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Uploaded: Wed, Feb 12, 2014, 11:17 am
Menlo Park: BBC renovation gets unanimous approval
by Sandy Brundage / Almanac
A rendering of Rob Fischer's exterior design for the new BBC, viewed from the intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue and El Camino Real. (Image courtesy of city of Menlo Park)
Some may have understandably thought this day would never come: the Menlo Park Planning Commission voiced unanimous approval for a major project in about 30 minutes.
The project, restaurateur Rob Fischer's remake of the historic BBC at 1090 El Camino Real, has raised the bar "really high" in terms of what the commission's looking for, according to chair John Kadvany.
"It shows you how quickly projects can get through Menlo Park when the applicant does such a great job of designing the project," Mr. Kadvany noted during the Feb. 10 meeting.
Mr. Fischer plans to open a three-floor restaurant, including a rooftop deck and outdoor dining on the ground floor, that will preserve the historic exterior brick architecture of the city landmark apart from moving the entrance to Santa Cruz Avenue and adding an exterior staircase. Parking will be provided via the 275-space underground garage shared with other Menlo Center businesses.
But Mr. Fischer will not preserve one aspect of the BBC's history --- its reputation as a rowdy, late-night hotspot for trouble.
"We're a very solid company," he told the commission. "... a kind of a no-nonsense company. I won't put up with what they did before at the BBC. That's totally unacceptable to me... I can't even fathom doing what someone did in that restaurant, it's appalling."
Mr. Fischer's reputation preceded him and appeared to ease the path toward project approval, as the commissioners as well as public supporters pointed out his success with the Palo Alto Creamery, Reposado and, in Mountain View, Gravity and Scratch.
What he hopes to bring to Menlo Park, he said, is a one-of-a-kind restaurant people will be proud to go to.
Although the restaurant would be open seven days a week from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., with on-site alcohol sales and background music, Mr. Fischer said he "can't stress enough that noise in our operations isn't a factor."
He has turned down requests to bring live music to his other restaurants, he said, and has no plans to change that policy.
Members of the public, including councilmen Peter Ohtaki and Ray Mueller and Chamber of Commerce CEO Fran Dehn told the commission they couldn't wait to see the new restaurant open.
The commissioners followed suit before voting 6-0, with Henry Riggs absent, to approve the plans.
"Our nickname of 'Menlo Dark' is sometimes well deserved," Commissioner Katie Ferrick quipped. "I appreciate you being willing to take a chance on turning the lights on."
Posted by EE
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Feb 12, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Great news! One small (but much appreciated) step for Menlo Park, one giant step toward removing the urban blight that has left El Camino looking like a South Bronx death zone. Many thanks to the Planning Commission for setting a high bar, and then for giving rapid approval once the threshold was met.
Posted by CB
on Feb 12, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Bravo! A big thank you to the Planning Commission. We need more night life in Menlo Park. Hopefully something can be done across the street, as Su Hong & The Menlo Hub are both closed....as well as the other vacant lots in Menlo Park along the El Camino.
Posted by Menlo dad
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
Now we need the menlo park legends semi-pro baseball team to revive flood park!
Posted by BBC Future customer
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Jun 11, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Looking forward to the BBC re-opening. Any idea of what the timeline is? I have lots of fellow co-workers in the area who really want a new place to go after work but we haven't seen any renovation activity at the site. Any news on this front?
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Marble Machine
3D Printer Projects
Binary Clock
Empous, the Empire Simulation Game
Potato Cannon
Ram Pump
Service Robot
Soda Bottle Rockets
SoyBot, a Ground Vehicle for Soybean Phenotyping
Westhampton Library Maker Club
This is a project I worked on for Build18 at CMU with my friend Matt and couple other graduate students. It is a machine that plays songs on a xylophone by dropping marbles on it. It was inspired by the famous machine built by Wintergatan.
Related info:
Build18
Wintergatan Marble Machine
I wasn’t involved in the original design of the project, but this is what the (still unassembled) hardware looked like:
It is built from a sandwich of acrylic plates and has a large hole in the top where you can pour marbles in. The middle plate (the clear piece on the ground in the picture) has space for the marbles to fall down into slots. Each slot has a hole at the bottom, covered by a servo horn that is attached to a mini servo. When the servos move, the hole will be uncovered and marbles will fall out, landing on the xylophone which is placed below. Each hole corresponds to a single key on the xylophone.
The servos are operated by the Adafruit 16-Channel Servo Hat.
Conceptually speaking, the software has two components:
A component that pulls audio from the computer’s speakers, runs an FFT on it, and outputs a set of notes in a format that can be sent to the machine
A component on the machine to read in notes and actuate the servos to drop the correct marbles with the correct timing
I joined the project after the initial design phase to help with some of the coding aspects, specifically the code to operate the servo hat. The hat has a lot of example code available, but it was a tad difficult getting the correct version. Although the Adafruit website points to this repo, the most up-to-date code can be found here.
After perusing the example code, we created some functions to operate the servos using a 16-bit mask with each bit representing a servo state. You can see the code on my github.
While I was working on the servo code with Matt, our other teammate was working on MATLAB code to process the audio into individual notes. The result of that can also be found on the github repo.
Today was demo day. By design, this build-a-thon is quite rushed, and we were cutting and assembling pieces right up to the deadline. Unfortunately, this meant we didn’t have a chance to test the entire system before the demo.
We ran into the following problems during the demo:
The MATLAB code didn’t run fast enough to operate in realtime. We were hoping to play a Youtube video and hear the xylophone produce the audio simultaneously, but we had to accept a pre-generated piece of audio instead.
One of the acrylic pieces cracked during assembly, so the holes for the marbles didn’t align properly. We tried to drill them out to fix it, but ended up cracking the pieces even more.
The center acrylic piece also turned out to be too thick. We used a thicker piece to allow the marbles to move freely, but they ended up stacking in such a way that they sometimes got stuck. As shown in this diagram by Wolfram, we expected the left-hand side but got the right-hand side:
The angle of the machine wasn’t steep enough for the marbles to fall through the holes. This may not have been an issue if the alignment and stacking issues were fixed.
In the end, we could show that the concept worked by playing a few notes, but we couldn’t actually play a full song.
We’ve made the following upgrades:
Soldered headers on the hat to help with connections to the Pi
Redesigned the middle plate to prevent balls from falling out the sides
Recut the middle plate from a piece of 1/4” wood
The newly reassembled machine:
After applying these upgrades, we ran a simple test, which you can see here. The upgrades are definitely an improvement, but we are now able to see some other issues in the design which we can tweak. Specifically, the wiring needs some organization, the servos need to be realigned, and the balls are still catching at the bottom of the chute. We also are planning on making it easier to add the balls and catch them while the machine is running.
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Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London
Artist: Suzanne Treister
Art & the Feminist Project
Review Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London 7 October - 5 December 1993. Using glamour, virginity and stardom to attract as wide an audience as possible to a show of supposedly anarchic women artists all hoping to confront notions of sexuality and gender was a smart, if questionable, move....
All through Autumn 1993 on every London underground station there appeared bridalised portraits of Catherine Deneuve set against a heavenly blue and cotton wool sky backdrop. The poster read 'BAD GIRLS' (are coming!) and was an advertisement for the Bad Girls season at the ICA.
Using glamour, virginity and stardom to attract as wide an audience as possible to a show of supposedly anarchic confrontational women artists all hoping to confront notions of sexuality and gender was a smart, if questionable move, the shared territory being sex, a sure crowd puller, simultaneously alleviating any fears on the part of the prospective viewer that this was a show produced by an unruly host of unplucked, chip-on-the-shoulder, 'feminist hysterics'. A promise of post-feminist chic made by a group of new and not so new women of confidence and intellect.
On the opening night the crowds flooded in relentlessly, the bar furniture had to be removed and a wild party ensued in the upstairs rooms well into the night.
Everyone loved the poster; it was even offered as a free gift for new membership applications ... but few were mad about the show. In a sense it was the poster that set the show up to fail. Catherine stole centre stage and the work seemed to function as somewhat lumpen props, in a similar way that art in movies (often the derivative work of a final year art student) can appear to be caricatured, dated and a little ridiculous.
Despite this initial disablement several of the artists' works survive on closer examination and the show fulfils something if not all of its promise. To my mind Helen Chadwick and Rachel Evans produced the more interesting and complex work on offer. Chadwick's Loop my Loop is a backlit cibachrome transparency on which a long blond lock of hair forms an extended knot with a pig's intestine. It's as if Catherine spent a dirty weekend on the pig farm and got entangled with an LA performance artist. Unlike much recent work which has aimed to shock, this piece hits you in the gut and the intellect with surprisingly disturbing consequences, conjuring up visions of long haired Titianesque nudes directed by Cronenberg. In Glossolalia laid out on a circular wooden plinth/table are twenty-four tailed furs (one for every hour of the day and night - keep at it darling!) Protruding from the centre is an open topped cone-like edifice made of bronze-cast lambs' tongues. As an absurdly bestial 'hermaphrodite' this piece functions in a similar way to Loop my Loop, arousing and seducing the viewer whilst simultaneously subverting traditional categories of the 'masculine' and the 'feminine'.
Rachel Evans, a younger artist in the show, presented a group of four large drawings from her series of Fantastic Drawings. Each drawing, delicately yet slickly wrought in light pencil marks, pictures the artist with another, once a female, three times a male, in various idealised settings. From the titles we learn their names, Joan, Robin, Robinson and Jesus. The first image we come upon, Fantastic Drawing no. 10 (Joan & I at the gates to Paris leaves us in no doubt that Joan is none other than Joan of Arc. The crop-haired Rachel, clad in jeans and leather jacket, clasps the similarly attired 'Joan' beneath the gates of Paris (in reality the gates to London's Royal Academy) as they each gaze tenderly yet knowingly into each others eyes. There is a similar yet possibly less knowing exchange taking place in the scenes of Rachel with 'Robin Hood', 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Jesus Christ', all presumably drawn from photos of Rachel with her friends. These drawings take us back to the story book and history book s/heroes of our schooldays when the construction of our fantasies and desires had not yet been laid bare on the operating table, when history was History and Literature was just a story at bedtime. There seems to be a vogue for 'infantilism' coursing through the younger London art scene. London's Thatcher generation fed on a diet of 'bad' politics and leftover clichés from the older generation's theory binge seems to be going in for a bit of rebirthing. Evans is doing it more poignantly and intelligently than most.
The four other artists in the show are Nicole Eisenman, Dorothy Cross, Nan Goldin and Sue Williams.
Nicole Eisenman's work is reminiscent of much early '80s new figuration, more specifically the branch of the movement in which women made reconstructions of established male art often 'rewriting' classical mythology.
Eisenman paints directly onto the wall, aiming to recreate the heroic history painting, with women as castrators, killers and revenge seekers, taking their pleasure in destroying 'Picasso's' Minotaur only to produce perfume from its blood à la Paloma (Paloma Picasso's cologne for men, 'Minotaure' is out in the shops), a 'genius' at father exploitation. One cannot help but feel that Eisenman is in turn exploiting Paloma to add spice to an otherwise boringly didactic piece. Eisenman's less 'heroic' pieces in the catalogue appear to resist the one-liner temptation. Mother's Choice shows mother and small son, 1950s style, in the shoe shop with small son trying on mother's shoes in the low level mirror. Mother and the two male assistants look on approvingly whilst the viewer witnesses a humourously distorted re-enactment of the so called mirror stage, the boy seeing only the lower half of his trousers with his feet inserted into his mother's buckled high heels. In this work involving complex flirtations with times innocent of sexual politics, Eisenman, a young artist from the U.S. seems to share something of the sensibility of Evans.
In Dorothy Cross' sculptures cows udders are amalgamated with, in one piece, a dressmaker's dummy, entitled Bust, in which the dummy is partly covered in cowhide and sports four large nipples, whilst in another piece a cow's udder hangs beneath a Victorian silver-plated dish cover; breast feeding or what!? Cross says, "It's about giving the udders another life and of course it's a joke, because in the south of Ireland we mispronounce 'other' because we don't have a soft 'th'. It's an overlap of becoming something 'udder'."
Jan Goldin, an American photographer has spent many years photographing her friends and lovers in varying stages of glamour, breast operations, AIDS, or just at home. Her work has been purposefully snapshot-ish since the 1970s in reaction to the early 70s obsession with technology and as a reaction against formal values in art. Goldin presents an alternative to the family photo album, presenting us with not always 'smiling' shots of the straights, gays and drag queens who have passed through her life over the last few decades. She says "I used to think that I could never lose someone if I photographed them enough. I used photography to stave off loss. But with the recent deaths of so many of my friends I've realised the limits of what can be preserved." This reminds me somewhat of a story related to me by a Japanese friend of how her grandparents used to think that refrigerators kept things fresh forever. Ok, I shouldn't be too cynical, it's a positive accessible project, possibly gaining from its lack of 'smart' conceptualising.
Another American in the show, Sue Williams makes large scrawled cartoonish paintings, a grungy Kruger with a big bone to pick. The catalogue insists that this work is not simply a retrogressive return to early feminist battles, but goes on to advise us of the dangers of assuming these battles to be prematurely won.
On of her works Victim Ranting reads, "I wish in no way to suggest that women are victims. It's just that someone beat the living fuck out of me." In another work Williams invokes the pornography debate (Are you Pro-Porn or Anti-Porn? 1992) using images of horses, arseholes and a lot of text (jokes) to take the piss out of art, intellectuals, men and inevitably the whole debate itself. Spiritual America 1992 is aimed at Richard Prince. The lower half reads, "Every time you tell a joke a feeling dies."
In her humour against sexism approach Williams relentlessly tickles our laughter buds but I've seen a lot of this stuff in the new comic books so why aren't those in the ICA too?
So 'girls' all we can do is get 'worse' or 'better' or maybe talk about something other than sexuality and gender 'cos we do that anyway. What d'ya say?
Jillian Davey: Stories on Canvas
Jenni Dudley
Jillian Davey works at the Ernabella Arts Centre on the Pitjantjatjara Lands of the north west of South Australia.
What Should We Do With The 'Women and Art' Elective?
Women's courses since the 1970s have become a familiar if marginalised component of most art school curricula, their initial aim being to compensate for the absence of women in the Art History and Theory syllabus and to encourage the development of feminist art practices.
Filipina Migranteng Manggagawa: Feminism, Art and Advocacy in the Philippines
Overseas contract workers from the Philippines support their families and their country as whole through many lonely years of exile.
Porn Shop Art Adventures
Mary Hutchison
Written with Barbara Holloway Exhibition review Joe Blow: A very erotic art exhibition by Jo Ernst
Adam and Eve Gallery Canberra
Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally
Joerg Andersch
Nola Farman: The Challenge Continues
Christine Sharkey
Examination of the art practice of Nola Farman.
Sadomaschism, Art and the Lesbian Sexual revolution
Sheila Jeffreys
Black leather, blood, piercing and tattooing, glamourised dominance and submission should be approached with political discernment and discrimination.
Different Dreaming
Jyanni Steffensen
Lap : an installation view. Keitha Phelps
Five Different Homes. Louise Haselton
Contemporary Art Centre
19 November- 12 December 1993
A Woman's Story: Hunting Grounds
S Lavinia Hartley
Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
5 November - 10 December 1993
Sight Lines
Book review: Sight Lines Women's art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia Sandy Kirby Craftsman House Sydney 1992 RRP $75
Knocking on the Inside: Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore and Anna Platten
Looks at the work of Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore, Anna Platten.
Fatal Attractions: Women and Technology: Norma Wight, Edite Vidins and Lyndall Milani
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Looks at the work of three Queensland artists working in different ways with computers.
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Feature Story | Argonne National Laboratory
Realizing a “pipe dream”
steve koppes
Transmitting signals through the concrete and steel of a nuclear power plant presents challenges even under normal conditions.
A research team at Argonne has shown that communicating acoustically through metal conduits within nuclear reactors is no pipe dream. (Image by Shutterstock / Suwin.)
But the loss of electric power at a nuclear plant following an accident would leave no way to send vital information into or out of the harsh environment of a containment building. Its concrete walls — measuring 4 feet thick to prevent radiation leakage — stand in the way.
Now, however, research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory reveals that communicating acoustically through a containment building’s metal conduits is no pipe dream.
An outgrowth of the Manhattan Project after World War II, Argonne has a long history of nuclear technology development. The laboratory’s innovative contributions continue as it develops a new acoustic method to transmit information through barriers at nuclear facilities.
“The acoustic communication system is meant to ensure the monitoring of the nuclear facility post-accident conditions for at least 72 hours without relying on the electric grid power supply.” — Roberto Ponciroli, Argonne Nuclear Engineer
Advanced wireless radiofrequency (RF) technology is readily available in many environments. But at a nuclear power plant, the walls of the containment building effectively block radio frequency transmission.
“Communicating over pipes that penetrate the containment-building walls is the only option,” said Alexander Heifetz, principal electrical engineer in Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) division.
Heifetz will describe the method next November at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ International Congress and Exposition in Pittsburgh. Argonne has filed for a patent on the system, which is being developed with three years of support from the DOE’s Nuclear Energy Enabling Technology program. The Argonne team demonstrated its prototype system during the Digital Environment for Advanced Reactors workshop, organized by DOE and held at Argonne in June.
“The acoustic communication system is meant to ensure the monitoring of the nuclear facility post-accident conditions for at least 72 hours without relying on the electric grid power supply,” said Roberto Ponciroli, nuclear engineer in Argonne’s Plant Analysis and Control and Non-Destructive Evaluation Sensors group.
Unlike wireless signals, Argonne’s acoustic technology can readily piggyback the piping to turn corners and pass through monolithic barriers of steel and concrete. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)
Acoustic systems could be used for routine communications at a nuclear plant where tight spaces and access limitations become factors, said Sasan Bakhtiari, a senior electrical engineer and Sensors and Instrumentation program lead within NSE.
“We are not trying to replace wireless communication with acoustic communication,” he emphasized. “This is complementary to RF technology.”
Leveraging existing infrastructure is a key benefit of the proposed Argonne approach. Any major modifications to a containment building would require approval of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
“We knew that there were metal pipes everywhere in nuclear facilities,” said Richard Vilim, manager of the Plant Analysis and Control and Non-Destructive Evaluation Sensors group. “They go through barriers. They’re all over the place,” he said.
Unlike wireless signals, acoustic technology can readily piggyback the piping to turn corners and pass through monolithic barriers of steel and concrete.
The Argonne researchers have tested their technology on pipes of the same material and dimension, similarly wrapped in insulation, as those found in a nuclear plant’s chemical and volume control system. The pipes, measuring 3 inches in diameter, convey cooling water through containment-building walls.
The test pipe is 6 feet long, the distance transmissions must travel to pass through the thickness of the wall. Once inside the containment building, standard wireless RF or wired systems that carry higher bandwidth become feasible.
In the Argonne system, acoustic transducers coupled to a pipe serve as both transmitter and receiver. The transmitter transforms encoded electrical signals into mechanical pulses that propagate as elastic waves on the pipe. The receiver then converts the mechanical vibrations into an electrical signal.
During early testing, the researchers transmitted signals via lead zirconate titanate transducers, a widely used type of piezoelectric transducer that carries limited bandwidth. The team is also exploring electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) technology for further proof-of-concept testing. EMATs offer higher bandwidth than piezoelectric transducers and can introduce signals to the metal conduits without directly touching the pipes.
The use of EMATs for a communications application is innovative, Bakhtiari said. The technology was developed primarily for nondestructive evaluations, which test materials without damaging them.
Because the acoustic transducers transmit at a low bandwidth, the researchers are using an on/off keying communication scheme. So far, they have demonstrated that their method can transmit information — music, voices and elementary sensor data — at the relatively low rate of approximately 10 kilobits per second.
The team is also taking advantage of Red Pitaya field programmable gate array boards to transmit and detect weak and noisy signals. The result: The quality of voice and music sound transmitted acoustically over metallic pipes is virtually indistinguishable from the quality obtained using regular electric cables.
“You actually get a crystal clear sound. You wouldn’t know the difference,” Heifetz said. “We also demonstrated transmission of an image – the Argonne logo – across the pipe earlier this month during the DOE workshop at Argonne.”
The team is developing digital modulation schemes using a software-defined radio (SDR) environment for signal encoding on acoustic transducers for a new communication system. SDR replaces the hardware typically found in radio communication systems with computer software.
“Current efforts are directed toward development of a communication protocol to minimize the energy consumption for the information that is transmitted. This will facilitate meeting system walk-away safety requirements,” said Ponciroli.
Further experiments are planned. Possible field locations include a commercial nuclear power plant and a nuclear-related Argonne test facility that bristles with steel and pipe.
“We will try to make the field environment more challenging by adding hurdles along the way,” said Bakhtiari.
Other researchers contributing to this project include Argonne nuclear engineer Stefano Passerini; Jafar Saniie, Filmer Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology; and members of Saniie’s research group Xin Huang and Boyang Wang.
Richard B. Vilim
Manager, Plant Analysis & Control and NDE Sensors
Richard Vilim is a senior nuclear engineer and manages the Plant Analysis & Control and Nondestructive Evaluation Sensors Group within Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Division.
Roberto Ponciroli
Sasan Bakhtiari
Group Manager, NDE Sensors & Instrumentation
Alexander Heifetz
Principal Electrical Engineer
Energy and Global Security
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Neuer to start for Bayern in DFB-Pokal final
May 24th 2019 11:37AM
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will return from six weeks out injured to start the DFB-Pokal final against RB Leipzig on Saturday, Niko Kovac has confirmed.
Neuer was substituted in the second half of the 4-1 Bundesliga victory over Fortuna Dusseldorf on April 14 after aggravating an existing calf issue.
The captain was initially ruled out for two weeks but has not played since, with Bayern keen not to rush him back into action.
However, Neuer trained this week and Kovac revealed the World Cup winner will be back between the posts against Leipzig in Berlin.
"I can say Manuel will play," the coach told a news conference on Friday. "He is our captain and has done well this season. He is a cornerstone of our team."
Niko #Kovac: "@Manuel_Neuer will play tomorrow!" #RBLFCB#packmaspic.twitter.com/k1qoBo3o5a
— #MEIS7ER (@FCBayernEN) May 24, 2019
Saturday's match will be the last opportunity for departing stars Rafinha, Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben to feature for Bayern.
However, Kovac insists he cannot allow that to play into his thinking when it comes to team selection.
He said: "It will be the last competitive match for these three top players, but we have a very difficult task - as we did against Eintracht Frankfurt [in the Bundesliga last weekend].
"It will be a very difficult decision for me, because I know how hard it is. But we have players who did a great job in the second half of the season, so I have to give them the confidence that they deserve.
"I can only choose 11 players, but everything is possible [on Saturday]. Everyone can play - even the three that are leaving Bayern."
Kovac and Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge have insisted he will remain as coach next season, yet the former Frankfurt boss was not willing to discuss his future.
"We have a cup final ahead of us," he said. "We should talk about football. I want to throw all my energy into the team and the job. My future is secondary."
Niko Kovač
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'Cake Boss' admits driving while impaired in NYC
Dec 1st 2014 11:41AM
Cake boss - updated 12/1
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 14: Tourists photograph a 500 pound cake in the shape of a tank after watching a ceremony marking the U.S. Army's 237th anniversary on June 14, 2012 in Times Square in New York City. U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno cut the cake before swearing in16 new recruits during the event. ''Cake Boss'' reality show Buddy Valastro helped Odierno cut the cake, which Valastro said took eight of his staff three days to prepare for the event. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
NEWARK, NJ - JUNE 30: The cake made by Buddy Valastro, aka the Cake Boss, is seen before the start of the 2013 NHL Draft at Prudential Center on June 30, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images)
LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL - 10/2/12 - Cake Boss Buddy Valastro appears on the newly-rechristened syndicated talk show, LIVE! with Kelly and Michael,' distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. (Photo by Donna Svennevik/Disney-ABC via Getty Images) MICHAEL STRAHAN, BUDDY VALASTRO, KELLY RIPA
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - MAY 25: (SOUTH AFRICA OUT) Buddy Valastro, star of the television programme 'The Cake Boss' during a presentation at the Good Food and Wine show in on May 25, 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JULY 06: DJ Cassidy blows out his candles on his Cake Boss cake at DJ Cassidy's 30th birthday celebration and the one year anniversary of Hennessy Black at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on July 6, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images)
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO -- (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Episode 3933 -- Pictured: 'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro unloads a pizza cake before the show on November 17, 2010 -- Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
SHORT HILLS, NJ - DECEMBER 18: TV personality 'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro attends Continental VIP Lounge From Chase at Short Hills Mall on December 18, 2010 in Short Hills, New Jersey. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/WireImage for Chase)
NEW YORK - MAY 07: Cake Boss National Train Day cake unveiled at Amtrak's National Train Day celebration at Penn Station on May 7, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Charles Eshelman/WireImage)
NEW YORK - APRIL 08: Cake Boss's Buddy Valastro attends the Discovery Communications - 2010 New York Upfront at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 8, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Discovery Communications)
TR-Cakeboss:02/16/10: Helayne Seidman FTWP: Hoboken, New Jersey - Cakes at Carlo's Bakery owned by Cake boss Buddy Valastro. He is the subject of a TLC reality show 'Cake Boss'. Freelance Photo imported to Merlin on Fri Feb 19 07:57:01 2010
TR-Cakeboss:02/16/10: Helayne Seidman FTWP: Hoboken, New Jersey - Cake boss Buddy Valastro of Carlo's Bakery shown in the retail store. He is the subject of a TLC reality show 'Cake Boss'. Freelance Photo imported to Merlin on Fri Feb 19 16:58:01 2010
HARRISON, NJ - MARCH 16: Mauro Castano, Carlos Valastro, Joe Faugno and Remy Gonzalez from TLC's tv program Cake Boss pose for a photo with a cake they created in honor of the opening of Red Bull Arena during media day on March 16, 2010 at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images for New York Red Bull)
President and general manager of TLC Eileen O'Neill (L) and television personality Buddy Valastro of TLC's 'Cake Boss' attend Discovery Upfront at Jazz at Lincoln Center April 2, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Amy Sussman/WireImage)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 09: (L-R) Editor-in-Chief of Bon Appetit Magazine Adam Rapoport, chef Buddy Valastro and Vice President of Food and Beverage for The Venetian Las Vegas and The Palazzo Las Vegas Sebastien Silvestri attend Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appetit's Grand Tasting event at Caesars Palace on May 9, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appetit)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 08: Chef and television personality Buddy Valastro (L) presents chef Daniel Boulud a cake in celebration of the opening of db Brasserie at The Venetian Las Vegas on May 8, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bryan Steffy/WireImage)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 09: Chef Buddy Valastro (L) and Vice President of Food and Beverage for The Venetian Las Vegas and The Palazzo Las Vegas Sebastien Silvestri attend Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appetit's Grand Tasting event at Caesars Palace on May 9, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appetit)
GOOD MORNING AMERICA - Cake Boss Buddy Valastro is a guest on 'Good Morning America,' 4/1/14, on the ABC the Television Network. (Photo by Fred Lee/ABC via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 31: Magic Johnson and Buddy Valastro attend Time Warner Cable Studios And Aspire Bring Soul To The Big Game on January 31, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images for Time Warner Cable)
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 31: Magic Johnson and Buddy Valastro onstage at Time Warner Cable Studios And Aspire Bring Soul To The Big Game on January 31, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images for Time Warner Cable)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 21: Celebrity chef Buddy Valastro stops by the Helzberg Diamonds INFINITY X INFINITY Collection at the GBK Luxury Lounge during Emmy's Weekend on September 21, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/WireImage)
GOOD MORNING AMERICA - Cake Boss Buddy Valastro is a guest on 'Good Morning America,' 11/7/13, airing on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images) SAM CHAMPION, BUDDY VALASTRO, GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS
GOOD MORNING AMERICA - Cake Boss Buddy Valastro is a guest on 'Good Morning America,' 11/7/13, airing on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images) JOSH ELLIOTT, SAM CHAMPION, BUDDY VALASTRO, LARA SPENCER
GOOD MORNING AMERICA - Cake Boss Buddy Valastro is a guest on 'Good Morning America,' 11/7/13, airing on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images) SAM CHAMPION, LARA SPENCER, BUDDY VALASTRO
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 08: Buddy Valastro and chef Geoffrey Zakarian attend the Norwegian Breakaway Christening Ceremony on May 8, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Norwegian Cruise Line)
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28: Baker Buddy Valastro and SpongeBob SquarePants attends the Norwegian Warming Station launch in Times Square on January 28, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (AP) - "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro says he's "very disappointed" in himself for driving after having a drink in New York City last month. He says he didn't realize he was impaired.
The reality show star, whose formal name is Bartolo Valastro, pleaded guilty Monday to driving while ability impaired. It's a violation, not a crime.
His driver's license will be suspended for three months.
He said Monday he had only one drink before being pulled over, but he now realizes even one is too many to drive.
The 37-year-old Montville, New Jersey, resident was stopped after police said they saw his yellow 2014 Corvette swerving through traffic in Manhattan. A court complaint said his blood-alcohol level was slightly above the legal limit.
Valastro operates several bakeries. "Cake Boss" airs on TLC.
Read Valastro's tweets after his court appearance:
Cake Boss Buddy Valastro Pleads Guilty Tweets
I want to thank everyone for their support. I also want to apologize to everyone.
I pled guilty today because I wanted to make this right. I learned an important lesson that if you have even one drink you shouldn't drive.
I thought I was fine to drive, but I wasn't. I put people in danger. I am very disappointed in myself.
I'll never get behind the wheel of a car again, even after one sip. My sincerest apologies to my family, friends and fans.
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Celebrity investigator hired in death of Hollywood assistant
Oct 27th 2015 1:29PM
The family of a Hollywood producer's assistant who died during Jennifer Aniston's honeymoon in August has hired a celebrity pathologist to investigate the death.
Carmel Musgrove's family hired Michael Baden, who most recently worked for Michael Brown's family after the teen was killed by officer Darren Wilson.
Officials in Bora Bora, where the 28-year-old died, say she likely drowned while swimming alone, but Baden's involvement shows the family isn't satisfied with that explanation.
Musgrove was reportedly in Bora Bora with Joel Silver, for whom she worked, along with a handful of celebrities who were celebrating Aniston's honeymoon.
Silver is a producer whose work includes the "Matrix" movies and the "Sherlock Holmes" franchise, the last of which Musgrove helped him with.
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Whoopi Goldberg shows off massive shoulder tattoo at 2016 Oscars
Feb 28th 2016 6:51PM
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg looked gorgeous at the 2016 Oscars in a glamorous black dress, but it was her massive tattoo that got people talking.
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Goldberg's multicolored tattoo isn't new, but the former Academy Awards host rarely shows it off. It covers her entire right shoulder and appears to be a dragon.
Check out photos of her look below:
Whoopi Goldberg at the 2016 Oscars
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 28: Whoopi Goldberg attends the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
Whoopi Goldberg arrives on the red carpet for the 88th Oscars on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON / AFP / VALERIE MACON (Photo credit should read VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 28: Actress Whoopi Goldberg attends the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 28: Actress and TV personality Whoopi Goldberg attends the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 28: Actress/TV personality Whoopi Goldberg attends the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
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Texas Ranger Ira Aten
Aten knew that bringing law and order to the land had to be the highest honor a man could achieve.
Elizabeth Putfark
Credit: Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
In 1878, Ira Aten (1862–1956), the 16-year-old son of a Methodist Minister, was instantly enamored with the Ranger way of life upon witnessing the death of notorious outlaw Sam Bass. Then and there, among the Texas Rangers who had brought down the criminal, Aten knew that bringing law and order to the land had to be the highest honor a man could achieve, and set his sights on becoming a lawman.
Five years later, he joined the Rangers. He served from 1878 to 1891 (sometimes volunteering without pay), playing a crucial role in what most folks called “The Fence-Cutting Wars.”
After barbed-wire began stretching across the once-open range, fence clippers became contraband as outlaws, hustlers, and disgruntled cowboys snipped out protest against the settlement of the West. Tasked to find a solution in 1876, Aten worked as an undercover ranch hand to root out the potentially violent fence offenders.
When his investigative attempts ran dry, Aten found another solution—dynamite. By rigging a low tension wire between two fence posts at high-traffic spots, Aten made sure that if the wires on the top were cut, the one down below would trigger an explosion.
The Adjutant General caught wind of Aten’s experimental methods and ordered the bombs be removed immediately. Not overly fond of orders, Aten decided to light a few sticks. Word quickly spread that bombs were planted under fence lines all across the range, effectively cowing the fence cutters in the area and marking Aten as a highly effective, if nontraditional, lawman on the plains.
Ira’s success as a Ranger in both The Fence Cutting War and in political arenas earned him no small influence over community affairs, and he remained a dedicated civil servant until succumbing to pneumonia at 91 years old.
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Cobler Family History
Cobler Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a cobbler, Middle English cobeler. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kobler.
Similar surnames: Coble, Cotler, Comer, Cutler, Cooper, Coley, Coller, Cooler, Coler
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Where is the Cobler family from?
You can see how Cobler families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Cobler family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Cobler families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1840 there were 5 Cobler families living in North Carolina. This was about 21% of all the recorded Cobler's in the USA. North Carolina and 2 other states had the highest population of Cobler families in 1840.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Cobler surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
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In 1880, Farmer, Laborer and Farm Laborer were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Cobler. A less common occupation for the Cobler family was Keeping House. The most common Cobler occupation in the USA was Farmer. 47% of Cobler's were Farmers.
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Between 1948 and 2004, in the United States, Cobler life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1956, and highest in 2004. The average life expectancy for Cobler in 1948 was 37, and 84 in 2004.
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Mcaleer Family History
Mcaleer Name Meaning
Northern Irish (Armagh) and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Uidhir (see McClure).
Similar surnames: Mcateer, Mclear, Mcaleese, Mcafee, Mcallen, Mcatee, Mcaree, Mciver
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In 1880, the most common Mcaleer occupation in the USA was Laborer. 25% of Mcaleer's were Laborers. Laborer, Farmer and Keeping House were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Mcaleer. A less common occupation for the Mcaleer family was Carpenter.
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Home Government New £30m government initiative to reduce rough sleeping
Kyle Moore
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid today set out a bold cross-government plan of action to significantly reduce the number of people sleeping rough as the Homelessness Reduction Act comes into force next week.
Based on proven activity that has helped deliver substantial decreases before, this further action will have a rapid impact on rough sleeping now and represents major progress towards the government’s commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027.
The new package of measures – which builds on government action to date – includes:
A new Rough Sleeping Team made up of rough sleeping and homelessness experts, drawn from, and funded by government departments and agencies with specialist knowledge across a wide range of areas from housing, mental health to addiction.
A £30 million fund for 2018 to 2019 with further funding agreed for 2019 to 2020 targeted at local authorities with high numbers of people sleeping rough; the Rough Sleeping Team will work with these areas to support them to develop tailored local interventions to reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets.
£100,000 funding to support frontline Rough Sleeping workers across the country to make sure they have the right skills and knowledge to work with vulnerable rough sleepers.
In addition, the government is also working with the National Housing Federation to look at providing additional, coordinated move-on accommodation for rough sleepers across the country.
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The Homelessness Reduction Act is the most ambitious legal reform in decades and places new duties on councils to prevent and relieve homelessness, including for single homeless people who are at greater risk of sleeping rough.
The new package of measures announced today provides cross-government support and funding for local housing authorities to drive a significant reduction in rough sleeping.
Departments across government are working to support the Act and make sure there is sustained progress on the commitment to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it all together by 2027.
The Homelessness Reduction Act comes into effect on 3 April 2018.
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Editorial Articles Conference Papers Interviews Reviews
Journal on the Art of Record Production
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A Musician’s Engineer: Best practices for teaching music proficiency at formal audio recording and production programs in the USA
Doug Bielmeier, Wellington M. Gordon
Music proficiency is an important part of audio recording and production (ARP) education and is an essential part of an aspiring recording engineer’s development. However, because music proficiency is not a well-defined concept in ARP programs, it has been delivered to students in a variety of ways via disparate materials and methods. Therefore, this paper asked educators from 25 different ARP programs in the USA to identify best practices for the inclusion and integration of music skills into formal ARP programs. Educator’s responses, collected via initial phone interviews and an online survey instrument, were analyzed via descriptive statistics and organized via an initial coding method. The educators reported that the integration of musical skills and proficiencies within coursework and assignments enabled them to enhance musical and technical skills simultaneously. Additionally, educators cited keys to improving and nurturing a student’s music proficiency: student ensembles, real-world exposure to performances, and higher-level coursework. Based on the best practices offered by the educators, this paper outlines the content for a music proficiency text specific for ARP students and educators as foundational material for course-learning objectives. Sections include (a) keyboard basics, (b) basic theory, (c) performance reporting, (d) music rehearsals, (e) technical ear training, (f) composition, and (g) genre specific techniques.
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Music Archives in Higher Education: A Case Study
Kirk McNally
In September 2014, the School of Music at the University of Victoria launched a digital archive of all student, faculty and guest concert recordings presented at the university. A case study of this archive, its design, implementation and subsequent use, adds to the dialogue (Seay: 2011, Strauss & Gregg: 2008) surrounding audio archives in an institutional setting. If we are to see more institutions develop this resource and more industry collaborations with institutions for the purpose of “provide[ing] primary sources while preserving culturally significant recording collections” (Seay: 2011) then a better understanding of how users and contributors interact with the archives is essential. What are the attitudes towards who can have access to the archive? What are the file sharing habits of the users? What is the level of copyright knowledge? This paper uses a web-survey and web site usage data to explore these questions and to develop a better understanding of what the users expectations are from this type of archive.
Issue 10 | audio education, music archives |
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National Bank of Canada + Atlassian
How standardizing on Data Center led to a more open way of working
23,000 + employees
Jira Software Data Center
Jira Service Desk Data Center
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Bitbucket Data Center
Connect with other Financial Services customers!
National Bank of Canada has embarked on a cultural and digital transformation, in which putting people first is key. The Bank has made major investments in this area and its commitment is clear: have a positive impact in people’s lives by building long-term relationships with clients, employees and communities.
As the need for more transparency and collaboration grew throughout the organization, the team managing business tools realized that Atlassian products were in line with the Bank’s ambition and worked quickly to get a plan for scale in place.
In a disrupted marketplace, National Bank saw the opportunity to adapt
National Bank of Canada serves the financial needs of individuals, businesses, institutional clients and governments across Canada. Founded in 1859, the Bank is one of Canada’s six systemically important banks.
National Bank continually innovates to adapt to the changing needs and consumer habits of its clients and to today’s increasingly competitive market. In a context of constant change, the cornerstone of the Bank’s transformation is its evolution into an agile, collaborative and adaptable organization.
“When I first joined National Bank, every team was reflecting on how to adapt to our cultural shift. Despite the new focus on increasing agility, information sometimes remained siloed. We needed tools that provided more visibility and collaboration,” says Denis Boisvert, Atlassian Tools Product Owner at National Bank.
Supporting new Atlassian users to foster adoption and earn team trust
The team responsible for managing Atlassian tools at National Bank, led by Denis, was responsible for consolidating tools to standardize operations, increase IT efficiency, and support the cultural transformation taking shape. They were tasked with managing the Jira instance of the Mobile Applications team, which had chosen this tool to manage its projects. The seamless integration with Jira and other complementary benefits led the mobile banking team to roll out Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira Service Desk. Because of the wide-ranging reach of the team at the Bank, these staff members became visible influencers for various other areas of the organization. Soon enough, teams across the Bank began replacing their spreadsheet-based workflows with Jira.
Atlassian tools allowed people to work with greater agility, which helps us develop a connection with our clients.
Denis Boisvert
Atlassian Tools Product Owner
“Atlassian tools allowed people to work with greater agility. Instead of managing projects by having tasks and tickets spread across email and spreadsheets, they could manage projects more efficiently using the scrum boards in Jira,” says Denis.
After receiving many ad-hoc training requests, Denis’ team started holding standing Friday coaching sessions to ensure that teams were using the Atlassian suite to its full potential. IT team members often came to training sessions wondering how they might leverage Atlassian tools: scrum masters and project members came to learn how to set up boards. Soon enough, Atlassian users from various functions—including training, finance, marketing, legal, HR, support, and mobile feedback—came with questions about how they could use Atlassian products in their respective departments.
The Atlassian user count grew significantly within the company, from 500 to 5,000 in just a few months. Atlassian tools were playing a more prominent role across the organization, and that brought new challenges for Denis and the team.
Staying ahead of team demands by planning ahead
This rapid scaling also brought an array of capacity and performance challenges. The team knew that continuing to scale at their current rate would inevitably lead to performance issues if they stayed on their existing server products, so Denis began considering a migration to Data Center. He knew that allowing ample time to plan a migration would be key to its success; at the same time, he was thinking about how his team would sustain high levels of performance when the Bank’s total user count reached a tipping point at 2,000 users.
"I knew that I would need time to plan a successful migration, and I knew it was time to start planning when one of our internal stakeholders explained to me that Jira and Confluence were no longer shadow IT tools. The tools had become important in carrying their day-to-day operations, and the team needed assurance that their tools would be available around the clock. Some of my colleagues had also been fielding concerns about performance issues, so by the time I recommended migrating to Data Center as a way to eliminate those problems, it was a relatively straightforward process to get their buy-in," explains Denis.
