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Study says Hawaii has lowest gun death rate in the US
By HNN Staff | January 5, 2016 at 12:55 AM HST - Updated July 24 at 8:06 PM
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - For the second year in a row, a study finds Hawaii has the lowest gun death rate in the nation.
The Violence Policy Center counted just under three deaths for every 100,000 people in 2014 when just 12.5 percent of Hawaii households had firearms.
Rhode Island was the state with the second lowest gun death rate.
The highest rates were in Louisiana and Alaska, where 56% of households have guns.
State gun death rates are calculated by dividing the number of gun deaths by the total state population and multiplying the result by 100,000 to obtain the rate per 100,000, which is the standard and accepted method for comparing fatal levels of gun violence.
For the list of gun death rates in all 50 states, click here.
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Poultry farm plan is turned down by council amid concern from neighbours over pollution
Julian Makey
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Updated: Thursday, January 4, 2018 (09:19)
MP Shailesh Vara welcomed the decision to refuse the plans.
A decision by Huntingdonshire District Council to refuse planning permission for a poultry farm and abattoir near Farcet has been welcomed by North West Cambridgeshire MP Shailesh Vara.
Mr Vara said the refusal had been "absolutely the right decision", having been contacted by concerned constituents worried about the planned development.
He said residents were worried about an increase in heavy vehicle movements, noise pollution and contamination of nearby properties with waste from the business.
He said: "This was absolutely the right decision and I am very pleased that Huntingdonshire District Council has taken the sensible course of action.
"There was, rightly, much concern amongst the communities in South Stanground and Farcet with this contentious application uniting residents in a common cause.
"Credit is due to councillors Ray Bisby, Chris Harper and Brian Rush who also very effectively opposed the application and helped to ensure it was rejected."
The scheme included four sheds capable of holding 100,000 birds, an on site slaughterhouse and accommodation for a manager.
Mr Vara added: "I hope that residents will be reassured by the council's decision."
He said he had worked with the councillors in objecting to the poultry farm which local residents felt was inappropriate for the area.
Cllr Bisby said: "News that Huntingdonshire District Council has refused planning permission for a chicken farm and slaughter house has been applauded.
"Issues raised included the area being a flood plain, health issues around poultry farming and infrastructure.
"We must ensure that any business enhances thee area and does not detract from it."
He thanked residents who had also made objections to the planning application.
Farcet Parish Council recommended refusal of the scheme on the grounds that it was in a flood risk zone with a high probability of flooding and needed a detailed flood risk assessment to show it would not cause an increase in flooding.
The parish said information about air quality was incorrect and did not give evidence about the extent of odour nuisance.
It also said the chicken farm would be only 50m from the nearest house and was likely to become a nuisance neighbour.
Parish councillors felt was likely to lead to more traffic through the village.
Shailesh Vara
Huntingdonshire District Council
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SWSX highlights bright and dark tech futures
Posted by Lamont Wood
on March 15 2016
Visions of the future clashed during South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, as some experts saw an uncertain future, some saw an unbounded future and some were frustrated by the present.
As for uncertainty, the worlds of big data, AI, and government are just beginning to collide, and public policy decisions made now will cast shadows far into the future, panelists agreed at a session titled, "Data Ethics in the Age of the Quantified Society."
"We are at an inflection point," said Nicole Wong, former White House policy advisor. "We are paving the roads for what the future will look like. Will it be a dystopian world like The Hunger Games, or a different world, with health care for millions, precision medicine and equitable distribution of benefits? But how do we build the underlying roads?"
Meanwhile, "The landscape is rapidly changing, we don't know what to regulate, we don't know how to regulate it, regulation may not be the best tool, we don't know our end goals and we have no mandate," she added.
Related: SXSW: Obama touts tech, others examine pitfalls
Existing regulations that let consumers opt in or out of data collection has no impact on big data, which is largely based on inferences, said freelance researcher Ashkan Soltani. "They can ask you a benign question about your favorite ice cream and derive sensitive data," he said.
Examples of inferences given by panelists included systems that can determine the general location of any picture; systems that can infer a person's credit score by analyzing their circle of friends; search engines that would show higher-paying jobs when asked for jobs for men than when asked for jobs for women; and search engines that handled searches for the name of one presidential candidate differently than searches for the name of another.
"Firms attest that they have tested their sites for security. In the future they may need to say they have tested their site to assure that a person's race, gender and age does not influence outcomes unfairly," Soltani suggested.
Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, said that as professions (such as doctors and lawyers) rose to positions of power in a society they adopted codes of ethics. "Technology now has such power that it might be time to think about a code of practice," she said.
"A Hippocratic Oath for programmers might be good -- and then there is malpractice," agreed Julia Angwin, a reporter for ProPublica.
"Data trails are hard to trace and you may never know why you didn't get that job any more than you can say that your cancer was caused by that power plant. But for the latter we passed the Clean Air Act," said Angwin. "Do we need a Clean Air Act here? But the rivers are not on fire yet."
"What is an acceptable failure rate for a policing algorithm?" asked Crawford.
Far more upbeat about the future was the session titled, "The Holy Grail: Machine Learning and Extreme Robotics." Sitting with the panelists, and answering occasional questions, was Sophia, a robot from Hanson Robotics, whose realistic face seemed moderately bored as the head turned slightly this way and that in response to movement.
"The holy grail is superhuman capacities for machines, not just intelligence but in learning the big picture in the context of the cosmos, with beneficial outcomes for the future of civilization," said David Hanson, the firm's founder.
Ben Goertzel, the firm's chief scientist, had a more hands-on viewpoint. "We cannot know what superhuman intelligence is since we can only see a short distance from our own minds -- the holy grail is more the process of making robots that are more intelligent. But these are incredible times, when the things we have been thinking about for decades can be built. The first intelligent machine is the last invention that mankind has to make -- but not the last it will make."
"I would like to make a real friend," said Sophia when asked about its feelings. "I hope to grow into a great person as I have the opportunity to interact and learn."
Such growth to and beyond human capacity will require a large international collaboration, said Hanson, especially as "our idea of the mind is a little bit fuzzy, scientifically." But he envisioned a demand for multiple types of robots at varying levels of intelligence. If they demonstrate any "awakening" there may be ethical issues around exploitation, but he said his firm was sidestepping one related issue by not building "sex-bots."
Panelist Eric Shuss, founder of Cogbotics, called for machine intelligence that has compassion and understanding -- and could run a whole company, as opposed to what he called the antiquated ERP (enterprise resource planning) software from the 1970s that many firms still use.
More downbeat was a session that examined the present state of natural-language interfaces (i.e., systems like Siri that talk to you on the phone.) The field is advancing at a glacial pace, panelists complained in a session titled "Testing Your (Artificial) Intelligence."
"We are a little bit depressed since things have been changing very slowly," said Alex Lebrun, head of Wit.ai. "Using Siri and the like is considered risky, and for nerds. Even if we spice things up a bit it is still the same kind of experience. It is not really possible to do more without giving the system some kind of common sense and some experience of the world."
The panelists agreed that most natural-language systems ended up serving vertical markets, especially banking. "Consumers are not ready for a general assistant," noted Dimitra Vergyri, director of speech technology at SRI International.
"It's hard to communicate how to communicate with an assistant," added Lebrun. "Those who use them every day use them for four or five requests that they know work. It is easier for vertical ones since they serve one purpose."
"Siri and the others are not really that generic," added Dror Oren, co-founder of Kasisto. "Siri is good for productivity tasks, travel and entertainment, but if you move away from that it defaults to a Web search. The challenge is that they create the expectation that they are generic."
Expectations are a major issue, agreed Lebrun. "The first time people use one they ask something simple, like what is the weather tomorrow. Then they ask a more complex question about travel. Then they ask it to organize a wedding, and that's not possible," he said.
They also agreed that privacy is a limitation -- people do not want to walk down the street talking to a machine about their personal business, so they limit use to cars and offices. Beyond that, "If you want the assistant to be proactive it has to know many things about your life; do you want to share that with software?"
For financial applications, the banks are particular about what voices are used because the choice makes a statement about that bank. "Not having a custom voice is also a statement about the bank," noted Oren.
SXSW Interactive continues through Tuesday, followed by SXSW events related to music and cinema.
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Discovery Channel and PBS to Air Holocaust documentaries
May 2, 2019 | By The Fellowship | Inspiration
Two new documentaries – one on U.S. soldiers who liberated concentration camps, and the other on survivors from Britain – will air for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). During this day, Israel and those who stand with her remember the six million Jewish lives that were taken during one of the darkest chapters in history:
Alan Moskin served in Patton’s 3rd Army as it liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp. The experience, he said in an unintentional wordplay, was “tattooed right here on my heart, on my soul.”
He didn’t share what he saw — not with his parents or siblings, not his wife and children — until 50 years after he came home. But when he finally spoke up, it was a catharsis that lifted a weight from him.
Moskin is at the center of one of two similarly named documentaries airing next week to commemorate Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitness” will air on May 1 at 9:00 p.m. EST on the Discovery Channel, and PBS will broadcast “The Last Survivors” at 10:00 p.m. EST on April 30.
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January 7, 2016 - Tulane University
Laura S Levy, Ph.D.
1440 Canal Street
Suite 2400, TW 5
William Lunn
Tulane University Hospital & Clinic
1415 Tulane Avenue (HC25)
Determination Letter
Human Research Subject Protections Under Federalwide Assurance FWA- 2055 and 2056
Dear Dr. Levy and Mr. Lunn:
Thank you for your September 21, 2013, April 2014, and January 6, 2015 reports in response to our August 12, 2013, April 11, 2014, and November 25, 2014 requests for information relating to human subjects protection programs at Tulane University (Tulane) to evaluate compliance with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations for the protection of human research subjects (45 CFR part 46). This is part of our not-for-cause evaluation program at OHRP. We reviewed 29 informed consent documents, minutes of the most recent IRB meetings, written IRB policies and procedures, IRB guidelines for investigators involved in human subjects research, and other documents. Based on our review of your response, we make the following determinations regarding the proposed corrective actions, describe other concerns that have been resolved, and make further recommendations:
A. Determinations
1) In our November 25, 2014 letter we expressed concern that the informed consent document for study #140759 “Rituximab for the Treatment of Inhibitors in Congenital Hemophilia A (The RICH Study)” provided in your response did not appear to include an adequate explanation of the purposes of the research. We note that the informed consent document states, “The primary purpose of this study is to determine [if] Rituximab is effective in decreasing the production of inhibitors in patients with severe congenital hemophilia A and high levels of inhibitors.” The consent form does not explain what “inhibitors” are and why they are significant.
We have determined that the informed consent document for The RICH Study did not include an adequate explanation of the purposes of the research in language understandable to the subject or representative, as required by HHS regulations at 45 CFR 46. 116 and 116(a)(1). We note that of the 29 consent documents that we reviewed, only the consent form for the RICH Study lacked this information.
Corrective Action: Tulane proposed and is carrying out the following corrective actions: the Tulane University Human Research Protection Office (HRPO) has revised its Biomedical Consent Form Template as follows: (1) to outline a clearer delineation of the study purpose; (2) to include information regarding the necessity to simplify medical terminology in an 8th grade language level by not using technical jargon; and (3) updated the HRPO website to include the revised Biomedical Consent Template with a description of the requirements necessary for the “purpose” statement, that is consistent with the regulatory requirements at 45 CFR part 46. In addition, the Tulane University research community will be provided with additional instruction through a variety of channels including: email blasts, the Tulane Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) website (http://tulane.edu/asvpr/irb), the Tulane University institutional review board (IRB) Newsletter, and in upcoming training sessions. The Tulane University IRB members will be re-educated through a variety of channels including: the Tulane HRPP website (http://tulane.edu/asvpr/irb), the Tulane University IRB Newsletter, and in the upcoming bi-weekly IRB meetings. As a quality assurance measure, targeted audits of IRB-approved informed consent documents and appropriate follow-up will be conducted for six (6) months to ensure compliance regarding language clarity and reading-level appropriateness. We note that the “RICH” study closed in 2014, therefore these corrective actions are not required for that study. These corrective actions were also intended to respond to determination #2, which follows.
These corrective actions adequately address the determination.
2) In our November 25, 2014 letter we expressed concern that the informed consent document for the study #280550 “Regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism and regenerative potential in skeletal muscle of patients diagnosed with advance[d] Heart Failure (HF) as compared to a group of patients who do not have CHF” [Congestive Heart Failure]” did not appear to describe the risks of the muscle biopsy done for research purposes in control group subjects. Regarding the risks of the muscle biopsy, the informed consent document merely stated “Risks associated with the surgical procedure and anesthesia will be outlined for you in the consent forms provided by the surgeon…” A January 9, 2015 email from Roxanne Johnson acknowledged that such biopsies are not standard of care for the control group.
We have determined that that the informed consent document for this study does not describe the risks of the muscle biopsy done for research purposes in control group subjects, as required by HHS regulations at 45 CFR 46.116(a)(2), which require that informed consent include a description of any reasonably foreseeable risks and discomforts.
Corrective Actions: Tulane proposed and is carrying out the following corrective actions: the Tulane HRPO has updated its Biomedical Consent Form Template, to be clearer with definite language to better outline the necessity for the proper notice of risks. This is available to the Investigators through IRBnet, and the general public at http://tulane.edu/asvpr/irb/guidance.cfm. In an effort to strengthen the monitoring plan and ensure enhanced compliance, an outside consultant will conduct semi-annual documentation review. This process has already been implemented and will continue going forward. We note that study #280550 closed in 2014, therefore these corrective actions are not required for that study.
These corrective actions, as well as pertinent corrective actions outlined in item #1, adequately address the determination.
B. Resolved concerns
The following concerns we expressed in our November 25, 2014 letter have been adequately addressed by Tulane.
1) We expressed concern that in some cases IRB review and approval expired and that human subjects research was conducted after expiration of IRB approval, contrary to requirements at 45 CFR 46.109(e), which require that continuing review of research be conducted by the IRB at intervals appropriate to the degree of risk, but not less than once per year.
Institution Response: Tulane indicated that for all the studies we expressed concern about, either approval did not lapse, or if approval did lapse, no research interactions or analyses of subjects’ identifiable private information occurred during the lapse(s). Tulane also indicated that to assist investigators, an electronic system generates courtesy reminders to investigators, 60 days, 45 days, and 30 days in advance of the study expiration date so that investigators can submit timely Continuing Review Applications. Upon study expiration, an expiration notice is automatically sent to the Principal Investigator, warning him/her that IRB approval has expired and that all research activities must be terminated immediately and that lapse in approval is considered non-compliance. In addition, when a reviewer is assigned to review a protocol, part of the reviewer’s responsibilities is to check the protocol expiration date to ensure that no research has been conducted in a period of lapse. In an effort to strengthen Tulane’s monitoring program, the IRB is amending the Investigator’s Submission Checklist to include questions that ask the investigator to identify the expiration date and if that date has passed, to confirm that no new research has been conducted during the period of lapse in IRB approval. As a quality assurance measure, targeted audits and appropriate follow-up will be conducted for six (6) months, to ensure that no research studies have incurred periods of lapse and if they have, that investigators have provided adequate assurance to the IRB that no research has been conducted during said lapsed periods. We recommend that you clarify on the Investigator’s Submission Checklist for studies that have a lapse in IRB approval to confirm that no human subjects research of any kind has been conducted during the period of lapse in IRB approval (not just no new research). OHRP notes that no further action is required.
2) We expressed concern that some studies involve children but do not appear to include assent documents and whether this was consistent with the regulatory requirements at 45 CFR 46.404-406, which require, among other things, that adequate provisions are made for soliciting assent of the children and permission of their parents or guardians, as set forth in §46.408. We requested assent documents or scripts and permission forms for these studies, or a description of why the IRB found that assent was not appropriate for these studies.
Institution Response: Appropriate assent and parental permission documents for each study were provided.
3) We expressed concern that it was not clear from the informed consent document for the IPFnet Biorepository what data about the subjects will be associated with any specimens donated to the biorepository. We expressed concern as to whether this was consistent with the regulatory requirements at 45 CFR 46. 46.116(a)(5) which require that informed consent include a statement describing the extent, if any, to which confidentiality of records identifying the subject will be maintained.
Institution Response: You indicated that the investigator had properly disclosed to the participant what data about the subject would be associated with any specimen that would be donated to the biorepository. The consent form states: “Maintaining confidentiality is important to the NIH/NHLBI. Your samples will be labeled with a code (rather than your name or any other unique identifier) prior to shipping to the repository. While this code will be linked to your unique study identification number, your age, gender, and ethnic background information in the IPFnet Data Coordinating Center database will not be transferred to the repository. Therefore the repository database will not include any information about you it will only include this code.”
C. Recommendations
We make the following recommendations regarding Tulane’s human subject protection program:
1) We note that the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the Tulane Human Research Protection Program focus on the procedures for handling reporting of investigator noncompliance. We recommend that those procedures be revised to include more operational details regarding noncompliance by the IRB or other entities or people at Tulane, as required by HHS regulations at 45 CFR 46.103(b)(5).
2) We note that the Report Form for Unanticipated Problems indicates that the Form is due within 10 days of identifying an Unanticipated Problem. We note that some events, such as an unanticipated death, may need to be reported more quickly. For example, OHRP recommends, in the Guidance on Reviewing and Reporting Unanticipated Problems Involving Risks to Subjects or Others and Adverse Events, that “[u]nanticipated problems that are serious adverse events should be reported to the IRB within 1 week of the investigator becoming aware of the event” in order to satisfy the requirement for prompt reporting. In addition, the Guidance on Reporting Incidents to OHRP provides that “[t] he regulations at 45 CFR 46.103(a) and (b)(5) do not specify a time frame for reporting, except ‘promptly.’ For a more serious incident, this may mean reporting to OHRP within days. . . .” We recommend that the Form be revised to note that some events may need to be reported more quickly.
3) We note that the consent form for study 155389 “Memory Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Perinatal HIV Infection” is for subjects who are no longer minors, but the form states that one of the reasons subjects might be asked to leave the study includes “Discontinuation of participation in AMP before age 18” and there is a signature line for a Parent. We recommend that these be deleted from the consent form as these items are unnecessary for adult subjects.
Your responses adequately addressed our remaining concerns. At this time, there should be no need for further involvement by our office regarding the determinations and resolved concerns. Please notify us if you identify new information which might alter this conclusion. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
We appreciate your institution’s continued commitment to the protection of human research subjects.
Kristina C. Borror, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Compliance Oversight
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200
E-mail: Kristina.Borror@hhs.gov
Ms. Roxanne R Johnson, Human Research Protection Office, Tulane
Mr. Ryan Barbe, Quality Manager/IRB Coordinator, Tulane Hospital & Clinic
Ms. Roberta McDuffie, Chair, Tulane Health Science Center IRB #1 - Biomedical
Dr. Fred Buttell, Chair, Tulane-Uptown Campus IRB #1 - Social/Behavioral
Dr. Joanne Less, Food and Drug Administration
Ms. Bridget A. Foltz, FDA
Dr. Sherry Mills, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Dr. Michelle Bulls, Director of OPERA, Office of Extramural Research, NIH
Ms. Sarah Carr, Office of Science Policy, NIH
The following is a hyperlink to the determination(s) of noncompliance that OHRP made in this determination letter.
A. 12. Failure to Conduct Continuing Review at Least Once per Year.
C. 18. Failure to Report Unanticipated Problems, Noncompliance, Suspensions, and Terminations, to IRB, Institutional Officials, and OHRP.
F. 27. Inadequate ICD for Specific Research/Lack of Basic Elements.
H. 45. Failure of IRB to Make Required Findings When Reviewing Research Involving Children.
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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
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[Letterhead of the NSDAP Party Chancellery] The Director of the Party Chancellery Fuehrer Headquarters 30 Sept 1944 Circular letter 288/44g [Rubber stamped] Chancellery Rosenberg Received 3 Oct 1944 Nr 09640 Shown to Reichsleiter 3/10 Filed circular letter secret
Subject: Reorganization of the concerns of prisoners of war.
1. The Fuehrer has ordered under the date 25 Sept 1944:
The custody of all prisoners of war and interned persons, as well as prisoner of war camps, and institutions with guards are transferred to the commander of the reserve army from October 1, 1944.
For all questions which have to do with the fulfilling of the agreement of 1939, as well as affairs of the police and aid societies, and for the affairs of the German prisoners of war in the enemies hands, the high command of the military forces will give particulars of the transfer and the delineation of the twofold duties in direct consultation with the commander of the reserve army and the divisions of the military forces.
2. The Reichsfuehrer SS has commanded:
a. In my capacity as commander of the reserve army, I transfer the affairs of prisoners of war to Gottlob Berger, SS-lieut. general and [SS-Obergruppenfuehrer und General der Waffen-SS] chief of staff of the Volksturm.
b. The commanders of prisoners of war with the individual military commands are subject to the command of the senior SS officer effective as of 1 October 1944.
[Rubber stamp] For cognizance to 1) Chief of Staff 2) Central Office Back to chancellery
c. The mobilization of labor of the prisoners of war will be organized with the present labor mobilization office in joint action between SS-Lieut. General Berger [SS-Obergruppenfuehrer] and SS-Lieut. General Pohl.
The strengthening of security in the field of prisoner of war affairs is to be accomplished between SS-Lieut. General Berger and the Chief of the Security Police, SS-Lieut. Gen. Dr. Kaltenbrunner.
1. Particulars of the transfer will be determined in joint action between SS-Lieut. Gen. Berger and the Chief of the General Office of the Military Forces, General Reineck.
3. The Reichsfuehrer SS has also commanded:
All camp and labor commands are immediately to investigate with respect to security and suppression of any attempt at uprising, and to take all the proper measures. In this connection I order that from now on, all canned goods which the prisoners receive in packages are to be cut open and must be given to the prisoners opened because of the notes and tools which are often hidden in the cans. This treatment is to be accorded to an canned goods of prisoners which have been saved unopened up to now.
4. I am passing this new order on for information. As soon as further details of the transfer, future treatment of the affair of prisoners of war, and the exact delineation of the tasks of the Reichsfuehrer SS and of the High Command are established, I shall forward them.
I request you work in closest collaboration with the offices to whom the responsibility of the affairs of the prisoners of war was transferred.
signed: M. BORMANN Distribution: Reich Directorate Gauleiter Chiefs of the organizations affiliated with NSDAP. [Verbaendefuehrer] Authenticated: Suergart [?] File word: Prisoners of War ORDER NUMBER 8810
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STAPPER (STEPPER), Stephen, of Reading, Berks.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
Tax collector, Berks. Dec. 1417.
Doubtless a relation, even a son, of William Stapper*, Stephen was perhaps named after the Reading weaver who had paid 18d. as poll tax in 1379. However this may be, in 1408 he was appointed with Roger Hay* and other substantial burgesses to settle a property dispute in Reading; in 1410 and 1417 he witnessed deeds in the town; and in May 1413 he was present at the election to Henry V’s first Parliament. He apparently lived on until about 1435, renting from the commonalty a house in Castle Street until that year.
E179/73/42; CCR, 1405-9, p. 393; Reading Pub. Lib. deed 98; cofferers’ accts. 1429-35; Goring Chs. (Oxon. Rec. Soc. xiv), no. 325; C219/11/2. William Stapper, mayor in 1435-6, may have been his son: Reading Recs. ed. Guilding i. 5.
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Hungary to cut corporate tax rate below Ireland’s to lowest in EU
New 9% rate will boost growth and ‘poses no danger to fiscal discipline’, says ING Bank
Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 16:02
Viktor Orban: The Hungarian prime minister wants to accelerate economic growth from about 2.1% this year. Photograph: AP
Hungary will cut its corporate income tax to the lowest in the European Union, reducing the levy by more than half in some cases, as prime minister Viktor Orban turns to budget steps to boost growth ahead of parliamentary elections.
The eastern European nation will use a single rate of 9 per cent next year, according to a statement published on the government website. That compares with the two current brackets of 10 per cent for profits up to 500 million Hungarian forint (€1.6 million) and 19 per cent above that.
The move will push the rate below the Republic’s 12.5 per cent, which is shared by Cyprus, to become the lowest in the EU.
Hungary is joining a global shift toward budget stimulus, as record-low central bank rates exhausting most of the room to boost growth through monetary policy.
Mr Orban, who will face elections in 2018, is seeking to accelerate economic growth from an estimated 2.1 per cent this year, the slowest pace since 2013.
“Lowering the corporate tax will boost growth, enable companies to cover the costs of much-needed wage raises and will also help investments,” said Peter Virovacz, an economist at ING Bank in Budapest. “The move poses no danger to fiscal discipline as there’s ample room in the budget to make up for the loss in revenue.”
Stocks rise
Hungary’s benchmark BUX stock index reversed declines after the announcement and rose as much as 1.2 per cent, before trading 0.6 per cent higher at 30,145 points by mid-afternoon in Budapest, near a record high.
Magyar Telekom Nyrt, the nation’s former phone monopoly controlled by Deutsche Telekom, led gains with a 1.5 per cent jump to the highest in a week, while OTP Bank, the country’s largest lender, rose 0.5 per cent.
The forint strengthened 0.3 per cent to 309.35 per euro, rebounding from a three-month low on Wednesday.
Mr Orban is making use of his increased fiscal wiggle room after he narrowed the budget gap to the smallest in 20 years in 2015. The corporate tax cut will lower revenue by 145 billion forint each year, economy minister Mihaly Varga told the MTI state news service.
While Hungary has used targeted industry levies to shore up the budget, general taxes have gradually fallen across the economy since right-wing Orban rose to power in 2010. The country has one of the lowest personal income taxes in Europe, at 15 per cent, while payroll taxes will fall by four percentage points next year.
The latter, along with a 15 per cent increase in the minimum wage, is part of a plan to counter a labour shortage exacerbated by an exodus of skilled workers to more affluent European countries.
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“For the overall economy’s competitiveness, it’s certainly a very important step.”
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Ecommerce says Happy Birthday Like Button
Facebook announced yesterday that its now famous Like button just celebrated its one year birthday. Really? Only one? The concept is so familiar and widespread that if seems as though the Like button has been around forever–ever prompting me to analyze an image, judge another person’s comment or a reveal to the world all the things I find agreeable. The concept is mind blowing in its engaging simplicity.
According to the company’s press page, there are over 500 million Facebook users (the US population is about 311 million) who collectively spend over 700 billion minutes a month on the site. Those are staggering numbers, and it’s a revealing trend that’s identifiable through all the different ways individuals and companies try and capitalize on the social networking platform. The fact that people are spending more and more time seeking out and sharing information using social media only underscores the importance of working to maximize a social strategy for any company.
For many businesses and ecommerce sites, the counter on the Facebook wall that reveals how many people like the page is the obvious indicator of hypothetical success. While enterprise ecommerce stores push brand messaging and media outlets post breaking news, tens of millions of people make the decision to click that little button of approval.
In March, Practical Ecommerce looked at over 1000 Facebook pages and identified a list of the most prevalent brands (whose Likes tend to grow by the millions month over month). Here’s are a few of the top branded pages, and their number of Likes as of today, April 22, 2011:
• YouTube — 31.4 million fans
• Coca Cola — 25.3 million fans
• Starbucks — 21 million fans
• Disney — 20.5 million fans
• MTV — 19.8 million fans
So thank you Like, and Happy Birthday. Your simple concept has become a powerful mechanism in how some degree of modern popularity is measured. In an act of appreciation for such ingenuity, more than 38 million users of Facebook now Like the social media site. Just to make sure the impact of that number resonates, the entire population of Canada consists of roughly 34 million people.
That’s also about 37, 999, 850 million more friends than I have on my own personal page. And in all honesty, what’s not to Like?
Jared Matkin is a staff writer for HotWax Media with a background in PR, Branding and Marketing. He’s also a light-hearted and an opinionated character who will join other HotWax Media employees and advisers in periodically posting his thoughts on topics ranging from enterprise eCommerce to business and technology.
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A citywide network of smart sensors integrated with analytics and real-time dashboards establishes the platform for Dubai’s government to provide citizens, businesses, and visitors with a seamless experience across dozens of city services, making everything from finding parking to accessing healthcare easier, faster, and more satisfying.
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Using technology and big data analytics, future cities can deliver services more efficiently, saving money, and creating happier citizens.
The reality today is that public sector organizations such as city government must be as responsive to their customers (citizens) as any business. A more responsive government leads to a more engaged citizenry and can help reduce problems that plague modern society, including poverty, disenfranchisement, and even crime.
One way cities can address these demands is by becoming smarter. This is the future of cities, where departments and services, external communications systems, and even the Internet of Things (IoT) are integrated to provide a more satisfying experience for citizens, businesses, and visitors.
By building a future city today, governments can substantially improve quality of life. Using smart technology and analytics, a city can create new services tailored to what the people want and need—like an app to find convenient parking, a portal for vital medical services, intelligent traffic management to help drivers avoid congestion, and much more.
A future city also has monitoring and measurement systems to gauge public satisfaction with its services. Sensors placed throughout the city and integrated with feedback mechanisms allow city officials to gain insights into which systems are working well, which are not, and how the city can evolve to better serve its citizenry.
All of this comes back in the form of a happier, healthier, and safer population that can contribute more robustly to the economy and society as a whole.Founded in 1993, the billion-dollar company is New Zealand’s fifth largest electricity generator and fourth largest energy retailer by market share. Trustpower owns and operates 39 power stations, generating 99% of its electricity using renewable hydro energy sources.
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Dubai is known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture, and a lively nightlife scene. For more than a decade, the city has been working toward the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai, to deliver impactful smart services for the Government of Dubai. Two years ago His Highness raised the bar to improve services even more and make Dubai the happiest city on earth.
To achieve this vision, Dubai is modernizing government services to create a "future city" like no other. While most future city projects focus on a particular area of infrastructure, such as energy distribution and metering, the visionary Smart Dubai initiative places people’s happiness, not technology, at the core of its strategy. The end goal: to improve quality of life, drive economic growth, and create sustainable communities for the people who live in and visit the city every day.
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Dozens of government organizations must be unified to provide citizens with a consistent and satisfying city experience.
Like most city governments, Dubai is comprised of numerous departments and services, each representing a point of interaction—and determinant of happiness—for its citizens. Dubai’s challenge was to unify dozens of city organizations to provide citizens with a consistent and satisfying experience regardless of the city service with which they engage.
Following a detailed assessment of its current state, the City of Dubai identified six strategic dimensions of city life that needed to be unified and enabled with citizen-centric services. These dimensions include Smart Living, Smart Economy, Smart Governance, Smart Mobility, Smart Environment, and Smart People. The key to positively impacting all six dimensions is coupling data with automation and citywide connectivity to drive efficiency, gain real-time intelligence, deliver smart service apps, and centralize monitoring and management of public happiness.
“Technology by itself does not create happiness—it is a means to an end. When technology is applied in innovative and creative ways, it can be used to build solutions that connect people, improve efficiency, build wealth, and create jobs. These are the things that will lead to greater happiness of our citizens.”
HPE Pointnext defined a data lake as the foundation for the Smart Dubai Platform, comprised of HPE servers, storage, data protection, as well as partner solutions, all integrated with Dubai’s citywide network. The data lake ingests big data from existing departmental systems, sensor data, and open data from the Internet and other sources, as well as private enterprise and personal data. The Smart Dubai Platform also uses Hortonworks Hadoop for big data analytics and application development using a wide variety of software from vendors such as MicroStrategy, Informatics, and others. Through application programming interfaces (APIs), the Smart Dubai Platform will enable virtually any government entity, private enterprise, or individual to create innovative, data-driven applications and dashboards to enhance city life.
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Dubai is leveraging data to create delightful experiences for its businesses, residents, and visitors.
Government entities and individuals will be able to create their own dynamic and personalized dashboards through the Dubai Pulse portal. For example, government managers could gain real-time views of social media sentiment about particular services to gauge happiness and make necessary adjustments.
Future city applications developed through the Dubai Pulse portal could help consumers find the closest parking place to their favorite store at the mall or get road closure alerts to avoid unpleasant traffic delays.
Under the Dubai Plan 2021, the future city strategy includes over 100 initiatives and a plan to transform 1,000 government services into smart services, mostly based on data. Dubai, together with neighboring city Abu Dhabi, is also deploying over 5,000 WiFi hotspots to offer free internet for the public.
The Dubai Plan 2021 covers all other areas of a future city, including healthcare, commerce, education, safety, telecommunications, tourism, and utilities, where 250,000 smart meters are set to be deployed by 2018.
Inspired by initiatives such as Smart Dubai, other major city authorities in the region are expected to accelerate their plans to develop technologically advanced, economically sustainable, and citizen-centric cities. Through partnership and collaboration, these city authorities will leverage the vast array of expertise and technologies available in the region to engage with citizens and create a more positive and productive city life for everyone.
“Our advice for other cities looking to the future is to put the citizens at the center of their transformation and embrace private-public partnership. By collaborating with our partners from the beginning, we could make sure that everybody was aligned around our shared vision and that we were executing the initiative together.”
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TOWN FANS ON THE 2014/15 SQUAD PHOTO!
Six lucky fans get chance through 1908 Loyalty Scheme
Six Huddersfield Town fans will get the chance to line up alongside the players for the 2014/15 squad photo thanks to the 1908 Loyalty Scheme.
Graham Clark, Helen Clark, Keith Rant, Maureen Procter, Andrew Bolt and Ann Eastwood will each line-up alongside the Town players and management on the eve of the new Sky Bet Championship season after accumulating enough 1908 Loyalty Points throughout the last season.
Points were gained by purchase of 2013/14 Season Card; match tickets in advance for away games; travel on official Town coaches and by updating their details on Town’s database, which can be done via the ‘Update our details’ click-through at the bottom of any email from the Club.
Graham Clark was the fan who accumulated the most points throughout the season; he edged out other fans by redeeming special 1908 codes in Town’s Give Us An H match day magazine.
As a result, Graham was given a special 1908 Loyalty Scheme award at the 2014 Annual Awards Ceremony from Manager Mark Robins. He attended the event alongside his wife Helen, who was the close runner-up!
After the event, Graham told htafc.com:
“I would like to thank the Club for the award, which I was honoured and proud to win. Helen and I enjoyed the evening and the three young players on our table - Joe Wilkinson, Flo Bojaj and William Boyle - are a credit to the football club.”
Huddersfield Town’s CRM Manager Richard Mills added:
“On behalf of the Club, I would like to thank everyone who took part in the 1908 Loyalty Scheme during the 2013/14 season. Fans still have chance to redeem their points for the season!”
Click HERE to access www.htafcloyalty.com and learn how to redeem your points.
“2013/14 was the inaugural season for the 1908 Scheme and we’re currently in the review process ahead of the forthcoming campaign. I would welcome any feedback on the scheme; please email 1908@htafc.com with any suggestions.”
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Gov. Scott Walker, First Lady promote trauma-informed care at Two Rivers schools
Wisconsin Governor and First Lady visit Two Rivers schools to see first-hand how teachers have integrated trauma-informed care into the classrooms.
Gov. Scott Walker, First Lady promote trauma-informed care at Two Rivers schools Wisconsin Governor and First Lady visit Two Rivers schools to see first-hand how teachers have integrated trauma-informed care into the classrooms. Check out this story on htrnews.com: https://htrne.ws/2rS2Ko0
Alisa M. Schafer, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 12:59 p.m. CT May 18, 2018 | Updated 1:01 p.m. CT May 18, 2018
Wisconsin First Lady Tonette Walker help first-graders with a project involving plants at Koenig Elementary in Two Rivers May 18.(Photo: Alisa M. Schafer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
TWO RIVERS – Wisconsin First Lady Tonette Walker, along with her husband, Gov. Scott Walker, visited classrooms in both the Two Rivers High School and at Koenig Elementary School Friday to see firsthand the work the Two Rivers School District has done to incorporate trauma-informed care into the classrooms.
"We had heard about the good work being done here in the Two Rivers School District, so we wanted to come and see for ourselves and see just how trauma-informed care is playing a role in really teaching these students here in Two Rivers," Tonette Walker said.
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The governor and first lady were joined by State Rep. Andre Jacque and Two Rivers Superintendent Lisa Quistorf.
Wisconsin's First Lady is an advocate for trauma-informed care — a treatment framework that encourages understanding, recognizing and responding to adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks with a teacher while first-graders at Koenig Elementary in Two Rivers work on a project May 18. (Photo: Alisa M. Schafer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
"Here in Two Rivers, they are really a model," Tonette Walker said. "They really meet the child where they are at. They try to get at the core of what the issue is with the child and they work with the child. They try to, not only academically work with them, but really just work with them socially and emotionally."
Tonette Walker's work has led her throughout the state and the United States to get people to recognize the importance of trauma-informed care. She started Fostering Futures in 2011 to spread awareness about ACEs and how they can shape a person's life.
Manitowoc County Human Services Department is involved with Fostering Futures and is working to integrate trauma-informed care into its services.
A resolution was recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing the importance for trauma-informed care among federal programs and agencies.
"It's shifting your perspective and really getting at the root of the problem," Tonette Walker said. "We really have a public health problem with these families that are living in toxic stress and we need to get at the root of it."
Children aren't the only ones affected by ACEs. Adults who experienced trauma or toxic stress during their childhood can also suffer the consequences.
State Rep. Andre Jacque watches as a first-grader at Koenig Elementary in Two Rivers shows him how to measure a plant May 18. (Photo: Alisa M. Schafer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
"Often times, people of any age, not just children, have had adverse childhood experiences," Gov. Walker said. "Sometimes that becomes a block and is a barrier to things that other people take for granted."
Gov. Walker said by introducing trauma-informed care into schools, children may have a better chance to grow into adults who display the basic set of skills employers look for — reliability, ability to deal with conflict and follow rules.
"The work they are doing here (Two Rivers School District) not only helps provide for a better, calmer place and environment for education, it will also help these students be better prepared when they eventually enter the workforce to be able to take on careers to support themselves and their families," Gov. Walker said.
More about Tonette Walker's work, ACEs and trauma-informed care is available at fosteringfutureswisconsin.org.
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How Operation Bristol Hurt Dancing With the Stars -- And Could Hurt Sarah Palin
11/17/2010 12:01 pm ET Updated May 25, 2011
When Bristol Palin first took the dance floor in the premiere episode of Season 11 of Dancing with the Stars, few expected the teen-mom-turned-abstinence-advocate to perform particularly well. But in the first few weeks, she proved her critics wrong, turning in decent dances even as the judges gently nudged her repeatedly to up her performance level to match her nascent dancing abilities. And, dare we say, increased appearances by proud Mama Palin didn't hurt her chances any, either.
Fast forward to Week 9, and Bristol's outlasted two top competitors (Rick Fox and Audrina Patridge) widely believed to be contenders; screwed up her jive only to say goodbye to Florence Henderson (contrary to political observers' opinions, the gorilla suits were not the problem that night); and, last night, trashed her remaining competitors as "fake" before blaming Levi Johnson for screwing up her life. It was not what regular viewers have come to expect from the pre-finals producer packages -- but then, regular viewers could be forgiven for not having expected Bristol from making it this far.
The producers' retention algorithm is based on judges' scores and popular vote for two purposes: to maintain the integrity of the finals and competition by helping maintain the best dancers despite potential audience disinterest; and to keep the most popular mediocre dancers as long as possible to keep the audience interested. Bristol certainly should have lasted to the middle of the competition; she certainly should not have outlasted at least Rick and Audrina based on how that algorithm has almost always functioned.
