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'Disappointing' Union Budget Failed to Jumpstart Renewable Sector
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OPINION | 'Disappointing' Union Budget 2019 Failed to Jumpstart Renewable Sector
The budgetary allocation to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) marginally increased to Rs 5,255 crore. The allocation to the solar power sector increased by a pitiful 1.1% to Rs 3,004 crore compared to the last year’s revised estimates.
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The renewable sector received a massive boost following the government’s announcement in May 2015 of achieving a target of 175 gigawatts (GW) by 2022. However, over the last year the momentum has been lost.
A number of policy missteps, such as a safeguard duty on imported solar panels, confusion around the Goods and Service Tax (GST), and unpredictability in auction including ad hoc caps, have played a role in the market’s slowdown. But perhaps the biggest reason was the financial weaknesses of discoms – delayed payments to renewable companies; attempts to renegotiate PPAs; and failed auctions were a result of stressed discoms.
Bold ideas and significant investment support from the government were needed to jumpstart the renewable sector; however, the Budget was disappointing. The budgetary allocation to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) marginally increased to Rs 5,255 crore. The allocation to the solar power sector increased by a pitiful 1.1% to Rs 3,004 crore compared to the last year’s revised estimates. The wind sector fared even worse, with allocation dropping compared to the last year’s revised estimates.
The Budget speech spoke about using the successful experience of promoting LED bulbs to expand solar cookstoves. While this is an interesting idea, the Budget doesn’t detail any funding to support this. It also talks about distributing eight crore LPG connections in addition to seven crore cylinders that have already been distributed.
While the numbers look impressive, the real outcome is not. Refill rates have been very low, given the LPG cylinders are too expensive for poor households. In its draft National Energy Policy, the NITI Aayog has suggested promoting induction stoves that are extremely efficient and have far lower operating costs than LPG. With the Saubhagya scheme providing electricity connection to every household, it makes sense to ensure regular power supply for induction stoves rather than setting up new distribution infrastructure to provide LPG cylinders to every small village across the country.
Financial stability of discoms is vital to the sustained growth of the renewable sector. However, the Budget speech glancingly talked about the UDAY scheme, which was introduced almost four years back, to improve the performance of discoms. The government data already shows that the UDAY scheme has not succeeded - discoms are not meeting most of the key goals such as cutting Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses, installing smart meters, and timely tariff revisions. Therefore, the speech saying that the “UDAY scheme is being reviewed and it will be improved” does not inspire much confidence.
The renewable sector has also been hit by issues such as attempts to renegotiate PPAs, delays in payments by discoms to developers, and new RE power procurement contracts. Some of these issues need to be handled through market reforms of the power sector that are not in the scope of Budget discussion.
Indeed, the Budget mentions that the “package of power sector tariff and structural reforms would soon be announced”. However, we would have liked some clarity on the Payment Guarantee Scheme, which was set up to ensure timely payment to developers. The scheme needs to be tightened and its provisions enforced.
Second, the government needs to introduce financial sector reforms to encourage financing for solar rooftop. The subsidy-driven model has its limits and has, in any case, not worked for the solar rooftop segment. The Budget failed to even mention, let alone address, this gap for this segment.
Finally, we were hoping to see some big bang ideas for the solar manufacturing industry. The government has emphasised upon a strong manufacturing sector with its ‘Make in India’ campaign. However, it has done little to support the solar wafer/cell manufacturing industry.
Its main initiative - auctions linked to new integrated manufacturing capacity – has failed with auctions amended and postponed several times after repeatedly failing to elicit interest. Another attempt - safeguard duty on imported panels imposed last year - provides temporary relief to the domestic manufacturers. Overall, it may in fact be negative since it raises costs for the solar developers, which increases tariff.
India needs a comprehensive policy encompassing research and development (R&D) investment, infrastructure, subsidised financing and domestic business to support the manufacturing sector that faces intense competition from China. This Budget offered no such hope.
(The writer's views are personal.)
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963 Terrorists, 413 Security Personnel Killed in 5 Years in Jammu and Kashmir: Govt
In the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Union Minister of State for Home said security forces were taking proactive action against terrorists, pursuant to the government's zero tolerance policy towards terrorism.
July 16, 2019, 7:51 pm explore: India
Senior IPS Officer Distributes Free Books to Students from Remote Areas in Jammu and Kashmir
Basant Rath feels that people from remote parts of the state are as talented as those in the cities and towns but lack of resources often become a major obstacle in their progress.
CRPF Constables Jump into Gushing Waters to Save Minor Girl from Drowning in J&K's Baramulla
The minor, Nageena, slipped into the fast moving stream at Tangmarg and was washed away by the strong currents, the officials said.
BSF Personnel Gun Down Suspected Pakistani Intruder in Jammu & Kashmir's Samba District
According to officials, a man in his 60's was trying to sneak into the Indian territory near the S M Pura border post and ignored repeated warnings to surrender following which the BSF men shot him.
On Visit to ISRO Station Ahead of Chandrayaan-2 Launch, Jammu Children Recall Moon Stories
Swapnil and Swapnila, both Class 10 students, this week visited the ISRO station in Andhra Pradesh and saw the massive rocket that will spark their lunar imagination into reality.
July 15, 2019, 3:00 am explore: India
Significant Drop in Stone Pelting Incidents in Jammu and Kashmir: Officials
As per the statistics, in 2018, there were 1,458 incidents of stone pelting in which 3,797 miscreants were arrested and 65 of them were sent to jail.
Congress Condemns Chinese Army 'Crossing' Line of Actual Control in Demchok Sector of Ladakh
Chinese soldiers crossed the LAC in Demchok sector of Ladakh division after some Tibetans hoisted Tibetan flags on the occasion of Dalai Lama's birthday, security officials had said.
5 Persons Killed, 3 Injured as SUV Falls into Gorge in J&K's Ramban
The vehicle, which was on its way from Ukhral to Alinbass village, skidded off the link road and rolled down into deep gorge, officials said.
Amarnath Yatra Suspended As Precautionary Measure after Separatists Call for Strike in Kashmir
As many as 12 batches of pilgrims have so far left for the twin base camps of Pahalgam and Baltal in Kashmir valley from Jammu since the beginning of the pilgrimage on June 30.
Governor Malik Skips Official Function at Martyrs' Graveyard in Srinagar
However, Governor Satya Pal Malik in his Friday's message on the eve of Martyrs' Day called for collective efforts from all sections of the society to secure rapid growth and development of the state on all fronts.
BJP Will Revive Plan for 'Secured Camps' In Kashmir to Resettle Pandits, Says Ram Madhav
Ram Madhav, BJP national general secretary, said his party was committed to bring back some of the estimated 200,000-300,000 Hindus who fled the Jammu and Kashmir after the armed revolt that began in 1989.
July 13, 2019, 10:04 am explore: Politics
UN Rights Office Report on J&K 'False and Motivated' Narrative of Situation in State, Says MEA
Last year, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released its first-ever report on Kashmir, and in an update of that report issued on Monday, it claimed that 'neither India nor Pakistan have taken any concrete steps to address the numerous concerns raised'.
July 11, 2019, 11:48 pm explore: India
'Shouldn't Take Such Threats Seriously': Centre Dismisses Al-Qaeda's Threats to Army in Kashmir
In the 14-minute speech released on Wednesday, Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri also brought to light Pakistan’s involvement in fuelling cross-border terrorism in Kashmir.
Al-Qaeda Chief Calls for 'Unrelenting Blows' on Army in Kashmir, Chides Pakistan for 'Double Game'
Ayman al-Zawahiri claimed that the 'fight in Kashmir' is not a separate conflict but instead is part of the worldwide Muslim community's 'jihad against a vast array of forces'.
'Regulated, Not Banned': J&K Govt Refutes Claims of Ban on Civilian Traffic Movement for Amarnath Yatra
Jammu-Srinagar national highway was narrow at many places, regulation of traffic had become inevitable to ensure that there are no traffic jams along the highway, the authorities said.
Govt Says Infiltration Dipped in J&K, Improved Security Scenario Could be 'Golden Hour' to Resolve Crisis
The Ministry of Home Affairs has told Parliament that compared to infiltration in 2018, the number this year has come down by 43%, recruitment of local Kashmiris by terror groups is down by 40% and there is a hike in number of terrorists killed by 22%.
Arunima, July 10, 2019, 1:01 pm explore: India
NIA Attaches J&K Separatist Leader Asiya Andrabi's Property Over Pushing Terror Activities
NIA's order allowing the property’s attachment said that the property was used to give push to terror activities, and represents proceeds of terrorism.
July 10, 2019, 11:45 am explore: India
J&K Police Asks Kishtwar Residents to Refrain from Wearing Army-pattern Dresses
It also asked the youth in the hilly district to use social media to spread awareness and start a campaign to prevent misuse of the army uniform and equipment.
July 9, 2019, 4:23 pm explore: India
43% Drop in Terrorist Infiltration from Pakistan Since Balakot Strikes, Home Ministry Tells Lok Sabha
Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai was responding to a question on whether cross-border infiltration had abated after the Indian Air Force carried out strikes on terror camps in Balakot in Pakistan in February this year.
Arunima, July 9, 2019, 4:28 pm explore: India
Minor Girl Abducted from Delhi, Recovered in J&K's Reasi, Culprit Arrested
The culprit, Himanshu Kumar of the Ambedkar Nagar area, New Delhi, was arrested during the operation and both he and the girl were handed over to the Delhi Police after completion of legal formalities, a police official said.
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Province skipper: ‘We played against ourselves’
THE Sharks were the only team to pick up an away Currie Cup win at the weekend, somehow defying rugby logic in beating Western Province 25-23 at a drenched Newlands, while the champion Lions team, with Butch James steering the ship, were impressive in their 43-20 win over the Free Staters at Ellis Park.
The Sharks, looking rusty, were badly beaten for territory and possession while they took a 15-4 penalty count from referee Lourens van der Merwe. But the Sharks took just about every scoring chance on offer, and there were precious few, to run in three tries for an extraordinary win.
Flyhalf Riaan Viljoen, in the rain and cold, proved an unlikely matchwinner, launching kicks that led to all three tries and then snapping over a drop goal after 73 minutes, to edge the Sharks in front after WP had briefly taken the lead.
The disjointed Sharks had trailed 13-3 at the break, but they scored three tries in 15 minutes to take the lead and then held on in a tense finish to grab four invaluable away points.
Their first try, immediately after half-time, was a spectacular effort in the conditions. Viljoen, on his own 22 metre line, chipped into space, centre Meyer Bosman gathered and fed centre Paul Jordaan, and the Baby Bok beat two defenders on a 60 metre run to the line, aggravating his hamstring injury on the way.
The next two tries went to the quick, opportunistic hooker Craig Burden after Province failed miserably to field high kicks by Viljoen.
WP will wonder how they failed to win this game. They camped in Sharks’ territory for most of the game, but created very little, admittedly in dreadful conditions. Their two tries — one in each half, first by Tiaan Liebenberg and then Deon Fourie — were similar, with penalties kicked to corner and then their pack rolling over from attacking lineouts.
For the rest, it was the boot of fullback Joe Pietersen who kicked both awkward conversions and three penalties, but then fluffed the kick that would have won the match, one of his easier attempts on the day, with just three minutes remaining.
Captain Deon Fourie, who excelled at the breakdown, was critical of his team-mates.
“We played against ourselves and we’re very disappointed. We made individual errors which cost us and there is plenty of hard work ahead.”
Jean Deysel, who led the Sharks, praised the young players in the team.
“I’ve very chuffed. Any victory away from home is a big victory, but we’re very pleased to have won here.”
Butch James played a major role as the Lions started off the defence of their Currie Cup title with a fine 43-20 win over the Free State Cheetahs at Ellis Park.
The Lions were beaten in the battle for possession, but they defended strongly and took their scoring chances well to score four tries, while James contributed 21 points with a faultless eight from eight kicks.
The Lions, with their shadow Super Rugby team, now travel to Durban to meet the second-string Sharks on Saturday night and they will be in confident mood after this showing.
The Blue Bulls won their Currie Cup opener 35-20 against Griquas at Loftus on Friday night.
Western Province (23): Tries: Tiaan Liebenberg, Deon Fourie. Conversions: Joe Pietersen (2). Penalties: Joe Pietersen (3). Sharks (25): Tries: Paul Jordaan, Craig Burden (2). Conversions: Meyer Bosman (2). Penalties: Meyer Bosman. Drop-goal: Riaan Viljoen. Sapa
Golden Lions (43): Tries: Derick Minnie, Andries Coetzee, Hendrik Roodt, Ruan Combrinck. Conversions: Butch James (3), Gus Cronje. Penalties: James (5). Cheetahs (20): Tries: Raymond Rhule (2). Riaan Smit (2). Penalties: Smit (2).
This weekend’s fixtures (home team first):
Friday: Free State vs Blue Bulls — 7.10 pm.
Saturday: Griquas vs WP — 2.30 pm.
Sharks vs Lions — 7.15 pm.
Currie Cup log
P W D L PD BPts Pts
Lions 1 1 0 0 23 1 5
Bulls 1 1 0 0 15 0 4
Sharks 1 1 0 0 2 0 4
WP 1 0 0 1 -2 1 1
Griquas 1 0 0 1 -15 0 0
Free State 1 0 0 1 -23 0 0
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Judo Master Putin Is More Politically Savvy Than Trump and Spared Macron in Handshake, Boasts Russian Media
By Damien Sharkov On 5/30/17 at 8:27 AM EDT
World France Russia Emmanuel Macron Vladimir Putin
Fresh off a now-famous handshake with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron grasped Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin's hand on Monday, under close media attention.
While Russia's state media was largely impressed by the elaborate ceremony around Putin's first time visiting Macron, pro-Kremlin outlets kept a close eye on the pair's interactions.
Read more: Macron blasts Russian state media as "lying propaganda" in front of Putin
Pro-government Moscow paper Moskovsky Komsomolets hailed Macron's reception of Putin as a "king's" reception at the palace of Versailles. The paper noted that the two leaders, who shook hands numerous times during Putin's tour of the palatial premises, came at a time when footage of Trump and Macron's bone-crushing handshake is still being widely discussed in France and elsewhere. Twice the paper claimed the U.S. leader nearly "broke" or almost "tore off" Macron's hand, who in turn appeared to clasp Trump's hand when the former reality TV star attempted to pull away.
With Putin's self-styled reputation as a former street fighter and his frequently flaunted mastery of three martial arts, some may have expected him to outdo Trump.
"This time [Macron] faced a meeting not only with an experienced and influential politician but also with a master of judo," the paper added.
"However Putin opted not to test Macron's strength, reining back his greeting," the paper reported, drawing attention to the fact that Putin's left hand also touched Macron's shoulder. "According to psychologists such a handshake indicates a friendly disposition and a readiness for earnest dialogue."
In what seemed like a subtle dig at Trump's lack of experience in public office, the paper claimed Putin's sense of "protocol" had been learned from many years on the job.
Influential business daily Kommersant had a colder reading of the meeting, noting the pair often called each other "he" often rather than using official titles—a sign of reverence—or first names, a token of friendship.
The pair's first handshake outside the palace was "weak," the paper claimed, while their second, instigated by Macron at the conference, forced Putin to reach for it. "Why did Emmanuel Macron do this? You think about it," the paper said.
Should one of them seek the upper hand at their next meeting, it will likely be during Putin's turn to play host. He invited Macron to visit him soon.
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Hopi Junior High School Boys Basketball Team Edged By One Point At State
Originally Published: February 27, 2002 6:15 p.m.
Clarkdale, Ariz. - The Hopi Junior High School boys basketball team lost the state championship game by one point. Little Singer edged Hopi, 39-38, in the Arizona Small Schools Junior High School championship game Feb. 16 at Jerome-Clarkdale School. The Little Bruins took the lead 38-37 on a jump shot by Allan Gonnie with 1:05 left in the game. But Truman Schultz sank a layup with 12 seconds to go to give Little Singer the victory. Hopi’s Allan Gonnie and Jeremy Adams were selected to the first team all-state team and teammate Jarod Lomayestewa was named to the second team all-state team.
Ricky Molton, who was named the MVP of the tourney, led Little Singer with 22 points in the championship game. Jeremy Adams topped Hopi with 12 points, Jerod Lomayestewa added eight, Shane Cepai, Allan Gonnie and Vincent Timms scored a half dozen points each. Timms and Gonnie scored four points each in the opening period as Hopi grabbed a 12-8 edge. But the Little Bruins went dry in the second stanza as Little Singer outscored them by nine points to grab a 21-16 edge at intermission. Molton fired in eight points during the quarter. Adams and Cepai scored four points each in the third period as Hopi pulled within 31-27. Little Singer led 35-30 with 4:26 left in the game. This is when Hopi made its comeback attempt.
Gonnie and Timms sank layups and Cepai hit a rebound shot as the Little Bruins grabbed the lead 36-35 with 2:25 left. Molton hit a short jumper with 1:17 remaining as Little Singer took back the lead, 37-36. Gonnie then hit his jumper to give Hopi its final edge before Little Singer pulled out the victory. Hopi earned the right to go to the championship game by winning its first three rounds. Adams fired in 26 and Timms added ten as the Little Bruins beat Oak Creek, 55-38, in the opening round. Adams poured in 22 points, Lomayestewa scored a dozen and Timms tossed in ten as Hopi beat Ray, 66-47, in the second round. Timms led the Little Bruins with 21 points, Gonnie fired in 19 and Adams 14 as Hopi disposed of Tis Nas Bis, 61-57, in the semi-final match up. Hopi Junior High Coach Wallace Youvella Jr. said the players had a great time down at state.
“Our goal all year was to make it back to the state tournament, and from there we knew anything could happen,” he said. Coach Youvella said the Little Bruins let the championship game slip through their fingers. “It just came down to who had the ball last,” he said. “Our guys played their hearts out, and I’m proud of every one of them.” Fans were particularly proud of Hopi’s victory against Tis Nas Bis because this team had 6-foot 4-inch Andris Morgan and 6-foot 2-inch Kevin Begay. Morgan finished with 19 points and Begay finished with 14.
“We had some trouble with them because they were so tall, but we boxed them out well and we ran them into the ground. That showed when in their next game they were tired,” he said. “We try to make other teams adjust to us instead of us to them. Our boys take pride in boxing out, rebounding and getting after the ball like they’re supposed to do.” The game against Tis Nas Bis was close until the third quarter when Hopi outscored them by 12 to grab a 42-34 edge. Gonnie poured in nine points and Timms seven during this crucial third quarter. The Little Bruins zoomed to a 56-39 bulge with 3:15 left, but Lomayestewa fouled out and TNB made its comeback. Hopi, however, did not let them come closer than three points.
Coach Youvella said the Hopi offense and defense worked well throughout most of the tournament including against the championship team. “We knew we were going up against a team that’s been together for three or four years, and beat the other teams solidly,” he said. Coach Youvella said he thanks the families, friends and fans who have supported Hopi Junior High boys basketball all year. “They are appreciated by the coaches and the athletes,” he said. The tournament was sponsored by the Yavapai-Apache Tribe, Phoenix Cement Co. and Safeway.
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gonniebobby 1 year, 4 months ago
My late son Alan Gonnie could never get over this game, ha-but I took him to Little Singer Community School where I had worked at one time in 2006. Alan met Coach Melvin Tsosie and the students there and thought the world of them, he quoted, "I can finally let go, there' the nicest people I square" We lost Alan in 2010 and we miss him dearly. His step sister Jaci Gonnie won a State Championship with coach Tsosie and Little Singer last year. Ironic how life spins in a circle, I'm truly blessed with a son and daughter who love the game of basketball night and day, I wish Alan would of seen Jaci win a championship down in Phoenix, he would of loved it. His spirit lives on in her, Thank you for the association with my students, my children and all the athletes of northern Arizona, more to come!
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Bio - English
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The second Rossini-Hoffmeister is out now at BIS Records and at Spotify!
The first Rossini-Hoffmeister CD is out at BIS Records and eClassical.com!!
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Niek de Groot - Catherine Klipfel - Reviews - BUY
Niek de Groot - CD booklet text June 2015:
After already fulfilling my conducting aspirations in front of the radio at the age of three, my first musical experiences consisted of marching around with my grandfather’s brass band sousaphone. At ten I was talked into taking trumpet lessons in my little hometown Middelburg. I was not quite aware at the time how incredibly lucky I was as my teacher turned out not only to be responsible for the upbringing of several Dutch principal trumpets but had played under von Karajan in Vienna and with the Concertgebouworchestra. I was drilled with the idea that it was always about the music and not about the instrument, and this remained the red thread of my musical life. At that time my biggest problem was either practicing far too little or far too much, but I was consistently drawn to the beauty of classical music. Indeed, it helped me through the hardest time of my life - school! The wisest advice of the same teacher, however, came when the only escape for me seemed to be to become a professional musician “I’ll get you to the conservatory, but with your embouchure you will kill yourself. Change instrument!” So, as an eighteen year old, what could I do? The solution came in a split second when two professional substitute bass players in our youth orchestra executed some breathtaking pizzicatos in a Rossini overture...
What followed was a catch-up race, working with several teachers and at many institutions. After doing my share in most national and international youth orchestras - a splendid six week world tour under Bernstein and Abbado included - I found myself the bassist of the Nieuw Ensemble for contemporary music, experimenting furiously and pushing all limits. Here I witnessed closely the first steps of György Kurtàg, and Tan Dun and the Chinese gang in Western Europe. One year later I got a job as co-principal bass in the newly merged Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, which I left within a year for the principal position in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway, next-door to Edvard Grieg's home. The graduation for my solo diploma took place shortly afterwards, in fact, rather poorly planned the day after the Dutch football team won the European Championships!
During the adventurous years in Norway I also took my first steps in authentic performance practice with the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra and I later joined the unsurpassed Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. The many tours there with Slava Rostropovich were not only musically very inspiring, but traveling so close to him and his four-wheel drive Stevenson cello-case brought us to all kind of hilarious airport adventures "Niek, a flight with our kind of instruments is like an one-act opera!"
Still I felt somewhat handicapped with my playing skills, going on luck rather than knowledge. I was also wondering if there was more behind the well protected limits of the double bass. Happily enough the Bergen Orchestra granted me a sabbatical to study at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada where I had lessons with many fascinating musicians including György Sebok, Peter Donohoe, Laurence Lesser, David Breitman, Karen Tuttle, Steven Staryk and Peter Damm. They all had one thing in common: they never accepted that anything was impossible on the bass. This resulted in an ongoing urge to learn more and for that I attended many inspirational master classes with cellists Frans Helmerson and Luìs Claret who were friendly enough to let me join their elite troupes.
Back in Norway I was awarded the Klæsted legacy with the connected debut recitals in Bergen and Oslo. After more studying in Banff it was time for me to return to Amsterdam. Jeopardizing the well being of my hands by building a houseboat, in 1993 I made my debut in Concertgebouw's Kleine Zaal in the 'Young Dutch series' being the first bassist ever to give a full solo recital there. I also gave many chamber music and other solo concerts, among them very dear encounters with Kurtàg at tours with his Rückblick quartet and exiting meetings with Stockhausen, rehearsing for the EMI 'Halt' recording with his son Markus.
Then in 1996 I had the privilege to become principal solo bass with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and simultaneously was appointed as Senior Professor for double bass at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. The latter thanks to the great help of some colleagues who, against the odds that some claim the importance of becoming a bass-playing musician lies in the way one holds the bow, managed to make me the first non-German bow player to get such a position.
Just a few years before I slowly started to get involved in chamber music festivals, and that refined high-pixel music-making became my oxygen for the orchestra routine during most spare time. It put me in contact with fantastic musicians and composers and the most diverse repertoire. There really is so much great repertoire and yet still so much to discover. Together with teaching, this became such an important part of my life that it was increasingly difficult to combine that with the heavy orchestral workload. So, in 2006, I left the Concertgebouworchestra where the torch has been passed on to several of my great students.
One of the most difficult challenges in a bass players life is to find a good and reliable instrument. Few were built and many destroyed mainly due to the instrument's non-ergonomic sizes. Despite a hazy world of many ‘would be’ instruments I have been lucky enough to have had the chance to play on some rare genuine examples by Cerutti, Candi and now the Amati for which I have the lifelong playing privilege.
My main goal has always been to transcend the double bass to the same musical and technical level as any other instrument. I hope this recording will contribute to that. As long as we stay being the only instrument where at most competitions and auditions the use of historical informed editions is forbidden and hopelessly outdated cadenzas are required, there is lot's of work to be done!
Niek de Groot
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Deadline dash: Glitches slow health-care sign-ups
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
WASHINGTON: In a flood of last-minute sign-ups, hundreds of thousands of Americans rushed to apply for health insurance Monday, but deadline day for President Barack Obama�s overhaul brought long, frustrating waits and a new spate of website ills.
�This is like trying to find a parking spot at Wal-Mart on Dec. 23,� said Jason Stevenson, working with a Utah nonprofit group helping people enroll.
At times, more than 125,000 people were simultaneously using HealthCare.gov, straining it beyond its capacity. For long stretches Monday, applicants were shuttled to a virtual waiting room where they could leave an email address and be contacted later.
Officials said the site had not crashed but was experiencing very heavy volume. The website, which was receiving 1.5 million visitors a day last week, had recorded about 1.6 million through 2 p.m.
Supporters of the health-care law fanned out across the country in a final dash to sign up uninsured Americans. People not signed up for health insurance by the deadline, either through their jobs or on their own, were subject to being fined by the IRS, and that threat was helping drive the final dash.
The administration announced last week that people still in line by midnight would get extra time to enroll.
The website stumbled early in the day � out of service for nearly four hours as technicians patched a software bug. Another hiccup in the early afternoon temporarily kept new applicants from signing up.
But the process was much smoother for some applicants.
Karen Ruffin of Cincinnati was among those who had put off finding a health plan until the final day amid concerns the process would be difficult.
�I thought I�d be scratching my head and tapping my feet and frustrated,� said Ruffin, a 53-year-old construction worker. �None of that occurred.�
The nonprofit Enroll America helped Ruffin get coverage in about 20 minutes. The organization saw a steady stream of people seeking assistance Monday.
At a community health center on the west side of Cleveland, about 25 people waited for help with enrollment in the marketplace or Medicaid program on Monday afternoon. Counselors at the health center offered drop-in hours for people seeking coverage and had appointments scheduled until 10 p.m., said Sarah Hackenbracht, executive director of the Cuyahoga Health Access Partnership. The nonprofit organization was assisting with sign-ups and outreach at the health center.
Ohioans shy of projection
The White House and other supporters of the law were hoping for an enrollment surge that would push sign-ups in the new health insurance markets to around 6.5 million people. That�s halfway between a revised goal of 6 million and the original target of 7 million. The first goal was scaled back after the federal website�s disastrous launch last fall, which kept it offline during most of October.
The insurance markets � or exchanges � offer subsidized private health insurance to people who don�t have access to coverage through their jobs. The federal government is taking the lead in 36 states, including Ohio, while 14 other states plus Washington, D.C., are running their own enrollment websites.
Almost 79,000 Ohioans have picked plans through the exchange from Oct. 1 through March 1, according to the latest enrollment figures from the Obama administration.
That�s far short of the 152,000 Ohioans that the government projected would be signed up by the end of February. The state target set by Obama�s administration for the entire enrollment period is 190,000 Ohioans.
Extensions are available
Cheering on the deadline-day sign-up effort, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spent much of the day Monday working out of the department�s TV studio, conducting interviews by satellite with stations around the country.
Though March 31 was the last day officially to sign up, millions of people are potentially eligible for extensions granted by the administration.
Those include people who had begun enrolling by the deadline but didn�t finish, perhaps because of errors, missing information or website glitches. The government says it will accept paper applications until April 7 and take as much time as necessary to handle unfinished cases on HealthCare.gov.
The administration is also offering special extensions to make up for all sorts of problems that might have kept people from getting enrolled on time: Natural disasters. Domestic abuse. Website malfunctions. Errors by insurance companies. Mistakes by application counselors.
To seek a special enrollment period, contact the federal call center at 855-889-4325 or the state marketplace and explain what happened. It�s on the honor system. If the extension is approved, that brings another 60 days to enroll.
Those who still don�t get health insurance run the risk that the Internal Revenue Service will fine them next year for remaining uninsured. It remains to be seen how aggressively the penalties called for in the law are enforced.
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Kim Kardashian weight loss: How the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has dramatically slimmed down and toned up with gruelling exercise and health regime
KIM Kardashian is known for her epic curves and voluptuous behind.
by Beth Allcock
21:33, 18 Sep 2018 Updated 21:46, 18 Sep 2018
Kim Kardashian squeals as Khloe calls her ‘anorexic’
Kim Kardashian has overhauled her diet to craft her new bod(Image: Kim Kardashian/Instagram )
Kim Kardashian West has transformed her famous curves and sizeable assets after significantly slimming down within the past year.
The mother of North, Saint, and Chicago is known for showing off her figure on social media, but her physique has been noticeably slimmer in recent weeks.
In fact, Kim revealed this summer she’s dropped a whopping 20 pounds and now weighs just over eight stone.
So how did she do it? Take a look inside Kim’s strict fitness regime and health plan:
Kim Kardashian is famous for her epic curves(Image: Kim Kardashian/Instagram )
During an interview with E! News in August 2018, Kim said she works out for over an hour every day, using heavy weights after enlisting the help of a bodybuilder to train her.
She explained: “I work out about an hour-and-a-half every single day, heavy weights. I don’t do a lot of cardio. But honestly, like even my mom pulled me aside maybe a week ago and pulls me in a closet and is like, ‘What are you doing?’ She says, ‘I don’t care what, I just need to know.’
“I’ve been working out really hardcore with a bodybuilder for one year. September is our one-year anniversary.”
Kim Kardashian never stops working on her body(Image: Getty )
Kim Kardashian has dramatically slimmed down and toned up(Image: Kim Kardashian/Instagram )
Sharing the extent of her weight loss, Kim added: “I’ve lost 20 pounds and I’m really proud of that. I was almost 140 forever and now I’m like 116 and it just feels good.
“I didn’t see results right away, but when you stick with something and you’re consistent, you will. So, I love it.”
Gaining muscle
Kim’s personal trainer Melissa Alcantara told People that the reality star wanted “more muscle and bigger hamstrings”, but that she “loved her body and her hips”.
Kim Kardashian has been showing off her newly-toned curves on social media(Image: Kim Kardashian/Instagram )
Melissa trains with Kim at her home six days a week at 6am, focusing on a different part of the body each day of the week – with three of them devoted to training legs.
Kanye West’s wife also said she’s become a lot healthier in recent months, cutting back on sugar and being more aware of what she’s consuming.
Kim added to E!: “I don’t really eat sugar the way that I used to. It doesn’t really do it for me.
Kim Kardashian has toned up her arms and legs(Image: Getty )
Kim Kardashian said she cut out sugar to improve her health and fitness(Image: Getty )
“I’ve kind of been trained to just eat a lot healthier than I used to. I used to just eat anything and everything and I loved it,” she said. “And so I really do control that now… I don’t want to ruin it by just stuffing my face.”
Meanwhile, her PT revealed the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star will, in a typical day, eat oatmeal pancakes for breakfast, chicken, sweet potatoes and vegetables for lunch, and fish and vegetables for dinner.
Kim Kardashian West
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Wishful Drinking (Paperback)
By Carrie Fisher
Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir.
In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. Entertainment Weekly declared it "drolly hysterical" and the Los Angeles Times called it a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes." This is Carrie Fisher at her best -- revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.
Carrie Fisher (1956-2016) became a cultural icon as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy. She starred in countless films, including Shampoo and When Harry Met Sally. She is the author of Shockaholic; Wishful Drinking (which became a hit Broadway production); and four bestselling novels, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The Best Awful, and Postcards from the Edge.
"[Fisher] has a talent for lacerating insight that masquerades as carefree self-deprecation...The effect, ultimately, is extraordinarily painful while being extremely entertaining...[S]he's done her best to make sense of it all, and throughout, her humor has held up. In her own defiant manner, she's fought the good fight." -- The Los Angeles Times
"She's still funny as hell...Her stories bubble, bounce, and careen with an energy...Get someone to read this rollicking book aloud to you." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Fisher makes each crushing tragedy hilarious." -- People (4 out of 4 stars)
"[T]here are also sparkling bons mots bespeaking [Carrie's] quirky intelligence and sweetness. Spoken like a true princess." -- Elle
"Clearly, you should buy this book....she has expert comic timing and, perhaps more importantly, better stories than most drug addicts....Fisher is unafraid to write, brutally and vividly." -- New York Post
"Fisher, unlike most celebrities (especially ones spawned from other celebrities) can actually write, and...Wishful Drinking, though an extremely short book, is super salacious and entertaining." -- Jezebel.com
"Fisher is a language obsessive, a nimble verbal acrobat who puns and somersaults around a page with glee...If you are a fan of Fisher's fiction, a follower of her mental illness or simply a looky-loo stargazer curious about her Hollywood heritage, Wishful Drinking will likely make you laugh." -- Slate.com
"There are more juicy confessions and outrageously funny observations packed in these honest pages than most celebrity bios twice the length...With acerbic precisions and brash humor, she writes of struggling with and enjoying aspects of her alcoholism, drug addiction and mental breakdowns. Her razor-sharp observations about celebrity, addiction and sexuality demand to be read aloud to friends." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Meet Climate Scientists Tessa Hill And Jessica Hellmann Tessa Hill and Jessica Hellmann are today's Science Ask Me Anything (AMA) guests on Reddit. NPR's Joe Palca sits down with them to talk about climate change and science communication.
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Want to know more about today's Science Ask Me Anything (AMA) guests Tessa Hill and Jessica Hellmann? As a part of the series Joe's Big Idea, NPR's Joe Palca sits down with them to talk climate change.
Tessa Hill is an associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis. President Obama named her a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Jessica Hellmann is the director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. Hellmann regularly counsels state and national governments on habitat management, restoration and endangered species conservation.
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January 30, 2015 Human relationships are entanglements, and those connections often aren't clear to us at all. When Maria Bamford impersonated her mom, she realized what she loved about her — and about herself.
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December 27, 2014 Now in her late 60s, Martin says she's still "excited and enthusiastic" about her work and doesn't have any intention of retiring. She published a memoir in September called Lady Parts.
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September 18, 2014 The legendary stand-up discusses "crossing the line" in comedy. Then, in his signature voice, he whispers sweet nothings into your ear in a game about famous romances throughout history.
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Carry On: A Novel
Peter Adam Salomon
In magical books such as Landline and Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell has proven herself to be a writer of exquisite lyricism and heartbreaking characterization. In Fangirl she managed to not only create beautiful characters but, in Simon Snow, the object of the main character’s fangirl obsession, Rowell even managed to create fictional characters that were equally fascinating.
In Carry On, Rowell (re)introduces the characters of Simon Snow and the world that started Cath’s obsession in Fangirl. While not quite as lyrical or heartwrenching as Rowell’s previous works, Carry On is nevertheless drenched in the immediacy and intimacy that are her hallmark. With that said, however, it is impossible not to mention the elephant in the room.
And not just an elephant. A giant literary herd of them let loose and haunting every single page like the ghosts which are an integral plot point to Carry On. Those “visitings” start the whole ball of wax rolling. Taking place at Watford, a magical boarding school for young mages, Carry On finally takes Rowell into the world of magic that she always managed to create in her non-magical tales.
And then, there is the elephant.
In Fangirl, it was possible to ignore the elephant when talking of the Wizarding World of Simon Snow because it was a fictional construct/conceit within the fictional world of the novel Fangirl. Given new life in his own novel, Simon Snow and Carry On are on their own, and therefore it’s virtually impossible to ignore that elephant for long.
Even in this review, that elephant is obvious to anyone who’s been reading popular literature over the last 20 years. It’s impossible to ignore the cultural and literary impact that J. K. Rowling has had with Harry Potter. In Carry On, Harry is named Simon Snow. Draco is named Baz. Hermione, Penelope. Dumbledore, The Mage, etc.
For all the glory of Rainbow Rowell’s writing, for all the beauty and the talent, Harry Potter weighs constantly on Carry On, begging the reader to ignore the elephant and try to just enjoy the book. Perhaps if the writing matched Landline. Or Eleanor & Park or Fangirl, that might have been possible. But Carry On, while a wonderful book wonderfully written, an interesting story interestingly told, is not Landline. It’s not Eleanor & Park or Fangirl. Those books were, simply, impossible to put down, stay up until four in the morning to finish, crying most of the way types of books. Carry On never quite reaches those heights.
And it’s not because of the elephant. Fanfiction is a glorious tradition and having an author as talented as Rowell pay homage to Harry Potter is a viable concept. But in a novel that references pop culture, taking place in contemporary London, it is just not possible to ignore that elephant while reading. And if you can’t forget about the elephant you’re left with no choice but to make, probably, unfair comparisons.
Where the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a magical, once in a generation literary landmark, the Wizarding World of Simon Snow is a well-written, entertaining read that mostly serves to remind the reader what we loved about Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Where Rowling created magic, Rowell creates illusion, leaving the reader wanting to reread the Potter series as well, of course, as her own brilliant literary landmarks: Landline, Eleanor & Park, and Fangirl precisely because those earlier Rowell books are where she creates real magic, not the artificial construct of Carry On, which simply can’t escape the shadows of all those elephants.
Peter Adam Salomon is an author of young adult horror and thrillers. His most recent novel is All Those Broken Angels (Flux). Other literary activities include editing the first book of poetry released by the Horror Writers Association, Horror Poetry Showcase Volume 1.
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Art & Design|Art, a Balm After the Storm
Art, a Balm After the Storm
Come Together: Surviving Sandy Works by 300 artists at Industry City include Joanna Pousette-Dart’s abstractions.CreditCreditMarilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
By Roberta Smith
There are many reasons for living in a great city like New York. One is all the time you can spend in the company of strangers — made possible by the city’s streets, public spaces and its magnificent (if flawed) public transportation system — which is both humbling and creatively stimulating.
There’s also the high frequency of, to borrow the urban activist Jane Jacobs’s words, “people with ideas of their own,” who help keep a city alive and moving forward on countless fronts in art and in life. Some even become indispensable friends. Thus evolves another vital component of life in New York: the family you weren’t born with, that elaborate network of support based on shared passions, sympatico personalities and regularly crossing paths.
Diana Cooper’s “Constellation Vanity (2).”CreditMarilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
“Come Together: Surviving Sandy,” a sprawling, encompassing, inspiring exhibition of works by some 300 artists in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is about this interconnectedness.
Installed in four light-filled floors of a former warehouse in the commercial and creative complex known as Industry City, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, “Come Together” is an affirmation of New York’s cultural vitality through a wide sampling of artists, who all know at least some of the others. Much bigger and definitely more random that any exhibition devoted to New York artists in recent years, it spans several generations, aesthetic inclinations and degrees of fame.
Only a few qualify as famous, including Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Shirin Neshat, Lynda Benglis and Douglas Gordon. Others have solid but relatively modest reputations, like Rackstraw Downes, Rita Ackermann, Deborah Kass, Thomas Nozkowski, Francis Cape and Stanley Whitney. Still others are young and just starting out, or older and haven’t shown much recently. A great majority do not have gallery representation.
Tom Doyle’s “Clonard.”CreditMarilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
“Surviving Sandy” started as a feel-good celebration of artists who lost works, archives and studios to Hurricane Sandy last year. That was the idea of Jack Flam, the art historian who is the chief executive of the Dedalus Foundation. He enlisted Phong Bui, the publisher of the art newspaper The Brooklyn Rail, to oversee it.
Mr. Bui decided not to limit it to those directly affected by Sandy, which figures only occasionally in the show. He contacted artists he knew, who contacted artists they knew. To ease the demands of organizing the show, Mr. Bui moved The Rail’s offices into a corner of the exhibition.
The show makes you see the narrowness of both fashion and history. It confirms that most art ideas and styles are in use at all times, some mindlessly followed, some pushed ahead.
Deborah Kass’s “After Louise Bourgeois.”CreditMarilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
With rows and clusters of boothlike spaces prevailing — many generously devoted to several works by one artist — the totality resembles an art fair, but a benign, dealer-free one. There is definitely an art fair’s worth of walking.
The generational range is evident in the smaller display spaces on the first and second floors. Three large, austere beachscapes by the 86-year-old painter Alex Katz are joined by a delicate assemblage by Jo Nigoghossian (born in 1979) and the Minimalist-inspired sculptures of Daniel Turner (born in 1983), which resemble chemistry class sinks in which accidents have occurred. Intervening generations are represented by Loren Munk’s painterly mappings of eras of the New York art world and Joanna Pousette-Dart’s geometric abstractions, among the best of her career.
The march of booths gives way to salon-style installations titled “The Beauty of Friends Coming Together,” a two-part show within a show, where the sense of connectedness intensifies. Here you’ll find the least-known artists, notably the painters Becky Brown, Rick Briggs, Nora Griffin, Caroline M. Sun, Jordan Kasey and Corina Larkin and the sculptors Donna Cleary and Elisa Soliven. Another visual bonus: Mr. Bui’s personal and engaging art collection, crowded onto two walls, mixes art by friends, thrift-store finds and whatnot.
“Come Together” pairs Thomas Nozkowski’s small elliptical abstract paintings with works by his wife, Joyce Robins.CreditMarilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
The show takes up much more space on the third and sixth floors. Keep an eye out for Mr. Cape’s installation, a room where his carefully constructed wainscoting finds echoes in his color photographs showing waterlines on houses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Also here is an expansive wall installation by Diana Cooper, who lost her Red Hook studio and work to Hurricane Sandy. In “Constellation Vanity (2),” Ms. Cooper uses clusters of red dowels to evoke a distant city, with angled pipes hinting at the ebb and flow of water.
At times, the connections are emphasized. You’ll find the fiber sculptures (and new ceramic efforts) of Sheila Pepe with the layered, biomorphic abstractions of her partner, Carrie Moyer. Mr. Nozkowski’s small, elliptical abstract paintings are paired with the less familiar work of Joyce Robins — his wife — including glazed-ceramic wall reliefs and a 1993 scatter piece made of radiantly colored ceramic shards.
This exhibition offers a chance to catch up with artists whose works have been intermittently visible, among them Martha Diamond, Suzanne Joelson, Gary Stephan and Margaret Lewczuk, all working in abstract or quasi-abstract styles in (or related to) painting, all looking especially strong.
Other demonstrations of strength include the expressionistic paintings of Ms. Ackermann, the pattern-oriented ones of Tamara Gonzales and Katherine Bradford’s slightly goofy paintings of ocean liners. Michael Joo’s six works showcase his impressive sculpture and site-specific work. Another high point is formed by Arthur Simms’s assemblage sculptures of wire and found objects and materials. A 1995 piece, “To Explain, Expand and Exhort, to See, Foresee and Prophesy, to the Few Who Could or Would Listen” should be in a museum collection by now.
Near Mr. Simms’s works are constructions of an entirely different nature, also made of found wood, wire and occasional objects. They are among the first artistic — and very promising — efforts of Cy Morgan, a former distribution manager at The Brooklyn Rail. The juxtaposition of Mr. Simms’s and Mr. Morgan’s efforts is one of many moments when this egalitarian show makes palpable the greatness of New York’s real art world.
“Come Together: Surviving Sandy” continues through Dec. 15 at Industry City, 220 36th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn; cometogethersandy.com.
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A 3D perspective image of the caldera and summit of Havre Volcano, in the SW Pacific north of New Zealand that experienced a submarine eruption in 2012. / Supplied by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2018
By: Jamie Morton
Science Reporter, NZ Herald
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Scientists have shed new light on a powerful undersea eruption north of New Zealand that proved larger than any on land in the past century.
In a just-published study, researchers have pieced together the 2012 eruption of the seafloor Havre volcano, which lies in the Kermadec Islands, about 1000km off the North Island.
The 2012 blow - the largest deep-ocean eruption of the past century - was revealed when satellite imagery picked up a pumice raft spread across some 400sq km of ocean.
"We knew it was a large-scale eruption, approximately equivalent to the biggest eruption we've seen on land in the 20th century," said the study's lead author, University of Tasmania volcanologist Dr Rebecca Carey.
"Having the pre-eruption map of Havre volcano allowed us to know exactly what and where the new eruption products were on the submarine edifice.
"This event is a scientific goldmine as for the first time there are quantitative constraints on submarine eruption dynamics, and the role of the ocean in modulating those dynamics."
The volcano itself had been discovered only a decade earlier.
With 80 per cent of Earth's volcanoes located on the seafloor, the study of submarine volcanism was "very important", said Carey, who worked alongside Otago University's Professor James White on the study.
Volcanism was also an important source of heat and chemicals to the ocean, and supported life.
The pumice raft spread across some 400 sq km of ocean. Photo / Wikimedia Commons
Over the two-year study, researchers used submersibles, including a remotely operated vehicle and an automated underwater vehicle, to map, observe and collect samples from Havre.
"There are conceptual theories about how deep volcanic eruptions should be relatively passive, forming lava flows due to the huge amount of pressure from the overlying water column," Carey said.
The pumice raft, as seen from space. Photo / Wikimedia Commons
"This is the first event of high silica magma composition where we are able to provide the constraints that test whether the hydrostatic pressure did suppress explosivity.
"We were able to demonstrate that the eruption was very complex, involving more than 14 aligned vents that represent a massive rupture of the volcanic edifice.
A view of the ROV landing on the seafloor at Havre submarine volcano at 900 metres below sea level, in order to retrieve a heat flow monitor. The Remotely Operated Vehicle Jason is about the size of a large 4WD. Photo / Supplied
"We were also able to demonstrate that 80 per cent of the volume of the pumice was delivered to the pumice raft and efficiently dispersed into the Pacific Ocean landing on Micronesian island beaches and the East Australian seaboard.
"The record of this eruption on Havre volcano itself is highly unfaithful - it preserves a small component of what was actually produced, which is important for how we interpret ancient submarine volcanic successions that are now uplifted and are highly prospective for metals and minerals."
Carey said data collected for the study has also led to much interest from the broader scientific community.
Havre volcano lies 1000km off the coast of the North Island. Photo / Supplied
"The eruption blanketed the volcano with ash and pumice and devastated the biological communities.
"Biologists are very interested to learn more about how species recolonise, and where those new species are coming from," she said.
University of Tasmania volcanologist Dr Rebecca Carey. Photo / Supplied
"We also discovered new infant hydrothermal systems, and observing how they recover after such a large event is of importance.
"There is a decade worth of interdisciplinary science to do based on our 2015 voyage data and samples," she said.
"It's very exciting to marry the geosciences with other scientific disciplines addressing novel research questions."
The study was published online in the journal Science Advances.
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Oregon Revised Statutes 459 requires that solid waste treatment facilities apply to DEQ for a Solid Waste Disposal Permit prior to starting operation.
The following documentation must be submitted in writing to DEQ in order for the permit application to be complete. There has to be a clear demonstrated need for the proposed new, modified or expanded disposal site or for the proposed change in the method or type of disposal.
A complete application should include the following items:
Items 23 through 28 on the permit application. As a reminder these items are listed below.
Completed and signed Land Use Compatibility Statement.
Written recommendation from the local solid waste planning authority.
A Certificate of Business Registry.
Identifications of any other known or anticipated permits.
Application fee and compliance fee (if required).
Any other information DEQ deems necessary.
Detailed Plans and Specifications
Details to be included in the plans and specifications are described below. The types of plans used to describe the site specific facility information are as follows:
Design and Construction Plans are used to show how the facility will be designed and constructed. The details to include in the plan are described below.
Operational Plans are used to show how the facility will be operated. The details to be included in the operational plan are described below.
Site Closure Plan is used to show how the facility will be closed in a manner that protects the environment and human health. The details to be included in this plan are described below.
Purpose of the detailed plans and specifications
The purpose of the required plans and specifications is to describe in detail:
What you are proposing to have permitted,
What wastes the facility will receive,
How wastes will be screened to avoid acceptance of hazardous wastes,
Where waste, if any remaining, will be shipped (or sent) for final disposal,
How you propose to operate the site without polluting the waters of the state,
What will be the facility layout,
What will need to be built to operate the site in an environmentally safe manner,
What equipment (and backup, if required) will be used or installed, and
Any other details unique to your proposal.
Once approved, these plans become an enforceable part of your permit.
What to include in the plans and specification
Plans and specifications for a solid waste treatment facility must include a Design and Construction Plan, an Operational Plan and Site Closure Plan. These plans are used to describe the location and physical features of the facility as well as address specific details about the facility. These details can be illustrated with a map and in writing. Additional details to be contained in each plan are described on the following pages.
Design and construction plans
These types of plans are used to describe in detail what you intend to construct at your facility.
Construction cannot begin until the Department has approved the plans.
Once approved, the Department must approve of any modifications.
In most cases, plans must be prepared and stamped by an engineer registered in the State of Oregon.
The design and construction plan must meet the following requirements:
Facility Layout Plan - Describe graphically the physical features of the site including topography, buildings, processing and storage areas, wells, surface water, waste water treatment systems, fences, roads, washing areas, building layouts, etc.
Physical Features of the Site - Provide information on site elevation, topography, amount and type of existing or planned paving, underground storage tanks (if any currently on site), wells on site including drywells used for stormwater infiltration, and soil types. The Department may also request information on other physical features of the site.
Treatment Unit - Provide specifications for the treatment unit such as capacity of the unit, fuel source, operating time per batch (or number of hours run per day), built in safety features, information on whether the treatment unit is manually operated or automated, and amount of output (oil, char, gases, etc.) per unit of waste feedstock added.
Waste Management - Provide method for disposition of any generated wastes – where it will go. This section needs to include the processing of waste water and char or other solid waste that does not have a beneficial market.
Access Roads - Provide drawing showing the site traffic routing.
Drainage - Provide design drawing of surface drainage controls.
Fire Protection - Provide evidence that fire protection is provided in accordance with plans approved in writing by the Department and in compliance with pertinent state and local fire regulations.
Fences - Access to the site must be controlled by means of a complete perimeter fence and gates which can be locked.
Solid Waste Handling Equipment - Provide specifications for solid waste handling equipment, including the location of the equipment on site. This includes equipment that prepares the waste for treatment, such as shredders, and equipment for handling the materials after treatment, such as conveyors or hoppers.
Truck Washing Facilities - Truck washing areas, if provided, must be hard surfaced and all wash waters must be conveyed to a catch basin, drainage and disposal system approved by the Department or state or local health agency having jurisdiction.
Operational plans
This type of plan is used to describe how you intend to operate your facility in compliance with the applicable regulations.
In addition to describing normal facility operations (such as hours, staffing and daily operations) the facility must comply with the following operational requirements:
Site Operations - This part of the plan should include a description of daily site operations, which are shown to be conducted in a manner to protect human health and the environment and should include a description of periodic maintenance activities.
Spill Prevention and Emergency/ Spill Response - Provide a description of methods employed to prevent spills and contamination. Provide a description of procedures to address spill and emergency response.
Site Safety - Provide a description of site safety training, equipment and procedures.
Complaint Log/ Reporting - Provide a description of methods employed to track and respond to complaints.
Record-keeping and Reporting - Provide a description of operational record-keeping and any reporting procedures.
Site closure plan
A site closure plan describes how a site will be closed once operations have ceased, and in a manner that protects the environment and human health.
The site closure plan must meet the following requirements, provide the following:
An inventory of the maximum amount of wastes and products that could be stored on-site at any one time;
Where materials would be disposed;
The disposition of equipment; and,
How the site would by cleaned up in order to protect human health and the environment.
For additional information, contact the Permit Coordinator responsible for your county.
Disclaimer: These instructions are provided so potential permittees can more easily understand DEQ’s requirements for solid waste treatment facilities in Oregon. For complete rule language and definitions, refer to Oregon Administrative Rules Chapter 340, Divisions 93, 96, and 97.
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Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act Report
The Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act ("the Act") was enacted in Canada on 16 December 2014, and brought into force on 1 June 2015. This Act delivers on Canada’s international commitments to contribute to global efforts to increase transparency and deter corruption in the extractive sector. The Act requires extractive entities listed on a stock exchange in Canada to publicly disclose, on an annual basis, specific payments made to all governments in Canada and abroad.
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Modern Americans spend nearly 90% of their lives indoors. Yet despite all that time inside, we know remarkably little about the life that shares our indoor spaces. This spring, a team at North Carolina State University hopes to change that by asking students to document the creatures they find in their dorms, homes, and apartments for a citizen science project called “Never Home Alone @ NCSU.”
Cockroach. Photo by C.L. Goforth, used with permission.
Ever since we humans climbed down from the safety of the trees, we have been walling ourselves off from the wild outdoors. And while we may imagine our modern indoor spaces to be the exclusive domain of humans, they are in fact home to a diverse array of lifeforms. In fact, many of these species have adapted specifically to live alongside us.
Yet while the creatures of our kitchens, showers, and beds share an intimacy afforded to few others, we know almost nothing about who they are and how they survive.
Moth fly. Photo by C.L. Goforth, used with permission.
This dichotomy piqued the interest of Matt Bertone and Rob Dunn, two researchers at North Carolina State University. Two years ago, they set out on the first ever scientific expedition to explore the wild unknown of indoor spaces. They crawled under furniture, picked through carpet fibers, and analyzed the dusty corners and windowsills of 50 homes around Raleigh, North Carolina expecting to find a few dozen common species of fly, cockroach, and book louse.
It turns out they were off by two orders of magnitude. The research team had discovered a veritable rain forest of more than 1,000 species, many of them little-studied and poorly understood. Their study revealed that we not only live alongside wildlife; our homes are in fact living, breathing ecosystems that breed a unique and diverse patchwork of creatures found nowhere else on earth. By Dunn and Bertone’s count, the arthropod diversity of their sampled homes was higher than that found in many natural ecosystems like alpine savannahs.
End-band netwing beetle (Calopteron terminale). Photo by Jackson Boone, used with permission.
The study has since blossomed into a global citizen science project aptly named “Never Home Alone,” where anyone in the world can upload observations of the creatures they find in their homes to the wildlife mapping app “iNaturalist.” Since its launch in August, the project has collected crowd-sourced photographs of more than 5,000 creatures from Easter Island to Qatar. Among the observed animals are some usual suspects, like cockroaches, flies, ants, and beetles. But there have also been many surprises, from a curious abundance of giant crab spiders in southeast Asian homes to an American alligator in a garage in Florida.
This spring, the project will launch a new phase, looking at a different uncharted frontier of indoor biodiversity: the college campus. The new iteration, called “Never Home Alone @ NCSU,” will open the project up to students and faculty living on or near the NC State campus that are interested in documenting the wild life of their dorms, apartments, and houses. By partnering with the public, the research team will be able to access data that they never could have gathered on their own. They can also answer new questions, like whether different cleaning regiments in dorms might influence their biodiversity, or even whether sharing your home with different types of life is associated with positive or negative health effects.
Pill bugs. Photo by Patricia O’Hare, used with permission.
But beyond this, the Never Home Alone @ NCSU team hopes that project volunteers will come away with a deeper appreciation for the wilderness that is in their homes. While some may be unnerved at the idea of deliberately seeking out the leggy denizens of their basements without the express purpose of spraying them with insecticide, the truth is that we all live with wildlife. The homes sampled in Dunn’s and Bertone’s study were not dirty or decrepit. They were in fact some of the nicest in the city. A later study by Misha Leong from the California Academy of Science found that wealthier homes actually have more bugs, even after adjusting for square footage. So if you can’t ever really live alone, you might as well get acquainted with your six and eight legged tenants. You might be surprised by how beautiful some of them are, like the Crotalaria moth, or by the incredible (and beneficial) life strategies of others, like the jewel wasp, whose young feed solely on cockroaches.
There is a whole ecosystem of creatures chasing prey, building homes, and raising young under our laundry baskets and sofas, and many of them are poorly understood or wholly unknown to science. In an era with no more blank spots on the map, you can still be an explorer of these wild landscape without even leaving the living room. And you just might find something amazing.
Above is a short film about the project made by the author of this post, Bradley Alf.
If you watch and listen closely, your home will reveal itself for what it truly is– a continuation of the web of life we have been living with for millennia. What will you find?
“Never Home Alone @ NCSU” was selected as the 2019 “Wolfpack Citizen Science Challenge Project,” a program meant to engage the broader NC State University (NCSU) community in a campus-wide citizen science project. Students, faculty and staff participate in the project through the new NCSU campus portal on SciStarter. NCSU is the nation’s first Citizen Science Campus and the Wolfpack Challenge is a key component of that initiative.
Want more citizen science? Check out SciStarter’s Project Finder! With citizen science projects spanning every field of research, task and age group, there’s something for everyone!
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Golden State (Hardcover)
By Ben Winters
(Mystery)
January 2019 Indie Next List
“Golden State is a gripping and brainy page-turner. Winters asks his readers to imagine California as a sovereign (and surveillance) state in which intentionally lying is the greatest federal offense. The ‘Byzantine business of reality maintenance’ is carried out by a team of federal agents, including our hero, Laszlo Ratesic. Golden State is a mystery in both form and content. In addition to the seemingly simple incident Laszlo investigates at the start of the novel, there’s the bigger question of what a novel really is, or means, or can do in the ‘good, golden, safe’ world its readers are transported to. Winters is especially good at keeping his readers off-balance. Not even his biggest fans will see some of the twists and turns he’s built into this, his best book yet.”
— John Francisconi, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder.
In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible.
In the Golden State, knowingly contradicting the truth is the greatest crime--and stopping those crimes is Laz's job. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths, to "speculate" on what might have happened.
But the Golden State is less a paradise than its name might suggest. To monitor, verify, and enforce the truth requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance and recording. And when those in control of the facts twist them for nefarious means, the Speculators are the only ones with the power to fight back.
Ben H. Winters is the New York Times bestselling author of Underground Airlines and the Last Policeman trilogy. The second novel in the trilogy, Countdown City, was an NPR Best Book of 2013 and the winner of the Philip K. Dick award. The Last Policeman was the recipient of the 2012 Edgar Award, and was also named one of the Best Books of 2012 by Amazon.com and Slate. Ben lives with his family in Los Angeles, CA.
"At a time in the real world when everybody seems to
own their version of the truth and phrases like "alternative facts" are used to
cover falsehoods, Golden State is, no lie, a fascinating examination that
takes fidelity and correctness down a freaky Orwellian path."—USA Today
"Winters has a knack
for creating appealing detective fictions that skew reality in
thought-provoking ways, producing a hybrid of the familiar and the uncanny. . .
. As you read, you feel your perception of the world slipping and warping. Winters brilliantly imagines the quotidian
manifestations of a truth-obsessed culture."—Washington Post
"Once again, Ben H. Winters creates a world cleverly skewed a few crucial degrees from our own. . . . Winters is well aware of the tropes of dystopian noir, and it is fun to watch him mix and match them to good effect. . . . The detective plot works well, but it is in its questioning of the nature of truth and falsehood that the novel excels. . . . Smart, intricate and propulsive, Golden State is proof that Winters deserves our continued attention as one of crime fiction's most inventive practitioners."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Mr. Winters has won
major awards in both the mystery and speculative-fiction genres. The
brain-teasing Golden State exists in a space where those two forms coexist.
As a consequence, a sympathetic reader's imaginings may persist long after the
book's puzzles have been solved."—Wall Street Journal
"Nothing speaks to
the power of a weapon like it inspiring a work of speculative fiction, and Ben
H. Winter's Golden State is the dystopian take on the new tool of
war du jour: lies."—Paste Magazine, 'One of the Best Books of January'
"In Golden State, Winters has fashioned a wry commentary on our current era of fake news."
