young people themselves.”
For further information, photos, filming opportunities and interviews please contact Giselle Dye at Pagoda PR on 0131 556 0770 or email Giselle.dye@pagodapr.com
The Commissioner’s remit is to promote and safeguard the rights of children and young people, with particular emphasis on the rights set out in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. He also monitors the law, policy and practice for effectiveness in relation to the rights of children and young people and promotes best practice by service providers working with children
The vote is open to all children and young people under 18, but up to the age of 21 if they have ever been looked after or in care. They can vote online at www.arightblether.co.uk/vote in English or Gaelic.
The 12 issues were selected through the national consultation, the Children’s Parliament and by young people working on the Scottish Youth Parliament’s manifesto. See www.arightblether.co.uk/vote for the list of issues.
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The Deepwater Port of Gulfport
“On the evening of January 24, 1902, a special G &SI train arrived in Gulfport from Jackson. Aboard were Mrs. Andrew Longino, the wife of the Governor; Lieutenant Governor James T. Harrison; most of the members of the state legislature; state officers; and several hundred guests. The visitors were welcomed by speeches from Captain Jones and Eaton J. Bowers.
Early next morning, in 40 degree weather, more than five hundred people gathered on the end of the pier to celebrate the birth of Gulfport as a deep-water port. With the bands playing “the Star Spangled Banner,” “Dixie,” and “Yankee Doodle,” and Captain Jones “prouder than a boy with his first pair of red boots, waving and shouting,” the Italian schooner Trojan docked at the wharf in nineteen feet of water. Unknown to the observers on the pier, Captain Jones had paid Captain Aregino of the Trojan $1,000 and promised to pay for any damage to his ship when both the United States and Italian governments refused to vouch for the safety of the port.” Gulfport, Beginnings and Growth, Henry W. Black, 1986
The Italian Steamship Giovan Maria D'Ali delivered the first cargo to the port of Gulfport in August, 1904. The Trojan was the first merchant vessel to dock at the new harbor in Gulfport in January, 1902. But it had no cargo, it was hired by Capt. Jones to show that the new Ship Island channel was navigable.
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Tagged: New Seven Wonders of Nature
Congratulations World Class Winners: New 7 Wonders of Nature
Tagged environment, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature
On 11/11/11, the provisional winners on the New 7 Wonders of Nature were announced: Amazon, Halong Bay, Iguazu Falls, Jeju Island, Komodo, Puerto Princesa Underground River, and Table Mountain. Voting started in 2007 and ended in 2011 with over 100 million votes from around the world. The announcement came along with: It is possible that there will be changes between the above provisional winners and the eventual finally confirmed winners. The voting calculation is now being checked, validated and independently verified, and the confirmed winners will be announced starting early 2012 during the Official Inauguration ceremonies.The worldwide votes were led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber and organized by the New7Wonders Foundation which is a Swiss-based, government-controlled foundation. We love nature, all nature, and want it preserved and kept clean without heavy evidence of humans passing through by leaving trash and other traces on trails. Sadly the Grand Canyon did not make the final cut. Neither did the Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, the Black Forest, or Angel Falls which were some of our favorites and seemed to be doing well according to voting trends! Just the same, congratulations to the world class winners and new 7 wonders of nature. Here they are as described by the New7Wonders. [29 Photos]
Halong Bay is located in Quáng Ninh province, Vietnam. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. The bay has a 120 kilometre long coastline and is approximately 1,553 square kilometres in size with 1969 islets. Photo #1 by Nikkodem
Komodo National Park: Where Dragons Still Rule [35 PICS]
Tagged animals, environment, Indonesia, komodo dragons, Komodo National Park, National Park, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, reptiles, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Komodo National Park in Indonesia is another of the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition. The park has much more than reptiles, but it was founded to protect one of the world’s largest lizards — Komodo Dragons. In time, the national park expanded its conservation goals to protect marine life as well. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991 and has maintained a high rank in the New Wonders of Nature competition. Komodo National Park includes the three larger islands Komodo, Rinca and Padar, and many smaller ones. [35 Photos]
The Komodo Dragon is the most famous reptile in the national park. These dragons can grow to be over 9 feet (3 meters) long and weigh over 150 pounds. Photo #1 by Richard Wasserman
