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Dunning captures Mid-Am title at Black Bear Ridge
Bruce Bell
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Published on: July 11, 2019 | Last Updated: July 11, 2019 9:10 AM EDT
Sarah Dunning watches a shot along with caddy Chris Kerr at the 104th annual Ontario Women’s Amateur and Mid-amateur Championships at Black Bear Ridge Golf Course on Wednesday. Dunning captured the Mid-Am title by four strokes and will be in the field today for the fourth and final round of the Amateur Championships Golf Ontario jpg, BI
Sarah Dunning was hoisting hardware after Day 3 of the 104th annual Ontario Women’s Amateur and Mid-amateur Championships at Black Bear Ridge Golf Course on Wednesday.
Dunning, playing out Westmount Golf and Country Club where Belleville native Rob Strachan serves as head professional, came from behind to capture the Mid-Amateur Championship by four strokes over Mary Ann Hayward (St. Thomas Golf & Country Club).
Dunning shot a four-over-par 76) to better Hayward who struggled Wednesday with a +9 (81). Julia Hodgson (Donalda Club), the 2018 Mid-Amateur Champion captured third place after firing a +8 (80) on the day.
A very excited Dunning spoke of her game after the round. “Today was a bit of a struggle and I was nervous playing against Mary Ann” she said. “However the turning point of the day came on 12 where I hit the fairway and green where she didn’t and that provided some momentum.” She also mentioned what a thrill it was to win this particular trophy. “Well Mary Ann’s name is on there a few times and some other big ones and I can’t wait to look at them.”
Almost all the amateur leaders struggled as well but second-round leader Brigitte Thibault, a member of Team Canada’s National Amateur Squad, hung on to lead the way again with a +4 (76) despite not being happy with her round.
“I lot of the round didn’t go as planned but I stayed patient because I knew it was an off day.” said Thibault afterwards. “I’m very happy the day is over but I’m looking forward to analyzing my day and learn for tomorrow.”
Emily Zhu (National Pines Golf Club), shot a solid even par (72) to jump into second place, 4 strokes back of Thibault. Hailey McLaughlin (Granite GC), the leader after round one, came in with a +5 (77) to now sit in third place.
Final round action of the Women’s Amateur got underway this morning at 7:30 a.m. with split tee starts. Spectators are always welcome at the beautiful host course.
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The Legends of Tomorrow Will Turn Dumb Because of George Lucas
By James Grebey
Filed Under Entertainment, DC Universe, Humans +, Star Wars & TV Shows
It was weird when the mid season finale of Legends of Tomorrow revealed that Rip Hunter was somehow alive and filming a movie about his own life in 1967. When the show comes back next year, though, it’s going to get even weirder — and George Lucas will be involved.
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim let slip to Entertainment Weekly that a young version of the legendary filmmaker behind Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark will play a crucial role in the mid season premiere. Due to a time aberration (probably having something to do with Rip), young Lucas is going to quit film school. As a result, he’ll never make A New Hope or Raiders in this new reality.
And that’s going to make Ray and Nate get dumber.
“Ray, who became an engineer because of Star Wars, and Nate, who became a historian because of Raiders, slowly start to lose their brilliance, because those things that inspired them to become who they are didn’t exist,” Guggenheim told EW, later describing it as a “Flowers for Algernon with Ray and Nate.”
George Lucas with some friends.
Hopefully, the Force will be with the Legends as they try to set Lucas (played by actor Matt Angel) back on the right path when the series returns on January 24.
Media via Getty Images / David Livingston
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Foreign filing permits
1953 Patents Act practice guidelines
Where a New Zealand resident wishes to file an application for a patent abroad without first filing a corresponding patent application in New Zealand, then the resident must obtain a foreign filing permit from the Commissioner under section 25(5) before making the foreign patent application.
To request a foreign filing permit under section 25(5) of the Patents Act, please forward the request by email to IPONZ. The request should name the applicants for the patent in the foreign country, and the countries or organisations in which the application is to be made, and include a description of the invention, preferably as an attached copy of the specification to be filed abroad or a detailed synopsis of the subject matter.
In response to the request, IPONZ will issue a permit (if appropriate) by reply e-mail. This will be the only form of permit issued and serves as the written permit as required under section 25(5).
IPONZ cannot assure the timely issue of permits on requests sent to any other email address at IPONZ, or to a specific department at IPONZ .
Please note that a New Zealand resident does not need a foreign filing permit where:
the resident has made an application for a patent in New Zealand for the same invention at least six weeks before intending to file a corresponding foreign patent application; or
the resident is making a foreign application which is claiming convention priority from an application for the same invention filed abroad by a non-resident.
Please note that since no class of designs for which a permit must be issued has been prescribed, it is not necessary to request or be granted foreign filing permits under Section 9(4) of the Designs Act 1953.
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Major projects, planning briefs and masterplans
Finsbury Leisure Centre Project – St Luke’s Area
Islington Council plans to redevelop the Finsbury Leisure Centre to provide much needed council homes, a new leisure centre, healthcare, childcare and energy facilities into one new exemplary civic development. There will be a range of opportunities for the community to shape the design of the new development.
The council ran a design competition to find the best architect to help the council develop the site. Pollard Thomas Edwards was the winner of the competition (a copy of their initial design idea can be seen in the link below in the useful documents.)
The council intends to work with Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects to prepare a final design and planning application. The council and Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects will provide opportunities for the local community to shape and influence the design before a planning application is submitted.
Prior to the launch of the design competition, the council adopted a planning brief for the site that sets out the council's requirements for the site. A copy of the brief and accompanying consultation report can be found below.
If you would like to find out more, please contact Katarzyna Bendowska by email at katarzyna.bendowska@Islington.gov.uk or by phone on 020 7527 2267, or Eshwyn Prabhu at Eshwyn.Prabhu@Islington.gov.uk or by phone on 020 7527 2450.
St Lukes Area Planning Brief
(pdf 2 MB) Last updated Oct 29, 2014, 02:59PM
St Lukes Area Public Consultation Report
St Lukes Area FAQ Document
(docx 78 KB) Last updated Jun 17, 2016, 05:40PM
Pollard Thomas Edwards Designs
(pdf 27 MB) Last updated Sep 12, 2016, 05:33PM
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(Video) Martin Shkreli: What A Douche Bag
01.28.16 | No Comments | JaneenIFWT
Martin Shkreli give zero f**ks and ain’t worried ’bout nothing, or nobody. The pharmaceutical executive, hated by probably 99% of the world’s population, makes an appearance on TMZ Live to reveal that criminal charges of securities fraud has no baring on his conscience.
“I’m innocent,” he says.
In addition to things that doesn’t bother nor scare him, Shkreli says that he’s from Brooklyn. Therefore, Ghostface Killah sending threats does not effect him. “Just because he was in Wu-Tang 20 years ago” doesn’t mean anything; he’s old, I’m young was pretty much the argument.
Earlier today, the 32-year-old released a video warning the Wu-Tang alum.
Hit the jump for more.
JaaiR (JR): Twitter | Instagram | Periscope
More in the gallery at the top.
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'Grand Theft Auto' has never looked this good
Apr. 30, 2017, 10:30 AM
Even though blockbuster game "Grand Theft Auto V" is nearly four years old, some players are making it look better than ever.
Just look at this madness:
Rockstar Games / Imgur
How's this possible? Simple! Take the PC version of the game and apply a single, ridiculously impressive modification. Check it:
Once the modification is applied, the entire game looks dramatically prettier. Everything from the jet below...
To this sun-drenched vista:
To this overhead shot of Los Santos at night. The city is alive with activity!
That's because the modification, called "NaturalVision," changes the lighting systems, the effects systems, and much more.
It gives everything a far more realistic look, thus the name.
It's a ridiculously major overhaul, and one that's especially impactful.
Even simple stuff like wet roads after rain storms are represented more accurately:
But we're especially partial to this mix of a gorgeous sunset with a shockingly realistic-looking lake. A nice place to relax between car-jackings.
If you've got a high-powered PC, and an interest in bringing this incredible-looking mod home, you can get everything you need right here.
Check out the full extent of the changes to "Grand Theft Auto V" in this video below:
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Home » Industry » Turnkey AI From Development Kit to Deployment
Turnkey AI From Development Kit to Deployment
June 26, 2019 John Koon
In 2017, work-related injuries cost insurance companies an estimated $161 billion. And of course the impact on workers’ health and safety goes beyond the numbers. That’s why many worksites require protective gear such as helmets, vests, gloves, and masks. But enforcing these policies can be a challenge. It’s not always practical to keep staff on hand to monitor workers. Some worksites are too remote, have too many different work areas, or have unpredictable work hours.
So how can better worker safety be achieved?
AI Vision Is the Smart Answer
With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision technologies, a better solution has emerged.
As illustrated in Video 1, safety enforcement can be automated via computer vision. Workers must wear required protective gear before gaining entrance to restricted areas. The system also uses facial recognition to ensure that only qualified personnel access the site.
Video 1. Computer vision can enforce protective gear policies.
But developers and solution integrators face challenges when deploying such a system. Significant resources and tools are needed to develop AI on edge platforms. And implementing machine learning can be complicated and time-consuming.
AI systems can require thousands of images to learn the appropriate objects or actions needed for real-time analysis and response. (To learn more about computer vision and AI development, read The Journey from Prototype to Production for AI at the Edge.)
Streamline Computer Vision and AI Deployments
UP ! Bridge the Gap, a division of AAEON Technology, has created an AI Vision Development Kit to help developers and solution integrators quickly implement and deploy computer vision solutions.The kit is a proven, ready-to-go solution that includes everything needed to start an AI project.
Plus, it provides a pre-trained solution designed specifically for industrial safety applications with the idea of providing a demo system right out of the box.
“The UP AI Safety Development Kit is a turnkey solution so developers can provide customers a proof of concept right away,” said Aling Wu, AAEON IoT Alliance Director. “And for those who would like to do further AI development, we provide the tools needed to make their job easier.”
Figure 1. UP AI Safety uses Intel® and third-party tools and technologies for faster time to market.
Out-of-the-Box AI
As shown in Figure 2, the kit consists of Intel®-based hardware in a compact aluminum chassis unit, along with a USB HD camera. The included AI software is pre-trained to recognize helmets, vests, gloves, and masks in a variety of shapes, colors, and forms.
Figure 2. The UP AI Safety Kit is designed for quick experimentation.
The hardware comprises two boards. The base platform is built around an Intel Atom® processor. An add-in card, the UP AI Core X, provides plug-in acceleration of inference workloads using an Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ processor. Together these modules give developers options for deploying AI with different hardware configurations as the application demands.
Optimized for a variety of industrial applications, the solution includes the system and software tools needed to get to work quickly:
Pre-installed Ubuntu OS
Intel® Media SDK
Intel® OpenVINO™ Toolkit
Intel System Studio
Cloud-based Arduino Create IDE
“A developer or solution integrator can get all the tools from Intel and other ecosystem partners. But to develop a computer vision solution with AI and deep learning takes time, effort, and expertise,” said Aling Wu. “For those who don’t know too much about AI, this solution is perfect for them to get started.”
It Takes a Community
UP is the brand for professional “makers” and “innovators”. The UP Garage Team is a group of independent hardware and software engineers building solutions to bridge the gap between a makers’ market and the standard industrial and embedded market.
With shared ideas and experiences, they are creating something unique: merging in one board the benefits of Intel technology with the benefits of “makers” form factors.
There’s more to learn about the UP Squared AI Vision X Developer Kit at the Intel Developer Zone.
John Koon’s current roles include embedded technology research and publication. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the RTC Magazine and COTS Journal. Additionally, he has published numerous technical articles, blogs, and ebooks. His areas of research include aviation, AI, autonomous driving, robotics, automation, medical innovations, wireless technology (including 5G and low-power WAN, fog computing (beyond cloud), IoT, NB-IoT, and LoRaWAN), cybersecurity, blockchain, M2M, software, aerospace, manufacturing, and COTS advancements. He holds a BS in engineering (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) and an MBA (San Diego State University), and had 20 years of management experience.
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Cherry Blossom Report: Yoshino
Schauwecker's Japan Travel Blog
by Stefan Schauwecker, webmaster of japan-guide.com
This blog is intended to record some of my travel activities in Japan.
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2012/04/16 - Cherry Blossom Report: Yoshino
With 30,000 trees and a history stretching back more than a thousand years, Mount Yoshino or Yoshinoyama is Japan's most celebrated cherry blossom spot. The mountain is divided into four sections from bottom to top: Shimosenbon ("Lower 1000 Trees"), Nakasenbon ("Middle 1000 Trees"), Kamisenbon ("Upper 1000 Trees") and Okusenbon ("Innermost 1000 Trees").
The trees started to open their blossoms in the lower area on April 9 this year - a late start compared to the average year. Today, the lower and middle areas were already at full bloom, and the upper area is expected to follow within two days. If the weather cooperates, the entire week should provide spectacular cherry blossom viewing conditions at Yoshinoyama.
The trees in the innermost area in the back of the mountain bloom considerably later and are not expected to reach full bloom until April 25. Moreover, the innermost area does not offer the same spectacular views that the lower three sections are famous for.
Shimosenbon (Lower 1000 Trees)
April 16, 2012 - full bloom
The trees in the lower section have reached full bloom. Their blossoms still looked sturdy and should remain attractive for several days to come. If the weather cooperates, quite a few petals could hang on even into the next weekend.
Ropeway lifting visitors from Yoshino Station higher into the Shimosenbon area
Shimosenbon shortly before the arrival of the crowds
Shimosenbon at full bloom
Pagoda on the grounds of Kinpusenji Temple
Unlike most other hanami spots in Japan - and somewhat ironically - Yoshinoyama is not dominated by the Somei Yoshino variety of cherry trees. Instead, the most numerous tree is the Yamazakura, one of Japan's native trees that actually grows in nature as opposed to human made cultivars like the Somei Yoshino.
Yamazakura blossoms are smaller and less numerous than Somei Yoshino blossoms. Furthermore, Yamazakura trees develop their coppery leaves almost simultaneously with their blossoms, giving them a less intensive look. In groups with other cherry tree varieties, they create the wonderful clouds of slightly differing hues of pink that Yoshinoyama is loved for.
Yamazakura blossoms
Somei Yoshino blossoms
Nakasenbon (Middle 1000 Trees)
The trees in the middle section have also reached full bloom today. One of the best and most famous views of the mountain can be enjoyed from the grounds of Yoshimizu Shrine.
Clouds of slightly differing hues of pink seen from Yoshimizu Shrine
I also checked out the onsen bath of the Yumoto Honoya, one of several hotels along the slopes of Yoshinoyama. From the small, gender segregated outdoor baths it is possible to look over the sea of cherry blossoms while bathing (11:30 to 15:00 in April, 1500 yen/person for non-staying guests). What an enjoyable way to do hanami!
To my surprise, I had the bath all to myself (shortly before noon)
Conventional hanami activities in a park in the Nakasenbon area
Nyoirinji Temple on the opposite side of the valley
Kamisenbon (Upper 1000 Trees)
April 16, 2012 - approaching full bloom (50-80%)
After passing the middle area, the road up the mountain suddenly becomes steeper. This is where the upper area starts. It was difficult to generalize the state of the trees in the upper area because of the wide range of altitude (about 200 meters) and the various tree varieties present. While some trees were already at full bloom, others still had their buds closed. Overall, the trees were opening up quickly and most should reach full bloom within just a couple of days.
One of the less developed trees in the Kamisenbon area
Chikurin-in Temple at the entrance to the upper area has a garden with early blooming weeping cherry trees that stood at full bloom. If you make it up all the way the upper area, do not miss the Hanayagura View Point with splendid views down the entire mountain.
Weeping cherry trees in Chikurin-in Temple's garden
Chikurin-in Temple
The famous view from the Hanayagura View Point
Due to its tremendous popularity, Yoshinoyama gets very crowded even on regular weekdays. Most of the lower and middle areas of the mountain are closed to car traffic between 9:00 and 19:00, but in the upper area pedestrians have to look out for cars (except on weekends).
For those unwilling or unable to climb the entire mountain, there are shuttle buses that operate between Yoshino Station and the middle area and between Chikurin-in Temple and the innermost area until May 6. For a comfortable ride to/from Yoshino, I recommend to make seat reservations for a Kintetsu limited express train in advance.
Despite its early 7am departure on a regular Monday, this limited express train was fully booked out
Line up in front of the ropeway
List of Posts:
2018/12/31 - Travel Highlights 2018
2018/10/15 - Toyosu Market Opens to the Public
2018/09/05 - New Skyscraper opens in Shibuya
2016/11/10 - Crossing Kyushu half a year after the Kumamoto Earthquake
2016/04/09 - Busta Shinjuku - a new bus terminal opened on top of Shinjuku Station
2015/09/17 - Autumn Color Report: Daisetsuzan
2015/04/10 - Cherry Blossom Report: Takada
2015/04/01 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kumagaya
2015/02/07 - Trial Run to Kanazawa
2014/11/14 - Autumn Color Report: Himeji
2014/11/07 - Autumn Color Report: Kyoto
2014/11/06 - Autumn Color Report: Yamadera
2014/10/24 - Autumn Color Report: Mount Fuji
2014/10/15 - Autumn Color Report: Kurikoma
2014/09/19 - Autumn Color Report: Tokachidake
2014/09/18 - Autumn Color Report: Kurodake
2014/09/17 - Autumn Color Report: Asahidake
2014/04/03 - Cherry Blossom Report: Uji
2013/11/12 - Autumn Color Report: Tokyo
2013/10/08 - Autumn Color Report: Nikko
2013/07/13 - Countdown to the Gion Matsuri
2013/07/10 - Nagoya Castle gets back its palace
2013/07/09 - Ise Shrine Rebuilding
2013/04/25 - New bath house opens in Kusatsu Onsen
2013/04/04 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kyoto
2013/04/03 - Cherry Blossom Report: Takamatsu
2013/04/02 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hiroshima
2013/04/01 - Cherry Blossom Report: Tokyo
2013/03/27 - Cherry Blossom Report: Fukuoka
2013/03/26 - Cherry Blossom Report: Okayama
2013/02/28 - Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival
2013/01/27 - Winter Visit to Shirakawago
2012/11/14 - Autumn Color Report: Hakone
2012/11/08 - Autumn Color Report: Koyasan
2012/10/18 - Autumn Color Report: Noboribetsu
2012/10/18 - Autumn Color Report: Sounkyo
2012/10/17 - Autumn Color Report: Shiretoko
2012/10/09 - Tokyo Station Renovation
2012/10/04 - Autumn Color Report: Alpine Route
2012/10/03 - Grapes and Wines at Katsunuma
2012/09/12 - Another Trip to Iwaki
2012/05/11 - Sneak Peek from Tokyo Skytree
2012/05/09 - Rainy visit to the Ise Shrines
2012/04/28 - Cherry Blossom Report: Aizu
2012/04/28 - Cherry Blossom Report: Takizakura
2012/04/15 - Cherry Blossom Report: Tottori
2012/04/14 - Cherry Blossom Report: Osaka
2012/04/14 - Cherry Blossom Report: Himeji
2012/04/06 - Cherry Blossom Report: Nagoya
2012/03/15 - Tokyo Plum Blossom Report
2012/02/28 - Kumano half a year after Typhoon #12
2011/12/01 - Autumn Color Report: Nara
2011/11/23 - Autumn Color Report: Kanazawa
2011/11/21 - Autumn Color Report: Miyajima
2011/11/09 - Autumn Color Report: Sakurayama
2011/11/08 - Autumn Color Report: Fujigoko
2011/11/02 - Autumn Color Report: Mitakesan
2011/10/27 - Autumn Color Report: Towadako
2011/10/26 - Autumn Color Report: Hakkodasan
2011/10/21 - Autumn Color Report: Fukushima
2011/10/20 - Autumn Color Report: Zao
2011/10/19 - Autumn Color Report: Naruko
2011/10/13 - Tokyo Fall Colors?
2011/10/12 - Autumn Color Report: Oze
2011/10/04 - Visit to the Sunshine Aquarium
2011/09/27 - Two mountains in central Japan
2011/09/15 - Furano in September
2011/09/14 - Autumn Color Report: Ginsendai
2011/09/13 - Autumn Color Report: Mount Asahidake
2011/09/12 - Failed Visit to the Sunshine Aquarium
2011/07/15 - Hakata Gion Yamakasa Report Trip
2011/06/29 - Eastern Hokkaido Report Trip
2011/06/01 - Ogasawara Report Trip
2011/05/18 - Kagoshima Report Trip
2011/04/29 - After the Earthquake: A trip to Hiraizumi
2011/04/21 - After the Earthquake: A trip to Matsushima
2011/04/21 - Cherry Blossom Report: Sendai
2011/04/20 - Cherry Blossom Report: Fujigoko
2011/04/17 - After the Earthquake: A trip to Nikko
2011/04/10 - Cherry Blossom Report: Matsuyama
2011/02/11 - Shiretoko Fantasia 2011
2011/02/07 - Sapporo Snow Festival 2011
2010/12/06 - Autumn Color Report: Kamakura
2010/11/17 - Autumn Color Report: Ise
2010/10/15 - Autumn Color Report: Hachimantai
2010/10/14 - Autumn Color Report: Akita
2010/09/15 - Autumn Color Report: Mount Kurodake
2010/05/14 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hakodate
2010/05/13 - Cherry Blossom Report: Matsumae
2010/05/06 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kakunodate
2010/05/05 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hirosaki
2010/04/07 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kamakura
2010/04/06 - Cherry Blossom Report: Inuyama
2010/04/05 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hikone
2010/04/03 - Cherry Blossom Report: Miyajima
2010/03/26 - Cherry Blossom Report: Nara
2010/02/22 - Guu Restaurant, Vancouver
2010/02/19 - Zakkushi, Vancouver
2010/02/14 - Hapa Izakaya, Vancouver
2010/02/09 - Yuji's Japanese Tapas, Vancouver
2010/02/08 - Miku Restaurant, Vancouver
2010/02/07 - Shuraku Restaurant, Vancouver
2009/11/24 - Research in Nara Prefecture
2009/11/09 - Autumn Color Report: Fuji Five Lakes
2009/10/16 - Autumn Color Report: Onuma Park
2009/10/15 - Autumn Color Report: Noboribetsu Onsen
2009/10/14 - Autumn Color Report: Shikotsu-Toya National Park
2009/09/30 - Autumn Color Report: Kusatsu Onsen
2009/09/16 - Autumn Color Report: Tokachidake Onsen
2009/07/14 - Furano Lavender in full bloom
2009/04/16 - Cherry Blossom Report: Fuji Five Lakes
2009/04/03 - Cherry Blossom Report: Yokohama
2009/02/27 - Rainy Izu Peninsula
2009/02/26 - Cherry Blossoms in Kawazu
2008/11/20 - Miyajima
2008/11/18 - Mino Park
2008/11/12 - Fuji Five Lakes
2008/10/28 - Shirakami Sanchi (2)
2008/10/27 - Shirakami Sanchi
2008/10/16 - Nikko
2008/10/10 - Akagiyama
2008/10/08 - Shiretoko Peninsula
2008/09/26 - Sounkyo Onsen
2008/09/25 - Daisetsu Kogen Onsen
2008/09/24 - Mount Asahidake
2007/12/08 - Arashiyama Hanatoro
2007/04/12 - Kanazawa's wealth of attractions
2007/04/04 - Sanyo Coast in Full Bloom
2007/02/28 - Niseko and the Australian invasion
2007/02/27 - Cassiopeia Night Train
2007/01/31 - Cherry Blossoms in Okinawa
2007/01/26 - Skiing in Naeba
2006/12/03 - Chichibu Festival
2006/12/02 - Tanigawa Onsen (Minakami)
2006/11/26 - Kyoto Autumn Color Report (11): Hotel Report
2006/11/25 - Kyoto Autumn Color Report (10)
2006/11/24 - Kyoto Autumn Color Report (9)
2006/11/18 - Kyoto Autumn Color Report (3): Takao
2006/11/17 - Kyoto Autumn Color Report (2): Hieizan
2006/11/08 - Shima Onsen
2006/10/25 - Autumn colors at Mount Tanigawa
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So much hateful rhetoric exists in our country today. Racism, bigotry and antisemitism sully our national honor. Yet the residents of Kansas City continue to demonstrate that decency and good will win out over hatred and evil.
I have lived in Kansas City for over seven years. I have always felt that we are a great city. But the response of this community to the attack on the American Jews has brought me to tears.
Living here is a blessing. Let us celebrate that, at our core, we are a community of love, respect, tolerance and freedom. Let us never doubt the triumph of light over darkness.
Alan David Londy
Pressing needs
I was disappointed with the announcement of a $35 million investment in a new “full service” YMCA downtown. (Nov. 17, 1A, “YMCA gets full-service downtown operation in Lyric move”)
I have been a member of the Paul Henson Family YMCA in Prairie Village for 30 years, and I have watched that facility steadily go downhill with no updates. The parking lot is treacherous, with large pieces of asphalt missing, and the locker rooms have wet and moldy carpet. Until recently, the roof leaked onto members swimming in the pool.
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An inquiry about the different blu-ray versions
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Post by Chillin'LikeAKrillin » Fri Mar 01, 2019 5:58 pm
Hi there folks, I'm new here. I actually made my account just so I could ask this of you all.
I understand that Kai started off being produced with new music from now-exposed-plagiarist Kenji Yamamoto, then was redone with a less-than-stellar reworking of the original Shunsuke Kikuchi score. With this in mind, I have two questions:
1) How many blu-ray seasons of Kai were originally released with the Yamamoto score and later redone? Was it the first two sets? The first three? The first four?
2) How can you tell which copies of said blu-ray seasons contain the original Yamamoto score and which ones contain the Kikuchi score? How can I be sure I’m buying copies with the original Yamamoto score? Is there a different barcode number or SKU? Different packaging? Anything at all to let me know before I buy a copy if it's the Yamamoto version or the Kikuchi version?
The reason I ask is because I want to buy all of Kai on blu-ray, but I’m not interested in the releases with the Yamamoto score removed and the Kikuchi score re-implemented. I want to experience Kai as it was originally created, with the Yamamoto score intact as much as possible.
Can anyone help me out? I’d greatly appreciate it.
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Re: An inquiry about the different blu-ray versions
Post by Robo4900 » Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:36 pm
If you live in the UK, season 1 and the first two discs of season 2 will contain Yamamoto.
If you live anywhere else in the English-speaking world, all of the "Season" DVDs/BDs will contain Kikuchi, meanwhile the "Part" DVDs/BDs will contain some Yamamoto; Parts 1-4 will contain Yamamoto, though some printings of Part 4 in fact did not.
Just for convenience of figuring out which parts of the series I'm talking about, each part set is equivalent in terms of which episodes it contains to half a season set. So, season 1 is all the episodes from parts 1 and 2, season 2 is all the episodes from parts 3 and 4, etc.
Problem is, there are 4 seasons/8 parts in all, so at best you're going to get half the series, then suddenly switch over (first Kikuchi episode is episode 53, which is right in the middle of the climax of the Goku vs Freeza fight). And the part sets that contain Yamamoto's score go for very high prices these days, due to the demand for the Yamamoto score, so you'd be paying quite a lot of money for a little less than half the series in this form, at most.
So... If you must go for Yamamoto, buy parts 1-4, and make sure the part 4 you're getting is indeed the Yamamoto version. Maybe import seasons 1 and 2 from the UK if that works out cheaper, but your Blu-Ray player might complain about the region code, and you'll still need to get ahold of a Yamamoto copy of part 4. And because the UK is still printing season 1 and the first half of season 2 with the Yamamoto score on it, part 4 with Yamamoto is the rarest, most overpriced of the parts you'll have to seek out.
I must stress that I do recommend against this, as the soundtrack switch at episode 53 will be somewhat jarring, the money you'll be paying will be ridiculous, and much as the Kikuchi score is lambasted, it's really not that bad, it's more a case of "They turned a masterpiece into some decently catchy background noise" than it actually being outright bad. And given the alternative... Well...
As I say, think this through carefully before making your decision; and remember that it is utterly impossible to get more than the first 52 episodes (out of 98) with Yamamoto on home video (if you import from Japan, you can probably get about 15-30 more episodes, but then you have no subs or dub, and IIRC the Japanese releases with Yamamoto are also out of print anyway). Make sure you're completely confident in your choice, whichever way you decide to go; you don't want to be regretting spending ridiculous money on half a score you don't end up caring that much about, but similarly you don't want to be regretting missing out on this in a few years when prices are even more ridicuous.
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Post by Chillin'LikeAKrillin » Sat Mar 02, 2019 2:18 am
Thank you so much for that detailed reply. However, I'm surprised to see you say that the Yamamoto score stops during the Frieza fight, because this video here...
https://youtu.be/80EfQwNWr7Q?t=1269
...says that Yamamoto was doing the score all the way up through episode 95, just before the end of the Cell saga. Were all of those Yamamoto-scored episodes after Frieza not given a US blu-ray release, or do we have conflicting information here?
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Post by Danfun64 » Sat Mar 02, 2019 2:35 am
This chart should clear things up, though it doesn't cover the Nicktoons broadcasts, which IIRC had Yamamoto up to Ep 63.
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Post by JohnnyCashKami » Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:38 am
Robo4900 wrote: If you live in the UK, season 1 and the first two discs of season 2 will contain Yamamoto.
Until episode 39.
Nowadays it's impossible to get the Yamamoto score higher than episode 76 on the Japanese Blu-rays, so, what we're left with is using 'backup' sources. I honestly love watching Kai in Japanese with the Yamamoto score but oh God, I can't stand the Kikuchi score. Maybe for dubs but that's about it.
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Post by SuperSaiyaManZ94 » Sun Mar 10, 2019 9:15 am
If i recall correctly the edited Nicktoons broadcast lasted at least a few more episodes with Yamamoto's score than the DVD/BD releases did, and that most likely has to do with the fact that the airing was a ways ahead of the home release at that point. The music scandal came in between Part 4 and 5's release so FUNi had to alter all releases past that point as when the changeover happened on Toei's end, and it leads me to believe that they were planning to release it the same as with the previous volumes before everything hit the fan. I believe it ran with Yamamoto until about the 60 something episode mark before they went back and changed to the Kikuchi replacement score from then on, and with the later re releases in the Season style for both formats.
Simply put, the TV airing got further with the previous score because it had more time on the home releases.
Post by JohnnyCashKami » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:56 pm
Chillin'LikeAKrillin wrote: ↑
The Yamamoto score on Nicktoons lasted until episode 63, on home media (Blu-ray/DVD) till 52 and that's it. The Japanese Blu-ray lasted till episode 76.
Fans are forced to watch the show "by other means" as the Yamamoto score is available until episode 95 as it was captured by Japanese fans on Japanese TV.
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Post by Tylerman29 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:46 am
Did funi ever fix the audio mix issues for the blu rays? I'd totally rebuy them if I knew the new discs were fixed.
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Kai Episode 124 (05 October 2014)
Re: Kai Episode 124 (05 October 2014)
Post by TheKingOfKamehamehas » Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:07 am
I think the new ending is decent to be honest. It has a catchy tune but the YEAH!!! kind of pisses me off and the animation is good also. Love <3 for Trunks and Goten is strong in me so I am happy.
Zenkai Power is a lot worse considering how kiddy and annoying it was. That should have only been there on the first episode...
EDIT: Better quality ending of 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi29JNepxt8
Post by dbboxkaifan » Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:42 am
Even with better quality it's still an awful ending song and is that a penis in the background? Probably not but looks like it.
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Post by Drayenko » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:10 pm
I don't post much, but it's funny when people just want to criticize EVERYTHING.
This is the best drawn Ending out of the three, and it actually looks good. The song, I don't like it so much but hopefully will grow on me.
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Post by worldmonsters » Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:39 pm
While definitely not the best credits ever... I do have to agree that it beats Zenkai Power because it's not obnoxious O__o;; The... "animation" is VERY lazy, but "Dear Zarathustra" was half sliding non-animated frames and I liked that one a lot. The still shots in the new credits are very well drawn though. None of them are as ugly as some of the animation we've had, so that's a positive thing. The music is bland, but not annoying. Yeah almost none of these things are positive, but they're not overwhelmingly bad, just lazy and bland. It's just there. But I think I like this one better than the last one to be honest.
Episode was kind of bland and meh too. Some filler kept in, but most of it wasn't obnoxious. The Popo thing wasn't in the manga and it doesn't... REALLY add a lot, but I can't say it's as bad as Goten and Trunks in the changing room with the commentator coming in. Everything with Babidi was pretty straight forward though, could've lost some shots, but I guess they really wanted to end the episode at that point (which to be honest is a great point to end an episode, but it shouldn't be a reason to fill your episode with filler.
Honestly not as bad an episode as we've had, but only meagerly gets a passing mark.
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It's funny when people just want to criticize EVERYTHING.
Someone doesn't agree with my opinion therefore they are criticising and complaining about EVERYTHING.
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Post by Freeza Soldier #156 » Wed Oct 08, 2014 5:47 pm
Wow. I'm a little surprised at the universal hate the new ending seems to be getting. I quite enjoyed it, song and all.
Post by Super Saiyan Swagger » Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:38 pm
I actually like the ending. Not as good as Dear Zarathustra but still nice. The images look nice and the song fits Goten and Trunks. I'm guessing we're going to have this ending up until Gohan confronts Super Buu, or maybe even the first appearance of Vegito.
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Post by sailorspazz » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:55 pm
I'll wait till I listen a few more times before passing judgment on the song, but so far it seems less memorable than the first two (just listened to it a few minutes ago, and can't remember at all what it sounded like). The ending animation irks me because it's just redrawn versions of scenes we're going to see in the series. I like endings that show something new; isn't that the point of having new animation?
It's been a long time since I watched the Boo arc, but was that tree always placed so it covered the Budoukai official's head exploding? I think it was there before, but knowing some of the Kai censorship we got early on, I thought it was possible it was added in. But I may just feel that way because I'm currently reading the Boo arc of the manga, and the anime toned down many of the blood-and-guts explosions Toriyama was throwing around.
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Post by LordCrumb » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:43 am
sailorspazz wrote: I'll wait till I listen a few more times before passing judgment on the song, but so far it seems less memorable than the first two (just listened to it a few minutes ago, and can't remember at all what it sounded like). The ending animation irks me because it's just redrawn versions of scenes we're going to see in the series. I like endings that show something new; isn't that the point of having new animation?
We definitely see some type of exploding in Z.. I think maybe a shadow of it happening. Shame Kai censored this.. it was quite a brutal death for Z.
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Post by mcdonough88 » Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:41 am
LordCrumb wrote:
Z was also censored, for it was even more brutal in the manga.
Post by Black_Liger » Fri Oct 10, 2014 4:08 am
mcdonough88 wrote:
Anyone care to upload the panel in the manga? :O
Post by LordCrumb » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:20 pm
Here is the Z version for reference (Dbox);
Kai:
In Kai you don't even see what happened.
Post by Metalwario64 » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:41 pm
Ugh... That's terrible. Censorship was always one of the worst things about Kai, but I thought it got toned down after the Saiyan and Namek arcs. Now it's back in full force.
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Post by JackyBoi99 » Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:04 pm
I do not remember the scene of that guys head exploding, in what scene did that happen?
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Post by dbboxkaifan » Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:02 am
While you see his head getting bigger and bigger plus the popping noise it's lacking the detail in video of the head exploding this really is awful for Kai because it's not giving a faithful experience.
I wonder how they'll censor the puppy's death and that old man's too.
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Post by Flame Dragon » Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:29 am
Censorship...
Yeah, more faithful to the manga my ass.
Oh wait but we fixed Buu arms and Goku's halo for this one scene, so it totally is okay.