—The Guardian [UK]
"An entertaining new
take on the venerable genre-blending of noir and science fiction."—The Los Angeles Review of Books
"Like any good
dystopian yarn, Golden State shows . . . how any organization or government
can warp good intentions into truly harmful ones."—The Verge
"An entertaining, unpredictable read." —Financial Times
"A perfectly poised ontological-thriller-comedy-dystopian-allegorical-page-turner, yet with tenderly real characters in its chewy center, this turned out to be just the thing I was looking for."—Jonathan Lethem
"Not many writers would take on Orwell, Ray Bradbury, the nature of truth, and the current administration all at a blow. Big shoes to fill--and they fit Ben H. Winters just fine. Golden State grabs notions of disinformation and literalism and brilliantly turns them on their head to see what falls from their pockets."—James Sallis, author of Drive
"Golden State is a prescient, devastating commentary on humanity's disintegrating attachment to reality and truth, expertly told through the prism of a police-procedural, dystopian nightmare. Winters has written a 1984 for the 21st century. Not just a thrilling book, but an important one."—Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter
"'Golden State' is science fiction at its
finest, a propulsive narrative filled with complex ideas that are expressed by
engaging characters who occupy a rich and detailed world."—The Maine Edge
"an ambitious and frighteningly timely novel."—The Nerd Daily
"Golden State is a gripping and brainy page-turner. . . . Winters is especially good at keeping his readers off-balance. Not even his biggest fans will see some of the twists and turns he's built into this, his best book yet."—Library Journal, starred review
"Thought-provoking,
genre-bending . . . Winters seems to have a real affection for unusually
compelling premises. Another fine novel from a writer whose imagination knows
no bounds."—Booklist
"A skillful and
swift-moving concoction . . . For those who like their dystopias with a dash of
humor. No lie."—Kirkus
"Winters is an expert
at combining social commentary with gripping mystery plots, and the novel never
slows down enough to be accused of didacticism. With rich characters, frequent
twists and tense set pieces, Winters always nails the hardboiled basics."—Shelf Awareness, starred reviews
"This near-future thriller by Edgar winner Winters is likely to provoke discussion."—Publishers Weekly
"Another fine novel from a writer whose imagination knows no
bounds."—Booklist
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
Fiction / Thrillers / Technological
Kobo eBook (January 21st, 2019): $14.99
CD-Audio (February 5th, 2019): $35.00
Compact Disc (January 22nd, 2019): $90.99
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Sign Systems Studies 238
1. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 28
Irina Avramets On the definition of genre of Dostoevsky's works
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On the definition of genre of Dostoevsky's works. The article mostly addresses Dostoevsk's own definitions of genres of his works, either explicated in the texts (subtitles, prefaces) or contained in the writer's letters; or rather the relationship between the scholarly strategies of defining genres and the writer's own view, as evidenced. by subtitles which, in some sense, are part of the text (in nearly, but not precisely, the same way as the titles themselves are). The writer's own definitions, then, can be regarded as possible objects of the scholarly interpretation. Agreement, or lack thereof, between the author's and the scholars' definitions may be due both to similarity vs dissimilarity between the definition standards inherent in the respective epochs and to specific interpretation aspects. In the latter case, agreement is more cornman in studies focusing on vastly different problems unrelated to genre, whereas disagreement is more frequent in studies concerned with the genres of Dostoevsky's works. One of the reasons why his own definitions must be critically revisited is that certain titles of his workscan be basically viewed as subtitles or genre definitions insofar as they in some way define the variety of the text regardless of the underlying criterion: narrative, "discourse", type of source, genre, or genre variety. Indeed, both these subtitles and, sometimes, the writer's own genre definitions tum out to be pretense, an imitation of "standard" subtitles or genre definitions, respectively. Titles themselves sometimes look like subtitles, thus "exposing the device" and demonstrating this mimicry not merely by violating semantic and syntactic relations in the case of subtitles (sign/name/title/ subtitle and virtual reference/"reality" of text - and relationships such as those between title and subtitle; title and the principal text; and subtitle and principal text), but also by the fact that their position is "marked". Dostoevsky not just failed to follow his own "final genre definitions" within the text, as reflected in the subtitles, and not just changed them repeatedly in his letters, but in the official documents, too, he sometimes defined genres in a way which did not agree with either the subtitles or his own definitions given in his letters.Dostoevsky frequently changed the genre definitions not merely during his work on a text, which would be only natural, and not merely many years after it had been completed, published, revised, and republished (which might be ascribed to memory errors), but also shortly after the completed manuscript had been shipped to the publishers or after the text had been published or republished. While the logic underlying these changes must be studied and interpreted, it is evident that the scholars are often unable to accept the author's own "final genre definitions" both because these are often unavailable in subtitles, and because of the "Proteic" nature of their use by the writer in various contexts.
Tomi Huttunen From "word-images" to "chapter-shots": The imaginist montage of Anatolij Mariengof
From "word-images' to "chapter-shots: The irnagiuist montage of Anatolij Mariengof. The article discusses the three dominant imaginist principles of Anatolij Mariengofs (1897-1962) poetic technique, as they are translated into prose in his first fictional novel Cynics (1928). These principles include the "catalogue of images", a genre introduced by Vadim Shershenevich, i.e. poetry formed of nouns, which Mariengof makes use of in his longer imaginist poems. Another dominant imaginist principle, to which Mariengof referred in his theoretic articles and poetic texts, is similar to the creating of shocking images typical of Russian futurism. Mariengofs application is the juxtaposition of "pure" (chistyj) and "impure" (nechistyj), either a conflict between the vehicle and the object within a metaphor or a conflict between metaphors. This is an essential poetic feature in both Mariengofs poetry and prose. The third, maybe the most Mariengofian imaginist principle, relevant to the study of Cynics, is the poetics of transition (poetika sdviga), i.e. a certain fragmented structure of the text, which is related to Mariengors use of heteroaccentual rhyme. All these principles can be treated as fundamental elements in Mariengofs use of montage technique in his fictional prose.
Peeter Torop The intersemiotic space: Adrianopol in F. Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" St. Petersburg
The intersemiotic space: Adrianopol in F. Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" St. Petersburg. The article focuses on the peculiarities of the intertextual space of culture and the means of its analysis. Level analysis, compositional analysis and chronotopical analysis are juxtaposed in the paper. Textual and intertextual chronotopical analyses are considered separately. Two aspects of textual processuality are juxtaposed: the history of text production and the role of the manuscript page structure as a reflection of the writer's style and mode of thinking (especially in the interserniotic relationship between picture, drawing andword); the history of text reception, its intersemiotic translation into different sign systems and its existence in culture in a scattered state. In this connection the notions of the individual and mental text are juxtaposed. As an example a page of F.Dostoevsky's notebook is taken, where an intricate combination of picture, calligraphy and text offers an interesting infonnation on the methods of formation of text conception.
Michail Lotman Russian verse: Its metrics, versification systems, and prosody (Generative synopsis)
Russian verse: Its metrics, versification systems, and prosody (Generative synopsis). In the article the general verse metre theory and its application to Russian verse is adressed, allowing us, thereby, to observe not the single details, but only the most general characteristics of verse. The treatment can be summarised in the five following points:1) the basis for the phenomenon of verse is its metrical code: the special feature of verse text is the presence of its metre (this feature is common to every verse type, to the most regular verse, as well as to vers libre);2) the nature of verse metre is extralinguistic, there is no metre within a language, the latter can only induce certain limitations in choosing a metre;3) metre is an abstract chain of translational symmetry, the elementary period of which is called verse foot (i.e. firstly, verse feet are contained in every versification system, incl. syllabic verse and free verse, and, secondly, verse feet can not be defined in terms of natural language, e.g., as the combination of short and long or accented and unaccented syllables).4) in verse text, metre appears through the medium of natural language: verse metre is coded in terms of natural language; the nature of its codification is detennined by the versification system. Hence, every verse metre can be realised in different versification systems, e.g. iambus can occur in syllabic-accentual, syllabic-quantitative, and some other versification systems;5) verse prosody is a consequence of the influence of verse metre on the prosodies of language; the range of transformation of a language system by verse metre extends from the unification of the strength of verse accents in accentual verse to such artificial formations as the origination of long syllables in languages which lack phonological quantity.
5. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Mihhail Lotman The semiotics of culture and the phenomenology of fear
The semiotics of culture and the phenomenology of fear. In the paper fear is treated as semiotical phenomenon. The semiotical speciality of fear is that while being a strong semiotical factor, its semiotical nature is often overshadowed and fear is treated proceeding from the scheme of stimulus-reaction. In the paper fear is analysed in the context of both Peirce's semiotics and Saussure's semiology and it will be demonstrated that these approaches allow to open up different aspects of fear: while in Peircean perspective frightful evokes fear, then proceeding from the Saussure's approach we could say that fear creates the frightful, fear appears to be creative; we could even speak of fear as semiosis.
Mikhail Gasparov Intertextual analysis today
Mikhail L. Gasparov. Intertextual analysis today. The paper provides a discussion about recent results and perspectives of intertextual analysis — the method that has been a contemporary with Tartu-Moscow school. The connections between the classical philological methods and intertextual analysis are described, together with specifying the concept of intertext and emphasizing the need for the correctness of a researcher, because such an analysis always carries a danger of overinterpretation. Several examples are used to illustrate how the imagination of a researcher can create arbitrary allusions that are not based on the original text and are usually misleading. As a result, the text under study will not become more clear, vice versa, it turns to be less understandable.
Maria del Mar Llera Прагматический подход к межкультурной этике: Основные черты развития коммуникации между национальными группами. Резюме
Augusto Ponzio Моделирование, диалог, глобальность: биосемиотика и семиотика самости. 1. Семиозис, моделирование, диалогизм. Резюме
Torkild Thellefsen, Christian Jantzen Чем являются отношения: изучение концептуальных связей, сдвиг значения и профилирование знания. Резюме
10. Sign Systems Studies: Volume > 31 > Issue: 1
Jelena Grigorjeva Лотман о мимесисе. Резюме
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Married At First Sight After Show
The cart comes way before the horse in the reality series "Married at First Sight." Based on a hit Danish format, "Married..." features six people who agree to participate in an extreme experiment: Each covenants legal marriage with a complete stranger. Specialists -- including a spiritualist, a relationship coach and a sociologist -- use scientific matchmaking methods to determine each couple, who will not have met or had contact with each other until the wedding day. The series then documents the relationships, including honeymoons and other relatable events of married life. After several weeks, each couple must decide whether to remain together or go their individual ways.
"Paradise Lost?" Season 9 Episode 5 'Married at First Sight' Review
As Pastor Calvin would say, "It is the end of Fantasy and the Beginning of building a foundation". Couples dive deeper into their relationships and talk about their past relationships and futures moving in together. Our couples are getting ready for their last day in paradise. Join Mike Thieling and Lanisha Fisher as they talk all things Married at First Sight. The cart comes way before the horse in the reality series "Married at First Sight." Based on a hit Danish format, "Married ..." features six people who agree to participate in an extreme experiment: Each covenants legal marriage with a complete stranger. Four specialists -- a sexologist, a spiritualist, a psychologist and a sociologist -- use scientific matchmaking methods to determine each couple, who will not have met or had contact with each other until the wedding day. The series then documents the relationships, including honeymoons and other relatable events of married life. After several weeks, each couple must decide whether to remain together or go their individual ways.
"Stranger Love in Paradise" Season 9 Episode 4 'Married at First Sight' Review
It's the second day of the honeymoon and our couples are...on the island? Join hosts Mike Thieling, Jim Alexander and Lanisha Fisher as they go in on this episode/lack thereof! The cart comes way before the horse in the reality series "Married at First Sight." Based on a hit Danish format, "Married ..." features six people who agree to participate in an extreme experiment: Each covenants legal marriage with a complete stranger. Four specialists -- a sexologist, a spiritualist, a psychologist and a sociologist -- use scientific matchmaking methods to determine each couple, who will not have met or had contact with each other until the wedding day. The series then documents the relationships, including honeymoons and other relatable events of married life. After several weeks, each couple must decide whether to remain together or go their individual ways. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
"Don't Kiss on the First Wedding Night" Season 9 Episode 3 'Married at First Sight' Review
It's the morning after the weddings which means the first full day of married life for our couples! Quick talk with their new in-laws and then it's off to the honeymoon - here comes drama! Join hosts Mike Thieling, Carmen Cameron and Jim Alexander as they break it all down! The cart comes way before the horse in the reality series "Married at First Sight." Based on a hit Danish format, "Married ..." features six people who agree to participate in an extreme experiment: Each covenants legal marriage with a complete stranger. Four specialists -- a sexologist, a spiritualist, a psychologist and a sociologist -- use scientific matchmaking methods to determine each couple, who will not have met or had contact with each other until the wedding day. The series then documents the relationships, including honeymoons and other relatable events of married life. After several weeks, each couple must decide whether to remain together or go their individual ways. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
"Something Borrowed, Someone New" Season 9 Episode 2 'Married at First Sight' Review
The second pair of couples get married, dads cry and we have some awkward receptions - join hosts Mike Thieling, Lanisha Fisher and Jim Alexander as they sort out all the drama on tonight's episode! The cart comes way before the horse in the reality series "Married at First Sight." Based on a hit Danish format, "Married ..." features six people who agree to participate in an extreme experiment: Each covenants legal marriage with a complete stranger. Four specialists -- a sexologist, a spiritualist, a psychologist and a sociologist -- use scientific matchmaking methods to determine each couple, who will not have met or had contact with each other until the wedding day. The series then documents the relationships, including honeymoons and other relatable events of married life. After several weeks, each couple must decide whether to remain together or go their individual ways. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
"Nice to Marry You" Season 9 Episode 1 'Married at First Sight' Review
We're back to make some questionable decisions in the quest to find true love on Married at First Sight! Join your hosts Mike Thieling and Lanisha Fisher as they break down the premier as four new couples get matched, tell their families, and start their new lives together! The cart comes way before the horse in the reality series "Married at First Sight." Based on a hit Danish format, "Married ..." features six people who agree to participate in an extreme experiment: Each covenants legal marriage with a complete stranger. Four specialists -- a sexologist, a spiritualist, a psychologist and a sociologist -- use scientific matchmaking methods to determine each couple, who will not have met or had contact with each other until the wedding day. The series then documents the relationships, including honeymoons and other relatable events of married life. After several weeks, each couple must decide whether to remain together or go their individual ways. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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357- The Barney Design redux
All over Oakland right now people are wearing Warriors shirts and flying their Warriors flags from their cars, and as much as we like our hometown team here at 99pi, we've been following these NBA finals for another design-related reason. When you watch the games in Toronto the whole stadium is filled with people wearing red raptors jerseys, but every now and then you'll see these little flashes of purple. Those bold fans are wearing one of the most polarizing jerseys in the history of sports. A jersey that we actually did a whole episode about last year. So in honor of the Toronto Raptors, and the beautifully ugly jersey they gave the world, we're gonna rerun that episode for you today, along with an update from our new 99pi team member Chris Berube, a Torontonian and Raptors fan since he was a kid. The Barney Design Redux
361- Built on Sand
Sand is so tiny and ubiquitous that it's easy to take for granted. But in his book The World in a Grain, author Vince Beiser traces the history of sand, exploring how it fundamentally shaped the world as we know it. "Sand is actually the most important solid substance on Earth," he argues. "It's the literal foundation of modern civilization." Plus, Roman talks with Kate Simonen of the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington about measuring the embodied carbon in building materials. Built on Sand
360- The Universal Page
Reporter Andrew Leland has always loved to read. An early love of books in childhood eventually led to a job in publishing with McSweeney's where Andrew edited essays and interviews, laid out articles, and was trained to take as much care with the look and feel of the words as he did with the expression of the ideas in the text. But as much as Andrew loves print, he has a condition that will eventually change his relationship to it pretty radically. He's going blind. And this fact has made him deeply curious about how blind people experience literature and the long history of designing a tactile language that sometimes suffered from trying to be too universal. The Universal Page
359- Life and Death in Singapore
When Singapore gained its independence they went on a mission to re-house the population from densely-packed thatched roof huts into giant concrete skyscrapers. In 1960, they formed the Housing and Development Board, or HDB, and just five years later they had already housed 400,000 people! In Singapore, where land is scarce, it's not unlikely for apartment buildings to be built on top of land that was graveyards not too long ago. But building on top of a graveyard has its complications. Life and Death in Singapore
358- The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green rates different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale. This week 99% Invisible is featuring two episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed in which John Green dissects: pennies, the Piggly Wiggly grocery store chain, a 17,000-year-old cave painting, and the Taco Bell breakfast menu. Plus, Roman talks with John about the show, sports, and all the things we love now, but hated as teenagers. The Anthropocene Reviewed Subscribe to The Anthropocene Reviewed on Apple Podcasts or RadioPublic
356- The Automat
The inside of a Horn & Hardart Automat looked like a glamorous, ornate cafeteria -- but instead of a human handing you hot food over a counter, you would push your tray up to a wall of little glass cubbies. Each cubby housed a fresh, hot portion of food on a small plate. It could be anything from a side of peas to a turkey sandwich, to a slice of pie. You simply put in some nickels, and then the door to that cubby would unlock and you could take the plate that was inside. This automated food experience has reemerged in new restaurants today. The Automat Plus, we revisit the story of when food advertising was revolutionized by motion.
355- Depave Paradise
Mexico City is in a water crisis. Despite rains and floods, it is running out of drinking water. To solve the scarcity issue, the city began piping water in from far away as well as from aquifer below ground, creating yet another problem: the city began to sink as the moisture was sucked up and out from below. Meanwhile, rainwater which should be replenishing the ground can't penetrate it thanks to impermeable paved surfaces above. Uneven ground and crooked buildings reflect this subterranean crisis on the surface, misshaping the city's infrastructure and architecture. Depave Paradise
Sound and Health: Hospitals
Sound can have serious impacts on our health and wellbeing. And there's no better place to think about health than hospitals. According to Joel Beckerman, sound designer and composer at Man Made Music: "Hospitals are horrible places to get better." Hospitals can be bad for your health because hospitals sound terrible. But sound designers and health care workers are looking to change that. This is part two in a two-part series supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about how sound can be designed to reduce harm and even improve wellbeing. Sound and Health: Hospitals Learn more about Sonic Humanism
281- La Sagrada Familia
There are a lot of Gothic churches in Spain, but this one is different. It doesn't look like a Gothic cathedral. It looks organic, like it was built out of bones or sand. But there's another thing that sets it apart from your average old Gothic cathedral: it isn't actually old. Gaudí wasn't able to build very much of his famous church before he died in 1926. Most of it has been built in the last 40 years, and it still isn't finished. Which means that architects have had to figure out, and still are figuring out, how Gaudí wanted the church to be built La Sagrada Familia This episode was originally broadcast in October 2017
Sound and Health: Cities
Is our blaring modern soundscape harming our health? Cities are noisy places and while people are pretty good at tuning it out on a day-to-day basis our sonic environments have serious, long-term impacts on our mental and physical health. This is part one in a two-part series supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about how sound can be designed to reduce harm and even improve wellbeing. Sound and Health: Cities Learn more about Sonic Humanism
354- Weeding is Fundamental
Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of freeing up library space is called weeding. When the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library was damaged by an earthquake 1989, the argument over which books need to be weeded, and how they were chosen for removal, reached fever pitch. Weeding is Fundamental This episode also features "The Pack Horse Librarians Of Eastern Kentucky" produced by the Kitchen Sisters and mixed by Jim McKee. Subscribe the The Kitchen Sisters Present on Apple Podcasts and RadioPublic
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URGENT: Dems' email bonanza
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN
House Democrats have their email fundraising down to a science: Cast Speaker John Boehner as the leading villain, use President Barack Obama’s signature (but sparingly) and don’t hesitate to go ALL CAPS with a subject line like this: “BREAKING: IMPEACHMENT.”
Over the top? Undoubtedly. But the fact is it’s working — better than anything Republicans have tried so far. Last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $4.8 million, thanks to a series of “red alert” emails feeding off talk of impeachment and Boehner’s lawsuit against Obama over executive actions. It was the committee’s best week for online fundraising.
All the handicappers say Democrats have no chance of retaking the House in November and that the party may well lose seats. But in the race for cash, their official campaign arm is leaving the GOP in the dust month in and month out — and email fundraising is the No. 1 reason why.
Republicans are taking notice.
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“I’ve been loving the [DCCC’s] emails,” GOP digital consultant Wesley Donehue said at a recent campaign tech conference in San Francisco. “I’ve been sending them to my team [and saying], ‘Do this, because this s—- is awesome.”
Still, the five-alarm fire approach isn’t without skeptics, even among Democrats. Some party activists worry the tone and frequency of the messages will have a “boy who cries wolf” effect, desensitizing donors over the long haul and ultimately making them less willing to pony up. “There’s a risk that people … will disengage,” said Will Bunnett, a member of Obama’s 2008 email team who now manages online campaigns for the communications firm Trilogy Interactive.
The DCCC folks seem entirely unburdened by such concerns. The results, they say, speak for themselves: The committee is on pace to easily top its 2012 record of $49 million raised through emails — and all those millions translate into more field workers and TV ads this fall, and potentially a better election night.
The man behind the missives is Brandon English, a 30-year-old Brown grad who came to the committee in 2006 with minimal experience in digital technology. Sporting jeans and beat-up sneakers on a recent day at party headquarters, English recounted how he landed that entry-level gig: He did a Google search for “Democratic Party jobs” and stumbled upon an online department opening at the DCCC in Washington.
( Also on POLITICO: To pick staff, Scalise turns to lobbyist)
“Which, if I’m being honest, I’d not heard of up to this point,” he cracked.
English shot through the DCCC’s digital ranks over multiple election cycles, proving so effective at pushing donors’ buttons that DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made personal pleas to him after the 2012 election to stick around for two more years.
“Obviously, it’s not normal to be the guy that’s on Year Eight at a party committee,” English said. “It’s usually you do your two years and you go.”
He is plainly having fun. English recently did his own end-zone dance on Twitter, after ABC reporter Jonathan Karl asked at a White House briefing whether the Obama administration coordinated with the DCCC to raise money off the impeachment talk.
“LOLz (A: no. we’re just that damn fast),” English tweeted.
( Also on POLITICO: The most popular guy in Washington)
Media buzz keeps building, from an Atlantic tick-tock of 21 messages sent over one week about impeachment to a Tumblr post pitching other humorous ideas the Democrats could use to raise money. (One suggested subject line: “There Is Literally No Reason Left To Live.”)
Faiz Shakir, a former Pelosi digital director who now has the same job for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said English has “been able to evolve and adapt their email strategy to capitalize on the zeitgeist of the moment.”
Striking an urgent tone in emails hasn’t been difficult. The GOP has given English plenty of material, from countless Obamacare repeal bills to the government shutdown and demands to see Obama’s birth certificate.
“If the Republicans weren’t constantly awful,” English deadpanned, “we wouldn’t be sending emails about how the Republicans are constantly awful.”
( Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul's biggest flip-flops)
The Democrats’ digital operation is actually a mix of low tech and high tech.
English’s 11-person team is squirreled back in a corner of the DCCC’s headquarters, with several desks overlooking the Amtrak tracks. No resemblance here to a Silicon Valley startup with ping-pong tables or a Zen meditation room; it’s a cubicle farm straight out of the 1990s. A large red digital clock hangs on one wall, not far from a rack of old-school print newspapers and magazines.
For ideas, English and his staff lean on cable TV, online news and their own email inboxes to see what Democratic-aligned supporters are most riled up about. After a 9 a.m. senior DCCC staff meeting, English and his deputy, Charles Starnes, huddle with the writing team to map out the day’s email strategy. Three writers usually pen three versions of a message before sharing them for peer editing. English then weighs in before handing the drafts over to Starnes for a final scrub.
Recognizing about a third of their audience will read emails on a mobile phone, English said he insists that messages are no longer than 70 words before the first donation link.
“We know we have to get to the point and we have to get to the point quick,” English said. “I’m very incredibly nit-picky about every single word in our emails. Any extra words, extra sentences, unnecessary anything can just kill an email.”
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Celeste Martorana @celesmartorana | 06/04/2018
A summary for Corporate Marketers, Media Sales Executives and Advertising Agencies to see what clients are moving into the market and/or targeting Latin American consumers right now.
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Visa announced a strategic investment in YellowPepper, a US-based mobile payments provider in an effort to provide its digital service in Latin America. This investment will be the first of its kind in the region and reinforces a shared vision for increasing usage of mobile payments throughout Latin American and the Caribbean.With this agreement, Visa will focus on growing opportunities for tokenized payments, increasing access to Visa APIs, and expanding the usage of push payments via Visa Direct.Additionally, YellowPepper will become a Visa Token Service Provider, allowing it to offer Visa's secure, digital payment token services, via any Internet-connected device.Visa has targeted the Latin American market since it remains largely underpenetrated and thus provides abundant scope for Visa's growth.
Yuyo
Shaftesbury-based drink brand Yuyo will export its range of Latin American-inspired drink infusions to Brazil this year.The company stocks a range of yerba mate drink infusions across the UK through retailers such as Ocado, Whole Foods and Revital as well as selling online.The business already exports to seven countries including US, Sweden and France, and boosted its international orders by 42% between 2015 and 2017.Exports make up 40% of the company’s £100,000 annual turnover and founders Rosie Marteau and Charles Grummit plan to increase this further by exporting to Brazil in the next three months and to target Australia in 2019.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has unveiled plans to open a new midscale hotel in Mexico with the recent signing of the first avid hotels property, which will be located in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. Executives from both companies celebrated the signing in a private ceremony in Mexico City. The first avid hotels location in Mexico will be strategically located at the Paseo del Mineral Avenue at the city’s main entrance in an area known for its commercial and business activity. The hotel will be a four storey, new-build hotel with 95 guest rooms and is expected to open in mid-2019.Jorge Apaez, chief operating officer, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, IHG, said: "The first signing in Mexico of IHG’s new high-quality midscale brand demonstrates further momentum for avid hotels. New hotel signings continue to exceed expectations, and total more than 100 avid hotels across the US, Canada and now Mexico, almost one every other day since launch last year. This latest development demonstrates that owners believe in the strength of the avid hotels brand and the power of IHG.”
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne revealed the FCA group's product plans for the coming years, which included a strong focus on its 'global brands' like Alfa Romeo, Jeep, Maserati and Ram. Marchionne confirmed those brands will continue, though will be limited in terms of their budget.Chrysler will "continue to be relevant in the United States", though will become a "people carrier brand" .Meanwhile, Fiat will focus primarily on the Latin American market, due to that region's high uptake of cheaper and less sophisticated vehicles, though it will occupy a "more exclusive area" of the European market, namely city cars and electrified vehicles.
When Donald Trump was running for president, as a strategy to get more votes, he threatened to build a wall on the US-Mexico border if elected. He won, and became president of the United States of America and announced through his social media, that the construction of the first sections of the border wall had already begun. Aeroméxico, a proudly Mexican airline, showed its disapproval with a direct and very clear message: it does not matter how high the wall is, how long it takes to build it or the money spent on it; we can always fly over it. The message is reflected in OGILVY Mexico latest campaign for Aeroméxico called Sobrevuelos. IPG´s UM is Aeromexico´s media agency of record.
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Celeste joined Portada’s team in 2014. Since then, she has been working as an editor for Portada’s English-language website and compiling information for Portada’s Databases.
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Panthers end season 0-2 in Jackson
But the Panthers found out quickly just how competitive state tournament play can be, losing in the opening round in a 6-0 rout to Rawlins on Thursday. Then on Friday, facing a talented Torrington team that had pushed eventual champion Worland to …
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Panther midfielder Landon Sessions dribbles between a pair of Rawlins defenders Thursday at the 3A State Soccer Tournament in Jackson. Powell lost the opening-round contest 6-0.
Tribune photo by Don Cogger
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:32 pm
After a slow start to begin the 2018 campaign, the Powell High School Boys’ soccer team showed steady improvement as the regular season wore on. That culminated in a overtime shootout thriller against Douglas that propelled the young team to an improbable state tournament berth in Jackson.
But the Panthers found out quickly just how competitive state tournament play can be, losing in the opening round in a 6-0 rout to Rawlins on Thursday. Then on Friday, facing a talented Torrington team that had pushed eventual champion Worland to an overtime shootout, Powell’s scoring woes continued; the team ended its season on a 4-0 loss.
“Being a competitor, I’m a little bummed that we lost both of our games,” said Powell head coach Jeff Dent. “I think the guys were a little shell-shocked how hard those other teams will play, especially when it comes to state.”
Rawlins 6, Panthers 0
The Panthers (4-11-2) came out lethargic to open Thursday’s contest and Rawlins (9-9-1) took advantage, scoring three goals in the first 20 minutes of play. Freshman keeper Ashton Brewer was peppered with shots the entire first half, and the Outlaws held a 5-0 lead at the break. The Panthers were able to create a few scoring opportunities, but unable to find the back of the net.
“Same old story: first half we weren’t there like we should be; the second half, we finally woke up and played,” said Dent. “We weren’t finishing. We had opportunities that first half to make scores, we just weren’t getting them in again. We work on it and work on it, and it works great in practice. We just can’t get it to translate in the game.”
The Panthers were able to regroup a bit at halftime, coming out for the second half with a much-needed spark. The defense began working with each other as a unit, pushing the ball up to the midfielders and controlling the action. Though they never quite found their groove, Powell held Rawlins scoreless until the final three minutes. Brayan Sanchez and Gerardo Lopez netted a pair of goals apiece to lead the way for the Outlaws, who beat Lander 2-1 for third place in the tournament,
“Overall, I was happy with the team, they played the whole game,” Dent said of his squad. “We didn’t play bad, we were controlling the field, mostly. But then they would make their breaks, split our defense. Trying to fix things back there just wasn’t happening.”
Torrington 4, Panthers 0
The Panthers took nearly a dozen shots against Torrington in Friday’s loser-out game, but “we just couldn’t get them in,” Dent said. “That was tough.”
“We played a little bit better, but Torrington has a young man named Nathan Stitt, and he is a goal-scoring machine,” the coach said. “We had a guy on him the entire game, and we still couldn’t really shut him down.”
Stitt torched the Panthers for a hat trick, scoring three of the Trailblazers’ four goals in the contest.
“He [Stitt] scored fairly early in the game, and you could see the boys just kind of get down on themselves,” Dent said of his squad. “They were tired; I wish I would have had a few more subs. It was tough, but they kept playing and fighting.”
The Panther boys created opportunities, as evidenced by their 11 shots on goal. Torrington employed a boot-and-chase strategy to capitalize on their speed, though Dent said the defense was able to adjust.
“I thought we held them pretty good,” he said. “Their defense wasn’t as strong as we’ve seen from other teams, but in the air, they were really good. If you put the ball in the air, they did a nice job of getting under it and heading it back up the field.”
Desperate for a score, the Panthers continued to press, but to no avail.
Powell’s defense played solid, despite the four goals allowed. Landon Sessions and Adrian Geller played center wing and both played very well, according to Dent.
“They [Sessions and Geller] did a nice job of working the ball up and down the side,” he said. “They were dropping the ball back to Jack Pool when they needed to, and Jack has become a very solid defensive player. I was very impressed with what those guys were doing on the side.”
“Eleven shots on net is not a lot for a team like Torrington; our defense wasn’t really the problem,” Dent said. “After you get a couple of goals scored on you, the mental strain becomes significant. The boys felt that, and it made a difference.”
Despite a disappointing end to the season, Dent pointed to the many positives he saw as a coach since the first game against Pinedale in March.
“Compared to that Pinedale game, there was a very different team out on that pitch playing [against Torrington],” Dent said. “I was talking to a couple of the other coaches, and they were very complimentary with what the boys are doing and how much better they were playing. They said, ‘Next year, we’re going to be having to watch you, your guys are stepping up.’ It’s very encouraging to hear that from coaches you respect. When I look at it that way, we’ve accomplished a lot this year.”
With just three seniors lost to graduation, Dent said he’s excited to see how his “youth movement” progresses in the coming years.
“The young guys have now seen what it takes to compete; they’ve got some experience under their belt,” he said. “They’re stepping up, and we’re going to be building on that next year. They’ve turned a corner on believing soccer is a serious sport.”
As for his seniors — Jace Smith, Gabe Katz and Cesar Corro — Dent said the three provided solid leadership to the young team, and will be missed.
“Losing Jace [Smith] is a sad situation. He’s a very competitive young man and was able to build the team with knowledge that he had and his desire to play hard,” Dent said. “Gabe [Katz], I wasn’t starting him as much as I used to, but he was still a leader on the sidelines, talking up his teammates and giving strategy advice to Ashton [Brewer].”
Dent told Corro on the bus ride home that he wished Corro had started playing earlier, but was glad to have him with the Panthers.
“Cesar [Corro] was a great young man to have on the team,” Dent said. “He was usually smiling, always working hard. He was a very positive guy.”
Pioneers’ woes continue at Douglas
Powell Legion B heads to state
Panther distance runner signs with Central Wyoming College
Pioneers drop doubleheader to Flyers
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The evolution of boiler efficiency
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Gavin Watson, Elco Heating Solutions’ Sales Director
Small marginal gains in boiler design have lead to evolutionary changes that add up to an impressive shift in performance in commercial boilers. Here, Gavin Watson, Sales Director at Elco Heating Solutions, looks at these incremental improvements.
Quite often, it is difficult to discern small changes or notice an improvement in performance until you experience it – or at least have a direct comparison. Consider a 10-year-old van for example. It might run like a dream, cruise on the motorway at 70mph without any fuss and cost the same to run as it did when it was new. But, along comes a new van, one that is available for an unmissable deal at the local dealership. During a test drive it feels different. It accelerates smoother, cruises quieter, responds quicker and, by all accounts, has far lower running costs. Suddenly, the 10-year-old van that was perfectly fine seems past its best. The outcome: a new van hits the road!
Of course, that’s the motor industry. It’s tangible and you can quickly feel and appreciate the engineering advancements. In the world of commercial boilers, it can be far more difficult to realise what’s behind the ubiquitous white steel casing, let alone compare an old condensing boiler with a brand new one.
The Thision L Evo is capable of being combined to deliver up to 1.1MW output
A look behind the case
However, much like the motor industry, understanding the complexities of a boiler’s design requires a detailed look under the bonnet or, in this instance, the case! After a close inspection, it’s usually clear that commercial gas boilers have continued to evolve, with some manufacturers – including Elco – pushing the envelope of performance to even higher levels.
There are some key factors that determine a boiler’s level of performance. The first is efficiency, although a new gas condensing boiler might not show much improvement in headline figures over the years. However, lifetime efficiencies are what truly determine a unit’s performance. Gauging these usually relies on analysis of the heat exchanger – a component that is put under stress from the first minute a burner is fired. Consequently, the material the heat exchanger is manufactured from becomes critical, not only for its short term performance but also for the next 10 to 15 years of its life.
Stainless steel heat exchangers are inherently resistant to corrosion and cope easily with the boiler’s hydrolic system
Steely resolve
At Elco, stainless steel is the preferred material for heat exchanger construction. The metal’s properties allow a heat exchanger to maintain published performance figures for its entire operating cycle, which cannot be said for all metals. Other metals have been shown to significantly drop in efficiency over their lifetimes due to the effects of gradual corrosion. This is often very apparent when looking at an ageing heat exchanger where a build-up of ‘sludge’ from oxides leaves its surface pitted and unable to cope with the tough requirements of a commercial heating system. However, these problems can’t be found on stainless steel heat exchangers, as the metal has an inherent resistance to corrosion. Consequently, it doesn’t suffer over its lifecycle, easily coping with the demanding conditions inside a boiler’s hydraulic system.
Other refinements in boiler design can be seen when examining the working parameters of the latest gas condensing models, in particular light commercial wall mounted units. Of course, many light commercial installations utilise a cascade setup of two or three boilers, while many larger projects will increase the number of wall mounted rigs up to seven or eight. So, with a boiler such as the new Thision L EVO from Elco (available in six models between 60 to 140kW), there is scope for a variety of outputs – depending on the building’s load. There is even a maximum output of 1.1MW available when combining eight Thision units, offering an impressive performance from a relatively small footprint.
Such a setup was not always possible in previous years, but due to modern day manufacturers refining boilers cascade configurations, great strides have been made, allowing wall mounted units to make further impressions on the market. Furthermore, the setup time on site for these types of systems has reduced significantly, with many wall mounted commercial boilers available as ‘plug and play’ cascade packages. This development not only helps with the installation process but also reduces time on site which, for any commercially focused installer, can easily translate into significant savings on a job.
Another incremental improvement and a refinement of boiler design can be seen when comparing the energy consumption of the unit itself. This can emanate from a variety of sources, but it’s vitally important to keep resistance on the flue and hydraulic side as low as possible, as this minimises energy consumption by main components such as the fan and the pump.
On the surface, commercial boilers might not appear any different than models 10 years their senior. However, there have been a number of refinements over the years, with the aggregation of marginal gains ensuring a significant leap forward in overall performance. Of course, these small changes will always be shrouded by the casing, so examining the internal components and finer details of a boiler’s design can reveal the engineering excellence. It will also highlight how they continue to evolve.
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Pennsylvania Arby's one of 16 to test limited-run seared duck sandwich
By Michael Tanenbaum
PhillyVoice Staff
Food & Drink Fast Food
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Arby's Seared Duck Sandwich.
A year after Arby's brought back its venison sandwich for a limited time in Philadelphia, the fast-food chain is testing out another specialty sandwich in Berks County.
Arby's teased plans for the sandwich earlier this week, leaving little room to guess incorrectly.
Prepping for our next surprising sandwich... pic.twitter.com/8xTLNrHBjm
— Arby's (@Arbys) October 15, 2018
On Wednesday, the company revealed it will sell a seared duck-breast sandwich at 16 U.S. locations for a limited time, starting Saturday, Oct. 20. Among the select restaurant's offering the new item will be the Arby's in Wyomissing, Berks County.
RELATED ARTICLE: South Philly Cheesesteak & Fries makes limited edition 'The Balboa'
The sandwich will make Arby's the first fast-food chain in the United States to sell duck.
Arby's just became the first fast food chain in America to serve duck pic.twitter.com/4miXASrRqa
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) October 17, 2018
“It's that time of year again — the season of the hunter. This year we tip our hats to the men and women of the marsh, chasing the sunrise to set their decoys and patiently waiting for the fowl to fly in,” Arby’s said in a statement at its website. “True hunters know that successful pursuits in meat hunting begin with dedication and patience. Our Duck Sandwich is no different.”
The new sandwich features a premium duck breast, smoked cherry sauce and crispy onions on an Arby's bun. The duck will be sourced from Maple Leaf Farms and prepared by sous vide – the process of sealing food in an airtight container and then cooking it in temperature-controlled water.
Enthusiasts in the Philadelphia area aren't terribly far away from the Arby's restaurant in Wyomissing, Berks County, where the new sandwich will be available. It's about an hour and 15 minute drive to 2741 Papermill Road.
If you have that kind of dedication, keep in mind that the duck sandwich will only be available in very limited quantities.
Michael Tanenbaum
tanenbaum@phillyvoice.com
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Flight Test: Cessna 172 amphibian
The Cessna 172 amphibian
Flying or fishing, operating from land or water, an amphibian conversion makes the C172 into a flexible, fun machine
A manoeuverable beast
Words: Nick Bloom; Photos: Keith Wilson
If you haven’t tried landing on water, you’re missing out on one of aviation’s great experiences. One moment you’re in a flying machine, the next, it’s a boat, waves lapping against the floats... and a whole new set of rules apply.
“Don’t let the revs get over 1,200,” says Hamish, my companion, “Or you’ll damage the prop. You’ll be amazed how much wear and tear water can inflict”. We lower the water rudders (you need them to taxi) and the breeze is treating us as a sail, pushing us – in water, there’s nothing to stop it.
Landing on water, one of aviation’s great experiences
Before climbing aboard, I couldn’t help notice an oar clipped to one of the floats. And Hamish ships a fishing rod and kettle on trips, “In case I want to do a bit of fishing, or make tea.” It’s real Ratty and Mole stuff, not your ordinary aviating at all.
I’m having this delightful, if slightly disorientating, experience with Scotia Seaplanes, one of only two companies offering floatplane instruction in the UK. The other is Clipper Seaplanes at Rochester, run by Pete Kynsey and Anna Walker.
Scotia Seaplanes is operated from Prestwick Flight Centre in Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. Their Cessna 172 is a 1969 FR172F Reims Rocket Floatplane, adapted by substituting Wipline 2350-A floats for the EDO 2440b ‘straight floats’ fitted by the factory (the number is the weight each float displaces in pounds). Each float has a castoring front wheel and a mainwheel behind the aircraft’s C of G.
For all the forward area of the floats, the amphibian actually feels more stable in the air than the standard C172 landplane
The mainwheels have independent brakes for steering. All four wheels must be retracted for landing on water. The water rudders must only be lowered for taxying on water and raised at all other times (including ‘sailing’).
The aircraft has 5,500 hours, originally used as a floatplane in Finland, but it has also seen service dropping parachutists. The engine is comparatively new, with just 800 hours.
We strap on life jackets. I’m to take the left seat, which I reach after an easy climb up steps on the float and its supporting struts. The cabin seems quite high when I sit in it − the height of the aircraft is about twelve feet. I adjust seat and straps and Hamish climbs in. Starting the 210hp six-cylinder Continental IO-360-DB is much as you would expect for a fuel-injected engine − prime with fuel pump and throttle, then crank with the starter.
Other than the diagonal windscreen bracing struts and the rubber duck mascot, there’s nothing to distinguish the amphibian conversion’s cabin from thousands of other Cessna 172Fs
With headsets, all I hear is a low rumble and I suspect sitting high up makes it seem as though we are moving more slowly than we actually are. I taxi the Cessna across to the runway, while Hamish advises a low power setting, fifteen inches manifold pressure/1,500rpm. Steering with four wheels and differential brakes is no problem at all and the aircraft has a considerably tighter turning circle than a standard C172.
Pre-takeoff checks are pretty much as usual for a retractable, including cycling the constant-speed prop and setting the flaps to around fifteen degrees (“Four elephants,” says Hamish, depressing the switch for four seconds) and the manually-operated elevator trim to takeoff setting. Both trim and flap settings are best confirmed in this aircraft by looking at trim tab and flaps, which involves a lot of squirming.
There are (in addition to lights on the panel, blue for water, green for land) manual indicators on both floats for the undercarriage − more squirming.
Normal operation is by this wheel-shaped switch — four greens (wheels down) for land, four blues (wheels up) for water
Beginning the take off, it seems strange running down the runway on four wheels. Hamish directs me to unload the front wheels with a lot of pulled yoke at first, relaxing the yoke as we gather speed. Once we get moving, the correct pitch attitude is shallow. The big engine and 76-inch prop make themselves felt and I need quite a lot of right rudder, especially when altering attitude. The takeoff run is probably around 250 metres. A gentle pull gets us off and we climb away at Hamish’s requested 85mph with me turning the trim wheel to get the yoke comfortable.
Initial climb rate is about 800fpm, the bigger engine more than offsetting the weight and drag of the floats. I raise the wheels and set trim, propeller pitch and throttle for fast cruise: 25inches, 2,500rpm,115mph. (Economy cruise is 21inches, 2,500rpm, 105mph, consuming 36lph.)
The Cessna feels big and heavy at first, but that’s probably because I’ve been flying much lighter aircraft. I feel a little robbed of view, sitting behind an instrument panel with a windscreen above it. Sensible Hamish suggests some steep turns at 1,500 feet, “For you to get the feel of the aircraft”.
If the electrics fail, the wheels can be pumped up or down by hand
Once I get accustomed to how hard you have to pull and push, I realise the 172 is actually quite a manoeuverable beast, and the view, especially through the side windows at a good bank angle, is pretty good.
The weather is spectacularly grim and we have to pick where we cross several ridges with care, because the cloud comes right down to the ground in places. We are heading for Loch Doon, where once the castle of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, stood. When a dam was constructed to enlarge the loch, the castle ruins were dismantled and re-assembled on the hill, to one side.
Hamish points out abandoned open-cast coal mines, and as we near the Loch, the remains of what was once a massive Royal Flying Corps training base, including floatplane training in adapted SE5a ‘scouts’ and a rail track for training rear-seat gunners to shoot at moving targets. One remnant of the RFC days is a narrow ribbon of concrete running from the nearby road all the way down to the water and which − providing the water level is right − can be used as a ramp to run the C172 from water to land and vice versa.
The water-rudder operating lever, set between the seats.
As we ait for cameraman Keith Wilson, I’m to practice water landings and takeoffs. Hamish introduces me to the art of determining wind direction over water. From there being glassy water on one side, I make a lucky guess that side might be upwind. (Other indicators are wave direction and blown ‘white water’.)
Positioning the C172 for an approach is similar to operating at some farm strips or forced landing practice, in that there is no established circuit to worry about, but as you descend you do need to be constantly aware of the terrain, which is hilly around the loch. Hamish runs me through mnemonics, the familiar BUMPFF, PFARTS (R=water rudders; A=suitability of landing area) and WOODS (W=wind direction and strength; D=water depth). But basically I trim out for a 75mph approach with flap set, propeller pitch fully fine, mixture in, and make utterly sure we have four blue lights (plus visual indication) for wheels up and the lever between the seats up and back, for water rudders retracted.
Landing calls for a steady descent, first flaring at ten feet and then holding off just before the floats would otherwise contact the water. You then haul the yoke all the way back, which takes a fairly strong pull. The contact between floats and water feels somewhat gentle today, when the water is a little choppy − but not much, and the water slows us fairly rapidly and then we settle.
The rudder must be up for take off, flight and landing
Hamish says the floats are probably around two feet into the water. After lowering the water rudders, he has me steering around and I can see they work well, producing a respectable turning circle, although even today’s fairly light wind makes the circle noticeably egg-shaped as we drift in a crosswind. You need to be patient and keep revs low.
After making our stately way downwind, keeping that vulnerable propeller clear of the water, I turn into wind and commence takeoff. First, the pretakeoff checks, which include raising the water rudders, setting fifteen degrees of flap and setting elevator trim. Takeoff commences, like most things on the water, with full back yoke. With a large area of float submerged, full throttle gets us moving sluggishly at first, and there’s a lot of spray down there. (None of it reaches the cabin.)
Hamish says something about first pitch-up and second pitch-up, but it all feels to me like we’re accelerating, the nose rears up (so I’m steering with peripheral vision, just like a landing taildragger), and still very much in the water. After a few seconds of this, he instructs me to relax the pull to get us ‘on the step’. This is equivalent to raising the tail in a taildragger, putting the fuselage roughly parallel to the water.
The rudder in the down position
The aeroplane rises in a noticeable fashion and the drag from the water lessens, but is still considerable. Nonetheless, we are definitely gathering speed. Hamish gets me to power back and alter the pitch angle both ways to demonstrate that there is a ‘sweet spot’ where the ride is just a little smoother. Then at full power again, he suggests banking might now lift one float. I twist the yoke, and sure enough the drag from below lessens and first one, then the other float separates and we are fully airborne.
This sensation of tilting to one side is pleasant and a little like balancing on a tea trolley − a thought that will strike me again in this aeroplane. At various stages during the water takeoff I have to give medium to full right rudder to counteract spiral airflow and torque from the front end, otherwise there is a risk of the water equivalent of a groundloop.
I can see a strong crosswind from the left might overpower the rudder − wind awareness is the key to floatplane flying. Keith and his Scotia instructor pilot Stewart haven’t arrived yet, so we’ve time for me to make several more takeoffs, circuits and landings.
There’s a mechanical wheel position indicator (which is entirely independent of the electrics) on each float
Hamish points out various landmarks and I gradually get to know Loch Doon better. As is the way of these things, each landing gets a bit smoother and each takeoff, shorter. I have the feeling that it’s really not that difficult, providing you don’t encounter challenging conditions. One in particular is so-called glassy water, because without any waves you can’t see the surface. It’s vital in floatplanes not to hit the water at all nose-down.
Keith and Stewart arrive and Hamish takes over control. We water-taxi towards the ramp, slow down and at the last minute he gives high power, pulling the yoke back all the way. The nose rears up and before the aircraft has time to gather speed the front wheels mount the concrete, followed by the rear wheels. Now we’re on the hard, safely out of the water. The ramp is only a couple of feet wider than the C172’s wheels, so this is some trick.
Hamish has brought a spray can of fluorescent paint to mark the water line. “When the level drops it can expose the lip of the concrete − I found out the hard way,” he says. “This way I’ll be able to tell if it’s safe to run onto land.” He has had plenty of practice landing here, and loves to take family, colleagues and his many flying friends on land, brew up tea and enjoy the stillness and scenery before getting back on the water and flying out.
The mainwheels are fitted with disc brakes, easily inspected on dry land
Turning the Cessna around by hand is easier than expected, even on the narrow concrete. It’s time to get moving, because it’s just started to drizzle and low cloud is approaching. Hamish takes the controls for some touch-and-goes as near as possible to where Keith is standing – the Cessna is in the hands of a master.
Hamish’s grandfather was a clerk in the RFC, and his father − who remembers watching Tiger Moths at Prestwick in the 1930s − was a RAF Navigator in World War II. “I take his ‘wings’ with me when I fly,” says Hamish, who is something of a romantic. He wanted to be an RAF pilot, but failed the eyesight test. He eventually joined the RAF as an ATCO, leaving six years later as a Flight Lieutenant. Today he works for ATS as an Area Controller. Hamish learned to fly in three weeks at Inverness, “When the end of a ten-year relationship had me taking stock of my life. I realised now was the time to do what I’d always wanted, and learn to fly”. He then bought a share in a PA-28 based at Glasgow.
Each time we fly or taxi past the ramp, he talks about a submerged boulder he can see. Objects just under the water are an obvious hazard for floatplanes. (Hamish once saw what he at first took to be tree branches, but which turned out to be swimming stags.)
Twin nosewheels castor — all steering on tarmac is done with the brakes
Hamish announces he’s going to make one landing between the boulder and the ramp, which sounds daring, but then he changes his mind and stays with clear water. “Do you want to make the final takeoff?” he asks. Gaining confidence now, I set takeoff flap and run through the pre-takeoff checks, then open the throttle, holding the yoke fully back. The engine roars, the nose rears up and we gather speed, ploughing through the water. Hamish says, “Now onto the step,” and I ease forwards then push the yoke gently and feel the aircraft begin to accelerate... and yaw left.
Immediately I push the right rudder pedal all the way over, but we’re still yawing. The shore is on the left, and to the left and on our bows is that submerged boulder. I realise there are two options: to close the throttle and rely on the water to stop us in time, or − I am not sure if this is possible − to lower the water rudders.
Meanwhile I’m still pushing, because as we continue to accelerate the rudder should bite. Hamish pushes on right rudder too, and whether that gives us a touch more rudder, or it’s the increased airflow, the curve changes from left to right and we surge past that submerged boulder. A few seconds later we’re safely in the air.
At the risk of the usual joke, there’s a paddle for engine-off manoeuvring on water
In cruise the Cessna on floats is, if anything, even smoother and more stable than the Cessna without them. At 25 inches manifold pressure/2,500rpm/ 115mph, the consumption is 40 lit/hr. The view, after all that steep banking over hostile (i.e. hilly with tall pine trees) terrain, seems perfectly adequate, while to begin with I found it somewhat restrictive.
This would be a good aeroplane for long distance trips − with a fuel capacity of 197 litres, the endurance is at least four hours and thirty minutes. And there is plenty of luggage capacity in the locker behind the seats. You do have to watch the C of G position, and with the rear seats empty and nothing in the luggage locker, Hamish pumps water as ballast into a compartment at the back of both floats. The load total is critical, and the aircraft cannot carry four adults, but it can manage three with half tanks, or two adults and two children.
Hamish has flown the C172 amphibian to the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway (within the Arctic Circle), a thirteen-hour journey in five legs, and recently flew to Lake Wolfgang, Austria.
Lockers built into the floats are handy for essentials like bucket and sponge
We arrive back at Prestwick and he warns against the usual Cessna approach and landing technique, because this aircraft needs to touch down on all four wheels together, or the rear wheels only slightly ahead of the front ones. “It’s actually the same technique as for landing on glassy water,” he says. So after lowering flap and wheels, I’m to establish a descent of 200fpm, which means around fifteen inches manifold pressure and 1,500rpm, adjusting power in the early stages to establish the right descent gradient to arrive near the start of the runway.
This flying-on approach feels a little unnatural in its closing stages to this taildragger pilot, and I have to resist the temptation to flare. I probably do lift the nose slightly just before we touch down, which is all to the good, because we arrive smoothly on what feels like four wheels together. That landing a tea trolley feeling, again.
Incidentally, 200fpm is only about three feet a second, so if I did touch down at that rate of descent, I can see the air in the tyres impacting the concrete (or the give of the water in a glassy-water landing) easily absorbing the shock.
Marine fittings include mooring cleats
The next day, we fly in the air-to-air photoshoot with Keith in a camera plane, another Cessna 172. At Hamish’s suggestion I bring a fat cushion to sit on. Now I’m nearer to looking through a windscreen rather than up at one. We spend longer than usual in formation, because there are so many wonderful backgrounds against which to photograph this iconic amphibian.
Eventually, Keith announces himself satisfied and we fly back to Prestwick, where I’m to make my final landing. The runway in use has a significant crosswind. Hamish says “Good”, it will enable him to show me how to land a amphibian in one. “It’s the same technique on land as on water,” he says. “On water, though, if you do land with sideways drift, you risk digging in a float and even turning turtle.”
For this reason, my preferred technique in a crosswind of crabbing, then kicking straight at the last moment is out. I must oppose the crosswind by sideslipping. It’s a while since I’ve used the sideslipping method, I wonder how I’ll get on. My aim is to set up the same slow descent as before, but first I bank the aircraft into the crosswind, feeding in more and more bank until we are no longer drifting sideways.
Two other things you cannot do without — non-slip rubber sandals and a bilge pump for the floats
At the same time, I am applying sufficient rudder to keep the nose lined up with the runway. With elevator set to maintain 80mph, the crossed controls increase drag and therefore the descent rate, which to begin with is 500fpm, not 200fpm as specified by Hamish. I get that sorted out by feeding in a little more power and manage to get back to 200fpm before we approach the runway. Having got everything stabilised, the landing is astonishingly smooth. We touch down on both left wheels together. Just as though this were a tea trolley, it’s stable on two aligned wheels.
So whereas in a three-wheel configuration (nosewheel or tailwheel) there’d be a squeak of rubber, in this arrival there is none. The two right wheels then gently lower and we’re utterly stable again. In no time at all we’ve taxied in, shut down and I’m climbing back down from the float to terra firma.
So how did Hamish come to operate an amphibian? “I had always thought that the Scottish landscape would be perfect for a floatplane. Then I saw an ad for shares for sale in G-DRAM, which at that time had floats, but no wheels. I met the owner and discussed it, but there was no instruction available. But, visiting a friend in Canada, I realised I could learn there, so I did. I got the UK rating in 2004 with Caledonian Seaplanes.”
The ‘tea trolley’ undercarriage configuration actually makes for easy ground handling, although touch-downs must be made at a near-level, tail-up attitude
And the conversion of G-DRAM to an amphibian? “I’d been thinking about the maintenance, infrastructure and other implications of only being able to operate from water. By chance I read an article on amphibious floats for 172s and with the support of trusted friends I contacted G-DRAM’s owner, Tim Crumpton, and put it to him. He agreed, we reconstituted the group and I agreed to do the STC work and financed the changeover.
“We took on two additional owners. There were complications, and when we did finally get the floats approved and fitted and all the flight testing done and the approval came through; disaster! An un-forecast gale snapped a tie-down rope and the aircraft blew over, with just one hour flown. So we lost even more time while repairs were made. The first flight was in 2006. In the two years after the repairs I was doing most of the flying, so I bought out the others and became sole owner. I got my class rating instructor’s qualification in 2008.”
And the situation today? “I’m a private owner, but also MD and owner of Scotia Seaplanes Ltd (a CAA-registered facility) which can hire the aircraft out for instruction towards a class rating.
Fancy a turn in G-DRAM?
“We charge £30 for instruction and £270 wet for the aircraft. At present, the only solo hire is to my two co-instructors, Stewart Houston and Nick Sibley. We are looking into air experience flights and trial lessons, but are busy enough without them at present as we all have full-time jobs. The aircraft flies 100-150 hours a year, about half of which is instruction. My goal has only ever been to break even, and we are not quite there yet.”
One student, whom Keith and I met on our first evening in ‘The Smoking Goat’ in Ayr, is Pauline Gallagher, who has suffered from birth with Cerebral Palsy. She is a keen promoter of Flying for the Disabled and Aerobility. Pauline has flown a hundred hours dual, five in G-DRAM, which she dearly loves and twenty minutes solo. Pauline, a beautiful, charming lady, works for British Telecom in cybercrime prevention. Hamish is keen to publicise G-DRAM and may seek a distillery or brewery to sponsor it and repaint it in their colour scheme.
Hamish has recently obtained a DA on the aircraft and is to feature it in the forthcoming Scottish Airshow. To help promote the aircraft and attract children to flying, a children’s book has been produced: Wee Dram and Captain Ham with stories by Garry Burns and illustrations by Ken Letham.
Would you like a turn in G-DRAM?
For training on G-DRAM, email info@scotlandonfloats.com; telephone: +44 (0) 7710460694; visit www.scotlandonfloats.com or www.prestwickflightcentre.com
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INVESTING & PORTFOLIO STRATEGIES
Institutional investors are axing timber allocations, but some question if the timing is right
Arleen Jacobius
Freshly cut trees sit stacked before transport to a sawmill in British Columbia. Investors are cutting allocations to timber because of poor returns.
Investors tired of poor returns are getting out of timberland at what some say is the wrong time.
Leading the exit are CalPERS and Harvard.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, Sacramento, in the third quarter sold most of its $2 billion timberland portfolio, with few plans of investing again; instead, the $358.9 billion system will focus on core real estate.
CalPERS' consultant said the fund sold the investments at a loss.
CalPERS sold the portfolio, Crown Pine Timber, because of its underperformance, Andrew Junkin, president of Wilshire Consulting, one of CalPERS' general investment consultants, told the investment committee at its Aug. 13 meeting.
"We know that (performance struggled) largely due to that one asset with lots of concentration in the Southeast timber markets," he said. Mr. Junkin noted Southeast timber prices have been down since the financial crisis because that is the timber used in home construction. Other factors contributing to the portfolio's underperformance, he said, were "just the poor timing on the purchase ... you can't know in advance that the market's going to collapse," leverage and "a challenging governance structure."
CalPERS chose to sell the portfolio because there was "a very large principal payment coming up," Mr. Junkin said. "Challenges of this investment included onerous debt arrangements, unfavorable supply agreements and sawtimber market pricing below pro forma causing an increasingly heavy drag on cash flow," according to a report to the board by Wilshire in August.
CalPERS' forestland portfolio underperformed its benchmark for the one, three, five and 10 years ended June 30. The portfolio earned 1.9% compared to the 3.8% benchmark return for the year; an annualized -2.4% (3.4% benchmark) for the three years; -1% (6.1%) for the five years; and -1.1% (4.1%) for the 10 years ended June 30. These returns do not include additional markdowns from the sale of the Crown Pine Timber portfolio, Mr. Junkin said.
Meanwhile, Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard Management Co., which manages Harvard University's $37.1 billion endowment, is also selling off portions of its timberland portfolio, sources said.
Harvard Management Co. reported in September that natural resources, including timber, experienced a challenging year in its 2017 fiscal year and the endowment took write-downs and sold assets, some at or above their previous valuations. "Our natural resources platform will take multiple years to reposition," the report noted without providing details. Harvard is reportedly attempting to sell majority or minority stakes in a $700 million portfolio of timberland in South America.
Fundraising by timber investment managers is way down. Two funds raised a combined $600 million so far in 2018, down from seven funds that raised $1.4 billion in all of 2017 and eight funds that raised $3.1 billion in 2008, according to data from London-based alternative investment research firm Preqin.
More than 30 timberland funds manage about $57 billion of assets for investors "who cite the long-term investment horizon, low correlation with the general economy, biological growth regardless of economic conditions and a relatively stable stream of cash flows as appealing characteristics of the asset class," according to a recent report by MetLife Inc.'s agricultural finance group, which oversees agricultural and timberland assets.
Matthew Lynch, Hartford, Conn.-based managing director and head of real estate and private markets at UBS Asset Management, said poor returns are driving investors out of the asset class into other real asset sectors.
