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Here Comes Busby Marou and the Iconic Boulia Camel Races
The land of the Min Min light comes alive this weekend and next with Busby Marou performing live in Boulia on the 22nd July, directly following the iconic Boulia Camel Races. Joining Busby Marou will be loveable larrikin and Australia Bush Poet, Ray Essery who will perform live for Dinner under the Stars as part of the Outback QLD Masters teeing off in Boulia on Monday 22 July and Tuesday 23 July directly following the Boulia Camel Races. “We are extremely excited to bring an Aria Chart topping act to Boulia… View Full Post
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The golfing world came to Winton at the weekend and the locals defended with distinction. Hometown hero Robert Ellis turned in a spectacular second-day performance to win the Winton leg of the Outback Queensland Masters at the weekend. And in doing so, he topped an all-Winton podium in the fourth leg of the event that is combining world-class entertainment and experiences with golf across the state’s famous western towns. Ellis, who plays off a handicap of seven, remarkably carded 26 stableford points across the nine holes of the second of… View Full Post
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Australia’s most beautiful voices, The 7 Sopranos with 3 times national bush poet champion, Gregory North are performing at Dinner under the Stars in Winton as part of the Outback Queensland Masters this Saturday 13th July, 2019. A high impact classical spectacle combining entertainment, glamour and vocal power, The 7 Sopranos are a unique fusion of contemporary and classical style. Impressive and world class: performers their debut album, released by ABC Music, debuted at No. 2 on the ARIA charts. Most impressively they do not need to rely on microphones… View Full Post
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From sand greens and sunburnt fairways, to local bush poets and multi-award-winning performers, Longreach had it all. Visitors and locals alike welcomed the third Outback Queensland Masters event to Longreach Golf Club over the weekend, with plenty of activities to delight golf enthusiasts and the traveling nomads. Golf tragics enjoyed the charms of Longreach Golf Club, participating in an 9-hole event on traditional sand greens on Saturday and Sunday. Local Mark Zavialov shined on day one carding a brilliant five under 31 for 24 points to lead the men’s event,… View Full Post
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The Best Backpacking Sleeping Bags
10 testers. 20 sleeping bags. 6 months. Here are the results.
Sleep warmly no matter what patch of ground you end up on. (Ryan Stuart)
Photo: Ryan Stuart
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The easiest way to ruin a backpacking trip is to bring the wrong sleeping bag. There’s nothing worse than ending up cold, or fighting a stuck zipper, or waking up in the rain and realizing your down insulation is soaked. For this review, I recruited a team of ten people to research and test the best sleeping bags on the market. Our favorite bag for three-season use, in temperatures from 50 degrees to well below freezing, was the REI Co-Op Magma 10 (or Magma 17 for women). I’ve also recommended bags for people on a budget and folks who need bags that are ultralight or extra comfortable, but for most backpackers, the Magma wins in performance and price. Stuffed with top-of-the-line goose down and made with other quality materials, the Magma packs small and weighs less than two pounds but costs the same as more middle-of-the-road bags.
Our Favorite Backpacking Sleeping Bag
(Courtesy REI)
REI Co-Op Magma 10 ($350)
REI gave the Magma 10 high-quality, hydrophobic, 850-fill goose-down insulation and wrapped it in a super-light, 15-denier ripstop nylon Pertex Quantum outer shell. The Magma packs down to the size of a small watermelon and weighs just shy of two pounds, stats that would be good for a 20-degree bag but are remarkable for one as warm as the Magma. And while it’s possible to find lightweight warm bags, they usually cost around $500, like the 19-degree version of Patagonia’s 850 Down Sleeping Bag. The Magma is warmer and sells for $350.
The Magma’s warmth-to-weight ratio is partly the result of its bio-mapped insulation design. REI stuffed down into narrow baffles around the chest, into wider ones on the lower bag, and into separate pockets at the shoulders. The idea is to concentrate warmth where it’s needed most and, coupled with a narrow fit (the fit here is REI’s trimmest), shave a few ounces off the bag’s weight. In my testing, it worked: I still had room to shift from side to side, and the footbox was contoured enough to be comfortable and snug enough to be warm. On a near-freezing night during a backpacking trip in Bryce Canyon National Park, the Magma heated up fast, and ten hours after climbing in I was still cozy and comfortable. Another member of my test team took the Magma out in temps approaching its lower limit and also stayed warm; he said the double adjustment points on the hood helped eke out a little more warmth when pulled snug.
Our test team also loved the Magma’s liner. “It was soft and breathable, not slick and sticky like a lot of them,” one wrote. Ditto for its zipper, which runs smoothly and doesn’t snag, thanks to a triangular zipper head and an anti-snag strip of fabric running its length. The downside to all that warmth is that in warmer weather, I sweated, breathable liner notwithstanding. On nights above 45 degrees, this bag was too much.
But that’s a mild complaint. The Magma is lightweight, highly packable, and comfortable. It would be my choice for three-season backpacking in the mountains (four-season in decent conditions), long expeditions, and, with its water-resistant down, even multi-night canoe trips.
Best Synthetic Backpacking Sleeping Bag
(Courtesy Marmot)
Marmot Ultra Elite 30 ($179)
If I didn’t know differently, I would have guessed Marmot’s Ultra Elite 30 was a down-stuffed bag. It packed small and weighed about the same (1.8 pounds) as down bags in the 30-degree neighborhood. Uncaged in a tent, it ballooned into an impressive pile of warmth. All of which is to say, this is a warm and light bag, and impressively so given its insulation material.
About that insulation: the Ultra Elite is stuffed with a blend of three synthetic fibers that the company calls ElixR. One fiber is meant to optimize thermal efficiency, another loft, and the third durability. The different fibers are layered in multiple thin strips, then laid shingle-style near the chest of the bag to optimize loft and in a sheet on the bottom to reduce seams.
The strategy seems to work. I stayed warm in the Ultra Elite 30 on a trip to Vancouver Island when temperatures dropped to the low thirties. The anatomical footbox was roomy, the full-length zipper ran smoothly, and the hood was snug and warm. The Ultra Elite 30 isn’t as warm as the Magma 10 (above), but if you don’t plan to camp in very cold temperatures, and if you want light and packable but don’t have the budget to buy feathers, there’s a lot to like with this bag. In fact, there’s very little reason to miss down at all.
Best Lightweight Backpacking Sleeping Bag
(Courtesy Mountain Hardware)
Mountain Hardwear Ghost Whisperer 40 ($400)
My sleeping bag is usually the bulkiest thing in my pack, but Mountain Hardwear’s Ghost Whisperer weighs just over a pound and crushes down to the size of a grapefruit, about the same size and weight as a down jacket. The Ghost Whisperer is stuffed with 900-fill down, the lightest, warmest, and most packable down in Mountain Hardwear’s line. The company also used a fluorocarbon-free hydrophobic treatment and says the down is responsibly sourced. The Ghost Whisperer is wrapped in light ripstop nylon and stitched with a baffle pattern reminiscent of a down puffy. It’s not cheap at $400, but I think it’s reasonably priced given its high-end materials. (If price is a bigger concern than portability, Therm-a-Rest’s 45-degree-rated Space Cowboy, below, is almost as light as the Ghost Whisperer and significantly less expensive at about $150. But it isn’t as packable.)
To be clear, this is a pretty specialized sleeping bag. The mummy dimensions are on the narrow side, the translucent outer shell demands care, and I had to snuggle in deep to stay warm when the mercury dropped below 50. But if you’re willing to sacrifice some money and a little comfort to go fast and light, you can’t do much better. The Ghost Whisperer helped me crush a quick time on a fast-and-light backpacking trip on Vancouver Island, and I’d recommend it to anyone planning similar missions, including bikepackers. In moderate climates, this is the go-to bag when weight and packability are paramount.
Best Backpacking Quilt
(Courtesy Sierra Designs)
Sierra Designs Backcountry Quilt 700/20 ($250)
The Backcountry Quilt is a blanket, except it’s a blanket made with hydrophobic, PFC-free 700-fill down and featuring a couple extra sleeping-bag-like details. On warm summer nights, quilt-style sleeping blankets like the Backcountry Quilt make camping feel like sleeping at home: you can sprawl, stretch, and toss unconstrained, and they’re usually lighter than actual sleeping bags. With a sheet to cover my sleeping pad on summer nights, I was Goldilocks-comfortable slumbering under the Backcountry Quilt.
But most quilts stop making sense when it gets cold, and chilly temps are where the Backcountry Quilt separates itself from blankets like the Rab Neutrino SL Quilt, which lacks a hood and zipper and doesn’t play nice in cooler weather. The Backcountry Quilt has arm sleeves that let you wrap yourself up Slanket style, a mummy footbox for tucking your feet, and even a sneaky and well-designed hood. Plus, it weighs only 850 grams.
Those features make the Backcountry Quilt the first legitimate three-season quilt-style sleeping bag I’ve tried. It wouldn’t be my first choice for high alpine trips, where cold nights are expected, but I tested the Backcountry Quilt below freezing and stayed warm. For paddlers and fair-weather backpackers who probably won’t need a warm bag but might, it provides a tough-to-beat mix of versatility, low weight, and insurance against an unexpected drop in temps.
Best Value Down Sleeping Bag
(Courtesy Kelty)
Kelty Cosmic 20 ($160)
The Kelty Cosmic 20 is a no-frills mummy, and at $150 for a 20-degree-rated down bag it’s a great deal. Yes, it’s stuffed with heavier 600-fill duck down and wrapped with a burly 50-denier ripstop polyester shell, meaning it only compresses to about 11 liters. And it’s heavy at three pounds. But our testers said it was soft and a pleasure to use, and a hydrophobic down sleeping bag for less than $200 is rare. One rated to 20 degrees is rarer still.
Plus, Kelty really nailed the details: the hood-adjustment pulls are different widths for easy fiddling in the dark; the footbox is roomy and ergonomic; and a draft collar lines the full-length zip, along with an anti-snag strip that was (mostly) functional. For budget-conscious backpackers, there aren’t any sleeping-bag deals better than this one.
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Best Value Synthetic Sleeping Bag
(Courtesy Therm-A-Rest)
Therm-a-Rest Space Cowboy ($160)
The Space Cowboy is an ultralight 45-degree summer bag that has become my go-to for tropical traveling, summer nights under the stars, and hut trips. It weighs one pound three ounces and packs to the size of a cantaloupe. That’s slightly bulkier and two ounces heavier than Mountain Hardwear’s $400 Ghost Whisperer, but it’s far smaller than The North Face Lynx, a competing summer bag that weighs almost two pounds and doesn’t pack down as tightly.
I tested the Space Cowboy on a trip in the Guatemalan highlands, and it was just right for breezy nights. When the wind picked up, I could tuck into its generous hood and zip it snug. Conversely, on a 70-degree summer campout, it was easy to open and use more like a blanket. Some of its versatility, I think, comes partly from the reflective liner at the top of the bag that helps trap escaping heat and partly from the purposely uneven distribution of its synthetic insulation. That insulation is concentrated near the torso, where it does the most good. That means the Space Cowboy punches above its weight when snugged tight but can feel cool when opened up.
One final feature I appreciated: the Space Cowboy has straps that hug a sleeping pad, which kept me centered on my pad no matter how much I rolled around during the night. Like the Ghost Whisperer, it’s a dedicated summer bag, but at $150 it’s much more accessible.
A Comfortable, Albeit Heavy, Backpacking Sleeping Bag
(Courtesy Nemo)
NEMO Jazz ($230)
The Jazz is a unique beast. It mixes high-performance materials in a design focused on bedlike comfort. This is the sleeping bag I brought for my 69-year-old mother when we spent seven days on British Columbia’s Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit, and she loved it.
Rated to 20 Fahrenheit and stuffed with 700-fill water-resistant down, the $230 Jazz has a rectangular shape, a soft-sheet interior, zips down each side, and a sleeve on the bottom that can hold a plush, four-inch-thick sleeping pad. That adds up to a lot of comfort and a lot of weight. The Jazz weighs five pounds and fills the bottom of a pack, and it’s more than I’d want to take on an extended backpacking trip. But I didn’t notice it on portages, or on leisurely hiking trips with my daughter. Plus, my mom’s already asking where we’re going next summer, and for that, I thank the Jazz.
How We Tested Sleeping Bags
For this test, I recruited ten people to help review bags. The group included sea-kayak guides, dirtbag climbers, ski bums, weekend warriors, families, and even a band of Girl Guides. I aimed to get as many people as possible using the sleeping bags in as many situations as possible. That’s the best way to learn a bag’s strengths and weaknesses, and to learn what kinds of campers will like it. And, for this test, I slept in every sleeping bag I’ve reviewed here.
I’ve been camping for 25 years, including five years as an outdoor guide and ten years as a journalist and gear reviewer. Most years, I spend between four and five weeks sleeping outdoors, and I try to sample bags from all of the major manufacturers.
Bags that caught my interest went out to my test team, who helped select a group of bags that I singled out for further testing. Which, in this case, meant more sleeping.
How to Choose a Backpacking Sleeping Bag
Sleeping bags come in a huge range of styles, weights, and warmths. For this review, I focused on sleeping bags that are light and portable enough to carry into the backcountry and warm enough for sleeping outside on an average summer night. Three pounds and a rating of 45 degrees seemed like appropriate thresholds.
It used to be that down and synthetic were the two main insulation types. Down was warmer and more packable for its weight, while synthetic was less expensive, more durable, more insulating when wet, and hypoallergenic. It’s not so simple anymore.
Hydrophobic treatments now make down more water-resistant, and newer synthetic insulations mimic down in weight and compressibility. And there are creative combinations of both. The upshot is that the insulation landscape has become much more nuanced and the differences much less pronounced.
I recommend fully synthetic insulation in several situations: if price is a primary concern; if you’re allergic to down; if most of your camping happens in wet environments; and if you’re really hard on your sleeping bags, because synthetic insulation is more durable. The newest synthetic materials, which use clusters of fibers that mimic down, are highly packable and very light, and they almost erase the advantages of feathers. For many recreational users, it’s getting harder to justify paying more for down.
Still, down remains the better choice when weight and packability are most important. But not all down is equal. Fill power, which ranges from a low of around 600 to a high of 900, has an enormous effect on a bag’s weight and packability.
The other thing to look for is water-resistant down. Most down bags are now stuffed with feathers treated with a hydrophobic coating that resists moisture, which improves performance in wet environments. (DownTek, Allied Down, and Nikwax Hydrophobic Down are some of the brand names to look for.) Some of these treatments are controversial because they contain perfluorocarbons, chemicals that have been linked to cancer and environmental damage. This year, Sierra Designs introduced a PFC-free version of its hydrophobic DriDown treatment to its sleeping-bag line, which includes the Backcountry Quilt reviewed above. Nikwax’s Hydrophobic Down is also PFC-free.
A second issue is where the down itself comes from. Down is a byproduct of poultry production, and farm conditions and plucking can be inhumane. The North Face, Allied Down, and others have worked to create ethical down standards and ways of tracking the feathers. Look for the Responsible Down Standard and other certifications when shopping.
These are bags containing a mix of down and synthetic insulation, and they come in two forms. The simplest option places down in one part of the bag and synthetic in another. Usually, this means synthetic insulation on the bottom of the bag, because it tends to insulate better when compressed, and down on top. More recently, companies have played around with mixing down and synthetic fibers throughout the bag. Ideally, hybrids offer the durability of synthetic but the feel and compressibility of down.
Often, a bag’s name will reflect its warmth rating: the REI Co-Op Magma 10, for example, can be used in temperatures as low as 10 degrees, according to REI. Picking the right temperature is the most important decision in the sleeping-bag buying process, and the hardest because temperature is so personal.
Many manufacturers use an independent temperature-testing protocol called EN, or European Norm. Theoretically, the process allows for apples-to-apples comparisons regardless of construction and insulation; two 10 degree EN-rated bags should feel equally warm. It’s important to note that the EN standard gives two numbers: Lower Limit, which is 10 degrees for the Magma, and Comfort, which is 22 degrees for the Magma. Figuring out how those ratings work for you is really possible only through trial and error. Everything from your sleeping pad to what you ate for dinner, humidity, and wind will all affect how warm you feel. For three-season use and summer in the mountains, I suggest a rating between 15 and 30 degrees. For summer only, or traveling, bags in the 30-to-45-degree range should work. For shoulder season in the mountains and light winter, 0 to 15 degrees should do the trick. And because women often sleep colder than men, they may want to modify those recommendations by about 10 degrees.
Fit and shape
Sleeping bags come in various shapes: boxy rectangles, tapered mummies, hourglass hybrids, duvet blankets, and a whole spectrum in between. Rectangular bags offer more room for rolling around but tend to be bulkier, heavier, and colder because there’s more space to heat up. More-fitted sleeping bags, usually called mummy bags, are lighter, pack smaller, and feel warmer, but they offer less wiggle room. Various hybrid styles look to find a middle ground between the two.
Weight and packability
A sleeping bag is one of the bulkiest and heaviest single items you’ll put in your pack, so weight and packability should be considerations, especially if you plan to carry it far. Insulation will play a significant factor in its weight: high-quality down is a lot lighter than low-quality synthetic fibers. But a bag’s zippers, pockets, hood, and fabric can all add significant ounces.
Take two sleeping bags with the same temperature rating, and the less expensive one is almost always going to be bigger and bulkier. But both will still keep you warm at night. For my money, $150 to $400 is a sweet spot for three-season sleeping bags. Within that range, you’ll find high-quality bags, and only someone who is really focused on weight and packability will need to spend more—with one exception: anyone hoping to sleep outside in winter should expect to pay at least $400.
The most obvious sleeping-bag feature is the side zip. Full-length zippers are the standard, while lightweight bags might go with a half zip or even no zip at all. Deluxe bags might add an extra zip across the footbox, which is nice if you get sweaty feet. Whatever you choose, make sure it’s easy to get in and out of the bag. Sticky zippers suck.
If there’s one feature all bags need, it’s a hood. Even in summer, a hood can save you if temps drop. Other features—draft collars along zippers and hoods, pillow pockets, glow-in-the-dark zipper pulls, miscellaneous pockets—can be great, but most add weight. I like sleeves and straps for attaching a sleeping pad, but make sure they play nice with your pad.
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Diocesan Synod statement concerning the Dean of Oxford
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Saturday 17 November 2018: The Bishop of Oxford gave a statement to the meeting of the Oxford Diocesan Synod. The full text of the statement can be read below. Following media enquiries over the weekend the College confirmed that Martyn Percy has been suspended from his duties pending the tribunal’s outcome. Bishop Steven said; “As always in such circumstances, suspension is a neutral act and does not imply that the complaint will be upheld.”
The Very Revd. Professor Martyn Percy
You may be aware that a formal complaint has been made against the Dean of Christ Church, Martyn Percy.
Christ Church is a complex institution and, uniquely in the Church of England, the Dean is also Head of an Oxford College. The Governing Body and Chapter have now requested that the complaint against Martyn, which relates to a governance matter, be properly reviewed by an independently chaired internal tribunal.
Martyn is a close colleague, widely respected across the Church and his absence is keenly felt. The tribunal must now conduct an impartial, thorough and fair review of the complaint that has been made.
I remain in close contact with Martyn and Emma and with the Subdean and Chapter and the wider college through this difficult period. I am monitoring the situation closely. I also want to see that any allegations of bullying are properly investigated. Meanwhile the Cathedral’s core work of prayer and the worship of God continues, albeit in very testing circumstances.
We wish Martyn a speedy recovery to full health following a period of sickness in recent weeks and commend all those involved in this difficult situation to the prayers of the diocese.
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The West and Islam: Religion and Political Thought in World History
Antony Black
This history of political thought — philosophical argument and everyday attitudes — examines what the Western and Islamic approaches to politics had in common and where they diverged. Byzantium is also compared. In all three civilizations, political and religious ideas were intertwined and issues of ‘church and state’ were crucial. This book considers how various ancient and medieval thought-patterns did or did not lead to modern developments; and how sacred monarchy, justice — revealed or natural — the legitimacy of the state, and the role of the people were looked upon in each culture. The b ... More
This history of political thought — philosophical argument and everyday attitudes — examines what the Western and Islamic approaches to politics had in common and where they diverged. Byzantium is also compared. In all three civilizations, political and religious ideas were intertwined and issues of ‘church and state’ were crucial. This book considers how various ancient and medieval thought-patterns did or did not lead to modern developments; and how sacred monarchy, justice — revealed or natural — the legitimacy of the state, and the role of the people were looked upon in each culture. The book examines in particular the period from the rise of Islam to the end of the European Middle Ages, but account is taken of all genres of political thought up to the present. Up to the mid-11th century, Europe, Islam, and the Byzantine world had more in common than is commonly thought. What made the West different was the papal revolution of the late 11th century, Europe's 12th-century ‘renaissance’ and the gradual secularization of political thought which followed; while Islam, after an early blossoming, interpreted its revelation more and more narrowly. With a few major exceptions (Ibn Rushd, Ibn Khaldun), Islamic political philosophy declined after c.1100. European or Western political thought developed more slowly, but it developed continuously. It underwent major transformations and encompasses a wide variety of opinions. These influenced both the Islamic world (except for fundamentalists) and the post-Byzantine world of Russia.
Keywords: Islam, comparative, political thought, Byzantium, church and state, Middle Ages, legitimacy, monarchy, the state, fundamentalism
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533206.001.0001
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Professor Emeritus in the History of Political Thought, School of Humanities, University of Dundee
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1 Religion and Politics: The West, Islam, Byzantium
2 Legitimacy: The Caliphate and the State
3 Society: Tribe, Commune, and Nation
4 Regimes: Europe, Islam, and Byzantium
5 Practical Politics
6 Approaches to Political Thought
7 Changes in Religion and Politics
8 The Origins of Western Political Thought
9 Epilogue: The West, Islam, Russia
Appendix: Marsilius and Ibn Rushd
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Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies
Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579815.001.0001
Table of Legislation and Analogous Documents
1 The Doctrine of Discovery
2 The Legal Adoption of Discovery in the United States
3 The Doctrine of Discovery in United States History
4 The Doctrine of Discovery in Canada
5 Contemporary Canadian Resonance of an Imperial Doctrine
6 The Doctrine of Discovery in Australia
7 Asserting the Doctrine of Discovery in Australia
8 Asserting the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa New Zealand: 1840–1960s
9 The Still Permeating Influence of the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa/New Zealand: 1970s–2000s
10 Concluding Comparatively: Discovery in the English Colonies
The Still Permeating Influence of the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa/New Zealand: 1970s–2000s
(p.227) 9 The Still Permeating Influence of the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa/New Zealand: 1970s–2000s
Discovering Indigenous Lands
Robert J Miller
Jacinta Ruru
Larissa Behrendt
Tracey Lindberg
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579815.003.0009
This chapter explores how Discovery and its elements have continued to haunt contemporary legal and political reasoning in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It focuses on case law post 1970, Treaty of Waitangi claim settlements concerning national parks and the foreshore and seabed, and the constitutional standing of the Treaty of Waitangi. These case studies highlight the still permeating influence of the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Keywords: Ngati Apa, treaty settlements, foreshore and seabed, constitution, Treaty of Waitangi, Aotearoa, New Zealand
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Are we hardwired to love reading thrillers
Are we hardwired to love reading thrillers?
Rebecca Whitney, author of psychological thriller The Liar's Chair, investigates why we find thrillers so compelling to read.
With the phenomenal success of this year’s The Girl on the Train, which has topped the UK and US bestseller lists, and Gone Girl becoming the 25th bestselling book of all time, it appears our thirst for thrillers goes unabated. Why do these page turners have us in their grasp? Are we adrenalin junkies or do these stories satisfy a deeper need?
The majority of thriller fans are women, the edge-of-your-seat read tapping directly into the female psyche. But why? Part of the reason could be the mental gymnastics, making the book a more active experience. A thriller contains problems to be solved, a puzzle to be pieced together, and the excitement of anticipating the finale and whether or not we guessed the outcome ignites the detective in us and keeps us racing to the last page. It’s an intense collaboration with the author, a direct wire into their brain, and the best of thrillers continue to surprise us right to the end as the author leads us one way, then drops the unexpected from a great height.
Clinical Psychologist Dr Sam Fraser cites neurological studies on male vs female brain function: “Men tend to process better in the left hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process equally well between the two hemispheres. This difference explains why men… approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective while women typically solve problems more creatively and are more aware of feelings while communicating. So men generally like it all laid out for them and women like to draw their own conclusions - i.e fill in the gaps of a plot perhaps?”
Traditionally many thrillers have dealt with the explosive and the unfathomable, threats unlikely to affect the majority of their readership. While the market for these books is still healthy, another style of thriller is being read by women in abundance: the Domestic Noir. Author Julia Crouch, who coined the term in 2013 as a reaction to the limitations of the psychological thriller label, sums up this genre as taking place “primarily in homes and workplaces, concerns itself largely (but not exclusively) with the female experience, is based around relationships and takes as its base a broadly feminist view that the domestic sphere is a challenging and sometimes dangerous prospect for its inhabitants.”
The thriller in a domestic setting has a long-standing history with books such as Du Maurier’s Rebecca and arguably even Brontë’s Jane Eyre, with Jean Rhys’ fantastic reimagining in Wide Sargasso Sea. More recently, writers including Barbara Vine, Minette Walters, Sophie Hannah and Elizabeth Haynes have trail-blazed the flawed and complex female lead; it would seem that the success of Gone Girl has merely highlighted this already well-established and much loved sphere, prompting a proliferation of new titles as publishers rush to fill the gap that Flynn’s novel has left in its wake.
Perhaps what’s behind this female-led trend towards deep psychological domestic drama is the recognition in the stories of people just like us, in situations that are familiar. As women’s lives become increasingly more full and complicated, perhaps the ability to take real risks is diminished. We live vicariously through the characters; it’s the closest we come to inhabiting another’s skin. As the mostly female protagonists make the mistakes we could so easily have made, we root for them to grapple through to the other side, or revel in their dysfunction as they get their just deserts. We experience the crash without being in the car. Fraser quotes more research: “Men have a more difficult time understanding emotions that are not explicitly verbalised, while women tend to intuit emotions and emotional cues. So could it be that women are more emotionally attuned and able to overlay their own emotions/fantasies etc. over a narrative whereas men are more concrete and less able to abstract when reading fiction?”
The home is important: who we love and spend our days with - our primary relationships - are key to all our other relationships, and the dissection of the good and the bad we allow into our lives helps us to understand the greater world. Here is something we can hope to improve, and on some level control; we no longer want to be the victim, and female-led thrillers give us back a quota of our power. Crouch writes, “Women want to see ourselves in more active roles in stories. We're fed up with men coming in and sorting it all out.”
And a great book can offer us respite from a chaotic world. As we lose ourselves to the story, the realities of intangible and uncontrollable geopolitics temporarily fades. Some would argue it’s easier to be swept away by a thriller than with other forms of literature, as the high-stakes impel us to discover what’s always just over the next page. Our desire for justice demands we discover who triumphs and who gets their comeuppance, and this delineation between good and evil is often more clear-cut than in other forms of fiction where questions can be left open-ended. Crouch writes: “Go to any crime writing festival and you will see many more women readers than men. My theory is that many women's lives are pretty full and chaotic, with work, caring responsibilities, 80% (still!) of the housework, etc. Crime fiction - particularly the more traditional police procedural/detective story – is all about order being restored to a temporarily disordered world. It is very satisfying like that.”
So is our addiction to thrillers a concern or can we bask in the satisfaction they bring us? Fraser writes: “Different personalities seek different forms of literature and therefore reading will serve various needs – enjoyment, relaxation, and stimulation. But escapism is great sometimes and an important healing factor.”
It would seem we should enjoy the ride.
Read on, I say.
The Liar's Chair
Rebecca Whitney's gripping debut novel is out now.
Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous and fulfilled. The big house, the successful business... They have everything.
However, when Rachel kills a man in a hit and run, the meticulously maintained veneer over their life begins to crack.
Destroying all evidence of the accident, David insists they continue as normal. Rachel, though, is racked with guilt and as her behaviour becomes increasingly self-destructive she not only inflames David's darker side. Can Rachel confront her past and atone for her terrible crime? Not if her husband has anything to do with it...
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1 Google Nexus 7
Google's new flagship tablet, the Nexus 7, has a 7-inch, 1,280-by-800-pixel screen and a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. It costs only $199.
2 Google Play on Nexus 7
Google beefed up its Play store to compete with Amazon, adding the ability to purchase movies and TV shows, and lots of magazines.
3 Music Player on Nexus 7
The Nexus 7 runs the latest version of Android, 4.1 "Jelly Bean." The interface is by and large the same as on Android 4.0, but there are new features like this "social queue" of similar music.
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Google's Chip Search Leads to AMD
The search giant is buying AMD Opteron processors for its servers, a report says.
By John G. Spooner
March 3, 2006 6:00AM EST
Google has keyed in on Advanced Micro Devices' chips, a report said.
The search giant has begun using AMD's Opteron processor in its Google servers due to the chip's energy efficiency, according to Mark Edelstone, a financial analyst with Morgan Stanley in San Francisco.
Google, which has been known for having a tight relationship with IntelPaul Otellini, Intel's CEO, sits on Google's Board of Directors and the company has traditionally used Intel chips in its serverswill instead buy Opterons for most of its near-term server purchases, Edelstone wrote in a report released earlier this week.
"We believe that Google has started to buy AMD Opteron processors for nearly all of their new server purchases. We believe that Google currently has an installed base of more than 200,000 servers, and we believe that they will help AMD to enjoy a significant sequential increase in their server business in the first quarter," he wrote.
"Based on our inputs, we believe that the compelling performance per watt attributes of Opteron is what drove the Google design win."
Click here to read more about how 2006 is shaping up for AMD and Intel.
Google, with its experience operating a large fleet of machines, has been fairly outspoken about power consumption in servers.
Last August, for example, Urs Hölzle, Google's vice president of engineering and operations, joined Otelllini on stage during a keynote address to discuss chip power consumption.
There he discussed the importance of power-efficiency in servers, stating that in some cases simply switching on server hardware and running it for its three-year lifetime can cost a company half as much as it paid for the hardware in electricity fees, according to a transcript of the speech posted on Intel's Web site.
A Google representative did not immediately return a phone call from eWEEK. An AMD spokesperson declined to comment.
The decision by the search giant, as outlined by Edelstone, represents another endorsement of AMD's Opteron chip by an enterprise buyer.
Opteron has been adopted more broadly by businesses of late, the company claims. Adding weight to its argument, AMD's share of x86 server processor shipments has risen steadily over the last few quarters to top 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2005.
In other news, Google on March 2 released a new Google Mini search appliance. The machine, which now starts at $1,995, can search up to 50,000 documents. Successively more expensive versions of the machine can search up to 300,000 documents.
Check out eWEEK.com's Infrastructure Center for the latest news, views and analysis on servers, switches and networking protocols for the enterprise and small businesses.
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Vudu Launches iPhone App
Vudu, the HD Internet movie player company that recently cut its star product's price to $99, has launched a mobile app for the iPhone.
January 26, 2009 11:43AM EST
Vudu, the HD Internet movie player company that recently cut its star product's price to $99, has launched a mobile app for the iPhone. The new app lets iPhone owners browse and search the catalog, as well as rent or purchase movies for a home box, directly from the cell phone.
That means, essentially, that you can load up a Vudu box with content while you're still at work, and have the movies ready to go for when you get in the door back home. Personally I think it would be much cooler if you could sling movies back and forth between the Vudu and the iPhone, but apparently that's just wishful thinking for now.
The Vudu iPhone app is free. Pricing for movies remains the same: $.99 to $3.99 in standard def, $3.99 to $5.99 in HD/HDX, and $1.99 for TV episodes. Get the app from Apple's App Store.
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Turning Back The Clock
Imprint: Vintage
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After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, right-wing governments predominate.
It almost seems like history, tired of the big steps forward it has taken in the past two millennia, has gone into reverse. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco proposes, not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards.
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A big step towards a better Durham
Yesterday was a big step towards a better Durham. Steve Schewel will be the next mayor of Durham. He’ll be joined by DeDreana Freeman and Vernetta Alston on City Council.
People’s Alliance PAC would like to thank John Rooks, Jr. and congratulate him on a strong campaign in the Ward 2 race. We know that John will continue to raise important issues and engage the people in Ward 2 and across the city that helped him secure the People’s Alliance PAC endorsement. We look forward to see what he will take on next.
People’s Alliance PAC would also like to congratulate Mark-Anthony Middleton for his successful race. We know that Mark is committed to Durham’s future, and we look forward to seeing his campaign commitments in action.
Complete election results are available here
You made your voice heard. Developers and real estate interests poured big money into Durham in an attempt to put us on a path towards rising rents and too many of our neighbors getting pushed out of their homes. It didn’t work. You stood up for PA’s values-- affordable housing, living wage jobs, equal rights for all, racial equity and a healthy environment.
Let’s take a moment to remember how we got this far. Yesterday, over 60 volunteers worked across the city to tell voters why Steve, DeDreana, John and Vernetta were the best team for Durham. During the primary and general elections, over 150 people worked with PA PAC to elect our endorsed candidates. In all, We sent our endorsement mailer to over 50,000 voters. Twice. We passed out over 30,000 sample ballots.
This was a campaign of hard choices between great candidates. As we celebrate, let’s also take a moment to thank all of the candidates for their service, their commitment and their continued work for the public interest. They are our friends and neighbors and they put themselves into the public spotlight to share their vision for the city. We are better for it.
Now we need to get to work. City council will appoint a new council member to replace the at-large seat vacated by Steve Schewel. PA PAC will notify members about that process in the coming weeks. We also need to stay engaged and hold this council accountable.
Thank you for your support and your hard to work to keep Durham progressive.
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AI System Uses Microscopic Images to Identify Cancer Cell Types
A system based on a convolutional neural network (CNN), developed at Osaka University, has shown that it is able to automatically distinguish between different types of cancer cells. Being able to accurately identify the particular cancer cell types present in a patient can be useful in choosing the most effective treatment, but current methods are time-consuming and often hampered by human error and the limits of human sight.
The researchers used the CNN-based system to distinguish between mouse cells and human cells and their radioresistant clones. “We first trained our system on 8000 images of cells obtained from a phase-contrast microscope. We then tested its accuracy on another 2000 images, to see whether it had learned the features that distinguish mouse cancer cells from human ones, and radioresistant cancer cells from radiosensitive ones,” said researcher Hideshi Ishii.