And that’s when a decision to scale Jira, Jira Service Desk, Confluence, and Bitbucket was taken. With his organization's support and the growing necessity for high availability, Denis began planning the migration to Data Center.
Working with a TAM enabled our small team to build and execute a migration strategy without compromising the exceptional service our customers expect on a day-to-day basis.
The strategic guidance that helped pull off a complex migration
Migrating Atlassian applications is always a complex process that requires careful planning and strategic decision-making, and Denis and the team were planning multiple transitions at the Bank. For this reason, the Bank decided to invest in an Atlassian Technical Account Manager (TAM) in order to improve the likelihood of the migration's success. In addition to ensuring that no stone was left unturned during the planning process, Denis knew he needed to continue empowering his team to use Atlassian tools without interruption.
"Enlisting the services of our TAM, Matt Shelton, to be involved in our planning process to help us improve performance across our Atlassian portfolio was invaluable. He asked questions we wouldn't have known to ask ourselves. Ultimately, working with a TAM enabled our small team to build and execute a migration strategy without compromising the exceptional service our customers expect on a day-to-day basis before, during, and after the migration," says Denis.
Over time, Matt’s role became less about his direct involvement in the migration, and more of a strategic partnership. One of the biggest value-adds of a TAM is their ability to understand the organization inside and out, which helps them identify opportunity areas. Denis and the team quickly realized Matt’s role was more about asking questions than answering them. For example, Matt noticed they were working with Jenkins on continuous integration and asked questions like, "Why did you make the decision to go with this?” and “Are there more efficient ways that Jenkins could be working with Jira?" With a TAM, the Bank enjoyed the assurance that the migration was running smoothly as well as a consultant-like perspective to help fill in the gaps.
With the support of a TAM, the team decided to block off all other work and interruptions so they could focus exclusively on the migration, ultimately saving them months of planning. With resolute decision-making and the full support of leadership, the team successfully executed the migration in an impressive sprint over two days.
Improved performance for 6,000 users (and counting)
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BY MANISHA GANGULY
Monday, 28th November: Zadie Smith has backed the campaign against the demolition of the Granville Plus Centre in Kilburn. The White Teeth author was in attendance on Friday, supporting the centre which has been serving the local community through free meals, surplus food giveaways, recycling clothes and children’s programmes for over 100 years.
It was in July of this year that the Brent Council cabinet decided to knock down both Granville and Carlton community centres, which are the only heritage sites in the area. At the event, the writer read from and signed copies of her new book “Swing Time”, speaking about gentrification, the need for public spaces, and her childhood in Kilburn, where she had grown up.
Photo 1&2: Zadie reading from “Swing Time”/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
Zadie Smith, who was listed among the top 20 most influential people in British culture in a 2004 BBC poll and winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, spoke extensively about the importance of study spaces, public libraries and community halls. “These are places where your social imagination is made, so you get to meet people who are not like you- class wise, race wise, faith wise. For me the richness of life is taken away, when these spaces are taken away.” In New York, where she lives now, the fight against gentrification is much the same: “With the pressure on housing, there is struggle between private and public spaces: it really is the same situation.”
When asked what inspires her to write at the Q&A that followed, she responded with, “The inability to do anything else. I can’t add, I don’t understand science”, much to the amusement of the audience present. The questions eventually veered towards Donald Trump, and Zadie revealed that she’d “accidentally” written about him in Germany, in an essay due to be published. “I’m excited about the possibility of journalism at this moment, especially because Trump is such a sensitive child when it comes to journalistic scrutiny- this has presented a real opportunity for journalism to have effect.”
Zadie at the book signing/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
Copies of “Swing Time” on sale/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
The posters for the event/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
Leslie Parson (pictured below), Community Organiser and Facilitator, who helped organise the event with Zadie, said about the event, “We knew Zadie was from around here. Someone knew someone who got in touch with Zadie, who graciously agreed because she would be in town.”
“The main outcome of such spaces is for people to get to know eachother. It’s one of the few places where there’s all kinds of people, of all ages and nationalities: Irish, Somalian, Middle Eastern, Iraqi , Egyptian, Irani. There are language barriers, cultural barriers: so its’s nice to sit and share a meal together”, she adds.
Originally built as a Presbyterian mission hall in the 1880s to serve the community, the Granville centre was one of the few places to run free breakfast programmes, meals and classes for children and single mothers in the 1950s. The Granville Youth Service, before it was shut down earlier this year, had served over 800 people, while the Otherwise club, which hosts language and dance classes, currently serves over 60 families. “We need a place to meet, as these are threatened in London because of the housing crisis. The value of public space has really dawned on people”, Leslie says.
The Granville Community Kitchen is run by Dee Woods, the UK Ambassador for Slow Food and BBC Cook of the year 2016. It provides a hundred free meals every Friday for the local community.
Children’s messages to save the Granville/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
BBC Food Awards for the Granville Community Kitchen/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
Inside the kitchen run by volunteers/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
The eating hall: a place to relax and share a meal/ Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
Leslie says that the Council wants to replace the community centres with luxury housing, and has invested in consultants to review the property. However, she insists, “They have no plan!”
Lisa (27), one of the people present at the event, is making a documentary on the Granville Community Centre. “I used to live here for around 2 years. I’ve been to the film nights, free meals, I’ve also volunteered here. When I heard that they might tear it down, I realised how important and special this place is to the area and to me. I needed to do a documentary to help raise awareness.”
Councillor Neil Nerva (pictured left) of the Labour Group said the plans to knock the centres down have not yet been finalised and can be over-turned. “A special scrutiny meeting will been convened on the 1st of December to make recommendations to cabinet. There are two things at work here: one, the local community and Brent Council need to engage in co-production to resolve this, and two, the promotion of public service and public space.”
An online petition has been made available, while a paper petition is being circulated locally by community activists. “We want to save this space in perpetuity. The South Kilburn Trust has given us a lease of 5 years, but we don’t want to have the same fight again”, adds Leslie.
A poster for #SaveGranville / Photograph: Manisha Ganguly
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By Oliver Haya and Erik Myers, Motion Control, Rockwell Automation
Manufacturers and packaging contractors are constantly striving to locate a cost-effective and flexible way to increase productivity in their packaging operations, while also economizing their floor space. Traditional linear moving systems can often fulfill one or more of these criteria, but it is rare that all are ever met by one coherent system. The introduction of intelligent modular track systems is changing that, offering greater flexibility and energy efficiency, and lower operating and maintenance costs, for many industrial applications.
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In a traditional packaging application, chains and sprockets are often used for basic linear motion processes. For complex motion, more sophisticated mechanical arrangements may be required. For example, a product that needs to move at varying speeds along the same line, or changes from continuous to intermittent motion, typically requires several different chain and sprocket configurations, each connected to its own rotary motor and drive. Not only is this system complicated, but if a change occurs in the production run, any alterations in the configuration would be costly and time consuming. The complexity illustrated here typically increases the costs of operation and maintenance required to keep the machine properly running. Also, any change parts required for its operation tend to take up a large amount of valuable factory floor space.
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A modular, scalable and intelligent track system
In contrast to a traditional configuration, intelligent modular track systems allow for independent control of multiple movers for both linear and complex motion processes. Abandoning the use of rotary-driven chains, belts and gears, these systems simplify what otherwise is a much more complex, inflexible and unreliable process.
Intelligent modular track systems use innovative design elements, such as a linear magnetic-drive configuration that uses energized coils along the outside of the machine frame. The coils produce a field that interacts with a magnet mounted to the inside of a rugged mover, while a position magnet mounted to the top of the mover allows for absolute positioning of each mover in closed-loop servo-control applications. This design approach provides tool independence, making it possible to adjust the spacing between movers or products in real time. The availability of motor coils in either straight or curved modules with varying coil-length sizes, each size corresponding to a different amount of output force, offers greater scalability than traditional systems to meet each unique application’s requirements.
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An intelligent modular track system can achieve a wide range of forces and speeds for different packaging applications.
Benefits for manufacturers include a smaller factory-floor footprint, improved modularity and reduced downtime. End users that have adopted these systems typically have seen an increase in production rates of 50 percent or more due to high speeds and flexible programming that enable faster production and higher throughput.
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In this video, R.A. Jones’ high-speed collating machine takes randomly fed product and pushes it to a continuous motion carton machine. Using iTRAK on this machine doubled the throughput of the previous generation machine.
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Tuesday, October 18th 2016
Lee Johnson felt his side deserved something from a tight contest at Loftus Road that hinged on two chances in quick succession 15 minutes from time.
First Bobby Reid ran from inside his own half to collect Lee Tomlin’s defence-splitting pass and turn inside the last defender, only to be denied by a crucial save from QPR keeper Alex Smithies.
A matter of seconds later, the hosts were counter-attacking down their right and scoring the winning goal when Idrissa Sylla converted a low cross from James Perch.
“I thought it was a scrappy game,” Johnson told Bristol City Player HD. “We battled hard, both teams had chances and it was even-steven, in my opinion.
“Bobby Reid has a fantastic chance when the keeper pulls off a great save, and Tammy had one in the first half that you’d expect him to stick away.
“We had some decent chances. We weren’t as fluent as I’d like us to be, but it was a tight pitch on a difficult night and we showed some good signs.
“We just need to get a side that can scrap as well, because we need to be able to win a game in different ways.”
The City head coach was left lamenting a second incorrect offside decision in the space of two matches.
After Cardiff City’s Craig Noone was allowed to continue from an offside position before winning a penalty for his side on Friday night, Lee Tomlin wrongly had a goal chalked off in West London. On both occasions the game has been goalless at the time.
“The fine margins at the moment seem to be poor officiating for us – that’s two goals that we’ve been denied,” Johnson added.
“One against Cardiff for the opposition that shouldn’t have been a goal due to offside and then in the first half tonight when Lee Tomlin scores a goal when he’s onside by a yard.
“I’m fed up of the officiating and the way it’s ran – something needs to change because it’s not fair when your team put in an effort like that at a tough place like QPR and don’t get your just rewards.
“I’ve already spoken to them (the officials). He’s made a bad decision and he knows it, but obviously he hasn’t got the benefit of a replay like we have. It feels a bit gut-wrenching when we’ve had two things go against us at key times.
“Is it an excuse? I know some people only talk about the officials, but when you come to a place like this, you battle, you score a good goal and it’s not given; that’s very frustrating.”
Johnson confirmed Reid was substituted late on with a dead leg and will be assessed ahead of Saturday’s meeting with Blackburn Rovers at Ashton Gate.
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F-Plan creator Audrey Eyton dies at the age of 82
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Audrey Eyton, the woman who created the F-Plan diet, has died at the age of 82.
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The British author was found dead at her home in Canterbury on Monday.
The news was confirmed by a trustee at the Matthew Eyton Animal Welfare Trust, which was set up for Eyton’s son.
The trustee said Eyton was “razor sharp, extremely funny, and utterly unique”.
“She will be missed by all of us who knew her,” she said.
Eyton was the founder of Slimming magazine and in the 80s invented the F-Plan, a high fibre diet. The book about the eating plan went on to become a bestseller.
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— Compassion in World Farming (@ciwf) July 3, 2019
In later years, Eyton worked in animal welfare.
The trustee said: “Audrey was a committed champion for farmed animals.
“She instinctively spotted a great campaign or great idea, and would work tirelessly on it until it succeeded.
“She was also a champion of women, and sought out female pro-animal campaigners to mentor and support.
“Audrey was a woman ahead of her time.
“She backed veganism and vegan organisations long before the movement became mainstream, and had faith that groups like Veganuary would drive the changes that protect animals and slow down climate change.”
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“While Colorado is justifiably garnering headlines with its ambitiously rapid _ and in many respects, impressive _ legalization rollout, there is a case to be made that Washington is undertaking the more radical and far-reaching reform,” said Philip Wallach, a Brookings fellow in governance studies who’s the author of the study.
The study lauded Washington state for reserving money for more education and substance-abuse programs, for tracking the impact of legalization on youths and for a cost-benefit analysis that state officials must do by September of next year.
Wallach said Washington state wanted to assume the role of “responsible scientist in the upcoming information wars.”
He said state workers were taking their new oversight responsibilities for I-502, the state’s legalization initiative, particularly seriously. State workers have attended presentations by pot experts, even signing up for a “Marijuana 101” class that featured the drug in American culture.
“The sense of being trailblazers matters greatly here,” Wallach said. “Government officials know they have the eyes of the world upon them.”
He said state workers also knew they had little choice but to run a tightly controlled system since the Justice Department had made it clear that federal authorities would shut down the legalization experiments if the states didn’t do a good job of policing themselves.
After marijuana was legalized in Washington, state regulators contended with a flood of license applications that required background checks and brought the process to a crawl. They also held things up by designing more controls to keep criminals out and focusing on ways to measure results.
Alison Holcomb, the criminal justice director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington in Seattle and the lead architect of I-502, said the Brookings study “shines a spotlight” on the most important feature of the initiative: “that it reaches beyond simply legalizing marijuana and seeks to establish a new framework for the development, implementation and evaluation of sounder and fairer drug policies.”
Mason Tvert, a Denver-based spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project who worked on the Colorado legalization campaign, said the study showed that different states would come up with different approaches to marijuana legalization that worked best for them, just as they did in regulating alcohol.
“You can debate which state has adopted the better law, but there’s no arguing that both laws are more sensible than prohibition,” he said.
Tom Angell, the chairman of the pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority, said Washington state’s evaluation probably would produce “hard facts” that would make it easier to convince voters in other states to legalize marijuana.
“It’s common sense to many of us that legalizing marijuana will reduce crime, save law enforcement resources and generate new tax revenues _ just as ending alcohol prohibition did _ but now we’ll have even better data to prove it,” Angell said.
Opponents argue that legalization is a mistake because it will lead to more drug use among young users, harming their development. They worry about government studies that show more teens already dismissing the health risks of using marijuana.
While Washington state and Colorado are the only states to fully legalize marijuana, similar ballot measures are planned in Oregon and Alaska this November.
In Florida, voters will decide whether to make their state the 24th to allow marijuana use for medical purposes.
Email: rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com; Twitter: @HotakainenRob.
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Community Banks Technology Survey: Data Security is #1
Linda McGlasson • October 17, 2008
Despite economic setbacks this year, data security remains top-of-mind for the majority of community bankers.
Results from the 2008 Independent Community Bankers of America's (ICBA) Community Bank Technology Survey reveal that more than 80 percent of respondents are "vigorously maintaining data security" as their top priority, says ICBA's Viveca Ware, Director, Payments and Technology Policy.
Protecting customer data is their primary technological concern, says Ware. A majority of the 1,280 community bank respondents say they planned to increase spending on security technology. Fifty-seven percent of the respondents say they plan to increase spending on security-related technology over the next two years, and more than half say they will be increasing spending on fraud detection technology.
ICBA's Cary Whaley, Associate Director, Payments and Technology Policy, says while the survey results may reflect the community banks' stance from June 2008, when the survey was conducted, he doesn't see any signs that recent economic events have changed people's positions.
"Anecdotally, I haven't heard of any changes in the amount of security spending," Whaley says. "I haven't heard of any bankers talk either way in terms of cutting technology spending because of the economy. Community bankers are in the same economy now that they faced in June."
One question that the ICBA survey focuses on is spending. It asks "Did you spend more or less on technology than a year ago?" In every year since 2002, the amount has gone up, except in 2008, where only 48 percent said they would spend more, compared with 2006 (the last time the survey was conducted), when 55% said they planned to spend more than the previous year.
One possible reason: In 2006, community banks were investing in Check 21 imaging technology. "Once a bank has the imaging equipment bought and paid for, they wouldn't spend as much as the year before," says Whaley.
Another area of interest is managing technology risk, cited as a top technological concern. While still in its infancy, mobile banking is an emerging technology among community banks, says Ware. Although only 11 percent of community banks currently offer mobile banking to their customers, 30 percent plan to increase their technology spending for mobile banking over the next two years.
Internet banking is solidly entrenched and has reached critical mass at community banks, the survey reveals, with 89 percent of respondents maintaining an Internet banking website that allows customers to do business over the web. This is up 6 percent since 2006. Most common uses for online banking at community banks include electronic bill pay, updating account information and viewing check images.
The 2008 ICBA Community Bank Technology Survey was conducted in June 2008. Full results are available here.
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Darren Williamson Wednesday, 13th February 2019 @20:00, Amsterdam Arena. Real Madrid’s bid for a fourth straight Champions League title sees them travel to Amsterdam to do battle with former European heavyweights Ajax.
Ajax vs Real Madrid: Predictions, Betting Tips & Odds
Ajax 5/2 | Draw 29/10 | Real Madrid 19/20
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Real Madrid’s bid for a fourth straight Champions League title sees them travel to Amsterdam to do battle with former European heavyweights Ajax.
It has been a topsy-turvy season for Real Madrid and one that leaves them slightly off the pace in Spain’s La Liga.
However, when it comes to Europe, the record 13-time European champions know how to step up a gear as they chase down a fourth straight title.
Heading to Amsterdam should pose little concern for Santiago Solari as the best betting sites will certainly favour the men from Madrid to progress and with good reason.
The pedigree of the two sides over the last decade has been poles apart with the Dutch side failing to progress beyond this stage since 2003. The Spaniards has also won all of the last six meetings between the two, but the Amsterdam club can harbour some confidence coming into the game.
Erik Ten Hag’s men are yet to lose a home game this season in all competitions including during the visit of Bayern Munich during the Champions’ League group stages.
However, Real Madrid are getting back to their best after a shaky start to 2018/19 and anything other than an away win will be a shock.
Expect Ajax to stay in the tie with a home goal but Real to put one foot in the quarter-final with an unspectacular 3-1 win.
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There has been success for both sides in the head to heads but certainly more recently for Real Madrid.
The pair met most recently during the 2012/13 group stages with Real Madrid winning both home and away 4-1.
However, Ajax did beat the Spaniards in the semi-finals of the 1972/73 European Cup competition and then went on to lift the trophy.
Overall, the pair has met 12 times with Ajax claiming four wins, Real recording seven victories and just one draw shared between the two.
Real Madrid are seeking their fourth straight Champions League title.
Ajax finished second in group E behind Bayern Munich on 12 points.
Real Madrid topped group G with 12 points.
Ajax have not reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League since 2003.
Ajax defeated Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the 72/73 European Cup on their way to the title.
Check our additional Champions League predictions and other betting predictions.
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Mac Games > Hidden Object Games > Paranormal Files: The Tall Man
Paranormal Files: The Tall Man
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Paranormal investigator Rick Rogers is back in his second Paranormal Files investigation from Elephant Games, creators of Grim Tales and Mystery Trackers!
A group of friends gathers on the anniversary of their friend's mysterious disappearance in the woods. When history threatens to repeat itself, you are called in to help. One by one, the friends go missing at the hands of the supernatural forces who roam the area. It's a good thing you have protection against dark forces, because this walk in the woods won't be a walk in the park! Track down the missing friends and find out the truth behind the ominous Tall Man and his merry band of terrifying supernatural minions in this chilling and fast-paced Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!
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Paranormal Files: The Tall Man is rated 3.3 out of 5 by 6.
Rated 5 out of 5 by biscuitsmama from PARANORMAL FILES DOES IT AGAIN! Elephant Games has done it again with the second game in the Paranormal Files series. The Tall Man has a very good storyline that is sure to keep you involved as you play the game as Rick Rogers who recently found his abilities to hunt ghosts and subdue evil entities. What really grabbed my attention right from the beginning is the mystery aspect of the game as you try to sort fact from fiction and find out what happened to Tina Rice. Hopefully you will be able to prevent the events of that fateful night a year ago from recurring as the same group of friends has once again gathered on the edge of the forest for yet another house party. IMHO, this is a very entertaining and well-crafted game. As we go through the numerous tasks that make this a HOPA game we will play some excellent HOPS as well as the Puzzles that I thoroughly enjoyed. Both the HOPS and the Puzzles fit the storyline and they made progressing in the game a bit more seamless. Of course, we still have the missing keys to find and then that zipper pull that will inevitably make most of us groan. Hey, what would a hidden object game be without them? Personally, I don’t care if we have to go through several steps to open a first-aid kit or to unlock a door. For me, playing a game with a good storyline and well-designed HOPS is what I enjoy so I tend to not put too much energy into the minutiae because if I did it would be too much like work instead of fun. The team at Elephant knows what it takes to create a game that makes sense and tells a story in a way that happens to keep me involved. The further I progressed in the game the the more I enjoyed the storyline. Thank you BFG and Elephant for bringing us this second Paranormal Files game. The Tall Man is everything that I love in a great HOPA game and one that I was happy to add to my gaming library since this is one of those games that I will play each year during the Halloween season or at any time that I want a great game to play. Even though this game is perfect for me and the way I like to play, as always, please try the demo to see if the Tall Man is one you will enjoy as well. Happy gaming!
Rated 4 out of 5 by LikeAGoodStory from Paranormal Light in a Good Way I kept expecting more (intrigue?) in this game until I stopped myself. I remembered what makes a HOPA game: putting together/using objects (after gathering inventory) to help solve a mystery, save the world, or rescue some deserving person. This paranormal mystery game delivers in every way. In the game play there is not a lot of back and forth; there are fun (and interesting) twists to tasks, as well as the expected (keys, locks, batteries, etc.) as other reviewer have described; there is good, solid dialogue, and occasional humor. Rick Rogers does not take himself too seriously, and I really appreciate that, sort of paranormal light in a good way. Other reviewers have done a fair and good job relaying the crux of the story as well as providing specifics about graphics, HOPs, and mini-games. I always appreciate that. Thank you. I purchased this game, as I really like this series but also because of the reviews. The series storylines are varied, there is usually a bit of tongue-in-cheek, and the series integrates the tasks into the storyline, immersing the player into each game. None of this can be easy to do and Elephant Games consistently delivers, be it this series or others. Well done, again, and thank you! My review is based upon completed play of the game. Enjoy!
Rated 4 out of 5 by charlene_lane from PLAYING SPIN THE BOTTLE MAY NOT BE A GOOD IDEA! REVIEW FROM COMPLETED GAME AND BONUS Once again you play Rick Rogers and need to find out what happened to Tina Rise. There is plenty to do in each scene and I liked the characters to the story. I felt sorry for Tina as teenage crushes can be so heartbreaking as I'm sure we have all learned from past experiences. There is: * Voiceovers (with dialogue); * Casual, Advanced, Hardcore and Custom modes; * Interactive map. The graphics are terrific and very well defined. Items you need are easy to find and use. Colours are good, even in dark scenes. The music is mainly orchestral and piano. The hidden object games are mainly interactive straightforward, silhouette, find one item, then put one item back and finding 10 of an item. These are all very easy to do because items are clear to see and/or use. I thought some of the mini-games were quite challenging - you know the ones where you have to rotate tiles to get a picture or move tiles to get to a certain point. Personally I thought these had been ramped up a bit and I really enjoyed them. Some of these took me a long time to do. So, do you get the CE or SE? The bonus its about locating Mika and Dean, a journalist and her cameraman, there are 13 replayable HOPs and 13 replayable mini-games and an achievements board. In each scene throughout the game and bonus there is a morph, an eye and sometimes a statuette to find. The morphs and statuettes are easy to find, however the eyes are a little harder to see because they blend into the scenery well. I enjoyed doing these. My personal preference for this game is to play the CE. All up the game and bonus took me about 6 hours or so to play, so good value for money. Overall, this game is definitely worth putting in your collection. There is plenty to do in each scene, some of the puzzles are challenging and there is a good sense of urgency to find out what happens. Happy playing fishies.
Rated 3 out of 5 by Tr1n1ty85 from A test in patience... demo only This game has so much potential: enjoyable graphics and music, an intriguing story, an increasingly likable main character... it just falls short in the "fun" category. The next item you need to progress in the story might be on the screen you're in, might be in the last screen you just left, might be in your inventory already, might be in a place you haven't visited yet - regardless of the MANY items you've picked up already... but good luck in sorting that out! Rather than being entertainingly challenging, it just comes off as tedious. How many items do I need to collect before I can move forward? How many times do I need to visit the same three or four areas before it makes sense to any normal person that I've collected every item I need (regardless of how many times I've clicked every item in that scene), and that it's available for me to pick up the first or even second time I visit that scene?? Maybe I'm just used to faster-paced games... maybe I'm just used to games that require a little common sense to collect the items needed to move forward... either way, this game is not for the experience looking for challenging game-play, but maybe for the inexperienced beginner or novice looking to get their feet wet in HO/ adventure games. To the devs: this game has SO much potential: it could have appealed to a much a larger gaming audience if you'd just given the average gamer a little credit for being a tiny bit more intelligent in the common sense department... All of that said, please honestly judge your gaming experience before you give this game a go.
Rated 3 out of 5 by pennmom36 from MORE CHEESY THAN CREEPY Rick Rogers at your service! After discovering his true calling as a Paranormal ghost chaser with the ability to withstand the dark forces of evil, after picking up an otherworldly hitchhiker, he's opened up his own Paranormal Detective Agency. His first case may be tougher than he thought when dealing with teenagers that love a good prank. One of the gang's friends has been missing since last year, but they haven't learned their lesson as they return to the Cursed Woods where folks have been disappearing for nearly 300 years, because ghosts aren't real, are they? I loved the first Paranormal Files but this one wasn't as epic. The "monster" was cheesy and reminded me of Groot, (Stan would probably roll in his grave) The dialog was trying too hard to make Rick funny, yet it's supposed to be a scary/paranormal plot? There were a ton of Logic fails, cliche tasks or tasks that made no sense, but I get it, HOPA world, right? I did, however, love the CE version's bling! Even though the Morphing Objects were fairly obvious and easily spotted, I liked that the Hidden Eyes were fairly challenging to spot, and I loved that the Hidden Character Statues weren't within Zoom Zones that never close until you click on the collectible, so for the bling, I recommend the Ce version. The Hidden Object Scenes were varied with Interactive List finds, Keywords in Sentence finds, Silhouetted Shape finds, Multiple Item finds, Sketch finds, Finding 5 tools in 2 categories to use on the objects blocking the Listed items, and a back and forth type where you find the Listed Item followed by Placing the next Object correctly back into the scene alternating between the two. There are several Zoom Zone HOP's and they are usually right before a main Hidden Object Scene. The objects are identifiable and the scenes are clear, but they are way too easy-breezy for my liking. I am disappointed because I didn't think they were this easy in the first Paranormal Files and in Elephant's last Series release they were amazing, so I'm not sure why they regressed?? The Mini-Games were a hodgepodge mixture of puzzles that ranged from super simplistic to more complex yet still not very challenging. They weren't necessarily bad, in fact, I enjoyed many of them, but some of them had me scratching my head wondering why they even offered them because they didn't really require solving, just moving them such as aligning 4 columns of tiles in no particular order? Below are brief descriptions of some of the games you'll encounter during the game: 1-Drag the chain thru the maze stopping on buttons to open/close paths. 2-Swap pipe tiles to send current to numbers in a specific order. 3-Drag vertical & horizontal strips to restore the image. 4-Move tokens to the correct slots according to the clue shown. 5-Slide and rotate tiles using directional arrows to complete the image shown. 6-Drag circular discs to align 4 identical symbols until all outer tiles are lit. 7-Find the starting point that will end on the star, following the directional & numbered arrows. 8-Untangle the rope by moving set points. 9-Select pairs of matching arrows by dragging a line between them that doesn't cross other symbols. 10-Rotate the wheel to give the tools to the proper person. The Collector's Edition version has 10 Wallpapers, 10 Concept Art pictures, 1 Screensavers, 5 Music Soundtracks, 13 re-playable Hidden Object Scenes, 13 re-playable Mini-Games, 10 Achievements to earn (some with 3-5 Categories) 12 Hidden Character Figurines, 27 Morphing Objects, 25 Hidden Eyes (unlock Art Collection pictures with 6-12-18-25 Eyes) 5 Main Chapters +Bonus Chapter, enjoy but he's behind you! PARANORMAL FILES SERIES LIST Title***Standard Edition Release Date***Average Rating 1-Fellow Traveler (June 29-2018) n/a 2-The Tall Man (December 14-2018) n/a by: Elephant Games
Rated 1 out of 5 by roaming from The Definition of Derivative Derivative: Copied or adapted from others; unoriginal; secondhand. I have just two points to... er, prove my point. (1) You start the game having all kinds of electronics, but you have to use a flint striker to light a torch? What, you couldn't just set your phone to flashlight? (2) Then there's the always popular locked first-aid kit. In this game, the key to the first-aid kit is locked inside yet another thing you have to find the key to. Luckily, the injured party survives the delay while you search for keys, find a bowl, and figure out a way to get water out of... wait for it... a stone idol. I did manage to finish playing the demo, but I don't hold out much hope that the rest of the game will get any better
The woods hide a frightening mystery only you can solve!
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In Defense of Unlikable Women
by Kameron Hurley
Published on May 31, 2016 at 11:19am
Charlize Theron as Mavis in Young Adult (Photo credit: Paramount Pictures)
“A fall-down drunk who’s terrible with relationships and makes some selfish, questionable choices goes in search of love, and fails at it.”
This is actually the general plot to two films—the well-received, critically applauded film Sideways and the much maligned, controversial film Young Adult.
One follows a drunken, frumpy loser who steals money from his mother to enable his soon-to-be-married best friend to cheat on his soon-to-be-spouse; the other follows a drunken, frumpy loser who drives to small-town Minnesota to try to hook up with her happily married ex. Both films create stark, harrowing portraits of their protagonists’ pathology and inability to connect to others. Both protagonists are even writers! The biggest difference in the reception of these films, I’d argue, is that one featured a male protagonist—and thus was critically celebrated. The other told the story of a deeply flawed woman, and became instantly “controversial” because of its “thoroughly unlikable” heroine.
I see this double standard pop up all the time in novels, too. We forgive our heroes even when they’re drunken, aimless brutes or flawed noir figures who smoke too much and can’t hold down a steady relationship. In truth, we both sympathize with and celebrate these heroes; Conan is loved for his raw emotions, his gut instincts, his tendency to solve problems through sheer force of will. But the traits we love in many male heroes—their complexity, their confidence, their occasional bouts of selfish whim—become, in female heroes, marks of the dreaded “unlikable character.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan in Conan the Barbarian (Photo credit: Universal Pictures)
Author Claire Messud takes this issue head-on in an interview when a Publisher’s Weekly interviewer says her female protagonist is unbearably grim, and isn’t Messud concerned that the protagonist isn’t someone the reader wants to be friends with? Messud responds:
“For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in The Corrections? Any of the characters in Infinite Jest? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.”
Male writers, and their male protagonists, are expected to be flawed and complex, but reader expectations for women writers and their characters tend to be far more rigid. Women may stray, but only so far. If they go on deep, alcoholic benders, they’d best repent and sober up at the end. If they abandon their spouses and children, they’d best end tragically, or make good. Women must, above all, show kindness. Women may be strong—but they must also, importantly, be vulnerable. If they are not, readers are more likely to push back and label them unlikable.
I wrote an article where I noted that in grad school, I sometimes drank two bottles of wine in a sitting and smoked cigarettes. A couple of commenters on another forum said I must be an irresponsible alcoholic. I couldn’t help wondering what their reaction would be on hearing a twenty-three-year-old male college student occasionally drank two bottles of wine in a sitting.
Boys will be boys, right? But women are alcoholics.
But why is this? Why do we read the same behaviors so differently based on the presented sex of the person engaging in them?
A scene from Sideways (Photo credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
I’d argue it’s because women have been so often cast as mothers, potential mothers, caretakers, and servants, assistants, and handmaidens of all sorts that’s it’s become a conscious but also unconscious expectation that anyone who isn’t—at least some of the time—must be inherently unnatural. And when we find a woman who doesn’t fit this mold, we work hard to sweep her back into her box, because if she gets out, well … it might mean she has the ability to take on a multitude of roles.
Let’s be real: if women were “naturally” anything, societies wouldn’t spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives.
I like writing about complex people. I like writing about women. Hence, the women and men I write are flawed and complex. They have their own messed-up motivations. They don’t always do the right thing. There’s not generally a rousing ending where everyone realizes they were a jerk and has a big hug. Life is messier than that, and so are women. We’re not any better or worse than anyone else. I’m flawed. I often make poor choices. I’m very often selfish.
So are many of the people I put on the page. And to be dead honest, I like them a whole lot better that way. Roxane Gay gives several examples of successfully unlikable heroines in fiction in her article “Not Here to Make Friends.” As Gay writes:
“This is what is so rarely said about unlikable women in fiction— that they aren’t pretending, that they won’t or can’t pretend to be someone they are not. They have neither the energy for it, nor the desire… Unlikable women refuse to give in to that temptation. They are, instead, themselves. They accept the consequences of their choices and those consequences become stories worth reading.”
There is something hypnotic in unlikable male characters that we don’t allow in women, and it’s this: we allow men to be confident, even arrogant, self-absorbed, narcissistic. But in our everyday lives, we do not hold up such women as leaders and role models. We call them out as selfish harridans. They are wicked stepmothers. Seeing these same women bashing their way through the pages of our fiction elicits the same reaction. Women should be nurturing. Their presence should be redeeming. Women should know better.
Jeremy Sumpter as Peter Pan and Rachel Hurd-Wood as Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (Photo credit: Universal Pictures)
Female heroes must act the part of the dutiful Wendy, while male heroes get to be Peter Pan.
Pointing out this narrative, of course, isn’t going to fix it. But I do hope that it makes people more aware of it. When you find yourself reading about a gun-slinging, whisky-drinking, Mad Max apocalypse hero who you’d love if it was a guy but find profoundly uncomfortable to read about when you learn it’s a woman, take a step back and ask why that is. Is it because this is truly a person you can’t empathize with, or because somebody told you she was supposed to be back home playing mom to the Lost Boys, not stabbing her landlord, stealing a motorcycle, and saving the world?
Stories teach us empathy, and limiting the expression of humanity in our heroes entirely based on sex or gender does us all a disservice. It places restrictions on what we consider human, which dehumanizes the people we see who do not express traits that fit our narrow definition of what’s acceptable.
Like it or not, failure of empathy in the face of unlikable women in fiction can often lead to a failure to empathize with women who don’t follow all the rules in real life, too. I see this all the time in conversations with men and women alike. It’s these same questions that get brought up when women who have been assaulted dare to report abuse. What was she wearing? Did she provoke him by talking back? Was she a bad wife? A bad girlfriend? Was she a good woman, or a bad woman? This line of questioning, and the assumptions that prompt it, is one we would never apply to their male counter parts—unless they are men of color. Was he wearing shorts when he was robbed? Did he yell at his neighbor before he was shot? Did he smoke pot at any time in his life before he was shot by a police officer in the street? Was he a good man, or a bad man?
This justification of violence against those who step outside of the roles the dominant culture puts them into can be reinforced or challenged by the stories we tell. Stories tell us not only who we are, but who we can be. They paint the narrow behavioral boxes within which we put ourselves and those we know. They can encourage compassion and kindness and acceptance, or violence and intolerance and reprisal. It all bleeds from the page or the screen into the real world. Who deserves forgiveness? I’d hope we all do.
This essay is an excerpt from Kameron Hurley’s new collection The Geek Feminist Revolution.
Kameron is the author of the nonfiction collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, which contains her essay on the history of women in conflict “We Have Always Fought” , which was the first article to ever win a Hugo Award. She is also the author of The Mirror Empire, Empire Ascendant and the God’s War Trilogy.
Are you sure Young Adult isn
Chelsea replied on Tue, 05/31/2016 - 11:52am
Are you sure Young Adult isn't praised for the simple reason that it's a terrible movie?
It's not a terrible movie.
Aaron replied on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 4:58pm
Unlikeable women
Katrina replied on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 12:56pm
While reading this I suddenly thought of Lisbeth Salander...The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Her behaviour is unsociable, her only skill...that of a computer hacker...is very male territory, yet she is attractive to the men in the book. She is an antihero, rather than a hero, perhaps this makes the difference.
Lisbeth popped in my head the
constance april replied on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 6:42pm
Lisbeth popped in my head the SECOND I read the title of this article.
Double Standard Time
David Perlmutter replied on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 6:38am
This is a consequence of the fact that, despite the great gains women have made in society, it is still assumed by many in power, who undoubtedly were wronged by a woman in some bitter way they can never forgive or forget, that women are uncontrollable and unknowable in the eyes of men, and therefore dangerous. Yet that is exactly what makes women attractive to men and vice versa, and it fuels all the art both of them make. If we're going to judge men created by women like that, what does that say about Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights"? Conversely, about the Powerpuff Girls, created by a male animator? Does the gender of the creator matter in those instances. No- it does not. We need to get past all of this to grow as a society.
Relevant: "Freeheld" is a Big Gay Rollercoaster, Full of Giddy Highs and Unfortunate Lows
by Grace Manger
Ellen Page and Julianne Moore star in the film about a real-life couple fighting against homophobia.
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FLAGSHIP OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019
Following 10 successful years of very different kinds of vessels from around the UK winning this award, National Historic Ships UK has again extended the scheme this year by appointing three Regional Flagships. The Regional awards recognise the impact that many vessels make in their home cruising grounds, both in terms of public appeal at local events and numbers of passengers carried.
In announcing these awards, Hannah Cunliffe, Director of National Historic Ships UK, said: “I am delighted that we are able to offer these Awards once more and publicise the range of activities and the cruising programmes of these vessels in the coming season. Our three Regional Flagships have all shown their enthusiasm for raising the profile of UK maritime heritage and we look forward to working closely with them in the months ahead.”
The Award criteria requires vessel owners to come forward with seasonal programmes to engage the public through festivals, demonstrations, on-board cruises, quayside visits, educational programmes, participation in races and similar activities. Flagships are expected to actively promote the role of National Historic Ships UK by distributing associated PR material and flying the flag as ambassadors.
The three Regional Flagships will each receive a grant of £250 to be spent on the vessel, along with a special Regional Flagship Broad Pennant (which has become a feature of the award) to fly at the masthead.
The 2019 Regional Flagships are:
Isabelle Fortuna
Isabella Fortuna (Scotland), Fishing Vessel – in recognition of the role she plays within the local community and the events the team have planned throughout the season.
Kingswear Castle
Kingswear Castle (South West Region), Paddle Steamer – in recognition of the high level of engagement she has with members of the public, plus her activities throughout the season.
Kitty (Thames Estuary), Sailing Barge – in recognition of the range of local events the team have planned throughout the season, together with her crew’s commitment to engage and educate passengers in the preservation of traditional sailing skills.
www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk
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Cowes Classic Week attracts a strong fleet of Solent Sunbeams Ballet star dances with plastic World Class Sailing Event Coming to Torbay July Boatbid Auction - Bidding Starts ! RS21s debut at Cowes Week 2019
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Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -
Impact Of Science & Technology On Society
The Paul Virilio Reader
3.87 (24 ratings by Goodreads)
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism (Paperback)
By (author) Paul Virilio , Edited by Professor Steve Redhead
If nothing else, the war in Iraq and the 1991 Gulf War have taught us much about media and technology as key players in how war is waged, packaged for public consumption, and exported in real time to the rest of the globe. A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has keenly observed that media images quite often constitute a strategy of war and that accident is becoming indistinguishable from attack. For more than fifty years Virilio has offered incisive and provocative criticism on technology and its moral, political, and cultural implications. Yet until now, much of his work, originally published in French, remains elusive in full English translation. The Paul Virilio Reader collects for the first time English extracts reflecting the entire range of Virilio's diverse career. The book's introduction demonstrates that Virilio has produced an important-if controversial-"theory at the speed of light" that uncannily illuminates the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world that collapses time and distance as never before.
The inventor of "dromology," which views speed as a defining concept for contemporary civilization, Virilio is noted for his proclamation that the logic of ever-increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world. Arranged chronologically, the Reader illustrates the development and interconnectedness of Virilio's work. Each extract is prefaced by bibliographical and contextual commentary, and the book includes an innovative guide to reading Virilio.
Format Paperback | 208 pages
Dimensions 157.99 x 232.66 x 15.49mm | 439.98g
Publication date 01 Nov 2004
Publisher Columbia University Press
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Illustrations note none
ISBN10 0231134835
Bestsellers rank 1,157,459
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About Paul Virilio
Director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris since 1975, writer and cultural theorist Paul Virilio has written sixteen books, including War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, Open Sky, Art and Fear, and The Information Bomb.Steve Redhead has been professor of law and popular culture in England and visiting professor in communications and cultural studies in Canada and Australia. He has published a dozen books including Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture.
