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Jackpot estimated at $17,250 for Week 31
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The hiding spots are few and far between for the ace as the chase continues into Week 31. Despite the hunter’s best efforts to find the elusive ace there has been no winner or the progressive jackpot.
Daniel Caudle
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Published on: May 2, 2019 | Last Updated: May 2, 2019 10:11 AM EDT
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Huron Expositor
This week’s winner was Billy Hay who chose envelope number nine which revealed the three of clubs.
The take home for this week was $900.
Tickets for the draw are available at Seaforth Legion, Blooms ‘n Rooms, Rona, and Paget’s Place, all of which, are located on Main Street in Seaforth or through Lion Cathy Elliott (519-522-1323).
Tickets are also available at the Seaforth Legion each Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Prepayment option is available at all locations.
The draw is held every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Seaforth Legion.
For those unable to attend the draw will be live streamed on the Seaforth Lions Facebook page.
Another successful Breath of Spring event Cowbell brewing Co. to hold charity golf tournament
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Homeowner: “I Just Pointed My Rifle At Him”
(Baton Rouge, LA) — Former correctional officer Ceaser Ray has definitely seen his fair share of criminal activity over the course of his career.
So when he got alerted by a neighbor that someone was messing around with his daughter’s car outside, he quickly jumped to action.
But it wasn’t just the car 18-year-old burglar Roberto Garcia was getting into, it was Ray’s front porch window.
That’s when things got really wild.
Ray confronted Garcia head on, cuffed him, and held him at gun point.
His daughter also came out on to the front porch with her firearm drawn, and Ray instructed his wife to call law enforcement.
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Ray also asked his wife to turn on Facebook Live. And she did, streaming it live, sending it viral across the internet.
On the video you can hear Ray say the following:
“You just tried to break into the wrong damn house. You stay where your located right there. Don’t move. Who are you here with? Who are you here with?”
In a report in Yahoo News, Ray was reported to have said doing what he did is not for everyone:
“[I] wouldn’t advise someone without the proper training to react like he did.
“Always be as vigilant as possible,” Ray said. “Be aware of your surroundings at all times. Stay inside if at all possible. Arm yourself, lock your doors, make sure you call the authorities.”
Here’s the entire report from Yahoo News:
Caesar Ray said he was home with his daughter and wife when he received a call from a neighbor telling him that an unidentified man was trying to get into his daughter’s vehicle, which was parked in their Baton Rouge driveway.
Ray told InsideEdition.com that he immediately grabbed his rifle and went outside.
“I saw a gentleman just jerking off a window screen on my porch as if he didn’t have a care in the world,” Ray said. “It just didn’t make sense so I went into auto mode and just pointed my rifle at him.”
Ray said he instructed the man, who appeared to be under the influence, to get down on the ground and then he handcuffed him until police arrived.
Ray’s daughter also came out onto the porch with a pistol during the ordeal. The family feared there may have been another intruder at the time.
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Iain Stirling: Failing Upwards
Do you ever wonder how people manage to be normal? Comedian Iain Stirling does. So much so he’s written a brand new stand-up show about it.
Stirling (Love Island and Taskmaster) is taking his ‘extremely funny’ (The Telegraph) comedy back on the road for his biggest ever nationwide tour, following his 2018 sell-out smash U OK HUN? x.
Join the ‘star of comedy’ (The i) as he explores his inability to function in the most basic of public settings, social media’s constant pressure to ‘live your best life’ and that one time a man stole his shoes.
Having sold out his Edinburgh fringe run in advance for the second time, Stirling can currently be seen on our screens hosting the third series of hit ITV2 comedy gameshow CelebAbility.
He recently starred in his own Comedy Central Live special which launched the latest series.
Stirling has also been seen on The Comedy Bus, Drunk History and Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (all Comedy Central), Virtually Famous (E4), Russell Howard's Good News and Sweat the Small Stuff (both BBC Three) and Fake Reaction and Safe Word (both ITV2).
At his best the Edinburgh native is an unhinged free-form anecdotist ****
Extremely funny observational and surreal comedy
Unforgiving and hilarious
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Our Lady of Sion > Admissions > Arrange a visit
Please contact the Admissions Registrar, by telephone or by e-mail to make an appointment. On arrival, you will be met by the Admissions Registrar, who will introduce you to the school. Following this, sixth form students will take you on a tour of the school lasting about 45 minutes. This gives you the opportunity to find out about the school from a student’s perspective. You will be taken into classrooms where lessons are taking place and you are welcome to speak to teachers if you wish. Following on from your tour, you will have a meeting with the Headmaster, Dr Orchard, in his study, where he will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
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Showcase Cinemas revolutionises experience with new luxury reclining seating
Showcase Cinema de Lux, Birstall
Published: 13:12 Monday 05 October 2015
Birstall’s Showcase cinema has been given a makeover as part of a national £10m refurb - showbiz legend Billy Pearce and writer Gaynor Faye turned up celebrate the facelift.
Showcase Cinemas has announced a £10m transformation of its Leeds cinema, which is set to enhance the film going experience for its customers.
Billy Pearce and his son
Following the installation of the premium large format XPlus auditorium screen last year, every seat in the cinema is being replaced by fully customisable recliner seating.
Recently completed was a state of the art lobby, with a brand new lounge bar, serving a range of drinks, food and Costa Coffee, as part of a £10m investment across the UK this year. The venue will also be rebranded under the flagship Showcase Cinema de Lux brand.
All auditoriums will be outfitted with plush, fully customisable recliners over the next four months, which will be offered at no extra cost to the customer. Showcase is leading the UK cinema market in delivering this unprecedented level of comfort as standard to moviegoers.
The refurbishment will be completed by mid September 2015, alongside two more locations (Reading and Nottingham), creating a unique viewing environment for film fans to enjoy.
Kay Mellor OBE and Gaynor Faye.
Showcase Cinema de Lux in Leeds will provide guests with the ultimate cinema experience with crystal clear projection and ultra-sharp image quality in every screen and now luxury recliner seating as standard.
Mark Barlow, general manager UK Theatres said: “We want to make sure that visiting Showcase is an unrivalled experience, customised to suit our guests’ preferences. From the ultimate comfort in seating to the immersive audio visuals that bring films to life, every aspect of this cinema is designed to be extraordinary. We are excited to take the cinema de Lux concept to the next level for the cinema-goers of Leeds and are sure they will be equally delighted with it.”
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United old boys accept Mourinho tactics
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Parking the bus - the Mourinho way!
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Cape Town - Former Manchester United players have queued up to pass judgment on their old team under Jose Mourinho, whose negative game plan in a disappointing 0-0 draw at Liverpool on Monday sparked a lively debate over the club's direction.
While Gary Neville predicted that United would not win the league this season, Ryan Giggs said he would accept the manner of Monday's performance in which they had just 35 per cent possession, the lowest in any of their games since statistics were first collected in 2003.
Although, bizarrely, Mourinho disputed that figure - insisting United had in fact enjoyed 42 per cent possession at Anfield - he also said it reflected his masterplan to control the game.
Mourinho may find it harder to explain away another new low, however, because United's tally of 14 points from eight games represents the Portuguese coach's worst start to a campaign in 15 years.
That total is also two points worse than United managed under Louis van Gaal at the same stage last year and is probably not what the club had in mind when they spent £145 million on his recommendations in the summer.
Another former United player, Ray Wilkins, said the pressure of expectation on Mourinho is relentless. "He has to keep winning while changing the side," Wilkins told Sky Sports. "It is not always easy when you are trying to establish yourself at a huge club. But he will be delighted by that point."
Mourinho has not been helped by the limited impact made by record signing Paul Pogba, who had another quiet game at Anfield, and Henrikh Mikhitaryan, who once again did not make the team as Mourinho opted for the strength and solidity of Marouane Fellaini.
Apart from one half against Leicester City, in which he scored his only goal for United, Pogba has struggled to justify his world-record fee, and Mourinho still seems unsure how to employ him.
On Monday it was another United midfielder, Ander Herrera, who won Man-of-the-Match for a killjoy performance that saw him prevent a far more talented player, Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho, from exerting more of an influence.
That says much about how far United have fallen since the derring-do days of Alex Ferguson, whose attacking intent often led to late United winners in high-profile games.
For now, United's old guard in the media are sticking with the current manager as he seeks to shape his new team. "There is no reason not to trust Jose Mourinho as a Manchester United fan," said Gary Neville. If he said we won't win the title this season, but next, which I think is what he said at Chelsea, I think most United fans would accept that... as long as he does win it next season."
But judgments are increasingly instant in football and, for United, the big games keep coming. On Thursday they play Fenerbahce in the Europa League at Old Trafford, followed by a difficult Premier League trip to Mourinho's former side, Chelsea, on Sunday. "He will get a rapturous round of applause," said Wilkins, in reference to the Chelsea supporters.
United's fans might be a little more subdued.
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Murray: I had to play great shots to win
The King of Queen's Club for the fourth time, Andy Murray. (Leon Neal, AFP)
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London - Andy Murray swept to a record-equalling fourth Queen's Club title with a majestic 6-3, 6-4 demolition of South Africa's Kevin Anderson in Sunday's final.
Murray joins John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt as the only four-time winners of the Wimbledon warm-up event in the Open era.
It is Murray's third ATP title of 2015 after his victories on clay in Madrid and Munich, earning him a cheque for €381 760 and continuing his superb form since his April wedding.
First title on grass
With 34 career ATP titles, including six on grass, Murray moves up to 18th on the Open era list - level with Arthur Ashe, Michael Chang and John Newcombe.
Even more significantly, it is the world number three's first title on grass since his historic Wimbledon triumph in 2013.
That career-defining success two years ago came after his third victorious campaign at Queen's and, with Wimbledon just eight days away, Murray's ruthless 64-minute rout of the world number 17 shows he is in the mood to mount a sustained challenge for a second All England Club crown.
Murray said afterwards: "I played better as the week went on. I came up with some great shots today (on Sunday) and I had to play that way if I wanted to win.
"You want to go into Wimbledon with grass matches under your belt. I'm playing better than I did in 2013 but it's extremely difficult to win these events."
Anderson added: "Andy is a terrific player. It's tough playing him here, but I can take a lot of positives from this week."
After heavy rain forced his semi-final against Serbia's Viktor Troicki to be suspended on Saturday, Murray knew he would have to do double duty to win the title.
The 28-year-old completed the first part of his hectic schedule in just over an hour, dispatching Troicki 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) before heading back to the locker room for two hours' recovery time.
Five meetings
Anderson was well rested after blitzing his way into his first Queen's final with 34 aces against Gilles Simon on Saturday to take his tally for the tournament to 96.
But Murray had won four of his previous five meetings with the 2.03m South African and maintaining his 100% record in Queen's finals proved no problem.
Murray had already won twice in one day this year, seeing off Lukas Rosol and Roberto Bautista Agut to clinch the Munich title last month.
And there was no sign of any fatigue as the Scot made a dynamic start, unloading crisp ground-strokes and reading Anderson's serve well enough to secure two break points in the fourth game.
Anderson turned to brute force in response, slamming down a 227km/h serve, but Murray managed to keep it in play and the rattled South African lost his cool as he buried a mistimed smash into the net.
That was all the incentive Murray needed and he kept Anderson completely out of sync with his astute use of drop shots before one whipped forehand cross-court winner that bent away from his opponent as if on a string.
Sealing victory
Anderson reached 100 aces for the tournament before the set was over, but Murray was never seriously troubled as he closed it out with a perfectly measured backhand slice.
Anderson could sense his hopes of becoming the first South African to win Queen's since his childhood idol Wayne Ferreira in 1992 were starting to slip away.
The 29-year-old had lost six consecutive finals since winning his second ATP title at Delray Beach in 2012 and Murray ensured his opponent's barren sequence continued as he pressed home his advantage with a break in the fifth game of the second set.
Again it was a Murray drop shot that did the damage, catching Anderson behind the baseline and effectively sealing his victory in the process.
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Listening #170: Audio Origami UniArm
Art Dudley | Jan 24, 2017
My first attempt at writing this piece began with a list of the Top Ten Audio Products I Wish Were Still in Production. Unfortunately, that proved unworkable. Although some of my selectionsthe Audio Research SP-6C preamplifier, the Stax ELS-F81 loudspeakerwere straightforward, it turned out that most of the others were burdened with complications. Examples: It's no longer feasible to mass-produce Bakelite headshells for a revival of the original Ortofon SPU or similar phono pickup. It's no longer possible to obtain the precisely correct vacuum tubes and other components required to return to production the Leak Stereo 20 amplifier. And I'm certain that a torch- and pitchfork-wielding mob would prevent the manufacture of an authentic Altec 604B drive-unit, unless those audio villagers were first allowed to "improve" the design.
So I scrapped my listbut not before noting that, on every version of it, the same product came out on top: the Naim Aro tonearm (footnote 1).
I owned a Naim Aro for a decade or more, and sold it only to help finance the purchase of something elseand then only because demand for the Aro, which Naim discontinued in 2006, had pushed asking prices irresistibly high. Yet I can't help regretting my decision: The Aro was, by a not-inconsiderable margin, the best-sounding tonearm I've ever used on a Linn Sondek LP12. It also allowed Bauer Audio's enduringly recommendable DPS turntable to sound riotously good.
And, to pile guess atop guess: The Naim Aro, with its low overall mass (its effective mass appeared to be more or less medium), might have been the perfect tonearm for the remarkable Roksan Xerxes turntable, whose 1998 replacement by the less-accomplished Xerxes 10 seems to have been occasioned, at least in part, by the fact that the original's arm-mount peninsula tended, over time, to sag under the weight of most other arms.
But I digress. These recollections were prompted by a phone call, last October, from Walter Swanbon, of the distribution and retail company Fidelis Music Systems. He wondered if I might be interested in reviewing "a modern replacement for the Naim Aro tonearm." Of course, I said "Yes," although I didn't mention that, in recent months, I'd been thinking of selling my Linn LP12, which I'd bought new over a quarter-century ago.
So that evening, I retrieved the LP12 from our upstairs guest room and gave it, along with my 1980s Rega Research RB300 tonearm and my relatively fresh Denon DL-103 cartridge, a complete going-over. Then I set about reacquainting myself with an old friend that had performed admirably for decades, mostly without complaint.
The arm of which Swanbon spoke was the UniArm, designed and made by Scottish manufacturer Audio Origami, whose PU7 tonearma contemporary reimagining of the classic Syrinx PU3had impressed Michael Fremer (footnote 2). The day the UniArm arrived, I did what I always do when I receive a tonearm: I stopped everything else I was doing in order to unpack, examine, and acquaint myself with the newcomer. I am, I confess, crazy about tonearms.
The UniArm, which seemed nicely made, has a lot in common with the Aro. Both are unipivot arms, and both use what I call a missionary bearing: a downward-pointing spike attached to the removable armtube, the spike sitting in an upward-facing cup on the stationary base. In both, the spike is tungsten steel, the cup sapphire. (Audio Origami suggests that the sapphire cup is the most expensive to make of the UniArm's parts.) Both arms are designed with miniature plugs and sockets for their signal wires, so that armtubes can be quickly and easily interchanged. The counterweight of each arm is mounted on a short rod below the point where bearing spike meets bearing cup, an arrangement that promotes cartridge stability. On both arms, antiskating force is provided by a monofilament thread and falling weight, and cartridge azimuth can be adjusted by means of a sliding weight that rides on a slender shaft affixed to the bell-like bearing housing.
But differences abound. Most notably, the UniArm's bearing cup is at the top of a post that's rigidly fixed in place, whereas the Aro's cup is cemented to the top of a steel post that rotatesstiffly, thanks to a thin coating of a silicone-like damping lubricantatop a ball bearing. Absent an official explanation from Naim, consumers and critics alike are forced to guess at the reason for this extra bearinga mechanical diode for dispensing with unwanted energies? a mechanical filter that resists conducting high-frequency noise?and to wonder which, if any, of the Aro's musical and sonic characteristics can be laid at its doorstep.
There are other, lesser differences: The UniArm's aluminum headshell is made with two cartridge-adjustment slots of the usual sort, while the Aro's aluminum headshell famously offers only two holes for the mounting bolts for the cartridge of choice, with no means of adjusting overhang or lateral tracking angle. The structure by which the UniArm is mounted to a turntable is larger and more complexand thus, presumably, more massivethan the exceeding small, simple base of the Aro. The UniArm incorporates a lift/lower mechanism for easy cueing, while the Aro, which lacks such a luxury, makes up for it with an elegant arm rest that makes it difficult, if not quite impossible, to damage one's cartridge by accidentally dropping the arm while cueing. The UniArm is available with two different combinations of arm-mount schemes and alignment geometriesto Linn's or Rega's specsbut it is not, in either version, a drop-in replacement for the Naim Aro, which had its own unique mounting scheme.
Finally, there are aesthetic differences: Most surfaces of the UniArm are hard-coat anodized with a colorfast finisheither silver or blackthat looks quite nice (although the arm-mount area looks a bit busy); the Aro, in spite of sporting a slightly different shade of gray for each of its individual parts, somehow manages to look far more elegant, austere, and simplealmost Scandinavian.
The Audio Origami UniArm sells for $2495, which was the US retail of the Naim Aro ten years ago. A pretty good savings right there!
Getting it up and running
I requested and received the Rega version of the Origami UniArm, seeing as how Rega's RB300 is my go-to tonearm for my Linn LP12. (Fact is, now that I no longer own an Aro, and despite my flirtations with a vintage Decca International unipivot and my love for the review loaner of the AMG 9W2, the Rega is my only LP12 arm.) Swapping out the Rega arm for the UniArm took about an hour and a halfslightly longer than I'd expected, because I encountered a few wrinkles along the way.
First, the Rega RB300's mounting pillarwhich is threaded to accept the arm's single, large locking nut, fitted from under the armboardis 35mm long, measured from the flange that sits atop the armboard. The same part of the UniArm is perhaps 1mm shorterand yet, during initial installation, that pillar was fouling against the right-rear gusset that's integral to the LP12's plinth. Because I'd never had trouble using an RB300 on a Linn, I wondered why an even shorter pillar wouldn't workuntil I remembered that I always use at least one 2mm spacer between my Rega arm and the top of the armboard, to raise the arm and better approximate the vertical tracking angle (VTA) required by cartridges of average dimensions. (Rega's own moving-magnet cartridges are quite shallow, which I suppose is why the Rega arm, without 2mm mounting spacers, is so low-slung.)
Then I remembered something else: Packed with the UniArm is a plastic ring, looking for all the world like a checker with its middle drilled out. I measured it: just under 4mm thick, with an inner diameter of 24mmjust 1mm wider than the mounting pillar's diameter. Hmmmm . . .
You may have gathered by now that the installation manual supplied with the UniArm is sketchy. Its four pages contain a few good tips and a few good photos, but it's neither as thorough nor as helpful as it might besomething that Audio Origami themselves acknowledge in this qualification: "Full video instructions will be available soon."
Anyway, yes: The plastic ring was obviously meant for the job to which I applied it: raising the arm base a few millimeters above the armboard. The fouling described above was eliminated; still, while setting up the LP12, I had to go easy and not deflect its spring-suspended components too harshly or too far.
Footnote 1: Its full name is actually Naim Audio Tone Arm. I don't know whether Aro originates from dealers, customers, or Naim themselves, but I assume it has to do with the distinctive, arrowhead-like appearance of the arm's headshell area, as well as the fact that armtube stock was supplied to Naim by a company that supplied same to the field of competitive archery. See our reviews here and here.
Footnote 2: See Mikey's "Analog Corner" in the November 2014 issue of Stereophile.
..there's just something special
Submitted by es347 on January 24, 2017 - 7:22pm
..about the Linn LP12...very alluring. I came close to buying one circa 1980 but the deal fell through. It's been Rega ever since..
Love the photos. Goes to show
Submitted by rschryer on January 25, 2017 - 3:41pm
Love the photos. Goes to show how the virtual format can supplement the written one.
Love the photos as well
Submitted by volvic on January 26, 2017 - 6:35am
Recently sold my TD-124 which Mr. Dudley still uses as a reference, and went back to a relatively new LP12 to replace one I sold 10 years ago and regretted selling. What can I say, like an old friend I hadn't seen in 10 years, picked off right where we left off. This tonearm review interested me as did getting an Aro for the table, but decided to go way out of left field and purchase a new SME IV. Call me crazy but I think it will work quite nicely.
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Events In CNY For a Laborless Weekend
By David Armelino
Get your fill of the Syracuse Chiefs and The Great New York State Fair while you still can!
Michael Davis photo
Happy Labor Day Weekend, Central New York! A couple of local staples are coming to a close this weekend: The Great New York State Fair and the Syracuse Chiefs/Salt Potatoes.
That’s right, the Salt Potatoes will make yet another appearance on Monday, Sept. 4, aka Fan Appreciation Day, at NBT Bank Stadium. It is also the last game of the season.
The 2017 State Fair wraps up on Labor Day as well, and there are a couple of opportunities to enter the grounds for only a crisp dollar bill:
Wear Syracuse-themed or any New York team apparel on Friday to get in for a buck
On Monday, everyone gets in for $1 to celebrate the three-day weekend
So get out and enjoy these two events while you still can, or take part in any of the awesome local occasions listed below!
Eclectic Excursions
Tenth Annual Sterling Stage Last Daze of Summer
Where: Sterling Stage, 274 Kent Road, Sterling | (818) 212-9489
When: Thursday, Aug. 31 – Monday, Sept. 4
Friday: 2 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Saturday: Noon – 11:30 p.m.
Sunday: Noon – 11:30 p.m.
Cost: Prices vary based on time of purchase
Apple Picking at Beak and Skiff
Where: Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road, LaFayette | (315) 696-6085
When: Friday, Sept. 1 – Sunday, Sept. 3, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Hop Harvest Smoke Out
Where: Ray Brothers Barbeque, 6474 State Route 20, Bouckville | (315) 893-7200
When: Sunday, Sept. 3, Noon
Art Fight at The Market
Where: The Yard, 604 E. Seneca St., Manlius | (315) 604-8064
When: Sunday, Sept. 1, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Cost: No admission fee. For every $5 spent on beer or food, market goers get a ticket to vote on their favorite artist.
Tailgate Block Party
Hosted by Shaughnessy’s Irish Pub
Where: Marriott Syracuse Downtown, 100 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse | (315) 474-2424
When: Friday, Sept. 1, 4-7 p.m.
Cost: $5 for round-trip game shuttle
Cool Vibe 5K Run
Where: Onondaga Community College, 4585 W. Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse
When: Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 a.m.
Cost: $30/instant discount, $33/special offer, $65/regular price; free for children ages 1-12 with paid adult
Urban Cinematheque 2017: Art & Culture Fair
Where: Everson Museum Plaza, 401 Harrison St. | (315) 443-1369
When: Friday, Sept. 1, 7-11 p.m.
Chevy Court acts this weekend
NYS Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd. All shows free with $10 admission.
A Tribe Called Red | 2 p.m.
Blue Öyster Cult | 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 2
Cheat Codes | 2 p.m.
DNCE | 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 3
Spin Doctors | 2 p.m.
Migos | 8 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 4
UB40 | 1 p.m.
Kool & The Gang | 6 p.m.
About Johnny Beehner and Jay Snyder
Friday: 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.
Saturday: 7 p.m. & 9:45 p.m.
Sunday: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Funny Bone Comedy Club, Destiny USA | (315) 423-8669
When: Thursday, Aug. 24 – Sunday, Aug. 27
Cost: $10/Thurs. & Sun., $15/Fri. & Sat.
Where: The Showroom at Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Thruway Exit 33, Verona | (877) 833-SHOW
When: Thursday, Aug. 31, 8 p.m.
Cost: $39, $34, $49
When: Friday, Sept. 1, 8 p.m.
Cost: $19, $24
Music: CNY Noisemakers
The Coachmen
Plus: Kia
Where: Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave. | (315) 474-0048
TJ Sacco Band
Plus: Brianna Jessie
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Character Analysis: James Holden
By Jan Helge Lillevik
Note: I am taking both the character from both book and the television series into account, so if some of the facts are a little mixed up and does not match the TV show, this is why. This also might contain spoilers for future seasons of the Expanse.
Born on Earth in a family of four men and four women, James Holden was the only child on this genetic collective. Earth has at this point 30 billion inhabitants and needs strict control over the birth rate, so they had to apply to get to have the child. One can imagine what kind of love a child like that might get from the parents when he is the only one. James, or Jim as he is sometimes called, joined Earth’s Navy at the age of 18, after one of his parents told him that he had been raised to fight for them to keep the farm in one of the few areas of Montana that was still undeveloped.
For seven years he served in the UN Navy until he wound up as a First Lieutenant on board the UNN Zheng Fei. It was here that he first displayed his confrontational side and tried to punch a superior officer. This resulted in him getting dishonorably discharged and joined up with the company that owned the Canterbury, an ice freighter where he served as second officer. This is where both the show and the series start off.
Holden is enjoying the fruits of being close to command, but he also enjoys that he does not have any responsibility. He appears in the show to be a bit of a flirt and has an affair with at least one of the crewmates. You could say that he acts like your typical frat boy, but there seems to be a serious side to him as well when the ice freighter runs into the abandoned ship, the Scopuli. In space the maritime customs seem to apply, because when a ship is in need, the closest ship to them responds and tries to help.
James Holden and the crew of the Canterbury
Five people set out to help the Scopuli, while the rest of the ice freighter’s crew wait for them. In addition to Holden, there are four, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal, Shed Garvey and Amos Burton. While these five are trying to fix the Scopuli, the Canterbury is attacked by a stealth ship, seemingly of Martian origin. Holden with the others manages to rescue themselves, but the ice freighter is destroyed. In desperation, Holden releases a video with himself explaining the attack on the Canterbury. This results in the five being rescued by the Martian Navy (MCRN.)
The naiveté of Holden in releasing this video to the public, even though many would say it was the right thing to do, shows a little bit what sheltered life he had led. James Holden has several times in the books and show chosen the very noble road, but that road has always had very unintended consequences. The video manages to start a riotous atmosphere among already disgruntled Belters, the term used for humans born in the asteroid belt beyond Mars and the other inner planets. The Belters often feel like the Inners, their term for anyone born on Mars, Earth or Luna, take advantage of the hard work of the people of the Belt, and in fact a political faction called Outer Planets Alliance (OPA) has long fought for the independence of the Belt. Now this is not a political view of The Expanse, so I’ll leave that to others.