Timberland assets earned 0.48% for the quarter ended June 30, down from 0.92% in the prior quarter and 0.7% in the second quarter ended June 30, 2017, the NCREIF Timberland index showed. The Total Timberland index had a 3.57% trailing return for the year ended June 30. Timberland market value per acre was $1,804 as of June 30, down from $1,824 a year earlier, according to NCREIF.
The falling returns are due, in part, to changes in the journalism world.
"Timber returns have been consistently lower than farmland returns ... partially due to reduced demand for newsprint," Mr. Lynch said. "Media is bigger than it has ever been but daily newspaper print component is smaller."
UBS Asset Management sold its timber investment management business in 2003.
Board, printing and writing papers, newsprint, tissue and pulp end-markets together amount to 32% of total U.S. softwood demand, according to report released this year by BTG Pactual's Timberland Investment Group, New York.
Between January 2017 to June 2018, average prices for commonly traded lumber in the U.S. increased by 40%, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. During the same period, sawlog prices were practically unchanged in the South and rose about 28% in the Western U.S.
Log prices in the Pacific Northwest declined 2% year-over-year to March 31, but lumber prices increased by around 30% since then, according to a report prepared for the New Mexico State Investment Council's Aug. 28 meeting by its real asset consultant, The Townsend GroupTownsend Group.
In a report to its investment committee, staff at the Santa Fe-based council acknowledged that "overall timber and agriculture investment opportunities have … been recently challenged," according to a summary of the meeting. One of them was Brookfield Timberlands Fund V; Brookfield Asset Management returned the money due to lack of reasonable opportunities, said Charles Wollmann, spokesman for the $23.3 billion endowments, in an email.
The New Mexico State Investment Council had a $258.5 million timber portfolio as of June 30. The endowments have a 9.7% allocation to real assets, which includes a zero to 20% target range to timber.
"We are likely to keep our same position and don't foresee much new money going into our timber or agricultural portfolios in the immediate future. Energy and infrastructure — which move the needle the most — are the current focus," Mr. Wollmann said.
Indeed, the council in 2017 released a total of $95 million in unfunded commitments to two timber managers.
Wrong time?
Some industry insiders say institutional investors are downsizing their timber exposure at the wrong time, when prices for timberland are way down. They also say the investors got into their current portfolios at the wrong time.
During the Aug. 13 CalPERS investment committee meeting, Andrew H. Junkin, president of Wilshire Consulting acknowledged timing and the type of timber in CalPERS' portfolio caused the underperformance of the Crown Pine timber portfolio.
“Crown Pine, which has been an investment of yours that has struggled, has had significant exposure to southeast (timber)” and southeastern timber prices have been flat for the past three years, Mr. Junkin said.
This one investment hurt CalPERS' timberland portfolio, in part, due to poor timing of the investment, he said.
“Timber prices in the Southeast were hit pretty hard in the global financial crisis, because that tends to be the market that's used for home construction,” Mr. Junkin explained.
However, timberland is a cyclical asset class, noted Bob Ratliffe, Seattle-based president of timber manager Silver Creek Capital Management LLC.
Housing starts are up, albeit on a slow and steady pace, which is putting Southeast timber “on the right trajectory,” he said.
Some timber managers and investors are buying timberland, seeing opportunities as some holdings are priced at a discount.
In July, CatchMark Timber Trust Inc. alongside BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, British Columbia Investment Management Corp., Highland Capital Management and Medley Management Inc. bought 1.1 million acres of prime East Texas timberland from CalPERS for $1.39 billion.
The market value of CalPERS' investment in Crown Pine Timber — known as Lincoln Timber, a hedge fund of one managed by timber management organization Campbell Global — was $1.6 billion as of June 30. In October 2007, CalPERS had committed $2.2 billion to invest in 1.5 million acres in eastern Texas and western Louisiana, documents on CalPERS' website show.
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Home News PS4 Telltale Games – chiuso definitivamente lo studio
Telltale Games – chiuso definitivamente lo studio [UPDATE]
UPDATE: A quanto emerso poco fa, il CEO di Telltale Games ha dichiarato che la software house, continuerà a lavorare nonostante i 25 dipendenti rimasti.
Nelle prossime settimane saranno rivelate nuove informazioni in merito a questa vicenda.
Con della vera e propria tristezza, annunciamo che Telltale Games è ufficialmente chiusa, la conferma arriva direttamente dal founder, Kevin Bruner.
Ultimo saluto a Telltale Games!
Di seguito troverete la sua ultima lettera pubblicata sul suo sito ufficiale:
Today is a very, very sad day.
I left Telltale a year and a half ago after an extended period where the Board of Directors and I had very different visions of Telltale’s future and how we might get there. That was one of the hardest times of my professional life, but in the end the company is controlled by its Board of Directors and I respected their decisions throughout.
As a co-founder, I take an enormous amount of pride that we were able to build the kind of games that I am immensely passionate about creating, exploring, evolving, and perfecting (if that’s even possible). We built a significant new brand, helped define a new genre, and thrived for more than a decade.
We pursued projects that no one else would consider. The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, The Wolf Among Us, Batman, Minecraft, Puzzle Agent, Poker Night and Sam & Max are the kind of projects I personally loved and I poured my heart and soul into each one. Those are the kind of projects no other publisher or studio would touch. We chose to venture where others dared not go, and we found some success along the way. It took a lot of vision, luck, will power, teamwork, talent, and very long days and nights to get there, but it will forever have been worth it.
And we did it all while growing, attracting some of the most talented people I’ve ever known. We were equally passionate about making sure our employees always had a home. Prior to my leaving, we were able to avoid sweeping layoffs and (somehow) managed to ensure that we always had work for everyone. We worked hard and sometimes it seemed like we had more than we could handle but we stuck together and forged ahead.
Today, I’m mostly saddened for the people who are losing their jobs at a studio they love. And I’m also saddened at the loss of a studio that green-lit crazy ideas that no one else would consider. I’m comforted a bit knowing there are now so many new talented people and studios creating games in the evolving narrative genre. While I look forward to those games and new developments, and continuing to contribute, I will always find “A Telltale Game” to have been a unique offering.
I know that Telltale will be remembered fondly for what it has done best.
Cliccando qui, sarete indirizzati sul tweet ufficiale di Telltale
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Contempt and nihilism? Or hope?
Peter Wehner, a veteran of several Republican administrations, writes:
The 2016 campaign … showed us how extraordinarily wide the gap between what it takes to win the presidency and what it takes to govern has become…. For many Americans, frustration with our political leaders, which is understandable, has transmuted into contempt for governing itself, which is dangerous — a trend that verges on a desperate kind of political nihilism. But sometimes we learn the value of something by its absence. In the age of Trump, perhaps we will discover anew that there is an art not so much to the deal but to governing.
There's a great deal of seduction in that passage, and one is left to sort out the genuine from the meretricious.
Wehner opens with an observation that is incontestable: The gap between Trump's breezy demagoguery as a candidate and his sclerotic governance as president is outright chasmic. Had Huey Long dodged a bullet or Joe McCarthy sobered up and either gone on to the presidency, we would have a precedent for Trump's executive vacuousness. As it is, the Donald is a true pioneer; the original model, for all time, of just how incompatible are congenital con artistry and presidential competence.
Wehner's passage closes with an observation that is more wistful than incontestable, although I'd like to believe it, and mostly do. After four abominable years of Trump (barring his abbreviated tenure via impeachment), "we will discover anew" that conspicuously empty vessels full of populist promises are a really bad bet. Indeed, it seems we've accelerated that process of discovery by three years and 265 days. As a partisan associate of Wehner's told him: "The dysfunction in this White House just knows no bounds." Trump's sinking approval rating may be just as unknowledgeable.
It is Wehner's middle passage that is higher up for a judgmental grab. To repeat it, for your convenience: "For many Americans, frustration with our political leaders, which is understandable, has transmuted into contempt for governing itself, which is dangerous — a trend that verges on a desperate kind of political nihilism."
For starters, the "many [contemptuous] Americans" phrase is vastly problematic. Contempt toward Barack Obama is now at an all-time low, and he, as president, was the very definition of responsible governance. One may not have always agreed with Obama's actions, but one was bound to agree that governing thoughtfulness positively oozed out of the man. So, do "many Americans" possess "contempt for governing itself"? Sure they do. "Many" Americans also believe that Vladimir Putin is a stand-up guy, that the House will ultimately come together over a "better" health-care bill, and that Jared Kushner holds the diplomatic portfolio and foreign policy experience to achieve world peace.
Wehner also foresees a "desperate kind of political nihilism" settling in. Such an ideological conviction, however, would seem to be limited to many dunderheaded Americans. Most Americans, centrists and liberals and authentic conservatives alike, genuinely desire progress — whether in rebuilding America, ensuring more affordable health care, or in securing at least a passable level of fiscal responsibility.
Those majority progressive desires — carried out at even a conservative pace — are far from political nihilism, hence that would seem to be the least of our problems. Our undeniably largest problem, on the other hand, lies in converting small-r republican desires into electoral action. Trump and his hapless big-r Republican Congress weren't elected by most Americans — many of whom simply stayed home.
Trump, though, may be the answer to our biggest problem, which brings us back to Wehner's closing observation: that "in this age of Trump, perhaps we will discover anew that there is an art not so much to the deal but to governing." That's a much milder way of saying that perhaps voters, next time around, won't be bamboozled by demagoguery or sucked into indifference. That's also a seductive thought I can believe in — one I must believe in, or I'd be forced to join the hopelessly, destructively indifferent.
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Planetshakers Rallying Cry For Missions With #letsgo
Featuring Planetshakers Posted on October 4, 2015
Planetshakers is a worldwide movement driven by the desire to empower generations to win generations, and providing an atmosphere where people can encounter God. Based out of Melbourne’s Planetshakers Church, one of Australia’s fastest growing churches in history, the movement’s priority and passion is to reach and impact people, seeing them transformed by the power of God and the love of God’s people. This mission is the heart behind the new Planetshakers Band CD/DVD #LETSGO releasing globally through Integrity Music today (Sept. 11) ... [more]
Taking cues from the great commission in Matthew 28:19-20, Planetshakers members will share the new music from #LETSGO along with their “Let’s Go” stories during Planetshakers LIVE!. Presented by Planetshakers, Daystar Television Network, Integrity Music and Church of God World Missions, and sponsored by Gateway Church, this 90-minute special will broadcast live Monday, Sept. 21, at 8:30 pm ET on Daystar Television Network into 700 million homes worldwide. Hosted by Brian Carn and John Gray, Planetshakers LIVE! will also feature special guest, Tasha Cobbs.
“We are honored to come alongside Planetshakers, Daystar and Integrity Music, to help reach millions around the globe with the Good News of the Gospel while also helping to create a worship experience where believers can connect with God,” says Robert Morris, Senior Pastor, Gateway Church.
In addition to the Planetshakers LIVE! broadcast, the event will further be simulcast as a free “Watch Party” at the Church of God Dasmariñas in the Philippines. This location was chosen after Planetshakers heard stories of concert attendees who made significant sacrifices just to be able to travel to see them in concert. Wanting to further bless these and others in the Philippines, Planetshakers is teaming with Daystar and Integrity Music to give away copies of #LETSGO, and is teaming with Biblica and HarperCollins Christian Publishing to give away Bibles, to the live audience at this “Watch Party” event. For every album purchased on the day of the event, #LETSGO will be given to an attendee in the Philippines. Additionally, up to 2,000 English-language NIV Bibles will be donated.
“Biblica and Harper Collins Christian Publishing together are humbled and honored by the opportunity to provide 2,000 NIV Bibles free of charge to people in the Philippines, many of which do not have a Bible. Our hope and prayer is that lives will be transformed by God’s Word,” jointly shares Biblica and Harper Collins Christian Publishing.
Tim Hill, General Director, Church of God World Missions, says, “I'm elated that Church of God World Missions can join with Daystar in the global launch of Planetshakers new recording. It's especially meaningful to see this Kingdom opportunity come to the Philippines where the Church of God has over 800 congregations. The cooperative efforts of Pastor and National Bishop, Anthony Velasco, his great Dasmariñas Church and many others will result in an unprecedented harvest in the Philippines just as it will all over the world."
As part of this unique Planetshakers LIVE! event, Planetshakers and Daystar invited anyone in the continental United States to register for an exclusive Planetshakers LIVE! All Access Giveaway. One registrant will receive airfare to Dallas, access to this special event, VIP seating, backstage pass, a meet and greet with Planetshakers Band, and more. The winner will be announced live on Sept. 15th at 12:00 pm ET on Daystar’s Marcus and Joni show.
Produced by Joth Hunt and featuring Hunt along with co-senior pastor and worship leader Sam Evans and worship leaders Rudy Nikkerud and BJ Pridham, #LETSGO was recorded live at Planetshakers’ spring 2015 "Awakening" conference in Melbourne. Available tomorrow as a CD/DVD combination as well as a standard digital album and a Digital Deluxe recording, Planetshakers has also released the first video from the project, “All About You,” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS-jVQ_uaNQ.
Widely known for their energetic and worshipful videos, Plantetshakers Band recently received its second consecutive “Long Form Video of the Year” Dove Award nomination for its 2014 release, This Is Our Time. This year’s awards will be handed out live from Nashville Oct. 13 during the 46th Annual GMA Dove Awards.
Having led over 200,000 people at a single event in Asia and sharing new music from #LETSGO and other favorite Planetshakers worship anthems around the world, Planetshakers recently finished multiple back-to-back sold out events in Manila, Taipei (Taiwan), Shanghai (China), Jakarta (Indonesia) and more locations around the world. Upcoming events include headlining along with Casting Crowns and Jesus Culture “Florida’s biggest Christian music festival,” Rock The Universe, Sept. 12. Touring to more cities across North America throughout September before jetting to Dubai (United Arab Emirates) for an event Oct. 16, all the latest tour dates can be found at www.planetshakers.com.
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Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman (left) and Premier Christy Clark tour Petronas gas import facilities in Malaysia in May.
Petronas gives deadline for LNG deal
Malaysian investors warn of lower gas price, high cost and regulation as B.C. prepares tax on LNG exports
Oct. 6, 2014 1:00 p.m.
Malaysia’s state-owned energy company has issued another public warning to the B.C. government that it could push back its investment in liquefied natural gas by 10 or 15 years.
Petronas CEO Shamsul Azhar Abbas issued a statement Monday describing a softening global market for natural gas and oil, and renewing criticisms made public in September about Canada’s tax and environment rules.
The latest shot across the bow from the leader of B.C.’s largest LNG project comes as the B.C. legislature meets for a rare fall session. The government’s main business in the two-month sitting is to authorize a provincial tax on LNG exports in addition to the royalties paid to the province for gas from northeastern B.C.
“The proposed fiscal package and regulatory pace in Canada threatens the global competitiveness of the Pacific Northwest LNG project,” Abbas said. “This is further exacerbated by preliminary project costs, which indicates cost of local contractors to be higher and not benchmarked to global contractor’s cost.”
Premier Christy Clark and Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman met with Petronas last week and agreed to have the tax arrangements completed by the end of October, allowing an investment decision by the end of the year.
The consortium led by Petronas also has to pass provincial environment assessment, including air pollution limits on its gas-fired LNG compressors.
The project has marine impacts from its proposed terminal on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, which requires approval of Fisheries and Oceans Canada for its effect on salmon and ocean habitat.
Petronas is leading a consortium that includes Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Brunei investors for a pipeline and LNG processing in northern B.C. Petronas paid $5 billion last year to take over Progress Energy Canada, which has major shale gas holdings in northeast B.C. and Alberta.
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With little gore and a lot of creepy visuals, The Ring gets under your skin, thanks to director Gore Verbinski's haunting sense of atmosphere and an impassioned performance from Naomi Watts.
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A disturbing videotape appears to hold the power of life and death over those who view it in this offbeat thriller. A strange videotape begins making the rounds in a town in the Pacific Northwest; it is full of bizarre and haunting images, and after watching it, many viewers receive a telephone call in which they are warned they will die in seven days. A handful of teenagers who watched the tape while spending a weekend at a cabin in the mountains scoff at the threat, but as predicted, they all die suddenly on the same night. Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts), the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter and travels West with her young son, Aidan (David Dorfman), a troubled child who has been drawing pictures of strange and ominous visions. Rachel managed to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve the puzzle of the video and the person or persons behind it within a week. Rachel turns to her ex, Noah (Martin Henderson), an expert in video technology, who at first is convinced the story is a hoax until he digs deeper into the mystery. The Ring was adapted from a 1996 Japanese film by Hideo Nakata, which became a massive box-office success in Asia and spawned two sequels. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
PG-13 (for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references)
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Romance
as Rachel Keller
as Noah
David Dorfman
as Aidan Keller
as Richard Morgan
as Dr. Grasnik
Lindsay Frost
as Ruth Embry
as Katie Embry
as Becca
Daveigh Chase
as Samara
Shannon Cochran
as Anna Morgan
Sandra Thigpen
as Teacher
Richard Lineback
as Innkeeper
Sasha Barrese
as Girl Teen No. 1
Tess Hall
as Male Teen No. 1
as Harvey
Pauley Perrette
as Beth
Ronald William Lawrence
as Library Clerk
Stephanie Erb
as Donna
Sara Rue
as Babysitter
Lindsey Stoddart
as Grad Student
Joe Sabatino
as Orderly
Joanna Lin Black
as Cashier
as Girl On Ferry
David Povall
as Girl's Father
Keith Campbell
as Ship's Mate
Chuck Hicks
as Ferry Worker
Michael Spound
as Dave
Gary Carlos Cervantes
as Painter
Aixa Clemente
as Nurse
Art Frankel
as Cal
Billy Lloyd
as Darby
Coleen Maloney
as Mourner No. 1
Catherine Paolone
Guy Richardson
as Librarian
Fiachra Trench
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Critic Reviews for The Ring
All Critics (206) | Top Critics (49) | DVD (22)
Gore Verbinski creates an air of dread that begins with the first scene and never lets up, subtly incorporating elements from the current wave of Japanese horror films along the way.
Jul 25, 2014 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Keith Phipps
The filmmakers have wisely stayed close to the original's mood, which is somber and flat, with quick (near-subliminal) inserts and a soundtrack full of watery-grave groans and murmurs.
Jul 25, 2014 | Full Review…
An edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish.
Richard Schickel
The Ring, about a videotape that kills people, is so full of inconsistencies and plot holes that I stumbled from a recent screening with few answers, and a ton of questions.
Christy Lemire
Watching The Ring won't kill you, but it could bore you half to death.
Joe Morgenstern
I hated it, but I grant that it does tap into a vein of technological horror -- the fear of the VCR! -- that will have young videophiles chatting it up for weeks.
Jul 25, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Jack Mathews
A thoroughly prosaic and prototypical spooker that commits the cardinal sin of devaluing what made the raw materials of its fable so original and powerful in the first place.
PJ Nabarro
Patrick Nabarro
This remake of a hugely successful Japanese horror film is very well acted by Naomi Watts. It's just not that scary.
Jan 3, 2018 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Joel Siegel
A very strong movie in all the ways you need a horror movie to be strong. But it is a movie that could very obviously be better.
Dec 11, 2016 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
One of the most intelligent and genuinely scary ghost stories to come around in a long time.
Alex Kaloostian
The Ring doesn't have the wiliness or conviction to exploit either a single mother's guilt over child neglect or our collective queasiness over potential bad seeds. It merely alternates these themes and toys with them.
Michael Sragow
The Ring, an elegantly creepy film set in a perpetual Seattle rainstorm, is interested more in eerie, unnerving thrills than bloodletting.
Jul 25, 2014 | Rating: 3/4
Matt Soergel
Florida Times-Union
Audience Reviews for The Ring
Despite shoddy writing in certain moments, The Ring quickly overcomes it's faults thanks to Gore Verbinski's fantastic and skillful direction, Hans Zimmer's haunting score, and Naomi Watts' great performance, leaving your skin crawling before and after the viewing experience.
Matthew M Super Reviewer
Full of suspense and intrigue, The Ring is a subtle but intense thriller. When a newspaper reporter investigates an underground videotape that supposedly kills you seven days after watching it, she discovers that it's all too true. Featuring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, and Amber Tamblyn, the casting is pretty good, with one exception (the child actor who plays Watt's son). And while the pacing seems slow, it just makes the thrills that much more intense when they come. Additionally, the investigation of the tape is well-plotted and engrossing. Though American remakes of foreign films have a bad rep, The Ring is an impressive horror film that delivers some bone-chilling terrors.
Dann M Super Reviewer
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in seven days kill them in a pretty messed up fashion, though one that's not quite as messy as you would expect with a director who actually has Gore as his first name. I presume that silly misunderstanding is why the Rotten Tomatoes consensus is so strangely emphatic about there not being a whole lot of gore, but either way, the fact of the matter is that this is no Peter Jackson film, even though I can see how you would make the mistake, not just because this is a breakout film of sorts with "Ring" in the title, but because it features Naomi Watts having to deal with some strange creature with a whole lot of hair. Yeah, this chick seriously needs a haircut, though I'm certainly not gonna tell her that she looks about as hairy as King Kong, not just because I seriously wouldn't want some crazy demon girl to get mad at me, but because she's freaky enough when she's not showing off her messed up face all the time. So yeah, I would have expected the dude who directed "MouseHunt" and "The Mexican" to do as effective of a job as he does with a horror film, and quite frankly, I'm glad, because if "MouseHunt" gave you good idea of how disturbing of a filmmaker Gore Verbinski can get, then we would be looking as some seriously traumatised kids. Shoot, I think Jack Sparrow is too disturbing-looking, and if I thought there was any remote possibility that he would crawl out of the TV, forget about it, I don't care how white I am, I'm not touching that tape. Shoot, it's 2012, I say that like I will touch a video tape in the near future. Well, already dated or not, the fact of the matter is that this chiller is an effective one, and yet, and as tense as this film gets to be, perhaps it is a touch too atmospheric for its own good. Intended to be good old fashion ceaseless tension, the film is immensely atmospheric, and that works about as often, if not more than it doesn't, yet the fact of the matter is that there are occasions where the immense atmosphere doesn't necessarily work, overemphasizing the aura of a situation so much to the point of feeling manipulative, and not just during the scary moments, as too much tension will find itself pumped into areas where no overwhelming intrigue is needed, with quite possibly the biggest "Wait, what?" moment occuring directly after young David Dorfman's Aidan Keller's watching of the tape, when backstory that is known by everyone but the audience and has little impact on the plot to a character relationship is presented as a stinger twist in a fashion that's almost chuckle-worthy. Sure, Gore Verbinski is a good enough director to where the scene in question and others don't come off as too awkward, yet the tonal overbearingness still stands, which isn't to say that the atmosphere has to necessarily be behind something to be problematic. Just the overally meditative dreaminess of the atmosphere proves disengaging, as it dulls things down quite considerably and quite often, and yet, although the film is perhaps at its dullest when quitness is emphasized, it's not like the film is all that much fun when there's nothing to fear. Expostion and one-off dialogue pieces aren't necessarily too boring, because there's still something going on, yet things get to be all too quiet, even when quietness is purposeless, and this, of course, keeps momentum from picking up all that consistently. Dullness is formed often, and with it, dullness' old companion, blandness, which may not be too terribly relentless, yet stands consistent enough to do some damage on the final product. Still, it's not like the film was ever going to have all that much bite in the first place, as its story, while reasonably engaging, is filled with conventions, and is not too much more than simply decent to begin with, and with the story's shortcomings going emphasized by the aforementioned thorough slowness, the promising project sputters out as a bit underwhelming. Of course, the film doesn't fall too far down the well-I mean, the totem pole, because for every fall, there is indeed a rise, in tension that is, with style keeping consistent in its commendable height. Deeply colored, bleakly lit and handsomely defined, Bojan Bazelli's photography may supplement the film's blandness, being dreamy and with color diluted by an overwhelming amount of deep greenish blue, yet still catches your attention with its elegantly dark look, as well as its supplementing the film's bleakness more than the blandness, while something that soley supplements intrigue being, of all things, the editing. Okay, maybe Craig Wood's editing isn't completely innocent as a culprit behind the film's slowness, keeping scenes loose and quiet, yet when things pick up and Wood finds an opportunity to play with some nifty editing tricks, he delivers on neat quick insertions of imagery to keep you alert during the more meditative moments when not making sure that the film's relatively more fast-pace moments keep pumping through slickly stylish quick cuts that supplement the intensity that gives you a reasonably potent sense of intrigue towards the film's mystery aspects and, of course, more major thrills. Yes, people, while the film's ceaseless attempts at intrigue get to be a bit manipulative, or at least just plain exhausting, and by extension, rather fall-flat, more often than not, the film chills and pulls you to the edge of your seat, partially thanks to the cleverly disturbing imagery and, of course, the work of my man Mr. Hans Zimmer, whose work isn't necessarily as terribly sharp as it usually is, yet remains pretty sharp, providing well-composed tunes that, when married with the immersively strong sound design and Gore Verbinski's atmosphere, sinks into the film, as well as your nerves more often than not. The film isn't necessarily as consistently thrilling as it should be, yet it is at least generally chilling, or if nothing else, reasonably compelling, thanks largely to Naomi Watts, who doesn't really have enough to do to carry this film through thick and thin and give the final product the extra push it needs to be truly rewarding, yet delivers on emotional range and a genuine presence of humanity that engrosses you when Watts is at her strongest, which isn't to say that Watts doesn't engage to one degree or another throughout this film. Watts keeps this film going when the film really starts to dip, yet doesn't go backed up with enough to do consistently for her performance, and the film with her, to thoroughly engross, so the performance that does the most in bringing this film close to genuine goodness is the very one that helps in dropping this film to a state of underwhelmingness: the key offscreen one. Director Gore Verbinski doesn't feel too terribly assured in his direction, keeping things either too atmospheric or just too dull, and that is what renders the final product underwhelming, yet at the same time, when Verbinski really wakes up, you join him, because although his atmosphere does get to be too much, much more often than not, it's effective in its clever sobriety which chews at you and keeps you eager to see just what is to happen next. Verbinski does a decent job of absorbing the depth of the story's intrigue, both as something of a mystery drama and as a psychological thriller, and while he does do too good of a job in some areas and not good enough of a job in others, to where the final product falls as quite improvable, Verbinski, with the help of his team of other talents, keeps you going. As the screen fuzzes out, you're left both wanting a little more and a little less, in that you find yourself overwhelmed by the excessive and dulling atmosphere and underwhelmed by too much dull quietness even when there's nothing really going on, thus resulting in the blandness that, alongside the conventions, exposes enough of the limitations within the story for the film to fall flat as underwhelming, yet not to where it doesn't find more than a few occasions in which it picks itself back up, going supported by the striking visual and editing style and nifty score work - courtesy of the great Hans Zimmer - that catch your attention and supplement the intrigue that goes further supplemented by Naomi Watts' compelling performance, and established by Gore Verbinski's having enough atmospheric effectiveness to make "The Ring" an enjoyable chiller, even if its does stand to thrill more. 2.5/5 - Fair
Cameron J Super Reviewer
There's plenty of supporting thriller, narrative and character to make this relatively understated film really creep up on you and linger in the mind, unpredictable, seriously tense and seriously frightening, though without quite reaching a layer of thematic depth to qualify a place in the hall of horror greats.
Louis R Super Reviewer
The Ring Quotes
Dr. Grasnik: It means ever since that girl's been gone, things have been better.
Samara: [singing by the well] : Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning. Sun comes up, we all laugh. Sun goes down, we all die...
Becca: You start to play it and it's like somebody's nightmare. And then this woman comes on, smiling at you, right? Seeing you... through the screen. Then when it's over, your phone rings, someone knows you watched the tape... and what they say is, "You will die in seven days".
Noah: I can't imagine being stuck down a well all alone like that. How long could you survive?
Rachel Keller: Seven days.
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KAT & CO. INTERVIEW
Answers from singer Kathleen Pearson and guitar player Francesco Accurso
What's the first song you ever remember hearing?
F: It's a difficult answer because there was a lot of Italian music at home and none of it I really remember. Perhaps "Il Pescatore" by Italian singer songwriter Fabrizio De Andre'. For sure the first single I ever bought, and which I still have in my collection, is "Eye in The sky" by Alan Parson Project.
K: 634-5789 by Wilson Pickett
If you have to describe your music in there of four words,what would you call it?
K: a very stylish and cool form of contemporary Blues
F: some people call it night club blues
How did you become involved in the type of music you play?
K: Blues, Gospel and Soul were always around when I grew up and whereas most of my friends moved into pop and especially Rap, I felt at home with the Blues
F: I guess for a guitar player the Blues is the first step into improvised music. I always loved players such as Clapton, B.B. King, Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Steve Ray and I started playing the blues quite young. I was also fascinated with the work of David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), a tremendous blues player whose lyrical approach transcend the style. This great passion for music and the chance of performing in front of an audience certainly put me on a stage
What can people expect to see at your live performances?
K: A show that connects and entertains the audience with both a modern and traditional approach to the Blues
F: Kat&Co. is all about finding the Blues in our day to day life so expect tradition but also innovation in the sounds and arrangements. Add to that Kat's incredible presence, great interplay between the musicians and a lot of Blues, Jazz, Soul and even a touch of pop.
Do you have any fan comments of how your music or a song affected them?
K: "You gave me chills and tears!" ...Isn't it all about that?
F: Kat&Co. is all about innovation and trying new approaches to the genre. "I never heard a blues band sound quite like that, I am not a big Blues fan but I love what you do" is a quote I remember because it meant I was on the right track. Another one I liked was from an old guitar player who approached me after a gig and told me "I could feel every note you played".
If you could perform with anyone in the world, either dead or alive, or broke up who would it be? Why?
K: Big Mama Thorton because she was humorous and had a command and delivery which seem to be a part of her personal make up
F: Clarence Gatemouth Brown for his capacity to eclectically embrace music and perform it with all he had
What is the furthest show from your home that you have done?
K: Perth, Australia
F: Los Angeles, USA
Just for fun…………. Please fill in the blanks,
K: I don't know what I would be
F: still an artist I guess
Kat & Co. website
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Ofsted & Performance
Phonics & Reading
Pupil Representatives
Ravensfield Club
At Ravensfield Primary School we follow the National Curriculum and link it together through topics, using the Cornerstones Curriculum.
The Cornerstones Curriculum is a creative and thematic approach to learning that is mapped to the National Curriculum to ensure comprehensive coverage of national expectations. This curriculum will be delivered through Imaginative Learning Projects (ILP's) which will provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of children’s learning. This curriculum will require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively across the curriculum.
Use the drop down menus below to view information about each area of our curriculum:
The English curriculum is designed to support pupils in their acquisition and use of English from nursery through to year 6. It is based on the 2014 National Curriculum and as such sets a high standard for all.
The National Curriculum for English is broken down in these areas:
Spoken Language.
Reading (word reading and comprehension).
Writing (composition and transcription).
Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation.
Phonics.
Each of these builds on the relevant sections of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum which are the focus in nursery and reception years.
This information seeks to give you an outline of how the curriculum is constructed. Your child’s teacher will be able to give more information as you require.
At Ravensfield, we teach and apply the required English skills across all levels and all subjects within Cornerstones and as stand-alone skill based lessons.
Below are the National Curriculum objectives for each year group:
Year 1 English Objectives
Following the changes to the National Curriculum from 2014, the aim of Maths at Ravensfield is to develop the three main areas; the fluency, reasoning and problem solving of maths. We aim to encourage children to think for themselves, build on the knowledge they already have and apply their maths skills to a range of everyday problems and activities.
Maths is delivered daily across the school and children are encouraged to deepen their knowledge and understanding through a variety of different problem solving and reasoning tasks, such as answering questions posed in different ways and in different contexts as well as explaining their processes and thinking in a clear and systematic way. Children’s understanding is developed through the use of physical objects to allow them to make sense of number.
Children in Early Years are beginning to develop, through play, an understanding of the value of number and initial counting. This prepares them for working towards the National Curriculum objectives in Year 1.
In Key Stage 1 Maths is delivered using lots of equipment to allow children to show what they are thinking. Where possible, maths is based on real-life situations.
In Key Stage 2 we follow a programme of study designed by the White Rose educational team to deliver our Maths lessons. In order to enable children to deepen their understanding children are given a range of challenges which help to develop the three main areas of the curriculum and make links between their knowledge.
In Key Stage 2 all children will complete a pre-assessment at the beginning of each unit to allow them to show what they already know and move quickly away from fluency activities and on to Reasoning and Problem Solving challenges.
Throughout primary school children will be taught arithmetic. Arithmetic is the methods children use for solving calculations. Arithmetic starts in EYFS and KS1 with children using equipment to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers. Children will then progress onto using a number line and other methods of ‘working out’. By Year 3, children are introduced to formal methods of working out for addition and subtraction and eventually move onto formal methods for multiplication and division. These include column methods for addition, subtraction and multiplication and ‘bus stop’ for division. As children make their way through the school they will work with larger numbers and also with decimals, fractions and percentages.
Year 1 Maths Curriculum & Daily Skills
Times Tables Expectations Year 2
RE and Collective Worship
Through Religious Education, pupils are give opportunities to reflect on the nature and role of beliefs, the attitudes and values underpinning these, and the practices and behaviours that arise because of them. Skills developed through the teaching of RE include developing self -awareness, respect for all, open-mindedness, appreciation and wonder.
RE is taught in all classes and follows the procedures and guidelines laid down in the Tameside LA Agreed Syllabus, which introduces and discusses Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism.
This is Christian based but not exclusively so. A daily act of collected worship is held either as a whole School, in Key Stages or in the classroom. It is an important part of our school day.
Visitors are invited to take our Key Stage assemblies and Friday assemblies are special because we celebrate achievement and share good work. The school has no affiliations to any specific religious order but does have regular contact with local churches and pupils visit these and other places of worship as part of the RE programme.
Parents have the right to withdraw their child from RE lessons and religious assemblies if they wish. You will need to talk to the Headteacher before doing so. Alternative provision will be made for your child.
RE Curriculum Overview
Years 1 to 6
Aims – To work scientifically
To understand plants.
To understand animals and humans.
To investigate living things.
To understand evolution and inheritance.
To investigate materials.
To understand movement, forces and magnets.
To understand the Earth’s movement in space.
To investigate light and seeing.
To investigate sound and hearing.
To understand electrical circuits.
The Vision for Science
Science is an important part of our curriculum. We believe that when learning about science, children should learn to be scientists. This means our pupils will have:
The ability to think independently and raise questions about working scientifically and the knowledge and skills that it brings.
Confidence and competence in the full range of practical skills, taking the initiative in, for example, planning and carrying out scientific investigations.
Excellent scientific knowledge and understanding which is demonstrated in written and verbal explanations, solving challenging problems and reporting scientific findings.
High levels of originality, imagination or innovation in the application of skills.
The ability to undertake practical work in a variety of contexts, including fieldwork.
A passion for science and its application in past, present and future technologies.
In Key Stage 1 they will:
• Identify, classify and describe the basic structure.
• Observe and describe growth and conditions for growth
• Look at the suitability of environments and at food chains
• Identify, classify and observe
• Look at growth, basic needs, exercise, food and hygiene
• Identify name, describe, classify and compare the properties and changes
• Look at the practical use of everyday materials
• Describe basic movements.
• Observe seasonal changes
• Look at the functions of parts of flowering plants, requirements for growth, water transportation in plants, life cycles and seed dispersal.
Evolution and Inheritance
• Look at resembling offspring.
• Look at changes over time.
• Look at adaptation of environments.
• Look at differences in offspring
• Look at adaptation and evolution.
• Look at changes to the human skeleton over time.
• Look at nutrition, transportation of water and nutrients in the body and muscle and skeleton system of humans and animals.
• Look at the digestive system in humans.
• Look at teeth.
• Look at the human circulatory system
• Identify and name plants and animals.
• Look at classification keys.
• Look at the life cycle of plants and animals.
• Look at classification of plants, animals and micro organisms.
• Look at reproduction in plants and animals and human growth and changes.
• Look at the effect of diet, exercise and drugs.
Rocks and Fossils
• Compare and group rocks and describe the formation of fossils.
States and matter
• Look at solids, liquids and gases, changes of state, evaporation, condensation and the water cycle.
• Examine properties or materials using various tests.
• Look at solubility and recovering dissolved substances.
• Separate mixtures.
• Examine changes to create new materials that are usually not reversible.
• Look at sources, seeing, reflections and shadows.
• Explain how light appears to travel in straight lines and this affects seeing and shadows.
• Look at sources, vibration, volume and pitch.
• Look at appliances, circuits, lamps, switches, insulators and conductors.
• Look at circuits, the effect of voltage in cells and the resistance and conductivity of materials.
Forces and magnets
• Look at contact and distant forces, attraction and repulsion, comparing and grouping materials.
• Look at poles, attraction and repulsion.
• Look at the effect of gravity and drag forces.
• Look at transference of forces in gears, pulleys, levers and springs.
• Look at the movement of the Earth and the Moon.
• Explain day and night.
Aims – To listen carefully and understand, to develop a wide and interesting vocabulary, to speak with clarity, to tell stories with structure and hold conversations and debates.
The Vision for Communication
Communication is an important part of our curriculum. We believe that when learning to communicate, children should learn to be communicators. This means our pupils will have:
an exceptional talent for listening attentively so as to understand what is being said.
a rich and varied vocabulary that gives clarity and interest to conversations.
clear speech that can be easily understood by a range of audiences.
an excellent grasp of the rules used in English conversation, such as tenses and the grammatical structure of sentences.
a highly developed ability to tell stories that capture the interest and imagination of the audience.
a delight in initiating and joining in conversations.
respect for others when communicating, even when views differ.
In Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2 they will:
Engage in meaningful discussions in all areas of the curriculum.
Listen to and learn a wide range of subject specific vocabulary.
Through reading identify vocabulary that enriches and enlivens stories.
Speak to small and larger audiences at frequent intervals.
Practise and rehearse sentences and stories, gaining feedback on the overall effect and the use of standard English.
Listen to and tell stories often so as to internalise the structure.
Debate issues and formulate well-constructed points.
Aims – To read present neatly, spell correctly, punctuate accurately, write with a purpose, use imaginative description, organise writing appropriately, use paragraphs, use sentences appropriately, analyse writing and present writing.
The Vision for Writing
Writing is an important part of our curriculum. We believe that when learning to write, children should learn to be writers. This means our pupils will have:
the ability to write fluently and with interesting detail on a number of topics throughout the curriculum.
a vivid imagination which makes readers engage with and enjoy their writing.
a highly developed vocabulary and an excellent knowledge of writing techniques to extend details or description.
well-organised and structured writing, which includes a variety of sentence structures.
excellent transcription skills that ensure their writing is well presented and punctuated, spelled correctly and neat.
a love of writing and an appreciation of its educational, cultural and entertainment values.
write stories set in places pupils have been.
write stories with imaginary settings.
write stories and plays that use the language of fairy tales and traditional tales.
write stories that mimic significant authors.
write narrative diaries.
write labels, lists, captions, instructions, recounts and glossaries.
present information.
write non-chronological reports.
write poems that use pattern, rhyme and description.
write nonsense and humorous poems and limericks.
write stories that contain mythical, legendary or historical characters or events.
write stories of adventure.
write stories of mystery and suspense.
write letters.
write plays.
write stories, letters, scripts and fictional biographies inspired by reading across the curriculum.
write instructions.
write recounts.
write persuasively.
write explanations.
write biographies.
write in a journalistic style.
write arguments.
write formally.
learn by heart and perform a significant poem.
write haikus.
write cinquains.
write poems that convey an image (simile, word play, rhyme and metaphor).
Ravensfield Handwriting Guide
Here at Ravensfield, we believe that physical education is an essential part of a child’s educational development. Ravensfield aims to develop a balanced program offering a variety of activities to enhance skills in physical education. Positive participation in physical education will enable children to build self-esteem, team work and positive attitudes in P.E.
We aim to:
Develop agility, coordination and confidence through physical activity.
Develop confidence, leadership skills and knowledge that will help the children not only in sport, but in life.
Pursuit for excellence.
Be proud of our achievements.
Promote fair play, respect and tolerance.
Educate children to improve health and wellbeing.
Provide quality opportunities for children outside of school time.
Most pupils have two sessions of PE a week. Dance, gymnastics, swimming, games and athletics are taught. We encourage a competitive spirit while recognising the value of cooperation, fair play and teamwork.
We have an after-school gymnastics, football club, rugby club, dance club and cricket club run by qualified coaches and staff .There is an annual Sports Day held in the summer term.
PE Long Term Plan
At Ravensfield Primary School Spanish is taught as a modern foreign language by Miss Garcia. We believe that learning a foreign language prepares children for life in modern Britain, in which work and activities often involve using languages other than English.
Through learning Spanish we want children to:
Enjoy using a language other than English.
Develop a better understanding of the English language, language learning and communication.
Develop an awareness of cultural differences and develop a tolerance of diversity in society.
Be open-minded and adventurous in all aspects of their learning.
A variety of techniques are used to ensure children enjoy learning Spanish. These include games, songs, storytelling and interactive ICT programmes. To bring Spanish to life real objects are used e.g. food, clothes, puppets and toys .We watch videos and listen to recordings to expose the children to more than one voice in Spanish. Lessons are fun and enjoyable in order to develop a positive attitude towards learning a foreign language.
Spanish Long Term Plan
Spanish Language Games
Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC)
Throughout the curriculum at Ravensfield teachers promote SMSC aspects of life and promote British Values, such as: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Assemblies play a huge role in developing SMSC learning at Ravensfield. Topics/themes for assemblies include:
Celebrating learning and achievements both in and out of school.
Celebrating attendance and punctuality.
Learning about different cultures, festivals and celebrations.
Learning about British Values.
Weekly singing assemblies.
Visitors and outreach activities.
By integrating SMSC into the life of our school we aim to develop a sense of society, tolerance and collaboration that tackles prejudice and promotes equality. We aim to teach children to make senseof the world we live in, how to interact positively with others, how to know themselves and the person they may become in the future.
This will be done formally; through taught lessons, informally; through providing activities and experiences and through the hidden curriculum/ ethos as displayed though the expectations, relationships and attitudes of everybody in school.
We aim to instil a sense of pride in being part of the Ravensfield community and in the school as a building where all can learn and belong. Our learning environment is bright, relevant and well cared for. Our children feel safe and cared for. School council means the children have a say in changes that are made. Many visitors to our school comment on the positive ethos and welcoming atmosphere. We believe that the behaviour, manners and attitudes of our pupils is a real strength.
Pupils are encouraged to be reflective during collective worship and in R.E, PSHE lessons.
The school follows the Local Agreed syllabus for R.E, which is supported by other curriculum areas such as art, science and geography and through visits.
The school has a supportive ethos where pupils can be individuals, develop respect and be respected and are provided with opportunities through SEAL and collective worship to explore specific strategies to support them with this.
Pupils lead celebration assemblies and share achievements using music, images.
Pupils take part in prayer and are helped to reflect on how bible stories are relevant to their lives todaythrough R.E. lessons.
Pupils visiting special places (Places of worship/The Local Cenotaph). Experiences that inspire awe and wonder. Celebrating talents to develop a sense of self/sense of values.
Policies and curriculum planning provide opportunities for children to explore questions of right and wrong and explore moral codes in their own and others’ cultures.
Pupils regularly raise funds for related charities and understand what is happening in other parts of the world.
Pupils feel comfortable to express their views and usually show good sportsmanship.
Children participate in community projects.
Pupils participate in class council discussions and contribute to school improvement.
SEAL and behaviour management systems that promote fairness and morality based on intrinsic motivation.
School rules, rewards and sanctions clearly defined and understood.
Staff and older children act as role models during everyday life.
Teaching the difference between right and wrong. Discussion of outcomes and consequences of actions.
Staff help pupils develop a ‘good moral compass’ and reward good behaviour and attitudes.
New pupils adjust well to the school and are firmly accepted by their classmates.
Nurture suite helpschildren to reach the right place emotionally in order to learn effectively.
A critical skills approach to learning means that children are happy to collaborate with a range of pupils from other classes and year groups as well as their own.
School housesmean children collaborate with pupils across the age groups.
A range of afterschool clubs are offered and are usually oversubscribed.
A Residential trip isoffered in upper KS2.
Pupils join with other pupils from local schools to participate in sports contests and collaborate in teams to compete against other clusters of schools.
Sports Leaders develops a sense of fun and participation for all at lunchtimes.
Circle time and social stories activities help children understand different social situations and acceptable behaviour and develop emotional intelligenceMrs Plackett SMSC coordinator
Help pupils appreciate their own cultures and traditions and those of others.
Pupils enjoy participating in a range of cultural experiences and are keen to develop their knowledge of others’ way of life, however more could be done to challenge pre-conceived stereotypes and develop children’s knowledge of other places in the UK.
Through the curriculum and collective worship children learn about the traditions, challenges and experiences of people in less economically developed countries and show empathy and understanding.
Themed meal days allow children to experience tastes linked to other parts of the world. Assemblies, PSHE and R.E lessons introduce the children to a range of cultures by looking at stories, festivals, traditions from a range of cultures so that they better understand the global communities in which we live.
Our library contains a variety of story and text books about other cultures and countries
SMSC Long Term Plan
We are passionate about supporting our children's social and emotional well-being. We want our children to grow into happy, secure, resilient children grow up to have the skills to cope with all the things that life throws at us as adults. To help our children we use 'The Thrive Approach' and have a number of specially trained practitioners on the senior leadership team as well as in classrooms.
The Thrive Approach has been developed over many years by experts working in mental health, emotional development and education. Thrive is all about helping children to flourish. It supports their emotional and social development and helps them feel happy and secure, able to enjoy friendships, relate well to others and be ready and able to learn.
Thrive is a specific way of working with all children that helps to develop their social and emotional wellbeing, enabling them to engage with life and learning. It supports them in becoming more self-assured, capable and adaptable. It can also address any troubling behaviours providing a firm foundation for academic attainment.
A Parents Guide to Thrive
Download our PDF Guide
As part of our curriculum we teach our children the importance of E-Safety and how to stay safe online. The E-Safety curriculum is taught in a fun and engaging way from Year 1 through to Year 6.
Below is the whole school overview and along with links to each year groups curriculum.
Curriculum Whole School Overview
Online Safety Curriculum Year 1
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The best books to read this July
Holiday reading sorted.
By Hannah Dunn
From Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell's new offering, to an exquisite sun drenched debut from Alison Jean Lester, these novels will see you through your summer. Enjoy.
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton
PR SHOT
When your first book became the fastest-selling debut of the year, big things are expected from you. And Lupton's third novel doesn't disappoint. Following a woman and her child who are forced to journey across Alaska when her husband disappears. Gripping and chilling, it's hard to put it down.
(Little Brown, £14.99)
Lillian on Life by Alison Jean Lester
Try not to fall in love with Lillian, Alison Jean Lester’s vivacious, funny and charming heroine in this excellent debut novel. Born in the American Midwest in the 1930s, Lillian – now in her late fifties – looks back over a life that’s seen her living in post-war Europe alone, taking lovers (including married ones) and pushing the boundaries of social convention. In chapters, written as short vignettes, she re-tells her experiences, imparts her wisdom and ponders her future. A gorgeous read, at moments heartbreaking, often joyful and mostly unforgettable.
(John Murray, £7.99)
Something To Hide by Deborah Moggach
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes an unpredictable tale of love, loss and deception. Following four women's interconnecting stories in London, Africa, China and Texas – from sixty-several singleton Petra to naive housewife Lorrie – each one has something she's desperate to hide. Can anyone be trusted?
(Chatto & Windus, £12.99 – 2nd July)
Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell
All about an author who is peeved that her biggest literary character has become more famous than her – so she decides to kill her off. While this fictional heroine has little in common with Carrie Bradshaw (Bushnell describes her as ‘the idealised version of what women should be’) the Sex and the City writer still manages to weave her trademark female camaraderie, breakup drama and New York glamour into the new narrative. The result? A dark, glitzy sun lounger read that shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
(Little, Brown, £14.99) is out now
Motherland by Jo McMillan
When a pair of mother- and-daughter communists head to East Germany in 1978, it’s not long before the trouble begins. Funny, smart and packed full of all the melancholy you would expect from a novel that slowly sheds a child’s innocence.
(John Murray, £16.99)
The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas
When Great Aunt Oleander’s loved ones each inherit a seed pod after her death, they must face questions about life, desire and humanity. This magical family saga will cement Thomas’ position at the literary top table.
(Canongate, £14.99)
Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase
There’s something about tales of mysterious old buildings that have the ability to set hairs on end. In this one, two intertwining stories explore the magnificence of Black Rabbit Hall and the dark secrets behind its walls. Perfect sun lounger fodder.
(Penguin, £12.99)
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Still, sometimes it's hard to decide — is the profile interesting enough? Is it worth the risk for a potentially boring conversation or the horror of a terrible pickup line?
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risual NXT is back!
We are super happy to announce the risual: NXT is making a return! On Tuesday 25th June 2019, risual will be hosting the insightful event again at risual HQ with new special guests and even more sessions. We will be offering you this opportunity to gain great insights into the industries and buckets of information on the latest technology – but it doesn’t stop there, we will also share with you a glimpse into Microsoft’s future! You do not want to miss this exciting event, register your attendance ASAP to secure a seat!
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What to expect on the day
After the success of the risual: NXT event in January 2019 we are super excited to announce that we are bringing back risual: NXT on Tuesday 25th June 2019 – make sure you secure the date in your calendar!
We told you that this is the biggest event risual have ever held to date and we promise for you to leave with an abundance of knowledge and insights. Here are a few things we have planned for you to take part in on the day.
You are invited to pick from a host of track sessions all ranging from tech to industry and to leadership – all very exciting topics, we know, so don’t worry – you can mix and match as you please. We will share more information regarding the track sessions in the near future, make sure to keep your eyes peeled.
As an exciting addition to this year’s festivities, we have several side sessions that can be added to your day! Learn from one of our partners about how they can help you, find out what financing options are available to you, and get a HoloLens demo! We want you to get the most possible out of this day.
Meanwhile, when you aren’t stuffing your brain full of insights, we welcome you to stuff your face with local favourites and more snacks than you can handle!
The event is set to sell out and we have limited seats available, so register your interest today!
Tim Humphreys
Strategic Resource Analysis Manager, NATS
After completing my Electronics degree I joined Motorola as a graduate software engineer, working initially on radio systems used by the emergency services and later on mobile phones. I left that role to start my PhD in microfluidics and single molecule detection; combining optoelectronics and microfabrication to create fluid networks that manipulate DNA molecules for sensitive detection. While in the final stages of writing my PhD thesis I joined NATS in what was then the Operational Analysis department and I’ve since worked on radar data, electronic safety nets, fast time simulation and analysis and reporting of operational staffing. During my time with NATS I’ve been involved in several technology improvement programmes including the creation of a BI data warehouse, building an SSRS reporting capability and most recently the redesign and migration of our staffing analysis and reporting database from an outdated on-premise architecture to the Azure cloud, also moving our reporting to Power BI.
Sue Preston
Director Solution Sales at Microsoft UK
Over 28 years’ experience in IT delivering key industry insights and helping organisations accelerate ROI and Digital Transformation.
Sue is an experienced Leader with a track record of leading high performing teams. At Microsoft, Sue and her team are focussed on helping organisations transition to the cloud. Their industry alignment enables them to be relevant to their customers' businesses, driving key innovation around Data Strategy, Application Innovation, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and IOT. The team consists of Solution Sales Specialists and Technical Sales Principals across Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector.
Mike Brady
Head of IT for Care International UK and Europe
CARE International supports a workforce close to 9000 staff working in 79 poor and developing countries, helping millions of the world’s poorest people to find routes out of poverty. Mikes background has been largely implementing Microsoft technologies and Corporate ERP’s in Councils, Cultural institutions and NGO’s. At Care he leads the strategic approach and delivery of the Azure/Office 365 platform to support Care’s European based staff to collaborate using Teams, OneDrive, S4B and PowerBI to produce humanitarian programs, advocating for human rights and providing disaster relief. He grows the business by gaining efficiencies through staff enablement, lowering TCO of infrastructure, tighter integration of corporate systems and developing a continuous improvement approach leveraging RMS and CSP license management.
Nick Sharp
Channel Manager, Microsoft Financing
With over ten years’ experience in financing, Nick’s works with a multitude of Microsoft partners to provide payment solutions to customers for a whole range of products, be it licensing, hardware, professional or managed partner services.
Microsoft Financing offers as standard a flat payment plan, but also offer stepped, deferred or seasonal payments to match your cash flow across a term of between one and five years. Their aim is to find the right financial product for you to maximise your spending power and Nick will work directly with you to ensure an affordable solution for your circumstances.
Microsoft Financing works in all industries, from Public Sector to all Commercial areas, so are well placed to offer solutions to any customer.
Jonathan Lyon
Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
I joined Microsoft 5 years ago where I was a Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft’s Consulting Services. Just over a year ago I joined Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner Organisation (OCP) where my role is to assess, enable and build partner’s technical capability to support pre-sales and customer engagements. I focus predominantly on Identity, Security and also Mixed Reality which is our HoloLens device. Prior to Microsoft and in fact since I left university I have always worked for Microsoft Partners.
Karl Kocar
Partner Technical Architect, Microsoft
I am a Technical Architect at Microsoft. My primary role is to help our Partners build Modern Workplace practices and create their own Intellectual Property that utilises Microsoft 365. The beauty of my role is that it is actually very end user focused as everything that my Partners and I build is centred around making our customer's businesses more successful. I love working on all things relating to Microsoft Teams and Cloud Voice. I am also passionate about Collaboration, Platform Customisation and Security, which are the other essential ingredients for Teamworking.
I’m a Microsoft MCSD certified full-stack developer. I specialize in the use of Cognitive services, Xamarin mobile development and back-end service development working with frameworks within the Microsoft portfolio. I have over 10 years’ experience in the IT Industry, in varying roles including working in both Hardware and Software focused industries. I’ve worked with a wide variety of clients from different sectors, as is the nature of the work that we do. I’m a big believer in futurology and I think that the landscape of consumable AI and Machine learning services are going to lead to some ground-breaking industry changes in the near future.
Software Developer, risual
Joe Tomkinson
I have been with risual for 5 years and I am the lead Business Analyst, my passion is to ensure organisations and users get the most of the technology and tools they have invested in.
As a team we work to modernise the way people work together, collaborate and communicate to improve the way they work and 'do more with less', which is an expected objective at the moment for many organisations.
Business Analyst Lead at risual
Abby Williams
A highly experienced technical consultant/technical lead with a proven track record of delivery with a diverse customer base comprising commercial, local and central government customers. Specialising in the design, transformation and implementation of enterprise application, database and analytics architectures with deep, vendor certified, technical skills and a wide supporting skillset.
Self-motivated, keen to develop my skillset and with a passion for application, data and analytics architectures, I look forward to the future, helping customers transforming from traditional hosting and IaaS to PaaS/SaaS solutions to deliver real business outcomes from the cloud computing model.
Principal Consultant at risual
David Brass
With over 30 years’ experience as a Customer Service Professional, I have journeyed the length and breadth of the IT world, from Unix Hardware Engineers, Solution Consultant, within a Partner organisation, within an end client’s org and now at Microsoft. My love of IT, Change &Transformation and working with Partners continues into my present role at Microsoft. When I am not working. I like to enjoy my folding camper, to get out into nature, and even on occasion sing in a band.
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Partner Success Manager, Microsoft
Elsa Montgomery-Groves
Tim is an Experienced Channel Manager with a history of working in the security information technology and services industry. Skilled in Sales, Sales Management, Business Development , and Business-to-Business (B2B) relationship building.
Tim works at Kemp to support all things monthly allowing you to access the tools Kemp provide with a flexible consumption approach, his head is often in the clouds but so are most of the customers he works with. Tim is happy to discuss the diverse flexibility which Kemp can provide to fit the way you would like to do business.
Cloud and Service Provider Sales Manager UK, KEMP
Tim Swainson
Sam is an experienced Channel Sales professional having worked across a broad range of roles at the distributor and reseller level and now on the vendor side with Kemp.
Sam's experience in the channel has allowed him to drive continuous growth for Kemp; working closely with Kemp Partners across the UK to provide value to their customer base through Kemp's next generation load balancing solutions.
Senior Partner Manager UK, KEMP
Sam Lambert
Marc is a behavioural change leader with over a decade of experience applying behavioural change theory such as nudge to organisational development and change programmes. Marc has been critical to Staffordshire County Council’s Smart Working and successfully implementing new ways of working, offering his advice and expertise on simple nudges to achieve long lasting behavioural change and breaking old habits.
Alongside this, Marc’s career in Organisational Development has also seen him work closely with the third, private and charity sectors, helping to develop new business and operating models.
Marc’s passion lies in helping organisations achieve the maximum business benefits from the integration of digital strategy and cultural change.
Senior OD and Behavioural Change Specialist, Staffordshire County Council
Marc O'Hagan
An Organisational Development leader of over 20 years, Pamela has spent much of her career working with large, complex organisations facing whole scale change. She has spent the last 10 years working on cultural change and development programmes mostly relating to the Digital and Smart Working agendas from which she has grown her knowledge and expertise.
From shaping strategy to delivery, Pamela has played a leading role in Staffordshire County Council’s Smart Working approach over the last 3 years which is beginning to demonstrate real business impact and behavioural change.
Pamela has been helping public sector organisations up and down the country to take the learning from Staffordshire’s Smart Working programme and approach to digital to help achieve the business benefits that the digital agenda can provide.
Senior OD Specialist and Digital Development Lead, Staffordshire County Council
Pamela Moffat
We are proud to announce that our sponsors for risual:NXT are KEMP Technologies and Automated Intelligence!
Whilst sponsoring the event, they will also be attending to engage with you on the day. We are also delighted to announce that both KEMP and Automated Intelligence will be presenting on the What and Why track – stay tuned for more information.
Curious about what elements risual use to create effective transformations for an organisation? What products, applications, and partners go into innovative solutions from risual? Find out more by signing up for sessions in the ‘What’ Track!
Here is a sneak peek into the very exciting sessions which will be in the What Track…
Process Automation on the Microsoft Stack
Everything you need to know about Data and AI
Fast Track – What it is and how to get the best out of it
But it doesn’t stop there… more sessions are to be announced soon!
How do risual design and implement digital, cloud, and business transformations? How do we utilise the latest technology and best adoption techniques to creat change for your organisation? Find out by signing up for sessions listed as part of our ‘How’ Track!
Why transformation? Why now? Why risual? Listen to stories from risual customers about why the chose risual and how we have helped their organisations. Let them take you through the journeys that these companies went through with risual and learn why we were the right choice for them. Find out more by signing up for the sessions from our ‘Why’ Track!
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Councils back Department for Transport traffic plan
February 22, 2012 by Matt Cartmell
Council comms experts have added their support to plans to remove rules requiring councils to advertise roadworks in local newspapers.
Traffic delays: The Newspaper Society wants to meet DfT to discuss local press advertising for roadworks
The Department for Transport wants to abolish the ‘cost burden’ on local authorities of placing ads in the local press about traffic orders – public notices advertising roadworks or other traffic restrictions.
The Newspaper Society has requested a meeting with transport minister Norman Baker to discuss the proposal, which it fears will damage the local newspaper industry.
However, Hammersmith & Fulham Council head of comms Simon Jones said the Newspaper Society is ‘in cloud cuckoo land’, adding that the communication of roadworks can be done more effectively by using websites, social media and mobile phone technology.
Basildon Borough Council head of comms Cormac Smith added: ‘Any statutory requirement for councils to spend local taxpayers’ money to prop up the profits of large multinational publishing firms needs to be very carefully considered.
‘When money is very tight and more and more people have access to the internet, councils should be looking for the most cost-effective ways to keep residents informed.’
But Stephen Phillips, Tory MP for Sleaford and North Hyke-ham, said: ‘Many elderly people get their information only from the local press, do not have internet access and would not necessarily search for the information that local authorities currently have to publish.’
Simon Jones, head of comms, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
If the Newspaper Society really believes that the best way of letting residents know what is happening on their roads is by posting highly expensive and virtually incomprehensible ads, under the guise of the Road Traffic Regulation Act section 14 sub section 2 schedule 4, on page 89 of the Rochdale Bugle in small print, then it is in cloud cuckoo land.
