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EUTPC
The ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee promotes dialogue and the exchange of ideas on technology and computing policy issues with the European Commission, governmental bodies in Europe, and the informatics and computing communities. Chaired by Oliver Grau of Intel, the Committee engages in policy issues related to the importance of technology in boosting jobs, economic growth, competition, investment, research and development, education, inclusive social development, and innovation.
The Committee promotes sound public policy and public understanding of a broad range of issues at the intersection of technology and policy. Its policy statements reflect the expertise of ACM Europe Council professional members from the public and private sectors experienced in informatics, computer science, and other computing-related subjects.
As the Internet is global, the Committee works with other ACM entities on publications, projects, and policies related to emergent cross-border issues, such as e-privacy, cybersecurity, cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and Internet governance.
Find Public Policy Statements and Reports
Public policy statements provide guiding principles for policy leaders, research summaries, best practices, and discussion of technology policy topics, as informed by scientific and technical knowledge. Browse policy statements. Reports and white papers provide an in-depth look at emergent technology issues that government officials should consider when formulating public policies. Browse policy reports.
Oliver Grau
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Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
Michel Cosnard
Mario Fritz
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Paola Inverardi
Joaquim Jorge
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ACM US and Europe Tech Policy Committees Issue Statement on IoT Privacy and Security
The ACM US Technology Policy Committee and the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee have released a Statement on Internet of Things Privacy and Security addressing existing and expected privacy and security concerns in the IoT ecosystem. The principles in the statement propose policy and technical approaches to tackle privacy and security challenges while ensuring that the technology continues to move forward.
ACM US and European Policy Committees List Seven Principles to Address Algorithmic Bias
Recognizing the ubiquity of algorithms in our daily lives, as well as their far-reaching impact, the ACM US Technology Policy Committee and the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee have issued a statement and a list of seven principles designed to address potential harmful bias. The US ACM committee approved the principles earlier this year, and the European ACM committee approved them on May 25.
What Should Europe’s Cybersecurity Policy Focus On?
A new report on cybersecurity policy published by the European Commission’s top scientific advisers cites the ACM US Technology Policy Committee’s White Paper on “Advancing Cybersecurity Research and Education in Europe” and the ACM US Technology Policy Committee’s Principles on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability. Among the report’s recommendations, the scientific advisers call for global cybersecurity cooperation.
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Big test awaits Young Reds in NPL Round 13
Cassandra Treppiedi @casstreppiedi 1496129998
Adelaide United will face one of their biggest tests against second-placed Adelaide Comets in Round 13 of the PlayStation 4 National Premier Leagues at The Parks Football Centre on Saturday.
An eight-goal thriller saw an exuberant Adelaide United, especially in what was a faultless first half for Huss Skenderovic’s side, where they put four goals past their opponents.
The Reds now sit ninth after defeating Adelaide Olympic 5-3 in a physical encounter at The Parks Football Centre.
Adelaide Comets sit two points behind Adelaide City at the top of the table following a convincing 4-0 win over Para Hills Knights.
The last clash between the two sides saw the Young Reds put up a challenge but ultimately fell 4-2 due to two late goals.
Skenderovic said his side is in high-spirits and it has given his young side the confidence that they can stand up to the more physical teams, although they must learn that they should not become complacent.
“The boys are in good spirits following the win against Olympic, and we have just been focusing on key elements like how we can compete and find consistency, and we learn from every game,” he said.
“It is always good to win like that, and against a team who are physical and it gives us the confidence that they can stand up against them.
“We spoke to the players about how crucial it is to not become complacent, especially in senior football and think the game is won.
“Because even at the highest level, come backs are always possible which has been proven.
“We just have to continue to produce those performances and maintain those habits for 90-95 minutes, it is a good learning curve for them.”
Round 13 will be an opportunity to measure the learning curve for the Young Reds and assess how far they have come since the last meeting in Round 2.
“We are focussed on Adelaide Comets, who we face this week, and we did talk about our last match-up with them.
“They are a very good team and the way they play will suit us, as we like to play teams who actually want to play football.
“The boys will definitely want to challenge themselves, and when they see a team like that who are sitting second, they are right up there as the benchmark.
“So I think the team are anxious to see where they are at, compared to the last time we played them.
“For us it is like a barometer, to see how far we have come, and they are confident.”
The Young Reds face Adelaide Comets at The Parks Football Centre on Saturday, 3 June. Kick-off is 3pm, Reserves kick-off at 1pm. Tickets: Adults $10, Concession $5 16 & under free.
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FQ Long-Short Equity Fund (MEQFX)
Share Class I
Advisors: 800.368.4410
Investors: 800.548.4539
NAV | as of 07/16/2019
+$0.02 (+0.13%)
Quarterly Performance (%) |
vs. Benchmark as of 06/30/2019
Fund Inception 08/14/1992
INCEP.
MEQFX
6.36 6.48 13.11 8.50 13.07 8.49
Russell 3000® Index
18.71 8.98 14.02 10.19 14.67 9.77
50% Russell 3000/50% ICE BofAML 0-3 Month US Treasury Bill
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Expense Ratios
Gross Expense Ratio: 0.86%
Net Expense Ratio: 0.75%
Expense Cap Expiration Date: 03/01/2020
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The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by gaining long and short exposure to stocks of U.S. companies.
Why Consider
The Fund invests in long and short equity positions in sectors, industries and companies based on the subadviser's assessment of relative attractiveness
Implements a systematic portfolio protection structure through an option overlay strategy and reduced exposure during periods of stressed markets
Constructs portfolio using a proprietary multi-factor quantitative model that combines a top-down analysis of market and economic conditions with a bottom-up stock selection process
2018 Year End Distributions
Jia Ye, Ph.D.
Partner, Investments
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David Chrisman, Ph.D., CFA
Director, Investments
Returns & Distributions
Calendar Year Returns
Short-term Cap Gains
Long-term Cap Gains
Jun 26, 2019 $0.017400 $0.017400 — —
Mar 27, 2019 $0.028800 $0.028800 — —
Dec 27, 2018 $0.505700 — $0.091000 $0.414700
Sep 26, 2017 $0.029600 $0.029600 — —
Dec 27, 2016 $0.820400 $0.068600 $0.141100 $0.610700
Dec 28, 2015 $1.632500 $0.048500 — $1.584000
Dec 26, 2014 $0.052500 $0.052500 — —
Jan 13, 2005 $0.002500 $0.002500 — —
Oct 25, 2000 $0.326000 $0.082000 $0.244000 —
Oct 27, 1998 $0.150000 $0.150000 — —
Oct 31, 1994 $0.850000 $0.050000 — $0.800000
Jul 29, 1994 $0.030000 $0.030000 — —
Apr 29, 1994 $0.020000 $0.020000 — —
Growth of $10,000 (Hypothetical)
Since Inception 08/14/1992 to 06/30/2019 = $89,266.56
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Top Holdings (Long)
As of: 06/30/2019
Gentex Corp 1.63%
PS Business Parks Inc 1.56%
SEI Investments Co 1.46%
Allison Transmission Holdings Inc 1.45%
Essent Group Ltd 1.44%
Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc 1.44%
WSFS Financial Corp 1.43%
Apple Hospitality REIT Inc 1.43%
IDACORP Inc 1.43%
Employers Holdings Inc 1.40%
% in Top 10 Holdings 14.67%
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First Quadrant (FQ) believes that significant and recurring fundamental market inefficiencies present opportunities for profit. With inefficiencies changing over time, FQ believes it’s necessary to conduct ongoing research to keep the investment process ahead of the curve. FQ also believes that market inefficiencies exist for a variety of reasons, including:
In certain dimensions of the market, information is not always immediately reflected in the price of securities
Certain information that is given either too much or too little weight in investors’ decisions
Investors fail to respond efficiently to changes in various risk attributes
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About First Quadrant
First Quadrant (FQ) is an innovative boutique investment firm recognized for excellence in dynamic asset allocation and equity strategies. FQ employs a systematic, theory-based investment process and serves a global, primarily institutional client base.
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The performance data shown represents past performance. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. The investment return and the principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. For performance information through the most recent month end please call 800.835.3879 or visit our website at www.amgfunds.com. From time to time, the advisor has waived fees or reimbursed expenses, which may have resulted in higher returns. The listed returns and yields of the Fund are net of expenses, and the returns and yields of the indices exclude expenses.
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The Fund may suffer significant losses on assets that it sells short. Unlike the possible loss on a security that is purchased, there is no limit on the amount of loss on an appreciating security that is sold short.
In managing the Fund, the Fund’s Subadviser may rely heavily on one or more quantitative models ("Model") and information and data supplied by third parties ("Data"). When a Model or Data used in managing the Fund contains an error, or is incorrect or incomplete, any investment decision made in reliance on the Model or Data may not produce the desired results and the Fund may realize losses. In addition, any hedging based on a faulty Model or Data may prove to be unsuccessful.
The Fund may invest in derivatives such as options and futures; the complexity and rapidly changing structure of derivatives markets may increase the possibility of market losses.
The use of leverage in a Fund's strategy, such as futures and forward commitment transactions, can magnify relatively small market movements into relatively larger losses for the Fund.
The Fund is subject to risks associated with investments in small-capitalization companies, such as erratic earnings patterns, competitive conditions, limited earnings history and a reliance on one or a limited number of products.
The Fund is subject to risks associated with investments in mid-capitalization companies such as greater price volatility, lower trading volume, and less liquidity than the stocks of larger, more established companies.
Active and frequent trading of a fund may result in higher transaction costs and increased tax liability.
The Fund is subject to special risk considerations similar to those associated with the direct ownership of real estate. Real estate valuations may be subject to factors such as changing general and local economic, financial, competitive, and environmental conditions.
The Fund invests in large-capitalization companies that may underperform other stock funds (such as funds that focus on small- and medium-capitalization companies) when stocks of large-capitalization companies are out of favor.
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Media company underwriting first day visits to Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum
An exhibit inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Photo Credit: Jin Lee
By SHEILA ANNE FEENEY sheila.feeney@am-ny.com March 26, 2014 4:50 PM
Visitors to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on its opening day will have their tickets comped, courtesy of the Conde Nast, the Museum and media giant jointly announced Wednesday.
While Conde Nast is footing the price of all tickets on May 21, visitors must still make reservations at 911memorial.org. (As of Wednesday afternoon, tickets for all time slots were still available.)
"It is a source of great pride for Conde Nast to contribute to the momentous opening of the 9/11 Memorial Museum and the revitalization of lower Manhattan," said Charles H. Townsend, chief executive officer of Conde Nast. The company is relocating its headquarters to One World Trade Center.
SEE PHOTOS Photos: Inside the 9/11 Museum
"Helping the public visit this historic Museum is a direct way to uphold our collective obligation to never forget," said 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels.
After the first day, tickets will cost $24 apiece for most adults, with discounts available to seniors, veterans, children and college students. Registered recovery workers and 9/11 family members as well as museum members, will be allowed in free. The museum is also planning to designate Tuesdays from 5 to 8 p.m. as "free" nights, but online reservations are required.
The memorial is always free to the public.
(Sheila Anne Feeney)
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Walking Dead: The Game Review
By Andrew Nesvadba, on July 30, 2012
Publisher: Howyaknow, LLC
Released: 26 Jul, 2012
Size: 366.7 MB
Removal of traditional puzzles means 'cyclical' conversations are no longer required; what you say matters and isn't just a punchline.
Tension and shock-moments feel carefully balanced; no traditional 'shoot first, ask questions later' - it's a fight to survive.
Comic-book inspired visuals allow for far more gruesome portrayals of violence without being too disturbing.
Sluggish/sticky controls; given the lack of separate movement and camera controls, their combination and automatic switching can be disorienting.
Audio compression problems; clear audio followed by heavily compressed/muted - kicks you out of the moment.
Episode one of Walking Dead: The Game lays a great foundation for a story that follows a new group of survivors - how you choose to play Lee will determine how the story spins out in future episodes, but you'll have to live long enough to make it that far first.
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For those who have been waiting for Telltale Games' iOS version of The Walking Dead, the wait was not entirely in vain. I could lie and say that nothing has been lost in the translation from console/PC to handheld device, but it would be a lie, though its ultimate impact on the story and experience is minimal, making it a must-try adventure game.
Although based on the comic franchise, the story follows Lee - a convicted killer who is given a second chance after surviving a 'walker' attack - and a completely separate group of survivors. That isn't to say fans won't find a familiar face or two, but this isn't their story and Lee, or rather you the player, will be forced to make life and death decisions that will affect your game over subsequent episodes.
The game is graphic in its portrayal of violence and the situations you'll find yourself in will have you wishing for more time to respond, however that's the beauty of Walking Dead - you're fighting for survival and the fight or flight response is exploited heavily to add to the drama. Whether it's the limited time you have to respond to a question (or not respond) to either building trust or creating suspicion, or trying desperately to tap a nearby weapon to lodge it firmly in a walker's skull, you'll be happy you have multiple save slots to explore your options.
Where the iOS version obviously diverts from the PC and console version is in the way it's controlled. Unlike most traditional adventure games, the player normally has independent control over the direction their character moves and where the camera is looking. This is removed (to a degree) in the iOS version as players swipe to move around, with only certain scenes allowing for camera movement. It's unfortunate that the controls feel sluggish, as they detract from the otherwise frantic pace of the combat.
The game is gorgeous too, with iPhone 4 and higher iDevices being required to pull off the comic-inspired cell-shaded graphics. As to be expected, the voice acting is also top notch, though audio compression artifacts regularly destroyed otherwise engaging moments.
Telltale Games have done a great job of throwing away the usual obtuse puzzle elements of the adventure genre in favor of telling a compelling story. Given the tense and on-the-edge atmosphere of the Walking Dead world, it has paid-off in the first of five eventual episodes and we can't wait to see how things spin out from here.
**NOTE: Compatible with iPad 2 and up, and iPhone 4 and up - WILL NOT RUN ON EARLIER DEVICES**
“ONE HELL OF A RIDE” – MTV GEEK
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10 out of 10 – “…JUST PLAY IT” – DIGITAL TRENDS
The Walking Dead is a five-part episodic game series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic books featuring Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes.
This is not another shoot ‘em up; it’s a game that explores some very dark psychological places, revealing that the undead are not the only thing to be afraid of when society crumbles.
In this brand new story, you are Lee Everett, a man given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.
Experience a dark, visceral and emotional series where every action and decision you make can result in the story changing around you. This tailored experience means that your story could be very different to that of someone else.
***Save 25% on additional episodes in The Walking Dead game series by purchasing the Multi-Pack [Episodes 2-5 + 400 Days Bundle] via in-app***
All individual episodes, plus Special Episode: 400 Days are available via in-app purchase.
•Based on Robert Kirkman's award-winning comic book series: The Walking Dead allows gamers to experience the true horror of the zombie apocalypse, with artwork inspired by the original comic books. Live out events, meet people and visit locations from The Walking Dead lore.
•A tailored game experience: Live with the profound and lasting consequences of the decisions you make in each episode. Your actions and choices will affect how your story plays out across the entire series.
•Act fast: You'll be forced to make decisions that are not only difficult, but require you to make an almost immediate choice. There's no time to ponder when the undead are pounding down the door.
•Adventure horror spanning across five episodes, plus special episode '400 Days': Gameplay involves meaningful decision-making, exploration, problem-solving and a constant fight for survival in a world overrun by the undead.
EPISODE LIST:
•Episode 1: A New Day
•Episode 2: Starved For Help
•Episode 3: Long Road Ahead
•Episode 4: Around Every Corner
•Episode 5: No Time Left
•Special Episode: 400 Days
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wiking 8 years, 2 months ago
i agree ...great strategy game...
rekz 8 years, 10 months ago
I'm stunned that this app got such a low review. I understand that if you never played Settlers of Catan it might be a challenge to learn. That said, however, this game carries the complete excellence in gameplay of the board game onto the iphone. That's a lot of excellence for one of the all-time best boardgames ... ever!
This game features a number of AI opponents, a degree of challenge in all games, is quite attractive, smooth to play, and fun.
I have a few criticisms, but nothing that would make this less than a 5 star game. Criticisms include -- no PvP (seems like would've been an important feature), no expansion sets (so far), my favorite 'house rule' (that 2 and 12 trigger eachother) is not a feature, there is no undo for mistaken taps, and that the 'trade' button is right above the 'end my turn' button which may cause accidental turn endings.
OK, now that I've said all that, I can also say this is probably my most played iphone game. I've played (& loved Settlers of Catan) for more than 10 yrs, played it all around the world, and I'm quite a good player & I'm only around 70% victories on this game.
It's simply an EXCELLENT strategic game.
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andrew 8 years, 10 months ago
Firstly this was one of the early reviews Damian did for the site; all of us were still cutting our teeth on the reviews at the time. Secondly, 4/5 is still an excellent score and Damien's final choice on that score is a sound one for the very reasons you have listed. It's clear he wasn't familiar with the board game (I too am a fan of the series), but issues like a lack of asynchronous multiplayer support, the fact that games take a LONG time to complete and even basic interface issues mar an otherwise great title. Don't let your fandom taint your critical thoughts - if you're saying things like 'it's clearly missing this', 'I keep screwing up things 'cause of this', then they're things to take note of - sometimes a game can rise above its flaws, but sometimes it's just short of perfection :)
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Herbert Palmer (1601–1647)
A Westminster Divine and prolific Puritan pastor and intellectual of his day.
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“Without God and Christ religion is but an empty name, a pernicious error.”
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The Works of Herbert Palmer available in old English (Puritan Publications is working to publish the remaining of Palmer’s works):
A full ansvver to a printed paper (1645) by Herbert Palmer
An endeauour of making the principles of Christian religion, namely the Creed, the ten Commandments, the Lords Prayer, and the Sacraments, plain and easie (1640) by Herbert Palmer
Memorials of godliness & Christianity in three parts (1670) by Herbert Palmer
Memorials of godliness and Christianity. in two parts. (1651) by Herbert Palmer
Memorials of godlinesse and Christianitie. Part 1. (1644) by Herbert Palmer
Sabbatum Redivivum: or, the Christian sabbath vindicated, in a full discourse concerning the sabbath and the Lord’s day (1652) by Herbert Palmer
Scripture and reason pleaded for defensive armes (1643) by Herbert Palmer
The duty & honour of church-restorers (1646) by Herbert Palmer
The glasse of Gods providence towards his faithfull ones (1644) by Herbert Palmer
The necessity and encouragement, of utmost venturing for the churches help (1643) by Herbert Palmer
The soule of fasting: or Affections requisite in a day of solemne fasting and humiliation (1644) by Herbert Palmer
The upright Protestant, as he was reformed from the superstitious errours of popery in the happy reignes of Edward the 6th (1643) by Herbert Palmer
Biography of Herbert Palmer (1601–1647):
Herbert Palmer (1601–1647) puritan divine, younger son of Sir Thomas Palmer, knt. (d. 1625), and grandson of Sir Thomas Palmer (1540-1626)of Wingham, Kent, was born at Wingham in 1601, and baptised on March 29th. His mother was the eldest daughter of Herbert Pelham of Crawley, Sussex. He learnt French almost as soon as English, and always spoke it fluently. His childhood was marked by precocious religiousness. On March 23, 1616 he was admitted fellow-commoner in St, John’s College, Cambridge; he graduated with a B.A. 1619, and an M.A. in 1622, and was elected fellow of Queens’ College on 17 July 1623. He took orders in 1624, and proceeded to obtain a B.D. in 1631. In 1626, on his way to visit his brother, Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. (d. 1666), at Wingham, he preached at Canterbury Cathedral. The report of his sermon reached the ears of Delme, minister of the French church at Canterbury, who made his acquaintance at Wingham, got him to preach again at St. George’s, Canterbury, and made efforts to procure his settlement as lecturer. He was licensed by Archbishop Abbot for a Sunday afternoon lectureship at St. Alphage’s, Canterbury, but did not, as Clarke supposes, resign his fellowship. He acted as a spiritual adviser, being consulted as ‘a kind of oracle,’ and did much religious visiting, though without pastoral charge. Occasionally he preached to the French congregation; the first time he stood in their pulpit his diminutive appearance ‘startled an old lady, who cried out, ‘Hola, que nous dira cest enfant icy?’ Though not scrupling at the prescribed ceremonies, and strongly opposing the separatist party, he resisted the ‘innovations’ favoured by Laud. He was articled for his puritanism, but the prosecution proved abortive. About 1630 the dean, Isaac Bargrave, put down his lectureship, on the ground that he had gone beyond his office by catechising and that his lecture drew ‘factious persons’ out of other parishes; the lecture was revived in consequence of an influentially signed petition to Abbot. His friends, headed by Thomas Finch (d. 1639), afterwards Earl of Winchilsea, twice unsuccessfully endeavoured to secure for him a prebend at Canterbury. On the resignation of Thomas Turner, Laud, then bishop of London, presented him, at the instance of ‘a great nobleman,’ to the rectory of Ashwell, Hertfordshire; he was instituted 9 Feb. and inducted 18 Feb. 1632. Laud, on his trial, referred to this among other evidences of his impartial patronage of merit; he declined the religious ministrations of Palmer during his imprisonment in the Tower and at the block. In 1632 Palmer was made university preacher at Cambridge. At Ashwell he matured his system of catechising, giving prizes of bibles to those who could read, and 5s. to illiterates, on their reaching a proficiency which fitted them for admission to communion. Robert Baillie, D.D., reckoned Palmer ‘the best catechist in England.’ He originated the method of breaking up the main answer into preparatory questions, to be answered by ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ In 1633 he refused to read the ‘Book of Sports.’ He got his parishioners to bind themselves by subscribing a compact against drunkenness, sabbath-breaking, and so forth. He took sons of noblemen and gentry as boarders, under a resident tutor. Preaching a visitation sermon at Hitchin in 1638, he spoke freely against ‘innovations.’ In 1641 he was chosen, with Anthony Tuckney, D.D. [q. v.], clerk of convocation for Lincoln diocese. On 19 July 1642 he was appointed by the House of Commons one of fifteen Tuesday lecturers at Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Palmer was appointed an original member of the Westminster assembly of divines by the ordinance of June 12, 1643. He removed to London, placing Ashwell in charge of John Crow, his half-brother, who became his successor (Sept. 28, 1647), and was ejected in 1662. On June 28, 1643 he preached a political sermon before the House of Commons, whose thanks he received through Sir Oliver Luke. He became preacher at St. James’s, Duke Place, and afterwards at the ‘new church’ in the parish of St. Margaret’s, Westminster (represented since 1843 by Christ Church, Westminster). He was also one of the seven morning lecturers at Westminster Abbey. On April 11, 1644 he was appointed by the Earl of Manchester master of Queens’ College, Cambridge, in room of Edward Martin, D.D.; in this capacity he was an able disciplinarian. Refugee students from Germany and Hungary were liberally assisted by him; he gave benefactions for the increase of the college library. In the Westminster assembly, of which he was one of the assessors (from January 1646), he had much to do with the drawing up of the ‘directory,’ and was anxious for a clause about pastoral visitation, which was not inserted. As regards ordination, he differed both from Presbyterians and independents, holding (with Baxter) that any company of ministers may ordain, and that designation to a congregation is unnecessary. He joined Lightfoot in pleading for private baptism. His chief work was in connection with the assembly’s ‘Shorter Catechism,’ though he did not live till its completion. To him was due the excellent method by which each answer forms a substantive statement, not needing to be helped out by the question.
He died in August or September 1647, and is said to have been buried in the ‘new church,’ Westminster; no register of the interments in that place is discoverable. There is an entry in the register of St. Mary the Less, Cambridge, not very legible, which has been read as giving 14 Aug. as the date of his burial there. Mr. W. G. Searle says he was present at an election of fellows on 17 Aug., and thinks he died on Sept. 11th; his successor was elected on 19 Sept. He was unmarried. His portrait, in Clarke, shows an emaciated visage, sunk between his shoulders; he wears moustache and thin beard, skull-cap and ruff with academic gown, and leans on a cushion. Symon Patrick, whom he befriended at college, calls him ‘a little crooked man,’ but says he was held in the highest reverence. He left a benefaction for poor scholars at Queens’ College.
For further study:
Divines, 1677, pp. 183 sq.; Life by Philip Taverner, 1681; Middleton’s Biographia Evangelica 1784, iii. 190 sq.; Neal’s Hist. of the Puritans (Toulmin), 1822 iii. 102 sq., 403 sq.; Burke’s Extinct Baronetcies, 1841, p, 602; Laud’s Works, 1854, iv. 298; Symon Patrick’s Works,1858, ix. 416; Grosart’s Memoir in ‘Lord Bacon not the author of the Christian Paradoxes,’ 1865; Cox’s Literature of the Sabbath Question, 1865, i. 237 sq.; Searle’s History of Queens’ College (Cambridge Antiquarian Society), 1871, pp. 532 sq.; Mitchell and Struthers’s Minutes of Westminster Assembly, 1874; Mitchell’s Westminster Assembly. 1883: Urwick’s Nonconformity in Herts, 1884, pp. 771 sq. ; Cole MSS. vii. 156 sq.]
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A Spare the Air alert has been issued for the Bay Area for Thursday because smog is forecast to be at unhealthy levels, regional air quality officials said.
The alert from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the fourth in a row and the 12th this summer season.
Smog from motor vehicles combined with smoke from the Soberanes Fire in Monterey County is expected to present heightened impacts to residents in the region, district spokesman Tom Flannigan said.
Persistent high temperatures and light winds will enhance that impact.
Every day smog affects residents, but the elderly, young children and people with lung and heart conditions are especially susceptible to smog, Flannigan said.
Those especially susceptible will feel the effects right away on Spare the Air days, he said.
So air quality experts are asking residents across the Bay Area to find another way to travel such as carpooling, taking transit, walking, biking or driving an electric vehicle.
Driving less or driving an electric vehicle are the most effective ways to reduce smog, air district officials said.
Residents should limit outdoor activities to the early morning or late evening hours when the level of smog is lower, according to the district. Smog can cause throat irritation, congestion and chest pain, trigger asthma, inflame the lining of the lungs and worsen bronchitis and emphysema.
Residents are more likely to adopt modes of transportation other than driving alone when their employers encourage them, air district officials said. Employers with 50 or more full-time employees are required to offer commuter benefits to their workers.
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Residents can find out when a Spare the Air Alert is in effect by registering for email alerts at www.sparetheair.org, calling (800) HELP-AIR, downloading the Spare the Air smartphone app or checking Spare the Air on Facebook or Twitter.
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Moriviví House: The Hurricane-Proof Project that Builds Community
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House Moroviví, designed by Marvel Architects, is a culturally-sensitive, readily-adaptable home that provides residents with physical and psychological comfort before, during and after natural disasters occur. Designed to maximize structural stability yet minimize energy and water usage, it is built with local components that promote ease of assembly, leave space for creative expansion and foster ownership by way of customization. These materials and their integration support local manufacturers and tradesmen, and the simplicity of their assembly encourages homeowners and neighbors to work together on the construction of their neighborhood.
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On November 3, TheatreSquared Executive Director Martin Miller and Artistic Director Robert Ford unveiled the completed plans for the company’s new permanent home, a 50,000 square-foot building in Fayetteville, Arkansas designed by London-based theater planners Charcoalblue and New York–based Marvel Architects. The new building will include two theaters, a rehearsal space, staff offices, design workshops, a community space, a 24-hour cafe/bar, three levels of outdoor public space, and a separate building housing eight guest artist apartments.
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Rural Aussies call for expansion of broadband monitoring program
Concerns raised over quality of wireless and satellite connections
Chris Player (ARN) 22 June, 2017 15:40
Regional Australians are concerned that they will be denied their say in the latest broadband speed monitoring program launched by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
According to a report on ABC Radio, the National Farmers Federation and a coalition of bush groups have received “a litany of complaints” about the service being provided. The groups have called on the consumer watchdog to broaden its enquiry.
Under its current format, the enquiry is only addressing the delivery of NBN services over fixed infrastructure. This has sparked concerns from those in rural and remote areas who are due to get their NBN service over a satellite or wireless connection. According to the regulator, the program is expected to cost around $7 million to deliver over four years.
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has called on more individuals and businesses to contribute to the program by agreeing to log internet speeds.
The ACCC published a notice of its intention to commence an open tender to appoint an independent testing provider for the program on 22 May.
The watchdog said, at the time, it was planning to publish an approach to market with the intent of procuring an independent third party provider to measure and report on the broadband performance of various broadband services, technologies, speed plans and geographical areas.
On 7 April, the Government made funding available for a new broadband performance monitoring program aimed at providing consumers with accurate and independent information about broadband speeds.
“This program will see the ACCC test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans provided over the NBN," ACCC chairman, Rod Sims, said at the time.
"This information will assist consumers in comparing and shopping around, and checking that they receive what they are paying for.
"The program will also allow the ACCC to determine if issues are being caused by the performance of the NBN, or by internet service providers (ISPs) not buying sufficient capacity. It will also provide ISPs with independent performance information from which to draw when making speed claims,” Sims added.
The National Farmers Federation CEO, Tony Mahar, told The ABC that Australians in rural and remote areas were left out of these schemes too often.
“We regularly hear about coverage and connectivity in the bush and how much of an issue it is,” he said.
“In some cases, worrying stories of people going to the tops of hiss, silos or fence posts just to get coverage and connectivity.”
The ACCC is still looking for individuals and businesses to contribute to the program.
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picks September 02, 2015
Things move quickly in the ludic world of Laure Prouvost, so listen close and try to keep up. Unexpected liaisons arise between words in her loquacious videos, which spill into accompanying installations and artifacts. For instance, sitting amid the quirky tea service surrounding the Turner Prize–winning Wantee, 2013, one occasionally hears an anguished lament from an adjacent room, accessed by a diminutive corridor worthy of Alice in Wonderland: “They don’t understand! They don’t fucking understand!” the artist protests in a video titled Stong Sory Vegetables, 2010. But misunderstandings become
picks August 14, 2015
Louis Soutter and Victor Hugo
In his sole contribution to the journal Minotaure in 1936, Le Corbusier admitted that his cousin Louis Soutter’s visionary conception of a life—or a house—predicated on interiority was entirely opposed to his own. A more apt alliance is made in this exhibition, pairing Soutter’s works on paper with those of the author Victor Hugo. Common literary themes and a predilection for the fantastic over descriptive fidelity unite the two artists, despite their stylistic differences. Soutter’s drawings flourish across notebooks and pages; Hugo’s washes of ink seep across leaves of paper in waves.
picks July 31, 2015
“Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence”
Examining the epistemological structure of the image, this exhibition surveys nonartistic practices that have utilized visual information as evidence. The eleven case studies here, each introduced with texts by a team of scholars, range from Alphonse Bertillon’s 1903 protocols for metric photography of crime scenes to video testimony and satellite images analyzed by the Forensic Architecture research group to confirm American drone strikes in Waziristan. Since visual testimony can confound as much as clarify, these examples often highlight the norms established to validate the images’ claims to
Phil Chang
Photography seems increasingly difficult to delimit as it dissolves into an undifferentiated mass of imagery. By contrast, Phil Chang’s work in and around photography is insistently precise and deceptively simple. For the present exhibition, two bodies of work face off across the gallery, crossing digital and analog modes of photographic production and reproduction. One of these, a group of five untitled purple monochromes from 2015, is the result of a printing process that enables digital image files to be produced as traditional chromogenic photographs. The monochromes progressively increase
Willem Oorebeek
Funneled into a serpentine corridor of temporary walls hung with black-and-white printed imagery, visitors immediately confront their own images reflected in the dot-matrix-like patterns of Willem Oorebeek’s DIMEX ROOM, “VERSAILLES,” 2015. This hall of mirrors constructed from black rubber mats covered in glass panes announces the exhibition as a machine for the processing and circulation of images. Among these are the members of his Vertical Club, 1994–present, large-scale lithograph prints of standing figures snatched from the pages of magazines, arranged facing the viewer. These life-size
picks June 15, 2015
Charred circuit boards crossed with fractured cosmologies or perhaps cybernetic mandalas—that’s initially what one thinks of staring down many of Jack Whitten’s recent paintings. Others evoke aerial views of scarred landscapes or glittering, master-planned metropoles. Yet their tactile surfaces leaven their severity. Individual works name check Alexis Tsipras, among others, but this exhibition’s title, “Escalation,” announces a sort of arms race for abstract painting’s engagement with the world by an artist who has long emphasized painting as a technology. Here, acrylic tesserae from a process
picks May 21, 2015
For those who would produce art irreducible to simple categorization and the constraints of genre and gender, this exhibition offers an intrepid model. An ambitious retrospective, it argues that Carol Rama’s seven decades of work challenges normative modes of art historiography. While largely unfolding chronologically, additional thematic overlays chart the recursive nature of Rama’s interests in particular motifs and strategies.
Often Rama uses contamination to question rational knowledge, placing contrasting systems of representation in a single pictorial field, such as pulsating mythic figures
Zak Kitnick
Imagine “Peace.” No John and Yoko here—it’s Zak Kitnick’s exhibition title, and he’s cooking up something more fungible. Visitors are greeted by a poster reproduction presenting a buffet of olive-related products under the heading “L’OLIVE / THE OLIVE.” Titled Lifetime Archievement (all works 2015), it suggests the double-sided character of linguistic translations in Kitnick’s enterprise. Proceeding upstairs, steel panels with printed stock photos of olive branches literalize the symbol of peace. How to best distribute this concept in reified form? Press the pictured cash crop into liquid asset:
“Yves Saint Laurent 1971: The Scandal Collection”
Not all survivals are happy, and not all citations are affirmations: Yves Saint Laurent’s spring–summer 1971 collection retrieved the austere women’s dress of the Vichy era that Dior’s New Look hoped to annihilate some twenty years earlier. Inspired by the styles of the wartime years, the presentation provoked a rancorous response among the press, which deemed the collection “bitchy,” “hideous,” “deplorable,” and “insulting” to fashion. Drawing from and designing for the street, Saint Laurent brought couture and prêt-à-porter uncomfortably close, while evoking a period many would have preferred
picks April 22, 2015
Profoundly influenced by Surrealism’s investment in the unconscious and the artist’s own experience undergoing psychoanalysis, Hervé Télémaque’s particular inflection of Pop art renders the body as always somehow lacking and at risk of being revealed as such. These concerns are manifest in a wide range of mediums in this Haitian-born artist’s retrospective of over five decades of work, much of it produced in France. Throughout the exhibition, Télémaque dispenses irony and humor to serve his needle-sharp implication of political discourses around race and power. In an upper corner of My Darling
Compelled by an ingenuous sense of wonder, artist Hicham Berrada is a programmer of chemical and organic processes, which is an approach that aligns him with thinkers such as Gaston Bachelard and Roger Caillois who sought to unite scientific and aesthetic modes of inquiry. A painterly use of color is evident throughout this exhibition, which is dominated by an indigo palette. In Azur, 2014–15, timed heating elements catalyze a color change in the cobalt chloride that the artist used to paint six rectangular supports, transforming them from monochromes into imperceptibly moving pictures of
It’s hard not to be seduced by the array of Eileen Quinlan’s shimmering vermillion and amber panels, which recall Turner’s feverish sunsets or the violent splendor Delacroix gives to Sardanapalus’s bed linens. In Quinlan’s current exhibition in Paris, the sole work on view is Double Charlie, 2015: two photographs of a nearly abstract metallic leather surface shot under similar studio setups. Alternating across two rows of six panels, the entire editions of both pictures are presented, a recurring device of the artist. This accumulation of near equivalences pushes the specificity of the photographic
picks February 09, 2015
With her mostly mute recent projections it becomes clear that noise is no mere synonym for sound for Trisha Donnelly but a constitutive aspect of any transmission. Featuring untitled works from this year and the last, this exhibition comprises six projections united by formal resonances and a hypnotic restructuring of time; their ambient light provides the only illumination for a single, demure drawing. Within the darkness glimmers a subtle approach to thinking through technological media and their relationship to language and experience.