Other times that Holden’s goodwill and noble ideas gets him into trouble, is when he decides to rescue the daughter of a botanist. This daughter has a rare genetic disorder which makes her perfect for experimentation with the protomolecule, a biological entity that first appears to be a weapon, but after a while reveals itself to have great potential. This is the typical hero’s arch. Everyone around him, even his girlfriend, Naomi, tells him that he needs to wise up, but his inner sense of fairness guides him to make bold choices.
The protomolecule reveals itself to be a gateway to the unknown, which is something that Jordan Peterson often talks about. The idea that what can seem scary can lead to have great value to you. James Holden discovers this when once again he gets into hot water by the daughter of one of his former adversaries, hires a man to hack his ship and make it appear like he is a terrorist. The choice he then makes is to dive head first into the gateway formed by the protomolecule. And in there more treasures can be found.
The later version of James Holden is still a noble man, but he becomes more withholding of his good nature as he has been burnt so many times. He is however still a good man and always seem to do what his heart tells him. James Holden is a good role model for people who may have been a little naïve in life and been burnt a few times, but that does not mean that you should stop being just and fair, only a little more cautious.
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V8 Supercars introduces Beru f1 Systems tyre sensors for Perth
By V8 Supercars
V8 Supercars will introduce tyre sensors on all cars from the next event in Perth, a move which Red Bull Racing Australia team manager Mark Dutton says will make his job of keeping the many challengers at bay even harder.
Every car will feature the Beru f1 Systems sensors from Perth with the primary rationale a safety mechanism so deflating tyres can be detected before a serious incident is triggered.
Teams have also quickly identified they will have live information about pressures of the Dunlop hard and soft control tyres fed back to the pits for the first time.
Previously, with sensors not allowed, teams could only gauge hot tyre pressures after a session or race. Tyre grip and durability is a key ingredient in extracting pace from a V8 Supercar.
"This should serve as a bit of a leveller again," Dutton told v8supercars.com.au.
"We like to think we do our job on the tyres pretty accurately and pretty spot-on and now we are going to learn if we do, or if some of the assumptions we have made through the years are wrong.
"Do we spend more time on tyres than other teams? I don't know, but I do know we put a lot of emphasis on them. So for other teams if they weren't spending as much time on their tyres, now it is being gift wrapped and handed to them om a platter.
"So this could mix things up a little bit. I am excited about it, I think it's going to be great."
Triple Eight Race Engineering, which races as Red Bull Racing Australia, has won six of the last seven drivers' championships with Jamie Whincup and six of the last seven teams' championships.
Dutton predicted it would take around three meetings for each team's engineers to learn and understand the new data they would have access to.
"It will be a pretty cool and interesting thing just from a learning point of view," he said.
The decision to allow sensors comes via the V8 Supercars Commission after the V8 Supercars technical department validated the system during early season testing.
V8 Supercars is supplying a tyre pressure sensor kit to each teams which includes 16 sensors (for four sets of wheels), a wiring loom to install an alarm in the cockpit so the driver knows he has a tyre issue.
The sensors fit flush to the inside rim of the control Rimstock 18-inch wheel and communicates wirelessly via a receiver fitted within the wheel arch.
Cost has been the most consistent argument against the use of tyre pressure sensors but Dutton said the price of the kit was "not silly".
Nissan Motorsport team manager Scott Sinclair endorsed Dutton's view that the set-up opportunities the sensors delivered would be significant.
"This puts us more in line with the rest of the motorsport world in terms of the analysis we can do," he said.
"For a long time this Dunlop tyre has been a bit of an unknown and to a certain extent the teams have put it on the backburner a little bit and elected to concentrate on suspension and other changes to try and make the car perform better.
"But this opens up big scope of information that we haven't really had so it's pretty interesting.
"I think the engineering focus in the short term will shift to what's happening with the tyre. Ultimately the tyre is the most important part of the car.
"I think everybody's understanding of the tyre has been a bit of black art."
Championship leader Jamie Whincup was recently almost a victim of the notorious turn eight wall at the Clipsal 500 when he elected to stay out on a deflating tyre in his Red Bull Holden Commodore VF which he hoped had only collected rubber 'pick-up'.
Dutton said this was an example of the sort of situation that sensors would avert.
"The most difficult thing is that a delaminating tyre can feel the same as a tyre going down, can feel the same as if you have got pick-up, can feel the same as if you have got a slow leak," he said. "So we are relying on the driver's feel and a leaking tyre can feel nothing as well.
"So it will take the guesswork out of it with the sensors."
However, the introduction of sensors won't avoid instant catastrophic failures of the type suffered by Fabian Coulthard on the opening lap of the 2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 and Lee Holdsworth at the Wilson Security Sandown 500 last year in his Erebus AMG racer.
"It doesn't solve everything, but it I am a massive fan," said Dutton.
The introduction of the sensors comes at the corresponding event 12 months on at Barbagallo Raceway where both Holden Racing Team Commodores Erebus Motorsport V8 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMGs suffered left-rear tyre failures related to running soft tyres on low pressures as a performance gain.
Since then V8 Supercars has mandated a minimum 17psi tyre pressure. The introduction of sensors will streamline the enforcement of that rule.
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Movie Duck Soup (1933)
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Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey. 68 min.
Vera Marcal (left), Mrs. Teasdale (center),
and Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) (right).
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Duck Soup (Wikipedia.com)
Duck Soup (RottenTomatoes.com)
Chicolini (Chico Marx) and Pinky (Harpo Marx) check the phone
for Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern).
The beginning wasn't that funny. Groucho Marx playing Rufus T. Firefly makes a bunch of remarks that are meant to be witty and sarcastic, but aren't. But soon enough there are several funny bits. One particularly funny scene was when Harpo and Groucho are at it in the mirror scene. Overall it's a different style of humor than modern-day comedies.
Pinky (Harpo) (left) is dressed as Firefly and comically imitates
Firefly's movements as if a mirror were between them.
Watching the movie for a second time, I found that, in contrast to my previous viewing, I enjoyed the beginning of the movie as much as the rest of it.
Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, and Groucho as
Pinky, Chicolini, Lt. Bob Roland, and Rufus T. Firefly, respectively.
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Playlist has (1) Firefly and Mrs. Teasdale [beginning], (2) Firefly sings "Just Wait 'Til I Get Through With It", (3) Chicolini and Pinky are introduced as spies, (4) Chicolini and Pinky drive a lemonade vendor crazy, (5) Chicolini and Pinky approach Firefly, (6) Firefly and Mrs. Teasdale [middle], (7) The mirror scene, (8) Chicolini is on trial, (9) Firefly jumps to conclusions, (10) The Marx Brothers and company sing "This Country's Going To War."
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The 13 best horror video games you can play right now
Trent Moore
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Back in the old days, you had to pop in a good horror movie to give yourself a case of the chills. But now there are more than a few freaky video games up to the challenge.
From slugging it out with zombies to stumbling around in the dark just looking for answers, horror fans are enjoying a renaissance in playable scarefests. We tried to go a bit old school and pay homage to a classic or two, but if you’re really looking to be scared witless, it's hard to beat the effects and production values on some modern horror titles.
We’ve broken down more than a dozen of our favorites below, but let us know which horror titles you’re digging too.
So, turn down the lights and let's dig in …
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This 2010 Xbox and PC title feels like the sweet spot between a horror thriller and Twin Peaks, with a dash of Silent Hill creepiness thrown in. The plot follows a thriller novelist who works to unravel the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in a small town. But, to make things more complicated, the events from his latest novel start to come to life. The game itself feels a bit unlike anything you’ve ever really played before, in a good way. It’s an atmospheric ride of a story, and well worth the price of admission for horror fans.
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This survival horror classic from 2008 spawned a few sequels, which were also solid, but it’s hard to beat the original. The game is basically a sci-fi horror film brought to life, putting players in control of an engineer who battles monstrous reanimated human corpses on an interstellar mining ship. It’s atmospheric and creepy, and follows the mission to travel through the ship and take out all kinds of super-creepy crawlies along the way.
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This Playstation 4 title from last year takes all your classic slasher movie tropes and makes them playable. What could go wrong, right? The game focuses on eight teenagers who vacation in a cabin in the woods. This being a slasher game, the group is soon attacked by an apparent psycho, as the player swaps through the different members of the group to figure out more of the story (and experience all kinds of deaths and scares). Along the way, players can also make different decisions (Don’t want to run up the stairs? Or open that door? Don’t!). Considering all the different outcomes, the game is extremely replayable.
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Being in a remote location is creepy enough, but make it an underwater research facility and you have SOMA. The first-person survival horror tale tosses the player into the base, where they’ll encounter different systems that start to take on human characteristics. It’s an exercise in psychological horror, with the player digging through different clues along the way. Unlike a lot of other survival horror games, this one doesn’t actually feature any combat. Instead, it’s all about sneaking, puzzle-solving and exploring.
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Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
This one is a little weird, but if you’re looking for scares, it’s probably the best place to start. Widely considered to be among the scariest games ever made, this Japanese survival horror game follows twin sisters as they explore an abandoned village and encounter the paranormal along the way. Players must use a vintage camera called the Camera Obscura to defeat and document the ghosts and creatures along the way. Crimson Butterfly, and the first Fatal Frame game, are often credited with being almost too scary for some players to finish. If you’re up to the challenge, it’s pretty easy to track a rereleased copy down on the PS3 online store, Wii or Xbox. It was originally released on PS2.
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Be it a movie, game, or just about anything else — you can’t go wrong with an asylum if you want it to be scary. This freaky title follows a freelance journalist who decides to look into a remote psychiatric hospital. But, the journalist gets a bit more than he bargained for, after stumbling into this freaky site overrun with crazed inmates. Armed with nothing more than a camcorder (thank you, night vision!) and a notebook, the poor guy has to figure out what’s going on and try to put the pieces together… while surviving, of course.
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We’re taking it all the way back to 1998 for this one. No horror game list is complete without an entry from the franchise that helped start it all, and without the success of Resident Evil, who knows where the genre would be today. The sequel takes the action out of the creepy old mansion and offers up an entire town of zombie-filled horrors, and the Playstation original is still scary all these years later. As a testament to its legacy, a modern-day remake of the game is also in some stage of development, tentatively set for release later this year.
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Considering how dreadful the film franchise became with the last couple of installments, this 2014 video game is the closest thing to a proper sequel in years. Plus, just like the original two films, it’s also terrifying. The game is set in the same lo-fi, retro future fans will recognize from the Alien films, and follows Ellen Ripley’s daughter as she heads out into uncharted space to try and solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance. The game doubles down on the creepy survival horror aspects, pushing a stealth approach when the xenomorphs start roaming.
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This franchise typically shows up in the same breath as Resident Evil, and for good reason. Silent Hill is the slightly moodier sibling to the other major horror franchise, and the second installment is arguably the best. The game follows a man who receives a letter from his dead wife, who tells him to meet her in the insanely creepy little town of Silent Hill. The town transforms into pure horror, as James is drawn deeper into the mysterious terror as he tries to unravel the truth about his wife’s death. If you’re looking for the best experience, a remastered PS3 version was released, if you’re up for tracking it down.
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This indie title, which has spawned its fair share of sequels, is a throwback point and click adventure. Just, you know, absolutely terrifying. The game is set at a fictional pizza restaurant called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and the player serves as a nighttime security guard. But, things go from kid-friendly to horrible after dark, as the malfunctioning animatronic creatures come to life and wreak havoc. It’s basically your worst nightmare about Chuck E Cheese, brought to life.
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ZombiU
The Wii U is a great console is you have kids or enjoy platformers, but as far as legit adult-themed games, there aren’t a ton of options. But, there’s one that’s definitely worth tracking down. Though its been ported to a few other consoles, the Wii U version is the one you want to play. Released in 2012, this zombie hunting horror tale takes full advantage of the Wii U’s bizzaro gamepad input system, as you fight your way through zombie-infested London. The touchscreen gamepad helps you do everything from barricade doors, to pick locks, which is a cool gameplay mechanic to draw you deeper into the world. Another neat twist: If your character is killed, you take over a different survivor — and have to kill your old zombie-self to retake your old inventory.
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The Walking Dead Season 2
A direct sequel to the first critically acclaimed “Season,” this episodic game is one of the few titles that will truly warp your brain to the point that you literally feel like a pre-teen girl trying to survive the apocalypse. In the best possible way. Players take on control of a young survivor, Clementine, from the original season as she is forced to try and forge ahead on her own. It’s creepy, unsettling and terrifyingly engrossing. If you’re not playing this series, you should be. It's arguably as good (or better) than the show these days.
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Bonus: P.T.
We’ll open with the caveat: This unfinished game isn’t even technically available anymore, but if you happen to have a copy saved, you know it deserves to be on this list. The demo was for the unreleased Silent Hills game, a collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro, and it teased a game that would have certainly made your skin crawl. Sadly, the demo has been pulled down (since the game is technically dead), but it’s a remnant of something that could’ve been truly great.
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Conservatives: come off benefits and we'll make work pay
Jobless people who choose to come off benefits and go to work will no longer lose out financially under the biggest shake-up of the welfare system for decades.
By Andrew Porter, Political Editor
9:49PM BST 29 Jul 2010
Ministers want to end the “illogical” situation where people are effectively paid to remain unemployed because state benefits are more valuable than wages.
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, will announce a series of reforms today that are intended to ensure that low earners will always be better off in employment.
The measures are part of wider moves to cut the number of people who are dependent on benefits. The Government says the reforms represent the most radical transformation of the system in many years.
They are in a document that will form the basis of a White Paper to be published this autumn and herald the end of Labour’s complicated tax credits system, with many benefits being rolled into one.
“After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair,” the former Conservative Party leader will say in a speech on Friday.
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For many people, taking a job leaves them no better off than a life on benefits, and this has trapped significant parts of our society in inter-generational worklessness and entrenched poverty.
“The complexity of the system also creates risk and uncertainty for the people in society who most need stability. We want to simplify the system to make it clear that work will always pay.”
Mr Duncan Smith says there are five million people who have been “abandoned on out-of-work benefits”. Of those, 1.4 million have been on benefits for nine or more of the past 10 years.
The document, 21st Century Welfare, will form the basis of Mr Duncan Smith’s attempts to cut the welfare budget by getting more people into work, although there are initial costs associated with his plans.
It now appears that he is on the verge of convincing George Osborne, the Chancellor, to fund the estimated £3billion required.
Officials from his department will meet Treasury colleagues to thrash out what can be afforded.
One key aim is to give the unemployed an incentive to get a job. Currently, some families lose more than £1 in benefits for every extra £1 they would earn at work.
The Government believes that because of the effect of “marginal tax rates” — the combination of withdrawn benefits and the tax on earned income — millions of people calculate that it is simply not worth taking a job.
One example cited by Mr Duncan Smith involves the case of a lone parent with three school-age children earning £7.50 an hour as an office administrator.
Working 23 hours a week, he says, she would have a net weekly income (including benefits and tax credits) of £345 after paying rent and council tax. However, if she were to increase her hours to 34 a week she would get only about £10 more due to a loss of benefits.
It is proposed that “entitlements” are tapered so that when earnings — net of tax and National Insurance — are not significantly above what a claimant would get on benefits, they are topped up by payments. Ministers want a system where claimants would be better off by up to 40p in every pound extra they earn.
As part of his efforts to make low-paid jobs worth taking, the Work and Pensions Secretary is looking to merge existing unemployment and in-work benefits with a “universal credit”.
To improve the incentive for low earners to get a job, the document says people entering work “would ideally see no reduction in their universal credit until they earn over a certain level”.
It aims to end the complexity that requires the Department of Work and Pensions to issue 14 manuals, comprising nearly 9,000 pages, to help guide those who make decisions on what benefits people are entitled to. The proposals also include changing the benefits system to make it more automated.
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Tempus to Collaborate with CancerLinQ LLC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Checkpoint Inhibitors
Alexandria, Va. — CancerLinQ LLC, a wholly-owned nonprofit subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), has brought on technology collaborators Concerto HealthAI and Tempus to accelerate its joint research effort with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) aimed at understanding the real-world use, tolerability, and effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors. Concerto HealthAI and Tempus have begun to assist in the analysis of a de-identified data set that CancerLinQ has provided to the FDA, representing more than 10,000 patients who have been treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors for both approved and unapproved indications.
In June 2017, CancerLinQ LLC and the FDA announced a long-term partnership to explore the real-world use of emerging and newly approved therapies, including optimal sequencing of treatments, the impact of non-cancer health issues on treatment tolerability and cancer outcomes, and use of immunotherapy combinations versus single agents.
“These types of research efforts need to span across the cancer community because one organization cannot accomplish them alone,” said CancerLinQ LLC CEO Cory Wiegert. “We are excited that Concerto HealthAI and Tempus are bringing their technical capacity and analytic expertise to this important effort in support of the FDA’s evaluation of these therapies outside of clinical trials.”
Through this research agreement, the collaborators will study a de-identified data set of patients who have received any of the following immune checkpoint inhibitor medications: atezolizumab (Tecentriq), avelumab (Bavencio), durvalumab (Imfinzi), ipilimumab (Yervoy), nivolumab (Opdivo), or pembrolizumab (Keytruda). Concerto HealthAI and Tempus are providing analytic support through their existing agreement with CancerLinQ LLC, announced late last year, in which both companies will curate CancerLinQ® data into high-quality datasets to be used to improve quality of cancer care and for research.
The FDA will then evaluate the incidence of immune-related adverse events in patients receiving these therapies. CancerLinQ® data will also enable the FDA to examine the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients who are poorly represented in clinical trials, including older patients, racially diverse populations, and individuals with autoimmune diseases.
CancerLinQ and the FDA will then share their findings with the cancer community to help guide the use of these treatments and inform the development of future clinical trials. The FDA may also apply the findings to future drug reviews or labeling refinements.
CancerLinQ LLC entered into an agreement with Concerto HealthAI (formerly: Precision HealthAI Solutions) and Tempus, announced in December 2017, to accelerate the development and delivery of high-quality, de-identified clinical databases for use by CancerLinQ®, its oncologist subscribers, partners, and the broader cancer community. Through the agreement, Concerto HealthAI and Tempus are curating information into high-quality, HIPAA-compliant datasets to be used to improve quality of cancer care. These datasets will be made available through the core CancerLinQ® quality improvement platform and CancerLinQ Discovery®, a service that provides access to high-quality, de-identified datasets for non-profit organizations, health care providers, academic researchers, and government agencies.
CancerLinQ® is supported in part through Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, whose generous donors have helped make the system possible. Major supporters include Amgen; Astellas; AstraZeneca; Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Cancer Treatment Centers of America®; Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation; Genentech BioOncology™; HELSINN; Janssen Oncology; Lilly; Raj Mantena, RPh; Novartis Oncology; Pfizer Oncology; Thomas G. Roberts, Jr., MD and Susan M. DaSilva; and Susan G. Komen®.
CancerLinQ® and CancerLinQ Discovery® are projects of CancerLinQ LLC. For more information on how to participate or partner with CancerLinQ, please visit CancerLinQ.org.
About ASCO:
Founded in 1964, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Inc. (ASCO®) is committed to making a world of difference in cancer care. As the world’s leading organization of its kind, ASCO represents nearly 45,000 oncology professionals who care for people living with cancer. Through research, education, and promotion of the highest-quality patient care, ASCO works to conquer cancer and create a world where cancer is prevented or cured, and every survivor is healthy. ASCO is supported by its affiliate organization, the Conquer Cancer Foundation. Learn more at www.ASCO.org, explore patient education resources at www.Cancer.Net, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
About CancerLinQ LLC
CancerLinQ LLC is a subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) established for the development and operation of the CancerLinQ™ initiative. CancerLinQ® is a health information technology (HIT) platform aimed at enhancing and improving the understanding and treatment of cancer. To learn more, visit www.cancerlinq.org.
About Concerto HealthAI
Concerto HealthAI is a technology leader in Definitive Real World Data and AI solutions for precision health. Our mission is to accelerate drug development, clinical trials, HEOR analytics and patient outcomes through definitive RWD and AI Solutions. Concerto HealthAI’s businesses include Precision HealthAI, Vector Oncology and ProMetrics. Concerto HealthAI is a SymphonyAI company. For more information, visit us at www.concertohealthai.com.
About Tempus
Tempus is a technology company that is building the world’s largest library of molecular and clinical data and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful. We enable physicians to deliver personalized cancer care for patients through our interactive analytical and machine learning platform. We provide genomic sequencing services and analyze molecular and therapeutic data to empower physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions. Our goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as we gather more data. For more information, visit tempus.com and visit us on Facebook (Tempus Labs) and Twitter (@TempusLabs).
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Broadchurch, Series 3, ITV
Odd-couple cops tackle their final case on the Dorset coast
by Adam SweetingTuesday, 28 February 2017
Oh, cheer up for heaven's sake. DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) and DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) back on the Broadchurch beat
The first series of Broadchurch was a gigantic hit four years ago, though 2015’s follow-up suffered a bit of a slow puncture. Can this third and supposedly final outing restore the show to its former glories?
Episode one made a tidy and reasonably tense starter, though with seven more to go, you knew that whatever happened here was merely slapping on the undercoat for the (presumably) astounding and stunning revelations scheduled for later on by writer Chris Chibnall. Also, revisiting the same picturesque Dorset coastal town for the third time inevitably means its original freshness and idiosyncratic character now look a little faded, since much of the first series’ allure depended on that crime happening in this place.
But here we are. Trish Winterman (Julie Hesmondhalgh, pictured right) was the slightly unlikely victim of a violent sexual assault, being a careworn middle-aged mother separated from her husband and living in suburban anonymity with her daughter. Broadchurch’s star duo, DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) and DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant), painstakingly tweaked out morsels of information from the traumatised Trish, and the script went to almost pedantic lengths to spell out how caring, considerate and sympathetic the various victim support services were. Nonetheless, Ellie and Alec were slightly nonplussed when it transpired that the victim had waited a couple of days before phoning in to report the crime.The trail had inevitably cooled, and the crime scene was surely compromised.
But, despite the victim’s fragmented recollections, at least they managed to find the crime scene, which turned out to be a stately home called Axehampton House, now used as a venue for weddings and parties. Trish had been attending the 50th-birthday knees-up of her friend Cath, a co-worker at a local farm shop owned, as it happened, by Lenny Henry (alias Ed Burnett). Unfortunately she had no idea of what her attacker looked like, and there had been 50 men at the party. Always assuming she was attacked by a party-goer, of course (Sarah Parish and Mark Bazeley as Cath and Jim Atwood, pictured below).
So we don’t know much, though we’ve learned that Trish was tied up with fisherman’s twine and the attacker wore a condom – and what a strange coincidence that Cath’s husband Jim should have a packet in his glove compartment – but once again there was melancholy and menacing background music by Ólafur Arnalds, and the Dorset scenery can’t help being easy on the eye. Colman and Tennant have evolved an amusingly peevish and impatient banter between themselves, though maybe it’s just as well Broadchurch is ending before they can turn into Dempsey and Makepeace.
As for shoehorning in Broadchurch veterans Mark and Beth Latimer (Andrew Buchan and Jodie Whittaker), it felt more like a contractual obligation than a dramatic necessity. And they seem to have condemned poor Buchan to a condition of permanent one-dimensional misery.
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Permalink Submitted by Pedantrice (not verified) on Thu, 02/03/2017 - 15:02
Mr Sweeting, not your best hour, is it? " ... was the slightly unlikely victim of a violent sexual assault, being a careworn middle-aged mother separated from her husband and living in suburban anonymity with her daughter." Best to leave your own prejudices out of a review. And perhaps do some research into who the victims of sexual assault can be, and why. Sadly, I will remember this review for the three words "slightly unlikely victim" and very little else.
Funnily enough I did do some
Permalink Submitted by Adam Sweeting on Thu, 02/03/2017 - 18:01
Funnily enough I did do some research, having foreseen somebody making exactly this type of comment. I refer you to a report in the Guardian on 11 Feb 2016, which quotes data from the Office of National Statistics: "30 per cent of female rape victims were aged under 16, 25 per cent were 14 or younger and 9 per cent were nine years old or under. Rape victims of both sexes were most likely to be aged between 15 and 19. Half of female victims of other sexual offences, such as assaults, grooming and sexual exploitation, were girls under 16." Obviously anybody of any age, race or gender can suffer rape or sexual violence, but younger people are apparently more at risk.
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Without the computers on board the Apollo spacecraft, there would have been no moon landing, no triumphant first step, no high-water mark for human space travel. A pilot could never have navigated the way to the moon, as if a spaceship were simply a more powerful airplane. The calculations required to make in-flight adjustments and the complexity of the thrust controls outstripped human capacities.
The Apollo Guidance Computer, in both its guises—one on board the core spacecraft, and the other on the lunar module—was a triumph of engineering. Computers had been the size of rooms and filled with vacuum tubes, and if the Apollo computer, at 70 pounds, was not exactly miniature yet, it began “the transition between people bragging about how big their computers are … and bragging about how small their computers are,” the MIT aerospace and computing historian David Mindell once joked in a lecture.
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British Academy Schools Language Awards 2013
Aiming higher! Encouraging take-up and progression to higher levels in language learning
Vivienne Hurley, Director of Programmes at the British Academy said:
'The aim of these Awards is to find imaginative and effective ways of encouraging more learners to take languages to higher levels, and to address the social imbalance in the profile of language learners. It is clear from the response that mainstream and supplementary schools around the country share our concerns and we are delighted to have received so many high quality applications. We heartily congratulate the winning projects, whose progress we will follow with great interest. We hope they will become beacons of good practice and inspiration and help to turn the tide on Britain's language deficit.'
Following the success of inaugural awards, for the 2013 round of the Schools Language Awards Schools and colleges – or institutions supporting them – were asked to submit proposals for increasing the numbers of students learning languages at higher levels.
A panel of judges assessed the originality, credibility and potential replicability of the proposals and awarded 13 prizes of £4,000 each to the following schools:
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Vietnamese Supplementary School, Deptford, London – helping parents and children to learn each other's first language.
Hamara Supplementary School, Leeds – helping under achieving ethnic minority pupils gain qualifications in languages, in partnership with South Leeds Academy.
Peace School, London – teaching Arabic through 'content and language integrated learning' and ICT.