We need to communicate roadworks but we can do this more effectively and cheaper using digital technology.
Local papers still have a role to play, which is why we have negotiated a deal with our local newspaper for space for us to provide traffic information in an easy-to-understand format.
The Newspaper Society
Government / Non-Profit
MPs call for more openness during traffic orders debate
Department for Transport appoints Edward Funnell as acting head of strategic comms
Public Affairs: Lobbying Target - Lord Adonis, Transport Secretary
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Social Giveaways
Our founders, Tim and Sebastian, started Pukka over 15 years ago with the aim of doing good through commerce. From the moment they first met, they quickly discovered a shared passion for finding a better way of doing business. So when the B Corporation movement landed on UK shores, we were quick to get involved – becoming certified as a B Corporation in the first UK cohort in 2016.
What is the B Corporation movement?
The B Corporation movement started in the US and has quickly gathered momentum across the globe. Certified B Corporations, are a new type of company who use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. The community is made up of over 2000 companies in 50 countries from 130 industries, with one unifying goal - to redefine success in business.
Together we are a powerful lobby for positive change – B Corporations have a combined revenue of a mid-sized country (over $36bn). With 2016 the hottest year on record, and 21% of plant species threatened with extinction, there has never been a more urgent need for every person, organization and government to take action to protect the future of our planet. Together with other B Corporations across the world, we are stronger and can achieve so much more.
Pukka’s essence has always been to serve people and planet; all of our teas and herbal solutions are certified organic, all our teas are Fair for Life certified, and we donate 1% of all our sales (yes sales, not profit) to environmental charities with 1% for the Planet.
Pukka - a Certified B Corporation
As a Certified B Corporation, we are now rigorously assessed on the mission that we were founded on: to connect people, plants and the planet through the incredible power of organic and fairly traded herbs. We are assessed by completing the B Impact Assessment process every two years. Becoming a certified B Corporation cements our ongoing commitment to meet higher standards of transparency, accountability and performance - offering a positive vision of a better way to do business.
So look for the B Corporation logo when you shop, and why not commit to ‘B the Change’ yourself by taking our ‘Tea time’ pledge to only boil the water you need – one small step towards a positive future.
Vicky Murray, Sustainability Manager
I spend most of my time with one eye on the future. When you bring tomorrow’s challenges into focus you begin to demand a lot more from today! My job here at Pukka is to look for opportunities for us to do things in ways that will have maximum benefits to people, plants and planet. I live to spend time in beautiful nature – particularly blustery walks with my family along the Northumberland coast. And work to passionately protect it.
Tips to warm you and your home (not the planet)
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Spring Valley is a village in the towns of Ramapo and Clarkstown in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Chestnut Ridge, east of Airmont and Monsey, south of Hillcrest, and west of Nanuet. Spring Valley is 22 miles (35 km) north of Manhattan and 5 miles (8 km) north of the New Jersey border.
Schools in Spring Valley:
Kakiat Elementary School
Spring Valley High School
St. Joseph School
Ramapo High School
East Ramapo Central School District
Landmarks and places of interest
U.S. Post Office, Spring Valley, NY, USA
Finkelstein Memorial Library – 24 Chestnut Street – Built in 1940. Books, maps and news-clipping files on Rockland County history and local newsworthy events.
Holocaust Museum & Study Center – 17 South Madison Avenue – Permanent exhibit combines graphics, montages, artifacts, and audiovisual displays to detail every phase of the Holocaust. Changing art exhibits.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church – 26 South Madison Ave – The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The first service took place in 1868, four years before the first service in the new church was held December 18, 1873. (NRHP)
Spring Valley's Columbian Fire Engine Co. Celebrated its 150th anniversary September 7, 2011.[citation needed]
Spring Valley (Metro-North station) – Municipal Plaza, 1 North Main Street
Spring Valley High School – Route 59.
U.S. Post Office – North Madison Avenue (NRHP)
Spring Valley Memorial Park- Memorial Park Dr - Large park in the middle of Spring Valley that contains a pool, tennis court, football/soccer field, and basketball courts
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Home − Products − Discovery & Translational Research − PCR/qPCR − qPCR Assays & Instruments − Microbial DNA qPCR Assays & Panels − Custom Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays
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Custom Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays
For real-time PCR-based, customized microbial identification or profiling
Enables profiling of a customized panel of microbial genes or species
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The Custom Microbial DNA qPCR Array contains user-defined assays for detection of microbial species or microbial genes.
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Custom Microbial DNA qPCR Array
Array plates and master mix for detection of a user-defined set of microbial species or genes
Custom Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays are intended for molecular biology applications. These products are not intended for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a disease.
Linearity and sensitivity of Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays.
Linearity and sensitivity for each Microbial DNA qPCR Array was determined using synthetic templates over a 6 log serial dilution ranging from 1 copy to 1 million copies. The following are representative results for all the qPCR assays. [A] shows the real-time amplification curves of the KPC antibiotic resistance gene qPCR assay. In [B], a standard curve was prepared that shows that the primer efficiency equals 103% (calculated from slope = –3.3236) and the correlation coefficient is 0.9983, indicating optimum performance for the KPC qPCR assay. All Microbial DNA qPCR Assays have primer efficiencies between 80–120% and correlation coefficients (R)>0.995.
Limit of detection versus lower limit of quantification.
This chart demonstrates the difference between the limit of detection (LOD) and the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ). The LOD is defined as the lowest concentration at which 95% of the positive samples are detected, whereas the LLOQ is the lowest concentration that falls within the linear range of a standard curve. LOD depends upon the precision of the assay, and requires at least 40 replicates for determination of a positive sample. For the Microbial DNA qPCR Assays, LLOQ is sufficient to determine assay sensitivity.
The lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) for all Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity.
This chart shows the distribution of LLOQ for all Microbial DNA qPCR Assays. 93% of all Microbial DNA qPCR Assays have a LLOQ of <100 gene copies.
The lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) for microbial identification Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity.
This chart shows the distribution of LLOQ for microbial identification Microbial DNA qPCR Assays. 92% of all microbial identification assays have a LLOQ of <100 gene copies.
The lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) for virulence factor gene detection Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity.
This chart shows the distribution of LLOQ for Microbial DNA qPCR Assays for virulence factor gene detection. 97% of all virulence factor gene assays have a LLOQ of <100 gene copies.
The lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) for antibiotic resistance gene detection Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity.
This chart shows the distribution of LLOQ for Microbial DNA qPCR Assays for antibiotic resistance gene detection. 95% of all antibiotic resistance gene assays have a LLOQ of <100 gene copies.
Microbial DNA qPCR Assays are highly specific.
To determine the specificity of Microbial DNA qPCR Assays, each assay was tested against 119 genomic DNA samples from different bacteria and fungi. To facilitate testing, genomic DNA from different microbial species was pooled (10 different genomic DNA samples per pool) and each assay was tested against the different pools. None of the pools contained DNA from the same genus, to facilitate identification of cross-reacting species. Each pool contained the equivalent of 2000 genome copies for each microbial species. In addition, each assay was tested against human, mouse, and rat genomic DNA. A representative example for Streptococcus pyogenes is shown. The assay for Streptococcus pyogenes gave a CT of 26.9 and 26.6 for the Staphylococcus/Streptococcus pool and complete pool [A]. Both pools contained genomic DNA for Streptococcus pyogenes. To determine which genomic DNA was detected by the Streptococcus pyogenes assay, each individual genomic DNA comprising the Staphylococcus/Streptococcus pool was tested separately [B]. Only Streptococcus pyogenes genomic DNA gave an acceptable CT call (26.8) while the others gave a CT>35. Most of the assays were specific as they did not detect unintended targets. For assays that detected other species, the list of detected targets along with in silico predictions are given in the specifications sheet.
Microbial DNA qPCR Assays display high sensitivity even in complex metagenomic samples.
To ensure that Microbial DNA qPCR Assays performed comparably in a complex sample, where there may be up to a thousand different microbial species, each assay was tested using stool, tooth plaque, and sputum samples. For each sample, synthetic template targets were spiked in and the CT was compared to synthetic template alone. PCR was performed using several sample types, which included pooled synthetic template targets alone, stool, stool plus pooled synthetic template targets, plaque, plaque plus pooled synthetic template targets, sputum, and sputum plus pooled synthetic template targets. If the CT<35 in stool, plaque, or sputum samples alone, then ΔCT was calculated (i.e., CTstool + pooled synthetic template targets – CTpooled synthetic template targets). This calculation was performed for all the assays. For each assay, the ΔCT<3, indicating that a complex metagenomic background does not affect the performance of each Microbial DNA qPCR Assay.
Specificity of the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array is verified by pyrosequencing.
To verify the specificity of the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array (cat no. BAID-1901Z) results from Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates, pyrosequencing assays were designed to detect for the presence and sequences of SHV-156G, SHV-156D, SHV-238G240E, SHV-238S240K, SHV-238S240E, SHV-238G240K, ermB, mefA, tetA, tetB,CTX-M-1 Group, CTX-M-2 Group, AAC(6′)-lb-cr and aadA1. For each Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate, results from the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array were confirmed by pyrosequencing. Representative pyrograms for [A] SHV-156G, [B] SHV-238/240, [C] KPC and [D] CTX-M-1 group are shown. For SHV variants, the Antibiotic Resistance Gene Microbial DNA qPCR Array was able to reliably distinguish single nucleotide polymorphisms occurring at different sites.
Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays generate reliably reproducible results.
To determine the reproducibility of the Microbial DNA qPCR Array, both intra-individual and inter-individual variability was tested. In this experiment, 500 ng genomic DNA isolated from belt-filter presscake sewage sample was loaded onto the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array (cat. no. BAID-1901Z). To determine intra-individual variability, the same operator ran two different PCR arrays on different days with four technical repeats. To determine inter-individual variability, two different operators ran PCR arrays with four technical repeats. The results show low inter- and intra-individual variation of the qPCR array.
The Vaginal Flora Microbial DNA qPCR Array provides accurate profiling for cervical swab samples.
The vaginal microbiota is a key component influencing women’s urogenital health. To determine what changes in the vaginal microbiota occurs during bacterial vaginosis, the Vaginal Flora Microbial DNA qPCR Array (cat. no. BAID-1902Z), which detects up to 90 different microbial species, was used to test cervical swabs from healthy individuals and from patients with bacterial vaginosis. Genomic DNA from vaginal samples originating from three patients that tested negative for bacterial vaginosis, three patients that tested positive for Candida, three patients that tested positive for Garderella vaginalis, and one patient that tested positive for Trichomonas vaginalis by BD Affirm™ VPIII Microbial Identification Test were run on the Vaginal Flora Microbial DNA qPCR Array. Genomic DNA from ThinPrep samples were isolated using QIAGEN’s QIAamp MinElute Media Kit and 500 ng genomic DNA from each sample was analyzed. After the PCR run on a Roche LightCycler 480, raw CT values were exported to the Microbial DNA qPCR data analysis software. Positive (+) / negative (blank) / inconclusive (+/-) results for each microbial species were determined using the identification criteria. The results from the Vaginal Flora Microbial DNA qPCR Array were in concordance with the BD Affirm VPIII Microbial Identification Test.
Vaginal samples positive for Gardnerella vaginalis also show changes in commensal and bacterial vaginosis-related microbes compared to healthy samples.
To compare any differences in the vaginal microbiome between healthy women and women with bacterial vaginosis, each sample that tested positive for Gardnerella vaginalis using the Vaginal Flora Microbial DNA qPCR Array was compared to samples from healthy women (n=3). Fold-change in microbial species abundance was calculated by the ΔΔCT method using human genomic DNA to normalize. The results show that as the relative abundance of Gardnerella vaginalis increases, the abundance of the commensal species Lactobacillus crispatus decreases. Also, an increase in Gardnerella vaginalis was associated with an increase in other bacterial vaginosis-associated microbial species. This suggests that Lactobacillus crispatus protects the vagina from bacterial vaginosis-associated microbial species.
The Microbial DNA qPCR Array screens gut microbiota for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes.
The human gut microbiota is known to act as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes, where they can be transferred horizontally to potential pathogenic bacteria. To detect the presence of antibiotic resistance genes from gut microbiota, stool samples from five healthy adults were collected and genomic DNA was isolated using QIAGEN’s QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit. 500 ng genomic DNA from each stool sample was analyzed for presence of antibiotic resistance genes using the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array (cat. no. BAID-1901Z). The Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array contains assays for 83 antibiotic resistance genes, assays to identify methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and control assays. ErmB, mefA, and tetA were found in all or most of the stool samples tested, showing that they may be highly prevalent in the gut. These antibiotic resistance genes have been reported to be isolated from bacterial strains originating from food, suggesting a possible source of origin. This highlights the importance of increased monitoring of antibiotic resistance reservoirs to identify potential sources of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial qPCR Array identified antibiotic resistance genes in sewage samples.
Municipal biosolids generated by wastewater treatment plants are significant reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes, since they originate from fecal microbiota. The end product from the treatment plants can either be disposed of in landfills or sold as fertilizer for agricultural use, where antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be reintroduced into the food supply. To determine the diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in municipal biosolids, genomic DNA from belt-filter presscake sewage samples was isolated and analyzed for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes using the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial qPCR Array (cat. no. BAID-1901Z). Raw CT values were exported into the data analysis software and identification criteria was followed. Figure [A] shows the results from the sewage sample. There were 14 antibiotic resistance genes from different resistance classifications that were present in the metagenomic sample. In addition, there were genes that gave an inconclusive result. To determine the presence/absence of the antibiotic resistance genes from the inconclusive results, the “Determination of Inconclusive Microbial DNA qPCR Array/Assay Results” protocol was followed for SHV, ACT-1 group, MIR and LAT [B]. The verification protocol determined that these genes were present in the sewage sample. This highlights the importance of increased surveillance of antibiotic resistance reservoirs to identify potential sources of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that may affect the food supply.
Linearity and dynamic range
Microbial DNA qPCR Assays display linear amplification across a dynamic range from 10 to 106 copies of DNA template (see figure, Linearity and sensitivity of Microbial DNA qPCR Assays).
Lower limit of quantification (LLOQ)
The LLOQ is the lowest concentration of template that still falls into the linear range of the standard curve (see figure, Limit of detection versus lower limit of quantification). Across all Microbial DNA qPCR Assays, 93% have an LLOQ of <100 gene copies (see figure, The LLOQ for all Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity). 92% of microbial identification assays meet this LLOQ, as do 95% of virulence gene assays and 97% of antibiotic resistance gene assays (see figures, The LLOQ for microbial identification Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity, The LLOQ for virulence factor gene detection Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity, and The LLOQ for antibiotic resistance gene detection Microbial DNA qPCR Assays reveals high sensitivity).
Each Microbial DNA qPCR Assay is stringently tested to ensure that it detects only one target species or gene (see figure, Microbial DNA qPCR Assays are highly specific). For assays that do detect more than one target, a list of detected targets and in silico predictions is included on the product sheet.
This specificity is maintained even when samples have high species complexity, such as in stool, sputum, and plaque (see figure, Microbial DNA qPCR Assays display high sensitivity even in complex metagenomic samples), and is verifiable by sequencing methods (see figure, Specificity of the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array is confirmed by pyrosequencing).
Microbial DNA qPCR Assays are highly reproducible, both in intra- and inter-individual variability tests (see figure, Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays generate reliably reproducible results).
Microbial DNA qPCR Assays are designed to detect bacterial 16S rRNA gene and fungal ribosomal rRNA gene sequences for species identification, as well as detecting virulence factor genes and antibiotic resistance genes using PCR amplification primers and hydrolysis-probe detection.
Custom Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays are 96- or 384-well plates with assays defined by the customer, arranged according to your needs; for example, one can order a 96-well plate with 48 assays to be used with 2 samples, or with 12 assays to be tested with 8 samples. Controls are integrated on each plate to test for the presence of fungal DNA, bacterial DNA, host genomic DNA, and success of the PCR reaction, ensuring confidence in the results.
The Microbial DNA qPCR Array procedure is simple and can be carried out in any laboratory with a real-time PCR instrument. DNA is isolated using the QIAamp kit that is suited for the sample type, and then mixed with the appropriate Microbial qPCR Mastermix. The mixture is aliquotted across the array plate, and real-time PCR is performed to obtain the raw CT values for each assay. The complimentary data analysis software is then used to profile genes or species in the sample.
Custom Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays are highly suited for the rapid and accurate profiling of a custom panel of microbial species, virulence factor genes, or antibiotic resistance genes. For example, a microbial species identification panel assembled by our experts was used to explore the underlying causes of bacterial vaginosis (see figures, The Vaginal Flora Microbial DNA qPCR Array provides accurate profiling for cervical swab samples and Vaginal samples positive for Gardnerella vaginalis also show changes in commensal and bacterial vaginosis-related microbes compared to healthy samples), while a panel for antibiotic resistance genes identified these genes in samples from the gut or from sewage (see figures, The Microbial DNA qPCR Array screens gut microbiota for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes and The Antibiotic Resistance Genes Microbial DNA qPCR Array identified antibiotic resistance genes in sewage samples).
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Antibiotic Resistance Gene Resource and Assay List
Microbial DNA qPCR Handbook
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Detection and Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes From Food and Fertilizer Sources Using qPCR Technology
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Buffer ATL (4 x 50 ml)
4 x 50 ml lysis buffer for use in purification of nucleic acids using QIAsymphony DSP Virus/Pathogen Kits and the QIAsymphony DSP DNA Mini Kit
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Steinhoff posts R8.9bn loss in half-year earnings report
Steinhoff [JSE:SNH] has posted a loss of €571m (R8.9bn at current exchange rates) for the half-year ended March 31.
The Stellenbosch-headquartered conglomerate on Friday published its unaudited half-year earnings report on Friday.
The loss for the period is slightly down from the comparable period in 2018, when it suffered a loss of €609m (R9.5bn). The €571m loss includes both continuing and discontinued operations. For its continuing operations, the half-year loss was €242m (R3.8bn).
Steinhoff reports its earnings in euros as it is domiciled in Amsterdam and has its primary listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
"Although corporate and treasury services costs were much reduced, the operational results for the period continued to reflect the knock-on impact of the announcement of accounting irregularities in December 2017," Steinhoff wrote in its operational review.
"Management at group and operational level continued to spend a significant amount of time and effort engaging with funders, suppliers and other business partners to ensure their continued support."
The group added its customer confidence had stabilised.
In a note Steinhoff said the publication of Friday's earnings report "addresses the company's disclosure backlog and brings its financial reporting back up to date".
Steinhoff only mentioned its former CEO Markus Jooste once in Friday's 97-page report, to note that it had launched proceedings against him and former CFO Ben la Grange in the Cape Town High Court.
It wants their base salaries, performance bonuses, strategic bases, project bonuses, and the value of the shares awarded in company share schemes paid back. According to Fin24's calculations, this corresponds to about R830m for Jooste and roughly R270m for La Grange.
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Dominant Tisbury move up to fourth after convincing victory
TISBURY United strolled to victory with a comfortable 3-0 win at home to Canford United on Saturday in Dorset League Division 1.
The hosts dominated the game with an impressive performance that saw them bounce back from a disappointing 3-0 defeat last week away to Broadstone.
The opening goal came from a set piece as United won a free kick to the right of Canford's penalty area.
Despite the tight angle, centre-half Jordan Fisher curled one high into the top corner past the outstretched hand of Canford's keeper for a half time lead.
United added a second goal after the restart through John Smart. The central midfielder showed great determination to battle his way down the left, before cutting inside and blasting into the roof of the net.
The reds went on to add a third, courtesy of midfielder Tobie Keel, who capped off an excellent individual performance with a good finish to secure the three points.
United player-manager Dan Booth said: "Superb performance from everyone. We played our best football so far this season with three fantastic goals."
Tisbury's third win of the league campaign moves them into fourth place on nine points. That takes them above Broadstone on goal difference, although Broadstone have a game in hand.
Tisbury travel to Mere Town Reserves on October 15.
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HomeReedsBaritone ReedsAlexander - Baritone Saxophone Reeds - Box of 5: Superial: 2
Alexander - Baritone Saxophone Reeds - Box of 5: Superial: 2
GA0440SUP2
[Choose Reed Style] Superial Classique Superial DC Superial NY
[Choose Strength] 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
"The Alexander Reeds give me everything I'm looking for in a reed. From triple pianissimo to triple forte, it's all there!! It's great to play on a reed that can handle the diverse musical settings I'm involved in. From orchestral concepts, big bands, electronic groups, and my quartet, these are the best and most consistent reeds I've played in years, they're great...I love them!! Alexander reeds are the BEST and in time the world will know it." Joe Lovano
"These reeds have a very unique character and the absolute best response of any reed that I have ever played - and I've played quite few in my 27 years as a saxophonist. Every one plays well - even the ones that I prefer less than others.I am also using the soprano reeds for the first time during my week with Joe Lovano at the Iridium. They are smoking! At the moment, they are absolutely perfect. Clean and bright response in all registers, just the way I like them." Greg Osby
Alexander Reeds allow the tone to be closer to the sensitivity of the speed of sound." Ornette Colman
"It took Tom Alexander's exquisite reeds to get me back to using cane after 20 years on plastic. They are a classy product, even the packaging is artistic. The reeds vibrate evenly, consistently and last for quite awhile while the sound produced has the right balance of highs and lows that I am always striving for. If reeds had been this good back in the 1980s, I would've never have changed to plastic!!" Dave Liebman
"These are some of the best reeds I have ever played. They have a warm, rich, full-bodied sound; a feel which is both firm and flexible; great projection; and tremendous longevity. The switch was well worth the time and effort." Joshua Redman
In the early 1990's, after many months of intense development and testing of prototypes, the original "Alexander Superial" was put into production.
Our aim with this first model was to design a reed which produced a warm, resonant "buzz", good projection, even scale throughout the registers, and a wide dynamic range. In other words we wanted this reed to provide a tonal platform that was free blowing, capable of quick and accurate articulation, and one that gave immediate presence.
This was in line with the tonal concept of the "American" style single cut reeds, but with more developed heart and rear vamp area, one with "spring" and natural resilience needed to produce a really big sound.
We ran an extensive testing program with various professionals and we were also fortunate enough to have the valuable feedback from the renowned veteran mouthpiece maker Ralph Morgan, his excellent crew and others.
After all our testing confirmed the good results of the final prototype, we believed we had finally come up with a reed worthy of manufacture.
The combination of a new design influenced by traditional reed making concepts (and therefore in essence "time proven"), and the highest grade of cane we could find, became born as the original Alexander Superial with its yellow labeled tin.
Superial DC
After introducing Superial, I wanted to add another model to our line which I thought might meet the needs of players who were looking for a different style cut and tonal response.
Using the same cane, we made exhaustive tests and alterations to fabricate a reed with somewhat changed response characteristics from the original Superial, and thus the new Superial "DC" (or "Double Cut) was created.
This reed has a slightly harder tip and more wood in the heart and sides than Superial and therefore produces a more solid tonal core, enhanced projection and power, and a little darker harmonic timbre than Superial, but still one with the kind of "edge" and authority needed in soloing or lead work.
For "DC" I was thinking in terms of a tonal concept reminiscent of the saxophonists I had admired and been influenced by from the 1950's to the "Blue Note", "Miles" and "Trane", and "Wayne" eras.
I also had in mind a reed of increased power that would be particularly suitable for big band, stage band or marching reed players, as well. So in a sense, I worked on "DC" with an idea of making a reed that fit closest to the tonal palate of my own musical influences and this became the reed I used on Tenor most of the time.
Since its introduction in 1995, "DC" seems to be especially favored by professionals who need a lot of power and want to push the reed to the limits of its dynamic capabilities, while still retaining an even balance from top to bottom.
Superial NY
After the introduction of Superial, "DC", and Classique in the 1990's, we began to conceive of a model which would add a new and different dimension to the tonal universe of our reeds.
This reed was born following extensive conversations and correspondence between Tom Alexander and the legendary late, great Jazz saxophone genius Michael Brecker beginning some years ago. Without Michael's gracious and invaluable feedback following experimentation with different prototype designs, this new reed simply would not have come into existence. It was a singular honor to have been guided by this greatly missed, phenomenal musical spirit and exceptional human being.
NY was also thoroughly field tested by subjecting it to many months of on the job playing in the concert and tour performances of several of our World Artists who gave it their seal of approval and use it as their primary reed today.
The result is a new reed made with our same high grade S. France cane, yet a redesigned tip and profile which produces a big and bold sound, full response throughout the registers and the type of vibrant, solid tone traditionally associated with that of the New York music scene.
The tip is somewhat harder than Superial DC which gives it a
sustaining power, especially in the high end of the horn.
We welcome you to debut our reeds, Alexander N Y.
In 1997, following the introduction of Superial and "DC", we felt another line of reeds was needed to address the specific needs of classical woodwind players or jazz players wanting a bit more resistance and darkness in their set up than our other models offer.
Starting with the clarinet model, we tried to conceptualize what kind of reed we could create that would provide musicians with a wide palette of expression, and classically grounded performance characteristics...those that produce a warm, dynamically balanced, sonorously beautiful tone.
While investigating what direction of design we should pursue, we knew that there had been a reed made years ago which classical clarinetists spoke of in almost reverential tones. Although this reed never became as commercially successful as some of the more "name" brands, it had been in fact used by some of the top clarinetists in the world, among them some members of the Chicago Symphony clarinet section. To the lament of many, production ceased some years back.
We worked on a prototype which was influenced by this reed's design, but with certain improvements that we felt would actually make it more suitable to present day musical settings. This same philosophy was also followed for the saxophone models but with a somewhat different profile design we felt would bring out the best in that instrument. We also had the advantage of using more accurate hardness testing and cutting machines so we could manufacture a much more consistent reed than the original model.
With testing feedback from some top professional classical clarinetists and saxophonists, we arrived at the final design of this new reed line christened "Classique". We went into production for all models and Classique is now being used not only by classical and concert performers, but any others looking for a darker tone which this reed's harder tip and heart produce.
In Classique, we believe we have achieved our goal of capturing the essence of that great traditional design, but with improvements developed to enhance dynamic response, clarity and register balance, which we feel produces a "singing" tonal quality that is definitely classical in its conception. It should also be noted that a growing number of jazz players seem to enjoy Classique's response these days as well.
"The Classique reed is used not only by classical and concert performers, but any others looking for a darker tone which this reed's harder tip and heart produce."
Dave Liebman
Staff Review
"There are four different cuts of these reeds to choose from; Classique- a standard classical cut, Superial, DC & ‘New York’ (their website- www.superial.com has a useful little chart comparing the design of their reeds with other popular makes). Expensive, yes- but set against that is the fact these reeds are extremely consistent- if you’re used to having to reject a proportion of reeds in any given box the almost zero reject rate of these effectively covers most of the price difference. And they come in a very nice box." Jules@sax.co.uk
Alexander - Baritone Saxophone Reeds - Box of 5
Pro Reviews "The Alexander Reeds give me everything I'm looking for in a reed. From triple pianissimo to triple forte, it's all there!! It's great to play on a reed that can handle the diverse musical settings I'm involved in. From orchestral concepts, big bands, electronic groups, and my quartet, these are the best and most consistent reeds I've played in years, they're great...I love them!! Alex…
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Chip Rescue Ranger
In the near future many Belarusians can change their bank plastic cards with a magnetic stripe to chip ones and to receive an electronic “purse”, more protected from swindlers with a variety of additional functions. Activity of such a renewal, as the specialists note, will depend on the intensiveness of introduction of new devices and software, but mostly — from quickness of determination, who will pay for all this: banks, population or somebody else
In the near future many Belarusians can change their bank plastic cards with a magnetic stripe to chip ones and to receive an electronic “purse”, more protected from swindlers with a variety of additional functions. Activity of such a renewal, as the specialists note, will depend on the intensiveness of introduction of new devices and software, but mostly — from quickness of determination, who will pay for all this: banks, population or somebody else.
A purse and a passenger ticket
The cards with a magnetic stripe leave to the past in the whole world. The cards with a chip— safer and multifunctional, are replacing them. In some countries, for example, with a help of a bank card you can pay for the passage in public transport, settle accounts, taking into account standard benefits for medicine, other goods and services.
Nearly 4,5 millions of bank plastic cards have already been issued in Belarus. At that, the number of chip cards, corresponding to generally accepted international EMV standards, according to some estimation, amounts to nearly 100 thousands.
First go credits
The National bank can’t oblige the banks of the country, for example, to issue only chip cards from 2008 and gradually to substitute the cards with a magnetic line, which are in circulation. “You can issue any decree, — says the head of administration of information technologies of the National Bank Vladimir Zhukov. — However, it is necessary to define the source of covering of expenses”.
In any case, he explains, somebody should pay for that. Yes, a chip card is considered safer in respect of swindlers. But banks will invest money, probably, only in that case, if it will be economically profitable for them, if, for example, at the expense of use of additional possibilities of the cards of a new type they will be able to earn more money.
Recently the number of credit cards both in Belarus and in Ukraine has been increasing actively. Usually there are more money on them, than on simple debit cards, which are often called “salary cards”. That is why, shared his opinion in the interview to the magazine Sergey Koptik, the head of administration of the Ukrainian “Reiffeisen Bank “Aval”, it would be more correct to begin the replacement of an old standard to a new one at the expense of issue of new credit cards primarily. Of course, such a card costs approximately tenfold more expensive, than a card with a magnetic line, but additional 4–5 dollars are not such a big amount for the credit receiver.
Hybrid cashpoints
To replace one type of the card for another one is just half of the matter, approves the General Director of the company “SoftClub”, the Deputy Chairman of association “Infopark” Vladimir Sirotko. According to him, it is necessary to update existing cashpoints, infokiosks, payment terminals in bank tills. Even those devices, which now read off information from chip cards “BelKart”, can’t serve the holders of cards of the international EMV standard.
“In my opinion, — supposed Vladimir Sirotko, — in the future all the banks will buy new equipment, which will read off both card types (both with a magnetic stripe, and chip cards of EMV standard). The process of modernization of cashpoints and other devices will, obviously, take many years”.
A price of a usual cashpoint is 20–25 thousand US Dollars. A new, hybrid one, will cost even cheaper. Nevertheless, it will be necessary to spend money, it won’t pan out just to modernize existing devices. Some banks have already emitted chip cards. For example, as the head of the “SoftClub” said, in Soligorsk the “Belarusbank” emitted nearly 20 thousands of such plastic “purses”. Primarily, payment terminals in the bank tills were also replaced. The specialists of “SoftClub” developed the software for them. Other companies have offered the programs for infokiosks and cashpoints.
Alexander Sokolovskiy
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Участники летней Сбербанкиады-2019 разыграли первые медали соревнований в Минске
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.sbhonda.com/Inventory/Vehicle/New/2019/Honda/Civic-Sedan/19XFC2F62KE208402/Goleta/California new\n2019 Honda Civic Sedan LX\nVIN: 19XFC2F62KE208402\nEngine: 2.0L I-4 DOHC 16-Valve i-VTEC\nFixed Interval Wipers\n6-Way Driver Seat -inc: Manual Fore/Aft Movement\nFront Bucket Seats -inc: driver seat manual height adjustment and adjustable head restraints\nRadio: 160-Watt AM/FM Audio System -inc: 4 speakers, 5-inch color LCD screen, Bluetooth HandsFreeLink, Bluetooth streaming audio, radio data system (RDS), speed-sensitive volume control (SVC), 1.0-amp USB audio interface port in front and illuminated steering wheel-mounted controls\nMODERN STEEL METALLIC\nCompact Cars\nSequential MPI\nRisk of Rollover: 9.5%\nResponsive and efficient drivetrains; roomy interior; standard high-tech features; extensive safety options The Civic has topped the 'best compact car' lists for decades. With its consistent balance of quality, performance and practicality, that should come as no surprise. The 2016 model-year redesign made big improvements with extensive standard equipment, a high-quality stylish interior and a new powertrain lineup that comes at a range of price points intended to have something for everyone. The current generation Honda Civic was offered initially only in sedan form, but a coupe version appeared later in the model year, and now finally a hatchback version has appeared. With plenty of trim levels and a variety of body styles, there's a Civic for nearly every need.\nThe base LX comes well equipped leaving almost nothing out, it includes anti-lock brakes, power-adjustable mirrors, 4-speaker 160-watt CD/MP3 stereo with Bluetooth, power windows and locks and remote keyless entry.\nEX models add 17-inch alloy wheels, an automatic transmission, remote start, an upgraded 8-speaker stereo as well as LaneWatch blind spot monitoring as well as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration. Leather seats, steering wheel and shift-knob are optional as are an 8-way power-adjustable driver seat.\nThe Touring Civic has 18-inch machined alloy wheels, rain-sensing wipers, a 450-watt audio system that also includes a 7-inch touchscreen that also includes all of the modern smartphone connectivity. Leather seats are standard on the Touring and they are heated and power-adjustable. Dynamic cruise control, LED headlights and dual-zone climate control are also included.\nLX, Sport Sedan, and Sport Coupes receive a 158-horsepower, 2.0L i-VTEC 4-cylinder engine.\nThe LX hatchback, EX, EX-L and Touring models are equipped with a 1.5L turbo i-VTEC engine that produces 174 horsepower and 162 pound feet of torque, while the Sport and Sport Touring Hatchback produce 180 horsepower and 177 pound feet of torque. Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) equipped vehicles extend gas mileage up to 42 mpg when paired with the 1.5L turbocharged engine.\nCivic Hatchbacks are also available in the Sport Touring and SI trim. Sport Touring adds automatic LED headlights, heated rear outboard seats, navigation, an aero kit and sport pedals.\nSi equipped vehicles get a power bump from the 1.5L turbo engine to 205 horsepower and 192 foot pounds of torque.\nSafety takes a strong presence in the new Civic. Of course it includes front and side airbags, but low tire pressure warning, backup camera and stability control are also standard on every Civic.\nHonda Sensing system, is also standard for all but the high-performance trims. It's a suite of safety features that includes Lane Keep Assist, which will monitor and can even nudge the vehicle back into its lane, Blind Spot sensors and Collision Mitigation that will detect an impending accident and can even apply the brakes if needed. The 2019 Honda Civic is refreshed for the new year adding a new Sport trim for Sedan and Coupe models. Both feature a refreshed front fascia, an updated HondaLink infotainment system with easier to use controls and is offered in either the 2.0L naturally aspirated 4-cylinder or 1.5L turbo 4-cylinder engine. The 1.5L engine is no longer available with a 6-speed manual transmission. Honda Sensing is now standard across the entire lineup."
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Seven injured players hopeful of return
Head Coach Wayne Pivac has spoken this morning, Tuesday 4th September, ahead of Saturday’s second round clash against Leinster in the Guinness PRO14 and is hopeful of seeing some of his injured personnel return to action.
Hadleigh Parkes, Paul Asquith, Jake Ball, Leigh Halfpenny, Samson Lee, Dan Jones and Johnny McNicholl are all in contention to making this weekend’s matchday squad as the Scarlets prepare to welcome the champions Leinster to the Parc.
Speaking at this morning press conference Pivac said; “Some of those players who have been on the injured list are looking good, which is very pleasing. A number of them have been training with the team and will be in contention for the weekend. If they can back up what was a good training day yesterday they will be available.
“For Hadleigh it’s about getting the strength back in the hand and it’s more about when we want to put him in. We had a plan, which wasn’t for this week, but with Foxy likely unavailable that may change now!
“Samson had the plate put in his cheek, he’ll be doing some scrummaging today, he’ll need to come through some contact work and we’ll make a call on him on Thursday.
“Johnny McNicholl is over the worst of his broken cheek, he’ll go through some testing this week so there’s a good chance he’ll be available.
“Jake Ball is really chomping at the bit. I thought he played well in the Bristol game but took a bump that ruled him out of round one but he looked good yesterday (Monday) and he’s raring to go.”
Commenting on the injury front from the weekend Pivac went on to say; “Unfortunately we took another couple of bumps last weekend.
“Dan Jones will be doing some running today which is a good thing, particularly with Patchell going through HIA protocol after taking a head knock. Angus O’Brien is also still out with his broken hand.
“We have got players that have covered the outside half position before. Hadleigh and Paul have done a role there before as have Sam and Clayton. We’ll work through that once we have a clearer picture on the other two.
“Jonathan Davies felt a hamstring and has a little niggle, so it’s something at this stage of the season you do not risk. “The right decision was made and he withdrew from the game just before kick-off. I thought Steff Hughes did a fine job stepping up from 25th to starting line-up.
“We are monitoring him and he is in the treatment room getting treatment every day. It is too soon for this weekend. Any doubt at all and he will be ruled out. We have to be smart on these things. He has a lot of rugby ahead of him and we are only into week two.
“I don’t think it is going to be long-term. It will be a week-by-week basis but we won’t push him and will get him 100 per cent right.
“It is really important with the sort of injury he did have that the volume he is getting in training is right. He has been out for some time so we have to be mindful of that.”
Scarlets welcome Leinster to Parc y Scarlets on Saturday 8th September, kick-off 19:35.
Tickets are available now from tickets.tickets.scarlets.wales
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South trades yellow buses for transit cards in fall 2013
Ben DeVore, Staff Writer
Instead of receiving an orange bus sticker on your ID next year, South will be handing out free Metro Transit passes to all students who now qualify for school buses. These passes, unlike the old school bus, will be usable seven days a week from five in the morning until ten at night.
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) has made the switch to public transportation for multiple reasons including budget cuts, an attempt to increase attendance, and the availability of public buses to students who live outside of the attendance zone. Because of this switch, I have decided to take three separate forms of transportation to school to see if switching to public transportation will benefit the students as much as it benefits MPS.
Stepping onto the school bus, I look around at the small and graffiti-covered seats as students fold up their legs to let me pass. It’s the first day of my transportation odyssey, and after a short sprint to the bus stop I step onto the bus, barely making it. The bus lurches into motion before I sit down, forcing me to fall back into the seat next to me.
It’s a bumpy and slightly chilly ride, but looking around I notice other kids laughing and talking and realize even with it’s small discomforts the school bus is more of a place for friends to catch up with each other than a ride to school.
Within fifteen minutes of getting on the bus it pulls up to South and stepping off I notice being dropped off directly in front of the school is another plus. When taking the light rail or public buses, just walking from the station to school can be several blocks and in the middle of winter with temperatures below freezing that extra distance can make a huge difference.
That said, riding the school bus does have its drawbacks and frankly, as a junior, the excitement of riding the bright yellow bus to school everyday has worn off. Ducking my head as I walked up the bus’s steps I thought of how the public buses and light rail not only give students a
chance to catch a later ride if they’re running late, an opportunity to experience the world outside of school, and see how other adults commute to work.
I then set out to travel to school by bicycle. Earlier that morning, I had missed the bus, again, and grabbing my pack and bike I sped off, or more accurately, slowly pedaled through the foot-high snow.
The trek through snow and ice is not an easy one. With no hat, hood or gloves I leaned forward and started the usually 7-minute ride along Hiawatha. I knew it was slightly chilly out when my left ear grew twice its size and became bright red for three days.
By the time I lost complete feeling in my ear I was only a block away from school, so I bent my head down to protect my face from the wind and pedaled up the final hill and slid into the parking lot (literally). With shaking hands I locked my bike. The five-mile ride to school is not always this harsh, but with windy weather and cold temperatures, it’s days like these I can see the sense in taking public transportation to school, or wearing a hat.
The light rail suddenly came whooshing past, blowing snow and icy air into my face, its warm occupants staring out at me with happy smiles. For a few seconds I hated them but quickly forgot as my bike hit a patch of ice. Slowly pedaling forward, I turned my handlebars and pushed my way onto clear cement.
When I finally made it home that day, I found out I had a bad case of frostbite on my left ear.
When you miss the bus and have no other way of getting to school, biking, at least for me, can be the last and only option. And when the school bus comes at an exact time and stops for fewer than thirty seconds it can be pretty easy to miss. With the new transit passes, however, students running late only have to wait five to fifteen minutes for the next bus or train.
So with a giant left ear, red and swollen, I took the light rail the next day. The short walk to the train station was chilly, but being properly dressed, hat and all, it was nothing compared to the previous day. I waited about three minutes for the train, huddled under one of the heat lights, and, getting on, realized I was the only person under the age of twenty boarding.
Having not taken the train that often, I had assumed the Hiawatha light rail would be full of other high schoolers going to either Roosevelt or South, but looking around at the adults dressed in suits and ties, I realized I was wrong. The ride to South was much shorter and warmer than the bike ride or even the school bus, but without other kids my age or even the usual loudness of the bus, the train felt awkwardly quiet.
The two-block distance from the train station to South was short and quick. Taking the train home was just as uneventful, with the only difference being the addition of a few South and Roosevelt students getting on. Walking home I realized getting to school through public transportation was not only fast and warm, but more convenient for students either needing to get to school early or leave late because of afterschool activities. With a train coming on a regular schedule you never have to wait long, and running late only means catching the next train.
In the end, the light rail took the least amount of time, taking approximately ten minutes for the four-mile distance to school but looking back, to me, the school bus seemed to be the fastest, even with the frequent stops and red lights.
So the switch to public transportation, while exposing students to the world outside of school, gives up the old familiar school bus most students have grown up riding, and for good or bad pushes students another step forward in their transition from children to adults.
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Swades (2004)
Release year: 2004 (2004-12-17)
Running time: 210 min
Original Title: Swades: We, the People
Voted: 74693
Swades: We, the People is a movie starring Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, and Kishori Ballal. A successful Indian scientist returns to an Indian village to take his nanny to America with him and in the process rediscovers his roots.
Shah Rukh Khan Mohan Bhargava
Gayatri Joshi Gita
Kishori Ballal Kaveri amma
Smit Sheth Chiku
Take a bow, Ashotosh, Shahrukh and ARR 12/20/2004 12:00:00 AM by bn0809 10
30 minutes after I had viewed the film on Sat, I was not sure about how I felt about this film. 48 hours hence, I vividly remember most of the scenes and can lucidly state that is truly 'haunting'.
Swades is not colorful; Shahrukh doesn't appear in a GAP or POLO SPORT; there are no introductory shots; there are no romantic scenes and no fields with yellow Tulip flowers; It may be a tad slow and lengthy; But Swades hits you where your heart hurts the most; patriotic and root feelings of an individual with good intentions overcoming societal obstacle. It's brilliant, heartfelt and touching. The 'We, People' film really makes us feel like it's our film. We see in the film what we see everyday, the places as they are. It's very much contemporary and it's our story.
Compared to Veer-Zaara, it's light years ahead. Comparisons with Lagaan are bound to be there, but in some ways it's even better than Lagaan. Primarily, for the authenticity and real-life feel unlike Lagaan which was a finely crafted fairly-tale. Lagaan is all about emerging victorious and fighting against the odds. You enjoy it when you see it. Swades is about the conscience trauma of an Indian, urging him to comeback and do something for his country. It haunts you for long enough after the cinema has ended.
There's a prejudice that the film is about bringing electricity to a small village. It's not. And the most poignant scene in the film, where we see a boy selling water for 25 paisa, hits you hard. Seeing the harsh reality and we'll find it difficult to suppress our tears. It's an answer to the generation of materialistic 'we', who never shy from proclaiming our great culture and tradition, but do nothing for our country.
The asset of the film is Shahrukh Khan, looking ordinary and real but in an extra-ordinary performance. His most real since 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa' and his career's best. ARR music is soulful and original. The theme song 'Yeh Jo Des Hai Mera' haunts both in terms of its visuals and wordings.
But above all, it's the good intention and the attention to detail, of director Ashutosh Gowarikar that makes wonders for this truly experimental and moving cinema.
I can and will definitely view this movie once more, to celebrate it feel and spirit. I can't predict its box office outcome, as the masses love fantasies and escapist cinema. But it's definitely a treat for those who want to see moving and believable films on a large scale. Also if we don't embrace different cinema like this or even 'the torturous but different Musafir' for that matter, we'll continue to get more 'Sarson ka Saag', 'Karva Chauths', 'Maahi Ve' filled designer romance fables from the Chopra-Johar clan!
Regardless of the box office outcome, take a bow Ashutosh, Shahrukh and ARR!
An Excellent Movie with an excellent backdrop 1/11/2005 12:00:00 AM by purnendu 10
A worth watching Movie by Ashutosh Gowariker.
Leaves a impression on mind after you have seen the movie.
Though there are technical faults in the storyline yet those can be left aside on the backdrop of a heart-touching theme. A theme for the people who are leaving their countries / states in search of a better life without realising the fact that they can create a better living environment at home itself.
An insight on the problems of India whose underdeveloped part is somehow or other responsible for itself for the underdevelopment. The social jinx in the rural India which should have been broken long before are now hampering the progress of the villages.
The movie is another Gem after Lagaan in the collection of Ashutosh and Indian Cinema as a whole.
Great Job by Shahrukh. Exquisite appearance by Gayatri. Grand Show by Ashutosh.
Purnendu
coming of age 12/19/2004 12:00:00 AM by sabsinha 7
Thank god for swades. Its been ever so often that as Indians we have lamblasted the mushy, one track nonsensical movies that were being churned out by bollywood and yearned for something slightly honest and celebral. And now it seems that the moment has arrived. Swades has finally reached the next level of Indian movie-making with the help of ashutosh, srk and rahman where the execution, the concept and the treatment of the film is at least (i can safely assume) close to world standards. There is no point comparing lagaan (the directors 1st movie) to this movie as his earlier venture was purely fiction with no semblance of realism in it. However this movie has so many ingredients of being a pathbreaker for Indian cinema that its almost scary. The feelings and expectations of an nri set aside, it tells the story of middle and upper class India losing touch with the harsh realities of the sufferings of the less fortunate ones all around us (and the fact that we can do very little to change the ongoing scenario is even more glaring and painful). Besides this the movie also deals with the desires and priorities of humans inspite of the trials and tribulations of daily living.
The maturity of the script, the actors and the score makes it a journey of epic proportions without it looking epic at all. The normalcy of the movie is something which might (and hopefully will) change the way cinema is seen and made in India in the future. One can only hope.
Sincere effort with flashes of brilliance 12/23/2004 12:00:00 AM by pathaniav 9
This is definitely worth watching. The direction is restrained, SRK has acted really well after a long time, and there is a naive yet charming idealism underpinning the movie. It could have been a tad shorter, crisper editing would have helped. BO-wise it is a risky movie - unapologetic in its depiction of poverty and almost childlike in its appeal to NRIs and India's middle class to acknowledge poverty and try to do something about it. Gowarikar's heart is in the right place - the shots with the family unable to pay land rents, and the waterboy were graceful and poignant. My hunch is that regardless of BO fate, this is an important movie and will be referred to for year to come.
One of the best films of the year. 12/19/2004 12:00:00 AM by kkd470 7
Saw it last night with a packed cinema and I must say Ashutosh Gowariker has done it again. Nice storyline, little slow but he knows how to make a thoughtful film. Really made me think about being an NRI.
Great songs, with A.R Rahman Music of course. The actress Gayatri Joshi played her part very well and she looks very beautiful. Definitely a new star. Shah Rukh Khan well is Shah Rukh Khan, one of the best actors of our times and he can play pretty much any part.
Best film of the year. Watch it and it will make you think.
Its not a masala movie.Intelligent and Thought Provoking. 10/10
Ashutosh Gowariker director
M.G. Sathya writer
Sameer Sharma writer
Lalit Marathe writer
Amin Hajee writer
Charlotte Whitby-Coles writer
Edge of the Knife (2018)
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Dawn (2018)
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Robocall (2018)
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Dragon Ball Super, Vol. 4
Goku's adventure from the best-selling classic manga Dragon Ball continues in this new series written by Akira Toriyama himself!
Ever since Goku became Earth's greatest hero and gathered the seven Dragon Balls to defeat the evil Boo, his life on Earth has grown a little dull. But new threats loom overhead, and Goku and his friends will have to defend the planet once again in this continuation of Akira Toriyama's best-selling series, Dragon Ball!
Goku Black's identity has been revealed as Zamas, the lord of lords from Universe 10! But he's not alone--his counterpart from the parallel universe has teamed up with him and, thanks to the super Dragon Balls, they are nearly unstoppable! In the present, Goku trains with Master Roshi to perfect the Mafuba and seal Zamas away. Meanwhile, Kaiô-shin takes Lord Gowas, Zamas's mentor, to the parallel universe to try and push his former pupil back to being good!
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$109.45 $89.95 save 17.82% - $19.50 off Out of stock
While traditional Matryoshka's hide a playful series of dolls, this special version contains just one toy inside, but you'll find it's more than enough to keep you fully entertained. It's an incredibly discreet toy that is easy to travel with and enjoy.
The full purple case hides the French Rose coloured Matryoshka inside until you're ready to play, and it acts as more than storage - it's also the charging base. Just sit the Matryoshka on the base for two hours and it will provide up to two hours of continuous play and a standby charge that lasts for 90 days.
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It's whisper quiet when you turn the Matryoshka on and with a convenient waterproof design you can take this little vibe into the bath with you.
Opening up to reveal a small sized massager with incredible power, the Matryoshka is an easy to manage vibrator with lots of options. Featuring a unique design that includes a storage case that doubles as a charging base, the softly smooth Matryoshka can even go under the water to keep your playtime fresh and fun.
The purple case hides a lovely Lavender Blush coloured vibe, keeping it discreetly out of sight so you can leave it on your bedside table or bathroom counter without anyone knowing its true purpose. And while it's stored in the case the bottom acts as a charger, giving you up to two full hours of playtime from a single two-hour charge, and up to 90 days of standby charge.
Taken out of the container the Matryoshka's wide base holds in the palm of your hand and makes internal and external stimulation feel intuitively natural. A push of the button will start it up and you can choose from a combination of five patterns and five intensity levels, including a special shuffle mode to randomise the stimulation. The motor is surprisingly quiet, and can even work under water, transforming bath time into a wonderfully invigorating experience.
The Matryoshka is composed of a smooth, high-end silicone material that boasts superior hypoallergenic properties that keep its path along your body free from irritation, especially when paired with some friction reducing water-based lubrication. It lends this vibe a luxuriously soft feel that feels like a lover's caress, especially as it heats up with contact from your body.
A huge baby's dummy - NOT!
review by Sally (posted on 1/03/2016)
It's one of the most versatile toys we have but then we enjoy massage with oils, creams and lotions. We both use it for stimulating all our delicate areas and we would not want to be without it.
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St. Mary's Women's Swimming Earns Conference Win over Frostburg State
Elizabeth Johnson '21 - Photo Credit: Bill Wood
For Immediate Release · By Justin Gordon · jpgordon@smcm.edu
Frostburg, Md. – The St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team traveled to western Maryland for a Capital Athletic Conference dual at Frostburg State University on Saturday afternoon. The Seahawks (2-2, 1-1 CAC) posted a 153-109 victory over the Bobcats (4-2, 1-2 CAC) for their first conference win of the season.
St. Mary's 153, Frostburg State 109
Sophomore Brenna Litynski (Hollywood, Md./Home-schooled) paced St. Mary's in the win with four victories.
First-year Rileigh Krell (Baltimore, Md./Sparrows Point), senior captain Hailley Baughman (Lineboro, Md./Manchester Valley), junior Carolyn Sutton (Laurel, Md./Laurel) and Litynski swam a 2:08.09 in the 200 medley relay, which gave them a first-place finish to start the meet.
Litynski took first place in the 100 freestyle by swimming a 1:01.47 and claimed first in the 400 freestyle as well with a time of 4:44.97.
Litynski's fourth win came in the final event as she anchored the winning 200 freestyle relay with junior Holly Smith (Calne, England/Skyline [Wash.]), first-year Leila McCloskey (Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown), and senior captain Samantha Schoenecker (Dallas, Texas/Woodrow Wilson). The quartet tallied a 1:57.57 for the victory.
Krell notched an individual win with a first-place finish in the 200 backstroke by swimming a 2:35.12. She also contributed by placing second in the 100 backstroke (1:11.74) and the 100 butterfly (1:13.41).
Sutton won the 50 freestyle in 29.86 before swimming a 1:13.96 in the 100 individual medley for second overall. She also staked a third-place finish in the 100 backstroke (1:12.84).
Sophomore Anna LaPoint (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport) started her day off with a first-place finish in the 800 freestyle with a 10:03.20. LaPoint then added a second-place finish in the 400 freestyle by swimming a 4:48.39.
Junior Becca Sonnenberg (Derwood, Md./Magruder) captured the 200 butterfly by swimming a 2:45.33 and took third in the 100 butterfly in 1:14.80.
Smith posted a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle by swimming a 2:23.17 and a third-place finish in the 100 breaststroke in 1:24.26.
Baughman finished second in both the 100 breaststroke (1:18.50) and the 200 breaststroke (2:56.53). She placed third in the 100 individual medley in 1:16.97.
Up Next for the Seahawks
Nov. 16 vs. Washington College (1-4) – MPOBARC Aquatics Center – 5:00 p.m.
Nov. 17 vs. McDaniel (0-2) – MPOBARC Aquatics Center – 1:00 p.m.
Facebook: StMarysAthletics | Instagram: @smcseahawks, @smcmswimming
Twitter: @smcseahawks | Hashtags: #SweepTheSheds, #GoHawks
February 17, 2019 Seahawks Finish Third in CAC Championships
February 16, 2019 Baughman Breaks School Record and Claims First Place Finish
February 15, 2019 Litynski Takes First Overall in Day Two of CAC Championships
February 14, 2019 Seahawks Start CAC Championships With a Second Place Finish
February 2, 2019 Seahawks Conclude Regular Season Against W&L
January 26, 2019 Seahawks Top Salisbury for Conference Win
January 22, 2019 Women’s Swimming Honored as CSCAA Scholar All-America Team for Fall Semester
January 19, 2019 Women's Swimming Falls to Mary Washington in CAC Competition
December 1, 2018 Litynski Wins on Final Day of Yellow Jacket Invitational
November 30, 2018 Seahawk Women's Swimming Nets Top Performances on First Day of Yellow Jacket Invitational
November 16, 2018 Seahawk Women's Swimming Falls to Washington College
November 10, 2018 St. Mary's Women's Swimming Earns Conference Win over Frostburg State
November 6, 2018 Litynski Named CAC Women's Swimming Athlete of the Week
November 3, 2018 Baughman and Litynski Pace Seahawk Women's Swimming in CAC Opener
November 2, 2018 Litynski Leads St. Mary's Women's Swimming at Randolph-Macon
October 27, 2018 Seahawk Women's Swimming opens 2018-19 Campaign with Win
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Juan Carlos Escribano is his name, he says he is a dog trainer, but he has shown that he is no more than an abuser who beats animals as reported by Mrs. Patricia Sánchez. This guy is from Pachacamac, Lima, and he lives off mistreating animals like Lucas, the dog of Mrs. Patricia that was returned with a tremendous wound next to one of his eyes. They denounce that the police manage this subject and that is why they feel unpunished, and that is why we ask them to do something urgently before they harm more animals.
Now we know that a dog that was in his care disappeared, his name is Nico and his parents are desperately looking for him and want to know where he is. He calls himself a trainer but he hits the dogs and he disappears others. We are afraid that he has hurt Nico and that it has been hidden so the owners can not find him.
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Streetcars & Cable Cars
Trolley Tours
May 30, 2012 August 9, 2014 Rick Laubscher
On the Job at Age 96!
As N-Judah riders know, streetcars are off the job this week so Muni can replace switches on the line, especially at Church and Duboce, where the N meets the J and they enter the subway.
Well, almost all streetcars are off the job. This one, Muni work car No. C-1, built in 1916 and restored by Market Street Railway volunteers in the 1990s, is hard at work checking the alignment of the new track to make sure regular streetcars can run on it before the tracks are (literally) set in concrete. No. C-1 has performed this important task on the T and K lines, among others, and with its portable generator on board, it doesn’t even need the overhead wires.
Though it never carries passengers, it’s still one of Muni’s most important streetcars…just four years younger than Muni itself!
Thanks very much to Peter Straus for the great photo.
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Seattle: Envious of The Embarcadero
For decades, urban planners have discussed the similarities (and differences) between the two U.S. Pacific Coast cities with the best natural harbors: San Francisco and Seattle. Among other similarities, both cities had their waterfronts marred for decades by double-deck freeways. Now, as San Francisco did 20 years ago, Seattle is going to tear down its double-decker, called the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
A Seattle television station recently ran a refreshingly in-depth report on the impact the rejuvenation of The Embarcadero has had on our city. One of the experts they interviewed is former Deputy Mayor (and current MSR Vice President) Doug Wright. And throughout the story are great shots of F-line streetcars, credited for drawing some of those former freeway users into attractive mass transit. Worth a look.
One irony here, not mentioned in the TV piece: Seattle had a waterfront streetcar line before San Francisco, the brainchild of the late Council Member George Benson. It used a few Melbourne trams (like our No. 496) but was “temporarily” shut down a few years ago when its carbarn’s land was appropriated to become part of a sculpture garden.
Seattle is now expanding its nascent modern streetcar system (originally dubbed the South Lake Union Trolley until someone figured out the acronym that goes with that name), but it doesn’t look like a revival of the waterfront line is a high priority for the Seattle transit overlords, even after the boulevard is rebuilt.
Maybe the city planners up there need to look at this video again!
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Photo of the [Past] Moment: Thanks, Mom!
Editor’s Note: Right after posting the photo of Car No. 1040 (preceding post), we coincidentally received this email, which the author, Joel Salomon, has generously let us post here. Yet another reason to remember moms – not just on Mother’s Day, but every day of the year.
Click to enlarge. Muni PCC No. 1040 on Market Street in 1955, about to turn onto First Street to reach the Transbay Terminal (which would have been shown as "BRIDGE" on the roll signs of the day). Following common practice of the time, the operator has already changed the destination reading to "OCEAN" on the L-Taraval line (revised on later roll signs to "46TH-ZOO"). That’s the Hunter-Dulin Building, home to the fictional detective firm of Spade & Archer, above the car in the background, at 111 Sutter. (It’s still there.) We left the photo uncropped, the better to see the cool storefronts on Market. No, "Navy Blues" is not the predecessor of Old Navy. Several military uniform stores used to be quartered in this section of Market. Photo by Joel Salomon’s mom.
Having been in San Francisco last month I have been on a bit of a Muni fixation of late. I remembered that in my father’s collection I got were 35mm slides that my mother had taken in 1955 when she visited San Francisco while on a trip to see her sister, who lived near Sacramento. My parents were not married at the time, but my father gave my mom his slide camera to use on the trip. My mom took numerous train and trolley pictures and I decided to search them out and go through them the other week.
Imagine my surprise when I came across the enclosed shot of car 1040!
It’s so ironic that my mom took this picture of this particular car in 1955 and I discovered this in 2012, the year Harry [Donahue, head of a Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys] is planning the trip with this car. So I guess it must be fate that I go along on this fan trip in August.
So, here’s to you Mom, thinking of you a bit extra on this Mother’s Day as I type this message. Thank you for all the things you did for us a kids and while growing up beyond my teenage years! Thank you for taking me (and my two brothers) to San Francisco when I was nine years old in 1972 and instilling all the good things in my life that you did and helping with my love affair with trolleys and trains. Yes my dad had a hand in that too, but Mom, you also encouraged it. Cannot believe it’s been 14 years since you have been gone. I think of you often.
I thought this shot of 1040 had significant meaning on this day, due to the person that took it.
Postscript: a comparison of this 1955 shot of No. 1040 shows how faithful its recent restoration is. The only thing missing today is the “Enter Front” decal by the front doors, which has been left off in anticipation of Muni changing to all-door boarding later this year. The black anticlimber (front bumper) was repainted silver on these cars not long after this photo was taken.
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Photo of the Moment: M&M
Of Muni’s 32 streamliner PCC streetcars currently in active service or under restoration, the most historic is almost certainly No. 1040. It was the very last one of some 5,000 PCCs to be built in North America, and just rejoined the fleet after a full restoration that paid particular attention to preserving its original features.