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Post by Valerius Dover » Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:01 am
I think Kai abandoned "closer to the manga" as soon as it began by skipping 38% of the manga. I kind of see it as it's own thing. A little bit of censorship doesn't bug me since Kai isn't meant to replace the original. Is it possible this only applies to the JP version? It's possible that The Final Chapters might leave it intact in uncut releases, since it wasn't produced with the idea of broadcasting to Japanese standards.
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This isn't a "little bit" of censorship, they completely covered it up so the viewers can't see what really happened to his head other than imagining it exploded by the sound of it.
I really hope The Final Chapters are less censored than the Japanese edition.
Anyone remember what Super Boo did to that old guy? Not really sure how Toei plans to hide that unless they delete that scene entirely from the broadcast.
Post by Freeza Soldier #156 » Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:04 am
dbboxkaifan wrote: Anyone remember what Super Boo did to that old guy? Not really sure how Toei plans to hide that unless they delete that scene entirely from the broadcast.
I don't think that one will be as much of an issue. That one wasn't too graphic (there was no blood or anything) relative to the exploding head. Hopefully this is just a broadcast edit.
Post by sailorspazz » Sat Oct 11, 2014 2:03 pm
Black_Liger wrote: Anyone care to upload the panel in the manga? :O
Here's the original, the way it was meant to be seen:
So seems like Z cut it down just a little with partial tree coverage, and Kai went all out with total tree coverage. And this wasn't even as graphic as some others Toriyama drew in this arc, which had eyes and guts and stuff flying around. Oh, Dragon Ball Kai, you keep finding new ways to make us shake our heads and go "...what are you even doing, bro?"
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Borsuk: Wisconsin voters send a clear message when it comes to support for schools
The overall message is pretty clear: People across Wisconsin want to have good schools and think more needs to be done to make or keep that so.
Borsuk: Wisconsin voters send a clear message when it comes to support for schools The overall message is pretty clear: People across Wisconsin want to have good schools and think more needs to be done to make or keep that so. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2018/11/09/wisconsin-elections-voters-send-clear-message-support-schools/1943528002/
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Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes 70-plus times more.
These yeses aren’t rooted in the election of a new governor. They come from the outcome of local voting across Wisconsin on referendum questions on whether school districts should spend more money — and tax their communities more — than state-determined spending limits.
Each referendum had its own specifics. But the wave of approvals, totaling well over $1 billion, signaled widespread willingness to give more support to schools.
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There are other signs to support saying that. The Marquette Law School Poll (in which I have some involvement) has asked often in the last five years whether people put a higher priority on using money for increased spending for public schools or on reducing property taxes. Opinion was closely split on this in 2013. Now there is a clear majority for schools.
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In a poll released on Oct. 31, the poll asked for the first time what voters thought of teacher salaries and benefits overall in Wisconsin. The result: 58% said teacher compensation should be higher, 4% said lower and 32% said it was about right. Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to say compensation should be higher. Republicans were much more likely to say it currently was about right.
And then you have the election for governor, in which each candidate said he was the one who really supported education. And now we’ll have a longtime state superintendent of public instruction, Tony Evers, moving into the governor’s chair.
The overall message is pretty clear: People across Wisconsin want to have good schools and think more needs to be done to make or keep that so. The overall public disposition toward schools is better now than in a long time.
What will this climate mean for the next several years of state education policy?
I suggest two answers that sound contradictory.
On the one hand, it is likely it won’t mean as much as Evers supporters want. In a firmly and potentially bitterly split Capitol, with Democrats in the executive branch and Republicans controlling both houses of the Legislature, deadlocks are likely. Unleashing a big wave of new state money seems unlikely.
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On the other hand, there may be some room for agreement or compromise. For one thing, as was the case during the 2017 state budget debate, Republicans overall may want to show more support for schools than was true in prior years.
Where might there be room to work together? A few possibilities:
Early childhood programs. Evers has called for increasing state support of funding for 4-year-old kindergarten programs and launching a program of start-up grants for 3-year-old kindergartens. In 2016, a task force appointed by Rep. Robin Vos, the Republican leader of the Assembly, called for increased support of preschool programs and said money spent on early childhood was money well spent.
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Mental health needs of children. A high priority of educators across the state, programs to address this have attracted support across the spectrum. There was bipartisan agreement on some increases in state funding in the 2017 state budget. There likely will be more coming, including help for programs aimed at mitigating the impact of traumatic events on young children, a hot subject currently.
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State funding for students with disabilities. This will be important. State aid for special education has stayed basically flat for many years and is far below the level of support the state once said it would provide. And schools across the state are under financial pressure because of special ed costs. Evers wants to see a very large increase in this area — $600 million over two years. That will be a tough sale to Republicans. But there could be some agreement on spending more.
RELATED: Tony Evers to seek unprecedented $600 million more in special education funding
Change in the state funding formula. Change in the formula has frustrated everyone who has tried to tackle it for many years. But there is wide agreement that the formula has problems and creates inequities. As school chief, Evers has put forward a plan for change several times in the past, but he’ll be in a better position to push that as governor. A Republican-created task force has worked on this for much of the last year but hasn’t issued a report yet. Could there be some meeting of minds? Only if there is a way to create winners without creating losers in terms of money flowing to specific school districts.
Where will agreement come hardest? Two areas stand out:
Overall school spending. Evers campaigned for large increases in state aid. Republican legislative leaders say they can’t see that happening. But, as in 2017, they are likely to favor some increase. Expect much posturing and tough talk on both sides. Eventually, there will be a state budget and it will include a lot of aid to schools. But getting there will be bumpy.
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Private school vouchers. The state has four different programs that allow students to use public money to pay for attending private schools. There is a big partisan divide on this. Evers campaigned on cutting back on vouchers. Expect Republicans not to budge on this. Overall, deadlock is very likely to mean little change in the status quo. But could protecting the voucher programs lead Republicans to compromise on something else? Seems like an important question.
RELATED: Tony Evers would seek to phase out school vouchers, but plan unlikely to pass
The potential for division and deadlock within the Capitol on education is high. But in several ways, people across the state have been saying what they want. Their messages probably include wanting to see politicians work together. They definitely involve wanting to see a healthier education landscape.
Alan J. Borsuk is senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette Law School. Reach him at alan.borsuk@marquette.edu.
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Top 2019 global workforce predictions from the Workforce Institute at Kronos
London, UK , 02 Jan, 2019
The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated today released its annual predictions of the top trends that will impact the global workforce in the coming year.
Top Workforce Predictions of 2019
AI and machine learning unmask previously hidden workforce data to make people-centric decisions. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will finally be woven into workforce management practices, revealing a treasure trove of data organisations have been collecting – but not using – for decades. With regular and digestible access to workforce data trends – like scheduling accuracy, absenteeism, overtime usage, and burnout – predictive analytics will shine, helping organisations head-off potential issues before they arise. Intelligent automation will also free up managers from admin-heavy tasks – like managing schedules, approving time-off requests, and shift changes – while encouraging data-driven decision-making to provide clarity between what is equal versus what is fair. Though, to harness analytical insights to make accurate, actionable decisions for specific employee and business goals, organisations must avoid a “one-size-fits-all” model.
Historically tight labour markets and emerging technologies put people managers in the spotlight. With unemployment low and the exodus of baby boomers reaching critical mass, employers globally will face a historically tight labour market. Sourcing great candidates has never been more difficult, and retention will become an all-out dogfight. While an employer’s brand, innovative hiring technologies and proactive recruiting practices are more important than ever, it’s organisations with the best people managers that will ultimately prevail. Organisations will place an increased focus on leadership development as a retention strategy – especially as millennials flock to middle management – and measuring manager effectiveness will be HR’s top challenge in 2019. Additionally, as AI and machine learning take over mundane managerial tasks, freeing up managers to spend more time with their people, deficits in leadership competencies will be exposed as management expectations continue to shift from a historical command-and-control model to a horizontal style that considers all perspectives and seeks innovative ways to inspire, develop, grow, and keep the top talent that drives business value.
The changing face of education redefines trades and challenges traditional hiring practices. As the student loan debt crisis furthers the debate about the value of a university education and programmes for job-specific skills emerge, tomorrow’s best employees may take an unconventional path to employment. Competencies that once required a degree – such as coding, robotics, and data analytics – are being redefined as skilled trades with the rise of certificate and micro-credential programmes. Also, as yesterday’s jobs become augmented by automation, new skills will be required for traditionally “blue-collar” roles. Employers must revamp their hiring profiles and remove traditional job requirements to tap into this new pool of qualified candidates who will staff the shop floor, store floor, hospital floor, and top floor of the future. And, as millennials become parents, many will likely urge their school-aged children to take an alternative educational path for a brighter financial future.
Further fracturing of employment laws globally, nationally, and at the local level strain organisations. From minimum wage to sick pay, to fair scheduling proposals to the right to disconnect, governments around the world will continue localising – and repealing – employment laws. Ever-changing regulations around the world will put increased strain on organisations to avoid sanctions, fines, crippling class action lawsuits, and reputation-damaging stories. Technology will be vital for organisations to manage scheduling-related mandates, ensure unbiased practices, monitor fatigue and overtime management, and ensure employees are paid accurately and fairly – all while providing analytical insights that surface risky managerial practices otherwise buried in a sea of employment data.
Employee-agnostic flexibility, consumer-grade tech, and the rise of the occasional time worker redefine “work your way.” All employees – salaried, hourly, and gig – crave control over when, where, and how they work. While employers have put more focus on flexibility and alternative work schedules, most have been slow to reengineer processes that underpin how the organisation runs. Tools must meet employees where they naturally work – such as on their mobile phone, tablet, or favourite social networking platforms. The gig economy and emergence of the “occasional-time worker” will force organisations to replace traditional hiring and scheduling processes with systems that enable workers to choose when, where, and how long they work. Mobile-friendly processes, self-service features, and immediate access to real-time data in a consumer-grade technology wrapper will help drive the next iteration of the flexibility phenomenon, as predictability of anytime work will empower employees to be more productive, make more intelligent decisions, and be more engaged.
Greater emphasis on disaster preparedness as part of a holistic human capital management strategy. Disasters large and small, natural and man-made, have unfortunately become the norm. Organisations worldwide have been challenged to respond effectively to increasingly frequent crises, with HR, operations, and payroll forced to take centre stage in the lives of affected employees. With more emphasis on company culture, caring, and “doing what’s right” in a world where disasters – and a company’s response to them – are frequently in the news, there is a new level of expectation for an organisation’s response, responsibility, and employee benefits. Organisations of all sizes must take a hard look at disaster policies, processes, and capabilities – including both taking care of employees in the moment and rebuilding in the wake of disaster, which will be near impossible for those operating on a DIY workforce management, HR, and payroll system. Sustainability plans that today primarily account for company assets and data will need to incorporate employees and their families.
The Workforce Institute at Kronos board members include:
In the Americas: David Almeda, chief people officer of Kronos; Natalie Bickford, group HR director at Merlin Entertainments; Joseph Cabral, chief human resources officer and president, workforce solutions at Press Ganey; Bob Clements, president at Axsium Group; David Creelman, CEO of Creelman Research; John Frehse, senior managing director at Ankura Consulting Group, LLC; China Gorman, a human capital management consultant, speaker, and writer who is former CEO of the Great Place to Work® Institute and former COO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); John Hollon, editor-at-large at ERE Media, award-winning journalist, and nationally recognised expert on leadership, talent management, and smart workforce practices; Sharlyn Lauby, The HR Bartender and president of ITM Group, Inc.; Alexandra Levit, business/workplace author, speaker, consultant, and futurist; Joyce Maroney, executive director of The Workforce Institute at Kronos; Dennis Miller, chief employment officer at Cal Poly Pomona Foundation; Chris Mullen, director, strategic advisory at Kronos; Neil Reichenberg, executive director of IPMA-HR; Dan Schawbel, best-selling author and partner and research director at Future Workplace; Raciel Sosa, CEO at Leadex Solutions; and Mark Wales, workforce management industry advisor.
In Europe: Roland Axten, workforce management solutions explorer at Inter IKEA; Steffi Burkhart, speaker, author, lecturer; Christian Kromme, entrepreneur and futurist speaker; Julia Hobsbawm, OBE, honorary professor, author, writer; Simon Porter, digital HR services at NGA Human Resources; and Claire Richardson, director at the Workforce Institute at Kronos, EMEA and vice president EMEA professional services at Kronos.
In China: Yang Wei Guo, dean of school of labour and human resources at Renmin University of China; Xu Zheng, founder, CEO of Cofound Innovation Center; Miao Qing, general manager of Kronos in Greater China; Winnie Yuan, independent consultant; Huang Pei, CEO, editor-in-chief of E-Works; Kevin Peng, deputy secretary general of China Chain Store Association and deputy secretary general of China ECR Committee; Danny Dai, vice president, Capgemini China; James Xue, presales manager at Kronos in Greater China; and Freedom Zhu, business partner at Allpku Consulting.
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Joseph focuses his practice on federal procurement and environmental due diligence and compliance.
J.D., Hamline University School of Law
B.S., George Mason University
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Joseph joined the firm as an associate after serving five years in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. He represents clients in the full range of federal procurement matters including, but not limited to, protests before the GAO and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, preparation of requests for equitable adjustment and contract claims, default termination negotiations, contract appeals and government claims before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, bid/proposal preparation, contract changes, patent and technical data rights protection, socio-economic policies and requirements (Service Contract Act, Davis-Bacon Act, EEO, Small Business and Small Disadvantaged Business contracting), novation and assignment of government contracts, and extraordinary contractual relief.
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Captain, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps (1995-2000)
Army Prosecutor, 1st Infantry Division, Wuerzberg, Germany (1996-1998)
Government Contracts Trial Attorney, U.S. Army Contract Appeals Division (1998-2000)
Representing local redevelopment corporation before the ASBCA in contract dispute achieving precedent-setting decision recognizing indemnification claim based on third-party cost overruns associated with remediation of environmental contamination on former military property.
Preparing requests for equitable adjustment for small business aviation maintenance company that led to settlement of cost overruns resulting from extended deployment of contractor personnel to Iraq.
Representing parent company in the sale of subsidiary government contractor and negotiating with federal agency to expedite favorable resolution of a threatened termination for default. Matter was successfully resolved through the negotiation of a no-cost settlement of the contract.
Intervenor's counsel in bid protest successfully upholding selection of the Intervenor as the Apparent Successful Offeror in $200 million military housing privatization project.
Representing federal contractors in corporate restructuring and all aspects of federal regulatory compliance including equal opportunity employment, cost accounting, and small business certification.
Representing various clients on GAO protest matters including timing and automatic stay requirements, interested party standing, GAO protective orders, grounds for protest, and comparisons of GAO and U.S. Court of Federals Claims protest process.
Drafting and negotiating Purchase Agreements, Memorandum of Understanding and associated documents for the acquisition of public and private real estate.
Environmental Due Diligence and compliance.
Reviewing and analyzing Department of Defense Environmental Baseline Surveys and Findings of Suitability to Transfer for clients acquiring former military property.
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'Who wore it best' at Michigan State: No. 12
Michigan State football: What player 'owns' his jersey number
'Who wore it best' at Michigan State: No. 12 Michigan State football: What player 'owns' his jersey number Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: https://on.lsj.com/2Inc2lg
Cody Tucker, Lansing State Journal Published 6:30 a.m. ET May 9, 2018
Ever see a number on a Michigan State football jersey and think of all the great players to wear it? Today, we decide who was the best Spartan to ever wear No. 12.(Photo: Werner Slocum/Associated Press)
Ever see a number on a Michigan State football jersey and think of all the great players to wear it? Me, too. In this daily series, I’ll give you my take on which Spartan football player was the best ever to wear each number. The criteria are simple: How did he perform at MSU? And what kind of impact did he have on the program?
No. 12 – Tony Banks
Quarterback, 1994-95, San Diego, California
Michigan State quarterback Tony Banks in action against the Wolverines of Michigan at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Saturday, Nov. 4, 1995. (Photo: Tim Fitzgerald/Associated Press)
1994: 145-238 passing, 60.9 completion percentage, 2,040 yards, 11 touchdowns, 6 interceptions
1995: 156-258 passing, 60.5 completion percentage, 2,089 yards, 9 touchdowns, 15 interceptions
Total: 301-496 passing, 60.7 completion percentage, 4,129 yards, 20 touchdowns, 21 interceptions
Why Banks?
The numbers weren’t necessarily eye-popping, but the talent was undeniable.
A multi-sport athlete, Banks played only two seasons at Michigan State because he gave baseball a shot first. He played in the Twins’ minor league system before enrolling in a local San Diego college. He didn’t play football until his junior year of high school.
Though he played in only 20 games for the Spartans, Banks — and his rocket right arm — made the best of it. He tossed 20 touchdown passes and still ranks as one of the top signal callers in school history in pass completion percentage (sixth-.607), passing yards (11th-4,129) and passing efficiency (eighth-135.5). Wide receivers Muhsin Muhammad and Derrick Mason helped. Banks still holds the record for the longest pass play in school history when he connected with Nigea Carter on a 93-yard touchdown pass against Indiana.
MSU quarterback Tony Banks. (Photo: Greg Deruiter/Lansing State Journal)
During Banks’ junior campaign, the Spartans finished the season 5-6 overall. The record books reflect the lean times at MSU. In George Perles’ final season, self-imposed sanctions erased those five wins, giving the Spartans an 0-11 mark. Banks capped his career in East Lansing under first-year head coach Nick Saban. In 1995, the Spartans upset No. 7 Michigan and went to the Independence Bowl, where they eventually fell to Saban’s future employer, LSU, 45-26.
In a time of flux and unknown, Banks was a beacon of hope for the Spartans’ fan base.
Banks went on to become the first quarterback selected in the 1996 draft when he went to the St. Louis Rams in the second round. In 2000, Banks helped lead the Baltimore Ravens to a Super Bowl championship.
Michigan State WR R.J. Shelton, FB Prescott Line work toward NFL dream
Who else wore No. 12?
Edward Abdo (OG, 1938-40), Louis Costanzo (HB, 1954), Dana Dixon (CB/S, 2010-11), Craig Jarrett (P, 1999-2001), Martin Kelly (HB, 1948), Josh King (DE, 2016), Marshall Lawson (QB, 1975-77), Brian Phelps (QB, 1983), Vincent Pisano (HB, 1950-52), Rocky Lombardi (QB, current), Michael Rasmussen (QB, 1970-71), Fred Schroeder (T, 1936-37), RJ Shelton (WR, 2013-16), Brian Smolinski (SE, 1987-90), Robert Super (QB/LB/DB, 1966-68), Jerry Todd (TB/DB, 1988-89), Nick Krumm (WR, current), Ashton Watson (CB, 2002-05), TJ Williams (WR/CB, 2006-07)
Contact Cody Tucker at (517) 377-1070 or cjtucker@lsj.com and follow him on Twitter @CodyTucker_LSJ.
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Nigel Farage Breaks With ‘Friend For Life’ Donald Trump Over Military Intervention in Syria
Nigel Farage has turned his back on US President Donald Trump, as the former UKIP chief cautioned Britain against intervening alongside the US in Syria.
In an unprecedented break with the Republican leader, Farage said he would not want the UK to join forces with the US against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Farage’s statement follows a volley of tweets from Trump warning Russia he intended to launch “nice and new and ‘smart’” missiles against Syria.
While Prime Minister Theresa May has joined French President Emmanuel Macron and Trump in saying those responsible for an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, should be held to account, Farage warned military intervention could lead to chaos.
Referencing UK intervention in Libya and Iraq as examples of botched operations, Farage said on his LBC radio program: “We intervene, we get rid of these Arab nationalist dictators because we think it is the right thing to do, having never thought through what the long-term consequences are.”
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Farage rejected the idea of military strikes even if Assad were found to be responsible. “Look I don’t know whether Assad used chemical weapons or not. I don’t know why he would given he is winning the war anyway. But even if we knew it was him, and we decided we are going to attack military bases, attack the palace, if the result of concerted action with us, the Americans and the French results in the overthrow of Assad, is that the right thing for us to do?
“Well we might think morally it is the right thing for us to do… because of some of the horrible, awful things he has done. But what comes next? Chaos, instability and maybe a chance for ISIS [Islamic State/IS] to build its forces again.
“So even if tomorrow Trump attacks, not waiting for a UN resolution… I don’t think we should join. Even if we got a UN resolution I would still be very thoughtful about this. What in the longer term are we actually trying to achieve?”
It comes as a series of MPs and political commentators took to Twitter to condemn President Trump’s words. They raised concern his comments might trigger World War III.
That is a scary thought. Worse than Cuban Missile crisis? Post Hungary? And Czechoslovakia? If true, then really concerning https://t.co/B8bLXSlcTj
— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) April 11, 2018
Terrifying. https://t.co/WMJWxJO5pF
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) April 11, 2018
We must all urge anyone who can influence President Trump to think very carefully indeed & consider any reaction to Assad & Russia very carefully indeed.
— Barry Sheerman (@BarrySheerman) April 11, 2018
Both the Syrian government and Russia deny the allegations that a chemical attack took place in Douma, a formerly rebel-held town outside Damascus. On Sunday, the White Helmets, a volunteer organization which operates in areas under the control of Syrian rebels, including groups linked to Al-Qaeda, published a statement that said a chlorine gas attack had taken place in the area on Saturday. The alleged attack was said to have killed dozens, including children, but footage of the alleged incident has yet to be verified.
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How to Make Your Penis Bigger in 45 Minutes? Penis Implants Are Now Available for Men Which Can Make a ‘Huge’ Difference
Health Wellness Sania Dhirwani Jul 10, 2018 11:41 AM IST
Penis implant available for men. (Photo Credits: derneuemann/Pixabay)
Men, can you imagine waking up with a bigger penis after 45 minutes? It may sound unreal but it’s a true story. Men who are dissatisfied with their penis size can now have bigger willies in just 45 minutes. A surgeon in United States has made it possible for any man with money and a small penis to become fully endowed. A Beverly Hills urologist has invented a silicone penis implant that can make a man’s junk larger in girth and width. The implant – named Penuma – was invented by Dr James Elist, who got the FDA approval for Penuma back in 2004.
Currently, Iranian-born US-based Dr Elist is the only surgeon in the world who can do the procedure. More than 1300 men have already visited him to increase the size of their weenie, as reported by GQ magazine and a clinical study commissioned by Elist demonstrates a success rate of over 95% among men who agreed to participate in the study. The penuma, a sheathe of silicone inserted directly into the penis, can enhance both length and girth and he treats patients from all over the world.
After an anaesthesia, the doctor will roll the foreskin, insert a silicone implant and stitch the skin with the original penis. Within an hour, you wake up with double the size of your boner. Hospitalisation lasts for a day or two and antibiotics for a fortnight. Although men must refrain from sex for at least six weeks. The implant only comes in a size L, XL, XXL. The doctor believes that size does matter, so it is only available in large sizes. In an interview with GQ magazine, Elist said, “Nobody wants a small. So, we don’t have a small, we don’t have a medium. We start from large.” The original name of penuma was ‘Hap-penis’ and we can clearly see why.
Many of Elist’s patients already had penises at the average of five inches or longer. However, they still underwent a surgery. For example, a 39-year-old accountant from LA, had a respectable eight incher before surgery. When asked him why he bothered to go under the knife when he was already well-endowed, he said, “I don’t know. I think I just wanted it bigger.” He seems to be happy, but his wife apparently isn’t too pleased (as it has made blow jobs trickier). In another, a 43-year-old plumber who was already six inches long underwent this surgery and here’s what his wife had to say, “He’s been a sexual maniac. He has erections all day long, every day now. We haven’t had this much sex since when we first got together.”
Penis enlargements are nothing new but before Elist’s invention, options for men were limited. Previous penis enlargement options have included injecting collagen or cadaver cells, while some practitioners cut a ligament in the groin, so the penis hangs lower, making it seem longer. Both of these practices have caused problems such as lumpy appearance or complications with erections.
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Emami in talks to buy Paras Pharma; deal may cost ₹4,000 cr
3 min read . Updated: 09 Sep 2010, 12:21 AM IST Maulik Pathak, Shraddha Nair & Sapna Agarwal
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Ahmedabad/Mumbai: In a deal that could cost up to Rs4,000 crore, healthcare firm Emami Ltdis in negotiations to acquire a controlling stake in Ahmedabad-based unlisted Paras Pharmaceuticals Ltdthat has over-the-counter (OTC) and personal care product brands such as Moov, Krack, Set Wet, D’Coldand RingGuardin its fold, according to an Emamiofficial.
“We are interested in acquiring the company and some sort of negotiations have begun," an Emami executive said.
He did not want to be identified or divulge details about Emami’s interest in Paras, as talks have just begun. “We would be interested to acquire the entire company."
Two private equity firms, Actis Advisors Pvt. Ltd and Sequoia Capital India Advisors Pvt. Ltd, which jointly hold around 70% in Paras, have been looking to sell their stake in the company for around $700 million (3,269 crore), Bloomberg had reported on Monday.
An investment banker with knowledge of the development said the valuation of the firm was reasonable considering profitability had been good this year and prospects in the consumer goods segment were promising. The banker, too, requested anonymity.
The FMCG index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has risen 35.54% in past year and touched its yearly high on 7 September. Emami’s shares gained 0.93% on BSE on Wednesday. The stock has outperformed the benchmark Sensex index over the past year, gaining 107.89% against Sensex’s 15.77% rise.
“We don’t comment on potential exits," said Sumir Chadha, managing director of Sequoia Capital India, which had invested $12 million to pick up an 8% stake in Paras in 2006.
“I cannot comment on such matters relating to our portfolio companies," J.M. Trivedi, head of South Asia at Actis Advisers said in an emailed statement on 31 August. After acquiring 23% in 2006, Actis ramped it up to 62%.
The remaining 30% stake in the firm is held by chairman and original promoter Girish Patel. “I would not like to comment on this as the matter is related to our shareholders," Patel said.
A person with direct knowledge of the development said: “The process has just been initiated and investment bankers have been appointed last week. A lot of buyers have shown keen interest and Emami is one of them." The person declined to be named.
Actis and Sequoia have appointed Morgan Stanleyas investment bankers to the deal.
Quoting a statement from Actis, the Bloomberg report stated that Paras saw a 32% growth in revenue this year, while operating profit climbed 51%
Sunil Duggal, chief executive officer of Dabur India Ltd, had recently said once Paras is on the block, they would look at it.
When asked on Wednesday whether Dabur was in talks with Paras, Duggal said, “No comments."
Apart from its successful products, Paras also owns substantial real estate in Gujarat, which could be of value to potential acquirers. The company has shifted most of its production to a new unit in the tax-free area of Baddi in Himachal Pradesh.
Its original factory in Kalol, Gujarat, is almost vacant. The size of the land at Kalol isn’t immediately known.
Analysts, however, cautioned that unlike its acquisition of Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd, Emami may choose to acquire Paras’ key products and brands only and not the real estate in the company.
“Emami paid for Zandu’s real estate assets, making the acquisition expensive," said Rajesh Agarwal, head of research at Kolkata-based stockbroking firm Eastern Financiers Ltd. “But this time, it may want to buy only brands and key production facilities."
Emami has been on the lookout for its next acquisition after it acquired management control of Zandu in November 2008 and merged its herbal healthcare business with itself.
Mint had reported on 3 September that Emami was exploring an acquisition in the healthcare or personal care space either in India or overseas. Consulting firm Ernst and Young and boutique investment banking firm Singhi Advisors Ltd were helping it scout for investment targets.
Emami had 604 crore of cash reserves on its balance sheet as on 31 March and had passed an enabling resolution to raise 1000 crore in June.
Aveek Datta contributed to this story.
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French union calls for massive new pension protest
3 min read . Updated: 21 Oct 2010, 05:01 PM IST Reuters
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Paris: One of France’s biggest unions called on Thursday for further “massive" strike action next week against a planned pension reform that has triggered the biggest and most sustained anti-austerity protests in Europe.
A final Senate vote on President Nicolas Sarkozy’s unpopular bill is set to be speeded up to make sure it happens on Friday, a parliamentary source told Reuters, following pressure from the government as protests and fuel blockades sweep the country.
Sarkozy, a conservative who is determined to face down unions and force through a rise in the retirement age, is battling with 10-day-old refinery strikes and fuel depot blockades that have dried up a quarter of France’s petrol pumps.
His popularity already mired at all-time lows 18 months before a presidential election, Sarkozy is fighting deep public opposition to a reform he says is the only way to stem a ballooning pension shortfall as the population ages.
“The government remains intransigent. We need to continue with massive action as soon as next week," Bernard Thibault, head of the powerful CGT union, told RMC radio. Union leaders will meet on Thursday evening to agree fresh action.
“We will ask the unions for strong action that will allow people to stop work and go on to the streets," Thibault said.
Sarkozy’s handling of the protests is being closely watched by other European governments implementing austerity cuts, as well as by markets who see it as a test of how easily France can enact other measures to safeguard its coveted AAA credit rating.
Police were sent in this week on the president’s orders to break up barricades at fuel depots. On Thursday officers removed a roadblock to Marseille airport in southwest France, erected by hundreds of striking refinery workers.
“We cannot be the only country in the world where, when there is a reform, a minority wants to block everyone else," Sarkozy said. “By taking hostage the economy, companies and the daily lives of French people, we are going to destroy jobs."
A quarter of France’s service stations have no fuel, industry minister Christian Estrosi said. He said another fuel depot blockade was cleared overnight, leaving less than 10 percent of depots nationwide still blockaded.
Sarkozy has refused to back down on the bill to raise the minimum retirement age by two years to 62, and wants the reform passed by the end of the month.
French media commentators picked up on the contrast with Britain, which has seen no comparable mass protests despite unveiling much harsher austerity measures on Wednesday with 500,000 job cuts and a rise in the retirement age to 66. But French unions are sticking to their guns.
“The French government is following the Anglo-Saxon economic model," said Jean-Claude Mailly, head of the radical Force Ouvriere union. “It has to be wary of leading us into a wall."
He backed further action even if the law was passed.
STUDENT DEMOS
Students, who fear the pension reform will worsen youth unemployment, were set to hold their first major autumn protests across the country on Thursday. Several hundred secondary schools and three dozen universities were hit by strikes.
In the southeastern city of Lyon, clashes between youths and riot police, which began last week on the fringes of anti-pension protests, continued on Thursday. Sarkozy called the clashes “scandalous" and said rioters would be punished.
Business leaders are voicing concern about the blow to an economy already struggling to rebound from the economic crisis.
An Air France-KLM spokesman said the strikes were costing the airline 5 million euros a day and Maurice Levy, head of the world’s No. 3 advertising agency Publicis, said he was worried the conflict was damaging France’s image.
The strikes are beginning to hit tourism and cultural events ahead of half-term holidays beginning this weekend, with some travellers reconsidering holidays.
Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins cancelled a debut tour with his band in Paris and pop diva Lady Gaga also postponed gigs.
Trains were returning to normal however, with three out of four intercity TGV services operating, and nearly all international trains and half domestic ones running normally.
Opposition senators have slowed the bill’s passage by handing in hundreds of amendments and demanding fresh dialogue.
Senators voted late on Wednesday for an amendment leaving the door open to review the pension system after the 2012 presidential election, a move that may appease some unions.
Street protests have largely been peaceful except for sporadic violence in Lyon and in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The government said 245 people were arrested on Wednesday, taking the nationwide tally to almost 2,000 since 12 October.