Liverpool Polish Saturday School – integrating the development of children's English and Polish language skills with an understanding of finance and marketing.
EC Lighthouse, Barking – promoting an understanding of Lithuanian language and culture, particularly to children from mixed backgrounds who do not speak Lithuanian at home.
Arabic School for All, Lincoln – developing courses and materials for teaching about Energy, the Environment and Architecture through the medium of Arabic.
Polish School in Glasgow – focusing on qualifications and awareness of career opportunities, with placements in local businesses.
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North: Oldham Sixth Form College – A programme of taster sessions, careers talks, and booster classes for year 8 and 9 pupils in local schools.
South East and South West: Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth – Languages and careers awareness and training programme for years 8, 10 and 12.
London: Deptford Green School – 'Language passport' scheme to raise awareness of the importance of language and intercultural skills for employability.
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Northern Ireland: Foyle College, Londonderry – Hearts and minds project involving story-telling in French.
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Titleist 710 AP1 Iron Review
written by Josh Babbitt December 3, 2009
The AP in Titleist’s irons stands for advanced performance and came about as a result of research showing that golfers wanted performance and great feel together, not one or the other. The original irons came out and were an immediate success both on tour and with golfers everywhere. Together, the AP1 and AP2 irons cover a large spectrum of golfers as they are very different irons geared towards very different players. While most consider the AP1 irons a Game Improvement (GI) set and the AP2 irons a Game Enhancement (Players) set, THP feels that those names are thrown around a little too often and that the lines are getting closer together with each passing golf season based on new technology. In this review THP will take a look at the new line of AP1 irons from Titleist and whether or not they live up to the hype around the line.
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From The Company
Building upon the high technology design and resounding success of the original AP irons, Titleist introduces the new high performance AP1 irons for avid golfers. The Titleist AP1 are multi-material, dual cavity irons that take the design mission of “Advanced Performance You Can Feel” to new heights.
The concept for the original Advanced Performance irons arose as a result of research that indicated serious golfers want performance with great feel, not performance at the expense of feel. The Titleist R&D team’s advanced research group has been conducting extensive sound and vibration analysis aimed at reducing the harsh lower frequency vibration that causes poor feel in irons. This research led to combining several technologies and materials in the back cavity of the new AP irons resulting in a new Tuned Feel System to take feel to a new level.
The new Tuned Feel System is a co-molded medallion of soft elastomer and aluminum plate. This insert has been specifically designed to improve the sound and feel of each new iron. For the thinner face, larger cavity AP1 a hotter, more lively feel has been enhanced.
Extensive improvements to the new AP1 structure include reducing the face thickness to provide enhanced heel, toe, and deep weighting to the frame and moving the tungsten nickel material to the sole resulting in increased stability and forgiveness.
Features & Tech Specs
Advanced Performance with Feel: High quality, high technology design and construction featuring a precise cast 431 stainless steel body, high-density tungsten nickel sole and Tuned Feel System to enhance performance, forgiveness and feel.
Improved Feel: A thin face with integrated aluminum and soft elastomer Tuned Feel System in the back cavity improves sound and feel at impact for a hotter, more lively feel. The high-density tungsten nickel sole bar reduces low frequency vibration for solid feel.
More Forgiving: A perimeter weighted back flange and tungsten nickel sole bar locates the CG low and deep for increased MOI, forgiveness and stability.
Higher Ball Speed: A thin face, dual cavity design pushes weight to the perimeter for a hotter face and flight.
Improved Short Irons: Shorter blade length, thinner topline, and reduced visual offset deliver control and performance.
Improved Confidence Inspiring Appearance: Contemporary, confidence inspiring appearance features a traditional profile with modern proportions. A slightly thinner topline and improved hosel blends for reduced visual offset provide an enhanced set-up appearance.
Stock Shafts and Grip: Stock NS Pro 105T is a high performance lightweight steel shaft with a medium tip for control and softer mid section for feel. Stock graphite shaft is Aldila VS Proto-T 75 exclusively for Titleist. Stock grip is Tour-proven feel and traction of the Titleist Tour Velvet Rubber by Golf Pride. Other shaft, grip, length and lie options are available through Titleist Custom.
High Performance Sole: High performance sole with width, camber and bounce specs designed to deliver playability from a variety of lies and turf conditions without excessive bounce or dig.
Dual Hosel Lengths: Shorter hosel in long irons helps bias weight low for improved launch.
Progressive Offset and Stronger Lofts: Blade length is the same throughout the set with enhanced progressive offset. Lofts are two degrees stronger versus AP2.
Grooves: Modified U (28 degree wall), 2010 conforming.
Price/Availability: Available in both right and left hand beginning November 15, 2009, with a suggested retail price of $100 per club/steel, and $125 per club/graphite.
Range Testing
We gathered up 6 testers total and went out to the range for some testing of the new AP1 irons from Titleist. Each tester warmed up with their current irons and then switched over to the new set for comparisons. On looks alone, most of the testers agreed that they preferred the subtle changes that Titleist made for the new line compared to that of the previous AP1 set. Once on the range we each took turns hitting buckets of balls with the different clubs in the set. One immediate thought that was unanimous was that everybody liked the shaft choice that Titleist made with these irons. They “felt” better and the ball flight was nice and high. Less penetrating than some were used to, but not a single complaint by any single person. The feel that the shaft gives off is something that quite a few of us felt might have been the missing piece in the previous version of these irons. After 2 hours of testing, it was fairly unanimous that Titleist may have a winner on their hands.
Course Testing
Over the course of 3 weeks, 12 testers put the Titleist 710 AP1 irons in play for a round of golf. Including myself gaming them for 6 full rounds. Out of those 12 golfers 9 said that they would put these on their short list when upgrading their set in 2010. Those that left it off the list really had no major issues or complaints about the clubs, they just preferred other sets more for any number of reasons. The most liked feature that people spoke about with the AP1’s was the improved feel that they offer. Last year’s iron set felt fine and was a solid set of clubs, but this year with the subtle head changes and the change in stock shaft left players smiling as they hit balls with them. The biggest issue that people had with them was the looks. Many thought the cavity was just a little too busy for their taste (purely personal preference), ironically that is one of my favorite things about this set. I really like the changes that Titleist made to the new AP1 in terms of aesthetics.
My game over the course of the time I played the Titleist irons stayed about the same. They are not magic wands and my score did not drastically drop all of the sudden, however that by itself is a feat. Many times when we test irons, my scores soar for the first few rounds as I get used to feel and distance. I had absolutely no problem adjusting to the ball striking of this set and found my yardages to be right where they should be. One thing that I want to note here is that many believe that Titleist irons overall are geared towards better players, and THP was able to have quite a few mid and high handicappers test these irons with no issues. The overall large amount of golfers that can play the new AP1 irons is something that we feel is one of its best features.
There is a lot to like about the new AP1 line from Titleist Golf. They have an improved feel, solid distance, and in my opinion, very good looks. They can be played by players of so many different skill levels and the overall consensus was that Titleist has a great set of irons on their hands. For more information on these or any other Titleist Golf Product, check out their website at www.titleist.com.
Josh B.
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Smallville December 3, 2009 - 11:09 am
Nice looking clubs. You mention that sometimes when you test it takes a while to get used to. Do you find you like the clubs you are testing more when you have that issue, or more when you are able to hit them well from the beginning?
Admin December 3, 2009 - 12:28 pm
It is not really one or the other Smallville. However I will say that being able to hit them normally from the beginning makes the review process easier.
marky mark December 3, 2009 - 2:14 pm
Really informative. This is the place I go for reviews. It seems as though most of the people that tried these out liked what they saw, other than looks. I am with you Josh B., I like the looks of them. They were not on my short list before, but might be now.
These and the R9s both offer so much that I am looking for.
jay rice December 3, 2009 - 2:52 pm
I play last year’s Ap1 irons and like them quite a bit. The only issue that I may have is that they feel kind of harsh, but it seems as though the new shaft and changes that were made might have fixed that issue. Good pictures by the way.
Mike the golfer December 3, 2009 - 4:19 pm
I really like the looks of the AP line from them. I have not played Titleist irons since the original DCIs but these could bring me back. I love that picture of the 3 together by the way.
I am going to attempt to go hit these this week and hopefully will have some feedback after that.
Rory T December 3, 2009 - 4:51 pm
Excellent review as usual. I play the current AP2s and am thinking about making the switch to the AP1s for a little more forgiveness.
The ECHO December 3, 2009 - 8:48 pm
Love the look of these and will be looking for them in stores
Steve Fox December 3, 2009 - 9:21 pm
Not sure about these. I did not care for the AP line this year, but will try them out. I really like the looks, but I just did not think they felt as good as others.
Golfingcop December 4, 2009 - 3:58 am
Nice review! I do have this on my shortlist!
Dave S December 4, 2009 - 9:56 am
Im on the fence about the looks of these. At setup I think they look as good as anything I have played, but the cavity is super busy. And now they seem to be following Callaway (again) with the cross and are looking more like X22s.
Still i think they are worth hitting as I am in the market for new irons.
itsbarker December 4, 2009 - 6:48 pm
I just got back from a lunchtime visit to a local golf shop and was able to compare the old AP1 to the new version. I prefer the looks and thinner sole of the new version AP1. Not sure about the flex and consistency of the new stock shaft by Nippon. They felt good and this set is on my short list as well.
Nick70 December 7, 2009 - 12:48 pm
How was hitting the long irons (3, 4, 5)? Seemed like the first set of AP1’s long irons weren’t any more forgiving than a player’s long iron.
Administrator December 7, 2009 - 1:22 pm
They are more forgiving than last years set in the long irons. But they are still not as forgiving as many GI sets.
G December 7, 2009 - 11:59 pm
Is it just me or do they look allot like the Callaway X-22?
Timmy T December 10, 2009 - 11:31 am
It is not just you. I thought the same things. I like the looks quite a bit. This is why I use this site as my review tool. Very honest and thorough.
DefCon1 December 11, 2009 - 8:39 pm
Those are some classy looking irons. I wouldn’t mind giving them a “shot”. And, Nippon makes some great shafts.
Carl January 25, 2010 - 7:30 pm
Recently took delivery of a set of AP1 710’s. First time on the range was pleased to hit the 4 iron about 185. I could never do anything close to that with my old clubs. Happy camper here.
Marko February 1, 2010 - 12:30 am
Hit the AP1, CG7’s and the R9’s, The AP1’s for me performed the most over all. Mishits I could hardly tell distance wise a few yards shorter and 5-10 yards right or left. If you are in the market hit these clubs along with others. These are going in my bag.
Luke February 3, 2010 - 10:15 pm
How forgiving are these exactly? Are they pure forgiveness or do they offer playability as well? I want a blend so I can work the ball too. I’m deciding between these and the Ping i15’s.
thainer21 February 4, 2010 - 10:05 am
you should be deciding between the AP2s and the i15s
Luke February 4, 2010 - 7:26 pm
Thainer, are the AP2’s forgiving enough my handicaps an 18, but I hit the i15’s great so I’m not a bad ball striker.
Or how about the mizuno mx300’s? Think those would be better?
Jerry February 12, 2010 - 10:09 am
What affect if any, does the stronger lofts have relative
to distance ?
itsbarker February 16, 2010 - 7:38 pm
The feel is solid and consistent. I just ordered a set over the weekend, expected March 1st delivery. Thanks for the continued input.
Alan February 23, 2010 - 11:48 pm
I have the original AP1 irons and before that I played (for a long time) the Callaway S2H2 irons. I also switched to R300 shafts. The AP1’s are about 10% shorter partially due to the higher loft and weaker shafts. I was an 8 handicap but don’t play enough anymore to maintain that; however these irons are more consistent and almost as playable as my old ones. I like the smaller head thin top line style iron. Why is that the improverd modifications Titleist made to the AP1 iron after it was out for a short period? I am a firm believer that all mfg’s work on the new improved model before they ever put the original on the market. I am very happy with my original AP1 irons and they are definately good enough that there is no need to trade up to the improved AP1’s.
JJ March 2, 2010 - 9:39 pm
I demoed the AP1, CG7, Burner and X22’s the last couple of weekends at a local demo days event. I decided on the AP1 710 and was fitted tonight. Personally, I like the look of these sticks from all angles and I agree that they were as easy to hit as my current TA7’s with equal if not better results even though it was at the range. I decided on the DG S300 shafts because the stock Nippon shaft were flying too high for me. Because of my height I went +1/2 and 2* upright. Can’t wait to get them out onto the course.
Bill March 11, 2010 - 4:10 pm
I heard the old AP1’s dinged up badly after little use. Is the 2010 version any better?
Mark March 12, 2010 - 8:24 am
Has anyone compared these with the R9’s? And what are your conclusions?
Anthony March 29, 2010 - 2:38 pm
I was looking at these as well as the tm burners. Any thoughts?
Administrator March 29, 2010 - 2:39 pm
The forum is a great place to get a ton of opinions on this subject
leftychris May 10, 2010 - 2:18 pm
After testing every possible iron I could think of and all the recomendations from u guys I bought the AP1s. they fly straight and high with alovely feel,just what I was looking for.Thanks for all the great unbiased reviews.
JdB July 5, 2010 - 8:45 pm
Saw my pro for a clubfit and tried half-dozen different irons, including AP1, AP2, R9, X-22, G15 and I15s, and the AP1’s were an easy choice for me. I’m a former 10 hdcp who hasn’t played for 6 years (kids!) and am just getting back into the game. These were the perfect balance — just like the review says — of feel and forgiveness. My shortlist was G15 and AP1, and I picked the AP1 because of better feel. Kind of wanted the AP2, but I worried they’d work me – instead of other way around!! After 6 weeks on the course, I love these AP1s even more than I did on the range. I’m starting to be able to work them too, which is pleasantly surprising. Only issue to adjust is a much higher trajectory than my old X-14s, but I think that’s because my old clubs were too short and I used to just skull the ball a bit every time! Overall, love the AP1’s … perfect for anyone who wants a bit of everything.
Jude Ryan July 11, 2010 - 12:10 pm
I recently purchased a set of 710 irons after testing 6 sets on a demo day. I hit G15s, X22s, Bazooka, and others. Most felt good, but the 710s were far and away superior in look and feel. I have had them about three weeks now and find them more comfortable every time I play. One change in my game is now I aim straight at the pin instead of having to work the ball. The ball flies straight and true. I have always liked Ping irons, but these are longer and fit my game. (5.6 handicap)
itsbarker July 21, 2010 - 11:38 am
Its been 4 months since I put my AP1 710 irons into play. They are very solid consistent irons. Distance and Feel are very good. These are keepers.
Polo August 28, 2010 - 8:35 am
I am 67, with a 7, love the new AP1’s, have played stiffs, wandering about whether I should go to reg shafts? Any thoughts?
Has anyone specifically tested the Burner with the new AP1? I am referring to the straight Burner, not the Plus, Tour or whatever other Burner models Taylormade has flooded the market with just to confuse everyone.
SH September 18, 2010 - 10:10 pm
Polo – the AP1 710’s stock steel shaft is the Nippon NS PRO 105T for Titleist lightweight steel shaft – it’s a fantastic shaft, with a low/mid bend point and a mid-high trajectory. The difference between the Regular and Stiff shafts are only 3 grams of static weight (110g for Regular, 113g for Stiff), and probably a few Cycles per Minute in frequency. 7 is a nice Handicap, so it sounds like you’ve got game. I would demo the club outside on a driving range. Let your ball flight be your guide. If you’re hitting it lower than you want with stiff, I would go with regular (vs. stiff). Too high flight with regular shaft, go with stiff (vs. regular). Any player should probably use the softest iron shaft they can (while still getting the desired ball flight) because it will be easier to hit (you won’t have to fight the shaft)… and don’t take this the wrong way, but at 67 yrs old, hitting a regular flex Nippon might be your best bet. FYI – Nippon is a great feeling shaft, but plays a little stiffer frequency wise than most other steel shafts in the marketplace due to their superior & unique construction. One last suggestion – you may want to try the Nippon NS PRO 970 lightweight steel shaft, which is a FREE custom option in lieu of the stock Nippon NS PRO 105T… and is a slightly lighter static weight shaft than the 105T. The regular flex is 99 grams, stiff flex is 103 grams… and the ball flight is more mid flight. Very close to Nippon’s 950GH lightweight steel shaft, which I’ve played for about 10 years. Both the gram weight of the shaft and the flex will impact which shaft works best for you. Between those 4 shafts, you can find the right combo of static weight, ball flight, and feel. FYI – I think that the Titleist fitting cart has both shafts in it… look on titleist.com to find a fitter near or in your zip code. Good luck!
John Browning September 29, 2010 - 2:01 pm
I am 58 years old and have a smooth tempo swing in the 85 MPH range with 6 iron. Hit a TM R7 driver about 245. Currently own a set of the original AP1s for the last 4 months. I have had over 20 sets of clubs in the last 10 years. Recently Mizuno, 2009 Burner, R7, X14, X20, to name a few. I am 58 years old and play to a 9 handicap. I found the HL shaft in the original Titleist AP 1 to really work me over even in regular shaft. AW through 7 iron was ok but harsh. Range balls and then playing 18 holes with this shaft wore me out. I felt like I had to swing out of my shoes to get the ball in the air. Never have been able to do anything with the 5 and 4 iron. Really messed up my timing for awhile. I am picking up a new set of Titleist 710s today with the NS Pro 105T shaft in regular flex. I sincerely hope I have not made a mistake.
CConley October 20, 2010 - 1:51 pm
I was playing the old Tommy Armour Evo’s and just picked up a new set of the 710 AP1’s with S-Flex on Craig’s List. I think the s-flex is gonna work in my favor b/c I’ve always hit my irons pretty high. My question is this….I went to the range yesterday with just the PW & 7 iron. When I left the range I noticed the club faces appeared to have been hit 100’s of times, when I just hit a small bucket. I admit I was hitting barefoot with no glove and the clubs were slipping a little, but do these faces get dinged up pretty easily?? They had never been hit before btw……..Thanks for any input!!
Mike December 7, 2010 - 1:05 pm
Older AP1 or the 710s? Do you think I would be happier with the newer version? I see some around and would love some input.
marty February 2, 2011 - 8:33 pm
best clubs I have ever owned A flex shafts just feel great
SH April 23, 2011 - 10:11 pm
AP1 710s are much better than old AP1s. Better forgiveness/feel/look. I own the AP1 710s, and they’re great! Over the same year as the needed improvements from AP1 (2009) to AP1 710s (2010), Titleist didn’t change the more “players iron” AP2 nearly at all… changed the bounce angle by 1 degree on a few of the irons. Now, that they are happy with the AP1 710s… they didn’t change them at all from 2010 to 2011. They are perfect the way they are… a far cry from the changes from 2009 to 2010 when they created the AP1 710 designation. I have hit the old AP1s and the AP1 710s, and I like everything about the 710s better.
Rowan May 30, 2012 - 10:45 pm
i am considering getting these on ebay for only $400 but am not sure how much workability these have. I am a 5 handicap but my old tommy armour blades are 10-15 yards shorter than todays irons.
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Leinster Rugby have confirmed the appointment of former England head coach Stuart Lancaster into the senior coaching team. Following a disappointing Rugby World Cup 2015, where England as the home nation crashed out in the group stages, this will mark Lancaster’s first major position back in the game. Lancaster has enjoyed a couple of short term roles […]
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Leinster Rugby have confirmed the appointment of former England head coach Stuart Lancaster into the senior coaching team.
Following a disappointing Rugby World Cup 2015, where England as the home nation crashed out in the group stages, this will mark Lancaster’s first major position back in the game. Lancaster has enjoyed a couple of short term roles with the Atlanta Falcons, British Cycling’s world-class performance programme, the English FA, and South New Zealand RFU Counties Manukau.
Leinster Rugby Head Coach Leo Cullen said, “The sad departure of Kurt McQuilkin due to family reasons has brought about an opportunity to bring in somebody new to the Leinster Rugby coaching team.
“Stuart brings a wealth of experience and is a highly respected figure in world rugby. We are all looking forward to having Stuart join our team and together helping the players maximise their potential as a group.”
Lancaster joins the Leinster Rugby coaching team as a Senior Coach. We understand Lancaster has a season long contract.
Leinster Rugby CEO Mick Dawson said, “We are always looking at options around resources but once we were made aware of Kurt McQuilkin’s departure, we narrowed our focus and we are delighted that Stuart has agreed to come on board.
“I know, having spoken at length to Stuart, that he is excited by the challenge of getting into club rugby again and the day to day interaction with players. His first session with Leo, Girvan, John and the players will be later on this afternoon.
“We welcome Stuart to the club. I think our supporters are going to be excited by this announcement and we wish him all the very best for the season ahead.”
Lancaster joins head coach Leo Cullen and assistant coaches Girvan Dempsey and John Fogarty.
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Which Student Are You?
By Steve Giles July 16, 2014 Uncategorized
I have spent many a year sat behind a piano observing someone whilst they sing into my face. Within these, what people often call, ‘singing lessons’, I have noticed trends. Trends in student persona and their behaviour. The interesting thing about these trends is the effect they have on the voice and becoming a better singer.
“Really? The the way I act has a relationship with my vocal development?” I hear you ask. Of course it does… and my aim within this article is to expose five of the most common archetypal characters and outline why being one makes you awesome, and why it could also be holding you back.
Please note: I aim not to be sexist by the titles added here. In experience, the sex defined is more likely to be the one carrying those particular traits. Don’t hate me.
Little Miss Disney Fairy
Now don’t get me wrong, the softly spoken, polite, ‘wouldn’t say boo to a goose’ types are lovely. Some would even say ‘cute’, but one
wouldn’t want to condescend. Young girls like to be pretty and they sometimes carry this thought and persona through to later life, whether that’s by buying the latest MAC makeup or speaking like a disney queen. Giggling and excessively apologising are common traits.
It’s cute (there, I said it). This ‘style’ can also work well for certain genres and songs, especially if you like Enya.
We must remember that we use the same voice for speaking and singing. If voice use is approached tentatively, it usually results in less than optimal cord closure and a breathy tone. If we programme our voice to act this way for speaking, this will carry over to singing.
Another small problem is that singing requires a certain level of energy and conviction. That energy and conviction is translated into muscle activation and sufficient airflow support. Without these two fun
damentals, everything can be, well, just a bit lame. Recruiting a bit more ‘oomph’ may not feel comfortable to this usually reserved and unassuming character, but it has to be worth considering to experience change.
Mr Get The Job Done
“You need that fixing? Give me a hammer and some caveman-esque grunting and I’ll have it sorted in a flash”. This approach to life is awesome when you have a broken tap or when that guy cuts you up on the roundabout, but it can often create a barrier when approaching the delicate art of singing. The words “no, I can do this” or “fingers crossed for this top note” often emanate from this human being.
There is nothing better than working with someone who is prepared to get stuck in. In fact, multiple studies show that ‘grit’ or ‘passion and perseverance for long term goals’ is a important trait to have when it comes to achieving goals [1] That and, if we get it right, ‘giving it some welly’ can sometimes help us attain some normally considered out of reach notes.
Unfortunately, contrary to popular belief, volume doesn’t always equal talent. In fact, too much volume (or airflow) will overwhelm the instrument and the singer may have to find unnatural ways to make pitch. Do this for long enough and we will not only be limiting development, but we may also be purchasing a one-way ticket to nodule town. Metaphorically speaking.
The Clinician
Er, hello self review! This one is easy as it comes from experience. Before I sung, I played football. To quite a high standard, which meant that I had logical, linear training pounded into me from a young age. “Do this exercise and you’ll get that result”. “This is the process that will fix that problem”. Clinicians are analytical, calculated and like control.
Jobs often get completed and ability can be attained relatively quickly.
The arts require creativity and a certain level of the ‘unexplained’. Clinicians like to know why and how things happen and this information isn’t always available to a singer, nor is it necessary. This ‘becoming fixated on the small things’ mindset can hold back development. It could be said that the magic in singing is produced when singers truly ‘let go’ (ahem, whatever that means. Lol).
The ‘Muso’
Once upon a time, a man had a dream. A dream to show the world his music. That dream was created by a magical wizard called creativity. Creativity, the wizard, lives in a little town called chaos. The problem with chaos town is that nothing ever gets done. There are lots of people with big dreams (and hallucinogens, probably) but nothing ever gets completed and the town never progresses.
Did my story paint an elegant picture? The point is, a wise man once told me that we need to balance creativity. We need to juggle that, and the chaos that produces it, with some sort of structure in order to achieve success and realise dreams. It’s hard for the two to exist in the same place at the same time. Musos are very creative and therefore love a bit of chaos, but this doesn’t often produce the desired results. Whether it’s a practice regime or taking regular song writing classes: structure and systems helps us get there.
Some of the best ideas are created when we ‘let go’. It could even be argued that the best song writing duos are made from one side creative, one side structure.
There are a lot of broken hearts when dreams aren’t fulfilled and aspirations don’t materialise.
Mr Know-It-All
Some people just know everything. Nope, sorry, what I meant to say is: some people think they know everything, but actually just have some knowledge, experience and confidence. These attributes are fine as long as one or all three don’t spill over into an over inflated self worth. In the singing world, Mr Know-It-Alls have studied every vocal pedagogy, twice. They could of also taught them all, at the same time. If only they weren’t so busy being brilliant.
Arrogance has no pros. Sorry about that.
If a student continues to pay for lessons with a teacher they consistently know more than, it means one of three things:
They need a different/more advanced teaching stimulus
They require a regular ego massage
They are stupid
Either way, the Mr Know-It-All mindset is the same as saying “I am done with learning’. At best, this is a personal limitation. At worst, it’s hideously unattractive. Don’t be that guy.
[1] Duckworth, A.L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M.D., & Kelly, D.R. (2007). “Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals”. Personality Processes and Individual Differences, 92 (6), p. 1087.
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At White House, Kardashian Promotes Prisoner Reentry Effort
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reality star-turned-criminal justice reform advocate Kim Kardashian West returned to the White House on Thursday to help President Donald Trump promote efforts to help those leaving prison get jobs and stay on track.
At an East Room event attended by Cabinet secretaries, activist and formerly incarcerated people, Kardashian West announced the creation of a new ride-sharing partnership that will give former prisoners gift cards to help them get to and from job interviews, work and family events.