These are representative microscopic images of cancer cells and radioresistant cells. Courtesy of Osaka University.
The features extracted by the trained CNN were plotted using t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding. Images of each cell line were well clustered, indicating that, after training, the CNN-based system was able to correctly identify cells based on microscopic images of them. The trained CNN obtained an accuracy of 96 percent. The team’s findings suggest that image recognition using AI could be useful for predicting small differences among phase-contrast microscopic images of cancer cells and their radioresistant clones.
This is the trend of the accuracy when predicting cell type based on cancer cell images. The accuracy reached about 96 percent for test data (data not used for AI training). Courtesy of Osaka University.
“The automation and high accuracy with which this system can identify cells should be very useful for determining exactly which cells are present in a tumor or circulating in the body of cancer patients,” researcher Masayasu Toratani said. “For example, knowing whether or not radioresistant cells are present is vital when deciding whether radiotherapy would be effective, and the same approach can then be applied after treatment to see whether it has had the desired effect.”
In the future, the team hopes to train the system on more cancer cell types, with the eventual goal of establishing a universal system that can automatically identify and distinguish all such cells.
The research was published in Cancer Research (https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-0653).
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Don’t Wake Up - Liz Lawler
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Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn't a doctor.
The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable.
But when Alex re-awakens, she's unharmed - and no one believes her horrifying story.
Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind.
And then she meets the next victim.
There is a tagline on Amazon that says “the most gripping first chapter you will ever read” well it most certainly was that and the most terrifying and horrific that I have ever read. I wasn’t sure whether to continue.
I did though, and then I couldn’t put it down (the dates are deceiving as I started at 23.45 on the 27th May and finished at 00.45 on the 29th, so just over 24 hours).
What I needed to know was whether she was making it up as halfway through the book I started to doubt her, as the horrible policewoman was making a convincing and believable case against her.
I was suspecting everyone she came into contact with, but I didn't guess the ending at all! It was so cleverly written and a brilliant read!
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Home News & Analysis Finance & Accounting Partners Group fee income exceeds €1bn for the first time
Partners Group fee income exceeds €1bn for the first time
The Swiss investor posted its largest ever fee income last year, but its performance fee pool was down by one-third despite overall performance fee growth.
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Partners Group’s management fee income grew almost 30 percent last year, a level the firm labelled “disproportionate” due to its closing of flagship funds over the year, including €6 billion for Partners Group Direct Equity 2016 Fund.
The firm racked up more than SFr1.2 billion ($1.25 billion €1.02 billion) in management and performance fees, with performance fee growth rising from SFr294 million in 2016 – itself a threefold increase – to SFr372 million last year.
The amount set aside as compensation for employees in its performance fee pool was around one-third lower than 2016, which the firm attributed to “a shift in the investment mix towards higher volumes deployed in credit markets (which have a reduced potential to generate performance fees).” The size of the performance fee pool varies year to year and consists of up to 40 percent of projected performance fees from the firm’s investments in that year. Across the firm’s asset classes the stand-out performance fee rise was in infrastructure, where fees increased from SFr8 million in 2016 to SFr71 million last year.
David Layton
The firm’s highest=paid employee last year was its 36-year-old head of private equity, David Layton, who took home more than SFr4.8 million. His income surpassed the firm’s co-chief executives Andre Frei and Christoph Rubeli, who were paid just under SFr4 million, SFr3 million less than the previous year. Layton, who is based in the firm’s Denver headquarters, became sole head of private equity last year, after Stephan Schäli became chief investment officer.
The firm also outlined a shift in the compensation structure for its seven-strong executive committee, which includes Frei, Rubeli and Layton. This group will no longer benefit from the ‘Management Carry Plan’, which sees a portion of the firm’s potential future performance fees from investments ‘pre-allocated’ to investment professionals. Instead, this group will see a portion of their remuneration tied to a new ‘Management Performance Plan’ which consists of an option-like component focused on the firm’s share performance, and a performance fee component dependent on value being created in the underlying investments.
A spokeswoman for the firm said that achieving one component but not the other will result in no payout and the change is intended to ensure strong alignment between management and investors.
The firm says that while it expects management fees to continue to grow alongside assets under management in the coming year, it expects lower late management fees – those paid by late-coming investors to a fund – and believes that the growth seen last year will not be repeated.
Last year the firm merged its primary and secondaries teams to enable it to be more of a one-stop-shop for investors.
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Post Office launches PR tender worth up to £3m
November 08, 2013 by John Owens
The Post Office has issued a tender for corporate and crisis PR could be worth up to £3m in the wake of the privatisation of Royal Mail.
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The tender is set to run over four years and is split into three lots. One covers corporate and crisis, with the budget ranging between £100,000 and £1m.
Another covers financial services, travel products and brand awareness. Worth between £500,000 and £1m, it includes consumer PR for Post Office FS products, travel insurance and FS brand awareness.
Lot three covers retail and telephony consumer PR for mails and retail, home phone and broadband, brand awareness and seasonal campaigns and is worth between £100,000 and £1m.
Tender documents seen by PRWeek state that it is looking for "agencies to support the communications department in promoting products that increase revenue, and enhance the corporate reputation to grow the business".
The Post Office split from the Royal Mail Group last year, with Royal Mail floating on the London Stock Exchange in a deal worth £3.3bn in October.
Nina Arnott, head of PR at the Post Office, said: "We would like to hear from ambitious and creative PR agencies that can help us navigate the challenges and exploit the opportunities ahead of the Post Office.
"Our ideal agencies will have lots of recent big brand experience within our markets but will also understand the unique social role the Post Office plays in the heart of our communities.
"Most importantly, we want to work with people who take pride in being the best at what they do and would be passionate about telling our story."
The current roster, which expires in May, includes Lansons Communications, Eulogy, Citigate Dewe Rogerson Limited, M&C Saatchi PR and Blue Rubicon Limited.
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Kyle fights for his life after Neighbours horror plunge – Chris Milligan teases his future
There are huge consequences after a shock building site accident in Neighbours
By Johnathon Hughes
Wednesday, 26th June 2019 at 12:58 pm
The Neighbours love triangle between Kyle Canning (Chris Milligan), Amy Williams (Zoe Cramond) and Gary Canning (Damien Richardson) takes a huge twist when Kyle has an accident and is rushed to hospital, forcing the object of his affections to face her true feelings.
On Tuesday 25th June, Kyle and his dad Gary continue to work alongside each other to restore Karl Kennedy’s vintage tram, but it’s an uneasy alliance between the boys who are also in competition for Amy’s heart. Feeling threatened by the presence of his fiancée’s ex’s superiority on the building site and wanting to prove he can compete with his younger, fitter offspring in every way, Gary cuts corners when assembling some scaffolding – only for it to give way when Kyle climbs it sending him tumbling to the ground.
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Knocked unconscious, he’s rushed to the wards on Wednesday 26th June but luckily wakes up and escapes with concussion and bruises – but the incident piques Amy’s emotions as she realises how much she still cares for Kyle. With Gary admitting his negligence caused the accident, rivalry between father and son intensifies and Kyle contemplates leaving Erinsborough for good!
RadioTimes.com spoke to Milligan about what’s in store for Kyle, his old flame and his dad, a relationship that sounds like it’s going to get even more complicated…
Does Kyle secretly think there’s hope for him and Amy even though she’s engaged to his dad?
I’m not sure he still think there’s hope, but he can’t help the way he feels. Kyle doesn’t want to have a fake relationship with his father or his future stepmum Amy. We try not to say ‘stepmum’ too much!
Is it awkward for Kyle and Gary to be working together on the tram restoration?
Kyle has a weird relationship with his dad. Gary was never around when Kyle was a kid and all he wanted was a father figure in his life. He only really had his gran Sheila because his mum was also absent. So deep down Kyle does want a relationship with his dad, but it just sucks they are both in love with the same woman. Kyle thinks it’s worth fighting for but it’s going to be a long fight!
What was it like filming the stunt where Kyle falls off the scaffolding?
I got to do the stunt myself! I was about three or four metres off the ground. We did have a stunt guy come in and he did his bit, but eventually they ended up using most of my stuff. It’s always nice as an actor to be able to do the stunts yourself, as long as you don’t die!
Why does Kyle decide to leave Erinsborough after the accident?
Kyle just keeps clashing with his dad and he feels like he’s ruining everything. He’s ruining the vibe at the house and putting Sheila in a bad spot by having to pick her son or her grandson, and making Amy feel a certain way. He doesn’t feel like he can reconcile with his dad in the near future and decides the best thing he can do is leave and get over his feelings somewhere else.
Is Kyle’s relationship with Chloe over?
I wouldn’t say it’s done and dusted, they are very similar in their energies and the way they go about things. It’s a lot of fun working with April Rose Pengilly who plays her, she just throws stuff at you in a scene and it’s great to work off. I think the producers picked up on that. But for now Kyle and Chloe remain friends, although never say never!
What tempted you back to Neighbours after three years away in the US and Canada?
They approached me last year. At the time me and my girlfriend (Jenna Rosenow, who played Neighbours’ Amber Turner from 2013 to 2016) were living in Vancouver. I was at a turning point, I’d just turned 30. Melbourne, where Neighbours films, is my favourite city in the world and I was happy to come home and spend some time back in Australia and use this year as a stepping stone to the next part of my career. It also gives me some time to think about what I want to do next.
How did you find the whole LA experience after Neighbours?
There are way too many Australians out there! You’re up against everybody for auditions, it’s a bit of a Neighbours/Home and Away reunion! Anyone you can think of who has been on those shows in the last 20 years is over there. It’s a weird world because we’re all fighting for the same jobs, but you’re also competing with everyone around the world! It can sometimes be a bit too much, but you get out of it what you put in.
What were your highlights of the work you did out there?
I was in an episode of the DC superhero series Arrow last year. There were a lot of stunts and it was fun to work on such a big show, it felt so different. I did a horror film called The Gallows II a while ago, I think they’re waiting for the right time for it be released. It’s not really gory, it’s more about the shocks and jumps. I’ve never done a horror film before. Jenna loves them, so I’ve seen a fair few because of her!
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Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that began as a weekly newspaper in 1892, and became a monthly publication in 1973. Photographers and models are selected for every monthly issue, but it was not until September 2018 that Vogue had a black photographer shoot the cover featuring the star, Beyonce Knowles-Carter.
Not only was this the first time Vogue chose a black photographer to the cover star, but the 23-year old, Tyler Mitchell, was also the youngest. Mitchell says he’s using his work to empower the black community. In an interview with Vogue, he said “For so long, black people have been considered things. We’ve been dignified physically and emotionally. With my work, I’m looking to revitalize and elevate the black body.”
“It’s good that [Mitchell] is putting an example for younger kids that they can achieve anything,” junior Goodness Nwawuihe said. “He is achieving something in life while also conquering racial barriers. He is making the black community more aware of how anyone can reach any goal they have.”
Throughout the years Beyonce has donated and given to charity. Carter started a donation program called Beygood, which gives supplies to those affected by natural disasters. She encourages young women of color to help the community by talking to them and persuading them to donate.
“Beyonce is a good role model for people of color,” sophomore Paige Muniz said, “Some may think she is overhyped, but I think she needs more attention. She is trying to get more diversity in society by helping out people to achieve their goals. She is showing anything can be achieved if you help someone else out to achieve something.”
After the issue was released, many fans gave their opinion on social media. Many fans showed their support by taking it to social media. Popular News Media, such as CNN News, Forbes and, Los Angeles Times, also congratulated her on Twitter by linking her interview and thanking her for hiring Mitchell.
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CHED taps top universities to assist BARMM colleges
Campuses of Mindanao State University and University of the Philippines are among those that will provide 'technical assistance' in subject areas ranging from engineering to development
Sofia Tomacruz
Published 5:57 PM, April 10, 2019
Updated 1:55 PM, April 12, 2019
PARTNERSHIP. The Commission on Higher Education says the country's top universities, including the University of the Philippines will help colleges in the Bangsamoro region improve courses. Photo by LeAnne Jazul/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has tapped the country’s top universities to help improve colleges courses in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
In a statement Tuesday night, April 9, CHED Chairman Prospero de Vera III said the commission inked an agreement with BARMM Education Minister Mohagher Iqbal, which focused on improving access to quality higher education in the new Bangsamoro region.
Under the agreement, several universities were tasked to provide "technical assistance" to education institutions in BARMM in specific subject areas, ranging from engineering to development.
CHED listed the following universities and the corresponding subject areas:
Mindanao State University (MSU)-Iligan Institute of Technology - Engineering and technology
MSU-Naawan - Fisheries
University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) College of Public Affairs and Development - Governance, project development and monitoring
UPLB College of Agriculture, Central Mindanao University, University of Southeastern Philippines - Agriculture
UP Manila College of Public Health - Community health care delivery systems
Ateneo de Davao - Continuing adult education
CHED also tapped the UP Diliman School of Urban and Regional Planning and the UP Resilience Institute to assist local government units in planning and development.
Higher education institutions in Mindanao offering the expanded tertiary education equivalency and accreditation program were also be tapped to assist children of former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) combatants in completing undergraduate degrees.
What else does the agreement cover? De Vera said that under the agreement, CHED promised to assist BARMM in making sure higher education institutions in the new region would be part of the commissions’ registry of schools qualified for Republic Act No. 10931 or the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act.
Having BARMM colleges and universities part of the registry would allow students to apply and avail of the tertiary education subsidy (TES), which provides allowances for books, transportation, and boarding fees under the law.
The agreement also wants to make sure that BARMM develops a database of children of former MILF combatants and poor students to ensure they will be eligible for TES.
This would address the current issue of many students from BARMM who are not part of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Listahanan 2.0 – a roster of families who come from poor households – due to armed conflict or lack of access to communities. Under the law, students who are part of the DSWD’s Listahanan 2.0 are given priority for the subsidy.
De Vera said CHED and BARMM have formed a technical working group to iron out details of the agreement.
Why this matters: The partnership between CHED, BARMM, and universities is among the first steps being taken to ensure better access to quality education – a factor that many residents in the Bangsamoro region want to see happen as BARMM is instituted.
Last January, a majority of residents in the Bangsamoro region voted to ratify the Bangsamoro Organic Law creating a new Bangsamoro region.
Many residents did so as they pinned their hopes on the new region to provide peace, better economic opportunities, and access to health and education services, among others. – Rappler.com
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Austria launches migrant cap despite EU anger
Vienna says the measures are necessary because a German-backed EU plan for Turkey to stem the flow of migrants setting off from its coast is not yet working
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Published 5:00 PM, February 19, 2016
Updated 5:37 PM, February 19, 2016
TOUGHER ASYLUM POLICIES. A group of migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, who declared that they will seek asylum in Germany or Austria, board the train to Croatia at the train station in the south Serbian city of Presevo, January 25, 2016. Photo by EPA
VIENNA, Austria – Austria's new daily cap on asylum seekers entered into force Friday, February 19, in a move that the European Commission has described as "plainly incompatible" with European Union laws.
Since 8:00am (0700 GMT), a maximum of 80 migrants per day are being allowed to claim asylum in the country, police said.
In addition, Vienna is limiting the daily number of people transiting Austria to seek asylum in a neighboring country to 3,200.
Once the quotas have been reached, "the borders will be closed," police spokesman Fritz Grundnig told Agence France-Presse.
He added that due to bad weather, no migrant had arrived at the Austrian-Slovenian frontier since Thursday afternoon.
Vienna's measures – announced earlier this week along with tougher controls at 12 checkpoints along its southern borders – drew an angry reaction from the EU on Thursday.
"Such a policy would be plainly incompatible with Austria's obligations under European and international law," European migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos complained in a letter to Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also criticized the proposal.
"As far as Austria is concerned I have to say I don't like this decision, we are questioning whether it is within European law, and we will have a friendly discussion," Juncker told a news conference.
But Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said there "will be no lifting of the decision," speaking at a two-day EU summit.
The daily limit on asylum claims is in line with Austria's announcement last month that it would only take in 37,500 asylum seekers this year – sharply down from the 90,000 it accepted in 2015, making it one of the bloc's highest recipients on a per-basis capita.
Vienna says that the measures are necessary because a German-backed EU plan for Turkey to stem the flow of migrants setting off from its coast is not yet working, and has urged other countries on the Balkans route into Europe to follow suit.
In response, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia have also tightened their borders.
In 2015, over one million people reached Europe's shores – nearly half of them Syrians fleeing a civil war that has claimed more than 260,000 lives.
The vast majority enter the EU through Italy and Greece, where they should register, but poor controls mean most are able to continue their journeys to northern Europe. – Rappler.com
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Russia lifts ban on British meat
Viktor Kuzmin
Russia lifts its 26-year ban on meat supplies from Great Britain, imposed in 1986 due to a BSE in UK. Source: RIA Novosti / Vitaly Ankov
After a 26-year ban on British beef and lamb, British meat producers face tough competition to attract Russian consumers.
Moscow has lifted a 26-year ban on imports of British beef and lamb, and given two companies the go-ahead to export their meat to Russia. This was announced by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) head Sergei Dankvert last week.
The embargo was introduced during the second year of Gorbachev’s Perestroika in 1986 when the first UK cow contracted BSE (mad cow disease). More than 37,000 cases of BSE were reported a year in the first half of the 1990s. Over 200 people died from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease as a result of consuming BSE-infected meat.
Click to enlarge the infographics: Top five countries that export beef to Russia
British vets only succeeded in stopping the epidemic after a ban was imposed on the use of processed animal protein in cattle fodder in 1996 in Britain (and in the EU in 2001). Animals born before August 1996 were excluded from the feeding chain, official Rosselkhoznadzor documents say.
The EU lifted its ban on British beef in 2006 but Russia took a more cautionary approach. To end Russia's ban, the UK’s chief veterinary officer Nigel Gibbens produced evidence detailing the disease's irradication to Rosselkhoznadzor in September. Satisfied with the evidence, Dankvert announced that the first steps in resuming trade would be made.
Russian authorities generally take a fairly tough approach when it comes to phytosanitary inspection of imported products. They banned meat imports from the United States and Australia this October, denied eight Ukrainian meat and dairy companies from exporting their products to Russia in September, and declared that Norwegian salmon was off-limits in May.
Russia’s livestock farmers pursue U.S. cattle
Russia lifting 26-year ban on meat from Great Britain
Russia may limit U.S. cattle imports due to transport breaches
The same day the lifting of the British meat ban was announced, eleven German companies were found to be giving inaccurate certification of the origin of their animal products and were consequently given a ban on exporting their meat and dairy products to Russia.
The two British companies given authority to trade with Russia, which are listed as UK 5513 (a beef producer) and UK 8216 (a lamb producer), pave the way for other companies to start exporting meat to Russia. However, Rosselkhoznador said it needs to see a demand for British meat before further imports are given the go ahead.
These companies will have a lot of competition in getting Russians to buy their products and will have to market their meat carefully to appeal to Russian consumers. American and Australian steak is widely consumed in Russia and consumers have recently been introduced to Argeninian and Brazilian beef too.
"Cooperation with South American suppliers is growing fast, mostly because these countries don’t distort the real prices of their products with various hidden subsidies," Dankvert explained. Brazil’s share of the Russian beef market now exceeds 40 percent, according to Meatinfo.ru trade web portal analyst Anna Yevangeleyeva.
Russia is also gradually building up its own meat production. According to Yevangeleyeva, growth will reach 8 percent this year, driven mostly by pig and poultry breeding. They are the most attractive sectors for investors in terms of payback. The poultry sector has been growing particularly fast, with imports falling 50 percent since 2007.
However, this growth could well be affected by the sharp hike in fodder prices which followed last summer’s drought.
The prospects for British lamb farmers are slightly more promising. Demand for lamb has been rising by 5 to 10 percent a year. Experts say the rise is a direct result of immigration of Central Asian Muslims to Russia. But domestic production of lamb is also growing too. Russia imported just 6,400 tonnes of lamb and goat meat between January and September 2012, 4.4 percent less than last year, Meatinfo.ru reported.
Currently lamb isn’t a staple food for the typical inhabitants of Central Russia, who generally prefer to eat beef, pork or chicken. But hopefully, with the right marketing, British lamb could be on their menus too.
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Dancing with the Stars Season 20, Week Nine RESULTS!! (Spoilers)
Here we go!!
And after showing Noah’s proposal, he’s standing on stage with his fiance. I suspect a “safe” call is imminent.
Nope! Noah is in jeopardy. Who will go against him?? I figure we have to wait an hour to find out. :::sigh::: Least they could do is give me and Court some cheesecake material…
Of course there is no encore this week. Of course.
And, Riker is going to the finale. Which means that either Rumer or Nastia is in jeopardy with Noah.
Uh oh. Nastia and Derek’s turn. This could be trouble.
Yep, Derek and Nastia in Jeopardy.
Val has yet to realize that his brand of cheap shade looks good on no one. Classless. Take notes from Derek, son, then maybe you can win this show once without pimping AND a ringer.
Ignorant man with little choreography chops is the worst thing I can say about you.
Okay, he and Rumer are in jeopardy.
Well, they just gave Nastia the chance to say goodbye. Did they talk to Riker earlier??
Final results coming up!!
Come on, Len. Someone has to go home. That’s the way the show works!
Noah and Sharna are SAFE!
Eliminated couple is: Nastia and Derek
Wrong couple went home, but I’m not surprised. I will say that after Val’s comment tonight, I will be voting my fingers to the bone for either Noah or Riker – whoever has the best chance to beat him.
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May 12, 2015 I Written By Princess Heidi
I'm a nerd and proud of it. Two degrees in geology also means I love BEER. :-) I'm also a Derek lover - proud of that too. So don't scream at those of us on this site and call us a bunch of "biased Derek-lovers" - it's just ME. :-) It may sound like I hate DWTS at times, but really, I'm just a snarky nitpicker from way back. And I'm cynical and jaded too. But I do love DWTS. :-)
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Dancing With The Stars Sharna Burgess: “This season is my dream come true”
Sharna Bugess has written such a touching new blog. She’s hoping her and Noah make the finals. No matter what happens, she feels they have already won. Read on…
I feel like I have already won DWTS just having Noah as my partner. He is my hero and a true champion. Noah deserves an award for overcoming his physical challenges and performing so beautifully each week. I have an amazing freestyle dance planned for Noah — I truly hope we make it to the final!
This season is my dream come true. Thank you to all our fans for being so supportive, we love and appreciate you!
More from Sharna at Closer Weekly.
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DWTS Season 20, Week 9 – Dancing by the Numbers
Well, there’s only one thing I’m reasonably certain of – Noah will make the finale. He might even win the whole damn thing and I wouldn’t be upset by that. Sharna (and CAI) did some amazing work last night. Just amazing.
As for the rest? Nastia had, by far, the strongest night of the remaining three – not that that means anything with this show. She’s handicapped by Derek…but possibly helped by his injury and that absolutely beautiful, tear jerking V. Waltz with Derek and Len. I cried. A lot. Something about a man Len’s age confessing he can no longer do what he loves. :::sob:::
Riker came in a very close second to Nastia for me. His first dance was absolutely fantastic – just amazing. The judge’s choice was really not that good. Too much Julianne…who couldn’t devote enough time to it to do it justice. Which is a shame, really, because Riker is a good, entertaining dancer.
Rumer had two good, solid dances but they suffered from the over hype (as is typical) by Val. It wasn’t all that, babe. I don’t even remember her first dance. Her second dance was a bit of a letdown. Interesting concept by Bruno, but I don’t think it served them that well. Both were well danced, as usual, but well danced doesn’t cut it in a semi-final where there is so much emotion.
But, all that said, the scores are close enough that anyone (except Noah) could be going home. I was surprised that they actually scored the first round fairly, handing out scores that I would have handed out. Shocking. But the two points that Rumer is down may not be enough to protect Riker or Nastia. It’s too close to call. If the weakest dancer last night went home, it would be Rumer. Not that she’s weak…but I think the other three had it over her. But something tells me that they’ve successfully brainwashed the audience into voting her into the finale. Out of Riker and Nastia, I tend to give Nastia the edge. But who knows? Let’s look at the leader board.
Argh. Annoying that they gave everyone a 30 in the second round, when I think that neither Riker nor Rumer really deserved it. But, as they often do when it’s close, they throw it to the audience to make the decision. Something tells me they won’t make the right one this time around. We’ll see.
So, Noah is at the bottom of the leaderboard. Although I think he did an amazing, truly inspirational job this season, last night was the topper – but all that said, I would rather Rumer, Riker and Nastia go to the finale. That ALSO said, I won’t be upset with whoever goes home tomorrow night. I got Derek for ten weeks regardless….and I have a feeling that maybe the producers have finally pushed him too far, so we might not see him on this stage again.
I digress. What does Noah need to make the finale?? Not much.
That’s really nothing at this stage of the game and I think he makes it easily. I could be wrong. It’s always possible that one fan group or another gets over confident, or another fan group seeing that proposal knows they could be screwed.
Next is Rumer. Rumer is two points ahead of Noah and two points behind Riker and Nastia. Again, not a lot of work required for her to be safe.
For Rumer to be safe tomorrow night, she needs ONE of the following things to happen:
Noah fails to get the 7,300 votes per million votes cast to beat her, OR;
Rumer gets 7,300 more votes per million votes cast than EITHER Riker or Nastia.
That’s it. And I have no idea what will happen. For me, Rumer was the least memorable last night. She kinda faded into the woodwork. But they have a media machine going for them, in addition to the lion’s share of the actual show last night.
For Nastia or Riker to be safe tomorrow night, they need ONE of the following to happen (same rules apply to each of them since they are tied):
Noah fails to get the 14,600 votes per million votes cast to beat him/her, OR;
Rumer fails to get the 7,300 votes per million votes cast to beat him/her, OR;
One of them gets ONE MORE vote per million votes cast than the other.
No idea what’s going to happen.
But I have to make a guess. I think that Noah is passing Rumer and Riker for sure. Not so sure about Nastia, as she had the great Len tribute dance at the end of the show. I think Noah is safe.
That leaves me with the other three. Based purely on demographics, I lean toward Nastia getting the one vote needed to beat Riker. Does Rumer get past her? Hard to say, but based on last night I would say no. I *THINK* Nastia might be safe. But the other half of me thinks that Derek is too big a liability these days. I can’t decide.
I tend to think that Nastia gets the one vote over Riker. That would bring us down to Riker and Rumer. Rumer was more consistent last night, but Riker had the more exciting first dance. I kinda feel like the second dance let Riker down a bit. While I wasn’t overly impressed with Rumer’s second dance, I feel like it was better executed that Riker’s.
Honestly, I’m leaning toward Riker going home tonight but it could be ANYONE. I won’t be surprised by whoever it is.
One more week until Heidi can read books and sleep. 😀 Until MOVE Live on Tour starts up, anyway. 😉
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PureDWTS Season 20 Semi-Finals Night One: Scores, Media, Interviews, And A New POLL (VOTE)
Wow, last night’s show was one of the best shows I have ever seen in all my time watching Dancing With The Stars. The Judges Choice dances took the couples and the show to a whole new level. So, what do you think: Would you like to see them bring back the Judges Choice dances again in the future like I would? VOTE in our new Poll and let us know.
Moving on, let’s examine the scores from last night again….
Riker Lynch & Allison Holker – 80 (40/40)
Nastia Liukin & Derek Hough – 80 (40/40)
Rumer Willis & Valentin Chmerkovskiy – 78 (38/40)
Noah Galloway & Sharna Burgess – 76 (36/40)
Next, how about some media? If you go to ABC, the Daily Mail, and Entertainment Tonight, you can view some beautiful photos and a special segment on Noah and his proposal.
As for the interviews….first, go to E News. All four couples are interviewed on the night. It was an emotional one for them all in different ways and everyone is happy with last night’s dances. And here are some more interviews (we’ll add more interviews to each section as soon as more are released)….
Afterbuzz TV:
Access Hollywood:
Got Pap (I couldn’t resist posting Maks and Peta seen after the show):
Keep checking back for updates and thanks for everything for reading, commenting, and all of your love and support for this site!! xx
ETA: Below is more….
POPTVDotCom (you can see Gleb Savhcenko, Elena Samodanova, and Adelina Sotnikova too!):
GMA:
ETA2: Fox News also talked with the couples. Be sure to see the link for more, but, below is a take…
Derek Hough was finally able to dance again for a complete number with Liukin after an injury marred his “DWTS” season and pro Sasha Farber had stepped in.
While Hough danced most of the routine, mentor Goodman did a few moves with Liukin at the end in a performance paying tribute to the veteran judge’s life.
On-the-mend Hough hopes to perform with Liukin if they make it to the finals, and the Olympian told reporters: “I think at the beginning of the season, I was more like, oh, the scores and the placement and now…Derek’s injury, and seeing the pain he’s been in…it’s taught me life is about the journey.”
ETA3: Here is a You Tube version of Noah and Sharna with Entertainment Tonight. Thanks to Andrea for the find…
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Civilization VI tries to make the best of Civilization V
Tom Chick, November 2, 2016 | Game reviews
I just spent thousands of years of accumulated faith to claim Edgar Allen Poe, one of the earliest great writers in Civilization VI. He’ll write The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart, which are considered great works. They add tourism and culture to a civilization. But great works need to be housed in a “slot”. Basically, a civilization has an inventory for these things. Thousands of years ago, I found The Grass Cutting Sword in a remote village. It’s been sitting in my palace ever since, generating tourism and faith. Because of my close relationship with the city-state of Kandy, I was supposed to get free relics for discovering natural wonders. But, alas, without a place to slot them, they were wasted. Yosemite, Mount Kilimanjaro, and the Great Barrier Reef flashed before my scouts’ eyes and no relics were forthcoming.
To increase great works inventory space, a civilization needs museums, temples, and certain Wonders of the World. Lucky for me, I’ve got the Great Library of Rome, which has room for two writings. It’s been empty for thousands of years. It’s been waiting for Edgar Allen Poe. Now he’s here. At last, it gets two books!
After the jump, or does it?
This great works system is an example of everything right and everything wrong in Civilization VI. What a nifty concept, kind of like rock n’ roll as a Wonder of the World, but more specific. Great works tap into the trope of doo-dads of unimaginable power, a favorite fantasy for boys of all ages and sexes. One True Rings, Elfstones of Shannara, Stormbringers, Grass Cutting Swords now on as epic a scale as possible, short of going full blown sci-fi.
And what wonderful flavor. When I found it, I got a fancy picture of of my Grass Cutting Sword. When Poe wrote The Raven, narrator Sean “Ned Stark” Bean reads a bit in his grave Yorkshire drawl. “While I nodded, nearly napping” I love this. I love that these cultural details have found their way into my epic strategy game, with the gameplay heft they deserve. Come to the merchant republic of Rome to see the Grass Cutting Sword in our palace, and to read The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven in our Great Library! Or, put another way, +6 faith, +8 culture, and +24 tourism!
But a funny thing happened on the way to the Great Library. In Civilization VI, missionaries and apostles run around and spread religion. If you played Civilization V, you know what a mess it is. They’re like lawyers in Call to Power. Remember Call to Power? Of course you don’t. No one does. For good reason. It was an uninspired Civilization clone without much insight into designing a game about thousands of years of human history. Hey, someone said at some point in its development, wouldn’t it be cool if we had lawyers who could walk up to a city and suck out money? For some reason, no one said no. So it got lawyer units who could walk up to a city and suck up money. You moved them around on the map just as you’d move tanks, archers, and knights. That’s how missionaries and apostles work in Civilization VI, where only one can stand on a tile at a time, and they’re mutually exclusive with any of my units.
My army can’t move because they’re besieged by a shambling horde of Buddhist missionaries from Japan. They run around clogging up tiles and whacking religion into cities according to some inscrutable under-the-hood theological algebra in which +200 points of Buddhism fly up out of some city whose name I forget because I didn’t get to name it. Civilization VI doesn’t trust me with one of the little touches that has made Civilizations great since 1991. What kind of Civilization forces me to begin with a city not called Chickville?
So here’s my Edgar Allen Poe unit trying to get out of Rome, where he was born, to reach the Great Library, where he can put The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart on the shelves. Except there’s a Buddhist missionary from Japan parked on the Great Library. Poe can’t get in. He can’t share The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart with the rest of the world. He has to wait until the AI for Japan shuffles that Buddhist missionary to another tile without shuffling another Buddhist missionary back onto the tile. Is this working as intended? Is Firaxis making a statement about how religion, formerly the wellspring of the arts, often suppresses the arts in the modern world? In which case, they’re also making the same statement about builders, settlers, and generals, all of whom would similarly stop Poe from publishing his stories.
One-unit-per-tile rule was considered a selling point in Civilization V. Hey, someone said at some point in its development, wouldn’t it be cool if we had fewer units that can’t be stacked and that therefore drape a fussy tactical layer over our grand strategy game? For some reason, no one said no. No one pointed out how much additional work it would take to develop an AI that could actually play that design. No one considered the ridiculous traffic jams and chokepoints and tactical puzzles involving the simple act of getting a swordsman next to the thing it wants to attack. No one realized how baldly it would highlight wretched AI. No one anticipated all the cheese tactics based on clogging up the map and exploiting transparently bad AI. No one appreciated how much it would undermine the design.
One unit per tile continues to be an unmitigated disaster in Civilization VI. Which is particularly galling, since Civilization VI makes significant strides in other parts of the design. You can see here some of the same insight that went into making XCOM and XCOM 2. This doesn’t feel like a game design turned over to an intern at Firaxis. It feels like a game design where sometimes someone said “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if…?” and sometimes someone else said “no”.
For instance, if you liked playing Civilization V as a forgiving city builder (cities builder?) in which you also pointlessly shuffle dudes around a map — which is to say, if you liked playing Civilization V — then you’ll probably be delighted at how much energy Firaxis has put into the cities building. You no longer grow cities by pouring buildings into a bucket and managing a gaggle of workers to terraform hexes. An intricate system brings the map alive in new ways. Never before has a river mattered so much in a Civilization game. Never before has it been such a big deal that these hills are next to this resource, that those grasslands are all adjacent, that this mountain range cradles a hex on three sides. Because all this is new, playing Civilization VI for the first time can be bewildering. What’s the deal with districts? Wait, what happened to my library? I just researched workshops, so why can’t I build one yet? Why can’t I build the Pyramids?
