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Tampa Mafia Tours
Tampa Mafia
NYPD: Man arrested in death of Frank Cali, reputed Gambino crime family boss
The police took a 24-year-old Staten Island man into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family and expected to charge him with murder, officials said on Saturday.
The motive for the killing was unclear, Dermot F. Shea, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, said at a news conference on Saturday.
Cocktail Noir: From Gangsters & Gin Joints to Gumshoes & Gimlets
Catering to lovers of the well-written word and the well-mixed drink, Cocktail Noir.A lively look at the intertwining of alcohol and the underworld–represented by authors of crime both true and fictional and their glamorously disreputable characters, as well as by real life gangsters who built Prohibition-era empires on bootlegged booze. It celebrates the potent potables they imbibed and the watering holes they frequented, including some bars that continue to provide a second home for crime writers.
The Best of Tampa’s Mobster Hangouts
The hidden history of Tampa’s underworld is often intertwined with some of the city’s most cherished landmarks and popular restaurants. Tampa really didn’t have the storefront social clubs popular in cities like Boston and New York City. But Tampa did have more than its share of lounges, bars, restaurants, and newsstands where bolita bets were taken, baseball odds conveyed, drug deals went down, and local gangsters held sit-downs with visiting crime figures from New Orleans, New York, and Chicago.
Mafia Books
Mafia Locations
Santo Traficante
Click on cover to read the full issue.
Winter 2015
Spring 2015
© 2017 Cigar City Magazine, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Meet our 2016 Officer of the Year
Meet our Officer of the Year
Detective Jesse Streeter named FPPD Officer of the Year
With 16 years on the job, Detective Jesse Streeter is one of the most experienced officers on the Fort Pierce Police Department. And while that certainly helps him solve crimes, it’s his experiences before he joined FPPD that influence him most and guide him daily as he works for the good of the community.
As a young man, Jesse was stopped by police while driving in a town outside Fort Pierce. Without provocation, an officer threatened Jesse with a shotgun, racking the slide while pointing the weapon at Jesse’s head. Fortunately, Jesse remained calm and the situation resolved, but the impact on the young man was profound and inspired him to go into law enforcement — specifically because he wanted to set an example for the way officers should treat people, with courtesy and respect.
“I wanted to make a change,” Jesse said, “because I am a human being first.”
He began working as a state corrections officer in Martin County, where he says he learned a lot about people, including criminals, and about the benefit of striving for mutual respect with everyone he encounters, no matter what their situation in life.
“Whatever life someone comes from, it doesn’t dictate who they are,” Jesse says.
Now, because he has been respectful of the people he meets as an officer and detective, Jesse has built relationships that often help develop leads in difficult cases. People are willing to talk to Detective Jesse Streeter because they see his sincerity, and because they have come to know the honest and true person behind the badge. And they know that person cares.
He stays busy at FPPD with 150 cases pending on his desk. On a recent case, he worked tirelessly with the state attorney’s office during a difficult trial that ended with the guilty verdict of a gang member who had been involved in many shootings, but had always evaded conviction.
The attorney who prosecuted the case wrote to Chief Diane Hobley-Burney about Detective Streeter, saying, “His encouragement and assistance made it easier for us to do our jobs in prosecuting one of the most violent gang members in the county … Detective Streeter is an invaluable asset to your department in the pursuit of justice and in the ongoing desire of both of our agencies to protect this community.”
Detective Streeter’s successes even get noticed out of town: On a homicide case in Robertson County, Tennessee, there was a connection to Fort Pierce requiring Detective Streeter’s expertise. The Sheriff of Robertson County wrote to the detective, saying, “You jumped right in to help by drafting the search warrant for the storage unit, mobilizing the evidence collection unit, and helping to execute the search warrant. Your willingness to help another agency shows that your commitment to serve extends beyond the borders of Fort Pierce.”
Detective Jesse Streeter has indeed shown his willingness to help anyone, anywhere over the years, and has proved to be a great asset to the community of Fort Pierce time and again.
And the Fort Pierce Police Department is proud to call him our “Officer of the Year.”
Congratulations, and thank you Detective Jesse Streeter!
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How 2 Iowa college students built a home for $489
Both knew how to work and had a farmer's mindset of keeping it frugal.
How 2 Iowa college students built a home for $489 Both knew how to work and had a farmer's mindset of keeping it frugal. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: http://usat.ly/1Dz9lkC
Mike Kilen, The Des Moines Register Published 9:22 p.m. CT Feb. 2, 2015
Ethan Van Kooten and Amy Andrews, both environmental studies students at Central College, built a tiny house for a school project near Van Kooten’s parents home in Pella. The house comes with a loft, a kitchen and a wood-burning stove.(Photo: Bryon Houlgrave, Register photos)
DES MOINES — They had no construction background and no money.
But Amy Andrews and Ethan Van Kooten built a house.
They came in over their budget of zero. They spent $489, less than some people's monthly car payment.
The Central College seniors built a 260-square-foot dwelling made of old hog feeders, grain bins, demolished buildings and other dusty piles of junk headed for the landfill.
"If you scrounge around, you can save a lot," Amy said.
"Scrounge," added Ethan, "is our favorite word now."
In recent years, disciples of the tiny home movement have preached that you can make the most of 400 square feet of space or less, showcased in TV shows such as HGTV's Tiny House Hunters and DIY Network's Tiny House Builders. But network officials say no one has done it so frugally.
Andrews and Van Kooten are classmates in an environmental science class at the Pella college. Inspired by last year's class trip to Costa Rica, where they were housed in small dwellings powered by solar panels, they teamed up to do research for a senior class project.
They discovered that the average size of U.S. homes is rising — from 1,525 square feet in 1973 to 2,598 last year — while homes are responsible for 18% of the carbon dioxide released in the U.S.
16 photos: Tiny house built by Central College students
Ethan Van Kooten and Amy Andrews, both environmental studies students at Central College, have build a tiny house for a school project near Van Kooten's parents home in Pella. Bryon Houlgrave, The Register
Zoning issues and upkeep issues complicated where to put the home. The pair ended up keeping it on skids on Ethan’s father’s land. Bryon Houlgrave, The Register
Ethan Van Kooten and Amy Andrews built a tiny house for a Central College school project. The home, complete with a desk and wood-burning stove, cost $469. “If you scrounge around, you can save a lot,” Andrews said. Bryon Houlgrave, The Register
Ethan Van Kooten and Amy Andrews, both environmental studies students at Central College, have build a tiny house for a school project near Van Kooten's parents home in Pella. The house comes with a loft with a bed, a kitchen and wood burning stove. Bryon Houlgrave, The Register
Ethan Van Kooten and Amy Andrews, both environmental studies students at Central College, built a tiny house for a school project near Van Kooten’s parents home in Pella. The house comes with a loft, a kitchen and a wood-burning stove. Bryon Houlgrave, Register photos
Amy Andrews, a senior at Central College in Pella, looks out of a window from the tiny home she helped build with fellow senior Ethan Van Kooten on Thursday in Pella. Bryon Houlgrave, The Register
“Scrounge is our favorite word now,” said Ethan Van Kooten who, with fellow Central College student Amy Andrews, used $489 plus ingenuity and sweat to build a 260-square-foot dwelling made of old hog feeders, grain bins, demolished buildings and other dusty piles of junk. Bryon Houlgrave, The Register
They discussed it in class with Anya Butt, the college's director of environmental studies, who wondered who would want to clean, heat or buy enough stuff to own a huge home.
"So the question was, 'Could you build a living space that provided what you needed, but wasn't so large?' "
Butt admits she had doubts that her students could pull it off, because there was one huge challenge.
"We didn't have any money," Van Kooten said.
What they had was a farm background. Andrews grew up on a small farm near Shellsburg, and Van Kooten's family farm skirts the edge of Pella. They both knew how to work and had a farmer's mindset: If something needs doing, you do it yourself.
When no grants were available for their project, they began looking around Van Kooten's family farm for materials, like two young fort-builders. On the property was an old granary built by three generations of Van Kootens in 1952, a bit ragged and holey and filled with junk.
"But it was square," Van Kooten said.
Andrews and Van Kooten cleaned out the granary, which was built to hold field corn. They also found fiberglass insulation for the roof and foam insulation for the walls that was headed for the landfill during the demolition of a local nursing home.
They extracted cupboards, a countertop, a sink, carpet and a chandelier from a Pella home scheduled for demolition.
They gathered waste materials from local corporations, and old shed doors and other waste wood from the farm, and began piecing together the walls with the help and expertise of Ethan's father, Kent Van Kooten. They took the floor of an old hog feeder and built a sleeping loft, using an old ladder from a deer stand to climb into it.
They cleaned up an old wood stove sitting in storage on the Van Kooten farm and had four used windows donated to the project. The big expenditures were a stove pipe ($120) and plywood for the ceiling ($110).
After 500 hours of hard labor, it was done.
(Photo: Bryon Houlgrave, The Register)
On a windy January morning, Van Kooten and Andrews piled into his pickup and drove down the pasture hill on his father's farm to show off the home, which is nestled between black locust trees near a creek.
Enter the wood-floored space with a vaulted ceiling, and visions of reading a book in a rocking chair enter your head. A small wood stove will heat the place nicely. Used furniture found in storage fills the living space — a little desk in one corner, a sitting bench along one wall and a small kitchen table along another. Van Kooten made vases in his glass-blowing class, and Andrews made the window curtains from old fabric.
It's not hooked up for water, but a future improvement will be a gravity-fed rain barrel system. Light comes from the candle chandelier that can be lowered by a pulley system and battery-powered wall lights, with solar energy a future option.
"For two students to do this on such a small budget is amazing," Butt said.
Where to put the home was another learning experience — "all the hoops you have to jump through," Van Kooten said.
The house was intended to work somewhere on campus as a demonstration for small living, but Butt said they ran into zoning issues and concerns about the expense of future upkeep once the students graduate. So the students decided to keep the house on skids on Ethan's father's land.
Zoning and building rules have hindered the small home movement. City and county building requirements restrict many of the homes. Sean Spain, who built a small home in West Des Moines that was featured in The Des Moines Register in November, solved one issue by building his on a trailer.
Spain's $10,500 tiny home was recently sold to a woman who owns an acreage in Marshalltown. Spain said he plans to build two more for her because she has designs on a community of tiny homes.
The Central students' paperwork may not be done. City and county officials say they have no applications for building permits for the structure.
"If it's just a demonstration project that's one thing, versus something built for habitation," said Jerry Byers, a building official with the city of Pella. "It would have to go on a permanent foundation if it's a permanent structure."
Much is yet to be ironed out. For now, the students see it as a fun cabin. Andrews is already planning a "girls weekend," and Van Kooten one for his buddies.
They don't want it to overshadow the larger point, however. They believe their project is a demonstration of the wisdom of living sustainably, using less to simplify life and help the environment.
"We both farmed, so we know you have to use the land," Andrews said. "But you can use it more wisely."
Same goes for junk. It can become a nice little house.
What was bought for home
Following is a partial listing of items Amy Andrews and Ethan Van Kooten bought to build their 260-square-foot home:
Plywood for ceiling, $110
Exterior paint, $25
Foam ceiling vents, $25
Bolts, $10
Door frame, $40
Exterior door, $13
Interior paint, $30
Drip cap for windows, $60
Wood stove piping materials, $120
Iowa's role in movement
The tiny house movement owes some of its momentum to Iowans.
Jay Shafer, a former university art professor, built a 130-square-foot home in Iowa City, and joined Greg Johnson and others in 2002 to form the Small House Society, which fosters the development of smaller, sustainable living spaces.
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Dulini Private Game Reserve
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Singita Private Game Reserve
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Game Drive Safaris
Night Drive Safaris
MalaMala comprises over 45,000 acres of prime habitat within the world famous Sabi Sand Private Game Reserve, on the western border of the great Kruger National Park. The Kruger Park (a 5.5 million acre sanctuary for wildlife bigger than Massachusetts) is widely regarded as one of Africa's premier game reserves, and animals move back and forth between Kruger and the Sabi Sand Reserve, unhindered by fences. The Sabi Sand Reserve is one of the most game-rich areas within Kruger, and is said to be home to Africa's greatest diversity of animals.
MalaMala occupies what is arguably the prime location in the Sabi Sand Reserve, directly adjacent to the Kruger Park and with several miles of water frontage on the Sand River. Game-drive safaris at MalaMala are conducted in specially adapted open Landrovers carrying a maximum of six guests (maximum of four guests at Rattray's Camp), with professional game rangers and trackers to help find animals, and then provide interesting background information and facts about Africa's spectacular wildlife. MalaMala also offers night drives with spot lamps to view nocturnal species. Walking safaris with your game ranger and tracker provide even deeper and more 'hands-on' insight into the many intricate eco-systems of the African bush.
MalaMala is famous for the extremely high standard of its game rangers, all of whom are university graduates with degrees in the natural sciences. All game rangers and trackers are carefully chosen for their knowledge and experience of the bush, and receive extensive training to ensure that your encounters with the African wilderness are exciting, informative, and safe. There are three lodges on the MalaMala Private Game Reserve: Rattray's Camp, Sable Camp, and Main Camp
The flagship camp on the reserve is Rattray's. Rattray's Camp is comprised of eight separate "Khayas" (homes), each with an elevated position overlooking the Sand River. The spacious rooms feature climate control, twin bathrooms ('his' and 'hers'), and are surrounded by an elegant veranda and wooden viewing deck with private plunge pool. Meals can be taken privately at your Khaya, either inside or on the veranda. Rattray's solves the dilemma of communications technology by equipping each Khaya with state-of-the-art telephone, satellite television and internet facilities, all discretely locked away. Guests can request the key to the facilities in their room, or choose to ignore them completely.
Facilities within the regal main building incorporate a viewing deck, an air-conditioned library, an attractive bar showcasing the history of the area, and an adjoining wine cellar stocked with a wide range of South Africa's best wines.
Breakfast and lunch are served in the air-conditioned dining room or on the adjoining deck. Dinners can be taken in the dining room, in the privacy of one's Khaya, or in the traditional reed boma under a magnificent jackalberry tree.
Guests over the age of 16 are welcome at Rattray's Camp.
Sable Camp operates as an exclusive sub-section of Main Camp, accommodating a maximum of 14 guests in five double suites and one two-bedroomed suite. The suites have all the luxury amenities and facilities that MalaMala is famous for, including two bathrooms, climate control, hairdryers, telephone, mini-bar and mini-safe, etc.
The fully air-conditioned common area has a colonial feel with modern comforts. A library with satellite television and internet access provide communications with the outside world, while the elevated deck surrounding camp provides unimpeded views of the Sand River and surrounding floodplain. Sable Camp also has its own separate bar, dining area, and boma. Guests over the age of 16 are welcome at Sable Camp.
The ochre colored buildings of MalaMala Main Camp are clustered amid shady trees and manicured lawns overlooking the Sand River. Main Camp accommodates a maximum of 36 guests in standard rooms, suites, family rooms, and a disabled suite, all being traditional bungalows under a thatch roof. Each has two bathrooms, climate control, hairdryers, telephone, mini-bar and mini-safe, etc.
The common area is dominated by the spacious and lavishly decorated Buffalo Lounge, leading out onto an expansive wooden viewing deck overlooking the Sand River. The camp also features a bar, a boma for outdoor dining, and the Monkey Club (a video den/library ideal for children). Massage treatments can be arranged at any of Mala Mala's three lodges upon request.
MalaMala is world-famous for the quality of its game-viewing, and roughly 76% of visitors to MalaMala have contact sightings of all five of Africa's 'big five' (lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino) during their stay. In recognition of its fantastic service and amazing game-viewing, MalaMala has received numerous international awards, including Best Hotel in the World, Best Small Hotel in the World, Best Value for Money in the World, One of the Top Ten hotels worldwide by Fodor’s Choice, and best Hotel in Africa and the Middle East.
Conservation Dimension
MalaMala was one of Southern Africa's first significant private game reserves, and has developed a world-wide reputation for its impressive nature conservation efforts and successes. Owner Michael Rattray has twice been the recipient of the coveted Ossie Doyer Trophy for 'The Conservationist of the Year'. He is also the only person in South Africa to have received the State President's Award for eco-tourism, and is the longest serving curator of the National Parks Board of South Africa.
For more information about Mala Mala Private Game Reserve call toll-free: 888.227.8311
Mala Mala Private Game Reserve is a Luxury Safari Lodge Located in South Africa's Kruger Park.
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Deception Valley
Makgadikgadi Pans
Cape Town / Winelands
Cederberg Mountains
Jo'Burg / Pretoria
Madikwe Reserve
Maputaland
Welgevonden Reserve
Whale Coast
Southern Kalahari
Skeleton Coast / Kunene
Etosha Park
Kafue Park
Lower Zambezi
North Luangwa
South Luangwa
Hwange Park
Mana Pools Park
Matusadona Park
Gonarezhou - Malilangwe
Ruaha Park
Selous Reserve
Tarangire Park
Amboseli National Park
Laikipia Plateau
Maasai Mara
Meru Park
Samburu Reserve
Volcanoes National Park (Rwanda)
Benguerra Island
Inner Islands (Seychelles)
Tented Safari Camp
Boating Safaris
Canoe Safaris
Mokoro Safaris
Elephant Interaction Safaris
Balloon Safaris
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Timeline: Critical infrastructure attacks increase steadily in past decade
A look back at noteworthy cyberattacks on utilities, ports, pipelines and more throughout the years
By Mari Keefe
Editorial Project Manager, Computerworld | PT
This timeline accompanies our story After Stuxnet: The new rules of cyberwar.
Siberian pipeline sabotage: The CIA places deliberate flaws in control system plans stolen by Russia. Allegedly flaws in the stolen software led to a massive pipeline explosion in June 1982.
Source: The Telegraph
[ Related: Microsoft Windows 10 vs. Apple macOS: 18 security features compared ]
Salt River Project computer network hack: While accessing billing information, an employee gains access to the utility's mission-critical systems, including those that handle water and power monitoring and delivery, as well as financial and customer and personal information. Log-in and password files, computer system log files and "root" privileges were taken and/or altered.
Source: Idaho National Laboratory
Port of Houston system crash: By bombarding its computer system with thousands of electronic messages, British hacker Aaron Caffrey crashes the system that helps ships navigate the harbor in the Port of Houston, one of the largest U.S. ports.
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The Slammer Worm: The worm infects at least 120,000 computers, causing network outages and disrupting flights, elections, ATMs, 9-1-1 emergency services and a nuclear monitoring system at the Davis-Besse Ohio Nuclear Power Plant.
Source: Computerworld
Titan Rain: A series of computer attacks originally launched against a variety of U.S. military computer systems in 2003 go undetected until the following year. Thought to have originated in China, the hacks didn't breach classified systems, but sensitive files were copied.
Sabotage of California's Tehama Colusa Canal Authority: A former employee of a small California canal system installs unauthorized software and damages a computer used to divert water from the Sacramento River.
Operation Aurora: A persistent and sophisticated cyberspying operation attempts to siphon intellectual property from major corporations, including Google, Intel, Symantec and Adobe.
Spies breach electricity grid in U.S.: According to current and former national security officials, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, cyberspies from China, Russia and other countries penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Stuxnet: The Stuxnet worm temporarily knocks out some of the centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, causing considerable delay to that country's uranium enrichment program. In June 2012, The New York Times reports that the U.S. and Israel developed the worm.
The Nitro Attacks: A series of targeted attacks using an off-the-shelf Trojan horse called "Poison Ivy" is directed mainly at companies involved in the research, development and manufacture of chemicals and advanced materials. After tricking targeted users into downloading Poison Ivy, the attackers issue instructions to the compromised computers, troll for higher-level passwords and eventually offload the stolen content to hacker-controlled systems.
Duqu Trojan: A remote-access Trojan (RAT) designed to steal data from computers it infects targets vendors of industrial control systems.
Shamoon malware: A destructive Trojan horse, which steals data and then wipes files, is allegedly used in an attack that disabled thousands of computers at Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.
Flame: This highly sophisticated malware is believed to be responsible for data loss incidents at Iran's oil ministry. It was allegedly developed by the U.S. and Israeli governments to collect intelligence about Iran's computer networks that would facilitate future cyberattacks on computers used in that country's nuclear fuel enrichment program.
Cyberattacks on natural gas pipeline companies: The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, issues an alert to warn of ongoing cyberattacks against the computer networks of U.S. natural gas pipeline companies. The ICS-CERT alert states that the campaign involves narrowly focused spear-phishing scams targeting employees of the pipeline companies.
Source: CSO
Attacks on utilities systems: ICS-CERT issues an alert advising utilities to monitor Internet-facing control systems for activity by hackers attempting to gain remote access to control systems through brute force authentication attacks. The attackers attempted to obtain a user's log-on credentials by guessing usernames and passwords.
Source: ICS-CERT
DDoS attacks on U.S. banks: The U.S. accuses Iran of staging a wave of denial-of-service attacks against U.S. financial institutions. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns of potential for a "cyber Pearl Harbor" against critical infrastructure and calls for new protection standards.
Read the main story: After Stuxnet: The new rules of cyberwar
Research compiled by Mari Keefe, Computerworld editorial project manager.
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International Career Center
Music Industry Network
The Conservatorium Maastricht actively seeks out the relevant conferences, network events, festivals and competitions to not only strengthen the position of our school, but also directly present our students and alumni.
In the local EU-region we have a strong connection with festivals and competitions like JazzOUT, Motives for Jazz and the Maastricht Jazz Award, enabling students to present new projects for a wide audience.
On a national level in our neighbouring countries we visit jazz conferences like Injazz (NL), Belgian Jazz Meeting (BE) and JazzAhead (DE), inviting students and alumni to join us and perform a showcase when possible.
Internationally we support our students with (Erasmus) exchange programmes and an optional yearly New York City trip, offering a tour introducing them to different schools like the New School and Queens College, visiting historic venues and festivals like the Village Vanguard and Winter Jazzfest, and creating a connection between the music you study and the city through research.
Musicians Encyclopedia
Through the 'Your Art as a Business' lessons and the Booking Agency we offer many face-to-face possibilities to learn about and discuss cultural entrepreneurship for a (jazz or classical) musician. We aim to support this with an online database accessible for all students, offering in-depth information about copyright, press kits, CD releases, digital distribution, social media and much more.
We are proud of our alumni. Therefore they will always be welcome to join our workshops and masterclasses. We will continue to connect them to potential competitions and showcases. Our educational system also is constantly developing to stay connected to the working environment of today, alumni will therefore be welcome (upon request) to join any new (group) courses that we offer, e.g. 'Your Art as a Business'.
The Maastricht - International Jazz Award invites alumni of the CM who are working in the Euregion to apply for this competition.
Alumni of the CM are welcome to join all masterclasses and workshops in school for free.
Booking agency: Hire CM Talent
The Conservatorium Booking Agency connects your study to the music industry, closing the gap between your life as a student and a graduate.
We create first contact with the local and international scene and offer our students a variety of work. The goal is to introduce you to the different ways you can offer your service being a musician, from performing wedding ceremonies to accompanying silent movies or giving workshops. Throughout this we are available to answer any questions you, our students, might have.
Also artistically we are available for a one-on-one coaching session, as we look at your press kit, band concept, release plan and gig opportunities.
Funding, Work & Awards
The Conservatorium Maastricht offers scholarships to a selected number of students. Besides that there are multiple opportunities for students to prove themselves and win an award to boost their career.
Our Booking Agency is available to inform on further forms to fund your album, international tour or summer school attendance, including the Sena Music Production Fund, crowdfunding and Dutch Performing Arts.
We actively support our students’ participation in competitions. Our students/alumni have performed and participated a.o. at the Maastricht Jazz Award, Eu Young Talent Jazz Award, Mechelen Jazz Contest, Leidse Jazz Award, B-Jazz Award, Dutch Jazz Competition, Injazz Showcase, Jazz Round Showcase and Louis van Dijk Award.
The Jong Metropole (talent programme with the Metropole Orchestra) has featured many students from the Conservatorium Maastricht from the start of this programme.
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Children going forth into the world. For ages 2 through 7
By Darian Scott
INTERRUPTIONS! The Line Up Book, written and illustrated by Marisabina Russo (Greenwillow Books, New York, $11.75; 24 pp.; ages 3-6), is dedicated to all children whose mothers interrupt their playtime. Sam has just dumped all his blocks on the bedroom floor when his mother calls him to lunch. Captivated by the idea of ``measuring'' his way to lunch, he lines up books, bath toys, shoes, and all manner of cars and trucks. But his mother has almost finished counting to three, and he is still two feet short of the kitchen. Children will be delighted with the clever way Sam reaches his goal just as Mom yells ``Three!''
This is a delightfully simple book for preschoolers. Moms who read it aloud to them will be encouraged to be more patient, and toddlers are given a simple lesson in obedience as Mom and Sam realize together that mutual respect is fundamental to their loving relationship. The gentle message is that compassion and love build a secure environment that allows for imagination and successful exploration, as the well-being of the child is nurtured and affirmed.
Every child experiences a first haircut, and Jeremy's First Haircut, written by Linda Walvoord Gird, illustrated by Mary Jane Begin (Albert Whitman & Co., Niles, Ill., $10.25; 24 pp.; ages 2-5), helps to put that event in a healthy perspective. As little Jeremy sits anxiously in his highchair, clinging to his favorite teddy, he hears the scissors behind him go ``Sneee-ep!'' He yells ``No!'' and ducks, and the scissors catch a gob of his hair as he scurries away. Not even chocolate chip cookies can entice him back.
Later, when Dad arrives home, Jeremy is willing to try again. With Mom holding his hand and Dad making funny clown faces, he manages to get a haircut -- and suddenly his whole world seems bigger. He is no longer a little boy, but rather a little ``big'' boy.
The tender, sensitive way in which each of this little one's fears is addressed gives this book lasting value. In fact, it covers the territory so realistically and capably that it might help young children view other new experiences with less trepidation and more spirit of adventure.
Some Things Are Different, Some Things Are the Same, written by Marya Dantzer-Rosenthal, illustrations by Miriam Nerlove (Albert Whitman & Co., Niles, Ill., $10.75; 32 pp.; ages 3-7), is another contribution to helping small children experience new environments in a positive way. In the context of two friends visiting each other's homes and the differences they encounter, children will discover that things and places that are different can provide a wonderful adventure. They also learn that nothing is ever quite as grand as one's very own home!
This book shows that when a youngster leaves the familiar borders of his own home he can continue to express affection naturally to others, thus proving that he takes his self-confidence with him wherever he goes.
Good Night, Pippin, written and illustrated by Joan Elizabeth Goodman (Western Publishing Company, Racine, Wis., $9.95; 40 pp.; ages 3-6), is a bedtime storybook likely to become a favorite and frequent choice of young listeners. The story radiates warmth and embraces children in a secure feeling of family caring and unity. Parents will be drawn in as well, for almost all of them have been in the same situation as the Mama and Papa Bear of this story: Little Pippin won't go to sleep without one last story. What follows is a trilogy of ``last'' stories, with each member of the family taking a leading, heroic role.
Pippin's story is the best, because she saves both Mama and Papa from the purple, beagle-like Galactians. In her tale, they have invaded her home armed with freeze beams and have zapped her parents -- freezing them solid. When the Galactians come for Pippin, however, she is playing her tambourine, a noise so dreadful to them that they ``dropped their freeze beams, rolled up their ears, and cried orange tears.''
While the action in this story might be pretty dramatic for preschoolers, kindergartners and on up will be totally caught up in the exciting episodes, which are clearly make-believe to an older audience.
While still affirming the significance and value of good parenting, One More Time, written by Louis Baum and illustrated by Paddy Bouma (William Morrow & Co., New York, $10.25; 32 pp. ages 2-5), confronts a different side of the coin and an all too prevalent social phenomenon, the divorced parent. In this tender, heart-rending story about a father's short Sunday visit with his young toddler, Simon, the father is ever conscious of his restricted time. He is well organized with his checklist of ``boots, coat, bag, boat, book, picnic basket, and stroller.'' Simon, in turn, tries in his little-boy way to stretch his time with Dad, and is always asking, ``One more time?''
The sailboat gets one more ride around the pond, Simon feeds Dad one more tomato -- and wants to hear his favorite story read over and over again. Dad, on the other hand, frequently asks, ``All together?'' Used with reference to his checklist of boots, coat, etc., one feels moved with compassion, because this is precisely the point -- they are not all together as a family.
One of this book's strengths lies in its spirit of objectivity, rather than sentimentality, about divorce. The reader is not manipulated into a judgment about the little boy's situation, but rather is allowed to discover on his own, page by page, the substantial and meaningful relationship that is possible, whether families are ``all together'' or not, when the people involved are thoughtful and caring.
This book may help divorced parents and their young children understand the dynamics of their interaction a little better because of its perceptive and heartfelt portrayal of a most challenging situation.
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The Epic Tradition Dies Hard in Chinese Films
By David Sterritt Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
TO understand the state of Chinese film, one must look not only at the sort of governmental repression that erupted most chillingly in the Tiananmen Square massacre, but also at artistic and aesthetic issues with long histories of their own.According to Phillip Lopate, a US author and critic who recently visited China, today's younger directors "thought they were turning away from the propaganda of Maoist cinema, but actually continued to carry forward a lot of the same elements" such as a penchant for melodrama and large, heroic gestures. A film like Zhang Yimou's popular "Red Sorghum," which played in US theaters about three years ago, has innovative elements yet is still part of a continuum with roots in the cinema of Mao Zedong's heyday . These traits include focusing on conflict between good heroes and bad antagonists, positing the special virtue of ordinary people, and avoiding complex psychology by concentrating on colorful events in China's prerevolutionary feudal period. Mr. Lopate observes that Chinese storytelling has a long tradition of fairy tales and allegories - as exemplified by "Life on a String," the new Chen Kaige film - but that China also has a strong heritage of realism and psychological narrative. It's this second element that has been slighted by today's directors, says Lopate, who finds echoes of Steven Spielberg in the leaning of many Chinese filmmakers toward visual sweep at the expense of psychological complexity. China's current emphasis on epic stories and rural landscapes is due partly to real enthusiasm for visual expansiveness, according to Lopate, and partly to the fact that such films can be made with less government intervention. Chinese critics agree with Westerners, however, that more psychological depth is needed if Chinese film is to move forward again. Lopate feels that the complex characterizations of Mr. Zhang's recent "Ju Dou" represent a step in this direction, and adds that dense psychological st orytelling has made Taiwanese director Hou Hsaio-hsien the region's most talked-about young filmmaker - suggesting that psychology may take on more importance in future Chinese movies, if official policies allow this to happen.
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San Francisco Voters Uphold Menthol Ban
The March Continues Toward Tobacco-Buying Age of 21
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Analyst raises concerns over border sales, federal action By Angel Abcede on Jun. 06, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO -- In the wake of voters deciding to uphold San Francisco’s ban on all flavored-tobacco products—including menthol cigarettes—at least one industry analyst believes the implications may rise to the level of federal action, as disparate measures at the city and state level may prove to be unduly burdensome to retailers overall.
On June 5, a majority of voters in San Francisco approved Proposition E, the measure questioning the board of supervisors’ decision last year to ban flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, candy-flavored tobacco products and flavored vaping liquids. Sixty-eight percent of voters were in favor of the measure and 31% opposed it, reported CNN.
In her assessment of the results, Bonnie Herzog, managing director of consumer equity research for Wells Fargo Securities LLC, New York, said city retailers will take a hit considering the size of the menthol category but that demand will most likely stay the same. She said menthol represents 35% of total industry cigarette volume, although at least one San Francisco retailer told CSP Daily News that half of his category sales will be affected. Citing a Wells Fargo survey of tobacco retailers, Herzog said smokers will more than likely shop outside city limits or online.
She said the bigger risk was that of a federal ban on menthol-flavored tobacco products, which could become more likely as more and more jurisdictions begin enacting such measures. However, Herzog said such a move was “extremely unlikely” given that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must make such determinations based on science and must also consider unintended consequences.
Dubbing the topic a “thing to watch” in a recent newsletter, Herzog said the FDA’s current public-comment period, known as the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), on tobacco flavors will draw more attention in the wake of the San Francisco vote. The deadline to submit comments is June 19.
Ultimately, the industry would fight such a ban if it ever made it to the federal level, Herzog said. “If it ever occurred, we strongly believe the industry would pursue legal options,” she said.
San Francisco supervisors voted to ban flavored tobacco products last year, but a coalition of businesses and community leaders gathered enough signatures to place it on the June 5 ballot. In recent weeks, parties on both sides of the issue have been using multiple media channels to persuade voters.
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Ticket Sales Latest
Your Monday update on upcoming games.
As the new season approaches, Colchester United's supporters will have the opportunity to get great prices for their match tickets, with best prices on offer when games first go on sale eight weeks before the match.
With this in mind, we will be issuing a weekly ticket bulletin to give you the lowdown as to what games are on sale and at what price bracket, making it easier for you to get a great value ticket!
Ticket Latest - July 22nd 2013
Ipswich Town (July 23rd)
Tickets for the final home pre-season friendly against Ipswich Town are now available via the U's Ticket Office (0845 437 9089) or via www.colutickets.com.
Parking is also available online for Ipswich Town.
Saturday August 3rd
Tickets are now on sale for the U's trip to Gillingham.
They can be bought by visiting the Ticket Office or by calling 0845 437 9089.
Ticket prices are as follows:-
£15 advance/£22 matchday Adults:
£14/£19 Senior Citizens (65+):
£10/£12 Juniors (U18s):
£5/£7 U12s:
£15/£20 Wheelchair user & Helper:
Peterborough United (Capital One Cup)
Tuesday August 6th
Tickets for the Capital One Cup game on August 6th are now on general sale.
For full pricing details click HERE.
Tickets for the U's first home game of the season have now moved into the third band of pricing. This Saver rate - which equates to last year's advance pricing - still gives you a great chance to save money compared to last season’s matchday prices!
For full prices in the Saver rate, click HERE.
Friday August 23rd
Tickets for the Friday night fixture against Carlisle are now into the Super Saver rate, with prices as per the below.
For full prices in the Super Saver rate, click HERE.
Saturday August 31st
Tickets for the final game of August at home to Orient are now on sale for the first time, available at that fantastic Early Bird pricing.
To contact the Ticket Office, call us on 0845 437 9089 or visit us in person.
. For the full ticketing details for our upcoming games, click HERE
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Group Games Confirmed
U's Checkatrade Trophy matches now organised.
Dates for the U's Checkatrade Trophy group stage games have now been confirmed.
The U's will face three matches at this stage of the new look competition, with the top two teams progressing through to the knockout stages.
John McGreal's side finish the group stage with two home games, with the fixture dates as follows:-
Crawley Town v Colchester United
Tuesday 30th August – 7.45pm KO
Colchester United v Southampton
Tuesday 4th October – 7.45pm KO
Colchester United v Charlton Athletic
Tuesday 8th November – 7.45pm KO
Prices for the Crawley match are due to be confirmed soon, and details of the two home games will follow in due course.
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Yeah but no but... you must be joking! Gucci is mocked over a £1,800 nylon shell suit that echoes Vicky Pollard's signature look
High-end brand have released the multi-coloured shell suit made from nylon
The jacket retails at £1, 050, while the trousers come with a hefty £740 price tag
Speaking of the tracksuit, one shopper wrote: 'You must be joking...not worth it'
By Chloe Morgan For Mailonline
Gucci has been slammed for selling a shell suit similar to the one Vicky Pollard wore in Little Britain - and it'll set shoppers back a whopping £1, 800.
The high-end Italian brand describes the over-sized garment, which is crafted in lightweight nylon, as featuring elasticated cuffs and 'loose bottoms.'
And while the daring ensemble originally evolved from the late Eighties and early Nineties, shopping enthusiasts took to Twitter to suggest it should have been left there.
'Gucci is selling a 'Vicky Pollard' shell suit that costs £1.8k...you must be joking. Not worth it,' wrote one, while another said: 'It looks as if a bunch of Brits robbed a Gucci store and went to the beach to celebrate.'
Gucci has been slammed for selling a shell suit (pictured) similar to the one Vicky Pollard wore in Little Britain - and it'll set shoppers back a whopping £1, 800
The designer shell suit has been compared to the one worn by Little Britain character Vicky Pollard, pictured
The 'retro active-wear' is sold in two parts - the 'oversized waterproof nylon jacket' has a hefty £1,050 price tag, and features a sporty play on the emblematic logo, which they claim the interlocking G patch 'enriches the style.'
Meanwhile, the 'waterproof nylon track bottoms,' which also comes in multicolour intarsia which is contrasted with a green nylon base, will set you back £740.
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Popular character Vicky Pollard - played by Matt Lucas - was often seen in her bright pink zip-up jacket and matching tracksuit bottoms.
The moody teen, renowned for her 'Yeah, but no...catchphrase,' completed the sporty look with a bulky gold chain and wore her hair half-up and half-down.
The 'oversized waterproof nylon jacket' (pictured) has a hefty £1,050 price tag, and features a sporty play on the emblematic logo
The matching 'waterproof nylon track bottoms,' which also comes in multicolour intarsia which is contrasted with a green nylon base, will set you back £740
While the Gucci shell suit is only available to buy in-store in Monaco, Barcelona, Switzerland and Germany, it can still be bought online in the UK.
Earlier this year, the luxury designer caused quite a stir among fashionista by selling a pair of £615 'clown clogs,' which can only be described as a sandal and trainer hybrid.
Complete with a red toe and trainer toggles, the beige footwear, which is designed for men, even has the Gucci logo emblazoned on the Velcro strap.
But eager shoppers were't convinced the new releases should be something to be proud of - and have taken to social media to blast the eclectic sandals.
'Maybe not being rich ain’t that bad,' joked one, while another penned: 'With that price it should have twin turbo rocket boosters.'
These luxury shoes (pictured), sold at £615 by luxury Italian brand Gucci, failed to impress shoppers online - with many comparing them to clown shoes
Gucci is mocked for selling a Vicky-Pollard inspired shell suit for £1, 800
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Joe Allen was a laughing stock at Liverpool but now he's living up to his 'Welsh Xavi' tag... at No 10 he's become Stoke's Philippe Coutinho
Joe Allen has flourished since moving from Liverpool to Stoke
Mark Hughes has pushed the Welshman into a No 10 role that is working
Brendan Rodgers' nickname of 'the Welsh Xavi' weighed heavy on Allen
Now he is showing intelligence, creativity, and has become a goalscorer
He was the provider against former club Swansea City on Monday night
By Joe Bernstein for MailOnline
They laughed with derision when Brendan Rodgers described Joe Allen as the 'Welsh Xavi'.
Nobody is laughing any more although the comparison needs to be updated. Flourishing as a No 10 with Stoke City, Allen is more like the 'Welsh Coutinho' these days and while Liverpool may not miss him, imagine how he'd be an asset to Manchester United with his intelligence, creativity and new knack of goalscoring.
Having netted four times in 91 Premier League matches at Anfield, Allen has reached that tally in just 10 games with Stoke.
Joe Allen is flourishing in a new No 10 role since moving to Stoke City from Liverpool
Allen was burdened with the 'Welsh Xavi' tag handed to him by Brendan Rodgers in 2012
JOE ALLEN - LIVERPOOL VS STOKE
Liverpool 15-16
Stoke 16-17
Games played 19 10
Minutes played 731 803
Total shots 12 14
Shots on target 4 8
Tackles 28 37
Interceptions 14 19
Chances created 11 15
Successful passes 344 300
Passing accuracy 83.9% 80.4%
He's not Xavi any more, rather Xavi-Extra and a lot of credit has to go to manager Mark Hughes for pushing him further up the pitch and transforming him from a safety-first holding midfielder into an attacking tour de force who has helped turn Stoke's season around with goals and assists.
Having scored in successive games against West Bromwich Albion, Austria (for Wales), Manchester United and Sunderland (twice), he turned chief provider in Monday night's 3-1 win against his first club, Swansea.
When his shot was parried by Lukasz Fabianski, he sorted his feet out in double-quick time to flick the rebound on to the head of Wilfried Bony to score. It was one of two assists he had on the night.
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'Anticipation,' remarked Hughes when asked why he thought Allen would make a good No 10. The 26-year-old has bought into his new role and already has more goals, assists, shots, tackles, interceptions and minutes on the pitch this season than in 2015-16.
'I'm getting myself into more goal-scoring positions,' Allen says. 'I'm obviously not the type of player who will tower over and score headers or be a handful for centre halves, but there are different ways of picking up goals.'
He's also loved playing with Marko Arnautovic and Xherdan Shaqiri, players he regards as being as technically good as anything he played with for Liverpool.
The comparisons with Xavi, one of the greatest midfielders ever, saw Allen ridiculed
But Allen is now enjoying himself playing week in, week out with high-quality team-mates
When Rodgers signed him as a 22-year-old for Liverpool and burdened him with the Xavi tag, Allen had Fabio Borini and Andy Carroll ahead of him on his debut against West Brom. No wonder he sometimes preferred to pass sideways.
'That nickname didn't do me any favours,' he admitted later.
Things looked bleak at the end of last season. He was surplus to requirements at Anfield as Jurgen Klopp opted to turn his team into a full-out heavy-metal gegenpressing machine and there wasn't a queue of top clubs waiting to sign him.
He ended the campaign in decent form and a newly-grown beard saw the nickname change from Xavi to (Andrea) Pirlo, and Euro 2016 proved a massive turning point.
In the No 10 role, Allen has become more like Liverpool's Brazilian playmaker Coutinho
Allen celebrates after setting up Wilfried Bony against Swansea City on Monday night
Allen looked at home among Europe's top players as he helped Wales exceed expectations to reach the semi-finals.
Those performances persuaded Stoke to pay £13.5million - a significant sum considering he only had 12 months left on his contract.
What a bargain it has proved. In his new guise as a twinkle-toed No 10, Stoke could expect a tidy profit if they ever decided to sell – which they won't want to.
Rodgers was trying to give Allen confidence when he compared the youngster to one of Barcelona and Spain's greatest players but in the short term it backfired.
The midfielder has also added goals to his game, including netting at Manchester United
Allen is revelling in being the main man at Stoke, working brilliantly under Mark Hughes
It's Stoke fans who are now getting the best out of him. From being a squad member at Liverpool, he is revelling in being the main man in the Potteries.
The range of passing remains but there is also a greater opportunity to effect games. His bundled equaliser against Old Trafford would never have happened if he'd remained a deep-lying midfielder.
'He's on fire,' says team-mate Geoff Cameron. 'You want to play alongside him.'
There can be no bigger compliment.
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'I couldn't see a penis!' Pregnant Rachel Riley hints she's expecting a baby GIRL after eagle-eyed scan... as she joins excited Strictly beau Pasha Kovalev on Celebrity Gogglebox
Rachel Riley has hinted she could be having a baby girl, after she 'couldn't see a penis' in her latest scan.
The Countdown presenter, 33, is expecting her first child with Pasha Kovalev, 39, in December, and went onto say on the show that it was 'too early' to learn the gender.
Rachel joined a slew of stars offering their hilarious critique of the week's TV in Friday's Celebrity Gogglebox, including Little Mix, Denise van Outen and Rylan Clark-Neal.
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After narrator Craig Cash introduced the news that they were expecting a baby, Rachel teased she could be expecting a girl following her most recent scan.
The numbers guru - who is believed to be around three months along - added she 'couldn't see a penis' in the ultrasound.
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Rachel then told Pasha: 'But they said it was too early so I might just be insulting our son.'
Last month the star announced that she was pregnant with her first child by posing in front of the Countdown board of letters, which spelt out 'r tiny mate', which is an anagram for 'maternity', as she placed her hands on her blossoming baby bump.
Exciting: The Countdown presenter is expecting her first child in December, and went onto say on the show that it was 'too early' to learn the gender.
The star captioned it with: 'Pash and I have a conundrum for you...you have till December to work it out! We’re over the moon excited.'
Rachel started dating Strictly professional Pasha when they met and were partnered on the show in 2013, going official with their romance in 2014.
The star joined a slew of other celebrities in offering their hilarious views on a week in TV, with other stars including Georgia Toffolo and Stanley Johnson, as well was Martin Kemp and his son Roman.
Upset: While many fans were delighted with the star-studded version of the Channel 4 show, several complained that bosses missed a trick by not having Rachel watch her own show Countdown.
However many fans took to Twitter to share their disappointment, with many claiming that bosses missed a golden opportunity, by not having Rachel watch her own show Countdown.
One wrote: 'So, they've got Rachel Riley on #CelebrityGogglebox and the others are watching #Countdown, but they've not got her watching herself? Shame...'
'Rachel Riley not being shown in the Countdown segment is abysmal,' another posted.
Celebrity Gogglebox airs Fridays at 9pm on Channel 4.
Mother-to-be: Last month Rachel announced that she was expecting her first child with Pasha with an Instagram post in front of the famous Countdown letters board
Pregnant Rachel Riley hints she's expecting a baby GIRL after eagle-eyed scan
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Interview: Maxwell Young on his new single 'Sketches Of Dragonflies’ and his plans for 2019.
8th March 2019 by Rose Riddell
New Zealand artist Maxwell Young has just dropped a stunning new single ’Sketches Of Dragonflies’, a heartfelt song he describes as a ‘vulnerable reflection on maladaptive daydreaming’. The new release follows his debut album ‘Daydreamer’ from last July, and sees Young finding more confidence in his dreamy pop sound. Having been announced as the opening act for Snail Mail’s upcoming NZ dates next week, Young looks to continue the momentum with these live shows.
We spoke with Maxwell about his new release, honesty in music, and how he’s found the move from Wellington to Auckland…
COUP DE MAIN: What was it about ’Sketches of Dragonflies’ that made you want it to be the first release from the upcoming EP?
MAXWELL YOUNG: There’s a more pop-leaning song from the EP for the first single which will come next, but I like how ’Sketches Of Dragonflies’ starts very melancholy and dreamlike before it hesitantly finds it feet and goes into its passionate but short-lived chorus. My music is always (for better or worse) a reflection of my experiences and how I’m mentally dealing with them. I think my doubt in myself is heard in the new music I’ll be releasing and absolutely in this song. Also the lyrics in this song are really special to me, so returning with a song this honest and sentimental to me feels good.
CDM: The song is really, really honest - do you think that honesty is the most important thing for you when working on music?
MAXWELL: I’m glad that honesty is clear! For me it is likely most important factor. When working on this EP I wasn’t giving any consideration to it being listened to in the context of my peers or anything, the songs were essentially therapeutic in a tough period of my life. This became conflicting for myself as I thought the songs were too obtuse to release but I decided I have to be honest about the steps of my progression and even in terms of sharing a new chapter of my life with every release. I've never been the best in technicalities or skill, but I think what I've grown to be good at is being honest, so that's a quality I will always hold dear in my work.
HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE RELEASE OF 'SKETCHES OF DRAGONFLIES’…
CDM: Is maladaptive daydreaming something that is a big part of your life? How do you find it affecting your everyday life?
MAXWELL: It’s a strange thing as it’s not clinically diagnosable, but it has come into my life heavily at a few points. Definitely last year it was overwhelming. It's a natural reaction of when my anxiety attacks get intense and consistent. It comes when I can't really deal with reality, that happened a bit last year when I was making these songs due to heartbreak or going to music school and my disdain for it giving me doubts in my pursuit of music and a lot of existential crises like that.
CDM: The artwork for the song is really beautiful too, and the EP title ‘Colours Of Us’ suggests a certain importance around colours in relation to your music. Do you find yourself associating songs with colours?
MAXWELL: Thanks so much! The art for all of my new material is done by my best friend Max Pirrit. He's incredibly versatile in his expression. Regarding colour associations, I don't exactly think I have synaesthesia purely in colour, but how and why I write music absolutely comes out of locking into scenes of my life or of scenes I've daydreamt and trying to encapsulate them for closure. In the reflection and introspection my music comes out of, colours are especially important to me.
CDM: How have you found moving from Wellington to Auckland in terms of the music scene?
MAXWELL: I’m honestly the most excited I've been about New Zealand music I've ever been right now. I used to only stan Lontalius and shrug off all other music from the country, but now people like BENE and Church & AP are making it such an exciting place to be as a young artist. I’m really excited for my friends Stupid Rich Kid and Tom Verberne’s years ahead, it was so much fun performing together last month and their new music is incredible. Feeling positive. Auckland's just a bit better for music and a nice step for growth in independence. Already grown so much this year but definitely miss my family.
CDM: If M.A.X.W.E.L.L. was an acronym, what would each letter stand for?
MAXWELL: My Aching Xylophone Wails Even Louder Late.
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Foul shooting for birds as No. 4 Cardinal women top Owls
Shoni Schimmel scored a game-high 21 points and Asia Taylor put together a double-double to lead the University of Lo...
Foul shooting for birds as No. 4 Cardinal women top Owls Shoni Schimmel scored a game-high 21 points and Asia Taylor put together a double-double to lead the University of Lo... Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/1etSWiL
By Tom Whitus;, Special to The Courier-Journal; Published 12:26 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2014 | Updated 2:23 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2014
U of L’s Asia Taylor is outnumbered but not outfought for a rebound among Temple’s Taylor Robinson (42), Erica Coville (1) and Shi-Heria Shipp. Taylor had 14 points and 12 rebounds.(Photo: timothy d. easley/AP)
Shoni Schimmel scored a game-high 21 points and Asia Taylor put together a double-double to lead the University of Louisville women's basketball team to a 60-50 victory over Temple on Wednesday night in the KFC Yum! Center.