"Everyone wants the community to be safe, and the more opportunity we have and that they have and the support that we help give them, the safer everyone will be," said Kardashian West, who became involved with the issue after learning about the case of Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who was serving a life sentence without parole for drug offenses.
Everyone wants the community to be safe
Kardashian West successfully lobbied Trump to grant Johnson clemency and has been studying law under the tutelage of attorneys Jessica Jackson and Erin Haney of the bipartisan criminal justice reform group #cut50 ever since.
Trump pronounced himself a fan of Kardashian West's advocacy, praising her genes and declaring, "I guess she's pretty popular." And he marveled at the passage of the First Step Act, which he signed into law late last year.
A Rare Bipartisan Victory
The bill — a rare bipartisan victory in hyperpartisan Washington— included measures to reduce the sentences of thousands of prisoners and expand job training programs to decrease recidivism rates and relaxed the "three strikes" rule.
More than 1,000 federal inmates have had their sentences reduced thanks to the legislation, according to a recent report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission this month.
The White House has since been working with various companies, advocacy groups and federal agencies to try to give prisoners released early the tools and jobs they need to successfully adjust to life outside prison so they don't wind up behind bars again.
Jackson and Haney praised the legislation and said its effects will make a real difference for former offenders.
"Let's keep this momentum going by making sure those who are coming out of federal prison are given support and empathy as they take the next step in their lives," they said.
Trump has embraced the efforts originally pushed by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner to make changes to the criminal justice system, using them to highlight the low unemployment rate and paint himself as a president focused "on lifting up all Americans." It's a deeply personal issue for Kushner, whose father spent time in federal prison when he was younger.
The Trump Administration and Criminal Justice Reform
In addition to the ride share vouchers — a Lyft spokeswoman later confirmed it was the partner involved — Trump announced several other measures, including stepped-up efforts by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to work with businesses to help line up jobs for those being released and additional funds for states to support companies that hire former inmates. He said his administration hopes to cut the unemployment rate for formerly incarcerated people to single digits within five years.
Now we much make sure that the Americans returning from prison get a true second chance.
"Now we much make sure that the Americans returning from prison get a true second chance," he said.
Also attending the event was Trump's departing press secretary, Sarah Sanders, whose surprise resignation Trump announced by tweet just before it started. Trump invited Sanders up onstage midway through the proceedings and photographers jockeyed to snap photos of Sanders, in addition to Kardashian West.
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Should You Buy a Classic Porsche Instead of Stocks?
A classic Porsche 911 saw its value increase almost eight-fold over the last 13 years.
Bret Kenwell
Updated Jul 13, 2018 3:42 PM EDT
It sounds crazy right?
Most of us are taught that automobiles are depreciating assets. We should always buy used, and new cars lose their value right when they roll off the lot.
There's a lot of truth to that. But one truth often not talked about? Classic cars.
While the following will sound like a search-friendly title on eBay (EBAY - Get Report) , many rare, vintage and classic cars actually appreciate over time rather than depreciate. That's contrary to what many of us are taught about when looking to purchase an automobile.
Of course, we have to take it in context too. We're not talking about plunking down big bucks on a classic Porsche or Mercedes as your daily driver, with the hopes of cashing it in down the road for more than you paid for it.
However, there is value to be found in the category. To show how well these assets can perform, one bank went as far as to create an index for it.
The Classic Car Index (OTX) from Suedwestbank AG keeps tabs on 20 vehicles that are at least 30 years old and are produced by automakers in southern Germany. That's companies like Audi, BMW, Porsche and Mercedes.
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For those wondering how the OTX has done, it's crushed other assets. For instance, from January 2005 to 2018, the index quadrupled, with values rising 300% overall. The German DAX "only" rose about 200% in that period, while the S&P 500 ETF (SPY - Get Report) is up just 121%. That's also better than the Nasdaq Composite, which is up about 220% over the 13-year period.
Ironically, the index has also performed better than the automakers themselves, topping the 77% rally from Daimler (DDAIF) , as well as the rallies from BMW (BMWYY) and Volkswagen (VLKAY) (which owns brands like Audi and Porsche).
So which car performed the best? The classic-classified Porsche 911, which appreciated almost 700% over that 13-year span. That's a bit under Alphabet's (GOOGL - Get Report) (GOOG - Get Report) ~940% rally in the same time frame and easily tops Facebook's (FB - Get Report) 360% performance, although the social media giant only went public in 2012.
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Still, it's worth pointing out that not every car purchase has to be money down the drain. For investors who do opt for some Jay Leno-esque diversification, they may want to consider some other factors of classic car ownership.
For starters, there's maintenance and insurance costs, along with keeping it properly stored. When it comes to stocks, we don't have to worry about storage, while the only fees we usually encounter come from commissions and management/fund fees. Many stocks also pay dividends and unfortunately, our classic cars do not.
But we also can't take our shares of Netflix (NFLX - Get Report) out for a weekend spin and listen to it purr down the road. So there's that to consider, too.
This article is commentary by an independent contributor. At the time of publication, the author had no positions in the stocks mentioned.
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Review: Escape Room
by Alan Grant
article from Thursday 7, February, 2019
YOU KNOW what’s in my PS4 right now? The 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 which, for the uninitiated, is a spick and span top-down renovation of the 1998 PS One classic that takes a masterpiece of a game and mounts it in a lovely new, high-definition, frame for a new generation to marvel at. It’s got chills, great puzzles, engaging and well-developed characters, and a plot that takes camp for the occasional dirty weekend but steers clear of getting married to it and ending up in farce. It is a brilliant, near-perfect, horror experience.
I didn’t get to play Resident Evil 2 on Wednesday night because I had to sit through Escape Room - which tries to borrow from both schlocky horror tropes in properties like the Resident Evil series and the kitschy, inconsistent, but ultimately enjoyable SAW franchise and manages to make something cheap and tawdry out of those pristine, high quality parts.
It’s bad folks, really, really, really, really bad.
What there is of a plot sees a group of six sole survivors of accidents, each with a standard-issue Tragic Backstory™ (dead parents, War vet, reluctant homicide, dead brother, and dead whole family) who are summoned by an unknown tech-savvy organisation (who might as well call themselves the Parasol Corporation) to take part in a series of murderous escape the room puzzles. One by one they get picked off by the traps until our remaining survivors turn the tables, escape, and vow revenge.
There! I just did you a favour because now you don’t have to go see this unwatchable load of dross.
Where to start with this utter train wreck? In addition to the stock character, each of whom is played by an actor who seems to be an impersonator of another actor who is far too famous for this rubbish, each cliched beat of Escape Room is presumably taken from an idea that the makers of Hostel thought was a bit far-fetched. It’s not gory – an addition which might have made it watchable as a spectacle - but there’s still a sense of bored voyeurism to the whole experience; I’m watching it because I can - not because I want to.
The colour palate is lifeless and dull and some of the effects are disorientating to the point that if you suffer from nausea you’ve got another good reason to skip this one. I should clarify that this nausea won’t be caused by whatever is on the screen but more by the lazy, trite, and cheap camera work which occasionally gives the impression of watching the film from the inside of a tumble dryer.
Plus, the director seems to have wanted to catch up on some sleep during their working day and so has let the editor do whatever they want in the last two thirds of the film – resulting in an infuriating open-ended finale and a teaser for a sequel that hopefully won’t, but unfortunately probably will, see the light of day. Add to this the fact that the whole thing revolves around a script that the average hungover first-year media studies student would be ashamed of handing in and you’ll get someway towards understanding just how bad this movie is.
If there’s one saving grace to the whole execrable experience, it’s the soundtrack which manages to hit the right spots and brings some really cool synth pop and techno beats to this empty vessel of film. Each track has clearly been picked with care by a musical director, or other such media pro, to do the best they can with the garbage they’ve got to work with. If anyone should be allowed to escape the creation of Escape Room with their dignity intact it should be them.
I could go on about how none of the character’s motivations make any real sense upon the most basic scrutiny or how any sense of world-building seems to have been borrowed from the CliffsNotes version of some Margaret Atwood fanfiction, I could even point out that giving each person on screen one, and precisely one, character trait makes each one of them unrelatable but there is one overriding objection that I have to the way Escape Room force feeds its mundanity to an audience that has done nothing to deserve it.
The most basic reason that Escape Room doesn’t work is its seeming inability to pick a coherent style and stick with it. To begin with we’re in something trying to be a tense, escape movie, then we’re in some loathsome melodrama before, and this is the real kick to the gut, the whole thing goes a bit Jason Bourne as our remaining characters vow to take down the faceless corporation. Overall, the very worst thing about Escape Room is that it feels as if it has contempt for its audience – begrudgingly giving out poor quality copies of bits of what we like and expecting praise for it.
Oh, and we spend the large majority of the movie in a formulaic flashback – just in case the audience wasn’t disinterested enough.
This is usually the point of the review where lines like, “if you liked that, then you’ll like this” come in but that doesn’t apply here. The SAW franchise is better, the Hostelfranchise is better, and even the worst of video games like Silent Hill or Resident Evil are far in front of anything you could gain from watching Escape Room. If you want something with an ‘escape the room’, ‘unlikely team has to work together’ feel, go check out JIGSAW on Netflix and save yourself the price of the ticket.
In short, the only room that I was happy to see anyone escape from was the movie theatre when the final credits rolled and my fellow patrons and I were able to escape; that bit, I enjoyed.
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The application, built on the platform, has increased customer interactions with the airport, allowed them to track and manage their own flights, and have more control over their airport experience.
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All through the first phase of the project, ThoughtWorks created a continued set of experiences that has had a sustained and positive influence for BIAL. This translated into the first product from the intended bouquet of digital services – the BLR Airport app.
Three assets have gone live, to date - an iOS app, an Android App and a DM service on Twitter, where BIAL’s followers find out about flight statuses through the social channel.
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When looking for places to visit in Mahabaleshwar, this beautiful, small hill station surrounded by the Sahyadri range has a lot to offer. Head to Kas Pathar to see a never-seen-before number of flowers in full bloom or make a quick trip to Bhushan Mahamuni to offer your prayers to Lord Shiva.
You may also get lucky and meet your favorite actors at Table Land or Panchgani, popular shooting spots for Bollywood movies. From natural beauty to places of religious and mythological significance, Mahabaleshwar tourist places have something for everyone. Enter the Rajapuri Caves which is believed to be used by Lord Kartikeya for his rituals or spend time in nature’s lap at Kate’s Point and Parsi Point.
Monsoons are the best time of the year to visit Mahabaleshwar as it this time the lure multiplies. Make sure you carry your rain protection and be ready to be amazed by nature at every turn of the road.
Here are some of the best places to visit in Mahabaleshwar:
01Wilson Point (Sunrise Point)
Stand tall at 4,710 ft above the sea level and mesmerize yourself as you watch the sunrise from the Wilson Point. The rising sun brightens up your life and rejuvenates you for the journey ahead. There are three stone platforms built for tourists to sit and conveniently admire the pristine nature.
The Wilson point, which is also known as the Sunrise point is the highest point in Mahabaleshwar, making it one of the best places to visit in Mahabaleshwar. It is named after Sir Leslie Wilson, who was the Governor of Bombay when the British ruled. This Sunrise point has three watch towers, from where tourists can see the breathtaking scenic beauty of Mahabaleshwar.
Location: Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra 412806
Timings: 6 AM to 7:30 PM
Entry fee: None.
02Mumbai Point (Sunset Point)
The Sunset Point at Mahabaleshwar is known as the Mumbai Point, as it is situated on the old road to Mumbai. Several tourists consider this as one of the must-visit Mahabaleshwar tourist places. Each time the sun sets it paints the sky with varied colors luring its spectators.
Standing atop the hill you see the sun submerge in the valley and vanish. The soothing atmosphere and pleasant weather make this place a perfect spot for rejuvenation. One can plan a picnic with friends and family at this the Mumbai Point, an age-old tourist attraction. The Mumbai Point is open for visitors on all days.
03Arthur's Seat
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Amongst the several places to visit in Mahabaleshwar, one of the most popular is the Arthur's Seat. It is also known as the Queen of the Points or the Madhi Mahaal. The Arthur’s seat is at a height of 1470 m and is located approximately 13 km from the market in Mahabaleshwar. The specialty of this point is that, in case you throw the light weighed thing in the valley, it comes up again due to air pressure.
The Arthur’s seat is situated amidst fascinating panorama, one can admire the Konkan and the Deccan on another. The best time to visit Arthur’s Seat is from the month of October to the month of June. The temperature throughout is moderate, the winters are cool and the summers are moderate.
Location: Satara, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra 412806
Timings: 9 AM to 8 PM
04Mahabaleshwar Temple
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The Mahabaleshwar Temple that is located 6 km to the north of the main city is dedicated to Lord Shiva. This temple is one of the significant pilgrimage sites for the Hindus. It was built in the 16th century and it portrays a typical South Indian architectural style. Attracting thousands of pilgrims, it is among the most famous Mahabaleshwar tourist places.
The temple is very beautifully built, it has stone walls and is divided into two parts, one being the sanctum sanctorum and the other is the central hall. Enclosed by a 5 ft high stone wall, this temple is divided into two areas, the sanctum sanctorum, and the central hall.
The Mahabaleshwar temple also has several mythologies associated to it, like the legend states that the Maratha ruler, Shivaji weighed his mother Jijabai in gold in this temple and then gave away the gold in charity. This temple is also abode to Lord Shiva’s Trishul, Rudraksha, Damru and a bed which is approximately 300 years old.
Location: Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra.
05Babington Point
The Babington Point is one of the very popular places to visit in Mahabaleshwar. If you wish to spend some quiet time, attaining peace and admiring the nature then the Babington Point is the perfect place for you. It is situated an altitude of 1294 m above sea level and is highly fascinating because of the lush green vista and enticing landscapes.
Several tourists are attracted to the rich vegetation on the meandering routes leading to the Babington Point. One can enjoy a pony ride uphill. If you are an adventurer then the route towards the Babington Point makes an awesome trekking trail.
Location: Tapola Rd, Birwadi, Maharashtra 412806
06Kamalgad Fort
The Kamalgad Fort is located approximately ten miles to the west of Wai. It is surrounded by steep rocky area, which is a challenge to tread. The fort is built in a very unusual way, there are no protective walls built around it since the perilous sharp rocks around give enough protection.
There is an 18- 20 ft deep hole, which is a naturally formed well in the rock. All you explorers, hungry to witness the extraordinary, should surely visit the place. For adventurers and thrill seekers this is a perfect destination for trekking and camping.
Location: Nandgane, Maharashtra 412803
Timings: 10 AM - 6 PM
07Chinaman's Falls
The Chinaman’s Falls is approximately 2.5 km away from Mahabaleshwar, towards the south into the Koyana Valley. The falls are named as Chinaman’s Waterfall since the gardens around it were taken care of by the Chinese. Witness the water sparkle like gold and diamonds as sunrays pierce through the falls.
The tranquil environment and the exotic waterfalls and the gardens make it an ideal holiday destination. So, plan a picnic with friends and family at the Chinaman’s Falls. The best time to visit the falls is during the monsoon season. This soothing location makes it one of the perfect places to visit in Mahabaleshwar.
Timings: All day.
08Elephant's Head Point
The Elephant’s Head Point is highly admired and the best place to visit in Mahabaleshwar. The point is called the Elephant’s Head Point because the rock formation here resembles the head of an elephant and its trunk.
One can see the Sahyadri mountain range from here; this magnificent panorama attracts innumerable tourists. Another exciting experience awaiting here is the pony ride. To reach the Elephant’s Head Point from the parking lot one can either walk for a kilometer or cover the distance on a pony.
Location: Satara, Maharashtra 402303
09Velocity Entertainmentz
Velocity Entertainment is located on the Panchgani - Mahabaleshwar road. It is an appealing sight stretched across on 10 acres of land. There are a variety of both indoor and outdoor games, for both children and adults. Enjoy playing indoor games like air hockey, dashing cars and basketball.
Fearless adventurers can take pleasure in the plethora of outdoor games here like go-karting, hanging merry-go-round, zorbing wall, and Italian Drop Tower. Savor the delectable cuisines served at the restaurant here, they proffer a variety of non-alcoholic drinks and desserts. Velocity Entertainment is a very intriguing place to visit in Mahabaleshwar.
Location: Village Bhose, Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar Road, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra 412805
Entry fee: Starts from INR 50
10Wax Museum
The Wax Museum is the most intriguing place to visit in Mahabaleshwar. It is a must visit for not only the art lovers but for all children and adults. The wax museum was established by Bhavesh Bhatia, the owner of Sunrise candles and his wife Neeta.
It showcases sculptures, statutes, showpieces and other items made of wax. It is not just an ordinary museum, on this platform we see that the art, the creativity, and humanity have come together to create masterpieces. When at the Wax Museum do not forget to admire the candles made by the visually challenged children, you can also purchase these candles as a part of the charity.
Location: Moreshwar Village, Mahabaleshwar 412806, India
Timings: 10 AM to 6 PM
Entry fee: INR 200
11Mapro Garden
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One of the most popular Mahabaleshwar tourist places is the Mapro Garden. It is located at Gureghar on Mahabaleshwar-Panchgani road which is approximately 11 km from Mahabaleshwar. This isn’t an ordinary garden; it encompasses attractions that would entice both children and adults like a Chocolate factory, a small nursery and children play area.
There is a restaurant serving mouthwatering refreshments like sandwiches, fruit salads, strawberry shakes, and ice creams. Visitors can also purchase Mapro products like jams, preserves, marmalade, toppings, syrups, and squashes, from the retail outlet here.
Around March/April, the Mapro conducts a fascinating four days, Strawberry Festival. Where they present a variety of strawberry based delicacies like strawberry pizza, strawberry bhel, chocolate dipped strawberries and strawberry sandwiches. This would make an amazing time to visit the Mapro Garden.
Location: 15/1B, Gureghar, Panchgani Mahabaleshwar Road, Mahabaleshwar 412806
12Dhobi Waterfall
Situated approximately 3 km away from the main town of Mahabaleshwar, is the Dhobi waterfall. A waterfall has always been a very alluring spot for all the fun seekers and picnic goers. Straight from the hills this water falls into the valley and mixes with Koyna River which is a tributary of the Krishna River.
Beat the boredom by spending a day amidst the greenery and the waterfall which make it one of the perfect places to visit in Mahabaleshwar. So when in Mahabaleshwar, a visit to the Dhobi waterfall should have a vital position in your bucket list.
Location: Mahabaleshwar.
13Table Land
Standing at 4,550 feet above sea level, Table Land is the highest point in Panchgani. It is also the second largest volcanic mountain plateau in Asia after the Tibetan plateau. This is a favourite location for film shootings making it one of the most popular places to visit in Mahabaleshwar.
If you are lucky, you can also meet your favourite actors here. Table Land also has a mythological significance as it is believed that the Pandavas stayed here during their exile, and their footprint has been preserved.
Location: Godavali, Panchgami, Mahabaleshwar.
14Falkland Point
Situated in close proximity of the Carnac point and the Bombay point, is the Falkland Point. The Falkland point is named after Sir Falkland, who served as the Governor of Bombay Presidency during the colonial era. What adds to its spectacular scenic beauty are the light woods around this point.
One can stand at the Falkland point and admire the splendid exquisiteness of the Koyna valley and the Makarandgadh. The spellbinding environment makes it a perfect location for a day outing with family and friends. For all the photographers, this place is a heart-soothing experience, so come here and trap the wild in your memory.
15Venna Lake
Do not forget to visit one of the most famous Mahabaleshwar tourist places, Veena Lake. It is a manmade lake built in the year 1942 by Shri Appasaheb Maharaj, who was a descendant of Shivaji Maharaj. The Veena Lake stretches across 7-8 Km and is surrounded by green vegetation, adding to its beauty. This lake is a place of pilgrimage and also has the Pratapsihn Garden on its banks.
One can indulge in several fun-filled activities when at the Veena Lake. Come with family and friends and enjoy sailing in the Row and Peddle boats here. Also, let your children take pleasure in activities like horse riding, fun fair games and merry go round.
There are restaurants just a Kilometre away, to suffice your hunger pangs. Munch on the finger licking corn and strawberries, while taking a stroll around the lake.
Location: Satara, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, 412806
16Helen's Point
Situated in the vicinity of the main market in Mahabaleshwar, Helen's Point is a wonderful spot packed with eye-catching landscapes. It is also called the Blue Valley. Helen’s point is a superb point offering delightful vistas, which attract innumerable sightseers and also the local people.
The marvelous perspective of thick green fields, humble cabins, and falling waterfalls is totally hypnotizing. One can likewise witness the undulating Krishna Waterway as it goes through little fields. Neighboring Helen's Point is some other huge destinations, for example, Burglars Caverns, Northcote Point, and Gavalani Point.
Location: Mahabaleshwar, Satara, 412806
Timings: Sunrise to sunset.
17Rajapuri Caves
If looking for religious places to visit in Mahabaleshwar, Rajapuri Caves should be on your list. It is believed that these caves were used by Lord Kartikeya for his religious rituals and penance. Legend has it that these caves were also the resting place of the Pandavas during their long journey in exile.
Rajapuri caves are surrounded by a number of ponds (kunds) and visitors believe that taking a bath in these ponds will relieve them of their sins and diseases. The Lord Kartikeya temple is a major tourist.
Location: Panchgani, Satara, Mahabaleshwar
Timings: 6 am to 6 pm.
18Carnac Point
The Carnac point is the perfect place for all nature lovers and honeymooners. Its splendid landscape will awestruck you and your partner, enhancing the romance. One can also admire the multi-hued sunset from the Babington point which is just in the forefront.
For all you photographers, wanting to freeze the wilderness of nature in a photograph, this a perfect place to click. The Carnac point was named after Sir James Rivett Carnac, the Governor of the Bombay Presidency, during the British Raj, as a tribute to his love for nature.
Location: Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar.
19Elphinstone Point
The Elphinstone Point was found by Dr. Murray in the year 1830. It is one of the most elevated focuses in Mahabaleshwar. The Elphinstone Point was named after Mountstuart Elphinstone, who was then the Legislative leader of Bombay Administration. The magnificent surroundings enhance the beauty of Elphinstone Point.
When at the point, one can get lost in admiring the spectacular sight of the Pratapgarh Stronghold, the Koyna Valley and adjacent fields. One can likewise respect the gorge, which lies between Elphinstone Point and Arthur's Seat Point. This spot is known as the origin of the Savitri Stream.
Location: Elphinstone Point, Mahabaleshwar, Satara, Maharashtra, 402303
20Parsi Point
Surrounded by lush green mountains, Parsi Point is an ideal choice when looking for serene places to visit in Mahabaleshwar. Overlooking the Krishna valley and the Dhom dam, the place gets its name due to its popularity with the Parsi community.
Located at the entry to Panchgani while coming from Mahabaleshwar, make sure to stop here for a scenic view of the entire valley below. A large play area for children and camel rides make it popular with tourists. You can also hire telescopes for a better viewing experience.
Location: Ganeshpeth, Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar
21Connaught Peak
Situated at a height of 1400 meters, Connaught Crest is the second most noteworthy top in Mahabaleshwar. Earlier known as Mount Olympia, it was renamed as the Connaught Crest after the Duke of Connaught went to this spot and began to look all starry eyed at its fabulous magnificence.
This prominent vantage point offers a view of the beautiful Krishna valley and Veena Lake from this spot. What glorifies this point the most is the spectacular sight of Kamalgad, Torana, Pratapgarh, Rajgarh and Ajinkyatara. Other than being renowned among nature darlings, this spot is prominent and appropriate for trekking.
Location: Connaught Peak Rd, Maharashtra 412806
22Pratapgad Fort
Being built by Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Pratapgad Fort holds supreme historical importance. It is situated approximately 24 Km away from Mahabaleshwar. There is also a Bhavani Temple and Afzal Khan's Tomb situated near the fort. Several significant events from the past have taken place at this Fort.
The fort oversees the coast of Konkan. It is said that Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaja was bestowed with a shining sword at the temple of Goddess Bhavani near the Pratapgad Fort. Another noteworthy incident that occurred here was the battle between Chhatrapati Shivaji and Afzal Khan, the commander of the Bijapur Sultanate fought here.
Location: Poladpur Mahabaleshwar Road, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra 412806
23Tapola
Called the ‘Mini Kashmir’ of the west, Tapola is a small hamlet, popular for the gorgeous Shivsagar lake. Go for kayaking, motorboat rides, water scooter rides and swimming in the lake. Wait till sunset for the most memorable view of your life.
Adventure seekers can also trek through dense Tapola forests. When here, do not miss the local strawberry fields. Walk through the farms, handpick fresh strawberries and make sure you bring some back home. If planned in advance, you can even stay with one of the local families.
Location: Satara, Mahabaleshwar.
Entry fee: INR 750 (for 45 minutes), INR 1400 (for 1.5 hours)
24Marjorie Point
When the British ruled, Mahabaleshwar was utilized as a spring retreat. Hence, the superior Englishmen found numerous excursion spots here and named it after themselves. Marjorie point is one such site whose panorama encompasses the gigantic Sahyadri ranges.
It lies at a height of 1290 m and is located on the route that goes towards Arthur's point from Mahabaleshwar. 500 M below this point lays the lush green Konkan valley, which is a sight for the eyes. To appreciate the dim nature at its full magnificence, sightseers visit this as an excursion spot.
Location: Way to Authur_s Seat, Mahabaleshwar.
Timings: 6:30 AM to 7 PM
25Lodwick Point
If you ask the locals, they still call it Sydney Point. Lodwick Point got its new name from General Lodwick, the first British Army officer to reach this point. His son erected a memorial pole with the head of the General sculpted in marble.
With breath-taking views of the Elphinstone Point and the Pratapgad Fort, this is one of the busiest Mahabaleshwar tourist places. Head down a little further to visit Elephant’s Head Point where the extended front part of the hill resembles an elephant’s head, giving the spot its name.
Location: Lodwick Trail, Haroshi, Satara, Mahabaleshwar
26Panch Ganga Temple
The Panchganga Temple has a paramount spiritual significance. It holds a very prominent position, being based on the merging point of the five rivers, Krishna, Veena, Savitri, Koyna and Gayatri. Innumerable devotes visit the temple throughout the year. The Panch Ganga Temple is blessed with a wonderfully carved Gurmukhi, from where the five rivers flow. It was constructed by Raja Singha Deo who was the ruler of the Yadavs of Devagiri.
