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Home Weekly Top 5 Top 5 Shows to See This Week: Jan 30-Feb 5
Top 5 Shows to See This Week: Jan 30-Feb 5
Amy Knueven
Cincinnati hosts some top-notch performers and exhibitions this week, and everyone from Beethoven to George Clinton is represented.
1. George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic
There’s just no one quite like George Clinton. The p-funk legend and his all star entourage will mix it up at Bogart’s this week, but his famous rainbow dreds just might steal the show. Feb 3 at Bogart’s, bogarts.com
2. Beethoven’s Eroica, presented by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
When Beethoven finished composing Eroica (“heroic” in Italian), he dedicated it to his personal hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. After Napoleon declared himself emperor, however, the enraged Beethoven tore up the title page. The vigorous and emotional symphony—performed by violinist Christian Tezlaff and conducted by John Storgårds—announced the composer’s official status as a superstar of classical music. Feb 3 & 4 at Music Hall, cincinnatiarts.org
3. Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection
Claude Monet made his home in Giverny after spotting the French village from the window of a passing train, and his idyllic garden was immortalized in many of his most iconic paintings. On exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection displays a dozen works featuring the familiar Japanese footbridge, water lilies, and light-on-water motifs that characterize the later stages of Monet’s career. Feb 4–May 13 at Cincinnati Art Museum, cincinnatiartmuseum.org
4. Speaking in Tongues
See a modern noir drama in Playhouse in the Park’s famous black box theater. Speaking in Tongues follows two couples and five strangers, chronicling the love, deceit, and betrayal in their parallel lives. Feb 4–March 4 at Playhouse in the Park, cincyplay.com
5. Shen Yun
Get ready for some imperial grandeur. Classical Chinese dance company Shen Yun dons fantastical costumes and performs traditional choreography to original music. Feb 3 & 4 at Aronoff Center for the Arts, cincinnatiarts.org
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6 Reasons Peeta Sucks Less In Hunger Games: Catching Fire
By Mack Rawden
Let’s have a serious conversation for a second. You know who sucked in the first Hunger Games movie? Sucked. Sucked. Suuucked with two more u’s than necessary. Peeta Mellark. Whether brooding about Katniss’ lack of love for him or limping around the playing field like an injured bunny rabbit, he was a complete and total buzzkill during round one. He may as well have contorted himself into the fetal position and wrapped his skinny little body around Katniss’ neck like an ill-fitting turtleneck or an outlandishly sized necklace. He was dead weight with only some painting talent to fall back on. Even worse, his general vibe came off as way more helpless little brother than believable love interest, which didn’t exactly help the whole Team Gale vs Team Peeta plotline.
Fortunately, that whole pathetic vibe was almost completely washed away by director Francis Lawrence in Catching Fire. Gone is the overly nice pushover, replaced by a competent human being who can actually carry his own weight and contribute in some discernable way beyond just being physically present. Sure, Peeta still has some notable limitations and a penchant for getting injured, but a cake decorator can’t ever completely change his frosting. On the whole, it’s forward progress, and we’ll take it. Not really sucking is exponentially better than full-on sucking any day of the week.
Here are six ways Peeta sucks less in Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Obviously Contains Spoilers)…
He Can Actually Fight
Have you ever seen little children fight? More often than not, they lead with their faces and lose all ability to throw punches after being struck once. They have no endurance, no will power and no discernable skills whatsoever. That was Peeta during round one. In theory, he should have been able to offer something given he got a pretty good score from the judges, but instead, he flopped around like an injured fish and eventually got pretty creative with hiding spots. Good for him, I guess.
This time around, he actually, you know, helps the team to stay alive. He chokes out a guy in the water in hand to hand combat. He leads a few expeditions into the wilderness, one of which does not go well, and he doesn’t cower in the face of trouble. Yes, he’s still not Sylvester Stallone. At one point, he needs to be given mouth-to-mouth in order to start breathing again, but it’s still a giant leap in the right direction. He’s gone from a man I wouldn’t want on a hunting trip to one I’d let take a shift guarding the tent from bears. He certainly wouldn’t be able to stop them, but he could be trusted to alert other people before getting eaten.
He’s Even More Manipulative
During The Hunger Games, Peeta shows off his powers of manipulation by forcing Katniss into a fake relationship thanks to a well-timed handhold. Is it because he knows the display of young love will help the two in the arena, or is it because he has a big crush on Miss Everdeen and wants her to end up in a situation where she’s forced to kiss him and be flirty in front of the cameras? Ehhhhh. Maybe a little of option two but probably more of option one.
During the second installment, his manipulation is a whole lot more badass. He tells the obnoxiously white teethed Cesar Flickerman that Katniss has a baby on the way. The fake reveal on live television sends the audience into panic mode, and it proves to viewers just how smart and cunning Peeta is capable of being. He might not be Rambo out on the battlefield, but he’s got exponentially better long-term vision than Katniss, which goes a long way to balance the sort of couple out. She can’t be better than him at absolutely everything.
He Volunteers To Participate
Katniss got a ton of audience sympathy points right off the rip during the first movie because she actually volunteered for the games in order to save her little sister. Many people might have done the same thing, but nonetheless, it made her seem like an aggressive, no-nonsense warrior with a clear mission. Peeta, on the other hand, was merely one of the other scared kids randomly chosen by dumb luck of the draw, which made him seem like a poor, overwhelmed sap.
Both Haymitch and Peeta decide they would like to volunteer for the Quarter Quell, but because of how the system works, they must wait for the name to be drawn. When Haymitch is announced, Peeta steps forward and volunteers without hesitation, which steals some of those badass points Katniss earned during the first film and helps move him closer to a level playing field.
He Doesn’t Act Intimidated Around Gale
It’s no secret Peeta wants to be with Katniss. He’s desperate to gain the girl’s real, genuine affection. Most of his attempts during The Hunger Games at convincing her to like him back were horrible. When she didn’t immediately reciprocate his feelings, he acted like a six-year-old who’s told she can’t have a second cupcake. It was remarkably frustrating to watch and no doubt a huge turn-off for Katniss. Contrary to what you may have heard, most girls aren’t overly excited to be with guys who pout.
As such, you would have expected Peeta to be awkward and intimidated around Gale, a behemoth of a man who Katniss overtly has feelings for in real life, but he is actually able to stomach his less than flattering emotions and help take care of Gale after he’s beaten senseless during an attempt to save people’s lives during the newest installment. In being humble and nice, he comes across as powerful and for the first time, like a real human being an attractive woman might want to be with. There are few things sexier than believing in yourself and where you stand.
He Knows When To Speak And When To Keep Quiet
Peeta had an annoying habit of lashing out a whole lot and saying completely unnecessary things during the first movie. It made him seem childish, and as a result, it was pretty hard to root for him. Beyond that, it was hard to understand exactly how much his mind was churning. Many times when he did speak up, he offered up some kind of chivalrous comment that wasn’t really feasible in the moment.
But this time around, he’s a whole lot more comfortable with when to talk and when not to talk. He calms Katniss down after her little freak-out on the train. He immediately heads over to Haymitch’s after the Quarter Quell announcement, and in general, he figures out the right thing to say during most moments, which makes him way more likeable as a character. I can deal with a man who has limited fighting skills if he’s at least calm under pressure and can elevate the group mood with reasoned statements and sound advice. Plus, he has no problem volunteering to public speak, which gives Katniss the option of whether or not she wants to talk in any given situation. Given her track record and inability to read situations, she's usually better off not speaking too.
He Actually Has Use Of His Body
Think about all of the deathly sick characters you’ve ever met in movies. How many of them were likeable? How many of them felt like giant burdens that were slowing the entire plot down? That was Peeta during the first movie. He was like a goddamn Oregon Trail character slowly dying over the course of a few turns. He may as well have been the dude from The Sessions. As a viewer, you just wanted to choke him out yourself so Katniss could worry about more pressing matters like killing people and saving herself. By some miracle, of course, he kept hanging on.
Luckily, he actually has mobility this time around, apart from the brief spell in which he almost dies. That’s way more entertaining to watch, and it allows all of the characters a freedom of movement they’ve never had in the series before. It allows them to drift with the clock and fight the elements rather than holing up and hiding.
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Home Cherry Red Records All Gone LiveSubhumans
All Gone Live
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The first ever DVD to feature one of the great UK punk bands of all time – The Subhumans. Subhumans are one of the most successful bands to emerge from the anarcho-punk scene in the UK from 1980-85. Alongside Conflict, Crass, etc, their angered, intelligent lyrics and music are far more diverse than most punk bands, their attitude was self-searching and strongly D.I.Y; their 5 albums, 6 EP’s and numerous cassettes were released on their own Bluurg Records label.
Highly influenced by the Sex Pistols at the outset of their career, the band was formed in 1980. The Subhumans mixed standard Pistols thrash with moody, textured pieces and the occasional reggae/ska number. Although the group disbanded in the mid-1980’s, three of the members continued to work together in the highly successful band Citizen Fish.
The band reformed to undertake a nationwide tour of the U.S. in 2003, and ‘All Gone Live’ features a full-length show from that tour, alongside some unique home-movie style footage shot by band as the tour progressed.
Amongst the tracks included are UK independent chart top-twenty hits ‘Parasites’, ‘Society’, ‘Human Error’, ‘Big City’ and ‘Rats’.
All Gone Dead / Can't Hear The Words / New Age / Waste Of Breath / Big City / Businessmen / Peroxide / Germ / This Years War / Walls Of Silence / Joe Public / Til The Pigs Come Round / It's Gonna Get Worse / Rats / Work Experience / Evolution / Work-Rest-Play-Die / Apathy / Society / Parasites / Subvert City / Human Error / Minority / Mickey Mouse Is Dead / No / Religious Wars
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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/moving-teacher-prep-closer-schools/)
Moving teacher prep closer to schools
By Dena Eben | December 27, 2005
For five years, Illinois State University has offered education majors a unique option to fulfill their student teaching requirement: spend a year as an intern in northwest suburban Wheeling Elementary School District 21.
The Wheeling Professional Development School far surpasses the state requirement of five semester hours of student teaching. To qualify, students must complete a regimen of basic education courses. Then, three days a week, students work with a teacher-mentor in a Wheeling elementary school; the other two days, they take classes from Illinois State (ISU) professors, who travel from downstate. This year, 29 ISU seniors are participating. The experience, say alums, is invaluable.
“When I went to interview for a job, I had more skills than people who had just been in a student teaching program for six weeks,” says Laura David, a 4th-grade teacher at Frost Elementary in Wheeling. David, 23, says the year she spent at Frost as an ISU senior helped her become a better teacher and a hot commodity after graduation. “I cannot imagine starting my first year of teaching and not having a year of student teaching under my belt.”
“We have to move teacher education closer to the schools,” says ISU Education Dean Sally Pancrazio. “It makes it far more real than delivering those courses back on campus, where they don’t even see a kid.”
A number of national organizations and task forces have been pushing in this direction for years, and they’re beginning to see action.
For example, ISU teamed up with Loyola, Northeastern Illinois, Roosevelt, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to seek federal funding for cooperative efforts in teacher training. In September, this Illinois Professional Learning Partnership received $2.4 million from the U.S. Department of Education to create more hands-on teaching training programs in public schools. ISU will get $500,000 of that amount to support programs like the Wheeling Professional Development School and other teacher education improvements. This comes on top of close to $1 million in grants the institution has garnered over the last four years for teacher education programs, says Pancrazio.
A student teacher’s first experience in a classroom can be like a seagull fishing in Lake Michigan—a swift swoop into chilly waters. ISU’s Wheeling program gives students more time to get acclimated.
In the fall semester, students split their time among taking methods classes, teaching elementary classes under the supervision of a trained mentor, and observing middle-school classes. In the spring, students teach full time in their elementary schools, at first with a mentor, then for six weeks on their own. Students have the opportunity to teach lessons they have planned themselves, observe other elementary grades and revisit middle schools to teach at a higher grade level.
‘I taught today’
On a recent October afternoon, Patti Daly’s teacher-mentor has stepped out of the room, leaving Daly in charge of her 3rd-grade class at Frost. As students work by themselves on a lesson about the concept of perimeter, which Daly planned, Daly walks around the room, examining each student’s work. From the children’s perspective, Daly is the teacher.
“I actually feel like I taught today, compared with the first time I taught a lesson,” says Daly, who started at Frost seven weeks ago. “You just learn so much, like how to handle the class and the kids’ personalities.”
The confluence of training and experience allows interns to critically examine their progress. At the same time, ISU and the school district have the opportunity to fine-tune their training program while it’s in progress. Courses are designed to “connect the dots” from teacher training to the teaching profession, says Pancrazio. “Our kids are getting four times the state’s requirement for clinical experience. The other difference is our faculty stay up to speed because they’re out in real schools with real kids.”
Tracking progress
Robert Gerry, assessment director for District 21, has tracked progress of the ISU Professional Development School by interviewing interns, their mentors and their students. “There is no question in [mentor-teachers’] minds that interns develop a good relationship with the kids and that they have a positive impact,” Gerry says. “The kids respond pretty much the same way.”
Case in point: Patti Daly’s 3rd-grade students are comfortable working with either her or their regular teacher, Karen Spencer. When Ethan, 8, found out his younger sister had only one teacher, he says he told her, “You need another.”
Students are quick to praise Daly’s work with the class. “I like when she teaches reading,” says Ben, 8, “because she is a good reader. If someone says, ‘You are reading too fast,’ she listens and slows down.”
“She makes up fun games, too,” says Rachel, 9. Daly’s presence helps the regular teacher, notes Ryan, 8, “because if the teacher has to do some work, like she has a meeting or something, the student teacher is always there.”
The response in unanimous when the children are asked whether Daly will be a good teacher when she graduates: Yes!
Spencer is a first-year alum of the ISU-Wheeling program. Coming full circle, she notes several differences between her intern experience in 1995-96 and Daly’s.
“I am giving more written feedback [than I got],” Spencer says. “Every time that Patti teaches a lesson, I am jotting notes down.”
Spencer co-teaches with Daly, a technique called weaving. “Patti and I play off of each other and help each other, ” she says.
That’s not how things worked when Spencer was an intern. “With my mentor, there were certain lessons that she would teach and [others] I would teach,” she recalls. Teacher-mentors now communicate more with each other, Spencer says, during mentor meetings and graduate classes.
The mentor relationship sometimes outlasts the formal program. Two years ago, Spencer was Laura David’s mentor. “She is still a mentor to me now,” David says. “I went to her for eight weeks in her classroom.”
“This program prepares you to teach, period,” says Daly, “not a certain grade level, not a certain school, not a certain type of student.”
Getting ISU’s Wheeling program to the point where it serves as a model has taken two years of planning, five years of operation and the collaboration of many levels of teachers and administrators. Wheeling has two liaisons to facilitate communications between the district and the university. District Supt. Lloyd “Bud” DesCarpentrie and the nine principals who have interns make a concerted effort to ensure the program’s success.
The program has been an asset for Frost Elementary, says Principal Greg Crocker. “Interns are rubbing noses with the very best teachers, who have lots of experience challenging the kids,” he says. “Selfishly, we are able to look at 30 to 40 interns a year, put them in a variety of situations, watch them work, and then hire the best ones.”
An important component of the Wheeling program is lining up teachers who can be good mentors, Crocker notes. “You have to encourage your student teachers and push them to get the best experiences possible.”
ISU pays teacher-mentors a small annual stipend. Interns must pay their own expenses for room and board. Many hail from Wheeling and live at home during their year of teaching. Travel reimbursements for ISU professors cost the program about $5,000 a year. ISU and the district share the cost of liaisons’ salaries.
Crocker says Wheeling is an “easy model” for other school districts, including Chicago Public Schools, to duplicate. A smaller program, based in one or two neighborhoods, would make the program manageable in a larger urban setting, he says.
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FOX RIVER RAMBLING TOWARD AN URBAN FUTURE
David YoungCHICAGO TRIBUNE
The Fox River, which flows lazily through 4 counties and 21
municipalities on the western edge of the metropolitan area, has survived a lot of abuse.
It has been dammed by factory owners, had trains thunder along its banks, and has been polluted by sewage from riverside towns and cottages. It has somehow survived all that, but now it faces what some public officials consider a greater challenge: suburban growth.
''On a nice summer weekend, you have the Eisenhower River, not the Fox,'' said Larry Lane, a trustee of the McHenry County Conservation District, in reference to the heavy boat traffic.
As a result, government in the last few years has been increasingly trying to establish greater controls over the Fox.
That has caused more than one public furor as riverbank homeowners fight conservationists, boat users battle fishermen and governments fight developers.
Even Gov. James Thompson jumped into the controversy last week, siding with some riverbank homeowners who don`t want a forest preserve trail in their back yards.
Underlying that dispute and others is a larger issue: Who is going to control and protect the Fox in the face of suburban sprawl?
Part of the problem is that no single agency has jurisdiction over the river, which passes through the counties of Lake, McHenry, Kane and Kendall in the metropolitan area as well as 21 municipalities and several special districts, like forest preserves. An array of federal, state and local governments all have some control, but there is little coordination.
The problems along the river vary. In the last few years, water safety has been the biggest issue on the Chain of Lakes in Lake County, especially since a late-night, high-speed collision killed five persons in 1986. The sheriff`s departments in both Lake and McHenry Counties now operate patrols on the water during boating season.
Besides safety, new and expanded boat marinas and resorts have raised concerns in McHenry County. Control of the riverbanks is the major dispute in Kane.
In part because of problems of increased boat congestion, a bi-county waterways management agency involving Lake and McHenry Counties was created in 1984 to regulate navigation on the Chain of Lakes and the upper Fox. The voters approved it almost 3-1 in a referendum.
It now requires all owners to register their boats to use the waterways, and this year an estimated 18,500 boaters are expected to buy tags.
John C. Soffietti, chairman of the Chain of Lakes Fox River Waterways Management Agency, said his agency`s concern is with what happens on the water, not the banks. ''Our job is to regulate safety, to control pollution and flooding and to promote tourism,'' Soffietti said.
McHenry County has done little over the years to regulate its stretch of the Fox. But County Board member Dean Cunat now says he has become concerned enough about proposals to add an estimated 1,000 boat slips at various marinas on the Fox and at Pistakee Bay that he believes a study of the impact of those slips is necessary.
Also with a role to play in Fox River development is the Army Corps of Engineers, which requires permits for any project that will infringe on the navigable waterways or adjacent wetlands. But it has no control over local zoning.
Sometimes, government sends mixed signals about the Fox.
Gov. Thompson last Dec. 15 proclaimed May as Illinois Trail Appreciation Month ''in recognition of the many and wonderfully diverse recreational trails . . . and the committed trail enthusiasts who strive to increase trail opportunities for the public.''
Last Wednesday, which happened to be the third day of ''Trail Appreciation Month,'' Thompson appeared at a rally for opponents of a proposed bike trail along the river north of St. Charles and announced he was against the project.
The announcement stunned Philip Elfstrom, president of the Kane County Forest Preserve Commission, who said the proposed trail is the latest phase of long-range plan to protect the river by having various local governments acquire its banks.
''There was a private buyer for every square foot of riverbank we acquired.'' said Elfstrom. ''It would have been developed had we not gotten there first.''
Former Aurora Mayor Albert D. McCoy remembers how he and the late Les McCullough, then president of the Fox Valley Park District, got the program started in the late 1960s to place the riverbanks in public ownership.
''The Fox should be as accessible to the public as possible,'' said McCoy, now an Aurora banker. ''You can`t have it closed off to the public.''
''Aurora has the situation under control, but the county has to closely watch for development in unincorporated areas,'' he said.
The forest preserve district didn`t become involved in the program until the middle 1970s when the Chicago & North Western Railway filed to abandon a branch line between Geneva and Aurora. That acquisition, now part of Kane`s bike trail system, was opposed by Batavia residents who didn`t want a trail in their back yards.
Douglas Steve, one of the 27 property owners trying to block the bike trail and an organizer of a citizens group called STOP, said that the issue of saving the riverbank is moot. Most of the property sought by Elfstrom is in a flood plain and protected from development by federal law.
''He (Elfstrom) wants the river to be a Wisconsin Dells,'' Steve said.
''I`d rather have private apartments and nice homes on the river than public parks that people come from all over to use.''
A different type of development has some McHenry County officials concerned. Since late last year, four separate resort operators have applied to the Army Corps of Engineers to add more than 800 boat slips at either existing marinas or new ones. The largest of those is the proposed Fox Bay Marina in the City of McHenry. The 272-acre project surrounding an existing wetland would include slips for 600 boats, a yacht club, a hotel, restaurants, shopping area and condominiums.
It is that project combined with other potential developments that has McHenry County`s Cunat concerned.
''We don`t allow unlimited parking on our streets, but we allow marina owners to put unlimited numbers of boats on the water,'' said Cunat, who also served as his county`s representative on the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission.
''I`m not in favor of keeping everybody off the river, and I don`t have a solution. But I think we need to take a serious look at this,'' he said.
Possibly the best study of river traffic thus far was done not by government but by the proposed developer of Fox Bay, Ken Zinzow.
He said his analysis shows that of the more than 18,500 boats registered by the waterways agency, 11,241 are owned by persons outside the immediate area. They presumably drag their boats on trailers to the 47 launch ramps in the area.
He claims his project will appeal to owners of large boats who want to permanently keep them someplace, not the weekend sailors who now crowd the Fox and Chain of Lakes.
''The growth is going to come,'' Zinzow said. ''You can`t stop it. You must plan for it.''
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Transport Canada fine-tunes restrictions to protect right whales
Transport Canada has fine-tuned this year's right whale protection measures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and some of the changes are good news for the P.E.I. cruise ship industry.
'It just helps to reassure the cruise lines moving forward'
Tony Davis · CBC News · Posted: Apr 30, 2019 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 30
Special zones and speed restrictions have been in place since 2017 in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, when at least 17 right whales died either from ship strikes or entanglement in fishing gear. (Julien Lecacheur/Radio-Canada)
One of the most significant applies to dynamic shipping lanes, where temporary closures can be implemented if a right whale is seen.
Previously, the federal agency required two surveillance flights in a seven-day period with no whale sightings to lift the closure. Now, there will only have to be one.
Corryn Clemence, development manager with the Port of Charlottetown, said the two-flight requirement caused delays for ships because weather would often make it difficult for the surveillance flights to complete their mission.
"They can't see on the water to do proper surveillance, because just a bit of chop on the water makes it really difficult for them to see the whales," she said.
Port Charlottetown, P.E.I. fishermen's group applaud changes to right whale restrictions
Opening up the sea
Special zones and speed restrictions have been in place since 2017, when at least 17 right whales died either from ship strikes or entanglements in fishing gear.
It's the highest number of deaths reported since hunting of the endangered species was banned in the 1930s.
Last year there were no reported deaths.
'I think it just helps to reassure the cruise lines moving forward and for future planning that things will continue to get better and make it more viable for them to cruise here,' said Clemence. (Shane Hennessey/CBC)
The government has reintroduced a mandatory speed restriction for vessels 20 metres or longer to a maximum of 10 knots when travelling in the western Gulf of St. Lawrence, which took effect Sunday.
But Clemence pointed out that a corner of the speed-restriction zone around the Magdalen Islands has been removed. She said that will shave the time cruise ships from P.E.I. heading to the St. Lawrence spend sailing through the area.
Clemence also noted a dynamic closure zone around Anticosti Island has been widened.
Ships will be allowed to travel at regular speeds in two shipping lanes north and south of the Island when no whales are in the area. But a 15-day mandatory slowdown to 10 knots will be implemented when a right whale is spotted and will be extended for as long as the whale remains in the lanes.
5 cancel in 2018
Last year, there were five cruise visit cancellations, Clemence said, though she said four were cancelled in 2017 following the announcement of the restrictions on the shipping industry.
Transport Canada made this year's changes after consultation with the cruise industry and other shipping groups.
Port Charlottetown looks to manage crowds in another record cruise season
Clemence said Transport Canada, DFO, and the Coast Guard have been great at keeping in contact and listening to what the industry has to say.
"I think it just helps to reassure the cruise lines moving forward and for future planning that things will continue to get better and make it more viable for them to cruise here."
Charlottetown cruise industry enjoys busy season despite cancellations
The Zaandam, a Holland America ship carrying 1,400 passengers, is the first ship of the season expected to arrive, docking Wednesday, May 1.
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International negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions reporting go to the wire
Submitted by Dr. Amanda Thomson on Wed, 19/06/2019 - 11:02
Dr Amanda Thomson at IPCC-49
Prof Chris Evans among members of a discussion panel at IPCC-49
Dr Amanda Thomson listens as Dr Jolene Cook, Head of Climate Science - International, BEIS, addresses a session at IPCC-49. Photo by IISDENB / Sean Wu
Other members of the Flooded Land chapter enter a session via one of the Star Wars-like corridors.
Dr Amanda Thomson and Professor Chris Evans of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology were among hundreds of international scientists and government representatives who recently attended the 49th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-49) in Kyoto, Japan. The discussions over updating methodologies for estimating levels of greenhouse gases involved tense negotiations, as Amanda explains…
The venue for IPCC-49 was in the Kyoto International Conference Centre - where the 1997 Kyoto Protocol was signed, a giant concrete structure with long hexagonal corridors and vast auditoriums that looked like something out of a Star Wars set.
The five-day summit was mostly concerned with the adoption of updates to the IPCC’s guidance on producing national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories.
The updated guidance on producing national greenhouse gas inventories, once adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will likely be used for reporting progress on mitigating climate change for the Paris Agreement targets. The 280 authors had spent two years preparing the updated guidance, which had already undergone both expert and government reviews.
The updated guidance on producing national greenhouse gas inventories...will likely be used for reporting progress on mitigating climate change for the Paris Agreement targets.
At IPCC meetings, discussion of a topic starts in a plenary session, attended by representatives from all countries. Issues that cannot be resolved by a short discussion in plenary are moved to a contact group with the relevant guidance authors and interested countries. Contact groups are where text is proposed, discussed, modified and circulated, and they can get very frenetic, particularly when the same people are covering different issues.
I was supporting the UK government delegation as an expert on GHG inventories for land use and forestry, as there were several contentious issues in this section of the updated guidance. I was involved in two contact groups: on Interannual Variability (how emissions from large natural disturbances should be reported while also recognising mitigation efforts in reducing emissions) and Flooded Land. There was very limited time to read and understand the impact and implications of text changes between contact group sessions, and agree on the UK position with colleagues.
I generally had five different communication channels open on my laptop: the IPCC platform, where new text would be uploaded; email to colleagues back in the UK, who were also commenting on text revisions; a secure web platform for reporting back to UK government; a Slack channel for information sharing between European countries; and WhatsApp conversations for communicating with UK colleagues within the conference centre. The hours were long and coffee was in short supply!
Meanwhile, my CEH colleague Chris Evans was one of four lead authors attending IPCC-49 on behalf of the Flooded Land chapter, which developed methods to account for CO2 and methane emissions resulting from the creation of hydropower reservoirs and other constructed water bodies. In some shallow tropical reservoirs these emissions can be large, offsetting or at worst negating the carbon benefits of the hydroelectric energy produced. As a result, flooded land emissions are a controversial topic, and previous attempts to include them in the IPCC’s guidance were not successful.
...flooded land emissions are a controversial topic, and previous attempts to include them in the IPCC’s guidance were not successful.
Chris was dealing with the strongly contrasting views of some of the government negotiating teams on the Flooded Land chapter. Country A felt that the methods were not stringent enough to protect against deforestation and wetland destruction, while Country B was concerned that the methods would unfairly penalise countries seeking to develop clean hydropower energy. Countries F, N and R also had firm opinions.
Over the next two days and one jetlag-assisted night, fuelled mainly by bread rolls and caffeine, Chris and the other members of the author team had to heavily and repeatedly revise the chapter in an attempt to reconcile the different concerns of the government negotiators without compromising the scientific basis.
The process went right to the wire, with a flurry of last minute amendments and a tense final contact group before the chapter was adopted with 30 minutes to spare before the final cut-off. At midday on Saturday, that was the last chapter of the guidance to be approved. However, the full report was only formally adopted in plenary at 11pm on Sunday evening (after a series of last minute interventions on another topic by Saudi Arabia).
The 2019 guidance is dedicated to Dr Jim Penman, who led the development of international inventory guidance from the start and worked closely with CEH in his roles at Defra and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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It's nice to be wanted: ONO CEO
2:45 AM ET Mon, 24 Feb 2014
Rosalia Portela, CEO of ONO, says she cannot comment on the speculation that the company is the subject of a takeover bid by Vodafone, but says "it is nice to hear you are wanted".
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Anomalous & Ancient Discoveries
Guests Jonathan Gray, Jerome Corsi
Lost Technology & Expeditions
Egyptian Skull & Underground Tunnels
Discoveries in New Zealand
Archeologist Jonathan Gray described a variety of anomalous and ancient discoveries. These findings are evidence of a "super science and technology" that civilizations around the world once had but lost, he said. The ability to lift enormous weights through "sound waves" was documented in Egyptian records, as well as in Bolivia and India, and there was also a capacity to have lights that can burn for thousands of years, he detailed.
There's a human civilization living today in ancient underground tunnel systemsnear the Andes in South America, he reported. Their tunnels use a sensor-like lighting system in which the lights grow brighter as a person approaches. Many of the tunnel walls appear to be glass, as though they were cut out, and a greenish radiating light helps to grow plants underground. Gray said he hopes to conduct an expedition at this secretive location.
Among some of the other reports he touched on-- evidence of a Celtic visit to New Zealand 4,000 years ago, an ancient smelter for refining gold in Oklahoma, a man turned into glass crystals inside a subterranean chamber in India, a bullet hole found in an Egyptian mummy, and the discovery of 8-foot tall skeletons that were six-fingered and six-toed in New Mexico.
Iran Update
First hour guest, Jerome Corsi, the co-author of Showdown with Nuclear Iran, shared a Middle East update. He believes that Bush is looking for an incident to provoke a war with Iran and may have found one with their capture of British marines. But taking military action would put us on the wrong track-- the US should concentrate on changing Iran from within peacefully, as the Ahmadinejad regime is weak, Corsi argued.
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A Salad Shortage May Be Linked to Climate Change
By CAITLIN DEWEY
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Unusual weather in the Southwest could cause a nationwide salad shortage later this month. But that's just the tip of the iceberg (lettuce): Scientists say the weird weather is probably caused by climate change - which means these sorts of problems are likely to happen again.
The shortage, first reported by NPR, is the result of two separate phenomena in Arizona's Yuma County and California's Salinas Valley, the two places where the United States grows most of its leafy greens. In Yuma, the lettuce harvest, which usually runs from November to April, wound up early because of unusually warm weather. And in central California, which typically picks up the harvest once Yuma is done, heavy precipitation delayed some plantings.
That could cause a gap at some point between lettuce supplies, said George Frisvold, an agricultural economist at the University of Arizona. Frisvold's colleague, Jonathan Overpeck, the director of the university's Institute of the Environment, says we can blame ourselves, in part, for the great salad shortage.
"There's this old adage in climate science that you can't attribute any one event to human causes," Overpeck said. "That's not really true anymore, because now it's really been established that humans alter the whole global climate system. Anything related to increased warmth in the atmosphere likely has some element of human causation."
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Both the temperature in Yuma and the rain in Salinas have a link to atmospheric warmth. The case of Yuma is pretty obvious: Temperatures in the Southwest have been increasing for 100 years, and this winter was no different. According to the National Weather Service, February's average temperature was two degrees warmer than the recorded average in recent decades.
In Salinas, the situation is a bit more complex, Overpeck said. The region has seen an unusual number of storms called "atmospheric rivers" -- you might know them by the name Pineapple Express - which push heavy precipitation to the Pacific coast from around the Hawaiian islands. It's unclear whether climate change has a role in the increased incidence of atmospheric rivers, Overpeck said. While some early research suggests that is the case, more data is needed to confirm it.
That said, it's "a basic concept of physics" that when the atmosphere is warmer, it holds more moisture, Overpeck explained. That means that, when storm clouds form, you tend to see more snow and rain.
According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, Yuma County boasts nearly 70,000 acres of planted lettuce, while Monterey County, the home of the Salinas Valley, has 134,000. The 2015 Salinas harvest was valued at more than $1.65 billion.
Both regions primarily grow iceberg and leaf lettuce, followed by spinach and baby greens.
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Incidentally, these sorts of cascading disruptions aren't just limited to lettuce - or even to the United States. Britain recently suffered a widely publicized shortage of iceberg lettuce, zucchini, broccoli and cabbage, brought on by extreme weather in Europe's "salad bowl," Spain.
Closer to home, fruit growers across the Northeast and Midwest have expressed concern that unusually high and fluctuating temperatures could cause crops like apples, cherries, plums and grapes to develop too early and expose them to spring freezes. The Progressive Farmer recently warned that "almost off the charts" temperatures in Kansas and Oklahoma could put early-growing winter wheat at similar risk, plus expose it to warm-weather pests and diseases.
In 2012, high winter temperatures cost Michigan $220 million in cherry harvests. That same year, unusually hot nighttime temperatures also cut into Corn Belt yields.
The National Climate Assessment estimated that California and Arizona will have gained 70 extra hot nights per year and 12 to 15 additional consecutive days without rain by the end of the century, because of warming.
"Climate change impacts on agriculture," the report concludes, "will have consequences for food security both in the U.S. and globally."
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Compared with that dire prediction, of course, a few weeks without lettuce probably doesn't sound so bad. Frisvold cautions that any price spikes resulting from a shortage would probably be short term and that none have materialized just yet.
But in the sense that the looming salad scenario signals things to come, it's worth paying attention.
"Every grower is noting warming," Overpeck said. "And while we can't say what percentage is due to humans, we can say humans are putting their foot on the accelerator."
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BART Accused of Systemic Disability Discrimination
April 5, 2017 November 13, 2017 NICHOLAS IOVINO
BART, Class Action, disability, San Francisco Bay Area, transportation
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A class accused the Bay Area’s public transit system on Wednesday of denying people with disabilities full and equal access by failing to properly maintain, repair and clean elevators “soiled” with human waste.
Lead plaintiff Senior and Disability Action says the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, or BART, has for decades provided “vastly inferior” service to disabled riders.
“This class action seeks to end the systemic civil rights violations committed by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) against people with mobility disabilities who use wheelchairs, walkers, and other mobility aids, and who rely on elevators or escalators in order to access BART’s stations and services,” the 34-page complaint states.
The suit claims disabled riders constantly encounter broken and soiled elevators, out-of-order escalators and non-functioning accessible fare gates. It also accuses BART of failing to provide adequate notice of elevator outages, accessible paths of travel, transportation alternatives and evacuation plans for those with mobility challenges.
BART responded in a statement Wednesday that it shares in the goal of ensuring accessible public services and understands hardships faced by disabled riders. The transit agency cited a $16.3 million escalator and elevator improvement program currently underway, adding it has also devoted $190 million to improve access for downtown San Francisco stations.
Since October 2015, BART has had more than 2,500 elevator outages during normal operating hours, according to agency data cited in the complaint.
The disability rights advocates say the vast majority of outages are due to a “consistent failure to adequately maintain the accessible features” and that the agency also fails to provide “effective, reliable, or well-publicized alternate accessible transportation” for disabled riders.
BART claims most elevator outages are due to an ongoing floor replacement project, set to be completed in May 2017. It says the project, “while time-consuming, results in a much more sanitary environment and prolongs the period of time between outages and major overhauls.”
But the disabled rights advocates say that when elevators do function properly, they are often contaminated by the presence of human feces or urine. This forces disabled riders to go to another station or “roll through human waste” to reach their final destination, the plaintiffs claim.
“This is an especially repugnant prospect for users of manual wheelchairs, whose hands, arms, and clothes inevitably come in contact with the wheels of their wheelchairs,” the complaint states.
Despite hiring extra crews and offering overtime to help keep stations clean, BART said its riders “continue to unacceptably experience the impact of the homeless crisis.” BART is working with local agencies to address the issue, adding that it is one of the only transit systems in the nation with a full-time crisis intervention training coordinator and community outreach liaison to work on those issues.
The transit agency also says it provides a shuttle service for disabled patrons when station elevators are out of service. But the plaintiffs argue that the service is not well publicized, and that riders are not informed how long they will have to wait for it.
In 1998, BART settled a previous disability rights class action – Cupolo v. BART – by vowing to replace or rehab defunct elevators, perform regular maintenance and repairs, distribute reliable information on elevator outages and execute a rigorous system for elevator inspections and cleanings.
Under that plan, elevators were to be cleaned twice per day, and janitors were to clean fouled elevators within 30 minutes of being informed of a problem.
“Although conditions temporarily improved following this settlement, BART has since allowed the condition of its elevators and other accessibility features, as well as its policies and practices regarding access for people with mobility disabilities, to return to their pre-Cupolo conditions,” the complaint states.
BART does offer a text alert service for elevator outages, but the agency often fails to provide updated and accurate information, which forces disabled riders to be late for work meetings, appointments and social engagements, according to the suit.
The lawsuit accuses the public transit system of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act and state anti-discrimination laws.
The plaintiffs seek a permanent injunction to place BART under the supervision of an independent monitor to ensure full and adequate implementation of a plan to maintain accessible accommodations for disabled passengers.
Other plaintiffs named in the suit include the Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco, Concord resident Pi Ra, and Oakland resident Ian Smith.
The plaintiffs are represented by Rebecca Williford of Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley and Jimmy Kim of Legal Aid At Work in San Francisco.
“We share the frustration of the Disability Rights Advocates legal group, but are disappointed our program of capital improvement is being met with litigation,” BART said in a statement. “Nonetheless, we hope to again work together in the future as we value the perspective of people with disabilities both from within our own employee community and the cities we serve.”
With a $1.24 billion operating budget and an average of 440,000 rides a week, BART manages 46 stations and more than 100 miles of above-ground and subterranean train tracks, including the Transbay Tube, which runs under and across the San Francisco Bay.
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Panic in Valparai as Bear kills 55-year-old man, child killed by leopard last week
Coimbatore : People in Valparai in the district were in for another shock when a 55-year-old man was killed by a bear in an estate in the early hours of today.
It was hardly a week ago that a four-year-old boy was killed by a leopard in the vicinity and efforts to track it continued. Panic has gripped people in the area.
Susai, a resident of Waterfall Estate, had gone to fetch firewood in the jungle area early today and some estate workers going for duty early in the morning noticed his body lying near a bush, police said,On information police and forest officials rushed to the spot where there were footmarks of bears, they said.
Forest officials, busy to trap the leopard, which reportedly killed the boy earlier, are now on a bear hunt, police said.
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Sraffa and Modern Economics, Volume II
Roberto Ciccone, Christian Gehrke, Gary Mongiovi
Reference - 370 Pages - 16 B/W Illustrations
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
March 29, 2012 by Routledge
Analyzing Sraffa, one of the key figures in the history of economics, this book explores his legacy and the relevance of his thought for modern economics. Written by an array of internationally respected contributors, including Schefold, Aspromourgos, Nell and Kurz it is an invaluable tool for all those studying the history of economic thought.
Introduction Part 3: Technical Change, Variable Returns and Normal Prices in the Classical Framework 1. Produced Quantities and Returns in Sraffa's Theory of Normal Prices: Textual Evidence and Analytical Issues F. Ravagnani 2. On the Inconsistence between the Long-Period Method and the Assumption of Given Quantities F. D'Orlando and S. Nisticò 3. On Some Aspects of the Debate on the Gravitation of Market Prices to Long-Period Prices F. Petri 4. Gravitation of Market Prices towards Natural Prices E. Bellino 5. Capacity Utilization, Mobility of Capital and the Classical Process of Gravitation R. Ciccone Part 4: Output and Distribution in the Long Run: A Classical-Keynesian Perspective 1. Price or Quantities? The Common Link in the Methods of Sraffa, Keynes and Kalecki A. Bhaduri 2. Notes on Sraffa and Keynes H. Bortis 3. The Capacity to Generate Investment: An Analysis of the Long-Term Determinants of Investment G. Bonfati 4. Steady State and the Analysis of Long-Run Tendencies: the Case of Neo-Kaleckian Models A. Trezzini 5. The Principle of Effective Demand according to Pasinetti B. Jossa 6. Monetary Influences on Distribution: A Comparison between Two Post-Keynesian Theories C. Panico 7. The Quantity Equation and the Classical Theory of Production and Distribution E.J. Nell Part 5: Applied and Policy Themes in the Reappraisal of Classical Economics 1. A Note about Effective Demand and Globalisation P. Leon 2. The Relevance of the Classical Approach for Economic and Social Policy Issues S. Cesaratto 3. The Neo-Ricardian Theory of Economic Integration G. Montani 4. On the Theory of the Balance-of-Payments-Constrained Growth A. Palumbo 5. On Facts and Theory: Some Reflections Prompted by the EMU Experience M. Pivetti 6. Disinflation in Industrialized Countries, Foreign Debt Cycles and the Costs of Stability A. Ginzburg and A. Simonazzi 7. Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution in the US Economic Expansion of the 1990s V. Maffeo Part 6: Historical Issues in Sraffa's Writings 1. The Standard Commodity and Monetary Theory in the First Half of the Twentieth Century G. Fodor 2. Three Notes on Piero Sraffa's Early Economic Writings: 1920-1926 N. Naldi 3. New Perspectives from Sraffa's Papers: A Preliminay Survey R. Bellofiore and J.P. Potier
Roberto Ciconne is Professor of Economics at Roma Tre University, Italy
Christian Gehrke is an Associate Professor of Economics a tthe University of Graz, Austria
Gary Mongiovi is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at St John's University, USA
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ICC Women's World Cup 2017
Lord's to get ODI honours boards
ODI achievements - including that by female cricketers - are set to be recognised at the Home of Cricket in the same manner as Test milestones
Women will feature on the honours boards at Lord's for the first time after the Marylebone Cricket Club announced the introduction of boards for men's and women's One-Day Internationals.
For years, players who take a five-wicket haul or score a century in a Test match at 'The Home of Cricket' have had their names etched on the famous board in the players' dressing rooms. And after a meeting of the MCC this week, it's been announced that a similar board will be introduced for the same milestones in ODIs, giving equal weighting to men and women.
It means Anya Shrubsole's match-winning haul of 6-46 in the Women's World Cup final on Sunday will feature when the new boards are installed.
Shrubsole does it all as India lose 7-28
There have been five ODI centuries scored by Australians at Lord's, the most recent being Ricky Ponting's 111 in a 2005 match that guided Australia to a comfortable seven-wicket win.
The highest score by an Australian in an ODI there remains Graham Wood's 114 not out in 1985. Geoff Marsh scored an unbeaten 111 in 1989 and two players have scored 104; Andrew Symonds in 2004 (not out) and Mark Waugh in 1999.
Ponting hits out on his way to a Lord's ton in 2005 // Getty
There has also been four instances of five-wicket hauls from Austarlians in ODIs; Brett Lee took 5-41, the best figures by an Australian in an ODI at the venue, in the same match as Ponting's century.