Louisville 60 - Temple 50
Louisville's Asia Taylor, third from left, battles Temple's Taylor Robinson, left, Erica Coville, second from left, and Shi-Heria Shipp for a rebound during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
Feb 12, 2014; Louisville, KY, USA; Louisville Cardinals guard Shoni Schimmel (23) pressures Temple Owls guard Tyonna Williams (23) during the second half at KFC YUM! Center. Louisville defeated Temple 60-50. Mandatory Credit: Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 12, 2014; Louisville, KY, USA; Louisville Cardinals guard Megan Deines (15) battles Temple Owls guard Shi-Heria Shipp (10) during the second half at KFC YUM! Center. Louisville defeated Temple 60-50. Mandatory Credit: Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports
Louisville's Shoni Schimmel, right, drives around the defense of Temple's Feyonda Fitzgerald during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. Louisville won 60-50. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
Temple's Feyonda Fitzgerald, front, looks for help as Louisville's Tia Gibbs defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
Feb 12, 2014; Louisville, KY, USA; Louisville Cardinals forward Asia Taylor (31) battles Temple Owls forward Natasha Thames (32) for a rebound during the first half at KFC YUM! Center. Mandatory Credit: Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports
Louisville's Antonita Slaughter, right, looks to pass as Temple's Erica Coville defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
Temple's Natasha Thames, center, tries to fight her way through the defense of Louisville's Antonita Slaughter, left, and Sara Hammond during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
Louisville's Shoni Schimmel, rear, puts a shot up over the steal attempt of Temple's Tyonna Williams during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. Louisville won 60-50, and Schimmel led all scorers with 21 points. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
Louisville's Asia Taylor, left, gets a shot off around the defense of Temple's Taylor Robinson during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. Louisville won 60-50, and Taylor finished the game with 14 points and 12 rebounds. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
Temple's Tyonna Williams, right, yells for a timeout as Louisville's Tia Gibbs presses during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Timothy D. Easley AP
The fourth-ranked Cardinals, coming off Sunday's loss at No. 1 Connecticut, might want to put this one out of their heads instead. Their 12-for-26 effort from the free-throw line helped Temple stay in the game. Fortunately for U of L, the Owls were just 1 of 9.
"We got lucky with this one. How do you miss so many free throws," was a rhetorical question posed by Schimmel.
"It's not the kind of game you bring your sons and daughters to and teach them how to shoot free throws," U of L coach Jeff Walz said. "It's focus and concentration."
The Cardinals (24-2, 12-1 American Athletic Conference) didn't do much better from the field, shooting 40 percent (22 of 55).
"We just missed a lot of shots," Walz said. "But I thought we defended pretty well. Now we're continuing to defend. We didn't panic."
After leading 27-19 at halftime, the Cardinals built it to 32-19 on a layup by Taylor with 18:43 left. But the Owls continued to fight, cut the lead to 42-38 on Natasha Thames' layup with 11:01 to play.
Temple (12-12, 6-7) got no closer, but neither could the Cardinals ice it until the final moments.
After building another double digit lead (52-41) on Sara Hammond's layup at the 3:45 mark, the Cards scored just four points over the next 3:24. Temple took advantage of those empty possessions to get within 56-50 on Monaye Merritt's jumper with 21 seconds left in the game.
Two free throws by Schimmel came at the right time — with 19 seconds left — as U of L scored the final four points for the double-digit win.
"We tried to do it (put them away), but it wasn't working," Schimmel said.
The Cardinals got off to a balky start, with turnovers on their first two possessions, but made five of their first nine shots. Antonita Slaughter's 3-pointer and six points by Taylor helped make it 11-6 with 13:19 left in the first half.
But the early turnovers kept U of L from getting some breathing room, and when the Cardinals went cold, the Owls took advantage.
After Taylor's third basket made it 11-6, the Cards went nearly four minutes without a basket. Temple, meanwhile, hit the offensive boards and made it pay off. A putback by Taylor Robinson gave the Owls their first lead at 12-11 midway through the half.
Then Schimmel found her range. Her first basket — at the 9:24 mark — ended the drought and put Louisville on top. She scored again moments later put the Cards on top 15-14, and Slaughter's 3-pointer made it 18-14 with 8:19 left in the half.
Temple got within 20-19 on a 3-pointer by Tyonna Williams, who led the Owls with 12 points, but Slaughter answered for a 23-19 lead at the 4:48 mark.
That started a 7-0 U of L run to end the half. Jude Schimmel made her presence known on both ends of the court — and her two assists on baskets by Taylor and Shoni Schimmel helped Louisville to a 27-19 halftime lead.
Slaughter, 3 for 3 from long range, led the Cardinals with nine points at halftime.
"Hitting my first one gave me confidence," the senior guard said.
Taylor had 14 points and 12 rebounds, but she and Schimmel combined to hit just 8 of 18 from the line. Slaughter added 12 points.
"Do you maintain and grind it out?" Taylor said of winning ugly.
Two Temple starters fouled out.
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New Crédit Agricole d’Aquitaine headquarters mirror its corporate plan In 2018, the Aquitaine Regional Bank is expected to open its new headquarters in the new Bassins à Flot district, opposite Cité du Vin. The new headquarters building was designed by renowned architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and built to high technological and environmental* standards. With Crédit Agricole Immobilier as developer, it illustrates the Bank's "Aquitaine Challenge" project of becoming the favourite bank of individuals, associations, farmers, businesses and companies; confirming its position as the region's top bank by becoming the leader in the Bordeaux Metropolis; being and remaining a leading player in this territory; and providing support through changes in society. This project will be part of the economic and urban impulse of "Bordeaux 2030"**. It will host 450 employees, the elected representatives from the mutuals, customers and partners, all in a new relational mode; it will turn Crédit Agricole d’Aquitaine into the "essential regional bank". * Double certification: NF Services Buildings certification programme HQE, according to the 2015 reference documents published by Certivea, and BREEAM 2013 "Good" rating ** Urban project for a sustainable metropolis to house 1 million inhabitants by 2030
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A first look inside the diabolical Slipknot haunted house opening in Des Moines
Embracing Slipknot characters, music and imagery, the Slaughterhouse opens Friday.
A first look inside the diabolical Slipknot haunted house opening in Des Moines Embracing Slipknot characters, music and imagery, the Slaughterhouse opens Friday. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/2018/10/04/slaughterhouse-slipknot-haunted-house-des-moines-video-photos-first-look/1515168002/
Matthew Leimkuehler, Des Moines Register Published 4:25 p.m. CT Oct. 4, 2018 | Updated 9:47 a.m. CT Oct. 8, 2018
The Slaughterhouse, a Des Moines haunted house embodying Slipknot imagery, music and iconology, opens Friday at the Barnum Factory. Rodney White, rodwhite@dmreg.com
An animatronic dummy is disemboweled in the Slipknot-themed haunt in Des Moines, Iowa, shown here, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018.(Photo: Rodney White/The Register)Buy Photo
Local fright conductor Ian Miller briefly described working with Iowa’s master of macabre metal, Slipknot, as a “pinch me” moment.
The 37-year-old’s been spinning music from Des Moines’ marquee nontet since the 1990s, a time when calling Iowa’s capital city “Dead Moines” had less to do with Halloween and more to do with its cultural output, he said.
But “pinch me”? Not brutal enough.
“It’s been a suspension of disbelief,” said Miller. “Pinching myself — err — hacking myself in the leg.”
A hack to the leg. Now that sounds like a Halloween collaboration worthy of Iowa’s unearthly export.
The Slaughterhouse, a Des Moines haunted house embodying Slipknot imagery, music and iconology, opened Oct. 5 at the Barnum Factory. Miller, creative director, and Dave Hukill, Slaughterhouse co-owner, teamed with the award-winning heavy metal outfit in bringing to life characters from the band’s two decades of masked madness.
The haunt runs every Thursday-Sunday in October, plus Halloween night. General admission tickets cost $20; an estimated 12,000 could attend this year’s Slaughterhouse, up from 8,000 in 2017.
Slaughterhouse owner Ian Miller constructed a Slipknot-themed haunt this year in Des Moines, Iowa, shown here, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (Photo: Rodney White/The Register)
“It’s all about a special experience, making it one-on-one, almost,” said Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn Crahan. “It really is going to be a moment in our history, in their history. And our history in Des Moines.”
Here’s a sneak peek at what Slipknot fans — “maggots,” they’re called — may see inside the local fright:
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Fright-seekers swing open Slaughterhouse doors and first spot inescapable mug shots from Slipknot members Crahan, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson and Jim Root. “Missing” plastered on the posters, it’s an introductory taste of maggot fanfare cooked into Miller’s concoction.
Easter-eggs in the Slipknot-themed haunt in Des Moines, Iowa, shown here, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (Photo: Rodney White/The Register)
The Slaughterhouse hired about 40 actors to bring the band’s catalog masked characters to life. Band members alter costumes and on-stage personas slightly for each new album, which gave Miller five cycles of masks and jumpsuits to replicate.
He spent about a month working Slipknot mythology into the 20-minute haunt.
“A lot of our scenes, they already cater to the lyrics and the presence and the energy Slipknot embodies,” Miller said.
Grime-spattered lyrics — “The only thing I ever really loved was hate,” from 2004’s “The Nameless” — cover a wall in one room. Another brings to life a window-smashing music video from the same year.
Slaughterhouse owner Ian Miller constructed a Slipknot-themed haunt this year in Des Moines, Iowa, shown here, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. The audience is led through a dark slaughterhouse-style environment with designs and characters from Slipknot songs. (Photo: Rodney White/The Register)
In one pocket of the haunt, fright-seekers find stacked shelves of barrel drums and a bloody “Welcome to Iowa” sign, nodding to Slipknot’s beloved 2001 album. Tucked between the barrels, an eerily static television flashes the band’s name.
Screaming, mutilated bodies dressed in Slipknot shirts jump to life as unhinged hospital patients blare the band’s music through boomboxes.
“It’s not a collision of cultures,” Miller said. “It’s a seamless integration. … that fact makes it really seamless; a diabolically happy experience.”
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25 photos: Slipknot throughout the years
In 2000, when this photo was taken, as now, members of Slipknot wear masks to secure their anonymity and to focus on the band as a gruesome whole. Paul Gray is third from left, in pig mask. Register File Photo
In 1997: Distinct, costumed, personalities, wild and unrestrained on stage makeup were the Slipknot calling card 13 years ago, as they are now. Register File Photo
In 1998: Band members Shawn Crahan (clown) and clockwise around him, Paul Gray (left), Mic Thompson, Corey Taylor, Joey Jordison and Sid Wilson. Register File Photo
In 2000: Fans salute Slipknot during a break between songs in Sioux Falls, S.D. Register File Photo
Slipknot performed Wednesday night in Des Moines at Wells Fargo Arena. This is the first time the band has performed in Des Moines for many years. Andrea Melendez/The Register
In 2000: Sweating fans crowd the front row for Slipknot's show in Sioux Falls, S.D. Register File Photo
In 2000: Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor rips through a song at a concert in Sioux Falls, S.D. Register File Photo
In 2000: Slipknot guitarist Mick Thompson performs at a concert in Sioux Falls, S.D. Register File Photo
In 2000: Slipknot performs at a concert in Sioux Falls, S.D. Register File Photo
In 2004: A member of the heavy metal band, Slipknot performs at the Val Air Ballroom before a sellout crowd of 2,500. Register File Photo
In 2004: A member of Slipknot performs at the Val Air Ballroom in West Des Moines. Register File Photo
In 2004: From left, Luis Sanchez, Jimy Grijalva, Lenin Camargo and Pedro Castillo said they came from Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala to hear their favorite band, Slipknot, perform at the Val Air Ballroom in West Des Moines. Register File Photo
In 2004: Slipknot fans swarmed together during a Slipknot video shot in West Des Moines. Register File Photo
In 2004: Slipknot performs at the Val Air Ballroom in West Des Moines to a sold out audience. Register File Photo
In 2004:Slipknot band member Craig Jones poses in his full-headed spike mask during a video shoot in West Des Moines. Register File Photo
In 2004: A scene of organized chaos as Slipknot fans storm into a house in West Des Moines during filming of a video for the band. Register File Photo
In 2004: Members of Slipknot in 2004. Register File Photo
Members of Slipknot pose before a show in East Rutherford, N.J., in a file photo from March 6, 2005. Register File Photo
From 2005: Corey Taylor , right , borrows a camera from a photographer during Slipknot concert at Hilton Coliseum in Ames. Register File Photo
In 2006: Members of Slipknot accept their Grammy award. Register File Photo
Christopher Mintz-Plasse and the rock group Slipknot present the award for best hip hop video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards held at Paramount Pictures Studio Lot on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, in Los Angeles. Kevork Djansezian, AP
Rock group Slipknot arrives at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards held at Paramount Pictures Studio Lot on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, in Los Angeles. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
Slipknot performed in 2009 in Des Moines at Wells Fargo Arena. Register file photo
Slipknot fans called "maggots" packed Wells Fargo Arena. m0129slipknot - Slipknot performed Wednesday night in Des Moines at Wells Fargo Arena. This is the first time the band has performed in Des Moines for many years. Andrea Melendez/The Register
Corey Taylor, singer of the US metal band Slipknot, performs on stage during the Greenfield Open Air festival in Interlaken, Switzerland, on Sunday, June 14, 2009. AP Photo/Keystone, Peter Klaunzer
It’ll put you off-balance
The Slaughterhouse bombards visitors’ senses with intensity at every turn. The house debuted on Des Moines’ south side in 2010, bouncing between locations and inactivity before calling the Barnum Factory home in 2017.
Sliding floors, walls painted with dizzying designs, a claustrophobia hallway, explosive lighting — each calculated corner puts the frightened more off-balance.
And easier to scare.
“They have agreed and allowed and paid for us it put them into a very vulnerable situation where we get to control the entire experience of their waking reality,” Miller said.
“At the Slaughterhouse, the people are the pigs. … We’re processing you.”
Miller implements a technique called “one-two-boo”: Open with a visual fright, follow-up with a motion scare and come in for a knock-out punch with an actor.
It’s part of creating a “walk-through cinematic experience,” he explained.
Lifelike robots controlled by air pressure, called animatronics, help give the haunt a pulse. Miller enlisted 16 pneumatic props this year, including five animatronic characters.
“We doubled capacity for compressed air in order to facilitate these props,” he said.
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It's not just for maggots
Miller approached his Slipknot additions in moderation. He took the band’s management through the house earlier this year, where it was agreed not to oversaturate attendees in the band’s canon.
“A big part of that conversation was (that) it shouldn’t be blatant, just banging you over the head,” he said.
The tour moves fast, Miller said, with groups of six entering at about 15-second intervals.
Direhard maggots should catch a few hidden treats without Slipknot newcomers feeling out-of-place. After all, the Slaughterhouse isn’t meant to exclusively terrify metal fans.
“I hope people get exactly what they wanted,” Miller said. “An escape from the true horrors of their waking reality; the droning day-to-day business of life. To me that’s far more terrifying than anything we’ve built inside this attraction.”
If you go …
What: The Slipknot Slaughterhouse
When: Each Thursday-Sunday in October, plus Oct. 31.
Where: The Barnum Factory, 97 Indiana Ave.
Cost: $20 general admission. VIP packages, including Slipknot meet-and-greet, also available.
More information: slaughterhousedm.com.
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Donald Trump touts ethanol victory in Iowa, but some leaders worry hardship waivers will undo gains
"We've got multiple tariff wars going on. We've got widespread weather, flooding in the Midwest," an Iowa farmer says. "We're in a real economic crunch here."
Donald Trump touts ethanol victory in Iowa, but some leaders worry hardship waivers will undo gains "We've got multiple tariff wars going on. We've got widespread weather, flooding in the Midwest," an Iowa farmer says. "We're in a real economic crunch here." Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/11/trump-touts-ethanol-victory-but-iowans-say-waivers-undermine-gains/1421255001/
Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register Published 7:13 p.m. CT June 11, 2019 | Updated 8:18 a.m. CT June 12, 2019
President Donald Trump came to an Iowa ethanol plant to discuss year-round access to E-15. Kelsey Kremer, kkremer@dmreg.com
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. — President Donald Trump told Iowa and Nebraska farmers Tuesday they will be better off financially after he's done hammering out new deals with U.S. trade partners.
"We're turning it all around. ... Wait until it all comes together," said Trump, who touted his administration's decision to provide $28 billion to farmers slammed by ongoing trade wars.
"We're reversing decades of failed trade policies, opening up new markets and finally giving our farmers a fair and level playing field that they deserve," Trump said Tuesday during a stop at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy.
Farmers have struggled with declining corn and soybean prices following several years of record harvests and growing supplies. More recently, the president's trade war has been blamed for declining exports to China and other large U.S. farm customers.
"You're going to make a lot of money, you're going to grow a lot of corn and everything else," Trump said. He asked Iowans to push congressional leaders to support the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which would replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
The president's victory lap in Iowa, the nation's largest ethanol producer, comes after the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule in May allowing for year-round access to E15, the shorthand for gasoline blended with 15% ethanol.
Trump told dozens of supporters that he's accomplished with E15 what Democrats did not.
"By unlocking the power of American agriculture and American energy, we're fueling a roaring economy," Trump said, touting the nation's low unemployment rate and other recent economic gains.
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The move to year-round E15 was long desired in Iowa by a host of leaders. The Trump administration won bipartisan praise for bringing it to reality.
Despite the cheers, Iowa leaders worry that hardship waivers the EPA has provided to oil refineries will undermine the expected increase in demand for ethanol — and the corn typically used to make it.
The ethanol industry says small refinery exemptions have destroyed demand for 2.6 billion gallons of ethanol, and 1 billion bushels of corn, since the president took office.
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President Donald Trump gives remarks after touring the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to streamline the regulatory process for agricultural biotechnology while visiting the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds after signing an executive order to streamline the regulatory process for agricultural biotechnology while visiting the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
The crowd waits for President Donald Trump to give remarks after touring the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
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Patrick McPherson, of Omaha, checks his phone before entering the tent set up for remarks from President Donald Trump during his visit to Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. McPherson was a delegate for Trump at the 2016 national convention. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
An inflatable tube man flails in the wind during President Donald Trump's visit to the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
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A crowd of people wait on bleachers for remarks from President Donald Trump at the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
A man waits to see President Donald Trump at the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Iowa farmer: 'There's still work to do'
Kevin Ross, a Minden farmer who was one of three people to speak during Trump's rally, told the president: "There's still work to do."
"Small refinery waivers threaten to undo your good works," Ross said. "I ask that you listen again, because the pain the biodiesel and ethanol industries has endured is holding back the farm economy."
The higher ethanol blend had been banned in the summer, a rule the ethanol industry said was outdated. Most gasoline sold in the U.S. contains 10% ethanol.
Year-round access to E15 could increase demand by 100 to 200 million bushels of corn in the short-term.
"If we approve E15, but go the wrong way on small refinery exemptions, we won't have helped farmers out much," said Mike Naig, Iowa's agriculture secretary. "It's a message of thanks and appreciation for bringing certainty on E15, but we have to keep advocating" on refinery exemptions."
Kevin Kinney, a Democratic state senator and farmer, said Iowa growers are struggling.
The Trump administration's $28 billion in two rounds of aid is designed to help offset harm experienced by farmers slammed by trade wars with China, Mexico, Canada and other countries.
"We've got multiple tariff wars going on," said Kinney, who farms near Iowa City. "We've got widespread weather, flooding in the Midwest. People in my area are just getting started with planting.
"We're in a real economic crunch here. ... it's just a tough time, and we need the support of the Trump administration."
Kinney spoke on a call with reporters, along with Tom Vilsack, a former U.S. Agriculture Secretary, and Patty Judge, Iowa's former ag secretary and the chairwoman of Focus on Rural America.
Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, said the expanded E15 access helps farmers and consumers with lower-cost fuel. But he also believes the administration's small-refinery waivers counter E15 gains.
"The E15 announcement is just that, an announcement," said Vilsack, CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council. "We've not seen the impact yet of E15 sales.
The ethanol industry says the exemptions, historically granted only to small, financially distressed oil companies, have been awarded to giants such as ExxonMobil and Chevron Corp.
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EPA: New rule could make the difference
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told the Register that the agency is "hopeful that by increasing ... E15 to year-round, it will help make up the difference for any small refinery exemptions going forward."
The administration is considering nearly 40 waivers for 2018. The waivers lag a year.
Wheeler said the agency lost three lawsuits, forcing it to provide the hardship waivers. He said the agency has to consider the refinery's situation, not that of the parent corporation.
"Even if a large company owns a small refinery, if the refinery is not making a profit, then the large company is just going to close it up and walk away, and that will hurt the fuel supply of that market," Wheeler said.
"We don't look at the corporate parent," he said. "We look at the refinery itself and the economics for each individual refinery, and that's what's required under the statute."
Monte Shaw, the Iowa Renewable Fuels executive director, said it's difficult for any refinery to declare a hardship, given low prices for ethanol and RINs — or renewable identification numbers — the industry's biofuels trading program.
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The president was expected to attend a Tuesday evening fundraiser in West Des Moines. He took the time before and during his policy-related event to criticize former Vice President Joe Biden, a presidential candidate who also visited Iowa on Tuesday. Biden took aim at Trump as well.
While visiting Iowa to discuss ethanol, President Donald Trump also made some comments about Joe Biden. Kelsey Kremer, kkremer@dmreg.com
Before the evening fundraiser, protesters gathered in West Des Moines to critique Trump's stances on climate change. Five people were arrested about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday in West Des Moines outside of Hy-Vee's corporate offices.
A captain with West Des Moines police said the three men and two women, each associated with Bold Iowa, would likely be cited for trespassing and released.
The Register's Stephen Gruber-Miller and Robin Opsahl contributed to this report.
Donnelle Eller covers agriculture, the environment and energy for the Register. She can be reached by email at deller@registermedia.com or by phone at 515-284-8457.
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Wow! MICKEY MOUSE IN LIVING COLOR, VOLUME 2 it looks very good and has great color.
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Thanks. I still can't believe "Mickey and the Beanstalk" is on here because it might make people not want "Fun and Fancy Free." That's the best part.
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I agree, already own fun and fancy free so a bit of a waste but maybe they have improved the cover.
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I am so glad that I've already ordered it!
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Wave 3 is by far the best issue, Top-to-Bottom.
Thanks for posting all of these, Luke
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Yes, I was quite shocked to see that Mickey Mouse in Living Colour was IN Colour!!!
Seriously though...I think I am anticipating this the most now. I was really looking forward to Frontlines the most, but I think this has eclipsed it.
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Aren't there two versions of Mickey & the Beanstalk, one with the live action parts and the one withouth those scenes. I'm not sure but I know my dvd of FAFF has some live action mixed in. Is the short on this dvd the same?
Looks great can't wait to have them in my hands
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Patrick -
Those live-action parts are the frame story of Fun and Fancy Free and therefore part of the FaFF version of Mickey & the Beanstalk. In the video (and TV?) version of M&tB without the rest of FaFF the live-action pieces have been edited out and replaced with animated segments with Ludwig von Drake and a Beetle character. I'd expect this version on this new DVD set, but I really don't know.
Lars Vermundsberget wrote:
thanks, makes more sense now!
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It is so awesome that they are including "Mickey and the Beanstalk" and "Sorcerer's Apprentice" on this set!
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- "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Mickey and the Beanstalk"
- Deleted Animation from ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''
- ''Mickey's Cartoon Comeback''
- ''The Voice Behind the Mouse''
- ''Mickey Mouse Club'' Titles in Color
- ''Mickey Meets the Maestro''
- Mouse Mania
- Mickey Cartoon Physics from ''The Plausible Impossible''
- Mickey on the Camera Stand from ''Tricks of Our Trade''
- The Making of ''Mickey's Christmas Carol''
- Publicity and Memorabilia Gallery
- Story and Background Art Gallery
Awesome! I'm really looking forward to the Making of Mickey's Christmas Carol and the Art galleries! And is Runaway Brain the most recent animation with MIckey on this set? Will the DVD mention or touch on Mickey Mouse Works or House of MOuse? Will the DVD discuss Mickey Mouse at the parks? I remember WDW had a Mickey Mania parade! I wonder if segments of the parade will be included in Mouse Mania, whatever that is....hmmmmmm....ºoº
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Man, I am very excited for this, even though I don't have the first volume. I don't view it as a waste for Beanstalk & Apprentice to be on here, as it just makes the set more complete, regardless of whether they are available elsewhere. They are still Mickey shorts.
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Sir Hawkins
What really angers me is that Disney has completely folded to political correctness, and roughtly half, yes HALF of these cartoons have introductions to make sure the stereotypes and/or perceived "offensiveness" in the cartoons is addressed. They did this with only 2 or 3 cartoons on the Goofy set, but this is completely out of hand and annoying. What kids want to sit through an introduction before half the cartoons every time they watch them? I know I don't want to. And if the truth were known this stuff isn't even offensive! What I'm totally miffed about though is there's an introduction for Symphony Hour, now what in the world could possibly be taken the wrong way with that cartoon? Does anyone have any info on that, or the other ones for that matter?
p.s. I like this board alot, can't believe I found one just for Disney stuff. Sorry this had to be my first post.
Sir Hawkins - I totally disagree with you.
Some of the cartoons present images that are totally wrong and kids can not tell the difference always. In fact, they may understand wrong to be right if they see Mickey Mouse performing.
The alternative of course is too edit the cartoons. The cartoons are art and I believe it is wrong to edit them.
Therefore, the introductions are the best way to go.
As far as I am concerned I just want to see Song of the South no matter how badly it offends somebody. If the answer is to allow the NCAAP to give a 20 minute discertation on why they dont like it so be it.
Just because someone else might be offended by it doesn't mean that Disney has to acknowledge it as offensive... I don't think any of it is, and it should be left alone and the offended parties can get over it. And the last I heard, the NAACP's official stance on SOTS is now "no position," so they wouldn't push for anything like that.
Sir Hawkins- welcome aboard. I felt the same way when I found UD.com.
I think we are way too oversensetive a society right now. When I was a little kid back in the early 80's I watched these cartoons every day, and I don't think one tiny bit less of minorities or people of a different culture as an adult, nor can I ever remember feeling that way. And let's just say I did, I don't think Leanard Malton talking in my face for 30 seconds would have helped matters, I most likely wouldn't have even known what he was talking about. By Disney having those introductions they're not only admitting that the content is "offensive" (which it isn't) but they're also putting the idea that they're "offensive" into the minds of people and kids who wouldn't have even thought twice about it had the introductions not been there. Sorry but they're shooting themselves in the foot with this one. I'm going to have to rip and re-burn the DVD without the commentaries, what an unfortunate waste.
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Great first post, I agree 100 percent!
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GUATEMALA ELECTIONS
Guatemala steels itself for elections full of uncertainty
efe-epaBy Patricia Pernas Guatemala City 16 Jun 2019
Workers of Guatemala's Supreme Electoral Tribunal load up the last shipments of ballots for the different polling centers as the Central American country steels itself this Saturday, June 15, 2019, with strong security measures for the next day's elections that are full of uncertainty among the electorate. EFE-EPA/Esteban Biba
Guatemala steeled itself this Saturday with strong security measures for elections full of uncertainty, given that 48 percent of voters still haven't decided which candidate they will vote for out of the almost 20 running for president in a country plunged in poverty and inequality.
After almost three months of intense campaigns, on this June 16 more than 8 million Guatemalans can head for polls that will be open from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm at 2,932 locations.
There they can vote for the president and vice president, 160 lawmakers, 20 representatives for the Central American Parliament, and 340 members of municipal governments.
The spokesman for the National Civil Police, Pablo Castillo, told EFE that 42,197 agents will provide security at the vote-counting center of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, will keep watch on electoral storerooms and materials, will guard power plants and accompany both national and international observers.
The army will share the work, guarding "critical points, areas of strategic importance and the nation's prisons."
Starting this Saturday at 12:00 pm and continuing until 6:00 pm next Monday, Guatemala will impose the Dry Law, which bans the sale, distribution and consumption of liquors.
On hand to monitor the process aside from local observers is a mission of the Organization of American States (OAS), directed by former Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis, along with 84 members of 23 nations already stationed at the country's 22 provinces and in two of the voting stations abroad, one in New York and the other in Silver Spring, Maryland.
This Sunday's elections are the first in which Guatemalan migrants living in the United States who have registered to cast their ballots - some 63,000 - will be able to vote for the president and vice president who will serve for the next four years (2020-2024).
The presidential candidate leading in the intention-to-vote surveys, though without the majority needed to avoid a second round, is former first lady Sandra Torres of the social-democratic National Unity of Hope party (UNE).
The next four, whose places vary depending on the survey, are former Penitentiary Director Alejandro Giamattei of the Vamos party, the son of former President Alvaro Arzu, Roberto Arzu of the ultraconservative PAN-Podemos, the former UN official Edmond Mulet of the centrist Humanista party, and the indigenous leader and human-rights defender Thelma Cabrera of the leftist Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples (MLP).
The Guatemalan campaign has been marked by court decisions that not only blocked the participation of several candidates like that of former Attorney General Thelma Aldana, and of Zury Rios, daughter of former ex-dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt, but also by complaints of political patronage.
That, as the head of the Office of Human Rights, Jordan Rodas, told EFE, led to the detention in the United States of the candidate for the National Change Unit (UCN), Mario Estrada, accused of having ties to drug trafficking.
The political situation, plus challenges like poverty, corruption, illegal migration, miserable wages and hunger, have brought about "disillusion" among much of the population, who don't find any solution at all for their problems among the current political proposals.
Rodas also has his eye on another two matters: the way Oscar Schaad left the country because of the treats he received, and the warning by a group of retired military, who threatened to boycott the elections unless someone listens to their requests and who cry out "We know how to make bombs!"
These two "grave" incidents, Rodas said, are a "clear sign of our rundown justice system pitted against the powers resisting the new times."
"In this context, there's not much hope," said Rodas, who even so calls on Guatemalans to make use of their right to a secret ballot, the only tool for changing the country, and while there are few political choices that represent real change, Congress will get a "breath of fresh air" and "new voices" that will help strengthen democracy.
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Over a dozen new jobs to be created in Ely thanks to testing firm ALS' new £2m expansion
Seb Pearce
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PUBLISHED: 13:14 04 July 2016 | UPDATED: 13:14 04 July 2016
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An Ely branch of a food and pharmaceutical testing firm is expecting to create up to 15 new jobs when it opens a £2 million extension in September.
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ALS Food and Pharmaceutical. Picture: Steve Williams.
ALS, Chatteris, Left: Sales and Marketing Director Nigel Richards and Adam Rush Genaral Manager. Picture: Steve Williams.
ALS, Chatteris, Sales and Marketing Director, Nigel Richards. Picture: Steve Williams.
ALS, Chatteris, Adam Rush Genaral Manager. Picture: Steve Williams.
ALS, which has its UK hub based in Chatteris but has a testing laboratory on the Cambridgeshire Business Park, is celebrating years of success – including being named as the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology’s best food and hygiene company for three consecutive years - by extending their current laboratory, which could see staff members increase from 30 to 45.
Chatteris site general manager, Adam Rush, says it’s an exciting time for the company.
“We are continuing to expand our business to meet the growing demand from our client base”, he said.
“Our investment in Ely will double our testing capacity, enabling us to attract new business. Since the vast majority of staff at Ely and Chatteris are drawn from the Fenland area, this expansion will create further exciting career opportunities for potential employees in the county.”
Australia-based company ALS tests food and drink products from over 1,500 companies across the world and has operations at 350 locations in 55 countries.
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TUESDAY, July 3, 2012 (HealthDay News) — Drinking five or more cups of coffee a day may cut in half a woman's chance of successful in vitro fertilization treatment, a new study contends.
This level of caffeine consumption also reduces the live-birth rate following in vitro fertilization (IVF) by 40 percent, the study authors said.
The Danish researchers who conducted the study said the effects of a five-cup-a-day coffee habit are similar to the negative effects of smoking.
"Although we were not surprised that coffee consumption appears to affect pregnancy rates in IVF, we were surprised at the magnitude of the effect," Dr. Ulrik Schioler Kesmodel, of the Fertility Clinic at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, said in a news release from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
The new research found an apparent association between coffee consumption and the success of fertility treatments, but it didn't prove that a cause-and-effect relationship exists.
Previous research investigating the link between caffeine and fertility has yielded inconsistent results. The Danish researchers followed nearly 4,000 women undergoing IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment for infertility. Information on how much coffee the women drank was collected at the beginning of treatment and at the start of each additional round of treatment.
After taking into account other factors that could have an impact on the women's ability to get pregnant — such as age, smoking habits, alcohol consumption, cause of infertility and body-mass index (a measure of body fat based on height and weight) — the study showed the likelihood of pregnancy was reduced by 50 percent in women who reported drinking five or more cups of coffee daily at the start of treatment.
The researchers noted that no effect was found when the patients reported coffee consumption of less than five cups.
"There is limited evidence about coffee in the literature, so we would not wish to worry IVF patients unnecessarily," Kesmodel said. "But it does seem reasonable, based on our results and the evidence we have about coffee consumption during pregnancy, that women should not drink more than five cups of coffee a day when having IVF."
The study's findings were expected to be presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Istanbul, Turkey.
Research presented at medical meetings should be viewed as preliminary because it hasn't undergone the same level of scrutiny required of studies published in peer-reviewed journals.
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Jul 9 Velo3D's Incredible Metal 3D Printing Process
An extremely fine 3D printed metal mesh by Velo3D’s Sapphire system [Source: Fabbaloo]
We had a closer look at Velo3D’s amazing metal 3D printing process.
The company, which operated in complete stealth until just under a year ago, had been secretly developing a powerful metal 3D printing process. Now, we’ve seen up close some of the prints that were made with that process and the results are startling, to say the least.
As you can see in the Velo3D print images we captured throughout this post, the level of detail is quite incredible. Extremely fine structures are not only present, but printed with extreme accuracy. This capability means the Velo3D Sapphire system should be able to 3D print objects not possible on other metal 3D printing gear.
Complex geometries can be produced with Velo3D’s Sapphire metal 3D printer [Source: Fabbaloo]
How do they accomplish this? After a discussion with company representatives, it became clear what was going on. While their system includes many innovations, the key technology is a new type of powder recoater.
Advanced Recoater
A recoater is a mechanism that applies a fresh layer of powder on the print bed, making it ready for a pass by the lasers for selective fusing. Virtually all powder-bed / laser systems include some type of recoater.
The typical arrangement is to have two equal-sized volumes, side by side, each with a moving platform. One is filled with fresh powder, a kind of reservoir, and the other is the actual build volume. As the print proceeds, the non-build volume is raised a tad by its platform. Then a blade bulldozes a small amount of powder from the filled reservoir to the build volume. By carefully controlling the movement of the blade, a very fine layer can be uniformly laid down, ready for laser action.
A highly complex part produced on the Velo3D Sapphire 3D printer [Source: Fabbaloo]
The problem with this approach is that the blade tends to catch on any existing print segments that have already been produced on the previous layer. If you were to try to print a metal object without any support structure, just laying in the powder, it would be dislodged from its position at best or swept away at worst. Therefore, these systems require every print to be anchored to a metal build plate — and thus also must be sliced off later.
It also requires the minimum structure width to be rather thick, as the blade could bang it out of shape as it passes if it is too thin. Therefore there is a maximum level of detail obtainable in this type of system.
No Contact Recoater
Velo3D realized this was a major challenge and sought to solve it, and it seems they did with the invention of a revolutionary new powder recoating mechanism. This system, of which we do not yet know the specific mechanics, is “non-contact”. Somehow Velo3D has figured out a way to uniformly distribute powder without disturbing the previous layer in any way. Perhaps it is some kind of spraying system, but we don’t know and Velo3D isn’t telling.
Nevertheless, several interesting things happen due to this amazing recoating system.
First, it is possible to 3D print objects without having them welded to a metal build plate. You can quite literally 3D print metal objects “free floating in the powder”. This will save considerable post-processing work to slice prints off the plate with a fancy EDM wire machine.
No Support Metal 3D Printing
A metal part with significant overhangs 3D printed with no support structures by Velo3D [Source: Fabbaloo]
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NBC’s This Is Us never ceases to surprise fans with just how much they can pack into a one hour episode, and season two’s seventh episode “The Most Disappointed Man” did not disappoint. While it wasn’t full of any surprising twists, it had some very important plot details when it comes to the stories of all the characters past and present and even included a new time in the Big Three’s life — being one-year-old! The episode was heavy and emotional, and had a lot for fans take in, so follow along as we break it down with these 8 can’t miss moments from the fantastic episode:
8. Judge Bradley
A lot of the episode took fans back to the time when Rebecca and Jack were trying to legally adopt Randall with the Big Three at one-year-old. Having already raised him as their son for a year, the pair didn’t expect there to be any problems, but that was until they faced Judge Bradley, an African-American judge who made it clear to them he didn’t think a black child should be raised in a white family. Following the lecture given to them, they were told they had to come back in three weeks, but with Bradley on the case it seemed unlikely he would approve the adoption which devastated Jack and Rebecca.
7. William’s Change
Much of the focus of “The Most Disappointed Man” was on courthouses, jails and lawyers, and another paralleled flashback to that of Randall’s adoption had to do with his birth father, William. Unknowingly to the Pearsons or Williamat the very same time they were going through the same courthouse, but for William it was after he got busted for drugs. In another parallel, he was up against a white judge who told him he had to put him in jail and William responded emotionally explaining that drugs were the only thing the outside world had left to offer him after he lost his mother, girlfriend and son and told the judge he was “the most disappointed man” in the world. William’s speech greatly impacted the judge however, and in a heavy moment he asked to speak with William one-on-one before his sentencing where he explained to him that every day that he put people away for 5, 10, 15 years he knew that the ending of their story wasn’t a good one and if William was “the most disappointed man in the world” then he was a “close second.” The judge then told William he was going to let him go if William could promise him he would remember his face every time he went down the path towards a bad ending, and William made that promise meaning he was walking away from drugs.
6. Kate and Toby Tell Kevin
With a lot of sad emotions dominating the stories of many of the characters, Kate and Toby made audiences smile with their pure happiness and love. The adorable pair made the decision to finally tell Kevin about Kate’s pregnancy and planned the whole thing out. They donned shirts with Kate’s reading “Baby” and an arrow pointing to her belly and Toby wearing a shirt that reads “Baby” as well with an arrow pointing at Kate. Kevin didn’t get it at first, but couldn’t have been happier for his sister despite the inner turmoil he was going through.
5. Deja’s Mom
After Beth and Randall had finally made strides with their foster daughter Deja, things became tense when Randall had to take Deja to the jail for a court-mandated visit with her mother, Shauna. Deja was very excited about the visit, but things quickly turned disappointing when Deja’s caseworker explained to Randall that Shauna had opted out of the visit, leaving Randall to break the news to Deja. The move by Shauna infuriated both Randall and Beth, and Randall made the decision to go back and visit with Shauna alone to lecture her on the damage she had done and was still doing to her daughter. Upon seeing her however, Shauna revealed she cancelled the visit because she had been jumped and didn’t want Deja to see her bloody and bruised face. The pair ended up having a very difficult and tense conversation in which Randall tried to convince Shauna he and his family were what was best for Deja but Shauna told him as soon as she was out of jail she was coming for her daughter. In response Randall said, “You’re gonna have to go through me,” and Shauna ended it with, “I’ve been through worse.”
(Photo by: Ron Batzdorff/NBC)
4. The Connection
It is nothing new to This Is Us fans that the show has one of the most intricate plots and tells its story in a way not often seen on TV, and yet again they took it to another level with this episode. After paralleling Randall and William’s story in the beginning with the Pearsons fighting for Randall’s adoption while William fought for his freedom and made the promise to be sober, the episode brought us back to the very first episode. Many years later, William is seen being told his cancer had progressed and was terminal within a few months to a year, and is next seen at his apartment getting ready to do drugs for the first time in decades since making his promise to that judge. Right before he did the drugs, though, Randall shows up at his door and introduced himself — which is what fans saw in the pilot. For the first time, fans found out that Randall ended up saving his biological father from relapsing that day.
3. Kevin Spirals
This season has seen a lot of character development for Kevin Pearson, but unfortunately just as quickly as things seemed to be getting better for him, he is now spiraling out of control. After hints of his addiction problems, the episode saw Kevin right in the midst of his battle which was not only have a terrible impact on him, but also on his relationship with Sophie. After buying three engagement rings in an effort to make a big romantic gesture, Kevin showed up to the hospital where she works only to find she wasn’t there. While waiting he dreamed about their future which showed him being a deadbeat, addicted dad, so when he showed up on her doorstep later in what was supposed to be his big romantic moment, he broke up with her instead. He told Sophie that when he thinks of their future it is a “nightmare” because he is an “empty shell” with nothing to give and explained breaking up with her now would save her from 40 years of disappointment. Naturally, Sophie was devastated and slammed the door in his face.
Ron Batzdorff/NBC
2. Toby’s Talk and Proposal
After breaking the news of the pregnancy to Kevin, Toby and Kate had the much more difficult task of telling Toby’s mother, a staunch Catholic. After she cried about them moving in together, they knew she would not be accepting of them having a baby out of wedlock, so they decided to save time and money and just do a courthouse wedding. After retrieving their marriage license however, Toby questioned whether it was what Kate really wanted, or if she was just saying it was okay. In an incredible “classic Toby” moment, he turned to Jack’s ashes for advice and had a very adorable and emotional one-sided talk where he determined Kate deserved the big wedding she had dreamed of. As the “King of romantic gestures,” Toby then had several sweaters made that read “Will you marry me?” as he unzipped them and proposed to Kate while telling her he had a talk with her dad and it is what he would have wanted.
1. Rebecca’s Letter
In true Pearson fashion, Jack and Rebecca were not going to let Judge Bradley derail their family because of his own beliefs, so Rebecca sent him a passionate letter. She explained they were never going to give up adopting Randall because he was their son, “Randall is my son, whether you approve or not or sign a paper or not,” she penned in the document, along with a photo of their family portrait featuring baby Kevin, Kate and Randall. “And yes, some things are harder for us … The thing you need to know about us is the Pearsons keep at, we don’t stop. So I suggest you put us up on your wall. Maybe it will help you get you used to our faces because we will keep coming until you do your job,” she concluded, also writing, “Sincerely, Rebecca, Randall’s mother.” Instead of continuing his fight, Judge Bradley recused himself from their case and gave it over to Judge Shaw who without hesitation agreed the Pearsons were the best thing for Randall and granted the adoption. At the end of the episode Judge Bradley and William’s judge are seen together asking each other if they “had done anything good lately” and both responded with “I don’t know.”
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Karuturi Global‘s Ethiopia return stokes fears of deforestation and evictions
0 Published: 04 Jul 2019
Posted in: Ethiopia India Karuturi Global Ltd
Baro River, Itang; an area which may be affected by Karuturi Global’s return to Gambela. (Photo: Creative Commons)
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A 15,000-hectare concession awarded to Karuturi Global in Ethiopia’s Gambela region has left locals fearing their ancestral lands will be cleared for agribusiness once again by the Indian firm, an activist group in the region has claimed.
Karuturi said in an April note to shareholders that it has a new land deal for crop cultivation in Western Gambela, almost two years after exiting Ethiopia after a previous attempt at food production failed.
The firm was initially awarded a 300,000-hectare concession in the Jikawo and Itang districts of Gambela in 2009 for various crop production.
However, Karuturi failed to develop a successful agribusiness operation. Under terms of the 50-year lease agreement, the firm had to develop 100,000 hectares within two years but by 2014 only around 1,200 hectares had been cultivated.
Its failures were compounded when 92 workers filed a complaint with Ethiopian authorities in 2013 accusing Karuturi of delaying wages, breeching safety standards and failing to provide adequate housing.
The initial lease coincided with the controversial ‘Villagization’ program, a government-run scheme whereby thousands of people living in Gambela were forcibly removed from their homes to new settlements. Human Rights Watch and others said the program was in effect a government ploy to entice foreign land investors to the region.
Anywaa Survivors Organisation (ASO), an Ethiopian NGO that monitors environmental issues in Gambela, and HRW accused Karuturi of being complicit in evictions and deforesting land used by communities. Karuturi rejected the claims.
The failure of Karuturi, whose main business is floriculture, to diversify into food commodities led the Ethiopian government to cancel its original lease agreement. The firm left Ethiopia in 2017.
A legal challenge was tabled disputing the decision, but the case was dropped after Indian and Ethiopian diplomats reportedly intervened to help Karuturi agree a new 15,000-hectare concession.
ASO and GRAIN, a non-profit that promotes community-led farming, have called on the deal to be scrapped. The NGOs argue that Karuturi’s return will cause widespread forest destruction in Gambela’s Itang district and force locals, who had returned to the region after Karuturi’s 2017 exit, off the land again.
“People moved back to where they were, and vegetation had started to grow again but the fear is looming over them that Karuturi will start clearing the land again,” Nyikaw Ochalla of ASO told IDM.
“The locals will not be able to farm because if Karuturi is in that vicinity they will not have access to land they have owned for generations and the government could evict them at any time saying that the land belongs to Karuturi.”
It is unclear where the new concession will be but Ochalla believes it will be in the same area where Karuturi had its original lease with soy, palm oil and maize crops reportedly to be grown.
Ochalla told IDM that the readiness of government to support foreign land investors is putting local communities and surrounding forested areas at risk.
“These people have lived on this land for generations and the indigenous population who have lived on that land do not have any protections,” he said.
“By allowing foreign companies to invest then the government of Ethiopia will have a chance of controlling the indigenous population which were previously autonomous and culturally and linguistically distinct.”
The new 15,000-hectare concession has been approved by authorities in Gambela and is now awaiting approval from central government, according to Ochalla.
“The local population are very resistant to Karuturi returning. The initial excitement of Karuturi leaving has turned to anger and confusion because they do not know what will happen,” he said. “We are still monitoring the developments and we hope it won’t take place.”
Original source: IDM
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Derived from the domain name of FBIjobs.net?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (Federal Bureau of Investigation) which everyone knows not American, there is a site called www.fbi.gov on one of the homepages of FBI. The site of FBI is www.fbi.gov. In this site, the FBI investigations and the provision of incident information are requested, articles about past incidents, the organization of FBI, etc. are described.
On the other hand, in fbijobs.gov, recruitment of FBI investigators and staff is posted.
Well, it is derived from the name of this subject FBIjobs.net, but I think you understand, but I received it from fbijobs.gov. When I registered the domain, it was still fbijobs.com.
fbi.gov, nsa.gov, cia.gov, whitehouse.gov, these government sites end with gov. This is said to have come from the word "government", meaning that the site with ".gov" is a government site (".go.jp" in Japan), ordinary people ". Gov You can not acquire the domain that is attached. Instead, domains other than ". Gov" such as fbi.com, cia.jp, whitehouse.com, etc. have already been registered with other people (those not related to these government agencies).
The reason I started up the site was because I made a page dedicated to seminar seminars during my college days, and I wanted to create a site to distribute to the outside from there.
It was in 2005 that I acquired. Around this time, trying to get a domain with the same name as the government system was quite difficult.
First of all, why was it FBI?
I was a big fan of "X-FILES" that was based on UFOs and paranormal phenomena created by American FOX channel at that time.
"X-FILES" depicts how FBI agents investigate mysterious events such as paranormal phenomena and caused a boom in the world such as the United States. Also, in the play, only the exterior, but the building of FBI headquarters appeared.
Interested in FBI with this drama, it happened that at that time, FBI was acquiring fbijobs.com, but since nobody was acquiring the domain to which fbijobs is attached, acquire a domain called fbijobs.net That was the chance.
There was no intention to interfere with the business of FBI at all or to commit a criminal act. Rather, I support FBI activities.
At the time of launching the site, it was a small site of about 10 visitors per day, but now it has grown to a site where 800 to 2000 visitors a day.
When Google searches with a government domain name, gov takes precedence, but if you search "fbijobs" in Japan, fbijobs.net will be displayed at the top. This seems to be a rare case.
In case Below is the CM movie of FBIjobs. It was still FBIjobs.com at this time.
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If you want to look at a homepage of FBI, trace the following link.
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OGD Finished 2010 on a High Note – Really High!
The ANDA backlog in FDA’s Office of Generic Drugs (“OGD”) continued to grow unabated in 2010. OGD started out the year with a backlog of 1963 original applications and ended the year up almost 400 applications, for a grand total of 2361 pending original ANDAs. The backlog has, not surprisingly, affected median ANDA approval times. As we previously reported, in Fiscal Year 2009, OGD’s median ANDA approval time was 26.70 months. That was up about 5 months compared to Fiscal Year 2008 when the median was 21.65 months. At the end of calendar year 2010, we understand that the median ANDA approval time (which includes tentative approval actions) was hovering around 31 months. That has got to give some folks in industry indigestion, as 180-day exclusivity can be forfeited if an ANDA sponsor fails to obtain tentative ANDA approval within 30 months of application submission. FDA’s position has been that the Agency’s failure to timely grant tentative approval does not save an ANDA sponsor from forfeiture.