Another major attraction here is multi-colored handicrafts that can be purchased as souvenirs from the shops near the Temple. If you are intrigued by history and are also looking forward to attain peace then the Panchganga Temple is a perfect destination.
Location: Old Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra 412806
Timings: 5:00 AM to 12 PM & 4 PM to 9 PM
27Lingmala Waterfall
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The Lingmala Waterfall falls approximately at a distance of 6 km from Mahabaleshwar. It is easily accessible through the Mahabaleshwar- Pune road. The perfect time to enjoy a holiday at the Lingmala falls is from July to December. During the monsoon season, the water from the Lingmala waterfall merges with the Veena Lake.
The beauty of this Waterfall lures a thousand visitors every year, both local folks as well as tourists. It is in close proximity of the majestic Dhobi Waterfall and Chinaman’s waterfall. It is a perfect spot for admirers of nature and photographers.
Location: Panchgani - Mahabaleshwar Rd, Maharashtra 412806
28Krishnabai Temple
The Krishnabai Temple is an age-old temple of Lord Krishna. It is situated on a hill, overlooking the valley in Mahabaleshwar. The mesmerising landscape here attracts several tourist. The Shivalingam and a beautiful statue of goddess Krishna is the main attraction of the temple.
The architecture of the temple is very old and is in ruins, as the Krishnabai temple is believed to be from the Pandav Era. There are fascinating carvings here, which are very alluring but are fading in time. Visit the temple and meditate in its pristine environment.
29Moraji Castle
When in Mahabaleshwar do not forget to admire the spectacular architecture of the Moraji castle, that reflects the British style. The Moraji castle has a historical significance because according to the legend Mahatma Gandhi had chosen to rest here for a while during his expedition to liberate the Nation.
One can find several colonial time infrastructures around the castle, which makes the entire area even more appealing. Adventure lovers can trek through the hilly terrain and alluring vistas here. A road trip to the castle is also very enticing due to the elegant and natural surroundings.
Location: Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, 412806
Timings: 10 AM to 6:30 PM
30Kas Pathar
Also called Kas Plateau, Kas Pathar is a nature lover’s delight. Declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, Kas Pathar is the ideal place for flower lovers. Home to more than 850 species of flowering plants, come here in monsoons to see them in full bloom.
Get to see the beauty of butterflies as a bonus. Make an advanced booking as only 3000 visitors are allowed here each day (750 people every 3 hours).
Location: Satara, Mahabaleshwar
Timings: 7 am to 7 pm (in batches every 3 hours).
Entry fee: INR 100. There is no entry fee for children below 12 years of age and senior citizens (above 65 years).
31Bhushan Mahamuni
Also known as the Shri Kshetra, Bhushan Mahamuni is dedicated to Lord Shiva. It stands at the base of Swayambhu Shivling that is the meeting point of five prominent reservoirs – Krishna, Koyna, Venna, Gayatri and Savitri.
When coming here, you can also visit the Aati Baleshwar temple, also dedicated to Lord Shiva, and the Panchganga Temple, built at the convergence of the five rivers and believed to be 4500 years old. The golden idol of Lord Shiva in Bhushan Mahamuni is a sight to behold and attracts large numbers during the festival of Shivaratri.
Location: Old Mahabaleshwar
Timings: 6 am to 10 pm
32Panchgani
Surrounded by the five hills of the Sahyadri mountain range, Panchgani was established as a summer resort and retirement home for British officers during the British Raj. Today it is one of the most popular hill stations in the country.
Popular as a shooting location, Panchgani has been featured in popular movies like Taare Zameen Par and Raja Hindustani. It is also known as an education centre, Freddie Mercury and Kajol amongst its former students. Panchagani is famous for its strawberry farms and is home to jam developers, Mala. Make sure you don’t miss the annual strawberry festival.
33On Wheelz
When travelling with kids, this amusement park should definitely be one of the places to visit in Mahabaleshwar. Complete with rides, indoor games, horror house and an in-house restaurant, On Wheelz is an attraction for all age groups.
Take your children on the baby train and a small giant wheel. If you like something a little more adventurous, go for bungee jumping and then enter the haunted house.
Location: Survey No. 7, Taighat, near Sanjeevan High School, Panchgani, Satara, Mahabaleshwar.
Timings: 10 am to 7 pm (weekdays), 10 am to 9 pm (weekends).
Entry Fee: INR 450 for adults and INR 350 for children (unlimited package).
34Kate's Point
Originally known as Nake Khind, Kate’s Point was named after the daughter of the then British governor Sir John Malcolm. Close to Lodwick Point and Elephant’s Head Point, Kate’s Point is situated at an altitude of 1290 m.
Amongst the popular Mahabaleshwar tourist places, this point is ideal for a view of the Dhom dam, peaks of Kamalgadh, Pandavgadh and Manadardeo, and the Sahyadri range. Move a little further and reach the Echo Point. As the name suggests, shout into the valley to hear your own echo. Strawberry farms are also major tourist attractions.
Location: Radha Nagar, Khadakpada, Kalyan, Mahabaleshwar
Entry fee: INR 10
35Bhilar Waterfall
Mahabaleshwar houses a number of splendid waterfalls hiding deep in dense forests, Bhilar Waterfall is one of them. Though not much explored and not popular among tourists, this waterfall on the Kudali River is scenic nonetheless and qualifies for one of the finest places to visit near Mahabaleshwar.
The quiet atmosphere with not much visitors around only increases the charm of the place. The region around the waterfall has numerous peaceful and picturesque picnic spots with lush vegetation to keep you company. And if you are in the mood for some adventure, you can indulge in rappelling here or find some trekking trails nearby.
Location: Mahabaleshwar – Panchgani Road
Timings: Always Open
Entry Fee: Free Entry
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Apple and Google are both terrible in their own ways. But while one has the upper hand when it comes to marketing privacy, that won’t help it win this war.
As you may recall, Google CEO Sundar Pichai made a big push for privacy and trust during his Google I/O keynote address earlier this month. But on the eve of that address, Pichai also wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in a bid to reach a wider audience. It’s worth reading, and it hits on a topic I’ve raised repeatedly: While people probably believe that the notion of “trusting Google” is inherently ludicrous, most people, in fact, do trust Google. They don’t just use Google apps and services like Maps, Gmail, Photos, and Search. They rely on them.
But there’s a dark side to Google, of course, and we’ve all experienced it. You and your spouse, or a friend, or whomever, are discussing some random topic out loud, in private or in public, and that thing you’re discussing magically begins appearing in ads you view online or on your phone. Most people, having observed this phenomenon, remark on the creepiness of it. And then go right back to using the same Google apps and services they’ve always used without even once considering investigating what they can do to stem the invisible tracking in which Google engages to make this happen.
There’s a psychology to this behavior, a reason why we collectively do nothing to help ourselves when it comes to privacy. But that can wait for a later day: For now, let’s examine the interesting and passive-aggressive ways in which Google and Apple are engaging in a war of words. Without really addressing the other company while they argue.
(Microsoft used to do with Apple back when Steve Jobs had returned to the company and was turning that business around; the theory was that you never named the enemy because doing so would only give it the attention it wanted.)
The title of Pichai’s op-ed piece provides our first hint that Google’s new marketing of trust and privacy is really about Apple, and about stealing away Apple’s moral superiority: “Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good.”
“Privacy cannot be a luxury good offered only to people who can afford to buy premium products and services,” he writes. “Privacy must be equally available to everyone in the world.”
Those comments clearly allude to Apple. Less obviously, they vaguely address the different business models employed by the two companies.
That is, Apple is essentially marketing the fact that your purchase of expensive devices will provide you with Apple’s privacy protections. It’s like Mercedes or Volvo marketing the advanced safety features in their vehicles, features which are not yet available to the sweaty masses driving Fords, Toyotas, and Hyundais.
Google, meanwhile, understands that not everyone can afford an iPhone or the tsunami of services that Apple for which is now charging its audience. So, it offers a different model where its customers implicitly give up a bit of their privacy in order to access services for free. Those advanced safety features, after all, eventually do make their way from the luxury car market to more pedestrian vehicles that cost a lot less. Even better, Apple’s over-emphasis on privacy means that its own offerings can’t be as sophisticated as Google’s because Apple just doesn’t know as much about its users. Think about the differences between Apple’s dimwitted Siri and Google’s all-powerful Assistant.
These different business models are well understood, but Google also knows that it needs to shift the balance between customers and advertisers to be a bit more customer-friendly in order to escape the wrath of antitrust regulators. So, part of this month’s push in the NYT and at Google I/O was feeling out how many controls it can offer consumers without usurping its business model.
What’s perhaps more interesting is that Apple has responded to Pichai’s charges.
“Privacy considerations are at the beginning of the process, not the end,” Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi told The Independent in a recent interview. “When we talk about building the product, among the first questions that come out is: how are we going to manage this customer data?”
Federighi describes the differences between Apple’s model and Google’s in both business and moral terms.
“We have no interest in learning all about you … we think your device should personalize itself to you,” he said. “But that’s in your control that’s not about Apple learning about you, we have no incentive to do it. And morally, we have no desire to do it. And that’s fundamentally a different position than I think many, many other companies are in.”
And there it is.
In the same way that Google’s Pichai mentioned Apple without actually mentioning Apple, Apple’s Federighi mentioned Google without actually doing so.
(Yes, he could be alluding to other privacy disasters like Facebook as well. But while Apple may institutionally dislike Facebook, it doesn’t compete directly with the social network.)
The word “privacy” appears over 50 times in the Independent interview. And when the publication formally asked Federighi about the Pichai dig, he responded directly as well.
“I don’t buy into the luxury good dig,” he said. “On the one hand, it’s gratifying that other companies in this space seem to be making a lot of positive noises about caring about privacy. I think it’s a deeper issue than what a couple of months and a couple of press releases would make. I think you’ve got to look fundamentally at company cultures and values and business model. And those don’t change overnight.”
On the face of things, those are fair charges. As I noted above, Google’s business model is predicated on violating user privacy as much as possible to feed its vast advertising empire. But Apple’s business model, to date, has been about fleecing its best customers on an ongoing basis by driving ever-more-expensive hardware upgrades on an annual or biennial basis. Now that that model is faltering, however, the firm is turning to services to make up the difference. Paid services.
“We certainly seek to both set a great example for the world to show what’s possible, to raise people’s expectations about what they should expect of products, whether they get them from us or from other people,” he says, somewhat addressing the fact that Apple’s hardware products are very, very expensive. “And of course, we love, ultimately, to sell Apple products to everyone we possibly could – certainly not just a luxury.”
We don’t have to do too much research here to understand that Apple only plays in the premium space of each market in which it competes. It’s cheapest new iPhone is half again as expensive as Google’s, for example.
“We think a great product experience is something everyone should have,” he says. “So, we aspire to develop those.”
The non-one-percenters in the audience will have to wait for Apple’s aspirations to bear fruit in the low-end of the market. But I recommend not holding your breath.
Back to privacy, Federighi also addresses criticisms that Apple’s products and services cannot be as good as Google’s because the firm is so hands-off with user data.
“We’re pretty proud that we are able to deliver the best experiences, we think in the industry, without creating this false trade-off that to get a good experience, you need to give up your privacy,” he said. “And so we challenge ourselves to do that sometimes that’s extra work. But that’s worth it. It’s a fun problem to solve.”
Regardless of the platitudes, Apple is absolutely at a disadvantage compared to Google and other firms when it comes to the sophistication of its offerings. But Apple’s marketing message is a good one, and it is smart to market privacy and wield it as a weapon against its competitors. The success of Apple Health, for example, rides in part on the belief of its users that Apple will protect their most private of private data.
That said, I can’t help but think that many buy an iPhone or another Apple device in part because of the firm’s privacy stance and then just use it with Google services, oblivious to the hypocrisy. Apple won’t prevent that, can’t prevent that, but that won’t stop the firm from claiming the moral high ground.
“Fundamentally, we view the centralization of personalized information as a threat, whether it’s in Apple’s hands or anyone else’s hands,” he continued. “We don’t think that security alone in the server world is an adequate protection for privacy over the long haul. And so the way to manage to ultimately defend user privacy is to make sure that you’ve never collected and centralized the data in the first place. And so, we every place we possibly can we build that into our architectures from the outset.”
What I keep coming back to as I consider these differing viewpoints is that Apple’s model feels aspirational but impossible, that there is an inevitable brick wall that occurs when you refuse to mine user data, even with their consent. Meanwhile, Google’s model is terrible and troubling and yet highly effective. When I’m driving between, say, Philadelphia and Boston and Google Maps alerts me to a speed trap or redirects me to a side-road to avoid an accident and the resulting slowdown, I feel pretty good about that relationship. And this will work regardless of which type of phone I choose. Which, ultimately, is the problem for Apple.
Put another way, I like Apple’s message. But I choose Google’s products and services. Because getting the thing done as efficiently as possible outweighs the platitudes. No matter what I think of Google and its business practices.
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Record jumps in hospital and clinic attendances
Polyclinic attendance rose by 8 per cent over 2015 - eclipsing the annual increases of 0.2 per cent to 4.9 per cent since 2007.PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES
SALMA KHALIK, THE STRAITS TIMES
People here are either getting sick more often, possibly due to an ageing population, or seeking medical help more readily thanks to new government subsidies, given the record jumps in hospital and clinic attendances last year.
Hospital admissions increased by a record 9 per cent last year compared with 2015. It is more than double the annual increases of up to 4 per cent in the past decade.
Similarly, polyclinic attendance rose by 8 per cent over 2015 - eclipsing the annual increases of 0.2 per cent to 4.9 per cent since 2007.
Attendance at specialist outpatient clinics at public hospitals also spiked 5 per cent - the highest annual increase in a decade.
While hospital admissions rose in both the public and private sectors, the make-up of their patients is different - two in three admitted to private hospitals were aged 15 to 64, while only half of those in public hospitals were in this working age group.
The 8 per cent spike in patient visits at polyclinics saw the number of such visits hitting 5.3 million - almost 400,000 more than in 2015.
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This is in spite of the Community Health Assist Scheme (Chas) subsidy that about half the population is entitled to when treated at a general practice (GP) clinic.
More than 2.5 million patient visits last year, compared with 1.3 million in 2014, were made to GP clinics with subsidy from Chas or with the Pioneer Generation subsidy that 450,000 seniors enjoy.
Increasing numbers of patients with chronic conditions who qualify for the Chas subsidy are also turning to GP clinics.
They made 675,000 visits to GP clinics last year, compared with 377,000 in 2015.
Between Chas and the polyclinics, the Government subsidised 7.8 million primary care consultations last year.
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Feb 27 Sounwave Explains Selecting Artists For 'Black Panther: The Album'
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(AllHipHop News) The official soundtrack for the Black Panther film is packed with Hip Hop and R&B stars. Grammy-winner Kendrick Lamar oversaw the LP, and he helped recruit SZA, The Weeknd, Jay Rock, Future, Schoolboy Q, James Blake, Khalid, Swae Lee, Travis Scott, Vince Staples, and more for the Top Dawg Entertainment release.
TDE in-house hitmaker Mark "Sounwave" Spears produced several tracks for the project. The Digi+Phonics production team member talked about helping to select the acts that contributed to Black Panther: The Album.
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3 Steps to Protecting Food Stamps From a Cruel Congress
Michele Simon, Guest Writer MicheleRSimon
Fifth World Art/CC BY 2.0
As expected, the House version of the 2012 farm bill contains deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called food stamps). With its $16 billion proposed cut in this critical safety net, the House leadership is about three times as cruel as the Senate, which already approved a $4.5 billion reduction over 10 years. If the House gets its way, two-three million Americans could go hungry. In addition, 280,000 kids could get kicked off the school meal program because their families’ eligibility is tied to SNAP. And speaking of kids, almost half of all SNAP participants are children.
Of course it doesn’t have to be this way. Congress has plenty of options for saving money, it’s just easier to reduce the deficit on the backs of poor people. The Environmental Working Group summed it up succinctly: “the bill would give unlimited taxpayer dollars to farmers who are already enjoying record profits and less support to hungry kids who depend on federal assistance.”
While many groups (and politicians) are organizing to try and stop the bleeding, they are missing several key talking points and strategies that could help save the program. Here are just three ideas, which stem from the recommendations in my recent report, Food Stamps, Follow the Money: Are Corporations Profiting from Hungry Americans? As a bonus, each offers a bi-partisan approach to increasing accountability in what has become a massive government program vulnerable to criticism.
Increase transparency. Currently, we know very little about where more than $70 billion a year in taxpayer money is going. The federal government does not require collection of data on how much SNAP money is spent, for example, on soda versus milk, or cookies versus carrots. As I learned from the media coverage of my report, this is a huge concern of folks across the political spectrum. (See for example, this article in the conservative Washington Times.) While some advocates fear that making such data public will only lead to more criticism, the current policy of secrecy is not doing the program much good either. (See Raj Patel’s post, “We Know More About Who Makes Our Bombs than Who Feeds Our Kids.”) Moreover, we need such data to properly evaluate the program, make improvements, and ferret out all the alleged “waste, fraud, and abuse."
Allow states to experiment. It’s abundantly clear that many Americans (also regardless of political affiliation) are unhappy with current policy that allows SNAP participants to purchase junk food. See for example, the comments on this San Francisco Chronicle cover story. (While it’s painful to read some of the harsher comments, we cannot ignore this backlash.) One way to fix this problem is for the feds to let states with worthy proposals evaluate different approaches to SNAP purchase policy, such as not allowing soft drinks and other unhealthy products. Given that nine states have attempted to pass bills to try to improve SNAP, (all failed thanks to a combined lobbying effort by the food industry and anti-hunger groups, which also stopped New York City's high-profile attempt) why not give the idea a chance?
Starve banks, not children. As my research found, large banks and other financial institutions play a middleman role in SNAP by contracting with states to administer funds via EBT (electronic benefits transfer) and approve retail transactions. For example, JPMorgan Chase currently has contracts in half the states, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. (Again, there is no national accounting so it could be more.) These funds are paid for by both federal and state taxpayer dollars. So how about it, Congress, before taking food out of hungry children’s mouths, maybe you could ask JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon if he wouldn’t mind shaving a little off of his profits instead?
Last December, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed the FRESH Act, which would have accomplished (among other policies) numbers 1 and 2 above. Perhaps during the bill mark-up and floor debate, some brave House member will bring those ideas back into the conversation. Increasing transparency and making improvements to SNAP can only strengthen the program and maybe even reduce the cruelest cuts. It’s worth a shot.
As expected, the House version of the 2012 farm bill contains deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. With its $16 billion proposed cut in this critical safety net, the House leadership is about three times as cruel as the Senate.
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Firefighter mourned as details emerge on injuries suffered battling Mendocino Complex
A firefighter from Utah was killed last week from falling tree debris after a modified airliner dropped thousands of gallons of flame-suppressing liquid on the area where he was helping battle California's largest-ever wildfire.
Firefighter mourned as details emerge on injuries suffered battling Mendocino Complex A firefighter from Utah was killed last week from falling tree debris after a modified airliner dropped thousands of gallons of flame-suppressing liquid on the area where he was helping battle California's largest-ever wildfire. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2018/08/20/firefighter-mourned-details-emerge-death/1049009002/
Don Thompson and Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press Published 7:55 p.m. PT Aug. 20, 2018
The honor guard stands at attention in front the casket of Battalion Chief Matt Burchett of the Draper Fire Department during funeral services Monday in West Valley City, Utah. Burchett died Aug. 13 from falling tree debris after a load of fire retardant was dropped on the area where he was working.(Photo: AP PHOTO)
SACRAMENTO - A firefighter from Utah was killed last week from falling tree debris after a modified airliner dropped thousands of gallons of flame-suppressing liquid on the area where he was helping battle California's largest-ever wildfire, according to a preliminary report from investigators obtained by The Associated Press.
Battalion Chief Matthew Burchett was struck by debris on Aug. 13 at the Mendocino Complex Fire, according to the report by California fire officials, while three other firefighters received minor injuries.
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Services for the 42-year-old suburban Salt Lake City firefighter were held Monday in Utah. Burchett's 7-year-old son, Griffin, carried his father's helmet underneath his arm as he entered the funeral.
The two-paragraph investigative summary calls for immediate changes, saying firefighters must keep out of areas with overhead hazards when planes are dropping flame retardant. California's firefighting agency said firefighters already are trained to do that and could not say what went wrong, citing an ongoing investigation.
Burchett was one of Utah's most knowledgeable wildland firefighters and was careful about his surroundings, said Ryan Love, a spokesman for the Unified Fire Authority that covers most Salt Lake City suburbs.
"This was not a lack of knowledge by any means," Love said. "It sounds like a pure accident."
Burchett had been a firefighter since high school graduation and thrived in the tough conditions: sleeping on the ground, eating crew members' rations and working to protect people, his family and friends said.
Firefighters carry the casket of Battalion Chief Matt Burchett of the Draper Fire Department into the Maverik Center during funeral services Monday in West Valley City, Utah. Burchett died while fighting a wildfire north of San Francisco. He was flown to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. (Photo: AP PHOTO)
They described him as a sharp, hardworking leader with an infectious grin and unassuming manner who had recovered from a stroke in 2015.
His brother and fellow firefighter Dominic Burchett said he died a hero doing what he loved. He had an uncanny ability to "'weasel' his way into extra work where the action was," his brother said with a smile.
Cliff Allen, president of the union representing California's wildland firefighters, said fire supervisors should have made sure firefighters were well clear of the drop zone or that their positions were clearly marked for the pilot of the modified airliner dropping the liquid — in this case, either a modified DC-10 or a 747 — and for the pilot of the planes that guide the huge aircraft.
There could have been a radio miscommunication or the crew may not have heard or chose to ignore the radio warning, he said. Allen cautioned that it's not clear from the preliminary report whether the tree was weakened from the fire or from the drop or if the firefighters were hit by fire retardant slurry, which is a mixture of water, fertilizer and red dye.
"Anytime you're working in trees, you have trees that are fire-weakened, then strong winds or water or retardant drops could potentially cause them to fall and possibly injure folks," Allen said. "It's often referred to as 'widow makers.'"
He and other state fire spokesmen did not disclose the type of aircraft was involved in Burchett's death.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection at times uses modified DC-10s that can drop 12,000 gallons (45,424 liters) of slurry, 12 times the amount carried by its standard smaller air tanker. It can lay a swath of fire retardant as wide as a football field for as long as a mile.
Cal Fire says the modified 747 can drop 24,000 gallons, double that of the DC-10. It uses a system that can release the slurry under pressure or as gently as falling rain from an altitude as low as 400 feet (122 meters).
Firefighters who can't get out of the way are trained to lie face down toward the oncoming aircraft, helmet on, chinstrap secured, one hand holding the top of the helmet as it takes the brunt of the impact, Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean said.
The firefighter's legs should be spread to provide stability, because the force of the falling slurry and the air turbulence can otherwise lift a firefighter off the ground.
"If you're in that particular area and you can't leave, you want to get to a safe position," McLean said.
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Social Science Research Methods for a World Where Black Lives Matter
The week of March 23-30, 2016 saw an exciting convergence of dialogues and debates across UMass and the Five Colleges, centering on the histories, implications and legacies of Black liberation struggles. The many events sponsored by diverse centers and departments offered and an opportunity to raise the level of our campus’ thought and action in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) was pleased to collaborate with the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program (PPVP) to open and close the week’s events with two important conversations exploring how methodological innovation in social science can, and does, offer scholars committed to racial justice a range of pathways for advancing the cause.
On March 23, over 70 people packed the Campus Center’s Hadley Room to launch the week’s discussions, with Prof. Dean Robinson (Political Science / UMass Amherst) moderating a panel on the use of social science research methods to push the boundaries of knowledge on race and power. Prof. Dawn Dow (Sociology /Syracuse University) led with a powerful ethnographic account of how Black middle and upper middle class mothers in the Bay Area confront the “visibility and vulnerability” of their sons. She described how her research was “book-ended by the shooting deaths of Oscar Grant in 2009 and Trayvon Martin in 2012“ and how these events influenced mothers concerns for their sons’ safety. In her presentation, Dow underscored how an “empathy gap” that minimizes the perceived suffering and exaggerates the perceived threat of Black and brown bodies shaped Black middle class mothers strategies and aligned them with the so-called “Black Male Code.” These strategies included managing the experiences, environments, emotions and physical appearance of their sons to help their sons confront and navigate gendered racism- discrimination based on their racial identity and gender- in the broader society.
Prof. Fredrick Harris (Political Science / Columbia University) called for social science to restore a lost focus on the structural drivers of implicit racism – drawing on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s concept of “racism without racists” to urge a methodological shift from the behavioralist to the institutional. He pointed out that negative white racial attitudes against people of color alone can’t account for the persistence of racial inequality, decades after the civil rights reforms of the 1960s. Harris argues that more attention should be placed on hidden institutional rules and practices that are on surface race neutral but produce racially imbalance outcomes. Harris suggested that social science could offer “institutional stress tests” (analogous to the financial stress tests that model a financial instrument or institution’s likely effects) to model and help decisionmakers predict the mechanisms by which racial injustices might arise (or be prevented) by any proposed policy.
In her remarks, Prof. Linda Tropp (Psychological and Brain Sciences / UMass Amherst) showed how a social psychological perspective can enhance our understanding of the ways in which structural forces shape individuals’ perceptions, attitudes and behaviors. Her research, based on meta-analyses and original studies, shows how the prejudice-reducing effects of contact vary among historically advantaged and disadvantaged group members, such that they are typically stronger among Whites than among Blacks. In studies of relations between Blacks and Whites in South Africa and the U.S., she demonstrates that Black respondents report greater racial closeness when they perceive less racial discrimination, and they report greater interest in contact with Whites the more they perceive that Whites value diversity. Moreover, although greater interracial contact tends to predict greater support for collective action to promote racial justice among Whites, such contact has the potential to diminish such support for collective action among Blacks. These effects illustrate the importance of examining divergent perspectives on interracial relations, and to identify pathways through which both Blacks and Whites may engage in actions to promote racial justice.