Its historic status has instantly made it a favorite target of photographers. We’re seeing a lot of great shots of it in our Flickr Group. We thought we’d share this one, by knelson27, taken on our recent charter of No. 1040. It’s posed next to an LRV near the original end of the M-line at Broad and Plymouth. And yes, the F-line PCCs also carry route signs for the other Muni surface streetcar routes, In case they’re needed for shuttle service.
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Home Articles The Sun Stewart’s expansion completion eyed for September
Stewart’s expansion completion eyed for September
Officials pleased, but neighbors continue to harbor concerns
by Christopher South
Photo by Christopher South
The new, expanded Stewart’s Shop in Schroon Lake is scheduled to be completed Sept. 17. Town leaders are looking forward to the improved facility, better safety, and expanded parking, but some neighbors still say the noise and lights will be a problem.
SCHROON LAKE | The expansion of the Stewart’s Shop in Schroon Lake is scheduled to be completed in mid-September.
Schroon Supervisor Mike Marnell said he has heard nothing but compliments about the new nearly, 3,700 square-foot shop currently under construction next door to the existing store.
“People are looking forward to it opening,” Marnell said.
Marnell cited improvements to the location, including reworking the parking lot for easier access. He said the slope to the parking lot at the Dock Street end of the lot has always been a problem.
Pedestrian safety will also be enhanced, and there would be less congestion in the enlarged parking lot, he said.
Councilman Don Sage expects the new store to do well, especially with the new gas pump arrangement. He said now only two vehicles can fill up at a time. With the new arrangement, six vehicles will have access to the pumps at the same time.
“Traffic congestion will be greatly decreased. Safety will be improved,” Sage said.
CONTENTIOUS ROAD
While work is now underway, the road to get there has been paved with controversy that threatened to cleave the community in half.
A series of standing room-only meetings last summer generated outspoken residents both for and against the expansion.
Last October, the Schroon Lake Town Board voted unanimously to approve a zoning change that would allow retail operations on the residential parcel Stewart’s Shops purchased for the expansion.
While some town leaders are looking forward to its opening, some neighbors are still unhappy with the changes.
“It is what it is,” said Wally Thomas, a Taylor Street resident whose property overlooks the construction site.
According to Thomas, he and his wife had to put up with the asbestos removal when the old house was torn down, a generator running 24-7 for three weeks, plus the sounds of roofing, siding and digging.
“It was enough to drive your out of your mind,” Thomas said.
Promised a better view by town officials, Thomas said they once looked at a house on a bank along the road. Now he looks across at the Timberwolf Tavern and eventually will look at Stewart’s dumpsters and gas pumps.
Modeled after a design used in Ticonderoga, Thomas said he took a drive to look at that store and wasn’t impressed.
“The fence around the dumpsters is falling down and the dumpster lids are open,” he said.
The Thomases say they will probably spend all their nights on the other side of the house to get away from the LED lights going up across the street.
When contacted to ask about concessions being made for neighbors, company spokesman Erica Komoroske said Stewart’s Shops made considerable efforts to minimize lighting and noise levels.
“We will provide complete screening behind the dumpster and behind the entire length of the Stewart’s Shops property,” she said.
Komoroske said the new shop would enhance the center of town with its Adirondack look and believes the customers would appreciate the larger parking lot and expanded store interior.
“We think the neighbors will be more than pleased with the new shop,” she said.
Sage discounted their complaints.
“Those who opposed this expansion do not care about the folks who live here all year and just what a valuable asset Stewart’s is to our community,” he said. “All the folks who live here I talk to are strongly in favor and support of the new Stewart’s store.”
The Thomases, who had been dividing their time between Schroon Lake and Arizona, are now full-time residents of the Town of Schroon.
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Arsenal warn youth coach over future conduct after improper language charge
Arsenal took swift action once made aware of the allegation (Adam Davy/PA)
Arsenal have warned a youth coach about his future conduct after Alex Nichols was handed a three-match ban and a £400 fine for allegedly calling a teenage girl referee at an under-9s match a “little p****”.
In February, a Football Association regulatory commission heard the disciplinary case, which concerned a fixture between Reading Under-9s and Arsenal Under-9s.
Nichols had admitted a charge of improper language and/or behaviour towards the match referee during the game when he persistently complained over decisions. However, he denied using “abusive and/or insulting words” to the official following the match.
The published written reasons from the case detailed how the match referee said she was made to “feel humiliated, belittled and bullied”. After the final whistle, the referee told Nichols she could not shake his hand because of his actions, to which he allegedly replied: “How classy, little p****.”
The commission found the second charge not proven, feeling the referee “was likely mistaken in claiming the offensive words were used after the fixture” and so handed out a one-game ground ban and a fine of £300.
The FA, though, appealed that decision. At the hearing on May 7 at Wembley, the three-person appeal board reflected on statements the “female minor” referee had been crying during the closing stages of the match.
It was also noted Nichols claimed he had never used such language, simply saying “OK fine” and walking away when the referee refused to shake his hand. The appeal board, however, said it was “highly unlikely that the one could be mistaken for the other”, so found the second charge proven “on the balance of probabilities”.
An additional sanction of a two-game suspension was imposed, along with a further £100 fine.
A statement from Arsenal obtained by Press Association Sport on Friday read: “At Arsenal we do not accept or tolerate behaviour of this nature.
“We took appropriate action, suspending the coach immediately the allegation was brought to our attention.
“This was the first allegation of this nature in his long coaching career and he has been warned about his future conduct.”
The FA said it remained committed to supporting referees at grassroots level.
A statement given to Press Association Sport on Friday morning read: “We have a number of interventions to tackle abuse of grassroots referees.
“Our relaunch of Respect (campaign) under the banner ‘We Only Do Positive’ is focused on improving the behaviour of coaches and parents as well as a pilot introduction of temporary dismissals, or sin bins, at step 7 and below.”
Arsenal, meanwhile, have confirmed staff at the Emirates Stadium have been given additional training and more pest-proofing measures put in place to help deal with “extensive evidence of mouse activity” which had been highlighted by council hygiene inspectors.
“We have always taken hygiene matters extremely seriously and have increased our actions to ensure Emirates Stadium exceeds the recommendations made back in 2016,” a club statement read.
“Increased visits from pest control experts, independent audits, additional staff training and substantial investment in proofing have all been implemented.”
Arsenal boss Unai Emery is expected to strengthen his squad in the summer transfer market.
Talks are said to be at an advanced stage to sign Belgium winger Yannick Carrasco, who joined Chinese Super League side Dalian Yifang during February.
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The Dirt Doctor will see you now – The weekend preview
After GPs in Qatar and Thailand that were so Mickey Mouse they could have been sponsored by Disney – followed by a surprisingly solid event in Argentina – the world motocross championship finally lands in Europe this weekend.
The big news for British fans is that Red Bull KTM’s Tommy Searle will be back in action at the Italian GP at Arco di Trento after fracturing his T5 vertebra in Thailand. That’s just six weeks from crash to comeback and is the stuff ruddy legends are made of.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, ‘Enry’s Hammer flooring Muhammad Ali and now Tommy Gun’s comeback – it’s enough to make the Dirt Doctor’s stiff upper lip tremble. Don’t expect too much from him – the guys he’s lining up against are almost two months into a GP campaign and battle-hardened – but the simple fact he’s there makes me want to fix bayonets and charge Johnny Foreigner.
Here’s Tommy’s Thai crash…
>So who’s going to win? With HRC’s fast Frenchman Gautier Paulin failing to live up to the hype so far this season on paper it’s looking like a four-way fight between Tony Cairoli, Max Nagl, Ryan Villopoto and sulky Belgian Clement Desalle.
If the weather’s good the hardpack track – the first the series has visited this year – will be faster and looser than that girl down the park who’ll do anything for a bottle of Frosty Jack. It’s the sort of going reigning champ Tony the Tiger has growed up racing on in Sicily but will the Italian be willing to hang it out so early in the season? As for the other three, well, the Blue Max is a Teutonic moto machine, Ryan the Lion has a point to prove and the MX Panda is a motocross heavyweight. With a faced like a slapped black and white arse.
Basically, to pick a winner I might as well write their names on slips of paper, pop them into the old balloon knot and then see whose name comes out first when I drop the kids off. And that’s one of the reasons I love motocross. Not the putting riders’ names up me bum bit, I mean the unpredictability of it all…
With Nathan Watson staring down the barrel of four to six weeks out after breaking his arm in Germany, Paul Coates also injured and the Reverend Jake Nicholls electing to give his broken wrist more time to heal the only other Brit in MXGP is Shaun Simpson. Woody’s currently sitting in 12th but he’s waaaay better than that and should be heading home on Sunday in the top 10.
British hopes in MX2 are pinned on rapid redhead Max Anstie. The fruit of ’80s bruiser Swervin’ Mervyn’s loins spammed himself in Thailand, then came back with a race one third in Argentina and continues to frustrate and excite in equal measure. No-one is going to beat off Jeffrey Herlings – he can only beat off himself (check the dictionary definition) – but on his day Mighty Max is the next best thing if his Monster DRT Kawasaki holds together.
Ben Watson’s had a slow start to the world championship and is easily capable of scoring well in both races, the 17-year-old Hitachi Revo KTM UK rider just needs to get a couple of good starts and everything should slot into place.
The Italian GP also marks the start of the European campaign and – hurrah – we’ve got a defending champ in the 250 class thanks to Steven Clarke. Built like a pitbull and sounding like Noddy Holder, the Midlander has raced around the world and had a top-five in the AMA SX series so he’s no stranger to pressure but, after his awesome wildcard GP debut in Argentina, Adam Sterry has got to start favourite as he drops back a class.
Heading Stateside, the Monster Energy SX Series gets all hippy-dippy on Saturday with a night in San Francisco. With both the 450SX and the West Region 250SX titles already decided in favour of Ryan Dungey and Cooper Webb it’s going to be a bit on an anti-climax – unless you get loaded on peyote and whack the Best of Jefferson Airplane on your iPod.
Which I do most weekends anyway…
Words: TDD Image: Ray Archer
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Is Ready for Blast Off
byErin Biglow
Posted on July 30, 2014 March 6, 2018
Comic book adaptations have saturated the summer movie landscape for years, but Marvel’s recent surge of overlapping narratives courtesy of “The Avengers” and its ilk has exposed the genre to a whole new crop of mainstream audiences. Previously targeting a more niche demographic meant the content could revel in its quirks without concern for alienating potential ticket buyers, but now these major tentpole films walk a finer line than ever between fulfilling box office expectations and maintaining allegiance to diehard fans.
One way to circumvent the challenge is by shifting focus to lesser-known characters within the canon, thereby setting a new precedent for comic book zealots and neophytes alike. On Aug. 1, Marvel will unveil the newest addition to its cinematic universe with “Guardians of the Galaxy,” an epic, heartfelt space romp showcasing a rough-and-tumble band of misfits as the cosmos’ most unexpected heroes. Stars Chris Pratt (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “Moneyball”), Zoe Saldana (“Star Trek,” “Avatar”), Vin Diesel (“The Fast and The Furious”), Benicio Del Toro (“Traffic”), Michael Rooker (“The Walking Dead”) and Dave Bautista (“Riddick”) joined director James Gunn (“Slither”) at Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif. July 19 to discuss why “Guardians” marks a new chapter in the Marvel anthology, and how its relatively obscure source material helped construct an entirely new concept of the classic superhero.
“It was frankly liberating,” Gunn began, when asked how he approached the opportunity to helm “Guardians” without the rigid framework and subsequent expectations that come with adapting more proverbial work. “For me, I think I would have had a harder time trying to fit into the regular Marvel scheme of things, and this gave me a chance to take what I loved about Marvel movies and Marvel comics and create a whole new universe. Which is, really, what has been the most exciting thing.”
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Gunn isn’t the only member of the “Guardians” family taking a major professional leap. The top-billed Pratt is best known as clueless schlub Andy Dwyer on hit NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” and doesn’t necessarily fit the typical leading-man mold. At first, tackling the role of hotshot Peter “Star-Lord” Quill seemed dubious to even Pratt himself, but the character’s self-deprecating bravado and winking humor proved a perfect match for the 35-year-old as he faced a serious crossroads in his career.
“I’m not sure I even saw myself in this kind of role,” Pratt admitted. “At the time, I’d been sort of having an identity crisis as an actor. I didn’t know what I was – if I was an action guy, or a comedy guy – and I thought, ‘Maybe I can do a combination of both if there’s nothing out there like it. Maybe I have to develop something.’ And my managers kept saying, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’”
“The chubby guy from ‘Parks and Rec?’” Gunn recalled saying to his casting director.
Although Gunn initially balked at meeting with Pratt, he quickly reconsidered once the audition began and it was obvious “Guardians” had found its Star-Lord.
“We had screen tested at least 20 people – big stars, no names – looking for the right person,” Gunn revealed. “I really wanted somebody who could embody this character and take it beyond what was on the page, in the same way Robert Downey, Jr. did for ‘Iron Man.'”
Gunn and Pratt’s galactic journey may signify major transitions in their respective careers, but Saldana had already spent plenty of onscreen time in big-budget outer space. Aside from her turn as Uhura in J.J. Abrams’ 2009 “Star Trek” reboot and its 2013 sequel “Star Trek Into Darkness,” Saldana contributed to cinematic history with her role as Na’vi princess Neytiri in James Cameron’s groundbreaking “Avatar.” Despite the extensive physical prowess required to play alien assassin Gamora in “Guardians,” Saldana explained how her previous experience with other tech-heavy sci-fi projects made these newest demands that much easier to meet.
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“Actually, I stepped down from the training,” Saldana said of her preparation tactics. “After I figured out what [Gamora] was going to be spiritually, there was muscle memory from all the things I’ve done in the past seven or eight years. I was kind of able to relax with my body and work with the stunt coordinators, but not excessively like I’ve done on other films. “
While live-action characters like Star-Lord and Gamora required grueling physical commitments from their actors, their computer-generated counterparts only needed to find the right voice. However, for action star Diesel, bringing the sentient, tree-like Groot to life in the midst of personal grief produced an emotional satisfaction he hadn’t expected, but welcomed with open arms.
“For me, it was at a very important time,” Diesel began, touching upon the shocking loss of his friend and colleague Paul Walker last November. “Because … there was something very therapeutic about – in my personal life, and I guess in my professional life, too – dealing with death, and then playing a character that celebrates life in the way Groot celebrates life.“
Groot’s compassionate nature helps balance the other Guardians’ tougher, more defensive attitudes, and the character’s three total words of dialogue, repeated throughout the film, contribute a significant portion of the already abundant comic relief. It may not seem like a complicated role, but Diesel assured reporters he and Gunn shared a similar objective to achieve as much depth as they could with what little they had.
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“It would be wild to actually see my script, because I don’t think anyone’s seen my script,” Diesel laughed. “On the left-hand side of the page it said, ‘I am Groot,’ and then on the right-hand side, it would be a whole paragraph about what ‘I am Groot’ meant. So, when I walked into that situation and saw somebody [else] that cared so much about every little nuance of that character, it was so refreshing.”
Gunn explained why his devotion to the details ultimately echoes the movie’s larger themes about friendship and loyalty. “Guardians of the Galaxy” might present itself first and foremost as a visual spectacle, but to Gunn, the Guardians themselves symbolize the true heart of the story.
“This movie is about actually allowing yourself to care, and that’s a naturally emotional thing for me,” Gunn declared.
“I fell in love with these characters as I was making this movie, I fell in love with these actors as I was making it, and I think my natural sort of sensitivity to that – to characters, to people, to emotions – is just something that automatically was expressed within the film. It’s a film about family.“
“Guardians of the Galaxy” hits theaters nationwide Friday, Aug. 1, 2014
Erin Biglow
Erin Biglow is a lifelong pop culture junkie who both impresses and alienates her friends with a savant-like knowledge of film, television and celebrity trivia. A native Wisconsinite, Erin migrated to Los Angeles after college to turn her journalism degree and instinctive knack for the entertainment industry into a career. When not on the red carpet or trapped in front of her laptop, Erin enjoys hiking, reading and continuing her quest to find the perfect cheeseburger. Follow Erin's media musings on Twitter via @ErinBiglow, and find more of her articles on LA TV Examiner and Poptimal.
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I’ve heard so many great things about this film. Excited for it to come to our area!
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Collins Mbesuma's experience lifts Maccabi
By Sihle Ndebele - 11 June 2018 - 09:15
Collins Mbesuma
The experience of two veteran strikers in Collins Mbesuma and Madoda Motha was undoubtedly the catalyst for Maccabi's promotion from the ABC Motsepe League to the National First Division (NFD).
Maccabi were crowned ABC Motsepe League National Play-offs champions after beating Mpumalanga's TS Sporting 5-4 on penalties at Peter Mokaba Stadium on Saturday.
Both clubs will compete in the NFD in the new season by virtue of reaching the final.
Mbesuma, 34, did not play group-stage matches but was only unleashed in the semifinal clash against Dolphins, where his goal and two assists propelled the Gauteng-based side into the final.
In the decider, the experienced striker netted the equaliser before scoring the winning penalty after the game had ended in 1-1 stalemate.
The 33-year-old Motha, alongside Mangaung United's Dikotso Mabaleng and Thobani Mthembu of Umvoti FC, finished as the tournaments' top-scorers with three goals each. The trio shared R100000 prize money.
Having previously turned out for the likes of Jomo Cosmos and Free State Stars, Motha is a seasoned-campaigner and his expertise helped Maccabi.
Maccabi coach Mokete Tsotetsi, a former Kaizer Chiefs defender, also lauded the duo's impact in the team.
"The presence of Motha and Mbesuma was key for us. Their experience helped the team a lot. What I like about them is that they also guide and advise the youngsters," Tsotetsi told Sowetan yesterday.
"Mbesuma still has that drive and hunger. He still wants to win things. As experienced as he is, he's still humble and willing to take instructions from the technical team. I enjoy coaching these guys [Mbesuma and Motha] because they listen."
Tsotetsi is optimistic that he'll still be the mentor when the team embark on their NFD journey.
"We will have a meeting with the management sometime next week. I am positive that they'll keep me.
"We have to plan for the NFD but we have no pressure," noted Tsotetsi, whose side walked away with R1million prize money.
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Remember when riding bikes was all about having fun? So do we. After all, we're big kids at heart over here, so creating the ultimate kids' mountain bike felt more like a labour of love than a job. For the all-new Riprock, we strove to create the bike that any of us would have drooled over as a little one. And with ultra-wide tyres, supple suspension, a durable frame, comfortable, confident geometry, and strong, reliable disc brakes, we'd say that the Riprock is approved for fun anywhere that it goes.
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We're not interested in hyperbolic marketing claims. To us, aero truly is everything. It's an ethos embodied in every design decision we make, and it's why we're continually setting new benchmarks for the world's fastest products.
Aerodynamic drag, after all, is the single biggest force affecting a cyclist, and since the only way to eliminate completely is to stop moving, reducing every bit of it is critical. That's why we've spared no expense in building a team of aerodynamic experts and giving them whatever tools they asked for to get the job done—Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), on-bike Data Acquisition (DAQ), and of course, building them their very own Win Tunnel across the street from our main office in Morgan Hill, California. Add it all up, and having all of this at the disposal of the industry's most innovative minds makes aerodynamic innovation occur at greater speed, making you faster than ever in less time.Chris Yu, Mark Cote, Chris D’Aluisio, Camron Piper, and Chuck Teixeira—between them, this aerodynamic-tour-de-force has over fifty years of aero experience and well over 20,000 hours in wind tunnels. Their expertise and presence is not only unique, but a key component in continuing to move the science forward in new ways. After all, when your tunnel time calls for a walk across the street, not a trip to the airport, you can make commuter fenders and Downhill World Champions faster. It's total freedom, and this has bred a culture of innovation unknown to the cycling industry. In other words, our team is free to push the buttons of the ideologues and poke the sleeping bears of unchallenged design principles, instead of booking a day in San Diego and only testing yaw angles to reinforce what our models predicted.
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Of course, the lynchpin to our whole aero operation is our very own Win Tunnel. Designed and built to our own exacting standards, it's the world's finest cycling-specific wind tunnel. We optimized it for real bike speeds, and it's large enough to allow us to test multiple riders at once, simulating group situations, like the peloton or a team time trial. Its proximity to the team enables us to conveniently test things without concern to cost or time, so we have the freedom to test everything that we make—from a commuting helmet, to clothing, and everything in between. And since it's also used as an educational facility, there’s room for our fitters and retailers to observe and learn from testing, which directly impacts product development and your experience in the local bike shop.
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Surprisingly, our quest for perfect tube shapes don't always start in the Win Tunnel. With the latest Venge, we started with a new piece of technology that we call the FreeFoil Shape Library. Our engineers wrote an optimization algorithm and utilized a supercomputer (yes, we used an actual supercomputer) to help create new airfoil shapes with different weights, surface areas, and structural targets. Armed with this library of shapes, all with different aspect ratios, we were able to plug them into the different parts of the bike and test a variety of configurations to determine the fastest setup in the Win Tunnel. And moving forward, this methodology is being applied to nearly all of our bikes and components. So, with a little help from some Silicon Valley supercomputing, we're discovering the new shapes of speed.
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We're not alone in our usage of CFD, which allows aerodynamicists, like Chris Yu, to play in a virtual space with a range of shapes and surfaces. With it, he can easily simulate the flow of various fluids across shapes of his choosing to test their aerodynamic performance. CFD allows us to see, via simulation, things you can’t see in the real world, like tiny "bits" of drag on a frame. It’s an extremely handy way of predicting aero behaviors. Where our usage diverges from the norm, however, is that we're able to discard designs that are total duds before developing prototypes for testing in our Win Tunnel. Of course, we're in a unique position, in that, we're able to design and test in CFD in the morning, 3D-print a prototype in the afternoon, and test in the Win Tunnel before the day is done.
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Satsuma Tangerines
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The best Satsuma mandarins have attributes that set them apart from lesser known varieties. Their red orange, leathery and oily peel is known as "zipper skin" as it clings so loosely to its flesh that it can be peeled with just a couple of tears. Left behind is a fragrant and juicy segmented flesh nearly ovoid of seeds. Though the flesh can be firm it is extremely juicy and sweet. Satsumas do not temper well with poor handling, though as their loosely attached skin bruises readily with pressure, upsetting its flesh and quality.
The Satsuma tangerine is available mid fall throughout winter.
There are over 100 different Satsuma, Citrus reticulata, varieties, appropriately labeled mandarins, many of which have a prefix "China" as these hybrids were originally received from Chinese cultivars. The most common name given to the Satsuma is Unshû mikan (Unshiu) of Japanese origin. It is the most significant mandarin variety in japan. Satsumas are becoming a competitive mandarin versus the more common tangerines such as the Clementine as they have high sugar content and their season starts earlier than most tangerine varieties.
Satsuma tangerines are most commonly eaten fresh, peel removed and separated into sections. They may also be used as a salad ingredient, in baked, frozen or fresh dessert preparations, or juiced and used in cocktails or smoothies. Pair satsuma with yogurt, endive, arugula, winter squash, leeks and pears. Use satsuma tangerines with sweet, spicy or Asian flavors such as soy, ginger, garlic, vanilla, honey and olive oil. Satsuma tangerines will keep at room temperature but should be refrigerated for longer storage.
The satsuma owes its given name to a former province in Japan on the southern tip of Kyushu Island where it is believed to have originated from a natural mutation. Documentation of the Satsuma's existence was referenced as early as 1429. It is one of the most cold-tolerant mandarin varieties withstanding temperatures below 15 degrees Fahrenheit. This allows for its fruits to mature early, though it does not necessarily bring the best quality fruits as the fruits needs warm temperatures to develop a suitable level of sugar content.
Recipes that include Satsuma Tangerines. One is easiest, three is harder.
Leite's Culinaria Satsuma Orange Cake
Culicurious Satsuma and Pecan Muffin
Healthy Happy Life Citrus-Tamari Rosemary Maple Tofu Steaks with Warm Satsuma Wedges
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What the President saw
David Caute
Nixon at the Movies Mark Feeley
University of Chicago Press, pp.399, 19.50
A staff writer for the Boston Globe, Mark Feeley is also a lecturer in American Studies at Brandeis University. I mention this because evidence has been accumulating these past 20-odd years that American Studies departments, like Cultural Studies, Film Studies and, of course, Media Studies are busily engaged in subverting that central but antiquated notion dear to traditional history departments — ‘because’. Causality is oldhat, it’s risible, and it’s out. The new history is virtual history, or ‘alternate’ history, the kind that did not happen but might have happened, just as novels and movies and genre paintings depict realities which somehow failed to occur. In some cases like Oliver Stone’s Nixon and JFK movies, the excitement for the spectator is searching for vestiges of real history and real ‘becauses’ behind the virtual activity on the screen. Stone makes films in the indicative, but Mark Feeley, who is rather scrupulous and old-fashioned about the truth, resorts to conditionals and even subjunctives as he transports us into the virtual history of a very real and plausible Richard Nixon ‘at’ (or not ‘at’) a number of wonderfully described movies.
For example, wishing to devote a whole chapter to Alexander Mackendrick’s film Sweet Smell of Success (1957), but also intent on keeping us in touch with the life and times of Richard Nixon —Congressman, then Senator, then Vice-President, then hiatus, then President, then not-President scuttling from impeachment post-Watergate —Feeley solves the problem with generous helpings of virtual history and the conditional. ‘It is the movie Richard Nixon might have made had Richard Nixon been a movie director: the movie that aims to show what journalism is really like.’ And: ‘Sweet Smell of Success bears such a nakedly Nixonian title, unleashing the poetry of his id without the prose of the superego.’ And: ‘This is one movie about journalism Nixon might have enthusiastically endorsed.’ But did he? Did he ever see the film? Did he ever say anything about it? Another connection according to Feeley is that the film is set in Manhattan, could not be anywhere else, and Nixon, although he was born in California the same year as the film industry arrived there, 1913, went to live in Manhattan after his disgraced exit from the Oval Office, and set up as a Wall Street lawyer. So voilà! Between the film’s gofer journalist Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) and Nixon, Mark Feeley discerns this firm connection: ‘it was the same bitch-goddess croon both men heard emanating from Manhattan’.
Sidney, explains Feeley, ‘s the latest in our series of alternate Nixons … They both so transparently want success.’ Feeley suggests that almost everything Nixon said about New York City— ‘it’s the fast track’ is one of them — could have been said by Sidney (except, one may object, that Sidney had the services of better script writers, Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, than Nixon did). Jumping into a yellow cab, Sidney will simply snap, ‘Twen-tee-Won’, and the driver will head for the 21 restaurant — and where else did old Nixon dine in the 1980s if not 21? Admittedly this happened fully 30 years after J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), lunching with the servile Sidney in Twen-tee-Won, famously snapped his fingers for a light with the magical line, ‘Match me, Sidney.’ Anyway, it’s virtual- alternative history and Feeley knows enough about American culture to make it rewarding.
JFK commented that Nixon, his defeated rival for president in 1960, ‘must always be thinking about who he is’. The imagination of Tricky Dick, red-baiter, nemesis of Alger Hiss, Eisenhower’s fixer on Capitol Hill, the man who pleaded to the nation how he loved his dog Checkers, turned — and I am indebted to Mark Feeley for the revelation — to war and warriors. He loved John Wayne, whom he addressed as ‘Duke’, sent messages from the family every time Wayne (who had evaded real military service) won some award, and lied to Wayne about Watergate. His favourite film was George C. Scott’s outsize performance as General Patton in Patton, which he viewed at least three times when president. He would quote Patton, Old Blood and Guts as he was known to his troops, to anyone within range (Kissinger slipped out half-way through the screening). Patton profundities on Nixon’s tongue included ‘Americans play to win all the time. That’ s why we Americans have never lost, and never will lose a war.’ By the time Nixon went around repeating this, the Vietnam war was in progress and Nixon was cursing out his generals for incompetence, and sometimes took over operations on the ground as commander in chief, though in between movies.
The main source for Feeley’s appendix, a long list of films, ‘What the President Saw and When He Saw it’ (and where: the White House, Camp David, Key Biscayne, the Nixon home at San Clemente in California among them) is the Secret Service Diary. Clearly Nixon saw far more films than Stalin, another addict, ever managed, despite Stalin’s long hours spent with Tarzan and other foreign prizes of war. Stalin’s interest in films was so intense that he finally stopped the Soviet film industry, Mosfilm and Lenfilm, from making any films for him to watch. Nixon saw films after they were released, Stalin before. The makers of the films Nixon viewed were not in immediate danger; Stalin’s all-night conversations in the Kremlin with Sergei Eisenstein and others — do we arrest you or merely censor you? — had no Nixonian counterpart, more’s the pity for devotees of actual history.
Nixon viewed only 45 feature films during his first year in office, 1969; perhaps he was unduly impressed by the burdens of office and of talking to Henry Kissinger. By 1970 he was more into his stride with 88 films, but thereafter it really took off and the groundbreaking trip to China to see Mao (which upset John Wayne; Nixon had to reassure him that Taiwan was safe) must have been squeezed in between movies. During 1974, facing impeachment, the whirr of the spools in the presidential projection rooms did not slacken — 66 in seven months. The final one was Around the World in 80 Days.
Our man all over the place
Vanity fair and foul
The most charitable interpretation
The day of the leopard
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After world class physiotherapy? You’ve come to the right place!
Click the titles below to read about the physiotherapy options we have on offer at Sports & Spinal:
Neck Pain & Headaches
Sporting Injuries
Acupuncture & Dry Needling
Vertigo (BPPV)
Physio Team
Fix Your Back Pain: Book Now!
Lower Back Pain – how Physiotherapy can help you!
Low back pain (LBP) is ranked globally as the leading cause of disability (World Health Organisation, 2018). It is estimated that 70-90% of people will suffer from LBP at some stage in their lives. In 2014-15 one in six Australians reported back problems, equating to roughly 3.7 million people nationally (AIWH, 2017).
Generally, lower back pain is something you can avoid and treat with the added knowledge of back education, back care strategies and back exercises.
Physiotherapy can help if…
The pain is thought to be mechanical i.e. exacerbated by joint and muscle tests
The pain is aggravated by poor movement patterns or postures
The pain persists for more than four weeks
The chronic pain has not had an active rehabilitation program before
Thorough musculoskeletal assessment and analysis of faulty movement patterns and postures
Manual Therapy: to reduce pain, allowing a quicker return to work and normal activities
Home Stretching programs: ‘as above’ puts the patient in control.
Core Stabilisation training: Helps to reduce pain and prevent recurrences
Postural and ergonomic advice: Enables a faster pain-free return to normal activities
Graded Activity and Return to work plans: Step by step plans to help guide patients back to their normal activities as soon as possible
Reassurance: Encouragement, advice to stay active, limit fear-avoidance behaviour etc.
Back Pain Physiotherapy is available at our Broadbeach, Buderim, Caloundra, Chermside, Coolum, Kawana, Landsborough, Maroochydore, Nambour, North Lakes, Redcliffe, Robina, Sippy Downs, Springfield and Woolloongabba locations.
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Getting you moving faster!
Whether its returning to the football field, getting ready for your annual ski holiday, making it around 18holes, or simply helping achieve your personal goals of improved mobility, our therapists will get you moving!
Knee Pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints, with many causes ranging from acute meniscal tears, to ACL rupture and more long term osteoarthritic changes.
An appropriately structured rehabilitation program will get you back in action faster, safer and doing what you do best!
Many of our patients also make the decision to opt for ‘pre-habilitation’, attending Physiotherapy pre operatively to optimise their chances of the best possible outcomes.
Sports and Spinal therapists will work closely with your GPs or Orthopaedic Specialist to ensure you receive ideal management for your individual condition.
If you suffer from knee pain, or have been to your GP for knee related issues, come and arrange an appointment to see us at Sports and Spinal.
We can offer solutions that not only can help relieve your pain, but work towards prevention of your knee pain in the future.
And of course, get you back to achieving your goals in sport and daily life!
For more information on Knee Rehabilitation from sports injury or after surgery, please contact your local Sports and Spinal Physiotherapy location to arrange a consultation to see one of our Knee Physios.
Knee Physiotherapy is available at our Broadbeach, Buderim, Caloundra, Chermside, Coolum, Kawana, Landsborough, Maroochydore, Nambour, North Lakes, Redcliffe, Robina, Sippy Downs, Springfield and Woolloongabba locations.
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What Is Neurological Physiotherapy?
Neurological Physiotherapy involves the treatment of clients with disorders of movement, posture and function that arise from impairments of the body’s nervous and neuromuscular systems. These conditions often manifest themselves in loss of mobility function and muscle weakness, poor coordination, sensation loss, uncontrolled muscle activity such as spasticity and tremors, and loss of balance, or orientation.
At Sports & Spinal our Neurological Physiotherapists have extensive experience in assisting people with the following conditions and more.
Neurological Physiotherapy can assist:
Stroke or CVA
Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders
Childhood and developmental problems
General disability and loss of balance in the elderly
Post polio syndrome and other neuromuscular diseases
How Can A Neurological Physiotherapist Assist Patients?
A Neurological Physiotherapist specialises in the re-education of key functions including walking, standing and use of the hands and arms for everyday tasks. Sports & Spinal Physiotherapists are also able to assist individuals wishing to progress to work related tasks, sporting and recreational interests including running retraining.
Neurological Physiotherapy techniques include exercise prescription, hands on therapies as well as the skilled use of electrical stimulation, splinting and casting. Neurological physiotherapists work closely with medical specialists such as Rehabilitation Physicians and Neurologists in the use of specialised medical procedures such as Botulinum Toxin A.
Many people with Neurological conditions experience significant disability and require high levels of care. Neurological physiotherapists have experience in teaching and training carers as well as providing advice and prescription for specialised equipment for mobility, activities of daily living and recreation.
Neurological Rehabilitation Clinic
The Sports and Spinal Neurological Rehabilitation Clinic been created in collaboration with a Rehabilitation Specialist and Neurological Physiotherapist Laura Perry and Alice Latham and include utilisation of Exercise Physiology services in long term management plans.
This clinic deals with issues relating to spasticity, tone and other physical neurological issues that require a holistic rehabilitation approach
A great deal of evidence exists with chronic stroke patients to say that a self monitored intensive program can give results for clients up to 5 years post stroke. National Stroke Foundation Guidelines from 2010 state that stroke patients should have rehabilitation tailored to give them as much functionally specific therapy within the first 6mths post stroke as possible.
European parkinson disease guidelines advise early intervention to maintain range of motion and function rather than a reactive approach of only treating a patient when then start to fall or have movement problems.
Is it for You?
Our Neuro-rehabilitation program is for those who have missed the criteria for Community Sub Acute or 12 Week Transitional Care programs and those with limited access to private day hospital therapy.
Individuals who wish to continue their rehabilitation further post discharge. Those who have had an impairment 1- 10yrs ago and would like to make improvements or limit functional losses.
Our Neurological Rehabilitation services are available at Maroochydore, Coolum and Kawana Sports & Spinal.
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Neck Pain, Headaches and how Physio can help!
Headaches and neck pain are a common problem for thousands of Australians every day with 15% of adults suffering from daily headaches and 47% saying they get headaches and neck pain at least once a year.
While some minor pains can be fixed easily, ongoing suffering from headaches, migraines and neck pain may have a more serious underlying problem. If you suffer from this pain regularly or it interferes with your daily life, it is important for you to seek help.
One way to help find a solution and ease the symptoms is through Physiotherapy. Sports & Spinal have Physiotherapists with additional training in neck pain, headaches and migraines. Qualified Exercise Physiologists can also help you to return to exercise in a safe manner.
How our neck pain and headache Physios can help:
At Sports & Spinal we deal with a wide range of conditions, including headaches and neck pain. Our headache and neck pain Physios will assess you to locate what could be the potential source of the problem and identify how best to fix it or ease the symptoms. This will include Physiotherapy techniques, exercises, and advice for beyond the treatment session such as your sleeping position, posture, work/life balance, exercise routine or even how much ‘relax time’ you get.
Talking to a professional and getting expert help can put you on the right track to a happy, healthy and pain free life, so call us today!
Serious physical injury after Whiplash is rare even when symptoms are severe. A thorough assessment and correct management gives you reassurance and the best opportunity of a full recovery.
At Sports and Spinal we strive to provide “Best Practice”. This means keeping up to date with the most recent research and evidence based practice. Using the current evidence based practice as guidelines we tailor our care package around the individual and their needs (patient centred approach).
Best practice guidelines recognise the importance of treating both the Physical and mental components to ensure well being. This is why we at Sports and Spinal have the option of providing a Psychological screening service at the very beginning of our treatment and after 6 weeks of treatment if indicated. This ensures any Psychosocial barriers or post traumatic stress that may also occur is managed correctly, thus speeding up the recovery process.
Neck Pain Physiotherapy is available at our Broadbeach, Buderim, Caloundra, Chermside, Coolum, Kawana, Landsborough, Maroochydore, Nambour, North Lakes, Redcliffe, Robina, Sippy Downs, Springfield and Woolloongabba locations.
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Getting You Back To Play FASTER!
Our sports therapists work with local, national and international level athletes from a range of disciplines. Whether it’s getting an Olympian back into peak shape for a pinnacle event or helping a weekend warrior smash out their PB, we are equipped to help you return to performing at your best.
As Athletes, you need the Best. You want to get better Fast. You want to Achieve. You want Success.
At Sports and Spinal we are passionate about helping people achieve their goals and the ultimate success that comes from such ambition.
Phone us today if you find yourself watching from the unenviable position of the sideline and one of our Sports Injury Physios will put together a management plan for YOU TODAY!
Sports & Spinal Sport Performance Clinic
Maximise your performance and minimise your risks NOW! Individualized assessment and tailored programs for YOU!
This Sport Performance Clinic has specifically been designed to facilitate patients in their return to sport needs especially following surgery or acute injury. The clinic will focus on the high-performance needs of the athlete to ensure the safe return to their training environment. All sessions are individually tailored towards sports specific retraining and high-performance outcomes.
Without an appropriate return to sport training, re-injury rates are disturbingly high; however, an example of the positive impact of higher end rehab is in ACL Risk. Athletes who undergo and pass evidence-based return-to-sport testing, prior to returning to play, are 4 times less likely to suffer a re-injury.
The Clinic is held at Kawana Sports & Spinal on Thursday evenings at 6-9pm.
Up to 30% of athletes who undergo ACL reconstruction will damage their graft within 12 months of returning to sport
However, athletes who undergo and pass evidence-based return-to-sport testing, prior to returning to play, are 4 times less likely to suffer a re-injury
One study found that 1 in 3 athletes who returned to sport WITHOUT passing return-to-sport testing suffered further injuries, whereas only 1 in 20 athletes who passed return-to-sport testing re-injured.
How many times should I attend?
The individualised program means this could vary from person to person and will be discussed in detail with the treating physiotherapist. However, approx. 1 session per week will be appropriate early on. As progression is made, this might become less regular.
What does the program entail?
The Sport Performance Clinic’s primary goal is to optimally prepare you for a safe return to sport, and reduce the risk of re-injury. Throughout the program you will be assessed regularly, to best determine when it is safe and suitable to make a return to training and playing. The sessions will involve cardio, mobility, agility, plyometrics, resistance training and sport-specific drills to best prepare you for the rigors of your sport.
What can I expect to achieve from the clinic?
A safe and timely return to your chosen sport! Not only do we plan to help you recover from your injury, but we aim to work on sport- specific drills with the hope of improving performance above what it previously was.
You can join by contacting Kawana Sports & Spinal Physiotherapy. If you are currently seeing a physiotherapist at Sports & Spinal, they can carry out an entry assessment prior to your first session. If you are not, then this can be performed during your first session. If you have any questions regarding this program, don’t hesitate to contact [email protected]
What is the benefit of the clinic?
To be able to have your entire rehabilitation and return-to-sport process monitored and managed by Sports & Spinal physiotherapists. The ‘typical’ delivery model of physiotherapy has constraints that make high-level return-to-sport training difficult.
The Sport Performance Clinic has the following benefits:
The clinic is held in well-equipped gym spaces with sufficient room for replication of drills/exercises previously not possible in a private room
Not limited to a 30min session – average session will last approx. 60min, however, this is entirely flexible due to the space available and staggered/overlapping patient start times
Each session will include multiple components i.e. cardio, mobility, resistance training, agility, jumping & landing drills, plyometrics, sport-specific drills
Have a thorough pre-clinic functional assessment to identify weaknesses and develop specific goals to facilitate a safe return to sport
Before clearance for any return to sport evidence-based objective functional testing will be carried out. Research demonstrates passing these tests significantly reduces the risk of re-injury in a myriad of lower limb injuries
Who should attend the clinic?
• If you have had repetitive/recurrent injuries upon returning to sport
• If your physio/patient/coach thinks close supervision is necessary with their late-stage rehabilitation program – rather than independently in a gym
• If you’re treating physio has identified the individual as “high-risk” of re-injury upon return to sport – due to age/gender/injury/surgery/biomechanics/sport-specific technique
Who runs the clinic and how are they qualified?
Physiotherapist, Dion Wallace will oversee all sessions. Dion has a postgraduate physiotherapy degree as well as an undergraduate Exercise Physiology degree and has significant experience in strength training and return-to-sport management of athletes.
Dion has worked extensively with rehabilitating athletes to return to high-level sport and thus, has an excellent understanding of biomechanics and technical aspects related to the following sports: rugby union, rugby league, football (soccer), AFL, basketball, netball, ice hockey, figure skating, snowboarding, skiing and surfing.
Contact Kawana Sports and Spinal and we can help you take the positive steps towards getting you back into the game.
Give Shoulder Pain the Flick: Book Now!
Quality, Effective Shoulder Injury Management!
Sports and Spinal provide quality and experienced management options for Shoulder Rehabilitation and Shoulder Pain.
Conservative management, including Physiotherapy with co-ordination between your GP and Specialist is an evidence based approach proven to maximise your chances of recovery.
With well established relationships with General Practitioners and a number of Shoulder Specialists in the region, Sports Spinal are well placed to get you back to doing what you do best.
Your management plans will included hands on therapy; education on biomechanics & posture; advice for optimising the function of your shoulder; and specifically tailored exercise programs that are customised to meet your individual needs.
PLUS many more techniques to provide YOU with optimal care on your rehabilitation journey.
Shoulder Pain Physiotherapy is available at our Broadbeach, Buderim, Caloundra, Chermside, Coolum, Kawana, Landsborough, Maroochydore, Nambour, North Lakes, Redcliffe, Robina, Sippy Downs, Springfield and Woolloongabba locations.
Say Bye to Hip Pain: Book Now!
The hip is a ball and socket joint consisting of the thigh (femur) and the pelvis. There are many ligaments that support the bones, which provide considerable stability to the joint. Numerous muscles also attach around the hip to help move the joint.
Hip pain and joint injury is common for all age groups. The hip joint and its integration with your pelvis, SIJ and lumbar spine (lower back) make it a complex region to correctly analyse and assess any dysfunction.
Hip pain can be caused by many factors. Often, you may start feeling hip pain for no apparent reason. Sometimes recreation or sports puts repetitive strain on the hip causing pain.
Your hip function can also be affected by lower limb biomechanics involving your knee, foot and ankle plus your thigh and calf muscles.
Because the hip is a major weight bearing joint, arthritis of the hip is a common problem. The hip is responsible for such functional activities as walking, running, rising from sitting, and climbing stairs. Pain in the hip can limit these activities.
The successfully treated hip pain and joint dysfunction relies upon a thorough examination of:
Entire lower limb (foot, ankle, knee and hip)
Lumbar spine
Pelvis and SIJ function and alignment
Deep hip muscle control and activation patterns
Middle and superficial hip muscle control, strength and function
Deep abdominal, core and pelvic floor muscle control
Upper thigh muscle length and strength (e.g. quadriceps, adductors, hamstrings and ITB)
Neural tissue extensibility e.g. sciatic and femoral nerve
Hip joint biomechanics as a whole and in isolation
Your Sports & Spinal physiotherapist will spend the time with you to fully assess the origin of your hip pain and investigate whether it is a hip joint, muscular, nerve or biomechanics issue. During this visit, the Physiotherapist will interview you to gather information about the history of your problem, the aggravating and relieving factors, and about any past medical history that may contribute the overall problem.
Only after a thorough hip assessment, can your hip pain be effectively rehabilitated to relieve your current hip pain and joint dysfunction.
Hip Pain Physiotherapy is available at our Broadbeach, Buderim, Caloundra, Chermside, Coolum, Kawana, Landsborough, Maroochydore, Nambour, North Lakes, Redcliffe, Robina, Sippy Downs, Springfield and Woolloongabba locations.
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Hand Therapy is a type of rehabilitation performed by an accredited physiotherapist with unique knowledge and training in the treatment of problems specific to the hand & upper limb. Rehabilitation enables patients to hasten their return to a productive, active lifestyle after injury.
Patients who are candidates for hand therapy may have difficulty using their hand for normal daily tasks or have an injury that prevents then doing heavy lifting, driving, gripping or fine motor tasks.
Some common symptoms of hand injury that therapists can treat include; stiffness, weakness, wounds, scars, burns, injured tendons or nerves, fractures, or even amputations of the fingers, hands or arms. Others include patients who suffer from conditions such as wrist pain or tennis elbow, as well as from chronic problems such as arthritis or persistent pain.
What Does Hand Therapy Provide?
Accurate diagnosis & treatment of hand, wrist & elbow problems
Custom-orthotic fabrication (usually made from thermoplastic material)
Help with pain or stiffness in the hand, wrist & elbow
Exercise prescription & strengthening programs for regaining full function
Regaining movement, strength & dexterity in the upper limb after surgery
Help to reduce sensitivity from nerve problems
Help getting back to work & sport with the best recovery
Help to foster a supportive and clear communication link between surgeon and GP for best treatment and successful outcomes for the patient involved
If surgery is needed, hand therapists can also help with a patient’s recovery. This may include assistance with helping wounds heal, splinting, scar management and reducing swelling.
The conditions that a hand therapist can assist include:
Wrist & Hand
Flexor and Extensor Tendon repairs
Finger sprains / dislocation
Wrist fractures & injury
TFCC damage
Wrist instability & pain with loading
Elbow:
Tennis/Golfers Elbow
Chronic, overuse conditions
Elbow fracture post-immobilisation rehabilitation
Neurological changes in upper limb function
Trauma to the arm after an accident
Surgical post-operative rehabilitation
Hand therapy is available from our Sippy Downs clinic. Please contact them directly for more information.
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Women’s Health Physiotherapy
What is Women’s Health Physiotherapy?
Our Women’s Health physiotherapists have post-graduate training and experience in a broad range of issues associated with the life stages of pregnancy; birth, postpartum, lactation and menopause. Their area of expertise is pelvic floor muscle function and dysfunction. They will assess and guide you through any condition relating to the pelvic floor. Some of the conditions they can assess and treat for you include:
Pelvic girdle pain
Incontinence (stress incontinence, urge incontinence, fecal incontinence)
Pre and postnatal checks
Menopausal conditions and
General exercise and conditioning
Physiotherapy & the Female Pelvic Floor
“Physiotherapy has been shown to be extremely effective in helping many problems associated with pelvic floor dysfunction and is recommended as the first option before any surgery is considered.”
The pelvic floor muscles support the bladder, uterus, vagina, bowel and anus. They tighten to lift and support these organs and close their openings when pressure is exerted downwards eg. Coughing, sneezing, lifting, laughing and standing up.
This helps maintain our continence. When we need to empty our bladder or bowel, the pelvic floor relaxes and allows urine or a bowel motion to pass out. Being ‘Incontinent’ ranges from totally unable to control your bladder or bowel to just losing some urine when you laugh or do yoga.
The pelvic floor muscles can be damaged or weakened during childbirth; from straining when constipated; with a chronic cough; from repetitive lifting and high impact gym work if the abs (6 pack) are allowed to dominate the core muscles (deeper abdominals).
What you may notice if you have a continence issue (big or small)
Leaking urine when coughing, sneezing, laughing, lifting.
Can’t get to the toilet in time.
Can’t keep a tampon in.
Bulging feeling in the vagina or feeling as if you have to push yourself back up inside after using your bowels.
Not emptying bowels properly (using lots of loo paper and still not clean?)
Vaginal or anal wind on bending/lifting.
After dribble or poor flow (men).
Pelvic Floor Disorders Physiotherapy can help:
Incontinence – both urinary and fecal
Constipation and obstructive defecation
What can our Physiotherapists do?
Our Physiotherapists are specially trained in pelvic floor rehabilitation.
They will discuss your problem with you and take a detailed history.
If appropriate, and if you agree, they may suggest an internal examination to assess your pelvic floor muscle function.
They may also use ultrasound (RTUS) and biofeedback to aid assessment and develop an individualised program aimed at regaining your pelvic floor function.
What does Pelvic Floor Treatment Involve?
Treatment will comprise an appropriate individualised program for your particular condition. Some of the treatments prescribed may include a pelvic floor strengthening program; relaxation and down training of overactive muscles; correct activation and strengthening of weak muscles (pelvic floor and core), bladder retraining ; defecation training as well as general education on your condition.
These simple techniques have been shown to be extremely effective in helping many problems associated with pelvic floor dysfunction and are recommended as the first option before any surgery is considered.
Pregnancy & Physiotherapy
“Maintaining your pelvic floor fitness, throughout your pregnancy and birth is essential”
No other stage of life stresses the pelvic floor more than pregnancy and childbirth. Even caesarian births affect the pelvic floor as it still stretches and bears the weight of the pregnant uterus for nine months. Maintaining pelvic floor fitness throughout your pregnancy, birth and postnatally is essential.
Other Muscles
Abdominal muscle separation is common in later pregnancy. This is normal but special care needs to be taken to ensure that we protect them and give them the best chance of recovery afterwards.
Back & Joint Pain
Back/SIJ pain is very common during pregnancy due to the major changes that occur within your body both physically and hormonally. Hormones increase the stretchiness of your ligaments and can contribute to joint pain; stretched muscles don’t support the pelvis as well as they used to. Treatment is often as simple as some trigger point massage, modified stretches and education in the use of your stability (core) muscles.
Beneficial for Mum and Bub
Pregnancy is a blessing and is a thrilling, special time in your life that should be cherished. However, it can also be a physical and emotional rollercoaster, which is why it is so important for mums-to-be to take some time out to relax, be pampered and ease the aches, pains, and tension that come with pregnancy. Studies have also shown that, when you receive a relaxing prenatal massage, the body naturally secretes endorphins. These “feel good” hormones traverse the placenta and ultimately soothe and relax your baby.
At Sports & Spinal we have a special pregnancy massage cushion, enabling Mums-to-be to be massaged while laying on their stomach. With the aid of this purpose designed pregnancy massage cushion, your body will be supported in the position that is most comfortable for you. Our massage therapists will then use a specialised massage oil blend to massage your entire body focusing on the areas that most need work, as well as your back, neck, legs, ankles and feet.
Postnatal Follow-Up
Postnatal follow-up is really important to check that you are re-activating the ‘core and floor’ correctly, especially in the early postnatal days when you are busy lifting and carrying whilst your body recovers.
After baby arrives it is essential to regain control of your pelvic floor and core muscles.
Women’s Health Physiotherapy is available at Buderim, Sippy Downs, Nambour, Maroochydore and Chermside Sports & Spinal.
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ACUPUNCTURE originated in China over 5000 years ago and is based on the belief that good health is determined by a balanced flow of Qi (energy) along the twelve major meridians of the body which are linked to specific internal and external organ systems. It recognises that the body has an innate ability for self-healing through stimulating the brain to produce natural pain relieving chemicals called endorphins, assisting in pain relief.
At Sports and Spinal Physiotherapy we insert single-use, sterile and disposable needles at specific points along these meridians to alter the flow of Qi in order to relieve muscular tension, stress and ultimately pain. In acupuncture we also use what are called Ah Chi points which are basically trigger points in a muscle that are not found on a meridian. These are the points which are used in DRY NEEDLING.
In dry needling and acupuncture the needles tend to be left in situ for any given period of time based on the desired effects in the treatment of Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction eg increased blood flow, muscle relaxation etc.
Acupuncture and Dry Needling are useful modalities which provide a safe and effective treatment for a variety of conditions assisting in pain relief and injury rehabilitation. Below is a list of the most commonly treated conditions;
Achilles Injuries
Hip and Leg Pain
Musculoskeletal Injuries/Muscle/Joint Pain
TRIGGER POINT NEEDLING (which an acupuncturist will also call dry needling) is where a needle is poked in and out of the trigger point quickly (like pecking) to stimulate a twitch response to reset the muscle spindle. It is uncomfortable and can leave the patient feeling quite sore (aching) for anywhere from 2hours to 2days following this type of needling. It is used more in chronic conditions eg a runner who continues to get tight calf muscles, overactive gluteals in low back pain etc.
An initial assessment is necessary for all Acupuncture appointments. Please contact your local Sports & Spinal for more information.
For more information as to whether acupuncture, dry needling, or trigger point needling can help you, please ask your physiotherapist.
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A Physiotherapy Cure for most Patients in a SINGLE Treatment
BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) is one of the most common causes of dizziness affecting up to 50% of patients over the age of 70. The biomechanical condition is caused by the dislodgement of calcium carbonate crystals into the region of the inner ear with the sensory organs, triggering the sensation of vertigo. Physiotherapy can be remarkably effective in treating BPPV and assessments are available in our physiotherapy practices.
Physiotherapist performs non-invasive tests such as the Dix- Hallpike test to confirm a BPPV diagnosis and to determine which ear is affected. The type of nystagmus (involuntary eye movements) observed will also identify which canal(s) is/are involved.
The dizziness resulting from BPPV can be dramatically relieved by specialist techniques performed by a skilled physiotherapist that use the forces of gravity to reposition the displaced calcium carbonate crystals out of the sensory areas of the canals in the inner ear.
Standard physiotherapy treatment uses a sequence of repositioning maneuvers – such as the Epley, Semont or Lempert – to move the crystals out of the semi-circular canal.
Once the primary cause is addressed, physiotherapy treatment may involve a targeted exercise program to reduce patient’s vertiginous in response to certain positional changes such as bending forward and looking up. Targeted balance training may be offered to patients with any residual balance defects. Exercises such as Brandt Daroff exercises may be prescribed for patient self-management.
Other inner ear disorders for which vestibular rehabilitation can offer improved outcomes include: vestibular neuronitis/labyrinthitis; acoustic neuroma (post-op); oto-toxicity; movement-induced dizziness and Meniere’s disease.
Vestibular rehabilitation can help address these vestibular system disorders and restore the best use of the remaining vestibular function by teaching unaffected balance mechanisms to take over the function or teaching other parts of the body to compensate. Let our highly skilled professionals be part of the treatment plan for your BPPV.
Dizziness is one of the most common complaints patients take to the doctor and occurs more frequently as people age. Physiotherapists have the skills to perform highly specialised techniques which can cure the majority of patients suffering from BPPV in a single treatment.
Stop Letting Pain Control Your Life: Book Now!
Sports & Spinal Nambour & Coolum are proud to offer a Persistent Pain Program which is unique to the Sunshine Coast.
The point of difference is that the program aims to treat pain by using the latest evidence-based neuroscience techniques known Explain Pain Program (EPP) and if appropriate Graded Motor Imagery (GMI) Program. The program is conducted by a GMI and EPP-trained Physiotherapist who works through patient-specific pain education and then a sequential 3 stage series of brain retraining tasks that are specific to the area of pain.
The Persistent Pain Program also values the importance of a biopsychosocial approach. Consistent with evidence-based practice; the program offers a supportive combination of:
• Physiotherapy
• Clinical Psychology
• Occupational Therapy
• Pain & Rehabilitation Specialist Medicine
This provides patients with the best possible opportunity for a positive outcome by increasing functional gains and reducing pain.
If you have pain that results from Central Sensitisation, Neuropathic Pain, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), or any Chronic Pain where you have exhausted normal avenues for treatment, this program is for you!
The Persistent Pain Program is available in our Nambour and Coolum Clinics. For more information, please contact us.
Our Chronic Pain Physios recommend watching the below video which is an introduction to Pain education:
Meet the Physiotherapy team @ Sports & Spinal
Scroll through the list and click the faces to find out more information about our team.
Adam Horwitz
Shoulder & Neck Rehab
Alana Dinsdale
Neck, Jaw & Headache
Alannah Grimm
Alice Latham
Neurological & Hip Rehab
Alex Rachcoff
Lower Limb & Post-Op Rehab
Andrew Duff
Lower Limb & Sport Injuries
Ashlee Unie
General Physiotherapy
Ben Hones
Neck and Shoulder Rehab
Bethany Butler
Brad Staer
Lower Back Rehab
Briony McSwan
Neck Pain & Headache Rehab
Bruno Rebello
Carly Burch
Candice Lamb
Cassandra Kennett
Cielo Kelley
Musculoskeletal & Lower Limb
Danielle Keogh
Low Back & Hip/Pelvic Pain
David Stevens
Headaches & Shoulder Rehab
Dion Wallace
Shoulder & Sporting Rehab
Erica Werner
Erin Macintyre
Hayley Wilkinson
Lower Limb Injuries, Sporting Injuries & Concussion Management
Jana Rydwanski
Lower Limb & Acupuncture
Jason Vaughan
Jess Morey
Julie Gear
Neck, Headaches & Shoulder
Julia Wilson
Musculoskeletal Physio
Julia Camporeale
Joakim Wisting
Kate Surman
Koren West
Low Back & Spinal Rehab
Low Back & Pelvic Pain
Louise Meek
Shoulder & Spinal Rehab
Lucy Taylor
Maddie Franco
Marnie Crosdale
Musculoskeletal & Women’s Health
Meredith Hill
Lower Limb Rehab
Michael Davis
Lower Back & Spinal Rehab
Mitchell Carney
Spinal health and Mobility
Morgan Beasley
Nathan Craig
Persistent Pain Management
Nick Hurrell
Richard Deutsch
Neurological/ Vestibular Physiotherapy
Sabrina Maynard
Sam Fahey
Siliva Tufuga
Simon Burley
Shoulder Pain Rehabilitation
Sophie Stewart
Chronic Pain & Back Rehab
Sophie Zykus
Adam Horwitz completed his Master of Physiotherapy degree at The University of Sydney, following completion of a degree in Exercise and Sport Science. He developed a keen interest in physiotherapy as a young athlete overcoming injuries when competing in football, rugby union and martial arts.
He has a passion for assessment and treatment of shoulder conditions in particular. He also has a keen interest in treating the neck and headache conditions involving the cervical spine. With his experience as a sports trainer and Pilates instructor, he strives to help his clients control their pain and achieve their functional goals.
Adam is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Chermside location.
Alana is a passionate physiotherapist who is experienced in working with a wide range of musculoskeletal complaints. She enjoys the challenge of finding and addressing the root cause of a problem and works closely with her patients and other health professionals to deliver the best treatment possible.
Since graduating with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from UQ in 2012, Alana has gone on to further her knowledge through various conferences and courses.
She has developed a particular interest in spinal rehabilitation, and treatment of neck pain, TMJ dysfunction and headaches. Alana uses a number of techniques with her patients including dry needling, manual therapy, exercise prescription and pilates.
Alana is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Chermside location.
Alannah completed her Master of Physiotherapy studies in Canberra before moving to Harvey Bay to work in private practice. Allannah has a background in sports and exercise science and has completed several professional development courses, including Pilates mat work and APA Sports Physiotherapy Level 1 and 2. Alannah is always open to further expand her knowledge and experience and will be looking to undertake more courses soon. Alannah has previously worked with rugby union and soccer teams in Canberra but also enjoys all things running and swimming.
Alannah is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Landsborough and Sippy Downs locations.
Alice is a UK Qualified Physiotherapist. She has a Sports and Exercise Science degree from Loughborough University and Completed a Masters in Physiotherapy at the University of Southampton. She has experience working in both the acute and community sectors of the National Health Service in the UK, where she developed a range of skills, as well as a specialist interest in Stroke and Neurological rehabilitation as well as elderly care.
Alice is a lover of all things active, getting outdoors and healthy living. She has been involved in competitive sports all her life, competing at national and international levels in Swimming, Running, Netball and most recently Triathlons. She has great interest and passion for rehabilitation, exercise and Pilates.