Lee also took 5-49 from nine overs at Lord's in 2009 while Michael Kasprowicz's 5-47 in 2004 and Gary Gilmour's 5-48 in 1975 could also feature on the honours boards if Lord's opts to include all past performances.
Brett Lee bowls Kevin Pietersen on his way to a five-fer at Lord's // Getty
"We are looking into an honours board in one-day cricket for everybody," MCC chief executive Derek Brewer told the UK Telegraph.
"There are some practical issues we have to address first, such as where it will be situated and how long back in time we go but it is certainly on our minds and an ODI honours board for both men and women would be the way forward."
Shrubsole had playfully added her own name to the honours board after her match-winning haul on Sunday, attaching a piece of tape bearing her name to the Test board for bowlers. The practice is common with male players as well, who tape their own name to the board before it's officially added after a match.
Lord's, who only started admitting female members in 1999, has often been criticised in the past for discriminatory rules and policies towards women. Up until 1999, Queen Elizabeth II was the only woman allowed in the members' area at the ground.
The Queen meets Australia's Ashes tourists at Lord's in 2013 // Getty
But following the raging success of Sunday's World Cup final, which was sold out, the MCC says it will be pushing for more women's international and domestic matches in the future.
"I think Lord’s is changing,” said chairman Gerald Corbett.
"We are much more open than we were. As the game changes we have to be at the heart of all those changes, whether it is T20, one day or women’s cricket because we are the home of cricket.
"That is our role and our distinctiveness. That is how we have to keep up with the times.
"People love us because we are traditional and conservative, but we have to move with the times."
Match wrap: Collapse hands England WWC title
The huge success of the World Cup in the UK was laid bare by the television ratings for the final, which The Times reported was watched by 1.1 million Brits on Sunday.
Shown on subscription service Sky Sports, the audience was the highest for any women's match in the UK, 400,000 higher than the figure for June's Champions Trophy final between India and Pakistan and almost three times that for the last day of the men's Test match at Lord's between England and South Africa earlier this month.
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Argentum Leads a Growth Capital Investment in Conner Industries Wells Fargo Renews an $18 million Line of Credit
Funds To Be Used for Working Capital and Strategic Acquisitions
FORT WORTH, Texas, Tuesday, April 4, 2017 — Conner Industries, Inc. (“Conner” or the “Company”), a national lumber processor and leading provider of integrated packaging solutions, announced today that it has received a substantial growth capital investment from Argentum and other existing investors, as well as a group of new investors. Members of Conner’s management team, including its Chairman, CEO and certain executives, also invested personally in the round of financing.
Conner also announced that concurrently with the closing of the growth capital investment, its senior lender, Wells Fargo, has renewed its $18 million line of credit.
The capital infusion will be used for working capital, to continue to upgrade the Company’s manufacturing plants and to finance strategic acquisitions.
Having recently completed two acquisitions – Golden Triangle and Continental Timber – Conner now has more than 500 employees and services over 1,900 customers nationwide from manufacturing plants located in 10 states, and processes/sells more than 300 million board feet annually. With a strong balance sheet, Conner is poised for growth, and is actively seeking experienced lumber sales personnel, lumber buyers and packaging specialists to join its team.
In connection with the closing, Conner also announced that one of its new investors, Mr. Hugh F. Culverhouse, a former federal prosecutor, has joined the Company as its General Counsel.
“We welcome an impressive roster of new financial backers of Conner Industries and are gratified that they, together with Argentum and our other existing shareholders, are supporting and investing in the growth of the Company,” said Joseph McCormick, CEO of Conner Industries. “This round of funding will enable us to continue to plan for growth, and improve our remanufacturing plants so as to continue to provide unparalleled quality and service to our customers, and expand and deepen our relationships with the U.S lumber mills, our most valuable strategic asset,” added Mr. McCormick.
“With a strong financial base, through strategic acquisitions, Conner will continue to expand and deepen its geographic market coverage in the lumber markets, as well as enter new strategic lines of business, including a deeper incursion into packaging,” said Mr. Kurien Jacob, Chairman of Conner Industries. “We welcome all ideas regarding strategic acquisitions and other opportunities from investment bankers and business brokers around the country,” added Mr. Jacob.
“Having been involved with over 80 U.S. growth companies through Argentum’s investment funds, what we value most about our companies, and what we view as a strong indicator of future success, is the management team’s loyalty, passion and commitment to the wellbeing of their company,” said Walter Barandiaran, a Managing Partner of Argentum. “I am gratified that several members of Conner’s senior management team have personally invested, and have confidence in the vision and future of Conner Industries,” added Mr. Barandiaran.
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Driverless cars yield to reality: It's a long road ahead
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When cars talk, this is what they'll tell each other
Self-driving car sales to reach 95 million per year by 2035
Self-driving cars could create 1GB of data a second
And auto sensors may soon schedule repair appointments automatically
By Lucas Mearian
Self-driving cars, which some experts have predicted will be readily available within five years, will come with a myriad of sensors creating machine-to-machine data at the rate of 1GB a second, according to one strategist.
Mark van Rijmenam, a big data strategist and founder of BigData-Startups.com, believes the sensors in self-driving cars will also will provide great opportunities to spot mechanical problems before they happen -- and even schedule repairs.
Last year, Google CEO Sergey Brin said self-driving cars will be a reality for "ordinary people" in less than five years. Last fall, California's governor signed into law a bill allowing the vehicles on its roads.
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Among others, GM plans to introduce a semi-automated Cadillac driving system in 2015.
"With the amount of cars worldwide to surpass one billion, it is almost unimaginable how much data will be created when Google's self-driving car will become common on the streets. But Google is not the only company working on self-driving cars," Rijmenam wrote.
"By 2020, there will be quite a few offerings out there for autonomous vehicle functionality that you can buy at a reasonable price point," said Thilo Koslowski, an analyst with Gartner.
Rijmenam predicts that all car manufacturers are likely working on self-driving cars. Mobileye, a Dutch company that specializes in inexpensive cameras that assist self-driving cars, has raised $400 million.
"The self-driving car from Google already is a true data creator," Rijmenam said in a blog post this week. "It uses all that data to know where to drive and how fast to drive. It can even detect a new cigarette butt thrown on the ground and it then knows that a person might appear all of a sudden from behind a corner or car."
If a self-driving cars does produce 1GB per second, it would, on average will create about 2 petabytes of data a year, according to Rijmenam. He came to that calculation based on driving 600 hours per year in a car, which translates into 2,160,000 seconds or about 2PB of data per car per year.
Koslowski doesn't agree that autonomous cars will produce 1GB of data per second. While large amounts of data may pass between internal components in an automated car, it won't be stored or even shared because the data will only be used by the car for driving purposes.
"You might have a high-end vehicle like a [BMW] 7 series or [Mercedes] S Class producing a [terabyte] of data in an hour that's meaningful and you'd want to analyze to some extent... but it's not 1GB per second," he said.
Nevertheless, autonomous car technology will increase exponentially the amount of data being produced compared to what cars today create.
For example, cars in the future will have more infrared sensors, inexpensive video cameras and laser-based radar to detect objects around them, Koslowski said. Cars will likely even talk to each other, "see" the velocity of nearby vehicles and react when they turn or brake suddenly. And with computer algorithms and predictive models, a car will be able to predict where other vehicles are going and measure the other drivers' skills - potentially protecting drivers from others' bad moves.
Koslowski also sees a day when automobile data will be uploaded into a cloud storage system that the government can use to make roads safer.
Autonomous cars that have sensors will also be able to identify mechanical problems in real-time and proactively address them. For example, a driver would be notified of a pending mechanical issue before a problem develops, and the car would be able to schedule a maintenance appointment without driver assistance, Rijmenan said.
Event data recorders in 95% of new cars already track the behavior of the driver and the performance of the car.
In the future, the data collected "will help car companies to quickly pinpoint the areas for upgrading and adjust the car appropriately. Time to market for new cars will be shortened," Rijmenam wrote.
This article, Self-driving cars could create 1GB of data a second, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed . His e-mail address is lmearian@computerworld.com.
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Hope Rising
Q&A: Tech pioneer Earl Pace on racism in the IT workplace
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Acceptance and Denial
By Don Tennant
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When I wrote last week about the inequities confronting African-Americans in the IT workforce and cited the election of our first African-American president as a bright sign of hope for the future, I knew full well what was in store. There would be many readers who would challenge the notion that skin color is still an issue in a country that has matured enough to elect a black president.
Reader comments about that column and a related blog post tended to dismiss the idea that race still matters; they claim it's an anachronism perpetuated by the self-serving media.
"What people should start writing about is how the USA can now drop this stigma of being a racist country and start becoming colorblind," one reader wrote. "Until the media stops using skin color to get ratings, skin color will always be a factor in what people think of others."
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"We elected a black president. So what? The media are the ones making a big deal about race, not the general public," another reader chimed in. "The media are the ones dividing people by race. If everyone wants equality, we need to stop making race an issue."
"Why bring race or creed into this magazine?" asked another. "I suppose this is a sad indicator that we live in times where it is popular and will gain readership if the race card is played in some way."
The "race card" I played was reporting on continued compensation inequities as reflected in the 2008 Computerworld IT Salary Survey. I noted that there had been no improvement since last year, when African-Americans made up just 3% of the IT workforce, with their compensation hovering at about 14% less than that of their white counterparts.
Contending that we no longer need to acknowledge or address such inequities because we have elected an African-American to the presidency is disturbingly, dangerously myopic. Yet that's what's happening. One reader chided me for the "disconnect" in my column: "So, Americans are willing to elect an African American to the highest office in the nation," he wrote, "but you imply that African Americans fare worse in the IT workplace because of discrimination."
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The election appears to be blinding many to the fact that racism isn't only about overt, malicious discrimination. Many of us who have never experienced it find it too easy to dismiss as an excusatory myth or a media agenda item.
It's not difficult to gain the insight and understanding it takes to appreciate what's going on here. All you have to do is listen. Listen, for example, to the reader who identified himself as a black man with 24 years of IT experience.
"I am happy that a black man has become president. This nation is truly changing," he wrote. "However, look around the country and you will see by actions and words that racism still exists. . . . I really wish that it was a subject that did not still need to be discussed, but reality says it does. Let's stop trying to brush it under the rug and hope that it magically goes away."
No, we're not a nation of haters anymore, and we've proved to ourselves and to the world that we understand that a person can be black and still be worthy of election to the presidency. But we can't allow ourselves to be fooled into thinking that that understanding is equivalent to the demise of racism.
Skin color does matter. Most of us wish it didn't, but it does. If skin color didn't matter, then the bonds of trust between the races would be equivalent to the bonds of trust within each race. They are not. Until they are, there will continue to be disparities like the ones we reported with respect to IT salaries. And until they are, colorblindness will have much more to do with denial than with acceptance.
Don Tennant is editorial director of Computerworld and InfoWorld. Contact him at don_tennant@computerworld.com, and visit his blog at http://blogs.computerworld.com/tennant.
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Get Physical About IT Security
Multi-factor authentication goes mainstream
What is Windows Hello? Microsoft’s biometrics security system explained
By Russell Kay
Contributing Writer, Computerworld | PT
In this computer-driven era, identity theft and the loss or disclosure of data and related intellectual property are growing problems. We each have multiple accounts and use multiple passwords on an ever-increasing number of computers and Web sites. Maintaining and managing access while protecting both the user's identity and the computer's data and systems has become increasingly difficult. Central to all security is the concept of authentication - verifying that the user is who he claims to be.
We can authenticate an identity in three ways: by something the user knows (such as a password or personal identification number), something the user has (a security token or smart card) or something the user is (a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, called a biometric). (For more on authentication, go to QuickStudy: Authentication.)
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All three authentication mechanisms have drawbacks, so security experts routinely recommend using two separate mechanisms, a process called two-factor authentication. But implementing two-factor authentication requires expensive hardware and infrastructure changes. Therefore, security has most often been left to just a single authentication method.
Passwords are cheap, but most implementations offer little real security. Managing multiple passwords for different systems is a nightmare, requiring users to maintain lists of passwords and systems that are inevitably written down because they can't remember them. The short answer, talked about for decades but rarely achieved in practice, is the idea of single sign-on. .
Using security tokens or smart cards requires more expense, more infrastructure support and specialized hardware. Still, these used to be a lot cheaper than biometric devices and, when used with a PIN or password, offer acceptable levels of security, if not always convenience.
Biometric authentication has been widely regarded as the most foolproof - or at least the hardest to forge or spoof. Since the early 1980s, systems of identification and authentication based on physical characteristics have been available to enterprise IT. These biometric systems were slow, intrusive and expensive, but because they were mainly used for guarding mainframe access or restricting physical entry to relatively few users, they proved workable in some high-security situations. Twenty years later, computers are much faster and cheaper than ever. This, plus new, inexpensive hardware, has renewed interest in biometrics.
Types of Biometrics
A number of biometric methods have been introduced over the years, but few have gained wide acceptance.
Signature dynamics. Based on an individual's signature, but considered unforgeable because what is recorded isn't the final image but how it is produced -- i.e., differences in pressure and writing speed at various points in the signature.
Typing patterns. Similar to signature dynamics but extended to the keyboard, recognizing not just a password that is typed in but the intervals between characters and the overall speeds and pattern. This is akin to the way World War II intelligence analysts could recognize a specific covert agent's radio transmissions by his "hand" -- the way he used the telegraph key.
Eye scans. This favorite of spy movies and novels presents its own problems. The hardware is expensive and specialized, and using it is slow and inconvenient and may make users uneasy.
In fact, two parts of the eye can be scanned, using different technologies: the retina and the iris.
Fingerprint recognition. Everyone knows fingerprints are unique. They are also readily accessible and require little physical space either for the reading hardware or the stored data.
Hand or palm geometry. We're used to fingerprints but seldom think of an entire hand as an individual identifier. This method relies on devices that measure the length and angles of individual fingers. Although more user-friendly than retinal scans, it's still cumbersome.
Voice recognition. This is different from speech recognition. The idea is to verify the individual speaker against a stored voice pattern, not to understand what is being said.
Facial recognition. Uses distinctive facial features, including upper outlines of eye sockets, areas around cheekbones, the sides of the mouth and the location of the nose and eyes. Most technologies avoid areas of the face near the hairline so that hairstyle changes won't affect recognition.
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Because of its convenience and ease of use, fingerprint authentication is becoming the biometric technology of widest choice. A growing number of notebook PCs and computer peripherals are coming to market with built-in fingerprint readers. Scores of products are available, including keyboards, mice, external hard drives, USB flash drives and readers built into PC card and USB plug-in devices. Most of these units are relatively inexpensive.
These devices allow the user to maintain encrypted passwords that don't need to be remembered but instead are invoked after the user puts his finger on the reader. This can also be used with a separate PIN or password to offer true two-factor authentication.
Kay is a Computerworld contributing writer in Worcester, Mass. Contact him at russkay@charter.net.
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Protesters hold up their mobile phone lights in front of police headquarters in Hong Kong, June 21. More than 1,000 protesters blocked police headquarters into the evening while others took over major streets as the tumult over the city's future showed no signs of abating.
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Raftsman sets off to cross the Suchiate River carrying migrants into Talisman, Mexico, June 21. Mexico's foreign minister says that the country finished deploying 6,000 National Guard troops to help control the number of migrants headed to the U.S.
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Sadhus or Hindu holy men perform yoga on International Yoga Day in Kevadia, in the western state of Gujarat in India, June 21
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Former White House communications director Hope Hicks appears for a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington June 19.
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Supporters of President Donald Trump wait in line hours before the arena doors open for a campaign rally June 18 in Orlando, Florida.
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People visit the immersive exhibition "Beyond Bruegel" created by CREATE.eu in Brussels June 19.
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Dancers waltz in front of Russian T-72 B3 tanks during a rehearsal for an exhibition event, part of the Army-2019 international military and technical forum, in the Rostov region of Russia June 20.
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Internally displaced Afghan girl plays near her shelter at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, June 20.
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Chris Smith makes his way through floodwaters to the Macedonia Baptist Church in Westville, New Jersey, June 20, Severe storms containing heavy rains and strong winds spurred flooding across southern New Jersey, disrupting travel and damaging some property.
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A Palestinian man washes his horse in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea as people swim on a hot day in the northern Gaza Strip June 18.
A Hong Kong protester wears a yellow raincoat June 17 to pay tribute to a man who died after falling off a scaffolding at the Pacific Place complex while protesting against the extradition bill.
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A raftsman poles his craft across the Suchiate River toward Guatemala, right, from Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, June 18. The number of migrants taking rafts across this busy point has decreased recently due to the deployment of the Mexican National Guard along the border.
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A child dressed in the traditional clothes of the Sorbs attends a holy mass during a Corpus Christi procession in Crostwitz, Germany, June 20. The catholic faithful Sorbs are acknowledged as a national minority near the German-Polish border with their own language.
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Ocean City High School graduates toss up their caps to conclude their graduation ceremony June 17.
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With object storage, all storage nodes, regardless of location, are managed as one single pool, with no file system hierarchy. When an object is stored, it gets a unique identifier: Then, when it is updated or changed, it is stored as a new object.
The architecture of an object storage platform is inherently fault tolerant, meaning that organizations can use commodity hardware and sustain dramatic amounts of hardware failure without experiencing data loss. For example, if a particular server or storage device goes down, it can have no impact on operations because the data it contains is already stored on multiple devices at different physical locations within the infrastructure.
This can eliminate the need to set up separate sites specifically for disaster recovery, which means less costs, less management, less maintenance and, importantly, far greater speed, accuracy and simplicity in recovery. In certain use cases, there is in fact no recovery—even if there is a failure, no applications ever go down and no user ever knows that there was a problem. In this white paper, we examine two types of use cases where object storage is changing the dynamics of disaster recovery.
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While these sorts of files may have an internal structure, they are still considered unstructured because the data they contain doesn’t fit neatly in a database. Experts estimate that 80 to 90 percent of the data in an organization is unstructured.
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In doing backup and recovery, you typically need a storage target. The best storage target is one that is going to be available across multiple locations or data centers. With an Object Storage solution, you are creating a single storage environment that is automatically replicated to multiple data centers. So when data is put into the object storage system, it ultimately exists in all of those locations. The benefit of this architecture is if one of the sites is inaccessible, you are still able to conduct backup and recovery operations from a another location(s).
Another consideration when thinking about Disaster Recovery is the fault-tolerance of the Object Storage solution. The solution should be able to sustain significant amounts of hardware failure without data loss. This translates into the ability to achieve significant cost savings through the use of commoditized hardware throughout the storage infrastructure as compared to a Do It Yourself solution.
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In addition to disaster recovery, Budd has been able to use the SwiftStack object storage to reduce the costs of virtual machine backups, while also simplifying management. Budd is using SwiftStack to capture and replicate virtual machine (VM) backups produced by Veeam Backup and Replication tools. These backups drive cost savings by eliminating the need to have alternate copies on different media other than the network-attached storage (NAS). In addition, because of SwiftStack’s replication among regional offices, there is no need to keep off-site backups of the VMs up to date and accessible.
Some organizations may build their mission critical applications around the Object Storage environment. In architectures such as these, the native Object Storage’s redundancy and fault tolerance ensures that a need for Disaster Recovery doesn’t occur. The applications data is stored in multiple locations and in the event of a nodes failure at one location, DNS will route users to an available location so users don’t experience any downtime or performance gaps in their applications.
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Definitions. In this DP Exhibit, the following definitions apply:
“Data Controller” “Data Processor” “Data Subjects” “Personal Data” and “Personal Data Breach” shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the GDPR.
“Data Protection Laws” means the provisions of applicable laws regulating the use and processing of data relating to persons, as may be defined in such provisions, including a) prior to 25 May 2018, the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, b) after 25 May 2018 the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) (“GDPR”), c) the Electronic Communications Data Protection Directive 2002/58/EC, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and d) all other applicable laws and regulations relating to processing of personal data.
“Services” means the CenturyLink Services to be provided to Customer under the Agreement and the applicable Services Exhibit(s).
Compliance with Data Protection Laws.
CenturyLink and Customer agree that, Customer is an independent Data Controller with respect to the processing of Personal Data which is necessary for the operation of the Services, and CenturyLink is an independent Data Controller with respect to the processing of billing, utilisation, usage patterns/counts/statistics, traffic data and other Customer account related information (e.g. name, address, email address)to the extent it is Personal Data, which is necessary for CenturyLink’s performance of its obligations under the Agreement and the applicable Services Exhibit(s), or with respect to any Personal Data held for general business purposes.
CenturyLink and Customer shall each comply at all times with its obligations under Data Protection Laws in respect of any Personal Data processed by it under the Agreement.
Data Processing.
CenturyLink acknowledges that it is a Data Processor on behalf of the Customer for the purposes of providing Services and performing its related obligations (including incident resolution, support or consultancy services). The subject matter, duration and nature of the processing, the types of Personal Data and applicable Data Subjects are described in the applicable Services Exhibit(s).
In so far as CenturyLink processes Personal Data on behalf of Customer as a Data Processor, CenturyLink will (and will procure that CenturyLink affiliates will):
Only process Personal Data in accordance with the Customer’s documented instructions, including as set out in the Agreement and this DP Exhibit and ensure that CenturyLink personnel process Personal Data only on such instructions of the Customer, unless processing is required by EU or member state law to which CenturyLink are subject, in which case CenturyLink shall, to the extent permitted by such law, inform Customer of that legal requirement before processing that Personal Data;
Restrict the disclosure and processing of Personal Data to the extent necessary to provide the Services, or as otherwise permitted under the Agreement and this DP Exhibit, or by Customer in writing, and only disclose Personal Data on a need to know basis in connection with the Services to those who have committed themselves to confidentiality, or as required by applicable law;
Taking into account the state of the art, costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, implement and maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, and against all other unlawful forms of processing and ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk presented by the processing;
Ensure that only those personnel who need to have access to Personal Data are granted access to it, and that such access is granted only for the proper provision of the Services; and
If and to the extent CenturyLink retains a copy of any Personal Data, not retain that Personal Data for longer than is necessary to perform the Services and at Customer’s option, securely destroy or return such Personal Data, except where required to retain the Personal Data by law or regulation. The parties agree that CenturyLink shall not actively process such Personal Data and shall be bound by the provisions of this DP Exhibit in respect of any such retained Personal Data. CenturyLink shall delete such data promptly after it ceases to be obliged to retain it and shall only process it to the extent required to comply with applicable laws.
Sub-Processing.
The Customer generally authorises CenturyLink to appoint sub-processors in accordance with any restrictions in this DP Exhibit and the Agreement.
Prior to disclosing any Personal Data to any sub-processor, CenturyLink shall ensure that it has undertaken appropriate due diligence in respect of such sub-processor, and shall ensure the sub-processor enters into a written agreement on terms which provide that the sub-processor has equivalent obligations to those set out in this DP Exhibit. CenturyLink shall remain fully liable to Customer for any breach of such obligations by the sub-processor.
CenturyLink shall maintain an up to date list of its sub-processors and shall inform Customer with details of any intended change in sub-processors at least 30 days prior to any such change. The Customer may object to CenturyLink's appointment or replacement of a sub-processor prior to its appointment or replacement, provided such objection is based on reasonable grounds relating to data protection. In such event, CenturyLink will either not appoint or replace the sub-processor or, if this is not possible, the Customer may terminate the applicable Service Exhibit (without prejudice to any fees incurred by the Customer prior to termination). CenturyLink shall not use such sub-processor until any such objections are resolved or the Customer has terminated the applicable Service Exhibit.
Co-operation.
CenturyLink shall, insofar as is possible, promptly notify Customer of any inquiry, complaint notice or other communication it receives from any supervisory authority, or from any Data Subject relating to the Services (including any requests to access, correct, delete, block or restrict access to their Personal Data or receive a machine-readable copy thereof) and, insofar as is possible and to the extent technically feasible, assist Customer with its obligation to respond to any notification or Data Subject rights request in accordance with the timescales set out in the Data Protection Laws.
If Customer reasonably believes that CenturyLink’s processing of Personal Data is likely to result in a high risk to the data protection rights and freedoms of Data Subjects, CenturyLink shall, on request from Customer, assist Customer in connection with any data protection impact assessment and prior consultation, which may be subject to additional fees and terms, that may be required under Data Protection Laws, taking into account the nature of the processing and the information available to CenturyLink.
Breach Reporting. CenturyLink shall notify Customer without undue delay on becoming aware of any Personal Data Breach involving Personal Data Processed on behalf of Customer using the Services, and thereafter co-operate with Customer and provide assistance as may be reasonably required by Customer in the investigation, remediation and mitigation of such breach. CenturyLink shall provide reasonable assistance to Customer in respect of any breach reporting obligations Customer may have, and provide such additional information relating to such breach as Customer may reasonably require. The parties will agree in advance and in writing on any material remediation responsibilities and costs that exceed CenturyLink’s standard incident response process.
Audits. CenturyLink will maintain all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with its obligations identified in this DP Exhibit and a written record of all processing of Personal Data on behalf of Customer and, upon reasonable request grant Customer and its auditors and agents a right of access to and to take copies of records relating to compliance and all processing of such Personal Data on behalf of Customer in order to assess whether CenturyLink has complied with its obligations in respect of the processing of Personal Data. Upon reasonable notice, CenturyLink shall allow Customer to, or where applicable, shall cooperate with Customer and CenturyLink’s third-party providers to arrange for access to premises and other materials and personnel and shall provide reasonable assistance in order to assist Customer in exercising its audit rights under this clause provided that: (i) such access shall occur at a mutually agreeable time and the scope of the visit will be mutually agreed upon; (ii) such access shall not unreasonably interfere with CenturyLink’s operations; and (iii) access to CenturyLink premises and systems shall be subject to CenturyLink’s reasonable access requirements and security policies, and shall not compromise any confidential information to which the Customer has no entitlement.
Transfers. CenturyLink shall not transfer any Personal Data outside the EEA except to the extent authorised by Customer as follows:
At the date of this DP Exhibit Customer authorises CenturyLink to transfer Personal Data to the United States for the specific purpose of providing Services and performing its obligations under the Agreement and applicable Services Exhibit. The parties agree to enter into the Standard Contractual Clauses (in the form adopted by decision 2010/87/EU of 5 February 2010) with CenturyLink affiliate(s) on Customer’s behalf and in Customer’s name in order to provide adequate protection for such Personal Data, with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 to such Clauses in the form appended hereto; and
If after the date of this DP Exhibit, CenturyLink (or any affiliate or any sub-contractor) proposes to transfer any Personal Data outside the EEA, other than as authorised above, CenturyLink (or any affiliate or any sub-contractor) shall obtain Customer’s consent prior to such transfer, which consent may be conditional upon the relevant parties having entered into an agreement what ensures that Personal Data is accurately protected as required by the Data Protection Laws.
Damages Cap. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY ELSEWHERE IN THE AGREEMENT, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR EACH PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS EXHIBIT WILL BE LIMITED TO THE LESSER OF (I) THE TOTAL MRCs AND USAGE CHARGES PAID OR PAYABLE BY CUSTOMER TO CENTURYLINK IN THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE OCCURRENCE OF THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (II) TWO MILLION DOLLARS. IN ADDITION, CENTURYLINK WILL NOT BE LIABLE HEREUNDER TO THE EXTENT ANY LIABILITY IS CAUSED BY OR CONTRIBUTED TO BY ANY PARTY OTHER THAN CENTURYLINK OR ITS SUBPROCESSORS.
Future Amendments. The parties may amend this DP Exhibit at any time during the term of the Agreement by written agreement if necessary to comply with any legal requirement or guidance from a supervisory authority, or if required to take account of any changes to the processing of Personal Data pursuant to the Agreement and applicable Services Exhibit(s).
Standard Contractual Clauses
This Appendix forms part of the Clauses and must be completed by the Parties.
Data Exporter: The Data Exporter is Customer, a business customer of the Data Importer that is domiciled in the United States and that processes personal data in the ordinary course of its business, and that desires to obtain processing services, as authorized by its Affiliates in the EEA and their respective branches who are controllers based in the EEA.
Data Importer: The Data Importer is CenturyLink Communications, a company that is engaged in the provision of communications services, and that provides data processing services to the Data Exporter.
Data subjects: The personal data transferred concerns the current, former, and prospective employees, users, customers and similar parties engaged with the Data Exporter.
Categories of data: The personal data transferred may include, but is not limited to, name, address, email, phone number and such other personal data that may be transferred from the data controller to the data processor for processing services.
Special categories of data: The personal data transferred may concern special categories of data.
Processor operations: The Data Importer will, through authorized personnel, perform the following processing services: cloud hosting and communications services as may be individually ordered by Data Exporter and as more fully described in service orders, service exhibits and similar contractual documentation.
CenturyLink has implemented the data security measures described in this Appendix and shall maintain them, or an equally secure equivalent, during the applicable term of the Services. These measures generally apply to CenturyLink’s standard services and certain measures may not apply or may be applied differently to customized services, configurations, or environments ordered or as deployed by Customer. These measures have been implemented by CenturyLink to protect, directly or indirectly, the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Customer Data. As used in this Appendix, “Customer Data” means any data, content or information of Customer or its end users that is stored, transmitted, or otherwise processed using the CenturyLink Services.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAW, AUDIT REPORT. CenturyLink has adopted and implemented a corporate information security program as described below, which program is subject to reasonable changes by CenturyLink from time to time. CenturyLink has completed an AICPA sanctioned Type II audit report (SSAE18/ISAE3402 SOC 1 or SOC 2) for certain facilities/services and will continue to conduct such audits pursuant to a currently sanctioned or successor standard. Customer will be entitled to receive a copy of the then-available report upon request, which report is CenturyLink Confidential Information. Customer may make such report available to its end users subject to confidentiality terms provided by CenturyLink. Customer will ensure that all Customer Data complies with all applicable laws and appropriate information security practices, and nothing herein shall relieve Customer from its responsibility to select and implement such practices.
INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM. CenturyLink has implemented an information security program (the “Program”) that includes reasonable measures designed to: (1) secure the confidentiality and integrity of Customer Data; (2) to the extent related to the Services and CenturyLink infrastructure, protect against foreseeable threats to the security or integrity of Customer Data; (3) protect against unauthorized access to, disclosure of or unauthorized use of Customer Data; and (4) provide that CenturyLink employees are aware of the need to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and security of Customer Data. CenturyLink will limit access to Customer Data to only those employees, agents, contractors or service providers of CenturyLink who need the information to carry out the purposes for which Customer Data was disclosed to CenturyLink.
The CenturyLink Program is modelled on the ISO27001:2013-based Information Security Management System (“ISMS”), which establishes the guidelines and general principles used for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving protections for CenturyLink information and Customer Data. The CenturyLink Program, in alignment with the ISMS, is designed to select adequate and proportionate security controls to protect information and provides general guidance on the commonly accepted goals of information security management and standard practices for controls in the following areas of information security management:
Organization of information security
Human resources security
Information systems acquisition, development, and maintenance
Information security incident management
CenturyLink has also implemented a formal information security policy and supporting methods and procedures, technical standards, and processes to reinforce the importance of information security throughout the organization (“Information Security Policy”). The Information Security Policy is in alignment with ISO 27002:2013 and is approved by the Chief Information Security Officer. The Information Security Policy outlines the requirements to maintain reasonable security for the Services. Employees and contractors with access to corporate information and Customer Data are required to complete annual security training based on the Information Security Policy. The Information Security Policy includes the following:
Physical Security Policy for data centers and Office Locations
Electronic Use Policy including:
Email Usage
Anti-Virus control
Remote and Home Working
Computer Security Incident Response Plan
Third Party Connections Agreements
Third Party Access
Wireless Scanning
SPECIFIC SECURITY CONTROLS. CenturyLink’s security controls include:
Logical access controls to manage access to Customer Data on a least privilege and need-to-know basis, including through the use of defined authority levels and job functions, unique IDs and passwords, strong (i.e. two-factor) authentication for remote access systems (and elsewhere as appropriate), and promptly revoking or changing access in response to terminations or changes in job functions.
Password controls to manage and control password complexity and expiration. Any password controlling access to the CenturyLink infrastructure must be of a minimum length and complexity.
Operational procedures and controls to provide that technology and information systems are configured and maintained according to prescribed internal standards.
Network security controls, including the use of firewalls, layered DMZs, and updated intrusion detection/prevention systems to help protect systems from intrusion and/or limit the scope or success of any attack or attempt at unauthorized access.
Vulnerability management procedures and technologies to identify, assess, mitigate and protect against new and existing security vulnerabilities and threats, including viruses, bots, and other malicious code.
Approved anti-malware software is installed on CenturyLink equipment capable of running it where the risk of infection is high. It is configured to prevent users disabling the software where possible or altering its configuration without authorization. Periodic evaluations are performed to confirm whether systems continue to require (or not) antivirus software.
Change management procedures outlining that modifications to CenturyLink technology and information assets are tested, approved, recorded, and monitored.
Organizational management designed to ensure the proper development and maintenance of information security and technology policies, procedures and standards.
Dedicated organizations with global responsibility for all physical security operations, security systems, access administration, and security controls within all CenturyLink-owned facilities and data centers. Third-party data centers are utilized for certain services and, in such cases, certain physical security and other controls are reviewed by CenturyLink.
Security policies which reinforce the importance of physical security of all company facilities including procedures specific to data center physical security. Data center security personnel are responsible for controlling data center access, monitoring local security alarms and managing all reported physical security-related events.
CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) commonly deployed as a physical security control in high value facilities to deter, detect and identify intruders. The Corporate Security Operations Center (CSOC) provides global, 24/7 support with remote monitoring, management, administration and maintenance of the CCTV video surveillance systems used throughout CenturyLink.
The Central Access Control Center (CACC) supports the distribution of all CenturyLink access badges and administration of access permissions within the access control system.
Disposal procedures for different types and classifications of information which are documented and communicated to personnel. Employees have access to secure shredders for hardcopy. Electronic media are disposed of through certified disposal vendors.
Pre-employment screening and background checks are conducted on incoming personnel in accordance with CenturyLink human resource on-boarding practices and applicable local law. The checks are dependent on, amongst other things: the role, location, any custom requirements, and can include: identity, drug, criminal, academic and credit checks.
Annual security awareness training for CenturyLink employees and contractors working on CenturyLink premises. The training reflects current threats and encourages basic security good practice, access to and knowledge of Information Security Policy and procedures such as how to report an incident. Employees in particular positions receive supplementary security training and if a training or testing issue arises (e.g., internal phishing exercises), further guidance is provided. CenturyLink conducts a continuous program of phishing tests on staff to reinforce the requirement for awareness and good email and browsing habits and to assess the effectiveness of security awareness training. The company intranet and email system are used to disseminate flash announcements on security matters as appropriate.
SECURITY AUDITS. Customer may, no more than once per year and at its own expense, audit CenturyLink’s performance with respect to its security obligations under this Appendix (“Audit”). In the event Customer retains a third party to perform an Audit, CenturyLink may require additional documentation be executed by the third party auditor prior to granting access to a CenturyLink facility where Services are provided, and CenturyLink may, at its sole and reasonable discretion, decline to allow a third party access to a data center. CenturyLink shall reasonably cooperate with Customer in its performance of the Audit and shall make available to Customer or its auditors documents and records reasonably required to complete the Audit. CenturyLink shall provide Customer with reasonable access to the relevant facility for the purpose of inspection of the equipment and facilities which are used to provide the Services to Customer. For purposes of clarification, access will not be granted to certain areas of certain facilities (such as data centers) to which CenturyLink does not generally allow access to its customers (e.g. areas which house equipment used to support services for multiple customers). Audit access is subject to CenturyLink’s reasonable security requirements for its most sensitive security policies/materials. Audit access must be within CenturyLink’s normal business hours and must be scheduled at least ten (10) business days in advance, and Customer or its auditor shall be escorted by CenturyLink personnel during the period of access. The Audit and any findings related thereto shall be treated as Confidential Information.
SECURITY INCIDENTS AND RESPONSE.In the event CenturyLink determines that a Security Incident has impacted Customer Data, CenturyLink shall promptly take the following actions:
Notify Customer of such Security Incident and provide periodic updates as appropriate given the nature of the Security Incident and as information becomes available;
Take reasonable steps to remediate and mitigate the Security Incident, to the extent such steps are technically feasible and appropriate in the circumstances;
Conduct a preliminary investigation into the Security Incident to determine, to the extent reasonably feasible, its root cause; and
Reasonably cooperate with Customer in its efforts to remediate or mitigate the Security Incident and its efforts to comply with applicable law and legal authorities, as necessary.
For purposes hereof, “Security Incident” means any unlawful or unauthorized access, theft, or use of Customer Data while being stored, transmitted or otherwise processed using CenturyLink services.
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Boulder’s Refill Revolution utilizes Zero Waste…
Boulder’s Refill Revolution utilizes Zero Waste Program to upcycle refuse
Jeremy Papasso / Staff Photographer
A worker sorts recyclables at the Boulder County Recycling Center in Boulder. Refill Revolution has made it easier to recycle by placing Zero Waste Boxes at her Boulder store.
By Kelsey Hammon |
PUBLISHED: July 11, 2019 at 7:03 pm | UPDATED: July 11, 2019 at 7:04 pm
Thanks to a Boulder and New Jersey business partnership, one man’s trash can be another man’s park bench or bike rack.
Brittney LaGesse, the owner of Refill Revolution, has sought to offer customers an alternative to tossing hard-to-recycle items, such as toothbrushes and makeup containers, by participating in Zero Waste Box program. The boxes are created by New Jersey-based TerraCycle, a waste management company that breaks down the refuse materials to be used to create new products.
TerraCycle offers recycling boxes across a variety of categories, such as plastic grocery bags; fabrics and clothing; coffee capsules; books and magazines or an all-in-one box.
LaGesse has offered four Zero Waste Boxes in her store since 2017. Due to the response, LaGesse said she recently added two more, bringing the total to six.
“(I added them) just because I have seen the interest and demand as the time has gone on,” LaGesse said. “I just added the razor and blade box. Some customers were asking where they could properly dispose of them.”
Once returned to TerraCycle, the refuse is sorted and upcycled to create things like park benches, bike racks, shipping pallets and recycling bins, according to Alex Payne, a publicist for TerraCycle. The recycling company created the Zero Waste Box program in an effort to provide solutions for waste that cannot be recycled through national recycling programs or standard municipal recycling, according to a news release.
LaGesse and several local businesses have sponsored the boxes. Each box comes with a prepaid shipping label. LaGesse encouraged people to visit her store at 3350 Arapahoe Ave., to drop off various hard-to-recycle items. Some examples of things that can be dropped off include deodorant tubes, sunscreen bottles, toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes, pet toys, collars and leashes, bottle caps and lids. Additionally, Refill Revolution is taking part in TerraCycle’s Late July Snacks Recycling Program. People can drop off their empty Late July-brand packaging, which encases a variety of snack products, like chips and crackers.
Participating in the Zero Waste Program is just one way LaGesse seeks to offer people environmentally-friendly solutions to everyday products. Refill Revolution specializes in selling household, bath and bulk products in reusable or refillable containers. With the Zero Waste Boxes in her store, LaGesse said she believes it can help to indicate to shoppers that a small step to help their planet can go a long way.
LaGesse is seeking sponsorships for more boxes. Cost depends on the size of the box. To learn more about sponsorships, call 715-933-0858.
Items can be dropped in the Zero Waste Boxes during business hours — 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. For more information on Refill Revolution, visit therefillrevolution.com. Information on TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Program can be found at terracycle-us.myshopify.com.
Kelsey Hammon
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Thursday's regional sports roundup: Hampden-Sydney hands No. 3 CNU its first baseball loss after nine wins; Admirals acquire two in deal with Stingrays
Staff, wire reports
COLLEGES:
Baseball:
Visiting Hampden-Sydney (5-4-1) ended Christopher Newport's season-opening winning streak at nine, beating the Division III third-ranked Captains 9-5. CNU cut a 6-0 lead to 6-5 with a five-run fourth, but the Tigers again pulled away in the ninth with Andrew Kasis' RBI single and Matthew Spagnolo's two-run homer.
Spagnolo had four RBI, while Andrew Kasiski was 4 for 5 with two runs and two RBI. For the Captains, Nick DiNapoli was 3 for 4 with a run and Ryan Grubbs was 2 for 2 with a run and two RBI.
Softball:
CNU (7-1), ranked 13th in D-III, won 13-4 and then 3-0 at winless Meredith in Raleigh, N.C. In Game 1, Grace Wild and Patty Maye Ohanian each had three hits and two RBI. Wild scored three runs, Ohanian two. Kaitlyn Hasty added two hits and RBI, while Natalie Carmichael had two hits and three RBI. Tara Deck and Bailey Roberts each had two hits and scored twice.
In Game 2, Aubrey Bates pitched six innings of two-hit ball and Trish Webb worked the seventh for a save. Ohanian belted a two-run homer to left-center in the first, and Roberts slugged a solo homer to center in the fourth.
Men’s tennis:
CNU (3-4), ranked 34th in Division III, beat Chapman 6-3 to improve to 2-1 on the Captains’ spring-break trip to California. Ryan Macy and Nick Ruzicka won in singles and doubles for CNU.
Women’s tennis:
.Bethune-Cookman to Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference rival 4-0 in Orlando, Fla., a day after the Spartans also lost Norfolk State 4-0beat South Dakota
PRO HOCKEY:
The Norfolk Admirals acquired forwards Christian Horn and Shane Eiserman from the South Carolina Stingrays in exchange for defenseman Chase Harrison.
Horn had 14 goals and 16 assists in 44 games with the Admirals last season and had seven goals and 13 assists for the Stingrays this season. Eiserman had seven goals and 10 assists this season with the Stingrays.
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
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Prices can rise for your Ermioni - Hydra trip as departure time approaches
Crossings from 20 minutes
Ermioni to Hydra Ferry Alternatives
Porto Heli to Hydra
For more information, please visit our Ferries from Greece to Saronic Islands page.
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Ermioni to Hydra Ferry
The Ermioni Hydra ferry route connects Greece with Saronic Islands. Currently there is just the 1 ferry company operating this ferry service, Hellenic Seaways. The crossing operates up to 21 times each week with sailing durations from around 20 minutes.
Ermioni Hydra sailing durations and frequency may vary from season to season so we’d advise doing a live check to get the most up to date information.
Ermioni - Hydra Ferry Operators
3 Sailings Daily 20 min
Ermioni Hydra Average Prices
Prices shown represent the average one way price paid by our customers on this route. Prices shown are per person.
Ermioni Guide
Located in the Peloponnese region of Greece, Ermioni is a popular tourist resort and small port town which lies to the south east of Argolis. The port is situated on the Aegean Sea coast and faces the islands of Hydra and Dorkos. Rising up on a hillside, the old town has amazing views to nearby islands and a fertile plain rich in pomegranates, citrus fruits and olive groves. Below the old town, the northern bay forms a natural harbour for the busy little port where you can observe fishermen clean their nets and also find some small shops and cafes. If you are looking for a good selection of restaurants, Mandraki lies to the south of Ermioni and has a number of quayside restaurants, bars and traditional tavernas where you can see their octopuses hanging outside to dry in the sun.