While the audience raised methodological questions (for example, about the absence of attention to the experiences of Black women, who are the recognized leaders of Black liberation struggles), discussion centered largely on practical and political concerns. What does the research say mothers should be telling their sons? What will sustain the Black resistance struggle and maintain pressure on white supremacist institutions? How can scholars translate their methodological innovations and findings into wider policy and cultural impacts? For these and other questions, the group noted that scholars can shape the national agenda in a number of ways: by demanding the collection of data that are not systematically collected at the present time (such as on racial patterns in police violence), by publicizing solid science findings that speak “truth to power,” by identifying mechanisms that thwart policy intentions, and other measures that act synergistically to support justice, reconciliation, and awareness of the implicit biases that haunt or our institutions today.
The discussions illustrated the need for more such conversation on this and other University campuses, and provided a powerful launch to the week’s ensuing events. On March 28, almost one week after this opening call for research “Affirming Black Lives Matter,” ISSR, PPVP, the Public Engagement Project and the GEO Black Caucus convened some 25 scholars at Bartlett Hall to share reflections from the week’s events, and to collectively brainstorm ideas for how UMass and area colleges could sustain and deepen actions to advance racial justice. Doctoral students Armanthia Duncan and Tiamba Wilkerson and Prof. Sancha Medwinter (Sociology / UMass Amherst) framed and led this participatory dialogue to ask “How do we Heed the Call.” They noted the real risk of backlash against members of the campus community who challenge racist policies and practices – at times incurring vitriolic public attacks through social media, at times drawing retribution from publishers and editors, administrators and disciplinary associations, and (especially for students and junior faculty) advisors and mentors wary of disrupting the flawed system that sustains them.
A rich discussion generated some elements of a system that could shift the Academy’s contribution to racial justice struggles. These included:
Supporting the whole selves of University community members who cope daily with images and experiences that assault their sense of safety and equal membership.
Fostering scholar-advocate groups at regional and national levels,
Building inter-disciplinary, inter-departmental communities of practice to pilot, share and support “better practices” and reflexivity about privilege and power for teaching and research;
Funding tenure-line positions and centers dedicated explicitly to advancing critical race studies;
Creating voluntary “peer-review” panels to identify research with potential for “broader impacts” on the drivers of inequality;
Enhancing institutional relationships and long-term collaboration with movement actors and organizations outside of the University’s walls.
Such proposals are not without challenges, for the individuals who would enact them and for the university itself – and so would require a political commitment from leaders at multiple levels of the university to invest in and promote the work, and to protect those who do it from both subtle and overt forms of retaliation. Those who engaged the conversation were wary, but conscious that the moment is right for the Academy to increase its efforts to manifest “a world where Black Lives Matter.”
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Jin Jin wins 'Music Creative' at the Women In Music Awards
Posted by Universal Music Publishing on 09 November 2018
The 2018 Women in Music awards took place at The Brewery in London's Clerkenwell today and songwriter Jin Jin (aka Janée Bennett) was awarded the inaugural 'Music Creative' award.
Jin Jin boasts a more diverse catalogue and interesting journey than your average songwriter. With impeccable A&R skills, multi-platinum hits across genres, and her own publishing company, Raggamuffin Music, she has achieved more than many songwriters with twice her years in the business. She has also recently formed Jinsing management focusing on the stars of the future.
Her success is all the more pertinent because she has achieved everything she has without a manager.
Having discovered the now seven times #1 artist Jess Glynne whilst hosting a song-writing masterclass at Jess’s college, Jin Jin has penned Jess’s single releases ‘Right Here’ (UK No. 6), ‘Real Love’ (UK No. 2) and two UK #1’s ‘Hold My Hand’ and ‘Not Letting Go’ featuring Tinie Tempah. Both Jess albums have been chart toppers.
In the last 12 months, her successes have included:
- Co-writing ‘Lullaby’ by Sigala & Paloma Faith - one of the top 10 songs of the year, reaching UK No. 6 and achieving UK Platinum sales.
- Co-writing Jonas Blue & Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Alien’ 45 million streams and No. 1 on the Billboard dance charts.
- Co-writing Madison Bear ‘Home With You’ - 70m+ streams
- Penning 10 songs, including single ‘All I Am’, for Jess Glynne’s recent #1 album ‘Always In Between’.
- Penning 3 songs for Sigala’s album ‘Brighter Days’.
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- Co-Writing Raye’s singles ‘Decline’ and ‘Friends’
Known initially for her work in the UK grime scene with Wiley and Roll Deep, she developed relationships collaborate with a host of international producers such as Fraser T Smith, Toby Gad, Chad Hugo as well as artists Sean Paul, David Guetta Rita Ora, Clean Bandit and many more.
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Bride Killed In Helicopter Crash On Way To Wedding
By : Anne-Marie Bojan On : 06 Jul 2017 16:12
Tragic footage has emerged showing the final moments from inside a helicopter that crashed while taking a bride-to-be to her own wedding.
Rosemere do Nascimento Silva was tragically killed in the accident along with her brother, the pilot and a photographer who, tragically, was six-months- pregnant.
32-year-old Rosemere was planning to surprise her fiancé Udirley Damasceno, who was waiting at the altar, unaware that his wife-to-be had planned a surprise entrance.
The crash took place in a rural area on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, in Brazil, just a mile away from the wedding venue.
Rosemere’s fiancé, along with the vast majority of their 300 wedding guests, had no idea she had planned the spectacular entrance.
Investigations are now underway by police to try and establish the cause of the fatal event.
Some reports suggest the helicopter may have hit a tree due to bad visibility as there was rain, fog and cloud on the day.
One of the organisers, Carlos Eduardo Batista said:
All brides have a dream and hers was to arrive by helicopter to their wedding without anyone knowing.
The accident was discovered when Mr Batista realised the chopper had not arrived – the journey should have taken just 15 minutes – and made a phone call to confirm it had taken off.
Despite 300 guests being present at the wedding, it’s thought that only six knew about the helicopter surprise.
The groom was told the news at the altar by the pastor and was said to have gone into complete shock.
Eight fire engines rushed to the scene but nothing could be done to save the four occupants.
Our thoughts go to the victims’ friends and families in what must be an absolutely devastating time.
Câmera de fotógrafa foi achada por irmão da noiva na mata 4 dias após queda de helicóptero
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On Friday June 14th, Ca’ Foscari Alumni will be back in the USA for the official inauguration of their new chapter in New York. The Big Apple can count on one of the largest communities of former Ca’ Foscari students in the world, with over 150 professionals, the majority of them employed in the finance field.
The inauguration ceremony, which will take place inside the Consulate General of Italy in New York, will see the participation of Ca' Foscari Rector Michele Bugliesi, Consul General Francesco Genuardi and Ca’ Foscari Alumni President, Monica Boccanegra. They will be joined by the 4 representatives of this new American chapter, Daniela Pavan, Matteo Spiller, Andrea Dal Santo and Mirko Cauci, who will maintain contacts between the Association and the alumni on the territory and network with local businesses, cultural associations and institutions.
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Thanks to its members, in the past few years Ca’ Foscari Alumni has widened its network and reached more than 85 countries all over the world. Active chapters are located in Milan, Brussels, London, Dublin, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and Dubai, each one of them organizing talks, meeting and networking events and fostering a close relationship with the Venetian headquarters.
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Obama adjusts post-speech travel plans
President Obama's staff has made a slight change in his travel plans after Tuesday night's State of the Union. The president will still speak in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Tennessee -- but he will
Obama adjusts post-speech travel plans President Obama's staff has made a slight change in his travel plans after Tuesday night's State of the Union. The president will still speak in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Tennessee -- but he will Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1dL2sh5
David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 10:44 a.m. ET Jan. 28, 2014 | Updated 11:17 a.m. ET Jan. 28, 2014
President Obama (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP)
President Obama's staff has made a slight change to his travel plans after Tuesday night's State of the Union Address.
The president will still speak in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Tennessee on Wednesday and Thursday, but he will take a pair of day trips from the White House rather than a two-day tour.
An overnight stop Wednesday in Milwaukee for the president has been canceled.
On Wednesday, Obama will speak at a Costco store in Lanham, Md., near Washington, D.C., and at a steel plant in West Mifflin, Pa., near Pittsburgh. He then returns to the White House.
On Thursday morning, Obama flies to Wisconsin for remarks at a General Electric gas engine facility in Waukesha, near Milwaukee. He then travels to Nashville for a speech at McGavock High School before returning to the White House.
In all of these speeches, Obama is expected to follow up on policies he will discuss in Tuesday night's speech, including proposals for minimum wage hikes, manufacturing programs, and efforts to help the long-term unemployed.
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First Things First: Managing the Time Crunch
Posted On: October 14th, 2007
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We are into the second week of UUCA's stewardship campaign for
2008, and I'm delighted at the financial generosity that people
are showing so far. The trend is looking wonderfully positive. So
let's keep it up! The campaign is going strong, but there's a
ways to go-we're not there yet. The vision of this place needs the
generous support of everyone.
And I know I'm cheerleading. I know that. But I believe in this
place and its future and in you. I really do. It is why I accepted
your call to ministry here and not someplace else. It is why Laura and
I feel privileged to pledge 5% of our annual income, even as we will
give another 5% to other charitable organizations. But for us, the
giving starts here. First things first. Our congregation, together
with other top priorities, comes first, because it's that
important.
It's ultimately a good stewardship issue, and good stewardship, as
I see it, is a spiritual practice and discipline. Good for the soul. A
way to make a life, as opposed to simply making a living. Investing
our dollars in a way that accords with our highest values. Our
dollars, but also our talents and energy and time…. The questions
are, How can I spend all these life resources with integrity and
sustainability? How can I be my best self, and therefore bless the
people and the world around me? How can I be a leader in my
relationships and in my home, and model the kind of behavior that I
would like to see magnified and multiplied in my children and in
others?
These are the deep and profound issues of the spiritual practice of
good stewardship. And today, I'd like to focus on just one of
them: stewardship of time. Last week we talked about stewardship in
general, but this week the focus is on time-the challenges we face
today as we strive to invest our time in good ways.
Let me start out with a question: Does the phrase "crazy
busy" happen to ring any bells for you? It comes from a recent
bestselling book enthusiastically recommended to me by UUCA staffer
Pat Kahn, and I share her enthusiasm and recommend it to you as well.
The author is Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D, and the title is Crazy
Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap. At one point,
he says, "Living life today can seem like riding a bike no-handed
while reading a book and juggling six eggs…" And I can't
help but say amen. Life today invites doing too much and with it, time
scarcity-the feeling of there never being enough time….
But life today is not all bad. In fact, Dr. Hallowell rightly
encourages us to see how our brave new world just bursts with
possibility and excitement and playfulness. He says, "Baffling as
it can be, this world is a new mother lode…. We can now mine a
volume of accessible information that gives to every individual mind
the power of what it used to take hundreds of minds to do. We can work
with an ease and speed of communication that makes the dead time
called ‘waiting' obsolete, or at least unnecessary. These
elements create the peculiar enthusiasm of our time." That's
what Dr. Hallowell says. It is a charged-up, cutting-edge time in
which we are constantly pushing the limits of what we can do.
"The energy that flashes through our electronics," says Dr.
Hallowell, "has leapt into most of our bloodstreams and
brains."
It's just an exhilarating moment in which to be alive. And so now
it becomes a matter of tapping into that exhilaration in a healthy,
sustainable way. Enjoying moments when we're really out there
riding the bike no-handed while reading a book and juggling six
eggs-whatever that might look like for us. But also knowing our limits
and our priorities. Knowing how to pace ourselves and how to take
time-outs when needed. Knowing when to say no. And when we don't
know this-that's when we get into the time crunch and can't
get out. That's when we feel time scarcity.
Part of this involves an addiction to what Dr. Hallowell calls the
"rush" and "gush." The "rush" refers to
how the speed of everyday affairs has been supercharged by innumerable
technologies, from email to television remotes to airplanes to fax
machines to laptops to the ice machine in your refrigerator. And then
there is the "gush"-the volume of information that pours
into our lives from various outlets: email, voice mail, instant
messaging, cable TV, satellite radio, the Internet. The rush and the
gush-and we can fall in love with it. "We can be like kids who
just got their driver's licenses, wanting to drive
constantly," giving far too much of ourselves to it. Which means
this: we try to multitask with everything. We find ourselves hurrying
up even when there is no need, irritated beyond belief when the
internet connection is slow, or the traffic, or someone's manner
of speaking. Or we try to keep up with the latest information and stay
glued to "what's going on," but the stream of updates
and new news is so constant that the thought of disconnecting from
some kind of screen or other provokes real anxiety….
I'm talking about addiction to the rush and gush, and the
addiction not only shrinks our subjective sense of the minute and the
hour, it also steals away time from other pursuits. We become people
who "rush around a lot, feel impatient wherever they are, love
speed, get frustrated easily, lose focus in the middle of a task or a
conversation because some other thought gets their attention … feel
they could do a lot more if they could just get it together, get angry
easily when interrupted, feel powerless over the piles of stuff that
surround them, resolve each day to do better tomorrow, and in general
feel busy beyond belief but not all that productive." That's
what Dr. Hallowell says, and this is probably a good time to share
with you the fact that Dr. Hallowell is an expert in attention deficit
disorder. So when he looks upon our world today, he sees symptom after
symptom of ADD. Many people who don't have true ADD, but because
they plug into the rush and gush of our modern world, they show
symptoms of it.
Addiction to the rush and gush: this is a big contributor to
today's pervasive sense of time scarcity. The addiction gets us
into trouble. Let me say a few more words about
this, and then we'll explore ways of breaking through the scarcity
into abundance.
A moment ago I said that our love affair with speed shrinks our
subjective sense of time, so that the thirty seconds it might take for
a web page to come up feel like five minutes, or an eternity. The
addiction just gets into our heads, plays with our minds. So consider
how we live in a world in which our technologies enable us to
transcend time and space; know more things as individuals, instantly,
than could ever be known before; and do things that, to previous
generations, would appear miraculous. This gets into our heads. It
bubbles up an expectation we end up imposing upon ourselves and
others. Because technology makes it possible to transcend
space and time, I and others should strive to do that and
stay connected via cell phone and email and Blackberry unceasingly and
always. Because technology makes it possible to plug into
endless data streams, I and others should do that.
Because technology makes it possible to do apparently
miraculous things, I and others should do likewise.
I should be doing this-they should be doing this. The expectation has
gotten into our heads, and it is impossible to live up to. We will
always fail. And therefore there can be resentment for others-and
guilt for ourselves. Both feelings go hand-in-hand with the time
crunch. People should be able to respond to my emails within the hour
or the day; they don't do that; I resent them. I should be able to
respond to emails within the hour or the day; I don't do this
because I can't do this; I feel so guilty.
Let's focus on that guilt for a moment. It can feel so big that
Dr. Hallowell has coined a new word to describe it:
"Gigaguilt." That's the kind of guilt we deal with in
our time-crunched world. Just listen to what he says about this:
"Computer technology and its gigabytes of memory have directly
and indirectly so extended the number of items a person must keep
track of … that the likelihood of missing something has skyrocketed.
[…] This brings with it guilt, lots of guilt, ceaseless guilt, guilt
in the morning, guilt in the evening, guilt all day long.
‘Gigaguilt' refers to this guilt, the guilt a person feels
over missing something or disappointing someone, even while knowing
that keeping track of everything is impossible and having enough time
to please everyone is equally impossible." That's what Dr.
Hallowell says. And yes, one part of our brains knows it is
impossible, but there's another part that has bought into the
expectation of perfection and the "should"-and so we
struggle with it, we wrestle with it, and the guilt spears us and pins
us to the ground….
Addiction to our rush and gush world really causes us trouble. It gets
into our heads and distorts our sense of what is possible and
reasonable. Paradoxically, the more time-saving technologies there
are, the less time we feel we have… But now let's turn to
exploring some ways by which we might break through time scarcity to
abundance. How we can be better stewards of time in our modern world
of rush and gush. As I see it, the solution involves at least two
things: right attitude and right priorities.
Start with right attitude. Time scarcity, at least as I experience it,
is a matter of feeling like I'm out of control of my time. All
sorts of time thieves out there, and they just step into my life and
steal whatever they want, and I can't stop them…. Can you
relate?
Which is exactly why a good starting point is a right attitude:
reclaiming a sense of self-control, remembering that we have more
power in this than we think we do. Remembering that we could always
say no. Remembering that we could always choose otherwise. This is
nothing less than one of the hallmarks of our theology as Unitarian
Universalists-freedom of the will.
So simple-but I wish I could say it was easy. For a huge obstacle to
right attitude here is emotional messiness, and by that I mean
gigaguilt. Remember gigaguilt? It can make freedom of the will
theology seem absurd! It can chew it up and spit it out! Makes us feel
like there is no choice, that we can't do otherwise. Stands over
us and commands us like Pharoah-that we must be everywhere and know
everything and do everything. It stands over us, and we are its
slaves.
So reclaiming a right attitude is going to be hard work. But I like
what Dr. Hallowell suggests about how to do this. His first pointer is
to "Set limits on what you commit to. Reserve time for what
matters most to you, and if you feel guilty that you are not serving
others when you are doing what matters most to you, remind yourself
that you would be much less use to others if you did not do what
matters most to you some of the time. You would become depressed,
frazzled, impatient, resentful, and ineffective." That's the
first pointer, and here is the next: "Have a system that can
dictate for you what you will commit to and what you won't."
For example, make it a policy that you will serve on only a certain
number of volunteer committees, and no more. Make it a policy that you
won't check email on your day off. Make policies like this so you
don't have to decide on the spot each time. Finally, the third
pointer from Dr. Hallowell is to draw on the strength and
encouragement of a support group, to help you stay accountable to your
plan. Rely on them for reality checks now and then, as well as pep
talks. You don't have to face the unrealistic expectations and
guilt all alone. Connection with friends can make all the difference
in the world.
It's about reclaiming a sense of self control-taking back power
over what happens with our time. Right attitude is one way of breaking
through scarcity into abundance. And now here is the other:
establishing right priorities. Identifying the activities and
connections that bring about our greatest health and well-being, and
giving to them the majority of our time.
Now, in recommending this, I need to acknowledge that I might be going
against the grain, or swimming upstream. Currently there are more than
2500 books available on Amazon.com on the subject of getting
organized, where the basic message is one of tackling the time crunch
by working faster, harder, smarter, and more…. And while I agree
that getting organized can be helpful, there's more to the
solution. There's way more. It brings to mind a quote from Albert
Einstein, who once said, "The significant problems we face cannot
be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." It
means that if we're facing a time crunch, we've got to go
beyond the issue of speed to solve it-we've got to go to a
different level.
And so we go to the level of values. We go to the level of meaning. We
start exploring how we can be more inner-directed in our lives, rather
than allowing ourselves to be pushed and pulled by external
opportunities and pressures. The more external opportunities and
pressures there are-which is the increasing reality of modern
times-the more our sanity requires strength of personal identity,
strength of character, commitment to core values, commitment to a
moral and spiritual vision. Purpose and mission must direct us from
within, not anything else, lest the push and pull of today's rush
and gush cause us to fly apart in a million different directions.
And things are even more difficult once you consider the fact that,
very often, our choices are not no-brainers. Very often, we are
choosing not between "horrible" and "wonderful"
but between "just OK" and "great." Opportunities
that are just OK knock on our doors all the time-and unless we are
clear about who we are and what feeds our souls, we'll go with
them and miss out on the ones that make our hearts sing, that fill us
up, that charge us up to be all that we are called to be. So we'll
end up not singing but mumbling; not filled up, but restless; not
called to be all we can be, but bored. We did not choose what was
great-we chose what was just OK good instead.
It is a question of right priorities. That's what it is. So I ask
you that question this morning: what are your right priorities?
What's your personal mission in life, your moral and spiritual
vision? What involvements and connections are not just good but great,
for you, and will take you to enrichment and challenge and abundance?
First things first means that you plan from the start to give more
time to them than to other things-and that you work the plan, you
abide by it.
Let me ask the question in a different way. When you are on your
deathbed, what are you going to wish you had spent more time doing?
Now there's a question that can provoke some thought! What are you
going to wish you had spent more time doing when you are on your
deathbed? It's all about being a good steward of the precious and
all-too-brief gift of time that life has given you.
I'd like to close with a quote that I'm sure Dr. Hallowell
would appreciate. It came into my life around eight years ago, during
a time that felt especially crazy busy, when the pressure and pain of
big life changes-including a career change-were almost too much. On
one Sunday during this time, I was in a worship service-I had given
myself the gift of that-and the preacher quoted from the great writer
Nikos Kazantzakis. The quote hit me like a ton of bricks. Here it is:
"I remember one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the back of
a tree just as a butterfly was making a hole in its case and preparing
to come out. I waited awhile, but it was too long appearing and I was
impatient. I bent over it and breathed on it to warm it. I warmed it
as quickly as I could and the miracle began to happen before my eyes,
faster than life. The case opened; the butterfly started slowly
crawling out, and I shall never forget my horror when I saw how its
wings were folded back and crumpled; the wretched butterfly tried with
its whole trembling body to unfold them. Bending over it, I tried to
help it with my breath, in vain. It needed to be hatched out patiently
and the unfolding of the wings should be a gradual process in the sun.
Now it was too late. My breath had forced the butterfly to appear all
crumpled, before its time. It struggled desperately and, a few seconds
later, died in the palm of my hand.
That little body is, I do believe, the greatest weight I have on my
conscience. For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the
great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient,
but we should confidently obey the internal rhythm."
That's the quote from Nikos Kazantzakis which I heard a preacher
say, around eight years ago, in a time that felt all too crazy busy;
and then, as now, I recognize myself as that butterfly that is being
breathed upon. Perhaps you do as well. It's what life is like in a
rush and gush world. And yet you and I can do something about it. We
don't have to share the same fate as the butterfly in the story.
It is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. And so let us
reclaim our power over whether and to what extent we will be breathed
upon. Let us not hurry. Let us not be impatient. Let us discover the
internal rhythm that flows within us-and confidently obey it. We can
do this. Amen.
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Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: The Ultimate Showdown
February 21, 2019 at 11:21 am by Vikas Shukla
Image source: YouTube Video Screenshot
Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy S10e, S10, S10 Plus, S10 5G, and Galaxy Fold at its Unpacked event in San Francisco. The Galaxy S10 Plus is Samsung’s flagship of the year. It will be competing with the best of Apple, Google, Huawei, and other vendors. In the US and most European markets, the Galaxy S10 Plus will be competing with the iPhone XS Max and Google Pixel 3 XL for consumers’ wallets. Here we dive into a detailed Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL specs comparison to see if Samsung’s latest flagship has what it takes to beat the iPhone XS Max and Google’s flagship.
It’s worth pointing out that specs alone don’t help you decide which phone is worth your money. But you’d want to compare them if you are in the market for a new flagship smartphone.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Design
Google Pixel 3 XL has the ugliest design of them all. It has a thick chin at the bottom and a notch at the top that makes it look like a cheap phone from one of those Chinese vendors. It has a two-tone rear panel with a single camera lens and a circular fingerprint sensor. The Pixel 3 XL measures 158×76.7×7.9 mm and weighs 184g.
The iPhone XS Max retains the design of the older iPhone X. It has a nearly bezel-less design with a notch at the top to house the Face ID sensors, front camera, and the ear speaker. Its front and rear glass panels are supported by a durable stainless steel frame. At 208g, the XS Max is heavier than the other two. It measures 157.5×77.4×7.7 mm.
The Galaxy S10 Plus has ditched the notch in favor of a punch-hole Infinity-O display that increases the usable screen area. There are two holes in the top-right corner to house the selfie cameras. The phone has a curved display and a nearly bezel-less design. Unlike the other two phones, S10 Plus retains the 3.5mm headphone jack. It measures 157.6×74.1×7.8 mm and weighs 175g.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Display
All three smartphones use some variant of OLED display technology. Samsung has been a global leader in OLED technology, and its phones have always been praised for their screens. The Galaxy S10 Plus is no exception. It gets a gorgeous 6.4-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 3,040×1,440 pixels. It has a pixel density of 438ppi. It also supports HDR+ to offer a better video watching experience.
In contrast, the iPhone XS Max features a 6.5-inch Super Retina OLED panel with 2688×1242 resolution and 458ppi pixel density. The Google Pixel 3 XL features a 6.3-inch flexible P-OLED display with 2,960×1,440 resolution and 522ppi pixel density.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Processing power
The Galaxy S10 Plus runs Qualcomm’s latest octa-core Snapdragon 855 processor in the US and Samsung’s in-house Exynos 9820 chipset in most other markets. Both the new processors are far more powerful than their respective predecessors. The chipset is coupled with 8GB or 12GB RAM. Samsung offers 128GB, 512GB, or 1TB of internal storage. There is also a microSD card slot to let you expand the memory by another 512GB.
The Google Pixel 3 XL runs last year’s Snapdragon 845 with 4GB RAM, but it’s capable of handling day-to-day tasks with ease. It comes in 64GB and 128GB storage options. Google doesn’t offer external storage on its phones.
The iPhone XS Max, in contrast, gets an insanely powerful A12 Bionic processor. It has only 4GB RAM, but Apple has tightly integrated its software and hardware to deliver blazing fast performance. Despite its lower RAM than Galaxy S10 Plus, it could give Samsung’s phone a tough fight or even outperform it.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Camera
Samsung has equipped the Galaxy S10 Plus with triple cameras on the back and dual selfie cameras. It gets a 16-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, a 12MP wide-angle lens, and a 12MP telephoto lens on the back panel. On the front, the device features a combination of a 10MP sensor and an 8MP lens. The S10 Plus camera hasn’t been tested in the real world yet, but we can expect it to be among the best.
The iPhone XS Max has one of the best smartphone cameras in the world. It features a 12MP wide-angle lens and a 12MP telephoto lens on the back, and a 7MP sensor on the front for selfies. Apple allows you to adjust the blur in portrait images even after clicking the photo.
The Google Pixel 3 XL features only a single 12.2MP lens on the back but it has shocked consumers with its camera capabilities. Google uses advanced AI and machine learning to enhance the photography experience. If you like taking photos in dim lights, the Night Sight mode on Pixel 3 XL could take great photos. The device has two 8-megapixel lenses on the front.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Software
The Google Pixel 3 XL runs the stock version of Android 9 Pie. It doesn’t have any bloatware and it’s among the first Android phones to get software and security updates from Google. The iPhone XS Max runs Apple’s iOS 12 software, which is highly secure. The iOS 12 brings many new features such as Memoji, Digital Health, Group FaceTime, and Siri Shortcuts.