In 2010, we reported that OGD had quietly placed a hold on ANDA prior approval supplement reviews and approval actions until further notice (with some exceptions) to focus instead on original ANDA submissions (and minor amendments). It is unclear the extent to which that hold reduced the ANDA backlog, but we are happy to report that we have heard that the hold has been lifted and supplement reviews and approval actions are progressing.
In looking at OGD’s latest statistical figures, what is perhaps most concerning with the ANDA backlog is the tremendous recent growth of original ANDAs pending more than 180 days. As shown in the table below, OGD started out 2010 with 1154 applications pending more than 180 days, and ended the year with 1816 applications pending more than 180 days.
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The tables above and below show that from 1997 to 2009, the number of original ANDAs pending more than 180 days fluctuated from less than 100 ANDAs to about 600 ANDAs. Beginning in 2009, however, that number began to shoot up month-by-month.
Chemistry Manufacturing, and Controls (“CMC”) Supplements and Labeling Supplements pending more than 180 days have seen a similar rise, as the tables below show; however, FDA has noted that “abrupt changes in the level of pending [CMC] supplements are the result of global submissions to all applications held by a single firm.”
Why did things change beginning in 2009? We don’t know exactly. As shown below, the number of original ANDAs OGD receives each year (since 2005) has remained relatively stable. (Interestingly, December is consistently the month in which OGD gets the greatest number of original ANDA submissions.)
Will new OGD leadership, additional funding, or generic drug user fees change the prospects for speedier ANDA reviews? That remains to be seen.
After serving as OGD Director for many years, Gary Buehler left FDA last year after being reassigned to the Office of Pharmaceutical Science to take an industry job. Dr. Keith Webber has served as OGD’s Acting Director since Mr. Buehler’s reassignment. FDA has been searching for a permanent Director. We understand that the Agency has vetted several candidates and hopes to announce a permanent OGD Director in March.
Although the 111th Congress considered omnibus appropriations bills that would have provided FDA (including OGD) with budget increases, ultimately, President Obama signed into law a stop-gap spending bill that kept FDA funded at Fiscal Year 2010 levels until early March. With the current economic and political environments, it could be difficult to procure additional funding for FDA.
That leaves us with generic drug user fees. Last September, FDA held a public meeting to gather stakeholder input on the development of a generic drug user fee program. FDA is still considering the various user fee proposals set forth by industry. While folks are hopeful that a generic drug user fee system will provide greater review process predictability, user fees are not a panacea for addressing the ANDA backlog. It will likely take several years after the implementation of a user fee system to bring the ANDA review queue under control, as new reviewers will have to be hired and trained.
Categories: Hatch-Waxman | Prescription Drugs and Biologics
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Will Rick Scott Answer Tough (or Any) Questions in Bonita Springs?
Today, at Rick Scott's Bonita Springs campaign stop, the governor will no doubt deliver his misleading and debunked talking points about his record on Florida’s economy. Unfortunately for Lee County, Scott’s poll-tested rhetoric doesn’t match the reality middle class families are seeing each day.
As the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald have reported, Rick Scott pledged more than $14 million in taxpayer dollars to create nearly 1,200 jobs in Lee County, but completely failed to deliver.
Since we all know that Rick Scott will try to “Oh, gosh…” and “So as you know…” his way out of answering the questions Floridians are asking, that means it’s time for another edition of…
Questions Rick Scott Should (But Probably Won’t) Answer
1. The company you ran committed the largest Medicare fraud in American history. Why did you veto funding to fight health care fraud last month? (source)
2. With thousands of veterans in Southwest Florida lacking health insurance, why do you oppose expanding access to get them the health care they need? (source)
3. Do you think it’s wrong for public officials such as yourself to enrich themselves from the state contracts they approve? (source)
4. You say you’re “against discrimination of any kind.” How do you feel about Pam Bondi spending taxpayer resources to fight for discriminatory polices, such as the state’s ban on marriage equality? (source)
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Cintas Cleans Up With Strong Earnings Growth
New records could lie ahead for the uniform-rental provider's stock.
Sep 27, 2016 at 7:19PM
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Providing uniforms for clients' employees is a major business need that Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) serves, and many people still think of Cintas as being a uniform specialist. Yet the company has diversified its product offerings recently, and that has helped open up new opportunities for growth.
Coming into Tuesday's fiscal first-quarter financial report, Cintas investors had hoped that the business services company would be able to sustain and accelerate its growth. Cintas' results were encouraging, and investors responded with another big push upward for its shares. Let's take a closer look at the latest from Cintas, and what its most recent quarter says about its prospects going forward.
Cintas keeps on growing
Cintas' fiscal first-quarter results fed on the positive trends that the company has experienced lately. Revenue was up 8%, to $1.29 billion, and that was slightly higher than most of those following the stock had expected to see. Net income from operations soared 30%, to $138.1 million, and that led to adjusted earnings of $1.26 per share. That was fully $0.18 higher than the consensus forecast among investors.
Taking a closer look at Cintas and its results, there were, again, several factors contributing to the company's success. The uniform rental and facility services business boosted its top line by 6.5%, and the segment's direct costs rose just 4.3%, helping to expand its overall gross margin. Once again, Cintas' other business division grew at a faster pace of 13%, but a higher 8% growth rate in costs for that division limited its competitive advantage over its uniform counterpart. Selling and administrative costs climbed at a slightly disturbing rate of more than 10%, but efficiency gains helped Cintas improve its operating margin and net margin figures.
Cintas also sustained its past practice of using both internal business growth and strategic acquisitions as ways to accomplish its long-term goals. Organic growth for the company was 5.7%, or roughly three-quarters of Cintas' total growth rate.
In keeping with past practice, CEO Scott Farmer limited his comments about Cintas to a fairly pedestrian recounting of financial numbers. "We achieved record revenue and [earnings per share]," Farmer said, "and increased EPS by double-digits for the sixth consecutive year."
What's ahead for Cintas?
Moreover, Cintas sees its momentum building into the new fiscal year. Farmer pointed to early activity in the fiscal first quarter as confirming its strong performance going forward, and the CEO argued that the "solid start positions us for another year of record-breaking results."
In response to its encouraging results, Cintas boosted its guidance for the 2017 fiscal year. In particular, revenue projections inched higher as Cintas pushed the lower end of its previous guidance range up by $10 million, now expecting sales of between $5.16 billion and $5.225 billion for the fiscal year. Earnings-per-share projections increased by roughly $0.20 to a new range of $4.55 to $4.63 per share, which would mean that the company could see growth of as much as 13%.
Looking forward, one wildcard will be what impact Cintas' proposed acquisition of G&K Services (NASDAQ:GK) will have. Cintas announced the $2.2 billion deal in mid-August, saying that it expected the deal to open up additional processing capacity and route density, which should produce cost savings and greater operational efficiency. Expected to close by next February, the G&K Services merger should boost Cintas' earnings by the second year after the deal is completed. Going forward, the extent to which G&K integrates into Cintas' operations will play a pivotal role in determining the future course of the combined post-merger entity -- assuming that the two companies get all the necessary approvals to merge.
Cintas investors were happy about the company's results, sending the stock upward by more than 4%, and approaching another all-time record high. With strong tailwinds from favorable employment trends and economic strength, Cintas will have investors watching to see just how much it can take advantage of good conditions to produce faster profit growth.
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2018/2019 Premier League predictions: Through the eyes of the gods
Footballnus 4:18 pm betting, featured, Opinion, Premier League
The new season is upon us and it’s the only time everyone starts equal, the wait is over, speculations laid to rest and time for the brain to connect with the feet for real actions.
Here and there, there were quality businesses in the window that closed earlier than usual after Premier League sides voted to see the back of transfer windows before kickoff of the new season.
David De Gea is still the man at Old Trafford but Chelsea has a new shot-stopper in Kepa, Liverpool fixed their goalkeeping issues with Allison Becker while Arsenal won’t take further risks with Petr Cech by signing Leno from Leverkusen.
Talking controls, there are new managers here and there but the highest of them all is the new face in the Arsenal dugout, for the first time in 22 years, Arsenal fans and visitors to the Emirates would see a new face in the person of Unai Emery, the former Sevilla and PSG manager would lead the Gunners out for the first time officially on Sunday as they host Manchester City who will be the team to beat.
The Citizens added Riyad Mahrez to an already strong forward line and will still be the likely champions, but will they retain it? Considering no one has retained the title since Manchester United did a triple assault that ended in the summer of 2009.
Manchester United didn’t really impress in the just concluded window, they got Fred and Dalot but the contract situations of Pogba and Martial left many wondering how relationships are being managed in the club, pre-season friendlies didn’t inspire fans and Jose Mourinho’s demeanor throughout left lots to be desired, they go first, having Leicester for a size and that could define their whole campaign.
Tottenham Hotspur somehow managed to miss out on a few targets and ended up having only Harry Kane’s new contract as their high points in the summer, while it was huge for them to keep their bunch together, squad depth weaknesses will likely haunt them yet again this term should key players get injured, remember Harry Kane doesn’t fire until September, hope he breaks that dock this season.
Liverpool should be the toast of bookmakers this season, pace aplenty, trickery in abundance, Virgil Van Dijk and Fabinho should add steel in that defense while Naby Keita will fill in greatly for the departed Emre Can, wherever they choose to play Shaqiri, he will always be a plus, leaving Klopp with no excuses than to deliver silverware now or never.
Chelsea have the sort of manager their owner has always wanted, total football will be seen and enjoyed at Stamford Bridge, how long it will take for the team to settle into his tactics is left to be seen but give or take, it should be a season to enjoy for the Chelsea faithful.
The likes of Everton, Wolves, and Fulham did beautiful businesses in the transfer window but they won’t make it into the top four, shockers will happen as always, big teams would be taken to the cleaners at some points or the other but in the end, the usual suspects would still return to Europe.
At the other end, Crystal Palace survived last season, Southampton left it late but managed to maintain their top-flight status, Brighton, Watford and Huddersfield all lived to see the new premier league season but who goes down this time?
Cardiff, Fulham, and Wolves are all here with hopes of staying but Cardiff will struggle to make an impact, they didn’t do great business like the other two and will need more than luck to survive.
Wolves got in top-rated stars, if they gel on time, they will give the big boys a huge run for their money, with Fulham keeping Ryan Sessegnon and Andre Schurlle joining the team, except them to trouble the stats too.
Crystal Palace won’t escape again, now they have Jordan Ayew who has relegated with every team he has played in recently, Aston Villa and Swansea readily come to mind.
Here we deliver our take on possible title winners, golden boot winner, MVP winner as well as candidates for the drop.
Champions: Liverpool
Top four: Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea
Relegation: Cardiff, Huddersfield and Crystal Palace
Golden Boot Winner: Pierre Emerick Aubameyang
Player of the season: Mohammed Salah
First manager to be sacked: Neil Warnock
Strictly the writer’s opinion
Written by @Komptrolla
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U.S. Cellular adds 44K postpaid smartphone users in Q3, shares rise
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U.S. Cellular added a total of 35,000 net customers during the quarter.
Shares of U.S. Cellular rose after the company posted 44,000 postpaid smartphone net additions in its latest quarter.
The Chicago-based network operator saw 35,000 overall net subscriber additions during the period, up from a net loss of 6,000 customers during the same period last year and the 23,000 net gains it posted during the previous quarter. It lost 15,000 net feature-phone users but gained 6,000 net connected devices.
U.S. Cellular also saw 31,000 net prepaid customer additions, up significantly from the 3,000 it posted during the prior quarter. Postpaid ARPU came in at $43.41, down markedly from $47.08 last year, and prepaid ARPU dipped to $33.12 this year from $34.39 last year.
Postpaid churn was 1.16%, while prepaid churn dipped to 4.75%.
The company reported a quarterly loss of $299 million, though, after posting net income of $17 million during the prior year. Revenue came in at $963 million, and U.S. Cellular said it expects revenue for the year in the range of $3.85 billion to $3.95 billion.
CEO Kenneth Meyers attributed the subscriber gains to aggressive promotions and adoption of the Total Plans the company rolled out in February, which include an unlimited offering.
“I am quite pleased with the operating results for the quarter as we continued to build on the momentum of the previous quarter, growing subscribers and increasing customer loyalty while tightly managing costs,” Meyers said in a press release. “Overall, we are competing effectively in the marketplace…. We believe we have found a good balance of promotional offers to get new customers into our stores, and we treat all of our customers exceptionally well with our customer-focused service orientation.”
Shares of U.S. Cellular jumped more than 3.5% this morning following the earnings release.
U.S. Cellular completed its first commercial rollout of VoLTE earlier this year, bringing the service to its customers in Iowa. The carrier will continue to deploy the technology throughout its footprint into next year.
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Allianz research initiative on accidents occurring during parking and maneuvering
The FINANCIAL -- Around 40% of vehicle accidents incurring physical loss or damage occur during parking or maneuvering. The vast majority of incidents happen when reversing (amounting to more than 70% of auto liability claims and around 85% of full physical damage claims).
In eight out of ten cases, the accident happens when maneuvering out of a parking space (84%); incidents rarely occur when driving into a parking space (16%). Older drivers, aged 65 and above, cause a third more accidents during parking or maneuvering than those aged between 25 and 64. These are the findings of a joint research project carried out by the Allianz Center for Technology (AZT) and Continental AG. This extensive project, analyzing almost 3,500 traffic accidents, was supported by Munich's Hochschule and Technische Universität, according to Allianz.
Most accidents during parking and maneuvering occur when reversing
Almost half of all liability claims (41.7%) resulted from a vehicle hitting another stationary vehicle when reverse parking, and one out of every five driving maneuvers (20.1%) involved two cars bumping into each other as they were both reverse parking. "The frequency of accidents occurring during parking and maneuvering has increased by more than 30% over the past ten years. These accidents make up 44% of auto liability incidents with physical loss or damage, and 39% of full physical damage collisions," says Rüdiger Hackhausen, Head of Claims at Allianz Versicherungs-AG, emphasizing the importance of the topic. The average liability claim for these accidents totals approximately €1,700, and the average full physical damage insurance claim €2,100.
Accidents during parking and maneuvering can cause serious injury!
The proportion of parking and maneuvering accidents which cause auto liability bodily injury claims is, at 4%, considerably less than that for auto liability physical loss or damage claims. However, accidents involving pedestrians or cyclists can still lead to serious injuries. Particularly notable is the study's finding that these accidents were exclusively caused by reversing. Older pedestrians aged 65 and above were particularly heavily affected (two thirds).
Changes in vehicle shape is the main cause of accidents
The main cause behind the increase in accidents during parking and maneuvering is attributed to changed vehicle shapes and the continual growth of urbanization. Over the past decades, cars have tended to become wider and longer, whilst the size of parking spaces has stayed the same. Analysis showed that vans and SUVs are most frequently involved in accidents during parking and maneuvering. They are responsible for around 30% more of these accidents than small or compact vehicles. In addition, drivers' visibility has been considerably reduced, particularly through the rear and side windows, as a result of changed structure and designs.
Parking assistance systems can help avoid accidents in the future
The study showed that many parking warning systems currently installed in vehicles are only of limited use when it comes to avoiding accidents during parking and maneuvering. These systems do not cover the sides of the vehicle, thus missing many hazards. Many drivers rely too heavily on their parking assistance system, and often fail to act quickly enough. "The first intelligent driver assistance systems like automated parking assistants and autonomous emergency brake systems for maneuvering will help to significantly reduce this risk in the future," said Wolfgang Fey, Head of the Surround View segment in the Driver Assistance Systems area of Continental.
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GER - Slowdown signs - Opel to close three plants and sack 11,000
AFP reported that troubled German carmaker Opel is threatening to close three of its plants in Europe and sack 11,000 people, one fifth of its workforce as it seeks billions of euros in state aid. According to the weekly Der Spiegel, plan submitted to government officials calls for the closure of factories at Bochum in western Germany, Eisenach in the east and Antwerp in northern Belgium. Der Spiegel said that the aim is to save some USD 1.2 billion in staff costs. It added that an alternative proposal would be to cut only 3,500 jobs but lower wages across the board.
Another weekly Focus said Opel, a subsidiary of ailing US giant General Motors was demanding EUR 4 billion in state aid, not the EUR 3.3 billion reported earlier, though some could be in the form of guarantees or credits. A company spokesman said that talks on a rescue package could last weeks, after directors from Opel and its US parent General Motors met German officials at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin. German officials are concerned that Opel’s strong dependence on GM would lead to state aid effectively being transferred to the United States.
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Negotiating, voting on US debt ceiling increases should end, former CBO director says
By Henry Fernandez Published July 10, 2019 PoliticsFOXBusiness
Former CBO director: I would get rid of the debt ceiling
Former CBO Director Doug Holtz-Eakin explains why he would get rid of the debt ceiling.
Former CBO Director Doug Holtz-Eakin told FOX Business the debt ceiling has become an economic problem that can be resolved by having the federal government abolishing the practice of having Congress periodically raise it.
“I would get rid of it,” he said on “After the Bell” Wednesday.
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Congressional leadership in both the House and the Senate have been in discussions with the White House about how to move forward with raising the debt ceiling. The U.S. government may not have enough funding to pay its bills in September, forcing the Treasury Department to breach the borrowing limit, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Holtz-Eakin said reaching an early September "drop-dead" date runs the risk that financial markets begin to lose its faith in the Treasury.
“I think you let Treasury manage the structure of the debt, long versus short borrowing, things like that [and] you let the market price it and you move on,” he said.
Holtz-Eakin added that failure to reach agreement on spending caps and the debt limit will result in $120 billion in spending cuts across the board.
“That’s bad public policy,” he said. “We have Defense Department that we have to fund appropriately.”
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DNC chair candidate wants to 'shut other white people down'
By Adam Shaw, | Fox News
DNC chair candidate: My job is to shut white people down
Sally Boynton Brown speaks at forum
If the Democratic Party is planning to move away from identity politics in the wake of its presidential election defeat, that memo didn’t reach some of the candidates running for Democratic National Committee chair.
One candidate declared at a forum Monday that white people need to “shut our mouths” and that her job is to “shut other white people down.”
“I’m a white woman, I don’t get it,” Sally Boynton Brown, Idaho Democratic Party executive director, told an applauding crowd at the Democracy in Color forum in Washington, D.C.
The forum, hosted by MSNBC’s Joy Reid, included favorite Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; former Labor Secretary Tom Perez; Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene; South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg; New Hampshire Party Chairman Ray Buckley; and South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison -- all seeking to take over the top DNC post.
The forum focused on race relations, particularly in the Trump era, and included words of support for the controversial Black Lives Matter movement. Candidates also agreed the DNC would need to take more of an activist role in order to combat Trump.
“First of all, the DNC has to acknowledge and respect that Black Lives Matter are responding to urgent social and justice problems in our country,” Ellison said. “What I would say the DNC needs to do is to offer itself, reform and make itself into the kind of place that Black Lives Matter feels it can channel its electoral energy.”
However, Boynton Brown took it a step further and said her role as a white person includes shutting other white people down.
“My job is to listen and be a voice, and my job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt. My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say ‘Oh no I’m not prejudiced, I’m a Democrat, I’m accepting,'” she said.
“My job is to make sure that they get that they have privilege and until we shut our mouths and we listen to those people who don’t and we lift our people up so that we all have equity in this country … we’re not going to break through this,” she said.
“This is not just rhetoric,” Boynton Brown said. “This is a matter of life and death.”
Boynton Brown also took a shot at her home state for its lack of diversity.
“I’m from Idaho, we are so white, so white, right? I have been reaching out and trying to connect to anybody of color I can find to be honest with me,” she said.
“I need schoolin’ ... And I depend on you … to do that so I can go school the other white people.”
The DNC will vote for a new leader in Atlanta, Ga., in late February.
Adam Shaw is a reporter covering U.S. and European politics for Fox News.. He can be reached here.
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Research -
Reuven Glick
Group Vice President
International trade and finance, Monetary policy, Pacific Basin economies
Reuven.Glick (at) sf.frb.org
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The Effects of Unconventional and Conventional U.S. Monetary Policy on the Dollar
2013-11 | With Leduc | May 2013
abstract (+)
We examine the effects of unconventional and conventional monetary policy announcements on the value of the dollar using high-frequency intraday data. Identifying monetary policy surprises from changes in interest rate futures prices in narrow windows around policy announcements, we find that surprise easings in monetary policy since the crisis began have had significant effects on the value of the dollar. We document that these changes are comparable to the effects of conventional policy changes prior to the crisis.
Published Articles (Refereed Journals and Volumes)
Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Dollar: Conventional Signs, Unconventional Magnitudes
Forthcoming in International Journal of Central Banking | With Leduc
We examine the effects of unconventional monetary policy surprises on the value of the dollar using high-frequency intraday data and contrast them with the effects of conventional policy tools. Identifying monetary policy surprises from changes in interest rate future prices in narrow windows around policy announcements, we find that monetary policy surprises since the Federal Reserve lowered its policy rate to the effective lower bound have had larger effects on the value of the dollar. In particular, we document that the impact on the dollar has been roughly three times that following conventional policy changes prior to the 2007-08 financial crisis.
Conditional PPP and Real Exchange Rate Convergence in the Euro Area
Forthcoming in Journal of International Money and Finance | With Bergin and Wu
While economic theory highlights the usefulness of flexible exchange rates in promoting adjustment in international relative prices, flexible exchange rates also can be a source of destabilizing shocks. We find that when countries joining the euro currency union abandoned their national exchange rates, the adjustment of real exchange rates toward their long-run equilibrium surprisingly became faster. To investigate, we distinguish between differing rates of purchasing power parity (PPP) convergence conditional on alternative shocks, which we refer to as “conditional PPP.” We find that the loss of the exchange rate as an adjustment mechanism after the introduction of the euro was more than compensated by the elimination of the exchange rate as a source of shocks, in combination with faster adjustment in national prices. These findings support claims that flexible exchange rates are not necessary to promote long-run international relative price adjustment.
Currency Unions and Regional Trade Agreements: EMU and EU Effects of Trade
Comparative Economic Studies 59(2), June 2017, 194-209
The effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and European Union (EU) on trade are separately estimated using an empirical gravity model. Employing a panel approach with both time-varying country and dyadic fixed effects on a large span of data (across both countries and time), it is found that EMU and EU each significantly boosted exports. EMU expanded European trade by 40% for the original members, while the EU increased trade by almost 70%. Newer members have experienced even higher trade as a result of joining the EU, but more time is necessary to see the effects of their joining EMU.
Currency Unions and Trade: A Post-EMU Reassessment
European Economic Review 87, August 2016, 78-91 | With Rose
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which includes the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). We have three findings. First, our assumption of symmetry between the effects of entering and leaving a currency union seems reasonable in the data. Second, our preferred methodology indicates that EMU has boosted exports by around 50%. While other estimation techniques yield different results, a panel approach with both time-varying country and dyadic fixed effects on a large span of data (across both countries and time) seems to deliver insensitive and reliable results. Third, different currency unions have different trade effects.
Mussa Redux and Conditional PPP
Journal of Monetary Economics 68, November 2014, 101-114 | With Bergin and Wu
The extreme persistence of real exchange rates found commonly in post-Bretton Woods data does not hold in the preceding fixed exchange rate period, when the half-life was roughly half as large in our sample. This finding supports sticky price models as an explanation for real exchange rate behavior, extending the classic argument of Mussa (1986) from a focus on short-run volatility to long-run dynamics. Two thirds of the rise in real exchange rate variance observed across exchange rate regimes is attributable to greater persistence of responses to shocks, including greater price stickiness, rather than to greater variance of shocks themselves.
Asset Class Diversification and Delegation of Responsibilities between Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds
International Journal of Central Banking 10 (3), September 2014, 129-161 | With Aizenman
This paper presents a model comparing the degree of asset class diversification abroad by a central bank and a sovereign wealth fund. We show that if the central bank manages its foreign asset holdings in order to meet balance of payments needs, particularly in reducing the probability of sudden stops in foreign capital inflows, it will place a high weight on holding safer foreign assets. In contrast, if the sovereign wealth fund, acting on behalf of the Treasury, maximizes the expected utility of a representative domestic agent, it will opt for relatively greater holding of more risky foreign assets. We also show how the diversification differences between the strategies of the bank and sovereign wealth fund are affected by the government’s delegation of responsibilities and by various parameters of the economy, such as the volatility of equity returns and the total amount of public foreign assets available for management.
China’s Financial Linkages with Asia and the Global Financial Crisis
Journal of International Money and Finance , July 2013 | With Hutchison
This paper presents empirical evidence on asset market linkages between China and Asia and how these linkages have shifted during and after the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. We find only weak cross-country linkages in longer-term interest rates, but much stronger linkages in equity markets. This finding is consistent with the greater development and liberalization of equity markets relative to bond markets in China, as well as increasing business and trade linkages in the region. We also find that the strength of the correlation of equity prices changes between China and other Asia countries increased markedly during the crisis and has remained high in recent years. We attribute this development to greater “attentiveness” of international investors to China’s role as a source and destination of equity finance during the crisis rather than to any greater financial deepening and liberalization, as China did not implement any major policy measures during this period. By contrast, the transmission of U.S. equity returns to Asian countries decreased after the crisis.
The Micro-Macro Disconnect of Purchasing Power Parity
Review of Economics and Statistics , May 2013 | With Bergin and Wu
This paper reconciles the persistence of aggregate real exchange rates with the faster adjustment of international relative prices in microeconomic data. Adjustment to purchasing power parity deviations in aggregated data is not just a slower version of adjustment to the law of one price in microeconomic data, as arbitrage occurs in different markets, in response to distinct macroeconomic and microeconomic shocks. When half-lives are estimated conditional on macro shocks, micro relative prices exhibit just as much persistence as aggregate real exchange rates. These results challenge theories of real exchange rate persistence based on sticky prices and on heterogeneity across goods.
China’s Financial Openness and Asset Return Linkages in East Asia
In The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim , Ch. 25, ed. by Inderjit Kaur and Nirvikar Singh | Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 | With Hutchison
Central Bank Announcements of Asset Purchases and the Impact on Global Financial and Commodity Markets
Journal of International Money and Finance 31(8), December 2012, 2078-2101 | With Leduc
We present evidence on the effects of large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England since 2008. We show that announcements about these purchases led to lower long-term interest rates and depreciations of the U.S. dollar and the British pound on announcement days, while commodity prices generally declined despite this more stimulative financial environment. We suggest that LSAP announcements likely involved signaling effects about future growth that led investors to downgrade their U.S. growth forecasts lowering long-term U.S. yields, depreciating the value of the U.S. dollar, and triggering a decline in commodity prices. Moreover, our analysis illustrates the importance of controlling for market expectations when assessing these effects. We find that positive U.S. monetary surprises led to declines in commodity prices, even as long-term interest rates fell and the U.S. dollar depreciated. In contrast, on days of negative U.S. monetary surprises, i.e. when markets evidently believed that monetary policy was less stimulatory than expected, long-term yields, the value of the dollar, and commodity prices all tended to increase.
The Illusive Quest: Do International Capital Controls Contribute to Currency Stability?
International Review of Economics and Finance 20(1), January 2011, 59-70 | With Hutchison
We investigate the effectiveness of capital controls in insulating economies from currency crises, focusing in particular on both direct and indirect effects of capital controls and how these relationships may have changed over time in response to global financial liberalization and the greater mobility of international capital. We predict the likelihood of currency crises using standard macroeconomic variables and a probit equation estimation methodology with random effects. We employ a comprehensive panel data set comprised of 69 emerging market and developing economies over 1975-2004. Both standard and duration-adjusted measures of capital control intensity (allowing controls to “depreciate” over time) suggest that capital controls have not effectively insulated economies from currency crises at any time during our sample period. Maintaining real GDP growth and limiting real overvaluation are critical factors preventing currency crises, not capital controls. However, the presence of capital controls greatly increases the sensitivity of currency crises to changes in real GDP growth and real exchange rate overvaluation, making countries more vulnerable to changes in fundamentals. Our model suggests that emerging markets weathered the 2007-2008 crisis relatively well because of strong output growth and exchange rate flexibility that limited overvaluation of their currencies.
Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War
The Review of Economics and Statistics 92(1), February 2010, 102-127 | With Taylor
Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade. We study the effects of war on bilateral trade with available data extending back to 1870. Using the gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of belligerent nations and neutrals, controlling for other determinants of trade, as well as the possible effects of reverse causality. We find large and persistent impacts of wars on trade, national income, and global economic welfare. We also conduct a general equilibrium comparative statics exercise that indicates costs associated with lost trade might be at least as large as the conventionally measured direct costs of war, such as lost human capital, as illustrated by case studies of World Wars I and II.
Endogenous Tradability and Some Macroeconomic Implications
Journal of Monetary Economics 56(8), November 2009, 1086-1095 | With Bergin
While nontraded goods play an important role in many open economy macroeconomic models, these models have difficulty explaining the low volatility in the relative price of nontraded goods. In contrast to macroeconomic convention, this paper argues that the share of nontraded goods is endogenous, a time-varying product of macroeconomic shocks and trade costs that are heterogeneous across goods. A simple open economy model demonstrates that trade cost heterogeneity and a time varying margin of tradedness dramatically reduces the volatility of nontraded prices. This also reduces the ability of real exchange rate adjustments to dampen current account imbalances.
Sterilization, Monetary Policy, and Global Financial Integration
Review of International Economics 17(4), September 2009, 777-801 | With Aizenman
This paper investigates the changing pattern and efficacy of sterilization within emerging market countries as they liberalize markets and integrate with the world economy. We estimate the marginal propensity to sterilize foreign asset accumulation associated with net balance of payments inflows, across countries, and over time. We find that the extent of sterilization of foreign reserve inflows has risen in recent years to varying degrees in Asia as well as in Latin America, consistent with greater concerns about the potential inflationary impact of reserve inflows. We also find that sterilization depends on the composition of balance of payments inflows.
Navigating the Trilemma: Capital Flows and Monetary Policy in China
Journal of Asian Economics 20(3), May 2009, 205-224 | With Hutchison
In recent years China has faced an increasing trilemma–how to pursue an independent domestic monetary policy and limit exchange rate flexibility, while at the same time facing large and growing international capital flows. This paper analyzes the impact of the trilemma on China’s monetary policy as the country liberalizes its goods and financial markets and integrates with the world economy. It shows how China has sought to insulate its reserve money from the effects of balance of payments inflows by sterilizing through the issuance of central bank liabilities. However, we report empirical results indicating that sterilization dropped precipitously in 2006 in the face of the ongoing massive buildup of international reserves, leading to a surge in reserve money growth. We estimate a vector error correction model linking the surge in China’s reserve money to broad money, real GDP, and the price level. We use this model to explore the inflationary implications of different policy scenarios. Under a scenario of continued rapid reserve money growth (consistent with limited sterilization of foreign exchange reserve accumulation) and strong economic growth, the model predicts a rapid increase in inflation. A model simulation using an extension of the framework that incorporates recent increases in bank reserve requirements also implies a rapid rise in inflation. By contrast, model simulations incorporating a sharp slowdown in economic growth such as that seen in late 2008 and 2009 lead to less inflation pressure even with a substantial buildup in international reserves.
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance
International Finance 12(3), Winter 2009, 351-386 | With Aizenman
Concerns about the implications of foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) stem in large part from apprehensions about the objectives and governance quality of these institutions. This paper contributes to better understanding of the stylized facts of sovereign wealth funds by providing statistical analysis of a range of characteristics of SWFs, including the motivation for their establishment as well as their size, governance, and effect on reserve management behavior. Specifically, it estimates what factors foster the establishment of SWFs as well as affect their size. It also investigates the extent to which the governance and transparency of individual SWFs correlate with domestic and global governance practices. Lastly, it analyzes how asset accumulation by SWFs may affect central bank holdings of official reserves.
Pegged Exchange Rate Regimes–A Trap?
Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 40(4), June 2008, 817-835 | With Aizenman
We analyze the role of an exchange rate peg as a commitment mechanism to achieve inflation stability when multiple equilibria are possible. We show that there are ex ante large gains from choosing a more conservative regime not only in order to mitigate inflation bias from time inconsistency but also to avoid high inflation equilibria. In these circumstances, using a pegged exchange rate as an anti-inflation commitment device can create a “trap” whereby the regime initially confers gains in anti-inflation credibility but ultimately results in an exit occasioned by a big enough adverse real shock that creates large welfare losses to the economy.
A Model of Endogenous Nontradability and its Implications for the Current Account
Review of International Economics 15(5), November 2007, 916-931 | With Bergin
This paper studies how nontraded goods limit the ability of a country to finance current account deficits. It uses an intertemporal model of the current account for a small open economy where goods are endogenously nontraded due to explicit trade costs. The economy has an endowment of two goods with differing trade costs, either of which can be traded or nontraded in equilibrium. The model implies that current account deficits impose a cost, in the form of raising the effective interest rate in the country. The findings differ from some recent studies: first, in that the interest rate rises even for countries with modest current account deficits; secondly, the interest rate cost eventually reaches an upper bound as current account deficits grow, and progressively more nontraded goods become traded to service the debt. Panel regression analysis of interest rate and current account data are consistent with our conclusions.
Tradability, Productivity, and International Economic Integration
Journal of International Economics 73(1), September 2007, 128-151 | With Bergin
This paper develops a model of endogenously tradable goods to study the implications of international integration for price dispersion and pricing to market. A distinctive feature of the model is heterogeneity in both trade costs and productivity. The model highlights the role of heterogeneity in shaping how new entrants at the extensive margin differ from incumbent traders, thereby giving extensive margin movements distinctive implications relative to the intensive margin. In particular, the model predicts that international integration mainly along the extensive margin should be associated with a more limited degree of price convergence. This prediction finds support in cross-sectional regressions on European data and offers insight into recent integration episodes.
Global Price Dispersion: Are Prices Converging or Diverging?
Journal of International Money and Finance 26(5) , September 2007, 703-729 | With Bergin
This paper documents significant time-variation in the degree of global price convergence over the last two decades. In particular, there appears to be a general U-shaped pattern with price dispersion first falling and then rising in recent years, a pattern which is remarkably robust across country groupings and commodity groups. This time-variation is difficult to explain in terms of the standard gravity equation variables common in the literature, as these tend not to vary much over time or have not risen in recent years. However, regression analysis indicates that this time-varying pattern coincides well with oil price fluctuations, which are clearly time-varying and have risen substantially since the late 1990s. As a result, this paper offers new evidence on the role of transportation costs in driving international price dispersion.
Currency Crises, Capital Account Liberalization, and Selection Bias
Review of Economics and Statistics 88(4), November 2006, 698-714 | With Guo and Hutchison
Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question properly must control for self-selection bias, because countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have sounder economic policies and institutions that make them less likely to experience crises. We employ a matching and propensity-score methodology to address this issue in a panel analysis of developing countries. Our results suggest that, after controlling for sample selection bias, countries with liberalized capital accounts experience a lower likelihood of currency crises.
Productivity, Tradability, and the Long-Run Price Puzzle
Journal of Monetary Economics 53(8), November 2006, 2041-2066 | With Bergin and Taylor
Long-run cross-country price data exhibit a puzzle. Today, richer countries exhibit higher price levels than poorer countries, a stylized fact usually attributed to the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) effect. But looking back 50 years, this effect virtually disappears from the data. What is often assumed to be a universal property is actually quite specific to recent times, emerging a half century ago and growing steadily over time. What might potentially explain this historical pattern? We develop an updated BS model inspired by recent developments in trade theory, where a continuum of goods are differentiated by productivity, and where tradability is endogenously determined. Firms experiencing productivity gains are more likely to become tradable and crowd out firms not experiencing productivity gains. As a result the usual BS assumption–that productivity gains be concentrated in the traded goods sector–emerges endogenously, and the BS effect on relative price levels likewise evolves gradually over time.
Military Expenditure, Threats, and Growth
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 15(2), June 2006, 129-155 | With Aizenman
This paper clarifies one of the puzzling results of the economic growth literature: the impact of military expenditure is frequently found to be nonsignificant or negative, yet most countries spend a large fraction of their GDP on defense and the military. We start by empirical evaluation of the nonlinear interactions between military expenditure, external threats, corruption, and other relevant controls. While growth falls with higher levels of military spending, given the values of the other independent variables, we show that military expenditure in the presence of threats increases growth. We explain the presence of these nonlinearities in an extended version of Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1995), allowing the dependence of growth on the severity of external threats, and on the effective military expenditure associated with these threats.
Capital Controls and Exchange Rate Instability in Developing Countries
Journal of International Money and Finance 24(3), April 2005, 387-412 | With Hutchison
A large literature on the appropriate sequencing of financial liberalization suggests that removing capital controls prematurely may contribute to currency instability. This paper investigates whether legal restrictions on international capital flows are associated with greater currency stability. We employ a comprehensive panel data set of 69 developing economies over the 1975-1997 period, identifying 160 currency crises. We control for macroeconomic, political, and institutional characteristics that influence the probability of a currency crisis, employ alternative measures of restrictions on international payments, and account for possible joint causality between the likelihood of a currency attack and the imposition of capital controls. We find evidence that restrictions on capital flows do not effectively insulate economies from currency problems; rather, countries with less restrictive capital controls and more liberalized regimes appear to be less prone to speculative attacks.
Does a Currency Union Affect Trade? The Time Series Evidence
European Economic Review 46(6), June 2002, 1125-1151 | With Rose
Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? We answer this question using a large annual panel data set covering 217 countries from 1948 through 1997. During this sample a large number of countries left currency unions; they experienced economically and statistically significant declines in bilateral trade after accounting for other factors. Assuming symmetry, we estimate that a pair of countries that starts to use a common currency experiences a near doubling in bilateral trade.
Is Money Still Useful for Policy in East Asia?
In Inflation Targeting: Theories, Empirical Models, and Implementation in Pacific Basin Economies, Proceedings of 14th Pacific Basin Central Bank Conference | Bank of Korea, 2002 | With Moreno
Since the East Asian crises of 1997, a number of East Asian economies have allowed greater exchange rate flexibility and abandoned monetary targets in favor of inflation targeting, apparently because the perceived usefulness of money as a predictor of inflation (i.e., the information content of money) has fallen. In this paper, we discuss factors that are likely to have influenced the stability of the relationship between money and inflation, particularly in the 1990s, and then assess this relationship in a set of East Asian economies. We focus on (1) the stability of the behavior of the velocity of money; (2) the ability of money growth to predict inflation as measured by tests of Granger causality, and (3) the contribution of money to the variance of the forecast error of inflation. We find evidence that, with a few exceptions in which capital flows were particularly large, velocity remained generally stable, as did the relationship between money growth and inflation. However, the contribution of money to inflation forecast errors fell considerably in the 1990s, reducing its value as an information variable to monetary authorities.
Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates: Is It Possible to Manage in the Middle?
In Financial Markets and Policies in East Asia , ed. by de Brouwer | New York: Routledge Press, 2001
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical basis for the view that intermediate (“soft”) exchange rate regimes have become increasingly less feasible. It shows that the proportion of countries with hard currency pegs or flexible exchange rates has increased over time, and that the countries remaining in the “shrinking middle” typically must restrict capital movements. The paper also assesses the feasibility of alternative exchange rate arrangements for the developing countries of East Asia. This paper was presented to the conference on “Financial Markets and Policies in East Asia” at the Australian National University, Canberra, September 4-5, 2000.
Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: An Introductory Overview
In Financial Crises in Emerging Markets , ed. by Glick, Moreno, and Spiegel | New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 1-34 | With Moreno and Spiegel
Banking and Currency Crises: How Common Are Twins?
In Financial Crises in Emerging Markets , ed. by Glick, Moreno, and Spiegel | New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001 | With Hutchison
The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention to causal and common factors linking the two phenomena. In this paper, we analyze the incidence and underlying causes of banking and currency crises in 90 industrial and developing countries over the 1975-1997 period. We measure the individual and joint (“twin”) occurrence of bank and currency crises and assess the extent to which each type of crisis provides information about the likelihood of the other. We find that the twin crisis phenomenon is most common in financially liberalized emerging markets. The strong contemporaneous correlation between currency and bank crises in emerging markets is robust, even after controlling for a host of macroeconomic and financial structure variables and possible simultaneity bias. We also find that the occurrence of banking crises provides a good leading indicator of currency crises in emerging markets. The converse does not hold, however, as currency crises are not a useful leading indicator of the onset of future banking crises. We conjecture that the openness of emerging markets to international capital flows, combined with a liberalized financial structure, make them particularly vulnerable to twin crises.
Foreign Reserve and Money Dynamics with Asset Portfolio Adjustment: International Evidence
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money 10(3-4), December 2000, 229-247 | With Hutchison
In this paper we argue that more complete modeling of foreign exchange intervention and sterilization dynamics is necessary when there are adjustment costs to changing private portfolios and/or the central bank attempts to balance longer-run monetary control against short-term exchange rate objectives. We show that measured correlations between domestic credit and foreign asset changes, often interpreted as ‘sterilization coefficients,’ may be misleading because they vary with the pattern of disturbances as well as private agent and central bank behavior. We assess the empirical significance of this issue by estimating vector error correction models of the domestic and foreign asset components of the monetary base for Japan and Germany. In both countries, we find that that the impact of foreign exchange intervention on domestic credit falls markedly after several months, implying that the degree of sterilization decreases over time. However, the monetary base remained largely insulated as foreign asset positions were subsequently ‘unwound.’
Contagion and Trade: Why Are Currency Crises Regional?
Journal of International Money and Finance 18(4), August 1999 | With Rose
Money and Credit, Competitiveness, and Currency Crises in Asia and Latin America
In Monetary Policy and the Structure of the Current Account. Proceedings of 13th Pacific Basin Central Bank Conference | Mexico City: Bank of Mexico, 1999 | With Moreno
Origins of the Asian Financial Crisis: Impulses and Propagation Mechanisms
In The Asian Financial Crisis: Origins, Implications, and Solutions , ed. by Hunter, Kaufman, and Krueger | Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999
Contagion and Trade: Explaining the Incidence and Intensity of Currency Crises
In The Asian Financial Crises: Causes, Contagion, and Consequences , ed. by Agenor, Miller, Vines, and Weber | New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999 | With Rose
Is Pegging the Exchange Rate a Cure for Inflation? East Asian Experiences
In Exchange Rate Policies for Emerging Market Economies , ed. by Sweeney, Wihlborg, and Willett | Westview Press, 1999 | With Moreno and Hutchison
Exchange Rate Regimes and International Trade
In International Trade and Finance: New Frontiers for Research, Essays in Honor of Peter B. Kenen , ed. by Cohen | New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997 | With Wihlborg
Real Exchange Rate Effects of Monetary Disturbances under Different Degrees of Exchange Rate Flexibility: An Empirical Analysis
Journal of International Economics 38(3-4), May 1995 | With Kretzmer and Wihlborg
Global versus Country-Specific Productivity Shocks and the Current Account
Journal of Monetary Economics 35(1), February 1995 | With Rogoff
Capital Flows and Monetary Policy in East Asia
In Monetary and Exchange Rate Management with International Capital Mobility: Experiences of Countries and Regions along the Pacific Rim. Proceedings of 11th Pacific Basin Central Bank Conference | Hong Kong: Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 1995 | With Moreno
Foreign Exchange Intervention and Sterilization Dynamics in Japan
In International Financial Markets in Northeast Asia: Assessments and Prospects , ed. by Nam and Pyo | Korea Development Institute and Institute of World Economy, 1994
Monetary Policy, Intervention, and Exchange Rates in Japan
In Exchange Rate Policy and Interdependence: Perspectives from the Pacific Basin , ed. by Glick and Hutchison | New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994 | With Hutchison
Fiscal Policy in Monetary Unions: Implications for Europe
Open Economies Review 4(1), January 1993 | With Hutchison
Fiscal Constraints and Incentives with Monetary Coordination: Implications for Europe 1992
In Financial Regulation and Monetary Arrangements after 1992 , ed. by Wihlborg, Fratianni, and Willett | Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1992 | With Hutchison
Equilibrium Adjustment with Endogenous Information and Inventories
International Economic Review , November 1991 | With Wihlborg
New Results in Support of the Fiscal Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition
Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking , August 1990 | With Hutchison
Real Exchange Rate Effects of Monetary Shocks under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates
Journal of International Economics , May 1990 | With Wihlborg
Financial Liberalization in the Pacific Basin: Implications for Real Interest Rate Linkages.
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies , March 1990 | With Hutchison
Does Exchange Rate Appreciation ‘Deindustrialize’ the Open Economy? A Critique of U.S. Evidence
Economic Inquiry , January 1990 | With Hutchison
Money Demand and Off-Balance-Sheet Liquidity: Empirical Analysis and Implications for Monetary Policy
Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance , Spring 1989 | With Plaut
Financial Market Changes and Monetary Policy in Pacific Basin Countries
In Monetary Policy in Pacific Basin Countries , ed. by Cheng | Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988
Monetary Policy Changes in Pacific Basin Countries
In Monetary Policy in Pacific Basin Countries , ed. by Cheng | Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988 | With Cheng
The Role of Information Acquisition and Financial Markets in International Macroeconomic Adjustment
Journal of International Money and Finance , September 1986 | With Wihlborg
Market Neutrality Conditions and Valuation of a Foreign Affiliate
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting , Summer 1986
The Costs and Benefits of Foreign Borrowing: A Survey of Multi-Period Models
Journal of Development Studies , January 1986 | With Kharas
Economic Perspectives on Foreign Borrowing and Debt Repudiation: An Analytic Literature Review
In Monograph Series in Finance and Economics No. 4 | New York: Saloman Brothers Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, New York University, 1986
Optimal Borrowing and Investment with an Endogenous Lending Constraint
Journal of Banking and Finance, Studies in Banking and Finance 3, 1986 | With Kharas
Price and Output Adjustment, Inventory Flexibility, and Cost and Demand Disturbances
Canadian Journal of Economics , August 1985 | With Wihlborg
Price Determination in a Competitive Industry with Costly Information and a Production Lag
Rand Journal of Economics , Spring 1985 | With Wihlborg
The Geometry of Asset Adjustment with Adjustment Costs
Journal of Financial Research , Winter 1984
R&D Effort and U.S. Exports and Foreign Affiliate Production of Manufactures
Research Policy , Winter 1982
Policy Challenges in a Diverging Global Economy: Proceedings of the 2015 Asia Economic Policy Conference
2016 | San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Editors • Glick • Spiegel
Prospects for Asia and the Global Economy: Proceedings of the 2013 Asia Economic Policy Conference
Asia’s Role in the Post-Crisis Global Economy: Proceedings of the 2011 Asia Economic Policy Conference
Asia and the Global Financial Crisis: Proceedings of the 2009 Asia Economic Policy Conference
Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
2001 | New York: Cambridge University Press | Editors • Glick • Moreno • Spiegel
Managing Capital Flows and Exchange Rates: Perspectives from the Pacific Basin
1998 | New York: Cambridge University Press | Editor • Glick
Exchange Rate Policy and Interdependence: Perspectives from the Pacific Basin
1994 | New York: Cambridge University Press | Editors • Glick • Hutchison
FRBSF Publications
How Much Does the EMU Benefit Trade?
Economic Letter 2016-09 | March 21, 2016 | With Rose
What’s Different about the Latest Housing Boom
Economic Letter 2015-34 | November 16, 2015 | With Lansing and Molitor
Prospects for Asia and the Global Economy
Economic Letter 2014-26 | September 2, 2014 | With Spiegel
Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Dollar
Economic Letter 2013-09 | April 1, 2013 | With Leduc
Asia’s Role in the Post-Crisis Global Economy
Economic Letter 2012-24 | August 13, 2012 | With Spiegel
Are Large-Scale Asset Purchases Fueling the Rise in Commodity Prices?
Consumers and the Economy, Part I: Household Credit and Personal Saving
Economic Letter 2011-01 | January 10, 2011 | With Lansing
Asia and the Global Financial Crisis: Conference Summary
Economic Letter 2010-08 | March 15, 2010 | With Spiegel
Global Household Leverage, House Prices, and Consumption
U.S. Household Deleveraging and Future Consumption Growth
Economic Letter 2009-16 | May 15, 2009 | With Lansing
2008 Annual Pacific Basin Conference: Summary
Economic Letter 2009-10 | March 13, 2009
Economic Letter 2008-03 | February 1, 2008
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones to Financial Globalization?
Economic Letter 2007-38 | December 14, 2007 | With Aizenman
Are Global Prices Converging or Diverging?
Economic Letter 2007-24 | August 10, 2007
External Imbalances and Adjustment in the Pacific Basin: Conference Summary
The Bretton Woods System: Are We Experiencing a Revival? Symposium Summary
Economic Letter 2005-32 | November 25, 2005 | With Spiegel
Does Europe’s Path to Monetary Union Provide Lessons for East Asia?
Emerging Markets and Macroeconomic Volatility: Conference Summary
Economic Letter 2005-03 | February 4, 2005 | With Valderrama
Financial Issues in the Pacific Basin Region: Conference Summary
Economic Letter 2002-38 | December 27, 2002
Country Crises and Corporate Failures: Lessons for Prevention and Management?