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Crystal habit and crystal aggregation
The external shape (habit) of well-developed crystals can be visually studied and classified according to the various crystal systems that span the 32 crystal classes. The majority of crystal occurrences, however, are not part of well-formed single crystals but are found as crystals grown together in aggregates. Examples of some descriptive terms for such aggregations are given here: granular, an intergrowth of mineral grains of approximately the same size; lamellar, flat, platelike individuals arranged in layers; bladed, elongated crystals flattened like a knife blade; fibrous, an aggregate of slender fibres, parallel or radiating; acicular, slender, needlelike crystals; radiating, individuals forming starlike or circular groups; globular, radiating individuals forming small spherical or hemispherical groups; dendritic, in slender divergent branches, somewhat plantlike; mammillary, large smoothly rounded, masses resembling mammae, formed by radiating crystals; botryoidal, globular forms resembling a bunch of grapes; colloform, spherical forms composed of radiating individuals without regard to size (this includes botryoidal, reniform, and mammillary forms); stalactitic, pendant cylinders or cones resembling icicles; concentric, roughly spherical layers arranged about a common centre, as in agate and in geodes; geode, a partially filled rock cavity lined by mineral material (geodes may be banded as in agate owing to successive depositions of material, and the inner surface is often covered with projecting crystals); and oolitic, an assemblage consisting of small spheres.
common crystalsCommon crystal aggregations and habits. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Cleavage and fracture
Both these properties represent the reaction of a mineral to an external force. Cleavage is breakage along planar surfaces, which are parallel to possible external faces on the crystal. It results from the tendency of some minerals to split in certain directions that are structurally weaker than others. Some crystals exhibit well-developed cleavage, as seen by the planar cleavage in mica; perfect cleavage of this sort is characterized by smooth, shiny surfaces. In other minerals, such as quartz, cleavage is absent. Quality and direction are the general characteristics used to describe cleavage. Quality is expressed as perfect, good, fair, and so forth; cleavage directions of a crystal are consistent with its overall symmetry.
augitePhotomicrograph of various pyroxene minerals in thin sections (illuminated with polarized light). An augite phenocryst (large individual gray crystal) appears in basalt lava, showing characteristic basal octagonal form and square-segmentation cleavage. Courtesy of G. Malcolm Brown
Some crystals do not usually break in any particular direction, reflecting roughly equal bond strengths throughout the crystal structure. Breakage in such minerals is known as fracture. The term conchoidal is used to describe fracture with smooth, curved surfaces that resemble the interior of a seashell; it is commonly observed in quartz and glass. Splintery fracture is breakage into elongated fragments like splinters of wood, while hackly fracture is breakage along jagged surfaces.
The term lustre refers to the general appearance of a mineral surface in reflected light. The main types of lustre, metallic and nonmetallic, are distinguished easily by the human eye after some practice, but the difference between them cannot be quantified and is rather difficult to describe. Metallic refers to the lustre of an untarnished metallic surface such as gold, silver, copper, or steel. These materials are opaque to light; none passes through even at thin edges. Pyrite (FeS2), chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), and galena (PbS) are common minerals that have metallic lustre. Nonmetallic lustre is generally exhibited by light-coloured minerals that transmit light, either through thick portions or at least through their edges. The following terms are used to distinguish the lustre of nonmetallic minerals: vitreous, having the lustre of a piece of broken glass (this is commonly seen in quartz and many other nonmetallic minerals); resinous, having the lustre of a piece of resin (this is common in sphalerite [ZnS]); pearly, having the lustre of mother-of-pearl (i.e., an iridescent pearl-like lustre characteristic of mineral surfaces that are parallel to well-developed cleavage planes; the cleavage surface of talc [Mg3Si4O10(OH)2] may show pearly lustre); greasy, having the appearance of being covered with a thin layer of oil (such lustre results from the scattering of light by a microscopically rough surface; some nepheline [(Na, K)AlSiO4] and milky quartz may exhibit this); silky, descriptive of the lustre of a skein of silk or a piece of satin and characteristic of some minerals in fibrous aggregates (examples are fibrous gypsum [CaSO4 ∙ 2H2O], known as satin spar, and chrysotile asbestos [Mg3Si2O5(OH)4]); and adamantine, having the brilliant lustre of diamond, exhibited by minerals with a high refractive index comparable to diamond and which as such refract light as strongly as the latter (examples are cerussite [PbCO3] and anglesite [PbSO4]).
galenaGalena is the most common mineral that contains lead. Rob Lavinsky (www.irocks.com)
Minerals occur in a great variety of colours. Because colour varies not only from one mineral to another but also within the same mineral (or mineral group), the observer must learn in which minerals it is a constant property and can thus be relied on as a distinguishing criterion. Most minerals that have a metallic lustre vary little in colour, but nonmetallic minerals can demonstrate wide variance. Although the colour of a freshly broken surface of a metallic mineral is often highly diagnostic, this same mineral may become tarnished with time. Such a tarnish may dull minerals such as galena (PbS), which has a bright bluish lead-gray colour on a fresh surface but may become dull upon long exposure to air. Bornite (Cu5FeS4), which on a freshly broken surface has a brownish bronze colour, may be so highly tarnished on an older surface that it shows variegated purples and blues; hence, it is called peacock ore. In other words, in the identification of minerals with a metallic lustre, it is important for the observer to have a freshly broken surface for accurate determination of colour.
borniteBornite. Jonathan Zander
aquamarineSingle crystal of aquamarine in matrix. DeA Picture Library
A few minerals with nonmetallic lustre display a constant colour that can be used as a truly diagnostic property. Examples are malachite, which is green; azurite, which is blue; rhodonite, which is pink; turquoise, which gives its name to the colour turquoise, a greenish blue to blue-green; and sulfur, which is yellow. Many nonmetallic minerals have a relatively narrow range of colours, although some have an unusually wide range. Members of the plagioclase feldspar series range from almost pure white in albite through light gray to darker gray toward the anorthite end-member. Most common garnets show various shades of red to red-brown to brown. Members of the monoclinic pyroxene group range from almost white in pure diopside to light green in diopside containing a small amount of iron as a substitute for magnesium in the structure through dark green in hedenbergite to almost black in many augites. Members of the orthopyroxene series (enstatite to orthoferrosilite) range from light beige to darker brown. On the other hand, tourmaline may show many colours (red, blue, green, brown, and black) as well as distinct colour zonation, from colourless through pink to green, within a single crystal. Similarly, numerous gem minerals such as corundum, beryl, and quartz occur in many colours; the gemstones cut from them are given varietal names. In short, in nonmetallic minerals of various kinds, colour is a helpful, though not a truly diagnostic (and therefore unique), property.
Occurrence and formation
The nature of minerals
Symmetry elements
Examining crystal structures
Space groups
Illustrating crystal structures
Compositional variation
Ionic bonds
Covalent bonds
Metallic bonds
Van der Waals bonds
Hydrogen bonds
Solubility in hydrochloric acid
Classification of minerals
Semimetals
Sulfosalts
Oxides and hydroxides
Nesosilicates
Sorosilicates
Cyclosilicates
Inosilicates
Phyllosilicates
Tectosilicates
Mineral associations and phase equilibrium
Assemblage and the phase rule
Use in igneous petrology
Use in metamorphic petrology
Use in sedimentary petrology
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Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660
March 1644: An Ordinance for the upholding the Government and Fellowship of Merchants of England, Trading in the Levant Seas, for the maintenance of Clothing and Woollen...
March 1644: An Ordinance for the upholding the Government and Fellowship of Merchants of England, Trading in the Levant Seas, for the maintenance of Clothing and Woollen Manufactures, the venting of Lead, Tin, and sundry other Commodities of this Kingdom.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.
This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved.
[7 March, 1643/4.]
The Fellowship shall be a Corporation.; Choice of all Ministers and Officers.; Power to levy moneys.; None shall trade but Free Brothers.
For the better encouragement and supportation of the Fellowship of Merchants of England trading in the Levant seas, which, besides the building and maintaining of divers great ships, both for Defence and Burthen, the venting of Kersies, Says, Perpetuanies, and several other commodities, hath been found very serviceable and profitable to this State, by advancing Navigation, and transporting into Forreign parts for several years together, above Twenty thousand Broad-Clothes per Annum, besides other commodities dyed and dressed in their full Manufacture: And for the better Government and Regulating of Trade, especially that of Clothing, whereby the poor People are set on work, and the whole Kingdome receives benefit, The Lords and Commons in Parliament do Ordain, That the said Fellowship of Merchants of England trading into the Levant Seas, shall continue and be a Corporation; That they shall have the free choice and removal of all Ministers and Officers, which are to be by them maintained either at home or abroad, whether they be dignified or called by the title or name of Ambassadors, Governours, Deputies, Consuls, or otherwise; And shall have power to levy Moneys on the Members of their Corporation, and Strangers, upon all goods that shall be shipped in English Bottomes, as also upon all the Goods of English shipped in Strangers Bottomes, which go into or come from the Levant Seas, for and towards the necessary charge and maintainance, and support of their Ministers, Officers, and Government. And that the said Fellowship shall have further power to levy such sum and sums of Money on the Members of that Corporation, and their Goods, as shall be advanced for the use and benefit of the State, by the Approbation of both Houses of Parliament: And that no person shall bring from, or send Goods or Ships into those parts limited by their Incorporation, but such as are Free Brothers, or otherwise Licenced by the aforesaid Corporation, on forfeiture of the whole, or other lesser Penaltie to be imposed by the said Corporation, on their said Goods or Ships so sent or traded in unduly.
Fines for a lmi-sion into the Fellowship.; Power to Fine such as disobey their Orders.; Power to Distrain.; Imprisonment in default of Distress.; To give Oath.; Rights or Charters saved.
Provided, That the said Fellowship shall not exclude any person from his Freedome and Admission into the said Fellowship, who shall desire it by way of Redemption, if such person be a meer Merchant, and otherwise capable thereof, and shall pay Fifty pounds for the same, if he be above the age of Twenty seven years; or Twenty five pounds if he be under that age, or so much less as their Fellowship shall think fitting. And that the said Fellowship shall have power to impose a fine upon any person or persons wilfully contemning or disobeying their Order or Orders in matter of Government, so as the Fine do not exceed the sum of Twenty pounds for any one offence; and in default of payment of such Fine, the said Fellowship shall have power to distrain the Goods of such person or persons so fined; And if no sufficient Distress can be found, then the said Fellowship shall have power to imprison the said person or persons for their said contempt, until such person or persons shall pay such Fine or Fines, or otherwise conform themselves to the Acts and Government of the said Fellowship: And the said Fellowship shall have power to give such an Oath or Oathes to the Officers and Members of their Corporation, as shall be approved of by both Houses of Parliament: Provided, That all Rights or Charters granted under the Broad Seal of England, or otherwise, shall be hereby saved.
This to continue till an Act be passed
And the said Lords and Commons do further Ordain, That with all convenient expedition a Bill shall be prepared, in order to an Act of Parliament to be passed in this present Parliament, for the further setling, and full confirmation of the Priviledges of the said Fellowship herein before mentioned, with such other clauses and provisions, as shall be found expedient by both Houses of Parliament. This Ordinance to remain in full force, until a Bill or Act shall be prepared and passed, according to the intent and true meaning of this Ordinance.
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Attack On Titan 3DS To See Digital Release In North America | Broken Joysticks
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Atlus and Nintendo have announced via Nintendo Direct that Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains will be coming to the 3DS this may exclusively on the 3DS E-Shop.
Humanity In Chains was released in Japan in late 2013 and follows the plot of the original animated series with players taking on the roles of Eren, Mikasa and Armin. No price for this 3DS action has been released as of press time.
Update: Atlus sent us a long a press release which listed the following features for the game:
The features for Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains include:
Story Mode: As a member of the elite Scout Regiment, defending the outer walls from the Titans will push players to their very limits to save humanity. Enhanced Titan AI behavior will sap every ounce of ability from players as they make a last stand for the human race.
Familiar Characters, New Customizations: Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackermann and others will be familiar faces for players as they pick their favorite Scout member to defend the Walls. Several new additions will join the Scout Regiment, customizable with costumes, weapons and voices.
Online Co-op Mode: Defend the outer walls with up to three friends in the all-new online co-op mode with ranking and leaderboards.
Fresh Look: Updates to the UI, improvements in gameplay balance and support for the Circle Pad Pro and the New Nintendo 3DS XL system’s C-Stick take Humanity in Chains to the next level.
Attack on Titan: Humanity in
Check out a trailer for the Japanese version of the game below.
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Government loan kickstarts Wood Wharf
By Nick Jones2015-03-30T09:28:00+01:00
Government £200m infrastructure loan paves way for massive 3,500-home Canary Wharf extension
Work is set to start on the 4.9 million sq ft extension to Canary Wharf known as Wood Wharf, after the government agreed a £200m infrastructure loan for the scheme.
The Wood Wharf scheme will include more than 3,500 homes, including 600 affordable units, as well as 2.8 million sq ft of lower-rise offices, shops and community facilities.
The scheme, which has been planned for over a decade, has received a £200m loan from the government’s £1bn Large Sites Infrastructure Fund to improve road and pedestrian access and create a network of parks and public squares.
Andy Rose, chief executive at the Homes and Communities Agency, said: “The £200m contribution to this project will accelerate the infrastructure needed to boost this vital centre for business activity by unlocking land to establish Canary Wharf as a residential location, building the homes that London needs to supply viable housing developments.”
The Wood Wharf proposals have already received planning permission, so work will be able to start within months.
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Emerging-market junk-bond market shaping up as key area to watch
Thu, Aug 30, 2018 - 11:18 AM
[HONG KONG] While Asia proved to be relatively stable through the Turkey-led emerging market selloff this month, the region has its own vulnerabilities with the junk-bond market shaping up as a key area to watch.
The amount of such debt coming due in dollars from Asian issuers, excluding financial firms, will rise over the next three years to a record US$24.2 billion in 2021. With global investors eyeing higher US interest rates as the Federal Reserve raises borrowing costs, Asia's riskier companies will face pressure to offer juicier yields to lock in fresh funding.
Risks across the region vary from heavy debt piles in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore to current account deficits in Indonesia, India and the Philippines.
Junk bonds are just one of a number of vulnerabilities investors will need to watch out for as the prospect of further interest-rate increases in the US and the end of quantitative easing in Europe draw curtains on an era of easy money.
Here are some others:
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Jitters have spread beyond junk securities to high-grade Asian corporate notes. The average price for investment-grade dollar notes in the region has stayed below 100 cents on the dollar since early April, an ICE BofAML index shows - that's a longer period below par than stretches that preceded debt-market pain during financial crises in 1997 and 2008 and the 2013 Taper Tantrum.
Credit stress
Another worry stems from the sheer volume of debt in Asia's developing economies.
"We believe the bigger vulnerability for Asia in coming months stems from domestic credit stress and evaporating market liquidity - not balance of payments or currency pressures - and the economies most exposed are China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia," Robert Subbaraman, Singapore-based head of emerging markets economics at Nomura Holdings Inc, said in a note earlier this month.
Household debt
Consumers are also racking up the bills, with South Korea most at risk of seeing budget-busting households fall underwater.
Sovereign debt
Governments have run up their tabs, too. Much of developing Asia is attempting to tackle ambitious infrastructure plans -- billions of dollars' worth of road and rail to connect rural areas with thriving urban centers. While credit ratings firms have generally been supportive, balance sheet strains are starting to show.
In South-east Asia, the Philippines remains in the cross hairs with President Rodrigo Duterte's "Build, Build, Build" programme applying pressure on the peso, which is down more than 6 per cent this year against the dollar. Indonesia has just pledged a record spending year for 2019 while claiming that higher revenue will shrink the swollen budget deficit.
Trade tensions
Bigger bills aren't the only concern. Simmering trade tensions between the U.S. and China are also a threat for smaller export-oriented economies including South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia, along with financial hubs Singapore and Hong Kong.
A protracted trade war between the US and China would reverberate. Fluctuations in China's economy or financial markets now have up to three times the impact around Asia than they did before the global financial crisis, according to Goldman Sachs. Singapore and Hong Kong also play key trade hub roles that leave them exposed to the trade-war jitters.
Asia's current-account positions are broadly in strong shape, but there are weak links. India, Indonesia and the Philippines are the three deficit nations feeling the most strain from the emerging-market selloff. While their domestic conditions vary and their deficits remain relatively narrow, they face more Fed interest-rate hikes, a brewing trade war and enduring emerging-market anxieties.
Foreign exposure
Indonesia has a particular need to calm investors, given that the proportion of its stocks and bonds held by foreign investors is higher than peers in the region. As a rule of thumb, the more foreign ownership, the more vulnerability to a reversal in market sentiment.
Even if Asia does indeed boast better growth prospects and beefier buffers, its hefty weighting in many emerging-market benchmarks leaves it exposed to a broader selloff.
"Since Asia takes up 75 per cent of the MSCI emerging market index, if people sell EM (emerging markets), they are going to naturally sell some Asia along with that - whether or not they actually feel negative about Asia per se," Timothy Moe, chief Asia-Pacific equity strategist at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, told Bloomberg Television recently.
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Singapore civil servants to get 0.5 month mid-year bonus
Thu, Jun 15, 2017 - 6:06 PM
Lee U-Wenleeuwen@sph.com.sg@LeeUwenBT
Civil servants in Singapore will get a mid-year bonus of 0.5 month, the Public Service Division (PSD) announced on Thursday afternoon. This is slightly higher than the 0.45 month they received in 2016.
ST PHOTO: JAMIE KOH
PSD also said that the government supports the National Wages Council's recommendations for low-wage workers.
Therefore, civil servants in grades IV and V of the operations support scheme will receive a built-in wage increase of S$15 and S$20 respectively. This will be in addition to their annual increment in 2017.
"It signals the government's continued commitment to raise the salaries of lower-wage civil servants. Around 1,485 civil servants will benefit from the built-in wage increase," the PSD statement said.
The mid-year payments were decided in close consultation with the public sector unions, and will be made in July.
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UK 2017 outlook lifted after consumers beat expectations
Tue, Mar 14, 2017 - 10:40 AM
The British economy will expand 1.4 per cent in 2017, up from 1.1 per cent previously, the BCC said in a report published on Tuesday.
[LONDON] The British Chambers of Commerce became the latest forecaster to upgrade their UK growth projections after stronger-than-expected household spending, though they don't expect it to last.
The British economy will expand 1.4 per cent in 2017, up from 1.1 per cent previously, the BCC said in a report published Tuesday. The group cut its 2018 forecast to 1.3 per cent from 1.4 per cent and sees growth of 1.5 per cent in 2019.
Consumers will run out of steam as inflation climbs through the Bank of England's 2 per cent target this quarter, eroding real wages, the BCC said.
Yet the pound's 18 per cent slump since Britain's vote to leave the European Union is also bolstering exports, which the BCC revised higher over the next two years.
Central bank policy makers meeting in London this week have said they will look through a temporary inflation spike fueled by the pound's decline. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect no one to dissent over keeping borrowing costs at a record low until the second half of 2017 at the earliest, with a large majority seeing no vote for an increase until next year.
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"The imbalances in the economy continue to leave the UK increasingly exposed to economic shocks," said Suren Thiru, head of economics at the BCC.
"While household consumption's contribution to UK growth is likely to decrease over the near term, the slight improvement in investment and trade prospects over the same period is not expected to be enough to prevent a slowdown in overall growth."
Uncertainty arising from Brexit negotiations is set to damp investment, which will contract 0.5 per cent this year, the report said.
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EXCERPT and GIVEAWAY
Through the Fire
(A Series of Elements Book 1)
by Elizabeth Johns
During the month of September, we will be featuring 20 fabulous authors who write clean romance. Today we feature Elizabeth Johns with Through the Fire, ON SALE for only $0.99 to 7 September.
Through the Fire is the first book in her A Series of Elements series. Also available: Melting the Ice and With the Wind.
This book blast and giveaway is hosted by I Am A Reader and Clean Wholesome Romance.
When two people have walked through fire, can love bring the healing and help they need?
Spurned by love, Lady Margaux Winslow, daughter of the Marquess of Ashbury, has no use for the other eligible gentlemen of London. Despite her beauty, her sharp tongue soon earns her a reputation as a dragon. Convincing her parents to let her retreat to their Scottish estate, a home for abandoned young women, Margaux feels she can do something meaningful with her life. At their wits’ end, her parents believe a few months in seclusion will teach her to appreciate her privileged existence, and accept the next gentleman of worth who offers for her. Margaux has no plans to yield. But neither she nor her parents bargain for the proximity of the gorgeous, blue-eyed Scotsman on the neighbouring estate.
Gavin Craig, content with his life as a country doctor, is unexpectedly thrust into the world of aristocratic society after the accidental deaths of his brother and nephews. With all the duties his new title entails, and his adoption of three orphans, Gavin desperately needs a wife. She should preferably a lady, trained since birth to manage a noble house, servants and family. His former disdain for a marriage of convenience has been rapidly overcome by the colossal task of learning to run a large Scottish barony. One lovely candidate is right next door … except that she’s inexplicably determined to be a spinster …
Gavin looked at the letter in his hand in utter disbelief. His heart was tearing in two. His brother, wife, and children had been killed when their carriage had slipped down the side of a cliff.
“This canna be true.” He shook his head and fought back tears.
“I am afraid it is, my lord.”
“My lord? No. I doona wish for it. I’m a simple country doctor. I have a humble life and practice here.”
“I am terribly sorry for your loss, my lord. But you are, in fact, the eleventh Baron Craig now, and thus have some rather large holdings that are your responsibility.”
“This was not supposed to happen. Iain had three strapping young lads!”
The solicitor looked grave. “Perhaps, my lord, it would be best for you to return to Castle Craig and see for yourself.”
The solicitor was met with a blank stare from a set of startling blue eyes; a look that was common to those who had been met with grievous news, but who had not yet assimilated the ensuing change in circumstances.
“Verra well. I will join you there as soon as I have made arrangements.”
Gavin went through the motions of closing up his house and seeing his practice into the capable hands of his apprentice, a graduate of Lord Easton’s school. Of late, Gavin had taken many trips into England to the school in Sussex and had toyed with joining it as an instructor on a full-time basis, but he had never been able to cut ties with Scotland. How would he practice medicine as Lord Craig? He would have to find a way, while at the same time doing his best to carry on with his brother’s works in Parliament.
Gavin had seen more death than most, but he had not been prepared for the loss of his brother, or of Iain’s wife and children. They had been the last family he’d had left. He had never before given a thought to running the large Castle Craig estate, and hoped desperately that his brother had appointed a trustworthy steward.
His carriage was loaded with immediate necessities. His servants would send the rest of his belongings with those of his staff who wished to join him at the new residence. He had one final stop before setting off to bury his brother and begin his new life.
[Want more? Click below to read a longer excerpt.]
“Johns’ wonderful, well-crafted characters come alive in this engaging series … These characters are well written and lovable and will keep readers turning the pages.” ~ Library Journal
“Elizabeth Johns is now one of my top 5 authors! Her style of writing is easy to follow and keeps you hanging on.” ~ Lavender24
“Great googily moogily. Scotsmen in kilts… This is a good one.” ~ The Doctor’s Companion
National bestselling author Elizabeth Johns was first an avid reader, though she was a reluctant convert. It was Jane Austen’s clever wit and unique turn of phrase that hooked Johns when she was “forced” to read Pride and Prejudice for a school assignment. She began writing when she ran out of her favorite author’s books and decided to try her hand at crafting a Regency romance novel. Her journey into publishing began with the release of Surrender the Past, book one of The Loring-Abbott Series. Johns makes no pretensions to Austen’s wit but hopes readers will perhaps laugh and find some enjoyment in her writing.
Johns attributes much of her inspiration to her mother, a retired English teacher. During their last summer together, Johns would sit on the porch swing and read her stories to her mother, who encouraged her to continue writing. Busy with multiple careers, including a professional job in the medical field, author and mother of small children, Johns squeezes in time for reading whenever possible.
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Social Media Use and Adolescents: A Guide for Parents
Kids and Video Games
Protect Your Kids in Cyberspace
Teens and Sexting: What Is It and What Can Parents Do?
Children and Watching TV: A Guide for Parents
Children and TV Violence
What's Hiding In Your Child's Video Game?
The ABCs of Ratings
What is "Sexting"?
Most teens today are comfortable with documenting their lives online. Posting photos, updating their status messages, sharing rapid-fire texts, and being a click away from friends are the new normal for teens. But this "always on" culture also creates an environment where teens can make impulsive decisions that can come back to haunt them. One example of this has been in the news a lot lately: sexting.
When people take and send sexually revealing pictures of themselves or send sexually explicit messages via text message, it's called "sexting." While experts differ on statistics, sexting is a teen reality that's here to stay. Kids "sext" to show off, to entice someone, to show interest in someone, or to prove commitment.
22% of teen girls and 20% of teen boys have sent nude or seminude photos of themselves over the Internet or their phones.
22% of teens admit that technology makes them personally more forward and aggressive.
38% of teens say exchanging sexy content makes dating or hooking up with others more likely.
29% of teens believe those exchanging sexy content are "expected" to date or hook up.
(All of the above are from CosmoGirl and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2009.)
Sending these pictures or messages is problematic enough, but the real challenge comes when this content is shared broadly. As far too many teens have found out, the recipient of these messages is in possession of a highly compromising image or message that can be easily posted on a social networking site or sent to others via email or text.
Why Sexting Matters
In a technology world where anything can be copied, sent, posted, and seen by huge audiences, there's no such thing as being able to control information. The intention doesn't matter - even if a photo was taken and sent as a token of love, for example, the technology makes it possible for everyone to see your child's most intimate self. In the hands of teens, when revealing photos are made public, the subject almost always ends up feeling humiliated. Furthermore, sending sexual images to minors is against the law, and some states have begun prosecuting kids for child pornography or felony obscenity.
There have been some high-profile cases of sexting. In July 2008, Cincinnati teen Jesse Logan committed suicide after a nude photo she'd sent to a boyfriend was circulated widely around her high school, resulting in harassment from her classmates.
Fortunately, networks with large teen audiences - MTV, for example - are using their platforms to warn teens against the dangers of sexting. And the web site ThatsNotCool.com uses teen-speak to help resist cyber peer pressure. Hopefully, these messages will get through.
Don't wait for an incident to happen to your child or your child's friend before you talk about the consequences of sexting. Sure, talking about sex or dating with teens can be uncomfortable, but it's better to have the talk before something happens.
Remind your kids that once an image is sent, it can never be retrieved - and they will lose control of it. Ask teens how they would feel if their teachers, parents, or the entire school saw the picture, because that happens all the time.
Talk about pressures to send revealing photos. Let teens know that you understand how they can be pushed or dared into sending something. Tell them that no matter how big the social pressure is, the potential social humiliation can be hundreds
of times worse.
Teach your children that the buck stops with them. If someone sends them a photo, they should delete it immediately. It's better to be part of the solution than the problem. Besides, if they do send it on, they're distributing pornography - and that's against the law.
Check out ThatsNotCool.com. It's a fabulous site that gives kids the language and support to take texting and cell phone power back into their own hands. It's also a great resource for parents who are uncomfortable dealing directly with this issue.
Source: www.commonsensemedia.org
More Advice on What To Do
So what are you supposed to do, whether you think your teen is sexting already or whether you're worried they might start in the future? Believe it or not, you're not completely powerless. So what can you do?
Talk to your teen. A scary thought for many of us, but one of those unavoidable responsibilities of parenting. Talk to them about the possible long-term consequences of getting involved in sexting. Like the fact that nude images of kids under age 18 are child pornography, which is illegal. Talk about the short-term consequences, like the whole school getting ahold of a "private" photo shared with a former boyfriend or girlfriend. Talk about self-esteem and self-respect.
Set rules. Do you let your kids drive drunk? Do you let them ride in the car with no seat belts? So why give them something as dangerous as a cell phone and not establish rules? Start random checks of the phone (yes, you'll need to learn how to use it), and go through everything on it regularly.
Take away the cell phone. Drastic, yes, but sometimes necessary when nothing else is working. If you truly don't trust your child, why would you trust them with a tool they can use to bully others? And to those who argue that their kids "need" cell phones - oh, come on now. Really? Fine. Then get them the most basic model possible, with no texting capabilities.
Source: www.sheknows.com
This article first appeared in the April, 2012 Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter.
Social Media Use and Adolescents
Teaching Technology Parenting Guide (PDF)
How to Talk with Your Kids About Cyberbullying (PDF)
Parenting Matters Minute: Video Game Ratings
Dealing with Cyberbullying
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St. Martin is as much a part of France as Marseilles or Nice, and a flight here from Paris is a domestic flight. It’s as if you can make a quick trip to Europe without spending eight hours on a plane. And, unlike in the home country, everyone speaks English.\nStroll along the waterfront in the capitol, Marigot. Pareau-draped mademoiselles sip café au lait under spreading flamboyant trees, and boutiques tempt with items from duty-free jewels to high fashion. (View More)\nAs you take in this scene of Gallic luxury, remind yourself to return for market day, when, in front of the harborside bistros and boutiques, vendors fill the parking lots with goods from home-brewed liquors to burlap sacks overflowing with cinnamon, nutmeg and chili peppers. Ladies in madras dresses and buoyant kerchiefs haggle over enormous squash and cabbages the size of bowling balls.\nSt. Martin is action-packed but also laid back. Its Orient Beach, perhaps the Caribbean’s best-known clothing optional strand, is also its premier location for water sports from windsurfing and jet skiing to \"parascending\" on a boat-towed parachute.\nFor a different kind of adventure, visit Loterie Farm, where a former slave trail leads you upward to breadfruit trees descended from the original plants brought to the Caribbean aboard the H.M.S. Bounty. Streams trickle through dense foliage; guavaberry, mango and mahogany trees surround you with astounding lushness; iguanas lumber across pathways; and hummingbirds dart across the flowers. A trail leads to Pic Paradise, the island’s highest point.\nCity-worthy Dining\nSimilarly, you can have a meal fit for a dauphin at one of the Caribbean’s toniest collections of restaurants, but you can also eat well for a sou (give or take). In the village of Grand Case, fine eateries line a beachside road like grande dames awaiting your attendance. Yet amid these culinary palaces lie the “lolos,” a series of wooden shacks overlooking the sea where you can feast on a mountain of stewed conch, fried fish, rice, beans and plantains — all for about $10.\nIt’s not just in Grand Case that you’ll eat well: From LowLands to Sandy Ground to Marigot and the less visited Nettle Bay, savvy cooks are waiting to tempt you. It’s a good idea to eat heartily, because your days will be spent in a variety of activities, including a visit to the Butterfly Farm - where such beauties as the Cambodian wood nymph and the Brazilian blue morpho turn your day into a fluttering parade of color.\nAlso venture to the Colombier area, where cows graze tranquilly behind blossom-clad stone walls. Further on, a long road curves around Oyster Pond; men ride by on horseback as if from another era, and pigs root around by oceanside roads.\nMore information about St Martin\nEntertainment available includes: Dinner/Dancing. Cocktail lounge music. Disco. Cinemas. Casinos (Dutch side).\nAir Canada (Charter). Air France. Air Caraibes. American Airlines. BWIA. Caribbean Star. Continental Airlines. Corsairfly (Charter Nouvelle Frontiere). Delta Airlines. KLM. LIAT. Northwest Airlines (Charter). US Air. Windward Islands Airways (Winair). Caribbean Connection Plus’ Shared & Private Charters.\nAirports: Princess Juliana International Airport Simpson Bay, St. Maarten, N.A., Aéroport Saint-Martin Grand Case\nUS and Canadian citizens may stay up to 3 months.\nUS citizens need a valid passport or an original birth certificate with a raised seal and a state issued photo ID.\nCanadian citizens must have a valid passport.\nA return or onward ticket is also required.\nMarina Port la Royale. Shopping complex, including top French and Italian designers fashions.\nFort Louis, the main historical building, built in 1789 in the reign of Louis XVI, has a wonderful view overlooking the entire French capital.\nParadise Pic, the highest peak of the Island, 1,400 ft.\nThe Museum, “On the trails of the Arawaks”, the museum is a historical and cultural patrimony of the Island. It displays artifacts from the Arawak Indians, telling the history of colonization of St. Martin, and an Art Gallery.\nLoterie Farm, located in the lush interior region of French St. Martin, is the island’s only private nature reserve. This former sugar plantation, set in 150 acres of pastures, tropical forest, and soaring mountain peaks, offers interested tourists the opportunity to rediscover the fascinating natural heritage of St. Martin. Guided hiking tours of different levels are offered daily on centuries old trails. A growing population of wildlife including the green monkeys, raccoons, and an abundance of birds is testament to our preservation efforts.\nRecently opened, the, \"L'eauLounge cabana club & piscine de source\" promises to be an exceptional addition to their repertoire. With more than 500 square meters of free form multi-level swimming areas connected by cascades and surrounded by almost an acre of lush tropical vegetation, the L’eauLounge is destined to be another one of the extraordinary attractions of SXM.\nThere are only 11 chic & stylishly designed cabanas for rent on a daily basis. Each cabana will accommodate up to 10 guests. Guests of the cabanas will enjoy exclusive privileges of the pools. 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74 Original Songs vie for 2015 Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 74 songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2015 are in contention for nominations in the Original Song category for the 88th Academy Awards.
During the nominations process, all voting members of the Music Branch will receive a Reminder List of works submitted in the category and a DVD copy of the song clips. Members will be asked to watch the clips and then vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements in the category. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award. A maximum of two songs may be nominated from any one film.
To be eligible, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the film. A clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody must be used in the body of the film or as the first music cue in the end credits.
The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 14, 2016, at 5:30 a.m. PT at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title:
“Happy" from Altered Minds
“Home" from Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
“None Of Them Are You" from Anomalisa
“Stem To The Rose" from Becoming Bulletproof
“The Mystery Of Your Gift" from Boychoir
“I Run" from Chi-Raq
“Pray 4 My City" from Chi-Raq
“Sit Down For This" from Chi-Raq
“Strong" from Cinderella
“So Long" from Concussion
“Fighting Stronger" from Creed
“Grip" from Creed
“Waiting For My Moment" from Creed
“Don’t Look Down" from Danny Collins
“Hey Baby Doll" from Danny Collins
“Dreamsong" from The Diary of a Teenage Girl
“It’s My Turn Now" from Dope
“Ya Rahem, Maula Maula" from Dukhtar
“Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey
“Love Me Like You Do" from Fifty Shades of Grey
“Salted Wound" from Fifty Shades of Grey
“Hands Of Love" from Freeheld
“See You Again" from Furious Seven
“Brother" from Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones
“As Real As You And Me" from Home
“Dancing In The Dark" from Home
“Feel The Light" from Home
“Red Balloon" from Home
“Two Of A Crime" from Hot Pursuit
“Til It Happens To You" from The Hunting Ground
“I’ll See You In My Dreams" from I’ll See You in My Dreams
“The Movie About Us" from Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words
“Bhoomiyilenghanumundo" from Jalam
“Koodu Vaykkan" from Jalam
“Pakalppaathi Chaari" from Jalam
“Yaathra Manoradhamerum" from Jalam
“Lost In Love" from Jenny’s Wedding
“True Love Avenue" from Jenny’s Wedding
“Hypnosis" from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
“Juntos (Together)" from McFarland, USA
“The Light That Never Fails" from Meru
“The Crazy Ones" from Miss You Already
“There’s A Place" from Miss You Already
“Johanna" from Mortdecai
“Little Soldier" from Pan
“Something’s Not Right" from Pan
“Paranoid Girl" from Paranoid Girls
“Better When I’m Dancin'" from The Peanuts Movie
“Pink & Blue" from Pink & Blue: Colors of Hereditary Cancer
“Flashlight" from Pitch Perfect 2
“Birds Of A Feather" from Poached
“Still Breathing" from Point Break
“Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction
“Cold One" from Ricki and the Flash
“Torch" from Rock the Kasbah
“Someone Like You" from The Rumperbutts
“Aankhon Me Samaye Dil" from Salt Bridge
“Bachpana Thaa" from Salt Bridge
“Kanpne Lage Tum" from Salt Bridge
“Kyaa Bataaun Tujhe" from Salt Bridge
“Le Jaaye Jo Door Tumse" from Salt Bridge
“Na Jaane Kitni Door" from Salt Bridge
“Sookha Hi Rang Daalo" from Salt Bridge
“Feels Like Summer" from Shaun the Sheep Movie
“Phenomenal" from Southpaw
“Writing’s On The Wall" from Spectre
“Squeeze Me" from The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water
“Teamwork" from The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water
“Who Can You Trust" from Spy
“Came To Win" from Sweet Micky for President
“Mean Ol’ Moon" from Ted 2
“Love Was My Alibi" from The Water Diviner
“Fine On The Outside" from When Marnie Was There
“Simple Song #3" from Youth
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“If you could eat only one meal every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?”
This is the way we often speak about food. It’s a hobby, a pastime, and a vehicle for community. For many, however, food isn’t just about fun. It’s a matter of life and death.
I ask myself about food often. I wonder, “When am I going to eat dinner?” and “What will I want to eat? Will I want dessert?” In fact, as I write this, I’m considering whether I should eat a snack. But I’ve never had to ask myself, “Am I going to eat at all?”
In homes around the world, children are asking that very question. They are waking up weak and tired, knowing that today will be another day they won’t get to eat. Just like yesterday … and the day before. Right now, mothers are frantically counting coins and checking cupboards, hoping they can scrape something together.
Families are starving. And starvation statistics are so staggering that it can feel impossible to make an impact. But behind every number and every statistic is a face and a name … and a child who will die without help.
So right now, ask yourself this question — What do I really know about the hunger crisis? And how can I help?
Here are six true or false questions to test your knowledge:
1. True or false? One out of every nine people suffers from a debilitating lack of food.
True. Hunger and malnutrition kill more people than malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS combined, and it is a widespread issue. Globally, one out of every nine people will go to bed hungry tonight. That means if you put 30 children from around the world in one classroom, at least three of them would be starving to death. And when you look specifically at places like Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and Syria, that percentage only grows.
2. True or false? The main cause of global hunger is overpopulation.
False. There are enough grains and vegetables grown every year to feed the global population several times over. The problem comes when the world’s food supply is not evenly distributed. Extreme poverty, war, famine, political unrest, and drought are just a few of the reasons a community can find itself without access to nutrient-dense food. The majority of the world’s hungry live in developing nations, and there is simply no way to survive when disaster strikes.
3. True or false? Hunger affects all ages and genders equally.
False. The victims of malnutrition and starvation are overwhelmingly young and female. In some cultures, it is customary for the women in a family to be the last to eat. This means what little food the family can afford goes to the men, leaving females and children with almost nothing to eat. When a malnourished woman becomes pregnant, her child is far more likely to be born underweight and undernourished, and she will likely struggle to produce enough milk to keep the child fed. From day one, that baby will be fighting a losing battle against starvation.
4. True or false? Malnourishment leads to nearly half the deaths in children under the age of 5.
True. The first few years of a child’s life are crucial to his overall growth and development; without proper nutrition, children experience “stunting.” It is estimated that in South Asia, half of all children are plagued with stunting and are unable to fully develop. This impacts not just the body but also the development of the brain.
5. True or false? The most dangerous effect of starvation is extreme weight loss.
False. Bony limbs and protruding ribs are indeed scary outward signs of starvation, but it’s inside a child’s body where the battle for his life truly rages. After days without food, his body burns through the last fat for fuel. When that fat is gone, it turns to the next available thing — internal organs. Slowly, painfully, a child’s body deteriorates from the inside out. The heart is usually the last organ to go, finally becoming too weak to pump any longer.
6. True or false? The world’s hunger crisis can be solved in our lifetimes.
True. In 2015, the United Nations set a goal of solving world hunger by 2030 and determined it was 100 percent achievable. Now, if you’ve been paying attention to news surrounding this topic, you may know that the world has recently gotten off track from this goal because of the current refugee crisis and several looming famines. But before you get too discouraged, consider this: in the past 20 years, the number of people suffering from hunger has been reduced by 200 million. We may be facing a setback, but as Chase Sova of World Food Program USA put it, “If this fight to end hunger of the modern era were a football game, we’d be taking a massive lead into the fourth quarter.”
World Help is doing what we can to help clench that victory … and you can too. It takes just $40 — less than we probably spend on a week’s worth of groceries — to provide food for a starving child for an entire year. We can help solve the world’s hunger crisis, one person at a time.
Emily Towns writes for World Help, a Christian humanitarian organization serving the physical and spiritual needs of people in impoverished communities around the world. To learn more about how you can fight global hunger, click here.
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Google Maps adds elevation data for cyclists
Maps on the desktop now shows elevation gains through a new graphical display
By Zach Miners
Google has added elevation data to bike routes in its Maps service, providing better intel for intrepid cyclists.
The feature, which launched on May 16, seems to work for much of the US and Canada. Google says Maps already factored in elevation when determining routes for cyclists, but until now the elevation data wasn't made easily visible.
Type in an origin and destination for biking, and the service now displays a graphical representation of the route's elevation. Drag the cursor along the chosen route and the graphic shows the elevation changes at any given point. The total elevation change is also displayed.
The feature seems to work for any distance. Even a bike route from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Texas, showed the elevation gain: more than 57,000 feet.
Google declined to comment further about the feature.
As of now the elevation data is displayed only on the desktop version of Maps, though it might come to the mobile Maps apps later.
Cyclists who want that sort of data have other apps to choose from, such as Strava, Altimeter+ and Get Altitude.
It's not clear where Google is getting its elevation data from, though it could be an integration with its own Elevation API. That software kit provides elevation data for all locations on the surface of the Earth, Google says, including depths on the ocean floor. Bikers probably won't be using Maps for underwater rides, though.