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$TSLA Elon Musk’s Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) is drowning, but the analysts team at Jefferies is oddly still positive on the shares. We all know that Tesla manufactures and sells EVs that include 2 high-end Models the S & X, and a mass-market-oriented M3, cars that no 1 seem to want now. Hang On, it also […]
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$TSLA Wednesday, covered in Red Ink Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) erstwhile CEO Elon Musk suggested a capital raise could be imminent, as the US’ fledgling EV maker lost $700-M in Q-1 and while optimistically predicting a return to profit in Q-3. Tesla big plans to resolve logistics issues with global vehicle deliveries after suffering stiff headwinds marked […]
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$TSLA Friday, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) said that 4 members of its 11-member board would be leaving over the next 2 years, as the EV company looks to streamline its board. Brad Buss, Antonio Gracias, Stephen Jurvetson, and Linda Johnson Rice will not be standing for re-election in the upcoming annual meetings of stockholders in Ys […]
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Elon Musk’s ‘Dust Up’ with the SEC is Pushing Down Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Stock
By Paul Ebeling on March 20, 2019 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
$TSLA Many investors thought the battle between Elon Musk and the SEC was over, but unfortunately it appears the SEC is 2Xing down on their pressure on Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO. The last thing stock Bulls want to see is the SEC and Mr. Musk back in the courts. This has caused some investors to trim […]
Elon Musk’s Contempt Defense: “Borders on the Ridiculous” say SEC
$TSLA Monday night, the SEC countered Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s contempt-of-court defense writing in court papers that he brazenly disregarded a federal judge’s order and that one of his arguments “borders on the ridiculous.” Lawyers for the Securities and Exchange Commission, in a response to Mr. Musk, wrote that when the contempt motion was […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Musk Did Not Seek Approval for His Tweets as Required in the Settlement
By Paul Ebeling on March 18, 2019 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories
$TSLA FLASH: Tesla’s Elon Musk says it is up to him when to submit Tweets for company approval. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is 2Xing down on the government’s demand to find the Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO in contempt of a previous fraud settlement that required him to have the company pre-approve any tweets that […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) ‘Ponzi Scheme’
$TSLA By Tyler Derden FLASH: Since Y 2008, 78% of Tesla’s Operating Cash Flow has come from refundable customer deposits An impressive, 46-page Value Investor Club write-up on Tesla was published by user jcoviedo Monday and promptly leaked thereafter, which – not surprisingly – pitched a short thesis which sees the stock price 1st dropping […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Musk Twitter Fight Goes to Court on SEC Contempt Charge Again
$TSLA FLASH: Some analysts believe the Commission will come down hard on Elon Musk Elon Musk is about to urge a judge to go easy on him for tweets that US regulators contend violated a court order, though legal experts say the feisty billionaire will have a hard time avoiding some kind of punishment. The […]
Pot Smoker Elon Musk’s Security Clearance Under Review
By Paul Ebeling on March 7, 2019 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
$TSLA FlASH: The Pentagon is reviewing Elon Musk’s federal security clearance following the billionaire’s marijuana toke on a California comedian’s podcast in September Mr. Musk has refiled his SF-86 security form, which requires a federal employee or contractor seeking a clearance to acknowledge any illegal drug use over the previous seven years, according to the […]
Elon Musk Vs Tesla Employees, a Failure in Leadership
$TSLA FLASH: Tesla stock under pressure, Musk’s leadership called into Question. Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) are under heavy selling pressure now on a slew of recent reports that shed light on Elon Musk’s leadership style. And it calls into Question whether employees believe he is suited to lead the company. Blind, an anonymous workplace community, […]
Elon Musk’s Tweets Assures Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Will Have to Pay $920-M + Interest to Bondholders
By Paul Ebeling on February 27, 2019 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories
$TSLA Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) share price was nowhere near the necessary mark to help convert its $920-M in bonds to stock even before CEO Elon Musk’s recent incendiary Tweets. And so Mr. Musk’s contentious Tweets killed any last-minute hopes that a miracle rally is in the offing. His struggling EV company is on the hook to […]
Consumer Reports Pulled Its Recommendation for Tesla’s M-3
By Paul Ebeling on February 21, 2019 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
$TSLA Thursday, Consumer Reports pulled its recommendation for Tesla Inc.’s M-3, citing reliability problems the influential US magazine said in a statement. The magazine’s decision to withdraw its endorsement for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) M-3 less than 9 months after recommending the EV highlighted questions about quality that Tesla has faced since the vehicle’s difficult launch. Tesla […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk Tweeting Again, General Counsel Resigns
$TSLA FLASH: US Government Closely Eyeing Elon Musk Tuesday night, Elon Musk Tweeted Tuesday evening that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) would make around 500,000 cars in Y 2019. Later he corrected himself within hours to say he meant the company would be producing at an annualized rate of 500,000 vehicles by the end of this year. If […]
Musk is Right About the US Securities and Exchange Commission, But he Still Will Not Win
By S. Jack Heffernan Ph.D on December 9, 2018 America, Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Politics, Shayne Heffernan, Shayne Heffernan, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, openly derided the Photo by cdorobek [/caption]in an interview aired Sunday, having settled fraud charges with the regulatory agency over an errant tweet. “I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC — I do not respect them” he said in an interview on the CBS network […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): China is Key to Its Future
By Paul Ebeling on December 6, 2018 Asia, China, Headline News, Lifestyle, Luxury, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): China is Key to Its Future $TSLA, $GM, $F, $VLKAY, $HMC, $TM China is Key to Tesla’s future, and so it is not surprising that the US-China trade dispute is hitting the company hard. China is Tesla’s largest market outside the US, accounting for about 10% of total revenue in the 1st 3-Q’s […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) M-3 Production Spike Not Sustainable
By Paul Ebeling on December 4, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) M-3 Production Spike Not Sustainable $TSLA Recall that on 30 November it was reported that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) produced 1,000 M-3 sedans in 1 day, the reports were based on a leaked internal e-Mail from CEO Elon Musk to all employees. Shares shot up on the news, as has happened after prior spike in […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Looking Back Over the Year.5
By Paul Ebeling on November 29, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Looking Back Over the Past Year.5 $TSLA In the wake of his recent Axios interview of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk broadcast a lot of stuff to his listeners and devotees. Much is hyperbole, some is fact. Below are of some things that happened at the fledgling US EV maker over the past year.5, as […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Despite the ‘Good News’ Faces Major Challenges
By Paul Ebeling on November 16, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Despite the ‘Good News’ Faces Major Challenges $TSLA Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is still facing many major challenges. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is examining past claims about production goals. The Commission, in rejecting a request by the NY-T’s under the Freedom of Information Act for a transcript of Mr. Musk’s deposition in […]
Now is it is Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Vs the Automotive World
By Paul Ebeling on November 14, 2018 Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Now is it is Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Vs the Automotive World $TSLA, $VLKAY, $GM, $F The world’s giant automakers are planning big pushes into EV production, and none bigger than Volkswagen (OTCMKT:VLKAY) is coming up to challenge fledgling Tesla in its tiny 1 plant niche market. Ok, Tesla has sold about 500,000 cars worldwide, which accounts […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): SEC Closing in, Senior Securities Lawyer Ankles
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): SEC Closing in, Senior Securities Lawyer Ankles $TSLA Monday, we learned that an experienced securities lawyer is leaving Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) just as the company needs the best to help manage the its fraud settlement with US regulators and the DOJ’s criminal probe. Phil Rothenberg, a VP in Tesla’s legal department, will become a […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Has Nothing the Auto Industry Cannot Replicate at Will
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Has Nothing the Auto Industry Cannot Replicate at Will $TSLA, $F, $FCAU, $GM, $VLKAY Volkswagen (OTCMKT:VLKAY) announced at the weekend that its platform is set to manufacture 50-M pure EVs, and it has acquired the batteries for that vehicle production output. Ok, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has mastered making EVs cars, but its technology is […]
Former Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Employee Charged with Embezzling $9.3-M from the Company
By Paul Ebeling on November 9, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Former Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Employee Charged with Embezzling $9.3-M from the Company $TSLA, $VLKAY A former Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) employee was charged by a federal grand jury today of embezzling roughly $9.3-M from Elon Musk’s electric car company over the course of 2 years. The indictment comes as the result of an FBI inquiry. The employee Salil […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): Robyn Denholm New Board Chairwoman
By Paul Ebeling on November 8, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): Robyn Denholm New Board Chairwoman $TSLA Wednesday night, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) announced Robyn Denholm has taken Elon Musk’s place as Chairwoman of the company’s board. She is also leaving her role as CFO and Head of Strategy at Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company, once her 6-month notice period with Telstra is complete, and will be working as Tesla […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Q-3 Earnings Follow Up Scrutiny
By Paul Ebeling on November 6, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Q-3 Earnings Follow Up Scrutiny $TSLA The Zombie Element (ZEV Credits) undermines Tesla’s Earnings Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) beat The Street expectations for Q-3, posting a significant profit on revenue of nearly $7-B. Recall Tesla’s only other profitable Quarter, that being Q-3 of Y 2016, analysts focused on something outside the business of selling all […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Admits SEC Subpoenas, ‘Nothing’ Musk Calls FBI’s Criminal Probe “Absurd”
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Admits SEC Subpoenas, ‘Nothing’ Musk Calls FBI’s Criminal Probe “Absurd” $TSLA US securities regulators have issued subpoenas regarding Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) public assurances over the production of its newest car the M3, the company said in a filing late Friday, the latest signal of a very aggressive investigation into Elon ‘Nothing’ Musk’s EV maker. The […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Investors Want Big Board Changes
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Investors Want Big Board Changes $TSLA “It is time for a serious overhaul of the governance of the company,” A group of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors thinks the EV maker needs more than just a little new blood and that a ban on Elon Musk holding the Chairman’s job for 3 years while also […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Future Is Not Secure Yet
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Future Is Not Secure Yet $TSLA Following Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Elon Musk has been Wild, that will not change in the foreseeable future. Last week stronger-than-expected Q-3 results relieved some of the pressure on the company and its deposed Chairman, Elon Musk, after a turbulent several months. In early August Mr. Musk smothered […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to the Dust-bin of Automotive Wannabees?
By Paul Ebeling on October 31, 2018 Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to the Dust-bin of Automotive Wannabees? $TSLA From the outset Elon Musk’s strategy for Tesla has been bootstrapping: Use the money from the Lotus based roadster to develop and build the M-S; use cash from the M-S to develop and build the M-X; use cash from the M-X to develop and build the […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk Now Holds No ‘Titles’ at the Company
By Paul Ebeling on October 30, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk Now Holds No ‘Titles’ at the Company $TSLA Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk took to Twitter again Monday chiding the US regulators, saying he deleted his Tesla titles last week to see what would happen, without giving further details. “Deleted my Tesla titles last week to see what would […]
Tesla (NYSE:TSLA) Facing a Deep Criminal Investigation About Misleading Investors
By Paul Ebeling on October 29, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NYSE:TSLA) Facing a Deep Criminal Investigation About Misleading Investors $TSLA Early this month, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) settled with the SEC over charges that it misled investors after CEO Elon Musk, 47 anni, Tweeted that he had secured funding to take Tesla private. You remember the infamous 6 August ‘420’ prank Tweet, Yes? The SEC, which alleged […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Model S Luxury Sedan Lost its “Recommended” Rating + Earnings FLASH
By Paul Ebeling on October 25, 2018 Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), Headline News, Investments, Luxury, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Model S Luxury Sedan Lost its “Recommended” Rating + Earnings FLASH $TSLA The M-3 sedan, seen as Key to Tesla’s profitability, debuted in CR’s with “Average” reliability. M-X SUV is rated “Much Worse Than Average” The M-S luxury sedan dropped to “Below Average” from “Above Average” and is not recommended. Tesla actually made money last […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) A Lesson in Why Not to Buy the Hype
By Paul Ebeling on October 23, 2018 Headline News, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) A Lesson in Why Not to Buy the Hype $TSLA Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) said late Monday evening that it expects to report Q-3 earnings after the closing bell Wednesday. Tesla stock was down 0.3% in after hours trading. The company will host a conference call at 5:30p EDT to discuss the Quarter and outlook. […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Key Quarterly Financial Report Coming
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Key Quarterly Earnings Report Coming $TSLA Selling Vapor Ware and taking deposits on cars that cannot be produced and delivered do not produce earnings. Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Mission: “Accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.” It says soon on its website. My Big Q is: Why? The Big A: 1st Tesla has to prove it […]
Tesla (NADAQ:TSLA) Now Taking Deposits on a Cheaper M-3
By Paul Ebeling on October 19, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NADAQ:TSLA) Now Taking Deposits on a ‘Cheaper’ M-3 $TSLA Tesla is introducing a lower-priced version of its M-3 sedan. The base price will be $45,000; it will cost about $35,000 in California after federal and state tax rebates for as long as they last The company has long promised the M-3 would be a […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): The Drama of Elon Musk Continues
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): The Drama of Elon Musk Continues $TSLA Wall Street Bankers are set to pounce on Tesla as debt payments loom Over $1-B in coming debt payments are putting a huge amount of pressure on Tesla’s Q-3 results Goth performer Grimes and Elon Musk have been spotted together for the 1st time since the […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk Taking ‘Refuge’ in Tequila
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk Taking ‘Refuge’ in Tequila $RACE Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Musk Controlled Board Needs More Manufacturing Expertise Elon Musk, 47 anni, is smart, maybe brilliant and larger than life for many of his cultish followers. And like outstanding entrepreneurs before him, there comes a time when breaking all the rules has adverse effects. For him […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Needs $1-B+ in Cash in the Next 6 Months
By Paul Ebeling on October 15, 2018 General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Needs $1-B+ in Cash in the Next 6 Months $TSLA Wall Street is asking: “where it it going to come from?” By the end of Y 2018 Tesla needs to come up with about $1-B to give to creditors, it does not have it. So, forget the libel lawsuits and the Twitter wars, the […]
Elon Musk Cannot Return as Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Chairman W/O Shareholder Vote
Elon Musk Cannot Return as Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Chairman W/O Shareholder Vote $TSLA The vote shows the SEC is protecting investors. If Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, 47 anni, ever wants to return as Chairman, shareholders will have to vote on it. The requirement is detailed in a court brief filed jointly Thursday by Tesla and the Securities […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk Denies Being Replaced By James Murdoch Chairman
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk Denies Being Replaced By James Murdoch Chairman $TSLA Elon Musk is scared to death of James Murdoch, Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) deposed Chairman Elon Musk denied a report that James Murdoch is the “favorite” candidate to replace him as Chairman of Tesla. CEO Musk Tweeted a reply to a FT article that just […]
James Murdoch to Replace Elon Musk as Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Chairman?
James Murdoch to Replace Elon Musk as Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Chairman? $TSLA, $FOX, $DIS Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. CEO James Murdoch is the lead candidate to replace Elon Musk as Tesla Inc. Chairman, The FT reported Wednesday Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Mr. Musk reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange (SEC) regulators last month in which […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) ‘Puffs’ Agency Safety Analysis
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) ‘Puffs’ Agency Safety Analysis $TSLA Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) claimed its M3 EV has the lowest risk of occupant injury of any vehicle in US government tests, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Tuesday said Tesla’s claim goes beyond the scope of its analysis. The auto safety’s agency’s 5-Star Safety Ratings Program uses […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Must Hire a New Chairman in a Month
By Paul Ebeling on October 9, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Must Hire a New Chairman in a Month $TSLA Tesla’s new Chairman will need to demonstrate the ability to manage founder/CEO Elon Musk The Big Q: What are the traits that will make a great Chairman of Tesla? Whoever replaces Elon Musk will need to have a combination of leadership skills and work experience. Mr. […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Embattled CEO, Chides Funds That Lend Shares to Short-sellers
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Embattled CEO, Chides Funds That Lend Shares to Short-sellers $TSLA, $BLK, $VTI Accused by Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk of making “excessive profit” by lending shares to *Short-sellers, Top index fund companies shot back Friday that they are only looking out for their investors. The responses from BlackRock Inc and Vanguard Group came […]
The Big Q: Can Anyone on Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Board Tame Elon Musk?
By Paul Ebeling on October 7, 2018 Headline News, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
The Big Q: Can Anyone on Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Board Tame Elon Musk? $TSLA Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) board has been quiet since its deposed COB, Elon Musk went on another Twitter tirade, this time Vs the SEC, raises new Questions about who has what it takes to oversee this very unpredictable man who sits in the Corner C-Suite, sleeps […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Despondent CEO, Elon Musk, Knows the “Deception is Up”
By Paul Ebeling on October 6, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Shayne Heffernan, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Despondent CEO, Elon Musk, Knows the “Deception is Up” $TSLA Friday, hedge fund manager David Einhorn hammered Tesla Inc ($TSLA) and its “despondent” CEO Elon Musk, comparing the niche EV company to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, where he had flagged accounting problems several months before its Y 2008 collapse. “Like Lehman, we think […]
US Rates Rise, US Stocks Fall
By Paul Ebeling on October 5, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Top Stories, US Stocks
US Rates Rise, US Stocks Fall $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX, $VXX The stock market fell Friday as bond yields continued to climb following the release of the Employment Situation report for September. The S&P 500 and the DJIA lost 0.6% and 0.7%, respectively; the tech-heavy NAS Comp dropped 1.2%. At its session low, the S&P […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk Mocks SEC in Tweet
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk Mocks SEC in Tweet $TSLA Thursday, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk mocked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) referencing a settlement deal with the commission. “The Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work. And the name change is so on point!” Mr. Musk said in a Tweet where he was likely […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Cannot Deliver Cars Means Tesla Cannot Deliver Profits
By Paul Ebeling on October 4, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Cannot Deliver Cars Means Tesla Cannot Deliver Profits $TSLA Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) may have emerged from ‘production Hell”as the company met Wall Street expectations producing 80,142 vehicles in Q-3, about 50% more than its prior high set in it’s last Quarter, that according to the company. The latest numbers included 53,239 M-3s, just under the 5,000 or so cars […]
Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): “Fight SEC, Else I Quit”
By Paul Ebeling on October 3, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories
Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA): “Fight SEC, Else I Quit” $TSLA Tesla is not an investment, it is a speculation played by professionals, retail participants should proceed with Caution. After the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Elon Musk of securities fraud, Tesla’s board defied regulators, issuing a provocative statement saying that it was “fully […]
Paris Motor Show: Tesla’s Other Problem
By S. Jack Heffernan Ph.D on October 2, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Shayne Heffernan, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Paris Motor Show: Tesla’s Other Problem Tesla has plenty of trouble but the biggest threat was evident this week in Paris as major international car manufacturers show Tesla is not alone, and not in the lead when it comes to electric cars. Auto industry executives gathering this week for the Paris Motor Show will be […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Has Lots of Undelivered Cars
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Has Lots of Undelivered Cars $TSLA Groups of new EVs are being detected in unexplained locations across the country. Evidence posted online has raised questions about production, logistics, quality and even demand. CEO Elon Musk’s settlement of a securities-fraud case has removed 1 cloud over the company and its leader. Another Key remains The Big […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk Future Uncertain, Criminal Charges Maybe Ahead
By Paul Ebeling on October 1, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk Future Uncertain, Criminal Charges Maybe Ahead $TSLA Sell all rallies in Tesla is still our call CEO Elon Musk’s future with Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is a bit clearer after the company settled a securities fraud lawsuit with the SEC, but there are other clouds hanging over the niche EV maker. Under an […]
Is Tesla Dead
By S. Jack Heffernan Ph.D on October 1, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Shayne Heffernan, Shayne Heffernan, Stocks, Top Stories
Tesla has promised to revolutionize the automobile, but the high-end electric car maker keeps hitting road blocks created by its founder Elon Musk’s erratic behavior and considerable ego. Those traits contributed to fraud charges brought against Musk on Thursday by federal regulators, a potentially serious blow coming just as Tesla is ramping up efforts to […]
Is it Time to Sell the Unicorns
By S. Jack Heffernan Ph.D on October 1, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Shayne Heffernan, Shayne Heffernan, Sports, Stocks, Top Stories
Is it Time to Sell the Unicorns With the high valuations and the looming destruction of Tesla there is a strong indication there is a weakening in some parts of the global economy. the Unicorns will be the first victims. Over the last decade, the world’s major economies floated themselves out of recession on oceans […]
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Settles with SEC, Musk Ousted as COB
By Paul Ebeling on September 30, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Settles with SEC, Musk Ousted as COB $TSLA Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and its COB/CEO Elon Musk, 47 anni, have agreed to pay a total of $40-M and make a series of concessions to settle an SEC lawsuit alleging Mr. Musk duped investors with misleading statements about a proposed buyout of the company. The settlement […]
SEC Hammers Musk, Market Hammers Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Shares
By Paul Ebeling on September 28, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
SEC Hammers Musk, Market Hammers Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Shares $TSLA Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) COB/CEO Elon Musk, 47 anni, could have settled with US regulators who have sued to remove him from the niche EV maker’s leadership. Instead, he says he will fight the securities fraud lawsuit against him in court Friday, as shares dove 13.9% deep Bear […]
SEC Charges Musk With Stock Fraud, Want Him Removed From Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
By Paul Ebeling on September 28, 2018 Headline News, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories, US Stocks
SEC Charges Musk With Stock Fraud, Want Him Removed From Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) $TSLA Late Thursday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) COB/CEO Elon Musk, 47 anni, of stock fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the EV company, saying he made a series of “false and […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Has a Musk Imposed ‘Code of Secrecy’ Within Its Ranks
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Has a Musk Imposed ‘Code of Secrecy’ Within Its Ranks $TSLA People could not be hired at Tesla Inc. (NASDAQTSLA) without signing an agreement restricting them from spreading proprietary information, according to the company’s senior director of human resources for production and supply chain. Josh Hedges, the Tesla manager, testified in a National Labor Relations […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Technicals say, “Short Every Rally!”
By Paul Ebeling on September 26, 2018 Headline News, Investments, Opinion, Paul Ebeling, Paul Ebeling, Stocks, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Top Stories
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Technicals say, “Short Every Rally!” $TSLA Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) have been under heavy pressure since mid-August. After trading to all-time highs on 7 August at the 380 mark, TSLA has been hammered by about 20%, closing 300.99 Tuesday. While many times the sell-offs are viewed as buying opportunities, the recent behavior of […]
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Need Lots More Cash, What is Going to Happen?
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Need Lots More Cash, What is Going to Happen? $TSLA, $MS Wall Street experts say, “Tesla will need to raise more cash”, it has some notions about how and when that may happen. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) said that in addition to a capital raise in Y 2018, Elon Musk may also need an outside […]
DOJ’s Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Probe is a Pox on the Company
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Home » theatre503 » 'BU21' at Theatre503, 18th March 2016
'BU21' at Theatre503, 18th March 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016 by londoncitynights
Grandiose apocalyptic disaster used to feel like the stuff of fiction. Now, 15 years on from the Roland Emmerich nightmare theatre of 9/11, it feels increasingly like we're living in a bad disaster film. As atrocities tick by like clockwork; the carnage begins to seem less like an aberration and more like an inevitability. This is the meat of Stuart Slade's BU21, which explores the psychological impact of a jumbo jet being shot down over London by terrorists.
Primarily inspired by the 2014 MH17 crash over the Ukraine, spliced with 9/11 and 7/7 DNA, the play is set in a support group and follows six young Londoners as they struggle to cope with the magnitude of their experiences. Each has their own horror story: bubbly student Floss witnesses a passenger plummet into her back garden from 4500 feet; office worker Thalissa's mother is bisected by a jet engine; banker Alex's home, best friend and girlfriend are reduced to ash; and Ana, a young Romanian, suffers horrible full-body burns.
Sounds like a downer right? Well, it often is. BU21 is studded with grief, betrayal, misery, deformity and trauma - not quite a recipe for a delightful night out in the theatre. Fortunately (and kinda miraculously), BU21 is serious and moving, yet also absolutely hilarious. The ability to combine comedy and tragedy so deftly is an envious skill for a playwright to possess; one Slade previously deployed so thrillingly in 2014's Cans, which dealt with British celebrity paedophilia.
For my money BU21 succeeds because, above all else, it's honest. Slade's characters are all flawed; most at least somewhat unlikeable before metal, fire and corpses rain into their lives. Experiencing brainmelting tragedy does not miraculously transform people into saints; for example, Alex is an arsehole before the disaster and remains an arsehole after it, albeit one with deep mental scars. Eventually, the character's vanity and propensity for tasteless jokes (Floss can't help but think "It's raining men!" upon seeing a passenger crater into her lawn) function as a way to up the contrast - the presence of light making the darks feel so much darker.
Slade also frequently breaks the fourth wall, at one point berating the audience: "As far as I can tell this is essentially a financial exchange where you've paid money to be entertained by a bunch of human suffering - which - if you think about it, is kind of weird." It's a well he returns to time and again; his characters commenting on the play's dramatic structure; conversing with (and insulting!) the audience; and generally fostering an awkwardly adversarial relationship between audience and performers.
Theoretically, if you're trying to sincerely analyse tragedy the last thing you want to do is futz around with metatextual diversions. Yet, again, Slade pulls it off. What happens is that the fourth wall busting accentuated the honesty of the characters; their asides are tinged of verisimilitude and gradually draw the audience into a conspiratorial frame of mind. Characters and audience end up examining events from precisely the same place, the alignment making the big emotional moments a straight-up slam dunk.
And, of course, we're in Theatre503, so the actors are the best in town. Perhaps it goes without saying at this point, but when it comes to straightforwardly talented performers, this particular theatre rarely (if ever) puts a foot wrong. The entire cast, Alex Forsyth, Roxana Lupu, Clive Keene, Florence Roberts, Graham O'Mara and Thalissa Teixera, are all worthy of the highest praise.
Personal highlights were Graham O'Mara; whose frazzled self confidence gradually erodes over the course of the evening. There's an almost imperceptible dramatic shift in the character, beginning from surefooted forthrightness and ending at faking surefooted forthrightness. Technically there's a fag paper's thickness between the two states, but O'Mara carefully and recognisably distinguishes between them.
Somewhat more unsubtle is Alex Forsyth's preeningly hedonistic banker. With one foot in and one foot out of the fiction he's a kind of ersatz compere. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment is making this openly manipulative, misogynist, rapaciously capitalistic sleazebag somehow likeable. God only knows what kind of weird alchemy Forsyth is working with to make us like him (I suspect brute force charisma?) but it works, and the performances provides an acerbic, bristly heart to the piece.
After a streamlined hour and a half we're done, Slade having constructed an equall parts intellectual and emotional thought experiment into how exposure to atrocity affects the soul. Though brief, the ground covered is exhaustive, touching on questions of belief, community, class and politics - all with a touch so light it's easy to miss just how damn rigorous Slade is being. It's a fantastic show and one that deserves to be seen.
So see it!
BU21 is at Theatre503 until 9th April. Tickets here.
Tags: Alex Forsyth , Clive Keene , Florence Roberts , Graham O'Mara , Roxana Lupu , Stuart Slade , Thalissa Teixera , theatre , theatre503
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Louisianas Green Industry Damaged By Hurricane Katrina
Allen D. Owings, Merrill, Thomas A. | 9/16/2005 1:23:53 AM
LSU AgCenter, All
News Release Distributed 09/15/05
Louisiana’s nursery, landscape and retail garden center industry has incurred major damage due to the affects of Hurricane Katrina, according to experts with the LSU AgCenter.
Collectively referred to as the "green industry," these businesses across the state account for annual contributions to Louisiana’s economy of more than $2.2 billion in gross sales. They also employ nearly 56,700 people.
"Among the damage will be crop losses and damage to garden centers," said LSU AgCenter horticulturist Dr. Allen Owings. "But there also are going to be other effects, since large numbers of Louisiana’s licensed landscape contractors and landscape architects live in the affected areas."
Owings said initial estimates show the wholesale nursery crop loss is in the range of $10 million. Wholesale ornamental plant sales annually in Louisiana are estimated at about $120 million with another $100 million plant in inventory.
"These damage estimates do not include plant losses that may result from current or upcoming irrigation system failures," Owings explained, adding, "They also don’t include structural damage, facility damage, container yard damage, irrigation system repairs, cleanup costs and labor involved in pre-storm preparation and post-storm recovery.
To make matters worse, Owings points out that wholesale growers are faced with major market loss because of devastation in New Orleans that will change the face of the landscape industry and retail trade market in that city.
For the landscape industry, nearly 36 percent Louisiana’s licensed landscape contractors and horticulture service providers reside or do business in the areas most heavily affected by Hurricane Katrina. About 22 percent of the state’s licensed landscape architects are in the area.
But there is some good news for them, according to Owings.
"Some landscape professionals, particularly those living on the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain, will be actively involved in cleanup and landscape renovation efforts," he said.
Although estimates are still being gathered, Owings said he anticipates the devastation to retail garden centers also will be "major" in southeastern Louisiana.
"Of the 1,345 Louisiana nursery stock dealers – ranging from independents to mass merchadisers who sell plants through the retail market – more than 27 percent are located in the most affected parishes of St Bernard, St Charles, Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, Tangipahoa, Washington and St Tammany," Owings said, adding that retail garden center trade statewide boasts sales between $500 million and $600 million a year.
Contact: Allen Owings at (225) 578-2222 or aowings@agcenter.lsu.edu
Writer: Tom Merrill at (225) 578-2263 or tmerrill@agcenter.lsu.edu
Email Allen D. Owings
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Remains of the Day: Funny money
By Lex Friedman
Senior Contributor, Macworld | PT
Apple’s taking stock of its stock situation, issuing updates for AirPort, and thinking about making it easier to exchange cash via your iPhone. The remainders for Thursday, February 7, 2013 are in the money.
Statement by Apple (Apple)
Apple was moved to publish a public note in which it explained that yes, it has just a metric ton of cash lying around, and that yes, it’s thinking it ought to consider giving even more of that moolah to its investors. That message came in response to Greenlight Capital suing Apple, claiming that the Cupertino company isn’t doing enough to unlock shareholder value. I’m no investment expert, but I’m fairly certain this means you should either buy or sell Apple stock. Maybe both!
Apple plans mobile to mobile cash loans (CBC Radio Canada)
Speaking of Apple and cash, the company reportedly filed a patent focused on cash loans between iPhone users. If Apple does ever release an app focused on exchanging money, I hope the data never gets stale: I’d hate to explain to someone how to clear the cash cache.
AirPort and Digital Camera RAW updates (Apple)
Apple on Thursday rolled out some minor software updates. There’s AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.3, which adds the ability to extend Guest Wi-Fi networks, WPS-capable Wi-Fi printer support, and support for additional countries. There’s also AirPort Utility 6.2, which can take advantage of that new firmware. And then there’s Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.04, which adds RAW image support for a variety of cameras from Leica, Nikon, Pentax, and Sony. And if you’re like me, whenever you read about such a software update like that last one, you shout, "RAW!" out loud, since the capital letters always seem to suggest a healthy dose of enthusiasm for the photo format. RAW!
Sprint, Despite Best-Ever iPhone Sales, Posts $1.3 Billion Loss (eWeek)
You know how today you can get an iPhone for “free,” so long as you commit to paying at least $1600 over the course of a two-year contract? That’s not exactly what happened to Sprint, but it should at least help you empathize with the fact that they lost over a billion dollars while simultaneously selling more iPhones than ever before.
Lex uses a MacBook Pro, an iPhone 5, an iPad mini, a Kindle 3, a TiVo HD, and a treadmill desk, and loves them all. His latest book, a children's book parody for adults, is called "The Kid in the Crib." Lex lives in New Jersey with his wife and three young kids.
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The message an EFF surge will send to Luthuli House
The message an EFF surge will send to Luthuli House Daniel Silke SHARE THIS 2019-04-23 19:00 Women supporters of the EFF march in Gauteng.
While opinion polls in South Africa have often produced inaccurate results, the eNCA/Markdata poll released this past weekend is - despite its possible inaccuracies - sobering and disturbing. It presents one possible scenario outcome of the May 8 poll and a resulting set of potential consequences.
The headline figures of the poll conducted with over 3 058 respondents nation-wide puts the ANC at 59%, the DA at 21.3% and the EFF at 12.1%. This is close to, but different enough from the South African Institute of Race Relations' last poll which put the ANC closer to 55%, the DA around 23% and the EFF at 11%. Given a margin-of-error at around 3%, these two polls do confirm clear trend-lines now apparent in the election outcomes.
For the purposes of this article only, if we take the eNCA/Markdata numbers as the final result, South Africa will wake up on May 9 to a new political dynamic. At 59%, the ANC will have reversed its recent downward spiral in terms of electoral support and will be back in the driving seat. With 21%, the DA will suffer its first decline in support since 1994 and at 12%, the EFF will be able to claim a virtual 100% increase in its support levels since 2014.
Adriaan Basson - Why more people than before will vote EFF on May 8
But the figures tell another story too. A weakening of the liberal opposition and a strengthening of populists with a radical platform will alter the debate and steer a new discourse back to radical economic transformation.
With the EFF already able to lead the debate on land expropriation, a double-in-size growth for the party will ratify that stand and strategy and put immense pressure on the ANC for a constitutional change that might well be more uncomfortable than originally envisaged.
With the momentum then clearly with the EFF, it will build on its 'pressure-point' style of lobbying and will be emboldened that its own re-racialising of South African politics can be further expanded.
At 21%, the result for the DA would be disastrous. Although not a wipe-out as was the case when the party won 1.7% in 1994, it would signify a backwards step, a failure of leadership and a rejection by the very constituency it has so courted in recent years.
Psychologically, a growing EFF and declining DA will have its own set of dynamics on party moral, participation and fundraising. The old cliche of 'nothing succeeds like success' is very relevant for political parties. Voters want a winning team and they want strength to influence events. A depressed DA will therefore face a herculean task of recovery.
But for all the nuances within the Opposition, the real effects of a rising EFF will be felt within the governing ANC. Although it may receive a pretty resounding 59%, the substantial growth of the populists (EFF) at the expense of the centrists (DA), sends a clear message into Luthuli House.
The electorate will have shifted to a more radical base. And, those within the ANC still sympathetic - and empathetic - to the message of Julius Malema will call for greater synergies between the two parties.
EFF policy conflicts with Ramaphosa/Mboweni axis of power
Gains by the EFF therefore run the risk of destabilising the ANC from within. Its policy platform on state-owned enterprises conflict directly with the Ramaphosa/Mboweni axis of power. Given that Eskom's unbundling process (and larger restructuring) will be key to its (and South Africa's) economic security, the Ramaphosa faction will find it tougher-going to convince his own party of the important (and more market-oriented) structural shifts that need to be made.
A strong EFF will therefore make Ramaphosa's policy shifts even more complex. And with ANC caucus members increasingly uneasy about further electoral erosion at local government level in just 24 months, the ANC might descend into yet another debilitating internal struggle.
It was always going to be tough for Ramaphosa to convince his own decision-making bodies of the need for economic policy change but with an EFF surge, it will become tougher.
Significantly the weekend, other than the Markdata poll, Deputy President David Mabuza very deliberately tweeted out a very comradely picture of himself and Malema. The sentiments of the tweet suggested a commonality of purpose despite being in different political parties.
By choosing to tweet this image, Mabuza is indicating a preference amongst the major opposition groups - perhaps paving the way for a future alliance over the expropriation amendment, provincial pacts where coalitions are needed or even something more akin to an eventual re-integration of the EFF into the ANC.
Of course, Mabuza's apparent affection for Malema is less apparent amongst the Ramaphosa faction. Trevor Manuel is suing the EFF leader. Pravin Gordhan is locked in a war of words with the Red Berets and moderates at Treasury will shiver in their boots at the thought of greater EFF influence.
DA usurped by populist drift
Conversely to this scenario is a decline of the DA - less able to extend its influence into new markets and usurped by a growing populist drift. Its more market-friendly policies will be on the back-foot as statist economics from the EFF becomes more pronounced in the public domain. And, it runs the risk of a debilitating leadership battle should its support decline.
But the real rub will be within the ANC. It will pit the reformers with an understanding of confidence-building market dynamics and global finance against the populists and those keen to foster patronage-based crony-capitalism.
A stronger EFF will pry open the fissures already apparent within the ANC and can lead to a destabilisation of the Ramaphosa Presidency in the process. Ironically for Ramaphosa, his own reform agenda would be better supported if the DA did well and not the EFF.
Ramaphosa will either have to buckle under intense pressure or precipitate a more serious internal schism within his own party to avoid a combustible policy melt-down. It's the stuff of serious political theatre that could play out.
Of course, it's but one scenario which may not occur. The DA could do 25%-plus, the EFF can get below 10% and the ANC may struggle at 55%, But, the confluence of polls do present us with clear polling trends.
Ironically for South Africa, whilst the DA might've not covered itself in glory these past two years, a South Africa with a diminished liberal participant in Parliament can shift the debate to a dangerous terrain - one seen all too often in the Venezuelas or Zimbabwes of this world. A political drama awaits.
- Daniel Silke is director of the Political Futures Consultancy and is a noted keynote speaker and commentator. Views expressed are his own. Follow him at @DanielSilke or visit his
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Champion of the Hill captivates
Cosi Pori ’18 was crowned Champion of the Hill Saturday night at St. Olaf’s homecoming pageant event. Formerly known as King of the Hill, the Student Activities Committee (SAC) switched to the term “Champion” after Director of Student Activities and Buntrock Commons Kris Vatter informed SAC that the male-only pageant was not in accordance with the rules specified in Title IX.
“In the past, King of Hill was a male pageant, and the purpose of the event was to challenge the idea of pageants,” Homecoming Co-Chair Jacob Pullen ’18 said.
However, under “Other Sex-Specific Activities and Rules,” Title IX reads “unless expressly authorized by Title IX or its implementing regulations, a school may not segregate or otherwise distinguish students on the basis of their sex, including gender identity, in any school activities or the application of any school rule.” The challenge, therefore, was to adapt King of the Hill to fit within the specifications of Title IX while maintaining the tradition of the event.
SAC embraced the change, making the event gender-inclusive. According to Pullen, a gender inclusive King of the Hill wasn’t a new idea. While planning the 2015 King of Hill, SAC and the Gender and Sexuality House discussed the possibility of a King of the Hill event that was less masculine and heteronormative.
While in 2015 the idea remained simply that, this year the change was mandatory. The first step of adapting the event was coming up with a new name. The homecoming co-chairs wanted to maintain the spirit and tradition of the event, and therefore chose “champion” to replace “king” since it was gender-neutral. The next step was to modify parts of the structure. Though the events remained the same, modifications were made to make the events less heteronormative. For example, in years past, male competitors were accompanied by a female “escort.” This year, the competitors were able to choose any “guest(s)” to accompany them.
In years past, the SAC committee would ask students to participate in King of the Hill. In this year’s Champion of the Hill, SAC tabled and allowed students to nominate peers. The nominations were gender inclusive.
“The purpose of Champion of the Hill is to showcase Ole pride, spirit and talent, and to move away from making fun of pageant shows,” Pullen said.
The St. Olaf community embraced the change to Champion of the Hill. On Saturday night, the Pause was packed with Oles eager to watch their peers showcase their talent and humor.
Among the judges were Pastor Matthew Marohl, Peter Costanza and Student Government Association president Emma Lind ’17. Champion competitor Nicholas Swanson ’17 started off the night by dropping – or raising – some notes to Lind, while singing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” Swannie Willstein ’19’s cover of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” won her second place. Willstein substituted words in the song with “spaghetti,” and each time she said the word her parents tossed spaghetti at her.
Pori was crowned Champion of the Hill after his showcase of talent. His primary talent was shoveling grapes into his mouth while singing with great passion. The EMTs on hand cast each other uneasy looks, and made sudden movements when they thought Pori was in need of the Heimlich maneuver. The crowd cheered weakly when the song ended, exhausted over their concern for Pori’s airway; nobody, however, could deny Pori’s extraordinary talent and embodiment of the Ole spirit. Later, Pori established power by appealing to the cross country team, who sat in a pack in the audience. When Pori donned the cross country jersey and tattoo, the cross country team stood in unison, applauding.
Champion of the Hill’s gender inclusivity and initiative to showcase Ole talent and spirit was successful.