But playing Civilization VI for the second time is a gratifying exercise in reading the language of its maps. It’s the strategy game equivalent of poetry. Geography matters because it is literally the foundation for your civilization. This concept informs nearly every resource, and nearly every resource has been smartly reorganized to adapt to it. Whereas Civilization V imagined a bunch of tech trees with their mouths open like a cacophony of baby birds waiting to be fed, Civilization VI imagines an elegant but complex clockwork economy. Resources like science, culture, great people points, housing, influence, tourism, amenities, and faith drive the economy, and each is distinct for how you earn it, how you spend it, and what you can buy with it. It reworks familiar concepts like happiness, roads, wonders of the world, builders, the tech tree, and growth. It introduces new concepts like districts, fresh water, inspiration, great works, and government as a deck-building card game. The AI, of course, is as helpless with these systems as it is with combat. It’s awfully dismaying to advance to the later ages and see how poorly the other civilizations have handled what Firaxis has created. But if you ignore the inability of the AI to play the game, Civilization VI shines as a cities builder.
Then it whiffs on fundamental systems like espionage, religion, diplomacy, and war. Religion in particular is an obtuse, undocumented, under-the-hood mess. Oh, it’s also one of the main gameplay pillars. Oops. Diplomacy is still a casualty of the bad AI. To Firaxis’ credit, they’ve made diplomacy more transparent. They’ve also borrowed some concepts from Paradox’s games, which are at the leading edge of modeling diplomacy as a gameplay system. This would have been a great idea if Civilization VI’s diplomacy AI wasn’t so sputteringly incoherent. It will declare war on you from across the world, do nothing about it, and then ten turns later sue for peace, complete with monetary reparations. Uh, okay, Spain. Thanks? It will refuse absurdly advantageous deals. It will promise not to do something and then do it. You will promise not to do something and then it will decide you did it. These issues aren’t new. They’re just newly transparent.
And of course warfare, arguably the single most significant pillar of gameplay for how it’s constantly waiting in the wings and the single weakest gameplay mechanic for how the AI is incapable of playing it, can be summed up in four words: one, unit, per, and tile. Can you hear that splorching sound? It’s the suck of the tarry legacy of Civilization V.
Like Civilization V, it’s shy about putting too much information on the screen, but not the least bit shy about excessive graphics clutter. Unlike Civilization V, there’s scads of information available, even if it requires a bit of digging. This game comes tantalizingly close to a very good interface. But then it whiffs when it comes to some of the basics. Why are there two sets of graphics, each with their own readability issues? Here is the screenshot from the top of this review, but in 2D:
Why does neither set of graphics make clear important bits of information? What if I want to find a specific resource? What if I’m looking for, say, iron or oil? Or hunting down those insufferably hard-to-find dig sites? Why can’t I turn off all the unit clutter? Is there no better way to organize the “gossip” (i.e. valuable intel) I’m getting from my diplomatic access? How long was I supposed to play before realizing that clicking on a unit’s name brings up a menu of all my units, an interface convention that exists nowhere else in the game? Why can’t I more easily toggle yield and resource icons? Can I get a district filter? Are these jiggly lines really a helpful way to display a grid?
Why are there so few hotkeys? Why is the city list actually two lists hidden behind a tiny button, both stridently inflexible? These are strange oversights for a game that gives me thorough tooltips, not to mention this lovely column of data:
I’m not convinced the new achievement-oriented gameplay works on any level other than psychological. Who doesn’t like a message popping up that says, “Gratz, you get half off your archery research for scoring a kill with your slinger”? But what does this do to the design? Random missions from city-states are one thing, and they encourage you to do things you might not otherwise do. Vilnius wants me to send them a trade route, which will get me in good enough to unlock their unique ability. I was going to send a more profitable trade route to France, but that Vilnius special ability is too good to pass up. City-states are many things. Random quest vendors is one of them.
But the fixed achievements for each technology carry too much weight. Accomplishing an achievement pays for half of a technology. That’s huge. It forces a weirdly rigid framework into what should be a sandbox. Playing well means using these boosts as a checklist. Anyone who doesn’t navigate the achievements pays double to advance. For instance, if you build three archers, you get machinery tech at half price. Don’t ask why. You just do. Many achievements make sense. An observatory built next to a mountain gives you half off astronomy. Some don’t. Privateers teach you electricity, shooting someone with a musket leads to frigates, and sewers let women vote. Those are all things in Civilization VI. So before you research machinery, you should really build a third archer even if you’re never going to use it. Spending 50 production to get 150 tech is a no-brainer hard-coded into Civilization VI.
There’s a better way to do this sort of thing. Consider one of the additions to diplomacy. Each civilization’s leader has a specific predilection laid bare and consistent from game to game. The Vikings like large navies, the Russians respect science and culture, and the Romans are friendlier to civilizations that sprawl across lots of territory. But they’ve also got a randomly rolled hidden agenda. Gandhi might be devout, cultured, or nuke-happy. It’s up to you to discover this.
So why aren’t the tech boosts similarly randomized and hidden until you accomplish them? The history of science isn’t waiting to discover gunpowder because you haven’t built an armory yet. Yet that discount drives the gameplay. The script tells too much of the story. If Firaxis wants this idea of a eureka moment, as they call it, shouldn’t it be a surprise? You build an armory and — surprise! — gunpowder is half price. In another game, you build an armory and gunpowder is still the same price because the hidden requirement is killing an enemy civilization’s unit, building two universities, researching siege tactics, or being a monarchy. I’m no longer playing a game about timing when I build my armory, plus a hundred other things for the other techs. I’m playing a game with genuinely surprising eurekas.
Okay, it’s not my place to second guess game design. As you know, you go to Civilization with the game you have, not the game you might want or wish to have at a later time. But it is my place to note that when I go to Civilization, I’m looking for more than just a laid back single-player cities builder with the AI frittering idly in the margins. I cut my teeth on Sid Meier’s grand strategy without a brain-dead tactical layer drizzled over the top. I admire a lot of what Firaxis is doing to move on from the mess of Civilization V. They’re headed in the right direction, even if they are dragging a lot of baggage.
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The First Mille Miglia / La Prima Mille Miglia
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26-27 March 1927 / 26-27 marzo 1927
Author: Carlo Dolcini
Publisher: Giorgio Nada Editore Srl
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Ninety years ago the first Mille Miglia was held on March 26-27, 1927. The First Mille Miglia enables the reader to pin down a story which is not exactly secret, but has remained unknown until now. After exhaustive research of the Mille Miglia Archives, previously unpublished yet invaluable documentation came to light with the historic information they provide. This book tells of the first Mille Miglia’s regulations, the analytical description of 1,618 kilometres of the route - a rare description of the Italian roads in 1927 - specifications of the 101 cars entered for the event with photographs of the drivers, the results list and times at which each entrant reached the various controls at Parma, Bologna, Florence, Poggibonsi, San Quirico d’Orcia, Viterbo, Rome, Terni, Spoleto, Ancona, Rimini, Bologna and Treviso. From this journey into the recorded history of the first Mille Miglia, out came the story of just what the event really was like: a giant utopian undertaking, from which the book now attempts to separate legend from reality. By studying documents, most of which were previously unknown, a different story emerges of the 1927 Mille Miglia’s various stages, what the drivers looked like and all presented as real people. And much of the illustrative material is previously unpublished.
Born in 1946, Carlo Dolcini has been teaching for several years in the Universities of Udine and Bologna as a Professor of History of Middle-Age Philosophy. Among his works a monograph on the political thought in the Middle-Age (1983). He currently deals with both studies on the Middlle-Age and automobiles history.
Illustrations: color & b-w photos
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4 Mysterious Things Happened After Wolverine Joined X-Men
by Trivesh Sharma
First appeared in Incredible Hulk #180 in 1974, Wolverine is one of the most recognizable characters in the Marvel Universe. Charles Xavier was fascinated by the way Wolverine fought Hulk when he was under the leadership of Alpha Flight. He was approached by Xavier who was looking forward to forming a super strong clan of mutants in order to save his students trapped in the island Krakoa. Since there is much to dig about, let’s check out four major instances happened when Wolverine joined X-Men.
Wolverine accompanies Professor Xavier
Professor Xavier has always been concerned about his students and this time Wolverine steps up and leaves the Department H to assist Xavier in this mission to get back his students. And finally, he rescues all. After the defeat of Krakow, Wolverine decided to stay in the group.
Wolverine’s rivalry with Cyclops
Everything was resolved and things have been sailing quite well until Wolverine becomes a rival of Cyclops, also dubbed as Scott Summers. Well, one of the prime reason for the rivalry was Wolverine’s inclination towards Scott’s girlfriend, Jean Grey, who later joins the group. But later changed himself and became a more trusted member of the group.
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5 Most Brutally Beaten Superheroes by Solomon Grundy (You Won’t Believe No. 2)
by Pavitra Amrit
Cyrus Gold aka Solomon Grundy is one of the most feared villains of the DC universe. Often compared to Marvel’s Hulk, this brainless beast has a great brute strength and has taken on our favorite superheroes and thrashed and squashed many of them. Here are a few superheroes who have been beaten by this monstrous villain:
Supergirl — “The Last Children of Krypton”
This is a story that took place in the pre-crisis era. Earth 2 Grundy there, is super strong and he thinks to himself that there must be a Grundy on Earth 1 as well. He travels to there, where he engages with Superman. What’s bad is that he clobbers Superman and throws him around like a toy, what’s even worse is that when he cam,e to Earth 1 his strength increased tenfold allowing him to take on even the likes of Superman.
This has to be probably the worst thing that Grundy has ever done. Tornado after being tricked into having a human body instead of his mechanical body now was vulnerable to death. Well, something even worse happened to him as Grundy, after defeating him in a battle the intelligent Grundy tears his arm off and eats it in front of him.
This might come as a shock to many of the fans but recently, in the Comics Injustice: Gods Among Us, there is a battle going on where Diana is trying to free the boy wonder from Grundy’s clutches. Obviously, she fails, what’s even worse that she is punched by the colossal beast and flies so hard that the Flash is required to catch her.
This might be new to the fans but Grundy and Hawkgirl had an affectionate relationship. Hawkgirl felt bad for Grundy and he too felt admiration for the “bird nose” this all turns into ash when Grundy is resurrected and doesn’t even recognize her. He thrashes her like a tin can and throws her into incoming traffic.
Well, after Tornado maybe Bats has had it the worst with Grundy as he had to face not one but seven clones of Grundy created by Calendar Man. Bats fight them with courage, but well, even Wonder Woman was thrashed by the beast, so who’s Batsy? He is pounded by Grundy and barely escapes death.
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Greely fends off Fryeburg's upset bid in quarterfinals
By Michael Hoffer
Greely’s bench players react to a dunk from senior Jack Kane during the Rangers’ 68-53 win over Fryeburg Academy in Friday’s Class A South quarterfinal. Defending state champion Greely advanced to meet rival Falmouth in the semifinals Wednesday.
Mike Strout photos.
More photos below.
Greely 68 Fryeburg Academy 53
FA- 7 15 19 12- 53
G- 18 18 7 25- 68
FA- Saunders 4-7-17, LeBrun 4-0-10, Knapp 3-0-9, Bowles 2-2-6, Buzzell 2-0-4, Parker 2-0-4, Hewes 1-0-3
G- Brown 7-0-17, Kane 6-4-16, Bagshaw 5-0-14, Storey 4-2-11, DeWolfe 1-6-8, Miller 0-2-2
3-pointers:
FA (8) Knapp 3, LeBrun, Saunders 2, Hewes 1
G (8) Bagshaw 4, Brown 3, Storey 1
Turnovers:
FA- 22
G- 17
FA: 9-14
G: 14-14
PORTLAND—The top-ranked, defending state champion Greely boys’ basketball team was expected to roll to an easy victory in its Class A South quarterfinal against No. 8 Fryeburg Academy Friday evening at the Portland Exposition Building, but with eight minutes to go, the Raiders had all the momentum and the Rangers appeared to be on the ropes.
Until they flipped a switch and pulled away to do what they’ve done exclusively the past two winters.
Greely appeared en route to a decisive triumph when senior Zach Brown’s 11 points sparked an 18-7 lead after one period and sophomore Logan Bagshaw drained four 3-pointers in the second quarter to stretch the advantage to 36-22.
Back roared Fryeburg Academy in the third period, however, and when senior Ryan Hewes drained a late 3-pointer, the Raiders were only down by a basket, 43-41, heading to the final stanza.
The Rangers then dug deep into their reservoir of championship heart to score the first eight points of the final frame to gain some breathing room and a pair of resounding dunks from senior Jack Kane helped Greely go on to a 68-53 victory, its 41st in succession.
The Rangers improved to 19-0, ended Fryeburg Academy’s season at 9-11 and advanced to the semifinals where they will meet rival Falmouth (10-9) Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., at the Cross Insurance Arena.
“We’ve preached to the guys that seeds don’t matter,” Greely coach Travis Seaver said. “We’ve done a good job getting to where we want to be, but it comes down to playing 32 good minutes every night.”
For years, Greely couldn’t get over the hump, consistently advancing deep in the tournament only to be disappointed.
That all changed last winter when the Rangers went 22-0, capped by a decisive victory over Messalonskee in the Class A state final.
Greely then graduated Mr. Maine Basketball, Matt McDevitt, as well as standouts Jordan Bagshaw and Ryan Twitchell, and as a result, it was expected to come back to the pack this season, but instead, the Rangers remained unbeatable (see sidebar, below, for links to previous game stories), going 18-0 in the regular season, winning by an average of 17 points per game and in the process, breaking the previous program record of 34 straight victories.
Greely won by less than 10 points just three times: 66-60 at home over two-time defending AA South champion South Portland Dec. 16, 49-41 at Fryeburg Academy Jan. 19 and 55-47 at York Feb. 6.
As the top seed in Class A South, the Rangers awaited their quarterfinal opponent, which wound up being Fryeburg Academy after the eighth-ranked Raiders downed No. 9 Marshwood, 61-45, in Tuesday’s preliminary round.
In addition to their eight-point victory at Fryeburg, the Rangers also handled the visiting Raiders, 53-34, in the regular season finale Feb. 8.
The teams had met three previous times in the playoffs, with Greely taking all three, including a 71-51 decision in the 2013 Western B preliminary round, the most recent.
Friday, Greely took care of business, but it wasn’t easy.
The Rangers raced to a quick 7-0 lead, as senior Shane DeWolfe hit a runner, Brown added a 3 and Bagshaw threw a long pass to Kane, who slammed the ball home for his first of three slam dunks on the night.
Fryeburg Academy got on the board with 4:59 to go in the opening quarter when junior Oscar Saunders hit a pair of free throws, but Brown countered with a 3 and Kane made a layup while being fouled and added the free throw for the old-fashioned three-point play and a 13-2 advantage.
Saunders added two more foul shots, but a corner 3 from Brown gave Greely its biggest lead of the first half, 16-4.
Brown started the game with a plastic mask on his face after suffering a cheekbone injury in practice, but it didn’t affect his shooting ability.
“It was just a little incident in practice where I ran into one of my teammates,” Brown said. “I couldn’t really see that well, but I started getting used to it. I started feeling my shot in warmups and it carried over to the game.”
Junior Nathan Knapp countered with a 3-ball for the Raiders before a Brown bank shot gave him 11 points in the quarter which ended 18-7 Rangers.
Greely tried to put the Raiders away in the second period, but couldn’t do so.
A jumper from senior Joe LeBrun started the frame for Fryeburg Academy. After junior Andrew Storey made a jumper for the Rangers, LeBrun hit a 3 and senior Scott Parker made a layup after a steal to cut the deficit to six, 20-14.
Bagshaw then began to heat up, draining a 3, then after a turnover, hitting another to make it a 12-point game.
Junior Tucker Buzzell hit a jumper for the Raiders, but Storey answered, finishing a feed from Bagshaw with a layup before Bagshaw made another 3 to make it 31-16.
Two free throws and a reverse layup from junior Caleb Bowles pulled Fryeburg Academy within 11, but Bagshaw made his fourth 3 of the quarter and Kane scored on a putback before a layup from LeBrun pulled the Raiders within 36-22 at the break.
In the first half, Bagshaw had 12 points, while Brown added 11. Fryeburg Academy got seven points from LeBrun, but was hindered by seven turnovers.
The Raiders then roared back in the third period to make things very interesting.
Saunders started the comeback with a jumper and a 3 to cut the deficit to nine.
After a pair of DeWolfe free throws, Parker scored on a putback, Saunders made a foul shot and with 3:57 on the clock, a corner 3 from Knapp trimmed Greely’s lead to 38-33.
Fryeburg Academy then had two good looks to cut the deficit to two, but both LeBrun and Bowles missed open 3s.
Kane then stole the ball, was fouled while hitting a bank shot and added the free throw for the three-point play, momentarily turning momentum back to the Rangers, but the Raiders got a 3 from Knapp and a layup from Buzzell to make it 41-38.
Brown made a layup for Greely, but with 21.2 seconds to go, a corner 3 from Hewes pulled Fryeburg Academy within 43-41, energized its crowd and sent the game to the final stanza still very much in doubt.
Until the Rangers came out like champions and finally put it away.
DeWolfe got things started by drawing a foul and hitting two free throws.
Then, after a Kane block, Storey fed Brown for a layup, Storey scored on a putback and with 6:28 to play, DeWolfe set up Brown for another layup and just like that, the lead was 10, 51-41.
Saunders stemmed the tide with a 3, but Storey countered with one of his own.
LeBrun made a 3 to cut the deficit to 54-47, but Storey sank two free throws and Kane brought the house down again (and not for the final time) with a resounding dunk after a steal.
“We stepped up on defense,” Kane said. “That’s what we pride our team on. They made that pass all night, so I was ready for it.”
Brown then set up Bagshaw for a layup and a 60-47 lead with 3:23 remaining.
Bowles made a layup after a steal for the Raiders, but Kane hit a couple free throws.
After a Saunders floater, Bagshaw lofted an alley-oop pass to Kane, who soared and slammed it home with 1:55 remaining, again drawing a huge reaction from the crowd before being called for a technical foul for hanging on the rim.
Saunders made the ensuing two free throws for Fryeburg Academy’s final points before a pair of foul shots from senior Luke Miller and two more from DeWolfe brought the curtain down on Greely’s 68-53 triumph.
“It was a little surprising and scary that they came back, but we pulled it together and played as a team and got the job done,” Kane said.
“We try to put four quarters together and go from there,” said Brown. “Playoffs are games of runs. We had to keep our composure and keep playing together.”
“(Fryeburg was) tough and scrappy,” Seaver added. “They played well and shot really well. Defensively, we had some lapses. We got beaten off the dribble in the second half. We had to pick up our defensive intensity, not get beaten off the dribble and contain and do the fundamental things. We did better rebounding and getting out in transition.”
Brown’s big first quarter allowed him to lead the Rangers in scoring with 17 points. Brown also had five steals.
Kane was dominant with 16 points, 14 rebounds, four steals and three blocks.
“Every time I step on the court, I have a great time, no matter what,” Kane said.
“Jack is a big defensive presence,” Brown said. “He gets a lot of blocks and rebounds and that helps us get out in transition.”
Bagshaw added 14 points (and five assists), Storey 11 (to go with seven boards), DeWolfe eight and Miller two.
Greely made all 14 of its free throws, overcame 17 turnovers and had a 27-20 rebounding advantage.
Fryeburg Academy was paced by 17 points from Saunders. LeBrun added 10, Knapp nine, Bowles six, Buzzell (four steals) and Parker four apiece and Hewes three.
The Raiders made 9 of 14 free throws and committed 22 turnovers.
Next up for Greely is a Falmouth squad playing with house money after surviving York, 62-56, in a double-overtime thriller in its quarterfinal Friday.
The Rangers won the regular season encounter, 51-40, Dec. 21 at Falmouth behind 17 points from Bagshaw and 13 from Brown.
Greely has won all four prior playoff encounters, including last year’s Class A South Final, 47-26.
After Friday’s scare, the Rangers know nothing will come easily against their ancient rival.
“Falmouth’s coming off a big momentum boost,” Brown said. “We need to play good defense and play our game and we’ll be fine.”
“Big game experience helps a lot,” Kane said. “Everyone on our team is strong enough to play under pressure. We’ll have to play our best game against Falmouth. We have to take pride defensively and we’ll have to push the ball in transition. If we do, I think we’ll be alright.”
“Falmouth played tough tonight,” Seaver added. “We’re both different than last time. It’s always fun to play them. We look forward to it.”
Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @foresports.
Greely senior Zach Brown shoots a 3-pointer over Fryeburg Academy senior Scott Parker. Brown led the Rangers with 17 points.
Greely senior Shane DeWolfe and Fryeburg Academy junior Nathan Knapp fight for a loose ball.
Greely junior Andrew Storey shoots as Fryeburg Academy junior Tucker Buzzell defends.
Greely senior Shane DeWolfe goes up for a shot in traffic.
Greely senior Luke Miller drives on Fryeburg Academy junior Oscar Saunders.
Greely senior Jack Kane soars to finish an alley-oop dunk late in the victory.
Previous Greely stories
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Greely 56 Yarmouth 46
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2013 Western B preliminary round
1981 Western B semifinal
1980 Western B quarterfinal
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Exclusive: Bangladesh protests over Myanmar's suspected landmine use near border
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh lodged a protest after it said Myanmar had laid landmines near the border between the two countries, government officials said on Wednesday, amid growing tensions over the huge influx of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar.
An army crackdown triggered by an attack on Aug. 25 by Rohingya insurgents on Myanmar security forces has led to the killing of at least 400 people and the exodus of nearly 125,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh, leading to a major humanitarian crisis.
When asked whether Bangladesh had lodged the complaint, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said “yes” without elaborating. Three other government sources confirmed that a protest note was faxed to Myanmar in the morning saying the Buddhist-majority country was violating international norms.
“Bangladesh has expressed great concern to Myanmar about the explosions very close to the border,” a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The source asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
A Myanmar military source said landmines were laid along the border in the 1990s to prevent trespassing and the military had since tried to remove them. But none had been planted recently.
Two Bangladeshi sources told Reuters they believed Myanmar security forces were putting the landmines in their territory along the barbed-wire fence between a series of border pillars. Both sources said Bangladesh learned about the landmines mainly through photographic evidence and informers.
“Our forces have also seen three to four groups working near the barbed wire fence, putting something into the ground,” one of the sources said. “We then confirmed with our informers that they were laying land mines.”
The sources did not clarify if the groups were in uniform, but added that they were sure they were not Rohingya insurgents.
FILE PHOTO: A Rohingya man carrying his belongings approaches the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban, an area under Cox's Bazar authority, Bangladesh, August 29, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo
Manzurul Hassan Khan, a Bangladesh border guard officer, told Reuters earlier that two blasts were heard on Tuesday on the Myanmar side, after two on Monday fueled speculation that Myanmar forces had laid land mines.
One boy had his left leg blown off on Tuesday near a border crossing before being brought to Bangladesh for treatment, while another boy suffered minor injuries, Khan said, adding that the blast could have been a mine explosion.
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Two refugees also told Reuters they saw members of the Myanmar army around the site in the immediate period preceding the Monday blasts, which occurred around 2:25 p.m.
Reuters was unable to independently verify that the planted devices were land mines and that there was any link to the Myanmar army.
The Myanmar army has not commented on the blasts near the border. Zaw Htay, the spokesman for Myanmar’s national leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was not immediately available for comment.
On Monday, he told Reuters clarification was needed to determine “where did it explode, who can go there and who laid those land mines. Who can surely say those mines were not laid by the terrorists?”
The Bangladesh interior ministry secretary, Mostafa Kamal Uddin, did not respond to calls seeking comment.
FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees walk on the muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo
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“They are not doing anything on Bangladeshi soil,” said one of the sources. “But we have not seen such laying of land mines in the border before.”
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1328 York St
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1328 York St is a single family residence located in San Francisco, CA 94110. Built in 1918, this property features 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,596 sq ft lot, and 1,200 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 1328 York St is $1,211,000.
For the surrounding community of San Francisco, CA 94110, the average sale price for similar homes to 1328 York St is $1,585,932. The nearby schools are very good and include Downtown High, Marshall Thurgood High and Mission High. The overall crime risk for this area is slightly high with 12 criminal and sex offenders residing within 1 mile. The natural disaster risk for this area includes high earthquake risk, and very low tornado risk.
$1,211,000 estimated value
Property Details: 1328 York St
Parcel Number: 4274 002
County: San Francisco
Subdivision: MISSION BL 178
Zoning: RH3
2018 $1,431 (+2.04%) $16,626 $53,382 $70,008
2012 $659 $15,063 $48,360 $63,423
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Protesting doctors turn down Mamata's invite for talks
Last updated on: June 15, 2019 15:47 IST
Striking junior doctors turned down Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's invitation for a meeting at the state secretariat, which was called to resolve the impasse, and continued their protest for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday.
IMAGE: Resident doctors medical staff march and protest against the violence with doctors in Kolkata. Photograph: ANI Photo
The doctors, who are protesting against the assault on two of their colleagues at NRS Medical College and Hospital here, has sought unconditional apology from Banerjee and set six conditions for the state government in order to withdraw the stir.
"We are not going to the secretariat upon the invitation of the chief minister for the meeting. She will have to come to the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital and deliver an unconditional apology for the comments she made during her visit to the SSKM Hospital on Thursday," said Arindam Dutta, spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors.
"If she can go to the SSKM she can also come to the NRS... or else this agitation will go on," he said.
Banerjee, who visited the state-run SSKM Hospital on Thursday amid slogans of "we want justice", had contended that outsiders were creating disturbances in the medical colleges and the ongoing agitation is a conspiracy by the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
On Friday night, the agitating junior doctors declined to attend a meeting called by Banerjee at the state secretariat, saying it was a ploy to break their stir.
After the protesting doctors did not turn up on Friday night, Banerjee asked the students to come to Nabanna, the state secretariat, at 5pm on Saturday, senior physician Sukumar Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee along with other senior doctors, who were not part of the agitation, met Banerjee on Friday.
They held a two-hour-long meeting with the chief minister at the secretariat to find a solution to the ongoing problem.
Notably, over 300 senior doctors across various state-run medical college and hospitals resigned from their services in solidarity with their agitating colleagues.
Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Friday evening invited Banerjee to Raj Bhawan for a meeting to resolve the crisis. Banerjee, however, did not respond.
"I tried to contact the chief minister. I called her up. Till this moment there is no response from her. If she calls me up, we will discuss the matter," the governor told reporters after visiting Paribaha Mukhopadhyay, the doctor who was assaulted, at a hospital on Friday night.
Meanwhile, resident doctors of AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi have given a 48-hour ultimatum to Banerjee to meet the demands of the agitating doctors, failing which they said they would go on an indefinite strike.
Doctors in Delhi protest over WB violence
Patients in the national capital faced hardships for the second consecutive day as protest by doctors, in solidarity with their striking colleagues in Kolkata, spread to several government hospitals, which who could not join a nationwide stir on June 14.
Doctors at the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, and RML Hospital, and Delhi government's healthcare facilities such as GTB Hospital, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and DDU Hospital, boycotted work and held protests.
However, emergency and ICU services were not hampered in these hospitals.
Meanwhile resident doctors of AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital, who resumed work after having boycotted it on Friday, have given a 48-hour ultimatum to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to meet the demands of the state's agitating doctors, failing which they said they would go on an indefinite strike.
They attended patients wearing helmets and bandages on forehead as a sign of protest. AIIMS resident doctors will also take out a candle march in the campus in the evening.
Patients bore the brunt of the protest, as they faced a lot of inconvenience and had to wait for long hours at hospital OPDs.
A 28-year-old pregnant woman who visited Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital for follow-up check up claimed that she could not find a doctor in the OPD.
"My ultra-sound is due. I always come here for check-up but today I could not find a doctor to consult with. Now I have to go somewhere else but I have learnt that protests are on at other hospitals too. We patients are facing lot of discomfort because of this strike," she said.
On Friday, a majority of hospitals in Delhi had joined the country-wide agitation in support of the doctors in West Bengal, on a call given by the India Medical Association and various resident doctors' associations.
However, many hospitals could not join the protest on June 14 as they had not submitted the 24-hour advance notice to the government as required by protocol.
So, they are observing a bandh on Saturday, President of Federation of Residents Doctors' Association Sumedh Sandanshiv said, adding however, ICUs and emergency wings of these hospitals are functioning.
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Dowd: Foul play beats fair
By Maureen Dowd
Sorry, James Comey. You’re wrong again.
Donald Trump does not eat "your soul in small bites," as you wrote in a New York Times Op-Ed. He devours the entire thing in one big gulp.
The transformation of William Barr from respected establishment lawyer to evil genius outplaying and undermining his old friend Robert Mueller is a Grand Guignol spectacle.
At many of the most consequential moments in American history, I have watched officials bend over backward to be equitable, only to end up faltering and doing enormous damage to the Republic.
I first saw this dynamic during the scalding week of the Thomas-Hill hearings. It was infuriating to watch the Republicans play to win as the Democrats halfheartedly tried to get at the truth.
Now that Joe Biden is running for president in a post-#MeToo era, he says he always believed Anita Hill. But as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he acted more like a Republican collaborator. He shut down the hearing without calling the three women who worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with Thomas.
In a Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday, one of those women, Angela Wright-Shannon, wrote that she wants an apology from Thomas, not Biden, adding: "I understand why Biden turned into a prattling, ineffectual lump of nothingness." As she told The Times last year, "He tried so hard to be ‘neutral’ when the situation called for anything but neutrality."
Priding himself on his comity with his Republican colleagues, Biden set up the rules to favor Thomas.
Biden was striving to be "fair" to his vicious, duplicitous Republican colleagues who were jamming an arch-conservative liar onto the Supreme Court.
Comey also got tangled up on the issue of fairness, with disastrous results. Afraid that he would be blamed if it was discovered that the FBI had been secretly investigating the woman expected to be the next president, the then-FBI chief violated his own agency’s norms to announce that he was reopening the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails on the cusp of the election.
But he did not tell the public that the FBI was also looking into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. As The Times has now revealed, the FBI was worried enough to set up a honey trap, sending a comely government investigator posing as a research assistant to draw out George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, in a London bar.
And finally, we have the unfortunate Robert Mueller, who took a tortuous route to decide not to decide on obstruction of justice. Like Comey, Mueller believed in his own purity so much that he was blinded to his naïveté.
Barr helped the White House by outmaneuvering the mute special counsel in shaping the narrative about "my baby,’’ as the attorney general called Mueller’s report. On Wednesday during his Senate testimony, Barr spoke of Mueller dismissively, like an errant errand boy who threw a silly snit after failing to complete the task he was given.
Mueller’s trust in Barr led him to miss the moment when Trump gobbled up the attorney general’s soul like a midnight snack — in one bite.
Maureen Dowd (@MaureenDowd) is a columnist for The New York Times.
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Message from the Family - In our work at Sacco System we pursue the ambitious goal of becoming a biotech centre of international excellence and our mission is that of “supporting food, culture, life”. We are aware that nowadays it is essential to take a firm stance in order to continue to act in line with our values. In the same way as we watch over our children and grandchildren, we are also concerned with guaranteeing the continuity of the family-run business’s economic and production activities, to continue to grow and create jobs, wellbeing and prosperity to share with our employees and their families, with society and with the environment we live in. For this reason we believe it is fundamental to include sustainability among the company’s objectives, in this way declaring our commitment to reducing the impact on the environmental and human resources and, indeed, wherever possible, generating
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks to reporters in Cairo, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool) (AP)
Gates: Libya planting dead bodies at bombing sites
Defense Secretary says Gadhafi forces planting bodies at coalition bombing sites to claim as civilian casualties
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2011/03/27/libya_gates_civilian_deaths/
The Obama administration says the Libyan government's claims of civilians killed in airstrikes are unproven.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says "the truth of the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for."
Gates said there were numerous intelligence reports suggesting Moammar Gadhafi's regime was taking bodies of people killed by the pro-government forces and placing them at sites attacked by U.S. planes.
Gates said the American forces and those of other countries enforcing the U.N. resolution to protect Libyan civilians have been "extremely careful."
Gates spoke Saturday in an interview pre-taped for CBS News' "Face The Nation" to be aired Sunday.
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Poor, sad, pathetic Jeb Bush: Why last night's debate cemented his fall from grace
The fourth Republican debate was a tepid, unsurprising affair that mostly just confirmed what we already knew
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2015/11/11/poor_sad_pathetic_jeb_bush_why_last_nights_debate_cemented_his_fall_from_grace/
Jack Mirkinson
November 11, 2015 5:59PM (UTC)
Is anyone else beginning to tire of these Republican debates? Tuesday's bout on Fox Business was only the fourth one so far in the 2016 cycle, but already the candidates' tics have become thuddingly repetitive: John Kasich gives off a Willy Loman-esque air of depressive bombast. Carly Fiorina reels off her catchphrases like she's been put through "Manchurian Candidate"-style programming. Ted Cruz emotes theatrically like a cross between a fundamentalist Laurence Olivier knockoff and a shady country lawyer. Marco Rubio delivers his stump speech like the keynote speaker at a self-help seminar. Donald Trump oozes like a lounge lizard with rage issues. Rand Paul is in another world. Ben Carson just manages to put sentences together. And Jeb Bush—well, Jeb Bush does his Jeb Bush thing.
Poor Jeb. While everyone else on the stage was interrupting each other at will and rambling away to their heart's content, Jeb waited patiently until he was called, answered politely and shut up again. He got some more applause than usual, but he is hopelessly lost out there.
He should have looked around and tried to do what his colleagues were doing, which is spout a load of gobbledygook loudly enough to get the audience going. Standard Republican economic policy makes regular incoherence look like Shakespeare, so it was no surprise that much of the discussion veered wildly off into nonsense territory, a jumble of random words like "taxes" and "entrepreneurs" strung shakily together. From the beginning of the debate, when Trump loudly declared that wages are "too high" in America, to the end, when Rubio said that over-regulation, rather than a total gutting of regulations, was to blame for the banking crisis, there was barely a second when anything approaching reason was present. There was even enough time for a bizarre anti-philosopher thread to develop, as person after person tried to bash philosophers more than the last. (What in the world did philosophers do to these folks?)
The entirely random foreign policy conversation that popped up in the middle of the debate was, if anything, even more ridiculous. Take a look at this Ben Carson answer about the Middle East and tell me if you can understand what he's saying.