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Fast track: Indonesia, Malaysia rail projects may give China more deals
A worker stands in front of Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway exhibition hall at Walini tunnel construction site in West Bandung regency, West Java province, Indonesia. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
WALLINI, Indonesia: In a rural part of Indonesia's Java island, two orange-clad workers confer in Mandarin over plans to lay tracks on a stretch of a US$6 billion high-speed rail project between the capital Jakarta and the textile hub of Bandung.
Both are employees of the state-owned China Railway Engineering Corp (CREC), and have previously worked on a rail project in Uganda, another part of Beijing's sweeping multi-billion dollar "Belt and Road" initiative (BRI) to connect China with Asia, Europe and beyond.
Delayed for nearly three years over land ownership issues, construction on the 142km Indonesian line finally kicked into high gear in 2018.
Mock-up of Jakarta-Bandung Highspeed Railway is seen at an exhibition hall near Walini tunnel construction site in West Bandung regency, West Java province, Indonesia, Feb 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
When China hosts its second summit of nations that are part of BRI this week, Beijing is likely to showcase the Indonesian project along with its recent success in getting Malaysia's East Coast Railway Link (ECRL) back on track after months of negotiations.
Analysts say the two projects will be held up as China's answers to criticism about high debt and the lack of transparency in the BRI and its attempt to refocus the program on sustainable financing, green growth, and high quality.
China's foreign ministry said last week Beijing would "work together with all parties to benefit people across the world by jointly promoting the high-quality development of BRI in line with the national conditions of each country".
The BRI is a key policy of Chinese President Xi Jinping but has been controversial in many Western capitals, particularly Washington, which views it as a means to spread Chinese influence abroad and saddle countries with unsustainable debt through nontransparent projects.
According to a draft communique seen by Reuters, participants at this week's summit will agree to project financing that respects global debt goals and promotes green growth.
A worker sweeps inside Walini tunnel construction site for Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway in West Bandung regency, West Java province, Indonesia, Feb 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
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"This bucks the trend of recent negative headlines around the BRI and challenges facing projects in several countries," said Peter Mumford at the Eurasia Group consultancy.
But in Malaysia, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed agreed to put the 668km ECRL back on track only after cutting the cost of the project from US$16 billion to US$10.7 billion.
"The risk for China is that other countries, having seen Mahathir's success, now try to adopt similar tough re-negotiating tactics on BRI projects, which could slow progress elsewhere," said Mumford.
To be sure, there is no sign of any of the BRI countries attempting to re-negotiate deals signed with Beijing. Analysts say China is likely to use its willingness to work with partner nations and make projects feasible to seek more business.
"GOLD-PLATED"
Bankers familiar with the deal say the Indonesian project is being constructed under "gold-plated terms".
Of the total US$6 billion cost, China's Development Bank will provide a US$4.5 billion loan at 2 per cent interest, according a project prospectus seen by Reuters. The remaining 25 per cent of the project cost will be funded by equity provided by the consortium.
The loan will have no sovereign guarantees, which are among the most controversial parts of Belt and Road projects, as they shift risk onto the governments of partner countries.
A worker welds as he installs bore-pile devices at a steel fabrication of rebar cages site for Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway in West Bandung regency, West Java province, Indonesia, Feb 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
Beijing lobbied hard against Tokyo in 2015 to win the Indonesian project as a way to showcase its high-speed rail expertise to international customers.
"China wanted to deliberately show that its fast train was better than Japan ... we asked for the lowest rate possible and they gave 2 per cent," Rini Soemarno, Indonesia's minister for state-owned enterprises, told reporters earlier this year.
The railway's financial terms came under debate during April's presidential election between Indonesian President Joko Widodo and challenger Prabowo Subianto, who pledged to review the project if he pulled off a victory.
While the results are still to be officially confirmed, sample vote counts by independent pollsters show Widodo to be headed for a second term.
Labourers walk at Walini tunnel construction site for Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway in West Bandung regency, West Java province, Indonesia. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
At the project site, there seem to be no doubts that it will be completed. Deep in Indonesia's tea country, workers are directing drilling machines into a hillside, displacing red earth to carve out two tunnels that will lead to the station of Wallini, a tea plantation near Bandung.
Chinese workers there told Reuters they had been at the site for a year and expected to stay until the project's completion in 2021. Four new satellite towns will be built by the train consortium along the route.
Widodo's government is currently offering up to US$91 billion in infrastructure projects to Chinese companies, according to Luhut Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for maritime affairs, who said Chinese officials have toured regional governments in search of projects to fund.
Two top officials told Reuters Widodo intends to lead a delegation to the Belt and Road forum, where some of those projects are expected to be signed.
One of the officials, Indonesia's investment board chief, Thomas Lembong, told Reuters he expected this week's summit to be a turning point, a "Belt and Road 2.0" with China more willing to negotiate.
"The Chinese leadership will do whatever it takes to make Belt and Road a success, even if that means making it more professionalised, transparent, and more cooperative," he said.
THE SINGAPORE LINK
The revival of the Malaysian project is likely to give China hope of securing another train project: the high speed rail (HSR) between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, which was postponed by Mahathir after he initially threatened to cancel it.
"China will likely take heart from the ECRL outcome and focus their efforts on ensuring that the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore HSR remains on track," Harrison Cheng, an analyst at Control Risks, told Reuters.
A worker pushes a wheelbarrow at Walini tunnel construction site for Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway in West Bandung regency, West Java province, Indonesia, Feb 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
Beijing had been intent on being awarded the project to prove that its rail expertise could win over rivals in a first-world country like Singapore, with its diplomats describing it as a "must win at all costs project".
Apart from CREC, consortiums from Japan, South Korea, Europe, Singapore and Malaysia are also in the race, if the project is revived.
A source in the Singaporean government said Malaysia would have to pay significant penalties to cancel the project altogether.
Mahathir as well as Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will take part in this week's Belt and Road summit, which could see China make a renewed push for the project.
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Diesel powertrain for 9-6 anyone???
By TurboRush, September 28, 2005 in SAAB / NEVS
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From an article on itv-motoring.com Saab's New Diesel by David Morgan (26 Sep 05) Saab could be the first European manufacturer to hit the market with a "boxer" turbodiesel engine. The alliance between Saab and Subaru which created the Impreza-based Saab 9-2X for the US market is about to signal the return of the 96 badge in Europe - and it looks set to be their first 4x4 SUV with a horizontally-opposed diesel power plant. By late 2007 British Saab drivers will be able to order the Swedish car maker's first crossover 4x4 - the Saab 9-6X. The all-wheel drive five-door will be closely related to the Subaru B9 Tribeca (pictured) which is built in Indiana and has been on sale throughout North and South America for the past few months. Saab's upmarket version will be individually styled inside and out, but power and drivelines are strictly Subaru. The first Saab 9-6X models will be powered by the same three-litre flat-six petrol injection engine used in the current Subaru Legacy 3.0R. The 241bhp power plant will be linked to a five-speed automatic gearbox driving a Subaru 4x4 transmission system and mounted on a modified Legacy platform featuring a revised multilink rear suspension. But the big news is that the three-litre petrol boxer engine will not be alone. Saab and Subaru have been working closely to develop a boxer turbodiesel which is likely to debut in the 9-6X as a flat-four or flat-six. Industry sources say Saab have been working with Porsche engineers in an effort to advance the design of a horizontally-opposed turbodiesel engine. The German firm's expertise in extracting high outputs from petrol-fuelled boxer layouts has apparently proved useful in creating an oil-burner with a sporting character. The 9-6X is due to make its UK debut around the same time as Subaru introduce their Tribeca to Britain. But the SUVs will have individual styling and features, although both are expected to be available in five- and seven-seat guise.
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a flat diesel... thats a novel idea... its inherient balance will be useful for getting the revvs up :)
Class, didn't we go over the chapter on how not to make a diesel engine?
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I R sorry teacher, me no understand "no diesel"
Lets review then. We don't take an existing gasoline engine, cover the plug holes, run diesel oil through it, and call it a day... m'kay?
Is that all the diesel is? and for that matter how is Honda's diesel over ther doing?
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Lets review then.
We don't take an existing gasoline engine, cover the plug holes, run diesel oil through it, and call it a day...
m'kay?
Another Oldsmobile lesson GM ignored...
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Warrington Literature Festival a huge success
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Warrington held its first ever literature festival this month with a range of events to celebrate everyone’s love for reading.
The festival started on Friday 12 April when Liverpool author Deborah Morgan signed copies of her book Disappearing Home at Penketh library to over twenty-five avid reading fans.
Local published history detective Janice Hayes gave a presentation about Warrington’s rich industrial history on Wednesday 17 April where she explored historical pictures of Warrington as an old mill town. She also read extracts of her book Warrington At Work and answered questions on how to write for a historical genre.
Experienced journalist and magazine editor Claire Gillman came to Pyramid on Thursday 18 April where she delivered a workshop on how to write non-fiction and make money out of freelance writing.
Leisure organisation, LiveWire, who are a partner of Culture Warrington celebrated World Book Night on Tuesday 23 April by gifting books to the public at Pyramid and the Bus Interchange. Titles which were gifted included The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fford and The Island by Victoria Hislop. It was part of a national event which promoted a love of reading, engages existing readers as ambassadors and encourages the third of the country who don’t regularly read to do so.
The jam-packed festival reached its finale on Thursday 25 April with The Paper Cut poetry slam at Pyramid. Slamming is competitive poetry, and the poems are judged on amazing writing, compelling performances and how much the audience enjoys the work until one is crowned the winner, receiving a cash prize as well as the accolade of champion. Paper Cut was compared by Tony Walsh who was the Glastonbury Poet-In-Residence 2011, he also performed some of his award-winning poetry. An acoustic set was also provided by Oddfellow and I. The event formed a heat for the Superheroes competition run by Commonword in Manchester.
Janey Moran, Senior Arts Development Officer at Culture Warrington said: “I’m very pleased with how well Warrington’s first ever Literature Festival was received by people in Warrington. The events were attended by a range of people with a shared passion for reading, writing and poetry. The success of the festival is all down to talented local groups and individuals, and I am very grateful for support from our partners LiveWire, Wire Writers, Louise Fazackerly and Malfest”.
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FORGING FRESH TRACKS: Bringing America Together through Youth
by Martin LeBlanc | Dec 20, 2016 | The New Nature Movement - Columns by Guest Writers | 0 comments
Martin has been an active influence in the environmental movement for the past 20+ years, serving in roles such as: the Senior VP at Islandwood, Founding Board Member and Advisor to the Children and Nature Network, and former National Youth Director of the Sierra Club. He is currently the Managing Director of Innovation for Sixkiller Consulting, a national strategic advisory and government affairs consulting firm.
What could possibly connect a timid young woman from Compton, California and an Arctic Youth Ambassador from the disappearing village of Shishmaref, Alaska?
It is hard for any young person to see the sun over a cloudy horizon, no matter where you are. Whether in urban centers or on remote tribal lands, where there is a lack of opportunity, support, and hope, our youth face extraordinary challenges to avoid the temptation of gangs, crime, and drug abuse.
In 2015, President Obama visited the Alaskan Arctic. Struck by the beauty of the land and the resilience of the people, he issued a call for bold new programs that would broaden horizons for young Americans facing persistent opportunity gaps. Responding to this call, a coalition of private and public entities worked together to build a program with the potential to deeply impact the lives of thousands: Fresh Tracks Leadership Expeditions.
Fresh Tracks – led by IslandWood, the Children and Nature Network’s Natural Leader’s Network, and the Sierra Club – launched its first pilot expedition in August 2016 in partnership with the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative and the Council on Environmental Quality; community partners like the City of Compton and Alaska Geographic; and business partners like REI and Zumiez.
Bringing together youth from the LA area and Alaska, the program used the outdoors as a platform to foster civic engagement, hometown stewardship, and respect for each other’s cultures and values. Over an intense two-and-a-half-week period we witnessed these youth participants become a family, working together to reach the highest peak of the Santa Monica Mountains and the top of the Arctic Plateau.
Even the rock climbing experience at the REI Flagship store in Seattle became a transformational moment. Jared Savage from Compton was just a few feet from the top of the wall. He was exhausted and didn’t think he could go further. His peers, however, refused to let him down. He pushed forward and reached the summit, later reflecting: “What I take from that experience, is that I can push myself farther than I think. If I set limits on myself, I won’t be able to reach my full potential.”
For the young adults in this first expedition, Fresh Tracks has created a structure of support, developed their confidence, and helped them identify a path for leadership and agency in their communities.
We see this reflected in our program evaluation, completed by Dr. Sharoni Little of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, which showed increased participant knowledge and skills around key objectives, especially civic engagement, cultural competency, interpersonal leadership and communication, and environmental stewardship and justice.
But it was the growth in their confidence that struck me most during a recent meeting this December in the West Wing of the White House. Four members of the 2016 cohort – Jared Savage and Stephanie Carrasco of Compton and Kimberly Pincok and Essau Shinook of Alaska – spoke about how their experience with Fresh Tracks has given them the confidence to be stronger leaders in their community. For example, Kimberly of Barrow, Alaska is now working on a plan to develop a music program that will keep youth in her community away from drugs and alcohol. Jared Savage, who is in pilot school, has a long-range plan to start an exchange program that will fly Compton youth to Arctic Village.
Stephanie’s growth has also been extraordinary. A graduate of Compton YouthBuild, she came to Fresh Tracks already having overcome so much.
When we first met Stephanie this summer she was too nervous to introduce herself to a group of her peers. Last week, she stood in front of Senior Staff at the White House and confidently outlined why Fresh Tracks has been so important to her own development.
“We became a family,” she told them. “From sitting and eating family style at IslandWood, to walking through an urban park in Los Angeles, to flying together to the top of the Arctic, we learned from each other and now I will dedicate my life to the youth.”
These participants are all examples of how investing in our young leaders can have a multiplier effect and potentially influence the lives of hundreds, thousands more people.
Today, what connects Stephanie from Compton and Essau from Shishmaref isn’t the struggle or the lack of opportunity – but the support they give to each other and their confidence and commitment to bring about lasting change in their communities.
Additional Reading & Resources from C&NN
White House Hosts “Roundtable on Diversity, Youth, and the Outdoors”
MAKING FRESH TRACKS: Natural Leaders from the Arctic Circle and Urban Los Angeles Partner Up
FROM ALASKA TO AUSTRALIA: A Global Odyssey to Connect Kids with Nature
NATURAL LEADERS LEGACY CAMP: One Young Man Decides to Give Back the Way His Father Did
BEYOND LEGACY CAMP: What C&NN’s Natural Leaders Do When They Get Home
WE’RE READY! C&NN’S Natural Leaders Pledge to Support National “Every Kid in a Park” Initiative
THE LIGHT OF NATURAL LEADERS: Young People Move the New Nature Movement
Additional Reading & Resources
NEW watch the Fresh Tracks video capturing participants’ voices from the August experience
Youth Partnership Between the Children & Nature Network, IslandWood, the Sierra Club, and Zumiez Highlighted in Official White House Announcement
IslandWood FreshTracks2016 Travel Blog
Nature Play WA’s inaugural Children and Nature Conference
Every Kid in a Park Initiative
Photo Credit: Tony Teske; René von Saint George
This blog post was originally published on IslandWood’s website.
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Home SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN The Journey to Hello Kitty In Oz Begins at Quill City Mall
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The Journey to Hello Kitty In Oz Begins at Quill City Mall
By Henry Lee At 12:00:00 AM 0
Hello Kitty as the Great Witch of Oz has made her way to Malaysia! Giving the public a small taste of the upcoming Oz inspired attraction opening in SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN, Puteri Harbour, Johor on 31st October 2015, the ‘Journey to Oz’ roadshow will kick-start at Quill City Mall, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, from 23rd to 25th October, before making its trail in various other states around the country. Visitors to Quill City Mall can look forward to being the first to hear the call of the Great Witch to save the enchanted Land of Oz.
The ‘Journey to Oz’ roadshows will tour around the Country to spread Hello Kitty’s call for Heroes as well as bring a part of the Hello Kitty in Oz experience to her fans. Hello Kitty in Oz is a themed attraction brought by SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN. Inspired by the timeless Wizard of Oz classic, it presents a whimsical fusion of Hello Kitty and the Wizard of Oz, bringing the cast of both stories to life – the first of its kind in South East Asia.
The Hello Kitty in Oz roadshow is specially curated for her fans and their families, who can participate in the Search for Oz – a search and win activity. Visitors will also enjoy character appearances from Hello Kitty, lucky draws, colouring activities for the children, and a themed setting for photo opportunities.
Fahruddin Najumudeen, General Manager of SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN
“We are in fact the first SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN themed attraction in the world outside of Japan, having officially opened our doors in 2012. I am excited to announce that we have in store a magical experience that bespeaks adventure and the quest to find courage, wisdom, and heart. Combining the characters and friends from Hello Kitty’s world with aspects from L. Frank Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ children’s classic, Hello Kitty in Oz will transport guests to Oz itself – where Hello Kitty takes on the mantle of The Great Witch of Oz. ” said Fahruddin Najumudeen, General Manager of SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN.
In tandem with this new attraction, SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN will also be opening a special Hello Kitty in Oz retail shop that will carry exclusive limited edition Hello Kitty in Oz collectible merchandises.
With activities suitable for the entire family, Hello Kitty in Oz promises to be a big hit with the young and young at heart.
For more information on the roadshow dates for Hello Kitty in Oz happening at the various states, please visit SANRIO HELLO KITTY TOWN’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/SanrioHelloKittyTown) or visit the official Instagram page https://instagram.com/sanrio_hellokittytown.
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Vamosa Joins OASIS CMIS Technology Committee
By Barb Mosher Zinck | Dec 5, 2008
CHANNEL: Enterprise CMS
There's a new player at the OASIS CMIS Technology Committee table. Vamosa is a provider of Information Logistics -- which basically means they help you with your content in any way possible. From moving, to monitoring, to maintaining and manipulating, Vamosa knows how to make your content work.
Makes sense they would want to be a part of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (just felt like saying that whole thing...). CMIS will provide structure for how organizations need to make their content available for cross-repository chatter.
Vamosa on CMIS
A company like Vamosa will need to be on the leading edge of that specification if they really want to help their customers. Because, like Alan Pleze-Sharp of CMSWatch believes, "CMIS will be a success, in part due to its simplicity and focus. And we need to remember how success will be measured. True success will have nothing to do with the number of vendors that come out with CMIS implementations; rather it will be the number of onsite applications that use CMIS to integrate systems, that will determine success." That's the role Vamosa will play, practical application.
According to Vamosa CTO, Ijonas Kisselbach, CMIS is a necessary development for the industry. Having a specification like this in place allows customers to focus on the quality of their content and it's reusability and not get mired down in technical integration issues.
A Focus on Content Itself
"Vamosa has always championed the users of content management systems by developing automated tools and best practice methods to get content in the right format, in the right place at the right time” explains Nic Archer, SVP Solutions at Vamosa.
Archer says that with CMIS in place Vamosa can focus their efforts on helping clients with metadata, content and structure updates -- something they "have always excelled at".
Vamosa says to expect some big news in 2009 regarding the ability to monitor and fix content types in real-time. Sounds intriguing -- we'll keep you updated.
Tags cmis, content management, enterprise cms, information logistics, vamosa
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NCAA Tourney
GP MIN/G PPG REB/G AST/G FG %
34 29.7 12.9 4.5 2.9 47.9
J.P. Macura, Xavier
By CBS Sports Staff
May 30, 2018 at 1:01 am ET • 1 min read
Draft Prospect Outlook:
J.P. Macura was a dynamic scorer for Xavier who could fill up the stat sheet off the dribble, in the post or around the rim. Further, he's a proven playmaker who loves getting his teammates involved and has a real knack for making the right play
Career Shooting Stats
Season TEAM G MIN FG FGA FG% FG3 FG3A FG3% FT FTA FT% PTS AVG
2014-15 Xavier 35 463 62 150 41.3 32 95 33.7 32 42 76.2 188 5.4
2015-16 Xavier 34 773 108 230 47 37 104 35.6 67 83 80.7 320 9.4
2016-17 Xavier 38 1272 179 420 42.6 64 188 34 124 158 78.5 546 14.4
2017-18 Xavier 34 1010 146 305 47.9 49 130 37.7 96 117 82.1 437 12.9
TOTAL 141 3518 495 1105 44.8 182 517 35.2 319 400 79.8 1491 10.6
Season TEAM G MIN REB RAVG A AAVG STL SAVG BLK BAVG TO
2014-15 Xavier 35 463 42 1.2 22 0.6 26 0.7 3 0.1 33
2015-16 Xavier 34 773 89 2.6 69 2 37 1.1 1 0 35
2016-17 Xavier 38 1272 167 4.4 110 2.9 54 1.4 8 0.2 77
2017-18 Xavier 34 1010 152 4.5 99 2.9 49 1.4 13 0.4 68
TOTAL 141 3518 450 3.2 300 2.1 166 1.2 25 0.2 213
Date Opponent Result MIN FG 3PT FT OREB DREB TOT AST PF BLK STL TO PTS
11/10 vs. Morehead State W 101-49 22 6-7 1-2 5-7 0 3 3 4 2 1 5 0 18
11/13 vs. Rider W 101-75 20 2-4 1-2 9-10 0 4 4 6 2 1 2 3 14
11/16 at Wisconsin W 80-70 33 10-15 0-3 0-1 1 7 8 4 3 0 1 1 20
11/20 vs. Hampton W 96-60 19 0-2 0-1 2-2 1 5 6 3 4 1 1 2 2
11/23 vs. George Washington W 83-64 31 2-5 0-1 2-2 2 2 4 2 1 0 1 1 6
11/24 at Arizona State L 86-102 35 7-11 3-6 6-7 2 3 5 2 3 0 1 2 23
11/28 vs. Baylor W 76-63 35 8-15 3-6 0-0 2 4 6 2 2 1 2 2 19
12/02 vs. Cincinnati W 89-76 33 3-10 1-5 0-0 0 3 3 3 3 0 2 1 7
12/06 vs. Kent State W 96-70 20 0-3 0-0 4-4 1 3 4 5 2 1 0 0 4
12/09 vs. Colorado W 96-69 28 6-8 3-3 2-2 1 1 2 1 2 0 2 2 17
12/16 vs. E. Tennessee State W 68-66 21 0-8 0-5 1-2 3 0 3 2 1 0 0 2 1
12/22 at Northern Iowa W 77-67 32 6-11 3-6 0-0 0 2 2 2 1 0 3 4 15
12/27 at Marquette W 91-87 29 5-12 1-3 4-4 2 1 3 1 2 1 1 2 15
12/30 vs. DePaul W 77-72 34 5-11 1-3 8-8 2 4 6 5 0 2 4 0 19
01/02 vs. Butler W 86-79 33 6-12 4-8 4-6 1 1 2 4 3 0 1 2 20
01/06 at Providence L 72-81 35 4-11 1-6 0-0 2 3 5 4 5 0 1 2 9
01/10 at Villanova L 65-89 28 2-9 0-3 1-1 0 4 4 3 3 1 0 3 5
01/13 vs. Creighton W 92-70 22 2-7 1-3 5-6 4 2 6 5 3 0 2 1 10
01/17 vs. St. John's W 88-82 32 6-10 3-5 1-2 1 2 3 4 1 0 0 4 16
01/20 at Seton Hall W 73-64 35 8-14 3-5 8-10 4 1 5 3 2 0 1 2 27
01/24 vs. Marquette W 89-70 27 2-6 0-1 3-4 1 5 6 4 3 0 2 3 7
01/30 at St. John's W 73-68 34 3-10 1-6 4-5 1 4 5 2 3 0 0 6 11
02/03 vs. Georgetown W 96-91 29 1-4 0-2 5-6 1 3 4 0 1 0 0 1 7
02/06 at Butler W 98-93 23 1-2 0-1 4-4 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 6
02/10 at Creighton W 72-71 35 7-16 1-6 0-0 4 5 9 2 0 1 1 0 15
02/14 vs. Seton Hall W 102-90 33 3-5 2-3 0-1 0 5 5 5 1 1 3 2 8
02/17 vs. Villanova L 79-95 30 5-8 2-5 2-3 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 2 14
02/21 at Georgetown W 89-77 31 7-15 4-10 2-2 3 4 7 4 2 0 1 0 20
02/28 vs. Providence W 84-74 25 3-6 0-2 0-0 1 4 5 1 5 0 1 3 6
03/03 at DePaul W 65-62 37 3-8 1-2 5-5 0 3 3 4 2 0 0 3 12
03/08 at St. John's W 88-60 32 2-6 1-3 4-4 1 5 6 5 1 0 4 0 9
03/09 vs. Providence L 72-75 36 4-10 1-4 0-0 1 4 5 2 1 1 1 3 9
03/16 vs. Texas Southern W 102-83 34 11-16 5-6 2-3 1 5 6 1 3 1 5 2 29
03/18 vs. Florida State L 70-75 27 6-8 2-3 3-6 2 3 5 2 5 0 0 4 17
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Does Kylie Jenner & Tyga's Breakup Involve Blac Chyna? A New Rumor Ties Her Into The Drama
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Amid the loud, unmissable reports that the youngest couple in the Kardashian & Jenner realm have broken up, this time reportedly "for good," it's only natural that people are wondering exactly what caused Kylie Jenner & Tyga to break up. This isn't the pair's first time encountering a rough patch, with the rapper and the reality star first splitting back in November 2015, so it seems like their two-year relationship has seen its highs and lows. Neither Tyga nor Jenner have officially commented on the status of their relationship yet, but sources told People that there may be a reason behind the breakup, and it involves a couple of tweets... seriously.
According to People, Jenner had broken things off with Tyga "several weeks ago," with a brief reconciliation before the pair called things off for the final time this week. The anonymous source revealed, "Over and over again, she feels like she can't trust Tyga. There have been and continues to be too many lies," adding that the alleged straw to break the camel's back came as a result of Tyga's tweets after his ex-fiancee, Blac Chyna, revealed she was engaged to Rob Kardashian. The source told People that Jenner is allegedly upset that Tyga congratulated his ex on her engagement on social media.
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On April 5, after news broke that Kardashian and Chyna were engaged, the entire Kardashian & Jenner fam was noticeably silent on social media in congratulating the pair, even though they continued tweeting, 'gramming, and Snapchatting their day-to-day activities. Of all people, Tyga was the first to comment, congratulating them and saying that everyone deserves to be happy. He said,
It seems like a completely rational and thoughtful response to me, but allegedly, Jenner feels that Tyga violated an agreement not to publicly comment on the news. According to the source, "They had a deal to all stay quiet, and Kylie didn't like that Tyga decided to still comment."
Tyga also congratulated Chyna on her pregnancy, this time on Instagram, so it seems like he's overall genuinely happy for Chyna and Rob during these exciting moments in their lives.
If Tyga's tweets really were the reason behind this most recent split, then it's likely for the better that they take some time apart. The drama between Jenner and Tyga is honestly pretty dizzying, but it's par for the course in the world of all things Kardashian-Jenner.
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Whatever Happened To 'Even Stevens' Twitty? A.J. Trauth Is Still Acting, But You Might Not Recognize Him
Shia LaBeouf may be a Hollywood heavyweight today, but the celebrity originally got his start playing Louis Stevens on the Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens. And while Louis was a riot on the series, it wasn't always him that he we had our eyes on — at least, not when Louis' best friend Alan Twitty was on screen. Twitty was easily the most underrated character on Even Stevens, and I'm not just talking about his hair. (Though, really, I could be — look at that hair!) Even Stevens may have ended in 2003, but the actor who played Twitty, Disney Channel star A.J. Trauth didn't drop out of Hollywood. The actor has worked steadily throughout the years, and you may be surprised to find out where you already know him from.
During the run of Even Stevens, Trauth starred in Disney Channel original movie You Wish! and an episode of Nickelodeon sketch series The Amanda Show, all kid-friendly programming in line with the fan base of the Disney sitcom. Post-Even Stevens, the actor moved onto guest starring on primetime shows — and had one very odd role on a web series. Here's what you may have seen Trauth in after his Disney days were over.
He guest starred as Jordan on the 2003 episode "Getting To Know You."
The American Dragon: Jake Long Theme Song
Digital_Rhino on YouTube
Trauth sings the theme song to this animated series.
Trauth played Henry in the 2005 episode "Mob Rules."
Lara Zayn Winchester on YouTube
The actor played a witness on the 2005 episode "Shooting Stars."
Continuing his career as a guest star on procedurals, Trauth appeared in the episode "Scorched" in 2005.
Pepper Dennis
The former Disney star played the younger brother of TV reporter Pepper Dennis on the short-lived WB series. The clip above is a prime example of what happens to Disney stars when they age out of their roles — and get really, really hot.
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Trauth plays Shane, an eccentric, exercise ball-loving dude who dates main character, Ro. Watch the clip above and cringe.
If you can't recall seeing Trauth on any of the above programs, perhaps you've heard of one major step that this actor is taking in his personal life. Trauth is currently engaged to Leah Pipes, who portrays Camille on the CW series The Originals and is a former Disney Channel kid herself!
And, thanks to Trauth's fiancee, we now know how great he looks in 2014. Check out the former Disney Channel star turned stud. But sorry, guys — he's taken.
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Motorola making a Nexus 4-alike for under €250, report says
The Google-owned firm is tipped to be building a dirt-cheap smart phone for Europe, rumours say.
July 9, 2013 7:02 AM PDT
Motorola is making a dirt-cheap mobile in the spirit of the Nexus 4, according to fresh rumours concerning the American manufacturer's plans.
Spanish-language site ADSLZone reports that the upcoming mobile will play host to high-end hardware like a quad-core processor, citing mysterious sources.
Despite powerful specs however, like LG's effort this mythical mobile will apparently be very cheap, reportedly coming in at less than €250, which equates to roughly £216. By comparison, the 4.7-inch Nexus 4, which blew the competition out of the water in our review, costs a wallet-pleasing £239.
As with all rumours concerning unconfirmed mobiles, you'd be wise to take this one with a pinch or two of the salty stuff, especially as we're peering at the report through the mists of Google Translate.
As it's owned by Google though, Motorola would be well-placed to make a cheaper phone -- expert analysts speaking to CNET have previously posited that Google paid its own cash towards making the Nexus 4 so cheap, in a bid to extend Android's reach.
The report suggests the phone could come as an alternative to the Motorola Moto X phone, which is expected to be officially revealed very soon.
I'm a big fan of the Nexus 4, and the shake-up its low price has given the smart phone market. Here's hoping there's more savings-account-friendly tech en route, and that the next Nexus phone is a blinder. Check out our predictions in the clip below.
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Co-Op Info
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Co-Op Preview
News 4/22/2010 at 12:32 PM by Jason Love 2
Earlier this week, we got a glimpse of Super Mario Galaxy 2's co-op mode in action from a screenshot taken off the official Japanese site for the game. While it wasn't much to go on, we were, never-the-less, hopeful that the second player would have more to do this time around than just shoot stars at enemies. Joystiq.com recently had the opportunity to get some hands-on time with the co-op mode, and it sounds like our hopes weren't entirely unfounded. In addition to having more direct interaction with the enemies, your star buddy will also be able to more directly support Mario in his adventure across the galaxy.
Image courtesy of Joystiq.com
From Randy Nelson's hands-on preview:
The first stop on the tour was the Yoshi Star Galaxy. With Nintendo Treehouse's Bill Trinen in control of a Yoshi-riding Mario, I was able to help him out as player two, a Luma that automatically tags along and can do more than just grab Star Bits (as anyone wielding a second Wiimote in the first game could). Using my clearly labeled "Player 2" pointer, I was able to interact with objects and enemies in a variety of ways. For one, I could point at coins and press A to collect them and bring them back to Mario. More importantly, I could do the same with enemies -- except, when I grabbed them, shaking the Wiimote sent them packing. Player two can also squish spiky plants (as long as A is held down) and grab air bubbles for Mario when he's underwater.
Randy Nelson, Joystiq.com
It seems that Nintendo's more aware of bringing a better co-op experience this time around with Super Mario Galaxy 2, as not only are they making a point of demoing it to people, but they're also including it in the official details they're releasing about the game.
Randy goes on to discuss some other new features, such as a new Cloud Suit for Mario that allows him to create floating platforms, and a "Super Guide" that will essentially play the level for you if you're having too much trouble with it (though doing so carries some penalties). Randy concludes his preview piece by saying that Super Mario Galaxy 2 feels like an actual sequel, and not just "Super Mario Galaxy 1.5." All of this sounds very promising for a much more rewarding co-op experience this time around, and it won't be too much longer until we'll all be able to get our hands on it.
Source: Joystiq.com
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Iraq Inquiry: Blair Told Bush He Was Willing to Join, 11 Months Before War
Adviser tells of crucial moment at Texas ranch • Chilcot panel attacked for failure to press questions
Richard Norton-Taylor
A demonstrator burns a mask of Tony Blair outside the Chilcot Iraq inquiry. (Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA)
made it clear to George Bush at a meeting in Texas 11 months before the
Iraq invasion that he would be prepared to join the US in toppling
Saddam Hussein, the inquiry into the war was told today.
prime minister repeatedly told the US president that British policy was
to back United Nations attempts to seek Iraq's disarmament, Sir David
Manning, his foreign policy adviser, told the inquiry.
Blair was "absolutely prepared to say he was willing to contemplate
regime change if [UN-backed measures] did not work", Manning said. If
it proved impossible to pursue the UN route, then Blair would be
"willing to use force", Manning emphasised.
Manning recalled the
meeting between the two leaders at Crawford, Bush's Texas ranch, in
April 2002. "I look back at Crawford as the moment that he [Blair] was
saying, yes, there is a route through this that is an international,
peaceful one and it is through the UN, but if it doesn't work, we will
be willing to undertake regime change," Manning said.
is crucial because Blair was warned at the time by Lord Goldsmith, the
attorney general, and other legal advisers that going to war with
regime change as the objective was unlawful and breached the UN charter.
was not questioned by the Chilcot inquiry about a previously leaked
document in which Manning told Blair a month earlier that he had
underlined Britain's position to Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national
security adviser. "I said you [Blair] would not budge in your support
for regime change but you had to manage a press, a parliament, and a
public opinion which is very different than anything in the States,"
Manning wrote.
Also in March 2002, Paul Wolfowitz, the US deputy
defence secretary, was the guest at a lunch with the British
ambassador, Sir Christopher Meyer. Afterwards, Meyer composed a private
letter to Manning. "I ... went through the need to wrongfoot Saddam on
the inspectors and the UN security council resolutions and the critical
importance of the Middle East peace plan. If all this could be
accomplished skilfully, we were fairly confident that a number of
countries could come on board," he wrote.
These documents have
been handed to the inquiry, but the failure of the panel to raise them
with Manning was sharply criticised by Philippe Sands, professor of
international law at University College London. "I was pretty shocked
by the questioning," Sands said. "I was very surprised and disappointed
by the failure to press Manning on any issues".
A picture emerged
during Manning's evidence of Blair resisting US pressure which began
when the issue of Iraq arose in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11
attacks on America at the end of a telephone conversation between Bush
and Blair. "He [Bush] said that he thought there might be evidence that
there was some connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
and al-Qaida," Manning said.
"The prime minister's response to
this was that the evidence would have to be very compelling indeed to
justify taking any action against Iraq."
By the time he visited Crawford in April 2002, the British were "very conscious that Iraq would be on the agenda".
added: "[Bush] told us that there was no war plan for Iraq but he had
set up a small cell at central command in Florida to do some planning
and to think through the various options."
Blair first asked
defence chiefs about the British military options for action in June
2002, the inquiry heard. Yet he delayed taking decisions until later in
the year. Defence officials have said the delay was the result of
Blair's concern not to give the impression that he had given up on the
UN diplomatic route.
"I think there was some uneasiness in the
MoD about the lateness of the decisions," Manning told the inquiry. "I
personally believed [UN weapons] inspectors should have been given more
time to work." They left Iraq when it was clear that the US, with
British backing, was about to invade Iraq even though there was no hard
evidence, despite intelligence claims, that the Iraqi leader had
pursued a banned weapons programme.
One official document
understood to be passed to the inquiry refers to a meeting between
Blair and Bush at the White House on 31 January 2003. Blair is believed
to have told the president that a fresh UN resolution Britain was
pressing for was an insurance policy to provide international cover in
the event of a disaster in Iraq in the aftermath of an invasion. Bush
told Blair that he did not believe there would be any fighting between
Iraq's different ethnic groups.
That document was not raised by
the inquiry team today. However, Manning was extremely critical of the
lack of planning for post-war Iraq in the US where responsibility
passed late in the day from the State Department to the Pentagon.
Today's key moments
Key quote
was very struck by the reluctance of the US soldiers to get out of
their tanks, take off their helmets and start trying to mix with the
local communities," Sir David Manning said about post-invasion Baghdad.
Key jargon
De-Ba'athification.
That means sacking Ba'ath party members from state jobs, something that
happened when Paul Bremer took control in Baghdad after the war.
Manning was very critical of the impact of this.
Damage rating
Manning was fairly scathing about the way the Americans planned, or rather did not plan, for postwar Iraq.
© 2009 Guardian News and Media Limited
Majorities of Both US Veterans and Public Believe Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 'Not Worth Fighting'
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Vol. 18 No. 1 - January 2018
The Drive is On to Optimize Power Trowel Concrete Polishing
Putting a Silica Dust Plan in Writing
Complying with OSHA's Dust Control Regulation
Alabama Concrete Artisan Discovers The Ashby System
ACI Names Winners of Annual Concrete Construction Awards
ACI Decorative Concrete Award Goes to Ryerson Student Learning Centre
See Why Salt Lake is a Great City for Concrete on ACI 124's Walking Tour
Self-Leveling Concrete Toppings Provide a Shortcut to a Sharp Look
ACI's Spring 2018 Convention Slated for March 25-29 in Salt Lake City
How can we help the concrete industry thrive?
Solid Branding: Tips on Websites, Logos and Business Cards
Terrazzo Artistry Delivers Glitz to McCarran Terminal
Decorative Concrete Live! at WOC
Concrete Decor Show Leaves Lasting Marks on Florida Resort
Concrete Decor Show from Education to Demos
Publisher's Letter January 2018
Rick Yelton
Left to right: Seen here is the team from Canadian Building Materials, a Votorantim Cimentos company: Bryan Schulz, technical services support manager; Nat Morlando, technical solutions manager; Rich Keeler, Greater Toronto regional sales manager; Phil Zacarias, technical services manager; and Frank Ieritano, sales representative. Photo by Wafiq Thaha
Editor’s note: Architects and designers are recognizing that decorative concrete is much more than just a texture, coating or application. In this article, we explore how the design community is incorporating concrete in the designs of iconic structures worldwide.
The international architectural and design community recognizes the Ryerson Student Learning Centre as one of the leading educational structures constructed in the last five years. Located at the busy northeast corner of Yonge and Gould streets in a trendy part of downtown Toronto, this innovative structure provides the university community a world-class environment in which to study, collaborate and discover.
Architect: Snøhetta
Architect of Record: Zeidler Partnership Architects
Interior designer: Snøhetta
General contractor: EllisDon
Concrete Formwork: Alliance Formwork Ltd.
Shoring: Aluma Systems Inc.
Concrete Supply: Canadian Building Materials, a Votorantim Cimentos company
Precast Concrete Stairs: Hy-Grade Precast Concrete
Precast Landscape Elements: Planks, steps and benches fabricated by Castle Precast Ltd.
The student center was conceived to be a library without books. The design team created seating zones to encourage group activities and shared learning, as well as quiet niches for individual contemplative study. The interior’s openness was crafted to allow students to spontaneously redefine these spaces.
Photos courtesy of American Concrete Institute
While the center was designed to incorporate the educational digital age into current learning experiences, students may not recognize that they are in one of the concrete industry’s leading examples of decorative concrete construction.
In October, the Ryerson University Student Learning Centre received the first-place award in the Decorative Concrete category of the ACI Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards. The American Concrete Institute established this award program in 2014 to recognize the concrete projects that represent the forefront of innovation and technology.
Over the past three years, ACI judges have made a bold statement on their view of the decorative nature of concrete. The winning projects in the Decorative Concrete category include features beyond treated and textured concrete surfaces. All three have featured innovative formed shapes cast with special concrete mixes.
In 2015, ACI judges selected the Stade Jean Bouin in Paris, France. The original stadium structure was structurally and architecturally retrofitted in 2012 to increase seating capacity and event services on its existing footprint.
By using 3,600 triangles cast with ultra high-performance fiber concrete, designers reduced the need for large structural elements in the stadium’s expansion. Workers placed the panels on the multipurpose stadium’s exterior in a decorative array that wrapped the stadium.
The project demonstrated the combination of concrete’s strength with artist quality.
The Stade Jean Bouin in Paris, France Photos courtesy of American Concrete Institute
In 2016, ACI judges not only awarded the Palazzo Italia first place in the Decorative Concrete category, but they also selected the structure as the competition’s overall winner. The Palazzo Italia was a demonstration building built as part of a technology exposition in Milan, Italy. Designers used a new type of concrete construction approach to create a structure whose exterior and some interior spaces recall the shapes of branches in a thick forest.
To create the desired effect, workers placed individually cast precast panels on the entire outdoor surface and part of the interior surfaces. The panels were cast with i.active Biodynamic, a special cement that purifies the atmosphere from smog.