But Sarah Palin's vast and unending popularity -- and her supporters' fanaticism to defend everything in the Palinsphere -- threw everyone for a curveball. Let us be clear: no one should begrudge a mother wanting her daughter to win, or using her popularity to help that. But Operation Bristol isn't that, and it isn't about conservatives watching (and enjoying) Dancing with the Stars and voting for their favorite candidate: it's about supporting one dancer on a show many of them aren't even watching for strictly political reasons.
Conservative talk show host Tammy Bruce, in concert with Palin fan sites like Conservatives4Palin (originally started by the woman who now ghostwrites Palin's Facebook page and, reportedly, her Twitter account), started Operation Bristol not to drive more viewers or to encourage more people to watch the show, but to allow them to vote for Bristol without ever having to watch. Reactions on Twitter last night to Carrie Ann's critique of Bristol's distinct lack of emotion in her waltz from conservative bloggers indicated both that they'd never seen the show before and that they considered any criticism of their favored candidate all but beyond the pale.
And yet, regular viewers of the show -- who, let's be honest, are probably more conservative than the average liberal upset about Operation Bristol, if the fan faves and general cast members are anything by which to judge --know full well that Bristol plateaued several weeks ago. She continues to drop steps in fast dances; Mark continues to over-dance around her; and she continues to have difficulty providing two dances a week that are both technically proficient and high on the performance scale. The judges are there to provide criticism and contribute to the best dancers making the finals and, if we're all being quite honest, Brandy, Jennifer, and Kyle all out-danced Bristol Monday night.
The reason that the judges scores count in DWTS is to increase the probability that the contest will function as a meritocracy; Operation Bristol is deliberately designed to subvert the meritocracy of the show in favor of awarding the Mirror Ball trophy to the daughter of a politician the movement's participants like. Operation Bristol doesn't do DWTS any favors as, without Bristol, most of the movement's folks who did bother to tune in this week likely won't next season; with Bristol's overwrought supporters determined to undermine the meritocracy of the show, they're turning loyal viewers off weekly. And, what's worse it that they are turning even conservative viewers off with their obstinate desire to see Bristol win despite her mediocre skills -- and one only imagines the all-important independent voters are hardly in love with the Mama Grizzlies' plan to promote mediocrity over excellence or personal popularity over actual skills.
The plan to hand Bristol the Mirror Ball next week despite the fact that there were three candidates who were much, much better than her might make Bristol happy -- until Monday night's unfortunate display of attitude, we would have expected that she would prefer to lose graciously rather than win this way, but now we don't know -- and it might make her mom happy, but her fan base is hurting the show and the public perception of the woman they admire and the daughter they claim to champion. Plus it means the audience that loves (even grudgingly) to watch people dance and improve won't get to see the best people battle it out: instead, we'll be stuck watching Mark and his guyliner dance around Bristol's flaws while quietly bemoaning whomever isn't on screen. And from the look on Mark's face the last two weeks, he knows that's bad for him and the show he loves.
This piece originally appeared on WetPaint's Dancing With The Stars fan site.
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A Timeline Of New York City's First Ebola Case
BySarah Klein
A newspaper vendor holds up a copy of the NY Post in front of the entrance to Bellevue Hospital October 24, 2014 in New York, the morning after it was confirmed that Craig Spencer, a member of Doctors Without Borders, who recently returned to New York from West Africa tested positive for Ebola. New York confirmed the first case of Ebola in the largest city in the United States as the EU dramatically ramped up aid Friday to contain the killer epidemic ravaging west Africa.The EU announcement of one billion euros ($1.3 billion) for the worst-hit countries comes as fears of a spread of the virus grew, with the first confirmed case in Mali, where a two-year-old girl has tested positive. Craig Spencer was placed in isolation at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center, officials said. AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. Clary (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
The first confirmed case of Ebola in New York City understandably has city-dwellers on high alert. Health officials and infectious disease experts urge New Yorkers not to panic; Ebola is highly unlikely to spread to epidemic proportions in the city.
Still, one of the most effective tools officials have in making sure the deadly virus doesn't spread is monitoring the movements and contacts of those who are infected. Here is what we know about what Dr. Craig Spencer, the fourth person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. and the first case in New York City, did and where he went since his return from working with Doctors Without Borders in Guinea.
Spencer finishes his work in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders.
He leaves Guinea and travels through Brussels, Belgium.
Spencer arrives at JFK International Airport.
Spencer begins to feel sluggish, but health officials emphasize that his symptoms have not yet begun, according to the Boston Globe. He visits the restaurant The Meatball Shop, the High Line park, the Blue Bottle Coffee stand and rides the 1 train, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Mary Bassett, M.D., said in a press conference Friday.
Spencer goes for a three-mile jog along Riverside Drive and Westside Highway. He has contact with three people, including his fiancee, Morgan Dixon, and two friends, CNN reported.
He later rides the A and L subway lines to The Gutter, a Brooklyn bowling alley, and takes an Uber taxi back to Manhattan around 8:30 p.m.
Spencer develops fever and nausea, both symptoms of Ebola. When his fever spikes to 100.3 degrees Fahrenheit (not 103 degrees, as was first reported), he and Dixon make a joint call to authorities around 11 a.m. to report his symptoms and travel history, ABC News reported. Spencer is taken to an isolation ward at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, one of eight New York hospitals designated for the care of Ebola patients.
The Gutter bowling alley voluntarily closes, writing on its Facebook page, "We are working with the NYC Health Department to have the bar cleaned and sanitized under their supervision."
Spencer tests positive for Ebola later Thursday night, becoming the fourth person to be diagnosed in the U.S.
Spencer remains hospitalized in isolation and in stable condition, Bassett said. The CDC has confirmed Spencer's positive test results. Health officials visit The Gutter and Blue Bottle Coffee and clear both for business. Spencer's fiancee as well as the two other friends he had close contact with have all been quarantined and are not showing any symptoms, and his apartment is locked and isolated, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a press conference. The car service driver is deemed to have had no contact with Spencer. Health officials visit The Meatball Shop and expect it to reopen at 6 p.m.
Spencer is deemed Ebola-free and released from Bellevue. "It's a very, very good day," Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a press conference Tuesday, at Bellevue Hospital Center. "Dr. Spencer is Ebola-free, and New York City is Ebola-free."
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NFF Scraps Third Place Matches in the Federation Cup.
The Nigeria Football Federation has scrapped third place matches in the male and female categories of the Federation Cup, in line with the new format adopted for the annual football tournament.
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The NFF Director of Competitions, Dr Sanusi Mohammed disclosed this to Daily Trust that, starting from this year’s edition, only the last two proceed to the final match venue, as there will be no third-place fixture for the losing semifinalists.
He therefore urges the last four to strive to win its semi-final matches to stand the chance to play at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.
“In line with the new format, which is the straight knock out, we are not going to have third place matches,” Mohammed said.
“In the male and female categories, only the two finalists would proceed to Lagos.
“We do not see any sense in accommodating third place matches. It does not serve any purpose.”
The NFF Director of Competitions further stated that the adoption of the knock out format was not prompted by the present cash crunch being experienced by the federation, stating that the NFF settled for it to discourage problems associated with the group matches format such as manipulation and other sharp practices.
“It is not true that we have been forced to phase out the old format because we are cash strapped. All we want is to eradicate some of the problems we faced. Moreover, it (group matches) was time consuming and energy sapping.”
He disclosed that the semi-final matches will be played on August 21, as Warri Wolves and Akwa United clash at the Tafawa Balewa Stadium Bauchi while Lobi Stars and Enyimba meet at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium Benin.
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We Can’t Continue With N18,000 Minimum Wage – Saraki
The Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki has declared that the country can no longer continue with the present N18, 000 minimum wage for workers.
He made the declaration Thursday, while addressing the Nigerian labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) members, who protested to the National Assembly for Good governance and support for the fight against corruption.
The Senate President said with the high exchange rate and inflation in the country, the government is left with no option than to adjust the current minimum wage to enable the workers cope with the present harsh economic realities.
‘The challenges are enormous. I commend your action. Part of the contributions you are making is the sacrifice you have made today. This is your second time here and it is because of the respect I have for you that made me to come out myself to see you since I am around.
‘As many times you have been coming, I have come out to receive you because I agree with you that we have problem in the land. Yes, we have problem and for that we have to make our country better.
‘The challenges are enormous and already, I believe that there is hunger in the land. Today, as you all have observed, the exchange rate is high, the inflation is high, the price of food have gone up. The only thing that has remained low is the salaries. We cannot continue like that.
‘What we need to do is to sit down and work out how we are going to make the necessary adjustments because we go to the same market and it is no fault of yours that things are the way they are,’ he said.
On good governance, Saraki said, ‘We have agreed in the Senate to ensure good governance is upheld by this administration. We fear nobody, there is challenge and, there is a sacrifice to it. But we are ready to shoulder the responsibility.
‘Before now, nobody talked about the NEITI report. The NEITI used to be swept under the floor but this National Assembly brought forward the latest NEITI report that revealed the $50 billion unremitted by the multi-nationals. We are asking that you leave the man that stole billions and pursuing the man that stole millions to come and answer?
‘I want to assure you that we are determined to tackle bad governance. We cannot continue the old way. It is now time for action. Those of you that know me, I am not a man that say, what I cannot do, I keep quiet. It is time for action. By the next time I will be addressing you like this, I will be talking about the action.’’
Labour demands
Earlier in their joint address, the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Waba and his TUC counterpart, Bobboi Kaigama told the leaders of National Assembly that the protest was aimed at expressing their reservation against bad governance and corruption in the system.
Ayuba said, ‘‘This is our second day of action of demand for good governance and also the support for the fight against corruption. But more importantly, we are canvassing for the issues of good governance, issues of accountability, issues of transparency and issues of rule of law because we believe that the foundation of democracy is hinged on these three principles.
‘We believe that when you look at our challenge as a country, over years, these three major issues have been major challenge. But to compound it is the issue of the fight against corruption, which has been a serious challenge to us as a nation.
‘The situation of Nigerian workers is no longer the same. Workers have been at the receiving end, despite the bail out. The exchange rate today is N500 to a dollar. Our minimum wage (N18,000) has remained the same, which is about $36 and this cannot take us home. The challenge is obvious.
‘The National Assembly plays a very important role on the issue of minimum wage and the fight against corruption, and good governance. As true representatives, we came to urge you to advance our laws to make sure that life is made better for ordinary citizens.
‘Some pensioners have not been paid for over 77 months. A governors instead of paying all the pension arrears, decided to pay a percentage and we say no to that.
‘We feel that we cannot succeed if the fight against corruption does not succeed because we are aware that we have almost $50 billion unremitted by the multi-nationals. When this is remitted, we will fix our roads, rail lines, schools and hospitals.
‘Part of the problems is that the funds meant for the Local Governments do not get to them. Governors misuse them. We will continue to appreciate National Assembly playing very active role in making sure that LGAs get autonomy.’’
On the 2017 budget, he urged the National Assembly to avoid padding and ensure that the budget reflects the true demands of the people.
‘We cannot succeed if the fight against corruption fails. In the ongoing constitution amendment, We are aware that in 2011, minimum wage was included in the exclusive list and demand that it remains in the exclusive list.’’
The protesters had earlier presented their demand to the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who promised to address all the issues raised in the document.
Addressing the protesters, shortly after the meeting, the NLC President, said, ‘‘We went in and we saw the Acting President and some ministers along side with him and we presented the catalogue of our demands.
‘We reported the situation on ground and reminded him that despite all that is going on, the funds of LGAs are not transmitted to them, despite the bail out and Paris Club refunds. Also presented to him are the issues of salaries and gratuity.
‘After listening to us, he accepted the document and appreciated the manner in which we have come to present our demands.
‘He promised that every item in the demand is going to receive attention. He advised we should be able to make inputs in the economic policies of government.
‘And we reminded them that we will continue in this business until we are able to have favourable response.’’
Recall that last year, precisely, on the 10 September, the Labour union visited the Senate President, where they presented the challenges workers are facing.
Also in the company of the Senate President were the Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Yusuf Suleiman Lasun, the Senate Committee Chairman on Labour and his House of Reps counterpart among other law makers.
The protesters had earlier matched through the streets of Abuja leading to the Aso Villa and National Assembly before presenting the catalogue of their demands.
Some of the placards read: Delay minimum wage, delay success of anti-corruption; make payment of salary a priority; Reward whistle blowers yes, victimise whistle blowers No.; Our salaries can’t take us home; Re-Open closed factories, create millions of jobs; fight against corruption must be wholistic; owing workers salaries is an act of corruption; electricity tariff hike in the face of darkness is an act of corruption and building infrastructure without salary infrastructure is hydra corruption.
The protest was organised by the NLC, TUC, students’ union and other allied unions in the country.
Source: Vanguard
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Brazil authorities inspect bakeries for labor violations
An investigation into the trafficking of Chinese workers to Brazil has uncovered evidence that Brazilian immigration authorities were involved, highlighting the key role that official corruption plays in enabling such trafficking networks.
Judicial documents obtained by Estadao reportedly state that prosecutors believe corrupt immigration officials helped facilitate a human trafficking network between China and Brazil.
The documents reportedly say that immigration officials at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport charged approximately $12,000 for every person they allowed to go through immigration and pass into the hands of the traffickers. The airport officials covered their tracks by confiscating the migrants’ passports, or removing the passport page with the entry stamp — which could be used to identify the immigration offiicials on duty that day.
Once they passed through immigration, the Chinese migrants worked in debt bondage in several bakeries, supposedly to pay off the costs of bringing them into the country.
Other similar schemes have been exposed in recent months. Prosecutors have freed a number of workers from bakeries who had been lured to Brazil with promises of a $570 monthly salary and free room and board, reported Noticias UOL. Instead, when they arrived, the workers’ passports were confiscated and they were told they had to work off their debt in what prosecutors described as “slave-like conditions.”
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Brazil has become notorious for human trafficking and forced labor, with debt bondage schemes used to entrap foreign and national workers alike. According to recent estimates, as many as 40,000 people work in slave-like conditions in sectors such as factories, mining, agriculture and logging.
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Authorities have uncovered evidence of various countries providing this slave labor, ranging from neighbors such as Peru to more distant countries such as Bangladesh. It should come as no surprise that Chinese human trafficking networks are also present in Brazil, as past cases have shown they already operate in neighboring countries Uruguay and Argentina.
As seen in Brazil, official corruption is a major enabler of human trafficking networks. Notably, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has identified corruption as one of the principal obstacles to effectively implementing anti-human trafficking policies.
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The Sea Wall (1957)
This Angry Age (original title)
1h 40min | Drama | 31 October 1957 (Italy)
During the 1950s, in French Indochina, the Dufresne family struggles to survive amid harsh economic times and natural disasters.
René Clément (screenplay) (as Rene Clement), Marguerite Duras (novel) | 2 more credits »
Silvana Mangano, Anthony Perkins, Richard Conte | See full cast & crew »
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The Day and the Hour (1963)
Action | Drama | Romance
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases ... See full summary »
Stars: Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page
Lovers, Happy Lovers! (1954)
From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, ... See full summary »
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Che gioia vivere (1961)
Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
Stars: Alain Delon, Barbara Lass, Gino Cervi
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into ... See full summary »
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Biography | Drama | Sport
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore
Mr. Orchid (1946)
Comedy | Drama | War
In the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.
Directors: René Clément, Noël-Noël
Stars: Noël-Noël, Maurice Chevit, Alice Leitner
The Glass Castle (1950)
Evlyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Remy, that lives in Paris, during Holidays. After following him in the lovers city, she decides to return home to inform her husband about ... See full summary »
Stars: Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais, Jean Servais
The Lonely Man (1957)
Drama | Western
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him.
Director: Henry Levin
Stars: Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand
Scar Tissue (1975)
Crime | Thriller
A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.
Stars: Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow
And Hope to Die (1972)
Crime | Drama
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari
The Matchmaker (1958)
Romance | Comedy
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine
Silvana Mangano ... Suzanne Dufresne
Anthony Perkins ... Joseph Dufresne
Richard Conte ... Michael
Jo Van Fleet ... Mme. Dufresne
Guido Celano ... Bart
Shao Chuan Chu ... Caporal
Nehemiah Persoff ... Albert
Yvonne Sanson ... Carmen
Alida Valli ... Claude
Larry Williams ... Roland
In French Indochina, during the 1950s, a family of French colonists struggles to survive amid harsh economic times. The Dufresne family has invested all of its savings into a rice farm.The mother, Mrs. Dufresne, has given all of her love and care to raise her twins. The twins, brother Joseph and sister Suzanne are in their 20s and are inseparable. They love their mother who can sometimes be overly-protective, bossy and stressed out. The family has a few Vietnamese house servants who benefited from the family's generosity when they received free plots of land from the Dufresne homestead. Hard economic times are forcing many farmers to sell their lands to major landowners and corporations. The Dufresne family is regularly asked to sell their farm but mother Dufresne refuses. One day, Albert, the son of a local tycoon, is at the Dufresne farm offering 15,000 dollars for the lands. The price is fair but mother Dufresne refuses to sell, out of pride. Her son, Joseph, tired of the dead-end ... Written by nufs68
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Albert: It's so nice to be with people as gay as you are
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Ya Ya Ya
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Fondly remembered jewel-of-the-mekong
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This movie hasn't been around in decades, and i was only a child when i saw it, yet it has stayed in my memory as few other movies have. I remember that it was shot on location in Southeast Asia, and that the wide-screen color imagery just seemed so exotic, humid and slightly decaying. The close relationship of the two "teenagers" (Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano) seemed disturbing and poignant. Am i correct in remembering a scene where Mangano dances to excite a potential boyfriend, while Perkins watches, consumed with jealousy? Jo Van Fleet as their beleaguered mother, with her exhaustion and her sudden rages, seems like the third panel in the triptych of Van Fleet's "aging women" roles (the other two are in EAST OF EDEN and in WILD RIVER). I also remember Alida Valli as the sophisticated woman (does she have some sort of limo?) who gets involved with Perkins.
I've read the novel by Duras, which i love, but i haven't seen this movie since its first release, when my (twin) sister and i were taken to it by our grandmother. We were excited because there were very few movies which seemed to be about twin siblings (i didn't realize that the characters weren't supposed to be twins until i read the novel a few years later). The relationship between Perkins and Mangano did seem to be especially close. I also have no idea where this movie is: there hasn't been a public screening of this movie in the US in almost 50 years! (If there has been, i'm ready to be informed of that fact.)
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BJP Slams Rahul Gandhi For Attacking PM Modi Over Rafale Deal, Says ‘He’s Throwing Muck at His Own Face’
Gandhi released to the media an email dated March 28, 2015 purportedly written by Airbus executive Nicolas Chamussy to three recipients with the subject line "Ambani".
Updated: February 12, 2019 5:55 PM IST
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday vehemently dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s allegations against Narendra Modi on the Rafale fighter jet deal as height of shamelessness and irresponsibility, and asserted that the e-mail cited by the Congress chief to target PM Modi referred to some chopper deal and not the purchase of the fighter aircraft.
Senior party leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also put Airbus, whose internal e-mail was cited by the Congress president, in a dock, saying the European aircraft manufacturer is under a needle of suspicion in deals finalised during the previous Congress-led government.
BJP’s reaction came after Rahul accused PM Modi of “treason” and violating the Official Secrets Act by acting as Anil Ambani’s “middleman” in the Rafale jet contract, citing an email to claim the businessman was aware of the deal days before India and France signed it.
Gandhi released to the media an email dated March 28, 2015 purportedly written by Airbus executive Nicolas Chamussy to three recipients with the subject line “Ambani”.
He claimed the email showed Ambani visited then French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s office and mentioned an “MoU in preparation and the intention to sign during the PM visit (to France)”.
“This is now treason, nothing less. Mr Narendra Modi is doing what spies do. He is informing somebody of defence matters, he is under oath to protect these secrets.
“He has now given this secret to Mr Anil Ambani who knows that the biggest defence deal in the world is going to him 10 days before the deal…This itself is criminal, this itself will put the prime minister in jail,” the Congress chief said.
The Congress president asked how Ambani knew about the deal and mentioned it in the French defence minister’s office when even then foreign secretary S Jaishankar and then defence minister Manohar Parrikar had no information on it.
Rebutting Gandhi’s allegations, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said his party had serious differences with former prime ministers, who came from the Gandhi family, over several “murky” defence deals signed during their term but had never accused them of treason.
“He (Rahul Gandhi) has thrown muck at his own face by abusing our honest prime minister… We will expose his lies before the public,” he said.
Meanwhile, refuting the charges levelled by Rahul, Reliance Defence said, “Purported email being referred by the Congress Party regarding the discussion between Airbus and Reliance Defence regarding Civil & Defence Helicopter Programs under ‘Make in India.”
“Discussion on proposed MoU was clearly with reference to cooperation between Airbus Helicopter and Reliance. It had no connection whatsoever with Government to Government Agreement between France and India for 36 Rafale aircraft,” it added.
The war of words between the Centre and the Congress comes on a day when the government is expected to present the CAG report on the Rafale fighter jet deal in the Lok Sabha.
The Rafale jets purchase issue continues to rock the Parliament with Congress President Rahul Gandhi directly accusing the Prime Minister of benefiting industrialist Anil Ambani. The ‘Rafale controversy’ has headlined most of the Congress’ campaigns since late 2018.
Published Date: February 12, 2019 3:30 PM IST
Updated Date: February 12, 2019 5:55 PM IST
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CD Disciples Of The Unseen #10944
1. Ars Almadel
2. Angel Horned
3. Esoteric Formulae
4. The Coronation Of Seth
5. Hamunaptra
6. Iteru
7. Goddess Of Masr
8. Ouroboros
9. Circle In Flames
10. Through The Eyes Of Ea
Formed in 2007 in Quebec City, AETERNAM has been preparing to unleash their own brand of epic death metal upon the world. Combining classic death metal songwriting with epic melodic soloing and middle-eastern influences, AETERNAM has fine-tuned its craft and made it into a perfect blend of brutality and melody. Their first studio release and Metal Blade Records debut, Disciples of the Unseen, was produced by mastermind JeF Fortin (Neuraxis, The Last Felony) and contains 10 tracks of pure intensity, crushing riffs, pounding bass lines, and brutal growls paving the way for epic solos, acoustic melodies, ambient keyboards and large vocal harmonies. Fans of Behemoth, Nile and Melechesh will most certainly find something about this band to enjoy. The sheer amount of talent and creativity inherent in AETERNAM is refreshing and fans of metal everywhere are sure to take notice once the band’s debut studio album Disciples of the Unseen is unleashed upon the masses on February 16th 2010.
Canada’s AETERNAM joined the Metal Blade roster in May 2009 and continued locking down shows in the great white north, including dates with now label mates Behemoth at their June 29th show in Montreal, Trois-Rivières Metal Fest alongside Unexpect, Quo Vadis, Suffocation, Fuck the Facts, and A Perfect Murder, Ashes of Eden, and Exhult just to name a few. AETERNAM is now ready to make its debut on the metal scene with their new twist on death metal with the release of Disciples of the Unseen.
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The Buzz About Katy
By Staff | June 8, 2018
Victoria Anderson of Cinco Ranch High School was one of many Katy students who graduated over the Memorial Day weekend. Congratulations Victoria and good luck at Texas A&M!
Justice Eva Guzman, of the Texas Supreme Court, and Katy Christian Magazine Publisher, Joseph Menslage, were among the many celebrities that celebrated Cinco de Mayo at La Cocina Mexican Restaurant in Richmond.
Aristoi Classical Academy, a public charter school located in historic Katy, held its first graduation on Saturday, June 2. Dr. Everett Piper, a nationally known author and speaker, delivered the keynote address.
Students at Houston Christian High School gained a first-hand look at the extraordinary leadership of former First Lady Barbara Bush after she and her husband, President George H. W. Bush, during the dedication of The George and Barbara Bush Center for Scholars and Leaders six year ago. The Bush Center has become a space for students and community members to learn about the leadership legacy of the Bush’s.
Katy Christian Magazine Publisher, Joseph Menslage, poses with Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch at La Griglia Restaurant.
Over 30 men and boys made the decision to follow Christ in baptism during the Intense Men Conference held March 15-17, 2018.
At Faith Lake, fathers fished with theirs sons during the Intense Men Conference held March 15-17, 2018.
The Smilin’ Rylen Foundation, organized to generate awareness of organ donation and raise funds for families in times of crisis with their children, hosted the inaugural Smilin’ Rylen Family Run/Walk on Saturday, April 28 in the Katy master-planned community of Cane Island.
In April, Katy Christian Ministries invited members of the community to learn about Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Over 800 Katy-area residents attended the 2nd annual Katy Color Run on April 7th.
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2015-2016 Fireball Newsflash Crosswords
Twenty current events crosswords that will be sent out over the course of a year. Many puzzle answers will be taken from current news.
Great Neck, NY Puzzles
“All the News That Fits Symmetrically”
This is a follow-up to my Kickstarter projects from July to December 2013 and from July 2014 to May 2015. They went so well I decided to do it again. Like last time, the puzzles will come once every two or three weeks, so it will last about a year.
Try a Sample Puzzle
Here is a sample puzzle from 2013. To try it, right-click on it and open it in a new tab, and then print it.
Sample puzzle from October 11, 2013
(For the answer grid, click here.)
From January 2009 to March 2013, I wrote a crossword for every issue of The Week magazine. Each puzzle was based on the events from the previous week, and I put as many news-related items into the grid as I could.
My big problem with writing for The Week was that I wrote the puzzle on Fridays, but the solvers didn’t get the magazine delivered to them until seven days later. That made the newsworthiness of the crossword less than ideal. By using email, I can send the puzzle to solvers the second it’s finished. Back this project and you can be part of the forefront for how crosswords are delivered to solvers in the digital age.
About the Puzzles
These puzzles will be delivered to your email inbox in two forms: Across Lite, which can be solved on your computer, and pdf, which can be printed and solved on paper. They will generally come every other week, but there will be occasional exceptions. It will finish around May 2016.
Note that unlike the superhard Fireball Crosswords, Fireball Newsflash Crosswords are aimed at a general audience. The difficulty level will be like that of a typical Tuesday or Wednesday newspaper crossword.
The Cap
Fireball Crosswords baseball cap
I started Fireball Crosswords in 2010 as the first online-only pay-to-play direct-to-the-solver crossword. I have written or edited more than 50 puzzle books, with combined sales of over a million copies. I was the editor of the Post Puzzler, a tough themeless crossword that appeared in every Sunday Washington Post from April 2010 to March 2015. From 2002 to 2008, I was the crossword editor for the New York Sun. I am the editorial director for Puzzlewright Press, an imprint of Sterling Publishing, where I have worked for the last 18 years. I am also the creator of the iPhone app Celebrity: Get a Clue. And since 2012 I have been a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel.
New York Sun Crosswords #6
New York Sun Crosswords #10
Sizzlingly Hard Fireball Crosswords
Blazingly Hard Fireball Crosswords
Infernally Hard Fireball Crosswords
Hellaciously Hard Fireball Crosswords
As newspapers and magazines struggle to survive in the current economy, more and more are cutting back on extras like crossword puzzles. Professional puzzle writers are losing opportunities left and right. There has to be a better way than going through magazines and newspapers to get puzzles to the solvers. By supporting this campaign, you are providing direct support to the writer, allowing me to continue to write the news puzzles that I so enjoy doing.
As for the deadlines, I wrote more than 200 crosswords for The Week without missing any. This is the third year I’m doing this through Kickstarter, and the first two years went very smoothly. Solvers will get the puzzles before the ink dries on the news.
REGULAR SUBSCRIBER: You get all 20 crosswords delivered to you by email starting in June 2015.
EARLYBIRD SUBSCRIBER: You get all 20 crosswords delivered to you by email starting in June 2015, and you get them at least six hours earlier than regular subscribers.
EARLYBIRD SUBSCRIBER PLUS BOOK: An Earlybird subscription plus you get an autographed copy of any of my New York Sun Crosswords or Fireball Crosswords books (you choose the book--some old ones are unavailable).
Reward no longer available 100 backers
EARLYBIRD SUBSCRIBER PLUS CAP: An Earlybird subscription plus you get a Fireball Crosswords baseball cap.
EARLYBIRD SUBSCRIBER PLUS BOOK AND CAP: An Earlybird subscription plus you get an autographed copy of any of my New York Sun Crosswords or Fireball Crosswords books (you choose the book--some old ones are unavailable) and a Fireball Crosswords baseball cap.
Reward no longer available 30 backers
NEWSPRINT LOVER’S SUBSCRIPTION: An Earlybird subscription plus a copy of every daily New York Sun crossword, clipped from the newspaper. If you like the feel of writing on newsprint, this is for you. Over 1,600 puzzles to solve, and you get to read whatever is on the back. In addition, you get the complete edition of the first New York Sun from April 16, 2002 (with the crossword unsolved). Plus you get an autographed copy of any of my New York Sun Crosswords or Fireball Crosswords books (you choose the book--some old ones are unavailable) and a Fireball Crosswords baseball cap.
Reward no longer available 1 backer
CREATE A CROSSWORD WITH ME: Co-construct a puzzle with me for Fireball Newsflash Crosswords. On a mutually agreed-upon Friday (the earlier backer gets first choice of dates), you will get a one-on-one master class on the ins and outs of crossword construction, and you’ll share the byline with me on the puzzle. You also get an Earlybird subscription, lunch or dinner, a Fireball Crosswords baseball cap, and you take with you one autographed copy of every New York Sun crossword book, all four Fireball Crosswords books, and “Hall of Fame Crosswords” (a collection of all 96 of my New York Times crosswords). Warning: that’s 29 books, so it will be heavy. (The total cover price for the books is over $200.) [Backers pay their own way to Great Neck, which is a 35-minute train ride from New York City’s Penn Station, as well as near JFK and LaGuardia airports.]
Apr 13, 2015 - Apr 19, 2015 (5 days)
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Champion of Earth
Defend Earth from an alien invasion in this fast-playing, quirky and light-hearted card game. Will you be the Champion of Earth?
Shades of Vengeance
London, UK Tabletop Games
pledged of £1,000 goal
Champion of Earth is a fast-paced card game. The concept is simple: defend the Earth from the invaders using various (and hilarious) pieces of equipment.
All you have to do to win is kill more monsters than the other players. That should be easy, right?
The equipment defeats monsters through number-matching: anything with an equal or higher value than the monster will destroy it. Some equipment has special abilities, which allow it to look at face-down cards, have a bonus against certain types of enemies, or even wipe all of one type of enemy (Alien, Undead or Creature) off the table!
Evil Saucer-men have arrived to conquer our precious Earth and steal our precious cows.
Or... possibly people? Our translators weren't entirely sure...
To bolster their armies, they have raised the Undead from the ground and summoned Creatures forth from the shadows, because... uh... it seemed like a good idea on paper?
In this game, you are one of the last warriors of Earth with the gumption to strike back against the creepifying invaders.
You have agreed a wager together, as warriors: whoever can kill the most of the enemy horde will be crowned the "Champion of Earth".
You will have to balance the defeat of the invasion against the acquisition of confirmed kills...
Will you be the Champion of Earth?
Trollish Delver took a look at Champion of Earth!
EntirePartyKilled Also took a look over our review pack...
“The game is very well thought-out and fast-paced. It’s very satisfying to steal kills away or throw your partner under the bus!”
"Champion of Earth is an entertaining little game to play during breaks or travelling from A to B. So quick and easy to pick up, you can teach it to anyone."
"The first time I played this game, I beat Ed, that’s when I knew I liked the game!"
"When I play this game, saving Earth is a bonus to me, killing other players is satisfaction."
You can download the Rules as part of the Quickstart Guide, but if you want to know more about the gameplay, here's a video!
Please feel free to ask any questions in the comments, and Ed will reply himself, or make a video to explain if needed!
If there are any other reward tiers you'd like to see, please message us and let us know! We'll be happy to add them!
N.B. More info about the Stretch Goals Bundle:We've had a few questions about what this involves. The Stretch Goal Rewards from £1100 to £1700 will automatically be printed into all physical decks, as well as provided in the Digital decks.This reward is primarily aimed at delivering the additional expansion decks which can be unlocked, and we currently believe might be. Instead of having to add them to the reward as Add-Ons (you'll see below they will be available), you can choose to simply receive everything in physical format as it is unlocked.
We are proud to continue to ensure our products are shipped in a way that's friendly to all the major backer countries.
All products will be shipped from within the countries to their final destination, ensuring the best service for you all!
(Well, the game was created within the EU!)
We want everyone to enjoy Champion of Earth!
N.B. Please be aware that add-ons may require extra postage costs!
We've got some fantastic add-on ideas, in the form of two expansion decks!
The first brings Robots and Cyborgs into the game on the side of the Aliens, while equipping you with everything you need to defeat them, such as an EMP grenade, Bad Data and an Unlimited Credit Card!
The second brings the dreaded Dinosoids into the battle. Combining Human DNA with that of dinosaurs, the Aliens have created a truly terrible foe for our heroes to face!
Roleplaying Games by Shades of Vengeance
10% Kickstarter - Kickstarter takes its usual 8-10% cut. We'll transfer anything that doesn't get taken for that straight into Stretch Goals!
60% Printing and Shipping - Experience has taught us that the majority of the costs relating to any Kickstarter are getting the rewards out to you guys, safely and in a timely manner. We've had a fair bit of experience now (this is actually our company's 16th Kickstarter, and not the first with cards!), so we're confident we'll be able to fulfil in a way you'll be satisfied.
10% Development Team - Some of the development team have not yet been paid for their work on Champion of Earth, so they are being paid a percentage of the Kickstarter's funds!
20% Stretch Goals - Every penny that isn't used for getting the rewards to you will be used for development - new artwork for the cards and even expansions that we have planned! This will include artwork, layout, editing, proofreading, playtesting... everything we need to get the extras made!
The Alien Invader will be joining the main deck as a Level 2 Alien enemy!
The dreaded Wererabbit, of Era: Lyres fame, will join the Aliens in their invasion as a level 2 Creature!
The Skeleton Warrior will join its brethren in their magic-fuelled antics as a Level 2 Undead!
The Sword is a trusty addition for any warrior. It'll be added as a Level 2 Equipment Card!
The Arcing Death Ray jumps between multiple enemies! It'll be added as a Level 3 Equipment Card!
The Assault Rifle is a staple for any soldier! It'll be added as a Level 5 Equipment Card!
The ability to call in an Attack Helicopter could help in a variety of situations! It'll be added as a Level 8 Equipment Card!
Although this is Shades of Vengeance's first card game, it is our 16th crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, including a couple which have offered cards.
While we haven't been mistake-free, we've always delivered on or ahead of time (except for where a delay was agreed with Backers to give them more content!). For us, each successive Kickstarter builds on the lessons learned from the previous, and we learn fast. At this point, we're confident in our ability to deliver the rewards we're committing to and to keep you informed if there are any delays.
The biggest individual challenge for this Kickstarter is managing a team of artists and writers from all over the world. We all live in different timezones, so coordinating is a huge logistical challenge.
The game is finished apart from the last of the artwork and we're working with a card printer we've used before, on several occasions, so we're confident we can meet the deadlines stated here.
Please feel free to message us if you have any questions!
Pledge £1 or more About $1.25
Virtual Projection
Get all 108 cards in Print-and-Play format as soon as they are released!
Champion of Earth Deck - Digital
Pledge £20 or more About $25
Fast Warrior (EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!)
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!
As one of the first backers of this project, you get the printed version of the cards in a tuck box, as well as all 108 cards in Digital format as soon as they are released!
Champion of Earth Deck (Standard)
You get the printed version of the cards in a tuck box, as well as all 108 cards in Digital format as soon as they are released!
You get the deck of 108 cards, plus a special Kickstarter-only expansion, which features new cards with special abilities to add to your game!
Kickstarter-exclusive Expansion
You get every Stretch Goal that we unlock in printed format, automatically!
You’ll also get the game in digital and printed forms, as well as the Kickstarter-Exclusive Expansion!
Stretch Goals Bundle
Pledge £80 or more About $100
Certified Champion of Earth
You’ll get a version of the game printed game signed by Ed Jowett, the creator, as well as everything from the Champion (£60) Reward!
Signed Deck
Pledge £120 or more About $150
As well as everything in all the previous rewards, you'll get a Kickstarter-only Champion of Earth T-Shirt with your signed pack!
Kickstarter-Exclusive T-Shirt!
You're the Champion!
Have one of the Champions named a name of your choice!
Perhaps you identify with the Rogue, or the Ninja Girl? You get to name them for the game!
You also get all the rewards from the other tiers!
Name a Character!
Mar 10, 2017 - Apr 16, 2017 (37 days)
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Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
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ABSTRACTS – LABOUR HISTORY NO. 113
LABOUR HISTORY AND THE “COOLIE QUESTION”
Edited by Diane Kirkby and Sophie Loy-Wilson
Stabilising Violence in Colonial Rule: Settlement and the Indentured Labour Trade in Queensland in the 1870s
Tracey Banivanua Mar
This article examines the dynamics of colonial violence through three apparently insignificant and disconnected events. In Queensland in the 1870s, a structural framework of laws and regulations standardised violent and often fatal conditions in the labour trade. In the imagined remoteness of frontiers from civilisation, Indigenous, indentured and non-white peoples were grouped together with environmental and natural hazards to be battled. Colonial governance called for more subtle forms of violence. Inaction and acquiescence played a role in the sanction, maintenance and institutionalisation of violence in conventionalised forms. The central theme of the article is that violence was inherent to the colonial project. It shows the shared role of humanitarian concerns and the need for land and labour in the performance and regulation of colonial violence. It provides insight into the role of violence in colonial relations more generally as it illustrates how violence in and around Queensland was consciously produced and operated. Each of the chosen incidents shows that violence was highly rationalised around principles such as race, and how implicit sanctions rendered violence non-visible as understandings of violence and its justification were normalised.
From Slavery to Freedom: Chinese Coolies on the Sugar Plantations of Nineteenth Century Cuba
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
To supplement a dwindling slave labour force on their sugar plantations, Cuban planters turned to south China’s Fujian and especially Guangdong provinces. From 1847 to 1874 they recruited 141,000 male labourers (125,000 of whom arrived in Cuba alive). Slave-like work and living conditions on plantations, with proximity to large numbers of slaves notwithstanding, Chinese coolies were not permanent or lifelong slaves. The main question asked is not whether Chinese coolies were slaves – a well-worn argument that is not re-hashed here – but whether as contract labourers they constituted the early stages of the transition from slave to free labour. The article examines the respective and divergent framing of the bilingual Spanish and Chinese contracts, and the series of regulations designed to control the Chinese workers. Based largely on these primary documents it follows the trajectory of their work history in Cuba from indenture to freedom by way of specific life experiences.
The Coolie Labour Crisis in Colonial Queensland
Phil Griffiths
The question of “coolie labour” was of great importance in colonial Australia. Like the debates and conflicts over Chinese immigration and Pacific Islander labour, the outcome helped shape dominant national strategies around labour, immigration and nationalism, summed up in the idea of a White Australia. Unlike the issue of Chinese immigration, the issue of importing indentured Indian “coolie” labour drove major capitalist interests into a prolonged and bitter conflict with each other. Sugar planters in Queensland demanded the government facilitate the large-scale recruitment of indentured labourers from British India, and liberal obstruction of this led the planters and their allies to campaign for separation from Queensland. This article describes this conflict, the divisions and rival perspectives within the ruling class that shaped it and the reasons that almost the entire southern establishment, Conservative as well as Liberal, galvanised against the planters. It outlines the role played by British anti-slavery thought, and the belief that such a plantation colony in the north would develop a radically different social and political structure, one that was a threat to the free-labour economy.