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Plymouth Big Red seeing numbers grow
The 2018 Plymouth football team has more than 40 players, a dramatic change from a few years ago when it struggled to field a junior varsity team
Plymouth Big Red seeing numbers grow The 2018 Plymouth football team has more than 40 players, a dramatic change from a few years ago when it struggled to field a junior varsity team Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: https://ohne.ws/2OZ4fun
Jake Furr, Mansfield News Journal Published 9:30 a.m. ET Aug. 10, 2018
Plymouth coach Mark Genders returns size and experience and is hoping leadership emerges for the Big Red.(Photo: News Journal file photo)Buy Photo
PLYMOUTH - The Plymouth Big Red football program doesn't have the deepest of traditions.
But that doesn't mean the future looks bleak.
The 2018 Plymouth football team has more than 40 players suiting up, a dramatic change from a few years ago when it struggled to field a junior varsity team. For head coach Mark Genders, it is one of the biggest numbers he has had in his 11 seasons and he hopes it results in a bright future for the Big Red.
He brings back nine letter-winners on both sides of the football in 2018 and lost only four players to graduation.
"Our biggest strength this year will be our experience," Genders said. "My entire offensive line is back and it brings size and veteran leadership to the team."
The Big Red offensive line features three seniors and two juniors and should be the staple of the Big Red offense this season. Senior Treven Lane, a standout pitcher on the Elite Eight baseball team, will start at left tackle. Senior Avery Horne will be beside him at left guard while fellow senior Gryffin McClure will be the team's center.
With junior Jaden Oney at right guard and junior Scott Jenning at right tackle, the Big Red expect to control the line of scrimmage and rely on the run game.
"I have three other linemen who are competing for those jobs who all have varsity experience on the offensive line," Genders said. "We moved Peyton Young to fullback and Marcus Adams to tight end because they are so good they need to be on the field."
The Big Red return their starting quarterback from a year ago. Junior Walker Elliot spent last season cutting his teeth as a young sophomore under center, so his emergence as a leader will be a major X-factor for the Big Red. Junior Marcus Adams and sophomore Cameron Welch are the starting tight ends rounding out the offensive attack.
The biggest X-factor though will be who replaces the All-Time leading rusher and tackler in Plymouth football history Seth Bailey? Senior Kade Collins moves from fullback to running back and should get more touches. At 5-foot-10, 210 pounds, he follows in Bailey's footsteps as a low-to-the-ground, powerful runner. Lucas Montgomery joins Collins in the backfield as the second running back in Genders' Double Wing offense.
"That is going to be our weakness," Genders said. "Who can step in and fill the void of losing Seth Bailey? Who can move into those different positions and really own them? If I know my guys, they will give it everything they have to their new positions. This is a huge opportunity for them."
Defensively, the Big Red have many of the same names. Horne and joins junior Jace Barber as the team's defensive ends while Oney and junior Dylan Van Fleet will play defensive tackle.
Collins and McClure are the starting linebackers for the Big Red while Welch and Elliot are the starting cornerbacks. Anthony Montgomery and Lucas Montgomery are the starting safeties. Junior Breyden Allen and sophomores Cach Oney, Evan Branham and Adler Horne will provide some experienced depth for the Big Red.
"We hope with all of our experience and size up front, it puts us in a good position to compete in the OHSAA state playoffs," Genders said.
The Big Red are looking for their first Firelands Conference championship since their only title came in 1983. Lately, the league has belonged to Norwalk St. Paul, winners of the last six FC titles who have won 19 since 1992.
"Our league over the last few years has been very tough," Genders said. "St. Paul is the benchmark until someone beats them and with the size of the student enrollment and numbers on the team, Crestview is always a favorite. We hope to be right there when the last game is played."
Most of all, the Big Red are looking for consistency. Since 1998, there have been just two winning seasons, '98 and 2014. The Big Red did go through a stretch of three consecutive 5-5 seasons before having the best season in program history in 2014 when they hosted a playoff game for the first time finishing the year 8-3.
With a growing interest in the sport at Plymouth High School, the Big Red are well on their way to a bright future.
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"Love Crimes of Kabul"
A new HBO documentary goes inside Afghanistan's Badam Bagh prison to profile women serving time for "moral crimes"
By Abby Gardner
Courtesy of HBO
If you're a regular MC reader, you know how strongly we feel about reporting on and getting involved with women's issues in Afghanistan. A few months back, Karen Day wrote about women in that country imprisoned for "moral crimes" such as leaving an abusive husband.
Now a new documentary debuting tonight on HBO takes you inside the Badam Bagh women's prison to tell the stories of three women: Kareema, 20, who turned herself and her boyfriend in to authorities after she got pregnant and he refused to marry her; Aleema, 22, who ran away from her violent home who ended up in the home of a woman who then tried to sell her; and Sabereh, 18, who was turned in by her father for fooling around with a boy in a closet.
What I found most poignant about American filmmaker Tanaz Eshaghian's documentary are the similarities you can find between these three women and myself, or other women I know. It's hard to imagine—seeing as we live in a country where people get rich and famous for having sex tapes—that girls like Sabereh (whose virginity is proven by a doctor) are sitting in jail for getting physical with a boy. And yet, the emotions are the same. Kareema seems lovesick over a man who doesn't seem to care about her half as much as she does him. Aleema is the headstrong one, looking to fight the system at every opportunity. And Sabereh, the innocent child, who even the prison guards seem to rally around.
One of the female prison officials says the jails are too full because women have been given too much freedom. This is too much? Can you even imagine? And this is why it's all the more important that we watch films like Love Crimes in Kabul and learn these women's stories and hear their voices.
I won't give away the ending, but I think you'll be surprised and saddened by how it all turns out for these women. Watch and come back to tell us what you think.
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That figure – rising from US$294 billion in 2019 – and prediction comes from a new analytical study by Juniper Research titled “Future Digital Advertising: Artificial Intelligence & Advertising Fraud 2019-2023”. Its research forecasts average annual growth of 15% on digital ad spend over the next 5 years, driven by the use of AI-based programmatic advertising to deliver highly targeted ads. For the purposes of the study, digital advertising includes online, mobile browsing, in-app, SMS, DOOH (Digital-Out-of-Home) and OTT (Over-the-Top) TV services.
The report finds that US eCommerce giant Amazon’s emerging digital advertising business – driven by its unparalleled consumer retail data – will lead the company to capture 8% of global digital ad spend by 2023.
The report anticipates that Amazon’s advertising revenues will reach US$40 billion by 2023, a growth of 470% from its advertising revenues in 2018. While Google’s advertising revenues will exceed US$230 billion by 2023.
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“Giving algorithms access to the vast amounts of data generated by advertising traffic, including purchasing habits, user buckets and geographical location, is critical to enabling advertisers to secure a return on their ad spend,” said the study’s author, Sam Barker.
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Miss Juneteenth participants sought
The Annual citywide Juneteenth celebration is underway and currently looking for participants to partake in the celebration’s Miss Juneteenth program, slated for Friday.
Girls ages 14-18, who are not graduating seniors, are welcome to participate.
The winner will be presented a crown, sash and small cash prize. They also will also represent Juneteenth at various parades, festivals and community outreach activities.
The Miss Juneteenth program will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, June 14 at Smith Park Community Center, 700 Spring St. Practice will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with lunch provided.
The program will include a talent portion and fashion show, including a “dress to impress” outfit of their choice, and a sundress or other dress.
This year’s Juneteenth parade will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday.
For more information, contact committee members Alma Ravenell at 903-930-5461 or Regina Horton at 903-340-7083.
Jefferson theatre group casting for July production
The Opera House Theatre Players, of Jefferson, are still casting for the 4-woman musical, “Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On,” to be produced in July.
The director will be Jefferson newcomer Paul Moore, who will take over the directing chores from the original director and group founder, Marcia Thomas, who was hurt recently in an accident.
The show will also require a musical director for the score, which is made up of songs from the 60s and 70s period. It follows the same four women on their trek through life, with the first show being “Marvelous Wonderettes,” produced successfully by the Players two years ago.
For more information, call 903-665-8243 or 903-926-2760 or visit JeffersonOperaHouseTheatrePlayers.com.
Free orthopedics seminar set June 12
LONGVIEW — Christus Good Shepherd Health System will present a free community seminar, “Keeping You in Motion,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at the Christus Good Shepherd Institute for Healthy Living at 3133 Good Shepherd Way in Longview.
The topic of total hip/total knee replacements will be covered by Stephen G. Littlejohn, M.D.; while Jordan G. Stanley, M.D., will address shoulder pain; and Britton S. Plemmons, DPM, AACFAS, will discuss advances in podiatry.
This seminar is being offered no costs to participants, and there is no registration required. Visit ChristusGoodShepherd.org for more information.
Library to kick off programs June 13
Readers of all ages will explore all things space this summer as the Waskom Public Library presents “A Universe of Stories” during its summer library program.
Activities include crafts, color sheets, stories and presenters. The program is open to children ages preschool to upper elementary, with programs, story times, reading logs and more.
Registration for “A Universe of Stories” is open now at the Waskom Public Library. Program activities will be held at 2 p.m. Thursdays, June 13, 20 and 27 and July 11, 18 and 25.
For more information, call the library at 903-687-3041. All programs are free of charge.
Genealogy session planned June 15
The Cass County Genealogical Society (CCGS) will host a workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 15 on the second floor of the Atlanta Public Library, 101 West Hiram St., Atlanta.
Tracy Jones, a CCGS officer and genealogist will present the program “Genealogy 101: A guide to genealogy research.” This class is set to provide the tools needed to trace one’s family history.
There is no charge and the public is invited to attend.
UM Army seeking projects for June
The United Methodist (UM) Army is seeking projects to do during the week of June 16-22, including: yard work; cleaning gutters; sheet rock repair; painting; porch, stair and siding repair; and wheel chair ramp (repair or installation).
The crew is seeking out projects in the Longview, Hallsville and surrounding area. This service is at no cost to the homeowner. The owner of the home must give written consent prior to the repair.
To schedule an appointment for a site visit to see if the crew can do the work, call First United Methodist Church of Hallsville at 903-660-3216 or Colleen at 903-701-1103. Aaron Dudley or Brian Brooks are overseeing the projects.
Library to host author June 18
Jefferson Carnegie Library is hosting author Ann Weisgarber at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 18. Weisgarber will be speaking on the inspiration for her novel, “The Glovemaker,” set in 1880’s Utah.
Visiting with the author and fellow reading enthusiasts while sipping wine and snacking on refreshments provided by the Pulpwood Queens of East Texas book club. The event is free.
“The Glovemaker” will be available for purchase in hardback for $25. Novels “The Promise” and “The Personal History of Rachel DuPree” in paperback are $15. Cash or checks only. Call 903-665-8911 for more information.
Marshall chamber to host roundtable
The Greater Marshall Chamber of Commerce is organizing a community roundtable from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 19 at Don Juan’s Mexican Grill, 4803 East End Blvd. South, Marshall.
This meeting is an initiative of the chamber to unify Harrison County’s nonprofit organizations, schools and local businesses in sharing information about upcoming community events.
The chamber provides an online community calendar at www.marshalltexas.com and organizes a quarterly meeting to share information.
All interested representatives are invited to attend. Meals are the responsibility of each representative.
For more information, email info@marshalltexas.
Booker T.-Elysian Fields reunion set
The Booker T. Washington/Elysian Fields Mass School reunion is set for June 21-23, 2019 at the Marshall Convention Center, 2501 E. End Blvd. S. in Marshall.
For more information, call Mary Stephens at 972-489-1222 or Jeanatta Smith at 903-766-2666.
Youth horsemanship camp slated
The Dayspring Therapeutic Equestrian Center of Harrison County is hosting a youth horsemanship camp for boys and girls ages 6-16 from 8 a.m. to noon Monday through Wednesday, June 24-26.
Horse-related activities will include grooming, saddling and riding; a fishing contest; a roping contest; as well as crafts, show and tell, games, puppet shows, prizes and snacks.
The registration fee for each participant is $100. The Center is at 2609 Fern Lake Cutoff, Marshall. For more information, contact Sheryl Fogle at 903-923-5552 or 817-980-2535 or email sheryl@sherylfogle.com.
Friends of Marshall Animals extends shoe drive
The Friends of Marshall animals is holding a shoe collection drive to benefit area animals.
Please donate any style or size of gently used or new shoes and take them to the General Store at 216 N. Washington, or The Willow Tree Salon at 2407 E. Houston until the end of June.
Central, Abney schools hosting reunion
The Central and Cary M. Abney (CCMA) schools will be hosting their school reunion July 26-28 at Waskom High School (formerly Cary M. Abney) in Waskom.
For more information, contact: Jimmie Winkley Jackson, 903-926-7771; Willie Brown Hill, 903-926-1611; Wanda Luster Mays, 318-455-3548; Robert “Sonny” Lacy, 318-636-4691; or Brenda Benton Hill, 903-687-2404.
Home Health Hospice in Marshall seeks volunteers
Texas Home Health Hospice needs volunteers to offer patient companionship, family support and office assistance. For information, email kristinabuckrell@txhha.com or call Kristi Buckrell at (903) 234-0943.
Extension Quilt and Crafts club meetings set
The quilt and crafts club, sponsored by the Harrison County Extension Office, will meet at 1:30 p.m. every first and third Tuesday at the Harrison County Extension Office, 102 W. Houston St. in Marshall. For more information, call 903-935-8414.
Food Pantry seeking volunteers
The Marshall Food Pantry is seeking volunteers to help run the facility. Duties include greeting clients, assisting them as they choose groceries, re-stocking shelves and taking delivery of donated food items. Volunteers can work a four-hour shift Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Teams of three workers each day is needed. Crafts and activities provided. Adults with children, as well as teenagers 16 and up, are welcome to serve. For information, call 903-472-4944.
Marshall Home Care hosts grief support
Marshall Home Care & Hospice has a grief support group which meets the last Thursday of every month at noon at 111. E. Burleson St. in Marshall. The group is open to the public, and its focus is assisting individuals as they navigate their way through the stages of grief. For information, call 903-923-8154.
Teen mom support group meet on third Tuesdays
Teen MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) has begun a teen group in Marshall. Teen MOPS provides a faith-based, supportive, nonjudgmental environment where teen moms can come together for mentoring and encouragement. This group is a section of the Christian organization, MOPS International and is for mothers ages 22 and younger. The group meets at 5:30 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month at Immanuel Baptist Church. A meal and childcare is provided. Attendees will also receive free giveaways including diapers, wipes, and other baby essentials. Please contact teenmopsmarshall@gmail.com for additional information.
American Legion seeks new members
Harrison County has more than 5,000 Veterans, yet the Smiley — Summers post only has 144 members and George Thompson post has 38. Not only are veterans eligible to join the Legion, but there is a place for families with the Auxiliary and the Sons of the Legion. American Legion Post 267 is located at 1904 Bomar St. For information on how to join, call 903-935-2655.
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Creative Anarchy 2017 Recap
I spoke to the creative community of Iloilo, the Philippines at Creative Anarchy 2017. This was the first design, motion, and tech conference held in the area, and I'm so honored to have been a part of it. I got to share the stage 5 other amazing speakers. Each of us got to share our stories of our own creative journeys. I had a blast connecting with the young talent there. I hope to be back in the Philippines again, real soon. Watch the event recap video here.
Yes. They made me dance on stage.
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Philippines – Speaking at Creative Anarchy 12/16
I'll be speaking in Iloilo City, Philippines on December 12, 2017. Join me and 5 other amazing speakers for a day of inspiration, stories, and Q&A. Check creativeanarchy.ph for updates, info and tickets.
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3x3 Tales From The Wild
I'll be speaking at Art Center October 26th with fellow Alumni from NASA's JPL and Local Projects.
Hear the about the journeys of three recent alumni who redefined their roles as young designers in the broadening field of graphic design.
Wednesday, October 26th, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Los Angeles Times Media Center (LAT) Art Center College of Design, Hillside Campus
1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
Paul Hoppe
Visual Experience Design Director / Associate Creative Director at Local Projects
Paul is a designer exploring the future of visual and interaction design for spaces and experiences. He currently co-directs the visual experience design department at Local Projects in NYC, where he is also an associate creative director. He is also a visiting faculty and advisory board member for the graduate program in graphic design at Art Center and teaches information design at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Lois Kim
Visual Strategist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lois works on bringing concepts and missions of scientists and engineers to life through her visual language. With these concepts, she creates and art directs visually intriguing stories, designs, branding, print, and art installations. She hopes that her work will spark inspiration and show the beauty of science through art and design.
Creative Director at Blind
Matthew is a creative director and content creator for brands, entertainment, and video games. With a background in branding, design, and animation, he currently leads the team at Blind as a creative director. Matthew’s work has been featured in Fast Company, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and in festivals around the world. His career highlights include the Webby Award winning interactive music video “Ink” for Coldplay, and the CLIO award winning “Jump Ahead” film for Xbox. matthewencina.com blind.com
tags: Art Center
TEDxCSULB | Start Before You're Ready
Start before you're ready. Amazing things can happen.
In April 2016, I delivered my TEDx talk on my experiences as a creative, and committing to do something well before I was ready. I hope my story can inspire those of you who are hesitant, to push through the threshold of fear and doubt, and take your shot.
tags: speaking, TEDxCSULB, TEDx, Coldplay
Graphika Manila 2016 Recap
Kakampi put together this wonderful recap video of the creative conference, Graphika Manila, I spoke at in the Philippines earlier this year. There's some amazing advice from all of the speakers in this video, for creatives in all fields.
Spoke in front of 4,000 hungry creative minds. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my creative career.
tags: Manila, Philippines, Speaking
12 minutes! A Mini success story.
This morning, during my daily rehearsal in my sweat pants, in front of my imaginary audience, I finally hit the 12 minute mark of my TEDx Talk.
tags: talks, Speaking Engagements, TEDxCSULB, TED
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Material Detail: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II. Adams's Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style landscape photography. Although a majority of the more than 200 photographs are portraits, the images also include views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities
The Library of Congress has owned these pictures since the 1960s. However, for the first time, digital scans of both Adams's original negatives and his photographic prints appear side by side allowing viewers to see Adams's darkroom technique, in particular, how he cropped his prints.
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Princess Charlotte kisses baby brother Prince Louis in new photos from the Royal Family
First official pictures of the new Prince are here
By Erica Gonzales
New photos of Prince Louis have arrived. Prince William and Kate Middleton have shared new portraits of the new royal, who was born on 23 April, on social media today, and he looks even cuter than ever.
The first picture was taken on 26 April, three days after he was born. After remaining fast asleep during his first photo op, Louis was wide awake for his first-ever portrait taken by his mom, the Duchess of Cambridge. The new mother of three, an avid photographer, has been capturing the official birthday portraits of Prince George and Princess Charlotte for the past few years.
The second image was taken a few days later, on May 2, during Princess Charlotte's third birthday. In the shot, she gives her new baby brother a kiss on the forehead.
Back in 2015, Prince George took similar photos with newborn Princess Charlotte.
We're delighted to share the first photo of Prince George with his little sister Princess Charlotte. #WelcomeToTheFamily This photograph is the first of four official photographs being released today, taken by The Duchess of Cambridge in mid-May.
A post shared by Kensington Palace (@kensingtonroyal) on Jun 6, 2015 at 1:02pm PDT
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge didn't release a portrait for Charlotte's birthday this year, but this sibling photo may make up for that. It's understandable why the royal parents might not want to overshare photos of their children.
"William and Kate won't want to overexpose their children. They have never been entirely conventional so I imagine they might release a photo in their own time," royal expert Penny Junor told Elle UK.
It may be a while before royal fans get even more photos of Prince Louis, since he won't be at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding on May 19. We can't wait to see him pose with both his siblings for the first time.
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Each season Sea Dog players come to Portland on their journey to their ultimate goal: playing for the Boston Red Sox. Sea Dog players come from all over the world and arrive in Portland a few days prior to the start of the season with new players arriving throughout the season. During their time in Portland, many players depend on host families to provide both a home and a family while they are away from theirs.
Presently the Sea Dogs are in need of host families for the 2019 season. Host families are asked to house a Sea Dog player during their time in Portland. The Sea Dogs' season runs from April through early September with the players spending half that time on the road. While at home, much of their time is spent at the ballpark.
It can be difficult for players to find a place to stay while in Portland because they could be promoted, demoted, released, or traded at any moment and they do not make an extraordinary amount of money to be able to pay rent for an apartment. Host families help bridge that gap and allow players to focus on working hard and enjoying Portland instead of worrying about where they will be staying.
Many players form lifelong bonds with their host families and usually involve their host families in team functions including tickets to the games. Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, and Justin Masterson are just a few of the Red Sox stars who stayed with a host family during their time in Portland.
WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW:
We will need to know what accommodations you will be able to provide and rent you may charge (if any). We are open to any type of living arrangement that you are able to provide; spare bedroom, apartment, etc. The only requirement we have is that you must be able to provide the player with his own private bedroom.
The Portland Sea Dogs do not place players with host families directly. We compile a list of potential host families and send it down to spring training in March. As players get assigned to Portland they get the list and contact host families directly. This way you can get to know the player and they can get to know you and make sure it will be a good fit for all involved. Once the season starts we have players coming in and leaving all the time, so we also keep the list on file to give the new players once they arrive.
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Feature Stories on the Sea Dogs' Host Family Program;
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Clone: REA1083 | Dilution: 1:50
Clone REA1083 recognizes the mouse CD153 (CD30 ligand) antigen, a 40 kDa type II membrane protein belonging to the NGF/TNF superfamily. It is expressed by activated CD4
and CD8
T cells. The interaction between CD30 and CD153 enhance the proliferation of stimulated T cells but in the presence of the REA1083 antibody this effect is blocked.
treatment with this antibody is reported to inhibit or delay immune reactions.
Additional information: Clone REA1083 displays negligible binding to Fc receptors.
TNFSF8, CD30LG, CD30L
Clone: REA1083
Alternative names of antigen: TNFSF8, CD30LG, CD30L
Distribution of antigen: B cells, bone marrow, eosinophils, granulocytes, macrophages, monocytes, myeloid cells, neutrophils, T cells
Available conjugates: APC, PE-Vio615, VioBright 515, Biotin
Splenocytes from C57BL/6 mice were either left unstimulated (left images) or stimulated with plate-bound CD3 antibodies and soluble CD28 antibodies for 24 hours. Cells were then stained with CD153 antibodies as well as with CD4 antibodies and analyzed by flow cytometry using the MACSQuant
Analyzer. Cell debris and dead cells were excluded from the analysis based on scatter signals and propidium iodide fluorescence or 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) fluorescence, as in the case of tandem conjugates.
al-Shamkhani, A. et al. (1996) OX40 is differentially expressed on activated rat and mouse T cells and is the sole receptor for the OX40 ligand. Eur. J. Immunol. 26(8): 1695-1699
Akiba, H. et al. (1999) CD28-independent costimulation of T cells by OX40 ligand and CD70 on activated B cells. J. Immunol. 162(12): 7058-7066
Kjaergaard, J. et al. (2001) Augmentation versus inhibition: effects of conjunctional OX-40 receptor monoclonal antibody and IL-2 treatment on adoptive immunotherapy of advanced tumor. J. Immunol. 167: 6669-6677
30 µg in 200 µL (1)
cells in a final volume of 100 µL.
CD53-APC, mouse
150 µg in 1 mL (1)
CD153-PE-Vio615, mouse
CD153-VioBright 515, mouse
CD153-Biotin, mouse
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Hounde Gold Mine
Burkina Faso, West Africa
Endeavour Mining (90%) and Government of Burkina Faso (10%)
Mining Method
Open-pit
Proven and probable: 31Mt
Annual Production
190,000oz
Mine Life
Lycopodium Minerals, Cube Consulting, Knight Piésold, Orelogy, Genivar, Orway Mineral Consultants, Outotec, and Komatsu
The Houndé gold mine is located in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Image: courtesy of Endeavour Mining.
Endeavour Mining commenced construction of onsite facilities at the Houndé gold mine in June 2016. Image: courtesy of Endeavour Mining.
Ring beams for the carbon-in-leach circuit under construction. Image: courtesy of Endeavour Mining.
Komatsu is supplying its mining fleet for the project. Image: courtesy of Endeavour Mining.
A water harvest dam is being built to supply water for the project. Image: courtesy of Endeavour Mining.
Houndé gold mine is located 250km south-west of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou in West Africa. It is one of the highest quality development projects in the region.
The project is owned by Endeavour Mining (90%) and the Government of Burkina Faso (10%). Endeavour was awarded the mining permit for the project in February 2015.
Houndé will be Endeavour’s leading low-cost mine due to the availability of existing infrastructure. The estimated cost of developing the project is $328m.
Construction of on-site facilities commenced in June 2016, with first production expected in the fourth quarter of 2017. Houndé is expected to have an average annual production of 190,000oz over its ten years of mine life.
Geology and mineralisation at the West African mine
The Houndé project spans 1,075km² of the Birimian belt of Burkina Faso. The majority (88%) of the mine’s reserves are located in the Vindaloo deposit, with Bouéré and Dohoun holding the remaining reserves.
Vindaloo is a shear hosted sub-vertical deposit of the Proterozoic-age that trends north-northeast and dips to the west vertically. The deposit is characterised by intensely sericite and silica-altered mafic intrusions, severely foliated mafic volcaniclastics and other sediments. Gold mineralisation that is weak to moderate pyritic occurs in quartz stockworks.
Houndé gold mine reserves
Proven and probable reserves at the mine are estimated to be a 31 million tonnes (Mt) grading 2.1g/t Au, containing 2.1 million ounces (Moz) of gold.
Measured and indicated mineral resources are estimated to be a 38Mt grading 2.10g/t Au containing 2.5Moz of gold, whereas inferred mineral resources are estimated to be a 3Mt grading 2.6g/t Au containing 0.3Moz of gold.
Mining and processing of ore at Endeavour’s gold mine
The Houndé mine will be developed using open-pit mining methods, including drilling and blasting.
Produced ore will be trucked to a 3Mt/y process plant consisting of a SABC comminution circuit, gravity concentration circuit, and carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit for processing.
A single toggle jaw crusher will grind the ore to a coarse product, which will be fed to the SABC comminution circuit consisting of 6MW SAG and ball mills, and a recycle pebble crusher. The SABC comminution circuit will grind the product to a size of 90μm, which will then be transferred to the gravity concentration circuit.
Using continuous centrifugal gravity concentrators and an ultra-fine grind mill, the gravity concentration circuit will recover coarse or heavy particles from the slurry to be reground to a size of 10μm.
The product will be combined with gravity tails to increase the slurry density, and is then sent to the CIL circuit, consisting of six stages of leaching with carbon. The loaded carbon then passes through a split AARL elution circuit, electrowinning and gold smelting to produce doré.
A sulphur dioxide/air cyanide destruction circuit will be used to reduce the cyanide concentration in the tailings to less than 50 parts per million (ppm) to comply with the International Cyanide Management Code.
Tailings from the process plant will be pumped to the tailings storage facility.
Houndé project infrastructure facilities
The project is currently being accessed through a 1.5km unsealed track, which will be upgraded to a sealed 9m-wide road during the mine development. Access to the camp will be provided by a 7m unsealed road.
Power required for the processing plant will be supplied by a 225kV power line running from Cote d’Ivoire to Ouagadougou. Endeavour has signed a power off-take agreement with the state power entity, Sonabel, to supply power for the project. A dedicated 91/11kV substation and a 38km-long 91kV overhead power line will be constructed to connect with the 225kV power line.
A water harvest dam will be constructed to supply water for the project. A supplement water storage dam will also be developed for storage of water during the wet season.
Contractors involved with the open-pit gold mine
Lycopodium Minerals was the lead consultant for carrying out the feasibility study for the project. Cube Consulting, Knight Piésold and Orelogy also took part in the feasibility study.
Genivar and Orway Mineral Consultants carried out the environmental and social studies for the project.
In April 2016, Outotec was awarded a €13m ($18.72m) contract to supply process equipment and services for the project, including a 6MW SAG grinding mill, a 6MW ball mill and a pre-leach thickener.
Komatsu is supplying its mining fleet for the project under a $38m contract.
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Monterrey Airport Guide to General Mariano Escobedo International Airport
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Monterrey Airport Terminal C
Monterrey Airport Terminal C began operations in 2006. It is able to handle 2.5 million passengers per year.
It is only home of VivaAerobus carrier, which operates domestic and some international low-cost flights.
There’s a free shuttle bus available near the main entrances that runs between all terminals, from 05:00 am to 00:00 am.
Monterrey Airport Terminal C consists of a single level where four boarding gates are located (F1-F4).
See the Services at Monterrey Airport Terminal C:
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Le Verdon sur Mer
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On the northernmost tip of the Médoc peninsula, in the Aquitaine region, rises the small village of Le Verdon-sur-Mer, which as the name recalls, is on the sea, but more precisely on the Atlantic.
Small roads, characteristic French houses, small restaurants whose intoxicating smells tempt you to try their cuisine, boundless beaches where the impetuous waves of the ocean meet the land: this fascinating town is the destination of an MSC Cruise. A stroll to discover what this area has to offer is a pleasant way to start an MSC excursion headed for Bordeaux.
This city has been on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 2007, it is the capital of the Gironde department and is famous all over the world for its renowned wine. After an extensive renovation of its historic buildings and the construction of contemporary architecture, Bordeaux is a prime example of the fascinating mix of the past, present and future: this excursion is more than just highly recommended.
It is impossible not to love this city: a boat trip on the river Garonne, which flows through the city, a glimpse of Place de la Bourse, the square built in the XVIII century, with its Miroir d’eau (Water Mirror), a spectacular endeavour which alternates the "mirror of water" with jets of steam, and a glance at the City of Wine, which for the French, is considered and with reason, a cultural heritage. You cannot miss the Public Garden, with blooming flowers and plants, the imposing gothic Pey Berland tower, the Saint Pierre district in the ancient medieval part of the city; a labyrinth of lively narrow streets whose names recall the crafts and trades of the time.
Fleche del Saint Michel al Bordeaux
Girondins Fountain, Bordeaux
The Atlantic breeze
Each quintessentially French yet cherishing its own unique identity, Brittany and Normandy rank among the most intriguing and distinctive regions of France.
Visitors can explore either or both on an MSC Northern Europe cruise, offering a wonderful opportunity to experience the best the country has to offer: sheltered white-sand beaches and wild rugged coastlines; mighty medieval fortresses and mysterious megaliths; graceful Gothic cathedrals and breathtaking contemporary architecture; heathland studded with wildflowers and deep ancient forests. Best of all, perhaps, there’s the compelling and exuberant cuisine, from the seafood extravaganzas in countless little ports to the rich pungent cheeses of rural Normandy.
A cruise to Normandy will take you to its prized large-scale ports: Rouen, Dieppe, Cherbourg and Le Havre. Inland, it is a wonderfully fertile belt of tranquil pastureland, where most visitors head straight for the restaurants of the Pays d’Auge and the Suisse Normande. While the pleasures of Normandy are perhaps less intense than those of Brittany, it too has its fair share of beaches, ranging from the shelving shingle of pretty Étretat to the vast sandy swathes that line the western Cotentin peninsula.
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Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions
Nathan J. Cook ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-24021,
Tara Grillos ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5743-38252 &
Krister P. Andersson ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9320-81551
Nature Climate Changevolume 9, pages330–334 (2019) | Download Citation
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Psychology and behaviour
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Interventions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions strive to promote gender balance so that men and women have equal rights to participate in, and benefit from, decision-making about such interventions. One conventional way to achieve gender balance is to introduce gender quotas. Here we show that gender quotas make interventions more effective and lead to more equal sharing of intervention benefits. We conducted a randomized ‘lab’-in-the-field experiment in which 440 forest users from Indonesia, Peru and Tanzania made decisions about extraction and conservation in a forest common. We randomly assigned a gender quota to half of the participating groups, requiring that at least 50% of group members were women. Groups with the gender quota conserved more trees as a response to a ‘payment for ecosystem services’ intervention and shared the payment more equally. We attribute this effect to the gender composition of the group, not the presence of female leaders.
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We thank E. Mwangi and M. C. Lopez for collaboration during the design and implementation of the experiment in the field, the 440 men and women who agreed to participate in our lab-in-the-field experiments and Z. Cruz, T. Kusumajati and B. Naftal for coordinating the field-research activities in the three countries. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation (grants DEB-1114984, BCS-1115009, SMA-328688 and SES-1757136) as well as the Center for International Forestry Research (through grants from the European Commission and the UK Department for International Development).
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"Kate Plus 8" Gets Canceled
By Eric Alt
Published Aug 15, 2011 at 4:16 PM | Updated at 9:30 PM EDT on Aug 15, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Gosselin and the Kids in Philly
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/entertainment/television/Kate-Plus-8-Gets-Cut-127772548.html
Philly Chit Chat's HughE Dillon received a tip that Kate and the kids were in town. Wanna know why she was here -- and for how long? (Published Monday, Jan. 3, 2011)
It's probably safe to say that at least eight of the nine stars of "Kate Plus 8" have to be pretty relieved by this news.
TLC announced Monday that it will not be renewing "Kate Plus 8" following this season, although it has left the door open for possible "check in" specials down the line.
"TLC has decided not to renew another season of 'Kate Plus 8,' " the network in a statement. "TLC hopes to check in with Kate and the family periodically with specials in the future."
The network also praised the reality show for hitting the 150 episode milestone (counting the original incarnation, "Jon & Kate Plus 8").
Twist of Kate: Say Goodbye to "Kate Plus 8"
For a show that started out hopeful but soon became a cautionary tale about the pressures of the spotlight, this can only be seen as good news. However, given how passionately Kate Gosselin has pursued the spotlight so far, it seems likely she is far from done with her TV career.
In weighing in on the cancellation, Kate Gosselin assured she intended to keep busy.
'We've had a great run!" Kate tweeted.
She called the cancellation "very sad," writing that "there were many tears at the breakfast table this morning," E! News reported.
But she said she planned to use her free time for more motivational speaking, book writing and "maybe even some dating."
Her ex, Jon Gosselin, told RadarOnline that he was "very relieved" his kids would get more time away from the cameras.
"I hope they can have more private family moments," he told Radar. "I hope that this will bring more privacy to my children and that they can get the proper attention they need for any personal issues they might have in the future."
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Importance of the Commons
July 17, 2013 By: NCVeditor Category: Community, Ecology, Economy, Jay Walljasper
In Praise of Vacant Lots and Community Development
by Jay Walljasper
It’s easy to talk about the importance of the commons in grand terms — vast stretches of breathtaking wilderness, publicly funded advances in science and technology, essential cultural and civic institutions, the air and water which we all depend on for survival. But let’s not forget the lowly commons all around that enrich our lives. Things like sidewalks, playgrounds, community gardens, murals, neighborhood hangouts, and vacant lots. Especially vacant lots.
Modern society’s obsession with efficiency, productivity, and purposefulness sometimes blinds us to the epic possibilities of empty spaces that aren’t serving any profitable economic function. The word “vacant” itself implies that these places are devoid of value. But think back to all the imaginative uses you could discover for vacant land as a kid. You probably realized someone else owned it, but it was still yours to run around, play ball, plant a garden, host tea parties, pitch a tent or just get away from the watchful eye of adults. Thankfully, commoners in many places are working to make sure that vacant lots will be there for future generations of kids.
Jonathan Rowe, who wrote with keen insight about the commons until his death in 2011, became a champion of shared public space in his home, Point Reyes Station, California, where several vacant lots sat on Main Street. “A friend and I decided to see if we could make a commons happen there just by seeding it a bit,” he writes in the book Our Common Wealth.
They fixed up some old garden benches and quietly deposited them in the lots along with other seats made out of tree stumps. “People started using the benches, talking and sipping and just resting their feet.” It quickly became the heart of town and West Marin Commons, a group he co-founded secured a long-term lease for the lot, which is now commonly called Jon Rowe Park.
