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London: Man shouts “kill all Jews” at schoolchildren, assaults 60-yr-old Jewish man
Jul 3, 2019 | Christians Against Anti-Semitism, News
A man has shouted “kill all Jews” at schoolchildren and then assaulted a Jewish man in Hackney, it is alleged.
Police arrested a man on suspicion of attempted robbery and public order offence after the incident on Upper Clapton Road at around 5pm yesterday.
The victim, in his 60s, claimed he was apprehended by a man who racially abused him and demanded money before assaulting him.
The neighbourhood watch group Stamford Hill Shomrim said the offender allegedly shouted, “kill all Jews” at schoolchildren before the reported assault.
Police enquiries continue. Any witnesses to the incident have been asked to contact the Metropolitan Police on 101, with the reference CAD6037.
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By Leonard Klie, Editor, CRM magazine and SmartCustomerService.com
Customer Sentiment Is Becoming a New Imperative
Artificial intelligence has dramatically increased the ability of automated systems to recognize and analyze human emotions, and that has produced a real market opportunity for the analytics industry, according to a new report from research firm Tractica.
The sentiment and emotion analytics market is set to explode, from $123 million currently to $3.8 billion by 2025, representing nearly 3,000 percent growth in just seven years, Tractica predicts.
These colossal growth projections are due in large part to accelerated access to data (primarily social media feeds and digital video), cheaper computing power, and evolving deep learning capabilities combined with natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision.
The top three use cases for sentiment and emotion analysis will be customer experience, product and market research, and customer service, respectively, the research firm reported. Combined, these three areas will represent 71 percent of the total revenue opportunity, according to Mark Beccue, principal analyst at Tractica.
In customer service, the technology can “make live or automated agents better,” Beccue says.
In customer experience, it can “completely reshape how companies engage with customers,” providing not just insight but context to most interactions, he adds.
And in market and product research, emotion and sentiment analytics can prove more reliable than panels, surveys, and focus groups, where “people can often say what they think you want to hear,” Beccue explains. “Their faces often tell a different story than their words, and that’s where the analytics comes in.”
Also driving the continued emphasis on sentiment and emotion analytics is the need for companies to create unique customer experiences, as product and price are no longer differentiators. The ability for companies to come across as empathetic is a huge motivator, Beccue points out.
But, even with technology, correctly analyzing sentiment and emotion is not easy. Humans themselves often have difficulty reading other humans, so can technology really be expected to do it flawlessly?
“It’s still in the early days, for sure,” Beccue says, noting that emotion and sentiment analytics will only really start kicking into high gear around 2022, still four or five years away. By that point, he expects artificial intelligence and machine learning to have advanced far enough to make an analysis with a reasonable confidence level.
The one advantage that machines will have over humans when it comes to this type of analysis, though, is the ability to process data faster. But taking into consideration the necessary context is still a challenge, and it will be for some time to come.
Emotion and sentiment analysis is complex because emotion is complex and not very well understood. Emotion can be deceptive and expressed in multiple ways: in speech intonations, the text of words spoken or written, facial expressions, body postures, gestures, and more. And these factors can all vary among geographies and cultures, making it difficult to create computer models that can be broadly applied.
Also keeping back the technology today is the fact that many vendors are still very specialized, resulting in an industry that is fragmented, according to Beccue.
Going forward, Beccue expects customer service automation companies to really advance the science behind sentiment and emotion analytics, and for customer-first companies to be among the earliest adopters.
One of the innovative uses that Beccue singles out is the Cloverleaf ShelfPoint system, a retail display system that uses artificial intelligence and emotion detection technology from Affectiva to change up the content on in-store LCD displays in response to the emotions detected on the faces of shoppers walking the aisles.
Among other use cases, Tractica expects to see the most growth in the retail, advertising, business services, healthcare, education, automotive, manufacturing, and gaming segments. “A better understanding of human emotion will help AI technology create more empathetic customer and healthcare experiences, drive our cars, enhance teaching methods, and figure out ways to build better products that meet our needs,” Beccue concludes.
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Different orientations of males and females in computer-mediated negotiations
Different orientations of males and females in computer-mediated negotiations Katz, Ron; Amichai-Hamburger, Yair; Manisterski, Efrat; Kraus, Sarit 2008-03-01 00:00:00 This paper examines the existence of gender differences in computer mediated (CM) negotiations where “gender differences” refers to the differential patterns of behavior of males and females proposed by Rubin and Brown (Rubin, J. Z., & Brown, B. R. (1975). Bargainers as individuals. In The social psychology of bargaining and negotiation (pp. 157–196). New York: Academic Press). Namely, males are more profit oriented and females are more relationship oriented. External manipulations encouraging cooperativeness with other negotiators either by profitable or social incentives were inserted in the negotiations performed within the Colored Trails (CT) game framework. The negotiators included 27 females and 33 males who negotiated in foursomes via computers. In the first study we focused on independent negotiators whose success was not crucially dependent on the other party. In the second study negotiators were dependent upon one another, encouraging integrative solutions. The findings reveal that the social incentive (team factor) positively affected the females’ cooperativeness in contrast to males who were slightly less cooperative. On the other hand, profitable incentive influenced the males’ cooperativeness level, while no change was shown by females, which is consistent with Rubin and Brown’s distinction. These tendencies were reduced when playing with a non-reciprocal simulated agent. The causes for gender differences in CM as well as in face-to-face (FTF) negotiations are discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Computers in Human Behavior Elsevier http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/different-orientations-of-males-and-females-in-computer-mediated-0MMGsh6YUJ
Katz, Ron; Amichai-Hamburger, Yair; Manisterski, Efrat; Kraus, Sarit
Computers in Human Behavior
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This paper examines the existence of gender differences in computer mediated (CM) negotiations where “gender differences” refers to the differential patterns of behavior of males and females proposed by Rubin and Brown (Rubin, J. Z., & Brown, B. R. (1975). Bargainers as individuals. In The social psychology of bargaining and negotiation (pp. 157–196). New York: Academic Press). Namely, males are more profit oriented and females are more relationship oriented. External manipulations encouraging cooperativeness with other negotiators either by profitable or social incentives were inserted in the negotiations performed within the Colored Trails (CT) game framework. The negotiators included 27 females and 33 males who negotiated in foursomes via computers. In the first study we focused on independent negotiators whose success was not crucially dependent on the other party. In the second study negotiators were dependent upon one another, encouraging integrative solutions. The findings reveal that the social incentive (team factor) positively affected the females’ cooperativeness in contrast to males who were slightly less cooperative. On the other hand, profitable incentive influenced the males’ cooperativeness level, while no change was shown by females, which is consistent with Rubin and Brown’s distinction. These tendencies were reduced when playing with a non-reciprocal simulated agent. The causes for gender differences in CM as well as in face-to-face (FTF) negotiations are discussed.
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More than enough celebrity wines have been bottled over the years. And while some are better than others—sorry, but Guliana Rancic's pre-portioned cups are undrinkable—there are some clear winners that we can't get enough of. Like Drew Barrymore's rosé. And now Lady Gaga is getting into the vino game.
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Gaffes? Admiration for Carson earns him leeway
Ben Carson’s persona of honesty and soft-spoken common sense wins him leeway and admiration from many likely GOP caucusgoers.
Gaffes? Admiration for Carson earns him leeway Ben Carson’s persona of honesty and soft-spoken common sense wins him leeway and admiration from many likely GOP caucusgoers. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: http://dmreg.co/1S0pxTz
Timothy Meinch, tmeinch@dmreg.com Published 5:03 a.m. CT Oct. 23, 2015 | Updated 5:27 a.m. CT Oct. 23, 2015
Political columnist Kathie Obradovich and chief politics reporter Jennifer Jacobs break down the results of the latest Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll in the Republican presidential race.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks outside at DMACC in Ankey, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, in Ankeny, Iowa. (Photo: Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register)Buy Photo
Ben Carson’s persona of honesty and soft-spoken common sense wins him leeway and admiration from many likely Republican caucusgoers, according to participants in the latest Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll.
Even those who identify unattractive qualities in Carson — including previous research on tissue from aborted fetuses or lack of foreign policy experience — support the retired neurosurgeon.
Their confidence is vested in what they view as Carson’s sincerity and conservative value system, which many say overpowers any gaffes or questionable sound bites in the media.
“He doesn’t always say the correct things. But he’s quiet, and he thinks things through. You have to respect that,” said Jay Weber of Stanhope, a 37-year-old employee with Union Pacific Railroad.
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Carson leads the new Iowa Poll with support from 28 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers, opening a 9-percentage point lead over runner-up Donald Trump, who had led the previous Iowa Poll in late August.
The poll asked likely GOP caucusgoers, whether they support Carson or not, about a number of things people have said about him and whether they find them attractive or unattractive. The responses are overwhelmingly positive. A majority of caucusgoers say they find six of 10 attributes tested not just attractive, but very attractive.
Weber, who said he's a Republican and opposes abortion, ranks Carson as his second presidential choice, behind Rand Paul. Weber described Carson as a foil to Donald Trump, whom he doesn't support because he believes Trump lacks sincerity.
In responding to the poll, Weber deemed Carson’s track record involving research on aborted fetuses as “mostly unattractive.” But in a follow-up interview, he described the work as part of Carson's career as a doctor.
“I wouldn’t hold that against him,” Weber said.
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Another Republican voter and retired businessman, James Knox of Bettendorf, voiced a similar stance.
“As long as he didn’t kill the babies, that’s what I care about. I think he was trying to save babies,” Knox, 73, said of Carson’s career as a neurosurgeon.
Four-time caucus participant Samantha Voss, 40, a life insurance underwriter from Waverly, had identified U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as her first choice in the poll and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as her second choice. But in a follow-up interview, she now says Carson is neck-and-neck with Rubio to win her vote in the Feb. 1 GOP caucus.
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson takes questions from members of the media Friday, Jan 22, 2016, following BET's #AllVotesMatter event at Drake University in Des Moines. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson (left) answers questions about people's perceptions of him as New Orleans rapper Dee-1 listens Friday, Jan 22, 2016, during BET's #AllVotesMatter event at Drake University in Des Moines. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks at Glenwood Community High School on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Glenwood. Brian Powers/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson shakes hands after speaking at Glenwood Community High School on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Glenwood. Brian Powers/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks at the Cass County Community Center in Atlantic on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Atlantic. Brian Powers/The Register
Presidential hopeful, Ben Carson holds Zeya Laws, of Des Moines while her mother Ashley Laws stands near by at Corinthian Baptist Church on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Des Moines. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Presidential hopeful, Ben Carson poses for photos and signs autographs for the crowd after a town hall at Abundant Life Ministries in Jefferson on Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. Carson also held events in Fort Dodge, Denison, Sioux City and LeMars on Monday. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Presidential hopeful, Ben Carson speaks to a group of people at Cronk’s Restaurant & Lounge in Denison on Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. Carson also held events in Fort Dodge, Jefferson, Sioux City and LeMars on Monday. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks at a town hall, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Panora, Iowa. AP
Presidential hopeful, Ben Carson poses for a photo at Fort Frenzy in Fort Dodge on Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, center, shakes hands with supporters at a town hall, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Panora, Iowa. AP
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson meets with the Des Moines Register editorial board Jan 6, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. Rodney White/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during the Rising Tide Summit at The U.S. Cellular Center on Saturday, December 05, 2015 in Cedar Rapids. Brian Powers/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during the Rising Tide Summit at the U.S. Cellular Center on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Brian Powers/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson greets voters after the Presidential Family Forum in Des Moines Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks at the Presidential Family Forum in Des Moines Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson talks to supporters during a campaign stop in Ames, IA. Brian Achenbach/For the Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson talks to supporters during a campaign stop at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity on October 24, 2015 in Ames, IA. Brian Achenbach/For the Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson during a campaign stop at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity on October 24, 2015 in Ames, IA. Brian Achenbach/For the Register, Brian Achenbach
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson talks to supporters during a campaign stop at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity on October 24, 2015 in Ames, IA. Brian Achenbach/For the Register, Brian Achenbach
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson greets supporters after a speech at DMACC in Ankey, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, in Ankeny, Iowa. Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks outside at DMACC on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, in Ankeny, Iowa. Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks outside at DMACC in Ankey, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, in Ankeny, Iowa. Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register
Republican presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, speaks from the Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015. Rachel Mummey/The Register
Republican presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, tries a piece of pizza as he tours the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015. Rachel Mummey/The Register
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson looks at a display the Iowa Right for Life booth as he tours the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Ia., on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015. Rachel Mummey/The Register
Republican presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, greets supporters as he tours the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015. Rachel Mummey/The Register
Republican presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, hands off a crying baby as he tours the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015. Rachel Mummey/The Register
Republican Ben Carson takes the stage Saturday, May 16, 2015, during the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines. Michael Zamora/The Register
Dr. Ben Carson speaks on Saturday, May 16, 2015, during the 2015 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Republican Ben Carson speaks Saturday, May 16, 2015, during the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines. Michael Zamora/The Register
Dr. Ben Carson signs books for Dennis Goldsmith (center) and his wife, Sandra, Saturday, May 16, 2015, following the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson speaks Tuesday, May 5, 2015 during the Bull Moose Club luncheon in Des Moines, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson checks his phone as he sits across Director of Advance Mike Nason Tuesday, May 5, 2015 as they ride his campaign bus between stops in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson rides checks his phone Tuesday, May 5, 2015 as he rides on his campaign bus between stops in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson talks with staff members Tuesday, May 5, 2015 on their campaign bus between events in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson says a prayer with a supporter Tuesday, May 5, 2015 outside the His Hands Free Clinic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson and his wife, Candy, greet staff and board members Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at the His Hands Free Clinici in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson takes a tour Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at the His Hands Free Clinici in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson speaks Tuesday, May 5, 2015 during a campaign stop at the Marriott Hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Supporters snap photos of Republican Dr. Ben Carson Tuesday, May 5, 2015 during a campaign stop at the Marriott Hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson greets supporters Tuesday, May 5, 2015 following his campaign stop at the Marriott Hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Republican Dr. Ben Carson speaks with a veteran Tuesday, May 5, 2015 as he leaves his campaign stop at the Marriott Hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Michael Zamora/The Register
Ben Carson arrives at Senator Joni Ernst's inaugural Roast and Ride on Saturday, June 6, 2015 in Boone, IA. Brian Powers/The Register Brian Powers/The Register
Ben Carson speaks at Senator Joni Ernst's inaugural Roast and Ride on Saturday, June 6, 2015 in Boone, IA. Brian Powers/The Register Brian Powers/The Register
Dr. Ben Carson speaks with Frank Luntz during the Family Leadership Summit in Ames on Saturday, July 18, 2015. Brian Powers/The Register
Dr. Ben Carson walks off stage during the Family Leadership Summit in Ames on Saturday, July 18, 2015. Brian Powers/The Register
Dr. Ben Carson speaks during the Family Leader Summit on Saturday, July 18, 2015, at Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Dr. Ben Carson spoke to media during the Family Leader Summit on Saturday, July 18, 2015, at Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson speaks to the crowd at the first ever Roast and Ride, a fundraiser for Iowa senator Joni Ernst, on Saturday, June 6, 2015 at the Central Iowa Expo grounds in Boone. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
She identified lack of foreign policy experience as one reservation about Carson.
“He does have that missing,” Voss said.
She said she expects Carson to counter that with wise selections for staff and advisers.
Key factors for her: “Who are you going to look for to tap into their experience? And can you admit that you don’t have a lot of foreign policy experience?”
As an abortion opponent, she also views the research on aborted fetal tissue as potentially negative: “It’s not something I necessarily agree with, but it’s not going to be a make-or-break issue for me.”
Tiffeny Wait, a stay-at-home mother of three in Creston, said she has no major concerns about Carson, one of her top two choices, alongside Carly Fiorina.
Wait, 30, acknowledged Carson's lack of foreign policy experience, but called it a nonissue.
“Ben Carson is intelligent enough to know that if there are areas he’s not as strong in, he can surround himself by good strong people,” she said.
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She added that what are portrayed in the media as gaffes have minimal impact on her views of Carson, whom she learned about through his autobiography “Gifted Hands” and TV interviews.
“I like him so much as a person that I feel like the media grabs things and blows things out of proportion,” Wait said.
Still, Wait is among the vast majority of Carson backers who could still be persuaded to caucus for another candidate. Only 15 percent of his supporters say their minds are definitely made up.
When asked what’s preventing full commitment, she pointed to his soft-spoken manner.
“He’s a little bit more soft-spoken. But that’s also one of the characteristics I like about him the most,” she said. “I just wonder if he’d really be able to go up against a Democratic candidate.”
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AWS to hit halfway point on 100% green datacentre pledge by end of 2017
Amazon Web Services opens up about the progress it is making with ramping up the amount of renewable energy its datacentres consume
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will hit the halfway mark on its commitment to having all of its datacentres powered by renewable energy sources by the end of 2017, the cloud giant claims.
Speaking at the AWS Re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas, James Hamilton, vice-president and distinguished engineer at AWS, said the company’s work in this area has seen its use of renewable energy rise from 25% to 40% as of November 2016.
This has been achieved through a mix of solar and wind power deals the company has struck, including one announced earlier this month. This will see the firm bring an additional 180MW of renewable power onto the grid before the end of 2017 through the creation of five new solar farms in the US state of Virginia.
The deal will mark the sixth solar farm the company has built in the state, and is the 10th renewable energy project the company has committed to globally.
“We are going to hit 45% at the end of this year, and we’re feeling positive about it,” he said. “We believe we have good systems in place and are able to achieve this.”
“We’re announcing today that we’re going to hit 50% next year. So if customers want to be 50% green, just move to the cloud. It’s as simple as that.”
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As the idea of using artificial intelligence to reduce energy use by datacentres gathers momentum, does this spell the end of human intervention on sustainability matters?
Sustainability experts want operators to look beyond the accepted datacentre metrics to assess the impact the industry’s growth is having on the environment.
The company set out plans in November 2014 to ramp up its use of renewable energy in the coming years, in the aim of having all of its cloud datacentres powered by green power.
Hamilton said the company has faced challenges trying to balance its commitment to using renewable energy with its growing cloud capacity demands.
“We hit 40% this year, which is an number when you consider the idea of doubling capacity in that period,” he said.
“The AWS power team has signed up to deliver 40%, and if they doubled the amount of renewable energy during that period – while we doubled our datacentre capacity – they would be at 25%.”
While some of its facilities are 100% renewably powered already, it is not possible to meet the latency needs of its global customer base by drawing on the capacity of these sites alone.
“If customers put their workloads in Oregon, our 100% renewable region, we are at 100%. We appreciate those who do that,” said Hamilton.
“However, many customers want to have their data close to their users, and some of the places where customers want to put data today aren’t the cleanest power locations in the world.
“We are therefore signing up to a challenge. We want to make it right everywhere, and we are not going to do that by removing choice for customers,” he said.
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Five traffic free cycle trails in Cornwall
Cornish Cycle Tours > What to see > Five traffic free cycle trails in Cornwall
With so much of Cornwall to see, a bike gives you the freedom to discover and enjoy the beautiful scenery at your own pace.
The county is filled with cycle trails which offer stunning views, and avoid the traffic on Cornwall’s roads. We’ve selected a few of our favourite traffic free cycle trails for you to try – find out more below:
The Camel Trail
Running between the historic town of Bodmin and the fishing port of Padstow, this 18 mile trail follows a disused railway line through the Cornish countryside and along the stunning Camel Estuary.
With plenty of pubs, shops, and restaurants to visit along the way, and cycle hire available from Padstow, Wadebridge, and Bodmin, this relatively flat, surfaced trail is perfect for enjoying some of the most spectacular countryside in the south west.
Cardinham Woods
Located on the outskirts of Bodmin, Cardinham Woods is draped in a series of specially built cycle trails. The trails range from a number of family friendly routes, to the 12 kilometre ‘Bodmin Beast’, which is a single track trail with adrenaline filled climbs and descents.
Cardinham Woods offers cycle hire, and also features an award-winning café serving delicious homemade food using locally-sourced ingredients.
Pentewan Valley Trail
Following the old railway line between the village of Pentewan and the historic town of St Austell, this three mile trail runs through the picturesque wooded area of Pentewan valley.
Pentewan features a long stretch of sandy beach, and is filled with pubs, shops and restaurants – an ideal spot to relax after a ride.
Rock to Polzeath
Beginning at St Minver (just up the hill from Rock) this off-road trail takes riders through to the stunning Polzeath.
Created by the owners of The Point, whose land the trail runs through, this route passes across the golf course, past The Point’s café and restaurant (a perfect rest stop) and boasts some spectacular coastal views.
Wheal Martyn to the Eden Project
This route is one of five Clay Trails which surround the St Austell area. Setting off from the Wheal Martyn museum, this mostly wide gravel path trail enjoys views of south Cornwall’s China Clay country as it winds its way around former clay tips.
The trail finishes at the stunning Eden Project with is colourful gardens and towering biomes, and the chance to enjoy some freshly prepared local food.
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'Chessiderata!'
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I’m sure that many of you will agree that the most eloquent expression of this exquisite pursuit is a finely played game between two renowned masters. So, can mere words ever capture the full majesty and drama of chess?
Chessiderata!
Tread warily amid the noise and haste …
… as two implacable adversaries of equal measure face each other across a field of combat beyond the shadowy confines of which both will simply cease to be. Everything is NOW, all existence defined within a single plane. There is no cruel fate here, no blind chance, and there are no random acts of arbitrary injustice or unfathomable favouritism from a far-distant deity.
One army is arrayed in glorious white; the other, bedecked in baleful black. Two irreconcilablefoes about to be locked in a battle to the end, both irretrievably bound to protect the liberty of a king upon whose well-being their own survival ultimately depends. There is no moral exactitude in this strange land - no fine distinctions between right and wrong - but there are rules, and these rules are as binding as any of the known laws of physics which govern our universe.
With a theatrical flourish, the white force abruptly makes the first move. It is the beginning of a carefully premeditated assault intended to inflict maximum injury upon the opposing side. There is a sudden unnerving neighing of terrified horses and a thunderous pounding of hoofs as frightened war-bred steeds leap into action over their own forward ranks.
Amidst this dreadful cacophony can barely be heard the steady march of those who are no more than mere pawns in a much larger contest, a contest which will always reside well beyond the limited comprehension of these hapless foot soldiers who are doomed never to return from whence they came.
It is not long before the cold, clinical precision of warrior bishops begins to cut diagonal swathes through enemy lines. There is all to play for, and everything to lose. Within scant seconds, the parameters have expanded so dramatically that the clash seems to spiral into a realm of its own.
Waiting patiently in the wings, just beyond the increasingly ferocious field of conflict, are the battering-ram rooks, the juggernauts of this primordial struggle. Their devastating incursions will soon resurrect haunting visions of the innumerable sieges which have laid waste to so many great civilizations whose ruined remains have long since been submerged beneath the shifting sands of time.
Even more heart-stopping is the statuesque queen: aloof, elemental and utterly inhumane. Indifferent to such trivialities as pity or remorse, she surveys the scene before her with a dispassionate eye, her magnificent power about to be unleashed on every inch of ground.
However, the most astounding thing about this elegant microcosm of the human condition is that it is not being conducted on a muddy tract in some far-flung corner of our world, but in a perfectly sanitary, mathematically precise, abstract dimension which consists of just sixty-four squares, and yet which is imbued with such infinite complexity that no matter how many aeons may pass, no two such encounters need ever be the same.
This is life; this is death.
This is chess.
It’s not just a game!
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Malaria is absent from most parts of South Africa, and it is nowhere as prevalent as it is in much of equatorial Africa. Exceptions are the eastern lowveld of Mpumalanga and Limpopo, which is classified as a moderate-risk malarial area, and coastal KwaZulu-Natal north of Richard’s Bay, which is regarded to be low risk. Transmission is more-or-less confined to the rainy summer months. For this reason, travellers who intend to visit the Kruger National Park and/or adjacent private reserves from September to May are advised to take antimalarial drugs, and visitors to iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Hluhluwe-Imfolozi might also consider it. Several such drugs are available and it is best to seek advice from a doctor or travel clinic a few weeks before.
It is also advisable to take all reasonable precautions against being bitten by the nocturnal Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the disease. Wear a long-sleeved shirt, trousers and socks in the evening, apply a DEET-based insect repellent to any exposed flesh, and sleep under a net, in an air-conditioned room, under a fan, or with a mosquito coil burning.
Travellers with young children or who prefer not to take medication could consider visiting one of several malaria-free safari destinations, for instance Madikwe, Pilanesberg or Addo, in preference to the Kruger National Park.
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Lush foliage can hide wildlife in its fold during April Johannesburg and the highveld is warm by day, cool at night and might receive occasional rainfall. Cape Town and the Western Cape is mild by day, cool at night and might start receiving occasional rainfall to mark the start of the wet winter period. The Kruger Park and surrounds sees the seasonal shift towards autumn with…
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The narina trogon in iSimangaliso Wetland Park South Africa is a superb bird watching destination. The national checklist comprises around 840 species, and includes the world’s largest bird (ostrich) and what is reputedly its bulkiest flying species (kori bustard) along with a dazzling variety of birds of prey, ranging from the largely terrestrial secretary-bird to the charismatic…
The majestic Drakensberg mountains | Credit: Joe Cornish Africa’s largest protected montane wilderness - the 2,500km2 uKhahlamba-Drakensberg National Park extends for a full 200 km along the border of KwaZulu-Natal and Lesotho, and incorporates several dozen peaks with the highest rising to 3,000m. Its name combines the isiZulu uKhahlamba (“Barrier of Spears”) with the Afrikaans…
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Right-Wing Pirates: Hateful but Rare
The events of the last month in the United States should leave no question that a fascist, white-supermacist element is on the resurgence here. Spurred on by nationalist and hate-denialist sites like Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and other notable right-wing media conglomerates such as News Corp. (FOX News), Sinclair, and Salem, this despicable ideology has its own well-developed media ecosystem now.
Although much of this media-behavior’s out in the open presently, it’s cropped up throughout our history on broadcast stations that, by law, should not exist. I’ve written about some of these here, including ostansible pro-German prankster-stations during World Wars One and Two, and the curious case of Reverend Carl McIntire who, after creating a loose syndicated radio-version of the FOX News Channel in the 1950-60s, lost the licenses to his Pennsylvania radio stations in 1970. Continue reading “Right-Wing Pirates: Hateful but Rare”
Author diymedia_tu6doxPosted on August 28, 2017 Categories Pirate RadioTags breitbart, carl mcintire, daily caller, fascism, fox news, ksmr, radio free america, salem, sinclair, steve anderson, united patriot radio, white supremacy
Last Bites of Translator Feast At Hand
The final element of a radio spectrum “land rush” that began more than a decade ago involving FM translator stations is upon us.
Translators exploded onto the scene as a way for broadcasters to gain new FM signals on the cheap back in 2003, when some clever religious broadcasters flooded a filing window which resulted in the tendering of thousands of translator-station construction permits. These folks inspired other spectrum-spectulators to jump in, sensing that this would be the last chance to colonize the FM dial in the United States. They all then sold the majority of these permits, for thousands to millions of dollars apiece.
These translators have been mostly utilized to give HD Radio-only programming (like that found on FM HD-2 and -3 subchannels) an analog presence, which some have likened to launching an entirely new station, and to allow AM stations a foothold on the FM dial. Since that first rush, the FCC’s opened multiple opportunities for broadcasters to purchase existing translator stations, most recently as part of FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s vaunted AM revitalization initiative. Continue reading “Last Bites of Translator Feast At Hand”
Author diymedia_tu6doxPosted on July 16, 2017 Categories FCC, FM Translator, Media PolicyTags ajit pai, am revitalization, ed atzinger, nab, national association of broadcasters, salem, spectrum, speculation
Salem's Open-Source Broadcast Software
While updating the Schnazz last I stumbled across an interesting arm of Salem Communications Corporation, America’s largest religious broadcast conglomerate (humble, tolerant, and generous). Salem Radio Labs, the company’s in-house radio software development arm, walks the talk. It’s built solutions for automation, live-assist, audio archiving and call screening from scratch, all under the open-source GNU General Public License.
Says the Labs FAQ, “we’re broadcasters, not a software company, and we believe that the fastest, most efficient way to produce quality software tools for broadcasting is by means of the Open Source development model.” The programs are optimized for the SuSE Linux distribution but other flavors are available.
Author diymedia_tu6doxPosted on October 21, 2005 Categories UncategorizedTags salem, software
Point/Counterpoint: Godcasting and its "Persecution"
Last week Paul @ Mediageek received an excitingly strained e-mail from Don Mills, the program director of Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls’ Calvary Satellite Network. CCTF/CSN is the largest single owner of translator stations in the United States. Paul’s been critical of Calvary Chapel in the past and Mills wrote to rebut the allegation that his network is actively trying to scarf up LPFM stations to add to its empire (CCTF/CSN currently owns or controls 300+ translators, has applied to construct another 300+, and has dozens of full-power FM affiliates).
While several applications for LPFM stations around the country have been tendered under shady circumstances by “Calvary Chapels,” Mills stressed that those Calvary Chapels are not associated with his operation.
Most notable, though, was the missive’s shifting tone. It began with an intimidatory “request for copies” of anything Mediageek has written or recorded about Calvary Chapel. Then, following a justification of CCTF/CSN’s existence and expansion, the man who controls 300+ radio stations remarked to the guy with a blog, “It just seems that you don’t like the fact that Christians have a voice on radio.” Continue reading “Point/Counterpoint: Godcasting and its "Persecution"”
Author diymedia_tu6doxPosted on May 10, 2004 Categories LPFM, Media PolicyTags calvary chapel, salem, stuart epperson
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Dodgers: Kenley Jansen Is Still Elite, But He Needs To Be Rested
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If he gets more rest, who steps up?
by AJ Gonzalez 06/17/2019, 9:00 PM
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 31: Kenley Jansen #74 of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches in the ninth inning against the Philadelphia Phillies at Dodger Stadium on May 31, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
When Kenley Jansen plunked Kris Bryant on Saturday, it was pretty clear to many Dodger fans that Kenley didn’t quite “have it.” Giving up the home run to Rizzo just a few moments later didn’t surprise me. Based on what I saw on Twitter, a lot of Dodger fans saw the end result coming as well. However the fan reactions to Kenley Jansen vary. From blame to absolution, from anger to acceptance, Kenley Jansen may be getting an unfair beat.
When You’re Superhuman, You’re Always Expected To Be
There are certain memories from childhood that stay with you, and for me many of them come from the 1991 world series. Tim McCarver commented on an error made by Terry Pendleton (at the time an elite fielder) and said that “sometimes you’re penalized by your ability.” We as people do tend to judge players or people more harshly when they’re so damn good.
Clayton Kershaw suffers this effect. Bullpen pitchers always suffer this effect. They often go in for only one inning. If they give up a run, that’s it, and their night has been a failure. If a starting pitcher gives up a run in the first inning, he still has the rest of the night to make a quality start. Bullpen pitchers are given little to no grace.
Breaking Down The Splits
Jesse Rogers for ESPN shared this statistical nugget on Sunday.
K.Jansen: He has a 7.88 ERA (7 ER/8 IP) on 0 days rest this season, compared to 1.74 ERA (4 ER/20 2/3 IP) with 1 or more days rest. This is 3rd day in a row.
— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) June 17, 2019
It’s pretty simple: When Kenley Jansen doesn’t pitch back to back, he only has a 1.74 ERA. Dodgers stat man (and friend of Dodgers Nation) added another good point to this statistical nugget.
Noteworthy, yes, but keep in mind that 4 of the 7 ERs he's allowed on 0 days rest came in 1 game. Exclude, that and it's 3 ER in 8 1/3 IP (3.24 ERA) now https://t.co/Ckmm9M0tiW
— Rick Krajewski (@Rick_K21) June 17, 2019
Early in the season, Kenley Jansen’s grand slam walk off he allowed to the Padres was heavily inflating his ERA. As he’s added more innings, it’s become abundantly clear when and how Kenley has more success. He needs more days in between outings.
Dodgers Need To Rest The Big Man, But Who Fills In?
It’s hard for Dave Roberts to give Kenley more off days when there has been nobody else to trust in the bullpen. If the Dodgers don’t play ‘let’s make a deal’ before the deadline, then they’ve got to hope for better results from their pen. Julio Urias has been pretty effective for the most part, despite some hiccups. His future was obviously up in the air up until very recently. Dylan Floro has been very hit or miss, but can we ask of more from a reliever who up until last year, was pitching in obscurity? Joe Kelly has been a disaster. Whether it’s Floro, or even Caleb Ferguson or Ross Stripling, their has been uncertainty. The obvious choice is Pedro Baez.
It’s not necessarily ideal. Even while effective, Pedro tends to get behind the first batter, often walking them. He has managed to almost always get out of these jams, but this process is surely playing with fire. Still, results are results. It’s time for Pedro to assume the 9th when Kenley Jansen is resting.
It’s difficult to not feel like one is giving a sweeping mandate in terms of how to react to bullpen issues. There definitely is an issue with the Dodgers bullpen. It’s only human to react and get angry when the bullpen blows a lead, especially since the closer is typically there in the 9th inning. It’s shattering, often times heartbreaking, when our team loses the lead right before the end. It’s good to get that invested and it’s okay to react angrily or otherwise. It’s also good to look at numbers and statistics. Statistics help define truths that transcend emotional reactions. Kenley Jansen is still very good, but he needs more rest.
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Written by AJ Gonzalez
AJ is a lifelong Dodgers fan who grew up in California. His whole family are also lifelong Dodgers fans. He lives in Tennessee with his wife, daughter, beagle, and strat.
How much rest does Kenley need? He just had 14 days and he only pitches 1 inning. Everyone else has been pulling their weight.
Jack B. says:
Relying on Jansen to close every game (especially going into September/October) isn’t realistic. Obtaining a second closer who can also work as a middle reliever would be ideal. There’s only six weeks left to get the pen ready for a pennant run!
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iFollow Rovers at Ebbsfleet
iFollow Rovers based overseas will only be able to listen to commentary of Saturday’s FA Cup first round match rather than watch it.
iFollow Rovers subscribers based outside the UK & Ireland are able to watch Sky Bet League One matches, but not cup competitions.
Commentary for this match will be available to subscribers, based both in the UK and overseas, as normal - but the pre-match discussion will not start until five minutes before kick-off rather than 15.
This is because Ebbsfleet United do not have the facilities for the club to provide audio commentary, with Radio Sheffield agreeing to provide a live feed in its place. Their on-air commitments mean they cannot provide a feed until closer to kick-off.
Club Doncaster media manager Luke Thornhill said: “While we always aspire to provide bespoke coverage with a member of our team, I’d like to thank Radio Sheffield sports editor Andy Giddings for his help in providing a feed so we can still deliver commentary to subscribers.
“We know how much our subscribers value the service, and in recent weeks we’ve had John Marquis and Alfie May join our team on matchdays as expert summarisers - Alfie enjoyed it so much he’s already agreed to do it again when we host Rotherham United next weekend.”
Fans can subscribe to iFollow Rovers - providing exclusive live commentary as well as full videos of all pre and post-match press conferences - for less than £5 a month. Click here to sign up.
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On Inspiration: Interview with Camille Di Maio
June 3, 2018 By Elisabeth Storrs 31 Comments
My lovely guest today is Camille Di Maio is the bestselling author of The Memory of Us, Before the Rain Falls, and The Way of Beauty, and she is part of the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll. She has been married for twenty years and has four children. She’s lived in four states, and held careers in political campaigning and real estate before giving it all up to pursue her dream of writing. Her other passion is travel and her bucket list is never-ending. You can connect with Camille via Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Bookbub or her website. Learn more about her on Amazon. And here are the links to purchase The Way of Beauty, The Memory of Us and Before the Rain Falls.
What or who inspired you to first write?
I spent most of my recesses in grade school in the library and I read through nearly everything they had. I was fascinated by words, stories, and authors. And I wanted to be one of them someday.
Which authors have influenced you?
Early on, I was really inspired by Charlotte Brontë, L. M. Montgomery, and Laura Ingalls. My two favorite authors are Agatha Christie and Kate Morton.
What is the inspiration for your current book? Is there a particular theme you wished to explore?
My inspiration for The Way of Beauty was the original Penn Station in New York City. It was absolutely remarkable – from its inception to its building. And yet, it was torn down to build Madison Square Garden. Its loss brought about the preservation groups that went on to save hundreds of other buildings in the city. But a theme that started to emerge was that of women and I started to see a pattern in the life span of the train station and the arc of a woman’s life. I explored how they fought for the right to vote, how they took on the jobs of men during the war, and how they adjusted to a new, modern world in the middle of the century.
What period of history particularly inspires or interests you? Why?
I really love the first half of the 20th century. They faced many of the same challenges we do, but without the benefit of all of the technologies that we have. I’m inspired by what they had to sacrifice during war and how innovated they needed to be to straddle new opportunities.
What resources do you use to research your book? How long did it take to finish the novel?
I have been to New York many times, so I utilized my own experiences in the city and supplemented it with books, documentaries and Google Maps. It took me about a year to write the book, but I was thinking about it for several years before that. Most books spin in my head for a few years before I type one word on my laptop.
What do you do if stuck for a word or phrase?
I usually look up to the ceiling as if it will provide the answer! But if I don’t come up with what I want to say, I go to thesaurus.com and just start looking at lots of words until the right one calls out.
Is there anything unusual or even quirky that you would like to share about your writing?
I would say that my life is quirky and fitting writing into it is definitely unusual. I homeschool my four children (though my first is actually off to college, so three are at home now) and my husband works at home. So, the house has not been the best place to write. I steal away to the library or a coffee shop for a few hours a week and get in as much writing as I can.
Do you use a program like Scrivener to create your novel? Do you ever write in long hand?
I’m pretty old fashioned! I’m only a recent convert to depositing money in an ATM rather than walking in a bank, and I don’t have a bank app on my phone. So, no, I haven’t switched to the glory that I hear Scrivener is. I use Word, but it works for me! I don’t write my books in long hand, but I do write lots and lots of letters to people. I try to write about one letter per day.
Is there a particular photo or piece of art that strikes a chord with you? Why?
This has nothing to do with writing, but one of my favorite photos ever is the one of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa holding hands. I am struck at how the statuesque princess and the tiny old nun shared a sense of loving the less fortunate.
What advice would you give an aspiring author?
See a first draft for what it is. A draft. Do not try to compare it to the finished works that you read. By the time a book is published, it has gone through countless drafts, a developmental edit, a copy edit, a proofread, and many other steps. If you believe you have a nugget of something good, just keep at it. Refine, refine, refine, but do not get discouraged because of comparison.
Tell us about your next book.
I’m just finishing my fourth, as-yet-untitled book. It is set in Coronado, California in the 1950s. There is a ghost, a mystery, a love story, and the tale of a young woman emerging from the expectations of her family. I loved writing something set at a beach!
Hearts and dreams evolve in the shadow of the once-magnificent Penn Station.
Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera’s life to unexpected possibilities. Angelo’s new wife, Pearl, the wealthy daughter of a clothing manufacturer, has defied her family’s expectations by devoting herself to the suffrage movement. In Pearl, Vera finds an unexpected dear friend…and a stirring new cause of her own. But when Pearl’s selfless work pulls her farther from Angelo and their son, the life Vera craved is suddenly within her reach—if her conscience will allow her to take it.
Her choice will define not only her future but also that of her daughter, Alice.
Vera and Alice—a generation and a world apart—are bound by the same passionate drive to fulfill their dreams. As first mother and then daughter come of age in a city that is changing as rapidly as its skyline, they’ll each discover that love is the only constant.
Congratulations on your new release, Camille! Many thanks for sharing your sources of inspiration with us. You can purchase your copy of The Way of Beauty here.
Haven’t subscribed yet to enter into giveaways from my guests? You’re not too late for the chance to win this month’s book if you subscribe to my Monthly Inspiration newsletter for giveaways and insights into history – both trivia and the serious stuff! In appreciation for subscribing, I’m offering an 80 page free short story Dying for Rome -Lucretia’s Tale.
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Written by: Elisabeth Storrs
Elisabeth Storrs is the author of the Tales of Ancient Rome. Learn more at www.elisabethstorrs.com. Subscribe to her monthly newsletter for inspiration, giveaways, and insights into history - both trivia and the serious stuff! https://www.elisabethstorrs.com/subscribe/
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Kathryn Gauci says
This is a period that interests me greatly and your books seem to offer a different perspective of the times. I also love the covers. Wishing you every success with it.
John Dallal says
The Way of Beauty looks like a book I’d like to check out. Count me in!
Anne L. Rightler says
Sounds like a good read! Loving your covers. Thanks for the opportunity to win one of your books.
Deb Stern says
Oh my gosh, this book is for me. I am fascinated with any women’s movement throughout our history that made it possible for me to live my reality as a Navy Veteran. I can’t imagine any time in history that was better than now for those let’s MAGA. To not have my own credit, right to vote etc, is unimaginable to me. I’m so thankful to have a husband with the self confidence to not need to stifle my independence. This novel is now on my TBR list.
Lynda Murray says
Interesting interview. I love Learning who authors read and who has influenced them. Would love to win this book!
enjoyed the interview.
Caroline Lennek says
I too look at my ceiling for the answers to work relate issues. Comforting to know that a successful author uses the same technique!
Carla Morgan says
I absolutely loved The Memory of Us… the time period is one of my favorite as a historian! I would love to add The Way of Beauty to my collection.
I love the fine historical detail of your books. It makes the story come alive!
Jackie Wisherd says
I know I would enjoy reading this story. I like to read how women have lived their lives amid certain circumstances.
Wonderful interview! I’ve been really interested in her books, and this one sounds incredible. I love hearing more about the writing process from other authors.
Beverly Laude says
Great interview. I always enjoy hearing how authors come up with book ideas.
Gail Malane says
I love the idea that the story revolves around Penn Station, the suffrage movement and two female friends. I also love NYC around the turn of the century. This book is right up my alley !
Teresa Williams says
Everything sounds awesome.
Danielle Hammelef says
I love women POV characters in historical fiction as I didn’t have too much of that growing up.
Very interesting interview! Would be very interested in adding this novel to my summer reading. Thanks for the chance to win.
Linda Smith says
What a wonderful interview. I especially liked the picture of Princess Diana and Mother Theresa. This book has it all and I’d be thrilled to add it to my permanent collection of read-and-read-again books. Thank you for the opportunity!
Sounds like an interesting book. I love history and all of the hidden stories the people could tell. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
Betty Taylor says
I love historical fiction. It is a wonderful way to learn more history in a fun way.
Dianne Casey says
I love reading historical novels and I always learn something new. This is an interesting era in history and the suffrage movement sounds like an interesting storyline.
Gloria Walshver says
This is a book I would surely read, powerful women fascinates and intrigues me into how she got so much power.
Barbara Zenger says
I have not read any of your books. They certainly are within my reading interests. would love to win one,
Linda Romer says
I live in New York and would love to read Camille’s book. Thanks for the chance.
Mary Lou Fisher says
Historical novels are really good reading. Hope to win.
Vicki Wurgler says
enjoyed the interview-I also spent alot of time in the library-it was between my home and school, I love to read
Linda Fast says
The suffrage movement was a defining moment in history. These women were so passionate and came from every walk of life. I like reading historical novels because there are always interesting facts and you learn while you read which is why I would love to read “The Way of Beauty.” The interview was really interesting and I loved the photo of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa. I’m not sure if this is open to Canadians but if it is count me in.
Elisabeth Storrs says
The giveaway is definitely open to Canadians😊 It’s open to all! Delighted you dropped by.
Lisa Bloom says
Sounds wonderful! Thanks so much for the chance! :)
Caryl Kane says
The Way of Beauty sounds like a book that I’ll enjoy! Congratulations on your release!
Jane Squires says
Your books sound like something I would like. I write reviews only on print books. God bless.
Sherrie Merrell says
Fabulous Interview❤💜💛💙💚
Thanks bunches
Suzannah Clark says
I have homeschooled all 4 of my kids and am on the last one now. He will be a junior in high school next year. I love the idea of using Google Maps for accuracy in your writing. thanks for the interview.
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PLANS to build a temporary new 15 metre high mobile phone mast in Saffron Walden have been given the go ahead. O2 Airwave had applied to renew planning permission originally given in 2003 to site the mast on Shire Hill Industrial Estate. It will have thre
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Willy Caballero praises Frank Lampard’s impact at Chelsea
Lampard praised
Prior to joining Chelsea as manager, Frank Lampard had just one year of managerial experience under his belt.
Lampard was in charge of Championship outfit Derby County last season.
In his one season with the Rams, Lampard guided them to a 6th place finish in the Championship, and then reached the Championship play-off final, which his side lost 2-1 to Aston Villa.
Despite having never managed in the English top-flight, Chelsea chose Lampard as the man to replace Maurizio Sarri, after the Italian joined Juventus.