The town and its surrounding area can trace its origins back to at least the times of Homer. During the classic era it was well known for its shipbuilders and also for the production of porphyra, a very important red dye which was used for the colouring of the uniforms of many armies including that of Alexander the Great.
Ermioni is connected to Piraeus by ferry.
Hydra Guide
Hydra is a Greek island that lies in the Saronic Gulf and is a popular destination for visiting Athenians for the weekend due to its proximity to the Greek capital. The island's main town, also called Hydra, is built on the slopes of a hill around the port and is an impressive site. Quite unique to Hydra is that all cars and other motor vehicles are prohibited throughout the island and therefore all journeys must be made on foot, by boat or by donkey. The island's beaches, which a very popular with visitors, are mainly small coves and have crystal clear waters and tend to be surrounded by green vegetation. Perhaps the best and prettiest beaches on the island are Agios Nikolaos, Bitsi, Vlichos and Kaminia.
ferry services using the island's port depart to Piraeus with a journey time of 1 hour by high speed ferry and 3 to 3 hours and 3 minutes by conventional ferry. Hydra is also connected to the other islands in the Saronic Gulf and also with Porto Cheli.
Location: Hydra, Ermioni to Hydra Ferry
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7775 North Friant Road, Fresno, California 93720
Rebelution Good Vibes Summer Tour
Rebelution was formed in the college town of Isla Vista, California, in 2004. The five original band members were Eric Rachmany, Matt Velasquez, Rory Carey, Marley D. Williams, and Wesley Finley, who were all University of California, Santa Barbara students.
Throughout 2004-2005, Rebelution began to build momentum through consistently playing local shows and by independently releasing an EP Rebelution released their first full-length album Courage to Grow in June 2007, which would become the breakthrough album for the band.
The album was praised for its crafty melodies, socially conscious lyrics, and savvy musicianship.
Fees & Tickets
@Rotary Amphitheater
HoPPK Pub Quiz!
HoPPK Pub Quiz: Downtown Fresno Start studying! Pub Quiz is going down every third Thursday of each month from 6pm-9pm. Come get your trivia on with us! We look forward to racking your brain over great beer, great food, and great friends!
20th Anniversary Tribute
Spongebob 20th Anniversary Tribute Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? July 19th we will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants with a party. We will have a number of food trucks on site participating in our Krabby Patty Showdown and you will get to vote who made the best one. We will have games for the whole family and we will even have a spot where you can take pictures as if you were in Bikini Bottom. Keep on the look out for more details and sneak peaks about some of the specials for this awesome occasion.
Downtown Fresno
vs Portland Timbers 2
Portland Timbers 2 at Fresno FC Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
The “Great Peach Palooza” at River Park The “Great Peach Palooza” is a celebration of the PERFECTLY DELICIOUS, world-famous peaches grown right here in Central California. Our guest artisan food vendors will feature an enormous variety of special peach creations, from scrumptious Peach Cobblers, Peach Salsas and Preserves to dozens of Peach Inspired dishes from around the globe! Do you think you make the BEST PEACH PIE OR COBBLER? If so, this is the place and time to show it off! Home bakers are invited to enter the Great Peach Palooza Baking Competition for a chance to win a $100 grand prize! Simply email Peter@cffma.com expressing and interest in competing and we’ll fill you in on the contest. Judges will include local baking experts, food writers and local celebrity chefs. FREE PEACHES!! The first 100 people to the PEACH PALOOZA will receive a free fresh peach, courtesy of the River Park Farmers Market. This is event is VERY FAMILY FRIENDLY and will be packed with delicious fun for everyone!! FREE fun for the kids. FREE concert courtesy of the River Park Shopping Center. (EXTENDED HOURS) 4pm to 10pm at the Shops at River Park in Fresno.
vs Sacramento River Cats
Sacramento River Cats at Fresno Grizzlies Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park. The park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Chukchansi Park has been home of the Fresno Grizzlies since 2002. The Fresno Grizzlies baseball program is an affiliate of the Washington Nationals and member of the 16-team Pacific Coast League. The Grizzlies have enjoyed several periods of success in their history, in 2015 the Grizzlies won their first Pacific Coast League and Triple-A National Championships in franchise history.
vs Reno Aces
Reno Aces at Fresno Grizzlies Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park. The park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Chukchansi Park has been home of the Fresno Grizzlies since 2002. The Fresno Grizzlies baseball program is an affiliate of the Washington Nationals and member of the 16-team Pacific Coast League. The Grizzlies have enjoyed several periods of success in their history, in 2015 the Grizzlies won their first Pacific Coast League and Triple-A National Championships in franchise history.
Dokken Live
Dokken Live: Performance at Tower Theatre Dokken exploded out of the boiling hard rock/heavy metal scene in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. 1983’s “Breaking the Chains” with its catchy title track, set the stage for Dokken becoming the most dominant creative and commercial force in the world of Melodic Hard Rock for the following years. Such classic albums as “Tooth and Nail”, “Under Lock and Key” and “Back for the Attack” all became Multi-Platinum selling smashes and the live “Beast from the East” went gold in Europe and Japan. Songs like “Alone Again”, “Just Got Lucky”, “Into the Fire”, “In My Dreams”, “Unchain the Night”, “Dream Warriors”, “Burning like a Flame” and “Heaven Sent” are still nowadays regarded among the genre’s finest. DOKKEN is now Don Dokken (vocals), Mick Brown (drums), Jon Levin (guitar) and Chris McCarvill (bass They say a cat has nine lives and it seems Dokken is enjoying more than a few as well!
Fresno City College National Dance Day 2019 Enjoy a National Dance Day at Fresno City College! Master classes start at 8am and continue until 4pm. Registration opens at 7am. There will be classes offered in Hip Hop, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap, Afro Reggae, Hmong, Folkloric, Flamenco, Ballet, Modern, Contact improv, Choreography, Break dance, salsa/bachata, and much more! Entertainment during our lunch break, prizes, scholarships and a adjudicated performance showcase to wrap up the day from 6pm-8pm! Class for all ages and all levels! Try new styles!! Enjoy a day celebrating dance education with the Fresno City College Dance department. All registration fees goes towards the Fresno City College Dance foundation. COST: Individual Participate:$10.00 includes all master classes and performance showcase ( all participants must sign FCC waivers to participate) Group Rate: $5.00 (with added eventbrite fees) includes all master classes and performance showcase – must be 10 or more total people in group ( all participants must sign FCC waivers to participate) WHERE TO GET WAIVERS and photo release forms? email cristal.tiscareno@fresnocitycollege.edu for more information. REGISTRATION opens at 7AM National Dance Day registration for event will be at the free speech area on FCC campus. Participants will show proof of […]
Superhero Breakfast Do your kids like Superheros? Bring them to Storyland before the park opens to the public for a Breakfast with the Characters! Space is limited so grab your tickets now by clicking the ticket link. Children and adults are encouraged to wear Superhero costumes or tee shirts, or capes! Make a lifetime of memories for your little ones. There will be FREE face painting, a sing-a-long in the amphitheater, and FREE photo opportunities with all of your favorite Superheros’. Take advantage of early admission to the park to enjoy the serenity of the beautiful surroundings. A hot breakfast will be served in the Mother Goose area. The show will be in the amphitheater.
Meet and Greet Poker Run Meet and Greet Poker Run, the run will start at Clawson Motorsports in Fresno. Registration starts at 9AM and Kick Stands Up at 10:30AM. The event is open to everyone; bikes. cars, trucks, and ect. We will make a few stops and end up at Jackson’s Roadhouse. Night heat will be rocking the house from 2PM to 5PM. Seriously Smokin’ BBQ will be there to serve hamburgers, tacos and huge hot dogs for lunch and you can buy a meal even if not on the run. Must be over 21 since it is at a bar.
Shaver Lake BrewFest 2019 The Shaver Lake BrewFest is back and better than ever! Whether you’re a beer connoisseur or just interested in a tan and some fun in the sun, this is the place to be. Bring a chair and enjoy: Live Music, Certified Beer Judges, Brewing Demonstration, Horseshoe Tournament, Pony Keg Toss, Food, and more! Taste beers from: Donaghy Sales, Lagunitas, 559 Beer, Valley Wide Beverage, Firestone, Zacks Brewing, Tioga Sequoia, Riley’s, 411 Broadway, Sierra Nevada, Fortiter Brewing, 3 Monkey Brewing, Full Circle Brewing, Worthogs Homebrew Club,Pine & Palm, Mad Duck, Pinne & Palm, Kaweah Brewing, and more!
Doctors at the Tower Theatre California Opera’s 20 annual summer opera festival continues the tradition of Doctors at the Tower concert to benefit St. Agnes Medical Center. Made possible by the support and outstanding performance of Fresno’s own Dr. Harvey Edmonds, Dr. Marshall Flam, and Dr. Don Gaede, joined by California Opera Festival artists in an evening of selections from Broadway to Bizet.
Amy Winehouse Tribute Band
Amy Winehouse Tribute Band at Lucy’s Lounge Fresno‘s own Back To Black: Amy Winehouse Tribute Band makes their long-awaited return to Lucy’s Lounge on Saturday, July 27th, to honor the 8th anniversary of the late singer’s untimely passing. No cover, 21+
Combate Americas: Save Mart Center Combate Americas returns to Fresno, the world’s premier Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise, is bringing back the excitement! August 2nd at the Save Mart Center! Combate Americas will also be working with the local community on special projects that will be announced at the news conference.
Campus Pointe Fresno
Cirque du Bizarre: A Circus Freak Art Bar
Cirque du Bizarre: A Circus Freak Art Bar The circus is in town! We bring you Cirque du Bizarre: A Circus Freak Art Bar. Come check out the bizarre world that only the circus can bring you in this 2 night only event! Each night also holds a Freak Show at 10PM for your awe and wonder. Enjoy themed drinks in a strange and unusual atmosphere. Check out circus freak art by local artists. See a piece of art you like? Artists will be selling their decor pieces! Open exclusively for 2 nights! August 2-3, opening at 8PM each night. $5 cover. Costumes and themed attire encouraged but not required.
Ice Cream Zoofari Fundraiser Ice Cream Zoofari, beat the heat in this annual all-you-can-eat ice cream fundraiser! Enjoy unlimited ice cream, sherbets, frozen yogurt and sundaes with zoo-centric names such as Rocky Toad, Mint Monkeys ‘n Cream, and Cockatoo Cookie Dough. Guests will satisfy their sweet cravings while strolling through the Zoo, getting the latest scoop on their favorite animals and enjoying kid-friendly entertainment! Ice Cream Zoofari is sponsored by Producers Dairy Foods. Please note, ice cream may contain nuts, gluten or eggs. All ice cream options contain dairy and sugar. Please use precaution if you or your child has an allergy to any of the above. Go green with us, each guest will receive a color-changing ice cream spoon. When it gets cold, it turns a new color! Please hang on to your special spoons throughout the evening and re-use them for each ice cream flavor. It’s fun to use and will help us reduce waste!
Carmen: Live performance at Tower Theatre California Opera’s 20 annual summer opera festival finale features Carmen, the wild Spanish gypsy, who is unscrupulous in matters of the law and of the heart. Set in the 1830s in Seville, Spain, Carmen seduces Don José who is arrested for breach of duty. A month later, a famous bullfighter, Escamillo, flirts with Carmen, who rebuffs him because she is waiting for José to be released from jail. When José arrives, Carmen rewards him, but in defense of her, attacks a superior officer and has no choice but to run away with Carmen to the mountains. Carmen grows bored with José and advises him to go home to his mother, then Escamillo invites everyone to his next bullfight. Carmen is on Escamillo’s arm, as José is outside the arena. José begs Carmen to come away with him, but she refuses, saying that she was born free and will die free. In a jealous rage, José takes matters into his own hands while the crowd inside the arena cheers Escamillo to victory.
vs Las Vegas Lights FC
Las Vegas Lights FC at Fresno FC Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
Clifford’s Dog Days of Summer Enjoy a special story-time and meet Clifford the Big Red Dog. Sign up for this FREE event in advance. Visit valleypbs.org/dogdays
vs Nashville Sounds
Nashville Sounds at Fresno Grizzlies Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park. The park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Chukchansi Park has been home of the Fresno Grizzlies since 2002. The Fresno Grizzlies baseball program is an affiliate of the Washington Nationals and member of the 16-team Pacific Coast League. The Grizzlies have enjoyed several periods of success in their history, in 2015 the Grizzlies won their first Pacific Coast League and Triple-A National Championships in franchise history.
vs Memphis Redbirds
Memphis Redbirds at Fresno Grizzlies Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park. The park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Chukchansi Park has been home of the Fresno Grizzlies since 2002. The Fresno Grizzlies baseball program is an affiliate of the Washington Nationals and member of the 16-team Pacific Coast League. The Grizzlies have enjoyed several periods of success in their history, in 2015 the Grizzlies won their first Pacific Coast League and Triple-A National Championships in franchise history.
Niki J. Crawford: Inside the Tower Theatre Lounge Niki J Crawford and her band bring the heat with a high energy soul get down. Niki and the band members have shared the stage and have played with Carlos Santana, Snoop Dogg, Al Green, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Aaron Neville, Macy Gray, Booker T Jones, The Roots, Chicano Batman, Galactic and Orgone just to name a few. She has performed on various late-night TV shows such as Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, and Saturday Night Live and lit up festival stages across the world like Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, Cal WorldFest, Utah Arts, Montreal Jazz, Summer Camp, Bear Creek, Long Beach Jazz Fest, All Good, High Sierra and Jam Cruise. A multi-talented artist, Niki J. Crawford not only sings but is also a talented and growing actress. She just finished shooting an upcoming film “Revival” based on the gospel of John and “Mr. Sophistication,” in which she plays herself-a popstar alongside Tatum O’ Neal, Harry Lennix and Rick Fox.
vs Real Monarchs SLC
Real Monarchs SLC at Fresno FC Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
Taco Truck Throwdown 9 The greatest taco event in the world is back, so mark your calendar. Taco Truck Throwdown 9 is happening Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019 at Chukchansi Park in Downtown Fresno. If you’ve been to Taco Truck Throwdown in the past, you know it’s the summer’s must-attend event in Central California aka the Taco Capital. Thousands of people from throughout the state descend upon Fresno for the most delicious taco party ever imagined, including: • Dozens of the best taco trucks from Fresno and the surrounding areas • The World Taco-Eating Championships • Entertainment and live music all day long • Please note: There’s no baseball game this year, just one amazing taco party with thousands of your best friends. We’ve got plenty of updates to come, so click “interested” on this event page so you don’t miss anything about Taco Truck Throwdown 9. Ticket details and lineup to come soon.
Luke Bryan: Sunset Repeat Tour
Luke Bryan: Sunset Repeat Tour Luke Bryan has announced his 2019 touring plans: The Sunset Repeat Tour will have him playing across the United States, and will also feature Cole Swindell and Jon Langston. Following a variety of high-profile appearances including Rodeo Houston, Country Thunder and Stagecoach, Bryan will embark on his own trek starting May 31 in Philadelphia. He didn’t get too granular with his initial details, merely giving a cheerful announcement on social media that the tour was set and ready to go. In between tour dates, Bryan will make a stop in Grand Junction, Colo., to headline the 2019 Country Jam. He’ll also host a two-night tour party at Alabama’s the Wharf Amphitheater in July. Bryan’s tour name comes from a line in his hit song “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset.” His last album was 2017’s What Makes You Country.
The Fresno Greek Fest This year’s Greek Festival is pulling out all the stops to make this wonderful community event a big hit for its 58th year. The St. George Greek Orthodox Church presents the 58th Annual Fresno Greek Festival! The event will be held on the grounds of the beautiful St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 2219 N. Orchard in Fresno (SW corner of First & Clinton) on August 23, 24 & 25 – 2019. An event beloved by the community, this year’s Greek Fest will be bigger and better; expecting over 30,000 attendees and offering 3 days of fun, food and entertainment. There will be over 30 Greek Themed vendors and exciting new additions to the Festival: • Cooking demonstrations • Expanded kids’ play area with water slides • Youth Olympics • Art tours with noted art experts • Convenient handicap parking • Shuttle service • Greek wine tasting Entertainment will be provided by the popular Greek band, The Olympians, from Long Beach, along with Greek dancing demonstrations. In addition, direct from Greece, we have the HoHLaX trio playing authentic acoustic and bouzouki music on the patio. New Greek backdrops and people dressed in traditional costumes will add flavor for a true […]
Legends Of The Bay
Legends of the Bay Join Full Circle Brewing located in Downtown Fresno for a performance by some of the bay Aaea’s legends including artists, Luniz, Spice 1, Dru Down & RBL Posse. The Bay takes over Downtown Fresno on August 24th.
Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC
Colorado Switchbacks FC at Fresno FC Qill take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
vs Tacoma Rainiers
Tacoma Rainiers at Fresno Grizzlies Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park. The park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Chukchansi Park has been home of the Fresno Grizzlies since 2002. The Fresno Grizzlies baseball program is an affiliate of the Washington Nationals and member of the 16-team Pacific Coast League. The Grizzlies have enjoyed several periods of success in their history, in 2015 the Grizzlies won their first Pacific Coast League and Triple-A National Championships in franchise history.
vs Albuquerque Isotopes
Albuquerque Isotopes at Fresno Grizzlies Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park. The park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Chukchansi Park has been home of the Fresno Grizzlies since 2002. The Fresno Grizzlies baseball program is an affiliate of the Washington Nationals and member of the 16-team Pacific Coast League. The Grizzlies have enjoyed several periods of success in their history, in 2015 the Grizzlies won their first Pacific Coast League and Triple-A National Championships in franchise history.
Line of Duty Motorcycle Run All the proceeds of the Line of Duty Motorcycle Run will go to the families of injured officers Toamalama Scanlon and Juanita Davila; who got shot in the line of duty. Check ins will be at 8AM-10AM at Clawson Motorsports located in Fresno. Included is pancake breakfast before the run at Clawson Motorsports and free lunch at the end of the run at Jackson Road House.
The Diamond 10K
The Diamond 10K Run a 10K, earn Diamond Jewelry! Don’t miss out on the Run Party of the year, The Diamond 10K! Run or walk with us in Fresno, CA or participate anywhere by registering for our virtual race! Each participant receives an official race bib, a shirt, and a Genuine Diamond Necklace! After the race, the run party continues at the finish line; Old Town Yoga will be there to help you stretch and recover! Ampersand Ice Cream will be their with there yummy handmade ice cream! Tamari Robatayaki and Whiskey bar will be there with a mimosa and champagne bar! Flora Flower Cart will be there making custom flower bouquets! Take photos in our photo booth, meet local ultra runners, and earn a limited edition diamond necklace as your finisher’s medal!
Rods on the Bluff
Rods on the Bluff The Central Valley’s hottest hot rod tradition is back for 2019, with a few new twists! Hot Rod Coalition is proud to present “Rods on the Bluff” at the Park Place Shopping Center at Palm and Nees. The biggest change this season is that we’re moving from the first Friday of each month to the first SATURDAY of each month April – October (excluding July & August). We’ll also be honoring different hot rod community icons each month. You won’t want to miss! This picturesque venue offers beautiful sunsets, cool breezes on triple-digit days, an inviting park, maturing shade trees, first-class dining, shopping, and much more. “Rods on the Bluff” brings out more than 3,500 people, 30+ vendors, and 500+ of the Valley’s best hot rods and customs. Bring the friends & family out for these memory-making evenings!
Fresno Whiskey Festival
Fresno Whiskey Festival The 4th Annual North Fresno Whiskey Festival is brought to you by The Standard Restaurant & Lounge. Features include fine single malt, blended Scotch and American Whiskies including Bourbon and Rye. This tasting event allows guests to sample over 60 whiskies and interact with industry professionals. A vast array of cigars will be available for purchase and provided by Cigars Ltd. Ticket Includes: Souvenir Tasting Glass Souvenir T-Shirt Complimentary hors d’vours from 4pm-6pm Live Music For those of you looking for a more robust experience purchase the VIP ticket and enjoy private tastings that are NOT available to general admission ticket holders that starts at 3pm.
A Taste of River Park
A Taste of River Park 2019 – The 10th annual event consists of Food, Fashion, and Fun! Food Sampling from River Park’s finest restaurants. Wine Tasting from the Central Valley’s most prestigious wineries. Quady Winery, LoMac Winery, Engelmann Cellars, Fresno State Winery, Yribarren Family Vineyards, Farmer’s Fury Winery, Maréchal Vineyards, San Joaquin Winery Fashion Show, showcasing the fall fashion trends at River Park’s retailers. Live Music from 3 local bands. Live Dance Performance by Jazzy-D Dance Studio! Located throughout the event will also be two bars, various vendors, wine sampling, and of course food tasting! Guests will receive one taste from each winery and restaurant. The beneficiary for this years event is the American Red Cross Central Valley. There will be different fundraising opportunities for this great local non-profit organization throughout the event as well! If Childcare is needed, please contact KidsPark at (559) 447-5437. They are located at the corner of Friant & Fresno at 8485 N Fresno St, Fresno, CA 93720. You don’t want to miss this great event!
Fresno River Park
vs Rio Grande Valley FC
Rio Grande Valley FC at Fresno FC Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
Water Lantern Festival: Woodward Park Water Lantern Festival is filled with fun, happiness, hope, and great memories that you’ll cherish for a lifetime. This is a family friendly event that can be shared by everyone. Friends, families, neighbors, and lots of people that you haven’t met can come together to create a peaceful, memorable experience. Tickets are on sale for the Fresno Water Lantern Festival presented by One World. One World Water Lantern Festival is an amazing experience where you’ll witness the magic of lanterns as they light up the water.
vs Phoenix Rising FC
Phoenix Rising FC at Fresno FC Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
Full Circle – Oktoberfest 2019
Full Circle – Oktoberfest 2019 Full Circle Brewing in Downtown Fresno will be having its annual Oktoberfest event October 5th. Come join us for a day full of beer, music and contests. This is a free all ages event so bring the family! More information on this magical day coming soon!
Brew Fest
3rd Annual Brew Fest: The Big Fresno Fair The Big Fresno Fair’s Brew Fest is back by popular demand! From inside the horse racing track, sip on beers from more than 30 breweries, listen to beats from a DJ, play lawn games and wager on the horse races from private betting stations. The Valley’s best food trucks will be on hand serving up delicious eats. You don’t want to miss this unique event – all benefitting the Fresno County Historical Museum. See the details below on what to expect: 30+ Craft Breweries pouring their best beers Music Food Trucks Lawn Games NEW Cornhole Tournament in partnership with the Dawg Pound Cornhole League Betting Stations and NEW screens displaying betting odds
vs Tacoma Defiance
Tacoma Defiance at Fresno FC Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
LA Galaxy 2
LA Galaxy 2 at Fresno FC Will take place at the cities most notable ballpark in Fresno. Chukchansi Park, the park is famous throughout the league for the views the stadium affords, you get the stunning view of Downtown Fresno whilst also being set against the backdrop of the Sierra Mountains. Fresno Football Club, the Central Valley’s first professional soccer club, is a member of the United Soccer League (USL). The club opens its inaugural season in March 2018 and will host home matches at Chukchansi Park in beautiful downtown Fresno. FFC exists to provide a top-class, inclusive and dynamic sporting experience in one of the nation’s most diverse regions.
Mud Fest 2019
Mudd Fest 2019 Mudd Fest 2019 comes to Woodward Park Amphitheater featuring Puddle of Mudd, Saliva, Trapt, Saving Abel & Tantric. Join us for one fun night with cold beers, full bar and more! Please note this event is strictly 21 and up. Previous Activated Events artists Include Dustin Lynch, Billy Currington, Lady Antebellum, Old Dominion, Toby Keith, Jake Owen, Chris Young, Justin Moore, Chris Janson, Chase Rice, Eli Young Band, Brett Young, Granger Smith, Frankie Ballard, Jerrod Niemann, High Valley, Michael Ray, LANCO and many more!
ClovisFest 2019
ClovisFest 2019 & Hot Air Balloon Fun Fly Event ClovisFest 2019 is an annual event presented by the Clovis Chamber of Commerce. This event offers a free, family-friendly outdoor festival spanning up and down Pollasky Avenue in Old Town Clovis. Mornings will begin with the Community Medical Centers Hot Air Balloon Fun Fly. We look forward to an amazing event this year – bigger & better than ever! We’ll have exciting performances both days and a diverse selection of cultural booths providing an enriching and educational experience for all ages. Balloons are at the Clovis Rodeo grounds and take off is between 7:15am to 8:15am, depending on weather, both the 26th and 27th. Be early for parking. (6:35am). Public rides are not permitted due to pilot liability. Pets are not permitted due to a City of Clovis ordinance.
Dia De Los Muertos Is a community event. Shop with your favorite vendors, handmade items and retail. Tarot readers, stones and crystals, music, performers, food and fun. Kid friendly.
Donnie Baker – As Heard on The Bob & Tom Show
Donnie Baker: Live Performance at Tower Theatre Donnie Baker showed up on to the Comedy scene with the debut of tour album “Boat for sale”, released on N/A. The song instantly became a success and made Donnie Baker one of the top emerging great concerts to witness. Subsequently following the introduction of “Boat for sale”, Donnie Baker announced “My Job Sucks” on N/A. The album “My Job Sucks” remained one of the more popular tour albums from Donnie Baker. The Tour Albums three top tracks included, and and are a hit at every concert. Donnie Baker has published 6 more tour albums since “My Job Sucks”.
Sinbad Live
Sinbad Live: at Tower Theatre Ranked by Comedy Central as one of the “100 Greatest Stand ups of All Time,” actor and comedian Sinbad has had audiences laughing for over three decades. Throughout his incredibly successful career as a stand up comedian, Sinbad has starred in two Comedy Central specials and four HBO comedy specials. As an actor, Sinbad has been featured in leading roles in such films as JINGLE ALL THE WAY and GOOD BURGER, and on the FX super series, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. This show is 18 & older
Doug MacLead
Doug MacLead: Inside the Tower Theatre Lounge Doug MacLead is a multiple Blues Music Award winner, most recently the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of The Year ‘Break The Chain’ and the 2017 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist Of The Year. MacLeod’s playing landed him sideman gigs with George ‘Harmonica’ Smith, Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, Lowell Fulson and Big Mama Thornton. His songs have been covered by many artists including Albert King, Albert Collins, Joe Louis Walker and Eva Cassidy. MacLeod’s songs have been featured in many TV movies and the hit show In the Heat of the Night. August Wilson requested his soulful slide guitar playing in the Los Angeles opening of “Gem of the Ocean”.
Jesse Cook: Live at Tower Theatre “I want to take people to places they haven’t been.” Jesse Cook, Juno winning master guitarist, known for his intoxicating fusion of world music, has travelled the globe looking for sounds that resonate with him. “I like finding common ground for different music traditions, a space where music from around the world can come together,” Cook explains. “A place where modern sounds can mix with ancient timbres.” It was when Jesse heard the Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin album, Friday Night in San Francisco that the die was cast. “I was captivated by the sheer virtuosity and freedom, that people could play whatever they wanted, creating in that space between jazz and flamenco.”
Tommy Emmanuel, CGP special guests Jim & Morning Nichols
Tommy Emmanuel: Live Performance at Tower Theatre Tommy Emmanuel has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. Or at least they would if he was the kind of artist who was ever satisfied. When you’re widely acknowledged as the international master of the solo acoustic guitar, what’s next is Accomplice One, an album of collaborations with some of the finest singers, songwriters and, yes, guitarists alive today – a list including Jason Isbell, Mark Knopfler, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Douglas, Amanda Shires, Ricky Skaggs, J.D. Simo, David Grisman, Bryan Sutton, Suzy Bogguss and many more. His approach is always song and emotion first, his music the embodiment of his soulful spirit, sense of hope and his love for entertaining. Which is not to say he dismisses the CGP, the Guitar Player awards, the Grammy nominations, the numerous magazine polls naming him the greatest acoustic guitarist “When I was a kid, I wanted to be in show business. Now I just want to be in the happiness business–I make music, you get happy. That’s a good job.”
Metal Band Powerman 5000 at Full Circle Powerman 5000 will be performing live at Full Circle Brewing in Downtown Fresno. Powerman 5000 is an American Industrial metal band formed in 1991. The group has released nine albums, gaining its highest level of commercial success with 1999’s Tonight the Stars Revolt!, which reached number 29 on the Billboard 200 while spawning the singles “When Worlds Collide” and “Nobody’s Real”.
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Tom Dixon’s Tomoto Motorcycle [pt 5/6] @ Salone Milan 2017
Design Event / Design News / Motor Vehicles / Salone Milan 2017 / Tom Dixon
Georgie Frew
Patterned rims, bespoke Pirelli tyres, raw aluminium and a signature lamp for a headlight feature in Tom Dixon’s custom Moto Guzzi motorcycle, which was on show during Milan design week.
Tom Dixon and Moto Guzzi, historic eagle-branded company from Mandello del Lario, Como (IT), presented Tomoto motorcycle in the Rubber Shop at Dixon’s massive Multiplex exhibition in Milan – a showcase of new design by Dixon and several handpicked small studios, which took over the 1950s Teatro Manzoni cinema.
Dixon was inspired to embark on the collaboration following a lifelong passion for motorcycles, which he credits for starting his design career.
“I’ve had the same Moto Guzzi for 27 years, and it was time for a new one. I’ve always tinkered with motorbikes. They were always kind of vintage or collapsing, and I learnt to weld on the basis that I was going to fix a bike. I had a passion for fixing and making things, which has turned into a design career ” …….. Tom Dixon
Tom Dixon presented the world premiere of Tomoto – Unique Edition: a custom, “one off” motorcycle that the British product designer, a faithful Guzzi fan, has planned for the 50thanniversary of the famous V7.
“ My love of motorcycles has never abated, and when I had the opportunity to visit the factory, which is an amazing document of 1920s manufacturing – it’s still made in the same factory, just 20 minutes away in the hills above Lake Como – I managed to convince them to let me tinker with one.” ………. Tom Dixon
The resulting custom bike was created together with renowned customiser Stefano Venier.
Among its features are aluminium wheel rims with a star-like geometric pattern created as part of Dixon’s experiments with digital punching technology.
The same untreated aluminium is used for the gas tank, which bears the inscriptions “Guzzi” and “Tomoto” in dripping hot-pink paint.
One of Dixon’s older pendant designs, the Fin, is re-purposed for the headlight, while a flexible exhaust pipe wraps around the motorcycle body from the engine.
While the two collaborations might evolve into further projects in the future, the current iteration of Tomoto is a prototype and display model.
“The difficulty with doing a proper production motorcycle with Moto Guzzi is that every time you do anything more than basically changing the fairing or the seat, you have to put it through a whole new EU testing regime,” Dixon said.
“So you can’t really change a lot of components, not even the exhaust pipe, without going through the whole EU process of going through all the norms. So it’s quite difficult to do an all-new model.”
The bike is finished with new prototype tyres Dixon developed through a second collaboration, with Milan-based tyre manufacturer Pirelli.
Dixon developed a number of tread patterns for the brand, which Dixon describes as “another fantasy firm, an Italian classic”.
“Pirelli by Tom Dixon” is a limited and exclusive edition of three scooter tyres on which the artist has committed himself to realise innovative and original tread patterns.
“I’ve always been interested in design, in motorcycles and in rubber as a material- so it’s a real pleasure to be working with Pirelli whose history in these fields is well known -and whose numerous collaborations with artists and designers are legendary.” says Tom Dixon.
“It has been fascinating working with a company with such historical expertise to produce a series of new patterns within the complex series of technical parameters that exist in motorcycle tyre production”.
The collaboration between Pirelli and Tom Dixon was born almost by accident during a visit in the summer of last year of the British designer to Pirelli Headquarters in Milan.
During the visit, the artist was impressed and fascinated by the work seen on the tyres expressing his willingness to cooperate in some way working with Pirelli onto tyre rubber.
Considering the growing interest and attention from some motorcyclists regarding the tread pattern design of motorcycle and scooter tyres, Pirelli gave Tom Dixon ‘carte blanche’ and the opportunity to give vent to his creativity in the customisation of some scooter tyre tread pattern designs.
During Milan Design Week, the tyres were on display as well at the RubberyShop in Multiplex’ exhibition in Galleria Manzoni.
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What Is a Private Equity Firm?
Erick Hamdan | February 12, 2018
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Takeaway: There are many types of potential buyers for your business. Learn what private equity firms are and how they invest in private companies.
If you are looking to sell your company, you may want to consider a private equity (PE) firm as a potential buyer. Most company owners are not familiar with PE firms and how they can help business owners realize their exit goals. This piece provides a general overview of PE firms, their investment philosophy and how PE firms are compensated to determine if they are a good fit for you.
PE Firms Defined
A PE firm is a financial buyer that invests in private companies of all sizes. Some firms invest across many industries, while others are focused on specific industries such as technology or energy services. They are a good alternative if you want to sell your company without inflicting severe and immediate change.
They typically raise funds via general partnerships from institutional-type capital sources such as pension funds, endowment funds, family offices and high net-worth individuals. The typical structure involves a limited partnership where the PE firm acts as the general partner and the investors are the limited partners. The partnership has a finite term, usually 10 years, at which time the PE firm will sell all of the investments in order to return the original capital plus gains to the limited partners.
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In addition to capital, PE firms provide other resources to their investees such as access to customers, industry expertise and strategic direction, which can be invaluable for company owners looking for support in a capital partner.
What Private Equity Firms Look for in an Investment
PE firms look for companies with solid management teams, dependable and recurring customers, high margins, strong balance sheets and the ability to generate significant free cash flow. The best candidates are private companies that are experiencing rapid growth (organically or through acquisition), a management buyout or expansion into a new market.
They usually have a leading position in their industry, significant barriers to entry for competitors, and a differentiated product or service that commands a pricing premium over the competition. PE firms look for companies with solid management teams, since they are made up of passive investors that expect management to run daily operations.
PE firms may bolster the existing management team by replacing or adding specific positions such as a CFO to manage the company's financial affairs, improve operating procedures and internal controls, and serve as the financial representative when the firm is looking to sell the investment.
The Investment Structure in a PE Firm
PE firms may acquire 100 percent of a company or invest as a minority shareholder. The investment usually involves owning at least some common voting stock. This ensures that the PE firm has company ownership, and usually requires board representation. However, PE firms also use different equity instruments to invest, including non-voting preferred shares or subordinated debt with an equity kicker.
PE firms like debt because it allows them to earn an annual return on their investment from the related interest payments. The equity kicker, which is usually in the form of a convertible feature or warrants, then provides them the "pop" when the company is sold.
The Private Equity Compensation Model
How PE firms are compensated is important to understand before you sell your business to one. Some PE firms generate income by charging their portfolio companies management fees or financing fees. However, the primary way that PE firms earn money is by charging a 2 and 20 management fee to the funds that they manage. The "2" is the annual management fee charged to the fund to cover the PE firm's annual salaries, overheads and profit. The "20" is the percentage success fee, or "carry," earned if returns exceed a certain threshold.
For example, if the general partner (GP) manages a $200 million fund for a 10-year duration and the return threshold is 10 percent, or $20 million, then the GP would get paid $4 million annually, assuming the full $200 million is invested (2% x $200 million). If all of the investments are sold for $300 million, then there would be a $100 million gain realized. The gain would be $80 million above the return threshold. In this case, the carry would kick in, and the PE firm would get 20 percent of the $80 million, or $16 million.
It is therefore very lucrative for PE firms to maximize the exit value of portfolio companies, since the 20 percent carry can result in a significant bonus. This carry structure ensures that PE firms are aligned with getting the most value out of their investments at exit (which is good for a company owner who has kept some equity in the business). However, the exit timing and approach is ultimately decided by the PE firm, which means you may not be in control. This timing or approach may or may not line up with your own timing and approach based on your changing lifestyle requirements. This may create some conflict for you.
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PE firms are more like a marriage rather than a quick exit. As a result, they aren't right for every business. However, this marriage can yield significant benefits in the right situation. If you are an owner who is not yet ready to let go but wants to take some chips off the table, then PE firms provide an excellent exit alternative.
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Anti-gang lesson hits home for Pittsburg teens
Port Chicago remembered
By Cassandra Braun | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 11, 2007 at 4:04 am | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 7:28 pm
The scene is far too familiar.
An impressionable teenage boy has been hanging around with the wrong people, who later turn out to be gang members. They’re at a local house party with ear-thumping music and swigging alcohol. The boy hadn’t planned it, but that night he is unexpectedly initiated into the gang.
Rival members crash the party. Insults and threats fly, and bullets follow close behind. When everything is over, high-school-age victims are strewn about. And the new one is left abandoned with the smoking gun and the prospect of prison.
The scenario has played out far too frequently since gangs began pervading U.S. cities, including those in Contra Costa County. But in this case, the scenario is just that.
A group of a dozen teens from Pittsburg junior highs and high schools are only re-enacting the scenario. The performance is part of “Stray Bullets,” a project run by Pittsburg police in which youths created a short movie and skits about the consequences of gang involvement. Both will be shown at the East County Gang Summit on Sept. 22 at the Boys and Girls Club in Pittsburg.
Based on the “Every 15 Minutes” program, the group has re-created the whole progression — from crime to booking to the aftermath at the coroner’s office. The youths had to write goodbye letters to their families, who were asked to write goodbye letters to their children.
“It gives them an opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes,” Pittsburg Gang Officer Donna Gianfala said.
From athletes to achievers, at-risk youths to popular social butterflies, Pittsburg teens from all sorts of backgrounds were chosen to be part of the project. It was a way to ensure that the anti-gang message got to all segments of the teenage population, not just seemingly at-risk youths, Gianfala said.
While other youths spent their summer break swimming or hanging out at the local movieplex, this group has been spending two to three days a week rehearsing and filming the cautionary tale.
Most agree it was well worth the time invested.
And it was fun acting.
There was no script to memorize. Instead, they ad-libbed the dialogue as they might really hear it in that situation.
“I put myself in their point of view,” Pittsburg High 10th-grader Alex Foster said. “Like having to kill people and getting jumped — they want to feel cool.”
The experience opened their eyes to their own mortality, many of the youths said.
Isaiah Nichols, 15, said the hardest part was saying goodbye to his family. He cried through the taping.
“Before this, I never had thought about dying,” the Pittsburg High sophomore said. “But I just said, ‘I can’t believe it’s over. I’m only 15 years old.'”
Cassandra Braun covers East Contra Costa police and fire agencies. Reach her at 925-779-7174 or cbraun@bayareanewsgroup.com.
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Gernot Wagner
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Gernot Wagner, Ph.D., works closely with EDF’s Office of the Chief Economist, participating in projects relating to climate damages and tipping points, the social cost of carbon, empirical modeling of climate change and human activity, and others. He served as economist at EDF (2008 – 2016), most recently as lead senior economist (2014 – 2016).
Gernot is a Research Associate at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard, and a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He’s a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a former Adjunct Associate Professor of energy economics at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and at NYU Stern School of Business, and the author of But Will the Planet Notice? (2011) and Climate Shock (2015), joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman.
Climate Shock is a Top 15 Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2015. Jeff Sachs calls it “deeply insightful, challenging, eye-opening, thought-provoking, and sheer fun to read,” Bill Nordhaus in the New York Review of Books says it’s “witty, far-ranging, and literate,” and Richard Cooper in Foreign Affairs lauds how it “combines sophisticated analysis with a breezy, informal style.”
Read more from Gernot or connect with him online at www.gwagner.com or follow him on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.
Prior to EDF, Gernot worked for the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on the energy and sustainable development practice areas. He also wrote for the editorial board of the Financial Times in London as a Peter Martin Fellow, where he covered economics, energy and the environment.
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Gillingham, Kenneth, Matthew J. Kotchen, David S. Rapson, and Gernot Wagner. 2013. “Energy policy: The rebound effect is overplayed.” Nature 493: 475–476 (24 January). doi:10.1038/493475a
Wagner, Gernot. Cut Power Plant Pollution. (Feature on: The Second Coming: What can the 44th president really achieve in his second term.) Foreign Policy (January/February 2013).
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Wagner, Gernot. But Will the Planet Notice? Hill and Wang , (2011). Bill McKibben says: “If you want to understand how an economist thinks about the biggest challenge our planet has ever stumbled up against, this book is an awfully good place to start!” Martin Wolf calls it “lucid and enjoyable.” The Daily Green describes it as: “Lessons in economics and global environmental problems, from a guy you’d actually talk to at a party.”
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Wagner, Gernot. Undesirable Growth Fueled By Environmental Degradation. Publication. Harvard UP, 2005. Print.
Stavins, R., Gernot Wagner, and Alexander Wagner. “Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency plus Intergenerational Equity.” Economics Letters 79.3 (2003): 339-43. Print.
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EDPR posts a 14% rise in earnings in 2018 to reach a net profit of €313 million
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Wednesday 27, February 2019
EDPR produced 27.6 TWh of clean electricity, up 3% YoY.
Madrid, 27 February 2019: EDP Renewables (Euronext: EDPR), a global leader in the renewable energy sector and one of the largest wind energy producers in the world, has announced its full year results for 2018. At 31 December, the company managed a portfolio of operating assets of 11.7 GW spread over 11 different countries, of which 11.3 GW are fully consolidated and 371 MW equity consolidated (equity stakes in Spain and US). In 2018, EDPR built 826 MW, of which 478 MW were in North America, 211 MW in Europe and 137 MW in Brazil.
Between January and December 2018, EDPR supplied 28.4 TWh of clean electricity (+3% YoY), avoiding 19.8 mt of CO2 emissions. The increase in production benefitted mainly from the capacity additions (+625 MW EBITDA YoY) with a higher expected load factor. The achieved load factor in 2018 was 30% (-1pp YoY), representing 94% of the long-term average (P50 vs. 98% in 2017). In the period, EDPR maintained a high level of technical availability (97%), however is was lower YoY (2017 at 97.8%), due to adverse weather conditions in certain regions during the first quarter and higher maintenance at specific wind farms.
EDPR posted total revenue of €1,697 million in 2018 (-7% YoY), mainly due to higher generation (+3% YoY; +€38m YoY), a lower average selling price (-9% YoY; -€71m YoY), negative impact from Forex translation (-€46m YoY) and the scheduled expiration of specific tax equity structures in the form of 10-year PTCs (-€51m). Revenues totalled €1,697 million (-7% YoY). EBITDA reached €1,300 million (-5% YoY; -2% YoY ex-FX) impacted by top-line discontinuities, Forex and low wind resource.
Net Financial Expenses decreased to €220 million (vs €302m in 2017; -€82m YoY), mainly reflecting the stable YoY evolution of the net interest cost of debt (at €139m), lower institutional partnership costs (€81m; -€8m YoY) and gains from the sell down of stakes in offshore projects (€87m).