Spectacular Scenery of Magnificent Milford Sound [43 PICS]
Tagged environment, Fiordland National Park, Milford Sound, Milford Track, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, New Zealand
Beautiful Milford Sound is one of New Zealand’s most popular destinations. It’s a fjord located in the southwest of NZ’s South Island and is within the Fiordland National Park. Rudyard Kipling once dubbed it ‘the eighth Wonder of the World’ and its natural beauty is internationally renowned. Having been carved by a glacier, hundreds of temporary waterfalls cascade off the steep cliffs after a heavy rain. Milford Sound is another of the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition. One side note, as a bonus, if you ever have a desire to get away from it all for real, to poof off the radar for the ‘ultimate privacy,’ New Zealand is the most highly recommended place where you can ‘vanish’ without a trace and live a happy life. [43 Photos]
Early morning calm in Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. Kayaking, canoeing, boating and other water sports are highly recommended if you visit here. Photo #1 by Joe Forjette
Incredible Iguazu Falls: Over, Under, or On a Boat in Devil’s Throat [26 PICS]
Tagged Devil's Throat, environment, Iguazu Falls, Iguazu River, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, UNESCO World Heritage Site, waterfalls
Iguazu Falls, in the Iguazu River, is one of the largest waterfalls in the world and a tremendous natural wonder being that there are about 275 separate waterfalls ranging from 200 – 269 feet high. Devil’s Throat is the tallest of these falls which extend for nearly two miles in a huge semi-circle. Iguazu Falls is another of the very popular finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition.The legend behind this giant falls goes like this: A god planned to marry a beautiful woman named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a canoe. In rage the god sliced the river, creating the waterfalls and condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. Iguazu Falls is located near the border of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. The area has two National Parks, both of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. [26 Photos]
Panorama of Iguazu Waterfalls. Photo #1 by Martin St-Amant
Beyond Gorgeous: Great Barrier Reef (46 PICS)
Tagged animals, environment, Great Barrier Reef, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, photography, scuba diving, snorkel, UNESCO World Heritage Site
This is the planet’s largest coral reef system and it can be seen as far away as outer space! The gorgeous Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Australia, in the Coral Sea, and stretches for 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers); it’s made up of about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands. It is the single biggest structure created by billions of tiny living organisms. The reef supports an extremely rich diversity of life and was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. The beautiful Great Barrier Reef is also one of the very popular finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition. Although a large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit human impact like fishing and tourists, tourism still generates around a whopping $1 billion per year. With the spectacular seascapes, landscapes, some of the most stunning marine scenery in the world, it’s not hard to understand why. It’s definitely on our bucket-list to see and dive before we die. Visitors often scuba dive and snorkel to photograph the remarkable and natural underwater beauty of the reef. [46 Photos]
You can help conserve this gorgeous Great Barrier Reef, a consistently popular choice among the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition. According to NOAA, “Even if you don’t live near a coral reef, you can still have an impact on them. Awareness is a big step towards changing behaviors that threaten reefs, and ensuring your impact on reefs is a positive one. Therefore, we all need to be aware of the importance of, and threats to, coral reefs.” Photo #1 by NOAA’s National Ocean Service
Infamous Mount Vesuvius: One of the World’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes (41 PICS)
Tagged archaeological, environment, Italy, Mount Vesuvius, Naples, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, Pompeii, ruins, Vesuvio, volcano, volcanoes
East of Naples, Italy, looms the volcano Mount Vesuvius with an elevation of 4,203 feet (1,281 meters). It is a finalist in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition; voting trends show it becoming more popular and perhaps one of the winners from the 28 natural wonders. Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in 79 AD that led to the destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It has erupted many times since and is today regarded as one of the most dangerous and infamous volcanoes in the world. [41 Photos]
