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Goodbye to childcare
Today is my baby girl's last day at childcare. Over the last six years, between the two of them they have spent just over one thousand days in childcare and just over $250,000 has been spent on that care.
They said to label anything we didn't want to lose
Butter wouldn't melt right?
That would pay for four years of high school for Prince William. Before extracurricular activities obviously but still, it practically makes the girls princesses right?
And it's worth it. I wrote a love letter to childcare in January 2014 and despite moving childcare centres shortly after nothing has changed for us. We remain strong advocates for the role of childcare in the lives of young children.
Childcare has been a brilliant investment in our daughters and in our family. Childcare has been the place where they developed their first friendships. Friendships which have taught them about acceptance, negotiation, humour, fun and love. Childcare has given our daughters their first tribes and these support networks exist for them outside of childcare as much as they do inside.
Childcare has given them a love of learning. It has taught them that everybody can learn but that people learn differently. It has given them an insight into topics they might not have come up otherwise. They head off to big school with a smattering of paleontology, astronomy, engineering, mechanics, musical theory, musical application, geography, literacy, numeracy, humanities, creative expression, nursing, teaching, archeology, acrobatics, horticulture, domestic sciences, anatomy, magic, indigenous culture, languages, and 27 different ways to describe a fart. To name but a few.
Childcare has taught them resilience. Real life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes people can be unkind. Sometimes you can be unkind. How you move on from the knocks and acknowledge your role in making somebody else's moment less than perfect is an important life skill. A room full of small, determined people means you have to learn how to process the things that happen around you and bounce back or you miss out on the fun. You also need to learn how to respond when you get bumped, kicked, pinched, bitten or broken. And as parents, you learn you need to stick to the speed limit on the odd trip to the hospital.
Childcare has taught them the negotiation skills required for a hostage situation. It has also taught them to remember anything any adult has ever said so they can contradict your lame excuses or white lies. It has taught them that Chef Clair is a much better cook than Mum or Dad and perhaps there is life beyond beige food. Childcare has taught them to put on sunblock and hats whenever they go outside. It has taught them how to grow vegetables. Raise chickens. It has taught them hygiene. And that boys can have long hair. It has taught them about different family structures. Private parts being private. That piranhas love bananas and that sailors go to sea sea sea. It taught them how to make didgeridoos out of cardboard and a solar system out of balloons.
Childcare has given us community. It has given us a support network. It's given us the owner of a cupcake factory. A hairdresser. HR consultants. Lawyers. Tennis coaches. Caterers. Business owners. Clients. Suppliers. A place to live. Most importantly, friends.
So many many friends. Beautiful, funny, lifelong friends.
Even if working had not been a financial necessity for both of us, I like to think we would have had the good sense to invest in childcare. It has been an investment which has repaid itself in millions of tiny ways. We have been abundantly blessed with carers and teachers who have given so much love to our children. Carers and teachers that we now call friends.
Each time I dropped my girls for the first time at daycare, I cried. When my Tully finished last year, I cried.
I will cry again today. It is a milestone. An ending and a beginning.
My gorgeous feisty Cassidy is going to big school in six short weeks. She's ready. So very ready.
Farewell childcare. And thanks for the memories.
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Five All-Time Elvis Favorites
Radio hits and most-loved recordings
Hound Dog (1956)
A rock’n’roll’s signature, Elvis’ “Hound Dog” came out on the phenomenal dual record “Hound Dog” / “Don’t Be Cruel”. Elvis’ photographer, Alfred Wertheimer sat in on the recording session in New York City. Wertheimer recalled how, after about two hours and 30 takes of “Hound Dog”, “The musicians listened to playbacks of the takes. The engineer racked take twenty-eight. Elvis left his chair and crouched on the floor. He went into deep concentration, absorbed and motionless … At the end of the song, he slowly rose from his crouch and turned to us with a wide grin, and said, ‘This is the one.’” Elvis’ gyrating performance of “Hound Dog” on the Milton Berle Show later that year was one of his sexiest, leaving some contemporary viewers appalled.
Heartbreak Hotel (1956)
“Heartbreak Hotel” catapulted Elvis onto the national stage. With the backing of his new label, RCA, the song stayed on top of the Hot 100 for seven straight weeks and reached the top five of Country and Western, pop, and Rhythm’n’Blues charts - an unprecedented feat. It remains a, if not the, defining tune for Elvis fans, and was cited as a transformative influence by The Beatles’ John Lennon and George Harrison and The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards. For Richards, “That was the first rock and roll I heard. It was a totally different way of delivering a song, a totally different sound, stripped down, no bullshit, no violins and ladies’ choruses and schmaltz, totally different. It was bare right to the roots that you had a feeling were there but hadn’t yet heard… It was the first time I’d heard something so stark.”
Can’t Help Falling In Love (1961)
“Take my hand, take my whole life too, For I can’t help falling in love with you.” Arguably Elvis’ most famous love song, this intimate little ballad, slow paced by Elvis standards, was written for his 1961 movie Blue Hawaii. Though it never made #1, it became the tender closing tune to almost every one of his post-comeback shows in the 70s, and was since covered by everybody from Bob Dylan to U2 to UB40.
Suspicious Minds (1969)
“Suspicious Minds” is marked by personal disappointment as much as a triumphant artistic comeback. Recorded during the landmark early morning Memphis session of January 23, 1969, it became Elvis’ first #1 in seven years, helping him reclaim the title of The King. But the song’s pleading lyrics “Let’s don’t let a good thing die” were timely: just two years into marriage, Elvis and Priscilla were becoming increasingly distant, strained by affairs on both sides and Elvis’ absences on tour. The pair would officially separate two years later. It was, according to Joe Masceo of The Imperials, “a blow from which Elvis never recovered.”
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (The laughing version) (1969)
Elvis’ stage presence was legendary for his charm, sex appeal, and his sense of humor. During one sold-out show in Las Vegas in 1969, he ad libbed lyrics to “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”, replacing the line “Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?” with “Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair”. As Elvis legend goes, a man in the front row responded on cue, removing his wig. Elvis cracked up, and couldn’t stop laughing through the rest of the song. The result was infectious: the audience fell about in besotted giggles with him. After Elvis’ death, “the laughing version” was released as its own track, becoming a radio hit and one of Elvis’ most loved recordings.
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TBR Shared Sevices
Key definitions and acronyms
TBR Shared Services Initiative
UPDATE: August 2017
Earlier this week the Chancellor announced a major change in the Shared Services Initiative.
The previous iteration of shared services envisioned a wide-reaching array of operational functions that would be shifted from the institutions to a centralized operation. As the project progressed, it became unclear whether meaningful efficiencies and cost savings would materialize, and it also created an untenable environment of uncertainty for employees and institutions.
TBR is no longer pursuing that path, and is immediately shifting all or our focus towards the three areas listed below.
Consolidated IT Services: Create and deploy a single MEP instance of Banner for all 41 institutions across TBR including the Technical Colleges, Community Colleges, and System Office.
TCAT Shared Services: Create a service center for the Technical Colleges and System Office operations meeting core administrative needs.
Dissemination and Standardization of Best Practices: Utilizing the workshops with institutional personnel that have been conducted previously, implement best practices and standardization at each community college to gain efficiencies in business and operational practices. This standardization and common practice must be in place prior to joining the MEP instance.
These three areas form the backbone of the effort to pursue a systemic solution to many of the operational challenges our system faces. TBR believes that we can accomplish these core goals in the originally envisioned timeline with adjustments to meet the above goals.
The prime focus over the coming months will be ensuring that the MEP Banner environment is ready, secure, and validated for the Technical College go-live in Spring/Summer of 2018.
TBR would like to thank all the staff across the system that have provided very direct and valuable feedback as well as a tremendous amount of work to support the project. If we have learned anything over the past 6 months it is that there is a great deal of knowledge, expertise, and strength across our system.
We look forward to working with all of you to create a TBR system that we can be proud of and that will benefit our staff, students, and the citizens of Tennessee. Thank you.
The Project Team
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Freemium games on the Google Play Store won't be called 'free' for long
By Kevin Lee 2014-07-18T19:18:00.198Z Operating systems
Apple gets a backhanded slap
Google doesn't want a IAP fiasco like Amazon and Apple
"Free" game apps on the Google Play Store that charge for in-app purchases won't be called free for much longer.
The European Commission laid out a new set of guidelines that all developers and app stores have to comply with. In accordance with these new court-ordered rules Google must stop advertising games that include in-app purchases as free in its app store.
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The new guidelines didn't say if Google has to make these changes to its Play Store in other territories, but those in Europe should see many fewer "free" apps in the virtual marketplace by September.
You got served
The European Commission also slammed Apple in a press release attached to the new guidelines for failing to offer up any concrete or immediate solutions as Google had.
Google likely wants to act much more quickly after seeing the United States Federal Trade Commission whip both the Cupertino company and Amazon for failing to provide adequate control over inadvertent in-app purchases.
Earlier this year Apple paid the FTC a whopping $32.5 million (about £18.9m, AU$34.4m) to 37,000 customers forced to pay for virtual items they never wanted in the first place. More recently the FTC began pursuing a lawsuit against Amazon to make it pay back users charged for inadvertent purchases.
One would think that Apple would be rushing to make changes to avoid paying another multi-million dollar settlement.
The iPhone maker has since responded by claiming it has better controls than the rest of the mobile industry. A spokesperson told CNET it is also working to strengthen its protections with new features coming this fall, likely with iOS 8.
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Impasse with county threatens Breckenridge-area ambulance services
Crime | May 15, 2017
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A Red, White, and Blue Fire Timberwolf 4-Wheel firetruck at a substation in Breckenridge, which is set to open this spring.
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It’s a debate that’s simmered for years, but on Monday, the county issued an ultimatum: Play ball, or get out of the game.
That was the message to the Red, White and Blue Fire Protection District, which could have its right to run ambulances in Summit revoked unless it agrees to hew its operations more toward countywide priorities.
The move would mean that while RWB medics could still provide on-scene treatment, patients would have to wait until a county-authorized ambulance arrived to be taken to the hospital, department officials said.
That would be a major escalation in a long-running dispute within the county’s Emergency Services Authority, a body that also includes the county-run ambulance service, Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue and Copper Mountain Fire.
“They’re trying to push us into out-of-county transport, which puts us in a position where we may not be able to respond as quickly. There is a major financial risk for taxpayers.”Arch GothardRWB board president
At issue is the degree to which the authority can influence how its members operate. While the county envisions a more collaborative decision-making process, RWB feels it should be able to deploy its resources freely.
“The county has made some pretty pointed statements that before personnel are hired or acquisitions made, an entity should get the buy-in from the other members,” RWB chief Jim Keating said. “But special districts should without fail have the ability to manage their own resources.”
Each member of the authority is financially independent, and RWB draws revenue from taxes inside its district. But the county feels that the department’s go-it-alone approach isn’t in line with the mission of the authority, which it says was established to increase efficiency across the system.
An example of that disconnect is RWB’s plan to open a new substation this spring in the Peak 8 area, a move that is also contributing to the impasse. The station would include a full medic unit as part of an all-hazards response team, which the county argues isn’t needed.
The county also says that RWB hasn’t been pulling its weight on out-of-county transports, conducting only 32 of the more than 700 ambulance trips made from Summit to the Front Range last year.
“In terms of the split of transport activity, we don’t think that’s equitable,” county manager Scott Vargo said.
The Lake Dillon and Copper Mountain fire chiefs — Jeff Berino and Gary Curmode — both said that while their departments were coping with the current demand, an increase in out-of-county transport volumes could pose safety concerns.
“The biggest challenge for us right now is that the Red, White and Blue board has taken the position that they won’t expand out-of-county transports or work in a collaborative way,” Vargo said during a Monday ES Authority meeting.
Later in that meeting, Vargo said the county would consider revoking the intergovernmental agreement that allows RWB to run ambulances unless it agreed to take on more transports.
Taking patients to Front Range hospitals is the only revenue-generating activity of ambulance providers, subsidizing the system to the tune of $500,000 a year.
“They are an important component of the system both financially and clinically,” Vargo said, adding that the burden should be shared by all departments based on their resources.
The transports are generally unpopular, rendering departments short by two staff members for six hours at a time or more. Keating argues that increasing the number his department takes on would be bad for morale and diminish RWB’s ability to respond to local calls.
Reached by phone on Monday, RWB board president Arch Gothard said the ultimatum was “exceedingly disappointing,” although he was unlikely to change his position.
Lower staffing and response times, he said, could imperil the department’s high rating from the Insurance Services Organization, which reduces rates for local property owners.
“They’re trying to push us into out-of-county transport, which puts us in a position where we may not be able to respond as quickly,” Gothard said. “There is a major financial risk for taxpayers.”
Vargo disputes RWB’s claim that more out-of-county transports would hurt its local response times, citing a study by a consulting group concluding that Summit has excess ambulance capacity.
“The county is not concerned that there is an added risk to Red, White and Blue taking on a bigger role in out-of-county transports and we haven’t been presented with any objective data to suggest otherwise,” he said.
Keating disputes that study’s conclusions, saying it didn’t consider the broader range of duties held by firefighters and paramedics, including trainings and inspections.
Both sides appeared to be dug in on Monday, and it was unclear if either would be willing to give ground. The next RWB board meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 30.
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Ikenga was rendered speechless after his brother left him. Somehow- within him- he knew Amadioha was right about one thing, ‘they are brothers’. But how can he just forget about Alaolisa just like that? He was left with no choice, after all according to what Amadioha had said a few minutes ago if Alaolisa was meant to be with him she would have done so right from the beginning. Rather than fight immensely for what he couldn’t have why not he leave the two lovers alone. Amadioha and him are brothers and there is absolutely nothing that can change it. Ikenga felt as if something heavy has been lifted up from his shoulder when he realized the truth. Just this once he would do as Amadioha had told him. He would leave the lovers alone. He disappeared. **** “What troubles you my dear daughter?” Anyanwu asked his daughter as soon as he dispatched himself from their hug. “What kind of help do you need?” “It’s about a girl who wants to kill my daughter”. Chi told her father. Anyanwu gave out a laugh. “If you are talking about Alaolisa then you shouldn’t be bothered about a thing”, Anyanwu told her. “How did you mean father?” Chi asked confusingly. “Alaolisa is the daughter from the Ogbanje world. The queen mother is her mother. Like you Alaolisa left the Ogbanje world to dwell with the mortals fortunately for you, you gave birth to her”. Anyanwu explained. “But that hasn’t answered why you wouldn’t help my daughter father?”. “Alaolisa full powers has been restored, so don’t worry about her, she will take care of herself”. Anyanwu reassured his daughter. “We should rather celebrate your return”. He added. “If you say so father”. ***** Ogbanje quickly ran towards the farm direction the twins had told her Okoro and Uhammiri had left a couple of minutes ago. She got to the said farm and didn’t see anything. She searched every hook and canny of the farmland but couldn’t find her father nor Uhammiri. She quickly ran to Ebuka’s hut. ******* Earlier on: Okoro and Uhammiri were walking alongside together going towards the farmland to get some special herbs for Adaku when Okoro suddenly laughed. “Nnayi what is it?” Uhammirri asked surprised at seeing him laughing all of a sudden. “A man who rushes into battle does not realize that battle entails death”. Okoro said out of blue as they started approaching the farmland. “Meaning? I don’t understand you Nnayi”. Uhammiri questioned confusingly. “The mind is like a bag; everyone has one. Uhammiri you should quit your pretense now and carry out your plans”. Okoro responded confidently at Uhammiri who wore a look of Surprise. Trying not to show how the words affected her she decided to pretend not knowing what Okoro is saying. “What are you trying to say Nnayi, I don’t get you”. “You and I both know what I am saying. From the moment Adaku, my wife, brought you into my home I knew that there was something suspicious about you. I once confronted Adaku to tell me what she knew about you but she couldn’t and started bringing out flimsy excuses. There and then I knew something was up. Yesterday night proved me right”. Not pretending anymore her eyes balls changed completely to her normal ones. “So you over heard our discussion yesterday night?” “Yes I did and I got to know that you are my daughter. Uhammiri whatever Adaku might have told you about me is a lie. I never neglected any one of you. I and Adaku weren’t meant to be from the beginning. I was already bonded with the Sun god daughter before I was brought down to earth. My earthly parents betrothed I and Adaku before I got to meet Chi. If I had known that Chi would also followed me down to earth to be with me I wouldn’t have believed it. Adaku left and didn’t informed me that she was already pregnant. Maybe you got angry that I didn’t come to look For you neither Adaku and that was why you both killed the mortal Chi. I knew all along of all the plans she made. So when my suspicious was confirmed I had to pretend that I want to go to the farm because I knew you would quickly volunteer yourself to go with me, and you also know the twins are harmless thus my deciding to leave for the farm with you. I know you want to have me all alone, so here I am”. Okoro concluded his little speech. However Uhammiri wasn’t moved by any of that rather she smirked as Okoro further revealed what he know. “You are making this more simpler for me. And this is not about Adaku it is more than you think oh wise one. I did not carry you here to kill you now. I am here to take you as a hostage, your death shall be a slow painful death. Adaku’s death and that of your entire household will not be compared with what I have in mind for you. And as for your beloved daughter, Ogbanje, her death would be so…. I won’t say anything other thing, you are coming with me to the Black Forest of Doom”. “I curse the day you were conceived, the day my seed was planted in Adaku’s womb to form you, you’re purely evil but be rest assured that my daughter would look for me no matter where you take me too. They would come”. Without any further delay, they both disappeared into thin air, not quite long, Ogbanje was seeing running towards the scene but she couldn’t find either of them. ***** Nnenna’s Hut: Getting there she saw Nnenna and Ebuka talking quietly amongst themselves, Ebuka was telling her about the encounter he had with his brother. Nnenna and Ebuka were startled with the way Ogbanje ran into their compound with much vigour. “Ada ogini- what is it?” Nnenna was the first to asked after they had overcome their shock with the way Ogbanje made her appearance. But Ogbanje was still breathless, she was regaining her strength she had used in running. “I was even planning to come to your hut this evening to come and see how you are doing, but with the way you came in here tells me that something definitely is wrong, so what is wrong”. “It’s my father”. Ogbanje said at last. Bewildered with surprise and confusion both squarely asked together without missing a beat. “Your father? What had happened to him?” “Uhammiri took him”. Was all Ogbanje would say. “Ada, how about telling us everything from the beginning Ka anyi wee mara ebe anyi guzoro- So that we can know where we stand”, Nnenna said. “You know I was all aware about the conversation between Adaku and Uhammiri. I was asleep but my whole body was awake”. Ogbanje began softly facing Ebuka- who was not that surprise- as she spoke, then she continued. “I woke up not long ago to see Adaku with big black boils with some maggots coming out from it. She told me to save my father and then the twins told me where he went with Uhammiri to fetch some herbs for Adaku. I got to the said farmland but couldn’t see anyone of them. She has took him”. She added. “Hmm, this is Strange, Okoro that I know very well would have fought to his last breath before been taken away”. Nnenna said aloud in thought. “He knows very well that I would look for him, I need to go home and ask my sisters very well if truly they had went towards that farmland”. Ogbanje told them. “Then I am going with you to your hut. Uhammiri might be up to some mischief and we must all be at alert”. Ebuka said. “I will stay here to look after your brother and sister. Adaolisa, once you’ve reached your hut remember to inform the twins to rush down to my hut to stay for the mean time. I have this feeling that Uhammiri would use everything you held dear against you, now hurry before it’s too late”. Nnenna instructed. Without any form of hesitation, Ogbanje and Ebuka quickly left for her compound. Nnenna went inside her hut to get prepared for the up coming battle which she knew was coming…. ***** Okoro’s Hut: They arrived and were elated when they saw Ugochi and Uzochi in the compound. Startled by their appearance the twins quickly brought out the kitchen knife which they hid under their wrappers respectively. They had sharpened the knives so well that it would kill whatever it is. Taking by surprise with the stances they took Ogbanje managed to asked them. “What do you think you are doing?” “Father had warned us to be very careful that Uhammiri would send a clone to take the shape of you or Ebuka to deceive us into following you, so who are you and what have you done to our sisters”. Uzochi asked bravely. Ogbanje burst out laughing at their childish behavior. “And who told you that ordinary knife would kill spirits?” Ebuka asked amused by their acts. “Any way, we came to see if Uhammiri has gotten to you both before us, but thank the gods that hasn’t. I quickly ran towards the farm you told me papa and Uhammiri were going only to get and didn’t see anything at all. And now I and Ebuka are going to look for papa”. Heaving a sigh of relieve the twins ran to where Ogbanje was. “Stay with Ebuka, I want to asked Adaku if she knows the whereabouts of our father”. So saying, she left them for Adaku’s hut. Entering inside her hut, Adaku’s case has increased and the hut were oozing with smells. Her boils were increasing the more. Ogbanje felt pity towards the woman “I am going to help you get rid of this whatever you call it. I only want to know where Uhammiri might have gone too, do you have any atom of idea where she might be?” Ogbanje asked. Nodding her head with difficulty was very hard for Adaku, but Ogbanje understood her. “Very well then”. Ogbanje brought forth her right hand and place it upon the fore head of Adaku. Embracing herself Once more, Ogbanje closes her eyes. “You’re no longer needed in your victim’s body any more”. Ogbanje opened her eyes in time to see the boils disappeared. Adaku getting back to herself knelt down and thanked Ogbanje remorseful and pleaded with Ogbanje to forgive her for whatever atrocities she had committed. “Now is not the time to beg, I have done my part by healing you now it’s your turn to take me to where Uhammiri lives”. Ogbanje told her. “She might have taken Okoro to the black forest of doom and I can take you there”. Adaku responded. “Very well then if you are sure of what you said. I want to take the twins to stay with Nnenna before we set out for the Black Forest of Doom”. Ogbanje said and Adaku agreed immediately. Getting out of the hut with a healed Adaku up her heels the twins where elated and happy to see their mother well. With their question look Adaku told them. “I will explain all to you”. Without any further delay they all went towards Nnenna’s hut. ***** “I won’t fight with my brother again, he was right about one thing though that a woman shouldn’t come in between us father. I am sorry for not listening to you”. Ikenga said as he bowed down in respect to his father. “I have always told you that love should rule. Where have it been heard or written that gods fight amongst themselves. I am happy son that you have realized your mistakes and has accepted it. I made things happen in my own way. I made Alaolisa and your brother fell in love for her to subdue his anger. You shouldn’t be disappointed that things didn’t work out the way you planned, you should be happy for your brother, Amadioha, and not the other way round. I have big plans for you Ikenga, you will fall in love again”. ChuckwuOlisa told his son. “I have heard you father”. Ikenga said and left the creator presence. **** “I am happy that finally we all are going to have some peace”, Njoku Ji told Ikenga who smiled at him. “Were we disturbing before?” Ikenga asked sheepishly. “You don’t know that? Any way I am very happy that you are now yourself once again”. Njoku Ji said happily. “Of course, after all we are all brothers”. Ikenga said after him as they walked along the brighten hall. ****** Nnenna was surprised when she saw Adaku with them and Ogbanje quickly told her what had transpired and how Adaku will take her to where Uhammiri is. Ebuka, Adaku and Ogbanje all left for the Forest of Doom. When they where further away from the hut, Adaku held both hands in hers and disappeared. Nnenna brought out a white calabash which she had hidden and started pouring out it content which was like white clay round the huts. She made her children with the twins stay in door as she poured out the whitish substance around the hut. “Do not come out of this hut no matter what”. She warned them. Removing the knife of death from her wrapper she waited patiently for what she know was coming. **** Uhammiri sited in her throne and seeing everything and knowing Ogbanje is now on her way here. If she had earlier know she would have struck Adaku dead. “Let me see how Nnenna would kill my scorpion god”. Uhammiri said and invoked the scorpion god to her presence. It appeared, half of the scorpion were in human form and the other in scorpion form. “Take all your scorpions with you down to Nnenna’s hut. Kill and destroy whosoever that is in there”. Uhammiri commanded. The scorpion king bowed his head and disappeared. ***** “I can’t sit and watch that evil girl destroy Nnenna and those children, we have to do something father”. Chi cried out to her father Anyanwu. “I think it’s time we come in”. Anyanwu replied. ***** Nnenna saw them coming towards her hut spiritually. No ordinary eyes could see it. They attacked. Uzochi, Ugochi and the two children watched with utmost dismay when they saw Nnenna swinging her hands as if she was fighting an invisible being. They watched with fascination. Suddenly the bright sun darkened and hail storms started falling on the scorpion king and his comrade. None of it touches Nnenna as the hailstorm killed every single scorpions in sight. Nnenna sent a silent thank you to Anyanwu. ***** Appearing at the edge of the forest Adaku decided to wait for them there. “Only those of strong spirit can enter this forest, I cannot enter the forest but you both on other hand can”. Adaku told them. They ventured into the forest killing whatsoever that stood in their way. Not long afterwards they came at the cave Uhammiri stays. Without any delay Ebuka and Ogbanje quickly entered the dark cave. They didn’t have to search for long. Uhammiri was sitting on her throne with her head high in pride. “So you managed to defeat my demons and entered the forest that spirits and gods dreaded to enter. “We are not like the other gods you just mention”. Ogbanje said. “I can see that dear sister. Well if you don’t know about me let me brief you a little bit….”. “I know enough Uhammiri, you are my sister and my father is your father. What I don’t get is why you want to kill us, haven’t you have enough bloodshed soiled in your hands already? You kill my mortal mother and my siblings that came through her is that not enough, what is really your problem”. Ogbanje said cutting off Uhammiri. “I seek for my revenge, for a father who abandoned me and my mother for your worthless mother”. “If Adaku hasn’t vanished into thin air then my father would have known about her pregnancy and cater for you and your mother but no your mother choose to flee with you. How would he know that she was pregnant. Uhammiri you have to stop all these rubbish you are displaying right now. If you want to find who to blame you can do that to Adaku and not to the innocent souls that did nothing to you”. “Whatever you said can’t change the fact that he wasn’t there and I will surely kill Adaku when I have finally killed you”. Uhammiri said without any atom of remorse in her. “Not while I am here”. Ebuka decided to contribute this time. “Oh, I forgot you came with her. Once I am done with her I will have you to my self”. Uhammiri said and turned to gaze back at Ogbanje. “Prepare to die”. She struck them with a lightening but Ebuka was quick to divert the lightening before it hit them. They both started exchanging all sort of powers. When Uhammiri saw that she wasn’t winning she made Okoro appeared in their presence. If not by the quick interval of Ikenga who struck Uhammiri at the back with his sword and at the same time removed Okoro out from black fire Ogbanje had sent to her, Okoro would have been a dead man. Uhammiri laid there staring at nothing as she slowly died. “I came as soon as I saw the lightening, I have been here waiting for the right moment to strike her”. Ikenga said and was surprised to see a confuse and surprise look on Amadioha and Ogbanje faces most especially Amadioha’s own. “Surprise I came to help? Listen to me and don’t interrupt me because I won’t repeat myself again. Well I thought over what you had told me and I realized my mistake and I am not lying. I realized I was the one at fault from the beginning. I made you do what you were not suppose to do and I am very sorry for that. You were right, we are brothers and nothing can change that fact. I have apologized to our father for my mistake and I came here to beg for your forgiveness and let us start afresh once again like brothers”. Ikenga finally said and stretch forth his hand for a handshake from Amadioha, “So brothers?” Smiling Amadioha nodded his head and clasp his hand with his. “Brothers”. Feeling at peace within himself Ikenga vanished. Okoro smiled at that and gave praises to ChuckwuOlisa. Ebuka and Ogbanje laughed and hugged themselves before they left the cave. Ebuka took the dead body of Uhammiri as he, Ogbanje and Okoro made their way towards Adaku who stood anxiously waiting for them. They left home and buried Uhammiri in a glorious way. After all she was their sister and daughter. Okoro forgive Adaku and they once again they lived their normal lives. And when he died his soul went to meet his lover and Anyanwu finally gave out his blessings to them. Adaku attitude towards Ogbanje changed and she started loving her as her own daughter. The twins grew up to become the first female hunters in Udum. They were both feared far and wide and was widely known around the villages. Ikenga once again made the people remember a god called Amadioha. Amadioha was greatly served. And finally down to the two lover birds, Ebuka and Ogbanje later got married and gave birth to two beautiful children a boy and a girl. They stayed together even after their death both returned back to their god and goddess form. Once in a while Alaolisa visit her mother in the Ogbanje’s kingdom and other times visit Chi, Anyanwu’s daughter. And that is the true story of how Amadioha and Ala (igbo god and goddess) met and got married.
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Embracing an Audience-First Approach to Sustainability Communications
Words by 3p Contributor
By Guusje Bendeler
Research clearly indicates that today’s stakeholders expect more from companies — they want to purchase from and work for companies that champion sustainability. This shift in attitude is dramatically altering the way that companies conduct (and even think about) their businesses.
However, since modern audiences are accustomed to having loads of content provided to them at their fingertips, contemporary sustainability has given rise to a new type of challenge for many organizations. In addition to acting responsibly, companies are now expected to effectively communicate about this stuff — which can seem like a daunting task on its own.
We recently had an opportunity to discuss the relationship between sustainability and communications with Chris Librie, eBay’s senior director of global impact and giving. Librie is an expert communicator — skilled at drawing audiences into discussions about sustainability, business, and the intersection between the two — and our conversation showed us why. He was full of insights, opinions, and ideas (some of which had us laughing out loud).
What follows are a few of the takeaways from our discussion with him.
The gap between sustainability and marketing
Librie comes to sustainability from a unique vantage point. He specialized in marketing and communications prior to his work in sustainability, so he has an interesting take on how to bridge the gap between the two subjects.
“Earlier in my career when I was at S.C. Johnson — which is a company of brands — one of the reasons I had that role there was because I had been a marketer [before] and kind of understood the world of the marketer, which is to drive market share and deliver a P&L," Librie explained.
“It really helps to sit down with them and get into that. What are the issues that the consumer has with your product? We were able to find a number of those and develop them into sustainability programs.”
“Ultimately sustainability is a way to position a company for the long term, so you have to understand what the business is trying to accomplish to be able to put yourself in the marketer’s shoes.“
The role of annual sustainability reports
Librie was adamant that an annual sustainability report is not a good way to engage the vast majority of audiences. If an organization wants to engage the growing spectrum of stakeholders interested in sustainability, it must embrace a range of modern communication tactics.
To this end, he sees the role of the sustainability reporing shifting. Most organizations should continue to produce formal sustainability reports, but these should focus more exclusively on data, analysis, and explanations necessary to understand a company’s footprint. Reports should no longer be viewed as the place where companies try to tell their sustainability stories.
“The fact is that even if they’re really well-written, very few people read them.”
Leveraging digital communications effectively
As communicators move away from reports as the de facto place to tell sustainability stories, Librie sees the importance of digital communication tactics continuing to rise. Digital communications give organizations an opportunity to present “layers” of information. “I see a far larger role being played by websites, because a website can be interactive and updatable throughout the year. I think you can do a far better job of guiding people from a high level into more detail on a website than you can in a report.”
These tactics should be catered to different audiences, timely (supporting other things that are happening within the organization or in response to events going on in the world), and rolled out throughout the year.
Contextualizing sustainability and creating a voice
Many formal sustainability reports end up sounding like a “greatest hits” compilation of a company’s sustainability efforts. While this approach gives many organizations a much-needed platform where they can talk about their achievements, it doesn’t foster dialog with stakeholders — a key part of effectively communicating with modern audiences. Librie sees an opportunity for companies to learn how to connect the dots between what they are doing and what’s happening in the world around them.
“Increasingly, I think the opportunity for companies is to take a point of view on sustainability issues and talk about them with a voice — not just kind of in a ‘touting our latest achievement’ way, but actually getting into a dialogue with stakeholders.”
Audience-centric communications
As companies learn to adjust to new communications paradigms, audiences’ needs and expectations will continue to play a larger role in the future. As Librie put it: “I think a more audience-specific approach to sustainability communication is the way of the future. I think there was the period of the report — the period of GRI and all this kind of work that was very engineering- and compliance-driven. Now I think companies that are going in the right direction are saying, ‘Well, wait a second. Do we really need to be hidebound by that stuff? Can’t we take our own approach?’”
To learn more about how companies can connect purposeful sustainability with engaging communications tactics, read our full conversation with Chris Librie here.
Guusje Bendeler is co-founder and Chief Strategy & Creative of thinkPARALLAX, a creative marketing and communications consultancy committed to building brands with purpose. Her work with clients such as Southwest Airlines, Qualcomm, International Paper, and Beam Suntory — has included overseeing the development and implementation of corporate brand strategies.
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Mineta Recommends Higher Status For Safety In DOT
May 26, 1999 • by Staff
Norman Mineta has added a new wrinkle to the debate over truck safety. The former congressman yesterday proposed yet another solution to the federal government's performance problem: Give safety and highways equal status in the same office in the Department of Transportation.
Right now, safety is subordinate to highways within the Federal Highway Administration. Mineta recommended formation of a Federal Highway and Motor Carrier Safety Administration. There would be one administrator running the whole thing, with a deputy for highways and a deputy for safety.
This structure would "clearly establish the importance of motor carrier safety within DOT," Mineta told the House Ground Transportation Committee at a hearing yesterday. Plus, he said, it would be much less expensive and disruptive than creating a separate Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Mineta, whose analysis of DOT's safety program was requested by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, is recommending a middle path that may wind up gathering support on Capitol Hill.
The most conservative approach suggested so far in the quest to improve truck safety is Slater's, who this week proposed that safety remain where it is. (See "Slater Acts to Keep OMCHS Where It Is," http://www.heavytruck.com/cgi-bin/rsnewsframe?990526.91.) Also on the table are a proposal to create a separate Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is supported by trucking industry groups, and a proposal to move safety into the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is supported by Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA, and safety advocacy groups.
In addition to organizational changes, Mineta is recommending tougher enforcement and entry requirements. He said the new chief of the Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety, Julie Cirillo, has a clear understanding of the issues and is taking decisive action. Here are his key items:
· Increase the number of safety compliance reviews (already under way at OMCHS).
· Give the states more money for enforcement.
· Increase roadside inspections.
· Improve the motor carrier safety hotline.
· Bring shippers and receivers into the safety program by extending regulations and enforcement to activities such as loading and unloading, and scheduling.
· Add at least 50 new federal inspectors to Mexican border crossings.
· Improve DOT's rulemaking process by setting priorities, schedules and accountability.
· Add at least 12 staff to DOT's rulemaking office.
· Find a better way to handle complex rules — perhaps by splitting them into more workable parts.
· Improve safety data and information by giving states the resources they need to collect and upload crash reports.
· Fund and complete an in-depth crash causation study — as soon as possible.
· Create a comprehensive safety fitness program for new truckers by the end of the year.
· Use third parties to help assess safety fitness and train new truckers.
· Establish minimum driver training criteria, coupled with a commercial driver's learner permit and on-the-road apprentice training.
· Give high priority to crash-avoidance technologies.
· Use innovative financing techniques to ensure there are enough roadside rest areas.
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Home Reality TV 90 Day Fiance: Larissa Is Not Getting Deported, Looking For A Family...
90 Day Fiance: Larissa Is Not Getting Deported, Looking For A Family Law Attorney
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90 Day Fiance star Larissa has revealed that she is going to stay in the US and is not getting deported. Even though it seems highly unlikely, the Brazilian beauty says that she is ready to put everything behind her and hang in there. Let’s take a look at how she came in the position to give such a statement. She is going strong with her new man and is planning to stay in Las Vegas.
90 Day Fiance: What Is The Brazilian Bombshell Up To?
Larissa has been working on the progress of her brand and the included beauty products of a range named Here Kitty Kitty. She visited Boulder City, Nevada as a result of her collaboration with the brand Beauty Kitchen. Eric was there with her, accompanying Larissa at every step. He also posed with her for red carpet pictures.
Larissa has managed to avoid some big jail time owing to her third domestic violence case. “It’s done. I’m here staying,” is her exact statement. Her third arrest occurred in January 2019. There was a physical altercation between her and her estranged husband Colt which turned quite nasty. If the arrest had taken place at that time, Larissa would have faced some serious issues. Most importantly, the US government would have deported her.
In Larissa’s hearing in May, the judge paused her case. She updated fans on Instagram that she is neither guilty nor unguilty for the crimes. She said that the charge is going to face a reduction to merely Disorderly Conduct when she follows the program of the court of law. Larissa cleared that her lawyer has said that it’s best not to comment on cases like hers as things can get quite unpredictable.
90 Day Fiance: Larissa’s Immigration Unaffected
Larissa happily announced that she is staying in the US. She called her lawyer the best lawyer in Nevada and said that her immigration status is unaffected. She is required to go through a Justice Court Community Service Program. After she completes it, Larissa would be free from all the legal hassles. The charges from the arrest are now dropped and it seems like the queen has nothing to worry about.
Of course, this is not going to go well with Colt and the fans who think she used him for his money and the green card. How do you think Colt and his mom will react? Let us know in the comments below.
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Churches confront sexual violence: Column
Several faith-based groups are giving voice to those victimized by clergy.
Churches confront sexual violence: Column Several faith-based groups are giving voice to those victimized by clergy. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1bDSYUX
USATODAY Published 6:25 p.m. ET Jan. 30, 2014 | Updated 12:26 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2014
The Archdiocese of Chicago is releasing documents detailing sexual misconduct and how it dealt with the priests.(Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast, AP)
Churches have often proved complicit when it comes to sexual exploitation of vulnerable people.
Statistics show people in religious communities are just as likely to experience sexual violence.
So a growing number of religious organizations are working to end the silence on sex abuse.
It's a scourge as old as the ages, yet sexual violence against women and children is fresh in the headlines as President Obama launches an initiative to address sexual assaults on college campuses, while the military tries to fix its own problem and newly released documents shed galling light on the Catholic Church's pattern of abuse and coverup in the Chicago diocese.
As the priests' crimes remind us, religious institutions, at their worst, have often proved complicit and sometimes out-and-out guilty when it comes to sexual advances against vulnerable people. As real as that problem is, however, there's a counterstory emerging that could redeem religion's role in this ugly dynamic:
Faith organizations are beginning to address sexual abuse with a new energy and earnestness — a welcome step toward the fulfillment of their enormous potential to do good on this front.
Silent complicity
Given the morality and virtue idealists associate with faith, one would expect that congregants would be safe from abuse. If only that were so. Statistics show that people in religious communities are just as likely to experience sexual violence as those who are not — which is to say, very likely. Nearly one in five women in this country have been raped, according to a 2010 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half by an intimate partner.
Despite churches' well-known exhortations about sexual morality, critics can make a legitimate case that some traditions in church culture actually contribute to the problem. How? By promoting the idea of male superiority and by pastors shying away from addressing the disturbing topic from their pulpits or in their counseling roles.
"Silence is the most important form of complicity," says David Leslie, executive director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, which is one of a growing number of religious organizations working to end that silence.
Leslie's Portland-based organization was part of a coalition of faith groups, including IMA World Health and the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), that teamed up for Speak Out Sunday last fall — an effort to mobilize pastors to preach against sexual violence inside and outside churches. The Speak Out campaign and groups such as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests are doing brave work to give voice to those victimized by clergy or other church authorities.
Religious response
Disturbing candor about sexual violence might not bring the uplift that church-goers are seeking. Yet raising a voice of consciousness against injustice is an act of hope and the first step toward churches becoming a first line of defense against the sexual victimization. "By raising their voices to proclaim that children and women deserve to live free from terror and violence, spiritual leaders are building momentum for this long overdue movement," says Rhonda Case, Portland liaison for SAIV.
To those cynical about churches, the notion of their intervention in the sex abuse epidemic might seem like sending the fox back to the hen house. But as is often the case with religion gone wrong, the solution is not to throw out religion, but to summon religion at its best to help change things for the better.
The Faith Trust Institute — an organization helping lead the religious response to sex violence — frames the notion well in its guiding principles statement: "We believe that the teachings of our religious traditions have been a source of pain and confusion as well as a source of strength and healing for those facing sexual and domestic violence."
Hard to argue with that. Those who study the issue also point out this unavoidable fact: Women in church communities who experience sexual violence often turn first to their churches for refuge. Why not provide support where support is naturally sought?
In confronting sexual violence, don't count out the faith community. If anything, expect more, and better, of it.
Tom Krattenmaker, a Portland-based writer specializing in religion in public life, is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. He is author of The Evangelicals You Don't Know.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors. To read more columns like this, go to the opinion front page or follow us on twitter @USATopinion or Facebook.
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Julian Green, DeAndre Yedlin on U.S. 30-man World Cup squad
A month from the start of the World Cup, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann named his 30-man preliminary World Cup roster Monday. There were few surprises on the roster. The most notable inclusions being
Julian Green, DeAndre Yedlin on U.S. 30-man World Cup squad A month from the start of the World Cup, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann named his 30-man preliminary World Cup roster Monday. There were few surprises on the roster. The most notable inclusions being Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1gfjlsG
Kelly Whiteside, USA TODAY Sports Published 3:13 p.m. ET May 12, 2014 | Updated 2:46 p.m. ET May 14, 2014
Julian Green made his first appearance for the U.S. national team against Mexico.(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports)
Other than their penchant for the occasional Mohawk or hi-top fade, Julian Green and DeAndre Yedlin seemingly had little in common -- until they became the youngest members of the United States' 30-man preliminary World Cup roster Monday.
Green, 18, the son of a U.S. serviceman, was born in Florida, raised in Germany, and signed by Bayern Munich, one of the world's great clubs. Yedlin, 20, was raised by his grandparents in Seattle and joined his hometown club, the Seattle Sounders.
Green has played one game for the national team; Yedlin has played in two.
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"With Julian and DeAndre, we have two huge talents being part of the 30-man roster and it will be interesting to see how they take that challenge," Klinsmann said. "Because they obviously they don't have the experience that other players have it will be interesting for our coaches to see how they take it on and how they now compete for the 23 (player) roster."
Training camp begins Wednesday in Palo Alto, Calif. and Klinsmann has until June 2 to decide on his final 23-player roster before leaving for Brazil. The preliminary roster includes 15 MLS players, 13 European-based players, and two Mexican-based players. The most notable exclusion: D.C. United forward Eddie Johnson, who scored the World Cup clinching goal last year against Mexico and was key contributor during qualifying.
Twelve years ago, two 20-year-olds had a breakthrough performance at the 2002 World Cup and helped lead the Americans to the quarterfinals. Now Landon Donovan and DaMarcus Beasley are poised to play in their fourth World Cup. Of course, projecting a similar path for Green and Yedlin is foolhardy at this point. Klinsmann can only hope his rookies have a similar impact in years to come.
ENGLAND: A youthful World Cup roster
WORLD CUP: The field of 32 countries
The career arc of young players is usually full of peaks and valleys. Four years ago, at age 20, Jozy Altidore started all four matches in the World Cup. With the national team last year, Altidore was on fire, scoring eight goals in 14 appearances This season he struggled and played sparingly with Sunderland in the English Premier League.
"Jozy is still a very young player and he's going through a big learning experience with his club," Klinsmann said, adding that he expects Altidore to have a big World Cup. "He has not reached his potential yet … he's still a player to developed, he's not there yet."
Green's recent decision to play for the USA was significant. A dual citizen with such potential has never before chosen the U.S. team at such an early stage of his career. The midfielder could have waited and perhaps moved up Germany's national team system with one of the world's best teams. Klinsmann, a former German star and Bayern Munich coach, was a critical factor in his decision.
In his much-hyped American debut last month against Mexico, Green showed flashes of promise, but left the game with a separated shoulder. He hasn't played for his Bayern Munich's second team since the injury but resumed training with the club last week and is healthy for camp, Klinsmann said.
Yedlin earned his spot through his solid MLS play. The speedy outside back, whose hair is much more flamboyant than his personality, grew up in the youth national team system and started in all three matches in the 2013 Under-20 World Cup.
Now he and Green will try to make it to Brazil, short on experience but long on potential. "If you analyze both players they have tremendous upside in their development curve and going forward," Klinsmann said. "We'll see clearly over the next three weeks if they're ready for a World Cup or not."
The 30-man roster
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
Defenders: DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), John Brooks (Hertha Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Timmy Chandler (Nürnberg), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Clarence Goodson (San Jose Earthquakes), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim), Michael Parkhurst (Columbus Crew), DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders FC)
Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Joe Corona (Club Tijuana), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Maurice Edu (Philadelphia Union), Julian Green (Bayern Munich), Jermaine Jones (Besiktas), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)
Forwards: Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Terrence Boyd (Rapid Vienna), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)
PHOTOS: Players on U.S. 30-man roster
United States 2014 World Cup roster
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann made some controversial choices in his final 23-man roster, ultimately blending youth with experience. The U.S. takes on Ghana in its World Cup opener. Adam Hunger, USA TODAY Sports
Coach: Jurgen Klinsmann. The German legend took over in 2011 and guided the United States to its seventh consecutive World Cup. Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
GK Tim Howard, Everton (England) Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports
GK Brad Guzan, Aston Villa (England) Jack Dempsey, AP
GK Nick Rimando, Real Salt Lake Tim Heitman, USA TODAY Sports
D Matt Besler, Sporting Kansas City Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
D Geoff Cameron, Stoke City (England) Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports
D Fabian Johnson, Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany) Adam Hunger, USA TODAY Sports
D DaMarcus Beasley, Puebla (Mexico) Jack Dempsey, AP
D Omar Gonzalez, Los Angeles Galaxy Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
D Timothy Chandler, Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany) Thomas Mendoza, AP
D DeAndre Yedlin, Seattle Sounders Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
D John Brooks, Hertha Berlin (Germany) Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, Getty Images
M Michael Bradley, Toronto FC Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
M Graham Zusi, Sporting Kansas City Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
M Jermaine Jones, Besiktas (Turkey) Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports
M Alejandro Bedoya, Nantes (France) Peter Aiken, USA TODAY Sports
M Brad Davis, Houston Dynamo Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
M Kyle Beckerman, Real Salt Lake Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
M Mix Diskerud, Rosenborg (Norway) Scott Olmos, USA TODAY Sports
M Julian Green, Bayern Munich (Germany) Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
F Clint Dempsey, Seattle Sounders Adam Hunger
F Jozy Altidore, Sunderland (England) Adam Hunger, USA TODAY Sports
F Aron Johannsson, AZ (Netherlands) Yorgos Karahalis, Reuters
F Chris Wondolowski, San Jose Earthquakes Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
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Wall Street Rebounds as US-China Trade Rhetoric Cools
NEW YORK - Technology stocks led the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq higher on Tuesday, with U.S. stocks reclaiming ground lost to Monday's steep sell-off as investors took heart from a tonal shift in ongoing U.S. trade negotiations with China.
All three major U.S. indexes were in the black, recovering some ground from their worst one-day percentage losses in months. The bellwether S&P 500 was hovering more than 3% below its most recent all-time high reached two weeks ago.
Investors' nerves were calmed after U.S. President Donald Trump referred to the escalating trade war with China as 'a little squabble,' adding that 'we have a good dialogue going.'
Beijing echoed that sentiment, with a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman telling reporters: 'My understanding is that China and the United States have agreed to continue pursuing relevant discussions.'
'Either this is a bargain-hunting rally or a dead cat bounce, or there is some consensus that something meaningful is going to come out of the trade talks in the next four to six weeks,' said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.
But Hellwig also feels the rollercoaster of the escalating trade war has had an effect on investor psychology.
'I'm starting to see some investors becoming anesthetized on the negotiations and focusing on what the market's going to look like a year from now,' Hellwig added.
Boeing Co provided the biggest boost to the Dow, rising 2.1% as tariff-sensitive industrials buoyed the blue chip index.
Ralph Lauren Corp dropped 3.8% after the apparel company posted quarterly results.
Uber Technologies and ride-hailing peer Lyft Inc were both trading higher, reversing course after their post-debut slides. Their stocks were up 1.7% and 5.5%, respectively.
Walt Disney Co announced it would take control of Comcast Corp's Hulu in a move to challenge Netflix and others in the global video streaming war.
Disney stock climbed 2.0%, while Comcast gained 2.4%. Netflix shares were up slightly.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 344.71 points, or 1.36%, to 25,669.7, the S&P 500 gained 39.29 points, or 1.40%, to 2,851.16 and the Nasdaq Composite added 124.25 points, or 1.62%, to 7,771.27.
Of the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, all but utilities were in the black. Technology stocks had the largest percentage gains, climbing 2.1%.
Chipmakers enjoyed a reprieve, with the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index rising 2.7% after suffering its worst one-day percentage loss since Jan. 3.
First quarter earnings season is winding down, with 453 of S&P 500 companies having reported, 75.3% of which beat analyst expectations, slightly below the 76% beat rate for the last four quarters.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 3.70-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.74-to-1 ratio favored advancers. The S&P 500 posted 23 new 52-week highs and 6 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 41 new highs and 79 new lows.
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Save Me Book Blitz Author: Cecy Robson
by Cecy Robson O’Brien Family, #5 Publication Date: April 25, 2018 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Standalone
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RT Book Reviews proclaims that the O’Brien Family series from award-winning author Cecy Robson “has the hottest brothers ever!” And in SAVE ME, it’s time for Seamus, the family’s most notorious bachelor, to find true love.
Three weddings. No date. What’s a hot stud to do when all the women on his speed dial are either serving dinner to their families or serving time?
Out of all the O’Briens, Seamus is the best-looking, most creative, and, did I mention, best-looking? Single at almost forty wasn’t a big deal until every sibling in his large and loud Irish family found “the one.” Now, he’s desperate for a wedding date, one he doesn’t have to worry will make out with the limo driver or rob the bride and groom blind.
Allie Mendes is the good daughter, who’s spent her life living in her perfect sister’s shadow. But when her sister steals the man Allie was supposed to marry, that shadow she’s lived in threatens to swallow her whole. Allie wants to believe a bright future awaits. But when she begs God to save her from this disastrous twist of fate, the last person she expects Him to send her is Seamus O’Brien.
Allie needs a stand-in boyfriend to avoid appearing as lonely as she feels. Seamus needs a decent woman without an ankle bracelet or a rap sheet as long as his muscular arms. The two make a deal to pose as each other’s perfect date. But weddings mean romance and a chance at forever neither had planned.
Valentina rushes me. Her speed and movements inhumanly graceful. She throws her arms around me like she would a long-lost friend and not the sister she hasn’t spoken to in years. She lifts me briefly, making a grunting sound as if I weigh a more than I do.
Following an uncomfortably long embrace, she holds me out at arm’s length, staring down at me and asserting her apparent superiority. “It’s so good to see you, Allie.” Her face softens like she wants to cry. “Mom says you don’t have a date for the wedding. But don’t worry. Andy and I will find someone to take you.”
Andy? I slowly turn in Andres’s direction. Lovely.
I suppose it could be worse. I could be Andy.
“Did you hear that?” My mother asks, beaming. “Your sister and Andy are going to find
you someone so you don’t have to be all alone.”
They wait, expecting me to thank them. I’d rather stab myself in the eye with Valentina’s
pitchfork.
I lift my chin, meeting my sister square in the eye. “I have a date,” I reply.
“No you don’t,” my mother immediately interjects, making me feel worse because she’s
I stand to my full height, ignoring how they tower over me, clinging with my teeth to whatever strand of dignity remains.
“Really?” Valentina asks. She tosses back her hair, fighting it seems to keep from full-out cackling. “And who might that be?
My breath leaves my lungs with an odd squeak as Seamus yanks me to him, pressing me into his large, firm body. His chin is smeared with cream, chocolate stains the front of his shirt, and he has something stuck between his teeth. That doesn’t stop him from flashing a smile with what remains of his pearly whites.
“How’s it going?” He smacks my ass and gives it a squeeze. “I’m Seamus. Allie’s boyfriend.”
ABOUT CECY ROBSON
Cecy Robson is an author of contemporary and new adult romance, young adult adventure, and award-winning urban fantasy. A double-nominated RITA® Finalist, Winner of the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, and published author of more than twenty titles, you can typically find Cecy on her laptop or stumbling blindly in search of caffeine.
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France Bombs Northern Mali
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After three weeks of military offensive against Islamist militants in Mali, French air forces pounded an area in the north of the country near the Algerian border where rebels have gathered. Thirty french jets targeted various communication and training centers in an attempt to secur the city of Kidal, one of the final remaining holdouts for the militants. Several French hostages are believed to be held somewhere in the area. French armed forces also moved to protect a uranium plant in neighboring Niger after a hostage crisis at a gas plant in Algeria. The French company Areva is deeply involved in uranium mining in Niger, which supplies materials for nuclear power production in France.
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Not many are familiar with the nuances of complex accounting jargons. It is quite challenging to decipher the income and wealth statements each candidate, running in the 11th parliamentary polls, submitted to the Election Commission. The Daily Star's Sohel Parvez and Jahurul Islam Sojol with the help of a few others have made an effort to crunch the data and analyse those to help readers in this regard. The affidavits of over 550 candidates of AL, BNP and their allies were analysed based on the value of their moveable and immoveable properties. During the exercise, The Daily Star found some interesting facts. Some candidates did not provide any information about their and their dependents' moveable and immoveable assets. Some made disclosures like having 10 tola of gold and other precious metals and ornaments without mentioning their prices, some claimed ownership of farms and non-farm land, buildings, and flats without mentioning their market value. One candidate in his affidavit said he has 20 tola of gold and other precious metals and ornaments but claimed their value to be Tk 35,000, much less than the market value. A former minister did not provide any wealth information in his affidavit. Despite the lack of uniformity and incomplete date in the affidavits of many, The Daily Star calculated the gross wealth of the candidates and their dependents based on the value of properties provided in the affidavits.
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Brighton & Hove infants asked to choose gender on primary school form
Thousands of parents invited by council to support the selection that their children would ‘most identify with’
Wed 20 Apr 2016 14.17 EDT Last modified on Wed 20 Apr 2016 15.12 EDT
Local parents have been asked to support their pre-school children in their gender preference. Photograph: Photofusion/Rex/Shutterstock
Children aged four have been asked to choose the gender “they most identify with” on a council form.
Brighton & Hove city council wrote to thousands of parents to confirm their primary school places this week.
The council asked parents to support their child’s choice on whether they identified as male or female and allowed them to leave the form blank if their child had “another gender identity”, according to the Sun.
The move has been criticised but the council defended its actions as a response to the requests of families.
The letter said: “We recognise that not all children and young people identify with the gender they were assigned at birth or may identify as a gender other than male or female, however the current systems (set nationally) only record gender as male or female.
“Please support your child to choose the gender they most identify with.
“Or if they have another gender identity please leave this blank and discuss with your child’s school.”
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Tory MP Andrew Bridgen called the move “utterly ridiculous” and said: “Schools should be teaching kids to read and write, not prompting them to consider gender swaps.”
Cllr Emma Daniel, head of Brighton’s equalities committee, said she was aware of “concerns” over the wording.
She told the Sun: “We have inserted the additional text about gender identity in response to calls from families, young people and schools to show an inclusive approach.
“There are increasing numbers of children and young people nationally identifying as trans.”
She added: “We will review this to see whether we can make it clearer that we consider discussions around gender identity to be an option for parents rather than an obligation.”
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BT accused of ‘shameless profiteering’ over universal credit helpline
Tim Farron estimates the telecoms company has made a minimum of £1.49m from calls made by people struggling with the new benefits system
Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent
Sun 28 Feb 2016 14.10 EST Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 20.47 EST
Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats said that the universal credit helpline should be free. Photograph: James Gourley/Rex/Shutterstock
BT has been accused of “shameless profiteering” after official figures indicated that the telecommunications giant has generated more than £1m from a phone line designed to help people struggling with the new universal credit system.
Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said it is wrong to charge some of the poorest people in Britain who are simply seeking advice about the new universal credit which integrates six benefits.
In a parliamentary written answer last week the employment minister Priti Patel said that 2.2m calls have been answered by universal credit agents manning an 0345 helpline. Farron estimates that this has generated a minimum of £1.49m for BT – and possibly as much as £6.6m – because Patel said in her written answer that each call lasts an average of 7mins 29 secs. Calls to 0345 numbers from landlines cost up to 12p a minute and up to 45p a minute from mobiles.
Farron told the Guardian: “Charging millions of pounds for some of the poorest people in the country to get advice on universal credit is shameless profiteering. The move to universal credit will prompt questions from people and the government should be able to offer advice and reassurance without taking even more away from those on the tightest budgets. Helplines like this should be free.
“I want to see an improved welfare system, where we can reduce the cost of bureaucracy and make sure that it is those people who need help who are getting it, but you don’t achieve that by profiteering of people who are trying to find out about the changes the government are making.”
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson said: “People who are unable to claim online and need to use the telephone service can request a call back to avoid call charges. Most vacancies are now advertised over the internet and claimants are encouraged to apply online to help them prepare for the world of work.”
The disclosure of the revenue generated by BT came after the Observer revealed that 85% of benefit fraud allegations made by the public to a telephone hotline or online over the last five years were false.
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DreamWorks Theater Opening June 15, 2018 at Universal Studios Hollywood with "Kung Fu Panda: The Emperor's Quest"
Universal Studios Hollywood has confirmed new details and an official opening date for their new DreamWorks Theater. Starting on June 15, 2018, park guests will be able to enjoy the attraction and experience its inaugural show: "Kung Fu Panda: The Emperor's Quest". This short film, inspired by the popular DreamWorks movie franchise, will take visitors on a journey with the Dragon Warrior Po. The plot will center around a wild and perilous mission to deliver the rare and precious Liquid of Limitless Power to the Palace, which will include an exciting adventure filled with raging rapids, river pirates, awesome magic and Kung Fu.
DreamWorks Animation and the in-house crew at Universal Creative worked together to create this new, technologically-advanced attraction. Interior projection mapping inside the theater, powered by seven Christie 4K Boxer Cinema Projectors, will help immerse guests in 180 degrees of action. Accompanying physical effects (water, wind, etc.), swiveling seats, and 360 degrees of surround sound will round out this sensory experience. An original score by Germaine Franco will also be synchronized to all the action on-screen throughout the show.
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'13 Reasons' Might Have Triggered Suicide Searches Online
Researchers found that for almost three weeks after the show's release on Netflix, there were at least 900,000 more than expected Google searches including the word "suicide."
By The News · 31 of July 2017 19:59:18
This image released by Netflix shows Katherine Langford in a scene from the series, "13 Reasons Why," about a teenager who commits suicide, This image released by Netflix shows Katherine Langford in a scene from the series, "13 Reasons Why," about a teenager who commits suicide. The stomach-turning suicide scene has triggered criticism from some mental health advocates that it romanticizes suicide and even promoted many schools across the country to send warning letters to parents and guardians. The show’s creators are unapologetic, saying their frank depiction of teen life needs to be “unflinching and raw.” (Beth Dubber/Netflix via AP), photo: Netflix/Beth Dubber via AP
CHICAGO – A popular TV series that showed a teen ending her life may have triggered a surge in online searches for suicide, including how to do it.
That’s according to a new study about the show “13 Reasons Why.” Netflix released all 13 episodes on March 31.
Researchers found that for almost three weeks afterward, there were at least 900,000 more than expected Google searches including the word “suicide.” That’s a 19-percent increase based on forecasts using Google Trends and historical search trends. Searches included suicide methods, suicide hotlines and suicide prevention.
The study doesn’t prove a link and didn’t examine any connection with actual suicides or attempts. It was published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
A journal editorial said it’s not clear if the searches “were made out of idle curiosity or by suicidal individuals contemplating an attempt.” But it argues that the producers could have done more to emphasize suicide prevention, including listing resources for where to find help before and after each episode.
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A Call for Social Responsibility and Suicide Intervention Following Release of the Netflix Series 13 Reasons Why https://t.co/bX3KKyTwoz
Some mental health advocates say the show glamorized suicide, and many U.S. schools sent parents warning letters about the show.
The series is about a high school girl who left behind 13 audiotapes where she revealed sexual assault, substance abuse and bullying that led to her decision to take her own life. The finale shows her suicide.
Episodes with the most explicit material included warnings and a website Netflix created with crisis hotlines and other resources for the more than 30 countries where the series was available. It has been renewed for a second season.
John Ayers, a San Diego State University researcher who led the research, said the series could trigger troubled teens and that the producers should remove and edit the episodes to focus on suicide prevention before reposting.
“Far more people go to the brink and come back and have satisfaction with that decision,” he said.
In a written statement, Netflix said, “We always believed this show would increase discussion around this tough subject matter. This is an interesting quasi experimental study that confirms this. We are looking forward to more research and taking everything we learn to heart as we prepare for season 2.”
Madelyn Gould, a Columbia University suicide prevention researcher, noted the study design was less rigorous than some research methods, but said the results “should be taken seriously.”
“My main concern was that suicide was portrayed sort of as the inevitable consequence of life’s adversities rather than depicting what would be an actually more appropriate message, which is that there’s help when you’re feeling suicidal rather than resorting to killing yourself,” Gould said.
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Calls to drop NHS legal case mounting
Calls to drop Friarage legal case mounting
By Stuart Minting Local Democracy Reporter
Cllr Jim Clark
THE former chairman of an influential health watchdog has backed a call by an NHS boss for campaigners to abandon legal action over the closure of an accident and emergency unit.
Councillor Jim Clark, who has battled to retain key hospital services at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton for more than a decade, said he believed the time and energy of the Save The Friarage Hospital campaigners would be better spent on shaping a public consultation over future services at the infirmary.
Cllr Clark made the comments days after Richmond MP Rishi Sunak published an independent report which concluded South Tees NHS Trust has made a strong case to downgrade provision.
Last month the trust’s medical director, Dr Adrian Clements, told North Yorkshire County Council’s scrutiny of health committee, campaigners to drop their battle as it was costing an “awful lot of money”. However, the campaign group said it would continue with its judicial review action.
Former scrutiny of health committee chairman Cllr Clark said: “I think the campaigners would be better served putting their efforts on helping shape what services will look like at the Friarage in the future. The consultation should be treated an opportunity, and if people don’t get what they consider is required, that is when the scrutiny of health would pick it up.”
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Home Entertaintment Video: Mirzapur Actor Ali Fazal’s Private Nude Photo Leaked Online, Actor Confirms ‘yes, it’s me’-Watch
Video: Mirzapur Actor Ali Fazal’s Private Nude Photo Leaked Online, Actor Confirms ‘yes, it’s me’-Watch
Ali Fazal is apparently the latest victim of hackers after a nude photo of the Bollywood star was reportedly leaked online. The pictures, however, are not available anymore.
With the star of hit amazon prime original series “Mirzapur” and films like “Victoria and Abdul” and “Fukrey” confirming it is indeed him in the photo.