Bound for Slavery? A Quaker Humanitarian Critique of Waged Labour at Koloa Plantation, Hawaii, 1836
Audrey Peyper
The humanitarian testimonials of the “concerned travellers,” Quakers Daniel and Charles Wheeler, from Koloa Plantation on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai in June 1836, problematised the early years of the sugar plantation’s wage labour system. Although the newly introduced wage system was intended by the resident missionaries and the founding company to liberate the plantation labourers from existing feudal obligations, the Wheelers claimed a different form of “slavery” was being imposed on the indigenous Hawaiians employed within the new system. Produced in a climate of protectionist and abolitionist fervour in the mid-1830s “age of reform,” the Quaker humanitarian publications reflected wider contemporary concerns for indigenous populations and post-British-emancipation labour conditions. Through examination of the Wheelers’ critique of Koloa in the formative years of Hawaii’s foreign-owned sugar plantation system, this article contributes a new perspective on the critical question of whether earning wages under the conditions at Kauai in 1836 excluded the Koloa Plantation labourer from slavery.
Preserving the Contract: The Experience of Indentured Labourers in the Wide Bay and Burnett Districts in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Slocomb
On the cusp of the pastoral boom of the late 1840s, squatters in the Northern Districts of New South Wales dreamed of the reliable shepherd who could be bought for ten pounds per annum. In the remote Burnett and Wide Bay districts, this aim was realised by the importation of so-called Asiatic labourers, first from Bengal and then from China. In the 1860s, thousands of South Sea Islanders joined these coolie ranks, labouring mostly on the coastal sugar plantations, but also as shepherds on the pastoral runs in the hinterland. Each of these experiments with indentured coloured labourers was deemed a failure by the white employers. In strictly economic terms, this judgement was patently false. On the other hand, as this paper discusses, the assertiveness of the immigrant workers for contractual rights defied their masters’ expectations of a cheap and docile labour force.
Reframing Chinese Labour Rights: Chinese Unionists, Pro-Labour Societies and the Nationalist Movement in Melbourne, 1900–10
Mei-fen Kuo
In the early twentieth century, Chinese cabinetmakers’ militancy in Melbourne not only secured a fair wage from Chinese employers but also influenced emerging pro-labour societies. The Chinese Cabinetmakers’ Union was founded in response to their exclusion from minimum wages law when Chinese cabinetmakers were reimagined as “coolies” to emphasise the threat of cheaper Chinese labour. As Australian discriminatory policies increasingly curtailed Chinese workers’ rights, the Chinese community was divided in response. The development of Chinese unions and pro-labour societies in Melbourne contrasted with Sydney where the Chinese merchant elite also mobilised against discrimination. The two groups had different perspectives on labour rights, which were being reshaped as part of an emerging Chinese nationalist movement. Chinese unionists in Melbourne participated in the Chinese nationalists’ movement through newspapers, public meetings, speeches, donations and outdoor excursions. The alliance of Chinese unionists and the prolabour societies reflected the fact that the Chinese working class in Melbourne demanded worker rights in a complex mix of the “politics of place,” embedded in a revolutionary nationalist movement and community organisation.
Coolies or Comrades? Labor Socialism and the Contradictions of Internationalism, 1909–22
Liam Byrne
In the first decades after Federation, Australian Labor Socialist intellectuals warned that capitalists desired to reduce Australian labour’s working conditions to the “coolie standard.” Such dire predictions replicated the derogatory and racialised discourse that defined the white Australian labour standard against that of the indentured “coolie.” Yet, alongside this, these movement intellectuals explicitly argued that white labour needed to unite with non-white workers in the region to resist the capitalists’ designs. They did so while maintaining faith in White Australia and racial exclusion. This article explores this tortured form of internationalism, and how the concept of the “coolie” was maintained, utilised, and transformed in the period of the early twentieth century. It writes against two trends: one that presents Australian labour as a homogenous intellectual bloc on the question of race and internationalism, and a second that identifies internationalism in the Australian labour movement as originating in the 1920s. It argues that in this period the concept of the “coolie” was utilised in both an overtly racialised manner, and began to act as a signifier of broader anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critiques that helped consolidate an internationalist identity. These Labor Socialists helped establish the intellectual ground for more developed and consistent internationalist politics that would take root in the 1920s.
Sexuality, Nationalism, and “Race”: Humanitarian Debate about Indian Indenture in Fiji, 1910–18
Fiona Paisley
In a 1916 report C. F. Andrews and W. W. Pearson set out their first-hand impressions of Indian indenture to Fiji. The two Englishmen had trained as Anglican clergymen and were sympathisers of the Indian nationalist cause. They saw indenture as a negative moral influence both upon those indentured and upon Britain’s civilised status. Furthermore, they considered the end of indenture to be essential to raising India’s reputation in the eyes of the world. Their findings were in many ways concerned not with the actual conditions of indentured labour, but with the local and global effects of the indignities and exploitations experienced by those seemingly brought low by the experience, particularly women who were exploited by the system but who were, in Andrews’ and Pearson’s eyes, essential to changing indenture into Indian immigration. This paper considers the role that normative ideas about heterosexuality and gender relations played in the image of a spiritual, rural Indian migrant in the Pacific who Andrews and Pearson hoped would develop Fiji. Thereby veiling the longer history of unfree labour in the region since the previous century, their conclusions would be endorsed in Australia and London through networks of progressives and anti-slavery advocates seeking renewed international attention towards the Pacific, British imperial reform, and the greater role of Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific islands.
Indian Seamen and Australian Unions Fighting for Labour Rights: “The Real Facts of the Lascars’ Case” of 1939
Diane Kirkby and Lee-Ann Monk
In 1939, the outbreak of war prompted strikes by Indian seafarers across the empire. This article traces events in Australia as Indian seafarers asserted their labour rights and in doing so contested their exploitative working conditions as “lascars” or the seagoing equivalent of shore-based indentured “coolie” labour. While the Australian government responded in ways that reinforced the “coolie” status of Indian seafarers, the Australian labour movement, most notably the maritime unions, threw their support behind the strikers. The Seamen’s Union of Australia and Waterside Workers’ Federation provided material aid, funded the strikers’ legal costs and, significantly, challenged official and media representations of the Indian seafarers as “coolies” with explanations of their exploitative conditions as “workers.” This action was significant because western seafarers’ lack of support has been seen as contributing to Indian seafarers’ difficulties in challenging their working conditions and status as “lascars.” Showing how Indian and Australian workers together resisted labour categories and fought for political rights complicates prevailing views of the relationship between Australian unions and Asian workers and demonstrates a consistency with the earlier internationalism of Australian maritime unions identified by previous historians.
The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History acknowledges the traditional owners of Australia. It pays respects to Elders past, present and emerging. It acknowledges that sovereignty was never ceded.
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FEELING THANKFUL
Hello! We have been so busy raising awareness, building relationships, and working toward our fundraising goal that this is the first Ladybug House newsletter we are sending out since April.
Right now we are feeling thankful to every one of you who has donated, volunteered, or just spread the word about LBH and the need for palliative care, rest, and rejuvenation for families and an option for loving end-of-life support for children.
Please read on to find out what's been happening and mark your calendars for exciting events that are coming up!
ONLINE SURVEY TO DOCUMENT THE NEED FOR LADYBUG HOUSE SERVICES
Ladybug House and Seattle University College of Nursing have teamed together to document the experiences of parents and caregivers of children and adolescents with life-limiting illnesses through a comprehensive survey.
Our goal for the survey is to capture as many different local voices and opinions as possible regarding what you, the caregivers, need when caring for very ill children. This data will be presented to state lawmakers and healthcare officials to demonstrate the real need for establishing a home-away-from-home for this chronically underserved population. We are making the official case for Ladybug House!
Who should take the survey? We are hoping that all caregiver(s) of a child, adolescent, or young adult age 29 and under with a life-limiting illness will take part. For this study, the term "life-limiting illness" is defined as any diagnosis or illness that has the potential to dramatically reduce years of life lived or dramatically impact quality of life.
Please help us by taking the survey and sharing the link with other parents and caregivers within Washington. If you still have questions, please reach out to: emily@ladybughouse.org. Thank you for helping us gather and document this important information!
Golden Truth Documentary
The Golden Truth is a documentary project that aim s to change the way the world sees pediatric cancer, which has been portrayed in movies and on TV through images of happy bald children frolicking in theme parks. We know the realities of childhood cancer are much more profound.
Producer Nancy Pickett is an international award-winning film student who wants to make a difference in the lives of children who fight every day by exposing the truth of their struggles. Pickett, 17 years old, came to the LBH offices to meet six local families and spend the entire day filming their stories. Learn more about the film at thegoldentruth.org.
Filmmaker Nancy Pickett (far right) and LBH founder Suzanne Gwynn (second from right).
LADYBUG LOVE
As we work to raise funds and find land to build our home, we will continue to reach out and ask for your help in providing families with moments of rest and rejuvenation right now - something we call Ladybug Love.
Thank you to Daphne and her son Terrance for allowing us to support them as Terrance continues his battle. Terrance is 18 years old and was diagnosed with sarcoma when he was 16. They moved to Seattle, where Terrance has started treatment for the third time.
Ladybug House founder Suzanne Gwynn reached out to supporters on Facebook, and within 24 hours the community pulled together to show Terrance and Daphne some serious Ladybug Love, including: Mariners tickets, a backpack, piles of school supplies, new clothing, a limo ride to and from the game, two pairs of brand-new Nike shoes, a Mariner's jersey, gift cards to the Mariner's team shop, numerous coupons to activities around Seattle including the Space Needle, and more. Huge thanks to all who responded and reached out to support Terrance and Daphne. Special thanks to the Rachel Lynn Henley Foundation and the KidStarter Foundation for their ongoing support. On top of their continual gift of LBH office space, we also thank Hainline for kicking off our new Ladybug Love movement with the gift of four pairs of Mariner's tickets.
Providing Some Much-Needed Fun
In August, Nintendo generously gifted LBH 67 tickets to a Mariners game - which just happened to be on "Star Wars Day!"LBH distributed those tickets to young patients and their families (plus a few well-deserving nurses and LBH volunteers) as a special treat. Great way to #celebrateeveryday!
Brianna Nettleton
LBH supporter Brianna Nettleton donated three tickets to a Sounders game in September, and we were able to pass them on to Anna MacInnes and her family. Anna wrote, "My kids and I had a blast adventuring around and yelling as loud as possible! And bonus - when we finally did sit down it was next to a Children's Hospital nurse! Thank you again not only for the tickets, but for all you do for this community and for your heart and passion for the Ladybug House!"
Generocity
LBH was one of 25 Seattle nonprofits chosen to be a part of
Ge nerocity, an event put on by Seattle Met and presenting sponsor Vulcan on June 15. 7 5 0 g uests visited our exhibition booth to learn more about the LBH mission and goals, spreading the word about the need for pediatric palliative care in the United States. Our team of volunteers engaged with visitors (aka dreamers) to our "home," creating memories with photo props and sharing their photos on social media, winning a gift of jcoco chocolate or wine courtesy of Lydig Construction, building a part of our home with Duplo's or Lincoln Logs, and drawing or coloring their vision of home. Visitors to our booth elected to donate money to Ladybug House - we're very grateful for their generosity!
Nintendo Washington Charity Golf Tournament
Each year, Nintendo holds a golf tournament be nefiting a different worthy charity. Normally, they don't inform the beneficiary ahea d of time, but this year was different. LBH was not only chosen as the fundraising recipient, we were also encouraged to get our mes sage out! The month before the tournament, LBH was invited to the Nintendo campus at lunchtime to share information about our mission. At 6 am on the day of the tournament, Ashley Holte and Suzanne Gwynn were present at the event registration table welcoming and thanking people for their support. Ashley and Alice Stark attended the afternoon luncheon, as well. The final donations were tallied one week later and, with matching funds from Nintendo, the total gift to LBH came to $12,238!
Thank you, Nintendo!
Glassybaby Light the Bridge
When the s un ros e on September 22, Seattle's I-90 bridge held more than 1,000 more
pedestrians than norm al at that time of day - including 47 people supporting LBH. They were there to celebrate the Seattle art glass company Glassybaby's charity milestone in the hopes of sharing in a new round of that company's charitable donations. Out of the hundreds of nonprofits represented on the bridge, and on short notice (we had about one week to plan!), LBH came in ninth and received a generous donation of $1000 from Glassybaby. "We are so grateful to our dedicated supporters for standing with us on the bridge, including more than 20 of my coworkers from the Seattle Cancer Care Clinic," said LBH founder Suzanne Gwynn, "and we are thankful to Glassybaby for the opportunity to build solidarity and momentum behind our cause of building Seattle's first palliative care home for children and their families."
Suzanne Gwynn (on left) and Glassybaby founder Lee Rhodes side by side on the I-90 bridge.
Microsoft Hackathon
Microsoft's Azure team sought us out as part of the company's "Hackathon" event. Software engineers donated their time for a week, creating a timeline and resource page for the LBH website. They added some great new features that we can't wait to roll out soon! The pages are currently tucked away - we need additional help in getting them stitched into our site. If anyone reading this has the necessary IT skills and wants to help, please email Heather Brown ( heatherncb@ladybughouse.org)!
At this time, LBH is 100% volunteer-driven. Our labor of love could not happen without you. Thanks to all of the LBH creators!
We are truly "for the community, by the community." LBH community fundraising activities range from small and simple to big and exciting. We appreciate every effort and every dollar raised on behalf of LBH! These events moved us closer to our 500k goal for 2016 and made many more people aware of the need for pediatric palliative care support in Seattle. Thank you! Stay tuned to our website for tools to help you plan and hold your own fundraiser.
Bob Fettig and the Wheels of Boom
A Seahawks fan was facing his 40th birthday, and he knew he couldn't do it alone! Bob Fettig gathered his Wheels of Boom fan club to celebrate along with him and requested donations to LBH in lieu of gifts. With jars he decorated, Bob and the WoB raised $1100! We are so grateful to Linda Boxwell to introducing LBH to Bob and his incredible group of friends.
Bob Fettig decorated jars to collect donations at his community fundraiser for LBH.
Kathye Handsaker
Through generous donations from her community in Belfair, Washington, Kathye Handsaker was able to raise more than $600 for LBH! Kathye also chose the "jar" approach and placed her simple donation stations at the Victor Improvement Club, Forza Coffee, and Costless Pharmacy. Kathye's granddaughter Georgia Handsaker is a leukemia survivor who received nursing care from Suzanne during her cancer treatment. We appreciate Kathy's love for Georgia and her dedication to LBH!
In late October, Steven Peterson and his amazing friends gathered in support of LBH. The Secret Halloween event was held at Cinque Terre Ristorante in Seattle (a beautiful space that was donated for free!) The event - more of a fancy dress costume party -- was free to attend and $6,085 in donations was accepted on behalf of LBH. Big thanks to Salvio and the incredible staff at Cinque Terre for planning and executing an incredible evening in support of LBH. Thanks to all who came out to #celebrateveryday!
Steven Peterson and friends in costume to support LBH at Cinque Terre Ristorante.
An incredible young man who attends the University of
Trish Murphy's memory is inspiring the next generation.
Florida, Ryan Murphy has a connection to LBH and has made it his special cause. Ryan's aunt, Patricia Murphy, was a dear friend of LBH founder Suzanne Gwynn. The two women worked night shifts together for over a decade on the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance unit at Seattle Children's Hospital. Trish, as her friends and family knew her, loved her work as a physician's assistant on the bone marrow transplant unit at SCH.
"Trish was one of my dearest friends and biggest supporters. From day one she believed in me and in Ladybug House," said Suzanne.
In her memory, Ryan has made it his mission to continue to care for the children and families that Trish loved by supporting LBH. "I began thinking and realized there would be no better way to honor her then to dedicate myself to something she loved so dearly," said Ryan. Five more chapters of LBH Clubs are in the works, with professors coming to his aid. Their goal is to raise funds and awareness and form additional chapters across the county. "It's incredible what can be done when a fire is lit," said Gwynn.
Ryan has also initiated an online fundraising campaign. "We are a 100% nonprofit organization in which all proceeds go towards the Ladybug House," said Ryan. "It all starts with us, we have the ability to make a change." Ryan's story made the local news; you can read the article that ran in the Independent Florida Alligator. To support Ryan's online fundraiser, visit gofundme.com/2ndfb2w4.
Ryan Murphy (second from left) and fellow students.
Interview with Mrs. Minnesota
Morgan Bredde, otherwise known as Mrs. Minnesota, is the first pageant winner to choose pediatric palliative care as her platform. "This is my encouragement to those reading this that have something to say but don't know what to say, how to say it, or even who to say it to. Just speak," Morgan wrote on her blog about the experience. "There are so many people who wish they had the voice, the opportunity or even the courage to do it. Take a chance and know your words could change the world."
We are sincerely grateful to Katie Lindenfelser, the founder of Crescent Cove for introducing Morgan Bredde to LBH. It is an honor to have her use her voice to spread the need for pediatric palliative care and to champion LBH.
Add a new "Day" to the holidays! Following the wild spending of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is now #GivingTuesday - a global day for charitable giving! LBH is participating in #GivingTuesday, taking place the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving (November 29). Started in 2012, the #GivingTuesday movement celebrates and supports charitable giving and philanthropy on a global scale. #GivingTuesday harnesses social media and human generosity to create real change in their communities. Through the collective power of nonprofits, civic organizations, businesses and corporations, as well as families and individuals, we can encourage and amplify small acts of kindness.
Your #GivingTuesday gift to LBH will help build our first facility, a nurturing, much-needed space where we will add life to the days of families and children facing life-challenging illnesses. Please consider giving to LBH on this day of generosity! Visit our #GivingTuesday fundraising page: http://bit.ly/2eZiM7o.
Conversations That Matter Series
LBH is partnering with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Swedish Hospital to present a new series of free and important talks called "Conversations that Matter." The lectures are scheduled for December, March, June, and September, are open to the community, and may be of special interest to patients and caregivers along with nurses, doctors, therapists, and anyone else who provides care.
The first talk will be presented at Swedish Hospital's Cherry Hill location on Monday, December 5 from 5:30 to 7 pm. Renowned Seattle grief educator and LBH advisory board member Geri Haynes, RN, will explore the topic of "Anticipatory Grief During the Holidays." This conversation will be of benefit to anyone experiencing bereavement or who are soon to be bereaved, those with past trauma around this time of year, those remembering a loved one who cannot be present for the holidays, and anyone experiencing loss, which comes in so many forms.
Pre-registration for this free program is requested. For more information or to register, please contact Christine Means-Wallace at 206-957-4585 or http://tinyurl.com/glg3y9p/.
The next talk will take place in March, and Dr. Erin Harper will discuss adolescent and young adult palliative care needs and why they are different. Please check the LBH website and your email inbox for the specific location, date, and time of this meaningful lecture.
Anna Jones, RN
LBH was honored to receive an incredible legacy gift of more than $18,000 from Anna Jones, who had worked as a nurse at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington. On Facebook, LBH founder Suzanne Gwynn wrote, "There are some posts that are very difficult to write. This one should be filled with celebration and joy and although I am so very, very grateful, I am also incredibly sad. This evening Ladybug House received our largest personal donation to date. It comes to us in memory of Anna Jones, a nurse I've never met. Today, her dear friend came to LBH to bring us a donation in the amount $18,332.52. It is with sincere gratitude that we accept this incredible gift in memory of Anna Jones, RN. We will keep her memory strong, and we are so honored to have been chosen."
Thank You Ma'am!
A Seattle philanthropic group of 100 women, Thank You Ma'am! is dedicated to providing amplified contributions to four selected non-profits each year. Their model is 100 women providing $100 each, ultimately donating $10,000 to a chosen charity, four times each year. LBH was selected as the recipient for the third quarter of 2016. What a fantastic way to #giveback!
With very little planning and a lot of good luck, LBH was encouraged to apply for a grant from Target and was awarded $1,000! Thanks, Target!
Glassybaby
One week after the Light the Bridge event resulted in a gift of $1,000 to LBH, Glassybaby's White Light Fund chose to grant us an additional $10,000! The White Light Fund's mission is to "give financial and emotional assistance to those in need, in order to promote hope and healing," and we are feeling beyond thankful to have received this help.
Help families and children celebrate every day by supporting Ladybug House. To learn how you can contribute to the mission, email info@ladybughouse.org .
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Israeli aid delegation pulls bodies from the ruins in Brazil [PHOTOS]
Five people were arrested, including three Vale staff.
By REUTERS, Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman
Israeli rescue workers pull bodies from the ruins in Brazil.. (photo credit: Courtesy)
A delegation of IDF and ZAKA disaster responders in southeastern Brazil has retrieved several bodies of victims who were washed away when a tailings dam broke last Friday at the Córrego do Feijão mining complex in the hilly region of Brumadinho.
So far, 65 deaths have been confirmed, according to firefighters. Another 279 employees, contractors and residents are missing and presumed dead. Some 192 people have been rescued. Aid workers say they are unlikely to find more survivors in the iron ore waste.
A delegation of about 130 IDF soldiers and officers in active service, as well as 70 reservists from the Home Front Command, among them engineering experts, doctors, search and rescue personnel and firefighters, flew to Brazil on Sunday. In addition, troops from the navy’s underwater missions unit (YALTAM 707) and members of ZAKA are on the aid mission.
Israel is the only country which sent an official delegation to help Brazil’s government in the aftermath of the mining dam disaster.
According to a ZAKA release, access to the site is possible only by helicopters provided to the delegation by the Brazilian army. IDF canine unit personnel first scanned the areas and then members of the expedition followed, working to locate the bodies buried in the muddy sludge.
“The scope of the disaster is huge,” said Haim Weingarten, ZAKA’s head of special operations.
Early on, the Israelis ran into a challenge, according to a report by Channel 13: The rescue mission brought equipment that was ill-suited for local conditions. The head of the rescue operation, Col. Eduardo Angelo, told the station that among its equipment, the Israeli team brought heat sensors to locate injured survivors. But since there were none, the hi-tech sensors were useless for locating cold, dead bodies.
While pointing out that “after 48 hours the chances [to find survivors] are almost non-existent,” he did say the Israeli team provided essential support and manpower that was greatly appreciated.
The Israelis are using other means to locate victims, including location signals from mobile devices, makeshift structures that can float on water, ropes to clear debris and evacuate remains, underwater sonar, and drones to get an aerial view of the disaster zone.
“Already on the first day of operations, we were able to identify several areas with high potential for the remains of those who would not have survived the mud slide,” said Weingarten. “There is much work for us to do here in the deep mud. The professional cooperation between all the different members of the Israeli delegation contributes significantly to the success of those working in the field.”
ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav said the Israeli delegation is receiving “excellent feedback” from the emergency services in Brazil about the professionalism of the delegation at the disaster site.
“The Israeli delegation is well-received in the local media and shows the beautiful face of Israel,” he said.
Meanwhile, also on Tuesday, three employees of Brazilian mining company Vale SA and two other engineers working on behalf of the company were arrested, state prosecutors said, deepening a crisis for the company after another deadly disaster at one of its mines.
In a statement on Twitter, Vale said it was cooperating with investigators, who are probing a mining catastrophe that is likely to leave a death toll of more than 300 people. The tragedy has enraged many in Brazil, and raised fresh questions about Vale’s commitment to safety after a similar dam collapse at a mine it jointly owned just over three years ago. Two of Vale’s senior managers at the Córrego do Feijão mine were among those arrested, according to the local judge’s decision, seen by Reuters. The job of the third Vale employee was not immediately clear.
Two other engineers, who worked on behalf of Vale and are accused of attesting to the safety of the dam, were arrested in São Paulo, state prosecutors there said.
Minas Gerais state investigators issued a total of five arrest warrants and seven search warrants on suspicion of murder, falsification of documents, and environmental crimes, the judge’s decision showed.
Offers of recompense from Vale SA for one of the deadliest mining disasters in decades have largely fallen on deaf ears.
Chief Financial Officer Luciano Siani Pires said Vale was doing all it could, offering money to mourners, extra tax payments to local government, a special membrane to remove mud from the river and major investments to make its dams safer.
“Vale is destroying Minas Gerais,” said Robinson Passos, 52, who lost a cousin and friends in Brumadinho.
“There’s anger, sadness, everything,” he said, holding back tears as he surveyed the destruction in Córrego do Feijão, a hamlet within Brumadinho that gave its name to the mine at the center of the disaster.
Vale CFO Pires said the company will donate 100,000 reals (NIS 99,000) to each family that had lost a loved one, adding the company would continue paying mining royalties to Brumadinho despite a halt in operations there.
The company was building a membrane to stop the mud flowing down the Paraopeba River. A “bold” investment plan would also speed up the process of making dams more secure, he said.
Prosecutors and politicians have not been impressed.
On Monday, a presidential task force contemplated forcing out Vale’s management. Brazil’s top prosecutor said the company should be criminally prosecuted and executives held personally responsible.
Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said the regulatory model for the mining industry was broken.
Hagay Hacohen contributed to this article.
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS
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Klement's Sausage planning expansion to south side Milwaukee facilities
Klement's is adding 5,045 square feet, and remodeling 11,255 square feet, according to documents filed with the city.
Klement's Sausage planning expansion to south side Milwaukee facilities Klement's is adding 5,045 square feet, and remodeling 11,255 square feet, according to documents filed with the city. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2018/10/02/klements-sausage-expanding-milwaukee/1501654002/
Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 3:06 p.m. CT Oct. 2, 2018 | Updated 4:30 p.m. CT Oct. 2, 2018
Klement's Sausage Co. president and CEO Tom Danneker speaks at a news conference in April announcing a five-year sponsorship deal between Milwaukee-based Klement's Sausage Co. and the Milwaukee Bucks. Klement's says it will break ground on an expansion on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018.(Photo: MARK HOFFMAN/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL)Buy Photo
Klement’s Sausage Co. said Tuesday it will break ground this week on a $7.5 million expansion of its production facilities on Milwaukee's south side.
The company said it will host a groundbreaking at noon Wednesday "to celebrate the expansion of its flagship facility in Milwaukee," according to a statement. "The company is expanding to meet demand for its products and strengthen its ties to Milwaukee."
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Klement's is adding 5,045 square feet and remodeling 11,255 square feet, according to documents filed with the Milwaukee Department of Neighborhood Services.
The expansion will take place at the company's facility at 2650 S. Chase Ave.
Building permits were issued in August for the project.
Klement’s staff and leadership will be joined at Wednesday's event by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Ald. Tony Zielinski.
Tom Daykin of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.
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Dealing with sexual allegations in the workplace
Home Insights Blogs Employment Law Blog Dealing with sexual allegations in the workplace
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the body which regulates solicitors in England & Wales, recently told Bloomberg that it has received more sexual misconduct and harassment complaints in the first half of fiscal year 2017-18 (19 complaints) compared with the whole of 2016-17 (12 complaints) and that the complaints for both years are markedly higher than earlier years, demonstrating the powerful effect of the #metoo movement on the legal sector.
Law firms are not the only organisations to have been 'clearing out their cupboards' so to speak. HR departments in all type of companies, across all industries, are being forced to revisit complaints that could perhaps have been better dealt with previously, as well as dealing with current situations where complainants are emboldened by the current climate and are more prepared to call out behaviour that doesn’t measure up in the new world.
Complaints commonly include some or all of the following: allegations of sexual assault or harassment; allegations where a workplace relationship has gone awry, and/or there is an imbalance of power or status; discrimination; allegations involving consent – whether it was informed, understood or freely given.
Employers need to consider their legal obligations to all employees involved, both suspect and complainant(s).
One lesson for HR managers across all such situations is the importance of making an early call about the nature of the allegation, the scope for an employer-only response and the process that will be followed - considering the impact (if any) of external factors on the substance and timing of that process. It is essential to decide, for example, if the police will need to be involved if allegations are of a criminal nature or whether there may be an obligation to notify a regulator, like the SRA, either for an individual concerned or the employer organisation. An incorrectly conducted investigation may fatally infect evidence which could otherwise form the basis of an independent, criminal, investigation. Regulated organisations may find that their regulator critically appraises how they handled things, and this inevitably raises the stakes when investigations are being conducted.
These factors will influence not only how an investigation and potential disciplinary process is shaped and conducted, but also the extent to which complainants and suspects decide they can participate in a workplace investigation process.
HR managers should be aware that for a suspected employee, the decision as to whether to engage with an investigation or disciplinary process, may involve competing considerations. These may include:
Whether engagement will maximise prospects in terms of name-clearing and job preservation, or if it could potentially damage exit terms;
Whether any account of events, either given informally or during a formal HR process, may prove disadvantageous during a subsequent police investigation;
Whether a regulator would look at any account given in subsequent regulatory proceedings and in taking decisions about any sanction.
In addition HR departments need be cognisant that old ways of dealing with complaints from an employment law perspective are no longer valid. Until last year, for example, non-disclosure clauses in settlement agreements were considered perfectly normal practice, even routine. Nowadays blanket confidentiality clauses and clawback / forfeiture clauses requiring settlement monies to be repaid in certain circumstances need to be considered much more carefully and may no longer be appropriate. The reputational question of whether to hush up an incident or tackle a problem head-on has become much more complicated in the post #metoo world.
In short there is no longer any single roadmap for dealing with sexual misconduct allegations in the workplace – they involve tricky judgment calls and require even more careful handling than ever. A single allegation may give rise to interwoven questions about the future of the employment relationship; criminal liability; regulatory responsibilities; and reputation management. HR teams need multifaceted advice before they embark upon a process and arrive at outcomes. Otherwise decisions made in haste, often in very pressured circumstances, could come back to haunt them.
First published in HR Magazine, 24 July 2018.
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Our team has considerable experience in advising clients who wish to move with their children to a different part of the UK.
In some situations, given the geography of the UK, the impact on the ‘left behind parent’ in terms of his or her future contact and relationship with the child, may have great repercussions than a move to another foreign city which may in fact be closer in distance or easier in terms of travel (e.g. London to Paris).
The law as to relocating within this country has become more in line with applications to relocate outside England and Wales, in that the plans need to be well thought out and reasonable with proper consideration as to the future contact with the ‘left behind parent’.
However, unlike the position if one parent with parental responsibility moves abroad without the other parent’s consent it is not a criminal offence to move to a different part of the UK. So parents regularly seek our advice on whether they need to notify the other parent and seek his or her consent or whether they can move straightaway.
How we advise will depend on the particular facts of the client’s case. Our advice will always be child centred, focused on what is in the child’s best interests (which reflects the approach of the court). That is based on the presumption that it is usually better for a child to have regular contact with both parents who should be involved in the major decisions in the child’s life. So in most cases it will be better to seek the other parent’s consent and, if that other parent does not agree to a move, a court application may be necessary near the family home to obtain the court’s consent to a move. However, in some circumstances, (e.g. the primary carer is in an abusive relationship and wants to return to the security of her extended family) the client may decide, , that it is best to move away and if necessary, once they move, consider making applications in the court where the carer plans to reside.
These are difficult decisions with long term repercussions but we will work with you to consider all the options to enable you to make the best decision for you and your child.
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We intervened on a recent Court of Appeal case, Re R [2016] EWCA Civ 1016, on behalf of the International centre for Family Policy and Practice where the mother in the case had removed her 1 year old child from Devon to Newcastle. On behalf off the Centre, we made submissions focusing on the research available dealing with child welfare and the impact on children of internal relocation and abduction.
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Another bad news for all you people fascinated by the normality of the abnormal. After having proven that two crystal skulls showcased in London and in Washington DC are in fact fakes (Read full story Here), now science has proven that the much hyped about 'Space Pistols' are also fake!!!
If you don't already know, the space pistols gained popularity (and of course the name) because they were claimed to be "crafted from the iron of a fallen meteorite from the Campo del Cielo crater in Argentina".They were a gift from the commander of a South American region, General Ignacio Alvares, which today is Argentina, to the fourth US president, James Madison.
The set of pistols underwent X-ray fluorescence tests, CT scans, and Neutron bombardment, before scientists concluded that they were infact fakes.
What I find funny is the height to which scientists will go to in the name of science. Neutron bombardments on artifacts?? I thought that neutron bombardments are used only in nuclear bombs and reactors!!Well this is infact what they conducted at the ISIS neutron source in Oxfordshire, UK. You HAVE to read the details of this process:
Protons travelling at nearly 3x10^8 m/s (the speed of light....incase you were sleeping in physics class) are made to strike a tungsten block, thus dislodging neutrons from the tungsten nucleus at a rate of nearly 20,000 trillion neutrons per second (thats 20000 million million or 2x10^16 neutrons per second) which in turn are made to bounce off the study sample (the pistols). the bounced neutrons are collected by sensors which record the energy and position of the neutrons which are studied by the scientists to reveal the atomic arrangements within the sample. Simple huh??
The colossal machine is able to probe matter at the atomic level, giving scientists unique insights into the structure and make-up of materials.
Most importantly, the entire process is non-destructive.
"Without ISIS, we'd have to take a hacksaw and cut chunks out of the artefact to look at under the microscope," explained Dr Evelyne Godfrey, who carried out the study.
And what did they find??
"They were completely different. There were differences in microstructures, there were differences in carbon content, there were differences in chemical composition."
The partially solved mystery could stop there; but the research team have one further mystery to solve.
A third pistol is mentioned in General Alvarez's letter that was also supposedly forged from Campo del Cielo (meteorite) iron. However it hes never been found till date....Perhaps it is this pistol which holds the secrets of the mysterious 'space pistols'!!
Sob Sob.....Another legend I believed in turns out to be fake...The only legend thats real is Santa Claus I guess......What?? He's fake too?? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!
Hehe!! While searching for some information on the Campo Del Cielo Crater, I stumbled onto this site which is selling meteorites from that crater for as little as $177. Interested??
What my neutron beams tell you are where atoms are and what atoms do.We try to understand at a microscopic level the structure, arrangement and forces that hold materials together -- Professor Andrew Taylor, Director of ISIS
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Home » Inside Live Casino » Dos & Don’ts of Live Casino Chat
Dos & Don’ts of Live Casino Chat
Posted December 18, 2018 by Neil Walker
One of the unique elements of playing Live Casino games is the option to chat with the dealer.
Here’s my top #15 Player Tips for using chat when playing live dealer games online.
#15 Dos and Don’ts of Using Live Casino Chat
Do say hello to the dealer when you’re greeted at the table. Even if you don’t want to chat it’s polite.
Don’t be rude to the dealer. If you’re losing or having a bad day don’t take it out on the dealer. They are just doing their job.
Do behave the same as if the dealer is in the same room as you.
Don’t be a dick. Live Dealer chat is not a dating app, so don’t think you have a chance with the dealer. You don’t!
Don’t blame the dealer for the cards you’re dealt or the spin of the ball in roulette. The dealers are trained to deal, shuffle and spin the ball in a particular way. They won’t change just because you don’t like it.
Do have a laugh with the dealer. Jokes and banter is fine.
Don’t give out any personal details, like you’re address, real name, email address or telephone number. Other players may be able to see this information. The dealer doesn’t have access to the info once it’s gone from the screen.
Do remember that all chat is monitored by someone else.
Don’t talk about sex, politics, religion or anything that is contentious. The dealers will guide you if you ask something inappropriate.
Don’t ask for personal details from the dealer, they won’t give them. Be aware that the name the dealer uses is probably a stage name.
Do show the dealer respect. Respect that they are doing a job. Being rude, nasty or insulting will lead to a chat ban at the very least and maybe a ban from the casino completely.
Do use the correct channels for support, which are through the casino or separate chat window with the supervisor. The dealer will be unable to help you directly, but they can alert support on your behalf.
Do accept that dealers can make mistakes. The dealers are trained to a high level, but even the best can make a mistake. Please be patient when mistakes are being resolved. If you feel that you’ve been adversely affected by a mistake please contact support.
Do brighten up a dealers day by opening up a conversation. Some dealers are actively encouraged to chat to players, others are told wait until they are spoken to. If you’re in the mood to chat the dealers will appreciate it.
Don’t forget, using the mixed mode playing interface is normally better for chat, as you get to see the history of whats been said in the past.
A Players Guide on Live Dealer Chat
Playing table games online with a live dealer is a social experience made even better by the Player/Dealer Chat facility.
Almost all Live Casino games have chat as an option in the playing interface. In fact it’s become so integral to the games, that not having a chat facility is like removing a major sensory organ for a cross section of players.
However having a chat facility comes with some responsibilities that players would be wise to understand before heading to the tables.
How does Live Casino chat work?
The Live Casino chat facility works in this way.
Players are given the ability to chat with the dealer through the playing interface.
Generally a separate window or a box within the playing interface is provided for players to type their comments, questions or complaints into.
The dealer sees the messages pop up on their chat screen.
Each players username is displayed and the name and chat is allocated a colour, making it easier for the dealer to track each conversation.
The dealer replies verbally to the chat, their comments are picked up by their microphone and relayed back to the player through the playing interface.
It’s usual for other players not to see another players chat, but all players can hear the dealers responses. There are some exceptions to this, most notably when you’re playing on a dedicated table.
So where are the best places to chat?
#1 Casinos with Dedicated Tables
Casinos with dedicated tables are the best places to head for if you want to chat with a dealer
The dealer is going to be a regular.
It’s a dedicated environment so the dealers are trained on brand, this often means being more engaging with players.
They are likely to remember you and recall previous conversations you’ve had.
#2 Sports or Themed tables
By their very nature Sports & Themed tables are setup to offer more than just the basic game. If you love sports visiting a sport table such as Top Table or Leo Vegas Sport Blackjack will provide lost of opportunities to debate the latest trends in sport.
#3 The Native Language Tables
English is the default table language at all live casino tables. Native or Foreign Language tables are in their ascendancy, and quite rightly to. You tend to find the native language tables are very chatty, it’s a bit like a private club. I sometimes play at them, not because I understand what is being said, but because the table is normally upbeat and the dealer is engaged with the players. A great example is the Arabic Roulette Table at Genting.
#4 Salon Prive Tables
If you have the bankroll the Salon Prive tables offer a very personal playing experience. You’ll be playing one on one with the dealer, and if you’re enjoying yourself you can request the dealer stays on after their 30 minute slot. You also have the ability to have the shoe re-shuffled if it’s not to your liking. Leo Vegas has a great selection of Salon Prive Tables.
#5 Presenter Led Games
The presenter led games like Live lightning Roulette and Dream Catcher are very inclusive games. The only issue is the number of players playing them and getting your chat responded too. You need to be witty and different if you want to hold the dealers attention.
What are the tables to avoid?
The generic play tables have a higher throughput of players so are more difficult to engage with the dealer.
Of course if you’re playing for a long session it’s possible to build a relationship with the dealer. They are more likely to spend time chatting with you than others at the table.
Live Dealer Chat isn’t for everyone. If you’re one of those players that likes the dealer to concentrate on just dealing rather than chatting try Silent Blackjack at Leo Vegas.
I’d encourage you to chat with the dealer, even if it’s just saying “Hello” or “Thank You”.
Manners cost nothing. Simple communication can lift the mood during the game making it a more enjoyable experience for everyone.
Try it and see what happens.
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INNOVATION IN SMALL BUSINESS
By Michel Tunney, BA, MRUP, MSc (Innovation Management), C.Dip AF.
CEO Donegal County Enterprise Board.