A bigger scale example is the 596 Acres project, which identified every last parcel of publicly owned vacant land in Brooklyn with an eye to opening them up to the community for gardens and informal parks. The project is now expanding across the city, and the 596 Acres website offers detailed information on how to begin the process of turning vacant lots (including those now locked behind fences or privately owned) into community commons.
The biggest problem in many communities — especially low-income ones — is caused by perception more than reality. A part of town gets the reputation for being “tough,” or “declining,” which is constantly reinforced in the media and local gossip. A negative incident happening there is widely reported as more evidence of “social breakdown,” whereas the same thing occurring in another place would be thought of as “an unfortunate event” and quickly forgotten.
Making things worse, many well-intentioned efforts to help these afflicted areas wind up stigmatizing the community even more. The whole focus is on everything that’s wrong: bad schools, bad crime, bad housing, bad gangs, bad economic opportunities. Even the people who live there come to feel negative about where they live and helpless to do anything to change things. It’s all just bad.
Yet even in the most economically and socially challenged communities, there are a lot of good things going on — shared dreams, community assets, and ways that people come together. These are the building blocks to make things better.
On paper, things looked bleak for the Grand Boulevard neighborhood in Chicago in the early ’90s. Eighty percent of children there lived in poverty, and a third of adults were unemployed. Yet below the surface, not visible in government statistics or a quick drive down its rundown streets, there was reason for hope.
This largely African-American community of 36,000 on the city’s South Side was home to no less than 320 citizens groups working to improve life in the neighborhood. Grand Boulevard’s residents were not just hapless victims waiting for someone from the outside to rescue them; they were taking matters into their own hands. These community groups — which ranged from church committees to senior citizen centers to mothers’ support groups — were mostly involved in the basic caretaking such as providing support for single mothers or taking in children whose parents were in prison.
Eventually many of these groups organized themselves into the Grand Boulevard Federation, which started addressing more complex issues such as creating jobs in the neighborhood and improving social services. They formed partnerships with government agencies, non-profit organizations and businesses, such as United Parcel Service, which reserved 50 part-time jobs for Grand Boulevard residents needing to get back on their feet. This made a difference in Grand Boulevard — both in concrete economic and social measures, but also the community’s own faith that they can solve their problems.
“For the last 40 or 50 years we have been looking at communities in terms of their needs,” says Jody Kretzmann, co-director of the Asset Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University. “We have run into a brick wall with that approach.” Kretzmann and his colleague John McKnight of Northwestern pioneered a new approach to urban problems that starts with looking at the assets that exist in a community, rather than just looking at what’s wrong. This empowers people, Kretzmann says, drawing on the abilities and insight of local residents to solve a neighborhood’s own problems. This does not mean, he is careful to note, that troubled neighborhoods don’t need outside help. Kretzmann suggests all local revitalization projects begin with an assets inventory– which can be as simple as a list of what’s good about the neighborhood Solicit the opinions of everyone, including youngsters and senior citizens, when compiling your list.
Jim Diers, a veteran activist who has held workshops throughout Seattle to help residents improve their neighborhoods, says, “The assets a neighborhood can build on range from natural features to a school playground, great stores, networks, organizations, artists, and the whole range of human and financial resources, energy, creativity, and ideas. Whether it’s a restaurant with especially delicious food, a gigantic cedar tree, or a longtime resident, a neighborhood treasure is something that makes us glad we live where we do.”
Jay Walljasper is co-editor of On the Commons, and is the author of All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons (The New Press, 2010). His new book, How to Design Our World for Happiness, is now available online. Walljasper is a Contributing Editor at National Geographic Traveler, a Senior Fellow of the Project for Public Spaces, and a Contributing Author for New Clear Vision. His website is: www.JayWalljasper.com.
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Robert Riversong says:
When you note that “well-intentioned efforts to help these afflicted areas wind up stigmatizing the community even more”, I was reminded of an experience in northern Tennessee in the early 1980s when I was leading a local construction crew in building the first two prototype super-insulated little homes in Rose’s Creek Hollow.
Community in those “hollers” has long centered around the myriad evangelical churches, many of which have annual “homecomings” for reconnecting a dispersed congregation.
I dropped in on one such outdoor church picnic and a middle-aged man asked what I was doing in the area. I explained that I came down from Massachusetts to help with house-building on a new community land trust (a form of perpetual commons).
He looked askance at me and said, “Well I remember when LBJ sent a lot of you northerners down here to help us out. They told us we was poor and needed their services. Back then, we had two movie theaters, an opera house, a market and a school. In fact, we had everything we needed and lived a good life. We didn’t know we was poor until y’all told us we was poor.”
In fact, one of the projects that those Great Society War on Poverty folks did FOR the hill people was to put up trailer homes to use as weekly free medical clinics for people who had never seen a doctor.
Some years later, a followup study was done to see how it might have impacted the overall health of the community, and what they found was that health had deteriorated. They attributed that decline, in part at least, to the loss of traditional healing methods in favor of “modern” medicine.
The locals may not have been in the best of health, but they knew how to heal their common afflictions. Once outside help rendered them helpless to take care of themselves, they began to sicken.
Catch 22. Or, unintended consequences. Or, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Touchdown: Japan's Hayabusa2 makes final landing on asteroid
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Buenos Aires - The roars of lions, snorts of rhino and trumpets of elephants still blend with the cacophony of honking buses and screeching cars passing nearby in one of the most heavily congested areas of Argentina's capital.
A year after the 140-year-old Buenos Aires zoo closed its doors and was transformed into a park, hundreds of animals remain behind bars and in a noisy limbo.
Developers last July promised to relocate most of the zoo's 1 500 animals to sanctuaries in Argentina and abroad, but they had made no firm arrangements to do so. And a new master plan announced on Tuesday still doesn't specify how they will accomplish it.
Many of the animals are so zoo-trained that experts fear they would die if moved, even to wild animal preserves.
Conservationists also complain that the remaining animals still live in antiquated enclosures widely considered inhumane by modern standards - and say the city government's new plan gives few specifics of how improvements will be made.
"It's gone from bad to worse," said Claudio Bertonatti, a former Buenos Aires zoo director and consultant for the Fundacion Azara non-governmental organisation. "Everything is set for Noah's Ark to be shipwrecked."
Take time
The zoo was inaugurated in 1875 on what was then a quiet patch on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, but is now an urban zone of busy avenues with bleating buses near the animal cages.
The first director decided that the animals should be housed in buildings that reflected their countries of origin. A replica of a Hindu temple was built for the Asian elephants. Giraffes were housed in an Islamic-inspired structure, the red panda in a Chinese pagoda. Many of those buildings remain on the 18ha site, but are in need of repair.
When Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta announced its closure last year, he said the animals were a "treasure" that couldn't remain in captivity near the noise and pollution.
Since then, some condors have been freed and about 360 other animals rescued from trafficking have been sent to other institutions. But not a single animal owned by the city has been transferred.
City officials say the process has proved more difficult than they thought at first. Legislation had to be enacted to set standards and authorise the transfers. They only recently hired a conservationist manager to study which animals can be moved and arrange it. But it's not yet clear how many can stand a move, or who might take them.
"We knew that this was going to take time," Rodriguez Larreta said on Tuesday at a press conference in front of a pond where pink flamingos swam at the former zoo.
"Speeding up the process will just put them at risk, so we're going to take all the time that's necessary," he said, adding that some might have to remain in their enclosures because the risk of transferring them is too high.
'Controlled zones'
Using slides, Rodriguez Larreta and Modernization Minister Andy Freire unveiled the plan showing a revamped layout and expansion for the park's green spaces to 13.5ha from 10.9ha currently.
Freire said many of the animals are expected to share "controlled zones" instead of cages and natural limits like rocks or moats will be used instead of bars to separate the animals that cannot be in the same area. The architectural renderings also included cultural and recreational spaces and a futuristic-looking interactive centre called the beacon of biodiversity.
But critics complain the plan focuses on long-term, ambitious architectural designs that prioritise the expansion of green spaces, but which lack detailed plans for the existing animals.
A coalition of a dozen conservationist and veterinarian groups reviewed a draft of the city master plan and issued an April 28 letter calling on officials to specify which animals will be permanently housed at the park, and in what conditions.
It said the only changes made since the zoo closed "are the changing of the name, a rise in the cost of the tickets and the closing of some areas and more staff, without this improving the conditions of the animals".
Even so, some of the stress for animals has been reduced by a cutback in allowed visitors, who in the past could number 10 000 a day. Only about 2 000 a day are now permitted and some animal habitats are off-limits.
On a recent morning, Garoto and Porota, a couple of grey hippos swam to edge of their pond and opened their mouths wide showing their caramel teeth while Guille, their baby hippo lurked the dark water.
In a nearby enclosure, the giraffes Shaki, Buddy and their calf, Ciro, stuck out their long tongues to drink water from yellow plastic containers tethered to a roof.
Sandra, the orangutan, was enthralled by patches of grass that had been recently installed in her enclosure. She became known worldwide when an Argentine court issued a landmark ruling in 2014 that she was entitled to some of the legal rights enjoyed by humans. She's no longer on display for visitors.
"The [city government] hasn't made the enclosures bigger. There are minor infrastructural changes, but there is a total deterioration," said Juan Carlos Sassaroli, a veterinarian who formerly worked at the zoo.
"The enclosures haven't been modified, and obviously, the animals suffer."
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Dr Bronwyn Howell on UFB in NZ: "We’re at the bleeding edge of this and the bleeding edge is where all of these things are found." Photo: Lynn Grieveson.
OCTOBER 9, 2018 Updated October 9, 2018
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Migrant exploitation and the true cost of UFB
A Government operation has identified labour law violations and 'systemic failures' in a project worth $1.78 billion of taxpayers' money. Teuila Fuatai looks at the latest claims over the broadband network build.
For those in the know, identification of widespread employment breaches within New Zealand’s ultra-fast broadband network build will not be a huge surprise.
Confirmed in an announcement from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment yesterday, Labour Inspectorate national manager Stu Lumsden laid out findings from the first stage of MBIE’s inquiry into companies subcontracted to Chorus to carry out the national UFB network build.
“To emphasise the size of the operation, approximately 900 subcontracting companies have had working agreements with Chorus and its three main sub-contractors. Each of these have different work practices ranging from the compliant down to the outright exploitative, so the investigations are very involved and will continue,” Lumsden said.
Victoria University of Wellington's Dr Bronwyn Howell, an expert in government-funded industries and public-private partnerships, has watched developments in New Zealand and Australia’s telecommunications sectors over the years.
Australia, which began its $43 billion National Broadband Network rollout in 2011, had problems from the start, Howell told Newsroom. New Zealand, which began its project three years later, adopted a similar approach to its build. Subsequently, problems which cropped up in Australia, also happened here, she said.
For Howell, one of the major mis-steps in both countries has been the tying of political agendas with universal access to UFB. It first received publicity in New Zealand in the lead-up to the 2008 election as a National Party election promise. When John Key’s party ousted the Helen Clark-led government that year, it was able to set in motion its UFB initiative.
Howell: “This is a trade-off. The Government wanted this done quickly - 75 percent of it cabled by now and 85 percent cabled by 2022 if it kills them”.
“They [the Government] have put the tight time-frame in place and they have also negotiated a very tight price with the providers - which have had no wriggle room. Plus, they also put Chorus under some additional pressure because of the way they handled a particular aspect of the regulatory environment.”
Howell pointed out the difficulties of pushing through a “construction job” like the UFB network on “fixed-sum” Government contracts when outcomes, and related costs, were largely unknown.
“The particular issue that’s happened with the UFB [rollout] is that no one particularly knew how to price these contracts in the first place, because no one had actually done one of these things before.”
Australia and New Zealand have been the first two countries outside Asia to attempt a nationwide UFB rollout. Because their existing telecommunications infrastructure is materially different to places like Japan or Singapore, which already have widespread UFB coverage, New Zealand and Australia are essentially in “new territory” with their network builds.
“What we’ve got here [in New Zealand] is we’re working in a context where we’re having to connect things up to old infrastructure,” Howell says.
“The builds are putting connections into homes that might have old wiring, or they may be connecting up to technology that is outdated or difficult. [Connecting] may involve going down things like driveways which are difficult to go down, and if you’re doing it for the first time, there are all sorts of things that can go on like this,” Howell said.
In contrast, “in Tokyo, you can ... see about 50 different fibres rolling out from a thing that pops up in the street under the windows of the houses to run their fibre networks”. “It’s not the stuff we have here where everything is underground. It’s not comparable to look to Singapore because Singapore is dealing with a whole lot of high-rise buildings rather than the suburban landscape we have in New Zealand.”
Unexpected costs like extra labour required for cutting concrete in individual driveways has caused problems for parties involved because of the “tight” funding and contracting model, Howell says.
“In a risk-management sense, it’s better if those unexpected risks are borne by the ... least risk-averse party. The biggest and most risk-neutral party of all is the Government, yet the Government doesn’t want to have any variation in these costs at all.
“It wants a fixed price, [and] that’s where the Government contracting problems starts to bite because they’ve kicked the ball down the park and left it there for someone else to pick up.”
In New Zealand, the government-entity Crown Infrastructure Partners is in charge of funding the UFB rollout. It has contracted Chorus to carry out the majority of the build. Chorus have four main Australian-based companies it works with: UCG, Visionstream, Downer and Broadspectrum. In turn, these companies pay smaller businesses and/or “subcontractors” to carry out the manual work required for the UFB roll-out.
While the MBIE inquiry has focused on companies at the subcontractor level, it yesterday pinned responsibility on Chorus and its main partners for failing to maintain employment standards.
Lumsden: “Breaches we observed to-date included contracting employers failing to maintain employment records, pay employees; minimum wage, holiday entitlements and provide employment agreements.
“Many of these employees represent a vulnerable section of the New Zealand workforce that often aren’t aware of their minimum employment rights, and are concerned with their visa status. Large companies such as Chorus need to be proactive and sure that their contractors and subcontractors are not exploiting workers.
“Despite earlier public assurances from Chorus that any breaches involving its contractors were isolated cases, the investigations and analysis to date demonstrates systemic failures in quality management,” he said.
When asked about Lumsden’s comments, Chorus said it had not had evidence of problems being widespread.
“Of the half a dozen issues that have been raised to us over the last year, on investigation fewer than half turned out to be breaches,” a spokesman said.
“As such we believe it was reasonable to view such issues as isolated. We have also collaborated openly with MBIE and repeatedly said that if issues are uncovered we want to know so they can be put right. Hence, we are immediately seeking clarity on the cases identified.”
Both Chorus and Kris Faafoi, who as Minister for Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media is responsible for the UFB project, did not believe there were problems with the quality of the UFB network.
“The Government has robust contractual arrangements and quality testing provisions in place to ensure that UFB roll out is to a high standard,” Faafoi said.
He did not answer questions around inadequate funding and problems with the contracting process.
For Howell, problems identified by the MBIE inquiry will likely only be addressed if policy-makers and those at the top of the UFB contracting model acknowledge the pressures being pushed down the chain.
“This is new territory and we’re at the bleeding edge of this and the bleeding edge is where all of these things are found,” she said.
“There are going to be surprises and these surprises generally don’t tend to be on the side that means the firms save money. They’re usually on the side for firms where it ends up costing more, whether that’s time or [expenses]. Of course they’re going to look for different strategies with the people they employ, whether it be that they look to employ cheaper or less qualified staff ... to preserve the profit margin they’re looking for.”
The Labour Inspectorate has said it is "continuing with its investigations with a view to taking a wide range of compliance actions".
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September 14, 2017 Music, Arts & Culture » Movies
Facing fear: 'IT' remake shows not all monsters are obvious
What's it worth, Ryah? Matinee
What's it worth, Karen? Matinee
Where's it showing? ? Downtown Centre,
Sunset Drive-In, Stadium 10, Park, Galaxy
Editor's note: This week's Split Screen was written by Arts Editor Ryah Cooley and Staff Writer Karen Garcia while Glen and Anna Starkey were on vacation.
From director Andy Muschietti (Mama) comes the remake of the 1990 mini-series thriller IT, based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries. (135 min.)
Photo Courtesy Of Warner Bros. Pictures
STRONGER TOGETHER A crew of self-described "loser" kids band together to find out what's behind all of the kids in their town going missing in the film adaption of Stephen King's novel, IT.
Ryah: One of my earliest memories as a young child is having a clown lamp and blanket in my room and being scared out of my mind by both. Unfortunately I was way to young to have the ability to vocalize this to my parents, so you can imagine the kind of lifelong emotional scarring that ensued. As an adult I've never been one for scary movies, so needless to say I wasn't really on board for IT as our Split Screen selection, but then Karen asked me, "WWGSD? (What would Glen Starkey do?)," and I knew my fate was sealed. So here's the run down: King's horrific clown monster Pennywise, who dwells in the sewers, is portrayed by Skarsgård (Allegiant, Atomic Blonde) this time around—in the original, it was Tim Curry (Kinsey, The Rocky Horror Picture Show)—and is the cause of a fleet of missing children in the town of Derry, Maine. Everyone in the town seems pretty nonchalant about this, except for the children, who as the clown's chosen victims are understandably terrified. Bill's (Jaeden Lieberher of The Book of Henry) little brother Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott) is the first kid to vanish in the film's opening sequence, leaving Bill desperate to find answers. Rounding out Bill's crew of misfit friends looking to uncover the truth is the hilarious, smack-talking Richie (Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things fame), new kid Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor), germaphobe Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer), the slacking-on-his bat-mitzvah-studying Stanley (Wyatt Oleff), the homeschooled kid Mike (Chosen Jacobs), and Beverly (Sophia Lillis)—the token girl of the group with a swirl of rumors surrounding her.
Karen: The film opens up on a rainy day with Georgie running after a paper boat floating down the street. He accidentally hits his head on a construction sign while his boat continues on. When he catches up to it, he's too late as it's fallen down a storm drain. When he peers into the drain he's startled by Pennywise the clown who coaxes Georgie closer with talk of a carnival in the sewers. After gaining some of Georgie's trust, Pennywise savagely bites Georgie's arm off before reaching for his leg, and then the scene cuts to black, leaving you with more than a bit of anxiety for little Georgie. Fast-forward to the present and Georgie's big brother Bill is left to taking blueprints of the city from his dad's office to figure out where Georgie could be—all the while hoping his little brother is still alive. His plans are crushingly halted when his father yells at Bill to stop inventing plans because Georgie is dead. Sheesh, way to suck the empathy from a kid who lost his sibling, he was just trying to help! School's out and the summer is in full swing, but Bill's friends are somewhat reluctant to help him solve the mystery; they don't want to be the missing kid on the next poster. What makes matters worse is Pennywise starts introducing himself to each member of the losers' gang, manifesting as their worst fear. It starts with his calling card, a bright red balloon, or if you're close enough to piping of any kind, you'll hear voices coming from below. After he's scared you enough, he sometimes appears after the pop of the balloon when the kids are left in their most vulnerable state.
NOTHING SCARIER THAN A CLOWN Bill Skarsgård pulls off a perfectly creepy performance as the villainous clown Pennywise in the remake of the classic thriller IT.
Ryah: The thing about IT is that it's a movie that a 12-year-old would find scary, but it's done extremely well. Honestly, the scariest parts of the film have nothing to do with the murderous clown and everything to do with the very real shit these kids are dealing with. Bill has zero empathy or support from his parents over the loss of his brother; Beverly is dealing with her ultra creepy, lecherous dad (nothing super graphic is shown, but it's blatantly implied that he's molesting her); Mike is the only homeschooled and black kid in town who lost his parents in a house fire; and everyone is getting the shit kicked out of them by the town bully Henry (Nicholas Hamilton), who apparently has a lot of rage built up inside because his dad is a hard-ass cop. In one scene we see Henry take a knife and attempt to carve his name into Ben's stomach. It's all kinds of messed up. Like Starkey would (and did) say, IT works best as a coming of age story about facing your fears even when you feel vulnerable, rather than a straight-up, jumping-out-of-your-seat scary movie. That is, provided you're a grown-up who has long gotten over your clown issues. Despite the majority of the cast being under 18, these young actors all deliver stellar performances. In particular, I'm excited to see where Lieberher, Wolfhard, and Lillis' careers go as they all grow up and continue to hone their craft. Oh, and to the jerk that left a red balloon in the hallway outside the theater room, your gesture was not appreciated. If you're looking strictly to be scared out of your mind, then I'd say this movie isn't worth a full-priced ticket, better to go for a matinee.
Karen: All in all the film was a pretty good adaptation of the original novel and the mini series that came out in 1990. I wasn't too sold on Skarsgård's performance as Pennywise. Sure, he was scary looking but it was just makeup and special effects. What made Tim Curry's performance as Pennywise so scary in the '90s was how much of a creepy old man he was with regular clown makeup. I agree that the scariest scenes in the movie are with the parents, who are 100 times more horrific than Pennywise—minus a creepy headless body running toward the screen. And where are these so-called parents when Pennywise wreaks havoc on these kids? And why doesn't this town care that kids are mysteriously going missing one by one? We find out that Pennywise comes out every 27 years to feed on children once the gang realizes that they have to stop the clown before they go missing, too. They also realize the power they have together as a group. They aren't scrawny little kids anymore who can't defend themselves from Henry the psycho bully. If they band together, the gang comes to the conclusion that their worst fears can be conquered, but can Pennywise truly be taken down? Δ
This week's Split Screen was written by Arts Editor Ryah Cooley and Staff Writer Karen Garcia. Comment at rcooley@newtimesslo.com.
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Readings & Talks
May 21, 2007 Issue
Brown Café
61 Hester St. (212-477-2427)
By Lauren Collins
It’s been said that people look like their dogs, but they can also take after their restaurants. For instance, at brunch on a recent Sunday afternoon at Brown Café there was not a blond in sight. Instead, the hip storefront (metal grate still visible, no sign) was filled with hip, hungover customers devouring pain au chocolat and eleven kinds of eggs. They wore sneakers with Velcro, and sunglasses inside; they tended to be of the dark, attractive, bedheaded type. An Italian papa perched his bambino on the back of a Vespa parked outside. The scene was momentarily intimidating. But what if you sat down with the beautiful people and they were really, really nice?
“I’d go for the Albariño,” a hostess said, recommending one of the menu’s least expensive bottles of white wine. Her easy sophistication mirrored that of her boss, Alejandro Alcocer, who as a teen-ager left Mexico City, where he was born, to follow the waves. Somewhere along the way, he learned how to cook. Having fallen in with the sort of creative nomads whose line of work necessitates craft services, he opened Green, a largely organic catering business, in 2000. Brown followed, next door. Orange, housed in the same Chinatown compound, is an épicerie that offers mortadella, freshly baked filone, and Catalonian cheeses in a neighborhood where it might be easier to find a live turtle.
Dinner at Brown is a relaxed, generous affair, one that you might imagine happening on a good night at a great friend’s house. The rustic wooden tables are pocked with knife marks and rings from drinks long drunk. Flank steak—a treat to encounter—is left deliciously pink and served with caramelized shallots, or on pillowy focaccia, as a sandwich. An octopus salad is so fresh as to be almost unadulterated, while the venison loin marinates in “foaming butter,” the smell of which suffuses the entire room. For dessert, there’s apple crisp, drizzled with honey and powdered sugar, and mascarpone, chestnut, and peanut-butter gelato (which even crunches). A blueberry tart is so gorgeous that you hate to touch it. Until you do. (Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Entrées $10-$24.) ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the May 21, 2007, issue.
Lauren Collins has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. She is the author of “When in French: Love in a Second Language.”
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May 6, 2019 at 2:01 AM May 6, 2019 at 4:09 PM
Youth job fair
CareerSource Citrus Levy Marion has teamed up with Marion County Public Schools to host a job fair for ages 16 to 24 on May 15 at Hilton Ocala.
• High school seniors, 2:30-3:30 p.m. (must register beforehand at bit.ly/2019YouthJobFair)
• Youth/young adults ages 16 to 24, 3:30-5 p.m. (preregistration not required)
Businesses scheduled to attend include CareerSource CLM, Chariot Eagle, Chick-fil-A, Eckerd Connects Workforce Development, Episcopal Children’s Services, Gulf Mechanical Contractors, Hilton Ocala, L&N Truck Service, Lockheed Martin, Marion County Board of County Commissioners, Marion County Public Schools – Extended Day, Marion County School Board, Pacific Arches (McDonald’s), R&L Global Logistics, Raney’s and United Plastic Fabricating.
Attendees should bring resume and be prepared for job interviews. Proper dress required.
Those interested in developing or updating resume, working on interview skills and/or receiving job fair preparation tips can visit a CareerSource CLM career center in Ocala, Lecanto or Chiefland. Call 800-434-JOBS, ext. 1713, or visit careersourceclm.com to learn more.
The Associated Church Press awarded Ocala-based Elevate Magazine in the national Best of Church Press competition with six awards in writing, design and photography for the premier issue of the digital-only faith-based magazine. The awards were presented to publisher/executive editor John Sotomayor on April 11 during a convention in Chicago.
Elevar and Elevate Magazines won Award of Excellence (first place) and Award of Merit (second place) in Best in Class for Digital Edition/Mobile Publication, respectively. The credits went to John Sotomayor (publisher/executive editor), Joe Deleon (creative director), Conan Segrest (photographer) and Alexander Sotomayor (senior graphic designer).
Other awards included first place for magazine or journal design: entire issue, first place for photography — photo spread magazine or journal, second place for online publications department writing and third place for magazine or journal design: spread or story.
Contributors included Cristina Curbelo, editor and Spanish translator, graphic designers Ashley Burdshaw and Amber Laudicina, communications director Crystal Jewell-Maksou, social media manager Tai DeMaris, and writers Nicole Gomez, Michelle Clark, Trisha Hiatt, Rosey Moreno-Jones, Jarod Kintz, Jessica Thurow and pastors Sarmiento and Patterson, Sotomayor said.
Elevate and Elevar magazines are owned by Sotomayor Media Creations LLC, owned by John Sotomayor.
New adviser
The Villages Insurance Partners welcomes Carlos E. Colon to its retirement specialist group. Colon will join Les Roth and Diana Johnson as managing adviser, working out of the Lake Sumter Landing office. Colon has more than 20 years of sales and insurance experience and is licensed in all major lines of insurance.
National honor
Hospice of Marion County has announced that Children’s Program Counselor Amy Rath, LCSW, received the 2019 Clinical Practice Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling, during its 41st conference, held April 9-13. Rath has been with Hospice of Marion County for 18 years. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work, is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience in her field and is a certified life coach.
Paid volunteers
Marion County Public Schools seeks paid volunteers for the AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate Program at local schools this summer.
Successful applicants receive $1,889 in living allowance and educational award of $1,289.95 for college expenses. Must be at least 18 and have high school diploma or equivalent. The commitment is 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Thursday June 3 – July 28, primarily with students in third-grade reading camp.
On-site training; eligibility for employment with the federal government.
Apply at bit.ly/VISTAsignup. Call 671-4171.
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Pure Resources to acquire Hallwood Energy
Pure Resources Inc., Midland, Tex., and Hallwood Enegy Corp., Denver, Colo., have signed a merger agreement under which a Pure subsidiary will acquire Hallwood for $268 million. The boards of both companies have approved the deal. Pure will pay $12.50/share for Hallwood common and $10.84/share for preferred.
HOUSTON, Apr. 2�Pure Resources Inc., Midland, Tex., and Hallwood Energy Corp., Denver, Colo., have signed a merger agreement under which a Pure subsidiary will acquire Hallwood for $268 million.
The boards of both companies have approved the deal. Details regarding the transaction will be disclosed in tender offer documents.
Pure will pay $12.50/share for Hallwood common and $10.84/share for preferred. Hallwood common closed at $9.03/share on Mar. 29, before the merger announcement.
Jack Hightower, Pure chairman, president, and CEO, said, �This acquisition will expand our core areas in the Permian and San Juan basins and in South Texas. We expect the transaction to be immediately accretive to earnings and cash flow per share.�
Prue recently bought International Paper Co.�s producing properties and interests covering 6 million acres in the Southern Gulf Coast region for $261 million.
Hallwood's properties are mostly in the Permian basin, the San Juan basin, South Texas, and onshore South Louisiana.
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President Ford holds up a WIN, or "Whip Inflation Now," enlistment form, which asks citizens to sign up as inflation fighters during his news conference in the White House Rose Garden on Oct. 9, 1974. The slogan turned out to be a dud. AP hide caption
Will 'Win The Future' Be A Winner For Obama?
January 28, 2011 During his recent State of the Union address, President Obama tossed out a new catchphrase: Win the Future. It's the latest of several political slogans he has used, but will it have the success some of the others garnered?
Former 'Time' Journalist To Be Obama Press Secretary
January 28, 2011 President Obama has chosen Jay Carney to replace Robert Gibbs as White House spokesman. Carney is a former Time magazine journalist and is Vice President Joe Biden's communications chief.
In this screen capture, President Obama is seen live on the White House YouTube channel answering video and text questions on Feb. 1, 2010, after last year's State of the Union. AP hide caption
President No Longer Leads The Pack On Social Media
January 26, 2011 The Obama social media operation was a juggernaut during the 2008 campaign. But two years later, Republicans have caught up. Now the White House has renewed its social media push with outreach on Twitter and YouTube following the State of the Union address.
Obama No Longer Leads The Pack On Social Media
President Obama delivers his State of the Union address Jan. 27, 2010. For White House speechwriters, the address is one of the more complicated speeches they must write. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
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Writing State Of The Union Speech: A Juggling Act
January 23, 2011 In order for the State of the Union address not to feel like a clunky, legislative laundry list, White House speechwriters must carefully manage different departments' agendas and officials' opinions. And after the Tucson shootings, hitting the right tone is also key.
Obama Reaches Out To Businesses With Rules Review
January 18, 2011 President Obama has ordered government agencies to review federal regulations and eliminate the ones that don't make sense. It's one more step in the Obama White House's effort to improve its relationship with the business community and stake out positions in the political center.
President Obama greets Norm Eisen, the White House's ethics czar, in January 2009. Obama used a recess appointment to give Eisen, a friend from law school, the job as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic just before Christmas. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
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'Dr. No' Becomes Diplomat, Continues A Family Story
January 14, 2011 After earning the nickname of "Dr. No" as the White House's ethics guru, Norm Eisen is leaving to become U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic. It's where his mother, a Holocaust survivor, was born and where she became a victim of the Nazis.
Obama: Tragedy Challenges Everyone To Be Better
January 13, 2011 More than 26,000 people gathered Wednesday night at the University of Arizona for a tribute to the victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson. Several federal officials spoke, ending with a speech from President Obama that often had the crowd cheering on its feet.
A Moment Of Silence For Shooting Victims
January 10, 2011 President Obama paused for a moment of silence Monday to commemorate the lives of six people who died in Tucson, Ariz., this weekend, and to salute Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who is fighting for her life.
This photo obtained from the 2006 yearbook of Arizona's Mountain View High School shows Jared L. Loughner. A neighbor provided this photo to an Associated Press photographer outside a listed address for a Jared L. Loughner and said that this person lived at the residence. AP hide caption
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655am; Ferry leaves at 7. What does the S52 driver do at Bay/Slosson?
By Deucey, June 26, 2018 in New York City Bus
7 hours ago, Future ENY OP said:
Damm. Staten Island b/o being ultra petty. SMDH. I guess he didn’t mention the fact he was running hot and the dispatcher would chew him up once he arrived at St. George.
What does it mean when a B/O "runs hot"? Does it mean they run far ahead of schedule?
Via Garibaldi 8 7,482
Location: Riverdale, NY
3 minutes ago, R68OnBroadway said:
Running hot just means running early.
Gotham Bus Co. 548
8 hours ago, Deucey said:
(Won't get into the nonsense that feels that it's smart scheduling to have the damn bus arrive at 7:02 am - two minutes after the ferry leaves...)
That trip is clearly meant to connect to the 7:15 boat. The previous trip arrives at 6:52 for the 7:00 boat.
Deucey 1,464
2 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
It also seems as there are politics involved. I've had B/Os literally shut off the bus and sit and tell us that they're running hot so we have to sit there, while others run hot by precisely the same amount of time. It seems like if you're in with management, you get a pass, otherwise all B/Os would be doing the same thing.
Which is where the shitty management comes into play.
I'm ex-union - SEIU. Had managers that liked to write up for not ticking every box on the checklist, and some that let favorites get away with doing the same thing.
And I was hated because I forced them to apply rules uniformly and equally, while also making them look stupid for stupid rules and decisions.
Granted, I was frontline for non-medical patient care and later insurance care, but three principles apply to my situation then that apply to staff now:
1) you're not gonna discount my judgment in performing my job
2) you're not gonna make nonsense rules and selectively apply them
3) when the rules prevent effective and efficient service, they gotta go.
In this case, you have a rule with justification - folks have milked the clock being late just cuz (I got a driver reassigned from S52/42 bc I documented his deliberate lateness vs other drivers over months), but you have it prohibiting effective and efficient service - since every other 52/42 is scheduled to arrive AFTER the ferry departs in AM rush. So either the rule needs to change, or the runtime assumptions AND scheduling need to be adjusted to accommodate the effective and efficient aspect of service delivery.
You also have the judgment aspect - if every person (based on BusTrack and MetroCard swipes) is getting on but not off - especially to a major transfer point like St George, why does it matter if the run ends at 7:02 and the bus arrives at 6:59? The other/main driver does it every day because of that efficient service aspect.
But even still - if bases performance on terminal arrivals, you have incentivized doing whatever at the beginning of the run so long as it ends within the margin. A smarter way is measure based on mid-run timepoints - if this guy held at my stop, Hamilton/Egmont, no one would've tripped. But he got next to the end and pulled this stunt. Now people see they could've gotten to their destination sooner but now see they're delayed for an unjustified reason. And now they complain.
Someone's judgment is faulty - BO, Dispatch, Scheduling, all of the above.
So using S44 as a template (since it's the only bus I ride end-to-end), instead of tracking tardiness by when arriving at Yukon or St George, track arriving at:
Lafayette/Richmond
Post/Jewett
Richmond/Forest
Richmond/Rivington
They have BusTrack, so it's not that hard. Plus Waze for real-time traffic... People pay less attention in the middle of a run than the end of it because time can be made up/shit happens, whereas at the end, now they've been made late.
1 hour ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:
And yet, 3 out of 5 days all 13 of us are on the 7:00 boat.
But I'll let you explain how and why it makes sense to have buses arrive 2 minutes after a ferry departure it could easily make if drivers didn't deliberately drive 10mph below speed.
I'll wait..
Jsunflyguy 168
That's what I thought as well
46 buses feed the 7am Ferry with as many as 3000 people plus a few hundred more on the train. You're pushing the limits of what older ships like the JFK (with a 3500 pax capacity) are capable of, so if you have 5-10 buses run hot and dump the 715's pax on the 700 things may get dicey if one of those little boats is out for the Rush. I know getting parked sucks, but we can't complain about how the MTA isn't on time then criticize them for running to schedule. Even if the bus does get in per usual at 658, can the average pax make the 7am boat doubtful. Is the 7am cast off time or doors closing time?
Edited June 26, 2018 by Jsunflyguy
edit for spelling
Honestly, there should be less of a reprimand for running hot (within reason) & more of one for literally stalling at a stop to "make time"; never understood why that silly practice remains to be permissible.... Either way, you're early regardless (and there can be many reasons for it...), so (in this case) just drop the damn people off at the ferry & do away with these stupid shenanigans... And then wonder why public transportation usage in this city is on the decline as it is....
The very thought of fostering a culture where it's better to be late than early - Where you have millions of commuters utilizing these services to get to their jobs/classes early (and "reprimanded" for being late), is ironic as f***, to say the least.... I gotta tell you, as a manager, while the plight is understood, I'm quite frankly sick & tired of hearing about the damn n23 almost every morning from the same 3 people....
17 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:
LMAO. They're lucky they don't work for me. I don't tolerate tardiness, and I will dock you for it especially if I state in advance that I need you to be somewhere.