While Lampard hasn’t been back at Stamford Bridge for long, Willy Caballero has already been praising Lampard and his impact:
“It’s been superb with Frank so far. The way he spoke to us on the first day was amazing and he’s been great so far.
“He told us how he wants us to play, his ideas, how he wants us to train and how much work we must put in to be successful.
“He explained what it means to play for Chelsea and we are all excited to work under him. ‘He played at this club for a long time and won many trophies here, and he wants the same for us as players and for him as the head coach.
“We have to be ready to work hard, he’s told us that, and that we have a lot of talent in the squad. It’s an exciting time to be at the club.” As quoted by Chelsea’s official website.
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 04: New Chelsea Head Coach Frank Lampard holds the home Chelsea FC shirt after press conference at Stamford Bridge on July 4, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)
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Chelsea then faced St. Patrick’s Athletic on Saturday, and came away with a 4-0 win.
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The intellectual capital performance of the Indian banking sector
G. Barathi Kamath (ICFAI Business School, Nirlon Complex, Goregaon, Mumbai, India)
Journal of Intellectual Capital
The paper seeks to estimate and analyze the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC™) for measuring the value‐based performance of the Indian banking sector for a period of five years from 2000 to 2004.
Design/methodology/approach
Annual reports, especially the profit/loss account and balance‐sheet of the banks concerned for the relevant years, were used to obtain the data. A review is conducted of the international literature on intellectual capital with specific reference to literature that reviews measurement techniques and tools, and the VAIC™ method is applied in order to analyze the data of Indian banks for the five‐year period. The intellectual or human capital (HC) and physical capital (CA) of the Indian banking sector is analysed and their impact on the banks' value‐based performance is discussed.
The study confirms the existence of vast differences in the performance of Indian banks in different segments, and there is also an improvement in the overall performance over the study period. There is an evident bias in favour of the performance of foreign banks compared with domestic banks.
Research limitations/implications
All 98 scheduled commercial banks are studied as per the information provided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)/India's Apex bank. Regional rural banks (RRBs), a segment of the indian banking sector, are not dealt with in the study since their number is large (more than 200), but they contribute only 3 percent of the market of Indian banks. This paper is a landmark in Indian banking history as it approaches performance measurement with a new dimension.
Practical implications
The paper has strong theoretical foundations, which have a proven record and applications. The methodology adopted has been research tested. Domestic banks in India are provided with a new dimension to understand and evaluate their performance and benchmark it with global standards. The paper also has policy implications, as it reflects the lop‐sided growth of a few sections in the Indian banking segment.
Originality/value
The paper represents a pioneering and seminal attempt to understand the implications of the business performance of the Indian banking sector from an intellectual resource perspective.
Intellectual capital
G. Barathi Kamath (2007) "The intellectual capital performance of the Indian banking sector", Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 96-123
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SCOTUS Denies Cert for Maher Arar
June 14, 2010 /57 Comments/in Torture /by emptywheel
Apparently, this country has deemed it okay to take an innocent Canadian citizen transiting through US airports and instead send them to a third country to be tortured. That seems to be the lesson from SCOTUS’ decision to deny Maher Arar cert in his suit against the US. From a CCR press release on the decision:
Today, the United States Supreme Court decided not to hear the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case on behalf of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and detained for a year.
The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which the Supreme Court declined to review, was decided on the legal ground that Congress, not the courts, must authorize a remedy. As a result, the substance of Mr. Arar’s case, first filed in January 2004, has never been heard and now never will be.
Mr. Arar said, “Today’s decision eliminates my last bit of hope in the judicial system of the United States. When it comes to ‘national security’ matters the judicial system has willingly abandoned its sacred role of ensuring that no one is above the law. My case and other cases brought by human beings who were tortured have been thrown out by U.S. courts based on dubious government claims. Unless the American people stand up for justice they will soon see their hard-won civil liberties taken away from them as well.”
Last month, the Obama administration chose to weigh in on Mr. Arar’s case for the first time. The Obama administration could have settled the case, recognizing the wrongs done to Mr. Arar as Canada has done. (Canada conducted a full investigation, admitting wrongdoing, exonerated Mr. Arar, apologized, and paid him $10 million in damages for their part in his injuries.) Yet the Obama administration chose to come to the defense of Bush administration officials, arguing that even if they conspired to send Maher Arar to torture, they should not be held accountable by the judiciary.
Said CCR cooperating attorney David Cole, “The courts have regrettably refused to right the egregious wrong done to Maher Arar. But the courts have never questioned that a wrong was done. They have simply said that it is up to the political branches to fashion a remedy. We are deeply disappointed that the courts have shirked their responsibility. But this decision only underscores the moral responsibility of those to whom the courts deferred – President Obama and Congress – to do the right thing and redress Arar’s injuries.”
Lower courts concluded that Mr. Arar’s suit raised too many sensitive foreign policy and secrecy issues to allow his case to proceed, and that therefore it was the role of the political branches to authorize a remedy.
The decision does not bode well for either state secrets cases or for suits trying to hold Bush Administration officials responsible for torture (such as the Yoo appeal being heard in the 9th Circuit today).
Which I guess means we’ve officially become a country that finds protecting those who commit torture more important than justice for those who were tortured.
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klynn says:
This is sickening. I hope this is bold headline front page news in all Canadian papers. Please Cananda, please, raise a media stink about the injustice of this.
Here, it will be buried in the news and hoped no US citizens even learn about it.
The US IS Nazi Germany.
b2020 says:
“The US is Nazi Germany”
This might be misleading beyond the hyperbole.
The Nazis were very intent on law-made-to-order – the legislature’s job was to ensure a consistent legal foundation for any and all atrocities. For example, concentration camps and work camps had their own dedicated office and civil servant recording births (if any) and deaths (in abundance), as a death without complete paperwork ultimately required a homicide investigation under German law. The most prominent – most teutonic – feature of the extermination campaign was not the genocide – there is plenty of that in the history of “civilization”, at least in aspiration – but the compulsive thoroughness with which it was implemented.
Here in the US, it just looks like Bullshit Hour all day – nobody seems unduly worried about legal consistency and the rule of law, and various courts appear to see fit to write the supremacy of foreign policy concerns straight into the docket. It is impressive, in its own way, but the sloppiness and generally unprofessional conduct involved has nothing on Nazi Germany. The sheer size of the Homeland bureaucracy, and the incessant infighting, are somewhat comparable, and the various actors are certainly trying, but the work ethics just isn’t there. This ain’t the Forth Reich – more like a bonafide Banana Republic, but with nukes and ICBMs. Whether this should be seen as a saving grace of sorts is an open question.
“I still can’t figure out how you murder three people in a row, accidentally even, with rags down the throat. I mean, after you just killed two, you’re doing it wrong, that’s right in the memo.”
— Scott Horton, antiwar radio, at 30:35
Pragmatically, I think you’d have to say that Obama’s crew just killed Americans with pushing for and achieving that result.
Over and over they have seen that it’s these kind of injustices that feed the desires to strike at the US and they just don’t give a rats ass. Better to protect Bush and to concentrate “power” in the Executive than to allow a little justice and thereby prevent US citizens from becoming the sacrifices to that power.
The super duper hilarious part is that we have Lockheed et al out there, “teaching” them thar heathen folks in Afghanistan about Justice.
I think they just learned all they need to know.
Yep. An interesting approach to “lead by example.”
Note: I do not think it is just Bush we are protecting here. I think we are protecting a few other countries.
I think the sales pitch to the court is that they are protecting the US/Syria diplomatic relationship, since if you delve into whether or not he was tortured and the US knew he’d be tortured, you can’t escape that he was tortured by the US.
And of course, it’s a good ruling for Pepsico, too. It’s General Counsel, Larry Thompson, was directly involved in the shipment to torture – gee, can’t imagine that Obama and Holder would want to provide lots of cover on that front. /s
It sounds like maybe Arar needs to start pushing for CAN to start unsealing some of their sealed info since he’s exhausted his other routes.
Oh, I don’t know. Maybe they’re just protecting the torture-enabling PepsiCo.
I guess their commercial response to “I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company” goes something like, “You’d better buy a lot of Pepsi or Larry Thompson will have you rendered to torture” /s
Grow apple trees and honey bees, and snow white turtle doves.
Use EITs and object sodomy-s with free passes from the Gov.
bmaz says:
Well you don’t have Professor Comey to kick around any more; so you got that going for you.
That crew has no shame over what they’ve done to this country. THey seriously sit around and pat themselves on the back – while collecting Lockheed & Boeing paychecks and Harvard sinecures – and they don’t even have to bother with flaterring themselves, they have a well-trained press to do it for them.
earlofhuntingdon says:
I think that crew cares as much for the rule of law as a medieval baron cared for his serfs or animals, or a social Darwinist cares about social justice. The concept is anathema to them. That crew cares about only its privileges and its lack of liability, sanctioned by a cooperative church or legislature.
It really does just pile on with having watched Judgment at Nuremberg yesterday.
It’s like someone tried to make the movie, but without a Janning; just a lot of guys saying “hey, we didn’t realize millions would be murdered and besides, we were protecting our country” and with Spencer Tracy being told “hey, we can’t convict Germany’s leaders, as a matter of national security we need them” and him saying, “damn, I’m gobsmacked, how right you are, let’s see if they can give us a tour, maybe take us out hunting quail or sumpin after we let them off”
Nothing serious, nothing sacred, nothing even sentient.
cregan says:
The movie would have been even more to the point if they had revealed the number of Jews who were murdered when they did try to return to their homes after the war or get their businesses back. Somewhere around a few thousand in 1946.
The “leaders” were not the only ones culpable. The citizens were not all that innocent. These things don’t grow out of nothing.
The movie does make the point about the citizens being culpable – it has a lot of very thought provoking argument on where do you cut of liability when the citizens knew what was going on, saw and heard the children loaded into cattle cars, and did nothing.
And that’s the point here and now as well, isn’t it? We, the people, know what was done to el-Masri, to Errachidi, to Dilawar, to 2 million Iraqis who have been made into refugees; we know what was done to Arar, we know what was done at Haditha, we know what was done at Fallujah, we know abpit the human experimentation and the disappeared children and the innocent men knowingly held in depravity for years – we know. Yet the only care or concern shown is the consideration of whether our department of justice should be a Hammer or a Wrench.
skdadl says:
I’ll just repeat myself from the last thread: this doesn’t end here. (Well, nothing ever really ends, does it?)
Arar is not just going for a settlement, either. He is on U.S. watch lists, which gives him trouble travelling elsewhere — for a time it gave him trouble travelling within Canada, until the government stepped on that (presumably because he now has some legal clout here). His is not the only case like that. In answer to direct questions about his status and that of others, Napolitano just fogs (while continuing to damage the lives of real human beings — well, ok, Canadians, but human otherwise).
wavpeac says:
This link is from a post up at kos…the clip depicts an America, I don’t recognize today. It’s worth watching…but it will make you weep.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/14/875642/-Judgment
BoxTurtle says:
They couldn’t even get 5 votes to HEAR the case. I think we’ve just learned everything about Sotomeyer we need to know.
Boxturtle (It’s a good thing I believe in karma, or I’d be really depressed)
Do we know how the individual justices voted?
Mary @ 7
Bulleye.
I think Canada can afford a bit of diplomatic uneasiness between them and the US. How could it get any worse after this decision? Canada has to do something to show their citizens that they will stand up for them against any foreign power. To do nothing is a political and national security risk Canada cannot afford to take.
One word: Harper. He seems as much a BushCo tool as Obama. He’ll stop anything more than a sternly worded letter.
Boxturtle (You guys do SWL’s up there?)
Harper’s government is neocon-Rovian. The leader of the opposition Liberals is a good friend of Cass Sunstein. Need I say more?
Not much of a choice there, eh.
Actually, I will say a bit more. Harper has paid lip-service to the results of the O’Connor inquiry only because it happened before he became PM. In opposition, when Arar was still in Syria, he attacked then-PM Chretien’s government for (belatedly) working to get Arar back. If Harper had been PM in 2002-03, Arar would either still be in Syria or he’d be dead.
O’Connor’s inquiry was as exhaustive as it could be — and astonishingly public — without the co-operation of the U.S., Syria, and Jordan (also implicated). Harper would never allow an inquiry like that to happen, never, not for any suspect Muslim. See his defiance of Parliament in the Khadr case. Harper loves the GWOT, loves it. He believes people like Khadr should suffer. I’m not making this up.
See his defiance of Parliament in the Khadr case. Harper loves the GWOT, loves it. He believes people like Khadr should suffer. I’m not making this up.
Thus, his evangelical faith gets in the way of seeing the need to carry out justice.
He is following his evangelical Christian roots. He is not upholding Canadian justice. Evangelical Christians preach that the Brotherhood of Islam is the greatest threat to Christianity globally and that something must be done. Crusade-like language is usually used in such discussions.
Well, to be careful (I hate to be fair to Steve, but I should be fair to the facts): With a guy like Steve, we’re never sure we’re looking at a true believer or just a cynic who finds the true believers useful.
There are true believers in his government, and they are his base, or part of his base. He does belong to an evangelical church (now — I don’t think those are his roots), but he keeps those cards and that language very close to the vest. He understands power, loves it, and is fairly clever at using it (although not as clever as he thinks, methinks). It may be that he actually doesn’t believe in anything else. But at this point in history, that doesn’t seem to make much of a difference, does it.
With a guy like Steve Barack, we’re never sure we’re looking at a true believer or just a cynic who finds the true believers useful
Funny, we know JUST where you’re coming from.
Boxuturtle (Though I’d bet we’d get a lot more votes for “cynic”, nowadays)
mattcarmody says:
If we don’t confront the black and white worldview of fundamentalists we are in for a world of hurt. We dismiss the threat of Christian fascism represented by people like Robertson, Hagee, and groups like the Family at our peril.
Petrocelli says:
I’ll second everything skdadl said … Arer would’ve never gotten justice under a Harper regime.
Stevie happily played LapDog to Dubya so that his buddies could have a market for their OilSands crude, which they want to increase tenfold … environmental concerns be damned.
Enjoying the fake lake, Petro? And if you had a billion dollars, what would you do with it?
Why, I’d fill that Lake with Beer ! *g*
Seriously, I’d spend some of it to keep our bestest Hockey Players in Canada, so we can win the Cup … or you know, that feedin’ the Orphan thingy has a warm, fuzzy feel to it …
Have you watched this vid, Petro? It’s actually kind of infectious — “but not real rubber bullets, that’s cruel,” etc. “But not real canoes, that’s cruel” made me laugh. (Be on alert for the sound cannon if you’re watching that — it comes towards the end.)
I think Harper and Clement may have outsmarted themselves with this one — people are really angry about the money, and then everyone in downtown TO is trying to find relatives or friends in the suburbs to stay with for the duration. It’s going to be a ghost town by the time the MOTUs get there.
LOL … Excellent video !
Between the MOTUs and the anarchists, Toronto will look like a Freak Circus …
substanti8 says:
This story is one more small part of the ongoing war of “national security” against democracy. Appeasers on the Left would do well to take note. The destruction of civil liberties is the inevitable result of allowing secrets in the first place.
I agree here. This case should have been heard. Not a good sign that it was turned down.
But, as they say, Congress is the one to put in the remedy. Obama and his party have control, so why don’t they come up with a remedy?
I do disagree with Afar about seeing our civil liberties vanish. They began vanishing as soon as different people could be taxed differently and not equally–opening the door to use the tax system for punishment as opposed to revenue raising. Equal protection of the laws went out the window on that day.
Of course, there are a lot of excuses about why equal protection of the laws should apply to two legs and not four legs.
MrWhy says:
Here’s the G&M on the story.
U.S. Supreme Court quashes Arar appeal to sue Bush officials
Maher Arar has already had his day in court in Canada, and been exonerated and compensated. I think he’s interested in exoneration in the USA because, the concept of justice aside, his current status prevents him from traveling via the USA.
Well, the O’Connor inquiry wasn’t exactly a court. We did learn the facts (most of them) of what the RCMP, CSIS, DFAIT, and their political directors did.
We have yet to see some CSIS and maybe some DFAIT people, plus a few politicians, in a court answering for their active role in what happened in Syria. While they’re there, maybe we could talk to them about their active roles at GTMO. And elsewhere.
Arar deserves to have his name cleared everywhere, but beyond that, the Canadian people deserve to know what has been done in our name.
I agree with every one of your points, each of which is concerned with justice/injustice.
What options does Arar have for pursuing justice in the USA? Does Arar have an advocate in the US Congress or the Obama administration? John Conyers, Jerry Nadler?
I don’t know. I run on the presumption that CCR and the ACLU and related orgs are like us: they don’t quit.
Nadler and Delahunt definitely advocated hard for Arar in the past, and others have been on board, but I don’t know how far beyond a SWL that takes us. Arar’s own government is unlikely to try to start anything up, and we don’t appear to have a better one in the offing.
I dunno what his motivations are, but if I had been tortured by a government that lied about the torture and then prissed around the ME, pretending to be Justice Fairies while they spread depravity – I’d want want the truth. I’d want them to have to allocute.
That a central feature of mankind and justice – allocution.
“Mr. Arar’s suit raised too many sensitive foreign policy and secrecy issues to allow his case to proceed, and that therefore it was the role of the political branches to authorize a remedy.”
Last time I looked, that read *legislative* branch, and it means they make laws. So I guess there still aren’te enough laws regarding torture already. It’s the Legislative Dodge also applied to war powers – “need more laws”. If the existing law is inconvenient, then ask for a re-affirmation of it, and if *that* ever comes to pass, use a corrupt process to corrupt the result – the new law will be more convenient than the existing law, and the courts can be trusted not to point out the contradiction.
tjbs says:
Until we deal with the traitors that put bush in office and the roberts and alito result from that treason, nothing will change. That’s the day all hope died.
kennedy, scalia and thomas destroyed what fragile democracy we had, traitors.
A particularly bad day for Barbara Boxer to send me an email asking for money for Harry Reid.
So skdadl/petro et al – do you put any faith in these reports:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/823207–rcmp-goes-global-with-maher-arar-torture-probe
that the RCMP is going to have a criminal probe:
An unprecedented RMCP probe into the Arar torture affair has gone global, with the possibility the Mounties will lay charges against U.S. and Syrian government officials involved in the case.
Arar revealed his participation in the Mountie probe Monday, immediately following the ultimate setback in his quest for American justice …
In a prepared statement, Arar said the U.S. high court decision “eliminates my last bit of hope in the judicial system of the United States.
“When it comes to ‘national security’ matters the judicial system has willingly abandoned its sacred role of ensuring that no one is above the law,” Arar said.
Folks usually ask my opinion about Yoga & Chocolate Martinis – my take is … I’m really apprehensive about this.
The Mounties botched the Air India investigation beyond belief. And with a feckless opposition, who will press the Mounties to ask the right questions to the right people ?
Shorter answer: Looks like smoke and mirrors and I’d love to be proven wrong.
I’m not sure. You’ll note that that “probe” has been going on for at least four years now — I’ll check back to O’Connor’s report, which may have required the RCMP to do something like this. I suspect that’s mainly what they’re doing, checking off the boxes, and Arar’s lawyers in both countries are talking it up because … what else can they do for the time being?
Like Petro, I’m … hesitant to answer the question. I think the RCMP are a serious police force … some of the time, under the right conditions, given better professional and political direction, etc. At least they aren’t CSIS, who are imho totally out of public control and proud of it. Their former director complained not long ago that Canadians suffer from a “deference deficit” — meaning we don’t feel deferential to CSIS! lol.
Our little boy politicians, however, are in love with CSIS because intel is so cool and spooky and besides it doesn’t take all that much close attention to the hard stuff, like the facts.
Any of this story sounding familiar? Don’t get me started on DFAIT (Foreign Affairs, ie State) and the armed forces.
I like Michael Moore’s front paging of this story:
Suck. On. This.
Supreme Court decides completely innocent Canadian man has no right to sue
U.S. government for being sent to Syria to be brutally tortured
Hmmm says:
Edit: Sorry, wrong thread!
cwolf says:
I guess that settles the issue of what kind of a country this is.
Some sort of presidential dictatorship sounds about like what we got.
scissors and paper run away
all hail rock
@44 & 46 – gotcha. I had the “what else can they do” feeling too on the talking it up. It is pretty funny, anyone criticizing Canadians for not being deferential – yeah, youse guys are known for being such pushy hooligans.
BTW – is there a way to sip a choc martini while doing downward facing dog?
That is my life’s quest … finding the way …
fatster says:
You can have your chocolate martini with your Cobra, though. All you need is a long straw and strong arms to hold the stance while you slurp.
*tsk* *tsk* … one cannot have Martini through a straw …
Well, how else you gonna drink it while doing the Cobra?
*Hic* … ahm workin’ on it …
We can drink and work on the Watusi at the same time, can’t we?
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Making mangga + bagoong an odorless, lucrative business
Mango-ong's co-owner shares not just the food cart franchise’s success story but also his insights about franchising.
By James Humarang | Jan 16, 2014
What doesn’t kill a business only makes it stronger. In 2010, Mango-ong had a great challenge when one of its food stalls was kicked out of a major supermarket branch in Malabon. The reason: many of the retail chain’s customers were complaining about the stinky smell of bagoong, a type of native condiment made of fermented fish/shrimp and salt.
It was a significant issue that Jessie Cutillas---Chief Operating Officer of Prudent Outsourcing Business Development Corp, the parent company of Mango-Ong---thought needed an immediate resolution, before all other malls rejected Mango-ong. “I did not know how to deal with the issue,” he confessed.
Then, over a casual dinner with a friend, he discovered the answer to his problem. From a simple tip that was shared in passing, Jessie got an idea on how he could eliminate the strong odor of the native condiment without altering its quality and unique taste. Little did Jessie know that the solution would be that simple. When he got home, he tried the newly devised formula and it worked. The rest was history.
Small start
Mango-ong started as a small food cart business fourteen years ago in Pampanga. It was put up by a group of young entrepreneurs headed by Jessie. In 2007, the small business decided to try its luck in franchising.
The following year, Mango-ong had its second branch and the franchising business started to grow. Interestingly, the franchise prospects came despite knowing that the strong bagoong odor may be repulsive to many mall-goers. When changes to the bagoong used in its stores were implemented in 2010, that was when Mango-ong started growing, adding more food carts across Metro Manila.
Getting supplies
There is definitely more about Mango-ong than its odorless but mouth-watering bagoong. According to Jessie, the brand is very particular about the products it obtains from the suppliers. It has secured exclusive contracts with suppliers of bagoong, green mango (carabao variety, which is more preferred because of its size and strong sourness), and singkamas (turnips)---the staples of the business.
Mango-ong currently has supply contracts with various farmers and farming groups from several provinces. Thus, it can be sure that there would always be enough supply of carabao mango all year round. For singkamas, the business has suppliers from Pangasinan, Cabanatuan, and Davao, where farmers produce the root crop throughout the year, except for the months of November, December, and January.
From a small but promising food stall business in Pampanga, the franchising model helped Mango-ong grow into a big network of stores, with 27 active branches to date. It is set to inaugurate and open six more stores this January outside Metro Manila (including Bohol, Bicol, and Butuan).
Common franchising problems
Jessie is very thankful that the business continues to perform strongly. But he admitted that it is not easy to manage a growing and promising food cart franchise like Mango-ong. He identified three main problems in franchising the business.
First, he disclosed that many franchisees sign the franchise contract without fully understanding it. This has already led to a number of lawsuits between the business and the franchisees. He quipped, “Madalas sila na ang gumagawa ng kasalanan, sila pa ang galit.” (“Often, they are ones breaching the contract but they still emerge angrier.”)
Second, franchisees sometimes don’t prepare sufficient capital to support their franchised stores. “They should prepare extra money to support the business should it fail to cover operational expenses at the start,” he advised. Jessie recommends preparing budget to cover three months' worth of operational expenses, on top of the franchise fee (P250,000) to be shouldered by franchisees.
Lastly, Jessie identified franchisees’ attitude as another common source of problems. He reiterated that many startup businessmen these days prefer instant return on investments. “It’s not always easy and fast,” he declared. Thus, when their franchise stores fail to meet impractical targets, they usually end up giving up or trying to break free from the contract, which is hardly allowed by the franchisor.
Business tips for success
From his own experiences, Jessie readily shared some advice to all startup entrepreneurs who are considering franchising. He recommends having a business plan and knowing more about the business and its prospects before investing. He also advises them to check the reputation and credibility of the franchisors. “Most businessmen who rose from poverty are usually those who are wiser and who are more sincere when dealing with others,” he opined. He advocates seeking knowledge and tips from successful franchise entrepreneurs.
Jessie also pointed out how important legitimacy of the franchise business is. To make sure you are investing in the right franchise, make sure it has the following: its own trademark issued by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, clear and notarized franchise contract/agreement, and updated business registration in the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Social Security System (for compliance with employee benefits), Food and Drug Administration, and applicable local government units (for Mayor’s permit, sanitary permit, building permit, and other permits issued by corresponding municipalities).
Of course, he highly recommends Mango-ong as a franchise opportunity. For one, it can readily present all of the documentary requirements required by the law. Jessie also asserted that the business would help ensure success of investors through provision of: guidance and support system, management expertise, and even manpower pooling. Lastly, the company does continuous research for more product developments to make sure customers can always look forward to new and more mouth-watering offerings from Mango-ong.
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Home » Biafra , Foreign , News » "There's Reason Why UN, US, EU Must Listen To Biafrans and Hasten Up in Conducting Biafra Referendum without wasting Time", Delay may be dangerous - Biafrans Voiced Out
"There's Reason Why UN, US, EU Must Listen To Biafrans and Hasten Up in Conducting Biafra Referendum without wasting Time", Delay may be dangerous - Biafrans Voiced Out
Posted by ChiukwuebukaOn Monday, September 24, 2018 Under: Biafra , Foreign , News
AFRICA: WHY UN MUST LISTEN TO IPOB LEADERSHIP AND HASTEN UP BIAFRA REFERENDUM
The people of Biafra first graced the world news in 1967 when the young nation was forced into declaring themselves a Republic. This was precipitated by the massacre of the people of Biafra in Northern Nigeria after Nigeria independence of 1960, an atrocity history recorded as pogrom. Biafrans particularly from the East were rounded up and killed in a most gruesome genocidal orgy of violence, to the extent that the number of those killed was roughly put at 50,000 people.
What the world knew about Biafrans in 1967 was different from what Biafrans truly were. The world called them rebels. A name that described 'a people who violently resist an established authority'. Before the declaration of Biafra as a republic, many efforts were made to enthrone peace and order. The meeting in Ghana known as "Aburi Accord", was convened as means to proffer lasting peace to an already failed state called Nigeria. And the agreement held by both parties was totally reneged by the Nigerian side.
The same Nigeria on the early hours of July 6 1967, advanced towards Nsukka and fired the first shot that triggered the war. It was a war of survival for Biafrans. The people that had their brothers killed in Northern region, returned to their homes and brutal carnage was meted on them. The then British government orchestrated the demonization of Biafrans on the international stage by making the world to see Biafrans as the villain instead of the victim which they were. They perfectly hid the atrocities committed by the Nigerian military against the people of Biafra and their newly birthed nation.
Since after the 1967/70 atrocious war, Biafrans are still being marginalized till today. 50 years after the civil war, the Nigerian government has refused the region that was once Biafra, any form of development as visually seen. There is virtually no federal government presence within and around the Biafran territory. Biafrans can not jettison their region therefore for whatever reason. They were removed from the current railway construction project across the country and has been subtly sidelined from most of, if not all federal government projects.
President Buhari in one of his international visits, described the area of the country that did not vote for him as 5%ters which Biafrans in a more visible way, did not participate in the election, hence he vowed not to treat Nigerians that fall within that 5% the way he will treat his own people that gave him more than 90℅ votes. Economic blockade is another tool used by the Nigerian government to suppress the people of Biafra. The Nigerian government systematically closed down all sea ports in Biafraland, thereby forcing people to import through Lagos seaports only.
How can one be a slave in a country he calls his own? The persistent killings by Fulani herdsmen are not something to be desired. The rampaging Fulani herdsmen have in Enugu killed hundreds of people. And Biafrans can not continue to bury their own, just because they are in Nigeria.
Today, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have risen up. They are demanding for their rights to self- determination as enshrined in the United Nations charter of the right of Indigenous People to self-determination. Referendum is what Biafrans are asking for. Many countries of the world have exercised that same process and it averted bloodshed. Even Britain who colonized Nigeria also exercised that right in their "Brexit".
When the Scottish people were protesting peacefully on the streets, the British government did not unleash military venom against them. They offered them a chance to decide their fate. Also Britain offered their citizens the right to decide whether to still belong to European Union (EU) or not hence the Brexit mantra.
For sometime now, the Nigerian military has killed many IPOB members protesting peacefully. They have arrested most of them and tagged them terrorists for demanding for their freedom via referendum.
This is why the United Nations should as a matter of urgency listen to IPOB leadership and quickly conduct an internationally recognized and monitored referendum in Nigeria for Biafrans, to avoid a repeat of the 1967 war that killed more than 3.5 million people. Asking for Biafra referendum is not asking for too much, so that Biafrans can go home and develop their nation at their own pace.
Written by Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi
Edited by Ebere Okolie
For Family Writers Press
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New Report: Policy Design Needed to Tackle Global Environmental Threat
A pioneering new report has devised a seven-point plan to help policymakers devise new, coherent and collaborative strategies to tackle the greatest global environmental threats.
A team of international researchers, including experts from the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute at the University of Exeter, has examined how politicians and legislators can develop a new way to tackle the growing threat of climate change.
The perspective piece, which is published as the cover article in Nature Sustainability, comes in response to advice from leading scientists, suggesting that the human impact on the environment are already tipping the world into a new geologically significant era.
Called the Anthropocene, this new era is defined by the effect human-kind has already caused on Earth, from mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted oceans and altered atmosphere.
In the new report, the scientists argue that while policies are available, there also needs to be a new way to tackle the geographical, boundary, spatial, ecological and socio-political complexities of the issue; and that will require working together across disciplines.
Professor Ian Bateman of LEEP and co-author of the paper said: "The paper shows that the integrated nature of the planetary boundary problems requires an integrated policy response.
"Traditional policies tend to be highly piecemeal, highly inefficient, prone to failure and can even be counterproductive. Such policies take vital resources from key areas while providing short term sticking-plaster efforts for high visibility, often politically motivated causes."
Recent research into the Anthropocene has suggested that there are multiple threats to the resilience of the Earth systems.
While the report acknowledges that there are no 'simple solutions', it does outline seven guiding principles to help tackle the growing environmental threat brought by human-made climate change.
These include selecting existing, robust policies to help formulate policy decisions, the need for decisions to be made consistently across regional, national and global boundaries, and a more conclusive look at the true extent that the environment is being impacted.
The report is authored by Professor Bateman, Dr Donna Carless and Amanda Robinson from Exeter, alongside some of the world's leading researchers in the field.
These include acclaimed natural scientists Professor Johan Rockström (Stockholm Resilience Centre) and Professor Will Steffen (Australian National University) -- who pioneered the planetary boundary and Anthropocene concepts -- and eminent environmental economists including Professor Thomas Sterner (University of Gothenburg), Professor Edward Barbier (Colorado State University), Professor Carolyn Fischer (Resources for the Future, Washington) and Professor Stephen Polasky (University of Minnesota).
Together the team undertook the first unified assessment of the policy options for tackling the challenges of the Anthropocene. These include the integrated global problems of climate change; the pollution of air, land, freshwater and sea; and the rapid loss of genetic diversity around the world.
Story by University of Exeter
Journal Reference:
Thomas Sterner, Edward B. Barbier, Ian Bateman, Inge van den Bijgaart, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Ottmar Edenhofer, Carolyn Fischer, Wolfgang Habla, John Hassler, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Andreas Lange, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Henrik G. Smith, Will Steffen, Gernot Wagner, James E. Wilen, Francisco Alpízar, Christian Azar, Donna Carless, Carlos Chávez, Jessica Coria, Gustav Engström, Sverker C. Jagers, Gunnar Köhlin, Åsa Löfgren, Håkan Pleijel, Amanda Robinson. Policy design for the Anthropocene. Nature Sustainability, 2019; 2 (1): 14 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0194-x
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Clean Water Victory Opens Courtroom Doors in Maryland
Jan. 09, 2013 04:35PM EST
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Great Falls of the Potomac in Montgomery County.
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled earlier this week that a coalition of local and national river advocacy groups have standing to challenge a major stormwater pollution permit in court.
At issue is a state-issued pollution discharge permit for Montgomery County’s 499-square mile stormwater system. Clean water groups contend the permit allows ongoing harm to water quality and human health due to excessive discharges of pollutants and trash into the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers watersheds.
Maryland’s Department of Environment found that, to meet the state’s own standards, Montgomery County’s sediment discharge would need to be reduced by 46 percent, nitrogen and phosphorus by 79 percent, and fecal bacteria by 96 percent.
Struggle Just to Open Courtroom Doors
The coalition engaged in a four-year dispute in which lawyers for the state argued courts must only hear a challenge to a water pollution discharge permit if it is filed by a person who owns riverfront property or has some other financial interest being affected by water pollution.
Jennifer Chavez, of Earthjustice who represents the coalition of conservation groups, said, “Everyone who enjoys the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers has the right to seek enforcement of the Clean Water Act. The court agreed. We all have a right to a healthy environment.”
The decision allows the case to move forward but issues no judgment about the legal sufficiency of the permit.
“It’s about time that people who—like me—canoe, kayak, fish or otherwise enjoy Maryland waterways have the right to ask the state to comply with its legal duties to clean up these wonderful rivers and streams," said Mac Thornton one of the individual plaintiffs in the case.
Marc Yaggi, executive director of Waterkeeper Alliance said, “The waters that run through our nation’s capital should set an environmental standard for our country. We look forward to working with our local partners to finally get the job done.”
Mike Bolinder, Anacostia Riverkeeper said, “The Anacostia was once a thriving fishery and an epicenter of trade and recreation, but is now best known for being one of the most polluted rivers in the nation. Our nation's rivers belong to everybody, not just the people who can afford front row seats. This is a victory for everyone who wants to see a restored Anacostia.”
"We are encouraged that the courts have finally agreed with what we have known: everyone who paddles, fishes, enjoys the river and the over five million people who get their drinking water from the Potomac have a right to protect it," said Robin Broder, vice president of Potomac Riverkeeper.
"The court affirmed the ability of citizen groups to defend the Clean Water Act. This is a victory for Maryland waters and for clean water enforcement across the country," said Marcie Keever, legal director at Friends of the Earth.
Earthjustice represents Anacostia Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance and Friends of the Earth as well as individuals Mac Thornton and Pat Munoz.
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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler signs the so-called Affordable Clean Energy rule on June 19, replacing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan that would have reduced coal-fired plant carbon emissions. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Twitter
By Elliott Negin
On July 8, President Trump hosted a White House event to unabashedly tout his truly abysmal environmental record. The following day, coincidentally, marked the one-year anniversary of Andrew Wheeler at the helm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), first as acting administrator and then as administrator after the Senate confirmed him in late February.
<p><span style="background-color: initial;">Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, has taken a number of steps to systematically reduce the role of scientists in the agency's policymaking process. Last fall, for example, he </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/climate/epa-science-adviser.html" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial;">eliminated</a><span style="background-color: initial;"> the agency's Office of the Science Advisor, which counseled the EPA administrator on research supporting health and environmental standards, and </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/climate/epa-etzel-children-health-program.html" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial;">placed</a><span style="background-color: initial;"> the head of the EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection on administrative leave. He also </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/climate/epa-disbands-pollution-science-panel.html" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial;">disbanded</a><span style="background-color: initial;"> a 20-member scientific advisory committee on particulate matter, or soot; </span><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060102455" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial;">failed</a><span style="background-color: initial;"> to convene a similar panel on ozone; and </span><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060102455" target="_blank" style="background-color: initial;">packed</a><span style="background-color: initial;"> a seven-member advisory committee on air quality standards with industry-friendly participants.</span><span style="background-color: initial;"></span><br></p>
2. Proposed to Restrict the Use of Scientific Data
<p>Claiming his intent is to increase "transparency," Wheeler is promoting a rule Pruitt proposed that would dramatically limit the scientific studies the agency considers when developing health standards. If adopted, the rule would restrict the use of scientific studies in EPA decisions if the underlying data are not public and reproducible, which would disqualify many epidemiological and other health studies the EPA relies on to set science-based public safeguards. Given that EPA health standards often rely on studies that contain private patient information, as well as confidential business information that cannot be revealed, the rule would significantly hamper the agency's ability to carry out its mission. Wheeler <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/421479-epa-to-pursue-final-science-transparency-rule-in-2019" target="_blank">plans</a> to finalize the rule sometime this year.</p>
3. Gutted the Coal Ash Rule
<p>The first major <a href="https://www.epa.gov/coalash/coal-ash-rule" target="_blank">rule</a> Wheeler signed as acting administrator refuted his claim that he could fulfill President Trump's <a href="https://www.apnews.com/0012648e385d41f481f0af20a90f0666" target="_blank">directive</a> to "clean up the air, clean up the water, and provide regulatory relief" at the same time. By rolling back the Obama-era coal ash rule, Wheeler provided regulatory relief to his old friend the coal industry by weakening environmental protections established in 2015 to clean up coal ash ponds, which are laced with toxic contaminants that leak into groundwater. The move was a <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060083703" target="_blank">top priority</a> for coal baron Bob Murray, owner of Murray Energy, Wheeler's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/epas-acting-administrator-has-long-lobbying-record-on-issues-before-the-agency/2018/07/05/a591cd40-6a6b-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?utm_term=.07ea8ecca216" target="_blank">most lucrative client</a> when he worked for the Faegre Baker Daniels law firm.</p><p>Coal-fired power plants have been dumping this residue from burning coal into giant, unlined pits for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/07/02/us/ap-us-coal-ash-liability.html" target="_blank">decades</a>. According to the EPA, there are more than <a href="https://www.epa.gov/coalash/frequent-questions-about-2015-coal-ash-disposal-rule#3" target="_blank">1,000 coal ash disposal sites</a> across the country, and a recent <a href="https://www.environmentalintegrity.org/news/first-comprehensive-national-study-of-coal-ash-pollution-finds-widespread-groundwater-contamination/" target="_blank">analysis</a> by Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project found that 91 percent of the coal plants filing monitoring data required by the 2015 rule are polluting water with unsafe levels of toxic contaminants. Wheeler's EPA <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-finalizes-first-amendments-coal-ash-disposal-regulations-providing-flexibilities" target="_blank">says</a> the new rule—which extends the deadline for closing some leaking ash ponds and allows states to suspend groundwater monitoring and set their own standards—will save utilities as much as $31 million. But the agency ignored the enormous costs of cancer and neurological and cardiovascular diseases <a href="https://www.psr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/coal-ash-hazardous-to-human-health.pdf" target="_blank">linked</a> to coal ash ingredients, which include arsenic, chromium, lead and mercury.</p>
4. Recommended Unsafe Levels of Drinking Water Contaminants
<p>Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are used in firefighting foam and a variety of nonstick, cleaning, packaging and other household products, have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/23/pfas-everyday-products-toxics-guide" target="_blank">linked</a> to thyroid disease and kidney, liver, pancreatic and testicular cancer. According to a recent <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drinking-water-may-contain-pfas-chemicals-in-43-states-according-to-new-study-by-environmental-working-group/" target="_blank">study</a> by the Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University, these chemicals threaten the drinking water supplies of an estimated 19 million Americans. A 2018 Union of Concerned Scientists <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/center-science-and-democracy/preserving-science-based-safeguards/toxic-threat-pfas-contamination-military-bases" target="_blank">report</a>, meanwhile, found that PFAS water contamination at 130 military bases across the country exceed the 11-parts-per-trillion safety threshold determined by the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Nearly two-thirds of the sites had contamination that was more than 100 times higher than the safe level.</p><p>In February, Wheeler <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-acting-administrator-announces-first-ever-comprehensive-nationwide-pfas-action-plan" target="_blank">announced</a> the "first-ever nationwide action plan" to regulate PFAS chemicals in water, saying the agency would develop and set a limit for two of the most prevalent PFAS chemicals, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. During the announcement, he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/epa-pfas-water-plan/index.html" target="_blank">told</a> reporters he believes the agency's voluntary 70-part-per-trillion health-advisory level for the chemicals is "a safe level for drinking water," despite the fact that this level is more than six times higher than what the Disease Registry considers safe.</p><p>While Wheeler slow-walks the EPA's response, members of Congress have introduced at least a <a href="https://saferchemicals.org/2019/05/29/communities-call-on-congress-to-act-on-pfas/" target="_blank">dozen</a> bills to address PFAS contamination, and the <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/450706-senate-vote-requires-military-epa-to-deal-with-harmful-forever" target="_blank">Senate recently passed</a> a defense bill that would require the EPA to set a science-based standard for PFAS in drinking water.</p>
5. Rolled Back Clean Water Act Protections
<p>Clearing up a decade-long dispute over the scope of the Clean Water Act, the Obama EPA <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/us/obama-epa-clean-water-pollution.html" target="_blank">adopted</a> a broad, science-based definition of the law that included protecting intermittent and ephemeral streams and wetlands that do not have surface water connections to other waterways. A <a href="https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/risk/recordisplay.cfm?deid=296414" target="_blank">2015 EPA meta-analysis</a> of more than 1,200 peer-reviewed studies concluded that even infrequently flowing small streams and isolated wetlands can affect "the integrity of downstream waters." Trash them and that pollution could wind up in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and estuaries.</p><p>Regardless, Wheeler <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-army-propose-new-waters-united-states-definition" target="_blank">announced</a> plans during a December telephone press briefing to reverse the Obama EPA definition of waters protected by the Clean Water Act, a thinly disguised gift to land developers and the agriculture industry. When asked what wetlands would no longer be protected, Wheeler <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060109323/" target="_blank">replied</a>, "We have not done … a detailed mapping of all the wetlands in the country." Likewise, EPA Office of Water head David Ross—who <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060058019" target="_blank">represented industry clients</a> against the EPA before joining the Trump administration—<a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060109323/" target="_blank">told</a> reporters on the call that the agency had no idea how many streams would be dropped from Clean Water Act protection under the proposal.</p>In fact, Wheeler and Ross were well aware of the damage their new definition would do. At least 18 percent of streams and 51 percent of wetlands across the country would not be covered under their proposed definition, according to an internal 2017 <a href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2018/12/11/document_gw_05.pdf" target="_blank">slideshow</a> prepared by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers and <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060109323" target="_blank">obtained by E&E News</a> under the Freedom of Information Act.