On Saturday, the 32-year-old Actor Ali Fazal Confirms Private Photo Leak, Promises an Explanation
Ali Fazal Confirms ‘yes, it’s me’-Watch
A post shared by ali fazal (@alifazal9) on Feb 23, 2019 at 4:33am PST
“Yes it is me….It is me in the photo…I don’t have to justify anything to anyone. I don’t know how it went out,” the 32-year-old actor said in a video on Instagram.
“It’s such a cheap thing to do,” he added.
Ali continued, “When the time is right…I promise I will explain everything.”
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"Public Enemy!"
Storm loses her powers via Forge's Neutralizer.
Artists: John Romita Jr. & Dan Green
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
At the Pentagon, Henry Peter Gyrich leads a briefing on Rogue and unveils Forge's Neutralizer, declaring his intent to use it in apprehending Rogue for killing a SHIELD agent. Raven Darkholme storms in, angry that Gyrich intends to use the untested Neutralizer prototype, but is told that the president has authorized the action. Meanwhile, at Xavier's School, Storm interrupts a therapy session between Professor X and Rachel to declare that Rogue has gone missing. Worried she may be suffering a relapse in the control of her powers, Professor X and Storm go to Cerebro to attempt to locate her, while Rachel, spying Xavier's address book, calls her father, Cyclops. Meanwhile, within a secret chamber at the Pentagon, Raven, as Mystique, consults Destiny for the best course of action regarding Rogue. Raven then informs Forge that Gyrich and his NSA team intend to use his invention on Rogue. Furious, Forge calls the president as he flies off to intercept Gyrich.
Storm tracks Rogue to a riverbank in Mississippi, a place Rogue used to come as a child, insisting that she has friends now and doesn't need to isolate herself. As a show of trust, Storm willing allows Rogue to absorb her powers and memories. With Storm unconscious, Rogue revels in the new-found perspective gained from Storm's abilities. Just then, Gyrich and his agents arrive and attack Rogue. She whips up a storm that scatters the government agents, but endangers a river trawler in the process. Just as she loses control of the storm, Storm awakens and quells the tempest. They work together to save the crew of the ship, leaving themselves open to another attack. Forge arrives just as Gyrich fires off a full power shot from the Neutralizer. Storm knocks Rogue out of the way, taking the blast herself. In the ensuing discharge of energy, Rogue disappears, presumably taken away by the current. Forge fishes the unconscious and powerless Storm out of the river, angrily admonishing Gyrich for taking the law into his own hands. Meanwhile, a group of Dire Wraiths watch the scene from their scrying pool, and, recognizing Forge's Neutralizer as being similar in design to the one used against them by their foe Rom, declare that Forge must die.
Storm loses her powers as of this issue, taking a full powered shot from Forge's Neutralizer intended for Rogue (depicted via a pretty awesome panel). While the immediate ramifications of this event will be addressed over the course of the next few issues, being powerless will remain Storm's status quo for roughly the next forty odd issues.
Though relative common place by the time Jim Lee gets his hands on her, this issue marks the first time we see "sexy Rogue", as, in the culmination of the gradual visual de-aging of the character, she spends most of this issue hanging around in a bikini (much to the delight of Teenage Teebore).
We also learn that Rogue is originally from Mississippi, and hear for the first time the now-familiar story about how her power first manifested when she kissed a boy named Cody, further strengthening the idea of her powers as a burden.
We learn that Rachel is the daughter of Cyclops (and by extension that her last name is Summers, though that's not made explicit). She hears Madelyne's voice and refers to her as "mom", though, as New Mutants #18 established that Rachel's mother helped train her in the use of her telekinetic powers, at this point it stands to reason that Rachel is merely confusing Madelyne's voice with Jean Grey's (this will be made explicit eventually).
Destiny saws that she's unable to currently see the future due to a rend in the fabric of space/time. It's never made clear whether this is a reference to the events hinted at by Naze to Forge last issue, a result of the Demon Bear story unfolding concurrently in New Mutants, or the arrival of Rachel in the present day.
Storm mentions that she found Rogue and was told about the Neutralizer thanks to Mystique, and a footnote points the reader to a future issue of Marvel Fanfare. That story did eventually see print, some four years later, as a backup story, written by Claremont, in Marvel Fanfare #40. In it, Mystique approaches Storm and informs her of the situation, though she fails to mention that Destiny has foreseen that whomever goes to Rogue's aid will be depowered, making Mystique's action less altruistic. It's also notable for ending with Mystique, as a male Raven Darkholme, dancing with Destiny, perhaps the most overt on-panel hint at Claremont's true intentions for their relationship.
Though Cyclops' head curiously remains present, Storm's head has been removed from the corner box in this issue, perhaps a nod to her depowerment (though she technically remains with the team).
Several little details regarding the nature of Rogue's power are established in this issue. It's said that length of contact correlates to how long she hangs onto stolen powers and memories (meaning she must have touched Ms. Marvel longer than anyone else, and suggesting she could potentially permanently steal someone else's powers and memories). Rogue also believes that because Storm didn't fight against Rogue taking her powers, Rogue was able to more easily handle sharing Storm's emotions and memories with her own, while it's also confirmed that Rogue adopts the diction and voice of the persona she's absorbed.
It's also mentioned that while Rogue ostensibly came to Xavier for help in controlling her powers, she's actually gotten worse since joining the team, a nod to the events of issue #182.
Gyrich's briefing which opens the issue allows Romita and Green to recreate scenes from issue #158, in which Rogue is drawn noticeably younger than she appeared in that issue.
Gyrich also saws that the computer virus the X-Men introduced to the Pentagon in issue #158 erased references not only to the X-Men but mutants in general, though clearly the government has since learned about the presence of the virus and it's effects.
When told Rogue is missing, Professor X notes that he can't sense her thoughts, meaning she's gone outside the greater New York area, giving a range to Xavier's telepathy when unassisted by Cerebro (he's also wearing some kind of weird robe/smoking jacket in his scenes).
Storm notes that Rossi is away on another mission since being rescued by Rogue, offering a bit of closure to his last appearance, though it's never made clear what that mission is, and he has yet to appear in an X-book since.
It's revealed that the headquarters of Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, first seen in issue #141, is actually a room hidden within the Pentagon (which also explains what Rogue and Mystique were doing there in issue #158). While Mystique is a shapechanger and well known at the Pentagon as Raven Darkholme, it's unclear how the other Brotherhood members, such as the not-inconspicuous Blob, come and go.
Mystique notes that Gyrich wants to use the Neutralizer on Rogue to prove that the government doesn't need the help of superheroes like the Avengers to handle super powered threats.
She also discusses with Destiny whether or not it would be better to allow Rogue to lose her powers, a not unreasonable idea.
Claremont continues to sprinkle the book with references to Bill Mantlo's Rom, as Gyrich mentions that SHIELD is busy fighting against the Dire Wraiths, leaving him to confront Rogue with a team comprised of FBI and Secret Service agents. He also sets up an extended appearance by the Wraiths in the issues ahead.
It could be entirely coincidental, but the name of the river boat caught up in Rogue's storm is Longshot Annie. A few years from now, editor Ann Nocenti will write a Longshot miniseries, introducing and starring the titular character and future X-Man.
Rachel Summers, Crybaby
Upon hearing Scott and Madelyne's voices on the phone, Rachel promptly bursts into tears (the phone cord serving as the panel divider is a neat trick, though, and also, remember phone cords?).
Forge is incensed that Gyrich would use the Neutralizer prototype on Rogue or Storm, noting they were helping save lives when Gyrich fired on them, and that whatever their alleged crimes, they're innocent until proven guilty under the law.
There's as ad for The Last Starfighter, one of those seemingly-beloved 80s movie I've never actually seen.
This issue is featured in a Marvel house ad.
It's in the Mail
Madelyne answers the letters in this issue, pertaining to issue #176. She has to deal with an especially hostile crowd, as letters take the book to task for everything from the squid/octopus mismatch (Madelyne says she was too busy fighting for her life to care) to Madelyne's changing bikini colors (she changed swimsuits) to the large gap in the letters page coverage:
Picking up where issue #182 left off, this issue continues to further Rogue's development, filling in some details regarding the nature of her power and really putting forth for the first time the notion of her power as a curse that doesn't allow her physical contact. It also ties together some of the threads lingering in the book from previous issues, such as the fallout from Rogue's actions in issue #182 and the Raven/Val/Forge material from #183 and #184. But it's truly notable for the significant change it marks in Storm. Just as she and her teammates (and the readers) were coming to terms with her harsher edge, both in terms of personality and physical appearance, she undergoes another transformation that will define her character for the next forty odd issues, making more literal her previous transition from the ethereal goddess to the grounded warrior.
That the transformation is triggered by an attack by the US government is significant. While not quite on the level of the species-wide incarceration and near extinction depicted in "Days of Future Past", so recently brought back to the forefront by the presence of Rachel, it does make clear that, as Forge angrily spits at Gyrich, the government is willing to play judge, jury and executioner when it comes to mutants, in full ignorance of the law. What began as general unease leading into possible legislation has become unilateral action, and while the Neutralizer itself will prove to be little more than a MacGuffin du Jour, Claremont is continuing to make the world in which the X-Men find themselves darker and more dangerous.
Tomorrow, the "Demon Bear Saga" concludes in New Mutants #20, and next week, Claremont teams with Barry Windsor Smith for "Lifedeath" in Uncanny X-Men #186.
Labels: Claremont/Romita Jr., Comic Book reviews, comics, Uncanny X-Men, X-aminations, X-Men
Ugus February 7, 2013 at 3:11 AM
I've been waiting for this! Not only is this the first ever issue of Uncanny X-Men I've read, but it's also the first ever Marvel comic, and in fact, the first ever superhero comic in general I came across. So needless to say I was more than a bit confused about pretty much everything upon reading this as a kid, but I was hooked anyway. Great suff!
Romita especially is brilliant here. I enjoy his later blocky style as well, but somehow this remains his best work for me. I love the page with Storm and Rogue talking on the beach. Simple but very well done.
Teebore February 7, 2013 at 9:18 AM
@Ugus: Not only is this the first ever issue of Uncanny X-Men I've read, but it's also the first ever Marvel comic, and in fact, the first ever superhero comic in general I came across.
Ah, there's nothing like the first one. :)
So needless to say I was more than a bit confused about pretty much everything upon reading this as a kid, but I was hooked anyway.
That was my exact same experience reading my first issue.
Matt February 7, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Wow, I totally forgot to come by here yesterday! I guess that speaks to my (lack of) interest in this era for the X-Men. Anywho...
I've always liked this cover. Rogue looks sufficiently menacing enough to draw a reader in and get them wondering if she's gone... rogue.
However, I'm not much of a fan of the status quo set up here. Powerless Storm bugs me almost as much as mohawk Storm. It's weird to me that Claremont seemingly had this agenda where he had to harden her up and then show that she was just as awesome without powers as she had been with them, if not moreso. I get it as a plot for a few issues, but to keep her as the powerless leader of the X-Men for over three years (with the brief exception of her time in Africa) is stretching the premise a bit thin.
"[Rogue] spends most of this issue hanging around in a bikini."
I swear Romita drew that exact same bikini on a young lady in one of his Amazing Spider-Man issues, too. He must've liked the design.
"...at this point it stands to reason that Rachel is merely confusing Madelyne's voice with Jean Grey's..."
Is this the first time we learn (albeit inexplicitly) that Madelyne also sounds exactly like Jean? Because remember, she's not a clone at this point!!!
"Destiny saws that she's unable to currently see the future due to a rend in the fabric of space/time."
Y'know... I just have to say, Destiny is kind of a useless precog. Her vision is always either clouded -- or wrong. It almost seems like the only thing she predicts correctly is her death!
" That story did eventually see print, some four years later, as a backup story, written by Claremont, in Marvel Fanfare #40."
I wonder if this is a case of the story being written but not drawn, or totally ready but delayed, or just never bothered with for some time.
At any rate, I hate when footnotes tell me to wait for a future issue of anything. It seems like a cop-out.
"It's also notable for ending with Mystique, as a male Raven Darkholme, dancing with Destiny, perhaps the most overt on-panel hint at Claremont's true intentions for their relationship."
Ohhh, maybe that's why it was delayed. Shooter was apparently not a proponent of homosexuality in Marvel comics. Given that the story saw publication in 1988, within a year or so of his departure, Claremont and/or Fanfare's Editori-Al Milgrom was probably just sitting on it and waiting him out...
"Though Cyclops' head curiously remains present..."
I'm pretty sure his head is up there, off and on, all the way up until issue 201. Another sign that to me, Marvel wanted to keep him around even though Claremont didn't.
"Gyrich's briefing which opens the issue allows Romita and Green to recreate scenes from issue #158..."
Aww, Romita draws a very nice classic Storm! Makes me wish even more he'd been given the chance to illustrate her regularly.
And holy cow, that panel of Gyrich speaking at the podium... so many words! This is why people make fun of Claremont.
"Rachel Summers, Crybaby"
Awesome. I look forward (?) to many more installments with this title.
"...the phone cord serving as the panel divider is a neat trick, though..."
I especially like how Cyclops's side of the conversation "goes dead" (blank) when he hangs up.
Teebore February 7, 2013 at 1:18 PM
@Matt: Powerless Storm bugs me almost as much as mohawk Storm.
Whereas I loved Powerless Storm even more than I love Mohawk Storm (though I HATE that she defeats Cyclops in issue #201, but I have a myriad of problems with that issue). I've said before that Storm circa issue #167 through to Fall of the Mutants is pretty much the only time I've ever cared about the character, and powerless Storm is a big part of that.
It runs the risk of defying logic to keep her leading the X-Men (and I can't begrudge anyone who's bothered by it), but I love the idea of someone who's good enough of a leader that the skill alone is enough to earn a place on a team filled with super powered people (Alpha Flight did something similar with Heather Hudson around this time, I think), and I think Claremont does a decent enough job to sell that idea that I'm able to suspend my disbelief regarding her continued usefulness to the team.
Is this the first time we learn (albeit inexplicitly) that Madelyne also sounds exactly like Jean?
I believe so, though you could argue that Rachel isn't so much recognizing Madelyne's voice as being the same as Jean's as she is hearing a female voice in the background while on the phone with her dad and just assuming it's Jean's voice (because lord knows Rachel's not yet done learning things are different in this time and then getting upset about it).
You could also make an argument that even when we know Maddy is a clone, she wouldn't have the exact same voice as Jean, as, I believe, things like accent, diction and word choice are a matter of environment more than anything physical.
Then again, Claremont could just be intending to suggest here that Maddy sounds as much like Jean as she looks like her...
Y'know... I just have to say, Destiny is kind of a useless precog.
It's not just Destiny; most precogs in comics end up with "clouded vision" or "inhibited perceptions" or some such, except when dramatically necessary. I haven't read much of the Stern/Romita Spidey run, but was Madame Web ever much better?
Having a character able to see the future with precision seems like an obvious narrative hiccup long term, even if there is a short term gain, so much so that you wonder why writers even bother sometimes.
At any rate, I hate when footnotes tell me to wait for a future issue of anything.
The only thing is the footnote that admits to not knowing what its supposed to be referencing.
It is indeed a lot of words, and indeed something Claremont gets flak for, though I don't really think most of it is warranted. Most of it is exposition, referring to a story that's years old at this point, and none of it is filled with the kind of overwritten purple prose for which Claremont does, occasionally, deserve some flak.
Matt February 7, 2013 at 4:59 PM
Teebore -- "I haven't read much of the Stern/Romita Spidey run, but was Madame Web ever much better?"
I actually don't know. Madame Web was only in one 2-part issue of Stern/Romita. She was a main character in the preceding run, Denny O'Neil and Romita jr. That's pretty much the only major run on ASM that I've never, ever read. I have the Essential volume containing it, but I've always heard such negative things that I've never bothered with it. I'll get to it eventually, though.
Dobson February 7, 2013 at 6:50 PM
Agree that Powerless Mowhawk Storm is the best Storm. It's a shame it seems that only Claremont was able to give her any personality, as the bland "weather goddess" interpretation seems to have won out.
As far as Rachel mistaking Maddie for Jean, keep in mind that 1. she's just hearing her on a 1980's telephone, and 2. she's a big crybaby who doesn't bother to confirm or deny who the female voice on the other receiver might be. It's hardly gospel that Maddie and Jean have the same larynx.
I've read that issue of Marvel Fanfare, and it's worth checking out, if only for the Mazzucchelli art in the A-story, which is a nice little character piece involving Angel.
Stern/JRJR Spidey is great, not the least because Madame Web only appears in that Juggernaut story and I think one issue of the Hobgoblin storyline in a cameo. O'Neal's stuff was super bland, epitomized by the issue where Madame Web gives Spider-Man vague hints about a person in a "race" being killed and Spidey tries to save a runner instead of the political guy giving the speech at the end of the race because Spider-Man is pretty dull-witted.
Powerless Storm has something to prove, and that competition with her past self drives her to work harder. She's cut off from the resources of her old life, much like a young adult has to stop living off his or her parents and start to fend for him- or herself. Adolescence is nearing its end, although we still have Ororo's first major relationship and heartbreak to deal with.
If I were still in college, I could totally get a paper out of Claremont's development of Storm, and get at least a B -.
- Mike Loughlin
Blam February 8, 2013 at 6:10 PM
If that device can track Rogue, it's a good thing that she wasn't at the mansion.
I made just such a note myself. She was apparently working on the premise for Longshot for a while before it saw print, actually just a year to the cover date after this issue, per the character's Wikipedia entry.
@Matt: Y'know... I just have to say, Destiny is kind of a useless precog. Her vision is always either clouded -- or wrong.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Although there is a lot of mind control and spacetime-continuum shenanigans going on.
@Matt: I especially like how Cyclops's side of the conversation "goes dead" (blank) when he hangs up.
Indeed. I like the whole thing better in concept than execution, as Scott's positioning is very awkward, but that in particular was a nice touch.
Also, I just want to say that Powerless Storm would be a hilarious action figure. It' be exactly the same figure as regular Storm but without, like, the cheesy plastic lightning bolt you could attach to her hand.
@Dobson: I've read that issue of Marvel Fanfare, and it's worth checking out, if only for the Mazzucchelli art in the A-story, which is a nice little character piece involving Angel.
I have that issue, specifically for the Mazzucchelli story — and zero memory of the Mystique backup.
Jay February 12, 2013 at 10:19 PM
My first exposure to powerless Storm was in an X-Men Classic of Life Death II. It's very cool to see the issue where her depowering took place. When I was younger it always struck me as such a cliche thing to do (her being powerless), but having read through these issues from the post-Brood period up until now, I like the steady transition Storm has gone through. Natural character progression seems so uncommon now.
Regarding sexy Rogue, it's very weird to me that there was a time when she wasn't overtly sexy. Compare the Lee era Rogue to the one before this issue and the contrast is pretty stark. It really drives home the paradigm we all have of characters related to when we were introduced to them. For me, the "real" Storm will always have powers and full long hair, and Rogue will always ooze sexuality in that green and yellow skin-tight suit with leather jacket (circa Adjectiveless 1). That's not to say those styles are better than that of other periods, but they definitely define the those characters for me.
Teebore February 18, 2013 at 12:45 PM
@Matt: Madame Web was only in one 2-part issue of Stern/Romita.
Ah, having read the Juggernaut story, I'd always just assumed she was one of Stern's supporting characters, but I guess not.
@Dobson: Madame Web gives Spider-Man vague hints about a person in a "race" being killed and Spidey tries to save a runner instead of the political guy giving the speech at the end of the race because Spider-Man is pretty dull-witted.
That sounds unintentionally hilarious.
@Mike: If I were still in college, I could totally get a paper out of Claremont's development of Storm, and get at least a B -.
Ha! I believe it.
@Jay: Natural character progression seems so uncommon now.
Yeah, you definitely can't say that Claremont didn't earn this turn; he's been developing Storm in this direction for nearly twenty issues, arguably longer.
It really drives home the paradigm we all have of characters related to when we were introduced to them.
Definitely. What's weird for me is that because I started reading X-Men Classic shortly after I started reading the regular series, I have wildly different paradigms for certain characters: the Jim Lee era Rogue, which was contemporaneous at the time, and Depowered Storm, which I read (and enjoyed far more than regular bland present day Storm) via reprints of this era in X-Men Classic.
wwk5d November 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM
I love how Storm and Rogue's relationship had been progressing by that point. It's too bad CC back tracks on it later, as during the Girls Night Out issue of Silvestri's run, Rogue is freaking out that Carol's subconscious it taking over her mind more and more, and Storm's reaction is basically "Well, you did a sh*tty thing, and you're deservedly paying for it, so deal with it, bitch". WTF?
I'll give Rachel a pass on the crying thing this time, since she's still relatively new to this era, and hearing your dead (most likely murdered) father's voice on the phone? I can understand that.
Harry Sewalski December 5, 2013 at 5:20 AM
"...the government has since learned about the presence of the virus and it's effects."
Oh shit, we can't let the government know about the virus's it is effects! ;)
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HSV2 Genitally – I Was Still a Virgin – STD Interviews
This interviewee’s story is not unlike many others we’ve heard on The STD Project. Women who are shocked and ashamed, after attempting to save themselves for marriage (read: abstaining from penis in vagina sex), yet still contracting an infection, like HSV2, while enjoying other sexual activities.
What’s heartbreaking is that the shock and the shame is completely unnecessary. Abstinence-only sexual health education does our young adults a gargantuan disservice by failing to communicate that all sexual activities are “sex” and that all sexual activities contain some level of risk. It frustrates me beyond measure to read these interviews, because the experience could be positively affected with exposure to comprehensive, empathetic, inclusive, and empowering sexual health education. Instead, our young adults are left in the dark, scrambling to make sense of the fear-based education they’ve received.
This is not an original outcome. There are hundreds of thousands of young women, just like me and just like this interviewee who wind up with an infection, feeling ostracized from their loved ones, and unable to advocate for themselves with new partners. Thank you, interviewee, for sharing your perspective here – you are not alone – and we need your voice to effect the change we’re seeking.
I am 19 years old.
I am a full-time student, majoring in dental hygiene.
3. What STD/STI do you have/have you had?
I have HSV2 genitally.
4. How long have you had or known you have an STD/STI?
I have had it for 5 months.
5. Do you know how you contracted this STD/STI?
From my boyfriend at the time, through genital contact, ironically, while I was still a “virgin.” My ex claimed he never had symptoms but also had not been tested recently.
6. How has your life changed since you contracted an STD/STI?
It was hugely disappointing to learn I was infected with this, and I have felt very ashamed and dirty. After breaking up with my ex for other reasons than this, I felt cheap and vulnerable, which put me in the position to be taken advantage of by another man.
Having this happen after I had wanted to save myself for a man I would love made me no longer respect my body.
7. Do the people who know you have an STD/STI treat you differently than they treated you before they knew?
I told my sister who I am closest too, and she was understanding. I would never tell my parents or the rest of my family, because I would be judged not only for contracting an STI but also for being sexually active in the first place.
Aside from her, and my ex, I have only told the men who I been in bed with.
8. Are you currently under treatment for your STD/STI? If so, please share whether you have explored prescription medication, over-the-counter medication, or holistic and natural approaches.
I was treated with acyclovir after my initial painful outbreak but have not used any medication since then. I haven’t had any other outbreaks aside from mild irritation.
9. Has having an STD/STI hindered past relationships?
Of the two previous relationships where I told the man about my condition, one guy was not discouraged in the slightest and was even willing to have unprotected sex with me. I realize this was probably due to the fact that he was mentally and emotionally unstable, but at that point, I was not making wise decisions. The other guy, despite his initial shock, still wanted to have sex with me as well.
10. Do you have a significant other? If so, how has this STD/STI affected your partner?
I am currently dating a man who is very conscientious about only having safe sex and staying “clean,” so our sexual activity has been limited to manual stimulation and me going down on him.
11. Have you been sexually active with someone since contracting an STD/STI whom you did not tell you had an STD/STI?
Yes, but not in a way that would expose them to the virus. After all the pain and frustration this has caused for me, I would never do that to anyone. I have gone out with a number of guys and have given them oral, but none of the relationships progressed far enough for me to have to tell them.
12. How have you changed as a result of contracting an STD/STI?
I cringe inside every time someone makes a herpes joke.
I choose not to date the college guys my age, as I feel they are not ready for a committed relationship, and I don’t want my friends and peers to know that I have this. Instead I opt for meeting people online who are mature enough to handle this situation.
13. Why are you choosing to participate in this interview and/or is there anything else you would like to share with us?
I hope being open and honest about my STI will help me process it and regain my self-worth.
I also would like my story to help break the negative stigma about herpes and to educate people about it and promote safer sex.
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The Truth About Cars | Media | News Blog | PR | Quality | Safety | Sign of the Times | Toyota | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Shame On You, Rhonda Smith
By Edward Niedermeyer on February 25, 2010
One of the most important lessons to come out of the last two days of congressional hearings on the Toyota recalls is that blaming individuals for unintended acceleration is too tough a task for our elected representatives. And yet the more we learn, the more necessary it seems to take human error into account when dealing with unintended acceleration. Nothing illustrates this quite like the case of the very first witness to give testimony before congress. Rhonda Smith of Sevierville, Tn told the House Energy Committee, under oath, that her Lexus ES350 became “possessed” and that its brakes and transmission failed to respond at precisely the moment that the car accelerated out of control. “Shame on you, Toyota, for being so greedy,” she said, wiping tears from her eyes. But it turns out that the shame belongs almost entirely with Ms Smith.
The Wall Street Journal [sub] [via Jalopnik] reports that, despite her traumatic and inexplicable experience, Ms Smith sold her dangerous, out-of-control ES350 to another family, which has since put 27,000 trouble-free miles on the vehicle (according to just-auto [sub], Toyota has since taken possession of the vehicle). Which means she either lied under oath, or displayed a disregard for the safety of others that puts Toyota’s missteps into stunning context. Or both. In any case, her behavior adds to our growing suspicion that the vacuous, disingenuous, and self-serving congressional hearings have been the best thing to happen to Toyota PR since the recalls began. Shame on you, Rhonda Smith, shame on you.
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88 Comments on “Shame On You, Rhonda Smith...”
Wow. Looks like this “investigation” has hit a snag. Does anyone interview these witnesses before they take the stand?
Steve Ruge
I remember hearing her “testimony” on TV and thinking something just didn’t sound right about it. Interesting.
newfdawg
As I listened to Rhoda Smith’s teary eyed testimony, the thought kept running through my head: Why didn’t she just put the transmission in
neutral? As for selling the car to another family; did she tell them about that incident? If she did not inform them and they had suffered a similar problem, I’m sure lawyers would have happily picked her bones clean for having superior knowledge and failure to disclose the condition of the vehicle.
davejay
She claims she did put it in neutral, and then park, and then reverse, all to no effect.
If that particular model has shift-by-wire, then it may be true (assuming software prevents shifting out of gear at full throttle for misguided reasons.) If that particular model has shift-by-linkage or shift-by-cable, then it is most likely false. Anyone know?
Note that shift-by-wire in this case would include a shifter with a mechanical linkage, but the actual shifts controlled exclusively by computer.
L'avventura
In the testimony she said she tried to put it into neutral but it wouldn’t go. I think I pointed out in the other thread that Dr. Gilbert, the other shock-and-awe technical witness, seemed to have contradicted her saying she should have been able to get to neutral, but the question was quickly changed to ask if she should have been able to get into reverse.
There are also several things fishy about her story, especially the story about the ‘act of God’ suddenly that stopped her car, and the ‘possessed’ car on the wrecker. Also, even Gilbert agreed that even with the kinetic energy and decreased efficacy of the brakes, she should have been able to reduce the speed of the car even with a longer stopping distance. He even briefly mentioned the C&D article.
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/feb2010/bw20100225_403524_page_3.htm
This is the problem with anecdotal testimony, there is no way to verify any of her claims, the car drove 27k trouble free miles, even if a technical inspection reveals nothing on the car, even if all logical facts proved she lied, she can always claim she experience this mysterious ‘possessed’ Lexus.
This is argumentum ad ignorantiam, a logical fallacy in which it is claimed a premise is true because it can’t be proven false.
davejay – it has a mechanical linkage to the transmission. I’m fairly certain that you cannot even move the shifter to the R or P position when the vehicle is over 5mph due to a mechanical lockout of the shifter cable. I don’t believe there is a lockout of the neutral position, at any speed, on this transmission (assuming this is the same as the toyota versions).
When she said she put it in park and reverse and nothing happened, I was suspect. When it came out that she sold it to another family, it confirmed my suspicions that this lady cannot be trusted to give an actual account of what happened. She is saying what she wants to think happened.
jimboy
As I said in the previous blog, no driver responsibility whatsoever! Take some advanced driver training Rhonda. Learn your vehicle, get off your cellphone, buy a bicycle! (with a helmet). This has become just another congressional witch hunt so representatives can watch themselves on TV.
Martin Schwoerer
Thanks for telling it like it is, Ed!
srogers
So this unfortunate victim of Toyota’s greed and evil intent turned around and, in exchange for financial compensation, sold her known Demon Car to another human being.
Does she have some more tears for the buyer that she is potentially sending to the grave?
One funny thing is, I do not watch TV, but my family does, and my daughter later reported that something was wrong about that lady dialing her husband on the phone while car was speeding out of control (I hope I am not confusing this testimony with some other one, because like I said I did not watch it).
blue adidas
Man this Congress is stupid. I listened to about two hours of their prattle yesterday. What a bunch of grandstanding douchebags. Not one of them thought to ask “where is your car now?” I want to understand two things…
First – Who did she sell her car to? If she sold it to an individual, then she sucks big-time. And she’s probably lying. If she sold it back to the dealer for a different car, that’s a different story. I’d be more inclined to believe her.
Second – Can you, or can you not shift a Lexus ES into neutral when the car is in motion. In most cars you can, but I’ve heard that you can’t in the current gen ES.
The one HUGE missing hole in her story is how the car eventually slowed down after she literally tried everything. She said that God intervened. I’d like to know what God did to make the car slow down, and whether Toyota engineers put divine intervention in their incident report.
As a computer programmer, her answer is simply not good enough for me. I’ve seen obscure bugs in my software that required at least six particular conditions to be just right to manifest itself. I don’t blame a deity of my choice when something goes wrong, nor do I look to the holy spirit to fix my program’s problems.
Can I get an “AMEN” brothers and sisters? Can you feel the power of the HOLY GHOST! Oh wait…
texlovera
She just hit CTRL-ALT-UP-LEFT-UP for God Mode. Works in Doom and all Toyotas…
Why the rush to judgement? What in the world would this woman have against Toyota? What’s her motive? She’s the social worker wife of a bank president, for heaven’s sake. Do you guys seriously think she not only made the incident up, but then pursued a personal multi-year vendetta against a corporation based on a story she made up? That kind of thing would require a full blown personality disorder. I suppose anything is possible, but isn’t it more likely that she’s simply telling the truth?
MBella
She told what she perceived as the truth, but not necessarily what really happened.
Here is the most likely actual scenario to have occurred for her. Let’s assume that it was the sticky gas pedal. Her car was speeding up. She hits the brakes, but not hard enough to overcome the engine. Now she calls her husband, who tells her to shift it into neutral, and turn off the ignition. She starts frantically hitting the start button, and shifting the lever all over the place. At over 100mph, even in neutral, it takes some time to slow down the car, especially with over heated brakes. She is only used to the quick deceleration she normally gets at 45mph, and thinks the car isn’t slowing down. Remember, the time and force required to slow down the car goes up exponentially at speed. Finally the car gets to a point where the deceleration is more perceivable, and this is when she thinks god is saving her.
BuzzDog
Sorry to nitpick, but Eddie Smith is a senior vice president of a bank, not a president. Believe it or not, in most banks there’s a significant difference responsibility, accountability and of course, income.
If it was a sticky pedal, it wouldn’t be a Lexus. They are all made with Denso pedals.
TonyJZX
the whole thing stinks of joe mccarthy
horrible horrible witch hunt
crash sled
No, no, NO! You guys are completely off base here!
That vehicle’s sale was completely on the up-and-up. I have it on very good authority that Rhonda Smith did NOT sell that vehicle, until a full and comprehensive exorcism was performed on it.
The evil has been cast out from the ES350. It may be driven safely, for it is chaste.
I may not be that she has something against Toyota. More likely it is an unwillingness to accept that she might have messed up the situation herself.
Maybe her throttle did open. But maybe when it, she could have taken measures to stop it in a less dramatic way and cannot accept this responsibility without denial and help from her god.
I think her story, at the core, is probably true (there was some unintended acceleration) but she’s embellishing it quite a bit. I to rolled by eyes once she got to “and God intervened”.
Either that or this is what psychologists call a “flash-bulb” memory–during a traumatic event you honestly remember things and details that just weren’t there. That’s why some of the witnesses of 9/11 swore they saw a missile hit the Pentagon, even though it was really a plane.
CamaroKid
It is also interesting that her testimony was refuted by Professor Gilbert who said that you could always shift ANY of these cars into Neutral at any speed, and that any, and all, SUA problems would leave the brakes in working order. (At least until you pump them three or four times eliminating all vacuum assist.)
So either the The Smiths are full of crap or the Professor (who admitted to have a conflict of interest in this case) is full of crap.
Either way, we are wading in crap.
If the Smith’s car was possessed? How did they survive? Did they let go of the wheel and pray? Do we really want to leave everyone with that advice?
David Holzman
This, from MBella sounds like an excellent hypothesis to me:
The most important thing here though is that the car accelerated out of control. And the biggest question, to me, is whether she really shifted it into neutral (and other positions) and it still accelerated, or not. I mean, is it possible that shifting the car into neutral isn’t going to help if your Toyota accelerates out of control?
I get the feeling, regarding the car’s presence on the road after this incident, that too many people are making assumptions about her behavior without enough information, unless the WSJ made absoutely clear what happened. I don’t have a sub, but for all I know she may have traded it back to the dealer.
The WSJ says only this:
The Lexus sedan driven by Rhonda Smith, who testified in Congress Tuesday about a harrowing incident of sudden acceleration, is still on the road, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
In fact, the new owners of the luxury ES350 sedan have reported 27,000 miles trouble-free with the vehicle, according to a NHTSA spokeswoman. Mrs. Smith and her husband sold the vehicle after the incident, in which she thought she might die.
The federal safety agency followed up with the new owners last week. A NHTSA spokeswoman said “they have had no problems with the Lexus since they bought it with less than 3,000 miles on the car.”
I agree that she probably thought her car was out of control, and believes she had no way of controlling it… but then why would she sell it? And the fact that she uses “to make a long story short” to gloss over the details of the actual UA event in her testimony doesn’t exactly help her case.
Why the rush to judgment? It’s irresponsible to scare children with ghost stories… especially when those children run the country. If the Kane-Gilbert effort is a trial lawyer scheme, they should definitely vet their witnesses a little better. Imagining what a well-paid Toyota defense lawyer would have done to Mrs Smith on a cross-examination if she had given that evidence in court makes even this rusher-to-judgement shudder a little.
Shifting into neutral will disengage the engine from driven wheels. At this point, the brakes will work normally.
MBella:
Shifting to neutral will disengage the engine from the wheels, but the brakes may not work normally for two likely reasons:
1) They’ve faded from being applied repeatedly at high speed, while the throttle was stuck, and/or
2) The throttle is still stuck, reducing the amount of power assist that is available.
Kendahl
I sure she is a fine social worker, wife and mother. She may even be qualified to push a shopping cart around a grocery store. But she is woefully ignorant of how her car works or how to control it in an emergency. Send her to Bondurant or Skip Barber to learn how to drive.
zerofoo
Getting a driver’s license in the US is WAY to easy.
A 17 year old as bright as a box of hammers can answer a few questions, parallel park a car, smile for the camera, and then get handed a license to drive a 4,000 lb killing machine.
We need to make driving school mandatory for obtaining a license to drive.
Drivers must learn how to drive in adverse conditions, they must know the basics of HOW the car operates, and what to do in the event of an emergency. Learning to operate a manual transmission, changing a spare tire, pumping your own gas, and the ability to identify excessively worn safety items like wiper blades, brakes, suspension components and tires should also be minimum requirements to obtaining a license.
These skills should also be retested every time the license needs to be renewed.
There are too many idiots on the road that have no business operating a machine that could kill themselves and others.
-ted
ihatetrees
Not gonna happen. The tradition in the US is not that of Europe – the distances in North America, the transport network, and large parts of the economy depend on many clueless people driving. And until we JAIL people who drive unlicensed, standards would be ignored by the degenerate underclass.
I don’t disagree that tougher standards would be a good idea. Many people – especially women – would be much better drivers with training and the confidence it inspires.
This is the ultimate problem. It would also be reasonable to say that the kind of person who needs to drive, and get’s no excitement or fun out of their vehicle is the kind of person who is completely clueless t how a car works, or what to do in an emergency situation. It would also be reasonable to assume that this kind of person buys a Toyota product over other brands. This would also explain an elevated case of mysterious problems such as UA accruing more on Toyotas then other brands. Now add to that some sort of actual fault, like sticky pedals and we get stories of these possessed cars running out of control.
DweezilSFV
February 26th, 2010 at 6:03 am
Zerofoo: In CA they’ve dropped the requirement for parallel parking AND for entering a freeway. But they’ve increased the fines for driving violations.I wonder if there’s a connection……
Bottom line: every day more incompetent drivers hit the streets in Kali……
If you look at the shifter pattern on an ES 350, to the left of the “D” position is the “manual-shift” detents (+/-) that allow you to sequentially shift the transmision. My guess is in her panic the shifter got pulled to the left, then when she pushed the lever forward into what she thought was neutral/reverse/park, she was actually upshifting the trans, which if anything would cause the car to continue accelerating faster and faster with the throttle open (either by sticking pedal, floormat, incorrect foot placement etc). It really isn’t a great design in my opinion but if my hypothesis is correct, I think it’s entirely Ms. Smith’s fault for driving a car in which she didn’t understand the controls. I didn’t watch all the footage, but did any of our wonderful “representatives” ask her if she read the owner’s manual before driving the car?
I’m not sure I’d hammer Rhonda for being incompetent behind the wheel – she did (alledgedly) put on the parking brake, shift into neutral, and try to turn off the engine,all before she called hubby according to her testimony. I’d be out of options at that point too
I do however question her credibility, particularly given statements such as “I push the car into NEUTAL and it makes a revving noise” but later, “the speedometer it read 100 mph … while frantically shifting between ALL the gears (besides park) but mainly had it in REVERSE and with the emergency brake on.” The shifter works sometimes but not others, same with the gas pedal? Really? And then starts itself?
Why would she make this up? Anger about being called wrong, perceived mistreatment, spite, the appeal of TV and the US Senate, pick from a long list of human frailties. But then selling car after the crusade, wow that’s low
The one HUGE missing hole in her story is how the car eventually slowed down after she literally tried everything. She said that God intervened.
As a practicing but very much non-evangelical Christian, this just pisses me right the f)ck off. I tend to think God works on the basis of “grace” rather than “karma”, but even if I did, I would have issues with the virtue of someone who believes God saved them from their Japanese Christine and subsequently sells said Christine to some other family.
It’s like asking God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit help you beat the rap. Somehow, I think you’ve missed the point.
– Mrs. Smith TRADED IN the car to Toyota of Kingston(TN). She did not sell the car to an individual.
– The vehicle she was driving cannot be shifted into neutral while going at a certain rate of speed. She did physically put it in neutral, but the transmission is electronic and as a safety precausion, the vehicle will not let itself change gears like that, eventhough the shift lever moves into position.
– The vehicle has a ‘fob’ for a key. After the incident, the vehicle was about to be pulled onto the rollback (wrecker) and the vehicle attempted to start itself. The wrecker had the fob and he was approximately 20-25 feet away. They have a notarized statement from the wrecker driver regarding this.
– The vehicle was paid in cash and the Smith’s only attempted to get a refund on the car, which was denied. The car was less than 2 months old. Over the last 4 years, they never attempted to sue or gain anything other than recognition from Toyota that there is a problem and an apology.
CarPerson
Where is it documented that a Lexus cannont be shifted into neutral above a certain speed?
I’m aware of gear loading that may not readily let go under full power, keeping it in Drive but not any built-in provision preventing a shift of neutral at any speed.
You can shift these into N at ANY speed (so long as this is like the Toyota transmissions). The solenoids release piston pressure and the transmission planetary gears spin free. Reverse and park are mechanically locked out because the transmission will spit its guts all over the freeway if you go into those positions.
The vehicle she was driving cannot be shifted into neutral while going at a certain rate of speed. She did physically put it in neutral, but the transmission is electronic and as a safety precausion, the vehicle will not let itself change gears like that, eventhough the shift lever moves into position.
That is COMPLETELY false. PERIOD… Even Dr Gilbert said this wasn’t the case. And yes I have driven a car EXACTLY like the one in question and YES I HAVE shifted into Neutral at triple digit speeds.
The car locks out REVERSE. It does NOT lock out Neutral.
Time to check some facts… factcheck.
“- The vehicle has a ‘fob’ for a key. After the incident, the vehicle was about to be pulled onto the rollback (wrecker) and the vehicle attempted to start itself. The wrecker had the fob and he was approximately 20-25 feet away. They have a notarized statement from the wrecker driver regarding this.”
factcheck, I have a statement from the exorcist, who confirms that the self-starting demons have been expelled from the ES350, and the vampiric key fobs.
“The power of Inaba compels you!”
Ed, thanks. The WSJ account does seem to indicate she sold the thing rather than trading it. Although if she did, that is so egregious that it might bear checking. The WSJ is quite capable of making mistakes.
REgarding the acceleration, and her shifting, the shifter, presumably, is also fly by wire, so isn’t it possible that the car was failing to respond to the shifter? I suppose it’s equally possible that she didn’t really know exactly where she was shifting. But I think it’s easier to assume that she doesn’t remember, or doesn’t know exactly what she was doing, given the stress she would have been under at the time, than that she is deliberately fabricating.
97escort
Rhonda Smith did nothing wrong. If I know car dealers the car was towed to a Toyota dealership and nothing wrong was found. To me what happened is similar to my computer crashing. I unplug it, reboot and everything is fine.
The trouble with car computers crashing is that it happens at speed and lives are at stake. Toyota is at fault for designing a drive by wire system that fails in this manner.
She now knew what the car was capable of doing and sold a perfectly good car per the dealership evaluation of what happened and the new owner did not experience any problems. She is honest and behaved honestly.
I do not believe sellers have a responsibility to tell buyers of all the problems they have had with a car if they have been repaired/evaluated by qualified personel.
Toyota is at fault for designed a computer controlled device that has safety implications on failure. These kinds of failures have not been reported in other brands. She bought the Toyota in good faith and her experience was unsatisfactory. Then she sold the car which has performed well for the new owner. There is no shame on anybody but Toyota.
Always be wary of low mileage cars sitting on used car lots or at auctions. Why would anyone want to sell such a car unless their experience with it has been unsatisfactory?
The seller has no obligation to tell all the bad luck he has had with the car if the car is in the condition represented at sale. This car was in good operating condition and working satisfactorily and the new owner put 27,000 miles on it. Shame on TTAC for trying to make Rhonda Smith look bad.
michaelhagerty
97escort: If she really thought it was a “perfectly good car”, what was she doing testifying on Capitol Hill?
gslippy
“Why would anyone want to sell such a car unless their experience with it has been unsatisfactory?”
I purchased my first minivan used with 4 months and 10k miles on the clock. We were told the car’s first owner was too feeble to climb up into the driver’s seat easily. We drove it an additional 9 years and 110k miles.
Some people trade cars early because they can’t afford them.
I traded a lemon Odyssey after the lemon suit concluded, even though everything was fixed by then. I also couldn’t afford the car. It had no safety-related issues, and the new owner could learn of the issues via Carfax, assuming they were reported.
joeveto3
Besides, had the buyer requested a CarFax, it would have clearly revealed any sort of demonic possession….
I think Carfax charges extra for the “demonic possession report”
JeremyR
As long as the vehicle is registered to the demon during the time of possession, it should show up on the report…
Mungooz
Many, if not most, of you are wrong. I, on the other hand, am right. Ms. Smith is a woman. Many, many women are terrified that their car might “go out of control” at any moment. I mean like when parking. When accelerating away from a stop. Even at 5mph! I’ve heard them ask: “What if the car goes out of control?” Ms. Smith was a woman who was terrified that her car might go out of control. Something went awry. Panic ensued. Nothing that she says happened actually happened. But just try to convince her of that.
cwmoo740
It pains me a little to do this, but +1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g5xX6L6J2Q
Example #2 in that video is clearly related to the SUA that Toyota owners are experiencing =].
meefer
It doesn’t matter whether she traded it in or not. The car is “possessed” and needs holy intervention to be stopped. It should have been destroyed, right? Maybe she should demand Toyota hire some priests to sprinkle holy water in the build process.
I’m not trying to pick on Mrs. Smith, but most of this grandstanding is just a spit and polish of the unintended acceleration/saddle gas tank debacles.
Oh and I have never heard of a neutral lockout on any Toyota vehicle. There is a reverse lockout and it is possible the entire tranny went nuts, but not being able to shift into neutral? I have shifted into neutral at 40 mph, how fast do I have to be going to activate this cutoff?
As I recall from the movie Christine, destroying the demon car didn’t do any good…..
and I join the call for “Factchecker” to provide some type of documentation to back up his “fact” that this car has a lockout that keeps the car from being shifted to neutral above a certain speed…
Jerry Sutherland
A thought occurred to me after reading all these “piling on the witness” comments…would this witness be more credible had she been driving a Sebring?
I’m guessing that the lineup to post anti-Rhonda comments would have been shorter.
CarShark
I doubt it. The Sebring may not be a wonderful car, but it (and Chrysler) doesn’t deserve to have its name dragged down by a bad witness. Posts like yours are tiresome, not just because they’re horribly predictable, but because the intent isn’t to further the conversation by providing a different perspective, but kill it by trying to shame everyone else into submission.
I am not the slightest fan of the Sebring. It is one of the most awful cars sold today. That being said, I focus on the cars actual issues, like interior bits that don’t fit together, poor handling, ride, etc… That being said, If Mrs. Smith was testifying about a Sebring, I would be just as skeptical about here account.
fincar1
Another Sebring non-fan here. Why drag in the Sebring at all given the apparent lack of unintended-acceleration claims against it?
I picked the unloved Sebring as an illustration of an unloved domestic on this forum. Yes,I do defend Detroit more than most on this forum and I will take heat for my position. It may be redundant, but I will stay the course on my message. I would like to feel guilty for my position, but that would be a reach. I stand by my original point that a domestic manufacturer would have considerably fewer allies on this issue in this forum. Incidentally, I agree that the Toyota hearings sre an incredible waste of time and money.
littlehulkster
I think the moral of this story is: never buy an automatic.
Bingo!!!
leeharvey418
Why not? I’m sure if she had been driving a manual transmission vehicle, the demon would have fused the clutch plates together or disengaged the linkage between the pedal and the clutch.
forraymond
She probably brought her Bible to the meeting with the lawyers. You know she is a “good Christian.” (lies and all)
It would be better to question her statement’s credibility than to attack her religion, whichever that may be.
I think that David Holzman’s story (above) is the best explanation of what happened.
OMG_Shoes
Sure, sure, she shifted to Neutral and nothing happened, her demonically-possessed hell-car tried to start all by itself and Jaybob from the towin’ company swears she’s a-truthin’. Riiiight.
Perhaps it took god six miles to intervene because he was busy checking to see if her car had any pre-existing conditions that would make it ineligible for godly intervention.
I would say anyone deluded enough to believe in an imaginary magical sky fairy who is omnipotent, omniscient, controls everything and yet nevertheless has time to listen to one pathetic woman’s ignorant, blubbering prayer ought to be locked up in a padded cell, or at least denied a driver’s license.
Why is everyone jumping on her case for selling the vehicle? Do you expect her to keep it? If she thinks it is a deathtrap, she probably doesn’t want it around her at all, or her family. With Toyota founding nothing wrong with the car and wouldn’t buy it back. What else do you expert her to do?
She has be put through the mud with many of the comments on this site. What is her motivation for lying? This incident happen a few years ago, so the recent events probably only vindicate her story from a few years ago. There are probably a few details that she has wrong. But it doesn’t mean that this didn’t happen in some way close to the story that she told.
Everybody’s jumping on her case because she’s an ignorant moron.
OMG_Shoes,
She probably has the knowledge of an average American driver.
dcardno
Why is everyone jumping on her case for selling the vehicle?
Gee… I dunno – maybe selling a known deathtrap to another family might be a bit of a moral conundrum. On the other hand, if she thought there was really nothing wrong with it, selling the car would be just fine – even if it is entirely inconsistent with her sworn testimony to Congress.
I’m curious – are you naturally thick as two short planks, or did you have to saw off your feet?
dcardno,
Taking personal shots on the internet is a wonderful thing. Perhaps I should ask you if you can read. And by that, I mean read the other comments on this post.
The car was traded in. Toyota was told about the problems with the car and did nothing at the time. What was she supposed to do with it? Toyota wouldn’t do a refund. The dealer knew of the problem. I guess we just expect her to keep the car in her garage for the next few years because lots of people can just afford to pay for a car that they don’t use.
Had this scenario happened to you, your family, or spouse. And the reaction was the same. Would you be holding on to that car?
criminalenterprise
Maybe Toyota will start installing clutch pedals on its automatics.
reclusive_in_nature
Whole lotta character assassination tonight. How dare she say something negative about the venerable Toyota! She should be ridiculed just like all the other people that’s been investigated on this site for giving false testaments about Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Wait a sec…
Help Me Rhonda, Help Help Me Rhonda!
JSF22
We do not know anything after two days of Congressional posturing that we did not know before. But one thing of which we can be fairly certain is that if Rhonda Smith was at the wheel of an out-of-control Lexus going 100 mph, she didn’t simultaneously figure out how to make a phone call.
Well, the phone probably behaved the way it was designed to.
ozibuns
What it comes down to is the seemingly innate stupidy of many citizens coupled with a God-given right to their 15 minutes of fame. Anybody heard of similar claims from Toyota or Lexus customers overseas or did these nasty software/hardware gremlins decide to solely focus on America? What a farce. Shame on you America.
It could be something specific to models built and/or in the United States.
It could be the fact that automatic transmissions are all but universal in the United States (which would make it much more common).
Or, as someone opined in another thread, it could be mass hysteria…our very own modern-day version of South Korea’s fan death phenomenon, or reports in the 1950’s of mysterious windshield pockmarks (probably the damn Ruskies were to blame for that last one)…
iNeon
This is unacceptable behaviour. Christendom is passed at birth, and as such, is a semi-uncontrollable facet of a human-being’s identity– Christians are born of Christians as races are born of races, as boys are born of girls, and girls of boys. Some, through nature, choose to lighten/darken themselves– to change contouring of facial structures– to change gender or sex, or choose to take another religion. Some of these comments are attacks that need to be watched and edited.
Please note that I am aware there is no guarantee of inoffensiveness in life; but also note I’m aware that no Toyota has previously been allowed to be called a poorly-engineered, weak Bhuddamobile. Mrs. Smith deserves the same respect.
Editors: stop and remove these attacks now.
Buddhamobile? Your post is the best troll I have seen in a while. You earn a cookie.
Bertel Schmitt
iNeon:
1.) Your theory that Christendom is passed at birth is interesting. Please explain that to the missionaries who still try to convert every heathen they can get their hands on. Think about it: Any religion would be severely hampered if it could only be transmitted through birth.
2.) I could care less whether you call a car a Buddhamobile (and I am married to someone who believes in Shinto and Buddha, they don’t need to sign a non-compete.) But some may take offense. I’d be as respectful of other religions as you expect others to be of yours.
3.) I don’t understand most of your ramblings, but apparently, you are calling for deletion of comments. Be advised that what the editors do is the sole choice of the editors.
iNeon, thanks for drawing attention to the scarcity of mental health resources.
VerbalKint
Didn’t she testify that while her car was careening out of control during what she felt was her last joy ride that she had time to phone her husband to say goodbye?
Emro
I love that she dropped the Bluetooth name in there… will she be in NASCAR next year?
I hope the people she sold the car to sue her. I mean, she admitted in Congress that because of some defect her life was critically endangered, yet she sold it anyway, presumably without disclosing her experience. If I didn’t believe her story, I’d sue her anyway.
Sold it to a dealer who was aware of what happened. And that dealer probably didn’t pass the story along.
Has anyone checked the prices of low mileage Toyo’s or Lexi lately?
This isn’t the first time I’ve been called crazy on a website– and it won’t be the last. I was simply using strong language to get the point of the double-standard being practiced across. It isn’t my fault you cannot understand abstract language.
Maybe needing things spelled-out for you is a sign of an even weaker mind.
There are numerous posts in this thread that step over boundaries and do nothing but disrespect Mrs. Smith for her status as a Christian woman. We are not allowed to do this with Mr. Toyoda in those threads, and I am simply calling for equality.
I hope this is more clear.
Runfromcheney
That is just the thing. None of us (at least not me) are jumping on Mrs. Smith because she is a Christian. We are jumping on her because she seems to be an ignorant moron who is riding an exaggerated sob story to her own fifteen minutes of fame. No disrespect, but “god intervened” is not a good way to explain how you managed to stop your out of control car when you are testifying in front of a major world government.
Moparman426W
I think maybe it’s entirely possible that this lady’s car got away from her, and of course she panicked. In an instance such as this many things can happen, and while maybe they did not happen in exactly the way she describes i’m sure that she see’s things in the way that she is describing.
I’m sure that if the vehicle did speed out of control it did not take long for it to reach a high rate of speed. Like a lot of people maybe she did not react fast enough by shifting into neutral before the speed got excessive. Maybe she tried braking before trying to hit neutral, which would heat the brakes up excessively, making them less effective.
It’s possible that by the time she hit neutral that the brakes were so hot that they would no longer work. She may have been so panic stricken that she might not even hit neutral, but thought she did, who knows?
It looks like she obviously had the car in neutral,but who knows after how long, because the car finally came to a stop. I think that maybe out of panic she overheated the brakes before finally taking the car out of gear, that would expalin the car not wanting to stop with the brakes.
Many things could have happened, and it’s unfair to pick on this person without being there to witness what actually did happen.
bsgcic
I think it is premature to point blame at Ms. Smith and certainly to discredit her claim against Toyota. I suggest the following:
1. The fact that another family bought the vehicle indicates that either: a) She did not disclose the incidence of the unintended acceleration b) that she had the vehicle repaired prior to selling it and disclosed that fact or c) that she disclosed it and the new family bought it anyway perhaps at a heavily discounted price. My guess is that (a) is most likely because if she had it repaired, that would have served as evidence for congress. I would guess that (c) would be unlikely as I would hypothesize that the type of customer buying a Lexus for personal use would pay a premium for safety.
2. Just because the new family has not experienced a recurrence of the unintended acceleration does not mean that it did not happen for Ms. Smith. Many Lexus vehicles have been sold and the occurrence of the unintended acceleration appears to be a small fraction of those cases. It is likely that for the unintended acceleration to occur, a unique mix of independent circumstances must all happen which most likely contributes to the difficulty in identifying, verifying, and diagnosing the cause. This type of problem-solving challenge is not so uncommon when developing technology (including software development which I do myself).
My guess as to this is that: The incident did occur with Ms. Smith. However, Ms. Smith may have not disclosed that information to the new buyer which if true would be, among other things, reckless and unethical of Ms. Smith (if true!).
YZS
Why would you need to go to skip barber race driving school to learn what shifting into neutral does? Seriously, this is what’s wrong with America today. It’s basic knowledge that any driver should know, right up there with which pedal does what.
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iZombie is dead, long live iZombie
Comic book adaptations transcend the pages they were written on. Marvel and DC Comics rule the roost but imprints like Vertigo (RIP) and Dark Horse Comics have provided some of the best movies and shows in the last 30 years. One of those is iZombie.
The show was adapted from a comic book series on DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint in 2010. The original series told the story of a gravedigging zombie called Gwen Dylan and two friends: a 1960s ghost called Ellie and Scott, a were-terrier. She ate brains to survive (unsurprisingly) and with each one, part of their thoughts and personalities passed onto her. In its two-year history, iZOMBIE sneaked in an Eisner Award nomination for Best New Series in 2011 and developed a cult following.
Fast forward three years and iZOMBiE became a tv series. Written by Veronica Mars writers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright and starring Rose McIver (A Christmas Prince), the show changed a lot but kept the essence of the comics. McIver played the role of Olivia “Liv” Moore who was working as a doctor before turning into a zombie on a boat party. She left her job and fiancé without telling her friends and family why began her new life as a ranging zombie. To satiate her appetite and avoid killing innocent people, she took a job as a medical examiner at the King County morgue and ate autopsied brains. Eventually, her colleague Dr Ravi Chakrabarti (Rahul Kohli) twigged and became her best friend whilst also striving to find a cure.
The show announced Season 5 would be the last after 66 episodes, 12 award nominations and two wins over four and a half years. For those who need a refresher or want to skip to the most recent series, here’s a brief synopsis of each season.
Like the comics, Liv inherits the personality traits and skills of the brains she eats. The downside is she experiences all the highs and lows that come with them, including flashbacks of the person’s life and how they died. She turned that into an advantage in Season 1 when she began assisting Police Detective Clive Babineaux (Malcolm Goodwin) in his investigations who had no idea Liv was a zombie. As a cover story, she pretended to be psychic.
Blaine DeBeers (David Anders) stars as the zombie that made Liv a zombie. He began selling brains to zombie customers as the zombie epidemic spread across Seattle. Liv vowed to kill him after she discovered he killed one of her friends.
Meanwhile, Liv’s ex-fiance Major Lilywhite returned and started investigations of his own as one of his friends was murdered. Alongside that, detective Clive Babineaux continues his work solving crimes across the city whilst also secretly helping Major solve the case of his missing/murdered friend.
And then there’s Dr Ravi Chakrabarti who stayed in the lab for most of the time. In between autopsies, he analysed the “Max Rager” drink that contained Utopium, the active ingredient in the zombification of Seattle. He developed a crush on Liv’s lawyer friend, Peyton.
By the end, Major confronted Blaine and died before Liv scratched him to turn him into a zombie. She later gave him a cure made by Ravi to make him human again.
Major started working for the Max Rager CEO Vaughn Du Clark as a zombie hitman. But instead, he locked them up in freezers. A noble idea at first, both Du Clark and the FBI started sniffing around.
Clive and his FBI partner Dale Bozzio were also investigating and their partnership turned into a relationship. By the end of the season, Liv revealed to him she was a zombie.
Blaine had been turned human faked complete memory loss as he embarked on a relationship with Peyton, much to Ravi’s jealousy.
By the season finale, Liv, Babineaux and Major crashed Vaughn’s Super Max Rager party which became a zombie free-for-all and a new character, Vivian, appeared with an army. She asked Liv to help her start a zombie revolution.
By Season 3, the status of Seattle was precarious. Vivian wanted it to become a zombie homeland and Liv discovered there are a lot more zombies than she realised. Major joined the Fillmore-Graves army that was headed by Vivian to protect their kind against the humans. Blaine continued his life as a human again with amnesia, until that was discovered to be fake as Ravi’s crush for Peyton deepened. Oh, and Ravi became a zombie. Kind of. Once a month he developed zombie-tendencies.
But the big twist was a flu shot given out to humans which was, in fact, a strain of Utopium which unwittingly turned them into zombies. All at the hand of Fillmore-Graves.
Season 4 opened with Seattle with a new name: New Seattle. The city was walled to contain the zombie outbreak, and that led to even more hostility between humans and zombies.
Liv became more of Clive’s partner upstairs rather than a morgue buddy to Ravi, who also spent more time in the outdoors as he dealt with his monthly zombification. She also became the underground leader Renegade who smuggled sick humans into New Seattle and scratched them as a way of “curing” them. But Chase Graves (the head of Filmore-Graves) found out and threatened to end her and her operation. This contributed to a massive war between humans and zombies until he met his maker and Major was elected as the new leader.
Rav started dating Peyton, Blaine’s dad (also a zombie) became a crazy preacher, and Blaine continued his brain food empire. Oh, and Ravi developed a new cure for Liv but she gave it to Clive’s girlfriend, Dale, who had become a zombie in Season 3 and she was also pregnant.
What to expect from Season 5
Season 5 is almost halfway through and things started slowly but have cranked up a notch in recent episodes. We won’t reveal any spoilers as it’s still ongoing but we wouldn’t expect a damp squib of an ending with so much momentum carried forward from each season.
Highlights so far include ballroom dancing and Ravi as a cockney gangster.
The major appeal of iZombie comes from its quirky style. Themes are diverse on the show, covering everything from sports (where Liv left no wagering stone unturned as a gaming addict) to ballroom dancing which Ravi and Liv pulled off well enough to warrant a ten from Strictly Come Dancing betting’s Bruno Tonioli.
There have been plenty of socioeconomic subtexts about population control, acceptance of others, and immigration (whether intended or not). They haven’t been strong allegoric storylines but they’ve been visible enough.
The show hasn’t strayed away from the comic book aesthetic either, with each new scene opened by a panel-style card. It’s been nice to see a show develop without drifting away from its origins.
iZombie has never been a ratings behemoth but it never planned to be. The cast wasn’t full of widely known actors to begin with (except Aly Michalka who plays Peyton). In the four years since the show started, everyone has celebrated relative forms of success and still managed to keep the show as fresh as possible, despite the “unfresh” zombies that powered the show through. iZombie is dead, long live iZombie.
Photo: Courtesy of The CW
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Inside an LTC awareness campaign
The nuts and bolts inside a major long-term care planning outreach effort.
By Margie Barrie | November 13, 2013 at 07:48 AM
Margie Barrie (File photo)
I’m in Times Square in the middle of New York City. It’s 7 a.m. on a beautiful day in May. With me are several hundred agents who are as passionate about long-term care (LTC) as I am.
Parked in the roped-off area is a large antique Greyhound bus (nicknamed Nelly), which is decorated with signs proclaiming 3in4 Need More. Overhead is Prudential’s billboard dead center in Times Square with the 3in4 logo. Music is playing. Our personal flash mob is dancing. New Yorkers on their way to work are gaping at the spectacle. This is incredible!
Thus the 3in4 Need More campaign was officially launched. That was when the three founding members — Jonas Roeser, Mark Goldberg and myself — made the commitment to join forces to form a national non-profit named the 3in4 Association. Our goal was to bring the industry together to increase consumer awareness for LTC planning.
Since that exciting event two-and-a-half-years ago, the 3in4 Need More campaign has held a number of public relations events to spread the word about long-term care planning.