The candidates got much more time to talk at this debate for a couple of reasons: there weren't as many of them, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee having been demoted; and the Fox Business moderators seemed content to let them do whatever they wanted. This being a Fox production, it all sort of worked in a surreal kind of way, with the exception of the poor bell which was supposed to cut people off. The candidates ignored it so much that by the end its pinging had taken on an almost plaintive air of defeat. Rather than bow to its will, the people on stage barrelled right through, batting away the moderators' attempts to reel them in. Possibly because of this—and also because this is Fox we're talking about—there were none of the media-bashing blowups that occurred at the infamous CNBC session. The moderators, when they managed to insert themselves at all, were...fine, with Wall Street Journal editor Gerry Baker turning out to be a surprisingly shrewd and substantive interrogator. They could have nailed the candidates more on the many, many whoppers they were telling, but it's futile to expect too much in that department.
As for that big question, who won? Who knows, really? This was the first debate that felt like a holding pattern, where the trends we've been seeing develop—the fall of Bush, the rise of Rubio and Cruz, the fading of Trump—seemed to be hardening into more certain realities. There are still months and months and debate after debate after debate to go, of course, so there's plenty of time for everything I've just said to be proven completely wrong. I'm willing to stake a lot, though, on the prediction that these debates will descend even deeper into nightmare territory.
Jack Mirkinson is a writer living in New York. Follow him on Twitter at @jackmirkinson.
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Climate change protesters disrupt parliamentary question time
Protesters complaining about what they see as a lack of action on climate change have tried to disrupt federal parliament during question time.
Climate protesters have disrupted question time in federal parliament, with at least 10 people in the public galleries standing up to shout at politicians.
The first was applauded on Thursday as he yelled about "record-breaking droughts and bushfires" before being removed by security as another activist stood up to take his place.
Ministers ploughed on with their answers amid the shouting, while backbenchers looked up at the disturbance.
One woman singled out Barnaby Joyce and Tony Abbott, telling them they would be judged harshly as Mr Joyce smiled and waved to her.
Standing up one after another across the three public galleries, others said, "stop lying to us", that their children and grandchildren would suffer and "take urgent action ... you should get arrested for what you're doing".
Chanting and yelling "record breaking droughts and bushfires", the protesters disrupted question time until they were removed by security.
The Coffs Coast Climate Action Group claimed credit, saying they wanted to deliver a statement from their community and call on MPs to examine their conscience.
One of the group, Uniting Church deacon Jason John, said it was cynical of politicians including the prime minister to ask Australians to pray for rain in a time of record drought as if God controls every drop, while not doing anything to act on climate change.
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"I am not afraid of a lump of coal but I am afraid that some of our nation's leaders seem to worship it," Dr John said in a statement.
On of the climate change protest group is escorted out by security.
During Julia Gillard's prime ministership, multiple question times were interrupted by protesters against the so-called carbon tax.
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Karl Storz Morcellator Lawsuit Filed by Leiomyosarcoma Patient
August 19, 2015 — The North Jersey Record reports that Karl Storz and a hospital have been sued by a woman who was diagnosed with cancer after a morcellator was used in her hysterectomy.
The woman, 43 year-old mother Viviana Ruscitto, had a hysterectomy in October 2013 to remove a large fibroid. A morcellator was used to shred tissues in her uterus. Unfortunately, it may have spread tiny pieces of cancerous tissue that grew into numerous tumors.
Just weeks after the operation, Ruscitto was diagnosed with stage-4 leiomyosarcoma, an extremely aggressive form of uterine cancer. She has stopped treatment and is now receiving palliative care.
She accuses her doctors and The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey of malpractice for using the morcellator despite warnings from the FDA six months earlier.
Her lawsuit is the third filed in New Jersey federal court. Nearly two dozen more are pending around the nation. Hundreds or even thousands of women who were diagnosed with cancer after hysterectomies may be eligible to join the rapidly-growing litigation.
In April 2014, the FDA warned that one in 350 women who undergoes a hysterectomy actually has undiagnosed uterine cancer, and one in 500 has leiomyosarcoma. If a morcellator is used, it can “seed” tumors on the intestines, abdominal wall, or the bloodstream — turning a treatable stage-1 cancer into a death sentence in minutes.
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Youth Ministry Insights from Mister Rogers
Ben Birdsong August 20, 2018
In the year 1968, Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers decided to forgo traditional ministry work to start a venture into the emerging world of television. He wanted to help address the age-old struggle for value and identity. By combining his studies from seminary, child developmental psychology, and media, Mister Rogers set out to create a neighborhood where kids could be reminded of God’s love for them and the value that they had not from their performance, but from the imago dei within them.
The recent documentary film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? brings the story of Fred Rogers’ career and ministry into focus for a new generation. Through the medium of television, Rogers helped a whole generation of kids deal with the darkness of the world while pointing them to the hope that there is in Jesus. He modeled a life where just as every kid mattered to Jesus, every kid mattered to him.
Through Rogers’ ministry, student ministers can learn how he modeled the value of the imago dei in every person, embracing struggle yet providing hope and intentionality.
The Ministry of Mister Rogers Modeled the Value of the Imago Dei in Every Person
“There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.” -Mister Rogers
Through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the value of every person was clearly communicated. The theological idea of the imago dei is that each and every person is marked with the creative finger prints of the Creator. Rogers believed this and allowed his show to be a place where people of different races and with disabilities were presented with the value that God had given them.
Just as the kids in Mister Rogers’ audience struggled to find value in who God made them to be, our students also struggle with finding a true foundation for their value. For many, this value is determined by peers, culture, and performance. As student ministers, we need to remind students that God made them who they are and loves them with a love so great that He would not merely create them but would also pursue them with grace through the gospel.
The Ministry of Mister Rogers Modeled Embracing Struggle Yet Providing Hope
“People have said, ‘Don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don’t cry.’ I’d rather have them say, ‘Go ahead and cry. I’m here to be with you.’” -Mister Rogers
Throughout his program, Mister Rogers was not afraid to address hard issues whether it be the assassination of Robert Kennedy, death, bullying, and divorce. He did not try to shield children from the darkness of the world. Yet when approaching the darkness, he opened the door for kids to express their feelings and open their eyes to hope. Rogers believed that kids had deep feelings and struggles that many adults at the time would rather suppress and ignore than to engage.
Our students live in a world of tears, emotions, and feelings. Many of these are bottled up and never expressed or processed. Just like in Rogers’ day, many adults continue to downplay the struggles and feelings of teenagers. As student ministers, are we making ourselves available as shoulders to cry on? Are we building a culture in the neighborhood of our student ministry where it is alright to cry, feel, and process? Students need a safe place to struggle and a constant, caring adult to point them to hope.
The Ministry of Mister Rogers Modeled Intentionality
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” -Mister Rogers
Though many didn’t understand it, there was a great intentionality behind every moment of programming in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Rogers knew the impact that communicating truth could have in the hearts and lives of the kids on the other side of the screen. He would make sure that every detail came together to communicate the message in a clear and compelling way because he realized the impact that he was having.
As student ministers, we must approach our own ministries with the same intentionality because we will never know the impact that we are having in the hearts and lives of those to whom we minister. Are we seeking to communicate in a way that is clear, intentional, and directed at the heart? We leave an impact on those we serve in everything that we do. Are we intentionally loving those students whom Jesus has called us to embrace as our neighbor?
As kids, Mister Rogers modeled to us the love and grace of Jesus. As student ministers, let us build a neighborhood in our student ministry where students see the beauty of who God made them to be, the importance of struggling with hard issues together, and the intentionality of loving and caring for everyone whom Jesus would call our neighbor.
Ben Birdsong
Ben Birdsong serves as the minister of students at Meadow Brook Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. He has served in church and para-church student ministry for over 10 years. Ben has bachelors degrees in Marketing and Human Resource Management from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a Masters of Divinity degree from Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry in Ministry to Emerging Generations from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Ben is married to Liz. He enjoys reading, writing, watching movies, and blogging at www.benbirdsong.com
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No Japan without nuclear energy – Japanese official
Despite concerns over Japan's government hushing up the dangers, the second highest-ranking nuclear official in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public to come to terms with.
RT takes a closer look at the nuclear crisis in Japan in an interview with Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Nuclear Industry and Safety Agency.
“The Japanese government tried to distribute or make available all the information we got from TEPCO [Tokyo Electric Power Company] and from our monitoring assistants…, [but ] we have to explain [the situation] in the manner which people can easily understand,” he told RT.
The Japanese official noted that, despite all the figures on the situation around the country’s nuclear crisis being distributed to the public, it is not always easy for ordinary people to understand what these figures actually mean – how dangerous or safe a particular situation is.
“We think that, except for places very close to the nuclear power plant, Fukushima Daiichi, there is no big risk for ordinary people. So we should make them understand that point,” he said.
On April 19, the Japanese government notified education authorities of Fukushima Prefecture that the level of 20 millisieverts (mSv) per year is to be used as a radiation safety standard for school grounds and buildings in Fukushima Prefecture. This is 20 times the international standard of one mSv per year, which has been in effect until now and is comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in some countries.
The spokesman for the Nuclear Industry and Safety Agency believes that these new standards are justifiable in an emergency situation.
“We do not say that 20 mSv [per year] is safe, but it’s an applicable standard in this type of emergency situation,” he said.
In conclusion, Hidehiko Nishiyama pointed out that, as of now, it is impossible to imagine Japan moving away from atomic energy.
“Thirty per cent of our electricity [is produced] from nuclear energy. So, we have to use nuclear energy in the near future at least,” he concluded.
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Nearly 500 cops call in sick to protest healthcare cuts in Memphis
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The Memphis, Tennessee Police Department is hemorrhaging officers as hundreds of cops continue to call in sick as part of a growing act of protest.
On Monday this week, MPD spokesperson Sgt. Karen Rudolph confirmed to the Knoxville News Sentinel that 472 officers were off of work that afternoon after claiming to be sick. One day earlier, Mayor A C Wharton said at a news conference that 308 officer had called out of work since the previous Monday, causing a noticeable strain on the department’s ability to patrol the streets. Now if the trend continues in this manner, the number of active cops on the MPD may be obliterated even further.
Over the weekend, Police Director Toney Armstrong acknowledged that the growing number of officers calling out of work was the result of an effort waged after the City Council voted recently to reduce health care subsidies for city employees. According to the Memphis Flyer, city officials approved those changes when they agreed to pass a new budget last month. Now ahead of a July 15 vote where changes to the city employee pension plan are expected to be approved, officers are striking en masse by using up their sick days to express their outrage.
Officer Mike Williams, the president of the local police union, told a Memphis CBS News affiliate recently that a potential strike seemed to be among the only options the cops had left to speak up.
“Sometimes there’s a ground swell and sometimes you can only kick a dog for so long before it bites you,” Williams said.
Speaking to Memphis Commercial Appeal, however, Williams explained that his union isn’t necessary endorsing the strike.
"This is not something that the MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) orchestrated or condoned," he said. "I don't necessarily agree with this because we were getting support from the citizens and smaller businesses in the community."
Meanwhile, the toll of the ever increasing list of officers on sick-leave is all too apparent in Memphis, where law enforcement officials from neighboring towns have been forced to assist in recent days. According to Commercial Appeal, around 50 Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies assisted with law enforcement procedures on Saturday, when 181 members of the MPD called in sick.
"I would like to publicly thank the sheriff and Shelby County Sheriff's Office, as they always have, for being right there, our law enforcement brothers for being right there. They always have for us," added Armstrong.
As of earlier this year in May, the total number of officers working for the MPD was just below 2,280. At the time, Armstrong said he needed at least 2,400 officers “to continue full services” for the city.
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Salesforce is the world’s most popular CRM platform, with at least a 20 percent market share, and there are more jobs than ever at companies that use Salesforce platforms and applications. There are many new interesting Salesforce specializations that you might not even know about beyond CRM. Ben McCarthy, founder of the world’s most popular Salesforce blog, SalesforceBen discussed with Simplilearn marketing manager Ryan Ward the rising demand for Salesforce experts in the job market today, typical salaries for Salesforce professionals, and more.
You can watch the full webinar here or just read the highlights below.
The Salesforce Story
Salesforce is a classic start-up story. Parker Harris and Marc Benioff started it in an apartment where they wanted to create a CRM system that was as easy to use as Amazon. Now, they’ve turned it into a huge company that has many streams and products, from sales marketing to analytics.
The majority of Salesforce products have to do with sales customer service, but Salesforce can be used for “literally anything,” says McCarthy. And while Salesforce job positions have always been pretty much the same (admin, consultant, technical architect), the specializations are becoming even more apparent. “You really need to stand out and have that specialization,” says McCarthy, “and one of the best is Lightning—you really want to be ahead of the curve on that.”
Salesforce’s Integrations
Salesforce integrates with popular marketing automation and email marketing tools including:-
ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce)
If there is no app readily available to integrate Salesforce into a certain kind of software, one can be built. Basically, if a company isn’t integrated with Salesforce, it “really is doing something wrong,” says McCarthy.
Why Is Salesforce so Popular?
The company constantly innovates
The amazing culture created by the company and the platform that brings people together
The online community provides help for people who have questions or problems
A lot of effort put into making its system easy, customizable, and integrative
Other Salesforce products that automatically lay out a roadmap for you: Once you’ve done sales, you can switch to service and then marketing automation.
Shortage of Salesforce Professionals
Currently, there just aren’t enough people trained in Salesforce to meet companies’ needs. One reason is that Salesforce still isn’t a household name the way some of its competitors are. Unless you're in the business, you own a company, or you work at a company that uses Salesforce, it’s very unlikely that you actually know what it is—it's not a consumer-facing company.
However, some established and high-profile companies around the world use it. For example, T Mobile, 21st Century Fox, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Unilever, and most of the big pharma companies use Salesforce. And, IDC released a paper in October 2017 saying that by 2022, 3.3 million jobs are expected to come into the Salesforce ecosystem—not just at Salesforce but at its partner users. Salesforce has been growing 25 to 30 percent year on year, and the companies that use it are growing as well—and they need more Salesforce pros to support that growth. Because the ecosystem is huge and still growing, the Salesforce job market is very safe, McCarthy says. And, the skills you learn as a Salesforce pro are highly transferable–they’re invaluable even if you wish to switch to another industry.
Developing Salesforce Skills
Whatever budget you have, there are tools available to help you become familiar with Salesforce and develop your skills, such as:
Developer organisations—you can sign up right now for free and get Salesforce and start practicing
Trailhead, which is geared toward people learning the Salesforce platform
Simplilearn’s Salesforce certification training programs can really help you develop skills and advance up the career ladder. Some of the material is written and some are videos, and it’s all self-paced, covering the basics to advanced material. And, each certification is in a very specific area.
Salesforce in the Working World
How do you decide which path—administrator, developer, or app builder—is right for you?
There is some overlap, but each path is pretty distinct. All three are entry-level certifications. The administrator is very geared to standard functionality on Sales and Service Cloud, but there is an element of extending it, an implementation needs to be customized to fit in the business. Platform App Builder is geared toward extending the Salesforce platform with declarative functionality—it has less to do with standard features like quoting, managing your leads or pipeline, and more to do with how you can use process automation to completely automate business processes. The developer certification is geared towards programmatic customizations of Salesforce—Apex (which is Salesforce's programming language) and Visualforce, the custom UI language.
What role can those new to the workforce expect to start in with Salesforce?
Admin, consultant, or developer is a good role to start off with, but there are a lot of other roles available as well, such as sales operations and sales administrator on the business process side, McCarthy says.
What types of companies are likely to hire someone at the entry level and offer opportunities to build a Salesforce career?
Consultancies are especially good because they find it easy to train people in Salesforce, and when you’re surrounded by consultants, the knowledge is especially easy to pick up, McCarthy says. He also advises looking at nonprofits, because they often hire entry-level people due to smaller budgets. Even working pro bono for one is a great way to gain experience.
What are some entry-level job titles you can search for online?
Admin, consultant, and developer are just a few, but there are different terms for “sales” in the descriptions, so you should search for “Salesforce” in the description.
What platforms can you use to search for Salesforce jobs?
LinkedIn and Glassdoor are great; also, because Salesforce is such a hot market, recruiters can also be valuable resources. McCarthy advises to build up a network and find someone who’s invested in you.
How can you stand out with your résumé and cover letter? What soft skills might help you in your application process?
Understanding the sales process and how salespeople think is highly valuable, McCarthy says, and anything you’ve done that’s client-facing or in customer support is important.
What’s a typical Salesforce salary?
Indeed’s estimate for Salesforce administrators in the U.S. is about $90,000 per year. In India, it’s 410,000 rupees. Indeed’s estimate for Salesforce developers in the U.S. is $109,000 per year and 510,000 rupees in India.
If you have five or more years of experience, what are the ideal backgrounds for those three main job titles of admin, consultant or developer?
If you’re a developer, Apex is very similar to the Java programming language, so switching from Java should be pretty painless. Anyone in sales or who understands business processes is very well-placed to become an administrator or a platform app builder. As Salesforce is a database, any background in computer science will be an advantage, McCarthy says.
A Salesforce career is rewarding both personally and financially, McCarthy says. And the more quickly you get into it, the more quickly you can start reaping the rewards!
Ryan is a demand generation marketer with expertise in email marketing, lead generation, marketing automation and content development. He works alongside sales teams to ensure that marketing campaigns develop leads that are well-educated about the product and brand. His work experience includes both e-commerce and enterprise marketing; however, his focus at Simplilearn is on developing and nurturing the enterprise prospects. Outside the office, Ryan's hobbies and interests include sports, books, and travel.
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“Very Greek, very green” best sums up sleepy but stylish Skopelos…
says Chris Moss
The Guardian, Saturday, June 18, 2005
Faced with the hundreds of islands that litter the map of Greece, I’ve always wondered how people choose their favourites. On Skopelos, however, the locals know why theirs is utterly unique: it’s quite simply the greenest. “Five million pine trees, 50,000 olive trees, and 5,000 people,” they tell you, and while the stat might need updating to account for expats, the island is basically a string of low hills covered in dense virgin forest with the occasional orchard or hamlet in between.
As it had rained before my arrival, the place was budding out of control. “Too green, too green,” cried one man as he drove me to collect my hire car, covering his eyes to protect them from the chlorophyll. “We are the greenest, bluest island in the Mediterranean – that is official.” George D. would like to see the island regain its former glory: “It’s like the tropics here, and Skopelos could be totally self-sufficient as it was in ancient times. If we want to, we can grow anything here – fruit, vegetables, wine, oils, homeopathic medicines. If it was my island, I would ban cars, fix a limit on the population and create a wholly green island.” He shows me an ancient Skopelitan coin that was used as the main symbol of last year’s Olympic Games: “It’s all about the fair fight, the competition – to prove which island is the best.”
If that all sounds rather energetic, the second reason people give for returning to Skopelos is the tranquillity. Apart from church bells, and the occasional dinging of a goat’s necklace, it is utterly peaceful once you get away from the Paralia – the prom on the main bay – and the small cluster of shopping streets. Skopelos still has no airport and no big coaches. There are too many steps across Skopelos Town to use cars or mopeds – everyone walks, keeping even the octogenarians lean and fit, and the rubbish is collected by donkeys. Everyone rests well too: at around two in the afternoon you will hear most locals quietly announce “kalo mesimeri” – or “have a good siesta” – as they slope off for a nap.
It was not always thus. Thanks to its abundant fresh water, the island used to be one of Greece’s most important trading hubs, producing fine wines and olive oil, and building the ships to take these as far as Odessa. From the pre-Christian era right through to the 20th century, Skopelos was on a major shipping lane and has hosted almost every major conquering force from the Macedonians to the Nazis. An impressive small museum up a back street condenses the archaeological finds and changing economic fortunes into a colourful potted history. Phylloxera killed off the wine industry in the 1940s, though a cooperative is beginning to experiment with new vines. The olive oil industry is still a major island asset, along with organic honey and delicious plums – the prunes are said to be the best in the world, and even biotech-friendly Californian producers refer to Skopelos as the benchmark for quality.
The shipbuilding is long gone, but Skopelos retains a legacy of its days as a cultural entrepot in the prevalence of rembetiko music. Something like the Greek equivalent of blues, this folksy fusion was cultivated by migrants in Asia Minor and the Black Sea and brought back home. Several gifted musicians live on the island: there are gigs throughout summer at Anna’s restaurant and at the ouzeri inside the ruins of the Venetian Kastro (castle) which is run by renowned bouzouki player Giorgos Xindaris.
There are a handful hotels on Skopelos, but most visitors rent an apartment or villa. Far from being an opportunity to eat beans and toast and hide from Hellenic civilisation, self-catering is probably the best way to access the rhythms of the island. Shopping for food is as natural an encounter as you can have with an island where farm produce is everything. The nicest town houses have stone walls and floors, and are painted in lively colours, with wooden balconies overlooking the port. There are flowering shrubs – especially jasmine – everywhere in Skopelos, their aromas drifting up on the evening breeze.
The streets and steps are brushed and washed every day, and while close-knit and countrified in its routines, Skopelos seems a proud, sophisticated town. As ubiquitous as the flowers are the 150 small churches – built by well-to-do families as status symbols, the 19th-century equivalent of the unused conservatory. It’s worth noting which belfry is closest to your villa, as these tend to be the highest points and in the labyrinth of unnamed, whitewashed, terracotta-roofed houses, it’s easy to get lost – I finished up being ferried around by quasi-bilingual locals until a taxi driver recognised the name of my numberless villa (in my unnamed, whitewashed back street).
Great for meeting the neighbours, these steep alleyways are agony with shopping bags. In the heyday of unofficial maritime commerce, the winding lanes helped Skopelitan pirates evade capture and provided countless dark corners in which to stash the loot.
The closest pair of beaches – Stafylos and Agnontas – are nice enough and can be reached on foot, but it’s worth heading north to visit Panormos. The name means “the perfect harbour” and while deep enough and sufficiently sheltered for the island’s traditional caiques and fishing boats, it is also ideal for snorkelling and swimming. Neighbouring Milia and Kastani are also good for a bathe, and all have at least one taverna doing grilled fish, sandwiches and cold Mythos beer. As these are western beaches, facing Skiathos, there is generally little or no wind, and Panormos also boasts the most impressive sunsets on the island.
Further north still is the minuscule hamlet of Old Klima, which was devastated by an earthquake in 1965 and now has a winter population of just three – many abandoned houses still contain their original furniture, waiting for the spirit of their owners to come back. Sprawling over a hillside next door is the island’s second town, Glossa, which has barely altered in response to tourism. Houses are shuttered much of the day, and the high street is a string of sleepy stores selling ankle-length black dresses and dusty bottles of Metaxa – though one shop does find the energy to do radio ads to promote its eclectic stock of “dog food, jewellery and alcohol”.
Two beautiful beaches, and an impressively sited church, are at Agios Ioannis, reached by a winding road that starts just outside Glossa. It’s the jagged rocks framing the cove that make it so special, and nothing blocks the view east to the island of Alonnissos except for the ferries and catamarans that pass in the distance every half hour. Beyond here is the northernmost tip of the island, Cape Gourouni (Pig), and two more tiny strips of sand, Fat George Beach and Dead Woman Beach. Naturists seem to have chosen the latter for their exhibitionism, though they already have a semi-official strip of sand near Stafilos.
Buses depart six times a day for all the main villages and beaches from the Paralia. If you plan on exploring the scenic routes, get a bike, motorbike or jeep. The unmetalled roads quickly become genuine off-road challenges, and while the views from the Delfi and other high points are stunning, the road chicanes along the edge of cliffs and there are no barriers except for the pine trees, and no road signs.
This is one of the places urban Greeks come to in July and August and their presence may account for the quality of the food: the cheese and spinach spiral-shaped pies are overrated, but the ouzeri scene is lively, turning out moreish mezzes of chard, octopus, peppers and garlic-laced yoghurt, while cosmopolitan restaurants serve delicious mains of grilled fish, prawns in bacon or lamb roasted with the famed plums. Several pastry outlets – including a French patisserie – bake bread and gooey cakes.
Since you can’t sell souvenir tat to natives, even the shops are stylish. Between all the little grocers’ stores (there are no big-name supermarkets) are locally managed outlets for beach gear, fine silverwork and designer clothes. The ceramics are rated highly even by seasoned collectors, and one local potter produces elegant old-style undecorated black-glazed amphora, wine jugs and small bowls. There’s also an ancient artisan who makes to-scale, seaworthy replicas of galleons and clippers using original shipbuilding techniques – he receives commissions from VIP clients, and did a ship for George Bush. It’s not a tourist thing – it’s the only way he can use his skills now that the big boats are moulded in Scandinavia, and in any case his models can cost anything from €10,000 to €20,000.
Very green, very Greek and very serene, Skopelos is atypical of the Aegean islands. On the last evening, I went out to survey the town from the balcony. My lemon trees were ripening, my jasmine was sweating in the heat, the radio was playing its twangy, passionate folk. The neighbours were beginning to say hello and I had some fresh fish in to concoct my next meal. So long as Skopelos lacks an airstrip, it will continue to repel the quick-fix hordes, so its future state as a refuge from kitsch and clamour is more or less assured – and while Greeks continue to favour it for their own summer hols, British travellers can luxuriate in being a welcome minority. Alternatively, the Skopelitans might try the self-sufficiency experiment, and shut the place off. It’s a bit small for a lifetime, and you could tire of oil, honey and plums, but I can think of worse places to be stranded.
The above content is an excerpt from the original article by Chris Moss (www.chris-moss.net), published in “The Guardian” (theguardian.com).
Lonely cove in northern Skopelos (Pic: Chris Moss)
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The heat is on Transvulcania Ultramarathon!
It’s SuperSky Race time! On May 11th, runners from all over the world will climb from sea to sky over volcanoes for the legendary Transvulcania Ultramarathon, a pinnacle event in the Migu Run Skyrunner ® World Series Calendar and the first SuperSky Race of the series.
Starting before dawn at the Fuencaliente Lighthouse on the ocean front, the 74 km course climbs 4,350m over volcanic sand to the iconic Roque de las Muchachos at 2,420m. It’s almost all downhill after that with a steep descent that lasts around 15 km, before the final climb through the island’s banana plantations to the famous finish line in Los Llanos de Aridane.
Up for grabs are those all-important double points, awarded to the finishers of every SuperSky Race. Megan Kimmel (USA), Team Salomon, who currently sits at the top of the Overall Ranking, is among those rising to the challenge of what has been described as one of the toughest Sky Races in the world, hoping to score big.
“Transvulcania in La Palma is a destination you know before you even get here. It’s going to be an amazing race.” Says Kimmel who feels fresh and in high spirits after her recent win at the high-altitude Skyrun in Yading last weekend. “I still feel a little jetlagged, but I think that it will be a nice transition starting at sea level. I feel like I’ve put in the right training for the amount of elevation in this race.” Kimmel will once again be up against Ragna Debats (NED), Team Merrell after beating her by a whopping 30 minutes at the high-altitude Yading Skyrun.
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Other strong contenders in the women’s field include Emily Hawgood (ZIM), Team Scott, Anne-Lise Rousset (FRA), Team Oxsitis-Odlo and Elisa Desco (ITA), Team Berg Outdoor/Scarpa.
With 2018 winner, Pere Aurell (ESP), Team Merrell, pulling out last minute due to an injury, and Transvulcania legend Luis Alberto Hernando (ESP), Team Adidas Terrex, also not participating in the ultramarathon this year, the men’s field lies wide open. With just days to go, it’s looking likely to be a tough battle between Jon Albon (GBR), Team Gore/VJ shoes, Dmitry Mityaev (RUS), Team Adidas Terrex, Marco De Gasperi (ITA), Team Hoka One/Compressport, Petter Engdahl (SWE), Team Salomon and running legend, Max King, (USA), Team Salomon.
Transvulcania is one of, if not the, biggest events of the Migu Run Skyrunner® World Series Calendar. Since 2012 it has attracted top names in skyrunning and continues to grow every year, reaching an all-time high of over 2,000 runners in 2019.
The Transvulcania VK is also part of the Vertical Kilometer World Circuit and will kick-off the weekend of events. The 7.6 km course which totals 1,203m vertical will take place on Thursday 9th of May, starting at the Tazacorte beach.
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Maurizio Sarri leaves Chelsea for Juventus with Frank Lampard waiting in wings
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Last Updated: 17/06/19 8:47am
Maurizio Sarri leaves Chelsea after just one season at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea have announced that manager Maurizio Sarri has joined Juventus on a three-year contract.
The Italian succeeds Massimiliano Allegri after informing Chelsea, who will get £5m in compensation, of his desire to return to his native country following their triumph in the Europa League.
Sarri's departure is set to pave the way for Frank Lampard to return to Stamford Bridge as boss, with Chelsea expected to approach his current club Derby, who have been trying to offer him a new deal.
Frank Lampard is the overwhelming favourite with bookmakers to be the next Chelsea head coach
Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia has suggested the club could not stand in the way of Sarri's "strong desire" to return to Italy and be closer to his elderly parents.
"In talks we had following the Europa League final, Maurizio made it clear how strongly he desired to return to his native country, explaining that his reasons for wanting to return to work in Italy were significant," she said.
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"He also believed it important to be nearer his family, and for the well-being of his elderly parents he felt he needed to live closer to them at this point.
"Maurizio leaves Chelsea with thanks from us all for the work he and his assistants did during the season he spent as our head coach, and for winning the Europa League, guiding us to another cup final and a third-place finish in the Premier League.
"We would also like to congratulate him on securing the role as big as any in Serie A and to wish him the best of luck for the future."
The Europa League was the first major title of Sarri's career
Sarri leaves Chelsea after just one season in which they finished third in the Premier League - restoring the club's place in the Champions League - and secured the 60-year-old's first major trophy as a manager.
This is despite Blues fans expressing their discontent at his 'Sarri-ball' tactics and team selections, notably during the 2-0 home defeat to Manchester United in the FA Cup in February.
Sky Sports News understands Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola will also leave Stamford Bridge when his contract as assistant coach expires.
Gianfranco Zola played for Chelsea between 1996 and 2003
Zola, 52, returned to Chelsea last summer on a one-year deal to work alongside Sarri.
It is believed a club ambassador role has been offered to Zola but the Italian would prefer to continue coaching and is unlikely to accept the position.
The task facing Sarri's replacement
Whoever takes over at Stamford Bridge will not be able to sign any new players, with Chelsea's ongoing FIFA transfer ban which is pending an appeal lodged with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Harry Redknapp - Lampard's uncle - believes the ex-West Ham and Manchester City player can bring through a new wave of young talent from their academy, however, and will not struggle to exert his authority on the dressing room as a former Chelsea great.
Chelsea will start their 2019/20 Premier League campaign with a clash against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday, August 11, live on Sky Sports, after the fixtures were released on Thursday morning.
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Over the past three decades, the spread of the Internet has radically changed the world and everything it touches, including the automotive industry. Vehicle network connectivity features have changed the way we live, work and drive. Connected cars today have the power of 20 PCs and contain more than 100 million lines of code that can process up to 25 gigabytes of data per hour, and it is estimated that by 2021, there will be more than 380 million connected vehicles on the road. Do you drive a connected car? If you don’t know, you’re not alone.
According to a recent study by Kantar, 47 percent of respondents didn’t realize their vehicle included features that classified it as a connected car. Many other car owners were not aware the technology existed, while those who were aware either didn’t trust the technology or see how it could benefit their everyday lives. Connected cars and the Internet of Things A connected car is a vehicle that is connected to the internet via a mobile data stream. This allows the car to connect and ‘talk’ to other devices, such as smartphones, inside and outside the vehicle. Technology is already being tested that enables connected cars to communicate with other vehicles on the road, like ambulances, as well as with infrastructure, like traffic lights, helping drivers avoid accidents, traffic jams and other slow-downs. Connected cars are part of a bigger technology trend called the Internet of Things, which is the connection of everyday devices via the internet. These smart devices are everywhere, from refrigerators that can tell people when they’re running low on milk and automatically order more to mirrors that can give weather and news updates while people brush their teeth. “Connectivity has been a key enabler for automakers like Ford to offer greater level of comfort, convenience and safety to car owners,” said Linus Mattson, Infotainment Supervisor of Ford Asia Pacific. “As the technology progresses, we can expect a future with all-encompassing ecosystem of interconnected devices and infrastructure that interact with each other in a way that will change the world.” Seamless digital experience Among the most common features in connected cars today are infotainment systems, which essentially transform cars into ‘smartphones on wheels’ and allow drivers to seamlessly extend their digital lives onto the road.
Products like the Ford SYNC® 3 voice-activated system enables users to control a vehicle’s navigation, audio and climate features, as well as send text messages and make phone calls, all without taking their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel. This not only helps to prevent distracted driving, but also transforms commutes into a productive experience. Instead of wasting time sitting in traffic on the way to work, customers can safely check and reply to messages, join a conference call or listen to audiobooks.
Connectivity features can also help save time and money. Many navigation systems can check real time traffic conditions and suggest an alternate route to avoid traffic or bad weather, resulting in shorter journey times and more efficient driving. This is especially important in cities like the Philippines, where people spend an hour and sixteen minutes stuck in traffic everyday, wasting time and fuel. Features such as tire pressure analysis can send alerts when a tire is not inflated properly, which can cause tire failure as well as poor fuel consumption, which can be six percent higher if a tire is under-inflated. Safety when you need it Improved safety for drivers and passengers is the most important benefit of connected cars. Vehicle connectivity features today have evolved significantly and are enabling semi-autonomous capabilities in vehicles, such as adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking (AEB) and lane-keeping assistance.
Many people are starting to look for these features in their cars and trucks as they realize the game-changing benefits of these technologies. These new features have revolutionized automotive safety by using cameras and sensors in vehicles to help prevent accidents before they occur. Today’s connected cars have monitoring systems that can alert a driver of potential dangers and are designed to even intervene and take control of the vehicle, if necessary, to avoid a collision. For example, vehicles equipped with Ford’s Lane Keeping System use a camera mounted behind the rear-view mirror to monitor road lane markings and detect unintentional drifting outside of a lane. When the camera detects the vehicle drifting, the system is designed to either alert the driver via the instrument cluster display or take control of the steering wheel and gently steer the vehicle back into its lane. As the future of connected cars progresses along the inevitable path toward fully autonomous vehicles, we can benefit today from the amazing developments that are taking place, making the driving experience safer, more productive and efficient and – of course, so much more enjoyable.