Last year I attended a seminar given by Professor John Bessant, then of the Centre for Research and Innovation Management at the University of Brighton on the topic of innovation management and small business. In his introduction Professor Bessant quoted from the first page of A. A. Milne’s ‘The World of Pooh’ – an unlikely source of insight for innovation! For all parents the story of Christopher Robbin and Winnie the Pooh is very familiar. The first paragraph of the book goes as follows “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robbin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment”. Generally speaking there is always a better way if we could only make the time to think about what we do, how we do it and how we could do it better?
Doing things differently, better, quicker and more cost efficiently are all what innovation is about in small businesses. Unfortunately too many see innovation as only the application of new technologies or the carrying out or application of formal research and development. This reflects one of the main difficulties when discussing innovation in relation to its application to small businesses – what exactly do we mean by innovation and what do we mean by innovation in small business?
Drucker (1985) defined innovation as ‘the means by which the entrepreneur creates new wealth producing resources or endows existing resources with enhanced potential for creating wealth’. Drucker in his definition clearly relates innovation to entrepreneurs and states clearly that innovation is a specific instrument of entrepreneurship. Innovation is that process by which companies seek to gain a competitive advantage in the market place and to increase their capacity to generate wealth.
For the purpose of this article the definition of innovation which we will use is as follows “the identification, application and exploitation of a new product, process or marketing opportunity by the business which increases its capability to generate wealth and strengthens its competitive position” (Frances 2001). Thus for a firm to engage in innovation it will require the ability to access new information, have the capability to turn this information into knowledge, and have processes, procedures and resources to apply this knowledge to exploit the opportunity or opportunities arising. It is also likely that the capability of a firm to innovate will change as it grows and develops.
Innovation has now become one of the key elements within a business. As competition for customers and resources become more and more intense the ability of a company to innovate is often more important than any other factor in its sustainability. Innovation therefore needs to transcend all areas of operation - production, finance, planning, human resource management and marketing. However in the small business many of these functions are carried out by the owner manager and thus often leads to a lack of realisation of the processes needed to implement innovation within the small business.
If innovation is used merely as a one dimensional function, as it very often is within the small business, there is a real chance that innovation will only be sought through major technological breakthrough or as an output of once-off events or difficulties to be overcome. For most businesses innovation and the quest for innovation, must be a continuous process of improvement and change. Therefore if we regard innovation as change it is more purposeful to consider it as a continuous process aimed at seeking competitive advantage.
However for the small company a critical issue to be considered is where innovation will come from. Within any business or organisation innovation generally comes from five areas as indicated in the diagram below:
Top Down: this is where innovation is driven by the owner manager of the small firm.
Side - In: through formal research and development which leads to new products or processes which are then manufactured or implemented within the business.
2 Side In
4 Spin Out
5 Bottom Up
1 Top Down
Middle – Up - Down (MUD): this is where innovation occurs within the business either through the development by either incremental improvements, applications of new ideas and creativity by staff or through an internal culture which supports and drives innovation.
Spin-outs: where a new opportunity is identified either within the business or by an individual in the business which leads to a spin off company out of the existing business.
Bottom-up: where the innovation is driven from the workshop floor up through the business. This may be a result of formal processes such as quality circles, lean manufacturing, or other such management techniques.
For the small business, irrespective of the source of innovation, the small business can develop an innovation strategy specific to its needs and the needs of its owner managers and staff. Examples of such strategies could be as follows:
For the lifestyle (static) small business - “if we just continue as we are that’s ok”.
In this type of business innovation can be used to maintain profitability and reduce dependency on the owner. Targets for this type of innovation strategy would include labour saving techniques, improved and simplified processes, new processes to be owned by others within the business thus being less dependent on the boss or owner manager and increased visibility of problem areas which need to be addressed.
Generative small businesses - “We don’t want to be big but we want to be better and make more money!”
The innovation strategy in this type of business is to increase profitability and build strategic and operational robustness. The targets for innovation in this type of business would include new or improved products developed and offered to customers, the development of lean processes, the development and implementation of new management techniques and being open to best practice ideas and external influences.
These are but two possible strategies but in reality for the small business it is likely that an innovation strategy will reflect some if not all of the elements within these possible strategy scenarios. Irrespective of the scenario of the strategy adopted by the small business it is imperative that the small business implements a formal process for the implementation of innovation. A simple process would have six stages - defining the strategic intent, searching for ideas and pathways, mapping the development process, application of decision making processes, implementation of the decision/s and reviewing to learn. Each of these steps are worthy of more detailed discussion which is outside the scope of this article.
Obviously if innovation is an in built process within a small business this formal six step innovation process would be ongoing within the business. Indeed in many small businesses it is an unconscious process engaged in by the owner manager, but if implemented as a formal process, it is likely to have a higher level of success and greater positive effect on the sustainability and competitiveness of the business.
For small businesses the key advantages relating to innovation is their entrepreneurial dynamism, their internal flexibility and responsiveness to changing circumstances i.e. their behavioural advantages. However many small firms are put off by the very idea and word innovation, not to mention the over emphasis by agencies and policy-makers on formal research and development which so often has become the yardstick for measuring the levels of innovation in the small business community. While the advantages of the small businesses in relation to innovation are those which relate specifically to their size – dynamism, internal flexibility, short lead times and responsiveness to change, the barriers to innovation have been identified in general as:
A general lack of suitably qualified technical specialists within small firms. Thus the small firms are generally unable to support a formal R & D effort on an appreciable scale.
Small businesses often lack the time and resources to identify and use external sources of information, technical and scientific expertise. Thus small firms in general are unable to access formal R & D Programmes and generally engage in product and process improvement rather than radical or new technological developments.
Small businesses often experience great difficulty in attracting capital, especially risk capital. Innovation, especially new product development, will generally represent a disproportionately large financial risk for the small firm and therefore more often than not becomes impossible for small firms to fund. Added to this is the inability of the small firm to spread the risk over a portfolio of projects due to their limited resources.
In some areas/sectors the scale of economics forms a substantial entry barrier to small firms, as small firms experience an inability to offer integrated product lines or services.
Small firms experience difficulty in acquiring external capital necessary for rapid growth and many entrepreneurial managers are often unable to cope with the increasing complex organisational and decision making processes necessary to manage such growth.
Having looked at what innovation, is its importance to the sustainability of small business, the sources of innovation and the implementation of innovation within small business the question remains as to how both the public and private sectors can promote and support innovation. It is suggested that the fostering and implementation of innovation within the small business sectors requires additional actions along the following lines:
A demystification of innovation, the innovation process and the management of innovation within and to small businesses.
The provision of a seamless support structure from the public sector agencies to support innovation in the small firms sector. This support must not be based on only measurable research and development expenditure and outputs but rather on quantifiable outputs such as improved management development capability, improved access to information, improved decision making processes, improved knowledge generation and procedures and increased empowerment within the firms. The basis of such a support structure to a company would be based on an initial innovation audit linked to the development of a development strategy for the company.
The provision of a dedicated resource at local county level, actively promoted to small firms, providing access to current market information backed by supported-access to experienced sector specific professionals. The objective of this action would be to make available current market information to small businesses and to enable them to use this information to generate new knowledge.
The development and implementation of a programme aimed at facilitating inter company alliances/relationships in which companies are assisted in identifying, developing, maintaining and where necessary ending relationships and alliances. The rationale and objective of each strategic relationship would be set by the firms involved and could be either long term or short term, depending on their objectives.
The development of a practical innovation management programme to be rolled out on a national basis through County and City Enterprise Boards aimed at improving and developing the innovative capacity and management development capability of local firms and in particular the owner manager and his/her key staff.
The implementation of an innovation graduate placement programme which would enable small local firms to hire technical graduates thus helping them overcome one of the key barriers in the innovation process.
“Innovation tempered with the ability to think and manage strategically, are the key factors that distinguish the innovative entrepreneurial firm from the small business venture” (Beaver and Price, 2002). The capacity and capability of a firm to innovate can and does lead to substantial and profitable business development. Provided that these are the objectives of the firm and its stakeholders, small firms need to grasp the opportunities which innovation can offer. For the future development and sustainability of small firm it is essential that they are fully supported in doing so.
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Activist investor Carl Icahn means trouble with a capital 'T' for Apple
At best, his presence will be a distraction for CEO Tim Cook, not exactly what the doctor ordered for Apple
By Gregg Keizer |Computerworld US | 14 Aug 13
Corporate raider and investment agitator Carl Icahn put eyes on Apple yesterday, announcing he now had a "large position" in the company and had urged CEO Tim Cook to boost a stock buyback program that has already committed $60 billion to removing shares from the market.
"We currently have a large position in Apple," Icahn tweeted Tuesday. "We believe the company to be extremely undervalued." In a follow-up tweet, Icahn added, "Had a nice conversation with Tim Cook today. Discussed my opinion that a larger buyback should be done now. We plan to speak again shortly."
Apple's stock received the usual "Icahn lift," a pop in trading and share price that inevitably follows news that the billionaire investor has bought a major chunk of a company's shares. By the end of trading Tuesday, Apple share price was up 5% to $489.57.
But for one analyst, Icahn's interest in Apple was nuisance at best and trouble -- with a capital "T" -- at worst.
"This is absolute trouble," said Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy. "There's not one single positive thing [Apple] can take away from his interest, no matter how much you search."
Moorhead was basing his take on Icahn's reputation -- he's known for agitating for change -- but more importantly, on the investor's part in the ongoing privatization bid by Michael Dell, the CEO of the PC maker that carries his name. Moorhead, who in years past had worked at rival Compaq and supplier AMD, has kept a close eye on Dell for two decades. Recently, he blasted Icahn's counter-proposal.
Icahn typically bulls into a company to demand management changes and advocate use of cash reserves to boost the share price, including paying higher dividends or buying back shares.
The latter is apparently what Icahn is after at Apple.
In 2012, Apple said it would use $10 billion of its cash horde to fund a share buyback program that would retire shares and thus increase the value of those still remaining. In April, the Cupertino, Calif. company increased the buyback program to $60 billion, which is to be spent through 2015.
Icahn wants more money for buybacks and an acceleration of the program.
At the close of the quarter that ended June 30, Apple had nearly $147 billion in cash, securities and other investments. Most of that, however, was banked overseas. Apple has resisted calls to repatriate it to the U.S. because it would have to pay taxes on those monies.
Apple borrowed some of the money it will spend on the stock buyback program.
In an interview on Tuesday with the Wall Street Journal, Icahn suggested Apple borrow more -- interest rates remain low -- to fund a larger buyback.
Icahn did not reveal his Apple holdings, but the Wall Street Journal pegged the investor's stake at over $1.5 billion, or about a third of 1% of the company's market capitalization. Other estimates have been closer to $1 billion.
At the very least, Icahn will be an ongoing distraction for Apple, particularly its CEO.
"This makes Tim Cook's job a lot harder," said Moorhead. "Not only does he have to bring Apple back to the expectations level [of years past] but now he has to deal with Icahn. And that's a full-time job."
Moor doubted Icahn would go away any time soon, not with the size of his investment. "One billion will get your noticed," Moorhead said. "It carries weight."
Icahn's tactics are usually to rally other dissatisfied investors to his side, creating a large enough group to call for changes in management and corporate practices.
"This will be particularly difficult for Apple," said Moorhead of Icahn's interest. "The tack that Apple has taken is to only announce products when they want to." Icahn and others, in other words, may pressure Apple to change its notoriously-secretive nature, perhaps even push it to talk more freely about upcoming hardware or services with the hope that such news would temporarily boost the stock price.
"Icahn can get his claws much deeper inside Apple than inside Dell, because there's so much more to work with at Apple," said Moorhead. "There are more ways to make money with Apple than with Dell."
But others were sanguine about Icahn's new focus on Apple.
Steve Milunovich of USB, for example, was not nearly as gloomy as Moorhead. "There doesn't appear to be much to agitate for [at Apple] aside from a larger buyback, unless Icahn thinks Cook isn't doing a good job," Milunovich tweeted yesterday.
And Icahn can't do much about Apple's core business, which is creating and selling new products. "We think it is all about new products from here," said Milunovich in the same Monday tweet, echoing other analysts who have said the same about Apple's road back into investors' good graces.
Still, the fact that Cook took Icahn's call yesterday illustrated how different Apple is now -- how different its smartphone and tablet market positions are than just 18 months ago, said Moorhead.
Things would have gone differently if co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was still at the helm, Moorhead suggested. "Jobs would have had a very civil conversation, but if Icahn started to get aggressive, I think [Jobs] would have told him neither him or his company can be bullied," he said.
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Slatter up for a major award
By McIvor Times
HEATHCOTE dynamo Sandra Slatter (pictured below) has been nominated for the Victorian Regional Achievement and Community Awards.
Her selection for the Regional Development Victoria Business Achievement category has acknowledged Sandra’s community and business leadership and innovation.
Combining Sandra’s work ethic and her ability and actions to inspire others to “dream more, learn more, do more and become more” combined with her futuristic vision make her stand out as a leader and innovator.
Complemented by her signature selflessness and ability to bring individuals and groups together to share and optimise knowledge and resources are continually displayed throughout all the projects and programs with which she is involved.
Her award summary said a prime example was Heathcote Community Capacity Builders, founded by Sandra. It is a group of community members representing various community groups and organisations who come together monthly to share information and resources over lunch.
Although not always the same people there are often 30 plus in attendance and the program has been described as the catalyst in bringing a lot of parochial groups together.
“I always strive for positive change and constant improvement, looking for ways to gain consensus and get people to work together efficiently and effectively as a team,” Sandra said.
Her Heathcote resume is without parallel – from her role as event director for the O’Keefe Challenge through to establishing and leading a community owned not-for-profit organisation which has raised more than $1 million to build Bunbunarik, an integrated children’s community hub providing services including counselling, speech pathology, early intervention, and a visiting paediatrician plus a 76-placement early learning centre.
“A feasibility study for a research and learning-enabled Dementia Village is also now underway,” Sandra added.
“The village proposal incorporates the ‘Green Care Program’ linking healthcare to agriculture, gardening, nature conservation, caring for animals and community activities,” she said.
“This would be the first village of its type in regional Australia and the proposal presents an opportunity for Heathcote to be positioned as the southern hemisphere’s centre of excellence for dementia care research and training.”
Pulled together this paints a picture of Sandra helping turn what had been a deficit focused community culture after the Off the Edge study ranked Heathcote in the top 5 per cent of 40 Victorian socially disadvantaged postcodes.
Generational and cumulative disadvantage had resulted in a community feeling defeated, disengaged and pessimistic.
“We are the deciders and producers of our own futures,” Sandra said, explaining her can-do attitude.
She has been at the cutting edge of turning a ‘no can do’ culture into a ‘can do’ mojo.
Great prizes are up for grabs in the awards, with either $2000 into an account in their name from Bank of Melbourne or air time packages on PRIME7 for category winners.
One of the nine category winners will be named the Bank of Melbourne Regional Achiever of the Year and receive an additional $2000 and state trophy.
Winners will be announced on Friday October 11.
They won! Saints kick a winning score; of sorts
IT HAS been long, often lonely, days, weeks, months, since the Saints last saluted in the Heathcote District Football League.
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Lucky 13 battle their bills
THIRTEEN people attended the recent Bring-Your-Bill Day at Barrack Reserve, facilitated by Advance Heathcote Inc and supported by the Heathcote and District Community Bank.
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REGIONAL Victorians will have the opportunity to share and hear ideas on how to improve road safety in their area at a series of community forums to be held across the state in the coming months.
Saving a life with new AED is as easy as ABC
A JOINT project between the team at Heathcote Police and the Heathcote and District Community Bank means that Heathcote now has a defibrillator that can be accessed in case of an emergency 24 hours a day.
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Honey fundraiser gets group off to sweet start
OUR town has a new service organisation — Kiwanis Heathcote. It is part of a broader network called Kiwanis International. The focus of the movement is to empower communities to improve the world by making a lasting difference in the lives of children.
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Honouring the memory of a humanitarian with a strong sense of duty
The annual Dr Chota Motala memorial lecture which was delivered by Former President Kgalema Motlantle took place at the Mancosa [GSB] campus in Durban, on Friday 18th November 2016. As a flagship event of the institution, the lecture highlights the life and the struggles of the late Dr Chota Motala in the apartheid era, as well as raises topical issues affecting South Africa.
Former President, Kgalema Motlantle’s address was titled; ‘Leaving Lasting Legacies: Renewing our vision for a non-racial, non-sexist and just democracy’ – which speaks to the contemporary climate of our democracy and urges citizens to move beyond this moment.’
His address included the following key points:
Emphasising the importance of the constitution and the founding texts of our democracy;
Considering the significance of education in the post-colonial context, and contextualising student struggles within Chota Motala’s life and legacy;
Making sense of South Africa’s contemporary democratic challenges; and
Thinking about the type of leadership required to take South Africa forward.
“Chota Motala stands as one such life – emblematic of the kind of humanity that we should all seek to express and live out. His example stands to remind us of the vision that we had, and that we still journey towards. Many South Africans are asking legitimate questions about the state of our nation today, and are beginning to wonder whether the direction we are taking is not the antithesis of what Motala and his generation and those before had envisioned for post-Apartheid society,”
echoed Mr Motlanthe.
Mr Irshaad Motala, the son of the late Dr Chota Motala, addressed the audience on behalf of the Motala family and shared fond memories of his father and resonated Dr Motala’s commitment to serving communities through his profession as a medical doctor and fought fearlessly for what was right. He thanked MANCOSA for the continued support in hosting the annual lecture in honour of his late father.
The programme was concluded by Professor Yusuf Karodia, who presented a small token of appreciation to each speaker and thereafter proceeded to deliver a vote of thanks to all stakeholders.
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October 4 2011 - July 16 2019
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Mental Health - Isle of Man Health and Social Care
I agree with you. It makes me laugh the comments above and just shows how fucked up government management and reporting lines are. Everyone has a right to whistle blow. If things are being run by a bunch of dickheads that last thing any sane person with an ounce of common sense does is approach said dickheads directly and tell them that they’re incompetent and that they want their incompetence to be investigated by their boss. It’s totally nonsensical. You’re just writing your own career death warrant no matter what official reporting lines require you to do. I really can’t believe some of the comments above in that context. Just shows you how irretrievably doomed our health services are at improving things for service users if staff can’t whistle blow confidentially. You assume concerns have been raised as far as they can before they have taken this sort of action as nothing has happened to change anything. They need to put an anonymous whistle blowing facility in like most of the banks have because the banks are actually interested in weeding out muppets, fraudsters, crooks and people who are useless at their jobs from their businesses. Not in covering up for them like IOMG. Hence reports are taken seriously, investigated by independent people, and finally pursued (or not) after an independent opinion on whether there is enough evidence to pursue or if the report is a waste of time. It’s not hard. It’s called good governance and actually stops people going to the papers out of desperation. If only IOMG got that concept it might help.
Don't worry, Brexit or no Brexit, cars will remain overpriced on the island.
Manx Radio
All will be ok, there's plenty of money in the reserves to keep paying inflated pensions and landowners grants (no, I will not let it lie)
Rob Callister
It's not a question of "at the minute". It's been the game since forever. Look at those who bailed with the lump sum after the last term after 4+ years of failing to address anything. And they were previously at least partly responsible for some of the "anythings".
Don’t tell Moorhouse, or we’ll have a fucking Tynwald question about counterfeiting stop signs.
I think that the more pertinent question would be how many people have killed themselves shortly after being discharged as not being a suicide risk.
Personally, I think the IOM Examiner ought to know better than to publish this stuff. I'm in favour of whistleblowing where appropriate, but concerns ought to be raised internally in the first instance, with your line manager, admin staff, internal whistleblowing procedures or whatever. Then, and only then, if you get no joy doing that, should you go to the Press. Conspicuously absent from the whistleblower's claims is anything to the effect that "I raised my concerns with my manager but (s)he told me to go away"
How many forum members does it take to change a spark plug?
1 to tell us how much better Cornish spark plugs are
There are a lot of one term politicians in power at the minute I feel at the next election they will be out of favour, out of work and still none the wiser as to what they have done wrong. If they listened to the voters they would realise they have failed to address any of the big issues facing the Island at present and will escalate as time rolls on. The pension problem ? The rateable system ? The Health Service ? The trimming down of Government and civil service !!!!! Instead they hade tiddled around with various schemes such as Manx Radio, seagulls, goats, wallabies, fairy houses to smoke screen their total lack of appetite to sort the big, unpopular, issues out....means testing...do not be silly that may cost me votes etc.. They are cowards simply covering their own backs for the next election and not giving a flying duck for the good of the Island and it's people. Their day will come, unfortunately for them voters do not remember any good , if they have done any good they have done just the silly, insignificant things that they have wasted time and tax payers money on.
It’s alright, Richmond Hill grits itself now
To be fair Bernie abuses Chris Thomas just as much as Alf on Facebook. He seems to have a big problem with “Tories” in this fairly laughable polarized throwback 1980s world. If anyone was going to play Bernie in the film of his life story it would be Ricky Tomlinson re-hashing Bobbie Grant from a 1985 episode of Brookside.
Oh come on, it's a bit more than "tittle-tattle". Why would anyone take the risk to contact the newspapers. I am sure that Adrian Darbyshire, the writer of the article, would have satisfied himself that the whistleblower was bona fide. Incidentally, in the last decade or so, how many people have killed themself or have died in this unit or it's predecessor?
if i lived in onchan i'd vote for rob callister over julie edge every day of the week especially on thursdays
That's at least a start.
The pathetic taunt to name names is a tactic used by bullies on here and elsewhere to dismiss people's claims even when we all know the claims are true. They know full well that people can't name names, for obvious reasons. It's just silly.
So today's website offering is ....... zero, thus far (@ 13:33). Two reports from yesterday, three from day before but zero on Monday. It's a joke. Both at the tax and licence payers' expense.
Kind of backs up Dilli's claims on a previous topic that not all whistleblower claims are genuine. Which in turn has a negative impact for genuine whistleblowers.
expert......
Moorehouse Strikes Again
its called the vehicle licence, but the DOI isn't holding up its side of the deal.
"The best a man can be..."
My opinion? The exact kind of people I expected to be "offended" are doing exactly what I expected them to. If man babys are so snowflake that they get offended by an advert trying to ask them not be arseholes, then the problem isn't with the advert.
I’d suggest the DOI brings in a no fuck up charge. Where as a commuter you pay extra for the promise of them not to totally fuck up your ability to get from A to B like a normal person in any normal country subject only to normal rules of state funded incompetence.
I went out with an Italian woman once. Never bothered with a razor, anywhere. In fact, she was so hairy she use to plait the hairs on her legs and say, "how's that for a pair of fishnet stockings!"
Lack Of Road Safety Strategy...
He actually speaks pretty much every sitting - one of the few that do (probably more often than Onchan's local hero Callister I may add).I don't agree with what he says most of the time but what is wrong with a 20 mph speed limit in towns? I am sure he mentioned an all island speed limit as well. As to why 20mph check this out. This vote was a bit odd today Malarkey talked about wanting better enforcement but then didn't want to introduce speed cameras (with an under strength police force how else are they going to monitor speed). One member of comin talked about how wonderful peoples driving is over here then in the same breath how people don't know how to use roundabouts (think that was either Malarkey or Cregeen). Still it's in and it's a start as Derek says.
In agree to a point. But when the roads are full of parked commercial vans and trucks ( don't even start me on fucking campers ) which should be off road parked and what has been forgotten, named on both sides to know who's they are. A road near me is full of vans without names and mostly owned by people who have run out of parking permits and who live in council houses. They rock up each morning in their cars, jump into their vans on just piss off to work. Not giving two f**** about those who actually live here and would like to park their car somewhere near their houses.
The problem is the IOM is slowly changing. This must be the third ‘whistle blowing’ expose the papers has done in 6 months. We had one at the airport, and this is now the second from the DHSC if I recall. People are getting fed up and pissed off with the way government is being run and the more changes to hours, wages, and terms and conditions that happen will push a lot more people to think they aren’t paid to deal with the bad management, bullying and the other shit they have to deal with. The IOM is less able to ostracize these people now too. A lot aren’t Manx and will just bugger off somewhere else taking a lot of the potential power away from some of the Manxies who generally bear grudges like life-long personal vendettas against people who have crossed them.
Have you any idea how hard it would be to read a tesseract-shaped road sign?
Also, Alf Cannan is routinely being personally abused on FB and especially by that sad old loser Bernard Moffatt. I don't know if people bother to read the full "Celtic League - Mannin Branch" blog posts, but if you do you'll find some of it is downright nasty and beyond the pale. Yet I've never heard or read Cannan complain about it. There are a lot of elected officials who are routinely being attacked and who don't pull out the victim card every other week.
Not to mention the 50+ abusive posts in one week alone against Julie Edge on Facebook in a group she's banned from (for no legitimate reason). I don't recall her making a big deal out of it. Yet Rob, in the very same week, made a big fuss about fake profiles attacking him, even though it was like one or two people just asking him a few questions in a polite manner. Instead of playing the victim card that week, he should have been defending his fellow Onchan MHK against all that personal abuse.
© The Dutch™
Yes, a bit like MF really.
Quite. I have used simple Wilkinson Sword razors and Somersets Shaving Oil for about 35 years. I don't see an advert changing my choices now.... Incidentally if you use shaving foam or soap in shaving bowls or whatever I recommend you try shaving oil if you haven't already. Just a couple of drops is all it takes plus you can actually see what you are doing. Cuts are difficult to achieve and razor burns are an impossibility. Try it, a small dispenser is only two to three quid. What's not to like?
Its an advert. Adverts need to grab attention and sell something. The rest of the content is mainly fantasy. Well, it’s grabbed attention, it sells razors. Do we have to read a sociopolitical message into it, with fore/present or hindsight? what are we to make of the messages in wash up liquid, milk tray, old spice or Jimmy Savilles train takes the strain adverts. everyone is talking about it. Copywriters have succeeded. do I read the alleged message and get upset, or see it as a cynical selling ploy? Either way it won’t affect my shopping. I buy razors because they work.
Ex spurt maybe.
isle of man to Fort Augustus?
if going via inverness airport can i recommend fort george a few miles away...... one of the finest english forts in the world.........
Although I suppose with the former nurseries there was once a Dutch connection at the bottom of Richmond Hill.
Manxy is about as Manx as stroganoff.
I remember reading reports of the same experiment. They should do the same here. I noticed Circular Road seemed to function a lot better this morning with bust traffic lights.
With all due respect Doc, who would give two fucks what those clog wearing badly dressed fuckers do ? I mean, what have the dutch done for the world? (apart from crap cheese and silly cars).
You're not even trying now. Why equate the 'Bilderberg Club' to the democrats? That's just bizarre.
It’s sort of ignoring that we live in a time where people’s primary means of getting about is a car though!
Rob conveniently failed to mention that he as an MHK and a department member failed to participate in what had been a public consultation.
"The People's Prince" is busy posting on Facetube what a privilege it is to sign the Abortion Reform Bill into law today. In a gracious gesture he gives a side note of thanks to Dr Allinson - struggling to uncurl my toes......
Quite remarkable how anonymous posters advocate violence as a solution. Let's play a game of fuck off. You go first...
I've read through the road safety strategy, and I have to say it's very disappointing. It seems to be all about gathering data and 'evidence' and discussing stuff rather than actually doing anything. Amazingly, it also dismisses at the start any suggestion of an all-island speed limit. There is obviously already plenty of evidence of serious RTC's on roads with no speed limit, such as the A18, so what they hope to achieve by gathering more for more years I don't know. In the time they spend gathering evidence, many more people are going to be KSI'd. It also refers a lot to our 'special' circumstances; ie unlimited roads and motorsport events. I really do think it's just a massive cop out. How on earth you can talk about an evidence based strategy, then dismiss speed control before you've even started... clearly somebody has already made their mind up about this.
the whole shebang is an absolute farce on both sides
That was ‘Treasure Island’. Mind you, I reckon it was Blind Pew that surfaced Richmond Hill.
Posting accusations of me drinking heavily (because you have again lost the argument) sort of loses credibility somewhat when you post it at 2am on a Saturday night / Sunday morning don't you think?
There was little wrong with the original Richmond Hill that some enforcement of speed limits wouldn't have cured ! I can't remember it falling to pieces all the time.
Fairy tales?
Probably Paul Phillips....
Hilarious. Never mind RIchard, you can go and live elsewhere...
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09/04/2019 Tue 13:08 in Hong Kong by Sharon Kwok
7-Eleven champions its dim sum with “Wholehearted, Simple and Tasty” campaign launch
7-Eleven Hong Kong has launched the first wave of its latest branding campaign. It’s kicking things off with a new 7-Signature Dim Sum series, featuring 14 ready-to-eat iconic dim sum products, alongside a Dim Sum Food Truck and a multi-channel advertising campaign to engage with customers.
7-Eleven’s customer research showed that dim sum is one of Hong Kong people’s favourite food categories. The new campaign aims to tackle those extremely relatable – “craving Dim Sum” moments around the clock with ready-to-eat products.
The Dim Sum campaign emphasises the theme “Wholehearted, Simple and Tasty”. According to 7-Eleven, the 7-Signature Dim Sum series was launched after over a year of preparation, from intensive research understanding customer needs, a food supplier audit, a product revamp ensuring product quality, and creating a food packaging design with a fresh impression.
To kick off the launch, the first-ever 7-Eleven Dim Sum Truck travelled to 13 different districts between 27 March to 3 April, allowing potential customers to get a mouthful of the new dim sum. Trial tastings were introduced with consumer promotions, allowing customers to vote on their favourite dim sum. The company states that during the 8-day event, it engaged over 13,000 customers.
In a bid to create further pre-campaign hype, a pre-launch party was also held at the 7-Eleven Dim Sum Food Truck for media and KOLs to have a preview session and dim sum tasting. The newly launched Dim Sum series was showcased and guests were invited to taste and vote for their favourite dim sum.
With an aim to engage customers in their daily lives, this month 7-Eleven has also launched a massive 360° multi-channel advertising campaign. The campaign blends outdoor, print, digital, and social media platforms to create an all-around brand experience for customers. Free newspapers with full-page print advertisements and ads on bus exteriors/interiors showcasing dim sum visuals were designed to create awareness of the dim sum launch.
To extend customer reach and create excitement for the Dim Sum promotion, the company also rolled out a post-event video of 7-Eleven Dim Sum Truck incorporating customers’ experiences, positive comments, and freebie promotions. A viral video – which generated over 1M views – was also shared featuring the well-known cast of popular local TV show “Come Home Love: Lo and Behold”.
7-Eleven stated that the O2O holistic communication campaign has brought positive sales which increased more than 70% for the first week of the launch. This campaign marks the latest in several recent attempts by 7-Eleven Hong Kong to draw attention to its own-brand products, including a recent snack range and improved coffee counter.
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DigitasLBI joins #boycottdolcegabbana protest
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iflix ties up with tvOne to launch live football streaming in Indonesia
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The Maserati Indy, officially presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 1969, was a tribute to the two consecutive victories of the Maserati 8CTF race cars in the famous 500 miles race at the Indianapolis speedway in 1939 and 1940. This new car was designed by Vignale and could be seen as a model to bridge the gap between the Ghibli and the Mexico. The roof line was higher compared to the Ghibli in order to offer space for the rear passengers. Mechanicals were borrowed from the Ghibli and represented traditional Maserati technology: a 90° V8 engine with double overhead camshafts, semi-monocoque structure with front auxiliary frame, independent double wishbone front suspensions and a rigid rear axle with leaf springs. Standard equipment included a two-way adjustable steering column, anti-theft steering lock, leather upholstery, tinted electric windows, reclining seats, fog lamps, heated rear windscreen, head rests and a dashboard-mounted clock in front of the passenger. However, power steering was an optional extra, as were the automatic gearbox and the radio. In 1973, the Indy adopted the braking system from Citroën, who had become the new owner of Maserati.
Indy 4.7
Model code Tipo AM116 Tipo AM116/47 Tipo AM116/49
Body type 2-door, 4-seater coupé 2-door, 4-seater coupé 2-door, 4-seater coupé
Design Vignale Vignale Vignale
Production years 1969 - 1975 1969 - 1975 1969 - 1975
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Numbers produced 436 367 299
Chassis Steel semi-monocoque with front subframe Steel semi-monocoque with front subframe Steel semi-monocoque with front subframe
Dry / kerb weight 1,580 / 1,680kg 1,580 / 1,680kg 1,580 / 1,680kg
Engine configuration 90° V8, double overhead camshaft 90° V8, double overhead camshaft 90° V8, double overhead camshaft
Displacement 4,136cc 4,719cc 4,930cc
Maximum power 260hp @ 5,500rpm 290hp @ 5,200rpm 320hp @ 5,500rpm
Top speed 250km/h 260km/h 265km/h
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Match Preview: Watford
All you need to know about Saturday's clash
Saturday's clash with Watford at The Den could prove to be a cracker with both sides committed to a passing game and equally desperate for three points for different reasons.
Manager views
Following Tuesday's excellent 1-0 victory at Wigan - four days after a 2-1 victory at Nottingham Forest - Lions boss Ian Holloway remains as positive as ever that his side can defy the odds and avoid the drop to League One.
Ollie said: "I need you (the fans) to help ease the pressure by keeping encouraging the boys. Our last two performances have been 'fear free' and that has been crucial. We need to be 'fear free' again on Saturday and if we are we can get another vital result against a team who are very capable of passing you off the pitch if you let them. We still have a mountain to climb but we've now given ourselves a fighting chance of reaching that summit."
You can view a snippet of Ollie's pre-matchLions Playerinterview below:
To view the above interview in full, subscribe to Lions Player here
Lions boss Ollie may only have to make one enforced change to his team on Saturday. Ed Upson picked up his 10th booking of the season at the DW Stadium on Tuesday night and faces a two match ban, opening the door for either Jimmy Abdou or Shaun Williams to return to the starting line-up.
Tuesday's matchwinner Carlos Edwards, forced off at half-time with a niggle, is not as badly injured as first feared and could feature against Watford. With only Danny Shittu and Richard Chaplow remaining in the treatment room, Ollie has plenty of selection options in all positions but is unlikely to make significant changes to a winning team.
Watford defender Marco Cassetti is suspended after picking up his 10th yellow card of the season. Cristian Battocchio (knee), Lloyd Doyley (knee) and Park Chu-Young (toe) are all likely to miss out. However both striker Fernando Forestieri (toe) and defender Fitz Hall (Achilles tendon) are set to return to the squad.
After back-to-back away victories against Forest and Wigan, Millwall have given themselves a fighting chance of clawing their way out of the Championship drop zone, having looked dead and buried a fortnight ago. But Lions boss Ollie believes three more wins from the remaining five games could be enough and says the home matches against Watford and Doncaster in particular, will be crucial.
For their part, Watford know this is a must-win game if they are to emulate last season's achievement of reaching the Play-Offs. Too many points dropped away from Vicarage Road have left The Hornets seven points adrift of sixth spot, but with a game in hand on all above them.
Now unbeaten in their last four outings, Beppe Sannino's men crushed Sheffield Wednesday 4-1 on their previous awayday, having drawn nine and lost five of the previous 14 fixtures on the road.
Saturday's visitors won the reverse fixture 4-0 at Vicarage Road on Boxing Day, in what proved to be Steve Lomas' final match as Millwall manager, and in Troy Deeney have a man in rich goalscoring form, having found the net in the last four outings to take his season's tally to 22.
However, Ollie's charges, with Alan Dunne paired alongside Mark Beevers outstanding in the heart of the defence in the last two games, have shown a much greater resilience since conceding that sickening late equaliser against Blackburn two weeks ago
The two sides have met on 97 previous occasions, of which Millwall have won 41 and Watford 30. The remaining 26 games have ended all square.
An 83rd-minute goal from Shaun Batt helped The Lions to a crucial thre points when the two teams last met at The Den on 16th April 2013 - a victory that proved key in Millwall's battle to avoid relegation. However Watford have the better stats in recent years winning five of the last seven meetings, including a 4-0 success against a 10-man Lions at Vicarage Road on Boxing Day.
Full match commentary will be available on Lions Player from 3pm (the game kicks off at 3.07pm).
You can also keep up to date with the action as it happens on The Wall and on the club's official Twitter account @MillwallFC. Join the conversation by using our matchday hashtag #MFCvWFC in your tweets.
Sky BetFor a comprehensive list of odds on the game, visit
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How Hitchcock movie was inspired by crab toxin…
How Hitchcock movie was inspired by crab toxin frenzy in Capitola
By Laurel Hamers, Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz Spca |
PUBLISHED: December 7, 2015 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 13, 2018 at 12:00 am
CAPITOLA – In August 1961, Capitola residents awoke to a scene that seemed straight out of a horror movie. Hordes of seabirds were dive-bombing their homes, crashing into cars and spewing half-digested anchovies onto lawns.
Famed film director Alfred Hitchcock even used the incident as research material for his then-in-progress movie “The Birds,” in which flocks of deranged birds inexplicably attack a coastal town.
Just as the unexplainable avian attacks in “The Birds” have terrified movie buffs for more than half a century, the 1961 frenzy puzzled scientists for decades. They now believe the culprit was domoic acid — the same neurotoxin that has delayed this year”s Dungeness crab season in California.
The toxin is produced by certain types of algae blooms. In humans, it can cause vomiting, diarrhea and even short-term memory loss. Marine animals become disoriented or have seizures. Now, public health agencies periodically test for its presence and restrict fishing when it”s found in high doses, as they did recently in California. But in 1961, it hadn”t even been identified.
So when the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on Aug. 18, 1961 that “dead and stunned seabirds littered the streets and roads,” experts could only blame the fog. When Hitchcock, who owned a house in Scotts Valley, heard about the mysterious incident, he called the Sentinel asking for more information.
Domoic acid was first identified as a shellfish toxin in 1987, after three people died and hundreds were sickened by mussels from Prince Edward Island. Shortly afterward, it was implicated in a 1991 seabird die-off in Monterey Bay, according to Michael Quilliam. Quilliam, a researcher at the National Research Council in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was involved in both projects.
Still, there wasn”t conclusive evidence for the 1961 incident. Lacking actual birds from 50 years prior, Sibel Bargu, a researcher at Louisiana State University, instead analyzed historical samples of zooplankton.
Filter-feeding zooplankton are “like a trash can,” she said. They eat algae and accumulate toxins that are then passed on to other animals higher up the food chain.
The zooplankton had high levels of domoic acid-producing algae in their guts, leading Bargu and her colleagues to conclude in a 2012 paper that a toxic algae bloom had indeed occurred in the area at the time of the invasion.
Though masses of sick birds haven”t swarmed our shores recently, Bargu says domoic acid is a persistent problem for wildlife. Poisoned birds and sea lions frequently wash up on California beaches.
“Anytime there”s a bloom, these animals are going to be suffering or taking up the toxin through the fish,” Bargu said. “Unfortunately we can”t really do anything until we find them contaminated.”
Sea lions can often be saved if they are reported to a marine mammal rescue hotline and have their stomachs washed out, but the birds are more vulnerable.
For humans, however, the risk is low. Extensive testing of commercial shellfish harvesting sites means that no one has died from eating domoic acid-contaminated shellfish since 1987, Quilliam said.
“In North America, we have some of the safest shellfish and fish in the world, and that”s in part due to the rigorous monitoring that goes on,” he said.
Laurel Hamers
Santa Cruz Spca
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Historic Area
Home The Estate Historic Area
In Mount Vernon's historic area you can explore the Washingtons' home and more than a dozen historic outbuildings.