The company posted net profit of €313 million between January and December 2018 (+14 YoY). Non-controlling interests in the period totalled €159 million, decreasing by €22m YoY as a result of top-line performance.
EDPR CEO Joao Manso Neto said: “The results we’ve presented today, which include net profit growth of 14%, reflect the solid financial management of the company, which has benefitted from a stable YoY performance of net interest costs, lower institutional partnership costs and gains from the sell down of stakes in offshore projects”.
With regard to the company’s future growth, Manso Neto added: “We are committed to continue growing the business through efficient management models and limiting risks, as well as diversifying our ability to generate value through both the markets and technology”.
The Board of Directors of EDPR will propose a dividend distribution of €61.1 million, equivalent to 7 cents per share.
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Home >> A News >> Iowa Teacher's Invention Could Save Students' Lives
Iowa Teacher's Invention Could Save Students' Lives
It's horrible to think about, but if a gunman or other intruder is attempting to gain access to a classroom, the safest thing is to find a way to keep the person locked out.
A group of Iowa middle school teachers tackled that problem and invented a device that could save kids' lives, should the unthinkable happen.
Called “The Sleeve,” the device is a 12-gauge carbon steel case that fits around the door’s closer arm, securing the door from the inside. According to WQAD, “The Sleeve” can withstand more than 550 foot-pounds of force, making it nearly impossible to open from the outside.
WQAD reported Daniel Nietzel, a teacher at West Middle School in Muscatine, Iowa, got the idea from the school’s active shooter training.
“We were instructed to tie a belt or a cord around the closer arm. It seemed like a logical way to secure a door without having to go into the hallway, [but] it took us a long time to get a cord, stand on a chair, and tie a knot, which could potentially be the most important tie of your life,” Nietzel said.
Nietzel named his company “Fighting Chance Solutions.”
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Orphan Black: The Few Who Dare
by sunbunny
“Is that the emergency loon call?”
Here we go. The first episode of the final season of the inimitable Orphan Black.
We begin where we left off. Sarah bleeding to death on an island, completely isolated from any help. I’m a little annoyed that got solved with just a tampon and a walking stick when last season it was like “Sarah’s on death’s door” but I mean, she’s our heroine. She’s scrappy. After she wanders around the island for a few days she finds Cosima who is staying in an extremely creepy village called Revival full of human test subjects. Okay. I have to be honest here, I’m already a little disappointed at the direction this season is taking us. It doesn’t seem right to be introducing new stuff when there’s so much left unexplained from previous seasons. Last season with Evie and Bright Born felt like an end run around itself and I’m worried we’re headed toward the same place with this season. Westmoreland is an interesting Big Bad (I’m getting some serious Wizard of Oz vibes from him) but I feel like moving all the drama to the island was a mistake.
Not to mention as Mr. Frontenac says during the episode “There’s only one faction now.” After all that? Why have I even been watching if all the factions and divisions within Neolution are going to be disposed of offscreen? I give the show credit for focus but it makes the past few seasons feel annoyingly irrelevant. And are we ever going to see the Proleatheans again? What about Mark and Gracie? What about whatever’s in Kira? I used to have complete faith that Orphan Black would answer all my questions but there’s been a certain loss of trust here. The tail end of last season did a lot of damage to my good faith.
Rachel is the clone to keep an eye on. We don’t know what she’s up to or who’s side she’s really on. Last season she just about killed Sarah and her mother (who Mud says will pull through) but this episode sees her allegedly curing Cosima? What is going on?
Westmoreland of Oz is another intriguing factor. Who is he? Is he real? Is he really 170 years old? There were several mentions of “The Fountain” which I took to mean the fountain of youth (funny, I thought that was supposed to be in Florida). I’m also not a fan of shipping Delphine off immediately after she got reunited with Cosima. Just let them be together, show! Jeez.
Finally: what the frick frack is in the forest? Was it helping Sarah? If so then why attack her? If we weren’t perfectly aware of where Helena was I’d say it was her. It seems Helena-ish.
Just a note: I am behind on reviews, but I’m also behind on watching so please, don’t spoil me (or anyone else) in the comments.
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Poor Helena took an arrow to the uterus? Will either of her babies survive? I mean I’m not an OBGYN but that seems pretty fatal to a fetus. Good thing Donnie literally ran away from Alison or Helena would be dealing with that injury all on her own. PS. The visual of Donnie running away wheeling a small suitcase behind him will stay with me forever.
I have complete faith in Mrs. S. There’s no way any harm has come to her or Kira. Ferdinand is probably not so lucky.
Sarah really should have charged her phone before she left for the island.
There was a really nice metaphor in Kira (or her photo) helping her mother survive the cold night. Kira also kept coming to Sarah in her dreams. A mother’s instinct or an extension of Kira’s ill-defined psychic powers?
Delphine’s hair was majorly on point.
Great use of Helena’s score as she attacked the guy who had Donnie cornered.
Mud: “We’re all his children here.”
Kudos to the actress for the super creepy vibes she was giving off.
Felix: “OH MY GOD ARTHUR! I almost hit you with a pan.”
Art: “Yeah well I almost shot you so we’re even.”
Jordan Gavaris’s delivery is everything.
Alison: “Poop on a stoop.”
Charlotte: “This place is scary.”
Delphine: “Follow the crazy science.”
three out of four emergency loon calls
sunbunny, who may or may not be played by Tatiana Maslany
Orphan Black season 5
Orphan Black home
Labels: Orphan Black, Orphan Black reviews, Sunbunny, The Few Who Dare
Lamounier said...
Yay, the reviews are on. :)
Well, this premiere was different. It made me think of how Alias started as a thrilling spy show with a bit of sci-fi and ended the fourth season with a zombie apocalypse in Russia. And while Westmoreland reminded you of Wizard of Oz, sunbunny, all the talk about longevity also made me think of Alias. Westmoreland is kind of Orphan Black's version of Rambaldi, isn't he?
I think this premiere didn't work for me because it was too much about keeping the sisters in peril. Sarah is chased, Helena is stabbed in the belly, Alison is kidnapped. Too much peril does not a thriller make. In any case, I'm glad we are finally getting to the crux of the story. And I'm actually okay with the Proleatheans never showing up again.
Thank the lords Cosima got her treatment. Looooong overdue. It was my favorite moment of the episode, beautifully played by Tatiana.
Rachel is now super religious and no longer a bitch. Yeah, right. Well, as long as she is not throwing tantrums, it works for me.
I won't spoil you (or anyone else), but just as encouragement, the season gets better. I didn't like the first two episodes, but having watched up until episode five, there is a standout episode on the way and the story started to click for me. :)
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 6:30:00 PM PDT
TheShadowKnows said...
Speaking of being reminded of things, a bunch of ill-dressed people with an unseen leader living on an island in yurts seemed... familiar somehow. At the very least, I wouldn't have made the setting an island. Why not a mountaintop in Tibet or something?
(Yeah, yeah, I know - an island's cheaper. You just film the woods behind the producer's house and SAY it's on an island.)
Monday, July 17, 2017 at 6:38:00 AM PDT
Let's hope the season will end the show on a high note and explain some things. Because for me there's just too much aborted arcs that don't go anywhere and are quickly replaced by new stuff that won't get explained, but Tatiana's acting keeps me watching.
Monday, September 25, 2017 at 12:58:00 PM PDT
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Zee World Premiers 'Mehek'
Wed 03 Apr 2019, 16:50
Zee Entertainment Africa have announced the exciting premier of Mehek, the first Zee World production to star actors from the African continent.
The landmark series, which was shot entirely in India, will premiere on Saturday, 6 April at 21h00 on Zee World and introduces African actors Shonisani Masutha, Kamogelo Mogale, Ndaba ka Ngwane and Nomava Kibare to Zee World viewers across Sub Sahara Africa.
“Mehek represents an important and evolutionary part of Zee World’s commitment to providing relevant, exciting and innovative content to its viewers. Zee is proud of this production and of our African actors; furthermore, it will undoubtedly set a strong foundation for similar productions in the future,” says Harish Goyal, CEO, Zee Entertainment Africa & Asia Pacific.
“The decision to develop a Bollywood production with African actors stemmed from Zee World’s unequivocal success in Africa and the love showered by our audiences for the channel. Zee World has enjoyed tremendous growth throughout the years and Mehek was the obvious next step” says Ratna Siriah, Business Head, Zee Entertainment Africa.
“The Multichoice group understands the importance of local content to our subscriber. As Africa’s leading content producer and most loved storyteller, we are delighted that our channel partners such as Zee share this in this vision and investing in showcasing local talent in new innovative ways.”, added Aletta Alberts, Executive Head of Content Strategy for MultiChoice.
Mehek is the eponymous story of a young girl from Delhi, India whose love for cooking is closely tied to her mother’s memories and Shaurya (Karan Vohra), a rich and arrogant, restaurateur. Their paths cross leading to an unlikely relationship but all is not what it seems.
Meanwhile Eddie Gabela (Ndaba ka Ngwane), a successful businessman from Africa moves to Delhi with his wife Leleti (Nomava Kibare), daughter Norah (Shonisani Masutha) and son Dennis (Kamogelo Mogale). Dennis has been implicated in a serious crime and whilst the family knows he’s innocent they are helpless to save him from these false accusations and decide to leave Africa for his safety.
Norah’s love life however takes an interesting turn when she meets and falls in love with Karan in India. Their relationship is a colourful imbalance of love and betrayal as the couple forges a life together in India.
Follow the story of this ground-breaking Africa meets India story line and experiences of Norah and Karan from vastly different backgrounds brought together by love.
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Efficiency & Environment
Could interbreeding with aliens help us survive climate change?
A scientist from Oxford University suggests that could already be the case…
By Jonny Bairstow
Could we interbreed with aliens to survive climate change?
A scientist from Oxford University suggests we already might be – Dr Young-hae Chi, Professor at Oxford’s Oriental Institute, claims invisible creatures from outer space share the Earth with humans and are breeding with abductees to create climate change-resistant ‘hybrids’.
Dr Chi outlined his views in a 2012 lecture and has since written a book.
The Oxford Student newspaper notes he approached The Oxford Union last year to propose a debate on the subject, which was not accepted.
The professor says humans cannot perceive the aliens because they don’t have the necessary senses but claims the mysterious beings share the same biosphere and as a result, are also affected by climate change.
He believes there is a strong correlation between climate change and alien abductions – he claims a ‘hybrid’ species have been created and already walk among humans.
Dr Chi thinks ‘hybrids’ are a way of storing DNA for the future, as well as being more survivable and more intelligent than normal humans.
He said: “It is not only scientists and theologians but also non-human species who appear to be greatly concerned about the survivability of the human species”.
Aliens climate change ET global warming humans interbreeding nature world
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Image credit: rep0rter via Getty Images
Apple's would-be sapphire glass supplier charged with fraud
GT Advanced Technologies withheld "catastrophic" information about its screens, the SEC said.
rep0rter via Getty Images
Not that long ago, Apple was going to build iPhone screens using sapphire glass, but that didn't work out so well. It loaned $578 million to a company called GT Advanced Technologies, which was supposed to build highly scratch-resistant screen covers from synthetic sapphire crystals. Instead, it produced flawed "boules" of sapphire that couldn't be cut into displays and went bankrupt months after it started. Now, the SEC has announced that it's charging the company and its ex-CEO with fraud for allegedly withholding key information from stockholders.
GT's idea was to produce sapphire cylinders, known as "boules," that were twice as large as anything yet manufactured. However, about half the boules were cracked and unusable due to various manufacturing issues. As the WSJ noted back in 2014, GT complained that Apple wouldn't advance it more money to develop the tech and was being too rigid with the terms of the contract. Apple, meanwhile, said the GT was unable to meet its manufacturing goals.
The SEC said that Apple withholding payment didn't unfairly drive GT Advanced into bankruptcy. Moreover, "GT and its CEO painted a rosy picture of the company's performance and ability to obtain funding that was paramount to GT's survival while they were aware of information that would have catastrophic consequences for the company," said the Anita B. Bandy from the SEC's enforcement division. GT's former CEO Thomas Gutierrez got off with a relative wrist slap however, hit with a fine of around $140,000.
Despite the iPhone screen foibles, Apple has used sapphire on Apple Watch screens, camera covers and fingerprint sensors. And given the rapid advances in material sciences, we might one day see the material reappear in future smartphones.
In this article: apple, Display, gear, GTAdvancedTechnologies, iPhones, mobile, Sapphire, wearables
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Google Play Music and Movies purchasing reaches Google TV, patches a media strategy hole
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Yankees' Boone: MRI on Stanton's knee 'good'
Remember the buzz about the Nats trading Mad Max? Ancient history
1dEddie Matz
Harper's 5 RBIs, walk-off double thwart Dodgers
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Phillies' Bruce to have MRI on strained oblique
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The results of the MRI on New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton right knee were "good," manager Aaron Boone said Wednesday.
"He came in today and there's no swelling in there, but he's sore and stiff," Boone told reporters, according to Newsday. "He's just kind of going through treatment right now."
Stanton left the Yankees' 4-3 victory on Tuesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays with a bruised right knee.
Yankees homer in MLB-record 28th straight game
He is not in the lineup for Wednesday afternoon's game against the Blue Jays, but he is listed as an available player on the bench.
Stanton was 1-for-1 in Tuesday night's game, hitting a single in the first inning. He got tangled up with Toronto pitcher Clayton Richard while getting thrown out on a headfirst slide into third base, but he remained in left field in the second and third innings.
Stanton is batting .290 this season in nine games for the Yankees. He came off the injured list on June 18 after being shelved since April because of three separate injuries.
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Feeling immortal
In his Monday remarks, the Pope spoke about a variety of "spiritual diseases" that are plaguing the Curia: spiritual Alzheimer's, funeral face, gossip, vanity, hoarding, and more.
On Monday, Pope Francis addressed the Roman Curia—the senior Vatican cardinals, bishops, and priests—and politely laid out everything he thinks they're doing wrong. As reported by Vatican Insider, Francis presented a 15-point "catalog of spiritual diseases" as part of his remarks. We've excerpted some of Francis's points as described by Vatican Insider below. Read the full list of "diseases" here.
"The disease of those who 'turn into masters and feel superior to everyone rather than in the service of all people. It often comes from the pathology of power, the 'Messiah complex' and narcissism."
"The disease of those who 'lose their internal peace, their vivacity and audacity, to hide under papers and become 'procedural machines' instead of men of God."
"The disease of living in a 'state of absolute dependence on their, often imagined, views.' We can see this in those who have 'lost their memory' of their encounter with the Lord, in those who depend on their 'passions, whims and obsessions.'"
"'When the appearance, the color of the vestments and the honors become the first objectives of life ... it leads us to become false men and women, living a false 'mysticism' and false 'quietism.'"
"The disease of those who live 'a double life, a result of the hypocrisy typical of mediocre people and of advancing spiritual emptiness, which degrees or academic titles cannot fill.' It often strikes us that some 'abandon the pastoral service and limit their activities to bureaucracy, losing touch with reality and real people. They thus create their own parallel world, where they set aside all that the others harshly teach' and live a 'hidden' and often 'dissolute' life."
"'It takes hold of a person making them "sowers of discord" (like Satan), and, in many cases, 'cold-blooded murderers' of the reputation of their colleagues and brothers. It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back ... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!'"
"It is the disease of people who are 'scowling and unfriendly and think that, in order to be serious, they must show a melancholic and strict face and treat others—especially those, whom they think are inferior—with rigidity, harshness and arrogance.' In reality, adds the Pope, 'theatrical strictness and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity about themselves. The apostle must strive to be a polite, serene, enthusiastic and joyful person...' Francis invites people to be full of humor and self-irony; 'How beneficial a healthy dose of humor can be!'"
"'When the apostle seeks to fill an existential void in his heart by hoarding material possessions, not because of necessity, but only to feel secure.'"
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Donald Trump's Terrorism Comments Were Aimed at One Specific Audience
And they sure as hell don't live in New York City.
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Five years ago last January, a white supremacist named Kevin Harpham tried to kill a whole lot of people in Spokane, Washington, by bombing a parade celebrating the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. For the purpose of killing as many people as possible, Harpham loaded his bomb with fishing weights that, if all went as planned, would be converted into shraphnel by the bomb's detonation.
The fact that Harpham was buying so many fishing weights without buying any more fishing gear, or even possessing a fishing license, led to the tip that led police to Harpham in the first place. The fishing weights were coated with rat poison so that Harpham's victims would bleed more profusely. Kevin Harpham really thought this whole mass murder thing through, and it was two sharp-eyed park employees and some very good police work that thwarted him.
I mention this because it appears that some very good police work—and the fact that New Yorkers are decidedly less timorous than are a lot of people in the rest of the country—has gotten on top of the situation that occurred on Sunday night in NYC and in New Jersey. On Monday morning, after a gunfight that the alleged perpetrator managed to survive, they hauled him in. From the Times:
The dramatic episode on a rain-soaked street in Linden, N.J., came after the police issued a cellphone alert to millions of residents in the area telling them to be on the lookout for the suspect, who was described as "armed and dangerous." Photos from the scene showed a man believed to be Mr. Rahami lying on the sidewalk, hands cuffed behind his back and his shirt pulled up exposing his stomach and chest, with a police officer standing over him. Witnesses said they saw police shoot at a man who was running away. One person who was too rattled to give his name said the victim appeared to have been shot more than once and was "still twitching." He also said it appeared a police officer was shot. "Lotta' lotta' gunfire," said Derek Pelligra, manager of Linden Auto Body. Mr. Rahami, 28, was identified on surveillance video planting the bombs in Chelsea, both the device that exploded and another that did not detonate a few blocks away. He was described as a naturalized citizen of Afghan descent who had been living with his family in Elizabeth, N.J.
This was a relatively sophisticated plot apparently involving more than a few people. It is just pure dumb luck that a lot of people were not killed, just as it was just pure dumb luck that nobody died in Spokane five years ago. Pure dumb luck and good police work.
Trump\'s Plan for Dealing with Latest Terror Attack
Yes, the whole thing has been tossed into this rickety, short-circuiting, spark-and-smoke-belching blender of a presidential campaign, and El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago reacted with his usual nuanced blend of self-aggrandizement and counterfeit piety to his favorite sofa full of meatsacks. The L.A. Times filters the muck on our behalf.
Speaking on "Fox and Friends" on Monday, the Republican presidential nominee reverted to familiar lines of attack on national security in response to questions about crude bombs that exploded in lower Manhattan and near the start of a 5-kilometer race in Seaside Park, N.J. On Monday morning, another suspicious device detonated near an Elizabeth, N.J., commuter rail station. Trump took a measure of credit for saying quickly Saturday night that a bomb had gone off in New York even as officials were still investigating the explosion. "I should be a newscaster because I called it before the news," he said. "This is something that will happen, perhaps, more and more all over the country," Trump said. "Because we've been weak. Our country's been weak. We're letting people in by the thousands and tens of thousands."
This was not aimed at the people most immediately affected by the events of Sunday night who, by most accounts, handled the situation with considerable aplomb. This was aimed at nervous television viewers in part of America where folks secretly—and, sometimes, not so secretly—believe that places like New York and Boston have it coming. But if someone is willing to buy 124 fishing weights and coat them with rat poison so the people he injures will bleed to death more easily, if someone is willing to put that kind of thought into mass murder, dumb luck and good police work is pretty much all we really have.
If we all were New Yorkers, this would help, too.
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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Enjoy 'Family Night' With Kids at Lakers Game
By Jennifer Drysdale 12:17 PM PST, January 6, 2018
It's family night, J-Rod style!
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez enjoyed one heck of a family night on Friday, as they sat courtside at the L.A. Lakers vs. Charlotte Hornets game at the Staples Center.
Rodriguez took to Instagram to share a sweet family selfie from their night out. His 13-year-old daughter, Natasha, sat next to her dad, while 9-year-old Ella adorably shared a seat with J.Lo's 9-year-old daughter, Emme. The singer's son, Max, meanwhile, peeked out from behind his mom.
"Friday night, family night @lakers @magicjohnson #showtime #PatRiley," Rodriguez captioned the pic.
Friday night, family night @lakers @magicjohnson 🏀 #showtime #PatRiley
A post shared by Alex Rodriguez (@arod) on Jan 5, 2018 at 10:14pm PST
#MAXIMILIAN. I try and take the kids a lot of different places to see what they are interested in expose them to all kinds of different people and places and experiences... but this is right before he fell asleep...lol #computerkid #science #space #deepsea #mysteriesoftheuniverse #thatsmybaby
A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Jan 6, 2018 at 12:41pm PST
It's clear the two families couldn't be closer. During an interview with ET in September, Rodriguez revealed that his daughters idolize his girlfriend.
“My girls adore Jennifer,” he shared. “She's a great role model and they want to do exactly what Jennifer does. They want to sing, they want to dance, they want to produce, they want to direct. A lot of people don't know she's also a great athlete and great business person, and for me, I'm the luckiest father in the world to be able to expose my beautiful daughters to someone as brilliant as Jennifer.”
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20 Stunning Images That Will Make You Want Travel to Nicaragua
Considered one of the safest countries in Latin America, Nicaragua also offers a lot of scenic spots for travelers to love.
Chris Eyre-Walker
Many backpackers seem to pass through Nicaragua quickly. A few days are spent at San Juan del Sur surfing by day and inhaling Flor de Caña by night, followed by a few days recovering by taking in the colours of Leon and Granada and possibly a pass over Ometepe to climb one of its two magnificent volcanoes.
But if you give it time, there is so much more to stoke your curiosity, particularly for the more outdoor-inclined traveller.
Nicaragua is the safest country in Central America and certainly one of the cheapest. We spent 3 months bouncing around and hope we went a little further than just the normal gringo trail.
Here’s my 20 photos from off-the-beaten path places and activities that will make you want to travel to Nicaragua.
#1. Through The Dust
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#2. Open Horizons
#3. Active Volcanoes
#4. Inhale The Fumes of Hell
#5. Explore The Unknown
#6. Jump Into A Crater Lake
#7. Sunsets And Fishermen
#8. Finding Your Personal Sunset Spot
#9. Remote Inland Islands
#10. Silence
#11. What Dreams Are Made Of
#12. A Fortress To Hold Off Pirates
#13. The Way To The Beach
#14. Waterfalls
#15. Getting Soaked
#16. Climbing For Views
#17. Paddling Through Sunsets
#18. Exploring Canyons
#19. Sliding Through Slopes
#20. Soaking It All Up
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BMW’s New Concept Motorcycle Is A Smart Ride You Won’t Need a Helmet For
This new motorbike will have enough on-board intelligence to cut the motorcycle death rate in half.
Dondi
Motorcycles have been maligned for being unsafe two-wheeled death traps. Motorcyclists account for half of the world’s road traffic deaths due to fatal crashes and other accidents.
Still, that hasn’t stopped people from driving motorcycles that just happen to be faster, thrilling, and more economical compared to cars.
Luckily, BMW has its finger on this portion of the motorbike-riding demographic. The German luxury car brand is working on an artificially intelligent road bike that is so smart people won’t need to use a helmet - or any protective gear at all....
16 Beautiful Hidden Villages from Around the World
Some people say they just want to get away from it all, but these villages made it their lifestyle.
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Living in a busy city does have its perks - there are always shops nearby, you'll never run out of people to talk to, and you can choose from a multitude of jobs. But the thing is, living in a big city can be exhausting. So if you want to just get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, these tiny hidden villages might just be the place for you.
#1. Aogashima, Philippine Sea
The settlement of Aogashima live in the middle of a volcanic crater. But don't worry, the last time the Class-C volcano erupted was in the 1780s....
This Is The Underwater City for The Dead – And It’s Absolutely Beautiful!
This has got to be the most peaceful resting place ever.
Justine Chen
For some people, where they will end up after they die is a big thing. While some are perfectly content with the idea of having the conventional cemetery as their final resting place, there are people who prefer other ways of spending their eternal rest. Those who love the water can consider getting buried at the Neptune Memorial Reef, an underwater columbarium in the world's largest man-made reef.
Inspired by the underwater city of Atlantis, the Neptune Memorial Reef is located 40 feet under the sea and covers 600,000 square feet of the ocean floor off the coast of Key Biscayne near Miami, Florida. At present, it accommodates around a thousand remains. Originally, there are expansion plans that can house more than 100,000.
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Intel Capital Invests $60 million in 15 Promising Startups
By: Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK | October 19, 2017
This latest group of new portfolio companies brings Intel Capital’s year-to-date investing to more than $566 million.
Intel Capital, holding court at its annual conference in San Francisco, revealed on Oct. 19 new investments totaling more than $60 million in 15 technology startups.
This is a large step up from a year ago, when the global investment arm of Intel Corp. shelled out $38 million for 12 promising startups at its event in San Diego.
The company introduced the CEOs and founders of the startups at the Intel Capital CEO Showcase. This latest group of new portfolio companies brings Intel Capital’s year-to-date investing to more than $566 million.
“The world is undergoing a data explosion,” Wendell Brooks, Intel senior vice president and president of Intel Capital, said at the conference. “By 2020, every autonomous vehicle on the road will create 4 TB of data per day. A million self-driving cars will create the same amount of data every day as 3 billion people.
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“As Intel transitions to a data company, Intel Capital is actively investing in startups across the technology spectrum that can help expand the data ecosystem and pathfind important new technologies.”
Brooks said the companies joining Intel Capital’s portfolio are trailblazing technologies that use multiple facets of the data lifecycle–including analyzing, capturing, managing and securing data. These newly funded companies focus on artificial intelligence, 3D medical visualization, robots for retail and cybersecurity inspired by the human immune system, among other technologies.
Brooks also announced that, two years after the launch of the Intel Capital Diversity Initiative, more than 10 percent of Intel Capital’s portfolio companies now are led by women or other groups underrepresented in the technology industry–including three of the companies introduced today.
Here are details on the companies receiving the new investments:
Amenity Analytics (New York) has built a text analytics platform that allows customers to identify actionable signals from unstructured data. Its open data source architecture and cloud-based computing provides unmatched speed, scope and scale. The Amenity Analytics process combines machine learning, sentiment analysis and predictive analytics to produce some of the highest levels of accuracy in the industry.
Bigstream (Mountain View, Calif.) provides hyper-acceleration technology that delivers orders of magnitude performance gains for Apache Spark using hardware and software accelerators. Hyper-acceleration of big data and machine learning workloads is achieved using advanced compiler technology and transparent support for FPGAs. Unlike other approaches, Bigstream requires no application code changes or special APIs.
LeapMind (Tokyo, Japan) makes learning with deep neural networks “small and compact” for easy use in any environment. With the aim to achieve the “Deep Learning of Things” (DoT), LeapMind is improving the accuracy of neural network models and is researching and developing innovative algorithms to reduce the computational complexity of deep learning and original chip architectures for use in small computing environments.
Synthego (Redwood City, Calif.) is a provider of genome engineering solutions. The company's product portfolio includes software and synthetic RNA kits designed for CRISPR genome editing and research. With next-generation informatics and machine learning, Synthego’s vision is to bring precision and automation to genome engineering, enabling rapid and cost-effective research with consistent results for every scientist.
Capturing Data
AdHawk Microsystems (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) says it is revolutionizing human-computer interaction through ultra-precise tracking solutions that are smaller, faster and more power-efficient. AdHawk’s camera-free eye tracking system enables truly mobile data capture and paves the way for a new generation of highly immersive AR/VR experiences.
Trace (Los Angeles) is a sports artificial intelligence company working in the domains of soccer, mountain sports and water sports. Trace users have skied more than 30 billion feet of vertical and surfed more than 10 million waves. Its products combine sensors, video and AI to make performance insights and video highlights available immediately. Recently expanding into team sports, Trace technology is used to provide automatic video highlights and player performance data to coaches, players and parents right after the game.
Bossa Nova Robotics (San Francisco) creates autonomous service robots for the global retail industry. The Bossa Nova technology and services empower retailers to make informed inventory decisions and take rapid action by automating the collection and analysis of on-shelf inventory data in large-scale stores. Retailers can therefore improve their productivity and create a better shopping experience.
EchoPixel (Mountain View, Calif.) develops 3D medical visualization software. Its True 3D system allows medical professionals to interact with organs and tissues in a 3D space emanating from a display, which enables doctors to identify, evaluate and virtually dissect structures. True 3D is being used at UC San Francisco, Stanford, Cleveland Clinic, Lahey Clinic and Hershey Medical Center, among others. EchoPixel technology amplifies human expertise and improves both clinical efficacy and workflow.
Horizon Robotics (Beijing, China) provides integrated and open embedded artificial intelligence solutions of high performance, low power and low cost. The company envisions that the world’s more than 1,000 categories of devices, such as autonomous vehicles and smart cameras, will be equipped with “brains,” becoming intelligent entities that have the ability for perception, understanding and decision-making for safety, convenience and fun.
Reniac (Mountain View, Calif.) solves IO bottlenecks resulting in latency reduction and increased throughput for critical workloads in public cloud, hybrid and on-premise data centers without software changes to existing applications. The company’s Distributed Data Engine is architected to benefit databases, file systems, networking and storage solutions while freeing more CPU resources to creating business value.
TileDB Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) develops and maintains the TileDB project created at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data, which was a collaboration between Intel Labs and MIT. TileDB is a novel system for managing massive, multidimensional array data that frequently arise from scientific applications.
Securing Data
Alcide (Tel Aviv, Israel) makes a network security platform for any combination of container, VM and bare metal data centers operated by multiple orchestration systems. Alcide secures data centers against cyberattacks, including malicious internal activity and data exfiltration. Alcide, currently in stealth mode, empowers DevOps, security and engineering teams with simplified and autonomous control to manage and secure the evolving data center and hybrid cloud, at any scale.
Eclypsium (Portland, Ore., U.S.) provides technology that helps organizations defend their systems against firmware, hardware and supply chain attacks. The company offers organizations improved visibility for monitoring systems in their infrastructure for firmware threats and supply chain compromise, detection of firmware vulnerabilities, and improved firmware update management in endpoint systems and servers.
Intezer (Tel Aviv, Israel) develops cybersecurity solutions that apply biological immune system concepts to the cyberspace, creating the world’s first “Code Genome Database,” by mapping billions of small fragments of malicious and trusted software. Through its DNA approach to code, Intezer provides enterprises with unparalleled threat detection and accelerated incident response.
Synack (Redwood City, Calif.) provides customers a scalable, continuous, hacker-powered testing platform that uncovers security vulnerabilities that often remain undetected by traditional penetration testers and scanners. Its On-Demand Crowdsourced Security platform–which includes a network of trusted, ethical hackers worldwide–offers practical insights, analytics and actionable data that enables organizations to identify and fix security holes before criminal hackers exploit them.
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How to give the young real hope
LIKE everyone else, I have been appalled by the troubles in our cities.
By Patrick Regan, urban youth charity chief
PUBLISHED: 00:00, Sun, Aug 14, 2011
Memories of the violence, destruction and devastation will not easily fade
The violence, destruction, looting and the tragedy and devastation that have been inflicted on communities will not easily fade. These past few days have left us asking: “Why did this happen and how can we avoid it happening again?”
We need to remember those involved in these deplorable acts do not represent the vast majority of teenagers and young people who are equally appalled and saddened by what happened. I know many young people who have helped to clear up and condemn the actions of their peers.
The reasons for this terrible violence are complex. There is clearly a criminal element that is not excusable. Many of those in the pictures we have seen are not young people but men in their 20s or 30s who should know better. There are young opportunists who have got involved, sadly some very young people, but in the midst of anger and dispensing of justice we need to remember that hopeful children do not cause trouble like this.
The temptation to offer a one size fits all solution for political expediency must be avoided at all costs
These opportunists were not born criminals but are children who became young people, caught in hopelessness generated by such issues as family break down, poor housing, financial, emotional and aspirational poverty, educational failure and youth unemployment. They see little hope for a better future.
Gang culture provides a solution to coping with these problems and increasingly significant numbers of young people are making crucial choices about their future and urgently need positive alternatives. “The gangs I joined seemed the only people in the world to offer a kind of comfort and caring. The desire to feel wanted in a world that seems to regard me as scum was very powerful,” I was told by “Amy”, a former gang member.
Although it is hard to convey, it seems like the door towards having a normal life has been slammed in their faces. Over time anger, frustration and a sense of “nothing to lose” become a cancer that pervades their lives and they change from children into angry young men and women. Their behaviour and attitudes alter and as a result they are excluded from schools, communities, employment and often their own families.
Now, before I am accused of “being soft and making excuses for them”, nothing I have said here justifies or excuses these terrible events and justice needs to be done and to be seen to be done over the coming weeks. Nevertheless, as the mist rises, we need to ask why children turn to criminality in this way? Addressing this question is to begin to try to prevent this happening again.
The temptation to offer a one size fits all solution for political expediency must be avoided at all costs, we cannot solve this problem overnight. To begin with everyone in our communities must work with the police to keep families safe. Then for me there are three particular issues that need to be addressed.
There can be no excuse for unlawful behaviour but we need to recognise that the ringleaders of this violence are often all these young people have for role models and in that respect our society has failed. Through our work at XLP (an urban youth charity) we know that a good, consistent and present role mode in the life of a young person is a major contributing factor to young men and women making the positive choice to stay away from gang culture. Society has to provide compelling positive role models.
One young person said to me, “I was told I’d end up in prison or in a dead end job” but the influence of a strong, consistent and positive role model in his life has resulted in him staying in school, completing his education (he got all As!) and now he has a rewarding job and hope for the future. It can be done.
With around three quarters of young offenders describing their educational attainment as nil and almost nine out of 10 young men and young women who end up in prison having been excluded from school, we have to find a way of keeping our young people in school and helping them get a good education.
Finally, with reported youth unemployment of more than 20 per cent – nearly a million young people not in education, training or employment – we have to urgently find a way to offer meaningful employment to young people if they are to have any reason to finish their education and hope for something better in their future as part of mainstream society.
Politicians and the police need to make the right choices now to get the situation under control but they also need to take a long hard look at how we create hope for this generation.
I’ve lived in London and worked with young people and their communities for almost 20 years. If we want to have a lasting impact and see real change happen we need politicians who are prepared to listen, understand the issues and to be committed for the long haul.
Patrick Regan is XLP CEO and author of Fighting Chance (Hodder). XLP is a Christian charity that has an emphasis on being faith-based but not faith-biased. Over the past 15 years XLP has grown from working in a single school to operating in more than 60 schools and communities across Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Islington and Camden. Today, on a day-to-day basis, XLP has projects working with over 1,000 young people 1-2-1 and in small groups each week and engages with over 12,000 each year. To find out more visit www.xlp.org.uk
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Artificial intelligence: Not new to controversy
Israel Bionyi
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The idea about ‘thinking machines’ discussed in SMASH16 sparked interest and excitement, but also denial around the world.
Held in Boston, the 2016 Science and Media Awards Summit in the Hub (SMASH16) celebrated the best works of science in media, highlighting the need to effectively communicate science and creating synergies between the scientific community and the media world.
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But do we need thinking machines or automated things that act like humans and control our lives?
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Alaska Communications extends hosted VoIP service to Southcentral Alaska
Alaska Communications is making its hosted VoIP service available to large businesses and multisite enterprises that reside in Southcentral Alaska.
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TIMBALLO
Maria Grazia Cucinotta hosts a program called “In My Kitchen” where friends talk about themselves while cooking their typical, regional dishes. One day, a Neapolitan guest presents a timballo.
According to Mrs. Adelina, an Abruzzese restaurant cook in the remote town of Campli, the timballo (a casserole-type dish) is neither Neapolitan nor Sicilian. For the elderly woman, there is only one timballo—the Camplese one. Adelina picks up the phone and calls Maria Grazia. She invites the famous host to taste the real timballo in her restaurant— but bad luck is always right around the corner. A plumbing problem happens in the bathroom on the same day that Maria Grazia Cucinotta is expected to be in Campli. Nicola, fed up with his mother’s complaints, calls the plumbers. These former bricklayers turn out to be anything but clogged pipe experts. Omar, Dragan, and Samir are scrambling in an attempt to fix the toilet while Nicola is in the kitchen trying to explain to his mother that Mrs. Cucinotta will never show up: “Why would Cucinotta ever come to Abruzzo, let alone Campli, to taste your timballo!?” Yet the woman insists that Maria Grazia gave her word.
Mrs. Adelina acknowledges that the bathroom is a disaster and feels bad. Nicola slips on the wet floor and breaks an arm and a leg. The timballo is not ready yet… With much surprise to everyone, Maria Grazia Cucinotta is at the table!
The three plumbers will save the restaurant’s fate and the honor of the timballo by mustering up a lot of courage and a dash of imagination…
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
In this project, the kitchen is the true bond between cultures that come together.
Not by chance, the script revisits a traditional dish from Teramo. This process unfolds the actual meeting of seemingly different yet substantially very similar worlds. This artistic loophole highlights how valuable it might be for different cultures to meet. This story tries to overcome all barriers between our culture and that of migrants, who are guests in our country. Such hindrances too often stem from unreasonable fear.
We chose the genre of comedy to keep the narration light. Unfortunately, at least in recent years, this topic has caused distress and sadness to all of us. We are well aware of this. Through humor, we wish to analyze and tell this societal moment with its contradictions and misperceptions. In the end, we want to alert the next generation in particular, because we hope for better times where integration means growth and acceptance. It will be an honor to work with youth of different ethnicities. As for the artistic success, I want to conclude with a quote by a 19th century literature master: “Your village is the center of the world. If you speak of your village you speak of the world.” (Tolstoy)
ESSERI DI STELLE (Star people)
Lucio and Luna are imperfect beings. They are so thin that they are on the edge of fading away. The passionate, extreme, and violent love for each other reflects their starving bodies. Their problem challenges their love once Luna takes refuge at Lucio’s house.
He is a young man, around 30. She is 25. They are invisible, flawed beings—so skinny that they risk fading away. Society labels them as “anorexic”. Yet before they met, it was not just the lack of food that made them that way — it was the lack of life. They gave in to a furious struggle against themselves, one that only they could see, fight, and understand.
But what happens when they come together and start loving each other in a way that is as extreme and violent as their starving bodies? What happens when the illness of one begins to feed off that of the other until complete destruction? This is what I wanted to tell, and I did it as straightforwardly as possible.
DETAILS AND TECHNICAL SPECS
director: Adriano Giotti
production: Rai Cinema/Diero
distribution: Zenmovie Distribuzione
cast: Nataly Beck’S, Filippo Quintini, and Carmen Conesa
runtime: 14 min 59 sec
This is the parodic representation of a refined vernissage of the urban upper class turned grotesque and exhilarating buffet “attack”.
A handful of brave “servants of the motherland” are getting ready to face the banquet guests’ insatiable appetite for “power” in an epic, tragicomic, and cutthroat battle.
Buffet is an ironic and ruthless metaphor for the new human barbarism, hypocrisy, greed, and appalling individualism that has devoured our beautiful country.
Narration ranges among different styles and genres, telling a wide range of feelings and atmospheres. The director, with his style, aims at underlining the parodistic drama of events and chases it consistently through a handheld camera and long shots. The film features many close-ups, details, camera dolly movements, long tracking shots, and smooth camera motions, also to the use of a steadycam.
Costume design and scenography play a key role. All characters in the film are emblematic masks that somehow recall Fellini’s work, emphasized by meticulous hair and make-up. The sharp and experienced cast plays these characters with originality and artistry.
The original soundtrack is epic and expressive. The main theme varies to highlight the emotion of the moment, evoking Ennio Morricone’s and Hans Zimmer’s works.
Daniele Ciprì’s skillful cinematography is warm and contrasted. It is dominated by marked cuts of light, heightened colors, and the natural tones of costumes, food, and set design.
directors: Santa de Santis and Alessandro D’Ambrosi
production: IMAGO produzioni
distributor: Premiere Film
cast: Ciro Scalera, Daniele Grassetti, Francesco Mastrorilli, and Matteo Nicoletta
Warehouse worker by day. Elvis impersonator by night. One night at the club, Sandro’s performance creates so much buzz that an unlikely manager proposes him to go on tour in China. Torn between a life-long dream and the bond with his Neapolitan castrating mother, Sandro will have to do what is most difficult for him: choose.
Everything revolves around the far-fetched image of a burly and seemingly flat Elvis impersonator in present-day Naples. The story aims at a surrealist flavor based on the paradox of the character: he is much more awkward and out of place in what would seem to be his natural habitat, the warehouse, and much more comfortable and expressive where one would least expect, on a nightclub stage. We therefore managed to use a fixed camera to shoot the dull movements of the protagonist and the more jerky acting of the supporting characters that surround him from time to time. For the vital expressiveness of the character when he turns into a kind of very atypical Elvis, we instead use a camera that moves both fluidly and controlled.
director: Andrea Della Monica
production: Ladoc
distributor: Elenfant Distribution
cast: Giuseppe Fiscariello, Sergio Di Paola, Diana Di Paolo, and Marco Cavalli
runtime: 8 min
Abby wakes up every day and tells herself that this time will be different. She will not vomit. She will not hurt herself. The voice in her head will not prevail. Yesterday was the last time. Today is another day.
Nervosa explores the vicious cycle of bulimia. Immediately after feeling shame, hatred, or disgust, Abby cannot help but throw up everything she swallows. Yet even that is not enough to silence the voice of illness that weighs on her mind.
F**K DIFFERENT
At a dull disco night the young, good-looking upper bourgeois Luca is unexpectedly attracted to Susy, a girl who does not fit the standard of perfection that he is used to. Can he get over the fear of what his friends think and make a move?
Millennials’ fear of judgment and their perception of beauty is central to this short film. Social media’s impact on beauty ideals is far more influential than magazines and TV of the past. Beauty standards have gone up to where both women and men are chasing aesthetic perfection. What if a boy, belonging to the Y Generation, were attracted to a girl who does not comply with these social norms? How would he react and face his own social reality? My shots put viewers in the skin of the protagonist, so that they can touch his situation firsthand. I also address obesity in this film. In my experience, such narrations often turn into a victimization of obese people. Through F**K Different, actress Silvia Parasiliti and I worked to create a self-confident character who has learned to accept herself for who she is and who knows how to use her arsenal to conquer men. I want this character to inspire young people who, for whatever reason, may not accept their own body.
director: David Barbieri
production: Ink Production
cast: Silvia Parasaliti and Claudio Pignatello
runtime: 9 min 59 sec
LA FAIM VA TOUT DROIT
Charles pins his hopes on an imaginary love story, wishing to escape the dramatic relationship he has with food and his body.
Hunger Keeps Walking is a short film about love and loneliness. The direction was intended to narrate a little known eating disorder in an intimate and emotional way, rather than scientific and descriptive.