In the longest of the looping videos we may recognize an
As with any good flick trafficking in the alien, one likely hears the thing before seeing it. The thing, in this case, is a cinema chair in the middle of the gallery. Its back gently, almost imperceptibly, expands and contracts in motored respirations. A robotic chest plate pierces the skin of the upholsterynot cloth, neither leather nor vinyl, but something fleshy and moistrevealing its mechanical core. It wants to be touched. This work, Mental Parasite Retreat 1 (all works 2014), introduces Dora Budor’s exhibition, which gleefully cloaks itself in the trappings and tropes of science
picks November 20, 2014
In the Dantesque world of Cécile B. Evans’s video Hyperlinks or it didn’t happen (all works 2014), a digitally rendered likeness of Philip Seymour Hoffman is our Virgil, among a number of other virtual actors, including a spam bot, an agoraphobic YouTube celebrity, and a holographic pop star crooning “Forever Young.” As if speaking from the beyond, PHIL implores, “And please, don’t call me uncanny.” A fair warning that the old critical models need not apply here.
Identity is not obsolete, though. Race and gender are loaded issues throughout Evans’s exhibition, which is rounded out by photomontages
picks October 15, 2014
To visit Katinka Bock’s “Populonia” is to enter a complex conceptual geography. A pair of parallel hoses—one containing brackish and the other fresh water—courses through the gallery, each diverted from the same faucet. Before spilling onto the sidewalk, the tracks wend through configurations of ceramic, bronze, steel rebar, glass panels, and textiles that evoke or mirror city plans, the architecture of the gallery, anthropomorphic statuary, and archaeological digs. An aperture incised by the artist in a gallery wall frames a normally private viewing room in which additional works are installed.
Letha Wilson
Letha Wilson’s blend of photography and sculpture speaks to the entanglement of human and natural histories as we come to terms with the Anthropocene. In her latest solo exhibition, Wilson offers new composites of the natural and the architectonic, in an array of aleatory techniques that fuse cement and concrete with C-prints as well as with emulsion transfers of abstract phenomena rendered in high-saturation hues. Photographs are not mere images here but can also serve as printing matrix or casting mold.
Categorical ambiguity reigns throughout the show, and it’s difficult to find a unified
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At Music Haven, a Pitch-Perfect Senior Sendoff
Six Music Haven students won’t be returning to their string instruments, practice stands, and studio lessons in Erector Square next year—and for the first time in its existence, the organization is okay with that. Thrilled, in fact.
The students—Sofia Galvan, Giovana Harris, Noel Mitchell, Jeanna’e Moore, Robert Oakleyand Damani Salahuddin—are all high school seniors, the first in the nonprofit’s 12-year history to graduate and head to college. Come September, they are headed to Western Connecticut State University, Central Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut, and Berklee College of Music.
Members of the "Discovery Orchestra" take the stage for the first time. Lucy Gellman Photos.
Thursday night, they celebrated that milestone—and Music Haven’s growing crop of young students—at the organization’s annual spring performance party, held at John C. Daniels School in New Haven's Hill neighborhood. Because Music Haven’s winter performance party was snowed out twice, Director Mandi Jackson said it is the only chance students have to perform this year.
They took advantage of it, a parade of pint-sized players queuing up on the side of the auditorium, and taking the stage with tidy bows and saucer-sized eyes to the audience. Cradling their new violins, members of Patrick Doane’s “Discovery Orchestra” brought on the first applause of the night, launching into a variation on “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” that caught audiences with a fake-out ending, then gave one more minute of twinkly strings.
They welcomed their peers from the organization’s ongoing “Music Bridge” program, which teaches music to refugee students. A barrage of strings followed: a mostly smooth rendition of “Sadly/Row/Lightly Row” from a “Mostly Viola Studio,” a thrilling mashup of classical music and the slick Batman theme, a rousing cello rendition of Ben King’s “Stand By Me.”
But the graduating seniors, and their soon-to-follow peers, stole the show. Joined by teachers Gregory Tompkins and Annalisa Boerner, Oakley and Galvan launched into Arcangelo Corelli’s “Largo a la Festiva,” a winding piece in which violin and viola talk past each other, and then figure out how to reconcile.
With the group’s “Muse Quartet” (Audrey Rivetta, Sofia Galvan, Isabel Melchinger, Tompkins filling in for Noel Mitchell), Galvan returned to the stage for Beethoven’s “Op. 59, No. 1, Movement 1,” a sort of dizzying dance as strings orbit each other excitedly.
So too with the aptly-named CJZJ Quartet (Cristofer Zunun, Justin Zlabys, Jordan Brown; Z’Kiiya Crawford), a group of middle and high schoolers who took on Hayden’s “Op. 33, No. 3, Movement I,” and showed that Music Haven is in strong and nimble hands as the seniors pass the baton. Already, several of the organization’s earliest students have become teaching apprentices, with students like Melchinger taking on tiny cello pupils of her own.
It was enough for Galvan, Oakley, Moore, Harris, and Salahuddin to look a little teary-eyed when they took the stage one last time, to perform “Dona Nobis Pacem” with all of the organization’s 80-some students. As sections joined in one by one, the room filled with sound, parents leaning in with their phones and cameras to record.
For many of the seniors, the performance marks coming full circle in more ways than one. Headed to UConn for degree in art education, Galvan began her time with Music Haven 12 years ago, when the organization was a budding after-school program operating out of John C. Daniels and Wexler Grant elementary schools (it was formally incorporated as a nonprofit in 2006).
Zunun, a rising senior at Co-Op High School, ready to take the reins for one more year.
Galvan, with Isabel Melchinger in the background.
Long before the group’s Whalley Avenue and Erector Square locations, Galvan recalled practicing at Daniels, trying to figure out what a string instrument was and how to make it sound right. She watched as two cycles of teachers came and went, and the organization changed leadership, then moved from a former auto-garage on Whalley to Fair Haven.
“Music Haven helped me figure out what I want to do,” she said, biting into a chip-studded cookie after the performance “I don’t want to be a music teacher, but I want to be an art teacher because … well, when I teach some of my practice students and they get through a song, I’m like ‘Wow! I helped with that.’ I think it would be even better if I was an adult doing that. I think it would be fun for me.”
“It goes by really fast,” she added. “I think that music is going to be pushed back a bit, but I want to keep music in my life. Spending 12 years of my life doing something is, like, the greatest thing ever. Music has really opened a lot of opportunities and doors—and if I keep it in my future, it’s going to be something that I can enjoy. I feel like it can just get better from here.”
Damani Salahuddin (pictured second in to the right, with Cris Zunun): “There are times that I’ve wanted to quit. But I kind of stuck to my guns and stuck with this over the time. It’s made my skills more broad." Lucy Gellman Photos.
Salahuddin also began early in the organization’s life, in 2008. A saxophone player who picked up violin, he said that the organization has instilled in him a dedication to music he wasn’t expecting, and plans to continue building at the Berklee College of Music.
“There are times that I’ve wanted to quit,” he said. “But I kind of stuck to my guns and stuck with this over the time. It’s made my skills more broad—I play primarily jazz, but through this, I’ve learned a lot about classical, and different genres and styles.”
Joking with Zunun and Oakley, 10-year Music Haven violin veteran Moore said she is also going to miss the organization—but is excited for what’s ahead at Central Connecticut State. As a kid, Moore took lessons at Wexler Grant on Wednesdays and Fridays, watching as the organization expanded, and then expanded again.
While she’s now headed straight for a technical theater major, she said she hopes to continue both playing, and using the patience she’s learned to excel in the school’s choir and her academic classes alike.
“I hope I continue to do music!” she said. “It went by really fast. It takes me forever to do things, and I don’t always have the patience to try and succeed. But there was a lot of inspiration and a lot of encouragement that went along with the process of learning.”
For more video from the concert, check out the Arts Council of Greater New Haven's Facebook Page. To listen to an interview between Music Haven student Noel Mitchell and Youth Arts Journalist Naama Gorham, click on or download the above sound file.
Arts & Culture, Education & Youth, Music, New HavenLucy Gellman June 1, 2018 The Hill, Music HavenComment
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Motorcyclist Magazine Going Out of Print
It is the end of an era, as we get word from Dealer News that Motorcyclist Magazine will cease its print production after its July/August edition.
Going forward, the fabled print publication will shift to a purely digital medium, focusing on its website, social media channels, and video productions.
This move comes just two and a half years after Motorcyclist switched to a six-issue per year format, as the brand tried to re-gear itself as more of a lifestyle offering for two-wheeled enthusiasts.
Yes! MV Agusta Superveloce 800 Going into Production
The message from MV Agsuta was short and sweet on social media, “We feed your desire. The MV Agusta Superveloce. Coming 2020.” Three terse sentences, and with that we have confirmation that the MV Agusta Superveloce 800 will be a 2020 model year bike for the Italian brand.
It makes sense, though, as the Superveloce got a huge response on its debut last year at EICMA – almost eclipsing the company’s new production model, the MV Agusta Brutale 1000 Serie Oro, which we have heard very little about since the Italian trade show, and still doesn’t show up on the brand’s website.
Back to the Superveloce 800 though, the machine is a neo-retro take on the MV Agusta F3 800 sport bike, which it shares a platform with. This makes the MV Agusta Superveloce 800 mostly a styling exercise…but it is quite the design, if we do say so.
You Can Now Listen to All Our Motorcycle Podcasts on Spotify
For a while now, we have been getting requests for our family of podcasts to be on Spotify, and today your requests have been answered.
That is right, you can now listen to the Brap Talk, Paddock Pass, and Motorcycles on the Record (MOTR) podcasts on Spotify (those links should open your player), and any smart speaker device that can use the audio service. Booyah!
If you do listen to these shows, and you have Spotify, be sure you click the “Follow” button on their profiles, so you get notified when a new show is uploaded.
Triumph Speed Twin Leaks Ahead of EICMA Debut
Triumph has several new motorcycles to debut at the EICMA show in Milan, but ahead of that debut, a Triumph dealer has spoiled the fun, posting photos of the 2019 Triumph Speed Twin to social media.
Spotted first by our friends at NieuwsMotor.nl, the photos come from Triumph’s yearly dealer conference, where the new machines were first shown to the public. Since then, the Triumph Scrambler 1200 has formally debuted, and now we see the Speed Twin that will go alongside it.
The Triumph Speed Twin picks up where the Triumph Street Twin left off, and supposedly shares its 1,200cc parallel-twin engine with the Triumph Thruxton platform. This means a 97hp peak power figure, with 83 lbs•ft of torque.
BMW Begins Teasing Its New S1000RR Superbike
We have only a month longer to wait until BMW Motorrad debuts its all-new superbike, and the German brand has now begun teasing the new liter-bike on its social media channels.
Showing only a race track, with sounds of an accelerating motorcycle off-screen (and then a quick flash going by), zie Germans are not giving too much away yet, and we are left to our own sources to figure out what is in store for the 2019 BMW S1000RR.
The big news is the arrival of a counter-rotating crankshaft, which should help keep down the front wheel, and improve side-to-side transitions. This means that BMW Motorrad will join Ducati in producing a current superbike engine that uses this race-derived engine setup.
We also expect BMW to bring out several versions/trim levels to the new S1000RR, so as to better take advantage of the changing rules in the World Superbike Championship. This should mean a higher-spec race homologation bike, which could include aerodynamic aids.
Paddock Pass Podcast #83 – San Marino GP
Episode 83 of the Paddock Pass Podcast is out, and in it we see Steve English, Neil Morrison & David Emmett on the mics, as they discuss the recent San Marino GP at Misano.
Before we can get to a dissection of the weekend’s racing, the first part of the show covers the Romano Fenati situation, and gets the perspective of these three MotoGP pundits regarding the Moto2 incident.
After a lengthy conversation about Fenati, the show turns to the Ducati MotoGP program, and talks about how the Italian motorcycle is widely held as the best on the grid. Despite having to take on the Ducatis though, Marc Marquez has still been able to fend off Dovizioso and Lorenzo in the Championship results.
Two Enthusiasts Podcast #84 – New Beginnings
Episode 84 of the Two Enthusiasts Podcast is out, and in it we talk a lot about new riders to motorcycling. But before we get into that, we get some news out of the way, namely the Triumph Scrambler 1200 that will debut in October.
Getting into the meat of things, we talk extensively on the show about how we became motorcyclists, and the challenges we faced as new riders. We also talk about the troubles with riding in groups, and how to approach your first track day.
The show isn’t a how-to for new motorcyclists per se, but it covers a lot of the issues that new riders will face on the road and track, and gives them something to chew on as they get some miles under their belt.
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Two Enthusiasts Podcast #83 – The Day Hell Froze Over
Episode 83 of the Two Enthusiasts Podcast is out, and in it we talk mostly about Harley-Davidson’s big fat new bike road map announcement.
Before we get to that though, we talk some news: Triumph North America losing its COO, MV Agusta’s new Moto2 race bike, Aprilia’s rumored parallel-twin sport bike, and emission concerns in Europe & Japan, as well as California.
The conversation then turns to news from World Ducati Week 2018, as well as a recap from the Suzuka 8-Hours endurance race in Japan.
From there, we talk about Harley-Davidson – its ADV bike, its streetfighter, its custom model, and its electric lineup. We also talk about the company’s business plan going forward, and what we see in Harley-Davidson’s future.
There is a lot of ground to cover in this show, but thankfully we had plenty of caffeine to help us through it. Enjoy!
Two Enthusiasts Podcast #82 – Bring the Noise
Episode 82 of the Two Enthusiasts Podcast is out, and in it we talk mostly about track days, new riders, and the mental process of going fast on a motorcycle.
The show isn’t so much of a how-to for track days, as it is more of an hour-long philosophical discussion about riding motorcycles around a race track.
From there, we finish up with some news items, like Dani Pedrosa’s retirement, Yamaha’s mid-sized Niken, the lack of a Triumph Daytona 765, Ducati Streetfighter V4 rumors, a duo of new Kawasaki sport bikes (ZX-6R & ZX-10RR), BMW’s new superbike, and some racing gossip.
Lastly, we remember William Dunlop and James Cowton, who lost their lives road racing recently. Our thoughts are with their family and friends.
Two Enthusiasts Podcast #81 – Sex Panther
Episode 81 of the Two Enthusiasts Podcast is out, and it is a marathon show – right at 2.5 hours in length. Because of that duration, we cover a huge range of topics, the first of which is a little news about Harley-Davidson, and the growing American trade war.
From there, we move to Jensen’s recent trip to Italy, where he rode the new MV Agusta Turismo Veloce 800 Lusso SCS, which features a new auto-clutch for sport bikes, made in partnership with Rekluse.
Jensen’s travels then took him to Milan, where he visited Pirelli’s world headquarters and testing facility, which was a unique experience in seeing how tires are evaluated and produced.
Lastly came a trip south to Sicily, to visit the Metzeler/Pirelli R&D testing facility, where Jensen rode the entire Metzeler tire range up a volcano…no seriously.
Back home in the USA, Quentin was doing a bit of racing, as he lined up on the grid in OMRAA’s 250 Ninja Cup. He then played on the other side of the wrench in his travels to Pikes Peak, spinning wrenches for Michael Woolaway, who raced a custom Ducati Hypermotard up the Colorado mountain.
At the same time, Jensen was in Laguna Seca for the World Superbike weekend, and the following Pirelli track day. There, Jensen got to ride two very unique motorcycles: the Kramer HKR EVO2 and the BMW HP4 Race. A short review: they did not suck.
Since Quentin recently also got a chance to ride the Kramer, the two trade notes on the show about this interesting single-cylinder motorcycle, and how much fun it is to ride smaller-displacement motorcycles on the track.
Like we said, it’s a marathon show, but we think you will find all the topics not only interesting, but the stories entertaining.
Two Enthusiasts Podcast #80 – Mac Track
Episode 80 of the Two Enthusiasts Podcast is out, and it is a lesson in how not to record a podcast, as the first 30 minutes of show were lost to some technical errors.
We recouped though, and the show is even more entertaining the second time around…maybe.
First, we talk about Quentin’s recent stint as an endurance racer, as he participated in a six-hour race at a local go-kart track.
After a lengthy discussion, we turn our attention to other racing events that happen to be going on, namely the MotoGP round at Mugello, the Isle of Man TT, and the Erzberg Rodeo.
The episode is a bit late to get out, so not all the racing news might be current, but we think it is still a pretty interesting show.
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Chinese Ascendant
The Chinese ascendant determines the character
The Chinese ascendant determines the character Scroll down
Humans are shaped by the zodiac signs and their particular elements; both are complemented by the ascendant. By the way: the Chinese horoscope does not use the rising star on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. Each zodiac sign of the Chinese horoscope rules about 2 hours of each single day.
This minor subordinated cycle starts at 11 p.m. and lasts until 1 a.m. and is represented by the rat. In the case of a midnight birth, someone’s ascendant is the rat - and its proper characteristics adopt his personality. If your time of birth is known to you then you can select from the ascendant calculation table which animal represents your character.
1-3h a.m.: Ox
3-5h a.m.: Tiger
5-7h a.m.: Rabbit/Cat
7-9h a.m.: Dragon
9-11h a.m.: Snake
11-13h a.m.: Horse
13-15h a.m.: Sheep/Goat
15-17h a.m.: Monkey
17-19h a.m.: Rooster
19-21h a.m.: Dog
21-23h a.m.: Pig
23-1h a.m.: Rat
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In the one-hour special, Adele: Live in London, the artist is joined by her band to perform classic tracks, as well as songs from her new album 25. Hosted by BBC AMERICA’s iconic talk-show host Graham Norton, Adele opens up about the pressure she felt to follow her hugely successful album 21 and pleasing her devoted fans,… Read More
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Editorial: Officer violated victims and the public trust
Last week, former Bloomington police sergeant Jeff Pelo was convicted of raping four women and stalking a fifth. The verdict brought resolution to a trial two years in the making, as jurors found the 43-year-old guilty on 35 criminal counts, including aggravated sexual assault.
Society places a great deal of trust in those who carry guns and badges. As such, there is not much worse than a cop gone bad. Prosecutors say Pelo exploited his police resources and training to scout out and prey on his victims. His conduct is an insult to law enforcement officers who do their jobs ethically and honorably.
Pelo's crime, then, was not just against the women this jury firmly believed he brutalized, but against the entire community, including a police force whose job of seeing to the public's safety just got harder because of the doubt and distrust Pelo has created. That's why the judicial system must treat cops gone bad harshly. Pelo's sentencing is set for August.
As for the victimized women, no sentence is long enough to undo the physical and psychological pain they've suffered. By coming forward to testify, they were far, far braver than their attacker.
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Biofacade Technology and Microalgae-Covered Buildings by XTU Architects
About XTU Architects
The biofacade technology provides natural insulation, absorbs carbon dioxide and produces oxygen. XTU Architects proposes algae-covered towers for Hangzhou.
Huangzhou, China, can win another daring architectural project. It is that the French studio XTU Architects developed a project of four twisted glass towers. So far so good. The building is even more curious to have the facade lined with panels with microalgae.
Called French Dream Towers, the buildings must include biofacade technology. The algae layer provides natural insulation and compensates for the building's environmental impact by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
"The culture of microalgae on the facade of building is a process developed by XTU for several years. It allows symbiosis: the biofacade uses the thermal building to regulate the temperature of algae and at the same time these biofacades allow a much better insulation of the buildings", architects said in a statement.
Arup was a pioneer in biofacade technology five years ago, with the world's first algae building in Hamburg, Germany.
Microalgae growing in glass panels can be used to generate renewable energy. According to the publication, XTU Architects suggested that in case of its Hangzhou towers, algae could be harvested for use in medicines or cosmetics.
One of the towers should include restaurants, a panoramic bar, a hotel, a spa and a beauty salon. Another tower would be dedicated to art, with galleries, etc. Already the last tower will be for business, with offices, startups and spaces of coworking.
XTU is an award-winning architecture and design firm founded in 2000 by principal architects Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazieres. Located in Paris, France, XTU specializes primarily in academic and environmental research in addition to residential and cultural buildings.
Convinced that living organisms will be the biotechnology revolution of tomorrow, XTU engages its innovative research on the themes of bio-inspired and photosynthetic architecture. In addition to these innovations, XTU also develops biofacades for cultivating plankton species on the exteriors of buildings and creating new architectural ecosystems.
Email: architects@x-tu.com
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Thorburn, a Spokane resident, fills a vacant eastern Washington position that runs through 2016. Thorburn has degrees from Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco. She previously worked as a professor of medicine for the University of Hawaii, as the director for Spokane Regional Health District and, most recently, as the medical director for Planned Parenthood of the Inland Northwest. Thorburn has held offices for the Spokane Audubon Society and Washington Ornithological Society and was the recipient of the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2010 Volunteer of the Year award for her efforts to help bring sage grouse and sharp-tailed grouse back to Lincoln County.
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Two guitar, piano or ukulele lessons (30 minutes each) with Peter Tentindo - Value $80
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Two guitar, piano or ukelele lessons (half hour) with Peter Tentindo (Ipswich)
Peter Tentindo
Musician | Producer | Performer | Songwriter
Peter is a professional private guitar and beginner piano instructor residing just north of the Boston, MA area who is looking for new students of all ages to teach. Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Salem State University and has over 10 years of experience teaching music to children and adults. He has experience playing and performing many different styles of music, ranging from rock, pop, country, jazz, and funk.
For guitar students, Peter accepts students of all levels of experience, from beginners to advanced players. For piano students, Peter prefers to start with beginners to cover the fundamentals of theory and learning how to play the instrument. Lessons cover the very basics of learning how to play the instrument intertwined with music theory. Whether you are a beginner starting out, an advanced player, or just want play your favorite songs, Peter structures his lessons to each student’s individual needs and helps to set goals for progress.
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10+ years experience teaching guitar at all levels of experience, from beginners to advanced players, and piano beginners covering the fundamentals of theory and learning how to play the instrument.
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Peter tailors each student’s lesson on an individual basis and their specific needs. For example, one student may be interested in learning how to sight read music, while another student may want to just learn just how to play their favorite songs on guitar or piano. Even if someone wants to better understand the concept of music theory without learning an instrument, Peter is adaptable in helping the student reach his or her fullest potential and goals.
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For scheduling private lessons, Skype lessons, and rates, please email Peter at tentindomusic@gmail.com
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2001 Articles Cause Cremated Currently Serving Deceased Police Funeral Gender GPS Incomplete Location Male Monument Murder NSW Of event On Duty Pedestrian / on foot Photos Pursuit State Tribute Urgent Duty Vehicle accident Wall of Remembrance Year Yes
James AFFLECK
James AFFLECK – VA
aka Jim, Jamie to his family
New South Wales Police Force
Police Academy Class 159
ProCst Regd. # 92373
[alert_yellow]Regd. # 18315[/alert_yellow]
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 18 September 1978
Constable 1st Class – appointed 29 August 1984
Senior Constable – appointed 29 August 1988
Stations: ?, Hurstville HWP, Campbelltown HWP – Death
Awards: National Medal – granted 2 February 1995
Born: 9 July 1957
Died: 14 January 2001
Cause: Murdered – by Motor Vehicle whilst using Road Spikes to stop a stolen vehicle which drove straight at, and collided with, him.
Location: Hume Hwy ( north bound ), Glen Alpine
Funeral location: Camden Civic Centre
Grave: Cremated
Grave site: Interred in Woronora Cemetery on 3 June 2003
General Plaque Lawn. Lawn 4 Position 0796
Memorial: Jim Affleck Bridge, Hume Hwy, Glen Alpine, NSW
Jim AFFLECK
About 8.40am on 14 January, 2001 police were attempting to stop a stolen vehicle during a high speed pursuit at Mittagong. Approval was given to place road spikes on the roadway and Senior Constable Affleck and other police did this near the Mark Evans Bridge, Glen Alpine. When the offending vehicle, travelling north, reached the spikes the driver intentionally swerved from one side of the north bound laned road to the other, hitting the senior constable, who was killed instantly. The driver was later arrested and charged with murder.
The senior constable was born in 1957 and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 18 September, 1978. At the time of his death he was attached to the Campbelltown Highway Patrol.
[alert_green]Jim IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_green]
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Campbelltown mourns 13th anniversary of police officer’s death
Amanda Partridge
Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
Police officers pause to remember the late Jim Affleck, who was killed in the line of duty in 2001. Picture: ROBERT POZO Source: News Limited
IT’S been 13 years since highway patrol officer Jim Affleck was run down by a car on the Hume Highway.
But as nearly 100 people packed into the Campbelltown police station carpark yesterday to mark the anniversary of Sen Constable Affleck’s death, it was clear his legacy still burns strong.
Fellow officers, his widow Trish, and even a great nephew were among those to pay tribute to Sen Constable Affleck during a memorial yesterday.
The congregation gathered around the memorial garden dedicated to Sen Constable Affleck to lay wreaths and share kind words in honour of the police officer.
Jim Affleck’s widow Trish lays a wreath at the memorial garden, in honour of her late husband. Picture: ROBERT POZO. Source: News Limited
The Jim Affleck memorial garden bears freshly-laid flowers. Picture: ROBERT POZO Source: News Limited
Sen Constable Affleck’s car and police hat were present for the service.
The day marked 13 years since Sen Constable Affleck was run down by a car on the Hume Highway near Menangle on January 14, 2001, while laying road spikes to stop a stolen vehicle whose occupants were wanted for robberies.
Campbelltown police Insp Jason Inkster said the command believed it was important to honour Sen Constable Affleck’s sacrifice each year.
“It’s important because Jim was attached to the command at the time the incident occurred,” he said. “It’s important to remember our colleagues killed in the line of duty.
“I think it means a lot to his fellow officers and family, showing that we still remember the commitment and sacrifice made by Jim.”
Police and Jim Affleck’s family share hugs and fond memories of the late Jim Affleck. Picture: ROBERT POZO Source: News Limited
A photo of Jim Affleck sat atop his car at a memorial service yesterday. Picture: ROBERT POZO Source: News Limited
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Driver who ran down officer ‘was re-enacting computer game’
By Ellen Connolly
The scene of Senior Constable Affleck’s death. Photo: Nick Moir
The driver of a stolen car who killed a highway patrol officer during a police chase was re-enacting one of his PlayStation computer games, The Need for Speed – Hot Pursuit, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
Trevor Edward Holton, 26, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Senior Constable Jim Affleck, 43, near Campbelltown on January 14 last year.
In his opening address yesterday, the Crown prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi, QC, said that during the pursuit Holton was ”testing his car rallying skills” and was ”engaged in a real life re-enactment of the computer game”.
”To him the lives of other road users and the lives of police officers were just there as props to provide the thrill of the chase, and they were expendable in the pursuit of that thrill. Jim Affleck’s death was just part of this real-life game.”
The court was told the chase began about 8.30am after another man, who was a passenger in the four-wheel-drive, committed a bag snatch at Moss Vale. Also in the car was the man’s four-year-old stepdaughter.
For the next 40 minutes police chased the stolen vehicle as it drove on the wrong side of the road along the M5 freeway and the old Hume Highway, reaching speeds of up to 180kmh.
At one stage the passenger got out of the car and tried to take the girl with him but Holton sped off with her.
Senior Constable Affleck tried to stop the vehicle by throwing road spikes across the M5 but Holton swerved across two lanes to miss the spikes and hit the officer, Mr Tedeschi said. His body landed 80 metres away.
The stolen vehicle somersaulted and landed on its roof, with the girl, uninjured, still in the back. Holton fled but was arrested that night.
In a police interview Holton had said he ”was not prepared, at any stage, to get pulled over or stop”. He had seen Senior Constable Affleck running across the road in front of him trying to get the spikes under the vehicle.
”I couldn’t swerve; I couldn’t dodge him. I was going too fast. It’s like he [Affleck] didn’t care what happened.
”To me it was like it was suicide. He could see how fast I was going. He could see I could not stop.
”I have just been so angry … he could have avoided me so easy.”
He had said he knew about road spikes from playing the computer game, in which the main method of avoiding spikes is to veer off the road onto a median strip or the grass.
Fury at killer’s ‘lenient’ jail term
The state Opposition has called for compulsory life terms to be imposed on anyone who kills a police officer, after the “lenient” sentencing of a man who ran down a highway patrol officer.
Trevor Edward Holton, 27, was jailed yesterday for a minimum 12 years for the murder of Senior Constable Jim Affleck, killed while laying road spikes during a high-speed pursuit in western Sydney on January 14 last year.
In handing down sentence in the Supreme Court, Acting Justice Thomas Davidson said the jail term had to deter others and demonstrate that such acts against police in the execution of their duty would not be supported by the courts.
But the shadow attorney-general, Chris Hartcher, said this was not reflected in the sentence and called on the judicial system to stand behind police officers.
“Mr Holton should go to jail for the rest of his natural life. He certainly would if the coalition was in office,” Mr Hartcher said.
The Attorney-General, Bob Debus, said he had sought advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions on prospects for an appeal. “Understandably, there is considerable community concern about the sentence imposed,” Mr Debus said.
The court heard Holton was re-enacting one of his PlayStation computer games and was testing his car rally skills during the 40-minute pursuit.
Constable Affleck’s distraught family said it was “extremely disappointed” at the sentence and wanted harsher terms imposed on anyone convicted of murdering a police officer.
“If someone is prepared to kill a police officer they’re prepared to kill anybody, and I think they should have a sentence which is much stronger for police,” the victim’s brother, Paul Affleck, said outside court. “They’re out there doing their job, protecting us, and it should be reflected in the sentencing. Mr Carr’s talking about minimum sentences all the time.”
Inspector Hans Rupp, who led the investigation, said: “Trish has lost a good husband, his work colleagues have lost a great mate and, unfortunately for NSW, we’ve lost a great policeman. You just can’t replace police of the calibre of Jim Affleck.”
Holton was sentenced to a maximum 16 years.
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Outrage at police killer’s mercy bid
By Sean Berry
The Sun-Herald
The family of murdered policeman Jim Affleck has described his killer’s attempt to appeal against a 12-year jail sentence as “an outrage”.
A year after Trevor Edward Holton was sentenced to serve a minimum of 12 years (maximum of 16) in jail for the highway patrol officer’s murder, he has initiated an appeal against the severity of the sentence in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
Holton, of Claymore, south-west Sydney, was sentenced in August after he ran down and killed Affleck in January 2001.
He hit Affleck with a stolen four-wheel-drive when he swerved to avoid road spikes the policeman was laying across the M5 Freeway at Campbelltown.
Delivering the sentence in the Supreme Court, Acting Judge Thomas Davidson said the jail term needed to act as a deterrent and demonstrate that such acts against police in the execution of their duty would not be tolerated.
However, the Department of Public Prosecutions has since lodged an appeal against the leniency of the sentence, with a hearing due next month.
The Crown’s stance is in contrast to Holton’s planned appeal against the harshness of the same sentence.
“If he does [appeal], it may well be that the Crown appeal in December will be vacated,” a court spokesman said. “The court likes to deal with these things as one.”
Any appeal against the severity flies in the face of the outrage that greeted the sentencing last year.
“We thought he deserved more,” the victim’s brother, Paul Affleck, said. “Before the sentencing we sat down with [then police minister] Michael Costa. He gave us an idea of what they were looking at for minimum sentences and more stringent sentencing.
“It has now been 12 months since the sentencing and nothing has been done. How many more policemen have to die before someone does something?”
NSW shadow attorney-general Andrew Tink said he had a simple approach to the matter.
“Anyone who kills a police officer while they are carrying out their duties should go to jail for life,” he said. “That is our strong stance.”
Mr Affleck said Holton’s bid to reduce his sentence was not a surprise, just unfortunate.
“We have been expecting that all along, just the way the defence was talking after the trial,” he said.
“Anyone who kills a policeman should spend his life in jail – he had a criminal record going back until he was 13 or something.
“I think it’s ridiculous and I don’t know why we tolerate these things. I just think it’s ridiculous he has the opportunity to [appeal].
“I think anyone who kills anyone doesn’t deserve any freedom.”
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Police killer spared more time in jail
By Les Kennedy
A policeman who died after being run over by a fleeing car thief should have shot his killer “between the eyes”, his widow says.
The widow of Senior Constable Jim Affleck was speaking yesterday after a court rejected the Crown’s appeal against the leniency of the sentence given to the man who ran him down.
Trish Affleck compared the situation her husband was in when he was killed by Trevor Edward Holton to that faced by another policeman, Inspector Shane Cribb, who has been charged over the shooting of a criminal who drove a getaway car at him three years ago.
“You have got Inspector Cribb looking down the barrel of a jail term for doing what I wish to God Jim had done. I wish to God he would have shot Holton between the eyes,” Mrs Affleck said with tears in her eyes.
The NSW Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, yesterday rejected the Crown’s argument for a tougher sentence for Holton, who was jailed in August 2002 for a minimum of 12 years, and a maximum 16, for the murder of Senior Constable Affleck.
On January 14, 2001, the stolen four-wheel-drive Holton was driving hit Senior Constable Affleck, a highway patrolman, as he laid out road spikes on M5 to stop the vehicle. Holton was being pursued by police after committing a robbery.
Holton also appealed against his conviction, but that was unanimously dismissed by justices Michael Grove, Robert Hulme and Rex Smart yesterday.
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Wall To Wall Ride 2012 – M5 Motorway South of Sydney. Slowing down in tribute to Jim Affleck, crossing the bridge named in his honour. Polair was hovering above filming, but because I didn’t check my vertical camera angle, I missed it!
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ix. JAMES AFFLECK
In January 2001 Senior Constable Jim Affleck was a Highway Patrol Officer who was run over a killed whilst deploying a set of ‘road spikes’ during a high speed police pursuit. The offending driver actually drove his vehicle at Affleck in a deliberate attempt to run him down. He was subsequently charged with murder.
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Deadly toll
By Jonathan Pearlman
Alone in his patrol car, Chris Thornton had the police siren flashing as he chased a white sedan through Woy Woy.
Thornton, 35, a highway patrolman, had been in the force for 15 years. He was, his mother says, “the best driver I have ever seen”.
The reason for the chase that night in April 2002 is unknown. Both cars were seen travelling at high speed. Thornton was about 50 metres behind.
Meanwhile, Leonard Rowley, 56, an unlicensed driver, was driving to his local KFC to pick up dinner. He saw the first car flash past and judged – wrongly – that he had time to turn out in front of the patrol car. Thornton tried to avoid Rowley’s car but clipped the back, veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit a power pole.
Thornton died on the spot, which is marked by a permanent stainless-steel cross. Rowley later received a suspended two-year sentence.
“His life from the age of 12 was about helping people,” says Thornton’s mother, Freada Thornton. “He was in the surf club and he was there to rescue people and then he went into the force and he was doing the same thing.” His father, Barry Thornton, says: “He loved life. He had been in Gosford for 15 years and was so popular with the community there.”
Police pursuits are, says Barry, a necessary evil: “If they don’t catch the criminals there will be more deaths on the roads. The ones that they’re in pursuit of are the idiots that have done the wrong thing to start with.”
But pursuits have come at a cost to the NSW Police Department. Fifteen officers have died as a result of high-speed chases, beginning with the death of Constable George Boore in 1937.