The Palazzo Italia in Milan, Italy
The cement contains a proprietary chemical ingredient that first “captures” certain pollutants in the air. Following its capture, the pollutants are converted into inert salts by sunlight. Eventually, they are washed away from the concrete surfaces during rainfalls causing no harm to the environment.
The selection of the Ryerson Student Centre in 2017 as the Decorative Concrete winner continued the ACI judges’ preference for structures that use concrete to shape their environment. Ryerson University officials had three goals for what has become their iconic expansion. The new structure had to fully use its small urban footprint, be architecturally interesting both on its interior and exterior, and be an example of the university’s commitment to sustainability. Concrete played an important part in the project’s quest to meet all three goals.
Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto, Ontario
Small footprint, great impact
Ryerson’s eight-story center is located on a small footprint on the edge of the university’s campus. To fully utilize the property, designers employed structural concrete as the core to support a steel mechanical penthouse, and a bridge connecting the new building to the existing library on the second and third floors. The structural design also enabled architects to retain the neighborhood’s commercial nature by including retail space at street level and below grade.
Concrete also played a part in the overall look of the building. By using special formwork, engineers added features that provided visual interest without impacting the overall budget. For example, by sloping some exterior columns, the building’s south face was tilted 5 degrees from the vertical.
Concrete also was used to enhance the exterior public area. The landscaping included concrete pavers for the Yonge Street sidewalk. The Gould Street sidewalk has precast concrete pavers and the entrance at Gould Street received precast steps.
Concrete and glass contrasts
The structural concrete provides more than structural integrity. Designers didn’t cover the columns and beams. The exposed concrete provided a background for additional decorative features.
Designers wanted the concrete structure to appear visibly rugged and heavy to contrast the building’s distinctive glass skin. The special glass uses a frit pattern that emphasizes the skin’s delicate nature while also creating varying lighting qualities within the interior. The fritted coating also acts to improve the shading coefficient and to increase thermal comfort and provide glare control.
The exposed concrete surfaces also aided in the center’s interior design. Each of its levels has a distinctive character. Some are open and interpretive with flexible furniture, while others are enclosed study rooms dividing the floors into various configurations. To help students distinguish each setting, each floor has its own color scheme. The concrete’s exposed surface allowed these color schemes to stand out.
Sustainable features
Ryerson University has held a long-time leadership position promoting sustainability. The student center incorporated many design features that demonstrated this goal. The building is rated to be LEED Silver compliant.
The concrete played an important part in this effort. For starters, the mix design contained fly ash, earning the project points by using a recycled material.
The fly ash provided another sustainable benefit. During the mock-up of the concrete placement, designers discovered that the final concrete surface yielded a lighter surface color. The lighter color added in reducing lighting requirements.
ACI Lauds Winners of Concrete Construction Awards
The American Concrete Institute recognized the winners of its inaugural Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards during the ACI Awards Gala at the Concrete Convention & Exposition, Nov. 9, 2015, in Denver, Colorado.
American Concrete Institute announces winners of inaugural Excellence In Concrete Construction Awards
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announced the winners of the 2015 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards, who were honored during the ACI Awards Gala at the Concrete Convention & Exposition, November 9, 2015 in Denver, Colorado.
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Pulp, Paper Mill Combines Mobile and Stationary Sennebogen Machines
Fri October 07, 2016 - National Edition
The two stationary Sennebogen 835 electric material handlers and a mobile 735 “pick and carry” machine at Mondi in Št?tí, CZ.
Mondi, the international packaging and paper company based near Prague, CZ, is operating three widely different models of Sennebogen log-handling equipment to support the same mill. In total, the Mondi log-handling fleet is comprised of five machines including 835, 825 and 735 models.
Two stationary 835 electric material handlers are the centerpieces of the new log yard, feeding materials into the wood processing area. Two 825 M machines handle truck-loading requirements, while the 735 “pick & carry” unit moves and stacks wood between the yard's storage areas.
Mondi has operated one of its largest pulp and paper factories in Štětí, approximately 26.7 mi. (40 km) north of Prague, since 1949. Log yard logistics were reorganized recently, and the Sennebogen machines formed the core of its new fleet. Site manager Tomáš Wojnar reports that half of the operation's logs are delivered by train, and loaded directly from the wagon into the wood processing area. The two Sennebogen 835s, powered by 215 HP (160 kW) electric motors, stand directly alongside the tracks. The stationary machines are mounted on a 20 ft. (6 m) high pylon with a total reach of 200 ft. (60 m).
Safety Plus Savings Due to the Electric Drive
Worksite safety is the top priority at Mondi, which is apparent on the Sennebogen machines. Railings on all sides and walkways on the upper carriage protect Mondi personnel during servicing and maintenance. The machine will not operate while the cab door is open. A telescopic escape ladder allows workers to exit the machine within seconds in the event of an emergency, and an acoustic warning system alerts the driver if anyone enters the working radius of the machine.
With this focus on safety, there is no compromise on the bottom line performance of the electric-drive. Mondi estimates that operating and energy costs are around 50 percent of the cost of diesel-powered machines in a direct comparison. Low maintenance costs and the ability to work without refueling are additional advantages.
Wojnar explains that the nimble 735 log-loader takes on a key role in keeping the mill's loading station well fed. He calls the “pick and carry” concept “an impressive solution,” with its compact dimensions allowing the machine to maneuver quickly between the wood piles. It can pick and stack logs up to 37 ft. (11 m) high.
For more information, visit www.sennebogen-na.com.
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Steve Strickland
Barclaycard
David Navetta
Wendy Cohen
Expedient Solutions, Inc.
Data Breach Prevention and Response Summit , Events , Incident & Breach Response
Zero Day Threats - The Best Methods for Detecting the Unknown
Many attacks simply take advantage of known vulnerabilities or network weaknesses that have not been addressed, in which case the adversaries have no need to create custom malware but when they are employed, "zero-day" attacks are often extremely difficult to detect as they exploit hidden or as yet unknown vulnerabilities in applications, operating system features or user accounts. But as these weapons are installed, become resident and establish command-and-control communications, they do create a trail of threat indicators that can be detected, followed and acted upon. This session will discuss multiple strategies for detecting and responding to zero-day malware, as well as discuss mechanisms such as:
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Malware and network anomaly detection, correlation and reporting.
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The New #1 Cyber Threat- Attacks on the Applications that Power Your Business
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Data Localization: Impact on Security and Compliance
Greenwood leads operations and go-to-market strategies for the company's advanced threat defense and endpoint protection solutions. He has extensive experience in the cybersecurity industry, including senior executive positions heading global marketing, sales, product marketing, channel management and threat intelligence operations. Greenwood has more than 20 years of experience with industry leaders and technology start-ups. Most recently he was vice president and general manager of the network intelligence and availability business unit at internet security firm Verisign, Inc. Greenwood was with Verisign for 10 years, holding several senior management positions. He also serves as an advisor and mentor to early and growth-stage businesses at MACH37, a vertical accelerator focused on launching the next generation of information security companies. Prior to Verisign, Greenwood held several director of marketing positions with technology and security firms, including eSecurity, Cardiff Software and e-Grail.
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U.D. police make arrests in latest DUI checkpoint
Upper Darby police make arrests in latest DUI checkpoint
By Kevin Tustin ktustin@21st-centurymedia.com
Kevin Tustin
UPPER DARBY— Township police apprehended a probation violator from New Jersey and arrested ten people for drunk driving and/or drug offenses during a DUI checkpoint over the weekend.
The Upper Darby Police Department announced Tuesday the results of its latest checkpoint operation the night of May 3 on the 6200 block of Baltimore Avenue near Yeadon Borough. Field-sobriety tests were administered to seven individuals; five of them were unable to pass and were taken into custody for driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. Three of the charged drivers and five others also face charges for various drug offenses.
A summary of the enforcement actions are as follows:
Richard Leach, 65, of the 6000 block of Allman Street in Philadelphia, was charged with DUI and possessing a controlled substance as well as drug paraphernalia. His bail was $10,000 unsecured.
Tiffany Tillman, 24, of the 5500 block of Litchfield Street in Philadelphia, was charged with possessing a controlled substance, possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Her bail was $10,000 unsecured.
Jamal Gardiner, 24, of the 5000 block of Funston Street in Philadelphia, was charged with DUI, possessing a controlled substance, possessing marijuana & drug paraphernalia. His bail was set at 10 percent of $30,000 and he was transferred to George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Concord.
Melvin Smiley, 61, of the 1900 block of Ellsworth Street in Philadelphia, was charged with DUI. His bail was $18,000 unsecured.
Kristina Gold, 31, of the 1200 block of South Saint Bernard Street in Philadelphia, was charged with DUI, possessing a controlled substance, felony possession with the intent to deliver, as well as drug paraphernalia. Her bail was $10,000 unsecured.
Turhan Campbell, 28, of the 200 block of Penn Boulevard in East Lansdowne, was charged with possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. His bail was $10,000 unsecured.
Daquan Dicker, 22, of the unit block of West Baltimore Avenue in Lansdowne, was charged with possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. His bail was $10,000 unsecured.
Nadira Sanders, 21, of the 900 block of Poplar Avenue in Glenolden, was charged with possessing a controlled substance and possessing marijuana. Her bail was $10,000 unsecured.
Wali Numan, 41, of the 5800 block of Master Street in Philadelphia, was charged with possessing marijuana & drug paraphernalia. His bail was $15,000 unsecured.
Clevern Scott, 42, of the 900 block of Duncan Avenue in Yeadon, was charged with DUI. He was released to a sober adult pending a criminal summons.
Police also nabbed Jamil Smith, of Yeadon, who had a warrant out for probation violation for failure to appear for a January court date to answer to drug charges, according to Upper Darby Police Capt. Tom Johnson. Police discovered the warrant when the vehicle he was a passenger in was pulled over for equipment violations. Johnson said no criminal charges were filed for Smith from the checkpoint stop, but Gloucester County Sheriff’s office has a detainer on him for extradition.
Numerous traffic citations were filed for vehicles out of inspection and other related offenses such as children left unrestrained in motor vehicles. Adult seatbelt violations and other minor motor vehicle violations were addressed with verbal warnings.
More than 1,000 vehicles went through the checkpoint from 10:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. and they had brief contact by specially trained officers from a number of local law enforcement agencies who were part of the operation. That block of Baltimore Avenue was targeted, “based on recent collision and DUI arrest data that identified the Baltimore Avenue corridor as a particularly dangerous area for drivers and pedestrians,” according to a press release.
The results from this checkpoint were consistent with the growing national problem of drugged driving. Marijuana is the most common drug involved but even properly prescribed medications have the ability to cause impairment during normal use.
The department did offer some good news following Friday's checkpoint.
“With each successive checkpoint operation, officers on the checkpoint line have noticed the ever-increasing use of hired vehicles to transport impaired drivers home,” read a portion of the press release. “The Task Force would encourage others to follow this example.”
There were 37 sworn officers and 38 civilian staff, firefighters and volunteers actively working Friday’s operation.
All cases will be forwarded to Upper Darby Magisterial District Judge Christopher Mattox.
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Solana Beach church ministry adds to hands holding safety net for foster youth
Members of Solana Beach Presbyterian Church’s Foster Youth Ministry: Gretchen Morgan, Lorna Rammon, Claudia Bell and Jane Pineda
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Thanks to Solana Beach churchgoers, Christmas just got merrier for Just In Time for Foster Youth.
Christmas came Dec. 13 when volunteers gave presents to 25 transitioning foster youth, ages 18-26. Since 2012, Solana Beach Presbyterian Church has sponsored 25 youth every holiday season, checking off their wish lists and filling their stockings with gift cards and other small surprises.
“I had a good family growing up, and I see, with my two daughters, the importance of a good family,” said Gretchen Morgan of Del Mar. She heads the church’s Foster Youth Ministry, which organizes the holiday drive. “It just breaks my heart when kids don’t have what our kids have or what I had.”
Solana Beach Presbyterian Church’s Foster Youth Ministry was established seven years ago by a small group of churchgoers with a passion for foster youth. At the time, church members were already helping Just In Time for Foster Youth, a San Diego nonprofit that provides resources and support to young adults aging out of the foster care system, during the church’s Community Serve Day.
“Our focus is to support North County foster families and kids,” said Encinitas resident Claudia Bell, one of the ministry’s founding members. “It’s a huge need, and Just in Time really fills that gap. I don’t think there are very many programs in the United States like Just in Time.”
Gretchen Morgan (middle) with other volunteers and Just in Time youth family members.
The Foster Youth Ministry started off hosting an annual Christmas party for 100 foster children. Besides the party, the ministry now also sponsors Just In Time youth.
In November, the ministry — a seven-member team with an 80-member email list — decorates two Christmas trees at the church with stars, each listing a wish for 100 foster children and 25 Just in Time for Foster Youth. Members of the church can choose one or more stars from the trees and donate the corresponding new and unwrapped gifts.
“These are kids whose families never met their needs,” said Lorna Rammon, a retired nurse who lives in San Marcos.
“Now they’re in foster homes where their needs are met,” added Bell, who has been a social worker for almost 27 years. “Usually they get good stuff for Christmas, but a lot of times it’s not the thing they ask for. It’s our desire to support foster parents. We value what they’re doing, and we want to recognize that. As part of that, we want to help them get the gifts for their kids, so it’s not such a financial burden.”
In addition to making holiday wishes come true for 125 foster children and transitioning foster youth, the ministry also supports Just In Time’s My First Home program, transforming empty apartments into safe, comfortable homes for the young people, who must leave foster care at age 18.
Now through Jan. 15, the nonprofit is holding its annual “My First Home for the Holidays” campaign, hoping to raise more than $125,000 in cash, gift cards and in-kind donations of new household items such as pots and pans, small kitchen appliances, lamps and bedding.
“We want to let them know that there are people in the community that care,” Bell said.
For information about Solana Beach Presbyterian Church’s Foster Youth Ministry, visit fosteryouthministrysbpc.com or contact Morgan at gmorgan@gretchenmorgan.com.
For information about Just in Time for Foster Youth or to donate to the campaign, visit www.jitfosteryouth.org.
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Del Mar knitting group holds surprise baby shower
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With voters passing Proposition 64, which legalized pot for recreational use, the Del Mar City Council recently took another look at its marijuana regulations.
Del Mar council OKs donor program for civic center
Community members will have a chance to contribute to the new Del Mar Civic Center.
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Real Patient Stories
Contact Dental Phobia
Fear of future dental work
Nobody likes going to the dentist. But for some people, the problems run deeper and form a phobia. The causes of dental phobia can be many and varied. This case study is of a patient who couldn’t make a routine dental visit for fear of it escalating into further work.
The Patient
Jon was in his mid-twenties and had required significant orthodontic work as a teenager. Between the ages of 12 and 14, he had worn conventional braces with metal brackets to correct a severe overbite. As part of the treatment he had been required to undergo two tooth extractions to reduce overcrowding and to also wear head gear for a period of time. The orthodontic treatment was a success. However, the memory of such long-term treatment meant that Jon now found it very different to go back to the dentist.
Often, the memory of pain from a previous dental visit can trigger a phobic reaction. Alternatively, it could be the memory of the embarrassment of wearing a brace that creates the negative feelings about further dental work. However, the problem for Jon probably lay in the fact that the dental work had become associated with a wide variety of negative issues: long-term treatment, costs, pain and embarrassment. The phobia, in many ways, is a natural protective mechanism rather than an irrational fear. It is the brain’s instinctive attempt to shield the patient from more of the trauma that is associated with a visit to the dentist.
For many patients, overcoming this natural instinct to protect yourself is difficult. One part of the brain understands quite clearly that this is simply a check-up. But another part of the brain is refusing to accept that this could be the case – after all, previous experience points to the opposite.
The Scenario
Clearly, Jon’s inability to visit the dentist for a routine check-up meant that a number of problems could develop. By not visiting the dentist, he is in danger of undoing all the good orthodontic work that was done during his teenage years. To him, the two years where he wore braces may not have been the happiest time. But for most teenagers it is vitally important for them to grow up with a healthy mouth, attractive smile and natural facial balance.
Jon’s refusal to visit the dentist later in life could mean that this work was for nothing. Often, orthodontic work done during childhood can need further, slight correction during adulthood. It is important he visits his dentist regularly to ensure that no further work needs to be done.
Don’t forget, also, that the orthodontic work done in his teenage years will probably have been expensive. He needs to be able to see this, not as a one-off cost, but as an investment in his health that needs to be maintained throughout his life. Regular trips to the dentist that help to keep his teeth healthy are more likely to ensure he need less work done in the future, and that costs will be reduced. By not visiting the dentist regularly, he is far more likely to see his fears become reality – that his next check-up would reveal something more serious, costly and difficult.
Of course, a phobia is far more than a desire not to visit the dentist. For many people, it is characterised by a physical reaction. For Jon, the memory of wearing the brace produced muscle tension around the jaw. This inability to relax meant he also suffered panic attacks prior to visiting the dentist, as he knew what to expect when he got there.
Many people feel as though the only way to tackle a phobia is by facing up to it. Jon had tried to tackle his phobia directly by visiting a dentist in the past. However, he was unable to go through with the routine check-up because of the muscle tension around his jaw and face. Effective treatment had become virtually impossible as the dentist was unable to see the teeth or evaluate them efficiently.
The result was a vicious circle. A visit to the dentist meant that Jon became tense and nervous. The knowledge that this reaction was likely also made the patient more nervous before a visit to the dentist. This only added to the tension and made the problem even worse. Furthermore, the longer the patient went without being able to visit the dentist, the more worried he became about requiring more serious dental work in the future. This naturally led to increased tension, making it even more difficult to visit the dentist.
Jon tried relaxation techniques prior to visiting the dentist. However, the efforts to relax meant that he began thinking about his visit to the dentist even earlier in the process. So this had the opposite effect and began to increase his tension.
The solution eventually lay in counselling that helped to challenge Jon‘s perception of his previous dental work. The aim of the counselling was to encourage Jon to focus on the positive elements of his previous dental work, rather than simply the negative factors. This gradually enabled him to relax, to understand that his previous dental work was a success and that it really meant he could visit his dentist confidently expecting a quick check up and no further work. His dentist also talked him through some techniques for looking after his teeth effectively, so that he could confidently do everything in his power to make each future dental check-up as routine as possible.
The aim for Jon was to transform his dental phobia from a vicious circle into a virtuous one. By understanding that his previous orthodontic work had made his teeth healthier, he was able to appreciate that continued visits to the dentist would reduce the requirement for complex dental work. It was this change in mindset that helped him to relax, little by little, and not to feel so apprehensive before a routine check-up.
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Report: iOS 8 to get Windows 8-like multitasking and HD audio playback
Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) is just around the corner and the rumours and reports are starting to heat up about what we can expect. It’s only natural to assume we’ll get our first look at iOS 8 – but now we’re getting a clearer look at what will ship in the latest mobile OS thanks to Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac.
Multitasking on iOS has been oft criticised and poked at by...
By Ryan Daws, 13 May 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Apple, Development Tools, iOS, Platforms.
Dear Apple, Open up or be left behind…
Four years ago, Steve Jobs announced iOS’ video-calling feature ‘FaceTime’ would become Open so applications can be built cross-platform for the benefit of everyone. iOS users can keep in touch with their contacts in the bigger market which is the Android ecosystem, and vice-versa.
iOS users are still limited to calling each other. Despite adding features like FaceTime Audio (shouldn’t that be VoiceTime?) we're without a way to get in touch with our non-iDevice counterparts.
There's a...
By Ryan Daws, 22 April 2014, 1 comment. Categories: Apple, Industry, iOS, iPad, Platforms.
New ray-tracing GPU could result in more graphical prowess for future iDevices
As Apple’s long-standing graphics partner; any advancement from Imagination Technologies is worth noting for its probable inclusion in the next-generation of iDevices.
Apple's latest line-up; the iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and Retina iPad Mini – all feature the PowerVR G6430 in Apple’s A7 chip. At the iPhone 5S’ announcement, where the A7 was unveiled, the company had already boasted graphics 56x faster than the previous generation.
Now a successor graphics architecture, the PowerVR
By Ryan Daws, 25 March 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Apple, Gaming, iOS, Platforms.
Updates from Google and Apple: What developers can expect
There have been rumours as well as public announcements from both Apple and Google over the past few days. For Apple, rumours have been circling almost non-stop about iOS 8, the new update to Apple’s mobile operating system. On Google’s front, the company just announced some major updates for Google Play game services ahead of the Game Developers Conference this week.
What iOS Devs Should Watch Out For:
Though the official announcement of iOS 8 is...
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iOS8: What we know so far…
It’s that time of year again when rumours start circulating about what Apple has in-store for the next major upgrade of iOS, and when people start deciding (ahead of release) whether it’s going to be a success or the complete and sudden fall of the house of Apple…
iOS7 added little in terms of user-facing functionality – instead focusing efforts on a complete ‘flat’ redesign and removing the skeuomorphic design of Forstall’s time at Cupertino.
Without being given any...
By Ryan Daws, 14 March 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Apple, Development Tools, iOS, Platforms.
Apple’s CarPlay turns your ride into an iVehicle
Announced back at last year’s WWDC, Apple has finally given more details on bringing a native iOS experience to automotives. Supported vehicles from partners; Ferrari, Mercedes, Volvo, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota and several more are expected soon…
With a simplistic and recognisable iOS UI, ‘CarPlay’ is designed “from the ground up” to provide a seamless experience between phone and vehicle.
Offering both touch and Siri...
By Ryan Daws, 03 March 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Apple, iOS, Platforms.
iOS apps suffer security problems
Mobile app security is a growing concern, but most companies are still struggling to keep up. Android has traditionally been the operating system associated with mobile security issues, but recent stats released by HP prove that iOS developers are also fighting an uphill battle.
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Apple co-founder Woz gives his take at #AppsWorld
Speaking at AppsWorld in London, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave his thoughts on the shifting mobile industry; wearable tech, connected devices, voice assistants, the Cloud, and the iOS competition from rivals such as Android and Windows Phone.
On talking about who’s “doing the most” for mobile; Woz is still on the iOS-side of the fence for reasons of reliability. Whilst this may not necessarily be a surprising stance from an Apple founder – Steve is a man unafraid to criticise the...
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Why companies are favouring iOS for custom apps
Android and iOS have been duking it out for years now. iPhone reigned supreme for a while, then Android made some headway and has more or less been considered the top seller since then – but the iPhone is never far behind.
The numbers change every quarter (and sometimes depending on your...
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Why iBeacons has developers excited about Bluetooth Low Energy
The iPhone 4S was the first commercial product to ship with Bluetooth 4.0. At the time, the technology got some attention from industry observers who speculated about its potential - especially around a new technology called Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Since it was released devices such as FitBit, UP and the Pebble SmartWatch have helped to demonstrate some of the possibilities of the technology. With iOS 7, Apple is extending the possibilities of BLE with iBeacons.
BLE?
Originally a Nokia...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about titanium
Karl Rosengarth — January 29, 2016
Originally published in Bicycle Times Issue #31
OF BIRDS AND BIKES
Titanium burst onto the scene in the 1950s in military aerospace applications. Favorable ratios of strength, durability and toughness to weight—along with its corrosion resistance and high temperature capabilities—made titanium the material of choice in airframes and aerospace hydraulic systems. The first bird to feature titanium was the ‘50s era Douglas X-3 Stiletto experimental aircra ft.
During the 10-speed boom of the 1970s, enterprising bike builders used available “commercially pure” titanium tubing designed for aerospace hydraulic systems to build the first Ti bicycle frames. Component compatibility forced builders to use Ti tubing sized similarly to steel bikes of the era. The inherent flexibility of titanium, combined with the small tubing diameter, produced bikes with more frame flex than most riders deemed acceptable.
The 1970s-era Teledyne Titan was one of the first Ti bikes commercially produced in the USA.
Aerospace design requirements eventually exceeded the capabilities of commercially pure titanium, which led to the development of Ti-3Al-2.5V and Ti-6Al-4V alloys. Adding aluminum (AI) and vanadium (V) to titanium improved the tensile strength yield strength, and toughness (among other mechanical properties).
In the later half of the 1980s, bikes fabricated with these mechanically superior titanium alloys resulted in bikes with improved ride qualities, and put early Ti brands on the map. Still, the available tube diameters (typically 1.25” max) were not optimized for bicycle frames. While there was a lot to like about the early titanium alloy bikes, they had yet to shed their “flexy” reputation.
Titanium alloy bicycle fabrication reached a tipping point during the 1990s and early 2000s when the tubing mills started producing thin-walled titanium alloy tubing with 1.5”, then 1.75” and eventually 2” diameter. Finally, the frame designers/builders had an array of tubing that allowed them to optimize frame strength and stiffness—from the rear stays, to the main tubes, to the bo ttom bracket, to the head tube.
GEOMETRY MATTERS
Tube geometry is crucial to the strength and stiff ness of a bicycle frame, no ma tter what material it’s made of. A rough rule of thumb is that a tube’s rigidity depends on the product of the wall thickness and the cube of the diameter; and strength depends on the product of wall thickness and square of diameter. By optimizing each tube’s size and wall thickness, the designer is able to tune the way the bike feels, while ensuring strength and durability.
TI-ALLOY COMPARISON
Both Ti-3Al-2.5V and Ti-6Al-4V have mechanical and physical properties suitable for making bicycle frames. While Ti-6Al-4V has superior strength, Ti-3Al- 2.5V is more malleable and is easier to fabricate into seamless, thin-walled tubing using conventional metal forming equipment and techniques. Due to ease of manufacture, Ti-3Al-2.5V became the alloy of choice for aerospace hydraulic tubing. This led to the wide array of tubing sizes available to bicycle frame builders.
By comparison, the selection of seamless Ti-6Al-4V alloy tubing is rather limited. Therefore, the material sees limited application in bicycle frames (typically in areas where its superior strength is an overriding benefit). Conversely, Ti-6Al-4V plate is readily available and is commonly used for making dropouts.
Welding titanium requires white-glove cleanliness. Trace contamination, even oil or grease deposited from a careless fingerprint, could ruin a weld. Since titanium can absorb and become embrittled by oxygen, hydrogen or nitrogen at welding temperatures, extreme care must be taken to insure the material is completely encapsulated in an inert argon atmosphere. A brittle weld may fail (fracture) immediately upon cooling, or later under riding stresses.
Best welding practices typically involve purging the inside of the tube with argon, in addition to argon gas shielding of the TIG or MIG weld tool. In the 1970s, prior to the evolution of existing bicycle tube welding techniques, titanium frames were sometimes brazed. Another early fabrication technique involved welding inside a sealed chamber that was completely purged with argon (a.k.a. “glove box” welding).
Mechanical processing is challenging due to titanium’s high strength and its rapid rate of work hardening— which can be thought of as a continual decrease in malleability as deformation increases. While a proper amount of work hardening (a.k.a. cold working) will strengthen a metal, overdoing it could produce a bri ttle and weakened structure.
Bike companies typically purchase titanium alloy tubing in a “cold worked stress relieved” (CWSR) state which gives the material higher strength compared to the fully annealed condition, and leaves some room for additional cold working of the tubing during bike building. Malleability is particularly important when fabricating complex shapes such as S-bend chainstays.
Titanium alloy tubing costs more than comparable steel or aluminum alloy tubing. While raw titanium costs only $5-6 per pound, special processing and metalworking requirements boost the price of the finished CWSR alloy tubing to $50-60 per pound. For instance, titanium is highly reactive with oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen at elevated temperatures; therefore melting, annealing and other high-temperature operations must be carried out in a vacuum or under an argon atmosphere. Titanium must be cold worked a small step at a time, with stress-relief annealing performed between each incremental step. This adds complexity and costs to the tube forming process.
Check out our feature story of Lynskey Bikes, which makes titanium bicycles in Tennessee.
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For many in Belgium wanting to go on holiday or a honeymoon, it is far easier to fly from Cologne or Dusseldorf, rather than Brussels. Voyages Orion, based in the German-speaking part of the country, makes a speciality of precisely these options.
When David Bocher established Voyages Orion in 2009, it was a one-man operation. Within a year, he had taken on his first employee, and now the company has three busy offices – in Eupen, St Vith and Calamine – and a total of 16 employees. It is a full-service operation, but Orion’s trump card is using the facilities and economies of scale offered by near-neighbour Germany for the benefit of its Belgian clients.
Better logistics
“Our main office is only 12 kilometres from the German border, and for people in this area and indeed much of Eastern Belgium, the logistics of flying from, say, Cologne or Dusseldorf, make more sense than struggling across to Brussels,” says Bocher. That is far from the only benefit, too. “The German travel market is huge, Europe’s biggest,” he continues, “and consequently ,the prices are more competitive, and the range of options far wider than a relatively small country like Belgium can offer.”
All of David’s staff members are bilingual, to facilitate communications with French, Flemish and German-speaking Belgian clients, but also to smooth their daily dealings with major tour operators and flight providers in Germany, with whom over the last nine years they have built up excellent relationships.
Honeymoon travel
The company has particular strengths in the cruise market, package holidays, and in the very demanding honeymoon sector. “Honeymoons are a major part of our business,” David adds, “with my colleague Caroline Kleutgen who is a real specialist in that part of the business.” Couples approaching Voyages Orion to enquire about wedding travel can fix a face-to-face meeting, or over the telephone if that is simpler for them, where their requirements, budget and preferences will be discussed. After that, the team will research the best-fit options for them, and present the prospective clients with one or several possibilities for them to consider. “Making all those wedding arrangements can be stressful,” says David, “so we work hard to make the couple’s travel options as stress-free and as closely tailored to their needs and budget as it is possible to get.”
Those options are likely to be for places and hotels known personally to people at Voyages Orion: “That’s a major part of what we do, and an enjoyable part,” says David, “building up in-depth knowledge of the resorts and areas we send people to.” Caroline Kleutgen, for instance, as part of her honeymoon brief, has visited the Maldives, Bali, Singapore, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Mauritius, among other places. It is a tough job, but someone has got to do it!
Classic options
Staff members at Orion keep across trends in the wedding travel market, with, for example, the USA in vogue currently for romantic road trips, and a very notable rise in demand for travel to Oman (a destination whose development has impressed David).
There has been greater interest too, of late, in honeymoons within Europe: Greece especially, with its excellent climate and competitive prices. But just as with weddings themselves, certain classic options never go out of fashion. “The Maldives, Bali and Mauritius are perennial favourites for honeymoon couples,” says David, “with a huge range of options, great facilities, and the ‘x-factor’ of romance about them.”
A win-win situation
Orion has grown every year since it opened for business, in spite of – or perhaps even because of – the rise of the internet. We all know how overwhelming it can be to be faced with the vast amount of information that is easily available via our computer screens, but which is hellishly difficult to sift through and interpret. And anyone planning a wedding has enough complexity to deal with as it is. “We can arrange things rapidly with the client from making no-obligation offers to completing the deal just by exchanging emails,” he says, and it is often a win-win situation, saving time and frequently saving money too. “We have all the best offers to hand, and in fact, in many cases, as well as having the expertise to know about the places themselves, thanks to our links with the major German tour operators, we’re able to offer better prices!”
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Wall Street dads find parental leave easier to get than to take
By Max Abelson and Rebecca Greenfield / Bloomberg
When JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay a landmark $5 million to settle a discrimination claim from a new dad, it looked like a turning point for Wall Street parents. Men who work for the biggest U.S. bank can take up to 16 weeks of parental leave, the bank emphasized, and said it would do better at making sure they know it.
But bankers across the industry say it’s easier to tweak policy — or pay the equivalent of 70 minutes of profit — than to actually revamp the company culture that shapes the way people think and act.
Even though big banks and other Wall Street firms have boosted paid time off for new parents to some of the highest levels offered in the U.S., men still worry about staying at home for months, according to interviews with a dozen current and former employees. They fear what happens when they detach from a culture that lionizes face time and relationship upkeep. The signals are subtle and the pull of tradition is strong.
Khe Hy, who left his job as a managing director at BlackRock Inc. in 2015, said he got two “nudge-nudge wink-winks” when he took 10 days of paternity leave. “One was, ‘We’ll be able to reach you if we need to,’ and the second one was, ‘We can still include you in all conference calls, right?’ “ said Hy, who now coaches executives about money and writes about productivity.
“It’s like: ‘Come on, what could you possibly be doing in the first 10 days of your kid’s life? You’re not the mom.’ “
A hedge fund manager who once worked for JPMorgan remembered the day his daughter was born a decade ago — he was back to work that afternoon. A trader who used to work for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. said men who ask to take all the parental leave their companies offer are practically asking to get fired.
At UBS Group AG, Sam Kendall became a kind of poster dad for Wall Street leave when the senior U.S. investment banker spoke publicly in 2016 about taking six weeks off when his twins were born.
“I realized as a senior person in the organization, I had a responsibility to model the behavior,” Kendall said. When his wife had another child earlier this year, he went on leave again for two weeks. The shorter break, he said, “wasn’t scientific, it really wasn’t. It just seemed appropriate.”
Only half of all working fathers think their bosses support time off with newborns, according to a new poll by the advocacy group Paid Leave for the United States. Most companies don’t give any paid parental leave in the U.S., one of only a few countries that don’t mandate it.
By that measure, Wall Street is ahead of the pack. Most of the country’s biggest banks and rivals including BlackRock offer 16 weeks of paid time off for primary caregivers; “secondary caregivers” get much less.
As part of JPMorgan’s settlement, the bank said it would train managers to ensure they know dads can also take the longer leave. In February, Goldman Sachs introduced a new e-learning program it says will help bosses “effectively manage and support all parents.” But when bonuses can more than double a banker’s salary, it can be hard to imagine staying away from the office for one third of the year.
Change needs to be deeper, according to Elizabeth Gulliver, who was a vice president at Citigroup until 2016. “When something comes in as a perk, you see paid time off or flex time as the same as discounts to Equinox,” said Gulliver, who co-founded Kunik, a community for working parents. “It needs to be seen as a cultural change, as a shift in mentality.”
That doesn’t mean Wall Street’s new dads aren’t taking any time off with their new kids. More than 8,000 men at Wells Fargo & Co. have taken parental leave over the past two years, a little more than half as primary caregivers.
Bank of America Corp. is the only big bank that gives 16 paid weeks to new parents in the U.S., as long as they work more than 20 hours a week, and 40% of parental leaves are taken by male employees. Steven Daigle, a senior vice president based in Florida, took the full four months when his wife had twins, around the time they also adopted two boys. He said he felt supported, though one colleague told him to consider what might go wrong while he was out.
“I didn’t have anybody that was directly saying, ‘Don’t do this,’ “ said Daigle. “It was more like things to think about.”
At all the banks, and at any company that offers paid parental leave, the policies themselves are supposed to be gender neutral so that women alone don’t suffer the potential career consequences of having kids. But corporate culture tends to reward new parents who can get back to work right away, and most dads can. That’s one reason men climb the ladder faster — the biggest U.S. banks have only ever been run by men — and women make less.
“In order for the playing field to be leveled out for women, the family leave playing field has to be leveled out for men,” said Maria Potoroczyn, who was pregnant when she was hired at Citigroup last year. She now works on strategy for the bank. “Unless we start giving both parents the same quantity leave, we’re not actually helping women advance.”
Her husband, Lukas Staniszewski, works on blockchain at IBM. He’s taking the full 12 weeks offered to dads there. “People believe they’re more important than they are and struggle to disconnect,” he said. “It’s one thing to have the policy to take the leave. It’s another thing to take it.”
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Kraken Resurfaces From the Deep Web
Fallout Exploit Kit releases Kraken Cryptor ransomware, giving the simple threat a much larger target pool.
The Kraken Cryptor ransomware has been spotted in the Fallout Exploit Kit, resurfacing an old threat and hinting at the future of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).
Kraken has had a "notable development path" over the past few months, report experts from McAfee's Advanced Threat Research team and Recorded Future's Insikt group, who collaborated on this analysis. Kraken was spotted in mid-August on a Dark Web forum; in September, its developer disguised the ransomware as a security tool and put it on SuperAntiSpyware. When visitors tried to download legitimate antispyware software, they were infected.
Kraken's presence strengthened toward the end of September, when a security researcher found it bundled in the Fallout Exploit Kit, which is known for deploying Gandcrab ransomware. Researchers found evidence of Kraken authors asking the Fallout team to add its malware. Their partnership gives Kraken a new vector for criminals to deliver the threat, they report.
What's interesting about Kraken, says Andrei Barysavich, director of advanced collection at Recorded Future, is instead of adding complex features and functionality – such as customer support, chat, or live decryption of test files – its developers decided to stick with the basics. Kraken exclusively uses email to communicate with its affiliate members and its victims, which keeps things subtle.
"This ransomware is very, very simple, which actually gives it a lot of resiliency when it comes to attempts to takedown from law enforcement or security researchers," he explains. If you rely on email, he adds, there is only one single point of failure where an email can be confiscated or subpoenaed by law enforcement. A control panel, which is more advanced, would display Kraken's victims, incoming and outgoing messages, and files uploaded.
Kraken's inclusion in the Fallout Exploit kit "is quite significant," Barysavich says. The kit is fairly popular among cybercriminals, and several groups operate it. Exploit kits spread through coordinated campaigns, he adds, which would drastically increase the number of Kraken's targets.
"It is incredibly significant given the number of potentially exposed victims," Barysavich says.
Kraken made its Fallout debut with a Russian announcement that detailed its features: fully autonomous, collects system data as an encrypted message for reference, uses a hybrid combination of encryption algorithms, and makes it impossible to recover data without payment. It's prohibited from being used in certain countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
John Fokker, head of cyber investigations at McAfee, calls Kraken one of the new and upcoming RaaS campaigns being launched.
"In the initial underground postings, it looked as if Kraken was still figuring out its business model, but Kraken has evolved since then by partnering with other key cybercrime services and being very communicative in the underground scene," he explains.
RaaS: When Families Work Together
Like other ransomware families, Kraken is part of an affiliate program otherwise known as RaaS. Every 15 days, participants get a new Kraken build updated to keep it hidden from security tools. When a victim pays a ransom, the affiliate member sends a percentage to RaaS developers, who pass along a decryption key to send to the victim.
The system ensures members pay the affiliate program and still make money themselves. Affiliates have to pay $50 and submit an application to be accepted in the program.
Kraken's developers released the second version of their affiliate program on Oct. 21, a sign the ransomware is proving popular. To drive customers, the authors created a video to showcase its capabilities, including the speed at which it can encrypt data. Kraken uses external tools, such as SDelete from the Sysinternals suite, to delete files and make file recovery tougher. It encrypts user files with a random name and sends a note demanding payment to get them back.
While at first glance Kraken resembles some of the other RaaS families, underground forum discussions indicate it doesn't seem to be from the aforementioned countries, Fokker says.
"Also, the programming language and encryption scheme used isn't typical for the larger, well-known ransomware families," he explains. "It almost looks like they are imitating some of the bigger families."
Who Released Kraken?
While Fokker says researchers can't yet share details on a specific group, they do believe the adversaries behind this are neither native English nor Russian-speaking. Based on the Russian language used in forum posts, it seems an automated translation service was used. While the adversaries have a better grasp on English, they consistently make errors in sentence structure and spelling.
Researchers note the person linked to Kraken (who operates under the apt username ThisWasKraken) uses a paid forum account. This is unusual – paid accounts are common on Dark Web forums, but adversaries offering services like ransomware have typically earned the trust of high-level members and use free accounts. Paid members are more distrusted.
ThisWasKraken messaged the operators behind the Fallout Exploit Kit to request permission to join. Researchers don't think this user was directly involved in the development of the ransomware and has a more customer-facing role.
Fokker believes this trend is one to watch. As actors turn cybercrime into a service, they make threats more broadly accessible to everyone. He advises businesses to back up their data, test backups, keep security tools up to date, deploy new patches, and raise security awareness.
"Success creates success," he explains. "As long as the new RaaS groups get enough room and safety to grow and optimize their operations, it will be a profitable market and attract new players on the market."
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Pareto and Political Theory
Joseph V. Femia
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
ISBN 9780415288132 - CAT# RU134X
September 27, 2006 by Routledge
Pareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher’s importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics, laissez-faire vs. social engineering, and value relativism vs. moral absolutism.
Joseph V. Femia shows that although Pareto is considered a ‘founding father’ of both sociology and mathematical economics, his contribution to political theory is neither fully recognised nor properly explored. This is also the only book to examine Pareto’s critique of Kantianism and natural law and also includes the first comparison of Pareto’s thought with postmodernism and a detailed refutation of the familiar charge that Pareto was a defender of fascism.
This critical, but sympathetic analysis refutes the familiar charge that Pareto was some sort of proto-fascist and instead locates him in the Machiavellian tradition of ‘sceptical liberalism’, which scorns metaphysical abstraction and assigns ontological primacy to the individual. Though suspicious of rational schemes for human improvement, sceptical liberals are equally suspicious of the myths and rhetoric that sustain the status quo. This new volume concludes with a fascinating comparison between Pareto’s scepticism and that of recent postmodernist thought, which also debunks the ‘grand narratives’ of historical progress.
This book will be of great interest to all students of politics, philosophy and sociology.