Mount Vesuvius looms in the distance from the ancient ruins of Pompeii. This volcano is best known for its eruption in 79 AD that buried and destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The towns were forgotten until their accidental rediscovery in the 18th century. Photo #1 by Glen Scarborough
Amazing Amazonia: Amazon Rainforest [46 Pics]
Tagged amazon, Amazon River, amazonia, Brazil, environment, forest, jungle, nature, New 7 Wonders of the Nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, Peru, plants, rainforest, South America, wildlife
The “lungs of our planet” have been attributed to the Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia. This Amazon jungle, or the Amazon basin in South America, covers over 1.7 billion acres acres (7,000,000 square kilometers); the actual tropical rainforest is spread over 1.4 billion acres and 9 countries: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. 60% of the Amazon jungle is contained within Brazil. The Amazon represents over half the remaining rainforests worldwide and contains the largest and most species-rich tropical forest system on our planet. Amazonia grew around the Amazon River which is the longest river, the largest river, and the basin has the largest area in the world. The Amazon River has total flow greater than the top ten world’s rivers combined. The biodiversity of this wet tropical forest could boggle the brain; one in ten animal species lives here and it is the largest collection of living plants on the globe . . . and much of the Amazon is still unexplored. It definitely should be protected for the tropical jungle paradise may hold the keys, yet to be discovered, to cure countless diseases.The amazing Amazon rainforest is one of the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition. We love these pics! [46 Photos]
The biodiversity in these wet tropical forests is mind-blowing. It is home to the largest collection of living plant and animal species in the world. One in ten known species on this planet lives in the Amazon Rainforest. Amazonia is home to around 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, and more than 2,000 birds and mammals. So far, at least 40,000 plant species, 2,200 fishes, 1,294 birds, 427 mammals, 428 amphibians, and 378 reptiles have been scientifically classified within this region. One in five of all bird and fish species live here. The Scarlet Macaws above are indigenous to the American tropics. The photographer wrote, “Red-and-Green Macaws DO grow on trees in the Amazon.” Photo #1 by Billtacular
Dazzling Dead Sea Delights: Bob like a Cork, Smear on Salt and Mud [45 PICS]
Tagged Dead Sea, Dead Sea Scrolls, mud, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, sea, sea salt
The Dead Sea is one of the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition. It is a salt lake between Palestine and Israel to the west and Jordan to the east. At almost 1,378 feet (420 meters) below sea level, its shores are the lowest point on Earth that are on dry land. In the deepest part, at the very bottom of the sea, it is over 2,300 feet below sea level. The ‘Salt Sea’ has 30% salinity which is 8.6 times saltier than the ocean and people can float in it with no effort required. In fact, people don’t ‘swim’ in the water; instead they tend to bob like a cork and may be inclined to kick back and read while they float. It’s also a place where people delight in smearing on mud and salt for health and beauty reasons. The Dead Sea is 1,237 ft (377 m) deep, making it the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It has attracted visitors for thousands of years . . . including being a place of refuge for the King David from the Bible. [45 Photos]
A rough Dead Sea, with salt deposits on cliffs. Although the sea is called “dead” due to its high salinity which prevents fish and aquatic plants from living in it, the same salinity can treat several health conditions. The Dead Sea is also known by many other names such as ‘Sea of Salt’ and ‘Sea of Death’; and in Arabic ‘Sea of Lot’ and ‘Sea of Zoʼar.’ The Greeks called it ‘Lake Asphaltites’ and ‘the Asphaltite Sea.’ The Bible also refers to it as ‘the Eastern sea’ and ‘Sea of the Arabah.’ Photo #1 by Disdero
A Lost World Where Angel Falls Plunges off Devil’s Mountain [38 PICS]
Tagged adrenaline rush, Angel Falls, Auyantepui, BASE jump, Canaima National Park, climbing, Devil's Mountain, jungle, nature, New 7 Wonders of the Nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, Rainbow Jambaia, rock climbing, Salto Angel, tepui, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Venezuela, waterfalls
Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfall, is on the table-top mountain of Auyantepui which means “Mountain of Evil” or “Devil’s Mountain” in the native Pemon people’s language. This amazing waterfall is 3,212 feet high and plunges 2,648 ft over the edge of the Auyantepui mountain in the Canaima National Park. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Angel Falls is 19 times higher than Niagria Falls and is one of the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition — in fact it is considered to be a highly probable winner. Although this famous waterfall is one of Venezuela’s top tourist attractions, it’s not so easy for the faint of heart to reach. Traversing through the jungle is a surreal adventure in itself and has been compared to traveling through a “Lost World.” There is an isolated jungle to trek, a flight to reach Canaima camp, and then a river trip to reach the base of the falls. Some adrenaline junkies make this journey for one reason, adventurous ‘angels’ come to fall off Devil’s Mountain. [38 Photos & 2 Videos]