Details provided by the NSW Police Association show a steady stream of fatalities involving cars and motorcycles. The full list of casualties is as follows:
April 2, 1937: Constable George Boore;
June 2, 1954: Constable Cecil Sewell;
November 14, 1958: Constable Brian Boaden;
December 23, 1958: Constable William Lord;
October 14, 1961: Constable James Kinnane;
September 7, 1963: Constable Colin Robb;
December 2, 1976: Constable Terry Moncur;
January 3, 1985: Constable Wayne Rixon;
July 25, 1985: Detective-Constable Steven Tier;
October 20, 1987: Constable Themelis Macarounas;
August 24, 1988: Constable Peter Carter;
June 13, 1989: Constable Peter Figtree;
June 14, 1989: Senior Constable Glenn Rampling;
January 14, 2001: Senior Constable James Affleck;
April 13, 2002: Senior Constable Christopher Thornton.
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Interview with Olivia Howe
1. What inspired you to write your first book?
I was struggling with severe depression and anxiety when I realized that I wanted to write a book. I've always wanted to write a book, even though I wasn't always big on reading.
2. Are the experiences in your books based on someone you know or your own life’s events?
Yes. The main character in my series, Nina, is pretty much just like me. In some ways she is the person I would love to be. She struggles with depression and little things about her are just like me!
3. What actor/actress would you like to play your main characters?
I love this question!!!
Nina McKay- Emily Browning
Caroline McKay- Dakota Fanning
Ali McKay- Famke Janssen
Scott McKay- Christian Bale
Andrew Madsen- Ben Barnes
Alex Madsen- Minka Kelly
Ambrogio- Aaron Johnson
Selene- Amy Lee
Lilah- Eva Green
Ella- Kiera Knightley
Abel- Beau Mirchoff
Julian- Cam Gigandet
Lucian- Dominic Cooper
John Michael- Zachary Quinto
Ora- AnnaLynne McCord
Kali- Blake Lively
4. What’s the hardest thing about writing?
Avoiding writers block. That is definitely a problem for me!
5. What’s your favorite motivational phrase?
“Stay strong” - That has always been something I tell myself when things get hard.
“Be your own kind of beautiful” - I like this one to because it reminds me to be myself and I'm beautiful in my own way.
“Beautifully Broken” - It's the name of the blog I run with my partner. I love it so much because I know I'm broken, but really, I'm beautifully broken.
6. Any tips to get through the dreaded writers block?
Music always helped me. Also, I found that if I get writers block, I would put my computer down and take a walk or run an errand. Most of my writing comes from things I see go on around me. Taking a walk or even going to the grocery store gives you a different perspective on the moment. My mom is the one that told me that one. One time, I was experiencing writers block for weeks. I told her about it and she told me that I need to stop staring at the computer screen and go out and do something. It sure did help!
7. What famous person, living or dead, would you like to meet?
Ah! That's a tough one. There are so many people that I would love to meet, but if it came down to picking one, I would have to say Jeff Keith from Tesla, only because his songs have helped me avoid writers block on many occasions and
helped me write most of Seeing Red.
8. Do you have any unique talents or hobbies?
I'm like a really big nerd when it comes to computers..........
9. Favorite line from a movie?
Easy! I will block out the swearing part.
“Gatorade me, B***H!” said by Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad.
10. Any writing rituals?
I usually sit in bed with only a lamp on, shades shut because the bright light breaks my concentration. I put on the song I think would fit best when writing a certain scene in my book.
11. In the world of romance novels, sex or no sex and why?
Sex- because it's the most natural thing. When you have sex with someone, it commits your love toward each other even more. I'm not saying go out and have sex with someone you love. I'm saying that when two of my characters decide to have sex, they are doing it because they love each other. Sex is just another way of showing someone you love them.
12. Favorite pizza topping?
Oh, definitely pineapples!
13. Just as your books inspire authors, what authors inspired you to
write?
Stephanie Meyer with her vampire series. I fell in love with vampires because of her, AND Nicholas Sparks because he is such a romantic. I love all of his books. He tells these tales of amazing love stories. Vampires + Romance= Dark Love
14. When you walk into a room, what song should be playing?
Ha! I never thought about that before. It would have to be Song and Emotion by Tesla... just because I'm too in love with that song.
15. What do you consider your best accomplishment?
My best accomplishment would be self-publishing two novels! <3
16. Tell us a little about your work in progress.
I'm currently working on two projects (yes, at the same time). First is Book 3 in The Dark Love Series called Trying To Remember. It's going to start off where book 2 ended. Second is a totally new book. It's going to be a stand- alone
book called My Lost Forever. That title has changed like a dozen times so far and it might change more. It's about a young woman that survived a plane crash that killed 150 people and she was the only one that lived. She will also be struggling with the loss of the love of her life and finding out his true identity. It's going to be so epic!
Thank you Amy Gale for this interview! It was so much fun and I loved all of your questions! <3
Baton Blog Hop
What the heck is a Baton Blog Hop?
Each writer involved answers four questions and then passes the baton on to another person. I received the baton from Ruby Bassett. Her novel, Idol Wishes, will be available July 11 from The Wild Rose Press. I can't wait!!!
1. What am I working on?
I'm polishing up my new manuscript currently called Wrecked. It's about Goal-oriented queen-bee cheerleader Layla Anderson, who's attending traffic school to expunge her tarnished record and increase her chance of winning a scholarship to the prestigious Culinary Institute. When she's partnered with mysterious sweet-hearted bad-boy Chase Cooper, who avoids relationships lasting more than a few hours for fear of becoming a broken man like his father, she vows to steer clear of him and the trouble that follows. Then tragedy strikes when her parents are killed in a car accident, pulling Layla from her perfect world into a downward spiral of depression and abusive drinking. When her so-called friends abandon her, Chase is all that's left. Then Layla discovers that Chase is involved in an underground street racing circuit. Can the most unlikely person become her hero or will his secret wreck everything?
2. How does my work differ from others in it's genre?
My heroines tend to be strong, independent woman, even if they don't realize it at first. I'm a sucker for a bad boy and love to create heroes who are enticingly confident with a heart of gold. It's important to never give up on your dreams, and by the end of my stories my characters grow, allowing them to prevail over the obstacle standing in their way.
3. Why do I write what I do?
I'm a hopeless romantic. It's that simple. I love a happy ending and enjoy creating a bond between two people strengthened by their struggle to reach their happily ever after.
4. How does your writing process work?
I am a ridiculously organized person by nature, so it's no surprise I'm a plotter. I start out with a basic outline and then fill in the details as I work through the story line. By the time I sit down to write, I have the whole story mapped out in a spiral notebook. Of course, when my fingers are frantically dancing across the keyboard sometimes my story lines change direction. Then I begin the editing process to polish my manuscript as best I can before starting the submission process.
Time to pass the baton!!!!
I'm so excited to be passing the baton to Olivia Howe. Olivia's second novel, Seeing Red, is a sequel to Dark Love and will be released June 24th on her birthday :) Check it out and stop by her blog on June 30th to follow the baton.
BEA/ Book CON
As I'm sure you've seen, Blissful Tragedy got to meet Grumpy Cat at BEA/BookCon 2014 in New York City. What you don't know is that Blissful Tragedy took a tour around while it was there and now you get to WIN prizes. All you have to do is visit my social media pages i.e.: FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM and of course my WEBSITE and look for pictures labeled "Blissful Tragedy Tours NYC", then enter where Blissful Tragedy is in the picture you found into the Rafflecopter. The winner will receive a free digital copy of Blissful Tragedy and a $5.00 amazon gift card.
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EEStor comes up with an Earth Day announcement - it's "a huge milestone"
Apr 23rd 2009 at 12:50PM
Delays, hype, and more delays. This is the short history of EEStor, the company that keeps on talking about what is supposed to be an ultracapacitor that reinvents electric drive vehicle energy storage. Whatever is really going on, EEStor did put out a press release for Earth Day that keeps beating the hype drum. The announcement isn't about the ultracaps directly, but about EEStor's Composition Modified Barium-Titanate powders, which have apparently been verified by a third party to meet or exceed a relative permittivity of 22,500. The company says this "is a huge milestone" and that, "The automotive and renewable energy sectors are a few of the key markets that would benefit greatly with the technology."
For the non-technical among us (that would include me), let's ask Wikipedia what that might mean:
Permittivity is a physical quantity that describes how an electric field affects, and is affected by a dielectric medium, and is determined by the ability of a material to polarize in response to the field, and thereby reduce the total electric field inside the material. Thus, permittivity relates to a material's ability to transmit (or "permit") an electric field.
I'll leave it to our readers to tell us if that "relative permittivity of 22,500" is a big deal or not.
[Source: EEStor, Inc.]
EEStor, Inc. Announces Relative Permittivity Certification of Their Composition Modified Barium-Titanate Powders
CEDAR PARK, Texas, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- EEStor, Inc. announces relative permittivity certification of their Composition Modified Barium-Titanate powders. The third party certification tests were performed by Texas Research International's Dr. Edward G. Golla, PhD., Laboratory Director. He has certificated that EEStor's patented and patent pending Composition Modified Barium-Titanate Powders have met and/or exceeded a relative permittivity of 22,500.
EEStor feels this is a huge milestone which opens the advancement of key products and services in the electrical energy storage markets of today. The automotive and renewable energy sectors are a few of the key markets that would benefit greatly with the technology.
EEStor, Inc. develops solid-state electrical energy storage units (EESU's) in the form of batteries and capacitors. This technology has a wide variety of application use which includes with the added benefit of being longer lasting, lighter, more powerful, and more environmentally friendly than current technology in use.
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Siemens to close Ontario wind turbine blade manufacturing plant
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Jul. 18, 2017 - Siemens Wind Power Limited, as part of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, announced today it will close the wind blade manufacturing plant in Tillsonburg, Ont., by early 2018.
The closure will affect 340 employees, and will be conducted in phases through the rest of the calendar year.
The company said the decision to close the plant is a result of “significant changes in the global and regional markets, combined with physical limitations at the existing plant.”
“Today’s market environment requires significantly larger blades, a critical requirement for our business to remain globally competitive. The Tillsonburg factory cannot easily be adapted to manufacture this product portfolio. The significant investments necessary to bring the plant in line with current market requirements would result in costs that could not be competitive in the global markets,” according to a company statement.
As well, Siemens notes that the market in Eastern Canada has experienced a “significant reduction” in the demand for blades in the last year.
“This was a very difficult decision that was taken only after assessing all the options,” said David Hickey, head of the Siemens Gamesa Business in Canada. “We have a great team of employees at the plant who have produced quality work for the last six years, and we sincerely appreciate all their efforts. However, the harsh reality is that, in order to remain competitive, we must constantly evaluate our global manufacturing footprint.”
The plant began commercial operation in 2011 to provide wind blades for projects in Ontario and beyond. Since then, the plant has produced more than 2,500 blades and supported projects in Ontario & Quebec, Canada; U.S.; U.K.; and Sweden.
The company plans to provide affected employees with career counselling, job-placement assistance — including resume preparation — and redeployment where possible, in addition to severance packages.
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0 #2 Brad 2017-07-19 16:05
So much for the false ecconomy started by the Ontario Content rules in our energy policies. Temporary investment for a short period and then ,,,,nothing,,,f or 340 workers. Your article failed to mention where they are moving too.
Drove past the plant the other day and it looks like they are building up a bigger stockpile than ever covering adjacent fields with blades.
Too bad.
0 #1 Randy 2017-07-19 15:25
So much for Trudeau's and Butts alternative economy. Without subsidy to which Ontario's Liberals have forced their electorate into energy poverty to the tune of billions, the green economy does not exist. Chauk up another multi billion dollar fraud and failure to the Liberal machine of corruption and lies.
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XL Hybrids Develops Hybrid Paratransit Shuttle
June 6, 2016 • by Staff
Photo of GM cutaway buses courtesy of XL Hybrids.
XL Hybrids, Inc. has provided its newly-developed hybrid electric low-floor shuttle bus to ARBOC Specialty Vehicles, an Indiana-based small- and medium-duty bus manufacturer, for paratransit fleets.
The GM cutaway buses are upfitted with XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System and are designed to meet ARBOC’s specifications to optimize accessibility for paratransit and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The XL3 technology lowers carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 20%.
The XL3 hybrid system also adds less than 400 pounds to the cutaway buses and does not use any cabin space. The system also integrates seamlessly with OEM engines without impacting the routine of the driver.
“Accessibility for people in wheelchairs used to mean they had to be put on a lift and pushed inside buses,” said Don Roberts, president and CEO of ARBOC Specialty Vehicles. “Our low-floor buses are built on a conventional GM cutaway and include a ramp that is fully compliant with ADA criteria. Everyone uses the same door opening so that entering and exiting is safe, efficient and allows the same dignity for all passengers.”
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Walmart To Install EV Charging Stations Across Arkansas
As part of a coast-to-coast charging initiative, Walmart plans to install EV charging stations across the state, with plans to expand to an additionally 46 states.
N.H. Governor Vetoes Green Fleet Bill
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has vetoed a bill that aimed to replace all of the state’s fleet vehicles with zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2041.
Range Rover's 2019 P400e Plug-in Hybrid
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Clean Cities Funding Preserved
U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar did not offer an amendment to the FY-2020 Department of Energy budget, one that would have eliminated funding for the Clean Cities program.
ChargePoint, Electrify America Sign Roaming Agreement
A new partnership between ChargePoint and Electrify America will allow users of each electric-vehicle charging network to use the other network with no additional charges, the operators have announced.
WEX Sets Up EV Charging Payment Solution
WEX Inc. commercial fleet clients that manage plug-in electrified vehicles will be able to pay for charging under a new partnership with ChargePoint, which now operates the nation's largest EV charging network.
Exploring Propane as a Fleet Fuel Source
Propane may be a viable option for certain fleets looking for an alternative fuel source. While converting a vehicle to a propane system comes with a high initial cost, the system may come with reduced lifecycle costs over the course of that vehicle's life.
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Police search for suspect after man shot in Phoenix
Phoenix police are searching for a suspect after a man was shot in northwest Phoenix on Wednesday afternoon.
Police search for suspect after man shot in Phoenix Phoenix police are searching for a suspect after a man was shot in northwest Phoenix on Wednesday afternoon. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2019/01/02/police-search-suspect-after-man-shot-phoenix/2468516002/
Dani Coble, Arizona Republic Published 7:21 p.m. MT Jan. 2, 2019 | Updated 8:10 p.m. MT Jan. 2, 2019
Shooting(Photo: The Republic)
Phoenix police are searching for a suspect after a man was shot Wednesday afternoon in northwest Phoenix .
About 3:55 p.m., officers responded to a shooting around 4900 W. Gelding Drive, near 51st Avenue and Thunderbird Road, police said.
A man was found inside a home with a gunshot wound and was taken to a local hospital with survivable injuries, police said.
Police were searching for the shooter Wednesday evening and the investigation continues.
Further details were not immediately made available.
Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to call Phoenix police or Silent Witness at 480-948-6377.
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He took down dams, freed wolves and preserved wildlands. Bruce Babbitt is still at work
Trump to congresswomen: 'Go back' where you came from
Storm erupts over Tucson metro area; advisories also issued for La Paz County
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New Moldovan Government Vows Stronger Ties With EU
CHISINAU - Stronger ties with the European Union and bringing to justice those who abused power, including a controversial tycoon, are top priorities of Moldova's new government.
Prime Minister Maia Sandu made the comments on June 15 after the first meeting of her coalition cabinet. It convened a day after the caretaker government declared defeat, ending a political crisis in one of Europe's poorest countries.
Sandu's government comprises her pro-European ACUM group and the pro-Russia Socialist Party, which joined forces after months of political deadlock that followed an inconclusive parliamentary election in February.
But the former ruling Democratic Party (PDM) claimed the government was formed after a postelection deadline and therefore illegal.
The Democratic Party, however, conceded defeat on June 14. Vladimir Cebotari, vice president of the PDM, said the party was "stepping down to avoid an escalation which could lead to violence."
On June 15, the PDM said its leader, oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, had temporarily left Moldova.
Sandu accused Plahotniuc and his associates of crime and corruption.
'The heads of the mafia group that usurped power and terrorized the citizens of Moldova for years have left the country,' she said. 'We want to assure you that...all of those responsible, including Plahotniuc, will be brought back to Moldova and held accountable for all the abuse they participated in.'
In Washington, the U.S. State Department on June 14 welcomed the PDM's decision to withdraw, urging restraint during a transition period and promising that Washington 'remains committed' to supporting 'a more prosperous and democratic future' for Moldova.
One of the poorest countries in Europe, Moldova has been plagued by corruption and political turmoil since it won independence after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Sandu said improving ties with the EU are her government's priority -- Moldova's accession bid has stalled over the slow pace of reform -- but that Moldova is also open to boosting economic and trade cooperation with Russia.
'The government program states clearly that association with the EU is the basis of our activity,' said Sandu, announcing a visit soon by a delegation from Brussels. 'You are going to see very soon concrete steps, progress in improving our relations with the EU.'
With reporting by RFE/RL's Moldovan Service, AP, and AFP
Copyright (c) 2018. RFE/RL, Inc. Republished with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036
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The Artists With The Most Big Top 40 No.1 Singles Revealed!
Do you ACTUALLY know which artists have the most number ones ever? The Vodafone Big Top 40 was born on June 14th 2009 and we've seen some amazing artists at the top since then. (We're including collaborations).
1. 5 No.1 Singles: One Direction
One Direction's first ever chart topping single came on the 11th September 2011 with their debut track 'What Makes You Beautiful'. It stayed at the top for a single week before being knocked off by Dappy! Other No.1s include 'Drag Me Down' and 'One Way Or Another'.
2. 5 No.1 Singles: Bruno Mars
Yup, joining the elite list of artists with a whole load of No.1 singles is none other than Mr.Smooth, Bruno Mars. 'Just The Way You Are' was Bruno's first in October 2010.
3. 5 No.1 Singles: Sam Smith
Does it really surprise you to see this guy in the most No.1 singles of all time? His first No.1 came in 2013 on his Naughty Boy collaboration 'La La La' and he hasn't looked back since.
4. 5 No.1 Singles: Cheryl
Ever since the break-up of Girls Aloud, Cheryl has been on fire when it comes to chart hits. Her very first solo single 'Fight For This Love' went straight to the top spot in October 2009.
5. 6 No.1 Singles: Tinie Tempah
The KING of collaborations has arrived. The first time Tinie Tempah leapfrogged 39 other songs to capture pole position was in March 2009 with 'Pass Out'. Other No.1 hits include 'Not Letting Go' and 'Frisky'.
6. 6 No.1 Singles: Rihanna
The one and only Rihanna first grabbed the top spot on the 6th September 2009 with her Jay Z & Kanye West collaboration 'Run This Town'. The track had a spell of two weeks at No.1. She also soared to the top with 'Only Girl (In The World).
7. 6 No.1 Singles: David Guetta
He truly is one of the biggest DJs in the world and his record for No.1 singles proves it. His singles with Rhanna, Akon, Flo Rida & more have helped propel him to the very top!
8. 6 No.1 Singles: Jess Glynne
The flame haired singer produces chart gold with literally every release. Her Clean Bandit collaboration 'Rather Be' was her very first back in 2014 and in the short time she's notched up a whole host of chart topping tracks.
9. 6 No.1 Singles: Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran was able to grab FOUR No.1 singles within the first three months of 2017, 'Shape Of You', the remix, 'How Would You Feel' and 'Galway Girl' all had a stint in pole position...wow.
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Home » Chamber » 2019 Session a Success for Montanans
By Daniel Brooks
Every two years Montanans fill in the ovals on our ballots and choose the 150 citizen legislators to represent our interests at the Capitol. At the end of a hurried 90 working days, the Legislature adjourns and many Montanans are left asking, “what happened?” If that sounds like you, you’re not alone.
Reflecting upon the last four months, I would say the 2019 Legislative Session was one of the most productive Montana has seen in awhile. Business climate, infrastructure, economic development, public safety, and healthcare were all policy areas garnering wins this session. For Montanans it means more business, increased economic development, addressing safety concerns for citizens, and continuing healthcare coverage for nearly 10% of our population. Unfortunately, Billings’ biggest priority, the 406 Impact District bill did not pass, but generated statewide bipartisan support throughout the process.
Credit for this session’s success goes to the legislators who reached across the aisle and worked to craft bipartisan solutions to the challenges our state faces. Both Republicans and Democrats worked together on major issues to improve the lives of Montanans. A quick examination of the gridlock in DC, largely due to partisanship fights, should indicate why strict adherence to party lines is a bad idea. The “Solutions Caucus,” a group of Republicans who worked with Democrats to pass big initiatives like a bonding bill and Medicaid Expansion, are a benefit to Montana and an example to politicians in DC.
Focusing in on the efforts of your Billing Chamber of Commerce, we examine a few of the wins and some work remaining. In total we took action on 79 bills, working on business climate issues, public safety, infrastructure, economic development, and tourism, to name a few. Below is a snapshot of the work we focused on, click here for a more complete Legislative Scorecard.
Business Climate Issues
Opposed a significant minimum wage increase, which would have nearly doubled the current minimum wage, likely chilling business growth with fewer hires.
Opposed carbon tax proposals. While we do not discount the impacts of climate change, a global solution is required. We don’t believe putting Montana business at a competitive disadvantage to produce negligible impacts on climate change is a prudent course of action.
Supported business tax credits to businesses hiring more than 10 employees within the first year and at least 15 in subsequent years, incentivizing businesses to create good-paying jobs.
Supported a pair of human trafficking bills to reduce the scourge of human trafficking by increasing penalties for offenders, requiring massage parlor credentials be displayed, and creating a 2-person human trafficking team at the Department of Justice, among many other things.
Supported passage of a bonding bill with $80 million of economic development projects. If the governor signs the bill, it will be the first bonding bill to pass in a decade. It includes $9.6 million for water and wastewater projects, along with $3 million for seven bridge projects around the state.
Supported funding for critical economic development programs, including Small Business Development Centers, the Montana Manufacturing Center, and others.
Supported a film tax credit bill to incentivize media production companies to film in Montana.
Supported an increase in the lodging tax to construct Montana Historical Center and add funding to tourism partners. The bill also includes $400,000 for our Moss Mansion.
Despite the numerous wins from this Legislative Session, work remains. The 406 Impact Districts bill (related to One Big Sky District), sponsored and supported by many of our legislators including Senators Roger Webb and Margie MacDonald, did not pass this session. However, many legislators from around the state recognized the potential of this new model of funding economic development and it is very likely to draw larger statewide interest and support in 2021.
Thank you to our citizen legislators who worked hard to find solutions and make Montana the best place to live, work, and play.
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Are urban hedgehogs adapting to the city life?
Meike Simms August 4, 2016
Hedgehogs, a species that has been faced with many environmental changes during its life history. The woodland and grassland where its ancestors roamed has largely been replaced or fragmented by concrete and tarmac. However, new evidence suggests that the urban environment actually can still suit modern hedgehogs to some extent, and they are more at home in the city than we’d perhaps expect.
Urban hedgehogs have declined by one third and rural populations have declined by half since 2000. A disheartening figure overall, but also slightly unexpected. Why the slower decline in towns and cities? Researchers from the University of Hamburg have recently tried to understand why this difference in decline occurs, in the hope that further insights will aid in the conservation of the struggling species.
The team fitted temperature-sensitive transmitters to in order to track their movements and monitor their physiological changes.
“These specialised transmitters allowed us to monitor hibernation patterns and nest site use in winter, as well as activity and home range size in summer,” said lead researcher Dr Lisa Warnecke.
The researchers monitored hedgehogs near busy roads and quiet side streets, as well as those in the care of a local hedgehog sanctuary for comparison.
“We found that urban hedgehogs had much smaller nightly ranging areas than their rural counterparts — 5 hectares verses 50 — and that they adjusted their activity to levels of human disturbance,” says Dr Warnecke.
The urban hedgehogs stayed in private gardens for most of the day and were active during the night for mating and foraging, although not ranging as far as their rural relatives. This more cautious approach, alongside experience of how to navigate urban dangers and exploit food sources like scraps and cat food, could be contributing to the mammal’s slower decline in these areas.
The temperature sensitive transmitters also shed light on the hibernation patterns of both populations. In the winter months, hedgehogs enter a deep sleep, known as torpor, where their metabolic rate and body temperature significantly reduce in order to save energy.
“We were surprised to find that city hedgehogs showed hibernation patterns very similar to rural or captive populations in terms of the depth of torpor, the frequency with which they rewarmed and the overall duration of their hibernation,” said Warnecke. “This was despite city hedgehogs often nesting next to busy roads and having potential food sources available throughout winter ”
The authors highlight the importance of undisturbed ground cover for the survival of hedgehogs during hibernation in urban areas, whether this is garden parks or private gardens. Those living in the city can carry out some simple methods to ensure no harm to any hibernating hedgehogs in their garden.
“Gardens and public parks are very important for city hedgehogs,” says Dr Warnecke. “They need gardens with natural vegetation and public parks less immaculately pruned, with plenty of natural, bushy areas.”
Are hedgehogs adapting to an urban lifestyle? The picture isn’t clear. Since populations are declining across Britain, there is still more work to be done to completely unravel the mystery of how hedgehogs are seemingly settling in to city life somewhat, and the new evidence is a promising step in improving hedgehog conservation.
The above article is based on materials provided by the Society for Experimental Biology.
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John Kooiker wins special election to represent Iowa House district 4
Wednesday, Jan 7 2015
Republican John Kooiker easily won today’s special election in Iowa House district 4, which covers most of Sioux County in northwest Iowa (scroll down this page for a map). Unofficial results published on the Sioux County website indicate that Kooiker received 2,064 votes to 456 for Democrat John Buntsma. I was surprised to see that Dennis Wright, a Republican former county supervisor, managed 840 votes (about a quarter of all votes cast) as a write-in candidate. That’s a huge number of votes for a write-in, especially in a low-turnout special election. Wright should seriously consider challenging Kooiker in the 2016 GOP primary to represent House district 4.
Kooiker will succeed longtime conservative stalwart Dwayne Alons, who passed away in November shortly after being re-elected to a ninth term in the Iowa House.
House district 4 is the safest legislative district in the state for the GOP, with roughly nine times as many registered Republicans as Democrats. I admire Buntsma for making sure voters would have a choice, even in a hopeless district for a Democrat.
Iowa House district 4: John Kooiker vs. John Buntsma
Friday, Dec 26 2014
In what might be described as a Christmas miracle, a Democrat has stepped up to run in the January 6 special election to represent Iowa House district 4. The vacancy arose when State Representative Dwayne Alons passed away last month.
John Buntsma is the first Democrat since 2008 to contest the Iowa House district covering most of Sioux County (scroll down for a detailed map). Of the 100 Iowa House districts, this is the most Republican, with only 1,498 active registered Democrats, 13,279 Republicans, and 3,555 no-party voters according to the latest figures from the Iowa Secretary of State’s office. GOP presidential candidates routinely top 80 percent in Sioux County, and Governor Terry Branstad got about 91 percent of the votes there this year. In a statement I’ve enclosed below, Buntsma said he is running because “It is important for all of us to have choices. I felt that the voters should have more than one choice.” Good for him. I would love to see Democratic candidates compete in every Iowa House and Senate district, no matter how hopeless the race may appear.
I haven’t seen any detailed background on John Kooiker, the “military veteran, family farmer and retired postal service worker” who won a Republican nominating convention in House district 4. A short press release noted that Kooiker “heavily emphasized his social conservative beliefs,” which helped him secure the GOP nomination on the third ballot. That probably makes him a pretty good fit for the district. Alons was one of the most outspoken social conservatives in the Iowa House Republican caucus.
After the jump I’ve enclosed two press releases containing background on Buntsma. Note the difference between the version circulated by the candidate himself and the shorter release from the Iowa Democratic Party. I’ve often heard Democratic candidates complain that party types warn them against speaking their minds on potentially controversial issues. In a race like this, what difference could it make to downplay Buntsma’s beliefs on immigration, the minimum wage, or the exemption casinos received from Iowa’s public smoking ban?
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December 03, 2015 Rec & Sports » Rec News
Idaho Rivers United to Sue Ada County Over Boise River Pollution
By Jessica Murri
George Prentice
Idaho Rivers United notified Ada County of its intention to sue after noticing stormwater from horse stables running into the Boise River.
A member of Idaho Rivers United first noticed the problem in early 2014. After a large rain-on-snow event over the winter, water was running off from the horse stables at Les Bois Park into the river.
"We assumed it was all permitted," said Liz Paul, Boise River coordinator at IRU. "There's a lot of stormwater that goes into the river, and that's legal, but you have to have a permit under the Clean Water Act."
According to Paul, IRU brought the problem to the county's attention 15 months ago but the county hasn't taken steps to start the permitting process. To move the process along, IRU gave the county a 60-day notice of its intent to sue for "ongoing infractions of the federal Clean Water Act."
Larry Maneely, chief of staff for the Ada County Board of Commissioners, said in a statement Dec. 3 that county officials had not yet seen a copy of the intention to sue.
"Ada County and Ada County Development Services have been working with the EPA, and will continue to work with the EPA, regarding County property at Expo Idaho," the statement said.
Paul said the notice was sent on Dec. 2.
Because Ada County owns the land beneath Expo Idaho, Hawk Stadium and Les Bois Park, it's the county's responsibility to monitor the stormwater running into the Boise River from its property—and stormwater is a major pollutant to the Boise River, according to Paul. Polluters are under the gun to reduce bacteria, sediment and phosphorus flowing into the river. With a permit in place, Paul said the Environmental Protection Agency and the public will be able to see exactly how much pollution Ada County is pushing into the river.
"It's not just pure snowmelt like what comes out of the mountains running into the river," Paul said. "At Expo Idaho, you have those huge parking lots, so you have oil, grease, metals, garbage, animal waste. All that gets washed into the Boise River and once it gets into the river, it can cause bacterial problems for swimming. It kills the bugs and fish. You can see the Boise River further downstream as it collects all these contaminants, you don't have a healthy fishery. Then they keep going into the Snake River. They don't just disappear."
A permit doesn't stop pollution into the Boise River but it does force land managers to look for ways to manage stormwater and reduce pollution. The Ada County Highway District, Boise State University, city of Boise, Garden City and the Idaho Transportation Department all operate under a permit allowing stormwater to flow into the Boise River.
"Everybody else is doing it, it's not that hard," she said. "Ada County has some excellent stormwater retention methods on site, but they also have this legacy that everyone inherited from the '50s, '60s and '70s that just dumped everything into the river."
Paul said she is confident the issue will be resolved and Ada County will start the process of getting a permit before the 60 days is up—and no one will need to go to court.
"We can all pull together to clean up the Boise River," she said.
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Incident 27. Injured woman walker at Turton and Entwistle Reservoir
Just after 11.00hrs this morning, with frosty conditions underfoot, a light snowfall still present in the area and clear blue skies, a 36 years old woman walker, in the company of her partner, whilst out dog walking around the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, fell sustaining a dislocated knee cap (She informed us she had a previous history of this injury)
Very shortly afterwards at 11.20hrs we were paged to assist at this incident by NWAS EOC Broughton.
Team Call Out Contact Steve Fletcher co –ordinated our response, gaining exact details of the incident location, namely near the ‘Heron’ sculpture on the north shore track of the reservoir.
At 11.30hrs a detailed location was paged out to team members, with team member John Dickinson arriving at the Batridge Road Car Park / Dam at 11.40hrs.
Here John met United Utilities Head Works Controller Paul Mather, who drove John to the incident location via the south shore track (construction operations on the dam itself precluded at this stage direct vehicular access to the north shore) – Paul had previous to John’s arrival already driven to the casualty once, to ascertain the exact location, to then guide in the responding MRT resources.
Circa 11.50hrs John Dickinson was on scene, rendering immediate care, essentially protecting the woman from the cold conditions present.
Our first responding Land Rover of two mobilised, arrived at Batridge Road at 12.00hrs and drove to the casualty site, arriving at 12.10hrs, with thanks to Paul Mather for directing our vehicle.
Pain relief including drugs was administered, including splinting the woman’s very painful injury.
By 12.30hrs our second responding Land Rover was at the casualty site, and the woman was carried a short distance on one of our SAR Alpine Lite Mountain Rescue Stretchers, and placed directly in to the back of our Bolton Mobile 2 Land Rover at 12.46hrs.
By 13.05hrs the woman was transferred in to the care of the responding NWAS Emergency Ambulance crew, who were waiting at Batridge Road / Dam car park.
The woman was then taken for further treatment to Royal Bolton Hospital, with our last personnel leaving the RVP at 13.30hrs.
We were subsequently contacted by the casualty, Gill Lowe of Horwich, who commented on Facebook;
The staff were all amazing and really relaxed me.
I’m now nursing a ruptured knee following a dislocation.
I really can’t thank you enough!
Amazing team x “
The following resources were deployed and involved in this incident;
NWAS (Lancashire); EOC Broughton Airdesk despatcher.
NWAS (Greater Manchester); One Emergency Ambulance, with two crew, from Bury Ambulance Station.
United Utilities; Head Works Controller Paul Mather, and Land Rover.
Bolton Mountain Rescue Team; Two Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances, Bolton Mobiles 2 and 4. Nine team operational members on scene, with Steve Fletcher co –ordinating our response from elsewhere.
We would like to thank all the local walkers who kindly allowed us to pass on the very narrow yet driveable by Land Rover, reservoir margin track / footway.
We would also like to thank two passing runners, who kindly assisted us with loading the injured woman in to the back of our Bolton Mobile 2 Land Rover, and went on to warn other walkers that our Land Rover would be passing by with an injured person on board.
Finally thanks to the construction workers, who partially dismantled their metal safety / works security fencing to allow us to utilise the north shore track to get the casualty back to the Ambulance RVP quicker than using the longer distance southern track around the margin of the reservoir.
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To celebrate a £1 million boost for the #RescueBoat Grant Fund @Nus_Ghani joined a @BoltonMRT boat exercise bit.ly/Rescue_Fund #RescueBoat pic.twitter.com/5tRgrOHYFO
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We were very pleased to welcome @NWAmbulance CEO @daren_mochrie to our HQ this afternoon. We talked about our team's capabilities, our longstanding relationship with NWAS and how we will continue to work together.
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Our First Impressions: What strikes us most about AdderRX is that it is among the so many plays at the Adderall name, which is already quite annoying at this point. But what does this nootropic has to offer anyway? Looking at the product website, we feel that it does not present enough compelling case for us to give it a try and explore beyond the homepage.
Manufacturer: Its manufacturer, NexGen, touts itself as driven by science. It has pretty aggressive marketing techniques employed for this product, including highlighting the “professionally approved” formulation. We cannot find enough business rating and official information about this manufacturer, though.
Marketing Practices: The AdderRX site is replete with long copies that are mostly marketing-hype or testimonial in nature. It lacks the scientific rigor that we found on many other smart pill or nootropic supplement sites, which is a great minus point for this supplement. It also dubs itself as “pharmaceutical grade” even without enough clinical backing.
Ingredients: AdderRX claims to contain a 770-milligram proprietary blend that includes dimethylaminoethanol, 1,3,7-Trimethylxanthine, L-theanine, cytidine 5’ – diphosphocholine, synephrine HCL N-dimethyl-4-hydroxyphenylethylamine, schizandrol A, and vinpocetine.
Results: We are quite astounded that even after two weeks of usage, we still haven’t experienced any pronounced benefit or impact from AdderRX. If it says you can use it only once every day, note that you may have to go two on some days because of the virtually absent effects to be expected from nootropics in general. It can assuage the makings of a headache here and there, but for clarity, memory, and focus, we find virtually nil to appreciate and highlight.
Other Reviews: AdderRX enjoys a number of good, well-thought-out review, but perhaps only because of its well-written copies and nothing that touches the clinical or scientific side.
Cost: This smart pill costs $59.95 a bottle with varying price tags and some deals/discounts on various sites.