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Sequans Works with STMicroelectronics to Deliver LTE-M/NB-IoT Connected MCU Solutions
New Monarch cellular extension board for ST Discovery kits now available; new integrated Monarch/STM32 module in the works
PARIS, France – February 14, 2019 – Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is working with STMicroelectronics to bring LTE for IoT connectivity to the MCU ecosystem and accelerate its adoption. From this collaboration, the companies have developed a dedicated cellular extension board for STM32 Discovery kits based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT technology. ST has also enlarged its STM32CUBE cellular software library to support Sequans’ existing Monarch-based module, GM01Q.
A more integrated solution, enriching the GM01Q module with an STM32 MCU, is in the works. The purpose of this all-in-one solution is to accelerate the adoption of cellular IoT connectivity in the industry. The new module is expected to be available later this year.
The cellular extension board — Sequans’ GM01Q STMod — adds LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity to any STM32 Discovery board using Sequans’ Monarch-based GM01Q module. The extension board and its related software in the STM32Cube library provide developers with a powerful and simplified IoT development kit that is packed with drivers and easy-to-use features to quickly establish a cellular-to-cloud connection.
Sequans’ GM01Q module supports 17 LTE bands for worldwide connectivity, and the extension board is pre-integrated into the STM32CUBE software suite, which can connect STM32-based products to cloud servers, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and others, as the libraries become available. The kit includes a switchable SIM interface, eSIM, and MicroSIM, a high-performance antenna for frequencies between 700 MHz – 2100 MHz, and free drivers and code examples.
“With ST, we’re offering a best-in-class LTE for IoT plus MCU solution that is based on Sequans expertise in cellular IoT connectivity and ST’s expertise in low-power MCUs,” said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO. “The result is an easy-to-use solution for IoT device development or prototyping that will work on LTE networks around the world on supported operators in the USA, Japan, Korea, and Europe.”
“This new expansion board and software build on our long-running cooperative effort with Sequans in LTE for IoT solutions, so we’re excited to introduce this Monarch cellular extension board for STM32 Discovery kits to our ecosystem and the market,” said Ricardo De Sa Earp, General Manager, Microcontroller Division, STMicroelectronics. “Combining the GM01Q STMod extension board with our STM32 Discovery kit should be of great interest to developers and we expect it to spur the development of all kinds of interesting IoT applications.”
For more information about the GM01Q-STMod and to download the development kit, click here.
The new Sequans GM01Q development kits are initially being made available to select developers at Mobile World Congress. For more information visit Sequans and ST at Mobile World Congress, February 25-28, 2019: Sequans in Hall 5, stand 5C87; ST in Hall 7, stand 7A61.
Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is a leading provider of single-mode 4G LTE semiconductor solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and a wide range of broadband data devices. Founded in 2003, Sequans has developed and delivered seven generations of 4G technology and its chips are certified and shipping in 4G networks around the world. Today, Sequans offers two LTE product lines: StreamrichLTE™, optimized for broadband devices, including CPE, mobile and portable routers, and high-performance IoT devices; and StreamliteLTE™, optimized for lower data rate and narrowband IoT devices, including wearables, trackers, and sensors. Sequans is based in Paris, France with additional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Visit Sequans online at www.sequans.com
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Cal quarterback Jared Goff about to fulfill childhood dream
Sporting Green // College Sports
Ron Kroichick Dec. 28, 2015 Updated: Dec. 30, 2015 6:42 a.m.
Cal quarterback Jared Goff poses for a portrait at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, CA Sunday, December 13, 2015.
Photo: Michael Short, Special To The Chronicle
This journey began long ago, when young Jared Goff uttered his first word: ball.
Before long, Goff was throwing balls, shooting balls and hitting balls. He shared the varsity-quarterback spot as a sophomore at Marin Catholic High, and also played forward on the basketball team and shortstop on the baseball team.
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His ambition, all along, was to become a professional athlete. He didn’t know if this meant flinging passes downfield or trying to whack curveballs into the gap (he really wasn’t serious about basketball). But then he landed a football scholarship to Cal, started as a freshman and became one of the nation’s most decorated quarterbacks.
So here he sits, in a meeting room adjacent to Memorial Stadium after a rain-soaked practice, marveling at the short distance of three college seasons: from raw, wide-eyed kid to savvy leader of the Golden Bears.
“It’s gone by really fast,” he said.
Left unsaid: Goff’s time at his dream school, where he routinely attended games as a kid, probably will end with Tuesday’s Armed Forces Bowl. Goff isn’t ready to formally declare his intentions, but he’s widely expected to enter the NFL draft and instantly become one of the most coveted prospects available.
This is serious business, of course. Pro scouts will dissect game video, examine his arm strength, wonder about his lean frame. Goff, already accustomed to the attention associated with playing quarterback in the Pac-12, now braces for another level of scrutiny altogether.
He’s not the little kid in Novato anymore.
“I kind of have to remind myself every once in a while: ‘You’re living your dream right now, enjoy it,’” Goff said. “‘Relax. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself.’
“I’m excited — that’s obviously what I’ve wanted to do all my life, be a professional athlete and play in the NFL. If the opportunity comes, it’s going to be fun. I can’t wait.”
Most early mock drafts predict Goff will be a high choice if he leaves Cal after his junior season, anywhere from No. 2 overall to the middle of the first round. He’s generally regarded as one of the top two quarterbacks, alongside Memphis’ Paxton Lynch.
ESPN draft expert Todd McShay recently pegged Goff for the No. 5 overall spot to the 49ers. That’s a tantalizing possibility for Goff, given his lifelong allegiance to the team. (Then again, he might want to avoid the mess in Santa Clara these days.)
CBS draft analyst Rob Rang projects Goff as the No. 1 quarterback in the draft and a top-10 pick. Rang also expects NFL teams to downgrade him a bit because of his relatively slender, 6-foot-4, 215-pound build.
“I don’t see an elite arm, but I do see the accuracy, anticipation and pocket movement to move past pressure and keep his eyes downfield,” Rang said. “Those three traits translate very well to the NFL.”
Rang acknowledged Goff must fight through skepticism about the spread offense Cal uses. That system relies on shotgun snaps and quick throws, but Rang noted how often Goff shifted safeties with his eyes and then threw to the other side of the field — a treasured skill in the NFL.
Cal offensive coordinator Tony Franklin doesn’t have much patience for any skepticism NFL scouts might harbor about Goff. Franklin offered a pointed reminder, saying college coaches are paid to win games more than prepare their players for the pros.
He also considers Goff absolutely ready to take the next step — and not just because he can read defenses and unleash accurate throws. Franklin raved about Goff’s toughness and his striking physical evolution the past three seasons.
That was a prerequisite to becoming a widely respected leader among his teammates. They saw the ferocious hits Goff absorbed. They also noticed him hopping off the turf, ready for more.
1of2Cal quarterback Jared Goff poses for a portrait at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, CA Sunday, December 13, 2015.Photo: Michael Short, Special To The Chronicle
“Jared never flinches,” Franklin said. “That toughness is one thing every great NFL quarterback has had, from the 1950s to today. And he’s got it.”
Goff also brings a perfectionist streak common among great quarterbacks. He and backup Chase Forrest had a little competition this season in which they sought to complete every single pass in a particular practice. They pulled it off a couple of times, but not often.
This can be a daunting personality trait, the unwillingness to accept any imperfection; Goff sometimes wishes he would become less obsessive and just get some sleep. Then he reads about Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers — all great quarterbacks, all noted perfectionists.
It’s part of the deal with the most demanding position in sports.
Cal quarterback Jared Goff, 16 looks to throw in the first half, as the California Bears take on the Washington State Cougars at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Calif., on Sat. October 3, 2015.
Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
The anxiety pays off every time Goff uncorks a long pass and watches the ball drop right into the hands of his receiver. He still recalls the adrenaline rush of his first college touchdown pass, a long post to Chris Harper against Northwestern in 2013.
His last college touchdown pass figures to come at some point Tuesday against Air Force. It will make him a bit wistful, because he savors playing quarterback at Cal — where both his parents, Jerry and Nancy, went to school — and helping the Bears retrieve respect the past two seasons.
“It was a little bit personal for me, where a lot of these guys are from L.A. and they’re just playing in college,” Goff said. “That’s totally fine. But for me and guys from the Bay Area, like Hardy Nickerson, it was a little personal, and we wanted to get it back.”
They got it back to some extent. And now Goff soon heads off to his next challenge, football in hand.
Ron Kroichick is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: rkroichick@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ronkroichick
To commemorate the conclusion of 2015, while looking forward to 2016, The Sporting Green is profiling the top personalities Bay Area sports fans should focus on in the new year. For our full coverage of “People to Watch in 2016,” go to www.sfchronicle.com.
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Arthur C Clarke
What I've always liked about Clarke's work...
Thread starter Rosemary Fryth
Rosemary Fryth
...is the believabilty of his novels. They all seem to be based on solid scientific principles. With fantasy I can accept the totally wild and bizarre, however with sci-fi there must be a strong element of 'this could actually happen' running through his books.
Clarke I think was called somewhere a modern day prophet for his accuracy in predicting the creation of satellites, and I think in 'Imperial Earth' I recollect him mentioning a device very similar to our current tablet computers.
My favourite Clarke novels would have to be '2001-A Space Odyssey' and 'Rendezvous with Rama', although I do enjoy reading his short stories.
J-Sun
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay
It seems to me it wasn't so much a "prediction" as a proposal that was then carried out, which I find much more impressive than a prediction. But, either way, you're right he's intimately linked with the concept.
I like many of his stories and novels, too. Have you read The Fountains of Paradise? That deals with the space elevator idea and is quite a good book besides.
I'm not sure what my favorites are but your two are excellent. I also liked Childhood's End from reading it a zillion years ago and just recently was really impressed with The Deep Range. And, of course, there are other good ones.
Yes I own 'Fountains of Paradise', although have to admit its been decades since I last read it.
Another interesting book he wrote was 'Lost Worlds of 2001' which was a behind-the-scenes account of the making of the film '2001 - A Space Odyssey' as well as Clarke musing on his role.
Oh and just as an aside, counted up my entire Arthur C. Clarke collection - 21 books in all. I really ought to start re-reading them all again...
AE35Unit
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Somewhere near Jupiter...
I first got into Clarke when I read 2001 in paperback in the 80s while listening to Beethoven. Never looked back!
Oh and in the movie the crew are seen using tablet devices, and Steve Jobs had the audacity to suggest that Apple corp had the rights to the design! That movie was made in 1968!
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I'm very much with you on this Rosemary. I'm by no means exclusively into hard believable SF but I do get an extra buzz from reading stuff based on solid science and I do love ACC's work for exactly that reason.
In case you missed it you might be interested in Ian Sales new venture that he posted on recently (http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/532813-new-anthlogy-rocket-science.html). Looks very interesting and I think I shall be taking a much closer look when it appears.
TedKeller
Amazingly clear, devil-may-care blue eyes with a g
I've always like his massive imagination, and since I've grown up, I've discovered his honeyed narrative voice. A pleasure to read for the prose alone, unlike clunky Asimov and far too witty Heinlein.
TedKeller said:
Yes he always insisted that his writing should be clear and straightforward. No nonesense. No swearing either, something he shared with Asimov! Now I adored Asimov as a person but a lot of his fiction leaves me cold, not so Clarke although i find his Childhood's End a struggle!
SpanishMill
Future Nostradamus
SpanishMill said:
Not quite. Comparing Clarke to Nostradum is kind of an insult to Clarke!
no alive knows how he will be perceived 500 years from now.
JT Griffiths
Rosemary Fryth said:
Yes I too like 2001 and Rendezvous with Rama, but to choose a favourite Clarke story would be very difficult.
ParallaxBrew
I read an interesting article on this recently. The article was about how sci-fi authors predict technology. Really, though, what they are doing is taking an existing technology to its next logical level.
There Are Always new Things to Learn.
One of the most forward looking science fiction writers of all time His stories alway seemed ahead of the curb in stye and concept.
Bick
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Yes, I like the believability of his novels and plots too, and I have a soft spot for some of his later work that garners less praise in the main. I really liked "The Songs of Distant Earth", for example.
BAYLOR said:
His stories alway seemed ahead of the curb in stye and concept.
Indeed, and also of the curve
anto-shturmovik
He was a scientist too. He even had a patent, for the organization of communication satellites' orbits.
Having a patent to your name is no indication of merit in and of itself, though, to be fair. I have 8 or 9 patents, but I wouldn't claim it means anything much.
Well, in his case, he simply described how geostationary orbits could be used to build a communication network... which is simply the basis for all telecommunications nowadays. So, if it's a "legit" patent (ie not "this guy discovered it but I patented it before he had a chance to do it himself"), which I think it is, it's a really important and useful patent.
Out of curiosity, what kind of patents do you have ?
The way he conveys and describes space travel.
BrightStar*
I like that he writes with an easy and lightweight style, it reminds me of Bradbury writings but not so poetical. He also uses wider philosophical themes for his novels, and creates great environment and landscapes. For example the beginning of City and the Stars is a masterpiece. I like how he describes the domed city, and how the city takes care of everything and stuff. Its like he is describing the ultimate utopia but at the same time you know there is something wrong there. I only wish I could write so well.
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The Stat That Proves Eden Hazard Is the Champions League Creation King So Far This Term
It would be a tad unfair to suggest that Chelsea hugely missed Eden Hazard's attacking influence during the early weeks of this season.
True, the Belgian forward's presence on the pitch could have prevented the Blues from falling to a shock opening day defeat against Burnley on home turf, but the reigning Premier League champions weren't too shabby in his absence.
The 26-year-old is still a vital cog in Antonio Conte's side though and judging by this stat from OptaJoe about his form in the Champions League, Hazard appears to be getting back to his best following a lengthy lay off after breaking his ankle:
13 - Eden Hazard has created more goalscoring chances than any other player this season in the Champions League (13). Silky. pic.twitter.com/mbBIO5hlUB
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 31, 2017
Considering the world class talent on show in UEFA's big-money club tournament - we're looking at you Messrs Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and De Bruyne - Hazard trumps them all when it comes to selflessly setting up his teammates.
Does it mean that Chelsea are starting to rely heavily on Hazard again now that he's back and fully fit? Possibly, but then who wouldn't want to involve Hazard as much as possible in attacking phases of play?
He has the creativity, eye for a pass, pace and shooting power to cause serious problems to opposition defences and Conte will hope he continues to both score and assist as much as possible this term.
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Abhishek Bachchan starrer ‘Manmarziyaan’ banned in Pakistan
by Entertainment Desk
After the Abhishek Bachchan starrer Manmarziyaan saw its release worldwide on 14th September, the Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) Pakistan has banned the film in the country and refused to give it a screening approval.
While the CBFC has given no reasons for the film’s banning, they have given a clarification explaining that the film has scenes which are against the ‘censorship code’.
“The members unanimously considered Manmarziyaan’s contents to be in violation of censorship code,” the CBFC chairman told Something Haute.
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Manmarziyaan is the latest in a list of films, which has seen a ban from CBFC in the past few years, with Raees and Veere Di Wedding being major ones.
Directed by Anurag Kashyap, the film stars Abhishek Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu, and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles and revolves around the love triangle between Rumi (Taapsee), Vicky (played by Vicky) and Robbie (Abhishek), which is set on a backdrop of deceit and lies.
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Donald Trump's administration may seek strict accountability for any future aid to Kenya
By Richard Miriti | Updated Jan 27, 2017 at 11:39 EAT
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 The last decade has seen Kenya as one of the top aid recipients from the United States. Most of the humanitarian aid money helped in the fight against malaria and HIV/AIDs.
Department of State data shows Kenya in the period of 1997 through 2017 as the second highest aid recipient in the Sub-Saharan Africa to a tune of $618.5 million.It is second to Egypt which received $1.4billion. Since president Trump took office, he has used his business negotiation skills to either kill or revise past U.S international agreements on trade. President Trump has also questioned the past uses of U.S tax payer’s money in different parts of the world. In all scenarios president Trump weighed on how U.S benefits by committing resources to different countries. For the last half, a decade Kenya has stepped up efforts in fighting terrorism inside and outside its borders. These efforts have not gone unnoticed because in the past U.S regimes Kenya received substantial military aid. This kind of assistance may be reviewed but it is most likely that the aid won’t be cut off. However, assistance on other issues like healthcare may take a big hit because U.S happens to look into its own health care overhaul before committing tax payer’s money into other countries. Kenya is one of the nation of the world that has suffered under religious terrorism orchestrated by Al-Qaeda franchise, Al-Shabaab. Unlike many countries in the Middle East, Kenya is not sending refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S. As a matter of fact, Kenya has been a home to hundreds of refugees in the last couple of decades. Kenya has suffered greatest blow in hosting the refugees from Somalia because it was from the refugee camps that most devastating terror attacks were planned. Kenya is currently in the process of closing down the biggest refugee camp in Africa and building a wall that will prevent terrorist agents from launching further attacks from Somalia.  Trump administration, on the other hand, seeks to introduce extreme vetting for refugee immigrants and visa holders from Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, and Somalia. The new administration also seeks to build a southern Border to curb illegal immigration from Mexico. Kenya is not viewed as a hostile country but the security situation has been viewed negatively. The new administration may seek strict accountability for any future aid. Here is why Kenya may still enjoy military aid.
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Georgetown referendums leading after early votes counted
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Early voters backing bond proposals
Early voting results indicate voters were supporting two bond referendums.
With 58 Williamson County precincts reporting, a comfortable percentage of voters approved issuing $46 million in bonds to improve streets and roads, including widening FM 971 from Austin Avenue to Texas 130.
A narrower percentage of voters were showing their approval to issue another $35.5 million in bonds for park and recreational projects, including $10 million for San Gabriel Park renovations.
TAYLOR SCHOOLS
$43 million bond package leading
According to partial results, a majority of votes counted were in favor of the Taylor school district's $43 million bond election to build a new high school.
School trustees want to build a $38.5 million campus on FM 973 south of U.S. 79. The current high school would be renovated for $4.5 million to house seventh- and eighth-graders.
If the bond issue passes, the current school property tax rate of $1.20 per $100 in assessed value would rise to almost $1.53 in 2009-10 .
Liquor referendum prevailing
A referendum on allowing restaurants in the city to sell liquor without having to register as a private club gained wide support among early voters. No Election Day results were available Tuesday night.
The referendum was spearheaded by Jill Cox, a restaurant owner who was tired of going through the paperwork of registering her business as a private club. Cox's restaurant is called the Cotton Club and Steakhouse and has been the only place in town, besides a liquor store, where someone could purchase liquor or a mixed beverage.
If approved, restaurants in Granger would be eligible for a permit to serve liquor as long as at least 50 percent of sales are from food.
WIMBERLEY SCHOOLS
Plan to pay off tax notes leading
Voters in the Wimberley school district were deciding whether to approve Propositions 1 and 2, which would allow the district to use approximately $2.1 million to pay three outstanding maintenance tax notes. Final results were unavailable as of press time, but early voting showed the proposals leading.
Proposition 1 would authorize the district to pay off more than $1.5 million of maintenance debt for replacement and renovations issued in 2000 and 2002, including the replacement of its middle school gymnasium floor. Proposition 2 would authorize the district to pay $555,000 for the replacement of the stadium playing surface and the issuance fees.
LULING SCHOOLS
Tax rate increase nearing approval
Voters in the Luling school district were voting comfortably in favor of a tax ratification proposal that would set the property tax rate at $1.039 per $100 in assessed value, which is 79 cents higher than the rollback rate, said Pamela Ohlendorf, Caldwell County's deputy tax assessor.
If the proposition is approved, the Luling district says it could mean a $700,000 increase in revenue from the state for new programs and facilities, which will continue yearly until the law changes. Luling cannot raise residents' maintenance and operation taxes next year without a community-wide rollback tax election, and residents who qualify for their taxes to be frozen will not be affected by this rollback election, the district says.
"That's fantastic for our school district and our kids," Luling Superintendent Mark Weisner said. "It's a win-win proposition for everybody."
Incumbents ahead in 3 races
According to early voting results, incumbent Daniel Law, a Democrat, had a comfortable lead in the race for sheriff against Republican Jimmy Parker.
In the race for commissioner, Precinct 1, Republican incumbent Tom D. Bonn was leading over Democrat Richard Mendez. Incumbent Democrat Neto Madrigal enjoyed a comfortable lead in the race for commissioner, Precinct 3, over Fergio Gamez, a Republican.
Of 21,279 registered voters in Caldwell County, 6,806, or about 33 percent, voted early, said Pamela Ohlendorf, the county's deputy tax assessor. Among those who voted early, 1,456 voted electronically, and 5,350 voted by paper ballot.
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Report finds councils are failing to prevent young people becoming homeless
A report has found that less than one in five cases of youth homelessness are being prevented by council's housing services.
Research by homeless charity Homeless Link has found, via a survey of over 200 English charity and council homeless agencies, that local authorities are preventing homeless amongst young people in just 19% of cases, reports Inside Housing.
Homelessness prevention can mean assisting people to stay in their own homes or help to find an alternative means of accommodation.
Rick Henderson, chief executive of umbrella-group Homeless Link, said: "This report shows that far too many young people are being affected by homelessness and that councils and charities across England are struggling to respond. We know that a focus on prevention works, yet many areas are missing an opportunity to tackle the issue before it develops."
Over half of people approaching council and charities in August were under 25, with foud in ten local authorities believing they don't have the tools they need to prevent youth homelessness.
The research also found that increased rates of benefit sanctions could be adding to homelessness numbers - charities reported that homelessness caused by benefit reductions has increased six-fold from 1.7% of cases in 2013 to 10% in 2014.
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Zebulon Baird "Seth" Robbins
Zebulon Baird "Seth" Robbins1
#657, (September 1875 - circa 31 January 1910)
Father* Rufus M Robbins3
Mother* Margaret _____2 (1847 - )
Zebulon Baird "Seth" Robbins was also known as Seth.4�
Birth* September 1875 He was born in September 1875 at MissouriG.5�
7 June 1900 He appeared on the census of 7 June 1900 in the household of Margaret _____ at 4441 West Belle Place, St. Louis, Missouri, age 24, b. MO Sep 1875, single, father b. MO, mother b. NJ, Str. Ry. conductor; nei. Quinlivan hh, 4469 West Belle Pl., incl Joseph and Annie Hartnett, fam. 231.2�
1901 He was a conductor in 1901 at 4441 West Belle Place, St. Louis, Missouri.3�
Marriage before October 1903 He married Annette Louise Roche, daughter of Ambrose Joseph Roche and Mary Elizabeth Hennessy, before October 1903.3,6
1904 He and Annette Louise Roche lived in 1904 at 2418A Bacon, St. Louis, Missouri.7�
1908 In 1908 Zebulon Baird "Seth" Robbins and Annette Louise Roche were owners of Robbins Jewelry Co. located at 211 North 7th, St. Louis, Missouri.8�
Death* circa 31 January 1910 He died circa 31 January 1910 at St. Louis, Missouri.9�
Burial* 4 February 1910 He was buried on 4 February 1910 at Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.10�
[S27] Vincent W Hartnett, V. W. Hartnett Notes.
[S5] 1900 U.S. Federal Census. Margaret (52), b. NJ Jul 1847, 6 children, 4 living, widow, parents b. NJ.
[S58] Gould's St. Louis Directory , 1901 Zebulon res. 4441 West Belle Place, also Margaret Robbins, wd. of Rufus M; Annette res. 1905 Biddle, also Ambrose; appear together in 1904 directory.
[S27] Vincent W Hartnett, "V. W. Hartnett Notes", autobio prepared for a speech in St. Louis, "[Annette] began work as a salesperson in a St. Louis jewelry store, but in time started the Robbins Jewelry Company. (Her first husband was Seth Robbins of St. Louis..."
[S1005] St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Missouri.
[S58] Gould's St. Louis , 1904:1725; Zebulon and Annette Robbins, res. 2418A Bacon; Annette bkpr F W Hoyt & Co; Zebulon grocer.
[S58] Gould's St. Louis , 1908:1531; Annette L Robbins and Zebulon B Robbins, both Robbins Jewelry Co., 211 N. 7th, res. 4136 St. Louis Avenue. [There is also a John Robbins, clerk, res. 4136 St. Louis Avenue]
[S93] St. Louis Public Library, online www.slpl.org, Obituary index, Zebulon Baird Robbins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1 Feb 1910. www.slpl.org/slpl/gateways/article240117800.asp#, viewed July 2013.
[S65] St. Louis Archdiocese Cemetery Records, online archstl.org/app/cemeteries/burial_search, Internment 365894, Calvary Cemetery, section 20. Zebulon B Robbins, bur. 4 Feb 1910, age 34.
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March 18, 2019 March 18, 2019 / Chris Alberti
Mario Laurenti on an Edison tour
L’elisir d’amore is beloved and we hope it always will be, but one episode near the beginning tends to be a trial in performances. It’s just after the troops arrive - Sergeant Belcore steps forward, strikes various ridiculous poses, salutes many times to nobody in particular, and shouts at the soprano for a few minutes. After which she ostensibly finds him attractive. It’s true some girls have a thing for a fit guy in uniform, but in my observation that appeal tends to dwindle if the uniform turns out to contain a loud doofus.
Wait, though - what if he didn’t bark his song? Why should soldiery and suavity be mutually exclusive? (Belcore is comparing himself to the “charming” Paris, who gave the golden apple to Venus etc. etc.) Maybe a seductive ballad would work better than a march for offering Adina the flowers? That promising hypothesis was explored in 1919 by Mario Laurenti, a forgotten Veronese baritone whose recording of Belcore’s cavatina is my favorite:
Laurenti was born in 1890, left home to study engineering in Germany, came to America to try for a singing career, and began one by joining the Metropolitan Opera chorus at 24. Two years later he was being tried out in small roles, then in larger ones, and was well-launched at the house when he was struck down by meningitis at just 32. He left 34 quite beautiful Edison records and a young family (his daughter Maria followed him into opera and made some attractive Columbia discs in the late ‘20s).
Federici publicity portrait
I’ve never heard anyone else approach this aria so sweetly (and never found a dubbing of the Edison from any better copy than the battered one heard here), but there are a few other pre-microphone versions to be heard, and they all have one definite thing in common: absence of caricature. They also show easy, un-pushed, well-centered tone; clear un-doctored vowel sounds; and a comfort level with the language of incidental ornamentation, even though that was already old-fashioned and on its way out.
Here’s one, by another un-remembered baritone, Francesco Federici, whose trajectory was almost the opposite of Laurenti’s. Born in Ferrara in 1873; debut at 19 or 20 in a zarzuela; full schedule with at least nine principal roles in 1894-95, and non-stop activity until his sudden passing at 61 during a Dutch tour in which he had sung eight operas.
Teatro Nuovo puts great emphasis on learning from the singers who had never heard, or heard of, microphone singing - primitive recordings from more than a century ago, forming a link to the traditions of opera’s heyday and the infinite potential of the natural, unassisted human voice. Check this space regularly for samples, and click here for some pointers on how to listen.
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By now, we should know Taylor Swift is willing to go all the way to keep her private life, well, private (after all, she did allegedly travel inside a suitcase to avoid paparazzi). Now Taylor is apparently using facial recognition at her concerts to track down stalkers.
As reported by Rolling Stone, during a Pasadena concert, kiosks disguised a facial-recognition camera inside an activation that displayed some highlights from her Reputation tour rehearsals. The show took place on May 18 and saw Taylor take the stage alongside Shawn Mendes in front of 60,000 attendees (as she wrote back then on her Instagram).
According to a concert-security expert who attended the concert to see a demo of the system as the guest of the manufacturer of the kiosks, who spoke to Rolling Stone, the purpose of the system was to track whether any of Taylor's stalkers would be in attendance. As soon as any concertgoer would step into the booth, their photo was taken and simultaneously transferred to a "command post" located in Nashville to be "cross-referenced with a database of hundreds of the pop star’s known stalkers." Taylor's representatives did not respond to Rolling Stone's request for comment.
The premise of watching some unseen rehearsal footage would obviously attract any Swifty, but how many would have chosen to go in had they known their information was being captured?
The Verge points out that it is technically in Taylor’s (and the venue's) right to carry out these security measurements if she wishes, since the concert is considered a private event. But the use of the tech without concertgoer consent raises questions about how privacy works and what happens to stored information after the show.
In April, a federal judge in California ruled that Facebook can be sued in a potentially multibillion-dollar class-action lawsuit precisely for the nonconsensual use of its facial-recognition software, which the suit claims violated Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act that requires written consent in order to gather biometric information — including facial recognition. In a statement reported by Reuters at the time, Facebook said it was reviewing the ruling. “We continue to believe the case has no merit and will defend ourselves vigorously,” the company said in the statement.
According to both The Verge and Rolling Stone, the use of this type of software is on the rise and might become commonplace in the not-so-distant future. Ticketing giant Ticketmaster recently invested in a startup called Blink Identity, which reportedly has tech that can identify people walking past — in a likely effort to "help fans move through turnstiles more efficiently," Rolling Stone reported. These measures are not being rolled out lightly; as Ticketmaster told RS, "We’re just being very careful about where and how we implement it.”
Obviously, security is a valid concern for Taylor, an artist with hundreds of millions of excited fans, and one who has dealt with dangerous stalkers in the past. In April, longtime stalker Frank Andrew Hoover was sentenced to probation after reportedly sending threatening emails and following her motorcade to the airport. He's one of several in recent years to face legal action for stalking Taylor.
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Oxford University given record £150m donation to fund AI ethics institute | UK News
An American billionaire and adviser to Donald Trump has given Oxford University its largest single donation “since the Renaissance” to investigate the ethics of artificial intelligence.
The £150m gift from Stephen A Schwarzman, chief executive and co-founder of US investment and private equity firm Blackstone, is reported to be the biggest ever single donation to a UK university.
A centre named after the philanthropist will house all of the university’s humanities subjects for the first time and is expected to open in 2024.
Stephen Schwarzman says AI is going to be the ‘fourth revolution’
It will also be home to Oxford University’s new Institute for Ethics in AI, which will explore questions affecting the workplace and society.
Mr Schwarzman, who is not an Oxford graduate, said he was “proud” to partner with the university as AI is going to be the “fourth revolution”.
“It is going to impact jobs, excellence, efficiency and it is a force for amazing good and also a potential force for not good,” he told the BBC’s Today programme.
“What is important about it isn’t just what it can do, but making sure it is introduced in a way unlike the internet.
“The internet was invented by a bunch of computer scientists and they threw it out there because they thought it was cool.
“And parts of it were cool – interconnectedness, globally the ability to communicate, it is pretty amazing.
“What they forgot were all the negatives, this inability to control cyber bullying, lack of freedom of speech – all kinds of negative things.”
Mr Schwarzman is an adviser to US President Donald Trump
Mr Schwarzman said that ethics and AI is “one of the major issues of our age”, adding: “Because AI is going to come, it is really unstoppable, it is not just AI it is robotics and all kinds of other computer science innovations.”
Oxford University said the 72-year-old’s donation marks its largest single gift since the Renaissance.
In October last year, Mr Schwarzman announced a $350m (£279m) gift to establish the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT in the US, and in 2007 he also donated $100m (£79m) to the New York Public Library, where he serves on the board.
Oxford’s vice chancellor, Louise Richardson, said the generous donation to the university “marks a significant endorsement of the value of the humanities in the 21st century”.
Mr Schwarzman, who did not endorse Mr Trump during his 2016 campaign, now advises the American president.
Asked about his connections with Mr Trump and those who may be uncomfortable with taking his money, Ms Richardson told the Today programme: “I’d imagine there would be very few people who feel that way.
“Do you really think we should turn down the biggest gift in modern times, which will enable hundreds of academics, thousands of students to do cutting-edge work in the humanities?”
She said universities are “all about” engaging with those who hold different points of views or politics, adding that the gift will be “transformative for many generations”.
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Hitachi Vantara Doubles Down on Partner Business, Drives Growth Across Robust Ecosystem
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Company Invests in Partner Success: New Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure Now Available; Partner-Ready System Configurations Drive Hitachi Storage Sales; Reimagined Partner Program Grows Ecosystem, Delivers Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today highlighted the investments and progress the company has made in its partner business that have netted the company and its partners significant growth over the last year. As Hitachi Vantara continues its transformation to help customers maximize the value of their data, the company has invested significantly in its partner business as a critical component for growth.
Most recently, the new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure demonstrate the steps Hitachi Vantara is taking to address market demand through collaboration with and investment in its strategic relationships. In September 2018, Hitachi Vantara delivered VSP PRO solutions, which are simplified, partner-optimized configurations of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP). The revamped Hitachi Vantara Partner Program, launched in April 2018, includes new competencies, delivery models, enablement and incentives. These initiatives demonstrate the increased focus Hitachi Vantara is placing on its partner ecosystem to successfully deliver solutions that help customers address their transformation challenges.
Cisco and Hitachi Accelerate Data Center Modernization and Cloud
Cisco and Hitachi are capitalizing on their aligned priorities for data center modernization and cloud to deliver an intelligent converged solution that helps enterprises worldwide meet the challenges of today and position themselves for the future. Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure is a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) that combines the companies’ best-in-class technologies including Hitachi storage and Cisco compute and networking. Engineered, tested and validated by both Cisco and Hitachi, the new “meet-in-the-market” solution is designed for partners to address demand for a validated Hitachi and Cisco converged infrastructure that supports high-end, enterprise-grade, multi-use application workloads and delivers an agile, operationally efficient solution for continuous data availability and service-level agreement (SLA) management. It will be supported by both Cisco and Hitachi.
Over the last year, Hitachi Vantara has seen high single-digit growth in its converged business through partners. Sold and delivered by partners, the new Cisco and Hitachi solution is expected to increase opportunity for both companies’ partner ecosystems in this space.
Hitachi VSP PRO Configurations
Introduced in September 2018, the pre-configured, cost-optimized Hitachi VSP PRO semi-customizable configurations are a prime example of how the company is delivering on its promises to simplify and accelerate sales cycles for partners. Created expressly for the partner community, Hitachi VSP PRO solutions allow partners to quickly and easily quote small, medium, large and extra-large systems with an automated, self-service sales model that reduces the process from several hours to a matter of minutes. Hitachi VSP PRO solutions have also helped partners initiate conversations with customers about VSP solutions more broadly, contributing to year-over-year growth in partner sales of Hitachi VSP storage arrays.