Economic Letter 2002-18 | June 14, 2002
Capital Controls and Exchange Rate Stability in Developing Countries
Economic Letter 2001-21 | July 20, 2001 | With Hutchison
Economic Letter 2001-07 | March 23, 2001 | With Moreno and Spiegel
FRBSF Publications Prior to 2000
Reuven Glick & Ramon Moreno in Pacific Basin Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1999
Reuven Glick & Michael Hutchison in Pacific Basin Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1999
Banking and currency crises; how common are twins?
Reuven Glick & Michael Hutchison in Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1999
Capital flows and exchange rates in the Pacific Basin
Reuven Glick in FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1998
How do currency crises spread?
Reuven Glick & Andrew K. Rose in FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1998
Thoughts on the origins of the Asia crisis: impulses and propagation mechanisms
Reuven Glick in Pacific Basin Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1998
Reuven Glick & Andrew K. Rose in Pacific Basin Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1998
Government intervention and the East Asian miracle
Reuven Glick & Ramon Moreno in FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1997
Managing capital flows and exchange rates, perspectives from the Pacific Basin. Essays originally prepared for a conference sponsored the
Reuven Glick in Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1996
Responses to capital inflows in Malaysia and Thailand
Monetary policy in a changing financial environment
Reuven Glick & Bharat Trehan in FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1995
Exchange rate arrangements in the Pacific Basin
A single market for Europe?
Reuven Glick & Michael Hutchison in FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1993
Reuven Glick & Kenneth Rogoff in International Finance Discussion Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), 1993
Budget rules and monetary union in Europe
The European currency crisis
U.S. international trade and competitiveness
Reuven Glick & Kenneth Rogoff in Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1992
Reuven Glick & Michael Hutchison in Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1992
Exchange rate policy in Pacific Basin countries : a conference sponsored the Center for Pacific Basin Studies, Federal Reserve Bank of Sa
European Monetary Union: costs and benefits
International output comparisons
Japanese capital flows in the 1980s
Reuven Glick in Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1991
1989 Fall Academic Conference
Chan Huh & Reuven Glick & Elizabeth Laderman in FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1990
Global interest rate linkages
European financial integration and monetary policy
Japanese capital outflows
Economic integration and fiscal policy transmission: implications for Europe in 1992 and beyond
Reuven Glick & Michael Hutchison in Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1990
Reuven Glick & Peter Kretzmer & Clas Wihlborg in Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1990
Japan’s stock market
How good is PPP?
International spillovers
Exchange rates and monetary policy
The persistent trade deficit
The dollar and manufacturing output
Japan’s trade surpluses
Monetary policy in the Pacific Basin
Saving-investment determinants of Japan’s external balance
Reuven Glick & Michael M. Hutchison in Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1988
ECU, who?
Foreign financial institutions in Japan
Internationalization of the yen
Foreign capital inflows
Interest rate linkages in the Pacific Basin
Real exchange rate effects of monetary shocks under fixed and flexible exchange rates: theory and cross-country evidence
Reuven Glick & Clas Wihlborg in Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1987
Off-balance-sheet liquidity and monetary control
Reuven Glick & Steven E. Plaut in Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1987
Monetary policy in Pacific Basin countries
Hang-Sheng Cheng & Reuven Glick in Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1987
The largest debtor nation
International policy coordination
The outlook for net exports
The pass-through effect on U.S. imports
Real exchange rates, imperfect information, and economic disturbances
Inventories, information purchase, and equilibrium adjustment to aggregate disturbances
Optimal foreign borrowing and investment with an endogenous lending constraint
Reuven Glick & Homi J. Kharas in Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1985
Conference Summary
Policy Challenges in a Diverging Global Economy: Proceedings of the 2015 Asia Economic Policy Conference , 2016 | With Spiegel
The Currency Union Effect on Trade: Redux
Vox.EU , 2015 | With Rose
The Economic and Monetary Union in Europe has recently been the source of a lot of pain. Its economic benefits often seem a lot harder to measure. This column reconsiders earlier opinions on the trade effects of currency unions using the latest data and methodologies. It suggests the euro has at least a mildly stimulating effect on exports. However, the switches and reversals across methodologies do not make allowances for any bold statements.
Prospects for Asia and the Global Economy: Conference Summary
In Prospects for Asia and the Global Economy , ed. by Reuven Glick and Mark Spiegel | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2014. 3-13 | With Spiegel
This chapter highlights the principal issues raised at the 2013 Asia Economic Policy Conference on “Prospects for Asia and the Global Economy,” held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on November 3-5, 2013
Models of Currency Crises
In The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization , Ch. 33, ed. by Gerard Caprio | London: Elsevier, 2012. 485-498 | With Hutchison
A currency crisis is a speculative attack on the foreign exchange value of a currency, resulting in a sharp depreciation or forcing the authorities to sell foreign exchange reserves and raise domestic interest rates to defend the currency. This article discusses analytical models of the causes of currency and associated crises, presents basic measures of the incidence of crises, evaluates the accuracy of empirical models in predicting crises, and reviews work measuring the consequences of crises on the real economy. Currency crises have large measurable costs on the economy, but our ability to predict the timing and magnitude of crises is limited by our theoretical understanding of the complex interactions between macroeconomic fundamentals, investor expectations and government policy.
Fixed versus Flexible Exchange-Rate Regimes: Do They Matter for Real Exchange-Rate Persistence?
VoxEU , October 2012 | With Bergin
For many observers, one central flaw of the Eurozone is that countries lose the ability to manipulate their exchange rates to suit their needs. But this article argues that flexible exchange rates are often more likely to make things worse than make things better.
In Asia’s Role in the Post-Crisis Global Economy , ed. by R. Glick and M. Spiegel | San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2012. 3-15 | With Spiegel
The Emerging Market Architecture: What’s Old and What’s New?
Journal of International Money and Finance 29(4), June 2010, 599-602 | With Aizenman and Lothian
In Asia and the Global Financial Crisis , ed. by R. Glick and M. Spiegel | San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2010. 3-9 | With Spiegel
Sovereign Wealth Funds, Governance, and Reserve Accumulation
VoxEU , January 2009 | With Aizenman
This column provides evidence that there is great deal of difference between the governance standards of the economies in which sovereign wealth funds have been established and the standards of the industrial economies in which they are seeking to invest. It also discusses how the expansion of asset holdings of sovereign wealth funds may reduce official reserve holdings.
Macroeconomic Effects of International Trade
In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition , ed. by Blume and Durlauf | Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Comments on “Searching for Non-Monotonic Effects of Fiscal Policy: New Evidence” by Giavazzi, Jappelli, Pagano, and Benedetti
In Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan | October 2005, 2005
Discussion of “Assessing Currency Implications of Intra and Inter-Regional Shocks: Application to Australasia” by Grimes
Journal of Asian Economics 16(3), June 2005, 398-402
Book review: “Capital Flows and Crises” by Eichengreen
Journal of Asian Business , 2004
Book review: “Financial Liberalization: How Far, How Fast?” ed. by Caprio, Honohan, and Stiglitz
Journal of Economic Literature , September 2003
Book review: “Changes in Exchange Rates in Rapidly Developing Economies,” ed. by Ito and Krueger
Review of International Economics , May 2002
Book review: “International Financial Contagion,” ed. by Claessens and Forbes
Journal of Economic Literature , 2002
Comments on “Do Currency Regimes Matter in the 21st Century? An Overview” by Fujiki and Otani
Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan , 2002
A Regional Contagion
Risk Magazine , February 2000 | With Rose
Prospects for Asia
Briefing for the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission , November 1999
The East Asian Miracle: Growth Because of Government Intervention and Protectionism or in Spite of It?
Business Economics , April 1997 | With Moreno
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Watch Chris Cornell's last concert with Soundgarden in Detroit
Cornell had performed with Soundgarden earlier Wednesday night at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.
Watch Chris Cornell's last concert with Soundgarden in Detroit Cornell had performed with Soundgarden earlier Wednesday night at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2rv5QfK
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Chris Cornell, known from the rock groups Soundgarden and Audioslave, performs during a concert at Pinkpop 2009, in Landgraaf, The Netherlands, in May 2009.(Photo: VALERIE KUYPERS, EPA)
The world lost one of its largest icons in grunge music when Chris Cornell was found dead late Wednesday night in Detroit.
Cornell, 52, had just performed with Soundgarden at the Fox Theatre in downtown before he was found by Detroit police in his hotel room at the MGM Grand. He was also the frontman for Audioslave.
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How to Create a Backyard Bird Haven
By Kathy LaLiberte
As a founding employee of Gardener's Supply, I wore many different hats over the years. Currently, I have my own company called Johnnie Brook Creative. The gardens around my home in Richmond, VT, include a large vegetable garden, seasonal greenhouse, cutting garden, perennial gardens, rock garden, shade garden, berry plantings, lots of container plants and a meadow garden. There's no place I'd rather be than in the garden.
When I'm out in the garden, there's no music I'd rather hear than the songs of orioles, cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees and robins. During the winter months, when I'm spending most of my time indoors, watching birds at my feeders becomes one of my very favorite things to do. And I'm not alone. According to the National Bird Feeding Society, more than 70 million people in the U.S. and Canada put out over a billion pounds of bird feed each year.
Attracting birds to my yard and garden gives me a way to connect with nature—even when it's 10 degrees below zero. By providing food and shelter, I'm also playing an important role in helping birds survive at a time when many bird populations are in decline.
Lots of the plants around my house and gardens were planted to provide food for the birds: assorted berries for the grosbeaks and cedar waxwings; thistle for the goldfinches; sunflowers for the chickadees; nectar for the hummingbirds, and of course plenty of compost pile pickings for the blue jays.
Over the years, I've discovered that birds like to hang out where they can find two things: good habitat and an assortment of feeders.
Create Habitat
The single most important way to attract birds is to provide bird-friendly surroundings. Sure, birds want to eat the seed or suet from your birdfeeders. But they also need to find shelter, water and natural foods. In fact, studies show that even a bird that regularly visits your winter feeders will only get about a quarter of its food there.
Seeded perennials, such as these coneflowers, can be left up for winter. Birds will come to eat the seeds.
An appealing habitat for birds will have a wide variety of plants. Yards dominated by lawn will never attract as many birds as a yard filled with an assortment of perennials, shrubs and trees. Even better, you can include plants that are known to be favored by birds. For example, you can plant nectar-rich bee balm for hummingbirds, or berry-producing viburnums for cedar waxwings. (There's a list of recommended plants in the box at the end of this article.) If possible, include trees and shrubs of different sizes and shapes. Some birds prefer tall trees for perching, so they can scan the surroundings, while others like the cover of a dense shrub.
Remember that birds also need access to water year-round for drinking and for preening their feathers to ensure good insulation. A water garden, pond or a birdbath can be both an attractive garden accent and an important habitat feature.
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If possible, it's a good idea to offer an assortment of different styles of feeders. Some birds, such as chickadees, will eat from almost any feeder, including the palm of your hand. But others seem to have distinct preferences for a certain type of perch, feeding port or roof. Some will only eat from an open feeder close to the ground. So it's not surprising that the more types of feeders you provide, the more kinds of birds you will attract.
Put Feeders in the Right Spot
Even with a great feeder and top-quality seed, you still need to think about placement. Many birds are afraid to visit a feeder that's too exposed. Others prefer to swoop in from across the yard, making a clear shot right to the perch. Try placing one of your feeders near a tree or large shrub that offers some natural cover. This will give birds a place to hide if frightened, and a way to escape predators (such as hawks). I planted a cluster of gray dogwoods (Cornus racemosa) about 25 feet from my dining room window to create bird-friendly cover. I locate one feeder about 2 feet from those shrubby dogwoods and another one about 10 feet away. The dogwoods provide timid birds with a sense of safety during the winter. They also provide berries in the summer and a nesting site in the spring.
If you put more than one feeder in your yard, try separating them by at least 3 to 4 feet. Some types of birds will aggressively protect "their" feeder from other birds. By spacing your feeders out, you will give more birds an opportunity to feed at the same time.
On a mid-winter morning, it makes me incredibly happy to watch the assortment of woodpeckers, nuthatches, cardinals and juncos outside my window. I can't tell you exactly why that is. But I know that for me, being a gardener is about more than just growing plants. What really turns me on is participating in and celebrating the amazing diversity and abundance of the natural world. There's a lot of enjoyment to be had for the price of a feeder and a 50 lb. bag of birdseed.
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Conifers provide cover, winter shelter and summer nesting sites. Some also provide sap, buds and seeds.
Grasses and legumes provide cover for ground-nesting birds if the area is not mowed during the nesting season. Some also provide seeds.
Nectar-producing plants attract hummingbirds and orioles. Hummingbirds especially like tubular red flowers, such as fuchsia, bee balm, coral bells and penstemon.
Summer-fruiting plants include cherry, honeysuckle, raspberry, serviceberry, grape and plum. Birds attracted include brown thrashers, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
Fall-fruiting plants include dogwoods, mountain ash, winterberries and cotoneasters. They are used by both migratory birds preparing to leave and non-migratory species preparing for winter.
Many winter-fruiting plants are not palatable until they have frozen and thawed numerous times. These include glossy black chokecherry, Siberian crabapple, snowberry, bittersweet, sumac and Virginia creeper.
Nut and acorn plants provide food and nesting habitat. They include oaks, hickories, buckeyes, chestnuts, butternuts and walnuts. Broken nuts and acorns.
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Plan for wildlife haven falters over 'eyesore' office building
Plan for Spaunton wildlife haven falters over 'eyesore' building
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'Eyesore' quarry offices at Spaunton Quarry in the North York Moors
DEADLOCK between a landowner and a national park authority over the environmental rights and wrongs of an eyesore building has further delayed the completion of a wildlife haven.
George Winn-Darley, owner of the 7,000-acre Spaunton Estate, near Kirkbymoorside, said he had been left “very frustrated” after the North York Moors National Park Authority rejected his scheme to create a holiday park at Spaunton Quarry.
The authority’s planning committee heard doubts had hung over the future the largest quarry in the national park since its closure was announced in the mid-1990s, despite a restoration masterplan having been agreed for numerous years.
Mr Winn-Darley’s latest scheme for the site, which would see a holiday chalet and caravan park created amid an expansive wildlife haven, received strong support from members.
Member David Jeffels said: “The whole concept of it has great potential to be an asset to the tourist industry in the park and this part of Ryedale.”
However, the landowner was told his plan to re-use the quarry offices as a shower and toilet block was completely unacceptable in an area that needed “returning to nature” to comply with the restoration agreement for the quarry.
Member Jeremy Walker added: “This site is a complete mess. It badly needs to be restored and should have been restored by now. We need to do all we can to get on completing the restoration masterplan.”
Despite Mr Winn-Darley pledging that a facelift for the former offices would give it “a wow factor” that would “set the scene that this is the North York Moors National Park”, members insisted the structure was “hideous”, and said it was also in the wrong location for holiday-makers using the caravan site.
The meeting also heard Jonathan Allison, of Spaunton Common Protection Association, urge the committee “to keep faith with the inspired masterplan” for the restoration of the quarry, before members voted to reject the scheme.
After the meeting, Mr Winn-Darley said he had presented the authority with three options to transform the building, including creating a stone-faced property similar to those in Hutton-le-Hole, another using rocks from the quarry to highlight the site’s history and a modern-style alternative, but none of the alternatives had been shown to the planning committee.
He said bulldozing the building would be environmentally unfriendly and contradict the authority’s sustainability objectives.
Mr Winn-Darley said: “The authority’s new plan says we must re-use buildings before we get rid of them, so we may wait for that.
“I find it really jarring, against my principles, to pull down a perfectly structurally sound building to comply with something they have put on a piece of paper.”
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VAR used to check 10 incidents per game at Women’s World Cup, FIFA reveals
England’s Ellen White appeals to Match referee Anastasia Pustovoytova after her goal is disallowed against the USA
VAR was used to check an average of 10.28 incidents per game during the Women’s World Cup.
The technology was used in relation to 535 incidents in 52 matches according to a refereeing review published by FIFA.
There was one VAR review every 1.58 matches and 29 decisions were changed, while four were confirmed.
Thirteen more decisions were reviewed and 80 more incidents checked than at the men’s World Cup in Russia last year, despite there being 12 fewer games.
Four goals were disallowed, including Ellen White’s apparent equaliser in England’s 2-1 semi-final defeat to the USA, which was ruled out after the striker was found to have strayed fractionally offside on review.
The Lionesses also had a goal given after a VAR offside review in their 3-0 quarter-final win over Cameroon.
The game saw furious protests from Cameroon after a number of decisions went against them, leading England boss Phil Neville to say he was ashamed of the opposition.
There were also 13 penalties awarded following reviews, with Steph Houghton missing a late spot kick against the USA after it was given via VAR.
Nikita Parris scored England’s first goal of the tournament after a review – a penalty in the 2-1 win over Scotland.
Four penalties were also cancelled by VAR during the tournament.
Fifteen goals were correctly disallowed without VAR’s assistance, while the average time delay for a review was one minute and 33 seconds.
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IS IT OKAY TO SWEAR IN FRONT OF CHILDREN?
After watching the wonderful Harriet from Toby and Roo on Good Morning Britain last week it really got me thinking about the whole swearing around children thing. I mean, it’s pretty inevitable that our kids will pick up a swear word or 50 at some point whether that be directly from ourselves or from other people.
Labelling someone a bad parent because they swear? Not cool and probably more offensive than calling someone a twat. I personally think people need to get off their high horses because while 60+ odd percent of people think the answer is no, it’s not okay, I’m pretty sure that 97% of those people have sworn around their kids at some point. So come on, feet out the stirrups, reins in one hand and swing your left leg over the saddle. Do make sure you untwist your knickers on the way down.
Eloise let slip a few fucks and bitches when she was around 2 or 3 years old and told her she mustn’t EVER say them just as I had been told off for using swear words myself growing up. I told her she must not use words like that ever and she said sorry, we had a cuddle and that was that. Until she did it again and I thought, why am I telling her off? Am I really that disgusted that she repeated a word she’s heard? Normally I’m praising her for learning new words so she’s probably going to be incredibly confused as to why this particular word is so different. Kids don’t know the word cunt from cake, they’re all just exciting new words to them so should we be telling our children off for swearing or teaching them to recognise swear words and use them in the correct context? Not forgetting that there are also words that aren’t considered swears but are considerably more offensive.
I hold my hands high up in the air and admit that I swear. Whilst saying that, I would also like to point out that in real life I don’t have a set goal of fucks to dish out during one conversation or go out of my way to include a shit or a twat in every sentence, but I do swear. A lot. When Eloise was learning to talk I did limit my swearing but of course there were the accidental fucks and shits peppered around. Most of my family swore, as did my friends along with most people these days and it’s pretty much inevitable that kids are going to pick them up somewhere, at some point aren’t they? I am yet to meet a teenager who had never so much as uttered a swear word before or an adult for that matter. Does that mean I swear in front of my Grandma (who doesn’t swear)? No I don’t. Do I swear in public around people I don’t know who might not swear? No. Do I swear around other peoples kids? No. There is a time and a place for bad language and I think that is more important to realise. It’s our responsibility to teach our children to respect other peoples views whilst also taking our own into account. One person may be totally okay with swearing and that’s fine, someone else may never swear and that’s also fine. But what isn’t fine is judging someone based on how many times they’ve said the word fuck today. There are certain situations swearing is not acceptable in and should we be teaching our children that rather than point blank not to swear EVER EVER EVER.
I’m not really that bothered by swearing, if I heard a child scream fuck in public I wouldn’t look at the mother in grave disgust and presume she is the shittest of all shit mothers, we have all been there, in public or not so suck it up and don’t be a dick. Would I look the same way if the parent was effing and blinding at the child…Yes. Although we have all probably muttered the odd nobhead under our breaths when our kids are acting up there remains one hell of a difference between swearing in front of children and swearing maliciously at children although you don’t need to use swear words to be a dick.
Age is another factor to be considered. Younger children lack the social skills to judge the situations where swearing is not okay and wouldn’t think twice about shouting “MUMMY WHERE ARE THE FUCKING GRAPES” in the middle of Tesco which I guess is why I was more cautious about swearing when Eloise was under the age of about 5. She is 7 now despite the fact she is surrounded by a society who swears she doesn’t use them and that’s definitely not because she doesn’t know them. I would hazard a guess and say she knows most popular ones. She quite frequently learns new words either from kids at school or just hearing people around her in general and she will come to me and ask if ____ is a swear word. We have had a few incidences where she has thought a regular word was a swear and I was glad that she is able to come to me and asked rather than spending years thinking something as innocent as “butt” is a swear word.
I have explained to her that these words are adult words and she is quite welcome to use them appropriately when she is a teenager because lets face it, by high school they’re doing much worse than throwing the odd fuck, shit and bollocks around. She knows when swearing isn’t acceptable she chooses not to use these words based on what I’ve taught her and she seems perfectly happy and has accepted that swearing is okay for teenagers and adults but not for children. I’m okay with that and if she slipped out a few fucks I wouldn’t be that bothered to be honest, they’re only words. Saying that, it’s not like I would be shouting from the rooftops and celebrating if one of my kids swore.
It’s one hell of a difficult one really, I mean, I would much rather be called a fucking twat headed cockwomble than a big smelly ugly cow. The latter aren’t considered swear words yet to me at least, they are far more hurtful and I would be considerably more upset if Eloise said that to someone than if she told them to fuck off. I’ve been bullied before and I think for the most part, the worst thing’s I’ve been called don’t include swear words at all. Swear words can obviously be used offensively and I think that is very important to differentiate between simply using a swear word and using a swear word offensively. You can be a rude asshole and not have so much as uttered a “bitch” in your lifetime.
What do you think? Do you think it’s okay to swear in front of children?
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5 responses to “IS IT OKAY TO SWEAR IN FRONT OF CHILDREN?”
I'm not bothered by swearing and although I totally try and curb the language around the kids the odd swear slips out. My son picks up tons of swear words from school but he never says them. Probably does it behind my back lol x
Honest Motherhood says:
Completely agree! X
Chilling With Lucas says:
I try not to but the odd couple of words tend to creep out haha
Scandi Mummy says:
I don't think it's the end of the world though I try and limit it around my toddler x
Kirsty McManus says:
I don't like to hear children swearing – but what I hate more is hearing parents berating their child for swearing if they've only learnt it from them. Imagine being given in to trouble for simply copying what mummy says (in saying that, I am the absolute worse for swearing in front of Harrison, I'll have to get a reign on that if I don't want him repeating}
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Liberty Media, the US media group chaired by John Malone, is to make its first foray in the fast-growing UK online gaming market with the purchase of a 51 per cent stake in Fun Technologies for $195m.
Fun, which is listed in Toronto and on Aim in London, specialises in online versions of skill games such as solitaire, chess and sudoku. While the legality of sports and casino internet betting is unclear in the US, Fun’s portfolio of skill-based games means it can operate there without fear of legal action.
Skill game operators have yet to generate the returns of online poker or internet groups such as PartyGaming and 888. However, skill games have a similar growth pattern to internet poker, with the number of players rising at 30 per cent per quarter.
Liberty is buying 10.5m new Fun shares at 267p and is offering Fun shareholders 360p a share for another tranche of 23m shares that will lift its stake to 51 per cent.
Under the deal, Greg Maffei, Liberty’s new chief executive, will take a seat on the Fun board.
“Our customer profile is very different from other gaming sites,” said Lorne Abony, Fun’s chief executive, adding it provided online arcade games and games such as Scrabble.
Liberty’s move to acquire a gaming company reflects broader efforts by media companies to enter one of the fastest-growing sectors in the entertainment industry.
Last year, the global video games market rose 11 per cent to reach $25bn in revenues, according to PwC, and is expected to grow by more than 20 per cent in 2006 and 2007.
Big media companies such as Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom and Walt Disney have said they are eyeing acquisitions to increase their presence in the online
gaming sector.
Media companies want to reach heavy users of games, as they often spend less time consuming other media products such as television.
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Blake Lively's filmography runs the gamut. Of course, she's best known for playing Serena van der Woodsen on The CW's hit series Gossip Girl, but her range extends far past the Upper East Side. She battled a man-eating shark in The Shallows, remained ageless (literally) in The Age of Adaline, and wore the same pair of jeans for days in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
One role she hasn't played, however, is prison inmate—well, she has now. Photos surfaced this week of Lively on the set of her new film, A Simple Favor, and she's serving some serious Orange Is the New Black vibes in them. And by that we mean she's wearing an orange prison jumpsuit. Yup. Check it out for yourself, below:
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Here's what we know about A Simple Favor: It's based on the novel of the same name by Darcey Bell and centers on a mommy blogger (Anna Kendrick), her best friend who goes missing (Lively), and the latter's husband (Henry Golding). Lively was photographed on set a few weeks ago crying with a fake black eye, so this film is pretty dramatic.
Why Lively's character ends up in jail is a mystery to everyone who hasn't read the novel. These tiny previews suggest A Simple Favor is the most intense film Lively has ever done—yes, even more harrowing than killing a 20-foot monster shark by herself.
But Serena lovers shouldn't completely freak out: There's still a little bit of dazzle in Lively's jumpsuit look. Notice how her shirt is slightly tied up. You have to accessorize in some way, am I right?
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The Suits Cast Share Their Emotional Memories of the Royal Wedding
Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty and Rick Hoffman open up about their former co-star Meghan Markle's nuptials.
Jun 6 2018, 2:01 pm EDT
Meghan Markle’s former Suits co-stars attended her wedding to Prince Harry last month, and this week, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty, and Rick Hoffman shared their emotional memories of the ceremony and reception.
“I was so moved by the sermon, and I had the opportunity to go over to the reverend and just thank him,” Rafferty told BAZAAR.com during a visit to the show's Toronto set. “It was my opinion that that was the sermon the world needed to hear on that day. I was almost crying when I talked to him, I could barely get it out. And I felt like it bonded me to the strangers I was sitting with, because we all took it in and looked over to each other and whispered to each other, and had our ‘wow’ moments together. When we said goodbye later, I said, ‘We may never see each other again, but it was really an honor to share this with you.’”
“This fellow came up to me, and he said ‘Gabriel, I’m the Queen’s page. I love Harvey, and I love Suits. I just wanted to let you know.’” —Gabriel Macht
Asked to name his most memorable moment of the day, Macht gave no less than three incredible answers. "There was a fantastic moment right when the wedding party came out of the chapel and Oprah came out,” Macht recalled, “and she had this moment of ‘Oh my God.’ You could see, it was like her eyes almost popped out of her head, like ‘I can’t believe I’m here witnessing this.’ And we all felt that, but to have Oprah clearly feel that way was amazing.”
The cast of Suits, from left to right: Macht, Hoffman, Rafferty, Markle, and Patrick J. Adams
At another point in the day, Macht had an unexpected moment with a member of the Queen’s staff: “This fellow came up to me, and he said ‘Gabriel, I’m the Queen’s page. I love Harvey, and I love Suits. I just wanted to let you know.’ That was just classic!”
Macht also reminisced about watching Elton John play at the wedding reception. “He’s such a legend, up there just singing away and we were right at the end of his grand piano, with all of Prince Harry’s friends gathered around just crying, just so excited to be there. That was moving.”
“The entire ceremony was just breathtaking,” added Hoffman, who plays Louis Litt on the show. “The wedding itself, her walk into that church—otherworldly. And the time we spent together as a cast and crew was so warm and familial and really bonded us more. It was truly one of the best weekends I’ve ever had in my life.”
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This is a bittersweet year for Suits fans, since the Season 7 finale saw the departure of two core cast members: Markle and Patrick J. Adams, who also attended the wedding. At least the Pearson Specter Litt gang got one last bonding moment in the spotlight together.
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Unity sans Convergence (Political Self-organization Models for Hyperlinked Multitudes)
guerrillatranslationon July 1, 2013 /2 comments
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Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel
The 15-M movement seems to be at an impasse, unsure of how to make use of its multiple victories and enormous public support. To break out of this situation, numerous organizations, assemblies and collectives are repeatedly appealing to the ideal of unity (amongst the political left, the movement, the “bottom 99”) as a means of reaching the necessary levels of coordination needed for standing up to, and defeating, the government and markets. However, so far it doesn’t seem like their ideals-inspired efforts have led to any noticeable improvement in the organisational capacity of the movement. Prior to the birth of 15M, it was not uncommon to see initiatives by the political left coalescing around ideals of convergence, coordination and unity, with generally poor results. Our hypothesis is that these traditional modes of political organisation have grave shortcomings, needing urgent revision. What can we do when the old ways aren’t working anymore? Do we forfeit our experience? Go our separate ways? Surrender to the idea that revolution can only be chaotic and spontaneous? Nothing could be further from what we’re about to share here.
The fact is that since the birth of 15M, we’ve spent more than two years experimenting with radically new modes of mass organization. Crowds capable of synchronizing en masse, to attack or to defend themselves at specific moments and with blinding speed; initiatives that detach from the movement at strategic junctures to then develop on their own, opening new spaces for confrontation; mechanisms capable of mobilising huge sectors of the population when they’re most needed…new forms of mobilisation that have come to stay. We’re rehearsing the mass social self-organisation methods of the future, and we’ve managed to create a scenario for hegemony and social conflict the likes of which we’d never have imagined. An understanding of the organisational models that have led us here is paramount for forging ahead.
The reductionist focus: unity as convergence
In our opinion, most attempts to coordinate unity amongst “the movement” (or “the left”, or “pick-your-favourite-social-subject”) stem from a terribly reductionist mindset: unity as convergence. The simplest structural example would be organizations with tree-like dynamics, where decision-making and consensus-building processes are redirected to a series of increasingly centralised nodes within the overall structure, from “collective coordinating” assemblies for citywide initiatives to state level structures that coordinate the activities of local nodes. Any time convergence is mentioned, it goes hand in hand with an appeal towards promoting narrative and discourse; for example, reaching consensus on collectively created manifestos is used as an prime example of unity. In the end, it comes down to creating space that functions as the ultimate representative for the movement. A kind of centralised brain that, ultimately, both hierarchically coordinates and makes decisions on behalf of all the other spaces. The problem is that this vision of unity though convergence, within tree-like structures, doesn’t work, at least not in the hyperconnected societies of the XXI century.
Convergence can work at a reduced scale or in simple organizational structures. However, in more complex scenarios, it generally leads to heavy, slow, expensive, and high-maintenance structures. These are usually marred by rigidly determined, inside-outside distinctions that quickly face major difficulties when needing to add new participants at moments of peak activity. And yet today, despite knowing full well the limitations of this model, we are witnessing a revival of this so-called convergence. This is especially surprising when we take into account that most of the mass-scale mobilizations we’ve seen across the world in the last few year, from Arab Spring and 15M to Occupy Gezi, hardly bear any resemblance to this type of organization. On the contrary, they’re processes of coordination and synchronization of large groups without any apparent formal organizational structure. In the best of cases, centralised structures only arise when the movements are on the wane, or losing their power of assembly. Faced with this scenario, we need new modes of unity to create unifying processes in societies where technological networks grant us an enormous capacity for large-scale social auto-organization.
Liquid, de-centralised unity: a dynamic nucleus model
How do you organise a system comprised of millions of parts, with no hierarchical structure nor centralised controlling organ? The field of neuroscience faces a similar problem. The brain is a highly distributed and interconnected organ, capable of organizing itself to enable a great variety of complex, coordinated behaviors. Hundreds of thousands of neurons in the human brain are capable of coordinating and forming a single structure, but it’s highly unlikely for this to happen by means of converging structures. Convergence in the brain isn’t a plausible scenario, as there’s no central area to centralise the rest. Besides, it has been demonstrated that models of neuronal convergence lose most of their efficacy at large scales due to problems arising from combinatorial explosion 1. An additional, and major, problem is that convergence strategies aren’t effective at adapting to new situations that require unexpectedly different behaviours (that is to say, they’re not good at improvisation).
On the contrary, the brain lacks any sort of static, centralised structure. “Unity of mind” is constituted through instances of grand-scale synchronization, whereupon different neuronal areas act transiently in coordination 2. These instances of synchronization have a limited lifespan so the brain doesn’t get stuck in a specific sync-mode. They dissolve after a certain period of time to make way for a new mindstate characterised by the synchronization of different neuronal areas (Graph 1). This mode of synchronization is known as the “dynamic nucleus” 3 and it functions in a decidedly un-convergent manner, as not all parts of the system function simultaneously. Instead, it acts as a pole of reference where different neural areas connect and disconnect at different times. Should the opposite happen and if synchronization extends uncontrollably, trapping different neural areas in the process, it can provoke serious neuronal disorders such as epilepsy attacks.
Dynamic nucleus and poles of reference in the 15M movement
Do revolutions work like our brains do? Or, to put it another way, do we function as a collective brain when we enter a revolutionary climate? We’re still searching for answers even as new questions arise. For now, what we do know is that the mechanisms of unity in the human brain are very similar to the processes of distributed social mobilization we are witnessing. Regarding 15M, the movement has been a succession of different “dynamic nuclei” serving as poles of references during the periodic organisation of enormous processes of synchronized coordination: the summons for the initial protest by DRY, the encampments, the PAH, the Citizen Tides, the 25-S protests, etc. 4 Some of the reference poles have been global, others more local. Some have lasted weeks, others no more than a few days. Some have disappeared to rise again later, unexpectedly, and brimming with renewed strength. What they have in common is that they’ve all been capable of organising large sectors of the population — and not always the same ones — acting with coherent unity, as a great collective mind capable of overwhelming and seriously wounding the regime’s institutions.
But there remains a general perception that this is not enough. The old political parties still occupy the institutions, blocking any possible change. This is a fact, but we don’t think that the problem rests on the limits of this model of organized distribution. Rather, we think it’s a question of not having developed adequate mechanisms to act as poles of reference in a space with dynamics as particular as those of the electoral space. We believe it’s only a matter time until society organizes to dismantle the electoral space. There are, in fact, various initiatives underway with this purpose in mind. We predict that only those who have understood the logic of distributed, networked processes of self-organisation and participation will succeed.
We’ve spent two years organising in radically new ways, and the results have been astounding. We’ve built structures that have generated total hegemony amongst the movement and over the most crucial axes of social conflict (housing, education, healthcare, democracy, etc.) Structures endowed with the sort of on-the-ground organization capable of scuttling any attempt to hide, repress or criminalize the movement. This has just begun. The same neuronal synchronization we’ve described organises itself at different nested levels, and through increasingly influential protocols of auto-organisation built on top of previous, smaller ones. We have a model of auto-organisation that works, we only need to replicate, improve and understand it more deeply, to extend it to new levels.
We’re convinced that in the coming months and years we’ll keep on seeing vast advances in forms of networked organisation. To improve on them, it is essential to keep formulating hypotheses to create new poles of reference capable taking in and coordinating other areas of conflict. To keep listening to and analysing the process, in order to identify and interpret points of rupture. Being able to experiment and strategically connect or disconnect components from our dynamic nucleus to claim victories. To construct the sort of unity that won’t get trapped in a determined configuration, but which constantly transforms to keep moving forward. We’re at an historic juncture; we’re taking the first steps towards the construction of a collective, fluid and distributed coordinated social mind. Insisting on obsolete modes of organisation is a error. We are rehearsing the methods of massive social auto-organisation of the future, and the perspectives are more than optimistic. The dying bipartisan regime is confounded and entrenched. We only have to keep syncing.
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Original text in Spanish
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Footnotes and references:
1. [Malsburg, C. von der. (1995). Binding in models of perception and brain function. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 5(4).]↩
2. [Varela, F., & Thompson, E. (2003). Neural Synchrony and the Unity of Mind: A Neurophenomenological Perspective. In The Unity of Consciousness. Oxford University Press.]↩
3. [Tononi, G., & Edelman, G. M. (1998). Consciousness and Complexity. Science, 282(5395), 1846–1851. doi:10.1126/science.282.5395.1846]↩
4. [These are all groups and collectives enmeshed within the 15 -M network. Briefly:
DRY (Democracia Real Ya) is a grassroots citizens’ platform that, amongst others, organised the rally that sparked the 15M movement on May 15th 2011.
PAH (Plataformas de los Afectados por la Hipoteca) is Spain’s anti-foreclosure network.
Las Mareas or “Citizen Tides” are Spain’s post-syndical defense network for Education, Public Health, Feminism, Labour rights and more.
“25-S” refers to the Occupy/Surround Congress protests of September 25 2012.
To read about these, and many other, initiatives taking place in Spain right now, read our translation of Bernardo Guitérrez’s “Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes”]↩
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involute conduit July 4, 2013 at 3:21 pm
I like it, and yet I find aspects of the language a little divisive, that is, it sets up a conflict that I believe to be unnecessary.
In terms of neurology I wonder have you looked at recent studies into reflexivity neurons? I believe that these correspond, in human supracultural society, to influencers who enact the ‘maven-connector’ as human hubs between various supracultural sociocologies.
The recent case of reflexivity neurons…neurons that fire for multiple purposes at synchronous and asynchronous timings. When you add reflexivity neurons to a situation the computing power goes up, way up, to ‘unlimited’ at 30% of the total.
So in this case, I would strongly promote a connectivity between the movements that meet at these ‘poles of reference’. Not in a convergent manner, but at least refrencing the mutual concerns shared by related moving groups. This stratagem will increase the interdepence and mutual support between diverse and dynamic groupings that may previously not have seen themselves as part of the global social movement that is occuring.
This is p2p thinking applied to various supracultural movements or developments which have been occurin in this last time. I strongly advise against blaming a regime for history. Time moves as it does, we are all facing an inevitable future and its hard to just jump out the windows of such high ivorous towers. A little compassion and social inclusion extending to the 100% will go a long way.
lilious July 5, 2013 at 12:04 pm
You might want to have a look at Heather Marsh’s work on a new system of governance, she asks the same questions and bring some interesting answers:
http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/binding-chaos/
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Enric Duran is a Catalan anti-capitalist activist, best known for his act of “financial civil disobedience” announced on September 17, 2008, in which he took out half a million Euros in bank loans and distributed the funds to anti-capitalist movements. As it was never his intention to pay these debts, but instead to stir debate about the unfair legal advantages afforded to the powerful financial elite, he was soon labeled “Robin Banks,” and faced with a lengthy prison sentence. The resulting legal actions and his subsequent seclusion have left him living virtually underground, although he maintains selective contact and has stated that he may return, contingent on a variety of factors. Despite his precarious legal status, his work continues undiminished in the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC), which describes itself as a “transitional initiative for social transformation from below, through self-management, self-organization, and networking” and Fair.coop an ambitious transnational Open Cooperative backed by its own socially-oriented cryptocurrency, Faircoin.
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Saariaho (L')Amour de Loin
A significant recent opera superbly played and performed
Kaija Saariaho
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(L') Amour de loin
Kaija Saariaho Composer
Kent Nagano Conductor
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Daniel Belcher (bar) Jaufré Rudel
Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mez) Pèlerin
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Kaija Saariaho’s first work for the lyric stage (Salzburg, 2000) looks set to establish itself as one of the most significant and successful operas of recent decades. Premiered in a Peter Sellars production (under the baton of this recording’s conductor, Kent Nagano) that travelled quite widely, it has survived the crucial test of other stagings, including one at ENO last summer. It’s easy to understand its appeal, even if L’amour de loin does sometimes seem to resemble Pelléas et Mélisande without the jokes.
Saariaho’s hypnotic score combines with a poetic libretto by Lebanese-born writer Armin Maalouf to exquisite effect. The result is not, it must be said, the most dramatic opera, but then neither is Pelléas or Tristan und Isolde, pieces in which music works powerfully on the imagination. And there is a sense in which the Saariaho-Maalouf work, which translates as “Love from afar”, also belongs to the tradition of Debussy’s opera. The five connected acts are inspired by the tale of a medieval Provençal troubadour named Jaufré, who visualises the Countess Clémence of Tripoli as the epitome of chaste love. A Pilgrim criss-crosses the Mediterranean carrying messages between the two distant lovers but when Jaufré finally summons up the courage to sail to Tripoli he is taken ill while at sea and dies on arrival in the arms of Clémence.
Saariaho has declared herself uninterested in the concept of courtly love and prefers to see her work as a more modern, wider meditation on love. Her delicate music, superbly realised here by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Nagano, reflects this in the same way that Maalouf is able, like Edward Said, to look beyond the clichés of Orientalism. The fine cast features American baritone Daniel Belcher as a lithe, musical Jaufré and Russian soprano Ekaterina Lekhina as a delicate and languid Clémence. Not surprisingly, the Montpellier-born Marie-Ange Todorovitch boasts the best French as the Pilgrim, yet the cast works very well together in a perfumed piece so meditative and purely musical in its essence that I find myself preferring this CD to the earlier DVD based on Sellars’s staging.
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One of the hottest new political commercials in the nation had its roots right on Squire Road at the Sound & Vision Media studios.
Republican 4th Congressional District challenger Sean Bielat released one of the most talked about campaign ads of the season last week that portrayed sitting Congressman Barney Frank (D-Newton) disco dancing. The heavily produced commercial includes older audio snippets of Frank predicting there would be no housing crisis while the video shows his head superimposed on a disco-dancing figure.
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Longtime studio owner and Revere native Howard Cook confirmed this week that eccentric, national political ad maker Ladd Ehlinger Jr. (who has become somewhat famous this election cycle for making “viral” videos for candidates to post on the Internet) had rented out the Revere studio and filmed the ad right on Squire Road.
“We have this great production facility with a large green screen and very modern lighting,” said Cook, who owns the studio with Mark Helms. “People come up and rent the studio a lot. This was a national company that specialized in political ads. They wanted to have a studio in the Boston area to shoot the ad and they choose us. So, yes, they did come in and they did shoot a whole production here last week.”
Cook and Charles Vitale, studio manager, said that the crew used a dance instructor to do several minutes of disco and hip-hop dance moves in front of the studio’s green screen. A green screen is similar to what weathermen use on television. While the audience sees a weather map, in reality there is only a bright, green screen behind the weatherman. The maps are actually added by computer and the viewer sees no trace of the green screen.
The same technology was used in the Bielat advertisement, where unusual backgrounds were inserted behind the dancer, and Congressman Frank’s head was also superimposed on the dancer.
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The Bielat commercial was a bit of excitement last week for the local studio, but far from the most excitement they’ve had.
Sound & Media Vision cut their teeth years ago on Centennial Avenue and Shirley Avenue as a recording studio.
They recorded for numerous famous bands, most recently doing work for Phish and also recording the first demos for Tracy Chapman.
And that’s only a very partial list.
That, of course, is ancient history for the company, which is now less of a recording studio and more of an advertising agency.
“Our business kind of metamorphosed until we bought this building on Squire Road a few years ago,” said Cook, noting that they are located in the old Dean’s Furniture building. “Basically, now we are an advertising agency and we have this great production studio.”
The agency now handles advertising for IParty, Herb Chamber’s car dealerships, Yale Appliance and Bernie & Phyll’s Furniture stores – among a long list of others.
Their production space is like a diamond in the rough on Squire Road, using more than 7,000 sq. ft. of the second floor to produce, film and edit many of the advertisements that are seen on television and the Internet.
Speaking of the Internet, Cook said that the company just recently started an Internet marketing branch, called C4 Analytics. That has sent them into the world of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google and the entire new world of Internet marketing.
“That’s the new Wild West for us,” he said. “If you want to be featured on the web we’re the guys and we can do it. We work with a lot of companies and individuals that want a high profile on the Internet.”
Cook said they’ve also produced some television content, including documentaries on motorcycle rallies, pinball machines and, most recently, on obscure, old rock songs.
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From Spotlight: A Bathroom Remodel You’ll Never Regret
Love Your Bathroom Remodel Forever: 9 Perfect Ideas
For style, sanctuary, and ROI, you can’t go wrong with these bathroom design ideas.
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All those pretty photos on all those pretty home design websites are fun to click through -- and maddening when it comes time to make bathroom remodeling decisions. Too many choices.
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With the "Remodeling Impact Report" from the National Assocation of REALTORS® pegging the national median cost of a bathroom remodel at $30,000, you’ll want to make sure you get maximum comfort, convenience, enjoyment — and resale juice when the time comes to sell.
Here's the definitive list of practical (and hedonistic) features.
#1 Heated Ceramic Tile Flooring
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Enduring, waterproof, and good-looking, ceramic tile bathroom flooring is the classic, never-out-of-style surface material for any bathroom. Plus, consumers (read: future buyers) love it: In a survey from the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), 83% of respondents said ceramic tile was their No. 1 choice for bathroom flooring.
With prices ranging from a mere $1 per square foot to $20 and more, you'll find a huge array of choices, styles, and colors that'll work with any budget.
But ceramic tile can chill your tootsies. Pair your ceramic with thin electric radiant mats that go under the tile without raising the floor level -- ideal for retrofit installations.
A typical system uses about the same amount of electricity as three 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. Plus, radiant heat is often more efficient than forced-air heating because it eliminates heat loss through the ducts, says the U.S. Department of Energy. It also distributes heat uniformly across the floor, taking less time to warm a room than other types of heat.
At $5 to $15 per square foot to install, radiant mats are as easy on the budget as they are on the sole.
Nice-to-have ceramic tile accompaniments:
No-slip ceramic tile. With its finely textured surface, it’s great for traction, making it an exceptionally safe bathroom flooring for young kids or folks with limited mobility.
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A COF (coefficient of friction) standard of .60 or greater means the tile is rated as non-slip when wet by the Ceramic Tile Institute.
The DCOF (dynamic coefficient of friction) AcuTest measurement, the new gold standard now coming on the market, requires a value of .42 or above for non-slip tile.
Tip: No-slip tile’s texture can trap dirt, and that requires extra elbow grease to clean.
Epoxy grout. New formulas resist staining and discoloration over time better than traditional ones. They're also more flexible than regular grout and less prone to cracking, making them ideal for flooring installations.
The key to grouting success is the installer. Make sure your contractor is familiar with epoxy grouts, which require finesse to shape and handle. You'll pay an extra $50 to $100 to cover a 6-foot-by-12-foot bathroom floor with epoxy, according to the Tile Council of North America.
Programmable radiant heat thermostat. Want to treat yourself extra nice? Greet the day with a sigh of relief when you add a wall-mounted programmable thermostat (about $60 to $200) that'll start warming up your floors whenever you want. How about a half an hour before your alarm goes off?
#2 Curbless Walk-in Shower
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More than 60% of respondents to a recent survey by the American Institute of Architects said walk-in, curbless showers are increasing in popularity. For good reason: They're stylish, safe for folks of all ages, and oh so easy to clean.
They dovetail nicely with ceramic tile floors, too. You can have one continuous surface that moves seamlessly from shower to the main bath area.
Plus, they’re all about marketability. As the population ages, a contemporary walk-in is a selling point.
Be sure to hire a remodeling contractor with experience. Making a curbless shower takes know-how -- the shower floor has to slope to the drain hole, which means the new drain will be located below the surface of the existing floor.
To make that work, you'll have to remove old flooring and subflooring and alter the framing underneath the floor. It's a good idea to consult with your local building authorities beforehand so that the work will be up to code and pass inspection.
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#3 Quartz Countertop
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We love natural stone, but in this battleground of soaps, lotions, pastes, and poultices, we prefer the impervious beauty of synthetic, low-VOC quartz.
“Consumer Reports” testing gives the edge to quartz over granite, citing quartz's ability to resist stains and abrasions. It’ll look good year after year. Plus, the surface is so impervious bacteria can't lodge in it.
Quartz countertop material is a synthetic composite made up of about 90% quartz particles held together with binders. It's virtually maintenance-free -- it never needs to be sealed -- and comes in dozens of styles and colors. If you're stuck on the idea of stone, many quartz versions mimic the real thing.
Quartz runs $40 to $100 per square foot, installed (about the same as granite, although some varieties of granite get very pricey).
#4 One Big Sink Instead of Two Small Ones
Togetherness is a beautiful thing, but in the master bath, you're church and your partner’s state. Establish your individuality without losing your bond with a large (38-inch or more) sink ($350 to $1,200). One big sink saves more counter space than two, and still lets you both wash up simultaneously.
Spec an undermount sink to go with your quartz countertop -- undermounts have no protruding lip and help make cleanup a snap. The perfect companion to quartz countertops, undermount lavatory sinks are the preferred choice of 87% of respondents to a 2013 survey from the NKBA, and have been for several years.
Tip: Extra-large undermount sinks may need extra support. Check the sink specs and confer with your installer before you buy.
#5 Single-Hole, Motion-Activated Faucet
Ah, the savings. "Motion-activated, touchless faucets shut off automatically so you're not running the water continually, like when you're brushing your teeth, which saves a significant amount of water," says NKBA president John Petrie.
Besides that, we love the fact that sleek, single-hole touchless faucets are right in step with the calm, simple lines of transitional style. Transitional is a universally appealing, trend-defying design that’s cozy, elegant, and ensures a great return on your investment.
Finally, have you ever tried to clean around a two-handle vanity faucet with a narrow (4-inch) spread? Did you require therapy afterward? We heartily endorse the single-hole, lever-type faucet for your bathroom sink -- and your sanity.
These tres-cool faucets run $200 to $650 and up. Some have temperature controls so you (or your kids) can't get scalded.