1. Introduction and Preview 2. Metaphysics vs. the Logico-experimental Method 3. The Science of Politics 4. The Deconstruction of Political Philosophy 5. The Critique of ‘Demagogic Plutocracy’ 6. The Sceptical Liberal
Joseph V. Femia is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of several books, including Machiavelli Revisited (2004) and Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought since the French Revolution (2001).
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The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful
Gregg Barak
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations. In contrast, the more harmful and systemic forms of injury to person and property committed by powerful and wealthy individuals, groups, and national states are neither calculated by governmental agencies nor annually reported by the mass media. As a result, most citizens of the world are unaware of the routinized "crimes of the powerful", even though they are more likely to experience harms and injuries from these types of organized offenses than they are from the atomized offenses of the powerless.
Research on the crimes of the powerful brings together several areas of criminological focus, involving organizational and institutional networks of powerful people that commit crimes against workers, marketplaces, taxpayers and political systems, as well as acts of torture, terrorism, and genocide. This international handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and structural synthesis of these interrelated topics of criminological concern. It also explains why the crimes of the powerful are so difficult to control.
Edited by internationally acclaimed criminologist Gregg Barak, this book reflects the state of the art of scholarly research, covering all the key areas including corporate, global, environmental, and state crimes. The handbook is a perfect resource for students and researchers engaged with explaining and controlling the crimes of the powerful, domestically and internationally.
Introduction: on the invisibility and neutralization of the crimes of the powerful and their victims, Gregg Barak Part I: Culture, ideology and the crimes of the powerful 1. Crimes of the powerful and the definition of crime, David Friedrichs 2. Operationalizing "organizational violence", Gary S. Green and Huisheng Shou 3. Justifying the crimes of the powerful, Vincenzo Ruggiero 4. Corporate criminals constructing white collar crime—or why there is no corporate crime on USA Network’s White Collar series, Carrie L. Buist and Paul Leighton Part II: Crimes of globalization 5. Capital and catharsis in the Nigerian petroleum extraction industry: lessons on the crimes of globalization, Ifeanyi Ezeonu 6. State and corporate drivers of global dysnomie: horrendous crimes and the law, Anamika Twyman- Ghoshal and Nikos Passas 7. Truth, justice and the Walmart way: consequences of a retailing behemoth, Lloyd Klein and Steve Lang 8. Human trafficking: examining global responses, Marie Segrave and Sanja Milivojevic 9. Globalization, sovereignty and crime: a philosophical processing, Kingsley Ejiogu Part III: Corporate crimes 10. Corporate crimes and the problems of enforcement, Ronald Burns 11. Corporate-financial crime scandals: a comparative analysis of the collapses of Insull and Enron, Brandon Sullivan 12. Corporate social responsibility, corporate surveillance and neutralizing corporate resistance: on the commodification of risk-based policing, Hans Krause Hansen and Julie Uldam 13. Walmart’s sustainability initiative: greening capitalism as a form of corporate irresponsibility, Steve Lang and Lloyd Klein Part IV: Environmental crimes 14. Climate change, ecocide and the crimes of the powerful, Rob White 15. Privatization, pollution and power: a green criminological analysis of present and future global water crises, Bill McClanahan, Avi Brisman, and Nigel South 16. Unfettered fracking: a critical examination of hydraulic fracturing in the United States, Jacquelynn Doyon and Elizabeth Bradshaw 17. The international impact of electronic waste: a case study of Western Africa, Jacquelynn Doyon Part V: Financial crimes 18. Bad banks: recurrent criminogenic conditions in the U.S. commercial banking industry, Robert Tillman 19. Financial misrepresentation and fraudulent manipulation: SEC settlements with Wall Street firms in the wake of the economic meltdown, David Shichor 20. A comprehensive framework for conceptualizing financial frauds and victimization, Mary Dodge and Skylar Steele Part VI: State crimes 21. Transnational institutional torturers: state crime, ideology and the role of France’s savior-faire in Argentina’s dirty war, 1976-1983, Melanie Collard 22. Para-state crime and plural legalities in Colombia, Thomas MacManus and Tony Ward 23. Australian border policing and the production of state harm, Mike Grewcock 24. Gendered forms of state crime: the case of state perpetrated violence against women, Victoria Collins Part VII: State-corporate crimes 25. Blacking out the Gulf: state-corporate environmental crime and the response to the BP oil spill, Elizabeth Bradshaw 26. Collaborate state and corporate crime: fraud, unions and elite power in Mexico, Maya Barak 27. Mining as state-corporate crime: the case of AngloGold Ashanti in Colombia, Damián Zaitch and Laura Gutiérrez-Gómez Part VIII: State-routinized crimes 28. Organized crimes in a transitional economy: the resurgence of the criminal underworld in contemporary China, Peng Wang 29. Institutionalized abuse of police power: how public policing condones and legitimates police corruption in North America, Marilyn Corsianos 30. The appearances and realities of corruption in Greece: the cases of MAYO and Siemens AG, Effi Lambropoulou Part IX: Failing to control the crimes of the powerful 31. Postconviction and powerful offenders: the white collar offender as professional ex, Ben Hunter and Stephen Farrall 32. Business ethics as a means of controlling abusive corporate behavior, Jay Kennedy 33. Ag-gag laws and farming crimes against animals, Doris Lin 34. Genocide and controlling the crimes of the powerful, Augustine Brannigan 35. Controlling state crime and alternative reactions, Jeffrey Ian Ross 36. Hacking the state: hackers, technology, control, resistance, and the state, Kevin F. Steinmetz and Jurg Gerber 37. (Liberal) democracy means surveillance: on security, control and the surveillance techno-fetish, Dawn Rothe and Travis Linnemann 38. Limiting financial capital and regulatory control as non-penal alternatives to Wall Street looting and high-risk securities, Gregg Barak.
Gregg Barak is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University and the former Visiting Distinguished Professor in the College of Justice & Safety at Eastern Kentucky University. In 2003 he became the 27th Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and in 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Critical Division of the American Society of Criminology. Barak is the author and/or editor of 20 books, including the award winning titles Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America (1991) and Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding (2012). His most recent book is the 4th edition of Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America (2015) with Paul Leighton and Allison Cotton.
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The Most Incredible Underground Art Exhibit You’ll Never See
By Creative Visual Artist on May 12, 2013 Blog
In 2010, 103 artists staged an exhibition in an obscure, strange location: underground New York City. No one was invited to the opening. Even today, only the artists, a New York Times reporter, and a few MTA employees who have already boarded up their work, know the location of the vast underground gallery known as the Underbelly Project. 18 months in the making, from early 2009 to mid 2010, some of the worlds’ most prominent graffiti writers like Swoon, Faile, Ron English, Revok and Lister were invited by curators (and street artists) Workhorse and PAC to make a section of New York’s subway tunnels beautiful in their own way.
In 2009, graffiti in subway tunnels wasn’t anything new but PAC and Workhorse were lucky to stumble upon a section underground that hadn’t been touched in 100 years, offering a vast clean canvas. And without the social and financial constraints of ‘the surface world’, the Underbelly Project allowed the artists to freely showcase their creativity. The results are now legendary despite the fact that few have ever seen the work save for in pictures circulated on the internet, and through a massive tomb documenting the secret project published by Rizzoli in 2012. When the MTA finally caught wind of the “gallery” they sealed it’s secret entrance, creating a time capsule of art by some of the most relevant contemporary artists today.
Eventually the project found a new life under the streets of Paris (below). At this rate, perhaps one day every underground transportation system will also boast its own art gallery?
via Yasha Wallin at good – Photos via (cc) Flickr user Vandalog
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Would You Buy A Rolex Domino’s Pizza Watch?
Written by Melissa Kong
Guess what? Someone did for US$3,395.
Last May, a Rolex Air-King with a Domino’s Pizza logo on its dial was offered on Amazon for US$3,395 (approximately S$4,800). That’s almost half the price of a brand new Rolex Air-King here. It's no longer available, in case you're wondering.
Apparently, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, Tom Monaghan, would reward well-performing franchise owners with a customised Rolex Air-King bearing the company’s logo. Whether that’s in good taste (pardon the pun) or not, it certainly gave franchisees an incentive to do well (meaning US$25,000 in sales every week for a month. The practice of gifting watches to Dominos staff started in 1977 when an employee asked Monaghan what he had to do to get the watch Monaghan was wearing (for the record, it was a Bulova with a Domino's logo). Monaghan told him to bring in US$20,000 in a week's sales (which he did) and then gave him the timepiece.
While the watch on Amazon must have belonged to a stellar franchisee, he or she evidently wanted to get some money out of it. But it's not the first time a co-branded Rolex has popped up for resale. In 2014, 17 Rolexes with the Tiffany & Co. logo were put up for auction at Sotheby's, from the collection of New York socialite Bunny Mellon. The watches were meant as gifts for her guests at a party that eventually failed to materialise. More on that here.
It's not altogether uncommon to see co-branded Rolexes around since there are also Coca-Cola and Cartier ones floating around. But the company has since stopped this practice. That makes all the co-branded editions pretty much collectors' items, especially the rarer ones with Cartier and Tiffany & Co.
And although we’re not crazy about the Domino's watch, we do adore the Air-King (read more about it here). Plus, it’s a lovely gesture to reward good performance. Just that we'd like our watches without all the toppings please.
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Top 10 Countries Celebrating Female Obesity 35 Share the post "Top 10 Countries Celebrating Female Obesity" Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide: According to a 2011 World Health Organization study, 1 in 9 people are obese and the trend is ever-expanding. Despite a myriad of concomitant health concerns, excessive fatness continues to be embraced by many countries as a sign of health, wealth and happiness. The following list explores the top ten countries which celebrate heftiness, particularly in females, along with the historical and cultural influences which shape this love of large.
10. Tonga
In the small South Pacific island of Tonga, beauty is marked by large physical size. This coupled with a reliance on fatty, nutrient-deficient imported foods and a decrease in activity has caused the nation to embrace obesity. About 100,000 of the island’s 114,000 adult inhabitants are overweight. According to several studies released in 2004 by the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, Tongans are genetically predisposed to be fat. The predilection toward feminine obesity also appears to be rooted in heredity and custom.
9. Kuwait
Middle Eastern Kuwait is not only home to rich oil deposits in the land but some in its people. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and 52% of Kuwaiti women over 15 are obese. Historically, these nomadic desert people came to prize fatness as a sign of health and wealth–a trend which clearly continues to this day. In a country where women exercising is a taboo, wives are frequently prized as decorative items to fill up the house: the bigger, the more opulent.
8. Fiji
As its leaders strove to connect the once-isolated island with the rest of the world, Fiji unwittingly introduced new calorie-dense food into its diet. This South Pacific nation’s customs revolve around the giving of food as a sign of prosperity. This, coupled with insufficient education about health risks, has left the vast majority of Fiji overweight. Not only are they fat, they are happy. Girth has long been revered in a woman as a sign of health, wealth and fertility.
7. Jamaica
With nearly 65% of Jamaican females classified as obese, the ideal beach body is nearly twice its medically-appropriate size. In this island nation particular emphasis is placed on generous hips and hindquarters, a condition known as steatopygia. A 1993 study conducted in rural Jamaica associated thinness with sadness but heaviness with happiness, kindness and social harmony. There is also a burgeoning pill market which caters to young women desiring to gain weight.
6. Samoa
Since the country abandoned its South Pacific taro and fish diet for processed foods following WWII, body mass has been on the rise in Samoa. Nonetheless, obesity is not a recent phenomenon there: Food shortages have plagued the natives for centuries and biological anthropologists believe Samoans are genetically programmed to store extra calories in fat tissue. Because this natural proclivity produces a generally larger population, heavy women are simply the norm and therefore embraced.
5. South Africa
Due to the prevalence of AIDS, the association between weight loss and illness has contributed to South Africa’s negative view of thinness. The centuries-old correlation between higher weight and higher wealth was not overcome by the post-Apartheid introduction of European size ideals. Large women continue to be favored as their heft lends insight into both their health and financial status.
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3. Tahiti
The French Polynesian island of Tahiti was home to the native practice of ha’apori. Literally meaning “to fatten,” young women were plumped and presented to the chief for beauty and fertility inspection. The celebration of obesity continues to this day, due in part to a diet rich in carbohydrates and coconut milk. Tahitian women continue to be revered for their rounded faces and bodies.
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Nauru is known for its universal embrace of obesity. This tiny South Pacific island’s 14,000 population associates corpulence with beauty and fertility– women are fattened in preparation for childbearing and men for strength competitions. The phosphate deposits which cover the vast majority of the island prohibit large scale farming. Importation of fresh produce continues to be cost-prohibitive so mostly cheap, fattening foods are brought in from New Zealand and Australia.
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In this drought-ridden west African nation, female obesity is synonymous with beauty and wealth. Though less common, “gavage” (borrowed from the French to describe fattening a goose’s liver destined for foie gras) is still practiced, with young girls imbibing vast qualities of fatty camel milk daily. Women unable to pack on the pounds at fat farms routinely take antihistamines and animal steroids to induce appetite. Exercise is frowned upon and women are frequently divorced for their inability to sustain excessive girth after childbirth.
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Jan 31 Huawei's 4G contract for Perth trains is under scrutiny but does WA have anything to fear?
Government, Business, IT Tech
Originally posted by Rebecca Turner @ abc.net.au
Dramatic events in the United States have heightened concerns about Chinese tech giant Huawei's involvement in government telecommunications networks.
The West Australian Government announced yesterday it is reviewing its contract with Huawei, after allegations of fraud, theft of trade secrets and breaches of international sanctions by the company were released by US prosecutors.
The Government has always maintained its $205 million contract with Huawei to upgrade the radio network for its trains was not a security risk, but should we now be concerned?
What is Huawei doing for the WA Government?
Last July, Huawei won a contract to build and maintain a new digital 4G radio network for the Perth train system, including the new railway line to the airport.
It will build around 80 radio masts and base stations throughout the metropolitan network and replaceradio devices in trains, security vehicles and handheld radios.
PHOTO: The Perth trains contract was negotiated before any concerns about Huawei were raised. (ABC News: Andrew O'Connor)
The Public Transport Authority's website said the network, which will be up and running in 2021, will be a closed system for transmitting operational data.
It will be used by train drivers, as well as customer service, security and train control staff.
So what has prompted the review?
Some sensational allegations by the United States Justice Department were released earlier this week, leading to greater scrutiny of how the Chinese tech giant does business.
The department's indictments accuse Huawei of defrauding banks to violate US sanctions against Iran, stealing trade secrets and money laundering.
PHOTO: Transport Minister Rita Saffioti says the Federal Government may be asked to review the WA contract.(ABC News: Eliza Laschon)
One indictment alleges Huawei offered bonuses to employees who stole information from other companies.
The allegations have also intensified the trade dispute between the US and China.
WA Transport Minister Rita Saffioti told ABC Radio Perth that, as a result of this week's developments the Government was examining the impact of a potential trade embargo and considering asking Federal Government agencies to review the contract.
The agencies had examined the contract for security risks before it was awarded to Huawei.
So is Huawei's involvement a problem for the WA Government?
Yes and no, according to Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior analyst Tom Uren.
Mr Uren said the US allegations raised important questions about the business ethics of Huawei.
"The two indictments really paint a picture of Huawei as a company which would do anything for its advantage — lie, cheat and steal, and cover things up," he said.
"To me there's an ethical question of what kind of company you want to contract things out to do things.
"It doesn't seem to me to be right for a government to be employing an apparently quite deceitful and unethical company to do things."
But from a security point-of-view, Mr Uren said the project did not appear to be a problem because the allegations did not appear to raise cybersecurity breaches and Huawei's WA contract did not involve highly sensitive data.
PHOTO: The Federal Government banned Huawei from taking part in the rollout of the 5G mobile network. (Reuters)
What are the concerns with Huawei?
They are mostly around the 5G network, which will build on the existing 4G network to provide faster connection speeds.
The concerns hinge on the ability of governments to be able to protect sensitive parts of the network from security threats, which is difficult with the interconnected nature of the 5G network.
David Glance, director of the University of Western Australia Centre for Software Practice, said 5G would be crucial infrastructure for not only mobile phone networks but also autonomous vehicles and other smart city applications.
"Because it's so critical, it's a potential target for other foreign governments to potentially interfere with in times on conflict," Dr Glance said.
"So security forces are particularly concerned about the potential for foreign governments to be involved with critical infrastructure in Australia and Huawei certainly has been labelled as being part of the Chinese Government's state apparatus."
PHOTO: The allegations against Huawei released in the US have intensified the trade dispute between the US and China.(Reuters: Philippe Wojazer)
Last August the Federal Government banned Huawei from taking part in a rollout of the 5G mobile network because of security concerns.
International events — such as the trade dispute between China and the US, and the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Canada — have led other governments, like Japan and New Zealand, to re-examine their business relationships with Huawei.
There are also concerns about a new Chinese law introduced last year which requires companies to help with intelligence gathering when requested.
While not naming Huawei, the Australian Government last year highlighted the risk of "the involvement of vendors who are likely to be subject to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government that conflict with Australian law".
Why would WA choose Huawei?
The WA contract is for digital 4G radio communications for Perth's trains —and not 5G — and is not dissimilar to an agreement Huawei has with the NSW Government.
Dr Glance said it was negotiated before many of the concerns about Huawei were raised and the company probably presented the best technological and financial solution.
"We haven't actually seen any evidence that Huawei has used this technology in any way, shape or form to carry out any spying," he said.
Premier Mark McGowan has consistently said WA sought Federal Government advice before Huawei was awarded the contract.
"We then sought the advice of the federal security agencies and they said there was no problems with this contract and no problem with Huawei winning this contract," Mr McGowan said.
"So there's not a great deal more we could have done to get value for taxpayers and seek the appropriate security advice."
Huawei insists there is no problem
John Lord, chairman of Huawei Australia, said on ABC Radio yesterday that security agencies told the company they had no problem with the contract.
PHOTO: Huawei Australia chairman John Lord says Government showed no security concerns about the WA contract. (ABC News: Nick Haggarty)
"After we won this project, the office of Home Affairs and the Prime Minister reiterated there was no security aspects of concern with Huawei participating in this West Australian project," he said.
Mr Uren said there appeared to be a disconnect between how state governments and the Commonwealth handled their relationship with China and Chinese companies.
"I don't think [state governments] have the same access to different sorts of intelligence that the Federal Government does," Mr Uren said.
"And so a lot of what informs Federal Government is secret, so they've got different access to information and if you've got different information, you'll make different decisions."
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Ukrainians can now enter the European Union visa-free
Visa-free short-stay access to the EU has begun for Ukrainians - but only those with biometric passports. Cheering, hundreds entered the EU in what President Poroshenko called a symbolic "final breakaway" from Moscow.
Ukrainians celebrate in Kyiv on the eve of visa-free travel
On Sunday, Ukrainians celebrated their first day of visa-free access to most of the EU's 28 nations following a measure adopted by the European Parliament in April and the European Council heads of government in May.
One of many elements of the EU-Ukraine association agreement signed in 2014, expanded access was put on hold during the major tensions that followed the overthrow of Russia-backed President Viktor Yanukovych that winter, and was further delayed after a 2016 referendum in the Netherlands initially rejected the pact.
Two weeks ago, the Dutch parliament backed a revised pact, which European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said could be finalized at a EU-Ukraine summit in July. If so, it is likely to come into force in September.
The new waiver allows one in 10 Ukrainians - those with biometric passports - to travel in the European Union without visas for up to 90 days in any 180-day period for tourism, business or family visits, but not to work.
Excluded from the setup are Britain and Ireland, but included are four non-EU Schengen zone members: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
In Kyiv late on Saturday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a crowd that the new travel arrangement "symbolizes a final breakaway of our state from the Russian empire."
Poroshenko described the moment as the onset of a "different historical era" and said Ukraine would now seek cheaper rail and aviation links with EU cities.
Ukrainians, some without visas, board a train from Kyiv to Poland
Ukraine's border authority told the news agency Interfax that 600 people with the new passports entered the European Union in the early hours of Sunday.
Contested borders
Ukraine's popular pro-EU uprising in 2014 was followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea and the imposition of Western sanctionson Moscow. Despite peace efforts involving German diplomats, since 2014 fighting between pro-Russia separatists and government forces in Ukraine's industrial east has claimed more than 10,000 lives and displaced many more people.
Since Saturday, four Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the most recent fighting, according to a report carried by the German news agency DPA.
Russian officials have often rejected claims that the Kremlin is arming the rebels.
In May, when the European Council finalized its visa waiver for Ukrainians, the EU announced that the measure contained a suspension mechanism "if there are serious migration or security issues with Ukraine."
Georgia, which fought a brief but bitter war with Russia in 2008, was granted a similar EU visa-free travel scheme that began in late March.
In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing passports issued by the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine.
At the time, Poroshenko blasted the decree as a "violation by Russia of international law."
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Difficult journey awaits Ukraine despite visa-free travel to EU
The EU ambassador to Ukraine is preparing to party with friends on Sunday when visa-free travel between the bloc and Ukraine begins. DW's Christian Trippe spoke with the EU's Ukraine envoy about what comes next. (10.06.2017)
Across the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine
A survey taken on both sides of the Eastern Ukraine frontline has surprised researchers in Berlin. A reflection of the complex conflict landscape, the results contain messages for both Kyiv and Moscow. (05.06.2017)
EU stands firms on Crimea sanctions against Russia
The EU's top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, has told Russia that while the bloc wants closer ties with Moscow, there are undeniable problems. The Russian foreign minister seems to feel the same way. (24.04.2017)
Germany: 'Unacceptable' that Russia accepts separatist Ukraine passports
France and Germany have condemned the Kremlin's decision to accept passports issued by authorities controlled by pro-Russian rebels. Meanwhile, a new ceasefire deal is going into effect in Eastern Ukraine. (20.02.2017)
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy proposes peace talks with Putin 08.07.2019
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has said resolving ongoing disputes with Russia would be his top priority, has called for internationally mediated talks. Moscow says it will consider the request.
Russia backs fresh talks on eastern Ukraine conflict 11.07.2019
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has talked about the prospect of peace in eastern Ukraine with Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader said he was open to restarting negotiations under an international framework.
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German companies want Angela Merkel to mitigate damage caused by years of tough US sanctions against Russia. The president of an influential German business group said the US was prioritizing its own economic interests.
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Articles from the February 9, 2018 edition
By David Grieder News February 9, 2018
Noe Torres' prison time reduced
CLOVIS — A man convicted in 2015 for the murder of a young boy in Clovis has succeeded through appeal in reducing his prison time from a life sentence plus 31 1/2 years to a life sentence plus 21 1/2 years, following a state Supreme Court ruling is...
By Jamie Cushman News February 9, 2018
Reporter's notebook: Art shows its heart
CLOVIS — Area artists will turn their palettes into a payday for local nonprofits at the fifth annual "Art Has Heart" event on Saturday. From 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Mission at Traci's...
By Judy Brandon Voices February 9, 2018
God protects us in many ways
The belief in God’s protection is something that is often heard in everyday conversations. We speak of about God’s protection when we think about tragedies such as car accidents or terroristic...
By Curtis Shelburne Voices February 9, 2018
Thinking about thinking can be difficult
I’ve been trying to do some thinking — which is harder than I thought. I’ve tried it a few times before, but what’s made this latest attempt particularly difficult is that I’ve been trying t...
News February 9, 2018
Events calendar - Feb. 9
Today • General Obligation Bond Presentation — 11 a.m. at Friendship Senior Center, 901 W. 13th St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-7828 • Daddy Daughter Dance — 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Clovis High School Cafeteria. $20 per couple (daughter and fat...
By Audra Brown Voices February 9, 2018
Constant question is if cows are in
Perhaps you’ve heard of the famous cat that ol’ Schrödinger put in a box. The idea being illustrated is the problem with knowing the state of things if you can’t (or won’t) take a look ...
Meetings calendar - Feb. 9
Monday • Parmer County Commission — 10 a.m. (CST) at Parmer County Courthouse, 401 Third St., Farwell. Information: 806-481-3691 • De Baca County Commission — 1:30 p.m. at the Annex Building, 643 B N. Fifth St., Fort Sumner. Information:...
By The Staff of The News News February 9, 2018
Pages past - Feb. 9
On this date ... 1978: Larry Fuqua was appointed director of admissions for Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, to replace Kay Gunn when her retirement became official on July 1. Fuqua, who hel...
Jail logs - Feb. 9
Booked The following were booked into local jails Wednesday-Thursday: Clovis • Jay Hubby, 58, out of state fugitive • Herman Eylicio, 42, driving while license suspended or revoked • Maria Orona, 59, criminal trespass, battery • Patricia Robi...
By The Staff of The News Sports February 9, 2018
Greyhound women bounce back to top Texas Woman's
DENTON, Texas — Bouncing back nicely from Tuesday's frustrating loss against previously winless Western New Mexico, the Eastern New Mexico University women's basketball team earned a road win over...
By Eric Murray Sports February 9, 2018
Potales basketball capsules - Feb. 9
Boys Ruidoso (13-9, 2-3) at Portales (12-10, 2-3), 7 p.m. On the air: KSEL 105.9 FM Last time out: The Warriors beat NMMI last Friday, 67-47. The Rams lost at Moriarty, 51-50, on Tuesday night. Last...
Grady girls grab road win at Floyd
FLOYD — The Grady girls basketball team came into Thursday night's game against Floyd a little under-manned and needing a win to keep pace with other top-ranked teams in 1A girls basketball. The...
Floyd tops Grady in boys contest
FLOYD — A strong third-quarter push allowed the Floyd Broncos to pull ahead for good in a 58-47 boys basketball 1A-District 4 win over Grady Thursday night. The Broncos outscored Grady, 22-9 in the third period. “We did real good with boxing out...
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Future plans for Fleming Park?
by Stephen Slominski • July 5, 2014
Residents are being invited to come and have their say about the future of Fleming Park “Parkland” (former golf course) during a public consultation in July.
The Council is preparing a plan for this area to improve the environment and access for a wide range of outdoor and leisure activities. The ideas in the draft plan build on consultation undertaken in 2009, shortly after Fleming Park golf course closed. At that time the top priorities included; an all-weather trail for walking and cycling, maintaining areas of informal parkland, provision of picnic and play areas and making the most of the natural water feature of the Monks Brook.
Once local people have had their say and their feedback has been collated, Eastleigh Local Area Committee will allocate funding for the priority projects that have been identified.
Staff will be on hand to listen to residents’ views and to present the draft plan for the park at
• Pavilion on the Park – Kingfisher Road – Tuesday 8 July 12.30pm-6pm
• St Francis Hall – Nightingale Avenue – Friday 11 July 12.30pm-7pm
You can also view the draft plan at
www.eastleigh.gov.uk/parkland
where comments can be submitted via a questionnaire or on email.
Work is already underway to the “parkland” through a number of small projects, including clearing footpaths and cycleways of debris, removing damaged chain link fencing, improving muddy paths and tidying the approaches to the motorway underpass.
Speaking to Eastleigh News Cllr Judith Grajewski said she thought the consultation had been ‘hasty’ and was unhappy that any decision regarding the future of the parkland was solely in the hands of Eastleigh Local Area Committee.
Cllr Grajewski said that the facility is an amenity owned by the Borough Council and enjoyed by residents from all over the borough not just the immediate area.
Grajewski thought that the future of one of the borough’s key open spaces should be considered by the full council and by all members not just the local committee.
In response Eastleigh council’s communications boss said in a statement that:
“Publicity around the forthcoming consultation has been advertised widely across the whole of the borough ahead of the consultation period to enable and allow as many residents as possible (and wider than just the ELAC area) to comment and have their say.”
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5 comments for “Future plans for Fleming Park?”
Eastleigh Xpress
I do hope the car park stays free
How about building lots of expensive detached houses on it for people who currently live outside the borough, on the condition the developers pay 3/6d to the council towards junction improvements which according to council traffic experts will cure all the traffic problems we have in the borough .
Has someone leaked the plans already?
Touche 🙂
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Sam Snook
The Land is called North End Copse- NOT FLEMING PARK. The council shut down the Golf Course and promised to make improvements for dog walkers, and local people they are still waiting. The copse is being used by Cross Country Clubs, however dogs and runners don’t mix. As for leaked plans who knows-our councillors do not represent local people, and dare not challenge their master. “Could it be a football club?”
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Team-building by Sandra Arnold
July 12, 2019 Fiction
Monique was small in stature, huge in voice and ego. She managed to offend everyone on the first day of our team-building weekend. When Rick stood up to shake hands she hollered, “Oh you must be the guy who got himself beaten up at the Marine Club?”
And to Rob, “Who the hell are you?”
“Alexa’s husband …”
“Oh don’t say you’re somebody’s husband. You’re a person in your own right!” She turned to yell at the waiter, “Hey, you with the broom-handle lips, bring me some tea.”
Next morning over breakfast, as Dom was spluttering about his encounter with her, the door burst open and in she roared like a blistering wind, flaying the skin off everyone within reach. There was a rush for the exit.
At Ras Al Hadd we waited on the beach for the dhow that was going to take us on a cruise along the coastline. No Monique. We gave a collective sigh of relief. But when we embarked, there she was. She whooped and hollered to get everyone’s attention and announced that it was she who’d arranged the dhow trip through her boyfriend, Abdul Rahim, who had paid for the trip. “He’s a Sheik you know,” she shrieked. “A millionaire. Well, it’s his wife who has money, so he has to be discreet.”
“Just as well one of them is,” I whispered to Kassidy.
Kassidy’s mouth dropped open. “Abdul Rahim? A fiendishly attractive Sheik at that!” she said. “But alcoholic. Serial adulterer.”
I raised my eyebrows.
“I’ll tell you later,” she said.
Devlin, Angie, Marty, Kassidy and I stretched out on fat cushions in the stern of the dhow, drifting on turquoise waves, past amber mountains and empty beaches. Latifa, an Iraqui woman from Dev’s college, joined us. When she found out I was from New Zealand she told me she’d tried to emigrate there when Bush invaded Iraq, but her application was rejected so she came to Oman.
“I grew up in a society that educated women,” she said. “We had careers. We travelled. We could choose to marry or not. But now …” she turned her palms upwards.
We fell silent and watched Rob, Dom and Rick pulling on their snorkelling gear. Someone turned up the radio. The haunting rhythms of Arabian music drifted on the air.
“I hope it’s all to your liking,” Monique bellowed, steaming up to the helmsman. She rubbed her bare shoulder against his, batted her eyelids at him and whispered throatily in Arabic. He looked mortified, but moved away and let her take over the wheel.
“Isn’t this fantastic folks?” she screeched. “We owe it all to my boyfriend. He’s a Sheik you know!”
As the dhow skimmed over the waves someone asked if she knew where the rocks were. “Hey folks,” she thundered. “Drop the doom. Enjoy the boom.”
I tapped her on the shoulder.
“What’s your problem sweetheart?”
“I want you to move.”
The helmsman looked as though he’d been whacked on the head. I pointed to the wheel. He didn’t understand my words, but he was in no doubt about my meaning. He nodded and took over the wheel, staring grimly ahead.
“You can’t do that!” Monique yelled. “My boyfriend paid for this. He’s a Sheik.”
I gripped her shoulders, calculating how far I’d have to push her to pitch her overboard and settled for moving her to one side.
She hovered, throbbing, smoke curling from her ears and nostrils, sparks ricocheting off the top of her head. Devlin carried on his conversation about Celtic civilisations. He knew how to spin a good yarn. Monique turned to Kassidy and asked about her sea-sickness then immediately interrupted, “Oh don’t talk about your insecurities, you’ll spoil it for everyone else!” She threw one more acid-filled glare in my direction before stomping off to the far end of the deck.
The boat anchored and we all jumped out to go snorkelling. I thought I saw Monique get in the water behind me, but when I counted heads hers wasn’t there. Back on the dhow I saw her curled up in a corner by herself. We didn’t invite her to the team-building dinner that night.
A week later Devlin filled us in on the details of Monique’s sudden disappearance. A mysterious illness necessitating a brief stay in hospital before being dispatched back to Canada. “… and I quote ‒ ‘we don’t want her dying on us here’‒ and as soon as she was discharged they put her on the cheapest flight available which involved a ten-hour wait for connections in some God-forsaken airport.”
Kassidy poured more wine. “Mysterious illness?” she said. “He’s a Sheik you know.”
This time we didn’t laugh.
“So …” said Devin. “Next month’s team-building?”
Sandra Arnold’s short fiction has appeared in many journals including Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand. She was a finalist in the 2018 Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition and the 2018 University of Sunderland Short Story Competition. Her third novel, The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell (Makāro Press, NZ) and her first flash fiction collection, Soul Etchings (Retreat West Books, UK) are forthcoming. sandraarnold.co.nz.
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Can Exoskeletons Raise Depressing Workforce Stats?
Industrial exoskeletons defy gravity to reduce exertion, but can they ease the pressure from manufacturing's skills gap? Toyota thinks so.
John Hitch | Jul 01, 2019
The main purpose of the industrial exoskeleton, as with any piece of PPE, is to keep the workers safe, to keep them working. Granted, these are cool, sci-fi looking pieces of PPE that will have co-workers joke about Ellen Ripley (Aliens) or Tony Stark (Iron Man). But their primary mission is to prevent some of the costliest, most pervasive injuries—musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)— which are caused simply by doing your job day in and day out for years and years. This could include reaching up to screw in 1,000 lightbulbs a day, or fastening parts to a car's undercarriage using an impact wrench.
OSHA's 2014 report indicated one-third of all lost workdays in the U.S. were due to MSDs, largely preventable injuries that cost upwards of $20 billion in direct costs and $100 billion in indirect costs per year. More recently, the 2018 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Indexfound overexertion injuries alone carry a $13.7 billion annual cost and comprise 23% of the overall national burden.
Toyota took the first steps in a revolutionary prevention strategy, possibly redefining American worker safety in the process. Last November, the automaker made exoskeletons mandatory personal protective equipment (PPE) for overhead work in its Toyota Canada plant in Ontario, and in March at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana. More than 350 Levitate Airframe exoskeletons—metal and fabric devices worn like a backpack that brace the arms and reduce muscle fatigue during repetitive tasks—are in use at these two facilities for inspection and assembly.
Levitate Airframe
This could be the start of a new safety SOP that will not only keep workers from missing a few days or several months due to MSDs, like a torn rotator cuff, but also entice snowflakesyoung people back to historically intensive labor. Because wearable machines will be sharing the load, a hard day's work won’t be as hard on the body.
This brand of lightweight passive exoskeleton was engineered by San Diego-based Levitate Technologies, originally designed as medical supports to assist surgeons for lengthy surgeries. Using a proprietary pulley system, they reduce muscle activity in shoulders and arms by 10-30%. That might not seem like much, but for workers holding a drill or welding torch (there's a fire-resistant version available) above their head most of the day is truly significant. Studies show it's enough to delay the onset of fatigue and improve worker quality over a longer period.
Data collected from virtual welding simulator at Vermeer showed an expert welder wearing the Airframe doubled his weld accuracy score from the test he did two days prior without it, which started to decline towards the end of that initial 90-minute session.
An Iowa State study conducted at Toyota Canada using electromyography (EMG) "found a 20% average reduction in muscle load," explains Joseph Zawaideh, Levitate’s VP of Marketing and Business Development. A similar scientific study was done at two John Deere sites.
The Airframe had previously earned a CE marking for PPE in Europe and has been used at BMW's Spartanburg, S.C., plant for overhead assembly, like using a pneumatic drill for fastening tasks. With the preponderance of positive lab results, it's not hard to see why Toyota would kick the tires on the tech as a permanent solution.
And as manufacturers have copied the Toyota Production system, they may play follow the leader here as well. They have plenty of options from which to choose.
Expanding Field
The arm-assist subgroup alone has several worthy competitors being used at manufacturers around the world. Levitate says the Airframe alone is at 100 companies. And it's certainly not the only player in the category.
Ford, which has also deployed the Airframe at its engine and transmission plants, is halfway through a two-year study to vet the efficacy of the EksoVest, a competing upper body exoskeleton. The automaker is also experimenting with the suitX ShoulderX V3 and Ottobock Paexo.
suitX ShoulderX V3
This is the third version of the ShoulderX, and the company has attached a cooling fan to the back to make wearing the device a less sweaty affair.
"Worker's acceptance is a huge deal. If they don’t like it, they don’t wear it," says suitX CEO Homayoon Kazerooni, the man largely responsible with developing the modern exoskeleton 20 years ago for the military.
And with acceptance comes the two-fold benefit of safer and more productive workers. That's at least what wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa is looking to achieve with their ShoulderX deployments at their facilities.
"Ideally, we will see a lower level of injuries and tiredness and a higher level of productivity, showing that you can do good for the company and do good for your employees at the same time," says Claus Lindberg Nielsen, head of tooling at Siemens Gamesa. "We always aim to improve our employee health and working conditions and if we can do that, and at the same time save 30 seconds on a process that is repeated 1,000 times, that truly is a win for all."
Raising Up the Workforce
Ottobock, a century-old prosthetics manufacturer which entered the industrial exo market last October with the 4-lb. Paexo, mentions on its website that in 2017, specifically for the European building industry, more than one in four (27%) of sick days were due to musculoskeletal injuries. For building and drywall construction, it was one in three.
Porsche assembly workers use the Ottobock Paexo in the Leipzig, Germany factory.
That makes sense because a muscle injury takes a lot longer to recover from than the much more common flu. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, MSDs require "a median of 11 days away from work to recover." And rotator cuff surgery could put a worker out of commission for three to eight months, (more if you’re the best company softball pitcher and they spring for Tommy John surgery).
Obviously, it's in the best interest of everyone— from the workman's comp provider to the plant manager to the actual worker—to avoid these injuries. But it's even more vital to keep employees healthy in the face of an ever-widening skills gap.
According to the 2014 Manufacturing Skills & Training Study, "80% of manufacturers report[ed] a moderate or serious shortage of qualified applicants for skilled and highly skilled production positions."
The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte's 2018 Skills Gap study found that less than half of the 4.6 open manufacturing jobs over the next decade will be filled. And specifically, for production workers, it has taken a third longer in 2018 to place a vacant position (93 days) than in 2015 (70 days).
According to OfficeTeam, 87% of U.S. workers age 18-34 (Millennials) factor health and wellness offerings in making a job decision. For 55+, it's only 44%. A company that wants to attract the largest pool of talent needs to stand out in this category, and exoskeletons not only transfer loads and torque, but also their inherent "cool" factor directly to the employer investing in them.
And it's a small investment all things considered.
The predicted future GDP loss is in the trillions, but this next stat courtesy of the National Association of Manufacturers drops a crushing reality: In Q1 of this year, one out of every four manufacturers turned down new business opportunities because they lacked the workers.
This year. Now. The year Blade Runner took place, when we thought androids and flying cars would solve all our problems, we can’t keep loyal workers on the line busting their butts from bursting their bursas. They are recovering from surgery while sales is in meltdown mode because they lost a huge commission.
That's the clear and present danger, and automation cannot always be the solution. Robots and automated machines have become indispensable tools in certain simple and light applications, but more often than not, they can't mimic the value of even your weakest worker. As a bit of proof, Deloitte says only 53% of those surveyed for the 2018 Global Human Capital Trends report are "redesigning work around automation." If robots were the panacea to address the workforce issues of the next decade, you'd expect that number to be higher.
For now, at least, people are still powering production, and despite the depressing stats, the rise of industrial exoskeletons should have us all feeling a bit more upbeat.
"It's getting a step closer to becoming mainstream,” Zawaideh says of the exoskeleton reaching PPE status. “You're not going to say this is a great piece of innovation anymore; it's going to be like safety glasses.”
And to push the effort along even more, ASTM International, which is working on creating exoskeleton standards, just announced an RFP for an Exo Technologies Center of Excellence that would spur exosuit and exoskeleton innovation, act as a hub for education and training and coordinate global partnerships. For support, the winning bid will get $250,000 annually for up to five years including funds and in-kind contributions, ASTM says.
Proposals are welcome from R&D entities, universities, government agencies, and other stakeholders worldwide. Letters of intent are due June 27 with any questions due June 28. An informational webinar will follow July 2 for applicants, whose full proposals are due July 29. The winning proposal will be announced no earlier than September.
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Final report INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR 2018
Successful all the way down the line
More than 47,000 visitors from 143 countries • Visitor growth of 9 percent • More than 70 percent international trade visitors• Focus on digitization sets new impulses
Fully-booked exhibition halls, crowded aisles and a stimulating event programme: EISENWARENMESSE - INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR COLOGNE 2018 closed its doors after four successful exhibition days,. With in total 2,770 exhibitors from 58 countries and over 47,000 trade visitors (plus 9 percent) from 143 countries the event recorded a significant increase in the number of visitors. Decision-makers from all over the world made use of the number one event of the hardware industry to discover the new products, innovations and trends of the industry. Furthermore, the trade fair was able to once again increase its level of internationality. "87 percent of the exhibitors and over 70 percent of the trade visitors come from abroad. 143 countries were represented among the trade visitors - an increase of 19 countries," stated Katharina C. Hamma, Chief Operating Officer of Koelnmesse GmbH. "As a result of this and the significant growth in the number of visitors we were able to underpin the position of EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne as the number one event of the hardware industry." The product show was flanked by an event programme that focused on the digitalisation of the industry.