Alice is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Kawana location.
Since graduating from James Cook University, Alex has gained considerable experience working in private practice in Brisbane and on the Sunshine Coast.
After gaining invaluable skills in the treatment of lower back and lower limb injuries, Alex moved to the UK where he worked in the National Health Service in Oxford and Derbyshire.
Since returning to the Sunshine Coast, Alex has resumed his special interest in lower limb injuries and post-op rehabilitation and is committed to achieving optimal patient satisfaction and return to pre-injury fitness.
Alex is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Buderim location.
Andrew Duff has been working with both a national level and international athletes since graduating in NZ with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 2004 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Manipulative Physiotherapy in 2009.
Throughout this time he has worked with NZ Youth Olympic, Winter Olympic & Paralympic athletes, including being part of a successful gold medal Paralympic campaign in 2010, Sochi 2014, and most recently South Korea in 2018.
Andrew enjoys working with and supporting his patients to achieve their goals, applying his extensive knowledge and experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and injury prevention to fully rehabilitate your injuries and develop and strengthen performance in your selected area.
Andrew is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Caloundra and Sippy Downs locations.
Ashlee graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) from the University of Queensland. Since then she has developed a keen interest in musculoskeletal and sporting injuries with a holistic attitude in regard to rehabilitation. She is passionate about seeing clients of all abilities achieve their short and long-term goals and improve their health and quality of life. Ashlee’s focus is on providing individualised, evidence-based approaches for her clients and ensuring that they receive the highest level of care.
Outside of physio, Ashlee is a member of the Sunshine Coast Lightning squad as a training partner and competes in the Australian Netball League. She is keen to translate her experience in the high-performance environment to help her clients achieve their goals in all areas.
Ashlee is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Coolum & Sippy Downs locations.
Ben completed his Physiotherapy degree in New Zealand at the University of Otago in 2010. Since then he has treated a range of patients in private practice and has developed a clinical interest in the treatment of neck and shoulder conditions.
By supporting his practice with the latest evidence, postgraduate courses, and taking a holistic approach, he supports patients towards their individual goals.
He enjoys all things outdoors, with sporting interests including hiking, surfing, rugby, and martial arts.
Ben is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Nambour location.
Bethany Butler is a physiotherapist with a special interest in the upper limb – shoulder, elbow, wrist & hand conditions. She is in the process of completing further study to become an Accredited Hand Therapist (AHT) through the Australian Hand Therapy Association. Hand Therapists are best positioned to help people recover full hand and arm function back after injury.
After completing her physiotherapy degree in Brisbane at the Australian Catholic University, Bethany moved up to the Sunshine Coast and has continually been working within the private physiotherapy clinic treating all areas of the body. She developed an early love for exercise and movement for treating illness and still integrates Clinical Pilates and gym-based rehabilitation into her treatment of the upper extremity.
Bethany loves to see people take control of their health in a holistic manner, whether that be by adapting & adjusting psychology or lifestyle factors, providing education on managing persistent pain, optimising movement patterns and treating complex injuries. She values building long-term relationships with patients, doctors, specialists and other medical professionals; working cohesively together to achieve optimal results for her patients. In her downtime, Bethany loves to spend time writing music, surfing & living an active lifestyle outdoors – enjoying the best of the Sunshine Coast has to offer.
Bethany is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Sippy Downs location.
Since graduating from James Cook University in 2010 Brad has gained extensive experience working in the gym, private practice and sports team settings. He has worked in Hervey Bay, Bundaberg and more recently the Sunshine Coast. Brad is passionate about Physiotherapy and loves helping people, always striving for the best outcomes for his patients.
Brad is greatly interested in all areas of musculoskeletal Physiotherapy with a particular interest in acute, chronic and adolescent knees, sports injuries, chronic pain and spinal rehabilitation. He has undertaken further training in all of these fields, in addition to Dry Needling and Pilates.
Brad has a keen interest in sport and fitness in general, but has a great passion for football (aka soccer) and currently plays in the local Sunshine Coast competition. He also enjoys long distance running and in his spare time enjoys travelling, reading, live music, watching movies and spending time with close friends and family.
Brad is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Sippy Downs location.
Briony has been with Sports and Spinal since 1998. She has a wealth of experience in all areas of physiotherapy but for over a decade has focussed particularly on the treatment and management of head, neck and jaw pain, as well as dizziness and vestibular dysfunction.
Briony has achieved Competency level Vestibular training and has been a Watson Headache practitioner for over 15 years. Watson techniques for headaches are internationally recognised and renowned and can be a breakthrough in the management of chronic headache and migraine.
Briony is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Maroochydore location.
Bruno is physiotherapist with over 15 years’ experience in the private practice setting. He graduated from his Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 2003. In 2006 he completed his Post Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Orthopaedics. Bruno has also completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy.
Some of the highlights of his career include:
– Physio part of the team caring for professional Brazilian Soccer player Ronaldo ‘Phenomenon’;
– Granted rights to practice Physiotherapy in Australia after completing the Australian Physiotherapy Council Exams, a well-known process in the industry due to its high standards;
– Physio for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games working with athletes from Weightlifting and at the Athlete’s Village Polyclinic;
– Physio for the Australian Judo Nationals and Queensland International Open of Judo since 2016;
– Physio for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 working with athletes from Weightlifting, Wrestling and Badminton
Bruno is passionate about movement analysis and pain science. He thoroughly enjoys working with clients from all backgrounds and has a passion for assisting participants of CrossFit, Gymnasts and Combat Sports. Although gentle by nature, he is a Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Bruno also enjoys surfing and weight training.
Bruno is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Robina location.
Carly has lived an active lifestyle since a young age and has a strong drive to help others, both of which inspired her to become a physiotherapist. Carly graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. She has gained a wealth of experience in the treatment of general musculoskeletal conditions, with a special interest in the management of neck, back and sporting-related injuries. In 2017, Carly volunteered as part of the medical team at the Pacific Mini Games in Port-Vila, Vanuatu and was involved in the acute management of sporting injuries for the participating athletes. She has also previously been associated with sporting teams including men’s and women’s AFL.
Carly has a passion for working with her patients to help them overcome injury and return to optimal function. She will work relentlessly to help you achieve your goals. When she’s not at the clinic, Carly is likely to be found out on a run, playing footy or out at brunch with friends.
Carly is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Maroochydore location.
Candice graduated from James Cook University with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy and has been working with Sports and Spinal since 2014. Since graduation, Candice has undertaken further study in the field of Women’s Health and Continence and is this year beginning her Master’s Degree in this specialised area through Curtin University, WA. Candice enjoys treating women of all ages and is incredibly passionate about educating and empowering women to better understand and manage their conditions. She has experience treating a wide range of conditions including pelvic pain, prolapse, incontinence and constipation, as well as pre and postnatal conditions.
Candice also has a keen interest in strength and conditioning, functional movement and exercise based rehabilitation which stems from her background as a weightlifter and Crossfit coach.
Candice is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Maroochydore, Nambour and Sippy Downs locations.
Cassie one of our recent additions to the team. She is a physiotherapist and new to the Sunshine Coast, having moved here just this year from Townsville. Cassie grew up in Townsville and completed her degree at James Cook University. Throughout university, she worked as a disability support worker, a job quite close to her heart as she was surrounded by the industry throughout her life as both of her parents were closely linked.
Cassie comes from a background of CrossFit and Olympic lifting and is crazy about all things gym and fitness. She trains at CrossFit the Stables and is starting up an Olympic lifting club and sessions at World Gym. She has been training and competing for the last two years with comps all over Queensland, and aims to do more at the end of the year. When she’s not in the gym, you can find her at Mooloolaba beach with her dog, Maia, having too many coffees.
Cassandra is available for Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy appointments at our Coolum location.
Cielo (pronounced “Shell-o”) graduated from the Australian Catholic University with first class honours. Her research focused on how people cope after rupturing their anterior cruciate ligament – a major stabilising ligament in the knee. Cielo is passionate about providing high-quality treatment by keeping up to date with the latest research and applying the evidence-based practice. In 2017, Cielo was invited to present her thesis at the national Australian Physiotherapy Association Conference in Sydney held at the International Convention Centre. Her research is currently submitted for publication as the leading author.
She has since undertaken multiple professional development courses to continue broadening her knowledge on treating sports-related injuries more specifically to the knee. Cielo has a keen interest in treating dance- and sports-related injuries having undertaken eight years of classical ballet training under the Royal Academy of Dance. Cielo is passionate about using a holistic approach to help people get back on their feet and achieve their goals whether it is to improve daily function, return to recreational or competitive sports and or optimise general health and well-being.
Cielo is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Springfield location.
Danielle has developed expertise in accurate diagnosis and treatment of low back and hip pain and regularly attends national and international conferences dedicated to these areas to stay up to date with research and current evidence for optimal patient care and positive outcomes.
Danielle is very passionate about exercise rehabilitation and helping people return to their optimal physical and mental health through the use of Pilates. Danielle is experienced in identifying biomechanical dysfunction and using exercise specific techniques ensuring great outcomes. In her spare time, Danielle is an avid horse rider, competing in dressage competitions with her two horses.
Danielle is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Buderim location.
Since qualifying as a Physiotherapist in 2002 David has worked in both the NHS and the private sector treating a variety of acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Using a holistic approach he is able to tailor treatment to the individual and their goals. His areas of expertise are Cervicogenic headaches and shoulder injury. Working closely with shoulder surgeons in the UK has given David a sound understanding of the role that Physiotherapy has in the management and rehabilitation of complex shoulder conditions.
David is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Buderim location.
A Sunshine Coast local, Dion has completed a postgraduate Masters in Physiotherapy on a background of a Bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science. As well as this, Dion is a full member of Sports Medicine Australia and has completed the level 2 APA Sports Physiotherapy course.
Dion passion lies in keeping people active whilst managing acute and chronic injuries. Dion is invested in helping his clients regain their optimal level of function whether that be on the field or in the home. Working closely with top local surgeons Dion also has significant experience with the rehabilitation of who are undertaking surgery or who are recovering from recent surgery.
Dion’s interests lie in Shoulder and Knee physiotherapy and runs a return to sports clinic focusing on high-performance rehabilitation. Recently Dion has been working with the senior sporting teams of Matthew Flinders Anglican College providing a weekly triage service and game day assistance. Outside of work, Dion has a keen interest in AFL, Rugby Union and surfing.
Dion is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Kawana location.
Erica graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the Australian Catholic University. She enjoys working with patients to relieve their pain as well as implement preventative strategies to help reduce the chance of re-injury. Erica is passionate about helping patients return to their optimal function whether that’s back to sport, work or chosen hobby. She enjoys working together with patients towards achieving their goals in a variety of settings including in treatment rooms, hydrotherapy pool and CSM (Clinical Pilates) classes.
Outside of work, Erica is an active person who loves group gym classes, taking her dog for walks and spending time in the kitchen.
Erica is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Northlake and Redcliffe location.
Erin graduated from the University of Queensland with a Masters in Physiotherapy and has been working in private practice ever since. With a background in exercise physiology, Erin has a strong foundation in exercise prescription and believes that exercise is medicine. She believes in a holistic approach to patient care and aims to empower patients to take an active approach to their treatment for long term self-management. She is passionate about supporting her practice with the latest evidence, applying the newest research to support her patients towards achieving their goals. She has done extra training in persistent pain and upper limb conditions.
Out of work, Erin has a keen interesting in everything outdoors. You can find her camping, climbing mountains and exploring new waterfalls.
Erin is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Nambour location.
Hayley graduated with a Master of Physiotherapy Studies from The University of Queensland and also holds a Bachelor Degree in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of Ballarat. She is also currently study her Masters of Sports Physiotherapy.
Since graduating Hayley has also completed further study in Concussion Management and is passionate about helping athletes return to their sport safely following a concussion particularly if they continue to experience persistent symptoms.
Hayley has been working for the Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club the past 4 years and has developed an interest in treating sporting and lower limb injuries.
Hayley is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Maroochydore location.
Jana studied in New Zealand and graduated with a Bachelors in Health Science majoring in Physiotherapy in 2006 from AUT, completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy in 2010 and a Master of Health Practice in 2011. She worked in New Zealand for five years before coming to Australia, during which time she has been the physiotherapist for Rugby teams and also ran gym-based rehabilitation programs. She has the honour of having an article published in the international physiotherapy journal, Physical Therapy Reviews. Jana believes in a holistic approach to injury and management, is highly dedicated to exercise, and regularly attends further training to ensure that her clinical skills and knowledge are kept up-to-date.
Jana is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Buderim location.
Jason graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) from the University of Queensland. He is passionate about seeing clients achieve their short and long-term goals to improve their health and quality of life. Jason’s focus is on providing active, evidence-based approaches for his clients to ensure they receive the highest level of care.
Jason has a keen interest in all areas of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy, particularly in acute & chronic pain, the lower limb and sports injuries for all levels of athletes. Over the past three years, he has enjoyed providing pitch-side first aid coverage for a range of football, rugby union and league teams such as Olympic FC, Wests Bulldogs Rugby Union, Easts Tigers Rugby Union, Normanby Hounds Rugby League and Marist College Ashgrove.
Outside of work, Jason enjoys basketball, rugby, cooking and travel.
Jason is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Chermside location
Jessica graduated with a Master of Physiotherapy and Bachelor of Exercise Science from Griffith University. Her Physiotherapy passion lies within the sporting and athletic domain, which has developed from an extensive history with Athletics, competing as a middle distance runner.
Jess believes in treating the presenting injury while also treating the underlying cause, allowing her clients to successfully perform at their peak all year round. Jess strives to work as a partnership with her clients to provide high-quality evidence-based treatment, allowing you to achieve your goals and get back to the things you enjoy.
Jess is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Chermside location.
Julie graduated from the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1998 and has gained a wealth of experience working in busy clinics around the world, including a professional sports centre in France, the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London and a clinic in the ski resort of Verbier in Switzerland. She has worked with rugby teams in New Zealand and the England Volleyball team in the UK.
Julie has postgraduate training in ergonomics and Pilates and is also a qualified acupuncturist having studied both in the UK and in China. Julie combines her training in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Intra-Muscular Stimulation with traditional physiotherapy treatment techniques for optimum results.
Julie has a special interest in spinal problems and headaches.
Julie is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Caloundra location.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in Melbourne, Julia was able to gain experience in Australia, Wales, and the UK. Through this time, Julia has developed a love of treating a diverse range of patients from athletes to the elderly, but more recently has found a passion for treating Women’s Health conditions and focuses a lot of her professional development in this area. In particular, Julia enjoys helping women through their pregnancies and works a lot with women to help ease pain through this time. “I am passionate about helping and educating clients to maximise their quality of life and strive to facilitate self-management for the most optimal recovery”. Julia is a qualified Pilates instructor. In her spare time, Julia is often at the beach enjoying the warm weather and trying to learn to surf.”
Julie is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Buderim location.
Julia has many years of experience as both a psychologist and physiotherapist making her perfectly positioned to have a great understanding of both professions, particularly the overall pain experience and its underpinnings and complexities for clients. Through working for many years with physiotherapy injuries but also in areas of long term pain throughout many regions of Australia, Julia has developed her skills and a deep understanding of both physical pain and the psychology behind it. Julia has worked in the paediatric physiotherapy field for over three years and has developed a specialist area in working with children, particularly with autism spectrum disorder and in disability management.
Julia is available for Psychology and Paediatric Physiotherapy appointments at our Redcliffe and North Lakes location.
Originally from Norway, Joakim completed his physiotherapy degree in South Australia, before working throughout Australia and Europe in both hospital and private practice. Through regular postgraduate courses, Joakim has developed a special interest and knowledge in the treatment of the shoulder, upper limb, and the pelvis. Joakim has a special interest in mixed martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which he keeps fit through regular training and competing in.
Joakim is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Kawana location.
Kate graduated with a Masters of Physiotherapy Studies from the University of Queensland . Since then she has worked solely in private practice treating a range of musculoskeletal conditions. Kate has a special interest in the shoulder and knee, and enjoys treating sport related injuries of all levels. She also enjoys working with adolescents.
Kate plays AFL and is currently in the Gold Coast SUNS women’s AFL academy, looking to make into the 2020 AFLW squad. If she is not working or playing footy you will find her doing any type of outdoor activity, in particular surfing.
Kate is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Coolum location.
Koren graduated from Bond University in 2009 with a Doctor of Physiotherapy. During that time, she worked closely with Tennis Australia in Brisbane and the junior elite tennis players in the prevention of lower back and spine injuries.
Since graduating Koren has been focusing on spinal rehabilitation and in particular, acute and chronic lower back pain and has continued her education along this path. Koren has a particular interest in managing patients with a holistic approach to their active rehabilitation using a multidisciplinary team. Koren is passionate about ensuring that every patient she sees is provided with education and a plan regarding their specific condition to assure their goals are met, leading to a greater recovery.
Koren also runs weekly group classes incorporating Pilates type exercises along with functional/physiotherapy exercises for core strength and stability which fits in perfectly with her lower back interest.
Other area’s Koren enjoys working with is chronic complex musculoskeletal pain conditions and neurological conditions. In Koren’s spare time she enjoys kickboxing, the outdoors and spending time with family and friends.
Koren is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Coolum location.
Laura graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia, and since then has been working in rehabilitation centres, as well as private practice. Laura has developed a passion for low back and spinal rehabilitation and working closely with GPs and specialists. Laura believes in a holistic approach to injury and management by addressing issues at a functional and impairment level to help her patients achieve their goals and to get them back to optimal functioning and performance.
Laura has postgraduate training in the lower back and pelvic injuries, as well as clinical Pilates and spinal rehabilitation, and regularly attends further training to ensure that her clinical skills and knowledge are kept up-to-date. Laura enjoys the outdoors, surfing and spending time with family and friends.
Laura is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Maroochydore location.
Louise has spent most of her career focusing on treating shoulder conditions working with both the Wynnum Manly Seagulls and high diving. Louise continued to work with the shoulder team on the sunshine coast after moving to join the Sports and Spinal Team in 2010. She was an Australian Institute of Sport athlete for 6 years in high diving and was a representative on the Australian team for 5 years, which is where her passion for physiotherapy originated.
Louise has been selected from thousands of the physiotherapists in Australia to be included in the Shoulder and Elbow Physiotherapist group (SEPA) This is a selected group of elite Shoulder & Elbow physiotherapists.
Over the last few years, Louise has loved working with the ‘Sunshine Coast Chronic Pain Team’ assisting people with persistent pain. “This is defiantly an area I love working in and get a lot of fulfilment. You can make a truly significant difference in someone’s daily life.” She spends time working with the pain specialists on the coast who meet regularly to have the most optimal care and management of her patients.
She focused her post-graduate studies in these areas making sure all treatment and advice are up to date and evidence-based to provide the most optimal outcome for the client. Louise is very passionate about an educational, active and functional approach to treatment to allow the individual to learn and manage their injury to prevent a recurrence. “I feel this gives people the tools to be the driver of their recovery”.
Louise is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Coolum location.
Lucy graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) at the University of Queensland where she also conducted research alongside a world-renowned Physiotherapist. Lucy is passionate about delivering holistic patient-centred care and establishing individualised rehabilitation programs so that you can achieve your goals and return to the things you enjoy in life sooner. Lucy is devoted to continuously expanding her skill set and knowledge so that she can provide superior treatment to every patient.
Lucy is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Woolloongabba location.
Maddie graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (First Class Honours) at the University of Queensland. Maddie places an importance on a personalised holistic treatment approach and has a passion for improving patient quality of life. She has experience in neurological rehabilitation in community nursing homes and in running hydrotherapy and exercise classes. Maddie provides in-home falls and balance prevention training as well as respiratory and post-op care. She is always eager to engage in ongoing professional development and learn new evidence-based approaches to treatment. Outside of work, Maddie enjoys scuba diving, hiking and netball.
Maddie is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our North Lakes and Redcliffe locations.
Marnie Crosdale graduated from Australian Catholic University with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. She has developed a keen interest in Female Power Lifting and associated sport-related injuries and rehabilitation.
Marnie has completed further postgraduate training in dry needling and Women’s Health conditions and is passionate about promoting prenatal women’s health and fitness and returning post-partum women to exercise safely.
Meredith has extensive experience as a Sports Physiotherapist and Pilates instructor but has focused her practice in recent years on lower limb injuries. Being a professional triathlete herself, Meredith has a special interest in endurance sports, triathlon, and running related injuries. Meredith completes running assessments in the clinic using video analysis to assist with diagnosing and managing chronic running injuries. Meredith also has years of experience in post-operative rehab and compliments her treatments with dry needling, Kinesio taping, and gym based functional strength training.
Meredith is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Coolum location.
Michael studied in New Zealand and graduated with a Bachelor of Health Science, majoring in Physiotherapy from Auckland University of Technology. He has gone on to complete a postgraduate certificate in western acupuncture and has attended NZMPA courses for the management of neck, low back and upper limb pathologies.
Michael has developed a high level of experience in spinal rehabilitation working closely with neurosurgeons (BrizBrain & Spine), pain specialists and GPs. In his time in New Zealand, he formed a strong interested in musculoskeletal physiotherapy working with numerous sporting teams, schools, high-performance athletes and the general public. He has a client-centred approach, working together with patients and their treating specialists to achieve optimal function and performance in their personal or sporting goals.
In his spare time, he enjoys the outdoors and many sports including cricket, rugby, tennis and golf.
Michael is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Chermside location.
Mitch has completed both a Bachelor of Exercise Science and a Doctor of Physiotherapy (Post-Graduate). Both degrees have enabled me to work in clinical and sporting settings treating physical conditions and prescribing exercise. Mitch has previously worked with junior sporting clubs, right up to professional athletes and Olympians. Mitch believes healthcare to be a personal experience and a way for the patient to gain knowledge of their own injury.
“Change your thoughts, you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
Mitchell is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Broadbeach location.
Morgan completed her Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) degree at the University of Queensland. She is passionate about providing people with specific hands-on treatments and exercise programs to achieve their goals. She believes in a holistic approach to treatment with her focus not only on treating the client’s current problem, but also educating and empowering clients to prevent injuries from reoccurring in the future.
Morgan is also a qualified Pilates Instructor and is teaching Core Strength and Mobility (CSM) classes at the Buderim Clinic. When not in the clinic, you would find her at the beach, (trying to) surf or up one of the Glasshouse Mountains.
Morgan is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Buderim location
Nathan Craig graduated from Griffith University in 2009 with Bachelor Degrees in both Physiotherapy and Exercise Science. His main interests are in the field of sports and musculoskeletal physiotherapy, with a special interest in chronic pain management, as shown through his involvement as the physiotherapy director of the Brisbane Pain Rehabilitation Service.
Nathan has worked with sporting teams, CrossFit coaches, aged care providers, chronic pain management programs and many other allied and medical health professionals which have provided him with considerable knowledge to successfully treat a wide range of conditions and diseases. He uses a combination of hands-on techniques, dry needling, activity modification, self-management education, professional advice and therapeutic exercise to get patients back on track faster. Nathan also has extensive experience in assisting patients with their WorkCover, Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) and DVA case management to ensure their rehabilitation is smooth and comfortable.
In 2017 Nathan was involved in a research study into ‘Predictors of Responsivity to Interdisciplinary Pain Management‘ with Rehabilitation Specialist, Dr Saul Geffen at Rehab + Fitness. Please click here to access the study.
Nick studied at Griffith University where he completed a Bachelor of Exercise Science and a Master of Physiotherapy.
He has a keen interest in sporting injuries which came through his own experience as a semi-professional rugby player as well as working closely with elite athletes from a range of sports. Recently, Nick has worked with the Gold Coast SUNS AFL team for the past 4 years as well as contract work with the ACT Brumbies, Kangaroos NRL, Jillaroos NRL, Canberra Raiders, Sydney Roosters and the NSWIS Diving.
Nick takes a holistic approach to injury management and rehabilitation with a focus on exercise to helping clients achieve their goals and maximise their quality of life. He is always looking to further his knowledge through professional development to ensure he is providing the most relevant, up-to-date and evidence-based treatments to his clients. Outside of work, Nick enjoys traveling, running, swimming and cycling.
Richard has a Bachelor of Physiotherapy with Honours from Coventry University in the UK. He has always had a keen interest in neurology and has sought out unique experience in the top London hospitals such as the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery as Senior Physiotherapist. He has experience working in the UK, Australia and Holland. Richard has a special interest in vestibular physiotherapy, which he has developed in over the years. He enjoys playing beach volleyball, playing the harmonica and cooking up a storm in the kitchen. Richard is able to converse in Dutch.
Richard is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Maroochydore & Nambour location, please contact these clinics to make a booking with Richard.
Sabrina graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) at Central Queensland University. Sabrina is passionate about providing the utmost quality of care for all patients with a focus on an individualised holistic approach. Sabrina has a keen interest in sport especially netball, cricket, rugby league and rugby union. She loves working with a variety of people and prides herself on being friendly and approachable. She wants to help you get back to your daily living and reach your goals as soon as possible. Sabrina is keen to continually develop her clinical skills and knowledge to provide the best possible treatment for you.
Sabrina is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Caloundra and Kawana locations.
Sam completed a Bachelor of Physiotherapy with James Cook University before relocating to the Sunshine Coast. A passion for movement, performance, injury prevention and rehabilitation, he is a firm believer in a holistic approach to treatment. Sam has a unique view, having worked within the medical system, as a Crossfit Coach, as a Personal Trainer, and believes movement is medicine!
Sam’s interests include strength and conditioning, Crossfit, weightlifting, and general health and fitness. Having competed at a high level within his chosen sport of Crossfit, he knows the demands of training and competing well, having also dealt with various injuries himself.
Sam leads an active lifestyle and if not found within the gym he will be out on the beach, mountains, his motorbike, or travelling.
Sam is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Sippy Downs and Nambour locations.
Originally from New Zealand but graduating from The University of Queensland, Siliva has developed extensive international experience over 20 years of clinical practice including both Australia and the UK. In England, he was the team leader of a specialised group of advanced orthopaedic clinicians and helped to successfully develop the GP screening clinics and Injection Therapy service. Upon his return home, he has spent the past few years treating active Australian troops at the large military base in Enoggera, Brisbane where overloading of the spine and effective return to military service go hand-in-hand.
Accordingly, Siliva has vast knowledge in treating spinal disorders and low back pain. He enjoys working with his patients to identify and resolve their daily pain issues and implement strengthening strategies to prevent future occurrences.
In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his young family and is an IRB Level 2 rugby coach.
Siliva is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our North Lakes and Redcliffe locations.
Simon Burley has developed expertise in shoulder conditions over many years of postgraduate training. He has completed level III Sports Physiotherapy at the Australian Institute of Sport. Simon also runs the Sunshine Coast Shoulder Clinic with some of the Coast’s leading orthopaedic surgeons.
“The shoulder is a complex and challenging joint that is very reliant on the surrounding musculature working properly. Hence a joint particularly suited to physiotherapy treatment when injured or painful.” Simon Burley
Simon also sets up exercise programs for weight loss and fitness/strength training. He works closely with the Coast’s leading medical team for patients undergoing lap-band surgery.
Simon was the physio for the New Zealand Track and Field athletes as they prepared for the Sydney 2000 Olympics and is the physio for a number of well-known athletes on the Sunshine Coast.
Simon has 1 published article on shoulder pain (Please click the title below):
Systematic approach to diagnosing and managing disorders of the shoulder joint and surrounding structures
Simon has also been involved with Shoulder research trials (Please click the titles below):
Conservative management of shoulder rotator cuff tears
Feasibility and acceptability of a standardised shoulder exercise program for supraspinatus full thickness tears
Simon has been selected from thousands of the physiotherapists in Australia to be included in the Shoulder and Elbow Physiotherapist group (SEPA) This is a selected group of elite Shoulder & Elbow physiotherapists.
Simon is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Buderim and Maroochydore location.
Sophie graduated from the University of Queensland with honours in 2010 and has worked in private practice ever since. Sophie has a huge passion for physiotherapy and believes in a holistic approach to patient care with great importance placed on active rehabilitation and education towards long-term self-management. Her passion lies with rehabilitation from chronic conditions, persistent pain and rehabilitation during and after cancer treatment.
The evidence is overwhelming to indicate that a multidisciplinary approach to treatment yields the best outcomes for patients, therefore Sophie places great importance on communication between patient, physio and all health professionals involved in the recovery process. Sophie believes this team approach will ensure the best possible outcome and care for her patients.
Sophie is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Nambour location.
Sophie graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy at the University of Notre Dame in Western Australia. She focuses on treating her patients with the most recent practice-based evidence and believes that all patients should be treated with a highly individualised care plan. For Sophie, physiotherapy doesn’t stop when you leave the room. Sophie places an emphasis on self-management tools so you can achieve your goals inside and outside of the practice. This way you can live your best, most active lifestyle and aim to prevent any future injuries. Outside of work, Sophie enjoys surfing, camping and catching up with her friends!
Sophie is available for Physiotherapy appointments at our Maroochydore location.
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Sydney Airport Limited (ACN 165 056 360) and its subsidiaries (“Sydney Airport”, "we" or "us") are committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles ("APPs") set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Act").
This Privacy Policy sets out how we handle personal information to comply with our obligations.
1. Privacy
Sydney Airport Limited (ACN 165 056 360) and its subsidiaries (“Sydney Airport”, "we" or "us") are committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles ("APPs") set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Act"). This Privacy Policy sets out how we handle personal information to comply with our obligations.
This Privacy Policy uses the definition of personal information which is provided in the Act. The types of personal information which Sydney Airport collects will depend on the circumstances of its collection and the nature of your particular dealing with us.
3. Information collected in general dealings
Information we may collect about you in general dealings includes:
your name, contact details, date of birth, employment details, employment history, flight details, driver licence number and passport number;
recordings of your image and/or voice through the use of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) systems, hand held devices (such as a video camera or smart device), passenger processing systems and other surveillance devices;
vehicle licence plate numbers; and/or
recordings of your voice from calls to certain airport operations or security telephone lines.
4. Information collected relating to security or airfield operations
In the case of matters relating to security or airfield operations - for example, applications for an Aviation Security Identification Card (ASIC), other forms of identification card or an Authority to Drive Airside (ADA) at Sydney Airport, or as part of our Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP) - we may collect additional personal information, including sensitive information, in order to manage and administer our business systems and comply with our legislative obligations. This information includes:
your place of birth, country of citizenship and gender;
your photo; and/or
in the case of applications for an ASIC or other form of identification card, your previous residential addresses for the last 10 years, details of previous criminal offences, details of any pending prosecutions, and information provided to us by relevant government agencies (such as the outcome of criminal records checks, security assessments and immigration checks).
5. Information collected in retail and marketing related matters
In the case of retail and marketing-related matters, we might collect additional information such as:
your preferences concerning types of products or services;
the products you purchased at the airport or services used at the airport including amount spent on products/services;
how often you visit the airport;
the frequency of use of certain types of products or services;
the methods, purpose and frequency of travel;
your travel destination or preferred destinations;
number of people travelling with you;
number of people you are meeting or farewelling at the airport;
feedback you post on social media about Sydney Airport;
your income demographics; and
your use of our website, www.sydneyairport.com.au ("Website"), our mobile apps and social media platforms you use.
6. Information collected relating to fast passenger processing systems
When you access or use, or attempt to access or use, any automated or semi-automated passenger processing systems provided by Sydney Airport, we will collect your biometric data and passport information (including your passport number, name, date of birth, gender, nationality, place of birth and a digitized copy of your passport photograph) from you.
We will also collect your boarding pass information from the airline with which you have booked a flight departing from or arriving at Sydney Airport.
Sydney Airport may also collect your personal information from third party retailers within Sydney Airport and government departments, bodies or law-enforcement agencies for the purpose of facilitating your efficient journey through Sydney Airport.
If your personal information is not collected by Sydney Airport as set out above, you will not be able to use our fast passenger processing systems.
7. Information collected relating to investments in ASX-listed Sydney Airport
In the case of investment-related matters we might collect information such as:
your bank account details;
your address; and
your tax file number.
8. How do we collect information?
Personal information will normally only be collected directly from you when you deal with us by telephone, by correspondence through a letter, fax or e-mail, via our Website, by making an application for an ASIC, ADA or other form of identification card, or through direct face-to-face contact.
Other ways in which we collect personal information include:
when you logon to Wi-Fi and accept terms and conditions for Wi-Fi usage at our premises;
when you use mobile applications developed by us;
through the use of cookies and other tracking systems online (please see Cookies and other online tracking systems for more information);
where you access any of our retail systems;
when you access or use our fast passenger processing systems;
when you subscribe to any Sydney Airport newsletters, participate in surveys, questionnaires, requests for feedback, competitions or promotions or become a member of any Sydney Airport loyalty programs;
when you submit your resume or an application, or participate in interviews or testing, for employment or contracting opportunities at Sydney Airport;
the recording of your image and/or voice through the use of CCTV systems, hand held devices (such as a video camera or a smart device) and other surveillance devices on Sydney Airport’s premises for the purposes of monitoring your access to Sydney Airport’s premises and to ensure the safety of Sydney Airport’s personnel and the public generally. Sydney Airport’s use of surveillance devices is part of an ongoing crime prevention initiative, targeting crime and other risks to aviation safety and airport security. All footage captured by surveillance devices is retained for a specific period, after which time it is erased, unless it has been identified and is retained for the purpose of investigating a specific incident;
when you access (or request access to) or use car parks located on Sydney Airport premises, including the recording of your vehicle licence plate number; and
the recording of calls to certain airport operations and security telephone lines for security and/or safety purposes.
There may be occasions when we collect personal information about you from a third party, such as:
a service provider;
a customer airline or retail outlet;
in relation to security matters, a government department, body or law-enforcement agency; or
a publicly available source.
9. Cookies and other online tracking systems
Sydney Airport uses cookies and other tracking systems on our website. A cookie is a very small text file which is stored on your computer’s hard drive when you first visit the Website. This information may be used in a number of ways, such as, to identify repeat visitors to our Website, areas of interest on our Website and to analyse visiting patterns. Sydney Airport does not use cookies to obtain personal information.
You can disable your web browser from accepting cookies. If you do so, you can still access the Website, but not all services, transaction or functions may be available.
Where devices connect, or individuals log on, to Sydney Airport’s internet terminals or through Wi-Fi at Sydney Airport’s premises, we may collect aggregated information regarding internet usage. We may also collect some personal information with your consent.
Sydney Airport partners with third party advertising networks to either display advertising on Sydney Airport’s internet terminals or through Wi-Fi at Sydney Airport’s premises to users’ mobile devices and laptops. If you respond in the affirmative (yes) to a particular sponsored or third party advertiser’s question we will be supplying your contact details and cookie data to that sponsor only, this sponsor may use this information to contact you or display relevant offers on their or 3rd party websites.
Sydney Airport’s partners may use cookies and web beacons to collect information, which is not personal information, about your internet activities to provide you with targeted advertising based upon your interests.
10. Location information from mobile devices
Where a device (for example mobile telephones, tablets or laptops) is identifiable by our Wi-Fi or Bluetooth networks at Sydney Airport, we or our third party service providers may collect data relating to the device identification code and its location. We use this data to better understand space utilisation and passenger flows for security purposes and in order to improve the customer experience and our services. All data collected will be anonymous and will not be linked to individual users or to any other personal information.
11. What if you refuse to supply information?
Generally speaking, you are not obliged to provide us with personal information about you. However, failure to do so may mean that we are unable to transact business with you, process any application for the issue of an authority, licence, pass or permit, or provide you with an appropriate level of service.
12. Dealing with Sydney Airport anonymously or using a pseudonym
In many cases, we will need certain personal information to respond to queries, or to transact with you, such as contact details, or other information as set out in this Privacy Policy.
You may access the website on an anonymous basis or contact Sydney Airport with a general query anonymously or using a pseudonym. However, where you are purchasing services from us (such as parking) you will ordinarily not be able to complete the booking without providing us with certain personal information.
13. Opting in or out
At the point we collect information from you, you may be asked to “opt in” to consent to us using or disclosing your personal information other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable law. For example, you may be asked to opt-in to receive further information or communications from our advertisers and supporters which do not fall into one of the categories described above.
You will generally be given the opportunity to “opt out” from receiving communications from us or from third parties that send communications to you in accordance with this Privacy Policy. For example, you will be given the option to unsubscribe from e-newsletters and other marketing or promotional material sent by us. You may “opt out” from receiving these communications by clicking on an unsubscribe link at the end of an email.
https://optout.smart-places.org/
14. How does Sydney Airport use your personal information?
Personal Information collected by Sydney Airport is generally held and used as necessary for purposes directly related to its functions and activities including in any of the following ways:
to provide you with services and to help us develop, improve, manage and administer all of the services we provide to you, including our Website, Wi-Fi services, fast passenger processing systems, parking and other ground transportation related services and the conduct of surveys, questionnaires and requests for feedback;
to ensure that our business systems are functional and reliable, which may include fulfilling legal obligations;
to process applications effectively for the issue of authorities, licenses, passes, permissions and permits (including ADAs, ASICs, and other identification cards);
to assess whether or not any authorities, licenses, passes, permissions and permits should be cancelled or suspended;
to conduct marketing activities including market research, customer profiling, customer insights and targeted marketing activities;
as part of the investigation and analysis of incidents or occurrences (including potential incidents and occurrences) which occur on or at Sydney Airport;
to investigate, respond to and defend claims made against, or involving, Sydney Airport;
to contract with individuals (such as verifying your identity or communicating with you); and
to enforce a contract or agreement which Sydney Airport has with you.
We may also use your personal information for related purposes such as to notify you of services, special offers, opportunities, products or benefits which are being offered by Sydney Airport or any of our strategic alliance partners, customer airlines, tenants or associated organisations.
If you do not wish to receive such information, then you need to inform us. Contact details are provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
We also collect, hold and use your personal information as required or authorised by or under an Australian law such as aviation and taxation laws, counter terrorism legislation and the Corporations Act.
We will not use your personal information for purposes other than those set out in this Privacy Policy without your consent or unless that use is authorised under the Act.
15. When does Sydney Airport disclose personal information to third parties?
Sydney Airport will only disclose your personal information to persons or bodies external to Sydney Airport where permitted by the Act, including in the following circumstances:
where you consent to the disclosure;
in the case of information collected through your application for an ASIC or any other identification card, this may be provided to government agencies from time to time (such as the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation or AusCheck), the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Home Affairs (including Australian Border Force), and the NSW Police) for security, law enforcement, customs and immigration purposes;
to our contractors (for the purpose of the services which they provide) so that we can complete a transaction on your behalf, provide you with a service that you have requested or seek your participation in surveys, questionnaires or requests for feedback;
to airlines which operate out of Sydney Airport and to government departments, bodies and law-enforcement agencies for the purposes of facilitating your passage through Sydney Airport through the use of our fast passenger processing systems;
where required by law, including under an order issued by a court or tribunal; or
for law enforcement or safety purposes, or operational purposes for which the information was collected.
16. Disclosure of your personal information overseas
Sydney Airport discloses individuals’ personal information to a third party service provider which has servers in the United States of America to assist with Sydney Airport’s customer service.
Other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy, Sydney Airport does not disclose your personal information to entities outside of Australia, other than with your consent, or otherwise in accordance with the APPs.
17. Government related identifiers
Sydney Airport may collect government related identifiers (such as your passport number or driver’s licence number). However, we do not use such identifiers as our own identifiers.
18. How does Sydney Airport protect your personal information?
Sydney Airport has implemented security measures which are designed to provide reasonable protection against the misuse, interference or loss of your personal information and to prevent unauthorised access, modification or disclosure of your personal information. These measures include:
network segregation for sensitive information stored electronically, with access restricted to staff holding appropriate positions;
firewalls and login password protocols for all information stored electronically;
secure, access-controlled premises;
limited access locations for information stored as hard copy;
confidentiality provisions in all our employment and service contracts;
registers are maintained of all visitors to any part of our premises where personal information may be stored, and such visitors are required to be accompanied by a member of our staff at all times; and
Sydney Airport also employs secure methods for the destruction or de-identification of personal information, which is undertaken when permitted by law and where such information is no longer required by us.
19. What rights do you have to access and correct your personal information held by us?
Sydney Airport takes reasonable steps to ensure that all personal information that it collects or uses is accurate, up to date and complete.
You may request access to, and correction of, any of your personal information held by Sydney Airport, and such access will be provided, and corrections made except where Sydney Airport refuses such requests in accordance with the APPs.
All requests for access and/or correction will be processed within a reasonable time. In some situations, you may be able to access and correct your personal information directly through our Website. Otherwise, please contact our Privacy Officer by email, phone, fax or mail, if you want to access or correct your personal information.
There is no application fee for making a request to access your personal information. However, we may charge an administrative fee for the provision of information in order to recover costs. If Sydney Airport does not agree to provide you with access to your personal information or to amend or annotate the information that we hold about you, you may seek a review of our decision.
If Sydney Airport does not agree to make the requested changes to your personal information, you may make a statement about the requested changes and we will attach it to your record.
Sydney Airport may provide links to third party websites on its Website, or allow third party advertising on its Website, or via the IT network at Sydney Airport’s premises.
Once you click on a link to a third party’s website, or an advertisement, we are not responsible for how your personal information is collected and used on such sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third party websites.
Please see the privacy policy of the relevant website for information on how your personal information will be dealt with on that site.
21. How does Sydney Airport control access to CCTV footage?
CCTV footage is released under provision of Sydney Airport’s corporate policy. This policy is written in line with the National Approach to Closed Circuit Television, the Australian Standards for CCTV and the APPs.
22. Aims of the CCTV System
CCTV significantly increases the ability to monitor areas of the airport and aims to do the following: assist in the prevention and detection of acts of unlawful interference against aviation; reduce acts of unlawful interference with aviation by deterring potential offenders through fear of detection; assist Government and law enforcement agencies with the detection and identification of offenders; and to aid in a more effective assessment and response to unlawful acts of interference including security, safety and emergency situations. For further information, view the CCTV Fact Sheet. Any other inquiries can be directed via e-mail to privacy@syd.com.au or by phone on 02 9667 9111.
Complaints about a breach of the APPs, by Sydney Airport, in relation to your personal information, must be made in writing, either to the email or mailing address below.
Complaints will be reviewed by Sydney Airport’s Privacy Officer. A response will usually be provided within 30 days of receipt of the complaint by Sydney Airport.
If, after following the procedure outlined above, you believe that your complaint has not been satisfactorily addressed by Sydney Airport, you can make a complaint to the Office of the Information Commissioner ("OAIC") at www.oaic.gov.au.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our information handling policies you should contact us at:
Privacy Officer Sydney Airport Corporation Limited Locked Bag 5000 Sydney International Airport NSW 2020 Telephone (02) 9667 9111 Facsimile (02) 9667 1592 E-mail: privacy@syd.com.au
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Lynda Remund Named President and CEO
Tampa Downtown Partnership is pleased to announce the appointment of Lynda Remund, SHRM-CP, as President and CEO of the Tampa Downtown Partnership. After the retirement of Past President and CEO, Christine Burdick in December of 2017, Remund took the lead role as Acting President and CEO in January 2018.
“Lynda’s ability to support and lead a collaborative work environment while effectively managing the Partnership’s strategic initiatives has proven to the Board Officers and the Executive Committee that Lynda is the best person for this position,” said Mickey Jacob, Chairman of the Tampa Downtown Partnership. “Over the past 18 years, Lynda has been steadfast in adhering to the organization’s vision and mission of cultivating a diverse and vibrant Downtown through the initiatives she’s lead and the relationships she’s built to support those efforts,” said Jacob.
In her role, Remund manages the Partnership’s organizational structure, vision and mission, facilitates the corporation’s strategic initiatives, and works with Downtown stakeholders to ensure Tampa’s urban core is a vibrant and diverse neighborhood. Recognizing the growth of Tampa’s urban core, Remund led efforts to expand the Special Services District (SSD) into Tampa Heights and in October the Tampa Downtown Partnership officially extended its SSD boundaries for the first time since its creation in 1994.
“I’m very excited about the momentum we’ve had and the direction the Partnership is heading,” said Remund. “I’m honored to serve as the President and CEO for the Tampa Downtown Partnership and am energized to work with our staff, Board, and Executive Committee on executing our vision and mission as laid out in our strategic initiatives.”
Read the full press release.
Urban Excellence Award Winners Focus: Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority Pocket Parks Phase 1
The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority was awarded the 2018 Urban Excellence Award for Activating Public Spaces with their Pocket Parks Phase 1 project.
This award recognizes the first stage in the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority’s plan to design and build five small parks along the Selmon Greenway between Ashley Drive and Meridian Avenue, adjacent to downtown’s Central Business District and Channelside District.
The park sites border the City’s parking lots under the elevated sections of the Selmon Expressway and provide safe, aesthetically pleasing rest areas that enhance Tampa’s network of pedestrian pathways through downtown Tampa.
The landscape design creates an understory of evergreen trees, shrubs and groundcover with seasonal diversity and colors to complement the City’s planned art sculptures. The hardscape design incorporates colored and textured concrete pavement at bicycle parking and seating areas. LED accent lighting is wirelessly controlled from THEA’s offices. The project included a soil improvement plan to support the low-maintenance, water-wise plants and a landscaped, terraced wall to replace eroding slope areas.
About the award: This award recognizes a person, organization, business, project or initiative that has made a positive and significant contribution to a Downtown space or has created a more attractive pedestrian atmosphere, and commercially vibrant environment through activities, street level store front improvements or design elements.
Finalists are chosen through a three-step process. First, the Tampa Downtown Partnership invites the public to submit nominations for each category. When the nomination period closes, each submission is considered based on the criteria set within each category. Finally, a panel of jurors representing a cross-section of downtown constituencies evaluate the nominations on a scale of 1-10 based on the criteria and their relation to six topics; innovation, creativity, engagement, sustainability, advancement, and impact.
See all of the winners.
Please be aware of the following special holiday hours.
Tampa Downtown Partnership Office:
December 24 – Closed
January 1 – Closed
Tampa’s Downtown Guides
December 24 – 8am to 5pm
December 25 – Off
January 1 – Off
Tampa’s Downtown Clean Team
For Emergencies (Police – Fire – Medical) DIAL 9-1-1
For Non-Emergencies call: (813) 231-6130
Mayoral Candidate Forum: Join Us!
Be informed and join us for a chance to have your questions answered by the 2019 Mayoral Candidates on Wednesday, January 16th from 5:30pm – 7:30pm at the Rialto Theatre. A panel discussion with moderator will follow networking and casual conversation. Confirmed candidates: Jane Castor, Harry Cohen, Topher Morrison, Mike Suarez, and Ed Turanchik. Invited but not confirmed candidates: LaVaughn King and David Straz. Register today! Interested in sponsorship for this event? Check out our Sponsorship Packet.
Downtown Security Network Event: Human Trafficking
This edition of the Tampa Downtown Partnership Quarterly Downtown Security Network Breakfast will focus on human trafficking awareness and response. The discussion will include what signs property managers, security professionals, business leaders, and other stakeholders should be on the lookout for and how to take action. The event will take place January 24 at TECO Hall in Tampa’s Downtown with breakfast and registration starting at 7:15am and the program running 8am to 9am. Click here to register.
Tampa Convention Center Moves Forward With Improvement Plan
The Tampa Convention Center has filed plans for expanding with the city.
A Dec. 17 filing shows the center is seeking to add on two levels of meeting rooms at the Riverwalk side of the center, which are scheduled to start construction in July 2019. It also entails demolition of existing roof overhang which will be replaced with curtainwall glazing and precast trim.
A curtainwall glazing would make a section of the convention center have a translucent roof with the additional meeting spaces.
The two-level addition would create 16,000 square feet and 18 meeting spaces.
This is part of the Tampa Convention Center’s $30 million capital improvement plan, funded through CRA and tourism tax dollars; that includes the expanded restrooms and meeting space.
There will also be new restaurants, which aren’t part of the CIP budget. Harpoon Harry’s Crab House is converting a 18,000-square-foot storage space at the convention center into a restaurant while Big Ray’s Fish Camp will operate its first restaurant for Tampa’s downtown alongside The Sail in what will be known as The Sail Plaza.
“Tampa Convention Center plans to go vertical with new space along Riverwalk” – Tampa Bay Business Journal (subscription required)
Giant Law Firm to Open in Downtown Tampa
Law giant Baker McKenzie, which announced a Tampa operations center in October, has signed a big office lease in downtown Tampa.
The company has taken a full floor in the SunTrust Financial Centre, where it plans to be fully operational by late summer 2019. The support center will create 300 jobs in downtown Tampa.
Baker McKenzie said Wednesday that its office space will include “alternative workspaces, individual workstations and collaborative work zones.”
The jobs are support positions in legal services, finance, information technology, knowledge management, operations, business development, marketing and communications and talent.
“We expect that many of our Tampa-based employees will take advantage of the opportunity to not only work downtown but also live and play in this thriving area,” Jamie Lawless, executive director of the Tampa operations center, said in a statement. “Being close to the development and action will allow our teams to engage and support the community in a real and meaningful way.”
The SunTrust Financial Centre — one of the most recognizable buildings in the Tampa skyline with an illuminated ziggurat — is now 97 percent leased, said Dan Woodward, a vice president with Highwoods Properties Inc. (NYSE: HWI), which bought the office tower in 2015.
“Since acquiring SunTrust Financial Centre three years ago we’ve added collaborative meeting space, an outdoor terrace, and new fitness and conference centers,” Woodward said in a statement.
At the SunTrust Financial Centre, Highwoods has won a number of significant office deals in downtown Tampa. In late 2017, coworking company Industrious opened on the building’s 33rd floor; by March 2018, it expanded to the entire 32nd floor as well.
“Baker McKenzie’s selection of the SunTrust Financial Center for the Tampa Center puts them right in the heart of the most exciting transformations happening downtown,” Craig Richard, president of the Tampa-Hillsborough Economic Development Corp., said in a statement.
“Law giant Baker McKenzie signs big office deal in downtown Tampa” – Tampa Bay Business Journal (subscription required)
New Deal for Port Tampa Bay
Historically, Port Tampa Bay has been known for cargo – like phosphate and petroleum – but soon much more of the cargo coming through the port will be headed for your home.
Port Tampa Bay President and CEO Paul Anderson says a new agreement with Cosco Shipping Lines will change the way the port does business.
Cosco Shipping Lines is one of the largest container shipping companies in the world, moving cargo from four ports in China, across the Pacific Ocean, through the Panama Canal, and now to Port Tampa Bay.
“Central Florida and the I-4 Corridor has really developed into the distribution center for the entire state,” says Wade Elliott, vice president of marketing and business development for Port Tampa Bay. “E-commerce is a critical part of that, like Amazon and Walmart. It means you can do three or four round trips a day to deliver from the port to those fulfillment centers. What this does, it saves time and money.”
Port officials say this is just the beginning. They expect the container business to quadruple at the port by 2030.
Anderson says instead of minerals and industrial goods, the port will soon welcome household goods, electronics, refrigerators, appliances, and furniture could become the new norm.
Port officials say the Cosco deal will increase the port’s existing container business by 50 percent next year. The route will start with one ship a week, beginning late next month.
Officials say the millions spent to install huge, new cranes to unload containers is beginning to pay off.
“I think it is going to mean that business will continue to grow here. It’s what we’ve been striving for, for the last five years,” says Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who sits on the Port Authority board.
“Cosco deal sets Port Tampa Bay on new course” – FOX 13
HART Receives Federal Funding for Planning Study
The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority and Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority are getting a big helping hand in establishing two major projects.
The Federal Transit Administration on Dec. 18 announced that it has awarded a total of $16.6 million to 20 organizations around the country, including HART and PSTA. The funds are through FTA’s Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning, which assists communities that are developing new or expanded mass transit systems, according to the announcement.
HART will receive $800,000 for a planning study along a proposed fixed guideway transit corridor between downtown Tampa and the University of South Florida. USF is one of the highest activity centers HART aims to connect with among downtown Tampa, the Tampa International Airport, Westshore Mall, Brandon and MacDill Air Force Base.
Several HART routes and a MetroRapid route currently serve the USF area and connect at the nearby University Area Transit Center. At the transit center, HART connects its services to the USF Bull Runner, a free on-campus circulator service.
However, there is a lack of connectivity between major activity centers, including USF, that relates to the lack of east-west frequency in the system as a whole. Connections among these three areas have been studied extensively for years in the Tampa Bay area and it has been concluded that latent demand exists. The need has yet to be filled by fast-connecting, fixed-route transit, according to HART documents.
Meanwhile, PSTA will receive $1.2 million to plan for transit-oriented development along the proposed Central Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project, an 11-mile BRT line connecting downtown St. Petersburg to St. Pete Beach.
PSTA’s project is currently in the development phase and is anticipated to be open for service in late 2020. The entire project is $41.36 million.
“Hillsborough, Pinellas to get $2M to better connect USF and fund transit-oriented development in St. Pete” – Tampa Bay Business Journal (subscription required)
Application Window Closing for Rampello K-8 Downtown Partnership School
Rampello K-8 Downtown Partnership School , Urban Excellence Award Finalist in the Public Sector, is currently taking applications to their lottery for the 2019-2020 school year. Rampello is a highly competitive, A-rated magnet school that was nominated for their positive and significant contribution to Tampa’s Downtown. The students get to experience their magnet theme of cultural arts and humanities by being explorers of downtown’s museums, parks, theaters, and more. Applications will be taken till December 31st. To find out more information or schedule a tour please visit: http://rampello.mysdhc.org/Magnet_Information/Magnet
Downtown Calendar
Your Downtown Calendar
The following is just a sample of upcoming events in Downtown Tampa. Visit the Downtown Tampa Events Calendar for a more comprehensive list.
Christmas in the City at Bizou
Monday, December 24 and Tuesday, December 25
Bizou Brasserie
Spend Christmas dining at a Downtown Tampa staple. Bizou will be open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, serving up delicious feasts to you and your loved ones in an iconic setting. Enjoy one of the Christmas Specials, or stay true to one of your favorite dishes. Regardless of what you order, enjoy a spectacular Christmas experience with your family and friends. For more information, go to Downtown Tampa Holiday Boat Parade of Lights.
Fourth Friday
Friday, December 28, 4pm to 10pm
Downtown Tampa and Ybor City
When the sun goes down, the streets of Tampa and Ybor will light up with music, laughter, art, friends and FREE fun. This evening of special offerings and programs by cultural venues, restaurants, and more takes place on the fourth Friday of every month! For more info, go to Fourth Friday.
Tampa’s Masquerade Bar Crawl
Saturday, December 29, begins 3pm
Whether you are looking for a date for New Year’s Eve, looking to start the 2019 celebrations early, or just want to meet fun people, all you need is a mask and a smile to join this bar crawl! Dress code is casual, but crawlers are free to dress things up a little. Each bar is vetted for optimal levels of fun, and the party keeps rolling on the entertainment-infused buses. So bring your crew or make new friends, discover new places, win cool stuff and have a great time! For more info, go to Tampa’s Masquerade Bar Crawl.
Taking the Stage at the Straz Center
A Drag Queen Christmas- The Naughty Tour – Friday, December 28, begins 7pm
Sebastian Maniscalco: Stay Hungry -Friday, December 28, begins 7pm
On the Marquee at Tampa Theatre
Mary Queen of Scots (2018) – Through Thursday, December 27
Trading Places – Friday, December 28, begins 10:30pm
This Week at Amalie Arena
Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Philadelphia Flyers – Thursday, December 27, begins 7:30pm
Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Montreal Canadiens – Saturday, December 29, begins 7pm
WWE Live Holiday Tour – Sunday, December 30, begins 7:30pm
Monday Morning Memo –Monday Morning Memo is a weekly update of “insider downtown information” regarding developments, transportation, special opportunities and other useful information to help you make the most of downtown. Subscribe to receive this weekly newsletter.
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SEC Announces Non-Prosecution Agreement With Ralph Lauren Corporation Involving FCPA Misconduct
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2013 —
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with Ralph Lauren Corporation in which the company will disgorge more than $700,000 in illicit profits and interest obtained in connection with bribes paid by a subsidiary to government officials in Argentina from 2005 to 2009. The misconduct was uncovered in an internal review undertaken by the company and promptly reported to the SEC.
The SEC has determined not to charge Ralph Lauren Corporation with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) due to the company's prompt reporting of the violations on its own initiative, the completeness of the information it provided, and its extensive, thorough, and real-time cooperation with the SEC's investigation. Ralph Lauren Corporation's cooperation saved the agency substantial time and resources ordinarily consumed in investigations of comparable conduct.
The NPA is the first that the SEC has entered involving FCPA misconduct. NPAs are part of the SEC Enforcement Division's Cooperation Initiative, which rewards cooperation in SEC investigations. In parallel criminal proceedings, the Justice Department entered into an NPA with Ralph Lauren Corporation in which the company will pay an $882,000 penalty.
"When they found a problem, Ralph Lauren Corporation did the right thing by immediately reporting it to the SEC and providing exceptional assistance in our investigation," said George S. Canellos, Acting Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "The NPA in this matter makes clear that we will confer substantial and tangible benefits on companies that respond appropriately to violations and cooperate fully with the SEC."
Kara Brockmeyer, the SEC's FCPA Unit Chief, added, "This NPA shows the benefit of implementing an effective compliance program. Ralph Lauren Corporation discovered this problem after it put in place an enhanced compliance program and began training its employees. That level of self-policing along with its self-reporting and cooperation led to this resolution."
According to the NPA, Ralph Lauren Corporation's cooperation included:
Reporting preliminary findings of its internal investigation to the staff within two weeks of discovering the illegal payments and gifts.
Voluntarily and expeditiously producing documents.
Providing English language translations of documents to the staff.
Summarizing witness interviews that the company's investigators conducted overseas.
Making overseas witnesses available for staff interviews and bringing witnesses to the U.S.
According to the NPA, the bribes occurred during a period when Ralph Lauren Corporation lacked meaningful anti-corruption compliance and control mechanisms over its Argentine subsidiary. The misconduct came to light as a result of the company adopting measures to improve its worldwide internal controls and compliance efforts, including implementation of an FCPA compliance training program in Argentina.
As outlined in the NPA, Ralph Lauren Corporation's Argentine subsidiary paid bribes to government and customs officials to improperly secure the importation of Ralph Lauren Corporation's products in Argentina. The purpose of the bribes, paid through its customs broker, was to obtain entry of Ralph Lauren Corporation's products into the country without necessary paperwork, avoid inspection of prohibited products, and avoid inspection by customs officials. The bribe payments and gifts to Argentine officials totaled $593,000 during a four-year period.
Under the NPA, Ralph Lauren Corporation agreed to pay $593,000 in disgorgement and $141,845.79 in prejudgment interest.
The SEC took into account the significant remedial measures undertaken by Ralph Lauren Corporation, including a comprehensive new compliance program throughout its operations. Among Ralph Lauren Corporation's remedial measures have been new compliance training, termination of employment and business arrangements with all individuals involved in the wrongdoing, and strengthening its internal controls and its procedures for third party due diligence. Ralph Lauren Corporation also conducted a risk assessment of its major operations worldwide to identify any other compliance problems. Ralph Lauren Corporation has ceased operations in Argentina.
The SEC's investigation was conducted by Kristin A. Snyder and FCPA Unit Assistant Director Tracy L. Davis in the San Francisco Regional Office. The SEC appreciates the assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in this matter.
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2 planes evacuated in Seattle,
3rd flight diverted to Dallas
By Associated Press and KOMO Staff Published: Jan 25, 2015 at 5:12 PM PST
SEATAC, Wash. Two planes were evacuated upon arrival at SeattleTacoma International Airport on Sunday due to what a spokesman called a “security concern.” Airport spokesman Perry Cooper says a JetBlue flight from Long Beach, California, and a regional SkyWest jet from Phoenix were the planes involved.
The flights arrived late Sunday afternoon. “This is the first time I’ve been in a situation where you had two aircraft that are fairly close in arrival time, for them to be considered in a security situation,” Cooper said, adding that as a precaution, passengers were bused to their gates from the airport’s third runway.