Angel Falls, the world’s highest free-falling waterfall, is located deep within the Canaima National Park in Venezuela. The trek through the jungle is a surreal adventure in itself and has been compared to traveling through a “Lost World.” Photo #1 by My[confined]Space
Sacred Uluru: The Ancient Heart of Australia [41 PICS]
Tagged Australia, Ayers Rock, climbing, nature, New 7 Wonders of the Nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, rock climbing, Uluru, UNESCO World Heritage Site, World Heritage Site
Uluru, also known as Ayres Rock, is a World Heritage Site and a finalist in the running for the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition. Uluru is considered as the ancient heart of Australia; it’s sacred to the Aṉangu, the Aboriginal people of the area. While many tourists feel like they must climb Ayers Rock before they die, the Aṉangu do not believe in climbing this landmark since it is of great spiritual significance to them. Uluru and Kata Tjuta make up the two major features of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Some tourists to central Australia feel like this beautiful and ancient heart is the most anticipated highlight of their visit. [41 Photos]
Uluru at sunset. This gorgeous natural sandstone icon in Australia stands over 1,141 feet (348 m) above sea level and has more hidden below ground than what you see here. Uluru, also known as Ayres Rock, can appear to be differing shades of red depending upon the time the day and how the sun strikes it. Photo #1 by Richard Fisher
Caving in a Palawan Boat: Puerto Princesa Underground River [31 PICS]
Tagged National Park, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park in Palawan, Philippines, is another of the fabulous locations nominated as a finalists in the New Seven Wonders of Nature competitions. The PP Underground River features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river and is the second longest underground river in the world. The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is one of the most important biodiversity conservation areas of the Philippines. With its crystalline waters and spectacular cave formations, the Underground River is possibly Puerto Princesa’s most popular attraction. [31 Photos]
Aerial view of Palawan paradise. Photo #1 by Patrick Kranzlmüller
Wonder of Nature: Galapagos Islands [36 PICS]
Tagged animals, environment, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos Marine Reserve, Galapagos National Park, nature, New Seven Wonders of Nature, UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Galapagos Islands are made up of 18 main volcanic islands in an archipelago of Ecuador. These islands and the surrounding waters make up a national park and a biological marine reserve. The young naturalist Charles Darwin developed his theory of natural selection explaining evolution after researching the Galapagos Islands. These amazing islands are part of the ongoing series for finalists in the New 7 Wonders of the Nature competition. In 2007, UNESCO put the Galapagos Islands on the “List of World Heritage in Danger” due to the threats posed by invasive species, unbridled tourism and overfishing. Time and again, poachers have come into the Galapagos National Park and slaughtered sea lions. However in July 2010, the World Heritage Committee removed the Galapagos Islands from the “endangered” list because significant progress had been made by Ecuador in addressing threats. Yet in July 2011, Ecuadorean authorities seized 357 dead sharks from a boat that was fishing illegally in the protected waters of the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Since the Galapagos Islands have 170,000 visitors each year, new regulations have been introduced to protect the unique wildlife. Starting February 1, 2012, these new tourism regulations will limit vessels visiting the same site to no more than once during a 14-day period which may impact on travelers planning to visit the beautiful islands. So what do you think? Should the Galapagos Islands become one of the new 7 Wonders of Nature? [36 Photos]
A squirming baby sea lion (less than 6 weeks old) on the beach of Espanola Island. Sadly, the beautiful Galapagos Island which are rich with diverse wildlife has battled with human beasts as a huge threat. In 2008, Galapagos National Park officials announced that 53 sea lions (13 pups, 25 youngsters, 9 males and 6 females) were killed at Pinta, Galapagos Islands nature reserve, with their heads caved in. In 2001, poachers killed 35 male sea lions. Photo #1 by sly06
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London – London fund-raisers of the Christchurch Shootings, Tania Bearsley and Jarred Christmas, are the two finalists for the prestigious UK New Zealander of the Year 2020.