I agree with the rest of your statement. Too many drivers deliberately come late because they're so afraid to be early. I can see 5 minutes late, but anything after that when there's no traffic is excessive.
Statty 35
They have BusTime to give them real time information to adjust the schedules. I don't know why they aren't using it.
How would you adjust a bus that's 2 mins ahead of schedule? Drivers drive a little slower so they can kill a light or two to make up those 2 mins.
2 minutes ago, Statty said:
What do you mean how? They already do it on some routes. Shave off 2 minutes here and a minute there.
paulrivera 826
4 hours ago, SevenEleven said:
They allow us 2 mins to be early and they are strict with schedule adherence in the AMs.
So that explains why bus service is marginally better in the mornings...
7 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
Sorry. I might've misunderstood what you stated about bustime and having them to adjust accordingly when the driver is 2-3 minutes hot. You believe that drivers shouldn't drive slower to make schedule, but to properly adjust the schedule to the driver? Itll be difficult imo because every driver drives differently.
Also.. if every driver were to gun the bus and run 'hot'. Schedules would be cut to adjusted and drivers would be 'shaved' of pay. It's just not worth it to gun it, especially if you're on time or just 2-3 mins behind.
1 minute ago, Statty said:
I'm saying in instances where buses are constantly hot, that means that the drivers have too much run time and adjustments should be made. There was a time when B/Os were able to make the schedules. It's only in the last few years that numerous drivers can't drive and stay on schedule.
13 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
Dunno why that was misunderstood.
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Location: Shaolinn Landd
Thats just unnecessary and disrespectful and shows no care for the paying passengers on the bus, and he probably doesn't even know the ferry schedule. I don't care if the ferry is frequent in the morning, should've watched your paddle the entire trip, to "stay on time" if it mattered that much. You're at the end of the line, who are you waiting for? Some of these B/Os are too robotic, they literally just drive, and some OPERATE. The thing with Staten Island buses, it's more commuter based, so everyone knows (even the dispatchers) about catching the ferry. Its not the end of the world if you get there 3-4 mins earlier than your scheduled time to catch the boat. Thats just the way the run is set up, if u get there after, people can't complain, if you catch the boat, people will thank you (in their heads). This is just a probation, extra list dude who doesn't want to risk anything he learned in training. As you said, for the regular B/O, she knows how to hold it down. In my opinion, this bus redesign needs to hurry up so all these paddles can be adjusted to 2018 standards such as making the ferry, etc. Trips should be based on arrivals heading towards the ferry, and based on starting points leaving the ferry. Same applies for the Bay Ridge buses in connection with the train.
2 hours ago, Jsunflyguy said:
7:30, 7:45 and 8am ferries tend to be SRO - especially if JFK is one of the vessel operating that trip.
I've stood on JFK, SoA, Molinari and Marchi when I had to ride at those times.[/b]
Mondays, 7am and 7:15 have empty seats - especially since those two yachts running are the Newhouse and Barberi.
So I don't get what you're saying, since for 7:30, 7:45 and 8am, EVERY bus route is SRO arriving - even the tandems s42/52, S40/90/44/94 arrive at the same time -along with multiple SIR locals and expresses.
checkmatechamp13 2,008
13 hours ago, bwwnyc123 said:
I know right I can't stand when some bus operators just sit at a bus stop for a period of time when riders have places to go on time.
While I agree with the general idea that buses should be kept moving (so in other words, if this is a constant issue, the schedule should be adjusted accordingly). However, on the off-chance that you get a B/O who still manages to run a little hot on a tightly-cut schedule, I would prefer that they sit at a major stop (i.e. A place where a lot of people are getting on and off anyway, and maybe have some other options as far as a train or limited-stop bus that they can catch if they want to keep moving) for a few minutes, rather than drive slowly.
Which is another thing, Zerega talks about safety, but at the same time, crawling down a major street impedes traffic. At least in the bus stop, the stop is generally (though not always) designed to keep the bus out of the way of the other cars.
12 hours ago, RailBus63 said:
If you have to catch the 7:00 a.m. ferry, why not just take the S52 trip that arrives at 6:52 and save yourself the rush?
Why not just take Uber? Or drive or walk? Oh, wait, that's why ridership is declining, because the MTA thinks everybody can "just" leave earlier.
People who depend on the bus-ferry connection usually have a cushion built in to account for delays. Say you built in a 20 minute cushion, well 15 minutes of that just disappeared before you even got to the Manhattan end. Now you have to hope that everything runs well on the other end, whereas before, you could've relaxed, knowing you already made the ferry.
In this case, you have a rule with justification - folks have milked the clock being late just cuz (I got a driver reassigned from S52/42 bc I documented his deliberate lateness vs other drivers over months), but you have it prohibiting effective and efficient service - since every other 52/42 is scheduled to arrive AFTER the ferry departs in AM rush. So either the rule needs to change, or the runtime assumptions AND scheduling need to be adjusted to accommodate the effective and efficient aspect of service delivery.
As far as I know, if they're early, they're supposed to hold at the timepoint so that when management gathers their data, they can easily see where there's excess time built into the schedule, and adjust accordingly. The S52 schedule change was fairly recent, and while they added extra trips on both the S42 & S52, the crummy thing is that they increased the runtime unnecessarily.
Me personally, I would've tried to make a run for it from Slosson Terrace to the ferry terminal if the driver made an instant announcement at 6:55am that he would be holding to try and keep time.
46 buses feed the 7am Ferry with as many as 3000 people plus a few hundred more on the train. You're pushing the limits of what older ships like the JFK (with a 3500 pax capacity) are capable of, so if you have 5-10 buses run hot and dump the 715's pax on the 700 things may get dicey if one of those little boats is out for the Rush. I know getting parked sucks, but we can't complain about how the MTA isn't on time then criticize them for running to schedule. Even if the bus does get in per usual at 658, can the average pax make the 7am boat doubtful. Is the 7am cast off time or doors closing time?
It's usually the doors-closing time. Usually, if a bus pulls in a minute before the scheduled departure the passengers are able to make it if they hustle.
In any case, the MTA schedules its buses based on its own loading guidelines, not the ferry's loading guidelines. The fact that the bus was scheduled to just miss the ferry had more to do with trying to maintain 10 minute S52 headways than concern about overloading the ferry.
1 hour ago, Statty said:
Not necessarily. It could be incorporated into the layover. (For example, if that B/O had a 7:15am return trip, whether he got there at 6:58am or 7:02am, it wouldn't have been enough to push him to do the 7:00am trip). Even if it did, there's always a need for more service somewhere (maybe after the final trip, instead of running out-of-service to the depot, they have extra time available to run in-service)
I'll give you an idea: The S46/96 schedule was adjusted a while back, so that the weekday evening buses left the West Shore Plaza at :15 and :45 instead of :20 and :50. This allowed buses to (on paper) make the ferry connections by 2 minutes instead of missing them by 3 minutes. On top of that, what they did was add an outbound S96 trip, using a bus that was formerly deadheading (they still have to deadhead from the West Shore Plaza so it's more expensive overall because they made the extra trip, but the ratio of deadhead:revenue miles (or hours) is lower overall, and the passengers get better service.
53 minutes ago, XcelsiorBoii4888 said:
The Bay Ridge buses and train are generally more frequent than the St. George buses and the ferry (well definitely the ferry). At most, maybe they can have holding lights late at night like with the B36/68 at Coney Island, but at that's about all I would do. With the constant stream of buses and trains arriving and departing, you just have to keep things moving.
3 minutes ago, checkmatechamp13 said:
i was going to address that as well.... Well it autosaved & this is what I said:
"What's to stop him from taking that 6:52 & be subjected to stalling at that same stop... for an even longer duration "
Take advantage of that energy while you're still young... That goes for you & anyone else on here in your age range.
This is coming from someone that's rode many a bus in the tri-state area here (no surprise there), and here in 2018 - is basically throwing in the towel with all that running....
36 minutes ago, checkmatechamp13 said:
Me personally, I would've tried to make a run for it from Slosson Terrace to the ferry terminal if the driver made an instant announcement at 6:55am that he would be holding to try and keep time.
This cat made no announcement. Turned off Slosson onto Bay and stopped at that temp stop before the post office. Still no announcement.
Didn't say a god-blessed thing until I piped up.
32 minutes ago, Deucey said:
That'another thing that's annoying. There are certain things that you won't be trained on that you should just do as common courtesy and as someone with half a brain. I guess he thought they aren't paying me to do XYZ, so why should I do it? Because you work with the public, that's why! Then you have B/Os that get upset when management reminds them of common sense things like pulling into the damn curb to pick-up and drop-off passengers. It took one driver I had several years and numerous complaints for him to finally get this concept (and I'm not joking either). At first I thought he was just being spiteful but then I noticed he was doing this at every stop. Like dude are you that dense that you don't understand the concept of pulling your bus to the curb so that people can board safely? I recorded him once stopping practically in the middle of 6th Avenue late at night to pick up passengers without any obstructions whatsoever. Just insane.
Lawrence St 730
Location: Along the busiest line in the subway system.
I feel like whenever you try to correct drivers mistakes they take it the wrong way and have an attitude with you. Happened to me numerous amount of times when I got on a Bx9 and it was signed in the wrong direction so I told the driver of the error and they would give me hell.
8 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
I feel like whenever you try to correct drivers mistakes they take it the wrong way and have an attitude with you. Happened to me numerous amount of times when I got on a Bx9 and it was signed in the wrong direction so I told the driver of the error and they would give me hell.
Unless I know the driver I usually won't bother. You have guys that are know-it-alls. You signed up your bus with the wrong signage, a passenger is nice enough to tell you about it, and then you get attitude or respond sarcastically as if you knew it all along. Sometimes depending on how the bus is signed up, the bus won't come up on BusTime.
One night I was heading to the City late, and I got one of my buddies. He was signed up as a BxM3 instead of a BxM2. I told him about it, he changed it and we went about our usual conversation. The problem is a lot of these guys feel like "they're under attack". They get it from management, then take it out on the public, and everyone is "the enemy". My neighborhood is known as the one that B/Os hate driving through because they say that people complain about everything, filing complaints officially, and then they'll turn around and treat passengers like crap in areas where people don't complain because they think it's ok.
Well you know what, when buses don't show up as scheduled, drivers come whenever or purposely sit in traffic when there are other ways to go, yes, people are going to complain because we have places to be. For the last few weeks now, we've had several missing buses on the BxM1. The driver either calls out sick or is off and is not replaced. This morning there must've been two missing BxM1s (the one I was waiting for never came, nor did the one before that), so we're not supposed to say anything about having to wait 20-30 minutes for the next bus.
Generally speaking I find that the more educated the driver, the more polite they are and use common sense. There's a black Hispanic guy that I get that's really cool. We've had long conversations about passengers, etc. He has no problem driving on any of the lines because he looks out for passengers who in turn look out for him. As a young male, what I look for and pay attention to are drivers that deliberately discriminate against passengers because they're a male and/or young. It's more prevalent on the express buses than the local ones. If we're all paying the fare, then we should all get the same level of courtesy.
Edited June 27, 2018 by Via Garibaldi 8
On 6/26/2018 at 10:37 AM, Future ENY OP said:
(i dunno the dispatch at St. George but I’m assuming the dispatch is from Yukon)
The S52 is a Castleton route, so dispatch is from Castleton.
Future ENY OP 773
Location: BK
44 minutes ago, Lil 57 said:
Are there more Castleton lines at St.George than Yukon and Charleston???
And the dispatch that hangs out at St. George is usually from Castelton or Yukon. (Haven’t been in Staten Island in years).
Edited June 27, 2018 by Future ENY OP
7 minutes ago, Future ENY OP said:
Are there more Castleton lines at St.George more than Yukon and Charleston???
At St. George, There are;
- 8 Castleton routes (13 if you count the LTDs)
- 3 Yukon routes (6 if you count the LTDs)
- 2 Charleston routes (3 if you count the LTDs)
In total, 8/13 (13/22 if you count the LTDs) routes are Castleton, so there are more Castleton routes at St. George than Yukon and Charleston combined.
Edited June 27, 2018 by Lil 57
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Delaware man says he survived Istanbul attack by playing dead; bullet hit his cell phone before striking leg
By Nicole Hensley
Jan 02, 2017 | 11:48 AM
A Delaware man wounded during a New Year's Eve massacre at an Istanbul nightclub said he survived by playing dead.
Jake Raak, 35, said he stayed motionless after being struck.
"When he shot me I didn't move — I just let him shoot me," he told NBC News. "I was shot when I was already on the ground. He was shooting people that he had already shot."
Jake Raak, 35, from Chadds Ford, Pa., was shot in the leg during the New Year's Eve shooting. (Facebook)
The gunman's barrage of bullets ripped through the popular party spot packed with an estimated 600 revelers. The Chadds Ford, Pa. native was struck in the leg after a bullet pierced his phone, his mother, Grace Raak, said.
He narrowly escaped a life-threatening injury to his upper leg.
Deadly shooting at Istanbul nightclub
"He's fine and coming home," Grace Raak told the Daily News.
She said her son — the lone American wounded in the assault — was visiting Turkey with friends for New Year's Eve. One of those pals was also among at least 70 people wounded in the attack, Grace Raak said.
A video capture shows the gunman entering the Reina nightclub, a popular night club in Istanbul. (DHA VIA DEPO POHOTOS/EPA)
Survivors reportedly leaped into the Bosporus strait to escape the shooter, who remains at large. At least 39 people were killed in the assault, including many foreign nationals.
Raak, still wearing a sports jacket and white buttoned up shirt, was captured on video telling local reporters he was shot in the leg while being carried into an ambulance near the nightclub.
Video of Pennsylvania native injured in Istanbul nightclub shooting: https://t.co/P7YnEZcskB pic.twitter.com/V85vuCyj5p
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) January 2, 2017
"I got shot in the f---ing leg, man. These crazy people came and shooting up everything," said Jake Raak, clarifying that he only saw one gunman.
He later called his brother from the hospital to let him know he was OK. It was the only phone number he could remember off the wrecked phone, his mother said.
Medics carry a wounded person at the scene after the attack. (AP)
"The bullet deflected from the cell phone. It destroyed his contacts," Raak added. "He was very fortunate that it did."
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Dave Chappelle claims he received threats from R Kelly’s “goons” for ‘Piss On You’ sketch
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"I don't know if they was his goons, but they sure did like him"
Dave Chappelle has claimed that he was threatened by R.Kelly‘s “goons” after taking aim at the rapper with his infamous ‘Piss on You’ sketch.
The legendary comedian recorded the 2003 skit after Kelly was arrested in 2002 over a sex tape that allegedly saw him urinate on underage girls. The video eventually led to a trial that saw Kelly being acquitted in 2008.
Now, Chappelle has shared his own experiences after the recent Surviving R Kelly documentary saw a series of women level sexual misconduct claims against the star.
During a stand-up set in Hollywood earlier this week, Chappelle claimed that the Chappelle Show skit resulted in him receiving direct threats.
“When that sketch came out, we was in Chicago at a Common show and his goons bust in my room – I don’t know if they was his goons, but they sure did like him,” he said.
Although Chappelle claimed that he never met Kelly, he joked that he’d been directly confronted by the star.
“He said, ‘How you gon’ do a video of me peeing on bitches like that?’ And I said, ‘How you gonna make a video of you pissing on bitches like that?’ My mind’s telling me no. But you know what? My body’s telling me yes.”
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READY TO RACE: Norco Factory DH Team is getting fired up for UCI MTB World Cup #1 in Maribor, Slovenia
After a long off-season, the first round of the UCI MTB World Cup is just around the corner. It’s time to put the hard work and training of the Norco Factory DH Team to the test and put some tires to the dirt. The stoke is high!
After a 9-year hiatus, the UCI MTB World Cup returns to the rugged, technically demanding trails of Maribor, Slovenia, for its first race of the 2019 season. The 2.6 km long race track will challenge the riders and teams with loose dirt, gnarly root networks and a demanding rock garden.
Norco Factory Team’s Sam Blenkinsop, Henry Fitzgerald and Elliot Jamieson have been overseas for the past couple of weeks to prepare for the big season opener. Following a week-long training camp at the Schoeckl Trail Area in Austria, the team moved on to Maribor for the IXS European DH Cup, which was held on the same trails just a week before the first DH World Cup. Lots of big names were already present to check out the course and get into race mode before the big showdown.
The team will race aboard their custom-painted Norco Aurum HSP DH-machines.
Photo: MTB-News / Rick Schubert
“I am looking forward to get the first MTB World Cup underway as I have been doing everything I can to be at my best, and I know that Norco have been doing everything to come up with the best race bikes out there. So, all we need to do is just ride and have some fun at the races!” – Sam Blenkinsop
“I am really excited to get into it all. It’s been a super productive winter at home, but the track here in Maribor looks unreal and I can wait to get on it. I’m too excited to get back onto a world track and trash some more.” – Henry Fitzgerald
“I'm really looking forward to getting on the track in Maribor and kicking off the season! My bike is feeling mint and I'm ready to go!” – Elliot Jamieson
RACE SCHEDULE - NORCO FACTORY TEAM:
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Course Inspection
Friday, April 26
08:30 AM – 3:15 PM: Training
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Timed Training
08:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Training
12:30 PM: Qualifying Junior Men
14:00 PM: Qualifying Elite Men
08:15 AM – 09:15 AM: Training Junior Men
10:15 AM: Final Junior Men
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Training Elite Men
13:30 PM: Final Elite Men
We are excited to watch and support the Norco Factory Team this weekend. Be sure to follow along on the team’s Instagram channel @norcofactoryteam and @norcobicycles for race results and updates this weekend and watch the live stream on RedBull TV!
Team photos: Keith Valentine
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Licked and Force-Fed — Haunted House Gone Too Far?
SourceSean Culligan/OZY
If you’d want to drink it, eat it, wear it, ride it, drive it; if it’d be cool to see, listen to or do, we’re writing about it.
Because there are haunted houses, and then there are “experiences” that throw you into a real-life horror movie.
By James Watkins
The Daily Dose OCT 27 2016
The waiver asked me for the names, addresses and phone numbers of close members of my family and whether I had told anyone that I was there. It asked whether I was comfortable with public nudity (part a, somebody else’s; part b, my own) and whether I had life insurance. My full legal name and date of birth were already printed at the top of the form — they had done their homework.
Unlike your typical haunted house, the actors could touch me — everything on a scale from creepy sensual caresses and licks to manhandling and light hitting. I love a good scary movie once in a while, but I’m no creepy horror junkie, so thankfully I had a safe word if it ever got too much (“coward”).
Actors can grab, stroke, hit or lick you — or breathe down your neck.
Source Sean Culligan/OZY
We were instructed to show up in a deserted parking lot off an alleyway in a desolate area of L.A. It was dark and — unusually for Southern California — spitting rain. The only light? A flickering neon bug zapper on the roof of a nearby warehouse. My fellow participants (or stooges there to mess with me? I was already getting paranoid) and I made conversation, minimal and nervous. A black van pulled up. Moments later, the driver screeched off, driving aggressively and erratically toward goodness knows where. We certainly didn’t know, since there were black bags on our heads.
The van careened to a stop, and I was bundled out. Bag yanked off my head, flashlight in my face. My next instructions: Bang on a corrugated iron warehouse door until somebody answered. When the door opened, it just got weirder. An older woman in 1960s-style costume sensually fed me a caramel. I spotted a photo of a girl with her eyes scratched out propped up on her desk and thought, Well, here goes.
You can tell you are in movie-quality sets. That is, when you aren’t blindfolded.
The Tension Experience: Ascension describes itself as “more than a haunt and more than immersive theater”; it is both. The creation of horror movie director Darren Bousman (the man behind three of the Saw movies), along with co-creator Clint Sears and producer Gordon Bijelonic, Tension is based out of a 24-room, 45,000-square-foot warehouse. Haunts like this began back in 2009 with an experimental theater experience called Blackout in New York, says Norman Gidney, owner of HorrorBuzz.com, a website that reviews all manner of haunt experiences in Southern California. The industry was born out of a desire among Halloween enthusiasts turned nutcases to be scared “on a deeper level,” says Gidney, unsatisfied by out-of-work actors wearing plastic masks jumping out of the shadows with a “Boo!” And it has been making a killing ever since. There are one or two haunts that are slightly more extreme, where participants leave with bruises and might even be subjected to waterboarding — no, thanks. At Tension, perhaps the most interactive, each participant gets a unique pathway through the experience, and the cost ($125 per person) means the actors and set can reach movie quality.
Actors have multiple scripts so they can tailor the experience to you.
Part of the fun was the buildup, with few clues as to what lay in store. Tension is premised on a cultlike organization; I received emails in the week preceding my experience from unknown people with cryptic warnings that the institute was real and dangerous. Could I really trust the director of Saw III to keep me safe? I don’t want to give too much away, but there were dozens of characters ranging from creepy older people to minimally clad young women, and the rooms (when I could see them) steered clear of gory clichés and instead manipulated my senses until I was truly unsettled and confused.
Blindfolded for a large part of the experience, I had no idea what I was being made to eat and drink, where I would be taken next or why I couldn’t move my hands. At any moment, I could be snatched from the group and moved to a new part of the warehouse. Each room elicited different extreme reactions, from intrigue to disorientation to panic. Above all, the experience was centered around creating “a ‘What the fuck’ factor” for participants at every stage, says Bousman.
Some of the most unsettling moments “were the ones where you were completely aware of what was going on but still completely unsure of what was going to happen next and whether the next stage was going to push you past your limits,” says fellow participant Noah Gray-Cabey. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t a stooge on account of the fact that he’s my college roommate and the friend who booked the tickets for me, but Tension taught me to trust nobody and question everything.
You never know what is coming next or when, leaving you on edge.
Cameras captured my every move. Turns out director Bousman is there the whole time, keeping track of everyone on screens in a control room. Not that we knew it, but our movements were choreographed by the second, he tells me afterward, and each character we interacted with had half a dozen or more different scripts that they could follow to cater to each individual participant. Bousman calls this total immersion unique in the entertainment industry. He has a point: Not once did my mind wander to the outside world, which, thanks in part to our phones, can’t be said of most Netflix shows or even trips to the theater.
Director Darren Bousman acts as a choreographer, tracking each participant’s progress.
Of course, you have to fully commit to being in this fabricated world and suspend disbelief, which was hard at times, despite my best efforts. “In the back of your mind, you know that you are safe,” says Gidney. Nevertheless, it was just like being immersed in a horror movie, but one in which the actors can literally breathe down your neck.
Tension’s cult-inspired world is immersive and interactive — and better than the movies, if you can suspend disbelief.
After the roughly two hours — I had been made to leave my phone and watch behind — I was left wondering what the hell had just happened to me. To be honest, I am not fully convinced that it has completely ended. After all, they still have all my personal information. I’d go back again, but I may not have to.
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Patmore adds a bronze to his Paralympic medal collection
Australian Paralympic snowboarder Simon Patmore kept clipping seconds off his time with each run in the banked slalom in PyeongChang today to claim bronze – his second medal of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.
And in doing so he not only gave himself a 100 per cent record in South Korea – two medals in two events – but doubled the Australian Team’s medal tally from Sochi 2014 to four. The Russian collection was two bronze medals. The PyeongChang collection currently sits at one gold and three bronze, with two events left on the 2018 program in Para-alpine skiing: the men’s and women’s slalom.
That gold is Patmore’s after a startling six runs in the snowboard cross on Monday.
“I can’t believe it,” Patmore said of his precious cargo after being ranked world No.6 in the snowboard cross and No.5 in banked slalom before heading to PyeongChang.
“I literally can’t wait to be a week from now and look at my medals and think ‘Oh my god, how did I get these?’,” the 30-year-old from Brisbane said.
“I had no expectations going into banked slalom. I definitely did have a little confidence boost after the gold medal.
“I knew the boards were running fast so when I came down the course the first time and put down a good time, I thought ‘Well it’s game on!’
“I got some good advice from my coach (Lukas Prem) and each run I was able to put down a faster time.”
Patmore’s teammate in the upper-limb disability category, Sean Pollard, had his best result of the week with a fifth placing today after his ninth in the snowboard cross.
“It’s been a good day. I was a little disappointed after the snowboard cross on Monday but it’s good to get a better result today,” the 26-year-old said.
“The competition is really tough. Those guys know how to throw down. When the pressure is on they stood up.”
And that’s something Pollard can be proud of. He starts each race not being able to pull himself through the metal timing gates because he has no arms, unlike other competitors with just one functioning arm. Pollard lost both limbs to two sharks in an attack while surfing near Esperance, WA in October 2014.
“I was aiming for a top-eight finish so I’m happy with that today,” he said.
“I was dreaming of a podium finish when I came here but the reality is that I’m up against it in this category because the guys are really good.
“There hasn’t really been the time to think about it (his whole week as a first-time Paralympian). I’m sure over the coming weeks I’ll be reflecting on today and the whole experience. It’s been a good one.”
The banked slalom course had 14 turns and was 604 metres in length. Athletes had only one training run on the course yesterday, and there was no second look at it today before competition began.
“It was three runs off the bat. So you had to put down a fast time on the first run as the course was very firm and had a little ice on it,” Patmore said.
“When it’s icy like that, it’s hard to steer your board around, but it was quick.”
After the first run, all three Australians secured top-10 placings: Patmore 2nd, Pollard 6th in the SB-UL class for athletes with an upper limb disability, and Ben Tudhope 6th in the SB-LL2 class for athletes with a lower limb disability.
After the second, Patmore maintained 2nd, Pollard jumped to 4th, but Tudhope was 0.61sec slower to slip to 7th.
But in the third and final run, both Patmore and Tudhope were faster on the clock, but that didn’t translate into improved placings. Patmore took bronze for third behind Mike Minor (USA) and Patrick Mayrhoffer (Austria), while Tudhope finished in 7th position.
“It’s amazing representing Australia and just being here. I love the competition but everyone brought their A-game here today,” 18-year-old Tudhope said.
“I didn’t quite get the job done but I’m super proud of myself.”
Tudhope’s third run was his fastest and he said he looked a message sent to him from NRL star Jonathan Thurston, just before his last run. The pair met at the Sports Australia Hall of Fame awards late last year.
“That helped me to definitely believe in myself. I did make some stuff ups earlier but it was just great to get that PB (personal best) on the final run.”
Both Tudhope and Pollard were extremely proud of Patmore’s results.
“Simi is a legend. He’s the most amazing person and an amazing friend to me,” Tudhope said.
“He’s so determined and he was in the zone the whole time. So it’s not unexpected to me that he has done this well.”
Pollard added: “He’s a tough competitor and his preparation is second to none.
“The stuff I get to see behind the scenes of what he puts it, means he definitely deserves the medals.”
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PMG Technology Shortlisted For Two US Search Awards
Posted by David Gong
PMG is proud that its team of digital marketing experts is supported by industry leading technologies, much of which is custom developed by our in-house engineering team. One of those tools, PMG’s Modular Bidding Assistant was recently nominated in two categories in the 2016 US Search Awards. The competition praised not only the tool’s innovation but also its effectiveness in dramatically improving mobile marketing performance.
The Modular Bidding Assistant was nominated in the following categories:
Best Mobile Campaign
Innovation – Campaign
The Modular Bidding Assistant was created in order to integrate seamlessly into teams’ workflows and help them leverage algorithms to make quicker, more accurate bid optimizations across devices.
“We are a digital advertising agency, but technology drives so much of what we do,” said George Popstefanov, founder and CEO of PMG. He added, “By creating and using a complex and sophisticated system of rules, the tool reliably executes on a critical part of campaign management so that our team is freed up to deliver against more strategic areas of an account.”
The accolades from the US Search Awards join others given to the tool this year, including nominations for The Drum Search Awards and Search Engine Land’s Landy Awards. This is the fourth edition of the annual US Search Awards. It is supported by SEMPO, and winners will be announced in Las Vegas on October 12th.
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Judiciary Committee vote next hurdle for Kavanaugh
During the last day of hearings, Watergate figure John Dean called Kavanaugh's nomination 'troubling.'
The Senate Judiciary Committee has wrapped up four days of intensely partisan, often raucous hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, setting up the next stage of his nomination — a committee vote.
And despite all the week’s sound and fury, Kavanaugh may be sitting on the high court by the time its new session begins on Oct. 1.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has announced that he will hold a committee on Sept. 13. Democrats can delay a panel vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination for one week. At that point, Grassley would be expected to push Kavanaugh’s nomination through his panel and onto the Senate floor, setting the stage for a big political win for President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Democrats can only slow down Kavanaugh’s nomination at that point — they can’t stop it without GOP help.
Senate Republicans currently have a 51-49 majority, with the replacement for the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Jon Kyl, having been sworn in on Wednesday, giving McConnell another vote to work with to get Kavanaugh through the Senate.
No Republicans have come out in opposition to Kavanaugh, although Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) are coming under intense pressure on the Kavanaugh nomination. These two Republican hold generally pro-abortion rights views. Democrats and their outside allies have targeted Collins and Murkowski following the release of a 2003 email in which Kavanaugh edits an op-ed draft in order to raise doubts over whether the Supreme Court would respect the precedent of abortion rights.
The first three days of Kavanaugh hearings were by marked by intense partisan warfare, leaked documents, and dozens of arrests of anti-Kavanaugh protesters. Friday’s session was much calmer.
With Kavanaugh not in attendance, the fourth and final session was largely anti-climactic, although there were some bizarrely fascinating moments, such as the appearance of John Dean, one of the key players from the Watergate scandal 45 years ago.
Another highlight was the testimony from a 17-year-old survivor of the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February, who told senators of the moments when other students around her were murdered.
Dean — Richard Nixon’s counsel who helped topple his presidency during the Watergate scandal — warned the Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh could tilt the high court in President Donald Trump's favor.
"If Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, I submit we will have the most pro-presidential powers Supreme Court in the modern era,” said Dean, who served as White House counsel for nearly three years.
“With Judge Kavanaugh on the court, we should anticipate a majority that will find it increasingly difficult to discover any presidential actions which they do not approve."
Sen. Richard Blumenthal — paraphrasing Dean’s famous line to Nixon that there was “a cancer close to the presidency, that’s growing” — suggested Trump now faced the same problem, alluding to Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen implicating the president in campaign finance violations.
"There is now arguably a cancer on the presidency as malignant and metastasizing as there was then [Watergate]. Correct?" Blumenthal asked. "Yes, I would agree with that,” Dean replied.
Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, strongly opposed Kavanaugh’s nomination as well. Richmond offered blistering criticism of Trump’s judicial nominees, calling some of them “bigoted.”
“Mr. Kavanaugh’s confirmation would fortify a generation of destructive conservative ideology at a time when several historically significant legal challenges will come before the high court,” Richmond said. “As members of the CBC, we cannot overstate what is at stake for African-Americans and communities of color across the nation. Judge Kavanaugh … possesses a conservative judicial record that leads us to believe that voting rights, education, and criminal law outcomes will be endangered in coming years.”
Richmond asserted that Kavanaugh’s legal writings demonstrate “sparse commitment to equal protection under the law."
Grassley and Republicans on the Judiciary Committee countered with several high-profile legal figures of their own, including Ted Olson and Paul Clement, both former solicitor generals.
“I have known Judge Kavanaugh for three decades,” Olson testified. “He is thoughtful, courageous, open-minded, respected by his peers, and widely praised by the lawyers who have clerked for him … He is the kind of person that we expect and deserve on the Supreme Court.”
“By any conventional measure, Judge Kavanaugh is enormously qualified to serve on the nation’s highest court,” Clement told the panel. ‘I am confident he will serve with distinction.”
A parade of former law clerks, friends and other lawyers praised Kavanaugh, throughout the day, including numerous references to his prowess as a basketball player and coach, part of the repeated effort to soften Kavanaugh’s image.
Yet, as with much of what happens in Washington these days, the hearing ended on a strange, unpredictable note, one that has ties to the past and a possible future.
As the session was winding up, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) berated Dean, saying his actions inside the Nixon White House had hurt the country.
“You did the right thing ultimately, but you only did it when you were cornered like a rat,” Kennedy said of Dean’s decision to cooperate with Watergate investigators after he pleaded guilty to covering up the scandal. “It’s hard for me to take your testimony seriously.”
But the now 80-year-old Dean gave as good as he got.
“The president has also called me a rat,” Dean shot back.
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Workers, progressives – complete with The Rat – ‘greet’ Walker in Vermont
June 3, 2019 12:23 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Vermont AFL-CIO
BURLINGTON, Vt.—In a protest that got wide viewing on social media, Vermont workers and progressives – complete with The Rat – “greeted” infamous former Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker when the union-busting ex-Badger State chief executive spoke in Burlington on May 30.
Walker went to the city’s Hilton Hotel to keynote a Republican fundraiser inside. Outside was the huge protest, featuring The Rat, symbol of a scab. There’s no indication from news reports whether Walker encountered the protesters, crossed their line – or ducked in a back door, as his also-ousted Illinois anti-worker GOP colleague, Bruce Rauner, did in Chicago.
The “greeters” outside the Burlington Hilton included members of Steelworkers Local 4, a Laborers local, the state AFL-CIO and state regional federations, nine AFSCME locals, three National Education Association locals, two Vermont State Employee Association locals, AFT-Vermont, a Bricklayers local, IBEW Local 300 and women’s rights, civil rights and LBGTQ rights groups.
And Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., who’s making his second run for the Democratic nomination for president, urged his supporters in the state – he’s the wildly popular former Mayor of Burlington – to join the protest, too.
Walker was a favorite Sanders target when the senator ran in 2016. “In other words,” Sanders said then, “you can get a pretty good idea of what I’ll do as president by looking at Scott Walker and thinking I’ll do exactly the opposite.”
Walker became nationally infamous for jamming rabidly anti-public worker union Act 10 through the gerrymandered Wisconsin legislature in 2011. It stripped the state’s public worker unions – except those few that backed his bid the year before – of collective bargaining rights, union dues, and other authority. Later, he got GOP lawmakers to make Wisconsin a so-called right-to-work state.
Walker also forced local unions to stand for recertification, by absolute majority votes, yearly. The result was a large drop in union membership and receipts, and in the Wisconsin economy, too.
“To labor unions, women’s groups, racial justice organizations, and pro-union progressives of all stripes, Scott Walker represents the worst of the worst in terms of the wrong direction the extremist-anti-union-right would like to take our country if given the chance,” said top AFSCME Vermont official David Van Deusen.
“Walker believes workers should have NO collective bargaining rights, that our education system should be privatized, that women should not control their own bodies, and that the wealthiest 1% should receive massive tax cuts, at the price of decimating our social services.”
Vermont Building Trades and IBEW Local 300 President Tim LaBombard pointed out the linkage, especially since Vermont GOP Gov. Phil Scott welcomed Walker to Burlington, the state’s largest city. Signs at the protest linked the two. “Scott Walker’s invitation to Vermont from the state GOP speaks volumes to working Vermonters!! Be assured we will reply to the threat!!” LaBombard declared.
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StepStone buys Totaljobs Group for £110 million
By Rob Moss on 4 Apr 2012 in HR strategy, Mergers and acquisitions
Reed Business Information (RBI) has today announced the sale of Totaljobs Group, the UK’s largest job board, to StepStone for £110 million.
Mark Kelsey, chief executive of RBI, said: “RBI is increasingly focused on paid content and data services. Totaljobs Group has achieved the number one position in the UK, however, to compete in an increasingly global market and fully achieve their future potential, they will benefit from the scale, focus and international coverage that StepStone brings.”
Rob Perkins, chief executive of Totaljobs Group, said: “I am delighted by this move. Integrating Totaljobs Group into StepStone under the umbrella of Axel Springer is the perfect strategic fit. I firmly believe this will provide opportunities to accelerate our market growth and provide substantial benefits for our customers, jobseekers and employees.”