Hitachi Vantara Reimagines Partner Program to Drive Ecosystem Success
When the company launched its new Partner Program in April 2018, Hitachi Vantara introduced new competencies, delivery models and flexibility for partners to choose how they engage with the company. In addition, the company reiterated its commitment to maximize profitability and improve self-service and automation for its partners. Since the program launched, the company has continued to deliver against these promises, resulting in improved overall partner engagement and satisfaction, growth of partner business revenues including double-digit growth among solution providers, and rapid expansion of the company’s ecosystem in strategic focus areas such as big data analytics and IoT. The latter has resulted in additional collaboration with several strategic partners, including Tech Data and Computacenter, to improve the recruitment, onboarding, and sales and presales enablement of a growing ecosystem of partners focused on big data analytics and IoT – an ecosystem that has grown nearly 300 percent year over year.
Customer and Partner Quotes:
“Cisco and Hitachi Vantara have collaborated to provide customers on a path to digital transformation with an enterprise-class data center modernization solution,” said Kaustubh Das, Vice President, Product Development and Strategy, Computing Systems Product Group at Cisco. “The new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure will accelerate deployment and simplify operations for our mutual customers.”
“Since 2004, we have partnered with Hitachi Vantara to help customers get the most from their data. For 15 years, our partnership has been successful for several reasons: the commitment Hitachi Vantara has demonstrated to our business, an aligned strategic focus, and the breadth of innovative offerings we have available to tackle customer challenges. In the last year, we’ve seen positive developments in these areas – from the new Hitachi Vantara partner program to new strategic solutions that address market demands and accelerate customers transformation – all contributing to Computacenter’s successes,” said Axel Heitmann, Sales Director Datacenter, Computacenter Germany. “Today, with the new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure offering, we believe we can do even more, helping more customers adopt a best-in-class modern infrastructure environment that meets their needs for today and tomorrow.”
“For nearly 20 years, the Tech Data-Hitachi Vantara partnership has driven success for thousands of customers. Over this period, our partnership has continued to expand, we’ve added exciting new offerings to our portfolio, and we’ve identified new opportunities available we can address together,” said Cheryl Neal, vice president, Data and Networking Solutions, Tech Data. “From data center modernization to advanced analytics for business intelligence, our partnership with Hitachi Vantara is enabling us to guide our partners to further transform for the future. We’re excited to bring what’s next.”
Hitachi Executive Quotes:
“The new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure build on our global Cisco partnership, paving the way for expanding our collaboration into new areas,” said Toshio Nakano, President of IT Platform Products Management Division, Hitachi, Ltd. “Together, we will continue innovating to create customer value through data across solutions that address a broad range of customer needs.”
“Hitachi’s partners – from solution providers to strategic alliances such as Cisco – have been a cornerstone of our success for many years and continue to become a larger part of Hitachi Vantara’s overall business results. Together, we have successfully helped customers realize the power of their data,” said Scott Kelly, COO and chief transformation officer at Hitachi Vantara. “As Hitachi Vantara continues transforming to deliver innovation, we will continue to invest in an exciting future with our partners.”
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure CVD
Cisco blog post: Accelerate Data Center Modernization with Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solution for Converged Infrastructure
Hitachi Vantara blog post: Hitachi and Cisco: Unlocking Your Data
Hitachi Vantara Partner Program
About Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., helps data-driven leaders find and use the value in their data to innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business and society. We combine technology, intellectual property and industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help enterprises improve their customers’ experiences, develop new revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Only Hitachi Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining deep information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and domain expertise. We work with organizations everywhere to drive data to meaningful outcomes. Visit us at www.HitachiVantara.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers innovations that answer society’s challenges, combining its operational technology, information technology, and products/systems. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2017 (ended March 31, 2018) totaled 9,368.6 billion yen ($88.4 billion). The Hitachi Group is an innovation partner for the IoT era, and it has approximately 307,000 employees worldwide. Through collaborative creation with customers, Hitachi is deploying Social Innovation Business using digital technologies in a broad range of sectors, including Power/Energy, Industry/Distribution/Water, Urban Development, and Finance/Social Infrastructure/Healthcare. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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Nuts & Bolts - Direct Mail: Sweetening 2009 Offers With Premiums
Companies that didn't want to erode brand value with heavy discounting last year still had to sweeten the deal somehow to court money-conscious prospects and customers. Enter the premium, which ranged from low-cost goodies such as clocks and tote/duffel bags to more substantial rewards like Wii gaming consoles and $50 gift cards.
Which sector leaned on premiums the most between January and November 2009, according to the Who's Mailing What! Archive, the Target Marketing Group's direct mail library and research service? That would be financial services, pulling out the stops to bring on new customers, followed closely by publishing. While the fundraising vertical outpaces its mail-using brethren in terms of volume, it finishes third to last when it comes to using premium-based offers. Freemiums, also referred to as up-front premiums, are where the action's at for fundraisers.
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Albert Renger-Patzsch
Saxon Hosiery Weaver at a Handloom
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In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
Albert Renger-Patzsch 1897–1966
Group of vintage prints
Alter sächsischer Strumpfwirker an einem Handwebstuhl
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Image: 229 x 169 mm
Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Acquisitions Committee 2011
Saxon Hosiery Weaver at a Handloom is a black and white, three-quarter length photographic portrait of a bearded and bespectacled man carefully posed before a weaving loom with one hand on his hip and another gripping the machine’s handle. His body is angled towards the left, while his face turns to directly confront the viewer’s gaze. He is wearing an apron that indicates his profession, confirmed by the photograph’s title. Without the title, the photograph offers little visual information about the identity of its subject. Instead, the viewer’s attention is drawn to details rendered clearly and sharply within the image – round reflective glasses, wiry beard, white threads stretched tightly around the loom, the play of shadows in the fabric drapery – details that become so insistent in Renger-Patszch’s photographs as to form an ‘inner’ composition within the pictorial frame (Donald Kuspit, Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object, New York 1993, p.69). Renger-Patzsch used photography to isolate, frame and focus attention on details of the material world. By supplementing human vision in this way, his photographs encourage the viewer to ‘look at things from a new vantage point’ and take increased ‘joy’ in seeing the world of objects anew (Renger-Patzsch 1928, p.647).
By the turn of the twentieth century, Saxony in eastern Germany had become a renowned centre for hosiery production. In contrast to industrial looms designed to maximise productivity, the use of more antiquated handlooms signified a superior quality of finish and skill. German craft culture therefore stood in stark contrast to the rapid rebuilding of Germany as an industrial power. From the mid-1920s Renger-Patzsch embarked on a series of photographs documenting the changing landscape of the Ruhr valley, the region at the centre of the country’s coal and steel production. Art historian Brian Stokoe has drawn attention to a prevailing sentiment in early twentieth-century Germany, an ‘antagonism between modernism and tradition, between a forward-looking optimism and a melancholic longing for an apparently disappearing world’ (Stokoe 1978, p.97).
Portraits are infrequent within Renger-Patszch’s oeuvre, and were rarely exhibited during his lifetime. Saxon Hosiery Weaver at a Handloom bears comparison to the portraits of August Sander (1876–1964), a German photographer known for his prolific documentation of German citizens (Tate AL00002–AL00177; P20343–P20347). Rather than identifying his sitters by name, Sander classified his subjects by their occupation or social class. Similarly, the man at the centre of Renger-Patzsch’s portrait remains anonymous, identified only by his profession as a craftsman.
Renger-Patzsch’s images tie into contemporary debates about the role of photography in German society, bearing witness to a crisis over the proper function and potential of the medium. In 1925 he published a text outlining his ‘Heretical Thoughts on Artistic Photography’, positioning himself in opposition to the popular Pictorialist style of art photography, characterised by atmospheric, soft-focus portraits and still lifes that were often manipulated or overlaid with coloured pigment. Renger-Patzsch criticised photographic attempts to ‘feign’ a painterly style, believing them to be ‘damaging to photographic achievement’ (Renger-Patzsch 1928, p.647). Instead, he insisted that photographers should master their equipment and employ rigorous camera work, so as to create realistic and descriptive images through purely photographic means.
Saxon Hosiery Weaver at a Handloom demonstrates this sober and precise style, characterised by sharp focus, careful lighting and purposeful framing. Alongside the German photographers August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), Renger-Patzsch came to be known as one of the leading proponents of this style of photography, labelled New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) following the 1928 publication of Renger-Patzsch’s picture book The World is Beautiful. (The term had originally been used by the art critic Gustav Hartlaub in 1925 to describe a new style of German painting.) According to the curator Matthew S. Witkovsky, Renger-Patzsch’s images ‘oscillate in subject between industry and nature: with a regular admixture of Gothic cathedrals, German churches and small towns’ (Witkovsky 2007, p.112). Gazing across the German landscape in all its variety, Renger-Patzsch captured simple insights into ordinary life with an almost encyclopaedic fervour.
Brian Stokoe, ‘Renger-Patszch: New Realist Photographer’ in David Mellor (ed.), Germany: The New Photography 1927–33, London 1978, p.95–9.
Albert Renger-Patzsch, ‘Joy Before the Object’ (1928), in Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg (eds.), The Weimer Republic Sourcebook, Berkeley 1994, p.647.
Ann and Jürgen Wilde and Thomas Weski (eds.), Albert Renger-Patzsch: Photographer of Objectivity, London 1997.
Matthew S. Witkovsky, Foto: Modernity in Central Europe 1918–1945, exhibition catalogue, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 2007.
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Albert Renger-Patzsch Woodcutter from the Ore Mountains
c.1933–4
Albert Renger-Patzsch Hamburg, Port
Albert Renger-Patzsch Bookbinder Gilding
Albert Renger-Patzsch Hamburg, St Nicholas’s Church
Albert Renger-Patzsch Hörder Verein - Coal Mixing Plant (Dortmund)
before 1929, printed c.1929
Albert Renger-Patzsch From the Work: North German Brick Cathedrals, Stralsund - St Mary’s Church, Nave from the Choir
Albert Renger-Patzsch Münster in Westphalia, St Clement’s Church, Built by Schlaun
c.1929–39
Albert Renger-Patzsch Paderborn Westphalia Jesuit Church
Albert Renger-Patzsch Greifswald, St Nicholas’s Church, Series: North German Brick Cathedrals
Albert Renger-Patzsch Hamburg, Port Scene
Albert Renger-Patzsch Picture Gallery Dresden
Albert Renger-Patzsch Fortified Church in Grottrückerswalde, Ore Mountains
Emil Otto Hoppé London Stock Exchange, a typical young businessman
August Sander Bricklayer
August Sander Blacksmith
c.1930, printed 1990
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Euphoria - Renewed for a 2nd Season by HBO
Posted by DarkUFO at July 11, 2019 0 Comments
Euphoria Renewals and Cancellations
HBO Renews Drama Series EUPHORIA For A Second Season
LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2019 – HBO has renewed the drama series EUPHORIA for a second season, it was announced today by Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming.
“Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has built an incredible world with an extraordinary cast led by the supremely talented Zendaya. We are so grateful that he chose HBO as the home for this groundbreaking series,” said Orsi. “We look forward to following these complex characters as their journeys continue through the challenging world they inhabit.”
EUPHORIA ranks as HBO’s youngest skewing drama series on the network’s digital platforms. In addition to delivering a series high for its Sunday night 10 p.m. premiere telecast, EUPHORIA continues to grow every week on HBO’s digital platforms. The series premiere night has already delivered over 5.5 million viewers across HBO’s platforms.
Kicking off its eight-episode first season June 16 on HBO and currently debuting new episodes on Sunday nights, EUPHORIA stars Zendaya (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) who heads the ensemble cast of the show, which follows a group of high school students as they navigate a minefield of drugs, sex, identity, trauma, social media, love and friendship. The series is created and written by Sam Levinson (HBO’s “The Wizard of Lies”), who also directs five episodes of the first season.
EUPHORIA puts a fresh spin on the coming-of-age narrative, exploring the teenage landscape of substance-enhanced parties and anxiety-ridden day-to-day life with empathy and candor. The series follows 17-year-old Rue Bennett (Zendaya), a drug addict fresh from rehab, who’s struggling to make sense of her future. Her life changes dramatically when she meets Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schafer), a girl who recently moved to town following her parents’ divorce, and like Rue is searching for where she belongs.
The cast for the first season of EUPHORIA includes Zendaya, Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Barbie Ferreira, Nika King, Storm Reid, Hunter Schafer, Algee Smith and Sydney Sweeney.
Hollywood Reporter hails EUPHORIA as “boundary-pushing, real and exceptionally realized,” while Variety praises the series as having an “undeniable pull that makes it too intriguing to ignore.” TV Guide calls it “lusciously shot,” and getting “more and more jaw-dropping and gorgeous as it goes on.” Indiewire notes “Zendaya is exceptional at every turn,” and Rolling Stone praises the direction as “visually striking throughout, full of moments lit to look both menacing and intoxicating.”
Season one credits: EUPHORIA was created and written by Sam Levinson, who also serves as executive producer; executive producers Ravi Nandan, Kevin Turen, Drake, Future the Prince, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin, Tmira Yardeni, Mirit Toovi, Yoram Mokady, Gary Lennon and Jim Kleverweis; transgender consultant, Scott Turner Schofield; consultant, Jeremy O. Harris. Produced in partnership with A24 and based on the Israeli series of the same name, which was created by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin, from HOT.
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Roy Keane
UEFA refer Man City to adjudicatory chamber for potential financial fair play breaches
Kyle Picknell
An investigation into the club's financial activity began in March
Manchester City have been referred to the UEFA Club Financial Control Body adjudicatory chamber for a potential breach of financial fair play rules.
The Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) chief investigator has referred the club to the adjudicatory chamber following the conclusion of an investigation that began in March.
The CFCB began investigating City on March 7 after reports by media outlets, first uncovered in a series of leaks and reported by German publication Der Spiegel, that the club had committed various breaches of Financial Fair Play.
UEFA has confirmed that they will not be commenting on the matter until a decision has been announced by the CFCB.
According to a report by Rory Smith in the New York Times, a meeting at UEFA's Swiss headquarters two weeks ago discussed the possibility of at least a one-season ban from the Champions League for Pep Guardiola's side.
A Manchester City club statement read:
"Manchester City Football Club is disappointed, but regrettably not surprised, by the sudden announcement of the referral to be made by the CFCB IC Chief Investigator Yves Leterme.
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"The leaks to media over the last week are indicative of the process that has been overseen by Mr. Leterme.
"Manchester City is entirely confident of a positive outcome when the matter is considered by an independent judicial body.
"The accusation of financial irregularities remains entirely false and the CFCB IC referral ignores a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence provided by Manchester City FC to the Chamber.
"The decision contains mistakes, misinterpretations and confusions fundamentally borne out of a basic lack of due process and there remain significant unresolved matters raised by Manchester City FC as part of what the Club has found to be a wholly unsatisfactory, curtailed, and hostile process."
Manchester City,
UEFA,
Man City,
Financial Fair Play.
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Vincent Kompany confirms that he will leave Manchester City for player-manager role
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Star Collector: Palaces, Pyramids & Prosecco—the Eastern Mediterranean & Holy Lands 2020
WS Star Legend
OverviewItineraryDates & PricesShipsCheck Availability
Sidestep the summer heat and long lines during this 17-day autumn exploration of the most popular destinations throughout Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Malta and Italy with a memorable passage through the Corinth Canal. Sail from Athens and the Acropolis to Haifa, Israel, where excursion options include an overnight trip to Petra and the Dead Sea. Take an overland tour from Alexandria, Egypt and stand before the majestic profiles of the Great Pyramids near sundown in Cairo. Step carefully among the tombs of over 300 Knights of the Grand Cross throughout St. John’s marble floors in Valletta, Mlta. Sip licorice-flavored liquors in Heraklion, Crete.
e midday movements and animated actions emanating from the world’s largest astronomical clock in Messina, Italy. This remarkable journey concludes in Civitavecchia, an ideal port for easy transfers to Rome for connecting flights and additional destinations like the towering Colosseum, the Roman Forum’s extensive marble ruins and Trevi Fountain’s cascading Baroque grace.
Day Activity Arrive
Day 2 Piraeus, Athens, Greece
Day 4 Limassol, Cyprus 10:00 AM
Day 5 Haifa, Israel 07:00 AM
Day 7 Jerusalem / Ashdod, Israel 07:00 AM
Day 8 Cairo, Egypt 08:00 AM
Day 9 Alexandria, Egypt
Day 10 At Sea
Day 11 Heraklion, Greece 08:00 AM
Day 12 Piraeus, Athens, Greece 07:00 AM
Day 13 Cruising The Corinth Canal, Cruising 10:00 AM
Day 13 Itea, Delphi, Greece 03:00 PM
Day 14 Katakolon, Greece 08:00 AM
Day 16 Valletta, Malta 08:00 AM
Day 17 Messina, Taormina, Italy 08:00 AM
Day 18 Amalfi, Italy 08:00 AM
Day 19 Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy 07:00 AM
Day Activity Arrive Depart
Day 2 Piraeus, Athens, Greece 05:00 PM
Day 4 Limassol, Cyprus 10:00 AM 05:00 PM
Day 5 Haifa, Israel 07:00 AM 11:59 PM
Day 7 Jerusalem / Ashdod, Israel 07:00 AM 07:00 PM
Day 8 Cairo, Egypt 08:00 AM 09:00 PM
Day 9 Alexandria, Egypt 09:00 PM
Day 11 Heraklion, Greece 08:00 AM 03:00 PM
Day 12 Piraeus, Athens, Greece 07:00 AM 05:00 PM
Day 13 Cruising The Corinth Canal, Cruising 10:00 AM 08:00 AM
Day 13 Itea, Delphi, Greece 03:00 PM 09:00 PM
Day 14 Katakolon, Greece 08:00 AM 10:00 PM
Day 16 Valletta, Malta 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
Day 17 Messina, Taormina, Italy 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
Day 18 Amalfi, Italy 08:00 AM 04:00 PM
Countries: Greece, Italy
From Messina, home of the world’s largest astronomical clock, visit Taormina with beautiful views of Mount Etna
Overnight inland from Haifa, your gateway to Petra and the Dead Sea
Step out on deck as you transit the narrow Corinth Canal, so close you can almost touch the rock walls
From Port Said take a full day overland to Cairo and the Egyptian Pyramids
Give your taste buds a treat sipping licorice-flavored liquors in Heraklion
While in Ashdod, journey to historic Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Old Jaffa
Pack light with complimentary free laundry service
Date: 26-Oct-2020, Mon
With 3,000 years of history, you can’t turn around in Athens without encountering the past. The Acropolis, a UNESCO site, the Plaka, and the Acropolis Museum are must-sees. But leave time if you can to climb Pnyx Hill for photos of the Parthenon at sunset, to buy your own set of Greek komboloi (worry beads), and to explore the metro stations that serve as mini-museums for the relics that are constantly being unearthed.
Date: 27-Oct-2020, Tue
Date: 28-Oct-2020, Wed
Day 4 Limassol, Cyprus
Limassol is known for several historic buildings like the Limassol Castle, Built in 1000 A.D. and used as a prison from 1790 to 1940 with a collection of artifacts covering 400 to 1879 A.D. Sites to see include the Archaeological Museum of Limassol, which exhibits artifacts from the Neolithic to the Roman period and the Folk Art Museum with a Cypriot Folk Art collection that awarded the museum the Europa Nostra prize in 1989.
Date: 29-Oct-2020, Thu
Day 5 Haifa, Israel
The major seaport of Haifa has many fascinating sites like Elijah’s Cave, a pilgrimage site for believers, the Stella Maris Church and Monastery, located near the Cave, Muhraka, now a Carmelite monastery on the site where Elijah the Prophet defeated the prophets of Baal, and the Bahai Shrine, a lovely gold-domed shrine where the remains of Said Ali Muhammad, one of the two founders of the Bahai religion are buried. Three gardens of note are The Remembrance Garden, Gan Ha’em, situated in the Carmel Center, and the Sculpture Garden, where 22 bronze statues overlook the striking bay area and landscape. Here is your gateway to Petra with an overnight tour.
Date: 30-Oct-2020, Fri
Date: 31-Oct-2020, Sat
Day 7 Jerusalem / Ashdod, Israel
Ashdod is one of the most ancient cities in the world. Visit the Korin Maman Museum, which has a permanent archaeology exhibition called “Philistian World,” Climb to Giv’at Yonah, the highest point of the city at 492 feet, with a city lighthouse atop and named after the prophet Jonah, believed to be buried there. Ashdod is your gateway to Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
Date: 01-Nov-2020, Sun
Day 8 Cairo, Egypt
This popular summer resort was badly damaged during the Suez Crisis, and wars of 1967 and 1973 and has been rebuilt several times. The beaches are lined with vacation bungalows and the featured mode of transportation here is caleches, or 2-person horse carriages offering the perfect way to see the beautiful colonial architecture. Highlights here include the Pyramids of Giza, the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities and the Khan El Khalili Bazaar
Date: 02-Nov-2020, Mon
Egypt’s second-largest city and largest seaport is an important tourist resort, founded around 331 B.C. by Alexander the Great. The constant warring in the region destroyed most of the ancient buildings but Pompey’s Pillar, located on Alexandria’s acropolis, still stands a tall 99 feet high since 297 A.D., and the catacombs known as Kom el-Shoqafa consist of a multiple-level labyrinth of chambers and tunnels unique in their decoration and layout. Other sites to see include El Montazah Palace, built in 1892, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, El-Mursi Abul-Abbas Mosque, built in 1774 over the tomb of a famous 13th century saint, and Attaring Mosque, originally a church and converted to a mosque.
Date: 03-Nov-2020, Tue
Date: 04-Nov-2020, Wed
Day 11 Heraklion, Greece
Heraklion is the birthplace of El Greco, Nobel Prize winning poet Odysseas Elytis, and Nikos Kazantzakis. The major site of Crete’s biggest city is Knossos Palace, the Minoan-era castle unearthed by British archaeologist Arthur Evans. But the first site you will see is the Koules Venetian Fortress built in the early 1500s on the harbor walls, it houses restored interior and exterior reliefs of the Lion of St. Mark. A typical feature of Heraklion’s city center is the number of Venetian and Turkish fountains, the most notable being the Morosini Fountain, built to supply Heraklion with 1,000 barrels of water a day.
Date: 05-Nov-2020, Thu
Day 12 Piraeus, Athens, Greece
Date: 06-Nov-2020, Fri
Day 13 Cruising The Corinth Canal, Cruising
You’ll want to be on deck today as we transit the narrow Corinth Canal with other private yachts and Greek mail steamers. It’s a shortcut reserved for petite ships like ours, and as we cruise between the narrow limestone walls we are the envy of all the ancient Romans who once portaged their ships along this very route before there was a canal.
Canal transit time and duration is subject to change based on traffic and canal authorities.
Date: 07-Nov-2020, Sat
Day 13 Itea, Delphi, Greece
Before there were fortune cookies there was the oracle of Delphi, dating back to 1400 B.C. The oracle gave cryptic guidance to the leaders of the day and was so highly respected that Delphi, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, became known as the center of the world. An optional tour lets you go exploring, from the Temple of Apollo to the Delphi Archaeological Museum, which contains some of the finest works of art in Greece.
Day 14 Katakolon, Greece
Charming and scenic Katakolon is the gateway to Olympia, the original home of the Olympic Games and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You can visit this memorable site only 30 minutes away and see the fertile Peloponnese valleys along the way, full of strawberries, tomatoes, corn and olive trees.
Day 16 Valletta, Malta
Malta’s capital city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is among the world’s smallest, yet definitely most charming. Graced with the paintings of Caravaggio and kissed by beautiful shorelines, you’ll find photographic icons at almost every turn. Not to be missed is a visit to the stately Palazzo Parisio to glimpse the enchanting lifestyle of Malta’s nobility. Our stay here also allows the exquisite romance of an evening walk through the beautiful lanes of Mdina, Malta’s enigmatic “Silent City.”
Day 17 Messina, Taormina, Italy
The cobblestone streets of Messina, Sicily, are the perfect launching point for an optional visit to nearby Taormina. Stroll along flower-filled streets in search of a delightful lunch or an artist’s palette of colorful gelati. The ancient Greek Theater is an ideal place to sit back and admire shimmering waters below and Mount Etna, languidly smoking in the distance.
Day 18 Amalfi, Italy
The town of Amalfi lies at the mouth of a deep ravine surrounded by dramatic cliffs and coastal scenery. As part of the Amalfi Coast, it has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is an important tourist destination. The whole region is famed for its lemons, which are about double the size of other lemons, and the production of the limoncello liqueur. An optional tour can take you to the UNESCO archaeological areas of Pompeii, Positano and Ravello.
Day 19 Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy
In this enchanting city the past and present intersect in perfect harmony. Casually intermingled among ancient ruins and majestic cathedrals are the trappings of a modern metropolis: Skyscrapers,cafes, boutiques selling designer footwear. But of course what you seek first in the heart of Rome is its breathtaking history. A good place to begin is the Vatican, with its Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. Works by Bernini, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Raphael are just a few of those on display, any one of which is worth hours of contemplation. Then the ancient ruins—Colosseum, Forum, Circus Maximus. And of course the Trevi Fountain for the obligatory coins promising your return to the Eternal City.
Day Date Activity / Description
Day 1 26-Oct-2020, Mon
Day 2 27-Oct-2020, Tue
Piraeus, Athens, Greece
Day 3 28-Oct-2020, Wed
Day 4 29-Oct-2020, Thu
Day 5 30-Oct-2020, Fri
Day 6 31-Oct-2020, Sat
Day 7 01-Nov-2020, Sun
Jerusalem / Ashdod, Israel
Day 8 02-Nov-2020, Mon
Day 9 03-Nov-2020, Tue
Alexandria, Egypt
Day 10 04-Nov-2020, Wed
Day 11 05-Nov-2020, Thu
Day 12 06-Nov-2020, Fri
Day 13 07-Nov-2020, Sat
Cruising The Corinth Canal, Cruising
Itea, Delphi, Greece
Day 14 08-Nov-2020, Sun
Katakolon, Greece
Day 15 09-Nov-2020, Mon
Day 16 10-Nov-2020, Tue
Messina, Taormina, Italy
Amalfi, Italy
Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy
With only 212 guests, a Star Pride cruise will make you feel like you're on board your own private yacht almost as soon as you step aboard. The sitting area of your spacious, newly refurbished suite gives you an expansive ocean view — making it a welcome retreat. When you're ready to make an appearance, the lounges, club, casino and library are waiting to be explored. Take some "you" time in the tranquil WindSpa . . . enjoy a dip in the pool . . . work off that decadent dessert in the Fitness Center . . . and, of course, you are always welcome to visit the Bridge to examine navigation charts with the Captain. Star Pride is large enough to pamper and entertain you, yet small enough to tuck into delightful tiny harbors and hidden coves that others can’t reach.
Departure:- 26 October 2020
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University of Stirling (S75)
1. Overview of the institution
The University of Stirling is a world-class institution with one of the best student experiences in the UK. The University have been awarded 5 Stars in the QS World University Rankings 2018 for our teaching, employability, internationalisation, facilities and inclusiveness.
Key statistics:
14,000+ students
10,300+ undergraduate students
3,800+ postgraduate students
1,500+ staff
120+ nationalities are represented on campus
20% of students are from overseas
2. Location and facilities
The city of Stirling is in central Scotland, with great transport links to the rest of the country. Both Edinburgh and Glasgow are only 45 minutes away by road or rail. Set in the shadow of the Ochil Hills, the magnificent 330-acre campus encompasses a loch, a golf course and the 18th-century Airthrey Castle.
Extensive accommodation available on and off campus
Small class sizes help to ensure you benefit from world-class teaching from our leading academics.
International Students Association – with many social and international events
Significantly lower cost of living than in larger UK cities
Good environment on campus - 1st in Scotland, joint 2nd in the UK (Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018)
Good sports facilities - 1st in Scotland, 4th in the UK (Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018)
3. Departments/Subject areas
Five Academic Faculties
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Michael Daugherty album, featuring cellist Zuill Bailey, wins three 2017 Grammy awards
The album has triumphed in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Classical Compendium categories
Naxos's album of works by composer Michael Daugherty, featuring cellist Zuill Bailey, has been recognised at the 2017 Grammy Awards with three prizes.
Bailey's rendition of Daugherty's 'Tales Of Hemingway' Cello Concerto with the Nashville Symphony on the album triumphed in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. Also nominated in this field were violinists Leila Josefowicz for John Adams’s Scheherazade.2 with the St Louis Symphony, Christian Tetzlaff for Dvorák and Suk with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Gil Shaham for ‘1930’s Violin Concertos, Vol. 2’ with The Knights and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Daugherty's 'Tales of Hemingway' also won the Best Contemporary Classical Composition prize, while his album won the Best Classical Compendium prize.
Read: Violinists Leila Josefowicz, Christian Tetzlaff and Gil Shaham nominated for 2017 Grammy Awards
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Read the full list of winners at grammy.com.
LA Phil veteran violist Jerry Epstein has died aged 72
Spending 43 years in the rank and file of the orchestra, Epstein collected a treasure trove of stories and photographs
Young violinist dies of drug overdose in London
Katya Tsukanova, 17, a former pupil of Zakhar Bron, died after a party in her parents’ home in Kensington
The Library of Congress has backed out of an agreement to house the collection of 263 instruments after failing to raise the necessary funds
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Liam Fox insists UK must quit the single market and customs union as soon as we leave the EU
The International Trade Secretary vowed to make Britain the world leader in open markets
By Hugo Gye
20 Jul 2017, 9:12
Updated: 20 Jul 2017, 12:49
BRITAIN will quit the single market and customs union on the day we leave the EU, Liam Fox said today.
The International Trade Secretary rejected the idea of signing up to the EU bodies for a transition period - as he vowed to make the EU leader of a global movement for free trade.
Liam Fox today called for Britain to take a lead role in promoting free trade around the worldCredit: Reuters
Dr Fox is visiting the World Trade Organisation today to emphasise that Britain is ready to strike deals around the world as soon as we quit the control of Brussels.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that we cannot stay in the single market or the customs union past the official Brexit day in March 2019.
The minister said: "You cannot leave the European Union and be in the single market and the customs union."
His comments will come as a rebuke to colleagues including Philip Hammond who have suggested we could stay in the customs union for years after Brexit to help businesses continue to trade.
We need to quit the customs union if we want to strike trade deals outside the EU, while staying in the single market would stop us ending the migration free-for-all.
Dr Fox said that Britain would reclaim its position as the world's top trading nation.
David Davis is in Brussels this week meeting EU negotiator Michel BarnierCredit: AP:Associated Press
He told Today: "What we're doing is to discuss at the WTO why Britain believes in free trad, why we reject the concept of protectionism, why we think we need to liberalise the services economy globally.
"We need to get global trade moving.
"As we take up an independent seat at the World Trade Organisation, we want to shape the debate."
He promised to "make the moral case for trade", adding: "We've been able to take a billion people out of poverty over the past 25 years."
Dr Fox once again insisted that Britain is prepared to crash out of the EU without a formal deal - but said he is confident of striking an agreement with Brussels.
Philip Hammond has apparently tried to keep Britain in the EU customs unionCredit: Getty Images
He said: "We don't want to have no deal, it's much better if we have a deal than no deal.
"We can of course survive with no deal and we have to go into a negotiation with those on the other side knowing that's what we think.
"The free-trade agreement we're going to come to with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.
"The only reason that we wouldn't come to a free and open agreement is if politics comes in the way of economics."
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And he pledged support for Theresa May, saying she "has the support of her colleagues" and adding: "The Prime Minister is likely to be there for the rest of this Parliament."
The International Trade Secretary is giving a speech at the WTO in Geneva later today.
Next week, he will visit Washington to ensure that our trade ties with the US are maintained and strengthened after Brexit.
Meanwhile, David Davis is returning to Brussels today to conclude the second round of talks with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier.
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SICK CELEBRATION
Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz calmly headed to McDonald’s and Subway minutes after slaughtering 17 people in school massacre
The gunman went from room to room gunning down students at his former school in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday
By Tom Michael and Gemma Mullin
THE Florida school shooter casually headed to McDonald’s and Subway to celebrate after carrying out his massacre, it has emerged.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, slaughtered 17 people and injured dozens more in a bloody gun rampage at his former school in Parkland on Wednesday.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, went to McDonald's and Subway after carrying out the shootingCredit: AP:Associated Press
The teen then fled Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and went on the run for over an hour before being apprehended by cops.
And it has now emerged he spent that time calmly tucking into fast food at nearby branches of McDonald's and Subway.
The news came as police released more details about the gunman’s bloody rampage.
The teenager confessed to carrying out one of the deadliest school shootings in the US, according to a sheriff's department report.
Cruz appeared at court today wearing an orange jumpsuit with his hands cuffed at his waistCredit: AP:Associated Press
Cruz went to this Subway store, located inside a Walmart, (file image) and ordered a drink after carrying out the gun massacreCredit: Google Maps/Dudley Hunt
Cruz left the Subway store and crossed the road outside, sitting inside this McDonald's (file image) before fleeing on footCredit: Google Maps
Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz arrives at Broward County jail after 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
What we know so far...
Seventeen dead after gas mask-wearing gunman opened fire on students at school in Florida at 2.25pm (7.25pm GMT) on Valentine's Day
Shooter Nikolas Cruz, 19, was former pupil of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland but expelled last year
Teen shooter "surrendered quietly" and was arrested "without incident" in nearby town of Coral Springs before being taken into custody
He posted chilling images of guns and knives on Instagram
President Trump did not mention gun control in first address after the massacre
Cruz, who was living with family friends, was supposed to go to an adult education course but when the father woke him that morning, he reportedly said: "It's Valentine's Day. I don't go to school on Valentine's Day."
Attorney for the family, Jim Lewis, told CNN: "They just blew it off. This is some 19-year-old that didn't want to get up and go to school that day, and (they) left it at that."
Instead, at 2.06pm he called an Uber and pulled up outside the high school - where he was expelled last year - 13 minutes later.
Carrying a black duffel bag and backpack, where he had concealed extra ammunition, he walked through the campus and pulled an AR-15 rifle out of his case at 2.21pm.
He began shooting into rooms 1215, 1216, 1214 before returning to the first two classrooms and then onto 1213 - all located on the first floor, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.
Classroom scene showing victim of Florida High School shooting lying on the floor
Arrest papers reveal Cruz admitted carrying out the horrific massacre at the schoolCredit: Splash News
Police managed to pin down the shooter after he fled the scene, taking cover among students
The moment Cruz was apprehended by cops was captured by aerial footage from a helicopterCredit: Universal News (Europe)
The moment when Florida high school gunman Nikolas Cruz is arrested
Cruz then went up a set of stairs and shot a victim in room 1234, before heading up another set of stairs where he dropped his rifle and backpack containing the loaded magazines.