6. Suppressed an Inconvenient Formaldehyde Report
<p>Last August, Wheeler disingenuously told a Senate committee that the EPA was holding up the release of a report on the risk of cancer from formaldehyde to confirm its veracity. "I am sure we will release it," he <a href="https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/a/f/afffe2f0-6008-4c2a-af13-87d1cb26d6be/7564C79E99E118F3853D747150119932.spw-080118.pdf" target="_blank">said</a>, "but I need to make sure that the science in the report is still accurate."</p><p>In fact, the report—which concluded that formaldehyde can cause leukemia and nose and throat cancer—was completed by EPA scientists a year before Wheeler testified, according to <a href="https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Pruitt%20Letter%20formaldehyde%20assessment.pdf" target="_blank">a Senate investigation</a>, and their conclusion was hardly a surprise. Both the World Health Organization's <a href="https://monographs.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono100F-29.pdf" target="_blank">International Agency for Research on Cancer</a> and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services <a href="https://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2011/june10/" target="_blank">National Toxicology Program</a> have already classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen.</p><p>The EPA's review process normally takes <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/climate/epa-mercury-emissions.html" target="_blank">60 to 90 days</a>. The formaldehyde report has been in limbo for at least a year and a half, a blatant giveaway to the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/toxic-influence-how-a-che_b_8307272" target="_blank">American Chemistry Council</a>, the U.S. chemical industry's premier trade association, which has <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/sowing-uncertainty-about-science-formaldehyde-decades" target="_blank">blocked tighter restrictions</a> on formaldehyde for decades.</p>
7. Ignored EPA Scientists’ Advice to Ban Asbestos
<p>Instead of <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/815-e-p-a-memos-on-asbestos/12c87a96be998db10048/optimized/full.pdf#page=1" target="_blank">heeding the advice</a> of agency scientists and lawyers to follow the example of <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5x2k32p" target="_blank">55 other countries</a> and ban asbestos completely, the EPA <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-strengthens-regulation-asbestos-close-loophole-and-protect-consumers" target="_blank">announced</a> in April that it would tighten restrictions on asbestos—not ban it—despite overwhelming scientific evidence of its dangers. Manufacturers will be able to continue to use the substance if they obtain EPA approval.</p><p>Asbestos has not been produced in the United States <a href="https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-evaluation-asbestos-0" target="_blank">since 2002</a>, but is still imported for use in a wide range of commercial and consumer products, including auto brake components, roofing, vinyl floor tile, fire-resistant clothing, and cement pipes, sheets and shingles. One of the deadliest known carcinogens, asbestos kills <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180416005884/en/ADAO-Announces-New-Findings-Show-Asbestos-Related-Deaths" target="_blank">nearly 40,000</a> Americans annually, mainly from lung cancer.</p>
8. Weakened the Mercury Emissions Rule
<p>In late December, the EPA proposed to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/climate/mercury-coal-pollution-regulations.html" target="_blank">significantly weaken</a> a rule restricting mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by recalculating its costs and benefits. The Obama EPA, which issued the rule in 2011, estimated it would cost utilities <a href="https://www.epa.gov/mats/regulatory-actions-final-mercury-and-air-toxics-standards-mats-power-plants" target="_blank">$7.4 billion to $9.6 billion</a> annually to install pollution controls and lead to <a href="https://www.epa.gov/mats/healthier-americans#impacts" target="_blank">$37 billion to $90 billion</a> in health benefits by reducing not only mercury, a potent neurotoxin, but also sulfur dioxide and soot, thus preventing 130,000 asthma attacks, 4,700 heart attacks, and as many as 11,000 premature deaths. The Wheeler EPA ignored the "co-benefits" of limiting sulfur dioxide and soot, and flagrantly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/climate/mercury-coal-pollution-regulations.html" target="_blank">lowballed</a> the health benefits of curbing mercury alone at only $4 million to $6 million annually.</p><p>Most utilities have already complied with the mercury rule at <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5885qy4" target="_blank">a fraction of the estimated cost</a>, but health advocates fear that this new, industry-friendly accounting method, which makes it appear that the cost to polluters far outweigh the rule's benefits, will <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/12/28/epa-make-it-harder-tighten-mercury-rules-future/?utm_term=.84be4559d80d" target="_blank">set a precedent</a> for the EPA to sabotage an array of other public health protections.</p>
9. Slammed Vehicle Emission Rules Into Reverse
<p>Last August, the EPA and the Transportation Department <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/08/02/trump-epa-fuel-economy-standards/887683002/" target="_blank">issued</a> a proposal to freeze vehicle tailpipe pollution and fuel efficiency standards, rolling back a 2012 Obama-era rule requiring automakers to boost passenger vehicle fuel economy to a fleetwide average of 54 miles per gallon by 2025. In a Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/make-cars-great-again-1533170415" target="_blank">opinion piece</a> titled "Make Cars Great Again" published a few days before the two agencies announced their proposal, Wheeler and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao charged that the Obama-era standards—the first to limit vehicle carbon emissions—are too burdensome for automakers and "raised the cost and decreased the supply of newer, safer vehicles."</p><p>Parroting the Trump administration's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/climate/trump-fuel-economy.html?module=inline" target="_blank">line of reasoning</a>, Wheeler and Chao argued that fuel-efficient cars—which weigh less than gas-guzzlers—are not as safe, a contention that has been widely <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/climate/trump-fuel-economy.html?module=inline" target="_blank">debunked</a>. In fact, a 2017 <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w23340" target="_blank">study</a> concluded that reducing the average weight of new vehicles could result in fewer traffic fatalities.</p><p>In any case, freezing the standards at 2020 levels would be hard on the planet, not to mention Americans' wallets, <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-cooke/new-epa-administrator-same-bad-idea-car-standard-rollbacks-would-be-awful" target="_blank">according to</a> the Union of Concerned Scientists. It would result in an additional 2.2 billion metric tons of global warming emissions by 2040, amounting to 170 million metric tons in 2040 alone—the equivalent of the annual output of 43 average size coal-fired power plants. It also would cost drivers billions of dollars. In 2040 alone, they would have to pay an additional $55 billion to fill their gas tanks. Meanwhile, the design improvements automakers have made so far to meet the standards have already saved drivers more than <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/fuel-economy-ticker?_ga=2.130369487.1908070918.1561988567-899698819.1546975208" target="_blank">$86 trillion</a> at the pump since 2012, and off-the-shelf technological fixes, the Union of Concerned Scientists says, would enable automakers to meet the original 2025 target.</p>
10. Rescinded the Clean Power Plan
<p>Perhaps Wheeler's most damaging move to date came late last month when he <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/6/19/18684054/climate-change-clean-power-plan-repeal-affordable-emissions" target="_blank">signed</a> a final rule to repeal and replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which would have required coal-fired power plants to dramatically cut their carbon emissions. Yet another gift to the coal industry, Wheeler's so-called Affordable Clean Energy rule grants states the authority to determine emissions standards but sets no targets, leaving them the option to do absolutely nothing.</p>Before Wheeler released the final rule, an April <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aafe25" target="_blank">study</a> in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that his draft version would boost carbon emissions in 18 states and the District of Columbia and increase sulfur dioxide emissions in 19 states. The EPA's own <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/climate/epa-coal-pollution-deaths.html?module=inline" target="_blank">analysis</a> of the draft rule, meanwhile, found that the proposal could have led to as many as 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030 due to an increase in soot, and as many as 15,000 cases of upper respiratory problems.
Reversing Decades of Bipartisan Protections
<p>If Wheeler truly cared about transparency, he would petition the Trump administration to change the name of his agency to "Every Polluter's Ally." In just 12 months, he has killed or weakened dozens of safeguards with the sole intention of bolstering polluting industries' profit margins even after Congress slashed the corporate tax rate. As a result, millions of Americans will be drinking filthier water and breathing dirtier air, and more will suffer from serious diseases, according to his agency's own accounting.</p><p>Wheeler and his predecessor Pruitt have sullied the bipartisan track record of one of the nation's agencies entrusted with protecting public health and safety. So it is little wonder that three former EPA administrators who, notably, served under Republican presidents, recently <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062019/epa-climate-change-anti-science-rebuke-gop-former-administrators-thomas-whitman-reilly-mccarthy" target="_blank">sounded the alarm</a> on Capitol Hill, urging legislators to step up their oversight of the agency and denouncing its attempts to hamstring science.</p>"There is no doubt in my mind that under the current administration the EPA is retreating from its historic mission to protect our environment and the health of the public from environmental hazards," former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who served under President George W. Bush, stated in her <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/Testimony%20-%20Todd%20Whitman%2020190611.pdf" target="_blank">written testimony</a> for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. "This administration, from the beginning, has made no secret of its intention to essentially dismantle the EPA…. Therefore, I urge this committee, in the strongest possible terms, to exercise Congress's oversight responsibilities over the actions and direction of the EPA."
<p><em>This article was produced by </em><a href="https://independentmediainstitute.org/earth-food-life/" target="_blank"><em>Earth | Food | Life</em></a><em>, a project of the Independent Media Institute, and originally published by </em><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/10-ways-andrew-wheeler-has-decimated-epa-protections-in-just-one-year/" target="_blank"><em>Truthout</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>Elliott Negin is a senior writer at the <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/" target="_blank">Union of Concerned Scientists</a></em><em>.</em></p><p class=""><em></em></p>
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A timber sale in the Kaibab National Forest. Dyan Bone / Forest Service / Southwestern Region / Kaibab National Forest
By Tara Lohan
If you're a lover of wilderness, wildlife, the American West and the public lands on which they all depend, then journalist Christopher Ketcham's new book is required — if depressing — reading.
<p>It's not just Wildlife Services failing endangered species, of course: Ketcham writes about the government-industry collusion that has betrayed the grizzly bear and sage grouse, among other species.</p><p>While the Trump administration's anti-environment agenda has ramped up some threats, including slashing vast amounts of protected public lands, the wheels of this machine were set in motion long ago and supported by both Democratic and Republican administrations. It was Obama's administration, he writes, that "perpetrated the worst offenses, removing protections for some of the most charismatic species in the West, the veritable last vestiges of the wild West. In so doing, it was Democrats who set up for evisceration the Endangered Species Act, a law crucially important for the future of biodiversity on the public lands."</p><p>So-called "Big Green" groups, those large national environmental nonprofits that get most of the money and media, also take considerable fire from Ketcham for their willingness to compromise away environmental protections and countless acres of wilderness, like with the 2014 Rocky Mountain Front legislation, which was celebrated for creating 67,000 acres of new wilderness south of Glacier National Park, but opened up 200,000 acres of roadless areas to industry.</p><p>If there's any failure in Ketcham's well-researched and engaging prose, it's that it's 400 pages of brutally bad news. And it's hard to know what to do with it all, which he readily admits.</p><p>"Sometimes I'm glad my job as an investigative reporter is mainly to lay demolitions under corrupt structures, blow them up, walk away, and let you people deal with the rubble," he writes. "I'm no policy wonk. Frankly I have no idea how to save the public lands from a system that marches on inexorably, not in a way that's politically doable in the near term."</p><p>He does have a few thoughts, though, and calls for ending the federal timber sale program, beginning a vast decommissioning of roads, and what he calls the "single most important action we could take for the public lands, for wild plants and wild animals" — evicting cattle.</p><p>And while there's no grand plan for how we save our public lands, he does present a clear case for why they're under assault, who's responsible and what's at stake. And there's a rousing call to action.</p><p>"What's needed is a campaign for the public lands that is vital, fierce, impassioned, sometimes dangerous, without hypocrisy, that stands against the tyranny of money, coupled with a campaign of public education that explains in the simplest terms what the lands are, the glorious extent of them, the ecosystems they encompass, the wild things that live in them," Ketcham writes. "We need to bring the good news to every citizen, the news that he or she has a say in what happens on the public lands. This land is our land."</p>
<p> <em>Reposted with permission from our media associate <a href="https://therevelator.org/public-lands-ketcham/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Revelator</a>. </em><em></em></p>
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Golde Wallingford submitted this photo of "Pure Joy" to EcoWatch's first photo contest. Golde Wallingford
EcoWatch is pleased to announce our third photo contest!
<p>Submit your photo to <a href="mailto:bautista@ecowatch.com" target="_blank">bautista@ecowatch.com</a> with the subject line "ECOWATCH SUMMER PHOTO CONTEST" by September 11th for a chance to win and to have your photo appear on EcoWatch.com. To be considered, submit your photo with the following information:</p><ol><li>Name</li><li>Email</li><li>Phone Number</li><li>Photo Submission (.jpeg file format recommended)</li><li>Caption</li><li>Facebook and Instagram profiles (if available)</li></ol><p>Our judges will choose the winning photo and the winner will be announced September 23rd. The EcoWatchers' Choice award winner will also be announced September 23rd.</p>
<p><strong>Contest Judges</strong></p><p><strong></strong>Gary and Sam Bencheghib</p><p>Brothers Gary and Sam Bencheghib are environmental activists and filmmakers. They founded Make a Change World, a media outlet that uncovers uplifting and inspirational stories on a mission to do good. They are passionate about creating social change through videos and giving a voice to the underrepresented. Together they have launched a series of expeditions from kayaking the world's dirtiest river on plastic bottles to stand-up paddling down New York's most toxic waterways. In the past three years, their work has been seen by more than 600 million people. This summer, while Gary bamboo bikes the Indonesian archipelago, Sam is set to become the first person to run across the American continent with recycled plastic shoes.</p>
<p>Anthony Bucci</p><p>Anthony Bucci is a wildlife photographer who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has donated numerous prints and other products to various wildlife societies across Canada, silent auctions and other fundraisers to raise funds for wildlife conservation and well-being. Anthony is currently on the raptor pick up list for O.W.L Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Delta BC, Canada. He feels it's important to give back to the wildlife conservation efforts and helping where Anthony can is a task he takes seriously. To Anthony, his wildlife photography is more than just taking pictures. Thinking about conservation and the well-being of all wildlife is always on his mind.<span></span></p>
<p>Amos Nachoum</p><p>Amos has led great expeditions for individual adventurers and institutions like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Discovery Channel, Armani, Disney and Columbia Pictures. For National Geographic, he was team leader for separate photo expeditions to document the Red Sea, great white sharks and killer whales. His photos and essays have appeared in hundreds of publications around the globe, including <em>National Geographic, Time, Life, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Le Figaro, Terra Sauvage, Airone, Mondo Somerso, Der Spiegel, Unterwasser</em> and many more. His work has also been included in the books The Living Ocean, The World of Nature, and Oceans. He has appeared on National Geographic Explorer, Today, and Good Morning America and featured in <em>People, Esquire</em> and <em>Money</em> magazines. Amos's photography has won Nikon, Communication Arts, and BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards.</p>
<p>Margarita Samsonova</p><p>Margarita is a zoologist, sustainability activist, travel enthusiast and social media Influencer who uses the power of her social media to influence people to make more sustainable choices when traveling. After visiting more than 60 countries and seeing what actually happens to our planet, such as how plastic and food waste affects the environment, she decided to take a stand to speak about it and encourage people to care a little bit more about nature. Sustainability is the main focus of Margarita's social posts, and she speaks a lot about eco lifestyle, responsible traveling, ethical wildlife encounters, supporting locals and living in unity with nature.</p>
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Climate Crisis Contributes to a Rise in World Hunger, UN Report Says
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Somalians fight against hunger and lack of water due to drought as Turkish Ambassador to Somalia, Olgan Bekar (not seen) visits the a camp near the Mogadishu's rural side in Somalia on March 25, 2017. Sadak Mohamed / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
World hunger is on the rise for the third consecutive year after decades of decline, a new United Nations (UN) report says. The climate crisis ranks alongside conflict as the top cause of food shortages that force more than 821 million people worldwide to experience chronic hunger. That number includes more than 150 million children whose growth is stunted due to a lack of food.
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Top 10 Heat-Related Terms You Need to Pay Attention to While Reading UCS’s Killer Heat Report
Eduardo Velev cools off in the spray of a fire hydrant during a heatwave on July 1, 2018 in Philadelphia. Jessica Kourkounis / Getty Images
By Adrienne L. Hollis
Because extreme heat is one of the deadliest weather hazards we currently face, Union of Concerned Scientist's Killer Heat Report for the U.S. is the most important document I have read. It is a veritable wake up call for all of us. It is timely, eye-opening, transparent and factual and it deals with the stark reality of our future if we do not make changes quickly (think yesterday). It is important to ensure that we all understand it. Here are 10 terms that really help drive home the messages in the heat report and help us understand the ramifications of inaction.
<p>One of my four brothers <em>loves</em> to cook – and he is great at it. One day I made the mistake of calling him a cook. He quickly corrected me by saying: "Cooking is what I do, a Chef is what I am." See the difference there? It is the same with weather and climate. In <a href="https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/articles/150731-remembering-herbertson.html" target="_blank">Andrew John Herbertson's</a> words: "Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get." You expect it to be hot this summer season but what you really get is a <a href="https://streamable.com/y5j8i" target="_blank">heat wave</a>.</p>
Global Warming and Climate Change
<p>Global warming is a long-term increase in the Earth's annual average surface temperature, caused mainly by increased fossil fuel emissions. So — when the Earth heats up over time, it is <a href="https://streamable.com/f7v1n" target="_blank">global warming</a>. Climate change, on the other hand, refers to a change in the climate system of the Earth, including its weather patterns.</p><p>Current climate change is mostly caused by the fossil fuel emissions that increase atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. A host of changes flow from this: ocean acidification, global mean surface temperature increase (aka 'global warming'), shrinking glaciers in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland and mountain glaciers, sea level rise, changes in flower blooms, animal and plant distribution shifts, and changes in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.</p><p>There should never be a time that, when the temperatures are really low, we wish for "global warming" so that the temperatures will increase — Ever. Because there will always be winters. However, the problem is that winters around the globe are getting warmer, on average — even if northern hemisphere winters have periodic extreme cold snaps in places, such as what occurs when the Arctic air blasts to lower latitudes in parts and warmer air shifts more northward at other parts with a <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2014.0170" target="_blank">wavier jet stream at times</a>.</p>
Temperature and the Heat Index
<p>The heat index is slightly different from the temperature, although temperature is used to calculate it. Temperature is what we can measure in the thermometer. But the heat index is what we feel that temperature to be when we factor in relative humidity. That is why the <a href="https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index" target="_blank">National Weather Service calls the heat index the "feels like" temperature</a>. For example, in Mobile, Alabama where I grew up, the thermometer might register 80°F outside, but because of humidity and other factors it can feel like a temperature of <a href="https://streamable.com/edit/4t04h" target="_blank">100°F</a>!</p>
The Urban Heat Island (UHI)
<p>When I was in graduate school in Tennessee, the air conditioner in my apartment did not really work well. So, I would sit directly in front of the fan — DIRECTLY. If I stuck an arm or leg outside of my "fan zone" I would immediately be assaulted by what I can only equate to the infamous <a href="https://streamable.com/wsjsv" target="_blank">'Heat Miser' from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer</a>.</p><p>Outside of that zone, the heat showed no mercy and my body's response was first shock, then intense sweat. I think of the <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/urban-heat-island/" target="_blank">Urban Heat Island</a> in a similar way, except that there are no "fan zones" and very few mechanisms for relief from the heat for at-risk populations.</p><p>The UHI occurs because cities are much warmer than surrounding rural areas — cities resemble an "island" of heat among a broader "sea" of cooler temperatures. Concrete, glass, asphalt, and other surfaces that make up cities trap heat during the day and then release it at night, but it escapes much slower than it was trapped, so there is not much relief from the heat!</p><p>Temperatures do drop a little at night, so people can open their windows and doors or sit outside to get some relief. Can you imagine what it is like for our homeless brothers and sisters or people without adequate air conditioning, or whose electric bills are so high that they can not afford to turn on their fans or air conditioners? What about people whose work requires them to spend a lot of time outside, or children who play outside the majority of the time? Think about that…</p>
Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke
<p>When I was growing up in Mobile, Alabama, my Mom would tell my brothers and me to be careful outside when it was hot — that we could have a "heat stroke." (She also used to say that we smelled like "the sun," whatever that meant, when we came inside after playing outdoors so I suspect that she just did not want us to get too sweaty.)</p><p>Luckily, none of us ever had serious complications from <a href="https://streamable.com/qfe4z" target="_blank">heat</a>. But prolonged exposure to extreme heat can cause <a href="https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/heatstress/heat_illnesses.html" target="_blank">heat cramps, heat exhaustion, or heat stroke</a>.</p><p>Heat cramps, caused by the loss of body salts and fluids during sweating, can be painful.</p><p>Heat exhaustion is how the body responds to loss of water and fluids from heavy sweating; symptoms include headaches, nausea, dizziness, weakness, thirst and heavy sweating.</p><p>The most serious is heat stroke, which happens when the body gets so hot it cannot regulate its core temperature. People going into a heat stroke stop sweating, so their bodies cannot get rid of the excess heat, which could cause confusion, loss of consciousness, and seizures.</p><p>Heat strokes are a serious medical emergency that can result in death. Under a changing climate, the likelihood of dangerous heat-related health risks increasing is all too real. Sadly, if my Mom were to issue that "<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/warning.html" target="_blank">heat stroke</a>" warning under the current and future conditions, she would probably be right.</p>
Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)
<p>RCPs are future emissions scenarios used to model the choices that we can make about carbon emissions. RCP8.5 refers to a "no action" scenario where no substantial reductions in emissions are pursued through the late century. RCP4.5 is the "slow action" scenario, under which emissions start to decline around mid-century. In addition, with the "rapid action" scenario, future global warming, even by late century, is limited to 2ºC above pre-industrial temperatures. Achieving this would require rapid reductions in emissions over the next few decades.</p><p>RCPs make assumptions about how carbon emissions in the atmosphere will change in the future as a result of human activities. In other words, think of it as an "if this occurs, then this will happen" scenario for <a href="https://streamable.com/wnly7" target="_blank">global warming</a>.</p><p>The more immediate and impactful actions we take now, the greater our chances are of avoiding KILLER HEAT conditions, serious adverse health outcomes and the worst consequences of climate change — especially on our most at-risk populations.</p>
<p><em>Adrienne L. Hollis is the lead climate justice analyst for the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.</em></p>
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Senator Graham returns after playing a round of golf with Trump on Oct. 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Ron Sachs – Pool / Getty Images
Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Senate Republican who has been a close ally of Donald Trump, did not mince words last week on the climate crisis and what he thinks the president needs to do about it.
<p>Noting that Republicans seemed out of step with the general public and ignored the climate crisis at their own peril, Graham added, "We will win the solution debate, but the only way you're going to win the debate is admit we've got a problem. Let's talk about climate change from the innovative and not the regulatory approach."</p><p>This is not the first time Graham has differed with Trump on the climate crisis. Two years ago, he asked Trump to keep the U.S. in the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/paris-agreement">Paris agreement</a>. And, in April, he said, "Climate change is real, the science is sound and the solutions are available. If I told Trump that [special counsel Robert] Mueller thinks climate change is a hoax, we'd be well on our way," as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/politics/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-climate-change/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a> reported.</p><p>In announcing the Roosevelt Conservation Caucus, Graham showed a difference of opinion from the president, but he did not put forth any new ideas, nor did he back bold action. In fact, he used the moment to take a swipe at Democrats, calling the Green New Deal "crazy economics." <br></p><p>"Innovation is going to do more to solve this problem than any government mandate," he said. "We believe our friends on the other side care about the environment, but they care so much they're going to destroy the economy in the name of saving the environment," as <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/452399-republicans-form-conservation-caucus-to-take-on-environment-climate" target="_blank">The Hill</a> reported.</p><p>The Republican group hinted that that plans for a carbon tax, climate-resilient infrastructure and increased funding of clean energy research will be some of their first proposals, according to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/republicans-take-an-important-step-back-into-the-environmental-debate/" target="_blank">National Review</a>. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, added that environmental responsibility means addressing ocean plastics, but she did not specify how, as the <a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-s-lindsey-graham-encourages-trump-to-admit-climate-change/article_4745c77e-a31c-11e9-a983-eb9216d82d47.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Politics%20071119&utm_content=Politics%20071119+CID_1ea055aee0ba86e48cf9b88f6db5bc04&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20the%20types%20of%20legislation%20Republicans%20in%20the%20Roosevelt%20Conservation%20Caucus%20said%20they%20plan%20to%20push" target="_blank">Post and Courier</a> reported.</p>
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Island Trees Have Nowhere to Run From Climate Change
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A small Bermuda cedar tree sits atop a rock overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. todaycouldbe / iStock / Getty Images Plus
By Marlene Cimons
Kyle Rosenblad was hiking a steep mountain on the island of Maui in the summer of 2015 when he noticed a ruggedly beautiful tree species scattered around the landscape. Curious, and wondering what they were, he took some photographs and showed them to a friend. They were Bermuda cedars, a species native to the island of Bermuda, first planted on Maui in the early 1900s.
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A Bermuda beach
<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0490-7" target="_blank">Existing</a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/hdy199746" target="_blank">research</a> shows that island species are less diverse than their cousins on the mainland. That lack of diversity makes them vulnerable to changing conditions. On an island, for instance, every member of a particular tree species might be suited to cool weather, whereas on the mainland, some are suited to the cold, while others are built for the heat. If temperatures rise, at least some of the mainland trees, those built for warm weather, might endure, but the island trees could perish.</p><p>"If climate change makes a given island too warm for the species that live there — or too dry or too stormy — then those species will be stuck on their island with nowhere to escape," Rosenblad said.</p><p>Rosenblad and his colleagues — Dov Sax, head of the Sax Lab, and doctoral student Daniel Perret — investigated the dangers that climate change poses to island species by studying conifers, a group that includes cedars, firs and pines. "When unique island tree species are given a chance to grow outside their native islands, how much extra climate hardiness do they show?" Rosenblad said. "And will that extra hardiness be sufficient to help them survive predicted future changes in climate?"</p>
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Branches of a Bermuda cedar
<p>What they found was troubling. Their work suggests that climate change could push many small island conifers — nearly a quarter of those they studied — into extinction by 2070. The smaller the island the more danger, as trees have nowhere to flee. The larger the island, the more varied the climate, meaning species can relocate to cooler areas. Their <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0530-9" target="_blank">research</a> appears in the journal <em>Nature Climate Change</em>.</p><p>"Our results took us by surprise," Rosenblad said. "We expect if these species are left to fend for themselves, climate change will eventually drive them extinct."</p><p>Species can adapt to new conditions, but climate change will make that difficult. "The rub is that for some species, the amount of hardiness and adaptability they have shown is still not enough to buffer them against the changes in climate that are expected to occur on their native islands," Rosenblad said.</p>
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Canary Island pine trees, one of the conifers used in the study
<p>So, while the Bermuda cedar may thrive on Maui, adapting to the future climate of Bermuda "will require an even bigger stretch," he added. He added that while the Bermuda cedar is surviving in many different places, "sadly none of them has a climate that resembles the one that Bermuda is projected to have in 50 years." That being the case, he said, "we still don't have any evidence that it can handle the climatic changes that are expected to occur on its native island."</p><p>The scientists urged caution in interpreting the findings, as species might be hardier that the evidence suggests. "However, I still find our results highly concerning," Rosenblad said.</p><p>In conducting their study, the researchers relied upon data obtained from global digitized plant specimen collections. Focusing on 55 species of coniferous trees, they cross-referenced information about them with existing worldwide climate statistics to determine the climate conditions, such as temperature and precipitation, at each location where their study species were found, including their native islands and other sites. They then built computer models for each species which told the researchers how the species would fare under different combinations of climatic conditions, including climate conditions projected for their native islands in 50 years.</p>
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Norfolk Island pines, one of the conifers used in the study
<p>Researchers said many island tree species likely will require "serious help" withstanding climate change. "Failing to provide this help could have dire consequences, not just for the tree species themselves," he said. Trees perform essential functions, he explained, "like helping to regulate the flows of water and nutrients through the ecosystem."</p><p>Researchers called for targeted <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/conservation">conservation</a> efforts to avert extinction. Moreover, many of these trees also are culturally significant to island residents, especially the Bermuda cedar.</p><p>"It remains an indelible Bermudian cultural symbol," Rosenblad said. "Its wood has long been prized by artisans and builders. There is even a Bermudian wedding tradition, in which the cake is presented carrying a cedar seedling on top, and the couple then plants the seedling together."</p><p>He added, " It's important to underscore the beauty of these trees — and help them avoid extinction — so future generations can benefit from all they have to offer."</p>
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How to Avoid Brain-Damaging Chlorpyrifos in Milk and Produce
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You may know that many conventional oat cereals contain troubling amounts of the carcinogenic pesticide glyphosate. But another toxic pesticide may be contaminating your kids' breakfast. A new study by the Organic Center shows that almost 60 percent of the non-organic milk sampled contains residues of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide scientists say is unsafe at any concentration.
<p>Chlorpyrifos is a neurotoxin — it affects the nervous system and brain, and even small amounts of exposure can cause permanent health damage to babies and children. These health effects can include impairment of children's IQ and harm to the parts of the brain that control language, memory, behavior and emotion. A new <a href="http://cphpost.dk/news/link-between-insecticides-and-adhd-among-kids-danish-study.html" target="_blank">study</a> from the University of Southern Denmark also links chlorpyrifos exposure in pregnant women to ADHD in their children.</p><p>Because millions of pounds of chlorpyrifos are sprayed on crops every year, most Americans are exposed to it through milk, fruit and other produce. Research by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that babies and developing fetuses are exposed to about five times more chlorpyrifos than what the EPA's standard deems safe, and children consume chlorpyrifos at 11 to 15 times the EPA standard.</p><p>Despite this, in 2017 the Trump EPA <a href="https://www.ewg.org/release/two-years-and-10-million-pounds-trump-epa-blocked-ban-brain-damaging-pesticide" target="_blank">decided</a> to ignore science in favor of the pesticide industry and cancelled a proposed ban on chlorpyrifos. Now the EPA won't act to keep it out of milk and produce for at least another five years. While the EPA waits to evaluate chlorpyrifos again, roughly <a href="https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2018/03/thanks-scott-pruitt-30-million-pounds-brain-damaging-pesticide-will-be" target="_blank">30 million pounds</a> of this chemical will be sprayed on crops, risking the health of children across the U.S. </p><p>The EPA's failure to ban chlorpyrifos has even more harmful consequences for farm workers and their families. According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/17/california-pesticides-central-valley-trump" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> newspaper, parents in California's Central Valley, which has some of the heaviest use of chlorpyrifos in the country, fear that drifting clouds of pesticides are causing their children's chronic health problems, including learning problems and attention deficit disorders. They're just not sure about possible solutions.</p><p>"We know this is dangerous for the kids," said one mother of five, "but what are we supposed to do?" </p>
Keeping Your Family Safe
<p>The Environmental Working Group (EWG) supports a complete ban on chlorpyrifos, such as <a href="https://www.tomudall.senate.gov/news/press-releases/udall-senators-introduce-bill-to-ban-toxic-pesticide-chlorpyrifos" target="_blank">a bill</a> currently under consideration in the Senate. EWG is also urging grocery stores to stop supplying foods that could have residues of chlorpyrifos.</p><p>In the meantime, switching to organic milk and organic versions of the most potentially contaminated produce is a great way to <a href="https://www.ewg.org/planet-trump/2017/04/don-t-want-eat-pruitt-s-pesticide-here-s-what-avoid#.WrPxnJPwY3i" target="_blank">cut this pesticide out of your diet</a>. Chlorpyrifos residues are most often detected on some imported produce, so skip buying peaches and nectarines imported from Chile, bell peppers and hot peppers imported from Mexico, and domestic and imported cilantro.</p>
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Review: Sunny Afternoon at Wimbledon Theatre
by Harriet Noble
4.5 STARS March 28 – April 1. Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Sunny Afternoon is a cracking celebration of one of Britain's most iconic bands that cleverly works in elements of social commentary, says Harriet Noble
L to R: Garmon Rhys, Ryan O'Donnell, Andrew Gallo & Mark Newham
‘Out of work and got no money, a Sunday joint of bread of honey.’ So starts the story of the Kinks; the lyrics from the song Dead End Street depicting a life of hardship and strain that working-class Ray Davies (played by Ryan O’Donnell) and his family inhabit.
All this is about to change though as Sunny Afternoon takes us on a journey from the bands humble beginnings in Muswell Hill in the early 1960s, to their stratospheric rise in the British music scene to their stint touring the US which culminated in the band famously being thrown out of the US and having to return home.
The Swinging sixties are definitely in full swing in this production as flamboyant clothes, frivolous debauchery and a general euphoric feeling of being young and alive resonates loudly.
Sunny Afternoon was first performed in Hampstead Theatre in 2014 before it moved to the West End where it won a clutch of Laurence Olivier awards, including Best New Musical. Jammed packed with all-time favourites including Lola, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Waterloo Sunset and You Really Got me, it has understandably proved to be a hit.
More than just a biopic of the band and a run-through of their hits though, the musical boasts a backdrop that ambitiously explores the political and social changes of the 1960s; the breakdown of class barriers and the widening expanse between younger and older generations.
What is seamlessly done is the integration of songs into the narrative of the Kinks journey. The potent ‘Sitting in my Hotel ’is a beautiful moment of a telephone conversation between Ray and his wife Rasa (played by Lisa Wright) where Ray, stuck in the US, is homesick and pining for Britain and his family. Likewise, ‘Till the end of the Day’ with lyrics: ‘You and me we're free, we do as we please’ showcases the wild, heady alcohol-filled days of hedonism had by the band.
The song, Sunny Afternoon, as you might expect, is a particular highlight. Released in the summer of 1966, coinciding with the football win for England in the World Cup final, the song is performed with Union Jack paraphernalia, much joy and gusto and an unspoken invitation to join in. It is an unadulterated celebration of Britishness and allows the fans in the audience to sing along, which everyone was itching to do.
Ryan O’Donnell brilliantly encapsulates the talented but dreamy songwriter Ray Davis, caught up in sadness and frustration. Mark Newnham also shines as brother Dave, often the clown, sometimes the fool. Sunny Afternoon is one of those musicals where the supporting cast all play lots of different characters and lots of different instruments. The versatility and scope of their talents is truly spectacular and like a Greek chorus sets the scene for tragedy, so the supporting cast set the scene for exhilarating fun. Director Edward Hall does a great job of creating an atmosphere where the audience feel likes like they are not only attending, but are part of the greatest rock concert ever.
After the musical ends with a rendition of the sublime Waterloo Sunset, the performers come back onto the stage and perform some of the big, rousing hits. The audience is up on their feet, clapping hands, dancing and singing - for we know all the words and are overjoyed to be singing them.
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12 U.S. ETFs Begin Trading 24/7 on TD Ameritrade
By Brenton Garenon January 23, 2018
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Of the Top Ten Funds In July, Seven Were ETFs
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Traditional hours for U.S. equity markets are from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but plenty of trading occurs in pre- and post-market hours. Brokerage giant TD Ameritrade is expanding on that by making a dozen ETFs available to trade 24 hours per day on weekdays.
“The second-biggest discount broker now lets customers buy and sell 12 U.S. exchange-traded funds 24 hours a day on weekdays,” reports Bloomberg. “Clients in Asia will be among the beneficiaries, gaining the ability to trade U.S. products during their daylight hours. But Americans wanting to key off late-breaking news can participate, too.”
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSEArca: TLT) is the lone fixed income fund among the 12 TD Ameritrade is making available for 24-hour trading. Several commodities funds are in the group as well, including the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD) and the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEArca: SLV).
The United States Oil Fund (NYSEArca: USO), which tracks West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures, and the United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSEARCA:UNG) will also be available for 24-hour trading.
“Initially, TD Ameritrade clients can trade 12 widely held ETFs including funds that track the S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average, Chinese shares and commodities. The company said it plans to offer more securities later,” according to Bloomberg.
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Whoopi Goldberg on Time's Up Movement: 'It's About Time' (Exclusive)
By Elizabeth Stanton 5:09 PM PST, March 4, 2018
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Whoopi Goldberg came to slay on the red carpet.
The Oscar winner wore a brighly colored floral Christian Siriano gown at the 90th Annual Academy Awards that also had a train that flowed out behind her, and apparently gave her a little trouble on the ride over.
"The train was up like this," Goldberg told ET's Kevin Frazier and Nancy O'Dell, holding her hands in front of her face. "And I could see nothing!"
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The View host was also wearing a very special accessory with her dress -- an original red ribbon worn by Elizabeth Taylor for AIDS awareness.
"We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of her winning the Jean Hersholt [Humanitarian] award for her work with AIDS. And three of us are wearing the pins that she wore," Goldberg explained. "And I'm also here as governor because I'm also on the board of governors at the Academy," she added, showing a small pin featuring an Oscar statuette.
How did Goldberg receive the honor of being one of the three with the red AIDS awareness ribbons?
"She and I were dear friends. And so, the first fundraiser that she did, I did for her," Goldberg said.
Goldberg also had the Time's Up movement on her mind, and was thrilled to see it taking hold in Hollywood.
It's about time," Goldberg said. "Once you make it something that has consequences, people are less interested in doing it. And women supporting women finally!"
Meanwhile, Goldberg herself has hosted the ceremony four times, and despite her experience, she has little advice to offer second-timer Jimmy Kimmel.
"None, none, none, none," she joked. "Because it's live, you just have to go with it how it tumbles. You can't prepare anybody for it."
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Tue., 18 June 2019, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time
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Learn all you need to know when considering a solar power system to ensure you get a system that is best value for you and your household.
This talk from solar industry expert James Martin II will cover topics such as the different solar technologies available, the impact of shading, how to find a reputable installer, how to find the right size system for best value and recent developments in home power storage (batteries).
Is there a minimum age requirement to enter the event?
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Council Chambers is a short walk from Gordon Station. As this event will be held after hours, staff parking behind Council Chambers will be available to the public - access via Dumresqu Street.
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
For more information please call Ku-ring-gai Council's Sustainability Team on 9424 0893 or email sustainability@kmc.nsw.gov.au
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No you do not. There will be a registration list with your name at the event.
Please note: While this activity is FREE to attend, they do cost us to run. If you have booked and can no longer come, please let us know as soon as possible. We often have a waiting list for events and can fill your place with advanced notice. We try to run our programs sustainably, keeping catering and materials waste to a minimum. Thank you.
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iTV Network elevates Varun Kohli to CEO, India News
Prior to this promotion, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Revenue Head at India News. In his new role, Kohli will be responsible for leading the growth of the channel to next level
iTV Network has elevated Varun Kohli to the Chief Executive Officer of India News, the National Hindi News Channel of the Network. Prior to this promotion, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Revenue Head at India News.
In his new role, Kohli will be responsible for leading the growth of the channel to next level. With a professional experience spanning over 21 years, Varun is a seasoned sales specialist and is credited with creating sustainable business development and management strategies that have increased top and bottom lines and enhanced efficiency in organisations.
Commenting on the elevation, Kartikeya Sharma, Managing Director, iTV Network said, “We are delighted to elevate Varun as the CEO of India News. This elevation is in line with our commitment to growth. His skills and wide experience will surely help India news reach the next level of growth.”
Kohli reports to Sanjay Dua, CEO, NewsX and Group CRO, iTV Network who said, “Over the course of time, Varun has played a more central role in the leadership of the company and with his elevation to CEO, India News; he will take on an even wider role. His strong track record of delivering growth and understanding of industry will help our continued success, moving forward.”
“I’m humbled by the new role. iTV network is a young and dynamic organization which has witnessed tremendous growth in the recent years and I am privileged to be a part of this journey. My focus will be to lead India News to the next level of growth and tap newer opportunities in the ever expanding Hindi news space,” said Kohli.
Prior to joining ITV network, Kohli was the head of sales for IBN7. His distinguished career includes leadership stints at Amar Ujala, Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd., Deccan Chronicle, Dainik Bhaskar, Hindustan times and Indian express.
Kohli is a management graduate from SIMS, Ghaziabad and post graduate from YMCA besides being a certified coach from Results Coaching Systems.
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What are Bob Dylan's current religious beliefs?
frenchdog
Post subject: Re: What are Bob Dylan's current religious beliefs?
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Remember reading somewhere that Bob converted to atheism sometime between Time Out of Mind and Love & Theft. Will dig around for the source.
clifford gage
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frenchdog wrote:
One thing is sure I think, Dylan has never been an atheist.
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Wow, how do you convert to atheism?
(raises hand)
"I, Bob Dylan, do solemnly swear that I believe in no deity. Never again shall I invoke the same of the Lord, so help me God... er, so help me."
panther wrote:
But seriously, I am *guessing* Dylan's "religious" (not necessarily the same as "spiritual") life has gone something like this:
1941 to 1955: Jewish by default; memorizing Torah; Bar Mitzvah, etc.
1956-ish to 1966-ish: "angry young man" rejects organized religion
1967-ish to 1977: death of Woody Guthrie and his father (close together), combined with birth of young children, prompts prolonged period of reflective reconsideration and re-reading of Torah and the New Testament, with an open-mindedness to both (resulting in songs from 'Sign on the Cross' to 'Oh Sister', etc.)
1978 to 1980/1981: Vineyard Fellowship cult-ish Christianity, after Dylan is confronted by Jesus in a Tucson, Arizona hotel room and signs up for Bible school
1982-ish to early (?) 1990s: "Messianic Jew" -- he's both a Jew by extended family and a Christian by choice and association (on stage in 1987, he was still describing Jesus as his "hero"). Was in with the Lubavitch-ers but still singing Christian hymns, etc.
Since early/mid(?)-1990s: Combination of everything from the past with less dogma needed; a comfortable post-middle aged resignation that American song and musical traditions will ultimately define his spiritual experience of the material world.
I was going to post this, with a couple of tweaks, more or less.
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On a lighter note (But true) someone genuinely asked me the following question
"I know you are an atheist, but are you a Catholic atheist, or a Protestant atheist"
Mickvet
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It's all those Stanley Brothers covers he did at that time. Wicked godless atheists, those boys.
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I think now is good time for Dylan to give up the Sinatra nonsense and release his 'Muslim' album. He could call it Slow Jihad Coming.
Just my guess. Who knows? Probably not Dylan.
Mickvet wrote:
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kuddukan wrote:
Bob just released the most curated and comprehensive collection of his career, spanning 10 audio CDs and a full length movie on DVD for the first time in the Bootleg Series.
This music is a celebration of his dramatic conversion experience to Christianity.
It’s a full throated embrace of this aspect of his career, thumbing the nose at any naysayers.
I'd go ahead and say 1966 is the most comprehensive overview of his career, with a movie, a 36 disc box set and another 18 disc box set. 10 discs is child's play.
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Harry Truman wrote:
The Live Tour 66 box was a cheaply made copyright dump.
The 18 disc box wasn’t curated either. It was a copyright protection release for the most part.
The BS13 box is curated from among many concerts and sessions. To me, it seems to have been given more thought.
Only opinion of course, which you know what can be compared to...
Sorry. I got distracted and didn't have time to circle back to the joke I was going to make which was that they left just the essential material in the 1966 releases.
Anr Bjotk
I'd need a source before I'd swallow that.
Boker Tov. Until Bob publically announces his beliefs himself, it is all speculation.
He did publicly say, in an interview about Christmas In the Heart, that "I'm a true believer". So, without a doubt, he's a Hindu.
Hey now!
He also said, "I don't like restaurants or hotels."
Who does Bob admire? "There's a guy who works in a gas station in LA - old guy, I truly admire that guy.."
Always look for context.
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Could the spiritual aspects of his career simply be a marketing ploy, as some have suggested the the whole civil rights/anti war themes, were? There's big money in religion, we know that - and LOTS of followers. Trump has clearly shown us the awful truth on the vast gullibility of millions of people. Bob complained about being treated as some sort of deity, but he brought it on himself.
By a man's fruits shall he be recognised. Does Bob Dylan bring hope, love and joy in his work? Is he trusted or hated? Is he positive or scary? Is he sincere or a con-artist?
And what about Mr Trump?
“Politics for Political World”
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chrome horse wrote:
Yea. After a lifetime of commercial failure, Bob gambled on religion to give him
the sales and success that eluded him his whole life. Thanks for that insight.
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The way he makes more money, he's probably a scientologist these days.
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Here's the context of Bob's "true believer" remark in the Christmas in the Heart interview:
Bill Flanagan: You really give a heroic performance of O’ LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM.
The way you do it reminds me a little of an Irish rebel song. There’s something almost defiant in the way
you sing “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.”
I don’t want to put you on the spot, but you sure deliver that song like a true believer.
Dylan: Well, I am a true believer.
Bob says " I am a true believer" in the context of discussing his performance of a song about the birth of Jesus.
Some of the lyrics of that song :
O holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born to us today
The problem with his interviews, of course, is that you never what is the truth and what is his whim of the moment.
Like when he is asked about "Rainy Day Women" being about pot and he'll say something like "don't people read the bible?". The stoners in his crowds know what he is singing about, and it's one of his most performed songs. I see his evasion on the issue as an understandable avoidance of bringing heat on his touring band. At the same time, I see it as a massive cop out in light of the outrageous war on pot that has wrongly incriminated millions of Americans over the years, and has particularly devastated minority communities. It is the worst legal injustice in America since slavery, even eclipsing the wrongful internment of Japanese in WWll.
I think you've had too much pot. You're gone potty.
Johanna Parker wrote:
Bob Dylan gives away lots of his money in private without making a big song and dance about it. That's what Jesus advocated.
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Support Services Administrator was the 130th most popular job in the U.S. Government in 2017, with 1,574 employed. The most common payscale was the general schedule payscale.
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This occupation includes all positions the primary duties of which involve supervising, directing, or planning and coordinating a variety of services functions that are principally work-supporting, i.e., those functions without which the operations of an organization or services to the public would be impaired, curtailed, or stopped. Such service functions include (but are not limited to) communications, procurement of administrative supplies and equipment, printing, reproduction, property management, space management, records management, mail service, facilities and equipment maintenance, and transportation.
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Food and Drug Administration 2 $93,457.50
Bureau of Land Management 2 $50,311.50
National Mediation Board 2 $90,350.00
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center 2 $124,616.00
Headquarters, Nasa 2 $134,469.50
John Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field 2 $134,449.00
Departmental Offices 2 $100,414.50
National Archives and Records Administration 2 $73,160.00
Office of the Inspector General (Department of Agriculture) 2 $120,930.50
Occupational Safety and Health Administration 2 $148,163.00
Public Buildings Service 1 $120,074.00
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 1 $70,943.00
Health Resources and Services Administration 1 $64,697.00
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1 $118,240.00
Office Secretary Health and Human Services 1 $162,900.00
Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission 1 $90,350.00
Natural Resources Conservation Service 1 $77,593.00
Office of National Drug Control Policy 1 $90,350.00
National Endowment for the Humanities 1 $144,945.00
Railroad Retirement Board 1 $97,763.00
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 1 $125,623.00
Agency for International Development 1 $77,993.00
Selective Service System 1 $92,350.00
Office for Civil Rights 1 $53,575.00
Bureau of the Census 1 $131,833.00
National Transportation Safety Board 1 $150,537.00
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service 1 $75,377.00
National Credit Union Administration 1 $134,220.00
Office of Secretary of Transportation 1 $142,758.00
Federal Trade Commission 1 $127,658.00
Executive Office for Immigration Review 1 $123,234.00
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau 1 $138,160.00
Overseas Private Investment Corporation 1 $64,136.00
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection 1 $44,941.00
General Counsel (Department of Veterans Affairs) 1 $64,136.00
Presidio Trust 1 $59,695.00
U.S. Secret Service 1 $140,552.00
Support Services Administrator Pay Distribution
The average pay for a Support Services Administrator is $81,060.91. The highest paid Support Services Administrator made $236,815 in 2017.