Since this is Long Term Care Awareness Month, this seemed to be a good time to give answers to frequently asked questions about how the campaign works.
Q. How many paid staff does the campaign have?
A. None. Everybody volunteers their time – including members of the executive committee and advisory board.
Q. Where does the campaign get its funding?
A. Our funding comes from carriers, agencies and producers. A budget of $500,000 over the last two years has delivered back $10 million in exposure dollars.
Q. What are the top priorities for 2014?
A. We have two major priorities.
First, we will be developing ways to grow membership.
Second, we want to encourage LTC Partnership states, which use Medicaid program rules to give consumers incentives to use private long-term care insurance (LTCI), to implement a consumer outreach program to the media and public to promote these plans and to increase consumer awareness of the need for LTC planning.
In California, the California Partnership for LTCi and the 3in4 Association are joining together. Seminars are being conducted throughout the state by the California Partnership and LTC specialists from several agencies.
Then, based on the feedback from this pilot program and from a similar pilot conducted in Texas last year, the 3in4 Association will prepare a State Partnership Package. This will include a seminar presentation and marketing materials to educate key state officials — elected representatives, insurance officials and state Health and Human Services agency staff — about the advantages of promoting partnership plans.
I invite everybody in the industry to join us in our efforts to contact key people in Partnership states, to ask them to implement the same type of state-wide publicity program that is underway in California. That is a win-win for individual producers and for the LTC industry as a whole.
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Rivals Passing in the Night: The Newest Chapter for Okada vs. Tanahashi
Posted by August Baker | Jul 10, 2019 | Columns
For the 13th time in a major match, Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi stood across the ring from each other. This time the battleground was Dallas Texas, Night 1 of the G1 Climax. The two had fought three times in the G1 before, and the 30 minute time limit was the deciding factor each time. For six and a half years, neither man had been able to put the other away in under 30 minutes. There was too much heart, too much toughness, for either man to stay down for the three count that easily. Would this match be the same?
Nah, Okada just beat Tanahashi, definitively, in the shortest main event of their rivalry.
Crowd pops big for Okada win #G1climax #g129 #g1climax29 #njpw pic.twitter.com/u3cFw5xyrz
— 411 Wrestling (@411wrestling) July 7, 2019
The average time of Okada and Tanahashi’s main event matches is 31 minutes and 36 seconds. That includes their first two titles matches back in 2012, which went 23:23 and 28:06, and three 30 minute draws. The match in Dallas is the shortest match the two have had, barring a singles match when Okada was still in training, and their only G1 match to not reach the time limit. Never before has a major match between the two ended so quickly. In years past, they would be desperate to finish each other off before the time limit, straining to hit one final move as the clock counted down. There was no need this time.
The match in Dallas is being called a “Greatest Hits,” match, as neither man brought much new to the fight. The two became so familiar with each other over the past decade that matches often depended on a new move, technique, or counter to secure the win. But on this night, the old reliables were enough for Okada to send Tanahashi back to the drawing board. Okada drove Tanahashi’s head into the mat with a jumping Tombstone Piledriver, hoisted his rival up by the waist, and finished the job with the Rainmaker clothesline.
Okada landed a few Rainmaker’s earlier in the match, but for the finish, he only needed one. In a rivalry that has seen obscene numbers of finishers used in some matches, such an abrupt end came as a surprise. While it’s possible that neither man felt like emptying the tank on a show outside their native Japan, it’s also possible that Tanahashi has just run out of answers against Okada. Maybe Tanahashi is injured and wasn’t able to give 100 percent, even though at no point did Okada attempt to take advantage of his lingering arm injury. Maybe Tanahashi will devise a new strategy and challenge Okada again in the future and come out on top. Or maybe, after seven years of fighting, Tanahashi can no longer keep up with the Rainmaker.
Going forward, this match may be a tipping point in one of the greatest rivalries in professional wrestling history. It’s commonly thought that the average prime of a professional wrestler is in their early 30s when they have tempered the athleticism and skill of their youth with years of wisdom and experience. Kazuchika Okada has been an elite wrestler for years, and he is only 31 years old. Despite his litany of classic matches and one of the most epic title reigns in history, Okada may still have yet to reach his peak.
Meanwhile, his long-time rival, Hiroshi Tanahashi, is 42 years old. Every year it feels like he’s fighting the injuries that are inevitable for a wrestler in their 40s. How many are legitimate injuries and how much he is playing them up is known only to Tanahashi, but there’s no doubt this year that Tanahashi, after his incredible match against Kenny Omega at WrestleKingdom, has not been his old self. In particular, he is having trouble against the younger generation of wrestlers. This year he lost the IWGP title to 26-year-old Jay White, lost to 31-year-old SANADA in the New Japan Cup, lost to 31-year-old Zack Sabre Jr in Madison Square Garden, and lost a rematch to Jay White in Sumo Hall.
Hiroshi Tanahashi says this installment of his rivalry with Okada showed him where he's at as a wrestler.#njpw #g129 pic.twitter.com/xfCBafwZWv
— With Spandex UPROXX (@WithSpandex) July 7, 2019
After such a decisive loss to Okada, it’s time for Tanahashi to make a decision about his future. Does he have another main event run in him? Or is it time for him to join the Satoshi Kojima’s and Togi Makabe’s of the company, to settle on a place lower on the card for a few years before being regulated to veteran tag matches? We’ve seen him drop to the Intercontinental level before, but is it fair to ask if even that may be out of reach for him?
For Okada’s part, he’s already moved on. After defeating SANADA at Wrestling Dontaku, Okada said that it is SANADA who is his rival. And Okada has a point. SANADA is the same age as Okada. They share similar physiques and athleticism. If such a comment annoyed Tanahashi, the best way he could have put his name on the champions lips was to beat him in the G1, or at least take him to another draw. Instead, he lost. For years, Okada’s now ex-manager Gedo screamed that Okada “was on another level!” Now it seems like he really is, and the truth of that will be hard for Tanahashi to deny.
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By G.S EarlyPosted March 25, 2014
The Breakthrough Biotech That’s Up 500%… And Counting
What do you call a stock that’s soared by over 500% in one year?
Answer: the jackpot!
That’s precisely why investors like biotech stocks. An unknown, unloved stock can become a darling in a heartbeat.
That number I just used isn’t a fabrication, either. It’s exactly how the stock below has performed over the past year.
I’ve been following the company for almost a decade now. And after some fits and starts, it’s finally surpassed cult status and hit the big time.
It’s no fluke, though. I’m going to give you a few quick tips for successful investing in biotechnology – and reveal the company I’m talking about…
From “Lab to Fab”: Matching Strategy With Science
Let’s start with a fundamental principle: Picking biotech winners is not a trader’s game; it takes investing chops and a long-term horizon.
After all, changing the face of medicine doesn’t take a quarter or two. You need time, patience, and plenty of research.
In the biotech world, getting products from “lab to fab” – i.e., into commercial production – requires two key things…
Good science.
Good management.
Many biotech firms are highly specialized in terms of their drug research, but if there’s no business vision to complement the scientific vision, it will be hard for a company to cross the proverbial “valley of death.”
This is particularly important, given the time and huge expenses involved with FDA testing. How companies finance their research and clinical trials is critical.
In addition, small biotechs need proof of concept before a Big Pharma company will look to license a technology/drug, or buy the company. In other words, they don’t have to pay for expensive drug trials to see it.
Keep in mind that for every biotech that succeeds, many more will fail. That’s why it’s vital to have a long-term outlook and play the field. For example, look at companies developing cancer drugs, heart medication, drug delivery systems, new vaccines, etc.
Don’t just buy one “cool” idea. Diversify your holdings, so you can keep the truly promising firms and dump the stragglers.
It’s like going to the race track. You don’t expect to win every race, but when you hit, it feels good and the payoff can be very big. And as medical science achieves more breakthroughs through new technologies, biotech opportunities will increase.
Triple-Digit Attention
After years of struggling to get some serious recognition for its cutting-edge vaccine work, microcap biotech firm, Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: INO), is finally getting some attention.
Shares are up nearly 1,000% over the past five years. And half of that has come in the past year!
What’s more, the upside has just begun because the company is now getting priced to the point where institutions can take positions and big drug firms are seeing proof of concept.
Last year, Inovio revealed successful results of its Phase I trials (HVTN 070 and HVTN 080) for its PENNVAX-B preventive HIV DNA vaccine.
In addition, the company said its universal H7N9 bird flu DNA vaccine protected 100% of vaccinated animals in a challenge study.
These are important breakthroughs. And with innovative, DNA-based vaccines for a variety of conditions – like HPV and cervical cancer – this is just the tip of a big iceberg.
But it took many years of trials, millions spent on research, and a smart front office to get to this point.
Bottom line: When a biotech firm hits on a breakthrough drug or vaccine, it can sell for many millions of dollars very quickly. So make sure biotech stocks are part of your portfolio. But given the costs, time and potential hazards, only use risk capital and diversify.
Good investing,
G.S. Early
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Home Vinexpo Vinexpo New York – Conference highlights for March program
Vinexpo New York – Conference highlights for March program
Wine Intelligence and Women of the Vine & Spirits Present:
The Truth Behind Gender and Global Wine Consumption
In this intriguing session slated for Tuesday, March 5, Lulie Halstead, CEO of Wine Intelligence will discuss new insight that examines, for the first time, the truths and myths underlying how men and women approach and interact with the wine category, based on the recently published report “Wine Consumption and Gender: Do Women and Men Approach Wine Differently?” Halstead will reveal the evidence behind the research findings and provide an answer to many commonly heard hypotheses.
Emerging Technologies in the Wine & Spirits Industry
Erica Duecy, editor in chief of online alcohol industry magazine SevenFifty Daily, will moderate a session on emerging technology with panelists Aaron Sherman, CEO of SevenFifty, the online marketplace and communications platform that owns SevenFifty Daily; Cheryl Durzy, founder and CEO of online platform Liberation Distribution (LibDib); Maison Noir Wines owner/winemaker, sommelier and social media power player André Mack; and Kelley Rochna, VP marketing and innovation of wine importer and distributor Vine Connections.
Also on the Vinexpo New York conference line-up are a session on global climate change, two Wine Spectator sessions addressing wine market trends and the role of imports in the U.S. wine market, and an introduction to craft spirits by Whisky Advocate.
Tasting events will give Vinexpo New York attendees plenty of opportunities to sample exceptional wines and spirits from around the world. Among them:
In a special partnership with Vinexpo, Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET), the world’s leading provider of wine and spirits qualifications, will provide educational content throughout the show, including tasting sessions delivered by WSET-certified industry experts. WSET will also share details of its new WSET Diploma in Wines qualification program, which will launch in August 2019. Aspiring diploma candidates will be invited to attend the first in a series of information seminars on the program. To view the schedule of WSET sessions, visit www.vinexponewyork.com/wset.
On Monday, March 4, Renaissance des Appellations will showcase the Biodynamic® wines of 62 of its members, all dedicated to producing wine of “high quality, with great originality” that fully express their terroir. The exhibit and tastings will be located in the exhibit hall.
Also new is the Wine Spectator 90+ Club Tasting Bar – a perfect opportunity to sample and learn– which will single out wines by Vinexpo New York exhibitors that have been rated 90+ points (“outstanding” on the 100-point scale) by the prestigious wine magazine.
Bernard Magrez, owner of four Grands Crus Classés and more than 40 châteaux around the world, returns to Vinexpo New York in 2019 with a new acquisition: Château Le Sartre, which recently merged with Magrez’ Château Pape Clément. Also new for Bernard Magrez is a large-scale expansion to its Research and Development department that will focus on more efficient viticultural techniques and sustainability while maintaining respect for terroir and tradition. At Vinexpo New York, Magrez will introduce its new Bleu de Mer Sparkling, both white and rosé, and will show several Classified Growths Wines—Château Pape Clément, Château La Tour Carnet, Château Fombrauge and Château Haut-Peyraguey—and a selection of regional wines such as Bleu de Mer and Château Les Muraires.
Located in Spain’s Sonsierra winemaking region, Bodega Sonsierra will return to Vinexpo New York after a successful 2018 show. The cooperative, which has operated since 1962, has begun construction of a new, small winery in Rioja that will produce high-end wines from single vineyards. Vinexpo attendees will have a special opportunity to sample the new Viñedos Singulares from Rioja, which is not yet ready for the market, as well as Sonsierra Wines.
Champagne Cuillier will exhibit at Vinexpo New York as it seeks to expand into U.S. markets beyond New York City. Located in the ‘Massif de St Thierry,’ close to Reims, France, the fifth-generation winemaker makes a great effort in its vineyards to be pesticide free and recently planted trees to introduce a greater variety of insect and animal species, enlivening the soil and vines. Champagne Cuillier has also just introduced a new high-end clothing line. The winemaker plans to present its own champagnes at Vinexpo as well as those by Champagne De Sloovere-Pienne and Gaius Provence.
LGI Wines will present its core blends at Vinexpo, as well as international brands not yet available in the U.S. Based in the south of France, the company specializes in private and control labels, working with a network of growers, caves, cooperatives and large estates. A team of five winemakers is responsible for selecting and vinifying the juice that goes into LGI blends. They then customize the blends to each market and customer specifications and work with the design studio to select packaging from LGI’s existing portfolio or create new custom packaging.
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Virgin Australia takes on famous Bathurst racetrack in new safety video
Virgin Australia cabin crew take on Supercars driver Jamie Whincup in a race around Australia’s famous Mt Panorama racetrack in the airline’s new on board safety video, released today.
As the naming rights partner of the Virgin Australia Supercars, the safety video is being introduced on board its fleet of wide body Airbus A330 and Boeing 777.
In the video, Virgin Australia cabin crew challenge Jamie Whincup to complete a lap of the track before they can finish delivering the safety briefing. Whincup is joined in his Red Bull Racing Australia Supercar by veteran Virgin Australia Captain Bradley Clarke who is normally found in the cockpit of a Boeing 737. The video also features Supercars drivers Mark Winterbottom and Rick Kelly. The video was filmed at Mt Panorama following the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 in October.
Virgin Australia Airlines Group Executive John Thomas says: “Virgin Australia and the Supercars are both high-performance, safety-led organisations which makes this the perfect partnership for delivering our on board safety message to guests.”
“We believe our guests will find the new safety video both entertaining and informative.”
Supercars Chief Executive James Warburton said the sport was pleased to partner with Virgin Australia on its new on board safety video.
"Our drivers Jamie Whincup, Mark Winterbottom and Rick Kelly jumped at the opportunity to be part of this video which delivers an important safety message and also showcases Supercars at one of the world's most famous racetracks.
"We are delighted to partner with Virgin Australia and we look forward to launching the 2017 season with great travel packages for fans."
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Really Easy Piano: Coldplay
Really Easy Piano: Coldplay features 25 great songs from one of the biggest rock bands in the world, Coldplay, all arranged for really easy Piano.
Since forming in 1996, Coldplay have released six acclaimed albums and continued to reinvent and reinvigorate their style and sound with each one. This songbook contains easy Piano arrangements of a selection of their best and most popular songs so that those familiar Piano melodies and chords are yours to master regardless of your ability.
Classic favourites like Yellow, Trouble and Clocks are featured, complemented with newer tracks like Atlas, written for the soundtrack to the film' The Hunger Games', and A Sky Full of Stars, with all the best ones in between. Chris Martin's band are known for their huge choruses, atmospheric Piano playing and wide range of influences, from alternative rock to art pop to electronic music. With the Really Easy Piano, simplified arrangements of the highlights from all six albums are available for you to start impressing your listeners straight away.
This Coldplay songbook is a brilliant introduction to popular music for beginners, featuring chord symbols and full lyrics for all 28 songs, you'll be able to play along with familiar songs to reinforce your learning of techniques through catchy and well-known tunes. Each song also has an brief introduction with some interesting information as well as really useful performance tips to help you nail the songs and get them sounding exactly like the original.
For fans of Coldplay, or just popular music, this Really Easy Piano sheet music will turn your playing from cold to hot as you master these massive hits from one of the biggest bands to come out of the UK.
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Back to the future as Redblacks hire Joe Paopao
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Joe Paopao is returning to Ottawa yet again.
Paopao, the former Rough Riders quarterback and head coach of the Renegades, is returning as the Ottawa Redblacks running backs coach.
“We feel very fortunate to add Joe to our coaching staff,” Redblacks head coach Rick Campbell said, in a release.
“His wealth of knowledge and experience coaching and playing in the CFL will be a huge asset to our offence.”
Paopao was the Rough Riders quarterback in 1987 and coached the Redblacks from 2002-05. Since 2015, Paopao has acted as offensive coordinator for Simon Fraser University.
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Miranda Lambert to Headline 2018 Livin' Like Hippies Tour
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Country star Miranda Lambert is kicking off 2018 with a massive headlining trek across the country.
The 2018 Livin' Like Hippies Tour will kick off Jan. 18 in Greenville, S.C. and will hit mid-sized arenas across the U.S. This time around, Lambert will visit many large cities that missed out on her extremely successful Highway Vagabond Tour that wrapped earlier this year.
This time around, she's bringing along Jon Pardi as her main opening act. Brent Cobb, Turnpike Troubadours, Lucie Silvas, The Steel Woods, Sunny Sweeney, Ashley McBryde and Charlie Worsham will also play on selected dates.
Tickets for a selection of dates go on sale Oct. 6. You can find more information about ticketing at Miranda Lambert's official website.
Miranda Lambert's Livin' Like Hippies Tour Dates:
Jan. 18, 2018 - Greenville, SC @ Bon Secours Arena (Jon Pardi, Brent Cobb)
Jan. 19, 2018 - Orlando, FL @ Amway Center (Jon Pardi and Brent Cobb)
Jan. 20, 2018 - Atlanta, GA @ Infinite Energy Center (Jon Pardi and Brent Cobb)
Feb. 1, 2018 - Tacoma, WA (Jon Pardi and Turnpike Troubadours)
Feb. 2, 2018 - Spokane, WA (Jon Pardi and Turnpike Troubadours)
Feb. 3, 2018 - Eugene, OR @ Matthew Knight Arena (Jon Pardi and Turnpike Troubadours)
Feb. 8, 2018 - Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center (Jon Pardi and Lucie Silvas)
Feb. 9, 2018 - Fresno, CA @ Save Mart Center (Jon Pardi and Lucie Silvas)
Feb. 10, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum (Jon Pardi and Lucie Silvas)
Feb. 15, 2018 - San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena (Jon Pardi and Lucie Silvas)
Feb. 17, 2018 - Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena (Jon Pardi and Lucie Silvas)
March 1, 2018 - Knoxville, TN @ Thompson-Boling Arena (Jon Pardi and The Steel Woods)
March 2, 2018 - Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena (Jon Pardi and The Steel Woods)
March 3, 2018 - Cleveland, OH @ Wolstein Center (Jon Pardi and The Steel Woods)
March 8, 2018 - Omaha, NE @ CenturyLink Center (Jon Pardi and Sunny Sweeney)
March 9, 2018 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Chesapeake Energy Arena (Jon Pardi and Sunny Sweeney)
March 10, 2018 - Little Rock, AR @ Verizon Arena (Jon Pardi and Sunny Sweeney)
March 15, 2018 - Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena (Jon Pardi and Ashley McBryde)
March 16, 2018 - St. Louis, MO @ Scottrade Center (Jon Pardi and Ashley McBryde)
March 17, 2018 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center (Jon Pardi and Ashley McBryde)
March 22, 2018 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center @ (Jon Pardi and Charlie Worsham)
March 23, 2018 - State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center (Jon Pardi and Charlie Worsham)
March 24, 2018 - Winston Salem, NC @ Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Jon Pardi and Charlie Worsham)
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Home » Cities » Schools in Kansas City, Kansas
Accredited Sonography Schools in Kansas City, Kansas
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Kansas City, Kansas is known for its famous barbecue and its love of music. The 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District plus the many music venues keep residents and visitors entertained. This historic city also has trend-setting areas like the Country Club Plaza that was designed to emulate an upscale shopping and entertainment district similar to one in Seville, Spain. Students who are pursuing a degree in Diagnostic Medical Sonography and sonography professionals working in the city will also find an expanding healthcare system in a strong 2017 economy that is expected to continue growing.
Sonographer Training in Kansas City, Kansas
There are over 57,000 students enrolled in community colleges and universities in the Kansas City area. The University of Kansas in Lawrence is only 33 miles away from Kansas City, Kansas. However, the University of Kansas Medical Center-University of Kansas School of Health Professions is located in downtown Kansas City and offers a Diagnostic Medical Sonography program that is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Programs (CAAHEP). Accreditation should be a student requirement during program selection because the instructional classes and clinical training prepare students for achieving ARDMS certification. The university program is 18 months long.
Salary and Job Outlook for Sonographers in Kansas City, Kansas
The healthcare industry is fueling economic growth in Kansas City, Kansas, accounting for one out of 10 jobs. Healthcare technologists, including sonographers, make up 2.2 percent of the city’s workforce, offering excellent employment opportunities from 2017 forward. Due to industry growth and high demand for sonographers, the $74,430 annual average salaries in Kansas City are higher than the average national salaries per the U.S. federal government. The hourly wage for ultrasound technicians was $35.79 as of the May 2016 occupational survey data. The Kansas City, Kansas average salaries of $74,430 are also significantly higher than the average salaries for the state of Kansas which were $68,580. | See Job Openings
Best Diagnostic Medical Sonography Programs in Kansas City, Kansas
School: University of Kansas Medical Center
Address: 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160
Website: www.kumc.edu
CAAHEP Accredited Sonography Programs: Certificate Program in General Sonography, Certificate Program in Vascular Sonography and Certificate Program in Cardiac Sonography
There is a Kansas City, Kansas and a Kansas City, Missouri that are separated by the Missouri River. Students and job searchers in Kansas City, Kansas have the advantage of easy access to two states.
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Topeka, Kansas (63 miles away)
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Periodontal disease and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory condition that has been associated with chronic diseases, including cancer. In an earlier prospective cohort analysis within the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS), we observed a 31% higher risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) among participants with severe periodontal disease at baseline. Here, we extend the study with an additional 8 years of follow-up, and conduct analyses with updated periodontal disease status and NHL subtypes. The HPFS is an ongoing prospective cohort study of 51,529 men in the USA Between baseline in 1986 and 2012, 875 cases of NHL were diagnosed, including 290 chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphomas (CLL/SLL), 85 diffuse large B-cell lymphomas and 91 follicular lymphomas. We performed multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression to evaluate associations of interest. History of periodontal disease at baseline was positively associated with risk of NHL overall (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.26, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06-1.49) and CLL/SLL (HR = 1.41, 95% CI: 1.04-1.90). With updated periodontal status, HRs were 1.30 (95% CI: 1.11-1.51) for NHL overall and 1.41 (95% CI: 1.08-1.84) for CLL/SLL. In contrast, after adjusting for periodontal disease, tooth loss was inversely associated with NHL, suggesting that other causes or consequences of tooth loss may have different implications for NHL etiology. Our findings suggest that periodontal disease is a risk factor for NHL. Whether periodontal disease is a direct or indirect cause of NHL, or is a marker of underlying systemic inflammation and/or immune dysregulation, warrants further investigation.
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Bertrand KA
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA.
Shingala J
Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Evens A
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Birmann BM
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Giovannucci E
Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Michaud DS
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
International journal of cancer 140:5 2017 Mar 01 pg 1020-1026
Alveolar Bone Loss
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Health Personnel
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Periodontal Diseases
Tooth Loss
Bertrand, Kimberly A., et al. "Periodontal Disease and Risk of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study." International Journal of Cancer, vol. 140, no. 5, 2017, pp. 1020-1026.
Bertrand KA, Shingala J, Evens A, et al. Periodontal disease and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. Int J Cancer. 2017;140(5):1020-1026.
Bertrand, K. A., Shingala, J., Evens, A., Birmann, B. M., Giovannucci, E., & Michaud, D. S. (2017). Periodontal disease and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. International Journal of Cancer, 140(5), pp. 1020-1026. doi:10.1002/ijc.30518.
Bertrand KA, et al. Periodontal Disease and Risk of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. Int J Cancer. 2017 Mar 1;140(5):1020-1026. PubMed PMID: 27861844.
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Home > International > Go International > Stand out > Mobility, opportunity, ability: an Erasmus experience in France
Mobility, opportunity, ability: an Erasmus experience in France
Declan, a 4th year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, was inspired to pursue his own Erasmus experience after living with Amélie, a French student, during her year abroad.
He told UUK: "When I got back from fieldwork in Kenya in January I was potentially facing my last ever months as a student so I asked my supervisor, Dr Jamie Furniss, who had done a post-doctorate in Lyon, if he knew anyone I could work with in France. Et voila, I landed an Erasmus+ Traineeship at Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès." Here's his story...
Under the shadow of a British exit from one of the great European projects, there is another where cooperation is still flying high: Airbus. Formed as a collaborative response by France, Germany, Spain and the UK to American dominance in the aviation industry, Airbus is headquartered in Toulouse where I have spent the last three months as an exchange student. Toulouse has a long history of all things aeroplane that goes back to 1918 and Aéropostale, an airborne postal service established to connect France to its colonies in Africa.
My PhD research has nothing to do with planes or postal services, however, during my time at Université Toulouse II I have spoken at length with colleagues whose research is in North African countries like Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Although I am part of a Centre of African Studies at my home institution in Edinburgh, the majority of the research there is in East and Southern Africa, conveniently mapping on to former British colonies(!). However, in moving myself to a French institution, I can see how I might also move the geographical focus of my research in the future.
Another difference I have noticed here, from Edinburgh, is a greater commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago, Yann-Philippe, my supervisor and office-mate, woopee-d with delight at his desk. Ever happy to take my head out of my thesis I looked up and he told me he'd just landed a €100,000 grant for a new research project looking at the end-of-life of aeroplanes. The two-year project is a collaboration between anthropologists (like Yann-Philippe), chemists, engineers, and geographers. Yann-Philippe told me to hurry up and finish my PhD because there might be a post-doc waiting for me.
A possible post-doctorate position is not the only opportunity my traineeship has presented however. I have also given a lecture, sat in on Yann-Philippe's weekly anthropology class, translated some of his work in to English, and had plenty of chance to practise mon français.
The pinnacle of my French practise came about a month ago when a mix-up on my phone contract led me to an argument with a mobile phone provider. Although frustrated by the situation, I couldn't help but smile afterwards: what a landmark moment! To argue in another language! Of course I have also sat through several long lunches with colleagues (a vital part of French academic life) and barely said a word, turned up to numerous social occasions on time (which means half an hour before anyone else) and seen bakers contort their faces in response to my accent (duh-bag-ett sieve-oo-play).
In many ways doing a PhD feels like the end of the academic journey, but in coming to France and discovering these regional, institutional, and cultural differences it feels more like I am taking my first steps all over again. But then again what is research if not the continual realisation of how much more we don't know?
This weekend I'll get on a plane and I too will leave Europe. But I have a feeling that, as a dear friend once told me, this is more au revoir than goodbye.
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MLB: St. Louis 6, Atlanta 3
ATLANTA, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Jason Motte's clutch relief effort Friday gave St. Louis a bizarre 6-3 win over Atlanta in a post-season game played under protest and marred by unruly fans.
In the first playoff game of its kind in baseball history, the defending World Series champion Cardinals eliminated the Braves and advanced to meet the Washington Nationals in a best-of-five division series beginning Sunday. That series will mark the first post-season appearance for a Washington major league team in 79 years.
Friday's wild-card playoff showdown included three costly errors by Atlanta leading to four unearned runs, the first of them being a game-changing throwing miscue by Braves' third baseman Chipper Jones in the final contest of his 20-year career.
Another of the errors was committed by Atlanta shortstop Andrelton Simmons while St. Louis was scoring two unearned runs in the seventh.
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Simmons also was ruled out on an interference call running to first base in the fourth, costing Atlanta a chance for a big inning, and his pop fly to left field in the eighth led to a very controversial umpire's ruling and the ugly scene that followed.
With two runners on and one away in the eighth, Simmons lifted a fly ball that carried about 30 feet into left field. St. Louis shortstop Pete Kozma went out to make the catch, but gave way at the last second to let left fielder Matt Holliday make the play.
The ball fell between them, but an instant before the ball hit the ground third base umpire Jeff Nelson made an "infield fly" call, which meant Simmons was out.
RELATED MLB: Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 0
Atlanta fans quickly began throwing bottles, cans and other debris onto the field and the Cardinals retreated to their dugout. There was an 18-minute delay, during which Atlanta Manager Fredi Gonzalez made an official protest that must be considered by Major League Baseball.
Motte was then called out of the bull pen and although he walked the first man he faced to load the bases, he struck out Michael Bourn to end the eighth inning. Motte also retired Dan Uggla with two men on in the ninth to end the game. That preserved the win for starter Kyle Lohse, who gave up two runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Atlanta took the lead on a two-run homer in the second by David Ross, putting the Braves in good shape since they had Kris Medlen on the mound. Medlen had baseball's lowest earned run average (0.94) of any starting pitcher in the majors after the all-star break.
Medlen gave up a leadoff single to Carlos Beltran in the fourth, but Holliday followed with a grounder to Jones at third. His throw to second base was too high and sailed into right field, putting runners on first and third.
St. Louis quickly capitalized with Allen Craig's double driving in a run, Yadier Molina's ground out producing another and a sacrifice fly by David Freese bringing in Craig from third and putting the Cardinals in front for good.
The game was the first to be played in baseball's new post-season format, one in which two wild-card teams from each league meet in a one-game playoff. It is the first change in 17 years to the way playoff baseball is conducted.
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Sept. 10, 2018 / 11:52 AM
UPI Horse Racing Roundup: Arklow wins at Kentucky Downs
Robert Kieckhefer, UPI Racing Writer
Big Drink of Water rallies down the stretch to win his second straight stakes, Saturday's Arlington-Washington Futurity for 2-year-olds at Arlington Park. Photo courtesy of Keely Sorrows/Coady Photography
Jockey Florent Geroux had two wins and two seconds among Saturday's five rich stakes at Kentucky Downs -- only to see Sunday's card postponed to Wednesday because of torrential rain.
Despite the weather setback, the Kentucky Downs program was the highlight of the U.S. racing weekend with Arklow victorious in the biggest of the stakes.
In British comeback races, it was 1-for-2 with Enable victorious and Harry Angel, not so much. Japanese horses won both of Korea's Group 1 events while back home in Japan, Fine Needle won his prep for the upcoming Grade 1 Sprinters Stakes.
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Arklow raced near the back of the pack early in Saturday's $750,000 Grade III Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup, found daylight between horses at the quarter pole, picked things up quickly and ran on to win by 1/2 length over Bigger Picture. Soglio dogged the early pace and held on for third while the favorite, Oscar Nominated, could never reach contention after being forced wide entering the stretch. Arklow, a 4-year-old Arch colt, finished 1 1/2 miles on good turf in 2:30.56 with Geroux in the irons.
"I felt good until the gates opened," said Jerry Crawford, founder of Donegal racing, which owns Arklow. "We thought we'd be sitting third very easily, and we're suddenly sitting at the back of the pack. But Florent was very patient ... This horse doesn't like to get stopped. It might not have worked. That hole could have closed. But it didn't and here we are."
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Arklow finished fourth in the Grade III Stars and Stripes at Arlington Park in July but, rather than advance to the Grade I Arlington Million, trainer Brad Cox sent him to the Kentucky Downs Preview at Ellis Park, which he won -- his first victory since a Fair Grounds allowance event in February. Asked what's next, Cox said, "Breeders' Cup! I don't know. Obviously our horse loves the grass. He's really getting better."
Filly & Mare Turf
Insta Erma broke alertly in Saturday's $500,000 Grade III Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf, took back to last of eight and then came with a late rush to win by a neck over Valadorna. Pas de Soucis was third and the favorite, I'm Betty G, faded from the lead to finish fifth. Insta Erma, a 5-year-old daughter of Pioneerof the Nile, ran 1 mile on good turf in 1:36.26 with Drayden Van Dyke in the irons.
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Insta Erma got a four-months vacation after finishing 11th in the Grade II Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs on Derby weekend and rewarded trainer Richard Baltas with her first graded stakes score. "She was a little sore, just body sore and needed a little break," Baltas said. "I got her back at the beginning of Del Mar, so I got like four or five works on the grass at Del Mar. We were looking for a race, and the guys said let's send her here. They found the spot."
The finish of Saturday's $500,000 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint couldn't have been much more exciting as seven of the eight rivals crossed the wire with only 1 1/2 lengths covering the lot. Proforma had a head in front of White Flag for the win with Vici 1/2 length behind that one in third and just a neck in front of Undrafted. Blind Ambition, Done Deal and Conquest Panthera were right behind with only Little Chesney out of the picture.
Proforma, a 4-year-old Munnings gelding, ran 6 1/2 furlongs on good turf in 1:15.72 with Joe Bravo riding, notching his first win since the Jersey Shore Stakes at Monmouth Park more than 14 months earlier. Trainer Michael Stidham said the Grade II Shakertown at Keeneland and the Breeders' Cup are on the horizon now for Proforma. "This was a bit of a breakthrough for him," the conditioner said. "So we haven't been thinking along those lines. But off of this race, we certainly have to consider it."
Ruby Notion and Lull rallied down the stretch together in Saturday's $450,000 Grade III Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint with Ruby Notion putting a neck in front of that rival under the wire. Brielle's Appeal held the lead through until the final yards and finished third, just another nose in arrears. Ruby Notion, a 5-year-old Great Notion mare, ran 6 1/2 furlongs on good turf in 1:15.80 for Geroux.
Ruby Notion won the Caress Stakes at Saratoga in July and seems to be peaking as summer turns to autumn. "I don't know if she's good enough to get done what she's doing right now. I know she's just in super-good form right now," said trainer Darrin Miller.
Juvenile/Juvenile Filly Turf
Moonlight Romance rebounded nicely from a tough trip to England, taking Saturday's $500,000 Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf by 3 lengths over Life Mission. Sovereign Impact finished third but was demoted to last for ducking out in the stretch, causing a nasty accident. Blame the Frog was promoted to third. Moonlight Romance, a Liaison filly trained by Wesley Ward for Ken and Sarah Ramsey, ran 6 1/2 furlongs on good turf in 1:17.91 with Jose Ortiz up.
Moonlight Romance finished second in her 2018 career bow at Keeneland in the spring, then won at Belmont Park before shipping to England, where she finished 13th while being bounced around a bit in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Ward also trains Bound for Nowhere, who won the $750,000 Tourist Mile Stakes at Kentucky Downs a week earlier after finishing a close third at Royal Ascot in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
"We're going to prep them all now at Royal Ascot and bring them to Kentucky Downs, the way it's working out," Ward laughed. He said the British experience for Moonlight Romance was compromised by a long delay. " Fortunately for us today, she rebounded and won a big purse for Mr. Ramsey and we're on to the Breeders' Cup now."
Next Shares took the wide route around the sweeping final turn in Thursday's $250,000 Old Friends Stakes at Kentucky Downs and swept by the leaders to win by 1 3/4 lengths. Siem Riep looked like a winner for a brief time but had all he could do to salvage second, beating Parlor by a nose. Next Shares, a 5-year-old gelding by Archarcharch out of the Evansville Slew mare Two Dot Slew, ran 1 mile and 70 yards on firm turf in 1:41.79 with Drayden Van Dyke up. The race was restricted to non-stakes winners in 2018.
Gas Station Sushi returned to the races after four months off gassed up and ready to go. The Into Mischief filly led all the way in Saturday's $75,000 Beverly J. Lewis Stakes at Los Alamitos and kicked away at the end, winning by 6 lengths over Steph Being Steph. Best of Me was third. Gas Station Sushi, with Mario Gutierrez in the irons for trainer Richard Baltas, ran 6 furlongs in 1:08.54.
Jerry Riley, Gas Station Sushi's owner, said, "She's a special filly. She tries very hard all the time and obviously runs well after a layoff." He suggested the $250,000 Grade II Raven Run at Keeneland Oct. 20.
Rayya finished fifth, never a factor in the Lewis. The Tiz Wonderful filly, winner of the Group 3 UAE Oaks in Dubai this spring and second to Mendelssohn in the Group 2 UAE Derby, was sent to the United States and turned over to Bob Baffert for the Kentucky Oaks, where she finished 13th after an awkward start. Saturday's race was her first up from that. She had been training well at Del Mar for the return.
Big Drink of Water made it two stakes wins in a row with a 1 1/4-lengths victory in Saturday's $75,000 Arlington-Washington Futurity at Arlington Park. The Soldat gelding, last seen winning the Victoria Stakes at Woodbine, pressed the pace before taking charge in the final furlong. Distant Shore was second and Knicks Go was a distant third. Big Drink of Water ran 7 furlongs on the all-weather track in 1:25.20 with Jose Valdivia Jr. in the irons.
"I don't know what's next for him," said trainer Larry Rivelli. "We got him for this race. He might be a turf horse. There are lots of opportunities there."
Into Trouble was never in trouble in Saturday's $75,000 Arlington-Washington Lassie at Arlington Park. With Chris Emigh up, the Into Mischief filly took her time getting going, racing last of eight early. But when called on, she quickly downshifted and ran by the field, winning by 2 3/4 lengths. The pacesetter, Thunderous Gem, settled for second, 4 lengths better than Meadow Dance.
"Never," Emigh said when asked if he had doubts early in the race. "She was just so relaxed." Into Trouble, trained by Ben Colebrook, now is 2-for-2. She won at first asking at Ellis Park Aug. 11.
England - Kempton
Enable took the first, very belated, step toward an encore effort in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with a workmanlike victory in Saturday's Group 3 188Bet September Stakes on the Kempton all-weather. The Nathaniel filly's summer campaign was scrapped because of a training injury and it was now or never to get her back on course for a repeat try in the Arc. Judging by the Kempton effort, trainer John Gosden has done the job.
The Kempton tilt must have looked a soft spot for a return -- until Crystal Ocean, runner-up in the King George, also showed up in the entries. No matter. Frankie Dettori let Enable run to the lead in the 1 1/2-miles race while David Probert kept Crystal Ocean comfortably behind her. The other two were always contesting third. Turning for home, Probert asked Crystal Ocean but Enable had more than enough, striding out to win by 3 1/2 lengths without plumbing her depths.
Dettori professed himself delighted and Gosden told Racing Post, "The hard thing for her was to stand around doing nothing. She loves racing and training."
England - Haydock
The Tin Man got a clear lane down the center of the course and found just enough late kick to land Saturday's Group 1 32Red Sprint Cup at Haydock by 1/2 length over Brando. Gustav Klimt rallied along the inside rail to take third. Oisin Murphy, the hottest jockey on the planet, replaced regular pilot Tom Queally and provided the winning ride. The Tin Man, a 6-year-old Equiano gelding, was second in this race in 2016 and third in last year's renewal as Harry Angel swept to a 4-lengths victory.
In Saturday's renewal, Harry Angel was nervous behind the gate, sprinted to the lead, then tired badly in the final furlong, fading from the lead to finish sixth. It was his first start since a dangerous incident in the stalls at Royal Ascot left him with minor injuries.
The Tin Man now is likely for the Qipco British Champions Sprint at Ascot Oct. 20. Beyond that is less clear as the gelding nearly died last December after contracting an illness while traveling to Hong Kong for the Group 1 Longines Hong Sprint. Trainer James Fanshaw credited the Hong Kong Jockey Club staff with helping save The Tin Man's life.
England - York
Limato overcame some unloved heavy ground to win Sunday's Rydale Garrowby Stakes at York in a victory of class over conditions. Trainer Henry Candy said the 6-year-old gelding now has lots of options, potentially including the Group 1 Qatar Prix Foret at Longchamp on Arc day. He said the Group 1 British Champions Sprint at Ascot Oct. 20 would be the seasonal target "in Europe at least." Limato contested the 2016 Breeders' Cup Mile, finishing sixth.
Recoletos came with a rush in the final 100 meters to edge Wind Chimes for the victory in Sunday's Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamps. British raider Expert Eye settled for third. Trainer Carlos Laffon-Parias said Recoletos, a 4-year-old Whipper colt, will be pointed to the Queen Elizabeth II at 1 mile on Champions Day at Ascot Oct. 20. He finished fourth behind Cracksman in last year's British Champion Stakes, going 1 1/4 miles. Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Juddmonte Farms, said Expert Eye also could target that race and/or the Breeders' Cup Mile at Churchill Downs. He is a 3-year-old Acclamation colt.
London Town, the prohibitive favorite, kicked away from the field in the stretch run to win the Keeneland Korea Cup for the second straight year, this time by 15 lengths. Dolkong was second. Forest Ranger, Richard Fahey's British-trained hope, finished fifth. Enobled Friend was a non-runner.
In the Keeneland Korea Sprint, it was Japan and Hong Kong 1-2, separated by a short head as Moanin and Fight Hero swept up on the outside of the leaders to get the top placings. Doraonpogyeongseon was third. New Jersey-bred Chublicious was a non-threatening fourth and Wild Dude was sixth. Moanin, a 6-year-old son of Henny Hughes, won the Grade 1 February Stakes in Japan in 2016 but had been racing at less lofty levels in recent years.
As Korea works to improve the international reach of its racing program, Sunday's events might have produced one world traveler. Fight Hero's trainer, Me Tsui, and jockey, Derek Leung, both praised the performance of the Footstepsinthesand gelding over a deep, sandy track.
Tsui told the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Andrew Hawkins, "There aren't too many dirt races for him now (in Hong Kong) ... I would love to take him to Dubai because he is a better 1,400-meter horse. He just finds the first 400 of a 1,200-meter race too fast. Now that he's gone well on a deep surface, I am more keen to go to Meydan, which Derek says is also quite deep."
Fine Needle looked the best chance coming into Sunday's Grade 2 Sankei Sho Centaur Stakes at Hanshin and the 5-year-old son of Admire Moon lived up to the promise. With Yuga Kawada up, Fine Needle came running on the outside through the stretch and won by 1 1/2 lengths over the pacesetting second-favorite, 3-year-old filly Love Kampf. Fine Needle won the Centaur for the second straight year, covering 1,200 meters over soft turf on a rainy day in 1:08.8.
Fine Needle, bred by Darley Japan and owned by Godolphin, won the Grade 1 Takamatsunomia Kinen at Chukyo in March and now is set for another swing at the Grade 1 Sprinters Stakes Sept. 30. Love Kampf, a daughter of Shonan Kampf, posted her seventh runner-up finish from 12 career starts.
With several of Hong Kong's top jockeys gone to greener pastures, there's an opening for a new champion this season. Among those looking to fill that spot is Karis Teetan, third last term and ambitious for more.
Teetan was winless in the first two meetings of the season but scored a triple Sunday at Sha Tin -- all for trainer Tony Cruz. Even better, Cruz told Teetan a few days earlier he will have the call on Pakistan Star, also the stable star. "The support from Tony has boosted my confidence," Teetan said. "He's a great idol in Hong Kong."
Back in North America:
Shamrock Rose led from the gate to wire in Saturday's $100,000 (Canadian) La Lorgnette Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, winning by 4 1/2 lengths over Miss Mo Mentum. Cosmic Love ran well late to get show money at long odds. Shamrock Rose, a First Dude filly, ran 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather track in 1:44.37 under Jerome Lermyte. Mark Casse trains both Shamrock Rose and Miss Mo Mentum.
Gamble's Ghost flew from last to first in Sunday's $120,000 (Canadian) Belle Mahone Stakes for fillies and mares, nipping pacesetter My Arch Enemy by a head. Mexican Hat was third, another neck in arrears. Gamble's Ghost, a 5-year-old Ghostzapper mare, finished 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather track in 1:44.51 with Eurico Da Silva in the irons.
Emerald Downs
Hit the Beach stalked the pace in Sunday's $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic for Washington State- or British Columbia-breds, took command in the stretch and won by 3 1/4 lengths over Buckley Bay. Hey Sequoia and Elliott Bay were close up in third and fourth. Hit the Beach, a 5-year-old Harbor the Gold gelding, ran 1 1/16 miles on a fast track in 1:42.14 with Jose Zunino up.
Fly Far Away flew just enough in the stretch run to capture Sunday's $50,000 Washington Cup Filly & Mare Stakes (same conditions) by 1 1/4 lengths from Dontkissntell. Gazing reported third. Fly Far Away, a 5-year-old Pleasantly Perfect mare, got 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.06 under Austin Solis.
Hastings Racecourse
Saturday was British Columbia Derby Day at Hastings. The track was fast and all dollar amounts are in Canadian funds.
In the day's feature, the $150,000 Grade III Derby, Sky Promise trailed most of the field early, came four-wide around the final turn to challenge for the lead and got home first by 3/4 length. Weekend Wizard had first run at the early leaders and opened up a daylight advantage but could not hold it and settled for second, 1 1/2 lengths in front of the original pacesetter, Canadian Game. Sky Promise, a Kentucky-bred colt by Sky Mesa, ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:51.71 with Rico Walcott in the irons.
Here's Hannah, under Richard Hamel, shot to the lead in the $100,000 British Columbia Oaks and wasn't caught, winning by 1 1/2 lengths over Tiptoe at the end of 9 furlongs. Raider was third. Here's Hannah, a BC-bred filly by Numaany, finished in 1:52.77.
Dat Day rallied by pacesetter Arranger in deep stretch to land the $100,000 Jack Diamond Futurity for BC-bred juvenile colts and geldings. Arranger held second, 1/2 length behind the winner and 1 3/4 length in front of the favorite, Call It a Wrap. Dat Day, a New Year's Day gelding, ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:19.35 for jockey Antonio Reyes.
Dancin Shoes took charge late in the $100,000 Sadie Diamond Futurity for BC-bred 2-year-old fillies, drawing off to win by 8 1/2 lengths over Notice. Dancin Shoes, a daughter of Cross Traffic, ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:19.22.
Reginella was on the lead but under pressure throughout the $50,000 Delta Colleen Handicap for fillies and mares but persevered to win by a nose over the late run of Notis the Jewell. In the companion S.W. Randall Plate Handicap, Absolutely Stylish led all the way to a 6 1/2-lengths victory over Don't Hold Me Back.
Belmont Park
Come Dancing led all the way to a 6 1/4-lengths victory over Berned in Sunday's $100,000 Royal Delta Stakes for fillies and mares. No Need to Appeal was third. Come Dancing, a 4-year-old Malibu Moon filly, covered 1 1/16 miles on a sloppy, sealed track in 1:44.78 under John Velazquez.
World of Trouble tracked the early speed in Saturday's $100,000 Armed Forces Stakes for 3-year-olds, surged to the lead and won off by 5 3/4 lengths over Dirty. That one was 12 1/4 lengths in front of Reed Kan in third. World of Trouble, a Kantharos colt, ran 6 furlongs on good turf in 1:09.71 with Manny Franco riding.
Tesora launched a rally from well back in the field in Thursday's $100,000 Christiecat Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, came six-wide around rivals and finished strongly to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Broadway Run was second, a head in front of Closer Still. The favorite, Miz Mayhem, chased the pace, then tired to finish next-last of nine. Tesora, a Scat Daddy filly, ran 6 furlongs on good turf in 1:11.69 with Javier Castellano up.
Cautious Giant tracked down pacesetting Harryhee in the final strides of Saturday's $100,000 Trinniberg Stakes, winning by a head. Quijote finished third. Cautious Giant, a 7-year-old Giant's Causeway gelding, ran 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:11.08 with Emisael Jaramillo riding.
Starship Bonita rallied to the lead in the lane in Saturday's $100,000 Sheer Drama Stakes for Florida-bred distaffers and continued with enthusiasm to win by 2 3/4 lengths from Ms Meshak. The odds-on favorite, Stormy Embrace, was another 1 length back in third. Starship Bonita, a 3-year-old Gone Astray filly, got 7 furlongs in 1:24.13 under Carlos Montalvo.
Shades of Victory, at odds of 80-1, led all the way to victory in Saturday's $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes for California-breds, holding off B Squared in the final strides by a head. The favorite, Edwards Going Left, was another head back in third. Shades of Victory, a 4-year-old Colt by Thorn Song, ran 1 mile on a fast track in 1:35.16 with Martin Pedroza riding.
La Fuerza kicked clear of the field in the stretch run of Saturday's $112,850 Aspirant for New York-bred 2-year-olds and went on to win by 3 lengths as the odds-on favorite. Kadens Courage was second, 6 3/4 lengths ahead of Pay the Vet. La Fuerza, a Flatter colt, ran 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:12.97 with Chris DeCarlo riding.
Sassy Agnes opened a daylight advantage in the stretch in Saturday's $112,388 Lady Finger Stakes for state-bred 2-year-old fillies and held on to win by 3/4 length over Ma Meatloaf. It was another 13 1/2 lengths to Jaded Lady in third. Sassy Agnes, a daughter of Central Banker, got the 6 furlongs in 1:12.94 with Oscar Gomez in the irons.
Hey Adrian was quickly on the lead in Saturday's $75,000 Loyalty Stakes for Ohio-bred 2-year-olds, then dueled down the stretch with Danefield before prevailing by a neck. Stone Cold Cat was third, 9 1/2 lengths behind Danefield. Hey Adrian, a Twinspired filly, ran 6 furlongs on a sloppy track in 1:12.13 with Juan Velez up.
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Ernest David Bell (4 June 1915 – 21 April 1959) was an English-born writer and curator, who was a controversial figure in Welsh arts by challenging the country's artistic heritage, but was also a supporter of young Welsh talent in the field of contemporary arts in the 20th century.
Bell was born in 1915 in London, to Idris Bell, a translator of Welsh poetry to English, and Mabel Winifred. Privately educated in England, Bell gained his first appreciation of the arts at Merchant Taylors' School. He graduated from the Royal College of Art and joined the Egypt Exploration Society, working in Sesebi in the Sudan and Amarah in Iraq. With the outbreak of World War II, Bell found work with the cartographical department of the Admiralty, first in England, and then in Wales, being posted to the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth.
After the end of the war, Bell was appointed the Assistant Director of the Welsh Arts Council and in 1951 he became the curator of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. In 1952, Bell, along with his father translated the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym, and he continued translating Welsh works, like his father, through-out his later life. In 1957, Bell published the work The Artist in Wales, in which he implied that Wales, as a country, did not possess a worthwhile visual cultural history. This caused a backlash from his others in the field of arts in Wales and the national media.
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New Book Explains How Perdue’s “Chickenizing” Changed the World
By Tom Pelton • Sep 8, 2016
Almost a century ago, an unknown railway clerk on Maryland’s Eastern Shore revolutionized the world’s way of farming.
His name was Arthur Perdue and he’d never even been a farmer. But he was brilliant in understanding the importance of transportation and organization in moving large numbers of chickens from rural areas up to big cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
The story of how Perdue’s business inspired a global revolution in how hogs, cows and other farm animals are raised in factory-like conditions is told in a new book by Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It’s called “Chickening Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals and Consumers,” published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dr. Silbergeld, who has been studying the poultry industry for many years, describes how Perdue changed animal farming forever.
“The first thing he did was he didn’t own the farms,” Silbergeld said. “And, you know, I’m the granddaughter of a farmer, so I know that that’s really tough work. Nobody gets really rich being a farmer. It’s down the line that people make the big bucks. So he really focused on the slaughter house. That was the key point. And if he owned the slaughterhouses, then all of the farmers were going to have to bring their chickens to him, and he could set the price. And then all of the retailers and wholesalers would have to come to him, to get consumer products, and he would set the price. So it was really the economic sweet spot.”
The system that Perdue promoted was of the company owning the chickens and dictating all the terms. The contract farmers that raised the chickens owned only the buildings, the manure, and large amounts of debt. In structure and geography, the system closely mirrored that of cotton sharecroppers who were taken advantage of after the Civil War in the south, Silbergeld writes in her book.
The tremendous financial success of Perdue Farms Inc. and its many copycats around the world have had a harmful impact on water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere, as the industrial-scale animal production buildings generate a vast amount of manure.
But Silbergeld writes in the book that there is also a dangerous human health implication of this new system, because the meat companies back in the 1940’s and 1950s’ started dosing the animal feed with antibiotics to boost the pounds produced. The problem was that this over-use generated antibiotic resistance among bacteria, disarming the most important weapons that doctors use to save the lives of humans from disease.
“Agricultural use of antibiotics for nontherapeutic, nonmedical purposes, is the main driver in the global crisis in antibiotics,” Silbergeld said. “I mean, according to the World Health Organization, we are standing at the wall of the end of the antibiotic era.”
Over the last 14 years, the Perdue company says it has been reducing its use of antiobiotics. And this June, Perdue announced that it would require more light and better conditions in the chicken houses of contract farmers.
But Silbergeld and others say this doesn’t solve the biggest problems and that Perdue and other meat companies still need to do more. Some environmentalists have called for a moratorium on new poultry houses on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Silbergeld warns that this would not work.
“A moratorium without a goal is really not going to solve the problem, although I understand the popular concern and drive for it,” Silbergeld said.
The real solution, according to Silbergeld, is to treat today’s livestock farms as what they really are: Necessary industries that require the same kind of intensive government oversight as the auto industry with strong, prescriptive regulations that protect the environment and public health.
America’s Biggest Terrapin Business Thrives During Ban on Capture
By Tom Pelton • Aug 31, 2016
Diamondback terrapin are a proud symbol of Maryland: a handsome turtle with a white neck spotted with black that is uniquely adapted to swimming in the mix of salty and fresh water in the Chesapeake Bay.
Almost a decade ago, news stories about the sale of thousands of captured ‘terps from an Eastern Shore turtle dealer to brokers to who sold them in China sparked outrage among Maryland legislators, who passed a 2007 law banning the commercial trapping -- and even possession -- of terrapin.
Jack Cover, general curator at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, was among those who feared for the turtle’s declining populations.
“Basically the bay’s ecosystems could not produce terrapin at a fast enough rate to satisfy that market demand,” Cover said. “And there was an insatiable demand coming from Asian markets in the years prior to the closing of the commercial fishery.”
But, oddly enough, nine years after the ban, the Eastern Shore turtle breeding and dealing business that triggered the state action is not only still in business, but has more than doubled in size, according to state records.
The Environment In Focus Podcast 8-31-2016
Gov. Hogan Rolls Back Pollution Rules for Sprawl Development
For 80 percent of Maryland residents, when we flush the toilet, the waste gets treated in a sewage plant to protect the Chesapeake Bay. State taxpayers have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the state’s largest sewage plants with state-of-the-art technology.
But 20 percent of state households – mostly those in rural areas – use a far more primitive waste disposal system: A septic tank. They are basically pits underground that are designed to slowly leak pollutants into the groundwater and nearby streams.
Septic tanks were not much of a problem when they served a few scattered farmhouses. But then developers began building whole cities of McMansions out in rural areas linked to these old fashioned, leaky waste pits. And that meant more pollution oozing into the bay.
Four years ago, Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley’s administration imposed regulations to help address this problem. The rules mandate that any new homes built in areas not served by sewage treatment plants need to install septic systems with the best available nitrogen removal technology, which can cost $10,000 per house.
When Republican Governor Larry Hogan took office last year, real estate developers and their allies in rural county governments complained that the additional costs were hurting profits and suppressing the sales of new homes in places like Carroll and Frederick counties. On so on Monday, the Hogan administration responded by revoking O’Malley’s rule.
Discovering the Monster Crabs of the Old Chesapeake
Blue crabs are an important part of the Chesapeake region’s culture, diet, and economy. But crab remains are rare in archeological sites around the Bay. This has led some scientists to believe that Native Americans did not eat the beautiful swimmers that today we find so delicious.
"What we know about Native Americans ate is based on some historic records, but also on looking at the trash piles that Indians left, mostly on the shoreline of Chesapeake Bay," said Tuck Hines, Director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. "And the majority of those trash piles are made up of oyster shells. But not much in the way of blue crab remains are generally found in those trash piles or 'middens.'"
What Baltimore and Rio Share in Common: Third World Water Pollution
EPA Chesapeake Bay Program
It was just before sunrise, and in the shadow of the Domino's sugar plant in Baltimore Harbor three friends were fishing from a small boat. Nearby, even though it was on a Sunday, employees were hard at work outside the factory in hardhats and yellow vests, using a giant crane to unload a Panamanian freighter. The sugar plant’s nearly century-old, eight-story brick building rose up over the ship next to three metal tanks labelled "blackstrap molasses."
The fishermen used an electric motor to purr slowly along beside a long wooden pier, casting their lines into the dark, smooth water. A cool breeze stirred, the sun rose above the horizon, and light flashed off the glass office buildings of downtown Baltimore like they were on fire.
After a while, one of the fishermen caught something – and reeled in a striped bass.
Fireflies Decline as Light Pollution Grows
By Tom Pelton • Aug 4, 2016
There is a growing movement to measure the worth of nature by quantifying its economic value. Trees, for example, provide billions of dollars in "ecosystem services" by producing oxygen for humans and absorbing our carbon dioxide pollution. What, then, is the value of fireflies? I thought about this as I sat on a bench on a summer night, watching a constellation of tiny golden lights wink and wander over the shaggy grasses and darkened trees in the park near my home.
I suppose you could argue that the aesthetic value of fireflies enhances the beauty of the park, and therefore increases the real estate values of the houses around it.
But that’s a stretch. And in fact, real estate development over the last several decades has been causing a decline in firefly populations.
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Yasmin Stefanie December 26, 2018 points to defend USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
the tennis world are trying to engage younger viewers and they’re going about it the wrong way – here’s how a 19 year old thinks it should really be done
The deadline on this post is tight. I turn 20 in four days and I call myself a 19yo in the title so I need to get it up before my birthday because not to be dramatic but the younger I am for this post, the better it sounds. lol
Hello and welcome to my second points to defend! If you’re not familiar, it’s a lil series I created to talk about tennis related stuff without it needing to be time-bound to a recent tournament because I wanted a place to just be able to discuss anything related to the tennis world and also try to make people who don’t follow tennis aware of any issues that are present in the sport.
Just to catch you up before we get into this one – if you missed the last one that I wrote just before the US Open I spoke about the French Tennis Federation banning outfits like Serena’s catsuit and how people online were jumping to make comments with incorrect knowledge behind them just to look ~woke~, how some players had started opening up about their mental health which seems to be something we don’t really speak about in this sport, how we need to appreciate the big five even more than we already do – especially now that all five are technically back, and how I feel that we respond differently to different players showing the same negative behaviour depending on whether or not they’ve been framed in the media as a good guy or a bad guy, using Kyrgios and Lil Zverev as my examples.
This one is gonna be a bit diff because I’m gonna speak about one topic in full rather than a few in brief. It’s something insanely close to my heart and something I’ve been wanting to talk about for a long time. Tennis as a sport is trying to engage a younger audience and draw more people into watching the sport – especially ATP and WTA tournaments as well as just the Slams that casual viewers might watch one to four times a year – but as someone in the age group they’re trying to target and as someone who already watches tennis religiously, it is clear as day to me that nobody is using the right approach to actually do this. And as someone in the age group they’re trying to target who already watches tennis the way they want to encourage others to, I think I can warrant giving my two cents on how I think tennis should engage younger viewers.
You know when you see some teen TV shows or movies and you can just tell that they were created by a group of adults who actually have zero clue what younger people are doing with their lives so they just go with any stereotype they assume to be true? It always ends up as 30-90 minutes of some peppy kids shouting YOLO or swag or lit every two minutes and posting shit selfies and photos of everything they pass by in the street to Instagram. They think we’re always on our phones and always speaking in weird words and acronyms we’ve made up, so they overload the episode or movie with just that when, in reality, that’s probably 1% of what we actually do. In the nicest way possible, it feels a little like this is what lots of people in tennis are doing.
They think that the ~kidz~ have no attention span, so they’re introducing fast-4 sets to try and speed up the whole thing before we get bored and lose interest. They think we spend our lives on the Internet, and that just because Netflix and chill x is a phrase people say to take the piss that must mean we all exclusively watch things via streaming services, so they’re selling the rights to tennis coverage to online streaming platforms only. Let’s say the age group tennis wants to try and attract more fans from is anything under 30 – those age groups are either too young to work and make money, students in debt, or people working hard just to barely be able to afford the cost of living because the government and economy have fucked us over. Or maybe that’s our fault because we spend all our money on avocado toast x. Can most of this age group even afford fifty different streaming subscriptions unless our parents are paying for the whole family?
If there’s a way to go about engaging a younger audience, this isn’t it. I know what I want, I know what other people around my age want. I know what things got me to engage with tennis in the first place to know what works and what doesn’t, I’m basically your case study. Even if it is proven that fast-4 sets get more people watching or that selling tennis broadcasting rights to a streaming platform will attract a whole new audience, people won’t try out these new things if they didn’t already like tennis beforehand. So allow me – your case study, your test subject, your living proof, your guinea pig x – to tell you how I think we’ll be able to get a younger audience watching and engaging with tennis.
it doesn’t matter if you make tennis quicker to watch when nobody cares about the players in the first place
The narrative at the moment in tennis seems to be ‘we need to make tennis really quick and fast to engage the kidzZzz‘, yet they forget that there’s a huge percentage of young people who will sit through a 90+ minute football match with the build up, halftime and reaction coverage on top of that. Young people will wake up in the middle of the night to watch a boxing match and spend time watching undercards before the main event. To me, the length of a tennis match isn’t the issue. If someone has free time to sit and watch over six hours of Kevin Anderson and John Isner’s Wimbledon match, they’ll sit and watch it – or, at the very least, leave it on TV while they do stuff around the house. If someone has to work or has plans, they won’t sit and watch it all, irrespective of age.
The #NextGenATP tournament plays a first to four games, best of five set format. After this year’s edition, which admittedly did create some amazing matches, and the lack of tight three-setters in the actual ATP Finals, people started talking about how the format the Next Gen Finals used might be good to introduce at some tournaments. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of pros of implementing this format at more tournaments, but ‘it’ll make the younger people more likely to watch tennis‘ is not one of them.
If someone doesn’t care about the players or the match in the first place, they won’t watch it no matter how fast or long the match will be. Tight matches are super engaging, you don’t want to leave or look away because you’re worried you might miss the one point that changes everything and finally decides the match after it’s been neck-and-neck so far, but people need to start watching that match from the beginning in order to build this drama to then keep on watching. The fast-4 set format is arguably one of the best creators of this I can’t miss a single second incase I miss the point that decides the whole match feeling because things can change so quickly but, as I keep saying, people need to have a reason to watch in the first place. A faster format doesn’t give them that reason to start watching, just to carry on if they already are. (Side note – funnily enough the other best creator of that feeling is the total opposite, a super long match when you’re deep into the final set of a Slam at some ridiculous 10-10 scoreline just waiting for someone to finally break).
