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1. Who may vote in a Borough election?
A qualified Borough voter is a person registered to vote in state elections at residence address within the Borough at least 30 days before the election at which the person seeks to vote. KGBC 5.10.010
2. How do I get ready to vote?
1. Register by September 1, 2019, to vote in the October 1, 2019 Regular Borough election 2. Decide how you want to vote: in person, by electronic transmission (fax/email), or by mail 3. Get educated! Pick up sample ballots as early as September 11, 2019 from the Clerk's Office
Voter Registration Forms and Instructions
3. How can I register to vote?
Voter registration forms are available at the Borough Clerk's Office, City Clerk's Office, Ketchikan Public Library, and Alaska Elections Homepage .
4. Can I plan ahead and request a ballot ahead of time?
Yes. Voters may apply for absentee ballots at the Clerk's office as early as January 1, as follows:
A by-mail ballot as early as January 1 of the calendar year in which the election was held
An electronic ballot no sooner than 30 days prior to the election
An in-person absentee ballot no sooner than 15 days prior to the election
5. How do I vote in person for a Borough Election?
Show up - polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Clerk's offices for absentee in person.
Have ID ready - election workers will have precinct register.
Not your precinct - you can vote using a questioned envelope.
Follow the voting instructions provided by the poll workers.
Do not take campaign materials with you. Campaign signs and materials are not allowed within 200 feet of an active polling place, including the absentee voting locations at the Clerk's office.
Borough Polling Places
6. What if I am housebound or need help voting?
Provisional voting is available for you. Another adult may serve as a personal representative and may pick up a ballot for you, bring it to you for you to vote, sign the witness acknowledgment on the outside of the personal representative envelope, and return the ballot in the personal representative envelope to the absentee voting facility or any voting precinct on election day.
7. Where do I vote?
There are seven Borough election precincts. Your designated polling place is based on your residential address. On election day, your name will be listed on the precinct register in the precinct where you reside. You may vote in another polling place, but you will be asked to fill out a questioned voter envelope. Questioned voter ballots will be reviewed and counted separately by the canvass board. Borough Polling Places
8. More questions?
Give the Borough Clerk's office a call at 228-6605, or stop by at 1900 First Avenue, Suite 115 (White Cliff building). Borough Election Web Page
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2014 Bordeaux Availability
The 2016 primeurs campaign is in full-ish swing and I find myself as exasperated as the negociants in Bordeaux to whom I have been talking. The chateaux are at it again. 2016 is a seriously big vintage, yet the wines are being released in minuscule tranches in order to force the market ever higher.
Please don't get involved in this travesty. It is very likely that most wines will be available at a later date and most likely they'll be, broadly speaking, available at the same price. Playing the Bordelais game will only encourage them.
In any event, the last vintage that really interested me at primeurs time was 2014. I have made it abundantly clear how much I like this harvest. The wines have no sense of exaggeration whatsoever (unlike so many of today's vintages) but they have class in spades.
A couple of clients have contacted me recently asking for a list of what's available and both had something of a nibble. Stocks aren't currently listed online, so I thought I should make everyone aware of what we have for sale.
We can offfer:
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Calon Segur, St Estèphe £360 in bond - 2x6 available
"The 2014 Calon Ségur is a real show-stopper. Unusually ripe, powerful and seductive, the wine exudes class. Myriad shades of plum, sweet red cherry, pomegranate, spice and blood orange are all on display. Wild flowers, tobacco and host of more aromatic notes develop in the glass. Above all else, though, the 2014 is a wine of pure power and breadth. This is yet another fabulous showing for the 2014 Calon Ségur, a wine that vies for top honors in this vintage. Don't miss it." Antonio Galloni
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Cheval-Blanc, St Emilion £1,950 in bond - 2x6 available
"A wine of exceptional finesse, the 2014 Cheval Blanc lifts from the glass with captivating aromatics and sculpted red-fleshed fruit, all with the extra kick of acidity and overall freshness that are such a signature of this vintage. The 2014 is bright, finessed and persistent. It will almost certainly put on weight in bottle. I have a feeling something special is developing here." Antonio Galloni
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Figeac, St Emilion £450 in bond - 3x6 available
"The 2014 Figeac is shaping up to be a real jewel of a wine. Powerful and structured, with plenty of tannic spine, the 2014 won't start hitting its stride for at least a few years. Even today, though, it is impressive for its energy and overall intensity. Plum, smoke, spice, graphite and leather build into the huge, expressive finish. Figeac is one of the stars of the vintage. There is real density and gravitas here, not to mention considerable personality." Antonio Galloni
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac £255 in bond - 4x6 available
"The 2014 Grand Puy Lacoste is superb. Dark, dense and inviting, the 2014 possesses remarkable depth and richness. Black cherry, plum, smoke, licorice and tobacco all develop in the glass, but it is the overall feel that is most impressive. Silky, polished tannins nicely balance the wine's overt personality. In short, the 2014 has it all. Don't miss it. This is a knockout wine from proprietor François-Xavier Borie." Antonio Galloni
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Léoville-Barton, St Julien £270 in bond - 4x6 available
"The 2014 Leoville Barton is one of the must-buys of the vintage. Now in bottle, it has a very pure bouquet that gains intensity in the glass, laden with blackberry and raspberry coulis scents, cold wet stone, a wonderful mineralité that becomes more conspicuous with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with tensile tannin, a fine line of acidity that lends this precision and nervosité. There is class and sophistication in situ, not a powerful Léoville Barton, but beautifully poised. This is just a brilliant forerunner to the 2015 and it should represent great value." Neal Martin
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Malescot-St-Exupéry, Margaux £180 in bond - 2x6 available
"The 2014 Malescot Saint Exupéry is powerful, rich and explosive. One of the more exuberant, flamboyant Margaux that readers will come across, the Malescot exudes serious depth and intensity. Black cherry, plum, smoke, licorice and dark spice meld into the deep, succulent finish. The 2014 needs time in bottle, but it is impressive and also highly promising," Antonio Galloni
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Montrose, St Estèphe £540 in bond - 3x6 available
"The 2014 Montrose is without question one of the standout wines of the vintage. Black cherry, plum, smoke, licorice and lavender are some of the many aromas and flavors that open up in the glass. But the 2014 is a much deeper wine than just a bunch of descriptors can conjure. In 2014, Montrose is a wine of exceptional finesse and polish. The late-ripening vintage allowed for perfect maturation of the tannins and resulted in a silky wine that exudes class and pedigree. The 2014 is not an obvious or bombastic Montrose, but rather a wine of sublime enchantment. Don't miss it!" Antonio Galloni
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Château Pontet-Canet, Pauillac £354 in bond - 2x6 available
"The 2014 Pontet-Canet seems to have put on quite a bit of weight and volume since I first tasted it from barrel. Ripe, juicy tannins wrap around a core of intense dark cherry, plum, spice, lavender and tobacco. Today, it is the wine's sheer intensity and vertical structure that stands out. I wouldn't dream of touching a bottle until at least age ten, and even that is almost certainly not going to be enough time for the 2014 to show the full breadth of its potential. The transformation the 2014 has undergone from a delicate, nuanced Pauillac to a wine of depth is quite remarkable. Tasted three times. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, vinified in equal parts cement and oak and aged in a combination of 50% new oak, 35% amphora and 15% once used barrels. This is a gorgeous wine from the Tesseron family and the team led by Technical Director Jean-Michel Comme." Antonio Galloni
1 case (12x75cl) 2014 Château de France Blanc, Pessac-Léognan £165 in bond - 1x12 available
"Grapefruit, nettle and subtle oak spice. Vibrant and expressive with a lot of core concentration. Just a hint of baked apple adds further complexity. Like their red, this is a great 2014." jancisrobinson.com
1 case (6x75cl) 2014 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, Pessac-Léognan £345 in bond - 1x6 available
"The 2014 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc is a beautiful white Pessac-Léognan. It offers a very succinct and focused bouquet of dew-speckled Granny Smiths, then flint and wet limestone, certainly a more stony bouquet than overt fruit. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity, exquisite balance, the citrus fruit dappled with white pepper and spices, but everything very judicious and nuanced. It offers wonderful persistence in the mouth, basically a class act that comes strongly recommended." Neal Martin
Let me know ASAP if one, some, or more of these is of interest. Email Caspar[at]boweswine.co.uk
2014 Bordeaux, Calon Sandégur, Cheval Blanc, Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, Figeac, GPL, Landéoville Barton, Montrose
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Oreo’s Newest Flavor Is a Perfect Take on a Classic Summer Dessert
Kat Armstrong · Mar 23, 2016
With summer just around the corner, we’re dreaming of all our favorite warm weather flavors. Desserts filled with fresh fruit and cool whipped cream are such a staple of summer, so, of course, big brands like Oreo want to get in on the action. Hot off the heels of their most recent cookie announcement, we’re getting word that the cookie giant is prepping something tasty for spring.
Thanks to a little Instagram sleuthing, we’ve discovered that Oreo will be releasing a limited edition Strawberry Shortcake flavored cookie next month. User @Jaimesberg shared this photo earlier this week and, well, it’s safe to say it’s getting everyone really excited:
There’s a little bit of a catch: The cookies won’t be around forever. These limited edition Oreos will be available only at Walmart and only while supplies last starting April 4th. They’ll be the perfect pick-me-up while we await fresh berries and whipped cream on top of fluffy cakes, but probably a little easier for dipping into a cold glass of almond milk.
Will you pick up a box or two of the newest Oreo flavor? Tell us @Britandco!
(h/t Thrillist. Photos via @Jaimesberg + iStock)
Kat Armstrong
Kat has been a writer, social media maven and mom for longer than she's willing to admit. She's also spent time in front of and behind the camera, interviewing celebs, politicians and acting as a producer for fashion and artistic photography shoots. When she isn't writing for various orgs and publications, she's hanging with her kids, husband and French Bulldog, Peter, in Toronto, Canada.
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Kohl's stores nationwide now accepting Amazon returns
After a successful trial run, Kohl's department stores nationwide are now accepting Amazon returns.
If you've ordered something that didn't work out — maybe it arrived broken or was the wrong size — you can now take it to the customer service counter at a nearby Kohl's store. Kohl's employees will package returns and ship them back to Amazon free of charge.
“The nationwide rollout of the Amazon Returns program is our single biggest initiative of the year,” Kohl's CEO Michelle Gass said in a written statement. “Our top strategic priority is driving traffic, and this transformational program does just that. It drives customers into our stores, and we are expecting millions to benefit from this service.”
The Amazon Returns program was tested earlier this year at Kohl's stores in Chicago, Los Angeles and Milwaukee before being rolled out nationally.
Wisconsin-based Kohl's has 1,100 stores across the U.S.
Get more details on Amazon Returns here.
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The Counseling Practice of Bruce W. Cameron, MS, LPC-S, LSOTP PA
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Bruce Cameron Bio -Since 1990, Bruce Cameron has worked as a therapist, and administrator for the U.S. Department of Justice/Federal Bureau of Prisons. His professional credentials include Licensed Professional Counselor/Supervisor, Licensed Sex Offender Treatment Provider, and Texas Deregistration Evaluator.
Mr. Cameron received his graduate training in clinical psychology at the University of Wyoming, and completed his American Psychological Association internship in clinical forensic psychology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This was followed by a fellowship in clinical forensic psychology with the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, where he opened the Pilot Residential Drug Abuse and Sex Offender treatment units. He was promoted to Director of psychology services at the Federal Medical Center in Carville, Louisiana. He then opened the female Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, focusing on addiction treatment. In 2000, he promoted to the Bureau’s South Central Regional Office/Transitional Services section in Dallas, Texas, which procures and provides technical oversight of drug abuse, mental health and sex offender treatment services for releasing federal inmates in a five-state region. Mr. Cameron retired in 2013 from his final assignment as a Central Office Community Treatment Oversight Division, duty station Grand Prairie, Texas. Mr. Cameron now maintains a private counseling/consulting practice in Dallas and Southlake, Texas, and an adjunct faculty appointment for Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri.
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Land O Lakes Pasteurization Plant
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Located at Main Avenue & 12th Street, this building is the pasteurization plant for Land O Lakes Dairy. It was built in 1939 originally for Yegen Dairy.
Dating back to when John Yegen opened a bakery and restaurant out of a tent in 1872 (the same year Bismarck was founded), Yegen entered the dairy business in 1919, becoming the region’s primary dairy producer. The company was purchased by Land O Lakes in 1966.
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Cape Mentelle Chardonnay 2017
Margaret River, Western Australia | 750ml | 14.5%
As a pioneer of Western Australia's Margaret River wine region, Cape Mentelle consistently produce one of Australia's leading Chardonnays. The 2017 Cape Mentelle Chardonnay is another stunning rendition; delivering a powerful, intensely flavoured and perfectly balanced Margaret River Chardonnay that will further bolster the reputation of Cape Mentelle.
Reviews of the 2016 vintage included below;
"97 Points. Full-on green-gold; it's exceptionally intense and concentrated, with all manner of stone fruits and a savoury gauze of grapefruit juice and zest. The acidity is important now, and will be so later. Striking. Screwcap. 14% alc. To 2026. $45" - James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion 2019.
"A bolder iteration of one of Australia’s classic wines. Almost Leeuwin-esque. Let that bad boy off its chain! Golden colour. Nectarine, dried pear, cashew, ginger and spices, struck match. Powerful, juicy and dripping with peach and pear, tight acidity of intensity and almost cumquat intensity, toasty oak and barrel ferment character, and a preserved lemon piquancy to close, with a light chalkiness in texture. Big flavour and big style. Like this, though suggest it may not be one for the ages. Get stuck in. Rated: 94 Points Tasted: Oct17 Alcohol: 14% Price: $47 Closure: Screwcap Drink: 2017 - 2021+" - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front.
As one of Margaret River’s ‘founding five’ wineries, Cape Mentelle pioneered many of the region’s renowned wine styles and today is a benchmark for the quality of the region’s wines.
Wine industry pioneer David Hohnen and brothers Mark and Giles established Cape Mentelle Vineyards in 1970. The Cape Mentelle journey started small with just 16 hectares of vines planted on what is now referred to as the ‘Wallcliffe Vineyard’. In the early years David Hohnen experimented with grape varieties including shiraz, cabernet, zinfandel, sauvignon blanc and semillon. Many of these original plantings are the source of the distinctive wines that have come to characterise Cape Mentelle. The winery’s flagship Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced primarily from the original Wallcliffe Vineyard.
Cape Mentelle unashamedly draw inspiration from the great wines of the world; this is reflected in the techniques employed in the vineyard as they aim to produce wines that capture a unique sense of place in every bottle. These characteristics are defined by the pristine coastal location, unique soils and 40 years of viticultural history.
Cape Mentelle's philosophy extends beyond the glass as they endeavour to create a legacy of sustainability and longevity. Constantly improving the potential of their vineyards and local environments, they are committed to paving the way for the next generation to continue the pursuit of crafting Australia's definitive wine styles.
The Vineyard: The chardonnay is newly only single cane-pruned and all vertical shoot positioned producing an upright open canopy. Our 2 chardonnay vineyards (Chapman Brook and Crossroad) are planted to the Gin Gin selection along with classic Burgundian clones 95 and 76 and one patch of Californian clone 5. The canopy is extensively and early opened and thinned by hand on both sides, fully exposing berries for even ripening while our naturally cool nights preserve the natural acidity.
The Season: Following a beautiful and promising flowering, summer was mild and our vineyards were fully dry-grown. The cool nights and mild days provided the perfect growing conditions for delicate aromas and fine acid balance in whites. Harvest finally started at Cape Mentelle on February 28th, with generous yields, across all the vineyards in the Margaret River region.
Winemaking: As each block has a very different personality picking is only decided by taste. Harvest extends over a long period, from late February to mid-March. The fruit is 100% hand-picked into small 6.5kg baskets to ensure it arrives in pristine condition. After gentle whole-bunch pressing, the batches go straight to barrels, all solids remaining. We use exclusively French oak, with Burgundian barrel format, at about one third new. Wild fermentation is left to happen with some malolactic fermentation. The wine was bottled over two days in mid-January, just before the start of the following harvest.
Analysis: 14.5% alcohol, 7.2 g/l total acidity, 3.2pH
Cape Mentelle Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2017
Margaret River New Vintage
Fraser Gallop Estate Chardonnay 2018
Xanadu Estate Chardonnay 2017
Margaret River 95 Pts - James Halliday
Stella Bella Chardonnay 2016
Voyager Estate Chardonnay 2016
Howard Park Chardonnay 2018
Great Southern New Vintage
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Music: CD Reviews
Cary Brothers: Under Control
(InGrooves)
By Natasha Desianto
There’s something to be said for sincerity. Forget the likes of John Mayer and their plays at wooing the ladies through song. Intelligent women can spot a phony from a mile off and the Playboy debacle just proved what people like me can already sense.
Cary Brothers, on the other hand, while maintaining that courting troubadour, singer-songwriter simplicity, has an air of integrity that can’t be mistaken. And it makes him a million times more sexy. Brothers should be at least as well known as Mayer and his latest offering, Under Control, might just carry him to that pinnacle.
The album opens strong, with Brothers immediately declaring, “Strike a match and burn your soul down” over woeful piano phrase on the melancholy yet soaring “Ghost Town.” From here on it doesn’t let up, even on understated numbers like the title track. It may sound clichéd, but Brothers has one of those voices that is expressive enough to evoke shivers. These are break-up anthems for people who hold their melancholia dear.
“Break Off the Bough” is certainly among the album’s strongest offerings, kicking off sparse with a haunting melody laid over a staccato guitar line which builds up to a momentous chorus and bridge that offer a rare glimmer of sunshine. “Someday” is the other uplifting track, danceable with a hook that doesn’t quit your brain. “Over and Out” is another highlight, a return to the bittersweet, but always with a hint at hope on the horizon.
“Alien” deals with, surprise, the alienation that one feels at the impending demise of a relationship with the fitting phrase, “Give me a song that weighs a ton.” The heartache that Brothers conveys in a simple phrase bares more weight than several pages of some people’s prose can carry.
This offering’s sole misstep is its cover of Level 42’s “Something About You,” which lacks the power and glory of the original and leaves the listener wondering why he bothered. The album closes with the minimalist “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” another example of Brothers’ ability to captivate in even the most restrained moments. Under Control is simple good songwriting, a string of elegant jewels that nestle up to your heart.
Under Control is currently available.
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David Wright: We got our goals with real pace and power
David Wright said he was pleased with the way his Under-23s side reacted when reflecting on last night's draw against Stoke City.
Norwich drew 2-2 against an in-form Stoke despite being 2-0 down with 15 minutes left to play. Adam Idah’s two late goals saw the Canaries earn a deserved point against the Potters who had been on a six-game winning streak.
Wright said: “In the first half I just felt that we needed to be a bit braver just to overload their number four, because they were set up as a 4-1-4-1, so the space was at either side of him.
“We just couldn’t quite get that pass in, because their two midfield players were really tight on Tom [Scully] and Saul [Milovanovic]. Once or twice we got it right and managed to bypass there press, but other than that we just couldn’t get it quite right.
“In the second half we got caught out at the start because we pressed really high to try and win it, and to be fair to them they bypassed us and scored a good enough goal.
“Overall, I was really pleased with the way we reacted, we went 1-0 down and we went full press on them, I thought the boys got our two goals with real pace and power and by being really decisive.”
David Wright welcomed four senior players in his Under-23s starting eleven against Stoke, and said having them in the side helps to improve the rest of his players' games.
He said: “We’ve got Zac Dronfield and Louis Lomas as first and second year scholars in front of Michael [McGovern] as well as Philip [Heise] and Felix [Passlack] either side of them with Louis [Thompson] in front of them, so it’s great experience for the young lads.
“Daniel Farke has got a First Team squad with excellent quality, so when they drop down with us their attitude and application is brilliant.
“When our young boys see the way they conduct themselves and their attitude when training it’s brilliant because we can say it as much as we want to them, but when they see these pros in action, training to the level that they play, and playing to the level that they train then I think that speaks a thousand words.”
Idah bagged a five minute brace for the Canaries with the first coming after Ant Spyrou, who made his return after being out with an injury, was fouled in the box and a penalty was awarded.
Wright said: “All of a sudden we’re getting a lot of injured players back and in the next couple of weeks we will have even more back, so the Under-23s squad is just going to keep getting bigger.
“We have a bigger squad now compared to a couple of games ago, so from now until the end of the season there’s going to be a real fight for game time which means the boys, day in day out are going to have to work their socks off.”
Norwich City PL2 vs Stoke City PL2 on 11 Mar 19
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Judith H.
Diagnosed with lymphoma
When Judith was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2014, she took it as an opportunity to take a step back and reevaluate her life. Over the course of three decades, she had worked as an actress, a healer, and a childbirth educator and labor doula. She even assisted at the first underwater birth in New York City. In this new phase of life, she saw a chance to seek clarity.
“Cancer woke me up, slowed me down, got me to my next step and helped me get rid of things in my life that weren’t working,” she says.
Despite Judith’s proactive attitude, coping with the daily realities of a cancer diagnosis was still a struggle. She knew she wanted support, but had trouble finding a counselor who she clicked with. She found her match at CancerCare.
“My CancerCare social worker, Anna, was very open to listening and working with me where I was,” Judith says. “I met with her right after my last chemo session. I was barely able to walk into her office, I was so discombobulated.”
CancerCare became a safe place for Judith to discuss her decisions and emotions as she continued her treatment. “Anna became a grounding rod,” she shares. “I felt safe, when I went into her office. She helped me get through multiple surgeries – dealing with the pain, the politics, the billing, the uncertainty – and helped me focus on the here and now.”
Judith also took advantage of CancerCare’s online support groups, and particularly enjoyed Healing With Words — A Therapeutic Writing Group. “That was extremely, extremely helpful. Writing became my manna, my life source. I had to do it to get well. I still write every day.” She estimates that in that group alone, she wrote enough material for a book.
When asked what advice she’d give to other people coping with cancer, Judith says, “Call CancerCare immediately. They offered me full-spectrum support.”
Judith now defines herself as a cancer thriver – someone who is focused on finding ‘the thrive beyond the survive.’ “Even as a strong, independent woman, I still have fears. I’m still seeking,” she says.
“Cancer was about opening doors to something new. I’m still asking the universe, what? And with faith and trust, being guided to the answers.”
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At Cummins, the difference between world-class products and setting the gold standard for industry begins with our employees. Some of the auto industry’s best and brightest are found inside our facilities across the United States. This is a career where thinking beyond your desk, workstation or toolbox isn't just part of your job. It is the job.
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Trust, 1st Edition
Tarun Khanna
DDC: 338
Original Copyright 2018 | Published/Released December 2018
Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. The developed world has customs and institutions like enforceable contracts, an impartial legal system, credible regulatory bodies, and unofficial but respected sources like Consumer Reports that have created a high level of what the author calls “ambient trust.” This is not the case in the developing world. But rather than become casualties of mistrust, the author shows that smart entrepreneurs can weave their own independent web of trust—with employees, partners, clients, customers and society as a whole. Using international examples, he shows how to build on existing customs and practices instead of trying to push against them. He highlights the role new technologies can play (but cautions that these are not panaceas) and explains how entrepreneurs can find dependable partners in national and local governments.
Praise for Trust.
Other Books by Tarun Khanna.
Dedication.
Introduction: Trust, Entrepreneurship, and the Developing World.
1: The Why’s and How’s of Trust.
2: The Mindset Change.
3: Building on Existing Social Norms.
4: Working as a Team with the State.
Trust: A Coda.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
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Column: Harris made Biden appear like a man of yesterday, not tomorrow
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Democratic presidential hopeful US Senator for California Kamala Harris speaks during the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, June 27, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/Getty Images)
The biggest impact of this week’s two-night, 20-candidate Democratic extravaganza is that a new star has emerged: Sen. Kamala Harris of California turned in one of the best debate performances I’ve ever seen. She earned herself a place in the upper tier of the crowded field. Now we’ll see if she has what it takes to climb all the way to the top — and stay there.
Harris’ ascent came at the expense of front-runner Joe Biden, who had such a disappointing outing that all he can do is make sure he does better next time. He still leads all comers, and one debate didn’t change that. But he showed vulnerabilities that have to make Democratic voters nervous about his prospects in a general election race against President Trump.
That, after all, is by far the biggest question for many Democrats: Who is the surest bet to beat Trump? The answer, according to polls thus far, is Biden. But his performance Thursday night has to make never-Trump voters nervous.
With what was clearly a pre-planned assault on Biden — on his fond reminiscences of white-supremacist Senate colleagues and his late-1970s stance against federally mandated school busing to achieve racial integration — Harris accomplished three important things. The former California attorney general displayed her world-class skills as a prosecutor, treating Biden like a defendant on the witness stand. She made Biden look defensive and flustered and, frankly, old. And she introduced her personal history as a young black girl in Berkeley who rode a bus to school.
Her attack on Biden wasn’t nice, but it wasn’t unfair — his stance on busing is a matter of public record. She was careful to begin by making clear she was not accusing Biden of being a racist. But what she did imply was that he was a man of yesterday, not tomorrow.
It was easy to imagine her utterly demolishing Trump on a debate stage. It was possible to imagine Biden doing the same thing, but you had to wonder.
So Harris got everybody’s attention. Now begins the serious vetting — of her record, her background, her temperament, her positions on the issues. She indicated during the debate that her Medicare-for-all health care plan involves eliminating private health insurance, but her campaign said Friday that she misunderstood the question. So which is it? Biden has vast experience in foreign affairs; Harris doesn’t. Is she the one to repair the damage Trump is doing to the nation’s standing in the world? She denounces and rejects Trump’s immigration policy. What’s hers?
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If Harris’ debate triumph was a revelation, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ performance was familiar. Nobody stays on-message better than Bernie. But unlike four years ago, when he had the progressive wing of the party to himself, this year he has to share it with Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who dominated Wednesday night’s first half of the debate. We’ll have to wait until next time, perhaps, to see how her detailed plans for addressing problems and issues compete on a debate stage with Sanders’ general call for a political “revolution.”
Pete Buttigieg created a moment when he forthrightly took responsibility for not doing more to diversify the police department of South Bend, Indiana, during his time as mayor. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado and former housing secretary Julian Castro really helped themselves this week; New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York showed that breaking the debate rules and interrupting constantly gets you noticed, not punished. And God bless Marianne Williamson, because yes, we do need love.
Bottom line: Harris won the two-night debate by a wide margin. And Biden needs to do better next time if he wants to keep his lead.
Eugene Robinson is a columnist for the Washington Post.
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The education programme “Kleine Ohren” of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern makes unknown music come to life: Christine Rauh plays the cello concerto of Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin. SWR2 music editor Sabine Fallenstein talked to her.
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Citizen Revolt: March 7
Rally for women on International Women's Day. Don't miss out on citizen lobbying before the Legislature ends. Plus, learn how to make a difference on social, economic, racial and climate-change issues.
By Katharine Biele @kathybiele
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY RALLY
Look around. So many of the struggles around the world are related to feminist issues. And it's not like the men in charge are going to solve the problem. Women are demanding good-paying jobs, housing, reproductive-health care, education, amnesty for all immigrants and an end to violence. Int'l Women's Day Rally—Unite & Fight! is as much an anti-Donald Trump rally as it is a feminist and working class battleground. "Every progressive reform for women's rights has been won through mass mobilization. Building a grassroots movement independent from the two parties who uphold the status quo of racism, war and inequality is an essential task for genuine women's liberation," the event's Facebook page says. State Capitol, 350 N. State, 801-508-4371, Friday, March 8, 5:30-6:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2SANJRZ.
CITIZEN LOBBYING WORKSHOP
This is it! The Legislature is wrapping up one of its most astounding sessions. Take this chance to join the Citizen Lobbying Workshop with the Utah Rivers Council and Utah Chapter Sierra Club before it's too late. You'll learn about all the important environment-related bills and participate in a quick lobbying 101 training before you head out to engage with our state lawmakers. The news is not all bad. There have been some hopeful bills this session, and you can make an impact on the good and the bad, including public lands, nuclear waste and air quality legislation. State Capitol, 350 N. State, State Office Building B110 (basement), Monday, March 11, 1-3 p.m., free, bit.ly/2NA86xO.
RESISTANCE ORGANIZING
Have you ever felt disenfranchised or simply unable to make a difference? Now is the time to take direct action for critical social, economic, racial and climate-change issues. Still, you have to start somewhere. Join the first community Civil Riot Meeting, which organizers hope will begin a dialogue to form strong relationships and create a collective of strong and willing participants. Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 385-256-5248, Thursday, March 14, 7-8:45 p.m., free, bit.ly/2H8gkfq.
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Hear from the mayoral candidates on is sues within the Muslim community. Learn about Utah's recent record number of officer-involved shootings. Plus, join a town hall to discuss the recent wave of social movements.
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Learn about the benefits of dark skies, embrace skateboard diplomacy and get the latest on Utah's nuclear threat.
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Toyota-Honda Airbag Crisis Undermines Confidence in Auto Safety
By Craig Trudell, Ma Jie and Yuki Hagiwara | October 21, 2014
A deepening crisis involving deadly airbags is shaking confidence in the ability of automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. to ensure the safety of millions of U.S. drivers.
Toyota is advising U.S. owners to keep passengers out of front seats until defective Takata Corp. airbag parts are replaced, four months after following the same procedure in Japan.
Takata faces investigations into whether exploding shrapnel from its flawed parts are to blame for at least four deaths involving vehicles made by Honda, including a Florida crash that was initially investigated as a homicide because of deep gashes to the victim’s neck.
The growing number of airbag recalls also raise doubts about whether carmakers have learned to address defects quickly and comprehensively after General Motors Co.’s bungled ignition switch recalls and Toyota’s failures in 2009 and 2010 involving unintended acceleration. Honda is under separate probes over whether it underreported fatalities and injuries in the U.S.
“This undermines the credibility or confidence in driving, generally, and in cars,” Ashvin Chotai, managing director of researcher Intelligence Automotive Asia, said by phone. “There’s very little consumers can do about it. Of course they feel less confident about sitting in a car and they’ll be extra cautious, but beyond that, what can you do?”
The latest developments of the air-bag crisis led to the biggest blow yet to the shares of Takata, which plunged by 23 percent today in Tokyo trading, the steepest decline since the company’s 2006 listing. The Tokyo-based company, which started in the 1930s as a textile manufacturer, has seen its market value drop by about 100 billion yen ($1 billion) this year. Toyota fell 1.6 percent and Honda slipped 1.5 percent today.
The recalls of at least 4.7 million vehicles in the U.S. during the last two years tied to Takata airbags also involves Nissan Motor Co., Mazda Motor Corp., Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and GM. Nissan dropped 2.2 percent and Mazda fell 1.6 percent as the benchmark Topix Index erased earlier gains to finish the day down 1.6 percent.
“Investors are concerned about how this safety problem will develop and now are refraining from buying stocks of those carmakers,” Hideyuki Suzuki, general manager of investment market research at SBI Securities Co., said by phone. “The Japan car industry leads the Japanese market, and if it goes the wrong way, that could impact the whole Japanese market.”
Honda, Nissan and Mazda have yet to follow Toyota in issuing warnings against sitting in front-passenger seats, a step that the Japanese carmakers took in their domestic market in June.
Improper Performance
Toyota extended this approach to the U.S. after Takata shared data that showed the inflators sent back to the supplier as part of its customers’ recalls were performing improperly. The world’s largest automaker this week called back 247,000 vehicles, including some models of the Toyota Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia and Tundra, made from 2001 to 2004.
Most of the vehicles were subject to recalls by Toyota in June this year or May 2013, said John Hanson, a U.S. spokesman for the company.
“We’re prepared to do whatever the owner asks us to do,” he said. “If the owner is afraid to drive the car, we’ll come and get it.”
Toyota began issuing the public warning against sitting in front-passenger seats of unfixed cars as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stepped up efforts to reach affected vehicle owners.
‘Act Immediately’
NHTSA issued a statement yesterday telling owners to “act immediately on recall notices to replace defective Takata airbags,” adding there should be particular urgency in areas of high humidity such as Florida, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Honda is still examining airbag inflators that have been replaced as part of its recalls of 2.8 million vehicles in the U.S. tied to Takata air bags the past two years, spokesman Chris Martin said.
“We will act appropriately based on the results of this investigation,” Martin said by phone. Honda is Takata’s biggest customer and has called back 6 million vehicles for problems with airbags in nine recalls since 2008. The carmaker owns 1.2 percent of Tokyo-based Takata.
Nissan doesn’t plan to disable passenger-side airbags in the U.S. and hasn’t received instructions from NHTSA to do so, said spokesman Chris Keeffe. Mazda also doesn’t plan to change its U.S. recall strategy, spokeswoman Keiko Yano said by phone.
Motorists wondering whether their cars are subject to a recall can type their vehicle identification numbers into the government’s website, www.safercar.gov.
Automaker Response
While Takata is at the center of the U.S. government’s airbag investigation, NHTSA also is probing how the car companies responded to defects with the components.
The Center for Auto Safety, a watchdog group in the U.S., accused Honda last week of failing to report all airbag-related injuries and a deaths to a government database as required. The center’s Oct. 15 letter to David Friedman, NHTSA’s deputy administrator, also called for the U.S. Justice Department to conduct a criminal investigation into Honda’s reporting.
Honda asked a third party to begin an audit last month of potential inaccuracies in the quarterly Early Warning Reports it’s required to file to NHTSA. The automaker said in an Oct. 16 statement that it will share results of the audit with the regulator soon.
The Florida Highway Patrol said last week it’s investigating a fatality involving a Honda Accord driver stemming from neck wounds allegedly caused by an inflating airbag.
There are at least two similar incidents involving Honda vehicles. Honda said Oct. 16 it’s also examining whether a faulty airbag was to blame for the death of a man who crashed his Acura sedan in a California parking lot.
(With assistance from Jeff Plungis in Washington, Jeff Green in Southfield, Michigan and Siddharth Philip in Mumbai.)
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MG MGB roadster, year 1968. Colour pale yellow (Primrose) combined with a black leather interior trimmed with red piping. Black vinyl soft-top and hood-cover. This wonderful MGB roadster was extensively restored a couple of years ago. The automobile is in excellent condition and the car drives perfectly. This 1968 MGB model still features two window wipers (instead of three) and it is still free of the later side-lights on the wings. The car features overdrive, painted wire wheels, an aluminium rocker cover, oil-cooler, a Stainless-Steel exhaust, electronic ignition and a petrol cap with lock. This MGB comes with a Heritage Certificate on which the original production details are stated. A very desirable British roadster!
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The MG B was the first MG (Morris Garage) to be built of unitary construction bodywork. The MG B roadster was manufactured between 1962 and 1980. Early models can be recognized by the chrome bumpers, but because of American rules on safety, the later models were equipped with synthetic bumpers. The greater part was exported to the United States.
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cylinder capacity: 1798 cc.
capacity: 95 bhp. at 5400 rpm.
top-speed: 172 km/h.
gearbox: 4-speed, manual
weight: 935 kg. (GT 1040 kg.)
MG history
MG (Morris Garage) was set up by William Morris in the year 1923 to market a more sporty line of Morris models. Morris Production Manager, Cecil Kimber, was transferred from the factory in Cowley to Morris Garages (in Abington) to design MG's using Morris parts. MG production in Abingdon started in the year 1924. At the end of the 1930s, even normal passenger cars were introduced under the MG label.
The business flourished when in 1945, just after World War II, the sporty prewar MG TB and its successor the TC stole the hearts of the American soldiers. Numerous MGs were shipped to America where this type of motorcar was yet unknown.
Demand for the MG sports cars quickly rose in America, and most of the MGs were sold across the big pond in the years that followed. MGs were simple and well-built, affordable and easy to maintain. In 1952, Austin Motor Corporation merged with Morris Motors to form British Motor Corporation Ltd*.
In 1955, the pre-war TB and the post-war TC, TD and TF series with their pre-war designs were followed by the MG A roadster, which also became available as coupes after 1956.
In 1962, the successful MG A was followed by the even more successful and austerely but elegantly lined MG B. This series, too, mainly found its way to America. The MG B was available as roadster and as a 2+2 coupe, called the ‘GT’.
As British Motor* had stopped the production of the Austin Healey, there was again the need for a six-cylinder sports car from this stable, which made the MG C see the light of day in 1967. It was an MG B with a six-cylinder engine. However, this car failed to live up to expectations as its road-holding and character were not of Healey’s caliber. Eventually, Healey’s successor was to come from the newly merged British Leyland* stable in 1968, and was called the Triumph TR6.
In 1973, a V8 variant of the MG B came onto the market: the MGB V8. This model had a powerful Rover 3.5 litre V8 motor and was to be built until 1976.
The MG B roadster and the GT were sold until 1980, and, under pressure from American legislation, were adapted with safety-enhancing and emission-reducing conversions during their last five production years. The resultant thick rubber bumpers and less powerful engines made these cars much less attractive. Meanwhile, Japan produced the Datsun 240 Z, and put an end to the British sports car hegemony in America.
In 1980, it was curtains for MG B. In the years after, some Austins did appear, ‘dressed up’ as MGs but we’d rather forget about them. Finally, in the 1990s, a worthy successor emerged in the form of the MG F, which is available to this day.
In the year 2001 BMW decided to get rid of Rover because they were losing lots of money because the British pound was too expensive as was manufacturing cars in England.
A group of investors bought Rover. They took over the entire model line and were able to work out the last details on the Rover 75 Tourer and market it. Next idea was to give MG a true rebirth; various Rover models were technically re-engineered, tuned and spiced up to make thru drivers cars of them, a sporty line of cars alongside the Rover middle-class luxury line.
Looking at the Rover/ MG cars and reading about them in the press we can tell that we have high expectations of the MG models to appear in the future.
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Tues-Wed 3/26-27/2019 How life began and one pager. 3/28/2019
Thursday 3/28/2019 Energy in ecosystems 3/28/2019
Friday 3/29/2019 Food webs and energy: Energy in food production 3/29/2019
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Thursday 4/4/2019 Energy pyramid, Energy in ecosystems and Book work 4/4/2019
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Monday 4/8/2019 Ecological data 4/8/2019
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Tues-Wed 4/16-17/2019 Complete urban count data and Quiz 33 review (review key) 4/18/2019
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Monday 4/22/2019 Interactions in an ecosystem 4/22/2019
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Earn a 6% return from the sun: Five ways to invest in green energy without the hassle of sticking solar panels on your roof
By Marc Shoffman
Published: 09:21 EDT, 29 October 2013 | Updated: 11:51 EDT, 6 November 2013
If you want to profit from renewable energy but the thought of solar panels on your roof seems too expensive or a wind farm in your garden sounds too noisy, you could benefit by investing in a new breed of funds and trusts.
Energy companies are hitting the headlines again after price hikes have arrived in time for winter and part of the driving force for rising bills is the Government's commitment to - and subsidies for - green energy.
The government is aiming to provide 15 per cent of energy from renewable sources in 2020, up from 3 per cent in 2009, and to do that it needs to subsidise solar, wind and other renewable energy sources.
Sun seeker: You could earn more than 6 per cent a year by investing in renewable energy
That means that there is a lot of opportunity for businesses providing solar panels and wind power sites. However, these do rely on continued government support for renewable sources and schemes such as feed-in-tariffs.
The government has a number of incentives for households and businesses to use renewable energy through feed-in-tariffs.
For example, the government is aiming to produce 20gigawatts of solar power capacity in the UK by 2020, but so far has only produced 2gigawatts.
This has created a solid investment for those willing to take subsidies for solar panels on their roof.
But if you'd rather not be lumbered with something so permanent, a fund or trust could help you tap into the investment idea.
On the one hand, you could get paid for energy produced through solar panels put on a residential or commercial building, which in returns help the government meet its carbon reduction targets.
Or you could invest in a business that is providing this power and benefit from their dividends.
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Mick Gilligan, head of research for Killik, says: ‘What makes this area economically viable is the regulatory regime and the financial incentives to generate alternative sources of energy.
‘Because of that financial incentive the revenue stream versus the cost of building them makes financial sense
‘We have suggested investors put these types of funds or trusts in their portfolios as an alternative to fixed income.’
Mr Gilligan highlights four top funds and trusts to invest in solar wind and power below.
GOING GREEN: RENEWABLE ENERGY SUBSIDIES
The Government currently has a number of subsidies on offer to businesses and households for using and creating renewable energy.
The Renewables Obligation – Provides incentives for large-scale renewable electricity generation by making UK suppliers source a proportion of their electricity from eligible renewable sources.
Feed-in Tariffs scheme – Pays energy users who invest in small-scale, low-carbon electricity generation systems for the electricity they generate and use, and for unused electricity they export back to the grid.
Renewable Heat Incentive – Pays commercial, industrial, public, not-for-profit and community generators of renewable heat for a 20-year period.
Renewable Heat Premium Payment– Gives one-off payments to householders, communities and social housing landlords to help them buy renewable heating technologies like solar thermal panels, heat pumps and biomass boilers.
Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation – Makes companies that supply more than 450,000 litres of fuel per year source a percentage from renewable sources.
Invest in the UK's sunshine
Bluefield Solar Income Fund
WHAT IS NAV?
Net asset value, or NAV, is the value of an investment trust's holdings.
It is calculated by dividing the total value of assets (what it owns) minus liabilities (what it owes) by the amount of shares existing.
This is separate to a trust's share price, which is what it would cost an investor to buy in.
An investment trust trading at a discount to NAV may be regarded as cheap because the shares cost less than its overall value - although there might be good reasons why, such as investors being justifiably pessimistic about its prospects.
When a trust trades at a premium to NAV it is more expensive than its net worth.
This is different to investment funds which do not have a separate share price and NAV.
Visit the Association of Investment Companies website to find out more about trusts
Charges: 1 per cent of net asset value up to £100million, 0.8 per cent above £100m, 0.6 per cent above £200m.
Yield: 4.1 per cent
The Bluefield Solar Income fund aims to build a portfolio of solar energy assets, each located within the UK.
It will target long life solar energy infrastructure, expected to generate stable renewable energy output over a 25 year asset life.
It has acquired four solar plants so far since launch in July, the latest in Oxfordshire constructed by Solarcentury.
The fund’s total investments are worth £55.3m
Launched in July, the company is targeting a return of 4 per cent in the first year, rising to 7 per cent in the second year, and then increasing its returns in line with retail price index each year.
It is currently trading at a 1.7 per cent premium to net asset value.