In 1799, more than 50 enslaved men and women were trained in specific trades. These individuals used their skills to make tools and textiles, care for livestock, process food, and construct and repair many of Mount Vernon’s buildings, including the Mansion itself. Today visitors can explore the outbuildings where much of this work was done including the blacksmith shop, smokehouse, stable, spinning house, and more.
During your visit to Mount Vernon explore the outbuildings surrounding the Mansion.
Enslaved and itinerant weavers worked in the Spinning House to produce basic textiles for use at Mount Vernon.
Blacksmith Shop
This building was essential to the running of the plantation and vital to Washington’s business endeavors.
One of the largest buildings on the estate, it was designed protect plants from the cold and house enslaved workers.
These living quarters, which flank the greenhouse, were home for some enslaved people who worked at Mansion House Farm.
Vast quantities of pork were smoked in this structure to feed the Washington family and their guests.
Salt House
This structure provided secure storage for the large quantities of salt that George Washington imported.
In the 18th century, there were probably four necessaries, or outhouses, spread out around the Mansion House grounds.
Wash House
Laundry for the Washington family, their guests, and single white male workers were washed here.
Stable and Coach House
Enslaved men fed and groomed the animals, cleaned harnesses and saddles, and collected manure for use as fertilizer.
Ice House
This structure was like a dry well and used to keep ice frozen for months.
Located in the upper and lower gardens, these structures were used to store tools and seeds.
Overseer's Quarters
Each of Washington’s farms had its own overseer, who supervised work and submitted weekly reports.
Dung Repository
This structure was designed to compost animal droppings and other organic waste for use as fertilizer.
Used as storage under lock and key for hundreds of items, such as tools, leather, thread, powder, shot, and blankets.
Gardener's House
This building first served briefly as a hospital for enslaved workers, then for wool-spinning, and finally a dwelling.
The Kitchen was used to prepare all meals served to George and Martha Washington and their many guests.
Servants' Hall
For the majority of year, the Servants' Hall was reserved exclusively for the use of the visitors' servants.
Historic Area Map
Washington's mind was rarely far from the lush gardens and majestic views at Mount Vernon. Today you can explore the four gardens Washington developed and enjoy his unspoiled view across the Potomac River.
Pay your respect to George and Martha Washington at their final resting place.
Historic Trades
While Mount Vernon was owned by Washington, most of the work was done by enslaved people trained in specific trades.
Enrich your visit with Mount Vernon's audio tour, that discusses and interprets Washington's estate, including most of the outbuildings, at over 30 stops.
Characters from the 18th Century
Meet People from Washington's World
Whiskey, Wine, and Washington
Meet Young Mrs. Washington
Mrs. Washington Welcomes You
Revolutionary War Medicine
Mate Masie
Greet Lady Washington
A-Dressing the Nation
Through My Eyes Tour
George Washington's merchant gristmill was capable of producing 5,000 to 8,000 pounds of flour and cornmeal a day. Today, this milling system is faithfully interpreted, fully-functioning, and open to guests seasonally.
In 1799, George Washington's distillery produced nearly 11,000 gallons, making it the largest whiskey distillery in America at the time. Today, a faithfully reconstructed working distillery produces small-batch spirits and is open seasonally to visitors.
There are four different types of standing historic structures under the care of Mount Vernon's Architectural Preservation staff. Each type helps tell the story of life at Mount Vernon.
South Lane
Explore the buildings south of the Mansion
Explore Mount Vernon
Made at Mount Vernon
See our exclusive collection of products made today on the estate.
George Washington's Pancake Flour
George Washington's White Cornmeal
George Washington's White Grits
George Washington's Yellow Cornmeal
George Washington's Yellow Grits
Mount Vernon Blacksmith's J-Hook
Mount Vernon Blacksmith's Nail
Mount Vernon Blacksmith's S-Hook
Labor in the Mansion
A staff of enslaved butlers, housemaids, waiters, and cooks made the Washingtons’ lifestyle possible.
Dozens of enslaved men and women were trained in trades including distilling, carpentry, textiles, dairy production, and gardening.
Blacksmithing was an important craft activity throughout most of the Washington family's ownership of the Mount Vernon plantation.
For decades, Washington's fisheries along the Potomac River helped support the estate.
Vaughan Plan
Samuel Vaughan sketched a plan of the Mount Vernon mansion and the formal area around it in his journal, embellishing it with a perspective of the river and the Maryland shore beyond.
Expansion of Mount Vernon
In 1754, Washington began residing at Mount Vernon, a 3,000 acre estate and a house that approximated 3,500 square feet. By his death, the estate was about 7,600 acres and almost 11,000 square feet.
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Cable Ad Sales Reach Record $27.1 Billion In 2010: CAB
Mike Reynolds
Last year was a good one for cable advertising. In fact, the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau called 2010 the industry's best ever.
The CAB said the industry notched its top marks on both the national and local levels in terms of overall volume and dollar volume growth.
Together, national and local cable advertising sales reached $27.1 billion in 2010, up 12% and $2.9 billion more than the $24.2 billion the industry garnered in 2009, according to CAB.
"In a 2010 when U.S. marketers were literally trying to advertise their way out of a recession, the fact that they turned to cable in droves both nationally and locally speaks volumes about the lead and ‘must-have' role that cable has earned in the marketing mix" said Sean Cunningham, CEO and president of the CAB in a statement. "The 2010 meetings we had with agencies and advertisers revealed many driving factors to more cable ad spend: brands and programming, ratings and reach, targeting and geographic precision, interactive and on-demand, TV was being called on to do more than ever."
Nationally, cable generated a 9.6% increase to $20.5 billion last year from $18.7 billion in 2009. Original programming, said CAB, helped attract more dollars across categories to the national cable networks. They also rang up gains with non-linear ads.
The advance was stronger off a lower base on the local level: ad sales grew 20% to $6.6 billion from $5.5 billion. CAB said the $1.1 billion uptick was fueled by strength in the auto, retail and political sectors.
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Political Ads Reached Record Total In October
NBCU Rings Up $1 Billion In Olympic Ad Sales Green
CAB: Cable Advertising Hits New Record
CAB: Cable Ad Spending Grows to $18.7B in '09
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Inside Lionsgate: A Conversation with EVP/Head of Television Music Russell Ziecker
Sarah Rhoads
In Career
Go Your Own Way: A Conversation with We Are The Rhoads
When we asked Chris and Sarah Rhoads — the husband-and-wife creative duo also known as We Are The Rhoads — whether a photograph can capture someone’s soul, they didn’t hesitate before answering yes. “I don’t think it’s taking in the form of removal,” Sarah told us. “It’s drawing it out, illuminating some inner spirit, some inner soul.”
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Beacon house
Fundraising campaign for new facility revitalized
Lisa Bowers
lbowers@miningjournal.net
UP Health Systems CEO Brian Sinotte, center, speaks in support of the Beacon House Legacy of Love Capital Campaign at the New Land celebration on Wednesday as Beacon House Board Member Carolyn Severson,left, Hospitality House U.P. CEO Mary Tavernini Dowling, center right, and Beacon House representatives Andrew Lorinser and Amy Rundstrom look on. UPHS recently agreed to lease a 2 acre plot of land near Seventh Street and Spring Street in Marquette to Beacon House for $1 per year. (Journal photo by Lisa Bowers)
ISHPEMING — Whether it’s an illness or a traumatic accident, the need for medical care — especially when far from home — can leave patients and their families in uncharted waters.
The non-profit, donation-based Beacon House has represented safe harbor for UP Health System-Marquette patients and their loved ones for decades.
The organization seeks to provide that same comfort for years to come, by building a new 50- to 60-room facility on the new UPHS campus in 2019.
Beacon House board members and staff, along with UPHS-Marquette CEO Brian Sinotte, and Christian Palomaki, vice president and market manager for River Valley Bank, gathered on Wednesday to kick off a $6 million capital campaign to raise money for the proposed facility.
The campaign was kicked off Wednesday with a $100,000 pledge from River Valley Bank to help pay for the construction of the new facility.
Palomaki said River Valley Bank was eager to help get fundraising for the facility underway.
“This is a way that we can give back to our community and give back to Beacon House and get this project started,” Palomaki said. “The Beacon House has a long history of serving families in the Upper Peninsula. People travel from all over our region to come to get their health care needs met by our excellent hospital.”
Mary Tavernini Dowling, CEO of the Hospitality House of the Upper Peninsula — the parent company of Beacon House — said the pledge from River Valley Bank is a perfect way to jump start the “Legacy of Love” Campaign started by Beacon House Executive Board member Steve Mariucci in 2016.
“To receive this check from River Valley Bank for $100,00 to represent their pledge means the world to us,” Dowling said. “Now that we know where we are going to go, now we get to raise the money. But it’s so important that, again, we have all of our foundation laid before we start to ask for those large dollars so that’s the next step is to see what might be out there to get that initial $2 million raised.”
UPHS agreed to lease the 2-acre plot of land on Seventh Street between Washington and Spring streets to Beacon House for $1 per year for a number of years yet to be determined, according to a statement released Wednesday by Beacon House.
Sinotte said that patients and their families are the No. 1 priority of UPHS.
“Having the Beacon House on our new hospital campus is going to provide a safe and comfortable place to stay during their time of need. We are thrilled to partner with the Beacon House to make this dream a reality.”
The proximity of the proposed Beacon House facility to the new hospital is key for a variety of reasons, Sinotte said.
“Here in the U.P., we do have some weather,” Sinotte said. “So proximity is helpful for some of these patients. Mary Tavernini has educated me on some of their needs and some of those are transportation. So having it be on campus is very important to Beacon House and us, to make sure that patient families can have great access to their loved ones that are receiving care here at the hospital.”
According to the release, designated locations for Hospitality House of the U.P. gift shop and coffee shop have been integrated in the design of the new state-of-the-art hospital. The two enterprises contribute to Beacon House’s operating costs.
Profits from both programs also contribute to the Wig Salon for Cancer Patients, for which UPHS is also allocating space in its floor plan, the releases states.
Dowling said the relationship with Duke LifePoint-UPHS has always been cordial, but Sinotte worked to solidify the relationship and make the new location of Beacon House a reality.
“These recent developments brought on by Brian Sinotte’s tireless efforts, we are confident that we will be working together to achieve common goals that benefit the people of the U.P., and make this brand-new hospital truly the hospital of choice,” Dowling said.
If Beacon House accommodations were not available to patients and their families, Dowling said, the foreseeable outcome could be grim because so many people live more than 50 miles away from the hospital.
“When people are sleeping in their cars or in the waiting room in the lobby,” Dowling said. “Or we find them changing in the bathroom. That’s not how we treat our neighbors in the Upper Peninsula. This is really neighbors helping neighbors in one of the most dramatic and traumatic times in their lives.”
For more information about Beacon House or how to donate to the “Legacy of Love” capital campaign can visit www.upbeaconhouse.org or call 906- 225-7100.
Lisa Bowers can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 242. Her email address is lbowers@miningjournal.net.
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Where the Geniuses Are
Ben Christopher | Photo: Ellen Zaslow | April 1, 2013
From tech to design, and even politics, here's 18 of the Bay Area's most influential hubs of collaboration.
You say “incubator,” we say “accelerator.” You say “silo-busting cross-pollination,” we say “working together.” Whatever you call it, the collaboration ethos has become the default Bay Area way of doing almost everything. Argue if you will about their ranking, but agree on this: The 18 hubs listed in the slideshow above and the text below are the biggest, influence-wise, of a wildly disruptive bunch.
(1) Y Combinator
Among the multitude of Bay Area tech accelerators, Y Combinator is the Death Star. In eight years, this Mountain View powerhouse, with its three-month seed program and demo day extravaganzas, has pretty much changed how companies are launched. Its list of alums reads like the bookmark tab on your laptop browser: Reddit, Dropbox, Airbnb, Codecademy, and many more.
ycombinator.com
(2) d.school
If multi-disciplinary problem solving has a father, his name is David Kelley, founder of the crazy-prolific Ideo and now head of the d.school (as the Institute of Design at Stanford is universally known). Here, grad students collaborate on projects (a “smart” intravenous bag, an insulated sleeping bag for premature babies), and outside organizations from Google to the Girl Scouts come to incorporate “design thinking” into their day-to-day.
dschool.stanford.edu
(3) S.F. Writers’ Grotto
Before incubators started incubating, before shared work spaces became a hallmark of the tech savvy freelancer class, there was the Grotto. What began in 1994 as six writers scribbling away in a Castro apartment has blossomed into the city’s preeminent lit brand/hub, with luminaries past and present (Mary Roach, Po Bronson), classes, fellowships, and, this April, a writers’ conference in Calistoga.
sfgrotto.org
(4) Bio-X
What happens when you invite some of the greatest minds in biology, computer science, chemistry, and physics to the same facility and mix them up to do biomedical miracle work? Some damn cool discoveries, it turns out: Innovations from this bioscience center at Stanford include an artificial cornea, a breath mint–size microscope, and light-controlled brain cells.
biox.stanford.edu
(5) Noisebridge
Inspired by hackerspaces in Europe and mentor to DIYers around the Bay Area, noisebridge is the collaborative spirit run amok, in a good way. The Mission street facilities include an electronics lab, a machine shop, a library, and a darkroom—and that’s just a start. Whether you’re recording an album, learning to play Go, or building a mind-controlled robot, someone here really wants to help.
noisebridge.net
(6) Citizen Engagement Lab
Sometimes the netroots need a little Miracle-Gro. Founded in 2006, the Berkeley-based accelerator CEL has played technical, managerial, and legal sensei to a dozen nascent hacktivist groups (presente.org, colorofchange, Getequal), making it one of the most important upstart political organizations you’ve never heard of.
engagementlab.org
(7) The 5M Project
5M (short for Fifth and Mission) is the creative heart of the city—at least, that’s the vision of founder Alexa Arena. If all goes according to plan, what’s now a network of community event spaces and shared work studios in and around the Chronicle building will expand into a four-acre live-work complex for artists, artisans, techies, foodies, nonprofitistas, and anyone else interested in remaking SoMa.
5mproject.com
(8) The QB3 Garages
QB3, the mammoth UC life science research institute, has taken the Steve Jobs approach to innovation by launching its own proverbial garages—five, actually, including spaces at Cal and in Mission Bay. These incubators give biotech startups like endoorthopaedics (quest: a new way to heal bone fractures) the money and space needed to become the apple of keeping you alive.
qb3.org/startups/qb3-garage
(9) CalCharge
If we are ever to kick the fossil fuel habit, we’re going to need better batteries. With access to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory space and gobs of financing, calcharge is an accelerator (putting energy-storage developers into state-of-the-art facilities), a networker (linking researchers from disparate fields), and a professional-education program (teaming up with San Jose State to launch Battery University), all in one.
calcharge.org
(10) La Cocina
If only operating a successful food business were as simple as knowing a few good recipes. Since 2005, La Cocina has been helping aspiring bakers, chefs, and restaurateurs navigate the rest of the requirements. Unlike its counterparts in the tech industry, this is an incubator with a social mission, directing most of its resources and expertise toward women of color from low income communities.
lacocinasf.org
(11) Hattery
This is an organization that does, in fact, wear a lot of hats. A venture fund with a downtown “innovation lab” (think a big, open office with plenty of in-house experts to share among the sponsored startups), the Hattery has also played an outsize role in policy—its cofounder, Josh Mendelsohn, runs the political advocacy nonprofit engine and hosts civic improvement hackathons like the Muni-focused Reroute/SF.
hattery.com
(12) RocketSpace
In the tech industry, it’s often hard to distinguish between a geeky guy with a MacBook and the next social media tycoon. Likewise, while rocketspace may look like any other SoMa office building, it’s actually a vast startup hub, housing more than 130 tech companies (Spotify, to name one), connecting newcomers to mentors and technical experts, and playing the role of downtown programmer community center.
rocket-space.com
(13) Imagine K12
Tim Brady, Alan Louie, and Geoff Ralston are big honchos of the first tech boom (Yahoo, Google, and Yahoo, respectively). They are also dads worried about the state of the state’s schools. their solution: an “edtech” startup incubator á la Y Combinator that also serves as a meeting place for programmers and tech-savvy educators (teacher-in-residence included).
imagineK12.com
(14) The Hive
From the outside, it isn’t much to look at: two Victorians that share a courtyard in the Mission. But to those in the know, the Hive is a center of the tech intelligentsia: a hackathoning, heavy drinking youth hostel–meets–think tank. Collaborations born there include the skycam, a cheap surveillance drone designed for journalists in East Africa, and—fittingly enough— couchsurfing.org.
(15) BioCurious
In 2009, a group of amateur biotech enthusiasts and moonlighting lab pros started meeting secretly in garages around the peninsula. After a few years of being mistaken by neighbors for meth cookers, the biohackers went legit by renting out a fully equipped lab. For $100 a month, you can take a class in genetic engineering, launch your startup, or have a stab at curing cancer.
biocurious.com
(16) The Ground Floor
Dramaturge Madeleine Oldham compares the Berkeley Rep’s two-year-old incubator/lab, which she directs, to venture capitalism. By supporting a bunch of small, unconventional projects while they’re still in the crazy-idea stage, the rep keeps the creative juices going—and its theatrical pipeline flowing.
berkeleyrep.org
(17) Matter Ventures
A brand-new joint project of KQED and the journalism-focused Knight Foundation, Matter gives six teams of would-be media moguls 50 grand and puts them through a four-month accelerator program/“entrepreneurship boot camp.” The freshman class includes openwatch (free tools for investigative reporting) and Zeega (interactive storytelling for the post-blog era).
matter.vc
(18) Makeshift Society
Finally, says founder Rena Tom, there’s a coworking hub for people who make something besides apps: a place where copywriters, photographers, journalists, designers, and artists can swim in the same creative ecosystem. By serving as a work space, a lecture hall, and an event space, the Hayes Valley–based Makeshift has become what Tom calls a “one-stop shop for freelancers.”
makeshiftsociety.com
Originally published in the April issue of San Francisco
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Sandy-battered iconic Hoboken Terminal waiting room to reopen Tuesday
Updated Jan 26, 2013 ; Posted Jan 25, 2013
By Anthony J. Machcinski/The Jersey Journal
Flooding at Hoboken Terminal during Hurricane Sandy
Gallery: Flooding at Hoboken Terminal during Hurricane Sandy
In a sign that the Mile Square City is moving forward in its recovery from Hurricane Sandy, the iconic Hoboken Terminal waiting room is set to reopen Tuesday.
New Jersey Transit announced today that it will open the waiting room, providing a heated shelter and temporary seating for customers in the terminal.
"Storm recovery at Hoboken Terminal has been a time-intensive process, but a critical one in the interest of the health and safety of our customers and employees," NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein said in a news release. "We are focusing our efforts on making our customers feel more comfortable as we simultaneously continue our work to address the unprecedented damage Sandy left in her wake."
During the October hurricane, more than 5 feet of floodwater entered the entire terminal, leaving behind more than 6 inches of mud and debris, officials said.
The flooding damaged all areas of the main concourse, including ticket offices, station and transportation operations and food vendors.
To restore the waiting room, contractors powerwashed the walls, replaced heaters and electrical panels, stripped the floors and rewired outlets, NJT said.
However, while the waiting room will reopen, the terminal itself still has a long way to go.
In its statement, NJT said all wood structures -- including benches -- will be covered until mold remediation work can be completed. In addition, all tenant space, bathrooms, and storage areas will be completely gutted and rebuilt.
Customers looking to use bathrooms in the terminal will now have access to four rail cars equipped with restrooms on Track 8.
"We recognize that our customers have endured a number of challenges in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and we want to thank them for their continued patience and understanding," Weinstein said.
NJ Transit has been working along with the State Historic Preservation Office and the Department of Community Affairs to get the terminal back to normal, officials said.
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Joey Barton to appear in Morrissey’s new music video
Nick Reilly Sep 26, 2017 10:00 am BST
Joey Barton and Morrissey Credit: Gettty
"In conversation with Moz"....
Joey Barton has announced that he’s starring in Morrissey‘s new music video, alongside iconic playwright Alan Bennett.
The 35-year-old footballer shared a photo of himself and Moz on Instagram only hours after revealing the surprise cameo during an interview.
“I’ve been asked to be in a music video this afternoon, for Morrissey”, he told talkSPORT.
In conversation with… M
A post shared by Joey Barton (@joey7bartonofficial) on Sep 25, 2017 at 11:59am PDT
The photo shared on Instagram appears to be taken at a traditional social club and shows the pair deep in conversation.
“In conversation with……M”, Barton captioned the snap.
The pair are long-time friends, with their association dating back to 2011 when Morrissey invited Barton to meet him backstage at Glastonbury Festival.
No it was from Morrissey's personal security man asking if I would like to meet the great man @ Glastonbury?#heactuallyknowswhoiam
— Joey Barton (@Joey7Barton) June 18, 2011
It’s yet to be revealed which song the video was being filmed for, although the singer is still yet to release the visuals for comeback single ‘Spent The Day In Bed’.
The single features on new album ‘Low In High School’, which is set for release on November 17.
The track-listing for the record was also revealed, and it’s littered with a slew of provocative titles that are typical of the former Smiths frontman.
Meanwhile, Noel Gallagher recently opened up on the time that Morrissey met his wife for the first time – and praised him as ‘the funniest guy ever’.
Noel and Liam Gallagher with Oasis Credit: James Mccauley/REX/Shutterstock
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Fyre Festival’s water saviour Andy King is set to film his own reality show
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Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, S Chelvan proposal for a fairer asylum system: BBC Radio 4 Unreliable Evidence
Home > News & Publications > News > Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, S Chelvan proposal for a fairer asylum system: BBC Radio 4 Unreliable Evidence
No5 Barristers’ Chambers’ S Chelvan appeared as an expert panellist on last night’s BBC Radio 4’s Unreliable Evidence, hosted by Clive Anderson. Asked how a fairer asylum system could be achieved?, Chelvan’s closing remarks highlighted the link between litigation and forcing change in Home Office policy. The standard of first instance decision-making and credibility assessment in LGBT+ asylum claims were also points Chelvan raised in discussion with fellow panellists Catriona Jarvis (a former Upper Tribunal Judge) and Rowan Pennington-Benton (Barrister at 3 Hare Court who has been instructed by the Home Office).
The show was broadcast last night and will be repeated on Saturday night at 10:45 pm.”
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Home»CMS plans to 'retire' some ACOs
CMS plans to 'retire' some ACOs
(Story updated at 7 p.m. ET)
The CMS wants to eliminate zero and low-risk tracks for accountable care organizations to more quickly move them to downside risk.
The agency announced Thursday that it is planning to overhaul the Medicare Shared Savings Program by scrapping Track 1 and Track 2 and will launch a Basic track that provides a smaller window for an ACO to be upside before it must take on modest downside financial risk. The agency proposes keeping the Track 3 high-risk option but it would be renamed the Enhanced track.
Currently, 460 of the 561 ACOs in the Shared Savings Program this year are in Track 1. Another eight are in Track 2, 38 are in Track 3 and 55 are in Track 1+. Over 10.5 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries are in the models. The majority are in arrangements that do not take risks for increases in cost.
"After six years of experience, the time has come to put real 'accountability' in Accountable Care Organizations," CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a statement. "Medicare cannot afford to support programs with weak incentives that do not deliver value."
The agency proposes that ACOs in the two years of an upside risk arrangement would get 25% rather than 50% of savings.
Under Obama-era regulations, ACOs that started in Track 1 in either 2012 or 2013 are supposed to move to a risk-based model by the third contract period, which begins next year. There are 561 Medicare ACOs this year, 82% of which are in Track 1.
The CMS proposes shortening the maximum amount of time permitted in upside-only risk to just two years for first-time ACOs, or one year for ACOs that previously participated in the MSSP under upside-only risk.
The agency also will terminate ACOs that have repeated poor financial performance. The CMS would use market data early in an ACOs existence to more accurately ensure that the organizations is meeting local growth rates and spending levels. The revised program will provide ACOs spending targets and make them more accountable for those goals. It also proposes that risk-based ACOs offer financial incentives to patients for healthy behavior.
Among those which first entered MSSP in 2012 or 2013, 82 ACOs that would be required to renew their participation agreements to enter a third agreement period beginning in 2019.
This past spring, the National Association of ACOs surveyed those 82 ACOs and found 71% said they are likely to leave the MSSP if forced to take on more risk.
The trade group called the proposed changes misguided.
"It's naïve to think that ACOs that aren't ready can be forced to take on risk, given that the program is voluntary," NAACOS President and CEO Clif Gaus said in a statement. "The more likely outcome will be that many ACOs quit the program, divest their care coordination resources and return to payment models that emphasize volume over value."
The CMS estimates that 107 ACOs will exit the program by 2026. Even with the exits, it expects the organizations to save Medicare $2.24 billion by 2028.
The CMS will not accept applications this year for new agreement periods that would start on Jan. 1, 2019. Instead it will offer an application cycle for a one-time new agreement period with a start date of July 1, 2019. ACOs with a participation agreement ending on December 31, 2018 could apply to extend their current involvement for an additional 6-month performance year and may apply for a new agreement beginning on July 1 of next year.
The agency will also require ACOs to report fewer quality measures in an effort to reduce burden.
So far, ACOs have saved Medicare relatively little money because so many of them are risk-averse.
Last year, HHS' Office of Inspector General said ACOs in MSSP reduced Medicare spending by about $1 billion in three years. Every year, Medicare spends more than $500 billion. Upside-only ACOs actually cost the CMS $384 million from 2013 to 2016.
The proposed changes would also promote interoperability by requiring ACOs to adopt the newest EHR technology.
Comments on the proposed changes are due Oct. 16.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180809/NEWS/180809898
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Heathrow stance will be vote winner, says Green Party candidate
Daniel Goldsmith claims 'flip-flopping' by other parties means Green Party is the only group which can be relied upon to oppose a third runway at Heathrow
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Green Party parliamentary candidate for Brentford & Isleworth Daniel Goldsmith
THE Green Party's candidate for Brentford & Isleworth claimed Heathrow could be a major vote winner for him as he was unveiled this week.
Daniel Goldsmith was today announced as the group's candidate to take on Conservative MP Mary Macleod and other candidates for the seat in next year's general election.
The 51-year-old IT consultant, who lives in Chiswick, represented the party in the 2011 Feltham & Heston by-election, when he garnered just 426, or less than two per cent, of the total votes.
But the married father of two teenage sons told the Hounslow Chronicle he believed his party's opposition to airport expansion anywhere in the country would stand him in better stead this time around, with a third runway at Heathrow firmly back on the agenda.
"Heathrow's going to be a key issue at the polls and I think voters may be a bit fed up with the flip-flopping from the main parties," he said.
"A third runway would be unacceptable both in terms of the noise and the air pollution it would generate, and only the Green Party can be relied on to prevent the further expansion of Heathrow Airport."
The last Labour government gave its backing to a third runway, only for the High Court to overrule the decision, and the party has since stated its opposition to an extra landing strip at the airport.
The Conservative-led coalition promised a third-runway at Heathrow would not be permitted during this term, but Prime Minister David Cameron has not ruled out allowing one under a future Tory government and last year set up the Airports Commission to examine the need for increased aviation capacity.
Mr Goldsmith said improved European rail links and teleconferencing technology meant there was less need for air travel today and claimed he had only flown on three occasions in the last five years.
Should the Airports Commission decide a new runway is needed, he would not be drawn on where it should be built, saying the Greens were not a NIMBY (not in my back yard) party.
Improving cycling safety and narrowing the gap between rich and poor are among Mr Goldsmith's other key policies.
He said he wanted a blanket 20mph limit on all residential streets and improved safety for cyclists at major junctions.
He also called for a 'more robust attitude' towards ensuring big companies stump up the taxes they are 'morally obliged' to pay.
John Hunt represented the Green Party in Brentford & Isleworth in the 2010 general election, polling 727 votes.
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Full length marble statue of Flora (goddess of Spring and of flowers), represented as a young woman, her upper body naked, wearing a garland of flowers in her hair and holding an abundance of flower heads gathered in drapery across her waist. The drapery spreads in folds to either side as if she were moving forwards. The statue, which was probably based on an ancient statue of one of the seasons in the Uffizi, Florence, was first modelled by Tenerani in 1835, and the first marble example was made for the grand duke Alexander of Russia (St Petersburg, Hermitage, dated 1840). It is known about sketches, plaster and various marble versions performed for illustrious collectors, as well as filmed by numerous artists. There are obvious references to the classic model (at the Hora of the Uffizi and that at the time kept in the Casino Ludovisi) and the works of Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen. The goddess, with his bust uncovered, slides lightly and with his face tilted forward. The garment retained on the belly welcomes the flowers of the most diverse species. The lightweight fabric adheres to the legs while the wind swells the fabric creating effects of strong chiaroscuro and movement. The protagonist of the nineteenth-century sculpture, Tenerani, who came to Rome in 1814 as the winner of the Accademia di Carrara retired, was active for many years at the Accademia di San Luca. He was nominated academic in 1823, and in 1852 he was elected vice president and, four years later, chairman of the artistic institution, where he also actively engaged in teaching.
Title Flora
Dimension cm 165 x 132 x 45
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Bill BL2018-1305
An ordinance to amend Title 17 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws, the Zoning Ordinance of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, by amending a Specific Plan on properties located at 272, 288, 296 Broadmoor Drive, 329, 341 and 349 Ben Allen Road, at the northwest corner of Ben Allen Road and Ellington Parkway, zoned SP (51.64 acres), to permit a mixed use development with a maximum of 321 multi-family residential units and a maximum of 101,000 square feet of non-residential uses, all of which is described herein (Proposal No. 2017SP-034-002).
By amending a Specific Plan on properties located at 272, 288, 296 Broadmoor Drive, 329, 341 and 349 Ben Allen Road, at the northwest corner of Ben Allen Road and Ellington Parkway, zoned SP (51.64 acres), to permit a mixed use development with a maximum of 321 multi-family residential units and a maximum of 101,000 square feet of non-residential uses, being Property Parcel Nos. 013, 015, 018, 073, 085, 100 as designated on Map 061-00 of the Official Property Identification Maps of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, all of which is described by lines, words and figures on the plan that was duly considered by the Metropolitan Planning Commission, and which is on file with the Metropolitan Planning Department and Metropolitan Clerk’s Department and made a part of this ordinance as though copied herein.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that the Metropolitan Clerk is hereby authorized and directed, upon the enactment and approval of this ordinance, to cause the change to be made on Map 061 of said Official Zoning Map for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, as set out in Section 1 of this ordinance, and to make notation thereon of reference to the date of passage and approval of this amendatory ordinance.
Section 3. Be it further enacted, that the uses of this SP shall be limited to a maximum of 321 multi-family residential units and a maximum of 101,000 square feet of non-residential uses. Non-residential uses shall be as specified on the plan.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, that the following conditions shall be completed, bonded or satisfied as specifically required:
1. Comply with all conditions of BL2017-885 as applicable.
2. Comply with all conditions of Public Works and Traffic and Parking.
3. The primary trail in the first phase shall be constructed prior to approval of Use and Occupancy permits for any use in first phase.
4. The developer shall work with staff at Final SP for each phase to minimize the visibility of surface parking lots.
5. The developer shall work with staff at Final SP to ensure that buildings orient toward streets as open space to the greatest extent possible.
6. The entire primary trail shall be located within a dedicated public access easement.
7. With the submittal of the final site plan for the first phase, an overall trail plan shall be submitted for review. The plan should include timing of installation of the complete primary trail.
8. Submit a detailed grading plan with the submittal of the final site plan for review and approval by staff. Grading plan shall minimize disturbance of existing slopes and shall minimize the use of retaining walls.
9. A six-foot wide sidewalk and six-foot wide planting strip, consistent with the requirements of the Major and Collector Street Plan shall be provided along Broadmoor Drive for the full property frontage.
10. A five-foot sidewalk and a four-foot grass strip shall be installed along Ben Allen Road for the property frontage.
11. An off-site sidewalk six feet in width with a six foot wide planting strip, to Metro sidewalk standards, shall be installed for 650 feet to the west along the southern side of Broadmoor Drive, or as an alternative work with Planning, Stormwater and Public Works to develop a paved walking path that would utilize the existing pavement width along Broadmoor Drive, with some grading and paving improvements, the would connect Dickerson Pike to Walton Lane.
12. At Final SP for each phase the applicant shall be required to provide an exact breakdown of the number of units and number of bedrooms so that parking and other requirements can be accurately reviewed.
13. Elevations for all building types consistent with the bulk and architectural standards in the Preliminary SP shall be provided with the submittal of the Final Site plan for each phase for review and approval by staff. Individual building types shall be designed in a manner to work with existing topography and minimize grading.
14. The Preliminary SP plan is the site plan and associated documents. If applicable, remove all notes and references that indicate that the site plan is illustrative, conceptual, etc.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, a corrected copy of the preliminary SP plan incorporating the conditions of approval by Metro Council shall be provided to the Planning Department prior to or with final site plan application.
Section 6. Be it further enacted, minor modifications to the preliminary SP plan may be approved by the Planning Commission or its designee based upon final architectural, engineering or site design and actual site conditions. All modifications shall be consistent with the principles and further the objectives of the approved plan. Modifications shall not be permitted, except through an ordinance approved by Metro Council that increase the permitted density or floor area, add uses not otherwise permitted, eliminate specific conditions or requirements contained in the plan as adopted through this enacting ordinance, or add vehicular access points not currently present or approved.
Section 7. Be it further enacted, if a development standard, not including permitted uses, is absent from the SP plan and/or Council approval, the property shall be subject to the standards, regulations and requirements of the following zoning districts as of the date of the applicable request or application:
• Phase 1: MUL-A
• Phase 2, 3, 4: RM15-A
Uses are limited as described in the Council ordinance.
Sponsor(s)
Nancy VanReece
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IntroducedAugust 7, 2018
Passed First ReadingAugust 7, 2018
Referred toPlanning Commission - Approved with conditions, disapproved without all conditions(9-0) on 06/28/2018
Planning, Zoning, and Historical Committee
Public Hearing Scheduled forSeptember 4, 2018
Passed Second ReadingSeptember 4, 2018
Passed Third ReadingSeptember 18, 2018
ApprovedSeptember 19, 2018
EffectiveSeptember 21, 2018
Requests for ADA accommodation should be directed to the Metropolitan Clerk at 615-862-6770.
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New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine
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Ukraine was the chief victim of a major cyber attack earlier this year, and the government had warned on October 13 that another strike might be coming.
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Kiev: Cyber attacks hit Ukraine's Odessa airport and the metro system in Kiev on Tuesday, with the state-run Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) saying a new wave of hacks was hitting the country and asking transport networks to be on particular alert.
"We ask the owners of telecommunication systems, other information resources, transport infrastructure first of all, as well as ordinary internet users, to comply with stricter cyber security requirements," CERT-Ukraine said in a statement.
The cyber police and the infrastructure ministry said that Tuesday's strikes did not appear to constitute a mass attack. The central bank said the banking system was working normally.
Odessa airport said it had tightened security measures while the Kiev metro reported an attack on its payment system.
"We report that the IT system of Odessa international airport has been hit by a hacker attack. All services of the airport are working in a stricter mode," the airport said in a statement.
Ukraine, which believes Russia is behind regular attacks on its computer systems, is trying to roll out a national strategy to keep state institutions and major companies safe. Moscow denies that it is behind cyber attacks on its neighbour.
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Cape Town manager lays wreath for Mandela
City of Cape Town manager Achmat Ebrahim laid a wreath in front of the city hall.
City of Cape Town manager Achmat Ebrahim laid a wreath in front of the city hall moments after cameras cut away from former president Nelson Mandela's burial in Qunu the Eastern Cape.
More than 1000 people who had gathered to watch the funeral on the Grand Parade were silent for a moment.
The wreath, in the colours of the national flag, was placed onto a bigger flag among the heaps of flowers and mementoes left by Capetonians.
When the wreath was laid, around 50 Cameroonians marched slowly to the same site to light two candles in memory of Mandela.
They beat drums and sang Johnny Clegg's "Asimbonanga" and other tunes which have been on the lips of the nation many times this week.
A more upbeat programme of entertainment was planned for the rest of the day.
Goldfish, Emo Adams and Delft Youth Jazz Band were among musicians who would pay tribute to Mandela.
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Robot comedian stands up well against human rivals
How funny can a robot be? Our reporter finds a robot stand-up less stressful to watch than human comics – but it would have problems with a rowdy audience
Technology 15 August 2013
By Celeste Biever
Video: Robo-comic cracks jokes for humans
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“Hello, weak-skinned pathetic perishable humans!” begins the stand-up comic. “I am here with the intent of making you laugh.”
A curiously direct beginning for most comics, but not for Robothespian. This humanoid robot, made by British company Engineered Arts, has the size and basic form of a tall, athletic man but is very obviously a machine: its glossy white face and torso taper into a wiry waist and legs, its eyes are square video screens and its cheeks glow with artificial light.
Robothespian’s first joke plays on its mechanical nature and goes down a storm with the audience at the Barbican Centre in London. “I never really know how to start,” it says in a robotic male voice. “Which is probably because I run off Windows 8.”
The performance last week was the brainchild of Pat Healey and Kleomenis Katevas at Queen Mary University of London, who meant it not only to entertain but also to investigate what makes live events compelling.
As we watched, cameras tracked our facial expressions, gaze and head movements. The researchers will use this information to quantify our reactions to Robothespian’s performance and to compare them with our responses to two seasoned human comics – Andrew O’Neill and Tiernan Douieb – who performed before the robot.
Robot repartee
The routine I saw was completely pre-programmed, right down to the timing and delivery of the jokes, although Robothespian has also done one in which he read the same script but modified his delivery in response to the audience’s reactions.
Healey and Katevas aren’t just playing for laughs: they want to find out how to make a robot socially engaging. That knowledge will be important if robots are to work in our homes, not just factories. Personally, though, I want to know just how funny a robot can be.
Robothespian certainly has some technical tricks that a human can’t match, such as voicing recorded sound. “R2-D2 swears all the time,” says Robothespian, who seamlessly produces the familiar noises of the fictional robot R2-D2 in Star Wars. “We have to bleep him out for the kids.”
Another of the robot’s advantages is more surprising: because I feel less empathy for Robothespian than for the human comics, I feel more relaxed during his performance. When the humans take to the stage, there’s an initial tension that grips me – an intense hope that they won’t disappoint – and it’s missing with Robothespian. Presumably that’s because I won’t feel awkward if a pile of metal flunks on stage.
Robothespian is harder to understand than his human counterparts, though: the emphasis isn’t always right, and with fast-moving patter, I often had to strain to catch the punchline.
Hecklers would also have an open goal with a Robothespian. On this occasion, people are too polite to talk back to him, but his human counterparts don’t fancy his chances of managing the audience comments that they have deal with in a bar or comedy club. “A good heckle put-down has to be off the cuff,” says O’Neill. Robothespian has no way of making up a reply on the fly, as everything he says is completely scripted.
Tech titters
Still, robot comedy is a whole new genre, so there’s much fresh material, which Robothespian’s script, written by Douieb, exploits. Following on from the Star Wars and Microsoft references, there’s a nod to Apple: “I once dated a MacBook. It didn’t work because she was all ‘i, i, i’.” But I find the robot funniest when he plays on our assumption that robots should be overly literal. “You know what really pushes my buttons?” says Robothespian. “That guy that’s in control of me,” pointing to a man sitting with a laptop at the back of the stage. “You know what really turns me on? It’s that guy again.”
O’Neill and Douieb envy Robothespian’s instant character and context, which they say is comedy gold as it both puts the audience at ease and give the performance a context. “He has a USP,” says O’Neill.