For extra utility savings, look for faucets with the WaterSense label that use only 1.5 gallons per minute (gpm) compared with the standard 2.2 gpm flow of regular faucets.
#6 Humidity-Controlled Exhaust Fan
What's homebuyers’ No. 1-requested bathroom feature? An exhaust fan, says a report from the National Association of Home Builders. Wow -- bath fans beat out linen closets and separate tubs and showers.
A fan or an operable window in a bathroom is required by building code. But who wants to open a window in winter to get rid of excess humidity? Get a fan with a humidity-sensing on/off switch. It'll turn on when moisture levels are high and automatically shut off when things return to normal. That keeps mold at bay, ensures you’re not sucking out air-conditioned or heated indoor air, and prevents the fan from using power long after it needs to.
Tip: Make sure your contractor vents the fan to the outside, not the attic, or you might develop mold problems aloft.
Other fan options include multiple speeds, nightlights, and manual timers; you'll pay up to $600 for a fan with all the goodies.
#7 High-Efficiency, Dual-Flush Toilet
Saving water is our future; a high-efficiency, dual-flush toilet reduces water usage and appeals to any buyer looking for a cost-effective home.
All 25 toilets recently tested by "Consumer Reports" "removed liquid waste superbly," including the dual-flush models. This is a change, says CR, from previous tests, when many dual-flush models performed well with solid wastes but underperformed with liquid wastes.
Tip: Bidets are standard features in Asia and Europe, but they've been slow to catch on in the U.S. (and there aren't any WaterSense-labeled models). Nevertheless, some manufacturers are creating hybrid toilets and toilet seats ($650) that have bidet features, and we're going on record as recommending them. They save lots of TP, and they appeal to our melting-pot homebuyer mix of races and cultures, a benefit when it comes time to sell.
#8 Pocket or Sliding Barn Door
Image: Porter Barn Wood
The floor area of a bathroom is precious. Why waste any with a swinging door that eats up some 14 square feet of space? A pocket door or barn door slides out of the way without requiring any clearance, leaving more room for storage and design flexibility.
Google Trends shows that interest in sliding barn doors hovered at a lukewarm rating of about 40 from 2004 through 2011, when interest upticked to 70 before reaching an all-time high of 100 just last year -- the highest possible rating on the Google interest scale.
The sliding door phenomenon partners neatly with sustainability: old, salvaged doors of all kinds make showpiece barn doors for your bathroom.
So pocket or barn doors? Either can work well, depending on your budget.
Our editors had a lively debate about recommending pocket doors, which disappear into the wall. Some said the typical recessed door pull for pocket doors is awkward and can pinch fingers.
Modern tech to the rescue: You can find edge-mounted pocket door hardware with a handle that pops out at the touch of a button ($121). Or, add a door stop inside the wall framing to prevent the door from sliding all the way inside the wall. That way, you can safely use a recessed pull or add a traditional handle or knob to open and shut the door.
Tearing out drywall and reframing for a pocket door is $1,000 to $3,500, depending on the complexity of the job.
You can install a barn-style door, which hangs from a track above the doorway and slides in front of a wall., for less. It’s a good DIY project. Barn door kits cost $400 to $900, but if you're handy, buy the hardware for $100 to $500 and make your own door, or find a used door at a salvage building supply store.
#9 Calm Colors
It's always cool to be up on trends, but we say make your bathroom an exception. It's your sanctuary -- it should be soothing and filled with light.
That doesn't mean it has to be boring. In fact, it's a good idea to include a painted wall surface so you can dash color about on a whim and change it just as easily. Non-permanent items, such as artwork and antique mirrors, add beaucoup personality.
But permanent surfaces -- ceramic tile and fixtures -- need quiet, calm neutrals. White, beige, and gray are favorites. In fact, the NKBA says gray is the trendiest color for baths these days, so you win on two fronts, for now.
"A neutral color palette really is safe, especially in terms of resale value," says NKBA's Petrie. "You can always be expressive with colorful towels or curtains, things that are less expensive and easier to change than more permanent features."
Plus, lighter colors help bounce light around, helping you see what a fantastic bathroom you've put together.
John Riha
John Riha has written seven books on home improvement and hundreds of articles on home-related topics. He’s been a residential builder, the editorial director of the Black & Decker Home Improvement Library, and the executive editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. Follow John on Google+.
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Aging mining law handcuffs the American West
Ben Long June 12, 2012
Two of my favorite western cities, Tucson, Ariz., and Boise, Idaho, share some common blessings and one common curse.
The blessings include lovely mountain backdrops, vibrant universities and increasingly diverse economies.
The shared curse: badly misguided mining claims upstream.
The natural setting around Tucson, Ariz., such as the Santa Rita Mountains, are more precious than gold.
Courtesy of Save the Scenic Santa Ritas.
Why, in the 21st Century, should communities like Boise and Tucson be shackled to an antiquated federal mining policy dating back to the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant?
I was a newspaper reporter in Boise for a short spell and when I return, I am drawn to the Boise River and its marvelous greenbelt. It’s a rare city where the trout fishing and kayaking are so good within city limits.
Folks in Boise are rightfully concerned about a Canadian company that has proposed a cyanide-leach gold mine upstream from the Boise River. Besides fishing and floating, the Boise provides about a fifth of drinking water for the largest metro area in Idaho. The battle cry there is: the Boise River is more precious than gold.
That scenario might sound familiar to folks in Tucson. There, the mining company Rosemont Copper recently unveiled plans for a giant, thirsty copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the outskirts of town. Water is even scarcer and more precious in Tucson than it is in Boise.
When the Montana winters start to wear us down, my family heads to Tucson and surrounding Sky Island mountain ranges. We love to bird at local hotspots like Madera Canyon.
Mining has been, and will continue to be, important elements in both the Gem State and the Copper State economies. But it’s long past time to recognize that just because there is gold in the hills, it’s not always worth ripping the hill apart to get it.
When Karen and I visit Madera Canyon, we hope for a glimpse of a rare bird like an Elegant Trogon or Flame-colored Tanager. We are not alone. The two counties near Tucson bring in nearly $3 billion/year from tourism and recreation. What’s more, the natural settings and outdoor opportunities near cities like Boise and Tucson help attract investment and jobs in small business, light industry and technologies.
But forget all that. The 1872 General Mining Law mandates that mining is always the highest priority for our public lands, from the Boise National Forest to the Coronado National Forest. Local rangers may modify, but are not allowed to reject a mining proposal, even when it runs squarely against local sensibilities or modern economic interests.
That evidently made sense in the 1870s, when Col. Custer and Sitting Bull clashed over prospectors’ intrusions into the Black Hills. But those days are done. It’s time to give local communities a voice in determining the future of public lands that offer so much value, far beyond minerals. Even if that means sometimes saying “no.”
Ben Long is an outdoorsman, author and conservationist from Kalispell, Mont., who has yet to add the Elegant Trogon to his life list. He is senior program director for Resource Media.
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Heard Around the West
Lisa Jones June 10, 1996 From the print edition
The West has no shortage of strange juxtapositions: Gold prospectors and mountain bikers, Utah's tabernacle and Nevada's casinos, Denver International Airport and airplanes. But a new pair of strange bedfellows has recently sprung up: The Forest Service and Wal-Mart. The federal agency and the retail behemoth are going to spend the summer jointly promoting environmental understanding and supporting sustainable local communities. This may come as a surprise to rural towns where Main Street businesses have been wiped out by Wal-Mart.
What Wal-Mart has done to Main Street shopkeepers, sheep often do to Western rangelands. But in a notable turnaround, sheep have actually cured overgrazing in two Utah canyons, according to the American Sheep Industry (ASI). And this time the range destroyers weren't livestock.
At the Deseret Land and Livestock Co., a 200,000 acre private ranch near Woodruff, Utah, elk usually spend the spring munching the ground bare of grass and willows. Last year, ranch wildlife manager Rick Danvir grazed a herd of 700 ewes in the area. The sheep stayed up high, avoiding the wet, delicate canyon bottom the elk frequented. But the elk didn't like grazing near the sheep, or, presumably, the Great Pyrenees dogs guarding them. They left.
When Danvir walked the canyon bottom in the fall, "there was the most grass I'd ever seen, and willows were growing," according to an ASI press release.
A north Idaho farmer recently called state officials about an odd-looking pig-like animal in the area, reports the Spokane Spokesman-Review. It turned out to be a javelina, which is native to the American Southwest. Javelinas aren't supposed to survive cold northern winters, but this one had, according to a worried Lloyd Oldenburg of the state Fish and Game Department, who didn't catch the javelina but swears he will.
Oldenburg keeps tabs on exotic animals who could wreak ecological havoc on the state's native wildlife. It's an interesting job, but a difficult one. Oldenburg is currently duking it out with Cyndi Foti, a pet shop owner who wants to breed and sell sugar gliders - tiny, flying marsupials native to Australia. Although Foti has turned to everyone from a pet shop industry group to Rep. Helen Chenoweth for help in her crusade, Oldenburg has exiled her six sugar gliders to neighboring Washington.
Do political satirists make good politicians? John Callahan, the noted cartoonist who takes successful aim at the politically correct (a recent cartoon shows an imposing woman bending over a small man and saying, "This is a feminist bookstore! There is no humor section!') is entering the race for the Oregon State Legislature. "I'm trying not to be too funny," the 45-year-old Republican told the Portland Oregonian. "I'd like to be taken seriously." He is especially serious about crime and education.
We know that land-grant universities are trying to modernize their mission, but we didn't know just how quickly they would do it. Leafing through a list of Colorado State University's current research projects, we found one in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition called "Vacuum Processing of Wheat in Space." Well. NASA has paid the scientists $22,000 to develop a vacuum oven that will cook bread and bagels from wheat to be grown on future space stations on Mars and the moon. "They could make their own Cheetos," says Professor Joseph Maga. "I don't know why they'd want to, but they could."
Perhaps the strangest bedfellows of all are cowboys and California. Rancher Brit McIin recently explained to prism magazine, the student newspaper at San Francisco State University, why he's pulling up stakes from his spread near Davis and moving to Colorado:
"A little while ago, I was harnessing my horses, and a couple of bicyclists rode by me and started hooting and hollering and shouting obscenities. Two hours later, the Humane Society shows up and wants to investigate. Turns out that they had complaints of horse bondage. That's California, in a nutshell."
Heard around the West invites readers to get involved in the column. Send any tidbits that merit sharing - small-town newspaper clips, personal anecdotes, relevant bumpersticker slogans. The definition remains loose. Heard, HCN, Box 1090, Paonia, CO 81428 or [email protected]
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Influenza virus molecules set immune response into overdrive
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford have discovered a new molecule that plays a key role in the immune response that is triggered by influenza infections.
The molecule, a so-called mini viral RNA, is capable of inducing inflammation and cell death, and was produced at high levels by the 1918 pandemic influenza virus. The findings appear in Nature Microbiology.
Influenza is one of the main infectious diseases in humans. Seasonal influenza viruses account for about 650,000 deaths per year, whereas pandemic strains such as the 1918 H1N1 virus have been linked to 50-100 million deaths worldwide. Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses such as the H5N1 and H7N9 strains have a mortality rate of about 50% in humans.
The reasons for difference in disease severity and lethality caused by seasonal influenza viruses on the one hand, and pandemic and highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses on the other hand, is still poorly understood. Previous research has indicated that in infections with the 1918 pandemic virus or infections with an H5N1 avian virus, a powerful immune response is established that leads to death. This led Professor Ervin Fodor and his colleagues Dr Josh Long and Dr David Bauer of the University of Oxford, and Dr Aartjan te Velthuis of the University of Cambridge, to ask what viral molecule can trigger this powerful immune response.
The British groups first looked to how viruses are detected by the cell. Normally, an infected cell spots the presence of a virus by sensing the genetic material of the virus, RNA in the case of flu. Work by Prof Richard Randall, a collaborator on the manuscript from the University of St Andrews, has shown that influenza viruses are good at hiding their RNA. This observation prompted Fodor and his colleagues to look for flu RNA that the virus was not able to hide from the cellular pathogen sensing system. What they found was truncated pieces of the viral genome that the virus had produced in error. The researchers called these pieces mini viral RNAs.
Fodor and his colleagues next investigated whether different influenza viruses produce mini viral RNAs at different frequencies and whether there was a link with the strong innate immune response that, for instance, the 1918 pandemic virus induces. A combination of in vitro and in vivo experiments performed at Oxford, Cambridge, the University of Hong Kong, the Erasmus Medical Centre, and the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, revealed indeed a strong correlation between the ability of an influenza virus to generate mini viral RNAs and the amount of inflammation and cell death the virus infection caused.
‘We think it is a significant breakthrough and that it is particularly exciting that we are finding this factor a hundred years after the 1918 pandemic,’ comments Dr te Velthuis, one of the lead authors of the study.
The research groups are now continuing their efforts to investigate whether there is a causal link between influenza virus mortality and the production of mini viral RNAs. Together with their latest work, these efforts may help us understand better how influenza viruses cause disease, how we can identify dangerous influenza viruses, and how to develop new antivirals against influenza virus infections.
The full paper, ‘Mini viral RNAs act as innate immune agonists during influenza virus infection,’ can be read in the journal Nature Microbiology.
The work was funded by the Wellcome Trust, Royal Society, Medical Research Council, NIH, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.
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Books like 11/22/63 by Stephen King
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We speak to some of our favourite personalities on what mummy dearest taught them
10 May 2019 by Charlene Fang
Mothers know best. It’s an old but true saying. Call it the maternal bond from spending nine months growing in our mother’s bellies. Somehow mothers always know what to say, what to do and especially how to love us the way we need. This Mother’s Day , we asked some women what their mums taught them best. Here’s what they said…
Iman Fandi Ahmad, 19, Model
Wendy Jacobs, 44, Model/Presenter/Homemaker
"The most important lesson I've learnt from my mum is... that nothing is impossible if we have the strength of mind. When my mum was unwell, it was a trying period for all of us. But her determination to get better and stronger proved that our will directs our actions. My mum is a very strong and determined woman and she has taught me that nothing is impossible if we go about it with all our heart."
"I'm most like my mother when... I am engaged at work, she has always guided me through my jobs and has instilled in me to be professional at work. She stresses the importance of being respectful and punctual for photo shoots and any appointments. "
"My mother is my… rock , she is the glue the holds the family together. Even though we are old enough to fend for ourselves, she never fails to check in on us to make sure we are happy and healthy. Her presence is always reassuring and I truly appreciate her for that."
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Amanda Chong, 29, Lawyer, poet and co-founder of ReadAble
Alison Chong, 58, homemaker
"The most important lesson I’ve learnt from my mum is… there is no love without a cost to yourself. My mum gave up a career in banking to raise four children. She is also a woman of faith and compassion, who has walked alongside many families in our community through seasons of terminal illness and befriended migrant women with HIV for more than a decade. There is no task too menial for her to do in service of others – from driving people to medical appointments to teaching a boy who has suffered brain injury how to read again.
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"I’m most like my mother when… I quietly put others’ needs above my own, without expecting anything at all in return."
"My mother is my… daily source of wisdom and sassiness. I’ve compiled an entire Instagram stories highlight reel of her hilarious texts to me which many consider to be my best literary work yet."
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Jenny Ang, 61, Housewife
"The most important lesson I've learnt from my mum is... I have learned a lot from my mum, and I’ve actually written about it here. There are many lessons I have learnt from my mum but the one that stuck with me was the trishaw incident."
"Once upon a time, trishaws weren’t a tourist attraction but a mode of public transport. I was about 5 years of age when mum took me on a trishaw ride to visit my nanny. A bus driver had accidentally knocked the poor trishaw uncle off his seat and was planning to drive away. In an instant, my mum sprinted in front of the bus to stop the bus driver from driving away. She called the cops thereafter, took over the trishaw, cycling the trishaw uncle to the hospital. She paid for his medical bill too because 'Uncle doesn’t earn that much'."
"My mum doesn’t condone bullying, and she believes that everyone needs to bear the consequences of their actions. She taught me to always protect the little guy, even if that person’s a stranger. I’m no Mother Theresa for sure, but I do get triggered when I see someone bullied."
"Growing up, I was given a very long leash, but mum always made me pay for my own actions. Over time, it brainwashed me to believing that in whatever I do, I must be able to afford the consequences. Pretty smart of her, because god knows how short-tempered I am."
"I'm most like my mother when... it comes to doing what’s right, rather than what’s easy or popular. My skin is as thick as my mum’s. My mum’s pillar of righteousness is of a different level though. She won’t even let her friend cut queue! My mum rubs people off the wrong way but her honesty is precious."
"My mother is my… moral compass. She’s going to gloat hearing this, but I hear her voice in my head ALL THE TIME."
Noor Mastura, 29, Founder of two NPOs (Interfaith Youth Circle and Back2Basics)
Maimuna Majeed, 55, Realtor
"The most important lesson I've learnt from my mum is… To keep faith, believe in your strength and be a person of integrity. In a society that still looks down on divorced women, my mother broke through those chains, took 4 daughters with her who were not even 20 yet, struggled through five years of hardship, pain and suffering – to give us the life we have today. Despite having everything now, she has never forgotten those days and continues to remind us to not just give thanks but to give back to the society and help those in similar situations."
"I'm most like my mother when... I am stubborn! Hahaha, she hates this about me especially when it is not in her favour! But really,I am just taking after her! Once we put our mind to something, it's done. No one and nothing can convince us otherwise."
"My mother is my... pride and joy. If I can become half of how she was as a mother to me, my children will be the luckiest kids in the world."
Anita Kapoor, Multi Disciplinary Presenter, 48
Ann Kumar, she would have been 75 this year
"The most important lesson I've learnt from my mum is... never give up."
"My mum had had two strokes, diabetes and heart failure in a 20 year period; they had huge impact on her life, but she never gave up, even when she hated feeling weak and miserable. Even when she felt lonely. Even when we disagreed about her care – I was over zealous often – from fear. We loved and understood each other deeply, yet as a caregiver I often had to make tough decisions. My mum not giving up taught me to respect her ideas, choices and needs, to ask her what she wanted, and to curb my own attempts at trying to make everything perfect."
"I'm most like my mother when... I'm helping others; when I'm cooking or dancing; or being a kid."
"My mother is my... eternal guardian."
Jemimah Wei, Host, 26
Wendy Wei, Teacher, 54
"The most important lesson I've learnt from my mum is... To commit to whatever I do, and do it to the best of my ability. It's actually derived from a bible verse in Colossians, and my whole childhood I was always taught to work not to other people's standards, but to do the best I could do with what I had. I think this had a lot to do with why I didn't grow up comparing myself to others. This meant that even though we didn't have a lot growing up, I had a very happy childhood nonetheless!"
A post shared by Jemimah James Wei (@jemmawei) on Apr 7, 2019 at 5:25am PDT
"I'm most like my mother when... We are trying to get stuff in order! We are both planners, and like to know what's going on. Sometimes when I'm planning for a trip, or mapping out details for a passion project, I catch myself obsessing over small things and I'm like whoa – feels like something mum would do. It's good because I'm not naturally a detail-oriented person, so she was a really good influence on me especially in this aspect!"
"My mother is my... Mother. There's just no other word that fits our relationship. To call her a guardian, friend, or sister would be to miss the point. She's my mum, and she's a good mum too."
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Cheryl Miles Nixon, 43, Radio DJ on ONE FM 91.3 (SPH Radio)
Joan De Souza, 63, homemaker
"The most important lesson I've learnt from my mum is... self-worth. My mum married so young and had me when she was just 20 years old. My two younger brothers soon followed, so she never got a chance to explore her potential and find her independance. And so she instilled in me the importance of knowing who I am, where I came from, what I stand for and what I believe in. Unlike most parents eager to see their child married off, she made sure I was self-sufficient, had a sense of my own identity and most importantly had experienced life. It has given me the courage and resilience to weather many storms, to chase my dreams and to persevere until I reach my goals."
"Things were not always easy for us as a family. But because of this solid foundation, grounded in belief in self and in God, I have always felt confident that I could handle anything. She gave me everything she could and made sure I was bold enough to take advantage of every opportunity I could to succeed in life. Thanks mothership!"
"I'm most like my mother when... it comes to cooking and cleaning the house. My mum was very house proud. She was meticulous and organised and hated things being left lying around so she'd put them away immediately. This meant, I could never find my things because I would look at the place I last left it instead of where it should be. Now that I'm married, and have the same pet peeve of things being left lying around, my husband now echoes what I once said as a teenager... "Mum!!!! Where did you put my favourite pair of shoes??" (except it's "honey" in his case!). I am now the official finder of lost things in our household like my mother was when we were growing up."
A post shared by Cheryl Miles (@cherylmiles_) on Apr 15, 2019 at 8:46pm PDT
"She also passed on to me her love for cooking. She did everything with so much love, even the simplest of meals were served with flair. Cooking is the way I show my love and appreciation for the special people in my life and I realise it was the same way for my mum too."
"My mother is my... biggest fan and cheerleader. She has always encouraged every dream I've had and supported me as much as she could to make sure I fulfill it. She has attended every show and competition I've taken part in from every stage of my life - when I was a fitness instructor, dancer, singer and actress. She was there when my girl group Cherry Chocolate Candy won Talentime in 2001. Now, she tunes in to my radio show online when she can. She now lives in the US to be closer to my younger brother and niece who live in California and I miss her terribly."
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Bartram Trail: Jones Gap to Wolf Rock, Highlands, North Carolina
The Fishawk Mountains west of Highlands are a small ridgeline and part of the Bartram Trail's route. In this area, the mountains house massive rock faces and fantastic panoramas of the Little Tennessee River Valley and Nantahala Mountains. This is easily one of the best hikes in the Highlands area. This hike occurred on Saturday, August 16th, 2014. My plan was to start my hike at the Jones Gap Trailhead and hike on the Bartram Trail to Wolf Rock. I would return the same way. Also, I would check out Jones Knob and Whiterock Mountain along the way. I would skip the Fishawk Mountain spur, though.
Duration of Hike: 5 Hours, 15 Minutes
Type of Hike: Out-and-Back with Spurs
Pros: Amazing panoramic views; clear trail until Whiterock Mountain; no prolonged climbing; dry campsites
Cons: Poorly-blazed and periodically unclear trail after Whiterock Mountain; severe overgrowth near Wolf Rock
Best Season(s) to Hike: Winter
Trail Blaze Color(s): Bartram Trail - Yellow; Jones Knob Trail - Blue; Whiterock Mountain Trail - Blue
Beginning Point: Jones Gap at the end of Jones Gap Road
Directions: From Highlands, NC: Follow US Route 64 until Turtle Pong Road goes left. This will be right after you pass Vanhook Glade Campground on the right. Turn left onto Turtle Pond Road, and follow it for about a mile before bearing right onto Dendy Orchard Road. Follow Dendy Orchard Road for a mile before pavement ends and then another 0.3 miles until Jones Gap Road goes left. You'll see a Bartram Trail Access sign. Follow Jones Gap Road for roughly 2 miles to the dead-end at the parking area and trailhead.
I am surprised about the isolation of this hike in contrast to the many, rewarding overlooks. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, I didn't see a single person. Regardless, it's a great hike and here's the description.
At the parking area, there's a kiosk with a couple vague mileages given each direction. You need to head north, or in other words, turn right onto the old, gassy road at the upper end of the parking area. The Bartram Trail gently ascends along the road for 0.2 miles and then proceeds into a wildlife clearing. The clearing is large but overgrown - not much of a clearing anymore. Just past the clearing, at 0.3 miles, the Jones Knob Trail continues forward, while the BT turns right. My plan was to get the Jones Knob Trail out of the way first. It ascends for 0.2 miles up Jones Knob until a great overlook on the left with views of the valley below and the mountains beyond that. the Jones Knob Trail continued a bit more, ascending steeper to the top of Jones Knob. Reach the top of Jones Knob at 0.3 miles; here, there is a large rock face with no views, at first glance. However, there is a little path that goes down to a rough but amazing overlook. While there is not a lot of space here, the views are even more panoramic than on the first overlook. You can see some of what you saw on that overlook, but also, you can see your next destination: Whiterock Mountain, which stands on the right, with Little Fishawk Mountain farther behind it.
There's no trail continuation from here, so you have to retrace your steps back to the Bartram Trail, and turn left. The trail doesn't ascend - instead, it follows the slope on a wide trail. For a while, you will be able to see Jones Gap Road below. It's about a mile to an overlook before Whiterock Gap at 1.9 miles. You can see it on your left. It has similar views as the one from Jones Knob. Whiterock Gap comes shortly afterwards (with some descent after the overlook). Here, there is a sign with the elevation, a nice campsite, and a spur trail to Stevens Creek for anyone in need of water.
After Whiterock Gap, the trail ascends lightly for 0.4 miles to a rarely-traveled spur trail to a small spring on the right. this is your last chance to get water on this hike before you return to this spot. Shortly after the spring, at 2.4 miles, the Whiterock Mountain Trail continues forward while the Bartram Trail bears right. Once again, I was set to get the Whiterock Mountain Overlook out of the way first, so I took the trail. It's 0.3 miles of occasionally steep trail up a couple of small rock faces to the summit of Whiterock Mountain. The trail will descend down the other side of Whiterock Mountain a little bit, but don't stop. The main overlook is below the summit. Just below the summit, you will come out onto a noticeably larger rock face, although still no good views. Keep going down the rock face, and reach a cliff with an astonishing panorama of the Little Tennessee River Valley and Nantahala Mountains. I bet the highest mountain in the distance was Standing Indian Mountain or Albert Mountain. Closer up, US Route 441 passes far below in the depth of the valley. I didn't see it, but I know it was down there. To the right, you can see more of Franklin, as well as Little Fishawk Mountain and Fishawk Mountain. In addition, during the time I was here, the sun was disappearing behind a thick bank of flocus clouds (and some stratus clouds) moving into clear, blue skies. This made for some great pictures. What a view! This is definitely the best point on the entire hike, and only more professional hikers should continue forward. Once you've got your share of the view, retrace your steps back to the Bartram Trail.
Turn left onto the Bartram Trail. The section after Whiterock Mountain is much less traveled (relatively because even the first section was lightly traveled!), and the lack of blazes in many places where they were needed made this section more confusing. The trail will ascend via switchbacks up Little Fishawk Mountain over several rock faces. One of them has a great overlook to the west with similar views, except smaller, as from Whiterock Mountain. After the summit of Litrle Fishawk Mountain, the trail descended down the other side. About a mile from the Whiterock Mountain Trail, the trail reached the Fishawk Mountain Trail. I skipped this one as no views were supposed to be at the summit, only a plaque.
For the next 1.5 miles, the trail followed the slopes, at first of Fishawk Mountain. While it was not ascending or descending, the trail was sloping downward on the left side, which made for uneven and annoying footing. Eventually, it leveled out after bypassing Fishawk Mountain. Blazes were very rare here. I wasn't sure where Wolf Rock was, but after a brief ascent, the trail started steeply descending, and in the dusk, it was hard to say if there would be any overlooks ahead. I decided to turn around after a bit of the steep descend, because I had a feeling Wolf Rock was before that and I missed a spur to it.
In summary, this is an excellent hike, especially for the first half with numerous, outstanding views. However, I would appreciate input from my viewers regarding to where Wolf Rock is. Thank you. Below are my pictures and videos.
Dana K link
Great TR and pix! Thanks for sharing it. Glad you got a chance to enjoy this NC Mountain Treasure!
Jack Rule link
Hey Mark,
If the weather pans out right I might do this trail on Sunday/Monday. Gonna hike from Hale Ridge Road (I think). We're doing an overnight, so we should be able to cover some distance.
I was wondering if you ever found Wolf Rock?
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Steve Jobs ends cancer rumours
By Rosalie Marshall on Jan 6, 2009 6:32AM
Steve Jobs has announced that his weight loss is due to a hormone imbalance, rather than the resurgence of pancreatic cancer, and has insisted that he has no plans to step down as Apple chief executive.
In a letter addressed to the Apple community on Monday, Jobs countered the rumours that had arisen following his decision to pull out of Macworld and send marketing executive Philip Schiller to deliver the keynote in his place.
"Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumours about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed," Jobs said.
The rumours caused Apple shares to shrink at the end of 2008 as investors worried about his health and the future of the company.
"The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I've already begun treatment," Jobs declared in the letter.
"But, just like I didn't lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple's CEO during my recovery."
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HNB's Talent Management Strategy recognized as Best in Asia
Hatton National Bank PLC scored a double win, securing the Award for Talent Management, and the prestigious Excellence in Training & Development Overall Award for Best Results Based Training at the Asia's Training & Development Excellence Awards 2014, held on 1st August 2014 in Singapore, having competed with a host of global brands.
Organized by the Human Resources Development Management Committee of the World HRD Congress, the awards programme focuses on recognizing individuals and companies for achievement in training and development.
"What is significant is that HNB's focused new strategy and direction towards a grow talent model for leadership development and succession pipeline has earned recognition both locally and internally. HNB has always invested in its people and we have now received the Training & Development Overall Award for the 3rd consecutive year, which speaks volumes for our commitment to enabling staff" commented Ms Chiranthi Cooray - Chief HR Officer of HNB.
She also added that HNB has established a unique Corporate Academy concept creating a leadership track for qualified professionals, high flyers and banking specialists, further augmenting its multi-faceted and diverse talent pool.
HNB has been recognized for its excellence in Human Resource and Learning and Development practices consistently. Some of the awards received during 2014 include Merit Awards for Talent Management and People Development at the recently concluded National HR Excellence Awards organized by the Institute of Personnel Management (IPM), Sri Lanka
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01:18 DAL Sergei Zubov (2) Mike Modano and Brenden Morrow
02:07 EDM Shawn Horcoff (2)
05:52 DAL Stu Barnes (1) Ulf Dahlen and Philippe Boucher
06:15 DAL Niko Kapanen (1) Jere Lehtinen and Rob DiMaio
Penalty Summary Table
10:25 EDM Mike York: Interference - Goalkeeper — 2 min
14:59 DAL Richard Matvichuk: High sticking — 2 min
02:01 EDM Eric Brewer: High sticking — 2 min
05:25 EDM Scott Ferguson: Slashing — 2 min
08:11 EDM Ethan Moreau: Slashing — 2 min
14:52 DAL Scott Young: Tripping — 2 min
16:46 DAL Marty Turco: Delay of game — 2 min
03:38 EDM Brad Isbister: Hooking — 2 min
08:58 DAL Brenden Morrow: Tripping — 2 min
20:00 EDM Mike Comrie: Roughing — 2 min
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SHFT
Jason Arnott 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 15:42
Stu Barnes 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 33.3 26 17:26
Philippe Boucher 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 31 18:44
Ulf Dahlen 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 13 9:48
Rob DiMaio 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 19 15:00
Derian Hatcher 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 35 29:49
Niko Kapanen 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100.0 21 15:18
Jere Lehtinen 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 25 19:05
Manny Malhotra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 6 3:47
Richard Matvichuk 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 25 17:07
Mike Modano 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 28 21:09
Brenden Morrow 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 27 20:45
Kirk Muller 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 10:33
David Oliver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 9 5:28
Stephane Robidas 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 13 8:35
Darryl Sydor 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.0 21 14:15
Scott Young 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 25 17:55
Sergei Zubov 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 25.0 37 31:36
TOTAL 3 6 9 8 3 0 0 28 10.7
Goalies Table
Marty Turco W 1 24 23 .958 0 2 59:58
Edmonton Oilers Table
Eric Brewer 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 29 23:39
Mike Comrie 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 14 10:21
Cory Cross 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 30 21:17
Radek Dvorak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 12:32
Scott Ferguson 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 16 10:01
Ales Hemsky 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 19 14:26
Shawn Horcoff 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100.0 21 18:01
Brad Isbister 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 12 8:12
Georges Laraque 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 11 9:42
Todd Marchant 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 24:46
Ethan Moreau 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 20 13:14
Fernando Pisani 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 20 17:16
Marty Reasoner 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 20 14:55
Alexei Semenov 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 10:59
Jason Smith 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0 30 22:08
Ryan Smyth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0 20 18:38
Steve Staios 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 30 25:52
Mike York 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 20 15:10
TOTAL 1 0 1 12 1 0 0 24 4.2
Tommy Salo L 3 28 25 .893 0 0 58:51
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The Best Kitchen Remodeling Contractors in Phoenix
by HomeBuilderDigest
Throughout Arizona, the kitchen is the center of home life, the space where families congregate before and after taking on the day, the room where food and memories are made. Homes are built around the kitchen, so the kitchen must shine. While kitchen remodeling can seem like a daunting task, the skilled and experienced general contractors and kitchen remodelers on our Phoenix list know the contemporary kitchen well. These firms have proven experience in home remodeling throughout the Phoenix metro area, working on everything from upscale new kitchens worthy of an award-winning chef to updating and refurbishing the small kitchens in Arizona’s many mid-century ranch homes.
Whether you have a budget for your growing family’s much-needed kitchen makeover or you already know that you want to splurge for a premier new kitchen complete with stone kitchen island, custom kitchen cabinets, and high-end countertops, these companies will be able to build the new kitchen of your dreams.
If you are thinking about building a custom home, we recommend checking each builder’s license with the local licensing board, speaking to past clients, and using our bidding system to get competitive quotes from at least 3 contractors. Getting multiple bids is the best way to ensure you get a fair price and that bids include the complete scope of work.
15) MK Remodeling & Design
Website | 480.285.6443 | 8051 E. Plymouth, Mesa, AZ 85207
Founded in 2007 and based in Mesa, MK Remodeling & Design is a full-service, family-owned remodeling company specializing in kitchen and bath design and kitchen and bath remodeling. A member of the National Kitchen & Bath Association and recipient of an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, MK Remodeling & Design does it all: kitchen design, bathroom design, color and finish consultation, tile and flooring work, architectural and custom lighting, cabinet and countertop installation, and window and door installation.
The company is led by President Mike Gillis, Chief Financial Officer James Gillis, and Design Consultant Kristina Gillis. Mike Gillis entered the residential remodeling industry ten years ago from the business world. Kristina Gillis has a degree in design studies, architecture, and interior design from Arizona State University.
MK Remodeling & Design, whose work has been featured in Kitchen and Bath Design News, also manufactures semi-custom kitchen and bathroom cabinets to fit any project. The company’s exceptional kitchen designs and remodeling projects feature gorgeous kitchen cabinets, built-in bar seating, stainless steel refrigerators, stoves, and hoods, elegant pendant kitchen lighting, and other popular features of today’s best new kitchens. MK Remodeling works throughout Phoenix, Scottsdale, and the wider metro area on projects with diverse budgets, from whole-home remodels, kitchen and bathroom remodels, to finishing touches.
14) Custom Creative Remodeling
Website | 602.428.6112 | 8260 E. Raintree Drive, Suite 7, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Winner of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry’s 2017 Contractor of the Year Award for Residential Kitchen $60,000 to $100k, Scottsdale’s Custom Creative Remodeling is a one-stop remodeling company with its finger on the pulse of the industry, promising to “design with you in mind.”
Members of NARI and American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), Custom Creative Remodeling is headed by owner and senior designer Praveen Puranam, project manager Art Herrera, and lead designer Anna Drew. The eight-person company, in operation since 2015, also won the 2017 regional Contractor of the Year Award for Residential Kitchen $30,000 to $60,000 and for Residential Bath $25,000 to $50,000. In 2016 the company also won Contractor of the Year Awards for Residential Kitchen $30,000 to $60,000 and Residential Bath Under $25,000.
For its recent NARI-award winning kitchen remodel in Scottsdale, Custom Creative Remodeling transformed a tired space into a “transitional kitchen with a twist of country charms,” using distressed-wood tile, pendant lighting, a farmhouse sink, shaker-style cabinets, and stainless steel appliances to create a stylish, warm, and inviting new kitchen with a large stone island and plenty of breathing room.
13) Pankow Construction
Website | 602.595.0799 | 3620 E. Campbell Avenue, Suite D, Phoenix, AZ 85018
Founded in 2005, Pankow Construction’s many remodeling projects around the Phoenix metro area include refurbishing the kitchens of mid-century modern and ranch-style homes, which are ubiquitous in the Phoenix metro area’s historic and upscale residential neighborhoods. Serving Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Paradise Valley, Pankow Construction is also dedicated to green practices, recycling about 50 percent of its construction waste. President Rob C. Pankow, who grew up in Phoenix is LEED AP Certified and a member of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI).
For a kitchen remodel in one “Modern Ranch,” Pankow created an elegant model for exactly how to give a great old home a contemporary makeover, adding subway tile, quartz countertops, wood floors, pendant lighting over a large kitchen island, and a “bi-fold” door near the kitchen to open it up to natural light.
The company was featured in an episode of the DIY Network’s show “House Crashers” because of its more than 10 years of experience with 3D remodeling, the process of creating three-dimensional computer-generated floor plans that allow clients to visualize their remodeling project in detail before building it in real life.
12) CKBR – Complete Kitchen & Bath Remodeling
Website | 602.438.6638 | 4202 E. Elwood Street #20, Phoenix, AZ 85040
Working throughout the Phoenix metro area, Complete Kitchen & Bath Remodeling offers everything from high-end kitchen remodeling to budget-minded kitchen makeovers. Don Wilkerson learned the remodeling trade growing up in Illinois with his family’s construction company and while working for Home Depot Home Services. He moved to Phoenix in 2005, and in 2009 put his more than 20 years of experience in the remodeling industry to work in creating his own company, CKBR in Phoenix, where the company has a Designer Gallery showroom. Serving the entire Phoenix metro-area with kitchen remodeling, bath remodeling, and home improvement, CKBR has been honored with a Kitchen Remodel of the Year Award from Scottsdale Living Magazine.
CKBR provides its clients with the must-have kitchen materials and design elements, and its many and varied kitchen makeovers in the Phoenix metro area have often included large kitchen islands as the focal point — a place for the family to gather and talk about the day while dinner is on the stove. CKBR’s kitchen remodels also feature stylish under-cabinet lighting, beautiful custom wood cabinets, expert stone and tile countertops, stainless steel refrigerators and stoves, custom drawers and storage spaces, and elegant pendant lighting.
11) Beautiful Remodel LLC
Website | PO BOX 1762, Gilbert, AZ 85299
Born in South Wales, Steve Price, Beautiful Remodel LLC’s founder, designer, and contractor, has more than 25 years of experience in the remodeling industry, including working on high-end remodeling projects and historical renovations in Great Britain, California, and New York.
Price has worked for many high-profile clients, including the Bechtel and Disney families, Robert Redford, and Robin Williams. Price’s work has been featured on national television, and in publications such as Phoenix Home & Gardens, Home, and Better Homes & Gardens. Though he’s been remodeling since he was twelve years old when he helped his parents refurbish their historic home, Price has a varied background that includes touring with his band Hurrah! and opening up for U2 and David Bowie.
His design and contracting work is similarly varied, but always elegant and eye-catching. One of his most beautiful and unique projects is the “SJ Kitchen,” a modern remodeling project featuring a blue wood island with a pot-filling sink, a dramatic copper hood, grey cabinets, wood floors, and playful orb-lamps hanging over a fun mid-century modern dining room table.
10) Luster Custom Homes + Remodeling
Website | 480.304.5525 | 18801 N. Thompson Peak Parkway, Suite 240, Scottsdale, AZ 85255
While focusing on remodeling luxury homes in Scottsdale and other upscale areas of the Phoenix metro area, Luster Custom Homes also keeps an eye on sustainability and the latest technology while creating dream-kitchen makeovers.
LEED Certified homebuilding industry veteran Tanner Luster started the company in 2007 after heading the custom homes division of California’s Summerwood Homes for nearly a decade. Since then the company has completed more than 250 jobs in the Phoenix metro area. Among many accolades, Luster Custom Homes + Remodeling has won Home of the Year and platinum awards from the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB).
Luster Custom Homes + Remodeling creates contemporary kitchens that reflect the room’s varied uses in today’s home as both a gathering place for the family and space where serious culinary creativity occurs. Typically bright and stylish, many of Luster’s kitchen remodels feature large islands with roomy seating, and have essential pot-filling sinks, and plenty of room for slicing, dicing, plating, and eating.
9) AFS Building Group
Website | 602.841.2613 | 8550 N. 31st Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, 85051
AFS Building Group has been involved in kitchen remodeling and creating new kitchens around the Phoenix metro area since 1991. The company has won several Contractor of the Year Awards for their kitchen remodels from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI), as well as Qualified Remodeler Magazine’s Chrysalis Award for Whole House Remodel Under $250k.
Founders Wayne Griffin and George Brunell each already had more than twenty years in the construction industry when they started the company. Partner Tony Dotolo joined the firm about fifteen years later. Both President Griffin and Vice President Brunell are NARI Certified Remodelers. Additionally, Brunell, who is also the company’s lead project manager, has experience in historical renovation and green building, and has participated in Scottsdale’s Green Building program. A graduate of Penn State University, Brunell currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Greater Phoenix Chapter of NARI.
For one of its award-winning kitchen remodels, AFS showed what it can do with a small kitchen in a condo remodelling project, creating a bright and elegant space with a crystal chandelier and monochromatic colors for an open, airy feel.
8) Kirk Development
Website | 602.944.3658 | 340 E. Caron Street, Phoenix, AZ 85020
A nationally recognized, highly skilled and experienced remodeling company serving the Phoenix metro area, Kirk Development has been creating new kitchens around the Phoenix metro area since 1978. Among its many honors and accolades, Kirk Development has been named a Contractor of the Year for kitchens, bathrooms, and additions by both the national and local chapters of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI). The company has been named in Qualified Remodeler Magazine’s Top 500 list, in Remodeling Magazine’s Big 50 list, and was twice named Designer of the Year by Qualified Remodeler Magazine. Company head Tom Sertich is a past president of the Greater Phoenix NARI chapter, and is a NARI Certified Remodeler, a Certified Graduate Remodeler of the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB), and a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist through the National Home Builders Remodelers Council.
Kirk Development’s varied portfolio of kitchen projects includes the top features and design ideas of today’s new kitchen, including gorgeous stone countertops, useful kitchen islands, custom cabinets, and stainless steel appliances.
7) Apollo Builders
Website | 480.980.1156 | 13402 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite A-103, Scottsdale, AZ 85254
Apollo Builders started life in Centreville, Virginia, nearly 30 years ago, and expanded to Phoenix in 2005. Since then, founders Tyler and Scott Kestner have become local leaders in home improvement and kitchen remodeling, serving the upscale Scottsdale and Paradise Valley markets. Members of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI), Apollo Builders has been honored with its Contractor of the Year Award, and has also won Qualified Remodeler Magazine’s prestigious Chrysalis Award. The company’s work has been featured in AZ Lifestyle Magazine, and on Phoenix’s Fox and ABC affiliates.
Apollo is particularly focused on using green materials, technologies, and techniques in their kitchen designs and remodeling projects, including cabinets, paint and flooring free from volatile organic compounds (VOC), energy- and water-efficient appliances and lighting, and recyclable and sustainable building materials.
Among the company’s many jaw-dropping kitchen projects, the “Mankosvy Residence” stands out for its clean minimalism and daring playfulness. All sleek and shiny and white save for its large lime-green kitchen island, its lime-green backsplash, and warm wood flooring, the Mankosvy kitchen is unforgettable — sophisticated and eminently inviting at the same time. Working throughout the Phoenix metro area, Apollo Builders works on everything from high-end complete kitchen remodels in premier homes, to smaller budget-conscious kitchen makeovers and home improvement projects
6) Cook Remodeling
Website | 480.491.3077 | 100 W. Hoover Avenue #12, Mesa, AZ 85210
A widely recognized leader in Phoenix’s home improvement industry, Cook Remodeling has been remodeling and updating the Phoenix metro area’s kitchens since 1979. Led by husband and wife team Jeff and Janet Cook, the company has been named the “No. 1 Kitchen & Bath Remodeling Company” by Ranking Arizona — The Best of Arizona Businesses, one of the Top 500 remodelers in the country by Qualified Remodeler Magazine, and a Phoenix “Remodeling Market Leader” by Professional Remodeling Magazine.
Arizona State University graduate Jeff Cook is a National Association of Homebuilders and Remodelers (NAHR) Certified Graduate Remodeler (CGR) with more than forty years in the industry. Janet Cook is a NAHR Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist and a graduate of the University of Nebraska. The Cooks are also members of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry and the National Kitchen & Bath Association. The company’s kitchen and bath remodels have been featured in Signature Kitchen & Bath Magazine, and has been honored with a Best Project Over $150k from the Professional Builders Council and a Remodeler of the Year Award from the Professional Remodeling Council.
5) Legacy Design Build Remodeling
Website | 480.991.1993 | 7750 E. Gelding Drive, Suite #4, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Founded in 1988, Legacy Design Build is led by senior managers Stewart Truitt, Ed Feeney, and Mark Dixon, and has a staff with many years of experience in the Phoenix metro remodeling business. The company works on kitchen, bathroom, and whole-home remodeling, as well as home improvement projects in Scottsdale, Phoenix, Glendale, and more.
Legacy has won several Contractor of the Year Awards from the local and regional chapters of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI), including two for Residential Kitchen under $40,000, and one for Residential Kitchen $40,000 to $80,000. The company has also won Qualified Remodeler Magazine’s Chrysalis Award and Master Design Award, and was named to that magazine’s list of the Top 500 remodelers in the country. For one of its recent national award-winning kitchen renovations, Legacy Design Build Remodeling took a galley-style kitchen in Scottsdale and converted it from rustic to contemporary. The wonderful design features white cabinets that brighten up the narrow space, topped with elegant grey stone countertops, which contrast nicely with earthier shades of reddish brown in the beautiful tile and brickwork.
4) Hochuli Design & Remodeling
Website | 602.451.0323 | 501 S. 48th Street, Suite 112, Tempe, AZ 85281
Husband and wife design-build remodeling team Scott and Lorrie Hochuli opened Hochuli Design & Remodeling in 2001 and have since completed more than 500 remodeling and home improvement projects in the Phoenix metro area. Working across the Valley in Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Chandler, Mesa, and Gilbert, the Hochulis bring superior design and craftsmanship to their kitchen updates.
Photo courtesy of Hochuli Design & Remodeling Team
Lorrie, with a degree in interior design & space planning, leads the design process and Scott, an Arizona native with more than 25 years in the building industry, heads up the construction phase. Members of the National Association of The Remodeling Industry (NARI), the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), and the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), the Hochuli’s work has been featured in Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine, Kitchen & Bath Design News Magazine, and Remodeling Magazine.
The Hochuli Design & Remodeling team is particularly adept at solving complex remodeling challenges while keeping the homeowners’ best interests in mind. The team designed and built an amazing kitchen remodel in Phoenix, which won Regional Award Recognition, and was featured in a national magazine. Not to be outdone, the Hochuli’s won 2018 National Award Recognition for an interior staircase remodel in Central Phoenix.
3) Premier Kitchen & Bath
Website | 480.725.7686 | 4856 E. Baseline Road, Suite 108, Mesa, AZ 85206
Offering “red carpet remodeling” to the Phoenix metro area out of a 4,000-square-foot showroom in Mesa, Premier Kitchen & Bath is a nationally recognized kitchen remodeler that’s been creating new looks for kitchens since 1994.
A design-build firm with several in-house kitchen designers, the company is headed by president and founder Greg Heden, who has more than 25 years of experience in construction and management. Premier Kitchen & Bath has been named to Qualified Remodeler Magazine’s prestigious Top 500 list of remodelers.
Over its many years in the Valley’s kitchen-remodeling industry, Premier Kitchen & Bath has developed a portfolio featuring sought-after kitchen design ideas, from stone kitchen islands, stylish hoods, stainless steel appliances, and elegant dark-wood cabinets that work perfectly with subdued under-cabinet lighting. True kitchen experts, the folks at Premier are versed in all manner of kitchen design styles, from country cozy to modern minimalist, but to each project they bring an expert knowledge of what is hot and what is classic in the new Arizona kitchen.
2) Republic West Remodeling
Website | 480.428.2594 | 8101 E. McDowell Road, Suite 205, Scottsdale, AZ 85257
A nationally recognized kitchen remodeling team, Republic West Remodeling has completed more than 17,000 remodeling and home improvement projects in the Phoenix metro area since opening in 1995. Co-founder and president Jim Weisman, a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, leads an experienced staff of in-house design and construction professionals.
The company is a three-time winner of the Better Business Bureau’s Business Ethics Award and has won numerous Master Design Awards from Qualified Remodeler Magazine, which also named Republic West a “Top Metro Leader” and ranked the company No. 89 on its prestigious list of the Top 500 remodelers in the country. Republic West has also won Contractor of the Year Awards from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) for kitchens and whole home design. The company has been named a Dealer of the Year by Windows & Door Magazine and one of “Arizona’s Coolest Companies” by bizAZ Magazine.
Republic West has an eclectic portfolio of both large and small kitchen remodeling projects, from the warm and cozy to the sleek and sophisticated.