Invest in British and European sunshine
Foresight solar fund
Charges: 2 per cent set-up charge, 1 per cent annual management charge.
Dividend yield: Only listed in October
The Foresight Group has raised £150m for a solar fund that has listed on the London Stock Exchange. It listed on Tuesday 29 October and the price is hovering at just over 100p.
It is targeting a 6 per cent annual dividend.
While the product is called a fund, it will work as an investment trust, meaning the usual system of share price and net asset value applies.
The trust will invest in UK-based solar power plants predominantly in the UK.
Investments outside the UK and assets which are still under construction will be limited to 25
per cent of the value of the company.
Read Midas on the Foresight fund launch.
Invest in wind and sun
Wind up: The government is committed to wind power but it can be noisy and spoil local scenery
Renewables Infrastructure Group
Charges: 1 per cent a year for first £1billion of the portfolio and 0.8 per cent above £1billion.
Dividend yield: 5.8 per cent
The Renewables Infrastructure Group investment trust, run by InfraRed Capital partners, invests in assets that generate energy, concentrating on wind and solar power.
It is aiming for an initial dividend of 6 per cent and a long term return of 8 to 9 per cent per year.
Launched in July, the initial portfolio consists of 18 sites in the UK, France and the Republic of Ireland, 14 of which are operating onshore wind projects and four are operating solar projects.
The company plans to acquire investments in the UK and other Northern European countries including France, Ireland, Germany and Scandinavia.
Invest in wind
HOW TO USE OUR INVESTING IDEAS
This is Money asks our panel of experts to suggest investments for a variety of investors.
These are people with a long history in the investment field and looking at their choices gives you some pointers. But remember, these are just ideas and whether a particular product is right for you is your own decision and making that requires deeper research.
Read the ideas, check fund and trust performance, and then do your own research into how the investment and the company running it stack up. If you have any doubts, talk to an independent financial adviser.
Greencoat UK wind
Charges: Annual management fee of 1 per cent. 0.2 per cent annual fee paid to the manager in shares with a 3 year lock-up. This trust does not yet have an AIC ongoing charge.
If you are more into wind than sun, Greencoat UK Wind offers investors exposure to this specific sector.
Launched in March, Greencoat UK Wind aims for a 6 per cent annual dividend, increasing in line with the retail price index.
The success of this investment will depend on the continued government support for wind power as an alternative form of energy.
The company has already acquired a seed portfolio of interests in six wind farms. The Department of Business Innovation and Skills and renewable energy company SSES are among the big investors.
The trust has interests in three wind farms in England, two in Scotland, two in Northern Ireland and one in Wales.
Revenue is raised from the sale of power produced and green benefits accredited. All are sold under long term agreements to utilities who are obliged by law to procure a certain percentage of power from green sources.
It currently has a market value of £269.7m and Association of Investment Companies figures show it trading at a 0.8 per cent discount to net asset value as of 29 October.
Mr Gilligan says this trust currently looks attractive on price as it has previously been trading at a premium to NAV.
He explains: 'An interim management statement earlier this year showed that operational performance of the portfolio was in line with expectations and the company remains on track to meet the objective of distributing a 6p annual dividend, putting the shares on a prospective 5.7 per cent yield.
'Steady NAV growth since launch has now put the shares on a smaller premium to that of the initial capital raise.'
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This is not a Killik pick but This is Money has noticed a trend of energy mini-bond launches, with CBD Energy providing one of the latest.
Mini-bonds are unlisted corporate bonds. The market for mini-bonds is set to grow to from under £90million last year to £1billion by the end of 2013, according to research from Capita Registrars.
Capita believes consumers are welcoming a new investment alternative and expressing a healthy appetite for a savings vehicle which doesn’t mean dead money in a bank account.
But because mini-bonds are unlisted they operate outside of the regulated space and are not protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Ultimately, there is no safety net beyond a company's solvency.
They are different to direct corporate bond funds which spread risk and are regulated and individual retail corporate bonds that can be traded on the Orb market.
Renewable energy firm, CBD Energy has launched a mini-bond dedicated to solar power that offers a 6.5 per cent annual return over three years. The offer is open until 9 December.
The Secured Energy Bonds will use money raised, through minimum investments of £2,000, to install solar panels on chosen projects. The company is hoping to raise £7.5million.
The solar panels collect energy from the sun, even on cloudy days, and convert it to electricity. This electricity attracts a government incentive and is also sold to the businesses at a reduced rate, generating a constant revenue stream.
For those worried about the impact on scenery and the countryside, the company has pledged not to use the money for wind turbines or ground mounted solar installations. It will only be used for rooftop installations and on industrial sites.
The product is touted as the first secured solar mini-bond. This tackles one of the risks of mini-bonds.
The structure set up by CBD means bondholders will hold the security over all the cash, income and assets of Secured Energy Bonds, meaning if the company collapses and can no longer make payments, investors will be the first creditors.
CBD has also appointed regulated firm Independent Portfolio Managers as a security trustee, responsible for enforcing the needs of bondholders.
Too good to be true? CBD Energy chief executive Gerry McGowan will be on hand to answer investor questions via a live webchat at 11am on Thursday 7 November. Click here to take part...
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A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.
By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is the author of Friction and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (both Princeton).
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Build Innovative Teams to Catalyze Innovation
by Mike AmanteChris MichaudBrandon Tirrell
Business model innovation. It has the potential to reshape industries and drive tremendous growth—but it’s notoriously difficult to achieve. We believe that for large companies, creating innovative business models is not only possible, it can be systematized and repeated.
By changing the way customers experience a product or service, you can find new opportunities to evolve your business and even create entirely new markets. And in turn, generate substantial, enduring financial growth.
Traditionally, innovation is about the what—finding new offerings that customers want to buy. It focuses on a product or service, like Nike’s Flyknit shoes or Bertucci’s new restaurant concept, for example. But business model innovation is about the how, not the what. And the best business model innovations brew up a how that truly enhances people’s perception of the what.
Want to find the new how that can fuel your organization’s expansion and potentially redefine your industry? If so, business model innovation is likely to be a core part of your success.
Where do you start?
Define Your Mission
First, you must define your mission—what is the broader level value your company offers to the world? Then you must understand enduring customer goals—their needs, wants, desires—as they relate to your mission. From there, by taking a step back and focusing on meta-technology and cultural trends, you can start to identify how the changing environment of customers' worlds is opening up new opportunities to serve them. People’s core goals do not expire, but the world around them evolves. Changing technologies, attitudes, and social structures can allow people to achieve their goals in different ways, oftentimes enabled through different business models.
For example, people have always wanted to connect with faraway family and friends. 150 years ago, we used letters and telegrams. Now, we hop on a Skype call from our laptops. The goal is the same, but new technologies allowed people to achieve it more effectively, optimizing the experience by eliminating many of the negative components and enhancing the positive ones. The transition to this new offering was, in part, enabled by a new business model. Skype offers a baseline, free service that has accelerated adoption.
To understand customer goals, you must look—closely—at what people are really buying. Chances are, there are components of their current purchase or elements of the current experience that don’t contribute at all to the portion of it they actually value. Or there may be opportunities to open up access to new ways of delivering what they are really buying. Once you grasp this, you can find a new and better way to give customers what they really want.
For example, Netflix launched its subscription service in 1999, and it proved to be one of the most innovative business models in the modern media industry. People have always sought entertainment, and movies have long been a major human passion. While people for many years rented movies, they didn’t really want to rent movies—they wanted to be able to conveniently and comfortable enjoy a broader array of entertainment at home. This is what people were really buying, and recognizing it was the key to Netflix’s success. Aided by the rise of DVDs as a delivery mechanism, its recommendation engine, and favorable revenue sharing agreements, Netflix built an innovative business model on top of these technology advances and around the core goal of their customers. Netflix gave people what they really wanted: access to the world’s largest collection of home entertainment from the comfort of home. They didn’t change what they delivered as much as the subscription model changed how they delivered it. And subscription is the innovative business model that continues to drive Netflix’s growth and industry change today.
Change Your How
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the prospect of business model innovation, especially if you don’t do it regularly. Many of the most noticeable examples come from startups with millions in venture funding and no legacy business to hold them back. Sometimes, large established companies create new business models, but success can feel haphazard and one wonders if there’s any systemic way to fuel growth through business model innovation.
In fact, there is. We’ve identified three key components that enable organizations to consistently identify new opportunities to service customers.
1. Build Teams That Can Uncover and Apply Insights About Your Customers
To increase your chances of success, build Business Creation Teams that include a mix of creative business strategists, technologists, experience designers, ethnographers, and hackers. Challenge them to apply their diverse perspectives to develop core insights about customers’ enduring goals and use these to seed new thinking. It’s critical that everyone on the team can speak with the voice of the customer and work from an internalized understanding of what customers want. (Do not start with the goal of business model innovation…that will come later.)
2. Give Them Permission to Operate Outside the Current Business Model
Business Creation Teams need to operate detached from daily operations and they need to be given permission to suspend your company’s current reality. Innovative business models often die an early death because it’s hard to find fertile ground to plant a new idea into an existing business structure. This is perfectly logical–your existing structure serves your current business, but thinking informed by that perspective may make innovative new business models seem like crazy ideas. Allow your team to work outside the current structure and visualize those crazy ideas. Don’t weigh them down with quarterly revenue demands or existing infrastructure.
3. Give Them the Resources to Try
After your team has formulated some (possibly crazy) business ideas, play them out. Start them off with a small budget and a few highly qualified team members to explore where the ideas could lead. If the new model could disrupt your current business, try it in a contained environment with a small subset of customers to see how they react. Give the team opportunities and space to explore the new models and iterate on them–they may not get things right the first time, but if the customer understanding is sound, they’ll eventually arrive at an innovative model that will drive your business into the future.
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Contractor UK Bulletin Board > Contracting > General > Burn them! (but capture the Carbon, okay?)
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DimPrawn
22nd February 2011, 09:31
Zoe Ball's father Johnny vilified for questioning global warming | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1359350/Zoe-Balls-father-Johnny-vilified-questioning-global-warming.html)
Cue sasguru and his Excel spreadsheet.
He should be excommunicated. Atheist too. I'll get the fire ready.
VectraMan
It's a bit sad that you need to refer to Johnny Ball as "Zoe Ball's father Johnny".
He's knocking up a chart using some "adjusted" data showing that comparing now to the coldest year in recent history makes it look warmer, even though it is freezing just about everywhere in the world.
Still, village idiot, cretin / moron types lap it up and put it in their latest spreadsheet.
GreenLabel
Where's the sockie PJClarke?
Surely he has to rebut this rebuttal?
Sas may have forgotten the password.
TykeMerc
I've a lot of respect for Johnny Ball, his TV programmes were undoubtedly part of the reason I'm interested in physical science, can appreciate mathematics and trained as an engineer.
As it happens I agree with the views expressed in that article (despite it coming from the Wail) as I've yet to see evidence to convince me that AGW is real and remain firmly sceptical although open minded. His cost outlines are quite alarming and I agree with his sentiment about children being indoctrinated as I have 2 children in school and one at uni all of which were subjected to it. Fortunately they're bright enough to have thought about the issues and discussed them so they're firmly sceptical too.
BlasterBates
I instinctively warmed to the almost Heath Robinson-like engineering behind those early attempts to harvest the energy of the wind and the waves, the tide and the sun.
But there was a big problem: Hard as I tried, I couldn’t make the sums add up. These devices either didn’t produce anything like enough energy, or the energy they produced was too expensive to be economically viable....
Sad isn't it....my view too and the view of most of the engineers in the electricity generation industry, where I used to work as an Engineer.
and now the National Parks are littered with useless Heath-Robinson contraptions.
Spacecadet
I'm sure there was something on Material World a few months ago about how the Scottish rivers are being ruined by hydro electric with the effect that some rivers are dry Monday-Friday and then turned back on for the tourists at the weekend.
It's always seemed to me that turning all the disused mills into small hydro electric plants was something of a no-brainer, as essentially the environmental damage has already been done. And there's an argument that it's preserving the heritage, even if it's not quite the original purpose.
The BBC had an article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-12486420) about Scottish hydroelectrric yesterday. The problem is whenever you read about these schemes (as one mentioned in that article), they all sound impressive until you get to the bit that says "provide enough power for 200 homes". 200 homes barely seems worth the effort, and as that doesn't count businesses, schools, transport, etc., it's actually far less than the requirements for 200 families.
Found something with pictures:
Why is the River Garry Dead? (http://savethegarry.com/WhyistheGarrylikethis.htm)
Okay, we destroy our rivers, kill the wildlife and ruin the landscape, but it is better than a burning inferno of global warming we have all seen with our own eyes!
We used to have urban areas and the countryside, where you could go for walks, enjoy the views. get the feeling that working in your dreary office is worth it so you can experience the outdoors. Thanks to the Green movement, the entire landscape is going to be industrialised. On a programme last night a commentator pointed out that for the Green party of a German state to achieve their aim of having 100% renewable energy, that 150 square miles would need to be covered in solar panels just to power one factory, for a few hours around midday. I wonder how much of the rain forest will be left once we're all using biofuels.
Doggy Styles
For taking an intellectual stand, my name and reputation have been comprehensively trashed. And something very similar has happened to Dr David Bellamy.
In the past decade or so I’ve been mocked, vilified, besmirched — I’ve even been booed off a theatre stage. I’ve lost bookings, had talks cancelled and been the subject of a sinister internet campaign against me that only came to an end following the intervention of the police.
if you Googled my name, the second site that came up mysteriously redirected you to a site offering explicit pornographic pictures. Nothing to do with me, I hasten to add, and one call was enough to quickly rectify the problem, but I fear more damage had been done.
David Bellamy can’t get on television and I can’t even get a ten-minute meeting with the controller of Radio 4.Never mind whether AGW is real or not, this is how one side of the debate deals with those who question them.
They are only a couple of rungs down from religious fundamentalists and their 72 virgins.
The Carbon zealots are eco-terrorists.
I agree with his sentiment about children being indoctrinated as I have 2 children in school and one at uni all of which were subjected to it. Fortunately they're bright enough to have thought about the issues and discussed them I was able to reprogram them so they're firmly sceptical too.
:devil
dang65
if you Googled my name, the second site that came up mysteriously redirected you to a site offering explicit pornographic pictures.
Uh, dude, your name is "Condom Testicle". I don't think it's that mysterious.
It's not Global Warming that should be the 'main issue' -
Population growth is the greatest threat to quality of life and the planet.
Don't worry, Johnny Ball could solve that one easily. He just has to apply his name to the problem.
Shhh.
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/classified.gif
Population growth is the greatest threat to quality of life and the planet.I've been saying that for years. That's two of us who understand it now.
I've been saying that for years. That's two of us who understand it now.
To make matters worse, most of them are here on this tiny island.
3million migrants came to UK under Labour in biggest population growth in 1,000 years | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359336/3million-migrants-came-UK-Labour-biggest-population-growth-1-000-years.html)
amcdonald
David Bellamy can’t get on television and I can’t even get a ten-minute meeting with the controller of Radio 4.
You sure that wasn't Alan Partridge ?
The Daily Wail headline generator strikes again :igmc:
I'd bet it was a lot more than 3 million.
Johnny Ball booed by atheists over climate change denial - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6825502/Johnny-Ball-booed-by-atheists-over-climate-change-denial.html)
EternalOptimist
PJ, I read your links, but they were not peer reviewed, so I will ignore them till the next IPCC report comes out, at which point I will check up what it says in the 'Johnny Ball' paragraph
Surprised he wasn't tied to a chair and dunked in the nearest river
There's always Channel4 if he never works for the BBC again.
pjclarke
Ah, the Telegraph :ohwell. 'Was, Is and Will be' full of it.
How the media works, Pt 94... Case Studies
So Fred Singer makes up some bogus numbers about glacier retreat, Bellamy then mangles them further them in a letter to New Scientist, and fails to bother correcting them. In the media he is of course the victim of McCarthyite blacklisting by AGW zealots....
Case Study II The 'persecution' of Johny Ball
Comment left at Deltoid ...
I was actually at the Godless show and Mr. Ball certainly was not booed off stage, or even booed with much enthusiasm. From where I sat I certainly couldn't hear any booing. What I did hear was stoney silence and nervous laughter which was as much about his off-colour humour as his anti-climate change ranting.
Storm in a tea cup, really, but the Tabloids [who] took off with the story obviously can't have been present at the time.
You'd think anyone searching the internet for 'Johnny Ball' would know to erm, filter the results but no, JB Googles himself and one of the links he comes up with is the site of a namesake pornstar. In the TES this is reported as
Mr Ball, father of TV and radio presenter Zoe, told The TES a website featuring pornographic images was posted online bearing his name,
James Delingpole (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100076821/how-the-green-lobby-smears-its-enemies/) rasies the ante, quoting the Daily Mail
In a sinister twist, websites have also been set up in his name which contain pornographic images.
and the lie picks up momentum as Brendan O'Neill (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100076870/the-persecution-of-johnny-ball-and-how-gross-intolerance-is-crushing-free-debate-on-climate-change/) 'knows' who did this vile thing:-
“extreme greens” have publicly ridiculed his views and even set up websites featuring him in photoshopped porno images.
Delingtool and O Neill have this much in common: they believe AGW is a hoax, they make stuff up, and the Telegraph publishes their fiction.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01130/opinion-graphics-2_1130720a.gif
23rd February 2011, 08:17
PJ, newspapers are in business to sell papers. wise up
Professor Judith Curry, climatologist on the IPCC report:
Hiding the Decline | Climate Etc. (http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/22/hiding-the-decline/)
Bad science and/or dishonesty?
There is no question that the diagrams and accompanying text in the IPCC TAR, AR4 and WMO 1999 are misleading. I was misled. Upon considering the material presented in these reports, it did not occur to me that recent paleo data was not consistent with the historical record. The one statement in AR4 (put in after McIntyre’s insistence as a reviewer) that mentions the divergence problem is weak tea.
It is obvious that there has been deletion of adverse data in figures shown IPCC AR3 and AR4, and the 1999 WMO document. Not only is this misleading, but it is dishonest (I agree with Muller on this one). The authors defend themselves by stating that there has been no attempt to hide the divergence problem in the literature, and that the relevant paper was referenced. I infer then that there is something in the IPCC process or the authors’ interpretation of the IPCC process (i.e. don’t dilute the message) that corrupted the scientists into deleting the adverse data in these diagrams.
In other words the IPCC report is full of misleading sh*t. Furthermore:
I would like to know what the heck Mann, Briffa, Jones et al. were thinking when they did this and why they did this, and how they can defend this, although the emails provide pretty strong clues. Does the IPCC regard this as acceptable? I sure don’t.
Good on for Johnny Ball taking on these dishonest charlatans.
...and in a nutshell, the "real" research question.
I view paleoclimate as a really important subject in the context of understanding climate change. I have no interest in warmest year or warmest decade; rather we need to understand the magnitude and characteristics and causes of natural climate variability over the current interglacial, particularly the last 2000 years. I’m more interested in the handle than the blade of the hockey stick. I also view understanding regional climate variations as much more important than trying to use some statistical model to create global average anomalies (which I personally regard as pointless, given the sampling issue).
I don’t want to throw the baby away with the bath water here. But this whole issue is a big problem for the science and has been an enormous black eye for the credibility of the IPCC and climate science. I suspect that many denizens will be on board with my assessment and are very familiar with McIntyre’s analysis. I would be particularly interested in hearing from any defenders of these global paleotemperature analyses by Mann et al.
What happend was this. thermometer records only go back a short time, and the climate experts need to know whether the planet warmed up, and in which years. So they looked at old tree rings.
A big fat tree ring means healthy growth, which means warmer
a skinny little tree ring means it was cooler
so far so good. its known as a proxy i.e. it stands in for thermometer records in the time there were no thermometers.
but when the tree rings proxies were compared to thermometer readings, in recent times, they did not correlate at all.
Now most people would say 'hang on, this is a bad idea, its not much of a proxy'
but not the hockey stick dudes. They left the last bit off their graph, and thats whats getting peoples backs up
lets put it this way, if we ignored and hid test results that showed our new system had serious bugs, we would be sacked. and righly so
...and it wasn't just the modern warming it failed to show, which they argued was because trees grow differently due to the extra CO2 (after they'd been found out) :laugh , there was an unusually warm year in the 19th century which failed to show up in the proxy data as well.
Which means as a proxy tree rings are friggin useless.
Surely tree growth depends not only on temperature, but also sunlight levels, CO2 levels, levels of nutrients in the soil and rainfall?
Without knowing the other factors, you cannot tell how warm it was by looking at tree rings?
Of course there are lots of other proxies for various climate related analyses. corals, shells, microrganisms, gas bubbles in ice etc
but its the same as their models. there is no substitute for the real thing. please, dont pretend that there is
Praise be!
I've seen the light!
Mein Fuhrer!
I can walk again!
Alms for an ex leper?
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The only reason I can think of for dead links is that your link reference library needs updating!
sasguru
It is noticeable that the usual suspects are generally lacking in brainpower: DP, BB, EO, Zeitghost.
I don't expect any of them were near top of class.
All rather likeable ne-er-do-wells, but not bright enough to understand why they don't understand what they don't understand.
Meanwhile they prove to be useful idiots for the Zionist/Oil industry/Vested interests whose generally extremely well-funded propaganda is designed to maintain an interest in the Middle East/Oil industry.
Gor forbid that we stop using fossil fuels and find more maintainable energy sources: a lack of interest in Israel and the Middle East would follow as a logical consequence.
Where's the money coming from? Why aren't they as transparent as they claim climate scientists should be?
Global Warming Policy Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation)
"We can now see that the campaign conducted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which includes lobbying newspaper editors and MPs, is well-funded by money from secret donors. Its income suggests that it only has about 80 members, which means that it is a fringe group promoting the interests of a very small number of politically motivated campaigners."
Does this sort of stuff not ring a bell with the useful idiots? Apparently not.
I've got no problem with researching ways to use less energy, less dependence on imported oil, etc.
Just creating a pretend issue with CO2, false science, etc, idiotic IPCC predictions, manipulating data, spreading lies really gets my goat.
The government taxed the hell out of fuel and now tax the hell out of the smoke it produces. You couldn't make this tulip up.
SueEllen
Well it's better to have energy security, decreased pollution and in the case of open cast mining - stopping large scale destruction of the environment, as a goal then just climate change.
BTW When I've been to places like Turkey and Greece I thought having solar panels on the top of buildings to heat their hot water made sense but not because of climate change.
I am interested in good health for me and my family as well. But if someone tried to sell me snake-oil and told me everyone in the street was buying it, doctors and scientists endorsed it, and even the great SasGoru swallowed it by the bucketful, he would still get my size nine proxy boot up his bum
or the rebuttal site for newbies is down
Scenario 1:
All the world's scientists, science academies and scientific societies have generated a conspiracy using false data that shows man-made C02 is raising the earth's temp.
The data indicates that man-made C02 is raising the earth's temp. This causes alarm in special interest groups who fear the consequences, particularly in Israel. So shadowy "foundations" with vast amounts of cash are set up to promote the opposite view.
If you think Scenario 1 is more likely than Scenario 2 you are indeed a useful idiot.
Have AGW believers ever broached the issue of population growth?
Which negates all of their proposed per capita cuts in CO2 production?
After all, that particular hockey stick is actually established fact, no jiggery pokery required.
But I don't suppose there are any juicy grants in that line.
Life really is too short to try and dam the torrent of BS flowing along this thread, but here are a few facts:
>> Some tree ring proxies in some regions, all in the Northern Hemisphere, do diverge from instrumental temperatures since about 1960. This was known as the ‘divergence problem’ and of course the nefarious ‘Team’ did their absolute utmost to ensure nobody found out about it. They did this by er, publishing (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v391/n6668/abs/391678a0.html) widely on the subject in the academic literature (http://www.wsl.ch/info/mitarbeitende//cherubin/download/D_ArrigoetalGlobPlanCh2008.pdf ) (as opposed to the Daily Mail.) and the IPCC reports, and of course only a select few elite and trusted scientists have access to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence_problem) or the internet (http://www.skepticalscience.com/Tree-ring-proxies-divergence-problem.htm).
>> There are of course, other proxies, and here is the abstract from the most recent comprehensive reconstruction (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/09/02/0805721105.full.pdf+html), published in 2008
Tabloid Translation: we know about the problems, thanks, but the Hockey Stick lives with or without Tree Rings.
The latest research on the paleoclimate record and in particular the medieval warming period was presented at a conference in Lisbon last year amongst others by Phil Jones and Michael Mann.
According to Professor Judith Curry, a highly respected climate scientist, as far as I'm aware not a journalist at the Daily Mail, it was a heap of Bull Sh1t
Hiding the Decline | Climate Etc. (http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/22/hiding-the-decline/#more-2485)
There was another Workshop in Lisbon this past year (Sept 2010), on the Medieval Warm Period. The abstracts for the presentations are found here. No surprises, many of the usual people doing the usual things.
and she laments:
What they were saying in 1922:
1922: 'Extraordinary warmth in the Arctic during the last few years' -- Polar ice sheet to melt down? | Climate Depot (http://www.climatedepot.com/r/9897/1922-Extraordinary-warmth-in-the-Arctic-during-the-last-few-years--Polar-ice-sheet-to-melt-down)
sound familiar? :eyes
I think what curry means by sample size, is that location and numbers are equally important.
for example, putting the thermostat for your front room central heating in the garage would be a bad mistake, because the temperatures vary , even over a short distance.
It is statistical complexities like this that SasGoru has difficulties understanding, so I have designed this little model for him
garage (cold) <> living room (urban heat island)
Bullsh1t? Actually, it is more that she is concerned about the overstatement of certainty in certain studies, which would be fair enough if she confined herself to an opinion, after all Professor Curry is indeed a distinguished climatologist and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. One would hope her opinion counted as an informed one. However climatology is a broad discipline and her specialist expertise is in atmospheric science and tropical storms. As she herself concedes at the start of the thread:
paleoproxies are outside the arena of my personal research expertise, and I find my eyes glaze over when I start reading about bristlecones, etc.
So it is interesting that she considers herself qualified to pass judgement on the work of people who have studied such matters as their life's work, and further to tacitly accuse them of dishonesty. She is on a bit of a one-woman crusade to build bridges between the 'sceptics' and mainstream science. Unfortunately she has taken some of the sceptics at face value and repeated some of their talking points without checking if they were well-founded, which if you are relying on Andrew Montford (Bishop Hill) is only going to lead to trouble and indeed the good Professor has learned the hard way (http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/25/hockey-stick-real-climate-montford-judith-curry-tamino-gavin-schmid/) that not everything you read on the internet, or in the Bishop's uniquely 'inventive' book, is true.
Gavin Schmidt of NASA is unimpressed, to put it mildly, with this latest 'contribution' to the debate ....
You have gone significantly over the line with this post. Accusations of dishonesty are way beyond a difference of opinion on how a graph should be displayed.
If you thought that a single, smoothed graph of estimates of paleo-temperature told the whole story of paleo-climate reconstructions is far more a failing at your end than it is the authors involved. How can a single graph say everything that can possibly be said?
Summary graphs are by their very nature, summaries. The graphs you pick out were summaries of various estimates of what paleo-temperature estimates from the literature were. It is therefore not surprising that they show only the reconstructions where the authors had confidence that the reconstructions were actually of the temperatures. [...]
Problems with modern divergence – which only applies to the Briffa et al curve in any case – are issues to be dealt with in the technical literature, as they still are. Try actually reading the papers on the subject, and perhaps you would be less confused. Start with briffa et al (1998): Briffa et al (2001): or D’Arrigo et al (2007):
But if you think that the divergence problem makes Briffa et al (2001)’s reconstruction unreliable for whatever reason, go ahead and ignore it. It doesn’t affect Moberg et al, Ljundqvist 2010, Mann et al 2008 or Osborn and Briffa (2006). And it doesn’t make Briffa dishonest.
ok pj, we have all heard the negative stuff. Now say something positive about somebody
maybe, even, possibly say something positive about somebodies ideas
Briefly, cos I am tired, and I empathise with Dawkins' history teacher (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article6805656.ece) , and nobody actually, y'know, gives a sh1t....
The full global warming solution: How the world can stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm (http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/10/the-full-global-warming-solution-how-the-world-can-stabilize-at-350-to-450-ppm/)
And in answer to the population growth question being addressed by environmentalists, George Monbiot points out (http://www.monbiot.com/2008/01/29/population-bombs/) that, in terms of environmental damage and pollution, economic growth (historically coupled with emissions rising), the holy grail of most politicians, is a lot worse than more (mostly poor) people.
if we accept the UN’s projection, the global population will grow by roughly 50% and then stop. This means it will become 50% harder to stop runaway climate change, 50% harder to feed the world, 50% harder to prevent the overuse of resources. But compare this rate of increase to the rate of economic growth. Many economists predict that, occasional recessions notwithstanding, the global economy will grow by about 3% a year this century. Governments will do all they can to prove them right. A steady growth rate of 3% means a doubling of economic activity every 23 years. By 2100, in other words, global consumption will increase by roughly 1600%. [...] So economic growth this century could be 32 times as big an environmental issue as population growth. And, if governments, banks and businesses have their way, it never stops. By 2115, the cumulative total rises to 3200%, by 2138 to 6400%. As resources are finite, this is of course impossible, but it is not hard to see that rising economic activity – not human numbers – is the immediate and overwhelming threat.
See also The Population Myth | George Monbiot (http://www.monbiot.com/2009/09/29/the-population-myth/)
I will now be accused of being anti-progress and anti-prosperity.
Or how about a post relevant to contracting :tired
just anti free-thinking
pj, if it was against the law to think for yourself, would there be enough evidence to convict you ?
he does actuall post in the taxy stuff. credit where its due
MarillionFan
He was talking to you cloth ears.:eyes
Exponential growth, which as as you say the holy grail of politicians, is doomed to a spectacular fail eventually. But quoting that author's figures and dismissing population (not just growth) as almost irrelevant next to economic growth doesn't do you credit IMO. For one thing he hasn't factored in the poor getting richer. China and India are on the ascendency and Africa may be next. Even if population were to peak in 2050 at 10 billion (I have my doubts), this adds about 1% [assuming a constant rate of growth for the sake of simple arithmetic, from 6 billion to 10 billion in 44 years) to your 3% growth figure. This also assumes that that 3% global growth applies equally to poorer nations, who seem to be growing at the fastest rate (albeit from a lower base).
And growth aside, even in a static population, having a child in the west has a far greater carbon footprint than any amount of swapping to low energy light bulbs.
Population is the real and only issue here. Rising CO2 levels is but one small symptom of this greater problem.
And in answer to the population growth question being addressed by environmentalists, George Monbiot points out (http://www.monbiot.com/2008/01/29/population-bombs/) that, in terms of environmental damage and pollution, economic growth (historically coupled with emissions rising), the holy grail of most politicians, is a lot worse than more (mostly poor) people.If I was a cynic I'd say that conclusion is chosen as the one that best fits the argument of AGW believers.
'Poor' people in the third world cut down millions of acres of CO2-breathing trees every year, and burn a large chunk of them.
Oil-producing countries are full of 'poor' people.
The UK population has increased by nearly ten percent since 1997. Are AGW believers trying to tell us that they are mostly poor people whose extra energy use is insignificant?
Just remember that booming populations can turn to bust.
Something will notice the resource.:smokin
50% of the population of Europe departed during the Black Death*.
Because the plague killed so many of the working population, wages rose and some historians have seen this as a turning point in European economic development.
Bubonic plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague)
Boomed.
what the plague did was free peasants from bondage to the land.
Due to the massive lack of labour, the peasants could pretty much demand their own terms
Due to the massive lack of labour, the peasants could pretty much demand their own termsIncluding free donkey jackets, because the world wasn't as warm as it is now.
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Kathy Nelson has an interesting metric for gauging the gender gap in utility engineering.
Industry events, she says with a laugh, are among “the few places where there are never lines for the [women’s] bathroom.”
Nelson, the principal telecommunications engineer at Great River Energy (GRE), has seen progress over the years in bringing women into the engineering field, but she says there’s a long way to go.
“We are still a rarity,” she says.
Nelson’s commitment to fostering prominent engineering role models for girls got a big boost in 2017 when she was elected as the first woman to chair the board of the Utilities Technology Council (UTC), a worldwide trade association focused on telecommunications and technology used by utilities.
“Girls need to see women in these roles in order to imagine engineering as a profession they might want to go into,” she says.
A native of Moorhead, Minnesota, Nelson built on a childhood interest in science and math when, in 1989, she enrolled in electrical engineering at North Dakota State University, across the river in Fargo. She had three other female classmates out of a class of 75.
“When I graduated, there were about 4 percent women in electrical engineering,” she recalls. “It has one of the lowest percentages of women engineers. There are still less than 10 percent women graduating with degrees in electrical engineering. It is growing, but very slowly.”
Nelson started working at Great River Energy, a generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, in 1993, the year she graduated.
“I was the first female engineer out in the field working with technicians and linemen,” she says. “Great River Energy has several women engineers now.”
She was recruited to the UTC board in 2008, initially serving on its rural issues subcommittee.
“When I joined UTC’s board of directors, there were close to 80 board members, but only one other woman,” Nelson says. “This was fairly representative of many utilities and utility organizations.”
She sees her UTC service as a great opportunity to provide value to the utility industry and grow professionally and personally.
“UTC is a great place to network with other utilities who have similar issues or similar telecommunications and technology systems,” she says. “Many smaller distribution cooperatives and municipals have limited staff and do not have expertise in [modern] telecommunications systems. UTC provides that conduit for members to interact with each other, hear what other utilities are doing, and leverage a huge network of telecommunications engineers and technologists and their experiences.”
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And as a vehicle for giving utility engineers a voice in shaping public policy on complicated telecommunications and technology issues, UTC stands alone, Nelson adds.
“There is a lack of understanding by many federal agencies about how utilities utilize telecommunications systems,” she says. “They do not understand the criticality of our telecommunications networks, and we need to educate them. … I didn’t realize the importance of this earlier on in my career.”
Great River Energy has been a UTC member for more than 40 years, and top management at the G&T were pleased and proud when one of their own became chair of the council’s board.
“Kathy’s participation in the UTC, and this leadership position, provides tremendous value to Great River Energy, our members, and the utility industry by bringing visibility and a rural voice on important utility telecommunication issues,” says Jim Jones, Great River Energy’s vice president & chief information officer.
Nelson hopes her work for the council will boost co-op participation in the group.
“My main objective as UTC chairwoman this year is to help grow its membership of distribution cooperatives and municipals,” she says.
But underneath her work at UTC and Great River Energy is an abiding desire to encourage girls and young women to consider a profession in engineering.
“Engineering principles and the laws of physics,” she says, “are the same regardless of gender.”
Know someone RE Magazine could profile for our “Front Lines” column? We’re looking for co-op operations and member services staffers, from meter readers to lineworkers to engineers, who make things work at electric co-ops nationwide. Contact us at remag@nreca.coop, or you can reach writer John Vanvig directly at johnlvanvig@yahoo.com or 360-624-4595.
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This sleek cutlery set (chopsticks are available too!) comes apart to fit inside a tiny, pocket-sized tin—it's never been easier to BYOC. Made of stainless steel, the set is easier to clean than other reusable options and comes in a wide range of colors, including this cool rainbow effect.
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Kylie Jenner Got Accused of Photoshopping
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Jennifer Garner Is Reportedly Finally Filing for Divorce from Ben Affleck
It's the end of an era. 😢
After two years of separation, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are finally preparing to officially divorce, according to Us Weekly.
This all comes courtesy of "sources" close to the couple, so take it for what it's worth—but if the reports are to be believed, Garner will be the one filing to make the split official. Affleck has also reportedly moved out of their shared home in Brentwood.
Last year, Garner famously gave a tearjerking interview about her relationship with Affleck, whom she has remained close to since the split, for the sake of their three children, Violet, 11, Seraphina, 8, and Samuel, 4.
"He's the love of my life," she told Vanity Fair. "What am I going to do about that? He's the most brilliant person in any room, the most charismatic, the most generous. He's just a complicated guy. I always say, 'When his sun shines on you, you feel it.' But when the sun is shining elsewhere, it's cold. He can cast quite a shadow."
Even though their marriage might be coming to an end, Garner and Affleck will always be a big part of each other's lives as they co-parent their three children—which they reportedly intend to continue doing in a very hands-on way.
"No matter what happens, Ben and Jen are committed to raising their family as one unit and will continue to do so as it has worked for them," a source reportedly told Us Weekly. "They are both committed to their family."
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Flynann Janisse
JULY ISSUE: Bridging the Affordable Housing Gap
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City financed a record number of affordable-housing units in 2017
Joe Anuta
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The de Blasio administration financed an all-time high 24,356 units of affordable housing last year, the mayor announced today.
That number included the construction of 7,177 apartments and the preservation of 17,359 that might have otherwise become market-rate dwellings. Half of the total will be available for residents making less than $33,400 a year, or $43,000 for a family of three, though it was unclear from the announcement what the lowest incomes served will be.
"Housing is the No. 1 expense in New Yorkers' lives," Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement. "We're bringing that expense down by putting shovels in the ground and putting keys in tenants' hands."
The total unit count for last year is the highest ever in the city, the administration said, beating out the previous record from 1989, during the Koch administration. The de Blasio administration has financed 87,557 units of affordable housing since taking office in 2014. That year the mayor had pledged to build or preserve 200,000 units of housing through 2024, three years after his mayoralty is over. In October the administration upped that goal to 300,000.
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Tag: Lithuania
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After creating emotional resonance by way of music, the organizers then positioned the emphasis on a personally-curated playlist Lil Peep’s favourite music, a listing that included works from My Chemical Romance, NOFX, Speaker Knockerz, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. While this was occurring, followers in New York had been planting commemorative artwork on freshly painted partitions, as they had been in Los Angeles.
The New York perform performed out equally, albeit with fewer attendees, outdoors Peep’s LA stronghold. On a separate notice, Lil Peep’s mom Liza Womack, Facetimed a member the LA crowd, who synched the telephone name to an enormous monitor for everybody to see.
If New York to Los Angeles would not cowl a broad sufficient spectrum, this Lil Peep erected in Vilnius, Lithuania actually demonstrates his Worldwide attraction. RIP Lil Peep, you may be missed.
Lithuania's BC Prienai-Skycop Laments Decision To Grant LaVar Ball Unlimited Power
BC Prienai-Skycop regrets taking on LaMelo & LiAngelo Ball as first-team players, and their father LaVar Ball as an “ad hoc” consultant. The Lithuanian basketball club issued a page-and-a-half press release on Thursday in which they spelled out their cost benefit ratio their previous acquisitions. LaVar’s decision to unceremoniously pull his sons f the team as they mired in a relegation battle. European sporting outfits are subject to a promotion/relegation system, where new franchise either climb or fall the divisional ranks. Incidentally LaVar wanted no part in such a dog fight.
In their printed statement, BC Prienai-Skycop complained that LaVar had disrespected the franchise, but the board was willing to accept full responsibility for their mistake misguided “assimilation.” The presser titled “BC Prienai-Skycop: Big Baller Brand tried to destroy the club” described the Ball family as a cantankerous element from day one.
The club’s coach also took a swipe at LiAngelo and LaMelo in his quoted half the press release: “His boys were nowhere near the level the LKL, let alone NBA, which (the NBA) obviously understands, seeing the draft outcome.” While those words have been correct by NBA scouts showing no willingness to sign LiAngelo Ball, the jury is still out on the rapidly developing LaMelo Ball, who has seen his stock rise since returning to the JBA.
LiAngelo Ball Reportedly Being Scouted By Lakers
LiAngelo Ball will be among the players hoping to be selected at the NBA Draft in June. The 6’5, 19-year old brother Lakers rookie point guard Lonzo Ball declared for the draft last month, and he is expected to participate in the Pro Basketball Combine at IMG Academy in May once he returns from Lithuania.
However, it looks like the Los Angeles Lakers wanted to get a closer look at LiAngelo before the Pro Basketball Combine next month. Or maybe they’re just trying to appease his father, LaVar.
According to Lithuanian journalist Donatas Urbonas, Lakers scouts were in Lithuania for a recent game to watch LiAngelo Ball and Tadas Sedekerskis. Ball scored 12 points, including 3 for 3 from behind the arc, in 18 minutes action.
A few months back LaVar Ball told Urbonas that his oldest son, Lonzo, will not resign with the Lakers if they don’t take LiAngelo and LaMelo as well.
“I want all my three boys to play for the Lakers. But if that does not happen. I’m telling you the story what’s gonna happen first. If they don’t take Gelo this year, I bring back Gelo here (Prienai) to play with Melo for two years. Lonzo will be on his third year and I want let every NBA team know that Lonzo is not going to re-sign with the Lakers but will go to any team that will take all my three boys. That’s my plan.”
In December, following the shoplifting scandal, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said that Ball “has no chance that he’ll be drafted in June — and that was true before his shoplifting incident in China.” An NBA GM reportedly told ESPN, “He’s not on any our scouting lists — even the extended lists.”
LaVar Ball Says He Has Cut Off These Two ESPN Reporters
LaVar Ball made an appearance on ESPN Radio in Los Angeles this morning and used some his time speaking with Keyshawn Johnson, LZ Granderson and Jorge Sedano to bash ESPN’s Jeff Goodman.
Goodman, the reporter who quoted LaVar as saying Lakers coach Luke Walton had lost the team, has ficially been cut f by the Big Baller because he’s “sheisty” and “tried to finagle things.”
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During his ESPN Radio appearance this morning, LaVar said Goodman is no longer in Lithuania covering LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball’s pressional career because he won’t interview with him.
“I sent Jeff Goodman home early,” Ball said. “Otherwise he would have still been out here. But how are you going to be out here if I won’t interview with you no more? You got to come home.”
“He did the story he wanted to write, tried to finagle things,” Ball continued. “Guess what? He’s out the picture now. He can’t come close to my family.”
“He ain’t my guy no more,” Ball answered when asked about his relationship with Goodman. “I’ll never ever EVER do an interview with that guy again. He’s sheisty, and I see that. He wanted to go that route. I told him, ‘You can do what you want, say what you want, you just gotta suffer the consequences whether they be good or bad.’”
While LaVar is taking credit for Goodman returning to the United States, an ESPN spokesperson has told The Big Lead, “Jeff was in Lithuania for eight days and he came home as scheduled after the brothers’ first game. This was solely ESPN’s decision.”