The S10 Plus runs Samsung’s new One UI skin on top of Android 9 Pie. The One UI offers an intuitive experience even on smartphones with bigger displays. It displays content in the top half of the screen and navigation options near the bottom to ensure that they are within your thumb’s reach.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Battery
The Galaxy S10 Plus packs a monstrous 4,100mAh battery with fast charging, wireless charging, and reverse charging technologies. You can use your S10 Plus to charge other smartphones, smartwatches, and accessories. It should easily get you through a full day of normal-to-heavy usage. The Pixel 3 XL packs a 3,430mAh battery with wireless charging support.
The iPhone XS Max offers a 3,174mAh battery that supports both fast charging and wireless charging. However, Apple ships it with a redundant 5W charger. If you want to take advantage of fast charging or wireless charging, you’ll have to spend additional money on the relevant accessories. That’s how Apple likes to make more money.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Security
The Pixel 3 XL has a rear-mounted capacitive fingerprint sensor for authentication and security. It’s not the most convenient method, but it has proven to be reliable and secure. The iPhone XS Max gets an upgraded version of Apple’s Face ID technology, which is extremely difficult to fool because it creates a 3D image of your face to recognize you.
Samsung has equipped the Galaxy S10 Plus with an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor placed under the display. Users can unlock the device by placing their finger on the screen. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is far more secure than the optical fingerprint sensor used in devices like OnePlus 6T. It works accurately even when your fingers are wet or dirty.
Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPhone XS Max vs Pixel 3 XL: Price
All three devices are premium offerings from their respective manufacturers. They reflect the best of each company’s technological prowess. The Pixel 3 XL costs $899 for the 64GB variant and $999 for the 128GB model. It’s the cheapest of the lot.
The iPhone XS Max is the most expensive of them, starting at $1,099 for the 64GB model. It goes up to $1,249 for the 256GB model and $1,449 for the 512GB model. The Galaxy S10 Plus starts at $999 for the base model. Samsung hasn’t yet revealed how much the higher storage variant would cost.
Samsung has got almost everything right with the Galaxy S10 Plus, including the pricing. Which phone you should buy depends on the ecosystem you prefer (Android or iOS), whether you are OK with the display notch or the punch-hole, and your budget. Performance and camera capabilities of all three phones are top notch. If you want a significantly different phone, you might want to check out Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold phone with a foldable display.
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From the March, 2007 issue of Touchstone
Abortion America History
Un-American Idols by Robert P. George
Un-American Idols
Robert P. George on the Foolproof Test for Paganism
The great Jewish scholar Milton Himmelfarb summarized the matter in a single sentence: “Judaism is against paganism.” Note that Himmelfarb spoke in the present tense. Let no one imagine that the temptation to idolatry and paganism is a matter of the distant past, when primitive peoples offered sacrifice to the sun or prayed to stone outcroppings and golden calves.
The essence of paganism is idolatry: the self-aggrandizing worship of false gods in place of the God of love who is Creator of the universe and Lord of Life. How can we know that an idol, a false god, and not the true God, is being worshiped? I submit to you that there is a foolproof test: False gods always demand the blood of innocents. A pagan culture is always, in the end, a culture of death.
Where the innocent and just are slain, there the god being worshiped is not the God of Israel, the Lord of Life, but rather Moloch in one or another of his protean disguises. Paganism is a permanent threat. The worship of false gods is a constant temptation.
The Lord of Love
The God of Israel whom Jews and Christians worship is the Lord of Life. He is the author of the comprehensive and absolute commandment: “Thou shalt not kill the innocent and just.” He is the God who says to Israel: “Today I have set before you life and death; choose life!” (Deut. 30:15,19).
And he is a God of love. He lovingly fashions each and every human being in his very image and likeness. He graciously vests us—mere creatures—with the truly God-like powers of reason and freedom. He endows every human being, however humble, however poor, however afflicted, with a sublime dignity.
It is for this reason that the life of every innocent person is strictly and equally inviolable under the moral law. Our fundamental rights as human beings, including the precious right to life, come not from princes, not from legislatures, not from deals (“mutual non-aggression pacts”) we cut with our fellow citizens.
Our rights come as gifts of God himself, and they are therefore in no way revocable by any merely human authority. The duty of those who wield authority on earth is to respect and protect the God-given moral order in which fundamental human rights, above all the right to life, have pride of place.
From the beginning, it has been the mission of the covenanted community of Israel, the chosen people of God, to bear witness to the Lord of Life in defiance of the pagan powers. Whenever Israel faltered in her mission, whenever her people bowed before the golden calf, the prophets of God reminded them that the pagan way is, for all its seductions, the wrong way, the way of death.
They reminded them that the fruit of fidelity to the Torah is the toppling of those bloodthirsty idols and the conversion of people’s hearts to the commandments of the Lord of Life, the God of Love. They reminded them that Judaism is against paganism.
And the prophetic warning applies with equal force to the Christian community, when it falters in its mission. When Christians, to their shame, embraced evil, unjust, anti-life practices—from the burning of heretics to the persecution of Jews—they insulted the Lord in whose name they purported to act.
It was not the God of the Bible whom they served, but a false god. Their sin, as Pope John Paul II beautifully taught by both precept and example, requires from the Christian faithful atonement, repentance, and reform: a “turning back” to the God of Love, the Lord of Life.
The Pagan Test
Rabbi Daniel Lapin has lamented the fact that many Jews in America have abandoned the Torah and substituted for Jewish faith a different religion, that of liberal secularism. This religion, he observes, has its own doctrines, its own rituals, its own codes of behavior. It is a religion of neo-paganism.
What Lapin says of many American Jews is equally true of many American Christians. Secularized liberal Christians will dress up their neo-pagan ideology in the language of virtue—speaking, for example, of “compassion,” of “tolerance,” of “inclusion,” and the like—but the secularist liberal creed is most emphatically un-Christian.
Indeed, liberal secularism is nothing but a neo-pagan creed. And to see that this is true, we need only apply the test: False gods always demand innocent blood. The evidence that a culture is descending into paganism is always manifest in the body count. A pagan culture is always a culture of death. This was true in the ancient Near East and it is true in modern America.
Who can deny that everywhere today the false gods of liberal secularism are exacting their toll? People may call them by high-minded, inspiring, virtuous-sounding names, but whatever people name them, these idols turn out to be the same Baal and Moloch, the same old bloodthirsty tyrants.
As always, it is the blood of the weakest, the most vulnerable, that they crave. Today the unborn, the partially born, and the handicapped newly born are daily sacrificed to the false gods of “choice,” “autonomy,” “self-fulfillment,” “compassion,” and “liberation,” on stainless steel altars, by priests robed in surgical whites, in storefront temples, run by the keepers of the cult, like Planned Parenthood.
Like every religion, neo-paganism has its theologians, and they are skilled in turning even the commands of the Lord of Life to their own ends. Within both the Christian and Jewish communities, its theologians deconstruct biblical and natural-law morality and rationalize even the atrocity of partial-birth abortion. Some try to transform the Talmudic teaching of the priority of the life of the mother, in the extraordinarily rare cases in which pregnancy actually poses a mortal threat, into a general right to abortion, including the killing of children as they emerge from the womb.
The great contemporary scholar of Jewish law David Novak has exposed this distortion. Where there is no mortal threat, “abortion is judged [by Jewish law] to be the unwarranted taking of a ‘life within a life,’ and it is the same prohibition for gentiles as it is for Jews.”
He does not hesitate to call to mind the Shoah in his discussion of the protection owed to unborn human life: “Because of our recent experience of being the prime victims of a worldview that excluded many lives from the sanctity of human personhood, thus rationalizing murder, we Jews should realize that our strictness on the question of abortion is for the sake of greater, not less, inclusiveness in the human community.”
Abortion is not alone among the manifestations of the neo-pagan culture of death. It also offers assisted suicide and euthanasia as the remedy for life’s hardships and tragedies.
And it is not only the frail elderly and terminally ill who are to be afforded their ghoulish “compassion.” Those who offend our sensibilities, who place demands upon our care and resources—the seriously handicapped, the mentally retarded—are now to be defined out of the category of human “persons” whose right to life is to be respected and protected by law.
Notable academics now openly advocate the infanticide of handicapped newborns. They would revise our fundamental law to have us treat these precious children as inferior beings, human nonpersons.
An American Truth
The Nazi killing began with the eugenic murder of the handicapped. The way was paved by “sophisticated,” “progressive” doctors and lawyers, such as Binding and Hoche—not themselves Nazis—who devised the neo-pagan doctrine of lebens unswerten leben, life unworthy of life. To those who would today revive this vile notion in the name of a false compassion, let us say with all our hearts, “Never again! Never again!”
And we must say this not only as Jews and Christians, but as Americans. Our nation’s founders spoke a most profoundly biblical and unpagan truth when they declared: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life , liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” America, too, in her founding principles and guiding ideals, is against paganism.
Some will step forward to remind us, and they are not wrong to do so, that although our nation was founded on the great principles of divinely grounded equality and natural rights, it was stained in its very founding by the sin of slavery. But let us also recall that great men like Adams and Lincoln rose up to oppose that monstrous pagan practice, and to this end they exhorted the nation to be true to the biblical principles of the founding.
Even if slavery’s abolition would require that “every drop of blood drawn by the lash be repaid by one drawn by the sword,” still, Lincoln declared, “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” Lincoln knew, and we must not forget, that America , too, is against paganism.
Robert P. George , a Roman Catholic, is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His books include In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford University Press) and The Clash of Orthodoxies (ISI Books). He is a Senior Editor of Touchstone.
more on Abortion from the online archives
26.1—Jan/Feb 2013
The Destroyer of Peace
on Abortion as a Matter of National Welfare by W. Ross Blackburn
30.3—May/June 2017
Known Trespassing
on the Misuse of Property Rights to Justify Slavery & Abortion by Robert Hart
27.2—March/April 2014
The Rights of Aphrodite
on C. S. Lewis & the New State Paganism by W. E. Knickerbocker
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Výsledky výskumuChemical and biochemical transformations of glycerol from renewable sources to fine chemicals and fuel components without sulfur
Chemical and biochemical transformations of glycerol from renewable sources to fine chemicals and fuel components without sulfur
see http://www.chtf.stuba.sk/kot/apvv/vyznam.html
Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Head of project: Assoc. prof. Alexander Kaszonyi, PhD
Partners: Comenius University Bratislava,VÚRUP, a.s., Biorafinéria SK, Ltd. Martin
Research and development of new catalytic and biochemical methods of production of chemical specialties and fuel components without sulfur, which enhance the appreciation of glycerol from renewable bio-sustainable sources. Mainly catalytic and biochemical transformation of glycerol to 1,3-propandiol, glycerol carbonat, glycidol, oxidation and splitting products of glycerol, copolymers by urea, polyglycerols, development of refining technology of raw glycerol
In the Europe in the near future we can expect outstanding increase in the production of biodiesel and glycerol from renewable sources in connection with implementation of European parliament directive n. 2003/30/ES. Glycerol is an unavoidable byproduct of biodiesel production in the amount of 10 wt.%. The world production of glycerol is on the level of 800 000 t/y (2003), from which now about 25 % is a byproduct of biodiesel production. If the mentioned European parliament directive will be fulfilled, the European glycerol production will increase by further hundred thousand tons/year. The expected overproduction can evoke further decrease of glycerol price, which will open possibility of considerably wider use of glycerol in fields, where till now was not used.
The aim of this project is to examine technological proces
ses of valuation of glycerol phase (formed in the process of trans-esterification of fatty acids), which application can become to be economically prospective and effective.
The first part of the project is focused on the crude glycerol(G) splitting by mineral acid from the point of view of reaction, processing, economy and environment. The refining method – vacuum distillation in the film evaporator, adsorption on ion exchangers and other methods – needs optimum pretreatment of crude material. The study of possibilities of salt removing from crude G (precipitation, water removal, separation, centrifugation, filtration) should be done with the aim of maximum effectiveness of the refining method. In the case of non-distilling refining also the G bleaching should be studied. At the low price of G also the energetic utilization of G is interesting after thermal or catalyst conversion of G to the fuel or its component to diesel in the form of alkyl esters, acetals, ketals, carbonates for lowering of harmful emissions in exhaust gases. The target of the study is the commercialization of biodiesel production by conversion of by-product G to the components of motor fuels for modern engines.
From the products of chemical and biochemical transformation of glycerol is remarkable especially 1,3-propandiol. Its production from other raw materials is expensive. 1,3-propandiol can have wide use, but especially its use in the polyesters instead of or together with 1,2-propandiol or 1,4-propandiol can lend more beneficial properties to fibers and plastic films, particularly in elasticity and durability. The production of 1,3-propandiol from cheaper glycerol can be economically profitable by catalytic or biotechnological processes using non-pathogenic microorganisms. The object of this part of proposed project is the research of possible using of bacterial strains of Acetobacter genus and relative bacteria in preference. Biological transformations of glycerol phase in aerobic conditions will be concentrated on the basic research in a laboratory scale, with the selection of suitable bacterial strains. The next steps are characterized with the aim to examine the process of bio-transformation and subsequently to optimize the fermentation process in laboratory and pilot scale.
The goal of biochemical way is to develop the process of 1,3-propandiol production by fermentation from raw glycerol, to identify microbial strains for production of 1,3-propandiol and to optimize fermentation. At the same time the possibility of preparation of other bio-chemicals from glycerol, usable by chemical industry will be tested.
The goal of project in the field of catalytic process is to specify the catalyst (from the group of rare metals) and reaction conditions (temperature, pressure, reactor) for selective transformation of glycerol to propandiol and other products. To substantial products of glycerol belong glycerol carbonate, glycidol, copolymers and the products of esterification, oxidation and oligomerisation. Glycerol carbonate is important as a polar nontoxic low volatile solvent or raw material for production of glycidol and some polycarbonates. From glycidol it is possible to produce oxo- and secondary aliphatic oxy- compounds. From copolymers of glycerol are important the copolymers by urea, as a component of nitrogen containing fertilizers by regulated resorption of nitrogen. The oligomers of glycerol can be applied in the production of special polyurethanes, wetting and preserving reagents of wood and paper, antistatic agents of fibers and other products, where till now cheaper and more toxic polyetyleneglycols were used.
Wide intention of the project with an orientation of a various approaches of glycerol using offers a complex solution for its utilization. This fact is reasoned with regard to enormous expected increase of the glycerol production from renewable resources. Extended range of procedures for glycerol conversion is also given by recent situation in the field of industry. Existing companies with a different capacity of their production from the large suppliers to the small ones have the different opportunities for technology application. For the different business activities various appropriate technological procedures can be optimal (marketing potential, glycerol production capacity, logistics).
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iPhone news: Apple CEO Tim Cook stands firmly on iPhone hacking argument with FBI; Bill Gates backs Feds
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With the ongoing debacle between Apple and the Justice Department over whether the company should help the FBI (Federal Bureau Investigation) in cracking the iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernandino shooters, Apple is firmly standing their ground and saying that they did what they can for the FBI and that they are even upgrading the security of their smartphones.
Apple CEO Tim Cook exclusively told ABC News about the situation saying, “We gave everything that we had. We don’t know that there’s any information on the phone. We don’t know whether there is or there isn’t. And the FBI doesn’t know.”
Earlier this week, the FBI pressed Apple to help them guess the passcode of the aforementioned iPhone. Although Cook already said that they have helped the FBI, he continued to refuse to violate any regulations that may unlock any iPhone.
“This case is not about one phone,” Cook explained regarding his company’s decision which was hailed by other tech company CEOs including Google’s Sundar Pichai and Whatsapp President Jan Koum.
“This case is about the future. If we knew a way to get the information on the phone — that we haven’t already given — if we knew a way to do this, that would not expose hundreds of millions of other people to issues, we would obviously do it… Our job is to protect our customers,” he added.
However, despite peer support, Apple seems to be losing to the FBI in the court of opinion, NBC News reported. In a survey conducted by Pew Research Center, 51 percent of the public sides with the Justice Department and urges Apple to help the authorities crack the iPhone that shooter Syed Farook used to own. Meanwhile, 38 percent of the group backed Apple in not unlocking the device, while 11 percent is torn on the matter.
Another tech pioneer supporting the FBI is Microsoft’s Bill Gates who recently talked to The Financial Times. “This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case,” the 60-year-old was quoted.
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Watch: Mariah Carey's Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony; May Be Coming to "Empire"
August 06, 2015 Mariah Carey, Soul
by Music-News.com Newsdesk & VVN Music
Mariah Carey "shut down" Hollywood when she received her Walk of Fame star on Wednesday.
The 45-year-old songstress has sold over 200 million albums and claimed 18 number one singles in the United States since her debut into the music industry in 1988 and, on Wednesday, the Dreamlover singer was finally awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where she will be immortalised forever in cement on the sidewalk alongside the names of the entertainment industry's most revered creatives.
"They just shut down Hollywood Boulevard because you all came out today! Thank you #lambs #lambily !! #hollywoodwalkoffame (sic)," Mariah wrote on her Twitter account Wednesday, infusing the message with a heart-eyed emoji and a star glyph.
Mariah's children with estranged husband Nick Cannon, four-year-old fraternal twins Moroccan and Monroe, stole the show at the event, as the cute little tykes climbed all over their mother while she accepted her honor.
The illustrious ceremony was attended by the likes of Brett Ratner, L.A. Reid and Lee Daniels, who directed Mariah in 2009 film Precious.
It seems Mariah has even more news to celebrate, as Daniels revealed information about her screen career at the event. "Watch her on Empire you guys! She's coming on Empire!" he enthusiastically noted but the contract has not yet been put in place, leaving Lee in fear over upsetting his managers. "I'm already in trouble with my publicist," he joked.
Empire is Lee's hit Fox network TV show, which stars Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard.
It seems Mariah is celebrating her huge Walk of Fame career feat in a big way, as she chowed down on a prime piece of sirloin to honour the acknowledgement. "#celebrating in style with good friends and great food @eatstk @STKLosAngeles #moments,(sic)" she wrote on Twitter, attaching a picture of herself beside a super happy chef.
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Patients, doctors concerned about new Indiana opioid limits
FILE – This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 file photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen, also known as Percocet, in New York. Cities and counties of all sizes have sued companies that make and distribute prescription opioids. Among the plaintiffs so far: Philadelphia; the state of Ohio; Princeton, West Virginia; the Cherokee […]
Some patients and doctors in Indiana are worried that increased restrictions imposed in response to the national opioid epidemic may reduce access to necessary medication.
Gov. Eric Holcomb signed three bills last month into law that will take effect July 1. One of the new laws requires doctors to check the state’s drug monitoring system before prescribing opioids or benzodiazepines, an anti-anxiety medication.
The increased focus on prescribing with little consensus on what doctors should do is leading to a “chilling effect” in the doctors’ offices, said Dr. James Murphy, a pain specialist practicing in New Albany.
“If a doctor gets in trouble for prescribing, (if) they violate a regulation, they could lose their license, they could lose their livelihood, or they could go to jail even,” he said.
Murphy said he can see restrictions tightening in the coming years through direct legislation or through other barriers to the drugs. But he said he doesn’t mind the extra limitations.
“I just think all of this adds up to make patients nervous, it makes doctors not want to do it,” Murphy said. “My hope is that physicians, if they truly believe a patient needs to be on these medications, they do their homework, they think about it, they make a good decision and then they keep doing what they can to keep the patient well.”
Kate Caufield, an Indiana patient who takes opioids, said she’s glad doctors will use more vigilance in prescribing, but she doesn’t know where it may eventually lead.
“My biggest fear is that we decide as a nation that we can’t have these and we just get rid of an entire class of medicine,” said Caufield, who takes the medicine for her restless leg syndrome. “I feel like there could be limitations placed on it that could be very difficult for people with careers and lives and families.”
Holcomb said that someone dies from the opioid epidemic every 12-and-a-half seconds across the U.S. and that states “have to do everything we can to bend that trajectory down.”
“Our state can only be as strong as any one of us, and we’re not going to forget those who are struggling, who are most in need of help,” he said.
More Indiana Stories
by WISH Staff Reports / Jul 16, 2019
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WISH) — An Indianapolis man faces 13 criminal charges after he allegedly brought 12 Indiana children younger than 14 to Kentucky to sell candy for him for profit, Kentucky authorities said Tuesday.
The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office charged Shawn Floyd, 54, with 13 misdemeanors: 12 counts of endangering the welfare of a minor and a count of controlled substance prescription not in original container.
2 arrested in multi-year probe of Muncie public corruption
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A Muncie city official and a local contractor have been indicted on federal charges that are the latest to come out of a probe of public corruption in the central Indiana city.
Federal prosecutors say 44-year-old Debra Nicole Grigsby of Muncie and 60-year-old Tony Franklin of Yorktown were arrested Tuesday. Both faced afternoon initial hearings.
Libby and Abby park in Delphi meets fundraising goal
DELPHI, Ind. (WISH) — A park dedicated to two murdered Delphi teens has reached its crowdfunding goal ahead of deadline.
By Monday morning, more than 250 donors raised $50,000 for the Abby and Libby Memorial Park.
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Patrick Henry High School Student Competes at the Virginia State Fair
Fri, October 7, 2016
Patrick Henry High School sophomore, Carlee T., recently competed at the State Fair of Virginia in Doswell, Virginia which was held September 30th through October 2, 2016. Carlee competed against many exhibitors from all across Virginia for awards and scholarships.
She took five heifers with her and brought back many awards including Grand and Reserve Champion Simmental, Grand Champion Bred and Owned, Division Champion in Sim-Angus, and Reserve Division Champion in All Other Breeds with a Limousin. Her Grand Champion Simmental was chosen as Reserve Supreme which placed her with the second place heifer out of the entire show/fair. As a result of this award, Carlee received a $500 scholarship. Congratulations Carlee!
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At the time of my retirement from the West Virginia Department of Transportation/West Virginia Division of Highways, I held the position of deputy secretary of W.Va. DOT and assistant commissioner of W.Va. DOH. I worked for the state of West Virginia for 32 years in many different positions at W.Va. DOT/DOH.
I am writing this letter because some weeks ago while watching a local TV station, I saw/heard Gov. Jim Justice say when asked about the poor condition of W.Va. roads: “Joe Manchin left the roads in this condition.”
After much thought, I feel I have to share a few of my experiences while working in the Manchin administration for about 6 years. During that time, I held the position of district manager in two different districts under Gov. Manchin’s leadership. Several changes were made in how W.Va. DOT/DOH did their work!
Gov. Manchin personally attended a seminar, with most managers at the agency in attendance, and gave a directive that at any time the W.Va. DOH was planning or executing a paving project, the shoulders were to be paved.
Secondly, during Joe Manchin’s time as governor, the W.Va. DOH began to patch potholes using a much more stable process. This entailed the holes being milled out, squared up, and blacktop replaced in a manner that lasted much longer. Additionally, this resulted in a smoother ride for the public, as well as much safer roads.
Furthermore, during Joe Manchin’s tenure as governor, a program was put in place referred to as the Core Maintenance Program. This program required each maintenance organization to send a schedule to the central office detailing when each road in their area of responsibility was to be ditched, patched and mowed.
Ditching is probably the most important function in any road maintenance program. Each road in each organization was to be ditched at least once every three years.
Each road was likewise put on a schedule specifying when they would be patched and mowed. Additional mowing was also performed on specific roads before some holidays.
All information in these core maintenance work schedules was made available to the public. For example, if a citizen called a maintenance organization asking when a road was going to be patched, that organization was to inform the citizen of the date that task was scheduled to be performed.
The goal at that time was to make the information available on the internet, allowing the public to easily be informed.
When these programs were put into place, it was to accomplish quality work in a much more time-efficient manner. This was the biggest change in how road maintenance work was to be accomplished in my tenure with DOH.
I had the honor of working under seven good governors, both Democrat and Republican. It appears to me that Gov. Joe Manchin made road repair a top priority. Road maintenance work during Joe Manchin’s time as governor was improved greatly.
John R. McBrayer
Retired assistant commissioner for the Division of Highways
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Tommy Lee gets called out for body-shaming older, female beach-goer: 'Do better as a human'
Suzy Byrne
Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
Yahoo Celebrity September 14, 2018
Tommy Lee is being criticized for social media posts. (Photo: Getty Images)
Even at 55, Tommy Lee will never part with his bad-boy persona, but he’s being called out for crossing over to rude-boy posturing in a new social media post.
The Mötley Crüe drummer is on vacation with his fiancée, Brittany Furlan, who is 23 years his junior, in his native Greece. He decided to take a break from posting photos of their backsides to share an unflattering photo of a fellow beach-goer — a person minding their own business, reading a book under an umbrella — with an unnecessarily snarky caption: “Sometimes on vacation there’s beauty …. and other times there’s not!”
(Image: Tommy Lee via Instagram)
The unnecessary criticism of an apparent stranger set off commenters, and Lee soon deleted the post from Instagram and Twitter. (However, it remains up on Facebook.) The comments were pretty blunt:
“Dude, this is f**ked up. Do better as a human.”
“There’s being real. And then there’s being real douchy.”
“I thought that was tommy himself… Better take a better look in the mirror there TL you’re not far off.”
“Beach body=have a body, go to the beach! Love all.”
More than one referenced his infamous sex tape, including, “I agree! And tommy the world has had to endure seeing your not so lovely looking [private parts] on many occasions. I’d rather be looking at this tbh.”
For good measure, Lee later posted a video from the beach in which he zoomed in on Furlan’s bikini body and then panned over to an older, nude beach-goer standing nearby — presumably the same woman — and said condescendingly, “Alllllright” as she stood there, unaware she was being broadcast to Lee’s 400,000 followers. (We’ll pass on posting the image of the unclothed woman, which remains up in his Instagram Stories.)
Lee also posted a video that started by zooming in on his fiancée Brittany Furlan’s bikini bod, panned over to an older. nude beachgoer and remarked condescendingly, “Alllllright.” (Image: Tommy Lee via Instagram)
One would think that Lee realized he crossed a line, leading to the deletion of the first post. Then again, maybe not because it remains up on Facebook, and he later posted video of the nude woman standing up.
Lee’s previous vacation photos have focused on himself and Furlan:
Lee’s vacation comes ahead of a Mötley Crüe reunion. Vince Neil recently announced that the guys, who last performed together in 2015, will hit the studio together to record four new songs. They have yet to announce what they’re recording the songs for, but there’s speculation it’s tied to the upcoming film adaptation of their memoir, The Dirt: Confessions of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, which will feature Machine Gun Kelly as Lee. The movie will run on Netflix.