The New Zealand Society UK has just released their names in London.
Bearsley organised the vigil, Stand for Solidarity with New Zealand, at Trafalgar Square, bringing together the New Zealand community in London after the Christchurch shootings on March 15.
Thousands attended the vigil and world broadcast coverage of this event showcased the best of the Kiwi spirit, inclusivity and community.
Christmas staged a comedy event in London which also raised funds for victims of the Christchurch shootings. He donated his time to run the event, as well as encourage other headline acts to join in.
His efforts raised invaluable funds for the victims and families affected. Both the finalists are recognised for their personal and invaluable contribution in the UK to promoting the interests of Aotearoa New Zealand or New Zealanders, NZ society president Clarence Tan says.
Tan says the finalists were selected by the judging panel from the Kiwi profession and volunteer organisations in London.
The award, established by the New Zealand Society in 1998, will be presented to the winner at the annual NZ Society UK’s Waitangi Day charity ball at the Waldorf Hilton in London, on February 7.
The award will be made by the NZ high commissioner Sir Jerry Mateparae and the head of UK-Europe for Air New Zealand, Joanna Copestake.
Previous winners of the award include Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Kent Gardner, the late Harry Mahon Michael Campbell, Sir Mark Todd and Peter Gordon.
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SPEECH BY JACQUES CHIRAC, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, ON RESPECTING THE PRINCIPLE OF SECULARISM IN THE REPUBLIC (EXCERPTS)
Paris, December 17, 2003
A land of ideas and principles, France is an open, hospitable and generous country. United around a unique heritage from which they derive strength and pride, the French people enjoy a rich diversity. A diversity which is accepted and is at the heart of our identity. (...)
Diversity of beliefs (...) diversity of regions (...).
And of course diversity of those women and men who, in each generation, have come to join the national community and for whom France was first an ideal before becoming a homeland.
Our flag, our language, our history: everything speaks to us of these values of tolerance and respect for the Other (...) of this diversity which gives France her greatness. We are proud of this France, who fights for peace, justice and human rights. We must defend her. Rather than calling her into question, each of us must acknowledge what she has brought us and ask ourselves what we can do for her.
In order that France may remain herself, we must today address the concerns and defuse the tensions in our society.
The factors behind these tensions are known to everyone. While bringing new opportunities, globalization is worrying and destabilizing to individuals, sometimes driving them to withdrawal [from society].
At a time when the great ideologies are collapsing, obscurantism and fanaticism are gaining ground in the world. Each of us needs to find our bearings again as members of the French nation and the citizens' Europe we wish to bring about. At the same time, the persistence, even worsening, of inequalities and the gulf which is widening between troubled neighbourhoods and the rest of the country belie the principle of equal opportunities and threaten to splinter our republican pact.
One thing is certain: the answer to these concerns does not lie in the infinitesimally narrow solution of withdrawal into oneself or one's community. On the contrary, it lies in the affirmation of our wish to live together, bolstering the common [patriotic] fervour, in remaining true to our history and our values.
Faced with the uncertainties of the times and of the world, with a sense of impotence, of being at times in the grip of confusion, everyone is seeking more personal, more immediate points of reference: family, neighbourhood solidarities, community associations. And this aspiration is natural. It is even an asset. It shows the capacity of Frenchmen and women to mobilize, act and give free rein to their energies and their initiatives.