A big way tennis can get over this hurdle and give people, especially a younger audience, a reason to start watching tennis in the first place is to give them something to care about, to get us invested in the players. They almost need to be made into celebrities to get people to care about them and start watching their matches. All of my friends know who Andy Murray is because we’re British and he’s milked to death in the press here. The man’s been knighted, he’s a full on famous British personality and so people end up more inclined to watch a match of his if they know it’s on or if they’re flicking through channels and see his name. Everyone knows who Serena is because she’s Serena. It’s the same as everyone knowing who Beyoncé is, there’s just that superstar power where everyone knows exactly who you’re talking about just by saying their first name. People who don’t watch tennis are far more likely to watch a tennis match if Serena is playing, just because it’s Serena. People know who Nadal is purely because he’s fit and he’s stripped down for Armani and Tommy Hilfiger adverts. It might not be the best way to know him – for his campaigns rather than his actual career – but however they’ve gotten to know him, it makes them a celebrity in his eyes and they’ll then end up watching his matches.
These are real life examples I’ve had from my friends, these are the reasons they know who Serena, Rafa and Andy are and don’t really know anyone else, maybe just Venus, Sharapova, Fed and Novak. And I have friends who had never ever heard of Federer before, they couldn’t even pronounce his name. Of course Federer is one of the world’s most marketable sportspeople and this far outweighs the fact that one teenager can’t even pronounce his name, but I do think that people who are into tennis just see Roger as this GOAT and sporting icon that surely everyone in the world must know when, newsflash, not everyone does.
We need to turn tennis players into Serenas. Obviously this is something that can’t completely be forced, and a lot of Serena’s star quality comes from her own personal journey, her story and her incredible talent and ability, but we can market tennis players as popular personalities like Serena. There might be some players who’d rather stick to being a tennis player and don’t care if they engage any new fans, and that’s fine, but for those who are willing to do some extra fun media bits to help up both their profile and the profile of tennis as a sport, they should be given the opportunity.
We need to know more about them in order to care about them, only when people care about a player will they care enough to watch their matches. From personal experience, I didn’t watch any tennis until Wimbledon 2013 and even then I exclusively watched Andy Murray because he was the only one I cared about because obvs being British he’s drilled into your head as one of our best sportspeople. I’d heard of the rest of the big four and of Serena and Venus so I started watching them when they were just on, and then by watching their opponents I got to know more players to then start watching them.
I think the problem in tennis is that we all hype up the same people constantly and don’t give fans or potential fans enough characters to potentially support and get invested in, it’s just the big four and the Williams sisters everywhere you look. All of whom deserve to be hyped up forever, but let’s turn more players into personalities to get emotionally invested in.
The ATP Uncovered videos and the similar videos that the WTA make are a nice lil way to do it, but should be distributed in a way where more people who aren’t existing tennis fans will see them. I absolutely loved the lil Next Gen behind the scenes reality show / documentary type thing that the ATP made over the course of the year and released recently during the Next Gen Finals. It’s such a good concept but wasn’t promoted anywhere near as much as it should’ve been! And Serena Williams’ HBO docu-series Being Serena (which I recommend to every single person in the whole entire world) gave the most amazing and relatable insight into her life both on and off court. Seeing more players in more humanised settings just going about their day to day life makes it a lot easier to invest and engage.
it doesn’t matter where you stream the coverage if that coverage isn’t engaging enough
A ~fun fact~ for you all, I care about this particular subject so much that with a few tweaks it may become my dissertation topic. Girl’s got it all figured out already x.
In the UK, Sky Sports used to have the US Open. Then Eurosport had all the Slams and now, as of this year, Amazon Prime Video UK took the US Open rights. It was also announced last year that the 2018 season would be the very last that the ATP Tour would be shown on Sky Sports, with it moving to Prime Video to join the US Open when the new season starts in a few days.
The guess is that, as well as Amazon outbidding Sky, the big bosses of tennis thought that streaming services were a good thing to tap into. They’ve done it fairly early for live sports coverage so it could be a clever early move but my concern is for the coverage itself.
We see issues with where tennis is broadcast all over the world. In the UK you get most of the British grass season on the BBC for free, you get some of the French Open on something like ITV4 for some reason, sometimes the Nitto ATP Finals also end up on the BBC, the Slams are on Eurosport – bar the US Open which used to be Sky, then went Eurosport and is now at home with Amazon Prime, the men’s tour has just left Sky for Prime, and the women’s tour is on BT. Confused? Me too babe.
There’s an international streaming platform for the men’s tour – Tennis TV – which also used to show WTA tennis but then that got taken off, it became super inaccessible to watch WTA tennis online, and now I think they’re getting their act together with their own streaming platform, WTA TV. Then there’s been issues with the accessibility of women’s tennis in America, but the WTA Tour is finally making its way back to Tennis Channel for 2019. It’s all a lot of hassle and I can see why each respective tour and the Slams are doing things the way they are but they all need to make sure the coverage is actually worthy of gaining a viewership. If tennis wants to engage a new, younger audience, putting it on Prime Video to entice the age group who watch more things on streaming platforms instead of a normal TV box is only half of the way there. The rest of the journey is making the coverage good enough for people to want to keep watching.
This, for me, is the sad thing about the ATP Tour leaving Sky Sports. Annabel, Greg and Marcus made the ATP Tour coverage good because they were a lil #squad x and you enjoyed watching the coverage for them as well as just the tennis. You wouldn’t switch off after the match because you’d wanna hear them chat shit for a bit just because they were great together. I’m not sure what Prime have in mind but as far as I’m aware it’s not those three as a trio, and that’s a loss for tennis coverage.
It’s as much about the people behind the coverage as it is about the coverage itself. Of course the match speaks for itself, but to sustain an audience as a broadcasting platform you need the right presenters, pundits and commentators. Anyone can watch a match anywhere, so if they have a choice between where they can watch it then all the other variables about how engaging the coverage is will come into play. If Amazon Prime don’t put together a good team for their coverage, people will stick to Tennis TV for the men’s tour.
And in terms of engaging a younger audience, you need to get on their level. Give us someone a bit #relatable pls. As times change and younger, newer faces break out onto each respective tour – think Shapo, Lil Zverev, Sabalenka and Osaka – we also need younger, newer people introduced into the mix of tennis coverage. The coverage needs to be a bit lighter, more fun. The younger players need younger presenters to talk to so there’s a bit of common ground. As amazing as an experienced, seasoned professional is, they will never understand what it was like for Shapovalov and Sabalenka to grow up because they didn’t grow up at the same time. A younger audience will see right through any lack of common ground between a middle-aged presenter and an up-and-coming, next gen player. There needs to be a lot more diversity in tennis coverage full stop, so as well as bringing more women in and making it more racially diverse, bring some younger people in to engage the younger audience.
You need to get the perfect mix of presenters, pundits and commentators with tennis coverage. Give us diversity, give us ex-players, give us genuine fans of the game who might not be able to play but bloody love to watch, give us people who are very precise and analytical in their commentary and others who give us more candid, real reactions, who shout along at the TV like the rest of us.
And let’s not forget that when it comes to live sport, timing is everything. The worst thing about Prime Video during the US Open, something I’m terrified for when they take over the normal ATP Tour soon, was that it was way way waaaaay behind, especially when you watched it on a TV instead of a laptop. It could be a whole game behind, and if you looked anywhere other than the TV the score would end up ruined for you. Twitter? Off limits. Live app that sends you notifications? Ruins everything. If they have the whole tour on a two minute delay it’s going to make them look pretty bad, and there’s no point to watch the match if the scores are being ruined for you online a few minutes before your stream gets there.
We need a shakeup in tennis coverage to get a new, younger audience engaged and watching tennis. Make the coverage worth watching as well as the match itself, give us a good buildup and a good roundup, give us good people to carry us through the match with their commentary. Most importantly, it’s 2018 (nearly 2019) – give us diversity. Race, gender, age, background, experience. We don’t just want three, middle-aged, white men in suits who made is to the quarter final of a Grand Slam 30 years ago telling us why Roger Federer is a superior being. We want people a bit more real and relatable.
So. The TL;DR:
make the players someone we can get behind, turn them into these personalities that we want to support, turn them into people whose matches we want to watch and tune into, just to see them playing
changing the format of tennis isn’t the answer, you need to get people watching in the first place before you can start changing the format because, let’s face it, the format of tennis is ridiculously difficult to understand. I’ve been watching since wimbledon 2013, first casually and then religiously, and I don’t think I fully understood everything until last year
make tennis something we want to watch – make it accessible, make it worth watching beyond the match itself
the human aspect is the most important here – it’s the driving force behind my two big points. turn the players into people we care about, and turn the presenters, pundits and commentators behind the coverage into people we care about. once you’ve got the emotional, human interest there, you’ll keep people coming back.
I guess I’ll leave it there because this has been awfully long. I’ve been planning this post and working on it bit by bit for way too long, I’ll never be able to properly articulate what I mean if I haven’t been able to already so I thought I may as well just put this up now, and hope that you understand what I mean and where I’m coming from. I’d love to see the landscape change in tennis and more people start watching and enjoying the sport.
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And the Abortion Beat-Up Goes On
Above Image borrowed from this article about US protests.
Sonny & Cher (YouTube) : And the Beat Goes On
SEE ALSO: Related YYC Article
Justin Trudeau is forced to get bluntly specific about the "attestation" requirement on requests for government funding for certain summer jobs, while anti-abortion activists continue to play dumb.
Group at centre of summer jobs storm stirs debate over graphic anti-abortion images ... Canadian Centre for Bio-ethical Reform singled out by Justin Trudeau for 'hateful' flyers
Trudeau defended his government's policy requiring that employers applying for job grants sign an attestation on reproductive and LGBT rights.
I suspect the increasing noise from conservative Christians is just getting started here in Canada. Many US states have actually begun to negate "reproductive rights".
Trump campaigned on an anti-abortion platform, even though hundreds of thousands of women marched in protest:
Trump's positions against abortion are supported by many Republican lawmakers, who control both houses of Congress. Many of those Republicans also ran on a platform of opposing abortion.
Canada's new Federal Conservative Party leader will get strong support in the next election from the people by whom Trudeau is now being confronted. From Wikipedia it's clear that, as a staunch Catholic, he gives an excellent impression of being the anti-abortion/anti-gay activist's kindred spirit.
From the CBC: Opposition leader Andrew Scheer is accusing the Liberal government of "imposing" the prime minister's views on faith groups that fear they will be denied funding for summer jobs due to their positions on abortion.
And speaking of politics:
The Campaign Life Coalition has figured out how to get around the rules for tax exempt organizations in their "Political Activity: Do's & Don'ts for Churches" (pdf):
The limits of church activity do not limit church staff, volunteers or members from political activity outside of the church, on their own time or with their own money.
There's nobody cagier than a God-fearing political activist whose professed moral purity gets in the way of his deeper motives. A way has been found around the rules for tax-free status for churches, and now they are simply navigating around an additional hurdle.
CBC: Bible camps worry about losing Canada Summer Jobs money
Changes introduced require organizations to affirm respect for 'reproductive rights' in applications
But it seems to me that if they want to indoctrinate children at summer camps -- and of course to carefully handpick, for ideological compatibility, their government-funded employees -- maybe it's time that the dollars for what they choose to call "charitable" activities started coming from their own pockets rather than those of the average tax payer who may not agree with their Biblical interpretations.
Next we have the strange and convoluted arguments of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.
From their Blog: We share a common belief that human rights belong to each and every one of us equally. But if not all humans are women, how can women's rights be the equivalent of human rights?
Huh? A woman is an individual. And according to The Charter Section 15:1 - Equality Rights:
Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
And then the CCBR blogger goes on to express admiration for the protest sign of one of their members, which said: "Our liberation cannot be bought by the blood of our children."
A strange mantra indeed, given the huge numbers of our nation's children who have been sacrificed in the killing fields of foreign countries on behalf of "God and Country".
There's a photo I wanted to exhibit here, but it's a Geddy Image and they want $575.00 dollars for it. So here's the link to it instead.
The white crosses - - intended to mourn the deaths of babies by abortion - - are so evocative of a military cemetery that you'd have to wonder if it isn't some kind of weird Freudian slip!
Anyway, if you click on the below image you will find more food for thought.
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Unruly passenger hits flight attendant, then pukes during Delta flight to Paris
A federal complaint says a man struck a flight attendant in the throat and then threw up during a Delta flight to Paris.
Unruly passenger hits flight attendant, then pukes during Delta flight to Paris A federal complaint says a man struck a flight attendant in the throat and then threw up during a Delta flight to Paris. Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/15/man-hits-delta-flight-attendant-paris-bound-detroit/1464087001/
Andrew Clark and Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star Published 8:09 a.m. ET June 15, 2019 | Updated 5:40 p.m. ET June 16, 2019
If you're looking to upgrade your next flight without throwing down extra cash, here are some tricks you can try. USA TODAY
Passengers on Delta Air Lines' Flight 500 from Indianapolis to Paris made an unexpected visit to Detroit on Thursday after an "unruly passenger" caused the plane to divert.
The disturbance occurred just after 6 p.m. EDT, according to a federal criminal complaint. About 40 minutes after boarding the flight to Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, authorities say Ian Robert James Morin began "yelling and acting erratically."
According to the complaint, the flight crew tried to calm Morin but he continued to shout and refused to comply with their demands.
Morin then allegedly hit a flight attendant in the throat with an open hand. The complaint said he tried to strike the attendant a second time, then threw up on the aircraft.
Delta rolls out new Zac Posen-designed uniforms to 64,000 employees
Zac Posen takes a selfie with Spanx founder Sara Blakely at the Atlanta uniform celebration ahead of the uniform rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Delta employees pose at an Atlanta "fashion show" ahead of the uniform rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
This crew was the first to wear Delta's new uniforms after their formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta airport customer service agent shows off the carrier's "Passport Plum" suit in Mexico. Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines hosted "uniform launch" events in Atlanta, Minneapolis and Los Angeles ahead of the official uniform roll-out on May 29, 2018. Seen here are Delta CEO Ed Bastian (front right) and designer Zac Posen. Delta Air Lines
Delta and Zac Posen kicked off celebrations for the carrier's new uniforms with several events. Here, Posen speaks at New York LaGuardia on May 28, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta ground worker "walks the runway" at an Atlanta "fashion show" ahead of the airline's uniform rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air LInes
A flight attendant in a new "lapel suit and vest" and an airport customer service employee show off Delta's new uniforms in Rome ahead of the formal roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Airport customer service employees show offer Delta's new "airport customer service exclusive dress (left)" and the "Red Coat suit (right) ahead of the formal roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A maintenance worker (left) in Shanghai shows off Delta's new "short sleeve workshirt" and "plain front work pants" while a ramp employee in (right) wears the "men's short sleeve performance polo." Delta Air Lines
In Amsterdam, two flight attendants in show off Delta's new "lapel suit and vest" ahead of the formal roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, two ramp/cargo employees show off Delta's new "men's long sleeve ANSI rapid-dri polo" uniforms ahead of the formal roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
In London, a Delta TechOps agent wears the new "short sleeve work shirt " ahead of the carrier's formal uniform roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta flight attendant poses with designer Zac Posen at a kick-off celebration at New York LaGuardia ahead of the formal uniform roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Delta employees pose in Seattle wearing their new uniforms ahead of the formal roll-out. Delta Air Lines
In Sydney, flight attendants show off new "Passport Plum" and "Groundspeed Graphite" ahead of the formal uniform roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta Cargo worker shows off a new uniform in March. The uniforms were formally rolled-out May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
In Paris. airport customer service employees wear Delta's new "lapel suit and vest" (left) and "Red Coat pant suit' (right) ahead of the formal roll-out on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Delta's airport customer service workers show off new uniforms in an April photo that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta Air Lines flight attendant shows off a new uniform in a spring photo shoot preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Delta ground-service maintenance employees show off new "longsleeve workshirt and plain front work pants" in a March photo shoot that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta "TechOps" employee shows the new "men's short sleeve ANSI rapid-dri polo" in a spring photo shoot that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Delta "TechOps" employee show off various new work uniforms in a February photo shoot that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Taylor Zorzi
A Delta flight attendant wears the new "lapel suit and vest" uniform in a March photo shoot that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta flight attendant shows off new uniforms for international flight crew during a February photo shoot that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Delta ramp employees show off new uniforms during a February photo shoot that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
A Delta ramp employee shows off new uniforms during a February photo shoot that preceded the formal rollout on May 29, 2018. Delta Air Lines
Lisa Gass, a spokeswoman for Michigan's Wayne County Airport Authority, confirmed the incident to USA TODAY via email, writing, “On Thursday evening, a Delta flight from Indianapolis to Paris was diverted to Detroit Metropolitan Airport due to a disruptive passenger."
She added, "Security personnel on board were able to restrain the man until the aircraft landed. The man was taken into custody. The investigation was turned over to the FBI.”
Morin, who resides in the northern Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, appeared in Detroit federal court on Friday afternoon and was released on bond, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit told The Indianapolis Star.
Following the diversion and Morin's removal and arrest, Delta put the flight's other passengers up in hotels for the night and resumed the eight-hour flight to Paris on Friday morning, Delta told The Indianapolis Star. The flight was scheduled to land at Charles de Gaulle about 14 hours later than originally planned.
The airline apologized to the passengers for the delay and inconvenience.
Contributing: Adrienne Jordan, USA TODAY
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Explore the world's 33 megacities, from Paris to Tokyo
The number of megacities — defined as cities with populations greater than 10 million — grew from 28 in 2014 to 33 in 2018. To identify the world's 33 megacities, 24/7 Wall St. used the U.N.'s data booklet, “The World’s Cities in 2018.” Click through to learn more. pat138241 / Getty Images
33. Krung Tep (Bangkok), Thailand • 2018 population: 10.2 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +58.8 percent • Pct. of Thailand's population: 14.7 percent • Est. 2030 population: 12.10 million thitivong / Getty Images
32. Lima, Peru • 2018 population: 10.4 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +42.5 percent • Pct. of Peru's population: 31.9 percent • Est. 2030 population: 12.27 million Azureus70 / Getty Images
31. Chennai (Madras), India • 2018 population: 10.5 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +58.6 percent • Pct. of India's population: 0.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 13.81 million VtTN / Wikimedia Commons
30. Jakarta, Indonesia • 2018 population: 10.5 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +25.4 percent • Pct. of Indonesia's population: 3.9 percent • Est. 2030 population: 12.69 million nala_rinaldo / Getty Images
29. Bogotá, Colombia • 2018 population: 10.6 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +67.1 percent • Pct. of Colombia's population: 21.4 percent • Est. 2030 population: 12.34 million OSTILL / Getty Images
28. Paris, France • 2018 population: 10.9 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +12.0 percent • Pct. of France's population: 16.7 percent • Est. 2030 population: 11.71 million encrier / Getty Images
27. Bengaluru (Bangalore), India • 2018 population: 11.4 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +105.0 percent • Pct. of India's population: 0.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 16.23 million shylendrahoode / Getty Images
26. Lahore, Pakistan • 2018 population: 11.7 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +110.5 percent • Pct. of Pakistan's population: 5.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 16.88 million gaborbasch / Getty Images
25. Shenzhen, China • 2018 population: 11.9 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +81.8 percent • Pct. of China's population: 0.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 14.54 million NI QIN / Getty Images
24. Moskva (Moscow), Russian Federation • 2018 population: 12.4 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +24.0 percent • Pct. of Russian Federation's population: 8.6 percent • Est. 2030 population: 12.80 million yulenochekk / Getty Images
23. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, United States of America • 2018 population: 12.5 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +5.6 percent • Pct. of United States of America's population: 3.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 13.21 million 4kodiak / Getty Images
22. Guangzhou, China • 2018 population: 12.6 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +61.8 percent • Pct. of China's population: 0.9 percent • Est. 2030 population: 16.02 million loveguli / Getty Images
21. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo • 2018 population: 13.2 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +114.5 percent • Pct. of Democratic Republic of the Congo's population: 15.7 percent • Est. 2030 population: 21.91 million MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani / Wikimedia Commons
20. Tianjin, China • 2018 population: 13.2 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +89.1 percent • Pct. of China's population: 0.9 percent • Est. 2030 population: 15.75 million chuyu / Getty Images
19. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • 2018 population: 13.3 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +17.6 percent • Pct. of Brazil's population: 6.3 percent • Est. 2030 population: 14.41 million microgen / Getty Images
18. Lagos, Nigeria • 2018 population: 13.5 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +84.9 percent • Pct. of Nigeria's population: 6.9 percent • Est. 2030 population: 20.60 million MKoleosho / Getty Images
17. Manila, Philippines • 2018 population: 13.5 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +35.4 percent • Pct. of Philippines' population: 12.7 percent • Est. 2030 population: 16.84 million fazon1 / Getty Images
16. Kolkata (Calcutta), India • 2018 population: 14.7 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +12.1 percent • Pct. of India's population: 1.1 percent • Est. 2030 population: 17.58 million Beyondwonder / Getty Images
15. Istanbul, Turkey • 2018 population: 14.8 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +68.7 percent • Pct. of Turkey's population: 18.0 percent • Est. 2030 population: 17.12 million xavierarnau / Getty Images
14. Chongqing, China • 2018 population: 14.8 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +88.7 percent • Pct. of China's population: 1.0 percent • Est. 2030 population: 19.65 million onlyyouqj / Getty Images
13. Buenos Aires, Argentina • 2018 population: 15.0 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +19.7 percent • Pct. of Argentina's population: 33.5 percent • Est. 2030 population: 16.46 million AdonisVillanueva / Getty Images
12. Karachi, Pakistan • 2018 population: 15.4 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +56.7 percent • Pct. of Pakistan's population: 7.7 percent • Est. 2030 population: 20.43 million Adnan Asim from North Nazimabad, Karachi 74700 ( Sindh ), Pakistan / Wikimedia Commons
11. New York-Newark, United States of America • 2018 population: 18.8 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +5.6 percent • Pct. of United States of America's population: 5.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 19.96 million GCShutter / Getty Images
10. Kinki M.M.A. (Osaka), Japan • 2018 population: 19.3 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +3.3 percent • Pct. of Japan's population: 15.2 percent • Est. 2030 population: 18.66 million Nikada / Getty Images
9. Dhaka, Bangladesh • 2018 population: 19.6 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +90.4 percent • Pct. of Bangladesh's population: 11.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 28.08 million Meinzahn / Getty Images
8. Beijing, China • 2018 population: 19.6 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +90.7 percent • Pct. of China's population: 1.4 percent • Est. 2030 population: 24.28 million Daniel Case / Wikimedia Commons
7. Mumbai, India • 2018 population: 20.0 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +23.7 percent • Pct. of India's population: 1.5 percent • Est. 2030 population: 24.57 million Alenka00 / Getty Images
6. Al-Qahirah (Cairo), Egypt • 2018 population: 20.1 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +47.3 percent • Pct. of Egypt's population: 20.2 percent • Est. 2030 population: 25.52 million jlascar / Flickr
5. Ciudad de México (Mexico City), Mexico • 2018 population: 21.6 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +16.9 percent • Pct. of Mexico's population: 16.5 percent • Est. 2030 population: 24.11 million MartinM303 / Getty Images
4. São Paulo, Brazil • 2018 population: 21.7 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +27.2 percent • Pct. of Brazil's population: 10.3 percent • Est. 2030 population: 23.82 million dabldy / Getty Images
3. Shanghai, China • 2018 population: 25.6 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +79.6 percent • Pct. of China's population: 1.8 percent • Est. 2030 population: 32.87 million zhaojiankang / Getty Images
2. Delhi, India • 2018 population: 28.5 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +81.7 percent • Pct. of India's population: 2.1 percent • Est. 2030 population: 38.94 million Konstik / Getty Images
1. Tokyo, Japan • 2018 population: 37.5 million • 2000-2018 population growth: +8.8 percent • Pct. of Japan's population: 29.5 percent • Est. 2030 population: 36.57 million yongyuan / Getty Images
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York students work on a major feature film.
York students work on a major feature film, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, featuring Tom Berenger and Joely Richardson.
They jumped at the invitation from York-based KMA Creative Media, the company called in by writer and director, Bill Clark, to make digital changes and additions to the finished film that is based on US children’s best seller of the same name by Susan Wojciechowski.
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Apple pie: To cheese or not to cheese
Everything is better with cheddar, right? You know, like burgers, grilled cheeses and nachos. But how is cheddar with a good ol’ slice of American apple pie?
Apple pie: To cheese or not to cheese Everything is better with cheddar, right? You know, like burgers, grilled cheeses and nachos. But how is cheddar with a good ol’ slice of American apple pie? Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/life/food/2018/06/12/apple-pie-cheese-cheese/35965345/
Kaitlyn Alanis, The Wichita Eagle Published 2:42 p.m. ET June 12, 2018
Some Midwesterners enjoy a slice of cheese with their apple pie. Others think the food pairing sounds gross. (Brenda Carson/Dreamstime/TNS)(Photo: Brenda Carson / TNS)
WICHITA, Kan. — Everything is better with cheddar, right?
You know, like burgers, grilled cheeses and nachos.
But how is cheddar with a good ol’ slice of American apple pie?
Apparently, that’s how some Midwesteners enjoy their pie — because why top it with vanilla ice cream when you can have cheese?
Last week, Wichita country radio station host JJ Hayes asked a question on Facebook: “How do you like your apple pie? Cheese or Vanilla Ice Cream?”
The question wasn’t unwarranted, though. He said his radio host partner, Tiny, thinks cheese on pie “is JUST PLAIN WRONG.” But because Hayes is married to “a Midwest girl,” he says he knows the food pairing is a thing.
The comments were overwhelmingly in support of ice cream.
“I love cheese but there is a line,” one person said.
“I’m from the Midwest and cheese on pie is unheard off,” said another. “Gross!”
But there were still some loyal “apple pie with a slice of cheese on top” fans.
“Sharp cheddar is awesome w Apple pie,” a comment reads.
One person said “you’re missing something” if you’ve never tried cheese with your pie — especially if you want something sweet and salty. “It’s heavenly,” she said.
Another person said ice cream on pie is good, but “melted cheese on a warm pie ain’t bad either.”
And another said she prefers blue cheese on her pie.
Tradition: Cheese on pie is nothing new.
Southern Living says that for some, “An apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze.” The magazine said the pairing is a little more common in upper Midwest dairy country and dates back to medieval times.
In 1998, the Los Angeles Times reported that one of America’s “most beloved traditions” is a warm apple pie with a wedge of sharp cheddar cheese.
The newspaper reported that the history for the “dessert” is a little obscure — but it’s rarely mentioned in cookbooks until about 1950.
“ … memoirs of life in the upper Midwest indicate that cheese was already a regular accompaniment to warm apple pie there before the turn of the century,” the 1998 article states. “The upper Midwest is major dairy country, of course, and it’s still where the custom is liveliest.”
Other debates: The cheese and pie debate isn’t the first “food fight” to hit the Midwest.
Earlier this year, hamburger casserole was named the grossest food to ever come from Kansas. Many Kansans disagreed.
In October, a Kansas State University student found out “cinnamon rolls and chili” are not just a Kansas thing.
Also in 2017, the people of Iowa “disowned” Chris Jorgensen after he posted a Pop-Tarts and cheese sandwich. “You ain’t from Iowa if you never had one of these,” he said. Iowa disagreed.
That’s when people from other Midwest states and beyond started their own Pop-Tarts abominations, including Oklahoma’s Pop-Tarts with ranch and Alaska’s fresh salmon with toaster pastries.
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Spiceworks announces a passel of goodies from across the pond
Spiceworks made several announcements from SpiceWorld London on May 12 that include a new developer toolkit, transaction processing capabilities, and new apps for the App Center.
By Ken Hess for Consumerization: BYOD | May 14, 2015 -- 11:15 GMT (04:15 PDT) | Topic: Enterprise Software
It's always a lot of fun to speak to the folks from Spiceworks because doing so usually means that I'm in Austin, Texas. This conversation however was by phone. It was just as fun as speaking with them by phone, without all the distractions of Austin such as frosty beverages, rooftop parties, awesome food, and great scenery. I spoke with CSO Scott Abel about what's going on at SpiceWorld London this year. As always, Spiceworks gets me excited about technology, the possibilities of what a community can do, and true industry leadership. Spiceworks doesn't follow; it leads. And that is exciting.
This year Spiceworks' SpiceWorld London has the pleasure of being the venue for some significant announcements from Abel and company.
The App Center helps Spiceworks users develop apps that increase productivity for other community members. Members can develop apps and distribute them free of charge or for a fee.
"The Spiceworks App Center is a unique opportunity for the development community to reach a professional audience with enormous purchasing power," said Michael Maw, an independent developer and creator of the Pepper Pack app. "The platform is easy to build on and gives developers a new audience to reach with premium apps that are business-focused and can help professionals simplify their days."
If you have some fear of individually developed apps, the Spiceworks community reviews them and lets you know if there's a problem with an app.
New Featured Apps
Spiceworks introduced a series of new apps developed by independent programmers. These apps require Spiceworks 7.4.
Pepper Pack - The Pepper Pack app gives IT professionals all the information they need to troubleshoot support tickets faster. It enables Spiceworks users to instantly view all devices assigned to an end-user and link those devices to a help desk ticket in a single click. Users can also manage and assign those devices, view detailed hardware & software information, and spot potential problems before they become larger issues.
Hatch Project Management - Hatch is a project management app designed to help IT professionals organize and collaborate with team members on IT projects across their IT department. IT professionals can create new projects and add details including specific tasks, start dates, due dates, time worked and estimates.
linkIT - The linkIT app enables IT professionals to connect their barcoding system with Spiceworks inventory application. Users can associate barcodes to devices, view device information and last scan date, and search devices all from a single interface. With linkIT, IT professionals can say goodbye to inventory spreadsheets and manual data entry for good.
Network Map - The Network Map app helps IT professionals better understand and visualize their network by showing connected devices that have been scanned by Spiceworks' inventory. Built-in search, device filtering and intelligent grouping helps users find the device they're looking for quickly and gives them the ability to learn more about users' individual devices including IP and MAC addresses.
Pip-Pip - Pip-Pip is a chat app that connects to an IT department's existing XMPP chat server. With Pip-Pip, IT professionals can chat with their IT colleagues as well as end-users requesting support. Conversations with end-users can be easily added to an existing Spiceworks help desk ticket, and IT professionals can create a new support request, all from Pip-Pip.
ChallengePost
Spiceworks launched the ChallengePost competition where developers can compete for $65,000 in prizes that include a trip to SpiceWorld Austin 2015. The deadline is July 20, 2015 and the winners will be announced August 21, 2015. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the list of judges and let me know if you see a recognizable face* there.
Spiceworks, in case you don't know, is primarily a community-driven inventory management application. By community-driven, this means that the Spiceworks community has significant input as to how Spiceworks evolves. For almost ten years, IT professionals have relied on Spiceworks for the tools, resources, and community to perform their jobs more efficiently.
If you haven't used Spiceworks, I suggest you take it for a spin. It's free. Not a free trial, but free as in free beer** (as discussed in Linux circles).
I hope my Spiceworks mates have a jolly time in London. Have some fish and chips, Jaffa cakes, and pints of bitters in my absence.
About SpiceWorld
Spiceworks' SpiceWorld user conference draws attendees from businesses across the world. The event features break-out sessions, expert discussions, and topics voted on by the network of IT professionals in Spiceworks. Sessions include in-person talks with the company's founders and product developers, top technology vendors, and industry experts.
About Spiceworks
Spiceworks is the professional network millions of IT professionals use to connect with one another and thousands of technology brands. The company simplifies how IT professionals discover, buy and manage more than $650 billion in technology products and services each year. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks is backed by Adams Street Partners, Austin Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Goldman Sachs, Shasta Ventures and Tenaya Capital. For more information visit http://www.spiceworks.com.
Follow Spiceworks on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spiceworks and connect with Spiceworks on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Spiceworks.
*It's me.
**I have yet to experience this free beer, but am told it's quite good.
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DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO VIOGNIER?
By Steve Heimoff
The reason that Viognier has hit the comeback trail isn’t hard to understand. For the past decade, while consumers have largely been ignoring it, the white Rhône variety remained a steadfast obsession among some very serious and talented California winemakers, not to mention a handful of restaurateurs and sommeliers.
The winemakers were determined to master its notorious idiosyncracies, and they never abandoned their idealistic conceptions. That vision went, roughly, like this: As Chardonnay is to Burgundy, so Viognier is to the Rhône. There, in favored spots like Condrieu and Château Grillet, it’s one of the world’s great white wines. California mastered Chardonnay; why couldn’t it master Viognier?
In the 1980s, Viognier came onto the U.S. market in tiny quantities, produced by such wineries as Calera, La Jota, Joseph Phelps, McDowell Valley and Ritchie Creek, all early proponents of Rhône varieties in California. They had hopes that Viognier would be the answer for the “A.B.C.” (“anything but Chardonnay”) consumers.
The thinking was that Viognier would catch on quickly among American wine consumers who were searching for an alternative white wine.
But things didn’t work out that way. Viognier didn’t catch on, and the public turned its fickle attention to other, tried-and-true wines. But in 2003, long after its anticipated takeoff, it’s back.
Today, “people are finally getting a handle on how to produce it,” notes Peter Marks, MW, the wine curator at COPIA, the American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts. In a back-to-the-future scenario, Viognier’s original promise—to be a great white wine in California, if not a carbon copy of Condrieu, then at least in the same league—is at last being fulfilled.
“A flash in the pan.”
The first California Viogniers were victims of their own flamboyant personalities, and of the grape’s inherent viticultural and enological problems.
Ehren Jordan, winemaker at Turley Wine Cellars and proprietor of his own label, Failla, says one reason why Viognier belly-flopped in the 1990s was because “the wines got too fruity. They almost didn’t taste like wine. They were more like soda pop. It was a flash in the pan.” Agrees Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm, who is one of California’s original Rhône Rangers, “They tasted like everything!”
It may seem counterintuitive to criticize a California wine for being too fruity, but the wines were indeed over the top. I remember my first Calera Viognier, which was also the first Viognier I’d ever tried. When proprietor-winemaker Josh Jensen siphoned off a barrel sample of the ’89, his first commercial release, and poured me some, it blew my mind.
It was fruit salad in a wineglass. It was candied orange peel, kiwi, apricot, lime, white peach, musky pear, Maraschino cherry, honeysuckle, pineapple, smoke and vanilla, all wrapped in a rich, viscous, creamy liquid with a honeyed finish.
“That’s always been our style. Huge fruit, very big, very rich,” Diana Vita, Calera’s manager, told me when I recalled for her that long-ago wine.
Those early Vigoniers were made in a style that you either loved, hated or just failed to understand.
“The wines were very blowsy,” remembers Wild Horse Winery proprietor Ken Volk, who produces Viognier under his Equus label. “Con- sumers got confused, in the sense of, ‘I tried it, it’s okay, but I’m going back to Chardonnay.’ “
Sommeliers also found selling Viognier a major challenge. “The wines lacked a sense of balance, and they were hard to pair with food,” says Master Sommelier Peter Granoff, who was in charge of wine at San Francisco’s trendy Square One until 1994.
Consumers were “intimidated” by Viognier, explains Kenneth Knox, wine director at Viognier, a restaurant in San Mateo, California where the wine list features no fewer than 15 different bottlings of the variety. The wines were perceived as too expensive for the quality; the word “Viognier” was difficult to pronounce, and the taste was strange.
“If you were only used to Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc,” Knox says, “to branch off in [this] direction was hard.”
Even Jensen himself concedes that his Viognier can be “so strong, so exuberant and flamboyant, and so hard to match with anything but the boldest, richest food, like foie gras or lobster, that it’s not something I’m going to drink every day.” At Square One, Granoff used to recommend Viognier with one of Chef Joyce Goldstein’s most intensely flavored entrées, caldo de perro, a Catalan soup with fish, scallops, orange juice, onions and almond-orange aioli—not exactly the kind of fare most people eat at home.
But for winemakers themselves, there were problems with Viognier that went well beyond its tutti-fruity strangeness. The grape poses extraordinarily difficult challenges to grow and vinify. Unlike Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc, which both produce viable wines from almost any vintage, Viognier is extremely susceptible to variations in the weather, and requires a razor’s-edge balance of warmth and coolness to develop properly. Jensen couldn’t even release a Viognier from the cool, damp 1988 vintage because the grapes never ripened.
But when the wines come from too hot a region, they can be as flat and—in Jordan’s view—as “uninteresting” as the syrup from a can of supermarket fruit salad. Either way, in order to develop flavors, Viognier grapes must soar to enormously high sugar levels, and that, warns John Falcone, who made the wines at Atlas Peak and now works at Rusack Vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley, is a real problem.
“You have to battle all this [potentially] high alcohol,” says Falcone, “which makes it difficult to get balance in the bottle.”
The threat of too much alcohol, often as much as 15 percent, left winemakers with miserable choices: They could halt fermentation so that some residual sugar remained in the wines, which is not a good thing to do with a wine that’s supposed to be dry. They could dilute the wines with water, which would, of course, also thin down the flavors. Or they could dealcoholize the wines with technical gadgets. But “you want a wine that’s as little manipulated as possible,” says Grahm.
For all these reasons, many winemakers threw their hands up and retired from the Viognier game. When Falcone was called upon to replant the vineyards at Rusack, he says, “we opted to go to Sauvignon Blanc instead of Viognier.” And so discouraged did Grahm become with “grotesquely overdone” Viogniers that even this arch-Rhôniste stopped making the varietal altogether, except for a sweet dessert wine he calls Viognier Doux
Austin Hope, winemaker at Treana Winery
Andrew Murray, of Andrew Murray Vineyards
Josh Jensen, proprietor and winemaker of Calera Wine Co.
John Alban, proprietor of Alban Vineyard.
Figuring It Out
With growth in consumption unrealized, Viognier production plateaued in the 1990s. In 1995, only 705 tons were crushed in the entire state. Viognier was number 15 on the list of white wines in California, on a par with Green Hungarian.
But look at 2002’s crush: Last year saw more than 9,500 tons crushed, and also higher prices for the grapes, especially those from cooler coastal regions, where the variety grows best. Viognier grapes now command a higher price in Monterey than any other white grape besides Chardonnay; it actually exceeded Chardonnay last year in price per ton in Santa Barbara County. In Sonoma, Viognier is far and away the most expensive white grape to buy.
Some flash in the pan. What happened?
“After a lot of trial and error, we’re finally figuring it out,” says Austin Hope, the winemaker at Treana Winery in Paso Robles. He buys his Viognier grapes from the Caymus-owned Mer Soleil vineyard, in the chilly Santa Lucia Highlands, where a high of 80 degrees during the growing season constitutes a heat wave.
The Mer Soleil vineyard is “very cold, absolutely perfect to develop full maturity for the grapes,” Hope says. With such a low daytime high temperature, the grapes typically aren’t even picked until November, long after most other varieties are in tanks or barrels. That long hang time allows the fruity flavors to develop to their fullest, without the problem of massive sugar levels and the burning alcohol they can bring. And with average nighttime temperatures falling to the mid-40s, Hope says that he gets “a tremendous amount of acidity.” Those fresh, young malic acids balance the wine’s exotic lushness, and can be so vibrant that malolactic fermentation is needed.
John Alban, proprietor of Alban Vineyard, is satisfied with how far Viognier has come. “Thanks to sommeliers, passionate wine buyers and the press,” he says, “Viognier is finally becoming a category of wine that is important on wine lists and in wine shops.”
Even among competing winemakers, Alban is the acknowledged Viognier master in California. Alban Vineyard is in the Edna Valley, an A.V.A. on the Central Coast that is just about as cold as the Mer Soleil vineyard. Alban is convinced that the key to making a ripe but balanced Viognier is to grow the grapes in a cool region.
“One of the biggest decisions we made was focusing on Edna Valley,” he says. Earlier efforts to make Viognier in warmer, inland parts of San Luis Obispo County weren’t successful. “We felt if we went to a cooler place, we wouldn’t have as high alcohol, and that has proven to be true.”
Growing Viognier in a cool climate seems to moderate its over-the-top tendencies, while still maintaining the fruity flavors that are the variety’s hallmark. As Jordan, who makes a Failla Viognier with grapes purchased from Alban’s vineyard, notes, “That site is so unique and cool, you get physiological maturity [in the grapes] before they’re 30 degrees brix.”
Alban also uses Viognier clones that streamline flavors and yeasts that minimize fruity constituents. As a result, he says, “we don’t develop that superintense fruitiness.” Jordan finds that barrel fermentation and sur lies aging also help craft a more balanced, rounded wine. As for the issue of new versus older oak, opinions are divided. Hope uses up to 40 percent new French oak because, he says, “the wines are big and lush, and with a wine of that size, new wood is definitely in order.” But Jordan believes “Viognier doesn’t tolerate new wood very well.” At Calera, Jensen uses “the oldest barrels we have.”
Moving Viognier to California’s coolest locations has been the number-one factor in improving the wines. Coastal versions lose nothing of Viognier’s richness, yet keep alcohol to manageable levels while maintaining the acidity required to keep them fresh and vibrant without being cloying. In fact, if you look at the list of Wine Enthusiast’s 12 top-scoring Viogniers last year, six were from the Central Coast, one from the Russian River Valley, three from cooler spots in Napa Valley, and one from 2,100 feet up in the Sonoma mountains. Calera’s is still the fruitiest of our top dozen, probably because of the hot daytime temperatures on Mount Harlan, but it continues to be a benchmark for that style.
By contrast, most of the Viogniers that came from warmer locations such as Lodi, Paso Robles and the warmer parts of Sonoma County suffer from a flat, insipid quality that only accentuates the varietal’s syrupy fruitiness.
The other factor that has improved Viognier has been diligence on the winemaker’s part. Correct clones, keeping yields low, the right amount of oak barrel fermentation and aging as well as sur lies aging, and, sometimes, a little judicious blending with Marsanne or Roussanne, all have improved the wines immeasurably. Some people even blend in a little Sauvignon Blanc, which further boosts acidity and adds mint or citrus nuances.
Today, there are least 71 different Viogniers produced in California, and while the wines have yet to hold a candle to Chardonnay in terms of popularity—and most likely never will—they’re enjoying the sort of popularity they never did before. “My opinion as to why consumers are finally discovering these wines,” says John Hardman, the executive director of the Rhône Rangers, “is that there are more in the marketplace, and they are very attractive wines.”
With such a stellar roster of new and improved Viogniers from which to choose, consumers are warming up to the variety, though Viognier is still a difficult wine to get people to try, admits Knox.
Down in South Florida, “Viognier is certainly a hand-sell item, even now,” says Eric Hemer, a Master Sommelier who’s with Southern Wine and Spirits of Florida, an area distributor. “Relatively few customers are familiar with it. But they’re receptive to it as an interesting alternative to Chardonnay, and most people really like it once they taste it.”
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— Flashing lights, bright colors and loud noises… When you walk down the aisle of a toy store, that’s what you will see and hear.
See more: http://www.wisbusiness.com/2019/drift-row-aims-to-improve-the-value-of-play/
— Nexus Pharmaceuticals is building a $250 million manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie for which it could earn up to $1.5 million in state tax credits.
According to a release, the Illinois-based drugmaker’s new facility will have manufacturing operations for product areas including anesthesia, cancer treatment, cardiovascular care and more.
“We are proud to call Wisconsin the new home for our company’s first manufacturing facility,” said Nexus CEO Mariam Darsot. “This investment is needed to drive the continued growth of the U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.”
The multi-phase project is expected to take 10 years to complete. For the first phase, Nexus plans to invest $85 million into a 100,000-square-foot, three-story production facility. Construction of that building will begin next month, and is expected to wrap up by 2021. Commercial production is expected to begin the next year, the release shows.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. says Nexus plans to hire 77 workers in engineering, production, supply chain management and other areas, with an average annual salary of $70,000.
The company can earn up to $1.5 million in state income tax credits over the next four years. A contract obtained from WEDC shows $450,000 of that can be earned by creating jobs, while the other $1,050,000 can be earned through capital expenditures in the state.
Aside from the 77 expected direct jobs, WEDC says the new manufacturing facility could create 134 more indirect jobs in the region, based on an economic modeling analysis. According to the release from Gov. Tony Evers’ office, the construction phase of the project could support another 379 jobs, both directly and indirectly.
See the release: http://www.wisbusiness.com/2019/gov-tony-evers-announces-nexus-pharmaceuticals-to-build-sterile-injectable-manufacturing-facility-in-pleasant-prairie/
— Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law two bills.
One creates a regulatory framework for building 5G cellular technology; the other allows the Department of Revenue to share financial information to a prospective buyer of a business.
The 5G legislation, 2019 Wisconsin Act 14, will help the state “catch up with the rest of the Midwest,” according to Evers.
“This is an important step for investing and updating our infrastructure that will pave the way for the next generation of connectivity across our state,” the guv said in a release.
The other bill, 2019 Wisconsin Act 15, enables the state to provide certain financial information, such as outstanding sales tax liability, to someone looking to purchase a business. Evers’ administration says this will improve “fairness and transparency” in business dealings.
See the release: http://www.wispolitics.com/2019/gov-evers-signs-bill-to-allow-cellular-providers-to-upgrade-to-5g-technology-in-wisconsin/
— The FDA has granted “fast track” designation for a cancer therapy drug trial being performed by Cellectar Biosciences.
The company, which has offices in the Madison area, is developing a new therapeutic drug candidate for the treatment of various cancers. The new FDA designation has been secured for a clinical trial focused on patients with tenacious forms of lymphoma, a cancer of the body’s lymphatic system.
Drugs that are granted fast track designation are generally being developed to treat serious or potentially fatal diseases and conditions “where there is an unmet need,” according to the FDA. It’s meant to speed up the process of review and approval that drugs must go through before being sold.
According to a release from Cellectar, producers of fast-tracked drugs can interact with the FDA review team more than normal during the development process. Designated products can also get “priority review” for an official new drug application, and the FDA can review portions of that application before the full application is completed, in a process called rolling review.
“This designation supports our efforts to more rapidly provide a new therapeutic option for patients,” said James Caruso, president and CEO of Cellectar.
He says patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma — the focus of the study — generally have low rates of survival. But in a previous clinical trial, Cellectar achieved a 33 percent overall response rate for its drug candidate, called CLR 131.
“We are optimistic that CLR 131 has the potential to provide a meaningful treatment option for these patients and look forward to additional data in 2019,” Caruso said.
See the release: http://www.cellectar.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/211/cellectar-receives-fda-fast-track-designation-for-clr-131
See an earlier story on the company: http://www.wisbusiness.com/2019/cellectar-reporting-favorable-results-from-clinical-trial/
— U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is helping reintroduce a bipartisan bill aimed at improving the workforce outlook for hospices and palliative care providers.
Palliative care is a specialized field of medicine for people dealing with serious illness, focused on reducing symptoms and related stresses.
“I was raised by my maternal grandparents and later served as my grandmother’s primary caregiver as she grew older, so this issue is personal to me, and I want to make a difference for families experiencing serious health concerns,” the Madison Dem said.
Baldwin is reintroducing the bill alongside Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican who was also a caregiver for her own parents living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a release.
The release shows the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act aims to boost the number of providers working in this space to match the rising number of hospital-based palliative care programs.
The legislation would create new education centers and related programs for palliative care, as well as grants for physician and nurse training. The bill would also direct the National Institutes of Health to funnel more money into related research. And it would create incentives for those studying and working in palliative care.
The bill has the backing of the Wisconsin Aging Advocacy Network, the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and other groups.
See the release: http://www.baldwin.senate.gov/press-releases/palliative-care-and-hospice-education-and-training-act-2019
— BrightStar Wisconsin has invested $50,000 into Curate Solutions, the company recently announced.
Madison-based Curate provides resources to businesses and associations affected by decisions of municipal governments like cities, towns, villages and school districts.
Since its founding three years ago, Curate has grown to 13 employees, 20 states and more than 100 customers.
BrightStar also completed investments in two other Wisconsin-based early stage companies, bringing the number to 52 total investments in the state since it was founded.
See more at Madison Startups: http://www.madisonstartups.com/brightstar-invests-50k-in-curate/
See more on BrightStar: http://www.brightstarwi.org/
Listen to a podcast with Dale Willis, co-founder for Curate: http://www.wisbusiness.com/2018/wisbusiness-the-podcast-with-dale-willis-co-founder-of-curate-solutions/
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# City’s dockless scooter pilot approved and accepting applications
City’s dockless scooter pilot approved and accepting applications
# Study: Wisconsin fish die-offs expected to rise, largely due to climate changes
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# Year after fatal explosion and fire downtown, Sun Prairie sees good things on the horizon
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# Latina health cooperative offers maternal health care and more to Madison Spanish-speakers
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#TOPICS#
# AGRIBUSINESS
– Farm Tech Days to hold food drive
http://www.wisconsinagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=780&yr=2019
# BANKING
– North Shore Bank begins work on urban North End branch
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2019/07/10/north-shore-bank-begins-work-on-urban-north-end.html
# CONSTRUCTION
– Worker dies on Amazon construction site in Oak Creek
Worker dies on Amazon construction site in Oak Creek
– Exterior work on taking down Brown County arena begins
Exterior work on taking down Brown County arena begins
# EDUCATION
– Culture shock: Former Edgewood College students and staff complain of racist campus culture
http://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/culture-shock-former-edgewood-college-students-and-staff-complain-of/article_8c67a0be-e9ea-5372-a638-e45f4821e013.html
# ENTERTAINMENT
– Farm Aid Concert returns to Wisconsin in 2019
– Silverspot Cinema set for July 12 opening in Brookfield
Silverspot Cinema set for July 12 opening in Brookfield
– Take an inside look at Silverspot Cinema ahead of its opening in Brookfield: Slideshow
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2019/07/09/take-an-inside-look-at-silverspot-cinema-ahead-of.html
# FOOD AND BEVERAGE
– Stir Crazy in Brookfield has permanently closed
Stir Crazy in Brookfield has permanently closed
# HEALTH CARE
– UWM researcher-led team awarded $3.6 million grant for child obesity study
UWM researcher-led team awarded $3.6 million grant for child obesity study
– CDC wants doctors to be on lookout for polio-like disease in kids
http://www.wpr.org/cdc-wants-doctors-be-lookout-polio-disease-kids
# INVESTING
– BrightStar Wisconsin invests $250,000 in three startups
BrightStar Wisconsin invests $250,000 in three startups
# LABOR
– State’s workforce, corrections department heads call on employers to hire ex-offenders
State’s workforce, corrections department heads call on employers to hire ex-offenders
# MANUFACTURING
– Illinois-based pharmaceutical company to build plant in Pleasant Prairie
Illinois-based pharmaceutical company to build plant in Pleasant Prairie
# NONPROFIT
– Dairy Cares of Wisconsin holding annual garden party
– Democratic presidential hopeful Inslee opposes pipeline plan
Democratic presidential hopeful Inslee opposes pipeline plan
– Trump to push for trade deal during Wisconsin visit
http://www.wpr.org/trump-push-trade-deal-during-wisconsin-visit
# REAL ESTATE
– Germantown panel endorses planned 240,500-square-foot industrial building
Germantown panel endorses planned 240,500-square-foot industrial building
– House on Nagawicka Lake sold for $2.3 million
House on Nagawicka Lake sold for $2.3 million
– Development site sold near Amazon.com’s Oak Creek building
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2019/07/10/development-site-sold-near-amazon-coms-oak-creek.html
# REGULATION
– Cities and builders face ‘hornet’s nest’ to meet affordable housing needs
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2019/07/10/cities-and-builders-face-hornet-s-nest-to-meet.html
– Bier appointed as Wisconsin DNR deputy secretary
# RETAIL
– ‘Single biggest initiative of the year’ — Kohl’s expands Amazon returns program nationwide
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– Wisconsin ranks low in mobile internet speed; new law allowing 5G upgrades can change that
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# PRESS RELEASES
<i>See these and other press releases:
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Gov. Tony Evers: Announces Nexus Pharmaceuticals to build sterile injectable manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie
North Shore Bank: Named best bank in Wisconsin by Forbes
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce: Water Quality Coalition responds to recommended PFAS standard
TUE AM News: Tariffs on China seen as ‘necessary evil’ by WMC members; Yahara WINS kept nearly 50,000 pounds of phosphorus out of waterways...
MON News Summary: Report highlights upcoming changes in state tobacco tax law; Milwaukee business sales outlook improved from earlier this year
FRI AM News: WEC Energy Group report highlights future spending plans; WisBusiness: The Podcast with Eric Borgerding, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Hospital...
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Commentary on Psalm 46
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"A Mighty Fortress is Our God"--the hymn, which according to Ulrich Leupold, "more than any other epitomizes Luther's thought and personal experience"--is a rather free paraphrase of Psalm 46.
For that reason, the psalm is assigned for Reformation Sunday. But as Leupold notes, Luther "did not write [the hymn] to express his own feelings, but to interpret and apply the 46th Psalm to the church of his own time and its struggles."1 This is a fine summary of the preaching task--to interpret and apply the biblical text to our own time and struggles. So why not preach this Reformation Day on Psalm 46?
The Text of the Psalm
The psalm is tightly composed, with three, three-verse-long stanzas and two refrains:
Stanza 1 (verses 1-3)
Refrain: "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." (verse 7)
Stanza 3 (verses 8-10)
Refrain: "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." (verse 11)
An important note about the text of the psalm is necessary, because some recent modern editions of the Book of Psalm "restored" (a fancy scholarly term meaning "fussed with") the text of the psalm to include the psalm's refrain after the first stanza, too. The Lutheran Book of Worship of 1978 and The Book of Common Prayer of 1977 both used a version of this psalm with the refrain so restored.2
More recently, however, postmodern sensibilities have rightfully undermined scholarly confidence in the ability to fuss with the biblical text in these ways. So here is the point: Just be aware of which text your congregation is using. The commentary here does not supply the supposed missing verse. If you are still using a version that "restores" the refrain after the first stanza, adjust your interpretation accordingly.
Stanza One--The Roaring of Creation and God "our Refuge"
In the first stanza, the hymn juxtaposes the steady and secure image of God as "refuge" with the image of the earth and seas in uproar. (For more on the key Hebrew term "refuge," see last week's commentary on Psalm 91:9-16.) The image of "earth" shaking and "sea" roaring is an image of creation itself in rebellion against God's creative order. This image is a reminder that the fallen condition of creation goes beyond mere human disobedience. The fallen condition encompasses all of creation, all of nature. Thus, the "law" that the psalm names is the reality that creation itself is broken and in rebellion against the Creator. Earthquakes and tsunamis cause destruction. Disease and disability strike. Death awaits all. And the "gospel" that the psalm names is the one trustworthy source of security that can be relied upon in the midst of this roaring rebellion: God is our refuge, "therefore we will not fear." Notice that similar to other poems of trust, such as Psalm 23, the strategy of the psalm is to name the very real reasons there are for fear, and then to confess trust in God in the midst of those fears.
Stanza Two--The Roaring of the Nations and the River of God
The second stanza of the poem intensifies both the threat that is named and the promise that is proffered. The first stanza remained at the more universal level, naming the universal threat of creation in rebellion and offering the general promise of God (using the generic term elohim) as refuge. The second stanza focuses in more specifically on the national identity of God's chosen people. It refers to the nations (Hebrew: goyim) that threaten "the city of God" (AKA: Jerusalem) and the refrain employs both the personal name of "the Lord" as well as the epithet "God of Jacob"--a reference to the nation's ancestral patriarch.
All of which is to say that in the second stanza the poem intensifies the sense of threat by naming the national threat that empires such as Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and many smaller nations posed to the descendants of Jacob throughout Israel's existence. This intensification of the naming of the threat also balances the first stanza by naming a second, more particular and more direct way in which the fallen condition of sin affects human--through human sin.
Yes, all of creation is fallen and in rebellion, but human sin and rebellion is more nefarious, or at least more potent--if only because the combination of human intelligence and will make evils such as genocide and war possible. Thus, "the nations are in an uproar" (the Hebrew verb hamah is used both for the nations in verse 6 and the sea in verse 3) summarizes the intensification of the rebellious threat.
The corresponding promise that the second stanza offers is the presence of God with the people. Here, God's presence is metaphorically described as "a river whose streams make glad the city of God." There was and is no river in Jerusalem, of course, but that is not the point of the poetic flourish. The point is rather the powerful promise resident in the stark image of the refreshing and life-sustaining river to a city and people in an arid climate under siege by an invading army. The image of the river flowing from the throne or habitation of God was, moreover, a metaphor known throughout the ancient Near East and one that found its way into the promises of the New Testament (Revelation 22:1-2).3
The promise of the presence of God with the people in the city was a key element of the theology of the southern kingdom of Judah. The city, and in particular its Temple, was "the holy habitation of the most high." According to this theology, God had chosen both the Davidic monarchs and the City of David, Jerusalem. This "dual election" included the promise of protection for both (see Psalm 89; Isaiah 7:1-17; 2 Samuel 7:1-7). In the refrain, which we can imagine the entire congregation singing, the words of trust become almost a creedal confession of confidence: "The Lord of hosts is with us."
In the New Testament, this theology modulates to a new key, with Jesus coming as both the presence and habitation of God and as the fulfillment of the promise of the Messiah (the royal descendant of David)--who is present wherever two or three gather in his name, to the end of the age.
Stanza Three--Be Still and Know that I am God
The psalm's final stanza culminates with a statement of trust that is cloaked as an invitation and then with a promise. The invitation is the imperative cry, "Come!" which occurs in Psalms 95 and 66 in calls to come, see what God has done, and therefore to praise God. Here, the call is not so much to praise God, but to come and be silent--to witness God's powerful ability to crush rebellion and then to be silent.
In the end, God even speaks the promise: "Be still, and know that I am God." To know, in Hebrew, does not mean just to acknowledge something intellectually, but to internalize or to embody the truth fully. And then God's voice closes the psalm by asserting God's exaltation over both spheres of creation that have been in rebellion against God in stanzas 1 and 2 of the poem: "I am exalted among the nations" (stanza 2) and "I am exalted in the earth" (stanza 1).
That is the promise of both the psalm, and in a larger sense, of the entire Bible. That the God of Jacob and the Lord of Israel will, in the end of all thing, prove a faithful refuge for those who are caught in the fallen condition of creation and humanity.
The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.
1In Luther's Works 53: 283.
2This restoration to the psalm can be found in such important scholars as Hans-Joachim Kraus [Psalms 1-59 (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1988) 458-9]. The argument is entirely internal, assuming that because the Hebrew word selah follows each of the three stanzas, the refrain should follow also. But here is no external textual support, either in ancient Hebrew manuscripts or among the ancient versions, for such a change to the psalm. If you read this footnote, you can now impress your colleagues in your text study. What does selah mean? Glad you asked. Nobody knows, but the best guess is that it was a musical or liturgical direction calling for some now unknown action to take place.
3For what it is worth, certain psalm scholars have argued that this psalm must have originated in some other city, since the mention of the river does not fit Jerusalem, and that the psalm was only "adopted" by Jerusalem. This argument misses the poetic power of the image of river and betrays a way of interpreting the Bible that is, in my view, hopelessly enslaved to a literalistic hermeneutic.
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Rolf Jacobson
Professor of Old Testament and Alvin N. Rogness Chair in Scripture, Theology, and Ministry
Saint Paul, Minn.
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Hold me, papa! Hold me!
27.3.2018 by Sanjoli Banerjee
Content warnings: Female feticide, Abortion, Violence against women, Birth
Photo: A glimpse of Sanjoli and her father's NGO in action.
(Cry of an unborn daughter from her mother’s womb):
I cry, I beg, I beseech
From the womb of my mother.
O papa! Bring me to your world
The one you talk about to mumma.
Where daughters are considered Goddesses
And the bearers of human life.
Let me grow into a beautiful doll
And swing in the cradle of your love.
Let me be a flower in your garden
Spare me a chance to live.
I’ll live on whatever you give
I shall not snatch my sister’s toys nor shall I ask for any comforts.
Just spare me a chance to live.
To come out not in fragments but with body and soul
Do not bury me in the hospital’s backyard
Let not doctors kill me for a few coins.
After all, I belong to you, papa!
I dream of decorating your room
And sprout like a fragrant bud
To chirp like a bird and dance like a squirrel
I’ll smile. I’ll make your life sublime
Just accede to the prayer of mine
Spare me. Don’t kill me. Bring me to your world.
I beseech, I cry, I beg
This world has been patriarchal. History is full of women’s movements demanding equal rights as their male counterparts. Right from her birth, rather before her birth, a woman has to bear unacceptance and trauma in many countries, especially in India where selective abortions are carried out, thus killing thousands of female fetuses every year. And even if they are born into this world, many of them are soon abandoned. So, their fundamental right to life is denied. How can the world be so tyrannous?
There exists a strong desire to have a son who is perceived to be an asset and an investment, whereas a daughter is considered a liability. In the Indian society, parents often consider a daughter to be a financial burden since she will have to be educated and, later on, married off with a huge dowry. Moreover, safety of the daughter always remains a concern for the parents in the wake of rising crime against women.
Why does this mindset exist even in the 21st century, when women have left no stone unturned to prove their mettle?
Surprisingly, not many people realise the long-term implications of this malpractice and crime. It must be understood that it will have lasting social as well as economic repercussions and this can cause a total imbalance in the society.
How many more years will it take for people to realise the power of women? How many more years to make this world safe for women? How many more years to witness 100 per cent literacy rates for females? How many more years should women struggle to get their rights? For how many more years do women have to fight for dignity? How many more years…
It might not be easy to stand up against traditional practices and to challenge societal norms, but it is definitely important. It is crucial to influence positive change, and that has been the mission of my life.
I was hardly five when my younger sister was about to be born. Our relatives were pretty upset to know that my parents were going to have their second daughter, which according to them was an ill-luck. While my mother was being pressured to have an abortion, my dad was being brainwashed. The episodes surrounding her birth were very disturbing for my parents, but the pressure from all corners failed to deter their grit. Although my mother gave birth against all odds, my parents still seemed perturbed. When I asked them the reason, they told me/ laid out the reality of how rampant female feticide was, especially in North India where the female sex ratio once was as low as around 650 girls to 1000 boys. When I learnt what the concept of female feticide actually was, I was shaken to the core.