But Goodman isn’t the only ESPN reporter that’s on LaVar’s no-interview list. He also says he’s done with Ramona Shelburne.
“If he thinks that story was worth a bunch clicks, and him going to the moon? Hey, that’s fine. You also got to understand that affects me in a bad way, when I’m feeling bad, which it ain’t gonna bother me at all. Either I deal with you or I don’t. So now I never deal with him. Just like Ramona Shelburne. She’s f my list too. I don’t mess with them rudy poots no more. It’s okay. They still gotta do some stories. But ain’t nobody want to hear those stories that they’re doing on the outside unless you got my name in it.”
You can listen the audio snippet LaVar’s comments about Goodman and Shelburne right here.
Lonzo Ball Announces His First Rap Concert Will Be In Lithuania This Summer
The Ball family has taken Lithuania by storm, with Lonzo’s two younger brothers, LiAngelo and LiMelo already lighting up the domestic pro men’s league with their play. However, this summer’s going to be big for the Ball’s stay in Lithuania is about to be big for an entirely different reason.
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According to TMZ, Lonzo Ball announced that he’ll be performing his first ever rap concert (yes, you read that right), as a headliner, this summer in his family’s newfound home country. A date and venue haven’t been confirmed yet by Lonzo himself or any his reps, but it’s clear that the Los Angeles Lakers’ rookie is bent on expanding his prile to passions outside the sports realm. You can check out a screencap his announcement, which happened on Lithuanian TV, below.
TMZ has clarified that the telecast on which Lonzo made the announcement is called the “M.A.M.A. Awards,” which is supposedly Lithuania’s equivalent to the Grammys. LaVar Ball was presenting the award for Hip-Hop Act the Year and introduced Lonzo’s prerecorded video that contained the news. Lonzo raps under the name Zo and has already dropped multiple singles, including “BBB” and “Super Saiyan.”
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Obviously looking to capitalize on the growing publicity surrounding his brothers’ presence in Lithuania, Lonzo’s first rap concert will undoubtedly be a highly-anticipated event, both by his fans and his detractors.
What do you think? Would you pay money to see Lonzo Ball live in concert? Or is this performance going to be more for show than anything else? Let us know in the comments.
LiAngelo & LaMelo Ball Combine for 29 Points In Lithuania Debut
LiAngelo & LaMelo Ball finally made their Lithuania debut Tuesday night where the boys combined to put up 29 points in a 90-80 victory against Zalgiris’ second team.
With parents LaVar and Tina Ball sitting courtside, UCLA dropout LiAngelo scored 19 points, while his younger brother, LaMelo, finished with 10 and had several no-look assists to wow the crowd in the process.
“I did all right,” LiAngelo said. “I’m glad we won, but I could do better.”
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For what’s it worth, Zalgiris’ second-team featured the top under-18 players from the elite program in Lithuania. While LiAngelo acknowledged that he “wasn’t expecting the game] to be so physical,” LaMelo said he didn’t think there was a big difference from basketball in the States.
“Not a lot,” LaMelo said. “Just another game to me. I think I passed, led and played defense well,” LaMelo added. “My shooting was f, but we won. That was the main thing.”
Tuesday night’s game was broadcast live on Facebook and had more than 120,000 viewers online, while another 1,500 people packed themselves into the tiny gym in the town Prienai.
The team’s next game is Saturday night in a Lithuanian league contest at Lietkabelis, but it’s unclear how much playing time the Ball brothers will receive since the game counts in the standings.
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Check out highlights from the Ball’s brothers debut (below) and be sure to tune into Saturday’s game on Facebook.
LaMelo & LiAngelo Ball's First Prienu Vytautas Game: Live Stream
The Big Baller Brand Challenge gets underway today, as Prienu Vytautas, the team that signed LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball, takes on Žalgiris-2 in Prienai, Lithuania. The game is scheduled to tip f at 1:30pm ET and will air exclusively on Facebook Live (live feed below).
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Prienu Vytautas recently decided to withdraw from the Baltic Basketball League midway through their season in order to accommodate the “Big Baller Brand Challenge” which will consist a series five exhibition games intended to get the Ball brothers even more playing time. According to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, each these games will stream exclusively on Facebook Live.
The team that 16-year old LaMelo and 19-year old LiAngelo will make their debut against is Zalgiris 2 – the younger team Lithuania’s premier program. If interested in seeing how LaMelo and LiAngelo fare in their pressional hoops debut against Zalgiris 2, check the feed below.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, LaMelo and LiAngelo could also play in the team’s Lithuanian league game on January 13th at Lietkabelis, but it will likely depend on how they handle their debut.
Other games in the Big Baller Brand Challenge will be played at Prienu Vytautas’ between January 15-28, against five different Lithuanian ball clubs including Zalagris, BC Lietuvos rytas, Vytis, Dzūkija and Jonava.
According to the ESPN report, Prienu Vytautas expects the Ball brothers to generate about 100,000 euros ($120,000) in revenue for the team, including an undisclosed amount that Facebook is paying to show the Big Baller Brand Challenge games.
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Showcase CoMo a hit
By Anna KohlsColumbia Daily Tribune
The Columbia Chamber of Commerce switched things up this year for its annual business showcase, making it all about Columbia.
The chamber hosted its first annual Showcase CoMo on Thursday, an event shifting from its previous business-to-business theme to now focus more on the consumer. The chamber made some new additions to keep things fresh as businesses continue to evolve.
Before even entering the building, the showcase already buzzed with energy. A valet service of golf carts driving people to and from the showcase — a newly added bonus to this year’s event —provided attendees quick transport to and from the parking lot.
The event also switched locations, from its original venue at the Business Expo at the Holiday Inn to The Crossing, which allowed for more space and less noise.
“The facility they had before was an arena-type thing with all of the booths with pipe and drape, and it got incredibly loud,” said Rose Vomund, development coordinator for services at Independent Living. “I’ve been able to have better conversations today because it’s not quite as loud.”
The layout of the venue was also well received among attendees.
“I think that the set up is allowing people to have more engaging conversations. So far, I’m very impressed. You can talk to more people,” said Jim Shamrock, adult programs supervisor at the Columbia Area Career Center.
The booths and tables were arranged according to which package businesses purchased. The display tables were arranged along the hallways in the first two foyers, leading all the way to a large gym where the promoter booths were displayed. Other engagement options included walk-around promoters and seminars. Amanda Wooden, director of sales at Manor Roofing & Restoration Services, believes the different options available were an improvement to the showcase.
“I think that allows all different types of businesses to really come out that may not be able to afford a full space and have never been able to go to a showcase in the past,” she said.
She feels that the new changes are good for the showcase and the community.
“I think the program as a whole really has just made people think about the showcase in a whole different way,” Wooden said. “I’ve seen so many more booths out there, and new faces, people that have come that I’ve never seen before and i think that the change has brought in new people.”
Other modifications to this year’s event were presentations hosted by Providence Bank, Moberly Area Community College and Shelter Insurance. The seminar options were anticipated as a value-add accessory for the showcase.
“We’ve heard some really good feedback,” said Matt McCormick, president of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. McCormick said they worked with the companies who chose this option to ensure that they were forming their presentations around “a value-based program and value-based discussions that really help people. Whether you’re an owner of a business or an individual, that you walk away with some very good value that you can implement.”
The quarterly membership breakfast that usually precedes the showcase was actually held on Wednesday this year. McCormick believes the extra day gave them the opportunity to boost the showcase even further.
“We had about 500 people here for our breakfast yesterday morning so it gave us another good effort, another good push to market today’s activities. Both Women’s Network and the Showcase. I think it really helped with our crowd at the breakfast and it’s also helped bringing in people today,” he said.
Bruce Young, executive director of CMSE Giving Gardens, arrived late to the showcase and was unsure how the turnout was before he arrived. He felt changing the breakfast to a different day may have affected the crowds.
“I don’t know if the traffic was quite what it was at the Expo Center. In the past, they had the chamber breakfast the same day and then it started after the chamber breakfast and it went until like five o’clock,” he said.
He still seemed optimistic about the changes.
“It just takes some getting used to,” Young laughed. “It’s just so different.”
Attendees also had a chance to win prizes at some of the booths, including a raffle that offered a one-night stay and day pass at Old Kinderhook, VIP wine tasting with Les Bourgeois Vineyards, a full car detail at KIA of Columbia, tickets to the University Concert Series and free rounds of golf at A.L. Gustin Golf Course.
The most animated part of the evening was of course, happy hour.
The happy hour was designed primarily to allow members of the community to attend after a work day.
“One of the things we heard about a lot from our vendors in the past was that we wrapped up at about three o’clock in the afternoon,” McCormick said. “Well, that kept a lot of people from coming because they had to work until five or six, which is a lot of the reason for us extending the time over into the evening.”
For some, having a beverage makes networking a little easier.
“Liquid courage is kind of how you get through events like this, right?’ said Molly Sutton, an employee at Logboat Brewing Company. “Who doesn’t want a little bit of beer to ease some tension?”
For others, the variety of samples kept them occupied.
“I think people are more relaxed when they have a drink or two. It doesn’t have to be a full drink, just little samples is all they need. It kind of gives you something to do,” said Regina Ruppert, owner of Serenity Valley Winery.
There were enough food and drink vendors scattered around for attendees to choose from. Vendors in attendance included CoMO Growlers and Pints, Serenity Valley Winery, Dog Master Distillery, Bleu Events, Como Smoke and Fire, Barred Owl and Butcher, Bur Oak Brewing Company, Fuzzy’s Tacos and Logboat Brewing Company.
Owner of Bleu Events Travis Tucker thinks the change in time also benefited the vendors.
“I think it’s awesome because it allows people to engage a little bit, to have a glass of wine or to have a little taste of a beer,” he said. “I think it’s a really good opportunity to interact with other business owners and business people.”
When asked if he noticed more consumers were present at the happy hour, he replied “I would say I’ve definitely seen more of that, yes.” Tucker pointed to a family of three next to his table and said, “Right now, the folks right next to you, are people I probably wouldn’t have seen in years past.”
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What does BABYLON mean?
Definitions for BABYLON
ˈbæb ə lən, -ˌlɒnBABYLON
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Babylon(noun)
the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
Babylon(ProperNoun)
Capital of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st century BC.
Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
Term for the so-called white man's civilization.
Origin: From Babylon, from Βαβυλών, from bāb ili ‘Gate of God’, translation of Sumerian Ka-dingir; the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse.
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Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Hillah, Babylon Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometres south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a large mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Available historical resources suggest that Babylon was at first a small town which had sprung up by the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. The town flourished and attained independence with the rise of the First Amorite Babylonian Dynasty in 1894 BC. Claiming to be the successor of the ancient city of Eridu, Babylon eclipsed Nippur as the "holy city" of Mesopotamia around the time an Amorite king named Hammurabi first created the short lived Babylonian Empire; this quickly dissolved upon his death and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. Babylon again became the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 608 to 539 BC which was founded by Chaldeans and whose last king was an Assyrian. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. After the fall of Babylon it came under the rules of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman and Sassanid empires.
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the capital city of Babylonia, one of the richest and most magnificent cities of the East, the gigantic walls and hanging gardens of which were classed among the seven wonders of the world; was taken, according to tradition, by Cyrus in 538 B.C., by diverting out of their channel the waters of the Euphrates, which flowed through it and by Darius in 519 B.C., through the self-sacrifice of Zophyrus. The name was often metaphorically applied to Rome by the early Christians, and is to-day to great centres of population, such as London, where the overcrowding, the accumulation of material wealth, and the so-called refinements of civilisation, are conceived to have a corrupting effect on the religion and morals of the inhabitants.
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The numerical value of BABYLON in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
The numerical value of BABYLON in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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New York: A third-rate Babylon.
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Babylon 5 is open for business.
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Babylon is the blood that runs through my veins, I love it more than I love my children.
Lucius Beebe:
New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.
Dr. Michael Laitman:
The breakdown of society will force the building of a new model--emulating the Jewish people in Babylon 3500 years ago.
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Road Trip Stops: Food Attractions
Roadside attractions can be strange, fun, goofy, and snap-a-photo worthy all at the same time. Find some food-related roadside attractions for your next road trip.
By Zoe Bain
Maryann Campbell shuttermeister/Flickr
Driving with the windows down on the wide-open road is definitely a road trip perk. But perhaps the most exciting part of road tripping is discovering random places to stop along the way. Roadside attractions can be strange, fun, goofy, and snap-a-photo worthy all at the same time. If you're planning on a jump-in-the-car-style vacation anytime soon, stop by some of these food-related roadside attractions — because a family photo standing in front of the world's largest picnic basket or a larger-than-life bottle of coke will be the perfect candidate for next year's holiday card. Need some food to munch on while driving to your destination? Check out these travel-ready recipes for the road or these kid-friendly family car trip foods.
Location: Springfield, Missouri
While finding a fork in the road on a road trip is commonplace, this one is actually a giant eating utensil. Located outside the Noble & Associates advertising agency building, this fork, fit for a giant, spans three stories. A plaque boasts that this metal masterpiece is the largest fork in the world.
2215 W. Chesterfield Blvd. Springfield, MO 65807
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More Than a Spot of Tea
Location: Chester, West Virginia
Chester's giant teapot is self-proclaimed the largest in the world. The structure is 14 feet in diameter and approximately 14 feet tall. It was built in 1938 by converting an oversized root beer keg, once used as an ad for a Hire's Root Beer promotion. William Devon bought the barrel and made it into a teapot by covering it with tin and placing a large glass ball on top for the knob of the lid. A concession and souvenir stand were set up inside the teapot next to Devon's pottery outlet store. While the souvenirs have moved to the gas station across the street, the teapot was restored in the 1990s, making it a prime road trip stop.
Across the street from 751 Carolina Ave., Chester, WV 26034
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Covered in Corn
Location: Mitchell, South Dakota
The ingenuity of Corn Palace is only fully realized when visitors discover that the entire outside facade is plastered with individual ears of corn. The outer "murals," as they're called, are changed every year and feature decorations as detailed as Mount Rushmore. Corn Palace was created in 1892, when it was called "The Corn Belt Exposition." Farmers put their corn on display on the building's exterior to prove that South Dakota soil was indeed fertile. The current building pays homage to corn belt history and is home to the yearly Corn Palace Festival in August.
604 North Main Street, Mitchell, SD 57301
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Prolific Pop
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
If you happen to be cruising down the Las Vegas strip, in between checking out the Luxor pyramid and Caesar's Palace, take a gander at this 100-foot-tall glass Coke bottle. The bottle may not be filled with soda, but it does encompass two elevators, which will take you up to the Las Vegas branch of the Coca-Cola store. Nighttime visitors will get a chance to see it lit-up.
3785 Las Vegas Blvd., South Las Vegas, NV 89109
Jessica M. Green jessicagreen0202/Flickr
Constant Cola
Location: Sacramento, California
Didn't get your giant Coca-Cola fill from the 100-foot glass bottle in Las Vegas? No worries, there's another huge coke to see in Sacramento — this time in cup form, complete with a straw. This classic coca-cola cup with a straw peeking out the top is rumored to stand in front of a Coca-Cola bottling plant or distribution center. The cup is 3 stories tall, smaller than the bottle in Vegas, but still a colossal cup of Coke.
South East corner of Arena Way and Gateway Park Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834
Devon Morgan Design www.devonmorgan.com
Sundry Shakers
Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum has over 20,000 salt and pepper shakers that hail from different eras, and come in all shapes and sizes. The owners started their collection when they needed to buy a new pepper mill. Years later their collection is now museum-worthy. If you're driving through Tennessee you might want to save a little time for this creative attraction — the $3 price of admission goes toward any salt and pepper shaker purchase in the gift shop.
461 Brookside Village Way, Gatlinburg, TN 37738
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Eggs for an Army
Location: Long Beach, Washington
This enormous frying pan is 9 feet tall and has a diameter of 6 feet — that could cook a whole lot of bacon and eggs. The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce funded the pan back in 1941. Upon completion, it was actually put to use as part of the Peninsula Clam Festival. Although the pan has been retired to a tourist photo accessory, and has been exposed to the elements over the years (the Chamber of Commerce did not build an oversized kitchen for storage), it is still theoretically a functioning skillet.
Across the street from 409 S Pacific Ave., Long Beach, WA 98631
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Got Milk?
You can only miss this triangular building sitting right smack in the middle of a busy Oklahoma City street because you arestaring at the oversized milk bottle perched on its roof. Built in 1948, 18 years after the construction of the tiny store, the milk bottle has been a continuous advertisement for the dairy industry. The bottle has been rented by many different companies and is repainted for the various dairy-related promotions. Despite being called the Milk Bottle Grocery, the shop below the bottle has never had any business connection to the milk on the roof.
2426 N Western Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73106
Pat Lewis/Flickr www.patlewis.com
Would You Like Some Fries with that Giant Big Mac?
Location: North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
The Big Mac was created at a Pennsylvania McDonald's franchise in 1967 by Jim Delligatti, so it's fitting that North Huntingdon, PA, is home to the Big Mac museum, and perhaps even more fitting that the museum houses the world's largest Big Mac replica. The enormous burger mimics the sandwich exactly, complete with a three-part bun, two patties, onions, lettuce, cheese, and, of course, Jim Delligatti's super-secret famous sauce. Entry to the museum is free as the building is also a full-service McDonald's.
9061 Route 30, North Huntingdon, PA 15642
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Prodigious Picnic
Location: Newark, Ohio
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to work inside a larger-than-life picnic basket? That strange notion is a reality for employees at the Longaberger Basket Company, who work inside the largest picnic basket in the world. The basket is 192 feet long by 126 feet wide and is a seven-story building. Who knows, maybe everyday at Longaberger is a picnic.
1500 East Main St., Newark, OH 43055
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U.K. Showbiz
Sunrise host Samantha Armytage does double duty taking helm of Seven evening news bulletin after comparing gruelling early starts to form of Guantánamo Bay torture
By Zoe Nauman and Amy Roberts For Daily Mail Australia
It was only days ago she compared her gruelling early starts to a form of Guantanamo Bay torture.
And now the work load for Sunrise presenter Samantha Armytage has just got even bigger as she is now presenting the Channel Seven evening news bulletins as well as her usual morning gig.
The 38-year-old host, who has to get into the studio before 4am every morning, has been filling in for usual host Mark Ferguson, who is currently in Gallipoli for the 100th anniversary of Anzac day.
Double duty: Samantha Armytage hosted Sunrise on Tuesday and then headed straight to the news studio for the 6pm slot
Samantha was on call for an extended breakfast show on Tuesday due to the floods, and then was back on screen at 6pm for the Sydney news slot helping to cover the breaking story.
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And she was back on camera on Wednesday night to take the helm again assisting with coverage of the developing weather catastrophe.
A spokesman for Seven told The Daily Telegraph:'there was no better person' to step in and help with the coverage.
Taking the helm: A spokesman for Seven said there was 'no better person' to do the job
Working hard: The 38-year-old was back on air again doing a double stint, hosting Sunrise and the news
They added the network had faith in her ability to helm two flagship shows and said: 'It’s an example of not just Sam’s, but our entire team’s incredible work ethic and experience in covering unfolding news events,” the spokesperson continued.
Samantha herself said she relished the challenge and was happy to help out in a situation when it was 'all hands on deck.'
She added: 'For major breaking news events like this it’s a around-the-clock team effort from everyone working in the newsroom and on Sunrise.'
No problem: She said she was happy to take on the extra work
Away: Samantha was replacing Mark Ferguson who is in Gallipoli for the 100th Anzac anniversary
It was only on Sunday in an interview Samantha revealed she struggled with her early starts for Sunrise, saying she often felt 'fragile.'
Speaking in an interview with Hamish McLachlan, she said: 'Remember I get up at 3.40 every morning — and sleep deprivation is a form of torture they used at Guantánamo Bay, so I can be fragile at times.
The blonde beauty, who has co-presented the breakfast show since 2000, then went on to take a swipe at her co-host David Koch, who is known by his nickname,'Kochie'.'
A similar feeling? In a recent interview she revealed believes the gruelling starts for her Sunrise gig make her 'fragile' and compared it to the form of 'torture' they suffered at the military prison within Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
The camp: The US military prison is located in Cuba, which was established in 2002 to detain extraordinarily dangerous people
Samantha said she felt it was unfair she and Natalie Barr had to get up before the crack of dawn just to get their make-up done when the 59-year-old presenter gets an extra hour in bed.
She explained: 'You realise Nat and I are in make-up for an hour each morning — and Kochie gets to stay in bed for an extra hour? I suppose he has less hair!'
And the Aussie journalist, whose weight has fluctuated over the years, also revealed she can't understand why people are so obsessed with her changing physique and why Kochie doesn't get the same criticisms.
Another blow? The blonde beauty, who has co-presented the breakfast show since 2000, then went on to take a swipe at her co-host David Koch, who is known by his nickname,'Kochie'
She said: 'I have wondered when they put this curvy tag on me and incessantly discuss my weight and my body, why the male hosts don’t get the same questions - what their weight might be doing?'
However, Samantha insists she's more 'resilient' now and doesn't let the the harsh comments get to her as much as she did when she first started out in the industry.
She explained: 'I would say I’ve definitely become more guarded and tougher and more resilient.'
Why him? Samantha, 38, believes it's unfair she and Natalie Barr have to get up before the crack of dawn just to get their make-up done when the 59-year-old presenter gets an extra hour in bed
Meanwhile, although Samantha isn't keen on the high-level of fame she has, she left viewers stunned earlier this month when she admitted she's been tempted to flash her boobs in public.
She was discussing a recent story in which South Australian Karen Davis was charged by police with disorderly behaviour after allegedly parading her K-cup breasts on Google Street View.
Weighing in on the raunchy act, Sam defended the flasher's actions, saying stripping is 'harmless.'
'It’s pretty harmless. It'd be pretty tempting though...if you were in a quiet street,' she said.
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Double duty: Samantha Armytage presents evening news bulletins on Seven after comparing gruelling early starts on Sunrise to form of Guantánamo Bay torture
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Tom Kellermann
‘Intrusion Suppression:' Transforming Castles into Prisons
How building cybersecurity structures that decrease adversaries' dwell time can reduce the damage from a cyberattack.
Winter is coming in 2017 and, as in Westeros in the Game of Thrones, geopolitical tension continues to serve as the harbinger for destructive attacks. In the real world, we’re talking about cyberattacks, and the threats aren’t from dragons and Wights, but cyber campaigns like Pawnstorm against NATO over the security of the Baltics, the ISIS and AQAP quagmire in the Mideast, and, closer to home, increasingly disillusioned American voters turning toward organized hacktivism to unleash their fury and frustration.
Given these harsh realities, it’s imperative that we as an industry build up our cybersecurity architectures based on a deeper understanding of how attackers attack, and what they do once they are inside the castle walls. As the recent Verizon Data Breach Report noted, most breaches are not discovered for at least 100 days. This damning reality necessitates a paradigm shift. According to the same report, 81.9% of compromises are caused by breaches that took minutes to accomplish, while 67.8% of compromises took days to reach the exfiltration stage. The survey noted that it took months for a victim organization to respond to a cyber intrusion.
Given the fact that the cybercriminal has a footprint within a company network for an extended period, organizations must alter their security posture accordingly; the metric by which we should assess the potency of a cyber-countermeasure is how effectively it can decrease an adversary’s dwell time. Decreasing dwell time is the measurable metric by which we can value a return on investment for an enterprise. Diving down into what decreasing dwell time affords the enterprise requires an examination of what the costs are to the enterprise when exfiltration of their data occurs.
SuperMax Prisons & Cybersecurity Architectures
In 1933, the United States Department of Justice opened Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay. The purpose was to incarcerate a certain caliber of prisoner described as “desperate or irredeemable” in response to the hardened organized criminals arrested by the FBI. In recent years, there was a recognition that the older architectures like Alcatraz were insufficient to house the contemporary criminal and terrorist. Thus, in 1994 the Federal Bureau of Prisons opened the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, housing the likes of Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, and Robert Hanson.
Image credit: Lightspring via Shutterstock
These SuperMax "control-unit" prisons, or units within prisons, represent the most secure levels of custody. The objective is to provide long term, segregated housing for inmates classified as the highest security risks in the prison system. The facility was constructed to permanently keep criminal masterminds imprisoned. The prison as a whole contains a multitude of motion detectors and cameras, and more than a thousand remote-controlled steel doors. Pressure pads and 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) razor wire fences surround the perimeter. The early detection of lateral movement is paramount as the prisoners attempt to tunnel out.
An Alcatraz for your Network
The same construct should be applied to your hybrid network environment. The importance of early detection is that the more dwell time the adversary has in the environment, the longer it takes to detect and contain a data breach, the more costly it becomes to resolve, and the harder a brand’s reputation is hit.
To thwart a virtual jailbreak with your intellectual property and credentials that could cause irreparable damage to a brand, cybersecurity leaders must embrace the concept of "intrusion suppression" by altering their architecture to emulate the "SuperMax" prison. Intrusion suppression requires clandestine detection, deception, diversion and eventual containment of a cyber adversary. It involves four steps that aim to detect cybercriminals by decreasing their dwell time and lateral movements:
Step 1: Deploy a deception grid to enhance situational awareness per the latest techniques to deceive and divert the adversary unbeknownst to them.
Step 2: Deploy user entity behavior analytics, which provides contextual analysis on the activity and lateral movement of the adversary.
Step 3: Deploy adaptive authentication with contextual verification to eliminate an access an adversary has to your network.
Step 4. Embrace memory augmentation to hunt the adversary in the wild.
These investments are fundamental to turn the tables on the cybercriminal of 2017. Enterprises must consider investing in complementary technologies that specifically aim to diminish adversary dwell time through intrusion suppression. Not only will they help keep costs down in the event of a breach by stifling the adversary’s exfiltration of meaningful data, but they will also help protect the reputation of the enterprise that has been breached.
As a community of white hats, we must respect our adversaries and spin the chessboard. The proper strategy for your organization is to build a structure that inhibits the free movement of the adversary once they penetrate your system. We must transform our castles into prisons.
[Check out the two-day Dark Reading Cybersecurity Crash Course at Interop ITX, May 15 & 16, where Dark Reading editors and some of the industry's top cybersecurity experts will share the latest data security trends and best practices.]
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Tom Kellermann is the chief cybersecurity officer for Carbon Black Inc. Prior to joining Carbon Black, Tom was the CEO and founder of Strategic Cyber Ventures. On January 19, 2017 Tom was appointed the Wilson Center's Global Fellow for Cyber Policy in 2017. Tom previously ... View Full Bio
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Past Little While
Research Travels
Some Other Travels
Darlene Limology
Il faut aller voire
— Jacques Cousteau
Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada
While I did a lot of field research and volunteer development work during my undergrad years at Queen's University in Canada, my deep dive into field science began at the University of Toronto. I started out as a limnologist (yes, the inspiration for Limology), studying the history and evolution of freshwater systems in the Canadian High Arctic while at U of T. I worked on a number of intensely beautiful islands throughout the Arctic Archipelago under the guidance of my mentors Marianne Douglas, John Smol and John Glew.
Early Publications
Haughton Impact Structure in August light
An Intro to Planetary and Exploration Analogs
During my Ph.D program at the University of Toronto, I extended the limnological research I was conducting in the Canadian High Arctic to include a planetary science focus that included examining paleolacustrine sediments from the Haughton Impact Structure (HIS) on Devon Island, Nunavut as an analog to Mars depositional environments. In support of these research activities, I spent a great deal of field time in and around the HIS and working in association with the NASA Haughton Mars Project (HMP) that was founded and led by Dr. Pascal Lee. I was also able to be part of the Mars Society's inaugural and 2001 Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station crew, and through both HMP and Mars Society activities became fascinated with human and robotic operations research. Post-graduate school, I headed south to the NASA Ames Research Center to formally undertake programs that integrated field science with human-robotic operations and technical research.
Ross Island, Antarctic
At all turns I love to explore, and have been finding ways to broaden the scope of my training, experience and knowledge base as often as I can. Click on 'Learn More' to learn more!
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Series on Tech, Disruption (and Chess)
Cenkut
Blog, Featured, Series: Technology & Chess
The Great Unbundling of Venture Capital
This is the third post in my ongoing Series on Technology, Disruption (and Chess). In the previous post I contrasted the old world of closed or hidden knowledge with the new landscape of open knowledge in which we are living. I also described a framework that I think is helpful for entrepreneurs, investors and technologists as they search for opportunities within sectors that have been or are in the midst of being disrupted by technology/software. In this post we will examine the world of venture capital- an industry that is well along in experiencing this phenomenon of "software eating the world". It's being unbundled before our eyes. Here's my effort at describing this evolution, layer-by-layer:
First Layer: VC Bloggers, The Funded
fredwilson
dhornik
I see the first layer of the 'laying bare of VC by technology' as the phenomenon of VC's actually blogging about their business. This essentially started in 2003 with guys like David Hornik, Naval Ravikant at August Capital and then guys like Fred Wilson and Brad Feld as the pioneers. (Again we see the phenomenon of some of the most respected and talented practitioners having the confidence to embrace change and experiment with new platforms). Venture Hacks (by Ravikant and Babak Nivi) was also excellent but came later. Many followed when it was considered "safer" to blog and they figured their LP's wouldn't incinerate them. As always, the laggards came in at the end when they realized they "needed to blog to exist" and compete- and of course most were terrible at it and just imitating the leaders and often ended up just lazily pimping their portfolio companies. There was also Adeo Ressi's "the Funded" in this first layer- a site that had the nerve to let people rate VC's anonymously. It enraged many a grumpy investor. How dare they! But it was definitely one of many influences on VC behavior that emerged during this new era of "exposure".
So what exactly did those blogging pioneers do? They actually talked explicitly about what they were looking for, what a term sheet was all about, how to get in touch with them, and all the formerly hidden tricks (such as 3x liquidation preferences & taking the option pool out of the entrepreneur's hide) that VC's and their counsel employed so often against uninformed and unprepared entrepreneurs. There was a massive knowledge gap that had been used against entrepreneurs- but the more this knowledge was disseminated during this "First Layer", the more the power dynamics shifted away from the VC's. The "black art of VC" was being 'laid bare' in this sense. And what exactly did this lead to?
Entrepreneurs were no longer in the dark and suddenly knew what the game was. Few before them had ever known.
Low-life VC's asking for 3x liquidation preferences were exposed for what they were and became dinosaurs.
Bad VC behavior was discussed openly on the Web and exploitative, rude, arrogant actors were now exposed.
VC's with no strong voice/perspective on the web languished in obscurity wondering what had happened.
There was a power shift. More power shifted to the entrepreneur (although this was not the only reason for this dynamic).
Second Layer: SuperAngels Emerge
kopelman
naval ravikant
Due to the inexorable advance of technology, the cost of launching companies was dropping precipitously during this time and entrepreneurs no longer needed large checks from VC's to get going. This paved the way for the emergence of the SuperAngel or MicroVC. These investors emerged in great contrast to traditional large funds. Founder-friendly, no board seats needed, easy terms with a "lets do this together mindset". Also, some respected law firms started using their websites to publish standard term sheet templates openly that the industry began to adopt. I see the highlights as follows:
With VC blogging platforms seeding the field, the precipitous drop in costs to launch companies opened-up a 'Second Layer'
A new breed of superangels/microVC's emerged: Kopelman, Clavier, Conway, Ravikant (again!), Senkut, Maples & others
The meme of founder-friendly investors (often entrepreneurs themselves) emerged, open discussions, open personalities, no board seats, friendly terms, convertible notes.
Law Firms start putting out "standard term sheet models" openly and deconstructed the terms to which entrepreneurs were so often oblivious
Third Layer: VC as Service-Provider, the emergence of AngelList, Secondary Markets, Accelerators
barry silbert
Even though some firms had been providing some of these services here and there in the past, First Round Capital and then Andreessen Horowitz took the concept of VC as service-provider to an entirely new level. Using software to streamline the networks of all their portfolio companies was a big start. One CEO could now get instant information about any given problem (s)he had by pinging the system. Andreessen then put this all on steroids by hiring pr/bus dev/finance and other professionals in-house to provide services to their portfolio companies. They have set a standard so far out ahead of anyone else in the field that their fund has become known as one of the best in the world despite having been in existence only for several years.
The JOBS Act has also now enabling true crowdfunding. AngelList (founded by names that should be sounding familiar by now: Ravikant and Babak) is at the forefront of this movement and has become preeminent as the place for early stage investors and entrepreneurs to go for an "online" solutions to raising money. AngelList's Syndicates have now been released which opens up fascinating possibilities. Prominent angels can already "raise" their own mini-venture funds on that platform within days. It's truly a huge shifting of a tectonic plate.
But it must be said- whereas now people are 'suspect' if they don't have an AngelList profile, a few years before this many people thought Naval Ravikant (the CEO) was spinning his wheels or worse. Many people didn't understand what he was talking about and couldn't imagine VC being done via a platform. He kept talking about the "unbundling" of the venture process: capital, advice, referrals, etc. He had already seen "the next layer" before most.
Lastly, in this third wave we saw the emergence of secondary platforms like SecondMarket and SharesPost, companies that emerged to provide liquidity to founders and early employees of companies that had reached escape velocity. I remember how alien this concept (and frankly unpopular in certain circles) seemed when Barry Silbert launched his company. Now these entities seem like long-time fixtures of the venture ecosystem.
Very recently I heard of a company called ExitRound that is attempting to create an anonymous marketplace for founders to discretely "explore acquisition opportunities", (read: acqui-hires). Some people are already questioning the validity of this approach- who's to know if they're right or wrong. There's no question this could become another viable micro-layer in this category.
Fourth Wave (yet to come): An algorithmic approach?
It's my view that the disruption of VC is still in its early innings. And this is an example of where I think we need to be most alert for new developments and opportunities when we look at any industry being re-invented. As an example, Vinod Khosla, tweeted the comment and link below the other day. He's talking about the early frontier of VC's adopting algorithms to help them make their investment decisions and gives several examples of emerging players in that space. His point is that this sort of data-enabled approach will be standard in the future whether people can stomach it now or not.
Vinod Khosla @vkhosla 11/3/13, 12:55 PM
VC in age of algorithms: if algo say's “yes” there’s human screening; VC's subject to a litany of cognitive biases
This is probably going to comprise yet another layer of disruption/innovation to what may or may not be called "venture capital" by then.
Very Speculative: Potential Fifth Wave: Investing in People's future earnings: Athletes, Entrepreneurs, Celebrities
Some entrepreneurs believe they are on the vanguard of creating a new asset class. Upstart and Pave are two players in the early innings of moving entirely beyond funding companies but going right to investing in people themselves. Fantex is another emerging company that allows you to invest in the future earnings of professional athletes. Vernon Davis, pictured above, has recently put 10% of his earnings up into such an investment pool.
I actually think this loan stuff will get destroyed as well. I think that if this is to become a "wave" the cutting-edge stuff two years from now will be just funding people, mentoring them, getting them ultra-networked and sharing in their upside. If they can't pay you back- there will be no consequences. Here again algorithms will be used to identify the best people to back and there will be an ultra-elite layer of human curation on top of it all. I think I know the guy who will make this happen. I was in the same room with him discussing just this today.
So here is the inexorable advance of technology/software (designed by human innovators of course) doing its thing and running its course in VC. It's opening up and transforming a formerly closed industry. Old players that were taking advantage of entrepreneurs and relying for their livelihood on the information advantage are dying off. New players with 'next-gen' approaches have come-in and eaten up many of the older players. The AngelList platform is now on the cutting edge of what may well be the next wave of change. As mentioned, an investor without an AngelList profile has already become 'suspect' in the same way that a professional without a LinkedIN profile is suspect and perhaps irrelevant.
But to my point earlier- so what? If you are interested in VC or are an angel or VC yourself- or are an entrepreneur looking at this space- what can you derive from this understanding? Where are the "secrets" Thiel has described? Where do the opportunities lie? Where is the hidden knowledge/next opportunity of today and of tomorrow? How can entrepreneurs and investors "roll with this" instead of becoming irrelevant?
Here are some thoughts as to where to look for the Hidden Knowledge- the so-called secrets:
What are the best investors doing to reinvent themselves right now?
Who is generating the best process/manual for judging early stage investment prospects and how?
What will be the key to being able to form and build a great syndicate on AngelList? (Social Algorithms?) :)
How to identify the new breed of low-life investor who uses these platforms? What's the new camouflage they wear?
On the other side- quality investors who didn't have a knack for social media and blogs but were good with entrepreneurs and added massive value are now obscured from view and can only be found through the old ways, ie. practitioners who respect them "bigging-them-up" and making warm intros to them. How to find and identify them?
I have speculated about two subsequent tech/software led waves (four and five above) that may further disrupt the VC industry. Where do you see it going?
Will there be a new breed of superangel that sucks up all the air in the room due to their huge social profiles? Will they emerge from AngelList Syndicates or elsewhere?
Will most funds get raised on AngelList in the future?
With SEC rules loosening how will this transform the fundraising landscape for funds?
As Thiel would put it, where are the remaining hard problems to solve in this space? Are convertible notes on their deathbed? What will the newer structures and instruments look like?
Let me know your thoughts.
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Whitacre College of Engineering
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will be the undergraduate electrical and computer engineering department of choice in Texas and will be recognized as one of the top research and graduate engineering departments in the nation.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering educates, conducts research, and disseminates knowledge through nationally recognized programs in electrical engineering and computer engineering for the benefit of society.
Goal 1. Access and diversity: Recruit, retain, and graduate a larger, more academically prepared, and diverse student body.
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS (MEASURES OF THE DEGREE OF SUCCESS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS):
Be in the top 5 in Texas in number of electrical and computer engineering graduates by graduating 60 per year.
650 undergraduate students in EE, EECS, and CMPE.
300 graduate students.
75% of entering freshmen meet the criteria for admission to an electrical or computer engineering major.
Minimum five-year graduation rate of 90% for students admitted to Phase II.
75% of students admitted to an electrical or computer engineering major graduate with an engineering degree.
50% of engineering graduates earn their BS degree in 5 years or less.
Increase diversity in the department.
Increase the number of transfer students.
Develop relationships with regional junior colleges and help them provide EE 2304.
Objective 1.1: Annually increase the diversity of the student body.
Strategies:
Support student groups in the Whitacre College of Engineering.
Support diverse student groups in the department.
Objective 1.2: Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering in improving retention and graduation rates.
Use IEEE Student Branch, HKN and AWEE to enhance student retention.
Encourage organization to sponsor tutoring and problem sessions.
Assign students to faculty for mentoring.
Retention rates.
Objective 1.3: Recruit and admit the most qualified students to the college.
Establish more scholarships and fellowships to attract the best and brightest students.
Administer the Dynamic Enrollment Management Program and develop criteria for admission to upper division programs.
The university's student quality indicators.
Number of hits on our website relating to recruiting and advising.
Objective 1.4: Establish more programs, scholarships and fellowships to attract the best and brightest students.
Work with alumni and industries for increased support.
Provide a NSF research experience for undergraduates.
Number of programs.
Number of scholarships or fellowships.
First generation college students.
Goal 2. Academic and Research Excellence: Attain national recognition as a top publicly funded Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering considers this goal as its flagship goal and critical to its success.
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS (MEASURES OF THE DEGREE OF SUCCESS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS) :
Be listed in the top 50 of publicly funded electrical and computer engineering departments.
Addition of 7 new faculty at various ranks in various areas with startup funds.
Increase the number of tenure/tenure track FTE consistent with enrollment and research volume.
Implementation of the Whitacre College of Engineering Master Plan.
A center of excellence generating at least $1 million annually in external funding.
$300,000/FTE/year in research expenditures.
Post doc supported by the university for two years for faculty with research support of over $200,000/year.
Increase the number of archival publications/citations to more than three refereed journal articles per FTE/year.
Hire permanent support staff for each center including technicians.
Endowments for scholarships and chairs.
Faculty membership in national academies.
Fellow of IEEE status for at least 40% of full professors.
Increase the number of faculty registered as licensed Engineers.
Increase annual giving of alumni.
Have at least 90% passing rate on the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam.
Objective 2.1: Modernize and strengthen our undergraduate electrical and computer engineering programs.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee will be responsible.
Form a special ad hoc committee will be formed.
ABET Accreditation.
Student surveys.
Fundamentals in Engineering pass rate.
Objective 2.2: Strengthen graduate and professional programs and increase the yearly Ph.D. graduates from 4.5 to 7 per year.
Graduate Study Committee responsible.
Provide incentives for Ph.D. students.
Update the Ph. D. requirements.
Number of students graduating and in Ph.D. program.
Objective 2.3: Continue to build research programs that enhance the academic reputation of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Specific areas include, but are not limited: Pulsed Power and Power Electronics, Nano Technology Center, Optoelectronics/semiconductors, Computer Vision and Image Analysis Laboratory, Advanced Communication Systems, Biomedical, and Semiconductor Product and Test Engineering.
Add faculty to support the new research areas.
Off load faculty from teaching to increase research.
Amount of research dollars.
Number of research proposals.
Objective 2.4: Develop externally funded, nationally recognized centers of excellence.
Strategically hire individuals to support the centers.
Number of publications and patents.
Research support and graduate student support
Objective 2.5: Recruit, hire, develop, and retain nationally recognized faculty.
Improve infrastructure and support.
Increase national visibility through short courses, workshops, and conferences.
Invite well known faculty in for seminars over a period of several days.
Number of faculty honors.
Objective 2.6: Improve retention and graduation rates for graduate students.
Change graduate regulations and procedures.
Number of graduates.
Objective 2.7: Achieve higher levels of student financial support.
Encourage research proposals to support students.
Promote industrial and Coop interactions.
Level of financial support.
Goal 3. Engagement: Build community connections that enhance the quality of life for students and the community.
Graduate 15% of students with a service learning designation.
Produce 60 graduates per year from the department.
Objective 4.1: Exploit e-business solutions and human computer interface designs.
Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering with agreements and licenses with software venders.
Work with Whitacre College of Engineering web designer.
Number of transactions and number of users by function in transaction logs of file servers.
Objective 4.2: Provide delivery systems appropriate to the needs of users.
Work with Whitacre College of Engineering to negotiate agreements and licenses with network vendors.
Support Whitacre College of Engineering for delivery systems.
Bandwidth utilization.
Objective 4.3: Use standardized software to deliver subject matter content.
Assist Whitacre College of Engineering for software and other resources.
Employ professionally trained support personnel for all delivery systems.