Common Support Services Administrator Payscales
Number of Support Services Administration Employees
GS - General Schedule 1,418
IR - Irs Broadband Class And Pay System Pos 41
ZA - Administrative 33
CG - Corporate Graded 18
GG - Grades Similar To General Schedule 9
NY - All Other Positions In The Corporation 9
CT - Commodity Futures Trading Commission Pos 9
SK - Sec Emp Formerly Under Gs, Gm, And Ez 6
IC - Federal Emergency Management Agency Use 5
FP - Foreign Service Personnel 5
NB - Ofc Of Comptroller Of The Currency Only 5
ES - Senior Executive Service 4
VH - Professional, Admin., And Managerial 2
SL - Senior Level Positions 2
NQ - Nnsa Professional, Technical, And Admin 2
AD - Administratively Determined Rates, Not E 2
NX - Executive-level And Managerial Positions 1
ZS - Administrative Support 1
CU - Credit Union Employees 1
CM - Fdic Suprv And Mangr Pos Below Exec Lev 1
Category: N/A
Occupation Family: 0300 GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE, CLERICAL, AND OFFICE SERVICES GROUP
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Average Support Services Administration Pay Trend from 2004 to 2017
In 2004, the average pay for a Support Services Administrator was $64,772. Since then, the average pay has increased to $81,061 in 2017.
Source: www.federalpay.org/employees/occupations/support-services-administration
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Pillar homers in 8th to lift Blue Jays over Royals 6-5
AP Aug 15, 2018 at 1:16a ET
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — With Kevin Pillar down in the count 0-2 with two outs in the eighth inning, Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez went out to talk to reliever Blaine Boyer.
Whatever they discussed did not work.
Pillar hit a two-run homer on the next pitch to lift the Toronto Blue Jays over the Royals 6-5 on Tuesday night.
“You fall behind, it’s the eighth inning,” Pillar said. “He probably tells him don’t give me anything to hit, but that’s the beauty of baseball. You’ve still got to execute pitches.
“The only thing that threw me off a little is after the meeting they kind of shifted their infield back to the right side, so I figured I was probably going to get something away or something soft to see if I would chase. I didn’t overthink the situation. I just told myself to stay ready.”
Boyer (2-1) retired his first two batters before walking Aledmys Diaz. Pillar hit the next pitch over the wall down the left field line.
Ken Giles worked a perfect ninth for his 14th save and second with the Blue Jays since being acquired from Houston on July 30.
Perez and Jorge Bonifacio hit back-to-back doubles in the seventh off Jake Petricka (2-1) to give the Royals a short-lived 5-4 lead.
Adalberto Mondesi had a career-high four hits, including two doubles, stole three bases, drove in a run and scored a run for Kansas City.
“That’s the way I play the game,” Mondesi said. “I just got to keep working hard and keep doing my thing, so I can go out and show the fans what they want to see.”
The Blue Jays, who had scored four runs in their previous four games total, jumped to a 3-0 advantage. Teoscar Hernandez and Kendrys Morales walked to lead off the second and both scored. Pillar contributed a two-out RBI single, while the other run scored when Diaz grounded into a double play.
Heath Fillmyer walked two more Jays in the third and hit Russell Martin with a pitch with the bases loaded for the third run.
The Royals answered with three runs in third, which included Perez’s run-producing double and Whit Merrifield and Alex Gordon adding RBI singles.
Danny Jansen put the Blue Jays ahead 4-3 in the fourth with his first big league home run in his second game.
The Royals quickly tied it with Mondesi’s two-out single scoring Alcides Escobar, who had doubled.
Fillmyer left after five innings and 93 pitches, allowing four runs, five hits and five walks.
“I fell behind a lot of counts and ended up walking them and three of them ended up costing me,” Fillmyer said. “When you get yourself in trouble, it’s never what you want to do.”
Blue Jays starter Ryan Borucki was pulled after four innings, yielding four runs, six hits and four walks.
“It was a tough one for him,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “His command was definitely off. His big pitch, his changeup, was missing. He developed a pretty good blister on his (right) foot and I know that was tender. I felt after four it was probably enough.”
Borucki said he initially felt the blister in the third inning.
“In the fourth I felt it kind of split open,” he said. “It was kind of tough to push off at the end.”
The Royals have lost 10 of 12.
Rain delayed the start of the game 31 minutes.
ROYALS RECALL LOPEZ
The Royals recalled RHP Jorge Lopez, who was acquired from the Brewers on July 27 as part of the Mike Moustakas trade, from Triple-A Omaha after the game. He will start Wednesday. The club will make a corresponding before the game to make roster space for Lopez.
DOUBLES FOR ESCOBAR
Escobar’s sixth-inning double was the 200th of his career. He is the 11th Royal to reach that milestone.
JAYS ACQUIRE BAKER
The Blue Jays acquired minor league RHP Bryan Baker from the Rockies as the player to be named in a July 26 trade that sent RHP Seunghawan Oh to Colorado. Baker posted a 3.80 ERA in 43 relief appearances with Class A Lancaster.
Blue Jays: Boyer was making his first appearance since April 29 and missing 61 games with a back strain. … RHP Aaron Sanchez (bruised right index finger) will make a rehab start Wednesday for Class A Dunedin in the Florida State League.
Blue Jays: RHP Marco Estrada (5-9, 4.84 ERA) will start the third game of the series.
Royals: Lopez will replace RHP Burch Smith in the rotation and make his Kansas City debut.
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Fiat Abarth Punto priced at Rs 9.95 lakh on launch in India: 5 quick-read points
Fiat Abarth Punto hatchback has been priced at Rs 9.95 lakh (ex-showroom) in India.
By: Akash Sinha | Updated: April 14, 2016 10:42 AM
Fiat Abarth Punto hatchback has been priced at Rs 9.95 lakh (ex-showroom) in India. (In photo: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles India President and Managing Director Kevin Flynn; PTI)
Fiat Abarth Punto hatchback has been priced at Rs 9.95 lakh (ex-showroom) in India on launch, which was on Monday. The Abarth Punto is a stunner in looks and will pose a strong challenge to rival hatchbacks. We went more than skin deep to check out, first hand, what the newest car to hit Indian roads is all about. Fiat Abarth Punto is available in two colours - Pearl white and Hip Hop black. Here are 5 facts about the car that set it apart from other hatchbacks in this price category:
1. Fiat Abarth Punto Brakes: The car is equipped with disc brakes on all four wheels which is a segment exclusive feature. Fiat says, "This might be a lean, mean, racing machine, but it is not at the expense of safety - after all, with great power comes a great need to stop on a dime."
2. Fiat Abarth Punto Steering: The car comes with Hydraulic Power Steering for greater control at turns and while driving. Abarth Punto has been provided with ABS and EBD to ensure stability at high speed.
3. Fiat Abarth Punto Speed: As claimed by the automaker, this is the fastest car in its segment. This 'hottest hatch' can achieve a speed of 0 -100 km in just 8.8 seconds, said the company and it still manages to offer a mileage of 16.3 km/l.
4. Fiat Abarth Punto Engine: The car is powered by 1.4L T-jet petrol engine with power of 145 bhp and torque of 212 Nm. The engine has 16 valves and five-speed manual transmission capacity.
5. Fiat Abarth Punto Wheels: Fiat has given the Abarth Punto 16 inch scorpion sting shaped alloy wheels, which make it look attractive. Abarth Punto has a wheelbase of 2510 mm and ground clearance of 155 mm.
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44 Airports in Germany - Page 1 / 3
Berlin (TXL, SXF) (BER, Germany)
Nearby airports: Berlin Tegel, Berlin Schoenefeld, Leipzig, Dresden, Szczecin; Nearby cities: Berlin (0 km), Potsdam (26 km)
Berlin Schoenefeld (SXF, Germany)
Nearby airports: Berlin (TXL, SXF), Berlin Tegel, Leipzig, Dresden, Zielona Gora; Nearby cities: Berlin (17 km), Potsdam (31 km)
from Berlin Schoenefeld , for example, you can fly with: easyJet, Norwegian Air Shuttle, El Al Israel Airlines, Wizz Air, Onur Air, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, Corendon Airlines
Berlin Tegel (TXL, Germany)
Nearby airports: Berlin (TXL, SXF), Berlin Schoenefeld, Leipzig, Szczecin, Heringsdorf; Nearby cities: Berlin (9 km), Potsdam (23 km)
from Berlin Tegel , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, easyJet, Eurowings, TAP Air Portugal, Austrian Airlines, Air Canada, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Adria Airways
Bremen (BRE, Germany)
Nearby airports: Hannover, Wangerooge, Hamburg, Emden, Norden-Norddeich; Nearby cities: Bremen (3 km), Oldenburg (41 km), Bremerhaven (58 km), Hannover (98 km), Hamburg (98 km)
from Bremen , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Air Canada, Luxair, Eurowings, Air China
Cologne (Koeln)-Bonn (CGN, Germany)
Nearby airports: Dusseldorf, Moenchengladbach, Essen, Dortmund, Maastricht-Aachen; Nearby cities: Bergisch Gladbach (13 km), Köln (15 km), Bonn (15 km), Leverkusen (21 km), Remscheid (36 km), Solingen (36 km), Wuppertal (45 km), Düsseldorf (47 km), Neuss (49 km), Hagen (58 km)
from Cologne (Koeln)-Bonn , for example, you can fly with: Eurowings, Deutsche Lufthansa, TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines, Air China, Austrian Airlines, Air Canada, Turkish Airlines
Dresden (DRS, Germany)
Nearby airports: Altenburg Nobitz, Leipzig, Prague, Karlovy Vary, Berlin Schoenefeld; Nearby cities: Dresden (9 km), Chemnitz (68 km)
from Dresden , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, Eurowings, TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines, ANA All Nippon Airways, Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, Aegean Airlines
Dusseldorf (DUS, Germany)
Nearby airports: Essen, Moenchengladbach, Cologne (Koeln)-Bonn, Weeze (Niederrhein/Weeze), Dortmund; Nearby cities: Düsseldorf (8 km), Neuss (12 km), Krefeld (15 km), Duisburg (16 km), Mülheim (18 km), Moers (20 km), Oberhausen (21 km), Essen (25 km), Solingen (25 km), Mönchengladbach (25 km)
from Dusseldorf , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, Eurowings, Condor, ANA All Nippon Airways, TAP Air Portugal, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, United Airlines, Austrian Airlines
Frankfurt-Main (FRA, Germany)
Nearby airports: Mannheim-Neuostheim, Frankfurt Hahn, Würzburg, Public Airfield Zweibrucken, Cologne (Koeln)-Bonn; Nearby cities: Frankfurt am Main (14 km), Offenbach (18 km), Darmstadt (19 km), Mainz (20 km), Wiesbaden (22 km), Mannheim (60 km), Ludwigshafen (61 km), Heidelberg (69 km), Koblenz (76 km)
from Frankfurt-Main , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, United Airlines, ANA All Nippon Airways, Air Canada, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, Air China, Condor
Hamburg (HAM, Germany)
Nearby airports: Lubeck Blankensee, Heide-Büsum Heide, Bremen, Hannover, Wangerooge; Nearby cities: Hamburg (9 km), Lübeck (54 km), Kiel (79 km), Bremerhaven (93 km), Bremen (100 km)
from Hamburg , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, Eurowings, TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines, Air China, Adria Airways, Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines
Hannover (HAJ, Germany)
Nearby airports: Bremen, Paderborn-Lippstadt, Kassel, Hamburg, Muenster-Osnabrueck; Nearby cities: Hannover (11 km), Hildesheim (40 km), Braunschweig (62 km), Wolfsburg (76 km), Bremen (90 km), Bielefeld (92 km)
from Hannover , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, TAP Air Portugal, TUI fly, United Airlines, Eurowings, Air China, Condor, Air Canada
Leipzig (LEJ, Germany)
Nearby airports: Altenburg Nobitz, Erfurt Weimar, Dresden, Hof-Plauen, Railway Germany; Nearby cities: Wahren (10 km), Leipzig (16 km), Halle (18 km), Halle-Neustadt (22 km), Gera (64 km), Jena (72 km), Chemnitz (82 km), Neustadt (90 km), Erfurt (98 km)
from Leipzig , for example, you can fly with: Condor, Deutsche Lufthansa, TAP Air Portugal, Eurowings, United Airlines, Air Canada, ANA All Nippon Airways, Air China
Munich (MUC, Germany)
Nearby airports: Ingolstadt Manching, Salzburg-W.A. Mozart, Memmingen, Innsbruck-Kranebitten, Nürnberg (Nuremberg); Nearby cities: München (27 km), Ingolstadt (53 km), Augsburg (67 km), Regensburg (77 km)
from Munich , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, United Airlines, Air Canada, TAP Air Portugal, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Air China, ANA All Nippon Airways, Aegean Airlines
Nürnberg (Nuremberg) (NUE, Germany)
Nearby airports: Würzburg, Ingolstadt Manching, Hof-Plauen, Munich, Karlovy Vary; Nearby cities: Nürnberg (6 km), Fürth (8 km), Erlangen (11 km), Ingolstadt (86 km), Würzburg (88 km), Regensburg (92 km)
from Nürnberg (Nuremberg) , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, Eurowings, TAP Air Portugal, Air Canada, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Air China, Singapore Airlines, United Airlines
Stuttgart (STR, Germany)
Nearby airports: Karlsruhe - Baden Airpark, Mannheim-Neuostheim, Memmingen, Friedrichshafen, Strasbourg; Nearby cities: Stuttgart (9 km), Reutlingen (23 km), Pforzheim (44 km), Heilbronn (50 km), Ulm (66 km), Karlsruhe (71 km), Heidelberg (89 km)
from Stuttgart , for example, you can fly with: Eurowings, Deutsche Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines, Adria Airways, Laudamotion, easyJet
Railway Germany (QYG, Germany)
Nearby airports: Erfurt Weimar, Kassel, Leipzig, Paderborn-Lippstadt, Hof-Plauen
Dortmund (DTM, Germany)
Nearby airports: Essen, Dusseldorf, Muenster-Osnabrueck, Paderborn-Lippstadt, Cologne (Koeln)-Bonn; Nearby cities: Dortmund (11 km), Hagen (21 km), Witten (22 km), Hamm (22 km), Bochum (28 km), Herne (28 km), Recklinghausen (31 km), Gelsenkirchen-Alt (34 km), Wuppertal (41 km), Essen (42 km)
from Dortmund , for example, you can fly with: Wizz Air, Eurowings, easyJet, Deutsche Lufthansa, Air Canada, United Airlines, Sun Express
Erfurt Weimar (ERF, Germany)
Nearby airports: Railway Germany, Hof-Plauen, Leipzig, Altenburg Nobitz, Kassel; Nearby cities: Erfurt (5 km), Jena (44 km), Gera (80 km), Halle-Neustadt (88 km), Halle (93 km), Göttingen (94 km)
from Erfurt Weimar , for example, you can fly with: Onur Air, Corendon Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, Laudamotion, Corendon Airlines Europe
Frankfurt Hahn (HHN, Germany)
Nearby airports: Saarbruecken, Public Airfield Zweibrucken, Luxembourg, Frankfurt-Main, Cologne (Koeln)-Bonn; Nearby cities: Trier (50 km), Koblenz (51 km), Mainz (72 km), Wiesbaden (72 km), Saarbrücken (82 km), Bonn (88 km), Ludwigshafen (99 km), Darmstadt (100 km)
from Frankfurt Hahn , for example, you can fly with: Wizz Air
Friedrichshafen (FDH, Germany)
Nearby airports: Altenrhein-St.Gallen, Memmingen, Zurich (Zürich)-Kloten, Stuttgart, Innsbruck-Kranebitten; Nearby cities: Zürich (80 km), Ulm (89 km), Reutlingen (93 km)
from Friedrichshafen , for example, you can fly with: Deutsche Lufthansa, ANA All Nippon Airways, Air China, South African Airways, British Airways, Wizz Air, United Airlines, Corendon Airlines
Hof-Plauen (HOQ, Germany)
Nearby airports: Karlovy Vary, Altenburg Nobitz, Erfurt Weimar, Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Leipzig; Nearby cities: Gera (66 km), Jena (74 km), Chemnitz (96 km), Erfurt (97 km), Erlangen (99 km)
London - New York
London - Alicante
Newcastle - Newquay
Birmingham - Paris
London - Lisbon
London Stansted - Corfu
Newquay - Manchester
Edinburgh - Munich
London - Newcastle
Aberdeen - Newcastle
London - Colombo
London - Hong Kong
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It is Time for BRAWL
Posted by Michiel | Apr 30, 2015 | News, Playstation |
Bloober Team is proud to announce the launch of BRAWL as a PlayStation 4 exclusive for $19.99! BRAWL updates classic Bomberman-like gameplay with MOBA elements, twisted characters, and a blood-soaked atmosphere not too far from Hellraiser.
Like any good party game, BRAWL features a variety of multiplayer modes that can be enjoyed with up to four friends sharing a couch together or challenging each other online: a classic Versus mode, Color Domination (akin to Splatoon), Sumo mode (where players push each other off the map), Sheep mode (you and your friends must protect a flock of sheep from waves of minions), and many more. No matter what mode you go for, you’ll be on the edge of your seat at all times – frantically placing bombs while trying to outmaneuver (and trap) the competition… then blow them to bits.
“We wanted to make BRAWL the ultimate party game for the PS4,” says Piotr Babieno, CEO of Bloober Team. “There aren’t many party games on the PS4 right now, and we hope to give gamers a reason to invite a bunch of friends over and game together again. We know we screwed up big time with Basement Crawl, and this is our chance to make things right. Anyone who bought Basement Crawlwill receive BRAWL free of charge!”
Each character in BRAWL’s creepy roster has a unique single-player campaign narrated by Erik Braa of The Walking Dead fame. The goal? To escape the mysterious Emporium and its maniacal master – defeating hordes of minions intent keeping you there… or much, much worse. Not all minions are the same, though: some carry shields or have special abilities (like eating bombs!). When minions aren’t enough to get the job done, be prepared to face terrifying boss battles.
All characters also have unique abilities, including an ultimate attack that is guaranteed to shake things up and rearrange the scoreboard. Even the maps in BRAWL are out for blood: booby traps and environmental hazards are always ready to send players to an early grave.
BRAWL is now on sale on PSN for $19.99. Anyone who purchased the original Basement Crawl will be able to download BRAWL free of charge from the PlayStation Store.
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Fortnite: Blitz And Teams Of 20 Modes Going On Now For A Limited Time
Blitz v2 and Teams of 20 v2 are both underway.
By Kevin Knezevic | @kevknez on June 1, 2018 at 7:55AM PDT
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Fortnite's 4.3 update has arrived, and along with introducing a new batch of content, it marks the start of a new limited-time mode in Battle Royale. This time, players have two special modes to choose from, Blitz v2 and Teams of 20 v2, both of which are now underway on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and iOS.
As their names imply, both events are new iterations of modes that have previously appeared in Fortnite, and they feature a handful of changes since the last time they were available. As before, Blitz v2 is a shorter match type, lasting a maximum of 15 minutes. Each round begins with the storm circle already closing in on the island, and the wait time between subsequent storms has been significantly shortened.
For this iteration of Blitz, Epic has implemented all of the new weapons and items that have been introduced since the mode first ran back in March, including the Port-a-fort, Clinger, and the LMG. Additionally, the battle bus flies in at a lower altitude at the start of the match, letting players jump into the fray much more quickly.
Teams of 20, meanwhile, divides players into five teams of 20 and pits them against each other in a fight to be the last team standing. This time, each team flies in on their own battle bus, which makes it easier to drop onto the island together. Chests and Supply Drops also spawn extra consumables and ammo, and the latter now come in batches of five. Epic has also decreased the number of storm circles in the mode from nine to six; as a result, Epic says "most" matches will end within 20 minutes.
Epic hasn't announced how long Blitz v2 and Teams of 20 v2 will be available in the rotation, but previous limited-time modes in Fortnite have typically run for about a week. You can read further details about each in the patch notes on the official Fortnite website.
On top of the aforementioned limited-time modes, Fortnite's 4.3 update introduced shopping carts, a new vehicle that allows players to "ride solo or grab a friend to cover you as you roll around the map together." It also implemented a challenge progress notification system, which informs players as they complete challenge objectives. In a change from recent weeks, the next set of weekly challenges arrived on Thursday, May 31.
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Global Institute Of Stem Cell Therapy And Research
US: +1 (800) 969-4188 | Mexico: +1 (619) 866-6000 | India: +91-8905483753
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Prime Minister Mr. Modi Speaking About Stem Cells in Parliament
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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Speaking About Stem Cells in Parliament
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Autism Stem Cell Therapy at Giostar – Patient Testimonial
Here we have Pratyush’s Parents and they have come from New Delhi especially for second session of stem cell treatment.
“We understood that something was wrong with Pratyush from the beginning, as he did not give proper response. However, we knew nothing about Autism. A speech therapist who lives in our neighborhood once, asked us to visit her as she heard Pratyush crying too much. She suggested us to take Pratyush to a psychologist, as she felt that Pratyush has some kind of a disorder. When we took Pratyush to a psychologist and came to knew that he suffered from mild autism. The doctor told us that he is a special child and he will remain like this and will need your support all the time. Some people suggested that send him to playschool so that he remains engrossed in games and studies. Afterwards we started looking for a alternative treatment option for autism, and came across stem cell therapy. Over the internet, we came to know about a child who recovered 100 percent because of stem cell treatment. Then we started look for a trustworthy hospital and came to know about Giostar, and its center in US, but then we came to know that it has opened a center in India as well. I investigated more about this and contacted Dr Praveen, who educated us about stem cell therapy and told us that this would be more effective for Pratyush as he is still very young. We also came to know that research on using stem cell treatment for autism is still under progress and no complete success has still been reported, but doctors at Giostar hospital assured us that it will improve Pratyush’s condition, and it was proved after the first stem cell session only. We saw a big change in Pratyush and his condition as improved a lot. Earlier he never felt urine and would urinate anywhere, he have to keep diapers on all the time, and never even said anything when the diapers were full. Now, he tries to remove his diapers and he has started feeling the urge to urinate. In fact, he has started responding when his name is called, which earlier he did not. Now, he started uttering many words and repeat words after us. All these improvements are evident after the first session of stem cell therapy only. Not only we, but also his teachers and other people have also identified this improvement in him. As far as the team of Giostar hospital is concerned, we have no complaint Giostar and their service was the best. In fact, we were concerned about the side effects of this treatment, but nothing negative happened just because of the efforts of doctors and staff at Giostar.
Note: Result varies from patient to patient. These testimonials do not constitute typical results nor do we claim otherwise.
Osteoarthritis Stem Cell Therapy at Giostar – Patient Testimonial
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Some 256 women and girls have come forward as Larry Nassar victims
Attorney General's Office says more than 250 people have come forward as sexual assault victims of disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar.
Some 256 women and girls have come forward as Larry Nassar victims Attorney General's Office says more than 250 people have come forward as sexual assault victims of disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.lsj.com/2E5xpp9
Matt Mencarini, Lansing State Journal Published 11:23 a.m. ET Jan. 31, 2018 | Updated 10:03 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2018
Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar is back in a Michigan courtroom for the start of his final sentencing hearing for sexually abusing female gymnasts. (January 31) AP
Larry Nassar listens to 17-year-old Jessica Thomashow's victim impact statement Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week.(Photo: MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal)
CHARLOTTE, Mich. – More than 250 women and girls have told law enforcement that former MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually assaulted them.
Nassar’s sentencing on three sexual assault charges in Eaton County began Wednesday morning, with 65 women and girls expected to speak this week and next.
The Michigan Attorney General’s Office, which prosecuted Nassar, has said that 256 women and girls have come forward to law enforcement and said Nassar sexually abused them. Police and prosecutors are still getting new complaints.
After the first day of a possible four-day sentencing hearing in Eaton County, Judge Janice Cunningham had heard 29 impact statements. Seven came from women whose statements also had been given during Nassar's Ingham County sentencing, which ended Jan. 24.
More: Larry Nassar 'groomed the entire community,' Holt resident says
Between the seven days in Ingham County and the first day in Eaton County, 178 different women and girls have given impact statements describing Nassar's abuse.
In November, Nassar pleaded guilty to 10 sexual assault charges, including seven in Ingham County and three in Eaton County, where officials say he abused young gymnasts at Twistars gymnastics club in Dimondale.
Annie Labrie, one of those who Nassar pleaded guilty to abusing in Eaton County, was the second to speak today. She said there was a time when she didn't think she'd want to make a statement.
"I thought speaking today might bring back the trauma that I experienced, and it still may," she said. "I was afraid to open an old wound. ... I was afraid I'd sound redundant, that I had nothing to say that hadn't already been said. I was afraid of vulnerability, of judgment. I was afraid to fail.
"And then I remembered that there is power in numbers and that each and every one of us has something important to contribute to this conversation, to this movement."
Live from court: Day 1 of Larry Nassar's sentencing hearing in Eaton County
Nassar, 54, formerly of Holt, is expected to learn his sentence here in Eaton County next week. Last week, after a seven-day hearing in Ingham County drew international attention as 156 women and girls gave victim-impact statements, Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison.
That sentence, along with his Eaton County sentence, will be served after a 60-year federal prison sentence for three child pornography charges.
Nassar's Ingham County hearing pushed his crimes, and his connections to Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, into a brighter spotlight than they had been in since an Indianapolis Star article in September 2016 prompted hundreds to say they were abused.
Each day of that Ingham County sentencing saw an increase in the number of expected victim-impact statements, and each day saw an increase in speakers' criticism of MSU and USA Gymnastics.
In the early days of that hearing, the women and girls began referring to themselves as an "army of survivors" and took on those they said enabled Nassar's abuse.
Hours after he was sentenced on Jan. 24, MSU President Lou Anna Simon resigned, although her contract allows her to assume a faculty position in the College of Education. Two days later, Athletic Director Mark Hollis announced his retirement.
And on Wednesday, as the university appointed former Michigan Gov. John Engler as its interim president, the criticism did not stop.
Madison Bonofiglio, in a written statement read by Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis, said that she sees MSU making strides recently, but the problem is larger.
"It is the culture that surrounds college sports that creates the environment that allows sexual abuse," Bonofiglio wrote in her statement.
Katherine Ebert, a current MSU student, said she's "completely heartbroken and betrayed" by the university's administration.
"It's time to accept responsibility for your actions, or rather lack thereof, and step down," she said. "I feel that the administration of my school acted as uneducated sociopaths that feel no remorse and have absolutely no regard for the health and safety of the student body.
"I do not support them. Talk is cheap, but my tuition isn't and I'm tired of your apologies."
Several of the impact statements read by staff of the AG's Office on Wednesday came from women or girls who wished to remain anonymous.
One of those women wrote that she was a minor when Nassar abused her in 1998. She said when she went to see Nassar at his MSU office, a receptionist had her wait near the front desk for Nassar to come get her, but did not have her sign in before the appointment.
She was 16 and was alone with Nassar in an exam room when she was abused, she wrote in her impact statement.
Several of the women and girls who have given impact statements during Nassar's two hearings have said that Nassar treated them at MSU in non-medical rooms, had them leave through side doors or treated them at his home.
The same anonymous woman who said she was abused in 1998 wrote that she told her mother of the abuse, and her mother raised concerns to John Geddert, who ran Twistars gymnastics club until his recent suspension by USA Gymnastics. The woman wrote that her mother told Geddert that Nassar had performed an inappropriate procedure and Nassar was no longer allowed to treat her daughter.
Also among those who spoke anonymously was a former MSU student-athlete. She became one of more than a dozen who have given impact statements.
Nassar Eaton County Sentencing - Day One
Larry Nassar listens to victim impact statements in Judge Janice Cunningham's courtroom Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Larry Nassar enters Judge Janice Cunningham's circuit courtroom Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
17-year-old Jessica Thomashow, confronts Larry Nassar Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Larry Nassar listens to 17-year-old Jessica Thomashow's victim impact statement Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Larry Nassar appears in Judge Janice Cunningham's courtroom with his attorney Matt Newburg, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, for the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Former gymnast Annie Labrie regains her composure Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, while giving her victim impact statement during the first day of statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Mya Covey, a minor, gives her victim impact statement Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Larry Nassar, middle, listens as a woman gives her victim impact statement Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected rto be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. To his right is his lawyer Matt Newburg. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Rebecca Boeving addresses Larry Nassar Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Tiffany Dutton addresses Larry Nassar Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Larry Nassar, looks up at his attorney Matt Newburg Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Eaton County Circuit Judge Janice Cunningham confers with the prosecution and defense attorneys Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Eaton County Circuit Judge Janice Cunningham addresses a woman after she gave her impact statement Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Larry Nassar hangs his head Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
17-year-old Eve Petrie talks about Larry Nassar's treatments, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. The picture projected behind her was taken when the abuse began. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
17-year-old Eve Petrie talks about Larry Nassar's treatments, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Eaton County Circuit Judge Janice Cunningham listens to a victim impact statement Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH, MATTHEW DAE SMITH | Lansing Stat
Larry Nassar sits alone at the defendant's table Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, while his attorneys and the prosecution approach the judge during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
Soccer playr Erin Blayer confronts Larry Nassar Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. Next to Nassar is his attorney Matt Newburg. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
A shackled and cuffed Larry Nassar leaves Judge Jance Cunningham's courtroom Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, before the lunch break during the first day of victim impact statements in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., where Nassar is expected to be sentenced on three counts of sexual assault some time next week. MATTHEW DAE SMITH/Lansing State Journal
During the Ingham County hearing, the NCAA sent a letter to MSU informing the university that it is investigating how the Nassar situation was handled and whether MSU had violated any NCAA bylaws.
That investigation is one of several outside investigations of MSU. Others investigating include the Attorney General's Office, the U.S. Department of Education and the state Legislature.
The focus of many of the investigations is who at the university knew about sexual assault allegations against Nassar and what they did or didn't do in response.
Between 1997 and 2015 at least seven women or girls say they raised concerns about Nassar's actions to coaches, trainers, police or university officials. He was investigated twice by police but never charged, and at least once in an internal MSU inquiry that cleared him.
The university's 2014 Title IX investigation cleared him of any policy violations, in part, based on the opinions of four medical doctors who all worked for MSU and had close ties to Nassar.
Kristine Moore, the Title IX investigator in that case, produced two versions of the conclusion section.
Amanda Thomashow, the woman who said Nassar abused her, was not given the university's complete analysis. In the full conclusion section, Moore wrote that Nassar's conduct could open the university to lawsuits and expose patients to "unnecessary trauma based on the possibility of perceived inappropriate sexual misconduct."
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G6PC antibody, N-term
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WB 0.2-2.5 ug/ml
IHC-P 2-10 ug/ml
Not tested in other applications.
40 kDa. ( Note )
human fetal lung , MCF-7
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A synthetic peptide corresponding to a N-terminal region of Human G6PC
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Glucose-6-Phosphatase Catalytic Subunit,G6Pc1,G6Pt,G6Pase,Gsd1,Gsd1A,G6Pc
Glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) is a multi-subunit integral membrane protein of the endoplasmic reticulum that is composed of a catalytic subunit and transporters for G6P, inorganic phosphate, and glucose. This gene (G6PC) is one of the three glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic-subunit-encoding genes in human: G6PC, G6PC2 and G6PC3. Glucose-6-phosphatase catalyzes the hydrolysis of D-glucose 6-phosphate to D-glucose and orthophosphate and is a key enzyme in glucose homeostasis, functioning in gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis. Mutations in this gene cause glycogen storage disease type I (GSD1). This disease, also known as von Gierke disease, is a metabolic disorder characterized by severe hypoglycemia associated with the accumulation of glycogen and fat in the liver and kidneys.[provided by RefSeq, Feb 2011]
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This is a fine 1753 map of the Nivernais, Berry and Bourbonnais Regions of France by Robert de Vaugondy. It depicts the region from Sully south to Sermur and from Loches east as far as Roanne and covers the whole or parts of the departments of Indre, Nievre, Yonne, Allier and Cher. The map renders the entire region in extraordinary detail offering both topographical and political information with forests and mountains beautifully rendered in profile. The important cities of Bourges, Nevers, Moulins, Chateauroux, Montlucon, etc. are identified.
Part of the prestigious Burgundy or Bourgogne wine region, the Nievre region is known for its production of Pouilly Fume, a white wine. The word 'fume' is French for 'smoke,' and it is said the name comes from the smoky quality of these wines. Yonne is one of France's premier Burgundy wine regions and produces some of the world's finest reds. Yonne is also one of only two departments that produce Chaource cheese. Chaource is a cow's milk cheese, cylindrical in shape. The central pate is soft, creamy in color, and slightly crumbly, and is surrounded by a white penicillium candidum rind. Allier is known for its production of Saint-Pourcain wine. It is also one of the rare places in Southern Europe where the freshwater grayling, known in French as ombre des rivieres, occurs in a natural habitat.
The map includes a beautifully engraved title cartouche in the top left quadrant. This map was drawn by Robert de Vaugondy in 1753 and published in the 1757 issue of his Atlas Universal.
Gilles (1688 - 1766) and Didier (c. 1723 - 1786) Robert de Vaugondy were map publishers, engravers, and cartographers active in Paris during the mid-18th century. The father and son team were the inheritors to the important Sanson cartographic firm whose stock supplied much of their initial material. Graduating from Sanson's map's Gilles, and more particularly Didier, began to produce their own substantial corpus of work. Vaugondys were well respected for the detail and accuracy of their maps in which they made excellent use of the considerable resources available in 18th century Paris to produce the most accurate and fantasy-free maps possible. The Vaugondys compiled each map based upon their own superior geographic knowledge, scholarly research, the journals of contemporary explorers and missionaries, and direct astronomical observation - moreover, unlike many cartographers of this period, they commonly took pains to reference their source material. Nevertheless, even in 18th century Paris geographical knowledge was severely limited - especially regarding those unexplored portions of the world, including the poles, the Pacific northwest of America, and the interior of Africa and South America. In these areas the Vaugondys, like their rivals De L'Isle and Buache, must be considered speculative geographers. Speculative geography was a genre of mapmaking that evolved in Europe, particularly Paris, in the middle to late 18th century. Cartographers in this genre would fill in unknown areas on their maps with speculations based upon their vast knowledge of cartography, personal geographical theories, and often dubious primary source material gathered by explorers and navigators. This approach, which attempted to use the known to validate the unknown, naturally engendered many rivalries. Vaugondy's feuds with other cartographers, most specifically Phillipe Buache, resulted in numerous conflicting papers being presented before the Academie des Sciences, of which both were members. The era of speculatively cartography effectively ended with the late 18th century explorations of Captain Cook, Jean Francois de Galaup de La Perouse, and George Vancouver.
Vaugondy, R., Atlas Universel (Paris) 1757. The Atlas Universel was the crowning glory of the Robert de Vaugondy firm's atlas production. The atlas was revolutionary on many levels and exemplified the Vaugondy creedo commode, complet, univorme, et suive (convenient, complete, uniform, and easy to use). The atlas thus consisted of a wide corpus of maps, both modern and historical, was of moderate height and width, and featured maps of uniform style and structure. They partnered with Antoine Boudet, a shrewd businessman and publisher with whom they had worked previously, to produce the first edition. To minimize his fiscal risk, Boudet sold the atlas first by subscription using a large prospectus, receiving in the process over 1100 pre-orders. The first edition appeared in 1757 and contained beautifully produced maps with elaborate freshly designed allegorical cartouche work, generally by Pierre-Edme Babel, Pierre Philippe Choffard, and Charles Nicholas Cochin. Most of the maps were engraved by the Delahaye firm, the payment for whose services ultimately led to legal disputes. Despite proving a popular work of astounding quality, the Atlas Universal received harsh criticism from fellow cartographers, particularly Philipppe Buache. Ever at odds with the Vaugondys, Buache's critical perspective may have been influenced more by political maneuvering than academic affront. The atlas was issued in multiple editions between 1757 and 1788. Later editions, issued after 1786, were taken over by Charles Delamarche, who inherited the Robert de Vaugondy firm and assumed Boudet's publication rights.
Very good. Minor wear along original centerfold. Original platemark visible. Some spotting and offsetting.
Rumsey 3353.037. Pedley, Mary Sponberg Belle et Utile: The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 139.
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Following up on a hot button issue this week: In a first of its kind ruling, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decreed on Monday that employers in the state cannot fire employees for medical cannabis use.
Cristina Barbuto was fired after her first day at Advantage Sales and Marketing after she testing positive for marijuana. Barbuto has a prescription for medical marijuana to treat Crohn’s disease, something she disclosed to the company after being told that she would need to take a mandatory drug test. Barbuto’s supervisor told her twice that her cannabis use shouldn’t be a problem, as long as she didn’t use it before or during work.
But after she’d completed her first day of work, an HR representative told her that her employment was terminated because, “We follow federal law, not state law.”
Barbuto filed suit against the employer, claiming that her termination violated state anti-discrimination laws. The case reached the state supreme court after being dismissed in 2015. Similar cases have been filed in the past, but have often ruled against the employee.
In this ruling, the state supreme court said that, “the use and possession of medically prescribed marijuana by a qualifying patient is as lawful as the use and possession of any other prescribed medication.”
Similar cases have been tried in Colorado, California, Washington, and Montana. In each, the court ruled that employers could fire workers for legal, off the clock, cannabis use because it is still illegal under federal law.
“I can’t stress this enough, it’s the first case of its kind in the country,” said Dale Deitchler, a shareholder at world’s largest labor and employment law firm and an expert on marijuana issues in the workplace.
“Massachusetts is not a state where such protections are written in the law so this is really significant,” Deitchler said. “The court created law.”
The ruling means that the case will be sent back to the Suffolk County Superior Court, the court that initially dismissed Barbuto’s suit.
The justices concluded that, “An employee’s use of medical marijuana under these circumstances is not facially unreasonable as an accommodation of her handicap.” However, “it does not necessarily mean that the employee will prevail in proving proof of handicap discrimination”, If accommodating an employee’s medical cannabis use, “would create undue hardship” on an employer.”
“Undue hardship” would apply, for example, in the transportation industry, where cannabis use would impair an employee’s ability to do their work or endanger public safety. Past cases have been with employees with less physically stressful jobs so this ruling has not yet applied. Let’s hope this means a step forward for cannabis patients’ rights!
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Batman: Arkham Asylum review
by Asim Tanvir on August 24, 2009
Game: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Available on: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC (reviewed on Xbox 360)
STORY: The story of Batman: Arkham Asylum is mature and gritty, it takes what is great about the Batman world and finally brings it to the world of videogames. The games starts out with Batman escorting the Joker into Arkham Asylum and is rather suspicious about the whole situation as the Joker was apprehended rather easily. It soon becomes apparent that the Dark Knight was right to be suspicious as a few minutes after entering the Asylum the Joker (with help from Harley Quinn) breaks free and takes control of the place. It becomes clear that the Clown Prince had planned this takeover well beforehand due to his recent attack on Blackgate Prison there are many convicts being transferred into Arkham upon his arrival. Needless to say, his plan involves using these goons to solidify his control of the Asylum. After taking control, the Joker locks down Arkham completely with Batman, Commissioner Gordon and many of the staff still inside. He has also sent a message to Gotham that if anyone tries to enter the Asylum he will set off bombs all over the city. It is down to Batman (with the help from a few friends) to save the day and find out what exactly the Joker is up to while also fending off villains such as Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, Bane and Poison Ivy.
It certainly sounds like your typical comic book story and for the most part it is but it is the execution of it that is superb. It just works on so many levels, comic book fan or not this is a story that everyone can and hopefully will appreciate. It is not too much of a surprise really that the story is so good though as Paul Dini (the man behind the Batman animated series and detective comics) had a hand in writing the script for the game. I would even go as far to say the story is so good that it wouldn’t be out of place in a Chris Nolan Batman movie, yup it is that good. It is mature, gritty and involving. all things which should be expected from something Batman related.
GRAPHICS: Rocksteady have built the game using the Unreal Engine 3 and, unlike most developers, they have used it well. Much like the story the game has a mature/gritty look to it, which really ties in well with the Batman world from the comics. The development team have done a fantastic job recreating the madhouse that is Arkham Asylum, it looks just how you would probably imagine it. The character models for each character are also really good. They do look slightly bulky/muscular and plastic at times but this is a minor negative as on the whole the game really does look fantastic. Special mention must go to the wonderful Batman character model which actually shows signs of wear and tear as you progress though the game. You will see scratches on his face and rips in his cape, minor details in the overall scheme of things but a nice touch nonetheless.
SOUND: Another area where Arkham Asylum shines ever so brightly, mostly down to the wonderful voice acting of the main characters. Once again the development team has remained true to the Batman universe and brought in many of the actors from the animated series to provide voices for certain characters. Most notably, Kevin Conroy once again returns to voice Batman and Mark Hamill brilliantly provides the vocals for the Joker. Hamill’s voice work really brings the Joker character to life and in turn makes the gameplay experience that more “authentic”. Sadly the original Batman theme tune doesn’t make it into the game (licensing issues maybe?) but this doesn’t turn out to be a huge issue as the music in the game is pretty much spot on anyway. The “main theme” actually sounds a little like the one from the most recent Batman movies.
GAMEPLAY: The gameplay mechanics of Arkham Asylum break down into three aspects, hand-to-hand combat, stealth and exploration. The hand-to-hand combat starts off with just a few moves at your disposal but then as you gain XP (more on that later) you can acquire new moves. For example you can unlock a throw move which can be pulled off in a certain situation. At first glance the the hand-to-hand seems a little too simple but once you get a few hours into the game you realise it actually has some hidden depth. Basically it is simple to use but difficult to master.
The stealth combat is where the game truly shines for me, it’s brilliant. During these sections you truly feel like you are the Dark Knight himself. The focus is on being a “predator” and using the gadgets (more on these later too) at Batman’s disposal. A simple press of the LB button takes you into “detective mode”, the screen changes and you are given information about the area you are in aswell as every single person in it. You will know if an enemy is armed or unarmed and what sort of state (nervous, terrified and so on) they are in. All this information lets you plan your attacks on the enemy with the greatest amount of efficiency, although sometimes things can go wrong! In these sections the enemies are usually armed so it is always best to stay out of sight; Batman is human after all! The most effective way of taking out goons is by swinging from gargoyle statues and surprisingly enough there are alot of them littered around the Asylum. It is a great feeling swinging from one point to another while you stalk your enemies, watching their every move. You can take them out in a variety of ways but my favourite method has to be the trademark inverted takedown. It never gets tiring seeing one of Joker’s goons crapping themselves when they see one of their own hanging underneath a gargoyle as result of one of your actions. Slight word of warning, the first few stealth sections ease you into the mechanics but soon enough they do become rather challenging. In later areas you really do have to plan how you are going to go about taking out the goons. The increased challenge doesn’t just mean an increase in the number of goons either, other very interesting factors (which I won’t reveal) also come into play!
As mentioned earlier there is also a decent amount of exploration to do in Arkham Asylum. The mechanics that form the basis of this are solid and more importantly quite fun too. Some might be shocked to learn that Batman can’t really jump (minor gripe) but if you hold down A while nearing a gap (much like Assassin’s Creed) he will “auto” jump instead it. As you jump if you hold A, Batman’s cape expands and he glides down to his destination, it looks rather awesome. The grappling is what forms the main part of the exploration though and it is perfectly executed. Seriously it is actually perfect, I had not one issue with it throughout the course of the game.
The game also has a basic XP system which allows you to upgrade Batman’s abilities and gadgets. All of the major abilities are only available once you have unlocked them via the XP system but never fear you will probably gain most of them as you play through normally. I didn’t do much “XP hunting” and ended up with 16 out of the 20 upgrades. All of the gadgets (barring one or two) are unlocked as you progress through the story, no need to acquire them via the XP system. However you can upgrade the gadgets functions via the system, for instance you can upgrade your Batarang to a double or triple Batarang. You may be wondering how you gain XP though? Simple, by taking out enemies and finding collectables. Now these collectables are something rather special too, they are called Riddler’s challenges. Yes that’s right folks, Mr Edward Nigma makes a guest appearance (not in person though, just his voice is present) in the game. The challenges break down into collecting his question mark trophies scattered around the Asylum and solving certain riddles. The riddles are a fantastic inclusion, they don’t put too much strain on the old noggin but certainly are fun to solve. Solving them involves some light Batman knowledge and some decent searching skills. If that wasn’t enough there are also patient interview tapes placed around Arkham and they are well worth listening to if you want to really know just how crazy some of the villians in the Batman universe are.