Totaljobs Group employs 350 people and comprises seven job boards, which between them carry more than 160,000 jobs, and attract seven million jobseekers per month, generating four million applications. The job boards are Totaljobs.com, CareerStructure.com, Caterer.com, Catererglobal.com, CWJobs.co.uk, RetailChoice.com and Salestarget.co.uk.
StepStone employs around 500 people in nine countries and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berlin-based Axel Springer.
RBI is publisher of Personnel Today.
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PGA Catalunya Resort Resort About Us
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Located less than an hour from the vibrant metropolis of Barcelona, 20 minutes from the beaches of the Costa Brava and just 15 minutes from the historic town of Girona, PGA Catalunya Resort continues to exceed expectations as one of the world’s leading real estate developments and fully- serviced lifestyle resorts. It incorporates two championship golf courses, a luxury 5-star hotel, Hotel Camiral, Kids Club facilities and wide-ranging gastronomy options. PGA Catalunya Resort offers a myriad of outdoor activities designed to encourage guests to enjoy the picturesque surroundings, including the Forest Park zipwire - a family adventure park offering a thrilling zip-wire experience in beautiful woodland. Other leisure activities on offer include cycling, trekking and horse-riding trails through the nearby forests and mountains. LAVIDA Hotel, a fresh and cleverly designed contemporary hotel, opened in 2018.
PGA Catalunya Resort offers a selection of villa plots for sale, enabling owners the option to undertake their own project in keeping with the architectural concept of the resort, or letting the experienced Resort team take care of the construction of their dream villa. In addition to this, PGA Catalunya Resort offers a variety of ready to live luxury villas designed by award winning architects. Each villa is unique yet instantly recognizable by its modern design and perfect integration with the natural surroundings, offering comfort and wellbeing with a Mediterranean lifestyle. The Residents' Club offers owners a dedicated team to assist with any enquiries, as well as access to extensive facilities including a 20m outdoor pool with spacious terrace, solarium, children’s pool, latest generation Technogym fitness room, and two spa treatment rooms.
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PGA Catalunya Resort also offers internships programs for students and young graduates, in an international and multicultural environment.
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Physical fitness linked to language skills in older adults
May 1, 2018 | Reuters | 0 |
By Lisa Rapaport
(Reuters Health) – Older adults who exercise regularly may have an easier time finding words to express themselves than their peers who aren’t as physically fit, a small study suggests.
Researchers examined results from 28 volunteers, mostly in their late 60s or early 70s, who played word games on a computer and performed aerobic fitness tests on an exercise bike. They also studied a control group of young adults in their early 20s who completed just the language evaluations.
For the word games, participants were asked to name famous people such as authors, actors, and politicians based on 20 questions. They were also given definitions of 20 words rarely used in daily conversation as well as 20 very common words and asked whether they knew the word relating to the definition.
Overall, compared to the younger participants, the older adults had more “tip-of-the-tongue” moments, when they thought they knew a word but were unable to produce it.
But older participants with higher fitness levels based on cycling tests had fewer of tip-of-the-tongue experiences than their similarly-aged peers who had more difficulty riding the exercise bikes.
“Language is a crucial aspect of cognition, necessary for maintaining independence, communication and social interaction in older age,” said lead study author Dr. Katrien Segaert of the University of Birmingham in the UK.
Cognitive function and language skills often decline with age even among healthy older adults, researchers note in Scientific Reports. While exercise and aerobic fitness has been linked to better cognitive abilities such as improved processing speed and memory in older adults, less is known about the connection between physical activity and language abilities.
While the exact reason for a connection between fitness and language isn’t clear, and the amount of exercise needed for a benefit is also unknown, previous research has linked higher levels of physical activity and increased aerobic fitness to improved blood flow and brain health, Segaert said by email.
Still, difficulty finding words, or “tip-of-the-tongue” challenges, are common among elderly people and it makes sense to explore the potential for exercise to help, said Dr. Philip Gorelick, a researcher at Michigan State University in East Lansing who wasn’t involved in the study.
“The results are not surprising given that other cognitive domains are positively influenced by aerobic exercise,” Gorelick said by email. “This study adds consistency to the study data that various cognitive domains are positively influenced by aerobic exercise.”
Health officials in the U.S. and the UK advise people to get 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise a week.
“We don’t know if this would be enough to improve language abilities, but this advice would be a good place to start,” Segaert said. “Of course, many daily activities are a great way of getting exercise, such as climbing the stairs, rather than taking the elevator, and some health and fitness centers offer activities such as chair-based exercises for people with physical limitations.”
SOURCE: https://go.nature.com/2jiQHeu Scientific Reports, online April 30, 2018.
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A journey on the Venice Simplon Orient Express is a truly unique and memorable experience.
As one of the world’s most famous trains, the Venice Simplon Orient Express made its maiden journey from Paris to Istanbul in 1883 and has since been the pinnacle of luxury rail travel and synonymous with the style and sophistication of a bygone era.
The Venice Simplon Orient Express, and original Orient Express train that came before, have always been the luxurious transport of choice for the social elite, not to mention actors, spies, stars of stage and screen, and of course, Agatha Christie’s famous detective, Hercule Poirot.
Perhaps because the Venice Simplon Orient Express has such a colourful and vibrant past, and certainly in part as a result of the meticulous attention to authentic detail during the restoration process, there can be no more memorable an experience than seeing the train in person for the first time.
Whether boarding the exquisite British Pullman (the luxurious train that takes you from London to Folkestone as you start your Venice Simplon Orient Express adventure) at London’s Victoria Station or in Calais, Paris or Venice getting your first glimpse of the impeccably blue and gold carriages of the Continental Wagons-Lit, you’re certain to forever savour that first glimpse of such a unique piece of rail travel history.
The moment you step aboard the original Venice Simplon Orient Express Continental Wagons-Lit carriages, you step straight into a bygone era of elegance and luxurious sophistication.
The preservation of this luxury experience brought to the modern day is truly unrivalled and it is a real privilege to enjoy the charm and quality of a journey taken aboard the Venice Simplon Orient Express. This enchantment instantly relaxes the fortunate traveller and draws them into the seduction of the journey. It is truly refreshing to embrace the journey itself, rather than the speed or efficiency of getting from A to B, as is so often the case in modern day train travel.
The Venice Simplon Orient Express, as a unique railway experience, cannot be emphasised enough, even down to the smallest detail. Made up of original 1920s and 30s European carriages, faithfully restored to their original elegance and grandeur in every respect, the Venice Simplon Orient Express has an abundance of intricate workmanship to enjoy during your journey, whatever its length. Distinctly art deco, the carriages boast exquisite marquetry panels and designs by artists including René Lalique.
Compartments aboard the Venice Simplon Orient Express
Learn more about the Compartments on board the Orient Express here
As a traveller aboard the Venice Simplon Orient Express, you’ll enjoy your own private compartment, and flawless attendance by Cabin Stewards throughout your journey.
The staff of the Venice Simplon Orient Express pride themselves on their service and travellers are assured of the perfect balance of attentive yet discreet levels of service.
Within each compartment aboard the Venice Simplon Orient Express you’ll benefit from an authentic and original washbasin and cabinet with hot and cold water. Whilst you dine in the evening, your compartment is transformed into a comfortable bedroom, complete with luxurious towels and impeccably crisp linen.
Though not technically authentic, and as a small break from tradition, but very much in the interests of luxury, comfort and exclusive travel, 2017 has seen all compartments and public areas aboard the Venice Simplon Orient Express fitted with air-conditioning.
Venice Simplon Orient Express Twin Cabins
Designed for comfortable, luxurious train travel, your Venice Simplon Orient Express cabin is a cosy lounge with a large sofa, a footstool and a small fold-out table during the day.
Discreetly concealed in its own cabinet is a washbasin with hot and cold water, together with towels.
Your cabin is transformed, whilst you enjoy dinner in one of the dining cars, by your cabin steward. Upon your return from after-dinner drinks in the bar car, you’ll find your daytime seating layout has been cleverly converted into upper and lower sleeping berths complete with the highest quality linen.
Further, deep, sumptuous bathrobes, slippers and additional amenities by Temple Spa are available for your exclusive enjoyment.
Venice Simplon Orient Express Cabin Suite
If you’re looking for additional comfort and space, you may prefer the option of a cabin suite. Venice Simplon Orient Express cabin suites are made up of two inter-connecting twin cabins, and are certainly a recommended upgrade.
With the flexibility of both cabins, you can choose to have your cabin set up in lounge format, whilst the other acts as bedroom with upper and lower berth, or alternatively opt for two lower berths, one in each inter-connecting cabin.
Venice Simplon Orient Express Grand Suites
Recently launched are three new exclusive and unique suites adding a new level of luxury to the world’s most famous train. They each take design leads from key destinations which are synonymous with the vintage train, Paris, Venice and Istanbul, and you can find out more information on the Orient Express Grand Suites here. Need a link
Each Grand Suite comprises a double / twin bedroom, a substantial living area and room for private dining and a sofa. The sofa in the lounge area can be converted into an additional bed in the evening. Exclusively for Orient Express accommodation, each Grand Suite boasts a private en-suite bathroom. These include shower, washbasin and toilet, plus bespoke amenities and complimentary designer bathrobes and slippers for your enjoyment.
Free-flowing champagne and the option for private dining complete this luxury experience.
Life Aboard The Venice Simplon Orient Express
Never before have the service and the setting been so exquisitely matched. Beginning your journey, relax in your cabin and watch Europe’s vistas glide by with a smoothness and elegance only train travel can achieve.
Your personal steward will greet you on arrival and will show you to your cabin gleaming with polished brass, inlaid wood, vibrant white linen and luxurious towels.
They will show you how everything works and how to call for assistance, where required, during your journey.
Your comfortable compartment provides a restful, calm space to relax, offering panoramic views to enjoy as the landscape slips by.
A number of passengers choose to leave their cabin doors open during the day when traveling aboard the Venice Simplon Orient Express. This leads to a pleasant community atmosphere on board where conversations are sparked with other passengers and scenery can be enjoyed from both sides of the carriages.
As the afternoon progresses, tea with cakes and pastries is served in your cabin by your cabin steward, a light refreshment and bite to eat before preparing for dinner, which is a centre-point for any Orient Express journey.
Dressing for the occasion is an integral part of the Orient Express experience, and it is almost unheard of to be ‘overdressed’ for dinner. Tuxedo, cocktail dress, bow ties and fascinators are all part of the indulgence of dinner aboard the Orient Express – an event to be lavishly enjoyed by all.
Once dressed in your finery, the tone of the evening is set with a visit to the Bar Car or Champagne Bar, where exquisite champagne or delicious cocktails and a welcoming atmosphere are in abundance.
We’d suggest asking for a “Guilty 12“, a cocktail created by Walter, the bar man, containing 12 mystery ingredients and inspired by the novel “Murder on the Orient Express”. It perfectly captures the mystique of this unique rail experience.
To give a taste of the level of exclusivity, previous travellers include royalty, heads of state and celebrities such as Gregory Peck, Alan Whicker and Cher. It is truly a unique, intimate and stylish experience. Enjoy a few pre-dinner cocktails or a glass of fizz here whilst mingling with fellow travellers and soak in the atmosphere of this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Once you have made the most of the Bar Car or Champagne Bar, it’s time for you to move on to one of the three beautifully restored 1920s art deco restaurant cars – L’ Oriental decorated in black lacquer, Etoile du Nord with its beautiful marquetry, and Côte d’Azur, boasting stunning Lalique glass panels.
Sympathetic and soft lighting enhances the ambience while flawless linen, French silverware and heavy crystal invite you to prepare for a dining experience to remember.
At dinner the attention to detail is simply breath-taking. The sum of the parts; linen, silverware, the crystal glassware, are all alluring elements of the experience and meet with exquisite food to create an overall result that is a beguiling evocation of the golden age of travel.
Thanks to the quality and style on offer, it in no way feels antiquated or dated, the whole experience transcends the 1920s era and boasts a completely fresh and contemporary indulgence – on a par with any of the finest restaurants in London or Paris.
At this level, luxury is timeless.
The food served during dinner on board is an unforgettable and unique delight.
All dishes are freshly prepared on board by French chefs, with the finest ingredients taken on board during the train’s journey.
All meals, brunch, lunch and dinner, are served in one of the three aforementioned restaurant cars with service provided by attentive waiters. For exclusive privacy, breakfast and afternoon tea are served in your compartment by your cabin steward.
Venice Simplon Orient Express Destinations
The train famously visits some of Europe’s most evocative destinations.
The traditional route between London, Paris and Venice (or vice versa) is now supported by additional departures from Venice to the luxury and mystique of Vienna, Prague and Budapest as well as an annual journey from London to Berlin and back.
For a true taste of trans-continental luxury travel, the Venice Simplon Orient Express also offers an annual, very special departure to Istanbul, re-creating the original journey of 1883 on this six-day adventure.
Enjoy the unparalleled luxury of the rolling-stock, and the finest quality of service, amid some of the most beautiful scenery in Europe on board this beautiful and one-of-a kind luxury train.
A selection of journeys are available and the beauty of the Orient Express is that it can be taken as much as an adventure into luxury on its own or as a part of a wider European holiday.
Choose to travel on the train both to and from Venice for example, or enjoy a holiday that incorporates visits to exciting cities, such as Venice, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Istanbul and recently introduced Berlin, with the Orient Express forming one exciting leg of your journey.
Whatever your destination or holiday plans, you can be sure of unique and exquisite service of world-class standards, a veritable feast of sumptuous menus and a nostalgic reminder of a time when the journey took precedence over the destination.
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For up to date travel advice from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office including security and local laws, plus passport and visa information, check gov.uk foreign travel advice.
Please Note: A journey on board the Venice Simplon Orient Express may not be suitable or ideal for everyone – a journey aboard the Orient Express is ideally tailored to those who yearn for the unique experience of a bygone era. For example, the carriages are the original 1920 – 1930s rolling stock and, although they have been beautifully restored and regularly maintained, they have specifically received very few modernisations. If travelling during the cooler months, you will be likely to see your steward shovelling coal into the authentic coal boiler in each carriage in order to heat the radiator in your cabin. Remember these carriages were built in an era when travelling across Europe and sleeping on a train were a luxury in themselves.
Passengers should note that the compartments are relatively small and do not have private facilities, other than a wash-basin, except for the Grand Suites. However, please note that as of 2017, all cabins and public areas on the train are now air-conditioned.
There are toilet facilities at each end of the carriage – again as a direct result of the preservation of the heritage of the rolling stock.
Be aware that there are no laundry facilities on board the train.
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There’s a lot at stake for reproductive freedom in the 2016 election. That’s why the Planned Parenthood Action Fund spent the last two months asking our supporters and volunteers what matters most to them, and what issues we should be fighting our very hardest on. Their answers are what will drive Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s involvement in the upcoming 2016 elections.
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To build a strong, diverse movement inclusive of Planned Parenthood health centers’ patient base, Planned Parenthood Action Fund engaged hundreds of reproductive health advocates. We got feedback from over 800 people in 50 Planned Parenthood Action Forum member events and over 6,500 people online about what they’d most like to see Planned Parenthood Action Fund (and presidential candidates) fight for in this election.
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TCL Tank Cleaning
TCM Convention on the International Combined Transport of Goods
TCP Time Charter Party. The document containing the terms and conditions of a contract between a charterer and a shipowner for the hire of a ship for a fixed time frame, usually more than one voyage.
TCT Time charter Trip
TCV Total Calcuated Volume
TCY Time charter yield
TD-LO Toxic Dose Low. The lowest dose of a hazardous substance introduced by means other than inhalation over a given time period that has been reported to produce toxic effects in humans or produced any tumors or adverse reproductive effects in animals or humans.
TDI Tolune Diisocyanate. TDI is an isocyanate used in the production of polyurethanes for flexible foam applications ranging from furniture, bedding, and carpet underlay, to transportation and packaging. TDI is also used in the manufacture of coatings, sealants, adhesives, and elastomers
TDK or TWD Tween Decker
TDW Tons deadweight
TEA Triethanolamine. See ethanolamine
TECH Toxic, explosive, corrosive and hazardous (dangerous cargo)
Technical Management Service where a hired agent operates a ship and receives a fee in return.
Technical Operator "Technical Operator means an entity dealing with the responsibility for operation of the ship and which, on assuming such responsibility, has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed by the ISM code and, where applicable, holds the Document of Compliance."
TELCON Telephone Conversation
Telex Used for sending messages to outside companies. Messages are transmitted via Western Union, ITT and RCA.Being replaced by fax and internet.
Temperature Recorder A device to record temperature in a container while cargo is en route.
TEN Trans European Network
Tender The offer of goods for transportation or the offer to place cars or containers for loading or unload- ing.
Tenor Time and date for payment of a draft.
TEPA Tetraethylenepentamine
Teratogen Causes physical defects in the developing embryo
Term Deal An agreement for a customer, or lifter, to buy a supplier's oil over a period of time. Such arrangements obligate seller to provide and purchaser to take, and pay for, a named quantity of specified merchandise at a defined price over a number of months or years, usually according to some sort of schedule. The opposite of a spot deal.
Terminal An area where a ship''s cargo is loaded or unloaded.
Terminal Buoy A terminal buoy
Terminal Charge A charge made for a service performed in a carrier’s terminal area.
Terms of Sale The point at which sellers have fulfilled their obligations so the goods in a legal sense could be said to have been delivered to the buyer. They are shorthand expressions that set out the rights and obliga- tions of each party when it comes to transporting the goods. Following, are the thirteen terms of sale in international trade as Terms of Sale reflected in the recent amendment to the International chamber of Commerce Terms of Trade (INCOTERMS), effective July 1990: exw, fca, fas, fob, cfr, cif, cpt, cip, daf, des, deq, ddu and ddp.
Testicular toxicity Causing injury to the testis; a specific subdivision of reproductive toxicity.
TEU Twenty feet Equivalent Unit (or a container). A dry cargo container unit measuring 40 X 8 X 8.5 feet used as a measure of container capacity.
TF Therefore
TFA Trans Fatty Acids. TFA is naturally present in animal fats and are formed during the partial hydrogenation of oils. They are unsaturated fatty acids in which the hydrogen atoms attached to the carbon atoms in the double bond are on opposite sides of the double bond, whereas these hydrogen atoms are on the same side of the double bond in ""cis"" unsaturated fatty acids. The trans fatty acids have a relatively straight hydrocarbon chain, whereas ""cis"" fatty acids are bent at the point of the double bond. The difference in structures allows closer packing of molecules of trans fatty acids and triglyceride molecules which contain them. Consequently, the trans fatty acids and their triglycerides have higher melting points than the corresponding ""cis"" fatty acids and their triglycerides.
TFDE Propulsion Tri-Fuel Diesel Electric Propulsion - The name TFDE originates mainly due to the power generation engines being able to use three different types of fuel, thus the name "tri-fuel diesel electric propulsion." These are specifically used in LNG carriers.
TFW Tropical fresh water loadline
TG Tug
THC Terminal Handling Charges
The Bitter End The end of an anchor cable is fastened to the bitts at the ship's bow. If all of the anchor cable has been payed out you have come to the bitter end.
The Devil to Pay To pay the deck seams meant to seal them with tar. The devil seam was the most difficult to pay because it was curved and intersected with the straight deck planking. Some sources define the "devil" as the below-the-waterline-seam between the keel and the the adjoining planking. Paying the Devil was considered to be a most difficult and unpleasant task.
Theatre Vessel A mobile vessel used as a theatre
Thermal Cracker Originally, the name of the refining industry's first molecule breaker. These units used heat and pressure to turn heavy fuel oil into gasoline and distillate. Today, the term applies to a category of bottoms crackers, including visbreakers and cokers, which rely on heat to destroy residue.
Thermal cracking Thermal cracking is a petroleum refining process used to break up heavy oil molecules into lighter, more valuable fractions (e.g. gasoline, kerosene) by the use of high temperature without the aid of catalysts. It is used to convert gas oils into naphtha.
Thermal Stability Reluctance to change, especially to deteriorate, when heated. A property particularly associated with aviation turbine fuels.
Thermoforming The process of heating a thermoplastic sheet to a working temperature and then forming it into a finished shape by means of heat or pressure. (Modern Plastics Encyclopedia 1995)
Thermoplastic A plastic which is solid when cold, but which may flow and be re-formed multiple times with the application of heat. Some plastics are dissolved in solvents such as water (a latex) to aid their application.
Thermoset A polymer that solidifies when heated, in other words it sets and cannot thereafter be changed, is called a thermoset. Some polymers behave like this because the heating process causes the chains of the polymer to bind to each other, via cross-links, and these cannot then be broken. Polymers that remain malleable after heating and cooling are referred to as thermoplastics. Polymers of this kind can also be cross-linked by the addition of certain cross-linking agents and turned into rigid materials.
Third Party Logistics (3PL) A company that provides logistics services to other companies for some or all of their logistics needs. It typically includes warehousing and transportation services. Most 3PL’s also have freight forwarding licenses.
Third-Party Processing see TOLL PROCESSING
THP Thrust horse-power
THR THRuster
Three Sheets to the Wind A sheet is a rope line which controls the tension on the downwind side of a square sail. If, on a three masted fully rigged ship, the sheets of the three lower course sails are loose, the sails will flap and flutter and are said to be "in the wind". A ship in this condition would stagger and wander aimlessly downwind.
Through Rate The total rate from the point of origin to final destination.
Throughput Charge The charge for moving a container through a container yard off or onto a ship.
Thwartships At right angles to the centre-line of the ship
TIB Trimmed in bunkers
Tide The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans
Tide Over At first glance, this would seem to be an obviously nautical term. Today it means to make a small bit of something, usually money, last until a supply comes in, as in borrowing some money to tide you over till payday. However, the meaning has changed over the years. Once upon a time, ships could move under sail power, or in the absence of wind, float along with the tide, called a tide over. One could say the floating would tide the ship over until wind came again to move it along.
Time Bar The expiration of the time period within which a lawsuit can be brought or arbitration commenced against a carrier for any claim under a contract of carriage. This time period is usually stipulated in the contract of carriage and can be extended or abridged by agreement of the two parties.
Time Charter see "Charter, Time".
Time chartered vessels "Time chartered vessels means vessels contracted for a period of 6 months or more."
Time Draft A draft that matures either a certain number of days after acceptance or a certain number of days after the date of the draft.
Time lost waiting for berth to count as loading or discharging time or as laytime TIME LOST WAITING FOR BERTH TO COUNT AS LOADING OR DISCHARGING TIME or AS LAYTIME shall mean that if no loading or discharging Berth is available and the Vessel is unable to tender Notice of Readiness at the waiting-place then any time lost to the Vessel is counted as if Laytime were running, or as time on Demurrage if Laytime has expired. Such time ceases to count once the Berth becomes available. When the Vessel reaches a place where she is able to tender Notice of Readiness, Laytime or time on Demurrage resumes after such tender and, in respect of Laytime, on expiry of any notice time provided in the CharterParty.
Time Swap An exchange which involves today's barrels for tomorrow's or next week's for next month's.
Time-Charter Lease of a ship to a charterer for a period of time rather than for the performance of a specific voyage. An elemental version of this arrangement, called a bare boat charter, works like renting an unfurnished apartment. The charterer must provide his own master and crew. In other cases the owner provides personnel and various services.
TIP Taking inward pilot
TIR Transport International par la Route. Road transport operating agreement among European governments and the United States for the international movement of cargo by road. Display of the TIR carnet allows sealed containerloads to cross national frontiers without inspection.
Titration The strength of a chemical solution is often determined by reacting the chemical with another in measured amounts. Knowing the chemical reaction involved and the amount of the second reactant, the amount of the first reactant can be calculated. The process of reacting and matching the two solutions is called titration. One example is the determination of free fatty acid content by titration with an alkali.
Titre Test The titre is the highest temperature reached during the crystallisation of fatty acids under controlled cooling conditions. It is an important characteristic of inedible fats used for soap making or as a raw material for acid manufacture and it is also an indication of the firmness of natural fats.
TIW Total insured value
TL Turkish LLoyd
TLO Total loss only
TLV Threshold Limit Value
TLX Telex
TMK Tonnage mark
TMSA Tanker Management Self Assessment: The Tanker Management and Self Assessment (TMSA) programme provides ship operators with a means to improve and measure their own management systems. The programme encourages ship operators to assess their safety managem
TNC Time to next cargo
TNGE Tonnage
TNS / TS Tons
To Average Laytime TO AVERAGE LAYTIME shall mean that separate calculations are to be made for loading and discharging and that any time saved in one operation is to be set off against any excess time used in the other.
To Know the Ropes There was miles and miles of cordage in the rigging of a square rigged ship. The only way of keeping track of and knowing the function of all of these lines was to know where they were located. It took an experienced seaman to know the ropes.
Tocopherol A natural antioxidant found in vegetable oils and fats. There are four naturally occurring tocopherol homologs, i.e. a-, ß-, y- and d- tocopherols. In addition, there are four analogous tocotrienols with the same chemical structures, but having three double bonds in the side chain. Palm oil contains both a tocopherol and tocotrienols. Tocopherols are also known as Vitamin E - the most active is a- tocopherol.
Toe the Line When called to line up at attention, the ship's crew would form up with their toes touching a seam in the deck planking.
TOFA Tall Oil Fatty Acids. An important industrial feedstock that is a by-product of the wood pulp industry. The term ""tall oil"" is derived from the Swedish word for ""pine oil"", or tallolja. Production occurs mainly in North America and Scandinavia. TOFA are obtained from crude tall oil via fractional distillation and yield between 25- 35% fatty acids (oleic and linoleic).
TOFC Trailer on Flat Car: The movement of a highway trailer on a railroad flatcar. Also known as Piggyback.
Toll Processing Refining or petrochemicals production done on a fee basis. A plant owner puts another party's feedstock through his equipment and charges for the service. A portion of the product retained by the processor may constitute payment. This form of compensation occurs frequently in refining because the feedstock supplier often wants only one part of the output slate.
Toluene Gasoline blenders and petrochemicals makers continually compete for possession of this aromatic. Its high octane and low vapor pressure make it an excellent blendstock. The chance to turn it into benzene appeals to the chemical industry. Refineries and steam crackers both produce it in large quantities.
Toluene Toluene, a colorless liquid, is an aromatic hydrocarbon used extensively as starting material for the manufacture of industrial chemicals. Its major end-products are polyurethanes.
TOM Tomorrow
TOMK To make
TON Ton of 1000 Kilos. a unit of measurement used in shipping assuming 100 cubic feet of cargo equals one ton, equals 2000 pounds and is also called a “short ton”, a “long ton” equals 2240 pounds, and a “tonne” is 2204 pounds
TON Turn over or Transfer order
Ton Mile Equivalent to transporting one ton of cargo over a distance of one mile.
Ton–Mile – A unit used in comparing freight earnings or expenses. The amount earned from the cost of hauling a ton of freight one mile.
– The movement of a ton of freight one mile.
Tonnage Cubic capacity of a ship.
Tonne Metric ton equivalent to 1,000 kilograms or 2204 pounds
Tons Per Inch Ship Stability: TPI=Area of WP/420
TOP Taking Outward Pilot
Top–Air Delivery A type of air circulation in a container. In top air units, air is drawn from the bottom of the container, filtered through the evaporator for cooling and then forced through the ducted passages along the top of the container. This type of airflow requires a special loading pattern.
Topping Plant A simple refinery, one which lacks cracking and other upgrading equipment. The name comes from what such basic installations can do. They boil the straight-run light products, the top, off crude oil. The most rudimentary topping plants have no complex hardware at all. A slightly more sophisticated type adds a vacuum still to separate VGO from the crude unit's residue, but the facility would not have a cracker to convert the VGO.
Topping Yields The product slate obtained by processing a grade of crude in a simple refinery. In everyday industry usage, the term usually means the yield from atmospheric distillation followed by naphtha reforming and finished product blending.
Topside The sides of a ship between the waterline and the deck; sometimes referring to onto or above the deck
TOR Time on risk
Torpedo Boat A combat vessel designed for launching torpedoes, usually small and fast
Torpedo Recovery Vessel A naval auxiliary vessel designed for recovering unexploded or training torpedoes
Torpedo Trials Vessel A naval auxiliary vessel for testing and conducting trails on torpedoes
TOTCOM Total commission
Totox Value Index of the degree of oxidation in which the peroxide value and anisidine value are combined - Totox = 2PV + AV
Touch and Go This referred to a ship's keel touching the bottom and getting right off again.
TOVALOP Tanker Owners Voluntary Agreement to Limit Oil Pollution
Towage Act of towing a ship.
Towboat A towboat is a powerful boat with a flat front that pushes barges on rivers. Towboats typically have flat hulls to accommodate the shallower depths of the nation's inland waterways.
Towing/Pushing, Inland Waterways A vessel designed for tug, towing or pushing operations. Not designed for operation in open sea
Towline Towlines or hawsers are constructed of extremely strong synthetic materials or steel wire. When the towline connection with the barge forms a "Y" shape to reduce chafing, it is known as abridle.
Toxic Poison which can affect personnel through inhalation, absorption or ingestion. For the purposes of this policy the term toxic is taken to include all products which give off vapours containing substances for which exposure limits are recommended as they
TP Time in Port
TP R/V or TPRV Trans Pacific Round Voyage
TPC Tons Per Centimetre
TPC Immersion the amount of tons that it takes to lower a ship's draft one centimeter
TPCM Tons per cubic meter
TPD Tons per day
TPI Tons per inch. Measure of vessel capacity equal to the weight of displaced water if vessel draft were to change by one inch.
TPRG Terminal Policy Review Group
TPSG Terminal Policy Steering Group
TQ As found, or Just as it is
TR Tons Registered
Trace Metals Refers to metals which are present in very small amounts. Copper and iron are trace metals found in vegetable oils. The level decreases in refining and increases if there is contamination.
Tractor Unit of highway motive power used to pull one or more trailers/containers.
Trade Acceptance A time or a date draft that has been accepted by the buyer (the drawee) for payment at maturity.
Trading Limits Geographical limits specified in a time charter party outside which the charterer is not allowed to operate the ship.
Traffic Persons and property carried by transport lines.
Traffic Diversion Any commodity flow which ceases to use the project under some project alternative or scenario.
Trailer The truck unit into which freight is loaded as in tractor trailer combination. See Container.
Training Ship A vessel equipped for training seafarers
Training Ship, Naval Auxiliary A vessel used for training merchant or naval seamen.
Tramp Line An ocean carrier company operating vessels not on regular runs or schedules.They call at any port where cargo may be available.
Tramp Shipping The employment of ships in trades where there are no published schedules, in contrast to liner shipping.
Trans A geometric isomer of an unsaturated fatty acid where hydrocarbons attached to the carbons comprising the double bond are on opposite sides of the carbon chain.
Trans Shipment Barge, non propelled A non propelled pontoon used for the storage and or trans shipment of cargoes
Trans Shipment Vessel A vessel equipped for the trans shipment of dry cargo to other vessels alongside. May also be able to store cargo until trans shipment.
Transaction Currency The currency used on a single invoice/voucher
Transhipment Applies to lightening operations and "ship to ship" (STS) transfers both at anchor and underway, or where vessels are "double banked" alongside a berth.
Transpassive state State of the metal polarized to a potential value above the range of a passive state, characterized by a considerable increase of the corrosion currents but no pitting corrosion
Transport To move cargo from one place to another.
Transportation & Exit (T&E) Allows foreign merchandise arriving at one port to be transported in bond through the U.S. to be exported from another port, without paying duty.
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Established by Congress through the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) and is adminis- tered by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and U.S. Coast Guard. TWICs are tamper– resistant biometric credentials that will be issued to all credentialed merchant mariners and to workers who require unescorted access to secure areas of ports, vessels or outer continental shelf facilities.
Transship To transfer goods from one transportation line to another, or from one ship to another.
Transshipment Port Place where cargo is transferred to another carrier.
Transverse Axis Ship Stability: The lateral axis passes through the ship from side to side. Rotation about this axis is called pitch. Pitch changes the vertical direction the aircraft's nose is pointing. The elevators are the primary control of pitch.
Trawler A vessel for catching fish by trawling with nets handled over the side
Trenching Support Vessel A vessel primarily equipped to operate submersibles for digging trenches on the sea bed for pipes and cables
Trf Tariff: A publication setting forth the charges, rates and rules of transportation companies.
Triglycerides See Glyceride
Trim The difference between the fore and aft draught of the vessel. When the aft draught is greater that the forward draught, the vessel is said to be trimmed 'by the stern'. When the aft draught is greater than the forward draught, the vessel is said to be trimmed 'by the head'.
Trim The angle at which a ship floats when viewed from the side. It can rest stern high, bow high, or on an even keel. Masters must load their ships with safe trim in mind.
Troopship A naval auxiliary vessel. Designed for carrying troops
True Colors The current meaning, ‘to reveal yourself as you really are’, actually came about because of the opposite phrase “false colors” – from the 17th century referring to a vessel which sailed under a flag not her own. This tactic was used by almost everyone as a ruse de guerre, but the rules of gentlemanly behavior (and possibly actual legal rules) required one to raise one’s true colors before opening fire on another ship.
True Draft Ship Stability: Where the waterline intersects the forward and after perpendiculars.
Trust Receipt Release of merchandise by a bank to a buyer while the bank retains title to the merchandise. The goods are usually obtained for manufacturing or sales purposes. The buyer is obligated to maintain the goods (or the proceeds from their sales) distinct from the remainder of the assets and to hold them ready for repossession by the bank.
Try a Different Tack The direction in which a ship moves as determined by the position of its sails and regarded in terms of the direction of the wind (starboard tack). If one tack didn’t bring the ship up properly, one could always attempt another.
TS Time at Sea or Tons
TSG (C)(G) Tanker Safety Guide (Chemicals) and (Gas) (ICS)
TSP Triple super phosphate
TSS Twin screw ship
TST Topside tank
TT Turn Time or Telegraphic Transfer or That or TankTop
TTBE Turn Time Both Ends
TTL Total
TUB Tubarao
Tug A powerful small boat designed to pull, push or manuever vessels.
Tug, Naval Auxiliary A tug for naval support
Tugboat / Ocean Towing Tugboats are used to pull ortow barges on the ocean or on wider inland rivers that have rough waters. Ocean towing involves long towlines between the tugboat and tow, to provide the necessary slack to accommodate rough water and varied weather conditions. Oceangoing tugs are very large and very powerful.
Turn a Blind Eye From Admiral Lord Nelson’s awesome display of badassery at the Battle of Copenhagen. When the signal was given to stop fighting, Nelson held his spyglass to his blind eye and insisted he didn’t see the signal. He then proceeded to kick butt, of course.
Turnaround In water transportation, the time it takes between the arrival of a vessel and its departure.
Turning Basin An area that provides for the turning of a ship (bow to stern). Turning basins are usually located at or near the upper end of the interior channel and possibly at one or more intermediate points along long channels (EM 1110-2-1613).
Turret An attachment for a Floating Storage and Offtake vessel or Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel that allows vessel to rotate around its mooring according to direction of wind and current.
TV Time volume
TVE Tank Vessel Examination (USCG)
TVP True Vapor Pressure. The absolute pressure exerted by the gas produced by evaporation from a liquid, when the gas and liquid are in equilibrium at the prevailing temperature.
TW Tween Deck (OCIMF acronym)
TW Twin Decker
TWA Time Weighted Average. Time-weighted average concentration for an 8-hour workday and a 40-hour-work week in which a worker may be repeatedly exposed without adverse health effects
TWD Tween Decker
TWHD Tons per working or Workable hatch per day
Twist Locks A set of four twistable bayonet type shear keys used as part of a spreader to pick up a container or as part of a chassis to secure the containers.
Two–Way Pallet A pallet so designed that the forks of a fork lift truck can be inserted from two sides only.