1) Homework Remodels
Website | 602.478.5102 | 4150 N. 20th Street, Suite 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016
Founded in 2005 by local remodeling guru Steve Shinn, Homework Remodels is a highly experienced company specializing in remodeling the Phoenix metro area’s many older homes, including the valley’s representative historic bungalows, ranch-style homes, and mid-century modern gems. Shinn, who also heads Tri-Lite Builders, has certifications from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) as a Remodeler, a Kitchen & Bath Remodeler, a Universal Design Professional, and a Green Professional. Shinn has also been the president of the Greater Phoenix Chapter of NARI, which recently awarded Homework the Contractor of the Year Award for a kitchen remodel in Scottsdale — the fifth time the company has won the prestigious honor.
Shinn and Homework have been featured in publications such as Consumer Reports, Remodeling Magazine, Qualified Remodeler Magazine, and Green Builder Magazine, and have been featured on HGTV’s Bang For Your Buck.
Homework’s NARI-award winning kitchen remodel over $150k in Scottsdale’s upscale Gainey Ranch neighborhood is typical of what the company can do for a kitchen, featuring a large stone kitchen island that seats three, a Sub-Zero Wolf refrigerator, and an imported marble backsplash.
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An aerial photo taken in 2014 shows the current South Peninsula Hospital campus. (Homer News file photo)
After complaints, state board finds Homer physical therapist didn’t violate regulations
by Megan Pacer
Thursday, December 20, 2018 4:14pm
NewsLocal NewsSouth Peninsula Hospital
Two complaints made against a physical therapist at South Peninsula Hospital to the state’s licensing board for therapists have been reviewed and closed. An unidentified board member found the therapist did not violate statutes or regulations governing the practice.
Therapist Douglas Westphal was placed on administrative leave from the hospital in December 2017 following allegations made by several female staff members of the rehabilitation department that he had acted inappropriately. The women alleged Westphal, who at the time was director of the department and their direct supervisor, had bullied, sexually harassed or otherwise harassed them at work.
Following an internal hospital investigation, Wesphal returned from his administrative leave and went back to work as a physical therapist, but is no longer the rehab department’s director. That’s a position he had served in since 2009.
One former patient alleged Westphal had touched her inappropriately during a physical therapy session in 2009.
That woman, Lora Wilke, filed a formal complaint against Westphal to the Alaska Board of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy. So did occpational therapist Sarah Bollwitt, one of Westphal’s former employees who was among those making allegations. Bollwitt transferred out of the physical therapy department and into home health.
Both women got letters dated Dec. 7 from an investigator with the physical and occupational therapy board informing them their complaints had been reviewed by a board member and their cases closed. Both letters were sent to the Homer News.
Investigator Autumn Roark wrote in the letters that “there was no indication of a violation(s) of the statutes and regulations that govern the practice of physical and occupational therapy in the State of Alaska.”
In each case, this determination was made by one of seven members of the board who reviewed the respective inquiry. In regard to Bollwitt’s complaint, Roark wrote that the reviewing board member determined the alleged violations were an internal hospital personnel issue that had already been addressed.
Neither case advanced to an official investigation phase. The Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing process for a complaint is for it and information gathered in an inquiry to be reviewed by a single board member. The complaint only moves into an official investigation phase if that board member determines there was a violation of statutes or regulations.
In an email to Bollwitt provided to the Homer News, Roark wrote that the board can’t give out the name of the member who performed the review, saying that information is confidential. The members who sit on the physical and occupational therapy board are: Robert Calhoon, an occupational therapist from Anchorage; Jennifer Carlson, a physical therapist in Fairbanks; Ruth Kostik, a public member in Juneau; James Parietti, a physical therapist in Chugiak; Keith Poorbaugh, a physical therapist in Palmer; Mari-Margaret Tydingco, an occupational therapist in Sitka; and Enlow Walker, a physician in North Pole.
Both Wilke and Bollwitt said they had no comments about the outcome of their complaints.
Derotha Ferraro, South Peninsula Hospital spokesperson, said hospital administration were pleased to get the news of the complaint results.
“We take complaints seriously and support an outside regulatory body looking into unusual allegations,” Ferraro wrote in an email. “We appreciate the state investigated (sic), and are happy with the outcome.”
According to a search of Westphal’s physical therapy license on the state licensing website, there are not currently any agreements, actions or accusations associated with his license. Those are all different outcomes that could come from an investigation into a complaint against a physical therapist.
Reach Megan Pacer at mpacer@homernews.com.
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Marooned (1969)
G | 2h 14min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 11 December 1969 (USA)
Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?
Mayo Simon (screenplay), Martin Caidin (novel)
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After their latest rocket fails, Dr. Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer have to start over again. This time, Gen. Thayer approaches Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers
Countdown (1967)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Desperate to reach the moon first, N.A.S.A. sends a man and shelter separately, one-way. He must find it to survive. He can't return until Apollo is ready.
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Adventure | Thriller
USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.
Director: John Sturges
Stars: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
McQ (1974)
Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.
Stars: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
The Satan Bug (1965)
Crime | Mystery | Sci-Fi
A germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.
Stars: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis
The Stalking Moon (1968)
A sympathetic retired army scout takes-in a white woman and her half-Apache son, not knowing that the boy's father, a murderous renegade Apache, is after them.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster
An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.
Stars: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
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A Eurasian photographer uses his women in an attempt to get American nationality.
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A runaway teenager and a mixed-race horse breeder strike an unlikely friendship in the context of common hardships.
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When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
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A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
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After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts capsule. Written by KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu>
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The version titled "Space Travelers" is the one spoofed by Mystery Science Theater 3000. In this version, the scene where Celia Pruett learns of her husband's death is accompanied by a truly AWFUL electronic score (it sounds literally like random keys played on a toy synthesizer, something MST3K made note of). The original version has no music during this scene (and almost no other music; a muted, very low-key score can be heard when Pruett leaves the ship to "fix" it). See more »
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31 March 2005 | by inspectors71 – See all my reviews
John Sturges' Marooned, based on the Martin Caidin novel, tells the story of three Apollo astronauts trapped in orbit when their main engine fails to fire, and the slow, agonizing realization that there's pretty much nothing that can be done for them.
Unless.
It's a slow movie, with Sturges taking his time (or his sweet time if you have no patience for this stuff) to build suspense and tension. Miles of film is expended detailing the boys at Mission Control and Kennedy trying to implement the "unless" I mentioned, a bold rescue mission that will arrive in the last moments of their O2, lifting off into the teeth of a hurricane, no less.
What makes the movie work are the very things that were lampooned so accurately by the boys at Mystery Science Theatre 3000, the terse acronym-filled jargon, the performances by Peck, Janssen, Crenna, Hackman, and Franciscus, and the glaringly non-CGI special effects (that looked great in 1970).
For a space-happy 11 year old, this was the ne plus ultra of movies--and the fact that the boys on the Apollo 13 had recently gotten back alive made Marooned more than a leetle beet unnerving in its topicality.
There's a moment that the movie transcends a clinical yawner, and takes on the mantle of heartbreakingly human drama. When the astronauts' wives are brought in to talk to them on small TV monitors, one after the other, and Nancy Kovack coldly tells the NASA suit "I know why we're here--we're here to say goodbye to them," you feel sucker-punched. It didn't seem real until right then.
Then the wives are warned that their husbands are "degraded," meaning they're tired, cold, and scared beyond description. Richard Crenna and Lee Grant have a touching exchange, the commander and his tough, beautiful, middle-aged wife trying to say everything to each other except goodbye. Kovack struggles with James Franciscus because her husband is the Spock of this mission, clinical and scientific. Yet he angrily assures her that they will make it. You can see him expending every bit of energy to convince her and himself that he's not a dead man orbiting.
Finally, Mariette Hartley tries to comfort Gene Hackman, who is bordering on hysteria and panic. She watches in a gut-wrenching horror as he reacts to her reading a letter the wives have written to the President. He cries and rages something like "I broke the lawn-mower, and I can't fix it and everyone is blaming me for it!" Hartley is hustled away, but she stops in dumb horror as she sees her husband on the big monitor in flight control, screaming "Don't kill me!" as Crenna and Franciscus hold him down to shoot him full of sedatives.
It's the most painful and human moment of the movie. Sturges has kept you on the edge of boredom, then wham, it's somehow all real. The movie goes from intellect to emotion in a matter of a few moments. I didn't appreciate this as an a tweenager, but God how my mouth went dry watching it a few days ago. These poor bastards are already in their titanium-shielded coffin!
The rest of the movie is predictable, but brutal in its denouement. You know that, if the men are to be saved, there's going to be some dues paid. I remember seeing Marooned at the Garland Theatre in Spokane in May, 1970. When those dues were paid, my mom was tearing up.
I thought, typical for a woman.
I was clearing my throat a lot and having trouble focusing on the screen when my family and I watched it over the weekend.
Adulthood has its upside, I guess.
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3 Essential Ingredients You Need to Make Your Content Go Viral
Costco achieved viral success with an 8-foot-tall stuffed bear. Here's what you can do to help your brand go viral too.
By Brian HartFounder, Flackable@BrianHartPR
Costco continues to achieve viral success with memes featuring a giant teddy bear returning to some of the superstore giant's locations this fall. Rather than being a mere spectator of this phenomenon, the brand has embraced the memes, fueling their visibility and engagement across social media platforms.
While most modern brands use social media as a basic means of marketing to and communicating with the public, it's often the quirkiest of stories and images, like an eight-foot stuffed bear, that create a whirlwind on social media. With that said, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what will create a buzz or earn wide visibility.
There's no guarantee that any one piece of content created, conversation had, or social media post will go viral. But to best position your efforts for success, it's important to learn from others, factoring in a variety of nuances in an effort to earn your brand's day in the sun.
Be different.
One key to creating buzz about your brand is to go against the grain. If your competitors are operating text-heavy social campaigns, try incorporating graphics and video. If they're overly serious, have some fun.
Identify what others aren't doing, and come up with creative ways to highlight what makes your brand unique. Sometimes the content you market can be a bit random, but if it's an exciting enough idea, it can lead to viral success.
Think back several years ago to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
8 Game Changing Marketing Lessons From The ALS #IceBucketChallenge @DavidAFrankel http://t.co/SV4r6pIows
-- Inc. (@Inc) August 19, 2014
With one simple, random idea, the Ice Bucket Challenge became a national sensation. The ALS association used keen marketing and strategy to bring mainstream attention to their cause, raising over $115 million according to The New York Times.
Be edgy.
When seeking attention online, sometimes it's good to stir the pot. The key is to keep it light, good humored and tasteful. Otherwise, your post can quickly gain attention for all the wrong reasons.
The key when being edgy is knowing how to toe the line. And if your tongue-in-cheek content has a target, it's good to find one who can take a joke.
The fast food restaurant Wendy's, for example, does an incredible job of engaging customers and competition alike. They've established a likeable tone to their wit and humor, all while bolstering engagement with their brand.
Baby Got Bac-onator? https://t.co/svNHsAIieX
-- Wendy's (@Wendys) April 2, 2018
If you're looking for a princess, you might want to let it go. Not interested in the frozen beef kingdom https://t.co/4VMYRuL2oc
-- Wendy's (@Wendys) December 20, 2017
Be awesome.
Content that appeals to audiences' highest aspirations can go a long way. Despite the trolling and negativity that is commonplace online, most people go to social media for positivity - they want to laugh, smile, learn and feel better than they did before logging in.
Examples of awesome, viral content can include heroic acts, comeback stories, acts of kindness, rags to riches stories and overcoming the odds. These are the types of posts that can inspire massive clicks, shares and comments.
A stray cat named Flame was adopted by workers at the Belmont Fire Department in Greenville, South Carolina https://t.co/DTlAdxsptB pic.twitter.com/sCVqyyIcIW
-- The Dodo (@dodo) August 27, 2017
There is no magic bullet when it comes to going viral. Many worthy attempts may only see moderate attention, making it hard to pinpoint what the general public is going to latch onto and push to the Costco bear's level.
The most important key is to remain consistent in your efforts. You won't find any level of viral success through inactivity. To give your brand a chance, make generating creative content and taking risks a part of your social media routine.
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50 Best Websites for Entrepreneurs
For entrepreneurs, time is especially precious. Every wasted minute is a lost opportunity for networking, growing the business, and of course making money.
By Drew HendricksContributor, Inc.com@DrewAHendricks
There are many websites out there that can help entrepreneurs grow a bigger, better business--but there are many more time-suck websites. How can you tell the difference? By depending on a cheat sheet for the best websites for entrepreneurs.
Here, a cheat sheet of 50 to get you started:
1. ForEntrepreneurs.com
The name says it all: This website is the result of David Skok's years of experience at Matrix Partners. With an MBA to complement his background, Skok's approach to startup techniques and financial modeling is user friendly, though strongly technical, rich in charts and equations.
2. OneVest.com
One of the most reputable of crowdfunding sites, this is where you can raise a maximum of $5 million from investors with a proven background. If crowdfunding is part of your startup strategy, head to the site with a reputation in the field for making it easy.
3. AudienceBloom.com
You're an entrepreneur, not an SEO guru, so leave the technical aspects of your online presence to the pros. Plus, check out the blog to get the latest updates in laymen's terms on internet marketing, SEO, mobile readiness, and the like.
4. Dutiee.com
The go-to site for social entrepreneurs, you can glean information on how to succeed as a nonprofit and ways to incorporate social into any type of business. There's an emphasis on ethically made goods, too.
5. Quora.com
This one's a no-brainer for many. Some of the most reputable entrepreneurs and leaders in the tech industry come here to dole out information, making it among the best websites to get your questions answered.
6. AngelList.com
Do you dream of finding an angel investor? A product of Venture Hacks, this is the platform for new companies to get equity from reliable investors; it also features templates to minimize attorney fees.
7. EpicLaunch.com
Even though this site is aimed at younger entrepreneurs, it's brimming with resources no matter what your age. It's a great tool for anyone new to the world of startups and has proved itself as a catalyst for building strong foundations.
8. BusinessOwnersToolkit.com
This simple guide is straightforward with no fluff. There's zero risk of wasting time here, and it reveres versatility, so it appeals to all kinds of entrepreneurs. If you want to get straight ito the heart of things, this is where you start.
9. ChicCEO.com
Designed for female entrepreneurs, you'll find plenty of downloadable resources here from a plethora of contracts to business plans. Even though it's meant for women, there are plenty of resources for both genders.
10. AllBusiness.com
This site is rich with advice and tips for just about everything an entrepreneur may need to know. From office etiquette to internet marketing, it's a favorite daily stop for many small business owners-to-be.
11. ForteFoundation.com
The product of premier business schools and mega corporations, this site is meant to encourage women to pursue business leadership roles. It combines the best advice from the best resources around the country.
12. Medium.com
Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, created Medium as a chic platform for blogging. However, there are also fitting reads focused on careers from successful entrepreneurs providing first-person perspectives.
13. TheBossNetwork.org
Join an online community of female entrepreneurs who encourage and support each other virtually. There's zero tolerance for flaming and trolling here, so you get just full support from peers and mentors.
14. ASmartBear.com
This is the platform for Jason Cohen, who doles out marketing and entrepreneurial advice. More than 40,000 people subscribe and depend on Cohen's lessons learned to help them shape their business.
15. StartupCompanyLawyer.com
Don't have the budget to hire a full-time attorney? This is where you can get the requisite legal advice necessary via posts that tackle the most asked questions.
16. EscapeFromCubicleNation.com
Read the inspiring blog of someone who ditched the office life to become an entrepreneur. It's easy to relate and always a better option to learn from the mistakes of others than to make them all yourself.
17. BrazenLife.com
The startup site for younger professionals, it's worth taking a look at the entrepreneurial section. The advice is straightforward, easy to digest, and designed for those ready to branch out on their own.
18. AllThingsD.com
Technically, this is a news site for technical professionals but it's a must for anyone who needs to keep up with the industry. Especially fruitful for coders, this is where you stay up to date on tech news that impacts entrepreneurs.
19. VentureBlog.com
Find out what Dave Hornik or August Capital has to say about venture capital. Whether you're looking for investors or want to become one, this is where the inside scoop is found.
20. Reddit:startups
You might go to Reddit to distract yourself, but it's actually an incredibly useful website if you can avoid the time-suck spots. Head over to the startup section to find truly helpful advice from those who have been there.
21. CopyBlogger.com
You don't need to be a marketer to benefit from one of the best marketing blogs around. Get tidbits of advice that apply to entrepreneurs and startups (and not just in the marketing realm).
22. CrunchBase.com
Everything you need to know about funding your startup can be found here. Plus, learn about the early days of startups, get notified of changes to your industry, and find out how cataloging rounds work.
23. Entrepreneur.com
Another obvious one, right? However, signing up for Entrepreneur's notifications or getting the app can help you stay up to date on the latest strategies and news affecting entrepreneurs. It's a must for founders.
24. 500Hats.com
Dave McClure started this blog to share his pearls of wisdom on being an entrepreneur. It's enjoyable to read, and learning from the founder of 500 Startups is a great way to get wisdom.
25. FTC.gov
The Federal Trade Commission has a section on the Franchise Rule that you need to get comfortable with. Find out all of the legal issues involved with franchise purchasing before you get in too deep.
26. HBR.org
The Harvard Business Review blogs are a fantastic place to learn from the best. It's the hub of MBAs from the Ivy League and features regular updates focused on entrepreneurs.
27. News.YCombinator.com
Dubbed the techie Reddit site, Hacker News is where you'll find all things entrepreneurial with a coding edge. It's the product of Incubator Y Combinator and provides and insider's view on the industry.
28. KISSmetrics.com
More and more entrepreneurs are managing their own websites, which means they need to stay on top of metrics. This site helps you go above and beyond Google Analytics, complete with a two-week free trial.
29. Microsoft.com
Head on over to the Small Business Hub at Microsoft.com and find phenomenal videos, newsletters, and other resources for small business owners. The information is useful, relevant, and designed to be easy to digest.
30. Noobpreneur.com
Don't let the kitschy name veer you away from this reputable source for small business tips and tricks. It takes a user-friendly approach to dishing out advice, and it's easy to soak up the truly good information.
31. Mixergy.com
The site that was built by entrepreneurs just for entrepreneurs showcases a series of interviews from startup founders who were once in your shoes. Learn from the best, and know you're in great company.
32. MarieForleo.com
Forleo is an entrepreneur who's enjoyed immense success, but it's her personality and character that make this blog a must-see. She's optimistic, light, and bubbly, and she knows what she's talking about. Many readers consider her a huge inspiration.
33. SBA.gov
The Small Business Administration has been an invaluable resource for small business owners for years. There's a chapter in every major city, but the site itself is chock full of the latest news and information for entrepreneurs, too.
34. QuickSprout.com
Need to learn the basics of search engine optimization (SEO) in a jiffy? The leader in entrepreneurial traffic, Neil Patel, is at your service. Whether you're an SEO newbie or a pro, there's something Patel can teach you.
35. Score.org
Whether you prefer your workshops in the real world or virtual, Score is the nation's leading mentorship platform for entrepreneurs. Find out how to grow your business smart by depending on the best.
36. SaaStr.com
Web startups interested in monetizing can get started at this platform. It calls itself "curiously famous" and is renowned for helping entrepreneurs make passive income online. It sounds easy, but it's an art and skill that you need to learn.
37. TheStartupDonut.com
Even though this is a U.K. site, it's applicable to startups on either side of the pond. Find the tools you need and the articles necessary to get your startup off the ground. It's especially useful if you have dreams of going multinational.
38. StartupMeme.com
Back in 2007, this site was the "unofficial" how-to guide for Facebook, but today it runs the gamut when it comes to covering websites. Want to stay up to date on the latest entrepreneurial news and website? This is your secret weapon.
39. TED.com
The talks TED features are inspiring and revealing, and though the site isn't "just" for entrepreneurs, there's a strong community of founders there for a reason. Many of the featured talks are compliments of successful entrepreneurs.
40. TheFunded.com
With more than 18,000 entrepreneurs and CEOs on this site, this is the place to talk about investing and fundraising. Whether you're a startup or your established business could just use a boost, don't overlook this resource.
41. boss.blogs.nytimes.com
Better known as "The Art of Running a Small Business," this Times blog is the ultimate tool for entrepreneurs and founders. The advice is current and easy to consume, and if you download the app, you have the latest information right at your fingertips.
42. blog.guykawasaki.com
Kawasaki's "How to Change the World" blog is a comprehensive platform from one of the best. Some of the most common themes include human capital, management, and advice just for entrepreneurs.
43. YourSuccessNow.com
A business blog designed to suit every industry, this is where you can get the support and encouragement necessary to keep moving forward. Enjoy the latest entrepreneurial news as well as features that highlight how some of the most successful of founders made it to the next level.
44. Under30CEO.com
Are you a young entrepreneur with dreams of making it big before the big 3-0? If so, then this blog is for you, but you don't necessarily still need to be a twentysomething to benefit from it. Advice for younger founders can be just as relevant no matter what your age.
45. Marco.org
The founder of Instapaper, Marco Arment, blogs regularly to help other entrepreneurs avoid the mistakes he made early in his career. Personable and realistic, Arment is your insider source.
46. StartupDigest.com
A newsletter worth subscribing to? It's true when it's StartupDigest, which focuses on information for entrepreneurs without ever getting off course. If distraction is an issue for you, it won't be with this offering.
47. Innerpreneur.com
The spirit of entrepreneurship is alive and well at this blog, where it's all about encouraging personal growth. It's something founders can put on the back burner, but it's crucial to be a well-rounded CEO.
48. TheEconomist.com
This is not specifically for entrepreneurs, but the commentary makes it a requisite for any business professional. You need to stay up to date on all news, not just entrepreneurial news, to cultivate partnerships.
49. Inc.com
The famous magazine has an excellent section for startups. Find out the latest in tips, news, and resources for entrepreneurs from one of the most reputable magazines in the industry.
50. Forbes.com
When you run a business, it's important to foster relationships with peers, colleagues, and partners, which is why keeping up with business news is crucial. Let Forbes make sure you're up to speed on the latest topics.
Of course, the most beneficial website is the one that works for you. Get to exploring, but keep an eye out for time wasters.
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QlikTech lets Android phone users do their biz with ease
Business Intelligence (BI) leader company, QlikTech, has unveiled the first BI application for the Android operating system – simultaneously with Google’s unveiling of its first mobile smart phone design, the Nexus.
QlikView’s analytics application for Android leverages fully interactive drill down functionality to explore information, not just static reports that traditional BI mobile offerings are limited to, claims QlikTech.
Google launched their new Nexus smart phone, built on Android on just ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with a device from HTC, this week. Mobile phone manufacturers Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Garmin and Vodafone are already committed to releasing handsets based on Android. The QlikView app for Google Android will be available ina few weeks at http://www.android.com/market ( The offering is not yet there). , a Swedish player who is well known for specializing in mobile user interfaces for companies like Google and Spotify. Created on the TAT Cascades platform the application is multi-touch driven and supports location based searches with GPS support.
“QlikTech was formed on the premise that information should be accessed by the people that need it, when they need it. This is why we are so aggressive in our mobile product development strategy. We realize that when information is easily available, people rely on gaining answers wherever they may be,” says Anthony Deighton, Senior Vice President of Product at QlikTech. “We were the first BI-company to unveil a truly interactive mobile BI app built specifically for the iPhone and now we’re the first on Android. We see great potential in Android as the platform of choice for business applications like analytics. We’re excited to be ahead of the curve and look forward to introducing more mobile innovations to our customers.”
QlikView for Android was developed inpartnership with TAT, The Astonishing Tribe AB, www.tat.se
Do see the video on TAT/QlikView on Android in our Video spot for a few days.
In May 2009, IndiaTechOnline reported QlikTech's offering for Apple's iPHone (http://indiatechonline.com/qlikview-in-india-66.php ). The company has been in India since 2008. (www.qlikview.com. )
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Auto Expo 2018 Day 2 | Maruti Suzuki India launches Swift at Rs 4.9 lakh, diesel variant promises 28
09:46 IST: After a grand display of vehicles - many concepts and many read for the road, Auto Expo 2018 will witness the launch of the 2018 Maruti Suzuki Swift. The all new Swift is expected to be launched today at the Auto Expo 2018. The all new Swift has by far been the most awaited car at the Auto Expo 2018. Ahead of the Auto Expo, Maruti Suzuki had unveiled the Swift on January 18 this year. The new Swift will carry the same engine specs from the previous model, a 1.3-litre DDiS diesel MultiJet sourced from Fiat to comply with BS4 norms and a 1.2-litre petrol K Series engine. The new model gets a refreshed body, new underpinnings based on the HEARTECT platform which also underpins the new Baleno, which makes the car lighter and more fuel efficient with greater stability.
10:07 IST: The first day of the Auto Expo 2018 saw the launches of the BMW 6-series GT, the BMW M5 and the Hyundai i20. The BMW 6-series GT was launched by Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar at the Auto Expo 2018. The major automotive event also saw the unveiling of the Tata Tiago JTP, the Honda Amaze, Honda CR-V and the Honda Civic. Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar launches the BMW 6 series at the Auto Expo 2018.
10:09 IST: At the Auto Expo 2018, Mahindra & Mahindra unveiled their plans to shape the 'Future of Mobility'. The Future of Mobility is a showcase of Mahindra's sustainable mobility solutions that are technologically advanced and aim to address the needs and preferences of the consumers. Mahindra also displayed its widest range of electric vehicles, including concepts and technology. Among them were the UDO, Atom and eKUV100.
10:22 IST: Honda 2Wheelers unveils 160cc X-Blade for the Indian market Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. unveiled its most extensive product line-up of 11 new models at the 14th Auto Expo 2018. Leading from the front is Hondas brand new 160cc motorcycle X-Blade along with 10 exciting 2018 editions (6 domestic models and 4 global fun bikes). The Honda XBlade which was launched at the Auto Expo 2018.
11:09 IST: Cleveland CycleWerks has launched two bike series at the Auto Expo 2018 - the Ace and the Misfit. Both are retro-inspired motorcycles and will be brought in India with various design options for the Indian consumers. Under the Ace model, three sub-models - Ace Deluxe, Ace Scrambler, and Ace Cafe, all under the 250cc segment will be launched in India. In the Misfit model, Gen II Misfit, the second generation of original Misfit has been launched at the Auto Expo 2018 alongside the Ace models. Cleveland CycleWerks Ace Cafe (pictured above) comes with a single cylinder OHV Air cooled 229cc engine. It has a 5-speed manual transmission with 1 down and 4 up gears. The Cleveland Ace Motorcycles come powere by an air-cooled, 4-sroke, 229cc single cylinder engine with a maximum power of 15.4HP and peak torque of 16Nm.
11:37 IST: Honda Activa 5G was unveiled yesterday at the Auto Expo 2018. Honda 2 Wheelers India unveiled the all-new Honda Activa 5G yesterday at the Auto Expo 2018. Honda Activa which was launched at the Auto Expo 2018.
12:15 IST: Emflux Motors launches first electric superbike at the Auto Expo 2018. Emflux Motors launched the first electric superbike at the 2018 Auto Expo. The Bengaluru-based startup calls the bike Emflux One and is powered by a Samsung Lithium Ion 9.7kWh power cells with a 60 kW AC induction motor. Power is however limited to 53 kW. Emflux Motors launches Emflux One at the Auto Expo 2018. The Emflux One is a fully faired motorcycle which gets the standard bells and whistles as a standard superbike. Features list includes Brembo brakes with dual-channel ABS, single-sided swingarm, Ohlins suspension, and a smart dashboard with embedded AI capabilities. Pre-orders begin from April next year. Emflux One. Emflux One.
12:39 IST: UM unveils Renegade Thor, world's first geared electric cruiser, at the Auto Expo 2018. UM Lohia Two Wheelers Pvt Ltd proved they are here to stay by unveiling three motorcycles today at the Auto Expo 2018 - the Renegade Thor, Renegade Duty S and the Renegade Duty Ace. Show-stealer, however, is the Renegade Thor, world's first geared electric cruiser. Prices: The Renegade Thor starts at Rs 4.9 lakh onwards The Renegade Duty S and The Duty Ace start at Rs 1.10 lakh onwards. Renegade Thor at the Auto Expo 2018. Renegade Thor. Renegade Thor
12:49 IST: Maruti Suzuki launches the all-new Swift third generation at Rs 4.99 lakh. Auto enthusiasts across India have been waiting for the launch of Maruti Suzuki's #AllNewSwift. At the Auto Expo 2018 that is being held in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, Maruti Suzuki India launched the third generation of its iconic brand - Swift. Swift petrol version begins at a price of at Rs 4.9 lakh (ex-showroom) and the diesel version begins at a price of Rs 5.9 lakh (ex-showroom). The all-new Maruti Suzuki Swift third generation The all-new Swift comes with a new exciting design, enhanced performance, and advanced passenger, pedestrian and child safety. For the first time, Swift offers the acclaimed auto gear shift technology for the convenience of customers. Built on Suzuki's innovative 5th generation HEARTECT platform, the all-new Swift has a superior power to weight ratio with an improve. Here's the full price list of the all-new Swfit third generation (ex-showroom Delhi): PETROL MANUAL PRICE DIESEL MANUAL PRICE LXi Rs 4,99,000 LDi Rs 5,99,000 VXi Rs 5,87,000 VDi Rs 6,87,000 ZXi Rs 6,49,000 ZDi Rs 7,49,000 ZXi plus Rs 7,29,000 ZDi plus Rs 8,29,000 PETROL AUTOMATIC (AGS) DISEL AUTOMATIC (AGS) VXi Rs 6,34,000 VDi Rs 7,34,000 ZXi Rs 6,96,000 ZDi Rs 7,96,000 Also see: The pit babes of Auto Expo 2018
14:14 IST: India Yamaha Motor showcases Yamaha R15 V3 with sports kit at the Auto Expo 2018. Yamaha R15 Version 3 was launched yesterday, on day 1 of the Auto Expo 2018. Today, India Yamaha Motor unveiled Yamaha R15 Version 3 with sports kit. Yamaha R15 Version 3 comes with Daytona exhaust and Metzeler M5 in the rear tyre. Yamaha R15 Version 3 with sports kit Yamaha R15 Version 3 with sports kit
14:54 IST: Hotwheels too have their stall at the Auto Expo 2018 where they have displayed two cars. Both cars appear to be full-scale versions - paint and all - of their racing cars. Take a look at them below: Would you drive this? A full-scale model of a classic Hotwheels stunt car.
Highlights: Auto Expo 2018 Day 2 | Maruti Suzuki India launches Swift at Rs 4.9 lakh, diesel variant promises 28.4 kmpl
Auto Expo 2018 Day 2 saw the launch of the much-awaited third generation Maruti Suzuki Swift. Priced at Rs 4.99 lakh for the base petrol variant, the new Swift is definitely going to shake up the hatchback segment with its extremely competitive pricing.
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14:54 PM IST
Hotwheels too have their stall at the Auto Expo 2018 where they have displayed two cars.
Both cars appear to be full-scale versions - paint and all - of their racing cars. Take a look at them below:
Would you drive this?
A full-scale model of a classic Hotwheels stunt car.
India Yamaha Motor showcases Yamaha R15 V3 with sports kit at the Auto Expo 2018.
Yamaha R15 Version 3 was launched yesterday, on day 1 of the Auto Expo 2018. Today, India Yamaha Motor unveiled Yamaha R15 Version 3 with sports kit.
Yamaha R15 Version 3 comes with Daytona exhaust and Metzeler M5 in the rear tyre.
Yamaha R15 Version 3 with sports kit
Maruti Suzuki launches the all-new Swift third generation at Rs 4.99 lakh.
Auto enthusiasts across India have been waiting for the launch of Maruti Suzuki's #AllNewSwift.
At the Auto Expo 2018 that is being held in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, Maruti Suzuki India launched the third generation of its iconic brand - Swift. Swift petrol version begins at a price of at Rs 4.9 lakh (ex-showroom) and the diesel version begins at a price of Rs 5.9 lakh (ex-showroom).
The all-new Maruti Suzuki Swift third generation
The all-new Swift comes with a new exciting design, enhanced performance, and advanced passenger, pedestrian and child safety. For the first time, Swift offers the acclaimed auto gear shift technology for the convenience of customers. Built on Suzuki's innovative 5th generation HEARTECT platform, the all-new Swift has a superior power to weight ratio with an improve.
Here's the full price list of the all-new Swfit third generation (ex-showroom Delhi):
PETROL MANUAL PRICE DIESEL MANUAL PRICE
LXi Rs 4,99,000 LDi Rs 5,99,000
VXi Rs 5,87,000 VDi Rs 6,87,000
ZXi Rs 6,49,000 ZDi Rs 7,49,000
ZXi plus Rs 7,29,000 ZDi plus Rs 8,29,000
PETROL AUTOMATIC (AGS) DISEL AUTOMATIC (AGS)
Also see: The pit babes of Auto Expo 2018
UM unveils Renegade Thor, world's first geared electric cruiser, at the Auto Expo 2018.
UM Lohia Two Wheelers Pvt Ltd proved they are here to stay by unveiling three motorcycles today at the Auto Expo 2018 - the Renegade Thor, Renegade Duty S and the Renegade Duty Ace.
Show-stealer, however, is the Renegade Thor, world's first geared electric cruiser.
The Renegade Thor starts at Rs 4.9 lakh onwards
The Renegade Duty S and The Duty Ace start at Rs 1.10 lakh onwards.
Renegade Thor at the Auto Expo 2018.
Renegade Thor.
Renegade Thor
Emflux Motors launches first electric superbike at the Auto Expo 2018.
Emflux Motors launched the first electric superbike at the 2018 Auto Expo. The Bengaluru-based startup calls the bike Emflux One and is powered by a Samsung Lithium Ion 9.7kWh power cells with a 60 kW AC induction motor. Power is however limited to 53 kW.
Emflux Motors launches Emflux One at the Auto Expo 2018.
The Emflux One is a fully faired motorcycle which gets the standard bells and whistles as a standard superbike. Features list includes Brembo brakes with dual-channel ABS, single-sided swingarm, Ohlins suspension, and a smart dashboard with embedded AI capabilities. Pre-orders begin from April next year.
Emflux One.
11:37 AM IST
Honda Activa 5G was unveiled yesterday at the Auto Expo 2018.
Honda 2 Wheelers India unveiled the all-new Honda Activa 5G yesterday at the Auto Expo 2018.
Honda Activa which was launched at the Auto Expo 2018.
Cleveland CycleWerks has launched two bike series at the Auto Expo 2018 - the Ace and the Misfit. Both are retro-inspired motorcycles and will be brought in India with various design options for the Indian consumers. Under the Ace model, three sub-models - Ace Deluxe, Ace Scrambler, and Ace Cafe, all under the 250cc segment will be launched in India.
In the Misfit model, Gen II Misfit, the second generation of original Misfit has been launched at the Auto Expo 2018 alongside the Ace models.
Cleveland CycleWerks Ace Cafe (pictured above) comes with a single cylinder OHV Air cooled 229cc engine. It has a 5-speed manual transmission with 1 down and 4 up gears.
The Cleveland Ace Motorcycles come powere by an air-cooled, 4-sroke, 229cc single cylinder engine with a maximum power of 15.4HP and peak torque of 16Nm.
Honda 2Wheelers unveils 160cc X-Blade for the Indian market
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. unveiled its most extensive product line-up of 11 new models at the 14th Auto Expo 2018. Leading from the front is Hondas brand new 160cc motorcycle X-Blade along with 10 exciting 2018 editions (6 domestic models and 4 global fun bikes).
The Honda XBlade which was launched at the Auto Expo 2018.
At the Auto Expo 2018, Mahindra & Mahindra unveiled their plans to shape the 'Future of Mobility'. The Future of Mobility is a showcase of Mahindra's sustainable mobility solutions that are technologically advanced and aim to address the needs and preferences of the consumers. Mahindra also displayed its widest range of electric vehicles, including concepts and technology. Among them were the UDO, Atom and eKUV100.
The first day of the Auto Expo 2018 saw the launches of the BMW 6-series GT, the BMW M5 and the Hyundai i20. The BMW 6-series GT was launched by Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar at the Auto Expo 2018.
The major automotive event also saw the unveiling of the Tata Tiago JTP, the Honda Amaze, Honda CR-V and the Honda Civic.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar launches the BMW 6 series at the Auto Expo 2018.
After a grand display of vehicles - many concepts and many read for the road, Auto Expo 2018 will witness the launch of the 2018 Maruti Suzuki Swift.
The all new Swift is expected to be launched today at the Auto Expo 2018.
The all new Swift has by far been the most awaited car at the Auto Expo 2018. Ahead of the Auto Expo, Maruti Suzuki had unveiled the Swift on January 18 this year.
The new Swift will carry the same engine specs from the previous model, a 1.3-litre DDiS diesel MultiJet sourced from Fiat to comply with BS4 norms and a 1.2-litre petrol K Series engine. The new model gets a refreshed body, new underpinnings based on the HEARTECT platform which also underpins the new Baleno, which makes the car lighter and more fuel efficient with greater stability.
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Hacking Darwin (Hardcover)
Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
By Jamie Metzl
Sourcebooks, 9781492670094, 352pp.
"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." -- Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene
Passionate, provocative, and highly illuminating, Hacking Darwin is the must read book about the future of our species for fans of Homo Deus and The Gene.
After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules...
From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives -- sex, war, love, and death.
At the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code, the choices we make today will be the difference between realizing breathtaking advances in human well-being and descending into a dangerous and potentially deadly genetic arms race.
Enter the laboratories where scientists are turning science fiction into reality. Look towards a future where our deepest beliefs, morals, religions, and politics are challenged like never before and the very essence of what it means to be human is at play. When we can engineer our future children, massively extend our lifespans, build life from scratch, and recreate the plant and animal world, should we?
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The Bookworm Crush (Paperback)
By Lisa Brown Roberts
Entangled: Teen, 9781640637078, 400pp.
This spinoff of The Replacement Crush featuring Amy and Toff is sure to melt your heart.
Shy bookworm Amy McIntyre is about to compete for a dream scholarship, and the only way to win is to transform from sidekick to the heroine of her own life. But that level of confidence has never come easy.
The solution? A competition coach. The problem? The best person for the job is the guy she's secretly crushing on…local surfer celebrity Toff Nichols.
He’s a player. He’s a heartthrob. He makes her forget basic things, like how to breathe. How can she feel any confidence around him?
To her surprise, Toff agrees to help. And he’s an excellent teacher. Amy feels braver—maybe even brave enough to admit her feelings for him. When their late night practices become less about coaching and more about making out, Amy’s newfound confidence wavers.
But does Toff really like her or is this just another lesson?
Lisa Brown Roberts has held a variety of day jobs to support her writing habit, many of them involving writing, but not the fun kind. She currently works in higher education during the day and writes feverishly at 3:00 in the morning, on weekends, and any other time she can convince her family to go play outside and leave her alone. Except for the cats. They can stay, because every writer needs a cat (or two) on her lap. You can find Lisa on Twitter @LBrownRoberts or visit her at her website www.lisabrownroberts.com
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Kate Stone Matheson
Writer, Journalist, National Ambassador for Shake It Up
Kate Stone Matheson is a journalist, writer, and branding specialist. Twice nominated for Telstra Businesswomen's Awards, she counts mediating the Walkley Media Talks as a career highlight. She is a proud National Ambassador for the Shake It Up Foundation, partnered with the Michael J Fox Foundation, raising awareness for Young Onset Parkinson's, which she has had since she was 29. Her collection of non-fiction, short stories, interviews and verse, A Difficult Woman, is now found both on the web and on Apple News. She is a regular contributing writer to The Mission at Medium and was nominated for an Our Watch award for excellence in journalism in raising awareness of family violence and violence against women.
We Know He's Voting 'Yes', So Why Is Malcolm In The Middle?
He's effectively giving the Government power to amend the act he's refusing to amend.
08/09/2017 1:47 PM AEST
Depression Is A Bogeyman That Doesn't Vanish In The Light
Sadly, much like the childhood version, it's seen by many as imaginary.
We Need To Put Our Heads Together Over Youth Mental Health
Suicide is the biggest killer of Australians aged 15 to 24. Not cars, not drugs. Not terrorist incidents. No; it's a world of nothing. A long strip of anxiety-inducing grey. And only one in four are getting the help they need.
06/09/2016 9:09 AM AEST
It's 2015, Folks. Trudeau Story!
I applaud Justin Trudeau. The main reason I applaud him is the reason I applaud others like him, who just want to cut the crap and get on with the job.
09/11/2015 9:54 AM AEDT
Hitting Home: Our Suburban Killing Fields
I have been physically and emotionally hurt by someone I knew and trusted within the confines of a relationship. In the words of the Paul Kelly song, I never understood 'what made such a sweet guy turn so mean', and I stuck around for a long time as a consequence.
25/09/2015 10:25 AM AEST
A Liberal Approach: Why A New PM Is A Vote For Equality
I am not even going to pretend how much the outcome of Monday night's leadership spill between Tony Abbott and the newly
Our Attitude To Women's Sport Is A Complete Balls Up
The Southern Stars -- the women's cricket team -- have smashed the Ashes to smithereens, whilst Clarke and co are sobbing into their well-moisturised and well-sponsored hands.
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01/04/2014 2:01 PM IST | Updated 07/12/2017 3:47 AM IST
15 Signs You May Have An Iron Deficiency
By Sarah Klein, HuffPost US
By K. Aleisha Fetters
Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the United States, and women are among those at greatest risk. Iron is critical for producing hemoglobin, a protein that helps red blood cells deliver oxygen throughout your body. So without it, everything suffers -- and can lead to anemia. Check out these symptoms of iron deficiency and, if you have them, see your doc and request a ferritin test, which measures your body's iron stores.
You're exhausted.
The most common symptom of iron deficiency, it's also possibly the most difficult one to detect. "Women are so used to having frenetic lives and feeling tired," says Nancy Berliner, M.D., deputy editor of Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology. "They often just dismiss being tired as part of life." However, iron deficiency causes less oxygen to reach your tissues, so your body is deprived of the energy it needs. If your "normal" fatigue is coupled with you feeling, weak, irritable or unable to focus, iron (or a lack thereof) might have something to do with it. After all, there's a reason people whose iron deficiency progresses into anemia are often said to have "tired blood."
You have heavy periods.
In women, the number-one cause of iron deficiency is too-heavy periods, says Jacques Moritz, M.D., director of gynecology at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Roosevelt in New York City. "They lose too much blood, replace about half of it, and then lose too much again the following month," he says. "It's like filling up a car with a small hold in the tank." Your period should only fill two to three tablespoons each month. Try the tampon test: If you have to change your tampon more frequently than every two hours, talk to your gyno.
You're pale.
There's a reason the words "pale" and "sickly" are often used interchangeably. Hemoglobin gives your blood its red color and, thus, your skin its rosy hue. That means that low levels of the protein can suck the color straight from your skin, Moritz says. If you have a light complexion, it's pretty easy to spot. No matter your skin tone, though, if the inside of your lips, your gums, and the inside of your bottom eyelids are less red than usual, low iron may be to blame.
You get short of breath easily.
No matter how deeply you breathe, if your oxygen levels are low, you'll feel out of air, explains Berliner. If you notice yourself getting out of breath doing things that you'd normally handle just fine -- be it climbing a flight or stairs or knocking out your usual workout -- iron deficiency could be to blame.
Your heart is pounding.
An overworked heart can end up suffering from irregular heartbeats, heart murmurs, enlargement, and even heart failure. Before you freak out, don't. For things to get that bad, you would probably have to suffer from iron deficiency anemia for quite some time, suggests a review of cardiomyopathy and iron deficiency in the Texas Heart Institute Journal. However, if you know you have heart problems, it's important to get your iron levels checked as iron deficiency can worsen existing heart problems.
You have restless leg syndrome.
Can't stop fidgeting? About 15 percent of people with restless leg syndrome have iron deficiency, according to John Hopkins Medicine. The lower the iron levels, the worse the symptoms.
Your head hurts.
An iron-deficient body will prioritize getting oxygen to your brain before it worries about other tissues, but even then, your noggin will still get less than it ideally should, Berliner says. In response, the brain's arteries can swell, causing headaches, according to the National Headache Foundation.
You crave clay, dirt and ice.
Called pica, craving (and actually eating) non-food substances can be a sign of of iron deficiency. Iron-deficient people may be tempted to chow down on chalk, clay, dirt and paper. Luckily, most women opt for ice, says Berliner, who tells her anemic patients to come back to see her if they start craving ice.
You feel anxious for no reason.
As if your life wasn't stressful enough, iron deficiency can trick you into feeling even more anxious. A lack of oxygen revs up your body's sympathetic nervous system, which is kind of like your body's gas pedal, Berliner says. Plus, since iron deficiency can send your heart racing, it's easy to feel like you're in fight-or-flight mode even when you have every reason to feel relaxed.
You're losing your hair.
Iron deficiency, especially when it progresses into full-blown iron deficiency anemia, can cause hair loss. "It sends your body into survival mode, so your body channels oxygen to support vital functions as opposed to ones like keeping your hair intact," explains Moritz. Don't panic if there are a few hairs in your drain, though. Most scalps lose about 100 hairs on a good day.
You're vegetarian or vegan.
All iron is not created equal. Your body absorbs heme iron -- which comes from meat, poultry and fish -- two to three times more efficiently than non-heme iron from plants, says nutritionist Rania Batayneh, author of The One One One Diet. You can still get enough iron with careful meal planning. Dark leafy greens, whole grains and legumes are all rich in iron; pair them with vitamin-C-rich foods like bell peppers, berries and broccoli to boost your absorption.
You have an under-active thyroid.
Iron deficiency slows your body's thyroid function and blocks its metabolism-boosting effects, according to the National Academy of Hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism if often missed -- six in 10 people with a thyroid disease don't know they have it, according to the American Thyroid Association -- so if you notice low energy levels, weight gain or even a lower body temperature, talk to your doc.
You're pregnant.
Folic acid deservedly gets a lot of pre-natal press, but babies-to-be also need iron, and they can steal mom's stores. What's more, many women lose a substantial amount of blood during delivery, which can lower iron counts, Moritz says. If you're pregnant with multiples, have pregnancies close together or regularly vomit because of morning sickness, you may need to boost your iron intake.
Your tongue looks weird.
Besides sapping the color out of your tongue, low iron counts can reduce levels of myoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that supports muscle health, like the muscle that makes up the tongue, Berliner says. As a result, many people who are iron deficient complain of a sore, inflamed and strangely smooth tongue.
You have celiac or inflammatory bowel disease.
Even if you get enough iron in your diet, celiac disease and inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's and ulcerative colitis can lead to problems absorbing nutrients, iron included. These conditions cause inflammation in and damage to the digestive tract. If you've been diagnosed with any of these GI diseases, talk to you doctor about how you can increase your iron absorption.
How To Get More Iron:
Iron requirements aren't one-size-fits-all, especially for women. Women between the ages of 19 and 50 typically need 18 milligrams per day. However, if you're pregnant, that amount bumps up to 27 milligrams. If you're breastfeeding, you should get just 9 milligrams. Plus, how heavy your periods are could also alter your needs. Older than 50 and not menstruating? You only need 8 milligrams per day. That's not a hard target to hit -- a single serving of lentils, spinach, beef, nuts, chicken or chickpeas will all score you at least a couple milligrams.
And when it comes to iron, more isn't necessarily better. "While most the attention is on iron deficiency, there is a concern as well for iron overload, which studies indicate can damage internal organs and may increase the risk of diabetes, heart attack and cancer, particularly in older people," Batayneh says. Try to hit your RDA of iron, but don't worry about going above and beyond the recommendations.
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Alternate Path to Delegation Report for .moe
Eligibility for Alternate Path to Delegation
TLD "moe" is eligible for the Alternate Path to Delegation as described in the ICANN New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management plan. [1]
Second Level Domains (SLDs)
A total of 38812 unique applicable SLDs were detected in the eight DNS-OARC "Day In The Life" ("DITL") datasets [2] collected in 2006-2013, and the 2010 DNSSEC rollout datasets; hereafter "input datasets." Pursuant to the ICANN New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management plan, if the Registry Operator chooses to block [3] all of these strings, its proposed TLD may proceed to delegation in advance of the forthcoming Collision Occurrence Assessment.
The list of SLD Strings that must be blocked is available here.
Strings appearing in the input datasets that are not valid hostnames as defined in RFC 1123 ("LDH Rule") and are not valid A-labels as defined in RFC 5890 were not included in the block list. Furthermore, the contractually required SLD "nic" will not appear in the block list.
The block list was determined as follows:
List all unique strings at the SLD position in DNS requests where the applied-for string is in the TLD position in all input datasets;
Filter the SLD query position as described above;
Remove the "Chrome 10" strings at the leftmost query position on a best effort basis (see Methodology section below);
The remaining SLD strings comprise the block list.
Data and Source Code
DNS-OARC data was re-processed from the raw PCAP [4] files provided by participating DNS Root Server Operators as a part of the "Day In The Life," and 2010 DNSSEC rollout data collection programs. Source code and procedures to process the raw files are available on GitHub. [5] Because processing these files is resource intensive, DNS-OARC members are invited to utilize the intermediary files located here (/home/kwhite/jas/gtld/jas) [6] for their own analysis and research.
SLD Strings Excluded from the Block List
A significant proportion of the queries appear to be randomly generated 10 character alphabetic [7] strings used by the Google Chrome browser to detect certain aspects of DNS resolver behavior. [8] While there appear to be numerous varieties and sources of random/algorithmically-generated strings in the input datasets, the 10 character Chrome queries appear to present minimal risk if filtered from the block lists.