That is all you probably need to know about the gameplay aspect of the Arkham Asylum but (believe it or not) there is so much more I could actually talk about. The boss battles, the random comments from the Joker over the Asylum microphones; there are so many little details that make up the gameplay experience. Talking of experiences, there are a few certain gameplay sections which I would really love talk about but if I do I think I would be ruining the experience for anyone who hasn’t played the game yet. What I will say though is that these sections involve a rather overlooked Batman villian and are superbly designed. The folks at Rocksteady have clearly done some lateral-outisde the box-thinking and as a result pulled off something truly brilliant. Trust me, you won’t see these sections coming and when they do you will be confused but that confusion will soon turn to sheer delight. I literally cannot praise these gameplay sections enough. I just hope everyone enjoys them as much as I did!
LONGEVITY: The story mode will last you about 10-12 hours on the normal difficulty, add another hour or two to that number if you want to spend time completing all of the Riddler’s challenges. The story mode is definitely worth replaying though, just to witness the awesomeness again! Apart from that the game also consists of “brawler” and stealth challenge rooms (read our impressions here) with online leaderboards which should keep you going for a while if you really enjoyed the both styles of combat.
VERDICT: I do not have enough superlatives to describe this game but I will go ahead and try anyway! Here goes…..Batman: Arkham Asylum is superb, a must play title. Not just a great comic book game, a great game full stop.
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Rumors: Tiger to try Stack and Tilt swing?
By petedirenzo
Don’t write Stack and Tilt’s obit just yet. The swing system non grata, which lost much of its cachet when it failed to bring salvation to the likes of Aaron Baddeley and Mike Weir, might soon be on Tiger Woods’s to-do list. In Monday’s New York Times, Bill Pennington points out that Sean Foley — who has been all but ordained as Tiger’s next swing coach — is a fan of the S&T principles.
…several of Foley’s colleagues in the small community of top golf
coaches said they thought Foley had been influenced by the Stack and
Tilt teachings of Plummer and Bennett … [and] he has subtly endorsed some of the Stack and Tilt fundamentals in recent interviews and instructional videos.
In the last five years no swing philosophy has triggered as much debate and consternation as S&T. The bread and butter of golf instructors Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett (if they didn’t invent the system, they’re certainly the guys who have best marketed it), S&T hinges on the notion that instead of shifting your weight onto the back foot to begin your backswing, you should actually shift, or “stack,” your weight on the front foot with your spine titled toward the target.
It’s counterintuitive, at least as far as most traditional instructors are concerned, which explains why it has been such a hot-button issue in teaching circles and why if Tiger starts S&T-ing things could really heat up. Poor guy. Controversy even follows him to the range. LPGA pro shuns short caddie Juli Inkster was
disqualified from last week’s LPGA’s Safeway Classic for swinging a
weighted “donut” on the course, but that’s not the most bizarre and
unfortunate incident to unfold at the Oregon event. Earlier in the week
17-year LPGA vet Dina Ammaccapane refused the services of her assigned
caddie — 5-foot-3-inch Cameron Kiyokawa — because of his diminutive
stature. John Canzano at The Oregonian reports:
Ammaccapane eventually showed up at 4 p.m. [on Monday], where she was directed to
her waiting caddie. Cameron, 19, walked up, and introduced himself. “She
looked at me,” he said, “gave me a weird look and didn’t say anything.”
There was an awkward silence. Then Ammaccapane said it. And I
wish she hadn’t. So does Cameron. So does his father, Perry, who heard
the words and felt his insides hollow out. Ammaccapane said this: “Do you have anyone bigger?” There
was some initial confusion. Some thought she was joking. This was
followed by some discussion between the master caddie and Ammaccapane,
who explained that she wanted someone more capable of carrying her
75-pound bag. Ultimately, it’s her bag and her golf career, and so the
discussion ended with the player announcing, “I would be more
comfortable with someone bigger.”
Seems caddie size does matter.
In a follow-up blog post Sunday, Canzano wrote that “the LPGA is ‘pissed,’ I’m told, because I
didn’t write a happier/easier column to help them promote their
tournament.” He also said that the LPGA tried to make kind with
Kiyokawa by offering him an inside-the-ropes pass for Sunday’s final
round, an offer the would-be caddie declined. Shoal Creek lands Champions Tour majorShoal Creek golf club in Alabama hasn’t hosted a major since the 1990 PGA Championship, primarily because of the remarks its founder, Hall Thompson, made in the run-up to that tournament regarding the club’s refusal to admit black members. The club, however, has worked diligently to repair its image, as reported by Michael Bamberger in the August issue of Golf Magazine, and that campaign has begun to pay dividends, first with a visit from the USGA (with the 2008 U.S. Junior Amateur) and now from the Champions Tour, which today announced it will conduct a major — the Regions Tradition — at Shoal Creek, according to The Birmingham News:
Organizers say the event will boost Birmingham’s reputation in the golf
world and draw top senior golfers such as Tom Watson, Greg Norman and
Fred Couples. The Regions Tradition, as it will be called, will be the
first of five “major” tournaments on the Champions Tour and will take
place May 2-8.
As Golf Magazine explained, much of the credit for Shoal Creek’s reemergence belongs to Hall’s son, Mike Thompson, who is a leading decision-maker at the club. Shoal Creek has three black members today, including Condoleezza Rice, and has instituted an “outreach program” to increase its diversity. It has also hosted many regional tournaments with the hopes of attracting more big-time events.
“The goal was to get professional golf back,” Mike Thompson said. “We’re just delighted to be back in the game.”
Thompson’s ultimate goal is to draw another regular major to Shoal Creek — a U.S. Open, say, or another PGA. That seems unlikely, but then again just a few short years ago the idea of a senior major, or for that matter a U.S. Junior, landing at the club seemed unlikely too. Stay tuned.
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Gods, Angels, Pearls & Roses
Pasadena, CA. American International Publishing Co., 1985. Second Edition (stated). Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. x, 240 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; 24 cm. Map. More about Gods, Angels, Pearls & Roses
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Allen, Thomas B., and Polmar, Norman
Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing. Hardcover. 351 pages. Illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Signed by both authors on title page. More about Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing. 351, illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. More about Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Printing. 351, illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, usual library markings, rear flyleaf has been removedDJ in plastic sleeve. This book details the U.S. plans to invade Japan at the end of the Second World War. The authors contend that the Japanese were not planning on surrendering, and were only forced to do so by the American use of atomic weapons. More about Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan--and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Eisenhower, Volume One: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 637, illus., endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index, usual lib markings, some staining to fore-edge, DJ in plastic sleeve. More about Eisenhower, Volume One: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952
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Anderson, Charles R., and Center of Military History
Leyte: The United States Army Campaigns of World War 2
Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 35, wraps. More about Leyte: The United States Army Campaigns of World War 2
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Asahi Shimbun (Asahi Evening News), trans. by Kenichi Otsuka
The Pacific Rivals: A Japanese View of Japanese-American Relations
New York: Weatherhill/Asahi, [1972]. First Edition. 24 cm, 431, illus., chronology, index, ink name inside front board, front DJ flap price clipped, some wear and soiling to DJ. More about The Pacific Rivals: A Japanese View of Japanese-American Relations
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The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First Printing. 592, illus., notes, bibliography, index, some creasing to DJ. More about The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First Printing. 592, illus., notes, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the author. More about The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Bacevich, A. J.
Diplomat in Khaki: Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1949
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, c1989. First Printing. 24 cm, 272, illus. More about Diplomat in Khaki: Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1949
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Bailey, Jennifer L.
Philippine Islands
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1992. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. 24 p. Maps (color). Illustrations. More about Philippine Islands
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Battistini, Lawrence Henry
Japan and America, from Earliest Times to the Present
Tokyo, Japan: Kenkyusha, 1953. 198, bibliography, index, ink mark and pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn, torn, and chipped. More about Japan and America, from Earliest Times to the Present
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Baumer, William H., Jr.
West Point: Moulder of Men
New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1942. 264, illus., bibliography, index, some soiling to fore-edge, slight wear to board and spine edges. More about West Point: Moulder of Men
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Birdsall, Steve
Flying Buccaneers: The Illustrated Story of Kenney's Fifth Air Force
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First Edition. 312, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, spine weak, DJ somewhat soiled: sm tears, sm pcs missing, DJ in plastic sleeve. More about Flying Buccaneers: The Illustrated Story of Kenney's Fifth Air Force
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. Book Club Edition. 312, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled, small tears and chips to DJ edges. More about Flying Buccaneers: The Illustrated Story of Kenney's Fifth Air Force
Bix, Herbert P.
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. Third Printing. 800, maps, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. More about Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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Five Biggest Megayachts You Need to See at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show
Chris Joseph
photo via yachtnorthernstar.com
Chris Joseph | November 4, 2015 | 8:00am
The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is coming up this weekend, which means big-ass boats that you'll probably never be able to afford. But that doesn't mean you can't come down and gawk at the gaudy floating hotels known as megayachts. Because that's really what the boat show is all about.
This year's boat show features some gorgeous megayachts that range from simple beauty to exotic to downright huge. And while you'll have plenty of vessels to look over and take selfies with, we've done some of the legwork for you and found the five must-see megayachts at this year's boat show:
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5. Sea Dreams (132 feet)
At 132 feet, Sea Dreams is a three-decker beauty of a yacht that features a gas grill for barbecuing, a six-person hot tub for hot-tubbing, and a covered deck for drinking hard, chillin' harder, and entertaining guests with the comfort and style fit for people who love dining in comfort on the open sea. Sea Dreams, which is being exhibited by Chamberlain Yachts, also has three VIP staterooms with queen-sized beds, in-suite bathrooms with showers, and his and hers sinks. Quaint! Also, below deck is a twin stateroom with two single beds and an in-suite bathroom. It's comfort on the ocean. Sea Dreams will be docking at Bahia Mar/Hall of Fame/Las Olas Marina Show 2015, HOF North 317, 319.
Sea Dreams features a covered deck for drinking hard and chillin' harder.
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4. Katya (151 feet)
Katya is advertised as being built for the "experienced yachtsman who spared no expense to get the perfect boat." And that she is. The Katya is long at 151 feet and gorgeous, with a magnificent interior that'll send yachtsmen reeling. It features a magnificent deck for sunning and getting your complete "I'm on a boat" vibe going. She also boasts an interior that looks more like a hotel suite than a seafaring vessel. Awarded "Finalist in the World Superyacht Awards 2010," Katya is everything you want in a giant yacht with none of the extra frills that get in the way. It's exactly what you want when you think, "Today I feel like eating some lobster, getting a tan, and living like a royal." Exhibited by Florida Yachts International, Katya will be at the Face Dock 13A, Bahia Mar/Hall of Fame/Las Olas Marina Show 2015.
The Katya was awarded "Finalist in the World Superyacht Awards" in 2010.
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3. Allegria (152 feet)
Allegria means cheerful in Spanish, though it was built in Holland. But that's not the only surprise this 152-footer has in store for yacht lovers. The Allegria is one of the highest-quality megayachts in the world today. The Allegria is advertised as being a vessel "with a cruising range of over 5,000 nautical miles that can take you as far as you can dream." That might be a little overstating things, but then again, not really. Because she's fast and she accommodates ten or 11 guests in five spacious staterooms that all feature fine marble as well as elegant cherry and maple burl woods. So it's kind of like being on the USS Enterprise, but much more ostentatious. Also, there's a movie theater inside, just in case spending time taking in sun and looking out at the vast endless azure ocean gets too boring and monotonous for you. You can see the Allegria, which is being exhibited by Moran Yacht & Ship, at HOF FD 22-26, Bahia Mar/Hall of Fame/Las Olas Marina Show 2015.
The Allegria: Llke being on the USS Enterprise, but much more ostentatious.
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2. Meridian (205 feet)
The 205-foot Meridian has a main saloon, large outdoor areas, an owner´s cabin divided in two decks with a direct link to a spectacular saloon where you can check out the scenery. Basically, if you love saloons, this is the vessel for you. In 2013, the Meridian underwent an extensive conversion of the Observation Lounge on the forward upper deck into a second master suite. The Meridian provides wide entertainment areas, both formal as well as informal, along with spacious rooms for privacy. She's simply a fine megayacht, the kind you want to shoot a sweet hip-hop video on, but with lots of saloons. Exhibited by YachtZoo LLC, the Meridian will be displayed at Sails Marina Slip 3, the Sails Marina 2015.
The Meridian provides wide entertainment areas, both formal as well as informal, along with spacious rooms for privacy.
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1. Northern Star (247 feet)
OK, so, this is basically more of a floating city than a yacht. At a whopping 247 feet, the Northern Star is the perfect megayacht for the supervillain who likes to pamper himself while he plots to kill James Bond and take over the world. For starters, it features an owner's deck with the master suite encompassing most of the second deck, a 180-degree forward-looking vista from the stateroom, a private owner's study, private owner's bar, private sky lounge, his and her baths, and private foyer/lobby that looks more like the lobby of a five-star luxury hotel. Oh, and it has elevators. Because, yeah. The Northern Star has a classy hot tub area and a wide-open sundeck that doubles as a helipad, for when it's time to make your escape and/or get a tan. If you see one megayacht at the boat show, it needs to be this one. Basically because it's going to take you the entire afternoon to see every inch of this vessel. But also because it's pretty damned awesome. Exhibited by Moran Yacht & Ship, the Northern Star can be seen at the Sybass Slip 3-4, Bahia Mar/Hall of Fame/Las Olas Marina Show 2015.
The Northern Star is the perfect megayacht for the supervillain that likes to pamper himself while he plots to kill James Bond and take over the world.
The Northern Star features a wide-open sundeck that doubles as a helipad, for when it's time to make your escape and/or get a tan.
The private foyer/lobby that looks more like the lobby of a five-star luxury hotel.
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IoD worrying about private equity image
The Institute of Directors has admitted the need to improve the image of private equity houses following the acquisition by Kholberg Kravis Roberts of Alliance Boots.
The Institute of Directors has admitted the need to improve the image of private equity houses following the acquisition by US-based "Barbarian at the Gate" Kholberg Kravis Roberts of high street pharmacist Alliance Boots.
It has set up an advisory group to help the private industry to "improve its corporate governance, to be more open, more transparent and better understood".
The move was announced yesterday by IoD director-general Miles Templeman, who told the lobby group's Annual Convention in London: "Like it or not, secrecy breeds suspicion."
He was speaking hours after it was confirmed that Alliance Boots had become the first FTSE 100 company to be taken over by private equity.
The sector has a reputation for ruthless assetstripping and opaqueness, but Alliance Boots deputy chairman Stefano Pessina, who joined forces with KKR, said the plan was to expand the business and maintain its heritage.
The IoD group, whose members will include figures from private equity houses CVC, 3i and Phoenix, will draw up guidelines for directors "looking to make private equity decisions in the most responsible, transparent and successful way possible," Mr Templeman said.
He used his speech yesterday to attack critics of business, saying: "Growing cynicism about entrepreneurship and wealth creation does no-one in the business world any good at all and we have to take responsibility for defeating it."
Business success is fundamental to the success of the UK and the economy is not a zero sum game.
"When our companies are winning it doesn't mean someone else is losing," he said.
Nearly 2.5 million more people work in the private sector than ten years ago; 3.5 million employees benefit from share schemes, and business spends #33 billion a year on training and developing skills.
"And let's just remind ourselves that the City of London is a huge asset for the UK," Mr Templeman went on to say.
"Without the financial sector's #20 billion contribution, our balance of payments deficit would be bigger and interest rates higher. The City's critics should think it through: a weaker City would mean higher interest rates for us all."
Putting the positive case for business, however, would require more openness and transparency "and of course, no hiding (or worst of all) rewarding failure", Mr Templeman said.
Earlier, Mr Templeman said many company directors are nervous about what policies Gordon Brown will introduce when, as expected, he takes over as Prime Minister.
It was important that Mr Brown did not "interfere" in business.
Mr Templeman agreed that politics was currently in a state of limbo as the country waited for Tony Blair to resign.
"It needs to be resolved. If Gordon Brown is going to take over, let us get on with it. We are keen to move forward and we want to make sure he understands the business agenda.
"He does have an understanding of competitiveness, but he has to work harder at winning the trust of the business community.
"A lot of our members are nervous about what he will do."
West MidlandsMoody's credit rating downgrade for Jaguar Land Rover and what it meansMoody's has warned of a negative outlook but said it also reflects the industry's cyclical nature
Commercial PropertyBristol's Being Brunel museum at SS Great Britain named leisure and tourism project of the yearThe new attraction scooped the prize at the 2019 Michelmores Property Awards
EnterpriseOne of Wales' leading independent schools acquired in a management buyoutThe deal provides an exit for entrepreneur Andrew McCarthy
Commercial PropertyFlats plan for Grade II listed South West military ruinProperty experts by the derelict Raglan Gatehouse in Plymouth with a plan to restore it and star it on TV
Post PeopleLightbox switches to bigger offices in Jewellery QuarterLightbox celebrated its relocation to Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter with a launch event for clients and partners.
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Local producers around Hampshire
Your hunt for the perfect pub ends in Lyndhurst… where the Fox & Hounds serves fantastic cask ales and delicious fresh food from an historic former coaching inn. Sink into a sofa by the fire or bask outside on the glorious terrace; it’s our very own great outdoors.
The history of the Fox and Hounds in Lyndhurst charts back as far as the 16th Century - but most of the Inn was built later, in the 19th century. It was then used as an important coaching house on the route between Bournemouth and Southampton.
In those days, when coaches drew in for a break in their journey, passengers would be entertained by a local man known as “Silly Jack” - who used to do a funny little step dance on the pavement.
Another coaching ritual took place daily up until about 1912. The Four in Hand coachman, driving from Bournemouth to Southampton, would sound his horn when he passed the Swan Inn at Swan Green, about a mile from Lyndhurst High Street. This was the signal to the Ostler at the Fox and Hounds to have the horses ready for the change team - which would then pull the coach onto Southampton.
Now the Fox & Hounds makes local produce the hero. With Hampshire being home to some of the finest produce in the country, they proudly showcase as much as possible on their menus.
Their meat comes from the award-winning Owton’s Butchers of Southampton, the fish are some of the freshest around, and even the eggs are from just down the road at Fluffett’s Farm.
You can enjoy it all in the stunning surroundings of the dining area, set around a unique rotisserie oven. Or, if the sun shines, head out onto the terrace – a sun-trap oasis in the heart of the New Forest.
With one of the largest selection of beers in the New Forest. Choose from five cask ales on tap, and an exceptional craft beer range from some of the world’s best and smallest micro-breweries.
The Fox & Hounds truly is a hop-lovers heaven – but there’s plenty for lager fans too along with a range of bespoke Fox’s Fizzes soft drinks, and superb, hand-selected wines.
Fox & Hounds
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Add to cartAmazonBarnes & NobleBooks A MillionIndiebound
It’s been two months since Dr. Janet Watson accepted an offer from Georgetown University Hospital. The training for her new high-tech arm is taking longer than expected, however, leaving her in limbo. Meanwhile, her brilliant friend and compatriot, Sara Holmes, has been placed on leave—punishment for going rogue during their previous adventure.
After an extremist faction called the Brotherhood of Redemption launches a failed assassination attempt on the president that causes mass destruction, Holmes, who is now operating in the shadows, takes on the task of investigating the Brotherhood. Holmes is making progress when she abruptly disappears.
When Watson receives a mysterious message from Holmes’s cousin Micha that indicates that Sara Holmes’s disappearance might be connected to the Brotherhood and to Adler Industries, Watson and Micha go on a high-stakes mission to reunite with Holmes once more.
Together, Watson, Holmes, and Micha embark on a thrilling, action-packed journey through the deep South to clear Holmes’s name, thwart the Brotherhood’s next move, and most important, bring their nemesis to justice for the atrocities she’s committed in the New Civil War.
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Lan Shui
Iarlaith Carter
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“One cannot avoid comparing what Shui has achieved in Singapore with what George Szell did in Cleveland or Simon Rattle in Birmingham. He has turned a good regional orchestra into a world-class ensemble”
(American Record Guide)
Conductor Laureate: Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Honorary Conductor: Copenhagen Phil
Principal Guest Conductor: National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui has served as the Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to January 2019 and has been appointed Conductor Laureate of the orchestra. From 2007 to 2015 he was the Chief Conductor of the Copenhagen Phil, currently holding the post of the Honorary Conductor. From the 2019/20 season, Shui will be the new Principal Guest Conductor of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.
As a guest conductor, Lan Shui has worked in the United States with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra and the San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit and Houston symphony orchestras, as well as appearing at festivals including Tanglewood and Aspen. In Europe, he has performed with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Gothenburg Symphony, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Tampere Philharmonic and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie. He was also Principal Guest Conductor of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and maintains a regular relationship with the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
Lan Shui - Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1 (excerpt) © Singapore Symphony Orchestra
He is renowned for his abilities as an orchestral builder and for his passion in commissioning, premiering and recording new works by the cream of Asia’s composers. Under Shui’s direction, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra has become a world-class ensemble and enjoys an exclusive recording contract with the BIS label. Shui has led the orchestra on several acclaimed tours to Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Spain and the USA, and is passionate about commissioning, premiering and recording works by Asian composers.
Born in Hangzhou, China, Lan Shui studied composition at the Shanghai Conservatory and graduated from The Beijing Central Conservatory, where he studied conducting with Prof. Xu Xin and Prof. Huang Fei Li. He made his professional conducting debut with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing in 1986.
Lan Shui - Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead (excerpt) © Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui - Seascapes (excerpt) © BIS
Lan Shui - Zhou Long: The Rhyme of Taigu (excerpt) © Singapore Symphony Orchestra
“Musically, the performance was on an entirely different level from the opera’s premiere 2010 run…Lan Shui led the players from the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus of local singers with a firm dramatic sweep that sacrificed none of the music’s rhythmic details.”
(Ken Smith, Opera Magazine, July 2019)
“Lan Shui’s Debussy: Jeux, Khamma, La Boîte à joujoux recording is the best I know… Shui’s balancing of the orchestral forces is exemplary. His control of the work’s fleeting contrasts and fluidity are beautifully realized by every section of the orchestra, and are capture in warm, clear sound in the fine acoustic”
(Fanfare, January 2018)
“Lively speeds which never sound hurried. Sparky, well-articulated playing, the period brass adding a distinctive colour. Crisp, clear, recording. All present….These discs are an utter joy, and spot comparisons with other, better-known recordings confirm that Lan Shui’s Copenhagen players deserve to be up there with the best. …an Eroica that’s among the best I’ve heard. Life-enhancing stuff.”
(Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk, August 2016)
“Lan Shui – an impeccable stylist whose body language is as serious as it can be charming and courteous – took the strings to the edge, living dangerously and developing a tone, attack and dynamic range one doesn’t find so often”
(Classical Source, Ateş Orga, May 2016)
“[Beethoven symphonies 1 – 4] Throughout the four symphonies (..) nearly every phrase is more penetrating and more energized than you have ever heard it before.”
(Fanfare, July/August 2015)
“[Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Vol. 1 by Copenhagen Phil] “this is genuinely refreshing Beethoven (…) which should always be a cause for celebration”
(Andrew McGregor, BBC Radio 3, May 2015)
LAN SHUI CONCLUDES SEASON IN CHINA AND TAIWAN
LAN SHUI CONDUCTS HIS FINAL CONCERTS AS MUSIC DIRECTOR OF SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Lan Shui conducts Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Copenhagen Phil
Reviews of Lan Shui’s Debussy: Jeux, Khamma & La Boîte à joujoux
Georgia Jarman joins National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra as Mimi in La bohème
Lan Shui conducts National Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan opening season
Lan Shui returns to Tivoli Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui returns to the opera pit for Zhou Long’s Madame White Snake in Boston
Anna Gillingham and Maren Favela join Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui and Susanne Resmark perform Mahler with Copenhagen Phil
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra makes its BBC Proms debut
HarrisonParrott brings three dynamic orchestral partnerships to the BBC Proms
Sakari Oramo to conduct Last Night of the Proms, which also stars Proms Featured Artist Janine Jansen
Lan Shui makes his debut with San Francisco Symphony
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra website
Singapore Symphony Orchestra website
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Leeds United look for confidence booster ahead of play-offs
Mateusz Klich up against Aston Villa' Tyrone Mings.
Tony Harber
It was always going to be the case, but is definite now that Leeds United will have to go through the play-offs if they are to achieve the promotion they have worked so hard for this season.
Sheffield United’s fully expected win over Ipswich and the Whites’ draw with Aston Villa means the Blades were doing the celebrating at the weekend and Leeds players and fans the fretting about what the lottery of the play-offs has in store for them.
What is left to decide is who plays who in the semi-finals with Leeds needing a point from their last game against bottom of the table Ipswich to seal third place. They would then play the team in sixth with Derby County the most likely to finish there – and what a potentially tasty two-legged tie that would be.
Leeds can still be pipped by West Brom if they lose and the Baggies win their game. That would mean a quick rematch with Aston Villa would be on the cards and another mouth watering couple of encounters.
Either way the excitement and tension is not quite over yet despite the Whites’ failure to get over the line in the top two.
In some ways it seemed a relief for the players to know their fate as they gave a much more focused display against Villa last Sunday.
The same failing was there with an inability to make the most of the plentiful opportunities created and huge possession advantage they enjoyed. But they were up against a team in red hot form with 10 straight wins so it was encouraging to see there was nothing in the visitors’ display to suggest they need to be feared by Marcelo Bielsa’s men.
Bielsa was encouraged by his team’s display in the 1-1 draw.
He said: “For me it’s a very important performance because we played against the best team in the Championship at this moment. We played against an opponent with this level but we were able to express the aspects which define our team.
“For us it was important and it was a challenge we wanted to face. We wanted to play against a big team and to show that we could beat them.”
Bielsa will want his team to go into the play-offs with a confidence boosting display against relegated Ipswich and is likely to pick his strongest possible side.
He is short of left-backs with four players to play there for Leeds this season currently on the sidelines, but has Gaetano Berardi as a back-up.
Elsewhere his biggest decisions are whether to start Tyler Roberts after he made a big impact coming off the bench against Villa and Kemar Roofe who is expected to be fit again.
Ten-man Hemsworth MW miss out on first NCE League Cup final after brave effort
Frickley Athletic manager Martin McIntosh leaves club
He looks likely to be without striker Patrick Bamford, expected to be banned for two games after being charged by the FA for the “successful deception of a match official” when he fell to the floor and got Aston Villa’s Anwar El Ghazi sent off without any contact being made.
Replays confirmed Bamford’s actions, but also showed Villa’s Conor Hourihane striking Mateusz Klich, but he has escaped any further action, leading to Leeds fans venting their fury on social media.
Earlier in the season Sergi Canos - also playing for a team managed by Dean Smith at the time - got away scot free after cameras picked him up aiming a headbutt at United’s Gjanni Alioski while Pontus Jansson was banned for criticising the referee in that Brentford game.
There has been no word on whether referee Stuart Attwell has been banned for his shocking handling of the Aston Villa match.
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Holy Cross Boys' P.S.
Holidays 2018/19
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P1 room 3 - Mrs Brooks
P3 room 8 - Mrs McShane
P1 room 4 - Miss Loughlin
P1 room 5 - Mrs Fegan
School Show 2015 -
2015 P7 Leaving Ceremony
Crash Award Winners
1916, 2016, 2116 Art Competition
The pupils were asked to imagine an Ireland of the future, 100 years from now.
Urban Village Cycling
Our boys are so proud to be a part of the new Urban Village Cycling promotional movie.
Career Week 2017
P7 Handball Tournament
Sports Day Medal Ceremony
Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year 2013
Joint winners in the Primary School category were Kate Smart and Siobahn Martin.
Mrs Martin, who teaches at Holy Cross Boys Primary in Belfast, said that enthusiasm was key to her success: "I'd like to think it's because I'm enthusiastic and I give my class a good laugh."
Composer Karl Jenkins and host Classic FM's Jamie Crick were on hand to present the winners with their awards during the epic concert, the first of three this week that all celebrate the work of Music For Youth. Tim Lihoreau was backstage at the Schools Prom to chat to the winners:
HCB receives gift of Defibrillator.
Holy Cross Boys' PS would like to thank our benefactor John Finucane (pictured with some of the trained staff) for his generosity in paying for a defibrillator for our school. 12 staff were trained in the use of the defibrillator which can be used in the event of heart failure taken by adults or children.
It was important to the school that we had an AED device and staff training to take to sports events, where we are aware from media coverage that many of these incidents happen and the use of a defibrillator can make a big difference.
The aim of the school is to raise more money to buy a second device which can stay on school premises while the other is used for sporting events away from the school.
Outstanding Inspection Report for HCB.
The pupils, parents and staff of Holy Cross Boys’ PS are celebrating after the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) awarded the school the ‘Outstanding’ grade in all key areas in the recent school inspection conducted in late November but only published on Monday 13th, January.
The quality of teaching and learning, as well as the levels of achievement and standards within the school, also received the highest possible grade of Outstanding, whilst the principal, School Leadership Team and governors were also judged as ‘Outstanding’.
The inspection report noted the ‘Outstanding’ provision of ICT, making reference to how ICT was “seamlessly integrated across the school” to enhance teaching and learning. Notably, the inspectors made reference to the culture of expectation and achievement in the school when commenting that “the drive for improvement in this school at all levels is continuous and unrelenting.”
Speaking after the publication of the report, Principal Kevin McArevey said, “The entire school community is delighted with this inspection report, and rightly so. We pride ourselves on setting high standards and striving to ensure that all of our children are supported and challenged to achieve their full potential.
“Less than 10% of primary schools receive the Outstanding Grade in ETI inspection reports, and even fewer receive that grade in every key criterion assessed, so this is an achievement of which all of our children, their parents, the entire staff and school community have every right to feel very proud.
“Holy Cross Boys’ PS, with 78% of the pupils entitled to free school meals, ranks amongst the highest 2% of the most socio-economically deprived schools in the north of Ireland. But we believe in leaving excuses outside the blue gates at the entrance to our school. Our pupils and their parents are entitled to the same aspirations and expectations as those from any other area, and it is this desire to nurture the talent of our children to help them fulfil their potential which underlines our commitment to excellence.”
Book Fair week winners
A very, very big thank you to all of the parents, children and grandparents who helped to make our annual book fair a big success. As you know, we get 60% of the money we make at the fair back in books for the school, so each penny you spend helps us get lovely new reading material for your child.
We hope you enjoy reading your lovely new books that you bought with your child at home. Please remember that reading with your child at home (not just reading homework, but bedtime stories, reading from the paper or a magazine etc) makes your child a better reader too. Let your children see you enjoying a book as well!
Below are some of the bookmark winners who got to choose a book or a poster from the fair for making such wonderful bookmarks. We thank you as parents for this also, for putting so much time and effort into your child's wonderful work.
Lord Mayor of Belfast celebrates with Holy Cross Boys'.
We were delighted to have a visit from the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Mr Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, on Wednesday 18th December. He presented Mr McArevey with the school's 3rd Millennium Award certificate and opened the Christmas show (P1, P2 & P3 pupils) entitled 'Children of the World'. Mr Ó Muilleoir gave a warming speech about the role of the school in the community, a subject which is very important to us all.
Cliftonville Player, hero and past pupil, Joe Gormley also paid us a visit on Tuesday to give out some prizes to the pupils who won the footballs and Cliftonville shirts in Breakfast Club.
Click on the ETI link to read the inspection report from our last focused inspection of November 2004.
holy cross boys' footballing memories
3rd Millennium Award winning Videos
Holy Cross Boys' are very pleased to announce that we have been awarded the 3rd Millennium Learning Award from NAACE. We also received the ICT Mark in February this year. Watch the videos above that secured our award. NAACE have also contacted the school to ask if they can use some of our wonderful videos and pictures in their promotional materials which we were more than happy to help with.
Award Winners in the Irish News
We've added some more new photos from the past. They'll either get you all nostalgic or make you wet yourself at the haircuts and the clothes. If you know any names or years that we haven't added please let us know through our email - holycrossboys@hotmail.com or indeed if you have any old photos you'd like to share.
In 2004 Holy Cross Boys' came second place in a Digital Video Competition run by BECTA. The boys wrote, produced and starred in their own advert for a deodorant called skill. Watch it!
The funny thing is that Padraig who stars in the advert now works in the school.
Bringing Holy Cross Boys'
INTO THE FUTURE!
Education Minister Visits Holy Cross Boys'.
"Holy Cross pupils have been given the opportunity to use iPads in some of their lessons. This helps instil in them a great enthusiasm and eagerness for learning and I commend the school for embracing this technology. Credit goes to the Principal and Governors for making the investment and to the teachers who have worked very hard to roll out the programme to the pupils."
John O'Dowd,
NI Education Minister.
Read the whole article by clicking on the link in the picture above.
Holy, Cross, Boys, Primary, School, Belfast, Ardoyne, excellent, schools, NI,
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Metro Vancouver will gather more information on the risks from oil tanker movements to Burrard Inlet in response to concerns raised by Belcarra Mayor Ralph Drew.
Metro Vancouver to probe oil pipeline twinning risks
Region echoes Belcarra mayor's concerns on Kinder Morgan project
Jeff Nagel
Nov. 14, 2013 6:00 p.m.
Metro Vancouver will embark on its own research into the environmental risks from Kinder Morgan’s proposal to twin the Trans Mountain oil pipeline even though some local politicians warn it may be a costly duplication of effort.
Metro’s environment and parks committee voted Thursday to echo Belcarra Mayor Ralph Drew’s concerns about the project, particularly the potential for a spill into Burrard Inlet.
Directors also voted to have regional district staff conduct a preliminary review of marine and air quality risks from the expected five-fold increase in the number of tankers carrying oil from the Burnaby terminal.
Kinder Morgan is expected by year end to file its formal project application with the National Energy Board (NEB) to build a second pipeline that would nearly triple oil-moving capacity to 890,000 barrels per day.
Pitt Meadows Mayor Deb Walters was among the directors who were concerned the review could evolve into a major investment of Metro staff time and money.
“I’m concerned a bit at the scope of this,” she said.
Abbotsford Mayor Bruce Banman, who sits on the committee but only has a vote on parks issues, also warned Metro could face “an extremely large bill” for work that might already be done by Environment Canada or the NEB.
“It’s a duplication of other levels of government,” Banman said. “My fear is this is being used as a bit of a political football to make more of a political statement than anything else.”
Air quality and environment planning director Roger Kwan said a detailed risk analysis isn’t possible until Kinder Morgan files more specifics with the NEB.
Kwan said the aim will be to ensure Metro is well armed to influence or advise the NEB on issues that are a concern to the regional district.
Metro will also have to decide whether or not to seek intervenor status at the future Kinder Morgan pipeline hearings.
Bowen Island director Andrew Stone said one “huge” concern in the event of a spill is the “off-gassing” of solvents used to dilute oil sands bitumen that could pose serious health risks and trigger large-scale evacuations of Vancouver and North Shore neighbourhoods.
Drew, meanwhile, has exchanged a flurry of letters with Kinder Morgan officials and says he’s still not satisfied with their answers, particularly regarding the response to the 2007 spill from the Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby that released 250,000 litres of oil, some of which reached Burrard Inlet.
He says the cleanup response was slow and containment booms put on the water in the inlet failed to fully contain the escaped oil.
Summer weather, daylight and the proximity of response vessels all made for ideal conditions, Drew said in an Oct. 31 letter to the company, “yet there was still a considerable amount of unrecovered fugitive oil that contaminated the beaches of Burrard Inlet.”
Drew has also raised concern about tanker lights and noise, the size of the proposed new three-berth loading terminal, and the risk of earthquakes that could rupture the pipeline and trigger a hard-to-contain land-to-sea spill, possibly in conjunction with a landslide near Burnaby Mountain.
Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson a week earlier told a Vancouver business audience the risk of earthquakes is being studied closely but seismic reviews so far indicate Burnaby Mountain is “one of the most solid, secure rock bases in the Lower Mainland.”
He also told reporters the steady improvements in leak detection, valve shutoff and other technologies that would come with a new $5.4-billion pipeline would actually reduce land-based spill risks.
“It’s safe today, the overall infrastructure will be safer later,” Anderson said.
While much focus is on the risk of tankers sailing through Burrard Inlet to and from the existing Burnaby terminal, Richmond Coun. Harold Steves said he wants Metro to keep a wary eye on the potential for Kinder Morgan to switch to an alternate oil terminal near the mouth of the Fraser River if opposition to more tankers sailing past Vancouver proves too intense.
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Dragonwatch
by Brandon Mull
In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the Dragons, plots his revenge. He has long seen the sanctuaries as prisons, and he wants nothing more than to overthrow his captors and return the world to the Age of Dragons, when he and his kind ruled and reigned without borders. The time has come to break free and reclaim his power.
No one person is capable of stopping Celebrant and his dragon horde. It will take the ancient order of Dragonwatch to gather again if there is any chance of saving the world from destruction. In ancient times, Dragonwatch was a group of wizards, enchantresses, dragon slayers, and others who originally confined the majority of dragons into sanctuaries. But nearly all of the original Dragonwatch members are gone, and so the wizard Agad reaches out to Grandpa Sorenson for help.
As Kendra and Seth confront this new danger, they must draw upon all their skills, talents, and knowledge as only they have the ability to function together as a powerful dragon tamer. Together they must battle against forces with superior supernatural powers and breathtaking magical abilities.
How will the epic dragon showdown end? Will dragons overthrow humans and change the world as we know it?
Five Kingdoms: Time Jumpers
Trapped in a world where magic is powerful and dreams are real, Cole’s epic adventure comes to a close in book five of the New York Times bestselling “fanciful, action-packed adventure” series (Publishers Weekly, starred review), from the author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series.
Cole and his friends are pushed to the limit in this finale to the bestselling Five Kingdoms series.
Will they finally be able to restore magic to the world of the Outskirts and find their way back home?
Glow of Death
by Jane Cleland
As a warm ocean breeze ruffles the tall grass along Rocky Point’s sandy dunes, Josie Prescott visits the house of a wealthy local couple, Edwin and Ava Belcher. She’s been called in to appraise their Tiffany lamp, which everyone is delighted to find is genuine.
Josie’s good friend, Police Chief Ellis Hunter, is helping prepare for her annual Fourth of July barbeque when he gets a call that Ava has been murdered. Unable to reach Edwin, Ellis asks Josie to identify the body.
Josie is stunned to discover that the dead woman lying on the Belcher kitchen floor is not the woman she knew as Ava. Astonishment turns to shock when Josie discovers that everything she thought she knew about the Tiffany lamp and the Belchers has been built on lies.
by Kathleen Rooney
It’s the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk.
As she traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega clerks, chauffeurs, security guards, bohemians, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be—in surprising moments of generosity and grace. While she strolls, Lillian recalls a long and eventful life that included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America—a career cut short by marriage, motherhood, divorce, and a breakdown.
A love letter to city life—however shiny or sleazy—Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.
White Tears
by Hari Kunzru
From one of the most talented fiction writers at work today: two ambitious young musicians are drawn into the dark underworld of blues record collecting, haunted by the ghosts of a repressive past.
Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter's troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation.
White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
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Wondering where to go on holiday this year?
It can be hard to choose, especially if you feel like you’ve covered the big holiday destinations – Costa del Sol, Canary Islands and Cape Verde. Sunny weather and great beaches make these fantastic places to visit, but sometimes it’s rewarding to stray off the beaten track. Make 2019 the year you try something different. Here are five up-and-coming hotspots that come highly recommended.
In south Italy, the Unesco world heritage city of Matera is built into the rocky cliffs of a ravine. Many of its historic sassi, or cave dwellings are now used as art galleries, restaurants and boutique getaways. So you can enjoy eating traditional Italian delicacies in a limestone grotto, or visiting the historic Duomo, the central cathedral that rises above the sassi.
In 2019, Matera is a European Capital of Culture, so you can expect a packed programme of events, ranging from concerts to art exhibitions. According to travel experts, Matera is set to be the next Santorini and perfect for a scenic romantic break.
The Andaman Islands, India
If you’ve ever dreamed of visiting an exotic island, then the Andaman Islands should be right at the top of your bucket list. They’re a cluster of more than 300 islands between India and Thailand. They boast some stunning white-sand beaches, and the crystal clear waters surrounding them are ideal for diving.
Head to Havelock Island to see Radhanagar Beach, voted the best in Asia. On Havelock, varied watersports include kayaking through the mangroves, and you can enjoy delicious Indian and international cuisine. Rent a moped and explore the island’s hidden corners. There’s a lot of accommodation available, ranging from pocket-friendly beach huts to luxury five-star hotels.
To reach the Andaman Islands from the UK, you’ll need to catch a flight to Chennai in South India. The Andaman Islands are just a short flight from Chennai, and you can travel between them on ferry or luxury boat tours.
You don’t have to travel halfway across the world to discover fantastic beaches. If you want to stay closer to home,then Agadir, a beach resort in Morocco, comes highly recommended. You can expect nearly 10km of golden sand beach, and a modern town of elegant piazzas, restaurants and bars and palm-tree-lined promenades.
But a trip to Agadir promises more than just beaches. You can take a 4×4 trip into the nearby desert, or hike in the Atlas Mountains. If you’re interested in Berber culture, head to nearby Taraoudant, a walled Berber town with a souk (market place), authentic craft shops and open-air cafes.
It’s easy to visit Agadir. You’ll find it listed on the All-Inclusive deals by Holiday Hypermarket, meaning it’s a holiday that won’t break the bank.
Australia is big for 2019 because, for the first time, you can fly there directly from the UK. Take Qantas’s new direct flight from London to Perth and spend time exploring Australia’s west coast. Enjoy a few days in Perth, tasting locally made craft beer, visiting outdoor art exhibitions and sunbathing on the beaches that border the city.
Head down the coast to Ningaloo Reef, where you can swim with whale sharks, or visit the Pinnacle Desert, which is studded with tooth-shaped rocks and home to wild kangaroos. You’ll find deserted beaches, quaint towns and even a pink lake.
While it is a long way to Perth, you’ll be rewarded with the trip of a lifetime.
If you’re looking for a less-crowded alternative to Croatia, we recommend a trip to Montenegro. This beautiful Balkan country combines pristine beaches with rugged mountains, untouched towns with historic cities. One of the most beautiful areas is Budva. The region boasts pristine coves surrounded by pine forests, craggy canyons and vast lakes.
The capital, Budva, is a medieval citadel, a walled labyrinth surrounded by the sea. As well as its rich history, it also has a great food scene and a renowned nightlife. Whether you’re travelling as friends or with family, you will enjoy this stunning region, so easily accessible on short flights from the UK.
Make 2019 a year to remember by planning a fantastic holiday for you and your loved ones. Whether you’re considering heading off to an exotic location or staying closer to home, I hope this list will help inspire you to choose somewhere unique.
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Latest Info About Christopher Nolan's Next Movie Reportedly 'Inaccurate'
Nolan's next film is due in July, 2020.
By Colin Stevens
Updated: 6 Mar 2019 4:06 am
Posted: 5 Mar 2019 11:28 pm
A source has informed IGN the information provided by Production Weekly is inaccurate.
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film will reportedly be a romantic thriller, similar to Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest in tone.
Reported by Production Weekly, the unnamed film was described as “North by Northwest in tone meets Inception.” Its production is reportedly scheduled to begin this June, with Hoyte van Hoytema returning as director of photography. Hoytema previously worked with Nolan on Dunkirk and Interstellar.
DoP Hoyte van Hoytema is planning to re-team with Christopher Nolan on his upcoming production scheduled to begin filming this June. The Warner Bros. feature is described as a romantic thriller, NORTH BY NORTHWEST in tone meets INCEPTION...more at https://t.co/hPqNyEDRAu pic.twitter.com/vJWAbSROGw
— Production Weekly (@prodweek) March 5, 2019
While Nolan is well-known for his spectacle-like filmmaking, he isn’t known for movies that are romantic in nature. However, a romantic thriller in the vein of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest might not be too far out of Nolan’s wheelhouse.
The 1959 classic is a bit lighter in tone compared to some Hitchcock movies, and involves a man with a mistaken identity being pursued by agents of a mysterious organization across the United States. Nolan’s earlier films Following and Memento sit slightly closer to this premise than his later works, though movies like Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy certainly contained romantic (and in some cases tragic) plot-threads.
Previously described as an “event film,” Nolan’s next movie for Warner Bros. is slated to hit theaters on July 17, 2020.
For more on Christopher Nolan, check out how he slammed Netflix over its “mindless policy” on theatrical releases.
Colin Stevens is a news writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
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Q&A with Fatima Barros
Fatima Barros, chair of Portugal’s regulator, Anacom, and also BEREC
Q: WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND?
A: I’m a professor of economics and have been in academia for most of my career until now. But for ten years I was the dean of the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, which gave me different responsibilities from just being an academic. Competition among international business schools is very fierce and my school reached number 25 in the Financial Times ranking, which was a great achievement.