My sister’s birth was an awakening for us and, in a couple of days, we all started campaigning against female feticide. Gradually, it became a mass movement and a nationwide campaign. The national dailies splashed this news, sensitizing masses. We organized various peaceful protests, cycle rallies, street plays, talks and seminars in universities and colleges to change society’s mindset. Also, we started working at the grass-roots level, thereby, visiting people, especially in villages where the female sex ratio was very low. We would talk to women, listen to their problems and counsel them telling that there was no difference between boys and girls and that girls were no less. When we saw our efforts bear fruit with more and more people understanding the concern and the female sex ratio gradually rising, we never looked back. My efforts were acknowledged and, subsequently, the state government honored me when I was just seven, making me one of the youngest social activists in India. This cause gave me meaning and a purpose in life. Soon, I became the voice of millions of unborn daughters appealing a lease of life for them. My father and I directed a documentary film called ‘Beti’ (Hindi translation of daughter).
In 2015, we wrote a letter to the current Prime Minister of India, Mr Narendra Modi, with 14 pragmatic suggestions to curb female feticide. It is worth mentioning that the Indian Government has adopted five of those solutions and is considering the other nine. We feel strengthened to see that this issue is a national concern now with many Indian celebrities and political leaders talking about it.
Hopefully, one day, people will discern that girls are assets and possess an infinite potential to do wonders. They deserve equality and empowerment through education. We all need to stand up against female foeticide, the dowry system, illiteracy among women, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment. Let us join hands to create a world where mind is without fear and everyone’s head is held high.
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Police seek hit-and-run driver connected to minivan crash into Northstar Drive home
by: Mikhaela Singleton
Posted: Jun 2, 2017 / 07:59 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 2, 2017 / 07:59 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ga. — A police report released Friday sheds new light on a crash that sent a minivan through a home at the intersection of Northstar Drive and Mays Avenue.
The report says two vehicles were leaving the Twin Food Mart parking lot at 26 Northstar Drive around 9 p.m. Thursday evening. The driver of the white minivan says she was trying to turn left onto Northstar Drive when another vehicle tried to cut and turn left in front of her.
The minivan hit the back end of the other vehicle, pushing it off the road and forcing the van driver to lose control. The report goes on to say the minivan plowed through two fences on a Mays Avenue home’s front yard before crashing to a stop through a wall at 25 Northstar Drive.
A witness says they saw the minivan crash into the second vehicle’s back end and force it off the road before the second driver took off from the scene.
The report concludes that no injures were reported at the scene.
The white minivan’s driver, 56-year-old Cora Williams, has been cited for striking a fixed object.
The driver of the second vehicle involved in the incident is unknown at this time. Police continue to investigate the crash and say the second driver could face charges for leaving the scene of an accident.
One more shot at moisture from Barry’s remnants before returning to typical mid-July weather
We're back in our typical summer-like pattern following Barry's exit to the north. While we got little to nothing out of the moisture, we'll be watching it wrap around towards our area later this week.
For tomorrow, we are going to remain in the dry slot (aka high pressure), with mostly sunny skies, and temperatures once again rising into the mid-90s. However, as we approach Thursday, we will be watching the moisture associated with the remnants of Barry once again wrapping towards our area from the north. With this, we will expecting sporadic to isolated storms once again with some heavy rain possible over the northern portion of the state.
A week ago, WRBL News 3 told you of a Columbus police crackdown on illegal behavior in the South Commons parking lot.
We now have exclusive security video obtained under Georgia’s Open Records Act.
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A Columbus Recorder’s Court judge ordered the woman accused of shooting 21-year-old Anthony Tinsley last month held without bond.
Courvoisia Wilson appeared in front of Judge Julius Hunter Tuesday afternoon. Columbus police say she fired into a crowd on 18th Street last month, hitting Tinsley in the head.
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Escaping Reality
by Lisa Renee Jones
Sensual, Contemporary Romance
ISBN-13: B00T6K203A
Available in: Audio (reprint)
The first book in the sexy, suspenseful new The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.
His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. I should’t trust him. I should’t tell him my secrets. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need.
At the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loved to start a new life. Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten—even if she cannot forget. But just when she lets her guard down, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run.
On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing billionaire recluse, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. And what he wants is Amy. Refusing to take “no” as an answer, he sweeps her into a passionate affair, pushing her to her erotic limits. He wants to possess her. He makes her want to be possessed. Liam demands everything from her, accepting nothing less. But what if she is too devastated by tragedy to know when he wants more than she should give?
Originally self published July 2013 in eBook format.
Other Books by Lisa Renee Jones
Dirty Money Novel #2
Careless Whispers #3
Santa, Baby
An Inside Out Story
Hard Rules
Dirty Money #1
Night Sins
Amber Fire
Deep Under
A Walker Security Novel #1
Careless Whispers, Book 1
The Secret Life of Amy Bensen #4
1001 Dark Nights: Bundle Two
An Inside Out Novella
Lisa Renee Jones' Bio
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT SERIES, and is now in development by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland, Austin Powers, Must Love Dogs) for cable TV. In addition, her Tall, Dark and Deadly series and The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series, both spent several months on a combination of the NY Times and USA Today lists.
Since beginning her publishing career in 2007, Lisa has published more than 40 books translated around the world. Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles with an energy similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or Suzanne Brockmann.
Prior to publishing, Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In 1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.
Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at lisareneejones.com and she is active on twitter and facebook daily.
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Sir, the Light Is On . . .
Christopher Buckley
As many as 80 million people may watch the first presidential debate tonight, depending what else is on. In the final moments leading up to nine o'clock, two men, one with a staff of thousands, the other with a staff of hundreds, will find themselves utterly alone in their respective green rooms. Their handlers will back away and leave them to their thoughts and prayers.
To hazard a guess, one might say: Walk with me Jesus. Let thy righteousness shine upon me and smite mine enemy. The other might murmur, Keep your sentences short. Smile. Don't lapse into French. In Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," the prayer of Mercury astronauts sitting on the launch pad about to blast off was, Lord, don't let me [bleep] up. Eighty million viewers, all waiting for you to blow the chance to be, or go on being the most powerful man on earth, with one dumb remark. Whatever your opinion of either candidate, how'd you like to be up against that kind of pressure?
Whatever else Political Super-Bowl MMIV turns out to be, it is not likely to be the kind of match where attendants have to spread sawdust on the floor to soak up the blood. The Memorandum of Understanding worked out by negotiators for the two parties is 32 pages long. Countries, nations, have come into being with less paperwork. It specifies, among other particulars, that each candidate's pen and writing paper be submitted for review beforehand. It's there -- I read it twice. For all I know, there's a clause in there admonishing them not to eat their paste.
In foreign countries, when candidates for the highest office debate, the format generally consists of a) a table, b) two or more chairs, c) a microphone. In some countries, also a d) gun, knife, club or knuckledusters. Not here. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here -- this is the War Room!" In 1992, NBC's Tom Brokaw, frustrated by the endless wrangling over that year's debate format, suggested a scenario that still appeals: Have the candidates over to his apartment, give them each a martini, and have a discussion of the issues.
Before a boxing match, the ultimate debate forum, each side tries to psyche out the other. A typical pre-fight interview goes like this:
Reporter: Champ, what's your plan?
Boxer: I'm going to bite off his ear. Then I'm gonna rip off his head and use it for a bowling ball.
With presidential debates, the strategy is the opposite, to lower expectations. One of George Bush's spokesminions said the other day, "Will President Bush step on his own line and maybe not pronounce a word right? I bet he will." Is the president a moron? Sure, but that's not the point. John Kerry provides his own expectation lowering personally: "The President has won every debate he's ever had." Next to debating George W. Bush, serving my country in Vietnam was a cakewalk.
Tonight's debate is on foreign policy, which since we no longer care what other countries think about us, means Iraq and the Global War on Terror. Mr. Kerry must explain why his foreign policy vis-à-vis (as he might put it) Iraq really does resemble a windsurfer tacking to the tune of a Strauss waltz. For his part, Mr. Bush must explain why 1,000-plus American lives, $200 billion, daily beheadings on al Qaeda TV, along with the estimate of his own intelligence services that civil war may loom in Iraq constitute "progress." If it looks like a mire and quags like a mire -- it might just be a quagmire.
In this context, it's tempting to rewrite Isaiah Berlin's famous formulation about the Fox and the Hedgehog to read: The fox doesn't know many small things, whereas the hedgehog doesn't know one large thing. How did it manage to boil down to a choice between Dr. Pangloss and Cassandra? Is it too late to rehire Gen. Shinseki, who had the temerity to suggest, before the dogs of war were unleashed on Babylon, that it might just take several hundred thousand of them to occupy -- oops, liberate -- the damn place? (Temerity for which he was promptly sacked.) But wait. All that is in the past, and what this debate is about, my fellow Americans, is the -- future. This is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue, but an Ameri . . . Sir, the light is on, but your time is up.
(This time, the light will be mounted on their podiums. Coming in 2008: Electrical current will be passed into the groin of any candidate exceeding his or her allotted time.)
Yet despite the Microsoft-like formatting, this will be must-see TV. Eighty million people will be watching intently, not daring to get up and use the bathroom or fetch another bag of Doritos for fear of missing the big moment when Mr. Bush calls Kim Jong Il "Ding Dong 2" or Mr. Kerry announces that he met the Easter Bunny in Laos in '68. Suspense will build as we wait for the first candidate to pull the Reagan Debate Lever and say, "Ask yourself, are you safer now than you were four years ago?"
The candidates may only be allowed (pre-screened) writing implements, but they'll certainly sneak in a few hand grenades in the form of prepared zingers. They aren't allowed to question each other directly -- No, no, no, we can't have that sort of thing in presidential debates. What do you think this is, Bulgaria? -- but they can pose "rhetorical questions." Thank God all this got worked out beforehand. Imagine the consequences for democracy if they actually spoke to each other.
There is a loophole in the Memorandum of Understanding. You'd think Jim Baker and Vernon Jordan would have caught it: Candidates are not prohibited from reading op-ed articles written by thumbsucking second-guessers. Here, under the radar, is a line for each.
For Mr. Kerry: "Some things are true, even if Dan Rather says them."
For Mr. Bush: "I'm grateful that we have 90 minutes to debate tonight. This will give my opponent ample time to change his positions."
Gentlemen, start your engines.
Mr. Buckley, editor of Forbes FYI, is the author, most recently, of "Florence of Arabia," just published by Random House.
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As many as 80 million people may watch the first presidential debate tonight, depending what else is on.
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Iraq Urges Pompeo to Maintain U.S. Troop Presence in Country
Secretary of state is on an eight-day tour amid consternation among allies that the U.S. is pulling out of the region
Isabel Coles and
Isabel Coles
BiographyIsabel Coles
@isabelcoles
isabel.coles@wsj.com
Courtney McBride
BiographyCourtney McBride
@CMcBinDC
courtney.mcbride@wsj.com
Updated Jan. 9, 2019 5:36 pm ET
Iraqi leaders implored Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to maintain a U.S. troop presence in the country, seeking U.S. reassurances after the Trump administration announced plans to withdraw troops from elsewhere in the region.
Mr. Pompeo’s visit to Iraq on Wednesday underscored the challenge U.S. officials face in persuading regional partners that the administration will remain involved in the turbulent region after President Trump’s decision in December to withdraw troops from Syria and to reduce troop levels in Afghanistan.
The Consequences of U.S. Withdrawal From Syria
President Trump ordered the withdraw of U.S. troops from Syria, and declared that America had "defeated ISIS." WSJ's Gerald F. Seib discusses the significance of the decision and its consequences. Photo: AP
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The Reasons an ETF Succeeds or Fails
Why do some exchange-traded funds attract billions of dollars while others attract nothing?
ETFs are looking for ways to stand out from the crowd, but it doesn’t always work. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto
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Dec. 9, 2018 10:06 pm ET
The world is awash with exchange-traded funds, but not all succeed in appealing to investors. Some attract billions of dollars, and some barely anything.
So, what determines a fund’s success?
The differences between the winners and the also-rans can sometimes be subtle—making the whole process of launching ETFs seem like playing the lottery.
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When the first ETFs were developed, being first to market was the most important thing, says Jay Jacobs, head of research and strategy for ETF provider Global X Management Co. The first in the U.S., the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, which tracks the S&P 500 index, is now the most traded security in the world.
In today’s cluttered market, most funds need to find other ways to stand out from the crowd. “Now as the market gets more mature there is more focus on what is under the hood and the quality” of a fund’s investments, says Mr. Jacobs, particularly for so-called themed funds that focus on narrow slivers of the stock market.
Here are five important factors for the success of an ETF, according to experts:
1. Endurance
Does the ETF track an industry or theme that will play an important and enduring role in the economy?
For instance, Mr. Jacobs says it’s clear that lithium, the metal used in electric-car batteries, will be increasingly vital in the developed world as gasoline vehicles give way to electric ones. Hence, his firm launched the Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF (LIT) recently with $850 million in assets.
But Global X rejected the idea of an ETF designed to profit from global trade wars, because it isn’t clear how long current trade tensions will last. “It doesn’t make much sense to launch a themed ETF that’s here today and gone tomorrow,” Mr. Jacobs says.
2. Investibility
Is the theme of the ETF investible enough? That is, are there enough securities on the market for the fund to invest in so that it isn’t dangerously tied to the fate of a handful of companies?
Some potentially great ideas fail this test. Mr. Jacobs points to blockchain technology as an example of something that will likely make a major economic impact but isn’t an investible idea at this point through public stock markets.
“We feel comfortable [as investors] when there is enough exposure to the investment theme and there is enough diversification within the ETF,” says John Ravalli, managing director of portfolio strategy for Hawthorn, PNC Family Wealth, which works with ultrahigh-net-worth families nationwide. He says the firm looks for at least 20 to 25 securities in a fund and usually more. “Genomics would be an idea,” he says, “but there might only be 12 companies that offer exposure, so is that enough?”
3. Liquidity
Are the assets the fund invests in liquid?
An asset is considered liquid when an investor can easily make a trade and that trade doesn’t significantly affect the asset’s price. Price swings can be much bigger in illiquid markets, and the difficulty of making trades can hamper a fund manager’s ability to keep the fund’s investments in line with its strategy.
So it’s important for an ETF to be invested in liquid markets. “The type of ETFs that we use have a diversified portfolio of tradable securities, and we monitor the liquidity of the ETF and of the securities that it holds,” says Mr. Ravalli.
When you buy a product, you hope its performance matches the manufacturer’s claims. The same is true when investors buy ETFs.
Investors want to see that an ETF works in the real world as it is described by the issuer, says Jon Swaney, co-head of strategic asset allocation at New York Life Investment Management in New York. For instance, if the ETF is supposed to track an index of gold-mining stocks, it should do so.
“Something is broken if you find yourself with a vehicle that isn’t conforming to the strategy it is following,” Mr. Swaney says.
That’s harder to judge when a fund doesn’t track an index. For instance, Mr. Swaney’s firm is currently recommending a mergers-and-acquisitions ETF. “In this case, the strategy is performing in line with what we’d expect,” he says.
5. Usefulness
Sometimes, all an ETF needs to be is the best way to achieve a given investment goal.
That can be as simple as lacking competitors in the ETF market. Or it can mean being a good vehicle for strategies that would be difficult to execute otherwise.
For instance: “Investors would be hard pressed to short individual Turkish stocks, but you could certainly short the ETF” that holds Turkish stocks, says Todd Rosenbluth, director of ETF research at research firm CFRA in New York. Short selling involves selling borrowed stock in the hope of benefiting from a decline in the price.
As it happens, iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR) has lost more than a third of its value over the past 12 months, so investors could have done well by shorting its shares a year ago. It would have been much more difficult and costly to short all the stocks the fund invests in, or even a representative sampling.
The fund also has the advantage of being the only ETF focused solely on Turkish stocks.
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Models Coming into Agreement on Widespread Effects of Arctic Sea Ice Loss
Bob Henson · February 5, 2018, 5:03 PM EST
Above: An ice lead in the Arctic Ocean is captured from the NSF/NCAR C-130 aircraft as it flies roughly 30 meters (100 feet) above the ocean during a field project studying low-level ozone formation. Image credit: James Hannigan/UCAR.
Exactly a year after more than 100 scientists gathered to discuss the connections between Arctic sea ice loss and midlatitude climate (see our coverage), the picture has become a bit clearer. There’s now strong agreement on several of the weather and climate patterns that future Arctic sea ice loss will create, provided that the right types of climate models are put on the task—models that capture the interplay among atmosphere, oceans, and sea ice.
An overview by James Screen (University of Exeter) and colleagues, published on Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, finds both consistency and discrepancy among models, but with a new consensus on certain points. “Evidence is mounting that Arctic sea ice loss can affect weather and climate throughout the Northern Hemisphere,” wrote the authors.
Computer models have long predicted that surface temperatures would rise more quickly in the Arctic than at lower latitudes, and observations show this happening already. There’s also been a significant drop in the extent of Arctic sea ice throughout the year, most notably in summer but also during the cold season. In the first few days of February 2018, Arctic sea ice extent has been running about 8-10% below the seasonal average for the period 1981-2010, and it’s been breaking record lows that were set just last year (in 2017).
No surprises here: average January (2018) #Arctic sea ice extent was the lowest in the satellite record...
Data from @NSIDC at https://t.co/aUqFYmnK0c pic.twitter.com/FZEqtxR34S
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 2, 2018
A burst of widely publicized research over the past decade found that the depleted Arctic sea ice could be part of a chain of events weakening the stratospheric polar vortex and hiking the risk of cold outbreaks in northern midlatitudes. These findings have been far from unanimous, though.
Figure 1. Arctic sea ice extent as reflected in near-real-time data for February 4, 2018. In records going back to 1978, the ice extent was at the lowest level ever observed on February 4. Depletion was especially noticeable in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk (left) and in the Barents and Greenland Seas (right). Image credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
“The recent pace of [Arctic] sea ice loss has been nothing short of breathtaking, as about 80% of the volume has disappeared in a human generation,” said Jennifer Francis (Rutgers University) in an overview for the December issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).
Francis added: “Despite intense efforts to understand Arctic–midlatitude [linkage], the controversy surrounding its significance and even its existence rages on.”
More than one pathway
The impact of depleted Arctic sea ice on climate isn’t so much from the absent ice itself as from the ocean that’s newly exposed. Heat propagates upward from the sea surface, and low-level winds flowing atop the exposed ocean thus end up warmer. Along with this direct influence, some more complex processes appear to be at work.
The key to mapping out these indirect effects seems to be using more sophisticated (albeit more costly) computer models that allow the oceans and sea ice to interact with the atmosphere. For example, some studies have used “slab” ocean models that can’t depict deep ocean circulation.
When a full-depth ocean model is used, something intriguing happens: the loss of Arctic sea ice triggers a far-flung response that mimics climate change itself, including a slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a build-up of heat in the tropical oceans over several decades, and a warming of the atmosphere a few miles above the tropics. Clara Deser (National Center for Atmospheric Research) dubbed this a “mini-global-warming.”
Several different experiments with full-depth ocean models now show the mini-global-warming pattern, according to Screen and colleagues. A set of six different model experiments also found a strikingly common pattern at the surface: a stronger Aleutian low, a weaker Icelandic low, and lower surface pressures across North America and/or the North Atlantic. These experiments differ in how much ice depletion they portray, but the strength of the surface response appears to correlate well with the amount of ice loss, according to Screen and colleagues.
There’s also new agreement at the jet stream level. When averaged around the Northern Hemisphere, the six experiments all show a strengthening flow toward the south side of the climatological jet max and weakening flow toward the north, both of which match the mini-global-warming scenario above.
“This consistency contrasts with results from previous studies using atmosphere-only models, which exhibited a high level of divergence and lack of robustness,” they wrote. However, they add: “Simulations with a greater diversity of coupled models are needed to confirm the robustness of the circulation response to projected Arctic sea ice loss.”
Figure 2. Schematic representation of the potential climate response to Arctic sea ice loss along a cross-section from the North Pole (left) to Equator (right). Major atmospheric and oceanic circulation features weakened by Arctic sea ice loss are shown by blue arrows and labelled with minus signs; those that are strengthened by Arctic sea ice loss are shown by red arrows and labeled with plus signs. Red and orange shading indicates regions of greatest warming in response to sea ice loss. Circled numbers indicate sources of disagreement in model experiments (see text below). The scale is exaggerated in this figure in order to show the relevant processes. Image credit: From Screen et al., “Consistency and discrepancy in the atmospheric response to Arctic sea ice loss across climate models,” Nature Geoscience, published online on Feb. 5, 2018.
Where the models still disagree
As shown in Figure 2, there remain pockets of big disagreement even among the most intricate model experiments. Some of the inconsistency is tied to differences in study design. The main areas where consensus remains elusive are as follows (numbered as in Figure 2):
1. Magnitude and spatial pattern of sea ice loss. Experiments differ in where they place the areas of depleted sea ice, and whether they track the seasonal evolution every day or every month, which can influence the atmospheric impacts.
2. Ice thickness. Some of the atmosphere-only studies use a fixed sea-ice thickness. Thinner ice can itself lead to warming even if the ice extent remains unchanged. Models with interactive oceans/atmosphere/sea ice don’t have this problem.
3. Treatment of new open water. Non-interactive models need to specify the temperature of the newly exposed seawater. Typically this is pegged at –1.8°C (28.8°F), the freezing point of seawater, but observations indicate that the sea surface temperature can be as warm as 5°C (41°F) in summer.
4. Stratospheric representation. Models with a fuller depiction of the stratosphere appear more likely to show a shift toward a negative Arctic Oscillation, typically associated with a weaker polar vortex.
5. Ocean. Differences in the physics of ocean behavior in a model can lead to differing effects from sea ice loss.
6. Background state. The “starting point” of a model experiment—the global conditions assigned at the start of a model run—can affect how the atmosphere responds to sea ice loss.
7. Model physics. The specifics of model design, such as how it handles cloud physics, can also affect the response to sea ice loss.
Figure 3. Depiction of Arctic sea ice that’s at least four years old as of September 1984 (left) vs. September 2016 (right). A NASA animation shows the week-by-week evolution of Arctic sea ice across this period. Image credit: NASA.
Screen and colleagues conclude: “A growing list of societally impactful phenomena across the Northern Hemisphere are being linked to diminished Arctic sea ice, arguably quite speculatively: from extreme pollution haze in China, to poor crop yields in the United States, to the unusual track of Hurricane Sandy, the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. history. The need has never been greater for carefully designed model simulations and novel observational analyses to infer which connections are causal and which are purely coincidental.”
Along these lines, modelers have embarked on a new Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project. Proposed experiments will look at how the response hinges on where sea ice is lost and how the impacts may evolve across time frames from years to decades.
Judah Cohen (Atmospheric and Environmental Research) is one of the best-known proponents of the links between Arctic sea ice and midlatitude weather, and one of the organizers of the 2017 workshop. In an email, he pointed out that research isn’t yet unanimous on the idea that Arctic sea ice loss is making midlatitude winters colder. For example, Climate Central recently found that the coldest two weeks of each winter across the northeast U.S. and southeast Canada have been warming even more quickly than the global average temperature rise.
“More and more research has been published making the link between Arctic change and mid-latitude weather, so I do think we have made progress on the subject,” Cohen told me. He added:
“Winters continue to be colder across the Northern Hemisphere continents than projected and the amplified western ridge and eastern trough have dominated North America winters over the past five winters. I don’t think that this is due to chance but is in part forced by Arctic change. That link goes through the stratospheric polar vortex.”
Speaking of which, Cohen is coauthor of a study published online in BAMS on February 1 that finds a tendency toward a weaker stratospheric polar vortex—in turn explaining the bulk of midlatitude winter cooling observed across Eurasia since 1990.
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Robert Kennicut's Hintze Lecture video now available
Posted: 01 Jun 2016
The 12th Hintze Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Kennicutt, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.
Title: Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies
Abstract: Understanding the birth of stars is one of grand challenges of 21st century astrophysics, with impacts extending from the formation of planets to the birth and shaping of galaxies themselves. The challenge has been all the more difficult because the most active birth sites are largely hidden in visible light.
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The Final Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor David Deutsch FRS is now online
The Final Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
Professor David Deutsch FRS (Oxford)
Title: The Unity of the Universe
Thursday 3rd March, 2016. Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Abstract: Dennis Sciama's 1959 book The Unity of the Universe was ostensibly about the Steady State theory, a cosmological/astrophysical theory which was to be comprehensively and irreversibly refuted by observations only a few years later. But it wasn't really about that.
AOPP Alumni Event - 'Climate change in the run-up to the Paris conference: what has Physics got to say?'
Posted: 16 Feb 2016
Prof David Marshall, Prof Tim Palmer CBE FRS, Prof Laure Zanna, Prof Myles Allen and Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert, some of the current faculty in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics in Oxford engaged in the research that underpins the whole debate over climate change, hosted a fantastic event at The Royal Society, London, last November.
Before the event, The Royal Society offered a tour of the Organisation to Physics Alumni attending the AOPP event.
Below, a list of the topics covered on the evening:
•Professor Ray Pierrehumbert: The long
Meeting Minds Oxford Alumni Weekend 2015
Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend in Oxford
Physics opened its doors to alumni and friends on Friday 18th (with the popular telescope tours) and on Saturday 19th, with lectures, posters, members of staff to talk to about Particle Physics, Space Instruments and Atomic and Laser Physics among other things; followed by a reception.
More than 200 people visited us.
If you have any photos you'd like to share, comments or feedback, please write to Val at the alumni office.
You can have a look at some photos of the events [url=/alumni/alumni-wee
For the second year, on Friday 22nd May, we held our Leavers 2015 celebrations.
Alumni Reception in London, 2nd of October - Booking open
Alumni Reception in London
Booking is now open for this event.
Please follow this link if you are interested to learn more about it and meet us there!
This is an alumni only event, guests are welcome, 2 tickets per alumna/us - spaces are limited, so first come, first served - if spaces are available, further guests may be able to join us.
Please email Val alumni@physics.ox.ac.uk if you have any specific dietary or access requirements, or any other questions.
'Henry G.J. Moseley: Physicist and Soldier' Alumni Networking Event last week
Last week we held a lovely and informative event at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, to commemorate and honour the life of Henry G. J.
Physics Christmas Carol Service 2014
Posted: 20 Dec 2014
The traditional Physics Christmas Carol Service took place yesterday in St Mary the Virgin Church (High St, Oxford.
About 100 people attended the lovely event, and heard the choir sing; readings by Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Astrophysics) and Professor Robert Taylor (Condensed Matter Physics) and enjoyed an informal reception with wine and mince pies.
As always, it is wonderful to see so many old and new friends on this occasion, and we look forward to the next one.
Here are some photos to illustrate...
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'From football to Physics' a way of life for Rhodes Scholar and Wadham College physics alumnus Joe Romig.
Wadham College has produced a lovely article about Joe Romig, who studied Physics here in 1963.
We had the pleasure to see Joe back in the Clarendon Lab last year during the Rhodes House 110th Anniversary celebrations, and also during Alumni Weekend; as well as earlier this year...even though he now lives in the USA.
You can read more about his journey here, on Wadham's website.
If you know Joe, or have any anecdotes of your time together and would like to send a message, feel free to [url=mailto:alumni@p
Physics Alumni Networking event at the Oxford and Cambridge Club
Oxford and Cambridge Club Alumni Networking Event
Prof Ramin Golestanian gave a lecture to Physics Alumni during a Physics networking event last Friday (7/2/14) at the beautiful Oxford and Cambridge Club (London).
To all Physics Alumni and Friends of the Department, Happy Christmas and a New Year full of wonder and discovery...with our very best wishes.
Physics Industry Day
Posted: 14 Nov 2013
Oxford University Physics Department Industry Day
Oxford Physics welcomed Industry to the Department, and a variety of activities took place to engage and network with companies that came from as far as Yorkshire.
You can read more here, and if you would like to learn more about potential collaborations, please contact Martine Harvey.
'Waiting for Higgs', now on video.
'Waiting for Higgs'
Prof Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith gave a lecture last Friday, and it is now available to watch on video for those who could not assist.
This lecture was part of the Physics Colloquium, which offers lectures to members of the University (staff and students) as well as alumni, on Fridays during term time, at 4:15 pm.
'The Planetary Weather Report'
Dr Leigh Fletcher is a current member of staff in the sub-department of Atmospheric, Oceanographic and Planetary Physics (AOPP), and he writes a personal blog named 'The Planetary Weather Report'
If you have any questions or comments, you can write to him directly by email.
Rhodes scholars and Physics Alumni visited the Department
At Nicholas Kurti's Lab: Rhodes Scholars and Physics Alumni during their visit to commemorate 110th years of Rhodes House last September.
Physics Flash Talks
A showcase of research at Oxford Physics through exciting 10 minute presentations delivered by graduate research students.
Why physicists think big - by Steve Morris (University College, 1989)
Why physicists think big
About the author: [i]Steve Morris read Physics at University College, Oxford and graduated in 1989 with first class honours. He spent ten years working for the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell, Oxfordshire, before starting his own internet company.
Physics Colloquium - Staff, Students & Alumni welcome
Did you know that through term time, there are great lectures on some Fridays, 4:15pm at the Martin Wood lecture Theatre?
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What you need to know about where to stay in Malaga
Malaga is the sixth largest city in Spain and the second in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. It is located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.
Bathed by the Mediterranean, the city is considered the “Capital of the Costa del Sol”.
However, Malaga is completely different from the typical beach resorts of the Costa del Sol, it is a provincial capital with a long history and amazing cultural wealth that, until not long ago, had lived in the shadow of other Andalusian cities like Granada, Cordoba and Seville.
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However, in recent years the city has undergone a renaissance, gaining a reputation as a capital for culture thanks to its “Art Mile” and a newfound dynamism in the gastronomic and leisure fields.
As for accommodation, there’s a wide variety of hotels, hostels and hostels. From luxury five-stars to family pensions or boutique-style establishments.
Prices for accommodation in Malaga are usually lower than those in Madrid or Barcelona and the quality of the properties is generally quite high. For your peace of mind, all hotels mentioned on this list have a rating of 75/100 or higher.
About the best areas to stay in Malaga, the City Centre is definitely the top choice for a cultural visit with a dash of nightlife. For a business visit, you should probably have a look to the area around Malaga’s High Speed Train Station, where business-style accommodation in abundant.
On this list with the best areas to stay in Malaga we’ll give you all the details.
Keep in mind that Malaga’s mild Mediterranean climate makes it a year-round tourist destination, which means that rates remain relatively stable even in winter. If you can, avoid travelling to the city around Christmas, Easter or any major sporting events or concerts.
The best areas to stay in Malaga
1. Calle Larios
Larios street is without a doubt one of the most beautiful pedestrian promenades in Spain.
Officially called Calle Marqués de Larios, this nineteenth-century street, one of the most expensive and sought-after commercial thoroughfares in the country, is a monument to elegance.
This central street was pedestrianised in 2002 as part of the rehabilitation works for Malaga’s Historic Center.
Larios Street is flanked by regal, symmetrical curved corner buildings inspired by late 19th century Chicago architecture.
In this street, you will find the largest concentration of fashion shops, as well as some restaurants, boutique hotels and cocktail bars.
It is very central, which means from here you can easily explore the city by foot.
Best areas to stay in Malaga – Calle Larios
Why stay here:
Fancy atmosphere
Great for nightlife
Pedestrianised
Easy to walk around
Hand-picked hotels on calle Larios
Our Top Pick
Room Mate Larios
Room Mate Larios Hotel is the epitome of elegance on Calle Larios. It has a bar on its terrace and spectacular views of the city centre and Cathedral.
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2. Malaga Centro
Malaga Centro is the historical centre of the city.
With Larios Street as its main hub, Centro is by far the best area to stay in Malaga.
Its small medieval streets are full of charm. Roman and Phoenician remains, Mozarabic buildings, Baroque churches and Renaissance-style, modernist and Art Deco palaces account for the rich and long history of the city.
Its squares, sculptural heritage and the imposing presence of the Malaga Cathedral complete the urban landscape in this quaint area.
In the historic centre of Malaga you can also find wonders such as the Alcazaba, the Gibralfaro Castle, the Roman Theatre or the famous “Art Mile”, which includes the Picasso museums, the Pompidou Center and the Carmen Thyssen Museum.
This neighbourhood is full of accommodation of all kinds, as well as tapas bars, breweries, nightlife, shops, galleries and everything you need for a perfect visit to Malaga.
Where to stay in Malaga – City Centre
Malaga – Centre – Click to see all hotels on a map
Streets with charm
Leisure areas
Art Mile and museums
Hand-picked hotels in Centro Histórico – Malaga
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The Hotel Boutique Teatro Romano is a four star boutique style hotel with chic and contemporary decor, located one hundred metres from the Picasso Museum.
Pensión Juanita
Small Pensión Juanita offers quality accommodation at very affordable prices right in the center of Malaga.
Debambu Larios
Debambu Larios Hotel is located just one hundred metres from Calle Larios and two hundred from Malaga Cathedral. It has one of the highest ratings in the city in one of the best areas to stay in Malaga.
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Vincci Selección Posada del Patio
Vincci Selección Posada del Patio is a five star hotel with contemporary style and spacious and luxurious rooms located in the Historic Centre of Malaga.
3. Around Malaga’s AVE Station
Malaga – María Zambrano train station is one of the most important railway hubs in Spain.
It is located to the west of the historic quarter and it’s the point of origin and terminus for a large number of long distance and regional trains. In 2007 the AVE (High-Speed Train) service was inaugurated, connecting the Andalusian city with Madrid in 2.5 hours and Barcelona in 5.5 hours.
The Cercanías (short distance trains) system and the train to the airport also stop here.
The surroundings of the station are full of hotels, many of them business-style ones since its connections make it the best area to stay in Malaga for business travellers.
Staying near Malaga’s train station
Relatively central
Shopping and entertainment options
Hand-picked hotels around Malaga’s AVE station
Barceló Malaga
Hotel Barceló Malaga s a fantastic four-star business hotel located right at the AVE station. It includes a gym and a sauna, as well as a restaurant. Its unique feature: it has a slide at the bar!
Hotel Las Américas
Hotel Las Américas is a simple, cheap hotel located very close to the Malaga AVE train station.
Sercotel Malaga
Sercotel Malaga is a four star business style hotel located just one hundred metres from Malaga’s main train station.
Ilunion Malaga
The Ilunion Malaga Hotel is a luxurious four-star hotel in modern style with swimming pool and gym. It is located three hundred metres from the AVE station.
4. Soho
The trendy area in Malaga.
It is located between Alameda, Muelle de Heredia, Plaza de la Marina and the Guadalmedina River.
It was born as an initiative to rehabilitate the area south of Alameda, an old area full of regal buildings that had been dilapidated in recent years.
Now this area has been reinvented as a cultural district and renamed “Soho” to energize its environment and offer a modern and differentiated variety of leisure, culture, commerce and business options.
This area offers an alternative and bohemian character in the heart of Malaga.
Soho is also very well connected, Alameda is the hub for many of the urban bus lines, Muelle de Heredia has the Intercity Bus Station, with connections to all municipalities along the coast, and along the River Guadalmedina, you can find the Cercanías (short-distance) train station.
Dónde alojarse en Malaga – Soho
Soho – Malaga – Click to see all hotels on a map
Very central
Bohemian, alternative atmosphere
Galleries, shops and art spaces
Hand-picked hotels in Soho – Malaga
Hotel Soho Malaga is a three-star modern style establishment with contemporary decor, located in the Soho district, one of the best areas to stay in Malaga.
Hotel Castilla Guerrero
Hotel Castilla Guerrero is a simple three star hotel with cheap rates and functional decoration.
Eurostars Astoria
Eurostars Astoria Hotel is a four star contemporary style hotel located in the Soho district of Malaga.
5. La Malagueta
This old industrial and fishing district retains all the malagueña essence.
It is located to the east of the city centre, on a triangular stretch of land that goes into the sea, between the port and La Malagueta Beach. At the apex of this triangle lies La Farola lighthouse.
Its industrial heritage is still present in some of the old factories and chimneys. However, the greatest attraction in this area is undoubtedly La Malagueta Beach.
With over a kilometre in length, La Malagueta is the most popular beach in Malaga and one of the most famous urban beaches in Spain. Its restaurants and chiringuitos (beach bars) are an institution and you can not leave the city without having tried “pescaíto frito” (fried whitebait) in one of the bars next to the beach.
This area is also home to Paseo de la Farola, a pedestrian street with shops, recreational spaces and spectacular views of the sea.
Best areas to stay in Malaga – La Malagueta
La Malagueta – Malaga – Click to see all hotels on a map
Beach district
Paseo de la Farola
Bars and chiriguitos
Hand-picked hotels in La Malagueta
Hotel MS Maestranza Malaga
Hotel MS Maestranza Malaga is a contemporary four-star hotel located two minutes from the beach. It has a spa and gym.
Hotel Eliseos
Hotel Eliseos is a simple and affordable three star hotel located 500 metres from the beach in La Malagueta.
Gran Hotel Miramar GL
El Gran Hotel Miramar GL is an über-luxurious five-star hotel located in a grand palace in La Malagueta neighbourhood. It has a swimming pool, thermal baths, spa and gym.
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Be respectful. The ADempiere community and its members treat each other with respect. Everyone can make a valuable contribution to the ADempiere project. You may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We can all experience some frustration now and then, but we can not allow frustration to turn into a personal attack. It is important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not productive. We expect members of the ADempiere community to be respectful when dealing with other contributors as well as with people outside the Adempiere Project
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Origin of the Universe — Perry Marshall Part 5 of 6
Original video – http://perry.fingerprints.s3.amazonaws.com/index.htm
Despite the pathetically weak objections of atheists Intelligent Design has NOT been discredited as a science. Rather ID is pointing the way that there is a creator and designer.
QUOTE FROM THE WEBSITE BELOW.
‘I want to take you back to almost two years ago, April 23, 1992. On that day, a discovery was announced that, in the words of the British physicist Steven Hawking, “…is the discovery of the century, if not of all time.” This is remarkable because Steven Hawking has a reputation for understatement.
Michael Turner, from the University of Chicago, says the significance of this discovery cannot be overstated. They have found the Holy Grail of cosmology. As to how holy of a grail we’re talking about, George Smoot, who led the team of 30 American astrophysicists who made the discovery said, “What we have found is evidence of the birth of the Universe. It’s like looking at God.”
Frederick Burnham, a science historian, said in response to this discovery, “The idea that God created the Universe is a more respectable hypothesis today than at any time in the last 100 years.”‘
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The Alt-Rogue vs the Alt-Right
We certainly live in interesting times. For social media, the use and misuse of a single communications channel may have just changed the course of the free world. Which makes for even more interesting times.
I don’t know about you, but I could use a little less excitement.
In the recent 2016 U.S. election of Donald Trump, a concerted and strategic social media arsenal was unleashed, one that the Democrats seem to have been wholly unprepared for.
How is that? While we (yes I’m one) were busy laughing at people who watch Fox News, a “network” whose news stories and celebrity-talking-heads have been debunked time and time again, the last laugh was on us.
“Fake News” became facts, and fears became fuel, and fools became leaders.
The new white house itself is proud of its reliance on “alternative facts,” which — although Twitter has had a ball with the notion — is scary as shit.
Many of us original bloggers (Y2K here) remember when Ev Williams started Blogger and began self-publishing around that time. When Ev started Twitter, I don’t think any one of us ever saw the future: A POTUS spreading fallacies and threats and rumors, and then drawing dangerous lines in the sand with enemies and allies alike, all in 140 characters or less.
How did a medium that once was, if anything, super honest and highly personal — with early bloggers and twitter users making themselves vulnerable and human in sharing from the gut — become a channel for hate, hyperbole and falsehoods?
The medium isn’t the message, folks. The messengers are.
In this case, the alt-right’s Bannon and company ran a brilliantly strategic social media campaign, complete with a literal paid island of young people manufacturing a digital arsenal of fake new stories that made them rich, along with paid trolls posted at every corner of every comment section that mattered.
Bannon thought of that. We didn’t.
Because at our core, liberals and progressives believe that no one would believe it, that people are intelligent enough to distinguish hyperbole and alternate facts from truth, and that in the end, we should believe the best about our fellow man, and that love should trump hate.
Boy were we wrong. DEAD wrong.
So, how should we take back social media? Can we? What would it take? Do we have to fight “fire with fire,” as Trump said last week about national security?
While I’m glad we are building an army of comedians like Alec Baldwin and the SNL cast, who is building our army of truth-tellers that can deprogram and sway a public that has already been captured by an army of trolls?
One sign of hope this week: the ALT-rogue twitter movement
When the National Parks twitter users were silenced by federal order, some brave rangers went rogue and launched their own “AltUSNatParkService” handle. Scientists (@ScienceMarchDC) who have been directed to run all findings through the new administration before publishing them have followed suit with a planned march on Washington and bevy of rogue twitter handles of their own.
Suddenly the Alt-ROGUE movement is rising up against the Alt-Right movement.
This week – I see it as our best hope.
But we’ll need more. A lot more.
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This is Prima Scriptura: (I thought I already had this on my blog, but I couldn't find it when I was looking for it, and so, I'm doing it again.)
The Metropolitan Timothy(Kallistos) Ware:
""Orthodox are always talking about Tradition.
What do they mean by the word? A tradition is commonly understood to signify an
opinion, belief or custom handed down from ancestors to posterity. Christian
tradition in that case, is the faith and practice which Jesus Christ imparted to
the Apostles, and which since the Apostles' time has been handed down from
generation in the Church. But to an Orthodox Christian, Tradition means
something more concrete and specific than this. It means the books of the Bible;
it means the Creed; it means the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils and the
writings of the Fathers; it means the Canons, the Service Books, the Holy Icons
— in fact, the whole system of doctrine, Church government, worship,
spirituality and art which Orthodoxy has articulated over the ages. Orthodox
Christian of today see themselves as heirs and guardians to a rich inheritance
received from the past, and they believe that it is their duty to transmit this
inheritance unimpaired to the future.
Note that the Bible forms a part
of Tradition. Sometimes Tradition is defined as the oral teaching of Christ, not
recorded in writing by His immediate disciples. Not only non-Orthodox but many
Orthodox writers have adopted this way of speaking, treating Scripture and
tradition as two different things, two distinct sources of the Christian faith.
But in reality there is only one source, since Scripture exists within
Tradition. to separate and contrast the two is to impoverish the idea of both
alike.
Orthodox, while reverencing this inheritance from the past, are also
well aware that not everything received from the past is of equal value. Among
the various elements of Tradition, a unique pre-eminence belongs to the Bible,
to the Creed, to the doctrinal definitions of the Ecumenical Councils: these
things the Orthodox accept as something absolute and unchanging, something which
cannot be cancelled or revised. The other parts of Tradition do not have quite
the same authority. The decrees of Jassy or Jerusalem do not stand on the same
level as the Nicene Creed, nor do the writings of an Athanasius, or a Symeon the
New Theologian, occupy the same position as the Gospel of St. John.
everything received from the past is of equal value, nor is everything received
from the past necessarily true. As one of the bishops remarked at the Council of
Carthage in 257: 'The Lord said, I am truth. He did not say, I am custom.' There
is a difference between 'Tradition' and traditions': many traditions which the
past has handed down are human and accidental- pious opinions (or worse), but
not a true part of the one Tradition, the fundamental Christian message. pages
196-197 [1]
"The Bible and the Church. The Christian Church
is a Scriptural Church: Orthodoxy believes this just as firmly, if not more
firmly, than Protestantism. The Bible is the supreme expression of God's
revelation to the human race, and Christians must always be 'people of the
Book'. But if Christians are People of the Book, the Bible is the Book of the
People; it must not be regarded as something set up over the Church, but as
something that lives and is understood within the Church (that is why one should
not separate Scripture and Tradition). It is from the Church that the Bible
ultimately derives its authority, for it was the Church which originally decided
which books form a part of Holy Scripture; and it is the Church alone which can
interpret Holy Scripture with Authority. There are many sayings in the Bible
which by themselves are far from clear, and individual readers, however sincere,
are in danger of error, and individual readers, however sincere, are in danger
of error if they trust their own personal interpretation. 'Do you understand
what you are reading? Philop asked the Ethiopian eunuch; and the eunuch replied,
'How can I, unless someone guides me?' (Acts viii, 30-I). Orthodox, when they
read the Scripture, accept the guidance of the Church. When received into the
Orthodox Church, a convert promises, 'I will accept and understand Holy
Scripture in accordance with the interpretation which was and is held by the
Holy Orthodox Catholic Church of the East, our Mother.'" pages 199-200
Clark Carlton:
"Furthermore, the Orthodox Church has never
accepted the Roman Catholic assertion that there are two sources of authority.
The Church recognizes one and only one source of Authority for Her faith and
practice: the apostolic tradition. The Divine Scriptures are part-albeit the
most important part-of the tradition. To set Scriptures up as something over and
apart from tradition is to have the tail wagging the dog." pages 135-136
Anthony M. Coniaris:
"Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos, Professor of New
Testament at Holy Cross School of Theodore Stylianopoulos, Professor of New
Testament at Holy Cross School of Theology, asks us to look upon the Bible as a
record of truth and not truth itself. He writes, ''. . . there emerged in
Orthodox tradition the position that the Bible is the record of truth, not the
truth itself. . . According to the Church Fathers, the truth itself is God
alone." Such an approach to the Bible according to Fr. Stylianopoulos leaves
room for "other records of the experience of God, such as the writings of the
Church Fathers, the liturgical forms and texts, and the decisions of the
Ecumenical Councils. It rescues the Church from an exclusive focus on the Bible.
. .and thus guards Orthodox life from the error of idolatrous veneration of the
text of Scripture (bibliolatry)." In other words, God kept on talking even after
His book had gone to press. This is what Sacred Tradition is all about. Even
though the Orthodox Church distingushes between record and truth, and esteems
also other records of the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church, "the Bible
still remains the primary record in the theological tradition and worship of the
Church. . .The main source of patristic theology is Holy Scripture. . . No other
treasure in the tradition of the Church equals the accessibilty, value and
authority of the Bible. . .The Orthodox Church does not have a fundamentalist
but it does have a fundamental view of the sanctity and authority of the
Bible."" [4] page 155
"Since the Bible was written under the guidance of
the Holy Spirit, it is the Holy Spirit abiding in the Church who is the Proper
Interpreter of the Bible. The Church, in other words, is the custodian, the
caretaker, the interpreter of the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit abiding in the
Church Who has guided, and continues to guide, the Church through the centuries
to the proper interpretation of the Scriptures." [5] page 156
"Sacred Tradition plays an important role in the
interpretation of Scripture. By Sacred Tradition we mean, "the life of the Holy
Spirit in the Church" (Vladimir Lossky). The Holy Spirit has been abiding in the
Church since Pentecost guiding it to all truth, i.e., to the proper
interpretation of Scripture. The Orthodox Church does not ignore what the Spirit
has taught in the past regarding Scripture. On the contrary, it treasures this
revelation which comes to us through the Church Fathers and the Councils of the
Church. Thus Scripture and Tradition belong together. Both came from the same
source: the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church. Because of this, we believe
that the Bible needs Sacred Tradition as the living interpreter of God's word,
just as Sacred Tradition needs the Bible as its anchor and foundation. Those who
deny Sacred Tradition replace the entire 2000 period of the life and work of the
Holy Spirit in the Church with one person's interpretation of Scripture,
........(I skipped a few lines).......We read the Bible not as indivduals but as
members of God's Church. The whole Church reads it with us and we read it with
the whole Church.
Fr. Kallistos Ware writes, "....we do not read the Bible
as isolated individuals, interpreting it solely by the light of our private
understanding. . .We read it as members of the Church, in communion with all the
other members throughout the ages. The final criterion for our interpretation of
Scripture is the mind of the Church. And this means keeping constantly in view
how the meaning of Scripture is explained and applied in Holy Tradition: that is
to say, how the Bible is understood by the Fathers and the saints, and how it is
used in liturgical worship." [6] page 157
The Protestant evangelical scholar Daniel B. Clendenin:
The Primacy of Holy Scripture
"In general we can say
that for Orthodoxy the Spirit speaks to the church through the gospel tradition
(paradosis), this tradition being defined as a living and authentic continuity
with the apostolic past. "The Apostolic Tradition is the gospel, the word and
event of salvation, entrusted by Jesus to His disciples who received the
authority to proclaim it to the world." Paul transmitted this paradosis to the
Corinthians (1 Cor. 11:2, 23; 15:3), and referred to it on three occasions as an
entrusted deposit which the church must guard (1 Tim. 6:20; Tim. 1:12, 14).
Whatever authority or criteria of truth the church possesses resides in its
fidelity to this original apostolic paradosis. In a comprehensive sense the
apostolic tradition finds expression in any number of external forms, all of
which are means used by the indwelling Spirit. Timothy Ware, for example, lists
seven: Scripture, the seven ecumenical councils, later councils and their
dogmatic statements (Orthodoxy's so-called symbolic books), the Fathers,
liturgy, canon law, and icons. These external forms constitute an organic whole,
and it is only for discussion's sake that we treat them separately. For
convenience we can think of them as tradition that is both written (Scripture)
and unwritten (extracanonical sources) or, to use a common distinction, written
Scripture and oral tradition.
Not all the external forms of the Spirit's
witness are of the same nature or value. Tradition is uniquely expressed in our
present canon of written Scripture. Although Orthodoxy refuses to consider
Scripture apart from the broader context of other forms of tradition, and does
not limit authoritative tradition to the biblical canon, it nevertheless accords
a unique status to the Bible. Liturgically, this can be seen not merely in
Orthodoxy's intense veneration of holy Scripture (the elevating, incensing, and
kissing of the Bible, and its being given the primary place of honar in various
processions), but especially in the rich biblical content of the liturgy itself.
Doctrinally, and contrary to a common Protestant misunderstanding, Orthodoxy
does not endorse a "doctrine of homogenized and unstratified authority," but
instead "affirms unequivocally the primary position of Scripture." [7] pages
The Necessity of Holy Tradition
"While the
apostolic deposit finds unique articulation in the written tradition of
canonical Scripture, it is not confined or limited to the biblical text, but
finds fuller expression in extracanonical tradition. Written Scripture is
primary but not exclusive; the tradition of the councils and the Fathers are
indispensable for a number of reasons. First, both the church itself and the
apostolic kerygma existed for nearly three centuries before the ecumenical
councils and the establishment of the scriptural canon. In the Acts of the
Apostles the precanonical "word of God" that the apostles preached about Jesus
continues to grow and flourish, and even seems to be equated with the church
itself (Acts 12:24; 19:20). We also know that Jesus did many things that were
never written down (John 20:30-31;25), and that Paul urged the early Christians
to accept (John 20:30-31;21:25), and that Paul urged the early Christians to
accept both the written and unwritten apostolic paradosis that he passed on to
them (2 Thess. 2:15; 1 Cor 11:2). The oral message preached to the Thessalonians
was rightly received by them as "the word of God" (1 Thess. 2:13; cf. Col. 1:25
and 3:16). Oral tradition is thus a necessary complement or supplement to
written Scripture, for the gospel kerygma is not exactly contiguous with the
canon of Scripture.
Second, Orthodoxy would insist that nobody operates
with a clean slate, a tabula rasa, and, accordingly, noncanonical traditions are
a practical and hermeneutical inevitability. Although someone might claim to
interpret the Scripture de novo in principle, in practice we all read the text
not only with theological or denominational presuppositions, but also through
the space time prisms of our individual cultures and experiences. Furthermore,
even if a neutral reading were possible, it would hardly be desirable because it
would likely lead to arbitrary and errant understandings of the text. Thus it
becomes all the more important tolocate oneself within the apostolic oral
tradition that serves as a hermeneutical context for written Scripture. Third,
liturgical precedent also reveals the importance of noncanonical tradition. We
saw in the last chapter that when defending the use of icons, both John of
Damascus and Theodore the Studite based their cases squarely on the importance
of extrabiblical liturgical tradition. According to Orthodoxy, there are many
similar aspects of the life and liturgy of the church that, while not explicitly
contained in or demanded by Scripture, are of undisputed significance to
believers. Pertinent here is a celebrated passage from Basil's On the Holy
Spirit. In defending the deity of the Holy Spirit, Basil appealed to the fact
that widely used doxologies of the church confessed, "Glory to the Father and to
the Son with the Spirit." While the preposition with was not found in Scripture,
it had all the weight of liturgical precedent, which Basil was of enormous
significance: "Concerning the teachings of the Church, we have received some
from written sources, while others have been given to us secretly, through
apostolic tradition. Both sources have equal force in true in true religion. No
one would deny either source-no one, at any rate, who is even slightly familiar
with the ordinances of the Church. If we attacked unwritten customs, claiming
them to be of little importance, we would fatally mutilate the Gospel, no matter
what our intentions-or rather, we would reduce the Gospel teachings to bare
words." Basil goes on to list some of the uncontested ancient liturgical customs
of the church: certain baptismal practices, and the renunciation of Satan and
his angels. For Basil, not only are certain liturgical traditions of great
importance, "they are indispensable for the preservation of right faith."
Tertullian had made the same point, in a similar manner, more than a century
earlier. Citing important liturgical practices such as the renunciation of the
devil at baptism, threefold immersion, celebration of the Eucharist early in the
morning and only by a bishop, prayers for the dead at the Eucharist, celebration
of the Eucharist on the anniversary of the deaths of martyrs, abstinence from
fasting and from praying in a kneeling position on Sundays, prevention of any
part of the bread and wine from falling onto the ground, and other such
practices, Tertullian remarks: :If you demand a biblical rule for these
observances and others of the same sort, you will find none written. Tradition
will be alleged to you as the authority and custom to support them and faith to
practice them. You yourself will either see the reason which supports the
tradition and the custom and the faith, or you will learn it from someone who
will have seen it. Meanwhile you will believe it to be not lacking in authority
to which to which obedience should be owed." In short, in Basil and Terullian we
see a practical example in which the lex orandi defines the lex credendi. Unless
we wish to denude and mutilate the apostolic tradition, according to Basil and
Tertullian, we will accept the authority of the liturgical precedent, even
though it is not contained in Scripture alone.
Fourth, the necessity of
the extrabiblical tradition finds broad-based support in the theological
methodologies of any number of early fathers, a fact which is of no small
significance for Orthodoxy. Tertullian invoked the "rule of the faith" and
Irenaeus the "canon of truth" against the heretics of their day. Athanasius, the
champion of Nicene orthodoxy, had to defend the council against the Arian charge
that its conclusions (specifically the term homoousios) were innoations. He was
nevertheless thoroughly apostolic. In contending against the Arians, who wished
to limit the argument to Scripture alone, Athanasius appealed to the larger
"scope" (skopos) or "rule" (kanon) of faith, the tradition and teaching of the
catholic church. The stalwart defender of orthodoxy, Ephiphanius, noted that
some elements of the apostolic faith were "delivered to us through the
Scriptures, the others through the Tradition delivered to us by the Holy
Apostles." Chrysostom, commenting on 2 Thessalonians 2:15, pointed out that the
apostles :did not deliver all things by epistle, but many things also unwritten,
and in like manner both the one and the other worthy of credit. Therefore let us
think the Tradition of the Church also worthy of credit. It is a tradition; seek
no farther." Augustine confessed that "I should not have believed the Gospel, if
the authority of the Catholic Church had notmoved me." And so, according to
Orthodoxy, when we appeal to the apostolic tradition outside of sola scriptura,
we stand on the firm ground of the early patristic consensus and theological
method. Of all the justification for invoking the extrabiblical apostolic
tradition a hermeneutical necessity. Hilary of Poitiers noted that "Scripture is
not in the reading but in the understanding," a sentiment repeated by Jerome,
who rebuked certain heretics because, not having the help of the Holy Spirit,
they turned the divine gospel into a human word: "We do not think that [the]
Gospel consits of the words of Scripture but in its meaning........In this case
Scripture is really usefull for the hearers when it is not spoken without
Christ, nor is presented without the Fathers, and those who are preaching do not
introduce it without the Holy Spirit." The problem of misunderstanding as a
result of private interpreting and twisting of the Scripture exposes the
inadequacy of reading the Bible alone and confirms the hermeneutical necessity
of its larger patristic context. This is precisely the problem with heretics, as
George Prestige so sptly observed: "Heretics showed that they could be as
painstaking in their use of Scripture as the saints. The fact soon became
obvious to any intelligent thinker that the principle of 'the Bible and the
Bible only' provides no automatically secure basis for a religion that is to be
genuinely Christian." Irenaeus and Vincent of Lerins made this point in special
ways. Irenaeus employed two striking analogies. He compared heretics' treatment
of Scripture to people who take a beautifully crafted mosaic of a king,
rearrange the pieces to depict a dog or a fox, and then have the audacity to
claim that their rearrangement is the authentic mosaic because it contains the
original materials. Heretics are also like people who arbitrarily rearrange the
poetry of Homer so that, while the verses themselves are original, the meaning
has been grossly distorted. In other words, it is one thing to have at one's
disposal the original material of Scripture, and quite another to us it
properly. Only by adhereing to the apostolic tradition and the rule of truth
will we avoid the hermeneutical distortions of heretics and not mistake foxes
for kings or paltry paraphrases for the real Word.
When searching for a
means to distinguish the true apostolic faith from heresy, Vincent of Lerins
noted that while Scripture is "for all things complete and more than
sufficient," even heretics appeal to Scripture. It seems, Vincent of Lerins
sufficient," even heretics appeal to Scripture. It seems, Vincent observed, that
"owing to the depth of Holy Scripture, all do not accept it with one and the
same sense, but one understands its words in one way, another in another; so
that it seems to be capable of as many interpretations as there are
interpreters". To "detect the frauds and avoid the snares of heretics as they
rise, and to continue sound and complete in the catholic faith," we need the
authority of tradition, specifically, "that which has believed everywhere,
always, by all." This ecumenicity of time and space serves as a hermeneutical
prism so that, in the words of Hilary and Jerome, we do not merely read the text
but understand it rightly. For Vincent, as Florovsky notes, "Tradition was, in
fact, the authentic interpretation of Scripture. And in this sense it was
co-extensive with Scripture. Tradition was actually 'Scripture rightly
understood.' And Scripture for St. Vincent was the only, primary, and ultimate
canon of Christian truth." [8] pages 110-113
[1]pages 196-197, [2]pages 199-200 from the book "The Orthodox Church: New Edition" by the Metro Timothy (Kallistos) Ware, Penguin books @ 1997
[3]pages 135-136 from the book "The Way" by Clark Carlton, Regina @ 1997
[4]page 155, [5]page 156, [6]page 157 from the book "Introducing the Orthodox Church: Its Faith and Life" by Anthony M. Coniaris @ 1982
[7]pages 108-109, [8]pages 110-113 from the book "Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A western Perspective" by Daniel B. Clendenin, BakerAcademic @ 2003
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Copying A Good Idea
Mon, Nov 16, 2009 — David Evans
Every now and then, one comes across an example of a safety program that could be emulated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
In the UK, there is a program known as CHIRP, for Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Program, in which pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers and mechanics can anonymously report safety problems. The best, or most instructive, of the reports are published quarterly by CHIRP Feedback, an electronic bulletin. There is nothing comparable to this program in the U.S., and there should be. To be sure, there is the aviation action safety program (ASAP), but those confidential reports are not regularly mined and pertinent examples regularly published for the benefit of the industry.
Although separate from the Civil Aviation Authority, CHIRP is funded by it. To be sure, many operators in the UK support their own confidential reporting schemes. But CHIRP covers all operators and its feedback goes to the community at large – providing a very useful insight into trends across all operators.
Here is an example, with the CHIRP response:
“Our company is increasingly using the threat of disciplinary action when investigating the details of company safety report events. It is so bad that I am now no longer submitting any safety reports unless they do not concern how I have operated the aircraft. I recently have had two events that would merit input to the flight safety review of the airline but I fear that may be disciplined if I report the incidents.
“The problem is that if you submit a safety report the investigating officer believes he is entitled to pull the whole flight data for the entire flight and not the relevant data relating to the incident. For example, if a go-around is flown one might be asked to explain why you flew a certain speed 100 NM from destination! It’s a complete blame culture. The management believe that they are reacting to the safety events in the business but, as no one is filing any safety reports, they are missing what is really going on and cannot effectively manage areas of ongoing high risk. In some cases, First Officers are dragged into the office if a safety report is submitted in order to gain as much extra information as possible before the Captain has to account for him/herself.
“I have also heard that during command line training new captains have been advised not to file a safety report unless it appeared on the list of events that required to be reported; otherwise they could render themselves liable to being disciplined.
“I seek a guarantee of no disciplinary action being taken except in cases of gross misconduct or, if this cannot be given the introduction of a confidential reporting system within the airlines.
“CHIRP Comment: With the reporter’s consent, the concerns were raised with the company, who subsequently provided a detailed reponse.
“The company policy relating to the use of data or information recorded by the Flight Data Monitoring program has been negotiated and agreed with the Pilots’ Company Council and, in the case of company safety report investigations, was strictly limited to the ASR [aviation safety reporting] event.
“Company safety investigations were always conducted separately from administrative/disciplinary procedures and some management functions had been recently restructured to enhance this policy.
“The company kept under review the number of company safety reports submitted; the overall number had not reduced significantly. Notwithstanding this, in independent safety audit of company bases was shortly to be undertaken.
“In CHIRP’s, this report is a reminder of the importance of ensuring that company safety and disciplinary policies are segregated and that this is clearly understood by all relevant employee groups.”
Amen to the last point. What is useful here is not only the basic pilot report, but the CHIRP investigation, comment and publication in an air transport safety newsletter. The 12-page newsletter is circulated electronically to all licensed pilots, air traffic control officers, and maintenance staff. What a marvelous idea – worthy of emulation.
Airbus Envisions a New Supersonic Transport Plane With Rocket-Like Performance
Airbus Develops Back-Up Speed & Altitude Displays
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Child Safety is Needed – Not a Statistical Stalemate on Diversion
Chemical Milling for Weight Saving
Carbon Trading Hits Airline Industry
2011 ‘Most Wanted’ List Still a Pig in Lipstick
No Trash, No Crash
Beware The Icing Hazards Masked By Average Droplet Size, Scientists Warn
Further Comment on Proposed Training Standards Invited
Accidents & Incidents 05.22.11 – 05.31.11
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Lambert cargo hub proposals return to Missouri legislature
By: Nick Thompson
A St. Louis County Republican wants the Gateway to the West to be open for more trade with the far east.
OutCue: SOC
Wrap: The failed proposal once dubbed "China Hub" is back in the Missouri Senate.
Republican Senator Eric Schmitt's bill allows the state to authorize up to 7.5 million dollars in tax credits each year to companies shipping air cargo.
2.5 billion dollars worth of Missouri cargo was shipped through the air last year.
And Schmitt says it will provide a new avenue for things to come in and go out.