Increase in trade visitors from abroad
This year's increased number of visitors was above all attributable to the rise in the number of trade visitors from abroad. Significant growth was registered from Asia, especially from Japan, from North and South America, Africa and from the Russian Federation. 12 percent more trade visitors came from the USA alone. The number of visitors from Germany remained at a constant level. John W. Herbert, General Secretary European DIY Retail Association (EDRA) and Global Home Improvement Network (GHIN), explained the growth from abroad as follows: "EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne 2018 was a total success for us. The renewed adaption of the duration of the fair was particularly welcomed by our international guests. The number of international buyers, whom we were able to welcome here in Cologne, was correspondingly high: Our major member companies each attended with up to 15 top buyers! It increases from year to year. That is a very good development and it impressively underlines the international significance of EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne. The DIY Boulevard as well as the exemplary customer service round off the first-class overall impression of this year's EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne perfectly."
Our major member companies each attended with up to 15 top buyers! It increases from year to year
John W. Herbert
General Secretary European DIY Retail Association (EDRA) & Global Home Improvement Network (GHIN)
The increases were also clearly noticeable for the exhibitors too. "We are very happy with this year's EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne. Particularly the numerous new contacts from South America and South Europe can be assessed positively. Furthermore, we were able to greet customers - especially from the USA - who after being absent for the past years, attended EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne again in 2018. These are very positive developments. They underline the fact that EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne with its concept-related changes is once again satisfying the demands of the customers. Moreover, the high number of visitors from abroad accentuates the international significance of the trade fair," confirmed J. Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Chairman of the Advisory Board of INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR Cologne.
With its conceptual adjustments, the INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR once again meets the requirements of customers
J. Wolfgang Kirchhoff
Chairman of the Advisory Board of the INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR Cologne
Rainer Langelüddecke, Managing Director of the Trade Association of the Tool Industry e.V. (FWI), also shared this positive conclusion: "From the point of view of our members the trade fair went superbly. The four days of the fair hardly sufficed for some of the exhibitors in Hall 10, the tool hall, to hold all of the necessary discussions. EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne is an absolute must for our industry due to the high level of internationality alone, because together our companies have an export rate of 70 percent and we supply 212 countries in the world. And many partners from these countries are on-site in Cologne to hold discussions and intensify their business relations."
Formats satisfy the customer demands
In addition to the new products, innovations and trends from the segments Tools, Industrial Supply, Fasteners and Fixings, Fittings, in cooperation with the Association of House & Garden Manufacturers e.V. (HHG) the DIY Boulevard convinced once again in the Home Improvement section. The format of the innovations per running meter sustainably convinced the top players of the construction, home and garden industry: With over 235 metres it created a pull effect. Dr. Peter Wüst, Chief Executive Director of the Federal Association of the German DIY, Building and Garden e.V. (BHB) said: "Overall, the industry has positively taken note of the fact that more exhibitors came to Cologne again this year. Some of them were even represented at larger stands in the Boulevard section so they could present the many innovations. In general, the Sunday was also very positively evaluated because on this day the buyers had ample time for intensive discussions that go far beyond merely the product."
The industry is facing the digitalisation
One of the stimulating trend themes of EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne was the theme digitalisation that an extensive event programme was dedicated to. Highlights included the two-day dSummit with lectures and exhibitors in the scope of the EISENforum, the Start-up Village as well as the "3D printing - Additive Production" special event. In addition to the DIY Boulevard, the Association of House & Garden Manufacturers e.V. also supported the Start-up Village, which was curated by Richard van Hooijdonk. "50 exhibitors from our association took part in the Boulevard. The mood is very positive, because many national and international customers were on-site. The association intensively supported the Start-up Village too - from our point of view a very future-looking concept, which unfortunately is still viewed with certain scepticism by many of the industries. Here, we will have to do adjust the screws slightly in the future because this is the future," accentuated Rolf Rahmede, Executive Director of the HHG.
The mood is very positive, because many national and international customers were on-site
Ralf Rahmede
Executive Director of the HHG
In the opinion of Thomas Dammann, Executive Director of the Central Association of the Hardware Trade e.V. (ZHH), the trade fair was also a total success and an important trendsetter in the age of digitalisation. "EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne once again offered the trade a good opportunity to meet up with many important national and international tool partners. Alongside exciting and attractive product innovations, one could also pick up on diverse sales and marketing aspects for one's own business. These included for example the theme digitalisation or the depicted opportunity of 3D printing," stated Dammann.
In addition to the trend theme, EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne offered further opportunities to exchange information and network in the form of the BME Buyers Days, the Hardware Seminar and the Trainee Day.
The EISEN Award 2018
For the fourth time already, together with their partners, Koelnmesse conferred the EISEN Award on the first evening of the fair at the Welcome Party. The EISEN CSR Award powered by BHB (went to KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG. The Innovation Award 2018 powered by ZHH was conferred to HAZET-Werk Hermann Zerver Gmbh & Co. KG (HiPer fine-toothed reversible ratchet 916 HP - 1000 Nm, 90 teeth), KNIPEX-WERK C. Gustav Putsch KG (KNIPEX rope cutter 95 62 160) and Wiha Werkzeuge GmbH (Wiha SpeedE). The winners were selected by the respective expert jury from a total of twelve nominees.
EISENWARENMESSE - INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR COLOGNE 2018 in figures
2,770 companies (2016: 2,672) from 58 countries (2016: 55) took part at EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair in 2018, 87 percent of which (2014:87) were from abroad. Including estimates for the last day of the fair, EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair 2018 attracted over 47,000 trade visitors (2016: 43,014) from 143 countries (2016: 124), of which over 70 percent (2016: around 63) came from abroad.*
* All figures are calculated in accordance with the guidelines of the Association for the Voluntary Control of Trade Fair and Exhibition Statistics (Gesellschaft zur Freiwilligen Kontrolle von Messe- und Seite Ausstellungszahlen, FKM) and are subject to checking by an auditor (www.fkm.de).
The next EISENWARENMESSE - International Hardware Fair Cologne is scheduled to take place from 1 to 4 March 2020.
Your contact for further questions
Sarah Becker-Kraft
Fax +49 221 821-3544
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Behind the Scenes: BBC at Epic Studios
“A fascinating time…”
Epic Studios was buzzing with life earlier in the month, when the BBC recorded their EU Referendum debate. It’s not until you see behind-the-scenes that you can begin to understand exactly what kind of organisation goes into producing television. The EU show wasn’t particularly complex on the grander scale of things; but from autocue operator to director, lighting assistant to presenter, 37 people contributed to its success and preparations started days before the event.
As a researcher for Epic Studios, I was able to move around the studio, gallery and green room, watching highly skilled BBC and Epic Studios crew in action as the show unfolded before my eyes, I took the opportunity to talk with some former staff from the studios who were present, about our building’s history. While microphone checks were performed, lighting altered and scripts were run through, I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to chat to BBC East producer Patrick Davies, who explained that he had come in for the day purely as an observer.
Having worked in the building as a broadcast journalist on the Anglia TV news from 1995-2001, Davies (pictured above with BBC floor manager Bob Clements and Epic Studios’ operations manager Kris McCarthy) was visibly happy to be back in the building, soaking up the atmosphere and remembering his time here in the 90s. As rehearsals went on in the main studio and guests began to arrive, I took him for look around the old news rooms and gallery and listened as he reminisced about his time at Anglia News. He told me how things had changed since he worked at Epic and recalled running into the production gallery with video tapes, hoping there would be enough time to get his VT (Video Tape recording) ready for airing before the news went out that night.. Back then, most journalists had their own crew. They would focus on getting the pictures while journalists wrote the accompanying words. Nowadays of course, in terms of news reporting, there are fewer people doing more work – you don’t necessarily have your own camera crew. It’s often the case that reporters will go out, shoot, edit and write for a news piece themselves, with very little help.
Before leaving, Mr Davies introduced me to Bob Ledwidge, now regions editor at Westminster but previously Head of Regional Programmes at Anglia TV (formerly based at Epic Studios).
“When I was working here, this was probably the biggest studio outside of London, other than maybe Manchester,” he told me. “I did quite a lot of regional shows and audience shows here in the 90s. Anglia was doing 11hrs of regional programming a week – which is an awful lot of programming! Of course that’s all gone now but it was a fascinating time. Epic Studios used to be a bowling alley of course… a cinema until 1962 then a bowling alley.
“Afterwards, Anglia TV (and Anglia news – which I personally never worked for) was based here. But for most of its life this was a big studio for big productions! It could also be divided up, so you could have 3 sets for 3 different shows at once. The 2 smaller studios became the news studios – and they were the first virtual reality studios in the country for news! So Anglia news, both East and West, used to come from here.”
I asked him what his role was on the EU Referendum Debate show but he explained that, like Patrick, he was here just for the experience of being back at Epic Studios: “Deborah said if you can on Sunday, pop in, so I came along”, he smiled.
“Lovely to be back at Epic Studios”
I was struck by the professionalism and graciousness of those who had joined us for the day. Everyone I spoke to, willingly gave up their time to tell me something positive of their experience in television production or our studios specifically; happy to share their stories and experiences Current staff clearly aren’t the only people who see Epic Studios as a special place.
The show went smoothly, despite emotions obviously running high on both sides of the debate.
Once recording was complete and the last audience members left the building, I asked producer Deborah McGurran and presenter Stewart White (shown above sharing a joke with Andrew Sinclair during rehearsals) how they felt things had gone:
“You’re always slightly at the mercy of the audience with this type of thing”, Deborah explained. “You can never be sure that they will turn up – but we had very little drop out here tonight. It was a big audience and they were a lively audience! It was very nice to get that size of an audience into a studio this size. It just gives you a better range of opinion and people.”
“You look at the panel and realise how motivated they are as well, that’s the other thing! There was a lot of passion here tonight,” added Stewart.
They were both here last year for the 2015 BBC Election Debate Special, so I asked them how it was to be back.
“It’s lovely to be back at Epic Studios”, said Stewart. “It’s a great facility, perfect for this kind of event, and we’ve been really well looked after.” Deborah nodded her agreement and I walked away a happy blogger, with a great note to end the day on.
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Rocket from the East 2019: Semi Finals – Epic Studios, Norwich
Rocket From The East – presented by The Tilting Sky – has been launching the profiles of Norfolk’s musicians since 2012. The most recent installment saw fourteen music acts contend across two nights of semi-final rounds at Epic Studios on 27 March and 3 April. From this eclectic pool of age and talent, only eight have progressed forward to 28 April’s finale: Front Bangs, Pin Ups, Ben Denny Mo, Telling Truths, Like Optimists, Mengelmoes, Purple Doors and WRECK – whose semi-final performances will be covered below.
Their triumphant return to Epic on Sunday will see them vie for the release of a single (recorded and mixed courtesy of Access Creative College), said single’s headlining launch show (courtesy of Epic Studios and The Tilting Sky) and a fully-styled photo shoot, simultaneously documented in a ‘making-of’ video (courtesy of Journal East).
Accepting one-song submissions between December 2018 and February 2019, the annual competition required entrants to be independent musicians, to write and perform their own songs, and to be resident to Norfolk. Those shortlisted were then invited to perform three original compositions with a maximum set length of fifteen minutes, in front of a live audience and panel.
Although just one act will ultimately claim the prize, all acts receive industry feedback and an invitation to play a Norwich show within the year as part of Craig Hill/ The Tilting Sky‘s ’60@60’ programme of events:
“Musicians who had their early experiences performing live under The Tilting Sky banner and are now playing to audiences all over the world include Ed Sheeran, Let’s Eat Grandma and Ida Mae.”
(Follow link for full article at EDP: EveningNews24)
FRONT BANGS
Front Bangs, “three chums/pals from Norwich who met in high school and loved making a racket together”, comprises of Bradley Brown (frontman/lead vocals, guitar), Richard Cully (bass) and Alex Kennett (drums, backing vocals). Drawn to their respective instruments because “they’re wicked”, let alone music because “it’s the best thing in the world”, their influences include Red Hot Chili Peppers and Brad’s dog, Milson (of which their song “Millie” takes its name).
“Stray” their latest release at the time of writing, pulls me through a wormhole, turning a celebrated city-centre lane into a desert road. Bright, wavy lines rise from the concrete and contort cacti. A purple sky swirls around a black hole sun, as if it were a drain. We can’t stop here. This is bat country.
The single combines Rage Against the Machine with Red Hot Chili Peppers, dips that into a batter of Stone Roses and fries it until golden-brown in a pan of Audioslave and then drizzles Oasis over it. It tastes of both Britpop and American post-grunge with vocals that morph between Zack de la Rocha, Noel Gallagher, Kurt Vile, Van McCann and Richard Patrick.
Just over a minute into the song, it has gone from the quiet introduction of a passively strummed acoustic guitar, drawing out chords from a muffled distance, to a confrontational in-your-face boxer, gloves up and bouncing with electrified directness and volume. Then, a gentle wave washes over the jabbing grooves, receding into a dreamy “Sour Girl” soundscape.
They are cool, confident and cheeky. It comes across in bass-driven opener “Forever Yours”, which has the feel of a jam, but sounds just like its recording with the added perk of more gusto and extended shredding. Strutting back and forth across the stage, Brad points his guitar like a gun (which only accentuates the song’s Bondish riffs) and later falls to his knees in a serene state contradicting the Venetian mandolin sounds his gain-cranked rapid fingers produce.
The room expands with a larger crowd during “Millie”– all bearing witness to impeccable timing (especially the lyrical delivery of the chorus). Its recording is slower with a more grungey feel – but live, it is fast-paced with varying drum beats tisking with cymbals and akin to dance-rock in areas.
By the third, a new song fitted with discordant chords and sudden onomatopoeic outbursts, Front Bangs sets the bar high for the other thirteen contenders, some of whom they gig with across the venues of Norwich.
Brought together via “the magic of telephones” and the “inertia of doing nothing”, the “Postman Pat punk” trio channeling the youthful, rough-around-the-edges energy of Switches – is made up of Josh Gibbs (London guitarist) and Attleborough brothers Jesse (drummer) and Louis Baker (bassist). Their varied discography is due to all three members writing songs separately (apart from “Lunchtime”, which was a collaboration between Jesse and Josh).
Josh sings the first song of a harmonic set that sees vocals rotate between all three band members. The opener is introduced with siren-like wails and driven with bass (flavours taste of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Duran Duran, The Who and The Go Go’s. And although he sings of being alone again, he isn’t for long when joined by the others in ascending arpeggios and coarse choruses that sit somewhere between Switches and Palma Violets.
The second song, “Lunchtime” – which has a slight “I’m Afraid of Americans” cadence to it – is sung by Jesse and coincidentally continues a reactionary theme on stateside school shootings from an earlier set. The snarky song resembles the neglect of a rundown playground – verses like rusted roundabouts, spinning in circles and semi-circles, clockwise and counter-clockwise, and choruses like swings, screeching high and low with childlike exclamations over chalk outlines in the cracked pavement.
Its springy, flamboyant swagger is emphasised with bouncing knees, stomping beats, bending notes and flailing limbs seemingly manipulated by invisible strings. Jesse’s elasticity sees him leaning over the drums into a microphone to sing and then reeling back in a dab with every rest, all the while singing in tune and playing in time.
The last song is Louis’ to sing through a pale blue haze. Fusing elements of psychedelic, prog-rock blues together with flavourings of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Madonna, Michael Jackson and sleepmakeswaves. It starts off punctuated with marching beats and tambourine accents. Chord progressions build up only to sigh with defeat over lyrics that accuse laziness, before breaking into a fluid jam-out that grows with volume and intensity between throbbing bass lines, soaring tremolos (that exude a very ’90s trance feel), and drum sticks that play the drummer – whether sitting or standing. By the song’s end, Jesse languidly flings away the match sticks that remain in his hands, truly spent.
“Music is important because it makes you feel like something else is just around the corner. Or it will change the way you dress, or think about yourself, or a night out, or your job. I can go on, but you get the idea of where I’m going,” says Josh.
Pin Ups @ RFTE Semi Final, Epic Studios 27/03/19
BEN DENNY MO
Fakenham singer-songwriter and guitarist, Ben Denny Mo, whose musicianship began when his parents bought him a guitar, takes influence from John Martyn, John Butler, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, his favourite concerts – Santana, The Skints, Prodigy and Earth Wind and Fire, and “wherever I am”.
“Music is my life,” he says. “It’s the only way I’ve been able to express my myself fully. I’m very dyslexic which has hindered every other learning activity except for music.”
Born in Greenwich, London, he lived on the island of Gozo for fifteen years, where he took lessons from a local pop star, before returning to the UK to pursue a music career that has since included playing Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party and Omeara. But tonight, he graces a Norwich stage and is joined by Fakenham bass guitarist Jake Osbourne, Walsingham drummer Dave Peake and Bristonian lead guitarist Russel Burrows.
“The band members are all friends of mine. I’ve been doing the solo thing for years and just recorded my first EP. We decided to form a band after that. I come up with a riff and start jamming until a song forms. They are all my songs. The band just plays them. I still perform on my own, too.”
Sampling his solo musicianship prior to, “Freak In Need” stands out because of its timings and accentuations, both lyrically and musically. It begins cyclically with a mbira-like sound to the strings, set to a beat that’s reminiscent of African folk music. Then, the acoustic guitar breaks over it like a gentle wave, transitioning the sound into one associated with country lanes. We’re suddenly between hedges. The sun sets over the vast fields of Norfolk, making silhouettes out of the occasional oak tree that pops up with each percussive punctuation – twisted, open-palmed and naked. But the folk song’s first, procrastinated lyric is a juxtaposition: “‘Cause I was only a freak in need”.
His voice is like a bicycle. It pedals forward with momentum – then eases the gear, spinning the pedals in quick revolutions (“like a ball and chain / is around my neck / pulling me right under / making me fall down / or making me go o-o-ohver”). At the top of the hill, it releases (“’Cause sometimes I feel’”) and glides down (“Sometimes I feeeeeel”). Only to brake and back-pedal (“like a rat in a cage”).
Lyrics vary in speed – either rolling off the tongue in a downwards tumble of syllables, relating to “being pulled under” and “falling down” – or being stretched out to fill the same space with less words, such as “making me go o-ooh-ver” Choice words soar and plummet, fluttery and emboldened, quickened and slowed, stretched and compacted. Lyrics are repeated with different deliveries, sometimes switched in with different endings. The guitar can be gentle or dramatic, slow or fast, plucked or strummed with a Spanish passion. Time is relative.
Together with a band, he sways in a floral-paisley shirt to the grooves of “Shorty” – voice fluctuating between singing and rhythmic speech, and low grunts and high wails. “Horace”, which makes me think of a funkified “Chop Suey”, has guitars that almost mimic accordions and a reggae bounce that picks-it-up-picks-it-up-picks-it-up into a ska beat before finishing acoustically against lyrics that plead, “don’t you stop”.
In contrast to the songs that precede it, “Figures”, is introduced by a duet between the slow strums of an acoustic guitar and the wails of an electric, evoking a sadness that peaks in an impressive, gritty howl.
Ben Denny Mo @ RFTE Semi Final, Epic Studios 27/03/19
TELLING TRUTHS
Telling Truths is a five-piece from Norwich and Lowestoft with a noughties American sound. Sometimes joined by guitarist Adam Hearth, the band includes second guitarist Rich Garlick, Natalie Cole on bass and Daniel Cooke on drums. Their influences include Marmozets, Pvris, You Me At Six, Don Broco, Boston Manor and “McDonald’s”, and they learned their instruments in school or else by listening to the radio.
Set opener, “Perspective”, the synth-padded first track off Desires and Visions, has a cyclical soundscape that tightly spirals around a darkening beach like thundering clouds of a forming hurricane. Violent waves form between the rolling drums and crashing guitars. And there’s even a section in the middle that resembles the momentary calm that comes with the eye of the storm. Georgi’s voice is almost cove-like, quavering but clear on top of guitars that rise and fall in steady rhythm and equal measure. On stage, she thrashes to the tube-riding wails of surfy guitars – a waterspout of hair in the pink-purple lights.
“All In My Head”, second in the set, quiets things down “just a little bit”. Although a country feel dominates two-thirds of the song, the addition of synth pads gives it a spacey twist. During the chorus, the repetition in the guitar riffs creates a drifting, “floating aimlessly” feeling.
“We Are Just a Memory” concludes their set, beginning with a wall of sound that parts to make room for breathy vocals that fill the void. The arpeggiating guitar of the middle section turns watery the second time around signalling a shift in the song – as if it’s slipped through to the Upside Down. Drumsticks patter off the snare, fingers pluck at strings (reminiscent of The Temper Trap) and an overlap of variations harmonise together in the repetition of “memory”.
PURPLE DOORS
The hinges of Purple Doors consist of Alex Gill (bass), Miles Clark (sticks) and Ross Wilson (guitar and vocals). Their sound dabbles in various shades, yet retains a smooth finish united in an emphasis of build- ups and story-driven lyrics with female leads.
In the first song of their set, Purple Doors exit stage left shredding. The lurching blues-rock opener, (flavours: Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz and White Stripes) is laden with stop-start riffs. The lyrics have an almost Hamlet effect – watching a “boy and his guitar / playing songs that he made”. The way in which Ross owns authorship to the lyrics – describing in real time the very scene that’s before the audience – makes me second-guess for a moment whether his request to be taken away from here is part of the act or not.
The second song, “Walls”, has an entirely different feel to it – one that’s jazzy with elements of contemporary R&B (flavours: Bruno Mars, Jack Johnson and James Blunt). The lyrics bounce. The rhythms groove. The chorus echoes. Mimicking a sauntering stroll down the same stretch of street over time, the bass line observes an insatiable subject whose restlessness and recklessness renders relationships a series of walls springing up in place of former ones. The other side of these razed relationships doesn’t even get acknowledged, as if blocking out the damage.
Third and final song, “Astronaut” (flavours: Incubus and Finch), is studded with cosmic imagery and choice silences that reinforce a theme of waiting: “I’m screaming out for mission control / To send me back home / Is this how it ends? / Help me down / I’m stuck on Mars / From up here I can see Earth / She’s out of reach / But she looks so good.” That latter lyric sung like a sigh of stubborn determination.
“This is gonna be the jumpy bit,” Ross says, to an audience that’s clapping along to a build-up. It builds and builds with a throbbing intensity, like a re-entry capsule burning through the atmosphere.
Just before the next band takes to the stage, I nip to the ladies’ and find myself in the twilight zone between the nineties and noughties – the alternative, grungey side of it: White knee-high Adidas socks paired with white platform shoes. Tank tops layered over tee-shirts. Chains dangling from hooped belts. Loud colours. Abstract prints. The only thing that’s missing is the smell of cigarettes and the sound of the bell.
The source of this phenomena soon becomes apparent between did-he-just-break-out-of-prison Diogo da Silva (vocalist and bassist), Kurt-Cobain-double-take Matty Kennedy (guitarist) and perfect-hair-forever Sam Sezarin (drummer). COUNTRYSIDE PUNKERZZZZ, WRECK, YA NAN’S FAVOURITE BAND. The opener to their opener already tells us what’s about to go down.
It’s fun to watch the three of them (although it fries the vision mixer behind my eyes). Whether in their own zones or playing off each other – it’s very evident that they’re having fun and enjoying themselves. Especially when both guitarists crouched down like vultures, and crept steadily towards each other only to fling back.
One of my favourite parts of the opener is when lyric “But I can’t be ON MY OWN” sees a shift in tone, taking the song with it from passive observer to assertive protagonist. The audience, in turn, goes from listening and watching to jumping and moshing with each other. “Oh, do you feel out of place / When I’m BREATHING IN YOUR FACE / AHHHHHHHHHH!” The scream evolves into a raw, melodic lead into the chorus. The stop-start song is dotted and dashed with distortion, crashing with cymbals and hole-punched with drums. It ends with the rumbling engine of a getaway car that is the guitar.
Diogo’s vocals blend speech, singing and shouting. There’s a pedal in there, sustaining choice words with force. In the instrumental between songs (grimace against the machine), Matty starts a playful exchange with Diogo over a whistling crowd. “Keep it plugged in! What you doing? Yo – stop!” A tiny touch worth noting is the continuation of music, which reminds me of a radio deejay filler.
The bookends of “Drowned” are slower, conjuring an empty bar serving warm beer on the side of the highway, next to a deteriorating motel parked with motorbikes and tractor-trailers, and advertised with flickering, neon lights. The song rocks in slow, sad sways (that aren’t meant to be sad – just stuffed down like ‘Shiny Happy People’) of repeated stop-start sentences until Sam raises both arms and clicks drumsticks together over his head: 1-2-3-4!
“Six Hours In” begins with ominous undertones. Its announcement appeases a crowd that erupts in screams. The sound that escapes the guitar is like oncoming headlights of a lurking vehicle that turns at the last moment, only to resemble a stretch limo without end. Infinitely duplicating like the bellows of an accordion. A menacing bass lurches forward to the beat of a death march leading to a hanging. Of ten. The song takes a sudden and surfy turn. Riding a wave that rises with the clapping build-up from the audience, it crashes in a release of punk that ends with metal.
WRECK @ RFTE Semi Final, Epic Studios 03/04/19
Their lean steak of a sampler set ends with cravings for second servings, but is packed with the same energy of a full-course gig. They’re a little bit Nirvana, but sped up. A little bit Sex Pistols, but louder. A little bit Leftover Crack, but lighter. A little bit Fidlar, but heavier. A little bit Bad Religion, but rawer. A little bit Social Distortion, but British. In other words, in a genre where you’ve most likely heard it before, WRECK is hard to pin down between eras, countries, genres and their own spin.
MENGELMOES
A soft-spoken introduction throws the audience off-guard:
“You probably don’t know what we’re called,” says the frontman. “People have a lot of trouble pronouncing our name. Mango Juice. Mangled Noise. Men Kelly Mo. Mango. Moes. But anyway – to clear it all up – we are mmmmMEH-EH-EH-eh-EH-EH-MEN-GHEL-MOO-OOOH-OOHSE.”
He belts out their name over a theatrical blast of Phantom of the Opera proportions like a wailing saxophone until the quiet trickle of keys returns him to speech. The crowd is stunned. There wasn’t a transition between song and speech.
It gets even more bewildering when the band erupts like a confetti popper – spraying the audience with modulating jazz-infused funky grooves, math-rock rhythms, fluid, proggy tempos, and bold textures – including the xylophone, harpsichord, organ and clavinet tones of two keyboards (as a keyboardist myself, I was chuffed to see a keyboard-driven beat in the last song as we are often swept to the side of the action).
There is scatting. There is shredding. And within the contest itself, a sub-contest ensues between members of the band – who each showcase their abilities in solo sections I later learn to be improvisational.
Their stage presence is engaging and as lively as their sound. Even keyboardist and bassist, notoriously stereotyped to be the less energetic members of bands, are showmen – moonwalking across the stage or else lying down and kicking like an upturned beetle.
Mengelmoes (Men-ghel-moose) consists of Tiago Dhondt Bamberger, (lead vocalist and bass guitarist), James O’Donnell (keyboardist, who, I’m told, doesn’t even play keyboards, miscellaneoust, and backing vocalist), Jake Brown (drummer) and Taegan Venner (guitarist and backing vocals). Each member produces the energy and sound of two or three members.
A “deep, fiery, romantic passion” and a “general love for creating music that makes everyone think you’re a bit nuts” are the forces that brought them together. Also, when Tiago and James heard Jake playing drums and decided he was in their band (with or without his consent) and then suggested the same guitarist to each other without realising they were “talking about the same good-looking guy”. Since then, it’s been a mixed journey of heavy metal, folk, funk and jazz.
Mengelmoes @ RFTE Semi Final, Epic Studios 03/04/19
LIKE OPTIMISTS
Lowestoft band Like Optimists (which funnily enough once played a gig with Pessimist) have a pop-punk early noughties America feel to them without the nasal sound attached (says me, an American).
Their influences include Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Nothing But Thieves, All Time Low, blink-182, Don Broco and Fall Out Boy, and their name couldn’t be more fitting as the finishing act concluding two nights of neck-in-neck semi-finals rounds. Going out with a bang, a contagious, electrified energy saw the crowd singing and stomping along.
“Fake” starts the harmonic set with lyrics: “It’s over now / We’re moving on / It’s over now”, of which the bouncing band sings and shouts in unison, as if channelling the circumstances that currently face them. The song twists with unwavering chords that resemble a knotted stomach writhing with an admission of guilt. Nathan’s voice, which has shades of Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), exudes a sense of hopelessness about the relationship that’s ending throughout the song. What I particularly like about “Fake” is how it repeats “it’s over now” before the song ends, as if a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“Devil’s Game” has a mischievous bounce to it like a silhouette shrouded in the mist of a mysterious, phased guitar. The almost gypsy-punk strumming pattern conjures something of the occult – perhaps Dexter Holland (The Offspring), who seems to possess Nathan at times.
The final song of the final set of the semi-finals sees Like Optimists go all out. Pulling all the stops to punctuate the end of an era with an epic performance, the energy that radiates from them – between them – bounces back from the audience with increasing intensity. It’s all a poetic ending with the full-stop being Will’s bass, lifted high over his head like a raised glass – half-full.
“It was a close thing,” says Craig Hill, The Tilting Sky at the end of it all. “Really close. Commiserations to those who didn’t get through, but thanks again. Everyone was brilliant.”
With it nearly being a month since the semi-finals rounds, these remaining acts have been busy rehearsing their original songs and signature performances for an epic battle of the bands.
Eight independent groups from Norfolk will contend for the recording of a single, its headlining launch show, and documented photo shoot with three-song sets.
Come down on the 28th of April for what promises to be a top-quality show, and what might just be the birth of something big. It’s just £3 – supporting local, independent music couldn’t be easier.
Tickets here: https://www.epic-tv.com/events/rocket-from-the-east-final/
A massive thank you and all writing credits to Monique Guz AKA MO WRITES for her kind words – please visit her fantastic blog or social media channels for more music news local to the region…
MO WRITES is a freelance writer based in Norwich – to read the full feature of all fourteen acts please visit her blog.
Tags: Epic Studios Live Music, Epic Studios music shows, Gig, Live Music Norwich, Rocket from the East, Tilting Sky
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Terrorism At Home
Generally, "respectable" conservatives go into conniption fits when they believe people are trying to suggest that their wilder public-policy notions might appeal to the guys running around stockpiling arms against the coming Obama onslaught and desperate to go watering the tree of liberty with something or other. Can't understand where the folks in the camo would get that notion, can you, Huck?
But what's going on out there in the country now is getting just a little bit terrifying.
Jay Hileman, an assistant U.S. attorney in Houston, has withdrawn from a large Aryan Brotherhood of Texas racketeering case due to security concerns. Richard O. Ely II, a Houston defense attorney who is representing one of the 34 defendants, said Hileman sent him an email on Tuesday, informing him that he was off the case. Ely said another Justice Department prosecutor from Washington D.C. will be assigned to the case to replace Hileman.
Federal prosecutors are not made of candyglass. They don't take a walk on a case unless their "security concerns" are genuine and substantial. And those concerns are piling up fast.
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is a key focus in the investigation of the recent murders of the Kaufman County district attorney and one of his prosecutors. No evidence has emerged tying the prison gang to the killings. No one has been charged or named as a suspect. District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot to death in their homes on Saturday. About two months earlier, felony prosecutor Mark Hasse was gunned down in a parking lot near the county courthouse. Ely said Hileman, who he called a good friend of his, is likely concerned about his family after the killing of the DA and his wife."He's obviously made a decision based on something," Ely said.
A federal prosecutor leaves a case because he's afraid he and his family might be shot. That is the living definition of terrorism. Where's Liz Cheney?
I'm old enough to remember when the NRA joined an ensemble conniption fit to condemn Ice-T for merely writing a song called "Cop Killer." The NRA followed that up by fighting a ban on armor-piercing "cop killer" bullets, and everybody appreciated the irony, and things went on as usual. Now, actual cops are being killed and Ice-T's on a successful TV cop show, so I guess we're all good.
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Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari calls for global co-operation to stop Artificial Intelligence becoming as big a threat to humankind as climate change and nuclear war
World 03/05/2019
Revealed: Thousands of looted artefacts from Middle East sold in Europe via social media
"Social media was a very important driver of (the Arab Spring) protests so it was only a matter of time before the looting and trafficking of antiquities would bleed into social media," Dr Amr Al-Azm, Professor Middle East History and Anthropology, told Euronews.
Watch the formal investiture ceremony for new Japanese Emperor Naruhito
The formal investiture ceremony for new Japanese Emperor Naruhito began on Wednesday, marking the first time in over 200 years that an emperor has acceded to the throne following an abdication.
Showcase unveils the similarities between different religions
An exhibition in Jerusalem is showing how women from three different religions wear similarly modest dresses.
Destinations 24/04/2019
“We produce the wine of happiness in a land full of blood”
Our interview with Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger on Champagne’s UNESCO heritage status.
United Kingdom 23/04/2019
England celebrates St George's Day: What you need to know
St George is the patron saint of England, known for slaying a dragon.
Catholics sing hymns during twilight parade after Notre-Dame fire
Parisian Catholics came together on Tuesday night to sing hymns and to march in tribute to the Notre-Dame cathedral, which was devastated by a fire on Monday.
Shakespeare's European neighbours may have inspired his plays, historian finds
The Bard "was living in one of the wealthiest parishes in the City, alongside powerful public figures, wealthy international merchants, society doctors and expert musicians."
Egypt unveils the 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest at an ancient cemetery in Cairo
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and an Egyptian team opened three sealed sarcophagi from the 26th Dynasty. One contained the well-preserved mummy of a powerful priest, wrapped in linen and decorated with a golden figure depicting Isis, an ancient Egyptian goddess.
On the day the UK was supposed to leave the EU - how did we get into it in the first place?
If you think Brexit was the beginning of friction between Britain and the EU, you'd be wrong. Here are the key dates in their rocky relationship from the UK joining on 1 Jan 1973.
futuris 04/03/2019
3D modelling will document Europe's cultural heritage
The EU funded Inception project is developing a cultural and architectural heritage data base using 3D tools which everyone from academics to tourists will be able to access.
Notes from the USA 03/03/2019
A visit to Boston’s most storied ship: USS Constitution
Belarus 26/02/2019
Remains of hundreds of Jews unearthed in Nazi-era mass grave in Belarus
Soldiers in Belarus have unearthed the bones of hundreds of people shot during World War Two from a mass grave discovered at the site of a ghetto where Jews lived under the Nazis.
Mickey’s Dining Car: making 'America's best milkshakes' since 1939
A typical Art Deco-styled American diner, Mickey’s prides itself on serving "the best pancakes in town and the best milkshakes in the country".
Watch in 360°: Weekend 'soldiers' relive the decisive battles of World War II
Be part of the action as 200 re-enactors meet to relive the Battle of the Bulge — Nazi Germany's last offensive in WWII.
Bad habit: historians find record of nun who faked her own death to pursue 'way of carnal lust'
Nun on the run! Historians find record of 'Joan of Leeds' who faked her own death to escape convent and 'pursue way of carnal lust'
Fashion 31/01/2019
Christian Dior exhibition opens in London
The largest and most comprehensive museum display ever staged in Britain on the revered French fashion house.
Watch: Russian collectors help to revive unique art of stone-cutting
Private collectors are resurrecting the unique art of stone-cutting in Russia, helping the historic discipline to thrive in the modern day.
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Greatest Kits | Celtic 96/97 v 07/08: Vote for your favourite strip
Greatest Kits | Celtic 96/97 v 07/08
By James Cairney Digital Journalist
In the last vote of the opening round of our Greatest Kits poll, we have Celtic's away shirt from 1996/97 up against the away strip from 2007/08.
Away 96/97
The 1996/97 season was one that ultimately ended in disappointment for Celtic supporters. Tommy Burns' side finished second in the league and were knocked out of the League Cup by Hearts before being eliminated from the Scottish Cup by Falkirk. Players like Alan Stubbs and Paolo Di Canio were recruited in the summer but in the end, it wasn't quite enough to bring silverware to Glasgow's east end.
The 2007/08 campaign saw Celtic retain the SPL title and although Gordon Strachan's side were knocked out of both domestic cup competitions at the quarter-final stage, Celtic supporters had plenty to shout about as they qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League, securing wins over the likes of AC Milan, Benfica and Shakhtar Donestk along the way.
The Bulletin: Emery insists Arsenal must up Tierney offer | 'Morelos can win move to a bigger club in England'
Famous name but Djorkaeff learning to live his own life
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Breaking the Boundaries: Building an International Approach
by FORMA
Thu, 27 June 2019, 18:30 – 21:30 BST
chapmanbdsp
40 Gracechurch Street
EC3V 0BT
FORMA + chapmanbdsp presents "Breaking the Boundaries: Building an International Approach"
Roundtable with Giancarlo Alhadeff, Ian Duncombe and Maria-Chiara Piccinelli
FORMA + is a new series of itinerant events connecting ideas, people and businesses that operate in the built environment. From design to architecture, from town planning to real estate and beyond, we are an open space for debate and inspiration.
The third FORMA + event will be hosted by the independent building services, engineering and environmental design consultancy chapmanbdsp in its London headquarters.
What are the challenges and opportunities of internationalisation for large and small businesses in the building industry? How do architects use their skills in different cultural and legal contexts? What are the best strategies to sell your design approach in international competitions and tenders?
Three practitioners with different backgrounds will share their cross-boundary experience and engage in an open debate with the public.
Welcome drinks
Introduction - Fabio Mozzicarelli (chapmanbdsp)
Roundtable with:
+ Giancarlo Alhadeff (Director - Alhadeff Architects)
+ Ian Duncombe (Board Director - chapmanbdsp)
+ Maria-Chiara Piccinelli (Director - PiM.studio Architects)
+ Simona Basili and Lorenzo Pandolfi (FORMA)
Photographer: Francesco Russo
LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE - PLEASE RSVP ON EVENTBRITE
NO TICKET = NO ENTRY
Ian Duncombe co-founded BDSP Partnership in 1995 and went on to deliver a great number of award winning UK and international projects, among them 30 St Mary Axe (the ‘Gherkin’), Nottingham Science Park and the World Trade Center in Abu Dhabi incorporating what is now the world’s 4th tallest all-residential building. Many of these projects were formed around Ian’s innovative environmental engineering designs. Today, Ian continues to collaborate with leading architects on high profile projects such as Battersea Power Station Phase 3. He is currently delivering projects in the UK, Kenya, the UAE and Malta.
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli is as interested in the technical aspects of architecture – the finer details, the way things fit together, the materials – as she is in the way we use the spaces in which we live and work. She is a strong believer in the importance of public spaces for a city to thrive, and in the crucial role nature plays within architecture. As a director of PiM.studio alongside Maurizio Mucciola, she brings to the practice many years of experience leading complex and high-profile projects. She began her career in Italy, and has since worked in Tokyo, Edinburgh and Paris for Kengo Kuma & Associates, and in Rotterdam for OMA/Rem Koolhaas.
Giancarlo Alhadeff established Studio Alhadeff Architects in 1991. Dedicated to design with an international point of view. From its inception, the Studio has carried out design projects in the US, UK, Japan, and the Far and Middle East. It has realized projects in a variety of architectural sectors, true to the multifaceted nature of its founder. These include new buildings such as hotels and fitness centers; restoration of existing structures including those recognized for their artistic and historic value; commercial and private interior design, including high visibility, high fashion boutiques, offices, showrooms, shopping centers, restaurants as well as private residences.
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Breaking the Boundaries: Building an International Approach at chapmanbdsp
40 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3V 0BT, United Kingdom
FORMA Summer Party 2019
The Three Johns, London
RIBA London (Portland Place PM) - Business planning: key to running a successful practice
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
Just Landscape? Diversity, Ethnicity, Representation
University of East London, London
RIBA Smart Practice Conference 2019: New Ways of Working
The Better Timber Buildings conference 2019
Royal Geographical Society, London
WeAreTechWomen Conference
etc.venues Bishopsgate
RIBA East (Chelmsford) - Business planning: key to running a successful practice
Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford
Tue, 28 Jan 18:00
NKILI Property and Construction Networking
Japan House London, London
RIBA London (Portland Place AM) - Inclusive environments: designing for neighbourhoods of the future
RIBA London (Portland Place PM) - Inclusive environments: designing for neighbourhoods of the future
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‘The Snowman’ with live orchestra - Salisbury Cathedral
by Carrot Productions Limited
Fri, 6 December 2019, 16:00 – 17:00 GMT
6, The Close
SP1 2EJ
© Snowman Enterprises Limited
Following on from their highly acclaimed, sell-out tour last December, Carrot Productions is bringing its Snowman magic to Salisbury for the first time this Christmas. There are also performances at 13.30 and 19.00 at Salisbury Cathedral.
Click HERE to view Snowman trailer
Immerse yourself in the irresistible animated film ‘The Snowman‘ accompanied by a live orchestra. A heart-warming experience that brings more than a snowman to life, and featuring the much-loved classic ‘Walking in the Air’. A festive favourite for the whole family.
The world’s leading performers of The Snowman, Carrot Productions has staged almost 200 performances to date across the UK, including at many of the country’s finest Cathedrals and venues, and the orchestra comprises musicians drawn from the UK’s top orchestras.