Q: WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR RESEARCH WORK?
A: Much of my research has been in competition regulation, working across different industrial sectors, on areas such as where private companies compete with public ones, say when some firms are privatised but others remain in state hands, and how a state-owned company can change outcomes in the market. I also worked a lot on contracts. The main challenge for an academic economist in moving to telecoms regulation is understanding the various technologies involved.
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Teaching kids coding improves math, life skills
By Allison Bagley, Correspondent Feb. 5, 2019 Updated: Feb. 5, 2019 12 a.m.
Kids are really never too young to learn the basics of coding.
Photo: Rosemary Woods
To kick off a week at Coder Kids’ summer camp, college-age instructors engage students by showing one cool way coding can be used. Keying in basic back-end language, the teacher makes an on-screen glitter bomb and shares the keyboard with the student, who learns that pressing the space bar detonates a glitter explosion. Then, the instruction begins.
Coding appeals to kids because of instant gratification like this, says Jeff Ward, founder of Houston-based Coder Kids and a former elementary school teacher.
“You type in something or drag some blocks over and immediately see what it’s doing on the screen,” he says.
Mastering cause and effect and building on it is so fun that kids don’t realize they’re improving their math and logic skills along the way, Ward continues.
Coder Kids (coderkidstx.com) works with public and private schools to offer after-school programs during the school year. Registration just opened for their summer day camps throughout Houston, open to kids entering kindergarten through 12th grade.
In a one-week camp, the youngest kids learn the fundamentals of Scratch, the coding language for kids created by developers at MIT.
Beginning with the letters of his or her name, a student uses a laptop or tablet to learn the back-end functions that can make each letter a different color. From there, they’ll learn to make letters animated in different ways and to add sounds.
Next, a maze game teaches basic directional blocks (moving an object up, down, right and left). There is game-based learning including a dragon-wizard match-off and classic pong.
As they advance to the third- through sixth-grade camp, kids can choose to create animation, code a drone or make their own basic video games.
Ward says his instructors, who are computer science students at Rice University and the University of Houston, stay on the lookout for new games and technology to introduce at the camp.
Half-day camps at Coder Kids start at $210 a week.
Library teaches coding, too
Houston Public Library will offer free basic coding classes for youths at several branch locations this summer (houstonlibrary.org). In the past, classes for teens and tweens have lent skills to build a website or use code to create music, sounds and artwork.
Rebecca Denham, Teen Services coordinator, says the library has increased the amount of tablets and coding games that can be reserved at a library branch for in-library use. One popular one is Robot Mouse. Kids use coding cards to build a path for a programmable mouse that moves through the path. Another popular learning module is a DIY computer set. Kids read instructions on how to build a basic computer and then program it, she says.
They’ve increased tech offerings like these because of demand from patrons.
“Everything we do now is on computers or involves robots of some kind,” Denham says. “Our youth today really need to know how these work and not just take them for granted.”
Families can contact their library branch to ask about reserving and checking out learning modules.
Coding for girls
Girls who have shown an interest in programming or robotics can apply for Girls Who Code’s free, seven-week summer immersion program. The national nonprofit hosts after-school programs at public and private schools throughout Houston during the school year (girlswhocode.com).
Girls entering 11th and 12th grade can apply for the summer immersion program, which takes place in Houston June 17-Aug. 2. The application deadline is Feb. 15.
The course is designed to expose students to careers in computer science, offering meet-ups with female business leaders in the tech industry.
A shareable, usable online product is the end goal at Code Ninjas, too.
Advancing in “belt” color under the instruction of Code Senseis, the Pearland-based company has several franchise locations where students hit self-paced achievement advances through after-school and weekend drop-in sessions, spring break and summer camps.
Students hit the top skill level, or belt, when an app they’ve created is published in the app store.
Code Ninjas’ spring break camps focus on creating digital art and making basic video games. Half-day spring break camps start at $200 a week.
Families who don’t want to commit to formal classes can take advantage of free online resources, Ward says, including Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) and code.org to build and hone their skill set over time.
Allison Bagley is a Houston-based writer.
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Web Developer Basics: Differences Between HTML4 And HTML5
Now that we've seen how to use some of the newer whiz-bang features of the draft HTML5 standard, it's time to take a few steps back and take a look at some of the other differences between HTML4 and HTML5.
This article is intended to be a useful overview, not an exhaustive reference, but remember that things are still and always changing. The complete, up to date list of all the technical differences may always be found on the W3C's site. You also may want to refer to this document for the actual details of the HTML5 specification itself.
The first thing you should know is that, perhaps for the first time, the development of a language standard is acknowledging the real world. In order to keep file compatibility with the current standard - which is technically HTML 4.01 - the brave decision was made to separate the way the web browser renders files from the way we, as developers, must write them. So the browser, or "user agent", must still process HTML4 constructs like the center element, because there will still be millions of files on the Internet that happen to use it. But we won't be writing any more HTML with center; it's simply being dropped from the language (use CSS instead). This compatibility goes both ways: older browsers can (and will) simply ignore HTML5 code without screwing things up.
No More Frames
This is great news to those of us who slogged through the 1990s. To be exact, the elements frame, frameset, and noframes are being removed from the language, as well as acronym, applet, basefont, big , blink, center , dir, font, isindex, strike , tt and u. All of these can be handled using CSS or other methods.
You'll also have to learn to get along without using tables for layout; while tables themselves are still part of HTML5, they're not intended for placing pixels any more. Here's what the spec says:
"Tables must not be used as layout aids. Historically, some Web authors have misused tables in HTML as a way to control their page layout. This usage is non-conforming, because tools attempting to extract tabular data from such documents would obtain very confusing results."
So all the attributes that let people create those perfectly laid-out, tinted tables are gone, like align, bgcolor, border, cellpadding, cellspacing, height, nowrap, rules, valign, and the big one: width. The mantra: use CSS instead.
I've been trying my best to break it to you slowly, but frankly, all presentational elements are coming out of HTML5. My advice: learn lots more CSS, until you can quote chapter and verse in your sleep.
The good news is that even though this is a big change, it's a change for the better. Browsers of the future (just another month or two!) will become more powerful because of the move towards the cloud, so that they'll be able to handle more on their own. We've already seen that with things like Ajax, and now with video/audio embedding and such, it will be far easier for us to code in a straightforward manner and let the browser figure out the details. For instance, new structure elements include article, aside, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, nav, section, and summary, all of which refer to the structure of the document itself and leave rendering to the browser.
There are still some new elements that deal with text on a detailed level, however: you'll code wbr when you think it's possible to do a line break, but the browser will decide for you. Another hint element is bdi, used to mark an area where bidirectional text formatting can be done (primarily for mixing left-right and right-left languages in a single document). Its complement, bdo, lets you explicitly override and force a particular directionality. For even more slick internationalization, the elements ruby, rp, and rt are included for ruby annotations, which are meant for pronunciation aids rather than for Ruby On Rails programmers.
The more high-level new elements include things like canvas, meant for specifying an area for drawing a bitmapped graphic on the fly, such as a data graph or game graphic; meter is a placeholder for a numeric measurement of an expected size (and is eerily similar to format in ancient FORTRAN), while progress is its graphical counterpart, to be used where you want a progress bar. Last, but not least, there are the multimedia elements (audio, video, source, embed) that we covered in detail in the last article.
W3C Promotes HTML5, CSS3 and More With New HTML5 Logo
HTML5 Primer: How To Use the Audio Tag
Top HTML5 Tutorials from HTMLGoodies
Using HTML5 and the Less Framework 3 for Responsive Web Design
Web Developer Tutorial: HTML5 Microdata
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Art & Culture / Photography / A hallucinatory trip around Europe, in photos
A hallucinatory trip around Europe, in photos
Debauchery days
Posted Tuesday 16th April 2019 /
Text By Miss Rosen
Photography © Osvaldo Chance Jimenez (SLUTLUST PPP)
Osvaldo Chance Jimenez has spent 16 years in the notorious NYC graffiti crew Peter Pan Posse. In a new book, he shares a treasure trove of shots from the road.
Last year, photographer Osvaldo Chance Jimenez (SLUTLUST PPP) was given a book deal before he had even written a word. All he knew was that it would launch during Art Paris, opening April 4 2019. He assiduously avoided writing it until a week before the manuscript was due.
“My process is to dive deep into my depression, not speak to anyone, watch a bunch of TV, and get fat on my couch. It might sound cheesy but I was just waiting for a sign. Then Karl Lagerfeld died. That’s how it all started to fall together,” Jimenez recalls of the inspiration for EuroTriPPP, his whirlwind tale of a 16-year journey from New York to Paris, with stops in Glasgow, Nice, Monaco, Berlin, London, and Shannon, Ireland, along the way.
The story begins back in 2003, when Jimenez was 25 years old, a late bloomer by New York nightlife standards. The Page Six fanatic dreamed of being one of the high fliers of the fashion world – and it began to come true one night when he accidentally spilt some of his drink on an older man at a New York night club.
The man asked about drugs, so Jimenez offered him a generous bump of cocaine. “That’s not cocaine,” he responded, before removing his glove to open a casket-covered ring holding a massive rock of pure China white. The man then allegedly gave Jimenez a taste, along with an invitation to a private party.
“I didn’t know it was Karl Lagerfeld until the next day when I read Page Six the next day,” Jimenez recalls. “I had this moment with this man – I was this close. Ever since that moment, I found myself pursuing ways I could be in rooms with people like that.”
EuroTriPPP details his dogged, dodgy, drugged-out pursuit of what Jimenez calls “Room Theory.” He explains: “You are the master of the room you are in, and whatever happens in that space is yours. Life, in terms of access, is about getting into these rooms and the keys you have to use to get in there to accomplish your dreams.”
Jimenez, a first-generation Dominican-American growing up in Harlem, dreamed of being an artist and writer showing his work in Paris – access he acquired as a member of PPP (Peter Pan Posse). “PPP really isn’t one thing,” Jimenez explains. “It’s an art gang. A graffiti crew. A nightlife scene. Everyone contributes in their own way.”
Among PPP’s members was close friend James “Blu Jemz” Sheffield, who died in November 2018. “The book is a homage to him and all the doors he opened for me,” Jimenez explains. “The first time my name was on a flyer was my going away party and he threw it for me. One of the last things we did was own a nightclub for three months. He curated the music and I curated the art. Our opening was for Cat Marnell’s book release, How to Murder Your Own Life. It wasn’t enough for me to be in the room with all these people; I wanted to be famous just like them.”
With EuroTriPPP, Jimenez has crafted a hallucinatory trip through the debauched days and nights with a wild band of conspirators. “While all my friends are graffiti writers, I want to be the one that captures their story,” he says. “I want it to be brutally honest. I want to describe the toilet paper they used to wipe their butts the day their girlfriend broke up with them, and how their tears tasted mixed with the night air and aerosol evidence of their flawed vanities.”
“People used to ask me what I did. I wasn’t really sure. I knew I was creating content for a book I wanted to write. I became an accidental promoter, a cultural tour guide. I took PPP to very unconventional places. So now when I enter any room, even with all my failures, I feel zero shame.”
Osvaldo Chance Jimenez (SLUTLUST PPP) will be exhibiting work with Lola Jibalzee at Galerie P38 on April 5, 2019. EuroTriPP is available through Batt Coop.
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A Senate Bill Targets YouTube Pedophiles. Could It Cost Family Vloggers Their Livelihood?
The vloggers are caught in the middle of YouTube’s scramble to deal with its ongoing predator problem.
By Jesselyn Cook
serdjophoto via Getty Images
YouTube has a problem: its recommendation algorithm assembles video playlists for pedophiles. Now a Republican senator has proposed an aggressive new law to solve the problem ― but could inadvertently imperil family vloggers’ livelihoods.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced his bill this month, days after a New York Times report revealed how YouTube’s automatic algorithms grab innocuous home movies of children, sometimes partially clothed, and put them in front of users already searching for sexualized content.
“YouTube says that it has the technology to take child videos out of its auto-recommendation process. That’s what they should do,” Hawley, who did not respond to requests for comment, said in a recent TV interview. “The only reason they’re not doing it is they want to make money on it.”
His bill, which would impose criminal penalties and fines on YouTube and other video platforms for violations, aims to force platforms to “prioritize the safety of children over money.” But members of YouTube’s massive community of family vloggers fear that such a measure would drastically reduce engagement on their channels — and for some, dramatically cut their advertising revenue.
YouTube’s predator problem has already hurt the finances of the family vlogging industry and threatens to do more damage, said Josh Cohen, co-founder of Tubefilter, a news site that analyzes and reports on YouTube and other social media platforms.
“Before these issues arose with potential predators seeking out underage content on YouTube, family channels were considered one of the safest bets for advertisers, and potentially the most lucrative,” Cohen said. “Family-friendly programming on YouTube gets content creators dramatically higher advertising rates.”
Hours after the Times’ report published, YouTube announced that it was reducing its recommendations for borderline videos “featuring minors in risky situations.” But that vague step doesn’t go far enough, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) argued in a recent letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
“With YouTube asleep at the wheel, predators have taken the reins,” the senators said. They demanded action “starting with the design of [YouTube’s] algorithms,” and asked if the company would disable recommendations for videos “involving minors” until it finds a lasting solution.
YouTube’s recommendation algorithm drives an enormous amount of traffic on the site and is responsible for more than 70% of viewers’ watch time. Restricting videos of children from being algorithmically recommended would have an extreme impact on family vlogging channels’ engagement levels and earnings, Cohen said.
Google, YouTube’s parent company, did not respond to a request for comment.
In recent years, family vlogging has exploded into a burgeoning industry in which thousands of parents and kids regularly film home videos — daily activities, silly pranks and so forth — then upload them to YouTube for millions to watch. For many, it’s both a fun hobby and a serious business: through YouTube’s Partner Program, qualifying video creators can take a cut of the earnings from ads that appear on their channels.
Courtesy of Britt Null
Britt Null, pictured here with her three children, runs a family-friendly vlog on YouTube.
Some parents, like Britt Null, a single mother of three young children in Kansas City, Missouri, run vlogs to modestly supplement their incomes from other sources. Others have left established careers to pursue vlogging full-time.
The result can be big money: YouTube’s highest earner is Ryan Kaji, 7, who makes videos reviewing toys with his siblings. Kaji, whose parents were unavailable for an interview, has gained nearly 20 million subscribers since launching his channel in 2015. He made an estimated $22 million last year.
Null and other family vloggers are still reeling from YouTube’s decision to disable comments on most videos featuring kids. In February, a video exposing how pedophiles had been flooding certain YouTube videos of kids with fetishizing comments went viral, and major brands swiftly announced a boycott of the platform. Shortly afterward, and without notice to users, the site started demonetizing some videos featuring children and turned off the comments sections on tens of millions of ones “that may include minors and therefore are at risk of predatory comments.”
“It felt like we were being punished for something that wasn’t our fault,” said Null, who posts weekly vlogs with her children. Several of her videos, such as one showing her daughter doing a hair tutorial and another in which the kids do a Q&A, were among those affected, even though Null has filters to prevent certain inappropriate words from appearing in the comments sections.
At the time, Wojcicki described the changes as a “tradeoff.”
“There are going to be many young people out there who are going to be upset because they’re going to feel like they’re posting videos and they no longer have the ability to use comments in the way that other creators can,” she acknowledged. “In the end that was a tradeoff that we made because we felt like we wanted to make sure that protecting children was our number-one priority.”
The online exploitation of children is a complicated issue without an easy solution, and YouTube has taken heat from all sides. The platform recently faced backlash for taking action against some ASMR videos starring minors. Filmed to trigger a tingling sensation in viewers called “autonomous sensory meridian response,” the videos feature kids making various stimulating sounds that include licking their lips or sucking on different items.
Critics say such videos should not be algorithmically promoted or monetized because they sexualize and exploit children, while young, so-called ASMRtists and their parents maintain that’s not the case and have lambasted YouTube for removing their content.
Meanwhile, many family vloggers who share clearly innocuous, family-oriented videos have vented their frustrations over the demonetizing steps already taken by YouTube and the disabling of comments. And they fear policy changes like the one proposed in Hawley’s bill that would be a major blow to their revenue stream.
For Null, losing the comments section on many of her videos meant losing her main form of communication with nearly 400,000 subscribers.
“It’s not a black-and-white issue, but it had a big effect on content creators, and this is content that we work very hard on,” she said. “When that happened, content creators started to lose trust [in YouTube] and I saw a lot of talk about diversifying: making sure your content is in other places, making sure you have a website.”
Although Null said she is glad YouTube appears to be taking the issue of online child safety seriously, she and other vloggers suspect the platform’s actions are aimed less at solving the predator problem and more at placating advertisers — at the unfortunate expense of creators.
“I think it’s good they’re trying to do something,” she said. “I also think they’re just trying to do something to stop [advertisers] from walking out.”
Jesselyn Cook
Reporter, HuffPost
YouTube Social Media Media Josh Hawley Susan Wojcicki
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WWII - Pearl Harbor Attack
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USS Oglala, Reports of Pearl Harbor Attack
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U.S.S. Oglala
CM4/A16-3/(0100)
10/cam
Pearl Harbor, T.H.
From: The Commanding Officer.
To: Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Subject: Action of December 7, 1941; report on.
Reference: (a) CinCPac desp. 102102 of December 1941.
In compliance with reference (a), the following is submitted:
OFFENSIVE MEASURES.
General quarters was sounded about 0755 at the start of the attack by the enemy. The 3"/50 cal. A.A. gun and three .30 cal. machine guns were manned and firing at enemy plane formations commenced. This firing continued until ship was abandoned.
Machine gun crews report definite hits on the enemy plane.
There is no record of amount of ammunition expended.
OWN LOSSES AND DAMAGE.
Immediately after sounding general quarters a torpedo plane was observed to drop a torpedo from low altitude close aboard about amidships about 0757. This torpedo exploded under the ship on the port side (perhaps as a result of striking the side of the Helena which was moored alongside). The force of this explosion lifted up the fireroom floor plates and ruptured the hull on the port side. Fireroom started flooding rapidly; personnel secured the boiler fires, closed watertight doors and abandoned the fireroom. At about the same time (0757), several planes strafed the ship with machine gun fire.
One man was shot through the face. He was in the bake shop at the time.
At about 0800 a bomb from an enemy dive bomber fell between the Oglala and the Helena and exploded outboard in the vicinity of the fireroom.
At about 0630 extensive flooding of the engine room was reported and the ship took a 5° list. Investigation revealed that the ship was dry forward of the fireroom but was flooding rapidly aft. As all power was off the ship, there was no pumping facilities and it was evident that the ship could not be kept afloat much longer. It was decided to tow the ship clear of the Helena in order to secure her to the dock and also clear the battery of the Helena. Two small tugs which were working with the dredge in the channel were hailed by Commander Minecraft, Battle Force, and they assisted in pulling the ship clear. At about 0900, the ship was secured to Ten Ten dock astern of the Helena.
Flooding continued and the port list continued to increase in spite of all possible lines being secured to the dock. About 0930 with a list of approximately 20° the order was given to abandon ship.
At about 1000 or slightly before, the Oglala turned over on her port side. The bridge structure and the main mast were knocked off by striking the dock when the ship turned over. It has not been possible to determine the complete structural damage of the ship.
There were no personnel losses. The following were wounded as indicated:
POLER, Howard A., 393 47 34, Sea1c, USN - shot through the face.
PENNELL, Lowell, 342 31 53, CM3c, USN - shell fragment through fleshy part of right knee. Note: This injury was received while man was assisting on 3" battery of Pennsylvania.
HODNETT, "R" "J", 356 23 91, Sea1c, USN - fragments in right hip.
DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT OF PERSONNEL.
The entire crew, officers, and men, conducted themselves in a manner that was in accord with the highest tradition of the Navy. The following are especially mentioned:
JOHNSON, J.K., F2c, USN - secured the boiler and fireroom after the first explosion thus preventing possibility of a boiler explosion and reducing the amount of flooding of ship.
ZITO, A., CEM, USN - Promptness in helping getting 3" gun manned and fighting it throughout action. After the Oglala was abandoned, ZITO took two men and manned a drifting motor launch and proceeded to the damaged battleships. There he assisted in rescuing personnel and fighting fires. He remained at this until the following morning, December 8.
The regular assigned commanding officer, Commander E.P. Speight, U.S.N., was not aboard during the action. The Ship was under the command of the Executive Officer, Commander R.E. Krause, U.S.N.
The commanding officer arrived at the scene as the ship was turning over.
[signed]
E.P. SPEIGHT.
Combatfor.
Cominbatfor.
U.S.S. Oglala (CM4)
CM4/A16-3/S81-3/
To: The Chief of the Bureau of Ships.
Via: Commander Minecraft BATTLE FORCE.
Subject: War Damage Report on Action of December 7, 1941.
Reference: (a) BuShips ltr. C-EF13/A9(374); C-S81-3; C-EN28/A2-11 of 28 October, 1941.
In accordance with reference (a), the following report of the action of December 7, 1941, is submitted:
NARRATIVE. At the time of the attack, the ship was moored port side to U.S.S. Helena at berth B-2, Ten Ten Dock, Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, with a distance between ships of about eight feet. The weather was clear with high visibility. General Quarters was sounded about 0755 at the start of the attack by the enemy. While going to general quarters, a torpedo-plane was seen approaching the ship, and when close aboard, about abeam on the starboard side, dropped a torpedo. At about 0757 a violent detonation occurred, which lifted up the fireroom floor plates and ruptured the hull on the port side. Fireroom started flooding rapidly; personnel secured the boiler fires, closed watertight doors and abandoned the fireroom. At about the same time, (0757), several planes strafed the ship with machine gun fire. At about 0800 a bomb from an enemy dive bomber fell between the Oglala and the Helena and exploded outboard in the vicinity of the fireroom, or perhaps a little forward thereof. The effect of this explosion was probably to augment the damage previously done by the torpedo.
At about 0830 extensive flooding of the engineroom was reported and the ship took a 5° list. Investigation revealed that the ship was dry forward of the fireroom but was flooding rapidly aft. As all power was off the ship, there were no pumping facilities and it was evident that the ship could not be kept afloat much longer.
It was decided to tow the ship clear of the Helena in order to secure her to the dock and also clear the battery of the Helena. Two small tugs were commandeered and they assisted in pulling the ship clear. At about 0900, the ship was secured to Ten Ten Dock astern of the Helena. All possible lines were gotten out to the dock but the list to port continued to increase.
At about 0930, when the list had increased to about 20° and service of the guns could not be continued, the machine guns were removed and the order given to "Abandon Ship". Shortly before 1000 the ship had finally turned over and came to rest on the bottom on her port side in about 6 fathoms of water.
The ship suffered no direct hits by projectiles or bombs, except machine gun bullets (strafing attack).
UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS.
The torpedo fired at the ship at 0757 passed under the hull from starboard to port and exploded under the bottom on the port side, probably upon striking the starboard side of the Helena. Since the Helena has nearly the same draft as the Oglala, it seems likely that the torpedo porpoised under the Oglala, came up and struck the Helena on the starboard side. It is possible also that it was a magnetic torpedo and exploded under the bottoms of the two ships without stricking. However, the large damage to Helena and the undoubtedly lesser damage to Oglala inclines to the former view.
This torpedo explosion centered at the fireroom, lifting up the fireroom floor plates and rupturing the port side. A large inrush of water resulted, and personnel immediately secured the fires, closed watertight doors, and abandoned the fireroom. The noise of the explosion was loud and shock effect serious, such that the circuit breaker of operating generator was thrown out, the port flushing pump in the engineroom was broken loose from its foundations, and men were thrown out of their bunks. No flash, flame, or smoke was noted. A general flexural vibration of the ship was noted. Engineroom also commenced to flood forward on the port side.
The bomb which fell at 0800 between the Helena and Oglala caused a second violent detonation, raising a geyser of oil and water which fell on deck. The explosion centered on the port side, approximately abreast of the fireroom or a little forward thereof. it appears that this bomb caused no new flooding but increased the flooding of both firerooms and engineroom. in this case also, the noise of the explosion was loud and the shock effect serious. No flash, flame, or smoke was noted. A general flexural vibration of the ship was noted.
Prior to abandoning ship, the condition of flooding was as follows:- port bunker storeroom, which runs full length and outboard of fireroom flooded; fireroom, flooded; engineroom flooded; #3 hold, partially flooded and filling slowly. Other space aft of engineroom, such as shaft alleys, #4 hold, etc., may have flooded but were not examined either because of impossibility of access or lack of time. It was evident that the ship was settling by the stern as well as healing to port. The two new bunk compartments forward of the fireroom were dry when last examined, as were other forward compartments. However it is probable that these compartments flooded later through the open vent system. The magazines were not flooded. No voluntary flooding, or counter-flooding was accomplished. No rupture of bulkheads due to flooding pressure was noted.
At the time of the raid, the ship was in a modified material condition "Baker", such ports and hatches as requeired for the comfort of the crew were left open. When general quarters was sounded, material condition "Afirm" was set. It is probable that in the haste and confusion the setting of material condition "Afirm" was not adequately accomplished; several ports in an office on the starboard side were left open.
This ship had refueled on December 5, 1941, and had approximately 232,600 gal. fuel oil on board when sunk. The head of oil had been taken off the C1-C2 double bottom fuel oil tanks under engineroom and from A103 fuel oil tank adjacent to fore peak and chain locker.
All fresh water tanks were full, total capacity about 45,000 gallons. All feed tanks were nearly full; total feed water on hand about 52,000 gallons.
It is not believed that the ship had suffered extensive structural damage. However this cannot be definitely determined until ship is righted. The immediate loss of all pumping facilities, poor compartmentation, and lack of watertightness, made it impossible to control the inflow of water and made the sinking of the ship inevitable.
R.E. KRAUSE.
OpNav.
CincPac.
Nyd, Pearl Harbor.
Combasefor.
Source: Enclosure (E) to CINCPAC action report Serial 0479 of 15 February 1942, World War II action reports, Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740.
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Justice Secretary will ‘vigorously defend’ Leicester burial for Richard III
The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling will defend the decision to bury the remains of Richard III in Leicester, his department today confirmed.
Speaking after a judge last month gave permission for descendants of the king’s relatives to challenge plans to rebury his remains in Leicester rather than York, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “We will vigorously defend our position at this Judicial Review.”
A source close to the minister reportedly told the Daily Telegraph: “The justice secretary thinks it is ludicrous that judicial reviews are used for cases such as this. This is not what judicial reviews were intended for and is a complete waste of taxpayers’ money.”
Richard’s skeleton was discovered underneath a Leicester council car park last September, 527 years after he was killed at the battle of Bosworth.
The remains were in February identified as those of the last Plantagenet king and, as an organisation closely involved in the discovery, the University of Leicester holds a Ministry of Justice licence that lets it decide where the remains are re-interred.
The university decided on Leicester Cathedral.
But last month a High Court judge gave permission for descendants of the king’s relatives to challenge plans to rebury his remains in Leicester rather than York.
The 15-strong Plantagenet Alliance wants the remains buried in York, which, it claims, Richard regarded as his home.
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave concluded the group had an arguable case, but said he hoped the matter could be settled without the need for an “unseemly” legal squabble.
The judicial review is likely to take place later this year in London, and is expected to last a full day.
The Richard III Society has previously warned the dispute about where the king should be reburied is becoming “undignified”.
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"It's a 70's Thing!" by Kelly Kautman Dyer (2003)
Artist Kelly Kautman Dyer
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Description A psychedelic painting of a 'hippy chick' from the 70's era.
Kelly Kautman Dyer's Recent Work
Kelly Kautman Dyer, Flint, Michigan
Artist Statement Kelly Lee Kautman-Dyer, born August 22, 1959, in Flint, Michigan, was the middle child of a large family born to her Hungarian mother, Irene M. (Peto) Kautman, and her Bohemian father, William E. Kautman Sr. Her artistic career began when she was able to hold in her tiny hands, whatever artistic implement she could find. This love and passion for art became her life from that moment on. Her natural ability to put on paper what she sees, is what propelled Dyer to teach her self.
Her grandfather, Edward H. Kautman, was an avid photographer and landscape artist. Her grandfather's brother, James Kautman, sculpted large detailed marble statues for various Catholic churches in Prairie De Chien, Wisconsin, as well as murals and paintings. Sadly, neither of those men ever became noted for their works. Her love for art and her passion to bring notability to her artistic family is the unwavering drive behind every work Dyer creates.
Self taught, Dyer dabbled in many different art genres, but her love of the human form is what she prefers to focus on. She sculpts and paints the visions she creates in her mind. The mediums that Dyer prefers most are clay, acrylics and watercolors. Her art is considered Naive and Outsider art. Within those disciplines, Dyer creates abstracts, pop art, and expressionistic works.
Dyer still resides in her native hometown of Flint, Michigan. Her depictions of the human form have won her several awards and notable recognition from the University of Michigan, Flint.
Special Awards and Exhibitions: First place award in 5th grade from the National Library Foundation for a drawing of Helen Keller; First place award for various sketches at the University of Michigan Gallery; First place award for portraits at the University of Michigan Gallery.
Subjects Abstract, Figurative, Figure, People
Tags 70's, Kautman Dyer, Kelly, abstract, chick, era, girl, hippy, painting, psychedelic, retro, woodstock
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Standing Up for the Full Promise of Equal Employment Opportunity
Impact Fund files Amicus Brief in Guerrero v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Case No. 15-17001
Lindsay Nako, Impact Fund Director of Litigation & Training
Victor Guerrero applied twice for employment as a Corrections Officer with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”). Both of his applications were subject to a multi-step review process, one step of which was a background investigation questionnaire. Since 2009, the background investigation questionnaire has included the following question: “Have you ever had or used a social security number other than the one you used on this questionnaire?” This question, known as Question 75, exclusively eliminated Latino applicants—including Mr. Guerrero—from the review process. Mr. Guerrero filed suit, alleging Question 75 has a disparate impact on Latino applicants.
After a six-day bench trial before Judge William Alsup in the Northern District of California, the district court concluded that available statistics demonstrated that Question 75 had a statistically significant disparate impact on Latinos. While Latinos made up 42.1% of recent hires into Corrections Officer positions, they made up 78.6% (33 out of 42) of applicants who answered “Yes” to Question 75; 76% (19 out of 25) of the applicants withheld after answering “Yes” to Question 75; and, finally, 100% (9 out of 9) of the applicants eliminated from consideration in whole or in part for answering “Yes” to Question 75. Guerrero v. Cal. Dep’t of Corr. & Rehab., 119 F. Supp. 3d 1065, 1072 (N.D. Cal. 2015).
CDCR appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit and its appeal raises, among other issues, the question of the appropriate statistical analysis in disparate impact cases under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The department argued that the only appropriate statistical analysis was to look at the percentage of all Latino applicants excluded by Question 75 – that is, nine out of the total 10,357 Latinos who applied for Corrections Officer positions.
Yesterday, the Impact Fund filed an amicus brief in support of Mr. Guerrero to advocate against the adoption of any specific formula for analyzing statistics in disparate impact cases. Our argument is that CDCR’s position fails to fulfill Title VII’s promise of equal employment opportunity and departs from governing case law. In particular, CDCR ignores precedent guiding the analysis of statistical evidence in multi-step selection processes, namely Connecticut v. Teal, 457 U.S. 440 (1982). Our brief states, “Creating unnecessary statistical hurdles to demonstrate disparate impact would frustrate Title VII’s purpose and create a locked door, to be opened only by those possessing the exact key and excluding all others from Title VII’s promise of equal employment opportunity.”
Impact Fund is joined by fellow Amici; Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, East Bay Community Law Center, Equal Rights Advocates, Legal Aid Association of California, Public Interest Law Project, Public Advocates Inc., and Western Center on Law and Poverty.
Mr. Guerrero is represented by Christopher Ho and Stacy Villalobos of the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center. CDCR’s reply brief is due June 6, 2016. Oral argument has not yet been scheduled, but we shall be following this one closely!
Tagged: Title VII, Civil Rights Act 1964, Disparate Impact, Latino Workers, Workers Rights, Guerrero v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, ACLU NorCal, Asian Law Caucus, AAAJ, CRLA Foundation, DREDF, East Bay Community Law Center, Equal Rights Advocates, Lindsay Nako, Legal Aid Assoc. of California, Public Interest Law Project, Public Advocates, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center, Amicus Brief
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Film / By Jude Dry
Michael Fassbender Admits ‘Assassin’s Creed’ ‘Took Itself Too Seriously’ — Watch
The star and producer got candid about the faults of 2016’s video game adaptation, which was panned by critics and disappointed at the box office.
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Critics are not so thrilled with the latest video game movie.
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Justin Kurzel’s adaptation is utterly ridiculous, but it’s also the most interesting blockbuster in a year where most of them were boring.
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A musical cue from the trailer wasn’t well received.
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‘Assassin’s Creed’ Trailer: Michael Fassbender Hopes To Save The Video Game Genre In Visionary Style
“Macbeth” director Justin Kurzel reunites with stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard for this bold new video game adaptation.
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‘Assassin’s Creed’ International Trailer: Michael Fassbender Prefers Kicking Ass In Slow Motion
Michael Fassbender is brought back from the dead in the latest sneak peek of the video game adaptation.
Jun 28, 2016 3:13 pm /
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‘Assassin’s Creed’: Michael Fassbender Goes Behind the Scenes in New Footage from E3
Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of the popular game series hits theaters this December.
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Video-Game Movie Preview: ‘Assassin’s Creed,’ ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ & More
Not every video-game movie is destined to be bad, and a few set to be released over the next year have the potential to be exceptional.
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Josh Bennett grew up in Pennsylvania where he learned to knit from his grandmother when he was 8 years old. After a short time, he stopped, because boys don’t knit. Then he got interested in musical theater, because all boys sing and dance. In 2000, Josh worked at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT where he picked up knitting again from the cast members in the show, and hasn’t stopped since.
After moving to New York City in 2001 and knitting constantly, Josh worked at a yarn shop on the Upper West Side that wrote custom patterns for their customers. Noticing the lack of menswear patterns being designed and published, he took his pattern writing skills and was determined to change that.
Since, Josh has collaborated with CFDA Award winner Michael Bastian on a hand knitted line, Michael Bastian by Josh Bennett sold at Bergdorf Goodman, Sak’s 5th Avenue, and stores worldwide. They have also worked together on projects for the Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art at the American Folk Art Museum, Le Cabinet de Curiosités of Thomas Erber, and a fashion helmet for the NFL/Bloomindale/CFDA Super Bowl XLVIII collaboration which was auctioned off for the NFL Foundation.
He was the Men’s Sweater Designer at Tommy Hilfiger and has also worked with and designed for GANT by Michael Bastian, Perry Ellis, Alexander Wang, Rowan Magazine, Vogue Knitting, and other knitting publications. He is the designer of his own exclusive capsule collection of men’s hand knitted sweaters at Bergdorf Goodman, Josh Bennett + Goodman’s. Josh studied Menswear Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
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Missouri Valley hands Peru State MBB second consecutive buzzer-beater set back
For the second game in a row, a buzzer-beater doomed the Peru State men's basketball team.
After falling to Culver-Stockton Saturday, the Bobcats were beaten at home with another last-second shot as the visiting Missouri Valley Vikings handed Peru State an 87-86 loss Wednesday night.
Mo Valley improved its overall record to 10-15 while bettering their mark in the Heart of America Athletic Conference (Heart) at 8-11. Peru State dropped to 17-7 on the season and 12-6 in conference play putting them a half-game back of second-place William Penn (Iowa) in the Heart standings.
First Half Action
Jamil Maddred (Camden, N.J.) scored the first points of the game with a bucket in the paint with just 11 seconds off the clock. Later, after the Vikings led 7-6, a bucket by Lyle Hexom (Omaha) off an assist from Brandon Jones (Houston) put the 'Cats up 8-7 at the 17:15 mark. Peru State would maintain the lead from that point on until about midway through the second half.
With 10:28 left in the first 20 minutes, a field goal by Michael Wardy (Roca) on an assist from Jones gave the Bobcats their first double-digit lead at 26-16. A trey by Jones coming on an assist from Nicholas Wurm (Adelaide, Australia) extended the lead to 13. A pair of free throws by Hexom gave the 'Cats their largest lead at that point of 15 at 31-16 with 8:42 on the clock.
After the Vikings made one of two free throws, KeShawn Wilson (Lincoln) drained a three-pointer on an assist from Jones to give Peru State its largest lead of the contest at 34-17 with 6:57 on the clock.
Two straight Mo Valley treys pulled the Vikings back within six before Wilson hit another trey to stretch it back to 37-23 with just over five minutes left in the half.
With 1:37 remaining in the first half, the Vikings were back with seven at 42-35. Wilson would hit another trey on an assist from Jones to put the Bobcats back up by ten.
The score at halftime would eventually be 47-39 Peru State.
Second Half Action
Missouri Valley would get a three-pointer to start the second half. Deonte McReynolds (Chicago) would counter with a three of his own off an assist from Hexom. Jones would follow with a two-pointer, also on an assist from Hexom, and the 'Cats would be up by ten at 52-42 at the 18:34 mark.
A Maddred bucket on an assist from McReynolds would give the 'Cats a 12-point lead, one they would match later at 56-44 with 16:38 left in the game.
The Vikings would go on a 9-0 run to pull within three before Jones hit a bucket in the paint. Later, the Bobcats would still lead 60-59 before a two-pointer by Mo Valley gave them a one-point advantage with 11:30 on the clock.
The game would then be tied at 65-65, 74-74, 76-76, 80-80, and 82-82 with neither team leading by more than three points in that stretch.
After the last tie, Maddred and Jones would each make one of two free throws to give Peru State an 84-82 advantage. A three-pointer by the Vikings put them back on top 85-84 with 33 seconds on the clock.
A Jones basket in the paint with approximately 20 seconds left put the Bobcats back up by one. Peru State would call a timeout to set-up the defense. A three-pointer by the Vikings bounced out, but Mo Valley grabbed the rebound and a second chance shot went in with .4 of a second left in the game. The 'Cats were not able to get a good shot off and another upset by an opponent was complete.
Each team shot the ball well in the contest as Missouri Valley made 34 of 72 field goals for 47.2% which included hitting 9 of 23 from behind the arc for 39.1%. At the free throw line, the Vikings made 10 of 14 for 71.4%. Peru State connected on 29 of 59 field goals for 49.2% and made 11 of 34 from long range for 32.4%. At the charity stripe, the 'Cats made 17 of 22 for 77.3%.
The Bobcats had the rebounding edge as they grabbed 38 boards compared to 29 for Mo Valley. The 'Cats also led in the assist category as they had 19 while the Vikings dished out 12.
One key stat was turnovers as Missouri Valley took advantage of 15 Peru State miscues by scoring 16 points. The Vikings committed eight turnovers.
The 'Cats blocked six shots while Mo Valley rejected one. The Vikings grabbed ten steals while Peru State finished with just four.
Peru Player Statistics
Hexom and Jones both finished with double-doubles. Hexom led the team with 23 points and a game-high 15 rebounds. Jones contributed 21 points and ten boards. Wilson finished in double figures with 18 points while Maddred added ten.
Jones dished out a game-high seven assists with Maddred handing out four. Hexom blocked five shots with Jones being credited with one. Maddred had half of the steals as he finished with two.
Peru State will be playing four contests in a matter of eight days starting with senior day on Saturday, Feb. 16. The Bobcats will be hosting Mount Mercy (Iowa) beginning at 2 p.m. The Mustangs are presently 14-12 on the season and are 9-11 in the Heart having lost Wednesday night at Grand View.
On Monday, the Bobcats will be headed to Olathe, Kan., to face MidAmerica Nazarene (MNU) in the game which has been postponed twice. Game time with the Pioneers is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. MNU is 12-12 overall and are 7-12 in conference action.
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Criminal case is opened against a former Tongaat Hulett executive
Companies / 28 June 2019, 10:00am / Sandile Mchunu
Tongaat Hulett confirmed yesterday that a criminal case has been opened against a former executive in the company. Tongaat refinery in KZN.Photo Supplied.
DURBAN - Tongaat Hulett confirmed yesterday that a criminal case has been opened against a former executive in the company and the matter is up for investigation by the South African police.
The group said management was taking appropriate action arising from evidence emerging in the forensic investigation.
“At this point, a criminal case has been opened against one former executive and given that this is now a matter being investigated by the South African Police Service, we are not able to provide any further information,” the group said.
At the beginning of June Tongaat informed the JSE it was suspending its listing on the bourse as it continued with its strategic and financial review of its operations following the revelation of “certain past practices which are of significant concern to the board”.
It said its consolidated financial statements for the year to end March 2018 will need to be restated, with an estimated reduction in the amount reflected in the 2018 financial statements as the company’s equity as at April 1, 2018, anticipated to be between R3.5 billion and R4.5bn.
The group has also said it is anticipated cutting around 5 000 jobs as part of its restructuring process.
“Tongaat Hulett are reviewing and reducing our head count as part of the broader restructuring of the business to ensure the company has the right skills and experience to implement our new operating approach. The exact figure of how many people will be impacted by the head count reduction will only be known once the restructuring process is further progressed,” the group said.
Ron Klipin, a senior analyst at Cratos Asset Management, said he was not necessarily surprised by the latest developments in Tongaat following events such as Steinhoff, EOH, Omnia and Aspen.
“Accounting irregularities due to cover-ups and in some cases fraud have become more regular. This could be due to a major downturn in the economy impacting on the company results,” Klipin said.
He said in addition to this is a lack of accountability by the executives as well as inability of the board members to stand up to or question executives.
“In some instances a strong chief executive has bulldozed his way and the board has not been able to question the strategy nor have the auditors,” he said.
Klipin said Tongaat might look a different company after it has completed its restructuring process.
“Tongaat may not end up with the same structure with property or other entities being hived off,” he said.
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Five-storey medical centre approved for Pring Street, Ipswich
Brenton Waters February 7, 2019
Ipswich CBD’s journey as a developing health precinct continues with approval given for a five-storey medical centre in Pring Street.
The centre is planned for 11 Pring Street on a block opposite St Andrew’s Ipswich Private Hospital.
A town planning report lodged with Ipswich City Council details a two-stage approach.
“Stage one will consist of the ground storey car park and storeys one, two plus roof capping and will include a total of 1,412 square metres of gross floor area,” the application states.
“Stage two consists of storeys three, four plus roof capping and will contain a total of 1,146 square metres of gross floor area.”
The centre would be in the Ipswich Planning Scheme CBD – Medical Services Zone which aims to attract developments that complement St Andrews Private Hospital and the Ipswich Hospital.
“The medical centre will be used for medical offices and consulting rooms only, it will not be used for any procedures or ‘day surgery’ uses,” the application states.
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The exact tenancy makeup has not been confirmed, however health services along the lines of a podiatrist, chiropractor, GP clinic, optometrist and pathologist, to name a few, would be consistent with the approval.
Twenty-four car parks will be created as part of the development.
“The proposed medical centre will gain direct access off Pring Street in the south east corner of the premises,” the application states.
“All 24 car parks (will be) delivered during stage one of the project.”
The presence of health providers in the CBD is expected to grow significantly in the coming decade.
Last year, Ipswich City Council entered into an agreement that will allow West Moreton Hospital to expand into council administration buildings in South Street.
Council plans to progressively vacate the buildings as it completes a new administration centre and library as part of the Ipswich mall redevelopment.
A medical centre has been approved for 11 Pring Street.
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Hardcover, 200 pages, 6 x 9, Fiction
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Winner, Fiction, 2016 Maine Literary Award
The inhabitants of Baxter, Maine, are going nowhere fast—but not for lack of trying. In this deftly written jewel of a novel, veteran author Jim Nichols strings together the bittersweet stories of several different characters bound together by shared geography and the insular nature of small-town life. There’s Johnny Lunden, a well-meaning war veteran with a penchant for the local bar and a deep but doomed love for his family. There’s eight-year-old Ted Soule, who shares a first kiss with the Ophelia-like Nadia, the daughter of his Russian neighbors, and Tomi Lambert who observes the confusion of the adults around her as they struggle with accepting their fates. In a wonderfully authentic New England setting, Nichols explores the nature of connection––hoped for, missed, lost, and found.
"Closer All the Time offers a look at life in the fictitious small town of Baxter, Maine, through stories linked by common places and characters. The characters are powerful, and their struggles keep the reader flying along from chapter to chapter, even without a traditional narrative."
—Heidi Sistare, Maine Sunday Telegram
For the full review, visit here.
"These intertwined narratives create a memorable novel that vividly renders a town and its denizens. Jim Nichols never condescends to his characters. Though readers might question their choices in life, we never doubt their humanity."
—Ron Rash, author of Serena and Something Rich and Strange
"Jim Nichols is one of my favorite writers, not just because he writes with such—dare I say—feminine insight about men’s men. But I also love the oddball worlds he opens up: behind the scenes of a cheesy roadside attraction in Maine, the daily work of skycaps at an airport, the conversations between amateur boxers, the mechanics of flying a small plane. His men and boys become so real, I feel as if I know what it might have been like to grow up surrounded by brothers."