Degree of interoperability of software.
Objective 4.4: Have highly reliable and secure systems.
Have surveillance in critical areas.
Have systems that will protect our networks from intentional disruptions.
Availability of the systems.
Downtime due to other-than-scheduled maintenance.
Goal 5. Partnerships: Build strategic partnerships and alliances to support the teaching, research, and service missions of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Generate $1 million annually from industry to support graduate student stipends.
Increase internship options for graduate students with industry, national laboratories, and other universities both national and foreign.
10% of faculty actively advising industry and federal agencies.
Increase the number of relationships with other departments in the Whitacre College of Engineering, other colleges at Texas Tech, the Health Science Center and other universities.
Objective 6.1: Add a website/recruiter position to our staff.
Provide justification to administration.
Hiring of person.
Recruiting efforts.
Objective 6.2: Maximize the utilization of existing space resources.
Form committee to look at options.
Results of committee actions.
Use committee to ascertain type of equipment needed.
Poll faculty on space and technology needs.
Amount of equipment purchased.
Objective 6.4: Attract and retain faculty and staff .
Encourage faculty to find prospective faculty and staff.
Encourage faculty to take leadership roles.
Faculty and staff turnover rate.
Objective 6.5: Increase percentage of women and minority faculty.
Encourage the hiring of women and minority in employment decisions.
diversity of faculty.
Objective 6.6: Increase professional development for all employees including short courses.
Provide support for faculty and staff for professional development.
Keep records of attendance
Objective 6.7: Provide competitive salaries at all levels.
Use ECEDHA surveys to find appropriate levels.
Inform administration of the salary and support required.
Salary ranges compared to per institutions.
Objective 6.8: Continue a coordinated system for policies and procedures.
Use small committee to exam policies and procedures.
Review policies and procedures.
Goal 7. Tradition and Pride: Enhance the national image of the College of Engineering.
Bring at least one national meeting to Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering each year.
Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering in this effort.
Recognize each year at least 3 departmental alumni who have achieved significant leadership roles.
Objective 7.1: Instill tradition and pride in the academic experience.
Increase the number of faculty on boards of national technical societies.
Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering to develop traditions.
Number of events in department.
Objective 7.2: Add value to the graduates and faculty by an enhanced national image of the college.
Attract international and national meetings hosted in department.
Number of meetings.
Objective 7.3: Foster ethics and professionalism.
Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering to foster professionalism and ring ceremony.
Number of participants in the ring ceremony.
Goal 8. Development and Marketing: Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering to enhance the fiscal stability through development activities that support students, faculty, and college operations.
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS (MEASURES THE DEGREE OF SUCCESS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS) :
Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering to obtain $35M in cash.
Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering to secure $200M in endowment.
Objective 8.1: Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering to be ranked #1 among colleges in university fund raising. (Currently #2)
Identify endowments for scholarships and chairs.
Annual giving and endowments.
Objective 8.2: Increase the visibility of the department.
Work with the Whitacre College of Engineering to design and implement strategic college-wide marketing/advertising/promotion campaigns that highlight the College and its people.
Media hits and column inches.
Goal 9. Accountability: Enhancing planning, performance, assessment, and public accountability.
Maintain EE and CMPE program accreditation.
Complete the stewardship process on an annual basis.
Assist the Whitacre College of Engineering to plan and manage 12-month budgeting.
Objective 9.1: Assess academic programs on an annual basis.
Use departmental committees to assess programs and objectives.
Keep abreast of ABET criteria.
Number of assessments completed.
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Drake softball falls to No. 1 seed Oregon 5-0 in NCAA Tournament
Megan Kleist, the 2018 Pac-12 pitcher of the year, threw a complete game one-hitter for No. 1 seed Oregon in the NCAA Tournament.
Drake softball falls to No. 1 seed Oregon 5-0 in NCAA Tournament Megan Kleist, the 2018 Pac-12 pitcher of the year, threw a complete game one-hitter for No. 1 seed Oregon in the NCAA Tournament. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://dmreg.co/2IsXuBw
Special to the Register Published 7:34 p.m. CT May 18, 2018
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EUGENE, Ore. – Megan Kleist, the 2018 Pac-12 pitcher of the year, threw a complete game one-hitter for No. 1 seed Oregon Friday afternoon in a 5-0 victory over the Drake softball team in the NCAA Tournament.
Kleist finished with 11 strikeouts and improved to 21-5. Nicole Newman fell to 22-4 with the loss. Newman pitched 4 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on seven hits with three walks and one strikeout. Kailee Smith tossed 1 2/3 innings in relief and allowed one run on two hits with one walk.
Freshman Macy Johnson broke up Kleist’s perfect game in the seventh inning with a two-out single into center field. Junior Taryn Pena was hit by a pitch after Johnson’s hit, but Smith flied out to right field to end the game.
Oregon (49-7) will play Saturday while Drake (44-11) was scheduled to play later Friday night against the winner of Albany and BYU.
Oregon scored its first run in the first inning, capitalizing on a tough break for Drake. Leadoff hitter Jenna Lilley lined a ball into center field for the game’s first hit. After a flyout, walk and strikeout, it looked like the Bulldogs would escape as Newman got Shannon Rhodes to hit a high pop fly to second base. However, Drake second baseman Kennedy Frank tripped and fell as the ball hit the turf and center fielder Tasha Alexander’s throw to the plate was too late as Lilley raced home to give Oregon a 1-0 lead.
The Ducks increased their lead to 2-0 in the fourth inning with an RBI double by Lilley. One inning later, a pinch hit two-run home run by Lauren Burke followed by a solo shot by Mary Iakopo pushed Oregon’s lead to 5-0.
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Synapse LED lighting system by Francisco Gomez Paz for Luceplan
Dan Howarth | 20 September 2013 Leave a comment
Dezeen promotion: lighting brand Luceplan has launched its Synapse extendable lighting system by Argentinian designer Francisco Gomez Paz.
The lights are formed from three-branch modules, which clip on top of each other to create snowflake-shaped patterns.
This double-sided format allows them to be suspended to form partitions as well as mounted on the wall.
Ends of the arms also clip to other modules to create various shapes and sizes.
Variable-colour RGB LEDs between the modules can be regulated by a remote control.
For more details about the Synapse lighting and more Luceplan products, visit the company's website.
Read on for more details from Luceplan:
Synapse by Francisco Gomez Paz
Innovation is always a wager because it changes the status quo: only time will tell if the novelty will establish itself, finding its way into the social, cultural and psychological fabric, becoming habitual and perhaps leading to another step forward.
In industrial design innovation often has its roots in technological breakthroughs. But to be successful it has to proceed in step with them, while at the same time guiding, interpreting and translating them into solutions that respond to latent or openly expressed desires of people and their styles of living.
In this perspective, it is possible to assert that Synapse, the latest creation of Francisco Gomez Paz for Luceplan, is a highly innovative and particularly contemporary solution.
Not just because it has appeared and exists thanks to the use of a digital light source, LEDs, taking full advantage of their technical and aesthetic qualities, but also because it proposes a new typology for lighting in the home and collective spaces, that of the luminous divider, responding to clearly evident behavioural needs of the present.
Synapse is a complex, multifunctional lighting system that can be positioned by suspension, but also on the wall, or at the centre of the room, like a light partition.
It is composed of a variable number of parts composed of two polycarbonate shells with three lobes that protect the light sources: a printed circuit with three variable-colour RGB LEDs.
Activating them by means of a remote control, it is possible to mix the hues and to transform the atmosphere of a room at will. Thanks to an interlocking device, the individual modules can be joined to form an infinite range of shapes, of vertical or horizontal extensions.
Synapse, then, is not just a new product, but a new lighting typology. With it, Luceplan makes a wager on the future, applying industrial design in the original sense of the term, that of a link between technology and constantly evolving lifestyles.
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Tis the time of year for pot holes
Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by zodiac66, Mar 16, 2005.
zodiac66 Diabloii.Net Member
CUYAHOGA FALLS - This time of year nearly everybody has a pothole horror story to tell.
But for a Cuyahoga Falls family of five, their encounter with a roadside crater was near to over the top when all were taken to hospital emergency rooms for treatment.
A week later, Melissa and Micah Thomas and their three young children are still nursing bumps and bruises suffered in a March 6 crash on Yellow Creek Road in the Falls after their family van hit a pothole then careened off the road and into a steep ditch inches away from a creek.
Melissa Thomas said a fairly uneventful family outing to the Summit Mall in Fairlawn took a serious turn as they made their way back to their 10th Street home in the Falls.
She said they had just crested a hill on Yellow Creek Road near Bath Road when the 1996 Pontiac Transport she was driving hit two potholes and careened off the roadway.
``No matter what I did to that steering wheel,'' she said, ``I could not control that van.
``I didn't even see it (the pothole) until I was in.''
Micah Thomas said he was sitting in the passenger seat looking back at their children -- ages 3 to 9 -- when the accident happened.
``I felt the big bump,'' he said. ``The next thing I knew the van was careening right off the road.
``It was so quick. It was like boom, boom.''
The family had to be extricated from the crumpled van that was wedged in the ditch. All were taken to Akron hospitals, where they -- with the exception of Melissa, who was admitted for one night -- were treated for bumps and bruises.
Melissa Thomas, 31, said she's encountered plenty of potholes, but never one that caused her to lose control and crash.
She was cited by Falls police for failure to control her vehicle.
``I don't think I did anything wrong,'' she said. ``I don't know how to control something that was caused by a pothole.''
Now she's faced with the choice of either paying a $134 fine or attempting to fight the citation in Falls Municipal Court.
She said the potential fine -- coupled with the family carrying only liability insurance on their sole means of transportation -- makes the whole mishap all the more aggravating and expensive.
Falls Police Chief John Conley said officers investigating the crash estimate the van was traveling 40 miles per hour in a posted 35 mph zone.
After reviewing the police incident report that notes the potholes in the road where the accident occurred, Conley said, he still feels the citation was appropriate.
``You are still ultimately responsible for the operation of your vehicle,'' the chief said.
Falls Councilman Terry Mader, whose ward includes the area where the accident occurred, said he has not heard any complaints about that stretch of roadway.
Mader said motorists may call the city's Pothole Hotline at 330-971-8345 or visit the Falls' Web site at www.cityofcf.com to report any pothole problems.
``I do believe the city is doing the best it can do,'' he said.
So far this winter season, the Falls Public Works Department reports that it has filled an estimated 10,000 potholes.
Mader said the city is trying to be as proactive as it can to keep the roadways smooth.
``I think every city is contending with the same thing,'' he said. ``Due to the wonderful winter weather we've had, it's been particularly bad.''
Even though she was "speeding" should she have received a ticket for failure to control?
I have encountered pot holes that could swallow my Geo. None that would cause me to loose control, but I am a slower driver with the kids in my car.
I am glad I still carry full coverage on my car even though it is 7 years old. It is only 10 bucks a month more each month, but I have the comfort of knowing if I hit a pot hole, deer or if my car is vandalized, I am covered.
zodiac66, Mar 16, 2005
AeroJonesy Diabloii.Net Member
Potholes get terrible in this area of the country. All that changing between freezing and not freezing temperatures really kills the roadways. I hit a hole so bad it broke a rim on my car, and ripped the tire off. I had to get a new rim and a new tire.
AeroJonesy, Mar 16, 2005
g00tch Diabloii.Net Member
Then the road crews patch them, but to no avail, as they're opened back up again a week later. Bah - come on spring, get here.
g00tch, Mar 16, 2005
Matt Diabloii.Net Site Pal
I think its a little silly for the cops to cite her for losing control. Its not like she was driving recklessly. Shes already gotta deal with the van being wrecked, hospital bills, and what must be a really scary situation, seeing your whole family sent to the hospital. To add on a 134 dollar ticket? Cmon, thats just ridiculous.
Matt, Mar 16, 2005
But, if you guys hit one and had an accident...whose fault would it be? Yours for not seeing the hole..or the city/county for not making the road safely travelable (that just doesn't look right to me)?
The city/county knows they are dangerous and does nothing about them. Patch jobs just are lame especially in the NE or central states.
If you had significant damage to your car due to a pot hole..then got a ticket on top of that..would you be irate?
{KOW}Spazed Banned
zodiac66 said:
Yes I would. The city can't fill every pot hole as soon as it is made though, so you have to be careful. Speed limits aren't set in stone laws they are suggestions, if the pot holes were bad she should have been going slower than the posted 35mph. I find it hard to believe she couldn't see them. While it sucks that they have to buy a new car and pay hospital bills and such, the law doesn't follow karmic balance.
{KOW}Spazed, Mar 16, 2005
If she knew the potholes were that bad, she'd probably have slowed down. Cresting a hill makes it harder to see the road in front of you. And if you're in an area you don't usually drive, you don't know which parts of the road you should be watching to keep an eye out for potholes. And sometimes you can't avoid them anyway. If it's a narrow road and cars are coming the other way, sometimes you just gotta hold your breath and hang on.
Potholes can get really bad. Like 3-4 inches deep for some of the bad ones. When you describe your car as being "in" a pothole as opposed to just hitting it, it puts a different perspective on things.
Merick Diabloii.Net Member
It seems like we need to find an alternative to concrete, it requires a lot of maintenence, and a patch is never as strong as the original thing.
Merick, Mar 16, 2005
Merick said:
As soon as you come up with something cheap and spreadable that is as strong as steel then I think we will stick with the man made rock.
piff Diabloii.Net Member
Not to mention, rubber on concrete is the best surface to maintain traction. (Whoa, I used physics knowledge...)
My roads are horrible. Absolutly torn apart. Thing is, they were paved five years ago, and aren't scheduled to be paved for another ten years, even though some of it is literally drifting into someone's property. Imagine what is supposed to happen to the west coast in some thousands of years. It's just supposed to separate and drift away, and that's exactly what part of my street is doing. And it's more of the salt corroding our raods than freezing. They use enough salt to make you slide on just as if it were snow.
As for her problem, that's just wrong. While she was going over the speed limit, the pothole still needed fixed to prevent this. What if the speed limit were 45mph? Then whose fault is it?
piff, Mar 17, 2005
DrunkCajun Banned
If I were in her shoes, at the very least I'd contest it on the grounds that the damage to her vehicle, injuries to herself and family, and aggravation caused by the municipality's failure to fix the pothole were more than enough punishment.
DrunkCajun, Mar 17, 2005
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"Duggars and Mothers" Recap
On tonight's season premiere episode of 19 Kids and Counting, "Duggars and Mothers"...
The show kicks off with a recap of Jill and Derick's relationship. According to Michelle, Jill is ready to be a wife, but the family has a lot of planning to do before Jill and Derick can say "I do."
Jill and Derick, along with Jill's mom and sisters, meet with their three wedding coordinators, who also happen to be friends of the family. Jill is the first Duggar daughter to tie the knot, and the Duggar women quickly realize that there is a lot more that goes into planning a wedding than they originally thought.
"Okay, I don't know what I'm doing," Jill admits to viewers after the meeting.
"I would imagine that this wedding is going to be a huge affair, and I have no idea how we're going to pull this off," says Michelle.
In the midst of wedding planning, Jill and Derick receive devastating news: Derick's mom, Cathy Dillard Byrum, has been diagnosed with cancer and must undergo chemotherapy treatments. The engaged couple grabs Jessa as their chaperone and visits Cathy in the hospital.
"It's been good for our relationship to kind of see how we deal with difficult situations," admits Derick, who says he is thankful to have Jill by his side during this trial.
The Duggars invite the Seewalds and the Dillards over to their house to celebrate Mother's Day. It will be the first time that Ben and Derick's families meet. Derick has one brother, Dan, who is two years younger than him, while Ben is the oldest of seven.
Jessa, who admits that her cooking skills are limited, helps Jill prepare the meal. "I try to imitate Jill," says Jessa. "I'm not as good as she is. She makes food taste amazing, so I'm trying to copy her style. I haven't quite got it yet."
"Cooking is fun and exciting," Jessa continues. "I usually always burn something." This time, she just barely burns the rolls but is able to save them with lots of melted butter.
During lunch, Jim Bob and Michelle ask Ben if he would like to move into their guesthouse and do odd jobs around their property while finishing school. Ben is pleasantly surprised and resolves to pray about it.
"I don't know that it's normal, but I think some guys move to areas wherever their girlfriend is..." says Jana.
Meanwhile, Derick and Jill join Dan and his girlfriend, Chelsea, for a video chat with Cathy, who is still recovering. (Update: Cathy is now cancer-free!)
Jim Bob and Michelle surprise Jill and Derick by "loaning" them the Stonybrook house, the residence that the family fixed up back in 2012. (See "Puppies, Properties & Patients" and "Kittens and Konstruction.")
Jim Bob and several of the kids head over to the house to give it a deep clean. Although the Stonybrook house is a three-story mansion and has much more room than the newlyweds will need, they say they feel blessed to have this opportunity to live in the house until Jim Bob and Michelle decide to sell it.
Some might see this situation as unfair to Josh and Anna, who lived in a tiny bungalow for almost five years, but the Duggars don't. As Joy-Anna points out, Jim Bob did not own the Stonybrook house when Josh and Anna were looking for a place to live. "I guess it's their own fault they didn't wait," jokes Joy.
While cleaning the windows at the Stonybrook house, James gets a huge splinter stuck in one of his fingers, but Jim Bob and Jessa are able to pull it out without inflicting too much pain on the young Duggar.
Before the show comes to a close, Jessa and her sisters clean up the guesthouse and make signs to welcome Ben, who has accepted Jim Bob and Michelle's offer, to his new home. He is impressed by Jessa's decorating job. "Wow," says Ben. "This is awesome. It's almost like a hunting lodge or something."
"Jessa is delighted about this relationship," says Michelle. "It means that Ben is closer, almost next door."
"In our courtship, the next step would involve a rock and a piece of metal," Ben tells Jessa.
"Ooh, I like this" Jessa responds.
Labels: 19 Kids and Counting Duggars and Mothers, Ben and Jessa, Cathy Dillard Byrum, Dillards, Jill and Derick's relationship, Kittens and Konstruction, Puppies properties and patients, Seewalds, Stonybrook house
Leah Cohen September 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM
SOOOOOO EXCITED THIS DAY IS FINALLY HERE!! So excited to see Jill & Derick's wedding and congrats to Ben & Jessa!!!! We love the Duggar clan in Los Angeles ... come visit soon!!! May the Lord continue to bless you all!!!!! <+><
You will be posting the video for the people that dont have capel right?!?!
Siel Snowden September 2, 2014 at 11:02 PM
Wait, so Ben moved in with them before he and Jessa were even engaged? That really doesn't seem right.
Lynn September 5, 2014 at 3:21 AM
No. He moved into their guest house which is on their property.
Plz someone post this episode!!! I don't have the channel, so this is the only way I can watch the show.:)
Lily and Ellie September 2, 2014 at 11:34 PM
When/if the episode is uploaded to YouTube, we will post the link:)
~Lily and Ellie
AST September 2, 2014 at 11:34 PM
@Siel Snowden
I felt the same way initially, but when I realized he would be outside the house, in the guest house, it didn't seem so bad.
I'm pretty sure Ben was moved out there so that he would be more available for filming purposes vs any other reason.
sarahsavedbygrace September 3, 2014 at 12:26 AM
Would Love to be able to watch it outside of TLC. I don't have it either :)
There was a song in the Duggars and Mothers episode that I really liked. It reminded me of my husband and I. I think part of it went, ".. He made me for you ... He made you for me.." Or
something like that. What is the name of the song and who sings it? Could someone tell me please?
I dont understand why Jessa s cooking skills are limited.The older girls should have switched up their jurisdictions more evenly so that all the girls have equal experience.Im really surprised that Michelle didnt think of that.Someone needs to tell Jessa how important is is to measure things , unless you are a skilled cook already. TLC should send over some Foodnetwork chefs to give her some speedy lessons and cooking tips for the whole family. That would be fun to watch.
Hey Lily and Ellie, I noticed the Welcome Hortono's sign,and their Mom and Dad in the backround.Was that Jennifer and Jonathon Hortono's parents first visit with the Duggars? It was sure nice seeing them there.I still say Jennifer H. and JohnD or Joseph should court.
pretty girl September 3, 2014 at 3:46 AM
the outside of the guest house is a shed? how long did
Ben pray about moving into the house. did not even seem like his parents encouraged him to stay in school. but drop out from a good unviersity to do odd jobs around Jim bods house. also he had a Job already why did he need another one. sometime long distance realtionships are good.
One of THOSE parents September 3, 2014 at 5:48 AM
I know this won't be a popular opinion but I was disappointed in the season opener. The show repeated highlights of last season that were shown in reruns for the last month AND can be watched via internet. Then during the repeat show, everything was repeated after commercial breaks. So, the commercial showing the wedding is actually previewing the whole season? Boo
Dball September 3, 2014 at 7:00 AM
How long does it usually take you guts to post the new episodes?
youtube took it down
The new episode is up on amazon already!
Hopefully the episode will be on Youtube soon! My withdrawl is killing me!
So enjoyed this new episode! Man alive that was a huge splinter in James' finger - yikes! My heart went out to Guinn Seewald when Ben was invited to move in with the Duggars. I could not tell if Ben's parents were consulted before JimBob extended the offer. It is difficult transition for parents to make as their children move on. In this case it felt like Ben was being absorbed into the clan. I felt happy for Ben and Jessa that their relationship will have a chance to flourish, but I HOPE Ben will finish his education. Jana continues to impress me with her service and kindness to others. Joy is still a spitfire and given her interaction with Ben,clearly not lacking in self confidence. I loved Josh and Anna's reaction to learning that Derick and Jill would be moving into the mansion. I have so much respect for those two. They have accomplished so much together over the years, not the least of those accomplishments it a humble spirit and a strong loving marriage and family life. Loved how the girls fixed up a room for Ben in the warehouse, it looked really good. Jessa looks like she is crazy about Ben. Hope the family will treat Ben like an equal, he seems like a good guy. Love watching Derick and Jill together. There are so many of them and so many things I could say, but that would be going overboard. They are such a great family and I am so glad they are back!
I dont have cable or directv either! Please post episodes asap!
I watched the episode and still find it weird that Jim Bob invited Ben to live in the guesthouse..I felt bad for Ben's parents. To me the cutest moment was when Ben was going on about Jessa's talents and James rolled his eyes.. and the saddest moment was when Josie wanted to go to the guesthouse and was left home.. the sight of her looking out the window afterwards was very touching.
Thanks for the recap & posting the link to the episode when you can. I am overseas so can't see it.
I'm very curious how Ben's arrangement worked - did he have all his meals at the Duggars' house too? Then being in a walking distance from the main house, and taking into account the fact that Jessa is not working too - they could spend all days together... literally.
Thought, that "guest house" looked more like a hangar to me, like some factory building. They did not show that Ben's room had a bathroom, probably it was somewhere downstairs, in the main area. But I did not really find it so comfortable, no windows, nothing. Of course, it was free for Ben, but I think he could be more independent and get a real job with someone and rent a room for himself.
I loved Jana's comment that she did not know if it was normal :). I think the more understandable approach would be if a girl would wait till marriage, and then she would move to where the husband lives.
Cammie September 3, 2014 at 10:49 AM
Jill seemed so excited. It is great to see all the parts leading up to her wedding. What an incredible house she & Derick get. I like older homes better then new cookie cutter homes. Even though they don't have to pay rent, I'm sure the utilities will be high. I'm very confused about the guesthouse? It looked like a storage building. It had a truck parked inside with a bunch of storage right below the stairs to Ben's room. It actually looked like an old factory and Ben's room looked like where the bosses office would be? The dinner was confusing, it was for the families to met & mothers day but Ben's mom was too ill to be there & it was just his older brother meeting Ben's younger siblings. I think the dinner should have been postponed till Derick's parents could come. They could have just had a family dinner with constant talk about the families meeting. I'm very excited to see the rest of Jill's wedding story, still on the fence about how Ben & Jessa courtship is being shown. I know not everyone is the same but I'm not sure it is the example I want my kids to see yet.
I wonder if each child gets a portion of what they've made off the tv show. That would make a nice downpayment or even where they live pay off a house for each couple.
This episode had me laughing so hard and feeling joyful for the Duggars.. what made me laugh was when Jessa realised that's she forgot the rolls in the oven and she ran and screamed into the big kitchen that made me laugh... then the next thing that made me smile and laugh was when Ben said that the next step in the courtship would involve a rock and metal, and Jessa's face lit up And she said "ooh I like this"... I love seeing how Jessa has really opened up and let's herself be silly since she has been courting Ben.. Jessa must feel like her wedding is so so far away even though it is in just a few months, you can tell that when she and Ben embrace they have that desire to also kiss but they cant just yet.. on the first kiss on their wedding day i bet they are gonna feel like fireworks are going off around them since they will have been in a courtship for more than a year on the day they wed in the fall/winter.
Ok, I totally understand the whole chaperone thing... but going to visit his mother in the hospital? Doesn't she count as a chaperone? I don't think they need a chaperone for that.
I enjoyed the premiere episode. I thought it was interesting that Derick's brother arrived with his girlfriend without a chaperone. I wonder if Derick's family believes in chaperones during courting or if he just went along with it because the Duggars do.
I want to see the selfie of Joy and the deer.
Who is paying for the wedding? TLC?
When will fans be watching Jill and Derick's wedding day? When will Jessa and Ben be getting married (because one of today's posts said this year, which must mean around Thanksgiving/Christmas time)? Glad to see new pictures of the family on the left side panel of the blog. But is it true that Jana or John-David may be courting someone. If so, post.
@Siel Snowden He didn't move in with them. He moved in to their guest house, which is a separate building.
Elizabeth September 3, 2014 at 3:42 PM
Last night was a great premiere night. The family really did clean up the Stonybrook house and brought a lot of life back into it, and I did feel bad for James when he got jabbed by a splinter (that was huge by the way). Can't wait for next week.
pretty girl September 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM
anyone notice that guest house is really not a guest house but some kind of storage shed? a guest house has a bathroom and a kitchen. and windows. and one of the little kids let it slip that Jessa was already engaged.
Hi Lily - When will the youtube link be posted? Can't wait to see it but don't have cable. Thanks :)
Will the cover photo be updated with the new show? That would be nice for a change:)
Wikipedia says that Jessa and Ben r getting married on Nov 1st. Is this the right date or not. Also I thought last nights episode was interesting. I'm happy that Ben is now living close to Jessa. Next year on mothers day Jill will be celebrating her first mothers day as a mother. I hope that they show the wedding mid season and end the season with Ben's proposal just like last season having the bates wedding mid season and Jill getting engaged in the finale
Ben moved into a room in another building, it's not like he was in their house. So basically, for the time being, he is there like a hired worker, until they get married, and they'll probably move them into a dwelling to begin their lives. So what is so bad about that? Not only being closer to Jessa, but allowing more time for the entire family to get to know him better. I wondered what he did for a living...at least he's helping around the homestead. It's a good thing.
#8, the house isn't a gift, it is being loaned to them until it sells. I imagine they will buy it though. Also, from what I know the Duggars didn't own it when Josh got married so it would have been hard for them to let Josh live in it.
Ben is not living in a guest house. a guest house has a kitchen and a bathroom. not one room in a shed. sorry. his rroom does not even have a window. that is not a guest house.
Will the episode be posted soon? I have no cable, and am eager to watch!
#17 Josh rents the house in DC; they were talking about renting in the episode when they were looking at 3 properties.
#19 - I so agree! It's probably not a shed, but it is some work building, like factory or storage for big machinery. JB said there was a bathroom, but they did not show it. Maybe one basic bathroom on the first floor... Maybe Ben decided to propose so quickly to move from that room :).
I find Ben's moving to the property quite out of character for the Duggars, even being Jim Bob's idea. It appears he will eat all of his meals with the family. It's just way too close for an unmarried couple. Doesn't fit their standards.
He didn't move in with them, he moved into a guesthouse on their property. Their property is HUGE. Jessa and Ben are not living in the same building, and they will have a curfew. Hope this helps!
Please post the new episode for us fans here in Australia!
Vikki September 5, 2014 at 11:17 AM
Pretty Girl how did one of the little kids let slip that Jessa was already engaged?
Like many people commenting on this blog, I would love to see the season premiere. When will you be able to post it?
This was not as exciting as last season's premiere but it was good.
I found this link to the duggars and mothers episode:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDe-0qObxg
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDe-0qObxg found this.....small but good quality
I personally think the 'guest house' , if you want to call it that, was just for TV. I'm thinking he's staying in the boys room. Josh mentioned that all the other guest rooms were being used but I've never seen a guest in one of those said rooms. Guests have always stayed in the boys' room while the boys sleep on the bus.
Congrats Jessa and Ben!
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Since it was established, Kawai has always been synonymous with extreme quality. In its long history, the brand founded in 1927 by Koichi Kawai has evolved from making hi-end concert pianos to creating professional and reliable digital pianos.
Recently, the company unveiled a new product in its popular ES-series: the Kawai ES-100, which is the first-ever 88-key weighted hammer action digital piano under $1000 from the Japanese manufacturer, now available for $799.
Designed for piano students, intermediate and professional musicians who care about the piano sound and fidelity, the ES-100 is absolutely the best choice in the $500-1000 price range and offers one of the most realistic piano experiences, even considering more expansive products, such as several Yamaha’s products under the $1500 range.
Before moving forward with our review, please take a moment and use the interactive table below to compare the Kawai ES100 to some of the great digital pianos currently available:
$ = $500 or less | $$ = $500 – $1,000 | $$$ = $1,000 and up
Kawai ES-100 88 33 lbs. $$ ★★★★
Kawai ES110 88 26 lbs. $$ ★★★★★
Yamaha P-45 88 25 lbs. $ ★★★★
Casio PX-160 88 25.5 lbs. $ ★★★★
Yamaha P-115 88 26 lbs. $$ ★★★★
Korg SP170s 88 26 lbs. $ ★★★★
Yamaha DGX-660 88 46 lbs. $$ ★★★★★
Examining the Kawai ES-100
The Kawai ES-100 ships in both black and white finishes. Now, let’s see what’s inside the box:
Kawai ES-100 88-key digital piano
F-10H piano-style damper pedal
Music rest
AC adaptor
Kawai also offers an optional furniture-style HML-1 stand, which matches with ES-100 and offers the three pedal functionality. Compared to competitors’ stands, the $230 Kawai HML-1 may be a little expensive for some, but the quality of construction materials, the elegant finish and the 3-pedals made out of metal are definitely worth the price.
The included F-10H damper pedal is one of the biggest features of this Kawai digital piano: an extremely solid, heavy-duty piano-style pedal that allows for half-pedal functionality, something that you would pay $80 for if bought separately. No other digital pianos in this price range offer a similar damper pedal in the box.
The ES-100 itself features a really lightweight chassis (only 33 pounds), but despite its ease of handling, it offers the excellent AHA IV-F, a graded hammer action keyboard that simulates the same feelings of a real grand piano by using an hammer component under each of the 88 keys.
Below, take a look at some of the best selling digital pianos available on Amazon, and see how they stack up against the Kawai ES-100 in terms of specs, features and price:
Yamaha P-115
Kawai ES110
Yamaha YDP-163
Casio PX-860
Yamaha P255
The Kawai ES-100 features a very basic design: in addition to the power switch and volume slider on the top, we find the Function, Play/Stop, Rec and Lesson buttons, and three more buttons to switch between the available sounds. Other options can be managed by pressing the Function button along with a specific key on the keyboard.
On top of the chassis, there is also a slot for the music rest and the two-7W integrated speakers. On the rear side, instead, we find the MIDI I/O, the damper jack and the input for the AC adaptor. There are also two Phones outputs, which can be used for practicing in silence or connecting the piano to a P.A. or a mixer.
The built-in recorder allows for 1-track recording, for a maximum of 3-user songs. You can play along the previously-recorded song, but not record another instrument in the same song. Competitors like Casio and Yamaha offer built-in 2-track recorder in their products, and it’s a shame that Kawai did not do the same in the ES-100.
There is no Duet mode at all or any automatic accompaniment to choose from, but at least you can play along with 100 different drums rhythms. Solo musicians can use this feature together with the Layer/Split mode for their gigs or live exhibitions.
The Lesson mode, a library based on the renowned Alfred’s Song Books and Burgmuller 25 Etudes, is a huge feature for students that want to learn the basics, which can be found only in the Kawai ES-100, considering the $500-1000 range.
Many of you may complain about the lack of features, like the USB port or the LCD display, but the truth is that even without those appreciated options, the ES-100 can be considered the most convenient digital piano for students, pro players, stage musicians and piano maniacs.
Let’s dig a little deeper to find out why.
A True Piano Experience
The heart of Kawai ES-100 is the Harmonic Imaging sound engine, which offers to piano players an outstanding, natural sound when combined with the aforementioned AHA IV-F keyboard. Each note of all the 88 keys was individually sampled by Kawai in order to deliver the ultimate piano tone under the $1000 price range, and this goal was definitely achieved.
The reason why Kawai’s piano sounds so great is because of three additional features: the first is the pedal resonance, which lets you hear the strings echo and resonation while pressing the sustain pedal. This can be fully adjustable through the Function menu.
In order to achieve a superior, killer-piano sound, Kawai added to the mix the Fallback Hammer Noise and Damper Rail Noise, all the mechanical sounds you can experience in a real grand piano, which are simulated as well in the ES-100. These features are velocity sensitive, so the faster you press or release the sustain pedal, the louder the noise will be.
The ES-100 also offers 19 different sounds to choose from, including 8 stunning different piano tones (from Concert Grand to Modern Piano, from Studio Grand to Rock Piano) with a maximum polyphony of 192 notes. This is the highest amount of notes available in a product of this range, which also offers a much more realistic and natural way of playing.
The other included sounds are three Electric Pianos, two different Organ types, Harpsichord and Vibraphone samples, two Strings and two Bass presets. Of course, you can layer two different sounds or split the keyboard in two zones. You can even change the reverb, the EQ or the balance between two sounds, as well as the mellowness and other advanced settings.
If you want to save the sound you’ve created, just press one of the preset buttons on the top of the chassis in order to add a patch that you can instantly recall anytime. That’s particularly good for live musicians that want to customize their playing experience and use the ES-100 as the primary stage piano, as well for pro players totally addicted to recreating the most realistic and personal piano sounds.
Kawai ES-100 vs Yamaha P-115 vs Roland F-20
If compared to other similar products, such as the Yamaha P-115 or the Roland F-20, the Kawai ES-100 still stands out for its pro features and lower price.
The Yamaha P-115 piano
The P-115 from Yamaha is an very strong intermediate solution that offers the same amount of maximum polyphony and available sounds, but the comparison between the key-action and piano tones bends a bit in favor of Kawai’s product. Though this is of course open for debate, and this doesn’t diminish the P-115, which is a great instrument.
While not offering an ivory-feel keybed like Casio or Roland, the AHA IV-F delivers a true, realistic piano experience by making heavier the lower notes and lighter the higher ones. The key-action is a bit lighter than Casio’s PX-Series, but smoother and more realistic than Yamaha’s GH and GHS keyboards, the same of the company’s P-105, P-115 and even the much expansive P-155 model.
Compared to Roland F-20, the ES-100 features a higher polyphony (192-note vs. 128), the compatibility with the triple pedal, a better key-action, and a considerably lower weight.
It’s also cheaper, too.
Instead of focusing on the piano sound and keyboard action, which is surprisingly weak, Roland chose to focus on much more modern features, like the connectivity with an iPad. Although you may use a tablet to change sounds, navigate through the options and use the learning mode, you must buy a specific optional-USB dongle in order to connect your iPad to the piano.
With the ES-100, Kawai created its first affordable product, which is suitable for both pro players and students. While it only features basic options, I think that Kawai got it right by focusing on what really matters: the piano experience.
The retail price of $799 may not be an entry-level budget, but by choosing the ES-100 over cheaper instruments, you’ll make an investment for years to come. With its superior graded hammer action keyboard and realistic piano tones, the Kawai ES-100 is arguably the best portable digital piano you can find that’s under the $1000 range.
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Professional skateboarder, model, fashion designer and artist. This is all just another day for 20 year old Blondey McCoy.
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Being the face of the world’s biggest skateboarding company Palace has grown Blondey to social stardom, but there is so much more to his story.
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Blondey made his first cameo throughout Supreme’s FW13 lookbook. Fast forward five years and he has been going from strength to strength. From high school dropout to British cult star, Blondey’s ethics and creativity is a lesson to all those wishing to generate something from nothing. But having your best interests at heart, along with meaningful and mature qouta’s to tell your story - that is what Blondey is superbly good at.
Being a part of the legendary English skateboard scene and spotted at the infamous Southbank, Blondey was brought to the attention of Palace’s founder Lev Tanju, and he hasn’t looked back since. Whenever Palace releases a new lookbook it is almost certain Blondey will be featured, gaining more admirers and millennial followers who aspire to be like the 20 year old Brit.
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Blondey isn’t your average professional skateboarder, which is why we have seen him don such high end fashion items that gives him a sense of uniqueness from the pack. His witty, intriguing and culturally important aspects on life are seen throughout his Instagram. This includes the worship of George Michael, fashion, art, showcasing his skateboarding (including video of him getting hit by a car), along with the odd feature article all make for a great influence for the many followers that discover him.
From time to time, Blondey holds a ‘garage sale’ of items he longer uses or needs, with all proceeds going towards the House of St. Barnabas on Soho Square - a 155-year-old charity that is devoted to breaking the cycle of homelessness through employment. The sale often attracts hundreds of buyers who form massive queues, vying to get their hands on rare Supreme, Palace and Thames items.
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Blondey is no stranger to exploring his creativity to see where it can go culturally, and Thames is very evident of this. Adopting traditional English styles has even caught the eye of Fred Perry - whom the two recently collaborated on.
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We’re barely a month into the AFL season, but the decision to thrust a rebuilding Carlton side into four Friday night games this year, on top of the now-traditional season opening Thursday night clash against Richmond, must be questioned.
Despite coach Brendon Bolton constantly reminding the footy world of the Blues’ “green shoots”, his side only managed to win six games in 2017 (only one more than bottom-placed Gold Coast Suns), losing nine of their last ten. On top of their poor record, Carlton failed to kick a score of 100+ points throughout the entire season, playing a defensive, and often ugly, brand of footy. So when the AFL released the 2018 fixture, it was a shock to learn that they were gifted so many prime time games.
Every coach in the AFL has their own system and beliefs, so we’re not going to tell ‘Bolts’ how to manage his team, but after a low-scoring, low-finishing 2017, and a dismal start to 2018, Carlton do not deserve to feature in so many coveted Friday night fixtures.
We know the AFL can’t predict how a team will fare when they finalise their fixture shortly after Grand Final day, but we do have a proven, modern day solution to preventing poorly performing teams from stealing the Friday night spotlight... a floating fixture.
Floating Fixtures in England and Spain
While we love the fact that footy is “our” game and is so uniquely Australian, the AFL continues to try and grow the game overseas, holding regular season games in China and New Zealand, and inventing an entire new concept - AFLX - in the hope that it will grow the game worldwide (good luck with that).
But if the AFL are so keen to expand globally, they should emulate the fixturing methods of the English Premier League, the most watched sports league in the world.
In the EPL, the season runs for just under nine months, and apart from the first two months of the season, the league operates on a floating fixture. This means that the games for every round/weekend of the season are known when the original fixture is released, but the actual day and kick off time of each game (apart from the first two months) is not finalised until six to eight weeks prior to that round.
UK network Sky Sports, the primary broadcaster of the EPL, have a major input in determining kick off times and dates, while every club’s schedule (particularly if they have Champions League commitments) is also considered. It goes without saying that Sky Sports make their choices to boost TV ratings, but this results in better games being played in fan-friendly time slots, and regular “super Sunday” double headers featuring the best performing clubs.
We understand that the EPL is a 38 round season which allows more flexibility in their fixture, but if it’s good enough for the most popular league in the world, it should be good enough for the AFL.
Over in Spain, La Liga uses an even more flexible approach than the EPL when it comes to their 38 round schedule, as kick off times and dates are not determined until two to three weeks prior to each round.
Barcelona vs Real Madrid, arguably the biggest club game in world soccer will take place on Sunday May 6th (Spanish time), but La Liga did not finalise this and notify the clubs, fans and broadcasters until April 18th. Sounds like a logistical nightmare, but it always seems to work out for all concerned.
How the AFL’s Floating Fixture Could Work
We’re not suggesting that the AFL should follow Spain’s super-relaxed style of fixturing, but the game, and the fans would benefit from a more flexible approach, particularly when it comes to prime time footy on free to air TV.
Throughout almost every round of the 2018 season, only three games are broadcast on free to air TV each weekend, while every game is available on Foxtel. The AFL are earning $418 million per year from the current broadcast deal, so why not maximise ratings and give the fans a strong Friday night game every round?
The AFL should take a leaf out of the EPL’s book and release every round of the season as a floating fixture, apart from the opening eight weeks.
Then after Round 4, they could finalise the dates and times for Rounds 9-12, and repeat this process after Round 8 for games played from Round 13 through to Round 16. This process would again be repeated until the end of the regular season.
This provides the clubs with enough time to work out their logistical planning, and gives the AFL a better chance of serving fans an appealing Friday night game every week. It might even help the broadcast holders sell a few more ads.
If Carlton and the Western Bulldogs are both in poor form, then their game is probably better suited to an afternoon time slot rather than a Friday night, while a surprise packet (such as Richmond in 2017) could help attract more viewers.
From Round 1 through to Round 8, the AFL could schedule teams who performed well the previous year, along with some rivalry games to ensure that the opening two months of the season (which are not floating) are viewer-friendly.
Echo Charlie’s AFL 2019 Floating Fixture Plan
Games Covered
Finalised Dates and Start Time Announcement
Round 1 - Round 8 October 2018
Round 9 - Round 12 Immediately following Round 4
Round 13 - Round 16 Immediately following Round 8
Round 17 - Round 20 Immediately following Round 12
Round 21 - Round 23 (Last Round of Season) Immediately following Round 16
The AFL Already Has a Floating Fixture
That’s right, the AFL already know how to operate on a floating fixture, as Round 23 - the final round of the regular season - is not finalised until after Round 19. This sets up a strong finish to the season where meaningful games that impact the finals are given an appropriate time slot.
If the AFL and its clubs can mange this on one month’s notice for Round 23, then they have no real reason not to consider a floating fixture for the entire season. This will prevent struggling sides such as Carlton from receiving an undeserved amount of prime time games, and will most likely attract higher ratings.