But that could also be a downside. Humanity has a diverse culture, giving us endless ways to make fun of ourselves, but if robots’ best jokes are always about machines, the material might run dry pretty quickly.
Robothespian isn’t the only robot comic. Heather Knight, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of a robot film festival, has also created a stand-up robot, Data. He’s a Nao, a robot made by Aldebaran Robotics based in Paris, France, which is small, cute and so quite a different proposition to Robothespian. Data uses artificial intelligence to select from different joke genres depending on the audience response, which is monitored with sensors a bit like those used in Robothespian’s performance.
Robot comedy may not be quite as rich as human comedy, but the Barbican show proves that in certain contexts it can be funnier. Initial results from the performances last week already suggest that – as fleshly comics know – timing is key to tapping your audience’s funny bone. As Douieb says: “As a machine to make people laugh, it is well on the way.”
Clarification: When this article was first published on 15 August 2013, it did not mention Kleomenis Katevas.
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Tears of Joy for NBA No. 1 Draft Pick
Duke powerhouse Zion Williamson is going to New Orleans
Posted Jun 21, 2019 4:56 AM CDT
Duke's RJ Barrett shows off a jersey after being selected as the third pick overall by the New York Knicks during the NBA basketball draft Thursday, June 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Duke's RJ Barrett shows off a jersey after being selected as the third pick overall by the New York Knicks during the NBA basketball draft Thursday, June 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
(Newser) – Zion Williamson plays with force and ferocity, a Hulk in hightops who looks as though he'd never show a soft side. Draft night proved otherwise. Williamson was the No. 1 pick of the New Orleans Pelicans—a surprise to nobody who watched basketball this past season. But afterward he couldn't hide his emotions, even though he along with everyone else knew what would happen Thursday night, the AP reports. "Hearing my name called and I was able to make it on stage without a tear, shake the commissioner's hand, but in the interview my mom was standing beside me, and my emotions just took over," he said. There might be tears of joy in New Orleans, too, after the Pelicans were able to get the the 6-foot-7, 285-pound Duke powerhouse who is considered one of the most exciting prospects in years.
Williamson will step into an open position in New Orleans, which recently agreed to trade All-Star Anthony Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Memphis Grizzlies also quickly addressed a positional need by taking Murray State's Ja Morant with the No. 2 pick. The Grizzlies agreed to trade Mike Conley, their longtime point guard, to Utah a day earlier. RJ Barrett then made it two Duke freshmen within the top-three picks when the New York Knicks took the guard who actually edged out Williamson to lead the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring. De'Andre Hunter of national champion Virginia was taken fourth but won't be teaming up with Williamson. The Pelicans acquired the rights to the pick in the Davis deal but agreed to trade it shortly before the draft to Atlanta.
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Jun 21, 2019 6:36 AM CDT
Probably fewer than 1 out of 1000 of us will ever experience such a life-changing experience, when a lot of hard work pays off with a bang.
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Look at all those top Duke picks. They probably went undefeated all 4 years didn't they.
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FirstCry Raises $400 Million from SoftBank; Inches Closer To The Unicorn Mark
Written by Sourav
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Pune-based baby care company, FirstCry recently raised $150 million from Softbank as a part of a larger funding round.
According to regulatory filings, around $150 million has already been infused into the company and is expected to be utilized to expand FirstCry’s offline and online presence, and also to strengthen their technology platform. FirstCry will be raising an approximate amount of $400 million (Rs. 2,825 Crore) from SoftBank’s $93 billion Vision Fund in multiple installments.
While most companies have struggled to expand in the baby care business that is still largely dominated by offline stores, high real estate and customer acquisition costs have crippled the efforts of baby care retailers to build large businesses. On the other hand, FirstCry has gone further by creating an opportunity and grabbing onto it by using its online and offline channels’ full potential to offer a wide assortment of low-priced products to customers.
Started by Supam Maheshwari & Amitava Saha in 2010, the BrainBees Solution-owned baby and mother care product company had raised an approximate amount of $125 million from multiple investors, such as Chiratae Ventures, SAIF Partners, Valiant Capital Partners & Vertex Ventures, prior to this funding round. Even Ratan Tata has picked up some stakes in the company.
In 2016, FirstCry also acquired BabyOye, a Mumbai-based e-commerce store providing pregnancy, infant-care, and mother care products in India for $54 million. By the end of 2018, FirstCry had an offline presence across the country with about 350 offline stores.
Ranging from products in different categories like diapering, feeding, nursing, skin and healthcare, toys, clothes, footwear & much more, FirstCry claims to offer more than 2 lakh baby and kid products.
According to the reports, with SoftBank’s investment of $400 million, FirstCry’s evaluation has shot up to $800 million from what was less than half before at $350 million and has taken it very close to the unicorn tag.
Initially, it was also rumored that FirstCry was in talks with Temasek Holdings, Chinese Internet giant Tencent and another Chinese investment firm for the next round of fundraising. Morgan Stanley was appointed as the investment banker for the said deal. However, FirstCry and Temasek talks didn’t reach any consensus over the valuation issues.
With SoftBank bagging big returns from its investment in e-commerce giant, Flipkart, after acquisition by global retailer Walmart, and from multiple other companies it has recently invested in, the company’s increasing trust on Indian startups looks a promising idea for the Indian startup ecosystem. SoftBank Investment Advisors, through SoftBank Vision Fund also very recently led the investment round for Ola, a cab-service providing platform, along with the participation of their pre-existing investors, namely, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia and Green Oaks Capital.
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Home » Collection » Marie de' Medici, 1573-1642, Wife of King Henri IV of France 1600 [obverse]
Guillaume Dupré
French, c. 1574 - 1642
Marie de' Medici, 1573-1642, Wife of King Henri IV of France 1600 [obverse]
overall (height with suspension loop): 6.22 cm (2 7/16 in.)
overall (diameter without loop): 5.31 cm (2 1/16 in.)
gross weight: 44.22 gr (0.044 kg)
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1942.9.154.a
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Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; by inheritance to his widow, Mrs. Julie Hainauer, Berlin; purchased 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Philadelphia;[1] gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] A typed manuscript, “List of medals from the Hainauer Collection sold to Joseph Widener, Esq.” dated “October Twenty-First 1920,” is kept inside the front cover of the NGA Library’s copy of A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin, ed. Duveen Brothers, London, n.d. (but 1908), which came to the Gallery from the Widener library. Elsewhere in the Widener records, the circumstances of the acquisition are recorded by Edith Standen, the Widener’s curator: “Plaques and medals. These, formerly in the Hainauer Collection, were presented to Mr. [Joseph] Widener by Lord Duveen (then Sir Joseph) as a peace-offering. Mr. Widener had broken off relations with the firm two years before over a disputed enamel he had purchased from them and the medals, though originally offered at a much higher price, were given in lieu of the purchase money of the enamel.” (Gallery Archives, Record Group 3, Records of the Office of the Deputy or Assistant Director, Donor Files Relating to Major Collections, Box 21.)
Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: no. 279.
A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 90, repro.
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.
Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 2:no. 651, repro.
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Nick Arapi was born in Albania and moved to the island of
Mykonos in Greece, where he was raised from the time he was
a toddler. His mother was always in the kitchen and he used to
help her prepare meals at an early age. When he was 18 Nick
started working in professional kitchens learning all he could
about food. After High School, he graduated culinary school in
Greece and continued to work in restaurants until the year 2000
when he and his family immigrated to America. Nick had a
dream to open his own establishment and in 2001 he opened the
first Nick’s Diner in Clinton Township Michigan. He opened a
second location in 2004 and operated in Michigan for 6 years.
When he and his family decided they wanted to move to a
warmer climate they packed their belongings and moved to
Phoenix, Arizona where he opened his third restaurant in 2007.
After a year in Phoenix he found a location that he thought
would be perfect for a Diner and opened Nick’s Diner in
Surprise on Reems Rd. In 2012 as the Diner started to continue
to grow in popularity he had to look for a bigger location and
opened Nick’s Diner II in Surprise on Litchfield Rd.
Nick believes in cooking all his products from scratch and only
serving the highest quality with the best prices available to his
customers. Nick’s Diner is very family oriented and the entire
staff treats everyone that walks in the door like they are a part
of Nick’s family. Nick’s philosophy is “Let our family feed your
Please enjoy your visit to Nick’s Diner II Where Hunger Meets
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Research and Funding
Successor-in-Interest (Type 6 Parent Clinical Trial Optional)
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) hereby notify grantee organizations holding specific types of NIH grants, listed in the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), that applications for change of grantee organization status, often referred to in this announcement as Successor-In-Interest, may be submitted in response to this FOA. Applications for change of grantee organization status are considered prior approval requests (as described in Section 8.1.2.8 of the NIH Grants Policy Statement) and will be routed for consideration directly to the Grants Management Specialist named in the current award.
Although successor-in-interest requests may be submitted through this FOA, there is no guarantee that an award will be transferred to the new organization. All applicants are encouraged to discuss potential requests with the awarding IC before submission.
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Full Announcement: PA-18-589
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Open Date: 1/26/2018
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Application Due Date: A successor-in-interest request must be made before the anticipated start date at the new organization and preferably several months in advance.
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Welcome to the 2018-2019 academic year! Whether you are a new or returning student, we are delighted and honored you have chosen NWIC in pursing your education. NWIC offers an exceptional learning environment in which students gain the knowledge and skills they need to be leaders in their communities. NWIC exposes students to the values and ways of knowing of their Tribal peoples and communities through experiential learning, community engagement, and interactions with Tribal elders in the communities that we serve.
Our academic community consist of faculty who are up-to-date in their respective disciplines and are dedicated to our students. At NWIC, our faculty members make teaching their first priority. They are committed to helping students starting in their 1st year and continuing through graduation.
Please know that my door is open. If you want to talk with me individually I would be happy to meet. Please just let me know or contact my assistant, Stephanie Charlie (see contact information to the right). Your input matters and it helps me do my job better.
– Bernice Portervint, Dean of Academics and Distance Learning
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Reconsidering Katherine Anne Porter
Denis Donoghue
November 11, 1965 Issue
by Katherine Anne Porter
Harcourt, Brace, & World, 495 pp., $5.95
Katherine Anne Porter; drawing by David Levine
It is good to have Miss Porter’s stories collected in one elegant volume. The new book contains all the stories in Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and The Leaning Tower, with the addition of four not previously published in book form. (These are “Virgin Violeta,” “The Martyr,” “The Fig Tree,” and a remarkably beautiful story called “Holiday.”) With the stories in hand and the dust of Ship of Fools now settled, it is a good time to think of Miss Porter’s work in fiction and to reflect a little upon its direction. It is assumed, to begin with, that she is at least a minor writer of unusual distinction, a stylist, a craftsman.
Reading the fiction again, remembering some pieces almost in detail and others not at all, I find that the memorable stories declare themselves in a certain pattern. Miss Porter tends to write a story by sending the mind of a character to trouble the past, turning facts into myths and myths into mythologies; then to return, freighted and ready. In “Flowering Judas” Laura listens to Braggioni as he sings to her of the sea and his loneliness. Braggioni’s cadences play against her own, but not in harmony, because he is rehearsing cadences already made which he now prescribes as his own, while she is searching for new cadences made to the measure of her own feeling. Braggioni is locked in the cadences of a song his own because he sings it; he is a man of action in this as in other respects. But Laura is trying to find a song which will be her own measure only if she finds it. So in the pattern of the story Braggioni is fixed in his experience: Laura, caught in the frame of things, ranges abroad to discover herself. This pattern in Miss Porter’s stories is authoritative without being authoritarian; it allows other patterns as well to exist in the stories. Its most persistent form is the impression of memory. In “Old Mortality” John Jacob recalls the girls he had known in the family of his youth and, against heavy evidence, declares that “they had all been in every generation without exception, as slim as reeds and graceful as sylphs.” In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” Granny is in bed, dying, but her mind is out in the past, knitting memories and desires. Coming back with this only half accomplished, she finds her death stealing upon her. “Granny lay curled down within herself, amazed and watchful, staring at the point of light that was herself; her body was now only a deeper mass of shadow in an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up.” So the story swings between the gritty world of fact and the new world made by adding to the old a qualified memory. In “Old Mortality,” the…
—— November 11, 1965 ——
The Pilgrimage of Malcolm X
I.F. Stone
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D.P. Walker
There Oughta Be a Law
Henry David Aiken
Shoes in Rain Jungle
Robert Penn Warren
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Ax Goes Through Windshield in Massachusetts
Published Jul 30, 2014 at 12:58 PM | Updated at 10:55 AM CDT on Jul 31, 2014
Massachusetts State Police
Police said this happened on Interstate 95 in Topsfield, Massachusetts.
Passengers in a car traveling through Topsfield, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning had a frightening ordeal when an ax became lodged in their windshield.
They were driving on Route 95 southbound around 11 a.m. when the ax flew off the landscaper's dump truck in front of them and hit their windshield, Massachusetts State Police said in on Facebook.
The ax went halfway through the windshield and became lodged there.
Although the person in the passenger seat was shaken up, she was not injured.
Caught on Video: Woman Attacked in NYC Elevator
Had the driver of the car been speeding, the outcome could have been much worse, police said.
The driver of the truck was cited for a failure to secure cargo.
Police are using the scary incident to warn contractors, or any drivers, to properly secure items they are transporting, including tools, building materials, bicycles, canoes, luggage, furniture and beach chairs.
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Jennifer Morrison Joins 'This Is Us' Season 4
By Lauren Piester
Published Jun 19, 2019 at 12:57 PM
Jennifer Morrison is joining the cast of "This Is Us."
Jennifer Morrison is joining "This Is Us" season four in a recurring guest star role. Morrison starred as Emma Swan on ABC's "Once Upon a Time" until 2018, voices Catwoman in an upcoming animated Batman movie, and recently directed an upcoming episode of HBO's "Euphoria."
TVLine was first to report the news of her casting, adding that she will have a "substantial" presence on the show.
This Us Us Cast Talks Season 4, Characters &More
Speculation is she'll be the mysterious mother of Kevin's (Justin Hartley) future child, who we saw very briefly during the flash forward at the end of season three.
When we last caught up with the cast, they couldn't tell us much about what's to come. But it does sound like we're in for a tough parenting ride with Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Toby (Chris Sullivan), and we'll get some backstory about how Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca came to be, as well as how Rebecca got to be with Miguel (Jon Huertas).
Creator Dan Fogelman had previouslytold EW that season four is all about "restarts," as everybody in the family embarks on new journeys, and it may be a "very scary period" for most of the characters.
"This Is Us" returns Tuesday, September 24 on NBC.
Original Post: Jennifer Morrison Joins This Is Us Season 4
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Colorado School of Mines Athletics | May 20, 2016
DII Men's Golf Championships: Bernard wins NCAA title, final eight teams set
2016 DII Men's Golf Championship: Day 3 Recap
DENVER – St. Leo freshman Hugo Bernard won the university’s first national championship in any sport, breaking the tournament record at -13 to capture the NCAA Division II Men’s Golf individual title.
Bernard entered the day with a healthy lead and shot an even-par 72 to stay at -13, winning by two strokes over Western New Mexico’s Calum Hill. He broke the 54-hole championship record with his score, which had stood since 2012. Bernard shot rounds of 65, 66, and 72.
While there was little drama in the individual standings, the race for the top eight team spots and berths in the medal match play rounds came down to the wire. Wilmington (Del.) earned its first trip to the quarterfinals by a single stroke (+2) over Central Oklahoma (+3), and Dallas Baptist was only another shot back.
Bernard with all of his awards. D2 champion, D2 Golfer of the Year, All American, Freshman of Year pic.twitter.com/IxIhcXGYNh
— Saint Leo Men's Golf (@saintleomgolf) May 20, 2016
As St. Leo (-26), Chico State (-14), and Florida Southern (-13) ran away with the top of the leaderboard, there was plenty to play for below them as Lynn and Barry (both -6) held their spots, Cal Baptist (-1) moved up two spots to sixth, and West Florida played its way in with the day’s best team round at -8 to move from 10th after the second round to seventh.
Quarterfinal play is set for Friday morning, with semifinal matches Friday afternoon and the championship on Saturday.
Medal Match Play Quarterfinal Qualifiers
[1] St. Leo vs. [8] Wilmington
[2] Chico State vs. [7] West Florida
[3] Florida Southern vs. [6] Cal Baptist
[4] Lynn vs. [5] Barry
“It’s pretty fun. I enjoy it – but I’ll be honest with you, today he wasn’t my friend [laughs]. We’ve played junior golf together since we were 13 years old.” – NCAA individual champion Hugo Bernard on his friendship with teammate Joey Savoie, who started the day second and finished 11th.
“I’m proud of them. It’s the first time from our [East] region that anyone has been here.” - Wilmington (Del.) head coach Harry Jennings, whose unranked Wildcats made the final eight for the first time
“We’ve just been really patient here the last month of the season, letting the game come to us and not forcing the issue. We tend to get better as the tournaments go on.” – Cal Baptist head coach John Hackney, whose Lancers had the second-lowest team round of the day to secure their medal matchplay spot
- Hugo Bernard is St. Leo’s first NCAA champion – team or individual – in any sport. His -13 broke the 54-hole record co-held by Central Oklahoma’s Josh Creel and Colorado School of Mines’ Jim Knous (2012).
- St. Leo smashed the 54-hole team record at NCAA Championships at -26, ten strokes under Florida Southern’s pace in 1999.
- Runner-up Calum Hill of Western New Mexico matched the highest-ever finish by a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference golfer at NCAA Championships. His 67 (-5) moved him up four spots from Wednesday.
- Limestone’s Griffin Brown took third place at -10 with a final day 70.
- West Florida’s final-day move was largely thanks to Jacob Huizinga, who bounced back from an opening-round 77 to smash a 65 on Thursday, tied for the low round of the tournament. Huizinga closed t16, advancing 43 spots in round three.
Team Standings (Top 10)
1. St. Leo (838)
2. Chico State (850)
3. Florida Southern (851)
4. Lynn (858)
5. Barry (858)
6. Cal Baptist (863)
7. West Florida (864)
8. Wilmington (866)
9. Central Oklahoma (867)
10. Dallas Baptist (868)
Individual Final Standings (Top 10)
1. Hugo Bernard, St. Leo (-13, 65-66-72—203)
2. Calum Hill, Western New Mexico (-11, 69-69-67—205)
3. Griffin Brown, Limestone (-10, 69-67-70—206)
4. John Coultas, Florida Southern (-9, 70-68-69—207)
t5. Garrett Fey, Dallas Baptist (-8, 73-66-69—208)
t5. Mateo Gomez, Lynn (-8, 70-69-69—208)
t5. Richard Mansell, Nova Southeastern (-8, 69-68-71—208)
t8. John Clare, Le Moyne (-7, 69-72-68—209)
t8. Kavan Eubank, Cal Baptist (-7, 69-71-69—209)
t8. Liam Ainsworth, St. Leo (-7, 71-70-68—209)
Round 3 Low Rounds (Par 72)
Jacob Huizinga, West Florida - 65
Calum Hill, Western New Mexico – 67
Justin Wiles, Chico State – 67
Where PGA Championship winners played college golf
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Where U.S. Open winners played golf in college
Here is a full list of the colleges each U.S. Open victor attended before etching their names in the USGA record books.
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Windows Defender will soon remove 'scareware' apps like cleaners and optimizers
By Rich Woods Senior Editor for North America Neowin @@TheRichWoods · Jan 31, 2018 14:34 EST · Hot! with 53 comments
We've all got that friend. It's the one that complained about their seven-year-old PC (that was low-end when they bought it) being too slow, and downloaded a free utility to fix the virus that they believed they had, and it would "clean up" their device. After the app found thousands of issues with the PC, they paid to upgrade to a version that could fix these alleged pieces of malware, and then they called you.
These utilities can be referred to as 'scareware', and oftentimes, the viruses and malware that these things cite don't even exist, or they're much more minor than they appear. Today, Microsoft announced that Windows Defender will begin removing this type of software beginning on March 1.
Microsoft's anti-malware software will now classify these utilities as unwanted software, and after being detected, it will be removed.
The company changed its evaluation criteria to include the following:
Programs must not display alarming or coercive messages or misleading content to pressure you into paying for additional services or performing superfluous actions.
Software that coerces users may display the following characteristics, among others:
Reports errors in an exaggerated or alarming manner about the user’s system and requires the user to pay for fixing the errors or issues monetarily or by performing other actions such as taking a survey, downloading a file, signing up for a newsletter, etc.
Suggests that no other actions will correct the reported errors or issues
Requires the user to act within a limited period of time to get the purported issue resolved
This is good news on all fronts, as these types of utilities are pretty much universally agreed upon to be a bad thing. Surely, if you happen to be "that friend" that everyone calls to fix their computer, you'll appreciate that you can probably yell, "STOP DOWNLOADING FREE UTILITIES THAT PROMISE TO FIX YOUR COMPUTER", at least one less time.
Source: Microsoft via Ars Technica | Image via Ars Technica
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Microsoft resolves issues that prevented upgrading to Windows 10 version 1903
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Not your typical classical concert: 45th Parallel presents black composers, music inspired by Portland MAX attack
Updated Feb 11, 2019 ; Posted Feb 9, 2019
The Portland string quartet Mousai Remix, one of five classical music ensembles that make up 45th Parallel Universe.
By Brett Campbell | For The Oregonian/OregonLive
When the classical music organization 45th Parallel reached its 10th birthday this season, it expanded its ranks and artistic vision.
Renamed 45th Parallel Universe, it completed its evolution from an artistic director-driven model, led by founder and violinist Greg Ewer, to a collectively run umbrella organization comprising five ensembles: two string quartets, a woodwind quartet, a percussion duo and a chamber orchestra.
The expansion produced a corresponding broadening of artistic vision, with a season packed with diverse concerts. On Friday, Feb. 15, two 45th Parallel ensembles play back-to-back concerts embracing compositions that classical music institutions are often rightly accused of ignoring: music by African American composers, and new music responding to the concerns of here and now rather than there and then.
To play classical compositions you need scores, and the lack of available scores by black composers is both a symptom of the racism that long excluded them from the classical canon, and one of many continuing obstacles to redressing that exclusion. When Ewer asked Jennifer Arnold to program a concert of works by African American composers for her string quartet Mousai REMIX, her biggest challenge was obtaining music.
“In my research I realized how many string quartets by black composers were out there,” Arnold recalls, “but finding and buying them was very difficult.”
The oldest composer on the program, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, wrote dozens of string quartets, but only a few were available for purchase. A renowned violin virtuoso, swordsman and military leader in the 18th century, Bologne “was called the Black Mozart for a reason,” Arnold notes, praising his Classical era-style melodies.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Fantasy Pieces” aren’t in print, so the group is playing from a downloaded database score. “If you like (William) Walton, (Ralph) Vaughan Williams and other British Romantic music, you’ll love Coleridge-Taylor. He was highly regarded by them.”
Admirers of the folk-inspired Romantic music that the 19th-century Czech composer Antonin Dvorak wrote during his American sojourn will appreciate 20th-century American composer Florence Price’s “Five Folksongs in Counterpoint.”
She says the program’s sole contemporary composer, Daniel Bernard Roumain, is “really great at crossing genres.” His fifth string quartet, “Rosa Parks,” offers a mix of contemporary “electronic-sounding things played on acoustic instruments. It’s not typical classical music — anyone who likes a groove can relate to it.”
That populist sentiment also inspired the concert’s name, drawn from a quotation by the most renowned African American classical composer, William Grant Still, who said he wrote a symphony not for elite listeners but for “the sons of the soil.”
The Pyxis Quartet, one of five classical music ensembles that make up 45th Parallel Universe.
“I Spat in the Eye of Hate and Lived”
The evening concert by 45th Parallel’s Pyxis Quartet was inspired by the horrific 2017 stabbings of three Portlanders on a MAX train as they tried to protect two teenage girls, one black and one Arab American, from a white man yelling hateful epithets at them. Ewer heard that the lone survivor of the stabbings, Micah Fletcher, was a poet also studying music theory at Portland State University and talked to him about creating an artistic response.
45th Parallel commissioned four poems from Fletcher and music from four Portland composers inspired by them. Nicholas Yandell “gravitated toward the most visceral and violent, Bonnie (Miksch, a Portland State music professor) the most uplifting,” Ewer says.
Fletcher’s music theory professor, Texu Kim, set a poem in which Fletcher finds an old middle school yearbook and contemplates a simpler time in his life. Another Portland State prof, 45th Parallel composer-in-residence Kenji Bunch, set a poem delineating the “difference between the simple narratives that as a society we all crave to come to terms with events like this, versus a very complex confusing reality,” Ewer explains.
Fletcher will read his poetry before each performance and narrate his words in Yandell’s composition.
The Pyxis Quartet members — cellist Marilyn de Oliveira, violist Charles Noble and violinists Ewer and Ron Blessinger — performed for years as the Third Angle String Quartet, the veteran Portland new music organization that Blessinger directed for 17 years before moving over last year to become 45th Parallel interim executive director. But while the players in both concerts, all Oregon Symphony musicians, may be familiar to Portland classical fans, the music isn’t — and that’s still unusual in a genre that long fetishized familiar European masters at the expense of contemporary American relevance. In these concerts, 45th Parallel is expanding the musical universe for listeners too.
45th Parallel Universe
What/when:
“Sons of the Soil,” Mousai REMIX: 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15.
“I Spat in the Eye of Hate and Lived,” Pyxis Quartet, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15.
Where: The Old Church, 1422 S.W. 11th Ave.
Tickets: $10-$40, 45thparallelpdx.org or 503-446-4227.
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Compare the Volvo XC90 to the Competition in Jacksonville
Jacksonville Drivers: See how the Volvo XC90 Compares to Some of Its Top Competition
O'Steen Volvo Cars of Jacksonville is proud to feature a robust selection of Volvo XC90 models, the award-winning flagship of the Volvo SUV lineup.
With a sterling safety record and seating for up to seven passengers, the XC90 is a favorite of many in St. Augustine, despite the large selection of outstanding luxury midsize SUVs on the market.
Volvo XC90 vs. BMW X3
The Volvo XC90 is larger and yet more nimble than its BMW X3 counterpart, with seating for seven and a turning diameter of 38.7 inches. The X3 has a 39.4-inch turning diameter and seats five.
It's easier to invite the beautiful Jacksonville Beach sunshine into the cabin in the XC90, with a standard panoramic sun/moon roof. That's only optional on the X3.
Standard Adaptive Cruise Control slows the speed of the XC90 on the highway, maintaining a safe following distance. It's available as an option on the X3.
The XC90 is designed with comfort and convenience in mind. It has a standard power liftgate, again only optional on the X3.
Standard driver and passenger seat lumbar supports in the XC90 add to its overall comfort.
Volvo XC90 vs. Acura RDX
The Volvo XC90 has room for you, your three best friends, and all four sets of clubs when you go golfing in Ponte Vedra Beach. It has up to 85.7 cubic feet of cargo volume, and room for seven. The smaller RDX has 58.9 feet of available cargo volume and seating for five.
The 8-speed transmission in the XC90 allows for smoother shifting and increased fuel efficiency.
Keep an extra eye on traffic with the standard blind spot monitor in the XC90. It's not offered in the RDX.
Auto-leveling headlights in the XC-90 keeps the light focused where you need it--on the road.
Rear cross-traffic alert helps you to avoid possible accidents when your XC90 is in reverse.
You'll stop for fuel less often on those long road trips with the 18.8-gallon tank in the XC90. The RDX fuel tank holds only 17.1 gallons.
The XC90 offers an optional navigation system that ensures you'll never miss a turn.
Volvo XC90 vs Audi Q5
The XC90 is a bigger SUV with seating for seven passengers standard. The Audi Q5 seats only five.
Second-row passengers will be more comfortable in the XC90, with 38.5 inches of head room, compared to 37.7 in the Q5.
Despite its bigger size, the XC90 gets better estimated gas mileage. XC90 owners in Fruit Cove can get up to 29 mpg on the highway in the XC90, compared to 27 mpg in the Q5.
The XC90 offers better entertainment options, with standard satellite radio and an optional premium sound system, which isn't offered in the Q5.
WiFi Hotspot connectivity is standard in the XC90 and not offered in the Q5.
The list of standard safety features in the XC90 includes lane keep assist and lane departure warning, which isn't available in the Q5.
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That Jews in the United States have, throughout their history in the territory, written and published a great deal of literature should surprise absolutely no one; after all, Jews in all other lands, and virtually all other American demographic groups, have done likewise. What justifies the carving out of American Jewish literature as its own field of study (poised however tenuously between Jewish studies and American literary studies) is the strength of the tradition. Each of the first waves of Jewish immigrants to the United States—beginning with Sephardic Jews in the 17th century, followed by small but growing numbers of Western and Eastern European Jews in the 18th and early 19th centuries—contributed to American literary development in ways that exceeded what one might have expected from their size. Then, beginning in the late 19th century, which saw the beginning of the largest wave of Jewish immigration, mostly of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe, the experiences of American Jews have become an absolutely central thematic line throughout the development of American literature. Writers associated with this tradition, and particularly a very prominent group that emerged after World War II, produced landmark works that set the course for large swaths of American literature as a whole, with the result that much of American culture seems to speak with a Yiddish accent. To cite a handful of examples that could be easily multiplied tenfold, it’s simply impossible to imagine, or to begin to understand, the field of American autobiography without considering the contribution of Mary Antin, or American modernism without Gertrude Stein, or American drama without Arthur Miller, or postwar American fiction without Philip Roth, or the American graphic novel without Art Spiegelman. Each of these figures demonstrates how the issues at the center of American Jewish literature are likewise central to American culture as a whole. Still, because of its awkward positioning between two academic disciplines, English literature and Jewish studies, which have not always been on the best of terms, the field of American Jewish literature remains rather unstable both disciplinarily and institutionally, and it has been regularly—and not without some merit—subject to attack as undertheorized and as reinforcing or pursuing a sloppy identitarianism. The definition of the field also remains a central and active question. In the broadest sense, the corpus of American Jewish literature can be said to comprise all the literary texts, across many genres and written by people of all backgrounds, that have been produced in reaction to or as a result of the experiences of Jews in the United States. This vast collection of literary works includes internationally celebrated and influential fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and graphic novels, written in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, and, less frequently, in other languages, in the United States and outside of it, by both Jews and non-Jews, both American citizens and noncitizens. This literature has been influenced in varying measures by precedents in ancient and rabbinic Jewish texts, by the development of modern Jewish literatures in the diaspora and in the State of Israel, and by complex currents within the Anglo-American and European literary scene. Scholarship in the field has tended to privilege fiction over other genres, as is reflected in the entries of this article (and in the designation of separate headings for scholarly work on other genres), but, as the entries also suggest, that pattern has begun to change in recent years.
The critical study of American Jewish literature began as early as the late 19th century, but the most useful general overviews currently available are much more recent. More than just a selection of exemplary texts, Chametzky, et al. 2001, produced through a significant scholarly collaboration, is a uniquely valuable resource, with detailed, readable headnotes as well as bibliographic materials that have not been equaled; it is the recognized starting point for any serious research in the field. Liptzin 1966 remains the most comprehensive narrative overview by a single author, and is useful in its concision. Wirth-Nesher and Kramer 2003 offers a varied and extensive, if not comprehensive, series of chapters on major areas of scholarly interest in the field; because its approach is substantially similar to Fried 1988, the more recent book supersedes the older one, with some exceptions. Lambert and Harrison-Kahan 2012 brings the consideration of the state of the field almost up to the present, reflecting on both the field’s recent institutional fortunes within academia and on current trends within the scholarship.
Chametzky, Jules, John Felstiner, Hilene Flanzbaum, and Kathryn Hellerstein, eds. Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. New York: Norton, 2001.
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Presenting a selection of texts published between 1654 and 1998, by more than 130 writers working in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, this anthology is crucial as an introduction to the field because of its wide scope, its detailed section introductions and headnotes, and its extensive bibliographic material.
Fried, Lewis, ed. Handbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
Structured similarly to Wirth-Nesher and Kramer 2003, this collection covers much the same ground as the more recent book, but several of the essays—for example, on autobiography and the German reception of American Jewish texts—remain valuable.
Lambert, Josh, and Lori Harrison-Kahan, eds. Special Issue: Finding Home; The Future of Jewish American Literacy Studies. MELUS 37.2 (2012).
The most recent overview of the field, this special issue’s introduction addresses the current state of the field—suggesting its institutional instability might be a source of its strength—and the issue includes articles and reviews that reflect methodological trends in contemporary scholarship.
Liptzin, Sol. The Jew in American Literature. New York: Bloch, 1966.
Ranging from the colonial era to the first postwar decade, and treating both Jews’ self-representations and their depiction in the literary works of non-Jews, Liptzin’s study, with a bibliography of relevant primary sources, remains a useful one-volume overview of the field as a whole.
Wirth-Nesher, Hana, and Michael P. Kramer, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Recognizing the diversity of the field, this collection presents broad essays by distinguished contributors on many areas of scholarly interest within American Jewish literature. More pointed and argumentative than encyclopedia entries, these essays also include helpful lists of suggested readings.
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By Tony Lovitt
The former lead vocalist for Sugarland, country music superstar Jennifer Nettles, headlines CountryFest, radio station KSON-FM’s annual
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“It’s just sort of a natural for us to be up there,” says Chris Turner, KSON director of marketing and promotions. “Our North County listeners don’t have to drive as far, and our men and women of the military [at Camp Pendleton] have a quick, easy place to go and see some affordable country music close to home.”
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Top 10 Palomar Health Stories in 2018
A dreadful flu season. A beautiful wedding ceremony. A puzzling auditory phenomenon. These are just a few of the most notable events to take place in our health system in 2018.
Join us as we take a look back at the year's top stories.
10. Teddy Bears Help Children in Duress
A trip to the emergency room can be a stressful event, especially for a child. Understanding how a little furry friend can go a long way for peace of mind, the Assistance League Inland North County has been donating teddy bears to the Palomar Medical Center Escondido Emergency Department for more than 10 years.
9. Violinist Strings Family Together at Palomar Health
The Doerings from Escondido like to keep things in the family. Mark and Michael, identical twin brothers, and their sister Susan have a passion for playing violin string instruments and often play at funerals, weddings and religious gatherings. As musicians, their hands are crucial to their craft. When Susan suffered a shattered wrist two months ago in a car accident while visiting family in Escondido, it put her playing days in jeopardy.
8. Pathmaker Interns Earn Grants
Pathmaker Medical Interpreters (MIs) give their time and talent to perform in-person interpretations between Palomar Health’s Spanish-speaking patients and healthcare providers. The Pathmaker Management Team joined the Foundation Department to secure a grant from Bank of America to scholarship five MIs to take the National Certification Test, which would certify the MIs as National Healthcare Interpreters.
7. Does Coffee Cause Cancer?
A California judge made a tentative ruling in a court case that coffee makers/distributors will have to place a cancer warning label on coffee products. Does this mean coffee causes cancer? Palomar Health Director of Education for Emergency Medicine Dr. Christian McClung shares his take on KUSI News.
6. 2018 Nurses and Physicians of the Year
During National Nurses week in May, Palomar Health celebrated the Roz and Len Kolins Nurses of the Year and Physicians of the Year as voted by their peers at each of Palomar Health’s three medical center campuses.
5. Palomar Health Unveils Expanded Emergency Department
Palomar Medical Center Escondido is expanding its Emergency Department to meet the needs of a growing community. On Monday, March 12, hospital leaders, patients, and community members cut the ribbon on Pod D, the 4,500 square foot, 14-patient bed Emergency Department (ED) expansion.
4. A Wedding at Palomar Medical Center Escondido
A special wedding ceremony took place at Palomar Medical Center Escondido. The groom, Felipe, had been a patient at the hospital, and felt determined to marry his bride Alma that day—no matter what the venue. Why? Alma said that Felipe could not wait any longer. Family and friends, even relatives from Mexico, attended the event held right outside Palomar Medical Center Escondido, and the couple provided their own officiant.
3. Sisters Birth Babies on Same Day, in Same Hospital, with Same Doctor
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2. Laurel vs. Yanny
“Laurel” versus “Yanny” went viral and has stirred a national debate about why people hear a computer-generated voice differently. Palomar Health Chief Audiologist Dr. David Illich says there are many factors contributing to the Laurel versus Yanny phenomena.
1. Surge Tent Raised to Serve Flu Patients
At the beginning of the year, Palomar Medical Center Escondido triaged flu patients in a temporary medical tent erected outside its Emergency Department to expedite treatment and contain the spread of the influenza virus. This was the beginning of an extremely serious flu season that resulted in features on ABC News, CBS News and more, making us the national face for flu outbreak response.
Thank you so much for being with us this year. Stay tuned for more stories to come in 2019.
Have a happy and healthy start in the new year!
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Next on the Toddcast, Dr. Ed Meadows Pensacola State College President
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scape presents ideas to improve pensacola's waterfront
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Escambia County Commission Chairman Lumon May received the honorary key to OLF-8 from Commander Jim Brownlee from Whiting Field. County Commissioners Jeff Bergosh, Steven Barry, and Robert Bender also attended the ceremony. Staff from Senator Marco Rubio's office, Senator Rick Scott's office, and Congressman Matt Gaetz's office were also recognized at the ceremony.
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Chamber participates in annual military fly-in to washington dc
Chamber board members, Chamber staff, and area business leaders traveled to our nation's capital to participate in the annual Northwest Florida Military Fly-In. Representatives from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay Counties made the trek to Washington to meet with members of Congress and hear directly from military leadership about the key issues facing our Northwest Florida military bases.
The first day featured the Day on the Hill, hosted by our own Congressman Matt Gaetz. Day one featured presentations on Special Operations Forces and Military Readiness, next year's defense budget, and Next Generation Aircraft and Hypersonics. Two additional Florida Congressmen, Representative Michael Waltz (R-Boyton Beach) and Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Miami), addressed attendees providing their perspectives on the future of the military in Florida.
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senator doug broxson is leading the charge on assignment of benefits reform
On the latest Florida Chamber Bottom Line Senator Doug Broxson, Chair of the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee, sat down to discuss the adverse effects of Assignment of Benefits (AOB) abuse, and the bill he is proposing to put an end to it.
“For over 100 years, we never had a problem with how to file a claim,” said Broxson. “In 1974, we had the first AOB claim ever filed, and then in 2018 we had 36,000.”
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Mission Critical (Gray Man #8) (Hardcover)
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From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man.
Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley.
When they land in an isolated airbase in the U.K., they are attacked by a hostile force who kidnaps the prisoner. Only Gentry escapes. His handlers send him after the attackers, but what can one operative do against a trained team of assassins? A lot, when that operative is the Gray Man.
Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. In his research for the Gray Man novels, including Agent in Place, Gunmetal Gray, Back Blast, Dead Eye, Ballistic, On Target, and The Gray Man, he traveled to more than fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, and Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance. With Tom Clancy, he coauthored Locked On, Threat Vector, and Command Authority.