Summary: AdderRX, another play at the Adderall term, promotes itself as a pharmaceutical grade formula for smart pill effects and benefits. It contains a so-called proprietary blend, and costs $59.95 per bottle. The results we saw for ourselves are inconsistent, while the persuasions published on the product site are mostly testimonial and not clinical or scientific in nature.
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Home > Newsroom > Press Releases > The Makers of V8(R) Juice Expand Line of V8 V-Fusion(R) Vegetable and Fruit Juices
The Makers of V8(R) Juice Expand Line of V8 V-Fusion(R) Vegetable and Fruit Juices
New Varieties, More On-The-Go OptionsMake it Easier than Ever to Get Recommended Servings of Vegetables and Fruit
CAMDEN, N.J., Apr 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Nine out of 10 U.S. adults aren’t meeting the daily recommendations for vegetables and fruit1 – a fact reinforced by the recently released 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.2 But, starting this spring, Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB), the maker of V8(R)juices, will help make it even easier for people to increase their daily servings with the introduction of two new varieties of its V8 V-Fusion(R) vegetable and fruit juice: Concord Grape Raspberry and Concord Grape Raspberry Light.
The flavors are a new twist on a classic family favorite 3 – blending grape juice with the juice of apples, raspberries, sweet potatoes, carrots and other fruit and vegetable juices for a great-tasting grape taste – with a twist. Plus, each 8-ounce glass of V8 V-Fusion 100% juice provides one full serving of vegetables and one full serving of fruit. V8 V-Fusion Concord Grape Raspberry and Concord Grape Raspberry Light are available in 46-ounce bottles, and V8 V-Fusion Concord Grape Raspberry will be available in 8-ounce slim cans starting in July.
“We’ve been told since we were kids to eat our vegetables, but people still aren’t getting enough.” said Dale Clemiss, Vice President, Beverages, Campbell Soup Company. “V8 V-Fusion juices offer a delicious, convenient way to help people get the vegetable servings they need with the fruit taste they want in a range of varieties and sizes.”
More Convenient Sizes to Enjoy Anytime
The company is also expanding the number of V8 V-Fusion juice varieties available in single-serving, 8-ounce slim cans to include Strawberry Banana Light and V8 V-Fusion(R) + Tea Raspberry Green Tea, making it even easier for people to enjoy drinking their vegetables and fruit at home, school, work or on-the-go.
Each 8-ounce glass of V8 V-Fusion(R) 100% juice provides a full serving of vegetables (1/2 cup) and a full serving of fruit (1/2 cup), while each 8-ounce glass of V8 V-Fusion Light juice and V8 V-Fusion + Tea beverage contains a combined ½ cup serving of vegetables and fruit. Additionally, the entire line offers essential antioxidant vitamins A, C and E, with no added sugar.
The newly expanded portfolio includes 14 V8 V-Fusion juices and three V8 V-Fusion + Tea beverages available in a variety of sizes at most grocery, mass merchandise, convenience and club stores nationwide. The suggested retail price for a 12-ounce bottle is $1.89, $3.99 for a 46-ounce bottle, and $4.99 for a 6-pack of 8-ounce slim cans. For more information, visit www.v8juice.com.
1 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), USDA. 2010. Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 7th edition, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. January 31, 2011.
2 Casagrande SS, Wang Y, Anderson C, Gary TL. Have Americans increased their fruit and vegetable intake? The trends between 1988 and 2002. Am J Prev Med. 2007;32:257-263.
3 IRI – FDMX 52 weeks ending May 16, 2010
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TED Thinks These 21 Young Innovators Are Going To Change The World
Max Nisen
Nov 9, 2012, 7:32 AM
InVenture CEO Shivani Siroya
Photo: YouTube/FastCompany
TED, a global nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” will focus its February 2013 conference on “The Young, The Wise, And The Undiscovered.” Out of more than a thousand applicants, they’ve selected 21 fellows who they think represent that concept, and will change the world. They’ll attend a boot camp on how to spread their ideas throughout the world, be mentored by the TED community, and attend the 2013 conference. They come from all over the world and range from scientists to artists to entrepreneurs. Keep an eye out for them in the future:
Alicia Eggert: An American artist who makes kinetic and interactive sculptures
Antonio Torres: A co-founder of Bittertang, a design farm that looks to combine media and architecture
Baile Zhang: A Chinese engineer and physicist who created the first non-microscopic invisibility cloak.
Ben Burke: An artist and puppeteer who co-founded the Apocalypse Puppet theatre.
Christine Sun Kim: An artist who uses sound and technology to explore her unique relationship with the audible as a deaf person.
Cyrus Kaibru: A Kenyan self taught painter and sculptor who primarily uses found objects.
David Lang: A co-founder of OpenROV, which brings together DIY ocean explorers and those who develop cheap, open source robots for those explorations.
Edwyn “Eddie” Huang: The owner and chef of Baohaus, a Taiwanese restaurant in New York inspired by youth and hip hop culture.
Jinha Lee: An inventor who focuses on how to change how physical space interfaces with the digital world.
Kibwe Tavares: A British filmmaker who co-founded Factory Fifteen, a film and animation studio.
Kitra Cahana: A Canadian photographer who documents nomadic youth in the United States.
Louisa Preston: A British astrobiologist who studies life in Earth’s most extreme environments, hoping to apply that knowledge to find life on Mars.
Miriah Meyer: A designer who helps scientists interact with, visualise, and make sense out of complex data.
Mohammad Herzallah: A Palestinian neuroscientist who founded the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative, which works to create a research infrastructure and train young scientists.
Negin Farsad: An Iranian-American comedian and filmmaker who is making a film called “The Muslims Are Coming!” which follows Muslim-American comics on the road.
Paul Wicks: A medical entrepreneur and lead scientist for PatientsLikeMe, which allows those with medical issues to track their conditions, share what’s happening to them, and help with research.
Renee Hlozek: A South African cosmologist attempting to understand the initial conditions of the universe.
Ryan Holladay: An artist and co-founder of BLUEBRAIN, which creates site-specific sound experiments and interactive concerts.
Safwat Saleem: A Pakistani designer and filmmaker who uses humour to tell the stories of underdogs.
Shivani Siroya: The founder and CEO of InVenture, which has created a text-messaging platform providing credit scores and accounting tools to anyone with a cell phone.
Tunde Jegede: A cellist, composer, and kora (a type of African harp) player who combines Western and African music.
Read more about the fellows here
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Encryption & Key Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Security Operations
Ransomware Attackers Unleash Feline-Themed Assault
New Hitler-Themed Malware Deletes Files, While Android Victims See Cats Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 12, 2016
Photo: Kishjar (via Flickr/CC)
Without a doubt, ransomware attackers have no scruples.
That should have already been obvious from gangs of cybercriminals who show no remorse when it comes to encrypting everything from electronic health records at hospitals, to PCs used by law enforcement agencies, to consumers' precious digital snaps. Gangs have even been creating customer-service teams in an attempt to maximize their illicit profits.
"Lured by the promise of easy pickings, ransomware attacks are booming."
But the latest ransomware attacks go to even further extremes, channeling everything from kittens to Hitler.
New self-described Hitler-themed "ransonware" (sic) was discovered by Jakub Kroustek, a malware analyst at security firm AVG Technologies. The Hitler ransomware's lock screen demands that victims buy a €25 ($28) virtual Vodafone gift card and send attackers the redemption code.
The ransomware appears to be a test version that's not yet ready for primetime, Kroustek says via Twitter. "I guess it is still under 'development,' and this one has leaked," he says.
Hitler ransomware lock screen. Source: Bleeping Computer
So far at least, the ransomware doesn't appear to have been designed to encrypt files. Instead it runs a batch file, which includes German-language comments from the apparent developer, that removes the extensions for certain file types stored in 11 different directories - ranging from a user's pictures and documents folders to their music and desktop directories - and then displays a lock screen with a one-hour countdown timer, according to a technical teardown published by anti-ransomware site Bleeping Computer. After the hour is up, it reports, the ransomware reboots the PC and runs an executable called "firefox32.exe" that deletes all of the files with excised filenames, while also terminating any processes - taskmgr, utilman, sethc, cmd - that a user might invoke to attempt to shut down the malicious file.
Such delete-everything behavior was seen earlier this year via a ransomware variant called Ranscam.
One potential defense against Hitler ransomware attacks, Bleeping Computer says, is to disable Windows automatically restarting after it crashes, which would give victims a chance to scrub their hard drive before the deletion routine starts.
Leave No Meme Behind
To date, ransomware attackers haven't paid too much attention to Android. That's no surprise: Cybercriminals often seem to prioritize attacks that generate maximum revenue for minimum effort, and thus most developers focus on coding Windows malware. With 10 percent of all PCs still running the outdated, insecure and often easy to hack Windows XP operating system, according to market researcher NetMarketShare, why bother creating cutting-edge malware designed to target the relatively small number of people - by comparison - who use Mac OS X, Linux, Android or iOS?
But some developers have been making forays into Android ransomware. One variant that first appeared last year, called FLocker - short for "frantic locker" - is now able to lock Android-powered mobile phones, tablets and smart TVs, demanding $200 worth of iTunes gift cards from victims to unlock infected devices, according to security firm Trend Micro.
Recently, another type of Android ransomware called "El Gato" - Spanish for cat - also debuted, Fernando Ruiz of Intel Security's McAfee Labs Mobile Malware Research Team says in a blog post.
El Gato packs typical malware tricks: it communicates with a command-and-control server to receive instructions, can disable any app that's running on the device as well as forward and delete any SMS messages stored on the device. But the malware can also send SMS messages to the victim, encrypt - or decrypt - all files stored on the device or on any inserted SD cards, as well as display a lock screen with a ransom demand that features a picture of a cat.
As with the Hitler ransomware, however, El Gato appears to be a work in progress, Ruiz says. For starters, the AES algorithm it uses to encrypt files features a hardcoded password, meaning that security researchers can use the app to decode anything that it's encrypted. More advanced forms of ransomware, by contrast, use a unique password for every different ransomware-infected system, making it much more difficult - if not impossible - for victims to decrypt files without paying the ransom (see Ransom Smackdown: Group Promises Decryption Tools).
Ruiz says the ransomware is likely under development and will likely be included in future exploit kits. Also known as cybercrime toolkits, developers sell these to cybercriminals, allowing them to automatically infect large numbers of PCs and - in this case - not only steal data but also attempt to extort victims into paying a ransom.
"This ransomware variant looks like a demo version," Ruiz says.
Lured by the promise of easy pickings, ransomware attacks are booming. As El Gato and the Hitler ransomware demonstrate, developers appear to be testing new ways to meet this ever-increasing demand.
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The Complete Greek Tragedies (abridged)
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A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOREVER
THE COMPLETE GREEK TRAGEDIES
THE CHECHNYA PLAYS
ZMONES VIETOS IR DAIKTUS
BISMILLAH!
SO AN ENGLISHMAN WALKS INTO AN IRISH BAR
He was Associate Director of Actors of Dionysus and recently directed their two-week R&D process for a new production of Antigone, which was funded by Arts Council England.
Other recent work includes directing an excerpt of People Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan, translated into Lithuanian, as part of the Juozas Miltinis European Directors’ Residency in Panevezys, Lithuania, as well as Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy at the Edinburgh Fringe ('a bold and thought provoking piece' Guardian).
Justin has directed Catharsis’ previous three shows, Hippolytus, Hecuba, and purged, as well as associate directing for Anna Marshall on Rounds, which toured to venues including Oxford Old Fire Station and Bolton Octagon in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Pleasance LET Award.
Assisting includes Helen (Brighton Fringe & national tour), and currently assisting Phil Wilmott for the More London Free Festival’s production of The Odyssey at The Scoop.
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Quentin Tarantino Takes Aim With New 'Hateful Eight' Trailer
by Kevin Melrose
The Weinstein Company has released the second trailer for director Quentin Tarantino's eagerly anticipated Western "The Hateful Eight."
Opening Dec. 25 in 70mm ahead of a Jan. 8 wide release, “The Hateful Eight” is set in post-Civil War Wyoming, where a group of bounty hunters tries to find shelter during a blizzard but instead gets drawn into a plot of deception and >betrayal.
The film features an ensemble cast that includes Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Walton Goggins and Tim Roth.
Tags: kurt russell, samuel l jackson, michael madsen, the hateful eight, walton goggins, tim roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern, Quenjtin Tarantino
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50-44 Overall | 3rd AL West
Rangers .252 509 133 4.85
AL West Division 3rd 1st 5th 3rd
American League 8th 4th 8th 8th
HITTING PITCHING EXTENDED HITTING EXTENDED PITCHING
1 Elvis Andrus SS .500 26 3 13 2 0 1 9 0 0 1 2 .500 .692 1.192
2 Jeff Mathis C .227 22 4 5 1 0 0 3 0 0 7 8 .400 .273 .673
3 Delino DeShields 2B .324 37 7 12 2 0 0 3 4 2 4 4 .390 .378 .768
5 Willie Calhoun LF .190 42 3 8 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 .286 .238 .524
6 Chase d'Arnaud SS .286 14 4 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 7 .444 .500 .944
9 Isiah Kiner-Falefa SS .455 22 6 10 3 1 0 4 0 1 2 3 .520 .682 1.202
11 Ronald Guzman 1B .323 31 5 10 1 0 3 5 2 0 2 7 .371 .645 1.016
12 Rougned Odor 2B .355 31 6 11 3 0 3 7 1 1 4 11 .429 .742 1.171
13 Joey Gallo LF .241 29 2 7 3 0 0 4 1 0 5 14 .353 .345 .698
14 Asdrubal Cabrera 2B .387 31 5 12 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 11 .459 .387 .846
15 Carlos Tocci CF .286 28 4 8 3 0 2 9 0 0 4 3 .394 .607 1.001
16 Nolan Fontana 2B .394 33 6 13 2 0 0 8 1 0 2 7 .429 .455 .884
17 Shin-Soo Choo RF .222 27 4 6 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 7 .324 .296 .620
21 Patrick Wisdom 3B .171 35 7 6 2 0 1 5 0 0 4 14 .275 .314 .589
24 Hunter Pence RF .385 39 10 15 5 0 3 7 5 0 3 8 .455 .744 1.199
28 Jett Bandy C .211 19 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 .286 .211 .497
30 Nomar Mazara RF .243 37 4 9 3 0 0 5 0 0 1 11 .256 .324 .580
38 Danny Santana CF .314 35 10 11 4 2 2 10 1 0 3 13 .359 .714 1.073
40 Matt Davidson 3B .206 34 3 7 1 0 3 5 0 0 3 14 .325 .500 .825
41 Logan Forsythe 2B .261 23 1 6 2 0 1 5 0 0 3 9 .346 .478 .824
43 Ben Revere CF .286 21 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .318 .333 .651
47 Eliezer Alvarez 2B .250 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 .571 .250 .821
63 Adam Moore C .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
66 Zack Granite CF .222 18 5 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 3 .263 .389 .652
71 Jose Trevino C .118 17 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .167 .118 .285
80 Eli White SS .121 33 2 4 1 0 0 2 2 1 2 6 .171 .152 .323
86 Andy Ibanez 2B .300 20 3 6 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 .300 .450 .750
-- LeDarious Clark LF .500 8 4 4 1 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 .600 .875 1.475
-- Josh Altmann LF .333 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .667 1.167
-- Preston Scott LF .333 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .667 1.000
-- Curtis Terry 3B .500 4 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 1.000
-- Bubba Thompson CF .111 9 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 3 .200 .444 .644
-- Preston Beck 1B .320 25 6 8 0 0 1 7 0 1 1 3 .379 .440 .819
-- Franklin Rollin 2B .200 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 .400 .733
-- Leody Taveras CF .375 8 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 .375 .375 .750
-- Ryan Dorow 2B .200 10 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .273 .300 .573
-- Sam Huff C .200 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .400
-- Yonny Hernandez SS .167 12 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 .231 .167 .398
-- Diosbel Arias SS .000 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .125 .000 .125
-- Jax Biggers SS .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
-- Frainyer Chavez SS .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Brendon Davis 3B .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Michael De Leon SS .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Tyler Depreta-Johnson SS .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .000 .500
-- Eric Jenkins CF .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000
-- Charles Leblanc 3B .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Julio Pablo Martinez CF .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Jonah McReynolds SS .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Anderson Tejeda SS .000 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000
Total .271 840 135 228 53 6 21 126 22 10 89 222 .346 .424 .770
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The affordable housing industry lost a hero recently. Lloyd Pendleton, an innovator and advocate for ending homelessness among vulnerable populations, passed away in Utah in March. Mr. Pendleton led the state of Utah’s effort to address chronic homelessness. He was a leading figure in carrying out a “housing first” approach, resulting in a 90 percent decrease in chronic homelessness statewide.
At the invitation of Bremerton Housing Authority, Mr. Pendleton came to Kitsap County in 2016 to inspire local housing providers and community members to create residences for persons in need of staff-supported housing. Mayors and city council members were put on the spot by Lloyd, who asked them what they specifically were going to do in the next 6 months towards providing stable shelter for the chronically homeless. Frankly, there was a lot of feet shuffling and not many direct action statements. Charlotte Garrido, a Kitsap County Commissioner, did answer the call and has worked tirelessly to bring a range of faith-based, government, and non-profit groups together monthly to carry out specific actions toward addressing chronic homelessness.
It is out of this effort, and inspired by Lloyd Pendleton, that BHA and Kitsap Mental Health Services (KMHS) announce plans to build a 74-unit supported housing apartment complex in Bremerton. A mix of studio and one-bedroom apartments will be prioritized for individuals who are Kitsap residents and experiencing chronic homelessness as well as living with severe and persistent mental illness, substance use disorders and other disabling conditions. BHA and KMHS have come together to build the apartment complex after repeatedly reviewing the growing figures of vulnerable persons without housing, and the knowledge that when people have a home, their health and well-being improves.
This apartment complex has been made possible with direct financial support of BHA. The BHA Board of Commissioners have long recognized the need for more affordable housing options for people experiencing chronic homelessness. In their March 25, 2019, board meeting, the BHA commissioners unanimously approved a contribution of $3.1 million towards a permanent supporting housing complex, to be called “Pendleton Place”.
These supportive apartments will be fully staffed 24x7, 365 days a year. Residents will have access to services provided by KMHS and community partners that provide mental health and substance use treatment services, primary care services, employment search services and life skills training like housekeeping, laundry, and shopping. Potential residents must meet income qualification criteria and will be assessed for their need for supported housing.
Securing affordable housing is especially challenging for those with behavioral health issues including mental illness and/or substance use issues. The lack of housing directly impacts their ability to successfully engage in treatment services. Joe Roszak, CEO of KMHS explains, “When people with behavioral health issues are living outside in a tent or a car, their primary concern isn’t taking their medications or making that next appointment. Instead, their focus is, “Where will I eat? Where will I sleep? Am I safe?” When people gain the stability that comes with supportive housing, they can begin to make positive choices for themselves that will improve the quality of their life and enable them to reengage with the community.”
Additional funding for the project is anticipated to come from the Federal Home Loan Bank, the state’s Housing Trust Fund, Low Income Housing Tax Credits and private foundation and grant requests. Ongoing operations funding will come substantially from subsidized and tenant rent payments.
The facility will be located on a 1.66 acre site on Kitsap Way, zoned for commercial use and located in an area that the City has designated for the development of affordable housing. Bremerton Mayor Greg Wheeler echoes his strong support for the project. “Providing affordable housing for our most vulnerable residents is a high priority for our City. We are enormously appreciative of the partnership we have with BHA and KMHS to bring this much needed housing to our community. This is a major undertaking, and it will take all of us working together to make it happen.”
Construction is expected to begin in the fall of 2020, with occupancy targeted for fall of 2021. We are grateful for Lloyd Pendleton for inspiring this community to action.
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ROVERS UNDER-18's MAINTAIN UNBEATEN LEAGUE START
Bristol Rovers 1-0 AFC Bournemouth
A goal from Blake Davies, his first in the league this season, enabled our U-18 side to overcome league leaders AFC Bournemouth last Saturday.
"We scored a good goal and put in a workmanlike performance," was the verdict of Alan Walsh afterwards.
"We applied ourselves well and tried to put pressure on them throughout and although Bournemouth enjoyed a great deal of first half possession it wasn't in the final third of the pitch and didn't trouble us too much
"Neither side created a great deal in that opening half though we did have a couple of long range efforts on goal.
"It was a very similar story in the second half. Bournemouth had their first shot on target after 55 minutes and we scored the only goal of the game five minutes later.
"It was what I would call a textbook goal and came after we broke up an attack by our visitors and played the ball out of defence before working it down the right and Blake Davies met the eventual cross into the box and powered a header past the goalkeeper.
"It was a very good goal and I would like to see more of that in games but, unfortunately our quality and execution isn't good enough. We are working our socks off in every match and I can't fault the lads for their effort and work rate but we should be creating more chances with better quality of play.
"Still, we managed to see this game out after surviving a couple of scares as Bournemouth pressed hard for an equaliser."
Rovers: Charlie Phillips, Sam Blake, Sam Iles, Alfie Kilgour, Bradley Confrey, Connor Jones (Lewis Leigh-Gilchrist, 80), Elliot Green, George Corp, Blake Davies, Tyrone Tucker-Dixon (Lewis Ellington, 20), Luke Russe (Regan Sollars, 80)
Substitutes: Tom Fry, Callum Bingham
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But he called the preliminary budget a “conservative estimate.”
District spokesman Chris Rosenblum said the budget also includes debt service schedule and repayment for the $85 million debt authorized last year for the State High project, and estimated debt repayment based on an interest rate 75 basis points higher than the current market rate.
Last month, the board approved a 25-year repayment term plan and a two-year phasing for principal payments, with interest only payments in 2015-16.
The total cost of the State High renovation is $115 million. In addition to $85 million in referendum debt, the district will use $10 million in capital reserve funds and $20 million in non-referendum borrowing, Rosenblum said in an emailed document.
The governor should release the proposed state budget in early March, and that could change the outlook of SCASD’s final budget, Brown said.
A study from a survey administered in June was also distributed to the board that listed the answers of several questions given to teachers, students and parents.
The survey was conducted by Assistant Superintendent Jason Perrin, and Ed Fuller, an associate professor at Penn State’s College of Education, that provided feedback from participants to help the district with its three-year strategic plan that started in 2014.
It highlighted strengths and weaknesses that included homework issues and the way bullying problems are handled, but highlighted the care teachers have for their students, and an overall safe and good place to teach and learn.
“We’re looking at this from a policy perspective,” Superintendent Bob O’Donnell said. “We want to develop and enhance a strategy that’s on board with our pillars.”
The pillars are providing a welcoming and safe climate for students and staff; providing a culture of trust, relationship and collaboration; high expectations; and responsive teaching and learning.
Board member Dorothea Stahl said that homework complaints from parents and students are about having too much, and it has been one of the biggest concerns she’s heard since starting on the board seven years ago.
“It ranges from elementary to high school,” Stahl said.
Student board representative Reilly Ebbs said the general student population would like for teachers to better explain the purpose behind a homework assignment.
“It makes us more willing and understanding to do it,” she said.
On the survey, other students reported that accelerated classes should have harder homework, not more of it.
Fuller said about 90 to 95 percent of teachers completed the survey, along with about 95 percent of students at the primary level, and about 60 percent of secondary students. About 40 percent of parents completed the survey.
A follow-up survey will be distributed in May that will further help answer questions on how students define bullying, alternatives to the amount of homework, and more, Fuller said.
Allegiant Air adds service to University Park as airport plans expansion
Large fight at State College fraternity hurt 4
By Sarah Paez
State College Borough Council approved a liquor license transfer without restrictions for Queenstown, a planned New Zealand themed restaurant coming to the former Spats location.
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The Bears racked up 16 hits to rough up the Spikes 7-4.
“(The long ride) had nothing to do with what happened out there,” said manager Johnny Rodriguez, whose team made only one error. “Nothing to do with it. Actually, we had more energy. How could we come up and almost tie the game, actually take the lead in the last inning?”
The Spikes (35-16), who had won three straight and 11 of the last 13, collected 10 hits with a big day from Edman, who was 3 for 3 with two walks.
“Today was definitely one of those days where I was seeing the ball pretty well,” Edman said. “… It’s kind of weird how it happens, when you have a ‘show-and-go’ day, get back so late (this morning). It just turns out to be one of my best days of the year.”
Yariel Gonzalez had two hits and two RBIs and Danny Hudzina also had a pair of hits.
The Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate (23-28) got hits from 8 of 9 batters in the lineup, paced by a 3 for 5 day from Stephen Alemais and a 3 for 3 day with two walks from Albert Baur. Will Craig, Kevin Krause, Sandy Santos and Hunter Owen each had a pair of hits.
Steven Farinaro (6-1) had a rough night, allowing 12 hits, five runs and two walks with one strikeout over 5 2/3 innings.
“Farinaro just didn’t have it,” Rodriguez said. “He didn’t have his location, didn’t have his finish, nothing was finishing, flat and very hittable.”
Stephen Meyer (2-4) pitched six solid innings for the win, giving up just one run with two walks, two strikeouts and six hits allowed.
The Black Bears jumped ahead early, with Craig doubling to right — his 12th of the season — and scoring on a Krause single in the first. Owen walked and scored on an Alemais single in the second, while in the third Santos ripped a two-run triple to the wall in right-center.
Baur roped his 11th double of the season and scored on an Arden Pabst sacrifice fly in the fifth, while two more crossed in the eighth on a Krause RBI fielder’s choice and a Baur RBI single.
After Edman reached base on his first two at-bats, he finally came around to score in the fifth, singling to left and racing the rest of the way home on a Gonzalez double to right.
That was the team’s offensive highlight until the bottom of the ninth when it loaded the bases with no outs. Anthony Ray’s grounder was bobbled to bring in one run, a passed ball plated another and a Gonzalez fly ball plated another run, but Vince Jackson struck out as the tying run to end the game, a learning experience for a future with longer bus rides up the minor league ladder.
“They saw their energy was good,” Rodriguez said. “… I was more than happy with the effort that they put out there.”
All-Stars: Five Spikes were named to the New York-Penn League’s All-Star Game on Tuesday, matching the franchise record for most representatives to the showcase of the future stars of baseball. Infielders Edman, Hudzina and Elier Rodriguez were named to the team along with catcher Jeremy Martinez and relief pitcher Eric Carter. They will play on the South team.
“Could have been seven (players), could have been more,” Johnny Rodriguez said. “… They worked for that. They earned that.”
The contest will be played next Tuesday at Dutchess Stadium, home of the Hudson Valley Renegades.
Welcome back: A former State College Spike was on the mound for the Black Bears. Jason Creasy, who was with the Spikes in 2012, is with the Bears on a rehab assignment from Class AA Altoona. He pitched two innings, striking out one and allowing a hit.
Spikes: The teams will tangle in Game 2 of the three-game series, with right-handed pitcher Bryan Dobzanski (4-4, 3.73 ERA) scheduled to start.
Black Bears: Righty James Marvel (3-6, 4.96) is slotted for the start for the Bears.
Gordon Brunskill: 814-231-4608, @GordonCDT
State College’s Yariel Gonzalez catches the ball for an out during the Tuesday, August 9, 2016, game against West Virginia. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
State College’s Bladimil Franco catches a pop fly in right field for an out during Tuesday’s loss against West Virginia. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
West Virginia’s Arden Pabst safely slides home as the ball bounces next to State College Spikes’ Riley Drongesen during Tuesday’s game. The Bears won 7-4 with 16 hits. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
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After going undrafted his junior year, Columbia College’s Andrew Warner thought he would never make it to professional baseball. But after getting drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the final round in 2018, Warner has quickly become a fan-favorite for the State College Spikes.
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BlackBerry Priv Android Slider Smartphone Detailed by Company
By admin in Mobile October 30, 2015
BlackBerry ahead of the commencement of shipping of the Priv smartphone next week wants to make sure users are familiar with all the features. The Canadian company has released a video showing the major features of its upcoming Android handset.
The company in its YouTube video stresses on the privacy and productivity features alongside the familiarity of the Android platform. The video shows some of the highlight features of the BlackBerry Priv including physical keyboard on the slider, BlackBerry Hub, pop-up widgets, 4K video recording support, dual curved edge screen, touch enabled physical keyboard with SmartSlide, rear camera with OIS, and DTEK by BlackBerry. You can watch the video below.BlackBerry Priv Android slider smartphone is up for pre-orders at $699 (roughly Rs. 45,500), and is slated to begin shipping in the US starting November 6.To recall, Priv features a 5.4-inch QHD (1440×2560 pixels) Amoled display and sports a pixel density of 540ppi. Under the hood, it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 hexa-core processor clubbed with 3GB of RAM, and supports up to 32GB of expandable storage. An 18-megapixel rear camera is at the rear while a 2-megapixel front-camera is also on board. A massive 3410mAh battery backs the device. The company is yet to reveal the exact Android Lollipop version of the Priv handset.
Recently, BlackBerry’s ‘Productivity Edge’ or notifications on the curved edge display was spotted in a leak. An image of Productivity Edge on the Priv showed icons for quick viewing calendar, mails, tasks, and contacts. BlackBerry’s ‘Productivity Edge’ looked similar to Samsung’s People Edge, which primarily allowed users to quickly access select contacts. Samsung also included an option to light up the edge screen when mails, messages, or calls arrive. Samsung had also implemented Apps Edge, which let users pin apps to the edge display.
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Ministries Align to Benefit Deaf Students
Two unique development projects in Burkina Faso recently converged—educating deaf youth and equipping young women with practical job skills.
Alliance workers seek to minister to the unreached in Burkina Faso, where the average family income is less than $5 a day. Sharing Christ’s love and compassion in this context mandates meeting spiritual as well as physical needs through development projects, such as digging clean-water wells and assisting with income generation.
Championing the Marginalized
One unreached group Alliance people serve is Burkina’s deaf population.
“Our Christian school for the deaf—Institut des Jeunes Sourds de Faso (IJSF)—is educating children who would otherwise be forgotten in this culture, equipping them to communicate effectively,” says Esther Schaeffer, who serves with the Alliance team in Burkina’s second largest city, Bobo-Dioulasso.
Fatimata and Ouemata are proud of their new sewing machines. (Photo courtesy of Esther Schaeffer)
Teachers also help to ensure that the students learn practical skills, enabling them to find work and provide for themselves. It is a testimony to their Heavenly Father’s care for these Burkinabè youth, who have been labeled a burden, odd, useless, and even demon possessed.
“Our Bobo team has invested in these children, providing scholarships as well as organizing camps and special events,” Esther continues. “We’ve also worked with the school’s drama troop, which has performed in Burkina Faso and in neighboring countries.”
Additionally, her team is invested in a tailoring business owned by Ernest Hien, an elder in one of the Burkina Alliance churches. Ernest has sewn costumes for their video productions, and they have helped with the costs of installing electricity and equipment. They also prayed with him during the challenging phase of starting his business.
“The Lord has blessed Ernest’s business to such an extent that he has been able to expand and provide opportunities for young women to learn sewing skills,” Esther observes.
She recently asked him if he would accept two deaf students from the school to be apprentices in his shop. He agreed. Fatimata and Ouemata will be the first to benefit from both of these development projects.
Thanks to the generous support of Alliance Great Commission Women (GCW) in Burkina, these two students are now outfitted with sewing machines and sewing materials. GCW financial gifts also are enabling deaf school staff to orient Ernest’s sewing shop personnel to the new apprentices, including teaching basic sign language.
“Hopefully, this assistance will ensure a smooth transition for these two young women into their new surroundings,” Esther says.
“It is wonderful to see these two unique initiatives converge—further strengthened by U.S. Alliance people; our prayer is that we will see this overlap with other development projects in the future,” she adds, recalling Ephesians 4:16. “Christ makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy, growing, and full of love.”
“It’s important to look for ways that our gifts complement one another to extend God’s Kingdom,” Esther observes. “Pray for us as we seek to build up and unite the Body of Christ by promoting believers’ varied gifts and callings.”
Watch a video of a deaf ballet performed by IJSF students in Bobo-Dioulasso.
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Waikato Regional Theatre
Hamilton, New Zealand
The Waikato Regional Theatre is envisioned as a new cultural heart for the city and region. We’re working with the theatre, community and project team to bring this ambitious vision to life.
The venue will host touring musicals and drama, locally produced theatre and dance, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
The city of Hamilton is the seat of New Zealand’s Waikato region and it is the country’s fourth most populous and third fastest growing urban area. The Founders Theatre, built in 1962, was until recently the city’s largest and best known theatrical venue with a 1,250-seat capacity. It played host to a range of locally produced and touring shows. The theatre was closed abruptly in 2016 due to health and safety concerns.
Momentum Waikato Community Foundation, with support from Hamilton City Council, have engaged us to lead the development for a new venue. Following an extensive consultation with the local, regional, and national arts organisations, a concept for a new flexible 1,100-seat flexible lyric theatre has been developed. The venue will host touring musicals and drama, locally produced theatre and dance, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
“The challenge for Charcoalblue was to respond to a regional community in need of a new focus for its popular performing arts culture...this is a project with consultation at its core.”
Eric Lawrence, Melbourne Studio Principal
A render by JASMAX Architects of the exterior of the theatre.
An early render of the auditorium.
'The evolving designs are being driven not only by future user’s functional needs but also the aspiration of the community for a new “gathering place” which will motivate and change.' - Eric Lawrence
“It will be a hub that will be used by everyone, from community groups to international performers.”
Erin Shepherd, Consultant
Eric in a meeting with the JASMAX team.
With our partner architects, JASMAX, a new city centre site has been proposed. The location will solidify an arts precinct within Hamilton, along with other performance, museum, and gallery spaces. The site was formerly the location of the Embassy Theatre, the predecessor to Founders Theatre, and so provides a rich cultural heritage. The location will offer renewed engagement of city centre public spaces with the Waikato River, linking to parkland and providing excellent views.
The proposed development is planned to link to the refurbishment of the historic Hamilton Hotel to provide a lifestyle art hotel and visual art gallery.
Momentum Waikato
$73m NZD
JASMAX Architects
Eric Lawrence
Erin Shepherd
Amanda Brecknell
Elena Giakoumaki
Lucy Osborne
Byron Harrison
Eric Magloire
Chris Dales
Sam Gosling
Steve Roberts
Bristol Studio Principal
James Nowell
Jenni Harris
London Deputy Studio Principal
Joe Boxshall
Charcoalblue's vision was revealed at a Hamilton City Council meeting on Thursday, and councillors unanimously backed more investigation of the concept.
River location of proposed theatre welcomed.
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Talk to Eric about Waikato Regional Theatre.
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Times Newseum at Artzu Gallery
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The Times Newseum: a touring exhibition of curated material from the newspaper’s extensive archives is coming to Manchester.
Opening on April 9th at the Artzu Gallery on Hardman Square, Read all about it! The secrets behind the news, is an exhibition of artefacts, documents and installations that show how the news has been delivered through the centuries.
As the UK’s paper of record, The Times has had a ringside seat throughout history, chronicling for its readers events from Britain and around the world.
Read all about it! The secrets behind the news is a distinctive and differentiated showcase of content which celebrates journalism from the coverage of Manchester’s Peterloo Massacre in 1819 right up to the digital
age. An installation of 80 smartphones offers unique access to the newswires and Twitter accounts used by Times editorial staff so that visitors can see headlines live as they appear.
Stories told include the paper’s role at the opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb, through to the code used to protect The Times’ exclusive access to the first ascent of Everest. Also on display is the original camera used to take the first to take aerial photographs of the summit.
The exhibition is running until April 22nd.