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The transition to the Standards for Training Packages resulted in a temporary surge in the number of revised training products endorsed by the Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC). The peak of activity was between September 2015 and March 2016.
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To assist registered training providers (RTOs) to prepare for and implement revised training products, the COAG Industry and Skills Council (CISC) agreed to temporarily increase the period allowed to transition students to updated training products under Standard 1.26 (a) of the Standards for RTOs 2015.
Where a training product has been superseded, RTOs have 18 months—instead of the usual 12 months—to either:
transition students to the updated training product, or
teach students out in the superseded training product.
The extended 18 month transition period commences on the date the revised training product is released on the National Register.
This provision applies to training products endorsed by the AISC between 1 September 2015 and 31 March 2016. A list of qualifications has been provided to ensure a clear understanding of which products are in scope and have an 18 month transition period.
RTOs may enrol and commence learners in the revised training products prior to the 18 month transition date once their scope of registration has been updated by the regulator and, if relevant, the purchasing arrangements are in place for state and territory government funded delivery.
Where a training product is superseded but not replaced by a new qualification (Standard 1.26 (b)), the relevant VET regulator will continue to remove the training product from the RTO's scope of registration two years from the date the training product was removed or deleted from the National Register.
RTOs delivering training funded by state and territory governments should ensure that funding arrangements cover this extended period. The New South Wales Government will contact training market stakeholders directly about implementation in New South Wales.
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The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA)
ASQA is the national VET regulator, established under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (NVETR Act). ASQA is responsible for the registration of RTOs under the NVETR Act and monitoring their compliance with national VET standards.
ASQA also has related responsibilities including the regulation of VET accredited courses and functions as a designated authority under the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000. Further information about ASQA is available on the ASQA website.
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Separate regulators in Victoria and Western Australia continue to register and regulate RTOs which deliver training to domestic students only in those states. These regulators are:
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Standards for regulators
The Standards for VET Regulators 2015 enhance consistency in the VET regulators' implementation and interpretation of the national VET standards, and promote the accountability and transparency of the operations of the VET regulators.
National VET standards
National standards for VET are agreed by the Australian Government and state and territory governments through the COAG Industry and Skills Council. Many of these standards are implemented as legislative instruments under the NVETR Act.
Standards for Registered Training Organisations
The Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 strengthen the requirements for RTOs and ensure nationally consistent, high quality training and assessment across Australia's VET sector.
RTOs must also comply with a number of other requirements such as the Fit and Proper Person Requirements and the Data Provision Requirements. Further information on RTO obligations can be found on ASQA's website.
Standards for VET courses
Most VET courses consist of units of competency developed through a process of national consultation with industry and set out in training packages. The Standards for Training Packages 2012 ensure training packages are of high quality and meet the workforce development needs of industry, enterprises and individuals. Further information on training packages can be found on the department's training packages webpage.
VET is also delivered through accredited courses, which complement training package qualifications by ensuring new training courses can be developed quickly and by supporting niche skills needs. VET accredited courses are regulated against the Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2012.
VET qualifications are developed in accordance with the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). The AQF is the framework for regulated qualifications in the Australian education and training system and includes the schools, VET and higher education sectors.
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BUSINESS AS A MOVEMENT"We don't want sustainability to be our edge. We want it to be universal." —Eileen
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A certified B Corp since 2015, we’re one of 2,504 companies across 50 countries and 130 industries redefining success in business. “We’re honored to be a part of the B Corp community,” says Eileen. “It lets us be bold about who we are and what we believe in—and to make greater impact in the world as a fashion industry leader."
B Corps voluntarily meet high criteria for social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. Our certification builds upon the foundation of VISION2020, a series of bold commitments around fiber, chemistry, resources and conscious business practices that EILEEN FISHER launched in 2015.
A leader in the industry for our longstanding commitment to making a positive impact, EILEEN FISHER is one of the largest women’s fashion companies to achieve B Corp certification. Others include Patagonia, Athleta, Reformation and Warby Parker.
EILEEN FISHER is a quadruple bottom line company—meaning we value the environment, human rights, employee well-being and financial interests as part of doing business.
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Kourtney Kardashian Attacks Kim's ''Values'' During a Sisterly Spat on KUWTK: ''You're a Very Distraught, Evil Human Being''
by Alyssa Ray | Thu., Aug. 2, 2018 7:00 AM
Kourtney Kardashian Calls Kim an "Evil Human Being"
A war of words.
In this clip from Sunday's season 15 premiere of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian's beef reaches its peak as the famous sisters battle it out over the phone.
"I'm not here to f--king be mistreated by my f--king bitch family," an emotional Kourtney confides to Khloe Kardashian during a call. "Kim saying that I'm the least interesting to look at…who even speaks like that?"
In an attempt to squash the drama, True Thompson's mom tries to explain that Kim is just "mad" and lashing out. Understandably, this doesn't dissuade the oldest Kardashian, who believes she just has different "values" than her sisters.
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"I choose to be a mother to my three kids," Kourtney explains. "I'm not here looking for another job. I already work enough, more than I would like to."
This comment enrages Kim, who is listening on and is also a mother, and results in her trying to take the phone away from Khloe.
"Don't be mean, Kim," an uncomfortable Kris Jenner advises.
"You do whatever the f--k you want to do and you don't do s--t," Kanye West's wife snaps to Kourtney. "So be accommodating to the people that actually do s--t."
Unsurprisingly, this strikes a nerve with Kourtney who announces that she no longer wants to see Kim.
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"You're a very distraught, evil human being," Kourtney retorts. "I don't agree with who you are as a human being."
After another warning from Kris, Kim tries to apologize for crossing a line, but Kourtney has no interest in accepting it. "No, f--k you Kim," the mother of three states. "I am not going to live my life around people that make me feel not good on a daily basis."
Unmoved by Kourtney's tears, Kim calls her sister a "f--king lunatic" and reveals she'll do a Christmas card involving just the Wests.
Watch the sisterly spat go down in the clip above!
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OLYMPIA – The state Employment Security Department will recognize 12 Washington employers for creating employment opportunities for veterans in their companies in 2016.
Agency commissioner Dale Peinecke announced the award recipients today in support of Gov. Jay Inslee’s Hire-A-Veteran Month proclamation and the upcoming Veterans Day holiday.
“These companies’ commitment to hiring veterans is truly exceptional,” said Peinecke. “I hope other Washington employers will be inspired and follow their lead.”
Award recipients were nominated by WorkSource veterans-employment representatives who work directly with employers to help recruit, hire and retain veterans.
The recipients:
Global Government Services (GGS) — Over the last year, the ship-maintenance company in Kitsap County has hired 96 people to full-time positions, including laborers, helpers, welders, electricians, machinists and mechanics. GGS has committed to hiring another 100 workers next year. More than 50 percent of its workforce in Bremerton is veterans.
Liquor and Cannabis Board — Based in Olympia, this board has hired 15 veterans in 2016, participates in the statewide YesVets program and has committed to hiring more veterans in the future.
Bellair Charters and Airporter — Bellair recruits veterans through WorkSource and is working to become a certified training provider through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This will allow eligible veterans to use their GI benefits to receive supplemental income while training to become a bus driver. The small company currently employs 10 veterans. Three veterans were hired in 2016.
Natural Foods — This Snohomish County factory makes a special effort to hire veterans who are homeless or have service connected disabilities. The store offers only full-time positions with living wages and makes necessary accommodations to ensure its employees’ success. The store currently employs 13 veterans, of which nearly 80 percent were homeless or disabled.
Commercial Driving School — This veteran-owned business in Seattle works to hire veterans with service-connected disabilities. More than 70 percent of the company’s workforce is veterans, of which 53 percent are disabled. The company owner has testified before Congress on behalf of veterans, participates regularly in WorkSource recruitment events and workshops and offers free transportation to work for veterans within a 50 mile radius.
Paragon Systems — This company employs 145 security professionals in Seattle, of which 86 percent are veterans. Paragon has hired 30 veterans in 2016 and participates in the statewide YesVets program.
Tribeca Transport — This waste recycling company in Woodland has hired three veterans in 2016. Its total workforce is 25 percent veterans, and the company’s goal is to bring that total to 40 percent.
Express Employment Professionals — This job placement company in Wenatchee has placed nine veterans in jobs in 2016. It advertises all of its jobs on WorkSourceWA.com and works closely with the local WorkSource center to identify qualified veterans for local businesses. The company participated in numerous community events in 2016, including the Wenatchee Veterans Hiring Event in September.
Triumph Actuation Systems — As of November, 42 of this company’s 282 employees are veterans. Triumph Actuation recruits through WorkSource Yakima and regularly participates in events that support veterans.
Veteran Administration Medical Center — This facility in Walla Walla employs 500 workers, of which 34 percent are veterans. Out of 138 new hires in 2016, 43 were veterans, including 11 who were homeless or disabled.
Energy Northwest — Of its 1,089 employees, 300 are veterans, and 35 percent of the company’s new hires in 2016 were veterans. Energy Northwest is a strong partner of WorkSource Columbia Basin and frequently participates in local hiring events and workshops that help veterans.
Valor Cleaning Services — This Spokane business is veteran-owned and eco-friendly. Seven out 15 company employees are veterans, representing 47 percent of its total workforce. The company gives veterans preference in hiring and participates regularly in WorkSource recruitment events and workshops.
There are currently 630,000 military veterans living in Washington. The Employment Security Department has staff at WorkSource offices who are specifically assigned to help veterans find jobs, including disabled veterans. The department has provided these services to veterans since 1933.
WorkSource is a statewide partnership of state, local and nonprofit agencies that deliver a wide array of employment and training services for job seekers and employers.
From July 2015 through June 2016, WorkSource placed nearly 7,500 veterans into jobs. Eighty-five percent were still employed after six months at an average wage of $17.60 per hour.
Employers who are interested in hiring veterans but don’t know where to start should contact their local WorkSource center for help.
Other help for veterans and incentives for employers
Department of Revenue: Business and Occupation (B&O) or Public Utility Tax (PUT) credits
Employment Security Department: Work Opportunity Tax Credit
Department of Veteran Affairs: Veterans Employee Resource Group and Veteran Owned Business Certification
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New York Rangers, Artemi Panarin agree to 7-year, $81.5M contract (Report)
The New York Rangers have signed the top free agent available this year, announcing Artemi Panarin has signed with the club.
Welcome to Broadway, Artemi Panarin.
NHL Network has reported the Rangers have signed Panarin to a seven-year contract, $81.5-million contract. The AAV will be right around $11.6 million.
Panarin looks like $81.5M over 7 to NYR
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 1, 2019
Panarin had been rumored to be heading to Florida, the New York Islanders and possibly returning to the Columbus Bluejackets.
The addition of Panarin will immediately make the Rangers a playoff contending team. The team has previously signed Vitali Kravtsov, Igor Shesterkin and drafted the second overall pick in this year’s draft, Kaapo Kakko.
The rebuild is officially over. Now, this is a team that has a significant chance to make the playoffs, but John Davidson and company still have decisions to make.
With plenty of restricted free agents to sign, Jacob Trouba, Pavel Buchnevich and Brendan Lemieux, along with a decision on what to do with Chris Kreider, the work is far from over.
Currently, a Rangers offensive roster looks like this after today’s trade of Jimmy Vesey to Buffalo and the signing of Panarin:
Panarin-Zibanejad-Buchnevich
Kreider-Chytil-Kakko
Namestnikov -Strome-Kravtsov
Lemieux-Howden/Andersson/-Fast
The Blueshirts have just $8.769 million available in cap space. Trades or a late possible buyout will need to be done in order for the team to sign the RFAs that are so important to the club.
The team may not be done with free agency, and with Jeff Gordon and John Davidson having one of the most successful offseason in recent years, don’t be surprised if the team continues to improve.
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Steel D, Whyte KP. Environmental justice, values, and scientific expertise. Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 2012;22(2):163-82.
This essay compares two philosophical proposals concerning the relation between values and science, both of which reject the value-free ideal but nevertheless place restrictions on how values and science should interact. The first of these proposals relies on a distinction between the direct and indirect roles of values, while the second emphasizes instead a distinction between epistemic and nonepistemic values. We consider these two proposals in connection with a case study of disputed research on the topic of environmental justice and argue that the second proposal has several advantages over the first.
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Anthony Bourdain Opened His First Savings Account at Age 44
The Parts Unknown star spent decades in debt.
By Sammy Nickalls
We all may want to be Anthony Bourdain, but he wasn't always traveling around the world being awesome for a living. In fact, in a recent Wealthsimple essay, the Parts Unknown star revealed that he was constantly in debt, and it took him decades to dig himself out.
Bourdain wrote that he spent much of his money on weed and cocaine in his youth and had didn't have a savings account until he was 44 years old:
"I didn't put anything aside, ever. Money came in, money went out. I was always a paycheck behind, at least...Like I said, until I was 44, I never even had a savings account. ...I was constantly in debt."
Bourdain also fueled his love for travel with the occasional trip to the Caribbean, which meant he kept leaving his kitchen gigs and racking up more credit card debt. However, when he came back, he was always able to find more work. It was only when his writing started to gain traction that Bourdain decided to take more financial steps:
I think living like that made me very cautious...I was old enough to realize I'd been handed this incredible, lucky break and I was very unlikely to get another one. There was this weird moment where I noticed that everyone in the dining room were journalists waiting to talk to me, and I realized I'd become the sort of chef I used to despise, constantly having to leave the kitchen to deal with journalists. I didn't want to be that guy. So I left."
Anthony Bourdain\'s Secret Scrambled Eggs Recipe
From there, Bourdain set to work paying off his debt and started putting away money. "I'd rather make a lot less money. It's honest dollars. Everybody gets theirs: my partners make money, I make money, the government gets theirs," Bourdain wrote. "...I lived a lot of years afraid of the bank, the landlord and the government calling. Nowadays, it's nice to not be afraid."
(H/T Wealthsimple)
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More happy in Ede than in Rotterdam
dinsdag, 23 mei 2017
On average 87% of the Dutch population is happy. But there is a difference between cities, with 85% of the people feeling good, and non-urban municipalities like Ede, with 89%. How come?
To answer that question, first we should understand what makes people happy. Is it safety, housing, prosperity? Is it being in a city with culture, universities and good restaurants, or, on the contrary, in a small village community, in the proximity of nature? Or is it something personal, like age, having a partner or a job?
First love, first job, first car
People who experience a lot of firsts – first job, first marriage, first car, first child – are usually happier than people who’ve been doing their work for a while, drive an old car and cling to long-term marriages. It’s only after the age of 65, when there’s more time for trips, hobbies and grandchildren, when happiness returns. So age is indeed an important factor.
In fact happiness has to do most with personal experiences. So how can we state that the inhabitants of a small town are happier than those living in a big city? A city has plenty of facilities to meet up with friends. It’s safe and clean, offers work and a lot of amenities. Yes. That’s all true, but there is also more crime, pollution and loneliness. On the other hand: a small town like Ede offers most benefits of urban living, but lacks those disadvantages. Plus: most people have a job and a partner, while Rotterdam attracts more singles and unemployed, who hope to get lucky in the city.
Source: NRC
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Home » Embedded Computing Design » PC/104 Consortium technical update: Stackable PCs from ISA to PCI to PCI Express
PC/104 Consortium technical update: Stackable PCs from ISA to PCI to PCI Express
March 1, 2013 OpenSystems Media
The PC/104 Consortium, www.pc104.org, is a technical organization that creates, maintains, and distributes specifications supporting the PC/104 architecture, which includes the bus configurations PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI-104, PCI/104-Express, and PCIe/104 (see Figure 1). The Consortium also supports the form factors 104, EPIC, and EBX (see Figure 2). These specifications embody the stackable PC from ISA to PCI to PCI Express.
Figure 1: PC/104 Consortium bus configurations
Figure 2: PC/104 Consortium form factors shown with PCI/104-Express bus
The stackable PC, as its name implies, provides a modular, stackable architecture that leverages the wealth of components, software, development tools, and overall acceptance of the desktop PC market for embedded system designers. It has exactly followed the desktop PC starting with the ISA bus in PC/104, ISA and PCI bus in PC/104-Plus, PCI bus alone in PCI-104, PCI and PCI Express in PCI/104-Express, and PCI Express bus alone in PCIe/104.
ISA bus, long gone from desktop PCs, is still very much in demand in embedded systems. Many Consortium members and component suppliers continue to manufacture devices and boards for this popular embedded standard. PCI bus systems built around PCI-104 are fielded for demanding embedded applications around the world. PCI Express with its software compatibility to PCI bus is being welcomed by the embedded market. The Consortium’s PCIe/104 Type 1 features PCI Express x1 and x16 links with USB 2.0 while Type 2 has PCI Express x1 and x4 links with USB 3.0 and SATA to support the latest peripheral devices.
The PC/104 Consortium introduced its PCI Express version of the stackable PC in 2008 with a connector that was tested to the PCI Express 2.5 Giga-Transfers/Second (GT/s) rate for x1 and x16 links. In 2011 Type 2 enhanced PCIe/104 by offering PCI Express x4 links, SATA, and USB 3.0 in place of the x16 link. Since all peripherals support both up and down stacking, we are seeing manufacturers build CPUs with only one connector and even some hosts with Type 1 stacking down and Type 2 stacking up. This is possible because the connectors used for PCIe/104 are surface-mounted and are not required to have the same connector configuration on the top and bottom of the CPU host module.
PCI Express has advanced from Gen 1 to Gen 2 at 5.0 GT/s and Gen 3 at 8.0 GT/s. This is pretty fast for a stacking architecture and requires a high-quality connector. PC/104 architecture was tested and, as this article is being written, the PC/104 Consortium members are voting on a new revision of the PCIe/104 specification that incorporates PCI Express Gen 2 and 3 in the stackable PC. This revised specification provides the guidelines to ensure embedded system designers that building with PCIe/104 will be as easy, rugged, and reliable as building with PCI-104 and PC/104.
To find out more about PC/104 or download the specifications for free, visit the PC/104 Consortium at www.pc104.org, where you’ll see the wealth of PC/104 architecture products. The Consortium has recently added videos with even more useful information on PC/104 architecture.
Jim Blazer, Vice Chairman and CTO of RTD Embedded Technologies, has been involved with PC/104 technology and the PC/104 Consortium for 20 years. He has served on the Consortium’s board of directors and technical committee and has chaired both. He is currently a member of the technical committee and is actively involved in PCIe/104 specification development.
Jim Blazer (RTD Embedded Technologies)
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A statistical snapshot of women in the Australian workforce
International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March each year, highlighting the achievements of women across the world.
Women are a key part of the Australian workforce, both as employees and business owners.
Here is a statistical snapshot on women in the Australian labour market:
The January 2019 labour force statistics indicated that there are 5,983,900 women employed in Australia, which is a 2.4% increase over the last 12 months.
For comparison purposes, the number of employed men in Australia is currently 6,767,900.
In January 2019 there were 2,753,600 women working part-time and 1,255,100 men working part-time.
Women working part-time account for 68.7per cent of all part-time employment.
The female unemployment rate as at January 2019 is 5.2%, down from 5.6% recorded 12 months ago.
The number of Australian females recorded as unemployed is 326,000, a drop of 5.7% over the past year.
In comparison, there are 347,500 unemployed males, with the male unemployment rate at 4.9%.
Underemployment
The underemployment rate refers to the percentage of people in the labour force who, although they are currently working, want and are available for additional hours of work.
For females, the most recent rate of underemployment was 10.4% in January 2019. This compares with a male underemployment rate of 6.2%.
Participation rate
The female participation rate increased in January 2019 to a high of 60.7%.
The male participation rate was 70.9%, which is a slight reduction on the 71.2% recorded 12 months ago.
Employment projections for females
The Department of Jobs and Small Business employment projections show that, over the five years to May 2023, growth in female employment is likely to continue outpacing that of male employment, driven by strong projected increases in female full-time employment.
Over the five years to May 2023, female employment is projected to grow by 8.8 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent for males.
You can find more information about this in the Gender Employment Projections 2018 Report released in December 2018.
More women working in areas of projected employment growth
The strong growth in Health Care and Social Assistance in recent years is projected to continue, with this industry projected to add significantly more jobs than any other industry (up by 250,300).
Strong employment growth is also projected for:
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services,
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Accommodation and Food Services.
Women make up small proportions of employment in the two industries projected to lose jobs over the five years to May 2023. These industries are Wholesale Trade and Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
Female business owners and operators
There were 715,300 women business operators in Australia in January 2019 (or 34.9% share of all business operators), compared with 1.3 million (65.1%) men business operators.
This is an increase of 46,600 (or 2.0%) over the past 12 months. (ABS cat. no. 6291.0.55.001)
As at January 2019, women who operated their own business made up 12.1% of the 5.9 million employed Australian women. Men who operated their own business represent 19.8% of the 6.7 million employed Australian men.
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Neighborhood Opera
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I didn't really know much about Japanese rock outfit Cornelius before going to see them Webster Hall last night, other than they performed the closing concert at LA's Concrete Frequency festival two weeks ago and that they were named after the character in Planet of the Apes. Good enough for me.
Opening was the Benevento/Russo Duo, who Ronen turned me onto six months ago. Together, Marco Benevento (Moog and other electronics) and Joe Russo (drums) use repeating themes, changing tempos, and complex harmonies that build to ecstatic climaxes. To me, it sounded like an electronic version of Bruckner: check their title track from debute release "Play Pause Stop"
Download 01_play_pause_stop.mp3
Cornelius' stage show was obviously built for the YouTube generation. Called "Sensuous Synchronized Show," bandleader Keigo Oyamada has worked with a team of designers and engineers to develop a full multimedia presentation, mixing lights with a digital video that includes everything from computer generated images, to old Warner Brothers cartoons. Impressively, the entire scheme is in sync with the performance: Oyamada says it's not meant to simply augment the performance, but becomes another instrument within it."
At first, the music was plodding and oversimplistic, and I began to think the images were more crutch than complement (much as I thought they were at Michael Gordon's Dystopia a couple of weeks ago.) But, about a half-hour in, the band let it rip in "Gum", and the whole stage became a hailstorm of images and speed guitar. The packed house of normally reserved indie kids went berserk.
The band went back and forth between thrashing and sedate numbers, mixing keyboards, Theremin, electronic effects, guitars played with bows, and a whole array of chimes and bells. They ended up playing for a full 100 minutes - and then got called back for a 20 minute encore, for which they had a whole additional light/video show. Just good bubblegum fun, with maybe a social message or two thrown in a la Murakami. I can't even imagine what this show must have been like in Disney Hall; I won't even dream of seeing it in one of our stuckup music temples. Thank God for Bowery Presents.
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Calm Surface Winds Can Be Deceiving
This time of year, beware of wind shear.
By Mark Phelps
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my car alongside the north end of Teterboro Airport in New Jersey listening in on the tower frequency. Several of the pilots on the ILS to Runway 19 were asking for wind checks, and the tower's answer was consistent -- 240 degrees at seven knots. No big deal, right? But a look at the airliners passing overhead at around 3,000 feet on final for Runway 22 at Newark gave a clue as to why there was so much concern about the surface wind. The big boys were crabbed at what looked to me like a 15- to 20-degree angle to the right of their actual track. Maybe more. Then I clicked on my Garmin 396 to check winds aloft on XM Weather. Sure enough, even as low as 3,000 feet, the early winter wind was howling out of the northwest at better than 50 knots. With almost calm conditions on the ground, that sounded like a recipe for significant wind shear. But strangely, this time, no one at Teterboro was reporting any such excitement on final.
It is not unusual at Teterboro to hear the tower controller asking every third arrival or so whether they experienced wind shear on final. The reported gain or loss of airspeed is then announced to each arriving flight, as in: "15- to 20-knot loss of airspeed reported by all types at 1,200 feet." When I asked a Falcon jet pilot based at Teterboro what he expects this time of year when wind conditions vary to that extreme, he said, "You've really got to be concerned about wind shear."
But sometimes, the decrease in wind vector is not abrupt; rather it's a steep but steady decrease all the way down. I once flew in the jumpseat of one of Corning Glass' Dornier 328s on final to Newark when the wind was blowing at 50 knots or better at 3,000, but virtually calm at the surface. The pilot was sweating the approach, and it required full concentration to manage the constantly changing heading, rudder, airspeed and power as the crosswind component steadily decreased all the way down final.
That experience also reminded me of my early training in stub-wing Grummans at TewMac Airport in Massachusetts (closed in 1997, sad to say). Its 2,600-foot main Runway 3-21 had a stand of tall pines that shielded the northern two-thirds or so of its length from the prevailing northwest wind -- especially strong in winter. When landing on Runway 3, the effect was of requiring a significant crab to the left all the way down final to compensate for the stiff crosswind -- which would then virtually disappear just as the time came to flare for landing. That, added to TewMac's notoriously narrow runway, made for interesting arrivals, especially in icy conditions. Even with nosewheel airplanes, we learned early on what the rudder was for.
So when your onboard weather is showing strong winds aloft, but the tower or ATIS is reporting calm conditions at the surface, be prepared for a steep drop-off somewhere in between. It might come all at once in a strong wind shear, or it might decrease steadily all the way down. Either way, it's a good time to be on your toes -- literally.
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Eye For Film >> Movies >> Portrait Of The Artist (2014) Film Review
Reviewed by: Anne-Katrin Titze
"[A] thorny, intangible and episodic cinematic dream."
Antoine Barraud's Portrait Of The Artist (Le Dos Rouge) was co-produced by the Centre Pompidou, where it had its première. The composition of this thorny, intangible and episodic cinematic dream is an arrangement of narrative clusters on art that can be funny or absurd or very confusing.
We follow the steps of filmmaker Bertrand, played by filmmaker Bertrand Bonello (who looks as though he perpetually just woke up from a nightmare), in search of the perfect depiction of the monstrous in an artwork to use as inspiration for his next movie. Bonello's own films are no strangers to the pursuit of the monster, be it the eternal smile inflicted upon a prostitute in his fin-de-siècle House Of Tolerance (L'Apollonide - Souvenirs De La Maison Close) or the unforgettable staging of the demise of Yves Saint Laurent's dog, haunting the fashion genius and the spectators of Bonello's film forever more. Ingrid Caven: Musique Et Voix from 2012, a most unusual concert film about the Fassbinder actress, is a good example of finding alluring monstrosity in sound.
Not by chance, Barraud's first short film was called Monstre.
The mystifying portrait in Le Dos Rouge is set in motion by the voiceover of what we are to believe is Bertrand's mother (Charlotte Rampling), talking about her small son's artistic preferences. "He loved Bosch and Bruegel, as children do," and once he discovered Klimt and Schiele and Cranach, it changed him, he developed Stendahl syndrome, the illness that strikes when you are overcome with the strongest emotion while regarding a work of art. In a museum, Rampling's incomparable voice concludes, "my son became a man." A linear narrative is not in sight and the individual encounters and musing weave an intriguing web of art perception.
What follow are visits to museum after museum in Bertrand's present, at least half of the film a guided tour of artworks with the guide at times more in focus than the painting in the distance. The search for the perfect inspiration commences with the statue of the Hermaphrodite (you can find out more about that transformation at this year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Christophe Honoré's Métamorphoses).
The art historian, hired to accompany Bertrand to the museums, is called Célia Bhy and is played by both Jeanne Balibar and Géraldine Pailhas. The double, according to Freud, is one of the most frightening encounters one can have, which suggests a possible direction for the filmmaker's quest. He wants a woman monster, that's for sure. "The Virgin is a monster by definition," Balibar's version of Célia comments on Mary's powers, with a helping of blasphemy on the side.
The construction of a feather, cork, and a hatpin hanging on a wall changes entirely once you know the title of Joan Miró's Portrait of a Dancer. In front of a Francis Bacon triptych or a little Auguste Renoir painting the museum strollers conjure up Diane Arbus photographs in memories and words.
Besides the many visited museums, we encounter Pascal Greggory as actor Pascal, who during a preliminary meeting puts tiny squares of paper on his fingernails. In the next shot he has them on his knuckles. His monster begins with a claw. Barbe (Joana Preiss) is Bertrand's wife, an actress who wants to have horns. Nathalie Boutefeu plays Bertrand's tap-dancing sister Catherine. We only get to see her face and not her feet while she dances. Barbet Schroeder as a retired doctor angrily tells Bertrand off that he is not a dermatologist when his friend comes by with a problem.
All of this search for the monsters outside has made Bertrand develop a spreading red mark on his body, a map of the painted horrors, perhaps. The rash spreads in the form of a small hand and grows into the "red back" the original French title alludes to.
The fictional filmmaker's past shows itself during a Vertigo inspired scene, that has Isild Le Besco dressed in Kim Novak's grey suit. Her hair is down and she is being scolded by Alex Descas as Scottie, telling her "you should have put it up." During what looks like a post-screening Q&A for this dream within the film within the film, the discussion evolves around the women as victims, taught to give up and transform for the man's benefit.
When Bertrand meets a journalist (Nicolas Maury) for an interview in a café, he is not in the right mood to answer questions about topics such as his perspective on "contradiction as artistic value or as space." He cuts the young man off to reschedule for another time and to everyone's surprise it is indeed not the last time we and he encounter the flustered young man with the well-prepared questions.
An English speaking stranger sporting giant bug-like headphones Bertrand talks to about the ghostly eyes in the painting in front of them, also returns at a dinner party that connects many of the film's curious figures. The party itself could very well be remembered as a cabinet of bourgeois horrors, as Pascal Greggory, all Shakespearean fool, serenades in an improvised chant "I feel you," to whoever catches his glance.
Portrait Of The Artist (Le Dos Rouge) will be screening at the 20th Anniversary of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York.
A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the film of his next movie.
Director: Antoine Barraud
Writer: Antoine Barraud
Starring: Bertrand Bonello, Jeanne Balibar, Géraldine Pailhas, Joana Preiss, Pascal Greggory, Valérie Dréville, Nicolas Maury, Barbet Schroeder, Sigrid Bouaziz, Nathalie Boutefeu, Marta Hoskins, Nâzim Boudjenah, Catherine Libert, Charlotte Rampling, Isild Le Besco
NY Rendez-vous 2015
BIFF 2015
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Hard-working ten men earn point at PSV
Sunday 24-02-19 17:21
Feyenoord came away from Eindhoven with a draw in Sunday afternoon’s match with PSV. Nicolai Jørgensen and Hirving Lozano were the scorers as the sides finished 1-1. Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side ended the match a man down against the Eredivisie leaders, after Sven van Beek was shown a red card.
The first versus third clash marked the beginning of an important week in Feyenoord’s season, with a KNVB Cup semi-final against Ajax on Wednesday and a home league game against FC Emmen on Sunday on the fixture list. The first in the series no doubt left the head coach feeling upbeat.
Feyenoord were combative at the Philips Stadium, showing control and creating good chances, but Jens Toornstra, Tonny Vilhena, Nicolai Jørgensen and Jan-Arie van der Heijden were unable to add the finishing touch in the first half. The same went for Luuk de Jong, who shot wide with only Kenneth Vermeer to beat.
The visitors did find the net after the break. Jørgensen – a goalscorer in Feyenoord’s 2-1 home win earlier in the campaign – netted with a shot from around 20 meters out on 70 minutes. The ball went in off the right-hand post. It came perhaps against expectations, as Feyenoord were down to ten men by then.
That was because Sven van Beek was shown a straight red card not long after the hour mark. The central defender tried to head the ball back to Vermeer, but when it did not travel as far as he had hoped he hauled down Steven Bergwijn. The dismissal means Van Beek will miss the midweek Klassieker.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst brought on Bart Nieuwkoop as an extra defender, with Sam Larsson making way, but the hosts got themselves level within a minute. Hirving Lozano scored with a hard shot. PSV then went hunting for a winner, but Feyenoord were able to contain their hosts with good organisation and some sublime saves from Vermeer.
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Colleen Abdoulah, CEO and chairwoman of the board of Wide Open West - 2010 Top Women in Wireline
For such a pleasant person, Colleen Abdoulah, CEO and chairwoman of the board of Wide Open West (WOW) can be really feisty when she needs to be. And lately, Abdoulah, who stepped into the lead role at WOW, has needed to be to help her small competitive cable operator grow and to lead the charge against what might be an unfair advantage if Comcast is allowed to acquire NBC Universal without some guidelines.
"I'm not asking for anything that is a favor or special advantage," said Abdoulah, who has been carrying the banner for the American Cable Association (ACA) in its testimony before federal regulators on the Comcast-NBCU deal. "I'm not going in badmouthing anybody."
What she's doing in this case is what she does in every case: advocating for her company and her customers. WOW is an underdog in multiple ways. It's often the second or third broadband provider in a market; it's smaller so it's not necessarily first in line for the best programming or technology prices; and it's not a brand name that everyone knows.
To combat those drawbacks, Abdoulah has led a company dedicated to customer and employee service.
"We feel like we've reached a level of excellence in that area," she said, pointing to 97 percent satisfaction rates from employees and 94 percent from customers.
To maintain that, she said, she has to be on point on issues that might affect the company's "philosophical statement to deliver an employee-customer experience that lives up to our name: WOW."
And that's where Comcast comes in. Bigger could end up being better but when you're smaller, it could also end up being a burden.
"When certain companies have so much market power that the small-medium-sized guys have no leverage, I think that's wrong. Give us some outlets where we can go. If large players are bad actors, give us somewhere to talk about it, to get it mediated, to get it resolved in a fair and equitable place," she said.
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How does meiotic DNA replication shape sexual genetic recombination?
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Dr A Lorenz
Prof A Donaldson
Funding Notes
The mitotic cell cycle, a recurring cellular process consisting of DNA replication followed by cell division, produces two identical daughter cells from a single mother. Accurate execution of the cell cycle is of the utmost importance to maintain genome integrity and cell health. Importantly, cell cycle dysregulation is a hallmark of cancer.
DNA is replicated during S phase of the cell cycle, while division occurs during M phase. Generally, the duration of the cell cycle (and of S phase) is similar for cells of the same species. Intriguingly however, the cell cycle that initiates meiosis (the cell division producing gametes) proceeds much more slowly. Two meiotic cell cycle stages are especially elongated: meiotic S phase and meiotic Prophase I last three-times longer than their mitotic counterparts. Meiotic Prophase I requires more time due to the requirement for chromosome pairing, recombination, and synaptonemal complex formation. However, the reasons for, and mechanistic causes, of the long meiotic S phase remain unexplained.
This project will explore and elucidate the mechanism and regulation of the long meiotic S phase. Using as models the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we will address the following objectives:
1) Determining origin use and replication fork speed in meiotic S phase
The long meiotic S phase could be caused by firing of fewer replication origins, or by replication forks moving more slowly than in mitotic S phase. We will assess whether the same set of replication origins is used in meiotic S phase as in mitosis, and determine whether fork speed is similar.
Replication origin firing will be compared in mitotic and meiotic S phase cells using genome-wide replication profiling based on next-generation sequencing analysis. This will reveal whether the same origins are used in meiosis and mitosis, and whether they initiate replication in the same order.
Fork speed will be examined by multi-colour fibre labelling or by DNA fibre labelling combined with DNA combing and fluorescence in situ hybridization.
2) Characterizing Sz. pombe mutants with altered (meiotic) S phase
To elucidate how the special meiotic S phase is regulated, meiotic S phase will be examined in Sz. pombe mutants already known to affect mitotic replication or progression through meiosis. We will also test the effects of derailed meiotic replication on subsequent events including recombination and chromosome segregation.
3) Testing conservation by comparison with S. cerevisiae
To ascertain whether mechanisms controlling meiotic DNA replication progression are evolutionarily conserved, homologs of interesting candidate regulators identified in Sz. pombe will also be characterized in S. cerevisiae. Mechanisms that control meiotic DNA replication in both these distantly related yeasts are strong candidates for controlling meiosis in mammalian cells.
This project will employ a variety of state-of-the-art techniques including data-driven biology to elucidate how and why meiotic S phase is much longer than mitotic S phase. The successful candidate will be trained in a genetics, genomics, and molecular cell biology techniques and will exploit new ways of working to elucidate a fundamental cellular process crucial to cell health and fertility. The student will gain skills in data-driven biological research by generating a comparative database of origin usage of mitotic vs meiotic yeast cells via next-generation sequencing; additional training in DNA combing, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and comparative yeast genetics will be provided.
This project is advertised in relation to the research areas of MEDICAL SCIENCES. Formal applications can be completed online: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/pgap/login.php. You should apply for Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences, to ensure that your application is passed to the correct person for processing.
NOTE CLEARLY THE NAME OF THE SUPERVISOR AND EXACT PROJECT TITLE ON THE APPLICATION FORM. Please apply for admission to the ’Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences’ to ensure that your application is passed to the correct school for processing.
Candidates should contact the lead supervisor to discuss the project in advance of submitting an application, as supervisors will be expected to provide a letter of support for suitable applicants. Candidates will be informed after the application deadline if they have been shortlisted for interview. Interviews are expected to take place on 23rd or 24th July 2019.
This project is part of a competition funded by the Institute of Medical Sciences. Full funding is available to UK/EU candidates only. Overseas candidates can apply for this studentship but will have to find additional funding to cover the difference between overseas and home fees (approximately £15,680 per annum).
Candidates should have (or expect to achieve) a minimum of a 2.1 Honours degree in a relevant subject. Applicants with a minimum of a 2.2 Honours degree may be considered provided they have a Merit/Commendation/Distinction at Masters level.
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First 'War Dogs' Trailer Has Jonah Hill and Miles Teller Running Guns
Formerly known as Arms and the Dudes, the first trailer for the dark comedy War Dogs has just arrived. The Hangover franchise director Todd Phillips is at the helm of the film which sees two twentysomething men (Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) getting caught up in the insane world of arms dealing, only to land them in the Middle East. This looks like it's going to be a riot, something akin to The Wolf of Wall Street meets Charlie Wilson's War. Just the prospect of Jonah Hill and Miles Teller in a movie together had me sold, but this looks pretty spectacular. And hey, Bradley Cooper is in it too. Watch now!
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› Posted March 30 in To Watch, Trailer | Comments
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Institutional Review Board - Human Subjects Committee
Monitoring the Care and Use of Animals
In compliance with Federal laws and regulations, Fitchburg State University (FSU) has established an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) for reviewing research activities involving live vertebrate animals. The primary goal of the IACUC is to assure that live vertebrate animals are cared for and used in ways that are scientifically, technically, and humanely appropriate. Our policy conforms to the requirements of the Animal Welfare Act administered by the U.S.. Department of Agriculture and the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
All activities involving the use of vertebrate animals conducted by Fitchburg State University faculty, staff, or students, or sponsored, in part or in whole, by Fitchburg State must be reviewed and approved by the IACUC before the work begins. Once approved, the activities must be conducted in full compliance with IACUC policies and procedures. In general, approved protocols remain in effect for a maximum of three years.
Prior to Submitting an IACUC Proposal
Prior to completing a proposal, please review and familiarize yourself with the Fitchburg State University Institutional Animal Care and Use Policy document (PDF). All proposals require the following information ...
The nature and objectives of the investigation to be performed on the animal subjects
The scientific rationale for use of the animals
Justification for species and number of animals to be used
Assurance that unnecessary duplication of previous research will be avoided, and that suitable alternatives to using vertebrate animals have been considered
Proposed methods to avoid or minimize pain and discomfort to the animals
Location of facilities for care and use of animal subjects
Requirements for the care and use of the animals
Beginning in January, 2018, all proposers and investigators submitting new or renewal applications to the IACUC will be required to demonstrate completion of the CITI collaborative training modules. These modules will replace NIH training that was previously accepted and include Responsible Conduct in Research and IACUC specific modules. For more information on the CITI program, and applicable training modules that may be required, please see the information below or contact the IACUC chair or the Faculty Scholarship Coordinator, Dr. Meg Hoey.
CITI Program Registration Responsible Conduct in Research Required for ALL Researchers at Fitchburg State (PDF)
CITI Program Registration and Training Requirements for Fitchburg State University IRB Applicants and Researchers (PDF)
CITI Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative
The IACUC reviews proposals as needed and accepts proposals year-round. The number of forms required depends on the nature of the work. Downloadable forms are listed in the table below. All research proposals begin with the Faculty/Student Research Standard form. All proposals for classroom instruction begin with the Classroom Study Standard Form.
Forms for Animal Care and Use Proposals
Form ... Required for ...
Faculty/Student Research Standard Form (MS Word) All research projects proposing to use vertebrate animals
Classroom Study Standard Form (MS Word) All instructional projects proposing to study vertebrate animals, as part of a specific University course
Classroom Study Research Project (MS Word) Any student proposal to study vertebrate animals in pursuit of an independent research project as part of a specific University course based on a previously approved protocol
Schedule A: Husbandry (MS Word) All animal studies in which the animals will be housed for periods longer than 24 hours outside of their natural habitat
Schedule B: Surgical Procedures (MS Word) All animal studies where animals will undergo surgery
Schedule C: Biohazard Materials (MS Word) All animal studies that include the use of biohazards, such as infectious pathogens, carcinogens or other toxic materials, or recombinant DNA, to be administered to live animals
Schedule D: Non-surgical injections, Anesthesia or Analgesia (MS Word) All work that includes the induction of anesthesia or analgesia in non-surgical procedures or delivery of injectable substances for purposes other than perisurgical anesthesia or analgesia
Occupational Health Survey (MS Word) Any person working with animals and when any changes in medical conditions or animal exposure intensity occur
Proposal Submission Procedure
All members of the research team, including faculty advisors, must complete the online CITI training related to their role and the nature of the proposed work. This includes the Responsible Conduct in Research training.
Read the Fitchburg State University Institutional Animal Care and Use Policy document (PDF). Then, download the proposal forms appropriate to your study from the table above. Follow the instructions to complete each form and obtain approval from your department chair. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
Scan all pages to PDF, including the signature pages signed by both you and your department chair and certificates of completion for the relevant CITI training. Submit these via email to the IACUC chair at IACUC@fitchburgstate.edu. You should retain in your records the hard copy of the signed proposal and CITI certificates for the full duration of any approved protocol.
Documents that define the standard operating procedures for animal research and vivarium usage can be found here.
Tentative IACUC meeting dates for AY 2018-19
The IACUC will meet from 15:30 to 17:00 on either the first or second Tuesday of each month as needed. Meetings are tentatively scheduled for:
December 4. 2018
Contacting the IACUC
We're here to help! Please don't hesitate to contact the Animal Care and Use Committee with any questions at IACUC@fitchburgstate.edu.
Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns
Members of the campus and broader communities are encouraged to bring to the attention of IACUC, the university and other agencies concerns about the care and use of animals in teaching and research at Fitchburg State University. For reference, animal care and use at the university is governed by IACUC, our approved SOPs and protocols, and the Guide for the Use and Care of Laboratory Animals (PDF). Persons with concerns that are not addressed by reviewing these documents, or who have other concerns related to animal care and use in teaching and research at the university are welcomed to contact the university as follows:
via the IACUC Chairperson at IACUC@fitchburgstate.edu
via the Dean of Health & Natural Sciences, Dr. John Schaumloffel, at jschauml@fitchburgstate.edu
via the IACUC Institutional Official, Provost Alberto Cardelle at acardelle@fitchburgstate.edu
All faculty or officials of the university can be reached by calling 978-665-3400.
Concerns can be registered anonymously, if desired. Those reporting concerns about the care and use of animals in teaching and research at the university are protected by applicable whistleblower laws, such as that for Commonwealth of Massachusetts employees.
Current IACUC Members
Thomas Schoenfeld (scientist, Chair)
Kevin Austin (scientist)
Leah Fernandes (Environmental Health and Safety Officer)
Michael Flynn, DVM (attending veterinarian)
Michelle Olivari (public unaffiliated)
Megan Ramsbottom (student member)
Robert Shapiro (non-scientist)
Rev. Susan Suchocki-Brown (public unaffiliated)
Daniel Welsh (scientist)
John Schaumloffel (Academic Affairs, ex-officio)
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Apple Is Withholding Royalty Payments From Qualcomm As Legal Battle Continues
Aaron Tilley Forbes Staff
The iPhone 7 Plus
Credit: Yuya Shino/Bloomberg
Apple continues to play hardball with one of its biggest iPhone suppliers.
In the midst of a heated legal battle, Apple is refusing to pay the licensing fees owed to Qualcomm for its wireless technology, Qualcomm alleged on Friday morning.
Unlike most of Qualcomm’s other phone licensee partners, Apple does not directly license from Qualcomm. Rather, Apple's contract manufacturers -- such as Foxconn and Pegatron -- pay the Qualcomm licensing fees and Apple is supposed to reimburse them. Now, Qualcomm said, Apple has recently informed the San Diego, California-based chipmaker that it plans on not paying the royalties owed to those contract manufacturers until the current legal dispute between the two companies is settled.
“Apple is improperly interfering with Qualcomm’s long-standing agreements with Qualcomm’s licensees,” Qualcomm general counsel Don Rosenberg said in a statement. “These license agreements remain valid and enforceable. While Apple has acknowledged that payment is owed for the use of Qualcomm’s valuable intellectual property, it nevertheless continues to interfere with our contracts. Apple has now unilaterally declared the contract terms unacceptable; the same terms that have applied to iPhones and cellular-enabled iPads for a decade."
This action is "the latest step in Apple's global attack on Qualcomm," continued Rosenberg. "We will continue vigorously to defend our business model, and pursue our right to protect and receive fair value for our technological contributions to the industry.”
As a result, Qualcomm is excluding royalty revenue it would have received from Apple's contract manufacturers in its financial projections. The company issued an adjusted outlook for its next financial quarter on Friday morning.
The adjusted third-quarter revenue estimate now comes in between $4.8 billion and $5.6 billion (versus prior revenue guidance of $5.3 billion and $6.1 billion), a year-over-year revenue decrease of between 7% and 21% (versus prior guidance of 12% decrease or 1% increase). That means the lost Apple royalty revenue is potentially a half-billion dollar hit to Qualcomm's third quarter sales.
The adjusted third quarter earnings per share guidance is now between 52 cents and 62 cents (versus prior EPS guidance of between 67 cents and 92 cents).
"The contract manufacturers may make some form of partial payment, but initial indications are that any payment would likely be insignificant," Qualcomm said in a statement.
Qualcomm is the dominant supplier of modem chips that enable phones to hook up to cellular networks, but the company also extracts licensing fees for nearly every modern phone in the world. Roughly two-thirds of its profits come from the licensing business.
The legal fight between the two began in January when Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm alleging the chipmaker "has unfairly insisted on charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with." Apple claimed, among other things, that Qualcomm withheld $1 billion from the company as retaliation for working with Korean regulators in an investigation against Qualcomm.
Qualcomm licenses its technology at the device level (phone makers are charged royalties as a percentage of the whole phone), as opposed to licensing for specific components in the phone. But Apple wants to only be charged royalties for the price of the modem chip. In Qualcomm's first quarter earnings calls shortly after Apple filed its lawsuit, Qualcomm president Derek Aberle said this request stands against long-standing licensing practices in the industry and is inconsistent with "basic notions of efficiency, fairness and economics."
In Qualcomm's countersuit, filed earlier this month, the company denied the charges and brought a number of its own accusations, including that Apple mounted a large-scale regulatory attack against the company with the help of companies like Samsung. To get regulators to act against the company, Apple provided false and misleading statements to government regulators, Qualcomm claimed.
Qualcomm also alleged in its countersuit that Apple has already been withholding royalty reimbursements to Qualcomm in response to the $1 billion that Apple said it was owed in its original lawsuit. Qualcomm said it withheld the funds to Apple not in retaliation, but because the company breached a 2013 cooperation contract when Apple allegedly misrepresented facts to Korean regulators.
“There’s a notion that even though they own 90% of the profits, they want to try to maintain high profits," Rosenberg said in an interview at the time Qualcomm filed its countersuit. "I suppose they look at our licensing agreements as input costs for them, which obviously have potential for reducing profits. They’re trying to lower input costs. We’re a good target for that.”
Besides the legal troubles with Apple, Qualcomm is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the United States Federal Trade Commission filed just a week before Apple's. The federal regulator alleged that Qualcomm forced Apple to use its modem chips by lowering licensing fees and pushing competition out.
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Is Plastic the Future for Digital Payments?
Published August 29, 2018 MarketsMotley Fool
Although many view payment via smartphone as the future of digital payments, both online and at the point of sale, some digital payment leaders now seem to be taking a step back from the digital revolution. They're enlisting a seasoned veteran of the war on cash: plastic.
PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ) have discovered that, to win new customers and increase user engagement on their payments apps, they must offer more than just peer-to-peer (P2P) payment options, easy online checkouts, and in-app purchases.
Their solution? Offering credit and debit cards linked to their accounts.
The result? Increased user engagement, new customers, and a platform that looks and feels more and more like a real bank account.
Square's Cash Card paves the way
About a year ago, Square introduced its Cash Card, a debit card that could be linked to its popular Cash App. In May, Square launched Cash Boost, a rewards program for the Cash Card. Cash Boost incentivizes cardholders to use their cards more by offering cash back when they make purchases at merchants, such as coffeehouses and restaurants. What makes the program special is that it comes with no annual fee and is attached to a debit card, not a credit card. While the company does not give monthly updates, it said that by June 2018, just one month after the launch of Cash Boost, spending on the Cash Card had jumped to $250 million, triple the payment volume the card saw in December 2017.
Along with some of its other features, like the ability to make direct deposits or pay Caviar food-delivery drivers instantly, Cash App is looking more and more like an alternative to bank accounts for the underbanked. And, as fellow Fool contributor Adam Levy succinctly puts it: "[T]he Cash Card is what makes it all work. An account to receive and store money isn't all that useful if you can't use the money to shop or pay your bills."
PayPal's different card options
PayPal has long offered a credit card associated with its core platform. Its current offering, the PayPal Cashback credit card, offers 2% cash back on all purchases with no annual fee, but it wasn't until Square launched its Cash Card that PayPal began looking to expand its offerings.
Earlier this year, in conjunction with Mastercard Inc. (NYSE: MA), PayPal launched its new prepaid PayPal Cash Mastercard, which combines many features of prepaid and debit cards. The card is available for purchase at retail locations, can be activated with as little as $10, and requires no minimum balance. Once it is linked to a PayPal account, it can carry much higher balances and acts more like a debit card. The card comes with no monthly fees, can be directly funded from a PayPal account, and can be used anywhere Mastercard is accepted. It also accepts direct deposit of users' paychecks, tax refunds, and other payments from the government (like Social Security benefits).
PayPal's Venmo, the payments app popular with millennials, is also launching a new card. The Venmo card is a debit card that is linked to users' accounts and runs on Mastercard's network. It is still being rolled out, and many users who want the card must sign up for a waiting list (although the company promises it will soon be available to all users). While PayPal has been working diligently to enable Pay with Venmo, a feature that will allow account holders to use their accounts to make purchases at participating merchants, the card opens up a whole new world of transaction possibilities.
When PayPal launched the Cash Mastercard, it specifically called out the 30 million consumers in the U.S. who are financially underserved and spend almost 10% of their wages on "alternative financial services," according to the federal Office of the Inspector General. Many of these people are immigrants, the Inspector General reports, making PayPal's integration of its accounts with Xoom, its international remittance platform, especially meaningful. These 30 million U.S. consumers represent a huge opportunity for both digital platforms to gain new users.
In addition, the cards should increase user engagement. We already saw how payment volume has tripled on Square's Cash Card since last December. The company also reported that Cash App was increasing in popularity and that it was the most downloaded financial app in the second quarter. When PayPal reported its second-quarter earnings, one of the numbers that stuck out the most was the accelerating growth in user engagement. Account holders are now using PayPal to facilitate 35.7 transactions per year, a 9% increase over 2017's second quarter.
Both companies credited their cards for driving their platforms' growth. In Square's second-quarter conference call, CEO Jack Dorsey, referring to Cash Card, said, "It's early, but we're seeing a lot of resonance that gets us pretty excited about its future."
In PayPal's second-quarter conference call, the PayPal Cash Mastercard and Venmo card were some of the reasons CEO Dan Schulman cited for increased user engagement. "We are quite pleased with the surge of initial demand for the Venmo card," Schulman said.
Winners keep winning
PayPal's and Square's introduction of debit cards looks like a big win for both companies. There's a huge pool of potential new users for the cards, whose features could increase engagement with the two platforms.
And they might not be the only winners. Mastercard and Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) are acting as the payment networks behind PayPal's and Square's debit cards, respectively. This could be a catalyst for those two credit card companies as underbanked consumers are introduced to digital and card payments through the two platforms.
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El Chupacabra Mystery Definitively Solved, Expert Claims
By | LiveScience
Has a mythical creature made its way to Kentucky? Some people seem to think so (WAVE3)
Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster rank as the top two best-known monsters in the world, but since its 1995 debut, El Chupacabra has made a Justin Bieber-like ascension to No. 3 on the charts. The relative newcomer to the monster world is the go-to culprit for weird livestock deaths and creates a massive media stir whenever it's "sighted." It even has a fan club on Facebook.
That could all end, now that Benjamin Radford, author of several books on monsters and paranormal phenomena, managing editor of the journal The Skeptical Inquirer and LiveScience columnist, has released what he says to be definitive proof that El Chupacabra is not real; it's not even a hoax, he said, but rather a leftover memory of a science-fiction film.
Stories of El Chupacabra first surfaced in March 1995 in Puerto Rico, Radford said, when dead, blood-drained goats began showing up (El Chupacabra translates to "goat sucker"). That August, a newspaper printed an eyewitness description of a bipedal creature, 4 to 5 feet tall with spikes down its back, long, thin arms and legs, and an alienlike oblong head with red or black eyes. That depiction became associated with El Chupacabra, and it reports of similar creatures began popping up throughout the Caribbean, in Latin America, Mexico and Florida.
The frenzy had died down slightly by 2000, but picked back up in 2004 when something began attacking livestock in Texas. A farmer shot one of the offenders, and later more alleged El Chupacabra carcasses turned up. They looked nothing like the Puerto Rico original, though, and DNA tests later revealed that they were actually coyotes with a severe case of mange.
On top of the sudden change in appearance—a hairless, snarly-looking four-legged creature is the popular depiction in Texas—these coyotes didn't even act like El Chupacabra. "When you did a necropsy of the chickens and goats that they attacked, they all had normal blood levels," Radford told Life's Little Mysteries. "They were not, in fact, vampirized."
"By the mid-2000s, anything weird was being called El Chupacabra," he said. "Mangy coyotes. Dead raccoons. Even a dried fish in New Mexico, which looks nothing like El Chupacabra." And yet the myth continued to gain momentum, so Radford, who has researched El Chupacabra and other strange sightings around the world for years, decided to cut it off at the head and set off to Puerto Rico to trace the beast back to its fictional roots. (Disclosure: Radford is a contributing writer to Life's Little Mysteries and columnist for its sister site, LiveScience.)
Radford dug through every El Chupacabra mention and traced the physical description of the monster to a single event in the second week of August 1995, when a sketch from an eyewitness named Madelyne Tolentino ran in a Puerto Rican newspaper. Locals immediately tagged the alien-looking animal as El Chupacabra.
The creature, Radford noticed, shared a strong resemblance to the alien/human hybrid in the 1995 sci-fi thriller "Species." When he spoke to Tolentino, he asked her if the thing that she saw could have been inspired by the film. Indeed, she had seen the movie in the weeks prior to making her description.
"You can make a direct connection between the film hitting theaters, her seeing the creature in the film, seeing it in the street, making the report and entering the public conscious," Radford said.
Soon after, reports of nearly identical creatures began appearing throughout Latin America. But these can be dismissed, Radford says, because they're all based on Tolentino's Hollywood-inspired monster.
"What I've tried to do is take the whole El Chupacabra enchilada and break it into small mysteries and then solve those mysteries," Radford said. "There's no place else for those mysteries to hide now. If I haven't solved every piece of it, then I don't know what I'm missing. It's all there."
"That said, if next month or next year somebody finds El Chupacabra that's sucking blood from animals, I'm happy to eat my crow and add a chapter to the book."
Even if you're not convinced by DNA evidence or Radford's research, simple logic should help you realize that El Chupacabra just doesn't exist.
For one thing, it would take a couple hundred to a few thousand of the creatures to keep the species alive. If each of those animals is five feet tall and weighs around 100 pounds, it would be pretty difficult for there to be no confirmed sightings or fossils, particularly on an island as small and as densely populated as Puerto Rico.
For another, even if the beasts managed to hide, they'd still need a lot of food, and if they are actually vampires, then you'd expect to find a lot more blood-drained carcasses.
If true believers have one complaint against Radford's work, he expects them to say that it's implausible that Tolentino saw something that doesn't exist. Radford, who has a degree in psychology, chalks that up to confabulation, a common scenario in which people simply confuse the fictional and real worlds. [10 Urban Legends Debunked]
"The question then becomes which is more likely, the astronomical chance that this creature looks exactly like the one from 'Species,' or that the film is just where she got the depiction?" Radford said.
So why does the myth persist? Radford says it's the result of a perfect storm of urban legend-brewing conditions. El Chupacabra was one of the first mythical beasts discovered in the Internet age, and its image and story spread around the world — and especially to Spanish-speaking countries — in a matter of weeks. It also gained the early support of UFO enthusiasts, who latched onto the idea that the creature was alien, or an alien's pet, as well as the conspiracy/cover-up angle often associated with forensic analyses of the "beast."
Radford has another theory: "The thing about myths is that people want to believe in things," he said. "I suppose that, in a perverse way, there's something comforting in that there's this vampiric monster that doesn't attack humans."
* Mythical Creatures: Beasts That Don't Exist (Or Do They?)
* Rumor or Reality: The Creatures of Cryptozoology
* In Photos: Our 10 Favorite Monsters
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Bucks perfect at the line in 131-115 win over Wizards
AP Feb 3, 2019 at 1:07a ET
WASHINGTON — Giannis Antetokounmpo and the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks are all smiles — until game time.
“As a team, I feel like we think about the game less,” Antetokounmpo said. “We just smile. We just have fun. And we know when the game starts at 7:30 or 7 o’clock, we’re going to do whatever it takes to win. We don’t try to overthink things.”
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Antetokounmpo scored 37 points, making all of his season-high 17 free throws in a perfect night at the line for Milwaukee, and had 10 rebounds to help the NBA-leading Bucks rout the Washington Wizards 131-115 on Saturday night.
Coming off a big victory at Toronto on Thursday night, the Bucks have won three straight, nine of 10 and 20 of 24.
Brook Lopez added 21 points, and Khris Middleton had 20 for Milwaukee. Starting point guard Eric Bledsoe sat out to rest a sore left Achilles.
The Bucks were 24 of 24 from the free-throw line, hit 17 of their 39 attempts from beyond the arc, and played well enough to limit everyone other than Antetokounmpo to fewer than 30 minutes during the third stop of a four-game trip. They also avenged a 13-106 loss in Washington on Jan. 11, one of three games Antetokounmpo has missed this season.
“We came here off a big win last time where we had beaten Houston and sometimes the schedule catches up to you,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “And Washington played great the last time we were here. But for us to win Thursday night and to follow it up with a win tonight Saturday is a good sign.”
Milwaukee had a 17-2 run late in the second quarter, led by 23 at halftime and 32 early in third quarter. Antetokounmpo scored seven of the last 10 points in big second-quarter run, including a thunderous slam over Jeff Green that led to a three-point play.
Bradley Beal scored 24 points for Washington, Green added 20, and Otto Porter Jr. 18. The Wizards are 9-7 since losing All-Star point guard John Wall for the season because of a heel injury, and remain 10th in the East. Should they find their way into eighth, they could face the Bucks in the first round of the playoffs.
“There was a message that they were sending,” Beal said. “And we play them again next week. So that’s got to be how I take it. They sent a message for next week.”
WAKE-UP SLAM
Wizards point guard Tomas Satoransky brought the home crowd to life early with an emphatic driving dunk over Lopez. That gave Washington a 4-0 lead and prompted Budenholzer to call a timeout with only 45 seconds played.
“We gave up a dunk in transition,” Budenholzer said. “We gave up a layup in transition. We turned it over twice. It was not a good 45 seconds.”
Satoransky converted the three-point play following the timeout. But the Bucks responded with a 20-6 run to take the lead for good.
TIP-INS:
Bucks: Have six winning streaks of three games or more this season. … Budenholzer hopes Bledsoe’s absence won’t be a long one. “We’ll see today and tomorrow. We play again on Monday. I think it’s the right thing for Eric.”
Wizards: Porter started despite entering the night as a game-time decision with a sprained toe. … Coach Scott Brooks received a technical foul between the first and second quarters.
Bucks: At Brooklyn on Monday night.
Wizards: Host Atlanta on Monday night.
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Demystifying the Vedas
Publication Times of India
Date Monday, 22nd Dec 2003
Page 3, Bangalore Times (Supplement)
BY:- Sangeeta Cavale, Times News Network
Vedic Scholar Arnav Medhi is also an astrologer, vaastu consultant and motivation trainer. Well versed in gemology and numerology too, he is modern, educated and down to earth. Arnav who is just 26-year-old teaches meditation techniques and mantras to anyone who is a seeker. The present state of astrology is cause for great pain as Arnav believes that superstition and myths abound and so called astrologers who don't have deep knowledge of this science and of the scriptures, often exploit the vulnerable.
"While it has been scientifically established that the moon does affect schizophrenia and heart attacks, a whole lot of misconceptions exist about the effects of saturn (shani) and mars (mangal)."
Going beyond predictions, Arnav suggests and undertakes sacred Vedic rites and rituals that can enhance the positive parts of one's horoscope and deter the negative influences.
"My goal is to demystify the myths that hold back the ordinary individual from experiencing the powers of Vedic spirituality. Everyone can benefit irrespective of nationality and religion." Arnav plans to open a community centre where spiritual seekers can find answers to their questions and pursue study of the Vedas and meditation techniques. He emphasises the need to learn the correct method of chanting mantras from a proper guru.
Arnav Medhi says that astrology can also diagnoses disease and recommend remedies. Research in planetary gemology and the healing power of gems is his area of specialisation. A member of the Planetary Gemologist Association, a single research institute based in Thailand, Arnav identifies the key planets in one's horoscope and strengthens the positive ones through gemology. He uses only natural gems and checks their quality and purity before recommending them.
Arnav has analysed Sonia Gandhi's horoscope but refuses to disclose anything about it. "This country does not have privacy policies, but I do," he says firmly.
Medhi finds Bangalorans well-informed, intelligent and spiritually aware.
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The All-Star Who Kept Us Going at the New York Times
Charlie Competello at the DMZ, Korea, 2018
It was mid-August of 2008. Charlie Competello had just taken his morning run in the toxic mass that passes for air in Beijing.
Now he was clean and dressed for business at the Olympic media center where The New York Times had rented an office for 20 people.
The first thing he spotted was a forlorn-looking writer.
“My laptop died,” the sad sack began.
That was me.
Charlie’s job was to provide technical services at big events like the Olympics and visit the bureaus all over the world, or wander around the newsroom, available to the people who write and edit the stories. He was one of us. The paper did not get done if Charlie couldn’t fix the machines and the software.
This how it was when I was working. Charlie had colleagues like Walt Baranger and Pedro Rosado and Craig Hunter, who knew our jobs better than we did.
(One night in Salt Lake City, after getting bad advice from on high, I was told to write something, at midnight, after the Russians fixed a figure-skating final, if you can imagine such a thing. After I stopped throwing furniture and Queens language around the room, I saw Craig standing next to me. He handed me printouts of wire stories, with all the information that would let me play catch-up ball with a midnight column. “I think this will help,” he said.)
The Times had our back, with technicians who were journalists. They would find bugs in our software or frayed connections in our laptops – even schmutz clogging the keyboards. Full service.
I worked with Charlie a lot -- a lean, alert guy from my home borough of Queens, who reffed basketball games in the winter, for the fun of it. We learned to rely on him the way the old Yankees would rely on Yogi Berra’s untouchable presence on a storm-tossed charter flight.
Charlie was never more indispensable than in Beijing in 2008, the first Summer Games to be fully covered 24x7 on the great emerging NYT web site. We were exactly halfway around the world, which meant Michael Phelps was swimming for medals in mid-morning in Beijing but evening in New York. Any given hour, somebody needed Charlie.
On that morning in Beijing, Charlie went to the basement where Lenovo had a store, and he purchased a new ThinkPad and then downloaded stuff from my busted laptop, a few hours of work while meeting all the other needs. After his run, I bet Charlie could have used a more quiet morning, but the way that job worked, there was no such thing.
The Times had gone into the computer age in the mid-70’s with Howard Angione, who introduced us to the massive Harris terminals in the office. Sometimes the damn things would eat up an entire story, even if you had saved it, and we (I) would pitch a massive fit. Howard’s motto was, “If I can teach Vecsey, I can teach anybody.” And he could.
For nearly four decades, I learned to rely on the Times’ techies, whatever their title was. Then I retired after 2011, and now Charlie is retiring, wisely, much younger than I was, which gives him time to relax and then find some other pursuit, or not. He’s a ref. He always makes the right call.
I’m out of it now. I just hope the paper still has the backs of the people who go to wars and conventions and Olympics, fixing machines that break down at the worst possible time.
Speaking of valued colleagues, did you see the beautiful photo of Aretha Franklin on the front page of Friday’s paper? Her dignity and soulfulness and even her sound came through. That photo was taken by Tyrone Dukes, back in the day.
Tyrone was a friend, a young brother who had served in Vietnam and was now a photographer. He could snap Aretha up close at the Apollo in 1971 and he could follow a looting rampage during the blackout of 1977. He died in 1983, at the age of 37.
When I saw the credit on the photo, my eyes misted over– not for Aretha but for Tyrone. My thanks to Charlie and Tyrone and all the others, who were part of us.
Aretha Franklin, by Tyrone Dukes, Apollo, 1971
Croatia’s Last Semifinal: Why Replay Was Invented
It seems like yesterday but it was 20 years ago last Sunday when Slava Bilic did his corny little death rattle on the lawn at Stade de France.
He had been tapped lightly on the upper chest by Laurent Blanc of France but he fell to the grass like a man hit by a baseball bat – clutching his forehead. That’s how badly the pain was radiating.
The ref went for it and showed Blanc a red card, which meant the steady French defender would miss the next match, which, as a result of the French victory, turned out to be the World Cup final.
Blanc was on the sidelines, agonizing, when Zinedine Zidane played the most beautiful final in World Cup history in a 3-0 victory over Brazil.
In those days, FIFA executives were so busy stuffing their gunnysacks that they had no time to update their product.
Nowadays, the ref would hear a voice in his earphone and would trot over to the little VAR unit at the edge of the field to see for himself that Bilic had faked it.
That was the last time Croatia was in the semifinals. On Wednesday they will be playing England in the second half of the all-European Union semifinal, after France meets Belgium on Tuesday.
Floppers beware.
The two men were familiar figures in world soccer. Both played and coached all over the place, intersecting on occasion, like 2011 when Bilic coached the Croatian national team and Blanc coached France and they met in a friendly.
The men chatted amiably, but if Bilic has ever apologized, it is between the two of them. At the time, Bilic – a lawyer, by education -- said he was afraid he would get a yellow card for faking, and miss the final, so he exaggerated his motions. After that match, he said he told Blanc he was sorry for causing him to miss the final.
“I guess I should have hit him right there,” Blanc said.
Flopping is still a plague on the sport, but enlightened physicality in the scrum is done by everybody, both sides. (Where were the Croatian defenders on the late header by Russia on Saturday? All flat-footed, as if stricken by Putin nerve gas.)
Bilic employed the tactics of the sport, for better or worse.
In the age of VAR, he just might be rewarded with a card for bad acting.
Even FIFA, with its Qatar World Cup and its threat to hold a bloated 48-team extravaganza in 2026 gets something right, once in a while.
My 1998 column on the Bilic flop is here. It begins: "I once met a man who had died 100 times."
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/10/sports/sports-of-the-times-in-soccer-flopping-is-an-art-form.html
For other information on the Bilic-Blanc meeting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaven_Bili%C4%87#West_Ham_United_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Blanc
http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/2292/editorials/2011/03/29/2416207/it-was-laurent-blancs-fault-he-missed-the-1998-world-cup
https://dailyfootballshow.com/remembering-belgium-france-england-and-croatias-last-trips-to-the-world-cup-semi-finals/
My Misadventures With Modern Design
Clattering
Splattering
Who made this &*%$#@?
How often do we scream this?
I do, every time water dribbles on my feet from the dispenser on our refrigerator.
I do, every time one of our imbalanced knives or forks goes clattering to the floor.
I do, every time I have trouble with coding or design on my not-totally-smart-phone.
Fortunately, I have found the perfect tool for one of those problems. Hint: you probably have a dozen under your desk.
First: the refrigerator. (I sometimes say “icebox” to annoy my wife.) Fairly new, and functional, except for the cheap pieces of plastic in all recent household appliances, designed to break after the warranty runs out.
The main problem is the gadget that dispenses ice (crushed or cubed) or water (allegedly cleansed by a pricey little filter.)
To get water or ice, you push in a curved bar with a glass; the H2O comes out of the innards; when you have enough, you take the glass away – and another few seconds’ of water, solid or liquid, falls to the floor.
Infuriating. No adjustment or fast hands can solve the problem.
My theory is that the people who built this device never, ever, tested it. Just built it.
Out of innate politeness, I will avoid mentioning the maker. Let me just say: Kamsahamnida.
Then there is our dinnerware, sleek and silvery, only used when we need a full set.
So pretty to look at. But the tines do not hold much, and when you lay the knife or fork down, the handle is so top-heavy that it performs a one-and-a-half gainer onto the tablecloth and thence to the floor, with rice, salad or fish splattering on the rug.
They never tested the thing. Just built it.
Out of innate politeness, I will avoid mentioning the maker. Let me just say: the imprint on the silverware reveals the country where it was made. Hsieh-Hsieh
Then there is my smartphone. I’ve only had it a few years – resisted a long time, but now I am hooked. Check for emails every 60 seconds.
It works pretty well, but the other day I could not fit the charger into the rectangular slot. My wife’s charger did not fit, either.
Oh, great, I thought, those blankety-blankers will tell me I need a new super-duper 12A phone, or whatever series they are up to. This is a costly little malfunction.
Then I had a thought. Nature’s wonder tool. Should be hawked on late-night TV.
The humble paper clip. Good for what ails you. Cures the common cold.
I opened one segment of the paper clip and inserted it into the slot where the charger no longer fit.
I wiggled it gently. And out tumbled a pound or two of what we New Yorkers call schmutz -- detritus from my pocket, my desk, my yard, my jogging shorts.
The charger now fit.
I don’t think the paper clip will help fix the spattering water dispenser or clattering silverware.
I have given it a permanent place of honor on my desk.
(PS: the paper clip has heroic implications in Norway. (Check it out.)
Labor-Saving Device, My Bot! (*)
Cable gizmo. They install. It breaks. I should get gouged?
(*-I actually don’t know what a “bot” is. But it sounds good for the purposes of this rant.)
The modern electronic age has turned me into a cat burglar, on my hands and knees, messing with wires and cords and plugs.
I like to think this is not merely a young-old chasm as everybody scrambles to keep up with new developments with cellphones and computers and all these
so-called labor-saving devices.
The good side is that I managed to slip inside the velvet rope of minimal competence. The Internet and the gadgets allow me to do things and learn things that were impossible in my first two decades in journalism.
I have older friends of sound mind who stare blankly when I say “web site” or “emails.” They missed the Last Train to Clarksville for all the little stupidities that so captivate me.
When I broke into the business, we used typewriters and paper. With the help of technology mentors at the Times like Howard Angione (“If Vecsey can learn this, anybody can”) and Charlie Competello and Walt Baranger, I learned some stuff.
In the early ‘80’s, a union electrician turned off the press-box power at the stroke of midnight and blow out my portable computer. In Barcelona! But the next day I was able to find the right tubes in a growing technology block in that grand old city.
In the early days, I crawled around musty hotel rooms, unscrewing stuff and attaching primitive wires or clips. (One reporter risked his life splicing his bulky Kaypro computer to live wires from a dripping air conditioner in his hotel room.)
Later, I had to explain to dubious hotel clerks why I needed to borrow a dedicated 800 fax line for 30 seconds to transmit an article from my laptop. Nowadays, I call help centers when the wi-fi doesn’t work in my hotel room. This is called progress.
Somehow, I manage this personal therapy web site – photos, copy, headlines, type size – after training-wheels tutorials from my patient friend Becky Collet.
Labor-saving devices? A good friend (older than me) and I compare notes about constantly updating our contacts.
In my house we have three – count ‘em, three – clickers for one TV set and one sound bar. If my finger hits the wrong button, my wife has to reprogram the whole thing.
At times I dutifully try to diagnose the problems that pop up from having, oh, just a few cable boxes around the house.
Recently, a TV went dead. We ran around for days trying to sort it out. We exchanged boxes. Then we drove a TV to a throwback reputable repair place my wife discovered half an hour east of us. Nope. TV worked. And the guy waved off a bench charge. Can you imagine?
Ultimately, the problem was a faulty gizmo in the cable coming into the house, installed by our local company.
“No way you would know,” the technician told us before the office tried to bill us $80 for fixing their faulty piece they installed.
I keep blaming that cable company for the twin blights of Carmelo Anthony and Madison Square Garden, but it seems the cable portion has been sold to some Dutch company. Somebody smart sorted out the problem; maybe it was Amsterdam or maybe it was Long Island. Either way, this is also called progress.
(*- I made a list of recent words I do not fully understand, even if I may actually use them: meme, avatar, Siri, Sirius (are they related?), bluetooth, bitcoin, millennials, hipsters, (wait, whatever became of yuppies?), apps, cookies, streaming, podcasts, spotify, plus new baseball statistics with strange initials that I totally reject. I have my limits.)
I forgot to include this stanza from Loudon Wainwright III's "Last Man on Earth:"
Everybody's got a website
But that's all Greek to me
I don't own a computer
I hate that letter "e"
I don't pack a cell phone
Or drive an SUV
Yes, I'm the last man on Earth
That's what the matter is with me
Justifying My Expensive New iPhone
Try Holding This and Typing at the Same Time
I keep looking for good reasons for carrying around a rectangular gizmo that feels like a manhole cover, while pecking with the edges of my fingers.
The other day I found a reason. I was walking in my town near the train station and spotted a woman my age in some modest distress. It was a warm day, and she had just gotten off the train and could not find her dentist's office.
Maple Street? I have lived here over 40 years, and I walk and drive and ride my bike all over town, but sometimes the names of back streets elude me.
Get out of the sun, I suggested. I can find it.
I hauled the thing out of my fanny pack, and lunged at the microscopic keys with my thick fingers. Many mistakes later, I discovered that Maple Street was one block long, one block away. I drive on it all the time.
The lady was fine, just lost. She thanked me and began walking at a brisk pace to keep her appointment. I had just amortized some chunk of the price and the frustration of learning all the codes and tricks and mysteries of this fad.
Next time I can truly justify my obsession, I will pass it on.
(Written on an old-fashioned traditional laptop, just like my grandmother and grandfather used.)
I Think My First SmartPhone Is Out to Get Me
Have you seen them in the same place?
My new smartphone hates me. I can tell.
The other night I cleared a space for it on the dresser – never had to do that with my old clamshell.
Then I noticed it had wriggled a few inches, seeking to fling itself over the edge, to escape.
I know it hates me. When I curl my fingers around its elegant girth, I feel it seeking the slightest gravitational opening to plunge to the floor. I grip it tighter. It struggles with animal desperation. Let me go, let me out of here.
Does its heart belong to another? Does it seek a mate? Has it been given a nefarious Manchurian Candidate task to destroy itself – or me?
For the past decade, I got by with a rudimentary clamshell, delighted just to be able to make phone calls or peck out terse messages. .
It fit in my pocket, snugly and comfortingly, like the lemon soap Leopold Bloom carries in “Ulysses.”
We're a capital couple are Bloom and I;
He brightens the earth, I polish the sky.
However, last week I was working in my basement and swept the clamshell into the bucket from the dehumidifier. The innards were fried. I had to update my act.
I have never trusted Mr. Jobs’ gadgets – too pretty, too smooth, too obscure. Now I have one -- almost the size of a Steinbrennerian plaque in Yankee Stadium,
Every day I learn a trick or two. The other day, parked in my driveway, I figured out how to pull up a map for directions, so I didn’t have to run inside to my laptop. Progress!
I’m not a Luddite, but I am a survivor. I don’t trust this stranger in my life. I am now told I need to buy a cushy holder and a glass cover to protect Mr. Jobs’ handiwork from escape efforts. I need to carry the clunky thing in a belt around my waist. This is progress? Why not carry my laptop in a knapsack on my back, the way I used to do?
Plus, I know the smartphone is plotting to get me. If these essays stop coming, you know who did it. My smartphone’s nickname is Chucky.
Waiting for Electricity; Waiting for the Election
Thank you; merci beaucoup
On Sunday our son spotted a utility truck near his home.
It was from New Brunswick, the one in Canada.
That night, his electricity was restored.
Think of it: workers from a country with socialized medicine turned on the lights in the woods of Long Island.
I am tired of stumbling around in the dark.
I am also tired of the campaign, which amounts to the same thing.
Earlier in the year I was reassuring my wife that I met that guy during the Olympics, and he could run the country if he had to.
She knew better, long before his 47-per-cent remark and the Jeep-to-China lie.
Now I read that Democrats would work better with a Republican president than vice versa.
I also read blather about Obama being such a terrible person because he is an introvert. Something going on inside. Awful. .
It’s a race. Workers from Canada vs. returns from 50 states.
Maybe on Wednesday this will all be over.
The Paper and the Landline Keep Us Going
Old Reliables. Confession: Taken with cell-phone camera. GV
Got no heat, got no Internet, got minimal cell phone coverage.
But two artifacts from antiquity have helped us stay in touch with reality since the lights went out Monday evening:
The familiar blue wrapper containing The New York Times in the driveway and the stolid landline telephone in our kitchen.
I have been able to read the paper – even without that technological marvel called the Internet that is suddenly not available.
I marvel at the work my friends at the home office in New York and the College Point plant and the drivers and deliverers did to produce this miracle at our house.
They gave up the reassurances of being with family to do their jobs the way “newspaper people” (like my father and my mother and my three children) have been doing for a long time.
Note I said “newspaper people.” It’s still a paper -- the best in the world, as far as I can see – produced by some very smart and dedicated people.
Yes, I love the emerging on-line form – the future, I am sure. I flick through the web package to seek the latest electoral percentages from Nate Silver and am a junkie for breaking news as it hits the web. But for this elder, there is nothing like “the paper.” In my driveway. Thank you, all.
The same goes for the landline phone. We have invested in cordless phones (that wear down much too quickly) but have resisted all those offers to link our phones to our cable package. We kept the landline, sensing that in a time of troubles it might enable us to get calls from the office and family and friends, plus robocalls from local officials who say LIPA may get to us by Thanksgiving or maybe New Year’s.
Our house is intact while some homes took direct hits from trees. My wife has made great meals on our gas stove and we have gas-heated water and the other day our neighbors let us run a cord to their generator, giving us a bit of electricity for a few chores. We are blessed.
Plus, those relics, the paper in the driveway and the landline phone, keep us in touch with the world.
(sent from the local stop-and-shop)
Can Bracket Madness Be Dangerous?
I once met somebody who worked for a company that designed airplane parts. She said the most dangerous day of the year was the Monday before the college basketball tournament, because everybody in the firm – for that matter, most Americans with access to a computer – was busy filling out brackets.
It was bad enough that the company computers ran slow, she said – everybody ducking low in their cubicles, looking for upsets.
What made it worse, she said, was that she suspected the intricate calculations were affected by the preoccupation with the madness. Mistakes were being made on slow computers, she feared. And what if they affected the curve of a wing, the snugness of a rivet?
It was like the old automotive truism about not buying a car built on Monday. And for that matter, don’t buy a car built on Friday. Now we had to worry about airplanes planned on the Monday of madness?
I have no way of knowing how right she was. (She was not a sports fan, I got that point pretty clearly.)
However, I was reminded of that conversation on Monday when I filed what I thought was a fairly lucid critique of the HBO film about the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign.
The hits for that posting were 300 percent below my normal cadre of staunch loyalists.
Where was everybody? Picking Syracuse to go all the way before Fab Melo was dropped for academic deficiencies?
Maybe nothing will be normal for the next three weeks. Sunspots? Global warming? No, the N.C.A.A. tournament.
I’m watching Napoli-Chelsea on Wednesday, not filing.
Just hope that woman from the aviation company was exaggerating.
Berkeley Square Photo by Hassan of Yorkshire
Even while I’m typing something else, I can hear the electronic ping of the messages, over the transom.
My friends and family post songs and photos, poems and videos. We all know the blessing of having friends in Brazil and Japan, Canada and Mexico.
It’s so easy these days.
My new email friend, Hassan in Yorkshire, writes about soccer and justice and music. There’s a common thread, I am sure.
The other day he sent me a photo from visiting London in snow. I’ve been to London, what, 50 times and have never seen snow. But there it was, Berkeley Square. My wife and I have walked uphill through that square at night, usually around 10:30, after the National Theatre, and we were tired and happy. But never in snow.
Hassan knows I consider Nina Simone one of the great masters. He found a video of her signature piano -- you always know it’s Simone, before she even sings a note. Somehow, she makes bells peal in a riff from Good King Wenceslas before drifting into Little Girl Blue.
In this amazing new electronic age, a gift from Yorkshire,
Apparently, I Tweet
This web site is a projection of what I know best, from all my fun decades in journalism. I write something and, great googamooga, it gets published. On line, but published.
I do not understand Twitter. I don’t know who is talking to whom. I don’t know the difference between Followers and Following and Followed.
I feel like a bloke who mistakenly wanders into a dark room and becomes aware of an orgy going on. (Plato’s Re-Tweet?) I don’t know who is doing what, and to whom -- and why? But it is most certainly going on.
I know people tweet. In the past year or two, I have sat in baseball press boxes (nobody argues anymore) and watched my talented young colleagues who do such good work hunched over little devices, twiddling their thumbs in controlled fashion. Occasionally, somebody chimes up: “Good one.”
The other day, my web guru enrolled me in Twitter; she says hundreds of people signed up Tuesday. I am stunned, and honored, and confused. I will try to live up to expectations.
Which are? (Comments welcome)
@georgevecsey
Ode to the Clicker
Beats the heck out of TV timeouts
How did we ever live before this marvelous little device?
I was reminded of our good fortune to live in such modern times on Sunday when the cold weather propelled me into a warm corner to watch the Giants-Packers playoff.
It’s been a long time since I had three hours to commit to watching an entire American football game. Of course I could not make it.
After the ball had been in motion for 10-12 seconds within the first quarter hour, my trigger finger got itchy, and I started searching for something, anything. I found “Get Shorty,” John Travolta doing Elmore Leonard. Had never seen it. What a wonderful alternative to the blather and commercials and sideline shots.
Working the clicker, I understood how Eli Manning felt out there in Wisconsin. He had a touch for his game. I had a touch for mine. Timeout. Click. Travolta wants to step down in class from loan-sharking to making movies. Click. Manning goes long. Click. Rene Russo grimaces at the gaucheness of an old flame. Click. Packers drop another pass. Click. Danny DeVito does shtick about acting.
And Delroy Lindo glowers as a hood bound for serious trouble. (Here’s a tip for you – go find a movie called Wondrous Oblivion in which lithe, magnetic Lindo plays a Jamaican teaching cricket to a Jewish boy in a tense neighborhood in South London in 1960.)
Anyway, I had the hot hand, catching the ending of the movie and the credits – why, that was the late Greg Goossen, classic Met, in a cameo role. Still more than a quarter to go in the football game. Giants upset the Packers. On to San Francisco. After the final whistle, I wanted to fall on my knees and give thanks to my clicker for getting me through another football game.
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Rodri FIFA 19: Stats, overall, potential and more
By Ben Wilson 2019-07-11T12:24:17Z News
A detailed look at Rodri’s FIFA 19 and Football Manager stats following his move to Manchester City
(Image credit: EA)
Manchester City have splashed big money this summer to bring one of Atletico Madrid’s star players to the Premier League, so what do the Rodri FIFA 19 stats tell us about his immediate future alongside Bernardo Silva and Raheem Sterling?
Firstly, City are getting a player of similar calibre to Bruno Fernandes FIFA 19, who’s been linked with rivals United throughout the summer, in both FIFA 19 and real life. There are three Rodri FIFA 19 items available, with ratings of 82 (his standard card), 83 (Champions League card) and 88 (FIFA 19 TOTS card). It’s the 82-OVR standard card we’ll hone in on for the purposes of this feature.