Actuality:
CHISCHI1.WAV
Description: "This is not moving Wal-Mart down Manchester Road. This is about growin the pie and bringing in stuff we don't have I think that is good for the state."
No one testifed against the bill at a hearing, but lawmakers have been opposed to the proposal in the past because it requires more tax breaks.
Reporting from the state capitol, I'm Nick Thompson.
Governor Jay Nixon called a special session in 2011 to boost Missouri's exports and after a major air transport project failed it's back again.
Wrap: The proposal once named China hub is back and this time the legislation is penned by St. Louis County Republican Senator Eric Schmitt.
Schmitt's bill would authorize 7.5 million dollars a year in tax credits for international cargo flights at Lambert St. Louis.
Schmitt says the bill allows St. Louis to compete in the region with Chicago.
Missouri Chamber of Commerce President Dan Mehan says busineses will come quickly if the credits are authorized.
MEHAN.WAV
Description: "Once you see that start to happen I think the free market will come in a large way and I think they will see the opportunity and they will jump on it."
No one testified against the bill at a hearing.
If it's true the third time is a charm, a plan for an air cargo hub in St. Louis may have a better chance of taking off this year.
Wrap: The latest proposal would authorize $7.5 million dollars a year in state tax credits for an air cargo hub at Lambert St. Louis.
It's the same idea as China Hub which failed in 2011 and 2012.
Republican St. Louis County Senator Eric Schmitt is sponsoring the legislation and it only provides breaks to air cargo carriers this time.
Democratic St. Louis City Senator Jamilah Nasheed says lighter legislation may move the project along.
NASHEED3.WAV
Description: "I think what we have to do is take baby steps. We have to begin to understand that everything cannot happen at once."
No one testified against the bill at a hearing but in past years lawmakers have opposed the measure because they did not want to issue more breaks.
Reporting from the state capitol, I'm Nick Thompson
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2018 ALAS survey has CLOSED.
We would like to sincerely thank the US and Canadian institutions who have provided the metrics and data vital to our industry. The preliminary report has been emailed to participants.
STATT (Statistics Access for Technology Transfer)
STATT is the authoritative source for ALAS data from 1991 through 2017. Access to STATT is through AUTM.NET, and is available free of charge for 2018 ALAS respondents. STATT is also available through paid subscription to AUTM members (discount) and others. Login to STATT 4.1 through AUTM.NET.
Transition to New Platforms with a Little History
The current versions of ALAS/STATT may be replaced with a new software system for 2019 in an effort being led by Ragan C. Robertson.
The "AUTM survey" started collecting licensing data around 1991. Developed and operated by Diane C. Hoffman, it was a "paper survey" with mail-in forms, and a huge amount of work. I am told that it helped put the Association of University Technology Managers (or "AUTM") on the map. Richard Colman developed the first online version in 2000-2001 working with Diane C. Hoffman. and have been supporting technology transfer metrics through to this 2018 version of ALAS and STATT.
Along the way, we worked with luminaries like Ashley Stephens, Lori Pressman, John Fraser, John Ritter, Richard Kordal, Dana Bostrom, Robin Razor, and the list goes on and on. There were versions of the survey for Europe, Chile, and Colombia.
But, nineteen years is a very long time for this sort of thing, and this is my last season. Some of the people instrumental to these efforts included Nola Colman, Randy Adkins, Nick Stein, Lyle Wiedeman, Dave Schetter and a host of other talented people. Kudos to all.
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Hebrews 11.8-40
The Faith of Abraham
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. 9By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11By faith he received power of procreation, even though he was too oldand Sarah herself was barrenbecause he considered him faithful who had promised.* 12Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
13 All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, 14for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return. 16But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son, 18of whom he had been told, It is through Isaac that descendants shall be named after you. 19He considered the fact that God is able even to raise someone from the deadand figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. 20By faith Isaac invoked blessings for the future on Jacob and Esau. 21By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the top of his staff. 22By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his burial.*
The Faith of Moses
23 By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the kings edict.* 24By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaohs daughter, 25choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26He considered abuse suffered for the Christ* to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward. 27By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the kings anger; for he persevered as though* he saw him who is invisible. 28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.*
The Faith of Other Israelite Heroes
29 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned. 30By faith the walls of Jericho fell after they had been encircled for seven days. 31By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient,* because she had received the spies in peace.
32 And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets 33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection. 36Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two,* they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented 38of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
39 Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40since God had provided something better so that they would not, without us, be made perfect.
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McCowans Brewhouse, Edinburgh - pub details
Address: Unit 1 Fountain Park, Dundee Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH11 1AJ [map] [gmap]
Edinburgh Haymarket (0.3 miles), Edinburgh Waverley (1.2 miles), Slateford (1.8 miles)
Food served, Real ale
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Sorry - I've just remembered that this was actually a John Barras pub - possibly a slight improvement on Greene King.
blue_scrumpy - 30 Jul 2015 20:55
I think this place has recently re-opened. There's still no brewing on the premises and it now appears to be owned by an offshoot of Greene King. A modern-looking establishment in an inner city retail area, it's spread over 2 floors and clearly popular with diners after a chain bar/restaurant experience. Nevertheless, it does dispense real ales - Orkney Dark Island, Inveralmond Lia Fail & Greene King IPA. It was very busy. But there are plenty of tables. So there was still something to eat. The upstairs bar no longer offers service. Ok, but lacked a proper pub atmosphere.
Can't understand why they built a new pub with a micro-brewery on site and they don't brew !! The Inveralmond ales were fine though but the place although quite busy lacked something - it is not a pub but a bar/diner. There is a pool table and TV screens. Service was slow. I will return if they ever start brewing.
mcroyal - 13 May 2012 10:27
A pleasant pint of 80 Shilling, but the pub (if you can call it that) is rather soulless. Over-loud rock music, dull food, but that shouldn't put you off dropping in for a quick pint if you're heading out of Edinburgh.
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Tag Archives: character traits
When Words Speak Louder Than Actions
Being genuine about who you are and what you desire from life is the indispensable prerequisite to personal development. How can you live intentionally if your words and actions are out of sync?
Thinking back to my navy training experiences, one stands out. After five weeks of Officer Indoctrination School, chaplains moved on to Chaplain School. About two-thirds of the way through the course we had AMEX, an outdoor training designed to prepare us for serving with the Marine Corps.
We went to a National Guard training camp and lived in tents. We ate MREs (meals ready-to-eat). Every day we hiked or ran the obstacle course (well, only the parts the leadership thought would not injure us). We even learned to dig a foxhole. For one exercise, in small groups, we had to run until the instructor yelled drop. At that point, we had to hit the dirt not matter what. My group decided we would purposely run through a flooded area knowing we would be told to drop in the water. When the order came we all belly flopped with our hands out, soaking ourselves but also anyone, including the instructor, who was nearby! Our actions didn't please him.
At the end of the seven days, we had a “Warrior Dinner.” After a week of MREs, we could have anything we wanted. People requested Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonalds. I asked for fresh fruit. The instructor’s chin virtually hit the deck.
“It’s a Warrior Dinner! You can’t have fruit!” Quietly I insisted I could, since the rules were we could have anything we wanted. After further pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth, he agreed.
On the night of the dinner, probably thinking he'd teach me a lesson, he brought me a bag of fruit big enough to feed a platoon. After a week of highly processed food, I happily gorged on apples, oranges, and grapes
Then a funny thing happened. One by one my colleagues came by to ask me if I had any to spare. The chicken and hamburgers were fine, but the fruit was the icing on the cake.
Throughout Chaplain School the instructors preached that we had to be real with our sailors and Marines, which I took to mean genuine. Yet when I expressed my authentic desire for fruit at the Warriors Dinner, their actions pressured me to conform. Although lost on me at the time, the irony is evident now.
Even among those who advocate that you be real, they may try to mold you to their idea of what you should be. When you resist the pressure to conform applied by those who claim to support your authenticity, you will be firmly on the road to personal development and you are #LivingIntentionally.
How do resist the pressure to conform?
Why You Don’t Care How You Dress, and Why You Should
Tuesday, 18 February 2014 03:30
Earlier today while spending a few minutes on Facebook, I came across a post showing a woman shabbily dressed. It had a caption that said, “To the parents who see me every morning as I drop off my kids at school: I am not a real hobo.” I have a question for the woman in the picture: “Then why do you dress like one?” This Sabbath’s parsha, Vayakhel, explains my attitude:
“He made the Laver . . . from the mirrors of the legions who massed at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.” (Shemos/Exodus 38:8).
This week’s parsha reviews the construction of the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle that accompanied the Israelites during their travels in the wilderness. It also relates perhaps the only time in Jewish history that a building campaign raised so much money people were told to stop giving!
The Priests washed their hands and feet in the Laver before performing the Temple service. Instead of plain copper, it was made from polished copper mirrors donated by the Jewish women.
Moses was reluctant to use them since the women had used them to entice their husbands. But he had the wrong perspective. G-d makes it clear the mirrors were used L’Shaim Shamayim (in the name of Heaven). They ensured the survival of the Jewish people. Exhausted from the physical and mental toil of slavery, the Jewish men would have abstained from marital relations. By taking the initiative the women made sure that the next generation was born.
Despite greater ability to control our environment than ever before, the criteria for everyday dress is comfort and convenience. A writer I follow on Twitter extolls Mark Zuckerberg for wearing a hooded sweatshirt while promoting Facebook’s IPO. As it turns out,
G-d Wants You to Dress Attractively
Of course, He wants you to dress appropriately too. The Talmud encourages wealthy young women to share their dresses with less affluent friends so they can charm young men. Hobo garb may be okay if you are riding the rails, but I do not know any people using a freight train to take their children to school.
Have you ever seen pictures of everyday life from the 1930s through the 1950s? People dressed beautifully, whether at their offices or the grocery store. You might think they are crazy for getting so dressed up. But this week’s parsha makes it clear. Just like the Mishkan brought G-d’s presence down to Earth, when you dress nicely, especially to charm your spouse, you elevate the physical to heavenly heights.
What do you think about the way people dress today?
Every year beginning on Simchas Torah, the cycle of reading the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, ends and begins again. Each Sabbath a portion known as a sedra or parsha is read. It is named after the first significant word or two with which this weekly reading begins.
Do you have a question about the Old Testament? Ask it here and I will answer it in a future Parsha Nugget!
Improve Your Motivation at Practically No Cost
Passionate as I am about classic movies, I could not miss the opportunity to see To Sir With Love on the big screen. An iconic film of the mid-1960s, it embodies the hope of its time. New approaches to chronic societal challenges will make a better world. Powerful in its simplicity, it provides the most inspiring motivation.
If you have not seen this diamond, it stars arguably the greatest actor of the latter half of the 20th century, Sidney Poitier. He plays a new teacher (Sir) at an East End London school attended by kids no other school would tolerate. Perhaps timeworn by today’s standards, such a topic was groundbreaking in 1967.
Okay Rabs, so it is great. But why should I care about a half-century old movie?
None One Is an Endless Well of Motivation & Self-Inspiration
While we do not need to be told about the qualities it takes to succeed, we all need to be reminded.
To Sir With Love kindles a fire of awareness as to why certain characteristics are crucial to success. Especially as a human being, we need:
Mutual Respect
It vividly demonstrates:
The Difference One Person Can Make
The Importance of Mentorship
How to Handle Celebrity
And one more . . .
The most poignant moment in the movie occurs when the students refuse to personally deliver flowers to the funeral of their classmate’s mother because his father is black. They refuse to risk the social stigma. When the camera cuts to a close-up of Sir, he does not lash back at them. This despite their ridiculousness assertion he cannot understand what they would go through. Rather, he engages in a moment of quiet contemplation. Finally, he responds by thanking them for their explaining the situation to him.
Sidney Poitier vividly demonstrates the power of empathy over the desire for personal vindication.
Whether you have previously seen To Sir With Love before, rent, stream, or somehow see this movie. It will boost your motivation, propel you into action.
How do you remind yourself of the qualities you are grooming in yourself?
Even Your Good Impulses Need Balance
For many years I raised money for a variety of nonprofit organizations. As a volunteer leader, I felt compelled to make a leadership-size gift. However, early on in my business career, I did not have the money to pay for them. These debts weighed on me for years. Too bad I had not internalized the parsha for this Sabbath, Terumah:
“. . . the length of one panel twenty-eight amos, and width four amos for the one panel, one measure for all the panels.” (Shemos/Exodus 26:2).
This week’s parsha details the plans for the Mishkan or portable Sanctuary in which G-d rested His Presence during the Israelites’ wanderings in the wilderness. Such ordinary materials as copper, linen, and goatskins became a holy abode.
Perhaps you noticed the great detail given about the design of the Mishkan and its utensils. Material specifications are exacting and measurements are quite precise. If even one board or socket was too long or too short the whole structure would be out of whack, perhaps even collapse.
The Hebrew word for a measurement is midah. Interestingly, the same word, midah, also refers to human character trait. Could this be the source of the phrase, “the measure of a person’s character”? In the building of the Mishkan there is an important lesson for each of us.
A Character Trait Out of Balance Is Bad
It is well known that being charitable is an important midah to have. You shouldn't be stingy when giving money to the poor. Equally bad, perhaps worse, is the person who gives so much money he impoverishes himself or goes into debt as a result. Proper development of the midah of being charitable keeps giving in balance with your means. Otherwise, like the Mishkan the whole structure of a human being may collapse.
I struggled for many years to pay my pledges. How much more productive would I have been by being more measured in my largesse? Free from the worry and embarrassment of owing money I could have focused my mind more fully on business. I need not have felt uncomfortable around friends and business associates, most of whom knew nothing about my plight, but who had fulfilled their own pledges.
Make yourself a Mishkan, exacting in your middos, deriving holiness from humble materials, a shelter for all from the harsh rays of life.
Do you think someone can overdo a good trait?
Should You Be a Fanatic About Moderation?
Sunday, 08 December 2013 03:30
“Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Having at one time been borderline obese, I confess to intermittent zealousness about diet and exercise. Evolving from the extreme position often necessary to changing your life to a more sustainable posture poses an unending challenge. But indeed moderation is truly a virtue that is sensible in most, if not all, aspects of life. Let’s look at it through the Three Pillars of Fitness.
Physical Realm. There seems to be broad agreement that sleeping too little can cause a range of problems from lack of focus to weight gain. But too much sleep may lead to diabetes, heart disease, increased risk of death, and could be indicative of depression.
Drastic diets can help you lose weight quickly but are ineffective for long-term maintenance and nutrition. Protein-heavy diets dehydrate your body. Vegetarianism can cause protein-deficiency. Very low-fat diets deprive the body of its ability to store energy, adjust temperature, and lubricate tissue.
Lack of exercise is bad for your health, but many health professionals advise that extreme regimens like P90X are harmful by unnecessarily stressing the body.
With your finances, you should strike a balance between funding your current cash flow needs and saving for the future.
When investing, a portfolio diversifying risks and terms commensurate with your stage in life is universally recommended. Being opposed to debt probably means you will not buy a house.
Recognizing many children have been destroyed by inheritances, should you donate your wealth to a worthy cause? Yet, if you follow Andrew Carnegie’s advice, leaving nothing to your children, are you sure the organization to which you leave it will follow your wishes?
In your leisure pursuits and entertainment, are extremes wise? With extreme sports comes increased risk of extreme injuries, even among top athletes. People lose their jobs by staying up all night playing online games and being late for work. Recreation and diversion are healthy, danger and mania are not.
Is there anyone more boring than the person so immersed in a hobby he thinks everyone is as fascinated with Cirripedology (the study of barnacles) as he is? The line between passion and obsession is fine. When your friends’ eyes glaze over you have crossed it.
Moderation is Essential to Sustaining the Physical Pillar of Fitness
Mental Realm. To be emotionally sound requires well-developed cognitive skills, moored self-esteem so you can be balanced in your societal habituation, and psychological resilience that supports you through the emotion roller collar called life. Extremity impairs development of these skills.
When approaching societal engagement, enduring friendships require a balance of empathy and self-concern between two people. Beyond your close circle, the demands of a larger community can engulf you. But sacrificing yourself to such claims, without periodic self-care, will eventually retard or prevent your community service.
Pets provide companionship and opportunity for stewardship. But infatuation with a pet can hinder the ability to forge human ties and their accompanying growth.
Intellectual challenge stimulates the mind. But obsession with such activities, be it reading, education, or avocation poses the same danger as that of an obsessive hobby, often at the cost of not exercising or engaging socially.
Definitionally, Moderation is Crucial for Sustaining the Mental Pillar of Fitness
Spiritual Realm. Does G-d want a moderate relationship with you? This is a complex, intensely personal question. Your love for G-d, like His for you, should be limitless. A strong connection entails balance among prayer, fulfillment of duties, and engagement in rituals. Should you reject the secular world? According to my faith no, but I would not argue with those of other faiths who disagree.
Familial relationships also challenge the question of moderation. You should love your spouse, parents, and children without limit, abusive situation excepted. In other areas, such as material support and giving advice, restraint is wise. But unbounded love does not preclude having to say no.
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” ~ Thomas Paine
With core values, I agree with Paine. Having once compromised your principles it can become habitual. Have you engaged in the process of identification, articulation, practice, and assessment? Principal among my values is humility. Discourse, not imposition, enlightens.
G-d, Family, and Core Values Are Exceptions to Moderation in the Spiritual Pillar of Fitness
Moderation applies even to moderation, love and core values being the exceptions. As you instill new habits and take on new vistas to conquer, the tendency to excess is tempting. By keeping moderation as a value you keep your life in balance, sustain relationships, and are truly #LivingIntentionally.
Where do you think moderation does not apply?
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High alert in Jammu after GREF camp attack
By IANS | Bharat Defence Kavach | Publish Date: 1/9/2017 2:51:13 PM
Jammu: A high alert was sounded in Jammu on Monday after terrorists killed three labourers of the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) near the international border (IB).
Terrorists had attacked a GREF camp around 2 a.m. in Battal area in Akhnoor sector of the IB, a police officer said."Three labourers working for GREF were killed in the terror attack," he added.
Reports from the area said the terrorists, whose exact number was not known, managed to escape after the attack.Police have started searching inside and around the camp, he added.
However, the attackers were yet to be traced, he said.High alert was sounded in Jammu district in general and in Khour tehsil in particular.
The GREF is the parent cadre force of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) that builds and maintains border roads in the country.This was the first terror attack in Jammu in 2017.
The last terror attack took place on November 29, 2016 when terrorists wearing police uniforms attacked an army camp in Nagrota area of Jammu.
Seven soldiers, including two officers, were killed in Nagrota terror attack.Terrorists had also attacked a Border Security Force camp in Samba district the same day.
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Music Is the Soundtrack of Life
December 07, 2016 / LIFE'S A JOURNEY, APPRECIATE EVERY STEP
Dave Alder President Media and Entertainment, Bulldog Drummond
Dave plays a key role in uncovering consumer insights and working to bring a very clear customer point of view to every project. He is a brand veteran with 21 years of experience at the senior executive level within the Virgin Group of companies and held the position of Chief Marketing Officer of Virgin's entertainment division for his last seven years with them.
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Bulldog’s annual music compilation has become a cherished tradition and an anticipated keepsake for many of our friends and family.
Music is a universal link, it’s the soundtrack of life that wakes the senses and evokes emotions, movement and joy in our souls. Music makes us think, ignites passion and sparks creativity. Music brings people together. It’s symbolic and a marker of time.
This year’s collection was chosen as a representation of each year of life of Bulldog Drummond’s Guvner, Shawn Parr. The soundtrack compilation was guided by elements of his personality, values and passions—just as Bulldog does with countless brands almost every day.
Number 50 with a Bullet
I set out to design a playlist that reflects the distinct aspects of The Guv’s personality to create a musical journey that evokes his distinct brand of Uncommon Sense. To start with his ceremonious arrival on terra firma in 1965, “Watch out World! Things are going to be a bit different from now on!” seamlessly and somewhat obviously translated into The Who’s mighty anthem “My Generation.” A rallying cry for disenfranchised youth, “Why don’t you all f-f-fade away?” expressed anger and frustration at convention and the stiff upper lip values of British post-war culture. As thousands of teens put down their beans on toast to watch Townshend and co. demolish their equipment live on TV, their parents recoiled in horror. “My Generation” had meaning and generated a reaction. It had value. It was Shawn Parr.
After an easy start, it was time to venture into the late ‘60s. It would have been easy to choose the Beatles, Stones or Kinks, but it wouldn’t have been right. The Guv is fun and quite witty and Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made for Walking” seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Quality and cheesy with the ripeness of a special age, Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” followed and then we were on a roll. The gentle smut of “Mrs. Robinson” fits many a cheeky Brit and Shawn is no exception, so it was a shoo in.
Wiggle Baby
The ‘70s are a fascinating decade. Against a backdrop of political and economic challenges, Vietnam, the global oil crisis and Watergate to name but three, music looked the other way and buried itself in the disposability of disco, glitter and glam. It was the time to be oblivious to the world’s travails, and instead to focus on gyrating one’s bum while pointing at the ceiling in our white wide collared suits. Yup, this is the Guv.
Now this boy has a lust for life. His fun nature, creativity and confidence can transform the dullest meeting room. And he can dance. On several occasions I’ve seen him facilitate world-class icebreaking sessions at blue chip brand HQs. Disco, the conga and the Parr Wiggle have unknowingly been key to their brand positionings. Bring on James Brown, Isaac Hayes, ABBA and the Bee Gees. Wiggle baby wiggle.
Shawn is a dapper chap, just lift up those salmon pants and look at his socks. So the unforgettable visual era of MTV and YouTube had to be included in the mix. From the sweeping, single sided fringe (translation “bangs”) of the Human League’s Phil Oakey to the ratty double-sided locks of Jazzie B’s Soul II Soul, these form over function ‘80s artists had to be on the list. They’re artists who made their mark through their hair as much as their music, but they made the list because they represent the individuality of the Guvner.
Despite residing in the U.S. for 22 years, he is very much a Brit at heart. British with a bit of harmless edge never aiming to shock, but always looking to generate a reaction. Perfect to be represented through a wee celebration of ‘90s Brit pop icons Blur and Oasis and the 00’s Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and Miss Amy Winehouse. All of them, slightly spikey but gloriously innovative and refreshing.
And so to the current decade. What within his persona hadn’t been tackled? It had to be his ability to lead, to rouse the troops and inspire. We needed anthems that stick in the head. Marching rhythms to strut the stuff. Irresistible groove tunes with more hooks than a pirate’s convention. So I went big, albeit a fraction predictable as Adele, Gotye, Hozier and Mark Ronson filled the last of the playlist and signed off with a Parr-like punch.
These carefully chosen gems will take you on a journey through the past 50 years. Have a listen and see if you can think back to where you were and what you were doing the first time you heard each song.
Read more from Dave.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh
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Staging Beckett
The impact of productions of Samuel Beckett's drama on theatre practice and cultures in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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Upcoming Conference: Draff at Trinity College Dublin, August 2016
Posted on August 18, 2015 by T.McTighe
Draff
5th–6th August, 2016
Mark Nixon (University of Reading)
Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Deadline for abstracts: 15th November, 2015
‘I don’t suppose many people know what “Draff” is, but if they look it up, they will be put off.’
Charles Prentice to Samuel Beckett (25th September, 1933)
As suggested by his original title for More Pricks Than Kicks (1934), and proved by the pochades, roughs, foirades, and (un)abandoned works of his mature œuvre, works often presented by their author as being no more than the run-off from the creative process, Beckett was anything but put off by draff. The same can surely be said of the scholars who have long devoted themselves to studying Beckett’s aesthetic engagement with the seemingly worthless.
In recent decades, however, Beckett Studies’ fascination with the residual has taken a much more literal meaning as the field, as well as its perception of Beckett and his art, has been reshaped by unprecedented access to the refuse, dregs, and lees of a voluminous archive, as well as the blackened pages of forgotten diaries and private correspondence. Despite, or perhaps because of, this flood of fresh effluvia, however, particular aspects of, and questions pertaining to, Beckett’s canon have been left unexamined, understudied, or wholly ignored.
Taking place next year in Trinity College Dublin, two decades after Damned to Fame (1996) opened a new chapter in Beckett scholarship, this bilingual conference invites proposals for 20-minute papers, in English or French, from prospective delegates who, sharing Beckett’s conviction in the value of what is left behind, are keen to pick through the ends and odds of Beckett Studies:
Why, for instance, does Beckett’s poetry continue to attract so little critical attention?
The nature of Beckett’s relation to Joyce and Proust has provoked much debate, but what are we to make of Beckett’s lesser-studied literary influences (e.g. Burton, Camus, Dostoevsky, and Hölderlin)?
What are the correspondences between Beckett’s writing and the lesser-studied cultural and political spaces in which he lived and worked, such as France during the Franco-Algerian war?
As we deepen our awareness of the role played by the visual arts in Beckett’s work, what might that same work have owed to his keen ear for music and his love of certain composers (e.g. Beethoven’s pauses, Schubert’s Lieder)?
At a time of increasing interest in the bilingual Beckett, what was the role of Beckett’s lesser-known languages (e.g. German, Latin, Spanish) and, as we come to a better knowledge of Beckett’s own work as a translator, what might there be to gain in examining how Beckett’s art has been reimagined by those translators – and performers – who have made his words heard in languages he himself did not speak (e.g. Chinese, Dutch, Polish)?
With the approaching publication of the German Diaries and the final volume of Beckett’s letters, to what uses can and should scholars put the inestimable trove of material represented by the biographic archive?
How might the publication of such (auto)biographic material affect our appreciation of Beckett’s canons – the published, the ‘grey’, and the emerging? Where within this continuum should we situate the work he consigned to the wastepaper basket or, indeed, the ‘old shit’ he allowed to be republished?
Abstracts of no more than 300 words, in English or French, as well as a short bio of no more than 150 words, should be sent to conference organisers Stephen Stacey and James Little at draff2016@gmail.com no later than 15th November 2015. Whilst prospective delegates are encouraged to consider those topics outlined above, proposals for papers addressing any heretofore under-analysed aspect of Beckett’s ‘literary waste’ are warmly welcomed for this two-day conference, during which both Beckett’s and Beckett Studies’ disjecta membra will be dragged into the ‘pestiferous sunlight’ of scholarly discourse.
For further information and conference updates, please consult the conference website: draff2016.wordpress.com. There you will also find information on the association between this conference and the Samuel Beckett Summer School (www.beckettsummerschool.com), taking place in Trinity College Dublin from 8th–12th August, 2016.
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#Tech: #Ransomware, Yet Another Bullshit #Buzzword Pushed By The Media
By bluebay700 — July 11, 2019 1:47pm PDT | Articles
Sensationalism sells, that's the bottom line. One of the proven and surest way to get inventory moving is to scare the public. Rile them up and they'll surely go into self-preservation mode. And the media, most often than not, is more than happy to push that agenda, because they too stand to benefit from all the hype.
If you've been paying attention to buzzwords being pushed in recent months, there's always an accompanying product, services that are later being pushed. Artificial Intelligence (AI), was the not-so-recent buzzword that was being circulated, then came in all the products that allegedly leverages it to do all sorts of things. Only later we found that's it's the latest version of “The Turk” machine – it's actually, mostly, done by real people in the background, plus the security compromises. Before that, cloud-anything (it still is a magical word) which paints this one-tech-fits all solution, but carries with it plenty of cons that the media conveniently doesn't cover enough — because it hurts the bottom line. Recently it's “Deepfake”, which was short-lived and also proved that the public has a tunnel vision and short-term memory — forgetting that FaceTuning is very popular on Instagram, that Photoshop existed, and that special effects has been accessible as a desktop tool since the mid-90's. Deepfake and Deepnude made great news, and got the public really riled up… well, the stupid ones. And of course, the all-time big-hitter, “computer viruses” — that is, the ones that kept coming since after the Brain computer virus made it's debut in the late 1980's (I were there when it first got shared, and we toyed with the machine code because it was a funny prank) and companies realised that selling software to remove it is actually profitable. So whose not to say the pervasiveness of this old staple is not perpetuated by the same companies who sells the “cure.”
And now this, “ransomware.” It's utterly complete bullshit. It's a work of science fiction. Any techie with a working brain will scoff at this new buzzword. Yes, it's possible to turn off a server from remote, it's very easy. But it entails several levels and layers of security to be able to do that. And if an unauthorized remote user is able to do that, first thing you need to do is to fire your security team — because server is security is very fundamental, and even the crudest implementation shouldn't make it susceptible to this form of high-jacking. Second of all, find your power switch and network cables, take it offline and follow recovery steps — that is, assuming your team again did their work properly and create recovery “disks” and make periodic backups, if not, again, you did a lousy job at hiring people. Thirdly, chances are, your infrastructure is an IaaS, so let the vendor tackle the problem, and maybe sue them for gross negligence, and then they can fire their own people.
Ransomware is kinda like someone over the phone is threatening to turn off your refrigerator if you don't pay them.
You got to use common sense before you start buying into bullshit propaganda.
Follow the money.
#Tech “#Journalism”
Some articles simply grinds my gears, bs like… #MAGA, #AI hype, overselling #deepfake-anything (ever heard of #FaceTune, #Photoshop & special effects? Too late to the party), now… #ransomware.
#Sensationalism & scare tactics are just as bad as #terrorism.
( @NPR )
Hackers have used ransomware to attack the data networks of Baltimore, the Georgia courts system, and Lake City, Fl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Hackers have used ransomware to attack the data networks of Baltimore, the Georgia courts system, and Lake City, Fla., to name a few.
Now, officials are faced with a dilemma: pay up, or refuse — and risk it potentially costing millions in the long-term.
Source: bluebay700, full story, original story
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Springfield: Robbery at Brookfield Plaza, 1 Person Shot
Police block off Brookfield Plaza in Springfield following a robbery on Saturday, May 21. Photo by Abigail Constantino.
By Abigail Constantino
A person was shot during a robbery in Springfield on Saturday, May 21.
An officer investigated a 911 call and arrived at Dubai Jewelers on Backlick Road.
At approximately 12:22 p.m., officers determined a robbery in progress. The suspect was in possession of a handgun and jewelry.
The suspect challenged the officer and fired at him. A gun battle ensued, said Fairfax County police Chief Edwin Roessler, Jr.
In the exchange of gunfire, the suspect’s gun hit a vehicle and shot a motorist nearby. The victim was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect fled to a staged getaway vehicle. He drove to the area of Spring Village Drive and Hampton Creek Way, where he crashed the vehicle. He carjacked another vehicle and crashed, this time on the 7600 block of Hooes Road.
He then fled on foot.
The suspect was described as black, 20 to 30 years old. It is not known if the suspect was injured.
K-9, helicopter and Virginia State Police are searching the area.
No officers were injured.
As of 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, there was police presence in Hooes Road.
If you have information on this ongoing investigation contact the police at 1-866-411-8477 or go to Fairfax Crime Solvers.
Editor's Note: This story was updated on May 21, 7 p.m. to include new information.
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Scree on the slopes
Posted on 2013/11/25 by Chris Hanretty — 1 Comment ↓
In our last entry, we discussed one way for getting better estimates of constituency opinion using characteristics of the respondents — multilevel regression and post-stratification or Mr. P.
Another way of producing better estimates (where better means `better than the lousy estimates we get from direct estimation’) is to use characteristics of the constituency. In particular, we’re going to use a basic maxim of political geography (well, geography in general) called Tobler’s Law, which states that things which are closer together are more alike than things that are further apart.
Let’s suppose that instead of surveying people about political matters, we’re carrying out some geological surveys for a mining concern — or metal-detecting on a beach, or some such activity. Suppose we want to know the volume of gold found in each square kilometre.
Now, geological soundings are expensive, requiring copious amounts of explosives or lots of spadework. So we want to get a good estimate, but we can’t dig up the entire beach, or blast the entire peninsula.
Suppose that one work team carries out some soundings in a particular area, and finds a better-than-average concentration of gold. We have a hunch that this patch would merit excavation.
But how can we be sure that the levels of gold there are really worth it?
We can firm up with hunch by `borrowing strength’ from observations in neighbouring plots. If our plot, like the button for 5 in your mobile phone’s keypad, has eight neighbours, then we can look at the responses in those eight other plots. If those plots also show higher-than-average levels of gold, we can be more confident than the true figure in the plot we started out with is also higher than average.
In the models that we use, the degree to which we can borrow strength from neighbouring constituencies to `firm up’ our estimates is going to depend on the variance parameter in a conditional autoregressive distribution — but to simplify greatly, we’re going to borrow strength from neighbouring areas only to the extent that doing it that way helps us explain the pattern of responses we get in each individual area.
The more we can explain observations in a particular area by the areas around them, and the less we need to invoke particularities of this or that area, the better this technique works.
Oh, and while other people have labelled this technique `local smoothing’, the name we give to it is (including) spatially correlated random effects, or SCRE (pronounced scree). Hopefully, that both explains the title of this post, and the rather geological example.
In future posts, we’ll look at both how much Tobler’s law holds in our particular case, and how SCRE can be combined with Mr. P.
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One comment on “Scree on the slopes”
Rosebud says:
Any post which includes Tobler’s law gets my attention! This is my bag. I’ve done cluster maps for the main parties for the elections. Conservatives have a Moran’s I of around .60 in 2010, then .61 in 2005, .47 in 2001, .60 in 1997…clustered as you might expect in the English shires and out to the south-west. For Labour it’s .62 in 1997, .45 in 2001, .53 in ’05, .62 in ’10. For the LibDems it’s .29 in ’10, .28 in ’05, .20 in ’01, .37 in 1997.
Essentially the conclusions are that Labour support has become ever-more concentrated since 2001 whilst the Conservatives have held to the areas they expect to hold (southern England exc. London). The LibDems support was firmly concentrated in the south-west and the Welsh borders in 1997; since then the concentration in the south-west has dissipated a little whilst concentrations of support appear for them in Scotland, the Scottish borders and parts of East Anglia. UKIP concentrations have diffused from 2005 to 2010, as one might expect from a new party spreading its wings.
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Busking Hot Spot for Old Cooma Gaol
Buskers at Cooma set to rock the Jailhouse for annual festival
The historic Cooma Correctional Centre and prison museum will for the first time become a ‘busking hot spot’ next month when the seventh annual Australian National Busking Championships are held in the Snowy Mountains town.
Hundreds of buskers from across Australia will perform outside the still-operating prison and other busking hot spots throughout Cooma for the two-day festival on 3–4 November.
Cooma Correctional Centre Manager of Security Scott Bramble said they were proud to take part in the important community event.
“The annual championship not only brings tourism dollars to the town of Cooma, it brings music to our streets,” Mr Bramble said.
“We’re proud to be part of the Cooma community and we’re looking forward to showcasing to guests the prison’s historic gatehouse and the neighbouring Corrective Services museum, which is a terrific place to visit.”
The museum showcases the history of Corrective Services NSW, with a range of displays and artefacts from convict days to the present. Minimum-security inmates are the tour guides.
Australian National Busking Championships President Allan Spencer said they were excited about using the 19th century prison as a busking location for the first time.
“Using a correctional centre – and the museum – as a backdrop for busking will be a first for Cooma and possibly for Australia,” Mr Spencer said.
“Buskers will be coming to compete from all around the country for a share of over $16,000 in cash prizes, as well as the glory of being crowned Busking Champion.
“There will be a huge variety of performances, with genres such as country, blues, rock, pop, jazz, folk, Indigenous, multicultural and classical music on display.
“There will also be other forms of street performance such as dance, juggling, magic, poetry, and even belly dancers, and a 20-piece bagpipe and drum band.”
Australian National Busking Championships
Various locations in Cooma, NSW
3-4 November 2018
Cooma Correctional Centre: 1 Vagg Street, Cooma
More: buskingcooma.com
ANBC media inquiries 02 6452 6067
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ENTRY FORM_2018 Cooma ANBC Regional Championships Saturday 3 Nov 2018
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Letters from Dennis
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I thought that's how it sounded. Who are those guitarists shredding the place up?
Cheers, dennis
Just saw this on YouTube. I think this was written by the "show me the way guy". No not Peter Frampton.
cheers ddy
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Dawn returns totally unplanned at a sold out show in Reno and sings her ass off. Just like old times...I mean the best of times.
Love dennis
Styx Inducted Into the Ultimate Classic Rock
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New Blue Collar 2013
Dennis Rocks Toronto
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Dennis & Hammond USA
ALL HONOR ALL GLORY TO THOSE WHO MADE THE SACRIFICE
Thanks to Deana Lofrano and Shannon for finding the pics and putting the video together.
Happy 43rd Anniversary
"Japan, The Budokan, 1982 the last show of the Paradise tour a Japanese TV production". What a band! Who is that guy at 6:57?
- ddy
Concert Review: Dennis DeYoung: The Music of Styx with The Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Artistshouse Music Interview
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Huffington Post Interview (7.9.12)
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Backstage Axxess Interview (7.2.12)
Stuck in the '80s Episode 257 Podcast (2.15.12)
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Goldmine Interview
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I Turned Down The Cover For Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue For This
Anyone who has seen me in a Speedo knows why.
Thanks for this posting. This is the band I remember.
Hit Rewind
I met House of Representives Dan Lipinski at a concert where I was performing a few years back and he mentioned to me how the lyrics to Rockin the Paradise held special meaning to him.
Dennis Voted #22 Greatest Rock Keyboardist
"From accordion player to this. I would have been higher if polkas had been considered."
— Dennis
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Dennis Voted #38 Greatest Male Rock Vocalist
"I am flattered but I don't know how Steven Tyler, Lou Gramm, John Lennon, Bob Seeger, Rod Stewart, Don Henley, Sting, John Foggerty and some others are all after me."
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A big thank you to all of the Canadian fans for making the Blu-Ray version of DENNIS DEYOUNG AND THE MUSIC OF STYX LIVE IN LOS ANGELES the #1 selling music video in Canada! This is the first #1 in Canada for Dennis, so again, THANK YOU to the fans for the support!
More YouTube Videos
With Rock Symphony
• Lady
• Come Sail Away
• Mr. Roboto
• Mr Roboto - (NOTP Germany)
• Best of Times
• Don't Let It End
• Mr. Roboto I am the Metal Man With Tats inked in Japan
• Arnel Pineda of Journey Sings First Time
• Come Sail Away (Grand Valley State University)
• Mr. Roboto (A Cappella, The Real Six Pack)
• Desert Moon Featuring the Great Jimmy Leahey ('12) HD
• Born For Adventure ('12) HD
• Show Me the Way ('12) HD
• Blue Collar Man ('12) HD
• Foolin Yourself (A Man and His Oberheim) ('12) HD-NEW
• Too Much Time ('10)
• New Band Compilation ('10)
• Babe - Niagara Falls
• 100 Years with Eric Lapointe
• Dennis in Puerto Rico
• Don't Let It End (Unplugged)
• Ruth Eckard Hall, Sold Out ('12)
• Show Me the Way
VH1 & MTV
• Desert Moon
• Don't Wait for Heroes
• Call Me
• Boomchild
A special thank you to all whose videos we have shared on this website.
This is a video of a song from Jim Peteriks new World Stage album that we co wrote. It will also be on my new album.
I have been spending the majority of my time on my Facebook page and have not been here all that much. Below is a series of Podcasts I am doing for Cox Media Group that airs in six cities. They are taken from two separate interviews I did awhile back and touch on various topics that might be of interest to you. Check them out when your bored I think they're pretty insightful and funny.
Dennis introduces his new podcast and talks about the origins of the song "Lady".
Dennis tells us why he thinks "Rock is Dead" and what has replaced it.
Dennis talks about the Paradise Theatre Tour and Album and meeting President Ronald Reagan.
Dennis talks about why "The Song is King. All that remains is the songs in the very end."
Dennis talks about how Styx gravitated to the "prog rock" genre.
Dennis talks about the history of Styx.
How Dennis got started in the biz.
Dennis talks about a song he wrote that made it #1 in Quebec.
Dennis talks about some of his favorite music.
Dennis talks about career paths, his own middle-class upbringing, and technology replacing jobs like the one his father had.
Back in December Adam Sandler asked me if I would be his guest at his annual Holiday bash and perform Grand Illusion, Lady and Come Sail Away with his Cracker Jack band. Of course I cried, will there be a buffet. Turns out there was an unbelievable buffet including free cocktails for everyone. "And the fun never ends as long as he's". Adam throws this party yearly as a gift to all his friends and employees. I estimated around two thousand people were there. Regular folks mingled with show biz types and the atmosphere could only be described as BIG FUN.
The day before at rehearsal I met Adam for only the second time (the other being the Big Daddy premiere) and had a lovely chat about life, Big Daddy, music and specifically Styx. I do not claim to know him very well but both times he has impressed me as a down to earth, unpretentious, cool guy. Plus he really dug Styx which qualifies him as a certifiable genius.
The list of performers at the party included Gene Simmons, Don Felder, Courtney Love, Rick Springfield, Kevin Cronin, Vanilla Ice, Rick Derringer, Tom Morello, the Romantics, Adam himself and a player to be named later.
Suzanne, Tim, August and Michelle my lawyer Rob Allen and his wife sat in the green room which was quite large for around three hours waiting to perform. Spent some time with Kevin Cronin and his wife Lisa, David Spade, Tom Morello, Taylor Lautner, Patrick Warburton, Cheri Oteri, and Brad Elvis. I was surprised to learn Tom Morello was a big Styx fan telling me about his attending the Paradise Theater in the last row of the Rosemont horizon back in 1981. I told him if only he had told me he was going to end up becoming Tom Morello I would have gotten him front row seats. All had lovely stories about listening to Styx when they were young except Cronin who kept humming Keep on Lovin You. (Did not) Adam sang back up on every song and we I did the "all the same same same same" echo thing on Grand Illusion by alternating the singing instead of with delay. If you would have told me this would happen back when I wrote the tune back in 77 I would have said who's Adam Sandler. He was 11. The crowd was younger but wildly enthusiastic especially for me which I attributed to them being sufficiently liquored up by the time I went on. Free booze boo yah.
I would remiss if I did not mention Brooks Arthur Adam's record producer and right hand man who set everything up. Google him and marvel at the career he has had as an engineer. He's as good as it gets as a person and talent.
I have never been a schmoozer or the hanging out cat and kept pretty much to myself in Chicago with my family and friends but I must say I really enjoyed myself. Thanks Adam.
On a related note I have decided to do the hang and put a bid on the Playboy Mansion to start throwing parties with Hef. Just kidding Suzanne.
Hey kids I just came across the Rolling Stone review of the Grand Illusion album by Joe Fernbacher from 1977. This guy singles but one song out on the album and that's Miss America. No mention of Grand Illusion, Foolin Yourself or ComeSail Away, the three songs still being played on radio today. But being completely wrong about his musical prescience is really not the issue it's his ignorant and malicious evaluation of the songs lyrical content that enrages. He accuses JY of being a misogynist (woman hater) based on his interpretation of the lyrics. At this time JY and I were best friends traveling together by car to many drivable Midwestern cities and sharing motel rooms to save money. Roomies. I witnessed first hand the agony and feeling of helplessness he endured as his beloved wife Susie was stricken with Porphyria a disease for which there is no cure. She nearly died and she has bravely dealt with health issues ever since. Through it all he was by her side taking over when Dr.s had no answers. To this day he has been by her side through everything. A mensch if ever there was one. She was his Miss America and the lyrics reflect that using the metaphor of a beauty queen (which she was to him) who had lost her crown. Every chorus ends with the words "Our love". I suggest you reread his lyrics with that in mind. If this Fernbacher character is still alive he owes JY an apology.
Landed in LA yesterday and was greeted with the news of the day in San Bernadino. My deepest sympathies to all those whose lives have tragically been touched by this madness. Although I wrote a song entitled turn off CNN when these things happen it's difficult not to want to know what happened and why. The why, as is the case with too much of human behavior is tough to make sense of.
STILL SEARCHING FOR SOME REASON
AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
WITH PEOPLE KILLING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME.
On a happier note I'm in LA to play at Adam Sandler's private Holiday bash. I will be joining a bevy (that's 2 more then a bunch) of Adam's favorite musicians to spread some musical cheer to all those in attendance. I rehearsed last night with a great group of musicians led by Waddy Wachtel and will be playing Grand Illusion, Lady, and Come Sail Away. Adam was there and will be joining in on background vocals. More tambourine less cowbell. More on this later.
Wow! This just showed up on YouTube. I had never seen this before but coincidentally I was just asked about this very day last week by author Dave Hoekstra who interviewed me about a book he was writing. This was the last game the White Sox played in Comiskey Park which at the time was the oldest park in Major League Baseball. Because of my personal relationships with former manager Tony LaRussa and owner Jerry Reinsdorf I was asked if Styx would do it. Are you kidding. Quite an honor for a kid whose dad brought him to his first game at this very park when he was nine. My dad and I had spent countless un air conditioned hot summer days listening to the games on the transistor radio. So it was great that my parents and my family were in attendance to witness it all. I was the only Sox fan in the group. John was a Cubs fan and the other guys including John were more Blackhawk and Bears fans then baseball enthusiasts. If you needed some musician or celebrity to do this for the Cubs the line would have been a long one but the White Sox celebrity fan list was very short. In 1990 no one knew who Barack Obama was so who was left, Mayor Daley, Jessie Jackson? Side note, I've heard that in 2017 these 3 are considering forming a singing group to perform Bee Gee's covers in Vegas. "Staying aliveahiveahive".
Anyway my dad passed his love of baseball and the Sox on to me and I did the same for my son Matthew. In fact he became more dedicated then I ever was what with his season tickets and every app invented to check up on his team. As a parent you occasionally get things right. Anyway Matthew bought me a green bleacher seat and a brick from the old ballpark that I will always cherish along with the myriad of memories of time spent with my dad my friends and my family. Cheers Dennis
HAPPY BIRTHDAY one day late to my girlfriend and wife Suzanne. Love from your boyfriend and husband.
I certainly hope none of you ever discover how many times I check on you tube for my current video's or old Styx video's when I'm bored because it would be embarrassing. Or the number of times I google myself. Google has begun to send me messages beginning Hey dude get a life. Kind of like the Lite beer commercial when Troy Aikman claims to not dwell in the past and then his ring tone goes off screaming "Aikman touchdown unbelievable".
I believe those who claim to not be interested in themselves or their past are secretly wanted for transporting illegal goods across state lines, or their lying. I mention this because this video popped up in that ever helpful or intrusive function on you tube that appears under "recommended for you". Now if one of these videos turns out to be "Sexy Sabrina and her frisky Python" trouble could be right around the corner. You know who you are.
Thankfully for me and Suzanne it was Dennis DeYoung at Manny's deli 2000 not Sabrina, Suzanne is deathly afraid of snakes I did not post this because it shows me in the most glamorous light, quite the contrary but because I believe it demonstrates essentially who I am as a person and performer. Manny's deli was the TV station's idea not mine and when Suzanne, Carrie and I who was my publicist at the time arrived at 6 am my first thought was, I wonder if it's to late to become an aluminum siding salesman. It was clear that the early morning crowd at Manny's were clueless as to I was or why I was interrupting their breakfast. I believe that when the camera panned around the room FBI alerts were sounded causing a momentary ruckus as fugitives escaped. I made that last part up. So faced with situation I did what I always do and made the best of it. Anyone can accomplish things under the best circumstances it's the vast majority of life we must somehow manage to get through. I had recently been replaced in the band I founded and had been given the opportunity to headline the Rosemont Theater by Tim Orchard who ran the joint.
It was much to big a venue for someone like me, capacity 4300 but Tim convinced me to play it with a 50 piece orchestra. The orchestra show was his idea and he put up all the money (a lot a scratch) convinced he would sell it out. He did not once but twice leading to our partnership for the last 15 years. So there I was at Manny's of all places trying to stir up ticket sales for a show I was convinced no one would attend. On the curb and all alone without the mighty Styx name behind me I did what I had to do, which was playing Lady of Spain on the piano in front of a bewildered bunch. Wait a minute I just realized where the idea of Lady came from..."Lady of Spain I adore you". Remember "winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try".
Tonight we end our year and play the final show of a three day run here in Epcot, the happiest place on earth. "Everyone please have a magical day". This is the fourth time Disney has hired us to perform at their Eat to the Beat international Food and Wine Festival. I'm perfect for this shindig because as my family will tell you no one "wines" more than me. Each night the venue has been filled with enthusiastic fans from all over the U.S., even with the rain last night. Thanks to all who have attended.
This year we have played 54 shows between the U.S. and Canada and that's more then I have done since the 60 plus I did the year of The Night Of The Proms, the Germany tour. Suzanne, the band and I would like to thank you all for attending our shows and helping keep alive all the wonderful songs that Styx and I have created. We feel we are the go to destination for all the Hits.
Thanks to August, Jimmy, John, Craig, Dave and Suzanne for bringing this music to all of you and allowing me the chance to view first hand the lasting impact the Styx catalog has had on so many. How this miracle has occurred is really beyond my understanding. I know the songs that I wrote, the concept albums I initiated and the theatricality of our stage shows were all simply things I made up as I went along. It's still a mystery to me how things worked out as well as they did. As I expressed in the lyrics to the Grand Illusion (as well as other songs), far too much adulation and credit has been assigned to politicians, athletes and show biz people like me who really don't know much more about the the way things work than the next guy. Unless the next guy is that dumb ass sitting behind you at the movies talking loudly to the screen, or Charles Manson. I know more than them. Once again I am grateful for your continuing support and will continue to come visit you until I begin to embarrass my family.
PS. I have just been informed I have one more show in Ft. Lauderdale in December. Just when you thought it was safe to live in Florida...
I am mad mad mad mad mad with recent accusations that our recent successes have gone to our heads. I categorically refute these specious, allegations as nothing more than a blatant attempt by my political enemies to besmirch our integrity. I blame the radical left the nutty right and the mushy middle for this nonsense. By the way do any of you know of a hat store that sells xxxxxxxxxtra large, winter's coming.
P.S. Thanks to my good friends in Florida for the big heads.
Hampton, IA
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U niversity of Colorado junior Cayte Bosler gained a new perspective on water conservation after participating in an environmental awareness program last week.
CU student Cayte Bosler joined this
year s EcoFlight program, which flies
students over rivers for environmental
lectures in the sky. (Mark Leffingwell)
Bosler and fellow CU student Arielle Powers joined six other students from across the state in a Cessna 210 plane flying 10,000 feet above the Colorado River for some lectures in the sky.
The students were part of an annual program called Flight Across America -- a five-day workshop that includes lectures, interviews and daily aerial tours through the Aspen-based environmental awareness organization EcoFlight.
The group spent four to five hours per day over five days flying over bodies of water in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, analyzing the surrounding land.
"It's one thing to talk about water use and even see the bodies of water from the ground, but seeing it from the air added something new," Bosler said. "We followed the Colorado River, and you could see how much land the coal mining plant was taking up from up there with all the roads running around it and other things you don't necessarily see from the ground."
EcoFlight Vice President Jane Pargiter said they launched the Flight Across America program in 2004 as a way to educate students about various environmental challenges and to empower young adults to have a voice.
"We predominantly provide support for conservation groups and press who need an aerial platform, but we try to stay politically neutral," Pargiter said. "We provide students with various perspectives on an issue so they can make up their own minds about it."
The students discussed the impacts of water with hunters and farmers, toured a coal processing plant and talked to Navajo high school students.
CU students have only sent four participants through the program so far, Pargiter said, since the university's community INVST program began partnering with EcoFlight last year.
The annual program will begin taking applications again next summer, Pargiter said. Students can visit EcoFlight.orgfor more information.
Two University of Colorado students got an aerial view of the Colorado River from 10,000 feet when they joined EcoFlight s Flight Across America workshop on environmental awareness. (Courtesy Cayte Bosler)
Bosler said the program helped her develop a deeper understanding of the effects water consumption has on her daily life.
"I'm so aware now," Bosler said. "Every time I turn on my faucet or buy a bottle of water I think about what went into me having access to that."
Bosler is planning to share the knowledge she gained through the program by giving a presentation about what she learned in one of her classes this semester, and to help raise awareness through other CU groups.
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Making Movie History
May 3, 2010 by Doug 2 Comments
Doug Daulton, Camera Operator. Photo by Tom Anderson
This past weekend, everyone on the set of Martin Rosenberg’s new supernatural thriller found out that we were making movie history. While many other films have had crews on hand for “behind the scenes” footage, no other production maintained live video streams throughout the course of the shoot.
As the principal camera operator and stream “wrangler” for the Pixel Corps crew, it was my job to keep the signal alive, but I had a lot of help, starting with Carolyn Stampeen, our Producer for the shoot. Carolyn managed every detail of our shooting with great professionalism. Kevin Hansen also ran camera for two nights. Suzanne Llewellyn set up and ran interviews and coordinated press coverage, Tom Anderson was invaluable in many roles, not the least of which was sound and John Riley provided key logistical support back at the office. In addition to shooting video for the stream, we also shot many stills and some of HD footage that may be later used by the film makers and in future Pixel Corps challenges.
While none of us set out to make movie history, this experience just goes to show what can happen when you work hard at things you love. Everyone on the Pixel Corps crew owes a big thank you to Martin Rosenberg, his co-producers Peter Adams, Peter Bailey & Rod Hartzog, our boss & mentor Alex Lindsay, the cast & crew of the film and the staff of Preston Castle. This has been an amazing experience and we are glad to have been a part of it.
UPDATE: Peter Adams tells me the project now has a title: “Preston Castle”. I look forward to seeing the finished work.
Joey Rodriguez says
Ohhhh! That’s pretty sweet! What’s the name of the the movie again? I’m so putting this in wikipedia!
The film has no name yet. Stay tuned for an update! It was filmed at Preston Castle in Ione, CA.
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According to the AP NEW YORK (Oct. 4) - Jamaican reggae artist Major Mackerel says he's been slashed in the head, arm and hand by a New York City man wielding a 2-foot samurai sword.
Police say one of the musician's Brooklyn neighbors was arrested and the sword was recovered Sunday morning.
Major Mackerel was hospitalized for several hours. He left the hospital with bandages crowning his dreadlocks and wrapped around his left hand, wrist and elbow.
Major Mackerel has released several albums. His real name is Garfield Dixon.
His girlfriend, Novia Watson, says the neighbor said he was angry because the reggae artist was harassing his wife. But Watson says the artist never messed with her.
Major Mackerel also denies harassing the woman. His neighbor faces charges including assault with intent to cause serious injury with a weapon.
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Adherence to Laws and Ordinances - You must obey all laws that apply to your business.
Independent Sales Associateship limited to 1 - An Independent Sales Associate may operate, receive compensation from, or have an ownership interest, legal or equitable, as a sole proprietorship, partner, shareholder, trustee, or beneficiary, in only one Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneurship. However, notwithstanding this rule, your spouse may become an Independent Sales Associate and operate a second Independent Sales Associateship as long your spouse's Independent Sales Associateship is placed below one of your Independent Sales Associateships and not in a cross line sales organization. The second Independent Sales Associateship must be a bona fide Independent Sales Associateship that is operated by the person listed on the agreement and not by the owner of the first Independent Sales Associateship.
Sale, Transfer, or Assignment of Independent Sales Associateship - An Independent Sales Associate may not sell, transfer, or assign their Independent Sales Associateship rights to any person or entity without CCBMLM's express written approval. To obtain approval, you must: be an Independent Sales Associate in good standing as determined by CCBMLM in its sole discretion; before any transfer will be approved by CCBMLM, any debt obligations the selling Independent Sales Associate has with CCBMLM must be satisfied; the transferring Independent Sales Associate must be in good standing and not in violation of any of the terms of the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement or these Policies and Procedures, to transfer his/her Independent Sales Associateship; the combining of Independent Sales Associateships is not permitted. CCBMLM will not approve the transfer of an Independent Sales Associateship to any individual or Entity that is a current Independent Sales Associate or who has an ownership interest in any Independent Sales Associateship. Similarly, CCBMLM will not approve the transfer of an Independent Sales Associateship to any individual or Entity that has previously had any ownership interest in or operated, a Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneurship; no individual Business Centers may be transferred separately from the Independent Sales Associateship. If an Independent Sales Associate wishes to transfer his/her Independent Sales Associateship, all Business Centers must be included in the transfer; the transferring Independent Sales Associate must notify the CCBMLM Compliance Department of his/her intent to transfer the Independent Sales Associateship by completing and submitting a signed Transfer of ISA and Independent Sales Associate Application Form. No changes in line of sponsorship can result from the transfer of an Independent Sales Associateship; the transferee must be eligible to become a Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneur and be acceptable to CCBMLM in every respect.
Separation of an Independent Sales Associateship - If Independent Sales Associates wish to dissolve their jointly held Independent Sales Associateship, they must do so in such a way as to not disturb the income or interests of their Up line and Down line Organizations. Independent Sales Associates should consider the following when deciding whether or not to dissolve a jointly held Independent Sales Associateship: if a jointly owned Independent Sales Associateship is dissolved, anyone of the joint owners may operate the Independent Sales Associateship, but the other joint owners must relinquish their rights to, and interests in, the Independent Sales Associateship; CCBMLM cannot divide a Down line Organization, nor can it split commission or bonus checks between the joint owners; if a jointly owned Independent Sales Associateship is dissolved, the individual(s) who relinquished ownership in the original Independent Sales Associateship may apply as new Independent Sales Associates under any Sponsor but may not purchase or join an existing Independent Sales Associateship.
Succession - If an Independent Sales Associate dies or becomes incapacitated, his/her rights to commissions, bonuses, and Down line Organization, together with all Independent Sales Associate responsibilities, will pass to his/her successor(s). Upon death or incapacitation, the successor(s) must present the CCBMLM Compliance Department with proof of death or incapacitation, along with proof of succession, such as a Grant of Probate or an Enduring Power of Attorney, and a properly completed Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement. You may inherit and retain another Independent Sales Associateship even though you currently own or operate an Independent Sales Associateship. A non-Independent Sales Associate who acquires a Independent Sales Associateship through succession must purchase a current Business Starter Kit.
Taxes - Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneurs must comply with all relevant taxation legislation. Independent Sales Associates should seek professional advice from their own accountant or tax advisor as to how to keep proper business records and account for tax aspects of their independent business. Independent Sales Associates' CCBMLM income may be subject to income tax and so must be properly accounted for in annual income tax returns. Independent Sales Associates conducting their CCBMLM business in a business-like manner may also be entitled to deduct certain expenses incurred in earning their CCBMLM income. Such expenses should be properly recorded and evidenced with receipts.
Telephone and Email Solicitation - The use of any automated telephone solicitation equipment in connection with the marketing or promotion of CCBMLM, its products, or the CCBMLM opportunity is strictly prohibited. The use telemarketing operations to sell products or services over the telephone, or to recruit Independent Sales Associates, is strictly prohibited. Independent Sales Associates are also forbidden from sending unsolicited e-mail messages or "spamming" to sell products or to recruit Independent Sales Associates. Independent Sales Associates should also make themselves familiar with relevant privacy legislation.
Territories - There are no exclusive territories for marketing CCBMLM products or services, nor shall any Independent Sales Associate imply or state that he/she has an exclusive territory to market CCBMLM products or services.
Trade Shows and Expositions - Independent Sales Associates may display and/or sell CCBMLM products at trade shows and expositions, but may not display or sell CCBMLM products at swap meets, garage sales, flea markets, or farmers' markets as these events are not conducive to the image CCBMLM wishes to portray. CCBMLM cannot supply inventory on consignment to Independent Sales Associates operating stands at such events. All literature displayed at the event must be official CCBMLM literature and must clearly identify the individual(s) as Independent Sales Associates.
Transfer of Sponsorship
Conflicting Enrolments - Every prospective Independent Sales Associate has the ultimate right to choose his/her own Sponsor. As a general rule, the first Independent Sales Associate who does meaningful work with a prospective Independent Sales Associate is considered to have first claim to sponsorship. Basic tenets of common sense and consideration should govern any dispute that may arise. In the event that a prospective Independent Sales Associate or any Independent Sales Associate on behalf of a prospective Independent Sales Associate, submits more than one Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement to CCBMLM, listing a different Sponsor on each, the Company will only consider valid the first Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement that it receives, accepts, and processes. If there is any question concerning the sponsorship of an Independent Sales Associate, the final decision will be made by CCBMLM.
Cross-line Raiding - CCBMLM will not permit any change in the line of sponsorship except in the following circumstances: where an Independent Sales Associate has been fraudulently or unethically induced into joining CCBMLM; where an incorrect placement was made due to an Independent Sales Associate error, a change in the line of sponsorship can be made to correct the error where a request for a change is made within 10 days of enrolment. If you make such a request, you must also submit the written consent of your Sponsor and that person's Sponsor along with the required placement change fee. If at the time of the request you have any down line organization in place, no change will be permitted in the line of sponsorship. In the event that such a change is approved, commissions and bonuses earned will be adjusted accordingly. In no case will a change of placement be approved where a signed application has not been received by CCBMLM; if you terminate your Independent Sales Associateship in writing you may rejoin under the Sponsor of your choice after a period of six (6) months; following termination of your Independent Sales Associateship, you may participate as a Customer during the six (6) month period. In the event you terminate your Independent Sales Associateship, you forfeit all rights, bonuses, and commissions under your previous line of sponsoring. You may not avoid compliance with this policy through the use of DBAs, assumed names, corporations, partnerships, trusts, spouse names, fictitious ID numbers, etc. If you have been "inactive" (i.e., no purchases or sales of CCBMLM products or participation in any other form as an Independent Sales Associate) for a period of twelve (12) successive months, you may terminate your; Independent Sales Associateship in writing and rejoin immediately under the Sponsor of your choice; cross-line raiding is strictly prohibited. "Cross-line raiding" is defined as the enrolment or attempted enrolment of an individual or Entity that already has a current Independent Sales Associate User Agreement on ISA with CCBMLM, or who has had such agreement within the preceding six (6) calendar months within a different line of sponsorship. The use of trade names, DBAs, assumed names, corporations, partnerships, trusts, spouse names, fictitious ID numbers or any other vehicle to circumvent this policy is prohibited. Independent Sales Associates may not demean, discredit, or invalidate other Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneurs in an attempt to entice another Independent Sales Associate to become part of the first Independent Sales Associate's Down line Organization.
Responsibilities of Independent Sales Associates and Sponsors
Ongoing Supervision, Training, and Sales - Any Independent Sales Associate who sponsors another Independent Sales Associate into CCBMLM must train the new Independent Sales Associate in product knowledge, effective sales techniques, the Compensation Plan, and the Policies and Procedures. Independent Sales Associates must also supervise and monitor Independent Sales Associates in their Down line Organization to ensure they conduct business professionally and ethically, promote sales properly, and provide quality customer service. As an Independent Sales Associate progresses through the various levels of leadership, his/her responsibilities to train and motivate down line Independent Sales Associates will increase.