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New Cook County Board members sworn in Monday
By Gregory Pratt
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, shown at the Union League Club in November, welcomed the new Cook County Board members at an official swearing-in Monday, Dec. 3. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)
All seven new Cook County Board members were officially sworn in Monday at a happy ceremony that drew several dignitaries, including a rare public appearance by former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Board President Toni Preckwinkle introduced the meeting with a speech lauding her own record and welcoming the new board members.
“There is no higher honor than public service,” Preckwinkle said.
In her remarks, Preckwinkle noted the importance of addressing health disparities and segregation in the county, economic development, regional growth and “smart investments such as prioritizing employment services and job creation in communities with affordable housing but few jobs.”
She did not mention that she is currently seeking another job as mayor of Chicago.
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Several new commissioners staked out their desire to take on big issues in the coming years. Scott Britton said he sees himself as a commissioner for all the county and recalled his father’s defeat in a Downstate election back in 1974 — a rare Democratic loss during the Watergate wave to contrast with his own victory. Britton unseated Republican Gregg Goslin in a district that includes north and northwest suburbs.
Kevin Morrison, who defeated Republican Tim Schneider, said the county needs to make sure it expands affordable health care and access to mental health services.
“And we do have to do something about property taxes,” Morrison said.
Fritz Kaegi and Karen Yarbrough also were sworn in as Cook County assessor and clerk, respectively. Kaegi ran on a campaign criticizing the current property tax system as unfair, a point driven home by a Chicago Tribune investigation that revealed widespread inequities in the system.
New commissioner Donna Miller echoed Morrison and also mentioned economic development.
Alma Anaya, who’s replacing Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, mentioned her history as an undocumented immigrant and noted that many people dismissed her candidacy due to her youth and history.
“Well, here I am,” Anaya said. “I am ready.”
Bill Lowry, who’s replacing commissioner and soul singer Jerry “Ice Man” Butler, spoke humbly about the man he replaced and the responsibilities ahead of him.
“I certainly can’t sing, but I will work hard,” he said.
Brandon Johnson, who defeated Richard Boykin in a tight race, choked up as he remembered his mother and promised to fight “structural racism” and work to stop the “push-out” of African-American families from the region.
Bridget Degnen, who defeated John Fritchey, told of her family being thankful for one another on Thanksgiving, then added, “Today I am honored that my family is expanding to include all of you.”
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Jesse Jackson Jr. ask President Trump for release, pardon of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Richard M. Daley, the former Chicago mayor, was there alongside his brother Bill Daley, who is running against Preckwinkle to replace Rahm Emanuel. Both Daleys snuck out shortly after their brother Commissioner John Daley spoke and welcomed the new members.
Other dignitaries included Ald. Carrie Austin and Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, former Cook County Board President Bobbie Steele and Thornton Township Supervisor Frank Zuccarelli, among others.
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From the community:
District 54 seeks community members for committees
By Community Contributor School District 54
School District 54 is looking for community members who would be interested in serving on its District Citizens' Advisory Committee (DCAC) or Advisory Council for District Initiatives (ACDI) beginning in the 2019-20 school year.
DCAC is a School Board committee composed of staff members, parents, community members and representatives of governmental agencies, community and business organizations. The Board established this committee to increase communication and provide citizen involvement at the district level. DCAC also offers members an opportunity to promote education and community involvement.
DCAC member responsibilities include attending monthly meetings (held at 9 a.m. on the second Thursday of the month during the school year), providing input to the School Board on district topics, and sharing information with one's constituency.
ACDI is a source for strategic planning in District 54. This council acknowledges and supports ideas for instructional change before the ideas are presented to the School Board. ACDI serves as a channel of communication by encouraging new ideas and providing a framework for them to become a reality. ACDI members are involved in the planning of new, innovative ideas.
ACDI member responsibilities include attending monthly meetings on an as-needed basis (held on the third or fourth Monday of the month during the school year), sharing information with one's constituency, assisting/mentoring others in fully developing instructional initiatives, and committing to three years of ACDI membership.
Applications are available on the District 54 web site at:
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https://tinyurl.com/D54committeeapplications201920
Applications are to be submitted by May 11, 2019 to CynthiaBallmaier@sd54.org or by mail to the Superintendent/Board of Education Office, School District 54, 524 E. Schaumburg Road, Schaumburg, IL 60194.
The Board will review all applications received and make appointments at a board meeting. For more information, please call (847) 357-5036.
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Donate your old £1 coins to local charity
On Sunday 15th October, the round £1 coin will cease to be local tender, so why not donate your old coins to Child Bereavement UK and help families to rebuild their lives after bereavement?
Child Bereavement UK supports families when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying or when a child faces bereavement.
The charity also trains professionals, such as teachers, midwives and police officers to help them better understand and meet the needs of the grieving families they come into contact with in their daily working life.
The new £1 coin was introduced earlier this year after it was estimated that one in 30 of the old pound coins in circulation is a counterfeit, and according to Go Compare Money, there are still more than £420m worth of old coins rattling around.
Ruth Sanger, Regional Fundraising & Communications Manager at Child Bereavement UK said:
We are encouraging people to raid their piggybanks and rummage down the back of their sofa, and donate what they find. In the last year alone, almost 500 adults and children living in Buckinghamshire, have received face to face support from our Bereavement Support Practitioners. Your donation will help us to help families who are rebuilding their lives after the devastation of child bereavement.
To donate your coins please visit any of the local retailers listed on https://childbereavementuk.org/get-involved/events/community-fundraising/pop-in-a-pound/ or visit your nearest Child Bereavement UK centre, or call Linda on 01494 569 048 for others ways to donate.
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Star Wars missing a following in China – Ben Cavender
February 12, 2018 - civil society, consumers, culture, Disney, Shanghai, Speaker News - Tagged: Ben Cavender, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Jedi, John Boyega, Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, Princess Leia, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode VIII, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Box office revenue for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was beaten by a local romantic movie, showing US movies do not automatically win in China. US classics to not have the following in China, they have at home, says business analyst Ben Cavender to CNBC.
“[T]his is a franchise which has always struggled in China … the cult following just doesn’t exist,” Ben Cavender, principal at consultancy China Market Research Group, told CNBC.
He attributed the less-than-outstanding performance of “The Last Jedi” at the Chinese box office to the lack of “generational awareness” among Chinese consumers of the franchise.
The first three films in the series, which first began in 1977, were never shown in theaters on the mainland. In fact, the first Hollywood film shown theatrically after the Cultural Revolution was “The Fugitive” — which coincidentally also starred “Star Wars” actor Harrison Ford — in 1994.
In order to tackle that lack of awareness ahead of the mainland release of “The Force Awakens” two years ago, Disney carried out large-scale marketing campaigns that included positioning 500 white-armored stormtroopers on the Great Wall to drum up hype around the film.
Disney also recruited popular Chinese singer Lu Han to star in a themed music video ahead of the mainland release of “The Force Awakens” back in 2016.
This year, cast and crew members of “The Last Jedi” — including actress Daisy Ridley, actor Mark Hamill and director Rian Johnson — attended a premiere at Shanghai Disney Resort some two weeks ahead of the film’s mainland release to drum up support.
Meanwhile, the relative popularity of the latest “The Ex-File” sequel could also be due to Chinese consumers becoming more attached to local “story-driven” films, Cavender said, citing the outperformance of “Wolf Warrior 2” last year.
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Cisco's new CEO hints at deals in software and security
The company will be 'very acquisitive,' Chuck Robbins says
James Niccolai (IDG News Service) 13 August, 2015 08:23
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins
Chuck Robbins has only been in the job three weeks but the new CEO of Cisco Systems is already dropping hints about acquisitions.
On Wednesday, Cisco reported growth in its revenue and profits for the quarter just ended, and in a conference call to discuss the results Robbins was asked about Cisco's plans for long term growth.
"We'll continue to be very acquisitive going forward, especially in areas like software and security," he said.
They're two of the areas Cisco has flagged as growth opportunities in the past. They're also areas where it can generate recurring revenue from subscriptions, something it wants to do more of.
Cisco has already been on something of an acquisitions streak, with six purchases announced in less than five months. They include Internet security provider OpenDNS, which it's buying for $US635 million.
Robbins was on his first earnings call as CEO after taking over from John Chambers last month. Cisco is in the midst of a minor turnaround, so he's taking charge at an interesting time.
Revenue for the quarter was $1US2.8 billion, Cisco said, up 4 per cent from a year earlier and better than financial analysts had been expecting. Net income was $US2.3 billion, up 3 per cent.
That's slower growth than in the previous two quarters, but still continues an upward trend.
Sales in Cisco's core switching business climbed 2 per cent from last year to $US3.72 billion, the company said, while sales of its routing products were up 3 per cent to $US1.99 billion.
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HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet
CIRM funds many projects seeking to better understand HIV/AIDS and to translate those discoveries into new therapies.
HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, is a virus that infects cells of the immune system, undermining the body’s ability to fight infection and disease. Eventually infection can lead to symptoms of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which includes susceptibility to infections, cancers and other diseases, and eventually causes death. According to the CDC, more than 1.1 million people in the U.S. are infected with HIV at this moment.
Stem cell approaches to treating people with HIV primarily involve replacing the person’s immune system with one that the virus can’t infect. Hope that this approach could work were boosted in late 2010 when scientists reported that Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the "Berlin Patient”, had effectively had his HIV “cured”. As part of a treatment for leukemia, Brown had received a bone marrow transplant that came from a donor whose cells were resistant to HIV infection.
The person who donated the bone marrow had a genetic mutation in a gene called CCR5, which makes a protein that is required for HIV to enter cells. Without CCR5, HIV wasn’t able to infect these replacement immune cells and Brown has been able to go off his medications.
The problem is that there aren’t enough people with naturally occurring CCR5 mutations to serve as bone marrow donors for all HIV patients. Instead, scientists are hoping to create CCR5 mutations. They first plan to remove the blood-forming stem cells in a person’s bone marrow and mutate the CCR5 gene. The idea is that those genetically altered cells would then repopulate the person’s blood system with one that lacks CCR5 and that HIV won’t be able to infect.
Clinical Stage Programs
The City of Hope team plans to mutate the CCR5 gene using a technology called a zinc finger nuclease, which is essentially a pair of molecular scissors developed by Sangamo Biosciences that snips an exact spot on the CCR5 gene. Early evidence in animals suggests that when those cells are reintroduced, they create an immune system that HIV can’t infect. The team has begun a clinical trial with the procedure.
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Calimmune
The Calimmune team is using a method called RNA interference to block the CCR5 gene from generating a protein. A blood system generated from these cells will lack CCR5 and block HIV infection. The team has begun a clinical trial with the procedure.
The team at is taking a patient’s blood forming stem cells and inserting 3 anti-HIV genes into them and then returning them to the individual. The anti-HIV genes are then passed on to all new immune system cells and make them resistant to HIV. Because AIDS-related lymphoma is linked to the constant immune cell stimulation caused by HIV infection, getting rid of the virus should prevent return of the cancer.
Jeff Sheehy, HIV/AIDS patient advocate member of the CIRM Governing Board, and John Zaia, leader of the City of Hope CIRM HIV Disease Team, discuss stem cell transplant strategies for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
CIRM Grants Targeting HIV/AIDS
Paula Cannon University of Southern California Site-specific gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells as an anti-HIV therapy Tools and Technologies III $1,495,665
Mehrdad Abedi University of California, Davis Stem Cell Gene Therapy for HIV Mediated by Lentivector Transduced, Pre-selected CD34+ Cells in AIDS lymphoma patients Clinical Trial Stage Projects $8,414,265
David Baltimore California Institute of Technology Immunotherapy for HIV infection using engineered hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells Quest - Discovery Stage Research Projects $1,586,934
David DiGiusto City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Development of RNA-based approaches to stem cell gene therapy for HIV Early Translational II $3,097,160
Irvin Chen University of California, Los Angeles Stem Cells: A New Avenue of HIV Research and New Approaches to HIV Treatment Conference $24,456
John Zaia City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE-BASED STEM CELL THERAPY FOR AIDS Disease Team Research I $14,536,969
Scott Kitchen University of California, Los Angeles Engineering Lifelong Cellular Immunity to HIV Quest - Discovery Stage Research Projects $1,701,178
Irvin Chen University of California, Los Angeles HPSC based therapy for HIV disease using RNAi to CCR5. Disease Team Research I $9,905,604
Xiuli Wang City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute CMV-specific T cells expressing anti-HIV CAR and CMV vaccine boost as immunotherapy for HIV/AIDS Late Stage Preclinical Projects $3,812,797
Irvin Chen University of California, Los Angeles Genetic modification of the human genome to resist HIV-1 infection and/or disease progression SEED Grant $616,800
Zack Jerome University of California, Los Angeles Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapeutic Strategies to Target HIV Disease Comprehensive Grant $2,401,903
Geoff Symonds Calimmune, Inc. GENE-MODIFIED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM/PROGENITOR CELL BASED THERAPY FOR HIV DISEASE Disease Team Research I $8,278,722
Mark Anderson University of California, San Francisco Stem cell differentiation to thymic epithelium for inducing tolerance to stem cells Transplantation Immunology $1,314,089
Mehrdad Abedi University of California, Davis Stem Cell Gene Therapy for HIV in AIDS Lymphoma Patients Disease Team Therapy Planning I $66,880
Zack Jerome University of California, Los Angeles Stem Cell Programming With Chimeric Antigen Receptors to Eradicate HIV Infection Early Translational IV $4,925,166
Irvin Chen University of California, Los Angeles Development of a humanized mouse model for testing anti-HIV HSPC gene therapy strategies in HIV-1 infected mice. Early Translational from Disease Team Conversion $1,505,000
Mark Anderson University of California, San Francisco Generation of a functional thymus to induce immune tolerance to stem cell derivatives Basic Biology V $1,191,000
John Zaia City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute A Phase I, Open-Label Study To Assess The Safety, Feasibility and Engraftment of Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFN) CCR5 Modified Autologous CD34+ Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells (SB-728MR-HSPC) with Escalating Doses of Busulfan In HIV-1 (R5) Infected Sub... Strategic Partnership III Track A $5,583,438
John Zaia City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute The Innovation-Alpha Clinic for Cellular Therapies (I-ACT) – A Program for the Development and Delivery of Innovative Cell-based Treatments and Cures for Life-threatening Diseases. Alpha Stem Cell Clinics $8,000,000
CIRM HIV/AIDS Videos
Is a HIV Cure Possible? A Lecture Series on HIV Cure Research
Is a HIV Cure Possible? A Panel Discussion on HIV Cure Research
HIV/AIDS Stem Cell Clinical Trial: Introduction by Jeff Sheehy
HIV/AIDS Stem Cell Clinical Trial: Louis Breton, CEO, Calimmune
HIV/AIDS Stem Cell Clinical Trial: Geoff Symonds, Calimmune
John Zaia, City of Hope - CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
HIV/AIDS: Advancing Stem Cell Therapies: 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting
Progress and Promise in HIV/AIDS
Spotlight on Disease Team Awards - HIV/AIDS: Jeff Sheehy
Spotlight on Disease Team Awards - HIV/AIDS: John Zaia
Spotlight on Disease Team Awards - HIV/AIDS: Loring Leeds
Biotech Perspectives for Stem Cell Research: Don Francis
HIV and Stem Cells: Warner Greene - CIRM Science Writer's Seminar
CIRM Blogs on HIV/AIDS Research
CDC: Information about HIV/AIDS
NIH: AIDS Information
AIDS Policy Project
Project Inform
HIVinSite
Find a clinical trial near you: NIH Clinical Trials database
The Foundation for AIDS Research
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
National AIDS Fund
AIDS Research Institute, UCSF
Family Caregiver Alliance
National Family Caregivers Association
Stem Cell FAQ | Stem Cell Videos | What We Fund
CIRM Stem Cell Blog
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New study points to potential treatment for balance disorders
Getting the inside scoop on the stem cell agency
Developing a non-toxic approach to bone-crushing cancers
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Stories of Hope: HIV/AIDS
Manipulated Medicine
2011 Annual Report: Locking out HIV
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Blockchain May Assist In Protecting Your Identity
Blockchain has the capability to protect elections and identities -- but it may not be ready for primetime.
Perhaps not because the late'90s, if dotcom mania prevailed, hasn't been such blue-sky possible, frenzied enthusiasm, and prevalent misconception since now surrounds blockchain tech.
Cryptocurrency fortunes are made and lost in what often appears to be the blink of the eye, however, blockchain is not only about money.
Really, what began as a proof of concept to the evolution of a techno-libertarian monetary currency is presently attracting serious attention (and venture capital) because of its"silver bullet" standing in the domain of things cyber.
Blockchain technologies were utilized in elections first in Sierra Leone (because of much-debated evidence of theory ) and in a pilot evaluation at West Virginia. Although it's still unproven, blockchain technology provides security against the election safety problems of this non-Fake News collection that beset the 2016 presidential race. As a cyber protection weapon, it's also been directed in the identity theft intrusion as well as the variety of security problems faced by banks, investment companies, and property.
The possible decentralization, or maybe, de-privileging, of information protection protocols in addition to how information is dispersed, is exciting. Nevertheless, it is important to not forget that a lesson in the dotcom crash, so that delight can easily get in the way of common sense, pragmatism, and doubt, and as soon as it does, awful things occur. This holds true if we are speaking about high-tech whizbang or even the microcosm of our private choices in the domain of matters fiber--like how we handle our individuality portfolios.
Identity Management In Blockchain-Style
Most businesses have started to produce tools which assist in private verification and authentication procedures: IBM blockchain, Atencoin, Blockauth, Blockstack, Blockverify, Cambridge Blockchain, Cryptid, Evernym, Identifi, OIX, UniquID, uPort to list a couple.
Civic is just another such private identity cybersecurity tool which uses dispersed ledger technologies --or blockchain--to handle online identification, verification, and authentication, which makes these jobs easier to handle, faster and cheaper.
Like most of its rivals, the instrument Civic has generated is a fantastic fit for businesses with KYC (Know Your Customer) wants --utilities, banks, insurance providers, retailers, health care providers, etc. ). Civic is singled out as an example of how these instruments operate as opposed to as an illustration of best-in-class--a standing that no firm has attained within this brand new cybersecurity field.
The aim of these dispersed ledger verification tools will be to deliver a speedy means to ascertain an individual's identity utilizing blockchain-stored information --data which may be deleted or altered without producing a permanent record of these activities (in other words, it is protected ).
The Civic version, much like all the other companies producing similar options, share layout DNA with recognized identity management methods, most especially the Estonian government's strategy for identifying data. There's a well-considered data security structure under every function and characteristic, both seeing where and how information is saved and the way that it's transferred and accessed.
Civic's verification tool relies on the Etherium system, which can be both a cryptocurrency along with a stage on which to create other blockchain programs. (There is no simple analogy for this, as it is a relatively new concept with completely new software.)
The Civic tool functions by dint of a community of consumers, validators, and providers. Users keep their private data for confirmation purposes. Civic does not store any PII about the dispersed ledger--but instead references for this, which validates locate, supplying attestations the individual seeking to be confirmed is that they claim to be to get a"commission" paid in CVC tokens.
Is This ID Management Possible?
Nope. Additionally, there are unresolved problems around the very best approach to incorporate the data references from the affirmation procedures necessary to earn blockchain authentication potential. By way of instance, to utilize Civic, you have to get into the organization's Secure Identity program (you can find cellular and net versions) and there is the issue.
Mobile and internet programs could be hacked if they rely upon protected technologies, and because establishing the Civic Secure Identity program demands your name, address, Social Security or tax identification number, passport number, driver's license, and so on, there's the prospect of difficulty.
What can go wrong? It. In this day and age where safety breaches and information compromises would be the third largest certainty in existence, it's more than just a stretch to take on blind faith that a business getting such a treasure trove of personally identifiable info is shielding it perfectly.
No matter programs become hacked occasionally, and apparatus become hacked all of the time. For merely one of the many ways things can move sideways, think about what could occur were the apparatus used to enroll for blockchain identification affirmation infected using keystroke malware.
Still, another matter is blockchain itself. Although it's assumed to be secure, it has fallen prey to a lot of hacks--coin buys are pieced, hardware insecurity from pockets discovered, telephone apps cracked.
Yes Or No!
Rumors of this planet's very first blockchain-enabled federal election proved significantly exaggerated, and also let's not overlook there are likely over several traders around who'd love to overlook an iced tea firm's 500% growth in stock price after incorporating "blockchain" for their title.
Unless you are trapped at a soap bubble floating around Loon Lake from the murk of a complete solar panel, you understand digital monies are inconsistent. Perhaps you will know their value could be manipulated in precisely the exact same manner as "actual" cash may. Thus, is blockchain secure?
Even though the solution is no and yes, this does not mean uncertainty ought to prevail. Exactly the identical exuberance that mimicked dotcom-era stock costs become in some cases far beyond prescient. The net did change the world, and also there was actually a market for given pet equipment, diapers, books. The amount of internet-enabled apparatus has and can continue to plummet.
Blockchain seems to be about a comparable class, particularly when it regards the disposition of individuality, but we ought to wade in the water gradually.
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Happy New Year’s to Everyone
By Tony and Thomas on Dec 31, 2016
We are wrapping up 2016 in Bangkok, one of our all-time favorite cities to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s. We are wishing all of our family and friends a happy new year, and we hope we have inspired you with some of our travels.
In 2016, we made it to eleven countries on four continents traveling through Germany, Italy, Portugal, the U.S., Spain, Morocco, Gibraltar, the Czech Republic, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. While 2015 was all about nature and wildlife, 2016 was all about cities and food. Yes, South America left us a bit starved for nourishment. Continue…
Merry Tri-National Christmas
By Tony and Thomas on Dec 25, 2016 | Japan | Taiwan | Thailand
If you are one of those people who complains about how early the Christmas decorations go up each year, Asia is not for you. Starting the day after Halloween (there’s no Thanksgiving here), the Christmas trees started popping up around us in Osaka. The tinsel and the carols followed us to Kyoto. We explored the temples and fall foliage to a sound track of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Jingle Bells. From Japan, we made our way to Taiwan where we discovered crowded German-style Christmas markets filled with bratwurst, gluhwein, pretzels and Chinese dumplings.
Yes, we swayed to Stille Nacht (Silent Night in German) as we stared up at Taipei 101, Asia’s most stunning skyscraper, and basked in the light of fake log fires and a sea of twinkly Christmas lights. From Taiwan, we Continue…
Tokyo Food Tours
By Thomas on Nov 29, 2016 | Japan
Japan had been on our bucket list for a while, but the actual decision to come here was made in the spur of a moment. “I want to go to Japan and eat,” Tony said one afternoon after an uninspired meal. No sooner did he utter these words than I booked us a flight to Tokyo, sushi wonderland and foodie capital for many travelers. After having spent five years in Asia, we considered ourselves relative experts on Asian cuisine. Obviously, all we had to do was walk the capital’s busy streets and fill our bellies with exotic delicacies. Or so we thought.
It turns out that Japan is a whole different kettle of fish. With a population of over 13 million, metropolitan Tokyo seems to have almost as many restaurants, food stalls and izakayas as it has people. Yes, there is such a thing as too many options. What should you have for lunch? A Michelin-starred bento plate or green tea soba noodles? How about yamaimo or fugu? Oh, that’s right – one can make you sick, the other can potentially kill you. Add to that language difficulties and chokingly high prices, and you find yourself Continue…
Happy Halloween from Osaka
By Tony on Nov 1, 2016 | Japan
Happy Halloween from Osaka, one of the craziest, most over-the-top cities in Japan. There were literally thousands of people dressed up and celebrating in the streets – that’s even more than on a normal day. Continue…
The Rockabillies of Yoyogi Park
By Tony on Oct 9, 2016 | Japan
The Rockabillies of Yoyogi Park are, perhaps, the best example of what makes Tokyo so Tokyo. This city is all about awesome subcultures, retro tongue-in-cheek chic, music, and serious love for everything fun.
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The Red Spider Lilies of Kinchakuda
No, we didn’t come to Japan during the cherry blossom season. 🙁 But it turns out that Japan has a whole lot of surprises up is floral kimono sleeves. We just randomly stumbled upon this little known (outside Japan) event, the blooming of the red spider lilies of Kinchakuda (巾着田).
Located a mere hour outside Tokyo in Saitama Prefecture, Kinchakuda Park lies on a forested bend along the shores of the Koma River. For about 8-10 days each year, a spectacular red carpet of lilies forms beneath the trees creating a fairy tale scene unlike anything we have ever encountered before Continue…
Rockin’ Room with a Space-Age View
By Tony on Sep 28, 2016 | Japan
We came to Japan with one major goal in mind, to experience the awesomeness, the craziness, the cuteness, the unexpectedness, the weirdness and the wonderfulness of the Japanese people. In other words, the Japaneseness.
When we told friends that we would be spending half of our time in the country just in Tokyo, they seemed a bit surprised by our decision. Why so focused on the capital? Why? Because Tokyo is prime hunting ground for everything that makes Japan so Japanese. We want skyscrapers decorated in giant video screens, anime madness, hustle and bustle, Harajuku girls, streets aflow with humanity, and food, food, food. First reaction to Tokyo… fabulous shock! It’s overwhelming in the most positive sense of the word. Continue…
Happy Birthday Thomas
By Tony on Sep 8, 2016 | Japan
Happy birthday to one of the planet’s greatest explorers. What better way to celebrate than by diving into one of the craziest, most over the top cities in the world… Tokyo. This is going to be good.
Kasbah du Toubkal – Luxury Trekking in the High Atlas
By Tony and Thomas on Aug 27, 2016 | Morocco
Warning: Two hikers were attacked and killed outside Imlil in December of 2018. Danish authorities have stated that the attacks were “politically motivated and thus a terrorist act.” Exercise caution in the area.
As we sit sipping sweet mint tea gazing out the sculpted slopes of the Imlil Valley, the call to prayer echoes up from the Berber villages below. I adjust the cushy pillows around me and lean out to take in the mountain panorama that surrounds the Kasbah du Toubkal. Behind our hill-top refuge rises the barren, rocky peak of Mt. Toubkal, which at 4,167 m (13,670 ft) ranks as the highest mountain in North Africa. Opposite us, a wondrous waterfall pours into an oasis of walnut, apple, and – most importantly – cherry trees. It’s literally raining cherries in the valley below.
When trekkers talk dream destinations, the conversations often turn to distant lands such as Nepal, northern India, Tibet or Peru. Scanning our archives will prove that these reputations are well deserved. But trekkers-in-the-know keep a few dazzling finds to themselves, off-the-beaten-track treasures where the hiking enthusiast can walk the trails without the crowds. One of the best kept secrets Continue…
Shades of Merzouga
By Tony on Aug 13, 2016 | Morocco
Merzouga is one of Morocco’s top desert destinations. The sweeping dune sea, which has been featured in films such as The Prince of Persia and The Mummy, is where everyone comes to live out their desert dreams. Of course, we showed up in the middle of a series of raging sandstorms with blistering 105+ temperatures, so our desert dream felt a bit more like a very sandy, very hot hallucination.
Yes, we spent a great deal of our time in our hotel room watching the dunes push their way through the gap under our door. When the winds dropped a bit, we moved to the hotel restaurant and sipped mint tea with clouds of sand swirling around us as the hotel owner sat staring out an open door wondering aloud why his hotel was so empty. (Gee, I wonder why!) On two occasions, the wind stopped and we ran out the door into the Continue…
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The Best American Comics 2012
Francoise Mouly, Gary Panter, Charles Burns, David Sandlin, Nora Krug, Chester Brown, David Collier, Renee French, Jonathan Bennett, Michael Kupperman, Adrian Tomine, Jaime Hernandez, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden
published by Houghton Mifflin
There's plenty to like between these two covers. The only questions is: How much of it do you already have? Highlights for us are those works that are not readily available elsewhere on the shelves at Copacetic, and include: eight pages of new Jimbo comics by cover boy, Gary Panter; new, specially commissioned endpapers by Jesse Jacobs, whose AdHouse press debut, Even the Giants, is also featured; four Michael Kupperman strips from The Washington City Paper; Nora Krug's "Kamikaze", from A Public Space; six Jonathan Bennett one-pagers for The Believer Magazine; and House of Debt by David Sandlin. Also on hand are healthy excerpts from X-ed Out by Charles Burns, Big Questions by Anders Nilsen, Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine, Paying for It by Chester Brown; H Day by Renee French, Crickets by Sammy Harkham, Love and Rockets by Jaime Hernandez, Chimo by David Collier, and plenty more. A great way to catch up with comics.
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Fire truck for South Dundas comes in under budget
June 4, 2015 Editor News, South Dundas 0
South Dundas Fire & Emergency Services Chief Chris McDonough. (Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File)
SOUTH DUNDAS – The municipality has closed the books on the second piece for a new fire truck and the entire package has come in under budget.
Council approved the $188,987 purchase Tuesday night for a pumper unit from a company in Carleton Place.
South Dundas had approached four firms that manufacture firefighting equipment about the tender but only two responded. The other bid from an Arnprior company was almost $235,000.
After a tax rebate and trade in on the old fire truck, the final cost was just over $180,000.
The pumper will go on the $224,000 chassis bought in April. The chassis was found in Quebec and was part of a cancelled order for the Halifax fire department.
The review of the pumper tender Tuesday night was tame in comparison to the sole-sourcing tender earlier this year for the fire truck chassis.
Then, tempers flared between Coun. Bill Ewing and Fire Chief Chris McDonough and Mayor Evonne Delegarde had to break up the curt exchange.
On Tuesday night, McDonough circled back on his earlier chassis purchase, stating that the township had actually saved $100,000 based on the U.S. dollar exchange.
“I did get today’s (Tuesday) market dollar value and a 2015 chassis we would have been looking at over $500,000…so we probably saved over $100,000,” McDonough told council.
The township had budgeted $425,000 for the entire truck replacement.
The department is replacing its 1991 pumper as part of its regular fleet replacement.
The truck should be on the road in October.
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Are you suffering from burnout?
The life expectancy of a correctional officer is 12-16 years shorter than individuals in other occupations
By Leischen Stelter, editor of In Public Safety
Many correctional officers struggle with a series of challenges in their personal lives, and recent studies shed light on the extent of the problem. Compared to the average of all other occupations, correctional officers spend 40 percent more days away from work due to injury or illness. They have a 30 percent higher divorce rate and a suicide rate twice that of the general population. The life expectancy of a correctional officer is 12-16 years shorter than individuals in other occupations.
Despite these grim statistics, health and wellness has not been a popular topic in the correctional field. But if this year’s theme at the Pennsylvania Association of Probation, Parole and Corrections (PAPPC)/Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association (MASCA) conference is any indicator, correctional officers and administrators are starting to take health and wellness more seriously. This year, all the presentations of this three-day conference focused on Correctional Employee Wellness – Mind, Body, and Spirit.
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Wellness is an issue that impacts everyone in corrections. “No matter how professional you are, no matter how hard you steel yourself, working with violent offenders and people with mental illness will take a toll on you as a professional and as a person,” said Dr. Joel Núñez, a New Jersey licensed clinical psychologist, who gave a keynote address entitled “Self-care isn’t Selfish.”
Burnout is a Serious Matter
Núñez discussed the epidemic of officers suffering from burnout—when someone reaches physical or emotional exhaustion due to prolonged stress or frustration. Reaching this level is dangerous to one’s health. “Exposure to burnout is correlated with severe health problems,” Núñez said. “It also causes things like a reduction in commitment to the organization, absenteeism, an increase in attrition rates and a reduction in productivity.”
Burnout needs to be taken seriously by individuals, but also by organizations. In order to understand burnout and give officers tools to prevent and address it, it’s important to realize that burnout is a continuum, not a category. “Many people operate like burnout is a category that you can check ‘yes’ or ‘no’ but it’s not like that,” Núñez said. “Burnout is a continuum and you can find yourself at different points, even in the very same day. You can start out feeling energetic and optimistic yet by the middle of the day, you might be depleted and exhausted.”
Burnout can take hold of individuals and affect their ability to function. Núñez discussed four primary characteristics of burnout:
Emotional exhaustion: This is the symptom category that’s associated with physical ailments like diabetes, strokes, heart attacks and emotional illnesses like depression and anxiety. Research shows that even if an officer isn’t obese, isn’t a smoker, and has no history of major health problems, they can show significant physical and mental health problems because they’re burdened under the weight of emotional exhaustion, said Núñez.
Depersonalization: Individuals suffering from burnout often show increased cynicism towards the world. They start to become emotionally depleted, begin to withdraw from others, and are short-tempered with loved ones. Someone who is suffering from burnout and distancing themselves from others often begins to depersonalize others and see them as less than human. This is especially dangerous because they can actually bring harm to others. When a person shows these signs, they are often completely unaware of their impact on others.
Diminished efficacy: When someone is suffering from burnout they start believing their work no longer has an impact. When this starts happening, individuals need to take a step back and realize that their attitude, body language, demeanor and behavior are likely having an impact on others and leading to their inability to be effective in their job.
Impaired insight: This characteristic of burnout is the most destructive, said Núñez. As a psychologist, he said the most devastating symptom of mental illness is impairment of insight—the illness tells people they’re not ill. But such impairment of insight isn’t restricted to the mentally ill – it can happen to anyone, including those suffering from burnout. “We’re good at lying to ourselves and rationalizing or justifying our bad behavior,” he said. “When we become depleted from burnout we can do the most damage because our insight is impaired.”
How to Improve Your Outlook and Prevent Burnout
Officers must commit purposefully and intently to self-care to prevent burnout, said Núñez. “It isn’t the responsibility of your loved ones or your colleagues or your workplace to make sure you’re well – it’s up to you,” he emphasized. Asking yourself how you’re doing and being honest about the answer is a good place to start. If the answer is that you’re not doing well, seek out help.
Núñez recommended some actions people can take to prevent burnout:
Realize You Only Have So Much to Give
Humans are economic beings, said Núñez, and they have a limited amount of resources. “One of the most important things we can do for ourselves is recognize our limitations. We have to allocate our resources to things that are within our control.”
This leads to another important element, especially for those in corrections: Know what you can and cannot change. “I’ve seen very intelligent people engage in the fruitless pursuit of trying to change people they cannot change,” said Núñez. Whether it’s the behavior of offenders or agency policies, officers must acknowledge the things that are beyond their control. “That means don’t spend an iota of your limited resources on things you know you can’t change,” he said.
Improve Your Attitude
However, one thing we all have ultimate control over is our attitude. “Many of us are convinced that other people are responsible for our attitude,” he said. “You often hear people say that what someone did really pissed them off. But what’s really happening is that they’re allowing themselves to be pissed off by what another person did. It may seem like just a semantic difference, but it can make a world of difference when you think about it that way.”
Núñez also recommends having an attitude of gratitude. And it’s more than just a catchy phrase. Making a conscious decision to be grateful for what you have and take on an optimistic attitude “can help inoculate you against issues that lead to burnout,” he said. Also, align yourself with others who have a positive attitude and steer clear of those who bring negativity.
Practice Self-Kindness
People are often much nicer to others than they are to themselves. “I am my own worst critic,” admitted Núñez. “That voice can be paralyzing. One of the strongest competencies we can arm ourselves with in our journey toward self-care is to practice self-kindness,” he said. Be gentle with yourself and don’t beat yourself up when you make mistakes. Understand where you can improve without punishing yourself severely.
Savor Your Experiences (put down your phone!)
Take the time to enjoy and appreciate the good things in your life, but don’t feel the need to always document it. “We all have these devices in our pockets that connect us to the world,” said Núñez holding up a smartphone. “Using it in excess is a problem. Why are you documenting every experience? It’s keeping you from experiencing your own experiences! One way we don’t realize we’re sliding down that continuum of burnout is when we resort to documenting every part of our day and not actually experiencing it,” he said.