The threats were taken seriously enough that two F15 fighter jets were scrambled from their base in Portland to escort each plane onto the runway. Passengers remained mostly calm, according to Lisa Vanderdasson, who was on the JetBlue flight, but the gravity of the situation hit her once she was cleared to leave the terminal. “My legs started shaking a little bit, and I was just really, really glad to be back,” Vanderdasson said. Additionally, a Delta Air Lines spokesman says a flight from Los Angeles to Orlando was diverted to Dallas Sunday afternoon due to “a security concern.” Spokesman Morgan Durrant said passengers on Flight 1061 got off the Boeing 737900 so authorities can search the aircraft.
The airline plans to continue the flight when authorities determine it is safe to do so. Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles, said online threats targeted the JetBlue and Delta flights. She said there was no known threat to any aircraft that departed from the Los Angeles area and that as part of the investigation agents will determine whether the threats were related. The flight disruptions come a day after bomb threats targeted two jets bound for Atlanta, prompting F16 fighter jets to escort the planes. The threats posted on the social media network Twitter targeted Southwest Airlines Flight 2492, which arrived at Atlanta from Milwaukee; and Delta Air Lines Flight 1156, which arrived from Portland, Oregon. It was unclear if any of threats were connected.
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Superstition says black dogs bring bad luck but that couldn’t be further from the truth
June 24, 2019 Animals, Family, Living
By ELLEN WHYTE
Did you know that a dog’s chances of a good life, or even survival, depends very much on the colour of their coat?
If you are a black rescue puppy, you may be put down even if you’re healthy, because the prejudice against black dogs runs so deep that it’s unlikely you’ll be adopted.
It may seem a weird idea that a pet’s fur colour can be so significant but prejudice against black pets appears to be rooted in dog behaviour.
In ancient times, dogs were prized because of their guarding powers. Their amazing hearing meant they could alert their owners to burglars and enemy soldiers creeping up in the dark. That earned them lots of praise but it also backfired.
Dogs very often bark at things that we can’t see or don’t think dangerous: wandering cats, birds flying by, leaves dropping – any kind of movement. Also, some dogs love to have a good howl with each other. For them, it’s a sign of “this is my territory, so Fido across the road had better respect me” and also, “I am here, doing my dog duty.
Who else is out there?”
Sadly, we humans are very self-centred and so our ancestors didn’t always get that dogs bark and howl for their own reasons. Instead, they heard the noise and decided that dogs must be seeing something we can’t.
In ancient China, it led to a popular magical ritual where mediums would smear dog saliva on their eyelids and claim this would help them spot evil ghosts for their clients. In ancient Greece, people claimed their pets were spotting Hecate, queen of the witches, and seeing her off with their vigilance.
In the Middle Ages, a series of interesting events influenced the connection between black dogs and the devil.
In the 1400s, a plague called the Black Death devastated towns and cities all over Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The disease travelled from China through Afghanistan, India, and the rest of Asia via the Silk Road, before hitting Mecca, Baghdad, Alexandria and Constantinople, and then sweeping into Europe as far as Norway and Ireland.
Historical records talk of entire towns disappearing in weeks, all the residents killed by the plague, and corpses piling up as there were no survivors to bury them.
Back then, people didn’t understand the concept of viruses or bacteria, so they put down outbreaks of disease to the devil messing around. Stories were told of witches working his evil magic. As these grew wilder and wilder, witches were said to have familiars, the most iconic of which were black dogs and black cats.
Over time, black animals became the poster pets for evil. And by the 1580s, writers like Shakespeare began to use the image, coining expressions like black curse, black intentions and black soul – all meaning evil.
You’d think we’ve come a long way since then, but our prejudice against black has persisted.
In 2016, six studies carried out by a team from the University of New York discovered that we use a “bad is black” heuristic, a shortcut in our thinking, when it comes to social judgment. Their study showed that we associate darker skin tones with negativity – even when we’re talking about adored celebrities!
Similar work done in Asia indicates we share that heuristic. In just the last few years. China made an ad for soap powder that turned an African into a Chinese man; Thailand featured a skin-whitening pill as a recipe for success; and Malaysia ran a Hari Raya ad where the king rejects the lady purely on the basis of her black skin.
Thankfully, those ads were pulled after public outcry suggesting that we’re dumping hurtful and unhelpful heuristics. And for black pets, there is more hope because there’s a solid group of pet lovers embracing them.
“We adopted Shadow, a four-year-old mixed Malaysia breed nine months ago and she’s as playful as a baby,” says Mandy Tung, a business development manager from Cheras.
“Shadow is learning to protect our home, and she’s very good at her job – alert and protective of me and my family.”
As for the old prejudice that black fur indicates aggression, Mandy thoroughly disagrees. “Colour doesn’t play a role in pet character,” she says. “And black pets also don’t bring bad luck to owners.”
For Wan Mei Sze, a quality assurance professional, her earliest happy memories are of Duchess, the black dog who was her constant companion from babyhood to primary schooldays. “What I remember most was her friendliness, and how her eyes glittered. She was really jet black, with no other discernible colour.
“Duchess had a curly black tail which was always wagging, and she would lick me too. My parents always said she was very smart and easily trained, but I’m too young to remember that bit.”
Today Wan lives in a condo, which makes keeping pets difficult. But she still has a soft spot for black dogs. “I would adopt a black dog if I could. Prejudice against black pets is irrational. Pets are so loving, no matter what their colour.”
“I love black pets and have a wonderful black dog called Kopi-O,” says Tammy Lim, a Creative Communications professional in Kuala Lumpur. “She’s a quiet, demure, introverted girl who loves to play, run and catch rodents that dare to enter her territory.
“I don’t believe in the superstition that black pets bring bad luck. Colour doesn’t dictate the value of life. My pets have brought me joy. In fact, I think black is beautiful!”
And even more interesting, black might be a “sellable” feature.
“I’m not superstitious,” says Dee Dee Quah, a medical conference event specialist from Kuala Lumpur, with a giggle. “But we got our black Lab Bruno because he is big and black and that makes people a little nervous.
“Bruno is an adorable, happy, playful pet with the family but when I go to answer the door, having a huge black dog standing next to me is really a comfort. And it will put people off!”
At present, black pups and dogs have a rough time. But perhaps as we communicate more, especially over social media, we can step forward. Because it’s not right that little black pups don’t get a chance, purely because of their fur colour.
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Ten Years On: Live In London – Brand New Live Recording!
It’s out! I’ve been talking for the last week on Twitter and Facebook about mixing the recording of my solo set from last week’s London gig with Michael Manring, at Round Midnight, and here it is:
In addition to the tracks listed in the player, there’s one ‘hidden’ track that you only get with the full album download. And as always, you’re welcome to pay whatever you think it’s worth for the download. Have a listen, see what you think. Continue reading “Ten Years On: Live In London – Brand New Live Recording!”
And Nothing But The Bass Is 10 Years Old Today.
10 years ago today, I received a shipment of CDs from ICC duplication, to the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham – it was my first solo album, And Nothing But The Bass, and the start of my solo recording career.
Here it is – please download it for free:
10 years on, and I’m less than 24 hours into the life of a brand new album, Slow Food, with Trip Wamsley. It’s been such an amazing journey, not least of all because what seemed like such a weird thing to do back then – to me and to everyone else – is now so normal. The internet is awash with people experimenting with solo bass, and looping crops up everywhere from coffee-shops to the top of the charts.
The gimmick potential diminished many years ago, for which I’m most grateful. It let me get on with making the music that mattered to me, via the method that made most sense.
Solo bass was never a circus trick for me.
I was never interested in looping as a way of showing how clever I could be.
It was a way of me getting the music inside my head out to the world.
I hear things in layers, I hear evolving texture not rock drums and last-chorus-key-changes.
The template is still much the same. I’m just much better at it. The vision is more refined, the tech is better (thank the baby Jesus for Bob Amstadt and the Looperlative) and yes, I’m orders of magnitude more developed as a musician – technically, theoretically, conceptually, melodically… I just make better music happen. At least, I make music happen that is ever-closer to the soundtrack to the inside of my head. And I’m still loving it.
I’m loving the collaborations this has all led me to – the albums with Jez Carr, Theo Travis, Lawson Dodds Wood, Mike Outram and now Trip Wamsley. The gigs with Lobelia, Michael Manring, BJ Cole, Cleveland Watkiss, Julie McKee… The myriad incredible musical moments of the Recycle Collective at Darbucka, The Vortex and Greenbelt.
And I’m grateful to every journalist that’s ever taken the time to listen to and write about the music, every radio DJ that’s ever played it, and every person who has played a CD to their friends and said ‘check this out’, or emailed them a link, burned a CDR for them, emailed them some tracks. It’s all great, and I thank you for it.
So, 10 years on, here’s the new album: Have a listen, enjoy, pay whatever you think its worth. For me, the last 10 years have been priceless.
A Decade In Music – The Solo Bass Years.
My first ever solo gig was at the Troubadour in Earls Court, London, on Dec 15th, 1999 – 10 years ago last week.
The eve of the new millennium, and a gig that started with a lie (the lovely chap who booked the gig asked me if I had a whole set of material after seeing me do one solo tune in a band-gig. I lied and said ‘yes’ 🙂 ). It wasn’t the first time I’d played solo bass in public – that was a product demo at the National Music Show for Bassist Magazine in Nov 97. I also played weird improv noise stuff for a contemporary dance company in Nov 98.
Continue reading “A Decade In Music – The Solo Bass Years.”
Interview – from BassRocket.com (Jan 2005)
Steve Lawson has been one of the most inspiring and creative solo bassists to come out of the UK in recent years. His solo albums and collaborative projects have been the talk of the world-wide bass community and have drawn enthusiastic reviews in the press. His latest album ‘Grace And Gratitude’ finds him searching a theme in his own enigmatic way. I spoke to Steve recently and began by asking him about this album.
– ‘Grace And Gratitude’ seems to have been given a good reception in the
press. What kind of response have you had from the fans?
“The response has been fantastic, I’ve been really pleased with how well it’s gone down, especially given that it contains some of the most challenging music that I’ve recorded, and is pretty diverse! I was expecting to get a few e-mails of complaint about the second track (Journey Of A Thousand Miles), as it gets very dissonant, and is quite a big leap on from anything I did on ‘Not Dancing For Chicken’, but my audience have surprised me once again with their broadmindedness!”
– What led you to explore a thematic concept for this latest album, and
how do you set about creating a themed album of instrumental music?
“That’s a really good question, and a tough one to answer! The prompting to explore the theme was that it was a continuation of the way I always write – trying to soundtrack whatever is going on in my head at that time – but discovering that my thoughts at that time were a little more focussed and coherent than when I’m usually making a record. The catalyst for that was the European elections here in the UK. I was insensed by the selfishness and ingratitude of so many on the political right-wing who were blaming people fleeing persecution and destitution in their own countries for coming to England to find something better, and attempting to use them as a scapegoat for all of society’s ills and to gain political ground against those who saw the issues in a more complex and grown up way. But instead of doing an angry record, I decided to channel that thought process into looking at the things that I’m most grateful for, and recognising that I haven’t earned any of them – they are all a gift, which is where the ‘grace’ part comes in.
“So ‘Despite my Worst Intentions’ stems for a feeling of gratitude that none of the really stupid things that I did in my teens managed to ruin my life. ‘The Kindness Of Strangers’ is a fairly obvious one – it’s something that all musicians rely on heavily! ‘The Journey Of A Thousand Miles’ is more about recognising the smallness of everything we do, seeing life as a journey comprised of small steps, and we need to tread carefully. And so on…
“It’s pretty much impossible to pin down the connection between the theme and the music beyond some people just getting it! It’s a feeling, an emotion, it’s ephemeral, and I guess it’s something that is going to connect with people on myriad levels. It’s also highly likely that people are going to hear completely different things in there, and that’s fine too.”
– What’s your favourite piece on ‘G&G’ and why?
“Oh boy, it changes from day to day – I think at the moment, it’s ‘What Did I Do To Deserve This?’ – I just really like the melodic line, and the change in texture as the piece goes on. But I’m also particularly proud of ‘You Can’t Throw It Away (There’s No Such Thing As Away)’ – the way the track develops took me by surprise! That’s the joy of improvising music in the studio – you can hear new things in it as you listen back the same way that the audience does. It’s not all planned out, so there are things that you miss the first time round that grow on you as time goes on.”
– Those of us who bought the album shortly after it’s release were
treated to a superb bonus disc. Please tell our readers how they can
now get hold of that CD for themselves?
“That CD was called ‘Lessons Learned From An Aged Feline Pt II’ – each time I do a CD, I release a second bonus CD for people who order the record in advance of the official release date. This works for two reasons – firstly as an insentive to people to order the CD early on, and thus helping me to recoup my costs quicker. But it’s also a way of me getting some of the enormous amount of music out there for people to hear. I tend to record hours and hours of music for each CD before I decide on which tracks to release. Some of it is pretty bad, so that gets scrapped, but for each CD, I end up with at least two albums worth of release-quality material, so this enables to get that out.
“Now that I’ve got a web-shop that can handle download sales, I’ve been able to put ‘Lessons Learned Pt II’ up as a download sale, so people who’ve only discovered what I’m up to since the new album has been released can go back and start to fill in some of the blanks in their CD collections. It’s also meant that I can keep my debut solo album, ‘And Nothing But The Bass’ available, even though it’s sold out. Instead of repressing, I’ve just made it available as a low-cost download.”
– In the past few years you have alternately released solo albums
followed by albums of collaborative duets. Does this mean we are due
another duets album and if so what’s in the pipeline?
“At the moment I’m not certain what I’m going to do next. I do have a lot of duo material recorded with pedal steel guitarist, BJ Cole. BJ and I have been playing together for over a year now, and been experimenting with various approaches to combining out sounds. It’s not been an easy one, given that both of us are capable of making so much noise! But we’re beginning to find the right combination, so that might happen.
“I’m also planning to try some gigs with Theo Travis, but with a drummer added to the mix. We’ve a couple of people in mind, and will be experimenting over the new couple of months. The tracks that we recorded on ‘For The Love Of Open Spaces’ have been evolving on the live gigs that we’ve done, and it’d be great to try taking them to another place with a drummer.
“And work has also begun on Jez Carr’s debut all-solo album – so while I won’t be playing on that, I’ll be helping to produce that with him. Jez is an amazing musician, and looking forward to being able to follow up Conversations within the next couple of years too.
– Have you any plans for making a duets album with another bassist and if
so who?
“I’ve been gigging a lot over the last couple of years with Michael Manring, who is quite simply one of the most amazing musicians I’ve ever heard, let alone shared a stage with, and also one of my favourite people. We’ve made various attempts to record our duo gigs, but so far haven’t had much that’s been release quality, just in terms of the sounds. But we’re both keen to get something happening, so I’d guess that will happen at some point. We’ve even had offers from record labels wanting to fund it, but it’s something that we’re going to take our time with. For starters, Michael’s got a new solo album coming out in the next month or so, so will be promoting that over the next few months.
“But I do love working with other bassists – we think slightly differently from other musicians, and I find that bassists often (not always) make great listeners. I’ve done a few gigs – including the European Bass Day – with John Lester. He’s a singer/songwriter solo bassist from California, now living in Amsterdam, and is a dream to play with – another great musician who’s also a really lovely person.”
– OK, so if you could make a duets album with any musician from history
who would that be?
“To be honest, I feel really fortunate to be working with the people I’m working with. I think the main ones on my ‘wish list’ would be singers like Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn and Jonatha Brooke, but of the three the only one I’ve met is Bruce. I have two main criteria for working on a project like that, there needs to be a musical hook-up, obviously, but it also has to be with someone that I could travel round in a car with for three weeks at a time – life’s too short to work with people you don’t get on with. So once I’ve formed a list of people I’d love to work with, I then have to meet them, and see if I get on with them, as well as there being some mutual musical appreciation!”
– Aside from listening to other musicians, what do you find in life that
inspires the creative process?
“Desperation! I think that when you do music for a living, there’s a fine balance between seeing it as a job and getting tired of it, and feeling liberated by the absence of other things getting in the way. I cross that line fairly regularly. The main thing that keeps me focussed on how lucky I am is practising. I love playing, I love getting together with other musicians to try things out and I love doing gigs. Music is in and of itself inspiring, and not just in a notes and melodies sense. There’s something about being around creative people that makes you pursue creativity.
“Beyond that, I find that most things will feed into my music – politics, relationships, faith, films, art, history, fantasy… Loads of things.
“That said, one of my biggest influences is cats – we’ve recently got two new ones, as the Aged Feline, after whom the two ‘Lessons Learned’ CDs were named, passed away in the summer. The new ones can’t replace him, but they are rescue cats, and needed a home. They’re both lovely, and are now the ‘Fairly Aged Felines’, who will no doubt have their own line of CDs coming out soon!”
– What nifty little toys have you currently got in your arsenal of
effects?
“The current live set up for gigs in the UK is pretty involved – I now have two Lexicon MPX-G2 processors, two Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro + looping devices, a Mackie 1402 desk, and a Korg KP-II Kaoss Pad. It gives me so many great options and allows me to loop and process the musicians I’m working with as well! The move to a stereo set-up, and the switch to AccuGroove speaker cabinets has made my whole sound much clearer and less coloured. I’ve used the PA for voice, sax, piano and classical guitar as well, and it sounds better than any equivalent sized PA that I’ve ever used!
“Throw in three Modulus basses and an E-Bow and you’ve got my live rig.”
– What are the plans for any live dates in the near future?
“At the moment, I’m sorting out some dates for California in late January. For the UK, I’m working on some dates in March with Matthew Garrison, and will hopefully have some dates later on in the year with acoustic guitarist, Eric Roche, as well as a smattering of other solo dates here and there.”
You can check out all of Steve’s albums (and buy them!) at this website www.stevelawson.net, there are some free download tracks there and plenty of interviews and reviews to read.
Andy Long
A new review…. of And Nothing But The Bass..??
It’s amazing what you can find looking at your web-stats – I was browsing through mine, seeing who had linked back to this site, and found a review just posted on a blog in January of this year, of And Nothing But The Bass (my first album, for those of you a little late to the party).
A little browsing round the blog in question – jamscience.blogspot.com – showed that it was a review that the writer, Ian Peel, had written for Record Collector magazine!
So those of you that have the CD of And Nothing But The Bass – whether you paid for it, or picked up a free copy at the Social Media Cafe on Friday – have a genuine collectors item in your possession! 🙂
Anyway, you can click here to read the full review. The choice quote from it, that will be appearing on a poster near you soon, is “one of the most gifted solo bass players on the planet” which is always a useful thing to have for a press release. 🙂
If you want to listen to And Nothing But The Bass, you can do so at last.fm, or you can buy the download version with the extra tracks mentioned in the review, from the online shop here, or from Amazon, or from Cdbaby…
“Steve’s complex array of sound and rare, intimate
touch are rapidy turning him into one of the most
influential bassists in the world” – bass guitar magazine
“Lawson’s writing and his phenomenal command of the possibilities of looping creates a compelling and surprising variety of sounds one would never imagine the bass capable of producing.” – JazzWise
“Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I’ve known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented.” – Victor Wooten
“Steve..I look at you as one of the best innovators in the bass community. The path you have chosen to follow is special and deep. If anyone has any issues with this, I feel for them and they should not be paying any attention the what you do. Just move on to a more mundane approach to the instrument and be happy. You are a gift and I love your playing and concept.” – Leland Sklar
“one of the most gifted solo bass players on the planet” – Ian Peel, Record Collector Magazine
“sensuous melodies intertwine and fall away with the intimacy of Talk Talk?s Spirit of Eden and the cinematic production values of Brian Eno” – Sid Smith
“Lawson’s solo bass compositions include palettes of lush sonic soundscapes and layers of ambient textures which have helped to redefine the art of looping and live performance as a solo bassist.” – The International Insitute Of Bass
“one of today’s most inventive and original sounding voices on the
electric bass. He is a pioneering innovator in the art of looping.” – cliff engel, www.bassically.net
“a one man cosmic symphony” – Jerry Kranitz, www.aural-innovations.com
“Taking you from new-age jazz to Starsky and Hutch, this solo bassist is a must-see for anyone who’s ever
harboured dreams of being a professional musician. Catch him while he’s hot!” (4/5) – ThreeWeeks
“Lawson is a master of a whole universe of sounds…a truly original talent” – JazzWise
“Steve Lawson is better than good… …[his] sheer virtuosity communicates an infectious love for the music.” – Good Times Santa Cruz.
“the life affirming stuff of dreams” Sue Edwards, Royal Festival Hall.
About the cds –
“What a beautiful recording! This is perhaps the best argument yet that the bass is a versatile, deeply expressive instrument and in the hands of a brilliant and visionary artist like Steve, is capable of making music of enormous emotional and musical depth. Please buy a copy and share it with your friends and family. I think they’ll thank you for it!” – Michael Manring.
“beautifully performed throughout” – Guitarist Magazine (uk)
“From the opening trills of ‘Flutter’ it’s clear that this is going to be an extraordinary album…
…Steve’s complex array of sound and rare, intimate touch are rapidly turning him into one of the most influential bassists in
the world.” – Bass Guitar Magazine (uk)
“one of the most refreshing, listenable and unpretentious albums i have heard in one long time!” – warren murchie, global bass magazine (Canada)
“i encourage the rest of the world to get this album and find out just how versatile a bass guitar can be – 10/10 “- cross rhythms magazine (uk)
“A excellent set of truly inspired improvisational music.” – aural innovations e-zine. (US)
“Frisell, Fripp and Garbarek revisited in unique ways.” – JazzUK Magazine. (UK)
“steve has something all his own, and with it a bright future as a solo bass performer and likely anything else he chooses along the way. pick it up now so you can say you know of him from the beginning.” – bass frontiers magazine (us)
“I highly recommend this CD! As Steve’s playing and concept grow he makes ever more gorgeous and engaging music that really demonstrates the expressive depth of the bass. The richness of this music makes for a rewarding listening experience on all levels and I think Steve’s approach represents a real step forward for the art of solo bass.” – Michael Manring.
“All in all, “and nothing but the bass”, is a most delectable and auspicious debut release from a very talented artist with the vision and ability to think and play outside the box. Definitely recommended listening” – www.ambientvisions.com (US)
“Take the playing expertise of Phil Keaggy mix in a healthy dose of the solo work of Robert Fripp and transfer that to a six string fretless bass guitar. What you have as a result of the best of both is a gentleman known as Steve Lawson.” – www.tollbooth.org (US)
“On technical terms alone, Lawson holds his end up alongside American stars of the lyrical bass suchas Victor Wooten or Michael Manring. But his work showcases not only prodigious playing talent
but also a thorough lack of self-consciousness about engaging with his listeners.” – Misfit City E-zine (UK)
“Using only a couple basses and a handful of electronic gadgets, Lawson skillfully paints sonic textures of ambient soundscapes with adventurous soloing and masterful layering.” – www.bassically.net (US)
” This is such a special album that a short review like this can hardly do it justice. The moody melody of ‘Need You Now’, the funky slap and pop of ‘Channel Surfing’, the atmospheric ‘Jimmy James’, all these and every other track are worthy of careful examination and I only have 200 words! ‘Chicken’ is an album that invites you to sit back,
close your eyes and get involved in it’s shimmering melodic beauty for an hour.” – Euphoria Magazine (UK)
“The marvelously musical result on Lawson’s second [solo] album, which tends toward a mellow, ambient vibe that sometimes recalls new age
music and ’80s art-rock, has as much to do with Lawson’s melodic sense as it does to do with his technical mastery.” – Bass Player Magazine.
“Folk music, Frippertronics, fretless Jaco Pastorius flights, country melodies and world-music trance epics mingle here, plus a few hints of past effects-pedal kings like Dean Carter or Pat Orchard. And it’s utterly inclusive music, lacking the smugness and self-love that blight many solo instrumental jaunts, and more interested in raising a happy smile rather than pulling an anguished ‘guitar face’ ” – Organ Magazine (UK)
“In summary, Lawson succeeds in showcasing the range of his instruments’ possibilities while also creating enjoyable and interesting music. The album’s real strength
lies in it’s variety, from Frippoid soundscapes, to jazz, and ambient space. – www.aural-innovations.com (US)
“On the last piece – “Pillow Mountain” – Lawson shows that, with a few electronic gizmos, even very “unbasslike” sounds can be produced. A
wonderfully melancholic fretless solo is played over an underlying mood reminiscent of Brian Eno. Beautiful.” – Jazz Dimensions Magazine (Germany)
“Only a musician with great talent and sensitivity can provoke such emotions, giving us these 52 minutes of pathos from solo bass and effects.” – No Warning e-zine (Italy)
“Steve Lawson [is an] innovative bassist dedicated to stretching the boundaries of bass. On Lawson’s And Nothing but the Bass album,
the simple boom-di-boom we know as bass is transformed into a spray of chords, arpeggios, hammer-ons and rangy melodic runs, flecked in harmonics and reinvented by effects.” – San Jose Metro (US)
“Lawson and Carr alternate playing Jekyl to the other’s Hyde. Dreamy pastoral visions interrupted by an invasion of drunk Martians. Steve’s sonic pallette allows him to blend beautifully, or create havoc, a dichotomy he clearly enjoys. A fascinating listen. A Little Nitrous Music anyone?”
– Ed Friedland, Bass Player Magazine (US)
“The music Steve and Jez make is reflective, intimate and powerful. It takes you on a journey that is
simultaneously familiar and exotic, engaging and serene.” – Michael Manring
” ‘Conversations’ finds pianist Jez Carr and bassist/loopist Steve Lawson deftly walking a fine line between
new age and avant-garde, drifting from meditative serenity to angular abstraction so smoothly that the seams
barely show. With its extended and often reflective feel, the highly-attuned duo improvisations allude to the
vintage eras of record labels like ECM or Windham Hill.” – Andre LaFosse (guitar looping genius)
“This is subtle music that demands your undivided attention.” – www.aural-innovations.com
“Close to perfection… …Magnificent” – No Warning (Italian e-zine)
“I can’t say enough to recommend this CD adequately. Just do yourself a favor and get it if you haven’t already.”- Ted Killian, Loopers Delight.
” There’s music here to appeal to a diverse crowd… from space ambient to jazz fans to prog fans. And I can’t imagine any musician who wouldn’t appreciate the results of what are actually solo performances. Recommended.” – www.aural-innovations.com
About Steve’s gigs…
“Most bass players settle for one distinctive tone and make it their own, yet solo loop guru Lawson is a master
of a whole universe of sounds all conjured from his fretless six-string bass. It’s a feat equivalent to juggling
half-a-dozen lit torches that not only he makes look and sound effortless, but his sense of otherworldly narratives
makes his a truly original talent.” – JazzWise magazine.
“Steve’s style is to look like he never knows what he’s doing in the first place,
he talks nonsense to distract you from how frighteningly good he is at what he does.” – www.bassworld.co.uk
“steve plays with a wonderful fluidity. his fingers glide lovingly, effortlessly over the fretless, the chording and intonation never less than perfect. whether a simple, relaxed glissade or a line demanding
huge control and dexterity, his fingers did the talking.” – michael cowton, journalist and author of ‘level 42 – the definitive biography’ (UK)
“[steve is] very much his own musician, and one capable of taking on any of the american virtuosi on equal terms… his improvised melodies…make for an assertive and individual new voice.”- dann chinn, misfit city e-zine (uk)
“…an evening of technological wonder and musical psychadelisizing.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel
“a gifted and imaginative bassist, whose melodic ideas and encyclopedic chordal knowledge are at least equal to many (currently) more well known artists.”- www.globalbass.com online magazine. (Canada)
“Bottom Line: Virtuoso technique + imagination + a vision + improvisation chops to burn = Steve Lawson.”- www.bassically.net (US)
“At last! Steve Lawson – a bassist with a commanding technique that doesn’t mean more notes,
but a truly good sound and great time, with melody a priority. Finally, lots of notes when needed.
How refreshing! Now all we need is a Steve Lawson that plays double bass – are you out there?” – Danny Thompson (double bass legend)
“Steve Lawson has got to be one of the most tasteful bassists I’ve heard in a long time and is certainly a creative
player who focuses on sound and the quality of individual notes, not to mention different ways of speaking with his
instrument.” – Jerry Kranitz, www.aural-innovations.com
“Somehow I had never heard of Steve Lawson before and while at the recent NAMM show a friend of mine dragged me
to a booth to check him out. When I heard Steve play doing a live solo with self accompaniment I was instantly
transported to somewhere beautiful inside, even though we were in Anaheim of all places. The CD does the same
thing for me…I listened to it driving through the desert and again at home…lovely,
wonderful stuff…I’m a fan” – Andy West
(solo artist, bassist with The Dixie Dregs)
“When I first heard Steve Lawson it made me go home and practice my bass again, it was inspiring to hear his use of bass loops with great melodies.
He doesn’t play like a bass player, he plays like a musician. I am going to rip off every idea he has ever had!!” –
Matt Bissonette (bassist to the stars!)
Review – And Nothing But The Bass (Misfit City)
“This music is apparently what Steve Lawson makes to entertain friends. Friends who make themself known as such simply by showing up to one of his intimate gigs in London. Or in Lincoln, Watford, France, California… or wherever Lawson and his little bundle of bass guitars, E-Bow sustainers and looping devices pitch camp for an evening of playing. And, having asserted your friendship by wandering in and sitting down, you can smile to yourself about the way his lush, demonstrative instrumental music manages to cross-reference Frippertronics, Pete Seeger, Jaco Pastorius and Joe Satriani (for starters) without them crashing into each other or crowding him off his own playing stool.
You can also smile – with genuine enjoyment – at the sheer guilelessness of his music. The gauche jokiness of “And Nothing But The Bass”‘s title is accurate: Steve Lawson’s ‘And Nothing But The Bass’ with one exception, this really is all One Man And His Loops live in front of a small, polite but audibly happy audience. But it shouldn’t be dismissed as cutesy novelty, or as circus tricks with effects pedals: that isn’t the half of it. In London, we’re used to anxiety. Self-exposure from tortured musical artists, cool-by-numbers checklists, spotlight-grabbing attitude flexers; obvious-state-of-minders stapled to credible trends and sinking with them. Hearing Steve Lawson duck this, focussing quietly instead on the way music connects across generations and between person and person, is a sweet shock.
On technical terms alone, Lawson holds his end up alongside American stars of the lyrical bass such as Victor Wooten or Michael Manring. But his work showcases not only prodigious playing talent but also a thorough lack of self-consciousness about engaging with his listeners. Maybe it’s from playing pop with the elfin, equally guileless Howard Jones; but when you hear Lawson duetting with himself on sprightly children’s-song tunes like “The Inner Game” and “The New Country” (wrapping joyously squishy melodies around his looped, nodding, double-stopped riffs) you know you’re not hearing someone who’s concerned about his agenda fitting anyone’s T-shirt. Or with the solemn rules at jazz school.
All right, perhaps an over-mellow conflation of those lovable old chestnuts “Chopsticks” and “Blue Moon” (on “Blue Sticks”) is a step too far in this direction. All taste and no meat; too close to a musical life that’s one long function room. Lawson dispatches it with impeccable skill, which is all very nice but a little worrying. Far better to hear him feeding twanging threads of Celtic American folk song and bluegrass into “The Virtue Of The Small”, Flecktones-style; then splitting off to layer on luxuriously glutinous improvisations via serenely wandering fretless and classic metal distortion. Or to spot momentary nods to other bassists (Chris Squire, Steve Swallow, Alphonso Johnson, Stuart Hamm) who’ve let melodies rumble up from the basement. Or just to put the notebook down and enjoy tunes like “Bittersweet”, a fretless-bass-and-piano duet owing a little to both Pachelbel’s Canon and Weather Report’s “A Remark You Made”. Jez Carr’s strums of high, cautiously sweet piano haze this one lightly with blue. Perhaps it’s over-aligned with the fastidious, earnestly white, New Age end of jazz, but Lawson’s head-bowed cadences are beautifully poised – natural and regretful.
So far, so immaculate, so “Bassist Magazine”. What really opens doors, though, are three pieces in which Lawson ventures into process music, chance-and-hazard and ambient music: closer to Fripp Soundscapes and post-rock than to John Patitucci. …and again… The moonlit ostinato foundations and skirling skybound melodies of “Drifting” give way to smears of trembling Frippertronical treble passes, like wheelmarks on cloud, and to trance-techno bubble echoes Lawson somehow wrings out of his bass. “Chance” clings on – just – to the right side of disassembly; the sharp attack or mother-beast rumble of Lawson’s fretless stepping in and around his frigidly emotional ECM bass figure, ghosted with minimal traceries. And the lapping sounds, heartbeat sub-aqua bass and shimmering harmonic nudges of the gorgeous “Pillow Mountain” are closer to Mouse On Mars than any bass guitarring this side of Rothko, as Lawson E-Bows strange Chinese string calls out of the beautiful murk. It’s with these pieces that we hear Steve Lawson’s audience returning a favour, moving away from bobbing their heads to the happy melodies and simply listening instead.
And all without the man breaking much of a sweat, either. Anyone who’s been to one of Lawson’s recent concerts can testify that this CD’s a mere dry run compared to the music he’s now growing into. For any instrumentalist, this album would be charming; for Steve Lawson, it’s a showcase punched open at one end. His friends are watching him grow – I suggest that you join them.
Review – solo show, Croydon Fairfield Halls (No Warning e-zine)
“The job of opening the concerts of the 21st Century Schizoid Band on their British tour was given to Steve Lawson and it proved to be an excellent coupling. Lawson served as a rival attraction, with his innovative soundscaping for solo bass, to the older sounds of the former Crimson members, even though, in the course of the concert, Steve underlined the connection that linked his musical offerings with the music of King Crimson, making reference to Frippertronics.
Steve Lawson opened his short set with No More Us And Them, a piece that will be included on his forthcoming new album, in which he immediately displayed his technique of layering loops created in real time, without any pre-recorded foundation.
From the album And Nothing But the Bass he then performed the wonderful The Inner Game, followed by another new composition from his new album, entitled MMFSOG. Between the pieces, all played with a great mastery of various devices, pedals and e-bow, Steve entertained the audience with great charm.
What a shame that his opening act lasted such a short time, less than half an hour. Highway One was followed by a short improvisation, after which Steve Lawson bade farewell to the audience with a beautiful version of the classic Fly Me To The Moon.
Later in the evening, Steve informed me that he would soon be undertaking a tour, including Italy, with Michael Manring. I hope to be able to confirm the dates as soon as possible. Try not to miss the opportunity to hear live a young man who is a phenomenal bassist and who will certainly be attracting the attention of the wider public before long.”
Review – And Nothing But The Bass (Bass Frontiers Magazine)
“”Steve’s Debut CD is as the title states, a bass only record. All but one cut are live, but through the use of effects life looping and the E-Bow, Steve is able to paint sonic landscapes and them compliment them in real time. His melodic fretless playing is amazing, and realizing that it is all live is a testament to his impeccable intonations.
And Nothing But The Bass was never intended for release but the overwhelming response to some sample tracks on his web site convinced him to go for it. “The Inner Game” reall showcases Steve’s improvised solo playingwhich is full of melodic hooks that go deeper and deeper as the song progresses. “Virtue Of The Small” rings like an acoustic guitar piece dropped a few octaves. When the distorted guitar comes in you would hardly guess that this luscious guitar tone is actually Steve and his fretless bass. [actually it’s a fretted bass! :o) – SL] His phraseing, the overtones, the harmonics all executed passionately and perfectly.
Did I mention that this is just one guy…live? Steve has something all his own, and with it a bright future as a solo bass performer and likely anything else he chooses along the way. Pick it up now so you can say you know of him from the beginning.”
Review – And Nothing But The Bass (Bass Player Magazine)
“Compiled from various solo gigs, this CD boasts textures ranging from etheral to raucous, as Steve layers multiple loops and solos with the help of a Lexicon JamMan. The strictly live format allows an occasional wart, but there are many gems.”
– Ed Friedland, January 2001
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Home / Featured / News / VR / Autodesk Live rebrands as Revit Live, adds new features in Version 1.7
Autodesk Live rebrands as Revit Live, adds new features in Version 1.7
Featured, News, VR
Autodesk Revit Live, previously known as Autodesk Live, is a cloud-based service that transforms a Revit Model into an immersive experience in one click. While the new name appeared on the product centre website for the first time on March 9, 2017, it will be until April before the new name is used on the product with the next product release.
This, and other new changes come after the addition, in October 2016, of support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift Virtual Reality (VR) gears.
According to the company, the name change reflects the ability to extend BIM to immersive visualisation and VR.
New functionalities being added are:
i. Support for Revit LT (previously only supported on Revit)
ii. Level of Details (LOD) geometry generation and material instancing has also been added, leading to a 20% improvement for users working on large models.
iii. Custom building materials are now supported, enabling customers create unique visualisations of materials that were not inbuilt.
You can visit the website here to check out the demo.
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Mar 28 Change Her Hair or Change Her Clothes, but Barbie is Teaching Girls to Code
“Be who you wanna be, B-A-R-B-I-E, Barbie girl.” – the iconic quote that has been admired by young girls for ages. Over the years, we have seen Barbie take on over 150 careers and has been breaking glass ceilings since she first went to the moon in the 1960s. Mattel has helped young girls imagine their lives as doctors, teachers, pro athletes and even President of the United States. Now, Barbie is pioneering her way through the tech industry.
In 2010, the “I Can Be Anything” campaign (currently their “You Can Be Anything” campaign is running) launched premiering a Computer Engineer Barbie and marking Barbie’s first steps into the technology field. Computer Engineer Barbie was lightly ridiculed for her matching pink laptop accessories and office space surrounded with pictures of Ken, but the fact that there even WAS a computer engineer Barbie is pretty amazing.
Fast forward to 2016, and Barbie keeps moving in the direction of progress. Game Developer Barbie aired and Mattel NAILED it. This version gives young techies the chance to play out the creative fun in a pretty accurate manner. Her appearance is industry inspired and received authentic approval from Molly Proffitt, CEO of Ker-Chunk Games, LLC., Julie Ann Crommett, former entertainment industry educator in chief at Google and current VP of Multicultural Audience Engagement at The Walt Disney Studios, and Kimberly Bryant, founder and executive director at Black Girls Code. The doll’s forward thinking look is on par with what you may run into in any developer studio today, and her laptop comes working with REAL CODE! Yes, Barbie’s computer screen has legitimate working code. Her computer shows Javascript and her surrounding work area sports sheets with C++ and C#.
Mattel took a step further and helped young fans learn that the technology industry can be much more than just coding. The packaging goes on to describe the depth of the industry: “Game development involves storytelling, art & graphic design, audio design, & computer programming. Because there are so many aspects to creating a game, teamwork is important.”
Honored as career of the year, Game Developer Barbie has become a new role model for young girls. The idea of playing “house” or dressing up Barbie dolls might seem kind of silly, but think back to when you were your youngest and in your most imaginative stage – playing with your dolls made you imagine you were the character your doll portrayed. That’s part of what was so exciting! A little kid in their bedroom suddenly had the mindset that they could be the president or fly a plane. Now, little kids can imagine themselves in a tech industry writing code, developing games, and so much more!
Barbie continues to see success because what she represents evolves as the trends, industries and potential for young girls continues to evolve. While her looks and body dimensions have been scrutinized over the years, what Barbie represents is no longer her physical features, it’s her ability to do and be anything! And now – a career in STEM is completely in reach – for dolls and young girls.
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Back to School to be adapted as unscripted documentary series
By Tom Whitcomb
One of Madison’s crowning moments in cinema is getting some respect in the form of reality television.
Variety reports that MGM Television is developing an unscripted documentary series based on Back to School, the Rodney Dangerfield-starring 1986 comedy. As a refresher, that movie — partially filmed on the UW campus — was about a rich old man who enrolls in college to keep his son from dropping out.
The new series “will follow college students with their surprise new classmates — their parents.” It also promises Comedy Gold™ like “geriatric beer pong” and “mismatched dorm mates,” plus the horrifying prospect of pledging a frat or sorority with Mom or Dad. No word yet on whether UW might reprise its role from the original film.
It will be co-produced by Dangerfield’s widow. MGM executive Barry Poznick says, “(Rodney’s) spirit is very much in the DNA of our show’s approach to a dual fish-out-of-water comedic format for audiences to experience along with our parents and kids.”
But the show will lack the element of life-altering surprise. In the film, Jason Melon had no idea that his dad, Thornton, was going to show up. And then Thornton started fucking shit up pretty much immediately. But here, the parents and kids will surely be aware of everything prior. Otherwise this is going to seriously scar some freshies. The first year of college is hard enough; imagine having your parents go through every minor embarrassment with you.
Regardless, it sounds better than the hideously cruel show that Netflix has planned with Dustin from Stranger Things!
No release date has been set. In the meantime, you can watch Back to School the movie for free, with ads, on YouTube:
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Saraki vs Lai, Shittu vs Ajimobi… parallel APC congresses hold nationwide
by Chinedu Asadu 0 Comments
The state congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was marred by irregularities on Saturday.
From violence to factional disputes, the exercise plunged the ruling party into a deeper crisis.
Various factions staged their own congresses in Lagos, Delta, Kogi, Kwara, Ondo and Oyo.
Imo congress held despite court order against it
In Imo state, the congress took place at an undisclosed venue, despite a court injunction against it.
TheCable learnt that the congress was organised by a faction of the party loyal to Hillary Eke, the party chairman in the state.
Among the officials elected at the congress — which was reportedly witnessed by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are Eke (chairman), Ugochukwu Nzekwe (vice chairman), and Patrick Eze, secretary.
Omo-Agege led the pack in a parallel congress in Delta
The APC congress in Delta held despite the postponement of the exercise by the party’s national working committee.
The NWC had in a letter addressed to the chairman INEC and signed by Mai Buni, APC’s national secretary, confirmed the postponement of the exercise till Monday.
Saraki and Abdullahi
In a letter dated May 18, 2018, the party’s NWC had informed INEC that the state congress had been postponed till Monday.
Unconfirmed reports had it that the reason was as a result of unresolved disputes within leaders of the party in the state.
The postponement, nonetheless, some of the stakeholders were said to have attended the congress which held in Okpanam. Among those in attendance were Ovie Omo-Agege, senator representing Delta central senatorial district.
‘Anti-Tinubu’ faction held parallel congress in Lagos
In Lagos, two different factions of the APC held parallel congress. While one of the factions — loyal to Bola Tinubu, national leader of the party — had its at the party secretariat in Ikeja, the other faction led by Fouad Oki held its at the Lagos Airport Hotel, also in Ikeja.
In February, Oki had led other aggrieved members of the party in the state to form a group — the Broom United Movement. Delegates from various wards and local government areas in the state attended the congress organised by Oki’s faction.
Geofrey Onyema, minister of foreign affairs; and Juliet Ibekaku, special adviser to the president on justice reforms,addressing reporters
Thugs chased delegates away at parallel congress in Ondo
Suspected thugs invaded the venue of a parallel congress of the party in Ondo state, destroying congress materials and also injuring some of the participants.
The thugs who invaded the venue of the congress — BTO Hall, Akure — chased away the delegates and others in attendance. Some party leaders at loggerhead with Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of the state, organised the congress.
Among those injured in the violence were Bamidele Baderinwa, a member of the house of representatives, from the state, as well journalists covering the exercise.
A separate congress by loyalists of Akeredolu held at the International Event Centre, Akure. There was no violence reported at the venue.
Delegates at the parallel congress in Oyi
In Kwara, two parallel state congresses took place, both in Ilorin.
According to NAN, while the faction loyal to the Senate President Bukola Saraki, held its congress at the Banquet Hall opposite the government house, another congress by a faction loyal to Lai Mohammed, minister of information, took place at Arca Santa Event Hall.
Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of the state, Bolaji Abdullahi, APC spokesman; lawmakers representing Kwara at the national assembly and state assembly were present at the congress.
Saraki, while speaking at the congress commended members of the party for the peaceful conduct of the ward and local government congresses.
A member of APC, Moji Adeyemi; Munsurat Sumonu, Senator representing, Oyo central ,Senatorial district; and Shittu
He said most of the executive members at the wards and local government level were youths, adding that this was a sign of good things to come in 2019.
The congress held at Arca Santa Hall had Moshood Mustapha, a former special assistant to the senate president in attendance. Raheem Adedoyin, a former commissioner in the state; and Ganiyu Olododo, a former secretary to the state government, also witnessed it.
Executive members of the two factions emerged through consensus arrangement.
In Edo, John Oyegun, national chairman of the party was absent at the congress which held at at Imaguero College Hall, on Sapele Road in Benin City.
Anslem Ojezua was affirmed the state chairman. Ojezua was among the Edo APC Exco who were returned to office in a congress that was widely described as free and fair.
“The party is well organised. You can see that for yourself. Don’t you think this sort of experience should be taken to the federal level? Edo is the light; we want to show the light to Nigerians on how things should be done and how political parties should be organised,” Godwin Obaseki, the governor, said.
Okey Onyejekwe, chairman of the congress committee, commended the 1, 265 delegates drawn from the 18 local government area of the state for their conduct during the exercise.
In Katsina and Jigawa, all the officials of the party were returned through a consensus arrangement.
But in Oyo, there was a repeat of the May 13 parallel local government congress. Two factions held the exercise in two locations in Ibadan, the state capital.
While Abiola Ajimobi, the governor attended the congress held at the Lekan Salami Stadium, the unity forum led by Adebayo Shittus, minister of communications, held its own at the Liberty Stadium.
Present at the Lekan Salami Stadium were Adebayo Alao-Akala, a former governor; Abdulfatai Buhari, senator representing Oyo north; Olagunju Ojo, speaker, Oyo state house of assembly and Teslim Folarin, a former senate leader.
ajimobi, Aloa-Akala and Folarin, addressing the crowd
Akin Oke, the APC chairman in the state, and several others were returned through consensus.
But at the congress of the unity forum Shittu, said members must check the impunity that had characterised the running of the party’s affairs in the state.
He expressed concern over what he called the dictatorial attitude of a few persons running the party without any consideration for those that had worked for its success.
“It is in the course of our efforts to liberate the party from these individuals that we have brought this congress and we will continue to do the wishes of the people so as to bring sanity into the system,’’ he said.
In Enugu, suspected thugs broke into Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu and disrupted the exercise.
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The New Room With a View: Madrid's Gran Hotel Inglés
After a top-to-bottom redesign, the Spanish capital’s oldest hotel sparkles once again.
Benjamin Kemper
Updated 02.01.19 11:18AM ET / Published 01.19.19 9:05PM ET
Eric Laignel
Editor's Note: Where you stay can sometimes make or break a trip. So, twice a month we're going to be bringing readers inside recently opened hotels with our new feature The New Room with a View, focusing on ones that are visually stunning, historic, or have some unique approach.
When Gran Hotel Inglés opened in 1886, it boasted five-star amenities seldom seen in Madrid: electricity, a full-service restaurant, and indoor toilets—one per floor. The definition of luxury may have evolved since the frocked and corseted Spain of King Alfonso XIII, but Gran Hotel Inglés’s ethos—to dazzle out-of-towners with the best service, food, and design in Spanish hospitality—remains the same.
Yet the hotel’s illustrious beginnings and its spring 2018 reopening are bookends to decades of mediocrity and decline. Until last year, most Madrileños knew Gran Hotel Inglés as a decaying grande dame, a starchy, hidebound vestige of viejo Madrid—that is, if they’d heard of it at all. By the early 2000s, the hotel that had once catered to the likes of Henri Matisse and Virginia Woolf had slumped into irrelevance.
In 2014, Hidden Away Hotels swooped in. The Spanish husband-and-wife team, Ignacio Jiménez and Carmen Cordón, had just finished converting a ramshackle 16th-century palace into one of Mallorca’s toniest hotels, Posada Terra Santa, and were hungry for their next project. They saw potential in Gran Hotel Inglés’s architectural bones, landmark status, and buzzy Barrio de las Letras location. But with its fusty interiors and crumbling skeleton, the building needed a dramatic facelift.
Enter Rockwell Group, the AD100 firm behind 15 Hudson Yards, Union Square Café, and the New York EDITION hotel, that Jiménez and Cordón tapped for the redesign. “From day one, we saw enormous potential in the project,” David Rockwell, the president and founder, told The Daily Beast. “The hotel had always been a cultural icon, so playing a part in its rebirth fascinated us.”
Three years and $18.4 million later, Gran Hotel Inglés is ready for its closeup, its soaring lobby, inviting restaurant, and sumptuous rooms at once restored and transformed. Here, a peek into the new space.
Look down—sidewalks here, in the Las Letras neighborhood, are embossed with quotes from the legendary writers who once called these cobblestoned streets home including Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Góngora, and Cervantes. That literary spirit lives on in the streets surrounding Gran Hotel Inglés, where you can find some of the city’s top theaters and museums. Calle Echegaray, where the hotel is located, is a gastronomic highlight reel with everything from ramen stalls to cheese shops to sherry bars.
Lobby & Cocktail Bar
Grand, old-timey hotel lobbies, the kind that lend themselves to unhurried reading and anonymous coffee-sipping, are a dying breed these days, but the cathedral-like space that welcomes you at Gran Hotel Inglés aims to reverse that trend. Tufted leather sofas, silky wingback chairs, and plush patterned carpets invite you to stay awhile; so does the twinkling (if unfortunately named) LobByto bar with its conversation-starting oculus shape and best-in-the-barrio cocktails like the Trump-hating “Donald, eres un pendejo” made with Ilegal mezcal and Punt e Mes vermouth.
Rockwell toppled walls like dominoes to make the (previously 72, now 48) guest rooms more spacious with the smallest clocking in at a solid 290 square feet. The Mallorcan owners imbued rooms with that island’s dozy Mediterranean aesthetic—think slate-gray curtains, crisp white duvets, and cyan throw pillows. In upgraded digs, the standalone clawfoot tubs, custom made in Canada to Rockwell’s specifications, are an ideal vantage point to take in views over the terracotta roofs.
Lobo 8, the ground-floor restaurant, makes no apologies about serving Madrid’s most castizo (down-home) dishes like “broken eggs” over fried potatoes and stewed Ibérico pork cheeks— even if they eschew tradition with twists like truffles and sesame, respectively, that would earn the ire of most abuelas. Sherry pairings are a welcome departure from the usual albariño and Rioja selections.
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Did Rudy Giuliani Help Purdue Continue Selling OxyContin?
By Kelly Burch 05/24/18
A plea deal reportedly crafted by the former NY mayor has been making headlines amid his recent return to the spotlight.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is now President Trump’s lawyer, was responsible for crafting a deal for Purdue Pharma that allowed the company to continue selling OxyContin, even after being criminally prosecuted for its deceptive sales practices surrounding the drug.
In 2007, Purdue accepted a plea deal where the company acknowledged marketing OxyContin to doctors with “intent to defraud or mislead,” according to a report in The Guardian.
This criminal conviction would normally mean that the company would be barred from doing business with the federal government. In that case, people who had insurance through Medicaid, Medicare and the Veterans Administration health system wouldn’t have had access to OxyContin or other drugs manufactured by Purdue.
However, Giuliani, who was representing Purdue legally and reportedly contacted Washington insiders on the company’s behalf, was able to secure a key concession in the deal: the conviction would name Purdue Frederick, a parent company, and thus Purdue Pharma would be free to continue doing business with the federal government.
This opened the door for the company to sell OxyContin to millions of federally insured individuals.
U.S. Attorney John Brownlee, who led the investigation, said that he believed that he did not have the right to restrict the market for the opioid pain reliever.
“I didn’t feel as a lawyer I could be in a position to bar anyone from getting OxyContin. Faced with that decision, I was just simply not prepared to take it off the market. I didn’t feel like that was my role,” he said. “My role was to address prior criminal conduct. Hold them accountable. Fine them. Make sure the public knew what they did.”
However, he said that he expected that federal regulators would be watching Purdue Pharma more carefully after the conviction, something he doesn’t feel happened.
Giuliani got other benefits for Purdue in the deal: the fine of $640 million was a small fraction of the company’s profits from OxyContin and no Purdue executives were jailed in connection with the criminal charge. The conviction only covered Purdue’s practices up until 2001, despite the fact that the deceptive marketing continued for years.
Giuliani was able to get the company immunity from further prosecution for the years between 2001 and 2007.
Brownlee stands by the plea deal, but said he is surprised that Purdue and other drug manufacturers haven’t seen more criminal prosecution in connection with the opioid epidemic.
“I think convicting the company, the fines and all of that had its impact. I guess as I sit here now, I’m a little surprised that it’s the only one of its kind. That with the nature of the abuse and the nature of the problem, that as we sit here that there’s no other out there,” he said.
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Tax credits - online calculator
By Editor on 16 July 2003
Report on the work of the Technical Committee - May 2003
By Editor on 1 June 2003
May 2003 update on the work of the Technical Committee. GENERAL
Representatives of the Standards Committee working party on money laundering and representatives from the ICAEW attended a meeting with the Inland Revenue on 22 April 2003 to discuss the impact of the draft money laundering regulations. Charles Barcroft attended as an observer – something of a dry run for future discussions with Customs and Excise.
Loan relationships: guidance on the application of paragraph 13
By Editor on 20 May 2003
Annotated extract from Inland Revenue company taxation manual by John Cullinane and John Lindsay of the CIOT Corporate Tax Sub-Committee The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has recently had discussions with the Inland Revenue regarding the guidance issued by the Inland Revenue on 24 April 2002 on the possible application of paragraph 13 of Schedule 9 to the Finance Act 1996 (FA 1996)(Loan relationships for unallowable purposes). In the light of these discussions the CIOT has issued a guidance note for its members.
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The CIOT's representations on the Finance Bill published on 16 April 2003 were submitted today to the revenue departments, Ministers and MPs on the Standing Committee on the Finance Bill. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
New Tax Credits: Q and A with Inland Revenue
By Editor on 9 May 2003
Re foreign income, IR35, termination payments, strikers, mileage allowances: the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has been in correspondence with the Inland Revenue (IR) following the amendments to the Regulations for new tax credits - as published on the Revenue website on 17 March 2003. We sought clarification in five areas:
Penalty position where protective claims to tax credits are made
By Editor on 24 April 2003
Supplement to previous guidance issued on 17 March 2003 Further to our website, and April 2003 Tax Adviser, article on protective claims we have now received written confirmation from the Inland Revenue that they will not seek penalties from a taxpayer who makes a claim resulting in a nil award and then:
New Tax Credits
By Editor on 31 March 2003
The Inland Revenue have asked the CIOT to publicise the following two points:
Tax advisers may want to let clients know that for those having difficulty getting through to the Tax Credits Helpline, it is open every day from 8am to 8pm and it tends to be quieter in the early afternoons on weekdays and Saturdays, and all day on Sundays.
Presented to Branches Forum February 2003. COUNCIL AND BRANCHES FORUM REPORT February 2003
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With an incandescent pop sound and a low, underlying R&B urgency, there�s an intense energy that flows through Detroit poet and singer-songwriter Blair�s work. Blair, who sometimes performs with his band, the Boyfriends, has an exceptional range, whether it�s in the infectious, narrative-driven poem �Chrysler,� about working at the car company, or the straight-up soul of a song such as �Every Raindrop.� This is spectacular, eclectic work that rings with craftsmanship and is carried by a pitch-perfect ear for sound, be it spoken or sung. Blair performs at 7 p.m. Friday for the Worcester Youth Poetry Slam in The Grind Coffeehouse at Clark University, Higgins Student Center, 950 Main St., Worcester, and again for the Dirty Gerund Poetry Series at 9 p.m. Monday at Ralph�s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St., Worcester. (Victor D. Infante)
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How Cos changed the way we dress
A look from Cos's AW17 collection
Kate Finnigan, Fashion Features Director
9 July 2017 • 7:00am
Kate Finnigan
Whether you realise it or not, Cos has changed the way you dress. The Telegraph charts just how
When Cos first opened in London in 2007, no one predicted the influence it would have on the British high street. Everything about the new brand from the Swedish retail giant H&M was quiet and the fashion world at that time was not. This was the year Londoners stormed the doors of the new Primark flagship store, that Anya Hindmarch caused queues for a bag that wasn’t plastic, that Fendi threw a fashion show on the Great Wall of China.
It was the year of body-con mini dresses and YSL Tribute platform shoes, of UGG boots and denim shorts. Even the name of this new brand was understated. Cos? Collection of Style, in case you didn’t know. But H&M – known for its cheery, fast-fashion global chain – had spotted a gap on the high street for a store that offered superior design at a good price.
Creative director Karin Gustafsson
‘That was the brief,’ says Karin Gustafsson, the brand’s creative director today and a member of the original design team, which has always been based in London rather than Sweden. ‘We were supposed to create a shopping experience that would offer a higher quality.’ But what did that mean? ‘Early on we decided that, for us, good design is something that lasts for more than one season in our customers’ wardrobes,’ says Karin. ‘Not only because of the quality, but because of the aesthetic. We wanted a timeless look that would be a lot more understated.’
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Pure cotton trench coat with stormwear, £79, Marks & Spencer. Shirt with pleated collar, £55, COS
The result was a distinctive, architectural style that you didn’t see outside of expensive European luxury fashion houses: A-line skirts, tunic dresses and buttonless coats. The white shirt was key. There was lots of black, grey and solid colour rather than prints. The stores were pared-back, with muted lighting and a modernist feel.
Cotton twill apron dress, £135, Toast. Utility wide leg trousers, £42, Warehouse
Although many people now think of Cos as the high street version of Céline or Jil Sander, Phoebe Philo had not yet started at Céline and Raf Simons had only been at Jil Sander for a year. ‘We didn’t set out to be minimal. We were focused on functionality, on designing pieces to last,’ says Karin.
Leather cross body bag, £199, Jaeger. Lace-up leather brogues, £265, Russell & Bromley
And it worked. Cos now has more than 210 stores globally and 20 in the UK. The brand’s aesthetic continues to attract a certain mindset rather than a certain age. And it’s had an influence on other British retailers – I’d argue that stores including M&S, John Lewis and Jigsaw all saw the value in creating the kind of womenswear that was less trend-led, more considered. Ten years is a long time to be in fashion, but real style lasts a lifetime.
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Kevin and Perry Go Large is a TV show on British national television from BBC1 with an average rating of 3.5 stars by TelevisionCatchUp.co.uk's visitors. We have 4 episodes of Kevin and Perry Go Large in our archive. The first episode of Kevin and Perry Go Large was broadcast in March, 2019. Did you miss an episode of Kevin and Perry Go Large but don't you wan't that to happen in the future? Please set an alarm and add Kevin and Perry Go Large to your favourites, so we can remind you by email when there's a new episode available to watch. For free!
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Back Alley Productions brings Agatha Christie mystery to the stage starting Friday
July 9th, 2019 by Staff Report in Chattanooga Now - Art
Joan Jones plays Mrs. Rogers, housekeeper in the island home where the murders take place. / Back Alley Contributed Photo
› What: “And Then There Were None”
› Where: Mars Theatre, 117 N. Chattanooga St., LaFayette, Georgia
› When: 8 p.m. July 12-13, 19-20; 3 p.m. July 14 and 21
› Admission: $16 and $13
› For more information: 706-621-2870
Cynthia Hubbard portrays the self-righteous Emily, one of the many murder suspects. / Back Alley Contributed Photo
Cynthia Hubbard portrays the self-righteous Emily, one of...
Back Alley Productions opens Agatha Christie's classic whodunit "And Then There Were None" for six performances beginning Friday, July 12.
As the murder mystery opens, eight people, all strangers to each other, have been invited to Indian Island, off the English coast.
Vera Claythorne, a former governess, thinks she has been hired as a secretary; Philip Lombard, an adventurer, and William Blore, an ex-detective, think they have been hired to look out for trouble over the weekend.
Dr. Armstrong thinks he has been hired to look after the wife of the island's owner. Emily Brent, General MacArthur, Tony Marston and Judge Wargrave think they are going to visit old friends.
When they arrive on the island, the guests are greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, the butler and housekeeper, who report that the host, someone they call Mr. Owen, will not arrive until the next day.