—Monica Wood, author of When We Were the Kennedys
“Jim Nichols makes me happy. These characters are parents, kids, aunts and uncles, lovers, neighbors, workers, deep and yet accessible selves. They keep secrets then they share them, spy kisses, shoot high and fail, fall low and yet win. I felt like I was among friends, friends who worried me, challenged me, rejected me, loved me, paid back my attention, revealed their truest selves, moments so intimate I'd sneak off to read, moments so joyful I'd laugh through my tears. Closer All the Time is a novel built of stories, and a story built of sentences so beautiful I want to keep them like wild honey in a jar.”
—Bill Roorbach, author of The Remedy for Love and Life Among Giants
“Closer All the Time is perhaps best described as a succession of vignettes that accumulate to form a kind of community portrait, for it is Nichols’s mythical village of Baxter that tenderly cradles his character’s lives and their stories—and at a moment in our culture when there appears to be no surplus of authenticity, Jim Nichols tells those stories without ego.”
—Josh Bodwell, Fiction Writer’s Review
Read the full review and an interview with Nichols here.
“These beautiful stories follow a chronological progression, focusing first upon the youth of the town, then the tender infatuations of adolescence and the heartbreak and tribulations of adult life. The soul of the book is Baxter, a place where the locals scrape and struggle and try to understand why. Nichols makes it clear that despite the travails and confusion, there is always a tendril of hope that connects back to the community.”
—Bill Lundgren, The Bollard
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"Jim Nichols' Closer All the Time shows his deep affection for the struggles and the heart of working class lives. In a style reminiscent of Hemingway, Nichols spare, plainspoken prose buzzes with emotional grit and tenderness, bringing dignity and vulnerability to alcoholics, poachers, and bullies. Damn Beautiful!"
—Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue
“... the threads all intertwine to some extent creating a loose fabric of insightful, credible, and heart-warming tales from start to finish.”
—James Fisher, The Miramichi Reader
“[Jim Nichols] infuses his characters with that real, down home flavor, which easily resonates with the reader.”
––RJ Heller, BDN Blog “Life Downeast”
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A Conversation with "Closer All the Time" Author Jim Nichols
"Closer All the Time," a new novel by award-winning author Jim Nichols, is the first title to be selected for our annual fiction program. Writer and guest blogger, Jennifer Van Allen, sat down with Jim to ask him about his curious road to writing and the inspiration behind the book.
Jim Nichols grew interested in fiction writing while working as a ticket agent for a commuter airline in Rockland. Born in Brunswick and raised in Freeport, Maine, Nichols has worked variou
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Feature | March 14, 2012 | Mary Beth Nevulis
RT Patient Positioning: Precision Makes the Difference
Experts weigh in about how positioning equipment for radiotherapy has evolved and where it’s going in the future.
This Protura positioning system is set up for an SBRT treatment, which requires precise positioning.
Radiotherapy (RT) as a way to treat cancer is growing as a field, now that its accuracy has been improving. One reason for this improved precision has to do with patient positioning equipment and how the patient is immobilized during the treatment itself. By making sure the patient is always in the same position over multiple radiation treatments and that the patient stays comfortable enough not to shift during treatment, RT has been growing as a successful, accurate and fiscally sound way to treat cancer.
Early in RT’s evolution, it was believed that “radiation treatment in cancer was a race,” according to Michael LaLonde, regional account manager for Bionix Radiation Therapy.
“You would pump radiation into patients over a period of time and then allow healing to occur over weekends,” LaLonde said. “Ablation, or obliterating a tumor, was proven to be a better approach.”
Ablation is done using stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in three to five fractions, or sessions, as opposed to approximately 35 fractions, which was the former way of treating cancer with radiation.
“SBRT needs to be extremely accurate and reproducible,” LaLonde said. “So the patient needs to be positioned very accurately.”
With treatments like SBRT, image-guided radiotherapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiosurgery (IGRS), the tumor receives larger doses of radiation; hence the need for the radiation beam to be as precise as possible.
“In classical RT, you don’t know exactly where the tumor is, so you have to irradiate a larger area just to be sure you hit the tumor, meaning you are also irradiating healthy tissue around the tumor,” said Alexander Malesevic, regional marketing manager at Brainlab.
This uncertainty and extraneous radiation, Malesevic said, can be avoided with positioning equipment like Brainlab’s ExactTrac system. Designed to keep a patient in place, it takes X-ray scans throughout the treatment to ensure the patient remains in the same position, using the original computed tomography (CT) scan as a comparison.
Positioning Equipment’s Key Role
It makes more sense to give a patient more radiation in fewer sessions; in addition to saving time and money — plus getting better throughput at a facility — the patient is not inconvenienced by having to make multiple trips to a facility. But treatment options like SBRT, IGRT and IMRT would not be successful without proper positioning equipment.
“For example, in the case of the head and spine, IGRT has revealed a lot of errors in the day-to-day interfractional setup in the spine in relation to the cranium,” said Bill Barnat, clinical specialist with Civco Medical Solutions. “Patients need to be in the right position relative to themselves before they are in the right position of the isocenter and beam.”
The treatment is made more accurate by using immobilization equipment. To work best, it needs to be not only easy for the clinician to work with, but also comfortable for the patient, said LaLonde.
“If the patient is not comfortable, no matter how accurately you set him up or how well you can reproduce [the treatment], the patient will move,” he said. Bionix’s OMNI V SBRT system, for example, is a customizable full-body system that focuses on patient comfort by positioning, immobilizing and compressing the part of the body that is receiving SBRT, making it accurate and less traumatic for the patient.
Treating cancer with RT makes economic sense as well, said Barnat.
“If you had to treat a patient’s lung 35 times, filling up a 15-minute slot each time, that takes up time on your machine,” he said.“ A three-fraction SBRT machine takes twice, maybe three times as long per fraction, but you only need to do three fractions, meaning you can do more SBRT patients in the time you might have only treated one lung.”
This is advantageous in terms of billing, said Barnat, because a facility will get more reimbursement for an SBRT treatment than for a single-fraction treatment.
Accuracy Over Multiple Visits
When patients are coming back for fewer treatment sessions with higher doses, making sure the radiation is concentrated directly on the tumor each time remains essential. There are three main options for achieving that goal, according to Barnat. The first is the positioning product itself.
“The equipment should be designed to help recreate the patient’s posture as it was first realized in CT simulation, coupled with reproducible settings and indexing on the treatment table,” he said. The clinician makes note of the treatment table’s settings and makes sure the table is on these settings for each session.
Another option is to use a laser to tattoo marks on the patient and then line him up with real lasers that represent the isocenter of the linac in accordance with the positions determined in treatment planning, Barnat said.
A third option is employing an image guidance system to reference the target tumor internally, compare it with the CT scan from treatment planning and reposition accordingly, he said.
Barnat made a distinction between repositioning equipment and immobilization equipment due to differences in motion, but said that each supports the other. Interfraction motion happens between radiation sessions; intrafraction motion is when the patient moves during the session itself.
“Repositioning products ensure accurate interfraction motion, and good immobilization ensures good intrafractional accuracy,” he said. “They work in tandem.”
Current Trends and Future Directions
One technique about which positioning equipment experts seem divided is gating — when the radiation beam is turned on and off during treatment as the target moves in and out of focus. Malesevic believes this is a technique that will gain popularity.
“I think the future is going toward gated techniques,” he said. “Taking a lot of images to see how the tumor is moving and then tuning the treatment beam to only shoot when the target is in range will be perfected over the next few years.”
Barnat disagrees with this, however, and said that especially with lung RT, gating is not the best solution.
“One of the problems with [gating] is that it can become very inefficient in the department. So even in a gated environment, [clinicians] are still looking for something to reduce deep breathing and keep the target within acceptable parameters to keep the beam on as long as possible,” he said.
Barnat said he believes equipment and treatment will continue to get more accurate, however.
“The imaging quality has improved so much that, especially in planning, we can really delineate where tumor borders should be, and we can see much more in the treatment room as to where that tumor site actually is relative to isocenter,” he said. “What will prove tricky is correcting for what is out of position.”
Civco’s product is the Protura robotic patient positioning system and universal couchtop, which can make submillimeter corrections in six degrees or axes. Right now, most systems only correct to the millimeter, but the Protura system is geared to advance with imaging into the future, Barnat said.
Expanding use of SBRT, LaLonde said, could be what the future holds as well. “People are looking at how to apply SBRT to other sections of the body. It comes back to how to isolate the organ so it doesn’t move, which is a challenge with gelatinous organs.”
Moving from positioning equipment made of carbon fiber materials to equipment made of Kevlar or fiberglass could also be a part of the future, said Barnat, because clinicians will need to use a material that is compatible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
All of these trends come down to choosing what works best for the individual patient and clinician, Barnat said. Manufacturers need to pay attention to feedback from the field, he added.
“Clinicians and therapists want products that address the need for efficient throughput without compromised accuracy, while also keeping it simple,” he said. “They want positioning freedom in devices, but want it arrived at more simply.”
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Google's Chromium browser explained
Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, but there would be no Chrome without Chromium, the open source project that underpins it. Here's what Chromium is, where you can download it and how it shapes your online experience. [And, if you hate it, here's how to get rid of it.]
By Gregg Keizer
The Chromium Development Documentation Project (CC BY 2.5)
What is the Chromium browser?
How is Chromium different from Chrome?
Where can I download Chromium?
Can I run Chromium and Chrome on the same system?
Do browsers besides Chrome rely on Chromium?
And now Microsoft's Edge?
What does Chromium lack that Chrome has?
Are there security issues with Chromium?
How do I get rid of Chromium?
What are the alternatives to Chromium?
While the names are similar - Chrome and Chromium - the labels represent two different web browsers. But they are related.
One leads to the other. One is open-source, the other is not, not really. One dominates the world's browser landscape, like a single huskie dominates a team of Chihuahuas on the Iditarod. The other is used by less than one-sixth of one percent of all those who ran a browser last month.
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Computerworld put Chrome and Chromium under the magnifying glass to better understand what Chromium does and how it figures into the development of its offspring. Here's what you need to know to better understand them both.
Chromium is not only the name of a browser, but also of the open-source project that generates the source code used by Chrome. Google is the primary backer of Chromium - it kicked off the project when it launched Chrome in September 2008 - but because the code is open-source, others, including people not employed by Google, contribute to the Chromium project. (Microsoft, for one, started serious input this year; see the "And now Microsoft's Edge?" section below for more information.)
The browser compiled from the current Chromium source code is called not surprisingly, Chromium. Chrome, on the other hand, begins with Chromium but does not end with it. Instead, Google adds proprietary code to Chromium, either its own, like the browser's automated update mechanism, or someone else's, such as Adobe Flash (for now at least), to create Chrome.
[ Further reading: What's in the latest Chrome update? ]
Think of Chromium as an ancestor of Chrome - and not necessarily an immediate one, either - which shares the same DNA as the polished browser.
Chromium is a subset of Chrome, since Google bolts on other components and features to the former to craft the latter. Everything in Chromium is in Chrome, but not everything in Chrome is in Chromium.
The obvious differences lie in accompanying services Google provides - like the update mechanism - or built-in support for such technologies as Adobe's Flash Player and digital rights management (DRM) components that let Chrome play copyrighted content.
But the biggest difference is not in the length of the two browsers' feature or support lists, but in their inherent stability (or instability). Chromium is rough, and not just around the edges. In practical terms, the latest version of the Chromium browser will be far buggier, much more prone to crashes, than even the rawest version of Chrome. Google says so, in fact. "It may be tremendously buggy," warns the Chromium download page.
Even the least polished of the four "builds" Google maintains for Chrome - the one labeled "Canary" - is substantially more stable than Chromium.
A second difference, and one that many have relied on when they've chosen Chromium over Chrome, is that the former collects and transfers less information to Google than the latter.
Chrome can send crash reports and usage statistics to Google, while Chromium cannot. In Chrome, that collection and transmission is off by default. (They can be enabled from the browser's settings panel.) Chromium, on the other hand, lacks the feature entirely. The information Chrome can collect ranges from where users click to the device's operating system.
The most convenient place to get a copy of Chromium is from this download page.
That page should automatically recognize which operating system you're running and offer the appropriate edition of Chromium. If it doesn't, select from the list at the bottom of the page: Windows x86, Windows x64, Mac, Linux x86 and Linux x64.
The site also identifies the current build number, and its age, with the latter usually in minutes. (That's how fast a version of Chromium turns over.) For Windows and Linux editions, users can also click on the "Last Known Good Revision" link near the bottom of the page to retrieve Chromium from about a year prior.
Google Chromium project
The Chromium browser can be downloaded like other browers.
For more information about downloading Chromium, including how to find and get a specific version of the browser - to use for testing and debugging, for example - refer to this page on the project's website.
Chromium can be run at the same time, and on the same system, as Chrome. There is no need to, say, uninstall Chrome to add Chromium to the machine.
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This is identical to the way Chrome's various "channels" work on a single Windows PC. (One can, for example, run the "Canary" build of Chrome for Windows alongside the "Stable" version of the browser.)
Not surprisingly, browsers other than Google's Chrome have hitched a ride on Chromium's coattails, using the open-source project's source code to bootstrap themselves into an application without all the messy work of building the foundational functionality.
Many are niche, some are boutique, others are, and have been, essential to the browser landscape. They include:
Opera. The former Norwegian browser - now owned by a Chinese collective - dropped its proprietary Presto rendering engine in 2013 for Blink, the Chromium-created engine Chrome is also based upon. According to analytics vendor Net Applications, Opera has the largest user share of any non-Google, Chromium-based browser, with 1.6% in January. Download Opera for Windows, macOS and Linux from here.
Yandex. Launched in 2012 to, as much as anything, stem the losses to Google of the same-named search firm, this Russian-based browser also relies on Blink, and thus Chromium. Yandex accounted for 0.6% of user share in January. You can download Yandex for Windows and macOS here.
Vivaldi. Built by a team largely composed of former Opera engineers, Vivaldi debuted in 2016 and was billed by its CEO as a "throwback" to days when browsers didn't sport minimalistic user interfaces (UIs). In January, Vivaldi's user share was 0.08% (that's eight-hundredths of a percent, or 8 out of every 10,000). Download Vivaldi for Windows, macOS and Linux from here.
Other browsers that leverage Chromium - but don't account for enough users to make Net Applications' list - include Brave, Comodo Dragon and Epic. (Brave browser is best known for using blockchain-based tokens as a substitute for traditional display advertising.
The biggest Chromium news of the last several years broke in late 2018 when Microsoft announced it would rebuild Edge, its home-grown replacement for Internet Explorer (IE), as a Chromium browser. Gone would be Edge's Microsoft-sourced rendering and JavaScript engines, replaced by the Chromium-created Blink and V8, respectively.
Microsoft touted benefits to users and the web in its explanation for the radical change, stressing the Chromium project contributions it has and will make. Recently, executives have trumpeted Microsoft's input in areas like page scrolling and power management and hinted that developers could improve Chromium on Windows because they had the inside scoop about the OS.
Omitted from any discussion was the poor showing of Edge in its nearly four years, and what part that played, if any, in the decision to go "full-Chromium."
Microsoft issued Windows 10 previews for Edge-on-Chromium and will extend them to Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and macOS at some point. All early builds will be distributed via the new Edge Insider website.
Among the familiar Chrome features and functionality missing from the Chromium browser are:
Chrome's Google Update, the update service and in-browser mechanism that automatically refreshes the application whenever a security update or feature upgrade is pushed to users. Chromium does not update automatically, so when, say, Google's engineers issue security patches, the browser doesn't get them unless the user takes the time to download a newer version.
Adobe Flash Player, which is baked into Chrome, and automatically updates within the browser. Chromium users may manually install the Flash plug-in from Adobe's website, just as they do for, say, Mozilla's Firefox or Apple's Safari, but they must refresh it using Flash's own update service.
Support for the Widevine digital rights management (DRM) module.Chromium can thus not play Netflix content, as that service relies on Widevine to stymie content copying.
Vulnerabilities found by Google's own engineers or independent security researchers are regularly patched in Chromium - again, the root of Chrome - so the former is just as secure (or depending on one's perspective, just as insecure) as Chrome.
On the micro level, it's unclear when during Chromium's ongoing, unfolding development that engineers add security fixes. Chrome's Stable channel is refreshed with patches about every two or three weeks, so the Chromium browser must be updated at least that frequently. But because bug fixes hit the more unstable channels of Chrome - like the flakiest build, "Canary" - before they do Stable, it follows that the source code maintained by the Chromium Project, and thus the Chromium browser, must be altered before being spun out into "Canary."
But Chromium lacks an update mechanism, meaning that any security patches applied to the source code will not be reflected in a user's copy of Chromium unless the user manually downloads a later version. The omission of an update service is the single greatest security threat to Chromium.
More explicit, and the reason this question regularly comes up, is the fact that criminals piggyback malware onto Chromium or distribute modified versions of the browser to include attack code. (For more, see below.)
If the browser is legitimate - in other words, the user or a company administrator installed it (though it's doubtful the latter would do so) - Chromium can be removed the same way any application is dumped.
In Windows 10, for example, type uninstall into the desktop search field, then when "Add or remove programs" pops up in the results, select that. Click on the Chromium entry, click the Uninstall button, and in the ensuing dialog box, confirm the action by clicking the Uninstall button there.
On macOS, select the Applications folder in the Finder, locate and right-click Chromium, and choose "Move to Trash."
The chore becomes more involved if Chromium represents malware or a purposefully-infected browser. Criminals have hijacked the browser's name to disguise their attack code, and in some cases bundled the browser with other malicious software or have used the source code to rig a browser so that it floods screens with pop-up ads and steals site credentials. (Bogus Chromiums are almost exclusively found on Windows.)
That final bunch is the most pernicious. They're often part of a larger freeware download, typically but not always found on sketchy websites, and like other unwanted software can be difficult to pry out of a system.
Because of the wide variety of malware that masquerades as Chromium, or accompanies a custom-built version of its source code, no single set of removal instructions will do. Computerworld's best advice: Take a tour through the Internet, searching for "how to remove XX" where XX is the name of the Chromium-based browser refusing to leave. Finally, sic a reputable security package to scan for, and identify the malware, then remove it in its entirety. If the security software doesn't delete the Chromium knock-off browser as part of its scrubbing, uninstall it manually using "Add or remove programs."
For those who want an early look at the results of the Chromium Project, but don't care to live dangerously by running a possibly-unstable browser, the best alternative for Windows or macOS is Chrome's "Canary" channel.
Google's canary browser is more stable alternative to Chromium.
Unlike Chromium, Canary is updated automatically and includes the full suite of Chrome features and ancillary services, such as device-to-device browser synchronization. Like Chromium, Canary is frequently refreshed - each workday - so it represents a look into the future of Chrome's "Stable" channel, the one most users subscribe to.
"Canary builds are the bleeding edge. Released daily, this build has not been tested or used, it's released as soon as it's built," Google states on its website. Canary builds of Chrome can be downloaded from here.
Google does not offer a Linux Canary. Instead, users can run the "Dev" channel build of Chrome. That, too, can be grabbed from Google's site.
This story, "Google's Chromium browser explained" was originally published by Computerworld.
Senior Reporter Gregg Keizer covers Windows, Office, Apple/enterprise, web browsers and web apps for Computerworld.
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On Nov 30 2010 by Klasko Immigration
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Sailing on the Star Ferry
Long before the steamboat was invented, people crossed the harbour between the island of Hong Kong and Kowloon by sampan. A time-consuming and arduous trip. However, once the Star Ferry came into operation, the journey was reduced to only 8 minutes. The Star Ferry now offers 12 boats and the crossing offers great views of the impressive Hong Kong skyline.
The Star Ferry Co Ltd was founded in 1888 under the original name of Kowloon Ferry Company, taking on its current name in 1898. Although the company has been around for more than a century and is still flourishing, the Star Ferry Co Ltd has endured many ordeals. In 1906, the Kowloon pier was hit by a hurricane that ruined 2 boats and after the 1941 Japanese invasion, the ferry service was interrupted for more than 3.5 years.
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Although today there are many tunnels and bridges that connect the island of Hong Kong with mainland Kowloon, the Star Ferry is still a great – and cheap – way to cross the harbour. About 70,000 people a day, almost 26 million people a year, still travel by the Star Ferry. The ferry has 2 regular routes and a special harbour tour that calls at all stops.
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SAN ANTONIO - A number of luxury vehicles are up for grabs Wednesday at the San Antonio Police Department's vehicle auction.
The auction will be held at Growden Pound at 3625 Growden Road at 6 p.m.
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Frustrated with 'never ending' construction? NDOT explains it is a necessary evil
By: Nina Porciuncula
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — "This town is constantly growing. It amazes me to this day," says Tony Ilia of Nevada Department of Transportation.
It's not Project Neon, but there are four other important constructions going on -- all to address the ever growing population and influx of visitors in the valley.
In the northwest, the widening of U.S. 95 between Ann and Kyle Canyon roads, getting on and off Mount Charleston.
In the south, drivers near the M Resort can look forward to some relief as crews are building a new interchange off the 15 to connect Starr Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard to Dean Martin.
"Busy times for NDOT. We have a lot more projects in the works on top of that."
Then on the northeast, a modified diverging diamond interchange on I-15 and US 93 is in the works,creating newer and wider bridges to ease traffic coming from each direction.
And the widening of SR 160 or Blue Diamond Road through Mountain Springs on the southwest.
Nevada DOT knows all the construction going on can be frustrating. But think about it this way:
"One thing about Project Neon and some of these jobs, these are high paying local jobs that's stimulating the economy... The alternative of not doing a construction and reinvesting in our infrastructure is that things will just continue to deteriorate and worsen."
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The County Ground, Beckenham to host International Tri-Series
Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Kent Cricket is delighted to announce that The County Ground, Beckenham will be hosting part of the U19 ODI tri-series between England, Bangladesh and 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup champions India.
England’s Under 19 squad, also known as the Young Lions, currently features Kent wicketkeeper-batsman Jordan Cox, as they prepare to tour Bangladesh later this month.
In the last two years, Kent batsman Ollie Robinson and Kent Cricket Academy scholar Tom Davies have also been involved in the set-up.
All Kent Cricket members and package holders will enjoy free entry to all three fixtures as a part of their membership and these fixtures do not count towards one day’s worth of cricket in the Six Pack package. Members and package holders will not need to purchase tickets.
Tickets for non-members and non-package holders are priced at £5 for adults in advance (£10 on the gate) and kids go FREE.
Parking at The County Ground, Beckenham will cost £5 at the gate.
Kent Cricket’s Director of Cricket, Paul Downton, said: “We’re delighted to be hosting three matches of the Young Lions tri-series.
“The standard of Under-19 cricket is exceptionally high. There’s no doubt that some of tomorrow’s stars will be on show at The County Ground, Beckenham this Summer.
“These fixtures top-off an exciting summer of international one-day cricket, after England and Wales host the ICC Cricket World Cup in the coming months.”
Fixtures at The County Ground, Beckenham in full:
Monday, 5th August: England U19s vs. Bangladesh U19s
Wednesday, 7th August: India U19s vs. Bangladesh U19s
Friday, 9th August: England U19s vs. India U19s
Buy your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here.
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The Killing V The Killing
The world doesn’t usually come in choices of Black or White. I’m thankful for that because it’s the Grey parts that are by far the more interesting.
I want to say a few things about the Danish TV Series ‘Forbrydelsen’ or, as it’s better known, ‘The Killing’. In particular, I want to compare and contrast it to the US TV Series which was a direct remake of the original. In doing this, I’m not setting out to deliberately present any spoilers – I always try very hard not to do that.
However, it’s hard to have this little chat without dancing pretty close to giving away some titbit that might annoy a viewer-to-be. So if you think you might enjoy these series some fine day, you might best leave the rest of this post alone.
My initial ‘Shades of Grey’ comment is very relevant here because rarely has the general opinion on a TV Series been galvanised into such clear Blacks and Whites. For those of us who have engaged with both the Original and the US series in some respect, the view seems crystal clear.
And the general view goes like this;
“The original Danish series is one of the best things we have ever seen on TV and the US remake is nothing more than a risible, lazy, boring, insult to the original.”
That’s the view. Black and White… But perhaps I am in an unusual position in that I have watched both series with equal interest and attention and I have to say that this is not my view. My view is firmly in the Grey.
I have to say that my basic view doesn’t really deviate all that far from that rather forceful ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’. You see, the Original Series was quite wonderful and I was completely enveloped in it and very satisfied with it. As a result, the US Version, with new actors in familiar roles and with the slightly askew world of modern-day Copenhagen shed in favour of the more televisually-familiar Seattle setting, was always going to be a challenge and difficult not to view as an insult.
Via the Internet, I know of so many people who adored the original. Without putting people in little boxes, their reaction to the arrival of the US Version on Channel 4 was quite uniform.
“A pointless remake for people who cannot read subtitles.”
“’Watched Episode One, it was unbelievably boring.”
“Her woolly jumper isn’t right.”
I would have been the same, I reckon. I loved the original too much to go back around all over again with the remake. Except I am a writer and the prospect of seeing the same material done with a different eye was too tempting for me to pass up on. For that reason, I approached the remake positively and with some anticipation. I watched the entire Series One remake keenly, as I watched the entire Original Series.
So here’s what I think (deep breath)
The US version of ‘The Killing’ is a very good TV series indeed.
and (deep breath No. 2)
‘Forbrydelsen’ is, by no means, a perfect one.
The key thing with the US Version is that it has been made with great integrity and care and this shows throughout. This is no lazy ‘cash-in’ remake, this is a thoughtful attempt to transcribe a very good story to a more familiar setting. Yes, the story and characters are the same as before but not exclusively. Where something hasn’t worked for the writers, they have not been afraid to cut and add as they needed to.
One of the toughest asks was always going to be the female lead. Sofie Gråbøl, who played Sarah Lund, in the Original, was simply extraordinary. Mireille Enos, who reprises the role, (renamed as Sarah Linden), therefore had a virtual mountain to climb with us returning viewers. She wasn’t helped either by a tendency to portray her, at times, as a sort of Clarence Starling type – jogging through the woods in that rather iconic way. She also does a recurring ‘slapped child’ sort of look which seems a bit monotone upon occasion. Nobody can beat Lund.
But, wait. As the series progresses, you can grow into Sarah Linden. The last-but-two episode takes time out of the investigation for a tense and revealing episode unlike anything that happened in the Original. I thought it was exceptionally good. If you’ve seen the Original and want a good taste of the US Version, have a look at episode 11, then come and tell me it’s not good.
Okay then. I’ve dug myself a hole, let’s dig that little bit deeper.
The Original, for me, was not nearly as perfect as people seem to want to make it out to be. There is this ‘Pack-Idolisation’ of it which is certainly ‘Nice’ and ‘Fun to be a Part Of’ but let’s keep our critical faculties intact too, eh?
The Politics of ‘Forbrydelsen’ often seemed, to me at least, to be obvious and grindingly slow. There were times when I cringed inwardly that we were back in Troels’ bloody office talking campaign tactics yet again. For me, the human stories were what made ‘Forbrydelsen’ superb. The fall-out in that little family over The Killing was beautifully done… but that Politics… please… spare me.
The actual detective-work was sometimes lacking too. Each suspect, in turn, was pounded upon like a tonne of Danish Bricks and the case quickly pronounced closed. For all its perception as being an in-depth study of the consequences of crime, the series often came across to me as a gung-ho locked room whodunnit with credibility occasionally chucked aside in favour of yet another glorious twist in the tale.
The mother in ‘Forbrydelsen’ - Nanna Birk Larsen’s Mum, that is. She was a very good actor, I reckon, but she wasn’t written all that very well. Some of the things she was asked to do did not ring true for me at all and, as a result, she did not always convince me. On the other hand, I felt her husband Theis Birk Larsen, as played by Bjarne Henriksen, was excellent. Maybe I just naturally identify with the male side of the grief, I’m not sure, you tell me.
The much-celebrated revelation of the killer near the end of the original series was great fun but, again, it seemed a bit stagy and contrived to me. Whispered hints etc…
You’ll all think I hated the original series now but, as I said, I really loved it. I just find it constructive not to love anything – or indeed hate anything – in a purely Black and White fashion. I do my best emoting in among the Greys.
The Emmys are on tonight and The Killing has quite a few nominations. My favourite actor is Joel Kinnaman who plays Detective Stephen Holder, Sarah Linden’s sidekick. He was wonderful. I just read that the guy is actually Swedish, perhaps that’s why he fits the part so very well.
Finally I am going to really do a spoiler here so be warned.
Much of the word-or-mouth about the US Killing Finale has been poor. It’s been branded as frustrating, unsatisfying and inconclusive.
Well that’s because it really is.
I didn’t know they were going to do this until the moment it happened but I feel it will help you to know it. The end of Season One does not conclude the story, instead it finishes on a cliff-hanger with (I reckon) a good four episodes of the story still left to play out.
For what it’s worth, I think this was a bad mistake and a dreadful thing to do. One of the great things about ‘Forbrydelsen’ was its completeness. You were always secure in the knowledge that, however twisted the pathway became, the story would ultimately run its course and end. To add this ‘Lost - Season Finale’ conclusion on the US Version did not sit will, with me or with many others.
‘Forbrydelsen’ is a great TV series and I recommend it to you, flaws and all. But ‘The Killing’ (US) is no slouch either. Perhaps it might be best to ensure that Series 2 of the US Version is permitted to be made thus completing the whole story before you start into it.
And Series 2 of ‘Forbrydelsen’ hits BBC4 shortly.
So that’s it. Come, tell me what you think.
Fight with me, if you must.
I won’t mind.
Well… I might.
Posted by Ken Armstrong at 12:09:00
Labels: Forbrydelsen, The Killing
Interesting and thoughtful stuff, Ken. Having not seen the US Killing I can't really comment on this particular case.
However, I think sometimes the people who laud an original series or film (especially one in a foreign language), and I would include myself in these, often do it as a reaction against those who would refuse to ever watch the original due to the presence of subtitles. If we tell ourselves that the original was far better, then we get that certain (unpleasant) smugness that those who won't bother to read subtitles are somehow missing out on something great.
Unless that's just me of course - I was probably the same with Let Me In - it was not a bad film, but "I'd" seen the Swedish original and nothing from Hollywood could possibly touch a "work of art" from Europe. So, yeah, pure snobbishness in some ways, and maybe no better than those who refuse to read the words under the screen.
I may have had a point when I started writing this comment but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. If I convert the comment to Danish though, that'll make me look clever, innit ;)
Jim Murdoch said...
We decided not to watch the remake so I have no opinion. The original was good and I couldn’t see what they might improve enough to justify the amount of hours I would have to commit to watching it. Remakes are always dodgy. Take, for example, the very faithful remake of Let the Right One In that Jaime mentions. Had I seen the American version, Let Me In I would have been quiet impressed by it but having seen the original I’m not quite so convinced. I’m looking forward to seeing the new version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which is being directed by the same bloke who did Let the Right One In. Of course it has to stand up to the mighty BBC version and how can Oldman possibly better Alec Guinness’ ‘Smiley’ but then one had to wonder who could possibly do the Joker justice after the mighty Jack Nicholson took on the role and yet it was done. Unusually for me I’ve read all the Smiley novels, not just the ‘Karla’ trilogy but also Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, the first two appearances of the character and the later ones where he basically just cameos. Going back to The Killing I can’t say that Carrie and I were over impressed by it. It was good but I think we both preferred the Swedish Wallander. If you liked the Norwegian approach you should look out for Varg Veum. We’ve watched three of the films so far and he’s an interesting character.
Ken Armstrong said...
Jamie: Let's face it mate, people who refuse to read subtitles *are* *really* missing out. Have you done 'The Secret in their Eyes' yet, for instance? I believe you have... memory is failing me.
I'm going to go back to Let The Right One In when I can find it on BluRay. I saw it on Scifi channel first (with ads) next time I want to do it right. It's a top five movie for me.
Series two of The Killing (Danish) is only 10 episodes long, apparently.
Jim: I want to go, right now, and see Tinker Tailor... I am very excited about it. Like you, I've read all Smiley fiction and the Trilogy built to a great, earth-moving read for me many years ago.
hareinthemoon said...
I'm interested by what you say. i've watched both series, loved Forbrydelsen, want to love the US remake, but only liked it, rather than loved it.
The problem for me with the remake is that it omits so much of what I loved about Forbrydelsen. Unlike you, I thought Pernilla was superbly acted, and while Mitch is fine, I think she lacks some of the best most complicated emotions of the Danish series. I was fascinated by the Copenhagen politics and find the US alternative frankly boring. I loved Sarah's complicated relationship with her mother in Forbrydelsen - but in the US version her mother is replaced by a social worker that we never really get to know. And in Forbrydelsen Nanna was so central to everything - we were constantly reminded of her in pictures, video. I don't think Rosie gestures anywhere near enough in The Killng.
But most of all what I loved about Forbrydelsen was the pace and the landscape. The Killing feels rushed when compared with it's Danish counterpart, so much so hatbI was releved the cliffhanger ending because I thought it was all being wrapped up much to fast with far too many loose ends left hanging. And Seattle just seems too miserable all the time - does it really ever stop raining there? The landscape of Copenhagen often reflected the mood of the story, but the landscape of Seattle as portrayed in the US series is endlessly dark, dank and miserable.
hareinthemoon: Thanks *so* much. This is kind of what I needed to hear - a reaffirmation of the good things about the Original.
I agree on nearly everything you say, not the Politics, although Troels was a much-more engaging figure than 'that American' guy'. :)
For me, the most-excellent part of the story (in both incarnations) was the slowly rising panic of the poor parents in episode one as they realised that something was terribly wrong. That convinced me. I thought episode 11 of the US version managed to recapture a little of that slow panic, except this time for Sarah, and empathy was further increased. I don't see American Sarah as nearly as dangerous as Danish Sarah. That was her strength; her unwillingness to use her looks and charm to forward her cause and her potential to always do more damage than good.
I'm a political scientist by training - taught Uni politics for some years - so that's probably why the politics intrigued me so much. And I agree that the thread that gripped at the start of the Danish series was the family,and that thread ran through the whole thing. I thought the US makers did nearly as well - I was very ambivalent about the first episode until we saw their grief and then I was hooked. But I don't think they kept us hooked to the family anywhere near as well. And the scenes that worked best for me in the US version were taken directly from the Danish series, so much so that the whole scenes were virtually identical. These were early in the story - episodes 1&2 of the US version I think.
I have to confess that I was a bit irritated by the US episode you mention - I just wanted the drama to move back to the real story. Can't really say why I disliked it except that it seemed like a diversion. But the one thing I think the US version did better is Sarah's sidekick. Didn't like him at first but I think he grew as a character and by the end I was finding him really interesting - I thought he was the best thing about that Sarah episode.
Me too. I thought he was very convincing indeed. The furtive phone calls a high point.
hope said...
No fighting here. Never seen either. Simply didn't interest me.
But now I understand what all the grumbling was I kept reading about in the form of, "What?! They can't do that!"
Hollywood hasn't gotten a creative bone left in it's body. Now they're looking to recycle bad t.v. series from my youth as movies. Sigh.
This is good, though, Hope. If you see it getting a little repeat, give the first episode a look, it's something different.
Pierre H. Renevey said...
I am watching both at this time and I am at the middle of both. Until now, I love both!! The atmosphere is maybe a bit darker in the Danish version but the emotion of the discovery of the body of the young girl and the pain of the parents is much more intense in the US version in my opinion.
I am a late comer to this, having just finished the first season of the remake. I've never seen the original series, and I am wondering if I should scratch the remake and switch to watching the original because I became really disappointed with the remake about 2/3 through the first season. The second season of the remake is even worse. The first season at least had intelligent characters and intelligent dialogue. The second season just plays like a badly written day time soap opera. Everything is melodramatic. Miscommunication and incompetence delays the investigation, rather than an intricate cover up. Should I watch the original instead?
Hi 'Anon' I think there is little doubt that the original is the best. It is certainly the one that will live in my memory. Yes, if you have the opportunity, I would seek out the original and see what you think.
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Oregon State breezes past Western Kentucky in first round of NCAA tournament
A balanced attack of three point shooting and post play led the Beavers to win over Western Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Posted: Mar 16, 2018 8:30 PM
Posted By: Ronald Clark
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Senior Marie Gulich posted one of the best postseason performances in Oregon State history Friday, as the Beavers topped Western Kentucky 82-58 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
"I'm so proud of this team," said Oregon State head coach Scott Rueck. "I'm really proud of the way Marie played and of her leadership. Our team really competed and played with a great mindset. We were well prepared and we needed to be, because Western Kentucky is a very good team. This was a great challenge for our team."
Gulich finished with 29 points on 11-for-15 shooting, putting up the second-highest NCAA Tournament point total in Oregon State history, trailing only Jamie Weisner's 38-point showing vs. DePaul in 2016. The senior also matched OSU's NCAA Tournament record for rebounds, pulling down 15 boards. Gulich scored 21 points in the second half.
Sophomore Kat Tudor knocked down five 3-pointers to finish with 19 points. Fellow sophomore Mikayla Pivec went for 15 points and eight assists, and did not record a turnover in the contest.
Junior Katie McWilliams rounded out five Beavers in double-figures, tallying 10 points and six rebounds. Freshman Taya Corosdale pulled down eight boards.
Oregon State shot 45.6 percent in the contest, compared to 32.8 percent for Western Kentucky. The Beavers also held a 48-27 advantage in rebounding and outscored the Hilltoppers 28-8 on points in the paint.
The Oregon State offense got off to a hot start, as the Beavers used an early 8-0 run to jump out to an 18-9 lead at the game's first media timeout. The Beavers would clamp down defensively for the remainder of the period, as Oregon State headed to the second up 25-14.
OSU wasted little time in the second quarter, as the Beavers knocked down three triples in the first two minutes of the frame to go up by 17 as Western Kentucky called timeout. Oregon State controlled the remainder of the first half, heading to the locker room up 46-28.
Gulich exploded out of the break, scoring Oregon State's first seven points of the third quarter to put the Beavers in front by 23. OSU took a 25-point advantage into the closing period, on its way to the 24-point win.
The Beavers will now await the winner of this afternoon's game between Tennessee and Liberty. Oregon State's second-round game will be played on Sunday in Knoxville. Game time will be announced Friday evening.
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SAS strike ends as deal reached with unions
Agreement includes 3.5 per cent salary increase in 2019
Norwegian Pilot’s Union President Yngve Carlsen and Head of Media Relation Norway at SAS, Knut Morten Johansen, after the parties in the SAS pilot strike came to an agreement on May 2 in Oslo. NTB Scanpix/Terje Pedersen via REUTERS
OSLO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — SAS reached a deal with unions to end a week-long strike by pilots that has grounded 380,000 passengers in a costly conflict that has dented the Scandinavian airline’s prospects of making a profit this year.
SAS Chief Executive Rickard Gustafson said the airline and the unions agreed on a 3.5 per cent salary increase in 2019 as part of a new three-year collective agreement.
Flights would resume as soon as possible, but it would likely take up to 24 hours before operations were entirely up and running again, he said.
SAS had canceled more than 4,000 flights as of Thursday after pilots went on strike on April 26 over wages and working conditions.
“I can with relief inform our customers and our staff that we now can put this conflict behind us. We have tonight signed a new collective agreement with our four pilot unions,” Gustafson told a news conference late on Thursday.
Shares in the flag carrier, which remains part-owned by the governments of Sweden and Denmark, fell 2.75 per cent at one point after racking up gains on Thursday as expectations grew for a resolution of the conflict.
Sydbank analyst Jacob Pedersen said that while SAS had gained in competitiveness relative to rivals in recent years, the strike and resulting wage deal were a step in the wrong direction.
“SAS could be on the brink of losing their competitiveness if this agreement is not counteracted by more savings,” he said, estimating that the strike would cost the airline about 500 million Swedish crowns (US$52 million) in lost revenue.
Close to bankruptcy in 2012, SAS sold assets and cut wages and thousands of jobs in return for a life-saving credit facility. It has been profitable in the last four years, but fuel costs are rising and overcapacity is still squeezing the sector.
Pilots had been seeking around a 13 per cent pay hike, to make up for the 2012 wage cuts, a level SAS said would have led to dire consequences for the airline.
“The agreements between SAS and the pilots’ unions concern predictability of scheduling, job security and salaries. In addition, the previously canceled agreements concerning collaboration and career paths have been reintroduced,” SAS said in a statement.
The Swedish Airline Pilots Association said the key target had been to ensure the job security of its members.
“The fact that our most important demands have won approval, and the final result of the agreement have made it possible for us to recommend the deal to our members,” it said.
Analysts have estimated the stand-off could cost SAS as much as US$10.5 million a day, threatening to wipe out the airline’s annual profit in less than two weeks.
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We went to the 2012 World Gliding Championships in Uvalde, Texas with the new 23metre Antares (wing span 23m, new Open Class). It was a truly amazing adventure and I hope the following provides a useful insight into the process of taking a design concept and proving it under the most testing regime of world championship international gliding competition - the best pilots, the best gliders, the most competitive environment.
The Antares 23E & Antares 23T
Before describing the amazing flying, let me introduce you to my partner in this adventure, the new Antares 23metre. Da daaa!
A couple of years ago, Axel Lange had described some of his dreams for the future. Like many glider pilots talking over a coffee, we discussed characteristics the ideal competition glider might have.
Responsive handling, fantastic loading range, comfortable cockpit ergonomics, simple operation, reliable, strong, easy on the ground, world beating performance and above all, fun.
Easy really !
It was beyond my hopes that 2012 would begin with a phone call from Axel saying he thought the machine would be ready and would I be interested in flying it in Texas?
YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS, AXEL!!! Actually, I’m a cool competition pilot so tried to hide my excitement and stupidity, while asking almost intelligent questions about the design, performance projections, timescales, logistics, arrangements, blah, blah. I don’t remember too much of the phone call, but it was clear that this was a project involving a lot of people - a real team effort - and that there was a lot of responsibility on everyone to work hard and deliver.
Texas and the new Antares 23 - What a project!
This machine, the second production model, would belong to Hartmut Lodes, one of the original leaders of the ETA project, so no stranger to leading edge glider technology. I really must thank his enormous generosity in letting a stranger from England, take his beautiful new machine across the world to race in a hot, dusty airfield - a real leap of faith. Thank you so much Hartmut. I hope you continue to have as much fun as I did in those first 3 weeks.
The 23m Antares is a development of the 20m electric Antares 20E, with the wing extended to 23m, but maintaining the super ellipse plan form and thin profile. The max weight is increased to 850kg, providing a loading range from 32kg/m² to 58kg/m². This is new territory for the open class and we would have to learn the techniques to optimise handling,speed and performance at all weights. Whilst new to the open class, Lange Aviation has been developing fuel cell powered machines for the DLR project where 65kg/m² is considered a relatively low wing loading.
New again was the Solo 2 stroke turbo engine - a beautiful new ‘light weight, low-vibration harmonic’ set-up with large propeller and step down gearing for significantly increased output, but incredibly simple operation. Unfortunately, with shipping to Texas, we ran out of time and took the decision to fly as a glider. Very retro!
Completing the Lange team was Ludwig Starkl’s Antares 23E to be flown by fellow Austrian pilot Josef Kammerhofer. The new 23m wing on the proven 20m electric powered fuselage.
Of course, we weren’t the only manufacturer with a new glider. In fact, there was an unusual air of expectancy over the 2012 World Gliding Championships, with so many new supermodels.
Schempp-Hirth had seven Quintus. The Quintus uses the Antares 23m wing, but re-angled at the outer section and different winglets. We expected performances of the Quintus and Antares to be largely similar.
Jonkers had four JS1C. These machines took the 18m JS1, with extended outer tips to 21m span. The increased weight meant they should be able to reach 58kg/m², too. Binder had two EB29, flying at 25m span as per last year.
Dick Butler had just completed his fabulous 30m span Concordia. Pure Hollywood. Dick is a real gentleman and has spent many years following a dream to make his own glider and fly it for his country, in his own county. It worked too, such a beautiful, slim silhouette and fantastic performance.
What a line-up of new machines, with difference performance strategies and spans.
It’s been at least 40 years since so many manufacturers produced new gliders at the same moment, the same site, the same championship. That the competition should be in Texas, one of the most consistently fast airmasses in the world and with tasks that would be long, meant that the setting was established to test man and machine to the limit.
A word about Texas: Texas is an unrelenting hard place to fly - hard in the physical sense. The air is also surprising stable, needing the huge quantities of heat to get thermals moving. And there is plenty of heat. Many days saw 40 degrees, with night time temperatures rarely dropping into the 20s. With an average 5 hours in the air and sometimes much longer, glider performance, ergonomics and ease of use would be crucial.