I decided to keep the protagonist immersed in his domestic context. This tells about both the character’s isolation and the complex everyday life where his imaginary relationship with Bijoux takes place. For this reason, the frames and shots are often wide and static. The camera moves only when Charles decides to get out of his comfort zone and his home to get involved with something beyond himself.
director: Giulia Canella
production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
cast: Phénix Brossard and Laura Doni
FOOD FOR THOUGHTS
This short film comes from a social advertising storyline. Physical laziness and comfort food are pleasant but make our lifestyle inevitably unhealthy. Many die each year because of poor eating habits, but this does not make the news.
The characters sketched by Davide’s work reflect fragments of everyday life and capture their irony. Food for Thoughts is his second internationally awarded work.
director: Davide Gentile
production: Davide Gentile/Banjo Eyes Films
cast: Ed Bar, Sim Liz, and Liz McMullen
THE SWIMSUIT SEASON
Challenges big and small accompany the seasons of life. Ayman, an overweight kid, is determined to face his insecurities by spending the day in a public pool. However, the “swimsuit test” will force him to endure a series of small obstacles to the final challenge: whether or not to face the pool crowd.
This film emerges from the urge to experiment and share. It belongs to a series of four short films on the subject of fear. Here, fear is about judgment. Twelve-year-old Ayman Mata plays the leading role. This is his first time in front of the camera. The courage and strong expressivity of Mata permeate the film to build a message that goes beyond words. I wanted the protagonist to face small obstacles. These may look like trifles for many of us, yet in fact they can indeed turn into very aggressive challenges for those who carry on the burden of insecurity. Even the extreme of escaping to a fantasy world where we pretend to be superheroes is sometimes not enough to keep away the push of reality that ends up paralyzing us. Whether Ayman chooses to go to the pool or not is irrelevant. What matters is if he will choose to free himself from his fears. The film’s music and colors inspire a sense of temporal vagueness to recall adolescence. Melodies from the ’60s and ’80s echo in the music by Alessio Zanin. Colors and shots by Luca Sabbioni (cinematographer) and Lorenzo Ameri (color grading) aim at a very saturated effect to evoke the tones of disposable cameras from the ’90s.
director: Antonino Valvo
production: Almòst videolab/See Mars Studio
cast: Ayman Mate, Nico Malaspina, Mirko Radice, and Cristian Qose
CENA DI NOTTE (DINNER AT NIGHT)
A couple of lovers meet for dinner every night. Isolation and disgust become the main ingredients of each menu, and the dishes are a slow sign of an inevitable decay. The time it takes to prepare dinner is enough to change their desire, only to reach a grueling and ‘frantic’ dessert.
Written by Joel Sánchez Sandino, this short film presents food as a vehicle for enhancing social relations. In this couple’s case, love changes over the course of the film. The degradation of food is nothing but the analogy of the degradation (or transformation) of pleasure and emotional need. This transformation takes us from point A to point Z. Desire, passion, and possession from initial-phase love in fact turn into a desire for control, obligation, and destruction during the decline. Food orchestrates the fall of this notion of love. This dark vision of love creates an opposition between idealization and distancing alongside gentleness and brutality (the two faces of desire and passion). Food art and food shallowness tell us of a deteriorating journey toward the inevitable abandonment and degradation of human relations.
director: César González Álvarez
production: Occhi di Giove/Castello Errante Residenza Internazionale del Cinema
executive producer: Adele dell’Erario
cast: Juan Gerardo Muñoz and Catalina Solís Mata
Being a kid is hard. Being yourself is even harder. Ari faces the challenges of growing up and finds courage and determination where he least expects it.
I wanted to tell the story of a character who did not like himself, of someone who felt insignificant—as if he were nothing. My goal was to show a transformative path from difficulty and humiliation to self-acceptance. This work tells about taking on the risk of being refused for the sake of becoming who we are.
director: Alex Murawski
production: Annmaree J Bell
cast: Jaxon-Graham Wilson, Tiarnie Coupland, and Alan Dukes
IL VIAGGIO (The Journey)
Fellini got it absolutely right: life is a combination of magic and pasta.
This is my first film on food. I took this step because I believe that food is one of the few things that can bring people together. Friends and family gather around the table to share something real, and this is especially true in Italy.
director: David Corini
producer: David Corini
PASTA AMARA (BITTER COCOA)
This portrait of Don Luigi Baglieri, the last traveling chocolate maker in Europe, carries on his father’s ancient tradition that has belonged to Modica, Sicily for hundreds of years.
director: Ivano Fachin
Il Festival si propone di presentare “storie”, “fiction”, documentari che affrontino la complessità delle tematiche oggetto del bando.
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Man Utd respond after worrying racism arrest figures emerge
Date published: Tuesday 18th June 2019 8:42
Manchester United supporters have been involved in more football-related arrests where racism was an aggravating factor or a feature than any other club in England in the four seasons up to 2017-18, data from the Home Office shows.
Data released under a Freedom of Information request by the Press Association shows that 27 individuals recorded as United fans by police were arrested during the seasons 2014-15 to 2017-18.
Championship clubs Leeds and Millwall each had 15 supporters arrested, while Leicester had 14 and Chelsea 13.
The 2018-19 season in England was marred by a series of racism-related incidents and arrests. Data for the season just ended is set to be released later this summer.
Where racism has been recorded as a feature of an incident, it requires the arresting officer to tick a box, which is why the Home Office says the overall accuracy of the data cannot be guaranteed.
Manchester United pointed to the fact their large attendances meant the percentage of their supporters involved was miniscule.
A club spokesperson said: “There is no place for racism within our game, or in society as a whole, and we are committed to working to make football free from all forms of discrimination, whether through our own ‘All Red All Equal’ campaign or in support of Kick It Out and other organisations.
“This statistic applies to 0.0004 per cent of our matchgoing fanbase. I does not reflect the views or behaviour of our fans as a whole in any way. We continue with monitoring and liaison with authorities to try and identify and eradicate any forms of discriminatory behaviour, and we take appropriate action if it occurs.”
It is understood there are 69,000 home fans among the 72,000 supporters for each match at Old Trafford, with a minimum of 3,000 United fans at every away game.
The club first developed the #allredallequal campaign, against all forms of discrimination, during the 2016-17 season.
United also have a ‘virtual steward’ text message process to allow fans to report issues like racist abuse.
The data shows an overall total of 107 arrests where racism was recorded as a feature during the 2014-15 season, rising to 114 in 2015-16. The figure then dropped over the next two seasons, with 94 arrests recorded in 2016-17 and just 75 in 2017-18.
Other clubs with arrests in double figures are West Ham (11), with Barnsley, Manchester City, Middlesbrough and Sunderland all on 10.
In 2018-19 England forward Raheem Sterling alleged he was racially abused during a match for his club Manchester City at Chelsea. The Crown Prosecution Service announced in April that there was insufficient evidence that the words used by a Chelsea fan were racially aggravated.
England’s black players suffered abuse during a Euro 2020 qualifier away to Montenegro in March, while a Tottenham supporter was handed a four-year football ban and a £500 fine for throwing a banana skin towards Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in December last year.
Anti-discrimination body Kick It Out reported last November that there were 520 reports of discriminatory abuse during the 2017-18 season, an 11 per cent increase on the previous campaign and the sixth year in a row where the figure had risen.
Fifty-three per cent of those reports concerned alleged racist abuse.
In response to the Home Office data obtained by the Press Association concerning arrests, a statement from Kick It Out read: “These figures show racism is a nationwide problem shared by clubs of all different sizes in all parts of the country.
“We support them in challenging racism and other forms of discrimination, and will continue our programme of education in the game to help reduce this problem.”
Here is the full list of football-related arrests where racism was a feature during the seasons 2014-15 to 2017-18, broken down by the club supported.
Man Utd 27
Millwall 15
Leicester 14
Chelsea 13
West Ham 11
Barnsley 10
Man City 10
Middlesbrough 10
Sunderland 10
Fulham 9
Not Completed 8
Rotherham 8
Aston Villa 7
Arsenal 6
West Brom 6
Nottm Forest 5
Tranmere 5
Bournemouth 4
Brentford 4
Bristol Rovers 4
Gillingham 4
QPR 4
Sheff Utd 4
Tottenham 4
Wolves 4
AFC Wimbledon 3
Bolton 3
Bradford 3
Burnley 3
Club Brugge 3
Sheff Wed 3
Anderlecht 2
Bristol City 2
Charlton 2
Coventry 2
Grimsby 2
Port Vale 2
Rochdale 2
Accrington 1
Barrow 1
Bromley 1
Bury 1
Colchester 1
Crystal Palace 1
Doncaster 1
Leyton Orient 1
MK Dons 1
Notts County 1
Stevenage 1
Wigan 1
Wycombe 1
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Liverpool and Manchester United players could be in hot water after revelation
Date: 16th March 2016 at 3:00am
By Coral Barry
A referee voted the ‘worst’ in the 2014 World Cup is to officiate the latest installment of the fierce Liverpool and Manchester United rivalry.
The historic enemies meet in the second leg of their last 16 Europa League tie a week after Liverpool cruised to a 2-0 victory against United at Anfield.
That encounter produced six yellow cards, one unpunished elbow by Marouane Fellaini on Emre Can and was refereed by the famously card-happy Carlos Velasco Carballo.
Carballo had previously produced 80 cards in his last 12 matches, including six reds, but Thursday’s referee Milorad Mazic could be even more strict on the pitch.
Liverpool defenders Dejan Lovren and Alberto Moreno are both just one yellow card away from a suspension.
The Serbian’s name might not ring a bell, but the games he oversaw at the last World Cup will.
Mazic took charge of Germany’s 4-0 demolition of Portugal and then Argentina’s narrow 1-0 victory over Iran in the tournament.
Mazic awarded a suspect penalty in Germany’s favour, before sending off Portugal’s Pepe for a headbutt.
On the brink: Lovren and Moreno at risk of missing next Europa League game if cautioned
His next game was just as controversial after dismissing strong claims for a penalty from Iran before Argentina went on to steal a late win.
Mazic’s performance led to Iran filing a formal complaint against him to FIFA after the game.
Redcardtheref.com then bestowed the worst of honours on Mazic when they voted him the ‘worst’ official at the tournament.
The website, which acts as a watchdog for referees, ran a poll that attracted 110,000 voters and 87, 361 of them picked Mazic as the winner.
In other Liverpool news, Charlie Nicholas has identified one United player that can rescue the tie.
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In the shadow of genocide: Rwanda's reconciliation
Date created : 11/04/2019 - 22:30 Latest update : 11/04/2019 - 22:31
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April 7 marked 25 years since the Rwandan genocide, when 800,000 people were slaughtered. Most victims were from the Tutsi community, most of the perpetrators were Hutu. A quarter of a century on, the government believes that reconciliation has taken firm root.
Also, for more than a year, Chadians have not been able to access social media networks. Critics says it's unacceptable censorship but the government insists it's a necessary part of the struggle against terrorism.
And a new exhibition at Paris's Musée d'Orsay highlights works of art inspired and made by people of colour.
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Summer is Lyme Season – What That Means for Disability Claims
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A mild winter is usually followed by an increase in the number of ticks in the spring and summer. This summer, the number of ticks that carry several disease have increased, as have the number of ticks infected with diseases that threaten humans.
In addition to Lyme, people need to know about the Powassan virus, a life-threatening virus transmitted by three different types of ticks, including the deer tick that transmits Lyme disease. The number of cases in the US have been on the increase for the past ten years.
In a report from CNN, Dr. Jennifer Lyons, chief of the Division of Neurological Infections and Inflammatory Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said that about 15% of patients who are infected with Powassan and have symptoms will not survive. Anyone who suspects they may have been bitten by a tick should immediately get tested for both Lyme and Powassan. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that many people who become infected with the Powassan viruses do not develop symptoms. Those who do develop symptoms may experience fever, headache, vomiting, weakness, confusion, loss of coordination, speech difficulties and seizures.
Good News About Lyme Disease
There’s good news about Lyme disease coming from Virginia Tech, where a biochemist has discovered the cellular cause of the arthritis caused by Lyme disease that could lead to its eventual prevention.
Biochemist Brandon Jutras and his team found that as the bacteria that cause Lyme disease multiply, they shed the molecule peptidoglycan, which then seeps into the joints. Some patients then experience an antibody reaction that creates swelling in the joints, especially in the knees.
Lyme arthritis is a late-stage symptom of Lyme disease and effects from the disease often linger for many years, long after the bacterium are treated with antibiotics.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be a key to diagnosing and treating Lyme disease, as well as Lyme arthritis.
What about Lyme Disease, Powassan Disease and Disability Claims?
Lyme disease is a frequent cause for disability claims, and one that is often difficult for claimants. The symptoms vary widely, as does the intensity of the disease. One person could have Lyme disease one summer and experience debilitating arthritis for years afterwards. Another could have Lyme disease and never know it because of a complete lack of symptoms.
Frankel & Newfield represents many people with Lyme disease and its aftereffects. We are experienced with the techniques, tactics and strategies used by the disability insurance companies who are trying to minimize their exposure to an illness that effect around 300,000 people every year, according to The Centers for Disease Control.
If you have been diagnosed with Lyme Disease or any tick-borne disease and are no longer able to work, call our office at 877-583-2524. Learn how we can help.
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TeamLogic IT, a national provider of comprehensive information technology (IT) management services for businesses, is working to champion awareness of the threat cyber attacks pose to all organizations, in particular small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Social engineering techniques such as ransomware and phishing abound, and SMBs and leadership often lack both the resources and awareness around risks and what to do to prevent attacks and what to do when they happen. This leaves many in the dark regarding data breaches and measures to ensure business continuity.
In 2016, according to a “State of SMB Cybersecurity” research report, nearly one half of all small businesses in the United States had been breached over the previous 12 months, and security software firm Symantec recently reported that small businesses are the targets of cybercrime 43% of the time.
“Cybercriminals are most often looking for vulnerabilities in organizational behaviors – lack of IT management sophistication, lack of policy or enforcement of policy and lack of cybersecurity awareness – more than weaknesses in hardware or software,” said Chuck Lennon, president of TeamLogic IT.
In response, business technology is evolving rapidly from tactical support to the need for a strategic initiative to address issues of security and compliance. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are championing the need for data backup and disaster recovery, managed security, cloud, mobility and other IT services. Further, MSPs are arming business owners with risk mitigation tools and identifying operational inefficiencies with services like these, which are no longer trends, but imperative to success in today’s cyber world.
Some of the key issues TeamLogic IT sees SMBs confronting are:
Nonexistent or inconsistent network security monitoring. An SMB may be watching the performance of its network but not the network’s level of cybersecurity.
Nonexistent or inadequate mobile policy. For example, what happens when an employee loses a smartphone or tablet tied to the company’s network? And how soon does it happen?
Sloppy software maintenance. The updates and patches to a firm’s software applications may not be applied on a timely basis – or at all.
Lennon added, “Digital technologies enable SMBs to operate at a scope and scale similar to a large corporation, but the typical SMB leader doesn’t have the same resources and breadth of staff available. Meanwhile, all businesses today rely heavily on seamless, uninterrupted connections, website performance and a structured IT framework. The right MSP can help a company of any size adopt security best practices tailored to their specific needs.”
For four years running TeamLogic IT has been recognized on the MSPmentor 501 list of global managed services providers, ranking number 36 in 2017, and recently earned a spot in The Channel Company’s CRN® MSP 500 list of North American managed services providers. Franchise Business Review has ranked TeamLogic IT a Top 50 franchise for 10 years and the number 1 technology franchise for the last six years. The company was ranked number 143 in Entrepreneur magazine’s 2016 Annual Franchise 500.
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TeamLogic IT is a national provider of advanced technology solutions for companies of all sizes. Local offices provide clients with the IT support they need to run their businesses more efficiently by leveraging the latest technology solutions including managed IT services, network security, business continuity, unified communications, cloud services, mobility solutions, and consulting and support. We deliver the highest levels of IT availability, security and flexibility. With more than 100 locations across North America, TeamLogic IT helps companies minimize downtime and improve productivity.
For more information, visit www.TeamLogicIT.com or www.teamlogicfranchising.com.
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Maria Chin receives bullet in mail
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PETALING JAYA: Fresh after being released from solitary confinement, Maria Chin Abdullah, came back home yesterday to find a bullet among her mail, together with a death threat.
The threatening note and .45mm bullet were believed to have been hand-delivered to her home on Nov 18, on the eve of the Bersih 5 rally and on the same day she was arrested.
The threatening note, the third in recent months read: “Last Warning if not R.I.P Marina and Family”.
“They got the wrong person,” said Maria, who is Bersih 2.0 chairman.
Referring to the wrong spelling of her name, Maria joked: “They always do.”
“I’ve also received WhatsApp messages. I can’t say I’m used to these death threats. I think it’s really disgusting and horrendous for people to stoop so low to do these kinds of things to me and my family,” she said.
Speaking after the hearing of her habeas corpus application today at the High Court, Maria also talked about her time in solitary confinement under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act, or Sosma.
“There’s no airwell or any such opening in the room. When I leave the cell, there were big black goggles and handcuffs so I would not know where I am,” she said.
“I asked for three things: a lawyer, to see my family, and my Quran at home. They could not give me my Quran, but offered an alternative.
“My lawyer and family were refused visits. They gave a lot of excuses, but I do know that they have family visits every Sunday,” she said, adding that she was not allowed any visit from her family on the second Sunday.
Maria said that she finally received a Quran and blanket after two days in solitary confinement with the help of Suhakam.
The lights (in the room), she said, were kept permanently on.
“The room is completely sealed, so you don’t know whether it is morning or night when you wake up,” Maria said.
She said that she was subjected to long interrogations every day, with each session taking between six and eight hours.
She was questioned on her work with Bersih and link to billionaire George Soros.
She did not discount the possibility of a second arrest under the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA), as mentioned earlier today by Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar.
“I would think that is a threat. They have to give us reasons why they are arresting me under the Peaceful Assembly Act when everything went peacefully.
“It is not that we didn’t give notice, said Maria, adding that notice was given way before the 10-day stipulated period before the event.
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Tarrant County officials have one less excuse to hide behind this week.
The Weekly’s Dec. 7, 2005, cover story (“Jail House Blues”) described how many inmates received little or no information on the county’s pre-trial services program – which gets non-violent, low-level offenders out of jail on personal recognizance bonds instead making them pay a private bond company a lot of money – in part because county commissioners wouldn’t allow info on the program to be posted in jail booking areas. Commissioners had said they were waiting for a ruling on whether posting such information might constitute giving legal advice (yeah, right).
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has now come through with an opinion that should get a lot of folks off the county room-and-board bill while awaiting trial. Abbott ruled that posting such general info is legal – and that there’s also nothing in the law to prevent pre-trial workers from interviewing inmates in Fort Worth’s downtown holding facility, before they get shipped to city-contracted jail space in Mansfield.
Many judges and lawyers say the county hides info about pre-trial release as a favor to the politically active (read: generously contributing) private bond industry. Abbott’s ruling says pre-trial release info should be every bit as available in jails as the phone numbers of bond agents. Common sense says the same thing, which is why county commissioners had to ask someone else for an opinion.
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The reporter was humorously fatalistic, a melding of emotions common among ink-stained wretches in times of crisis. “Every time I get an e-mail from an editor I’m afraid to open it,” he said with a laugh, describing the mood among Fort Worth Star-Telegram staffers these days. Newsroom employees have slowly been whittled down by attrition (and occasional firings) during recent years as Cowtown’s daily newspaper and its owner, the Knight Ridder news chain, struggled to appease shareholders during an era of dwindling revenues and increased competition from television and online news sources. “We must make sacrifices!” has joined “We must fill our news holes with stories that don’t piss off advertisers!” as newsroom mantras. Ever since November, when Knight Ridder’s largest shareholder demanded that the company be sold, reporters have been looking over their shoulders more often than Mike Moncrief at a family reunion.
No doubt, most reporters would rather see CEO Tony Ridder and other high-level executives get a golden shower than the golden parachutes proposed for them in 2006. The company’s compensation committee recently determined that Ridder’s bonus should be increased to 95 percent of salary, a full 10 percent increase over the previous year. Other bigwigs are also in line for increases, even as typically underpaid reporters and editors hang on for their lives. Maybe the extra money will help ease Ridder’s reported depression about seeing the family business in jeopardy, even though his weak leadership and wafting allegiance to journalistic principles helped put the newspaper chain on shaky ground to begin with.
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Once all the peppers have been picked, the last leg of the leaves’ and stems’ journey takes them to the compost heap. Researchers from Jülich, Aachen and Bonn don’t think that this needs to be the case. They are investigating whether valuable substances can be extracted from the unused plant leftovers for use in medicine, cosmetics and the food industry. In the end, the vegetable farmer could profit: he sells not only the fruit, but also the accessory agents.
They are crisp, fresh and healthy: bell peppers. The fruit from the nightshade family has long since landed in salads, frying pans or on the grill in all colours all year round. It’s no wonder that farmers in Germany are growing more peppers. Classically, they sow the peppers in the greenhouse, take good care of them, harvest the bell peppers and sell them. Leaves, stems and roots end up as compost. Dr. Anika Wiese-Klinkenberg from the Plant Sciences (IBG-2) section finds that these are “squandered resources”.
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Plant physiologist and paprika researcher Dr. Anika Wiese-Klinkenberg.
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In the TaReCa joint research project, the plant physiologist, together with colleagues from RWTH Aachen University and the University of Bonn, is developing technologies to utilise the plant’s leaves and stems as well: “After the fruit harvest, we use the plant as a production factory for valuable substances known as secondary metabolites.” These include pigments, fragrances and flavours, but also poisonous and bitter substances as well as antioxidants. Such plant constituents are particularly interesting for medicine and the cosmetics and food industries.
The plants use these substances to attract insects or fend off vermin such as viruses, fungi or bacteria. They produce the bioactive substances when they are under stress, for instance, such as from too much sun. “For example, plants cannot put up an umbrella to protect themselves from too much ultraviolet light and therefore form secondary metabolites that absorb the ultraviolet light,” explains Wiese-Klinkenberg. The Jülich scientists want to produce such stress reactions in a controlled manner so that the plant produces more secondary metabolites and the residual mass from paprika production is upgraded.
Scientists know of over 100,000 such secondary plant substances. These include the flavonoids cynaroside and graveobioside A, which are also formed by the paprika and in which the Jülich researchers are interested. “We also want to examine the paprika leaves for other interesting ingredients, however.”
In recent years, the number of patent applications involving the substance cynaroside has increased. “We therefore assume that cynaroside is an ingredient with promising market potential for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries,” explains Wiese-Klinkenberg. Graveobioside A is known to act against insect egg deposition: In the long term, it could be used as a natural biocide.
In order to stimulate the production of the two substances, the scientists put the plants under stress in climatic chambers: with common salt in the nutrient solution, with low temperatures and ultraviolet light, or they deprived them of their nutrients. “The salt stress was the most effective. Through the combination of salt addition and other stress factors such as cold, we have succeeded in increasing the cynaroside content in the leaves tenfold. That was a surprising success,” says the researcher excitedly. The researchers were also able to measure a triple increase in the concentration of graveobioside A in certain salt stress combinations: “We get about 20 mg graveobioside A per gram of dry weight. That’s a good yield.”
Greenhouse paprika cultivation in Germany grew from 41 hectares in protected cultivation in 2008 to 108 hectares in 2018. In 2018, the gardeners harvested an average of 136 tons per hectare, which is around 14,700 tons in total (figures: Federal Statistical Office ). However, this covers only a fraction of domestic demand. The imports amounting to 394,000 tons (2018, source: Federal Statistical Office) come mainly from Spain, the Netherlands, Hungary and Turkey. The world’s largest pepper producer in 2017 was China with 17.8 million tons. Spain, the largest European grower, ranked 5th with 1.3 million tons (figures: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - FAO).
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The scientists are now working on better coordinating the interaction of optimal salt dosage, treatment duration and various stress factors, because “too much” means that the plant dies and drops its leaves, “too little” means too little yield. “In addition, the vegetable farmer also needs a measurement method to control how stress works,” says the researcher. “For this, we use non-invasive methods with photos and colour analyses, because the colour of the leaves, for example, changes with the stress.”
Recognising market potential
Vegetable farmers in particular could benefit from these research approaches: they sell not only the fruits, but also the accessory agents from the rest of the plant. “In order to assess the market potential of individual ingredients and possible areas of application, the TaReCa joint research project involves not only plant researchers, horticulturists and process engineers, but also economists,” explains Wiese-Klinkenberg. For example, they can calculate whether the farmer should dry the leaves and stems himself or whether a large contractor should collect them: the drying process would significantly reduce transport costs, but the vegetable farmer would have to invest in a drying oven.
The peppers in the salad, the flavonoids extracted – what remains is the fully exploited pepper plant, which no longer ends up in the compost, but in a biorefinery, where it is converted into platform chemicals for many other industrial products and has, thus, finally completed its service. The value chain is thus extended, economic added value is generated and a valuable substance is produced in a resource-saving manner – an example of a successful bioeconomy. And this not limited to the peppers. “Long term, we want to apply the new processes and technologies to other horticultural plants,” says Wiese-Klinkenberg. Her next favourite: the cucumber.
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TaReCa – the acronym stands for the joint project “Tailoring of secondary metabolism in horticultural residuals and cascade utilization for a resource efficient production of valuable bioactive compounds”. TaReCa is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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Delgado struggles as Braves fall to Rays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Randall Delgado was done in by too many walks.
Alex Cobb won his first start of the season, Matt Joyce hit a grand slam and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Atlanta Braves 5-2 Saturday.
Delgado (2-4) lasted just four innings, allowing four runs, three hits and five walks.
After Tampa Bay loaded the bases on a pair of a walks and a single in the third, Joyce put the Rays up 4-2 when he sent a 2-0 pitch from Delgado over the center-field fence.
“I was looking for the double play,” Delgado said. “I tried to keep the ball down, but it caught the middle and he hit it.”
Delgado threw just 43 of 84 pitches for strikes.
“His stuff was there,” Braves catcher Brian McCann said. “Today was just one of those days where he couldn’t locate as well as he wanted.”
The five walks were a career high.
“It was a learning start for him,” Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “Just fell behind hitters. When you’re dealing with a young kid, there’s going to be times like this.”
Cobb (1-0) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings. He retired his last 10 batters.
Cobb was recalled from Triple-A Durham on Friday night to take the place of Jeff Niemann, who is on the 60-day disabled list with an injured right leg. The 24-year-old righty went 3-2 in nine starts for Tampa Bay last season.
Joel Peralta pitched the eighth before Fernando Rodney got the final three outs for his 13th save.
The Braves had scoring chances in each of the first four innings, but Cobb induced two double-play grounders.
“We kind of let him off the hook I think there early,” McCann said. “Then he fell into a rhythm and he got ahead of everybody after that. The fourth inning, he started really pounding the zone, really trusting his fastball.”
Braves third baseman Chipper Jones was out of the lineup because of a bruised left calf. He took a hard one-hop shot off the bat of B.J. Upton in Friday night’s 5-3 win over the Rays. Gonzalez is hopeful Jones will be able to play again by Monday.
Sean Rodriguez extended the Rays’ advantage to 5-2 on a sixth-inning solo homer.
Juan Francisco had an RBI single and Eric Hinske hit a sacrifice fly as the Braves took a 2-0 lead in the second.
The Rays threatened during the second, but Braves right fielder Jason Heyward caught Will Rhymes’ fly ball and then threw out Carlos Pena, who tried to score from third.
Rhymes returned to the lineup after missing two games with a bruised right forearm. He was hit by a pitch Wednesday, fainted after walking to first base and had to be driven off the field on a cart.
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The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Announce 'So Delicious' Tour
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band will begin the North American leg of their new tour on February 25 in Chicago, Ill.
The So Delicious tour will reach 50 U.S. markets including the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival before hitting international territories in May and then again next fall.
The tour is preceded by a week of in-store appearances at independent record stores around the country.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band bridges genres and eras with an intensity and effortlessness few contemporary artists possess. Their new album So Delicious elevates the trio’s work to a new level.
Produced by Rev. Peyton, So Delicious, due out February 17, 2015, offers the band’s most diverse collection of songs yet, buoyed by the Rev.’s supercharged six-string virtuosity — a unique style of fingerpicking inspired by his Delta blues heroes, but taken to new, original heights.
The fifth full-length original album by the group — which includes Breezy Peyton on washboard and supporting vocals and Ben Bussell on drums and supporting vocals — is their debut on Shanachie/Yazoo Records, a label known for the historic reissues of blues and other forms of old-time American music that are the bedrock inspiration for the Rev.’s sound and approach.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has always been strong on authenticity, blending blues, ragtime, folk, country and other traditional styles with the sleek modern energy of do-it-yourself, homespun, punk-fueled rock. The tunes are plucked from the Big Damn Band’s lives, their community or from the canonical songbook that fed the Rev. Peyton’s formative creative identity. It’s a mix that’s allowed the band to win fans from all corners of the Americana and rock worlds, and bring a new generation to blues and other roots music.
So Delicious is a perfect Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band album, with songs that speak from the heart and capture the trio — whose sound has been honed over 250 annual road dates during the last eight years — playing at their peak. That constant touring lead the band to be awarded “Best Band of the Warped Tour” and to the stages of famed festivals such as Austin City Limits, Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, WOMAD, Telluride, Cambridge Folk, All Good, King Biscuit, Juke Joint and DelFest, among many other prestigious gigs.
The band’s last record, Between the Ditches, which debuted at number one on the iTunes blues chart and landed on Billboard’s pop albums chart in 2012, continued the momentum, bringing the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band to an even larger, demographic-leaping audience thanks to the powerhouse songs “Devils Look Like Angels” and “Something for Nothing,” which were video and radio hits.
Now So Delicious offers a feast of new music from the Rev. and his accomplices.
“I can’t wait to get out on the road and bring this record to the fans. We have made a record we are so proud of, but there is nothing that compares to the interaction and community of our live show,” he says.
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Tom Brady Featured In New UGG For Men ‘For Gamechangers’ Spot
UGG for Men is launching a four-month long campaign that celebrates men from all walks of life who illustrate dedication, talent and passion in their day-to-day lives. Each month will present a different theme: For Game Changers, For Role Models, For Leaders, For Mentors.
New England Patriots QB Tom Brady is featured in a new spot called For Gamechangers that chronicles his journey from high school athlete to Super Bowl-winning NFL player and consummate man of character.
You can watch the 60-second video below:
“The bus is one of my favorite places to be,” said Tom Brady. “We have this focused energy that builds as we prepare for battle and there is a sense of camaraderie you can’t find anywhere else.” UGG brings this energy through the spot, which was shot on a custom-built 250-foot set on a sound stage in Los Angeles, which took almost two full weeks to design, fabricate, and erect.
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Health department names Clean Plate Award winners
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GALION — These 2016 Clean Plate Award recipients were honored by the Galion City Health Department on May 9. All of the winners were recognized and given a framed certificate.
The winners included: DK’s Drive In; Galion Booster Club – Football Concession; Galion Booster Club – High School Concession; Galion Golden Age Center, Galion High School, Galion; Intermediate School; Galion Middle School; Galion Pointe; Galion Primary School; Home Care Matters; Sara Beegle Child Day Care; and St. Joseph Catholic School.
Special congratulations went to the Galion City Schools, Galion Pointe, and St. Joseph’s Catholic School for having received awards for the second year in a row.
Th e CleanPlate Award program was established in 2014 to recognize Galion food service operations and retail food establishments that consistently demonstrate a commitment to protecting the public’s health. It is a voluntary program and an application is required to be considered for the award.
Eligibility for an award is based on having met the following criteria:
Have a valid food service operation (FSO) or retail food establishment (RFE) license
Have at least 1 full licensing year’s inspection data
Have the same licensee for at least 1 year
Have no confirmed foodborne illness within 2 years
Have no administrative hearings within 2 years
Post a written employee health policy
Have at l east 1 person in charge per shift certified in Level 1 Food Protection or above
Earn a composite performance score of at least 90 points.
Data collected during the 2016 license year — March 1, 2016 -through February 28, 2017) — was the basis for the most recent awards. The performance score comes from a facility’s compliance with the Ohio Uniform Food Safety Code and implementation of best practices.
While a perfect record — with no violations during the year — is the goal, a facility can have a small number of violations, primarily those that are non-critical and corrected at the time of inspection, and still be eligible for the award.
“The standards in the state rules that food facilities are required to meet become higher over time, and the state agencies that oversee the food safety program expect inspectors to be thorough,” said Environmental Health Director Stephanie Zmuda. “Food managers and employees are working harder to meet these high standards and they deserve to be recognized for their efforts.
“I truly enjoy having the opportunity to present awards to those who are so dedicated to their work and keeping the foods they serve safe.”
It is noteworthy that some facilities that meet eligibility requirements do not apply for the award. Though everyone is encouraged to apply who may be eligible, consideration is being given to waiving the application and presenting awards to all eligible facilities in the coming year.
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Cameron joins Del Toro At The Mountains Of Madness
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How do you convince a major studio to let you film a bleak horror movie that will cost a packet to make, and is unlikely to dodge a box-office damaging “R” rating? You get James Cameron on board, that’s how.
Guillermo Del Toro has long spoken of his desire to make an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness , whilst admitting that the sprawling sci-fi-cum-horror-cum-adventure yarn would be a tricky sell.
However, with the director’s schedule newly freed up by his departure from The Hobbit , Deadline reports that Universal has greenlit the project, with Cameron attached to produce. The film will be shot in 3D (surprise surprise), and follows an expedition of scientists who discover some age-old life-forms living in the mountains of Antarctica.
At The Mountains Of Madness will go into pre-production in the next few weeks, with a view to a 2011 shoot. Del Toro is currently re-working the script from a draft he’s been touting around the studios for years, with help from his Haunted Mansion writer Matthew Robbins.
Sounds like we’re going to be getting a genuine 3D horror movie then, as opposed to the splatter-vision hysterics of My Bloody Valentine or the upcoming Saw sequel. And who better to deliver it than Cameron and Del Toro? Think of the Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth …now think of him shuffling out of the screen! *Shudder*
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William, 8, takes on roller-skating marathon for diabetes charity
By Robbie Bryson
A BOY with diabetes who wears roller skates around the house he is embarking on a roller-marathon to help fight the disease.
William Weir, eight, who attends Heathlands School in West Bergholt, wants to become the youngest person ever to complete the feat.
The idea came about when, despite his enthusiasm, William realised he was too young to join his uncle Dr William Tayler, 30, in the London Marathon.
Instead, with the help of Rollerworld Colchester, he will attempt to skate 26.2 miles - or 300 laps - on April, 6, raising money for type 1 diabetes charity JDRF.
William was diagnosed with the illness three years ago and now requires an insulin pump, which delivers small amounts into his bloodstream every few minutes.
Since then he has become a regular collaborator with the charity and has given speeches, presentations and accepted cheques on their behalf.
In 2013, he raised almost £14,000 for JDRF when he cycled 10 miles shortly after his diagnosis with type 1 diabetes.
William’s skating obsession started when he had a roller-skating party for his seventh birthday.
Since then he has not stopped practicing.
He said: “I am doing my grade six and then I have got to get up to nine.
“After nine you can start teaching or competitions.
“When I am older I would like to be a doctor and I want to find the cure for type 1 diabetes.
“My Mum is hoping that the research that JDRF is funding will find the cure before then.”
William will not be completely alone in attempting the skating marathon. His sister Charlotte, who is six, will be riding half of the way with him.
His mum Ruth Weir said: “He wears his skates around the house. Roller-skating he will do at any moment of the day.
“We have got friends and family going to watch, there will be people cheering him on.”
Mrs Weir has contacted the Guinness Book of World Records to see if William’s achievement can be recognised as the youngest ever person to complete a roller marathon.
To sponsor William or his uncle visit justgiving.com/William-Tayler
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"A new way to look at dance movement, as an expressive freedom through energetic channels."
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Hilal Dance is the art-dance based on the creative, theatrical and educational work of Suraya Hilal. Drawing upon her extensive research of many years, she has created a contemporary dance founded on a complete and holistic system of movement that resonates on many levels and traverses cultural boundaries. Its roots lie in the integration of eastern and western elements, intrinsically merged to produce a coherent and universal language.
Hilal Dance is taught in diverse contexts; from schools to social events in the community, without limitation of age, physical ability, social status or ethnicity. Its idiom is understood as an artistic and creative experience, promoting the capacity in every person to communicate through expression.
The movement concepts develop in the body across horizontal, vertical and concentric lines that interweave in space and time. The vocabulary has a logical and distinctive approach based on the body’s natural dynamics that work with gravity, shifting the weight and harnessing the energy, promoting connectivity with lyrical and dramatic expressions.
Hilal Dance, ultimately, captures the pure energy of what everyone loves about dance. It combines the joy and freedom of movement, with the refinement of line and expression. With its strong rhythmic and fluid movement, and subtle textures, the dance promotes integrated body alignment, fitness, flexibility and a complete union of body and mind.
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Town of Hinton Snow Clearing Plan: Feb. 13-21, 2018
With significant snowfall accumulation, The Town of Hinton is aware of difficulty experienced by area residents and travellers. We ask for your patience while we work to make our area roadways as safe as possible for all drivers. ISB staff have set in motion a systemic plan, which we wish to share with you below. The plan attempts to take into account long term forecasts for both warming and cooling, as well as the rotational basis for priority of residential clearing; please note, however, that these plans are subject to change.
Above all, the Town of Hinton asks that drivers please watch for our staff and make all attempts to give them space to work, including proactively moving vehicles and not passing plow and truck teams, as this can cause dangerous conditions for staff and other drivers alike.
The first priority for Town of Hinton staff is our main arterial routes. With most of the main roadways travelable, Town staff and contractors will soon be, or already are, working in residential areas. Residential areas will be addressed in the following order over the coming days. Please note that the plan is weather dependant – should any significant snowfall occur, staff will need to return to main arteries.
Timelines from our previous update have been pushed back due to necessary snow drift mitigation and slower than anticipated progress moving through areas. Currently, crews are anticipated to address Balsam, Fir, and Wanyandi, as well as some areas of Mountain, over the course of operations on Wednesday.
Thursday will see crews address the north side of the Mountain Street area, the Eaton area, as well as drift cleanup work throughout the community. Please note that while drift cleanup occurs, crews may move into your area, clear drifts, and then move on; this does not necessarily mean residential cleanup is considered completed in your area.
Friday; Possibly Saturday, Conditions Dependant
Crews are expected to be working in the Mcleod area on Friday, and may continue working in that area on Saturday.
The Terrace Heights area is anticipated to be addressed early next week, followed by the areas behind Parks West Mall. Following the completion of these two areas, crews will be moving into the Thompson Lake Subdivision.
Please note that the plan is weather dependant – should any significant snowfall occur, staff will need to return to main arteries.
Why No Valley Locations Yet?
The Town of Hinton operates a three year alternating cycle of priority for residential clearing, in effort to ensure fairness to all residents. This cycle divides the areas of Hinton into three portions. Last year, the Valley Area received first priority; this year, the Hill does. Next year, the Thompson Lake area will receive priority, and the year following, the Valley once again.
Please note, just because areas in the Valley are currently in lower priority rotation does not mean that urgent concerns, Valley arterial routes, or snowdrifts in this area will not be addressed - these concerns are dealt with either before, or while, residential clearing takes place.
Thank you for your patience. Please call 780-865-2634 for further information.
Home Sidewalk Clearing
It is important to also note that homeowners and occupants have a responsibility in snow clearing. As per the Town of Hinton's Nuisance Bylaw (1101), a property owner is responsible for the removal of snow, ice, and other debris on all sidewalks fronting or flanking the property. In failing to remove the snow and ice, the property owner becomes liable for any accident or injury resulting or caused by such. For the safety of all persons, the Town of Hinton requests that all property owners maintain their sidewalks as necessitated by weather conditions.
Please also note that as per Bylaw 1101 (Nuisance bylaw) approved on October 6th, 2015, the disposal of snow from private lands to public lands requires expressed permission from the CAO.
Please contact Bylaw Services at 780-865-6009 for more information.
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Stolen car crashes into police vehicle and abandoned in Halifax
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Published: 08:42 Updated: 08:54 Friday 15 July 2016
A thief armed with a Stanley knife crashed a stolen car into a police vehicle before abandoning it in Halifax.
The yellow Seat Leon was stolen around 9.45pm on Wednesday June 29 after it was parked by the owners on Bay Hall Common Road, Huddersfield.
When they returned an unknown male approached the vehicle and engaged the victims, a man and woman in their early 20’s, in conversation, as the female victim got in to the drivers side.
As the male victim attempted to get in to the car, the suspect blocked the door and threatened him with what is believed to be a Stanley knife and demanded the keys.
The first victim got out of the car as the suspect got in and drove off a speed in the direction of Halifax Old Road.
Neither of the victims were injured.
The vehicle was seen a short time later, around 10.10pm, sighted on Manchester Road in Bradford driving at speed.
It was followed by a marked police car, but then reversed in to it, leaving the police car undrivable and made off from the scene. The driver of the police vehicle was uninjured.
The vehicle was found the following day on Thursday June 30, abandoned near Gibbet Street in Halifax.
The suspect is described as an Asian male in his late 20’s to early 30’s around 5”7” tall of slim build. He had short black hair and was wearing a blue and black coloured hooded top.
Police Constable Kristen Ford at Kirklees CID said; “Clearly this has been a frightening experience for both victims, who fortunately were uninjured.
“I would appeal to anyone who was in and around the area of Bay Hall Common Road on the evening of June 29 and may have seen anyone acting suspiciously matching the suspect’s description to come forward.
“I would also appeal to anyone who was using the road networks that evening who may have seen the distinctive yellow Seat Leon being driven either through Huddersfield, Bradford or Halifax to come forward with any information.
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“The vehicle was found abandoned in Craven Terrace in the King Cross area of Halifax around 9am the following day.
“Again, I would ask for anyone who lives or works in the area, who may have noticed someone acting suspiciously, or who has seen someone with the vehicle described to speak to the police. Enquiries are continuing.”
Anyone who can offer any information is asked to contact PC Ford at Kirklees CID via 101, quoting 13160278021.
Information can also be given to the anonymous independent crime fighting charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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COBS 13 Annex 2 Projections
This annex belongs to COBS 13.4.1 R (Contents of a key features illustration), COBS 13.5.1 R (Projections for in-force products) and COBS 13.5.2 R (Projections: other situations).
Calculating standardised deterministic projections
A standardised deterministic projection must:
include a projection of benefits at the lower, intermediate and higher rates of return;
be rounded down; and
show no more than three significant figures.
Calculating projections: additional requirements for a personal pension scheme13and stakeholder pension scheme13
A standardised deterministic projection must be in real terms and12 be accompanied by information explaining why price inflation has been taken into account and that price inflation reduces the worth of all savings and investments12.
A1213 standardised deterministic projection in real terms must be calculated using:12
the appropriate lower, intermediate and higher rates of return;12
the intermediate rate of price inflation, in accordance with COBS 13 Annex 2 2.5R; and
an annuity calculated in accordance with COBS 13 Annex 2 3.1R.