The "Chrome 10" strings come in triplets as described in the Chromium source code. Only strings that are seen coming in the triplet sequence from the same IP are eliminated.
While "randomness" is relatively easy for humans to detect, it is remarkably hard for machines. However, since the datasets are so dominated by these labels - for which blocking adds no practical value - significant effort to detect and exclude these has been taken.
We engaged expert data scientists to develop a robust mechanism to detect these random strings. The following is a high level description of the algorithm they developed.
Only 10 character labels consistent with the format described in the Chromium source code are subjected to "random detection." [9]
Parameters were selected and algorithms were tuned with an English dictionary. [10] "Randomness" of each label is determined only after analyzing the entire dataset and performing a statistical analysis of the labels and multiple substrings depending on the individual characteristics of the label.
To validate and tune the algorithm, we ran 84 individual experiments for a total of 851 CPU hours on the DITL 2013 and 2012 datasets. The quality of the random recognizer was confirmed with the following tests:
1) Test #1: An English dictionary was used to count the number of false positives detected. The ratio of "RANDOM_YES predictions that hold an English word" to "the total # of RANDOM_YES predictions" was calculated. This test verifies that a RANDOM_YES will not have English words embedded in it. Manual inspection of borderline strings very often reveals English words like "host," "mail," and "server" embedded in strings, so this test verified the random recognizer's performance in those situations. Less than 0.2% error rate was observed following manual inspection.
2) Test#2: Results of the random detector were compared to a simplistic detection of the Chrome random strings. Less than 0.8% error rate was observed following manual inspection.
[1] http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-annex-1-07oct13-en.pdf
[2] https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/data/ditl
[3] http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-20feb12-en.pdf, Section 5.
[4] PCAP is a binary network packet capture file format
[5] https://github.com/JASdevteam/dns-oarc
[6] DNS-OARC may move these intermediary files to a permanent location at some future point.
[7] The length is hard-coded in Chromium source (IntranetRedirectDetector::kNumCharsInHostnames = 10) here
[8] See comments in source code here
[9] Chromium Source
[10] Of course there are non-English strings in the labels, but many are English or English-derived strings like "proxy" and "host" that are common internationally. An English dictionary was a good validation tool, but in the end "randomness" is not determined by existence in an English dictionary.
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FERC Continues to Respond to Dozens of Pipeline Company Tax Filings
Serge Agbre, Kirstin Gibbs, Robert Goldfin, Levi McAllister
Morgan Lewis
Rate reductions across the natural gas sector could materialize as a result of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s ongoing investigation of benefits gained by the recent reduction in the federal corporate income tax rate.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) on January 16 initiated three Natural Gas Act (NGA) Section 5 investigations and terminated nine proceedings involving FERC Form 501-G One-time Reports that were filed late last year. As we previously reported, natural gas pipeline and storage companies that filed a FERC Form No. 2 or 2-A for calendar year 2017 were required to submit a “One-time Report” (FERC Form No. 501-G) for review so that FERC could ascertain whether reductions in cost-of-service rates were necessary in light of benefits received under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which reduces the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. Unless a company was granted an extension or already filed a pending NGA Section 4 general rate case, the submission dates for these filings have all come and gone.
Pursuant to FERC Order No. 849, the Commission required each company to designate a course of action they would take in light of the data reflected in the One-time Report and any additional adjustments that were submitted in an attached addendum. The companies had the option to file a limited NGA Section 4 rate reduction filing (option 1); commit to file a general Section 4 rate case in the near future or file an uncontested prepackaged settlement (option 2); explain why no rate reduction is necessary (option 3); or take no action (option 4). The majority of companies explained that there was no reason to propose an adjustment to their rates based on individual circumstances and/or the data provided in their One-time Reports. Some companies also asked for waivers of the submission requirement in light of settlements they reached with their customers. Overall, there remains a number of proceedings where FERC still has the option to initiate an NGA Section 5 rate investigation in response to company submissions.
Most recently, Section 5 rate investigations were initiated in response to the One-time Reports and associated materials submitted by Bear Creek Storage Company (RP19-51), Northern Natural Gas Company (RP19-59), and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company (RP19-78) on the grounds that these companies may be substantially over-recovering their costs-of-service rates. Conversely, FERC terminated nine other proceedings without further action in response to One-time Reports filed by: ETC Tiger Pipeline (RP19-80), Gulfstream Natural Gas System, LLC (RP19-52), Horizon Pipeline Company, LLC (RP19-68), MIGC, Inc. (RP19-69), Millennium Pipeline Company, LLC (RP19-65), North Baja Pipeline, LLC (RP19-71), Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (RP19-70), Vector Pipeline LP (RP19-60), and White River Hub, LLC (RP19-50). FERC explained that these companies each selected an option ranging from filing a limited Section 4 rate reduction to explaining why no reduction was necessary; additionally, no adverse comments or protests were filed in response to any of the submissions.
This table contains the current status of each proceeding in which a company has submitted a One-time Report (as well as related proceedings) in response to FERC Order No. 849. The resolution of these proceedings could result in many more reductions in rates across the sector, developments that all market participants should be watching closely in the coming weeks and months.
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KPMG Issues 2017 Global Audit Committee Pulse Survey
Thomas White, Alan Wilson
WilmerHale
Recently, KPMG released its 2017 Global Audit Committee Pulse Survey, which reports on audit committee activities based on survey responses from 800 audit committee members across 42 countries. Asking, "Is Everything Under Control?," the Survey identified many familiar issues and concerns for audit committee members.
Overall, surveyed respondents reported confidence in their company’s financial reporting and audit quality but expressed concerns regarding risk management, legal and regulatory compliance, managing cyber security risk, and managing the control environment. Many of these concerns are similar to concerns identified in past surveys. (See our previous post about the 2015 Global Audit Committee Survey.)
Based on the data collected, the Survey offered the following six takeaways:
Risk management is a top concern for audit committees.
Internal audit can maximize its value to the organization by focusing on key areas of risk and the adequacy of the company’s risk management processes generally.
Tone at the top, culture, and short-termism are major challenges—and may need more attention.
CFO succession planning and bench strength in the finance organization continue to be weak spots.
Two key financial reporting issues may need a more prominent place on audit committee agendas: Implementation of new accounting standards and non-GAAP financial measures.
Audit committee effectiveness hinges on understanding the business.
As noted in the Survey, "It's hardly surprising that risk is top of mind for audit committees—and very likely, the full board—given expectations for slow growth and economic uncertainty, technology advances and business model disruption, cyber threats, and greater regulatory scrutiny and investor demands for transparency." The top three challenges identified by surveyed respondents were (1) effectiveness of the risk management program, (2) legal/regulatory compliance, and (3) maintaining the control environment in the company’s extended organization. More than 40% of surveyed respondents believe their risk management program and processes "require substantial work," and a similar number believe "it is increasingly difficult to oversee those major risks." The Survey further stated that "[w]e are clearly seeing an increased focus by boards on key operational risks across the extended global organization," with boards being more sensitive to the matters of tone at the top and organizational culture.
Cyber security and technology-related risks drove many survey responses, with United States respondents identifying cyber security risk as the top risk to their company. In this regard, the Survey observed that "[d]iscussions are shifting from prevention to an emphasis on detection and containment and are increasingly focused on the company's 'adjacencies,' which can serve as entry points for hackers." United States respondents identified vulnerability from third parties/supply chains and keeping technology systems up to date as the two most significant gaps in their company's ability to manage cyber risks. To help manage evolving cyber-related risks, the Survey advised that boards should help guide their companies’ cyber mindset to an enterprise-wide level, rather than just viewing it as an IT risk.
Aside from operational risks, the Survey also benchmarked audit committee involvement in new accounting standards and company disclosures. According to the Survey, "[f]ew audit committees say their companies have clear implementation plans for two major accounting changes on the horizon—the new revenue recognition and lease accounting standards." This assessment aligns with comments made by SEC Chief Accountant Wesley Bricker at the 2016 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Conference on SEC and PCAOB Developments. (See our prior post.) Relatedly, the Survey suggested that audit committees may also wish to consider devoting more attention to non-GAAP measures, with nearly one-quarter of surveyed respondents saying their committees have a limited role in their company's presentation of non-GAAP measures.
In light of the challenges facing audit committees, the Survey explored areas for audit committee improvement. "Overall, audit committees are largely satisfied that their agendas are properly focused on legal and regulatory compliance issues, maintaining internal controls over financial reporting, and key assumptions underlying critical accounting estimates." The top three areas for improvement to increase overall audit committee effectiveness, as identified by the surveyed respondents, include (1) a better understanding of the business and its risks, (2) additional expertise in technology/cyber security, and (3) a greater willingness and ability to challenge management. While specific challenges and priorities vary by country and by company, the Survey offers useful benchmarks for audit committees to reference when setting their agendas and evaluating their effectiveness.
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Babaganaru satisfied with Yobe Desert Stars’ players
Kolade Oni
Yobe Desert Stars media
Yobe Stars
The Damaturu side gaffer has expressed confidence at the readiness of his players ahead of their elite division maiden appearance
Yobe Desert Stars coach Mohammed Babaganaru says he is satisfied with the players at his disposal ahead of the 2017-18 season.
Babaganaru recruited massively shortly after he was named coach of the newly-promoted side.
And he expresses satisfaction with his wards' performance in pre-season ahead of their season-opener against FC IfeanyiUbah on Sunday.
“I will say that I am satisfied with the performance of my players and their response to work since we started our pre-season. I can boldly say that Yobe Desert Stars are gradually ready for the season,” Babaganaru told Goal.
“We have played lots of friendly matches and even though we have almost an entirely new team I can say that we have the players to make an impression in the league and the Federation Cup.
“We are waiting for the season to start so that our opponents can get to see the best of us. We will still continue to work hard to ensure that the club stay beyond the coming season in the top-flight.”
Babaganaru also hailed the performance of his players who were narrowly beaten 1-0 by El Kanemi Warriors in Maiduguri in a friendly match played over the weekend.
“My players tried their best in Maiduguri and I must admit that the officiating of that friendly encounter left much to be desired. I never knew that a friendly match could breed controversy like that.
“I am happy with what I saw of my team and I know that by the time the season starts, they will surprise me even more,” he added.
Yobe Desert Stars were beaten by El Kanemi after Samuel Matthias converted from the spot in the 17th minute.
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Umtiti back in Barcelona training
Matt Dorman
03:47 9/2/19
Barcelona defender Samuel Umtiti appears to be closing in on a return from a lengthy knee injury.
Samuel Umtiti's bid to be fit for the Champions League last-16 trip to Lyon has gathered momentum with the defender returning to Barcelona training.
France international Umtiti completed part of Friday's session as he steps up his recovery from a persistent knee problem, which has blighted his season.
The centre-back has not featured since November’s 1-1 draw with Atletico but recently declared his desire to be available for the Lyon tie.
Umtiti joined Barca from the Ligue 1 side in 2016, where in five years as a player and made 170 first-team appearances.
Therefore, the 25-year is especially keen to return in time for the encounter at Groupama Stadium on February 19.
Clement Lenglet has been Ernesto Valverde's preferred partner for Gerard Pique in Umtiti's absence.
The defender started in the 1-1 midweek draw against Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey, and has been a regular in the side for the past few months.
The experienced Thomas Vermaelen filled the role at home to Valencia last weekend and could be considered an option to face Lyon if Umtiti does not recover in time.
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— Samuel Umtiti (@samumtiti) February 8, 2019
It is not all good news on the injury front for the La Liga leaders, however, with midfielder Athur expected to miss around a month after sustaining a hamstring injury.
Barca will be hoping to return to winning ways this weekend when they face Valencia. The Spanish champions ended a run of eight straight games without a win in the 2-2 draw, but had to come from two goals behind to earn any points.
The Catalan side take a six-point advantage at the top into Sunday's visit to Athletic Bilbao, who are only three points clear of the relegation zone.
Barcelona could be on for another historic treble this season, with Valverde’s men still fighting for trophies on three fronts.
However, if they are to do this, much could depend on the fitness of Lionel Messi.
The Argentine was used in Wednesday night’s draw with Real but did not seem fit and struggled to create his usual magic.
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Campeón de Campeones
Allegri calms Argentina's Dybala injury fears
Stephen Creek
Sampdoria v Juventus
The forward's thigh injury is unlikely to keep him out of the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, according to his coach at the Bianconeri
The injury suffered by Juventus forward Paulo Dybala in his side's 1-0 win over Sampdoria was "nothing serious" according to head coach Massimiliano Allegri.
Dybala went down clutching his thigh after 28 minutes of the game at Stadio Luigi Ferraris and was replaced by Marko Pjaca, but Allegri indicated the issue will not keep the 23-year-old from joining up with Argentina for their World Cup qualifying matches against Chile and Bolivia.
Sampaoli: Sevilla out of title race
Juan Cuadrado's goal after seven minutes ensured Juventus claimed all three points from the game and moved 10 points clear at the top of Serie A, with their title charge to resume on April 2 away to Napoli following the international break.
Allegri told Sky: "[Dybala] had a tight thigh muscle a few days ago and this was a little problem in the game, but it is nothing serious.
"We will see how he is when he returns."
🎙 @OfficialAllegri: "Victory at Sampdoria a significant step forward"
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— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) March 19, 2017
On his side's performance, he said: "We played a beautiful first half, and in the second we had to be ordered.
"In some situations we didn't mark well, and I was angry because these systems require more experience – you have to stay behind the line of the ball, playing the counter.
"It was a physiological decline after a first half like that."
Juventus face a tough month of fixtures after the international break, with games against Napoli in both Serie A and the Coppa Italia semi-finals, as well as the two legs of their Champions League quarter-final tie against Barcelona.
Allegri acknowledged he would have preferred to avoid the Spanish champions in the draw, but claimed he believes Juve can go all the way to the final in Cardiff.
"I would have preferred another team, but when you get into a quarter-final, playing Barca is not the norm," he said.
"In recent years we have played a lot in Europe and everyone respects us.
"The quarter-final is the hardest step, but we have every chance of reaching the final."
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Africa U17 Cup of Nations
Afcon U17: Tanzania fail to qualify for World Cup after Uganda defeat
Sandile Ndumo
Goal Tanzania
Tanzania U17
Uganda U17
Uganda U17 v Tanzania U17
Tanzania have failed to qualify for the 2019 Fifa U17 World Cup this year after losing 3-0 to Uganda
Following their second successive defeat, a 3-0 loss to Uganda at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, the Serengeti Boys have failed to reach this year's event in Brazil.
After losing 5-4 to Nigeria in a thrilling encounter in their first match on Sunday, Oscar Mirambo's men needed to beat Uganda to remain in the running for a place in the semi-finals.
Andrew Kawooya opened the scoring for the Cubs after teaming up with Najib Yiga with a delivery that flashed across goal and squeezed in from a tight angle to the back of the net in the 16th minute.
HIGHLIGHTS .. Uganda U-17 3-0 Tanzania U-17
Group Stage - Matchday 2 - #TotalAFCONU17 pic.twitter.com/5fl0JNAVsB
— CAF (@CAF_Online) 17 April 2019
Ivan Asaba doubled Uganda's tally in the 28th minute and Yiga sealed the result with a header 14 minutes from time.
The result sees Mirambo's side fail to qualify for the global event as they remain winless and lay bottom of Group A with zero points from two matches.
With the win, Uganda now occupies second spot in Group A, three points behind leaders Nigeria who overcame Angola 1-0 in the other game played on Wednesday.
Golden Eaglets' win saw them qualify for the World Cup with a game to spare for the record 12th time.
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The Trouble With Smartphone Kill Switches
To fight smartphone theft, public officials tell smartphone makers to add remote-deactivation, tracking and recovery features. But manufacturers may not do the job right.
Authorities are looking to handset manufacturers to implement smartphone "kill switches" that are designed to make the devices unattractive to thieves and recoverable for owners. But given their track record, there is no guarantee that smartphone makers will implement the right technology for the job.
"We need the industry to take this issue seriously and come up with a technical solution that can squash the illegal smartphone market that is fuelling this crime," London mayor Boris Johnson said last week.
Smartphone crime is a public safety issue, with police in many cities reporting a related rise in crime: London police say they see 10,000 smartphone thefts per month. In 2012, half of all robberies in San Francisco targeted a smartphone, while in New York City last year, the figure was 40%, according to statistics supplied by "Secure Our Smartphones," a program launched earlier this year by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, and recently joined by London.
All told, Consumer Reports estimates that 1.6 million Americans were victims of phone theft last year.
[ There are a host of problems facing mobile devices. Read Google Play: Beware Android Adware Infestation. ]
High-end smartphones are expensive to buy and lucrative to resell. Some models reportedly fetch up to $1,200 each in Hong Kong. Many phones ultimately end up in Africa and Asia, where they're wiped and rolled out on new cellular networks, according to law enforcement experts. Even if the devices are still running tracking software, you can kiss them goodbye.
The SOS program is calling on smartphone manufacturers to add public safety features to their devices. While specifics are so far scarce, such features might include remote-deactivation technology to render smartphones inoperable.
The first round of SOS, however, was a dud, after Gascon attempted to convince carriers -- including AT&T -- to do something about smartphone theft. They declined, although say they're building a global database to help track stolen smartphones.
Accordingly, Gascon has redirected his attention to handset manufacturers. But can many smartphone manufacturers be relied on to build a kill switch that's good enough to enable devices to be recovered, yet tough enough to withstand hack attacks? Consider the Android add-on software and skins added by so many handset manufacturers to their devices. Bloatware is the charitable word for such software, which too often poses a security risk because add-ons can introduce entirely new, exploitable vulnerabilities.
Of course, some smartphones already sport remote-kill features, such as such as the new Android Device Manager from Google, or the "wipe your iPhone" (or iPad) feature built into iOS devices. But they're more of a convenience than a theft-prevention feature. "Apple's switch renders the phone inoperable, but you have no way of getting it back," says Stephen Midgley, VP of marketing for Absolute Software, in an interview. Absolute has long made laptop-recovery software that uses software agents installed in device firmware.
"If the phone is stolen, you may be able to track it using 'find my phone' functionality, but we certainly don't recommend that consumers try to recover their own device," he says. "So being able to use a kill switch to remotely wipe or brick the device, but also recover the device, is of equal importance to either find the person who did it and make them accountable, or provide that information to police, so they can then take action."
To be viable, recovery software must involve some sort of persistent tracking technology installed on devices. That happens to be the type of software agent used by Absolute's Lojack for Mobile Devices software, which costs $30 per year to use, and so far is only available on Samsung Galaxy S4 devices, for which it's built into the device's firmware. Midgley said that approach is essential for making the tracker tough to find or delete, thus bettering the odds that it will remain running if the device gets stolen and helping the company's dedicated recovery team. Even if the phone does move to a part of the world where getting it back would be difficult, the location information may still be of use to law enforcement agencies amassing intelligence on the criminal gangs involved.
Samsung is doubling down on Absolute's recovery software, which will also feature in Samsung Knox. Due out later this year, Knox aims to give enterprises a more secure version of Android for business use, including secure boot, plus application containers to separate business apps from consumer apps.
Bolstering the tracking and recovery services built into smartphones stands to benefit both businesses and consumers. Still, what's to prevent enterprising hackers from using recovery or remote-wipe tools to forcibly deactivate or delete numerous Android devices in one go? That's an open question. "For solutions that use applications to control the phone's hardware, there is always a risk" that the app may draw the attention of hackers, or be used to access or wipe the data it's meant to protect, Jim Butterworth, CSO of technology security firm HBGary, tells me via email. "But an app can and should be created with controls to login and operate the app itself, as well as being limited in code to only the functions it requires in order to work."
In other words, handset manufacturers that build their own recovery tools must employ secure coding practices and extensive testing to ensure that add-on security apps can't be hacked, but instead can only be accessed by an approved recovery provider -- or perhaps the subscriber's carrier. Likewise, they'll need to have any recovery software they put on the devices tested to ensure that would-be attackers can't simply erase the software from the device or flash the firmware, before sending the phone to its new life overseas.
Alternately, handset manufacturers can tap third-party software vendors and recovery services. Given many handset manufacturers' previous, poor track record when it comes to developing their Android add-ons, let's hope that -- with the possible exception of Apple and Google, which excel at building their own software -- manufacturers tap a third-party information security specialist. If you value your phone, and chances of recovering any device that gets stolen, that's the best blueprint for building in kill switches, zappers or whatever technology may help deter theft.
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re: The Trouble With Smartphone Kill Switches
There really isn't a clear solution out there for tracking and security phone software. Even if they develop apps that have the capability to track phones remotely and are unable to be wiped out by whoever took it, there is also the task of recovering it. From what I've seen it really isn't too easy to have law enforcement officers take phone recovery seriously when most of them are already over worked and busy with more pressing matters.
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rradina,
Agreed. And by brick, you have to completely fry the whole phone. If you just fry the SOC, cell radio or flash memory, there will still be a market for "chop shops" that resell the display, battery, buttons, switches and enclosure.
Of course the problem with truly frying it (i.e. short-circuit the battery and melt the innards) is the risk of fire and personal injury -- to both legitimate owners and criminals. Yes, criminals. I guarantee you that the first criminal that gets burned will find an ambulance chasing lawyer and quickly go public and go loud. Of course they will be an extremely economically disadvantaged teenager that was only stealing so they could buy medications for their terminally ill mother and/or feed their younger siblings.
Thomas Claburn,
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I hope that whatever gets implemented is under user rather than manufacturer control.
Lorna Garey,
I think the key is ubiquitousness and prioritizing the "brick" part of the "brick it and recover it" equation. Once thieves believe the chances are 90% or better that a stolen phone will be unusable even in Asia, the problem will abate. At that point, recovery becomes moot.
iminmessaging,
Nice article to save your mobile from thieves. But what should Samsung's existing customers should do for security purpose?
Shane M. O'Neill,
Lots to think about in this article. Seems like the perfect mix of hacker-proof location tracking and remote wipe capability is still out of reach. Leaving it to a third-party app is risky because it's too easy for a hacker to infiltrate the app, and same goes for manufacturers baking kill-switch tech into the hardware. No easy answer. Manufacturers have to make mobile security a priority. In the meantime, password protect your phones people!
David F. Carr,
To be certain you'd killed the phone, you'd probably need to make it self destruct, frying the circuits Mission Impossible style. Then you'd probably have misfires where phones are blowing up for no good reason.
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Brewing Battle Over Pell Grants
Lawmakers consider expanding Pell Grants to short-term job training, with backing from community colleges and business groups, while critics question the payoff for short-term programs.
Andrew Kreighbaum
Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat and co-sponsor of the JOBS Act
Democratic presidential candidates are spending another election cycle debating the merits of free college. But in Washington, a fight is brewing over whether federal student aid should be available to people who pursue short-term training to land better jobs.
Students currently can use Pell Grants, the primary vehicle for federal need-based aid, for college degrees as well as certificate programs that last as little as 15 weeks.
Bipartisan legislation backed by community college and business groups would make certificate programs -- even non-credit-bearing courses -- as short as eight weeks eligible for Pell Grants. Supporters of the bill, dubbed the JOBS Act, say it would make an overdue change to better tailor the design of the federal aid system to the demands of adult students. It would also exclude for-profit institutions, which have been some of the biggest targets of criticism aimed at the short-term credential sector.
But the bill also would be a significant reorientation of the Pell program from largely supporting low-income students who are pursuing a college degree to backing job training as well. Some scholars and policy advocates are questioning the wisdom of that change, without more clear findings of the potential payoff for short-term credentials. They also worry what such a shift will mean for the strength of the Pell program in the future as it is stretched to serve more purposes.
As backers build a drumbeat of support for expanding Pell Grant eligibility, skeptics are starting to raise concerns in op-eds and meetings with lawmakers, setting up another key debate over the direction of postsecondary education as negotiators try to advance the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
“This is a significant shift in the nature of the program,” said Mary Alice McCarthy, director of the Center on Education and Skills at New America. “It means now it would both be helping people pay for college and also doubling as probably as our largest fund for job training. That’s a tectonic shift.”
Proponents of expanding Pell Grant eligibility to short-term programs say training in high-demand industries will help students land better jobs soon, not after several semesters or a years-long commitment to earning a college degree. It’s an argument that matches many of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s statements about the importance of alternatives to a four-year degree.
Prominent business groups have named Pell Grants for short-term programs as a top priority for the Higher Education Act. The Trump administration also has thrown its support behind the proposal. In Congress, the bill has attracted support from both sides of the aisle.
Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat and a co-sponsor of the JOBS Act legislation, said in a written statement that students at community colleges in his state, especially adults with families, are increasingly signing up for shorter-term career and educational training.
“We need to broaden our definition of higher education to include quality career and technical programs, and we have to make sure that federal policy supports this kind of learning, too,” Kaine said in a statement. “So the idea behind the JOBS Act is to be more flexible with Pell Grants and allow students to use them for high-quality career and technical classes if they want to.”
Some higher ed policy advocates, however, say whether skills are in demand and whether they lead to well-paid jobs are different questions.
“Just because a job is in demand doesn’t mean it’s going to be a good job with a living wage,” said Lanae Erickson, senior vice president for social policy and politics at the think tank Third Way.
While the group hasn’t taken a position on the JOBS Act, Erickson said Third Way is supportive of the concept of short-term Pell. But it wants to see protections included that would ensure students get a return on their investment.
Kaine said his bill would do that by requiring that credentials are recognized by employers and meet the needs of industry in state and local economies. It would also require approval of programs from state work-force boards and the U.S. Department of Education. And the legislation excludes for-profit institutions from accessing the grants.
For-profits have a significant footprint among institutions that offer certificate programs, although much of the sector has been in a years-long tailspin. Those institutions also made up the bulk of programs that failed the Obama administration’s gainful-employment rule in data released in 2017. (DeVos repealed the rule last week in a move criticized by consumer advocates.) But Erickson noted that many colleges outside the for-profit sector also have posted lackluster results on metrics like graduation rates and student loan repayment.
“Many nonprofit and public schools have had pretty bad outcomes as well,” Erickson said. “We’re putting a lot of faith in the public and nonprofit sectors to do a lot of this right when we know they haven’t always up till now.”
Payoff for Short-Term Credentials
Students who enroll in short-term training programs are for the most part the same kind of students who enroll in career education programs that were subject to the gainful-employment rule -- typically older, less affluent and more likely to be from minority groups than students who enroll at four-year colleges.
McCarthy said the U.S. higher ed system already has serious issues with stratification. Opening Pell Grant eligibility to short-term programs could worsen the problem, she said, by encouraging colleges to offer more short-term programs with little connection to real college degree pathways.
“This could really have the potential to exacerbate some of our equity problems,” she said.
Kermit Kaleba, managing director of policy at the National Skills Coalition, which has made short-term Pell a priority, said the students served by those programs -- usually older, working adults -- currently have low participation rates in traditional higher ed. The federal government should be just as willing to invest in a student who wants to get a welding or health certification as a four-year degree, he said.
“We are leaving out a lot of lower-skill, low-wage workers for whom moving from $10 an hour to $15 an hour makes a real life difference,” Kaleba said. “There are a lot of folks particularly at the lower end of the wage scale for whom incremental wage gains are significant.”
Proponents and skeptics of short-term Pell reach remarkably different conclusions from a handful of studies on the value of short-term credentials.
Davis Jenkins, a senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College, said short-term certificates always have had minimal value for students, especially if they’re entering the work force without experience. And since the Great Recession, he said, the labor market return on even longer-term certificates has declined relative to degrees.
“The problem is the jobs you can get with those short-term certificates don’t pay enough in wages and benefits to make it worth the public’s investment,” Jenkins said.
Supporters of the bill have cited a Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce study that found strong payoffs for some certificate programs. Kaine’s office said data from Virginia show students who got short-term credentials at community colleges have seen annual wage increases of 20 to 50 percent.
McCarthy said the Virginia Fast Forward program, which connects students to employment quickly through short-term training, is to some extent the best-case scenario for such an approach. Many of the program’s graduates enter fields like welding or truck driving.
Those jobs tend to have very high turnover rates, McCarthy said, in part because they’re physically demanding.
“They’re all hard jobs to move up from,” she said.
The JOBS Act requires that colleges create clear pathways so students can accumulate short-term credentials on their way to eventually earning a degree. Ideally, students get a better-paying job after one eight-week program, then return to the college as their campus allows them to continue progress toward a degree by “stacking” their credentials. And supporters of the legislation say exposing students to college for the first time can lead them to return when they see real benefits.
But Jenkins said research suggests few students who get certificates go on to get degrees.
“It turns out students don’t stack,” he said. “Skills training is not integrated into degree programs.”
Big Bet on Community Colleges
If the JOBS Act is placing a large wager on the value of short-term credentials, it’s also betting big on the ability of community colleges to build programs that will lead students to employment quickly, and allow them to return and continue accumulating credits toward a degree.
David Baime, senior vice president for government relations and policy analysis at the American Association of Community Colleges, said many community colleges already offer the kinds of short-term programs that would be eligible for Pell funds under the JOBS Act.
“The colleges are legitimately trying to respond to the needs of local employers and, to some extent, broader regional trends,” he said.
Almost all of those programs, Baime said, have advisory panels for specific industries, and most have to go through an approval process at the state level. The JOBS Act would apply standards that will be a challenge for many programs to meet, he said.
“This is not a proposal that was whipped up in Washington, D.C.,” he said. “This is a program that comes from our field, our member presidents and work-force teams who emphasize the fact that we are offering more programs to get people into the work force quickly and that the financial burdens are acute for many of them.”
But at some campuses, trepidation about the quality of credential comes along with excitement about new potential funding for job training. Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College, said about three-quarters of the students at her college work. If they can get a job in their field of interest, she said, it eases the financial burden of attending classes.
But Eddinger said that covering significant material in eight weeks is a challenge. And that time frame leaves little opportunity for general education in everything from writing to quantitative skills. Many students are academically behind when they arrive on campus. And the critical thinking skills that longer-term academic programs would provide are valuable to workers, she said.
Eddinger also worried about short-term credentials being offered as a “silver bullet” for good-paying jobs.
“You want that immediate alleviation for low-skill, low-wage workers and to open opportunities for students looking for good jobs,” she said. “But we’ve got to plan farther than eight weeks. It can’t be the end-all and be-all.”
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Nebraska flooding has turned towns into islands. Now more places could get submerged
Posted: 5:57 AM, Mar 18, 2019
This landlocked state shouldn't have any islands. But the deadly flooding that has deluged parts of Nebraska could get worse before it gets better.
"This really is the most devastating flooding we've probably ever had in our state's history, from the standpoint of how widespread it is," Gov. Pete Ricketts said Monday.
More than 8 million people are under flood warnings in the Midwest and the Mississippi River Valley, said CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen.
"Eastern Nebraska remains the hardest hit area, with much of the southeast part of the state under flood warnings," he said.
The flooding has already killed two people in Nebraska and one man in Iowa. Ricketts said at least one person remains missing in Nebraska.
Flood records have been shattered in 17 places, and more rivers will likely break cresting records this week, according to the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency. (A crest is the highest point of a flood wave.)
Now the big concern is floodwater draining downstream, further deluging communities that can't take any more water.
3 deaths include a farmer trying to rescue others
Nebraskan James Wilke, a farmer in Platte County, used his tractor to try to help a person trapped in a vehicle, NEMA spokesman Mike Wight said.
"With the guidance of emergency responders, James drove his tractor over the Shell Creek bridge on the Monestary Road and the bridge gave out. James and the tractor went down into the flood water below," family friend Jodi L. Hefti wrote on Facebook.
Another Nebraska man died after he was overcome by flood waters near a dam in Spencer, Wight said.
He said one more person in Nebraska is missing and presumed dead.
In Iowa, Aleido Rojas Galan of Nebraska was one of three people rescued from floodwater, Iowa's Fremont County Sheriff's Office said. But Galan, 55, succumbed to his injuries and died at a hospital in Lincoln.
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Melting snow ended up in rivers and streams, causing flooding and cresting days after the precipitation was over.
Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base, just south of Omaha, said about 30 buildings were hit with floodwater.
"Team Offutt has done an incredible job working together to battle this historic flood as best we can," said Col. Michael Manion, 55th Wing commander. On Sunday, he said the 55th Wing at the base was down "essential personnel manning only."
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By Stardustblade358, August 30, 2016 in Roleplaying
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Hunk picked up the Chewbacca figurine and chuckled. "Well, if I could be a Wookie, I'd definitely would be! They seem like very fluffy creatures!" Hunk admitted to Katie. He gently rubbed Katie's head, laughing as she stuck her tongue out at Lance. Lance looked at Katie bewildered.
"You don't like me?!" Lance asked. "But I'm the best brother ever!" He insisted. Then again, he thought, it's only been a few hours. By next week, he was sure that he would end up being Katie's favorite brother. Though she did seem to be much more attached to Hunk, maybe he could be the second favorite brother. Lance picked up the Princess Leia figurine, looking at Keith. "Well don't mind if I do! I can make an awesome princess Leia." Lance insisted, his charming smile never wavering. He picked up a few of the pieces and then the instruction papers of the different things they could build with the Legos. "Look, Katie! We can build all of these. Which one should we try to build first? I bet Leia would love to pilot the Millennium Falcon!" Lance said as he began to try and build a ship. He wanted to build one before Keith ended up getting all the good pieces.
"With enough legos we can build a house, Katie. Or a boat! I bet no one's ever seen a boat in space." Hunk joked, showing Katie the different ships that they could do.
"Ok but I think that Luke Skywalker would definitely be the Blue Paladin, by the way!" Lance added.
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Keith went ahead and grabbed as much pieces as he could, trying his best to snag the better pieces from Lance.
"Skywalker definitely isn't the Blue Paladin. Jar Jar Binks is." He said with a snicker, going along to follow the instructions to build a small aircraft. He held Luke Skywalker proudly, waving his red lightsaber around (Keith used the red since it was his favorite color).
Katie sat alongside Hunk, using her Green Lion plushie to play with the Chewbaca figure. She roared and blew raspberries, giggling moments later from the playing. She looked to the pieces and began to play with them, soon beginning to build something. One thing she did was completely disregard the instructions, making an entire contraption on her own.
Once she was done, she placed it on the ground. It was a rather oddly shaped figure, seeming to be some kind of fountain contraption. She pretended to turn it on, using her Lion to pretend to drink or eat whatever invisible substance came out of it.
Keith raised an eyebrow, looking at the odd scene.
"What's that thing supposed to be?"
Lance stuck out his tongue at Keith. "I'll have you know that there is a theory for Jar Jar being a sith all along!" Lance argued, a triumphant smile on his face, though he wasn't sure what he had won exactly. He built what seemed to be a fighter ship, using the blue legos to give it that special touch of his favorite color. "I'm Leia, and I'm going to be the best fighter pilot~" Lance cooed as he held the princess figurine. He couldn't help but to watch Katie play. It was adorable, in all honesty. He had never had a little sister or a little sibling in general. All of them were around the same ages, just a few months apart if anything. Katie would be their first little sibling. Hunk watched in amusement as Katie built something. He didn't know what it was, but it was something.
"It looks like a...fountain?" Lance asked, tilting his head slightly as he watched Katie play with it.
"Or a chocolate fountain!" Hunk suggested, earning a high five from Lance. Hunk picked up a Han Solo figurine, and then with a few legos, made something that seemed to resemble a cup of some sort. "Oh Green Lion, Chewbacca! You wouldn't mind if we drink too?" Hunk said, moving his figurine over to the fountain and having it 'drink' whatever was in whatever Katie had created.
"I think that this is perfect for swimming!" Lance said, picking up the princess Leia figurine and dunking her head as if she was drinking it that way. "Come, Luke Skywalker! Join us in drinking this mysterious water that the Green Lion has brought us~"
Keith couldn't help but smile at the scene. Although he wouldn't actually express it, having Katie around was nice. It was yet another sibling to protect, albeit a younger one.
Keith rolled his eyes at Lance's comment, trying to put random pieces together to build a small ship. He picked up Luke Skywalker and approached the Green Lion with it.
"Wow..." He said, making slurping noises as he pretended to drink whatever was coming from tb fountain. "This water is so good... I have energy to fight Darth Vader now!" He said with a grin.
Katie couldn't help but press herself closer to Hunk once her two other brothers approached her, although after seeing Lance and Keith 'drink' from the fountain and enjoying it, Katie couldn't help but smile.
With a small giggle, Katie continued to hug Hunk's hand with one arm while she used the other to make the Green Lion jump up in the air.
"Roarrrr!!!"
Lance gasped, holding princess Leia as he used her lego arm to point at the Green Lion. "Oh no! A giant, mechanical Green Lion has appeared to steal the fountain of awesomeness!" Lance said, quickly hurrying the figurine into the ship he had created, sitting her down, and beginning to fly around. He made flying sound effects as he began to fly around the Green Lion. "We come in peaaaaaceeee~" Lance cooed.
Hunk laughed, smiling at the interaction. He didn't hesitate to join in, picking up the Han Solo figurine as he began to approach the Green Lion. "This is the mightiest lion I have ever seen!" Hunk said as he proceeded to try to pet the Green Lion with the figurine. From the doorway, Shiro couldn't help but to listen and watch the interactions. It felt as if a weight had been lifted. They were getting along and playing together. Well, it was just one night. The first night. Many things could go wrong from there on. But it was a start.
Lance was the first to notice him. Making flying sounds and beam sounds as he poked the Green Lion over and over again, before glancing at the doorway and looking at Shiro. "Papi!" Lance smiled, waving at him. "Want to play with us?!"
"Huh?" Shiro blinked and smiled softly. "I don't know. I wouldn't want to interrupt you."
"Play with us, pleeeeeeaaaaaseeee?" Lance asked, giving him some puppy eyes.
"We need someone to play Chewbacca. Come join us dad!" Hunk insisted. Shiro smiled softly and walked over to the group, taking a seat on the free space on the floor.
"The Green Lion is attacking! We need backup!" Lance quickly announced.
"Oh the Green Lion is attacking?" Shiro cooed, picking up the Chewbacca figurine. "How scary!!! That is the scariest creature I've ever seen!"
Katie giggled as she continued her playing. When Shiro joined it made it even better. Although after a while, she realized that she was 'attacking' and being the bad guy. She didn't like the attention and the fact that her family was 'scared' and wanting to 'fight' her.
Katie whimpered softly, feeling rather overwhelmed at the suffocating space around her. She yanked the green lion away and held it close to her chest where she stuffed herself into Shiro with a small cry.
Keith sighed and put his toys down. He was a bit dissapointed it came to this, but hey; it was a start. The fact that Katie was playing in the first place was great enough.
"It is late..." He said, going to put the Legos away. "I think Katie is tired."
Shiro wrapped his arms around Katie, gently rubbing her head. "You have a point, Keith. It's pretty late as it is. I think it's time to call it a day." Shiro said. He picked Katie up in his arms, getting on his feet. Hunk and Lance helped Keith put away the legos until they were all tucked away in the lego box.
"Aw already?" Lance asked.
"Yes. I'm sure you are tired too." Shiro said. Lance whined slightly, but simply nodded.
"Ok...can you tuck me in tonight?!" Lance asked playfully.
"Of course." Shiro chuckled. "Let me put your sister to bed first. Say goodnight, Katie." Shiro said, carrying her away to her bedroom.
"Good night, Katie!" Hunk and Lance called, waving at their sister. Shiro carried Katie to her bedroom, gently setting her down on the bed.
"Here we go." Shiro said. He removed the luggage from the bed and settled it on the floor. "We'll unpack first thing in the morning tomorrow, alright? We'll organize all your clothes neatly. But for now, lets get you some pajamas alright?" Shiro assured, opening Katie's bag and quickly finding a few pairs of pajamas. "Here you go. You can dress yourself, right? You're a big girl." Shiro said softly as he rubbed Katie's head.
This is how I imagine the bunk beds btw
(What omg I want that)
Katie sniffled as she clutched tightly to Shiro's shirt. All she wanted was to just go to sleep. It was a long day, after all. When she got to her room, Katie tiredly began to put on her pajamas which was matching fuzzy pants and a shirt with foggies all over it. Once she was done she folded her clothes and placed it to the side. She held her lion close to her and climbed onto her bed despite it being extremely tall. She snuggled herself under the covers and glanced up to Shiro with a small frown.
"Daddy... Where's mommy?" She asked. In her mind, when there was a father, there was a mother. So it was only natural to assume that she had a mother as well in addition to Shiro.
Meanwhile Keith groaned tiredly after he finished cleaning up and sat on the bottom bunk underneath Lance's.
"You're like, how old?" Keith asked retorically, snuggling into his blankets with a sigh. Another night dealing with Lance's obnoxious snoring. He couldn't help but look towards the door, still trying to process the fact that Katie was here. "...What do you guys think?"
Shiro frowned slightly as he listened to Katie's question. Mommy. A mother. Shiro wasn't married. He hadn't met the love of his life yet, or so it seemed so far. There was Allura, the ever so beautiful neighbor, and Shiro sometimes was too shy to even ask her out for drinks.
"Well," Shiro sighed, gently playing with Katie's head. "There is no mommy. Not yet, at least." He explained. "Daddy hasn't found a mommy. But maybe one day." He gently kissed Katie on the forehead. "Sleep tight, kiddo. I'll be down the hall if you need me." Shiro assured. He turned on the small nightlight on the wall and walked out the room. He turned off the lights and gently closed the door. "Good night Katie. Sweet dreams." And with that, he closed it.
"I like her." Hunk said. "She's very nice!"
"I can't believe she doesn't like me." Lance said, almost sounding sad. Hunk laughed.
"Give her time, she'll like you eventually." Hunk assured, snuggling in his bed.
"Maybe." Lance hummed, thinking for a moment. "Her family were friends of dad. Dad trusts her, so I do too." Lance said, a smirk on his face as he leaned over to look at Keith. "You're not jelous that you will lose dad's attention, are you?~" Lance teased. He was about to go on, until he saw Shiro walk in. "You came!"
"You think I wouldn't come to say goodbye to my boys?" Shiro cooed. Lance lifted his arms, and Shiro tucked him in, kissing his forehead. "Good night Lance." He then turned to Hunk, who was more than happy to accept a good night kiss from dad. "Good night Hunk." He then walked over to Keith, and gave him a good night kiss too, even if he would be flustered by it. "Good night Keith." Shiro said, standing up and walking out of the room. "You boys have sweet dreams."
"You too daddy!" Lance and Hunk spoke in union. Shiro smiled and clicked off the lights before closing the door. Then he went ahead to turn off the rest of the lights around the house, and then to his room, changed into his pajamas and went to sleep. Lance, as always, had a bit of difficulty sleeping immediately.
"I'm going to teach Katie how to play so many games! I can teach her hopscotch and how to play pokemon." Lance murmured, smiling as he tried to sleep. Hunk meanwhile was knocked out asleep just minutes in.
Katie looked up to Shiro innocently as she listened. There wasn't any mommy... She didn't quite understand the concept of single parents, but oh well! She was happy with having Shiro.
She snuggled into her covers along with her lion.
"So you're daddy AND mommy?" Katie asked, watching as Shiro went to leave. "Goodnight daddy/mommy..." She cheeped.
Meanwhile, Keith pressed his pillow to his face when Lance started to press his bottons once again. He tried to ignore the boy, but then Shiro came in. When Shiro kissed him, Keith pouted and rubbed where Shiro kissed him quickly.
"Goodnight Shiro." Keith said, yawning as he turned to lay on his side.
He wasn't able to go to sleep that much like Hunk was due to Lance's rambling. In the middle of it Keith tossed his bean stuffed star plushie over to Lance's face.
"Lance go to sleep already." Keith uttered, pressing his pillow on his face once more.
(I meant to ask you if I could time skip. If so I can post again if you want! ^.^ any ideas?)
Edited September 21, 2016 by Aqua7KH
-NEXT DAY-
Shiro woke up early, around eight in the morning or so, as he always did, and went into routine. He worked out for about thirty minutes, the casual sit ups and push ups. Then he took a quick five minute shower. By then it was almost ten. Wearing his white 'I want to believe' t-shirt and shorts, he made himself some coffee and began to think of what to prepare for breakfast. The kids would be waking up sooner or later. He went ahead and decided on pancakes. Propping up an apron, he began to cook, multitasking as he looked at his phone for any work related emails.
Inside their room, Lance and Hunk were asleep along with their brother Keith. Lance was curled up, holding onto his Blue Lion plushie in his sleep. Hunk slept peacefully with his whole body underneath the bed sheets. As the sunlight peaked through the window, it hit Lance first, waking him up from his slumber. He groaned, rolling over on his bed, laying there for a few minutes before sitting up on the bed, his air a complete mess as he stretched. "Morning already?" Lance asked himself, yawning once more. He looked around at his brothers and then sniffed the air. He could only smile as he recognized the smell; pancakes. Dad was cooking pancakes. "Hmmm~" Lance hummed, quickly climbing down from his bed. He first went to Keith, nudging him gently. "Keeeeeeeith, dad is making pancakes!"
"Pancakes?" Hunk hummed from his bed, sitting up slightly as he rubbed his eyes. "Five more minutes." Hunk then pulled the bed sheets over himself again.
Lance climbed on Keith's bed, sitting in front of him as he slept. "Hey Keith, want to go to the park today?" Lance decided that he would try to convince Keith first, because out of the three of them, he was the most stubborn, at least in Lance's eyes.
Katie was actually somehow awake already. She climbed out of bed immediatly, wanting to be near Shiro again. She quietly entered the kitchen and before Shiro could realize, the small tiny mass was sitting next to him on the floor much like the day before. She looked up to him like a lost puppy would to its owner, messy fluffy hair out and about as she sat on the floor. She held her plushie close to her chest and wrapped her arms tightly around Shiro's leg as she silently bid him good morning.
"Papa..." She said with a tired whine, yawning as she rested her head on his leg.
Keith meanwhile hissed in aggravation. He turned in his bed, shoving his pillow on his face when Lance started to bother him.
"Lance..." He uttered. "Go back to sleep..." He couldn't help but open his eyes however when the smell of pancakes drifted to his nose. He looked up, holding the pillow at his side as he glanced over to Lance.
"Alright." Keith said with a yawn. "I'm in the mood to climb the swings anyway."
Shiro looked down, feeling as Katie hugged his leg in a similar manner than yesterday. "Good morning Katie." Shiro said with a smile. "You don't always have to wait by my legs." He added, but allowed her as he focused back on the pancakes. Meanwhile Lance smiled at Keith.
"Alright!" Lance said, climbing off Keith's bed and hurrying over to Hunk's bed, now deciding to bother him. "Hunk, Hunk, Keith said yes, did you hear him? Do you want to go too?" Lance asked as he shook his brother. Hunk gently peeked his head out from beneath the bed sheets.
"The park? Hm...ok! But I want to bring bread to feed the ducks by the pond!" Hunk said as he sat up on his bed. Lance threw his arms into the air.
"Alright! We can all go together!" Lance said as he jumped off Hunk's bed. "Now to convince dad." And with that, he ran out of the bedroom. Hunk gently stepped out of his bed, looking over at Keith.
"Morning." He said with a small chuckle. Just another normal day. Hopefully. Lance walked into the kitchen.
"Good morning dad!" He said, his eyes quickly landing on Katie, who once more sat by Shiro's legs. "Good morning, Katie!" Lance added, hoping to be friendly to his sister. "Daaaaad, can we go to the park todayyyyy?" Lance said, getting his hands behind his back and tilting his head to the side.
"The park? That sounds fun. Sure." Shiro said, flipping up some pancakes as they casually landed on the plate next to the stove. "You can take Katie with you." Shiro added. Lance couldn't help but to pout at that. If she went, it would also mean that they would be in charge of babysitting her. That didn't sound as fun in Lance's mind. "Alright, who wants pancakes?" Shiro asked as he finished. He looked down at Katie, gently moving so he wouldn't accidentally push her over. "Ready to eat, Katie?" Lance sat on the table, glancing over at Katie from time to time. What a strange little girl, yet, he couldn't help but smile at her every time.
Keith yawned as he slowly got up from bed, feeling rather bad that Lance was now bothering Hunk. Lance's desire for bothering people was almost like that of a virus or something.
"Lance, cool it." Keith uttered, entering the kitchen not too long later to see Shiro making pancakes. Keith's stomach growled.
"Food..." He said, mouth watering. He noticed Lance's dismay at having to bring Katie along. He plotted up to him and nudged him in the shoulder.
"Hey." Keith grumbled. "You were going on about how cute she was and how happy you were to have her here right? Well there's responsibilities to that. You don't expect her to just sit here by herself right?" He couldn't help but grin at this next part. "...I thought you said you were going to be the best brother ever."
Katie merely rested her head on Shiro's legs, looking out into absolutely nothing the entire time as she held her plushie to her chest. She nodded in understanding at Shiro's words, although she liked being next to Shiro.
Once the boys woke up, Katie couldn't help but smile. She wasn't really focusing on Keith or Lance, but more ok Hunk. Her eyes seemed to sparkle upon seeing the big boy although her face didn't have much expression. She got up and went over to him, hugging him as if he was a big teddybear.
"Fluffy..."