Leverage Relationships
If you’re in the depths of burnout and impaired insight, how will you know you’re there? You must enlist the help of others, said Núñez. “You must authorize others to tell you those difficult truths because there will be times that you will not know when you’ve become dangerous to yourself or others,” he said. Talk to someone you trust about the realities of burnout and give them permission to talk to you when they see these signs.
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As the State Turns
By Johnny Beaver
Cover Oregon… Because, Why Not
By way of the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), Deloitte Consulting will be inhaling $18 million of our state’s money to set up a web platform that will replace the original website, which we all know and love as the Little Healthcare Exchange That Frankly Couldn’t. Apparently learning from past frivolities, the new contract ensures that a fixed result is married to an even more fixed price. Deloitte will also be hit with a daily fine if they fail to deliver a working site by the Nov. 15 deadline.
In the meantime, Oregon and Oracle continue their legal battle, which is essentially a fight to determine which is 51% to blame, and which is only 49%.
Bees Still Croaking en Masse
The United States has just over 2.5 million managed honey bee colonies, Oregon acting as home to a metric funkload of them (a scientific term). This also explains why I had to run screaming all over the place when I lived here as a child, and why I had to freak out in the back seat of the family car so bad one day that the police pulled us over. Thanks, beekeepers. Here’s lookin’ at you. ::obscene gesture::
Anyway, as most people are aware, there has been a crisis in recent times over massive bee die-offs. Despite efforts to combat the situation, Oregon lost 21% of its honey bees between last October and this past March. This is just under the 22% annual losses reported over the past six years. In order to replace a lost bee colony, healthy hives must be split in half, and so must one’s bank account, as the costs for labor, equipment, and new queen bees add up quickly.
Bees are kicking the bucket for a few different reasons, including disease, poor nutrition, restricted diets, and pesticides. They are responsible each year for $15 billion worth of successful pears, cherries, broccoli, carrots, nuts, onions, mustard, and other crops. Despite my problems with the little stinging yellow rabblerousers, even I have to acknowledge their necessity. Mustard is the best.
To Label, or Not to Label…
An anti-GMO effort veiled as a food rights initiative will likely be seen on this November’s ballot after an estimated 150,000-plus signatures were submitted for qualification. In order to be accepted, 87,213 of the signatures must be verified as valid by the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office. If passed, the initiative would require GMOs to be labeled on foodstuffs in the state.
Proponents cheer the effort on in an attempt to champion individual’s rights to know what’s in their food; however, opponents accuse the document of being worded so poorly that it would fail to give consumers reliable information—and at the same time hurt thousands of family farmers, small store owners, and wind up increasing grocery bills. Two similar initiatives failed in California and Washington over the last two years.
Last time I checked, here in America we voted based on the issue, not the “wording” of some hippy-dippy document, am I right? I don’t think George Washington would tolerate anything that sounded good but failed hard on paper within our great country, or state for that matter. Hold on while I sweep Cover Oregon under the rug.
Air BnBummer?
As Portlandian as a flasher spanging for a bag of Cheetos, Air Bnb has gotten really popular in recent years. The idea is that homeowners can book space in their place, whether they’re there or out of town, and people can take the offers and stay on their property while traveling. Just register on Airbnb.com and toss in the information. Beatniks love it, hippies love it, hipsters love it, yuppies love it… serial killers might be into it. It’s a win, win, win, win, win, sorta lose situation. Whoever was hosting the space was responsible for calculating room tax and snagging it before the traveler skipped town. As you can imagine, a lot of this money was lost in the sofa.
Well, now Air Bnb hosts in Multnomah County and the city of Portland will have the tax automatically added to the reservation. Damn, dog. The Transient Lodging Tax, as it is eloquently known, is about 11.5% of the listing price plus any cleaning fee for reservations shorter than 30 days. In Portland it’ll be 6%.
While it doesn’t sound like much, a lot of people use Air Bnb because it’s cheap and interesting. I’d rather sleep on the street than on some creeper’s hide-a-bed, personally, but I feel for these folks. I really do.
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Call 815-1776 or email tribtalk@columbiatribune.com to contribute.Jim Robertson, managing editor
"I just seen the umpteenth ad on television urging me to call Claire McCaskill. I hope lots of people go on record as I do and say, rather than calling Claire McCaskill, I resent the fact that I have no chance of calling the anonymous out-of-state billionaires who are bank-rolling those commercials. The organization has 'grass roots' in its name. That's like calling people who drink a bottle of vodka a day a temperance movement. Hope we get to find out who they are. Hope they stop meddling in Missouri politics."
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"I was just wondering what happened to folding our American flag up when they take it down. I went to pick up my grandson there a couple times over at Oakland School there, and they just wad it up in a ball and take it in the building."
"I was just wondering when they are going to get rid of that silly back-in parking behind the county courthouse. There still seems to be people wondering what it's all about. I guess all the bicycles haven't got hit in its doors, so maybe we can go back to normal."
"Any time you hear someone rattling on about Obama care, stop and think: Obama care? At least he cares. Because Republicans/conservatives sure as hell don't."
"If a poll was taken to choose 'the 10 most irritating announcer, color man or personality' or whatever Dick Vitale is supposed to be, he would win all 10 spots! When Dickie V comes on, so does my mute button."
"I read an article making fun of Missouri because we have such a low tax on cigarettes and a high tax on yoga."
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Erik Gudbranson (44) was traded by the Vancouver Canucks to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday, for forward Tanner Pearson. (THE CANADIAN PRESS file)
Markstrom posts 1st shutout of season as Canucks blank Ducks 4-0
Vancouver ships d-man Gudbranson to Pittsburgh earlier on trade deadline day
Feb. 25, 2019 10:45 p.m.
VANCOUVER — Jacob Markstrom posted his first shutout of the season on Monday, leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-0 win over the Anaheim Ducks.
The six-foot-six Swede stopped all 29 of Anaheim’s shots.
Bo Horvat scored a pair of goals for Vancouver (27-28-8), while Alex Biega and Nikolay Goldobin added the others.
Kevin Boyle made 25 saves for the Ducks (24-30-9).
The victory marked the Canucks’ first regulation win in 11 games and snapped a three-game losing skid.
The shutout was the third of Markstrom’s career. His last came against the Dallas Stars on Feb. 11, 2018.
“Big win. We were rewarded tonight after playing a full 60 minutes. It’s nice to get the shutout, but this was a team win. Nice to get this one at home before we hit the road.” – @j_markstrom
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) February 26, 2019
One of the goalie’s biggest saves of the night came with just nine minutes to go in the game. Anaheim’s Derek Grant found the puck down low and Markstrom dove out to make the stop.
Horvat’s second goal of the night came midway through the third period after he dove to keep the puck in Anaheim’s end.
Josh Leivo got it back to him in the faceoff circle and Horvat sent a rocket soaring past Boyle to put the Canucks up 4-0.
The 23-year-old centre now has a career-high 23 goals this season.
Goldobin opened the scoring 8:04 into the first period on Monday after star rookie Elias Pettersson sliced a cross-ice pass to him in the neutral zone.
The right-winger ripped a shot over Boyle’s shoulder for his eighth goal of the season and his first in nine games.
Biega added another goal before the end of the first frame with a long shot that somehow wound its way through traffic and slid in under Boyle’s pad.
Early in the second period, Anaheim’s Brendan Guhle was sent to the box for levelling Tyler Motte along the boards and the Canucks capitalized on the opportunity.
Brock Boeser made a nifty pass to Horvat below the goal line and the centre poked it in to put Vancouver up 3-0.
The Canucks are now off on a three-game road trip, starting with a visit to the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday.
The Ducks host the Chicago Blackhawks Wednesday night.
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Earlier Monday, the Canucks traded defenceman Erik Gudbranson to the Pittsburgh Penguins for winger Tanner Pearson.
Gudbranson has two goals and six assists in 57 games for Vancouver this season, but his plus-minus sits at a league-worst-27.
The 27-year-old Ottawa native was drafted third overall by the Florida Panthers in 2010 before being traded to the Canucks in 2016.
General Manager Jim Benning recaps the NHL Trade Deadline, where the #Canucks acquire Tanner Pearson and Linus Karlsson, presented by @ToyotaBC.
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Pearson has nine goals and five assists in 44 games for Pittsburgh and could help a Vancouver team plagued by injuries to forwards in recent weeks.
Picked up by the Los Angeles Kings in the first round of the 2012 draft, the 26-year-old native of Kitchener, Ont., moved to the Penguins earlier this season.
The Canucks also swapped prospects with San Jose on Monday, sending Jonathan Dahlen to the Sharks for Linus Karlsson.
Vancouver acquired Dahlen from the Ottawa Senators for forward Alex Burrows in February 2017.
The 21-year-old has 14 goals and 15 assists for the American Hockey League’s Utica Comets this season.
Karlsson, 19, has four goals and 13 assists for Karlskrona HK in the Swedish league.
NOTES: Ryan Spooner scored his first point as a Canuck, assisting on Biega’s goal. Vancouver acquired the 27-year-old forward in a trade with the Edmonton Oilers earlier this month. … Langley native Angus Redmond was called up to the NHL for the first time on Monday. The 23-year-old goalie backed up Kevin Doyle for the Ducks. … Monday marked linesman Lonnie Cameron’s 1,500th game in the NHL. The Victoria native’s milestone was celebrated before puck drop.
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The ‘Haunt’ Project
Earlier this week, Wired posted a Halloween story which showed how to “Make the Ultimate Haunted House“. Now for me, fake blood and smoke doesn’t really qualify for the ‘Ultimate’ banner. If you want to move beyond the kid’s stuff you have to try something a little crazier than that, and perhaps do something like what Professor Chris French and his team at the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths College in the UK did: they built a room and saturated various parts of it with electromagnetic fields and infrasound – which are both suspected by some researchers as being correlated with reports of hauntings and paranormal experiences.
French’s study was set up in order to test these suspicions scientifically. The results will soon be published in the journal Cortex, under the title “The ‘Haunt’ Project: An attempt to build a ‘haunted’ room by manipulating complex electromagnetic fields and infrasound“. From the abstract:
Recent research has suggested that a number of environmental factors may be associated with a tendency for susceptible individuals to report mildly anomalous sensations typically associated with ‘‘haunted’’ locations, including a sense of presence, feeling dizzy, inexplicable smells, and so on. Factors that may be associated with such sensations include fluctuations in the electromagnetic field (EMF) and the presence of infrasound. A review of such work is presented, followed by the results of the “Haunt” project in which an attempt was made to construct an artificial “haunted” room by systematically varying such environmental factors.
79 volunteer participants were recruited through websites and email lists, and each spent 50 minutes alone in the ‘haunted room’ wandering around. During this time they were asked to record any unusual sensations, as well as when and where they felt them. Conditions varied on a random basis – some were given nothing at all, some EMF, others infrasound, and the real guinea pigs got both. All participants were informed in advance of the possible EMF and infrasound exposure, and also told (as part of the ethical requirements) that as a result they might experience “mildly unusual sensations” .
Unfortunately, although most participants reported some unusual sensations, there seemed to be no correlation between feelings of being haunted and the presence of EMF/infrasound (or lack of, as the case may be). Despite such a kick-ass experimental setup, it would seem the unusual sensations were probably just a result of suggestion, with participants expecting to feel something after being told pre-experiment. The only significant predictor of unusual experiences in ‘the haunt’ was the temporal lobe lability of the participant. French and his team see this as simply being most likely due to the the psychological profile of these people (increased suggestibility, belief in paranormal events, seeing stimuli in noise). What would be nice to see considered is whether the causation runs the other way (yes, I am a trouble-maker)…
Overall, despite the results, Chris French and his team feel the experiment was worthwhile. Given that most participants did report unusual sensations they felt that “we can indeed claim some success in building a haunted room.” Just the haunting didn’t come from EMF or infrasound, but instead from suggestion and a quiet, round, dimly lit and featureless white room which “may have constituted a form of mild perceptual deprivation”). On the basis of their study (and of previous ones by others),they concluded that “the case for infrasound inducing haunt-type experiences now appears to be extremely weak”.
However, the paper does finish by saying that, despite the findings, the possibility of EMF-related effects is still worthy of further investigations. It is pointed out that previous work – most notably by Michael Persinger – has had positive results, and that the ‘Haunt’ project’s experimental setup may have not been suitable to replicating Persinger’s effect.
Previously on TDG:
Hampton Haunting Debunked?
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(For those wishing to check out the entire paper, here’s the citation: French CC, et al., The “Haunt” project: An attempt to build a “haunted” room by manipulating complex electromagnetic fields and infrasound, Cortex (2008), doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2007.10.011. My sincere thanks to Professor Chris French for providing me with the full paper before publication.)
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How to make a “stone tape” ghost
Hi Greg
My plan is to order a pizza and then entice the pizza delivery guy into the house. Mug him and drop him in the understairs cupboard.
Then when he wakes up, play a tape recorder of screams and horrible stuff for an hour to reduce him to a state of terror. Then let him out, give him a tenner for his trouble and he is off on his way.
His emotional turmoil will imprint and should be apparent as a “stone tape” ghost if imprinting is real.
Anyone for pizza 🙂
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Of course this research is
Of course this research is completely overlooking the apposite idea – that poltergeist activity ramps up in the presence of certain field configurations. There was no equipment in place to monitor the actual conditions in the room. These sorts of set ups are usually rigged to ignore a whole lot.
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This week’s Monthly Mega Raffle will take place at 7pm on September 1.
With its core aim of making a real difference to thousands of people across Great Britain, more than £100 million has been raised by society lotteries through The Health Lottery.
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Cuff Love
Essential accessories for the sartorially smart
By Kathleen Fitzpatrick on March 30, 2010
Cuff links came upon the style scene in the late 18th century, replacing cuff strings and "sleeve buttons." Like other forms of jewelry, they've been in and out of fashion ever since. By the early 1900s enamel and gemstone links had become popular with Europeans. During the Jazz Age Americans followed suit, pairing ruby and sapphire links with evening jackets. Cuff links took a popularity dive during the Depression and World War II but resurfaced with gusto in the postwar period. Consigned to fashion oblivion in the sixties, by 1990 they'd come roaring back. Now they're essential accessories for the sartorially smart. Clockwise from top: coral and white gold Buddha links from Silverhorn ($3,600, 805-969-0442); turquoise and onyx automobile links from Longmire (about $4,400, 44-20-7930-8720); lapis, mother-of-pearl, and gold globe links from Asprey ($2,200, 800-883-2777); black enamel and pavé diamond penguin links from Nicholas Varney ($8,640, 212-223-1043); 18-karat gold teddy bear cuff links with sapphires and diamonds from Bielka ($4,400, 800-848-3904); 18-karat gold onion links from Mish New York ($2,300, 212-734-3500).
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Air Museum Honors Its Top Guns At 'Best Of The Best' Gala
If you were there you could not have been more proud as you entered the Palm Springs Air Museum to the sounds of uplifting patriotic music.
Air Museum Honors Its Top Guns At 'Best Of The Best' Gala If you were there you could not have been more proud as you entered the Palm Springs Air Museum to the sounds of uplifting patriotic music. Check out this story on desertsun.com: http://desert.sn/2HIDc1Q
Wayne McCollum, Special to The Desert Sun Published 10:00 a.m. PT March 17, 2018
Palm Springs Air Museum Gala co chair Lisa Bell, Board Vice Chair Fred Bell, PBY Catalina donor Harriet Bernstein, Palm Springs Air Museum Gala Co-chair Marguerita Maassen-Gilbertson(Photo: Mark Cieslikowski/Special to The Desert Sun)
If you were there you could not have been more proud as you entered the Palm Springs Air Museum to the sounds of the Palm Springs High School Spirit of the Sands Band playing uplifting patriotic music. It set the stage perfectly for a memorable evening with the theme "Best of the Best." The entire event honored and paid tribute to the “Best of the Best….Heroes who have contributed far beyond the call of duty and who also represent all fields of aviation.
This black tie lack-event is looked upon as one of the most festive galas of the year and this year’s was an all-out production that focused on the theme TOP GUN - TO BE THE BEST OF THE BEST. The Robert Pond Hanger was a-buzz as guests, some in their dress uniforms complete with medals, enjoyed cocktails with appetizers and being photographed with each other.
Major Ken Miles' widow, Karen Miles, daughter-in-law also named Karen Miles, Hailee Ashleigh, and Chairman of the Board Dan Gilbertson (Photo: Mark Cieslikowski/Special to The Desert Sun)
The action then moved a few steps into the Gen. Ken Miles Korea and Vietnam Hanger, where guests were welcomed by managing director, Fred Bell, and a very moving presentation of colors provided by the Desert Hot Springs Marine Jr. ROTC. During dinner introductions were handled by Fred Noble, giving credit to the many supporters of the Air Museum and this event. Entertainment for the evening was provided by the nationally recognized pop vocal group THE COMPANY MEN.
Celebrity host Tom Skerritt, aka CDR Mike “Viper” Metcalf from the movie “Top Gun” was on-hand to mix and mingle early on and later served as emcee, giving a passionate talk about the dedication and heroism of those that serve our country.
Moneys raised at the Palm Springs Air Museum Gala will be used for education, and to restore the PBY Catalina, "Harriet's Chariot". (Photo: Mark Cieslikowski/Special to The Desert Sun)
THE BEST OF THE BEST BEING HONORED WERE:
The 2018 Honorees in alphabetical order were:
Alan Bean, Apollo Astronaut/Captain US Navy Ret. He was backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 missions, and was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12.
Jim Dimatteo, Captain US Navy Ret. For nearly 30 years, this air combat leader flew cutting edge fighters in the U.S. Navy including the F-14 Tomcat, F/A-18 Hornet, A-4 Skyhawk, F-5N Tiger II, and F-16N Viper.
Jon Goldenbaum, Colonel US Air Force Ret. He served two tours in Vietnam, principally in AD-1 Skyraiders and subsequently commanding various units where he acquired 608 combat hours, a Distinguished Flying Cross and 11 Air Medals.
Pat J. Halloran, Major General US Airforce Ret., General Halloran is a command pilot with more than 8,000 flying hours, including 600 hours in SR-71s. Clay Lacy, Entrepreneur/Aviator Extraordinaire, is in the National Aviation Hall of Fame as a F-86 Fighter Pilot along with 2,500 air-to-air shoots as an aerial cinematographer.
Dan Pedersen, Captain US Navy Ret., formed TOP GUN to train the top 1% of fighter pilots in aerial combat. Leroy Petry, Master Sergeant US Army Ret, American hero awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for service rendered while serving in Afghanistan.
CDR Jacob Rosales, US Navy, as a graduate of TOP GUN in 2007, he has accumulated over 3,200 flight hours and 420 carrier arrested landings, including 65 combat missions.
Palm Springs Air Museum Vice Chairman Fred Bell with celebrity emcee Tom Skerritt. (Photo: Gregg Felsen/Special to The Desert Sun)
PS Air Museum chairman Dan Gilbertson pointed out that the museum has recently been awarded the Living History Flight Exemption by the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to fly any of the museum’s aircraft with visitors aboard. "This," he said, "was “one of Bob Pond’s visions of a fully interactive Museum, allowing our guests to experience a small piece of the magic that is military aviation”.
Event chairs represented were Lisa Bell, Marguerita Maasen-Gilbertson and Lindsey Moore-Vandenbos, Vice Chair and host Fred Bell, Chairman Emeritus, Fred Noble, Phil and Lee Hixon. Notable of the attendees contributing financial support to the museum were Patty Newman, John Nocita, Harold Matzner and Board Member Dick Shalhoub.
HN & Frances C. Berger Foundation's Catharine Reed with Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Tribal Council Member Reid Milanovich and Odessa Nikolic (Photo: Mark Cieslikowski/Special to The Desert Sun)
The annual gala is the main fundraiser that supports all educational activities at the Palm Springs Air Museum. With the support received at this year’s event the Museum seems well situated to continue to honor veterans, preserve the aircraft flown by them and educate younger generations about our treasured American History.
Visit the Air Museum at 745 N. Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs, Ca. 92262. The museum is open daily 10AM to 5PM. palmspringsairmuseum.org (760) 482-1836.
Chairman Emeritus Fred Noble with Anne Dunsmore and Harold Matzner (Photo: Gregg Felsen/Special to The Desert Sun)
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F1 Paddock Notebook - Canadian GP Saturday
With a round-up of the additional news and notes from Montreal on Saturday following qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix, Crash.net F1 Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.
- Sebastian Vettel charged to the 54th pole position of his F1 career on Saturday, edging closer towards Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher ahead of him on the all-time record list. Lewis Hamilton still remains out front, holding 20 more poles than Vettel.
- The result marked Ferrari’s first pole position in Canada since the 2001 race when Michael Schumacher topped qualifying. It also came 40 years on from Gilles Villeneuve’s famous win at his home race in Montreal.
- Vettel produced two laps good enough for pole in the end, improving by 0.012 seconds on his final lap. Valtteri Bottas in P2 and fifth-placed Kimi Raikkonen both failed to improve with their second efforts.
- Lewis Hamilton struggled to get into a good rhythm throughout qualifying despite his affinity and stunning record at the circuit, having won here and started on pole here six times. Hamilton locked up at the hairpin on multiple occasions, and said he felt Mercedes did have the pace for pole, but just couldn’t tap into it.
- Boosted by its engine update, Ferrari was particularly potent in the final sector featuring the back straight and the run from the final chicane to the finish line.
- Brendon Hartley recorded his best qualifying result since the second race of the year in Bahrain, finishing 12th. The New Zealander said after the session he felt 11th was the best Toro Rosso could do, but expects a bigger boost from his engine update in the race.
- Teammate Pierre Gasly was forced to switch to the old-spec power unit due to an issue, allowing him to complete a back-to-back comparison, with his feeling being that there was a big gain between the two specs. However, he fears he may need to take a penalty at Paul Ricard if the updated power unit cannot be repaired.
- Charles Leclerc made it through to Q2 for the fourth race in succession, a feat that had not been completed by a Sauber driver since Adrian Sutil in 2014.
- There was less good news for Williams, though, who languished to its fifth double Q1 knockout in seven races this year.
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University Teaching: International Perspectives
James J.F. Forest
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
October 10, 2018 by Routledge
Originally published in 1998 University Teaching looks at the world of university and college teaching in the study of higher education. Providing a broad perspective, it examines preparation, assessment, and reward from cross-cultural perspectives and explores the cultural and social influences that affect these dimensions. The book provides a considerable richness in diversity of topics and authors, and provokes the reader to observe the many commonalities in the thinking and approaches towards college teaching that pervade the higher education systems worldwide.
Part I: Issues of Instruction
1. Improving Teaching by Design: Preferred Policies, Programs and Practices, W. Alan Wright
2. A Cross-Cultural Look at Perceptions of Good Teaching: Asia and the West, David Watkins
3. University Teachers and Instruction: Important Themes for a Global Discussion, James J.F. Forest
Part II: Perspectives on Student Learning and Assessment
4. Improving Teaching Through Research on Student Learning, Noel Entwistle
5. "It’s Just You and the Books": Learning Conditions and Study Strategies of Distance Learners at the University of the South Pacific, France Mugler and Roger Landbeck
6. Portfolios as an Alternative Assessment Practice in Higher Education, Kari Smith
7. Encouraging the Use of Collaborative Learning in Higher Education, Theodore Panitz and Patricia Panitz
8. How Micronesian Students Learn Skills for Personal Adjustment: Issues of Authority, Self-Disclosure, and Cultural Relevance, Kyle D. Smith, Sedya Türk Smith, and Iain K.B. Twaddle
Part III: Training and Development of University Teachers
9. The Preparation of University Teachers: A Cross-National Perspective, Graham Gibbs
10. Academic Staff Development in Southern Africa: The Botswana Model, Michael J. Herrick
11. A University Teaching Practicum: Unpacking the Model, John Dwyer
Part IV: Images of Policy, Structure, and Organization
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13. Work-Based Experience and Higher Professional Learning in British Universities, Terry Hyland
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15. From Experiment to Enterprise: Distance Teaching at the University of the West Indies, Howard A. Fergus
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17. Student Activism and University Teaching in South Korea, Yung Che Kim
18. Accountability Without Tenure: The Impact of Academic Contests on University Teaching at the University of Buenos Aires, Marcela Mollis and Daniel Feldman
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The Hollywood Post Alliance® - the trade association for the post production community - has announced a new craft award category for independent feature films at the 2012 HPA Awards. The category, which will include three separate awards recognizing color grading, sound and editing, was conceived to recognize the community of post production professionals who work on independent feature films.
The HPA Awards, established in 2006, honor the innovative efforts of post production experts, artists and companies at work in the dynamic and crucial post production arena, and have grown to be seen as the industry's highest honors. The Awards encompass craft categories including: Outstanding Color Grading using a DI process for feature film, Outstanding Color Grading for television and commercials, Outstanding Editing, Sound, and Compositing for feature film, television and commercials. Entries in this first-ever indie category in the HPA Awards are encouraged, with the hope that the category will take hold and become an important part of the Awards from this year on.
In addition to the craft categories, there are a handful of special awards bestowed during the HPA Awards including; the Engineering Excellence Award sponsored by NAB Show, HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production, Lifetime Achievement and the Charles S. Swartz Award, which recognizes broad and lasting contributions to the industry.
Leon Silverman, President for the Hollywood Post Alliance, noted, "Our vision for the HPA Awards has always been about celebrating the high degree of creativity and craft throughout our entire industry. Creating a category specifically focused on the artistic, creative and technical excellence of independent films and filmmakers is a way to ensure that the important work being done within this community could be recognized and honored."
Entries in the Independent Feature Film categories will be accepted through August 10, 2012. Eligible entries must have been accepted into and premiered at a film festival between September 7, 2011 and September 10, 2012, and must not have executed a distribution contract prior to being accepted at its premier film festival. For complete guidelines and more information about the HPA Awards, visit www.hpaawards.net or call 213.614.0860.
About the Hollywood Post Alliance®
Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) serves the professional community of businesses and individuals who provide expertise, support, tools and the infrastructure for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, television, commercials, digital media and other dynamic media content.
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The HPA Awards were created to foster awareness of post production, promote creative and technical excellence, recognize the achievements of post production talent, and build involvement in the Hollywood Post Alliance. The HPA Awards will be presented with generous support from Premier Sponsor, NAB Show.
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Catalog > Photo & Video > Adobe Lightroom > Lightroom For Portrait Photographers > Class Introduction
Lightroom for Portrait Photographers
I do a lot of portrait retouching. And I do portrait retouching on like the end, where you only have 90 seconds to retouch a portrait all the way up to retouching portraits to where I'm working on it for, you know, like two hours, three hours, that kind of thing. So, you know everybody loves to ask like, "Well, how long does it take "you to retouch an image?" That's such a subjective question because it really depends on, you know, it really depends on you. Are you a retoucher? Are you a photographer? Are you getting paid for this retouching? Are you not getting paid for the retouching, and you're only getting paid for the shoot? Are you outsourcing your retouching? There's all these, you know, these things that kind of apply to that question, when people ask it of me. So it's important for you to kind of think about those things when you think about retouching. And so I'm guessing that since you guys are in this class you're looking for ways to save time when it comes to your portrait...
retouching, right? Is that what everybody's in here for? Well that's great because there are some amazing, amazing things in Lightroom that a lot of people aren't even aware that is actually possible in Lightroom when it comes to doing retouching in Lightroom.
If you want to be a financially successful photographer, you need to use every second you have as wisely as possible. That means you don’t have two hours to spend retouching a single image in Adobe® Photoshop®. Fortunately, there’s Adobe® Lightroom®, which offers so many amazing tools you can skip Photoshop altogether. In this class, Kristina Sherk will show you all the incredible portrait retouching you can do in Lightroom in just seconds, which is great news for your bottom line.
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Settings and History States
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Retouching Skin
Syncing Retouching
I am so glad I've gotten this class. I've been using Lightroom for several years but had no idea about so much of what I learned in this class. Kristina also has a great teaching style that gets the information explained in an easy to follow manner while also not spending a lot of extra time repeating everything. Her content is easy to follow and she also explains some of the "whys" to the techniques or settings. Looking forward to more classes from Kristina!
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5 Tips To Survive Multiple Mergers
Public Service Credit Union shares lesson gleaned from completing two mergers and one assumption in four months.
By Erik Payne
It takes one look at the loan, share, and member growth posted by Public Service Credit Union ($232.4M, Romulus, MI) to know something’s up.
At second quarter 2016, the credit union posted better than 50% year-over-year growth in both its loan and share portfolios as well as member growth stronger than 30%. The obvious cause for this effect? A merger.
Click the tabs below to view performance data for Public Service Credit Union.
Share Growth
Member Growth
But not just one.
In 2016, Public Service merged two credit unions and assumed another one — all before April 30. It converted the data processors at its new credit unions by July 1 and rolled out an entirely new mobile and home banking system by October 1.
“It didn’t seem so bad at the time,” says credit union CEO Dean Trudeau. “We were so in the weeds, we didn’t have time to stand back and ask ourselves what we did. By the end, though, we were high-fiving one another that we pulled this off.”
CU QUICK FACTS
Data as of 09.30.16
HQ: Romulus, MI
ASSETS: $232.4M
BRANCHES: 9
12-MO SHARE GROWTH: 63.6%
12-MO LOAN GROWTH: 49.0%
ROA: 1.34%
With time comes perspective, and Trudeau offers five lessons learned from a busy 2016.
No. 1: Be Open To New Opportunities … Whenever They Are Presented
In the beginning of 2016, Public Service was planning on merging Redford Municipal Employees Credit Union in March and Metro Shores Credit Union a month later.
But state regulators had other plans.
In March, the regulators liquidated Veterans Health Administration Credit Union, a Detroit-based cooperative with $2 million in assets and 1,300 members, and wanted Public Service to assume the smaller credit union’s assets and liabilities — in the next five days.
It was an intriguing proposition; however, Public Service’s board and executive team, including Trudeau, were all in Florida at a planning conference. Fortunately, Trudeau negotiated an extra five days, during which the team conducted its due diligence and held the board vote — all from the Sunshine State.
Public Service eventually assumed the liquidated credit union three days before the scheduled Metro Shores Credit Union merger. The hospital in which Veterans Health Administration Credit Union was located has 1,700 employees, and Public Service believes it has the potential to market and cultivate relationships with a great number of those employees.
“I thought it was good for our industry, but I also thought there was opportunity,” Trudeau says.
We were so in the weeds, we didn't have time to stand back and ask ourselves what we did.
Dean Trudeau, CEO, Public Service Credit Union
No. 2: When Others Zig, Don’t Be Afraid To Zag
According to Trudeau, the attractiveness of the Metro Shores merger is one familiar in the world of real estate: Location, location, location.
Metro Shores operated three locations in an area known as Downriver. It’s a collection of 18 suburban cities and townships south of Detroit along the river of the same name. Up to that point, most Public Service branches were located in downtown Detroit or in immediate suburbs. The move to Downriver added a new market for the community-chartered cooperative in neighborhoods with little local competition.
In Detroit, Trudeau has noticed a trend wherein financial institutions are focusing on growing pockets of the city and its suburbs while disregarding more established, blue-collar neighborhoods such as Redford, Romulus, and Downriver.
In fact, one of the primary reasons Public Service calls Romulus home is to serve the 3,000 employees who work at the Detroit International Airport, which is also located in Romulus.
No. 3: Be Open With Communications
A single merger can be a scary proposition. Credit unions must juggle the needs and concerns of all staff members, consider cultures, and succumb to greater regulatory scrutiny.
Now multiply that by three.
To assuage concerns of incoming staff, Public Service facilitated open communication. It assured incoming employees it had no intentions to lay off workers — it didn’t. If anything, in the long run, Trudeau believed the combined talent would necessitate the creation of new positions that didn’t exist in any of the institutions. For example, the sole job of a newly created data analyst position is to analyze data for different departments and look for opportunities within the credit union’s membership.
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One way in which the credit union could have improved its communication, Trudeau says, was in the handling of information. After the second merger, the credit union received staff feedback indicating they wanted to know about changes even if the credit union thought it did not relate to them.
“Some of our staff said, ‘You didn’t think of me on this change, but it affected me, too,’” Trudeau says. “And they were right.”
For members, Trudeau says it’s important to hit them with communications in multiple channels.
“We ask, ‘Did you get the letter from us about the merger?’” he says. “They say, ‘Yes, but I don’t read those. I go online, and it wasn’t there.’ So we need to communicate it a variety of ways.”
No. 4: Roll With The Kinks In The System
Almost immediately Public Service faced the problem of how to operate two different core systems — its own core and the one used by Metro Shores — for three months until it could complete a conversion.
For those three months, the official name of the merged credit union was Metro Shores, a Division of Public Service Credit Union. During that time, the credit union kept two general ledgers that it merged at the end of each month and tried to match products as best it could.
But this presented challenges.
For example, Public Service offers a high-yield dividend draft account that requires a minimum number of debit card transactions per month for the member to receive the dividend, but those debit transactions tripped up Metro Shore’s core. So, Public Service had to manually open, at Public Service locations, products for Downriver members that Metro Shore’s core system wasn’t able to process. Public Service had to then transfer those accounts back to the appropriate branch after the July 1 core processor conversion.
“There was a lot that was manual about that process,” Trudeau says.
No. 5: Take Care Of Staff Members
Perhaps not surprisingly, at the end of two mergers, one assumption, and two conversions, the credit union’s accountants and remote service staff were exhausted. It was all the credit union could do to keep them motivated and encouraged.
The credit union took staff bowling and randomly handed out gift cards. It also brought in a masseuse, catered lunch, and set up cornhole boards to encourage employees to walk away from their desks. One manager even took employees out for a two-hour shopping spree after work.
“We were trying to think out of the box in terms of doing different things for employees,” Trudeau says.
It was a stressful time, but the credit union made it through. Is it now time to rest?
“I’m talking to another credit union about a merger right now,” Trudeau says. “I said I am in no hurry to make this happen. I’ve got to give my staff a break.”
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Difference Between HBO GO vs. HBO NOW
Posted on September 16, 2016 June 25, 2019 by Harlon Moss
2 What is HBO GO?
3 What is HBO NOW?
HBO GO and HBO NOW are the HBO streaming services so that you can stream all the HBO that you can tackle wheresoever’s you are and whensoever’s you want your HBO. Keeping up the real time you can bring on Games of Thrones or any other show. Both of the HBO GO and HBO NOW belong to HBO for same purpose but differences are there between the two. Subscription of HBO GO is free while on the other side HBO NOW charges $14.99 as subscription charges. So if you want to get the HBO streaming free of cost then you would definitely adopt HBO GO. But if your pocket let you to pay for HBO NOW then you will definitely get some advantage over it. HBO NOW is preferable to HBO GO as the HBO GO is cable dependent package and HBO NOW is cable free. But HBO also gives freedom to its client for streaming HBO show on any device at any time. HBO GO is available to exclusive HBO subscribers while HBO NOW is available for Stand-alone streaming services. HBO NOW can be subscribed by signing up on iTunes store or Google Store while HBO GO can be subscribed at HBO.com but cable carrier package is must with it. By HBO NOW one can have access to all of the HBO’s programming catalog at one’s convenience. While on the other hand by HBO GO one can have access to most of the HBO’s catalog and content varies by sir date and scheduling.
What is HBO GO?
HBO GO is HBO’s official streaming service that let you to get stream HBO programs and exclusive content on your smartphone or tablet. Subscription of HBO GO is free. HBO GO is available to exclusive HBO subscribers. It can be subscribed at HBO.com but cable carrier package is must with it. HBO GO one can have access to most of the HBO’s catalog and content varies by sir date and scheduling. HBO GO is compatible with iOs devices—iPhone, iPad, Macbook, plus Android phones and tablets PLUS Chromecast, Roku, Amazon Fire TV.