12(3)11
13The standardised deterministic projection must show only the numeric value of the three real rates of return after the appropriate price inflation assumption has been taken into account, that is, the real rate of projected growth which has been applied to the real value of the contributions.
1.2A11
A firm is not prevented from providing a retail client with a projection of the fund or pension commencement lump sum in nominal terms for planning purposes (for example for a pension mortgage) if it is prepared in a way which is consistent with the standardised deterministic projection.
If a generic projection is prepared for a stakeholder pension scheme or personal pension scheme in circumstances where a generic key features illustration is permitted under COBS 13.4.2 R,6 sufficient separate projections, covering a range of different contractual periods and contributions, must be included for a retail client to be able to make an informed decision about whether to invest.
A projection prepared on that basis may omit projections at the lower and higher rates of return12 and only show a range of benefits in real terms12 at the intermediate rate of return.
A firm will provide sufficient separate projections if it prepares a table that shows projections in real terms for a variety of periods to maturity and a variety of contribution levels, taking into account the charges and other material terms that apply to the stakeholder pension scheme or personal pension scheme. Such a table could be laid out like a specimen benefits table (see COBS 13 Annex 2 1.8).
Providing a stochastic12 projection
A stochastic projection may only be provided if:12
it is based on a reasonable number of simulations and assumptions which are reasonable and supported by objective data;
it is accompanied by enough information for the retail client to be able to understand the difference between the stochastic projection and the standardised deterministic projection being provided; and
it is presented in real terms where the accompanying standardised deterministic projection is required to be in real terms.
13A projection for an in-force product that will mature in six months or less may be prepared and presented on any reasonable basis.
141.7A
If a projection is prepared in connection with an offer for or conclusion of a personal pension scheme, three different rates of return must be used.
14[Note: article 185(5) of the Solvency II Directive]
In the case of a stakeholder pension scheme in circumstances where a generic key features illustration is permitted under COBS 13.4.2 R,6 the specimen benefits table, contained within the "Stakeholder pension decision tree" factsheet available on 24www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk4 and headed "Pension Table...How much should I save towards a pension?" which sets out initial monthly pension amounts, may be used instead of a standardised deterministic projection but only if it is accompanied by an explanation of the caveats and assumptions behind the table.
The rules in this Annex do not apply to:16
a projection for an in force product which is consistent with the statutory money purchase illustration requirements; and
a safeguarded-flexible benefits risk warning.
A standardised deterministic projection for an in force product may omit the1213 intermediate rate of return except for personal pension scheme and stakeholder pension scheme contracts taken out after 5 April 2014.13
Assumptions to follow when calculating projections.
Assumptions: projection date
A standardised deterministic projection must be calculated to the projection date described below:
Projection date
A contract which is a whole life assurance the premiums under which are regular premiums
The anniversary of the commencement date:
(a) which first falls after the seventy-fifth birthday of the life assured; or
(b) (if there is more than one life assured) the anniversary of the commencement date which falls after the seventy fifth birthday of:
(i) (if benefits are payable on the first death) the oldest life assured; or
(ii) (in all other cases) the youngest life assured;
subject to a minimum projection date of ten years.
A contract that is not in (1):
(a) where the relevant marketing refers to a surrender value or an option to take benefits before they would otherwise be paid; or
(b) that is open-ended, or linked to one or more lives, which is not a personal pension scheme or stakeholder pension scheme
An appropriate date which highlights the features of the product
A contract that is not in (1) or (2) and has a specified maturity date
The maturity date specified in the contract
A contract that is not in (1) or (2) or (3)
The tenth anniversary of the commencement date
Assumptions: contributions
take account of all contributions due during the projection period;
be calculated on the basis that contributions are accumulated, net of charges, at the appropriate rate of return compounded on an annual basis;
(if it includes assumptions about contribution increases in line with an index) be based on an assumption that contribution increases are consistent with any assumptions regarding that index in this annex; and
deduct from contributions any rider benefits or extra premium which may be charged for an increased underwriting risk.
Assumptions: rates of return
A standardised deterministic projection must be calculated as follows:15
15(i)
the intermediate rate of return must accurately reflect the investment potential of each of the product’s underlying investment options;
15(iii)
the lower and higher rates of return must maintain a differential of 3% relative to the intermediate rate of return; and
the rates of return for each underlying investment option must not exceed the following maximum rates:
Nominal rates
Lower rate
Inter-mediate rate
Higher rate
tax-exempt business held in a wrapper or by a friendly society
personal pension schemes, stakeholder pension schemes and investment-linked annuities
2%9
1½%9
Exceptions15
A standardised deterministic projection:
may be calculated using a lower rate of return if a retail client requests it; and15
where there is a contractual obligation to provide a minimum rate of return that exceeds any one or more of the lower, intermediate or higher rates of return, the standardised deterministic projection must be calculated by substituting the obligated rate of return for the lower, intermediate or higher rate of return, as appropriate.
Assumptions: inflation
If inflation is taken into account, the standardised deterministic projection must be calculated using the following rates:
Earnings inflation
>2%
Assumptions: charges
The charges allowed for in a standardised deterministic projection:
must properly reflect:
all of the charges, expenses and deductions a client will, or may expect to be taken after investment into the product;6
the tax relief available to the firm in respect of so much of the firm's gross expenses as can properly be attributed to the contract; and
the fact that certain charges will be fully or partially off-set, but only to the extent that the firm can show that the off-set funds will be available when the relevant charges arise; and
must not include the firm's dealing costs incurred on the underlying portfolio; and15
must include the retained interest charges specified in COBS 13 Annex 3 1.1R(4) or COBS 13 Annex 4 1.1R(4), where relevant.
Development and capital costs should normally be written off in the year in which they are incurred. However, some costs (for example, exceptional new business expenses) may be amortised and previous years’ costs may then be brought into account.
If it is reasonable to assume that higher expenses will be incurred in the future, appropriate allowances should be made, and any inflation assumptions should be consistent with those prescribed in these rules.
Expenses should be apportioned appropriately between products so that scales of expenses can be calculated and applied.
Where appropriate, mortality and morbidity should be allowed for on a best estimate basis. The basis for annuities should allow for future improvements in mortality.
A projection should not assume that charges will fall over time to a rate that is lower than the rate currently being charged on the relevant product (or, if there is no such charge, on a similar product).
A projection of surrender value, cash-in value or transfer value should take into account any specific current surrender value basis and penalties which may be applied.10
If a personal pension scheme is invested in assets that are volatile or difficult to value, the standardised deterministic projection should be prepared using the best available reasonable assumptions.
The methodology for a projection including retained interest charges should:
take account of any required minimum cash balances;
be based on reasonable assumptions such that the overall charges in relation to the product and the investments are unlikely to be understated; and
have regard to the overall level of retained interest charges across all relevant business.
Additional requirements: with-profits policies
A standardised deterministic projection for a with-profits policy must properly reflect the deductions from asset share which a firm expects to make in accordance with its deductions plan.
A standardised deterministic projection for a with-profits policy where bonus rates apply must assume that the bonus rates supported by the relevant premium and rate of return apply throughout the term of the contract.
Additional requirements: drawdown5 pensions and regular uncrystallised funds pension lump sum payments15
A standardised deterministic projection for a drawdown pension5 or regular uncrystallised funds pension lump sum payments15 must be based on the requirements contained in (2) to the extent that they impose additional or conflicting requirements to the balance of the rules in this section.
A standardised deterministic projection for a drawdown pension5 or regular uncrystallised funds pension lump sum payments15 must15 include:
where relevant 5the maximum initial income specified in the tables published by the Government Actuaries Department for a drawdown pension;5
the assumed level of income;
for a short-term annuity, where subsequent short-term annuities are assumed, a statement reflecting that fact;
(under 'What the benefits might be' or similar heading12, either:15 5
(i)15
the amount of income and the projected value of the fund at five yearly intervals to age 99 for the lower, intermediate and higher rate of return for as long as the fund is projected to exist (at the higher rate of return); or15
(ii)15
a description of the income and a projection of the age at which the fund will cease to exist for the lower, intermediate and higher rate of return; and15
the amount of annuity that could be secured using an immediate annuity rate available in the market.
A standardised deterministic projection for a drawdown pension or regular uncrystallised funds pension lump sum payments may also include the projected open market values and the amounts of annuity that might be purchased at some point in the future.
A standardised deterministic projection for a drawdown pension entered into before 6 April 2015 must, where relevant, be based on an assumption that the current gilt index yield will continue to apply throughout the relevant term.
Drawdown Pension: Exception
A standardised deterministic projection15 can be prepared in nominal terms, rather than real terms for a:15
drawdown pension; or
personal pension scheme or stakeholder pension scheme from which there has been an election to take regular, ad-hoc or one-off uncrystallised funds pension lump sum payments.
How to calculate a projection for a future annuity
A projection for a future annuity must:
be calculated by rounding all factors to three decimal places before applying them to the relevant retirement fund;
use a mortality rate based on the year of birth rate derived from each of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ Continuous Mortality Investigation tables PMA0815 and PFA0815 and including mortality improvements derived from each of the male and female annual mortality projection models, in equal parts;8
(for an annuity where two lives are concerned):
reflect the age difference between the two lives; or
be based on the assumption that the male life is three years older than the female (if the genders differ) or the two lives have the same age (if the genders are the same);
include an expenses allowance of 4%;
be based on the following rates of return as appropriate:
Intermediate rate
Level or fixed rate of increase annuities
Y+1.5%
RPI or LPI linked annuities
Y-1%
Y+1%
'Y' is 0.5* (ILG0 + ILG5)-0.5 rounded to the nearest 0.2%, with an exact 0.1% rounded down; and
'ILG0' and 'ILG5' are the real yield on the FTSE Actuaries Government Securities Index-linked Real Yields over 5 years, assuming 0% and 5% inflation respectively, updated every 6 April to use the ILG0 and ILG5 which applied on or, if necessary, the business day immediately before, the preceding 15 February; and
(in the case of a future annuity with less than one year to maturity) be calculated using annuity rates that are no more favourable than the firm's relevant current immediate annuity rate or (if there is no such rate) the relevant immediate annuity rate available in the market; and
be assumed to be payable monthly in advance with a guaranteed period of 5 years, unless it is unreasonable to do so.
For any year commencing 6 April, the use of the male and female annual CMI Mortality Projections Models in the series CMI(20YY-2)_M_[1.25%]15 and CMI (20YY-2_F)_[1.25%]15, where YY-215 is the year of the Model used, will tend to show compliance with COBS 13 Annex 2 3.1 R (2).
A projection for an annuity with a guaranteed annuity rate must:
show an additional projection of the income that could be provided where that guaranteed annuity rate provides higher rates of return than those otherwise shown; and
calculate the income that could be provided on the basis of the rates in the guaranteed annuity rate, using a projection of the fund calculated using the intermediate rate of return.
When providing an additional projection for an annuity with a guaranteed annuity rate, a firm should:
take account of multiple guaranteed annuity rates on the fund or non-guaranteed elements of the fund on a proportionate basis; and
provide an explanation of the key restrictions which may apply when the guaranteed annuity rate is taken up, particularly where these differ from the other projections shown.
A projection for a future annuity:
must be calculated using lower rates of return , if the rates described in this section overstate the investment potential of the product;
may be calculated using a lower rate of return if a retail client requests it.
Projections: accompanying statements and presentation12
A standardised deterministic projection must be accompanied by:
appropriate risk warnings, including warnings about volatility and the impact of inflation and that the product may pay back less than paid in (if that could be the case),12 and the degree to which any figures can be relied upon; and
a statement:
that charges may vary;
of the contributions that have been assumed;
that increases in contributions have been assumed (if that is the case), together with sufficient information for a retail client to be able to understand the nature and magnitude of the assumed increases;
of the sum of any actual premiums charged for any rider benefits or increased underwriting risks (where these have been charged);15
12(f)
(for personal pension schemes and stakeholder pension schemes) of the assumptions used to calculate the regular income and that the client may choose when to take this income (if that is the case); and15
15(g)
that the projection takes account of the existence of contractual obligations to provide a minimum rate (if that is the case).
When presenting a standardised deterministic projection a firm must:
include a short introductory explanation of what the projection seeks to illustrate;
use a descriptive heading such as ‘What your regular income might be worth in future or 'What might I get back from my plan?';
place the projection and the associated explanation adjacent to each other on the same page; and
explain that the client will be sent annual statements (if that is the case) which will allow them to keep track of their benefits.
Additional requirements: pension schemes and products linked to other products
A standardised deterministic projection for a product where the benefits illustrated depend on a link to a separate product must include an appropriate description of the material factors that might influence the returns available overall and any restrictions assumed in providing an illustration of benefits in relation to that separate product.
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SYSC 22.7 Getting references: additional rules and...
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SYSC 22.7 Getting references: additional rules and guidance for SMCR firms
Intra-group transfers
SYSC 22.7.1R 10/12/2018 RP
1This rule applies when:
an SMCR firm2 (A) would otherwise have to ask another person (B) for a reference under SYSC 22.2.1R; and
A and B are in the same group.
A need not ask for a reference from B if there are adequate arrangements in place under which A has access to the same information sources as B to the extent that they are relevant to things A has to ask B under SYSC 22.2.1R (Obligation to obtain references).
If A only has access to some of the information sources in (2), A may ask for a reference that only covers the sources to which A does not have such access.
If A, in accordance with this rule, does not ask for a reference or a full reference it must access the information resources referred to in this rule and get the relevant information within the time specified by SYSC 22.2.3R.
SYSC 22.7.2G 07/03/2017 RP
SYSC 22.7.1R means that a firm recruiting someone from another member of its group is not required to request a reference from the other where the group has centralised records or alternative measures in place to ensure sharing of relevant information between its members.
The recruiting firm should be satisfied that the centralised or alternative measures ensure relevant information is made available as part of the fit and proper assessment of the recruit.
Who should be asked to give a reference
The Glossary definition of employer covers more than just a conventional employer and so it may not always be obvious who a person’s employer is. Therefore an SMCR firm2 appointing someone to a position that requires a reference may have to get the employee’s help in identifying their previous employers.
SYSC 22.2.1R (Obligation of an SMCR firm2 to try to obtain a reference) applies even if the ex-employer is not a firm.
An SMCR firm2 should take all reasonable steps to try to obtain the reference in these circumstances. However, the FCA accepts that the previous employer may not be willing to give sufficient information.
Asking for a reference to be updated
SYSC 22.2.1R (Obligation of an SMCR firm2 to try to obtain a reference) applies even if the employer has already got a reference for the employee. For example:
an SMCR firm2 should have a reference whenever it renews the certificate of a certification employee; and
changing jobs within the same SMCR firm2 may require a reference.
However, the SMCR firm2 does not necessarily need to obtain a new reference each time (a) or (b) above occurs. That is because an existing reference will very often still be appropriate for the purpose (see SYSC 22.7.6G to SYSC 22.7.8G).
If an SMCR firm2 (A):
appoints someone (P) to a certification function2 position;
obtains a reference from an ex-employer; and
later wishes to renew P’s certificate under the certification regime;
it is unlikely that A will need to ask for another reference from that ex-employer or ask for it to be reissued unless there is a change in P’s role of the type described in SYSC 27.2.15G (major changes in role).
appoints someone (P) to a certification function2 or an approved person position;
obtains a reference from an ex-employer (B); and
later wishes to:
appoint P to another certification function2 or approved person position; or
keep P in the same certification function2 but make a change in P’s role of the type described in SYSC 27.2.15G (major changes in role), whether that change is made at a time when the certificate has not yet come up for renewal or at the time it is being reissued; or
move P from a certification function2 to an approved person position or vice versa;
A should consider whether to ask B to reissue or amend its reference.
A may decide that it is not necessary to ask B to reissue or amend its reference. For example, A may decide that:
the existing reference already covers everything necessary; or
(where B is not a firm) B will not give any further information.
If:
a firm (A) appoints someone (P) to a certification function2 or approved person position;
A obtains a reference from an ex-employer (B);
later P transfers to a certification function2 or an approved person position with an SMCR firm2 in A’s group (C);
B’s reference is:
addressed to all firms in A’s group; or
otherwise drafted so that it is clear that C may rely on it; and
C does not need to ask for the reference to be reissued or amended, taking account of SYSC 22.7.6G and SYSC 22.7.7G;
C may be able to rely on that reference without asking B to give another one.
When references are to be obtained
If an SMCR firm2 is unable to obtain a reference by the time in column two of the table in SYSC 22.2.3R, it should still try to obtain the reference as soon as possible afterwards.
SYSC 22.7.10G 10/12/2018 RP
Where an SMCR firm2 needs to fill a vacancy for a certification function2 which could not have reasonably been foreseen, the FCA recognises that it may not be reasonable to expect the SMCR firm2 to obtain references prior to issuing a certificate.
In such cases, the SMCR firm2 should take up the reference as soon as reasonably possible.
If a reference obtained later raises concerns about the person’s fitness and propriety, the SMCR firm2 should revisit its decision to issue the person with a certificate.
Although this chapter (see SYSC 22.2.3R) only requires an SMCR firm2 to try to get a reference for a person it is recruiting to perform an FCA controlled function or a PRA controlled function towards the end of the application process, the FCA would normally expect a firm to have obtained the reference before the application for approval is made.
The main examples of circumstances in which it would be reasonable for a firm to delay getting a reference are where asking for a reference earlier will create a serious risk of:
breaching the confidentiality of a wider commercial or corporate transaction;
prematurely triggering the need for a public announcement; or
the candidate not applying for the position in the first place because it would reveal to the candidate’s current employer the proposed move too soon.
The FCA may consider that it needs to see the information in a reference before it reaches a decision. If so, it may formally ask for that information and extend the time period in which it has to make its decision until it gets the reference. SUP 10C.10.28G gives additional details about requests for further information and the effect they have on the period of time the FCA has to make a decision about an application.
SMCR firm2 are reminded that the Act itself requires a firm to be satisfied that a candidate is fit and proper before it makes an application for approval (see SUP 10C.10.14G for more detail). SYSC 22.7.11G(2) does not affect that obligation.
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Prince William cooks at a homeless shelter he visited with Diana, Princess of Wales
The Duke of Cambridge pays tribute to his late mother's charitable works
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Prince William cooked up a storm today while visiting The Passage, the UK's largest resource centre for homeless people. The Duke of Cambridge joined volunteers in the kitchen, where he helped prepare spaghetti bolognese for the charity's lunch service. Photos shared by Kensington Palace show the royal chopping carrots and later serving dishes to guests.
The Passage has a special place in Prince William's heart, as his first time visiting the charity was in 1993 with Prince Harry and their late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. The centre still had their signatures in the visitor's book from that trip.
William has made occasional visits to the charity ever since. He was last seen there with his wife, Duchess Kate, in December, when they made Christmas cards with kids.
This entry in The @PassageCharity visitor’s book marks The Duke of Cambridge's first visit with his mother Diana, Princess of Wales in 1993. pic.twitter.com/iKgC5pQMaB
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 13, 2019
The Duke of Cambridge also announced today that he's now a royal patron of The Passage. He previously said of the charity in 2016, according to a Palace press release: "The visits I made as a child to this place left a deep and lasting impression upon me—about how important it is to ensure that everyone in our society, especially the poorest, are treated with respect, dignity and kindness, and are given the opportunities to fulfil their potential in life."
Prince William is a "longstanding supporter of organisations working to combat homelessness," the Palace added.
While William was working at The Passage today, Kate attended the Mental Health in Education conference elsewhere in London. The longtime mental health advocate made a stunning appearance in a tweed skirt suit, black tights, and heels. She and William were last seen out together at the BAFTA Awards on Sunday at Royal Albert Hall.
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How Many Truck Drivers Will Be Put Out of Work After Los Angeles Bans Independent Contractors?
Home > Blog > How Many Truck Drivers Will Be Put Out of Work After Los Angeles Bans Independent Contractors?
The Kaufman Law FirmDecember 22, 2017Employment Law
Los Angeles, home to tens of thousands of independent contractor truck drivers, is about to roll out its new ban to block trucking companies from using independent contractors.
This week, the Los Angeles City Council voted to launch the process of banning trucking and warehousing companies that use independent contractors to haul millions of cargo every year.
Fact: there are over 3.5 million truck drivers across the U.S., but the real number of independent contractors remains underreported (however, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of truck drivers operate as independent contractors).
That’s a lot of truck drivers out of work in Los Angeles and across California if the city bans trucking companies that break local, state and federal employment laws.
Although the move is supposed to benefit truck drivers – who have complained for years that certain trucking companies violate their employee rights by denying fair wages, rights, and benefits – it risks making tens of thousands of Los Angeles truck drivers unemployed.
Our Los Angeles employment class action attorney Matthew A. Kaufman has reviewed the pros and cons of banning trucking companies that use truck drivers classified as independent contractors from operating in the city.
Why independent contractor truck drivers are being banned?
The main incentive behind the ban, however, is not to put tens of thousands of truck drivers out of work. Our attorneys at the Kaufman Law Firm explain that the motion was the city council’s reaction to the mounting lawsuits and complaints from independent contractors whose rights have been violated by trucking companies.
In its unanimous vote to consider a ban of trucking companies that break California employment laws from doing business on city property, city council members said the goal was to ensure that all truck drivers are provided with a safe work environment, fair wages and guaranteed rights and benefits.
The problem of trucking companies treating independent contractors unfairly is not new, our Los Angeles employment class action attorneys say. Over the past four years, drivers have engaged in 15 labor strikes demanding fair wages and compensation and safe environment at work.
During the hearings, Los Angeles City Council noted that over 12,000 port truck drivers endured illegal employment practices by certain trucking companies “for far too long.”
In related more than 300 lawsuits, truckers have been awarded over $35 million. And nearly 200 more wage claims are still under review.
But the real number is far more overwhelming: more than a thousand claims for wage theft have been filed by independent contractors in the last four years. The city council also noted that over 3,500 drivers were involved in similar lawsuits.
Will you be affected by the ban of independent contractors?
Our employment class action attorneys at the Kaufman Law Firm estimate that some large trucking companies operating in Los Angeles may be affected by the ban.
The ban will target only those trucking companies that have been accused of breaking the law and violating drivers’ employee rights.
In fact, if you’re currently being classified as an independent contractor, your trucking company will most likely be affected by the ban. Our attorneys explain that under California laws, it’s illegal to not classify truck drivers as full employees.
If your company is guilty of not affording truckers a safe environment, denying minimum wage and sick days, or engaging in other practices that violate employment laws, you may be affected by the ban.
However, it’s unclear at this point if blocking the companies that violate laws means putting tens of thousands of truck drivers out of work. Perhaps the city will impose other restrictions on the trucking companies or will issue warnings to start classifying all truck drivers as full employees before implementing the ban.
Consult our employment class action attorneys to find out more about your employee rights as a truck driver in Los Angeles. Contact Kaufman Law Firm to learn if your trucking company is at risk of ban.
Call our Los Angeles offices at 818-990-1999 to get a free initial consultation.
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WWDC 2017 – Everything You Need to Know
By Sia in Gadgets. June 6, 2017 .
As expected from Apple, the WWDC 2017 keynote has introduced the world to a new batch of cool stuff from the company, ranging from hardware like the new iMac to software such as iOS 11.
Seeing as there is quite a number of things to go through, I’ll being this article by looking at Apple’s hardware offerings, before moving on to the software side of things. Without further ado, let’s begin.
New iMac Pro and updated iMacs
We start off this hardware roundup with a look at one of Apple’s older products: the iMac. At WWDC 2017, Apple has introduced a new top-of-the-line iMac that the company has unsurprisingly dubbed the iMac Pro.
Sporting a Space Gray (dark gray) chassis as opposed to the regular iMac’s silvery-gray one, Apple claims that the iMac Pro is the "most powerful Mac ever made", and the internals more or less proves just that.
The iMac Pro comes with:
27-inch 5K Retina display.
Equipped with up to an 18-core Intel Xeon processor.
AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 GPU with 16GB of HBM2 VRAM, up to 128GB of RAM.
4TB of SSD storage space.
10Gb Ethernet port, and four Thunderbolt 3 ports.
For cooling, the iMac Pro comes with a new thermal design that Apple claims could provide up to 80% more cooling capacity than the regular iMac. The iMac Pro will come with a keyboard and mouse of the same Space Gray color, which according to Apple, is exclusive to the iMac Pro itself.
Pricing for the iMac Pro begins at USD4,999, with the product expected to ship out sometime in December. So yes, you won’t be able to get your hands on it for quite a while.
If you’re looking to replace your aging iMac sooner, you might want to take a look at the newly refreshed iMac line. While all new iMacs are now powered by Intel’s Kaby Lake processor, the 21.5-inch Retina 4K iMac and the 27-inch Retina 5K iMac gets some additional upgrades.
For both Retina 4K and 5K iMacs, the machines have been equipped with a new monitor that Apple claims is 43% brighter than its predecessor and supports one billion colors. On top of that, both machines sport a AMD Radeon Pro 500 series GPU. All iMac models will have two Thunderbolt 3 ports.
The newly refreshed iMacs are now available for purchase with the prices starting at USD1,099 for the standard iMac model.
MacBooks & MacBook Pros get refreshed
In terms of announcements, the MacBook and MacBook Pros aren’t getting any major upgrades from the pre-existing models. That being said, Apple’s series of laptops will be getting hardware refreshes, with the MacBook Pro lines getting an upgrade to Intel’s Kaby Lake processors as well as faster SSDs.
Speaking of MacBook Pros, Apple has also announced that a new 13-inch MacBook Pro will be making its way to the market. This particular laptop will be a base model, which means it doesn’t come with a Touch Bar. That aside, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro will sport a 500-nit Retina display and an Intel Core i7 processor. Prices for this variant of the MacBook Pro will begin at USD1,299.
Rounding up the MacBook session, we’ve finally learned that Apple is not abandoning the MacBook Air after all. While the MacBook Air isn’t getting any large scale updates, Apple has decided to bump up the laptop’s performance by equipping it with a 1.8GHz processor.
New 10.5" iPad Pro & refreshed 12.9" iPad Pro
Are you a fan of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro? If you’ve answered yes to the question, I have some bad news for you – the 9.7-inch iPad Pro has been discontinued. To replace the 9.7-inch model, Apple has announced a new iPad Pro model that sports a bigger screen, 10.5-inches to be exactly.
Alongside the 10.5-inch iPad Pro, Apple has also announced a refresh of the existing 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
So what’s new with the 2017 batch of iPad Pros? For starters, the new iPad Pros now sport a new display technology dubbed as "ProMotion". With it, the 120Hz panels on the iPad Pros can now be scaled according to the apps’ needs in order to conserve battery power. On top of that, this new technology can also help improve the Apple Pencil’s latency.
Specifications-wise, the new iPad Pros now come equipped with the A10X Fusion processor, Apple’s newest processor that features a 6-core CPU and a 12-core GPU. The iPad Pros also sport the same 12MP camera found on the iPhone 7, complete with optical image stabilization technology, and a 7MP FaceTime HD camera.
Despite the upgrade, the new iPad Pros will still be able to last up to 10 hours on a single charge. Prices for the 10.5-inch iPad Pro begins at USD649, while the 12.9-inch iPad Pro starts at USD799.
HomePod – Apple’s very own smart speaker
Rumors were going around for months that Apple is busy working on a smart speaker. At WWDC 2017, those rumors were proven true as the company debuted the HomePod at the event’s Keynote speech.
Measuring at seven feet tall and covered in a mesh fabric cover, the HomePod is more or less Apple’s answer to the Amazon Echo and the Google Home. Powered by an A8 processor, the HomePod revolves around Apple’s Siri assistant.
Operating the speaker is pretty standard fare as all the user needs to do is say "Hey Siri" and the speaker will spring to life, allowing the user to give it commands.
Much like other smart speakers, the HomePod is capable of giving the user information like news, traffic conditions, reminders and more. In addition to assistant-like features, the HomePod can also be used to control your HomeKit-powered smart devices as the speaker comes with HomeKit integration.
Seeing as the device is a speaker, the HomePod comes integrated with Apple Music. Apple did not mention if the HomePod will play nice with other music streaming services (Spotify etc), although I wouldn’t hold my breath over that happening anytime soon.
So what makes the HomePod different from other smart speakers? Well, Apple’s offering is spatially aware, allowing the speaker to adjust the quality of the audio to adapt to the room it is in. While the tech behind it remains a secret, Apple did manage to demo this feature during the presentation.
Much like the iMac Pro mentioned above, the HomePod isn’t available just yet. The smart speaker will retail for USD349, and is expected to ship to the U.S., U.K., and Australia in December. If you live outside these aforementioned countries, you’ll only be able to get your hands on a HomePod in 2018.
Now that we’ve gotten the hardware out of the way, let’s move on to the software side of things. For this year’s WWDC, Apple has decided to focus on three particular topics: iOS11, macOS High Sierra and watchOS 4.
It wouldn’t be a WWDC if Apple did not preview their latest version of iOS and WWDC 2017 is no different thanks to iOS 11.
A more intelligent Siri
With Apple’s latest version of iOS, the operating system is getting a few new tricks up its sleeve. We start of this part by talking about Siri, as Apple’s digital assistant is getting the machine learning treatment which would allow it to sound "more natural".
Besides sounding more natural, Siri will now be capable of performing live translations from English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Apple has mentioned that more languages will be supported over time.
Taking a page out of Cortana and Google Assistant’s book, Apple is also implementing something called on-device learning to Siri. With this system in place, Siri can now give suggestions that are based on personal usage of Safari, News, Mail, Messages and more.
Furthermore, information that is used by on-device learning is synced across all of the user’s Apple devices, allowing Siri to work more efficiently. Finally, users who would like a change of tone in Siri will soon be able to do so as Apple is adding a male voice to the assistant.
Apple Pay Cash Card
The next feature that will be expanded upon with iOS 11 is Apple Pay. With iOS 11, Apple is introducing an Apple Pay Cash Card system that lets users store funds that were received via peer-to-peer transactions. Money held by the Cash Card system can then be transferred over to your personal bank account.
This system will be integrated into iMessage as well, which is great for those who want to send money to someone in their contacts list.
Do Not Disturb While Driving
Personal safety is yet another subject that Apple is seeking to tackle with iOS 11 and the company is doing so by way of a feature called Do Not Disturb While Driving. As the name of the feature might clue you in, Do Not Disturb While Driving will cause your iOS device to block all notifications and blank out the screen when you’re driving.
The system can also be configured to automatically send messages that read I’m driving if the user decides to do so.
App Store Redesigned
Apple’s App Store will also be undergoing a major visual overhaul with iOS 11. While a large portion of the changes are cosmetic, Apple has added a few new features to the new App Store such as a new Today tab, a dedicated Games tab, as well as editorial-based content such as how-tos and "making off" stories.
More other features
Other features that will be coming to iOS 11 includes a new camera app that utilises the High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) for better image compression and a redesigned Control Center that can be squeezed into a single screen.
iOS 11 will also come with iPad-only features like a new Mac-like dock, a new drag-and-drop feature that lets you move information or media from one split-screen app to another, and a new file management app that is simply called "Files".
iOS 11 is now available in Developer Beta form starting from today. The full version of iOS 11 is expected to be ready in Fall.
If you’re one of the few people who joked about how Windows 10’s next major update is called the unimaginative Fall Creators Update, then macOS High Sierra would be perfect joke material for you.
Boring choice of name aside, macOS High Sierra will see Apple continue to work on the macOS Sierra platform by introducing improvements to the operating system’s performance, security and storage efficiency.
For the performance side of things, Apple claims that the High Sierra update will see the Safari browser outperform Google’s Chrome browser in Javascript performance by as much as 80%.
Alongside Javascript improvements, High Sierra will also see the introduction of the Metal 2 graphics technology. The successor to the original Metal, Metal 2 will introduce Virtual Reality support to the operating system.
Seeing as VR requires some serious horsepower from the machine attempting to run it, Apple is looking to produce an external graphics solution that can be used by MacBooks. For now, this external graphics solution is only available as a Developer Kit.
The Photos app is also getting a rework with macOS High Sierra as well. Currently used as a photo management app that sports some simplistic editing tools, Apple is looking to rework Photos into a proper photo editing workshop that can challenge the likes of Adobe Photoshop.
Finally, the macOS High Sierra update will see Apple introduce the Apple File System (APFS), which will be replacing the outdated Hierarchical File System. This change is expected to improve the security and safety of the files while performing faster than the previous system.
Much like iOS 11, the Developer Beta for macOS High Sierra is now available. macOS High Sierra will be made available to all Macs that are capable of supporting macOS Sierra in Fall.
Rounding up the list of WWDC 2017 reveals, we have watchOS 4, the next big update to the Apple Watch’s OS.
With this upcoming update, Apple will be introducing a Siri watchface that displays relevant information prominently on the screen. By using machine learning, the Siri watchface is able to display information that may prove useful at any given point in time.
For those who use Apple Watch for fitness purposes, the updates that are made to the Workout app will be a great boon.
For starters, the app now comes with new motion and heart rate algorithms for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workouts, and the new GymKit platform lets the Apple Watch communicate with fitness machines like treadmills, indoor bikes, and more.
Finally, watchOS 4 will come with a redesigned Music app that lets the Apple Watch automatically sync Apple Music playlists. The Music app will also be capable of supporting multiple playlists.
watchOS 4 is now available in Developer Preview form. The full version of watchOS 4 is expected to go live in Fall.
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Should mortgage companies push staffers to leave higher ratings on Glassdoor?
WSJ reports on Guaranteed Rate, Roostify efforts to get higher rankings
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Guaranteed Rate's supposed push for positive employee reviews came at a time when the company was in the midst of a hiring spree. In March of last year, the company laid off 180 employees but claimed that it planned to hire 1,500 more by the end of 2018. When asked about the company's efforts to hire new employees, the company told HousingWire: "We are on course with our hiring goals."
Only two mortgage lenders won Glassdoor's 2019 Best Places to Work award
Here's who made the cut
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Glassdoor recently announced the winners of its 2019 Employees’ Choice Awards for the Best Places to Work. While several real estate companies made an appearance on the list, only two mortgage lenders made the cut. That’s right, just two. These two.
Glassdoor: These are the 2019 best places to work in housing and mortgage finance
Multiple companies in the housing space make the employee-reviewed cut
Glassdoor, the workspace-satisfaction ratings website, recently announced the winners of its 2019 Employees’ Choice Awards for the Best Places to Work, recognizing multiple companies in the housing space. Find out which of the companies we work with made the cut.
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Glassdoor, the workspace-satisfaction ratings website, recently announced the winners of its Employees’ Choice Awards, including seven housing market titans. The list featured CEOs from Ellie Mae, Taylor Morrison, Keller Williams, Yardi Systems and more.
Glassdoor: Here are the best CEOs in the housing business
Several mortgage industry titans make the list
Glassdoor recently announced the winners of its Employees’ Choice Award, including seven housing market titans. Housing market CEOs appearing on Glassdoor’s Top 100 list include Sheryl Morrison, Jon Davis, Anant Yardi, Jonathan Corr, Pierre Nanterme, Robert Sulentic and Bob Faith.
Glassdoor: These are the best-rated places to work in real estate
Employees love these businesses
Jacob Gaffney
It's time for the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards for the Best Places to Work! But how did real estate companies do this year? How many reach the top 100 places to work, as rated by the people who work there? Here's your answer.
Guess how many bank CEOs made Glassdoor’s list of the highest rated CEOs?
Here's a hint…not many
For those who don’t know, Glassdoor is a website where a company’s employees (and former employees) can leave anonymous reviews of the company and tell other employees (or prospective employees) what it’s really like to work there. So how many bank CEOs made the top 50 in Glassdoor’s 2015 list of the highest rated CEOs? Not very many as it turns out.
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Schlumberger to cut more jobs as oil field business fades
Schlumberger CEO reveals his company plans more layoffs
By Rhiannon Meyers Oct. 16, 2015 Updated: Oct. 16, 2015 8:25 p.m.
1of2Schlumberger, which displays its logo on a tower at its campus in Sugar Land, plans further layoffs amid a continuing oil price downturn. (AP Photo)Photo: Pat Sullivan, STF
2of2Remodeling is under way at Schlumberger's office in Paris. It also has a main office in The Hague and its U.S. headquarters in Houston. (Getty Images)Photo: BERTRAND GUAY, Staff
The outlook for the oil industry turned darker Friday as the CEO of Schlumberger, the world's largest provider of oil field services, warned that the crude price slump will lead to more layoffs among his company's employees and hasten a retreat from the oil patch.
Paal Kibsgaard said he expects oil companies will slash spending again next year, marking the first time since the ruinous 1980s collapse that exploration and production investments tumbled two years in a row.
Schlumberger did not reveal how many jobs it will cut, and a company spokeswoman said it's premature to speculate on the number of job losses.
But the decision probably will affect the Houston area, where the company operates its U.S. headquarters and employs more than 12,000 people.
The company already shed 20,000 jobs worldwide, or about 15 percent of its workforce, since oil prices started falling. Besides Houston, Schlumberger has main offices in Paris and The Hague.
Falling oil prices initially battered producers in North America, where a technology-driven surge in production from dense shale helped feed an oversupply of oil. Now, Kibsgaard said, the slump is starting to take a toll on international oil field activity, with revenue declining across the globe.
Exploration spending halted
Exploration spending has been "basically eliminated," he said, and financially pinched oil companies spooked by the downturn will wait until crude prices appear stable before investing again. Even then, it will take awhile for that spending to translate into upticks in oil field activity, delaying the recovery for beleaguered oil field services companies, Kibsgaard said.
He said he doesn't expect a recovery before 2017.
That spells bad news for Schlumberger and its smaller rivals that provide equipment, crews and services in the oil patch. They had been holding out hope for a recovery in the second half of the year.
"I think the market is underestimating how long this period is going to take," Kibsgaard told investors in a conference call Friday morning in which he discussed the company's third-quarter earnings.
Revising his prediction
Kibsgaard previously had predicted that the market was close to reaching the bottom. But Schlumberger now projects that the coming months will be worse than expected following a fresh plunge in oil prices in the third quarter coupled with increasing pressure from oil companies for deeper discounts and an ongoing slump in the U.S. rig count.
Drillers shut down 10 more oil rigs this week but added three natural gas rigs for a net tally of 787 - down 63 percent from its peak last October, oil field services company Baker Hughes reported Friday.
The pessimistic tone from Schlumberger notwithstanding, U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude climbed 88 cents Friday to $47.26 a barrel. It was $82.70, though, on Oct. 16, 2014.
On Thursday, Schlumberger reported a 49 percent decline in its third-quarter profit, and Kibsgaard told analysts on the call Friday that the fourth quarter probably will be worse, as companies continue to throttle activity in the oil patch.
Beyond that, the picture gets murkier, he said. Exploration and production companies have indicated that they plan to cut spending next year, but they haven't finalized their budgets, making it difficult for services companies to predict how much further activity could fall. Amid this uncertainty, many of the smaller companies with high debt loads that have been struck especially hard by the pullback in oil field activity may go bankrupt, Kibsgaard said.
As Schlumberger braces for an extended downturn, the company said it's planning the additional job cuts and consolidating offices and plants as it revamps its global manufacturing and distribution network. Kibsgaard said the company will post a restructuring charge in the fourth quarter, which will include severance pay for laid-off workers.
"The likely timing gap between the oil price recovery and the subsequent increase in oil field services activity, in combination with a more conservative spending outlook from our customers is causing us now to take further action," he said.
The bleak narrative coming out of Schlumberger, long considered a leader in the oil field services industry thanks to its strong balance sheet and global footprint, heralds worse news for other services providers who will unveil their third-quarter earnings in the coming weeks.
"It's not good for Schlumberger, and it's worse for the others," said Rob Desai, an analyst at Edward Jones.
Rival company Halliburton will report its earnings Monday, followed by Baker Hughes and Weatherford on Wednesday.
Comparison with 1980s slump
Kibsgaard's grim predictions added heft to growing speculation that the downturn could be the most severe in decades, a sentiment that holds special significance in the energy capital of the world, said Matt Marietta, equity research analyst at Stephens.
"That comparison to the 1980s will strike a chord with any investor and really anyone who pays attention to the energy markets," he said.
The nagging crude slump will force the services industry to shrink, as companies lay off more workers, scrap older equipment and some go bankrupt, Marietta said. The layoffs that started in oil fields earlier in the year will start to creep up the corporate ladder, striking middle management, administrators and even top executives, many of whom are in the Houston area, Marietta said.
"That's when you start to get a little more pain in the city of Houston, when these sort of cuts start to happen, and I think we're at that point in this downturn," he said.
Shares of Schlumberger's stock fell $1.65 to $74.51 Friday.
Robert Grattan contributed to this report.
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ORRVILLE CITY SCHOOLS NAMED ‘OHIO DISTRICT OF CHARACTER’
Ohio Partners in Character Education and the Ohio Better Business Bureau have seleced Orrville City Schools as a 2013 Ohio District of Character for its commitment to implementing a quality character education initiative and helping develop good character in Ohio’s youth.
The state designation is awarded for three years, and the district’s application is now forwarded to the Character Education Partnership (CEP) in Washington, D.C. for consideration in the National Schools of Character program.
“We have such a unique situation in Orrville when it comes to character education,” said Beverly Waseman, Orrville Elementary School principal and chairperson of the Heartland Character Education Committee. “The Heartland Education Community, Inc. and the schools work together to make character a high priority in the schools and in the community. We’ve been doing this for such a long time; our biggest concern was how to condense all of our information into the application.”
Maribeth Badertscher, chair of the Heartland Education Community, Inc., said that receiving the state designation is a meaningful accomplishment. “The Ohio District of Character designation is a great honor, and we are proud that Orrville school administrators worked together to put forth the application as a district versus individual schools. It reinforces the collaboration that is a hallmark of the Heartland mission.”
A six-person subcommittee spent many hours completing the application and gathering supporting evidence that Orrville schools address the 11 Principles of Character Education as defined by CEP. The subcommittee members were Marlene Baldwin, Jenny Smucker, Linda Tibbitts, Sandy Troyer, Cindy Summers and Waseman.
Orrville Superintendent Jon Ritchie feels that the Ohio District of Character designation confirms what he has always known about the Orrville district. “We have great kids here who truly exemplify the character words of the month. We also are fortunate to have educators who care about the character of our students and who are committed to incorporating character into the curriculum.”
The Heartland Education Community, Inc. was founded in 1991 as a coalition of volunteer community members dedicated to exploring ways to leverage the talent and resources of the community for the betterment of education. The goal of Heartland is to shift the focus from school to education and shift the responsibility from school to community.
To learn more about the Character Education Partnership and the State School (District) of Character designation, visit www.character.org.
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Going green with sun, grease and turbines
A Milton family’s dedication to green living goes deeper than the cars they drive. It’s become part of everyday life – from solar panels on the roof to plans for a wind turbine. David DeSantis has even brought those values to his real estate development company, First Taunton Group. The company’s truck, van and Bobcat run on bio-diesel fuels. The heat and hot water of a 12-unit apartment building he owns in Taunton are likewise powered. But life wasn’t always this green.