Once it was time to eat, Katie did something rather strange. As everyone started to sit down to eat, Katie instead of pulling a chair up decided to climb up Hunk's chair to perch herself comfortably on his lap like a little bird to someone's shoulder. She had her plate next to Hunk's and she wrapped her arms around him once more lovingly. She held her fork in her hand, not wanting to eat until Hunk started.
Keith raised an eyebrow in confusion at Katie's actions. The fact that she never really explained much made it even more strange... She just did whatever.
"Well at least she likes on of us. Lance is probably going to be the last."
Lance stuck out his tongue at Keith. "I'm a big brother, not a babysitter." Lance insisted, apparently not realizing his own contradiction in the statement. He watched as Katie went straight to Hunk, hugging him, to which Hunk didn't hesitate to hug back.
"Morning Katie!" Hunk said cheerfully, hugging back at his little sister with a smile. As he sat down to eat, Katie decided to eat with him. On his lap, actually. "You want to eat with me? Ok!" Hunk said as he began to eat, enjoying the pancakes as he watched Katie eat as well. Shiro smiled softly as he ate as well. At least Hunk was a sweetheart god sent child that never seemed to cause any trouble. At all. Hell. He was too kind for his own good at times. Nothing seemed to bother him. Though when it did, in the rare times, hell had no fury than Hunk protecting his siblings from anything that got in the way.
"She'll warm up to you boys as time goes on. The more she knows you and the more you know her. Before you know it she'll be one of you boys." Shiro assured as he ate.
Lance shoved pancakes into his mouth, chewing as he watched Katie. A tint of jealousy was starting to rise in his tummy. It wasn't big. But it was just a tad bit. The whole her getting attention thing maybe. "I won't be last! I'll have her like me better than you!" Lance insisted.
"Now boys it's not a competition." Shiro said as he drank some orange juice. "You boys want to go to the park, yes?"
"Yeah!" Lance cheered.
"Then we'll go after we're all done with breakfast." Shiro said, finishing his own plate. "What do you think, Katie? Want to go to the park with us? It'll be fun." Shiro smiled.
"We can feed the ducks." Hunk added.
"I'm going to climb the highest part of the playground." Lance declared boldly.
Edited September 27, 2016 by Stardustblade358
Keith just stared at Lance, baffled.
"...You do realize that entire statement makes no sense right." He uttered, giving up almost immediatly. Lance was just... Lance.
Keith rolled his eyes as he went to eat his pancakes, munching on the fluffy goodness. Keith did like his pancakes burnt, but honestly his vocal cords was tired from responding to Lance's bullshit.
"I'm going to climb way higher than you." Keith said with a huff. "You're going to eat my dust."
Katie meanwhile wasn't really paying attention much to the entire conversation. She just sat perched in Hunk's lap comfortably, munching on her pancakes. She even pretended to feed her Green Lion some, although she was careful not to get syrup all over him. With a smile, she nodded at her plate in responce to Hunk's suggestion.
"Duckies..." She said softly.
They were getting along, Katie felt comfortable, and it seemed that she had already began to form a bond with Hunk. Things were going great so far. "Then it's settled. We'll head to the park once we're all done eating." Shiro said, finishing his plate of pancakes. He piked his plate up and settled it in the kitchen sink. Lance was quick to finish his, picking up his plate and hurrying it over to the sink as well.
"I'm done!" Lance said cheerfully as he grabbed the sponge. "I'll do the dishes!"
"You will? Why thank you Lance." Shiro said as he rubbed his head. Lance never wanted to do the dishes. Or any chores in general. But he wasn't going to stop him. In reality Lance was planning on getting into Shiro's good graces just in case something happened at the park. Sneaky sneaky Lance. Hunk finished his plate, licking his lips as he was done. Shiro's pancakes were simply the best.
"Thanks dad!" Hunk said, loking over at Katie. "You have pretty hair, Katie." Hunk hummed. He couldn't help but to stroke it softly before smiling. "When you're done eating, let me make your hair a ponytail!" Hunk insisted. Out of the three it seemed Hunk was on his way from winning the favorite sibling competition.
"Be careful that you don't pull on Katie's hair if you do." Shiro reminded as he helped Lance with the dishes.
"Maybe I can cut Katie's hair if she wants it shorter-!" Lance began, only to be immidietly shut down.
Katie looked up to Hunk when he asked the question and nodded. Although she wasn't too fond of people fumbling with her hair, she'd do it for Hunk. She snuggled him for warmth once more, closing her eyes softly as she dozed off from the feeling of being full. There she was, in a tiny little ball on Hunk almost like a curled up little kitten.
Keith rolled his eyes as Lance went to go do the dishes. He knew exactly what Lance was doing. He knew Lance like the back of his hand.
"Don't fall for it Shiro." Keith said with a huff, waiting for Lance to finish the dishes on purpose before Keith placed his dish in the sink. He stuck his tongue out at the boy.
Hunk smiled and wrapped his arms around Katie. She was so cute! Lance looked over at Keith with a face of utter betrayl as Shiro laughed.
"Keith, I cannot believe!" Lance said, sounding overdramatic on porpouse. "I would never." Lance stuck out his tongue back at his brother before resuming to wash the dishes to finish with Keith's plate.
"Right. Lets get ready to leave, shall we?" Shiro said as he rubbed Lance's hair softly. "I'll get some bread ready for the ducks." Shiro added as he walked over to Hunk and Katie. "Ok Katie, go ahead and get ready alright? Hunk and your brothers will get ready as well." Shiro said. Hunk nodded and softly helped Katie down on the floor before stepping off himself.
"I'll go get ready! Come on Keith!" Hunk said as he ran off. Brush his teeth, brush his hair, get dressed, they had to get ready for the park!
"H-Hey, wait for me!" Lance whined, drying his hands as he followed his brothers. Shiro turned back to Katie.
"I'll be right here if you need me, Katie." Shiro said, turning over to pack a few slabs of bread for the ducks. Hunk and Lance brushed their teeth and hurried to get dressed. Lance would get dressed in a blue t-shirt, a pair of shorts, and blue sneakers. Hunk would wear a yellow shirt, green pants and some black sneakers.
Katie wasn't expecting to be let go so soon. She whined softly, reaching her arms out for Hunk. Sadly the boy went away, so Katie had to stand there all by herself. With a small sniffle, she went away to her room.
Keith went over to the room to get ready with his brothers. Instead of getting dressed with them, he went to go brush his teeth alone. firetruck sharing a sink with Lance. After he was done he went to go get dressed while his brothers went to the bathroom. He got into a pair of gray shorts, sneakers, a red jacket with a brown shirt underneath. He didn't really bother to comb his hair. He went into the livingroom to meet with Shiro.
"Ready."
Meanwhile, there was nothing but silence coming from Katie's room. After everyone was ready, it wasn't a few minutes until she slowly emerged from her room. It appeared she wasn't quite old enough to dress herself efficiently, for her overalls were this way and that, her green striped sweater was messy and half on, her hair was all over the place and she had mixed matched socks on with her shoes. In all though she appeared to be more tired than anything, rubbing her eye with a small yawn.
Lance couldn't help but to laugh. Katie looked like she had jumped into a clothes basket and jumped right back out with whatever had happened to cling on. Shiro couldn't help but to smile warily. She looked so cute, but he definitely needed to help her look more appropriate. "Oh Katie." He cooed. He quickly walked over and knelt down, fixing Katie up quickly. He fixed the green striped sweater, fitting it on Katie. He then fixed the overalls, pulling the straps on her shoulders and adjusting them. He gently picked her up and set her down, taking off her shoes and getting her some matching socks, and then the shoes. Finally, he fixed her hair, brushing down the bedhead. Shiro mentally took note on Katie and her habits, and what he needed to help with or what he could leave her to do on her own. Note taken; she wasn't much of a morning person unless properly prompt or inspired. "There we go. Much better." Shiro said with a soft smile, taking Katie's hand. "Now we can go."
"Finally!" Lance said, throwing his arms into the air as he turned and opened the door, running out. Hunk followed, Shiro walking out while holding Katie's hand. It was a seven seater car. Two front seat, three in the middle, and two extra in the back that could be set up for extra seating or packed up to make space in the trunk. Shiro would not allow anyone to take shotgun, though. They were much too young.
"Katie will go in the middle, ok?" Shiro said. Lance crawled into one of the back seats, pulling the seat back down so Hunk, Keith and Pidge could sit down. Hunk sat on one side, smiling as he held Katie's seatbelt.
"I'll help her!" Hunk insisted.
"Well aren't you a dutiful big brother?" Shiro smiled, helping Katie up to her seat.
"Here we go." Hunk said as he buckled her in.
"Shiro!" A female voice spoke. Shiro looked up, turning to see his neighbor, Allura. She was as beautiful as she was smart and sucessful, helping her father with the family pharmacy downtown. "Taking the kids to the park?"
"Yeah!" Shiro said, a faint blush on his cheek.
"Is that the little Katie I've been hearing about? Hello~" Allura cooed, waving from her side. "I need to head over to meet with someone, but how about I invite you guys over for dinner later?" Allura said. Shiro rubbed the back of his head.
"That would be lovely~" Shiro said. Lance smirked.
"SHIRO AND ALLURA SITTING IN A TREE-!"
Katie sniffled as she stood there, putting her hands on her head as Shiro began to fix her up. She didn't really mind him fixing her clothes, although when Shiro began to fix Katie's hair she whined softly and tried to stop him. After it was all over, she sniffled and grabbed his hand.
In the car Katie was snug in her seat, giggling softly when Hunk buckled her in. She smiled at him, hugging his neck like as if he was a teddy bear.
Then a woman came. A woman she never saw before. Katie gasped softly, trying to get out of her seat to look at her. They talked, and Lance began to talk loudly as he always did.
Katie whined loudly and sniffled. She unbuckled her seatbelt all by herself suddenly and jumped onto Shiro's waist from the car. She looked up to Allura, eyes watery and puffy.
Keith chuckled as he watched Shiro fixed her up. Things were going to her interesting. Grabbing a ball, he ran up to the car and jumped in.
As he waited for them to leave, Keith covered his ears at Lance's obnoxious voice. He glared over to his brother, hissing.
"God, do you have to be so loud?! You're gonna set Katie off. You're so stupid."
Shiro quickly wrapped his arms around Katie, looking down at her. "Whoa. Hey there Katie." Shiro hummed, looking back at Lance. "Lance no screaming in the car! Loud noises startle her!" Shiro scolded, causing Lance to whine from his seat. The moment Allura saw Katie, she moved around the fence to get closer, her heart fluttering at the new addition to Shiro's family.
"Oh my goodness, hello!" Allura cooed, kneeling down to meet eye to eye with her. "Nice to meet you Katie, I'm Allura. Nice to meet you." Allura said, her voice soft and almost welcoming. "I'm your neighbor." Allura looked up at Shiro, standing up to talk to him clearly. "She is the Holt's child, right?" Allura asked, whispering that last part. Shiro nodded.
"Yes." Shiro scratched the back of his head. "We are learning to adapt to her, and she is getting used to her new home. We still have a long way to go, though. A day at the park should help in getting used to each other more." Shiro said as he rubbed Katie's hair gently. Allura nodded, getting a gentle hand on Shiro's shoulder.
"If you ever need help, I'm always around, alright?" Allura assured, causing Shiro's cheeks to flush a shade of pink before nodding.
"Yeah...thanks, Allura." Shiro said.
"How about I come over your place when you come back? I'll help you with dinner. I just learned this amazing new chicken recepy!"
"Sounds great. Thanks, Allura."
"I'll get going then." Allura smiled at Katie. "I'll see you later, Katie." And with that, Allura walked off, leaving Shiro's heart beating a bit faster and harder than the usual. Lance chuckled from his seat.
"You guys think Allura will be Shiro's girlfriend one day?" Hunk asked curiously. Allura was a kind woman, and very nice to them. She would babysit them whenever Shiro had work to do outside of the house.
"If Shiro ever becomes brave enough." Lance teased.
"I heard that." Shiro said, earning a laugh from Lance as he returned to his seat. Shiro smiled at Katie and helped her back up on her seat. "Alright! To the park we go!" Shiro said as he closed the door. Hunk offered the seat belt to Katie.
"Want to buckle yourself up?" Hunk asked smiling. Shiro got in the car, turning it on before beginning to drive off to the park.
"...Shiro and Allura sitting in a tree~"
"Lance."
Katie gave the mightiest pout as she could, puffy eyes narrowing as she saw Allura approach. With a small sniffle, she pressed her face into Shiro bashfully with a whine. She clung to him as she always did, wanting to go to sleep now after Lance's unpleasant outburst. She couldn't help but stick her tongue out at Lance as Shiro scolded him.
Keith grinned as Shiro scolded Lance. It was a rather pleasant watching his adoptive father scold his brother. Lance definitely deserved it with his obnoxious self. It was even better when Katie stuck her tongue out at him.
"Awww Lance, I don't think she likes you." Keith said with a snicker. When Hunk asked about Allura, Keith couldn't help but go silent. He didn't know if he wanted that to happen.
"...I don't think so." He uttered. The next part he uttered more to himself. "...We're fine by ourselves."
Meanwhile Katie couldn't help but squirm when Shiro put her in the car. She wanted to sit on his lap. When she saw Hunk's face however, Katie calmed down and smiled when she took the seatbelt. She buckled herself in, swinging her legs back and forth as she waited for the car to leave. She took a pen out of her pocket and began to play with it.
Shiro drove them away. Lance busied himself by looking out the window, pressing his cheek as he counted how many cars of each color they would pass by. Hunk watched happily as Katie messed around with the pen. Before long they managed to reach the park. It had lots of jungle gyms, playgrounds, swings along with many other things and a lake right in the middle where ducks and geese were more than happy to make it their home. There were already children playing around, enjoying the day at the park as their parents watched over them.
"We're here!" Lance squealed. He loved the park. It was the one place he could let out all of that excess energy. Shiro parked the car.
"Alright, we're here now. Careful when you get off." Shiro said as he got off. Hunk stepped out, helping Katie off as Lance bounced on his seat in the back.
"Let me out let me out let me out!" Lance asked cheerfully.
"Coming Lance." Shiro cooed, quickly pulling the backseat back, allowing Lance to step out from the car. Lance stretched and took in a large gulp of freshh air, his eyes glistening. The weather was perfect, not a single cloud in the sky, today was a good day.
"Alright, you guys go have fun. But don't wander off too far, ok?" Shiro warned.
"Yes dad!" Lance said with a small salute before pulling on Keith's sleeve slightly. "Keith, lets go on that playground!" Lance said, pointing over at the one with the tallest slides, of course. Hunk stretched and looked down at Katie.
"Alright, Katie! Where do you want to go first?" Hunk asked, looking around. "How about the swings?" He suggested, looking up at Shiro with sparkly eyes. "If we go to the swings dad will have to push us~"
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'My mother-in-law shaved my baby girl's head after I asked her not to'
Claire Haiek | January 03, 2018
The baby girls' father and his mother went behind the mother's back when they knew she wouldn't be around. How angry would you be?
Bizzare Baby on The Project00:09:26
During a live cross to the US while discussing the Kim K robbery, the camera abruptly threw to a baby with hair mid interview. Courtesy: Channel Ten
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Mother-in-law.
It's a term that makes the hairs prick up on the backs of many women's necks.
Don't get us wrong, we don't want to paint all mothers of our partners with the same brush, but how can we not with all the stories we've heard?
There was the mother-in-law who ruined the gender surprise for one expectant couple. There were other things reported via the Whisper App that mother-in-laws have done to their daughter-in-laws, such as threatening to sue the couple for custody of the grandkids if they were to move away, or declaring their new daughter-in-law to be their "worst enemy" on their wedding day.
But this mother-in-law story really takes the cake. The grandmother went against her daughter-in-law's wishes and did something that would turn many new mums into the Incredible Hulk in one of his more aggressive moments.
Source: Baby Center.
"My bf and MIL shaved my baby!"
One mum posted to parenting forum, Baby Center, saying that her partner and mother-in-law had shaved her daughter's head even though they had "lightly discussed" it and they were both aware that she was against the idea.
"I come home yesterday from an hour long grocery run to bald baby," she wrote. "Wether[sic] it works or not I'm still upset he chose to do it without my consent and that his mom was a participant since she's already in the doghouse for coming over Christmas Eve and smothering her with kisses when she had the flu.
The annoyed mum went on to say that she was not so much annoyed at the hair, but the fact that the pair had done it behind her back.
The mother actually handled the situation a lot more calmly than the people of the internet
"That's not cool that they did that behind your back. I would be furious," said one.
"Oh I'd be spitting fire I'd be so mad," wrote another.
One person said they would be "beyond livid," adding "I have cut ppl off for much less and this would be the end of some relationships ... mil being first."
"You need marriage counseling and a long time out for MIL," suggested another.
The general consensus was that the partner and mother-in-law had definitely crossed a line.
They crossed the line. Image: iStock.
The partner later apologised
"He apologized and admitted he was wrong for doing so," the woman later added, "but it was MIL idea since she gave him a new electric shaver for Christmas and he didn't let me know because he knew I'd get mad and he wanted her to have pretty hair and he feels he doesn't have a say in anything else."
Apology aside, the father should definitely have a say in whether his baby's head should be shaved, but doing it without his partner's consent is just wrong, and the mother-in-law should have known better.
Does shaving a baby's head really make their hair grow back thicker?
According to The Mayo Clinic, shaving hair makes the new hair grow at the same rate. It is actually the blunt ends all growing together that gives the illusion of thicker hair, but "shaving hair doesn't change its thickness, color or rate of growth."
There was even an incident in the US where a daycare had a little girl's head shaved without the mother's consent, telling her that it would "grow back straight." Again, this is simply an old wives' tale and is incorrect.
The woman also added that her mother-in-law was also trying to convince the couple to have their baby girl's ears pierced because she "looks like a boy." She had gone as far as purchasing three pairs of earrings for when the time comes.
Regardless of the intentions and reasoning behind the actions, what the pair did was wrong and it would be understandable if the woman never let her little girl (and her ears!) out of her sight for a long time.
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Aloma Dew Is First Recipient of Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award
Aloma Dew Is First Recipient of Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award Posted: October 15, 2012
Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award
On January 9, 2010, the Board of the Kentucky Resources Council, Inc. authorized the first award ever given by the Board in its then 25-year history. The award, called the ?Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award, is intended to recognize those who demonstrate principled and courageous advocacy for the betterment of community and the environment, as Sue Anne did for her whole life. Sue Anne smiled from ear to ear when she learned of the award, according to her sister Lucy. Sue Anne died on January 13, 2010 after a six year battle with ovarian cancer.
It is my privilege and honor to bestow the inaugural Sue Anne Salmon Community Advocacy Award on a person whom Sue Anne greatly admired, and whose friendship Sue Anne valued deeply. Sue Anne valued also her dedication to the causes for which they struggled over the years. The first recipient is Aloma Dew.
In discussing the choice of Aloma as the first recipient of the award, Mary Templeton, one of Sue Annes sisters, said that Sue Anne would be proud and honored for Aloma to be the first recipient of the award given in her name. Mary wrote that Aloma and Lee came to visit Sue Anne toward the end of her life. We will never forget their kindness to her. Mary hoped that she had told you, Aloma, that Sue Anne was so delighted and comforted to see them. Sue Anne was blessed to have such good people as the Dews as friends and collaborators, and to hold her so dearly in memory. Lucy Crain, Sue Annes other sister, added that Sue Anne considered Aloma Dew as one of her significant mentors in environmental efforts. They both wish they could be here in person, but send their best wishes, and thanked us for remembering and honoring their little sister (who did such big things with her efforts).
It is my privilege to present, on behalf of the Board of the Kentucky Resources Council, this award to a woman who, like Sue Anne, has patterned courage, tenacity, grace and love of others, in her lifes work. In her memory, and in your honor, let us all recommit ourselves to the unfinished task of restoring sanity, justice, and equity to our environmental policies.
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Karst and the proposed Bluegrass NGL Pipeline
Karst and the proposed Bluegrass NGL Pipeline Posted: October 10, 2013
Ralph O. Ewers, Ph.D.
Karst Hydrogeologist
The Bluegrass NGL Pipeline (BG pipeline) route in Kentucky poses several critical environmental issues related to karst topography and requires a thorough environmental impact assessment to understand and mitigate potential threats to human beings and the environment. Understanding these threats requires a basic understanding of karst terrane and the interaction of NGL components with these landscapes. I will attempt to briefly explain these issues.
Approximately 120 miles of the proposed BG pipeline crosses through areas of known karst topography and over known karst aquifers. Karst aquifers and karst terrain are areas where soluble limestone and dolostone bedrock lie beneath the surface. These rocks give rise to underground drainage through caves, and the surface is nearly devoid of intermediate sized streams. Its surface is usually pockmarked with conical depressions called sinks or sinkholes. These areas in Kentucky have been mapped by James Currens of the Kentucky Geological Survey and my former graduate student, Randall Paylor (Paylor and Currens 2001).
There are two important reasons why a detailed analysis of these areas with a full environmental impact analysis needs to be made. First, the pipeline will be subjected to extraordinary stresses when crossing areas of karst potential. Second, any leaks or ruptures of the BG Pipeline can have almost immediate consequences at locations miles or ten?s of miles distant from these sites. I will treat these two concerns below with examples and background information, in part gained from my own experience of more than three decades of karst investigations in Kentucky and in karst areas around the world.
Karst - A Landscape of Rapid Change
Karst areas are among the most dynamic areas in the Midwestern U.S. Both the surface and subsurface of these areas change at a rapid pace, well within the span of a human lifetime. The Kentucky counties where the BG Pipeline is projected to pass are marked by tens of thousands of sinkholes. These are known, they have been in part mapped, and they are visible in aerial photography. Sinkholes are sufficiently numerous that they cannot be avoided in pipeline construction. However, because they are known they are not the greatest problem. Many more incipient sinkholes also exist, and are a special problem. Both the known and unknown sinkholes are subject to subsidence. In some cases that subsidence is catastrophic, that is to say, major collapse may occur in minutes or hours. In other cases subsidence is more gradual and continual. These are technically known as solution subsidence or compaction subsidence sinkholes.
Karst Bedrock Topography
The bedrock beneath the karst landscape consists of a series of rock pinnacles called clints, and intervening deep depressions called grikes. The grikes often connect directly to cavernous voids in the bedrock through which soil is conducted and carried away by underground streams. Sinkholes are underlain by broader soil-filled grike-like spaces tens to hundreds of feet across.
Karst Conduits
A natural pipeline system already exists in the karst areas where the Bluegrass Pipeline will pass. These pipeline systems most often follow bedding planes between limestone and as well as dolostone layers. These water-bearing conduits form a tributary system much like surface streams. They function in karst landscapes as surface streams do in non-karst regions. Surface streams are reduced or absent in karst terranes. Hundreds of miles of these conduits have been mapped in areas beneath and surrounding the proposed Bluegrass NGL Pipeline route. Hundreds more have been confirmed by groundwater tracing and partly compiled on maps by the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS Map Series XII). I have contributed many of these groundwater traces.
Pipeline Stress and Karst Landscapes
In spite of carefully prepared bedding beneath pipelines, they often come to rest on rock pinnacles (clints) as the soil and bedding material is lost by gradual subsidence through adjoining grikes. The weight of the pipeline and the soil above it then rests at a single point on the bedrock pinnacle. Where a pipeline is not given bridging support across a sinkhole a hundred feet or more of pipeline and soil may come to be supported at two bedrock points on either side of the subsiding sinkhole. The tension stress of an unsupported pipeline or one supported at a point creates a well-known and well-understood predisposition to corrosion and failure. Anyone contemplating a pipeline transporting potentially dangerous materials must take karst terrane into account, understand the nature of the subsurface at all points along the pipeline route, and provide appropriate support for the pipe.
Consequences of NGL Leaks in Karst Terrane
The natural conduits in karst terrane provide routes through which both liquids and gasses can move freely. The speed of water movements in these features revealed by tracer testing has shown conclusively that velocities equal to ordinary walking and jogging speeds are not uncommon for waters coursing through them. Thus, locations a mile or more from a leak site could be affected before a leak site is identified. Our experience with gasoline leaks from underground storage tanks has shown that vapors from the karst conduits have invaded homes and schools with explosive vapors. Sinkholes fill with gasoline fumes displacing the air, and caves have become explosion hazards that have killed exploring children and their rescuers. Flammable vapors released during an NGL pipeline leak would react similarly.
Groundwater in contact with flammable vapors from NGL pipeline leaks could result in a fire and explosion hazard associated with well water use in homes as has been the case with coal mining in eastern Kentucky. Dissolved NGL constituents in groundwater pose a health hazard for well water users.
Some areas along the proposed path have been subjected to groundwater tracing and the springs and wells that would be affected by releases from a few specific areas are known. Unfortunately these traced areas are very few. It is impossible to understand from basic geological and hydrological assumptions where released NGLs would affect groundwater users. The conduits frequently ignore surface drainage basin boundaries, passing beneath ridges and surface valleys, even crossing beneath active surface streams.
The Components of an Environmental Impact Study
A credible environmental impact study would include the following:
1- All groundwater users within at least a mile of the pipeline should be inventoried and sampled for constituents related to NGLs prior to pipeline use. In some areas where large springs exist, areas should be inventoried to distances greater than one mile. When establishing such distances, arbitrary measures should not be substituted for informed geological rationale.
2- All public and private water supply sources from streams, impoundments and springs should be inventoried and sampled at a distance of at least two miles. Again, when establishing such distances, arbitrary measures should not be substituted for informed geological rationale.
3- Because it is difficult and at times impossible to predict groundwater flow and contaminant migration in karst from topographic and geological data, selected areas along the pipeline route should be subjected to groundwater tracing. These locations should be selected on the basis of informed geological understanding, likely groundwater basin size, and the potential for adverse affects to human health and environmental degradation. The tracing should be conducted following the protocols outlined in Quinlan, J. F. (1989) and Quinlan, J.F. and Ewers, R.O. (1985).
4- A groundwater monitoring program should be established based primarily on springs. These should be at least as useful as surface-based monitoring of the right-of-way in detecting incipient pipeline problems.
The Purpose Of The Environmental Impact Study
The object of an environmental impact study is not to bless the project it investigates. The studys true purpose is to adjust and at times abandon projects which have consequences for human health and the environment. The study should assist in selecting the best route relative to these concerns. Too often, the selection of routes where the land is to be put to some new purpose is based upon cost, construction convenience, land availability, or profit for specific land-holders. The study must be used for the purpose of promoting a salubrious environment for present and future generations.
Paylor, R.I. and Currens, J.C. 2001, Karst Occurrence in Kentucky, Kentucky Geological Survey Map and Chart 33, Series XII.
KGS (Kentucky Geological Survey) Map Series XII (Various Dates) Mapped Karst Groundwater Basins.
Quinlan, J. F. 1989, Groundwater Monitoring in Karst Terranes, Recommended Protocols & Implicit Assumptions. USEPA, EPA/600/X-89/050.
Quinlan, J.F. and Ewers, R.O. 1985, Ground Water Flow In Limestone Terranes: Strategy Rationale And Procedure For Reliable, Efficient Monitoring Of Ground Water In Karst Areas. National Symposium and Exposition on Aquifer Restoration and Ground Water Monitoring (5th, Columbus Ohio), Proceedings, National Water Well Association, Worthington, Ohio, p. 197-234.
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Comic Creator Olivier Pont
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Olivier Pont was born in the Parisian suburb Blanc-Mesnil and attended the Gobbelins art school. After his studies, he went to work for the Amblimation studios in London to work on the Spielberg production 'Fievel Goes West'. Back in France in the early 1990s he teamed up with his childhood friend Georges Abolin. Together they wrote the comical pirate series 'Kucek', for which Pont did the artwork, for Vents d'Ouest. Following 'Kucek', they created 'Totale Maîtrise' at Vents d'Ouest (2001) and the diptich 'Où le Regard ne Porte Pas' for Dargaud (2004). With scenario writer Jim, Pont has created 'Le Honte' and a comic adaptation of the radioplay 'Arthur et les Pirates' at Vents d'Ouest.
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Welcome to Ajmer
South west of Jaipur, Ajmer is an oasis wrapped in the green hills. The city was founded by Raja Ajay Pal Chauhan in the 7th Century A.D. and continued to be a major centre of the Chauhan power till 1193 A.D.
Ajmer is a popular pilgrimage centre for the Hindus as well as Muslims, a popular religious place in Rajasthan, where people from all faiths like to come. Ajmer Shareef (Tomb of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti) gave Ajmer the status of being a place that fulfills their wishes. Thus, the Dargah is often crowded, however it is not the only place that you will see foreign tourists thronging in Ajmer, Nasiyan Temple, Foy Lake, Adhai din ka Jhopra, Taragarh Fort and Ana Sagar Lake also recieves a large number of international visitors every day.
It is a centre of culture and education, the British chose Ajmer for its prestigious Mayo College a school exclusively for Indian nobility.
Shopping in Ajmer Rajasthan is a pleasurable experience. Ajmer is known for antiques, ornaments, charming gold and silver jewelry in modern designs, bandhini (colorful tie-and-dye sarees) and overstated jodhpuri 'Jutis' (shoes). Ittar, a special form of local scent is sold in small and large packs all over Ajmer Rajasthan and is a specialty that one can take home from Ajmer Rajasthan.
Although Ajmer is a year-round destination, the time period between October and March can be considered as the best time to visit this place.
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Blinn men’s basketball trumps Jacksonville in conference thriller, 89-85
Kai Tease and JaQuan Morris combine for 45 points for the Bucs fifth straight win
Author: Blinn Athletic Department
Published: 11:01 PM CST January 26, 2019
Updated: 11:01 PM CST January 26, 2019
BRENHAM, Texas — Kai Tease and JaQuan Morris combined for 45 points to push Blinn College men’s basketball to an 89-85 victory over Jacksonville College Saturday in the Kruse Center for the Buccaneers fifth straight win.
With the win, the Buccaneers increased their overall record to 16-5 and are now tied for first place in the Region XIV South Division with a 5-5 record.
“It was a highly competitive and intense game with a great home crowd,” said Scott Schumacher, Blinn head coach. “Both teams played really well in a very entertaining basketball game, so this was a great win.”
Kai Tease led Blinn with 23 points, while JaQuan Morris followed right behind with 22 points. Matt Adams was next with 13 points, while Tristan Ikpe recorded 11.
After falling behind 40-26 in the first half, Blinn cut its deficit down to two points, trailing 45-43 at the break.
Jacksonville came out strong in the second half to build a double-digit lead again, but the Buccaneers fought back to grab a lead with 5:00 left. The final minutes of the game consisted of back-and-forth play until Blinn pulled off the four-point victory.
Next, Blinn will host Lone Star College-Tomball in a non-conference game on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Kruse Center.
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Home British & World English flee
Definition of flee in English:
verbflees, fleeing, fled
[with object]
1Run away from a place or situation of danger.
‘to escape the fighting, his family fled from their village’
‘Thousands of Arab refugees fled to Lebanon and Jordan, and some were forcibly evicted.’
‘With little choice but to escape again, Bers fled to Paris where his daughter Ruth was born.’
‘For 18 months they were happy, but there was more trouble and she fled to another refuge.’
‘When she was eight, her mother fled to a refuge taking Margie and her four siblings with her.’
‘All three men then fled to Argentina, establishing a route for others to follow.’
‘A woman and her children fled from a house and took refuge in a nearby shop when a man in the house brandished a bread knife.’
‘The family fled to Britain, where they were given refuge at Chadderton town hall.’
‘All their neighbours had fled from that place even before the arrival of the rioters.’
‘Workers at a Bolton dairy engineers fled to safety when a gas cylinder exploded in the welding shop today.’
‘Managing to struggle free, the terrified woman fled to a nearby school before calling police.’
‘He fled from the scene on Whetley Hill but later gave himself up to police.’
‘Before the blaze could take hold Fisher put it out and then fled from the premises before the police arrived.’
‘He fled to West Germany but, with no work and no friends, he decided to return.’
‘The militants also fired few shots to scare the villagers and later fled from the spot.’
‘It was during one of these visits that she allegedly snatched her son and fled to Mexico.’
‘A Leigh man accused of burglary fled from a police station after being charged.’
‘Arrested in France on the orders of British intelligence, he then fled to Switzerland.’
‘Smith said that he found out where the villagers had fled to in Serbia and went there to try to persuade them to return.’
‘He fled to Germany, was jailed there and then extradited to Florida where he spent a few months in jail.’
‘Before they could be rehoused elsewhere in the city, the family fled to London.’
run, run away, run off, make a run for it, run for it, take flight, be gone, make off, take off, take to one's heels, make a break for it, bolt, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, make a quick exit, make one's getaway, escape, absent oneself, make oneself scarce, abscond, head for the hills, do a disappearing act
run away from, leave abruptly, leave hastily, fly, escape from
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1.1with object Run away from (someone or something)
‘he was forced to flee the country’
‘More are forced to flee their homes because of armed violence.’
‘Tens of thousands of Iran's professional and middle classes were expelled or forced to flee the country.’
‘The three men flee the country to an undisclosed location before they can be returned to prison.’
‘Anyone who values their sanity or eardrums still has time to flee the country.’
‘They said they would see how the trial went and if it went against them, would flee the country.’
‘His trial judge refused bail on the grounds he might flee the country or pressure witnesses.’
‘He grew up as a cringing youth, and eventually became a bank robber and had to flee the country.’
‘Had she not managed to flee the country she is certain she would have suffered the same fate.’
‘The owner has also handed his passport to the workers' union as a guarantee he will not flee the country.’
‘Despite attempts at compromise Louis 16th was tried after attempting to flee the country.’
‘In some areas, the bosses tried to close factories, sell their machinery and flee the country.’
‘After three and a half years, his cover was blown and he had to flee the country for his life.’
‘Urged on by Molly, the girls flee the settlement and begin their perilous journey.’
‘Most of the people who are fleeing persecution never even get to the next country.’
‘Scores of people were fleeing the jumbo, jumping from the wings, falling down the chutes and running for their lives.’
‘He said more than 200 thatched homes had been burnt down, with scores of people fleeing the area.’
‘Half the population of nearly five million people were forced to flee their homes.’
‘Eight people were forced to flee their homes after a fierce fire spread through a row of houses in Merefield.’
‘People flee such countries in the hope of finding a better life in safer societies, such as Britain.’
‘Severe storms caused chaos across the north west and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.’
run away, run off, take to one's heels, beat a hasty retreat, flee, make one's getaway, make a quick exit, make a run for it, run for it, take off, take flight, bolt, fly, make oneself scarce, leave, abscond, decamp, do a disappearing act
Old English flēon, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieden and German fliehen.
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hairy frog
taloned toad
clawed frog
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mudbug
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CIU baseball coach spreads gospel
Chuck McCurry
chuck.lexchron@gmail.com
The Lake Murray Blowfish’s former coach has taken over the Columbia International University baseball program.
In the spirit of CIU, Jonathan Johnson is helping spread the gospel in Cuba and other Latin American countries.
Johnson’s father was a pastor in Florida and a great baseball player at Florida State. When he was drafted by the Texas Rangers, he used his signing bonus to start Honor the Father Ministry.
In doing mission work in Cuba, his father met Osmonte Sosa, a former Cuban professional baseball player.
Sosa had given up his career to start a sports ministry using baseball to share the gospel but needed equipment to start a league for young men.
Jonathan and former Major League teammate R. A. Dickey stepped up to help by working with locals to promote baseball leagues.
They used their time with baseball lovers to preach about freedom derived from a sin free life and how it was the key to salvation. As of last year, they had surpassed 1 million people exposed to the gospel and they are seeing 20 thousand salvations a year.
Through their initiative they see some of the poorest people in the western hemisphere, many with dreams of making the “Big League.”
Most never will but come to know the Lord Jesus. And now every major league team in Cuba has a chaplain and players wear a patch on their uniform that reads “Cuba for Christ”.
Their baseball ministry has spread to other Caribbean and Central American countries. There are 90 feeding centers in Nicaragua, a school near Ceiba, Honduras and a coffee farm owned by the ministry.
I believe God has even bigger plans for this ministry.
Do you have a ministry that you want to talk about? Contact me by phone at 803-348-0243 or email at Chuck.lexchron@gmail.com .
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The 5 Best Google Phones of 2019
Which generation of Pixel is right for you?
by Geri Mileva
Our editors independently research, test, and recommend the best products; you can learn more about our review process here. We may receive commissions on purchases made from our chosen links.
Best Overall: Google Pixel 3 at Google, "The main draw for the Pixel 3 is the camera improvements, including two front-facing cameras with an 8MP wide-angle lens."
Runner-Up, Best Overall: Google Pixel 2 at Google, "An older generation that still has a lot of fantastic features without that new flagship price tag."
Best Budget: Google Pixel XL at Amazon, "If you update the OS right out of the box, it's still a great smartphone with a killer battery life and Google Assistant."
Best Value: Google Pixel 2 XL at Google, "Gives you a lot of high-end features for your money if you want a big-screen smartphone."
Best Splurge: Google Pixel 3 XL at Google, "A premium option for all your different media and games."
Best Overall: Google Pixel 3
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Google Pixel 3 is the best smartphone from the brand. With a 5.5-inch P-OLED display, the Pixel 3 is about an inch smaller (diagonally) than its XL companion — a plus for smartphone users are put off by the super-sized smartphone trend. It runs the latest Android 9.0 Pie OS with Google Assitant, so you can ask questions, make calls, control music playback and more with just your voice.
But the main draw for the Pixel 3 is the camera improvements. This version includes two front-facing cameras, including an 8MP wide-angle lens for group selfies. Google's advanced AI photo correction algorithms fix any distortions when using the wider lens. The rear 12.2MP dual-pixel camera has a bevy of advanced features, too: the Night Sight mode gives you clear shots even in low-light situations, and the Top Shot mode captures several frames before and after you snap a photo to recommend the most perfectly-timed option. You also have about 40% faster HDR processing with this device.
The Pixel 3 has a Snapdragon 845 processor and 4GB RAM for plenty of processing power, and you can choose between 64GB and 128GB of storage. It also has a generous 2,915 mAh battery with wireless and fast-charging capabilities and a single USB Type-C port. It's available in black, white, and a very light blush pink.
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Runner-Up, Best Overall: Google Pixel 2
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Released at the end of 2017, the Google Pixel 2 is the older generation of this device, but it still has a lot of fantastic features without that new flagship price tag. The phone has a five-inch AMOLED display with 1920 x 1080 resolution. It runs on Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box, which is older than the Pixel 3's system, but Google guarantees a minimum of three years of OS and security updates so you don't have to worry about any immediate security vulnerabilities (a real concern for most older phone models). You can update it to Android 9.0 Pie right away and get the same OS experience as the newer phones.
The phone has one 12.2MP rear and one 8MP front-facing camera. The rear dual-LED flash, combined with Google’s AI photo editing algorithms, still delivers an unmatched camera experience. You can shoot in Portrait Mode (for a DSLR-style shot) with both rear and front cameras, use Motion Photos that detect movement, and Google Lens. There’s also support for augmented reality games and apps.
The Pixel 2 has a Snapdragon 835 processor with 4GB of RAM and a choice of 64BG or 128GB of storage. The 2,700 mAh battery does not support wireless charging, but it does have fast-charging capabilities that can give you seven hours of battery in 15 minutes. Choose between black, white, and pale blue color options.
Best Budget: Google Pixel XL
The Google Pixel XL was released at the end of 2016 and is the first XL model in the Pixel line, which makes it the oldest phone on our list. It's missing many of the advanced AI features and processing power of the newest phones and definitely has a shorter lifespan (the clock is ticking on how much longer Google continues to offer compatible OS and security updates). But if you update the OS right out of the box, the original XL is still a great smartphone with a killer battery life and Google Assistant.
This phone has a 5.5-inch AMOLED display and is powered by a Snapdragon 821 chipset. It has 4GB of RAM (same as the newer models) and a choice between 32GB and 128GB of storage. This model is also the first in Google’s line to be compatible with Virtual Reality (VR) headsets, so it’s suitable for those who want to explore VR apps.
The camera is consistently strong among Google Pixel phones, and this one is no different. The Pixel XL’s 12.3MP main camera captures a high level of detail even in low light, while the 8MP front camera snaps quality selfies. But one of the phone's best features is its 3,450 mAh battery, which actually has a higher capacity than some of the newer models. If you want a capable device with fantastic battery life and don't plan to hold onto it for years and years, the Pixel XL is a great budget option. It's available in black, silver, and blue.
Best Value: Google Pixel 2 XL
If you want a big-screen smartphone but don't want to shell out for the latest flagship, the Pixel 2 XL gives you a lot of high-end features for your money. It has a six-inch P-OLED screen — only slightly outsized by the latest Pixel 3 XL — with slim bezels, a taller display ratio, 16.77 million colors, and 2880 x 1440 QHD+ resolution for an immersive screen experience. It also features front-facing stereo speakers so your media sounds great, too.
Like the Pixel 3, the 2 XL sports a 12.2MP rear camera and an 8MP front-facing camera for great photos. It has a Snapdragon 835 processor, 4GB of RAM, support for Google Assistant, and a hefty 3,520 mAh battery to keep you running all day. It is available with either 64GB or 128GB of storage and you can choose between black and white color options.
Best Splurge: Google Pixel 3 XL
If you have the budget for it, Google's Pixel 3 XL is a truly splurge-worthy device. This smartphone comes with a 6.3-inch P-OLED display with a 2960 x 1440 resolution and dual front-firing stereo speakers, making it a premium option for all your different media and games. Heavy app users will appreciate the super fast Snapdragon 845 processor and Android 9.0 Pie OS, the latter of which facilitates all kinds of intuitive shortcuts and app-switching features. It's also AR and VR capable and built to work with the Google Daydream View headset.
If you're a shutterbug, then the Pixel 3 XL is even more appealing. It has the same lens setup as the Pixel 3 and includes the same sophisticated AI software for a host of cutting-edge camera and photo-editing effects. A CMOS image sensor adjusts the sharpness and brightness for almost every type of setting so your pictures always look great.
A 3,230 mAh battery keeps you going all day, and you can power up using a wireless charger and the phone's fast-charging capabilities if you're in a time crunch. The Pixel 3 XL is available with either 64GB or 128GB of storage, and you can choose from three color options: black, white, and pale pink.
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How to Create and Delete User Accounts in Windows 10
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by Ian Paul
A widely published freelance tech writer who specializes in Windows, virus protection, and VPNs.
Whenever a new version of Windows comes along it always makes a few changes to how you carry out simple actions on your PC. Windows 10 is no exception to this, and you can expect more to change in the future as Microsoft slowly moves functionality from the classic Control Panel to the new Settings app. One current change—especially if you're coming from Windows 7—is how to manage and control user accounts in Windows 10.
Windows 10 Changes How User Accounts Work
Microsoft's latest version of Windows makes some major changes. Guest accounts are gone, most accounts are tied to your online Microsoft account, and Windows 10 offers new permissions you can use with individual accounts.
Setting Up a Basic Account
Let's start with the basics: how to add a standard new user account to an activated PC. For the purposes of this article, we're going to assume you already have at least one account on your PC since you can't finalize the installation of Windows 10 without doing so.
To begin click on Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people. This will bring you to the screen where you can add new users. The standard new user will be part of your family. If you and a roommate share a PC you may want to differentiate by listing your roommate's account in the "other people" section. We'll deal with adding non-family members to a PC later.
First, let's add a family member. Under the sub-heading "Your family" click Add a family member.
Adult or Child User
A pop-up window will appear asking if you are adding a child or an adult. Child accounts can have privileges added or taken away from their account such as what apps they can use and how long they can spend on a PC. Adults managing a child account can also view all the child's activity on Windows by signing in to the Microsoft accounts website. If that seems excessive or just plain creeps you out then a child account may not be the best choice. Instead, you should consider using a local account instead of one tied to a Microsoft account.
Adult accounts, on the other hand, are just regular private user accounts. Again they are tied to a Microsoft account (you can also create a local account for an adult), but they have normal privileges and access to the full range of apps on a desktop PC. Adult accounts can manage child accounts, but do not have administrator privileges for making changes on the PC. That can be added later, however.
Finalizing the Account
Once you've decided between a child or adult account, type in the Hotmail or Outlook.com account that person uses. If they don't have one, you can create one inside Windows by clicking the link labeled The person I want to add doesn't have an email address.
Once you've added the email address, click Next, and on the following screen make sure you've entered the email address correctly and click Confirm.
Invite Sent
In this example, we created an adult account. After clicking Confirm our new adult user will receive an email asking them to confirm they are part of your "family."
Once they accept that invitation they will be able to manage child accounts and view activity reports online. They can, however, immediately start using the PC without accepting the invitation to join the family.
Inviting Others
Now that we've got a family member all hooked up, what if we want to add someone who's not family? This could be a roommate, a friend staying with you for a short time, or a crazy uncle who doesn't need to view your child's activity reports.
Whatever the situation is get started by going once again to Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people. Now, under the sub-heading "Other people" click Add someone else to this PC.
Same Process, Different Pop-Up
A pop-up window will appear just as with the earlier process. Now, however, you're not being asked to differentiate between a child or adult user. Instead, you just enter the new user's email address and click Next.
After that, you'll be good to go. The new account is all set-up. The one thing to note is the first time this user signs into the PC they will have to be connected to the Internet.
Once you've added non-family members to your PC under the Other people heading, you can restrict their account using a feature called assigned access. When user accounts are given this restriction they can only access a single app when they're signed in, and the selection of apps they can be assigned is limited.
To do this click Set up assigned access at the bottom of the account management screen at Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people.
Choose Account and App
On the next screen, click Choose an account to decide on the account that will be restricted, and then click Choose an app to assign the one app they can access. Once that's done, return to the previous screen or close the Settings app.
Why Assigned Access?
This feature is specifically designed for computers that act as public terminals, and thus usually only require access to a single app. If you really want to restrict someone to only using email or a music player like Groove this feature can do that.
But that's really not useful for an actual person who needs to use the PC.
One exception to that rule could be when you actually want your home PC to be a public terminal. Let's say, for example, you want guests at your next party to be able to select the music playing on your PC. But you're nervous about allowing everyone in attendance the chance to access the personal files on your PC.
Creating an assigned access account that only uses Groove Music would offer a solution that prevents nosy people from poking around your PC, while still offering free access to your Groove Music Pass subscription.
Turn Off Assigned Access
If you ever want to turn off assigned access for a specific user go to Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people > Set up assigned access. Then on the next screen click the account designated for assigned access and click Don't use assigned access.
When you want to sign out of an assigned access account use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Delete.
Administrator Access
There's one last setting you'll want to know about when creating user accounts. That's how to elevate an account from a regular user to an administrator. Administrators are device-specific account privileges that allow a user to make changes to a PC such as adding or deleting other accounts.
To elevate a user in Windows 10, type in User accounts into the Cortana search box. Then select the Control Panel option that appears at the top of the results.
The Control Panel will now open to the User Accounts section. From here click on the link labeled Manage another account. On the next screen, you'll see all the users who have accounts on your PC. Click on the account you'd like to change.
Make Changes
On the next screen, click Change the account type.
Make Administrator
Now, you'll be moved to the final screen. Click the Administrator button and then click Change Account Type. That's it, the user is now an administrator.
Deleting a user account
Now, let's look at how to delete a user account.
The easiest way to delete an account is to go to Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people. Then select the user you want to get rid of. If the user is under the family section you'll see two buttons: Change account type and Block. Choose Block.
The one thing to remember about the Block option for family is that you can quickly reinstate the account on your PC by selecting the user's account. Then click Allow to permit that user to access the PC again as part of the family group.
Deleting "Other people"
Under the Other people section, the two buttons are a little different. Instead of saying Block the second buttons says Remove. When you choose to Remove, a pop-up window will appear warning you that deleting the account will remove this user's personal files such as documents and photos. If you want to keep this data, it would be a good idea to back it up first to an external drive before deleting the account.
Once you're ready to delete the account click Delete account and data. That's it. The account is now deleted.
The Control Panel Method
The second way to delete an account from a Windows 10 PC is via the Control Panel. Get started by typing "user accounts" into the Cortana search box in the taskbar, and choose the user accounts control panel option as we saw earlier.
Once the Control Panel opens to the User Accounts section click Manage another account, and then in the next screen select the user you want to get rid of.
Now we're on the screen where you can manage the account in question. To the left of user account picture, you'll see several options. The one we want to select is, you guessed it, Delete the account.
Warning Screen
Similar to the Settings app method you'll get a warning screen. This time around, however, you have the option to actually delete the user account while keeping the user's files intact. If that's something you want to do then click Keep Files. Otherwise, select Delete Files.
Even if you do decide to keep the files it's helpful to back those files up to an external hard drive before deleting the account just in case something goes wrong.
Delete the Account
Whether you choose to delete or keep the files you'll now land on a final screen asking if you're sure you want to delete this account. If you're sure then click Delete Account if not click Cancel.
After you click Delete Account you'll be returned to the user screen in the Control Panel and you'll see that your local account is no longer there.
Just the Basics
Those are the basic ways to set-up and delete accounts in Windows 10. Also, check out our tutorial on how to create a local account in Windows 10 that is not tied to an online identity.
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