What is HBO NOW?
HBO NOW is HBO’s official stand alone streaming service that let you to watch your any of the HBO show at any time any where you want. HBO NOW charges $14.99 as subscription charges. HBO NOW is available for Stand-alone streaming services. It can be subscribed by signing up on iTunes store or Google Store. HBO NOW one can have access to all of HBO’s programming catalog at one’s convenience. HBO NOW is compatible with iOs devices—iPhone, iPad, Macbook, plus Android phones and tablets PLUS Chromecast, Roku, Amazon Fire TV.
Subscription of HBO GO is free while on the other side HBO NOW charges $14.99 as subscription charges.
HBO GO is available to exclusive HBO subscribers while HBO NOW is available for Stand-alone streaming services.
For HBO GO Cable content is package required while for HBO NOW there is no need of cable carrier programming package.
HBO NOW can be subscribed by signing up on iTunes store or Google Store while HBO GO can be subscribed at HBO.com but cable carrier package is must with it.
By HBO NOW one can have access to all of the HBO’s programming catalog at one’s convenience. While on the other hand by HBO GO one can have access to most of the HBO’s catalog and content varies by sir date and scheduling.
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David “Davie” Davison 1936 – 2017
David “Davie” Stanley Davison
March 3, 1936 – January 29, 2017
David “Davie” Stanley Davison of Clearwater, BC passed away peacefully on January 29th with his family by his side. Davie was born March 3, 1936 in Lone Pine, AB. In 1943, at the age of 7, he and his family moved to Clearwater, BC. It was here that he met the person who would become the love of his life for 58 years, Lorraine. Together they started their family. From this time forward, he gathered the many memories and stories that he continually entertained his grandchildren with. Davie worked for Clearwater Timber Products/Slocan for many years until he retired in 2001. He drove fuel truck and was a grader operator. David will be remembered, by all who knew him, as one of the most loving and compassionate men in their life. The door to his home was always open for visitors, fellow band members, and friends that needed support. Davie and Lorraine’s extended family grew because of their continued hospitality. He was a social man, actively serving in the Lions Club for many years, and was always happy to lift your mood with a joke, a smile, or a ‘hello’. Davie was an avid fisherman, he loved to camp with his family and he enjoyed rock hunting. But, his greatest passion was for music. He will always be remembered for the joy he brought to everyone while he played his accordion. And for many years he was a member of the Trophy Mountain Boys. He enjoyed playing for the residents of Forest View Place, where he eventually became a resident. He was cared for there until he passed. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye. Davie was an amazing man, loving husband, devoted father and incredible grandfather. His song will forever play in our hearts as we share stories about his love for music and the many lives his kind heart touched. He will be greatly missed by so many. David is predeceased by his father and mother Stanley and Nellie. Dave is survived by his loving wife Lorraine, daughters Donna and Debbie (Wade), grandchildren Rikki (Luis), Blair (Lorien), Troilene (Tyler), and Brooke (Josh), 9 great grandchildren, brother, Arthur (Ruth), extended family Lorraine (Terry) and Whitney (Thommy), and many nieces & nephews, friends & relatives.
In lieu of flowers, the family would be pleased if you would consider a donation to Forest View Place in Clearwater, BC. A Memorial service will be held at a later date. Condolences may be sent to Drake Cremation.com.
Offer Condolence for the family of David “Davie” Davison 1936 – 2017
joanne mackenzie
he will be missed ,but no more pain,& will see u later on, my condolances
Lee Tremblay
Condolences to the family. Davie will be missed. For a few years davie and Lorraine were our neighbors on Lodge drive. Best ever Neighbors!! Rudys brothers came to Clearwater with their band ( remember the long haired hippy looking guys?) well Davie and Lorraine stepped in and helped with all the arrangements for them to be in the May Day Parade playing their music! We all had so much fun
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Our sincere sympathy. Our thoughts are with you.
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Thoughts are with you Lorraine
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Condolences to Dave,s family, he always upbeat with a smile.
Lucy Gorovenko
Davie is free at last from all pain……my symphaty to all the family ! May he RIP.
Giesbrecht Minnie and Lawrence
Lorraine and family : Our condolences to you and the girls , may you find comfort in your memories , may he rest in peace.
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Sending our love and condolences, my Mom and I have such fond memories of Davie. See you soon Lorraine
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Console Corner: Star Wars Battlefront 2 review
Star Wars Battlefront 2 makes great strides forwards...and backwards
Published: 06:00 Sunday 03 December 2017
Great strides forwards... and backwards.
The saying one step forward, two steps back exists for a reason, much to the disappointment of Star Wars fans.
The 2015 release of Star Wars Battlefront was widely criticised for placing too much focus on its flawed multiplayer and inexplicably ignoring single player altogether.
Well I can happily report that DICE have addressed that issue and taken a real step forward with a solid and enjoyable single player campaign in Battlefront 2.
In fact with a focus on single player, making its blasters and weapons feel vastly superior to the first game and a much-improved roster of Star Wars characters then it has to be said SWB2 is a sequel which improves upon its predecessor in some major ways.
Fourteen beautiful crafted maps set across the entire 40-year history of the series and what’s not to like?
That’s where the two steps back come in.
Anyone who has read up elsewhere on the game will undoubtedly already know this but unfortunately there is no getting away from it, the terrible progression system and disjointed storytelling are huge setbacks.
As I have touched on the game is visually stunning, there is an exciting scope of online battles and impressive set-pieces in the single-player campaign (which just by virtue of existing is an improvement on the last game).
The Starfighter Assault makes for some memorable Star Wars battle action and the controls play their part too.
But the rage-inducing complexity of the progression system in multiplayer is exacerbated by convoluted and cumbersome menus and poor tutorials.
Predictable twists make the story feel cheap but then the same accusation could be leveled at the classic films themselves.
There is also too much emphasis on the random loot drops and microtransactions which has sparked a lot of criticism elsewhere and rightly so.
If there’s one thing that Star Wars Battlefront II accomplishes though, it is capturing that unmistakable magic of the series and the fact you are flying, running and blasting your way around the Star Wars universe.
There is more content, a single-player campaign (although it does feel strange praising a game for the inclusion of this!) and superb graphics and sound. But it is all counterbalanced - rather ironically - by the progression system which is regressive in terms of the overall SWB2 experience.
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Powering on to compete with the best
Action during a Norwich City Powerchair Football match. Picture submitted
Norwich City is looking for new players - of all ages. We find out more.
One of the games underway at the recent powerchair football fixture weekend. Picture Norwich City Powerchair
Sights are firmly set on getting players into the England football squad for one city team.
But when there are only four in a team - it’s a tough squad to join.
The Norwich City Powerchair Football team held on to its fourth place in the powerchair championship league at a recent weekend of fixtures in Nottingham.
Some of the Norwich City Powerchair Football squad, with Mike Coleman third from left, and Tracey Coleman standing second from right. Picture submitted
The team now hopes to hold on to or improve its rank at the remaining league matches in 2019, with promotion to the top premiership league within grasp over the coming seasons.
Playing in the premiership could mean players getting spotted by England squad scouts, hopes Norwich player Mike Coleman, 26.
Mike, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, has trained with the England team, and while he feels he’s too old for a chance in the national squad, he thinks national team selection possible for younger Norwich players.
William Hagg, who is one of the up and coming players for Norwich City Powerchair Football club. Photo: Submitted
Mike’s mum Tracey Coleman, Norwich City organiser, says the team is increasing its training hours to ensure players can compete at a high level in the sport.
After success in recent matches with the team of Mike Coleman, Janete Birentale, Edy Boca, Johann George, Ben Everett, Johnathon Byrne and Jake Edwards, the club is looking for new players too.
“We’re looking for youngsters aged eight and older to join the club, and compete once competent in the Regional competitions.
“We need a few more youngsters to bring on,” says Tracey, adding that it was a very sociable sport and a brilliant way for wheelchair users to play competitively.
“I would also like to hear from anybody over 40 who would be interested in playing, not necessarily competitively,” Tracey adds. Powerchair football is accessible to anyone who uses an electric wheelchair and welcomes players of all ages and sexes. Similar to football, the aim of the indoor game is to score goals - each player has a bumper on the front of their chair which they use to dribble, pass and shoot.
More than half of powerchair football players have a muscle-wasting condition and sponsors Muscular Dystrophy UK are the biggest financial supporter.
The Norwich team is looking for youngsters aged from eight years old to join, and also for older players to get involved. Contact tracey.coleman@yahoo.co.uk
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Setting hearts free to love
Peter Smith shows how Cranmer marshalled the words of his opponents to speak the truth in love.
Since the decisive break with Rome in the sixteenth century, scholars have debated the doctrinal stance of the Church of England. Did the first Archbishop of the newly formed C of E, Thomas Cranmer promote a Roman Catholic theology or was he a reformer or something in between? For much of the twentieth century Anglican scholarship championed the idea that the English Reformation was worked out as a kind of via media—a middle way between the extremes of the Continental Reformation of Calvin and Zwingli and the Church of Rome. A classic approach to the via media promotes the idea that the Church of England was able to reject the distasteful doctrines of the European Reformation (Calvinism) and embrace the best of Roman Catholicism without compromising the newly formed Church of England. The result—a pleasant middle way for a church that is afraid of excess– not too hot, not too cold. Various wings of the worldwide Anglican church make the claim that the nature of our history licenses a particular style of churchmanship—albeit half way between Rome and Geneva however this is interpreted!
Over the past fifteen years through the research of Diarmaid MacCulloch and Ashley Null have shown that the via media approach to Anglican studies cannot be substantiated. It has been shown for what it is: unhistorical and imposed upon Anglican history from a later date. It is no longer an accurate description of the English Reformation.(1)
Part of the dilemma for sixteenth century historians is the way that the Reformation was worked out. Many people were involved in the process and this included both Protestant Reformers and Erasmian Catholics. The Edwardian Book of Homilies was the first official theological statement of the Edwardian church and therefore an ideal document to examine the case for a via media between Rome and the other extreme—Calvinism. A number of the homilies were penned by Erasmian Catholics while others were stridently protestant in flavour.(2) Both kinds were included together in the first publication of the Edwardian church. John Wall has argued at length for an Erasmian Catholic interpretation of the Book of Homilies.(3) Others have argued for a reformed reading of the Homilies.(4) An ideal test case for examining the theology of the fledgling English Church is the sixth homily on Christian love because both Catholics and Protestants emphasised the role of love in salvation.
An Homilie of Christian Love and Charitie can be read both as an Erasmian Catholic treatise on Christian love or in its wider context as a Protestant Reformed sermon. It is widely agreed that Thomas Cranmer’s conservative opponent, Edward Bonner wrote the homily on Charitie.(5) Cranmer was the author of at least three of the homilies and also, as the architect of the reformation under Edward, the editor who gave the homilies their final order.(6) Read in the light of the reformation re-discovery of sola-fideism, An Homily of Christian Love and Charitie takes on a thoroughly Protestant character.(7)
The literary intention of the sixth homily is to present ‘... a true and playn descripcion of charitie, not of mennes emaginacion, but of the very words and example of our savior Jesus Christ’.(8) Bonner and Cranmer were both claiming the high ground by not basing their understanding on fanciful ‘emaginacion’ but a correct reading of the Scriptures.
Both affirmed the role of God’s love in salvation.(9) They affirmed that love was the Christian virtue par excellence. For Bonner and Cranmer love was an act in which ‘... all manner of woorkes of righteousness be conteyned in it, as also the decay thereof is the ruyne of the worlde, the banishment of vertue, and the cause of all vice’.(10)
As Erasmian humanists, both understood the role of the word of God for engaging the affections of the heart. For Erasmians ‘love births love’.(11) For Erasmians, when an individual considered, ‘in his hart’, the love of Christ, the will would be activated to respond in kind, thus the repeated emphasis on the sacrificial, costly, painful love of Christ.
‘Christ loved not onely his frendes, but also hys enemies, which in their hartes bare exceedingt great hatred against hym, and in their tongues spoke evil of hym, and in their actes and dedes pursued hym ... yet notwithstandnynge, he withdrewe not hys favour from them, but styll loved them.’ And again ‘... if we consider that he whiche hath offended as deserveth not to be forgiven of us, loet us consider again that we muche less deserve to be forgiven of God’.(12)
Cranmer and Bonner would also agree about the necessity of a ‘good hart and minde’ so that a person would act in love.
‘And likewise, he that beareth a good hart and mynde, and useth wel his tongue and dedes unot every man, frend and foo, he may knowe therby that he hath charitie. And then he is sure also that almightie God taketh hym for hys dere beloved Sonne, as St Jon saith ...’(13)
However, the flash point in the battle for the souls of Tudor England was not fought over the necessity of love for Christian living. Nor was there disagreement over the need for ‘a good hart and mynde’ to act in love. Neither was there any disagreement about the importance of hearing and understanding the love of God in Christ from the Scriptures. The uproar in sixteenth century England was about the nature of the human ‘harte’ prior to the action of the love of God.
For Erasmian Catholics ‘since virtue is an elective practical habit determined by right reason ... charity, as virtue, is generated by frequent acts of love in the light of right reasoning and inclines the will to love with greater generosity‘.(14) For Bonner, the command to love, along with the keeping of all God’s commands, was a choice that was made possible by a continuous exercising of the human will.(15) “Acts of charity were essential prior to salvation for love was the ‘universal mover’ for all virtues; love unifies human life with the help of grace.”(16) This in turn was preparation for, and co-operation with the grace of God. Over time, an acceptable degree of worthiness could be secured for salvation before God then a person was set free to love.(17)
In opposition to Bonner, Cranmer believed that ‘For our awne imperfeccion is so greate through the corrupcion of original synne that is imperfect that is within us’ and therefore ‘... our workes do not merite or deserve remission of our synnes ...’(18) Christian love and charitie could never be a means of reconciliation to God. Love is a fruit of assurance and therefore, understood correctly, the sixth homily set out to show the nature of responsive love.’
In the third homily on ‘Salvation’ Cranmer declares the incapacity of any human action to secure God’s love. ‘All the world was not able of themselves to pay any part towards their ransom, it pleased our heavenly father, of his infinite mercy, without any of our desert or deserving, to prepare for us the most precious jewels of Christ’s body and blood, whereby our ransom might be fully paid, the law fulfilled and his justice satisfied.’(19) Therefore men and women must seek the love of Christ first of all, because it is in Christ’s life alone where love triumphed. This is how Cranmer intends the sixth homily to be understood.
‘And although our enemy deserve not to be forgiven for his awne sake, yet we ought to forgeve hym for God’s love, considering how great and many benefits we have received of hym wihtou our desertes, and that Christ hath deserved of us, and that for his sake we should forgeve them their trespasses committed against us.’(20)
Following the third homily of ‘Salvation’, Cranmer details the content of Protestant soteriology in the homilies on ‘Faith’ and ‘Good Works’. After the fourth and fifth homilies, Bonner’s homily on love is read. Cranmer’s intention is intended to highlight the ‘good work’ par excellence, which is love for God, friend and foe. Cranmer underscored what he perceived to be the true nature of love and thus the defining mark of Christian holiness.
‘Thus I have described unto you what charitie is aswel by the doctrine as by the example of Christ himself. Whereby every man maye without error know himself, what state and condicion he standeth in, whether he be in charity, and so the child of the Father in heaven, or not.’(21)
A good heart for Cranmer is the heart renewed by the love of God. Christian love is the proof and not the grounds of assurance.
‘And likewise, he that beareth good hart, and mynde, and useth wel his tongue and dedes unto every man, frend and foo, he may know therby that he hath charitie.’(22)
Only if the sixth homily is ripped out of its wider literary context are Erasmian Catholic conclusions possible.(23) True, there is no explicit repudiation of the Catholic notion of incremental justification in the sixth homily, and Bonner does explain the necessity of charity in the Christian life. The second part, with its robust defence of the role of the state and the church to quell rebellion and ‘... rebuke and correct by the worde of God ...’ is characteristically Erasmian Catholic.(24) ‘For the other office of charitie is to rebuke and correct by the Worde of God the offences and crimes of all evill disposed perones.’(25) Yet, there is no concession to Bonner’s position on the state of the human heart before the action of the love of God.
Cranmer has already hammered out the Reformed understanding of salvation in the first five homilies. For Cranmer, genuine love flows from a heart set free by the prior action of the love of God.
Cranmer’s method and arrangement of An Homelie of Charitie, was more than a clever battle strategy. Here was a man who marshalled the words of his theological opponent to speak the truth in love. Typical of much of Cranmer’s considered life and theological method, we can be assured that he laboured over The Book of Homilies in the hope that his foes might come to know the love that sets hearts free to love God, friend and foe. There is a salutary lesson here for all who fight for truth in the name of love.
Peter Smith is Chairman of EFAC WA and the Rector of St Lawrence’s Anglican Church Dalkeith, Perth, WA.
1 John Ashley Null, in unpublished paper on ‘Official Tudor Homilies’ distributed to MA students (2009, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, edited by Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan), page 8.
2 The question of who were the actual authors of the individual homilies is a difficult one to answer due to the scanty external evidence and to the fact that the internal evidence (i.e., style, etc.) provides little guidance because so little was written by most of the men of those times. Consensus credits Thomas Cranmer with III, IV, V, and most probably I; John Harpesfield with II; Bishop Bonner with VI; Thomas Becon with XI (and some say with VII); possibly Nicholas Ridley or Cranmer with XI. John Griffiths, editor, The Two Books of Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1859, page xxvii. Philip Hughes, The Reformation in England, volume 2, Macmillan, New York, 1954, page 95.
3 John Wall, ‘Godly and Fruitful Lessons: The English Bible, Erasmus’ Paraphrases, and the Book of Homilies’, in The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation, edited by John E. Booty, Morehouse-Barlow, Wilton, Conneticut, 1981, pages 47-135.
4 Null, page 11.
5 Despite the impersonal nature of these compositions, there is a history of attributions. Ronald Bond concisely summarizes what is known about the first volume in Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547) and A Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570), Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987, pages 26–28. John Bale attributed the whole, and Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester, much of it (Letters 1933: 397, 403, 406, 408, 413) to Cranmer personally. Yet three homilies certainly came from Edmund Bonner, bishop of London (VI), John Harpefield his chaplain (II), and Thomas Becon (XI) because they published these homilies afterwards as their own work.
6 “When Cranmer organized his new set of homilies, he adopted the loci method of Scriptural exposition. The twelve sermons of the 1547 book were evenly divided between loci describing essential doctrines and those addressing important ethical issues. The first six described the fundamentals of the way of salvation; ‘Reading of Scripture’; ‘Misery of Mankind caused by sin‘; justification described in three separate homilies entitled ‘Salvation’, ‘Faith’ and ‘Good Works’; and a final sermon on ‘Love’. Null, page 6.
7 ‘The new direction in Cranmer studies forged by Null and MacCulloch of the last fifteen years renders an Erasmian catholic interpretation untenable.’ Null, page 12.
8 Bond, page 120.
9 Erasmus (LB), Opera omnia, edited by Jean Leclerc, Vander, Leyden, 1703–6. For Erasmians love births love and the best way to move an audience to love God was by reminding people of God’s prior love from them.
10 Bond, page 120.
11 Null, page 8.
14 Mary B. Ingham, The Harmony of the Goodness Mutuality and Moral Living According to Dun Scotus, Franciscan Press, Minnesota, 1996, page 125.
15 Ingham, page 117.
17 Thomas W. H. Griffiths, The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles, Church Book Press, London, 1951, page 179.
18 Bond, ‘Of the Salvation of All Mankynde’, page 85.
23 Wall, pages 107, 118, 124.
With the English Bible, the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Homilies, Thomas Cranmer helped translate and reform the faith and worship of the English speaking world, recalling it to a simpler, more direct proclamation of Christ and the Gospel. His faith enriches ours day by day and week by week whenever we pick up the scriptures, open the Prayer Book, and indeed, whenever we open our mouths, for along with Shakespeare, the English Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are as formative of our very language as they are of our faith. (David Garrett)
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The PEACE Plan
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Late September Catch Up
World Championships - Silver Medal
Firstly congrats to Sean who represented East Cork and Ireland at the World Masters in Malaga at the start of September. Sean was 4th overall in the 8km cross country in the M35 category leading Ireland to a team silver behind hosts Spain. Sean then went one better in the 10km road race coming 2nd overall with an excellent 32.13. This tops of an exceptional year for Sean who has been competitive at every level on all surfaces all year.
Cork City 10 Miler
This doubled up as the Cork 10 mile championships and we took out 1st and 2nd positions. Tim winning in a brilliant 51.29 closely followed by Mr PB Kevin O'Leary in 54.13. Unfortunately we didn't have one more for the team event to make it a clean sweep.
East Cork Cross Country
Well done to all who competed for the club at the East Corks last weekend. Sean followed up with World Silver medal with a gold East Cork medal, improving on his bronze form last year. Fiona defended her title in fine style with a comfortable win in the ladies, leading the team home to a bronze medal.
A warm welcome to new members Graham and Lavinia Swords who have jumped straight in the deep end with the training and racing, hopefully there will be a long and successful season ahead!
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10 Questions: The Fug Girls
By Yale Breslin
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. Photo: Kim Fox
Heather Cocks is a die-hard sports fan, a Leo, an ex-reporter, a Notre Dame grad, a dual citizen of the US and UK, a sandwich enthusiast, and a former producer for America's Next Top Model. Jessica Morgan is a Southern California native and UCLA alumna who has produced reality shows ranging from Growing Up Gotti to the docu-series 30 Days. She collects shoes, books, and unpaid parking tickets. Together, they're The Fug Girls, the duo behind the blog Go Fug Yourself, where they criticize the daily sartorial choices of Hollywood's leading ladies and gents. And today, they're releasing a young adult novel, Messy—the followup to their 2011 book debut Spoiled. In honor of the launch, here are their responses to ELLE.com's Top Ten.
ELLE: What is your favorite smell?
JM: Night-blooming jasmine. I grew up in Los Angeles, and jasmine (plus sunscreen) smells like summer to me.
HC: Meat cooking on a charcoal grill, or a freshly-snuffed candle. I have so many happy memories of lazy warm-weather barbecues with friends and family and bare feet and deckchairs. But the char-grilled scent is a year-round thing for my family—first, because of all those chilly tailgate parties before Notre Dame football games (lubricated by morning beer, which in those circumstances is best when it's terribly cheap and in a terribly cold can), but second because my dad, bless him, used that thing all the time, weather be damned. He once grilled our Christmas turkey in thirty-below weather in Calgary. On a very precarious Weber whose third leg was broken, so he'd stuffed a crowbar up in the joint to make it relatively steady. We like our fire, is what I'm saying.
ELLE: What do you consider the epitome of happiness?
JM: Knowing that someone loves you back.
HC: My kids' spontaneous belly laughter, and of course, the eventual invention of a fat-free yet still delicious peanut butter that is magically also totally natural, easy to spread, full of anti-aging nutrients, and also somehow burns calories.
ELLE: How do you define luxury?
JM: Cashmere sweatpants.
HC: Free time. Although `a glass of wine on a hotel balcony overlooking a cerulean ocean' ranks in there too.
ELLE: What is the last dream you remember?
JM: A few nights ago, I dreamt that Sarah Michelle Gellar managed to get her characters from the tragically cancelled Ringer transferred over to Grey's Anatomy.
HC: Desmond from Lost (Henry Ian Cusick, who is now on Scandal) invited me on a mystery date that somebody convinced me was to the Met Gala. So I got a ball gown and got all dressed up, and then he showed up wearing a t-shirt that he'd drawn on with colored markers so that it looked like a cross between a superhero costume and that suit Matthew Lesko wears in those weirdo ads for his book about getting money from the government. I tried to change but I was too fumble-fisted to get my shirts on and off, so Desmond just sat in my living room watching hockey and eventually I gave up and we enjoyed several glasses of water together. In short, my husband apparently has nothing to worry about from my subconscious.
ELLE: What's your favorite childhood memory?
JM: When I was 9, my parents and I went to Hawaii for summer vacation, and my Dad told me I could order whatever I wanted when we went out to eat, which led to me spending the entire vacation having eggs benedict every morning and lobster every night, which I do not think is what my parents anticipated when they gave me free reign over the menu. Actually, that might be my real definition of luxury. I also spent that entire vacation on the beach reading about Mary Lou Retton in a variety of periodicals—this was about two weeks after the end of the 1984 Olympics—and spending hours and hours and hours in hotel gift stores perusing selections of swizzle sticks and coconut bras. Given that I love hotel gift shops more than anything, this was pretty much the best vacation ever.
HC: I grew up in England, so you could put pretty much anything from grades one to seven in this category, like seeing my parents all garbed up for a Buckingham Palace garden party or my dad's elaborate backyard fireworks displays, which got artier every time (even when he accidentally blew a hole in the flowerbeds). But—and maybe this is because I just lost Dad, so I'm clinging to our buddy time—the very best was that every single weekend, often both days, Dad and I went to the Nags Head in Sunninghill together and hung out with our pub family and had the best bonding time. I would play the slot machine, and usually win, which led to us buying a lot of rounds to make up for the fact that a mildly underage moppet had just cleaned out their moneymaker. And we'd bet on the horses and watch the races with everybody, and if I picked a winner or had been especially lucky for him, I'd get a second packet of crisps. Nobody was more fun than Dad.
ELLE: What's the last book you read and loved?
JM: The most recent book I really loved was Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, about the most recent presidential election. The HBO movie covered maybe one third of the book. It is so juicy and interesting and well-written. Right now, I am reading Bringing Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, which is the sequel to Wolf Hall, the novel about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, which I read last summer. So far, it's terrific.
HC: Is it weird if I say Rob Lowe's autobiography? Although I may not have loved it, per se, it was perfect for when I was on the elliptical and didn't want to have to think too hard about the meaning of life. I just finished Liza Palmer's More Like Her and Elizabeth Crane's We Only Know So Much, which were enviably full of sharply drawn characters. I have The Night Circus waiting on my Kindle. And I compulsively read and re-read Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series and the Harry Potter books, perhaps in the hope that some of their boundless imagination will dribble off the page and onto me.
ELLE: Describe your home's aesthetic.
JM: Quirky, classic, cluttered, colorful. I am not a minimalist.
HC: Comfortable, haphazard, hopelessly cluttered, welcoming.
ELLE: What are your vices?
JM: Caffeine and wine. Oh, and Real Housewives. I could probably watch Bravo twenty-four hours a day.
HC: Diet Coke, baby. Although I consider it less a vice than a cherished life partner. Also—and I'm sorry about this one, Mom—swearing. I'm great at keeping it in check when I need to, but unfortunately that means I unwittingly compensate by letting it rip a bit too much the rest of the time.
ELLE: Describe yourself in 5 words or less.
JM: Friendly, dramatic, thoughtful. Over-accessorized.
HC: Even-keeled, pale, long-winded, frizzy... and apparently, self-deprecating.
ELLE: What possession will you never throw away?
JM: When I was born, my grandfather brought me a teddy bear, and I slept with it for an insanely lengthy period of time. If I could only save one item from a fire, Teddy wins over all my other things.
HC: Strap in for this one, because it's goofy. Okay: At the Nags Head, we had annual onion-growing contests because someone claimed they had these super seeds that would grow huge ones. So after months of trash-talking and false bragging, we'd have an onion weigh-in, and then eat the winning one with a lot of Branston pickle and cheese and bread and champagne. When we won (I think I was eleven?), we jammed ten-pence pieces in the champagne corks and treated them like trophies; Dad hung onto them and gave them to me a couple years ago. There are a lot of precious things to me in this house, but I have to say that those damn beautiful corks are the items that look the most like mindless trash and yet have the most sentimental value attached. I'm sure they'll end up in my coffin with me.
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Book flights to Kochi and discover a modern art scene amid a city of historical significance. A must-visit in South India.
Flights to Kochi (Cochin)
Kochi, or Cochin as it used to be called, is one of the most unique destinations in Asia. Thanks to its history as Kerala’s port city, people from all over the world – from China to Portugal to the Middle East – have passed through Kochi and left their cultural imprint. Today it’s still one of South India’s most important cities, and the many travellers catching flights to Kochi have helped preserve its cosmopolitan roots.
Kochi is one of South India’s busiest cities too, with 600,000 people calling it home. The city is spread across a series of peninsulas and islands, connected by a network of water taxis and bridges. Think of it as broadly divided between three main areas: the city of Ernakulam on the mainland, Willingdon Island, and to the west, the peninsula of Fort Kochi. It’s on the peninsula, in Mattancherry and Fort Kochi, that you’ll find the city’s top attractions – including St Francis Church and Mattancherry Palace – and the best heritage hotels, plus some fantastic restaurants and cafes.
But it’s not just about the historic sites. There’s a modern side to Kochi as well, including one of the most interesting art communities in India. That’s thanks in no small part to its role as host of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first art biennale, an event that attracts creative people from all over the world.
Kochi is an easy place to explore on foot and the pace of life is a lot more laid-back than other parts of India. For an even more relaxing experience, head north to Vypeen Island and seek out Cherai Beach. It’s a popular spot for sunbathing and, depending on the season, you might even spot some dolphins.
What to do in Kochi (Cochin)
Take Maria’s South Indian cooking class
Learn about Keralan cuisine at Maria’s South Indian Cooking Class. Maria is highly regarded throughout Kochi for her knowledge of the region’s spices and the authenticity of her food. If you’re interested in touring Kochi’s fish markets as well, check out Travspire’s home cooking experience.
Maria’s South Indian Cooking Class
Burgher Street
Fort Kochi
Watch Kathakali performances
In Kochi, you’re pretty much guaranteed to see a live performance of Kathakali – a form of Keralan dance-drama – either in tourist venues, such as the Folklore Museum or the Kerala Kathakali Centre, or at a temple festival. Arrive an hour early for a backstage peek of the performers applying their makeup.
Kerala Kathakali Centre
Near Santa Cruz Basilica
KB Jacob Road
Visit Kerala Folklore Museum
This private architectural museum south-east of Ernakulam reflects the lifelong passion of its owner, an avid antiques dealer. Crafted in Keralan style, using old houses and ancient temples as inspiration, it houses more than 4,000 cultural and ethnic artefacts dating back 1,000 years. Upstairs, a theatre with a 17th century timber ceiling hosts nightly cultural shows during the winter months.
Folklore Junction
Where to eat in Kochi (Cochin)
The History & Terrace Grill (International)
Kochi is a melting pot of cultures, and the menu at this restaurant inside The Brunton Boatyard Hotel reflects this. You’ll find a diverse mix of food, from Syrian roast duck to Keralan fish curry, and the intriguingly named ‘First Class Railway Mutton Curry’. Time your visit for sunset, when the views from the harbour-side terrace are fabulous.
The Brunton Boatyard
1/498 Calvetty Road
The Rice Boat (Indian)
Housed in a mock Keralan kettuvallam (rice boat), this teak-and-glass restaurant has jaw-dropping harbour views and its consistently good Indian fusion food is prepared in an open kitchen. Seafood and freshwater fish feature prominently – try the prawns with crushed coconut and smoked local tamarind.
Vivanta by Taj – Malabar
Willingdon Island
The Ginger House (in Jew Town)
This evocative waterfront cafe and restaurant forms part of the antique-filled Heritage Arts Museum, in the heart of Mattancherry. As its name suggests, the menu champions ginger, which plays a starring role in lassis and ice creams, as well as glazes for various fish and seafood dishes.Jew Town Road
Kappalandimukku
Places to stay in Kochi (Cochin)
Le Colonial
Even by Kochi’s standards, few houses are as historically rich as Le Colonial. Built in 1506, it’s been home to Vasco da Gama, Ian Vas Spall and many Dutch governors. Sensitively restored by the Neemrana Group, this seven-suite property has all the facilities of a boutique hotel, but with the warm welcome of a homestay.
1/315 Church Road
Vasco da Gama Square
Xandari Harbour Hotel
This boutique hotel makes the most of its enviable waterfront locale overlooking Willingdon Island. Home to 16 contemporary rooms, including a glass-fronted harbour-view suite, facilities include an infinity pool and a restaurant in a stylishly converted spice warehouse.
V/40 Bazar Road
Topping Willingdon Island, a ferry hop from downtown Ernakulum, Vivanta by Taj is a five-star hotel with stunning rooms and beautiful views of Kochi Harbour. The rooms are split between two contrasting wings – heritage and modern – and the top-notch facilities include a spa and gym, boardroom and business centre.
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India vs England : Karun Nair breaks the record for the highest maiden Test hundred by an Indian
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Indian middle-order batsman Karun Nair has broken the record for the highest maiden Test hundred made by any player from the country. The 25-year-old went past Vinod Kambli’s mark of 224 not out during the fourth day of fifth Test against England in Chennai. He got to the mark in fine fashion with an upper cut off the bowling of Stuart Broad in the Post tea session.
The right-hander completed his maiden Test hundred on Monday morning and didn’t stop after that, combining solid defence with some crisply timed shots, eventually going past the mark.
Walking out to bat at the score of 71, Nair combined well, first with Murali Vijay and then with R Ashwin to take the Indian total forward and eventually past the English score of 477 to give his side the lead.
Nair had a forgettable Test debut in the third Test of the ongoing series in Mohali, where he was run out by some brilliance in the field by Jos Buttler, but has showed his true potential in this game, with an effort that would surely ensure he is in the squad for the next Test against Bangladesh next year.
The Delhi Daredevils batsman has been one of the key components in the Karnataka middle order, having made 2862 runs in 39 matches at an average of 51.10, with a best score of 328.
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1. Karun Nair 236*
2. Vinod Kambli 224
3. Dilip Sardesai 200*
4. Budhi Kunderan 192
5. Shikhar Dhawan 18
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Illini fans finally have reason to hope
One in a series of stories previewing the 2007 college football season.
With breakouts
Illinois football fans have suffered through five straight losing seasons, nine losing campaigns in the past 11, and have witnessed only one conference win at home in the past four years.
Yet Fighting Illini fans have bought more than 34,000 season tickets. They believe the turnaround promised by head coach Ron Zook is just around the corner.
How long it will take to negotiate that corner - and the ability of the Illini to take it without skidding further into college football’s gravel trap - is unknown. But Zook has recruited well since arriving in Champaign, especially last winter, when he landed a class that caused others in the Big Ten to all but accuse him of cheating.
His players are the first to defend him.
“Why can’t Illinois go after the top players,” linebacker J Leman said.
Why not Illinois, indeed?
That attitude is what Zook has been selling since he replaced Ron Turner, whose program went from the heights of a Big Ten title and Sugar Bowl berth in 2001, to the depths of a 1-11 season in two short years, a collapse so complete even now heads shake when it’s recalled.
A lack of talent was the reason. Turner failed to recruit well. So far, Zook has lived up to the reputation he built quickly at Florida. Now, the question that was never fully answered in Gainesville pops up in Champaign: Can he coach the players he’s recruited?
All those Illinois season-ticket buyers seem to think so, because they’re not coming to eyeball the ongoing construction site known as Memorial Stadium. (While the stadium’s capacity will be 57,078 this season, the Illini haven’t hit the usual 69,000 capacity since hosting Michigan in 2002.)
There were some signs last year that the Illini were rousing themselves from the long slumber. A road win at Michigan State, the first victory in Big Ten play in 11 games. Playing No. 1 Ohio State even for a half before yielding by a 17-10 margin. The development of raw freshman Isiah “Juice” Williams at quarterback.
Zook saw the signs, and thinks his team can build on them.
“We got to the point last year where we feel we can win,” Zook said. “Now, we’ve got to go and win. We’ve got to take the next step.”
That begins with Williams, whose freshman mistakes should be behind him.