At age 13, Mark Doyle can expertly explain a “grease car” – a vehicle that uses discarded, filtered vegetable oil as fuel instead of gasoline.
In the family garage, the boy opened the trunk of a red 2002 Volkswagen Jetta and pointed to a special “grease tank” in the space typically reserved for a spare tire. It was filled with used cooking oil collected from restaurants.
“It’s a spare tank that connects with the engine,” the teen said. “You can’t start a car with pure vegetable oil.”
Anyone can buy a “grease kit tank” to use with a diesel-run cars, and his stepdad, David DeSantis, commutes regularly in one. His mom, Kathy Doyle DeSantis, drives a diesel-fueled Mercedes. And those cars are fine – for now. The couple plans to buy electric cars when the Chevrolet Volt arrives on the market in 2009 or in 2010.
But this Milton family’s dedication to green living goes deeper than the cars they drive. It’s become part of everyday life – from solar panels on the roof to plans for a wind turbine. David DeSantis has even brought those values to his real estate development company, First Taunton Group. The company’s truck, van and Bobcat run on bio-diesel fuels. The heat and hot water of a 12-unit apartment building he owns in Taunton are likewise powered. But life wasn’t always this green.
The family’s 3,500-square-foot home was built on part of the former Howard Johnson estate, their colonial set amid manicured grounds. Inside, the house is spacious with high ceilings and paned windows. Energy efficiency was not part of the original design.
Not long after building their home, the DeSantises watched “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Oscar-winning documentary on global warming. Concerned for their son’s future, they soon went all-out to retrofit their home for energy savings, and sustainability.
“It’s surprising how easy it is with just a little bit of planning to build an eco-friendly house. I wish we knew then what we know now,” DeSantis said.
The roof is lined with 72 panels of a Photo Voltaic Solar system. It’s an 8.3-kilowatt system, and from April through September, it collects 25 kilowatts a day.
“We produce more than we use,” DeSantis said.
During those months, the family pays nothing for energy. Instead they receive credits for excess solar power sent to the grid for public use. During winter when solar collection is less effective, the credits pay for their home’s electricity. The solar panel system cost $48,000, and at today’s energy costs the system should pay for itself in 19 years. If energy costs continue to rise, the family believes it could pay for itself far sooner.
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Last month, the family opened the house to the public to kick off the Community Solar Challenge sponsored by Mass Energy and Sustainable Milton.
By the end of April, if 300 Milton families support the New England Wind Fund by donating either $5 a month for a year, or with a one-time $100 donation, then the Mass Technology Collaborative will give Milton a solar panel system to install on any municipal building.
Visitors toured the DeSantis home and strolled the grounds to learn about energy-saving devices and designs, such as compact fluorescent lighting; energy-efficient windows with low e-glass; heavy wall and attic insulation; and motion sensors on exterior lighting.
Outside, curious visitors ringed around the “grease car” and looked toward the future site of the family wind turbine.
The turbine will be used to recharge battery packs for electric cars and to provide additional home power.
“I’m pretty excited about the wind turbine,” Mark said.
In Milton, a wind turbine must be 35 feet or less in height and placed less than 35 feet from property lot lines. DeSantis has applied for a building permit to place his 34-foot-11-inch turbine in his yard about 6 feet from their home.
“It will be a very quiet unit,” DeSantis said of the $15,000 turbine. He expects it will pay for itself in six to seven years.
The delayed gratification, though, is just fine for DeSantis. He wants folks to look beyond today’s convenience.
“Everything in America is about what makes sense now versus what makes sense years from now,” said DeSantis.
How the DeSantis family collects biodiesel
Biodiesel is created from a mixture of vegetable oil, methanol and lye. A company employee collects tanks of discarded oil from six restaurants, and processing takes place at a central location owned by David DeSantis’ business. The byproducts of biodiesel processing are glycerin, which is sold as a soap component, and water.
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Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's holiday diet revealed
March 23, 2016 - 14:29 GMT hellomagazine.com The supermodel sticks to mainly raw, vegan cuisine even in Costa Rica!
She's the highest paid supermodel in the world, so it comes as no surprise that Gisele Bundchen has to be strict when it comes to what she eats. But it's been revealed exactly what she tucks into on holiday – and it would kind of take the shine off of your week in Majorca.
According to Gisele, 35, and husband Tom Brady's chef Joanne Gerrard Young, even when the couple and their two children visit Costa Rica she doesn't relax her diet and sticks mainly to raw, vegan foods.
Gisele sticks to mainly raw, vegan foods even when on holiday
Joanne told Well and Good: "They don't always do raw, but since it's so easy to do in Costa Rica, we do an 80/20 raw diet, with big colourful salads and lots of fresh veggies.
"G likes to eat vegetarian sometimes, so we'll do a grain separate from the protein, and she's totally into juice cleanses, so she'll do about one per year."
It sounds very different to the average holiday diet, when people tend to enjoy what they want when they want after spending three months in the gym and necking protein shakes beforehand…
The whole family enjoy a healthy diet at all times
And Gisele and Tom, 38, tend to tuck into a big lunch before having a smaller dinner. Joanne confessed that, unsurprisingly, their leafy salads aren't followed by a slab of chocolate cake, but they do indulge every now and again.
She continued: "They didn't want to do desserts anymore, for healthy eating purposes, but I shared a few of my raw vegan desserts with them and they love them and have them all the time."
Earlier this year it was revealed Gisele's strict diet is totally free of white sugar, white flour, and anything containing MSG or caffeine.
It sounds like a lot of hard work to us, but when you look like Gisele we guess it's totally worth it!
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Alesha Dixon shares her tricks for radiant skin
January 22, 2016 - 14:09 GMT Julie Delahaye Alesha Dixon has revealed her skincare secrets.
Alesha Dixon repeatedly wows on the red carpet with her flawless complexion, so it comes as no surprise that when it comes to skincare, the 37-year-old has some expert-worthy tips. She recently delighted fans after sharing some of her tricks on how to give skin a healthy glow, as well as revealing who is her ultimate beauty icon.
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Alesha Dixon has shared some of her skincare secrets
"The blessing of a good night's sleep will do more for your face than any cream," she told The Telegraph. "But unfortunately, because we're all so busy, we don't always get the sleep we need. If you hydrate, use the right oils, exercise, eat well and take your supplements, nothing will do your skin more good."
The Breathe Slow hitmaker confessed that she prefers to trust her own instincts rather than turning to experts when it comes to looking after her complexion. "I don't see a dermatologist – that sounds too fancy," she explained. "I use a lot of natural oils like coconut and vitamin E oil on my skin, because I think the simple things often work best."
She later added: "I probably like my skin the most after I’ve exercised. I’m on stage a lot at the moment because I’m doing a lot of 30-minute gigs and I don’t really do a lot of ballads, so that has provided me with a lot of my exercise recently."
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Championing a natural approach to all things beauty, Alesha revealed there's one A-lister who she particularly admires. "My beauty icon now is Kate Hudson," she said. "She comes to mind first because she's very natural and she's into her health and wellbeing too. She's got a good reputation as someone who takes care of themselves. I think it's authentic with her; it's aspirational."
The new year is already set to be as busy as ever for the star, who is reprising her role as a judge on Britain's Got Talent alongside Amanda Holden, David Walliams, and Simon Cowell.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the Fed is close to announcing a plan to end the reduction of the size of its massive bond portfolio, which looks likely by the end of the year.
Powell, delivering the Fed's semiannual monetary report to Congress, faced a number of questions about the bond runoff from members of the House Financial Services Committee.
The central bank boosted its holdings by more than four-fold in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession, in an effort to lower long-term interest rates as it looked for unconventional ways to boost economic growth. The Fed's balance sheet hit a record high of $4.5 trillion before it began trimming the size of its holdings in October 2017.
The bond purchases, dubbed quantitative easing, were heavily criticized by conservative Republicans who believed the program was giving the central bank too much power over the U.S. economy. But financial markets are now worried that if the Fed reduces its holdings too drastically, it could push long-term interest rates higher, hurting key sectors of the economy such as home building and auto sales.
In his most extensive public comments on the issue, Powell told lawmakers Wednesday that the Fed has held three discussions on how to reduce its bond holdings.
"We have worked out the framework of a plan that we hope to be able to announce soon," Powell said. "It will light the way all the way to the end of the balance sheet normalization and that will result in the end of asset runoff sometime later this year."
The Fed's balance sheet now stands around $4 trillion. Powell has said the Fed plans to maintain a larger balance sheet than it did before the financial crisis, but he has not specified what the eventual size will be. Private economists have estimated it could fall to a range of $3 trillion to $3.5 trillion.
The balance sheet is currently composed of both Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
Powell's prepared testimony before the House panel was identical to his remarks Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee. He assured lawmakers on both committees that the Fed intended to take a "patient approach" in determining future hikes. He said he would closely watch emerging risks, including a slowdown in growth in China, Europe and elsewhere, and a severe bout of instability that hit the stock market in the final three months of last year.
The Fed in January left rates unchanged in a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent. It signaled that it was ready to take a pause in a rate-hike campaign that saw the Fed boosting rates four times in 2018.
The Fed in December projected that it could raise rates two times in 2019. But many private econo
The Fed in December projected that it could raise rates two times in 2019. But many private economists believe the central bank may keep rates unchanged all year, reflecting expectations that the economy will slow significantly.
Powell told lawmakers that the Fed is making its decisions on interest rates based on "our best thinking" and not political considerations.
That comment came in response to a question from Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who noted that President Donald Trump had attacked the Fed's interest rate decisions repeatedly last year. Trump charged that the Fed's string of rate hikes had triggered the big declines in stock prices and were a mistake because inflation was not a threat.
Powell told Green that the Fed was setting monetary policy "based on our best thinking and not political considerations." He said that the Fed's culture to keep political pressures from influencing policy decisions "was a s
Powell told Green that the Fed was setting monetary policy "based on our best thinking and not political considerations." He said that the Fed's culture to keep political pressures from influencing policy decisions "was a strong one."
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The (New)-man who learnt and taught how Goa became Goan
08 Feb 2019 04:09am IST
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After years of research and understanding Goa, American anthropologist Robert Newman presented his two new books ‘Goan Anthropology – ‘Festivals, Films, Fish’ and series two ‘Mothers, Miracles, Mythology’ earlier this month. In conversation with Café, the author speaks about his research and what drives him
“Goa fascinated me… its beauty and calm, its mix of Portuguese and Indian culture, the classic cuisine and the polite orderly people…” says American anthropologist Robert Newman, who first visited Goa in 1965 as a young Peace Corps Volunteer during his early ‘20s and fell in love with the state’s beautiful appearance and culture. As time passed by, Newman began studying and researching on the culture of Goa and Goan diversity. This led him to write his two famous books, ‘Goan Anthropology – ‘Festivals, Films, Fish’ and series two -‘Mothers, Miracles, Mythology’. “Growing up in Marblehead, a small New England costal town, Goa could not have been further from my consciousness,” expresses Newman.
When he visited Goa as a young lad, he survived with fewer pennies and was unable to even afford the only available hotel in Panjim. However, he found a place to live with some kind people here. Gradually he witnessed the growing population, prosperous inhabitants, development and commercialisation of the state. He was also there when Goa became a state in 1987 and Konkani becoming the official language.
While writing the book on Goan anthropology, Newman travelled from the fort at Terekhol down to Palolem beach; he visited the temples of Ponda and mines of Bicholim and even made a trip to Quepem. His main efforts were in the old coastal talukas. Though considered de rigueur among anthropologists, he had no plan in mind to organise a proper data research. In fact, he was interested in finding out what made Goa ‘Goan’. He was mesmerised by how the people feel ‘Goan’ in a land where three religions, several scripts, many castes and languages seem to divide the inhabitants into smaller groups.
Goan Anthropology - Festivals, Films and Fish Through the first series of his book, ‘Festivals, Films and Fish’, Newman writes many aspects of Goa’s transformation as well as Goa’s contemporary image in the wider world. These images and ideas have explained the reason behind millions of tourists visiting Goa. He compares Western Hippies with Goan religious pilgrims, and talks about Goa’s image on the conflict between trawlers and traditional fishermen along the coast. There are theories of a faith-healing cult with links to both Hindu and Catholic traditions, the colourful religious festivals in Goa and beyond. Newman argues, “Goa is not just a land; in Goa, there is a contact between two or more civilisations creating a fascinating synthesis.”
Goan Anthropology - Mothers, Miracles and Mythology ‘Goan Anthropology - Mothers, Miracles and Mythology’ provides knowledge on the in depth culture and statehood of Goan land. Newman named the first part of his book ‘Mother’, referring to it as the Konkani ‘Mai’ ascending the throne, technically the culture basis of Goan statehood and the study of Goan identity.
With regard to the topic ‘Miracles’ in his book, Newman states, “Just like beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, I say, Miracles lie in the eyes of the beholder.” He narrates an incident in the book, titled ‘Vision at Velim’, of a man named Antonio Fernandez (the village drunkard), who witnessed a bright vision of Mary, Mother of Jesus, with a baby in her arms. Antonio kept staring at the vision, and called two boys to confirm what he saw. The vision had then imprinted on the tile of his ceiling and faded away gradually. The incident had spread like wildfire around the village. Although, whether it was a hallucination or a vision is left as a mystery, just like Newman said that Miracles lie in the eyes of the beholder.
Newman keeps travelling to Goa and has discovered how things have changed from the time he first set foot in Goa. Though greying away, his memory is sharp and he remembers the days spent at different places in Goa. He reminisces of his unforgettable experience at the Calangute beach, which was earlier a quiet and peaceful area for walks, picnics and meditation. However, over time, Calangute beach has become the most populated and polluted beach.
He concludes, informing, “Through my books, I want people to know and understand that Goa is a sacred gift that has stood the storms and the rainbows. At any time, there should be a positive change, not destruction, and it depends on each person to be responsible. Goans still have the spirit within them to keep their bond intact.”
Robert Newman, clearly has the heart of an ‘insider”. And he has left his soulful imprint on this land, through his books.
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The Hahnville boys soccer team used a big second half to knock off East St. John on Friday, picking up a 2-1 victory.
The first half of play was very fast paced with multiple possession changes. The Tigers struck first with good aggressive play by sophomore Reid Gautreaux, who brought the ball into enemy territory before crossing it to junior Bryan Bennett, who scored.
But towards the end of the first half East St. John got on the board with a tough goal through the heart of the Tiger defense.
The teams headed into the second half tied at 1-1.
Both teams applied lots of pressure in the second, with the Tigers winning the possession battle and keeping the ball on the Wildcats side of the field for a majority of the period.
The Hahnville pressure resulted in multiple corner kick opportunities for the Tigers.
The Tigers game-clinching goal would come on a corner kick when Gautreaux again found Bennett to give Hahnville a 2-1 victory.
St. Amant 2 Hahnville 0
Coming into the St. Amant game, the Tigers knew they were facing a potent offense. In fact, St. Amant hung eight goals on Destrehan earlier this season.
St. Amant’s offensive attack was very persistent in the first half, but sophomore goalie Mason Boyer had several great saves to keep the game close. St. Amant would not let up though, and this pressure eventually resulted in a goal by junior Jaxon Lambert.
The half continued on with some good scoring opportunities by the Tigers from junior Bryan Bennett, but St. Amant’s goalie made some nice saves of his own to keep the Tigers off the score board.
With the Tigers trailing 1-0 in the second half, both teams increased their intensity.
The half was more balanced on possession between both teams. Junior Jonathan Schmaltz had a couple of scoring opportunities for the Tigers, but several good plays by the St. Amant defense denied Hahnville any goals.
St. Amant also had a number of opportunities in this second half, but Hahnville senior captain Austin Fremen constantly foiled their scoring efforts.
However, late in the second half St. Amant’s Lambert ripped a low corner shot. Boyer made a diving attempt to make the stop but the ball squeezed past him resulting in the second goal for the Gators. Shortly after that time ran out with the game ending at 2-0.
The Tigers are now 10-5-1 on the season with a 2-2 district record.
The Tigers will next travel to Dutchtown to battle the Griffins on Jan. 14.
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With Palumbo out, capital gains tax gets real for Democrats
His successor could be the vote leaders need. But with elections in 2020, tax may be off the table.
by Jerry Cornfield
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OLYMPIA — The resignation of Guy Palumbo from the state Senate gives progressive Democratic lawmakers a clearer path to a capital gains tax, one of the few political peaks they failed to summit in the 2019 session.
Will they take it is a question to be mulled these next few months.
Palumbo was among a quartet of the 28-member Senate Democratic caucus unwilling to support such a tax. Without those four votes, all ideas were destined to die.
The Maltby Democrat quit May 24 and Rep. Derek Stanford, D-Bothell, announced Tuesday he wants to fill the seat in the 1st District. If he gets the gig — and he’s a favorite — it changes the equation.
Stanford, a data science consultant, is not averse to a capital gains tax which House Democrats have put out there a few times in his five terms, including this year.
One suspects a change of chambers won’t alter his attitude. Thus he’d be positioned to cast the pivotal 25th vote for passage in the Senate — presuming Democrats will be still interested in making this dangerous political trek in 2020, an election year.
On June 9, Democratic precinct committee officers will meet to nominate three people to fill the vacancy. Their names will be sent to the Snohomish and King County councils, which will appoint someone to serve the district, which straddles Snohomish and King counties encompassing Bothell, Mountlake Terrace, and part of Kirkland.
In the meantime, Palumbo’s departure also could add this controversial tax to the mix of a special legislative contest this November.
State Sen. Liz Lovelett, D-Anacortes, is seeking to keep the 40th District seat to which she was appointed earlier this year. She’s all in on this potential source of revenue. She co-sponsored a capital gains tax that received a hearing in the the Senate Ways and Means Committee but was never a threat of being voted on.
While this is a pretty safe district for Democrats, taxes are an easy line of attack for her Republican challenger. And if either of the two Democrats in the primary are wary of the tax, they might bring it up as well.
Never too soon to celebrate
When Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers issued a statement May 17 proclaiming victory in his re-election bid, it did seem a tad bit early for celebrating.
No ballot had been cast or counted. Heck, none had even been printed for the primary or general election.
But since no one filed to run against him, Somers had every reason to be confident. Absent a formal campaign by a write-in, he’s getting a second term without a fight.
Which makes one wonder whither the Snohomish County Republican Party?
“We didn’t have anybody to run,” said Debbie Blodgett, the party chairwoman. “There wasn’t anybody who wanted to run.”
The two Republicans on the County Council — Sam Low and Nate Nehring — are considered potential candidates for the job in the future. Right now, they are in their first term. And they get along well with Somers.
“I think things are good or at least aren’t as bad as they could be,” she said.
Republicans made an aggressive run at the office in 2011 when Mike Hope, then a GOP state lawmaker, took on the Democrat then in the office, Aaron Reardon.
Four years ago, it was an all-Democrat final as Somers faced off and unseated the incumbent county exec, John Lovick.
Blodgett insisted 2023 will be different.
“We will have somebody to run in four years.” she said.
And if Somers chooses to seek a third time, maybe the GOP will at least force him to wait a little longer to celebrate.
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Governor Murphy Signs Legislation to Make Student Loans More Affordable
Two New Laws Help Borrowers of NJCLASS Loans Manage their Student Debt and Repair their Credit Scores
TRENTON – Governor Murphy today signed two pieces of legislation to assist student loan borrowers who are struggling with repayment.
"Addressing student loan debt not only makes a crucial difference in individuals' lives and careers, it also helps boost New Jersey's economy as a whole. By making more affordable repayment options available through the new programs that HESAA has launched that are now codified into law, we will enable college graduates to live and thrive here in the Garden State," said Governor Phil Murphy.
One of the two bills signed today, S3125/A4475, offers alternate payment options for borrowers who experience financial hardship in repaying loans made through the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) program. This legislation makes the Repayment Assistance Program (RAP) and the Household Income Assistance Repayment Plans (HIARP) permanent features of the NJCLASS program, building on the initial creation of these programs as part of the past two NJCLASS bond indentures. No state appropriation is used to finance NJCLASS loans, which are funded entirely through private activity revenue bonds issued by the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA).
RAP and HIARP work in tandem to help struggling borrowers avoid defaulting on their loans. When all parties to an eligible NJCLASS loan face financial hardship, RAP and HIARP offer reduced monthly payments calculated to be affordable based on the combined household income of all of the parties to the loan. During RAP, all payments are applied to the outstanding principal balance, so borrowers can pay down their balance without accruing additional interest. HIARP provides additional payment relief when all parties to the loan continue to face financial hardship after exhausting two years of RAP eligibility, starting with standard NJCLASS loans originated on or after June 1, 2018. HIARP extends the repayment term to 25 years from the date of origination. During the HIARP period, borrowers' payments will be applied directly to principal, interest will continue to accrue on the loan, and any remaining balance at the end of 25 years will be forgiven.
The second bill signed today, S3149/A4623, enables borrowers and co-signers to repay defaulted loans through reasonable installment plans that ensure NJCLASS loans are repaid. The law codifies HESAA's process for settlements allowing borrowers to repay defaulted loans through more affordable monthly payments, and enabling HESAA to repair the credit ratings of borrowers who consistently comply with such payment plans.
"Higher education should provide an affordable pathway to a better life," said Secretary of Higher Education Zakiya Smith Ellis. "That's why the recently released state plan focuses on strategies to enhance college affordability, including ensuring students have manageable options to repay their student loans. The bills the Governor signs into law today will be an important step in fulfilling this promise of affordable options as outlined in the state plan for higher education."
"These new laws make important reforms to the NJCLASS loan program, while maintaining the availability of this important financial tool for New Jersey's students and families without any State appropriation," said David Socolow, Executive Director of HESAA. "Through the leadership of Governor Murphy and our partnership with the Legislature on these bills, HESAA will increase our efforts to help borrowers of NJCLASS family loans manage their student loan payments and achieve financial success."
"The average student in New Jersey graduates college with over $30,000 in debt. It can take years for graduates to fully pay off their debt, which can haunt them for years as they try to navigate the expenses of adulthood," said Assemblyman Ralph Caputo. "NJCLASS borrowers currently lack a path to loan rehabilitation if they struggle to make payments; this bill will correct that problem and set up a system for them to make manageable on-time payments and reduce their debt."
"It's all too common for students to leave college with crushing debt and earn a low-paying salary at an entry-level job," said Assemblywoman Mila Jasey. "It's quite easy to fall behind on payments in this situation, oftentimes resulting in a loan declared in default, which can negatively impact a graduate's credit for many years. It's imperative that we create a process for NJCLASS borrowers to have a default loan rehabilitated so they can focus on building their lives and careers instead of overwhelming debt."
"College graduates are facing the largest debt burden in history and as a State it is our responsibility to ensure that they are set up for success," said Assemblyman Gary Schaer. "Students who default on their loans are often caught in a cycle of poor credit history and unemployment. This law creates a process for borrowers to restore their loans from a default status by allowing them to make payments over several months to HESAA. Removing the default status will give graduates a second chance and an opportunity to build a better future for themselves and their families."
"A college degree is an essential tool to overcoming economic challenges," said Assemblyman Dan Benson. "However, the student must be able to afford college in the first place. Establishing a pathway for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to repay their loans in a fair, manageable way will improve access to college and expand their career opportunities."
"Student loan repayment is a nightmare for many college graduates and their families, and their financial situations worsen if they have the misfortune of defaulting on their loans," said Senator Sandra Cunningham. "These bills being signed into law is the culmination of two years of hard work. This will bring real, much needed relief to so many people who have defaulted or are struggling to pay back their NJCLASS loans."
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The inconspicuous ‘Covert House’ in London stays true to its name
What if one has to build a substantially large family house inside the confines of a well known conservation area without bothering the neighbors? Well, according to London-based architecture firm DSDHA, the solution is to 'go covert' - as aptly demonstrated by their so-named Covert House. Situated in the middle of the conserved Clapham Old Town,…
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Dune House boasts of eco-friendliness, bio-fuels and gorgeous views of the landscape
Dune House - the very name evokes reveries of dune-speckled landscapes with a lone habitat to take in the surreal views. Well, the above pictured architectural specimen (situated in one of the northern Dutch islands) from Marc Koehler Architects does allude to this enchanting scope with a symbolic as well as visual angle. In essence,…
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Organic yet modernistic - the new Learning Hub for the Nanjang Technological University designed by Thomas Heatherwick's studio (and fabricated by CPG consultants), makes its ceremonious debut after more than two years in construction phase. Envisaged as an incredible architectural component of the Singaporean university's campus redevelopment plan, the Learning Hub is all about catering…
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The breathtakingly modernist Kona Residence in Hawaii, built of recycled wood and lava rock
The designers (in this case being Belzberg Architects) start out describing their classy creation as a residence nestled between 'cooled lava flows'. This automatically strikes you as something romantic and yet exhilarating. And perhaps that was the intention of the architects of the fascinating Kona Residence, a house design that follows the strategic points of…
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Microsoft to include Outlook app with update to Windows 8 RT
Posted by James Niccolai
on June 04 2013
Microsoft is bringing its Outlook email program to Windows 8 RT in a bid to expand the availability of Windows tablets based on low-power ARM processors.
Outlook will be included with version 8.1 of Windows RT, previously dubbed Windows Blue, Microsoft announced at the Computex trade show in Taipei on Wednesday. The 8.1 update is scheduled for release later this year as a free update to Windows 8.
"We're always listening to our customers and one piece of feedback was that people want the power of Outlook on all their Windows PCs and tablets," Microsoft said.
Windows has traditionally run on x86 type processors such as Intel's Core chips, but most popular smartphones and tablets, including Apple's iPad, are based on low-power ARM chips from the likes of Qualcomm, Samsung and Nvidia.
With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft also offered Windows RT for devices with ARM-based processors, a move to help it compete better with Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Support for RT from hardware makers has been limited, however, with several PC makers, such as Acer, Asustek Computer and Hewlett-Packard, not yet supporting the OS.
Microsoft hopes to change that by addressing one of the criticisms of Windows RT -- that it doesn't include a version of its popular Outlook email client. Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang has been vocal about the importance of adding Outlook to RT.
"If Outlook were to show up on RT, my life would be complete," he said recently, lamenting the slow sales of Windows RT tablets. "I am one Outlook away from computing nirvana. Outlook god, please..."
His prayer has apparently been answered. Outlook will now join Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote in the suite of Office apps bundled with RT devices.
Microsoft also announced that it will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote "in the box" with the x86 version of Windows 8, to enable more affordable price points for x86 Windows tablets. The list of bundled apps for the x86 version apparently does not include Outlook, however.
It remains to be seen how much the change will boost sales of Windows tablets. Some users were jolted by the big changes in Windows 8, including its Metro interface, and Windows 8.1 is a move by Microsoft to address to those criticisms. The Windows 8.1 update for x86 PCs is also due later this year. Microsoft has said it will deliver a preview version of Windows 8.1 at its Build conference later this month.
James Niccolai covers data centers and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow James on Twitter at @jniccolai. James's e-mail address is james_niccolai@idg.com
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About IIDAEN
IIDAEN has been producing Japanese tea together with mother nature in Sakai town located in Sashima district of Ibaraki Prefecture. From fertilizing in early summer to weeding and harvesting, the company has been hard at work with dedication and, sincerity in fully traceable, high quality tea production.
Sashima-cha
The cultivation of Sashima-cha is said to have its origins at around 1382. In the beginning it was produced by using a method called “sun-dried technique”, which was inferior in quality to teas produced in other regions. Since 1824, the producers of Sashima-cha travelled to Kyoto to master the techniques used in Uji, and has continuously and significantly improved the quality until it finally gained its popularity in Edo (Tokyo). Today, Sashima’s tea industry’s efforts in improvement and development continues. “Sashima-cha Hand Rolling Preservation Society” was founded recently in effort to carry on the traditional method of “Chamomi” (tea rolling) that does not use any machines.
The arrival of the Perry Expedition to Japan in 1853 sparked great concern in opening the ports of Japan to international trade. Despite the strong oppositions, Motonari Nakayama, a local wealthy farmer, tirelessly visited Townsend Harris, the first United States Consul General to Japan in Nagasaki and Izu, as well as Yokohama for 5 years. After the Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed, Nakayama finally succeeded the negotiation with the trade chief of Paul Trading Company in 1859, making Sashima-cha the pioneer of Japanese green tea exportation.
The seventh generation, Kohei Iida
After having graduated high school, Kohei Iida studied for 2 years at the Vegetable and Tea Industry Research Institute in the national research institute NARO in Shimada city, Shizuoka. He became qualified as a Japanese tea instructor and an assistant tutor of Temomi (hand rolling) during his training. After completing his studies, Iida stayed in Shizuoka to receive further training at various places including tea wholesaler and tea processing machinery manufacturer before taking over his family business.
Iida has won first place in the National Competition for Temomicha Production twice (2011/ 2015).
2005 Became a Japanese Tea Instructor
2010 Became a Temomicha Instructor (Japan Temomicha Promotion Association Certified)
2010 Won third place at the National Temomicha Competition
2010 Certified as first level at the National Tea Examination Techniques Council
2010 Certified as an Eco-farmer
2011 Won first place at the National Competition for Temomicha
Temomi tea leaves that were hand rolled for hours by tea master Iida resemble narrow pine needles. Once hot water is poured over them, the leaves unfurl in the teapot returning back into their original “one bud two leaves” shapes seen at the time of harvest.
The tea has a beautiful golden crystal colour.
Enjoy the sweet aftertaste and umami that lingers in your mouth.
【Fukushima disaster : consequences and current status】
In 2011, tea producers in Ibaraki Prefecture were subjected to shipping restrictions after the nuclear power plant accident. In response to this, Iidaen cut away all tea leaves and kept only branches up to the maximum height of 30cm from the ground in effort to reduce radioactive substances.
Due to the elimination of all leaves, the shipping restriction on Sashimacha were lifted in October 2011 after the autumn/winter harvest. Since then, all teas have been subject to monitoring inspection four times a year, at the time of harvest. Since 2013, radioactive cesium has not been found in Sashima-cha.
IIDAEN
521 Jaike, Sakaimachi, Sashima-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture 306-0403, Japan
TEL : +81-280-87-1547
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How Your Green Century Investments Curb Climate Change
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Low Carbon Footprint. The Green Century Balanced Fund was the first U.S. mutual fund to measure its carbon footprint, and in a recently updated report was found to be nearly 50% less carbon intensive than the S&P 500®.†
THROUGH ADVOCATING FOR SENSIBLE POLICY SOLUTIONS
Green Century leverages its clout as a shareholder to press top U.S. companies to reduce their carbon emissions by making their supply chain more sustainable. For example, in 2014, Green Century persuaded Kellogg’s,* ConAgra* and JM Smucker* to reduce carbon pollution – the companies agreed to stop buying palm oil that was grown on plantations created by burning rainforests.
Green Century has also worked with companies to set and meet overall greenhouse gas reduction goals, such as by convincing Pepsi* to change to a more fuel efficient delivery truck fleet.
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National Policy Impact. This year, Environment America and our allies submitted more than 4 million public comments to the EPA, and garnered support from more than 600 local elected officials and hundreds of small business owners in support of EPA-proposed Clean Power Plan that will finally limit carbon pollution from power plants.
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* As of September 30, 2014, Johnson Controls, Inc., The Kellogg Company, The JM Smucker Company, and PepsiCo, Inc. comprised 1.50% and 0.43%; 0.00% and 0.25%; 1.12% and 0.15%; and 0.00% and 2.09% of the Green Century Balanced Fund and the Green Century Equity Fund, respectively. Other securities mentioned were not held in the portfolios as of September 30, 2014. References to specific securities, which will change due to ongoing management of the Funds, should not be construed as a recommendation by the Funds, their administrator, or their distributor.
† The S&P 500® Index is an unmanaged index of 500 selected common stocks, most of which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The S&P 500® Index is heavily weighted toward stocks with large market capitalization and represents approximately two-thirds of the total market value of all domestic stocks. It is not possible to invest directly in the S&P 500® Index.
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Infinity Blade was more profitable for Epic Games than Gears of War
Simon Sage
In a recent interview Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney talked a lot about the freemium model, convergence, and in particular how successful they've been in mobile.
We've been very happy with the game industry's growth. For a while we were worried that the divide between the console growth in the west and the growth of PCs would increase. The most profitable game we've ever made, in terms of man years invested versus revenue, is actually Infinity Blade. It's more profitable than Gears of War. ... We expect DirectX technology to be widely available on these mobile devices in the next few years. ... These platforms are rapidly converging, with a set of common capabilities. The lowest end device [the iPad 2] is still a DirectX 9 device!
If you're not familiar, Gears of War is a massively popular shooting game franchise on console which originally launched in 2006 and spawned multiple sequels. The latest title sold 3 million copies in its opening week, beating out the previous two games. As of September 2011, the whole series has grossed over $1 billion.
iOS has been eating the lunch of traditional portable gaming consoles for some time now, but the new iPad has started steering towards competing with consoles, primarily by way of comparison of the Retina display's resolution with standard HD TVs. Even though the processing power and storage space of the iPad and iPhone currently limits what can be done in iOS games, those are limits that even AAA developers like Epic are willing to work around if they can enjoy higher profits than their console titles. Of course Infinity Blade is the exception rather than the rule, but it proves mobile can be at least as profitable for game developers as other platforms.
Sweeney's interview revolved a lot around the Unreal Engine which they created and has a prominent position in the mobile sphere, and provides a clear transition path for developers moving from PC and consoles. Sweeney was largely supportive of the freemium model, and expects that all games will at some point in the future be distributed globally and digitally.
If Epic can make more money on Infinity Blade than Gears of War, is this a signal that other big-name developers should switch gears to mobile? If so, does iPhone and iPad stand any chance of becoming a more popular gaming platform than PCs or consoles, regardless of technical limitations?
Source: Gamasutra
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‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ First Trailer: Kiernan Shipka Steps into Netflix’s Dark Retelling of Teenage Witch Saga
The new spin on the classic character will arrive just in time for Halloween.
Steve Greene
@stevebruin
One year after “Riverdale” became a hit as a dark retelling of Archie Comics stories, Netflix is betting on the same strategy working for its witchy counterpart.
Following the first peek at “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” earlier this month, Netflix has shared an extended glimpse at the character and the supernatural world she inhabits. Kiernan Shipka steps into the role made famous on TV by Melissa Joan Hart, this time as a Sabrina with a few more problems to face than the perils of high school.
“The Age of Adaline” director Lee Toland Krieger takes up the same role on the pilot, after previously jumping behind the camera for “You” and the aforementioned “Riverdale.” The latter series also served as the first showrunning gig for Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who created this TV version of the Archie Comics classics.
Lest you fear that this incarnation of “Sabrina” would be bereft of Salem, her black cat confidant, take comfort in the knowledge that the kitty co-star was one of the first details that Aguirre-Sacasa confirmed after the show was officially announced. Aside from Shipka and her furry friend, Jaz Sinclair, Bronson Pinchot, Chance Perdomo, Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis, and Richard Coyle also round out the main cast.
“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” premieres October 26 on Netflix. Watch the trailer below.
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Local Foundation Pledges $2.5 Million to Keep Boston-Area Pets Healthy
February 20, 2014 / Alyssa Ochs
Let's say you have a sick dog, cat, guinea pig, or even a snake. If you live in the Boston area, you might consider taking your ailing pet to the Henry and Lois Foster Hospital for Small Animals, part of Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. With a long history of supporting animal health causes, the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund pledged $2.5 million towards facility renovations—but there's a catch.
The animal hospital must raise $5 million more before the end of 2014 to receive the Peabody funds. Fortunately, a generous couple from Connecticut, Travis and Anne Engen, kicked in $2.5 million, as well. According to the veterinary school, the Engens were motivated to chip in because of positive personal experiences they had with the Tufts veterinarians. There's a couple million dollars left to raise, but there is still plenty of time in 2014.
This matching grant strategy seems to be the favored way to do business over at the Peabody. If you recall, we recently covered a $25,000 challenge grant that the foundation pledged to a domestic violence home -- as long as it raised that much on its own (Read Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund: Boston Area Grants).
At the Foster Hospital for Small Animals, common and exotic pets receive top-notch medical care from licensed veterinarians and veterinary students. The hospital was designed to care for about 12,000 small animals, but it treated twice as many last year, and the number of sick pets is growing. The money will be going toward Phase I of a renovation project that is estimated to cost $8 million. This project will increase the number of high-tech exam rooms and create larger specialty services treatment rooms for ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, and dermatology care. In turn, the veterinary staff hopes these renovations will reduce client wait times for specialized care.
"The Engen family and trustees of the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund understand what the hospital renovation will mean for us and truly value the school's mission of clinical service, teaching and research," said Deborah T. Kochevar, dean of the Cummings School. "With their support, the Cummings School is now much closer to obtaining the funding needed to start Phase I construction and we hope to be able to do that soon with continued support from the community."
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Amazon will continue selling facial recognition to law enforcement
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Home / Politics / Asia / Zaira Wasim: Leaving Bollywood for Allah
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Zaira Wasim: Leaving Bollywood for Allah
Posted by: Dr Izzadeen Chowdhury in Asia, India, Islamic Thought, Latest, Latest Posts, Politics, Spirituality 15 days ago 0
Lights. Camera. Action. For many little girls, growing up to be an actress in Bollywood is the dream. The glitz and the glamour, the award ceremonies, the outfits, the fame. One such girl whose dream came true was Zaira Wasim. Only three years ago, Zaira Wasim, aged 22, starred in Dangal which became the highest grossing Indian film ever and the highest earning non-English speaking film in history. [1]
Two days ago, Zaira Wasim shocked the Bollywood world and her 250,000 fans by announcing that she was returning to Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā). In a heartfelt post on Facebook, the former Bollywood actress opened her heart to the world. The words which poured forth were seemingly filled with regret for her mistakes and showed true devotion to her Maker. Our sister explained how she struggled with her īmān (faith in Allāh) in a world filled with indecency and that whilst she may “fit here perfectly, she doesn’t belong here.” [2] These words perfectly echoed the sentiment of many youth who have turned their backs on a lifestyle of hedonism. Our sister explained to us that despite the trappings of her fame and success, she only found contentment with the “words of Allāh.” [2] Despite the many Islamic courses and events we may attend, our sister, in just a simple sentence, showed us the real meaning of following words of her Merciful Lord:
“Verily, in the remembrance of Allāh do hearts find peace.” [3]
In Sister Zaira’s lengthy Facebook post, three themes jump out: regret; love of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā); and love of the Qurʼān. Before we explore each, let us look at the cost of sins.
The Loss in Barakāh
We all commit sins occasionally. There is not a man or woman alive except that he or she has violated some of the laws of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā), but what He does not want from us is to persistently sin. The effect of insisting upon a sin turns a minor sin into a major one, and the cost of this could be losing out on barakah. So, what is barakah? It is when Divine benefit is placed in a matter so that the goodness from it grows beyond what was expected. For example, you can have two people earning the same amount, but one has a halal income, whereas the other does not. The latter may experience an unhappy household, whilst the former could have a loving, respectful family, with a house filled with laughter. What is the difference? Barakah.
The Loss of Angelic Supplications
When we are in difficulty, we often turn to people we consider are pious to make duʿāʾ for us – our parents, living scholars, and the like. But just imagine that the Angels, who were created for the sole purpose of worshipping Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā), making duʿāʾ for you. And not just any Angels – those specific Angels who have the honour to carry the throne of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) and say:
“Our Lord, You have encompassed all things in mercy and knowledge, so forgive those who have repented and followed Your way and protect them from the punishment of Hellfire.” [4]
The Cure for Sins: Tawbah
In the previous āyah, we also see the cure for our sins: tawbah.But what is tawbah? Tawbah is repentance and the essence of repentance is regret. It is a feeling in the heart of sorrow at falling short in obedience to Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā). It is the cornerstone of a Muslim and an obligation:
“And turn to Allāh in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.” [5]
The soft heart will see here the key to success, both in this life and the next, is sincere repentance. This is something our sister Zaira has clearly understood. A word here in regard to our youth: we need to challenge ourselves to communicate with them in a forum and language that engages them, to answer the questions they are really asking, and not the ones we want to answer. It is easy for us to remain in a pseudo-pious bubble, spouting quotations from third century scholars, but it is likely to fall on deaf ears, who are busy listening to the likes of Drake and Riri. Nor should we make our youth feel they have so many sins that there is no hope for them. After all, we all have sins, to varying degrees and of different types. The Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) said:
“All of the children of Ādam are sinners, and the best of sinners are those who repent.” [6]
No doubt, the brave, public statement of the former Bollywood actress can be an excellent starting point to discuss priorities and goals in life with our youth. Let us not waste this opportunity.
From a sinner to another, it is easy to feel hopeless when you look at your pile of sins. Indeed, this is what Shayṭān wants from you – to despair at your sins. But, here you have perhaps made a bigger mistake than all of your sins combined. You have lost hope in the mercy of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā), when He has said in a ḥadīth Qudsī:
“O son of Ādam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Ādam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Ādam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the Earth and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it.” [7]
And, we should never feel like we are too far gone for Him:
“Whoever draws close to me by the length of a hand, I will draw close to him by the length of an arm. Whoever draws close to me the by length of an arm, I will draw close to him by the length of a fathom. Whoever comes to me walking, I will come to him running. Whoever meets me with enough sins to fill the earth, not associating any idols with me, I will meet him with as much forgiveness.” [8]
Remind yourself about the magicians of the Pharoah. These were people who practiced black magic, so their sins must have been immense. Yet, when they saw the miracle of Mūsā (ʿalayhi al-Salām), Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) opened their hearts to the truth, and they fell into prostration and said:
“Our Lord! Pour out upon us patience, and cause us to die in submission.” [9]
Who is Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā)?
Imagine, if BBC News reported that we had finally made contact with alien life and their message to us would be aired at 2am. The whole world would stay up for the broadcast. However, what is placed on our shelves is a message that is out of this world. It is not from the created, but from the Creator of everything. And to Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) belongs the best of examples.
We do not do justice to the Qurʼān because we have not appreciated who Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) is. Not that endeavour could ever be completed, but He has revealed many of His names and attributes in the Qurʼān for us to learn about Him. He chose to reveal these details about Him, possibly because as humans, we can relate to these attributes to some degree.
So let us take the name al-Raḥmān, commonly translated as “Most Merciful”. Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) says:
“…and My Mercy embraces all things.” [10]
How do we understand Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā)’s mercy? We could start by looking at the mercy we have experienced in our own lives. We could reflect on the mercy that our mothers have shown us; their sacrifice of sleep and health for our well-being. Then, we could add to this the hadith of the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam)when speaking of a woman who had thought she lost her child, but when she found him gave him a loving embrace. The Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) turned to his companions and asked:
“’Do you think that this woman would throw her child in the fire?’
We [the companions] said, ‘No, by Allāh, not if she is able not to.’