Yet this movement must find its limits in the upholding of respect for common values. The danger lies in the release of centrifugal forces, the exalting of divisive particularisms; in wanting to see rules governing sections of our society take priority over national law. The danger lies in divisiveness, discrimination and confrontation.
Let us look at what is happening elsewhere. Societies structured around communities are frequently victims of unacceptable inequalities.
Splitting society into communities cannot be the choice for France. It would be contrary to our history, traditions and culture. It would be contrary to our humanist principles, our faith in social advancement solely on the strength of ability and merit, and to our commitment to equality and fraternity among all French people.
This is why I refuse to commit France to that path. It would sacrifice her heritage; it would compromise her future; it would result in the loss of her soul.
That is also why we have a compelling duty to act. The way to reinvent a new common destiny is not through immobilism or nostalgia; it is through being clear-sighted, imaginative and remaining true to what we are. (...)
All the children of France, whatever their background, whatever their origin, whatever their beliefs, are daughters and sons of the Republic. They must be recognized as such, in law, but above all in fact. By respecting this requirement, overhauling our policy of integration and our ability to ensure equal opportunities at the practical level, we will restore full vitality to our nation's cohesion.
We will also do this by keeping alive the principle of secularism, which is a pillar of our Constitution. It expresses our resolve to live together in mutual respect, dialogue and tolerance.
Secularism guarantees freedom of conscience. It protects the freedom to believe or not to believe. It guarantees everyone the possibility of expressing and practising their faith, peacefully and freely, without the threat of the imposition of other convictions or beliefs. It allows men and women from all corners of the globe, from all cultures, to be protected in their beliefs by the Republic and its institutions. Open and generous, the Republic is the place of choice for meetings and exchanges where everyone can give of their best to the national community. It is the neutrality of the public arena which permits the various religions to coexist harmoniously.
Like all freedoms, freedom of expression of religious beliefs can be limited only by the freedom of the Other and observance of the rules of life in society. Religious freedom, which our country respects and protects, cannot be hijacked. It cannot undermine the common rule. It cannot impinge on the freedom of conviction of others. It is this subtle, precious and fragile balance, patiently built up over decades, which respect for the principle of secularism ensures. And this principle is an opportunity for France. This is why it is set down in Article 1 of our Constitution. This is why it is not negotiable!
However, despite the weight of this republican achievement, and as, inter alia, the work of the Commission headed by M. Bernard Stasi has shown, (...) the application of the secular principle in our society is today under debate. Admittedly, it is rarely challenged. Indeed, many identify with it. But its practical implementation is encountering new, growing difficulties in the workplace, in the public services – especially schools and hospitals.
There can be no toleration, under the guise of religious freedom, of people contesting the Republic's laws and principles. Secularity is one of the Republic's great conquests. It is a crucial component of social peace and national cohesion. We cannot allow it to weaken. We must work to consolidate it.
For this, we must concretely ensure the same respect for all the great spiritual families. In this respect, Islam, the religion which has arrived most recently in France, has its full place among the great religions present on our soil. Thanks to the creation of the Conseil français du Culte musulman, relations between the State and the Islam of France can now be organized. Muslims must have in France the possibility of having places of worship allowing them to practise their religion in dignity and tranquillity. Despite the recent progress, we have to recognize that much remains to be done in this sphere. A new milestone will also be reached when French imams can be trained in France, allowing the assertion of the identity of a French-based Islam.
Respect, tolerance, the spirit of dialogue will also be entrenched with the knowledge and understanding of the Other to which each of us must attach the greatest importance. This is why I think it essential to develop the teaching of the concept of religion at school.
We must also, vigilantly and firmly, wage a ruthless battle against xenophobia, racism and particularly against anti-Semitism. Let us not tolerate the trivialization of insults! Let us not play down any gesture, any attitude, any comment! We must not leave anything unpunished! It's a matter of dignity.
We must forcefully reaffirm the neutrality and secularism of the public services. That of all public sector employees, serving the whole community and the general interest, who are forbidden to display publicly their own beliefs or opinions. For us, this is a rule of law, since no French citizens must be able to suspect a public official, because of his or her personal beliefs, of either according them special treatment or discriminating against them. Likewise, on no account must citizens be allowed to challenge a public sector employee on account of their beliefs.