Beyond that, Lee has also made headlines this year for his ongoing public spat with his son, Brandon Lee. Lee ripped his two sons with ex Pamela Anderson in a Father’s Day post, and Brandon reacted by saying he’s twice the man Lee would ever be. That led to a very public war of words, including Brandon posting a video of his father seemingly unconscious, and Lee saying in a post that he paid for Brandon to go to rehab. Sounds like “do better as a human” can be applied to multiple things in this scenario.
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This school has a brilliant solution to avoid dress code violations
Elise Solé
Yahoo Lifestyle December 29, 2017
A middle school is offering students a practical and fashionable way to avoid dress code violations. (Photo: Getty Images)
One middle school in Pennsylvania has devised a creative way to help students meet its dress code: an on-campus clothing closet.
The program, offered by Shamokin Middle School, is just called “The Clothes Closet” and currently offers about 100 articles of free clothing for students to wear in accordance with the dress code policy.
Per the school website, students in grades K-12 cannot wear head-to-toe clothing in one color, baggy pants, Spandex, skirts shorter than the knee, or logos. Instead, collared and turtleneck shirts or cardigans in opaque colors, and items with school logos are encouraged. First-time violators receive a verbal warning and an in-house suspension until a parent can drop off replacement clothing. Students who habitually break the rules can get detention.
In September, principal Chris Venna wanted to offer a proactive approach to the dress code and Tiffani Bogart, a math teacher and adviser to the school’s trivia club, came up with the Clothes Closet, which she helped fund from the proceeds of two multilevel marketing pop-up events and from donations gained in a word-of-mouth campaign.
The closet is located across the hall from Bogart’s classroom. Students whose families can’t afford school-approved clothing, or new students unprepared for the dress code, can pop in the closet, which is stocked with hangers and seasonal clothing, including coats, that’s sorted by size.
“So far, two students have [come forward on their own and] asked for clothing,” Bogart tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “In other cases, we’ve encouraged kids who wear the same pair of pants throughout the week to use the closet. And a student who’s currently homeless will start school in January so I gave her four pairs of pants and six tops from the closet.”
Bogart’s students have also become invested in the project, helping to sort and fold clothes during study hall or even shop for items.
Over the past few years, school dress codes, which are enforced by 58 percent of public schools according to the National Center for Education Statistics, have triggered controversy. Many are called sexist because girls are often body shamed for wearing conservative clothing that can look revealing on different body types. The hashtag #Iammorethanadistraction has gone viral on social media from students frustrated by discriminatory dress codes.
And research hasn’t determined whether dress codes are effective — a 2005 study of six public schools conducted by Youngstown State University in Ohio found that school uniforms contribute to improved behavior, attendance, and graduation rates; however, according to the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, dress codes can be racially biased, with nonwhite students punished more severely for dress code violations than white students.
But few schools have enacted such a positive, proactive approach as the Clothes Closet, which Bogart says has reduced dress code violations in only a few short months.
“Recently, a local church received a $1,500 donation, which the pastor spent at Old Navy on clothes for the closet,” says Bogart. “Once they arrive, we’ll be set for the school year.”
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Buster: "Trump tweeted on Sunday that Democratic representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts should stop telling U.S. government officials how to govern the country and “go back” to their countries of origin." Funny, but the tweet from Trump posted right there in the article only mentioned "Progressive Democrat Congresswomen", but didn't list any of the people in the above quote. That may be who Trump was referring to (and most likely was), but he did NOT tweet that "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts should stop telling U.S. government officials how to govern the country and “go back” to their countries of origin". Report the FACTS, Yahoo, not your spin or your projection of the facts.
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After another disappointing season, Pete reluctantly turns to a rich college booster who has the resources to help recruit top players. They identify three potential targets. The first is farm boy Ricky Roe who is from Larry Bird's hometown of French Lick, Indiana. The second blue chipper is from inner city Chicago, Butch McRae. The big fish is the well over seven foot center Neon Bourdeaux from the swamps of Louisiana.
The Dolphins go on to have a successful season. With help from Pete's ex wife, Neon is able to improve his grades and pass his classes. Butch gets homesick but stays with the threat of his mother's job being taken away. Pete is feeling guilty after cheating the system and the stress of a huge nationally televised game pushes him to the limit. When he discovers through a sports writers tip that one of his favorite players, Tony, had fixed a game by shaving points, he realizes how disgusted he has become with the college game and with his own actions.
In a post game press conference following the big win, Pete confesses to the mass of sports reporters that he participated in illegal recruiting activity and makes a statement about how the game has changed and he resigns from the position.
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Gold medal for experienced Wiltshire Territorial Army Marksmen
Experience definitely won the day as The Royal Wessex Yeomanry pistol shooting team from B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron carried off the gold medal in the TA Open Pistol Shooting Championship at Bisley.
While many of their rivals were equipped with the high-tech, semi-automatic Glock 17, the Territorial Army team saw off all comers using classic 9mm Browning pistols of the kind first issued almost 50 years ago. But they too will be issued with the Glock before long.
Most of the winning quartet were of the same vintage as their weaponry – but that was no handicap as they followed up last year’s third place with an assured display of marksmanship and quick reactions over distances from 10 to 25 metres.
The team comprised: Warrant Office Class 2 Darren Hill, 46, a building contractor from Durrington; Warrant Officer Class 2 Paul Coupland, 43, a security systems engineer from Market Lavington; Staff Sergeant Scott Rowe, 47, an aircraft armourer from the Woodford Valley; and Trooper Richard Carson, 27, an accommodation warden with Wiltshire College in Salisbury.
Two other troopers from B Squadron, John McGowan and Doug Jarvis, competed in the individual events,
“Most of us are ranked in the top 15 nationally as individual competitors,” said WO2 Hill. “Pistol shooting is something you can do only with the armed forces, not in Civvy Street, so it has been very much part of the TA experience.
“We were still firing the old Brownings. Other teams, including the Paras, had new Glocks – much lighter, better to shoot, more accurate.”
WO2 Coupland added: “The colonel who was scoring turned round to us and said: ‘Blimely, if you can shoot that well with those things, imagine what you’ll be able to do when you get the Glock next year?’
WO2 Hill, who joined the TA in the same week as Staff Sergeant Rowe back in 1995, continued: ‘We’ve been chasing the gold for the last ten years. Experience is vital in pistol shooting but we are keen to bring in new blood, people like Trooper Carson here.”
The Territorial Army is becoming the Army Reserve, under proposals announced in July by The Secretary of State for Defence.
The Glock pistol will be issued to reservists as part of a £1.8bn investment in better training and equipment. Made of plastic instead of metal, it weighs a third less than the Browning, is more accurate, and can hold 17 rounds to the older weapon’s 13.
Enhanced conditions for reservists include the introduction of paid annual leave and pension entitlements, plus better access to defence health services and training. Employers will be given £500 per month per reservist when mobilised, in addition to existing help such as with the cost of advertising for replacements.
The Royal Wessex Yeomanry incorporates three other squadrons – in Dorset, Gloucestershire and Devon – and trains Challenger 2 battle tank crewmen in order to fulfil an essential armoured resilience role in support of the Regular Army.
B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Wessex Yeomanry, continues to attract new recruits. For more information call 01722 438343, or to find out about opportunities in the TA visit www.army.mod.uk/join/20237.aspx.
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Capitol Watch: GOP decries Cuomo campaign finance pick
State Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy says Democrats are trying to hijack a commission that should be apolitical.
Author: David Klepper, Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — In New York state government news, Republicans say Gov. Andrew Cuomo is playing politics with a board creating the rules for a new public campaign finance system.
State Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy says Cuomo's appointment of Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs shows Democrats are trying to hijack a commission that should be apolitical.
Meanwhile, two Democratic lawmakers are urging Cuomo to sign legislation that would help parents know if their child's summer camp adheres to state regulations.
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FOX IN THE HENHOUSE? The legislature and Cuomo created the public campaign finance task force earlier this year to set the guidelines for a $100 million program to provide public campaign financing to candidates in exchange for small private donations.
Known as a small donor matching program, the system is intended to reduce the role of deep-pocketed donors and corporations who have long held sway in Albany. The 10-member task force has until December to announce the rules, which will become law unless lawmakers hold a rare end-of-year special session to reject them.
Cuomo and legislative leaders from both parties announced their appointees to the commission earlier this month, and Republicans aren't happy about Cuomo's picks. Speaking to reporters at the Capitol last week, Langworthy was especially critical of Cuomo's decision to tap Jay Jacobs, Langworthy's counterpart and the chairman of the state Democratic Party.
He said Jacobs' appointment shows Democrats plan to hijack the task force and use it to craft rules that benefit their candidates at the expense of Republicans, who are wary of public financing as a waste of tax money. The task force should be apolitical, he said, instead of dominated by the same party that already controls the Senate, Assembly and all four statewide offices.
"This is like putting the hen in charge of the henhouse," he told
Cuomo shrugged off Langworthy's complaint, noting that the minority leaders in the Senate and Assembly got to appoint members to the task force as well, and were free to select anyone they wanted.
"They appointed who they wanted to appoint and I appointed who I wanted to appoint," he said. "Their appointees have political relationships and knowledge and my appointees have political relationships and knowledge."
Indeed, the two appointments from Republicans include a former chief counsel to the Senate Republicans and a top attorney at the state's Board of Elections who had previously served as chief of staff to the Assembly Republican leader.
SUMMER CAMP REGULATIONS: Two Democratic lawmakers are urging Cuomo to sign legislation designed to help parents know if their child's summer camp is state regulated.
Many summer camps do follow health and safety rules set by the state Department of Health, but an estimated 10,000 day camps are not required to do so. Often, unregulated camps tend to focus on a single activity, such as baseball or soccer. Unlike regulated camps, these programs aren't required to get a health permit, check staff and volunteers against the sex offender registry, or maintain vaccination records of camp participants.
Lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year that would require these camps to inform parents that they aren't regulated by the state and place the information on their website.
Cuomo has yet to sign the bill, and even though the law wouldn't take effect for 90 days following his signature, supporters say there's no reason to delay.
"Many parents have no idea they have chosen a non-regulated camp that is not inspected by the state," said Sen. David Carlucci, D-Rockland County and the Senate sponsor of the bill. "Non-regulated camps could have sex offenders on staff preying on our children. Every parent should be notified if their child's camp is not inspected and not following strict state guidelines."
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Chicken-killing Newcastle outbreak shows signs…
Restaurant closures
However, euthanasia efforts continue and bird owners remain angry at officials handling the killings
Tara Young cares for many colorful chickens trying to make sure they don’t get virulent Newcastle disease in the family hen house in Norco on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
By Martin Wisckol | mwisckol@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: July 3, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: July 3, 2019 at 5:20 pm
It’s been nearly a month since the last positive test for the chicken-killing Newcastle disease that’s led to the euthanasia of 1.2 million birds, spurring guarded optimism from officials that the 13-month-old outbreak could be nearing an end.
But 273 birds were euthanized as recently as June 28 as state and federal officials continue to track down poultry that may have been exposed to the virus in Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire, even if they haven’t tested positive.
“While this potentially moves us closer to eradication, must emphasize that any subsequent detections would represent a significant setback,” California State Veterinarian Annette Jones said in a statement Tuesday. “It is important to recognize that the virus will remain in the environment for several more months and the risk of infection remains.
The deadly disease is highly contagious among birds although it poses virtually no threat to humans provided poultry is properly cooked before eating. It is expected to take three to four months after the last positive test before officials will consider lifting quarantines.
Since the first positive test, on May 17, 2018, 1.1 million commercial and industry chickens and turkeys plus nearly 121,000 backyard birds have been euthanized, according to Sandy Cooney of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Before the current lull in positive tests began, on June 5, the longest stretch without a positive result was 10 days.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that 448 premises in California have been infected, including 141 in San Bernardino County, 260 in Riverside County, 45 in Los Angeles County, one in Ventura County and one in Alameda County.
All of Los Angeles County remains under quarantine, as does Riverside County west of La Quinta and San Bernardino County from Palm Desert westward. The quarantines ban owners from moving birds out of or into their current locations. Owners are also told to take “enhanced” biosecurity precautions to help prevent the virus from being transmitted to new areas.
Angry bird owners
Many backyard bird owners — and now-former bird owners — remain angry with the killing of birds that haven’t tested positive, which they believe is often unnecessary, and with the behavior of officials and workers handling the euthanasia.
“People are being bullied and harassed,” said Perris’s Kerri Hand, who along with her mother had 67 pet chickens and three pet turkeys euthanized on April 19. “They’re afraid of the (health and agriculture) people showing up at their house.”
Hand also complained that officials are not following due process laws and are themselves lax in taking biosecurity measures. Hand launched the Facebook page SOB Save Our Birds for bird owners to document their encounters with officials by posting videos and descriptions. The page also helps raise money for a lawsuit filed May 28 seeking to halt euthanasia proceedings.
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Cooney countered that state and federal workers are going by the book.
“We follow established protocols for humane euthanasia set by the American Veterinary Medical Association,” he said. “In instances where we are forced to use warrants, they are properly obtained and executed through the Superior Court. Most residents are supportive of our efforts and understand what we all must do together to eradicate the disease in Southern California.”
Cooney warned that more positive tests are possible while Hand said backyard bird owners won’t rest easy until officials are gone, regardless of whether or not there are positive tests.
“When they pack their stuff and get out of Dodge, I’ll believe it,” Hand said.
This story was updated to correct the date of the last instance of euthanasia, which was June 28.
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Welcome to Willits
Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by mysterious creatures that have plagued them for years. When a local pot farmer is caught up with a wayward group of campers the situation quickly escalates into total carnage.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
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UK bids for COP26 presidency in partnership with Italy
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The governments of the United Kingdom and Italy have issued a joint statement on their proposal for the Presidency of the UN's 26th climate change conference.
The United Kingdom and Italy yesterday agreed to present a proposal for the UK to assume the Presidency of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in partnership with Italy. Building on previous proposals, the UK offers to host the COP and Italy the pre-COP event. The UK and Italy have a proven track-record of working together to champion the need for urgent climate action globally and have both played a key role in shaping ambitious European Union commitments to meet the Paris Agreement.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said:
Today through great joint diplomacy we have agreed a bid for a UK COP26Presidency in partnership with our friends in Italy. Together, through our continued commitment to work across Europe and internationally, we will build a better world for our children.
The Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa, yesterday said:
This partnership between Italy and the UK sends a strong signal of determined and informed cooperation on climate change, which is a theme that requires a change of paradigm and which will dominate our agenda and that of future generations.
The United Kingdom and Italy are at the forefront of driving ambitious climate action.
Both countries have played a key role in shaping ambitious European Union commitments and are active members of the High Ambition Coalition, most recently standing together in support for the Statement on Stepping Up for Climate Ambition at COP24.
In the spirit of this co-operation, and building on our existing relationship, the United Kingdom and Italy are presenting a proposal for the UK to assume the Presidency of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in partnership with Italy.
Within the Pre-COP, Italy will host preparatory events and a significant ‘youth event’, in recognition of the disproportionate impact that climate change will have on young people.
The partnership will be unwavering in its commitment to encouraging the highest possible ambition through COP26, as well as its focus on promoting tangible action that brings to life the transformational change required to unleash the full potential of the Paris Agreement.
This partnership will form the cornerstone of a wider strategic partnership on tackling climate change and delivering ambitious climate action via COP26between Italy and the UK, running through the UN Climate Action Summit this September, COP25, and the concurrent UK G7 Presidency and Italian G20 Presidency in 2021.
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Zayo Group Expands Mount Prospect, IL Colocation Facility
BOULDER, Colo. —Mar. 28, 2014—Zayo Group, LLC (“Zayo”), an international provider of Bandwidth Infrastructure services, announces an expansion in its Mount Prospect, Ill., colocation facility, located at 800 E. Business Center Dr.
zColo, Zayo’s colocation business, acquired the 82,000 sq. ft. facility in August of 2013, At time of purchase, the site had approximately 12,000 sq. ft. of developed data center space. Recent network growth demands of two major internet/content delivery customers prompted a $12 million infrastructure investment to develop the facility. zColo will add 20,000 sq ft of datacenter floor space and 2 Megawatts of utility capacity in a fully redundant N+1 environment, resulting in approximately 32,000 sq ft of total datacenter space and 4 Megawatts of utility power.
The expansion includes power and security system upgrades, redundant cooling systems, and a complete internal remodeling of the facility, which enables customers to access Zayo’s full suite of services and connect to Chicago carrier hotels via Zayo’s dark fiber footprint. The expansion will be completed in August 2014.
Mount Prospect facility customers can colocate in the zColo Mount Prospect facility, while retaining a virtual presence in zColo’s 600 S. Federal St. downtown Chicago data center, or in 350 E. Cermak, using zColo’s Metro Interconnect solution. Metro Interconnects leverage Zayo’s high count dark fiber network to tether suburban colocation facilities, such as Mount Prospect, to key points of internet connectivity. This allows zColo customers connectivity to critical Chicago peering points, internet service providers, financial institutions such as the Chicago Stock Exchange and Mercantile Exchange, and other locations accessible via Zayo’s metro and long haul fiber network.
“The Mount Prospect expansion offers customers a cost-effective colocation alternative to a downtown Chicago carrier hotel, with the same level of connectivity, security and reliability,” says Greg Friedman, vice president of zColo. “Developing the additional space enables zColo to handle the growing demand for hosting, content delivery, and disaster recovery that we’re seeing in the Chicago market.”
For more information about zColo facilities and Zayo’s metro dark fiber network, visit www.zayo.com.
Based in Boulder, Colo., Zayo Group provides comprehensive Bandwidth Infrastructure services in over 300 markets throughout the US and Europe. Zayo delivers a full suite of managed services and dark fiber products to wireline and wireless customers, data centers, Internet content providers, high-bandwidth enterprises, and government agencies across its robust 77,000 route mile network. The company also offers 27 carrier-neutral colocation facilities across the US. Please visit www.zayo.com for more information about Zayo and its fiber solutions.
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Microsoft admitted to private Linux developer security list
Linux developers recognize Microsoft's contributions to Linux and security -- by letting the company's Linux developers in its closed linux-distro security list.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | July 8, 2019 -- 19:55 GMT (12:55 PDT) | Topic: Security
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Most open-source development work, like the name says, is done in the open. The exception is the first stages of security work. Unpatched security holes, however, are discussed and fixed behind closed doors. Now, Microsoft has been admitted to the closed linux-distro list.
Microsoft wanted in because, while Windows sure isn't Linux, the company is, in fact, a Linux distributor. Sasha Levin, a Microsoft Linux kernel developer, pointed out Microsoft has several distro-like builds -- which are not derivative of an existing distribution -- that are based on open-source components. These are:
Azure Sphere: This Linux-based IoT device provides, among various things, security updates to deployed IoT devices. As the project is about to step out of public preview into the GA stage, we expect millions of these devices to be publicly used.
Windows Subsystem for Linux v2: A Linux based distro that runs as a virtual machine on top of Windows hosts. WSL2 is currently available for public preview and schedule for GA early 2020.
Products such as Azure HDInsight and the Azure Kubernetes Service provide public access to a Linux based distribution.
In addition, Levin asked in, because:
"Microsoft has decades long history of addressing security issues via [the Microsoft Security Response Center] MSRC. While we are able to quickly (<1-2 hours) create a build to address disclosed security issues, we require extensive testing and validation before we make these builds public. Being members of this mailing list would provide us the additional time we need for extensive testing."
All of which makes good sense. Besides, Levin revealed in a follow-up note to the discussion:
"The Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows, as a by-product of that MSRC has started receiving security reports of issues with Linux code both from users and vendors. It's also the case that issues that are common for Windows and Linux (like those speculative hardware bugs)."
As David A Wheeler, an open-source security expert, pointed out, the purpose of the list is to enable "everyone to coordinate so that users get fixes." That includes Linux users on WIndows and Azure. So, he supported Microsoft being allowed into the private list.
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable branch kernel maintainer, supported Levin. "He is a long-time kernel developer and has been helping with the stable kernel releases for a few years now, with full write permissions to the stable kernel trees," he said.
Indeed, Kroah-Hartman had "suggested that Microsoft join linux-distros a year or so ago -- when it became evident that they were becoming a Linux distro."
Alexander "Solar Designer" Peslyak, security developer and founder of the open-source Openwall security website, announced Microsoft would be subscribed to the list. While some people -- almost all outside the list -- hated this idea because, in their minds, Microsoft is still The Evil Empire, Peslyak wrote that was "irrelevant per our currently specified membership criteria."
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Peslyak continued:
"Microsoft doesn't look all that different from many other large corporations, including some which already have their Linux distro teams represented on the list. Microsoft has a lasting stigma from its past actions from long ago. IMO, we shouldn't let that result in a biased decision against current Microsoft."
Officially, the Microsoft Linux Systems Group will join the list no later than Aug. 8, 2019.
This list, linux-distros, already included developers from FreeBSD, NetBSD, and most of the major Linux distributors. This includes Canonical, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, and cloud Linux vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle.
This list's purpose is to "report and discuss security issues that are not yet public (but that are to be made public very soon)." How soon? The list's maintainers ask that security holes be kept private for no more than 14 days after being revealed to the group. So, for example, Intel's Intel's CPU Meltdown and Spectre security bugs would not have been discussed on linux-distros. Security issues that are already in the public's eye are handled in the OSS-Security mailing list.
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Microsoft relents on Office support cutoff dates
Microsoft is extending its support window for Office 365 ProPlus on some Windows variants, as well as Office 2016's ability to continue to work with Office 365.
By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft | September 6, 2018 -- 15:01 GMT (08:01 PDT) | Topic: Productivity
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In February this year, Microsoft drew some bold lines in the sand regarding its Office support plans by restricting how long it would support Office 365 ProPlus on various versions of Windows and how long Office 2016 would be able to work with Office 365 services. But on Sept. 6, Microsoft reversed course on these controversial moves.
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Earlier this year, Microsoft officials said they'd no longer support Office 365 ProPlus on Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016 and older and any Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), as of Jan. 14, 2020. This was despite the fact that Windows 8.1 will continue to be supported and patched by Microsoft until Jan. 10, 2023. Windows Server 2016 is still in support until Jan. 11, 2027.
Office 365 ProPlus, which is available via subscription licensing only, comes with locally-installable Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access, Publisher, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business, and the Office mobile apps.
Microsoft's argument was that these coming restrictions would "ensure that both Office and Windows receive regular, coordinated updates to provide the most secure environment with the latest capabilities."
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Today, however, based on customer feedback, Microsoft officials said that Office 365 ProPlus will continue to be supported on Windows 8.1 through January 2023, which is the end of support date for Windows 8.1. Office 365 ProPlus will continue to be supported on Windows Server 2016 until October 2025, which is still short of the 2027 end-of-support date for Windows Server, but five years longer than the cut-off date set in February.
(Why 2025? A spokesperson said: "We want to support Office 365 ProPlus as long as we support other versions of Office on Windows Server 2016. We will support Office 2016 on Windows Server 2016 until October 2025 [that's the end of support date for Office 2016 on all platforms], so we'll support ProPlus on Windows Server 2016 until that date as well.")
Microsoft also said earlier this year that as of October 2020, users would need to be running either Office 365 ProPlus or Office 2019 clients to continue to connect to Office 365 back-end services. Office 2016, which remains supported by Microsoft until 2025, wouldn't work any more as of October 2020, they said.
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But today, again, based on customer feedback, Microsoft will continue to allow Office 2016 clients to work with Office 365 back-end services through October 2023.
Office 2019, the "perpetual," non-subscription version of the Office apps, is on track to ship this fall. Just a reminder: Instead of providing five years of mainstream and five years of extended support for Office 2019, Microsoft is going to provide five years of mainstream support and approximately two years of extended support so as to align with the extended-support end date for Office 2016 (which is Oct. 14, 2025).
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Catch the Oscar-nominated 'My Life as a Zucchini' and other great films at this summer's French animation festival
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The Annecy International Animation Festival (Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy) attracts thousands of filmmakers and movie-goers every year. Primarily a competition for animated films, the festival also holds special screening sessions for the public.
But for those who can’t jet off to France to see the films on offer, the Metroplex cinema in Kitec is hosting French Friday: Annecy from June 8 until August 3, during which it will show three award-winning films from the festival. Here’s what you can expect:
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The 75-minute opening film combines six international shorts from the festival: The Ogre, The Blissful Accidental Death, Negative Space, Grandpa Walrus, Wicked Girl and The Burden.
The Ogre focuses on a giant who feels uneasy about disguising his huge physique; The Blissful Accidental Death tells a story of a man who discovers a secret love letter in an antique shop ; Negative Space explores the relationship between a father and son.
Meanwhile, Grandpa Walrus tells of an unusual family loss; Wicked Girl recounts a young girl’s days in her grandparents’ village in Turkey; and finally The Burden is a musical about animals with apocalyptic undertones.
Three films with Chinese elements also feature: The White Snake, La Sieste, and Wu Qi Dao.
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My Life as a Zucchini (Ma Vie de Courgette)
After losing his mother, grief-stricken nine-year-old Zucchini is sent to a children’s home, where he meets Simon, Ahmed, Jujube, Alice and Beatrice. He does not count on making friends with his new housemates – until he meets Camille, whom he can’t help but develop a crush on.
But just as Zucchini learns to love his newfound family, Camille’s aunt appears out of the blue and wants to claim custody of her.
Based on the French YA novel Autobiography of a Zucchini by Gilles Paris, this Oscar-nominated clay-mation beautifully portrays the adult world from the eyes of children.
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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (Le Grand Méchant Renard et Autres Contes)
Featuring a host of colourful animal characters, this animation shows that the countryside isn’t as calm and peaceful as you might expect.
In the stories, an anxious pig, a silly rabbit and a duck who can’t swim embark on a mission to work out what to do with a baby that fell from a tree; a hungry fox tries to steal some eggs, only for the chicks to hatch and think he is their mother; and a group of animals getting ready for Christmas manage to accidentally kill Santa Claus.
Adapted from co-director Benjamin Renner’s graphic novels Le Grand Méchant Renard and Un Bébé à Livrer, this compilation of three half-hour TV specials is both funny and heart-warming.
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