Non-Disparagement - In setting the proper example for their down line, Independent Sales Associates must not disparage other Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneurs, CCBMLM's Products, the Compensation Plan, or the Company's employees. Such disparagement constitutes a material breach of these Policies and Procedures.
Holding Applications or Orders - All Independent Sales Associates must forward to CCBMLM any forms and applications they receive from other Independent Sales Associates or applicant Independent Sales Associates, or Customers or applicant Customers, on the next business day after which the forms or applications are signed.
Reporting Policy Violations - Independent Sales Associates should report any observed violations of a policy violation to the CCBMLM Compliance Department.
Regarding CCBMLM Replicated Personal Website Fee of .03 Bitcoin
Bonuses and Commissions
Bonus and Commission Cycles - CCBMLM pays commissions on weekly and monthly cycles to the Independent Sales Associate's Virtual Account located in the ISA Back Office. An Independent Sales Associate must review his/her commissions and report any errors or discrepancies to CCBMLM within ten (10) days from the date of the commission payment. Errors or discrepancies which are not brought to CCBMLM's attention within the 10 day period will be deemed waived by the Independent Sales Associate.
Adjustment of Bonuses and Commissions - Independent Sales Associates earn commissions and bonuses based on product sales to End Consumers. Accordingly, CCBMLM will adjust commissions and bonuses earned from any sale when the Independent Sales Associate or any other End Consumer returns the sold product for a refund. CCBMLM will deduct the sales volume attributable to the returned product from the Up line Independent Sales Associate's group volume within the first two (2) weeks after the refund is given.
Loss of Rights to Commissions - You must be an active Independent Sales Associate and in compliance with the terms of the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement to qualify for commissions and bonuses.
Unclaimed Commissions - Independent Sales Associates who provide CCBMLM with incomplete or invalid bank account information will have their commission and bonus retained as a credit. Any unclaimed credit will be held in trust for 12 months, during which time CCBMLM may periodically notify the Independent Sales Associates in writing of their credit balance.
Dispute Resolution and Disciplinary Proceedings between Independent Sales Associates
Grievances and Complaints - When an Independent Sales Associate has a grievance or complaint with another Independent Sales Associate regarding any practice or conduct in relationship to their respective CCBMLM businesses, the complaining Independent Sales Associate should first discuss the problem with the other Independent Sales Associate. If this does not resolve the problem, the complaining Independent Sales Associate should report the problem to his/her up line to resolve the issue at a local level. If the matter cannot be resolved, it must be reported in writing to the CCBMLM Compliance Department. The Compliance Department will review the complaint and make a final decision. The complaint should identify specific instances of alleged improper conduct and, to the extent possible, identify the relevant dates on which the event(s) complained of took place, the location(s) where they occurred, and all persons who have firsthand knowledge of the improper conduct.
Compliance Department Review - Upon receipt of a written complaint, the CCBMLM Compliance Department will investigate the matter, review the applicable policies, and render a decision on how the dispute shall be resolved. The Compliance Department may also issue disciplinary sanctions consistent with the provisions of this Agreement
Disputes between CCBMLM and Independent Sales Associates
Mediation and arbitration - All unresolved disputes and claims relating to CCBMLM, its Compensation Plan, its Products, the rights and obligations of its Independent Sales Associates and CCBMLM, or any other claim or cause of action relating to product purchase(s) or performance, either of an Independent Sales Associate or of CCBMLM under the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement, shall first be put before a mediator acceptable to both parties for resolution. Each party shall bear its own costs in the mediation. Should mediation fail to resolve the dispute then it shall be put before arbitration in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. Each party to the arbitration shall be responsible for their own costs, including legal and filing fees. This agreement to mediate and, failing mediation, arbitrate will survive any cancellation or expiration of the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement. Nothing in these Policies and Procedures shall prevent CCBMLM from applying to and obtaining from any court having jurisdiction a writ of attachment, temporary injunction, preliminary injunction, permanent injunction, or other available relief to safeguard and protect CCBMLM's interest prior to, during, or following the filing of any arbitration or other proceeding, or pending the rendering of a decision or award in connection with any arbitration or other proceeding. The existence of any Independent Sales Associate claim or cause of action against CCBMLM does not preclude CCBMLM from enforcing the Independent Sales Associate's covenants and agreements contained in the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement.
Jurisdiction, Venue, and Choice of Law - The jurisdiction and venue of any matter pursuant to this agreement shall reside in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA.
Disciplinary Actions - Violation of any of the terms and conditions of the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement, or any illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, or unethical business conduct by an Independent Sales Associate, may result, at CCBMLM's discretion, in one or more of the following sanctions: a written warning, clarifying the meaning and application of a specific policy or procedure, and advising that a continued breach ill result in further sanctions; probation, which may include requiring an Independent Sales Associate to take remedial action and will include follow-up monitoring by CCBMLM to ensure compliance with the Agreement; withdrawal or denial of an award or recognition, or restricting participation in CCBMLM-sponsored events for a specified period of time or until the Independent Sales Associate satisfies certain specified conditions; suspension of certain privileges of Independent Sales Associateship, including but not limited to placing a product order, participating in CCBMLM programs, progressing in the Compensation Plan, or participating as a Sponsor (including participating as an International Sponsor), for a specified period of time or until the Independent Sales Associate satisfies certain specified conditions; withholding commissions or bonuses for a specified period of time or until the Independent Sales Associate satisfies certain specified conditions; imposing fair and reasonable fines or other penalties in proportion to actual damages incurred by CCBMLM and as permitted by law; and/or terminating an Independent Sales Associateship.
Independent Sales Associate Services
Changes to the Independent Sales Associateship - Each Independent Sales Associate must immediately notify CCBMLM of all changes to the information contained on the Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement. Independent Sales Associates may modify their existing Independent Sales Associate User Agreement by submitting a written request, a properly executed Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement, and appropriate supporting documentation.
Addition of Co-applicants - When adding a co-applicant to an existing Independent Sales Associateship, CCBMLM requires both a written request and a properly completed Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement containing the applicant's and co- applicant's signatures. The modifications permitted within the scope of this paragraph do not include a change of sponsorship.
Commission Statements/tax Invoices - Commission Statements/Tax Invoices are provided for all active Independent Sales Associates receiving a commission Check in your ISA Back Office.
Errors or Questions - In the event an Independent Sales Associate has questions about or believes that any errors have been made regarding commissions, bonuses, Down line Genealogy Reports, orders, or charges, the Independent Sales Associate must notify CCBMLM within thirty (30) days of the date of the purported error or incident in question. CCBMLM will not be responsible for any error, omission, or problem not reported within thirty (30) days.
Resolving Problems - If you have any questions regarding shipments, orders, commissions and bonuses, or the Compensation Plan, please write or call the CCBMLM Support Services.
Inactivity and Cancellation Policies - Independent Sales Associates who do not meet the Personal Sales Volume requirements specified in the CCBMLM Compensation Plan may not receive a commission and may lose accumulated Sales Volume for the sales generated through their Down line Organization.
Involuntary Cancellation - An Independent Sales Associate's violation of any of the terms of the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement, including any amendments which may be made by CCBMLM in its sole discretion from time to time, constitutes a material breach of the Independent Sales Associate User Agreement and may result, at CCBMLM's option, in any of the Disciplinary Actions listed herein, including cancellation of his/her Independent Sales Associateship. Involuntary Cancellation of an Independent Sales Associateship will result in the Independent Sales Associate's loss of all rights to his/her Down line Organization and any bonuses and commissions generated thereby. An Independent Sales Associate whose Agreement is involuntarily cancelled shall receive commissions and bonuses only for the last full calendar week prior to termination. When an Independent Sales Associateship is involuntarily cancelled, the Independent Sales Associate will be notified by certified mail at the address on file with the Company. Cancellation is effective on the date on which written notice is mailed via certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Independent Sales Associate's last known address or when the Independent Sales Associate receives actual notice of cancellation, whichever occurs first. In the event of such Involuntary Cancellation, the Independent Sales Associate must immediately cease to representing himself/herself as a Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneur. The Independent Sales Associate may appeal the termination to the CCBMLM Compliance Department. The Independent Sales Associate's appeal must be in writing and must be received by the company within fifteen (15) calendar days of the date of CCBMLM's cancellation letter. If CCBMLM does not receive the appeal within the fifteen-day period, the cancellation will be final. The Independent Sales Associate must submit all supporting documentation with his/ her appeal correspondence. The written appeal will be reviewed by the Compliance Department. If the Independent Sales Associate files a timely appeal of termination, the Compliance Department will review and reconsider the termination, consider any other appropriate action, and notify the Independent Sales Associate in writing of its decision. This decision of the Compliance Department will be final. An Independent Sales Associate whose Independent Sales Associate User Agreement is involuntarily cancelled may reapply to become an Independent Sales Associate twelve (12) calendar months from the date of cancellation. Any such Independent Sales Associate wishing to reapply must submit a letter to the CCBMLM Compliance Department setting forth the reasons why he/she believes CCBMLM should allow him or her to operate an Independent Sales Associateship. It is within CCBMLM's sole discretion whether to permit such an individual to again operate a CCBMLM business.
Written Cancellation - An Independent Sales Associate may cancel his/her Agreement with CCBMLM at any time and for any reason by providing written notice to CCBMLM indicating his/her intent to discontinue his/her Independent Sales Associateship status. The written notice must include the Independent Sales Associate's signature, printed name, address, and appropriate identification number.
Effect of Cancellation - Following an Independent Sales Associate's voluntary or involuntary cancellation, such former Independent Sales Associate shall have no right, title, claim, or interest to the Downline Organization which he/she operated or any bonus and/or commission from the sales generated by the organization. Following an Independent Sales Associate's voluntary or involuntary cancellation, the former Independent Sales Associate shall not hold himself or herself out as a Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneur shall not have the right to sell CCBMLM products or services, must remove any CCBMLM sign from public view, and must discontinue using any other materials bearing any CCBMLM logo, trademark, or service mark. An Independent Sales Associate who is voluntarily cancelled will receive commissions and bonuses only for the last full calendar week prior to his/her cancellation. An Independent Sales Associate whose Agreement is involuntarily cancelled will receive commissions and bonuses only for the last full calendar week prior to cancellation, unless monies were withheld by the Company during an investigation period. If an investigation of the Independent Sales Associate's conduct results in his/her involuntary cancellation, he/she shall not be entitled to recover withheld commissions and bonuses.
Active Independent Sales Associate - An Independent Sales Associate who satisfies the minimum Personal Sales Volume requirements as set forth in the CCBMLM Compensation Plan.
Independent Sales Associate - An individual who has executed an Independent Sales Associate application and agreement which has been accepted by CCBMLM. Independent Sales Associates are required to meet certain qualifications and are responsible for the training, motivation, support, and development of the Independent Sales Associates in their respective Down line Organizations. Independent Sales Associates are entitled to purchase CCBMLM products at Independent Sales Associate prices, enroll Customers and new Independent Sales Associates, and take part in all Company Independent Sales Associate programs.
Independent Sales Associate User Agreement - The term Independent Sales Associate User Agreement, as used in the Policies and Procedures, refers to the Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement, CCBMLM's Policies and Procedures, and the Compensation Plan.
Cancellation - Termination of an individual's Independent Sales Associateship. Cancellation may be either voluntary or involuntary
Involuntary Cancellation - Termination of an Independent Sales Associateship which is initiated by CCBMLM.
Voluntary Cancellation - The termination of an Independent Sales Associateship instituted by the Independent Sales Associate who elects to discontinue his/her affiliation with CCBMLM for any reason.
Down line Organization - An Independent Sales Associate's down line Organization consists of all Independent Sales Associates below him/her.
Genealogy Report - A report generated by CCBMLM that provides critical data relating to the identities of Independent Sales Associates and sales information of each Independent Sales Associate's Down line Organization. This report contains proprietary trade secret information.
Left Side Group Sales Volume (GSV) - The commissionable volume of products sold in the left down line leg of a particular Dual Team Foundation.
Right Side Group Sales Volume (GSV) - The commissionable volume of products sold in the right down line leg of a particular Dual Team Foundation.
Immediate Household - An Independent Sales Associate, his or her spouse or defacto, and dependants.
Level - The layers of down line Independent Sales Associates in a particular Independent Sales Associate's down line Organization. This term refers to the relationship of an Independent Sales Associate relative to a particular up line Independent Sales Associate, determined by the number of Independent Sales Associates between them who are related by sponsorship.
Official CCBMLM Material - Literature, audio or video tapes, and other materials developed, printed, published, or distributed by CCBMLM.
Sponsor - An Independent Sales Associate who enrolls a new Independent Sales Associate or Preferred Customer and is listed as the Sponsor on the Independent Sales Associate Application and Agreement. As the term implies, the Sponsor has a responsibility to assist those he/she brings into the business.
Up line - The term refers to the Independent Sales Associate or Independent Sales Associates above a particular Independent Sales Associate in a sponsorship line to the company. Conversely stated, it is the line of Sponsors that links any particular Independent Sales Associate to the Company.
CCBMLM INDEPENDENT SALES ASSOCIATE (ISA) APPLICATION AND AGREEMENT
Independent Sales Associate Terms and Conditions Agreement between the named APPLICANT (hereafter APPLICANT) and CCBMLM.com, Inc. (hereafter CCBMLM) effective under the terms and conditions below:
APPLICANT hereby applies for authorization as a Independent Sales Associate (ISA) in CCBMLM's network marketing program. For a period of 21 days from the submission of this application, or until such time as CCBMLM notifies APPLICANT of this application's acceptance or rejection, APPLICANT is provisionally authorized as an ISA and granted the rights to sell CCBMLM products. CCBMLM reserves the right to accept or reject any application for any reason.
Upon acceptance as an ISA by CCBMLM, APPLICANT is authorized as an ISA for one calendar year. The Company reserves the right to terminate this Agreement at any time if the Company elects to: (1) cease business operations; (2) dissolve as a business entity; or (3) terminate distribution of its products and or services via direct selling channels, or at any time upon not less than 7 days' notice and without further notice if the ISA breaches this Agreement and fails to remedy the breach before the end of the notice period.
APPLICANT has read and agrees to be bound by the terms of this agreement, the CCBMLM full Compensation Plan, Policies & Procedures, Income Disclaimers, Independent Sales Associate Agreement, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Refund Policy all of which are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof for all purposes. CCBMLM reserves the right to change the Compensation Plan, Policies & Procedures, Income Disclaimers, Independent Sales Associate Agreement, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Refund Policy at any time in its sole discretion, and APPLICANT agrees to be bound by such changes.
APPLICANT is an independent contractor under the terms of this agreement, and not an agent, employee, or legal representative of his/ her sponsor or CCBMLM, and will in no way represent him/herself as such. As such, APPLICANT has no power to bind CCBMLM to any obligation and APPLICANT is responsible for all applicable income, sales, social security, unemployment or other tax, license, or fee arising out of APPLICANT's activities hereunder.
APPLICANT will not produce, promote, or use materials of any kind describing CCBMLM's names, programs, products, and trademarked, copyrighted, or otherwise protected materials except as permitted in CCBMLM's policies.
APPLICANT has the duty to supervise and train any ISAs that he/she may sponsor as described in the Policies and Procedures. APPLICANT will explain CCBMLM's programs honestly and completely when presenting them to others. APPLICANT understands and will make clear in any presentation the following: that no earnings are guaranteed by CCBMLM or its programs; no ISA will earn money solely for sponsoring; no specific amount of product must be purchased at any level; commissions are based on product sales; that there are no exclusive territories for ISAs in the program.
APPLICANT agrees that compensation is only paid for sales of product as defined in the Policies and Procedures and in the company's Compensation Plan.
Any sale or assignment of this agreement must be approved by CCBMLM. Successors in interest or assigns must comply with all program requirements.
The undersigned hereby acknowledges that he/she is of legal age and authorized to bind APPLICANT to each of the terms set forth herein and to the terms of the Policies & Procedures.
Venue and jurisdiction for any action pertaining to this agreement or any disagreement or claim between the parties hereto shall be in Hong Kong, China, except where the laws of your state expressly require the application of its laws. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of Hong Kong, China.
No purchase or investment is necessary to become an Independent ISA.
You have the right to cancel your ISA agreement at any time and for any reason.
You are free to participate in other multilevel marketing ventures, but you may not sell or promote to other CCBMLM ISAs or Customers similar or competitive products or services or any other multilevel marketing opportunity.
CCBMLM genealogy reports are confidential and proprietary business trade secrets. You may not use the reports for any purpose other than to develop your CCBMLM business. Specifically, you must not disclose any information contained in the reports to a third party or use the reports to compete with CCBMLM or to recruit or solicit other ISAs or Customers to participate in other multilevel marketing ventures.
CCBMLM's failure to exercise any rights as set forth in this agreement or to insist on your strict compliance with the terms and conditions of this agreement and the Policies & Procedures does not constitute a waiver of CCBMLM's right to require compliance therewith.
CCBMLM's waiver of any ISA default does not affect CCBMLM's rights with respect to any subsequent default or the rights or obligations of any other ISA. Delays or omissions by CCBMLM in exercising rights which might arise from an ISA's default do not affect the company's rights concerning the default or any subsequent default.
CCBMLM reserves the right to cancel any Independent Associate at any time for cause if the ISA violates the terms and conditions of this Agreement or the provisions of the Policies & Procedures and Compensation Plan.
Taxpayer Identification Number. If you are a United States person (including a resident alien), you must provide CCBMLM with your correct taxpayer identification number ("TIN"), which for individuals is either your Social Security Number ("SSN") or, if you are a resident alien and you do not have and are not eligible to get an SSN, your Individual taxpayer Identification Number ("ITIN"). For a distributorship that is a partnership, corporation, company or association organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States, you must provide CCBMLM with your employer Identification Number ("EIN"). If you fail to provide CCBMLM with a TIN or the TIN you provide to CCBMLM is incorrect, CCBMLM will withhold and pay to the IRS 28 percent of your income over $600, unless you certify to CCBMLM that you are a corporation exempt from backup withholding or otherwise not subject to backup withholding. By signing this Agreement, you certify that (i) the TIN you have provided to CCBMLM is correct, (ii) you are a United States person (including a resident alien),(iii) if applicable, you are not subject to backup withholding, and (iv) you are exempt from the requirement to report foreign financial assets under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA").
You may be required from time to time to provide CCBMLM with personal information relating to your independent Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneurship and/or ISA Agreement. CCBMLM's rights to use your personal information and your rights to access and correct the personal information you give CCBMLM are described in CCBMLM's Policies & Procedures. By signing this Agreement, you consent to CCBMLM's collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with CCBMLM's Policies & Procedures.
By signing this Agreement, you give CCBMLM consent to contact you by telephone, facsimile transmission, e-mail or text, concerning your independent Independent CCBMLM Entrepreneurship, your ISA Agreement, and any related CCBMLM matter.
ISA agrees not to contact or initiate contact at any time or for any purpose, either directly or indirectly, with any officers, directors, shareholders, consultants, attorneys, employees, agents or other affiliates of CCBMLM’s Vendors or Suppliers, unless such approval is specifically granted in written form by CCBMLM, which shall be considered on a case-by-case basis. Any communication sent by any ISA to CCBMLM’s Vendors or Suppliers, either directly or indirectly to any officers, directors, shareholders, consultants, attorneys, employees, agents or other affiliates of CCBMLM’s Vendors or Suppliers is in direct violation of this ISA Agreement and could result in the termination of your ISA Agreement. This includes any and all verbal and or written communications. From time to time CCBMLM may invite guest from CCBMLM’s Vendors or Suppliers to speak on CCBMLM webinars and conference calls, such guest appearance do not constitute CCBMLM's approval for furthered communications with CCBMLM’s Vendors or Suppliers. You further agree and understand that the only entity which has an Agreement with CCBMLM’s Vendors or Suppliers is CCBMLM.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, CCBMLM, its parent or affiliated companies, directors, officers, shareholders, employees, assigns, and agents (collectively referred to as "affiliates"), shall not be liable for, and I release CCBMLM and its affiliates from, all claims for consequential and exemplary damages for any claim or cause of action relating to the Agreement. I further agree to release CCBMLM and its affiliates from all liability arising from or relating to: (a) my, or any other ISA's, breach of the Agreement; (b) the promotion or operation of a CCBMLM business by me or any other ISA and any activities related to it, including, but not limited to, the presentation of Products/Services or the Company Compensation Plan, the operation of a motor vehicle, the lease of meeting or training facilities, etc., and agree to indemnify CCBMLM and its affiliates for any liability, damages, fines, penalties, or other; (c) any incorrect data or information provided by me or any other ISAs to CCBMLM; (d) my, or any other ISA's, failure to provide any information or data necessary for CCBMLM to operate its business; or (e) awards arising from any unauthorized conduct that I undertake in operating my business. I further agree to indemnify CCBMLM for any liability, damages, fines, penalties or other awards arising from any unauthorized conduct that I undertake in operating my CCBMLM business.
The Company grants to me a non-exclusive, royalty free, revocable license to use the intellectual property in CCBMLM's name, trademarks (whether registered or unregistered), and other intellectual property rights in any materials or documents pertaining to the subject matter of this Agreement for the purpose of promoting the products and sourcing potential customers. I agree that the Company may impose restrictions on my use of CCBMLM's name, trade names and trademarks, logos and other intellectual property and advertising in order to protect the rights, reputation and image of CCBMLM, provided that such restrictions are applied to all distributors generally. I also agree to not apply singly or in association with any other party for registration of any intellectual property owned by CCBMLM capable of registration but not registered and to give all reasonable assistance, at CCBMLM's reasonable cost, to assist CCBMLM to register any such intellectual property.
If a ISA wishes to bring an action against CCBMLM for any act or omission relating to or arising from the Agreement, such action must be brought within 30 days from the date of the alleged conduct giving rise to the cause of action. Failure to bring such action within such time shall bar all claims against CCBMLM for such act or omission. ISA waives all claims that any other statutes of limitations apply.
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JD(U) should end alliance with RJD: BJP
Politics7 July 2017 1:49 PM GMTby Vikas Kumar
Patna : Hours after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a criminal conspiracy case against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said that it is the right time for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to end the alliance of his party, Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)), with the RJD, adding the former's two sons should be sacked without delay.
"It is the right time for Nitish to end his party's alliance with the RJD and to sack Lalu's sons from his cabinet without delay. We have faith in Nitish Kumar that he will take the right decision," BJP state unit chief Sushil Modi told media here.
He further said that this CBI raid has proved that the Lalu family is involved in corruption.
"The BJP has said time and again that Lalu is corrupt and the CBI raids have only vindicated their stand. Nitish Kumar earlier had said that either corruption will stay in the state or him. We hope that he won't remain silent on this matter and will take necessary actions," he asserted.
The CBI, earlier in the day, registered a criminal conspiracy case against Yadav on the allegations of awarding the tender for development, maintenance and operation of Hotels at Ranchi and Puri to a Private Company dealing with Hotels in the year 2006.
The CBI has also booked Yadav's wife Rabri Devi, son Tejaswi Yadav, then MD, IRCTC P.K. Goel, a Private person, two Directors of Private Company, a Private Marketing Company and one other person in connection with a same.
The CBI sleuths today conducted searches at 12 locations across Patna, Delhi, Gurgaon and other places in connection with a case linked to a hotel maintenance contract awarded by Lalu Yadav when he was the Railway Minister in 2006.
The CBI is also examining irregularities in awarding tenders to private firms for operating railway hotels located close to stations.
These raids have comes weeks after the Income-Tax department searched locations in New Delhi and adjoining areas in regard with corruption charges against Yadav's daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar. (ANI)
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Shortsville woman charged with DWI after crash on 5&20
Deputies say that on New Years Day at approximately 7:44 p.m. they arrested a 50-year-old Shortsville resident following a crash investigation.
The accident happened on State Route 5&20 in Hopewell, according to deputies, who say that Christine Manning, 50, struck a vehicle operated by Thomas Northrup, 25, of Canandaigua, who was backing out of a driveway.
Deputies say Northrup admitted to causing the crash, and was ticketed for failing to yield the right of way. However, further investigation determined that Manning was intoxicated.
She was charged with driving while intoxicated. The ticket was issued to be returned to Hopewell Town Court.
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Description Edwin A. Shanke in Hamburg, Germany, January 30, 1938. Caption on back: On balcony Esplanade Hotel, Hamburg, Germany, where covered Schmeling-Foord fight 30/1/38.
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For years William hosted a jam session every Sunday at l’Atelier Charonne in Paris (sadly, now closed) at which those same great players often sat in as invited guests. In this clip at l’Atelier he’s performing on guitar with one such player, Angelo Debarre. William has been Angelo’s go-to bassist for several years now and played a major role in bringing Angelo and his son Raangy to Django in June last year.
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Benque Viejo, Cahal Pech British Honduras (Belize) expeditions
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the University of Pennsylvania. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Benque Viejo (Xunantunich), Cahal Pech expedition, conducted by Dr. Linton Satterthwaite, was an extension of his expedition to Caracol, British Honduras (Belize). It was conceived as a "Housemound Project" and continued for two seasons from 1950 to 1953. The area of Benque Viejo, Cahal Pech contained seventeen structures and five stelae for investigation. Much of the collection relates to the Ball Court and East Plaza sites, as well as Structure A6 first and A6 second. The expedition produced objects and numerous photographs of the area. The Benque Viejo, Cahal Pech expedition records consist of twenty-nine folders in three archival boxes. Materials relate to the proposal for the expedition, preliminary data, budget and financial records, maps, notebooks, field notes, diaries, bag study sheets, progress and summary reports, press and publication materials, and photographs.
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Linton Satterthwaite, Jr., associated with the University Museum for more than 30 years, was born in Trenton, New Jersey and educated in the public schools. After graduation from Trenton High School, Satterthwaite flew in World War I as a cadet and flying officer for the Royal Air Force. His education continued after the War and he attained his BA from Yale University in 1920. Satterthwaite supported himself as a reporter from 1920 to 1923 while attending law school. He practiced law briefly but enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929 to study Anthropology. Satterthwaite participated in expeditions in the Texas Panhandle, West Virginia, and Guatemala as an archaeological assistant from 1929 to 1931.
In 1932, Satterthwaite was named Assistant Director for the expedition in Piedras Negras, Guatemala, becoming Field Director in 1933. He continued as Director until 1939. Satterthwaite was awarded his Ph.D.in Anthropology in 1943 then continued to pursue his area of major interest, Maya hieroglyphics and chronology. He served as project epigrapher in Tikal, Guatemala which investigated the carved inscriptions on Maya monuments.
Investigation into a possible expedition to Caracol, British Honduras (Belize) began in 1949 with a proposal submitted in 1950. Satterthwaite headed three sessions in Caracol from 1950 to 1958. His work at Cahal Pech, Benque Viejo, and other sites in Western Belize occurred in the same time period. While concentrating on hieroglyphics and chronology in Caracol, this expedition also produced twenty-six vessels of the early classic period, nine vessels of the late period, Stela 11, a new "giant glyph" altar, and the bottom portion of Stela 3 for the Museum's collection. The Benque Viejo, Cahal Pech expedition was conceived as a "Housemound Project" and lasted for two seasons. The trips yielded objects and photographs from the seventeen structures and five stelae in the area. Satterthwaite also explored other possible nearby sites in British Honduras and purchased or received gifts of items for the Museum's collection.
In 1955, Satterthwaite became Curator of the American Section of the Penn Museum and a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. As Curator, Satterthwaite accomplished a systematic locational guide and inventory of the collections from the new world.
Satterthwaite published his findings from 1930 to 1962 in the Museum Bulletin as well as American Anthropologist, Science, American Antiquity, Scientific American, and Archaeology. In 1947, his work titled, "Concepts and Structures of Maya Calendrical Arithmetics" was published by the Museum and the Philadelphia Anthropological Society. He presented papers at scholarly meetings among them, "Moon Ages and the Maya Inscriptions: the Problem of their Seven-day Range of Deviation from Calculated Mean Ages", at the Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Americanists in 1951.
Satterthwaite retired from the Museum as Curator and Professor Emeritus in 1969 but worked on the data from Caracol and Benque Viejo during his retirement. He died on March 11, 1978 having made significant contributions to the intricate study of Maya hieroglyphics and chronology. His volume on the Caracol expedition, "The Monuments and Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize", co-authored by Carl Beetz, was published after his death.
The Benque Viejo, Cahal Pech expedition, conducted by Dr. Linton Satterthwaite, investigated an additional area of Maya ruins in British Honduras (Belize) during the same time period as the expedition to Caracol. Like the Caracol expedition, the Bengue Viejo, Cahal Pech study was proposed in 1949 and begun in 1950. It was conceived as a "Housemound Project" and continued for two seasons. The area contained seventeen structures and five stelae for investigation. Much of the collection relates to the Ball Court and East Plaza sites, as well as Structure A6 first and A6 second. The expedition produced objects and numerous photographs of the area for the Museum.
The Benque Viejo, Cahal Pech expedition records consist of twenty-nine folders in three archival boxes. The first series of the collection, Expedition Materials, begins with the proposal for the expedition and preliminary data, followed by budget and financial records, notebooks, field notes, diaries, bag study sheets, progress and summary reports. The remaining series are devoted to Publication data and photographs, and Maps and press coverage.
The project proposal is supported by geographical data and a checklist of mound sites with several hand-drawn maps. There is investigative data on adjacent sites, soil drainage, and mound diagrams. Linton Satterthwaite's "Notebooks" are in fragile conditiion and date from 1950 and 1951. The fieldnotes are accompanied by technical data such as transverse measurement sheets, level readings, and designations. The Benque Viejo field notes include several pages of cross-section and long-section material. Measurement sheets and work sheets along with drawings, dimensions, and frame estimates are also present. Cayo X notes feature transverse measurement sheets, level readings, and designations. Working maps of the Cayo X area are folded and in fragile condition.
The second series dealing with Publication data and photographs relate almost exclusively to the A-6 structure in Benque Viejo. Some communication with the museum is present with the data. There are 43 fragile pages of type-written text with subheadings: Architectural Sequences-Nomenclature; Descriptive list of Numbered Units; Access to the buildings-Stairways; Structure A-second; Structure A6-second: Reconstructed plan and Basic Elevations; Stucco-as material; Stucco Decoration of Upper Zone-General Remarks; Stucco details; Areas A8-1; A8-2; and B-9; Band B; and doorways.
The photograph portion of the series begins with the Field Catalogues from the expedition. The photographs are identified by number, location, date, and description. All from 1950, the list contains "series V", "series K" and "series P", of various sizes. Many of the photographs were originally mounted on paper with staples and have roll and print numbers. The staples were removed whenever possible. Some smaller photos were placed in acid-free envelopes. A group of miscellaneous photographs from Benque Viejo and Cahal Pech originally were stapled to a thin paper backing. The staples were removed whenever possible. A hand-made album titled "Benque Viejo, Selected Photos" remains intact despite stapling. Another dual photo mounted on heavier paper with notes by Dr. Satterthwaite was left as-is. A drawing of Structure A6-second using a portion of a photo to construct a composite of the reconstructed East facade also remains as Satterthwaite made it. The remaining photos depict Cayo X, Baking Pot, and the native peoples. The Maps series contains a combination of commercial and hand-drawn maps, some issued by the government of British Honduras. The geography, rainfall, geological divisions, vegetation, lights and lighthouses, and alienated land in British Honduras are highlighted. A hand-drawn map labeled as a "copy print of F.D. plan 215" is folded and brittle and may need conservation assessment. Another map shows part of the "Cayo District showing License Areas nos. 29/43 and 1/44." There is also an Archaeological Map of the Maya Area. A group of miscellaneous drawings and maps, some oversized, is on heavy paper and folded into smaller size. There are hand-written directions about scale, suggesting that the data was in process for publication. The press coverage in the final series includes articles from the University Bulletin, Archaeology Newsletter, and Archaeology with coverage of the important finds by The Carribean Quarterly, The Daily Clarion, British Honduras Monthly Magazine, Caldwell Press (N.J.), and the Monthly Bulletin (British Honduras).
University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives, December, 2009
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Cahal Pech site (Belize)
Caracol site (Belize)
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Anderson, A. Hamilton
Beidler, Paul H., 1906-1998
Belize antiquities
Expedition Materials, 1949-1953.
Preliminary Data 1949-1953 (1 of 2).
Accounts, Budget 1951-1953.
Satterthwaite Notebooks 1950-1951.
Cayo X Notes 1950.
Benque Viejo Fieldnotes 1950-1953 (1 of 2).
Bag Study Sheets, Catalogue 1950.
Progress Reports, memos, field diaries 1950-1952.
Benque Viejo Logs, additional sites 1951.
PU-Mu.1151. Publication data, photographs, 1950-1970.
Communication (Cahal Pech) 1966.
Structure A6, Notes from Linton Satterthwaite 1970.
Structure A6, Publication materials 1966-1970.
Benque Viejo manuscript material, publications 1966-1970.
Benque Viejo field photograph catalogue 1950 (1 of 3).
1950 Slides negative list.
1950 photographs (1 of 3).
1950 Miscellaneous photographs.
1950 Photo checklists.
Maps, press coverage, 1949-1966.
Press coverage, publications 1950-1954.
Site Maps 1950-1953.
Miscellaneous Drawings, maps 1970.
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ANTHONY KASPER
Anthony Kasper, more commonly known by just his surname, is a Minneapolis based producer, DJ, and label manager with Fokuz Recordings. The 27-year-old has been DJing and crafting beats for nearly a decade. His catalogue boasts 13 vinyl releases and 70+ digital releases via Fokuz, V Recordings, and other noteworthy labels.
Since 2016 he has completed 2 USA tours covering 10 states, and 1 European tour covering 13 countries – including playing at Let It Roll festival, one of the largest EDM festivals in the world. Selected by DJ Mag as one of the top up and coming US Drum and Bass producers, Anthony’s music is frequently supported by heavy weights like Friction, Technimatic, DJ Marky, Bryan G and Random Movement and on BBC Radio 1. Kasper also hosts the popular Fokuz Recordings Podcast on a monthly basis.
On the Minneapolis circuit, he is a full time professional DJ. His versatile style draws influence from the funk, soul, and jazz records he grew up listening to. In 2012 he was named Red Bull DJ Master at the U of M battle. You can find him regularly performing at nightclubs, opening up for international acts like Noisia and Pendulum, and in the stadiums for Timberwolves, Vikings, Lynx and Golden Gopher home games. Whether its a trendy rooftop or an underground club night, Anthony Kasper’s got the selection and skill to set the vibe right.
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Why I Support the RFA, not CCA
Press release from RFA
For Immediate Release: April, 29, 2009
Contact: Jim Hutchinson, Jr. 888 564-6732
Conservation Group Offers "Freedom to Fish" To Highest BidderNew Management Approach Would Sell Off Recreational Access
Galloway, NJ - In what can best be described as a "pay to play" version of fisheries management, the Texas-based conservation group, Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), has gone on record with a new socialized approach to managing the nation's coastal fisheries, whereby access to the resource is offered to the highest bidder. According to Dr. Russ Nelson, Fisheries Consultant for CCA, a "free market-based approach to managing red snapper and other marine fishes" could create individual fishing quotas (IFQ) for the recreational fishing community, the same as commercial fishermen.
"IFQ programs have demonstrated some success in controlling commercial fisheries, but restrict access by the general public and necessitate difficult allocation decisions," Nelson said in a CCA discussion paper delivered to the Gulf Council on April 10. Citing current discard mortality problems within the recreational sector, particularly with regard to the red snapper fishery, Nelson said "We are facing new, stricter control measures to assure that our annual catch doesn't exceed the allowable level, and the recreational sector remains without an accurate means of counting the fish we catch." CCA's proposed "free market-based approach" would issue individual, non-reusable tags for red snapper to account for the total allowable catch during an annual cycle.
The tags would be issued for public auction every year, and those members of the public who wish to catch red snapper would make bids on the available fish tags. "Let anyone who so desires to place their best bid and distribute to the highest bidders," Nelson's paper stated, "bidders could be individuals, states or organizations." Tags would remain on individual fish until cooked and consumed, whether in a residential home or at a seafood restaurant, which CCA explains will allow all fishermen who gain access to the tags to do with the fish what they please. "Those who buy the tags can used them any way they desire - take the fish home and eat it, give them as Christmas presents, sell them, take their fish to a market and sell them," the CCA paper continued.
The authors of the discussion paper explain that the current method of surveying recreational anglers through the Marine Recreational Fishing Statistical Survey (MRFSS) could be eliminated, since only anglers possessing tags would be allowed to fish for regulated species like red snapper, and only a certain allotment of tags would be issued during any given cycle. "It is simple and arguably the most fair and equitable approach. Every one - anglers, commercial harvesters, seafood processors, investors and conservationists would have the same opportunity to access the resource," the CCA paper added.
Many members of the recreational fishing community fear the proposal, if put into policy, would take the common man out of fishing. "We think it is bad policy to rest fishing rights in a select few," said Jim Hutchinson, Jr. Managing Director of the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA). "Such a proposal would create a fishing elite to the exclusion of the American fishing public." "Together with marine reserves, this plan, if implemented, would completely eliminate open-access fishing in America," Hutchinson added.
"Hopefully, the Gulf Council can squash this idea before it gains any credibility within fisheries management circles." "We do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. Our aim is to preserve our natural resource for the public as a whole, for the average man and the average woman who make up the body of the American people." - President Theodore Roosevelt.
###### The Recreational Fishing Alliance is a national, grassroots political action organization representing recreational fishermen and the recreational fishing industry on marine fisheries issues. The RFA Mission is to safeguard the rights of saltwater anglers, protect marine, boat and tackle industry jobs, and ensure the long-term sustainability of our Nation's saltwater fisheries. For more information, call 888-JOIN-RFA or visit www.joinrfa.org.
Back From Punta Gorda/ Captain Ralph Allen/The Wyvern Hotel
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It was good to return to Punta Gorda to fish with Captain Ralph Allen of the KingFisher Fleet. My base of operations was the new and quite " 'luxe " Wyvern Hotel in the downtown historic district of "PG". The Wyvern is a 5-star experience for anglers and their families that demand the very best from accomodations to gourmet dining ( Lulu Restaurant) to roof-top cocktails
When the dust cleared on Friday, April 24. Captain Ralph and I not only had a West Coast Slam, but released 15 snook, 1 redfish, 1 very large trout, 3 blacktip sharks, 3 spanish mackeral, and a wad of sandtrout: we had a blast!
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Green Turtle Cay Images by Jan Maizler
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Back from Abaco/Green Turtle Cay/Captain Ricky Sawyer
Despite 30 m.p.h. winds that plagued 5 days, Ricky and I released 23 bonefish from 5 to 10 pounds, with 10 of the fish being over 9 pounds weighed! That's life with the ocean bonefish of Green Turtle Cay, biggest in the Bahamas.
More images, data, and stories to follow..
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Quick Thanks and Kudos...
Thanks to Captain Butch Moser for my Canal Slam of a largemouth, peacock, and sunshine bass in western Palm Beach county.
Thanks to Captain Mike Smith for my West Coast Slam of snook, redfish, and seatrout off Sanibel Island.
Kudos to the Navy Seals for freeing the U.S. captain from the Somali pirates (AKA vermin). The lesson here is that terrorists and criminals are emboldened by anything less than zero-tolerance!
Another Angling Destination Grows off Limits...
The rioting in Bangkok will now effect those curious travelers that were starting to do some flyfishing with an operator in this area.
Bangkok now joins the outer Seychelles as well as bordertown and central Mexico as angling destinations with high crime and danger risks.
Do not believe the minimizing from affected operators...check with the State Department.
In the Silver Lining Department, all eyes are trained on the possible warmup of relations with Cuba and Obama's possible lifting of the travel ban.
Jan Maizler
Thoughtful Measured Morning...
I heard from my friend Don Eichin that some tarpon were spotted rolling in an urban backbay yesterday.
Four days in the office were enough to make me rabid to fish by friday.
Friday was not good. Winds had increased to 20 mph out of the southeast. I did play around a nighttime bridge and released a 10-pound jack.
By dawn, I slipped into the alleged tarpon spot. I only saw about a dozen fish roll and had no strikes.
A guide in a Ghanoe slipped in behind me on his electric as he slow-trolled live bait for his customers. This convinced me it was time to wrap it up for the day and await better times.
Seychelles MotherShip and Yacht Hijacked!
MotherShip MV Indian Ocean Explorer is the second vessel hijacked the last few weeks in the Seychelles.
Regarding the first vessel-
Moving farther away from the naval patrols guarding the coast of Somalia, pirates today hijacked a yacht near the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, with two crew members on board. Via Reuters:
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates have hijacked a yacht from the Seychelles with two men on board, a maritime official said on Wednesday.The yacht left the Seychelles in February en route to Madagascar but disappeared soon after, Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program said.He named the two men on board as Gilbert Victor and Andre Conrad, both from the Seychelles."The ill-fated yacht is presently under tight security, anchored next to Garacad, Somalia," he said.
source:http://prayforthehostages.blogspot.com/2009/03/somali-pirates-hijack-yacht-in.html
If one takes a gander a the location of these lovely islands, Somalia is not really that far off.
There is a difference between adventure angling travel and the stuff of fools. My feeling is that travel to Mexico is not as safe as it was, though the Yucatan has less crime at this point.
Watch for angling travel trending towards more to the Bahamas as well as Cuba if the thaw continues.
And don't believe the old saw that drug traffic and crime is the same all over the Caribbean- it's not!
Mike Smith (239-573-3474) "Snook Bonanza" Images by Don Eichin..
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You're Invited! EDC's Annual Barbecue - Wednesday, October 21
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 20095:00 until 8:00 p.m.EDC Offices301 East Pine Street, Downtown Orlando"Rain or Shine"
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UCF Wins "Economic Gardening" award
UCF, led by Tom O'Neal and the Office of Research & Commercialization, has been awarded funding from the state of Florida to develop a pilot program for "Economic Gardening" in Florida. Specifically targeting second-stage businesses and entrepreneurs, this program has the potential to foster economic growth throughout the state.
The program will develop a diverse partnership of universities, businesses, and other economic growth partners (including the FPC) to assist second-stage entrepreneurs in expanding and growing their companies as a key component to the overall health and future economic growth of high-tech in Florida. In particular, the program will provide unique knowledge and other resources that are typically not available through traditional avenues, including the best and most proven practices to prepare and assist second-stage businesses to successfully expand and add new job opportunities to the citizens of Florida. For more information, contact Dr. Tom O'Neal: (407)882-1120, oneal@mail.ucf.edu.
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Lockheed Martin awarded FHTCC's Innovation Award
Congratulations to Lockheed Martin, whose Missiles & Fire Control division is an active FPC member, on receiving the Florida High Tech Corridor Council’s Award for Innovation as part of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission’s William C. Schwartz Industry Innovation Awards. As expressed by Randy Berridge, FHTCC President, "The Florida High Tech Corridor Council was proud to present its Third Annual Innovation Award to a truly innovative partner."
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LASERS’ ROLE IN GLOBAL ENERGY REVOLUTION
Carbon nanotubes, photovoltaics and the “hydrogen economy” — not exactly household concepts yet. But they are technologies at the forefront of the growing worldwide demand for “green” energy and manufacturing. And lasers are critical to this global revolution.
The Laser Institute of America (LIA), the trusted and respected advocate of cutting-edge applications of laser technology since 1968, will unveil the most up-to-the-minute developments in these and other fields when it gathers industry leaders from around the world at the 28th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO®).
When ICALEO® kicks off November 2, 2009 at the Hilton located in the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort, “green” applications of laser technology will be at the forefront of the conference, which ends November 5th. The plenary session “Frontiers and Challenges for the Green Economy” at 9 a.m. on November 2nd will “unveil to even the most casual observers the necessity, the inevitability, of applying laser technology to the manufacture of solar-energy cells and other environmentally friendly energy solutions,“ says LIA Executive Director Peter Baker. “Lasers more than ever will be vital to helping companies satisfy customer demands for efficient and sustainable energy, while producing consistently high-quality products in the automotive, medical, food and aerospace industries.”
Dr. John Turner, a Research Fellow from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., will give an overview of the future of energy in his keynote address “Frontiers, Opportunities and Challenges for a Hydrogen Economy.” Other topics will include:
* “Lasers — An Enabling Technology in the Photovoltaics Revolution” by Dave Clark, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing, Photovoltaics at Newport Corporation / Spectra-Physics, Mountainview, Calif.
* Progress in high-power diode lasers and industrial applications, as well as opportunities in the solar energy industry. Speaker TBD
* Laser processing of carbon materials, from high-speed diamond film deposition to carbon nanotubes as semiconductor devices, by Dr. Yongfeng Lu, Lott Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“The prospect of lasers in the green energy economy has never looked better,” notes Congress General Chair Xinbing Liu, Director, Panasonic Boston Laboratory, Newton, Mass., USA. “This is the time to turn vision into reality.”
ICALEO has been devoted to the field of laser materials processing for 27 years and is viewed as the premier source of technical information in the field. For more information and to register, please visit the LIA’s ICALEO Web site at http://www.laserinstitute.org/ICALEO.
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Press Release: Publishing of the Air Cargo Screening IFR
Today’s Publishing of the Air Cargo Screening IFR
Adds Considerable Significance to the First Air Cargo Security Summit
Orlando, Florida USA— The First Air Cargo Security Summit being co-hosted by the Global Trade and Commerce Association, Inc. (GTCA) and the Cargo Security Alliance (CSA) was given added significance by today’s publishing of the TSA’s long-awaited Interim Final Rule (IFR) to implement its Certified Cargo Screening Program (CCSP), as authorized by the 9/11 Act. The CCSP, a voluntary program, is the linchpin of TSA’s air cargo screening strategy, and is being deployed to establish full supply chain security of air cargo by August 2010.
The IFR addresses many of the questions that Shippers, Freight Forwarders, Indirect Air Carriers (IACs) and Air Carriers have about implementing this program, under which TSA will certify cargo screening facilities to screen cargo before it is tendered to aircraft operators for carriage on passenger aircraft.
TSA’s Marc Rossi, Branch Chief of the CCSP, and Doug Brittin, Air Cargo Manager, will be on hand at the First Air Cargo Security Summit to answer questions about the role the CCSP will play in overcoming the hurdles inherent in a 100 percent screening requirement. This provides an excellent opportunity to learn precisely what needs to be done to prepare for the August 2010 deadline and ensure compliance.
The Federal Register notice and text of the TSA interim final rule may be accessed here:
http://www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2009-21794_PI.pdf
About the First Air Cargo Security Summit
The Global Trade and Commerce Association, Inc. (GTCA) and the Cargo Security Alliance (CSA) are co-hosting the first Air Cargo Security Summit. The event will be held at the DoubleTree Resort Orlando, on International Drive on September 30 and October 1, 2009. Tim Giuliani, Director of Corporate Outreach and Development for the Florida Chamber of Commerce, will be the guest of honor and speaker at the first day’s luncheon. In addition, there will be a reception and equipment demonstration at the offices of LimitLess International, Inc. the evening of September 30, with presentations by several major screening equipment manufacturers, including GE, L-3 Communications, and Smiths’ Detection.
Presenting the summit is part of an effort to educate air shippers and others in the transportation industry on the importance and ramifications of a congressional law requiring the screening of all air cargo placed on passenger jets by August 2010. Non-compliance could result in delays in cargo movement. This possibility adds considerable importance to TSA’s educational efforts. In addition to TSA, USDA and Customs personnel, transportation experts and educators from the Cargo Security Alliance, major trade associations, legal experts, and representatives of US-based and foreign airlines will be there to conduct some of the educational programs.
More information about the Air Cargo Security Summit may be found at the Summit website: http://www.GTCAinc.com/index_events.php
About Limitless International, Inc.
With LimitLess, transportation is only the beginning. They have expertise in all aspects of International trade, logistics, supply chain management, government contract support, ITAR, export licenses, import and export regulatory compliance, brokerage, warehousing and distribution. They’re more than just freight forwarders; they’re the partner you’ve been looking for to make certain your products get to market on time. Visit their Website at www.limitlessintl.com or call 407.852.9225 today and find out why so many companies have come to rely on LimitLess as their link to the world.
About the Global Trade and Commerce Association, Inc.
The Global Trade and Commerce Association, Inc. was founded in May 2007, as a non-profit organization providing educational programs on global trade. GTCA’s primary purpose is to promote, serve and educate its members in all corridors of global trade. More information can be found at http://www.gtcainc.com or by email at info@gtcainc.com
About the Cargo Security Alliance, Inc.
The Cargo Security Alliance provides tools, techniques, technologies and thought leadership in logistics security to mitigate risk and optimize cargo flow across the global air, sea and land supply chains. The initial focus of the Cargo Security Alliance is to help shippers and the air cargo industry meet the U.S. Congressional mandate for 100% screening of cargo carried on passenger aircraft by August 2010. Our vision: “Secure the global supply chain; expedite the flow of commerce”. Agenda specific information can be reviewed on the CSA web site, www.securecargo.org, or by e-mailing questions to Walt Beadling, representing the CSA at wbeadling@securecargo.org.
Gary Slavin
LimitLess International, Inc.
E-mail: info@limitlessintl.com
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Innovative 3D Medical Imaging Technology Demonstration - Youare invited
If you are involved in healthcare and want to learn more about a cutting edge 3D imaging technology, please join mydea Technologies (a UCF Business Incubator client) and 3DMD for this demonstration.
The 3dMDvultus System features sophisticated imaging capabilities that non-invasively capture highly precise 3D surface images in approximately 1.5 milliseconds. The images can then be matched with 3D radiographs to generate composite 3D images to assess the patient condition, plan and simulate treatment and surgery, monitor progress and evaluate outcomes. A 3D image of the patient can be easily captured on every visit, enabling health care providers to monitor progress and modify treatment plans as needed. Securely synchronized by a powerful multi-user database system, 3dMDvultus tracks the patient's imaging history throughout the treatment cycle for all team members to access at any point in time.
Subject: 3DMD- 3D Visualization and Simulation Platform Seminar and Demonstration
Date: Monday, September 21st
Time: Presentation and demonstration 11:30- 12:30 p.m., personal scanning demonstrations to follow presentation
Location: University Tower Building, 12201 Research Parkway, 2nd Floor, Orlando, FL, 32826
RSVP to sales@mydeatechnologies.com and 407.737.1991 x100
Lunch will be provided; RSVP is required and space is limited to 30 participants
INVITATION: Sept 28 Florida Space and Technology Forum
…to join event co-chairs, Senator Mike Haridopolos and Representative Dean Cannon, event moderator Speaker John Thrasher, elected officials and community leaders from around the state to craft a public policy agenda for the Space industry at the…
Third Annual
Florida Space and Technology Forum
8:30 to 11:30 AM
Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida
Brevard Community College/Cocoa Campus
1679 Clearlake Road, Cocoa, FL 32922
With special presentations by:
Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas
Congressman Bill Posey
Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana
Legislative Panel:
Senator Thad Altman
Representatives Sandy Adams
Representative Steve Crisafulli
Representative Rich Glorioso
Representative Bryan Nelson
Representative Scott Plakon
Representative Ralph Poppell
Representative Steve Precourt
Representative John Tobia
Representative Ritch Workman
Randy Berridge, President, Florida High Tech Corridor Council
Barney Bishop, President and CEO, Associated Industries of Florida
Frank DiBello, President, Space Florida
Dr. Sam Durrance, Professor, Physics and Space Science, Florida Institute of Technology and NASA Astronaut, Payload Specialist 1984 – 1996
Marshall Heard, Space Advisor, Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast and Chairman, Florida Aviation Aerospace Alliance
Kevin Hoshstrasser, Florida Operations Site Director and Florida Space Shuttle Operations Program Manager, The Boeing Company
Adrian Laffitte, Director Florida Government Relations, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mark Nappi, Vice President of Launch and Recovery Systems and Florida Site Executive, United Space Alliance
Mark Wilson, President and CEO, Florida Chamber of Commerce
Presentations will focus on these key areas of emphasis:
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education,
Research and applied technology,
Workforce training and transition,
Business development and incentives,
Space infrastructure, and
State and federal partnership opportunities
… take this opportunity to help identify Space industry priorities for the 2010 legislative session. This program is free and open to the public. Registration opens at 8:15 a.m. and seating is limited. For additional information please call 321-637-5407 or email
leigh.holt@brevardcounty.us.
Solar and Green Building Forum
Solar technology, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and green buildings provide innovative opportunities for Central Florida. This forum will enable you to share information and learn about resources, opportunities and initiatives for green jobs and green businesses in our region. Together, we need to identify the resources required to support the growth of these initiatives. Please join us for this important discussion.
Lunch Keynote Speaker:
C.T. Hsu
C.T. Hsu & Associates, P.A.
THIS EVENT IS OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
Florida High Tech Corridor
Florida Solar Energy Center
Greater Orlando Aviation Authority
Metro Orlando EDCOrange County
Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce
Osceola County Economic Development Department
Valencia Enterprises
Workforce Central Florida
If you are unable to respond using the buttons below, please email your response to collegerelations@valenciacc.edu or call 407.582.3228.
Friday, October 30, 2009 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Valencia Community College
West Campus, Special Events Center, Building 8, 1800 South Kirkman Road, Orlando, FL 32811
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NSF SBIR/STTR Phase 1
NSF's Directorate for Engineering invites supplemental requests for Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) grantees to join an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). Visit http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503192
NSF's Directorate for Engineering supports the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I. The primary objective of the SBIR Program is to increase the incentive and opportunity for small firms to undertake cutting-edge, high risk, high quality scientific, engineering, or science and engineering education research that would have a high potential economic payoff if the research is successful. Visit http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09609/nsf09609.htm
Courtesy ERAU Grant Opportunities Update
SBIR Conference Planned in Orlando, Sep. 21-24
The 2009 SBIR "Beyond Phase II" Conference and Technology Showcase will be held at the Orlando Marriott World Center on Sep. 21-24. The event is designed to bring together key technology and acquisition personnel from government and industry to enable the transition of SBIR-funded research and development into products for government and private sector commercial markets. Click here for information and registration. (9/2)
Courtedy ERAU SPACErePORT
TechAmerica invitation: Thought Leadership Forum on DemandCreation Strategies
TechAmerica invitation: Thought Leadership Forum on Demand Creation Strategies
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
TechAmerica, in partnership with FRONTLINE Selling, cordially invites you to attend a high impact and interactive discussion centered on a Comprehensive and Repeatable Demand Creation Approach designed to help global organizations identify net-new sales opportunities in a consistent and measurable way.
The Forum introduces Sales and Marketing executives to a 21st Century top-of-the-funnel sales strategy designed to engage higher and sell larger deals. Highlights include the famous FRONTLINE Selling "Live Calling" component that demonstrates how to apply these contrarian techniques in a real-life real-time live setting.
You will walk away with strategies around:
Access - Time and attention of targeted key players
Execution - Engaging decision makers in a more strategic way
Visibility - Repeatable and Measurable Demand Creation Process
Result - Net-new Opportunity Identification
Registration details and Forum logistics are provided below. Let me know if you have any questions or need additional info. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you there!
Forum Details:
Time: Friday, October 23rd, 2009 - 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Disney Entrepreneur Center 315 E. Robinson Street, Suite 100 Orlando, FL 32801
1) Online, click here.
2) By phone, call Jennifer Gabriel @ 407.513.4703
*There is no charge to attend this event.
For more information, go to http://www.techamerica.org/frontlineforum
FRONTLINE Selling helps companies such as VMware, SAP, BEA and Research in Motion become more effective at creating demand by filling the gap between marketing suspects and identification of new sales opportunities. Our Comprehensive and Repeatable Demand Creation Process consists of a strategic Vision-LockTM Selling approach providing structure, metrics and a common language around your demand creation activities. To support Vision-Lock, we have developed and utilize our own tactical methodology (RAMP-UP) for execution. The result is a repeatable and measurable sales process transforming your sales people into highly leveraged communicators of your value offering.
www.frontlineselling.com
NOTE: The UCF Business Incubation Program has forwarded this information to you as a courtesy to one of our partner organizations. If you wish to register, please call and register through the information found below in this email.
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UCF City of Sanford Business Incubator Grand Opening
Join us in celebrating the Grand Opening of the UCF City of Sanford Business Incubator! If you have any questions or concerns please contact Rafael Caamano at407-278-4880 or by e-mail at rcaamano@mail.ucf.edu.
Harris Corporation Receives UCF Partnership Award
Harris Corporation received the University of Central Florida's Partnership Award at UCF's Colbourn Society Reception on Wednesday, Aug. 19. The Partnership Award is given to an organization that collaborates with the UCF community to further President John Hitt's goal of being America's leading partnership university.
Harris Corporation and its employees have supported the university's academic programs for three decades. The company pledged $3 million for one of the newest academic buildings at UCF -- The Harris Corporation Engineering Center -- in 2005.
Harris Corporation also has invested more than $3 million in a research program that provides students with valuable opportunities to work side-by-side with the company's top experts. "A champion of our faculty and students for three decades, Harris Corporation has helped to establish UCF's national reputation as a 'partnership university,'" Hitt said. "Our UCF community benefits every day from the enthusiastic support that Harris Corporation provides for our academic programs, our state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, and our research mission."
Headquartered in Melbourne and an active member of the Florida Photonics Cluster, the international communications and information technology company has approximately $5 billion in annual revenue and more than 15,000 employees, including many UCF alumni. The company also is a founding member of the Florida High Tech Corridor Council.
The H. Trevor Colbourn Society, named after UCF's second president, honors the university's most generous contributors in addition to the university's outstanding partners. The previous three winners of UCF's Partnership Award are Bright House Networks, the City of Orlando and Mayor Buddy Dyer, and the Walt Disney Co.
Northrop Helps Establish Photonics Academy
Northrop Grumman Corp., which operates its Laser Systems business unit in Apopka, Fla., has helped establish the new Wekiva High School Photonics Academy there by contributing $50,000 in cash and equipment, the company announced Monday. The academy, open to high school students in Apopka, was created in partnership with Orange County Public Schools and Valencia Community College. To participate, students must maintain a 2.5 grade point average and are required to enroll in Valencia Community College, where they will receive college credits for courses taken at the Photonics Academy in mathematics, science, communications, electronics, and optics.
“This is a great opportunity for the students at Wekiva High School and for us,” said Gordon Stewart, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman Laser Systems. “Once they graduate from this program, they will be well on their way to becoming laser technicians. And, since we have a continuing need for trained and certified laser technicians, we are very pleased to be a part of this innovative education and training process.”
Northrop Grumman Laser Systems makes ground-based military electro-optical (EO) targeting systems and is a Bronze Patron member of the Florida Photonics Cluster. The company donated $30,000 in lab equipment and $20,000 in cash to the academy.
UCF/CREOL, Fraunhofer Team for Lasers
University of Central Florida (UCF) President John C. Hitt signed a research agreement on August 24, 2009 with the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (Fraunhofer ILT), an leading industrial laser and laser applications laboratory located in Aachen, Germany. The agreement will explore areas of common interest in advanced high-power laser development and laser machining technologies and was instigated by Dr. Martin Richardson through the UCF Townes Laser Institute at the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL). CREOL, along with the Townes Laser Institute and Florida Photonics Center of Excellence, is a research unit within The College of Optics and Photonics at UCF.
Seminar Series: How to start a non- proffit
Capacity Building Seminar Series
Are you inspired to start a new non-profit organization?
Are you a new non-profit who have not obtained 501c3 tax exemption? Do you want to increase your chances of obtaining funding for a new or existing program? If you answered yes to any of the above, the Capacity Building Seminar Series is the right training for you. These seminars are for aspiring or new nonprofit executives, managers, administrators and leaders of start-up grassroots, non-profit faith and community-based organizations:
Seminar I: How to Start a Nonprofit Organization & Obtain 501(c) 3 Exemption
Seminar II: Board Development of New Nonprofits
Seminar III: Program Design & Planning
Seminar IV: Strategic Planning -
Seminar V: Introduction to Grant Writing
Seminars are $25 each. Register for 4 Seminars and the 5th is free.
Seminars will begin September 12th at the Disney Entrepreneurship Center, 315 W. Robinson St., Suite 100, Orlando, FL 32801. Register by mail or online at www.ocgrantconsulting.com. For more information contact Olivette Carter at 321-281-8346. Make checks payable to OC Grant Consulting Associates and mailed to 3218 E. Colonial Dr., Suite G, Orlando, FL, 32803
SEIA Solar Action Alert - September 1st, 2009
Solar Advocate,, email your senator today - tell them to support a stronger renewable electricity standard!
Urge your senators to support a strong renewable electricity standard!
Next week the Senate will return from recess and begin debating the American Clean Energy Leadership Act (S. 1462). This legislation contains a renewable electricity standard (RES) that would require 15% of U.S. electricity be generated from solar and other renewable resources by 2021. Unfortunately, this target falls short of the President's goal - he has called for 25% renewable electricity by 2025. A strong RES is one of SEIA's top policy priorities and is critical for the solar and other renewable energy industries.
Two senators - Tom Udall of New Mexico and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota - are planning amendments that would strengthen the RES. Senator Udall's amendment (S. 433) would match President Obama's goal of 25% renewable electricity by 2025. Senator Dorgan has not yet introduced his amendment, but has promised to do so shortly after recess. We need your help to ensure that the Senate passes a strong RES which deploys all forms of solar technology.
Please act today and urge your senators to co-sponsor Sen. Udall's amendment - S. 433 - and support other efforts to strengthen and pass the renewable electricity standard.
"Excellence in Entrepreneurship Certificate Course"
The UCF Business Incubation Program and UCF Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation announce the next offering of the
This dynamic, intense short course explores the realities of planning and starting a company and helps you learn how to successfully develop and launch a business.
Taught by experienced entrepreneurs, professional service providers and entrepreneurship faculty from the University of Central Florida, the course will help you clarify your business concept and walk you through the steps of planning and starting a business. The course will introduce you to resources and advisors that provide invaluable support in laying the foundation for a successful company. Below are comments from some of the participants in our last class:
"This course has been extremely helpful and beneficial. I really appreciate how 'the good, the bad and the ugly' were presented and the wealth of resources in Central Florida I learned about."
"We've had an amazing restructuring due to what we learned in class and are experiencing an increase in business."
"The class really helped to crystallize what I was doing, how to do it better and who I am doing it for. Thanks!"
"I'm better prepared to build a quality team and I'm excited about the marketing ideas I learned. The course is an outstanding value!"