We must also reaffirm secularism at school, because school must be completely protected.
School is first and foremost the place where the values bequeathed to us all are acquired and passed on. The instrument par excellence for entrenching the Republican Idea. The place where tomorrow's citizens are trained in the arts of criticism and dialogue and taught to prize freedom. Where they are given the keys to fulfil their potential and control their destiny. Where everyone broadens their horizons.
School is a republican sanctuary which we must defend to safeguard the equality of the acquisition of values and knowledge, equality between girls and boys, with all lessons, including games, taught to boys and girls together. To protect our children, so that our youngsters are not exposed to divisive ill winds, which drive people apart and set them against one another.
There is no question, of course, of making schools places of uniformity, anonymity with religious affiliation prohibited. The aim is to enable teachers and school heads, today in the front line and confronted with genuine problems, calmly to do their jobs, by laying down a clear rule. Until recently, in accordance with reasonable and spontaneously observed practices, no one has ever doubted that pupils, naturally free to live their faith, ought not, nevertheless, to come to school in clothes denoting their religious affiliation. The idea is not to invent new rules or move the boundaries of secularism. It is to set out with respect, but clearly and firmly, a rule we have practised for a very long time.
I have consulted. I have studied the Stasi Commission's report. I have considered the arguments of the National Assembly mission, political parties, religious authorities, and major representatives of the schools of thought.
In all conscience, I consider that the wearing of clothes or signs which conspicuously denote a religious affiliation must be prohibited at school.
Discreet signs, for example a Cross, a Star of David or Hand of Fatima will of course remain allowed. On the other hand, conspicuous signs, i.e. those which stand out and immediately denote religious affiliation, must not be tolerated. These – the Islamic veil, regardless of the name you give it, the Kippa or a Cross of a clearly excessive size, have no place in State schools. State schools will remain secular.
For this an Act is obviously necessary. I wish it to be adopted by Parliament and fully implemented from the beginning of the next school year. Right now, I am asking the government to pursue its dialogue, particularly with the religious authorities, and to embark on a campaign of explanation, mediation and education.
Our objective is to open hearts and minds. It is to make the young people involved understand what is at stake and protect them from influences and passions which, far from liberating them or allowing them to make free choices, constrain or threaten them.
In the application of this Act, dialogue and consultation will systematically have to be sought before any decision is taken.
On the other hand – and the question has been raised – I do not think it necessary to add new national holidays to the school calendar, which already has many. Moreover, that would create severe difficulties for parents who work on those days. Nevertheless, and as is already widespread custom, I want no pupils to have to apologize for absence justified by a major religious festival like Yom Kippur or Aid el Kebir, provided that their schools have been informed beforehand. It also goes without saying that no important tests or examinations must be held on those days. And the Minister of National Education will be giving instructions to this effect to chief education officers.
The elementary rules of living together also need restating. I am thinking of hospitals where there can be no justification for a patient refusing, on principle, treatment by a doctor of the opposite sex. The law must endorse this rule for all patients in public hospitals.
Similarly, the Minister of Labour will have to launch the necessary consultations and, if need be, submit to Parliament measures to allow heads of firms to rule on the wearing of religious signs, for compelling reasons to do with safety – that goes without saying – and dealing with clients.
Generally speaking, I believe it desirable for a "Secularism Code" to bring together all the principles and rules relating to secularism. This code will be distributed inter alia to all civil servants and public employees the day they take up their jobs.
Moreover, the Prime Minister will set up a Secularism Watchdog, attached to his office, tasked with alerting the French and the public authorities to the risks of abuses or infringements of this essential principle.
Finally, our battle for the Republic's values must prompt us to commit ourselves resolutely to promoting the rights of women and their genuine equality with men. (...)
I very solemnly proclaim: the Republic will oppose everything which divides, everything which discourages participation, and everything which excludes! The rule is "everyone together" because this places everyone on an equal footing, because it refuses to distinguish on the grounds of sex, origin, colour or religion.