Williams’ 2006 numbers - 39.5 percent completions, nine touchdown passes and as many interceptions, along with 576 rushing yards and two touchdown runs - don’t explain his potential, but game tapes do. He can wing the ball more than 60 yards on the fly, dashes through potential tacklers like an eel weaving around coral reefs and has the ability to change the complexion of a game with one play.
Last year, that frequently came because of a fumble or interception.
“He is focused, he is excited, he is confident,” Zook said, adding that improvement is expected from the Chicago Vocational grad who has lowered his body fat to 5 percent while jumping to 230 pounds.
Williams’ ability to do anything at any time means his linemen have to be on their toes.
“We know he’ll be scrambling,” guard Martin O’Donnell said. “Our coaches harp on it: ‘Stay on your block until the echo of the whistle.’ ”
If that gives Williams an extra tenth of a second to escape, it could pay a dividend in the form of 15 extra yards.
It is too much, of course, to pin all of Illinois’ hopes on the feet and arm of a sophomore quarterback who has started in just nine games. Williams will need plenty of help.
It arrives at tailback in the person of Rashard Mendenhall, who succeeds Pierre Thomas. Mendenhall rushed for 640 yards last year, when the Illini unobtrusively led the Big Ten in rushing. It also arrives at receiver, where Kyle Hudson returns as the leading receiver and is joined by freshman Rejus Benn, who has bounced back from a shoulder injury suffered in training camp.
There’s also help on defense, beginning with Leman, whose 152 tackles last year included 19 behind the line of scrimmage. Alongside is Antonio Steele, who made 85 tackles last season, and freshman Martez Wilson may also see more action than first-year players usually see at linebacker.
But Illinois’ big defensive problem in recent years has been pass defense, as last year’s 2,187 yards of passing allowed shows. If that improves, and if the Illini stop giving opponents the ball on the opponent’s 38-yard line, the average starting position of drives against Illinois last year, the Illini have a chance to improve rapidly on their last several seasons.
If the improvement is instant, a 4-0 start is possible, beginning with Saturday’s opener against Missouri in St. Louis. If it takes longer, well, Illinois fans have been waiting a long time already.
ILLINOIS AT A GLANCE
2006 record: 2-10 (1-7 Big Ten, T-10th)
Head coach: Ron Zook (3rd year at Illinois, 4-19; 6th year overall, 27-33)
Returning starters: 20 (9 offense, 9 defense, 2 special teams)
Lost starters: 4 (2 offense, 2 defense)
Returning lettermen: 46 (22 offense, 21 defense, 3 special teams)
Lost lettermen: 17 (12 offense, 4 defense, 1 special teams)
Key returnees: QB Isiah Williams, WR Kyle Hudson, LB J Leman, DT Chris Norwell, K Jason Reda.
Key losses: RB Pierre Thomas, RB E.B. Halsey, CB Alan Ball.
Key game: Sept. 29 vs. Penn State. Illinois could be 3-1 entering, but beating the Nittany Lions would be the first big win since Zook arrived.
Key question: Will Williams’ maturation at quarterback offset the loss of experience at running back?
Sept. 1: Missouri at St. Louis, 2:30 p.m.
Sept. 8: Western Illinois, 6 p.m.
Sept. 15: at Syracuse, 11 a.m.
Sept. 22: at Indiana
Sept. 29: Penn State
Oct. 6: Wisconsin
Oct. 13: at Iowa
Oct. 20: Michigan
Oct. 27: Ball State, 11 a.m.
Nov. 3: at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Nov. 10: at Ohio State
Nov. 17: Northwestern
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Columbia to Receive Brownfield Grants to Address Contaminated Properties
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Lantern Hill's Continuing Care Neighborhood Receives Highest Rating from Federal Agency
The Continuing Care neighborhood at Lantern Hill received the highest score in the Five-Star Quality Rating System administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The Erickson Living developed and managed community, located in New Providence, New Jersey, earned a 5-star rating in the Overall Quality category in April 2019.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last month revised its inspection process and began providing improved staffing details and new quality metrics. The changes were aimed at providing more transparent and meaningful information...
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O ffers exceptional living at an affordable cost
When Dick Byrnes asked his financial advisor, Michael Moore, if he thought a move to a retirement community like Lantern Hill in Union County, New Jersey, was a smart investment, Moore didn’t hesitate—the answer was a resounding yes.
A former schoolteacher, principal, and superintendent, Byrnes invested in stocks with Moore and managed a few himself. “[Moore] outperformed me, but I liked to pretend I knew what I was doing,” Byrnes jokes.
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New Providence, New Jersey -- (February 26, 2019) -- Lantern Hill , an Erickson Living developed and managed community in New Providence, New Jersey, has a new executive chef, and the word around town is he’s imaginative and creative when it comes to food. Executive Chef Justin Pearsall juxtaposes elegant dishes like Chilean seabass and scallops against home-style meals like stuffed peppers and stews on the...
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New Providence, N.J.— February 11, 2019 — Craig Karczmer has been named the new executive director of Lantern Hill , an Erickson Living developed and managed retirement community in New Providence, New Jersey, effective January 7.
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On September 12, Lantern Hill unveiled plans for its newest residential building, Bell Pavilion. More than 140 priority list members attended the special preview event held at the Canoe Brook Country Club. Currently under construction, Bell Pavilion is scheduled to open in late 2019 and will add 169 independent living apartment homes to the Erickson Living senior living community in New Providence, New Jersey.
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Dante Taylor began his hospitality and food service career in 1995. Nearly 25 years later, he’s with the same company, Erickson Living—a company that he says has qualities and values that make it a great place to work and one he aspires to serve for years to come.
“I try my best, and I try to live the Erickson Living values,” says Taylor, now general manager of dining services and dietary manager at Lantern Hill, the Erickson Living community in New Providence, New Jersey.
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i'm losing my joy of watching movies.
By Nekr0s1s, June 6 in Everything Else
On 6/7/2019 at 4:31 AM, Mr. Freeze said:
I highly recommend this review of The Equalizer 2: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4438965/?ref_=tt_urv
Nymbus_Hustle
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On 6/9/2019 at 9:55 PM, AndrewB said:
How is Ghostbusters 2016 remotely political aside from having all female leads?
Movies in the past were so much more directly political than they are today. Have any of you seen a Charlie Chaplin film? Blade Runner? Cannibal Holocaust? American Psycho? The Bee movie even??
I can agree that politics can bloat a film, but the thing is, is that most films like Star Wars make a minor theme out of contemporary politics.
Also, isn't it weird you complain about Star Wars being political when the themes and plot of the whole series cover politics?
To be fair, any work can have politics read into it, even Shrek and someone has politically analyzed the flick. This is because art always has a cultural context and because of this art always in some ways crosses into the political.
Edited June 11 by Nymbus_Hustle
yakfak
^ well put!
people get used to the allegorical style they first encountered in media and for a lot of people it's reagan-era action films that contain zero self scrutiny
On 6/8/2019 at 5:36 PM, Mr. Freeze said:
All art is political and movies have been outwardly political for a looooong time. It's not a legitimate bone to pick with contemporary media.
OP's argument ("superhero and modern action movies are too political") is typically uttered by one specific type of moviegoer, who usually can't recognize political messages in films unless they disagree with said messages. Said moviegoer will typically complain about the "good old days" before "SJWs/feminists/liberals" overtook the industry and started cranking out "left-wing propaganda". The blindness of these people is laughable.
yes, it is a legitimate complaint. there have always been political statements and references in media, but in the past, this was done with restraint and proportionality, so that art & storytelling were the priority. ever since Current Year began in 2014, this has changed drastically. not just film, but much of our entertainment media has been taken over by a certain political ideology and its aggressive preaching. whole swaths of our media are mainly propaganda, with entertainment as a secondary purpose at best.
I guess it's easy to ignore this if you're sympathetic to the ideology being proselytized, but there's no denying that the role of politics in media is very different than it used to be.
3 hours ago, Nymbus_Hustle said:
Ghostbusters 2016 was structured entirely around feminism and scoring woke points, and this was done at the expense of the original material. this applies not just to the use of female leads (with a male secretary, no less), but the rest of the movie as well.
while all the other films you mentioned had political dimensions, this was done with tact, and with a priority on art & storytelling. that is, assuming your reference to Star Wars was to the Original Trilogy and not the new movies. I don't know how anyone can watch The Last Jedi and claim that the blatant ideology shoved down the viewer's throat is a 'minor theme' (it was also a soul-suckingly terrible movie, but that's an aside).
all this goes back to my main point: there's a difference between political messaging and all-out propaganda, and recent entertainment media is dominated by propaganda.
OP: there's still good stuff out there, it's just harder to find. for example, Alita Battle Angel was a quality action movie. if it gets a low critics score but a high audience score on rotten tomatoes, that's a very good sign. you can also go back to the classics -- not too long ago, I rewatched the Star Wars OT (harmy's despecialized) and some of Akira Kurosawa's work. it's nice to be reminded of what it's like to watch an actually good film, too easy to forget nowadays.
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Having watched Ghostbusters 2016, I can attest to there being precisely zero feminist elements in the film. None of the female characters were treated differently for being women. None of the female characters ever made an issue about being women. Everyone was on equal footing.
On the flip side of that, the movie Hidden Figures was about three overqualified women of colour struggling to rise above the glass ceiling so they could help NASA win the space race. Saying that the movie contains feminist elements would not be incorrect, but it was brilliantly acted, inspiring, and above all else; highly entertaining. So if someone were to lambast it just for being a feminist movie, why should I respect such a narrow-minded sentiment?
1 hour ago, Ajora said:
I haven't seen GB 2016 tbh, which is why I didn't reply however, I was very skeptical that he didn't give any examples. Honestly, I remember people saying the trailer was feminist, even though there's absolutely nothing political ab it.
I should check Hidden Figures out, sounds like an interesting movie.
first, why were they made female? not that I have anything against women in action roles, that can definitely work, as evidenced by Kill Bill and its resounding success. but the Ghostbusters were always dudes, and I can't think of any reason for the gender swap other than ideology. this is confirmed by Chris Hemsworth playing the stereotypical 'dumb, attractive secretary' role, which is consistent with reversing gender roles purely for the sake of doing so. it's further confirmed by the negative portrayal of male characters in the film, and the fact that they save the day by
shooting a giant ghost in the dick
like really? that seems like a slapstick way of saying "fuck you, patriarchy!". I could disregard one of these elements by themselves, but taken together, it's sending a message.
then of course, there was the whole battle with the fans, as longtime Ghostbusters fans complained about the film, said they never asked for this, stop ruining Ghostbusters, we're boycotting, etc. the response to the backlash was to double-down and call the fans a bunch of pathetic losers (one of the actresses literally said this on TV). compare this to the infamous Sonic movie (now coming out next year). when the internet relentlessly criticized/mocked the character design, they didn't flip the bird, but course-corrected and made changes. there's a big difference there.
above all else, hostility to the fans is a key indicator that they're not in it to create art and entertain an audience; rather, they care about ideological orthodoxy and converting the heathens to their woke religion, and anyone who objects is treated as a class enemy.
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1 hour ago, Xcalibur said:
irst, why were they made female? not that I have anything against women in action roles, that can definitely work, as evidenced by Kill Bill and its resounding success. but the Ghostbusters were always dudes,
So what? What dictates that a story that once was told with male characters cannot be told with different persons that just happen to be female?
Actually my main problem with this film wasn't that the cast was female but that I cannot stand Melissa McCarthy. That alone ruined it for me.
I think this case just highlights one big problem with moviegoers which is also the root cause for the declining quality with ever more increasing budgets:
Most people do not want change, they want more of the same, and more of the same and more...
And that's precisely what the studios are producing mostly, regurgitating the same shit over and over and over again, bigger and 'better'.
At some time it just gets boring.
43 minutes ago, Graf Zahl said:
Nothing, but the problem here is the reason behind the change. Was there a good reason for such a change, like a desire to completely re-tell the story, or was it just for the sake of pushing a political agenda forward?
If it's the latter, then the backlash is warranted, people want meaningful changes, not changes done for the sake of promoting an ideology.
holaareola
Hmm, I sort of disagree with OP. Good guy is the goodiest and the bad guy is the baddiest, good kills bad, gets the girl the end see you in the sequel! was never my thing. The increase in moral complexity in blockbuster films (as seen on TV too) is one of the changes I do like in recent cinema. And I don't think it's the politics that are causing films to be crap. Other than the risk avoidance you mention: Remake! Sequel! Franchise! I think the average blockbuster is if anything a little better. Looking back to the 80s and 90s, the cultural filtering has been done -- the best stuff floats to the top, everything looks better in retrospect because the utter garbage that was actually out most of the time has sunk beneath memory.
Buuuut I do prefer it when political messaging is more deftly handled as subtext rather than gracelessly thrust in your face in 'net friendly neatly packaged chunks.
In this climate, it makes sense to take the overt route. I read so many reviews which drearily descend through the political checklist before even getting to what a film is actually like qua film. As long as things are being consumed so much through the prism of political values, it's a good way to generate buzz. Not only that, but a thorough job ticking those boxes can also help critically, with politically sympathetic corners reluctant to bag on something that appears to be fighting the good fight.
And that's my main issue. This focus on making the right gestures can act as a fig leaf masking a decline in quality, imagination and risk-taking. The aim should be first to succeed as art or entertainment in itself, and much of the time political values just don't weigh there.
@nekr0s1s how'd you get on with the recommendations in this thread?
rehelekretep
how is 'women can play the same roles as men' even remotely 'political' in anything more than a broad-strokes 'equality' message?
i must say ive yet to see anyone argue a point more coherent than 'i dont want to see women in mah male roles' and that strikes me as inherently problematic.
just to clarify: how is 'women can play roles like ghostbusters just as well as men can' a problematic ideology? think about what youre saying by opposing that...
3 hours ago, seed said:
In this case the arguing is totally irrelevant. These are different characters with different names. The entire argument essentially boils down to "How dare you tell a story about DIFFERENT Ghostbusters?" Nothing more, nothing less.
I'd rather ask "How dare you make yet another unimaginative remake of yet another classic movie?" THAT would be a legitimate gripe, not changing the gender of the protagonists. The latter is just sexist claptrap.
Was there a good reason for such a change
What is your evidence that it's due to political ideology? Honestly, something I didn't dig ab the original Ghostbusters is that the black character is just a dude they pick up halfway through, whereas all the white leads are scientists. As I said, I've only seen the trailer to GB 2016, but If this was a truly political or ""PC"" retelling of Ghostbusters wouldn't they have totally rewritten the black lead? As far as I'm aware they didn't.
2 hours ago, Graf Zahl said:
crazyflyingdonut
I think I'll put in my two cents on this issue.
The movies I watch nowadays are usually just documentaries on real-world events and issues (the topics they cover are usually interesting to me), because I can't be fucked to even watch any other type of movie anymore.
My problem is that most movies that have been released in the past couple of years have been the exact same garbage:
A "funny" CGI-animated film for children with characters voiced by washed-up celebrities (usually that's the case for the voice actors in these movies) featuring music from any decade before the 2000's that did not deserve to get dragged into such trashy films.
The latest reboot of a milked-to-death media franchise that has needed to be put down for decades.
Some boring romantic film that you see advertisements of for a short period of time before quickly fading into obscurity.
The occasional good movie that gets no attention because it has drowned in the flood of bad films such as the ones listed above.
And YouTube channels such as "I Hate Everything" and "Saberspark" don't help matters either, honestly. Because they are essentially giving these movies the attention that their creators wanted.
Nekr0s1s
15 hours ago, holaareola said:
@nekr0s1s how'd you get on with the recommendations in this thread?
I've been a little busy with work related stuff, my studies and the occasional skate sessions. fortunately, my holiday work leave is near (next week) so i'll have plenty of time to check them out on Netflix, assuming they are on the catalog.
DuckReconMajor
Good luck with that one. Most stuff i try to find isn't on there, I check somewhere like GoWatchIt first, and see if the movie has Netflix or another service you have under "Subscription".
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The Faber and Faber film list features the luminaries of the filmmaking world, with works by leading directors - including Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog, Mike Leigh, Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle and Quentin Tarantino - and screenplays of iconic works from Chinatown to Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction to Fargo.
The Innocence of Memories
The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by the same name), a transcript of the author and filmmaker in conversation, and captivating colour stills, it is an essential volume for understanding Pamuk’s work.
Drawing on the themes from Pamuk’s best-selling books, The Museum of Innocence, Istanbul and The Black Book, this book is both an accompaniment to the author’s previous publications and a wonderfully revelatory exploration of Orhan Pamuk’s key ideas about art, love, and memory.
The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by the same name), a transcript of the author and filmmaker in conversation, and captivating colour stills, it is an essential volume for understanding Pamuk’s work.Drawing on the themes from Pamuk’s best-selling books, The Museum of Innocence, Istanbul and The Black Book, this book is both an accompaniment to the author’s previous publications and a wonderfully revelatory exploration of Orhan Pamuk’s key ideas about art, love, and memory.
Death is always the issue—in life, and in the Western. Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a movie of six Western stories. In each, our common destination is approached by a different road. Through each, diverse characters hurry for their final appointment: Oregon Trail-travelers, a gold prospector, a motley crew of stagecoach passengers, a high-plains drifting bank robber, even a singing cowboy. These six stories escort them with a care that either respects, or mocks, the dignity of all.
The film stars Tom Waits, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tim Bake Nelson and Zoe Kazan and is shot with the harsh grandeur of the classic John Ford westerns.
Death is always the issue—in life, and in the Western. Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a movie of six Western stories. In each, our common destination is approached by a different road. Through each, diverse characters hurry for their final appointment: Oregon Trail-travelers, a gold prospector, a motley crew of stagecoach passengers, a high-plains drifting bank robber, even a singing cowboy. These six stories escort them with a care that either respects, or mocks, the dignity of all.The film stars Tom Waits, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tim Bake Nelson and Zoe Kazan and is shot with the harsh grandeur of the classic John Ford westerns.
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Republican Pollster Frank Luntz Is 'Shaking' Over Trump's Numbers
Luntz, as a member of the very "Republican establishment" that has sanctified smiling deceit and political nihilism dressed as patriotism, should be more afraid of the audience Trump is appealing to than the man himself.
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Ah, The Libidinous Visitor has set up shop in another person's head. In this case, it is a head that is chockful of old useful slanders, and finely crafted invective, and shrewd appeals to ignorance and anger out of which the owner of the head got rich and out of which Trumpism was made inevitable. Irony has an awfully big hammer, and the owner of the head in question is now feeling the hammer dropping repeatedly on his overstuffed, rancid melon.
"This is a different cat," Luntz added. "It's not like Ross Perot in 1992, where people were simply unhappy with the two major parties; they're choosing Trump affirmatively. Honestly, my legs are shaking looking at these numbers. All those people who think he's going to implode are wrong. He's not going away."
Luntz is chief among those in what is laughably referred to as a "Republican establishment" who are terrified of The Libidinous Visitor when they should be more terrified of the audience to whom he is appealing, and the very large box of rocks that this now largely vestigial "Republican establishment" has spent almost four decades building.
"I used to sleep on my front porch with the door wide open, and now everyone has deadbolts," one man said. "I believe the best days of the country are behind us."
"I'm frustrated beyond belief. I feel like I've been lied to," a woman said. "Nothing's getting better."
"We know his goal is to make America great again," a woman said. "It's on his hat. And we see it every time it's on TV. Everything that he's doing, there's no doubt why he's doing it: it's to make America great again."
"We love our country and we love what our country stands for," said a woman who added she comes from a military family. "I look at where we are now as a country where entitlements are just totally out of control. Our borders have completely dissolved. We're not what we used to be. I want to people to represent my interest."
So far, The Libidinous Visitor has done nothing and has said nothing in his campaign that the untouched Republican saint, Ronald Reagan, didn't say or do in either of his campaigns. The people quoted above could have been talking to a reporter in 1980. In its perpetual campaign to cast Reagan in marble and set him atop a shining city on a hill, the "Republican establishment" has sancitified amiable duncehood, smiling deceit, and personal political nihilism presented as patriotism of the highest order. And now Luntz is nervous because people have taken this entire beatification process to heart and applied it to someone Frank Luntz thinks is an impure vessel?
Honky, please. I mean, it's on his hat, man! Get with the program.
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Charles Broadwell: Let's not fall off our pedestals here
By Charles Broadwell
Fayetteville has a couple of Confederate monuments, including the well-known sentinel erected in 1902 on St. James Square downtown and moved earlier this century to the Haymount neighborhood.
Fayetteville has a Martin Luther King Jr. statue, commissioned and erected by a nonprofit group in the park that carries his name off Blue Street.
Fayetteville has a statue of the city's Revolutionary War namesake, the horseback-riding Marquis de Lafayette, erected in Cross Creek Park through the fundraising prowess of Martha Duell, whose funeral was Saturday just a walk away from there, at St. John's Episcopal Church.
Fayetteville has its Army statues, including old Iron Mike and Gen. Hugh Shelton at our downtown Army museum, along with the newer Iron Mike and other soldier-memorials on Fort Bragg.
That may seem like a lot, but it's not a crowded field. There's room for more.
Reader Libby Marsh had it right in a letter to the editor published Thursday: Instead of focusing so much on the negativity surrounding Confederate memorials across the South, why not honor more African-American heroes with statues of their own?
The possibilities are inspiring. I can see a group of Fayetteville State students, young men and women, marching peacefully for their civil rights during that hot summer in 1963 that resulted in the barriers finally coming down at downtown restaurants.
I can see Charles Chesnutt, the pioneering writer and local educator. I can see Lewis Sheridan Leary, the young martyr from here who died as part of abolitionist John Brown's fateful raid at Harpers Ferry.
I can see other good options, including Dr. E.E. Smith and the Triple-Nickel paratroopers, to enrich our cultural landscape.
There are many more. But statues can be fraught with issues, from the sculpting work itself to the person or cause they celebrate, such as the Confederate memorials today. They require time, money and community support.
We can honor local heroes, men and women. We can picture Babe Ruth hitting his first home run outside a new ballpark here. We can imagine, someday, a statue taking center stage for hometown hip-hop star J. Cole.
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One Woman’s Intensely Intimate Photos of Motherhood
May 19, 2016 by Ellyn Kail
Nursing and peeing, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2014 © Anna Ogier-Bloomer
Scratches from breastfeeding at nine months, 2014 © Anna Ogier-Bloome
“She’s the flesh of my flesh,” says New York City-based photographer Anna Ogier-Bloomer of her daughter Violet, whose first two and a half years she’s feverishly chronicled between breast-feedings, catnaps, and sleepy revelations.
Letdown is her tribute to the original aches and pangs of motherhood. The physiological “letdown,” the release of milk triggered by the suckling of a child, becomes the central allegory the ineffable undertow of feeling that runs between a newborn and the woman who has borne her.
Ogier-Bloomer admits that she was unprepared for the all-consuming appetite of a child. She was overtaken, she says, by “incredible exhaustion,” such that her own anatomy seemed to loosen and detach from her psychological being. “I was blown away by how much my body became this other entity, not my own anymore,” confesses the artist, but despite the desperation and debilitation of the first few weeks, she had no choice but to make pictures.
“I hardly wanted to pick up the camera,” elaborates the photographer, and yet, the instants she witnessed and encountered with Violet could not go unrecorded. She felt a visceral and invisible cord tying her to her child, and separation was hard to bear. She yearned for Violet when they were apart.
Culturally, suggests Ogier-Bloomer, the erotic and sustaining functions of breasts are alienated from one another: “I had a friend who said how strange it is that when you give birth your breasts aren’t sexual anymore, but that’s not accurate. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.” As much as Letdown is about this mother and this child, it’s also about womanhood in a more universal sense; there’s a through-line forever binding her mother to herself and to her daughter.
The bond between herself and her baby has been almost frightening in its intensity; “The deep pain I feel when my daughter is hurt or sad is something that doesn’t disappear,” discloses the artist, “I would throw myself in front of a train for her.”
When asked about whether or not she’ll show these pictures to Violet when she gets older, the artist expresses a hope that the images can be “part of [her daughter’s] feminist education.” The phrase she used—“flesh of my flesh”—was initially used in the book of Genesis to describe Eve’s dependance on Adam, but Letdown reconfigures that same fierce reliance and faith to apply only to two women, one small and one grown.
First Night Home, 2013 © Anna Ogier-Bloome
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Shawnee Power, LLC; Supplemental Notice That Initial Market-Based Rate Filing Includes Request for Blanket Section 204 Authorization
A Notice by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on 05/22/2019
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This is a supplemental notice in the above-referenced proceeding of Shawnee Power, LLC's application for market-based rate authority, with an accompanying rate tariff, noting that such application includes a request for blanket authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability.
Any person desiring to intervene or to protest should file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214). Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of that document on the Applicant.
Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing protests with regard to the applicant's request for blanket authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability, is June 5, 2019.
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FLIGHT, I May 1953 553 COMET ENGINEERING . . . to about 12 man-hours (three men for four hours) and the civil Ghost 50 is a compact unit requiring no further disassembly once it is removed from the aircraft. The installation of the Ghost is shown in the Flight drawing on p. 552, which shows the port inner engine. The engine is carried by two simple trunnion bearings, incorporating Metalastik bushes to prevent the transmission of much high-frequency noise to the airframe. At the top is a single steadying tie-rod; all three pick-up points are secured by single bolts, and all the pipelines, cables and control runs are fitted with quick-release joints. The main air-intake duct is attached to the engine by a single toggle fastener; the jet-pipe—a lengthy unit owing to the considerable wing-chord—is secured by four simple clamps. When the latter are released, the pipe may be slid out to the rear on runners. At present, B.O.A.C. use a mobile crane for removing and replacing the Ghosts, which weigh slightly less than a ton apiece. The engine can be removed downwards once the trunnion bolts have been undone and the disconnections made, there being no need for particularly accurate positioning. A tensiometer sling has, however, been found necessary, to guard against overloading the lifting gear or damaging the engine. Apart from scheduled inspections, the Ghosts are given daily and pre-flight inspections; but these are quite minor and take one man about twenty and ten minutes respectively. A ground run is only carried out after 35 hours flying or if the aircraft has been out of use for 72 hours, and it should be noted that a Ghost—any turbojet, for that matter—may be run-up to full power directly from cold. The entire engine bay can be reached from the ground, and B.O.A.C. have not purchased any special trestling or staging for Ghost overhauls. One of the most heartening features of the Ghost's behaviour has been the manner in which, time after time, a snag has given no evidence of its presence until final detection at London Airport. This should not be taken as implying that the Comets are cruised happily with a sea of troubles on board; rather, that the troubles have been of a minor nature of a kind that could be rectified when the Comet has returned to the maintenance base. As a result, that scourge of efficient airline operation, the non-scheduled over haul, has very rarely been necessary. The actual figures are noteworthy, and may be taken as indica tive of the sort of performance to be expected as the Ghost and its axial successors are further developed. The failure-rate per thousand flying hours has been 0.8, counting non-productive flying, crew-training and route-proving. The current rate in normal service is 0.49 unscheduled engine changes per thousand hours which, as A. Cdre. F. R. Banks recently pointed out, may be compared with the figure of 0.6 established in service by two of the most highly developed radial piston-engines. The Ghost is, of course, singularly robust and so simple that there is not very much that can go wrong. By far the major proportion of failures have occurred in the ancillaries. The alter nator cooling-fan for example (necessary on the ground only), runs at up to 20,000 r.p.m. and the ball bearings originally fitted to its shaft did not stand up to the operating conditions. The solution was a switch to Vandervell thin-wall bearings, lubricated by an oil film, which has proved quite satisfactory. Relighting is not a feature of normal operations, and even low- altitude stacking is at present done on four engines. But incorrect pilot drill with the pump-isolation switches can put an engine out and the easy relight of the Ghost is considered an asset. With the high-energy ignition system, now used in place of the original torch igniters, relighting is quite straightforward even above 25,000ft. And there is no doubt that later engines will better this performance. Following on from this it may be said that the Ghost turbine/ compressor unit runs in ball, roller and safety bearings, the latter bringing the engine to rest if all the others fail. If complete engine failure were to occur in flight the engine would, unless structural damage prevented it, continue to windmill at about 1,000 r.p.m. under the influence of ram air. Neither B.O.A.C. nor de Havilland consider there is any case for a means of stopping the engine dead in the air, although the C.A.A. are reported to be considering making this requirement mandatory. Time-expired Ghosts are sent to the D.H. test-beds and, in every case, they have been run up to full thrust. The only deterior ation in performance has been a very slight rise in jet-pipe temperature and specific fuel consumption. As regards perform ance deterioration in flight B.O.A.C. do not employ any form of installed thrustmeter—as favoured by the C.A.A.—nor do they consider there is any need for such a device. Any loss of power, or malfunctioning, of a Ghost can be detected at once. Before leaving consideration of the Comet power plant, one obvious question to be answered is "do de Havilland and B.O.A.C. think that their choice of buried (as opposed to podded) engines was correct?" Both partners answer an unqualified "yes"; later Comets will continue to employ installations of this type. Landing Gear.—The D.H. designed undercarriage has given outstanding service and has required no modification whatever. Maintenance of the gear has posed no problems, in spite of the fact that it is the first time an airline has employed a bogie under carriage, or units built around large, light-alloy forgings. Inherent in bogie-equipped aircraft is a limit on the turning radius, but this has not led to damage or tyre-scrubbing, neither has it impaired the Comet's ground mobility. The main bogies have stood up well to severe treatment, including landings with considerable drift on to indifferent runways. Certainly, the bogies ride better than equivalent single-wheel units (as were fitted to two Comet 1 prototypes) and they have also permitted operation from much poorer surfaces. Another advantage has been the ease with which the small tyres and wheels can be manhandled. The mainwheel tyres are Dunlop 35.00x17 size and they operate at U5lb/sqin at 105,000 lb aircraft all-up weight. Tyre behaviour has been fully up to expectations, and no par ticular trouble has been experienced from slamming of the front bogie-wheels on to the runway. The present tyre-Efe works out to roughly 100 landings for the mainwheels and between 100 and 200 for the nosewheels. The latter wheels are unbraked and are splined to a common shaft to eliminate shimmy. This performance is underlined by the airfields through which the Comets fly regularly. Many Comet ports of call—including London—are still partly under construction and contractors' lorries have a habit of strewing runways with small bits and pieces. The Comets, with their eight ribbed mainwheel tyres, suffered by picking up such paraphernalia in the tyre ribs. This, and the severe tension across the tread, has now led to the intro duction of a new Dunlop "dimpled" tyre which, having no ribs, collects no damaging material; also, it is broader, and stronger under side-load. The power-steered nose unit has also given fine service. A steer- able nosewheel is essential on such an aircraft for it is not the practice to use differential engine power for ground manoeuvring, neither would this have much effect. The difficulty of bringing jet transports to a halt after landing is one of the current "anti-jet" views being voiced in the United States. It is true that the Comet has not had to contend with icy runways—except at London, where there is plenty of room. But the landing has never been a critical factor in any of B.O.A.C.'s operations with the aircraft, and this includes services through airfields with runways of normal length, sometimes in conjunc tion with very adverse combinations of altitude, ground tempera ture and gradient. The brakes are duplicated Dunlop disc units, and B.O.A.C. praise them highly. Last year, B.O.A.C. decided to fit discs of increased thickness in order to comply with the requirements of the worst accelerate-stop case without overheating. An unexpected windfall is the fact that these discs can, after an undetermined but considerable number of landings, be machined smooth and re- plated; this can also be done a second time, trebling the effective life of the units. When it is recalled that there are 16 brake discs to each Comet, this is seen as an appreciable saving. Dunlop's Maxaret anti-skid equipment is to be fitted to the B.O.A.C. Comet 2s, and the device may be fitted as a retrospec tive modification to the Series is. Hydraulics.—A study of the Comet manuals reveals the unusual extent of the hydraulic system, and it also leaves one slightly dazzled, for there are five separate circuits and each is allotted a distinctive colour. The systems which are of de Havilland design are: (1) Green system, serving landing-gear retraction, nosewheel steering, wheel- and air-brakes, flaps, flying-control secondary servos and windscreen wipers. The green circuit is fed by a hydraulic pump on each outer engine. 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Home Food for Thought Between the Headlines Cheap sugar imports a bitter nightmare for Mzansi’s cane farmers
Cheap sugar imports a bitter nightmare for Mzansi’s cane farmers
Imports could collapse the industry and threaten thousands of small-scale farmers.
Duncan Masiwa
The local sugar industry contributes about R14 billion towards Mzansi’s economy and employs about 85 000 locals. Photo: Joshua Reid
Cheap sugar imports have put the South African sugar industry under huge pressure, leading to major job losses and fears that the industry is collapsing completely. There has been a major impact on small-scale and land reform farmers, many of whom started the current season in debt.
The sector has been experiencing dire changes for the past 19 years and last year 500 000 tonnes of imported sugar made its way onto our shores, plunging the industry into crisis. The imports from Brazil, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have left a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of many local sugar cane growers, emerging farmers and agriworkers.
“A worrying number of small-scale and land reform farmers have started the new season highly in debt, owing the millers money from the previous season,” says SAFDA (South African Farmers Development Association) spokesperson, Ronda Naidu. This means that rural households and economies are adversely affected, not to mention the negative impact this will have on informal and formal businesses that rely on these value chains.
The local sugar industry contributes about R14 billion towards Mzansi’s economy and employs about 85 000 locals.
A lot of cane farming takes place in communities that are steeped in poverty and sugarcane farming is a means to uplift people living in these communities. By working in the industry, they are able to sustain themselves and their families financially. Job losses would leave them unable to do so.
Managing director of Illovo Sugar South Africa, Mamongae Mahlare, says small-scale growers, who lack economies of scale and are unable to diversify, will be hit the hardest. “They currently operate with the tightest margins,” he says.
According to Naidu, the main concerns small-scale and land reform farmers have are high input costs (fertilisers and transport), lack of access to finance and decreasing revenue. The sugar tax that was instituted in April 2018 was also bad news for farmers.
“It is estimated that about 200 000 tonnes of sugar has been displaced by the implementation of the health promotion levy or sugar tax,” Naidu says.
Another major concern is the drop in numbers of small-scale sugar cane farmers, from around 50 000 in the early 2000’s to about 20 000 today.
Naido adds that this means that a number of rural households no longer have that income and tracts of land are lying fallow.
“If imports continue unabated, against the backdrop of a recent two-year drought, farmers who have the ability to cultivate alternative crops will switch to other crops, while those that cannot will simply go out of business,” Mahlare warns.
The South African Cane Growers Association (SACGA) recently called on government to help the industry out of the crisis. They are calling for tariff protection and tightened restrictions to prohibit sugar imports.
Cane farmers provide much needed employment opportunities in deep rural areas. If the import trend continues it could result in huge job losses.
SACGA chairperson Greame Steinbank has urged government to invest in industry-led innovations and to be more responsive to fluctuations in world sugar prices. In recent talks between SACGA and the Department of Trade and Industry it was agreed that solutions to the challenges facing the sugar industry had to be found swiftly.
A number of farmers don’t have access to finance. This resulted in them starting the new season (April 1, 2019) in debt. This means that they do not have the funds to manage their fields or replant.
“Farmers also have to make tough decisions on how to replant, if they can afford to,” Naidu says.
Mahlare says it is imperative to implement medium- and long-term interventions which make the industry sustainable beyond the benefit of just increasing the import duty.
Fortunately, SAFDA recently entered into a service-level agreement with the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, in order to assist farmers with ratoon management. A ratoon is a sprout or shoot from the root of a plant, especially a sugarcane plant, after it has been harvested.
This will ensure that inputs are applied timeously, ideally resulting in a better-quality crop and at a lower cost thanks to the bulk buying programme that SAFDA is actively pursuing.
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