The Bear and the Piano
The performance includes a second animation, The Bear and the Piano, an enchanting animated film of the award-winning book by David Litchfield. With mesmerising music by Daniel Whibley - and the unmistakeable voice of Joanna Lumley narrating - it looks set to become a classic for the next generation.
Suitable for all ages from 3+
As featured in The Guardian, Sunday Times and The Telegraph
For further details, please visit www.carrotproductions.com
Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
Please contact Carrot Productions with any questions or queries via email: info@carrotproductions.com
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
This performance is suitable for all ages 3+. However, children aged 18 months and under will be admitted for free if seated on a parent's knee, with the hope that you will be considerate to other audience members and take your child out of the performance temporarily if they are crying or disturbing others.
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding access issues for wheelchair users and their carers: info@carrotproductions.com
Can I choose my own seats?
Yes, you can choose specific seats in all areas except for the side aisles which are unreserved and available on a first come, first served basis.
Wheelchair users
Please contact us if you require a wheelchair space reserving, including the number of people in your party. and we will ensure that you are seated in the most ideal position: info@carrotproductions.com
For your protection and the comfort of all customers, Carrot Productions Limited reserves the right to refuse admission in reasonable circumstances such as rowdy or violent behaviour.
For the consideration of other audience members, latecomers may be asked to wait for a suitable break in the performance before taking their seats.
No audio or visual recording equipment is allowed.
By purchasing a ticket, the ticket holder consents to being shown as members of the audience in official filming, photography and sound recording.
All children must be accompanied by and remain under the care and control of a responsible adult at all times.
Tickets are non-refundable unless the performance is cancelled, in which case the full amount paid - including fees - will be refunded.
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‘The Snowman’ with live orchestra - Salisbury Cathedral at Salisbury Cathedral
6, The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EJ, United Kingdom
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Andy Wood w/ Seth Rosenbloom, Infinite Eve
The Pour House Music Hall
Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 9:00 PM – Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT
Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 9:00 PM –
Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT
224 S Blount St
Andy Wood + Seth Rosenbloom + Infinite Eve!
ANDY WOOD:
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ANDY WOOD is recognized as part of the forefront of this generation’s top influential guitarists.
Currently touring as a solo guitarist and mandolinist along with working on a host of additional musical projects, Andy is also performing live with his own band promoting CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TRUTH AND A LIE, the double album which showcases his vast musical influences and abilities.
Andy has toured professionally with a wide range of acts, including most recently Gary Allan, LOCASH, Rascal Flatts, Scott Stapp, and Sebastian Bach. Looking for an outlet for styles other than hard rock, Andy also released his debut solo album A DISCONCERTING AMALGAM. This instrumental record covers a broad range of genres including fusion, rock, metal, and acoustic bluegrass. Andy Wood is known for blurring the lines of preconceived genres.
Andy spent most of his childhood playing and competing in bluegrass festivals. Touring the bluegrass circuit with his cousin and grandfather provided Andy with the necessary exposure that helped refine and sharpen his skills. Andy and his cousin held various state championship titles.
At the young age of sixteen, Andy finished second in the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MANDOLIN CONTEST in Winfield, Kansas. All of this was accomplished before Andy discovered the world of electric guitar at the age of eighteen.
Fast-forward a few years. Andy’s curiosity and appreciation for music drew him into the world of electric guitars. The new instrument was familiar due to his experience with acoustic instruments, but at the same time, allowed him to manipulate his sound in ways never before possible. He began studying the styles of Nashville session players such as Brent Mason and Albert Lee.
It was not long after Andy had immersed himself in new styles such as jazz, swing, fusion, and rock. Andy began to study other guitar greats such as The Dixie Dregs, Eric Johnson, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, and Steve Vai. The young guitarist began incorporating their influences into his own style.
At the age of 22, Andy was drawn back to competition in the form of GUITARMAGGEDON, a guitar contest sponsored by Guitar Center. Andy was a face in the crowd of 3,400 other contestants, but he made his presence known by being crowned champion of this prestigious tournament.
Not long after winning Guitarmaggedon, Andy became a founding member of the rock group DOWN FROM UP. They have toured with Seven Dust, Drowning Pool and 10 Years.
As Andy climbs to greater and greater heights, his technical proficiency and tasteful chops makes Mr. Wood a force to be reckoned with, and a name you will not forget. If you find yourself “Caught Between The Truth and a Lie,” you’ll need all the “Charisma” you can get your hands on!
SETH ROSENBLOOM:
Hailed as the future of the blues, Seth Rosenbloom brings a highly inspired and expressive approach to his music. Seth’s dazzling lines and singing vibrato on the guitar along with his distinctively sultry vocals result in his own interpretation of the blues and are fully on display on his debut, self-titled EP, released September, 2017.
The Boston Globe calls him a “searing blues-rock guitarist” and A.J. Wachtel of The Noise Boston says, “He makes his guitar growl and has a voice to match”. A review of his EP by Mike Rick of the Blues PowR blog compares Seth to “a slightly younger and rawer version of Matt Schofield” and also praises his “gravelly, forceful vocals and stinging guitar work”.
Seth was born into a musical family in Waltham, Massachusetts. After playing classical violin in his earliest years, Seth took up guitar at age eleven, first drawn to the music of Elvis and The Beatles. At the young age of sixteen, Seth was selected for a performance merit scholarship at Berklee College of Music. While a dean’s list student at Berklee, Seth developed his compositional and technical skills in both jazz and improvisational music, extensively expanding his musical vocabulary.
After spending a few years as an active sideman and in demand clinician, Seth stepped into the spotlight with 2017 marking the release of his debut, self-titled EP as well as tour dates up and down the East Coast. His performances always display an intense and deeply committed musicianship. Combined with his engaging and sincere personality, Seth never fails to delight audiences.
Much of 2018 will be spent on the road, with Seth performing to his rapidly growing fanbase across the United States and beyond. He will also head back into the studio to start work on his next album. Don’t miss your chance to see this rising blues guitar star when he comes to a city near you.
INFINITE EVE:
Infinite Eve is Paul Warren and Eve Naylor. Follow us for lots of exciting new music being created. We think you'll like our twist on modern rock music.
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Andy Wood w/ Seth Rosenbloom, Infinite Eve at The Pour House Music Hall
224 S Blount St, Raleigh, NC 27601
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Maj Deeka Album Release Party
The Fritz w/ Cosmic Superheroes
Travers Brothership w/ Litte Bird
Groove in the Garden 2019
Groove in the Garden, Raleigh
#Music #Festival
Sat, Nov 16 9:00 PM
Mo Lowda & The Humble w/ Ona
The Aristocrats w/ Travis Larson Band
Mephiskapheles w/ The Ghost of Saturday Nite
Agent Orange w/ The Turbo ACS, Queen City Rejects, Poison Anthem, Ghost OSN
Magic Beans w/ The Fat Catz
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Everyday Health Cancer Breast Cancer
Former Miss Venezuela Loses Battle With Breast Cancer
Eva Ekvall, a former Venezuelan beauty queen turned breast cancer advocate, died this week at 28, less than two years after being diagnosed with the disease. But her message of awareness lives on.
By Allison Takeda
10 Essential Facts About Breast Cancer
Are Your Breasts Dense?
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21, 2011 — Venezuelan beauty queen Eva Ekvall died this week after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 28.
Ekvall, who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2000 and went on to place fourth in the 2001 Miss Universe pageant, was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer early last year, just months after giving birth to her daughter with husband John Fabio Bermudez, a radio producer. She then underwent eight months of aggressive treatment, including chemotherapy, radiation, and a mastectomy.
The ordeal left her almost unrecognizable, but rather than hide away, Ekvall became a very public advocate for breast cancer awareness. In 2010, she published a book, Out of Focus, that detailed her battle with the disease, complete with photographs of her at various stages.
“I hate to see photos in which I come out ugly,” she told El Nacional newspaper. “But you know what? Nobody ever said cancer is pretty.”
Breast cancer affects some 230,480 women every year, according to the American Cancer Society. Though the majority of those women are older — age is a main risk factor — about one in eight cases occurs in women younger than 45. Family history certainly plays a part in at least some of these cases, as does testing positive for the breast cancer gene mutation, but anyone can be affected, regardless of risk.
When young women do get breast cancer, they’re at somewhat of a disadvantage in many respects. For one thing, routine mammogram screenings aren’t recommended until you hit age 40, so tumors may not be caught until the disease has already progressed to the later stages. Second, research shows that young women tend to face more aggressive forms of cancer and have lower survival rates than older women. They also face additional emotional, physical, and lifestyle hurdles, such as fertility issues and financial instability.
Ekvall hoped to bring these challenges to light by raising awareness of the disease in her native Venezuela. She became an advocate for the cancer organization SenosAyuda to “send the message of the need for cancer prevention.”
That message now seems all the more poignant in the wake of her death.
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Sooners bash Pokes in Bedlam
NORMAN — Ryan Spangler scored 15 points and grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds, as No. 23 Oklahoma upended eighth-ranked Oklahoma State, 88-76, on Monday at Lloyd Noble Center.
Jordan Woodard registered 18 points, while Tyler Neal netted 15 points on 5- of-6 shooting from the field for the Sooners (17-4, 6-2 Big 12), who have won four straight.
"I just kept finding spots and my teammates kept finding me with the ball," Woodard remarked. "They just wanted me to shoot it when I was open."
Marcus Smart supplied 22 points on just 6-of-18 shooting from the floor, while Phil Forte went 6-of-6 from 3-point range en route to 20 points for the Cowboys (16-4, 4-3), who have dropped two of their last three games.
"I don’t really care about how I played individually," Forte said. "I would much rather go 1-for-50, like I did against West Virginia, and win. That’s all I really care about is winning. I’ll do whatever it takes for my team to win."
Smart sank a pair of 3-pointers and Markel Brown added a pair of buckets to help Oklahoma State grab a 10-7 lead just over four minutes in, but the Sooners scored the next 13 points to build a double-digit lead.
Spangler scored the first five points in the surge, while Neal knocked down a triple before capping the run with a three-point play for a 20-10 lead.
A Forte 3-pointer found the Cowboys within 38-33 with just over four minutes left in the frame, but Neal knocked down a triple of his own inside of a minute remaining to help the Sooners take a 46-38 spread into the locker room.
Woodard drained a pair of treys around a Smart jumper early in the second and Frank Booker followed with four straight points to push Oklahoma’s lead to 60-43 just over six minutes into the second half.
OSU answered with a 14-4 flurry that Brown capped with a dunk to bring the visitors within seven, but a swift 7-2 swing from the Sooners had the margin back above double digits with 7 1/2 minutes to play.
The Cowboys made one last push when Le’Bryan Nash buried a jumper after a Brown three-point play to make it 76-70, but Oklahoma countered with seven straight points for an 83-70 lead with 1:45 left.
Oklahoma State failed to get closer than 10 the rest of the way.
Notes: Brown finished with 18 points and seven rebounds, but went 0-for-5 from 3- point range for Oklahoma State, which shot 9-for-24 from distance overall … Buddy Hield had 11 points for OU … It was the first time both teams have entered a "Bedlam" rivalry game ranked since 2005. The rematch is set for Feb. 15 at Oklahoma State.
(17) Duke 80, (18) Pittsburgh 65
PITTSBURGH — Andre Dawkins led both an impressive Duke perimeter shooting display and a pivotal second-half run that enabled the 17th-ranked Blue Devils to record an 80-65 victory over No. 18 Pittsburgh in a key ACC clash. Dawkins knocked down 6-of-7 attempts from 3-point range and netted 14 of his 20 points after halftime for Duke (17-4, 6-2 ACC), which broke open a close game with a 12-0 surge that began with under 10 minutes to play.
The Blue Devils shot 13-of-25 from beyond the arc as a team en route to their fifth straight win, with Jabari Parker and Amile Jefferson each recording double-doubles in the triumph.
Villanova 65, Georgetown 60
WASHINGTON, D.C. — James Bell supplied 16 points, four rebounds, and four steals as the No. 9 Villanova Wildcats held on to defeat the Georgetown Hoyas, 65-60, at Verizon Center.
JayVaughn Pinkston and Daniel Ochefu both had 12 points and Ryan Arcidiacono contributed nine points, five boards, and three assists as Villanova (18-2, 7-1 Big East) won its second straight game and seven of its last eight.
"That was tough, it was physical - I thought Georgetown’s defense was great we had sixteen turnovers - we haven’t done that - we’ve been pretty good taking care of the basketball but I just thought they played great defense tonight and I thought we did too," Wildcats head coach Jay Wright said.
Markel Starks had a game-high 20 points and five helpers and Reggie Cameron chipped in with 12 points as Georgetown (11-9, 3-6) extended its losing streak to five games.
"We’re in a hole right now. One thing we don’t have to worry about is that the kids competed, they’re going to compete, they played hard," Hoyas head coach John Thompson III said.
Georgetown started the game on an 8-0 run that contained back-to-back treys from Cameron and Starks, but Arcidiacono dropped two 3s of his own in an 8-0 run to give Villanova a 19-12 lead over eight minutes into the contest.
Ochefu drained a jumper with three seconds left in the half to give the Wildcats a 35-30 edge heading into the break.
The Hoyas tied the game less than two minutes into the half. Cameron hit a 3 and Starks went in on a layup to even the score at 35. Georgetown took a 41-39 lead off a pair of free throws by Starks three minutes later.
After Bell and Bowen traded triples to keep the game tied at 46, Pinkston and Arcidiacono both made a pair of free throws to give Villanova a 52-48 edge with close to eight minutes remaining.
Starks knocked down a jumper to get the Hoyas within two with just over four to go, but Bell went down the other end and drained a triple from the right wing to make it a 59-54 game.
With Villanova leading 61-58, Bell missed a three and Nate Lubick pulled down a defensive rebound to setup the next play. Starks drove inside from the left side, but was called for charging as he threw a pass out to an open Hoya in three-point range with 34 seconds to go.
Aaron Bowen was forced to foul Tony Chennault off the Wildcats’ inbound pass. Chennault split the free throw shots to put Villanova up by four. Jabril Trawick missed both of his jumpers on the other end and Bell knocked down another free throw.
Pinkston knocked down two more free throws and Starks drove in on a layup to account for the final score.
Notes: This was Villanova’s first road win against the Hoyas since Jan. 8, 2007 … Starks became the 44th player in Georgetown history to pass the 1,000-point mark for his career … Georgetown was without center Moses Ayegba due to a one-game suspension … This is the first time since February of 2009 that Georgetown has dropped three straight at home … Villanova outrebounded Georgetown, 30-29.
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Council recall effort stalled in Crystal City
John MacCormack Nov. 20, 2015
1of6Crystal City attorney James Jonas attempts to explain a tax hike during a city council meetings on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
2of6City Attorney/Manager James Jonas, shown in a meeting last month, says the number of signatures on recall petitions must equal at least 51 percent of votes cast, so an election with two races would tend to require twice as many signatures.Photo: Billy Calzada / San Antonio Express-News
3of6Crystal City attorney James Jonas, left at table, and council members Marco Rodriguez, Rogelio Mata, Roel Mata and Joel Barajas face citizens, many who are upset about a tax hike and the $216,000 yearly salary of attorney Jonas, during a meeting on Friday. Oct. 9, 2015.Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
4of6Irma Gallegos, middle, expresses her concern over a tax hike and the high salary of Crystal City attorney James Jonas during a meeting on Friday. Oct. 9, 2015.Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
5of6Jose Mata has words with a police officer as he speaks during a Crystal City council meeting on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Mata expressed his displeasure over the high salary of city attorney James Jonas.Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
6of6A police officer, at left, escorts Crystal City attorney James Jonas, councilman Marco Rodriguez, Mayor Ricardo Lopez and councilman Joel Barajas from a meeting at which many citizens expressed anger at the councilâs proposed tax hike and attorney Jonasâ high salary on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.Photo: Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
An effort to recall two city councilmen and the mayor in Crystal City hit a roadblock this week when petitions containing more than 1,200 signatures were rejected as being legally insufficient.
City Attorney/Manager James Jonas III — the ultimate target of the recall effort — said Tuesday that the effort had failed.
“They created a charter where recall conditions are very difficult. It requires 51 percent of total votes cast — not electors, not voters — but votes cast,” he said.
Jonas said that, while 1,931 people voted in the May 9 general election, with two council races on the ballot, the number of “votes” was far greater.
“Over 3,600 votes were cast because there were two council places. Based on this, they would have had to submit over 1,800 signatures,” he said.
The Texas secretary of state’s office confirmed that it had reviewed the disputed recall issue but could not offer a solution.
“We have been speaking with individuals in Crystal City, and our agency has advised them that the City Charter would be the determining document for the number of signatures required,” Alicia Pierce said.
Randall “Buck” Wood, a former director of elections for the secretary of state, said Jonas’ interpretation of the charter language is wrong.
“I have looked at these petition requirements, statewide and local, for over 40 years, and I have not seen anyone attempt to make an interpretation like this. Never. It’s standard language and it means the number of people who went and voted in the election,” he said.
“It makes no sense whatsoever to interpret it the other way. You cannot interpret a city charter in a manner that makes the outcome absurd,” he added.
Backers of the recall effort, who say they consulted with the elections division of the secretary of state at every step and were confident of having a safe margin of signatures, reacted with anger and incredulity.
“It’s stupid. It’s ridiculous. I think what they are doing is trying to make it harder on us,” said Richard Diaz, a former councilman.
Diana Jimenez, a petition drive organizer, said a lawyer with the secretary of state told her Wednesday that the arcane election dispute may have to be settled in court.
“I’m in the process of trying to get a private attorney,” she said.
Attempts to get comment from those named on the recall petition, Councilmen Roel Mata and Marco Rodriguez and Mayor Ricardo Lopez, were not successful.
The petition seeking their ouster lists various reasons, including the council awarding Jonas a $220,000 contract that the city cannot afford; increasing taxes and utility fees without due process or discussion with constituents; failure to provide the city audit to constituents; and a loss of confidence in the public officials by Crystal City residents.
The main irritant is Jonas, a former high profile Republican lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and Austin who fell on hard times with the change of administration in 2008, and later spent months in Bexar County Jail for failure to pay child support.
He began working for Crystal City in 2013 as city attorney and soon became city manager, as well.
Jonas says he pays between $11,000 and $12,000 a month in child support, but the reimbursement he receives from Crystal City is roughly three times what the town formerly spent on a city manager and part-time city attorney.
Many here see him as the real boss at City Hall, an employee who manipulates compliant elected officials.
Jonas has defended his work, saying he is transforming a long downtrodden agricultural town that has never recovered from the tumultuous reign of the Raza Unida Party in the 1970s. He brushed off accusations that he is only in it for the money.
“It’s not ego, it’s mission. Forces bigger than me brought me here, and it will take forces bigger than me to get me out,” he said.
jmaccormack@express-news.net
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John MacCormack has been covering South Texas and the Mexican border for the past 27 years, first for the Dallas Times Herald and since 1992 for the Express-News.
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Independence Day 2018: Naveen Patnaik launches health welfare scheme across state to benefit 70 lakh families
India Press Trust of India Aug 15, 2018 12:08:44 IST
Bhubaneswar: Despite rains, the 72nd Independence Day was on Wednesday celebrated across Odisha with gaiety amid tight security with the state government launching a health welfare scheme aimed at benefiting 70 lakh families.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced the start of Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY), a universal health coverage scheme, in Odisha from Wednesday while unfurling the national flag at Mahatma Gandhi Road here during a drizzle.
File image of Chief Minister of Orissa, Naveen Patnaik PTI
Stating that the scheme would benefit 70 lakh families in the state, Patnaik said it would be implemented with the cooperation of everyone using the state's money. "Healthy Odisha - Happy Odisha. Let us continue our endeavour to build a prosperous and strong state," he said.
The state government had earlier made it clear that BSKY is not an insurance, but an assurance to the people for a better health service in which secondary and tertiary chashless health care assistance will be provided up to Rs 5 lakh per family per annum.
Describing peace, infrastructure development, social security and empowerment of people as essential for progress, the chief minister said the state must move further on the track of development. "Therefore, I have been stressing on development of farmers, women and youth who are being given loans at 1 per
cent interest," he said.
Patnaik said the state Government is focusing on the welfare of all sections of the society as part of its social security programmes, he said. Undeterred by downpour triggered by a low pressure, people joined the celebrations with enthusiasm across the
However, children were unable to participate in the events in view of adverse weather. The government had asked the district collectors to ensure that children are kept away from the ceremonial parades in view of the IMD's forecast of heavy rain and lightning. An instruction was also given to avoid cultural and sports
activities on the occasion.
All the ceremonial parades in the state were restricted to participation by the police and paramilitary personnel only. In view of a boycott call by Maoists in some areas of the state, an alert had been sounded and police force had been put on strict vigil particularly in districts such as Malkangiri, Rayagada, Koraput, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Balangir and Gajapati.
Elaborate security arrangements were made for smooth and peaceful Independence Day celebrations across the state, Director General of Police R P Sharma said.
Updated Date: Aug 15, 2018 12:08:44 IST
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Durable Goods Orders Rise
Published February 24, 2011 Reuters
New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods rose in January as aircraft bookings rocketed, but recorded their largest decline in two years excluding transportation, according to a government report on Thursday that hinted at a slowdown in manufacturing.
The Commerce Department said durable goods orders rose 2.7%, the biggest increase since September, after falling by a revised 0.4%. The increase was in line with economists expectations and Decembers orders were previously reported to have dropped 2.3%.
Excluding transportation, orders unexpectedly tumbled 3.6% after a revised 3.0% increase in December, which was previously reported as a 0.8% rise. Economists had expected orders excluding transportation to rise 0.4% last month.
The rise in overall orders reflected a 4,900% surge in aircraft bookings, which likely reflected the bulk of December orders from aircraft maker Boeing, which analysts said had not been fully captured in the durable goods report for that month.
Outside transportation, there were big declines in orders for machinery, computers and communications equipment.
Durable goods orders are a leading indicator of manufacturing and the report suggested factory activity, a strong pillar of the economic recovery, was slowing down.
The Commerce Department report showed non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending, dropped 6.9% last month, the biggest decline in two years, after revised 4.3 percent increase in December. Markets had expected a 2.5% decline.
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A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
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In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.
To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.
And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .
Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.
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US orders for long-lasting goods fall 2.1% in April
By , CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
FILE - In this May 9, 2019, file photo washers and dryers are shown on display in a retail store in Cranberry Township, Pa. On Friday, May 24, the Commerce Department releases its March report on durable goods. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Orders to U.S. factories for large manufactured goods fell sharply last month, pulled down by lower demand for commercial aircraft and cars, while businesses also pulled back on investment spending.
The Commerce Department said Friday that orders for durable goods — or items meant to last at least three years — fell 2.1%, after rising 1.7% in March, which was revised lower from a previous estimate of a 2.6% gain. Orders also fell steeply in February.
The report prompted numerous economists to take a more bearish view of the economy in the April-June quarter. Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, slashed his forecast for second quarter growth to an annual rate of just 1%, from an earlier estimate of 2.25%.
"Uncertainty related to the trade war may be finally sapping business confidence," Feroli said. "Second, disappointing global growth developments appear to be, once again, restraining domestic activity growth."
Feroli also noted that Friday's report covered April, which was before Trump hiked tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods to 25% from 10% in early May.
Other economists lowered their forecasts, though not as dramatically. Macroeconomic Advisers, a forecasting firm, cut its estimate for second quarter growth to just 1.7% from 1.9%. Goldman Sachs trimmed its outlook to 1.3% from 1.5%.
The downgrades suggest that growth is fading after growth clocked in at 3.2% in the first quarter. That figure was boosted by one-time factors, such as a large increase in goods held on store shelves and in warehouses.
Aircraft orders, typically a volatile category, plummeted 25.1% in April after a more modest gain of 7.8% in the previous month. That likely reflected troubles with Boeing's MAX aircraft, which has been grounded by global regulators. Orders for cars and auto parts fell 3.4%, the biggest drop in nearly a year.
A category that tracks business investment declined 0.9%, the most since December. Demand for communications equipment and steel, aluminum and other metals fell, while orders for machinery barely rose.
The data suggest companies are spending less on big-ticket items, in part because of the trade war. Americans are also purchasing fewer cars, forcing automakers to pare back activity. Higher interest rates and additional competition from late-model used cars has reduced sales.
Manufacturing output has weakened in the past year. Factory output fell in April, according to a report by the Federal Reserve. Factory production has increased just 0.9% in the past 12 months.
The U.S. and China appear to be digging in for a long trade fight. The duties on Chinese imports cover many industrial parts and components, which has raised costs for manufacturers.
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Jude Law highlights refugee plight in Calais ‘Jungle’
Date created : 22/02/2016 - 05:47 Latest update : 22/02/2016 - 10:28
AFP | British actor Jude Law (C) speaks during a visit to the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais on February 21, 2016.
Text by: NEWS WIRES
British celebrities including Jude Law and playwright Tom Stoppard gave performances at the “Jungle” migrant camp in northern France on Sunday to draw attention to the plight of refugees facing imminent eviction.
Law, the star of “Sherlock Holmes” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, was spotted weaving his way through the mud and makeshift shacks to the Good Chance theatre, which was set up by British volunteers last year.
Around 200 residents of the camp showed up to watch the performance by Law and a group of British actors, comedians and singers, including Tom Odell and Toby Jones.
The event was organised by Letters Live, which gets celebrities to read letters from famous historical figures, and Sunday’s event included new writing by refugees living in the squalid camp on the outskirts of Calais.
'Destroying the Jungle does not end Calais migrants' ordeal'
Law helped organise a petition to Prime Minister David Cameron this week, urging him to press France for a delay to the demolition of the southern part of the camp, which could start as early as Tuesday.
Over 96,000 people, including over 150 public figures, have signed the letter, which calls for children in the Jungle with relatives in Britain to be reunited with their families while their asylum cases are heard.
Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Idress Elba were among the names on the petition.
“These are innocent, vulnerable children caught up in red tape with the frightening prospect of the demolition of the Jungle hanging over them,” Law said earlier this week.
“David Cameron and the British government must urgently work with the French authorities to alleviate this humanitarian crisis.”
The decision to bulldoze part of the camp is being challenged in court, with a ruling due on Tuesday.
Figures from charity Help Refugees show that there are 440 children living in the southern section of the camp, 291 of whom are unaccompanied.
The demolition by French authorities is part of efforts to discourage migrants from trying to smuggle themselves to Britain via the ferries or the tunnel under the Channel.
“Such an enforced move would uproot again those who have already had to abandon their homes due to war and persecution,” read the celebrities’ letter.
The presence of thousands of migrants in the camp who are desperately trying to reach Britain has become a political hot potato both within France and between Paris and London.
The latest estimates by the local authorities say there are 3,700 people living in the Jungle, and the government has been trying to persuade them to move to welcome centres elsewhere in the country, particularly as the weather worsened in winter.
Announcing the demolition earlier this month, the government’s local representative Fabienne Buccio said: “The time has come to move on, no one must live in the southern part of the camp, everyone must leave this section.”
She estimated that between 800 and 1,000 migrants would be affected.
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South Tyneside Local Authority
This page lists all of the businesses and establishments under the remit of the South Tyneside Local Authority for Food Hygiene Rating Scheme purposes. Since these lists can become overly long, they have been split into pages of 250 entries each where appropriate.
Email: environmental.health@southtyneside.gov.uk
Web: http://www.southtyneside.info
39th Street 150 Calf Close Lane, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
A & M Convenience Store 21 Wellands Lane, Whitburn, Tyne & Wear
A Carr (butcher) 153 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
A Powell & Daughters Site 15a, Ocean Beach Amusement Park, South Promenade, South Shields
A Taylor Made Cakes
Abacus Day Nursery 1-3 Station Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Abbey's Balti Cuisine 501 Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Abbey's Eastenders 400 South Eldon Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Abbey's Hebburn Village 10 Ann Street, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Abra Pizza Unit 1, 37 Mile End Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Ahmeds International Superstore Ahmeds, 2 New George Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Ainsley Guest House Ltd 59 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
AJ's Convenience Store & Off licence 29 Birch Street, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Akins Family Bakery 26 Rosebery Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
AKs Diner - 3 Times as Good 67 Nevinson Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Aldermans Coffee House 11-12 Market Place, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Aldi Chichester Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Aldi Stores Limited 1 Glen Street, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Alexander Bolam 7-9 Baring Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Alexander Cafe Palmer Community Hospital, Wear Street, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Alexandra Hotel 248 High Street, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Alfies Events Catering Ltd
Alicious @ Westoe 71 Westoe Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
All Occasions (cards & Gifts) 313 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
All Saints Community Centre Stanley Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
All You Demand 65 Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Altogether 25 Gaskell Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Alum House River Drive, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Alzheimer's Society Haven Court, 5 Mc Anany Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Amore Cafe 32 St James Mall, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Amy's 5 South End, Cleadon, Tyne & Wear
Aneesa's Buffet Restaurant 2 New George Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Angela Wilkinson (Slimming World)
Annemarie & Linda's Happy Shack Grey Horse (car park), 4th East Boldon Scout Group Hut, Front Street, East Boldon
Annie McCarthys Albemarle Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Annie's Guest House 106 Beach Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Aquarius Guest House 61 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Armstrong Hall Social Club Armstrong Hall, Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Army Reserve Centre Victoria Road West, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Arndale Welding Supplies Ltd. Unit D, Western Approach, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Arts 4 Wellbeing 10 Derby Terrace, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Aschem Chemist Glen Primary Care Centre, 30 Glen Street, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Aschem Chemist Hebburn Health Centre, Campbell Park Road, Hebburn
ASDA 15 Coronation Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
ASDA Asda Superstore, North Road, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
ASDA Station Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Asda Cafe Asda Boldon Cafe, North Road, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Asda Cafe 15 Coronation Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Asha Exclusive 166-168 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Ashfield Nursery South Tyneside District Hospital, Harton Lane, South Shields
Ashfield Nursery & Early Learning Ce Ashfield Nursery, Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Ashlea Mews Stanhope Parade, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Ashley Hutchinson
Ashley Primary School Ashley Primary, Ashley Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Athol House Guesthouse 21 Westoe Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Atkar Wine Stores 9 Chichester Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Attic Studios 4a Viking Precinct, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Atwal Convenience Store 7 Ellison Street, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Auckland Discount Store Holmleigh, 26 Auckland Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Avenue Pharmacy 7 North Guards, Whitburn, Tyne & Wear
Avocet Guest House 95 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
B & A Store 66 Stanhope Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
B & M Bargains 8 North Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
B & M Bargains 15 Viking Precinct, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
B & M Retail Ltd Unit A, Waterloo Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Baby I Love You Limited 9 Cookson House, River Drive, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Bah Humbug 254 Sunderland Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Baked by Charlie
Bar Blue Western Approach, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Barbour House 50 Bedesway, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Bargain Booze 257 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Bark Chocolate
Barnes Institute 13-15 East Street, Whitburn, Tyne & Wear
Bays Newsagents 55 Hudson Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Be Modern 19 Bedesway, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Be Modern Distribution Ltd 34 Paulsway, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Beach Bingo 96 Ellison Street, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Beach Club Diner Site 9, South Promenade, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Beach Haven Guest House 63 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Beach Hill Nursery 79-81 Beach Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Beach News 148 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Beaches Guest House 81 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Bede Burn Primary School Dene Terrace, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Bede Industrial Est Post Office Post Office, Bedesway, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Bedeburn Kindergarden Bede Burn Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Bedewell Grange Campbell Park Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Bedewell Kitchen CPU Early Excellence Childrens Centre, Campbell Park Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Beechwood Guest House 119 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Beggars Bridge Station Approach, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Bell Passi Italian Kitchen 70 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Bella Pizza 19 Hutton Street, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
BERNARD'S KAFE 8H Victoria Industrial Estate, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Bessys Sweet Bakes
Best One 15-17 Birtwhistle Avenue, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Best One Green Lane General Dealers 292 Green Lane, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Best One Off licence 269 Victoria Road East, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Bhojana 35 Fellgate Avenue, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Biddick Hall County Infants Biddick Hall County Infant School, Galsworthy Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Biddick Hall Golden Fry 2-4 Fielding Court, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Biddick Hall Junior School Chesterton Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Biddick Hall Spice 14 Fielding Court, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Big Zaks Takeaway Ltd 11B Bladen Street Industrial Estate, Bladen Street, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Billians Ices (Mobile) Mcpherson, 133 Mill Dam, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Billy's Fish and Chips 18 Horsley Hill Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Billy's Golden Fish & Chips 31 Fellgate Avenue, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Bilton Hall Communuity Trust Low Simonside Community Centre, Taunton Avenue, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Biryani & Curry on Wheels 19 Caraway Walk, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Bistro Romano 59-63 Front Street, Cleadon, Tyne & Wear
Bits And Pieces 81 Edinburgh Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Blacks Corner 1 St Bedes, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Blossoms & Bows 7 Langholm Road, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Blue Marlin Ocean Beach Amusement Park, South Promenade, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Boldon and Cleadon Community Library Boker Lane, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Centre & Nursery -Stanley's Boldon Nursery School, Reginald Street, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Community Association Boldon Comprehensive School, New Road, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Convienence Store 65 Front Street, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Cricket Club Sunderland Road, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Golf Club Dipe Lane, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Lane News 2-4 Stoddart Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Lane Service Station Boldon Lane, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Boldon Tea & Coffee Badgers Larder, 20 Leander Drive, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Bon Appetit 101 Wenlock Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Bon Appetit Cafe Deli & Gifts 37 Front Street, Cleadon, Tyne & Wear
Boots UK Ltd 15 St James Mall, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Boots UK Ltd 30 Bede Precinct, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Boots UK Ltd 327 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Boots UK Ltd Unit 1, 49-61 King Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Booze N Food 60 Primrose Terrace, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Boustead Chemist 187 Albert Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast /After School Club Helen Gibson Nursery, North Road, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Whitburn Village Primary, Cleadon Lane, Whitburn, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club St. Oswalds C of E School, St Oswalds Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club St. James' RC Primary, Solway Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club St. Bede's RC Primary, Harold Street, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Marsden Primary, Mill Lane, Whitburn, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Marine Park JMI, Hatfield Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Jarrow Cross CE Primary, Borough Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Epinay School, Clervaux Terrace, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Fellgate Primary School, Oxford Way, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Harton Primary School, East Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Hebburn Comprehensive School, Campbell Park Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Hedworthfield Primary School, Linkway, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club Holy Trinity CEVA Primary, Brockley Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Breakfast Club St Aloysius Infants St Aloysius Infants, Argyle Street, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Brigham & Cowan Social Club Brigham Place, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Bright Sparkz St Gregory's Rc Primary School, Harton House Road East, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Brinkburn Community Assoc Brinkburn Community Association, Brinkburn Comprehensive, Mc Anany Avenue, South Shields
Britannia Guest House 54-56 Julian Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Brown and Vaughan 92 Finchale Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Brown's 9A Station Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Burger 31 220 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Burger King Leam Lane, West Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Burger King Towers Place, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Busy Bees Day Nursery 53 Front Street, Cleadon, Tyne & Wear
Buzz Bingo 12 Denmark Centre, Fowler Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Buzzers formerly (Labour Club), Victoria Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
C J's Premier Convenience 71 Valley View, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Cafe @ the Word 45 Market Place, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe At The Corner 169 Sunderland Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe at the House 134 Laygate, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe Bar 33 Town Hall & Civic Offices, Westoe Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe Direct 14A Portberry Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe India 200 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe L 7 St James Mall, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Cafe Meo Hawthorne, 13 Rolling Mill Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Cafe Nero plc 21 King Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe Ross 5 Queen Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe Ross Events Catering 34 Red Berry Way, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe Westoe 42-44 Dean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cafe2u 5 Lawson Court, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Cafebar One Quadrus Centre, Woodstock Way, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Caffe Di Bella 265-267 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Caffe Mio 299 Sunderland Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cake It
Cake on a Stick 53 Leicester Way, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Cake This and Cake That
Cambridge News 65 Cambridge Avenue, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Campbell Court Restaurant Campbell Court, Penrith Road, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Campbell's Fruit & Vegetables 169-171 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Can Can Bar 68 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Candy Apple Bakery
Candy Creationz
Candy Floss Kiosk South Marine Park, Beach Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cappuccino Kids Unit R1, Village Centre, Sea Winnings Way, South Shields
Card Factory 347 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Card Factory 70 King Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
CARD FACTORY 31 Bede Precinct, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Carden Avenue Convenience Store 13-15 Carden Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Carmel's Cakes
Catering Academy At Boldon Comp Boldon Comprehensive, New Road, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Cha Cha's 190 Dean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Charco Grill 124 Fowler Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Charles Bolesworth - The Grill House Site 12, Amusement Park Caravan Site, South Promenade, South Shields
Charles Young Centre 43 Talbot Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Charlestons Coffee House 8 Mile End Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Charnelles Cakes
Chaska grill da 30-32 Frederick Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cheeky Diner Site 2, Amusement Park Caravan Site, South Promenade, South Shields
Chennai Central 94 Boldon Lane, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cherri Cakes
Cherry Blossom Cakes
Cheviot Court Cheviot Court Residential Care Home, 63 Horsley Hill Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Chichester Court Care Home Chichester Court, 111 Chichester Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Chichester Metro Newsagents Chichester Metro Station, Dean Road, South Shields
Chichester News 2 Stanhope Parade, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Chicken Hutt 198 Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
China Cook 114a Westoe Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Chisholm Bookmakers Ltd 3 Fielding Court, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Christina Sewell
Church Hall Saint John The Baptist Church, Nairn Street, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Chuter Ede Community Association Galsworthy Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cinder Path 4 Hobson Way, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cineworld Cinema, Abingdon Way, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Claire's Candys
Clara Bakes
Clarion Hotel Boldon Quality Hotel, Witney Way, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Clasper Court Sheltered Accomodation Community Room, Clasper Court, Heron Drive, South Shields
Cleadon Academy Cleadon Village Junior School, Boldon Lane, Cleadon, Tyne & Wear
Cleadon Antiques and Gifts 39 Front Street, Cleadon, Tyne & Wear
Cleadon Park Pharmacy Cleadon Park Primary Care Centre, 10 Prince Edward Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cleadon Social Club 31-33 Fulwell Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cleadon Tower Nursery School The Lonnen, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Clervaux Exchange Business Centre Clervaux Terrace, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
CLERVAUX NURSERY SCHOOL Clervaux Terrace, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Clover and Wolf Brigham Place, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Club Del Mar 12 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Co-op Co-operative, Mortimer Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cock Crow Inn Mill Lane, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Cockleshell Cookies
Codfellas 62 Stanhope Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Coffee Station 5 Station Terrace, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear
Coffee Stop Baptist Church, Grange Road West, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Coffee Supreme/Coffee 2 U 20 Whites Gardens, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear
Coffee Zone 71a Westoe Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Coffey By Name 80-86 Highfield Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cohens Chemist 41 East View, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Colliery Corner 10 Hedworth Lane, Boldon Colliery, Tyne & Wear
Colmans of South Shields 176-186 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Colmans Seafood Temple Sea Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Combined Touch CIC 14 Horsley Hill Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Comfort Guest House 109 Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Community Corner 79 Edinburgh Road, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Conifer Lodge Horsley Hill Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Coopland's 88 King Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cooplands 36 Bede Precinct, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear
Cornucopia 405 Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Cost Cutter 18-20 Dickens Avenue, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Costa Coffee Unit F Waterloo Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Costcutter 499A Stanhope Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
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Shares of Nokia Corporation Rise on Strong Earnings and Updated Strategy
Nokia just announced Street-beating earnings, appointed a new CEO, vowed to return $7 billion to shareholders, and clarified its strategy. Shares are up, pre-market.
Anders Bylund
(TMFZahrim)
Apr 29, 2014 at 9:24AM
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Source: Nokia.
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) just reported results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. The company also appointed Nokia insider Rajeev Suri as its next CEO, outlined its strategy now that the handset division has been transferred to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and announced $7 billion of dividend, share buybacks, and debt reduction program.
Reacting to this profusion of news, Nokia shares surged 7% higher on the Helsinki exchange. American depositary receipts rose 8.3% in premarket action on the NYSE exchange.
Analysts expected Nokia to report total sales of $4.0 billion, yielding adjusted earnings of $0.04 per share. These estimates do not include the recently sold handset division, which now is classified as a discontinued operation. On that basis, Nokia reported a 15% year-over-year drop in total revenue, landing at $3.7 billion. Adjusted earnings came in at $0.06 per share, up from $0.01 per share a year ago.
Discontinued operations generated 30% lower sales year over year, and would have erased $0.08 from the Nokia group's total earnings per share.
New CEO Suri joined Nokia in 1995, and has previously held the CEO title in the Nokia-Siemens Networks business.
Under Suri, Nokia will aim to optimize each of its three core businesses -- networking infrastructure, HERE mapping services, and technology licensing -- separately. "Where it makes sense to do so, we will pursue shared opportunities between the businesses, but not at the expense of focus and discipline in each," said Suri in a prepared statement.
The Microsoft transaction enables the return of $7 billion to Nokia shareholders. Ordinary dividend payments will be restarted after a two-year pause, supplemented with a $1.4 billion special dividend payout. Nokia will spend $2.8 billion on a two-year debt reduction program, and will authorize $1.7 billion of share buybacks.
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