He ran back down the stairs, blending himself in among the fleeing students, and fled the building at 2.28pm where he ran towards the tennis courts, the officer said.
After the rampage, the suspect headed to a Wal-Mart and bought a drink at a Subway restaurant at about 2.50pm, according to the sheriff's report.
He then walked to a McDonald's, arriving at 3.01pm, where he waited for short period of time before leaving on foot.
Officers say he was walking down a residential street in the nearby town of Coral Springs 40 minutes later when he was arrested "without incident".
Arresting officer Michael Leonard said: "He looked like a typical high school student and for a quick moment I thought, 'Could this be the person? Is this who I need to stop?'"
Cops clear rooms at school near site of Valentine's Day shooting
Police brief families waiting anxiously to hear news of their loved onesCredit: AP:Associated Press
Anguished relatives desperately wait to hear whether their loved ones are safeCredit: AP:Associated Press
He pulled over to confront him and the mass murderer "surrendered quietly", and was taken into custody at about 4pm.
Footage showed the moment police apprehended the suspect, pinning him to the ground and placing him in handcuffs.
In the wake of the attack, it emerged that Cruz - who worked at a dollar store - joined the school's Reserve Officer Training Corps programme where he completed a marksmanship course, according to DailyMail.com.
It's also emerged that Cruz had posted chilling images of guns and knives on Instagram, while students described him as a "volatile" teenager whose strange behaviour had ended friendships.
Cruz appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit with his hands cuffed at his waist on Thursday.
His attorney did not contest the order and had her arm around Cruz during the short appearance.
He was being held under a suicide watch, Executive Chief Public Defender Gordon Weekes told reporters.
Heartfelt speeches delivered after Florida High School shooting in front of mourning friends and family
Hundreds of mourners turned out for a vigil in Florida where they paid their respects to the victimsCredit: AP:Associated Press
Grieving friends and family members held a moments silence as they remembered those killedCredit: AP:Associated Press
People lit candles and said prayers for the school kids and their teachers that didn't make it out alive on Valentine's DayCredit: AP:Associated Press
People held hands and comforted one another while paying respects to their loved onesCredit: AP:Associated Press
Florida Shooting
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CAPITAL CARNAGE
Boy, 16, seriously injured after being shot in South West London in another night of violence in the capital
The teenager is said to be in a serious condition in a west London hospital
By Jon Rogers
Updated: 19 Apr 2019, 14:43
A 16-YEAR-boy has been left with serious injuries after he was shot in Wandsworth, south-west London.
The injured male was taken by London Ambulance Service to a west London hospital where he remains in a serious condition.
Cops were investigating the scene last night (stock image)Credit: London 999 Twitter
Officers from Trident and Area Crime Command are currently investigating after a shooting outside Tasty Chicken, in Tooting.
Police were called just after 9.50pm last night with witnesses saying shots had been fired in Tooting but when officers attended the scene there was no trace of the suspects or anyone injured.
However the cops were then called shortly after 10pm by the ambulance service to a residential address on Blackshaw Road where a 16-year-old boy was suffering from a gunshot wound.
The teenager was taken to a west London hospital where he said to be in a serious condition.
Enquiries are ongoing and no arrests have been made.
It is the latest attack as Scotland Yard tries to contain the growing number of brutal attack taking place on the streets of the capital.
Just over a week ago another teenager was fighting for his life after he was stabbed repeatedly in Dalston, east London in broad daylight.
LAWLESS LONDON
The 18-year-old was treated at the scene in Arcola Street by paramedics before being rushed to hospital.
Previously a 22-year-old man was gunned down and stabbed to death in Newham, East London.
CCTV footage from a local convenience store showed four people running from the scene of the murder.
His death was the 36th murder in the capital this year after 2018's bloodshed caused the highest London murder rate for a decade.
Theresa May held a summit on knife crime last month as the government desperately tries to get a grip on the situation.
Knife crime and shootings are on the rise fuelled by gang rivalry and disputes over drug markets.
The Mayor of London warned it could take a "decade" to turn back the tide of violent crime.
Earlier this month Sadiq Khan blamed parents for the crisis as he continued to dodge responsibility for the bloodshed.
North London is the most dangerous area of the capital, with seven murders taking place in 2019.
But boroughs all over the city have seen horrific daylight slayings.
One man was left paralysed after his spinal cord was slashed during an alleged stabbing spree in Edmonton last month.
The youth was shot outside Tasty Chicken in Tooting just before 10pmCredit: London News Pictures
The shop's window was market by a gun shotCredit: London News Pictures
The victim is said to be in a life-threatening conditionCredit: London News Pictures
Cops were called to Blackshaw Road by the ambulance serviceCredit: Google Maps
Police had initially been called to Burfield Close after reports of gunshots being heardCredit: Google Maps
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PHONE FAIL
iOS 12 problems revealed – ‘washed out’ screen, bad battery life, FaceTime re-design and more
The update is feature-packed and performance-boosting, but some users aren't happy...
By Sean Keach, Digital Technology and Science Editor
UPGRADED to Apple's latest software and things aren't working right? We've rounded up some of the most common iOS 12 problems.
The update has been widely praised for improving iPhone performance speed, but we've also seen reports of bad battery life, mysterious "washed out" screen issues, and even some complaints about the FaceTime app. Here are the biggest iOS 12 problems we've seen so far.
Apple's new iOS 12 software was released to the general public on Monday, September 17Credit: GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR
iPhone X 'washed out' screens
Owners of Apple's premium iPhone X say that the latest iOS 12 software update has "washed out" the colours on the display.
A Reddit thread about the issue has received dozens of comments and hundreds of "upvotes", or likes.
And a post on the MacRumors forum has racked up more than 300 replies, as spotted by DPreview.
One Reddit user said: "Anybody else noticing [a] drop in screen contrast/gamma with iPhone X?"
They continued: "Experiencing a slightly washed out screen, colours popping less and blacks appearing more greyed out, which actually reminds me of my old iPhone 6.
"It's mostly noticeable on the home and lock screens, apps seem to still be ok.
"Anyone else experiencing this? I wonder if it's something that helps save battery life, or if my screen has a bug..."
Owners of the £999 iPhone X are concerned that the iOS 12 update has "washed out" their screensCredit: REUTERS
Users are suggesting that the issue began after updating to iOS 12.
So what's going wrong? Well it may be linked to how Apple filters wallpapers.
When you select an image to use as a wallpaper for your smartphone, it adds a filter to improve the readability of on-screen text.
According to Apple's Craig Federighi, this system was "improved in iOS 12", which could mean that wallpapers are filtered more heavily.
But that doesn't explain why the issue seems to only affect iPhone X.
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Bad battery life after update
Every year, Apple releases new iPhones, and we all make the same complaint: "My iPhone is worse now."
Well you're not going crazy – your iPhone battery life probably has taken a hit recently, and there's a simple reason why.
Your phones files and apps are arranged in indexes, keeping all of your phone's information organised – and, importantly, quickly accessible.
When a major software update happens, lots of the code and systems that make up your phone get changed significantly.
This means your iPhone has to re-organise and re-index the apps and data on your phone, to make it more searchable.
Some users have complained that iOS 12 has negatively affected their phone's battery life
This puts a heavy demand on your iPhone's processor, which inevitably creates additional drain on your battery.
The good news is that this process only lasts for around 24-48 hours, so your battery life should be back to normal two days after the iOS 12 update.
It's also likely you're using your phone more after a major update, so that'll hit your battery life.
And if you have Automatic App Updates turned on, you'll also suffer: lots of smartphone apps get updated alongside major phone updates. This will drain your battery too.
FaceTime app camera flipping issue
If you're struggling to work out how to flip the camera during FaceTime video calls, you're not alone.
There's no longer an easy-access camera-flipping button in FaceTime
Apple tweaked this feature with iOS 12, making it more difficult to quickly switch between the rear snapper and selfie camera in the FaceTime app.
There's been no official explanation about the change, making it all the more mysterious.
Previously, you'd hit a little switch on the screen to flit between modes during FaceTime calls.
But you now have to tap into a special menu, and then tap again to flip the camera, and then leave the menu to get back to your call.
You now have to tap into a special sub-menu to find the camera flipping switch
Kids getting around Screen Time limits
Apple's Screen Time feature lets you limit how much time your children spend on apps and games (through a Family Share child account) – but one youngster found a cheeky "hack" that let him play games.
One dad, who posted his story to Reddit, applied these very restrictions – but soon began to suspect something wasn't working right.
"My kid managed to pass Screen Time limit," he explained.
"When iOS 12 came out, I limited my 7-year-old son's screen time through the Family Share.
"For a few days I felt like he was playing a bit more than he should, but I couldn't figure out why."
It turned out that the 7-year-old had discovered a way of playing games – even when he'd reached the allotted time limit.
"Finally today, my son revealed his hack," the dad wrote.
"When he runs out of Screen Time and his games get locked, he heads to [the] App Store, downloads a previously installed (but later removed) game through the cloud icon, and it works without limitations! What can I say...I'm not even mad. That's impressive."
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So what actually happened?
When you set up Screen Time limitations, it'll cut your kids off from playing games after a certain amount of time – like two hours, for instance.
You can also set it so that new apps can't be downloaded to the phone – which could potentially get around the system.
But if an app has already been downloaded and then deleted, it doesn't require the same permission.
That means the child was able to install gaming apps that had been deleted, these apps would then work without being tied down to limits.
It sounds like a major loophole, but there is an easy fix.
You can simply remove the App Store entirely using the restrictions system, so even previously downloaded apps can't be installed.
Have you experienced any problems after updating to iOS 12? If so, let us know in the comments!
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KILLER PUNCHLINE
AI robots programmed to be funny may KILL you because they think it’s hilarious, expert warns
Scientists say although AI will improve many aspects of everyday life - there will always be some things androids can't handle
By Jon Lockett
Updated: 2 Apr 2019, 2:38
ROBOTS could turn deadly if we try to programme them with the human race's sense of humour, experts warn.
Scientists say although AI will improve many aspects of everyday life - there will always be some things androids shouldn't be allowed to mess with.
Trying to make robots understand our jokes could go very wrong, say scientistsCredit: AP:Associated Press
“Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do,” said Kiki Hempelmann, a computational linguist who studies humour at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
“In themselves, they have no need for humour. They miss completely context.”
And trying to make robots understand our jokes could go very, very wrong, she adds.
“Teaching AI systems humour is dangerous because they may find it where it isn’t and they may use it where it’s inappropriate,” Hempelmann said.
“Maybe bad AI will start killing people because it thinks it is funny.”
It's not surprising robots struggle to determine what is funny or not, explained Tristan Miller, a computer scientist at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany.
“Creative language - and humour in particular - is one of the hardest areas for computational intelligence to grasp,” said Miller, who has analysed more than 10,000 puns and called it torture.
“It’s because it relies so much on real-world knowledge - background knowledge and commonsense knowledge.
"A computer doesn’t have these real-world experiences to draw on. It only knows what you tell it and what it draws from.”
Some computers can generate and understand puns without help from humans because puns are based on different meanings of similar-sounding words.
But they fall down after that, said Purdue University computer scientist Julia Rayz.
“They get them - sort of,” Rayz said. “Even if we look at puns, most of the puns require huge amounts of background.”
Many AI experts believe robots are better off sticking to maths
Why do humans often feel the urge to fight back against robots?
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Somerset Rebels reach the Premier League cup final
PUBLISHED: 09:15 27 September 2013 | UPDATED: 09:15 27 September 2013
Dave Bickell
Josh Grajczonek.
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The Somerset Rebels defeated Edinburgh to reach the final of the Premier League KO Cup final.
THE Cases Somerset Rebels have won through to the Premier League KO Cup final by beating Edinburgh on aggregate 100-80 in their semi-final replay.
After emphatically winning the first leg at the Oaktree Arena 58-32, the Rebels kept things tight in the opening heats of the return leg at the Scotwaste Arena, the Scottish side never being able to claw back any more than eight points of Somerset’s first leg lead.
With the tie virtually won, the Rebels did not need to force the issue in the final couple of heats, Edinburgh eventually running out 48-42 victors on the night, leaving the Rebels travelling back to the West Country with a cup final against Rye House to look forward to.
The first leg will be at the Oaktree Arena tomorrow evening (Fri), with the second leg at Rye House on October 6.
“The boys did an excellent job tonight,” said a delighted Garry May, the Rebels team manager. “They knew they could not let Edinburgh get a foothold in the match and the longer we kept it tight, so the pressure built on the Monarchs.”
The Rebels have already won two trophies this year, the Premier League pairs championship and one for finishing top of the Premier League table.
The Rebels have picked the Newcastle Diamonds and Redcar Bears as their group opponents in the semi-final stages of the Premier League Championship-deciding play-offs, leaving Ipswich, Edinburgh and Workington to contest the other group.
With each team in the respective groups to face each other home and away, the Somerset promotion have moved quickly to confirm the dates of their matches, these being – October 3: Redcar v Somerset; October 4: Somerset v Redcar; October 11: Somerset v Newcastle; October 13: Newcastle v Somerset.
The winner of each group will race off over two legs in the grand final. Winners of the final are crowned Premier League champions.
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Jon Stewart Slams Media for Salivating Over Caitlyn Jenner’s ‘Comparative F–kability’ (Video)
“Welcome to being a woman in America,” the “Daily Show” host jokes
Jill Goldsmith | June 3, 2015 @ 7:12 AM Last Updated: June 3, 2015 @ 2:04 PM
Comedy Central/"Daily Show"
Jon Stewart slammed the media on Tuesday for salivating over Caitlyn Jenner’s “relative f–kability” on the Vanity Fair cover, where the transgender star revealed her feminine appearance this week for the first time.
After early outpourings of support for Olympian Bruce Jenner’s courage in coming out as a woman, pundits lost “no time in treating her like a woman” with comments on her body, her boobs, and if they’d like to sleep with her.
“You see Caitlyn, when you were a man we could talk about your athleticism and your business acumen, but now you’re a woman, and your looks are the only thing that matters,” Stewart said.
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Comments turned cattier, he noted, as the media speculated on whether the photo had been air brushed, and observed how good Jenner looks “for her age.”
“Remind her she has an expiration date,” he added. “You came out at 55. You have another two years before your become invisible to society.”
See video: Caitlyn Jenner Is 'the New Normal' in First Teaser for E! Docuseries 'I Am Cait'
“So Caitlyn Jenner — welcome to being a woman in America,” Stewart concluded in the sharp segment.
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Mugabe and ‘Despicable Me’: Porn, pirated movies posted on Zanu-PF website
Harare - President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party had its website hacked and pirated movies and pornographic pictures posted on it, reports say.
The hack on Tuesday appears to have gone undetected for some time, according to news and blogging website Techzim.
Pirated animated movies like Despicable Me 3 and Cars 3 were loaded under the Zanu-PF website’s publication section, and pornographic pictures were also posted.
Specific attack?
The website was eventually taken down on Tuesday evening and repaired. By Wednesday afternoon, most of its features were back up and running.
“It’s hard to determine if the website was specifically targeted or if it was just attacked by bots crawling the internet for websites with security weaknesses,” Techzim said in one of its updates on the incident.
The Zimbabwe government says it wants a Cyber Crime and Computer Bill passed into law before elections in 2018.
‘Our people are being abused’
Critics say the bill contains lots of vague sections, which could be used to clamp down on freedom of expression, especially on social media where criticism of Mugabe’s government and party is robust. But the bill’s proponents, including IT Minister Supa Mandiwanzira, believe it will reduce hacking and cyber-bullying.
“Our people are being abused,” he said in June. “They are vulnerable and we need to protect them.”
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5 Best Accommodations for Solo Cruisers
Cruise Line & Cruise Ship Norwegian Cruise Line Jason Leppert October 23, 2015
PHOTO: Quantum-class studio interior stateroom with virtual view. (Photo courtesy of Royal Caribbean International)
From single travelers to widowers, it’s not always easy for solo cruisers to find private accommodations without resorting to seeking out a roommate or paying upwards of twice the cruise fare on a single supplement. Of course, it’s financially justifiable for the cruise line’s to charge double for one person occupying a room designed for two paying passengers, but it’s often far from affordable for an individual to cover. The solution: dedicated solo cabins priced accordingly.
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1: Norwegian Cruise Line
Norwegian Cruise Line first introduced its so-called Studio Staterooms on the recently updated Norwegian Epic and has since included them on the Norwegian Breakaway, Norwegian Getaway, Pride of America and forthcoming Norwegian Escape.
At around 100 square feet in size depending on the ship, these futuristic-looking inside cabins are much smaller than your average room, but they still comfortably include a full-size bed, separate bath area and window to the hallway. Plus, they feature exclusive access to the private Studio Lounge, shared among other Studio occupants, complete with its own bar, big screen televisions and plush seating.
2: Royal Caribbean International
Studio Interior Staterooms are also available on Royal Caribbean International’s two newest ships – the Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the Seas – and they even sport the line’s Virtual View technology which displays a live look from outside the ship on a digital panel. The line’s Radiance-class ships also feature these cabins save for the Jewel of the Seas.
Royal Caribbean solo cabins are sized around 100 square feet depending on the ship, and they include either a twin (Radiance-class) or full (Quantum-class) sized bed and a private bathroom.
3: Cunard Line
Cunard Line is the only upscale cruise company on the list to offer solo cabins and continues to roll them out on to its fleet. Currently, the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria offer Britannia Single Staterooms, and the Queen Mary 2 flagship is scheduled to receive its own set in May/June 2016.
Unique to these is the fact that most are outside staterooms with a large window, and included single beds are 120cm in width.
4: International Lines (P&O, Costa, Fred. Olsen)
Catering mostly to foreign markets but also offering solo cabins are P&O Cruises, Costa Cruises and Fred. Olsen Cruises on ships like the new Britannia and Costa Diadema and Fred. Olsen’s entire fleet.
5: All the Rest
In a pinch, you can always book a room all to yourself on any other cruise ship, but you will pay a single supplement to do so. Not all supplemental costs are priced at 200 percent of the fare though. Occasionally specials are available at around 125 or 150 percent; still not as desirable as the options above but an alternative to consider nonetheless.
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At NYC's Density, the World's Population Could Live in Texas
Environmental carpe diem
Alex Davies adavies47
Images Courtesy of Tim De Chant, Per Square Mile
It turns out that if you wanted every person in the world to move to Texas, finding room for everyone wouldn't be your biggest problem. A series of maps produced by denisty blog Per Square Mile shows that if the entire world's population- 6.9 billion people- lived at the same density level as New York City, we could all fit within the borders of the Lone Star State.
At Paris levels, we would need Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. If the world lived like Houston, we would take up most of the continental United States: 1,769,085 square miles.
This doesn't mean that the whole world could actually live in Texas, considering the need for farmland, industrial space, and energy production. (Although what if all the roofs generated solar power?) And there's a lot to be said for the benefits of living in the country.
But Per Square Mile's density statistics are thought-provoking. Density is more sustainable than sprawl, and while it might be hard to convince every person on Earth to move to Texas, we could all afford to live a little closer together. (Though we don't have to live like New Yorkers.)
Via Gothamist
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Tubers, paddleboarders test out newly opened…
Tubers, paddleboarders test out newly opened Longmont float course years in the making
Project designer Gary Lacy, friends and a reporter took a test run ahead of next week's celebratory race
LONGMONT, CO – June 20: Riley Gelatt rides the rapids on the St. Vrain River in the Dickens Farm Nature Area on Thursday.
By Sam Lounsberry | slounsberry@prairiemountainmedia.com | Longmont Times-Call
Catching a glimpse of a face without a smile was nearly impossible among a group of three stand-up paddleboarders and about a half-dozen tubers floating down the St. Vrain River through Longmont on Thursday afternoon.
The group was among the first to ride the river from Main to Martin streets through the newly opened floating course built by the city as part of the Resilient St. Vrain floodplain management effort and the nearly complete Dickens Farm Nature Area project.
The course, designed by Gary Lacy’s nationally renowned whitewater park design firm, Boulder-based Recreation Engineering and Planning, has been envisioned by the city since 2001, when the 52-acre Dickens Farm Nature Area property became one of Longmont’s first open space land purchases, according to Steve Ransweiler, a senior project manager for the city.
It features an astounding view of the Front Range from the water and nine drop structures with enough current and ripples to give floaters a bit of a thrill, but no fright.
“I think it’s going to be an amazing asset for the city,” Lacy said. “Who doesn’t like fun whitewater? But modest whitewater, it’s not meant to scare people.”
To help Longmont residents celebrate the long-awaited arrival of the floating course Lacy is hosting a tubing and stand-up paddleboard race at 6 p.m. Thursday. Those intent on racing should meet in the parking lot of the Las Palmeras restaurant, 199 S. Main St.
“The last three drops are the biggest of the whole project but still pretty chill,” Riley Gelatt, a design team member with Lacy’s firm, said after a run on the river.
Racers also should be aware of the separate rules for each category: after the paddleboard race ends and the first person to make it to the finish line past Martin Street is declared the winner, competitors will have a chance to race back upstream and put in again for the tubing race start at 6:30 p.m., although it will be the third person to cross the finish in that event who is declared victorious.
“There may be some strategy involved at the finish,” Lacy said.
Yet paddleboarder and tuber Lance Ostrom joked he plans on putting forth very little resistance against being carried over the finish in first or second place in the latter race.
“There are fierce competitors here,” Ostrom said after a paddleboard run during which he did some impressive river surfing and only fell in once. “I will be doing no upstream paddling, but floating down the river with a beer in hand.”
The race is open to paddleboarders, tubers and river floaters of all abilities.
In all, the city paid $7.7 million for the Resilient St. Vrain project work between Main and Martin streets, which included the building of the floating course, and is spending about $2.9 million more to complete the Dickens Farm Nature Area, areas of which are still under construction with public access limited to open trails, according to Ransweiler. Some sections of trail in the area are still closed, and the river upstream of Main is closed to human activity as Resilient St. Vrain work continues in those stretches.
The Dickens Farm work is expected to be complete later this year.
“The city is excited for this new opportunity for recreation in the area and look forward to it being used in the future,” Ransweiler said.
Several people enjoy the rapids while riding tubes on the St. Vrain River in the Dickens Farm Nature Area on Thursday.
Sam Lounsberry
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TIX on the Square was created by the Edmonton Arts Council in 1999. Originally intended to operate as a rush ticket booth, it has developed into a vital hub connecting local artists and community groups with audiences. TIX supports the arts community with a variety of professional services including box office, media relations support, and social media promotion, all for a nominal fee. TIX also collaborates with Fringe Theatre as a satellite box office for Season shows and productions at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.
In spring 2011, TIX extended its role to connect audiences with Edmonton's visual and craft artists and began operating a retail space, taking over the operations of The Edmonton City Store. The retail space features a wide range of unique, handcrafted products including pottery, jewelry, photography, fabric arts and more. TIX also showcases books from local authors, music by regional musicians, and historic prints from the City of Edmonton Archives.
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Kim Kardashian's 10 Year Anniversary for Sex Tape & the Money Keeps Rolling In
Kim Kardashian 10 Year Anniversary for Sex Tape And the $$$ Keeps Rollin' In
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Kim Kardashian just had an anniversary of one of her most lucrative deals ... over video that has become a centerpiece of modern pop culture ... a sex tape that made her famous, and very, very rich.
It's the 10 year mark of the release of "Kim Kardashian Superstar." She publicly lashed out at Ray J who seemed behind the release from the get-go. Ultimately, she had to sign on for the release. Now for the numbers, and they are staggering.
-- 210 million views, accounting for online, DVD and VividTV.
-- Someone began watching the tape on an average of every 1.5 seconds.
-- There were significant spikes over the last decade for the following events -- Kim's marriage to Kris Humphries, her divorce from Humphries, rumors she started dating Kanye, her Paper Magazine cover and the Paris robbery.
Sources involved in the deals tell us the tape has raked in north of $100 mil since its release.
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The Italian team has been shifting its aero focus after a poor start to the season compared to dominant championship leader Mercedes, and introduced several revisions at the French Grand Prix that were billed as important for its development direction.
However, the new floor was removed after Friday practice and Ferrari admitted that it had not produced the results expected.
Ferrari conducted further analysis in Austria and ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix, its lead driver Vettel believes the team has cleared the situation up.
“I think we learned a lot after the confusion, or some bits that maybe didn’t turn out to work the way we wanted to during the French Grand Prix,” said Vettel.
“Austria brought some clarity and I think we have a clear picture of what was wrong in terms of tuning and what needs to be changed.
“Obviously the next couple of weeks will tell where we go. Unfortunately I think it’s pretty normal that all the bits you bring don’t always bring you what you expect.
“Sometimes the parts overdeliver which is great and sometimes they underdeliver. We just need to make sure we know a direction to go in and we keep going that way.”
Vettel’s title hopes, and Ferrari’s chances of finally beating Mercedes to a title, are all but over following a difficult start to the season and the dominance of the team’s chief rival.
Ferrari is 135 points behind in the constructors’ championship, having outscored Mercedes for the first time this season in Austria (30-25).
Meanwhile, Vettel has fallen to fourth in the drivers’ standings and trails championship leader Lewis Hamilton by 66 points.
Returning to the scene of his 2018 victory at Silverstone, Vettel said: “So far this year’s been quite up and down for us so let’s see where we are tomorrow, how the car feels.
“I’m quite optimistic. The last couple of weeks have been better for us and hopefully we can continue in that trend.”
Mercedes had a cooling weakness exposed in Austria but Vettel said Ferrari was not getting carried away that there was an Achilles’ Heel to exploit.
“It shows it’s normal for everyone to have certain highs and lows,” said Vettel. “The better your package the more you find yourself on the highs rather than the lows.
“I think there’s always hope. Even the races the result was a given, I think we find ourselves as a team trying to make a difference. How many times we succeeded in the last five years I don’t know.
“That’s definitely the objective we have, no matter the forecast.”
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Goat-milking gone glam, hilarious banter, and family drama are just a few of the things to expect in the new Vancouver-filmed reality show, Relatively Nat & Liv.
Based on the lives of two huge Instagram personalities, Natalie Halcro and Olivia Pierson, the show offers a glimpse into the influencers’ lavish lifestyle as well as their more intimate family moments. However, this isn’t the duos first time on air – they both co-starred on the LA-based reality show WAGS – a show that chronicled the lives of wives and girlfriends of sports-stars.
Brunch’n with the Moms @rhondahalcro @oliviapierson @juliajeromepierson #FAMILIA
A post shared by NATALIE HALCRO (@nataliehalcro) on Aug 12, 2018 at 7:08pm PDT
Not only are the ladies cousins, but they are also best friends, sharing everything from juicy secrets to high-end fashion to life goals. Vancouver Is Awesome spoke to Halcro and Pierson about what viewers can expect in the first season of their new show, as well as what the pair have planned for the future.
“We actually started planning this show out on a vision board ten years ago,” says Pierson. “We have been working towards this for a long time – it isn’t something we decided on recently at all.”
While Halcro and Pierson spend a great deal of time in Los Angeles, they were born in Langley and their families reside in Vancouver.
“It has been great to shoot in Vancouver, because, as much as we love L.A., we miss our family,” explains Halcro. “It was great to spend time with them and have them be a part of the show.”
Both women noted that although everyone was on-board with filming the series, their parents were a bit more reluctant with on-screen time than the rest of the family. With that in mind, they add that they are now stars in the show, and featured in many of its best moments.
G • I • R • L • S @larsapippen @oliviapierson @kimkardashian @justtnic
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When asked if the cousins are getting recognized more frequently in Vancouver, they say that more people have been saying hello in bathrooms, airports, and other places. However, they’ve been social media influencers for quite some time, so the limelight isn’t exactly unfamiliar territory for the popular pair – Halcro and Pierson have 3.7 million and 2.7 million followers on Instagram, respectively.
The fashionistas are also launching their own clothing line this summer, and note that it will have a romantic, feminine flair.
Watch the trailer for Relatively Nat & Liv below and catch the first episode on hayu June 3.
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Home » News » Technology » Danladi Bako @60: Broadcasters should re-craft messages for Nigeria’s unity
Danladi Bako @60: Broadcasters should re-craft messages for Nigeria’s unity
On August 30, 2017 2:02 amIn Technologyby Nwafor
By Prince Osuagwu
Renowned broadcaster and one time Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC Danladi Nasir Bako, in a matter of days, turns 60 and feels fulfilled that God has seen him achieving almost all his dreams in life. The man whose golden voice on radio still makes many reminisce on the famed Morning Ride show on Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, has since left the profession and made a detour into politics.
However, he feels that there’s a great correlation between broadcasting and the unity in diversity that Nigeria so badly craves for. Bako feels that just as a broadcaster in politics he should be an ambassador of change in fulfilment of the mass media mandate to inform, educate and entertain, he also argues that a broadcaster in practice should even wear a higher responsibility of uniting the country.
In this interview with Hi-Tech, the current Kogunan Sakwatto, did not spare his colleagues, particularly those operating at national networks, challenging them on the right messages to keep Nigeria as one. Excerpts:
Danladi Bako
AS a man that has given a lot in service of the country and still wishes to give more, what does it feel to be 60?
I feel highly fulfilled and extremely grateful to Almighty God, the country, our past and present leaders as well as everybody I met on my way to where I am today. Every contact with everybody was an experience I gained from, either positively or negatively. Essentially as a 10 year old kid, I prayed and hoped to work hard to excel and make a name in any profession I eventually choose I believe I made that name on NTA and NBC.
I prayed to get recognised by my country, this I did as I was honoured with Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON. I also prayed and worked hard to be recognised by my community, this I achieved with my 2001 turbaning as Kogunan Sokoto. In between all this, I met President Mandela, Winnie Mandela, I attended Africa Leadership Forum with President Obasanjo, worked with President Babangida, visited 55 countries. That’s quite a lot.
During your days in NBC you always said the Commission would put broadcasting in global map. Even when you left, you have not made any comments to the contrary. Are you not worried that your NBC is such now that failed to complete transition to digital broadcasting?
It’s not so much of NBC’s fault, we knew about Digitization even when I was Director General and the concept of Digital migration and Digital compression started in 2001 at the ITU conference. Indeed, South Africa had already embarked on digital platforms, the Federal Government just didn’t take the matter seriously. But I can see work has progressed substantially in the last three years.
What’s your view on the industry generally?
Industry practitioners are trying their best, they are responding to the environment well, although because most of them are weak in research and general knowledge, sometimes they seem bankrupt in ideas especially when discussing politics, current affairs and general knowledge. Most of them still also get partisan in their discussion phone- in programmes. The national networks NTA,TVC, AIT and Channels need to re-craft better messages extolling Nigeria’s unity and oneness as a country with diverse peoples and cultures.
You are still remembered for your deliveries on Morning Ride Show on NTA. Are today’s broadcasters living up to their billing?
Today’s broadcasters have quite a few good ones within the ranks of Channels Television , TVC , Cool FM, Beat FM and a few at NTA and AIT. But there’s a general malaise of Station Owners employing unqualified persons to run such stations who eventually employ all sorts of characters as presenters, reporters, news editor and untrained staff as news anchors and reporters – even at NTA. They need more training, more research and more commitment to professionalism.
Why did you venture into politics after an unblemished career in broadcasting?
Thank you for the compliment. I went into politics because I strongly believe that elective political office can’t be left in the hands of people with questionable capacity, unproven capabilities, unverifiable credentials and a large dose of integrity deficit. Without doubt , a large challenge we have faced in leadership is that most of the best brains in this country are domiciled outside government and the tragedy is that the ruling elite works hard to keep these intelligentsia out of elective offices so the status quo ante of mediocrity and cronyism can remain.
Sokoto State is blessed with a political leader Senator Aliyu Wamakko and a forthright diligent and intelligent Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal all working in harmony and conscientiously to accelerate the progress witnessed in the last 10 years. Add to that, a Sultan that has elevated the profile of the state to enviable heights , then you understand why I value my little contributions to this Hausa of Fulani community.
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Whether you’re evading the police in a rickety junker or a road-hugging sports car, the handling in GTA V is great, and the fact that vehicles feel so different from each other means there’s a real reason to store the cars you like in the garages at your characters’ homes or in ones you can purchase in the city. Driving is so much fun that you’ll likely enjoy crossing even great distances in the game’s large world, taking in everything from the artwork on buildings along Vespucci Beach to the setting sun reflecting on the Alamo Sea. Should you tire of commuting across Los Santos, however, you can call a cab and warp to your.
When shooting breaks out, as it often does in the lives of these criminals, you have a terrific variety of weapons at your disposal that you can customize with suppressors, scopes, flashlights and other doodads. By default, your aim snaps to enemies. This makes picking them off quite easy, but gunplay is a lot of fun despite the ease of aiming, because you’re regularly fending off so many attackers and you still need to make good use of cover to stay alive. If you’re looking for more challenging shooting, you can switch to an aim assist option or to free aim at any time.
It’s not exactly subtle – he literally has the word “Entitled” tattooed on his neck, and the in-game radio and TV’s outright piss-takes don’t leave much to the imagination – but it is often extremely funny, and sometimes provocative with it. Grand Theft Auto’s San Andreas is a fantasy, but the things it satirises – greed, corruption, hypocrisy, the abuse of power – are all very real. If GTA IV was a targeted assassination of the American dream, GTA V takes aim at the modern American reality. The attention to detail that goes into making its world feel alive and believable is also what makes its satire so biting.
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By City News Service
Weekend storm headed to San Diego area
Last updated 1/4/2019 at 3:42pm
SAN DIEGO - Get set for a wet weekend.
A low-pressure trough moving over Southern California is due to deliver rain and a chance of mountain snow to the San Diego area on Saturday and Sunday.
The winter storm is expected to drop one-quarter to a half-inch of precipitation along the coast and across the inland valleys, up to an inch in the East County highlands, and one-tenth of an inch to a quarter-inch in the deserts, according to the National Weather Service.
The unsettled atmospheric system also may put down some layers of frozen white flakes -- up to several inches worth -- in elevations above 5,000 feet, lofty locales such as Cuyamaca Peak and Palomar Mountain.
The cloudbursts likely will hit their zenith Saturday night into Sunday morning before tapering off from the northwest to the southeast, meteorologists predicted.