The Messenger of Allāh (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) said, ‘Allāh is more merciful to His slaves than this woman is to her child.’” [11]
How about Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā)’s name, al-ʿĀlim; the One who knows everything? Pause for a moment. What a statement. What an attribute: to know….everything. Subḥān Allāh! How perfect Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) is. So let us take a second and then consider what happens in London during that small unit of time. Why stop there? Let us widen it out to the UK and even to the world, but only in that one second. He knows what happens within that unit of time everywhere. He knows what you were doing and what I was doing. He knows about the number of raindrops, the movement protons and electrons, the speed of rotation of planets, the rate of expansion of the Universe, the chemical processes within our bodies, the leaves falling from the trees, and even whathappens in the deepest and darkest of oceans. It is nothing short of mindboggling to start to try to appreciate how much Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) knows in just that one second, let alone everything in the past, present, and future. He is beyond amazing. Beyond words. Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) is beyond any appreciation of Him by us mere mortals.
Developing a Relationship with Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā)
Thus, getting to know Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) and developing a relationship with the Qurʼān go hand in hand. It is from the Qurʼān, its recitation and its reflection, we can learn about Him. So, let us say we are going through some financial difficulties; we can read the passages in the Qurʼān that teach us that He is al-Razzāq, the Provider. This name of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) then becomes more than a sterile, academic endeavour of memorisation, and it becomes an organic, tangible experience. So, when we call out to Him using this name, the value in our duʿāʾ is so much more. It becomes a cry from the depth of our soul which reaches beyond the highest skies. In the final analysis, what is life but a journey to our Lord, and what an excellent voyage it would be, if during which, we can forge a relationship with Him such that:
“My servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it. I do not hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful servant: he hates death and I hate hurting him.” [12]
Our sister is not the first ‘celebrity’ to turn her back on fame and fortune. Sinead O’Connor, who has taken the name of Shuhada’ recently embraced Islām. Other notable ‘celebrity’ reverts include the singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, Rapper Ice Cube, who reverted to Islām in the 1990s, and Mos Def, who said:
“You’re either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.” [13]
Furthermore, we cannot forget comedian David Chappelle, who became Muslim in 1998 and said:
“I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing.” [14]
Neither can we forget former professional footballer Emmanuel Adebayo, nor of course, rugby union star Sonny Bill Williams, who said:
“It’s giving me happiness. It’s made me become content as a man and helped me to grow. I’ve just got faith in it and it has definitely helped me become the man I am today.” [15]
We are living in an age where fame is craved for and celebrities are worshipped. However, perhaps what all these ‘celebrities’ realised is that despite being in a crowd of adoring people, you can still feel all alone, except when you understand and surrender to the undeniable truth that your soul yearns to know: its Creator.
“Has the time not come for those who believe that their hearts should become humble, submissive at the remembrance of Allāh and what has come down of the truth?” [16]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangal_(film)
[2] https://www.facebook.com/WZairaaa/posts/378614566192829?__tn__=K-R
[3] Al-Qurʼān 13:28
[4] Al-Qurʼān 40: 6
[6] Al-Tirmidhi 2499
[7]Al-Tirmidhi
[8] Muslim
[9] Al-Qurʼān : 7: 126
[10] Al-Qurʼān 7:156
[11] Agreed upon
[12] Al-Bukhārī
[13] https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/famous-muslim-celebrities/24/
[14] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45987127
[15] http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/27/sport/sonny-bill-williams-rugby-new-zealand/index.html
[16] Al-Qurʼān 57:16
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Netanyahu Threatens New Elections
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Less than two months before the last elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Deputy Miki Zohar of his own Likud party to introduce a bill to dissolve the Knesset. This measure, if approved would throw Israel into new elections.
By Israeli law, the deadline is March 29th for Netanyahu to put together a coalition. If that deadline passes than three option are available; have a ruling coalition without a majority, President Reuven Rivlin appoints someone else to form a government, or the country goes to new elections.
Avigdor Lieberman, the president of the political party Israel Beiteinu is still holding back the 5 seats that his party won 5 in this years election. Without them, Netanyahu will not have a majority to properly run a Knesset.
The point of contest resolves around Lieberman’s refusal position to not move an inch off the proposed stricter draft law that would increase the number of Orthodox males to serve in the army. Lieberman has always been very adamant that the ultra-orthodox communities join or be fined if they refuse to send their eligible youth to the army.
However, Netanyahu also needs the seats of the religious parties(United Torah Judaism, Shas and the Union of Right-Wing Parties) to form a ruling coalition; who are all in opposition of a stricter draft law.
Despite outside pressure by the rest of the Likud parties to join, Lieberman is still standing his ground by saying ”during the elections, we promised to back Netanyahu as prime minister, and alongside this, we presented a very clear platform: security, immigration, and absorption, religion and state. The draft of yeshiva students is one of the central issues for Yisrael Beytenu.”
“After the elections, as we promised, we recommended to the president Binyamin Netanyahu as the candidate to form the government. That being said, we did not obligate ourselves to give in to the Likud or to surrender our basic principles. At every appearance, I made before the elections, during the elections, and after the elections, I made it very clear that we won’t make any concessions on the issue of the draft, which was already brought up for the first vote as a compromise,” Liberman said.
The move aims to put pressure on the Lieberman and the religious parties to come to some sort of compromise to avoid going to new elections.
Netanyahu announced that he will meet with the leaders of the parties of his possible coalition to try and save the new government and avoid new elections that would polarize the nation.
“I am now making my last-ditch effort to form a right-wing government and to prevent unnecessary elections. I gave the partners a proposal for a solution. It is based on the principles that the army has established and on the data that the army has established, and there is no reason to reject it,” Netanyahu said.
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Lessons to Be Learned From Case That Damaged Israel’s Image
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Earlier this month, the Israeli government released its first official report on the long-debated and presumed death of Muhammad al-Dura. The report showed with overwhelming certainty that the young Palestinian from Gaza was not killed by Israeli fire.
Earlier this month, the Israeli government released its first official report on the long-debated and presumed death of Muhammad al-Dura. The report showed with overwhelming certainty that the young Palestinian from Gaza, who was reported by a French television crew to have been shot to death by Israeli bullets during the Palestinian uprising in 2000, was not killed by Israeli fire.
After 13 years of heated debate, forensic evidence, medical inspection and the viewing of the unedited footage of the incident, it is now clear, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Israel was not responsible. The report further concluded that it was highly likely that the boy survived the incident unscathed and therefore may still be alive.
The incident took place on Sept. 30, 2000 — the early days of the second intifada — when Jamal al-Dura and his 12-year-old son were filmed by a French news station as they crouched in fear as bullets whistled over their heads,
caught in a crossfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police forces in Netzarim Junction, on the Gaza Strip’s main north-south highway. The French station reported that the boy was killed by direct IDF fire.
The story was widely covered by the international media and in these years since, the image of the young child as it was portrayed by European and Arab media became a symbol of Israeli aggression, cruelty and violence.
The image spiked a sharp rise in anti-Semitism in Europe, helped rally people to protest alleged Israeli abuse of human rights and significantly contributed to the delegitimization of Israel that has gained such momentum over the past decade.
And now, after all these years, we learn that the story happens to be untrue.
The question that begs to be answered at this point is: How is it that the world fell for this? How come it took 13 years for someone to yell, “The king has no clothes.” These were years of ferocious anti-Semitism, of an isolated Israel and of Jewish guilt for something that we didn’t do. The answer to this troubling question is the same as the answer to so many other questions in life: We believe what we want to believe.
In a world where there is great desire and demand for aggressive images of Israeli soldiers, where the Israeli “David” is portrayed more and more as the “Goliath” instead — especially in a Europe that really wants to believe that Israel is treating its Palestinians at least as badly as the Europeans treat their Jews — it is no wonder that the al-Dura image circled so fast and with such momentum.
The lesson we, as Jews, need to take from this seemingly unending fiasco is a simple and very Jewish lesson: Don’t believe everything you are told and especially don’t believe everything written about Israel just because it’s in the media. Give things their time, see if there are other interpretations of the story, try and follow news channels that might offer a different perspective on the matter. Most important of all: Believe what you want to believe.
With deep faith in the Israeli commitment to high moral standards, with trust and confidence in the moral integrity of Israeli soldiers — the Jewish people’s best and brightest — make sure that next time you see something in the media that questions the moral integrity of Israeli soldiers, you should understand that there is nothing in your Jewish heart that wants to believe this.
Rabbi Elchanan Poupko is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research in Jewish Law at Yeshiva University and the founding editor of the Y.U.’s Lamdan-The Wilf Campus Torah Journal.
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Likud MK Supports Judge Melcer’s Call to Investigate False Poll Results in Arab Villages
David Israel
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Is it possible that an entire sector of Israel’s April 9th, 2019 vote has been falsified? This appears to be the case. MK David Bitan (Likud) on Monday morning told Reshet Bet radio that he had passed on to the chairman of the elections committee, Justice Hanan Melcer, a portion of the material collected regarding suspicions of ballot stuffing at polling stations in Arab communities. Bitan repeated the Likud’s plan to pass a law requiring cameras at the polls.
Melcer has already decided to request an investigation. On Sunday, he approached Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit and the police regarding a criminal probe into suspected fraud at several polling stations, the vast majority of which are in Arab and Druze communities.
Over the weekend, Maariv published its own investigation of dozens of testimonies exposing fraud and corruption at polling stations in Arab-Israeli society. It presented a picture of broad ballot stuffing and vote buying by the heads of polling stations, who handed out dozens of envelopes to single voters, with the excuse that they represented many of their relatives who hadn’t come to vote.
In the radio interview, Bitan said: “We wanted to disqualify the results in some of the polling stations, but we respect Judge Melcer’s decision to take this to a police investigation.” Bitan added: “In the polling stations where we had representatives, the turnout was not high, it was normal. In places where we did not have representatives and it took us time to bring them in, the turnout was high.”
“We only passed a sample of our materials,” he noted. “In one of the tapes, a representative of the Arab sector tells our representative, Let’s divide the votes, so that you too would benefit as would we,” Beitan said, and noted that “there are also threats against some of our representatives who sat in the polling booth.”
“We will not leave this to the Likud taking action next time,” he vowed. “We intend to submit now a bill requiring the elections committee to place cameras in every ballot station covering the voting area.”
The chairman of the polling station in the recent elections in the town of Ka’abiya told Ma’ariv: “I was the only Jew in the ballot station. The rest were Arabs. Around 7 PM, when we had about 40% of the voters, one committee member came up to me and suggested they double the money I receive for this day, and in return I would allow them to share the votes of those who hadn’t voted. It had already reached the level where they started to ask me, very seriously, how much I wanted.”
“What struck me was that all the committee members were in on this discussion,” he continued. “There were three committee members and one or two observers. I was quite surprised. I told them it was illegal and that I was in favor of democracy, in which everyone votes by himself. Every few minutes, someone approached me and offered me again, ‘Maybe you want to do it anyway,’ ‘It will not really affect the overall result,’ and ‘In any case, everyone lies.’ I told them it was wrong.”
“During the vote counting we had policemen,” he recalled. “They were also Arabs, but if I understood correctly, not from the same village. What stunned me was that even then the proposals continued, and the police heard this and did not say anything.”
The source of the reports about Arab ballot stuffing is Sagi Kaisler, who, on the eve of the 2013 elections, whe he was director of the Samaria Settlers’ Committee, decided to organize a broad volunteer project, in an attempt to preserve as far as possible the purity of the elections in the Arab sector – which were believed to be rampant and served Israel’s left.
In 2013, Kaisler managed to organize some 200 volunteers, who were assigned to the various polling stations in the Arab sector, in spots that were happily handed over to them by the rightwing parties. In the 2015 elections, Kaisler succeeded in placing his people in most polling stations in Arab communities. In the 2019 elections, Kaisler recruited 1,350 activists, with complete support from the Likud.”
Those activists were also behind the effort to install cameras in many Arab polling stations, which the Arabs presented as an attempt at intimidation. Judge Melcer did not agree at the time.
MK Aida Touma-Suleiman of the communist faction Hadash, attacked the Likud’s decision to use cameras at the polls, saying, “I think that Judge Melcer was already wrong when he did not take seriously enough the Likud’s breaking of the law.”
Unbelievably enough, the Arab MK also asserted that no Arab voters had launched complaints about corruption in their polling station, but it was MK Bitan, a representative of the Likud – an outsider – illegally collected materials and passed them on to the judge.
“To come now and throw such sludge at an entire population is unacceptable,” she complained.
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Employment of landscape architects is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2012. Their expertise will be highly sought after in the planning and development of new residential, commercial, and other types of construction, to meet the needs of a growing population. With land costs rising and the public demanding more beautiful spaces, the importance of good site planning and landscape design grows. Also, new construction is increasingly contingent upon compliance with environmental regulations, land use zoning, and water restrictions, spurring demand for landscape architects to help plan sites and integrate man-made structures with the natural environment in the least disruptive way. Landscape architects also will be increasingly involved in preserving and restoring wetlands and other environmentally sensitive sites. However, opportunities will vary from year to year, and by geographic region, depending on local economic conditions. During a recession, when real estate sales and construction slow down, landscape architects may face layoffs and greater competition for jobs. The need to replace landscape architects who retire or leave the labor force will produce some additional job openings.
Continuation of the Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-First Century is expected to spur employment for landscape architects, particularly within State and local governments. This Act, known as TEA-21, provides funds for surface transportation and transit programs, such as interstate highway construction and maintenance and environment-friendly pedestrian and bicycle trails. Budget tightening in the Federal Government might restrict hiring in the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service, agencies that traditionally employ the most landscape architects in the Federal Government. Instead, such agencies may increasingly contract out for landscape architecture services, providing additional employment opportunities in private landscape architecture firms.
In addition to the work related to new development and construction, landscape architects are expected to be involved in historic preservation, land reclamation, and refurbishment of existing sites. They are also doing more residential design work as households spend more on landscaping than in the past. Because landscape architects can work on many different types of projects, they may have an easier time than other design professionals finding employment when traditional construction slows down.
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Shirakawa-go (Shirakawa Village) is a Japanese mountain settlement in what was once considered a wild and unexplored region. Because of the area’s natural environment, with high mountains and heavy snowfall, interaction with neighboring regions was limited. However, this also created the conditions for the development of unique cultural practices and lifestyles.
Declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1995, Shirakawa-go is famous for its traditional gassho-zukuri farmhouses, some of which are more than 250 years old. Gassho-zukuri means “constructed like hands in prayer”, as the farmhouses’ steep thatched roofs resemble the hands of Buddhist monks pressed together in prayer.
We start off in the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Kanazawa. After picking you up in one of our luxurious private vehicles, we will drive you through some truly spectacular views to the three iconic destinations in Matsuyama.
The observation area at Shiroyama castle keep is one of the best places to overlook the gassho style houses gathered below in the settlement of Ogi-machi. The Wada residence, with its massively distinctive gassho style gables, sits in the center of the scene, surrounded by seasonal nature. The quiet atmosphere of Ogi-machi gives visitors the impression of gazing out over a fairy tale landscape.
Destination 02: Myozenji Temple Museum
The monk’s residence, bell tower gate, and main hall were constructed in around 1800 following the temple’s establishment in 1748. The monk’s residence (or “kuri”) provided housing and kitchen facilities for monks living at the temple. The interior currently serves as an exhibition space displaying everyday items from the past. The bell tower gate (or “shoromon”) features a thatched roof, below which hangs the temple bell (or “bonsho”). The original bell was requisitioned for its metal during WWII, and the current bell was cast following the war. The main hall enshrines an image of Buddha.
Situated in a mountainous region, Shirakawa-go, while blessed with rich nature since long ago, has also remained relatively isolated. Combined with the lack of transport routes, the heavy winter snowfall cut off contact with the outside world, causing Shirakawa-go to be known as the “inland island” or an “unexplored region”. Adapting to this environment, Shirakawa-go produced seasonal foods and specialty products, blessed by the 4 seasons and the nature of the mountains and rivers. The goods introduced here are sold at various souvenir shops around the village.
The tour will end with us dropping you off at a location of your choice in Takayama.
A getaway to the land of delicious rice, tasty sake and fresh products
Niigata Getaway (from Niigata)
Discover the charm of world-class Japanese ceramics
Explore the Villages of Ceramics (from Fukuoka)
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The leading Spanish property valuation company Tinsa has reported a 6.7 % rise in prices in Mediterranean coastal properties in the last year (December 2018).
The leading Spanish property valuation company Tinsa has published their most recent data concerning property prices, reporting that the on-going recovery of prices across the country continues in all areas and categories.
The year on year increase reported in December 2018 was shown as 6.5 per cent across the country and 6.7 per cent in Mediterranean coastal areas.
Year on year variation in property prices in the last four years:
2015: + 2.9 %
2016: - 1.3 %
Please copy and paste the link below into your browser to see the official Tinsa report showing the table of figures and the full details.
https://www.tinsa.es/servicio-de-estudios/imie/general/diciembre-2018/
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Sunday 22nd July 2018
TINSA property valuation report released 17.7.18: Prices on the Mediterranean coast have risen by 7.4% over the last year.
The leading Spanish valuation company Tinsa has published their latest report on Tuesday 17 July 2018, relating to residential property values. The average price of housing in Spain increased by 6.4% year-on-year in the month of June 2018, driven by the "capitals and large cities" and by the "Mediterranean coast", which show an increase of 10.2% and 7.4% respectively.
While the latest average price is still calculated to be 35.7% lower than the peak reached during the boom in 2007, it now 12% higher than when the market bottomed out in February 2015.
After the first 6 months of 2018, Tinsa describe the increase in property values as "dynamic”.
Here is a link to the Tinsa report. You can download the report by clicking on "descargar informe" or scroll down the page on the link below, to see the figures for the Mediterranean coast under the section "Variación interanual en los últimos 12 meses" (interannual variation for the last 12 months):
https://www.tinsa.es/servicio-de-estudios/imie/general/junio-2018/
Tinsa IMIE junio 2018: + 6,4%. 17 julio, 2018
Las capitales y grandes ciudades toman impulso y se encarecen más de un 10% en tasa interanual en junio 2018.
El precio medio de la vivienda terminada en España se incrementó un 6,4% interanual en el mes de junio, impulsado por las "Capitales y grandes ciudades” y por la "Costa mediterránea”, que se revalorizaron un 10,2% y un 7,4%, respectivamente.
Descargar informe:
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Monday 26th March 2018
UK nationals in the EU: Essential Information (last updated on www.gov.uk on 23 March 2018).
Progress in the Negotiations - Citizens’ Rights Agreement.
The Prime Minister has been clear that safeguarding the rights of UK nationals in the EU and EU citizens living in the UK was her first priority for the negotiations. This is a commitment that we have delivered.
The UK government has reached an agreement with the European Union on citizens’ rights in negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. This will provide certainty about the future of UK nationals and their families living in the EU. Most importantly, it will allow UK nationals to stay in their Member State of residence after the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019.
In December, we reached an agreement with the European Commission on citizens’ rights. On 19 December, the Prime Minister wrote to UK nationals living in Europe with details of the agreement reached with the Commission in the first phase of the negotiations.
On 19 March 2018, we reached a further agreement with the Commission on the terms of a time-limited implementation period that will start on 30 March 2019 and last until 31 December 2020. This means that all UK nationals lawfully residing in another EU Member State on 31 December 2020 will be covered by the citizens’ rights agreement reached in December.
During the Implementation Period, UK nationals will be able to visit, live and work in the EU broadly as they do now. UK nationals currently living in the EU who want to move to a different Member State will be able to continue to do so during the Implementation Period.
The UK and European Commission will now continue to negotiate on the detail of these agreements, to be included in the overall Withdrawal Agreement between the UK and the EU.
Who will be covered by the Citizens’ Rights Agreement?
The citizens’ rights agreement reached in December provides a level of certainty to UK nationals in the EU and their families. It will allow UK nationals in the EU to continue living their lives broadly as they do now.
Following the agreement on the Implementation Period, all UK nationals lawfully residing in another EU Member State on 31 December 2020 will be covered by the citizens’ rights agreement.
Close family members (spouses, civil partners, unmarried partners, dependent children and grandchildren, and dependent parents and grandparents) of UK nationals covered by the agreement will be able to join those UK nationals in their Member State of residence. Close family members will enjoy the same rights by virtue of their relationship, where the relationship existed on 31 December 2020.
Children born or adopted to a UK national, covered by the agreement, outside of the UK national’s Member State of residence after 31 December 2020, will also be covered by the agreement.
Agreement so far on the rights of UK nationals in the EU.
The UK and EU Commission have so far agreed that:
·UK nationals and their family members covered by the agreement will continue to have the same access as they currently do to healthcare, pensions and other benefits.
·UK nationals and their family members covered by the agreement will be able to leave their Member State of residence for up to 5 years without losing their right to return.
The UK and EU Commission have also agreed that:
·EU27 Member States may require UK nationals and their family members covered by the agreement to apply for a residency document or status conferring the right of residence.
·Administrative procedures for such applications will be transparent, smooth and streamlined.
·Where an application is required to obtain status, UK nationals will have until at least 6 months after the end of the Implementation Period to submit their applications.
·Residence documents will be issued free of charge or for a charge not exceeding that imposed on nationals for the issuing of similar documents (such as passports).
·UK nationals who, before the end of the Implementation Period, are holders of a valid permanent residence document or a valid domestic immigration document conferring a permanent right to reside, will be able to exchange that document for a new residence document free of charge. They may be required to provide proof of identity and undergo criminality and security checks.
·The introduction of administrative procedures, or changes to existing administrative procedures will be decided by each Member State. We will publish details on these administrative procedures as soon as possible.
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BREXIT - A message from Ximo Puig the President of the Valencian Community, 25.6.16.
Europe cannot be understood without the United Kingdom. The Europe which the world admires, is that which has been the hotbed of the brightest ideas of human thought for centuries. The Europe of Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin, Stuart Mill, Jane Austen, Dickens, John Lennon, Keynes.
The Europe of parliamentary democracy and freedom. The Europe which displaces the boundaries of art and knowledge, radiating creativity to the rest of the world. It is the Europe of peace after the war. From that peace has evolved the material that allows the real progress of peoples. In short, Europe has largely learned to be what it is, thanks to the UK.
In Valencia we understand this. More than 82,000 British citizens live with us. 89% of these in the province of Alicante. In 2015 more than 2 million Britons visited us. And their preferred destination was Alicante, especially Benidorm.
We export in value almost 3,000 million euros, and the UK is one of the main investors in Valencia Province. To all those, who live among us and to our visitors, the investors, the Generalitat Valenciana wants to send a message of calm and reiterate our affection and gratitude.
This message of tranquility extends to our businesses, and to the thousands of people from Valencia who for work or for study reasons are in the UK.
The Valencian Community has been, is, and will be a welcoming land, a land that wants to do business for the benefit of all. Whatever the next chapter in Europe will be, we want it to be written with friendship and cooperation with the United Kingdom.
No political project is without its risks and challenges. Europe has to change, adapt and combine all identities and sensibilities. All forms of feeling European. Europe needs to regain its sense of being.
We have to once again make a reality of the quote of Jean Monnet. "We are not bringing together states, we are uniting people." We need to regain our passion for Europe. XIMO PUIG.
(President of the Valencian Community)
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Statistics have recently been published declaring that the UK has the highest level of overweight women in Europe, approximately one quarter are classed as “obese”. Men are not too far behind the fairer sex. Why? Maybe their lifestyle is the big issue, for example taking the children to school and back, the infamous “school run”. When I was a lad, I walked 3 miles to school and 3 miles back, in all weathers. Today parents will say that it´s not safe for their children to walk to school, how sad. But I digress. Eating habits have also changed and it is a big concern that these habits will be passed on down through the next generations.
In south-east Spain we have the wonderful “Mediterranean” diet, a great balance of fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and good quality meats. I must admit, the Spanish can be seen having ‘almuerzos’ at 11.00 am, with wine and brandies, then proceed to climb up trees or buildings to continue their daily jobs. Take a note of what they are eating though, olives, artichokes, small fish and green peppers, home made stews. Not a full “English” breakfast! Combined with the fact that the locals may also sleep for a short while in the afternoons (the Spanish “siesta”), which allows the body to rest and relax, taking away the stress and strains of modern living, very different to the lifestyles of many people who live in the UK.
So, a good diet, rest periods, less stress, outdoor living (with lots of sunshine!) and short periods of exercise, seems to be the answer.
Best still, why not move to Javea! We have one of the healthiest climates in the world, the best food and the best property prices during the last 10 years. Relocating to Spain may be a great option to secure future health and happiness for you and your family. You know it makes sense!
Contact me for further information on Telf. (0034) 669 908 353.
Steve Nott, www.javeacasas.com.
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Solana's to Aleluya Bar
We set off with friends old and new to the Jalon Valley to visit Solana’s restaurant, on the first cloudy day since Christmas. The restaurant has been trading since we first arrived in Spain in 1987, so those older than us, can inform us of the exact opening date of Solana’s in Alcalali.
We have never been disappointed with the quality of the food, value for money and the ‘nothing is too much to ask’ politeness, of the Solana’s Restaurant, situated in the small village of Alcalali. It is always best to book in advance, when you want to sample the delights of this well established venue.
The food is superb value, well presented and tastes as close to home cooking as you can achieve in a restaurant. No surprises there, as Solana’s has been trading since we first arrived in Spain, 20 years ago. We have many favourite restaurants in Javea, Moraira and the Jalon Valley. Solana’s delivers the best of the best, every time we visit it.
After the three course meal of roast lamb, roast pork and rabbit stew, served with wines, coffee and after lunch liquors, we headed off to the famous bar in Jalon village called Casa Aleluya. Juan the owner sang, ‘Aleluya’ and ‘Oh my God’ as we entered the bar and ordered drinks. The place is filled with bottles of wine, honey and other goodies to purchase. Juan also performs his well practised trick of drinking wine from a glass decanter spout, pouring it into his mouth then slowly letting the wine flow travel up, then down his cheeks, in two channels and one down his nose. How Juan found he had this unique talent, you have to wonder.
Juan was later accompanied by his bare chested friend for a duo drinking act. Not to be out done, the girls had a go, sadly, not bare chested, each enjoying the ‘free’ flowing wine, and a kiss on the forehead from Juan. Next, Nick rose to the challenge and performed a first time duo, minus the bare chest and the kiss. This will surely change the way we all drink wine in the future.
I gave Juan’s drinking trick more thought, then realised that as a young lad, he must have missed his mouth on many drinking sessions, and must have decided that his forehead was a bigger taget than his mouth, and chose to drink this way in the future. No problems here for the girls then…..
As a finale, Nick went outside and poured water over his head, just to make us laugh? No, really, we all enjoyed another great afternoon out, with good company and good food.
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Monday 11th December 2006
Poble Nou de Benitatxell, BBQ
It all started with a ‘Welcome’ letter we found in our post box from Jaume, a young man from Benitachell village. He stated in the letter that he would like to start a forum for people new to the area. Jaume and his business partner Miguel Angel would assist new residents with tax, NIE applications, public health care and educational issues, etc. From this introdution letter, we contacted Jaume and he invited us and some of his friends to a traditional Valencian style bbq.
We all met in the Mas y Mas car park at 12.00h on a sunny Sunday in Benitachell. We were introduced to Keith and Sheila, Rolf and Erika and also our party of six, Ian & Diane, Hilary & Nick, Dawn & Steve. The drive to Jaume’s casa de campo was only 2 minutes away and we were all soon sampling the home made sweet wine made by Jaume’s father and the raisins, made from their own grapes and dried in the summer sun.
It was a mixture of 70% sweet muscatell wine and 30% red wine. Jaume pointed out that everything we were going to eat was made with organic produce, chuletas de cordero (lamp chops) home baked bread and locally made chorizos, morcilla or botifarra in Valenciano, (liver and blood sausages). A wheel barrow was loaded in the front garden with wood from grape vines, orange trees and the protected carob tree. Normally there is a hole in the ground, where a wood fire is prepared and a large calderon (pot) is placed filled with lamb, chicken or pork. Left for many hours to cook slowly over the fire and to absorb the smokey flavours.
Another oven in the casa, was also filled with the same types of wood and then both of the fires were lit. We sat in the warm December sun as Miguel Angel arrived to assist Jaume in the preparation and cooking.
The lamb was rubbed with salt and the onions, artichokes and chorizos were cooked in home made olive oil. When the fires were glowing nicely, the food was cooked to perfection. The home made bread was broken into pieces and the feast began. Large slices of onion were filled with anchovies and olive oil, cooked over the fire, perfect dunking the chunks of bread into, a Benitachell specaility. The artichokes hearts were flavoured by the smoke and the taste and texture was wonderful.
As we enjoyed the food and wine with Jaume and Miguel Angel, we chatted about the various topics on the Valencian culture, diet and laungage. Many people living in Benitachell were forced to speak Castellano during Franco’s dictatorship and they are now unable to read or write in their mother tongue. Benitachell or Benitatxell, spelt the Valenciano way, used to be in the region of Javea, however some 300 years ago, the villagers decided to create their own region and town so they founded the ‘Poble Nou de Benitatxell.’ We retreated to the large family casa’s naya room, as the winter sun lost it’s warmth, to end our enjoyable day with melon, desserts and glasses of Baileys.
May we all say a big thank you to Jaume and Miguel Angel, for their hospitality and for giving us the opportunity to sample and taste the flavours of Valenciano life. If you would like more information on the services provided by these two enterprising men, you can contact them by telephone, email or go to their offices in Benitachell.
MG Economistes.
Miguel Angel Garcia Buigues,
Assesorament comptable, fiscal i laboral.
Avda Lepanto, 34 2.n-4
El Poble Nou de Benitatxell
Tel-fax: 96 649 3061
Miguel Angel’s mobile: 653 067 401
Email:miquel_gb@hotmail.com
Jaume’s mobile: 636 541 817
Jaume’s email: jpedros81@hotmail.com
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Monday 4th December 2006
Javea Music
Another day in paradise. A visit to some friends house at the weekend, they were clients, but have now become good friends. We were celebrating two birthdays and a bbq and a jamming session was the order of the day.
Warm, sunny weather greeted us on the 3rd December in Javea. We started eating some great garlic chicken wings, pork fillets and a home made paella, accompanied by sweet sauce and salad to add that special extra. All prepared and cooked by our hosts.
The lads have all played guitar, on and off over the years, so we decided to have a bash altogether.
Ant warmed up the crowd with some great solo’s playing Bowie, Paul Weller and some Oasis. Ant is excellent on vocals and guitar, Steve on lead a bit rusty and Ian on bass, had to struggle with the keys we were playing in. He managed very well, considering it was his first time that he had played any of the songs before.
The girls wore wigs and danced and sang chorus, guest singer was Diane and a ballet dancing queen entered the room and performed the Dance of the Butterflies. .
Gerry really going for it!
Great food, fun and great company!
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Monday 13th November 2006
Javea, El Montgo. A walk on the wild side
During the summer months in Javea, it is wise to stay close to a pool, the sea and a cold beer. Once the warm days of October and November had settled in, we decided to ascend the Montgo mountain for the third time in 20 years. It proved a harder challenge than we remembered.
Setting off from the Javea to Denia road, drive from Javea up the winding road and when it levels at the top of La Plana and you can see a lane to your left. Drive a few hundred metres and park the car. We were well equipped with good walking shoes, lots of water, a chicken sandwich and a banana. I joked and proceeded to load rope and tackle and a few spikes and a shovel onto my back, this was met with a surprise from our climbing companions and quickly turned to laughter, as I told them in was a gentle climb, needing only good walking shoes and plenty of water.
We started the walk along a gravel path leading to the base of El Montgo. We named this base camp one. The path soon turns into a stony, rocky surface which could easily snap an ankle or break a leg. We were very careful to watch every step and stopped to catch our breaths and to admire the views towards Denia and the bay of Javea. After around an hour of zig zag climbing, the walk bears south around the trunk of Montgo and starts to turn into a scramble across large rocks and narrow foot holds, using our arms to balance. Another 30 minutes climbing and you reach the 753 metre summit.
All the way up we were blessed with warm breezes and the views just got better. At the summit we could see Denia and north to Valencia, west out to sea and south Javea, Gata and Pedreguer. The Penon de Ifach and the Las Sierra Bernia mountain range stretched further south.
We stood on the peak for 15 minutes, just being amazed at the views, lots of photos and a repair to Anthony’s boots, which had decided to loose the soles, we prepared for the easier decent. We still had to watch every step on the way down, but it was a lot less work coming down. The knees and backs of some of the party, started to take the strain and started to ache.
The thought of a cool drink and the paella mixta, that we had preordered at the Amanecer restaurant, kept us all going. Except our tired legs, a few blisters and soleless boots we made it safely back to the cars.
Within five minutes we were seated in the restaurant and the drinks appeared, bread and alioli and a fresh salad were consumed rapidly.
The paella was marvelous and had lots of flavour, it was a little short of content and could have included green beans, butter beans and a little more chicken, but it still tasted excellent washed down with cool white wine and agua con gas. Needless to say it was a great day out and another one they can’t take away from us, whoever they are.
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Sunday 12th November 2006
Sierra Bernia
A gentle stroll is the best way to describe our afternoon walk, upwards and onwards to the west ridge of the Sierra Bernia mountain range, just north of the famous coastal town of Benidorm.
Drive from Javea to Benissa, travel up the main street, through the town and at the top of the hill take the right hand turn off, CV 750. At the next T junction, turn right then first left. Its a 20 minute drive to the start of the walk, travelling up the winding road, with views on your left down towards Calpe and the Penon de Ifach.
Parking is easy, by the old building, Casa Fabian, situated on your left. There are plenty of shady areas to park your car, which is essential on a hot sunny day. We picked a warm, November afternoon, which was forecasted light rain, but we were lucky and it turn out to be sunny and only slightly misty at the top.
There is a sign at the start of the walk which you can take an 8 kilometre circular route that takes you through a tunnel to the east of the ridge and back around to the old fort. We had decided to head west and do a gentle climb to the fort and back down the same way, which would take us about 3 hours.
The views are just as dramatic on this route, also the path is easy under foot, unlike the El Montgo assent, which we walked three weeks ago. The grape vine leaves are changing into their Autumn colours of browns, bronzes and yellows, highlighted through the sunlight.
After 35 minutes the track narrows and bears to the left and the villages of Tarbena, Polop are clearly seen in the distance. The temperature was perfect for walking and the forecast for rain didn’t happen. The sun was shining and at the peak the clouds and mists rolled in.
The old fort was abandoned, due to lack of the enemy bothering to climb the Sierra and invade the fort, so it became redundant. Stone arches and ruins are clearly visible and there are some information plaques that explain the forts layout. Its a good place to sit and have a drink and look down towards Altea and the Benidorm skyline.
There were some lambs in the distance marinating themselves, on the wild thyme and rosemary herbs that grow across the slopes.
The stroll back was easy, down hill and by now the sun was behind the summit, providing shade. A quick drink in the Casa Fabian, then we got back in our cars, to meet some more friends, waiting in the Restaurante Pepe’s, in Alcalali.
Roast pork with crackling was ordered for 6 people and the others dined on Pepe’s wonderful, steak, mushroom and kidney pie. Others, had the lamb which was tender and you could taste those herbs. Plenty of the three wines, red, rose and white were washed down with our fine fare. Desserts were excellently presented to those that had enough room.
So, until the next time, that’s another one, they can’t take away from us!
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Tuesday 7th November 2006
Verdi Vent Restaurant, Maserof
If you fancy a inland country drive from Javea to the village of Jalon, take the third turn left off the main street and travel up the mountain roads until you see a large, old property on your left. You have reached the VerdiVent restaurant and you are in for a real hearty luncheon treat.
Verdi Vents Restaurant, Maserof. Telephone 00 34 96597 3413. Once you are seated with jugs of red wine already placed on the table, you are presented with bowls of a potato dish, mixed with chives, lavender and herbs. also large loaves of freshly baked bread. Next two large serving bowls of a creamy white soup, that had us all guessing what the ingredients were, it was delicious and we were told that it was lettuce!
A short break and plates of oil covered tomatoes and mozzarella cheese were placed on the table. Main course was a choice of lamb on the bone with a moscatel sauce or venison in a red wine sauce. Nine of us chose the venison and it was fantastic. The lamb was also excellent. The sound of guitars filled the air and the popular brothers, from the area, sang and played our favourite Spanish melodies.
The whole day was a wonderful experience,a delightful meal and one that we shall remember for the rest of our lives, or at least a until the next time.
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Moors and Christians
Anyone that hasn’t seen this display of light, costumes and culture, must visit Javea. In the last week of July, the festivities of Moors and Christians are held in the Javea Port. Their celebration is relatively recent, but important in the region. These festivities represent the confrontations in the past between these two religious communities. The Christian re-conquest of the land held by the Arabs is commemorated. These festivities are among the most noteworthy, for their spectacular nature.
Mauro Derqui Zaragoza
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A solution has to be found to the M4 around Newport
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A solution has to be found to the M4 around Newport. My column for the South Wales Argus: https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/17696662.short-term-measures-on-m4-are-not-good-enough/
THE decision to not go ahead with an M4 around Newport is deeply disappointing.
The process spanned years and created much uncertainty for local residents and businesses while the congestion and air pollution has deteriorated.
While I respect the objections of environmentalists and there is no doubt we need a much better public transport system, many will conclude that this decision condemns Newport to further decades of heavy congestion, idling traffic and toxic fumes.
Stationary traffic pollutes more than flowing traffic, and persistent congestion means toxins on this stretch of motorway and the surrounding residential areas are dangerously high.
Whenever there is an accident or congestion on the M4 it pushes more people onto local roads, taking traffic closer to homes and schools.
Local air pollution levels are a public health issue which cannot be ignored.
Following the decision the first minister announced an expert commission to make recommendations on next steps.
It is crucial that the commission does not only consider the opinions of a select few – it must include the people whose daily lives are actually affected.
The vast majority of M4 traffic is not local traffic, but it is the people of our city who suffer most.
I have sought confirmation from ministers that the commission will undertake work relating to traffic travelling from outside Newport, and across the Severn Crossings.
This traffic has increased by 10 per cent since the tolls were removed.
The commission is due to report back in six months but the minister has announced several measures in the short term.
He has said that if ideas are developed which can be implemented immediately, they will.
I am under no illusion that these short term measures will solve the issue. The problem around the Brynglas tunnels must not be confined to the ‘too difficult’ box – that is not good enough.
The funding set aside by Welsh Government for the relief road project must be spent on solving this specific issue.
The people of our city have suffered for long enough, and have seen many reviews come and go.
I will keep pressing the Welsh Government that this commission must be the one that actually delivers meaningful results.
We cannot go back to square one.
A solution has to be found, and quickly.
I’m always happy to discuss this or any other issue.
Please do not hesitate to contact me on [email protected] or 01633 376627.
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Man arrested after allegedly stealing truck from Long’s Auto Rebuild
Parsons allegedly used a tow truck to pull the vehicle from the Bremerton repair shop
Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:49pm
A man was arrested Saturday in Seabeck after allegedly stealing a truck from Long’s Auto Rebuild on National Avenue in Bremerton.
The 1999 Dodge Ram 3500 was reported stolen after the owner of Long’s Auto Rebuild arrived on site and noticed the truck was gone. According to the incident report, the truck was parked in front of the business the day before. The owner told Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputies that there were drag marks on the pavement of the parking lot.
The owner of the vehicle told deputies that he had recently purchased the truck at an auction, so no license plates were on it. The truck allegedly had a damaged front and would have needed to have been towed from the parking lot as it was not drivable.
Both the owner of Long’s Auto Rebuild and the owner of the vehicle told deputies they had been friends with Gregory Parsons for over 20 years. The business owner stated that Parsons had stored things at his house and shop until just a couple of days ago when he showed up and took them back, according to a statement of probable cause.
He also told authorities that Parsons owned a couple large trucks and trailers that would have been capable of towing and hauling the stolen truck. KCSO had dealt with Parsons recently concerning threats to kill or shoot law enforcement, the incident report states.
Authorities responded to the Seabeck address where Parsons resided, and observed what appeared to be the stolen truck parked in the yard. KCSO obtained a search warrant and arrested Parsons without incident.
Parsons said he was not certain who the truck belonged to and that the owner of Long’s Auto Rebuild told him that the truck was totaled and that he could take it and see if he could get it running. The owner refuted this claim to deputies, stating he would not let him do that since it didn’t belong to him.
Parsons also stated that he had towed the truck from the business the night before and that he was going to buy it if he got it running. After authorities searched the residence, they allegedly found several firearms on the floor and a large green gun safe sitting in the yard. Parsons advised a deputy that there were “tons of guns” in the safe.
Parsons was recently arrested in April for Possession of a stolen firearm, reckless endangerment, and Driving Under the Influence after he was seen on camera firing a gun toward a house in Seabeck.
The truck was recovered by the owner, per KCSO. Parsons was booked into Kitsap County Jail for possessing stolen property in the first degree and a previous misdemeanor warrant for harassment.
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When a Clean Toilet Becomes a Reason to Celebrate
Most of us take having a clean toilet for granted, much more so just having a toilet for ready use. In many areas of the Philippines however, many less privileged communities do not have access to a single clean toilet facility. It is because of this sad truth that people affected by this lack sees the construction of a new toilet facility or even the repair of a dilapidated one as a reason to celebrate.
The Fiesta Star
In a typical fiesta scene, people will be rushing to the streets as they are drawn to the sound of a marching band. They expect to see the star of the celebration who could be a movie celebrity, a beauty queen, or a politician. Unilever Philippines through Domex, in its efforts to contribute to the One Million Clean Toilets Movement, created a video featuring a most unlikely star of a fiesta celebration - a new, clean toilet facility.
Domex Brand Manager Dennis Chua explains the reason for creating the "Fiesta" Domex video. He said that it is intended for people to realize the value of a toilet which most of us take for granted. Unilever Foods and Home Care President Benjie Yap adds that the company hopes that the video will raise awareness for toilet appreciation and sanitation. This is while helping less privileged communities gain access to clean toilet facilities.
Clean Toilets Towards Germ-Free Communities
People all over the country are becoming more and more aware of of the role of clean toilets in disease prevention especially among children. The Department of Health estimates that there are about 3,420 diarrhea-related deaths among children under 5 every year. These deaths are quite regretful especially with data showing that about 2,000 of these cases could have been prevented by having access to safe water, improved toilet sanitation, and personal hygiene.
I echo what Dennis Chua said that this video should serve as a wake-up call for all of us. The little things we take for granted like having a clean toilet are actually remote realities for many. We should be considering ourselves fortunate if we do have access to one.
That said, having a clean toilet can save millions of lives and we can do our part by simply watching the "Fiesta" video and asking our friends to watch it as well. Each unique view translates into a pledge for the advocacy campaign which collects pledges from households to conscientiously maintain their own hygienic bathrooms. For every pledge received, Domex will donate P5 to UNICEF’s sanitation program, towards improving access to basic sanitation in deprived areas around the world, including the Philippines.
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