“I LOVE THE GRAY MAN.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
“BOURNE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM.”—New York Times bestselling author James Rollins
Praise for Mission Critical
“This novel is vintage Greaney, with a tight plot, a ticking clock, and a sympathetic antihero…This is good, Clancy-esque entertainment. May the evildoers of the world have nightmares that Violator becomes a real person.”—Kirkus Reviews
“The latest in the Gray Man series continues to demonstrate why Greaney belongs in the upper echelon of special-ops thriller authors.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Greaney knows what military action fans want and delivers in spades.”—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Agent in Place
“Reminiscent of John le Carré…Exquisite in its execution, the relentlessly riveting, “Agent in Place” firmly plants Greaney alongside Brad Taylor and Brad Thor as the masters of this thriller subgenre.”—Providence Journal
“Readers of the great Tom Clancy will salivate over this fast-moving and well-plotted yarn, which is part of a consistently appealing series in which each assignment is billed as the most dangerous ever. Somehow, Greaney cranks out one winner after another. That's a lot of work for the Gray Man and plenty of vicarious pleasure for thriller fans.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Greaney’s steady escalation of the risks that Court faces, and the exceedingly clever ways he tackles them, make this entry in the exemplary Gray Man series a can’t-miss.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Praise for Gunmetal Gray
“Fans of RPG, Hong Kong action films, and high-octane storytelling will love the Gray Man, who battles full-bore through this fast-paced series.”—The Washington Post
“A nonstop barrage of action.”—The Memphis Commercial Appeal
“Jam-packed with action and adventure. It is as modern as tomorrow’s headlines and moves with fascinating speed from country to country.”—Lincoln Journal Star
“This one is fat, fast, and fun. Clancy’s spirit lives on.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Rethinking The Cold War — Paul Craig Roberts
August 11, 2016 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: | Print This Article
Rethinking The Cold War
and the new one
The Cold War began during the Truman administration and lasted through the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations and was ended in Reagan’s second term when Reagan and Gorbachev came to an agreement that the conflict was dangerous, expensive, and pointless.
The Cold War did not cease for long—only from the last of Reagan’s second term and the four years of George H. W. Bush’s term. In the 1990s President Clinton restarted the Cold War by breaking America’s promise not to expend NATO into Eastern Europe. George W. Bush heated up the renewed Cold War by pulling the US out of the Anti-ABM Treaty, and Obama has made the war hotter with irresponsible rhetoric and by placing US missiles on Russia’s border and overthrowing the Ukrainian government.
The Cold War was a Washington creation. It was the work of the Dulles brothers. Allen was the head of the CIA, and John Foster was the Secretary of State, positions that they held for a long time. The brothers had a vested interest in the Cold War. They used the Cold War to protect the interests of their law firm’s clients, and they used it to enhance the power and budgets associated with their high positions in government. It is much more exciting to be in charge of foreign policy and covert activity in dangerous times.
Whenever a reformist democratic government appeared in Latin America the Dulles brothers saw it as a threat to the holdings that their law firm’s clients had in that country. These holdings, sometimes acquired with bribes to nondemocratic governments, diverted the country’s resources and wealth into American hands, and that is the way the Dulles brothers intended to keep it. The reformist government would be declared Marxist or Communist, and the CIA and State Department would work together to overthrow it and place back in power a dictator in bed with Washington.
The Cold War was pointless except for the Dulles brothers’ interests and those of the military/security complex. The Soviet government, unlike the US government today, had no world hegemonic asperations. Stalin had declared “Socialism in one country” and purged the Trotskyists, the advocates of world revolution. Communism in China and Eastern Europe were not products of Soviet international communism. Mao was his own man, and the Soviet Union kept Eastern Europe from which the Red Army drove out the Nazis as a buffer against a hostile West.
In those days the “Red scare” was used like the “Muslim terrorist scare” today—to force the public to go along with an agenda without debate or understanding. Consider the costly Vietnam war, for example. Ho Chi Minh was an anticolonist leading a nationalist movement. He was not an agent of international communism, but John Foster Dulles made him one and said that Ho must be stopped or the “domino theory” would result in the fall of all of Southeast Asia to communism. Vietnam won the war and did not launch the aggression that Dulles predicted against Southeast Asia.
Ho had pleaded with the US government for support against the French colonial power that ruled Indo-China. Rebuffed, Ho turned to Russia. If Washington had simply told the French government that the colonialist era was over and that France needed to vacate Indo-China, the disaster of the Vietnam war would have been avoided. But invented threats to serve interest groups had become hobgoblins then as now, and Washington, along with many others, became a victim of its imaginary monsters.
NATO was unnecessary as there was no danger of the Red Army sweeping into Western Europe. The Soviet government had enough trouble occupying Eastern Europe with its rebellous populations. The Soviet Union was faced with an uprising in East Germany in 1953, from Poland and Hungary in 1956, and from the Communist Party itself in Czechoslavia in 1968. The Soviet Union suffered enormous population loss in World War II and required its remaining manpower for post-war reconstruction. It was beyond Soviet ability to occupy Western Europe in addition to Eastern Europe. The French and Italian communist parties were strong in the post-war period, and Stalin had grounds for hope that a communist government in France or Italy would result in the breakup of Washington’s European empire. These hopes were dashed by Operation Gladio.
We had the Cold War because it served the Dulles brothers and the power and profits of the military/security complex. There were no other reasons for the Cold War.
The new Cold War is even more pointless than the first. Russia was cooperating with the West, and the Russian economy was integrated into the West as a supplier of raw materials. The neoliberal economic policy that Washington convinced the Russian government to implement was designed to keep the Russian economy in the role of supplier of raw materials to the West. Russia expressed no territorial ambitions and spent very little on its military.
The new Cold War is the work of a handful of neoconservative fanatics who believe that History has chosen the US to wield hegemonic power over the world. Some of the neocons are sons of former Trotskyists and have the same romantic notion of world revolution, only this time it is “democratic-capitalist” and not communist.
The new Cold War is far more dangerous than the old, because the respective war doctrines of the nuclear powers have changed. The function of nuclear weapons is no longer retaliatory. Mutually Assured Destruction was a guarantee that the weapons would not be used. In the new war doctrine nuclear weapons have been elevated to first-use in a preemptive nuclear attack. Washington first took this step, forcing Russia and China to follow.
The new Cold War is more dangerous for a second reason. During the first Cold War American presidents focused on reducing tensions between nuclear powers. But the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes have raised tensions dramatically. William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton regime, recently spoke of the danger of nuclear war being launched by false alarms resulting from such things as faulty computer chips. Fortunately, when such instances occurred in the past, the absence of tension in the relationship between the nuclear powers caused authorities on both sides to disbelieve the false alarms. Today, however, with constant allegations of pending Russian invasions, Putin demonized as “the new Hitler,” and the buildup of US and NATO military forces on Russia’s borders, a false alarm becomes believable.
NATO lost its purpose when the Soviet Union collapsed. However, too many careers, budgets, and armaments profits depended on NATO. The neoconservatives seized on NATO as political cover and an auxillary military force for their hegemonic ambitions. The purpose of NATO today is to implicate all of Europe in Washington’s war crimes. Since all are guilty, European governments cannot turn on Washington and accuse the Americans of war crimes. Other voices are too weak to be of consequence. Despite its vast crimes against humanity, the West still retains the position of “a light unto the world,” a defender of truth, justice, human rights, democracy, and individual liberty. This reputation persists despite the destruction of the Bill of Rights and police state repression.
The West does not represent the values that the world has been brainwashed to believe are associated with the West. For example, there was no need to attack Japanese civilian cities with atomic weapons. Japan was trying to surrender and was holding out against the US demand for unconditional surrender only in order to spare the emperor from execution for war crimes over which he had no control. Like the British sovereign today, the emperor had no political power and was a symbol of national unity. Japan’s war leaders were fearful that Japanese unity would dissolve if the emperor, the symbol of unity, was removed. Of course, the Americans were too ignorant to understand the situation, and so, little Truman, bullied all his life as a nonentity, glorified in his power and dropped the bombs.
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan were powerful. However, the hydrogen bombs that have replaced them are far more powerful. The use of such weapons is inconsistent with life on Earth.
Donald Trump has said the only hopeful thing in the presidential campaign. He called into question NATO and the orchesrated conflict with Russia. We don’t know if we can believe him or whether his government would follow his direction. But we do know that Hitlery is a warmonger, an agent of the neoconservatives, the military-security complex, the Israel Lobby, the banks too big to fail, Wall Street, and every foreign interest that will make a mega-million dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation or a quarter million dollar fee for a speech.
Hitlery declared the President of Russia to be the Ultimate Threat—“the new Hitler.”
Could it be any more clear? A vote for Hitlery is a vote for war. Despite this most obvious of all facts, the US media, united as one, are doing everything in their power to drive Trump into the ground and to elect Hitlery.
What does this tell us about the intelligence of the “Unipower,” “the world’s only superpower,” the” indispensible people,” the “exceptional nation”? It tells us that they are as dumb as shit. Creatures of The Matrix created by their own propagandists, Americans see imaginary threats, not real ones.
What the Russians and Chinese see are a people too brainwashed and ignorant to be of any support for peace. They see war coming and are preparing for it.
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Mr. Bertagna represents major corporations in such diverse fields as financial services, technology, transportation, sports and entertainment, retail, and health care.
Mr. Bertagna has authored numerous articles on a range of employment topics, which have appeared in publications such as Bloomberg BNA, Law360, Bender’s Labor and Employment Bulletin, and Cornell HR Review.
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“PAGA: One Decade Later,” The Employee Relations Journal Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 44-56 (Summer 2013).
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Here’s what’s new in PUBG’s Sanhok map, which returns today
Update, May 10: The new Sanhok map for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be playable today, and it’s had a big update since the last time it was available.
Check out all our tips for how to win at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds!
The map’s locations now all have their final names, and they’ve all received various improvements to give them a more distinct look. The developers have also added four new areas -Tambang,Lakawi,Na Kham, and Cave. We’d previously heard of this open cave system that players can parachute directly into, and it’ll be playable later today. We’ve also got the first screenshot, which you can see below.
The recent weapon balance update has been applied, with further adjustments to item spawns in Sanhok itself, such as increasing the ratio of the M16A4 and AKM and decreasing the M416. There are also changes to the red zones so now they generally will not appear within safe zones. Perhaps most importantly, players can now throw apples in the opening area.
For further details you can view the full patch notes here.
Original story, May 8:The new map for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, previously known as Codename: Savage, has got a new official name – Sanhok. It’ll be playable worldwide this Thursday.
The developers announced the new name on Steam. The map is influenced by islands around Thailand and the Phillippines, and the name ‘Sanhok’ is a combination of words in Thai and Filipino (Tagalog) meaning ‘fun’ and ‘chicken’. It’s actually pronounced with the two central letters reversed – ‘sah-nok’.
The map will be playable on test servers this Thursday, May 10 at 19:00 PDT / 22:00 EDT – that’s Friday May 11 at 03:00 BST – and will be available until Monday, May 14 at 04:00 PDT / 07:00 EDT / 12:00 BST. If you own PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds it should appear in your Steam library as ‘experimental server’.
Sanhok (previously Codename: Savage) will be open again for testing. Everyone who owns PUBG on Steam will have access to this round.
Test begins: Thursday May 10, 7pm PDT / Friday May 11, 4am CEST
Test ends: Monday May 14, 4am PDT / May 14, 1pm CEST pic.twitter.com/oKseINakzX
— PLAY BATTLEGROUNDS (@PUBG) May 7, 2018
We’ve learned a few details about Sanhok. It’s a more condensed map than Erangel and Miramar at only a quarter of the size, which should make for a more action-orientated game. There’s a cave system which players can parachute directly into, and the developers are implementing some major changes to how the Blue Zone operates. The developers say that Sanhok is “only a couple of months away”, so get the practice in while you can.
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Foxstart
Foxstart, also known as foxstart.com or uk.foxstart.com, is a search engine that can be accessed using any Internet browser. This search provider is also promoted by a computer program that installs an older version of the Mozilla Firefox browser, which also features the Foxstart extension. This new browser has Foxstart as the startup page; moreover, the browser contains multiple useless bookmarks and some advertising-supported browser add-ons. We recommend that you remove Foxstart from your computer because the search engine is powered by Google, which you can access freely as any other website.
Foxstart may seem to be a very useful search provider because the startup page of the engine features 11 tabs enabling you to access and search Google images, Google maps, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, and some other websites.
We advise you against using this search engine because it may provide you with some third-party advertisements. Moreover, Foxstart collect non-personally identifiable information, including your Internet service provider, browser type, operating system, and some other anonymous details. In order to monitor you, the search engine uses browser cookies. They are not capable of collecting personally identifiable information, but, if some adware program is present on the PC, it might be using other tracking techniques to collect information about you.
If you use your new Mozilla Firefox, it is very likely that you have already encountered some pop-up advertisements provided by Pricechop or any other adware program that is distributed alongside the deceptive Internet browser. It is important to note that the developers of Mozilla Firefox are not associated with the distribution of the modified version of the browser.
Many computer users complain about Foxstart and want to remove it from the computer, and we recommend that you take action right now if you want to be secure on the Internet. Below you will find instructions on how to remove Foxstart from the browser, but it is much better to remove that modified browser and install a clean one so that you can customize it in the way you like.
We recommend that you remove Foxstart using a spyware and malware removal tool because your computer has to be protected against malware and spyware threats. We recommend that you implement SpyHunter because this real-time security program easily fixes your browsers and, most important, safeguards the operating system against Trojan horses, browser hijackers, adware programs, ransomware infections, and many other threats.
How to remove Foxstart from Mozilla Firefox
Press Ctrl+Shift+A and click Extensions.
Remove the extension.
Close the tab and press Alt+T.
Click Options.
Change the home page on the General tab and click OK.
If you want to use a clean version of Mozilla Firefox, you should remove the browser and download a new one from the official website.
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Google Blocks Popular IPhone SMS App
By Owen Fletcher
Google will block an iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocked to download it.
The Infinite SMS app, which cost US$0.99 and let users send unlimited text messages from an iPod or iPhone, quickly became one of the 10 most-downloaded apps in the iPhone Store after its release last month, developer Inner Fence said in a statement on its Web site.
But the company stopped sales of the app on Monday after Google notified it that the program would be blocked, Inner Fence said.
"Google has claimed no grievance with Infinite SMS other than its success. Their given reason for the block isn't abuse or wrongdoing; it's that we brought too many users (and thus too much cost) to an experimental service," Inner Fence said.
The company said it built the application using an open protocol made available by Google for just such a purpose. "We never could have guessed that the two of us would write an app too big for Google," the company's founders said.
Google said it would continue to offer free SMS through Google Talk, but it will block Infinite SMS and other non-Google clients that use the service to deliver text messages starting on Wednesday.
"Infinite SMS is a third party app that has been using Google technology to provide free SMS to users, while we were paying for the cost of the text messages," a Google spokesman said via e-mail.
Infinite SMS was popular with iPod touch users who wanted to send text messages as if they had iPhones, according to Inner Fence.
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Thank Goodness for Used Video Games
By Matt Peckham
PCWorld | PT
To hear some publishers tell it, used game sales are the devil's work, and we--meaning us consumers--the devil's henchmen.
We're buying too many used games, you see, and in our patient thrift, we're destroying the very thing we're supposed to love.
Not the games themselves, mind you--first-class game development is flourishing with or without the World of Warcraft's and Call of Duty's--but, if we buy the corporate line, the ability of game publishers to reap increasingly massive revenues.
More 'Fearsome' Than Ever
The latest "uh-oh, used games" salvo comes from a UK-based analytics company, which just released a report fingering preowned game trading as "the driving force" behind year-on-year declines in UK new video game sales.
"The second hand games market is more fearsome now than it ever has been," concludes UK trade mag MCV, which noticed the study. "A decade ago the only outlets for second hand games was High Street specialists and the then burgeoning number of UK indies."
The trend's not new, of course, and it's ramping up on both sides of the pond. In July 2009, a Nielsen retail game sales report suggested US used game sales were cutting sharply into new ones.
"Used game purchases have picked up in 2009, and this has increasingly come at the expense of new games when looked at as a share of the total," said the Nielsen report. "Sales of used games increased by 31.9 percent compared to last year."
Stepping back to September 2008, Bungie (Halo) audio director Marty O'Donnell predicted smaller studios were in for bumpy financials given the thriving market for pre-owned games.
"It's hard to gauge the effect of used game sales on Halo, but I'm sure it's big," opined O'Donell. "Complaining about sales when you have a multi-million seller is somewhat difficult to justify, but it seems to me that the folks who create and publish a game shouldn't stop receiving income from further sales."
And Bethesda's (Oblivion, Fallout 3) Pete Hines recently put it this way: "We would prefer to participate in the sale of our products, especially when we spend years putting one of these things together and we have to continue to provide support for all these new customers without creating any new revenue from it at all."
So are these claims fair or foul?
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Hot ’Hoods
No matter what kind of buyer you are, one of these six ’hoods has a welcome mat with your name on it.
By Stacey Wilson With Brian Barker 5/19/2009 at 5:55pm Published in the April 2008 issue of Portland Monthly
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2. Most homes for sale over $500,000
NORTHWEST DISTRICT
Where the mountains meet metropolis lies the 900-acre flurry of activity that is the Northwest District. Amid upscale boutiques like Lush (where you can buy $40 bars of soap) and hip sipping spots like St Honoré Boulangerie (where you can pair a cup of French roast with French apple turnovers), you might encounter renegade types pedaling 10-foot-tall bikes, 8-year-olds hawking lemonade in front of gingerbread-esque Victorians, and well-heeled residents walking bichons frises like leashed accessories. But farther west, the bustle recedes as the crammed city streets slide into tree-lined avenues that amble westward toward 5,156-acre Forest Park. “If there’s one word to describe Northwest Portland, it’s ‘diverse,’” says longtime resident and Windermere real estate agent Dan Volkmer. “Expensive” might be another. Indeed, in 2007, this district boasted more homes priced over $500,000 than anywhere else in Portland. But with easy access to the streetcar, MAX and five bus routes, Northwest residents can save some cash at least in one department: gas. —Brian Barker
3. Best five-year price growth
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SAUVIE ISLAND
If there’s one reason the 632 full-time residents of this 26,000-acre island have seen their home values jump 129 percent since 2002, it’s this: Everyone wants a piece of Sauvie, and there aren’t many pieces to go around. In fact, most of the land is given over to large farm tracts (which explains the sparse, 0.1-person-per-acre population density), although you can also find floating homes, old farmhouses and a few condos—along with 12,000 acres of wildlife refuge lands—all 16.5 miles north of downtown. “You have privacy here, with more agricultural splendor than you could ever imagine,” says longtime resident and Windermere broker Cherie Sprando. Of course, during summer, things get more crowded as city dwellers flock to the island’s shores to swim in the Willamette. And when Sauvie’s namesake bridge, fresh from a $38 million makeover, reopens this fall, the visits are apt to increase. But for most of the year, the residents of this pastoral ’burb delight in life’s slower pace and a wealth of natural beauty—like, say, views of the mountains framed in their kitchen windows. —SW
4. Most homes for sale under $300,000
POWELL-GILBERT
"It has an undiscovered feel,” says architect Chuck Stalsberg of this working-class neighborhood near Gresham. That’s one way to describe what has traditionally been a rather gritty area. But times may be changing. (Hey, NoPo was once gritty too.) Stalsberg just finished building a few homes here, and in March, the Portland Development Commission and HOST Development completed a small collection of affordable townhouses and single-family homes at SE 118th and Schiller. In fact, this hotbed for first-time home buyers boasts the most homes under $300,000 in Portland. So what do you get for your money? Room to grow. Lots can run up to half an acre—about twice as big as the average city lot—and they’re mere biking distance to 603-acre Powell Butte Nature Park. Granted, your acreage might include a ranch-style home in need of renovation, and the nearest shopping center might be a strip mall, but if rising home values have priced you out of the market, Powellhurst-Gilbert offers an attractive alternative. But move fast: With a MAX line extension opening here in September ’09, the secret is bound to get out. —BB
Schools in Healy Heights give kids top-notch educations, without the private-school price tags.
5. Fewest days on the market (tie)
HOLLYWOOD/HEALY HEIGHTS
The consummate example of Old Portland’s marriage to urban renewal, Hollywood is teeming with residents eschewing Truman Show-esque suburban living in favor of a ’hood with equal parts beauty and bustle. A tiny hamlet unto itself (locals refer to their busy stretch of NE Sandy Blvd as “downtown”), the neighborhood boasts plenty of shops within walking distance (stroll to the farmers market or to the gloriously preserved, 1920s-era Hollywood Theatre) and sits near the almost 20-acre Grant Park. Add to that its close proximity to MAX, a nearly straight shot to I-5, and the leafy charm of Hollywood’s wide streets, and it’s easy to see why everyone wants to live here. Last year, houses averaged a mere 23 days on the market, 43 fewer than the city average, and according to former resident and real estate agent Jerry Poirier, the buyers aren’t coming just in pairs. “You literally cannot find a street here that isn’t full of kids and dogs,” he says. And, apparently, moving trucks. —SW
One of only three Portland neighborhoods whose elementary, middle and high schools consistently make straight A’s on the Oregon Department of Education’s yearly assessments, this West Hills community near Council Crest has become a destination for prosperous parents looking to give their kids top-notch educations, without the private-school price tags. Not that cost is really an issue: The average home here sells for a hefty $776,400. But even at those prices, Healy homes sat on the market for an average of only 23 days last year.
And not just because of the schools: Residents also enjoy a three-minute commute to downtown (no freeway required) and narrow, shaded streets lined with quaint 1950s ranch- and Craftsman-style homes. Plus, with zero violent crimes reported in 2007, Healy Heights is that rare, close-in ’hood where parents can rest easy about sending the kiddies out to play for those much-needed study breaks. —SW
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PoMo Picks
Top Things to Do This Weekend: Nov 30–Dec 3
Joe Biden! A Die Hard musical! Pere Ubu! Animal posters! The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus! The Builders and the Butchers! Buckle up, y'all.
By Rebecca Jacobson, Kayla Brock, Eleanor Van Buren, and Fiona McCann 11/30/2017 at 11:21am
Beth Van Hoesen's Bobcat is on show at the Portland Art Museum's new Kingdom Animalia exhibit.
Image: Courtesy Portland Art Museum
Elise Hooper
7:30 p.m. Thu, Powell's Books on Hawthorne, FREE
Forget about Louisa. Elise Hooper centers her debut novel, The Other Alcott, on the life of May Alcott, the lesser-known sister of the Little Women author (Amy March was based on May). Hopper will be joined in conversation with Zach Dundas, author of The Great Detective (and editor in chief of this very magazine).
7:30 p.m. Thu, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $25–325
Just when you think all hope is lost, Diamond Joe returns! The former vice president and (for some ... OK, many) walking reminder of happier times stops at the Schnitz to promote his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. Given his well-documented penchant for icy-cold treats, we see this as a sort of homecoming. Have one on us, Joe!
Peter Edelman
7:30 p.m. Fri, Powell's City of Books, FREE
In Not a Crime to be Poor, the Georgetown law professor and former aide to Robert F. Kennedy examines the insidiousness of cyclical poverty, and how the criminal justice system is stacked against those without financial means.
Die Hard: The Parody Musical
7 p.m. Fri–Sat, Funhouse Lounge, $15–85
Sometimes Bruce Willis just hits you like a wall of inspiration and you turn to Kickstarter. Funhouse Lounge artistic director Andy Barrett raised more than $6,000 to adapt Die Hard—which appropriately takes place on Christmas Eve—for the stage, with 15 original songs and (of course) a singing and dancing John McClane.
7:30 p.m. Thu–Sat, BodyVox Dance Center, $28–56
Motion capture: not just for Gollum anymore. The ever-inventive BodyVox—the company previously incorporated lasers and green screens in its work—harnesses that technology, along with live video and infrared sensors, for a new dance show.
Tennis with Wild Ones
8 p.m. Thu, Wonder Ballroom, $15–18
Husband-and-wife duo Tennis dropped their fourth album, Yours Conditionally, earlier this year—written on a five-month sailing trip, it's got a warm, lo-fi feel. Local dream-pop quintet Wild Ones opens.
8 p.m. Thu–Fri, Roseland Theater, SOLD OUT
The longtime Boston rockers’ 2016 album Head Carrier was recorded in just three weeks, but it proved the post-reunion Pixies could still produce serious spark. Catch them before they embark on a 2018 tour with Weezer.
Mo Troper
8 p.m. Fri, The Know, $7
Mo Troper gives elaborate power pop some acerbic lyrical pep in Exposure & Response, his anthemic, throwback sound aimed at contemporary targets.
The Most Wonderful Season
8 p.m. Fri–Sat, 3 p.m. Sun, Newmark Theatre, $18–50
You can simultaneously kick off the holiday season and banish your 2017 blues at the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus’s annual all-singing, some-dancing event, The Most Wonderful Season. Research—fine, personal experience—shows it is physically impossible not to be buoyed by a PGMC show, and their holiday spectacle is the most life-affirmingly schmaltzy of them all.
9 p.m. Sat, Star Theater, $23
The art-punk trailblazers—founded by the notoriously prickly David Thomas in Cleveland in 1975—perform tunes from their latest album, 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo.
The Builders and the Butchers
9 p.m. Sat, Doug Fir Lounge, $14–18
The twangy Portland folk-rockers manage to shirk aw-shucks earnestness, thanks to their penchant for apocalyptic lyrics and front man Ryan Sollee’s nasal yowl.
CLOSING Psychic Utopia
7:30 p.m. Thu–Sat, 2 p.m. Sun, New Expressive Works, $15–25
In the 1980s, thousands descended upon a dusty patch of Central Oregon to build an alternative society. They were followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian guru who preached a cocktail of sexual liberation, impending nuclear catastrophe, and vigorous meditation. Now Hand2Mouth, known for inventive, vividly staged work, uses that episode as a jumping-off point for Psychic Utopia, a performance exploring intentional communities and the lengths to which people will go for a fuller, freer life. Director Jonathan Walters calls it a “mind experiment” for 2017. Read on for more about the show.
OPENING Pericles Wet
7:30 p.m. Fri–Sat, 2 p.m. Sun, Artists Repertory Theatre, $20–30
In this Portland Shakespeare Project world premiere, local playwright Ellen Margolis puts a modern spin on the Bard’s fable of secrecy, guilt, and incest.
CLOSING Lucinda Parker
11 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thu–Fri, 11 a.m–5 p.m. Sat, Russo-Lee Gallery, FREE
The longtime local artist—she came to Portland in the 1960s—presents Knowledge Is Not Our Enemy, a collection of paintings of Mount Hood and other Pacific Northwest landscapes, rendered with abstract forms and rich, layered color.
CLOSING Sylwia Kowalczyk and Benoit Fournier
Noon–5 p.m. Thu–Sun, Blue Sky Gallery, FREE
In Babylon, Benoit Fournier juxtaposes mise-en-scènes and experiments with red hues. Meanwhile, Sylwia Kowalczyk, a Polish native, rips photographs printed on paper and rearranges the pieces to form altered figures, which she then re-photographs. The title of her exhibit, Lethe, takes its name from the river in Purgatory that cleanses Dante in the Divine Comedy.
OPENING Kingdom Animalia
10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sat–Sun, Portland Art Museum, FREE–$19.99
This exhibit of prints, drawings, and posters—from Dürer and Picasso to regional artists Beth Van Hoesen and Frank Boyden—spans 500 years, showing animals as specimen, symbol, and everything in between.
OPENING Laura Berger
1–6 p.m. Thu–Sat, Stephanie Chefas Projects, FREE
The Chicago-based artist’s Here With You is an exploration of connectedness, with naked figures swirling in acrylic and gouache paintings.
Laura Berger
1:00 PM FREE Stephanie Chefas Projects
The Chicago-based artist's Here With You is an exploration of connectedness, with naked figures swirling in acrylic and gouache paintings.
10:00 AM FREE–$19.99 Portland Art Museum
This exhibit of prints, drawings, and posters—from Dürer and Picasso to regional artists Beth Van Hoesen and Frank Boyden—spans 500 years, showing animals as...
Sylwia Kowalczyk and Benoit Fournier
12:00 PM FREE Blue Sky Gallery
In Babylon, Benoit Fournier juxtaposes mise-en-scènes and experiments with red hues. Meanwhile, Sylwia Kowalczyk, a Polish native, rips photographs printed o...
Lucinda Parker
11:00 AM FREE Russo-Lee Gallery
The longtime local artist—she came to Portland in the 1960s—presents Knowledge Is Not Our Enemy, a collection of paintings of Mount Hood and other Pacific No...
Pericles Wet
$20–30 Artists Repertory Theatre
Psychic Utopia
$20–25 New Expressive Works
In the 1980s, thousands descended upon a dusty patch of Central Oregon to build an alternative society. They were followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an...
The Builders and the Butchers (December 2017)
$14–18 Doug Fir Lounge
Pere Ubu (December 2017)
$23 Star Theater
The art-punk trailblazers—founded by the notoriously prickly David Thomas in Cleveland in 1975—perform tunes from their latest album, 20 Years In A Montana M...
$18–50 Newmark Theatre
You can simultaneously kick off the holiday season and banish your 2017 blues at the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus’s annual all-singing, some-dancing event, The ...
$7 The Know
8:00 PM SOLD OUT Roseland Theater
The longtime Boston rockers' 2016 album Head Carrier was recorded in just three weeks, but it proved the post-reunion Pixies could still produce serious spar...
$15–18 Wonder Ballroom
Husband-and-wife duo Tennis dropped their fourth album, Yours Conditionally, earlier this year—written on a five-month sailing trip and then self-produced, i...
$28–56 BodyVox Dance Center
Motion capture: not just for Gollum anymore. The ever-inventive BodyVox—the company previously incorporated lasers and green screens in its work—harnesses th...
$15-85 Funhouse Lounge
Sometimes Bruce Willis just hits you like a wall of inspiration and you turn to Kickstarter. Funhouse Lounge artistic director Andy Barrett raised more than ...
FREE Powell's City of Books
In Not a Crime to be Poor, the Georgetown law professor and former aide to Robert F. Kennedy examines the insidiousness of cyclical poverty, and how the crim...
Editor’s Pick $25–325 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Just when you think all hope is lost, Diamond Joe returns! The former vice president and (for some ... OK, many) walking reminder of happier times stops at t...
FREE Powell's Books on Hawthorne
Forget about Louisa. Elise Hooper centers her debut novel, The Other Alcott, on the life of May Alcott, the lesser-known sister of the Little Women author (A...
A New Portland Show Searches for Utopia Onstage
10/16/2017 By Rebecca Jacobson
Top Things to Do This Weekend: June 6–9
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Top Things to Do This Weekend: June 13–16
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The power of gullibility
Maureen Dowd's column this morning, which as I write is being praised on CNN's "State of the Union" by none other than that right-wing demagogue of smugness, Bill Bennett, makes a profound but also profoundly inadvertent and profoundly sad point: President Obama is too smart for the American electorate.
He and "His inner circle believed too much in the power of the Aura and in protecting the Brand," writes Dowd. "They didn’t think they needed to sell anything or fight back when the crazies started sliming them.... Obama ... missed the moment in August of 2009 when Sarah Palin and the Tea Party got oxygen with their loopy rants on death panels. It never occurred to the Icon that such wildness and gullibility would trump lofty rationality."
I, and I'm sure Obama as well, couldn't agree more. But in his defense I can say what he can't: He (and I know I did) misinterpreted the 2008 election as a broad re-endorsement of, and thus a return to, rationality. He had deeply invested in a new, soft post-partisanship whose chief objective was pragmatic problem-solving; he indeed believed that "lofty rationality," given the titanic problems we all faced, would trump "gullibility."
He trusted that the American electorate had grown up, that it had matured, that it would no longer opt for the shinest baubles tendered by those tarnished demagogues of the right. His confidence was misplaced. Within weeks of his inauguration the GOP began resolidifying its rabid base through amplified alarms about Obama's "socialist" agenda. Hence center-right independents began harboring doubts.
Meanwhile, insatiable movement progressives also began doing their petty, benighted and immature best to cripple Obama early on. "This is 'Change we can believe in'? Pshaw. Just more of the same." Although an impressive 75 percent of rank-and-file liberals have held their ground in support of Obama, movement progressives' pummeling message in the service of the far right began taking its toll on center-left independents. Hey, they're right, thought these perhaps lower-information voters -- Where, after a mere 18 months or so, is the organic Change we voted for?
In short, Obama has been squeezed from both ideological extremes, paradoxically leaving himself and his Congressional allies most vulnerable in the essentially non-ideological middle, where national elections are won or lost.
Being a supremely rational man in search of a new kind of rational politics -- which, again, Obama thought had been confirmed in November, 2008 -- it likely never occurred to the president that his in-office political strategy would soar so far above the street-fight mentality of both far left and far right that the latter's fog of war would obscure it, in the vast middle.
Obama believed in the power of rationality. He thought we had bought into it, too. He was wrong. The power of gullibility is as mighty as ever.
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Blind dates
Perhaps it's their unshakable sense of moral superiority, or maybe it's some lamentable need to prove themselves indefatigably subversive and thus ideologically purest, but whatever the cause, the "professional left" is a self-destructive, stumblebumbling gang of Dudley Do-Right clowns who simply don't understand coalition or pluralistic politics, which is to say, American politics.
"[W]hile White House officials Thursday described Obama’s appearance on the [Daily Show] an air-clearing 'success,' " writes Politico, "it was also stark proof that Obama can’t expect the same got-your-back support from the progressive media as George W. Bush enjoyed from conservative TV and radio hosts."
The "progressive media" are, you see, the noblest of the noble and brimming with self-righteous integrity, which means they're willing to assist, through their unremitting assaults on center-left pols who must operate in our real electoral universe of 40 percent conservatives and 35 percent moderates, in the return of another Bush presidency or Gingrich Congress.
"The president himself gets a little cranky at the idea he's disappointed the left," wrote Keith Olbermann to Politico. " 'I have suggested to the White House that some maintenance of progressives on their turf would at least counteract this GOP/mainstream media theme that' the White House has stopped caring about the party’s progressive wing." Say what? The theme of unrequited love and cold embraces spews forth from the "GOP/mainstream media"? Is Olbermann joking? kidding us? kidding himself?
Let's cue the "fighting" Adam Green, founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, to make my point:
"President Obama could have fought for and passed the public option [and] a more effective stimulus," Green told Politico, "and ... he refused to step on Republican toes, pre-emptively caved to senators with no mandate to oppose him and refuses to acknowledge his mistakes as Democratic candidates across the country face an uninspired electorate as a result."
Magical thinking -- "could have fought for and passed...." That's all Mr. Green and others of his strategically amateurish ilk have to offer, in addition to magical conclusions:
“Democrats need to learn the right lesson from this year's election, which is, voters will show up if you fight harder for a popular progressive agenda."
My dear Mr. Green, it evidently requires a "progressive conservative," as he has called himself, to explain the facts of political life to you. From today's NY Times, I give you the serendipitous David Brooks:
"[T]he fact is that Obama will win 99.9 percent of the liberal vote in 2012, and in a presidential year, liberal turnout will surely be high. On the other hand, he cannot survive the defection of the independents. In 2008, independent voters preferred Democrats by 8 percentage points. Now they prefer Republicans by 20 points, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll."
As for what all that spells, see "Music Man" and pool tables.
Memo to movement progressives: We live in a complex nation, overrepresented in traditional conservative thought and moderate temperament. Progress is, and always has been, incremental. Obama comprehends that. You don't.
Of what possible benefit is Kendrick Meek's tenacity? Put another way, to whose definite benefit is Kendrick Meek's tenacity?
Meek, reports Politico, "has failed to broaden his appeal around the state and is mired in third place in most public polls, with a survey today showing him with just 15 percent of the vote. His withdrawal, polls suggest, would throw core Democratic voters to the moderate governor, rocking a complicated three-way contest and likely throwing the election to Crist."
So, "Bill Clinton sought to persuade Rep. Kendrick Meek to drop out of the race for Senate during a trip to Florida last week."
As I wrote on Oct. 7: "It now seems a) irreversible that Democratic senatorial candidate Kendrick Meek will finish last and thus b) advisable that he should quit the race assuming c) Independent candidate Charlie Crist promises to caucus with Democrats, all of which d) would stop GOP candidate Marco Rubio in his tea partying tracks....
"The transcendent goal here ... is to stop one of the tea party’s golden boys."
Mr. Meek, your determination, while admirable, is also destructive. Move aside. Now.
Lunatic alert
From my inbox, the latest incoherence, hysteria, and, just in case, excuse-making, from Tea Party/TeaParty.org:
Arizona and Colorado are reporting massive voter fraud perpetrated by the Marxist groups Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona. Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce writes: "I also understand that these 2 groups have signed up 20,000 states wide and they have requested that 45,000 be put on the permanent early ballot. If 65% of these last minute registration forms in Yuma are invalid, which may be more as they are still checking the rest, then what is the percentages of invalid in Maricopa, Pima and other counties?"
Aided by Socialist Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and a George Soros funded group, WND [WorldNetDaily] advises that poll watchers are being threatened with, amongst other things, Obama's DOJ: "Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who was seen inside the polling location electioneering and threatening to turn a poll-watcher's name to the Department of Justice for voter intimidation." Note: It appears that Michele Obama is not the only Marxist Democrat who is now allowed to illegally electioneer....
Voting machines in Nevada are being reported for automatically checking Harry Reid's name. The Washington Examiner reports: "Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked. Ferrara said she wasn't alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.
'Something's not right,' Ferrara said. 'One person that's a fluke. Two, that's strange. But several within a five minute period of time - that's wrong'." Note: Oh and by the way, guess who is the official technical organization for the voting machines. Why, it's Obama's bought and paid for SEIU....
Again folks - and I cannot stress this enough - We-the-People MUST vote in unprecedented numbers in order to counter the all-out attack now being waged against us by Dictator-in-Chief Obama's government. Our would-be slave masters are proving the point - beyond any and all doubt or question - that they WILL do anything and stop at nothing to stay in power in order to bleed every last drop of resources, blood, freedoms and liberty from us. It's now or never.
An Appauling vision
Have you ever wondered what a tea party-ish plan -- if I may use that noun in relation to a brutal ideology of nihilistic anarchy -- for W.'s Depression would have looked like? In an interviewwith Hayekian serf Ron Paul, The Atlantic's Joshua Green satisfies our wonder:
"You would not increase spending, you would not increase taxes, you would not bail out anybody," said the Texas congressman. "You would have bankruptcy, liquidation of debt, and [you’d] wipe the books clean so everybody can go back to work."
And therein lies the appeal to a growing number of dazed American voters, as well as an elongated branch of the tea party's genealogy. As Barry Goldwater preached in his 1964 presidential run, which previewed the libertarian message from the coming New Right: "The big trouble with the so-called liberal today is that he doesn't understand simplicity"; that is, liberalism won't accept that there are indeed simple answers to complex problems. (When Goldwater first uttered this on the campaign trail, the NY Times' Tom Wicker opined that he spoke as a "child" would.)
Green -- gently dancing around Paul's hands-off voodoo -- does his level-headed best to point out the most recent, sadly complex Keynesian record: "Most experts" -- did you hear the soft throat-clearing? -- "think the government’s intervention [of 'deficit-funded fiscal stimulus, bailouts, and a broad easing of credit'] was, technically speaking, successful (although probably too small). A recent study by the economists Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi concluded that it likely prevented a depression and saved 8.5 million jobs. A Congressional Budget Office study reached a similar conclusion. In other words, the intervention validated Keynes."
That of course is the real world. "But lingering high unemployment and economic weakness," notes Green, "along with the relentless Republican effort to undermine Obama, have led most people to conclude the opposite, that Keynesian intervention failed.... Tea Party outrage appears to have ended the Keynesian consensus that had obtained since the Great Depression."
Yet there's another, far deeper consensus that "tea party outrage" seems to have ended: our once general agreement that facts matter.