Dry weather is expected through Wednesday when a fast-moving follow-up storm is likely to generate some modest showers into Thursday morning, the NWS reported.
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Children removed from border facility after reports of unclean conditions
Darryl Coote
Protesters hold up signs as they walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at the End Family Separation NYC Rally and March in New York City in 2018. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
June 25 (UPI) -- Over 200 migrant children held at an overcrowded Border Patrol station have been moved following reports that hundreds were detained in unsanitary conditions without adequate food or care.
Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, said on Twitter that only 30 of 255 children remain at the Clint, Texas, Border Patrol station in El Paso County after her office sent a letter Friday to acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders and Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost.
"Children do not belong in detention and [President Donald Trump]'s failed policies are only harming children and promoting needless and cruel family separation," Escobar said on Twitter.
This morning, my office was informed that only 30 children remain in the Clint Border Patrol station in El Paso County.
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Last week, @hrw lawyers found 255 children in beyond alarming conditions in the same station. pic.twitter.com/tmBC3M0aqP— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) June 24, 2019
The announcement comes after lawyers with Human Rights Watch said children had lived in the Clint short-term facility for up to four weeks, well above the 72 hours maximum limit set by U.S. law.
"Many of the kids in the Clint facility are too young to wash or feed themselves, yet they are left to fend for themselves with the help of related older children," said Clara Long, a senior researcher at HRW. "The detained children we spoke with told us about an infant as young as 6 months old being cared for by an unrelated teenager because the baby's mother was in the hospital."
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In the letter to Sanders and Provost, Escobar said HRW lawyers found 59 of the 255 children to be under age 12 and many of them had been separated from their parents, who had no idea where their children were.
"Although the Clint Station is outside of my district and I have never had the opportunity to inspect the facility, I am nonetheless disturbed that children have been kept in these conditions in El Paso County and would ask that you update me while this matter is fully investigated and until these children are released from Department of Homeland Security custody and reunited with their loved ones," she said.
Escobar said she had spoken with Provost and Sanders the previous day about the conditions.
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Between June 2018 and May 2019, more than 700 children had been separated from their parents and placed in federal shelters by U.S. border agents, the Houston Chronicle reported.
"The Trump administration is intent on criminalizing asylum, detaining as many individuals as possible, and on needlessly separating children from their family members," Escobar said in a Friday tweet following the revelations at the Clint border facility. "It doesn't have to be this way."
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George Griffith Series: LAYC takes the lead in Race 1 of 3
Nina K. Jussila April 12, 2017
SAN PEDRO ― As spring season is in full bloom, competitive sailors are taking the helm and racing in the fourth season of the George Griffith Series. Los Angeles Yacht Club (LAYC) is not only hosting this event; the yacht club’s teams are in the lead after the first of three races.
The first race took place on March 25. The next race is set for April 22, and the final race in the series is on May 6.
With sunny skies and strong winds, 21 sailboats had great sailing conditions as they competed in the first race of the series.
Encore 2, a Dubois 50 with skipper Bart McEntire, placed first in PHRF A. Randy Austin’s Cal 29, Canard, came in first for the cruising class. Both of these sailing teams, at the top of the leader board, are representing LAYC.
The other two yacht clubs with teams in the series are Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club and Buccaneer Yacht Club.
“The three-race George Griffith Racing Series was changed last year to feature three inverted start, and we will follow last year’s model. The best three race finishes for competing yacht clubs will be used to determine the overall yacht club team winner,” wrote Race Committee Chairman Cassandra Heredia.
The completion of each race is celebrated with a party and trophies at the LAYC.
The series is named after renowned sailor George Griffith, not to be confused with the actor or the author. Griffith was a past commodore and member of LAYC, Transpacific Yacht Club and Cruising Club of America. He is also known for helping to design the Cal-40. Griffith was doing what he loved when he passed away in 2012, sailing home to Long Beach from Catalina on his boat.
For more information on the series and complete results, go online.
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In Boxed: Takom’s 35th scale ZSU-57-72 Soviet SPAAG + a special "How To" paint tutorial by a good friend...
In another one of their sure to be popular choices, Takom has released the ZSU-57-2 Soviet SPAAG in 35th scale injection moulded plastic. We have already seen these on the market, and with Tamiya already having made this first years ago, and now Trumpeter jumping on the bandwagon and kitting everything everyone else has made we thought we would show you just what is in the box in this kit in our review. We also roped in Charlie Pritchett to show us how to paint this beast..
In Boxed: ZSU-57-72 Soviet SPAAG
By Takom
1/35th scale
Kit No# 2083
Photo etch,
11 decal choices
Individual Tracks
External fuel tank lines.
Steel Towing Cable
Road wheels can be built in a damaged condition.
Detailed interior with posable guns
Takom has made some unique choices in their selections and some that are pretty much just what a lot of modellers would want, in a simple to build but superior detailed kit that LOOKS to be a cool subject. This iconic twin gun Soviet ZSU-57-2 SPAAG is surely in that category – many are pretty eager to see what’s in the box so we got to investigating.
Looks a little like the boxart hey?
For those unfamiliar with the ZSU-57-2 SPAAG…
The ZSU-57-2 (Ob'yekt 500) self-propelled anti-aircraft gun was developed in the late 40s. It entered service with the Soviet Army and production commenced in 1956. It was later replaced by a much more effective quad-barrelled ZSU-23-4 Shilka. Despite its age, the ZSU-57-2 is still in service with a number of countries.
ZSU-57-2
Type: SP AA gun
Vehicle Range: 400 km
Max. Speed: 48 km/h
Fording depth: 1.4 m
Vertical Clearance: .8 m
Gap Crossing: 2.7 m
Armament: 2 x 57mm S-68 AA guns
Armour: Glacis 15mm @ 60 Deg.; upper hull side 15mm at 0 Deg.; mantlet 15mm.
This SPAAG is fitted with two 57-mm S-68 guns. These guns are air-cooled, so after firing 50 - 60 rounds in intensive mode guns have to cool down. These guns are fed from magazines. Each magazine holds four rounds. The ZSU-57-2 fires fragmentation-tracers against air targets and armour-piercing tracers against ground targets. A direct hit of a single 57mm round caused complete destruction of a fighter where maybe two rounds could destroy a light bomber or heavy attack aircraft.
The ZSU-57-2 has no radar to acquire its target and it had to resort to fires over open sights, so its ability to attack high-speed aircraft is limited. It also cannot be used successfully at night. Optical sights are used to engage ground targets. This SPAAG has a very thin steel Armor (maximum thickness 15 mm). The vehicle has a crew of six, including commander, gunner, assisting gunner, two loaders and driver.
The ZSU-57-2 SPAAG chassis uses many automotive components of the T-54/55 medium tank, but the ZSU-57-2 has one less road wheel per side. As for the name - 'ZSU' stands for Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka (Russian: Зенитная Самоходная Установка), meaning "anti-aircraft self-propelled mount", the '57' stands for the bore of the armament in millimetres and '2' stands for the number of gun barrels...
OK now on to the kit…
This kit from Takom is in 35th scale, made from injection moulded plastic and the feature set is quite good for a kit so simple looking from the outside:
Photo etch, Steel Towing Cable, grey and clear plastic sprues.
Individual Track links
Road wheels can be built in a damaged condition. (not sure about this one)
A medium size box, filled with twenty sprues of light grey plastic (1 brown), including the turret and hull, one clear sprue, and a length of steel cable, the light grey instruction booklet is included of course with a small decal sheet and also a small PE fret. In the box, the eleven different markings are included in a coloured booklet. Extensive choices provided in AMMO shades from their research.
From their inception, we have liked Takom’s approach – simple kits, easy to make but with 21st-century detail. Like a Tamiya white box kit with the detail sharpened up to 11. Not everyone has time, and many people like the painting and weathering over construction or vice-versa. This simple approach allows you to make more models of the same quality.
Sprue map - everything on here will be used...
From the first read of the instructions, I see that this kit follows that mantra. Although there are fifty-seven steps in the construction of this kit, each one of them is simple. Nothing like Tamiya, Dragon or worse Revell instructions that require you to do two or three things on each step. These are simple steps and they do call out certain aspects of the kit you need to know. Sometimes, however, the placement of certain parts is not as clear as I would like. Maybe isolate the parts to be worked on instead of showing most of them from the same angle?
The plastic: is well moulded, with little or no flash, although there are some ejection marks in places, these are unseen (as long as you include all the parts like the ammo racks of which there are several in this area.)
The Turret: The thinly armoured turret top is moulded in quite a complex curve, especially at the top. Raised and recessed panel lines are here with the weld seams running up and down the sides of the turret as well as the rear bolts prominent.
Smartly Takom has injected this with the points flush on the inside of the turret so the removal of the extra material is easy and most of all safe. Looking inside the turret you can see some slight sink marks that will not be seen from the outside.
The turret tarp on this SPAAG can be used to cover the large open top to save the crew from the elements and wind when in transit. In the “travelling position,” this tarp features clear plastic windows, however, in the kit’s case the canvas cover is seen bundled up in a roll. The detail is very nicely done. I have seen lots of different variations of this wrap, as I suppose everyone folds differently. If you wanted something different to what is supplied, or you want to show this kit sealed up, you will have to make your own solution. Probably I would think by “Greenstuff” or a similar putty.
While we are on the turret we will look at the photo etch in this kit. Some simple bending will make this turret basket into something quite effective. There are several brackets for the fenders supplied here also. There looks to be no overuse of PE here which is good.
Sprue A (x2): is a duplicate sprue. Both sides of the road wheels are here on these sprues. Linkages and wheel caps are here in the suspension which make the build a lot simpler (no need to go hunting around the box.)
The dual wheel setup is replicated here (one less road wheel per side then the T-54) and each detail, right down to the hexagonal bolt shape. There are four injection points on each wheel, I would like to see less or some finer attachment points.
Handy notches are included to help you align these wheels correctly with each other.
Sprue B (X4): each of these four sprues contains five road “tyres” which are lined with the ribbing you might find on brand new rubber. This will be mostly sanded down on most people’s kits, with many modellers wanting to show the kit weathered and not factory fresh. The fact that the wheels come separate is good as it hides the four injection points on the metal roadwheel part, but the ribbing will need a rubbing...if you know what I mean.
The Hull: All of these road wheels and the suspension has to be attached to something. Takom have done a lot of work in replicating the undersides of their hulls, and although there isn’t much on the top you can see here the hatches and fully detailed underside here.
The Tracks: While we are on the suspension and wheels, we have the 184 single track links to look at (which means 92 for each side for those mathematically challenged). You can see here these are separated so you do not need to cut them from sprues, however, there are ejection marks on each track to remove the exposed underside tracks especially. This tank has no side skirts so I think you will have some more “rubbing” to do here.
Sprue P: contains a major part of the hull, the whole top centre of the structure, also here are the straight mudguard/fender parts for either side as well as the bottom base of the turret and gun mounts.
The floor of the turret is of interest. You will notice the nasty ol’ ejection marks on the plastic – thank goodness they are UNDER the spaces for the piles of stacked ammunition that will sit on top of them. SO if you fill these with brass you do not need to fill these – smart moulding.
The front glacis plates of the tank is here – betraying all of its T-54 roots. Here you see the open holes for you to pose with a crew member inside them or open/ closed to the elements.
Sprue S: again focussing on the hull – Sprue S contains many of the exterior details of the outside of the superstructure. The fuel tanks, fenders & mudguards, spare track for the front, tow cable loops, posable hatches, and most pleasantly exterior fuel lines are all here and all moulded pretty cleanly.
The mudguards and fenders are represented in thin plastic unless you want to show them in a distressed state these are quite good.
Hinges and screws holding them in place are of note here, and an extra point to weather and detail. The moulding points are again hidden. Good stuff Takom.
A good quality unditching log for the rear of the tank is included. No fishing for similar looking stick in the back yard needed here.
After the fenders, mudguards and fuel tanks go on you will have to attach the Steel towing cable – This is here in a single length of 23.5cm This is silver which is a good start for people who do not like the brass ones, but it will require some “counter bending” to make it the right shape before you attach it to the hull. It’s pretty stubborn.
Sprue L: The external fuel tanks are often discussed with this hull, and these are moulded finely, ready to be connected to the external fuel lines that most are so thankful are included in this series.
By the time you get to the 22nd step, you are finished making the hull. Next are the twin 57mm guns. Sprue J has most of these parts that make up the gun and interior on the – so many there really is nothing to point out until the kit is built that you could recognize.
However, all of the parts here are well moulded as you can see, without flash and for the most part easy to remove from the sprues without damage.
Some of the external parts of the turret – the mantlet facade and the base of the rotating turret are also included here – nothing again of note until the kit is built.
Sprue N (X2): Is also a major part of the gun and here the most easily picked out part is the partially hollowed out gun muzzle of the 57MM. There are also external hitching cleats and the hollowed out end of the two ropes on this sprue.
The gun barrel is OK – but with this AVF, the main feature are the guns and the barrels, for this reason, I would replace them with aftermarket ones for the cleanest look. You do not NEED to, but I know I would in this case…It’s up to you in the end.
Sprue E: contains the larger parts of the gun all of the body of the mechanism is here in sharp detail. This is just as nice looking as the rest of the gun parts however it means nothing till you see the gun altogether.
Here are the guns all made up - it's an impressive beast !
Sprue G: houses 220 unspent clips of ammunition. Ready to be plonked right into, covering up those nasty ejector circles we saw earlier. These are great – I would like some hollowed out spent brass for the rear basket, but again that is an aftermarket solution.
The Clear Sprue has the vision port/ periscopes and the light “glass” all ready to go. No blemishes or hard to remove parts to scare the transparencies here.
Many, many colours…
That is the end of the plastic and metal – now we look at Decals and markings. There a total of ELEVEN markings included in a full colour fold-out A5 leaflet. AMMO has supplied the colour call outs with their partnership with Takom well known and successful. If you have those paints, then great – but a bit of colour matching will need to happen if you want to use someone else’s brand. This isn’t ideal, but then again with all the research that goes in from Mig’s guys, there would not be that many choices to be had with a kit colour scheme booklet without their help.
An attractive booklet isn’t it?
The decals are supplied on a small sheet that kinda hides the sheer number of schemes it has to cover. Even the smallest of printing is rendered here very sharply. The marking of East Germany are especially hard to pull off in such tiny detail, but they are done well here by the printers at Cartograf. You can see the regulation/ competition sized match how fins some of the printing is. The decals are printed on a medium shine surface with thick texture.
The markings included on this sheet are: from the Finnish Army, a vehicle from the Iran-Iraq War of the Iranian Army, an Egyptian Army machine from the Six Day War. There is a Serbian Army (Balkan War era) as well as an East German Army machine. The PKK machine from the Northern Iraq theatre as well as the Yom Kippur War Syrian Army machine from 1973.
Most interestingly to some builders the 1960 Moscow Parade vehicle with its white wall tyres of the Red Army and two versions from the NVA in the Vietnamese war are here. I have my favourite already – maybe two or three from that lot.
OK, that’s what is in the box. You cannot really see much more of this kit before you build it. I think it will be an enjoyable experience, as long as you don’t mind painting a lot of brass (lolz.)
Here the kit is all made up.
This is a great choice of a popular kit that needed updating. I like this kit very much and think it will be deservedly on many people’s shopping lists.
Adam Norenberg
Thanks to Takom for supplying this kit to us to review – you can get it from their distributors worldwide.
Our very good buddy Charlie Pritchett (who works for Takom when not building models – full disclosure here) has built this kit – this is what it looks like in NVA colours…
We met Charlie on our trip to the Shizuoka Model show in Japan this year. He struck us immediately as a lovely bloke, and I know I am happy to know such a talented modeller is such a good person. When he told us he was making this vehicle we asked if he would let us into how he painted his before it goes into print later in an article. This is the painting instructions he gave for this NVA ZSU....
"One note that I should make is that I chose to use the GORGEOUS turned brass gun barrels & empty shell casings from Magic Models, formerly known as Model Point. MM3543 57mm Barrel S-68 and MM33302 57mm empty shell casings. To install the gun barrels, I simply filled the holes for the plastic parts and drilled them out to fit the metal barrels. EZ-PZ
Painting began with the turret interior, which was simply airbrushed with A.MIG-050 Matt White.
The tracks were airbrushed A.MIG-042 Old Rust, while the exterior of the model was first painted with a base coat of A.MIG-930 Russian 4B0 Shadow to cover all of the grey coloured plastic, followed by A.MIG-931 Russian Dark Base.
The final colour to be airbrushed onto the model was A.MIG-932 Russian Green Base (ZIS 508), which was focused in the centre of panels & parts, allowing the darker base to show through around the edges. A clear gloss acrylic coat of Johnsons Future floor wax was then airbrushed over everything to prepare the surface for weathering & decaling, and also to create a shiny painted metal effect to contrast with the weathering.
At this point, the other colours were applied with a brush, such as A.MIG-033 Rubber & Tires, which was used to paint the road wheels & mud flaps, and A.MIG-049 Red which was used to pick out alignment bolts on all of the wheel hubs. Washes of A.MIG-1005 Dark Brown were applied to the exterior to create depth and contrast before adding a bit of the darker base colour (A.MIG-931) with a sponge. This was done to distress the paint and add a bit of tonal variation; not to create any chipping effects. Further washes of A.MIG-1400 Kursk Soil & A.MIG-1404 North Africa Dust were applied individually, mixed, thinned, and layered to create the dust effects on the horizontal planes, and the same colours were used to create streaks and rain marks with the help of A.MIG-2011 Heavy Chipping Effects on the vertical surfaces. The interior of the turret was washed with A.MIG-1003 Interiors Wash, and darker stains & washes were added with A.MIG-1005 Dark Brown Wash & A.MIG-1409 Fuel Stains.
After airbrushing the internal ammo with Alclad Polished Brass, the warheads were carefully painted with a brush using A.MIG-924 Olive Drab Shadow, and then dry-brushed with Rub'nBuff silver leaf. Finally, the first round in each ammo clip received a painted red tip to indicate a tracer around. The tracks were given washes of A.MIG-1004 Light Rust and A.MIG-1400 Kursk Soil, and then the treads & guide horns were dry-brushed with Rub'nBuff Silver Leaf."
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Major League Soccer Continues Annual All Star Game Charade
San Jose, CA - Major League Soccer, today, continued their annual charade performed for the public in which they pretend that anyone cares about the All Star Game.
FINALLY, MY WHOLE YEAR IS COMPLETE. THE ALL-STAR GAME. WOOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Someone, somewhere cares about this and that's who we are reaching towards," stated commissioner of Major League Soccer, Don Garber. "We aren't reaching out to the hard core fans, nor are we reaching out to the casual fans. We are reaching out to the fan that has literally never gone to an MLS game and wants to go because he owns a Tomáš Rosický kit in his closet and this is the closest he has ever gotten to The Emirates."
With all the pomp and circumstance that a completely meaningless game designed to sell advertisement can generate, Major League Soccer announced that the 2016 opponent would be Arsenal, and that the gift bags for reporters would be even better this season.
Reaction on Twitter was swift as many people immediately tried to figure out a way to fix a game that is inherently stupid at its core level.
"I think they should play only 22 year old players on one side and Liga MX players with a name that starts with J on the other," tweeted @HokyPokyGiggs
"I think they should make it USA versus the World because the USA is #1 always and forever," tweeted @ThisEagleIsntBald
The Nutmeg News will have more on this as throngs of press credentials requests are sent to the league requesting access to the after party that the USWNT stars will be visiting.
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"Some Of My Highest Yelp Rated Restaurants Are Mexican," States Xenophobic Soccer Fan
Dallas, TX - Despite a Facebook and Twitter feed filled with posts about soccer and policy that overstep the line between tolerance and xenophobic bigotry against people of Mexican descent, soccer fan Frank Weihauser stated that he does not really hate Mexicans, on Friday.
"I only like dual nationals if they are German and they choose the United States," stated Mr. Weihauser.
"I support the United States, the greatest country in the world, and I expect everyone else to support the United States regardless of where they are," stated Weihauser to The Nutmeg News. "Some of my highest Yelp rated restaurants are Mexican."
Weihauser reportedly was incensed when Jonathon Gonzalez chose Mexico over the United States as he repeatedly stated online, "just deport him if he loves it so much. We should do this to his parents and family."
Mr. Weihauser continued in a long winded Facebook post that received 5 likes on a US Soccer Fan Facebook group, "I don't hate Mexicans, I hate the Mexican national team, and most of the players, and most of their families, and the families they know in the United States, and I don't really like the three guys that live on my block, or the guy that I see downtown, but I'm not bigoted against Mexicans.... It's just sports."
Reportedly wanting to keep America and America's institutions for American's, the American of German descent ranted all day about another American of Mexican descent indicating, "He doesn't love this country, you can tell. Love it or leave it. And by love it, I mean be like me and hate anyone trying to get in or anyone from another backgrounds that values another country at all. In fact, you know what, it's probably better you just leave it. America. Leave it. That's our new slogan. But don't leave it if you trained for soccer here, if that's the case then stay and allow me to dislike you in a different way."
The Nutmeg News will have more on this as Mr. Weihauser gets verde sauce on his Burrito at La Victoria, later.
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VAT rules crippling online entrepreneurs
Written by Vicky Ford on 22 May 2015 in Opinion
Current online VAT rules are driving small businesses into the ground and must be updated urgently, writes Vicky Ford.
If Europe is to prosper and grow we must support small businesses and make sure that the single market is fit for purpose in a digital age.
We often hear talk of the 'unintended consequences' of regulation on businesses and consumers. Nowhere is this more visible than the impact that new rules for VAT collection have had on microbusinesses.
At the end of last year, VAT rules were changed so that it is charged at the rate where the buyer lives, not where the seller is located. This was intended to tackle the problem of large multinationals like Amazon not paying significant VAT due to their being based in low tax member states.
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Unfortunately back in 2006 when the rules were agreed, no one foresaw the rapid and dramatic growth of the online marketplace and the opportunities for millions of tiny businesses.
The ability to sell eBooks, patterns, guides and videos via the internet has unlocked huge benefits for creators across Europe - one-man and often one-woman companies could sell their content easily.
But the new VAT rules mean these micro-operators now face crippling bureaucracy and costs.
A recent survey of 2000 small companies says a quarter now block overseas sales through geoblocking and a fifth have stopped selling altogether. They are no longer earning money, so authorities are collecting no tax at all.
This cannot possibly be compatible with our desires as legislators to drive growth, encourage competitiveness and restore our public finances to a more healthy state.
The issue was debated in the parliament chamber in Strasbourg. MEPs from all political groups and across Europe called for urgent action to be taken to help microenterprises.
The easiest and practical way to solve the problem is to introduce a threshold or an exemption below which a company would not have to deal with cross border VAT.
The commission proposed this a decade ago, and is making the same suggestion now.
This will require approval by all 28 finance ministers. I hope they don't wait - for many of these online entrepreneurs, next year will be too late.
Vicky Ford (ECR, UK) is chair of parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee
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Kathleen Wynne is legislating against fathers and mothers, fight back!
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Our crowdfunded billboard hits Toronto streets — including Queen's Park!
Faith Goldy has an update on Premier Wynne's plan to remove the words "mother" and "father" from every law in Ontario! She reports from Queen's Park next to our latest billboard.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is waging a war on motherhood and fatherhood.
According to the Liberal government’s proposed new Bill 28, the word “mother” may soon be removed from Ontario law, instead replaced with the term “birth parent." And “father” will be exchanged for the term “parent.”
And this bill is being rammed through the legislature at lightening speed.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's spokespeople said the purpose of the All Families Are Equal Act is to ensure all kids are equally treated, regardless of familial structure.
Kathleen Wynne is trying to be so inclusive, she’s including everyone except families with a mother and father.
In fact, Kathleen Wynne has gone beyond excluding mothers and fathers. Kathleen Wynne is literally censoring motherhood and fatherhood from Ontario law—replacing them instead with forced euphemisms.
The Left is obsessed with control, and language is crucial to that ambition. But a word-war against motherhood and fatherhood? That’s not up for debate.
There’s no room for a political spin in the relationship between a mother and her and child.
If you agree that the All Families Are Equal Act is decidedly unequal to traditional families, then please sign the petition below.
But that's not all.
I want to take it one step further. After Wynne’s Liberals rammed her radical sex-ed curriculum through the legislature, she wouldn’t listen to the thousands of people who rallied against her. I want to send Wynne a message she can’t ignore. I want to put up a billboard right outside of her office. But billboards are expensive, so please click here to help us crowdfund the billboard.
This new law isn’t about inclusion—it’s about exclusion. It’s about linguistic perversion. It’s about the creeping destruction of our society’s oldest institutions: Motherhood and fatherhood.
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Do it Yourself: Fight pests with low dose of chemical
Rockford Register Star
Do it yourself gardening tips.
Summer has arrived, and so have home pests.
For more than 30 years, the basic philosophy of pest control was to use a high-dose chemical that would serve as an all-purpose insecticide. Now pest control is all about high-tech, low-dose products.
Perhaps the best embodiment of this philosophy is Enforcer’s Bug Max 365. Bug Max has only a. 03 percent formulation, making it a low-dose product.
Years ago, gardeners spread chrysanthemums around the perimeters of their gardens. The chrysanthemums were an effective, naturally occurring insecticide. Researchers developed synthetic alternatives for the chrysanthemums called pyrethroids. Pyrethroids are among the safest classes of pesticides. The most effective pyrethroid is deltamethrin. Enforcer Bug Max 365 uses a low dose of deltamethrin.
Bug Max is a one-year home pest control that is odorless, nonstaining and has a water-based formula. It controls box elder bugs, Asian lady bugs, termites, ants, spiders, roaches and more. It kills on contact and it also kills residually.
— Janice Westlund, Bob’s Hardware and Home Center, 2710 20th St., Rockford.
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Researchers say bitcoin’s carbon footprint equal to Las Vegas
Thu., June 13, 2019timer1 min. read
BERLIN - Researchers calculate that the electricity required for the virtual currency bitcoin generates as much carbon dioxide as a city like Las Vegas.
The Technical University of Munich said Thursday that researcher Christian Stoll and colleagues first calculated the power consumption of the entire bitcoin network. They then combined the results with the carbon emissions from electricity production in the countries where the computers were located, concluding that bitcoin’s carbon footprint in late 2018 was 22-22.9 megatons of CO2 per year.
Stoll, who also works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the findings should prompt policymakers to consider regulating bitcoin so it uses mainly low-carbon, renewable energy.
Alex de Vries, a bitcoin expert who wasn’t involved in the study, said the figures were plausible and probably on the conservative side.
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Southern Norway Kristiansand Vennesla
Røyknes - Kiledalen
Røyknes, Vennesla
www.vennesla.kommune.no
post@vennesla.kommune.no
Category: Tours & Sightseeing
Bike / hiking trip from Røyknes to Kile.
There are small differences in level along this section of the route. From Røyknes Cycle Route no. 3 follows the path of the old Setesdalsbanen railway to Nomeland power station. When the Nomeland power station and Nomeland dam were built in 1920, the railway was rerouted. You cycle up the hill to the new route, which you then follow through the Nomeland tunnel and upwards along the west side of the fjord. The old railway lies at the bottom of the fjord. As you are cycling along an old railway section you don't have so many tough uphill slopes. There are 7 tunnels along this section of the route. Two of these are lit.
After approx. 6 km you pass Iveland power station. From here the road heads inwards towards the centre of Iveland. On the section between Iveland and Kile there are several large log driving walls and other reminders from the time when enormous piles of logs were driven down through the water system. You cycle through several tunnels, the longest of which are illuminated. There are no cars between Gåseflå and Kile. From Kile and up to Kiledalen you have to cycle along Highway 9
Recommended map: National cycle route no. 3
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Let there be light (and ceramics)
Christina Ohly Evans, Financial Times
Dan Flavin’s untitled (to Lucie Rie, master potter) 1y, 1990 | Artwork © Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Image Courtesy Rubin/Spangle Gallery; Photo by Dorothy Zeidman
The artworks of minimalist masters Flavin, Rie and Coper make for a dazzling display in this new exhibition.
The light installations of the late American minimalist artist Dan Flavin and the sculptural works of ceramicists Hans Coper and Lucie Rie might be unlikely companions, but they will be showcased together for the first time at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz, Switzerland from Tuesday December 19 through to Sunday February 4 in a stunning juxtaposition of material and form.
Dan Flavin, to Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, master Potters will include 18 light works from Flavin’s two 1990 series ($275,000- $325,000) dedicated to the late London-based potters, alongside 15 of Rie and Coper’s vessels from the artist’s personal collection (not for sale). Together they illustrate the artists’ affinity for explorations of space and harmony.
Flavin began collecting the work of modernist potters Rie and her protégé Coper – both refugees of Nazism who later settled in London – in the 1980s. Fascinated by ceramics, the artist amassed pieces by a range of potters, but “had a particular interest in the modern sense and rigor of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper,” says Stephen Flavin, president of the Dan Flavin estate and the son of the artist, who helped to organise the exhibition. “My father met Lucie Rie in London through the British art dealer Leslie Waddington, and subsequently did the first show of the series dedicated to Rie at Leslie Waddington’s gallery.”
Among the works on view from Flavin’s twin 1990 series will be untitled (to Lucie Rie, master potter) 1rrr, 1990 – an entrancing combination of blue, green, yellow and pink fluorescent lights that stands 6ft tall – and untitled (to Lucie Rie, master potter) 1y, 1990 – an installation in a similar colour palette, but with a predominance of vibrant yellow. Sculptural, almost Cycladic vessels by Coper – including “Spade” Form and Angular Pot (works he crafted using T-material, and layered porcelain slip with a manganese finish) date from the 1950s and 1960s, while Rie’s delicate Potato Pot and Footed Bowl date from the 1970s and 1980s. In these latter works, much attention has been paid to glaze and texture – and to a repetition of form that is similar to Flavin’s works.
“There is so much of my father’s later work that hasn’t been seen in a very long time and that is, I think, very interesting,” says Stephen Flavin. “The two series dedicated to Lucie Rie and Hans Coper – untitled (to Lucie Rie, master potter) and untitled (to Hans Coper, master potter) – are prime examples of this and I wanted them to be seen once again.”
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Marveling at the Super Bloom: Amy Ephron Visits Death Valley
Amy Ephron
Photo: Courtesy of @desert_essence
Rarely (every 14 years or so), a super bloom erupts in Death Valley and the desert is briefly (carpeted would be too extreme) finely brushed with fields of purple, yellow, white, and pale pink wildflowers. Thanks to the almost El Niño, we’re having a super bloom this year. And for a brief moment, one of the most desolate places in the world won’t seem quite so desolate.
I’ve never been. I’ve always found the descriptions of Death Valley daunting. Death Valley closes in mid-May—it simply gets too hot. It has the highest recorded temperature in the world, 134 degrees; ghost towns on the highway, literal ghost towns without even a ticket-taker or a souvenir shop; an occasional stone house that crumbled on a cliffside with an inexplicable sign that says Historical Monument; and North America’s lowest point, in Badwater Basin’s salt flats. And I’m not sure how I feel about sea level or below sea level when the only sea around is sand. But somehow the idea of the super bloom appealed to me even though I couldn’t get a reservation at the high-end (read: incredibly pricey) Furnace Creek Inn and only one room could be found in the valley at all, at a local motel with a fairly decent (if deceptive) online rating.
Photo: Alamy
When you hit Highway 14 heading north, deep into the Mojave Desert, the road becomes a ribbon through the otherwise endless unpopulated landscape, which at first appears completely stark and barren. But relax, take a breath, erase the palette of the landscape in your mind to black-and-white and let it repopulate the foliage into shades of green, the palest mint, sage, olive, moss; pure white rocks and quartzite with tiny orange veins; shards of mica, sparkling as the sun hits the sand; a tiny patch of purple flowers; a lone prickly pear cactus with a pale pink bulbous fruit. On the side of the road, the black pyramid-like hills become a beacon behind you as, in a moment, you’re in Red Rock Canyon, the dramatic orange rocks burned by the sun to a color that resembles (and possibly inspired) Frank Lloyd Wright red. And there’s nothing else around except an occasional car going to or from Death Valley, a black crow, a funny highway sign that warns of BLOWING DUST, a rumor of rattlesnakes.
The last leg of the drive is difficult, sharp curves and a steep descent to the canyon below with guardrails that switch from one side of the skinny highway to the other at a moment’s notice. Keep both hands on the wheel, and it’s a good idea to observe the intermittent but insistent 25 mph speed-limit signs and chew gum since the elevation is about to take an extreme drop . . . and you’re in Death Valley.
Take a hike in Mosaic Canyon. Drive down the long dirt rocky road—good luck to you if you get a flat—the destination is worth it. The extraordinary geological cave-like structure with twists and turns feels as if you’re in a magic cavern, with its naturally formed and polished marble walls and surfaces that are astonishingly cool to the touch, and goofy tourists who are taking just as many pictures as you are.
death valley super bloom
Photo: Courtesy of @modern_outdoors
We drove past but didn’t stop at the Devil’s Corn Field—figuring that there had to be a reason why they named it that—on to the astonishing white sand dunes that look as if you’ve suddenly landed in the Sahara. The breadth of the landscape is simply astonishing. And then a few miles down the road, a swath of gold over the desert floor, as if someone’s laid down a silk scrim and dotted the desert with a yellow sheen. It’s somewhat of an optical illusion, as when you get out of the car and walk across the desert floor it seems less dramatic: a tiny yellow flower, a tiny yellow flower, a tiny yellow flower, a patch of white rocks with a tiny cluster of white flowers almost like the floral version of camouflage. But turn your head to the left and it’s as if a delicate gold, if somewhat threadbare, carpet is covering the ground. And you can’t help but feel kissed by magic.
Our motel was somewhat reminiscent of a Robert Mitchum movie in the ’50s—vaguely noir. The 4-by-4 room right on the highway was not exactly an invitation to relax, except that nobody drives on the highway at night and the sky is astonishingly lit with more stars than you could even imagine and seems to stretch right down to the desert floor at the horizon. Spectacular. When we turned our lights off to go to sleep, there was suddenly an odd, eerie, high-pitched tone in the room. (No, I am not making this up.) And my husband said to me, “What is that?”
“I don’t know, honey,” I answered. “It sounds an awful lot like ghosts . . .”
He started laughing.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Your delivery,” he said. “And . . .” he added, “it sounds an awful lot like ghosts . . .”
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