The course begins Tuesday, October 6, 2009 and concludes Thursday, October 29, 2009. Classes will be held from 6-9pm at theUCF Office of Technology Transfer facility located at12201 Research Parkway Suite 201, Orlando, FL 32826.
The course fee is $400 for the first participant from a company and $200 for each additional participant from the same company. A registration form for the class is attached. Please complete and return it to the UCF Office of Research & Commercialization no later than October 1, 2009. We strongly suggest that all individuals involved in management of the company participate together in the course.
If you have applied to or expressed interest in being considered for acceptance to the Business Incubation Program, this course is a required element of the application process.
Session 1 – Developing Successful Business Ideas Is your business concept an idea or truly an opportunity? Learn how to tell the difference. Learn how to analyze the opportunity to develop an effective business model.
Session 2 – Building a Strong Business Team The product or service you will offer is important. Even more important is the team you build - management, employees, Board, investors, service providers. Learn how to build the best team possible to drive the success of your new venture.
Session 3 – Proper Legal and Ethical Foundations Many decisions are involved in establishing a new venture. Learn what the legal options are. Explore how to establish high standards of business ethics.
Session 4 – Marketing Strategies and Effective Sales No matter how beneficial your product or service is, if you don’t know who the customer is and tell the message in an effective way to get their attention, you won’t have sales.
Session 5 – Funding and Financing
You’ve analyzed the opportunity and begun to build a team to drive success. You’ve written a great business plan. How do you secure the financial resources to make it all happen?
Session 6 – Entrepreneurial Insights
A panel of experienced entrepreneurs will share their insights "from the trenches". What have they learned? What would they do differently? What is their advice to you?
Session 7 – Business Presentations
You will have the opportunity to make a presentation to a group of experienced entrepreneurs and get feedback about your business, market and financial opportunities.
ENROLLMENT FOR EACH COURSE IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 20 REGISTRATIONS.
Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures: Legal and Financial Considerations
UCFTI Lunch & Learn sponsored by Cross, Fernandez and Riley, LLP present:
Time: 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Location: University Tower
12201 Research Parkway, 2nd Floor, Orlando, FL., 32826
Fee: $20 (Free to Incubator Clients) Lunch will be provided
Please RSVP to Renee Ayala at 407-882-0202
or via email rayala@mail.ucf.edu
No matter what stage of life a company is in, a strategic alliance may be the solution to developing and commercializing a product or service whether it is a drug candidate, software, computer hardware or a motion picture. There are many reasons why a company may do a strategic alliance - which is different from a joint venture - from both a legal and accounting perspective. Strategic partnerships can provide funding, technology development support, marketing and distribution and customer service infrastructure, credibility and much more.
Determining the role each company plays in a strategic alliance is an important
consideration. Knowing how to analyze a potential partnership is critical. Understanding the risks is essential. Join us for this informative session with Cross, Fernandez Riley and Baker & Hostetler providing key insights on the financial and legal aspects of forming a strategic partnership to grow your business.
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In the world of WWE, it can be easy to take for granted just how good the stars are. When the flash and glamour of the brand wears off, we can begin to see that WWE is the biggest company in the world of wrestling for a reason. That reason is the athletic and charismatic men, women, and teams who make up the rosters of the sport. So at this half way point of 2017, it’s time we look at the top stars of Smackdown LIVE, RAW, and NXT to see who stands at the top of WWE.
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1. What was the most critical crossroad in your professional life?
I came to poetry first as a reader (D H Lawrence / Sylvia Plath / T S Eliot / Alexander Pope) but only later in my thirties did I turn with any degree of seriousness to writing. I attended a couple of week-long Arvon Foundation courses at Ted Hughes’s old house at Lumb Bank in Yorkshire (with Michael Longley & Paul Muldoon, then Helen Dunmore & Tony Curtis). But I went through an artistically barren patch in my life that coincided with a lengthy and unsuccessful attempt to gain access to a certain kind of promotion in teaching (which I am now very pleased was unsuccessful). But it was time-consuming and left me drained. I stopped writing, I stopped playing jazz (saxophone & flute). And I lost contact with friends, until one of these friends (who has always been my first reader) wrote me a letter I shall never forget. He began by quoting half a dozen lines from poems (all mine) and said ‘I knew someone who wrote these. What happened to him?’ It woke me up. I started writing (and playing) again and suddenly magazines started to accept my work. My first collection of poems, a prize-winning pamphlet called What Certainty Is Like, was published by Smith/Doorstop in 1998, by which time I was 51. I switched to Shoestring Press, which has published a chapbook and two full collections of mine. So, the most critical crossroad was the letter I received from a friend; but I must say that the encouragement I received from Helen Dunmore and Herbert Lomas, two excellent English poets, was also very important.
2. What do you see at this moment as the heart of invention in poetry?
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘the heart of invention’. The essential ingredient(s) of poetry? Sound and sense, probably in that order. Form and content. Line-breaks. The kinds of thing that exercise all poets. Rhyme, I think, is not one of these essential ingredients. I agree that there is ‘no new thing under the sun’ (Ecclesiastes), so it isn’t so much what is said as how it is said. I also agree with Mallarmé & Eliot & Geoffrey Hill that it is the poet’s task ‘to purify the dialect of the tribe’. To claim this is not to be pompous but to say that in an age when language is so regularly and routinely abused in business, in advertising, in religion, in politics, we need to be reminded of the honourable propensity of words to mean. The language of everyday life is necessarily less precise because life is to be lived (not scrutinized at every turn) but public utterance is too often the language of obfuscation. It is out to get us. I recognize the world in poetry. I tend not to recognize it in newspapers. The world is not a story. The poet, I believe (though this is not, I think, a fashionable view) is also charged with, as it were, speaking for those who have no voice. This involves getting things right and trying to muscle words into shape, but it is not a matter of simplifying anything, and it does not involve writing for some imagined less intelligent audience. Poetry does not have a spelling-age. The writer writes, but there are those who can’t. Nor can some of them read.
3. What thematic similarities do you see stated and restated in poetry?
I feel a little disenchanted with the poetry world in England at the moment. It is too much of a club. The Poetry Society markets poetry as if it were a brand of washing powder, and a small but highly influential band of critics (Sean O’Brien, Don Paterson, Robin Robertson, Fiona Sampson) tend to dictate (from on high) what the contemporary poet ought to be concerned with. This has led to a poetry which is technically accomplished but rather sterile. The poet is not in his or her poems. I could say more about this. It is all too neat and tidy. I believe with my good friend, John Hartley Williams, one of the UK’s finest poets, that we should, at least sometimes, be found ‘hanging out with the lunatics’. The current regime, like all regimes, is far too prescriptive, and far too powerful. A poet’s contribution to public life is to resist. I feel very fortunate to be published by John Lucas (who is Shoestring Press). there is no one who knows more about English poetry, and no one less prescriptive. Just look at the range of poets he publishes. He is inclusive.
4. What of the safety and stability of digitally encoded text, as compared to the permanence of ink in the old fashioned book?
I have very good handwriting (which in itself means little) so I still like the physical business of writing. I love good fountain pens! Yet I have long since for much the most part ‘composed’ on the screen, working at my computer. This way one immediately sees what a poem looks like on the page, and I find this very helpful. But I keep a hard copy of everything (I print everything I write) because I do not much like reading straight from the screen. I like paper and magazines and books. Probably because I’m getting old! (And please don’t lecture me about the environment; the ink from fountain pens bleeds through recycled paper.)
I’m not sure about ‘safety’. Plagiarism is a growing problem, not only among students, and universities are having to divert dwindling funds to expensive computer programs to combat the illicit practice. People steal things. But Eliot said something to the effect that ordinary poets borrow, mature poets steal. So, in a sense, stealing from other writers is nothing new! It’s what you do with what’s stolen …
It’s difficult to see what’s ahead. These are still early days in the digital age. It’s easy to see everything becoming ephemeral. Whatever happens, I think books will be around for a very long time. The internet makes self-publishing easy, but more does not necessarily mean better. It is already clear, for example, that the internet is not such a potent force for democracy as first seemed likely. It certainly does mean there is a lot more rubbish around. But there are sapphires in the mud, too.
5. Who are your favourite authors – poets, writers. Why?
So many! Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Keats, Browning. In the twentieth century, Edward Thomas, T.S.Eliot, W.H.Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, Brian Jones (not the Rolling Stone!), Derek Mahon, John Hartley Williams. Among novelists, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, J.M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson. Among dramatists: Tom Stoppard, whose work I love.
Why I like them involves a longer response than is possible here. The novelists I like for their sentences. It is what makes translation so immensely difficult. The poets I like for a variety of reasons, often to do with the felicity of their language. I love the virtuosity of Auden & John Hartley Williams, and the sinuous humanity in Edward Thomas and Brian Jones, Bishop’s wonderful economy and unshowiness; the way Larkin shapes depression into the pleasure of art. Stoppard, I think, is simply the most quotable writer alive. I could go on for ever …
6.Which of your poems like you most and why?
I take it you mean my own poems? It changes. Perhaps the following:
‘Fishing Rights’ & ‘The Noise’
(from What Certainty Is Like & The Road To Murreigh);
‘Story’ & ‘The Bicycle Garden’ (from What Moves Moves);
‘Grouch’ & ‘First Flight’ (from Forgetting To Come In);
‘Clarke’s Windows’ (from The Road To Murreigh).
7.How important is for you to see your poems translated into Romanian, taking into consideration that some of them have been translated by Romanian students(MTTLC).How do you feel ?
I have not seen any of my poems in translation yet, but it is very pleasing that they might appear in another language. It is an exciting prospect, especially if it led to a visit to Bucharest! Because I have no Romanian, I would not be able to judge the quality of the translation, of course – but others would.
8.What are you currently working?
I am completing a PhD thesis on the work of the English poet Brian Jones (1938-2009) whose obituary I wrote for The Guardian newspaper. I have a long essay on Jones in a forthcoming issue of P N Review. I am editing a Brian Jones New & Selected Poems, which will be published by Shoestring Press in 2012. I have been asked to edit a collection of John Hartley Williams’s essays and prose. I am continuing to write poems and I’m beginning to consider putting together another collection.
Paul McLoughlin
SHILLING LIFE
Paul McLoughlin was born in London of Irish parents. He continues to teach part-time in a comprehensive school and at university, and plays jazz saxophones and flute; he has his own Quintet, and has provided the music at many poetry events, for example at The Troubadour in Earl’s Court and The Poetry Café in Covent Garden, at which venues, amongst many others, he has also read his work. He is engaged in a part-time doctoral thesis on the poetry of Brian Jones at Royal Holloway University of London, where he has also been a visiting lecturer. A critical book on Jones’s poetry is also forthcoming He is editing and providing an introduction for a New & Selected Poems by Brian Jones to be published by Shoestring Press in 2012.
What Certainty Is Like (1998) was published by Smith/Doorstop, and What Moves Moves (2004), Forgetting To Come In (2007), and The Road To Murreigh (2010), all by Shoestring Press. The Road To Murreigh also includes line drawings by the poet. He has written articles, interviews and/or reviews for PN Review, Tears in the Fence, Critical Survey, Hard Times (Germany), Poetry Ireland Review, Agenda and The Guardian.
Poems have appeared in Anon, Atlas, Critical Survey, Cyphers (Ireland), Envoi, The Frogmore Papers*, Hard Times (Germany), The Interpreter’s House*, Magma*, Navis, Nightingale, Orbis, Other Poetry, Penniless Press, Poetry Life, PN Review, Poetry Nottingham International, The Rialto, Seam, Smiths Knoll*, Southword (Ireland), Tears in the Fence and Wandering Dog. Those asterisked may be viewed at the Poetry Library on the South Bank website . The Southword poems may be found at www.munsterlit.ie. Poems have also appeared in Singing Brink: An Anthology of Poems from Lumb Bank (Arvon Press, 1987); Paging Doctor Jazz: A verse Anthology (Shoestring Press, 2004); Warp & Weft: An Anthology of Worple Writing (Worple Press, 2007); Ten Poems About Bicycles (Edited by Jenny Swann, Candlestick Press, 2009) and Kicks Against The Pricks (Eyelet Books, 2010). His translation of ‘The Death of Edgar’ appears in the Norton Anthology of Anglo Saxon Poems in Modern English Translation (edited by Greg Delanty & Michael Matto).
See also: http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/paulmcloughlinpage.html www.paulmcloughlin.co.uk & www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“Paul McLoughlin’s poetry has a rare clarity and exactitude. He writes about private history and its collision with the world of news; of a past which is alive in the present. His voice is poised, and his delight in language shines through the poems.”
Helen Dunmore
“McLoughlin means what he says, knows what to leave out as well as what to put in, and makes his level-headed bewilderment resound like discovery.”
Herbert Lomas, Ambit
“He is unflashy and scrupulous and has a nice gentle wit.”
Michael Laskey
“Paul McLoughlin exhibits an Irish exuberance for the absurd and the askew, illuminated by his unique and delightfully understated tone.”
Anne-Marie Fyfe
“McLoughlin combines a knack for spot-on observation with a willingness to let his imagination wander (sometimes down very strange avenues) and a determination to let readers make their own judgements.”
Matt Merrit, Sphinx
“A sensitive and unsentimental imaginative reckoning of ‘felt life’, understatement and a droll self-effacement are hallmarks of this excellent chap book.”
Peter Carpenter, Tears in the Fence
“The final lines of ‘Whatever Mick Wants’ not only nicely characterise the casual-seeming skills of many of the finest jazz musicians, but touch what McLoughlin’s art does: ‘Your tenor sax speaks jazz with the same / lazy filling out of space / you lead everyone to think you’ll leave unfilled.’ These poems achieve their delicately judged effects with similarly unforced-seeming skill.”
Hugh Underhill, Critical Survey
HAVING THE GIFT
It’s a long way to Hollyhead by night,
then to arrive as close to America as Ireland gets,
to see the very picture I’d imagined in the train’s
dark window: a whitewashed cottage with its whitewashed
garden wall. There was a gate you had to drag
off the ground, and a forge I’d stand outside
at one end of a path that petered out to grass—
and nettles I’d fall in though I’d been forever warned.
If the cottage came while I was travelling backwards
all those years ago through Wales, I couldn’t see
the peat fields the men set off for every morning
with the horse and cart. Once they did say yes, laughing,
only to put me down in the lane. They wouldn’t be
keeping a constant eye on me, for fear I’d disappear.
The cannon trained
on the river’s thoroughfare’s
a joke cigar, its recoil
risking losses greater in
than out. I like to
make it fun by showing
the bed she slept in
sitting up (to keep her hair
in place) - the canopy
not for decoration
but for falling lice.
They used to crap here
through this hole,
fertilizing the garden below
where someone toiled
beyond the need for cures.
Climb the riders’ staircase,
hire the dining hall,
see the pig’s head choker
that weighed a grown
man down. Did you know
there once was an Iron-
Ox that roasted you alive?
That simple chain-mail
shirt you just ignored
cost twenty horses,
took years to make.
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Suggested Books On Our Hobby
Marco Gilardetti
Post subject: Re: Suggested Books On Our Hobby
F. Depero, "Grammofono", 1923.
That would be an interesting reading and hopingly sooner or later someone will take time to scan and prepare a .pdf out of the tome, as I think it's nearly impossible to find a copy and I can very hardly figure any publisher printing an anastatic copy of it in the future.
I wonder how horn-loading transducers are treated. Most of the theories concerning horn-loading and impedance adaptation were heavily revised in the 50s-60s, and even though their phisics are well understood and have been consistently mathematicized, still horn-loaded loudspeaker builders come out everyday with very well sounding projects that outstand the standard theory, and which clearly show that it can't account for many phenomena that are still not included in it and are not well understood.
Stomp off, let´s go !
From time to time I thought about the idea to make a pdf out of the book. But... The author Percy Wilson died in 1977. So, according to european laws, his work is under copyright till 2048... More worse, in 1983 a little publishing house in London made a reprint (that is even harder to get than the original from 1929). So this publishing house owns the publishing rights till 2054....
Visit http://grammophon-platten.de
If you have time to scan it, I think you should simply have it circulating among a ring of experts, like here or elsewhere. It will probably rapidly leak to one of the many repositories on the internet and finally be available to all.
The entire RCA Radiotron book has been scanned and uploaded many years ago, and absolutely nothing happened. Nobody will ever call his attorneys to do anything against an unknown man that made no profit out of a scanned book that the publisher had absolutely no intention to reprint as nobody would ever buy it.
edisonphonoworks
A new blank with authentic formula and spiral core!
Location: 615 1/2 South Main Street Princeton IL 61356.
The book Mineral Waxes by R. Gregorius. My copy came from Library RCA Laboratories Radio Corporation of America Princeton, N.J.. However for those interested in cylinder records.(I know you guys are into the machines, NOT the cylinders. ) Or the idea of making your own cylinders. Published in London by Scott, Greenwood and Son. "The Oil and Colour Trades Journal" offices 8 Broadway, Ludgate Hill, e.c. 1908. It is a scholarly scientific study of Ceresin, Ozokerite, Paraffin, Montan wax.
Oils, Fats and Waxes. By P. J. Fryer and F. E. Weston. Vol. II., Practical and Analytical. Pp. 314. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1918.) A scholarly study of stearic, oleo, oils and waxes for lubricants, as well as a cylinder record formula.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 5:25 pm
If you are interested in the book - PM me...
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I would like to recommend "The Music Goes Round" by Fred Gaisberg as an essential read for the serious student of phonographic history. This book was quoted extensively in other early histories, such as "From Tinfoil to Stereo" and "The Fabulous Phonograph". I correctly guessed from those extracts that there was much more to learn if I could find a complete copy of the book. Far from dry, it is a very entertaining and informative book that I believe others would enjoy as much as I have.
"The Music Goes Round" by Fred Gaisberg, published in 1942, was an autobiography of his work as a pioneer recording engineer and talent spotter for The Gramophone Company (later ‘His Master’s Voice’). His book covers the early history of the Columbia, Berliner and the Gramophone companies, the technicalities of early recording and the humorous and emotional demands of dealing with divas. He travelled extensively and he wrote of the recording sessions in Europe and throughout Asia, and of his funny reactions to foreign music and culture.
More about Fred Gaisberg can be read at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gaisberg
There is an 1893 Columbia brown wax cylinder shown on YouTube where "Professor Gaisberg" announces the title and his piano accompaniment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHElBpc4c5k
Original copies of the book are hard to come by. I casually waited to find an original (and affordable!) edition of this book for many years, but nothing happened. After scouring eBay daily for over a year, I finally bought one.
This morning I searched the Interet with my smartphone to locate an online copy of the book and found one at: https://archive.org/details/musicgoesround011057mbp and read through a few pages. Later today when I returned there to copy a link from that website for this review, I could no longer download the text and .PDF files as I had before. The page with currently dead links on archive.org is still there. Just weird. What's up with that, archive.org? Anyway, at least I have transferred those digital copies to my hard drive. (wink, wink)
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Victor Monarch Special
Stop for a visit when in Oregon.
Location: Albany, Oregon
Time to revisit this thread. Jerry
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Blue_Fever
Interests:Playing Football
Team:Chelsea F.C.
Never happy
Azpilllcueta
Schrulle
middxguy
Jedini
Location:Chicago (from Smederevo, SERBIA)
Interests:Football, Music, Betting, Cooking, Design
Bridgejunky
The predictions deadline for round forty-SIX of the challenge has now passed so no more new, or amended, entries can be accepted. Sorry.
Check back later for results and updated tables.
Read Jose's Mind Challenge Champions' League Group Match 5
There were ten members who did not post an updated prediction for this game. By rule, their scores will be based on the most recent predicted line-up they each submitted. Remember however that such predictions, copied from a previous entry, only count for the RJMC Cup and will not score points in the main challenge. The predictions are: -
Predicted Team: Cech, Azpilicueta, Luiz, Terry, Cole, Ramires, Mikel, Willian, Oscar, Hazard & Eto'o
Predicted Team: Cech, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Ramires, Oscar, Mata, Schurrle & Torres
Siven
Predicted Team: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Essien, Lampard, Matic, Willian, Oscar, Hazard & Eto'o
King José
Predicted Team: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Mikel, Lampard, Willian, Hazard, Schurrle & Eto'o
Blue_In_Every_Way
Predicted Team: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Lampard, Willian, De Bruyne, Schurrle & Eto'o
stokerino
Predicted Team: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Ramires, Lampard, Willian, Hazard, Schurrle & Ba
Zoowraa
Predicted Team: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Luiz, Cole, Ramires, Lampard, Hazard, Oscar, Willian & Eto'o
Predicted Team: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Matic, Luiz, Lampard, Schurrle, Willian & Torres
Sea foot
Predicted Team: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Matic, Luiz, Willian, Oscar, Hazard & Eto'o
Super Didier
Predicted Team: Cech, Azpilicueta, Terry, Cahill, Cole, Ramires, Van Ginkel, Mata, Hazard, Oscar & Lukaku
Good luck to all thirty-two members involved in today's cup ties.
Results Table for Round 46 (Crystal Palace on Saturday 29th March)
Pos Name Hits Top Pts.____________________________________________1st Scooba* 10 2 22 2nd= A Blue Essien 10 20 2nd= akshayathreya 10 20 2nd= Bob Singleton 10 20 2nd= Bristol Blue 10 20 2nd= Gaurav_blue 10 20 2nd= Grimsby Blue 10 20 2nd= Jedini 10 20 2nd= middxguy 10 20 2nd= NorwayBlue 10 20 2nd= Original 21 10 20 2nd= Sciatika 10 20 2nd= SZB LOVES CHELSEA 10 20 2nd= The Psycho Pianist 10 20 2nd= WHYSOSLOWYEH 10 20 16th= 3Sphinx 9 18 16th= aussieblue53 9 18 16th= Blue_Fever 9 18 16th= bromleyblue 9 18 16th= Hazardous 9 18 16th= Inferno 9 18 16th= Richard Redmond 9 18 16th= Sleeping Dave 9 18 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Hits = correct predictions.Top = number of bonus points awarded for achieving the top score. *Scooba earned top place by posting the earliest of the 15 entries tied with 10 hits.
Leaderboard After Round 46 (Crystal Palace on Saturday 29th March)
Pos Name Entries Hits AR 11/11 Top Pts._____________________________________________________________________1st Sleeping Dave 46 424 83.8 6 9 952 2nd aussieblue53 46 414 81.8 3 2 918 3rd Bristol Blue 44 399 82.4 5 1 896 4th Richard Redmond 46 396 78.3 1 6 888 5th A Blue Essien 43 393 83.1 5 2 880 6th Scooba 42 377 81.6 5 6 859 7th SZB LOVES CHELSEA 43 376 79.5 3 2 844 8th Sea foot 41 355 78.7 3 1 795 9th Sciatika 42 352 76.2 3 1 771 10th Jedini 41 345 76.5 0 0 763 11th 3Sphinx 34 318 85.0 6 2 708 12th Zoowraa 35 293 76.1 3 4 670 13th The Psycho Pianist 30 275 83.3 2 1 596 14th Gaurav_blue 30 271 82.1 2 1 571 15th NorwayBlue 28 243 78.9 2 1 535 16th middxguy 28 238 77.3 3 0 528 17th bluecueball 19 158 75.6 0 1 372 18th Blue_Fever 18 157 79.3 1 0 323 19th Bob Singleton 15 136 82.4 0 0 272 20th akshayathreya 12 111 84.1 1 1 226 21st Hazardous 11 97 80.2 1 0 196 22nd Inferno 10 94 85.5 1 0 195 23rd Zwicky 11 91 75.2 0 0 194 24th Original 21 10 92 83.6 0 0 189 25th King José 11 87 71.9 0 0 174 26th Ham 8 74 84.1 1 0 170 27th Blue_In_Every_Way 10 84 76.4 0 0 168 28th Michael Tucker 9 77 77.8 0 0 154 29th Box of Tricks 9 72 72.7 0 0 150 30th Grimsby Blue 8 73 83.0 0 0 146 31st Vinod 6 54 81.8 0 0 124 32nd Johnny Bee 3 29 87.9 1 0 100 33rd WHYSOSLOWYEH 5 46 83.6 1 0 94 34th DLU 5 40 72.7 0 0 87 35th BlueMissimo 5 39 70.9 0 1 80 36th Andy Ford 3 28 84.8 0 0 76 37th GURJ SS 3 29 87.9 0 1 71 38th stokerino 3 25 75.8 0 0 70 39th bromleyblue 3 29 87.9 0 0 58 40th thevelourfog 3 26 78.8 0 1 54 41st Super Didier 3 23 69.7 0 0 46 42nd OfWolfAndBiggs 1 10 90.9 0 0 40 43rd Arkie 2 17 77.3 0 0 34 44th= Siven 2 16 72.7 0 0 32 44th= venom2011 2 16 72.7 0 0 32 46th= Droy was my hero 2 15 68.2 0 0 30 46th= Kieron Ryan 2 15 68.2 0 0 30 48th eidurgudjohnsen 1 7 63.6 0 0 28 49th blue_out_west 1 6 54.5 0 0 24 50th= Collaterlie Sisters 1 10 90.9 0 0 20 50th= Nick89 1 9 81.8 0 1 20 50th= supremeblues 1 9 81.8 0 1 20 53rd= cii99mn1 1 9 81.8 0 0 18 53rd= synavm 1 9 81.8 0 0 18 55th= gavhc 1 8 72.7 0 0 16 55th= Theafonis 1 8 72.7 0 0 16 57th kdouglas1987 1 5 45.5 0 0 15 58th= simsaw 1 7 63.6 0 0 14 58th= Teddy Bruckshut 1 7 63.6 0 0 14 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Hits = correct predictions.AR (Accuracy Rating) = Percentage of predictions which have proved accurate.11/11 = Number of times entire team predicted correctly.Top = Number of times highest score achieved.
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Umbra Mortis, the Shadow of Death
Thread: Umbra Mortis, the Shadow of Death
XDHunterNest
“It is only through the shadows that one comes to know the light.”
Tenebris
Spoiler for Darkness:
Tenebris is an ancient sword which contains an ancient spirit of darkness. Its dark, serrated blade is made of meteorite. Small, orb-like essences of shadows hover around it. It has a long, iron cross-shaped hilt with a black gemstone engraved in the center. It has a rounded pommel made of iron as well. Though heavy for other beings, Umbra and his blade seem to move as one, as if Tenebris was part of his body. When it is summoned, shadow-like roots extend from its hilt and wrap around the wielder’s arms.
Ignis Fatuus
Spoiler for Will-O'-The-Wisp:
The shadow essences hovering around Tenebris all gather together and cloak Umbra, turning him into a shadow orb which can morph into any form of shadow. At this state, Umbra cannot take any damage from swords, bullets, and the like. Fire and electricity are the only things that can hurt him at this state. Everything just passes through him. He becomes faster than the average man. This form, though, takes a huge toll on Umbra’s body. It can only be used for a total of thirty seconds per battle. He also can’t inflict any damage while in this form. He can, and likes to, switch in and out of this form, using it in short bursts to reposition himself before turning back into human form.
Aevitas
Spoiler for Immortality:
As long as Umbra wields Tenebris, he cannot be killed. If Tenebris isn’t summoned or if Umbra isn’t wielding it, he would then be mortal. Wounds still hurt him despite being immortal.
Iter per Scissio
Spoiler for Journey through the Rift:
With a slice of his blade, Umbra can create rifts which allow him to travel anywhere he likes. He can either use this to quickly teleport somewhere or he can imprison other beings in his shadow dimension. Take note that this is an ability that Umbra DOES NOT use in combat. I do see scenarios where Umbra could forcefully transport someone into his shadow dimension and they fight there, but he does not actually use this skill during the battle itself.
Tenebris is the source of a lot of Umbra’s powers. Knocking it away from Umbra would ensure his loss. That is a problem, though, seeing as the sword’s tendrils bind it to Umbra’s arm. One could cut off the Shadow of Death’s arm in order to disarm him. (+1 for the pun? No? Okay then.)
Although granting Umbra with enhanced mobility, it does take a toll on Umbra’s body. Umbra slowly gets weakened every time he uses this form. After three minutes is up, his body gives in and he falls unconscious. He normally saves the final seconds of this form to retreat from battle. He can also be forced out of this form by fire, lightning, electricity, and other such elements.
Umbra can’t be killed when wielding Tenebris, but he can still be wounded and injured. You could cut off his limbs to impede his movement and incapacitate him, but he won’t die because of those wounds. Aside from that, he still feels pain. After countless slices and cuts to his body, he would still be weakened, much like a regular human.
Umbra Mortis
Spoiler for The Shadow of Death:
Being somewhat of a shadow elemental, Umbra is weak to anything that creates light. That doesn’t mean he’s weak to ambient light, though. This just means that he is weak to fire, electricity, lightning, and any other elements such as those.
Spoiler for Persona:
Umbra is calm both during and out of battle. He very rarely panics and always makes careful, calculated decisions. He is also quiet, reserved, keeps to himself, and shy. Very rarely does he speak unless he has to, and he absolutely hates starting conversations. He is brave, but will not think twice to retreat if it is needed. He believes not every life needs to be taken, but that violence is a necessary evil for this world.
Spoiler for Physical Appearance:
Although thousands of years old, the Shadow of Death looks like he is still in his twenties. Umbra is a white-skinned individual who is fairly muscled. He has spiky black hair and a horizontal, slightly curved scar on his forehead. His left eye is gray while his right eye is a dark shade of blue. His right arm has patches of black, hardened skin with blue runes engraved in a straight line, running from his shoulder to his hand and horizontally on his wrists.
Spoiler for In Combat:
In battle, Umbra wears a dark Pteruges – the skirt worn by Roman soldiers in order to protect their upper legs. It is made of strong, hardened leather mixed with strips of meteorite. He wears no clothing to protect neither his torso nor his head, believing that helmets and chestplates would slow him down. The only type of protection he has are the dark, meteorite shoulderplates he wears on both shoulders, tied to his body with leather straps which make an X as a result of them crossing. He also wears leather sandals on both of his feet.
Spoiler for Out of Combat:
Outside of battle, Umbra manipulates the shadow essences in order to make a black hoodie and jeans. He almost always has his hood up, covering his head and making it hard for anyone to see his face. Aside from that, he always covers up his corrupted right arm. He never allows anyone or anything to see the signs of corruption on his right arm. He keeps his sword in a sheath he carries on his back. Using shadow magic, he conjures up an illusion which makes the sheath seem like a backpack to normal people.
Spoiler for Historia:
Umbra wasn’t always a creature of the shadows. Umbra wasn’t even his name. In truth, he was once a Roman legionary fighting against the Greek city states during Rome’s early years. Because of his excellence in combat, he was well-respected by his allies and superiors. One day, though, they were faced with an enemy that outnumbered them five-to-one. Hopelessness and despair filled the legionnaire’s hearts as a vast array of Spartan, Athenian, and other Greek soldiers stood across them. All seemed lost when these Greeks charged, spears angling forward.
Suddenly, a dark aura began to emit from the ground itself. Before the Romans could react to this seemingly random phenomenon, they were filled with bloodlust and bravery. Even Umbra himself could feel the power this aura brought coursing through his veins. With loud war cries, they charged towards their Greek counterparts.
The two groups crashed together like waves on the shore. Fueled by his bloodlust, Umbra cleaved through the Greek army with his gladius. There was no other thought in his mind than slaughtering his enemies. Tens of soldiers fell as Umbra and the other Roman legionaries advanced. There was no stopping them. It was an absolute bloodbath, despite the numbers.
As the last Greek fell, the legion’s bloodlust was still not sated. Onward, they marched to the nearest Greek village. It was as if they had become beasts in human skin. The entire village was looted and burnt to the ground. Men, women, and children were put to the sword after the soldiers had committed unspeakable acts of savagery upon them. The villagers had to endure great pain before the legionaries would finally end their suffering. Umbra was no different. He himself ventured off after the village was desecrated in order to find more victims.
While he was wandering around, the effects of the aura still present in him, he started to long for more power. That was when he saw a caravan journeying along the dirt path. Without a second thought, he ran towards the twenty-four guards which flanked the three wagons. They descended upon him like crows on a carcass, surrounding him as he neared the caravan. Umbra fought back, slaying the guards one by one. The wagon drivers soon followed their guards to the afterlife.
A dark aura seemed to flow out through the cloth covering the middle wagon. “Strange,” Umbra remarked. He approached the wagon and lifted the cloth, revealing the source of this aura. It was a sword with a dark serrated blade and iron cross-shaped hilt. Orbs of shadows orbited around this weapon. A voice spoke to Umbra. “Tenebrissssssssss,” the voice said inside his mind, “Snatch it and unlimited power will be yourssss.” Umbra, completely mesmerized, grabbed the sword by the hilt with his right hand.
Immediately, Umbra fell to his knees as dark tendrils extended from the sword’s hilt. He felt his life slowly get sucked out of him. Patches of the skin on his right arm slowly began to harden and turn black. A line of runes slowly wrote itself onto his wrists and horizontally from his shoulder until his hand.
Umbra resisted with all his might, turning his earlier bloodlust into power. His whole body strained to combat the corruption that was taking place. His mind was a battlefield – the ancient spirit inside of Tenebris battling with Umbra’s own mind. The legionary fought with all that he had so he wouldn’t be consumed by this weapon.
Tenebris had long awaited the perfect host to wreak havoc upon the world, but Umbra would not submit. Tenebris himself was forced to bend to Umbra’s will, the corruption stopping at Umbra’s right arm. The legionary regained control of himself before he passed out from exhaustion.
After years of using his blade, Umbra had mastered Tenebris – both the weapon and the spirit it held. Umbra did unspeakable things of horror as he wreaked havoc upon his enemies. He used his powers in serving the Roman Empire, quickly rising through the ranks of its legion.
Slowly, Umbra was returning to his old self. The bloodlust gradually faded away from him until one day, it was completely gone. On that day, he had come to face the reality of his deeds. He was faced with immense guilt of the war crimes he had done. He became depressed and sought to atone for his sins, but he did not know how.
He decided to try to atone for his sins by helping other people. He defended people and villages with his immense skill with the blade. He even lent help to farmers who were harvesting their crops. Every day, he journeyed across the land, depending only on nature for his daily sustenance. He rested every night, sometimes in a kind man’s house, but most times just outside, exposed to the elements.
One particular day, Umbra bit off more than he could chew. After scaring off a group of bandits from a village, the bandit leader vowed to make Umbra pay what he did. The Shadow of Death simply laughed as the bandits scurried away from him. The day was filled with festivities to celebrate what Umbra had done for the village.
During the night, the bandits came back and slaughtered everyone as Umbra was asleep. By the time the Shadow of Death woke, the village was already burnt halfway to the ground. Grabbing Tenebris, he hastily went outside and found the bandits pillaging the village and killing its inhabitants.
Rage filled his heart. Umbra hacked and slashed at the bandits, trying to take them on all by himself. Soon, he was swarmed by tens of bandits who proceeded to inflict multiple wounds on him. He just wouldn’t die. Umbra felt so much pain. Every muscle in his body longed for the sweet release of death, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
Tenebris seemed to glow a darker aura as Umbra fell to his knees, his enemies still stabbing and slicing. Just as he was about to pass out from the pain, he felt a burst of power surge through his veins. A dark orb burst out of Tenebris, causing the bandits to stagger away from Umbra.
Taking this opportunity, Umbra jumped to his feet and slashed at his foes. One by one they fell, unable to fight back even when they recovered from the initial shock. Umbra was just too powerful for them to handle. Bloodlust seemed to fill his mind once again, Tenebris taking this moment to try and overpower its host.
Umbra fought back once again, eventually re-establishing his dominance over the sword’s spirit. He fell to his knees and covered his face with both hands as tears started to fall from his eyes. He failed these people. He caused their deaths. It was his fault.
It wasn’t long before someone came along and found him like this. A heavily armored man, wearing traditional Spartan armor, approached him and gave him a tap on the back. The Spartan and the Roman conversed and a bond of friendship was born. When the talking was over, Umbra had agreed to help Zackeroar in his quest to rid the world of Asheans – monstrous abominations who spread corruption and bring chaos to the land. The same monsters who created Tenebris and summoned the dark aura which influenced the Roman Legion.
The two eventually succeeded in their quest and split up. Zackeroar had business with the Greek gods, leaving Umbra to wander the world alone once again. Thousands of years passed and the world had been changing. Umbra, on the other hand, had not. He still retained his youthful stature and appearance as the world grew more modern. He was forced to adapt to these changes, sticking to the shadows and preferring to be unseen - a protector lurking in the darkness.
Eventually, a corporation known as the RHG had formed. It pitted gladiators against other gladiators. A blood sport, much like how it used to be in Rome. Umbra had his suspicions that the corporation itself was evil and decided to join it. He wanted to know more about this mysterious company from the inside. Unbeknownst to him was the fact that he had a role to play in the War to come.
Spoiler for Demonstratio:
Work in progress.
Battle History
Zackeroar
Spoiler for Wrath Incarnate:
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthre...oar-vs-Nhaleet WIN!
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthre...(XDHunterNest) DRAW!
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthre...(XDHunterNest) LOSS!
Battle Record
Former Gladiators
Zackeroar, Wrath's Incarnate
Spoiler for 2013-2017:
Name: Zackeroar
Abilities of your Gladiator:
Wrath: Given to him by his father, Zeus. This gives Zackeroar the strength of four men. He, although slowly, heals in this state. He can only use this when he gets angry. His senses get enhanced and moves much much better during this state.
This warrior uses a spear with a steel tip and an oak shaft. He has a steel scimitar as well for a secondary weapon. He has a mithril greatsword with a ruby-encrusted golden hilt. It can split into two slender blades by pressing the ruby. His shield is round and made of bronze.
Weaknesses of your Gladiator:
He underestimates his enemy most of the time. He is quick to anger and lets his emotions get the best of him. Slightly slower than the average man due to his armor and weapons. Do note though, without armor, the Spartan is faster than the average man. To use up wrath, Zackeroar needs to get beat up badly first. He is proud and arrogant. You could say belligerence just oozes out. Stamina is higher than a spartan, but lower than an average person considering the weight of his weapons and armor. He is quick to anger and can't think quite straight when angry. As Wrath is only used when Zackeroar is angry, he tends to make rash decisions during it. He can't use his shield with his greatsword, only with his spear. He hasn't fully mastered the use of his new greatsword yet so he fumbles every now and then.
Personality of your Gladiator:
He is arrogant and aggressive. He is merciless and never yields. The warrior is proud, arrogant, and belligerent as well. He has anger issues, must have a legitimate reason to fight.
Appearance of your Gladiator:
Zackeroar is 5'8 ft with long black hair and blue eyes. If in Wrath, his eyes become red and his hair becomes gray. He wears a bronze breastplate, Corinthian helmet with a red plume, which is a family heirloom, and bronze greaves. His armor was made by Hephaestus himself. No real advantages to this armor, just pretty damn strong.
This wRHG is a member of Sanctuary.
Story of your Gladiator:
Spoiler for Story:
Zackeroar was born in a village in Sparta with his father, the village chief, and his mother. When he was six years old, the Asheans attacked. The Asheans were creatures from another world with black stone for skin and had heads of foxes, frogs, and cats, but had bodies like humans. The Asheans were wiping out village after village, leaving only ashes and corpses behind. Zackeroar's village was next.
The men of Zackeroar's village fought with the chief leading the militia of hoplites. The phalanx held as the women and children ran away. They fought bravely, but were utterly crushed as wave after wave of Asheans crashed against the shield wall. Only few escaped from the village, but fewer got away from the demonic dogs that hunted down any survivors. Zackeroar was one of them.
While running, Zackeroar was caught by a dozen demonic dogs and their handlers. He was mad, though. With nothing to lose, he let out a shout and prepared to fight. Suddenly, lightning struck out of nowhere and hit Zackeroar. He began to transform! His hair became gray and his eyes became red. The dogs lunged at him, but he killed them with ease one by one. The handlers ran away, scared of the six year old boy.
"Ah, I knew you had it in you." Zackeroar heard a voice in his head. Starting to calm down, he kneeled and asked, "Who are you?" Then, out of nowhere once again, lightning struck, revealing a figure draped in a white robe.
"I am Zeus, your father," the man said with a thundering voice.
"That's impossible. Zeus, the god of lightning is my father? My father's dead."
"No, I am your father. Your real father. I instructed your "father" to protect you and your mother in my stead. Here, I can prove it. Look at your palm. That's a lightning bolt."
"I guess it is."
"I have to go now, my son. I will always be there for you, just pray to the heavens above."
"But what will I do n-"
Lightning hit once again and Zeus was gone. Zackeroar passed out a bit later, exhausted from using his Wrath. A hunter by the name of Nest found him and took him into his own home. He trained him in the arts of war and cared for him as one of his own. One faithful day, when Zackeroar was out hunting, his master was murdered by Asheans. When the son of Zeus returned, he weeped and asked his master who did this.
"Zackeroar. They wanted you to go to the-" Nest breathed deeply.
"To where, master?" Tears rolled down Zackeroar's eyes.
"To the wRHG Arena. It's King Latios's. Ki-" Nest's body went limp as he breathed his last breath.
And so, the next day, Zackeroar gathered his belongings and set out for vengeance.
Demo of your Gladiator
Spoiler for To be rewritten:
"The thicket will provide good cover."
Zackeroar crouched behind the green thicket. Birds chirped around him in the lush green forest. Up ahead was an Ashean stronghold. Pevanshire, as they called it. There were walls made of the sturdiest stone. There was a wooden gate that came from the birch and oak trees. Asheans armed with deadly arrows and a bow stood guard, ready for an attack. Their eyes looked everywhere. Left, right, forward, backward. It was Zackeroar who was going to siege the fort. Only Zackeroar.
The warrior peeped through the thicket, the birds became as silent as the night. With great courage, he stood up. His copper breastplate shone in the sunlight. His sword hanging from its sheath. His shield was strapped behind his back. He held his spear fearlessly and ready to take life.
"Prepare to die, Asheans!" his thundering voice matched by the lightning that striked as rain began to pour.
"Who are you, fool?"
"Who am I? Who am I? You dare ask who I am? I am the son of Zeus! I am wrath's incarnate!"
With that statement, Zackeroar threw the spear with all his might. Blood splattered along the battlements as the spear pierced through the Ashean's heart. Arrows whizzed by Zackeroar with the Spartan dodging every single one. Sure, he wasn't fast, but he was agile. The son of Zeus continued running toward the gate, sidestepping, ducking, avoiding arrows as he went. Zackeroar screamed as an arrow hit his ankle. He fell to one knee and fought to stand up. The brave warrior still trudged towards the gate, but alas, he fell unconcious.
"Let's kill him!"
"No. We must harness his power. You two drag him to the extraction chamber."
"We........power..........wahahaha"
"Dear Zeus. Save me!" he whispered.
Zackeroar turned his head around and saw himself strapped onto some machine. His hands tied onto the wall. His feet was shackled and his nudity disgusted himself. Rage filled up in the warrior's heart. He would not let them defile him like this.
"Dear Zeus, give me empowerment!"
The scientists trembled in horor as lightning as red as blood striked Zackeroar. The warrior broke his chains and shackles, causing the scientists to retreat into one corner. "Mercy! Please! Have mercy!" the scientists said. Zackeroar gathered up saliva and spat on their faces. He grabbed one and threw him out of the window, the glass shattering as the body went through. The warrior, still enraged, grabbed a shard and grabbed the remaining scientist. He held him up and stabbed him a myriad of times, blood coming out of his organs. Zackeroar was very careful to avoid any major parts. It was torture to the scientist, his face and body was bloodied. He gave up and died of blood loss.
By the time the torture was finished, several Ashean soldiers had gathered outside the tent. Zackeroar quickly grabbed his clothes, shield and sword, and proceeded outside.
"Fire!"
Ashean archers were placed on the left and right side of the tent's flap. Stupidity at it's finest. The warrior was met with a barrage of arrows as he exited the tent. He quickly slid down, his shield above his head. Asheans from both sides fell as the arrows missed their target. Zackeroar rose up, shield and spear in hand. Ashean swordsmen blocked his path. He quickly charged and threw his spear, completely obliterating a single collumn of soldiers. The spartan dropped his shield and ran faster. He jumped gracefully and delivered a decisive blow to the head of a young Ashean. He quickly drew his sword back, hitting an Ashean with his elbow. The demi-god ran and jumped off of a rock kicking and slashing in mid-air.
If you saw Zackeroar back then, you would see his bloodied face and armor. The warrior rose up after the battle ended. It was a slaughter. Everyone in the puny fort was massacred. The demi-god was weak, exhausted by his Wrath. He lay down and slept, with corpses littering the ground.
Quote - "Do not show mercy to those who beg for it, but show it to those who beg for the sword instead."
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Wyrmspawn
That annoying little *
Bad idea to double post; they might ban you. Other than that, this seems like a fine gladiator.
Link to wRHG:http://forums.stickpage.com/showthre...Undefeated-One
blakphoenix
Bringin' it back!
Look deep within yourself.....haha! made you look.
I notice that you often state when he goes into "wrath mode", it would be better if you simply described the transformation. "His hair faded into a gray scale, the whites of his eyes flooded with rivers of blood..." etc. That wasn't a great example, but it was one nonetheless. Also, if you could more clearly state what weapons he uses that'd make things much easier. Other than that, this page checks out and I feel you will benefit quite a bit from the community here.
Also, how pronounce his name?! Lol! Is it (Zacky-roar) (Zack-er-oar)? I am so lost on that!
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Ensiron "Zero" Ethereal
You are only made limitless by your imagination, making the impossible possible since 1776.
Spoiler for what I contribute:
Spoiler for past sig gifs:
Originally Posted by blakphoenix
No official pronunciation, actually :P. I'm new to this thing so thanks for the tips Although I've been writing stories for extra credit for two years, I feel that I am not as good as the guys here. I appreciate the advice. Thanks again!
Originally Posted by Wyrmspawn
Whoops sorry. I didn't know.
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My wRHG: Umbra Mortis
I believe in Jesus Christ as my Savior. If you're not afraid to admit it then paste this into your signature.
Made by the awesome Mantha :3
Updated availability and edited back story and demo.
The thread is undergoing a whole look upgrade.
Changed the demo and availability.
After 4 years, I've finally got a new guy! His demo and story are going to be edited later in the day. I just felt like I wanted to have him up now and just add in his backstory and demo later. Feel free to critique!
ErrorBlender
Blending City
So you gave your character two ways of travel, the shadow orb and the rips in space through tenebris. Even split under three minutes, a battle takes considerably less and most of the time, you wont expend the entire three minutes anyway. Speed of light is big deal in combat, if you can reposition yourself that fast, its near omnipresence. You could dodge, then reappear at the back of the opponent before a millisecond passes and stab tenebris right through, or if you keep the momentum, slap him with it alongside its infinite mass.
I'd get the protection part, sure ok, you hid yourself in the shadow dimension and all forms of light could rip you our of it but how much really? You never say. Anyway, at this point, I would understand the three minute limit since its full protect but with light speed, its more offensive than defensive tbh.
I propose you ditch the lightspeed thing since you already have a different means to travel. Thats my thoughts.
The rest is fine for me
Battle of Genre || Round SIX : ROMANCE
Spoiler for :
The weird are here so that the normal may exist.
Originally Posted by Jeff
I'M IN TELL ME WHO TO MURDER
Creepypasta confirmed.
Spoiler for My members require me this:
Originally Posted by ErrorBlender
I was actually planning to have Iter per Scissio be a non-combat ability xD. I was going to make Umbra only use it solely for transportation and not for battle. I should've stressed that more, my bad.
Regarding Ignis Fatuus, I see your points. I'm going to adjust the ability so it wouldn't be that overpowered.
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Bildt: EU, NATO expansion not reason for Ukraine tensions
Fareed speaks with former Swedish Prime Minster Carl Bildt, now the country’s foreign minister, about the recent tensions between Europe and Russia over Ukraine. Watch the full interview on "Fareed Zakaria GPS," this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
You don’t buy the argument, I notice from your speech, that the Europeans in some way are responsible – or NATO is responsible – because over the last 20 years the European Union and NATO have expanded to Russia's borders. This is, of course the Russian claim, made by Putin in various speeches.
I don't buy anything of that. I mean the reality of it is that Ukraine, for all of its problems – and they are fairly massive – has been throughout its period of independence, has been a democratic country. And it has itself expressed the wish to have free trade and closer cooperation with the rest of the European countries, notably in the European Union. And we have answered that particular call. It would have been very difficult to refuse the Ukrainians. We have, perhaps, done less than they wanted – they want a much clearer European perspective from us.
They have free trade with Russia. We have no objections to that. And we’re now giving them free trade with the European Union. So we have answered the wishes of the Ukrainian people and the Moldovans and the Georgians and others. And that’s the thing you do in order to try to help a democracy that is trying to build a better future.
And your argument is, in the speech, that the European Union and NATO similarly answered requests from the countries of Eastern Europe to join, rather than some kind of imperial expansion eastward?
Yes, absolutely. I mean the reality inside the European Union, sorry to say, is that enlargement and expansion and free trade of this particular sort isn’t necessarily that popular. You would find the same sentiment concerning free trade in the U.S. Congress. So it's been a fairly slow process of actually opening up to these countries, much slower than the Ukrainians or the Moldovans or Georgians have actually wanted.
But of course, we have an interest in the prosperity and the stability of our neighborhood. And to just close the door to the wishes of the Ukrainians for closer cooperation also with us – without in any way wanting to impair the economic and whatever other cultural relationship that they have with Russia – that would have been irresponsible and unthinkable.
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What does this Carl Bildt take us for, anyway? A bunch of absolute idiots? Of course, as anyone with half a brain knows, the ignominious expansions of both the EU and NATO is the heart of the problem with Ukraine!
No, @ My Troll.
I knew people who had prospered in Imperial Russia, so I heard first-hand stories of the glories of that society. There are living heirs to that throne, and I support any motion toward the restoration of Russia as it was before the catastrophic folly of communism.
Ivan Ivanovich
The communists killed them all.
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Tranquility base
You are an A1 paid Russian troll. I see GPU on lots of comment board spouting the same tired rhetoric. You are laughable and tiresome.
This is the face of nazism. This is who the US is supporting in Ukraine. This man looks worse than Hitler. He looks bloody scary. Ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians is being conducted and the US media are covering it up. If you want to help save lives please paste this nut jobs face all over the internet. Hitler has been reborn in this man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOSVk_ym90I
Well said bradley. Thank you.
Curatica
Absolutely. They instigated akin people to hating and killing each others.
Ukrainians want a life that is less Russian and more European.
So they kill little old ladies and children for it. That is new Ukraine after the coup.....women and children killers. Soccer hooligans who have been given guns...what a recipe for disaster.
It's nothing wrong with Ukrainians' aspiration.
The EU-enlargement would have been more successful, if the European Union could be divided into the Eastern and Western halves, like the Roman Empire. Brussels remains headquarters of Western EU and Vienna for the Eastern EU. Let the East and West sought out their own problems, before they join together into ONE big family.
derss
Carl Bildt is famous supporter for neo-Nazi movements, so no wonder he supports Ukraine's coup, their torch marches and their war against people of South-East of Ukraine: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s1usig
Good posting, derss. Thank you.
The only Neo-nazi is the one living in the Kremlin.
danR
Nonsense. Not the slightest indication in his Wikipedia bio, or the talk page. He's right-moderate.
Bildt supports these nazis now conducting atrocities. he is the problem. I'm sure he's getting rich while women and children are dying. What a slime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVavDFnn-o Video of atrocity committed by Ukrainian coup nazi army
@bradly raw propaganda bilge, straight out of the Soviet Era.
Only a stupid, crazy fool would put any credence in what this Neonazi Carl Bildt says!!! But then again, there are a lot of stupid people out there who do. This is how the Nazis gained control of Germany back in the 1930's!
You are 100% correct. Look at this video of a Right Sector Ukraimian army commander Oleg Lyashko torturing a prisoner and threatening him with death. A 62 year old man at that. And to think these nazis even film themselves while doing this stuff. Has the world gone bling as well as mad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpdsOsF2xm0
You don't know much about Nazi Germany.
I'm an ex- US marine who knows plenty about Germany having been there a few times.
@bradley. Oh sure you are. I'm a retired NSA signals analyst. Sure I am. Because I say so.
josephsabater
Carl Bildt, like Zbigniew Brzezinski, has a habit of uttering outrageous untruths as if they were indisputed facts. Remember Zbig declaring, "Make no mistake. This [neo-nazi led coup] is the legitimate government of Ukraine"?
Bildt similarly asserts that the Ukrainian people have declared themselves willing to join the EU. Like Zbig he simply ignores the facts. Incidentally, an important fact that he ignores is that Europe is in no position to bail Ukraine out of its $19 billion debt. In fact Europe itself is increasingly on the verge of financial collapse.
We can safely ignore whatever Bildt – or Dr. Brzezinski – tells us about the Ukraine-Russia situation.
You read too much Russian propaganda. Russian propaganda is all lies.
Carl Bildt has a clear view of the situation. He's no fool.
As for "George Patton" and "derss" and others like them, we know they work for the Russian government as part of its "special measures". Their victims are those who are gullible for anything that confirms their own fantasies about how the world is rather than hard truths that involve work and sacrifice to protect freedom.
Thanks, John. You make a good mouthpiece for the right-wing thugs in Washington!!!
Annexation of Ukraine as much as the US and the word talk of it being illegal, as you also talk on your show about Iraq annexing Kuwait was illegal. The Us should look into its own back yard so to speak. In 1993 the then president Bill Clinton apologized for the illegal overthrow of hawaii. Now please explain to me how Hawaii was legally annexed?
"Political scientist Dr. Keanu Sai has completed doctoral research that is mainly focused on Hawaii’s continued existence as an independent and sovereign country, and has also had success in the Permanent Court of Arbitration concerning the dispute between the acting government of the Hawaiian Kingdom and a Hawaiian national."
http://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/hawaii-news-now-dr-keanu-sai-discusses-existence-of-hawaiian-kingdom/
The purported illegality was based on the secretive Blount report which was largely refuted and thoroughly critiqued by the following Morgan report. Clinton is a classic liberal, and will follow any resolution for apology for percieved historical wrongs to ethnic minorities, regardless of the strengths or weaknesses of supporting 'evidence'.
*perceived
You shouldn't believe one crazy person. Do some credible research.
Aw;;;;little ole Ivan only has one liners and not much else.........so sad....little boy should develop a brain and maybe he could type more than one liners.
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george george
Zakaria,
I am American of Eastern Eupoean origin ( actually Romanian) and I can not congralutae you as well as your guests for fairness and honesty.
On the contrary, I see youre guess were bunch of liars including the Swedish Natorian,
Concerning Ukcraine and Russia, one of the hottest subjects in town,
Russia is not any more a danger for Eastern Europe, the REAL danger are the US necons as infmaous f..Victoira Nuland and all the like of her more infamous husband Kagan – by the way Kaganovici was Stalin deputy- the ideologue behind the Irak war).
The actual State Department policies are the problem.They want, through conspiracy and crime, to move back the cloak of eliberation of Eastern Europeas from the economical genocide brought by wild capitalism, and implement the Irak's kind of chock terapy in Eastern Europe, read Milton Friedman shock terapy, o the crooky monopolies can steal everything from the people who was decimated by the Communits. They put in now power the grandsons and grand daughters of former killers durind Stalin terror.
Sorry for true Ukrainian patriots, they are screwed up again..
Contemporary Ukraine is a false state which include several foreign provinces ( Eastern Poland, Romanian Bukovina and Sothern Bessarabia, Weestern Russia and Russian Krimea ).
Good post, george george. Quite a contrast to all these brainless anti-Russian idiots here, none of whom ever graduated from High School!
I learned a lot from Russian teachers who are doctors who taught at the Moscow State University. They did research on different aspects of Russian society. They even predicted the end of the Soviet Union 12 years before it happened. They know more about Russia than you do. You have read too much Russian propaganda. You should learn the truth.
Whose the right-wing fool who usurped my screen name? I never made any of these idiotic anti-Russian comments here. Some jerk is trying to me me look stupid. Moreover, I agree with George above!
Why does Vladimir Putrid feel his Kremlin shiIIs en masse should spray their liquid manure over every story about the Ukraine?
I know. Becusse if the truth gets out, if they know what is really happening and they have free press, they would hang Putin in the public square. They are arguing in a vacuum and they think that by massing people on comment boards they are winning. They feel better about themselves. But the truth is they are a scared tiresome bunch. Many I know here no longer frequent these boards, but they know what is happening. We read the articles and laugght at RT and itar Tass and all Russian owned media. You can pick out these guys in a heartbeat. They use words like fascist, junta, Yankee and neo. You will rarely near those words ever initiated by western media...those are Russian propaganda terms that have not been used in years in the west.
But that is ultimately why.
Link to CNN article explaining who is killing civilians, what the civilian population thinks of you nazis and how many civilians have fled from you murdering Orcs. CNN says a half million people have taken refuge in Russia. This is CNN not RT...claiming that you in Kiev are the problem. Get it. I hope so because everyone is tired of your covering up for atrocities. You are pathetic.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/07/11/nr-black-ukrainians-moving-to-russia.cnn.html
@bradley. Thanks for citing something a little better than youTube 'evidence'. Is there anything more you'd like to learn from CNN?
I graduated from high school and U of M @ George Patton thank you very much! What does that have to do with liking the Russian government?
For people wondering if the new coup Kiev government really is full of nazis I say check out their Right sector military commanders. You will see that they are nazis and are committing atrocities across the countryside. They are killing women, children, the elderly, moms and dads and even pets. They are monsters and the US has financed this madness in the heart of Europe. People need to wake up! Ukraine's west is a fascist nightmare. The East are the good guys. The west is full of those Orcs that conducted the Maidan riots. They violently overthrew the elected government with the backing of the EUSA and now they are killing the people of the East that held an election to separate from them. One group uses the violence and the US urges restraint against them from the former government....the other group holds a peaceful referendum and the US condones killing them. What kind of madness is that. Women and elderly people voted in that referendum to separate from these psychos but the US lets the psychos loose on them. It is pure horror and I call them Orcs because they really are like something from the bowels of the earth. This video shows 45 minutes of straight atrocities by these monsters...including the dumping of bodies and multiple murders of civilians. Judge for yourself what kind of Pandora's box the US financed and opened along with Carl Bildt's horrible self. You won't see this on American TV that's for sure.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKacrqOmIw&w=640&h=360]
More Russian propaganda. Do some people in Russia not have a brain? I took two Russian women from Moscow on an excursion today. They seem to be normal kind people.
Free press in the west?
You should ask yourself the same question!
Look at this youtube video. This is why people in the east don't want to be with the west of ukraine. And yes we in the us and eu are backing the west of ukraine. How crazy can it be!!!
Украина Кризис Сегодня [Ukraine Crisis Today]. Ба…: http://youtu.be/nJLtaKrd9CU
This video shows the shelling of civilians by the Kiev coup junta....it is very disturbing to watch these poor old women who's husbands have been killed and homes are destroyed. Their lives are over....thanks to the US and EU backing these nazi monsters. It is pure horror and Obama financed this crap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfCJm34EsKc#t=478
Marine5484
Thank you, bradley. Too bad most people are just too ignorant to see that. Barack Obama himself needs to be indicted and brought to justice for misusing our hard earned tax money to finance this horrific Petro Poroshenko and his cohorts! The whole thing makes me sick!
Totally agree devil dog. Semper fi. I'm an ex-marine myself, 0341, 1st battalion, 6th marines, 2nd mar div 85-88 Did a NATO/Med cruise on the Saipan and a West Pac. Glad to see that other US military personnel can see through this BS. That is what being a true American is all about.
As the true Ivan Ivanovich here, I totally agree. Then again, as a true Russian, I tend to say anything to defend my country. I can't get over just some uneducated fools here tend to bash my compatriots and take up for those noe-Nazis in Kiev funded with American tax money!
you're both too dumb to have been marines.
@bradley. You know you're dealing with a phony when they throw a string of credential-words that cannot be matched against a real person. "Methinks the lady doth protest overmuch." –Shakespeare.
Tell Vladolph Putler he's an @zzh0le, next time you see him.
june fitzgerald
2/22/14 #euromaidan twitter account summoned 25,000 bat party (Tymoshenko/ Yatsenyuk) menbers & young protesters to overthrown the ukrainian government & President Yanukovich when he didn't sign an agreement with the EU. Ukraine didn't invent twitter, the US did. The EU had given Yanukovich papers to sign and led Ukrainians to belive in a rosy life with the EU. So they finally signed up via Poroshenko. How rosy is life there now? US & EU capitalistic exploitation of Ukraine is the cause of the problems.
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Good grief, another mouthpiece for the right-wing thugs in Washington! How many idiots can there be on this web page to fall for all that right-wing propaganda?
I just find it strange that western media keep thinking that they will get a sober opinion about Russia from Carl Bildt. The man is the biggest hawk you can find in swedish politics when it comes to the topic of Russia, and this has nothing to do with the Putin-regime, Carl Bildt has always been very anti-Russia and exteamly pro-USA pro-NATO throughout his time in politics. On top of that, anyone that have ever bothered to pick up a historybook will quickly find out that historicly Sweden and Russia has not exactly been the best of friend, rather the opposite, and we are not talking about a couple of wars, we are talking about a millenia of hostility.
Lol you can certainly tell in here that school is out for vacation!
Carl Bildt is everything that is wrong with Sweden and the EU. He is out to get paid from the US and that is it....even if he has to sacrifice innocent people or even his own people to do it. Simply put ....he is a murdering snake.
I´m a swede and I for one have never been a fan of my countrys current foreign minister or the current center-right government, with any luck they will all be out of a job come the autumn-election. More over, I am among the vast majority of swedes who do not want to see Sweden joning NATO. Sweden is an alliance-free country and should remain so. Our neutrality have served our country very well, it has kept us in a state of peace for the past 200 years now. The last time Sweden were in a state of war was back in 1814.
Let's all hope you're right about your country's elections this coming fall. Like our country, yours can't use these right-wing fanatics who ruin everything just like Adolf Hitler did Germany in 1945!
Leekim
Putin scares you right ...not us Norwegians ...I want us out of NATO because the U.S. is incompetant and on the way down fast.....The U.S. won't be there for us and that's OK because we will buy a nuke someday. Hopefully. Look at you Americans so screwed up. NSA, IRA, Bengazi and immigration unemployment and jobless. You can't wipe your own ass why should we trust you ? Putin can do just what he wants too .....Let see the U.S. start another war it can't finish. LOL....
Well said, Leekim. Thank you.
Kerry Yelder
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