Gavin Russell plays Gen. MacArthur, who is haunted by a dark and sinister past. / Back Alley Contributed Photo
Gavin Russell plays Gen. MacArthur, who is haunted...
That evening, as all the guests gather in the drawing room after an excellent dinner, they hear a recorded voice accusing each of them of a specific murder committed in the past and never uncovered.
As the guests begin to be systematically murdered, the ones remaining are left to discover if the murderer is the mysterious Mr. Owen or someone among them.
"I have always enjoyed a good mystery, and it is a joy to bring such a classic to the stage with this level of talent and commitment," says director Keegan Westra. "In 'And Then There Were None,' we see strangers, all with a secret and a mystery murderer out to kill them one by one. The problem is they don't know who the killer is."
"We are excited to bring the audience this thought-provoking thriller with a touch of comedy," Westra adds. "Whether you are a longtime fan of Agatha Christie or new to the murder-mystery genre, you are sure to be captivated from the second you step foot on the secluded island to the second you depart," Westra says.
For more information: 706-621-2870 or visit www.BAPshows.com.
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US set to announce first part of peace plan roll-out
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US to begin pushing economic aspect of Israeli-Palestinian peace plan
CNN reports administration will begin rolling out plan Sunday, announcing an international conference to be held in Bahrain meant to boost investment in Palestinians
By Joshua Davidovich 19 May 2019, 2:56 pm 0 Edit
President Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, center, departs following an immigration speech by President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, May 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives to lead a hearing on May 16, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
Polish politician Konrad Berkowicz puts a skullcap on the head of rival lawmaker Anna Krupka during a debate in Kielce on May 18, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)
Police inspect a car and a bus that were damaged by a bomb, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 19, 2019. (AP/Mohammed Salah)
The scene where a crane collapsed at a construction site in Yavne, killing four people and injuring one more, May 19, 2019. (Flash90)
A demonstrator wearing a mask, bearing the likeness of American singer Madonna, during a protest calling for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP)
In this May 17, 2019, photo released by the US Navy, the USS Abraham Lincoln sails in the Arabian Sea near the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian M. Wilbur, US Navy via AP)
Iceland's Hatari holds up Palestinian flags during Eurovision in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
Kobi Marimi of Israel performs the song "Home" during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, left, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz deliver a press statement after a meeting on May 19, 2019 in Vienna. (HANS PUNZ / APA / AFP)
Iraqi security forces remove concrete blast walls leading to the heavily guarded Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2018. (AP/Karim Kadim)
The Times of Israel liveblogged Sunday’s events as they unfolded.
High Court okays nationalist Jerusalem Day march through Muslim Quarter
The High Court has rejected a petition from left-wing organization Ir Amim to move the route of a nationalist march to mark Jerusalem Day on June 2.
The Flag March is an annual parade which passes through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City to mark the city’s liberation in 1967.
Thousands of Jewish marchers wave the Israeli flags as they celebrate Jerusalem Day by dancing through Damascus Gate on their way to the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The march is usually attended by far-right activists and the Muslim Quarter route has been the source of tensions in the past. Shopkeepers are usually told to close early and residents are made to stay at home as flag-waving nationalists march by.
Ir Amim had argued that tensions would be heightened because of the overlap with the last days of Ramadan, slated to end June 5.
In their decision, the judges note that police have committed to keep order during the march and say Ir Amim does not have standing in the case to file a petition for an injunction.
Former CIA chief, nuke deal negotiator to brief Democrats on Iran tension
House Democrats will hear from former CIA director John Brennan about the situation in Iran, inviting him to speak next week amid heightened concerns over the Trump administration’s sudden moves in the region, sources say.
Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Brennan, an outspoken critic of US President Donald Trump, is scheduled to talk to House Democrats at a private weekly caucus meeting Tuesday, according to a Democratic aide and another person familiar with the private meeting.
Both were granted anonymity to discuss the meeting.
The invitation to Brennan and Wendy Sherman, the former State Department official and top negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal, offers counterprogramming to the Trump administration’s closed-door briefing for lawmakers also planned for Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Democratic lawmakers are likely to attend both sessions.
— AP
Tel Aviv University names new president
Tel Aviv University’s board of directors has appointed law Prof. Ariel Porat as its new president.
Ariel Porat (Courtesy: Yonatan Tzur Duvdevani)
Porat, who is also a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, will replace Joseph Klafter, who is retiring after 10 years at the helm of the school.
Porat served as dean of TAU’s Law Faculty from 2002 to 2006 and in 2014 was a recipient of the Emet prize, among the most prestigious awards for Israeli academics.
In a statement sent out by the school, Porat says he is “proud to take on the task.”
Culture minister blasts Madonna, Eurovision broadcaster over Palestinian flags
Culture Minister Miri Regev on Sunday has criticized the display of Palestinian flags during the Eurovision song contest finals in Tel Aviv, including by one of Madonna’s dancers.
“It was an error,” Regev, a right-wing minister known for provocative stances, tells journalists before a cabinet meeting.
“Politics and a cultural event should not be mixed, with all due respect to Madonna.”
Madonna and Quavo sing “Future” at the Eurovision Song Contest as two dancers walk arm-in-arm with Israeli and Palestinian flags on their backs, May 18, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
Regev criticized Israeli public broadcaster Kan for not having prevented the flags from being shown, though it was unclear what could have been done.
During Madonna’s performance at the Eurovision extravaganza, which began Saturday night and stretched into Sunday morning, two of her dancers could be seen side-by-side with Israeli and Palestinian flags on their backs.
Separately, Icelandic group Hatari displayed scarfs with Palestinian flags when results were being announced.
Iceland’s Hatari holding up Palestinian flags during Eurovision in Tel Aviv on May 19, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)
The European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the event, condemned both displays.
Regev also criticized KAN for not having filmed any of its “postcards” of participating singers in the West Bank.
However, Norwegian act KEiiNO filmed its promo in the Judean Desert in an area that appeared to be in the West Bank.
— AFP
Saudis call for regional talks to combat Iran
Saudi Arabia is calling for emergency regional talks to discuss mounting Gulf tensions.
King Salman invited Gulf leaders and Arab League member states to two emergency summits in Mecca on May 30 to discuss recent “aggressions and their consequences,” the kingdom’s official SPA news agency reports.
The UAE’s foreign ministry agres the current “critical circumstances” require a unified Arab and Gulf stance.
The meetings will be a “significant opportunity for the countries of the region to achieve their aspirations for establishing peace and stability,” it says.
Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, says his country does not want to go to war with Iran but would defend itself.
Explosion targets tourist bus in Egypt — report
An explosion has targeted a tourist bus near Egypt’s pyramids in Giza, Reuters reports.
There is no immediate word on casualties.
16 people reported injured in bus explosion
Initial reports suggest some 16 people were injured in the Egypt bus blast.
Pictures purport to show light damage to the bus and tourists in the area.
PHOTOS- Explosive device targeted a bus carrying tourists near the Egyptian Grand Museum in #Giza #Egypt pic.twitter.com/9RQGFgg0ct
— EHA News (@eha_news) May 19, 2019
IRGC head says Iran not looking for war
The outgoing head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, tells Al-Jazeera his country is not looking for war.
But he adds his army can easily defeat any enemy if need be.
In this undated photo released by Sepahnews, the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran (Sepahnews via AP)
“The enemies of Iran don’t hunt for a war, either. But there is a difference between them and us: they are afraid of war; their limit is where their life is in danger, which makes them easy to be defeated,” he says, according to state-run news agency IRNA.
The comments echo a similar statement from Saudi Minister Adel al-Jubeir earlier in the day that his country does not seek war but will defend itself.
17 said injured in Egypt bombing, mostly foreigners
AFP reports 17 people have been injured in the Egypt tourist bus blast, attributing the information to medical and security sources.
Reuters reports that many of the injured are foreign tourists.
A video purports to show the bus that was damaged.
#BREAKING VIDEO- Activists posted pictures and videos on social media sites, documenting the injuries of some passengers and damage to the bus. pic.twitter.com/EovMU0BdVQ
Arab League urges Germany to walk back anti-BDS motion
The Arab League is calling on the German parliament to rescind a resolution that condemned a boycott movement against Israel as “anti-Semitic.”
The Bundestag passed a motion on Friday against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, warning that its actions were reminiscent of the Nazis’ campaign against Jews.
Lawmakers attend a polling at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 17, 2019. German lawmakers have approved a resolution denouncing the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel and describing its methods as anti-Semitic. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)
The Arab League’s assistant secretary-general for Palestinian affairs Saeed Abu Ali says in a statement the Bundestag’s motion against BDS is “regrettable… unjustified… (and) biased” in favor of Israel.
He urges Germany’s parliament to “reverse this erroneous step and support the Palestinian people’s right for liberation.”
South Africans injured in Egypt blast, no Israelis on bus
Security sources tell AFP that South Africans and Egyptians were among those injured when an explosive device went off, hitting a tourist bus.
Israel Foreign Ministry says after an initial check that no Israelis were aboard the bus.
Haifa junction re-opens after explosive gas leak cleared
A major junction in Haifa has reopened after being closed off Saturday when a leak of flammable industrial gas was discovered in the area.
Police had closed off the so-called Home Center Junction at Yigal Yadin and Halutsei Hata’asiya roads in an industrial zone in the city’s east over the leak.
Israel environment ministry workers spray water into the sewers under a commercial area trying to disperse explosive gas that leaked from the Haifa Bay chemical refineries, May 18, 2019. (Ministry of Environmental Protection)
Authorities say there is no longer any threat to the public, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
Egyptians in car also hurt in bombing — report
The Egypt Independent reports that 25 South Africans were on the bus damaged by a blast near the Giza pyramids.
It says four Egyptians who were in a car on the same road were also injured by flying glass and shrapnel.
Five more arrested in deadly crane accident
Five more people have been arrested over a deadly crane collapse at a building site in Yavne Sunday morning.
The arrests brings the number of managers and others detained to 13. Some are questioned as possible suspects while others are just brought in to give testimony, according to Haaretz.
Four people were killed in the work accident, three when concrete slabs fell on them and a fourth when he became trapped atop the crane. According to Haaretz, the four were all Israelis and had been on the site to dismantle and move the crane.
Polish candidates put kippah on rival, say party ‘kneels to Jews’
A debate in the Polish city of Kielce descended into a display of anti-Semitism and skullcap-throwing as candidates sparred over restitution to Jewish Holocaust victims.
During the debate, which took place Saturday, Dawid Lewicki, a candidate for the far-right Confederation political alliance, stuck a kippah in front of a candidate from the ruling Law and Justice party and said, “This is the symbol of Law and Justice. They kneel before the Jews, they sell the country for $300 billion,” according to Polish press reports.
The Law and Justice candidate, Anne Krupka, then threw the kippah off the table. Later when she got up to speak, a video shows Konrad Berkowicz, another Confederation official, pick up the kippah and hold it above her head.
Kielce, wczoraj.
Konrad Berkowicz z Konfederacji, a pani z Prawa i Sprawiedliwości.
Przyszli koalicjanci. 😂😀
Mówiłem, że koalicja to wrzutka PiSu, żeby suweren uwierzyl w koalicje i glosowal na PiS. pic.twitter.com/X3FFAQch4O
— Ken (@KenLewak) May 19, 2019
Poland’s ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski says in a tweet that he condemns the incident. “All expressions of racially motivated hatred are unacceptable,” he says.
Yes, I condemn it. Unequivocally. All expressions of racially motivated hatred are unacceptable. https://t.co/2oosHF1Na1
— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) May 19, 2019
Trump goes after GOP’s Amash over impeachment call
Donald Trump has dismissed Republican lawmaker Justin Amash as “a total lightweight” for being the first member of the party to call publicly for the US president’s impeachment.
Amash — a staunch libertarian on the right of the party — declared that any other person would have been prosecuted over Trump’s multiple attempts to thwart Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian election interference.
“Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there,” Trump tweets about the Michigan lawmaker, who is of Palestinian heritage.
He says that if the Michigan lawmaker had “actually read the biased Mueller Report… he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION…”
Trump calls Amash “a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents hands!”
Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy. If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, “composed” by 18 Angry Dems who hated Trump,….
….he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION…Anyway, how do you Obstruct when there is no crime and, in fact, the crimes were committed by the other side? Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents hands!
Foreign Ministry: Poles behind kippah incident not worth reacting to
Reacting to the Polish anti-Semitism incident, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon says it’s nothing to get worked up about.
“This a fringe racist party that isn’t even worthy of responding to,” he says.
Israel working on anti-missile berm near Gaza border
The Defense Ministry has begun building a large dirt berm along a road that runs near the northern Gaza Strip, to protect vehicles from anti-tank missiles being shot by Palestinian terrorists, Ynet reports.
A video published by the Kan public broadcaster shows the berm near Kissufim and the Black Arrow memorial site. In November, a bus recently emptied of soldiers was hit by an anti-tank missile there, seriously injuring the driver.
https://twitter.com/kann_news/status/1130136948922814464
Earlier this month, an Israeli man was killed when an anti-tank missile shot from Gaza hit his car near Erez, in the same area.
Schiff: War with Iran more likely; Romney: No, it’s not
US President Donald Trump’s policies are making war with Iran much more likely, House intelligence panel head Adam Schiff, a Democrat, tells CBS’s Face the Nation.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Democrat from California, evades reporters as he rushes to a vote during a committee hearing on Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 28, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
“What is taking place now was all too predictable. The steps the administration has taken to renege on the Iran agreement, to try to force Europe to renege on the Iran agreement, to try to force Iran to withdraw from the agreement to go back to the path of enrichment, the designation of the IRGC as a terrorist group, the belligerent rhetoric from the administration from Pompeo, from Bolton, all of these policy decisions have led us to a state where confrontation is far more likely and that cannot be ignored,” he says.
Schiff, one of the few lawmakers to have been briefed on the threat emanating from Iran, says it is real, but “When you take a series of steps that, yes, ratchet up tensions, you shouldn’t be surprised when the intelligence tells you, ‘Hey tensions have been ratcheted up.'”
Senator Mitt Romney tells CNN’s State of the Union that he does not think war with Iran is on the table.
Then-Republican US Senate candidate Mitt Romney, answering a question about tariffs during the debate with Democratic opponent Jenny Wilson in the America First Event Center in Cedar City, Utah, on October 9, 2018. (James M. Dobson/The Spectrum via AP, File)
“I don’t believe for a minute that either the president or John Bolton…has any interest in going to the Middle East and going to war. That’s just not going to happen. There’s no interest in doing that,” he says.
Worker safety at top of agenda after fatal accident
All three of Israel’s main newscasts at 8 p.m. lead off with expanded segments on four workers killed at a building site Sunday morning, reflecting frustration over a lack of worker safety.
Activists, labor representatives workers and others point out that enforcement is lax, and punishment against those involved non-existent.
Twenty workers have been killed so far this year, after 38 were killed last year, leading to a commitment by the government to hire dozens of more safety inspectors, apparently to little avail.
Channel 13 news says the crane industry is almost totally unregulated, with anybody able to build or take down the mammoth machines, potentially endangering the public.
Netanyahu given week to hand over details of finances — report
The state panel mulling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to let foreign businessmen fund his legal defense has given him a week to turn over documents relating to his financial holdings, or they will reject his request, Channel 13 news reports.
The panel has offered to allow Netanyahu’s cousin, Nathan Milikowski, and businessman Spencer Partrich, both based in the US, to pay the prime minister’s lawyers, if he discloses details about his financial dealings with Milikowski.
Suspicions have arisen over Netanyahu’s holdings in a US steel manufacturer, which he sold to Milikowski almost a decade ago, and its ties to German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp.
Explosion rocks Baghdad near US compound
An apparent mortar round has exploded near Baghdad’s Green Zone, home to the heavily fortified US Embassy.
The explosion comes days after the US pulled non-essential staff from the area over an unspecified threat, amid rising tensions with Iran.
— with AP
Report indicates Katyusha rocket possibly used in Baghdad attack
There are unconfirmed reports that a Katyusha rocket was shot at Baghdad’s Green Zone. There are also reports of multiple rounds shot in Baghdad.
There are no immediate reports of casualties, and no claim of responsibility.
The US is taking its first step toward rolling out the Trump administration’s long awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, and is set to announce a meeting focusing on economic aspects of the long-shot proposal, CNN reports.
The channel, citing a senior administration official, says the administration will announce plans for an economic “workshop,” designed to boost investment in Palestinian territories, to take place in Bahrain on June 25 and 26.
“People are letting their grandfathers’ conflict destroy their children’s futures. This will present an exciting, realistic and viable pathway forward that does not currently exist,” Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, seen as a main architect of the plan, tells CNN.
Bahrain meeting to avoid politics — Kushner
Kushner tells CNN that the Bahrain meeting will seek to avoid politics to avoid getting bogged down in tougher issues, and foreign ministers will be shunned in favor of finance ministers.
“We recognize that this needs to go hand in hand with the political plan, but this will be the first chance to roll out details of the economic plan,” says an unnamed official.
“We think this will showcase the potential of the entire region,” the official says. “If there’s peace, it will touch on not only the West Bank and Gaza, but also Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. The economies will become integrated.”
US confirms economic meeting for Palestinians in Manama
The White House confirms the Bahrain meeting as the first part of the peace plan roll-out, in a joint statement with Manama.
“This workshop is a pivotal opportunity to convene government, civil society, and business leaders to share ideas, discuss strategies, and galvanize support for potential economic investments and initiatives that could be made possible by a peace agreement,” the statement reads.
“If implemented, this vision has the potential to radically transform lives and put the region on a path toward a brighter future.”
US Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin says the meeting will “offer Palestinians exciting new opportunities to realize their full potential.”
No immediate response from Israel, Palestinians
There is no immediate response to the US/Bahrain announcement from either Israel or the Palestinians.
On Twitter, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and US envoy Jason Greenblatt have yet to begin bickering.
Iraq news agency confirms Baghdad Katyusha attack, no casualties
Iraq’s state-run news agency confirms that a Katyusha rocket crashed inside Baghdad’s Green Zone without causing any casualties.
Alert sirens sounded briefly in Baghdad after the explosion was heard, according to Associated Press reporters on the east side of the Tigris River.
Kushner: Political process must come before economics
In a statement released by the White House, Jared Kushner says the US will present its “vision on ways to bridge the core political issues very soon.”
“Economic progress can only be achieved with a solid economic vision and if the core political issues are resolved,” he says.
“We look forward to engaging with business and thought leaders from throughout the region and the world to build consensus around the best steps the international community can take to develop the foundation for a prosperous future. The Palestinian people, along with all people in the Middle East, deserve a future with dignity and the opportunity to better their lives.”
It is not yet clear whether an Israeli representative will be invited to the Manama meeting.
Activation of warning systems comes after pair of projectiles were fired at Israel from the Palestinian enclave on Friday evening
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Thai Industrial Standards Institute [TISI]
1966 The Thai Industrial Standardization Project was approved by the Cabinet to be incorporated in the Second National Economic and Social Development Plan.1968 The Industrial Products Standards Act B.E. 2511 (1968) was promulgated with approval of the Cabinet to be effective from 1 January 1969.
1969 1 January 1969, the Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI) was established in the Ministry of Industry as the national standards body of Thailand.
1979 25 March 1979. TISI was upgraded to a departmental status under the Ministry of Industry.
2008 The National Standardization Act B.E. 2551 (2008) was promulgated with approval of the Cabinet to be effective from 5 March 2008.
TISI is the national standards organization for Thailand, established under the Ministry of Industry by virtue of the Industrial Product Standards Act B.E. 2511.According to the Act, TISI has, as its governing body, the INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT COUNCIL which controls its policy, sets the priority of standards to be prepared, recommends qualified persons for the Minister to appoint to TISI technical committees, arbitrates and awards licenses under certification scheme.
Our Standardization Activities
1. Standards development
1.1 National standards development TISI develops both mandatory and voluntary Thai Industrial Standards (TISs) to suit the need and the growth of industry, trade and economy of the country. Standards are developed according to the government policy in consumers protection, industrial promotion to be competitive in the world market, environmental protection and natural resources preservation.
1.2 International standards development TISI participates in the development of International standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
2. Product certification
2.1 Product certification according to TISs The product certification schemes of TISI consists of 2 types with different certification marks. They are voluntary certification mark and mandatory certification mark.
Voluntary certification mark
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2.2 Product registration according to the Cabinet resolution, TISI carries out product registration as a kind provisional certification for products of which standards have not been established.
2.3 Foreign inspection body to facilitate trade, TISI is designated foreign inspection body of the standards institutes of several countries such as Japan (JIS mark), Germany (VDE for electrical appliances), Sri Lanka, The Philippines and South Africa (for surveillance scheme).
2.4 Green Label TISI, in co-operation with the Thai Environment Institution, carries out Green Label Scheme by which certified product can bear green label. This is the measure to reduce pollution in the environment as well as to encourage manufacturers to use clean technology.
3. The Information and Communication Technology Center of TISI provides information on standardization to manufacturers and interested persons. The service includes information on national, foreign and international standards, technical regulations, Conformity assessment procedures, etc.
4. WTO Agreements
The Ministry of Industry is, by the Cabinet resolution, the national focal point in the implementation of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) under the World Trade Organization (WTO).
5. International standardization
For the purpose of trade and industrial development and of co-operation in technical areas, TISI has been participating in the standardization activities both at regional and international levels.
5.1 International standardization
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) TISI is a member of ISO. TISI’s participation in the international standards development of ISO is guided by the International Standardization Council of TISI.
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) The Thai National Committee for IEC of which TISI is secretary is a member of IEC.
• Other organizations in the area of accreditation, TISI also participates in the activities of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC).
5.2 Regional standardization TISI is a member of the ASEAN Consultative Committee for Standards and Quality (ACCSQ). In the activities of the Asia Pacific region, TISI participates in work of the Standards and Conformance Subcommittee (SCSC) under the Asia Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC).
6. Standardization promotion
The standardization promotion activity of TISI is to publicize and disseminate the knowledge in standardization and to create the correct understanding as well as the awareness in standardization among the public. It also aims at promoting the application of standards in production and service industry for the purpose of trade competition and better quality of life.
TISI publishes the monthly TISI Bulletin which contains information on TISI activities and international standardization movements. Other publication include TISI Annual Report and pamphlets on diverse issues; all of which are available free of charge for those who are interested.
TISI also publishes Buyers’ Guide on web site which comprises the list of published standards, licensees and their products as well as the list of registered products.
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The training activity of TISI is to improve the skill and efficiency of personnel in the public and private sectors to be complying with the international criteria.
8. Standards information services and sales
As a member of the ISO Information Network or ISONET, TISI Technology and Communication Center provides information on national and international standardization activities for those who are interested. Access to standards information is also possible through the use of TISI library. TISI library houses a full set of Thai industrial standards, international and foreign standards including their catalogues, journals and other publications on standardization.
In addition to the sales of Thai industrial standards, the Institute also acts as the sole agency for the sales if ISO standards and the standards issued by the members of ISO.
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Sarah Paulson Has Left 'American Horror Story' And Will Reportedly Not Appear In 'AHS: 1984'
Laura RoganJuly 10th
It's the end of an era for Ryan Murphy's 'American Horror Story' which has already seen iconic stars Jessica Lange and Evan Peters depart from the show.
After only just recovering from the heartbreaking news that Peters will no longer grace our screens on the hit show (because let's face it we never truly recovered from Lange's exit), reports emerged earlier this week confirming that Sarah Paulson has also departed from the series, leaving fans (including myself) scrambling around the internet looking for hope that their favourite show isn't falling to pieces as it appears. Luckily for all of us, FX has already renewed the show for a tenth season ahead of season 9's release.
If there has ever been one thing to look forward to for the next season of 'American Horror Story', it's what performance actress Sarah Paulson would pull out of the bag this time - from playing conjoined twins, the head witch in charge to her epic junkie Sally McKenna from 'AHS: Hotel'. Taking the responsibility as a key star since 2011, Paulson has taken on an arsenal of roles for the cult show, securing herself as a fan favourite along with Evan Peters.
It's safe to say that fans are not taking the news well, and they've not been holding back their emotions on Twitter in the slightest:
While the news is definitely tragic to say the least, there is still the possibility of Paulson having a small role in the season - and it's also been confirmed that the star will be directing an episode for upcoming instalment '1984'.
Evan Peters confirmed his departure back in April, saying: 'I'm going to sit a season out,' due to how exhausted he was feeling about all of the roles he'd been playing recently. It is still unconfirmed whether Peters will return for season 10.
Emma Roberts will return for '1984', with Gus Kenworthy confirmed to play her boyfriend.
'American Horror Story: 1984' will premiere this fall on FX.
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Philippine online missionaries reach out to youth
Youth Pinoy uses social media as a 'conduit to reintroduce Christ and create spiritual exchange online'
Youth Pinoy online missionaries Michael Laxina (left) and Christine Paguirigan talk about the content they are about to publish on their social media platform. (Photo by Mark Saludes)
Mark Saludes, Manila
Lay Catholic missionaries in the Philippines are using the internet as a tool for what they fondly describe as "online evangelism."
The Youth Pinoy group uses social media as a "conduit to reintroduce Christ and create spiritual exchange online."
Michael Laxina described the group as a community of lay missionaries whose vocation is to use social media for "new evangelization."
They publish stories from members and other Catholic youth organizations on social media platforms Facebook and Twitter.
"We do this to remind the youth that Christ is present even in social media," said Laxina.
The group’s Facebook account has more than 107,000 followers who get news and information about events, memes and statements from church leaders.
"We care about the youth who consume every content of our site," Laxina said, adding that they aim to contribute to the "formation of the young."
Unlike other missionaries who go to far-flung places to spread the Good News, Youth Pinoy members use their skills "to bear witness to their Catholic faith through creative means." They use their talent in writing, music, photography, film and art to reach out to the youth.
"It all began at the onset of social media in the Philippines," said Monsignor Pedro Quitorio, head of the media office of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines and spiritual adviser to Youth Pinoy.
Msgr. Quitorio said he formed the group in 2009 when he was trying to understand online publishing. "I read an article that said if you want to address youth, then you must go to social media,'" he said.
After consulting members of the media office on how to engage youngsters in cyberspace, Msgr. Quitorio led the formation of a national youth organization that will perform apostolate online.
Youth Pinoy was launched at the University of Santo Tomas when members branded themselves "online missionaries of God."
Since then, the organization has become a community that "echoes the stance of the Catholic Church on religious and political issues."
Role of youth in evangelization
Father Roy Bellen, who serves as vice-president for operations at church-run Veritas 846 radio station, said young people have an important role to play in sharing church teachings.
"They are more skilled than more mature generations in the use of digital platforms," said the priest. "They know very well its dynamics, language and trends."
Being lay people, the young Catholics can package the message of the Gospel in a more relevant and catchy form, said Father Bellen.
Father Jeffrey Segovia of Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese said the Church's presence in cyberspace is "an important step to bring the youth from purely online to the physical church."
He said social media pages like Youth Pinoy's have the "power to persuade people" to not just rely on what they read online but attend Masses, youth events and church activities.
Father Segovia, however, said evangelization through social media is not an alternative to visiting communities and living with the people.
Msgr. Quitorio said church media groups need to appreciate diversity and "open ourselves to so many expressions" to reach out to more online users.
"As long as we do not go beyond our parameters in our doctrines and morals, we can dominate cyberspace ... that is new evangelization," said the priest.
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World Heritage Nilgiri Mounain Train Offers to Visit Enchanting Nilgiri Hills
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About Nilgiri Mountain Rail (Train)
At the height of 2,600m stands Udhagamandalam (Ooty) The Queen of Hill Stations. The ‘Nilgiris toy train’ connect Ooty to mettupalayam, at the foot of the Nilgiris.
The construction of this line was a big challenge as the terrain is rather tricky. It was in 1854 that the first plans were drawn to build a mountain railway from mettupalayam to the Nilgiri Hills. But it was a good 45 years later in 1899 that the first train chugged up this track. This railway is widely regarded as a marvel of engineering. The train itself is a charming blue and cream with wooden coaches and large windows. It is hauled up hills by stream engines, designed and built by the Swiss Locomotive Works. Twelve of such locomotive engines survive even today.
The train covers the 46 km to Udhagamandalam in four and a half hours. There are five stations between Mettupalayam and Coonoor – Kallar, Adderley, Hill Grove, Runnymede and Kateri – and, at one time, there were five between Coonoor and Ooty too. Through Wellington, Aruvankadul, Ketti, and Lovedale are still functional, Fren Hill, the last one, was closed down a few years ago.
The train, for obvious safety reasons, averages 10.4 km per hour and is perhaps the slowest in India.
Built in the late 19th century, the track rises at a gradient of 1 in 12 and has 208 curves and 13 tunnels.
It leaves Mettupalayam at 7.45 am and reaches Ooty at noon.
Extensive rice fields surround the 7 km stretch between Mettupalayam and Kallar. Soon after is an impressive 21km section through truly rocky terrain. The track passes over 26 viaducts, and twist and blends through 13 tunnels. After a steep climb, the train enters Coonoor, the little hill station known for its tea plantations. From here, the track is uphill till you reach Fern Hill at a height of 2,218m, the highest point on the railroad. Shortly before Ooty, the line dips downhill. If you enjoy taking pictures, keep your camera ready for a few shotsof the viaduct between Kallar and Adderley. This ride is sure to turn the most hardened rail critic into an avid fan. You’ii delight in hthe edge-of-the seat twists and turns as the train runs across tall girder bridges, and over green hills before gently meandering through rolling tea estates. The exhaust beat of the loco never falters, maintaining a deafening staccato which can be heard for miles around. Truly a journey to remember.
The Present Scenario
Nowadays, the traveller from Ootacamund leaves Chennai central station on the evening Nilgiri Express at 9.00 p.m. and arrives at Mettupalaiyam at 7.10 am. After a 10 hour journey. There he merely crosses the platform to join the metre gauge train which leaves at 7.25 am. And reaches Udagamandalam at 11.40 a.m. in less than 15 hrs. The Nilgiri Railway (NMR) is a feat of engineering unique in the east. The line is a metre gauge, practically level for the first four and a half miles, to Kallar at the immediate foot of the hills. As soon as the train leaves Kallar, the rack rails appears and the long climb begins. In the next 12 miles to Coonoor, the line rises 4,363 feet curving almost continuously as it clings to the mountainside, crossing lofty viaducts or tunnels, the longest being 317 feet in length. The gradient posts read one in twelve and a half with monotonous consistency. Construction expenses were heavy because in addition to the tunnels, a big bridge over the river Bhawani at the foothills was necessary. Besides this large bridge, 26 other bridges smaller in size, were constructed and heavy expenditure incurred in rock-cutting and blasting.
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Behind-the-scene photographs are hung around cameras during their period.
ESTABLISHED in 1987, the Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video has become the longest-running independent film and video competition in Asia. Throughout the three decades, it has discovered and developed cinematic talents in the country.
Last Augustust 4 to 6, Gawad CCP Alternatibo held its 30th edition at the Cultural Center of Philippines in time with the Cinemalaya Philippine Independen Film Festival. It cited the best efforts of Filipino filmmakers in four categories: Animation, Experimental, Documentary and Short Feature.
'Kumander Liway:' Martial Law Told Through the Eyes of a Family
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Day, Dakip and Ric detained at Camp Delgado in Iloilo City (All Photos Courtesy of the Cultural Center of the Philippines)
“MAYBE in the future, if I am able to develop a rich enough material on the subject,” said filmmaker Kip Oebanda when asked about creating a film about the life of “Kumander Liway,” a former National People’s Army (NPA) leader in Negros Occidental during Martial Law. (In detention, but independent, Inquirer.net)
The year was 2014.
Oebanda did not want to rush because the story was “deeply personal and serious.” So in the years to come, he wrote and directed instead three independent films, “Tumbang Preso” (2014), “Bar Boys” and “Nay” (2017), which nevertheless showcased his capacity as a storyteller. In between, continuously researching and developing the biographical film--but always doubting.
“Ayoko talaga siyang gawin noong una, honestly. Why would I put myself in a dangerous position. ‘Liway’ will inevitably have a political slant,” Oebanda said. (The Reel Life of Kip Oebanda, Manila Bulletin)
But “the time is right,” so he said.
‘Pan de Salawal’ Will Leave You Smiling After Watching
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THESPIAN Bodjie Pascua returned to the big screen in this year’s Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. Starring in the full-length entry “Pan de Salawal” (The Sweet Taste of Salted Bread and Undies), Pascua portrayed Sal, an ageing baker who has lost the will to live after being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.
While his character was a far cry from the jolly, lively Kuya Bodjie we used to know in a kiddie TV show, Pascua managed to warm the hearts of Cinemalaya audiences with the help of 7-year-old child actor Miel Espinosa.
The tandem of Sal (Pascua) and Aguy (Espinosa) showed how one’s “dying” outlook in life could change with a just a “little” nudge.
“Sana nakangiti kayo pagkatapos ng pelikula (Hope you are all smiling after the film)” said writer and director Che Espiritu at the gala screening last August 6 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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These social enterprises also go beyond uplifting partner communities by producing world-class products that showcase the best of the Philippines.
“Everyone will enjoy the items from our partner social enterprises! Each delicious snack and refreshing drink encapsulates the best of the Philippines. It will give you the warmth of Filipino hospitality, like getting a taste of home wherever you are. Even when you’re stuck in your office or just cozying up at home.” Coco Castro-Cruz, Human Nature’s Category Manager for Social Enterprise Development shared.
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THE Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Cinemalaya Foundation are set to roll out the red carpet for the 14th edition of the country's biggest independent film festival.
Themed “Wings of Vision,” the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival runs from August 3 to 12 at various venues of the CCP and selected Ayala Cinemas. It promises to deliver the best visual storytelling to every film enthusiast with its line-up of full-length films and short features.
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Surely, there’s a venue that will suit music fans from all over the country. Where to visit when? Here’s a guide to Fête de la Musique 2018’s main and pocket stages happening on June 16, 23, 29, and 30:
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The 10 finalists are: Logro by Kani Villaflor; Si Astri Maka Si Tambulah by Xeph Suarez; Babylon by Keith Deligero; Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month by Carlo Francisco Manatad; Sa Saíyang Islá (In His Island) by Christian Candelaria; You, Me and Mr. Wiggles by Jav Velasco; Nangungupahan by Glenn Barit; Kiko by Jojo Driz; Siyudad Sa Bulawan (City of Gold) by Jarell Serencio and Olivia Ranido; and Yakap by Mika Fabella.
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Where Do You Want Your Art: In the Park or in Poblacion? Or Both!
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ART continues to thrive in Makati City’s public places. This month alone, two art events are taking place: one a long-running festival, and the other, on a first of its kind auction; but both, a showcase of local and foreign art in all forms imaginable, as well as a gathering of artists, collectors, enthusiasts, students, stakeholders and everyone into art.
For the benefit of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines (MFPI), 58 galleries, art collectives, independent art spaces, and student groups will gather on April 15 at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati City for the 12th edition of Art in the Park.
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Brigitte Bardot's Vacation Home Just Hit The Market
Boasting two infinity pools and a vineyard, this place is nothing short of luxurious.
By Devin Alessio
Courtesy of Beauchamp Estates
When Brigitte Bardot got divorced from her first husband, Roger Vadim, she headed to this vacation house in the French Riviera.
And who could blame her? The mansion, which is nestled in the hills of the village of Peymeinade, dates back to the 13th century. It's the definition of gorgeous – and it just hit the market for $5.65 million.
According to the listing, it was renovated between 1998 and 2011. The eight-bedroom main house is a testament to the power of preservation: Its rough-hewn beams, stone and titled floors, French doors, period hardwood, and Louis XIV fireplace are beyond breathtaking.
Of course, there's a four-bedroom guest house, so there's more than enough space for when your nearest and dearest come to visit. But between the two infinity pools, vineyard, and Japanese "deco pool" we have a feeling vacationers will be spending most of their time outside.
According to the LA Times, Bardot wanted to buy the manse, but her mother encouraged her to buy a waterfront home in St. Tropez instead. Tough call, if we do say so ourselves.
If a better look at the home doesn't inspire you to play the lottery today, literally nothing will:
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House set to vote on dozens of bills aimed at fighting deadly opioid epidemic
The House will begin voting Tuesday on dozens of bills that are aimed at curbing the nation's growing addiction to prescription painkillers.
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Michael Collins, USA TODAY Published 5:00 a.m. ET June 12, 2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new numbers on the opioid crisis, saying the number of overdose visits to hospital emergency rooms soared last year, the latest evidence the nation's drug crisis is getting worse. AP
This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York.(Photo: Patrick Sison, AP)
WASHINGTON — The nation’s growing addiction to prescription painkillers will command much of Congress’ attention over the next two weeks as House lawmakers consider dozens of bills that they hope will help curb the deadly opioid epidemic.
A series of votes will begin in the House on Tuesday and continue through next week on individual bills that would address the distribution of prescription drugs and provide help for those who are addicted.
The legislation includes proposals that aim to stop illegal drugs like Fentanyl from entering the country, change how opioids are distributed, make treatment for opioid addiction more readily available and speed up research on new non-addictive pain medications.
A larger, streamlined opioids package containing a variety of proposals also is expected to be put to a vote in the middle of next week.
Many of the proposals have bipartisan support and grew out of a series of hearings held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which approved 57 opioids bills and sent them to the full House for consideration.
Republicans on the committee describe the legislation as a major step toward stemming the tide of an addiction that is killing more than 115 Americans a day.
"Just as this isn't our first legislative foray to fight this scourge, it certainly won't be our last," Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess, R-Texas, said in a joint statement.
"We've heard from our constituents loud and clear as this crisis has continued to evolve and will soon advance solutions that can provide real help to our friends, family and neighbors,” the lawmakers said.
In the Senate, a separate opioids package cleared a key committee in April and is awaiting a vote on the floor. The Senate package includes more than 40 proposals, many of which are similar to bills under consideration in the House.
No date has been set for a vote on the Senate proposals, but opioids bills are on the Senate's to-do list this summer, said David Popp, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell, R-Ky., has canceled the lawmakers’ August recess so they can confirm some of President Trump’s nominees and vote on legislation.
The House and the Senate proposals are the latest response by lawmakers to deal with the opioid addiction amid reports that the crisis is growing worse.
Nearly 64,000 opioid overdose deaths were recorded in the United States in 2016, the highest number recorded in a single year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last December.
In a separate report last March, the agency said emergency room visits for opioid overdoses rose by 70% in the Midwest and 30% in all parts of the United States from July 2016 to September 2017.
A bill signed into law by President Barack Obama just a few weeks before he left office included $1 billion to fight heroin and opioid addiction. Nearly $4 billion more to fight opioid abuse was included in the omnibus spending package passed earlier this year.
The Trump administration also has made combating opioid addiction a priority.
Last week, the White House launched an anti-opioid advertising campaign targeting young people. And last October, Trump declared the epidemic a public health emergency and signed a presidential memorandum ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to waive regulations and give states more flexibility in how they use federal funds.
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Brett Kavanaugh deserves the benefit of the doubt. We can't let angry mobs rule America.
Brett Kavanaugh deserves the benefit of the doubt until actual evidence emerges that he is guilty of anything, and he should be confirmed posthaste.
Brett Kavanaugh deserves the benefit of the doubt. We can't let angry mobs rule America. Brett Kavanaugh deserves the benefit of the doubt until actual evidence emerges that he is guilty of anything, and he should be confirmed posthaste. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2NWvMj9
USA Today NetworkScott Jennings, Courier-Journal Opinion Published 6:36 p.m. ET Oct. 1, 2018 | Updated 7:57 p.m. ET Oct. 1, 2018
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh but there's a catch. USA TODAY
Voting to confirm Kavanaugh is not an endorsement of sexual assault, as some argue.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.(Photo: Alex Brandon, AP)
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation has brought to the fore some truly dangerous arguments.
Democrat Maria Cardona, a friend and frequent TV sparring partner of mine, exclaimed on CNN: "This isn’t a moment for due process!" She followed the thinking of Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, who wrote: "Even if (Kavanaugh) truly believes himself innocent, even if he is innocent — the better part of valor is to get out now."
I cannot imagine a more dangerous sentiment than this, in which an American citizen is commanded to publicly admit guilt when he has sworn under oath he is innocent. To cross that Rubicon would put us on a mindlessly anarchical path in which the presumption of innocence is jettisoned to satisfy the political passions of an angry mob.
That is not to say that Christine Blasey Ford was not compelling, nor does it diminish the pain of sexual assault survivors. But, for lack of a better term, we must find a way to walk and chew gum at the same time, respecting victims while holding fast to the concepts of law and justice that set America apart from the world. And we should not be forced to believe the two are mutually exclusive.
Don't diminish this debate
A confirmation hearing is not a court of law, as Kavanaugh’s detractors remind us constantly. But neither is it a job interview. This confirmation is simultaneously an exploration of the character of a human being and of the larger issues that define the character of American justice. To call this a job interview in a world where people change jobs as often as they change the oil in their car diminishes the seriousness of the debate.
Already, there are calls on the left for Kavanaugh’s impeachment, whether he is confirmed or not. Democrats, who demanded the FBI look further into Kavanaugh, were predictably trashing the investigation a day after Republicans gave in. We are dangerously close to a moment in which a significant number of Americans simply stop accepting outcomes produced by our democratic processes.
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When you couple that with the idea that a citizen who believes himself to be innocent must submit to the passions of an angry mob, supposedly for the good of a movement, anarchy is not far behind.
Where's the presumption of innocence?
Defending the British soldiers accused of murder after the Boston Massacre, John Adams opened with an impassioned plea for the presumption of innocence:
But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me, whether I behave well or ill; for virtue itself, is no security. And if such a sentiment as this, should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security what so ever.
Why should anyone follow any laws if there is no guarantee that being innocent is an acceptable defense when you stand accused of breaking them? Kavanaugh, it seems, is to be damned if he did, and damned if he did not.
Many Americans — women included — are fearful of where this thinking takes us. An old friend texted me:
As a mother of a son … that a false accusation against an otherwise seemingly good person can ruin his life … scares the crap out of me. While I wouldn’t say that all over Facebook … there has to be some number of women who identify more as mothers in fear for their sons than as feminist women. If I feel this way — a lifelong Republican who didn’t vote for Trump — I have to think a lot of other people silently feel this way, too.
She fears a government too weak to protect her son from a false or unproven accusation, and a mob that would punish her for speaking this notion freely. Angry mobs cannot rule America. Voting to confirm Kavanaugh is not an endorsement of sexual assault, as some argue, any more than John Adams was endorsing British oppression in his defense of the Redcoats.
It takes courage for victims to come forward. It also takes courage to stand athwart an angry mob, especially one armed with the supportive megaphone of our largest news media outlets. But there is no virtue in tearing down American traditions of law and justice for the political aim of preserving Roe v. Wade, which is, if you listen carefully, what this fight is truly about. The mob should try winning an election to achieve its political objectives.
Kavanaugh deserves the benefit of the doubt until actual evidence emerges that he is guilty of anything, and he should be confirmed posthaste.
Scott Jennings is a CNN Contributor and Partner at RunSwitch Public Relations. This column first appeared in The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. You can follow him on Twitter: @ScottJenningsKY.
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UU.nl / News / Unexpected immune activation illustrated in the cold
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Unexpected immune activation illustrated in the cold
Researchers at Utrecht University and Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, have for the first time made a picture of an important on-switch of our immune system. Their novel technical approach already led to the discovery of not one, but two ways in which the immune system can be activated. This kind of new insights are important for designing better therapies against infections or cancer, according to team leaders Piet Gros and Thom Sharp. Their findings are published on February 16, 2018 in the journal Science.
When invading microbes, viruses and tumours are detected in our bodies, our antibodies engage in an immediate defence strategy. They quickly raise warning signs on these aberrant surfaces that alert our body’s immune system of a security breach. This is the entry cue of several molecules, together called the C1 complex, that stick to the surface of the rogue cell and eliminate it from our body. Until recently, it was unknown how exactly invaders were recognized, and how this C1 complex was activated.
Prof. Piet Gros, Utrecht University
Studying the C1 complex has been challenging since its components often clump together when taken out of their natural environment into a lab setting. Together with the international biotech company Genmab A/S, researchers from Utrecht University and Leiden University Medical Center have now developed a unique technical approach to studying it in a more natural environment - and discovered more than expected.
Life-like detailed picture
In order to capture the binding and interaction of the complex, Piet Gros, Utrecht University and Thom Sharp, Leiden University Medical Center, combined two imaging techniques, cryo electron microscopy (CryoEM) and cryo electron tomography (CryoET). “These technologies are exploding in the field,” describes Thom Sharp, “and each method gives us different but complementary information on the same complex.” When combined, these methods provide a more life-like detailed picture of the system.
Reconstruction into a 3D representation
Combining CryoEM and CryoET lets researchers see the C1 complex in 3D (coloured model) bound to antibodies in a native state (background)
For CryoEM, think of taking thousands of copies of the same convoluted complex and scattering them onto the sticky side of a piece of tape. The camera is in a fixed position and takes pictures of these particles, which may have landed right-side-up, on its side, on a point. CryoET, on the other hand, can image the complex in a more natural environment, as it is bound to the cell surface. It takes images from different angles of the complex, similar to a CT scan, where the particle rotates within the instrument. For both techniques, images are then reconstructed into a 3D representation of the complex.
Very different mechanisms identified
The researchers were surprised to find not one, but two ways in which the immune system can be activated: by physical distortion and by cross-activation. In some cases, the configuration of danger signals on a cell’s surface is sparse, and when antibodies bind, the entire complex must physically adjust or distort itself to properly fit. This adjustment of a single complex can set off an immune response. In other situations, where the danger signals are dense, multiple C1 complexes can help activate each other, like a neighbourhood watch system.
This is the first report of two independent ways by which our immune system can be activated. In addition, the combination of CryoEM and CryoET enabled the visualization of details of these interactions that may enable researchers to create more specific therapeutics that can activate, slow down or stop the cascade of signals within our immune system.
Combining CryoEM and CryoET lets researchers see the C1 complex in 3D (coloured model) bound to antibodies in a native state (background).
'Structures of C1-IgG1 provide insights into how danger pattern recognition activates complement'
Deniz Ugurlar, Stuart C. Howes, Bart-Jan de Kreuk, Roman I. Koning, Rob N. de Jong, Frank J. Beurskens, Janine Schuurman, Abraham J. Koster, Thomas H. Sharp, Paul W. H. I. Parren, Piet Gros
Science, 16 February 2018, DOI 10.1126/science.aao4988
This research is part of the interdisciplinary research programme Life Sciences from Utrecht University, and particularly of Science for Life.
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Campaigners renew calls for UK to accept 10,000 child refugees
Government urged to offer places as events celebrate 80 years since Kindertransport
Diane Taylor
Tue 18 Jun 2019 12.35 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Jun 2019 15.25 EDT
Child refugees at a camp in Moria, Greece.
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There have been fresh calls to bring 10,000 child refugees to safety in the UK amid events celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport trains that saved many children from the Nazis.
The home secretary, Sajid Javid, announced a new resettlement scheme for the most vulnerable refugees on Monday but did not say how many children would be included.
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The charity Safe Passage said it had secured pledges from local authorities to support 1,170 child refugees and questioned why the government had so far brought just a few hundred to the UK when so many more local authority places were available for children in need of refuge.
The global refugee crisis shows no sign of abating, with more than 68.5 million people forced from their homes and nearly 25.4 million refugees, more than half of whom are under the age of 18.
Lord Dubs, whose life was saved when he came to the UK on the Kindertransport as a small child, spoke on Tuesday at a rally outside parliament organised by Safe Passage and another charity, Help Refugees.
He appealed to the government to resettle 10,000 child refugees in the next 10 years.
He said Theresa May had previously urged him to drop his amendment to the Immigration Act 2016, known as the Dubs amendment, to allow some of the most vulnerable child refugees to come to the UK because she feared “others would follow”.
What is the Dubs amendment? – video explainer
“We parted without agreement,” said Dubs.
The government has two schemes to bring child refugees to the UK – the vulnerable children’s resettlement scheme (VCRS) to bring 3,000 refugees from conflict zones in the Middle East, and the Dubs scheme to bring 480 vulnerable unaccompanied child refugees from Europe.
Safe Passage’s chief executive, Eleanor Harrison, welcomed the home secretary’s announcement of a new resettlement scheme but said she remained concerned by the lack of assurances regarding safe and legal routes for children.
“In 2018 we discovered that just 20 unaccompanied children had been resettled as part of the vulnerable children’s resettlement scheme, despite up to 3,000 places being made available,” she said.
Alongside Dubs, Safe Passage has been campaigning for a commitment from the government to welcome 10,000 children over 10 years from conflict zones and Europe.
At the start of the global Refugee Week on Monday, Javid confirmed the UK planned to resettle about 5,000 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees in the first year under a scheme launching in 2020.
The scheme will consolidate the vulnerable persons’ resettlement scheme, the VCRS and the gateway protection programme, which offers a legal route for up to 750 refugees to settle in the UK each year and is run with the UN high commission for refugees, into one global scheme.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Since 2016, Britain has resettled more refugees from outside Europe than any other EU state and we will continue to do all we can to help the world’s most vulnerable.
“Our new global resettlement scheme will help thousands more people fleeing conflict and persecution, including children, to build a new life in the UK.
“We remain fully committed to relocating 480 children under section 67 of the Immigration Act (the Dubs amendment) and are determined to deliver on that.”
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Meet the new brand ambassador of Coverfox.com!
Judwaa 2 actress Taapsee Pannu has been roped in as the new face of a new television commercial "Cover Karo, Kaam Aayega" by Coverfox.com, an Insure-tech platform. Executed by Suresh Triveni under the RPF banner, the campaign intends to establish the need for insurance in everyday life.
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"I have been able to deliver my best as an actor when I have portrayed strong and independent characters, like the one in Coverfox's commercial. I loved the fact that the company is encouraging women of today to take matters in their own hands, even the financial ones.." Taapsee said.
"This is my first endorsement in the insurance category. I am excited to work with Coverfox and look forward to having a fruitful association," she further added.
With this campaign, Coverfox aims to introduce consumers to a smarter way of buying insurance. The campaign touches upon all the three verticals of insurance- motor, health and life.
Speaking about the campaign, Premanshu Singh, CEO, Coverfox.com said: "Today, there is an increasing number of men raising their voice on issues like financial independence of women, their safety and equality. Hence, it is imperative to present a message that addresses these concerns in unison. And the fact that the creative addresses the serious issue of eve-teasing, which needs to be nipped in the bud, is a great feat achieved by the creative team. We have stayed true to our brand by conveying the need of various insurance products without resorting to selling fear. Our brand ambassador, Taapsee Pannu, shares the same ethos of being young, bold, dynamic, confident and independent."
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P.A.W. Capital Corp grew its stake in Gaia Inc (NASDAQ:GAIA) by 11.1% during the first quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 250,000 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 25,000 shares during the quarter. Gaia comprises about 2.3% of P.A.W. Capital Corp’s portfolio, making the stock its 13th biggest position. P.A.W. Capital Corp’s holdings in Gaia were worth $2,288,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Peyote religion
When starting the peyote religion that eventually became the Native American Church, Quanah Parker remembered well what the curandera taught him. He wore the beads like she had instructed, perhaps hers were rosary beads, but as a peyote leader, a Road Man, or He Who Shows the Road, as they are called, he wore the beads over his right shoulder and hanging down his left side. The beads were really the beans of the bush under which the woman in the legend found the peyote (See Legend of the Peyote). Other men participating in the ceremony wore their beads in identical fashion.
The peyote ceremony, like other Indian ceremonies, has a fire for which to cleanse the mind and body. With the fire was incense; various resins were used but cedar became the standard for the plains people. Smoking occurred too; instead of passing the pipe the Mexican peyote worshippers passed cigarettes of native-grown tobacco and shredded willow bark rolled in corn husks.
Another integral part of the ceremony was the use of bird feathers that represented bird power. Quanah received his bird power from the eagle for which he was named and preferred that bird’s feathers. However, feathers of other birds that were available, even parakeets, could also be used, but feathers of predators were preferred. Along with the incensed smoke the feathers would carry the prayers of the men to heaven as they ascended. Predators were preferred since they were strong and were able to better bear heartache and repentance; and their presence was thought to protect the worshipper.
The sacrament of peyote must be present during the ceremony. It presence was in form of peyote buttons which were supplied by the Road Man or each worshipper brought his own. That peyote is smoked is a common misconception. Smoking peyote is impossible because it simply will not burn in a pipe or cigarette. The buttons, either fresh or dried, are eaten by younger worshippers and ground up, in a food grinder, into a powder and ate by older worshippers or drank in a tea.
There is a central alter. The worshippers sit around it. When the ceremony was first introduced on the plains a polite behavior was observed, anyone entering or leaving the tipi walked behind the worshippers, never between them and the altar. This behavior was not always followed as the peyote worship spread and new worshippers were unfamiliar with it. The movement around the tipi was strictly followed though, always from the door to the east, to south, to west, to north, no exception.
The shape of the altar varied among tribes. In some it was moon-shaped with a flattened top; in others it had a deep groove paralleling the upper curve. Sometimes the ashes of the fire were scraped back against the inside of the altar throughout the night; in other ceremonies the Door-keeper, the Road Man’s assistant, would from time to time carry the ashes out of the tipi, letting them blow away in the wind carrying the prayers of the worshippers with them.
On the crest of the moon-shaped altar, resting in the curve of its flat top or the curve of its groove was the Father Peyote. This button, originally selected for its size and perfection of form, represented the power of the belief. This treasured button at various tribal ceremonies might be placed on a silk handkerchief, a bed of sage, or ashes from the previous ceremony. As with many reverend symbols, many people, especially non-Indian, mistakenly thought Father Peyote was being worshipped failing to comprehend that this button was a symbol of the Great Spirit whom the men were worshipping and praying to.
Father Peyote was a prized talisman of the Road Man, used ceremony after ceremony, and sometimes passed from father to son. It was usually housed in a beaded and fringed buckskin case representing the sun and it rays as the peyote did, and worn as a necklace by the Road Man as a way of carrying Father Peyote. Eventually when such cases were found in museum collections they would be mistaken as watch cases.
The Road Man was neither priest nor minister, for in the peyote religion there were none, each man was his own minister of his spirit. Any one could be a Road Man as long as he provided the ceremonial tipi, supplied the peyote for those without it, and supplies the food for the feast held the following day for those in attendance of the ceremony and those who dropped by to share in the feast. The feasts were one of the ways by which women participated in the peyote worship; they prepared for the men who had prayed all through the night and perhaps fasted prior to the ceremony. Some have speculated these feasts where adopted from Christianity, the after church or service socials where food and clothing was given to the poor, but this is incorrect. The preparation of food by women was specifically specified by the curandera who gave the peyote religion to Quanah.
The Road Man might do various optional things during the ceremony according to his choice such as stepping out of the tipi and blowing signals to the other worshippers from an eagle wing-bone whistle whenever the sky changed overhead-such practice was usually standard, reciting native prayers, singing peyote vision songs, and some might read from the Bible. Many a Road Man had some sort of stick which showed their authority, but this was optional too.
It seems that Quanah was sort of selective of the men he instated in the religion. The reason for the selection of Tonagat (Snapping Turtle) one of the first Kiowas admitted to the rites is unknown, perhaps he was one of the few men that Quanah afraid of him. Tonagat had a reputation. It seemed he had what was called a witch power that was associated with water. Many times he told others that when he became unconscious they should submerge him in the water of the Washita River and leave him there until sunset. Then he would arise and lead them to a peyote ritual. In spite of his apparent faith in peyote, Tonagat continued practicing the use of evil power which he seemed to gain during his boyhood quest a guardian spirit. He just did evil things like stealing men’s wives, witching cattle and horses into his own corrals or killing them outright in their owner’s fields, and putting sick spells on men, women, and children who he was later paid to cure. He insisted the taking of peyote just increase his evil rather than giving him a new faith.
As time went by his people were getting somewhat tired of Tonagat’s shenanigans. Then at a ritual, in a shamanic manner, he digested a foreign object in the form of a Father Peyote button which was supposed to come out of him. After a song and prayer he began coughing and choking; finally he fell faced down on the ceremonial ashes of the fire, probably unconscious or dead. His members now were undecided whether to submerge him in the river again or not. At the time two Baptist missionaries, sisters, were in the area so the Kiowas took their problem to them. After seriously considering it, after all here was a human life even if not a too desirable one, the missionaries boiled the problem down to whether the people wanted Tonagat back. Their decision was that they did not, so the sisters said prayers over him at his funeral.
Another man told of finding his guardian spirit when his father sent him on a quest for power as a boy wearing nothing but his moccasins and breechcloth. He cried to the One Above for a guardian, and was told to look down at his feet where he saw a little lizard, called a mountain boomer. It began to grow until it stood above the boy’s head, and told him to trust him and do whatever he said. The lizard said the boy might not always see him, but he would always be near him. Shortly afterwards the man said he fell and near him he found a tiny black arrowhead which he tied to his scalp rock because he knew the mountain boomer meant for him to have it. He then went home and told his father, and his mother washed him and gave him some warm broth. Then he slept a while and was taken into the sweat lodge tipi where he sweated till he was clean all the way through.
Things went very bad for the Kiowas, and after his brother was killed in a raid the man was locked up with others in a horse corral in Texas. When getting out he could count his ribs from being so thin. Afterwards he met Quanah Parker and later went into the peyote tipi with him. There through the smoke and eating peyote he again saw his mountain boomer standing as tall as a mesa, facing him. The lizard told him that he was doing the “right thing,” meaning the life he was living, but to take the new thing too. The man said he has never been sorry he took the peyote road; in times of trouble and sorrow he has been doubtful and wondered, but when touching the little arrowhead he would know everything was all right.
Besides the preparation of food which had been mentioned, the woman’s minor participation of the ceremony was to bring a bucket of water at midnight and dawn, symbolizing a new day and the new life which women bring. Sometimes there was more than one water-bearer. Eventually sometimes this honor was given to a young girl or boy. There was no need for a rationale for the girl since women participation was required as previously cited. The young girl might be the relative, daughter, of the Road Man or a prominent member of the tribe. Usually in case of the young boy, he had just reached the age of a warrior, and this honor was given to him because he could be killed during his first battle. Gradually women participated more actively in the peyote ceremonies either by praying, drumming, or singing. Women achieved advanced status among the eastern horticultural tribes before they did in the hunting societies.
Some of the men around Quanah learned the cattle business from him. They bought stock in Texas and parts of Mexico. On their return trip home they not only herded cattle, but collected peyote buttons by the bags full so the members would have an ample supply. Another interesting fact about cattle and the spreading of the peyote religion was that originally the railroads only ran from east to west, not north to south, so cattle south of the rail lines had to be driven to the rail heads to be loaded for transfer. On these drives the peyotists met others which helped the spread of the religion.
Even after the cattle drives stopped the peyotists still made trips to collect the peyote. Some tell of family vacation trips, the husband was on vacation and the kids were out of school, and they would drive beyond Fort Stockton, Texas, camp out over night then in the morning collect peyote buttons where they found them. Sometimes they were not seen the night before but surprisingly appeared in the morning which seemed like a blessing.
The legal status was always complicated to define such as sacramental wine. Some territories where Native Americans were centered prohibited the sale of alcohol while others were wide opened. Even the Eighteenth Amendment did not solve the problem. Although legal officials and some religious leaders were upset with peyote use, it could not be defined as alcoholic, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not sure it fell with the jurisdiction of the Narcotics Act. Finally a legal case was decided in Dallas, Texas in 1969. The ruling declared that members of the Native American Church were permitted to own, transport, and use peyote in its natural state. For all others, including nonmember Indians, peyote was strictly forbidden. Still other cases were pending.
In 1918 the Native American Church applied for their charter from the new state of Oklahoma and received it. Other peyote groups soon followed suit. Apparently the peyote religion seems to spread as it originally did, for example, members serving in World Wars I and II furthered its growth. A.G.H.
Marriott, Alice, Carol K. Rachlin. Peyote. New York. Thomas Y. Crowell, Co. 1971.
Neeley, Bill. “Peyote.” The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker. New York. John Wiley & Sons. 1995.
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