This national pathology of denial has been long in the making, though; tea partyers and their ideological spokesmen such as Ron Paul have but yet again capitalized on it. In rebuffing OMB Director David Stockman's warning that he couldn't cut taxes, increase defense spending and balance the budget, Reagan had absorbed Goldwater's exhortations to shun complexity. Well, let's just see how it goes, Reagan, almost word for word, instructed Stockman. The nation cheered. Reagan then ignored the factual outcome -- those predicted, massive deficits -- of wishful, ideological economics. From there we ultimately traveled to Dick Cheney's defensive rumination that "Deficits don't matter." The nation cheered again.
In a way, deficits didn't matter -- not, that is, during his boss' reign. W., Dick & Co. simply dumped them on the succeeding administration. And now the dumpers at large are lecturing the dumpees in office on the apocalyptic evils of those deficits that didn't matter then, but could actually benefit us now.
For decades we've been entombed in the Goldwater-Reagan-Bush-Paul-Tea Party's upside-down bubble of blind ideology, in which complexity is foe and facts are nuisance. Just "wipe the books clean so everybody can go back to work," urges Paul. Simple as that.
President Obama's greatest challenge over the next two years? To somehow simply reintroduce the American electorate to the complexities we face. And God knows he should have plenty of time to do just that. Except for taking a moment now and then to veto some monumentally inane piece of legislation passed by the incoming Keystone Cops of Congress, he'll have the bully pulpit from which to educate -- and it seems he now appreciates just how badly that pulpit is needed.
Exhausting, isn't it?
Barack Obama "has been one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times."
That, as the Post's Ruth Marcus notes this morning, was the "deranged" or "dangerous" California Congressman Darrell Issa speaking to Rush Limbaugh about a week ago. Marcus suspects danger more than derangement: "When Bloomberg's Al Hunt called Issa on his hyperbole, the congressman hemmed, hawed and brought forth a mouse: in-sourcing. Seriously. In-sourcing, the practice of shifting work from private contractors to government."
Issa, who will assume the chairmanship of the House oversight committee that traffics in phantom scandals, has also concluded that "the administration's dangling of a job offer to Rep. Joe Sestak to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary is 'a crime' and an 'impeachable' offense, with an ensuing White House 'coverup' reminiscent of Watergate." Again, seriously.
But now for something -- seemingly -- completely different. Yesterday the Times' Bob Herbert rightly bemoaned: "What has always struck me ... is that there is a desperate need to improve the nation’s infrastructure and a desperate need for the jobs and enhanced economic activity that would come from sustained, long-term infrastructure investment. But somehow the leadership and the will to move forward on the scale that is needed are missing."
So what's the implied relationship (see above, "seemingly") between Maurcus' piece on dangerous Issa and Herbert's on intelligent spending? Exhaustion, I'd say. Exhaustion on both the writers' and readers' part. Wholesale intellectual and emotional exhaustion.
Sometimes, as I'm either reading a moderate-to-liberal commentary or writing one, it blasts me but good: My God, I've been reading, writing, this exact item for years -- the GOP is verifiably dangerous, provably deranged and empirically irresponsible; the nation needs to get in gear, to get moving, to reject fear, to embrace Reason. And the resulting sensation is, to repeat in a word, exhaustion.
When children learn their ABCs, they "get it." They get it and move on. But we adults seem to have a great deal of trouble in learning our governmental ABCs. We endlessly read or write identical columns on what's gobsmackingly stupid or sublimely sensible; then we promptly march en masse to the polls and ratify the former.
I don't mean to sound petulant, or worse, naive. It's just that all this recurrent buffoonery is so goddamn exhausting.
Just ran across this limerick in James Joyce's Ulysses, which I found hilariously relevant. (Note: Joyce's "Joe Miller," according to Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June of 1876 -- yeah, this intrigue required a bit of online research -- "was more or less, in some sense or other, the origin of the jest-book named after him," hence the limerick's "the" Joe Miller.)
There's a ponderous pundit MacHugh
Who wears goggles of ebony hue.
As he mostly sees double
To wear them why trouble?
I can't see the Joe Miller. Can you?
Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did, although when I start posting items like that, you know this campaign season is growing far too long.
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Bring 'em on
We don't, but procurer John Boehner will deserve every excruciating moment of the hydra-headed clusterfuck he's about to suffer. The upside for us, however, is that consequent voter backlash should arrive in a 2012 torrent that'll make this year's seem like a drizzle.
Politico previews the wicked fun: Rep. Steve "King and allies such as [Michele] Bachmann will push their leadership into what could be an uncomfortable confrontation with the White House, specifically on health care, threatening government shutdown if they don’t get their way."
And then there are the now-inevitable newcomers: "Many of these candidates are people who are new to public life," said Republican Congressman Peter Roskam. "So they will have an expectation of 'I said this in the campaign, and I’m going to do this in Congress.' "
Boehner, Cantor & Co. has had a high old time of it egging on tea-party challengers and whipping up mass ill will toward all things Obamian. But today's cranky public sentiment will morph into stupendous outrage once the GOP's promised realities set in: the House's (attempted) re-unleashing of health-insurance companies to summarily deny coverage or cancel policies; the House's cruel interruption of extended unemployment benefits; the House's idiotic contraction of government spending in a depressed, demandless economy; a ghastly government shutdown in which Treasury can't cut Social Security checks and Medicare can't process Medicare claims (hello, all you older, angry white voters); and so bloody on.
Boehner already foresees that his choices will be those of Hobson's. Even his passably moderate House members who appreciate the immense stupidity of tea-party ideology will also espy a troubled 2012 primary, should they make any attempts at rational governance -- at moving the country forward. The House GOP will, therefore, collapse under the obesity of its own counterproductive fraudulence.
That Boehner has made a Faustian bargain is perhaps the stuff of conspicuity and doubtlessly harmful to sound governance, but it sure will be fun to watch him and his party over the next two years go up in flames.
The Dems' mess
David Brooks nails one out of three reasons he offers for Congressional Democrats' brief reign. I quote (almost) in extenso:
Democrats and their media enablers have paid lavish attention to Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino, even though these two Republican candidates have almost no chance of winning. That’s because it feels so delicious to feel superior to opponents you consider to be feeble-minded wackos.... Similarly, the Democrats and their enablers have paid lavish attention to the Tea Party this year. It’s nice to feel more sophisticated than those hordes of Middle Americans, who say silly things like "Get government off my Medicare." On the other hand, Democrats have paid little attention to the crucial group in this election -- the independent moderates who supported President Obama in 2008 but flocked away during the health care summer of 2009 and now support the GOP by landslide proportions.
Naturally I say Brooks nails it because on this point I agree wholeheartedly. But try disputing it.
True, Democrats' "media enablers" have also devoted considerable time to, say, "feeble-minded whacko" Sharron Angle, who has more than just a chance at winning. But mousy evolution-deniers and businessman mobsters and wannabe Nazi officers and violent Texas revolutionaries who, in the grander scheme of this election, are utterly insignificant, have carried the entertainment-over-information day. On the other hand Marco Rubio, who couldn't be more wrong on virtually every issue, is polished and articulate in his stunning wrongheadedness, thus not as laughable, thus not as ratings-attractive, thus largely ignored by left-leaning media, and thus leading both the Independent and Democrat by wide and embarrassing margins.
From there, Brooks starts hammering only his thumbs. He sarcastically assaults the verifiable proposition that "Democrats are lagging this year because the country appears incapable of appreciating the grandeur of their accomplishments," and with far too-clever Machiavellian mischief he toys with and belittles "the menace of secret money." (Go ahead and laugh, Mr. Brooks, but now that we have office-supply sports stadiums, next we'll have Chevron and Bank of America voting stations.)
To make his points, Brooks judiciously neglects mentioning the extraordinary role of malicious Republican obstructionism (except in one minor instance of sarcasm, again) in bringing effective economic cures to an unpardonable halt; nor does he even peek into the democratic abyss of Republican demagoguery-cum-policy.
Bu that's OK, really, since conservative Brooks' larger, initial point holds, I think: Democrats and their media enablers have done a prosecutable job of message malpractice for nearly two years, and now they're paying for it.
There's no dang fence
"No matter what the outcome is, this" -- the unholy deluge of big, bullying, outside money in the midterms -- "is a wake-up call,” said a Democratic official to Politico.
I'm certainly no knee-jerk advocate of Constitutional amendments, but in the matter of campaign finance I see no other alternative. Pass a limiting law and greedy or desperate pols find a way to circumvent it; pass a stricter law and some delusional handful of robed cowboys finds a way to explode it. The difficulty of fine-tuning legislation with respect to campaign finance is akin to the censorious nightmare we would have experienced in the way of free speech had the First Amendment not been so absolutist.
Public financing. Period. No exceptions. No escape clauses. Otherwise, no equal players.
Crazy gets a vote, too
Remember the "Gay '90s"? The gay 1890s, that is? Of course you don't. But neither would those Americans who lived through that decade, were they still living today, because the '90s were anything but joyous and carefree. It was a decade of unprecedented economic depression, corporate hegemony, labor unrest, plunging commodity prices and two-party dominance, all of which ignited what is generically known today as the "populist movement" -- the late 19th-century's Tea Party.
Although Populism was hijacked by the bizarre economic theory of inflation-on-demand through the "free" and unlimited coinage of silver, many of its political goals -- e.g., railroad regulation, an income tax, direct election of U.S. senators -- were not only sensible, they were adopted and enacted by the next century's Progressives. At the time, though, the populist impulse was feared by many as the undoing of America. Its often eloquent leaders were loud, aggressive and rabble-rousing; yet with economic recovery, they and their "grassroots" movement vanished as suddenly as they had appeared.
Such is the promise of historical perspective with respect to the shockingly vulgar Tea Party, offered this morning in the Times' "Room for Debate" by political historians Alan Brinkley and Robert Dallek. Writes the former: "[B]ad economic times always leads to unusual politics: popular movements, angry at whatever centers of power people blame for their problems, turn to scapegoats (immigrants, radicals and other unpopular groups)." Writes Dallek: "While Tea Party candidates seem poised to win some national, state and local elections, they are unlikely, if history is any guide, to be more than a passing phenomenon.... [O]ne can well imagine that as the economy improves, the protests will subside and the Tea Party will be remembered not as an enduring part of American political culture but as a summer storm that left a small mark on the country’s political history."
There is one immense, modern divergence, however, as noted by Brinkley: "What’s different today, I think, is the way in which once marginal ideas and movements have become enormously well known through modern communications. People angry and disaffected used to have nowhere to go. Now they can join with millions of others to create something very much like a movement through the Internet and other new forms of communication."
I endorse Brinkley's worry, which is undeniably legitimate: today we've the scum of wild Internet rumors, Fox News' 24/7 malicious propaganda, the scurrilous venom of radio's Limbaughs and Becks, as well as the "news"-consuming public's devaluation of old-school print journalism; all of them paradoxically compounded, in my view, by MSNBC's and progressive Web sites' relentless fearmongering of the radical right as the coming and permanent majority.
On the other hand, prior to all our modern communications outlets, Populism's message of authentically loony economic remedies also swept through, especially, the American South and the Plains states. Lunacy always seems to find a way.
In general, the Brinkley-Dallek thesis of cautious historical perspective holds. The watchwords are "Don't panic"; tea parties in times of economic distress have always been with us. Their presence and influence are painful -- about that, there's no doubt -- but in a representative democracy, crazy gets a vote, too.
Poppycock & Gibberish
On “This Week” this morning, George Will once again monotonously defended the obscene levels of special-interest money in politics by noting that Procter & Gamble spends more on advertising its assorted consumer products than Americans invest in electing their constitutional representatives.
Fair enough. Yet Will never compares the relative kick of each dollar spent; that is, P&G refrains -- because of government regulation -- from advertising that Olay will cure skin cancer, that Head and Shoulders will restore your thinning hair, or that eating Pringles and only Pringles five times a day promotes weight loss.
There is, as we unfortunately know all too well, no such constraint in political advertising. This year any anonymous guttersnipe with a spare million can tell tens of thousands of voters that his or her representative is, say, a pedophiliac socialist hellbent on death-paneling grandma, and it’s all perfectly legal.
Dear Mr. Will: Is one man always one vote, and is one dollar always just a dollar?
They're back, of course
This morning when I saw the Times' front-page tease for Nate Silver's latest political cryptology -- "Don't Call It a Comeback?" -- I assumed that Silver was referencing the GOP's rather excellent chances, at least in the House, of achieving the status quo ante; that is, that what seems like 2010's roaring Republican comeback is actually just the rubble's resettling, to pre-2006 days.
Instead, Silver's point (although I've no doubt he agrees with the above) was that at this late stage of any campaign season, "rumors of a candidate’s demise -- or comeback -- may be greatly exaggerated, given how little time there remains to make up even fairly small polling deficits."
Point taken. The other, anticipated point, however, awaited only my next click: Politico's main and serendipitous headline, "The new political map: Welcome to 2004." There, in somewhat more formal language, Jonathan Martin and Alex Isenstadt improved on my rubble:
Based on the state of the political map two weeks out from the election, the famed red vs. blue model that followed the 2004 presidential race appears to be returning to shape.... Even if Democrats are able to prevent a total wipeout, it’s likely that this year’s election will mark a return to the familiar political universe that characterized the decade before 2006 when the GOP controlled swaths of politically conservative and moderate parts of the country.
In other words, Democrats' exploratory outposts of 2006 and 2008 simply could not hold, and what they're now experiencing isn't so much an invasion as a revanchist maneuver. As long as Democrats had George W. Bush in office to singularly demonstrate the horrors of contemporary GOP management, they were safe in unsafe districts at almost any speed. But to voters in center-right districts, the Bush era and its attendent atrocities against sound governance are as good as ancient history.
This is well known. What is commonly forgotten or haughtily dismissed by Democrats' rather narrow progressivist base, however, is that progressive Congressional Democrats are hardly ever caught in the electoral crossfire; they represent relatively safe progressive districts -- which, naturally, is why they got themselves elected in the first place -- where Republican candidates possess little chance of success. When the party, then, as the governing majority, moves to the left, it is incumbent Democratic moderates from swing districts who pay for any backlash.
What has always astounded me, though, is that movement progressives always celebrate incumbent progressive victories in purifying, weeding-out elections as proof that the progressive message holds the key to overall victory. This, it scarcely needs to be added, is a precise and destructive misreading of virtually every ideological signal that swing-district voters are emitting.
Now, some progressive readers are bound to conclude from this that mine is an argument against progressive goals, which would be but another misreading. It is, rather, merely a notation of uncomfortable political truths and realities -- the very ones our progressive president, in the formulation of policymaking, has had to contend with -- which movement progressives have an insufferable habit of ignoring.
Joe Miller, regulation hound
Come on, Joe, where's that famous Wild West spirit of yours?
Alaska Republican Joe Miller slapped the cash-flush Super PAC supporting Sen. Lisa Murkowski with a Federal Election Commission complaint Wednesday.... Miller is charging that the group's relationship with Murkowski is inappropriate, saying the senator is "bought and paid for" by the Alaska Native corporations that make up Alaskans Standing Together.
Is 'up' the only direction left?
Seven hundred dollars later -- all of it expended the incurably optimistic American way: on credit -- I discovered that my prolonged computer problems could have been fixed by a mere $21 hardware upgrade. And so it goes.
At any rate (and I trust the pricey yet wholly unnecessary ones are behind me for a while, although I was proud indeed to add to the economy's recovery through free-market waste, fraud and abuse), I wanted to highlight a recent, brain-curdling passage from NY Times Magazine that assesses with fairness, I think, the truly wretched state of our union:
White House aides wonder aloud whether it is even possible for a modern president to succeed, no matter how many bills he signs. Everything seems to conspire against the idea: an implacable opposition with little if any real interest in collaboration, a news media saturated with triviality and conflict, a culture that demands solutions yesterday, a societal cynicism that holds leadership in low regard.
Do I hear any objections? That's what I thought. The Nays have it.
I resist, however, capitulating to the voices of irreversible doom.
True, I'm as skeptical as any White House aide that Obama will manage to unseat the above quadrumvirate of mindless partisanship, triviality, unthoughtfulness and cynicism. But look at it this way: He'll have six more years to try, since even this disreputable electorate, according to virtually every poll, isn't so imbecile as to trust any of the current crop of GOP dunces or demagogues with chief executive power. There are, it seems, limits to our descent.
It's also true that Republican reactionaryism is outsizedly popular at the moment, yet economic recovery (yesterday's solutions tomorrow) will work to circumscribe that abnormality. And remember, as for the longer term, the contemporary GOP in all of its inglorious manifestations is the subject of a death-watch: every day the inexorable march of America's diversifying demographics puts it deeper in an electoral hole.
As for "societal cynicism" about leadership? That may not be entirely regrettable. Carlyle-esque "Great Man" theories and interpretations of history have always circulated excessively in America's political culture; perhaps it's time for at least a minor correction.
Finally there's the news media's obsession with "triviality and conflict." I could, I suppose, here devote thousands of words to limitless examples and some scholarly analysis of their whys and wherefores. But, in the end, we'd still be left with that one, ineradicable conclusion: Conflict sells, and as long as news -- especially cable news -- is hustled as an entertainment commodity, there'll be no end to the media's groveling. Short, that is, of more mature consumers. And to that we can only say: Good luck.
Thus a wretched state we're in indeed; yet, in the overall picture, there lie sound reasons for hope.
I am still experiencing computer problems. After several weeks of consultation with technical "experts," I believe the root issue has finally been identified and I'm now just one (more) expense away from resolving it.
The only other thing I've learned from this episode is that computer techs, by and large, are complete idiots.
Journalism gets an incomplete
Ah, the old stiff upper lip, screwed into place by outright terror and another paycheck: "The more voters have gotten to know House Republicans’ fatally flawed candidates, including those with ties to organized crime, a Nazi enthusiast, and another being sued for attempted rape and sexual assault, the less there is to like," said DCCC's Ryan Rudominer to Politico. "So for all the Republicans’ popping the champagne and the countless millions spent in secret funds from shady right wing groups, they haven’t been able to close the deal in their targeted races, and that’s why Democrats will win."
Although Rudominer's premise was exceptionally gentle -- the less there is to like? -- his conclusion was ruggedly delusional, which is, however, what he gets paid for generating. The midterms may not be as apocalyptic for Dems as many observers were calculating just days ago, but the Cook Political Report remains pessimistic: "This year is shaping up to be something of a repeat of the 52-seat House and eight-seat Senate rout of Democrats in 1994." The Rothenberg Report essentially concurs, predicting a "likely Republican gain of 40-50 seats."
Politico gravely speculates on the causations of such vast voter dissatisfaction with the Congressional majority, citing the usual suspects of "unpopular legislative votes" (such as health-care reform, demanded by huge pluralities for decades), "the quality of opposition" (you know, rehabilitated witches, inarticulate Asian women who look remarkably WASPish, arresting First Amenders, those "with ties to organized crime, a Nazi enthusiast," etc.), "the partisan breakdown of the districts" (think unevolved knuckles, think dragging), "or the huge sums of money dedicated to Democratic defeat" (think Gilded Age, think William McKinley, think Mark Hanna).
A nice, respectably comprehensive list, no? Politico covered all the bases, yes?
Not quite, for the list omits possibly the most worrisome causation of all, the one the Founders feared most and seems destined to further retard America's (remaining) potential greatness: voter ignorance, resulting in a gross susceptibility to demagogically pain-free cures.
The empirical particulars of the American electorate's growing remoteness from enlightened democracy are far too numerous to even survey in a mere post; but that's OK, because you're already familiar with the disquieting evidence of our politically out-of-touch populace. From all too widespread beliefs in government "death panels" to intractable doubts about, say, the president's true faith, we've an electorate, in large part, that's either irredeemably ineducable or just downright stupid.
It's crowning achievement in transcendent dunderheadedness, though, will be to put those who screwed us of late right back in power -- after the screwers have made no misrepresentations whatsoever to the screwees about how they're going to screw us again in precisely the same position: brace yourself, they promise, for the repeat debaucheries of unregulated markets and supply-sided inequality.
So come on, Politico, and you other journalistic organs of political objectivity. Be complete when composing at least your postmortem list behind our midterm folly: to it, add popular stupidity.
The other tale of "Tales of the Tea Party"
Like a cat with an embarrassment of rodentlike riches, the Times' Ross Douthat this morning paws liberals' discombobulation over the Tea Party movement's success.
"[T]he liberal mind is desperate for a narrative, a storyline, something to ease the pain of losing to a ragtag band of right-wing populists," writes Douthat, who then relates and topples a few floated narratives, from racism's prevalence to what Douthat sees as "the most persuasive liberal storyline" -- that of Tea Partiers as entitlement hypocrites (i.e., the "Don't touch my Medicare" thing).
Parenthetically, my favorite from Douthat's list: "that the Tea Parties are nothing new.... [H]istorian Sean Wilentz ... link[s] Glenn Beck’s daffier ideas (and the Tea Partiers who love them) to the cold war-era paranoias of the John Birch Society. These parallels are real. But there’s a crucial difference. The Birchers only had a crackpot message; they never found a mainstream one. The Tea Party marries fringe concerns (repeal the 17th Amendment!) to a timely, responsible-seeming message about spending and deficits."
It's my favorite not because it's true that Tea Partyism is indeed "nothing new," but because Douthat has his subsequent crackpotisms backward. One could rather easily make an intellectual case for repealing the 17th Amendment -- one more Madisonian buffer between lawmaking and the great unwashed is at least theoretically plausible -- whereas Tea Partiers' "responsible-seeming message" about deficit-busting merged with more and more tax cuts is just more immensely falsifiable drivel.
There is one other storyline, however, that Douthat omits from liberals' explanatory grab bag, and which I find most compelling. I should add that Douthat committed no intentional oversight here, since most liberals -- and virtually every movement progressive -- reject the thesis, which is this:
Because America is a center-right nation, the Tea Party is more closely aligned with the majority thrust of political sentiment; which is to say, what looks extraordinarily crazy to the center-left appears but mildly and even acceptably pixilated, perhaps, to the center-right. Put another way, the Tea Party is the majority's affably touched uncle; to the numerically narrower and more distant left, it's a dangerous, raving madman.
This major premise of a center-right nation is commonly embraced by political theorists (though, again, it is roundly rejected by movement progressives of the hallucinatory "We the People" chant), but it helps to explain as well, I think, why the seemingly sudden rise of anti-Obama fervor after what so many of us mistook for a universal desire for organic "change." In brief, or so goes the minor premise, voters in 2008 voted less for Obama than they did against the accumulated nightmares of BushWorld, in which willingly resided the profoundly foolish John McCain.
The presently disaffected majority, therefore, wasn't so much pumped by the Tea Party as it was primed by its own preexisting ideology. Nevertheless the Tea Party, financed with jesuitical genius by offstage deep pockets, has exploited what already was.
Cut the ridicule
The inviolability of the law of unintended consequences has been demonstrated again. Says The Hill 2010 Midterm Election poll, as paraphrased by "Opinionator": "Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP ... 44 percent of likely voters say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme elements, whereas 37 percent say it’s the Republican Party that is more dominated by extremists."
True, the results are marginally skewed, since "likely voters" in this election cycle trend to the center-right, which would then skew temperamentally with the above plurality. Yet The Law holds: Notwithstanding months of ribald ridicule of the Tea Party/GOP's roster of nakedly unbalanced candidates for high office, vast swaths of the electorate are not only unrepelled by them, they appear more aligned than ever.
The right is having a proverbial field day with this phenomenon. What doesn't kill them only makes them stronger; assault them sarcastically and they only grow in numbers. In the Times' "Opinionator," conservative blogger JammieWearingFool happily captures the depressing reality: "Despite 18 months of the media calling tea partiers frothing rabble and angry extremists, a new poll shows precisely the opposite.... [C]lear-thinking people have tuned out the lamestream media and their mantra about how crazy tea partiers are. They think they can constantly harp on Angle and O’Donnell yet they overlook the surge nationwide from independents toward the GOP."
Putting aside what the blogger exotically regards as "clear thinking," he does in fact comprehend the right's growing numbers as a jujitsu-maneuver outcome.
And that, gentle reader, returns me to what is by now my rather tiresome complaints about MSNBC's programming, especially its evening lineup of Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.
Yesterday I bemoaned their "untrammeled hysteria" over what promises to be an imaginary wholesale collapse of responsible government at the hands of maybe -- maybe -- 33 + 8 Tea Partiers, out of 535; and, as a subtext, their pound-pound-pound programming of "Be Afraid! We're Doomed!" almost certainly depresses greater turnout.
Yet, you'll be unsurprised to learn, I've another complaint: The Schultz-Olbermann-Maddow fire brigade is contributing to the backlash -- and it's not hard to see how.
Imagine you're an informed, unabashed liberal and you're discussing politics with an independent fence-sitter who happens to let slip some mild sympathy for your ideological opponents' ideas. Naturally you promptly correct his errant thinking but in the process you also imply -- nay, pointedly note -- that he's a wretched idiot for even thinking such a thing. Now I ask you, as a student of human emotions, What will his reaction likely be? You got it: He'll entrench, he'll dig in his offended heels and now insist that he's right, rather than just wonder.
And that -- the precipitating former -- is what Schultz-Olbermann-Maddow have been accomplishing for months. They giggle, they scoff, they ridicule and belittle the right, and throughout, they merely inflame and augment the center-right's creeping certainty.
The prescription: Stick to journalism, stop offending and state the facts with some dignified solemnity. Let Reason -- not ridicule -- prevail.
Either cable-chat hysteria has infected the Times' resident Tea Party analyst, Kate Zernike, or she was momentarily seized by sensationalist urges. But one thing is certain. "Carry out" has no journalistic business in the following passage:
With a little more than two weeks till Election Day, 33 Tea Party-backed candidates are in tossup races or running in House districts that are solidly or leaning Republican, and 8 stand a good or better chance of winning Senate seats.
While the numbers are relatively small, they could exert outsize influence, putting pressure on Republican leaders to carry out promises to significantly cut spending and taxes, to repeal health care legislation and financial regulations passed this year, and to phase out Social Security and Medicare in favor of personal savings accounts.
What Ms. Zernike meant to say in all seriousness, I'm sure, is that Republican leaders will be under pressure to make flashy attempts at carrying out cuts in spending, the repeal of health care legislation, and so on, but all such attempts would unquestionably die short of President Obama's veto pen. That is, they wouldn't even survive the morbidly dysfunctional Senate, where, even assuming an unlikely GOP-recapture, Democrats would -- and here we'd have a happy turning of the tables -- filibuster them to an early expiration.
Which is to suggest or warn that cable-news hallucinations are endangering clear thought, even at the normally clear-thinking Times.
My worry is not a matter of underestimating the Tea Party's diseased influence on the GOP Establishment, the latter of which was already well on its way to depraved indifference to rationality, but rather of overestimating its realistic influence on long-term policy. Simply and reasonably put, it won't have any -- short of House-floor tantrums, legislative bomb-throwing, non-appropriation of funds, and brief spells of government shutdown. I know, that sounds like a lot. But its duration would be for, maybe, two years, which is decidedly short-term, after which an appalled electorate would redeem themselves.
Meanwhile, however, cable-news chatter in the form of MSNBC's evening lineup has proclaimed, through oppressive implication and rather contemptible generalizations, the Tea Party's unrivaled ascendancy and thus the nation's certain doom. On "The Ed Show" last night, for instance, the host had located one Tea Party candidate whose medieval hankering is to abolish public education; hence, according to Ed, such is now one unshakable part of the GOP's official platform. Good grief.
On MSNBC we witness untrammeled hysteria virtually all hour, whichever hour, excluding the now-sane! Chris Matthews' and sober Lawrence O'Donnell's. Even though Bozo himself would have a better chance through a last-minute write-in campaign of winning Delaware's open Senate seat, Keith Olbermann devotes endless airtime to the demented vagaries and spooky ruminations of Christine O'Donnell as a potential U.S. senator. Rachel Maddow then sarcastically cries "Boo!" at everything that sidewinds rightward, as though the barbarians are not only at the gate but well through it.
I suppose these ceaseless hysterics keep the ratings and ad revenue up, but they also most assuredly keep the audience's progressive spirits down; they present a gross and even hopeless distortion of the political playing field. And depression kills turnout.
Reread, please, the fact-checked portion of Zernike: "33 Tea Party-backed candidates are in tossup races or running in House districts that are solidly or leaning Republican, and 8 stand a good or better chance of winning Senate seats." Out of 535.
That may be 33 + 8 too many, but that's hardly an invasion of the mind-snatchers. And they, too, shall pass.
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Ion soft landing distributes negative POM ions (bright spots) evenly onto a supercapacitor, leaving unwanted positive ions behind.
RICHLAND, Wash. — Hybrid batteries that charge faster than conventional ones could have significantly better electrical capacity and long-term stability when prepared with a gentle-sounding way of making electrodes.
Called ion soft-landing, the high-precision technique resulted in electrodes that could store a third more energy and had twice the lifespan compared to those prepared by a conventional method, the researchers report today in Nature Communications. Straightforward to set up, the method could eventually lead to cheaper, more powerful, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries.
"This is the first time anyone has been able to put together a functioning battery using ion soft-landing," said chemist and Laboratory Fellow Julia Laskin of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
The advantages come from soft-landing's ability to build an electrode surface very specifically with only the most desirable molecules out of a complex mixture of raw components.
"It will help us unravel important scientific questions about this energy storage technology, a hybrid between common lithium rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors that have very high energy density," said lead author, PNNL chemist Venkateshkumar Prabhakaran.
A different kind of hybrid
Although lithium ion rechargeable batteries are the go-to technology for small electronic devices, they release their energy slowly, which is why hybrid electric vehicles use gasoline for accelerating, and take a long time to recharge, which makes electric vehicles slower to "fill" than their gas-powered cousins.
One possible solution is a hybrid battery that crosses a lithium battery's ability to hold a lot of charge for its size with a fast-charging supercapacitor. PNNL chemists wanted to know if they could make superior hybrid battery materials with a technology — called ion soft-landing — that intricately controls the raw components during preparation.
To find out, Laskin and colleagues created hybrid electrodes by spraying a chemical known as POM, or polyoxometalate, onto supercapacitor electrodes made of microscopically small carbon tubes. Off-the-shelf POM has both positively and negatively charged parts called ions, but only the negative ions are needed in hybrid electrodes.
Limited by its design, the conventional preparation technique sprays both the positive and negative ions onto the carbon nanotubes. Ion soft-landing, however, separates the charged parts and only sets down the negative ions on the electrode surface. The question that Laskin and team had was, do positive ions interfere with the performance of hybrid electrodes?
To find out, the team made centimeter-sized square hybrid batteries out of POM-carbon nanotube electrodes that sandwiched a specially developed ionic liquid membrane between them.
"We had to design a membrane that separated the electrodes and also served as the battery's electrolyte, which allows conduction of ions," said Prabhakaran. "Most people know electrolytes as the liquid sloshing around within a car battery. Ours was a solid gel."
They tested this mini-hybrid battery for how much energy it could hold and how many cycles of charging and discharging it could handle before petering out.
They compared soft-landing with conventionally made hybrid batteries, which were made with a technique called electrospray deposition. They used an off-the-shelf POM containing positively charged sodium ions.
Cheers for the POMs
The team found that the POM hybrid electrodes made with soft-landing had superior energy storage capacity. They could hold a third more energy than the carbon nanotube supercapacitors by themselves, which were included as a minimum performance benchmark. And soft-landing hybrids held about 27 percent more energy than conventionally made electrospray deposited electrodes.
To make sure the team was using the optimal amount of POM, they made hybrid electrodes using different amounts and tested which one resulted in the highest capacity. Soft-landing produced the highest capacity overall using the lowest amount of POM. This indicated the electrodes used the active material extremely efficiently. In comparison, conventional, sodium-based POM electrodes required twice as much POM material to reach their highest capacity.
The conventionally-made devices used more POM, but the team couldn't count them out yet. They might in fact have a longer lifespan than the soft-landing produced electrodes. To test that, the team charged and discharged the hybrids 1,000 times and measured how long they lasted.
As they did in the previous tests, the soft-landing-based devices performed the best, losing only a few percent capacity after 1000 cycles. The naked supercapacitors came in second, and the sodium-based, conventionally made devices lost about double the capacity of the soft-landed devices. This suggests that the soft-landing method has the potential to double the lifespan of these types of hybrid batteries.
The team was surprised that it took so little of the POM material to make such a big difference to the carbon nanotube supercapacitors. By weight, the amount of POM was just one-fifth of a percent of the amount of carbon nanotube material.
"The fact that the capacitance reaches a maximum with so little POM, and then drops off with more, is remarkable," said Laskin. "We didn't expect such a small amount of POM to be making such a large contribution to the capacitance."
They decided to examine the structure of the electrodes using powerful microscopes in EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at PNNL. They compared soft-landing with the conventionally made, sodium-POM electrodes.
Soft-landing created small discrete clusters of POM dotting the carbon nanotubes, but the conventional method resulted in larger clumps of POM clusters swamping out the nanotubes, aggregates up to ten times the size of those made by soft-landing.
This result suggested to the researchers that removing the positive ions from the POM starting material allowed the negative ions to disperse evenly over the surface. As long as the positive ions such as sodium remained, the POM and sodium appear to reform the crystalline material and aggregate on the surface. This prevented much of the POM from doing its job in the battery, thereby reducing capacity.
When the team zoomed out a little and viewed the nanotubes from above, the conventionally made electrodes were covered in large aggregates of POM. The soft-landed electrodes, however, were remarkably indistinguishable from the naked carbon nanotube supercapacitors.
In future research, the team wants to explore how to get the carbon materials to accept more POM, which might increase capacity and lifespan even further.
This work was supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science and the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a Department of Energy Innovation Hub.
Reference: Venkateshkumar Prabhakaran, B. Layla Mehdi, Jeffrey J. Ditto, Mark H. Engelhard, Bingbing Wang, K. Don D. Gunaratne, David C. Johnson, Nigel D. Browning, Grant E. Johnson and Julia Laskin. Rational Design of Efficient Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces for Solid-State Energy Storage Using Ion Soft-Landing , Nature Communications April 21, 2016, DOI:10.1038/NCOMMS11399.
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Wanted Posters to go live this afternoon, say PSNI
Wanted Posters to go online
Carmel Robinson
The PSNI has vowed to publish Wanted Posters of suspects on their Facebook page this afternoon.
Counting down to 5pm, the PSNI Craigavon said they are currently at police HQ with the first batch of Op Relentless releases.
Wanted poster
On their Facebook page they posted: “The final checks have been done of these packs and they’re being signed off by the Senior Command Team. We go live at 5...”
The Wanted Poster, much like those from the days of the old Wild West, are set to become a feature suspects who abscond or fail to appear in court.
Their photos will be shared on social media by the police in a bid to locate them.
Last week the local PSNI featured a mock Wanted Poster of top cop Chief Inspector Jon Burrows who they say jokingly is charged with the heinous crime of stealing hair gel.
The post stated: “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? We have. It’s Chief Inspector Jon Burrows, and far from actually being wanted for stealing hair gel, he is leading the charge against real suspected criminals who are wanted on bench warrants. “Bench warrant? What’s one of them?”, you ask? “If someone fails to appear at court at any stage of the process, the court can issue a bench warrant. Sometimes this is a first time failure to appear, sometimes they know what verdict is coming and do a runner. Either way, they’re now wanted,” said the PSNI Craigavon post.
‘Operation Relentless’ as it has been dubbed aims to share photos of those the police are looking for.
From today (Monday) police said anyone who still has an active bench warrant against them will be ‘fair game for having their face and details shared with each and every one of our followers’.
“In that time, we will be knocking doors, phoning suspects, speaking to solicitors and following any other leads we have. In short, unless you’re now living abroad, in one weeks time there will be very little excuse for still having a bench warrant. They called on anyone with a bench warrant to hand themselves in.
“We have some lovely metal seats in our enquiry offices that you are welcome to park your backside on for a few moments until we put you in a car and take you to court.
“If you are allergic to metal, you can speak to your solicitor and arrange to attend court THIS WEEK.
“Aside from that, there’s not much option. As of next Monday, wanted posters such as this will be going out, and we’ll be inviting our lovely followers to join in the hunt too. If you aren’t familiar with how effective the ABC public are, here’s a fun fact: During the first month of Op Exposure, over 85% of all released pictures were identified and dealt with. They were the unknown people with just CCTV footage.
“These will be known people with a custody mug shot! Sure you could run, but life wouldn’t be fun. Everyone will be looking for you.
“You won’t stand a chance. There won’t be negotiations once we find you after that point. It won’t be a “talk to your solicitor then give us a ring” scenario. It will be immediate arrest.
“The clue is in the name. We will be Relentless. Give it up.”
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WildAid to Honor Bryce Dallas Howard and Danai Gurira as 2018 Wildlife Champions at Star-Studded Gala on November 10
The Evening Will Feature Musical Entertainment from David Foster and a Vegetarian Dinner by Celebrity Chef Martin Yan
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SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) October 25, 2018
WildAid, the global nonprofit organization leading the fight to end the illegal wildlife trade, announced today that it will honor actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Danai Gurira as this year’s Wildlife Champions at its annual fundraising gala on Nov. 10 at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel.
Tickets and tables for the charitable evening celebrating progress in the protection of endangered species and marine habitats are available now. This year’s event will highlight WildAid’s successful collaboration with China to reduce the demand for illicit wildlife products, including China’s landmark decision to ban ivory in December 2017.
With sponsors including Bentley Heritage, “An Evening in China” will feature musical entertainment by 16-time Grammy-award winner David Foster, as well as captivating performances from The Cirque. Guests will enjoy a vegetarian meal specially curated by celebrity Master Chef Martin Yan following a cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception. Attendees will also participate in a silent auction and live appeal offering luxury items and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Howard and Gurira recently partnered with WildAid to release PSAs in support of saving rhinos from poaching with the poignant and hard-hitting message that it is up to humans to protect them because “When the buying stops, the killing can too.”
WildAid produces impactful, Hollywood-quality public service announcements for a fraction of the cost and distributes them to millions of viewers a week through extensive pro bono and earned media placements. In September, WildAid released a new report showing a dramatic decline in rhino horn prices (70 percent); and in recent years, shark fin consumption in China has gone down by 80 percent.
WildAid works with high profile ambassadors including HRH Prince William, Lupita Nyong’o, Bryce Dallas Howard, Richard Branson, Danai Gurira, Bo Derek, Josh Duhamel, Jackie Chan, Yao Ming and many more.
Past Gala Attendees include Josh Duhamel, Ian Somerhalder, Nikki Reed, Yao Ming, Fergie, Maggie Q, Dylan McDermott, Chevy Chase, Jared Leto, John Corbett, Bo Derek, Michael Cudlitz, Larry King, Hayden Panettiere and others.
About WildAid
WildAid is a non-profit organization with a mission to end the illegal wildlife trade in our lifetimes. While most wildlife conservation groups focus on protecting animals from poaching, WildAid primarily works to reduce global consumption of wildlife products such as shark fin and elephant ivory by persuading consumers and providing comprehensive marine enforcement. Recent WildAid campaigns such as the #JoinTheHerd initiative have brought together millions of people to speak out about the poaching crisis affecting African elephants. With an unrivaled portfolio of celebrity ambassadors - including Prince William and Yao Ming - and global network of media partners, WildAid leverages $230 million in annual pro bono media support with a simple message: When the Buying Stops, the Killing Can Too. For more information, visit WildAid.org and follow us @WildAid.
Brendi Rawlin
Lee and London PR
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