The Citizens spent 70 million Euros on prising the 23-year-old away from his home nation, and according to FIFA 19 they’re getting a player boasting attacking prowess and an impressive engine. Rodri scores 81 for both vision and short passing, and 86 for stamina, making him a threat for the entire 90 minutes. He could do with fine-tuning in front of goal, though: attributes for finishing (68), shot power (76) and volleys (59) all underwhelm.
Pep Guardiola’s new charge will also need to do some work when it comes to set-pieces according to FIFA 19. Rodri scores 54 for free-kick accuracy and 46 for penalties, so City of Manchester Stadium season ticket holders will be hoping to avoid shootouts when it comes to next year’s Champions League knockout stage.
As for swiftness, the Rodri FIFA 19 base card has 70 acceleration and 66 sprint speed for a pace rating of 78. More encouragingly, his overall potential in career mode is a lofty 88.
The Rodri Football Manager 2019 ratings – remember, these are out of 20, rather than 100 – are strong across the board. His best is positioning (17), with tidy scores of 16 for teamwork and anticipation. Then follows a host of 15 ratings: first touch, tackling, concentration, decisions, and stamina. That feels a bit more like the player that City paid mega-Euros for.
Football Manager weak points for Rodri are finishing (7), free kicks (8) and penalties (8), again suggesting that he’ll need additional work on these over at City’s expensively manicured training complex.
Happily, his real face is already in the game, so the FIFA 20 Rodri card won’t be one that requires a new headscan to look accurate on the digital turf.
FIFA 19 is out now, while FIFA 20 is released on 27 September. Want to know more on the latter? Then jump over to our rundown of FIFA 20 confirmed features.
8 things to watch out for this week
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Belmont Abbey gets pep talk from special visitor before Saturday victory
BELMONT � On a night in which Belmont Abbey College honored his late son�s heroism as a member of the Fire Department of New York, Jim Riches, Sr., had a message for the Crusaders before they played Lees-McRae Saturday night.
Jim Riches, Jr., died during the Sept. 11, 2011 attack on America as a FDNY deputy chief.
Belmont Abbey honored his No. 20 jersey by presenting it to his parents and family. Earlier Saturday, some of Riches� former colleagues and select Belmont Abbey alumni played a charity basketball game against members of the Belmont Fire Department and Gaston County police department.
�It was a great day for the Abbey,� said Crusaders athletic director and basketball coach Stephen Miss. �We honored a true American hero and Jim Riches Sr. spoke to our team before the game.
�He told our guys they should value every minute they play because nothing�s guaranteed,� Miss said. �He said, �How many of the guys who died that day wish they had just five more minutes.�
�It good to hear from him and a good day for the Belmont Abbey women�s and men�s basketball teams.�
The Lady Crusaders beats Lees-McRae 64-60 in Saturday�s opener before the Crusaders beat the Bobcats 98-74. The men�s 24-point win was the Abbey�s second largest win of the season; The Crusaders won by 25 points at North Greenville in late November.
Basketball standings
With eight teams qualifying for the upcoming Conference Carolinas basketball tournaments, it means three men�s teams and four women�s team will not advance.
The Abbey�s teams appear safely into the tournaments, but each could gain first-division rankings with strong finishes to their seasons.
The Crusaders (13-6, 6-5) are tied for fifth with Coker and Queens (6-5) and only a half-game ahead of eighth-place Mount Olive (5-5). But the Abbey men also are just a half-game behind fourth-place Erskine (7-5), one game behind third-place Limestone (7-4) and two games behind King (8-3). Barton (9-1) leads the league.
The Lady Crusaders (8-8, 7-5) also are in a three-way tie for fifth place (with Coker and Queens at 7-5). The Abbey women are one game behind Mount Olive (8-4) and one and a-half games behind Pfeiffer (8-3). Barton and Limestone share the league lead with 11-1 conference records.
This week, the Abbey hosts Coker in a 5:30 p.m. women�s and men�s doubleheader. Then on Saturday, the men are off and the women visit Converse at 2 p.m.
Former coach updates
The last Lady Crusaders� conference championship coach resigned her NCAA Division I coaching job last Monday.
Missy Tiber, who led the Abbey women�s basketball team to an 81-36 record in four years at the school, resigned as Southern Illinois women�s coach and was replaced by former Abbey assistant Adrianne Harlow.
Harlow served as Tiber�s top assistant the past 12 years at the Abbey, Tusculum and Southern Illinois.
Tiber was 4-12 overall and 1-4 in the Missouri Valley Conference when she resigned, leaving her with a 19-86, 9-5 record during four seasons as Lady Redbirds� coach. Including her tenure�s at the Abbey and Tusculum, Tiber�s head coaching record is 186-156.
In Harlow�s debut as head coach on Friday, Southern Illinois lost 72-59 to visiting Wichita State; The Lady Redbirds hosted Missouri State on Sunday.
Certainly, the weather over the weekend was winter-like, but the Abbey�s spring sports seasons begin for four teams in the coming week.
Scott Brickman�s baseball team, which was picked to finish second in the league�s preseason coaches� poll, open next weekend in the Francis Marion tournament in Florence, S.C.; The Crusaders play league rival King in a non-conference game on Friday, non-conference rival Claflin on Saturday and host Francis Marion next Sunday.
First-year coach Brooke LeSage�s softball team, picked eighth in the league�s preseason coaches� poll, opens on Saturday in a doubleheader at non-conference rival Carson-Newman.
And coach Joey Denton�s men�s and women�s golf teams play in tournaments next weekend; The Lady Crusaders play Saturday and Sunday in the Kiawah Island, S.C., Intercollegiate and the Crusaders play next Monday and Tuesday in the St. Leo Invitational in Dade City, Fla.
Richard Walker: 704-869-1841; twitter.com/JRWalk22
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The Sunnova IPO: 3 Strategies for Success
As PACE Financing Grows Up, the Industry Grapples With Lending Standards and Consumer Protections
Providers say they recognize the need for more oversight into lending practices. But they also say fears about the financing model are overblown.
by Katie Fehrenbacher
By many measures, the financing programs referred to as PACE -- or property-assessed clean energy -- are among the most successful energy-efficiency financing tools in U.S. history.
The programs, which fund building efficiency upgrades and rooftop solar panels through loans paid off in tandem with property taxes, are closing in on $4 billion in transactions across 140,000 American homes, and have created 35,000 jobs.
But if you’ve read any number of headlines on the model in recent months, or if you count yourself among the seemingly small group of homeowners who have had a negative experience with this type of financing, you may be more circumspect about PACE's prospects.
Critics contend that residential PACE programs have used questionable lending practices akin to those that led to the subprime crisis -- and lack both consumer protections and accountability in terms of energy savings achieved.
The major companies that issue the PACE financing and work with local governments to implement the programs are listening to the criticisms, even if they don’t always agree with them.
This year, the industry is heavily focused on improving regulations and implementing more rules around how PACE should operate to protect consumers and potentially achieve energy-reduction goals.
In the process, the industry is working closely with legislators. California Senator Nancy Skinner has developed a new bill to add more consumer protections for residential PACE programs in the state, GTM has learned.
By collaborating on regulations, the industry is seeking to bolster its reputation. The sector has seen explosive growth in the last few years, and, in some cases, has operated under little oversight in its early days.
“The industry has come a long way. There are a lot of incentives for investors and providers to push for standards,” said Brian Grow, managing director of the credit agency Morningstar, who co-authored a report on misconceptions of PACE.
PACE programs for residential homes are currently only available in California and two other states, but they are expected to emerge in other states in the coming years. PACE programs for commercial buildings are operating in dozens of states, and while smaller in volume, they have fomented relatively little controversy.
PACE “is entering the big leagues and bringing the benefits and requirements that come with that,” said Cisco DeVries, the CEO of PACE provider Renew Financial. He was the creator of the original PACE concept a decade ago while he serving as the chief of staff to the mayor of Berkeley, Calif.
DeVries estimates that Renew Financial will execute nearly $1 billion in transactions this year, with more than half of that coming from PACE financing.
If providers can ease fears and make the financing products valuable to more consumers and businesses, PACE could end up emerging as both a big market and an important environmental tool. Ultimately, the financing products could help lower the energy use of buildings across the U.S., decreasing carbon emissions and helping states meet environmental goals.
A new era?
The PACE industry is already able to boast of some solid data showing that the model is a relatively low risk way to help homeowners make energy upgrades.
Renovate America, the largest PACE provider, says it has a customer default rate of less than 1 percent. DeVries said, “There have been zero foreclosures due to PACE.” Morningstar’s report found that PACE financing does “not materially increase the risk to the underlying mortgage.”
Yet some problems have emerged across the hundreds of thousands of projects that have been completed.
There were reports of an elderly homeowner who couldn’t afford to pay back a PACE loan and feared losing her home. Industry watchers say that in the early days of PACE, there have been cases stemming from minimal oversight of contractors and weak protections for consumers.
But the industry points to a series of new rules in recent months that have started to set standards and best practices to try to maintain adequate consumer protections.
Last November, the Department of Energy issued a set of best practices for residential PACE programs that included a number of suggestions such as: enhancing the criteria for eligibility in programs by adding reviews of income and existing debt obligations; requiring more transparent disclosures of all PACE financing terms; increasing contractor management and enforcement; and enabling consumers access to dispute resolutions if something goes wrong.
Nonprofit industry group PACENation analyzed the DOE guidelines and in February released an updated set of policies for the industry partly modeled on the federal “Know-Before-You-Owe” disclosures for home mortgages. The PACENation guidelines ask issuers to discuss financing terms over recorded phone calls and request that programs set standards to better govern contractors.
Suggestions, guidelines and best practices can lack teeth if the industry isn't forced to follow them, however. Charles Harak, a senior energy attorney with the National Consumer Law Center, said that while the new DOE guidelines are an improvement, the industry needs more enforceable protections in place.
One new law, which California Governor Jerry Brown signed last September and was enacted on the first of January 2017, is AB 2693. It gives the property owner the right to cancel a financing contract within three days and adds disclosures noting that some lenders may require a homeowner to pay off the total amount of the PACE loan before refinancing or selling a home. That latter piece has become a contested issue for some homeowners as they try to sell their homes years after signing a PACE deal.
A new bill, SB 242, has been drafted by California Senator Nancy Skinner. It adds even more consumer protections and some nods to energy accountability. SB 242, which will likely be heard by first committee in the coming weeks, adds requirements to help determine if a homeowner has the ability to pay off the PACE assessment, sets standards for the type of projects that can be funded by PACE, and requires contractors to be licensed with the California State Licensing Board.
In addition, the bill mandates that PACE issuers need to report energy savings and environmental benefits (at least annually) and makes sure that program administrators don’t take kickbacks from contractors.
Senator Skinner -- whose hometown of Berkeley was the birthplace of PACE -- told GTM in an interview that the new bill is meant to ensure appropriate consumer protections as PACE grows. “[California was] the start of the PACE program, and we want to continue to be the national leader,” said Skinner.
Meanwhile, PACE issuers have been developing new corporate programs that they say will manage contractors better, add transparency for consumers, and use technology to track and ensure the energy savings of projects.
Renovate America has developed a new contractor rating and management system that screens and rates contractors, barring those who underperform. The new contractor system “helps find who the good actors are and who aren’t providing good experiences,” said Renovate America CEO JP McNeill.
Renovate America, which is backed by venture capital and private equity investors, appears to have the most reputational cleanup to do. The company was hit with lawsuits last year from three homeowners accusing it of charging excessive and deceptive fees.
The suits were more recently consolidated into a single case, which is seeking class-action status. Renovate America and co-defendant Western Riverside Council of Governments (the local government that administered the accused PACE program) have filed a motion to dismiss the suit. Renovate America says it finds “no merit” in the allegations of the complaints and says it intends to “defend PACE, our company and the program vigorously.”
Renovate America’s other bugaboo was a Wall Street Journal article from earlier this month reporting that the company had paid off some of the PACE debts of struggling borrowers and subsequently hid those moves from investors who buy bonds backed by the company’s loans.
Renovate America confirmed to GTM that it assisted 83 homeowners out of 90,000 customers on payments, for a total dollar figure of less than $175,000 out of $2.2 billion.
The company also said it discontinued the practice in 2016 after it implemented new disclosures, confirmations of term calls, and other measures intended to close the “understanding gap.”
“I don’t think Renovate America is trying to hurt anyone,” says NCLC attorney Harak, adding the industry doesn't have a long history with consumer protection programs.
“We want to see PACE become a broader, better, safer product in 2017,” said Renovate America’s McNeill. “None of this will occur overnight, but we’ve made great progress."
Energy accountability
Adding in new consumer protections for homeowners is pretty straightforward. There are a lot of examples to follow from other industries and government programs.
But finding the best practices to ensure that PACE-funded energy and water upgrades are actually delivering savings is trickier. Solar panel systems can do this pretty easily, but what about new insulation or windows?
Utilities might be able to provide some help. Last year Renew Financial created a pilot program in which a group of its customers made their real-time energy data available from smart meters.
Combining that data with other modeling and financing information, the company was able to develop a clearer picture of how much energy was being saved and during what times of day. The company is now working with PG&E and other utilities to grow the program and add more energy transparency.
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 12:00AM
Ludwig van Beethoven Op 95 in F minor
Professor Roger Parker FBA, The Badke Quartet
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This quartet, which was composed in 1810 or 1811 and is his last before the so-called "late" quartets that crowned his final years. It is sometime nicknamed the "Serioso" (a strange, invented word which makes up part of the typically loquacious tempo designation of the third movement: "Allegro assai vivace ma serioso"), and is one of Beethoven's most restrained and austere quartets: a piece that he later suggested was more appropriate for private performance than for concert renderings.
This is a part of a series of lectures in which Professor Roger Parker resumes his collaboration with the award-winning Badke Quartet. Each of the six lectures is dedicated to a major work in the string quartet repertory. The focus this year will be on works written in Vienna in the years around 1800; three by Joseph Haydn, two by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and one by Beethoven. Each session will begin with a lecture introducing the historical background and discussing the special nature of the quartet in question, and conclude with a complete performance of the work by the Badke Quartet.
The lectures and performances are as follows:
28/01/10 - Joseph Haydn, Op 76 No 1 in G major
10/02/10 - Joseph Haydn, Op 76 No 2 in D minor
18/03/10 - Joseph Haydn, Op 76 No 5 in D major
22/04/10 - Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, K 421 in D minor
20/05/10 - Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, K499 in D major "Hoffmeister"
Professor Roger Parker FBA
Professor Parker was the Gresham Professor of Music between 2006 and 2010. He is currently the Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King’s College London. He studied at the University of London, first at Goldsmiths, then at King’s. He then taught at Cornell University, at Oxford and at Cambridge, where he was Professor of Music and served as Chair of the School of Arts and Humanities. He has held Visiting Professorships at Princeton and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the Ernest Bloch Lecturer.
Roger Parker's work has centred on opera, in particular Italian opera of the nineteenth century. For ten years he was founding co-editor (with Arthur Groos) of the Cambridge Opera Journal, and he continues as General Editor (with Gabriele Dotto) of the Donizetti Critical Edition. He was a Guggenhiem Fellow in 1986-7, received the Premio Giuseppe Verdi in 1986, and in 1991 was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association. He has produced numerous publications but his latest book is Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio.
To access all of Professor Parker's previous Gresham College lectures, please click here.
The Badke Quartet
Charlotte Scott, Emma Parker, violins
Jon Thorne, viola
Jonathan Byers, cello
The Badke Quartet, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is widely recognised as one of Britain’s finest string quartets. Winners of the 1st prize and audience prize at the 5th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2007, the Badke Quartet has received widespread acclaim for its energetic and vibrant performances.
The Quartet has worked with some of the world’s greatest string quartets and studied with Gabor Takács-Nagy at IMS Prussia Cove and members of the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne. From 2005 to 2009 the Quartet held the Senior Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music.
The Badke Quartet regularly performs at concert halls and festivals in the UK and abroad, including the Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence and Verbier Festivals, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, London’s Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, and the Musikverein in Vienna.
The Quartet enjoys collaborations and has worked with musicians such as Mark Padmore, Sir Thomas Allen, John Mark-Ainsley, Nicholas Daniel, Simon Crawford-Philips, Simon Lane and Malcolm Martineau.
No strangers to the airwaves, the Badke Quartet has frequently broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 as well as on Classic FM, Lyric FM (Ireland), ABC Classic FM (Australia) and for the European Broadcasting Union.
Last season saw the Quartet perform all over the UK and Ireland, premiere two new works written specially for the Quartet at Kings Place in London and further afield played in Norway, Spain, Germany, Sweden and made its début at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Believing strongly in the importance of education work, in building new audiences and making chamber music much more accessible, the Quartet performs in schools across the UK, bringing chamber music to hundreds of children in conjunction with the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.
The Badke Quartet is most grateful to the Hattori Foundation, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust, Fidelio Charitable Trust, Tillett Trust and several private sponsors for their continued support.
The Quartet play on a fine set of instruments. Charlotte performs on a 1684 Andrea Guarneri, which the Stradivari Trust is helping to raise the funds needed to secure the violin for her use; Emma plays on a a Nicolò Amati violin from 1672, kindly on loan from a private donor; Jon plays a Marino Capicchioni viola and Jonathan is performing on an fine Italian cello from Venice c.1730 also facilitated by the Stradivari Trust.
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Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, Op. 95
Professor Roger Parker
We've come to the last lecture of this year's series, and indeed my last lecture ever as Gresham Professor of Music. It might (to me at least) have seemed fitting to end with a personal flourish: with a work or composer from among those with whom I've spent my professional life, and thus with a Verdi or even a Donizetti string quartet. But my subject this year has been the string quartet in Vienna, and no amount of musicological ingenuity or special pleading is going to demonstrate that either of these worthy gentlemen could by any stretch of the imagination be thought Viennese; and this even though Donizetti was maestro di cappella in Vienna for a few years in the early 1840s, and even though both he and Verdi were-to the continuing irritation of those who championed the local tradition-immensely popular there with the general musical public. Clutching for further straws, I'm also reminded that Verdi claimed in his twilight years that he kept the scores of Haydn's, Mozart's and Beethoven's quartets ever near his bedside. Quite what he did with them is not specified, but those of you who have visited the Verdi bedchamber in his villa-cum-shrine at Sant-Agata, near Parma, will know that those scores do indeed grace the Verdian bedchamber to this very day. My guess, though, is that these eminently prestigious items were put in place sometime after the villa's famous occupant had transferred to his permanent, celestial residence; and were put there to give credence to Verdi's blatant claim for a piece of the fin-de-siècle cultural high ground. Whatever the case, it's clear that I can't end with my beloved Italian opera. I can, though, at least be comforted by the fact that a good part of the reason why these two operatic masters wrote quartets at all was because of the composer we will address today. When you talk of string quartets, after all, it's never long before the conversation turns, as it turns today, to Ludwig van Beethoven.
Indeed, and as I've mentioned several times already in this series of lectures, the image of Beethoven is critical not just to the history of the string quartet, but also to our whole idea of what constitutes 'classical' music. Historically, he is always regarded as the pinnacle of what we still call the 'classical' style, whose final flourish was in Vienna from around 1780 to around 1830. But, more than that, the reputation acquired by his music after his death was critical to the collection of attitudes and practices that still tenuously survive in today's concert culture. In other words, that culture that was born in the wake of Beethoven's music, and has continued to hold it dear, even down the beleaguered present. Why this came about is a question too complex for me to address here in any detail. Some unreconstructed souls might want to see it merely as the unsullied result of his musical genius, streaming forth from the works in question, aided only by selfless performers whose sole purpose was and is to communicate the authentic voice of the master. But for most of us these days such a picture is complacent and, above all, simplistic. We know from the vagaries of reception history over the centuries-from the fact that one generation's idea of 'great composers' can differ wildly from another's-that to maintain anyone in the pantheon of musical masters, to keep them on display in what one writer has called the "imaginary museum of musical works", takes a vast array of propitious circumstances, not all of them purely musical.
Part of this pantheon-maintaining work, for example, is done by critics and other cultural commentators, who supply and then adjust as necessary the image of the composer in question-keeping it suitable to the times. In Beethoven's case, a critical element has long been the story of his titanic creative struggle, something easily dramatised by the dividing of his life into three distinct periods, that of youth, maturity and old age. Such divisions did not start with Beethoven: another famous recipient near the same time was the great German literary figure Goethe. (I might add, incidentally, that Beethoven and Goethe actually met one another and, perhaps not surprisingly, didn't hit it off: Goethe thought Beethoven was wild and ill mannered; Beethoven thought Goethe was too fond of courtly manners; both had a point.) In Beethoven's case, the key period in this tripartite scheme-the one above all responsible for his pre-eminence in the later nineteenth century-was the middle one, often called his 'heroic' phase and including works such as the 3rd and 5thsymphonies, the Op. 59 string quartets, the violin concerto and the 'Waldstein' and 'Appassionata' piano sonatas. It was above all the works of this period that put in place a particular, and peculiarly potent, image of Beethoven. A key adjective, used again and again in dealing with the effect of his music in the later nineteenth century, was 'sublime': craggy, awe-inspiring, quite different from the merely beautiful music of the period that preceded him. Another vital term was 'difficulty'. Beethoven's music was notoriously hard to perform and, in particular, hard to listen to, qualities that would have been seen as distinctly negative in the eighteenth century. But when it came to Beethoven the difficulty of the compositions was celebrated rather than decried; indeed, the evident rigours of his style succeeded in placing him in the forefront of a new sense of hierarchy between the various participants in a musical event. During the eighteenth century, it seemed self-evident that listeners were superior to performers and above all to composers: the former, after all, were socially superior, and were paying for the event in question, had brought it into being; composers were on the lowest rung, being responsible for supplying what was then regarded as the most ephemeral and least prestigious of the arts. But in the nineteenth century, with its increasing sacralisation of art, and with music's position among the arts gaining ever greater ascendency, this hierarchy was overturned. The audience were still paying, but now they were a collective, and increasingly came to think that their responsibility, their duty even, was to worship the composer in attentive silence. If they found Beethoven's music difficult, and they certainly did, then that increasingly was taken to be a sign of their inadequacy and of the composer's forward-looking genius.
Nowhere was this new reputation more potently expressed than in the string quartets, which Beethoven wrote in all three of his 'periods'. His youthful set of six quartets, Op. 18, were composed in the very last years of the eighteenth century and are reminiscent of Haydn and Mozart. The three quartets of Op. 59 are, as mentioned, emphatically of the 'heroic' period: written in 1806, they are longer, symphonic-style works, making extreme demands of the performers and in many ways proving more taxing on listeners than anything in the medium previously. Finally, and emblematic of Beethoven's last period, came the so-called 'late' quartets: five composition all written in the last few years of the composer's life and as idiosyncratic and inward-looking as any other works of this period. It's partly because of the prestige of all these Beethoven quartets that the string quartet remained such a powerful and constant object of emulation during the later nineteenth century and beyond. In an earlier lecture I've already discussed the influence of the so-called Quartet Societies that emerged in Vienna, Paris, London and elsewhere in the years around Beethoven's last years: societies that were explicitly formed to allow Beethoven's quartets to receive suitably reverential and carefully-prepared performances, and that proved so immensely influential on concert culture generally.
In this brief résumé, I've deliberately not mentioned the work that is our focus today, which is the Quartet in F minor, Op. 95. Its omission was easy in that the quartet is something of an anomaly in the grand narrative of Beethoven's life: it's one of those pieces not falling conveniently into the 'three periods', and is usually thought of as inhabiting a transitional period between the 'heroic' and the late styles. As it happens, and not coincidentally, its composition followed some tumultuous events in Beethoven's life and times, ones that in part caused him to turn away from the 'heroic' style and that caused a serious hiatus in his compositional output. Let's pause for a moment over those circumstances.
1809, the year before the composition of Op. 95, Beethoven's residence in Vienna, a city in which he had lived his entire adult life, was called into question. In spite of his now very severe deafness, he received a lucrative job offer from elsewhere (as Kapellmeister at Kassel), and with typical financial astuteness he parlayed this into a lifetime's annuity from three wealthy Viennese admirers, prominent among whom was Archduke Rudolph (the Austrian Emperor's youngest brother, and later dedicatee of the so-called 'Archduke' Piano Trio). No sooner had this been settled, however, than a severe crisis descended on the city. For the second time in the space of a few years, Napoleon's armies again bore down on Vienna; when French occupation was resisted, the invaders spent one dreadful night bombarding the city into submission and then took residence for a two-month period, causing the occupants considerable financial hardship. During the bombardment, Beethoven reportedly hid in a cellar, protecting his head with pillows. he emerged unscathed, but the occupation saw his livelihood again threatened by the exodus of his aristocratic supporters and the drastic deflation of his annuity.
The composer's reaction to these events might seem on the surface very strange. He buried himself in, of all things, the rigorous study of strict counterpoint, copying out some two hundred pages of ancient contrapuntal treatises and immersing himself in the so-called stile antico, a mode overwhelmingly associated with old-fashioned religious music. On the surface, this preoccupation can be traced to practical matters: Beethoven had agreed to take on Archduke Rudolph as a composition student, and was brushing up on his old counterpoint skills, long since fallen into disuse in the 'heroic' period. But of course there were deeper reasons. Many have seen this turn to counterpoint, which had a critical impact on his 'late' compositional manner and in the waning of the 'heroic' style, as a sign of a retreat from the everyday world, one caused by the composer's deafness and also by the tumultuous political events surrounding him. This may indeed be the case, but recent commentators have suggested that the stile antico also had a political edge, representing for Beethoven a return to old, conservative Austrian values in times of adversity, and in particular an angry rejection of the inevitably French-tinged revolutionary leanings of his maturity. It may also be that he was already thinking of posterity. As a contemporary journal put it only a few years later, 'religious concepts carry the stamp of eternity, and music cannot express this better than by the marvellous art of counterpoint', a statement that Beethoven would have derided some years previously, but that now seemed to chime with his preoccupations.
The year that followed these events, in which Beethoven reached his fortieth year, saw one other curious episode. After a lifetime of mostly disastrous infatuations, Beethoven suddenly proposed marriage to the niece of one of his doctors. She was called Therese Malfatti, and we know little about her, apart from the fact that she was half the composer's age and that her family evidently (and probably wisely) rejected Beethoven's offer. It was in the aftermath of this event, in the summer of 1810, that Beethoven-on travels away from Vienna, possibly made in order to forget the disappointment of this rejection-composed his Quartet in F minor. On the autograph manuscript, he entitled the work, with clear intent if with distinctly homemade Italian, the 'Quartett serioso' (the Italian adjective meaning 'serious' is serio), and in a later letter he clearly marked it out as a radical departure from the large-scale, concert-symphonic quartets of the Op. 59 group, saying that it was 'written for a small circle of connoisseurs and never to be performed in public'. It was dedicated to an old aristocratic friend, Count Nikolaus Zmeskall, an amateur cellist and quite possibly one of the 'small circle of connoisseurs' for which the quartet was intended.
I mentioned some time ago that Beethoven's music generally became known for and-what is more surprising-increasingly valued for itsdifficulty: the obstacles it put in the way of both performers and listeners. This was a trait of which the composer was well aware: one of his most famous aesthetic pronouncements was that "what is difficult is also beautiful, good and great". In this regard, the Quartet Op. 95 is a prime exhibit. As its title and minor mode suggests, it is certainly one of Beethoven's most sombre quartets; but it is also, and by a margin, his shortest and most condensed. This much is announced immediately in the extraordinary beginning of the first movement, which offers us a bewildering succession of contrasting ideas and textures: first an angry unison figure; then a moment in which dotted-rhythms predominate; then a gentle chorale texture in the upper strings, but with the opening figure erupting in the cello. What's more, all of these abrupt transitions are separated by lengthy pauses filled with tension and suspense. And that's just the first eight bars, the first 15 seconds of the work! As we might expect from Beethoven, that tumultuous opening introduces us to the main thematic material of the entire movement, but what follows it places these ideas in every varying combinations, and within a tonal argument that is extremely unconventional even by Beethovenian standards, with sudden dives into unexpected keys a particular feature. A further prominent feature adds to the demands of the piece: what we might call the 'disposition' of the quartet, the role each instrument plays, is highly unusual, and as changeable as the musical substance. Virtually every bar sees a new configuration, routinely placing instruments in unlikely and hard-to-voice combinations. A good example comes immediately after that first onslaught of motives: the viola takes on the bass part (with more angry reiterations of the opening motive) while the cello is placed above even the second violin. The sense of music out of joint, of deliberate angularity and strain, is everywhere palpable.
The second movement, set as a gentle Allegretto, is the one moment of relaxation in the quartet, and features two musical modes that will become prominent features of Beethoven's 'late' style. The first is introduced by a 'mezza voce' descending scale for the solo cello, perhaps a small homage to the cellist dedicatee of the work but sounding for all the world like a throw-back to the world of Corelli or Purcell. This serves as introduction to a lyrical inspiration of great simplicity, one of those gentle hymns that flow forth from so many of Beethoven's slow movements in his last years. The hymn's antique repose then alternates with one of the first fruits of that long contrapuntal study Beethoven undertook in the wake of the Napoleonic invasions: a fugal texture of considerable complexity (there are countersubjects and inversions in the best ancient manner), but one that nevertheless manages to gesture towards, and even share a mood and musical material with, the simple, hymn-like tune of the opening.
After the lyrical pause of the Allegretto, we return to the hectic mood with which the quartet was launched. The third movement announces this with its tempo marking, 'Allegro assai vivace, ma serioso' (again that fake Italian word which must have had some deep resonance for Beethoven). The movement is probably best described as a kind of Scherzo and Trio, but its constituent parts are clearly derived again from that tumultuous opening to the first movement: the driving march of the Scherzo is dominated by tense pauses and an angry dotted figure, while the Trio is characterised by what I earlier called a 'chorale' texture, although this time with anxious figuration from the first violin interrupting the sense of repose. Introduced by a brief Larghetto, the last movement is an intensified repetition of the first in mood and texture; but listen out for its remarkable coda, which resembles Mendelssohnian fairy music in its wild agitation.
As that somewhat breathless account doubtless illustrates, this is not a quartet for the fainthearted, whether performers or listeners. To what extent it reveals his state of mind in 1810 is hard to say. Certainly the desperate political instability of the Napoleonic years combining, in that aborted marriage project, with a realisation that anything resembling a conventional domestic life was outside his grasp; all this was tumultuous, and would lead to a severe compositional hiatus in the years that followed. But its connection to biographical events, while always compelling, remain mysterious. In that sense, though, it is a good illustration of what made Beethoven such a compelling figure for the nineteenth century. As we know, his music was radical enough to be often misunderstood during his lifetime; but even then there were few arguments about its qualities. And in the decades that followed his death, his reputation only increased, the strangeness and difficulty of his musical personality becoming just one more potent sign of his greatness. We might put this another way and say that Beethoven's music was, for the period, unique in being so 'patient of interpretation', so able to adjust its meaning to the mores and demands of new generations. It was above all for that reason that he became the first composer in the Western classical tradition who can claim never to have been out of date, never to have been in need of revival. Today's concert can, I hope, remind us of that, and of the challenges that such a work continues to pose, almost exactly 200 hundred years after it was created.
As this is my last lecture, I need a brief coda. At the end of my first series of Gresham lectures with the Badke Quartet, some two years ago, I mentioned that the experience of working with them had been one of the most enjoyable of my professional life. It was in this sense a bold step to attempt to repeat the collaboration this year: one of the lessons of a long career (mine) has been that happy meetings of minds are not always easily restaged in other places at other times. But in this particular case I shouln't have worried: the format of these lecture recitals, after all, keeps us suitably separate; the pleasures that I received first time around have been steadily repeated, and I think (I hope) the same goes for the performers. What's more important, though, I remain convinced that our rather strict division of labour-I talk for thirty minutes; they play for thirty minutes-offers the most fruitful ground for dialogue, for experimenting with ways in which words about music can change and perhaps enrich the experience of musical listening. Musicology often has a rather fraught relationship with performance: those who deal in words about music are professionally wont to feel that they have special insights into a composer's intentions and achievements (after all, they peddle themselves as the 'experts', as repositories of knowledge); but most of them are also painfully aware that such insights have at best only a tangential effect on listeners' experiences of a work in question. And they are also reminded constantly that performers, who are often blithely unaware of the latest scholarship (and why not? they have other things on their minds, other challenges), communicate to those same listeners so much more immediately. Small wonder, in these circumstances, that musicologists are mostly happier talking to each other, and that they often adopt a special jargon that keeps non-specialists at bay. However, the Gresham project will not tolerate such inward turning: that is, for its professors, its greatest challenge and its great strength. It is, then, my greatest hope that these lectures have, if nothing else, furthered that project a little: have in this case explored a little further some of the many, many ways in which music from the now-distant past can still communicate, can still generate meaning among us, despite the formidable barriers of language and time. So here, to try the experiment one last time, is the Badke Quartet. Please join me in welcoming them: Heather Badke, first violin; Emma Parker, second violin; Jon Thorne, viola; and Jonathan Byers, cello.
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©Professor Roger Parker, Gresham College 2010
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People increasingly want access to their business-critical apps on the devices that make the most sense for how they work. However, traditional access management solutions often put security at odds with flexibility by imposing one-size-fits-all, coarse-grained controls that limit users. To address this Google Cloud announced context-aware access and Titan Security Key functionality.
Context-aware access
The new context-aware access support for cloud customers implements many elements of BeyondCorp, a zero-trust approach to security that Google uses internally to control employee access to its data and services. This feature allows organisations to define and enforce granular access to GCP APIs, resources, G Suite, and third-party SaaS apps based on a user’s identity, location, and the context of their request. Context-aware access increases your security posture while decreasing complexity for your users, giving them the ability to seamlessly log on to apps from anywhere and any device.
Titan Security Key
Google also introduced its new key-based authentication service via the Titan Security Key, a hardware key featuring firmware development by Google. Organisations can use the Titan Security Key to implement two-factor authentication to their cloud workloads on G Suite and GCP. It gives organisations an authentication mechanism that is stronger and more phishing resistant than two-step authentication via text messaging.
2. Strengthening a secure foundation
As your organisation moves workloads to the cloud, trust in the underlying infrastructure is critically important. Google Cloud’s goal is to deliver a highly reliable, highly secure foundation for you to build on, and to allow you to take advantage of the protections they’ve built in. This includes Shielded VMs, Binary Authorisation, Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning and geo-based access for Cloud Armor.
Shielded VMs
Shielded VMs are virtual machines (VMs) on GCP hardened by a set of security controls that help defend against rootkits and bootkits. Using Shielded VMs helps protect enterprise workloads from threats like remote attacks, privilege escalation, and malicious insiders. With Shielded VMs you can monitor and react to any changes in the VM baseline as well as its current runtime state.
Binary Authorisation and Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning
With Binary Authorisation, you can enforce signature validation when deploying container images. This can be integrated with existing CI/CD pipelines to ensure images are properly built and tested prior to deployment. It can also be combined with Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning to prevent deploying images that contain any vulnerable packages. Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning automatically performs vulnerability scanning for Ubuntu, Debian and Alpine images to ensure your images are safe to deploy.
Cloud Armor
Cloud Armor is Google’s DDoS and application defense service, based on the same global infrastructure that they use to protect Search, Gmail and YouTube. During Google Next’18, they’ve announced geo-based access control for Cloud Armor, available now in beta, which allows you to control access to your services based on the geographic location of the client trying to connect to your application.
3. Giving you more transparency, insight and control
Google Cloud empowers you with the visibility, insight and control you need to meet your organisation’s security objectives as you move to the cloud or increase your cloud adoption through Access Transparency for GCP.
Access Transparency
Google provides a comprehensive level of documentation on how they do things in the cloud, such as data encryption. They also offer customers near real-time visibility into the limited situations when they are required to interact with your data on the Google Cloud Platform. Access Transparency for GCP — a first-of-its-kind capability — is soon to be generally available to all customers.
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Many executives that we speak to are concerned with how their organisation will approach their digital transformation. As a result, many CIOs are addressing how their organisation will digitally transform, but jump right to infrastructure, and how they host and access information internally. Digital Transformation has, however, grown beyond storage to encompass everything that relates to how employees get work done today. By neglecting to address the collaboration tools, you are forcing your workforce to utilise archaic systems and processes that hinder their ability to achieve their full potential (e.g. takes longer to complete deliverables, more employees need to staff projects, frustrated employees are less productive). Your workforce is evolving technologically, and even more importantly, culturally. They do not conduct business like they did 5 or 10 years ago and in the coming years, these work habits will only evolve at a more dramatic rate.
ICD Group Sparks Innovation with G Suite
ICD Group wanted to create a more connected and collaborative work environment across its entities to facilitate the creation of cross-company mastermind groups and thereby engender innovative thinking. This compelled them to look into either Office 365 or G Suite for cloud email and collaboration requirements. In this instance, Grove as a Google partner offered ICD Group more hard-line value. Stacey Hines, Group Strategic Planner at ICD Group, elaborates that the primary drivers looking into G Suite Business was firstly the value proposition of a collaborative platform that could be leveraged across multiple companies in a relatively quick and straightforward way. “Secondly we were impressed by the time-saving benefit added to our IT-team members who would now be ‘free’ to work on other things instead of placing much focus on managing the on-premise email server and taking care of traditional Office Suite challenges.”
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Consultation on extension of IR35 rules
HMRC has published guidance on the extension of the off-payroll working rules (also known as IR35) to the private sector, a year ahead of its implementation on 6 April 2020.
In the guidance, HMRC state that the responsibility to determine whether the off-payroll working rules apply will fall on the organisation receiving the individual's service. It outlines a four-step process which can be used to prepare for the changes, starting with identifying any individuals who are supplying their services through PSCs.
The consultation closes on 28 May and asks for responses on several matters, including the scope of the reform and its impact on non-corporate engagers; information requirements for engagers, fee payers and personal service companies (PSCs); and how to address disagreements on an individual's employment status.
The consultation also sets out HMRC's plans to provide education and support for those businesses that are affected.
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Four stars of the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours
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Toyota could only defeat itself for overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours this weekend, which says it all about the lack of competitiveness in the top class at the great endurance race.
But Toyota has always had a tendency towards drama – and sure enough, without anyone but itself to race against, the Japanese manufacturer still managed to throw up a tantalising motorsport story this year.
Meanwhile, the lesser classes put on some great racing to keep the huge crowds hooked all the way from 3pm on Saturday to 3pm on Sunday.
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It was surprising just how much quicker the #7 Toyota TS050 HYBRID was than its sister, from the first qualifying session on Wednesday evening to the end of the race. But that didn’t mean Briton Mike Conway, teamed with Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, left Le Mans with the first Le Mans victory he deserved at a race that counts for more than any other in the world of sports car racing.
Conway put in a heroic performance this weekend, marking himself out as probably the best sports car racer in the world right now, and he fully deserved to finally win the ‘big one’. But like his countryman Anthony Davidson before him, Toyota’s British star appears to lack the sprinkling of luck that is required to secure a Le Mans win.
As the 24th hour approached, Lopez had pitted but was immediately informed he had a puncture. The sensors suggested the right front was the problem, but it turned out to be the right rear. Whatever, it required another stop – which handed the lead and victory to the #8 crew.
That means Fernando Alonso, along with team-mates Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, is a two-time Le Mans winner – but the trio, who have also now secured the 2018/19 World Endurance Championship titles, knew they did not deserve the victory on this day.
Conway will just have to come back and try again. But right now, this one will hurt.
Nicolas Lapierre
The Frenchman, formerly a Toyota LMP1 ace, has reinvented himself as a star in the secondary LMP2 class – and remarkably now remains unbeaten at Le Mans in four attempts at the category.
Lapierre scored his third victory for the Signatech Alpine team with team-mates Andre Negrao and Pierre Thiriet, but admittedly only after misfortune befell the team’s main rival. G-Drive had led the class for most of the way until the 19th hour, until a starter motor problem cost it 20 minutes in the pits.
That meant further disappointment for Jean-Eric Vergne, the former F1 driver and current Formula E champion who won the race last year with G-Drive only to lose it when the team was disqualified for using an illegal refuelling rig.
Redemption looked set to be on the cards this year, but it was not to be – and Lapierre and co were the beneficiaries once again.
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James Calado
The former single-seater driver had the talent to make it to Formula 1, but is yet another to have fallen by the wayside before he got his chance. The Briton has since reinvented himself as a GT star in the World Endurance Championship and took a deserved Le Mans win on Sunday.
Teamed with Italian Alessandro Pier Guidi and Brazilian Daniel Serra, Calado led AF Corse’s challenge and delivered Ferrari’s 488 GTE another victory in the Pro class, defeating the sweet-sounding Porsche 911 RSRs.
The challenges from Corvette and Aston Martin both wilted, but thanks largely to Calado, Ferrari can add another class win to its tally at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
Ben Keating
The American became the first to run a privateer Ford GT at Le Mans – and his eponymous team was rewarded with a class win in the GTE Am class.
The talents of experienced Dutchman Jeroen Bleekemolen led the charge in the striking purple and orange Wynn’s-backed Ford, and the team’s success ensures a happy send off from Le Mans for the Blue Oval’s potent racer, despite the four works cars failing to make the podium in the Pro class. They did, however, all make the finish, classified in fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh in the category.
Overall, the 2019 race will not and cannot be remembered as a classic Le Mans. But one way or another, it will certainly not be forgotten by those who stamped their mark on it – for better and for worse.
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News: President Buhari Rejects N400million Armoured SUV Mercedes Benz Automobiles
by Brown July 10, 2015, 2:56 pm 118.8k Views 0 Comments
President Muhammadu Buhari has turned down an offer by the Federal Government to buy 5 new armoured Mercedes Benz S-600 (V222) cars for his use. The cars which cost is about N400m were planned to be purchased by the State House.
A source close to the presidency told journalists on Thursday that Buhari found out about the plan when the Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi, briefed him of his ministry’s activities on Wednesday.
Angry at the revelation, the President was said to have told Emodi that the purchase was unnecessary. Describing it as a waste of scarce resources, the source saidBuhari told the permanent secretary that the cars he inherited from former President Goodluck Jonathan were good enough for him.
“I don’t need any new cars. The ones I am using now are just fine,” the source quoted the President as saying.
Top government officials, however, said Buhari welcomed other initiatives presented by the permanent secretary to reduce the operating costs of the State House and strengthen its Finance and Accounts Internal Control Mechanisms.