The Uvalde task area is generally flat, with the coast some 200km south. The terrain is covered in one huge oilfield with thousands of nodding donkeys and new wells being dug. In fact, Texas is undergoing a new oil and gas boom with many thousands of wells planned. Just 30km north, a geologic fault line allowed limestone to gently rise from the plain to form rolling hillsides, eventually lifting some 500m, enough to generally provide a higher airmass, but few landing opportunities in the wild trees and brush. Indeed, this is the fabled ‘wild lands’ of Texas cowboy movies.
Uvalde is small, formed at the cross section of freeways 90 and 83, but with a small river, springing from the fault line just north, flowing through the town centre. These days the high street is full of fast food outlets, but that’s not surprising given that these two freeways are now the longest in the USA, spanning east to west coast, gulf coast to Canada.
There is nothing about this event that is average.
Just getting to the event was an epic. Gliders and trailers needed transporting from all over the world. Cars and trucks, metric tow balls (or imperial trailer hooks) truck electric convertors, 110volt mains, crew, accommodation, licences, paperwork. Just getting an airworthy glider to the start line and ready to race was a huge achievement. Indeed, I must take this opportunity to thank Andy Sandhoefner from the Austrian team and Antares 18m pilot who gave up many hours, days even, of his time arranging transport, by air, of our Antares to Texas. Andy, you’re a legend!
Getting any work done outside was murderous in the humidity and heat. Luckily no flies or bugs to worry, just snakes and some very interesting spiders…
A typical flying day:
My trusty crew, Baldrick, gets up early (or goes to bed late) and fills the Antares in the dark. He says the air is cooler. Whist he waits for the 380 litres to fill the wings and tail, he cleans the wings from the fine dust, loads the batteries and checks the systems. The focus is usually on pilots, but the reality is we are nothing without our support crew - our team. Baldrick and I have done many competitions together, so I know he was particularly interested in the Antares systems and how easy they are in use - sophisticated design making the complex simple. There’s the electrically operated main wheel, the fuselage air extract system to increase ventilation (but reduce cockpit air leakage), the calibrated total energy system, the twin tail tanks, the electrical switched wing water system. The water system has 6 dump valves per wing. A benefit is the speed of water dumping and ability to optimise handling with span wise loading.
Back to the crew; With Baldrick sweating away as the sun rises (I’m in bed, of course), another 129 gliders are also being prepared. Often the crews work together making an international team of sweat, suntan oil and swearing. Indeed, to the side of us were the two French Open class of Laurent Aboulin and Sylvain Gerbaud and behind was German ace Tassilo Bode – all three with Quintus. We spent a lot of time in the first week comparing notes, working on techniques, improving water filling and stealing beer.
By 9.00am, the glider was usually ready, driven over the weighing scales and parked next to the grid position (assuming no rattle snakes were found). Then breakfast as the temperature reached well into the 30s. Briefing at 10, first launch could be 11.30am. Take off, wait to start (could be 2 hours), fly the task, land at 6-7.30pm, sort the glider, clean up, eat, wash, sleep. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. The pilots were drained. The crews were drained. The gliders were drained. Anything loose fell off. Anything weak broke. I think it reasonable to say that if a glider component is good enough for a world championship, it should be fine for normal club use. Nothing major failed for us. We fixed a couple of minor items and made some notes for minor improvements. We were very happy.
What about the flying?
Surprisingly easy. The handling with 23m is really straightforward and not at all tiring. Our machine still had the original 18m fuselage, so rudder a little small, but no more effort than my trusty Nimbus 4. The production Antares 23 will have a new, larger fin, so that will make co-ordination better still. The large cockpit and great ventilation meant the long flights were less tiring too. The view is exceptional from the large perspex canopy. One’s legs fit either side of the instrument binnacle allowing easy movement and stretching of the legs. It also meant that the feet can stay warm in the sun when high. Comfort levels are a vital factor for long flights and maintaining performance.
One of the most surprising factors was the Lange total energy system. In Texas, the thermals were fast bubbles of strong lift - fast, but very small. With our high cruise speeds, it was absolutely essential to pull immediately and positively into the thermal and for this, the total energy was essential. I have to say that the Antares has the best TE I have ever flown in, with negligible ‘stick thermal’ even when converting from 220kph to 100kph in a zoom climb. I don’t want to go back to normal systems ever again!
Axel and Ludwig worked on theoretical speeds and centre of gravity calculations and we experimented with best set-up and technique to optimise Hartmut’s glider. Andor in the factory gave me technical tips and between us all, we developed a performance strategy. A real team effort.
Typical flying speeds were established as follows:
Full of water, thermal between 110 and 120kph, best glide 148kph (!), cruise with flap minus 2 until 200kph, then flap minus 3. If in doubt, fly faster. This is a seriously fast machine!
Even with these high speeds, it was easy to hear the air over the wing and the breakaway at stall. I found the best technique for thermalling was 110-120kph (Axel said to fly fast), with slight inside slip, listening to just avoid the sound of the breakaway.
The climb remained excellent and with the smaller span, I found I could thermal inside many others, even with the high speed. That was very helpful with the small, powerful Texas bubbles.
A negative feature of the bubbles, was flying without a team buddy. Team flying is a normal part of top competition flying and when done well, a joy to share. My normal team mate, Steve Jones, was unable to make it this year, so I found myself flying alongside others, but without their radio help. It was all too easy to fly past a small bubble, but without a team mate to call me back.
As a strategy I found it useful to leave later and use the Antares’ performance advantage to play catch up. I am convinced the Antares held an advantage above 200kph over everything. Indeed, with three day wins, a 2nd and a 3rd place, during 7508km of flown tasks (in addition to practice) and the fastest speed ever in Uvalde of 161kph (!), it’s clear the Antares 23m has world beating performance.
But what’s it really like to fly in Texas?
Day 6 was probably the most interesting, with everything thrown at us over the 710km task.
Forecast was for possible strong development in the hill country, but a long day and little likelihood of the sea breeze penetrating too far inland. We had been achieving 140kph regularly over the last few tasks, so planned on about 5 hours. That meant waiting almost 1.5 hours before starting the 710km! I left with the Germans Tassilo Bode and Michael Sommer, but within 20km chose a differing route. Once again, I paid the price for flying alone and missed bubbles I just knew were close by. The frustration increased as I glided lower into the hill country. With few landing options and the lift broken, I was forced to take a poor climb from bottom of a stack of 20 gliders. Interestingly, the circling gliders were spread – not packed tight into a thermal core, but over a large area. Indeed, there seemed no strong core, just broken general lift, in spite of good clouds above. The pattern continued as I remained low, unable to find an elusive core to climb into the better, upper air mass. Approaching the north-west turn, Michael and Tassilo were exiting high and fast, already far ahead, while I was entering low and slow. Some days are like this.
Pushing across the hill country, the poor lift and frustration continued, albeit in good company with another eight open class for company. Two more small bubbles and I once again missed the cores, falling back still further. The final straw was three good clouds in succession failing to give a climb and everyone else disappearing into the distance. Nothing was working. AAAHHHHHHHH!
Well some days are like that too.
I gave up. Sat back, had a drink, admired the view and wondered what it was all about.
So the clouds aren’t working. Solution? Aim for the blue of course. Silly, but if all else fails, do something different. A minute later and I hit 4.5m climb. That’s better. Ten minutes later another 4m climb, then a fantastic run of 120km towards the easterly turn along a developing street to the south everyone else missed as they flew towards the nearer clouds and the increasing overdevelopment. We’re back in business.
With the next turn shrouded in heavy rain under a gigantic Texas cunimb and with another heavy rain shower fast approaching, there seemed just a small gap to squeeze into the TP. Under a flat, wide, ominously dark storm cloud, the race was now to find some lift, get the turn and get out before it got too horrible. Often the best lift is next to, or in the rain of a storm, so I pushed carefully towards the wall of rain. As I approached, the two rain showers were closing together, blocking the turn completely. With time running out, I pushed to the turn and the final 2km in heavy rain and sink.
And what rain! It was like flying in a bath. It poured in the cockpit from everywhere. The vents were closed, but still it came. The noise was deafening. The darkness like night, the turbulence extreme. Nothing on the radio over the deafening noise and then I realised it was 50% hail. Just the thin canopy protecting me from an ice pounding. I slowed. That’s not so bad, because heavy rain means heavy sink, but hail often means lift.
However, this was going down fast, so with a quick log in the TP zone it was time to escape back towards the light to visibility, to safety, to possible landings, to life.
Why do we do these stupid, stupid, STUPID things? Thank goodness this glider is so strong. Just into the clear air with a huge, black rolling ceiling of cloud above, a wall of rain behind, my heart rate going off the scale and lightning bolts cracking past the wingtip.
Then lift, wonderful lift. 2m, 3m, 5, 7m up, up, up! Yes, yes, yes! 7m yeeeeehaaaa! I put the Antares on a wingtip, give thanks to the maker (not you Axel - the big cheese) and screamed skywards watching the altimeter spinning and trying to clean up the cockpit, where everything had been thrown in a mess. Still racing upwards and with 500m to base, I pushed for the south and the edge - freedom. At 200kph, I skipped clear of the monster, skimming the wisps and thankful of the great escape - high and fast.
Some days are like that ;)
One more towering cunimb to dance around to the south, then push gently to the blue and a completely stable airmass. It seems strange a day can change so quickly, but with 700km to task, perhaps not so surprising. Eventually I met up with Oscar Goudriaan and Laurent Aboulin, then Michael and Tassilo scratch in beneath us as we tip toed homewards in the smooth, blue evening bubbles. We knew the day winner would be within our gaggle (Oscar by a few seconds), but the art was to work together and get home. Finally, the gaggle climbed up onto glide and with a wave we shared the long glide home and a cold beer. Magic.
I wish more days were like that.
We flew everyday, except the mandatory rest day. Over 7500km of tasks, at high speed in thermal, sheer wave, storm and blue. The big Texan smile spread to us all and we did ‘have a nice day’! The Texans made us very welcome, the organisers were superb and once again, we shared one of life’s great experiences with our friends from around the world. A true privilege shared.
The Antares is a dream to fly and with the longer 23m span and higher loading, its beautiful wing forms a most graceful and recognisable curve. The turbo option is beautifully engineered, powerful and yet simple, so will offer many years of reliable, lower cost performance - a real alternative.
As a team effort, we showed what can be done with these modern machines.
So Axel, you have produced a world class glider, 15m handling with proven top class performance. Above all, it was fun.
Image: Laurent Aboulin
Peter (to the right) and Baldrick practice fast application of Jaxida covers
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The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
Title:The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
Author: Sonia Manzano
Genre: Middle grade, historical
Topics: Coming of age, mother-daughter relations, social activism
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publishing Year: 2014
My Rating: 4.5/5
Summary (From Goodreads): One of America's most influential Hispanics -- 'Maria' on Sesame Street -- presents a powerful novel set in New York's El Barrio in 1969.
There are two secrets Evelyn Serrano is keeping from her Mami and Papi? her true feelings about growing up in her Spanish Harlem neighborhood, and her attitude about Abuela, her sassy grandmother who's come from Puerto Rico to live with them. Then, like an urgent ticking clock, events erupt that change everything. The Young Lords, a Puerto Rican activist group, dump garbage in the street and set it on fire, igniting a powerful protest. When Abuela steps in to take charge, Evelyn is thrust into the action. Tempers flare, loyalties are tested. Through it all, Evelyn learns important truths about her Latino heritage and the history makers who shaped a nation. Infused with actual news accounts from the time period, Sonia Manzano has crafted a gripping work of fiction based on her own life growing up during a fiery, unforgettable time in America, when young Latinos took control of their destinies.
Review: The short version: I loved this book so much! The long version: This is the kind of book that I would have loved to read in middle school. It is the type of books that explores large topics and teaches history through the eyes and story of its young protagonist Evelyn, a Boricua girl living in East Harlem in 1969. There are several things that I love about this book in particular, the first is the sense of location. Manzano has absolutely nailed the descriptions of 1960’s East Harlem and it is a joy to read and be absorbed in Evelyn’s world. I have never been a Boricua girl, lived in East Harlem nor was I alive in the 60’s but Manzano puts you right alongside her protagonist on the streets of New York with her attention to detail on everything from the fashion to pop culture and of course contemporary new events.Manzano even gives a shout out to Sesame Street, the show that made Manzano a household name.
The second is the character development of Evelyn herself. On the book cover the letter R in revolution is a different color from the rest of the word, calling attention to both the external ‘revolution’ -the protests by the Young Lords which ignite Evelyn’s political awareness and the internal evolution of Evelyn herself and how her relationships with herself, her neighborhood, with her family and her Puerto Rican identity change over the book. Evelyn starts out as quite a negative character, she is bratty to her mother whom she finds to be unbearably submissive and tacky and is quite dismissive of others like her friend and her coworker. Then in steps her Abuela with her outrageous fashion (think mini skirts gogo boots and orange hair) and revolutionary ideas of ‘standing up for the little guy against the big guy’. The Abuela quickly becomes a fascination for Evelyn and proceeds to teach her about her family history and how it is tied to Puerto Rico’s history.
Lastly, I love the balance that the book strikes. The book is both unapologetic in it’s political passion, mainly through the character of the Abuela (who I love and aspire to be one day minus the drawn in eyebrows) but balanced. The narrative doesn’t shy away from topics like police brutality and national identity but they are not covered in a pedantic or condescending way which can be a pitfall for many book aimed at younger audiences. Instead we are offered a humanizing and nuanced view of these difficult subjects. It is a truly spectacular book to give to a young reader.
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Definition of bedroom in English:
1A room for sleeping in.
‘all parents dream of children who tidy their bedrooms without being asked’
‘a hotel with nearly 200 bedrooms’
in combination ‘a two-bedroom flat’
‘The plans for the renovated house show three bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom.’
‘Two upstairs bedrooms, the living room and kitchen were left open to the elements overnight.’
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‘The farmhouse has four bedrooms upstairs and four rooms on the ground floor.’
‘It is currently run as a hotel and has three public rooms and eight bedrooms.’
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‘The houses vary in size, with a choice of one to four bedrooms, sleeping up to eight.’
‘It was a small cozy home with three bedrooms, a small kitchen, and a decent living room.’
‘As well as four bedrooms, the house has a drawing room, dining room, kitchen and a study.’
‘The home has four bedrooms and one very large sitting room with a separate family room.’
‘A third staircase leads from the second floor to two more bedrooms in the attic.’
‘The three main bedrooms are upstairs, with a family bathroom, shower room and a study.’
‘They wouldn't need more than two bedrooms but the kitchen and a garden are important.’
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boudoir, bedchamber, chamber, bedroom, dressing room, room
1.1as modifier Relating to sexual relations.
‘she revealed the couple's bedroom secrets’
‘The message was clear: the public have no right to know about the royals' bedroom secrets.’
‘People would simply gossip in the pub or broadcast their bedroom secrets on the Internet.’
‘So they concentrate on just leaking information about his bedroom affairs.’
‘The actress is set to star in a TV drama which culminates in a steamy bedroom scene.’
‘History and literature record events and circumstances where love, sex, passion and bedroom affairs, have caused major changes in human destiny, both in east and west.’
sexually attractive, seductive, desirable, alluring, inviting, sensual, sultry, slinky, provocative, tempting, tantalizing
2North American as modifier Denoting a small town or suburb whose residents commute to a nearby city.
‘a bedroom community’
‘Its becoming a bedroom community for people who work on Wall Street, the Wife says of our beloved Manhattan.’
‘After all, a bedroom community has to wake up and go to work.’
‘Great bedroom community close to Seattle.’
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She asked me to sit down
This, to, is a film about love
This, too, is a film about love
The book's way to long
The book's way too long
That's a problem for me, too!
That's a problem for me, to!
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It's too cold to swim in the sea
I was close too tears
I was close to tears
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To many people complain about everything
The shark was too close for comfort
The shark was to close for comfort
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Michelin-starred restaurants are always synonymous with expensive food and an endless waiting list. While the latter might be true thanks to the hoards of people wanting to sample these award-winning fares, it is actually possible to find affordable Michelin-starred restaurants around the world. In fact, Singapore is home to one of them, with the first hawker stall in the world being awarded a Michelin star. S$3 for a plate of soy sauce chicken, anyone?
In the spirit of searching for award-winning food that won’t break the bank, we’ve rounded up 10 of the most affordable Michelin-starred restaurants around the world. Below, you will find a breakdown of what these restaurants are known for and how much (or little) you can sample them for. After all, everyone loves a great deal. It’s even better if it’s Michelin-starred.
Picture: Via Michelin
Lao Zheng Xing, Shanghai
The restaurant brand itself has been around since 1862, making Lao Zheng Xing one of the oldest Shanghainese restaurant in the city. However, the current Lao Zheng Xing is actually a version of the original that has surprisingly surpassed its predecessor. The restaurant was awarded one Michelin star in 2016, for serving up traditional Shanghainese cuisine. One of the restaurant’s more popular dish is deep fried river shrimps, made daily by one chef who has perfected the art of deep-frying it for over a decade. A dish starts at Yuan 100, approximately Rs 1,050.
Picture: Wang Juju Instagram
3 Coins, Taipei
Serving up classic Cantonese cuisine in a classically grandiose Chinese setting, 3 Coins in Taipei will certainly take you back to the days of old Chinese glamour. But the main star here isn’t the interior — it’s the food, of course. This one Michelin star establishment has people flocking over with its Peking duck, crispy pork buns, and steamed abalones with fresh sundried tomatoes. Prices start at TWD 400 (approximately Rs 4,000) for an a la carte dish.
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Jay Fai, Bangkok
There is simply nowhere else that you would find an older woman wearing a skull cap and motorcycle goggles stir-frying food in a huge wok over hot coal fire. Jay Fai is another hawker stall in this list that was awarded a Michelin star. Seafood is the main affair here, with the most expensive dish in the stall being the crab omelette (Kai-Jeaw Poo), a juicy deep-fried dish chock full of crab meat that is priced between THB 800 – THB 1,000, approximately Rs 2,000. They’re also known for other dishes, including Drunken Noodles, a Chinese-inspired style of stir-fried flat rice noodles in a hot and spicy sauce, topped with jumbo prawns that have been marinated in wine. Prices begin at THB 400 per dish, approximately Rs 900.
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Ginza Ibuki, Tokyo
Not all Japanese Michelin-starred restaurants have to be exorbitantly expensive, as Ginza Ibuki proves. For three years in a row, the restaurant has been awarded one Michelin star, and it’s not difficult to see why. Head chef Sadahisa Yoshizawa has been perfecting his art since he was 19 and opened Ginza Ibuki in 2010, serving traditional Japanese kaiseki meals. Despite looking deceivingly simple, these dishes tap into its seasonal ingredients to bring out its fullest flavour at its peak, showcasing just what good produce can do. A set lunch menu goes for Japanese Yen 1,404, which is approximately Rs 900.
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Picture: Tim Ho Wan
Tim Ho Wan, Hong Kong
By now, most headed to Hong Kong would have already tried out the iconic Tim Ho Wan and its selection of dim sum. But for those who have yet to, you’d be pleased to know that the dim sum giant is still dishing out some of the most affordable Michelin-starred dishes out there. The Sham Shui Po branch is more spacious compared to its original branch, but don’t be shocked to still see long queues outside. While all 20 dim sums are good, be sure to keep an eye out for the crispy pork buns and carrot cake. It costs about HKD30 for an a la carte meal, approximately Rs 250.
Image: Tim Ho Wan
Picture: Shirley Chung Instagram
Liao Fan Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle, Singapore
Behold, the cheapest Michelin-starred meal one can get: Liao Fan Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle in a hawker centre on Smith Street, Singapore. The store was awarded one Michelin star back in 2016, and the queue to taste it has never gone away since. Be sure to go early, as the owner only prepares a set amount of chickens a day and will close once they run out. Naturally, the star of the show here is the soy sauce chicken with its crunchy skin and juicy, tender meat. Served alongside steamed rice ladled with the same soy sauce, at S$3 (Rs 150 approx) a plate this is as affordable as it gets. The stall also serves other types of meat as well, from roast pork or pork ribs to char siew.
Image: @chfshirleychung
Picture: Michelin Guide
Hamo, Seoul
There’s more to Korean food than ginseng chicken and barbecued meat, and Hamo embraces that with its Jinju-style cuisine based from that particular area in South Korea. In particular, Jinju-style bibimbap is the most revered, often called Chibowhaban — flower-like rice decorated with seven gems. Of course, that is the must-order when you’re there, especially since it comes with a side of beef and turnip soup. Another dish to order is the stir-fried vegetables tossed in fragrant mustard sauce. An a la carte meal starts at KRW 8,000, approximately Rs 500.
Image: Hamo
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Chugokusai S. Sawada, Osaka
While it may sound strange to have Chinese food while in Japan, Chugokusai S. Sawada in Osaka looks set to make you want to try it, especially since it was awarded a one Michelin star. Focusing on Cantonese cuisine, owner and chef Sawada Shuhei learned his skills in Hong Kong and brought it over to his restaurant later. It garners attention as authentic Cantonese cuisine is not commonplace in Osaka. A must try? His crispy chicken. Prices begin at ¥ 1,080 for a set lunch menu, which is approximately Rs 700.
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L'antic Moli, Spain
Can you even say you’ve been to Spain if you haven’t dined in one of the obscure restaurants in the middle of nowhere that so happens to serve some of the best food you’ve ever had in your entire life? We thought so. L’antic Moli is precisely one of those restaurants in an obscure location — housed in a former flour mill in the middle of the countryside. This one Michelin star establishment is worth the drive to, and it is updated with a daily menu, specials board, and an a la carte option based around gastro tapas. There’s also a tasting menu if you feel like splurging. The restaurant prides itself on sourcing local and organic ingredients. Owner and chef Vicent Guimerà is a leader of the Slow Food movement and known for making good seafood dishes. A lunch set menu here can go for EUR 14.50, which is approximately Rs 1,200.
Image: L’antic Moli
Picture: Al's Place Facebook
Al's Place, San Francisco
The name makes it sound like a diner, but this 46-seater restaurant serves up some of the best food in San Francisco using only the best-sourced produce. Oh, and it also has one Michelin star. Al’s Place focuses on a pescetarian philosophy, but its vegetables are the main star. Think large new potatoes that are grown just for the restaurant, brined for 96 hours in water with salt and cabbage leaves, then fried in rice bran oil. Baby lettuces are served on crushed avocado with the fregola in a pickled pea broth. These are just a few items on the menu that have patrons returning every time. The best part is that it costs you only US$18 when you order a la carte, that’s about Rs 12,50.
Image: Al’s Place Facebook
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Living Over Existing 4 Months In Review
As I entered into 2017, I declared to myself that this would be the year of purpose.
2016 was rough. I wandered through it aimlessly, while failing at every attempt to do what everyone else was doing because I thought that it would make me successful. That year ended in a complete meltdown that left me longing for clarity and a sense of purpose. So as I began this year, I told myself that I would focus on being intentional and digging deeper into what I felt like I was purposed to do.
The saying "What you focus on, you become." has reigned to be absolutely true because 2017 was filled with nothing but digging deeper and discovering what I had been placed on this Earth to do. Despite feeling pressured to run my business a certain way, I focused fully on doing the things that I truly enjoyed. I put more focus on working one-on-one with clients to help them gain clarity and writing the book that I had ignored for nearly a year. 2017 was the year of purpose, and as I close it out, I have never felt more alive and aligned with what God has called me to do.
On August 24th of this year, I launched the Living Over Existing site with the podcast, originally as a way to start promoting the book. I wanted to make a big deal about it, and knew that it was something special about it when I discovered that the LOE domain was available (and not a million bucks). I also knew that I wanted to use the space as a platform to help other women share their stories. The book was all about my journey, so I felt that it was only right to allow women to share theirs. My personal brand is all about me and I knew I didn't want to necessarily be in the spotlight.
Still, I didn't expect for LOE to turn into anything more. But as I began to share my story of how anxiety, fear and doubt held me back for years, more and more women began sharing their experiences with me of how certain situations and even everyday life have held them back from taking their ideas to the next level.
Hearing those stories is when I really realized that living on purpose looked different for everyone. That the path of entrepreneurship wasn't always halted because of fear or comparison. That many women hesitate to take the leap because of the different factors in their everyday life. Parenting, dealing with anxiety, working at their 9 to 5 or even juggling their brand while dating. There are tons of articles and resources online that will teach you HOW to start a business (seriously Google "How To Start A Business" and just see how many articles pop up within seconds) but not many show you how to successfully navigate through life as an entrepreneur.
There are tons of articles and resources online that will teach you how to start a business but not many that show you how to successfully navigate through life as an entrepreneur.
TWEET THAT
How do you make time for your family while building a brand?
How do you prioritize a healthy lifestyle while running a business?
How do you find time to date while juggling a 9 to 5 PLUS a growing brand?
In those moments and in those stories, I realized that we are more than just our business. When you decide to start a business your other responsibilities and the world around you does not pause for you to get your business off the ground. Nor are you magically blessed with 20more hours in your day. It can be hard to analyze someone else's highlight reel and question how they are able to do so much without taking into account what all we have on our plate. But we are real women, dealing with real life issues in addition to making a name for ourselves in our perspective industries. I knew that I needed to create something for US.
That's where the LOE brand began to flourish. In late October after the book launched, I decided to take the leap again and make LOE more than just the book. I wanted it to be a space where creative women could come together and find the resources they needed to build their business and to find advice on managing life around their brands.
As we close out the year, we're closing in on over 5k podcast downloads, I've applied for the brand to be in an incredible business accelerator program for female founders (cross your fingers we get in!), we've launched The LOE Shop which currently holds the book and other resources to help creative women grow in their business (we've sold out TWICE) and we have a Facebook community of over 800 incredible creative women. I've also brought on an incredible assistant to help me keep it all together (Hey Brittany!) and will be looking to bring on part-time contributors this year. For a brand that wasn't supposed to happen, I'd say we've done pretty well in our first four months.
But we are real women, dealing with real life issues in addition to making a name for ourselves in our perspective industries. I knew that I needed to create something for US.
This upcoming year, Im choosing the word VICTORIOUS to focus on. While LOE wasn't necessarily planned to go this route from the start, I don't believe this was an accident and I truly believe that there are women out there who were waiting for this void to be filled. Before I submitted the application to the accelerator program, I surveyed our audience and 60% off you said that you felt like your everyday life often holds you back from taking your ideas to the next level. So I know this was meant to be as woo-woo as it sounds.
If 2017 was about figuring out what my purpose is then I fully believe that 2018 is about stretching myself beyond my comfort to see what this purpose is all about and what I can do with it. I am excited for all that we have planned over the next 12 months from hosting both on and offline events, to adding more products to the shop to turning this brand into a digital media company by creating stellar, consistent content.
Thank you for your support. Thank you for your advice and ideas. Thank you so much for being patient with me as I worked extremely hard to figure all of this out. I have felt fear like no other in the past 4 months, building a completely new brand, getting back into ecommerce, calling myself a founder! But I am excited to see how the next year plays out.
Alisha Nicole is an author, coach and founder of Living Over Existing. Visit her personal website.
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LLRXBuzz – March 12, 2001
By Tara Calishain, 12 Mar 2001
Tara Calishain is the co-author of Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research, 2nd Edition, and author or co-author of four other books. She is the owner of CopperSky Writing & Research.
LLRXBuzz
Pac-Info Gets an Overhaul
Competitive Analysis Technologies Releases Oil and Gas Database Updates
Briefing Books Expanded for Wall Street Journal Online Subscribers
CourthouseDirect . com Expands Public Record Database
LegalZoom.com to Launch March 12th at Internet World 2001
Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
Fact City Offering Thomson Financial News
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Pac-Info, a directory of publicly-accessible databases available at http://www.pac-info.com/, has gotten a major overhaul, being redesigned in PHP. In addition, the site now lists over 3900 databases.
Obviously if I listed them all we’d be here until the next newsletter. But I did talk to Tim Koster, head of the site, and he explained the additions to the site like this: “In our statewide areas we’ve tried to concentrate on adding new corporate, uniform commercial code, professional licenses (many many more in this category), inmates, most wanted, sex offenders, and missing children. The most chilling is the Arizona database of death row inmates. We’ve added a substantial number of County records, including property databases, most wanted, civil and criminal filings, and recorders documents.
On our U.S. nationwide page we’ve added a number of associations which list their members in database form: CPA’s, Dentists, Nursing Homes, Orthodontists, Tax Professionals, etc. We also listed Firestone Recalls, Ford Dealerships, and Funeral homes (in that order). Probably 90% of our Worldwide section is new. You’ll find things like government phone directories, patent searches, art thefts, corporate filings, business names, white pages, professional licenses, and lots more. We’ve started dividing the global sections into regions and countries to make the searches a little easier.”
Make sure you’ve got some time before you visit this site — it’s a timesink.
Competitive Analysis Technologies has released the first quarter 2001 updates to its “Oil and Gas on the Internet.” The database delivers information from over 5,000 industry sites directly to the desktops of statisticians recording information on upstream and downstream operations in the oil and gas industries. Subscriptions to the databases are available in hard copy or electronic formats. CAT has also announced the availability of a demo at its publications site.
The demo, at http://www.catsites.com/publications.html, provides samples of publication databases available to the oil and gas, chemical and utilities industries. Detailed information is included along with pricing information for individual issues and subscription rates. The four levels of corporate electronic formats are defined with listed site license advantages. You can get the press release on this whole deal at http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010305/0332.html
Dow Jones & Company has expanded its “Briefing Books” service to subscribers of The Wall Street Journal Online. Information on over 25,000 global companies includes news, earnings data, sec filings, executive biographies and analysts audios. In addition to the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, expanded data will come from Market Guide, Thomson Financial, and CCBN.
Subscription rates for The Wall Street Journal Online are $59 annually or $29 with print subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal or Barron’s. Also in Dow Jones news — work.com, a business portal that Dow Jones provided content to, is shutting down. You can get the whole story on that at http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010309/bs/dow_jones_workcom_1.html.
CourthouseDirect.com Expands Public Record Database
CourthouseDirect.com has added four New York and two Michigan counties to its database of real property and public records. The site now offers copies of public documents from major counties in several states including New York, California, and Texas. http://www.CourthouseDirect.com/ offers a drop-down box for linking to state and county information. Each state page starts with a list of fee-based options, like retrieving documents or searching public records.
Most states offer access to free databases, such as counties and demographics or sex offenders. Free databases on the Texas page include births from 1926, also divorce and marriage records from the ’60s.
LegalZoom.com has announced the March 12th launching of its web site. The LegalZoom site will provide assistance to individuals and businesses preparing online legal documents, including trusts, divorces, corporations, and copyrights. Wills will also be included, which CEO Brian Liu says most Americans avoid making because of the time and costs involved.
LegalZoom.com will use menus and questionnaires to aid individuals in creating the documents. No legal advice will be given, and the site will actively refer viewers to attorneys for issues more complex than document preparation.
If you’re looking for a few odd dictionaries, look no further than http://blueray.com/dictionary/. Available on this site are the White Queen’s Dictionary of One-Letter Words (over 700 entries), the Dictionary of All- Consonant Words, and the Dictionary of All-Vowel Words.
Unfortunately the dictionaries do not have search engines, but they’re designed to be browsable. The examples are delightful and the dictionaries are a lot of fun to browse through (who knew that there was a difference between ooo, oooo, ooooo, oooooo, and oooOOOooo?) If you really like the dictionaries, they’re available in a print version. The site also has links to other unusual dictionaries and some recommended books for those interested in words. Lots of fun; worth a look.
Fact City has started offering Thomson Financial information through its Fact City database. This information encompasses publicly-held companies. An easy place to access it is iWon at: http://www.iwon.com/home/search/factcity_tutorial/0,14925,,00.html
Fact City seems to have been working on the natural language interface for its fact databases; they’re a little harder to mess up than they used to be. It’s still possible, though. Fact City had no problem with questions like:
What’s the P/E ratio for MSFT?
What are the latest earnings for Duke Energy?
What is the price for Gardenburger? (It gave a trade date of 2/23/2001, though; don’t use this database to track your stock price)
What’s the 52-week high for LUV?
Fact City burped on the following questions:
What was the last earnings for tootsie roll? (Offered me information about the movie
Tootsie. What was the last earnings for TR? did work)
What was Amazon’s latest dividend? (Offered me movie
I think the biggest problem with the database at this point is that the different topics — sports, television, movies, finance — are not separated out.
It’s reasonably certain that if I’m looking for information on my stock I’m not looking for information on Andy Griffith’s movie career. If there was some way to limit the searches to one or another database, that would be excellent.
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Charlton Athletic boss Lee Bowyer: Joe Aribo making a mistake if he signs for Rangers
25th June 2019 25th June 2019 Richard Cawley 0 Comments
BY RICHARD CAWLEY
richard@slpmedia.co.uk
Charlton manager Lee Bowyer reckons Joe Aribo will be making a huge mistake if he signs for Rangers.
The midfielder, 23, has agreed a four-year contract with the Glasgow giants and is due to seal his switch pending a successful medical.
Bowyer accepts that the Addicks cannot match the terms on offer elsewhere for the Camberwell-born player. Southampton were also keen on a deal – which would have netted the newly-promoted Championship side some decent compensation.
Instead Aribo’s move to the Scottish Premier League will see minimal money heading Charlton’s way. But Bowyer is more annoyed that one of the most promising talents in English football is heading into a competition where Rangers and Celtic dominate.
“I worked so hard to get him to this situation he is in now,” said the Charlton manager. “It is about progression for him.
“So it’s a shame if he gets pushed to somewhere where it is not going to benefit him in his football career. If he goes to Rangers that is not the right place for him to go for his football career.
“You have got Rangers and Celtic who are massive clubs, I get that. And I get that Steven Gerrard was a great player, so that’s an attraction. Those two things are the attraction – but not everything else.
“It doesn’t make sense on the football side. When people from England go and play for Celtic and Rangers it is at the end of their careers. That’s because it is very rare you get a move from Rangers to the Premier League, and I don’t mean any disrespect by that.
“They might go from Rangers to the Championship, very rarely is it to the Premier League. For me he should stay in England and keep progressing. The move should benefit Joe.”
Charlton Athletic manager Lee Bowyer and Joe Aribo
Aribo’s departure will make it two high-profile exits in the past week of key men in Charlton’s play-off winning squad. Centre-back Patrick Bauer joined Preston North End last week. On Friday Bowyer met with Aribo, who was on non-league Staines’ books until he was recommended to Charlton development coach Jason Euell by Marcus Gayle in 2015.
Bowyer said: “For us to be able to compete financially with Rangers or any other team really, it is not possible unfortunately. It’s a completely different league to what we’re offering.
“I met and had a chat with Joe on Friday. I told him that if he was going to go, at least stay in England – because that is where the best football is. If you have got the opportunity to go and play Premier League football, then at least you are going to the best place.”
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Hazratbal Shrine
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The Hazratbal Shrine is a Muslim shrine in Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. It contains a relic, the Moi-e-Muqqadas, believed by many Muslims of Kashmir to be a hair of Muhammad. The name of the shrine comes from the Urdu word Hazrat, meaning "respected", and the Kashmiri word bal, meaning "place". Thus it means the place which is given high regards and is respected among the people.
According to legend, the relic was first brought to India by Syed Abdullah, a purported descendant of Muhammad who left Medina and settled in Bijapur, near Hyderabad in 1635.
When Syed Abdullah died, his son, Syed Hamid, inherited the relic. Following the Mughal conquest of the region, Syed Hamid was stripped of his family estates. Finding himself unable to care for the relic, he sold it to a wealthy Kashmiri businessman, Khwaja Nur-ud-Din Eshai.
However, when the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb came to know of what had transpired, he had the relic seized and sent to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer, and had Khwaja Nur-ud-Din Eshai imprisoned in Delhi for possessing the relic. Later, realizing his mistake, Aurangzeb decided to restore the relic to Khwaja Nur-ud-Din Eshai and allowed him to take it to Kashmir. However, by that point, Khwaja Nur-ud-Din Eshai had already died in imprisonment. In the year 1700, the relic finally reached Kashmir, along with the body of Khwaja Nur-ud-Din Eshai. There, Inayat Begum, daughter of Khwaja Nur-ud-Din Eshai, became a custodian of the relic and established the shrine. Since then her male descendats have been caretakers of the relic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazratbal_Shrine,_Srinagar
Trimbakeshwar / Tryambakeswar
Khereshwar Temple
Puruhutika Devi / Kukkuteswara Temple - Pithapuram
Parshuram Kund
Dilwara Jain Temples
Saptashrungi Devi Temple
Uttarakhand, India
Prem Nagar Ashram
Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh
Khajjiar
Khajjiar, Himachal Pradesh
Kareri Lake
Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
Kalatop Khajjiar Sanctuary
Kalatop and Khajjiar, Himachal Pradesh
Vaishno Devi Temple
Katra, Jammu and Kashmir
Raghunath Temple
Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
Bagh-e Bahu Aquarium
Dal Lake
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Aare Ware Beach
Aare-Ware is a safe and blue water beach in Ratnagiri. It is located near Ganapatipule. The road travels past a high cliff, below which the sea wave..
Beaches, Nature and Scenic
Alibag, also known as Alibaug, is a coastal town, just south of Mumbai, in western India. It’s known for its beaches like Alibag Beach and Varsoli B..
Devgad Beach is a situated at the western coast of the country closer to Sindhudurg. The village is also famous for its delicious saffron colored Alph..
Diveagar Beach
The beach contains a number of suru trees (Casuarina), which are common to coastal Maharashtra. The access to the beach has a dense cover of belu tree..
Ganeshgule Beach & Temple
This area is also known for the "Ganeshgule Temple". The temple is situated on a hill near the beach. It is said that this temple is older than the "G..
Beaches, City, Nature and Scenic
Ganpatipule
Beach town on the Konkan coastline, Ganpatipule has temples of Lord Ganesha as major attractions apart from the beautiful virgin beaches...
Girgaon Chowpatty | Chowpatty Beach
Girgaum Chowpatty, commonly known as Chaupati is one of the famous public beaches adjoining Marine Drive in the Girgaon area of Mumbai, India. The bea..
Harihareshwar Beach & Temple
Harihareshwar is renowned tourist spot in Konkan for its temples and beaches. Moreover, it is said as Devbhumi or Temple Town. Harihareshwar alone hav..
Juhu Beach
The beach is among the most popular sites in the city for the annual Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations where thousands of devotees arrive in grand proce..
Kashid Beach
Kashid is a beach town on the shores of the Arabian Sea, in the North Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. It is located 30 km from Alibag and 135 km ..
Beaches, Pilgrimage
Kelshi Beach
Kelshi Beach, the place known for exerting a hypnotizing influence on the visitors. The endless treasure of shells, conches, and cowries along with sp..
Kihim Beach
Kihim is a small village located to the north of Alibaug. Commonly known to people in Mumbai as a weekend getaway, it is accessible via Road and Water..
Mandwa Beach
Mandwa beach is most preferred and loved beach by many people, to have a wonderful trip with your near and dear ones. Mandwa is a stunning beach 12km ..
Murud Beach
Being one of the most popular tourist spots in town, this beach is always thronged with people and is a destination bubbling with activity...
Shrivardhan Beach
The beach is one of the prominent attractions of the town. Unspoilt, clean and relatively less crowded, it is one of the popular beaches in Maharashtr..
Velas Beach
A remote village called Velas would have remained unknown had it not achieved international attention for the turtles that come here to lay their eggs..
Velneshwar Temple & Beach
Velneshwar is reputed for its rock-free beach which facilitates the ease of swimming. There is an old Shiva temple near Velneshwar which is frequently..
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Rare All-American: Kasper earns 6th place medal at NCAAs
By reaching the podium, Lexington grad Jacob Kasper becomes just the third All-American wrestler in Duke history
Rare All-American: Kasper earns 6th place medal at NCAAs By reaching the podium, Lexington grad Jacob Kasper becomes just the third All-American wrestler in Duke history Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/2nEHyOs
Duke University sports information Published 1:29 a.m. ET March 19, 2017 | Updated 8:14 a.m. ET March 19, 2017
Lexington grad Jacob Kasper battles with Olympic, world and now two-time NCAA champ Kyle Snyder of Ohio State in the semifinals of the NCAA Championships.(Photo: Justin Hoch/jhoch.com)
He got the showdown he wanted and the All-America honors that put him in elite status at Duke.
Former Lexington High School wrestler Jacob Kasper completed his run at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, taking sixth place at heavyweight. With that medal showing, the 216-pound Kasper became the third Blue Devil in program history to earn All-America honors.
The stage doesn't get any bigger than the one Kasper found himself on Friday night in the semifinals. That's when the fourth-seeded redshirt junior collided with reigning Olympic, world and NCAA champion Kyle Snyder of Ohio State. In the all-Ohio showdown, Snyder foiled Kasper's bid for the upset with a 19-6 victory.
In Saturday's consolation semifinals against No. 7 seed Tanner Hall of Arizona State, Kasper went after it right from the opening whistle with a takedown in the opening seconds. He continued to ride Hall hard, but Hall escaped and then broke open the match with a takedown and four nearfall points for a 7-2 advantage.
Refusing to give up, Kasper escaped as time ticked away in the first period to make it 7-3 after the first three minutes. He added another escape to start the second stanza, but couldn’t add any more points as he entered the final period needing three points to force overtime. On top, he tried to get a turn on Hall, but couldn’t convert as Hall came away with the 8-4 decision.
In a rematch of the quarterfinal against Penn State's fifth-seeded Nick Nevills, it was a similar story for Kasper as he took a 2-0 lead with a takedown in the first period. Nevills escaped to make it 2-1 and added a takedown for a 3-2 lead in the third period. Kasper escaped with just over a minute left to tie the bout and force overtime.
Kasper looked like he was going to be able to hang on in the extra session, but a last second escape from Nevills gave the Nittany Lion heavyweight the payback victory for fifth place.
In his first season at heavyweight, Kasper went from being unranked to finishing sixth at the NCAA Championships. He went 30-6 overall to become the 13th Blue Devil to win 30 matches in a single season. He is 69-34 in his career.
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The Sounds of Boney M in Puerto Banus - 9 March 2016
by Joys Live
(Puerto Banus, Spain)
Sounds of Boney M at Joys Live
Joys Live on the frontline Puerto Banus is proud to announce Shelya Bonnick and the sound of Boney M performing live on Wednesday 9 March.
Sheyla Bonnick was a part of the founding members of hit group Boney M back in the seventies. A few year after the group split, Sheyla and her friend Maizie Williams formed their own Boney M which successfully toured with world from 1994 to 2003. Sheyla continued her solo career and a few years later she formed her own Sounds of Boney M.
On Wednesday 9 March, Sheyla Bonnick and the Sounds of Boney M, featuring original member Sheyla Bonnick will perform at Joys Live and party with guests till into the night.
Free Entry. Table bookings 952 814 283.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and check out joyslive.com
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Guitar of Dreams II
Signed Painting of Floating Electrical Guitar from Brazil, 'Guitar of Dreams II'
Product ID: U167794
Floating through clouds of scores, a guitar symbolizes musical dreams. Marina Costa is inspired by her son's guitar to paint this acrylic on canvas in dreamy white and grey tones.
Titled "Guitarra dos sonhos II" in Portuguese.
Arrives unframed
Free Gift Wrap? No
Premium Gift Wrap? No
80 cm W x 100 cm H
31.5" W x 39" H
Paintings Dance and Music Paintings Modern and Freestyle Paintings Acrylic Paint Paintings Grey Paintings White Paintings
Artfully crafted by Marina Costa from Brazil.
Marina Costa
"I look for inspiration in everything that motivates me, and I seek to transmit through my work a little of my personality to my viewers."
"Hi! My name is Marina Costa, and I was born in João Pessoa, Paraíba, in the Northeast of Brazil. At the age of 21 I moved to Rio de Janeiro, where new cultural opportunities appeared in my life in the form of books and museums. My family has always demonstrated strong artistic tendencies. My aunt is an artisan, and the rest of my family is made up of musicians so, since I could not very well be different, I decided to embark upon the artistic path as well.
"I began to paint with oil pastels, but I did not come into my own as an artist until I discovered acrylics. Acrylic paint is practical and dries quickly, which is everything I wanted in a medium. About seven years ago, I found that I was ready to sell my work, and in the meantime, I continue evolving and seeking out new horizons.
"I look for inspiration in everything that motivates me, and I seek to transmit through my work a little of my personality to my viewers. My paintings, which follow a modern figurative style, are filled with light and vivid colors since I don't like sadness, and I think that art should make people happy.
"My plans for the future include taking courses outside Brazil, keeping in mind, as always, my evolution as an artist and the perfection of my painting.
"This union with Novica is wonderful for me as an artist. New opportunities appear and my production increases. I am certain that it will be a successful partnership!"
This item was handmade in Brazil. UNICEF is working in Brazil to provide equal access to health, nutrition and education for millions of children living in deep poverty.
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