As far as women's rights are concerned, our society still has a huge amount of progress to make. The new frontier in equality is now gender parity in the workplace. Everyone must realize this and act accordingly. (...).
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Women's voices go unheard in abortion policy
By Lee Kyung-min
A group of women have raised concerns over a recently reignited conflict between the government and doctors about the illegal-yet-common medical practice of abortion, saying the issue has failed to reflect the voices of women and the reality they face.
Late last month, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced a plan to toughen punishment on doctors performing abortions, including suspending their licenses for up to one year.
In response, the Korean Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said Wednesday that its members would halt performing the medical procedure next month if the government doesn't withdraw the plan. Considering the reality that about 200,000 abortions are carried out a year here, the pledge is to hold hostage women who choose the procedure due to any number of reasons.
An official at the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center said women, who are directly affected by the measure, were neglected in the process.
"Both the government measure and doctors' protest fail to respect the autonomy of women who have the right and ability to control what happens to their bodies," the official said.
Just banning abortion with tougher sanctions for doctors, without considering the women's desperate circumstances, is another form of violence, she added.
"Given the lack of welfare policy for single mothers and the social stigma that labels such women as being promiscuous, many women have no choice but to terminate their pregnancies," she said.
"As a result, those women would be driven to find unlicensed individuals in unhygienic places, which is another violation of rights to health and safety."
While women getting abortions and doctors performing them are subject to punishment, the punishment excludes the men who are the fathers of the babies, according to an official at the Korea Women's Hot Line.
"Women do not get pregnant alone, and yet, there is no punishment for the men. This is unfair oppression of women," she said.
In Korea, women who have abortions are subject to a prison term of up to one year or a fine of up to 2 million won ($1,800). While doctors may face up to two years in prison, but they usually get a 1 million won to 2 million won fine or a suspended prison sentence.
The official said many problems are occurring for people not ready to be parents, such as discarding newborns and teen pregnancies. "The government should come up with a more fundamental approach and conduct in-depth discussions about abortion and women's rights, rather than short-sighted crackdowns," she added.
In principle, abortion is allowed only in limited cases including rape, incest or if the mother has a genetic illness.
lkm@ktimes.com More articles by this reporter
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RollerDerbyNotes.com is a website dedicated to the game and sport of roller derby, featuring regular news updates, independent event coverage, thoughtful analysis, and insightful commentary.
We operate under the mantra that all types of roller derby should be given fair exposure. Whether it be of the multiple organizations that are fostering variations of the modern game, or of those that hold the old-school styles of derby true to their hearts, if someone out there is playing roller derby in the way they want to play it, we want to know about it and we want to share it with the world.
RollerDerbyNotes.com is owned, operated, and penned by Steven “WindyMan” Rodriguez, a sports fan/writer/graphic artist/photographer/video game enthusiast based in Los Angeles. Steven first came across roller derby when he first saw the L.A. T-Birds on television as a child some time in the late 1980s, and then fell for the game hard when he saw those same T-Birds skate in the syndicated television show Rollergames.
Since the TV show went off the air, he longed to see roller derby again, but played in a legitimate environment. Upon hearing about the L.A. Derby Dolls banked track league in 2007 offering that very thing, as well as a number of flat track leagues around the country, he promptly proceeded to lose his shit. He has been an LADD season ticket holder and/or volunteer ever since, in addition to a webcast announcer for select RDCL tournaments.
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The precursor to this website, WindyMan’s Roller Derby Notes, was created in 2011 as a response to the lack of sports-knowledge within the greater roller derby community. RollerDerbyNotes.com continues on as a supplement to the community’s knowledge pool, offering perspectives that can only come from someone well-vested in the 80-year history of roller derby and the multiple derby disciplines that exist in the modern era of the game.
Before getting into roller derby writing, Steven spent 11 years covering the video game industry, the last two of which sitting in the director’s chair at Nintendo World Report, the leading Nintendo enthusiast news and information website on the Internet.
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