However he directed that more efforts be made towards the capture of all State House expenses within the approved national budget, in order to avoid the frequent recourse by past administrations to “Presidential intervention funds.”
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed that Buhari had withheld approval for the purchase of the new cars. Shehu said the President would continue to use the cars left behind by Jonathan in keeping with his commitment to prudent management of national resources.
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Concerns grow about grey water in Canada’s Arctic: report shows it could double
Drainage from sinks, laundry machines, bath tubs and shower stalls is growing
A traditional hunter in the Northwest Territories says he used to welcome the cruise ships coming into the Beaufort Sea in Canada’s Arctic.
But Hans Lennie from Inuvik says that’s changing.
“Not as much now. Now that we’ve got all the facts,” said Lennie, who also sits on the Inuvialuit Game Council, which manages wildlife and wildlife habitat in the region.
Some of his concerns are highlighted in a new report about untreated grey water being dumped by ships passing through.
The study commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada said the amount of grey water — drainage from sinks, laundry machines, bath tubs, shower stalls or dishwashers — could double by 2035 if laws aren’t improved.
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“It’s pretty alarming,” said Melissa Nacke of the wildlife conservation group. “These concentration areas are overlapping with important species habitat and important cultural areas.”
The number of ships travelling in northern waters is expected to increase as climate change melts sea ice. The study suggests tourism will be the biggest source of grey water dumping by 2035.
“If you think of shower or laundry water, it contains detergent and soaps and shampoos,” said Nacke. “It also has really high levels of nutrients … and can have things like oil and grease. It can have metals, food particles and, because of the laundry, it can also have microplastics.”
Nacke said those materials can contaminate shellfish and cause large algae blooms that create dead zones in the ocean.
The report noted that could have repercussions for food security in northern communities — a conclusion that only adds to Lennie’s concerns.
“It’s totally detrimental,” said Lennie. “These ships, their grey water is all their cleaning material. That’s pretty toxic stuff.
“It’s a nurturing grounds. All the marine life. All the invertebrates that the whales feed on. It involves the waterfowl too. It definitely has an impact on the food chain.”
Both the report and locals like Lennie say federal and international regulations are necessary.
“We need something. Right now we have nothing,” he said. “Anything we do is better than nothing.”
Lennie said the Inuvialuit Game Council has been meeting with the federal government.
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Officials with Transport Canada said they are reviewing the report.
“Canada regulates shipping within Canadian Arctic waters,” said an emailed statement from the department. ”The regulations address many aspects of Arctic shipping, including requirements for vessel construction and operation, training of crew members, the presence of ice navigators on board, fire safety and life-saving.”
But the statement acknowledged there are no provisions related to grey water.
Different rules are in place for southern Canadian waters. The regulations require passenger vessels built after 2013 and carrying more than 500 passengers to use an onboard marine sanitation device before releasing grey water.
The U.S. government and the state of Alaska have regulations related to grey water from ships.
“Part of that was because cruise ships spend a lot of time in Alaska,” said Ed White, cruise ship program manager with Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation. “Part of it was the size of the ships, too, which were much larger than the communities they were travelling to. That created a lot public concern.”
White said the major worry was linked to bacteria from food waste or laundry, but officials had also found toxic materials such as dry cleaning chemicals and mercury.
“We don’t see that anymore.”
That’s due to stricter regulations, he said, including inspections on ships and a move to stop using some toxic materials.
Nacke said high standards in Alaska make it more important for grey water discharge to be regulated in Canada’s northern waters.
“Cruise ships that go around Alaska … can literally use Canada as a dumping ground,” she said.
Lennie said he hopes there are some regulations sooner rather than later.
“This is a new travel destination,” he said. “(Tourists) want to see the untouched wilderness, but there’s a cost to it.”
— By Colette Derworiz in Edmonton.
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The secret to fast, quality hires using talent pipelines
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HR professionals & recruiters can now proactively contact large numbers of candidates through professional social networks. But while online sourcing has enabled access to a seemingly infinite number of candidates, it has also resulted in very shallow talent pools.
What good is a database with thousands of potential hires if they don’t respond to a position, are uninterested, or turn out to be unqualified?
A history of high-cost personalized vetting
In the past, headhunters interacted directly with scarce and highly skilled talent to learn what they are looking for in their next job; minimum salary, willingness to relocate, desired industries and potential deal breakers. Depending on what companies were looking for with their next hires, headhunters could provide pre-vetted, right-fit matches.
Much recruitment is now done in-house to save costs, and the average recruiter does very little curation and filtering of candidates beyond the writing of a job spec and the manual screening of applications for individual jobs.
While a candidate might lack the exact skills or experience for a particular job, the person could be ideal for another future role. Failing to keep in touch with a great, previously short-listed candidate could cause the potential hire to fall through the cracks. This breakdown in efficiency slows down the time-to-hire process, and puts a stranglehold on business growth.
Prioritising relationships
Recruiters need to build, manage and engage a pipeline of qualified candidates before they need to hire them so they’re on hand and ready to fill future vacancies. Recruiters must be proactive in following through with implied intent of “we’ll keep your CV on file”.
The basic process of building a talent pipeline can be summarized as follows:
Target: Audit the current and future skills the business needs, so you know which groups of candidates to target.
Source: Build and implement campaigns to source relevant candidates – but instead of random text-only job descriptions, develop robust content that truly engages the candidate with the context of the workplace and the employer brand.
Store: Screen and store good applicants selected from the campaigns, thereby creating a pool of relevant talent for future use.
Engage: Communicate with the talent pool on a continuous basis, offering useful updates and information and communicating relevant job openings as they occur. Ensure that candidate details are kept up to date.
How technology can help
Many businesses lack easy-to-use, integrated, centralised pipelining tools to organise the recruiting process. If you’re in a medium-sized enterprise it could get quite difficult to juggle thousands of candidates whom you’d like to keep up with – especially if the business comes from a background with a lot of manual processes.
Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSs) can provide a unified private database for all of your candidate data – meaning you won’t have to juggle PDFs, faxed CVs, or other applicant information as it’s all stored centrally and can easily retain an applicant as a future candidate. Most ATS tools feature built-in Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) functionality, making it easy to build efficiency into the pipeline process.
Once you select candidates for a talent pool, you can use these CRM tools to send or schedule personalised bulk or individual emails to the candidates from a communications library, asking them to confirm their current details, or provide them with job openings. This makes it simple to communicate and interact with candidates.
If you’re considering using the pipelining tools built into professional social networks, just keep in mind that it won’t be able to include candidates you’ve sourced from outside this ecosystem, or export candidates to other systems easily. It will also have limited filtering and search functionality compared with an ATS, and won’t have reporting for your integrated recruitment campaigns.
Finding, nurturing and hiring the gems
Recruitment has changed from a limited-duration interaction between company and candidate to a continuous cycle of engagement. By taking proactive steps to break through the noise, building a talent pipeline will help you quickly find great people to help make your company productive and profitable.
Whether you’re a larger organisation or a SME, graylink’s recruitment management software solutions offer talent pipelining functionality and automation to improve efficiencies in your recruitment process. Automatically alert candidates in talent pipelines about relevant new vacancies, or receive notifications in your recruitment team when a new relevant candidate is added to your talent pool. Contact graylink to find out more about how recruitment software can improve your recruiting processes.
If you’d like to find out more about how an ATS could help you cut costs and time to hire, send us a mail to hello@graylink.biz or give us a call on +27 (0)21 424 8111.
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Powerball Jackpot at $1.5 Billion, ‘But Not Many Jacks in the Pot
Published Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 11:38 am
Rep. Stam on N.C. Lottery
The largest-value “jackpot” in the history of the NC Lottery is up for grabs Wednesday night at $1.5 billion. Unfortunately, this also means that gamblers are prey to deceptive advertising techniques that the NC “Education” Lottery has employed since its inception. The problem is that there are not that many “jacks” in the “pot.”
The NC “Education” Lottery advertises the “jackpot” at $1.5 billion, with an estimated cash value at $930 million if taken as a lump sum. But only the lump sum figure is the true value against which probabilities should be computed. The advertised value of winnings greatly exaggerates the prize. It could just as well be advertised as a “Trillion Dollar Jackpot” with the option of taking the money over 1000 years for the winner’s heirs. That would really get sales moving! But the prize would still only be worth the lump sum value.
The NC “Education” Lottery uses deceptive advertising by deliberately causing gamblers to believe they have amuch greater chance of winning a substantial sum of money than they actually do. The NC “Education” Lottery advertises the odds of winning, but does not transparently match the odds to the particular prize (see chart on page 2). The Lottery will list the value of the jackpot or highest few prizes, but advertise the odds of winningany prize, including the lowest-value prize. This time, the lottery describes the odds of winning any prize from one ticket at about 1 in 25.[1] But the website does not tell what that prize would be. Most likely it would be $4. Most gamblers are aware that the odds of winning the ultimate jackpot are much lower (about 1 in 292 million), but most gamblers are not aware that their odds to win the $100 prize is only about 1 in 14,494![2]
Lottery gamblers disproportionately have lower incomes and less education. They are enticed to spend money for a reward they are much less likely to receive than they even imagine. If this were a private swindle it would be banned by the Federal Trade Commission.[3] But since Lotteries are regulated by the States, they avoid those rules – and families suffer for it. It is time North Carolina protected its citizens from deceptive advertising by requiring common-sense advertising.
For further information on this issue, please call Representative Paul Stam at 919.362.8873.
[1] See http://www.nc-educationlottery.org/faq_powerball.aspx#43.
Q: What are the odds of winning?
A: The overall odds of winning are 1:24.87. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338.
The FAQ does not tell what prize will be won at 1:24:87, instead it is very specific and precise calculated to the nearest 1/100th. This precision is meaningless.
[1] See http://www.durangobill.com/PowerballOdds.html and see page 2.
[1] The Federal Trade Commission protects against deceptive trade practices (15 U.S.C. §45). Under FTC regulations the official rules of sweepstakes must include basic information including the retail value of the prize(s) offered and the odds of winning.
*These values have been added to the chart after speaking with a NC “Education” Lottery representative. Otherwise, the Lottery website does not provide clear ratios of the gambler’s odds of winning verses their expected prize.
The odds of winning ANY prize (including the $4 prize) is 1 in 25.
Below are two examples of the odds of winning $100:
Match 4 out of 5 white balls but not match the Powerball (Payout = $100)
The number of ways 4 of the 5 winning numbers on your lottery ticket can match the 5 white balls is COMBIN(5,4) = 5. The number of ways the losing white number on your ticket can match any of the 64 losing numbers is COMBIN(64,1) = 64. The number of ways your Powerball number can miss matching the single Powerball number is: COMBIN(25,1) = 25. The product of these is the number of ways you can win this configuration: COMBIN(5,4) x COMBIN(64,1) x COMBIN(25,1) = 8,000. The probability of success is thus: 8,000/292,201,338 ~= 0.00002738 or “One chance in 36,525.17”.
Match 3 out of 5 white balls and match the Powerball (Payout = $100)
The number of ways 3 of the 5 winning numbers on your lottery ticket can match the 5 white balls is COMBIN(5,3) = 10. The number of ways the 2 losing white numbers on your ticket can match any of the 64 losing white numbers is COMBIN(64,2) = 2,016. The number of ways your Powerball number can match the single Powerball number is: COMBIN(1,1) = 1. The product of these is the number of ways you can win this configuration: COMBIN(5,3) x COMBIN(64,2) x COMBIN(1,1) = 20,160. The probability of success is thus: 20,160/292,201,338 ~= 0.00006899 or “One chance in 14,494.11”.
See http://www.durangobill.com/PowerballOdds.html.
The troubling lottery reality behind the Powerball fever
By Chris Fitzsimon, N.C. Policy Watch
The lottery has been in the news nonstop for the last couple of weeks as the Powerball jackpot rose to almost $1.5 billion. There have been interviews with people buying tickets and quotes from store clerks selling them and even advice on what to do if you win, though the odds are decidedly against it, roughly one in 300 million.
The lottery industry loves it all of course, more excitement means more players and more cash for the companies who make the tickets and the machines.
State lotteries like ours in North Carolina like it too. Higher jackpots mean more media coverage and more sales and sales is the only way they judge success. One lottery official told the Charlotte Observer that it is indeed “an exciting time for us at the lottery.”
The Powerball frenzy has prompted some news outlets to remind their audiences where the lottery proceeds go in North Carolina, to support staff at schools, PreK programs, college scholarships and school construction.
Lawmakers have changed that formula in recent years and in the last two sessions have considered increasing the amount the lottery spends on advertising its games but thankfully have decided against it.
But it’s still troubling that how many kids get a college scholarship or have access to PreK programs depends in part on how many people the lottery can convince to buy tickets whether they can afford to buy them or not.
It’s also worth remembering that the state spends $500 less per capita on education than it spent in 2008 even with the growth in sales of the “education lottery.”
Left out of many of the stories is where the lottery proceeds come from—who plays and where do they live. A report by NC Policy Watch two years ago found that the ten counties with the highest lottery ticket sales per capita were clustered in low-income areas in the eastern part of the state.
The top counties in per capita sales all had poverty rates of more than 20 percent. In Halifax County where the poverty rate was pushing 30 percent, residents were spending almost $600 a year.
Those are the same counties where federal food stamp benefits are being cut off thanks to the General Assembly, where the cuts to unemployment compensation for laid off workers are most painfully felt, and where the elimination of the state Earned Income Tax Credit hits home for many low-wage working families.
And much of the lottery spending isn’t on Powerball tickets anyway, but on daily scratch off games that are aggressively marketed. It’s not hard to see that the advertising works, with huddles of low-income folks scratching off ticket after ticket in the corners of convenience stores across the state.
Lottery officials don’t keep data on who plays. They’d rather not know apparently, but studies in other states and the Policy Watch report make it fairly obvious who is playing the most, people most desperate to improve their financial situation who are also people who can least afford to respond to the ubiquitous lottery ads and waste their hard-earned money.
Lottery officials don’t seem to think about that much and told WUNC radio that they are just trying to run “fun games to help a good cause.” Sounds like a harmless church raffle, until you consider the plight of many of the people playing and the amount of advertising the lottery uses to entice them.
Lottery defenders always point to the education programs the proceeds support as justification for the state being in the huckster business, but we have a revenue system that is supposed to support education and other vital state services.
Instead we rely on people in Halifax County spending $600 a year to help fund our schools. That was true before the Powerball jackpot reached a billion dollars and it will be true after the jackpot is gone.
Desperate folks in the poorest counties will still be huddled in the corners of the stores scratching off ticket after ticket hoping to strike it rich.
Lottery officials are counting on it.
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The Paragon Hotel (Kobo eBook)
By Lyndsay Faye
A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.
The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises.
As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too.
A richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, The Paragon Hotel at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date: January 8th, 2019
Hardcover (January 8th, 2019): $26.00
Library Binding, Large Print (March 20th, 2019): $31.99
Paperback (December 3rd, 2019): $17.00
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Trump touts prosperity, but is that what North Korea wants?
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - President Donald Trump's message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been simple and clear: give up your nuclear weapons and a flood of wealth will soon be yours for the taking.
But here's a nagging question: Is that really what Kim wants?
With Trump and Kim descending on Hanoi for their second summit , there has been a persistent suggestion that Kim will look around at the relative prosperity of his Vietnamese hosts - who are certainly no strangers to U.S. hostility - and think that he, too, should open up his country to more foreign investment and trade.
Trump himself has been the primary cheerleader.
On Wednesday morning he tweeted: "Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon - Very Interesting!"
For sure, North Korea could have a brighter future.
"Using the words 'great economic power' is a Trumpian exaggeration, but a useful one," said William Brown, a North Korea economy expert and former CIA analyst. "The truth is North Korea quite easily could become a prosperous country, growing faster than any of its neighbors and catching up with them in terms of income per capita. It has what it takes."
Brown cited North Korea's strong human capital, low wages and high levels of verbal and math literacy. He also noted it has a potential bonanza of natural resources such as lead, zinc, rare earths, coal, iron ore and hydropower. He agreed with Trump about location - saying North Korea sits "betw
Brown cited North Korea's strong human capital, low wages and high levels of verbal and math literacy. He also noted it has a potential bonanza of natural resources such as lead, zinc, rare earths, coal, iron ore and hydropower. He agreed with Trump about location - saying North Korea sits "between four big economies that are far richer but increasingly moribund."
But girding against a foreign threat is a time-tested justification for giving a leader extraordinary powers and limiting individual freedoms, like travel and expression. Opening up to foreign capital and bringing his country in line with international financial standards means giving up a great deal of control.
Control, for Kim, is the most important commodity of all.
While his country is far more dynamic than many outside observers realize, opening up in the pursuit of wealth is for Kim an extremely dangerous proposition. It seems clear he wants to revitalize the economy, but it is anything but apparent he's ready or even interested in opening up any more than he needs to in order to achieve that narrow goal.
As Kim arrived in Hanoi, back in Pyongyang the ruling party's daily newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, printed a commentary vowing the nation will stay the course the Kim family has set for the past three generations.
"The revolutionary cause of juche (self-reliance) and the cause of socialism
"The revolutionary cause of juche (self-reliance) and the cause of socialism are sure to triumph" under the guidance of the party and the people "who remain faithful to the cause of the party with indomitable mental power," it said.
Kim's primary objectives have focused on the development of infrastructure projects, building up the tourism industry and strengthening government regulation of the country's expanding market-style economy.
"The statements from Trump at North Korea as the next economic powerhouse seem to assume that were the nuclear weapons out of the picture, North Korea would immediately open its doors and society to anyone wanting to come in and invest," said Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, a fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center and editor of North Korea Economy Watch. "But the regime will want to maintain the main facets of social control."
Silberstein said the government isn't likely to let foreign businesspeople roam freely around the country anytime soon. He added that Kim has focused on promoting special economic zones because they have the potential for high growth while remaining isolated "walled gardens."
In the immediate future, Kim's goals are pragmatic.
He is seeking to get in front of the grassroots market forces that are growing all around him and undercut support for trade sanctions that are limiting his options and drying up government coffers.
His government is especially interested in moving ahead on projects with South Korea, including the re-opening of a tourist resort at Mount Kumgang and an industrial center near the city of Kaesong that were both built with massive funding from the South. North Korea is also hurting badly from its inability to export its minerals and coal.
Having nuclear weapons is what got him to the point where he could meet directly with a U.S. president. So he would be foolish to throw that away without a significant reward. On the other hand, if he goes deep down the capitalist path, like South Korea, Kim could risk undermining his regime's own legitimacy.
The story of Vietnam, north and south, is in that sense a cautionary tale. The economic reforms and growth of today's Vietnam only came after unification. For North Korea, the South represents a rival that not only still exists, but is richer and its people are allowed far greater individual freedoms.
Silberstein believes that is not an insurmountable fear for Kim.
"Market reforms are already happening and have been for quite some time, it's just that Kim Jong Un never formally announced an overhaul of the system," he said, adding that under Kim, market trade has been allowed to expand, and has even been encouraged by the state to do so. Enterprises have received unprecedented freedom to plan their own production and dispose of a large share of their profits themselves.
"The same has happened in agriculture, and from what we know, the results have been successful," he said. "I strongly believe that Kim wants to take this process of liberalization further, though it will likely never be called 'reforms,' only 'improvements.'"
"The tricky part is how to balance letting loose on some of the strict social control, such as opening up space for private investments both from abroad and from the general public, changing the governance of private property, massively upgrading communications infrastructure and the like, with still keeping information about the outside world away or at least regulated."
Silberstein suggested that if given a choice between social controls or economic reforms, Kim will choose control.
"Whatever might happen, they'll proceed cautiously," he said.
Talmadge has been the AP's Pyongyang bureau chief since 2013. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram: @EricTalmadge
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Salmon with lice prefer the deep
Salmon with heavy lice infestations in cages swim deeper than the rest of the shoal in the darkness of the night. For the first time, it has been shown that salmon may have natural behaviour that prevents new sea lice infestations in fish.
Beate Hoddevik
Published: 24.10.2016
When an animal acquires numerous parasites on itself, it often changes the behaviour of the animal, and it appears that farmed salmon also do so when they have high levels of sea lice.
“During the day, all of the fish swam deep in the cage, but at night we noticed that the fish that had the most lice chose to reside deeper than those with less lice, and these fish completely avoided being in the top 4 meters” states Samantha Bui, who has taken a doctorate degree on this topic.
Until the eggs of a louse hatch, they are firmly attached to the female louse. When the microscopic larva emerges from the egg, it develops while drifting with the current. When it becomes the stage that can attach to a salmon, it shows a movement pattern where it swims towards the light and surface while still being carried by the current. During this stage, the lice stay in mostly in the upper meters of the water.
“The reason why the salmon that had high lice levels stayed away from the top meters is probably because this is the zone that contains the greatest risk of getting new lice”, says Bui.
This indicates that the salmon with high lice loads actively choose to avoid the parts of the water column where they would acquire most infestation, unlike a salmon without lice who chooses swimming depths that have the optimum temperature and light.
Bui emphasises that they cannot say exactly why the salmon that had lice chose to swim deeper, but they can say that it looks like it has the benefits of avoiding further infestation by lice.
“This is the first time that we have seen an innate response in parasitised salmon” she says, while highlighting the need to improve knowledge of the vertical distribution of infective sea lice in the water.
The experiment was conducted at IMR’s research station in Austevoll alongside a larger project with snorkel cages. Salmon were kept in cages in the same manner as on commercial farms. The scientists used tags that registered the swimming depths of individual fish, and salmon included in the experiment had zero to 18 lice.
The trial, analysis and writing up were carried out in cooperation between University of Melbourne and Institute of Marine Research. The trial was part of the Samantha Bui’s PHD, supervised by Lars Helge Stien, Frode Oppedal and Tim Dempster.
Samantha Bui m.fl: Sea lice infestation level alters salmon swimming depth in sea-cages. Aquacult Environ Interact. 2016. Doi: 10.3354/aei00188
Lars Helge Stien m.fl: ‘Snorkel’ sea lice barrier technology reduces sea lice loads on harvest-sized Atlantic salmon with minimal welfare. Aquaculture. 2016.
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Fear and self-loathing may be about to push America to President Trump
While the polls have Hillary Clinton in a narrow lead, Florida's social media data tells a different story.
By Jimmy Leach
November 8, 2016 10:31 GMT
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Maybe America has a collective psychological issue, one which explains why apparently good people could be about to make irrational, bad decisions. Self-loathing and a subsequent belief that they deserve only the worst forces individuals into making decisions they know to be hurtful to them. America's dietary habits suggest they may not be unused to poor choices, but now they seem, according to significant data, to be about to take that to another level.
The country has a choice, this week, between the 'not-that-great' and the 'potentially disastrous'; between the second-least liked candidate in campaign history, and the occupant of first place. And it may well be that Americans have looked at their choices and decided that if they want to have a bad president – then they may as well have a really bad one.
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While the polls, mostly, have Hillary Clinton in a narrow lead, the social media data tells a rather different story.
The social media analysis company Impact Social looked at 160,000 social media posts and commentary in open news forums in the key swing state of Florida, where President Obama said 'win Florida and it's a wrap'. And what they found doesn't look good for Clinton.
The first thing to note is the 'share of voice'. Trump is the main subject of almost twice as many posts as Clinton (54% to 29%, with 17% neutral). Arguments can be made that this is a kind of false traffic, but it's also Trump's strategy. Outgunned on traditional media spend, he gets his airtime for free by being outrageous.
It's perfectly possible that he's incapable of taking nuanced policy positions – we've seen no evidence that he can – but he doesn't try because explaining policy makes less noise that one-liners designed to cause outrage. That gets him the lead spot on news bulletins, it gets him talked about on social media – and it gets him votes. In this case, noise means support.
What's also striking is the fact that amongst that (very large) body of posts which support Trump, around half of them are simply made up of attacks on Clinton. The hatred of Hillary is quite startling – casting her as a liar, crooked and corrupt, with the on-off kerfuffle of the FBI's renewed investigation into her use of emails fuelling that fire. Trump has taken a consistently aggressive line against all sorts of targets (Mexicans to Muslims) throughout this campaign. As the big day draws near, his attacks have narrowed to just one person. And they are landing.
The pro-Clinton data, smaller in number, seems to be of a happier disposition, with only 10% anti-Trump and the rest making much of their support, or Obama's, or the media's or a celebrity endorsement. All, unwittingly, backing Trump's stance as himself as the lone man standing against the establishment.
So, the social media data has it, Trump is doing very well in Florida. If he holds on to the states that Mitt Romney won last time (not certain, of course), he needs Florida, Ohio and some smaller wins, and the White House is his. Win Florida, and it's a wrap.
The problem for Clinton is that, while there are Republicans who can't vote for Trump, very few of them can vote for her. A stronger Democratic candidate would have sewn things up on the basis of Trump's divisiveness, but Clinton is no unifier.
And assuming that Trump's pussy-grabbing, Muslim-banning, wall-building, Putin-loving persona would turn voters off assumes that they take these things seriously as any kind of policy in the first place. In this post-factual world, they are seen as postures, not policies and, set against Clinton's carefully explained positions, they simply appear to be more digestible.
It doesn't paint a happy picture of a healthy democracy, but there are two hopes for the Clinton campaign. One is that the polls are right and the social media is wrong. Cling to that, by all means, but remember that this data represents information freely volunteered online, in a country with very high digital penetration. And remember how well the polls did over Brexit.
But, more significantly, remember that most social media measurement, including this, takes place in English only. This will not take full consideration of the Latino vote, whom Trump has not exactly courted, and who will often converse online in Spanish. They make up almost a quarter of the population of Florida and, early indications seem to show, are mobilising against him.
It's those voters who are key and who could rescue Clinton. While those postures brought Trump close to the White House, his demands for The Wall may have put one last, insurmountable, obstacle in front of him.
But I wouldn't bet on it.
Jimmy Leach is a digital consultant, working on platforms and communications for governments, corporations and start-ups.
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Are smartwatches the next major gaming platform?
By Anthony Cuthbertson in Helsinki
Updated November 11, 2015 18:18 GMT
Smartwatches could be about to have their Angry Birds moment with the arrival of Runeblade Everywear Games
The arrival of Rovio's Angry Birds in 2009 catapulted smartphone gaming into the mainstream. Three years later, another Finland-based firm Supercell heralded a new wave of mobile gaming, this time for tablets, with Clash Of Clans. Three years on again and smartwatches are emerging as the next major platform for mobile gaming. Once again it is a Finnish firm that is leading the charge.
Everywear Games, a Helsinki-based startup, is targeting the Apple Watch in the belief that smartwatches are the "most exciting new platform in the industry, ever". The company's first offering, Runeblade, is already the most popular game on this platform.
"Smartwatches are absolutely perfect for gaming," Aki Järvilehto, CEO and founder of Everywear Games, told IBTimes UK. "They're the disruption we've been waiting for. They will redefine gaming.
Runeblade is the best-selling smartwatch game ever Everywear Games
"They're always available and will get you in the game in seconds, much faster than any other platform. We are already seeing a frequency of use among our players that is simply unprecedented in games."
Runeblade: more than just a mini-game
Järvilehto describes Runeblade as "the most addictive" gaming experience on any device, and he has the stats to back that up. While the majority users play casually, the top 2% of players complete more than 100 missions every 24 hours. This means turning to the game on average every six minutes throughout the day, to play for five to 15 seconds at a time. "Twitter-sized entertainment," says Järvilehto.
The short playing times doesn't mean that Runeblade should be considered a "mini game". The gameplay is a full-on fantasy adventure RPG, complete with monsters, wars, and spells. Each month, new content is rolled out in order to introduce new storylines that run in seasons.
Everywear Games is currently focusing all of its attention on the Apple Watch, as it's significantly more popular than all other Android Wear devices combined. Recently published research by Canalys revealed that nearly seven million Apple Watches have been shipped since its launch earlier this year.
In the future, Järvilehto hopes that Runeblade will be made available on other smartwatch operating systems, but only once it has become an "iconic". Järvilehto said: "We do want to be the leading game developer on all leading smartwatch platforms, but that time will be later."
Aki Järvilehto, CEO and founder of Everywear Games Everywear Games
Runeblade adopts the same 'freemium' revenue model that has proved so successful for Clash of Clans developer Supercell. This means it's free to download and play, however extra features and items to enhance the gaming experience can to be purchased in-game.
While nine out of ten players choose to only play the free version, those that do pay earn the company a fortune. Last week, the company announced that it had made €871m in pre-tax income, making it Finland's biggest money-maker - earning nearly 10-times that of the once mighty Nokia.
Too early for smartwatch success?
Such success could be the reason that Runeblade's forebearers are yet to transition into smartwatch gaming. "I think it's way too early to say [whether smartwatches will be the next major gaming platform]," Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen told IBTimes UK this week at a press event ahead of the startup conference Slush.
"I'm sure it has potential, it's just not for us. Right now we have our hands full with existing games on the existing platforms, so we don't have any plans. I'm sure it will be a great, great platform for somebody else."
Some of those involved in Supercell have actually helped fund Everyday Games, while members of Rovio who have previously worked on Angry Birds are on the team. It will be at least another two years before if it's known if the venture pays off. Only with a smartwatch adoption on the scale of smartphones and tablets will Everywear Games and other startups like it ever hold the potential to be significant earners.
"This year marks the beginning of smartwatch gaming, but we're approaching the market with a long term view," Järvilehto said. "Right now we are in pole position, but for us the important thing is to be the leader in this market when we have a hundred million devices out there. Devices which are part of the largest content ecosystem we have on the planet."
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It’s bananas! Families waste £60 a month by throwing away edible food, including one in five potatoes and a third of fresh salads
Natalie Wain November 11, 2013 5:52 pm
Bread, chicken, salad and milk some of the most common foods that end up in the bin, costing wasteful Brits on average £700 a year, according to a new report
At last, us fickle Brits have been exposed as a nation of… well… tossers. Food tossers, that is.
No sooner have we finished watching good old Jamie Oliver espouse the merits of living frugally by creatively cooking up every last morsel in the larder (although we can’t all have a freezer the size of a small country, Jamie, can we?), then we’re chucking out a perfectly good banana because it’s gone a little brown around the edges. Oh the shame!
And the cost of this wasteful habit? Well, it’s estimated that the average family chucks away the equivalent of £60-worth of edible food a month. That’s around £700 per family per year.
Accumulatively this means that families discard around £12.5 billion-worth of food over the course of a year.
According to the report by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap) this wastage includes a fifth of all bread, one in five potatoes and nearly a third of fresh salads.
Also high on the list is chicken, with the equivalent of around 86 million whole chickens being discarded every year, and bananas.
The UK’s throwaway culture and baffling sell-by dates are thought to be at the heart of the problem although, in recent years, there has actually been a decrease in avoidable food waste by a fifth, although research by watchdog Which? suggests this trend may be linked to increased food prices.
Wrap Chief Executive Dr Liz Goodwin supports this view: ‘Consumers are seriously worried about the cost of food and how it has inreased over the years.
‘Yet our research shows we are still wasting millions of tons and billions of pounds.
‘The UK is leading the way in tackling food waste and the 21% cut is a terrific achievement by millions of people who have taken action, saved money and helped safeguard our natural resources.
‘However, there is so much more to go for and I believe we should be going for it. If we all make a major combined effort to act now, we can save up to £45 billion by 2025.’
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The Exorcist - Season 2 Episode 1
In: TV Shows
The Exorcist - Season 2, Episode 1: "Janus" TV Episode Review
Directed by Jason Ensler
Written by Jason Ensler, Jeremy Slater, William Peter Blatty and Heather Bellson
2017, Rated 15 (UK)
Episode premiered on 11th October
Alfonso Herrera as Father Tomas Ortega
Ben Daniels as Father Marcus Keane
Li Jun Li as Rose Cooper
Brianna Hildebrand as Verity
John Cho as Andrew Kim
I have a confession to make (no pun intended): Despite Season One of Fox's The Exorcist TV show being broadly well received by both critics and fans, I still haven't made myself familiar with this particular title. So when I had the chance to see an early preview of the new season, I was torn. Would I be lost among an unfamiliar storyline, or would Season 2 work as a standalone? Thankfully, it seems to be the latter as this opener starts off afresh and gives the viewer no need to see the prior episodes to jump into the story.
As it begins, it's straight into the action with badass priests Father Marcus and Father Tomas being chased in their pickup truck by the local sheriff. In the back of the truck is the sheriff's wife, Cindy. As far as he's concerned, these two wayward clergymen have kidnapped his spouse, but this being The Exorcist you can bet your life there's something more to it. And there is, Cindy is playing host to a demon and needs the services of the action priests to rid her of the curse. The problem is, she doesn't know it, her husband doesn't know it and the beardy redneck he's got along as muscle certainly doesn't know it, so the holy men are up against a physical foe as well as a spiritual one.
Meanwhile and elsewhere we're introduced to Andy, who runs a foster home for difficult kids. This looks like it will set up a bunch of teens to tap into the current zeitgeist for kids against evil that we've seen in Stranger Things and IT recently. The kids, of course, aren't without their odd behaviours as Rose, a visiting social worker, finds out the first night she spends in the house. When Caleb, the blind foster child, goes missing one night, they find him testing his mettle with a dare to stand on the rickety boards covering a well while counting to ten. It's a dare from a scary story he hears earlier in the day; if you can hold your nerve and count to ten, you'll hear the voice of The Island Witch, who lures kids down the well to their deaths.
Back with the kickass clergy and Father Marcus is taking a sound beating after rent-a-redneck spotted Father Tomas buying supplies in a local store and followed them to their abandoned-barn-cum-exorcism-facility. Against Marcus's advice, Tomas tries to fight the demon by allowing it inside his own head, but is unable to finish due to Marcus being overpowered. As her husband carries her from the barn, Cindy's demonic eyes open and give the priest a look of "We're not done yet, father".
A good first episode, if a little light on story, but it has to set up and pique the interest of people like me who have perhaps not seen the show previously. And it certainly does that. There's enough intrigue in the various storylines and characters to warrant continuing with the show and it also prompted me to find out that I can stream the first season on Amazon Prime right now as part of my subscription.
FOX's The Exorcist Season 2 airs weekly on SyFy UK at 9pm
FOX TV UK
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news | politics | indiana | national
Hollingsworth visits IU, discusses national emergency, health care policy
By Christine Stephenson
Published Feb 18, 2019 7:05 pm
U.S. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, R-9th District, speaks Feb. 18 in Alumni Hall during the Federal Focus Luncheon. The luncheon was an opportunity for community members to engage with Hollingsworth and ask questions about policies and concerning issues. Alex Deryn Buy Photos
Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, R-9th District, visited IU on Monday to discuss issues such as the national emergency and access to health care.
Hollingsworth answered questions from audience members, many of whom were local business leaders, at the Indiana Memorial Union as part of the Federal Focus luncheon, organized by the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce. About 100 people attended, some dressed in suits and ties.
Wearing jeans and a checkered polo, Hollingsworth showed up about half an hour after the event started. He continually emphasized how important it is for government officials, including President Trump, to represent their communities instead of pursuing their own agendas.
The Chamber sponsors a federal focus meeting every year to allow local leaders to interact with their community and hear its concerns. In previous years, the Chamber has invited those such as Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind. and former Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly.
“It’s an opportunity for individuals to hear directly from their representatives and hear an update from someone who is actually there in the legislature,” said Anne Bono, vice president of the Chamber. “Whether you voted for him or not, he’s representing you.”
U.S. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, R-9th District, speaks Feb. 18 in Alumni Hall. Hollingsworth gave a speech before answering questions during the Federal Focus Luncheon. Alex Deryn Buy Photos
Hollingsworth first talked about the national emergency.
He said the government should not continue to delegate more and more power to the executive branch. He said Trump's issuing of the national emergency to pursue his goal of building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border was an attempted simple solution to a complicated issue.
“It’s really easy to hope for quick solutions,” he said. “But democracies weren’t built for easy, quick solutions. It’s messy, it’s difficult, it’s frustrating.”
However, Hollingsworth still supports the motivation behind the national emergency. He said the government owes it to its citizens to stop illegal immigration and to reform immigration policies.
“I am a big believer that we have a crisis at the border,” he said.
Those trying to enter the country who are experiencing violence and sexual assault need to be protected and offered better chances at legal immigration, he said. At the same time, U.S. citizens are suffering from illegal immigration, he claimed, for reasons like illegal substances being brought across the border.
Moving forward, Hollingsworth said citizens should have more say in how the Department of Defense budget is used, whether they support the wall or not.
“I don’t think it should be decided just by the president,” he said.
Hollingsworth said he believes health care is the most pressing problem for Americans. Many are paying overpriced premiums and deductibles, he said, and many do not have access to care at all. He said he wants to provide access to health care for all Americans.
“Both parties demand their ordered solution and only their ordered solution,” he said. “We have to push back against that.”
Hollingsworth said Americans need to stay informed about these issues by seeking information from multiple news platforms and taking time to process the information instead of looking for simple answers.
“Immigration, health care, even economic policy, these are big, complicated issues,” he said. “If they were easy issues, if they were one solution, all we need is a silver bullet, we would’ve done that long ago.”
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48 Hours in Binghamton, NY
With a diverse food scene (including “Spiedies”, a city specialty), a history of technological innovation that shines through today in many of its attractions, and charming carousels that make you feel all of the nostalgia, Binghamton is a happening place that fosters creativity and exploration. “Bing” is also a convenient base to visit the winner of 2018’s I LOVE NY Bracket: Animal Adventure Park! Read on for a jam-packed family weekend getaway.
4 pm: Start the weekend off strong at Chuckster’s Family Fun Park, 20 minutes from downtown, where you can enjoy the late afternoon playing rounds at “The World’s Longest Mini Golf Hole.” Young ones can let out some energy after your travels at the batting cages, or on a zipline and mini-climbing wall. We strongly recommend you break the no-dessert-before-dinner rule just this once and sample gourmet gelato, ice cream, fro-yo, or sorbet made on-site at the Inside Scoop. Both the park and ice cream shop are open for the season starting April 20, 2019.
7 pm: Once you’ve had a chance to set down your bags and freshen up, head to local hotspot, Lost Dog Café and Lounge, for high-quality, affordable New American cuisine. Options include grass-fed burgers, pork tacos, and pasta dishes, but save room for dessert! Their pumpkin bread pudding, molten chocolate torte, and local coffee-infused crème brûlée are all heavenly. Thanks to its quirky decor and friendly waitstaff, the Lost Dog magically walks the line between high-end and casual. You may also come across a trivia night, karaoke night, or a jam session during your visit there.
10 am: Home to viral-Internet-sensation, April the Giraffe, the wonderful Animal Adventure Park has so many compelling attractions that make it a must-visit stop about a 20-minute drive from downtown. You can feed giraffes, camels, tortoises, monkeys, lemurs, and parrots—or have your own Kristen Bell moment and splurge on the pricier “Sloth Encounter.” It includes hand-feeding, photo ops, and the cost of park admission. Don’t miss daily zookeeper talks where you can ask all your questions about the animals, and of course, say “hi” to April, Taj, and the new baby giraffe coming 2019! Tentative opening date for 2019 is May 1.
1 pm: At least once during your trip, try a uniquely Binghamtonian dish, courtesy of the Italian immigrants who arrived in the 1920’s: spiedies. Spiedies, pronounced “speedies," consist of mouthwatering cubes of marinated meat (often chicken, but also found with lamb, pork, beef, and venison) cooked on a skewer and stuffed into a soft Italian long roll. A local favorite is the Spiedie and Rib Pit (locations in Binghamton and nearby Vestal), where you can try an original spiedie, or a “specialty”, such as Buffalo-style, Greek-style, caprese, chipotle, and more.
2 pm: History hounds will love the Bundy Museum of History & Art, a charming little time capsule of Americana. In the late 1800s, the two Bundy brothers invented a time-recording clock for workers to keep track of their hours. Their company proved successful and later changed its name to International Business Machines (IBM)! Besides admiring the beauty of this old preserved mansion, visitors can enjoy the time clock collection, a barbershop exhibit, original TV and film props from The Twilight Zone (think: Black Mirror before Black Mirror) in the Rod Serling archive, and rotating art galleries.
4 pm: Even the shopping options in Binghamton are pretty special. Browse rare and vintage wares from around 30 antique dealers on Clinton Street near downtown Binghamton that make up what’s called “Antique Row.” Then head over to Windy Hill Candle Factory for their selection of original candles and vintage candies. Looking for candy from your childhood? Your parents’ childhood? Your grandparents’ childhood? They probably have it. Stock up.
9 pm: The Uncorked Wine And Chocolate Loft, which occupies three floors of an old cigar factory, is the perfect place to “wine down” at the end of the day. One floor is a 1920s-style speakeasy that you can find behind a hidden bookcase, another floor is a ceramics studio, and on another floor is the Wine Loft where adults can sip wine and all can devour chocolate platters. They also offer “wine and watercolor” classes so there are craft projects for all ages to accompany your after-dinner treats.
10 am: Chroma Cafe & Bakery will give you a reason to rise and shine in the morning. Start your day with good coffee, cheap, delicious breakfasts, signature paninis, freshly baked bread, and a delectable offering of pastries.
12 pm: Did you know Binghamton is the “Carousel Capital” of the world? Home to six carousels on the National Register of Historic Places, these antique treasures offer a unique ride into the past. You’ll find one of the most popular carousels in Recreation Park. It features an original Wurlitzer organ and famously inspired Rod Serling’s nostalgic The Twilight Zone episode, “Walking Distance.” The park also has a remarkable all-abilities playground, with an enormous jungle gym, wheelchair-accessible swings, merry-go-round, tree house, and more.
3 pm: The Roberson Museum and Science Center is basically a one-stop shop for science, history, and culture. Visitors can tour the historic Roberson mansion itself, examine creations of prolific inventor Edwin A. Link, and delight in the region’s largest model train display. There is also a 50-seat digital planetarium that offers showings that are out of this world.
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From New York City: 2 hours 45 minutes
From Albany: 2 hours 30 minutes
From Syracuse: 1 hour 15 minutes
From Buffalo: 3 hours 30 minutes
From Boston: 5 hours
Fly into the Greater Binghamton Airport via Delta, United Express, and US Airways.
Syracuse Hancock International Airport is about an hour and 15 minutes away.
Don't forget to post photos of your New York adventures on Instagram and Twitter with #iSpyNY and tag us on Facebook!
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