TX Tank (OCIMF acronym)
TX Telex or Transmitter (Radio)
Typicals specifications considered representative of a crude or product stream. Parcels, particularly of feedstocks, often trade on typicals even though such data carries no absolute commitments or legal obligations.
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Hyphenventilating over ‘The Monster-Builder’
Amy Freed's world-premiere comedy at Artists Rep brings a little Babel to the world of starchitects
February 2, 2014 // THEATER // Bob Hicks
In language as in architecture, details count. So let’s consider the hyphen. Amy Freed titled her newest play, which received its world-premiere performance Saturday night at Artists Repertory Theatre, The Monster-Builder. What does that lowly building-block of a connective marker mean to the meaning of the title? Is the builder a monster builder – a monstrous example of the art and craft of designing buildings – or is he, in fact, a monster-builder: a designer who creates monsters; a modern Frankenstein? And if he is a Frankenstein of architects, just who or what are his monsters: the arrogant buildings that he foists upon the world, or the architect-acolytes he lures into his orbit?
Elich and Tigard, self-admirer and admirer. Photo: Owen Carey
Such questions buzz beneath the surface of Freed’s comedy like the unseen worker bees in a starchitect’s office. The Monster-Builder gives star billing to its audaciously egotistical title character, the internationally famous architect Gregor Zubrowski. Oregon Shakespeare Festival veteran Michael Elich, as thin and muscular and seductively uncomfortable as a Frank Lloyd Wright built-in chair, digs into the role with the mustache-twirling glee of a melodrama villain (“You must pay the rent!”) or a magical-elixir salesman or Don Juan or the Phantom of the Opera or Old Scratch himself. Each time you think he’s stretched his exaggerations as far as they can possibly go, he smiles and preens and stretches them a little farther yet.
Freed’s setup and plotting, which rely deliciously on the conveniences of coincidence, begin with the idealistic preservationist plans of a young married architect team, Rita (Allison Tigard) and Dieter (Gavin Hoffman), who hope to revive a decrepit old masterwork in a park and restore it as a “third place” stand-in for the old public Commons: a place for the people to call their own. The tale continues with Rita’s old college roommate Tamsin (Bhama Roget), a Judy Holliday type who happens to be Gregor’s latest girl toy; and a wealthy-climber client, Pamela (Robin Goodrin Nordli) who drags her savvy-cowboy husband Andy (Don Alder) and his hefty wallet along on all of her shopping sprees, which include, among other things, the design for a grand new house. When Gregor catches the scent of the preservation project in the park, and of Rita’s buried ambitions, the crosses are doubled, the hunt is on, and the fun begins.
Architects have taken something of a beating in literature and the theater, and Freed, the author of such appealing earlier plays as Restoration Comedy, The Beard of Avon, and Freedomland, gleefully joins the pile-on. In The Master Builder, the play whose title Freed’s own suggests, Ibsen’s Halvard Solness climbs too high and takes a fatal tumble. The Pritzker Prize-winning hero of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? hides a disastrously keen affection for a compliant four-legged friend (his appetite has nothing to do with chevre). And the less said about Howard Roark, the heroically individualist architect-hero of Ayn Rand’s breathlessly silly novel The Fountainhead, the better, except perhaps to note that Freed turns the tables on Rand: Gregor is Roark triumphant, his powerful traditionalist enemies turned into weaklings scrambling for crumbs. Similar stories play out in real life. Calatrava’s buildings-as-sculptures leak. The Museum of Modern Art demolishes and eats up its quieter and more subtle neighbor. Grand concert halls sprout mouse-ears to please their patrons. Billionaires commission bulging museum buildings that feel like fuzz pedals from ground level and look like electric guitars from above. Desert monarchies sprout dizzying towers that brag like Ozymandias. Urban-renewal “affordable housing” projects look like flimsy shoe boxes jammed together with no imagination and no breathing room. Even in a city like Portland, which prides itself on its street-level, people-oriented design and planning, the blend of power, money, and design that shapes the way we live has resulted in the mowing-down of vital neighborhoods for freeways, hospitals, shopping centers, upper-middle-class enclaves, and vague plans. (August Wilson’s Jitney, now at Portland Playhouse, also touches on some of these issues.) The city fell prey to the architecture-as-statement bug with Michael Graves’s notorious Portland Building (many of whose problems, to be fair, spring from the city’s cheapskate budget for the thing). And the idea of the Commons, which has become almost quaint in the four centuries since England began to pass its Inclosure Acts, has been muddied further by massive public projects such as Baron Haussmann’s 19th century razing and reinvention of massive stretches of Paris, and by the development deals that seem to be partly behind the Christie administration’s lane-closure scandal in New Jersey.
But traditions do change, and as the world’s population explodes, change becomes necessary. The questions are, what and how? And are starchitects the best people to carry it out? Fashion often determines who’s in and who’s out. England’s Prince Charles, a stout defender of architectural traditionalism (and among other things, organic farming), is derided in more sophisticated circles as a sentimentalist fool. Meanwhile, as lines get plainer and spaces starker, the people who actually live and work in buildings hold firm to the belief that a little grace and decoration feed the soul. Whether they make the connection or not, they long for Brunelleschi’s dome and the classical curves and proportions of Palladio. Yet the honest desire for tradition and familiarity can slip easily into the excesses of the McMansion and the indulgences of the never-was, and on the rock of his derision for such populist desires, Gregor builds his foundation and rests his case. On the outskirts of my home town a developer has built a Thomas Kinkade stone cottage, a garishly picturesque fantasy on steroids, which he uses as a model for prospective buyers who would like their own little Kinkade dream on their own little plot of land.
So, yes. The architecture trade is rife for satire, and Freed has at it. She’s especially good at filleting the pompous and often empty language of the business: at times, The Monster-Builder sounds a bit like Yasmina Reza’s theatrical exploratory surgery of the contemporary art world, Art. There’s something birdlike in Freed’s peck-peck-pecking at the foibles and corruptions of the building trade. It’s a specific sort of bird: not a Wren (as in Christopher) but a lark – a goof, a folly, a giddy spiral that rises and rises, like a Tower of Babel on the wing, daring the gods to destroy it as it spins its brittle confectionery to an assertive and breezily ridiculous cloud of froth. It gradually becomes clear that, as serious as her reservations about the state of architecture may be, and as many valid questions about it as The Monster-Builder raises, Freed is using the architecture world as an attractive backdrop to the broader comic possibilities of greed, power, vanity, and sex.
You know from the git-go that The Monster-Builder is an artificial construction, about as far from good old American realism as you can get and still play to wide audiences. The actors come out clipped and coiffed and Kaufman/Ferberish, with the boldly striding movements and precise pronunciations of Dinner at Eight, or maybe a revival of Boeing Boeing. The set is all stark white angles and glass and parts that move by remote control, a gash of egotistical clarity against an island cliff: designer Tom Buderwitz makes it look a little like the bad guys’ gorgeous hideaway near Mount Rushmore in North by Northwest.
Over-the-top melodrama, (literal) cliffhangers, some mystery, and a lot of crackling one-liners are laced through the play, and director Art Manke keeps it all rolling with a keen eye toward the timing and swiftness of farce. You could say the play promises more probing analysis of architectural issues than it delivers, but it’s a comedy, not an investigative essay in The Atlantic. The actors have a fine ensemble feel, each bringing a little different style of dish to the table, from Nordli’s wisecracking can-do whimsy to Roget’s moll moves to Alder’s bubble-bursting clods of practical dirt. And everybody seems to understand that Elich is the soloist, the virtuoso who gets to riff while the others keep the rhythm going. It’s a fun group of people to hang around with, as long as you don’t actually get caught up in their games or turned into their targets.
About that hyphen? See the show, and make the call for yourself. Either way, remember: monsters eat their young.
The Monster-Builder continues through March 2 at Artists Repertory Theatre, and is part of the Fertile Ground festival of new works. Ticket and schedule information here.
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9 Responses.
Mike O'Brien says:
Hi, Bob–
As usual, your review is thoughtful, perceptive and kind. I always appreciate and enjoy the cultural context and analysis that you give to plays. Even ones that don’t deserve it.
I would argue that this play fails in two ways: as a critique of contemporary architecture, and as farce.
First, I note that your own criticism of architecture points to projects like freeways and shopping malls where no architect was in involved (freeways) or was only involved after a developer had set rigid parameters for floor area, parking and form, leaving the architect to only polish the details. There’s blame to go around but architects don’t deserve it all.
Portland has been fortunate in that we do not have the wealth to attract starchitects, with the one exception of Michael Graves’ Portland Building (and we did get our all-time favorite public sculpture out of that disaster). Starchitects thrive in places like Dubai, London and LA where big egos and money want big statements. Our architecture firms, including Opsis Architecture, the sponsor of the play, are committed to design that serves the community and the client. You probably can’t find any architect in Portland who is not following LEED guidelines for sustainability, and some have accepted the Living Building challenge. Our architects are exactly the opposite of starchitects. So why do we need a play about the phenomenon? Shadenfreude?
The play riffs off stale chestnuts of architectural criticism. Why are architects whose heyday was in the Bauhaus of the 1930s being dragged into a critique of today’s excesses? When a strong case could be made that their work was an attempt to counter authoritarian German society?
OK, so architectural cliches, so what? It’s a farce, right? Like Moliere and the doctor in spite of himself? But this farce goes completely off the rails from zany if predictable, into chaotic absurdity. To make the starchitect a minion of Satan is to go from humorous critique to formless nonsense. When you can’t think of anything else, drag in a picture of the starchitect as Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect. This is a total fail as satire.
Finally, where is the heart in this play? Why did ART want to produce it, other than to have a world premiere? It’s hard for me to see how it fits into ART’s history, or even in the same season as The Big Meal.
Best, Mike
Len Magazine says:
Thank you both for your comments, Bob and Mike.
For me it presents an opportunity to ask questions that take us beyond Portland, its attitudes and its architecture. It also offers an opportunity to look within our own community to see how, even limited wealth, changes the neighborhoods in both character and texture. And, finally, we have a sense of how, even an idealist, is corrupted by opportunity for fame and fortune. The last scene provides the heart for me because the idealists prevail. It gives one a sense of hope.
Best to you both,
Bob Hicks says:
Good talking points, Mike and Len. Keep it up – and others, please join in. Mike, I understand your criticisms. You may well be right that the play fights old architectural battles rather than fresh ones, though starchitecture continues to spread around the globe. And in general, yes, it’s a phenomenon that Portland’s avoided: we have a lot of architects who are a lot closer to Rita and Dieter than to Gregor, and we do believe in street-level, human-scaled design. I brought up design and urban planning issues because architecture, engineering, and planning are separate but intimately linked, and the way that a city or region thinks about specific buildings often also reflects what it thinks about planning and big projects. Are you a freeway city? Are you a walking city? Are you a car or transit city? Do you believe in neighborhoods? What size are your city blocks? (Portland’s small ones have a big effect on what our buildings look like.) Architects are a big part of that conversation, and I imagine that Dieter and Rita are on board with that. I also happened to have looked through a bunch of historic photos recently of the streets and neighborhoods of old Paris that were wiped out by Haussmann’s grand redesign, and they made me think, there was a huge loss of vernacular architecture and vibrant neighborhoods that went along with this master plan; and that made me think of freeway projects and multi-billion-dollar bridges and neighborhoods like the NE Portland hospital zone and the Lloyd area that were razed and simply left empty for years, and that seems part of the picture, too.
I honestly don’t know what I’d do if the MoMA/Folk Art decision in NY were left to me; I believe in preservation, but we can preserve ourselves into sterility. Same goes for Memorial Coliseum. If it’s gutted and redesigned inside in order to be made economically feasible, has what makes it worth saving in the first place already been destroyed?
I probably should have made my point about the exploding world population more forcefully. It’s an issue that architects and planners must confront, and the Dieters are far more likely to do so successfully than the Gregors. I hope it came across that I actually have some sympathy for Prince Charles’s position, though I think he carries it to an extreme.
So here we are, having what I hope is an interesting conversation about issues that, in the end, the play itself doesn’t specifically address – but we’re having the conversation BECAUSE the play exists. And I find that interesting, too.
As far as the play’s farcical structure is concerned, it struck me as a bit meta: it uses the techniques of farce to upend the expectations of farce, and people are going to have divided opinions about that. Some will feel let down that it breaks away from the very logical rules of farce. Some will find the upending of the genre energizing. In a similar way, maybe, to the way that a lot of Parisians (and certainly a lot tourists) embraced those grand new boulevards.
Tal Sanders says:
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I completely agree there are valid and important issues to be explored around architecture (and urban planning, since you brought up Paris again). I’m just saying, this play does not do that. The book the playwright references as inspiration, From Bauhaus to Our House, was published in 1981. Tom Wolfe goes after people like Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, all architects whose prime was from the 1920s to 1950s. Today, more than half a century on, the issues are very different. I’d love to see a play that took on the likes of Frank Gehry and buildings like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Yes, Baron Hausmann destroyed the medieval streets of Paris to create its boulevards, to install a modern water and sewer system, and to create parks like Bois de Boulogne. And no doubt there were some lovely buildings and lanes lost in the process. But the Paris we enjoy today is his handiwork, and now we cherish the boulevards, the parks–and sewers! Cities have to either sprawl out or grow taller to accommodate more people and vehicles, and he chose to jump to 5 story buildings with wide arterial streets. I also note, Hausmann was not an architect, so I would not lump him in with the starchitects of the play.
It’s a slender reed to defend the play by saying, here we are discussing architecture because of it. For example, we are discussing Hausmann, who did not come up in the play.
I have never written a response to one of your reviews before, and I am not criticizing your (or Len’s) viewpoint. But for me, the play is a squandered opportunity to dig into today’s issues.
I should add, the actors did the best job possible with the material, as did the production staff, so kudos to them.
Sewers are good! And I wouldn’t argue that remaking Paris was wrong, only that something was also lost in the process. That’s inevitable, I think.
Actually, I’m tickled that your arguing your case. A review should be just the starting point of a conversation.
Owen Carey says:
Well Baron Hausmann’s Paris has become the new normal – our contemporary version of old Paris, with it’s grand boulevards and beige buildings with their mansard roofs. the new quaint. Gone are the rat infested medieval neighborhoods that we still know through the photography of Eugene Atget. Then in the late 60s the Montparnasse tower was built – an icon of the new modernism – the tallest building in France; but it’s monolithic nature met up with some fierce criticism for being completely incongruent with Von Hausmann’s Paris. So no more modern sky scrapers were allowed in old Paris – nothing over seven stories! – and instead the young architects of modernism were allowed to build on the western outskirts of town in the area called La Defense – to become the new shining glass towered business center. But i must say that while the Montparnasse Tower seems an eyesore when viewed from the Sacré Coeur Basilica atop Montmartre, the views of Paris standing atop the Montparnasse Tower are quite supreme, and are in perfect alignment with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs de Mars, the Trocadero and la Defense- and the 360˚ views are a worthy visit. On another note, did you know that Frank Gehry had been commissioned to build low cost housing in the Pearl a few years back, when Paige Powell was doing her best to bring renowned artists work into the Pearl. His designs met with bureaucratic roadblocks at every turn, so he eventually abandoned the project. The common man of the Commons, if you will, had its way with the Starchitect. Personally, i think we all lost out.
Oregon ArtsWatch says:
Owen, I’d forgotten about the Gehry flirtation – I remember it now. I think you’re right. Gehry might’ve done something really interesting, and now we’ll never know.
Tony Greiner says:
This play is outright dreadful. The attempts at comedy are as crude in the manner of a drunk redneck on a TriMet bus. The plot is ridiculous and preachy, and wit is absent in the script. As I walked out of the theater at the end of the first half, another departing victim said the best line of the night:
“This play needs to be workshopped two more times, then thrown away.”
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Ridgefield High School Thespian Society Announces New Inductees
The Ridgefield High School Thespian Society welcomed six new inductees to the troupe at their mid-year induction on January 10. New to the troupe are: Cami McGravey, Emma Hauser, Kyshaun Summers, Peter Schafer, Clara Lewandowski, Kaitlyn St. John, and Jared Lee.
According to Kaitlyn Etter, Theatre Arts Director for the high school, students are inducted based on a point system measuring their involvement in the theatre department over the course of their work on multiple productions. “Students are required to have 10 points (100 hours) to be inducted including two points from working “behind the scenes” on a production,” said Etter.
The International Thespian Society (ITS) is an honor society that recognizes student achievement in theatre. Etter started RHS’ ITS troupe #8635 last year. “The Thespian Society gives students access to resources beyond Ridgefield, including college scholarships, enhancing college and employment applications, and tons of student leadership opportunities,” said Etter.
The troupe did extremely well at its first ever Southwest Regional Acting and Technical theatre event in November. Garnering overall Excellent scores were students Cristyn LaChaine, Kennedy Howlett and Sofia Lee in the Solo Musical Theatre category; Bridget Donaldson and Sebastian Rojas-Rincon in the Duo Musical Theatre category; Callie Stenersen and Phoebe Langwell in the Duo Scene category; and Payton Kautz in the Stage Management category. These students will be recognized at the state competition in March.
Awarded perfect “Superior” scores were Lily Ray for Solo Musical Theatre and Phoebe Langwell for Monologue. Both students will advance to Nationals in the summer.
“Having a troupe at RHS not only gives students opportunities for learning at the various festivals throughout the year but also connections with other troupes from other schools across the U.S.,” said Etter.
“I am thrilled with the Arts Programs at Ridgefield High School,” said Debbie McGravey, Ridgefield Community Education Theater Program Production Manager. “RHS is fortunate to have an experienced, talented arts team led by Bob Meek, Charlie Greggerson and Kaitlyn Etter. Their theatrical/musical productions and concerts truly showcase the talents of our Spudder musicians, singers and thespians.”
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Gaming Made Me: Mathew Kumarked These Highly
Mathew Kumar
11th July 2009 / 1:22PM
To be frank (don’t worry, you can still be Shirley) the first thing that disturbs me about writing about how gaming made me is that so many of you reading this won’t be old enough to remember going into a John Menzies and browsing the racks and racks of games between £1.99 and £2.99, buying one almost certainly on the basis of how interesting the cover was (or sometimes how many games they’d managed to crush on; Codesmasters sticking four, usually terrible, games on some of their tapes got me more than once) and then going home and waiting for the tape to load while reading the insert.
Good lord, so few of you will remember running down to the newsagents, back when newsagents were observably owned by a bloke or a family and weren’t “convenience stores” with bright lighting and dirty magazines with blue wrappers so you can’t see the boobies; running down to the newsagents with the crappy wood panelling and boxes of fingered-too-many-times sweets because it wasn’t good enough to be one of the shops with the glorious rows of jars behind the counter (just fags at this one); running down to the newsagents to get the latest issue of Your Sinclair or Zzap or Amstrad Action to obsess over not even the games but the writing, somehow; obsess over how Linda Barker or Gary Penn or Frank O’ Connor or Jonathan Nash (oh god, Jonathan Nash) managed to thrill and make us laugh by writing about bloody games.
Bloody crappy games, honestly. It’s nice to go back and be nostalgic, but when talking about how gaming made me, it’s remarkable to remember how long I spent playing games that weren’t any good on my beloved Amstrad CPC (oh, how I loved you; how I still regret selling you for £30 to a family with some young kids so they could have their attention captured by the Play School disks we bought for my brother.)
Even the ones which were good—brillo conversions of Chase H.Q., Smash T.V. and Gryzor, for example—don’t really stand up in this day and age, where we can play the originals on our PCs with some jiggery-pokery.
So I’ll just talk about the one which I remember that transcends.
Head over Heels (Ritman/Drummond/Stevens)
There’s a lovely PC remake of this, so I can get away with it, I think. Head over Heels is the first game that I can remember that I actually cared about. There were isometric adventure games before, and I had played them, never quite gelling with the forever slightly clumsy diagonal movement (my CPC came with Spindizzy, for example, which many remember fondly) but here, finally, was a game with proper character; a pair of characters, in fact. The titular Head and Heels. Trapped in their separate prison cells, our initial task is—quite simply—to reunite them.
It’s surprising to read that so many years later Ritman claims to have made the story up in ten minutes (well, according to Wikipedia, anyway) because he’s forgetting that what made Head over Heels so charming—still charming—was that it sublimely recognized the importance of strong characterization through not only art but design (Head can carry stuff and jump high; we surmise he’s the brains of the operation. Heels runs fast; so he’s muscle) and the pacing. That our initial goal to unite Head and Heels is so superbly rewarded with their combined powers, and our new quest opens up several worlds in which we’ll be forced to use Head and Heels powers together and, in moments of wonderful risk, separately, is a work of wonder recognisable even by my 8-9 year old self.
In fact, I’d be hard pushed to argue that there hasn’t been a game since that has used the multiple protagonists with separate skills quite as well. I can’t think of one, anyway.
Wolfenstein 3.D (id)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Lucasarts)
A strange pairing, but they are forever linked in my mind. As my Amstrad CPC entered its twilight years and my Game Boy—gorgeous cream brick that it was—didn’t satisfy all of my needs, I began to look for a replacement. I scoured the magazines, returning to a comparison article in Games-X (of all things!) comparing the latest systems. I whittled it down. Obviously I was going to get the just-released Super NES or an Amiga.
(Worth noting that my decision to get either—for a few years at least—didn’t preclude me loving Amiga Power and Super Play, the same way I loved Your Sinclair. Did I mention I love games writing, so much I’d read it without owning the system? Really I should be writing an article about how games writing made me.)
My father didn’t like either of the options I put to him. A Super NES, after all, was just a toy. And to him, an Amiga was yesterday’s technology (remember, this is ’92—I held onto my Amstrad a LONG time.) He decided we were going to get a PC.
There’s a strange thing he did here, though, something I remember well because he didn’t just make the decision. He convinced me it was the right thing to do, which in retrospect was a pleasing thing—to have respected my opinion enough to know he had to make me see why he was making the right decision. (Thanks, Dad.)
He took me round to the house of a friend of his. They had kids a few years older than me, and he asked them to show me their PC. They booted up the newest game they had. Wolfenstein 3.D.
Often I’ve wondered about what would happen if we pulled someone from even just twenty years ago and showed them one of the current batch of games. I wonder, because I imagine the sound of their popping synapses would snap me right back to the moment I saw Wolfenstein 3.D.
The colours!
The smooth, 3.D. movement!
The murder of history’s favourite villain, the Nazis, and their dogs, who really didn’t know any better!
My father could have walked me right out of the room there and then and I’d have sold one of my feet for a PC. But they went one better and booted up their other new game—Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Now, I’d heard of the LucasArts games, and they were one of the reasons I was thinking Amiga, even with all that disk swapping. But again, the colours got me. You have to understand how amazingly well LucasArts had learned to use the 256-colour VGA palette. This wasn’t the sprite and backgrounds of the SNES; it was a moving painting to my eyes. The opening of Fate of Atlantis was as scene setting as anything I’d ever seen, the kind of amazing storytelling that astonished me was even possible
A few months later, I’d be sitting at the dining room table in front of a brand-spanking new 386, loading up copies of the very games I’d been shown. The crafty so-and-so, I realized; my dad had wanted a PC because he knew how easy it would be to keep me entertained with games he’d copied off his friend’s PCs.
I showed him, though—I own a boxed copy of every PC game I’ve ever loved.
Civilization (Meier)
It’s probably strange that this comes next. It’s the least flashy title that you could ever imagine an eleven year-old being enthralled by. And I was no precocious nerd by that point, either; history was as foreign to me as it was to your average kid.
Like the rest of my early PC games, this came in an envelope in the form of a scribbled on 3.5” floppy, but surprisingly it came with a full photocopy of the manual (sorry to everyone entirely disgusted by my early history of piracy, here.)
Clearly, the game wasn’t intended for me. It was intended for my Dad to play, as the—my memory says German, for some reason—German bloke who had scribbled on the disk had included a note about how great it was.
My dad, a card shark, not a gamer, had no interest. It was passed to me and I booted it up.
There are a lot of flaws to the original Civilization, but the power that lies in the game is how incredibly cleverly it can “scale” with the player thanks to the bedrock of a very board game-esque world in which the rules are everything and in which each turn you can enjoy progress at your own speed.
When I started playing Civilization, eleven-years old and no idea what a Phalanx was, I’d start my Civilization with one city as soon as possible. I’d then sit there and make that city as glorious as possible. I’d barely scout. I’d barely involve in diplomacy. I’d start no wars.
I was a little, one city nation in which everyone was thrilled to live; a city overflowing with wonders (I was playing on the easiest difficulty) and constant progress.
One day, sitting in school, I realized all I was thinking about was my little civilization. Was I going to put more money into taxes to pay off the next wonder, or was I going to make people happier? I was doing little bits of math and wondering about historical facts and figures (I poured over the Civilopedia) during the very time I was supposed to be doing a lot of proper maths and learning about historical facts and figures (which I absolutely hated doing, paradoxically.)
I was addicted to a video game. Addicted. I kept playing, learning to scout, learning when to be diplomatic and when to fight, learning to irrigate, learning to build a civilization of tens of wonderful happy cities with connected road networks and a fine army. I bumped the difficulty up until I realized the computer was a cheating bastard.
It would be easy to say I lost interest there. But just because Civilization was over—an addiction that would flare again with Civilization II—the fact that video games were my life was solidified. If I wasn’t spending all my time thinking about Civilization, I was spending all my time thinking about Ultima VII. Then Sam and Max, or Wing Commander, or, Alone in the Dark, Syndicate, Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Deus Ex and more and more and more until I’m here now today writing this in front of my PC. In my pants. I’m here because I loved video games so much—loved playing them and love reading about them and then writing about them—that love them, play them, read about them, and write about them, is what I do.
Thanks, games. I don’t know if you made me or ruined me, but I’m happy either way.
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Krisha
Krisha (2016)
Olivia Grace Applegate as Olivia
Bryan Casserly as Logan
Alex Dobrenko as Alex
Chris Doubek as Dr. Becker
Billie Fairchild as Grandma
Krisha Fairchild as Krisha
Robyn Fairchild as Robyn
Trey Edward Shults
Drew Daniels
Brian McOmber
Rated R for language, substance abuse and some sexual content.
Watching "Krisha" is a revelation: there are expected "rules" for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director/writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash. While the style is in-your-face, every element of it (a show-stopping score by Brian McOmber, Drew Daniels' camera-work, Shults' editing) is in service to the story, and to the story beneath the story, how destroyed this family has been by Krisha's addiction. "Krisha" (which won the Grand Jury prize at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival) is an assault, from the first unforgettable moment on, and Shults' style clues you in from the get-go that this won't be your familiar "addiction/redemption tale." This is going to be something very, very different. This tour de force is even more astonishing when you learn that it is Shults' first feature.
Krisha (Krisha Fairchild), an older woman with flowing grey hair and a body rolling with curves, returns to the family home for Thanksgiving, after presumably decades lost to addiction. (As she pulls up to the curb outside the house, the hem of her dress sticks out from the bottom of the car door. That detail says it all.) She's sober now and desperate to re-enter the family circle. Her presence at Thanksgiving is a test after years of letting everyone down and ruining family gatherings. She has promised to cook the Thanksgiving turkey, a big job (considering the number of people present), but she's happy to take on the responsibility because it will prove she's got her act together, she's a good girl now, they can trust her.
The family gathered is multi-generational. There is Krisha's sister Robyn (Robyn Fairchild) and Robyn's technologically-challenged husband (who can't figure out his phone, his computer, or the remotes), their kids, the kids' spouses, cousins, plus a newborn, plus Krisha's ancient mother. The house is open on the first floor, rooms pouring into other rooms, a tiled floor with no rugs to absorb the noise. The voices bounce off the walls, total cacophony, creating a believable atmosphere of a rambunctious, close family. Krisha enters, and people line up to hug her, happy that this lost lamb might be on the right track finally. But there's a formal quality to the reunion. The family has been hurt deeply by Krisha. She has missed decades in their lives. One of the kids (Shults himself) keeps his distance, even when she clutches him to her. He pats her back stiffly, retreats.
Over the course of the next couple of hours, Krisha prepares the turkey, (at one point the bandage on her finger—a finger missing its tip from some unexplained catastrophe—disappears inside the bird), sneaking out to smoke butts on the patio, or retreating to the bathroom upstairs to stare at herself in the mirror, trying to calm down. The cousins, all boys around the same age (high school and college), have arm-wrestling contests, watch football, sneak off to watch porn upstairs, play boardgames. The family has moved on without Krisha, the space she used to take up is no longer there.
"Krisha" is both realistic and deeply surreal. Shults leaps around visually, from the nephews wrestling in the yard, to Krisha tearing the kitchen apart looking for the oven-timer, the camera whirling around her in dizzying 360-degree turns, to Robyn and her husband having whispered worried pow-wows in the corner, as Krisha peeks at them anxiously. The noise is deafening inside the house, but the sound drops out when Krisha is alone. The frantic score would be appropriate for a horror film, and in a lot of ways "Krisha" is a horror film (the first moment evokes pure psychological terror).
Cooking that turkey is a cliffhanger in and of itself. As the film hurtled on its rickety precarious rails, I kept thinking about the turkey in the oven. I wanted her to go check on it. It seemed so important that the turkey come out well. It wasn't just a turkey. It was life-or-death. Shults' immersive style drove that home in ways both funny and terrifying. The tension, at times, was unbearable.
Krisha stands at the center, staring around her with wild eyes, desperate for a drink, for belonging and forgiveness. She's a tough-looking broad with a big belly laugh, but her hopes are hanging by a thread. "You are heartbreak incarnate," declares her caustic brother-in-law. "You are a leaver." Not only does he have a point, he is right. Krisha talks about learning to "be a better person" and how she has been trying to get in touch with her "spirituality," but there's something "off" in her attitude, considering the damage she's done.
Krisha Fairchild is Shults' aunt, who has done mostly voiceover work. To say her performance is "good" doesn't even cut it. It helps that she is an unknown face. She doesn't look like a Hollywood actress playing at being an addict. She looks like the real thing. Her mere presence calls into question the industry's casting choices: who else might be out there not getting work because of their body or their age? Krisha is a mess. She tries hard. She struggles into her way-too-fancy red dress for the upcoming dinner. She's buoyant and fragile, self-pitying, clueless. It's amazing just watching her, and Shults gives us multiple still moments where the camera stares at her profile, her reflection in the mirror, her face gazing out a window. The movie is all about her face. There are moments when she goes totally blank, a void in her eyes. It's deeply unnerving.
The story behind shooting "Krisha" is almost as extraordinary as the film itself. Shot over nine days in the Texas home of Shults' parents, the cast is made up of members of Shults' family (most of them are not actors). In interviews, Shults and his family are quite open about the fact that the film is based on their shared experience with an addict relative. The film feels like a blazing catharsis for all involved. Shults' mother (a therapist in real life) has a scene with Krisha in an upstairs bathroom that is so pained, so raw, that it puts other confrontation scenes in other films to shame.
We all know how addiction narratives usually play out (at least in the movies). The addict shows up, there are tense scenes, shouting matches, maybe a relapse, but in the end, there is hope after all. People in the real world know that not every "addiction tale" has "redemption" at the end of it. How many chances are you supposed to give someone before you back off in self-protection? "Krisha" is not just about its main character but about the effect her alcoholism has had on the family. They are right to be wary of her. They are right to keep their distance. She really is "heartbreak incarnate."
Clara's Ghost
by Tomris Laffly
by Matt Zoller Seitz
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 29, 2018
by Brian Tallerico
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Fat Mike Announces Touring Festival “Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival” On West Coast
Music News | By Bryan Kremkau on Jul 24th, 2017
Fat Mike will be putting on a Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival that will showcase a bunch of craft beer and on yeah, NOFx, Bad Religion, Flogging Molly, and along with 4 other bands per show. Less Than Jake, Goldfinger, Bad Cop Bad Cop are some of the bands performing so far so this sounds pretty friggin cool so far! The touring Festival will launch on September 16th In Tacoma, WA and will make stops in Boise, ID, Concord, CA, Sacramento, CA & Huntington Beach, CA. Chalk this up for another cool thing on the West Coast that we East Coasters are being left out of…unless it’s happening over here too but maybe next year?
Created from the mind and liver of NOFX’s frontman Fat Mike, the Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival will debut in the Western U.S. this fall with five special events featuring the best in punk rock music and regional craft beer.
Named for NOFX’s classic Punk In Drublic album, which has sold over one million copies, Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival launches September 16 in Tacoma, WA, with stops in Boise, ID, Concord, CA, Sacramento, CA, and Huntington Beach, CA. NOFX will co-headline each date of Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival alongside Flogging Molly in some markets and Bad Religion in others , and every show will also feature four other bands. Look for full details to be announced in August at www.PunkInDrublicFest.com.
Each Punk In Drublic festival date will feature up to four hours of craft beer tastings with over 100 craft beers, including some of the West Coast’s best and local favorites. Craft beer tastings are included with admission. Festival hours will be Noon – 9:00 PM.
Fat Mike has joined forces with premier music event producer/promoter Synergy Global Entertainment and respected craft beer event production powerhouse Brew Ha Ha Productions for the festival. In addition, to celebrate Punk In Drublic, Fat Mike teamed up with craft beer pioneers Stone Brewing to brew their very own Stone & NOFX Punk in Drublic Hoppy Lager, which will be available in cans only in the festival markets. This collaboration is a huge show of support by Stone, as it marks the first time ever that Stone has worked with a musician for a can release. They’ve even included the festival tour dates on the back of each can. This is a first-of-its-kind level of commitment from a brewery partner for a festival tour.
When asked how Stone & NOFX Punk in Drublic Hoppy Lager tastes, Fat Mike says, “It’s something to wash the noise away.” However, other slogans offered by Mike that were quickly turned down by Stone included, “It’s the beer of champagnes” and finally, “They say you can’t get beer from a stone…oh shit, we just did!”
“We know we’re crazy for letting Fat Mike in our brewery, but we’re doing it anyway,” says Greg Koch, Stone Brewing co-founder. “We have a lot in common in not only refusing to follow the status quo, but actively rejecting it. I have incredible respect for what he and Fat Wreck Chords have done for the independent music scene. Craft beer is currently in a similar open-your-eyes-to-the-man’s-corporate-obfuscation battle. Is independent craft beer punk rock? Very. And even more so now with this collab. See you in the pit!”
Cameron Collins, Co-Founder & Director of Events at Brew Ha Ha Productions explains, “Craft beer and punk rock are cut from the same cloth. Small, independent, and up against some big challenges: taking on BIG BEER, and local bands determined to do it their way, despite what might make them a quick buck. Punk In Drublic throws off the mantle of the ordinary to create an event unlike any other…a perfect pairing of craft beer and punk rock!”
Catch the Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival “stumbling through a town near you”:
Saturday, September 16 – Tacoma, WA – America’s Car Museum (on sale Friday, July 28)
Sunday, September 17 – Boise, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater (on sale Friday, July 28)
Saturday, October 14 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion (on sale Friday, August 11)
Sunday, October 15 – Sacramento, CA – Bonney Field (on sale Friday, August 11)
Saturday, October 28 – Huntington Beach, CA – Bolsa Chica State Park (on sale Friday, September 1)
The Saturday, September 16 (Tacoma) and Sunday, September 17 (Boise) Punk In Drublic shows will feature performances from NOFX, Bad Religion, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Bad Cop / Bad Cop and more. Tickets for these two shows go on sale Friday, July 28 at 10:00 AM local time at www.PunkInDrublicFest.com.
General Admission and VIP tickets for the Tacoma and Boise shows are priced as follows. Ticket details for other dates will be announced in August. All tickets include craft beer tasting and access to view the music stage for attendees 21 years or older.
General Admission: starting at $39
Early Entry + VIP Lounge: $99
Early Entry + VIP Lounge + Meet & Greet: $199
VIP Tickets include access to a VIP Entry Lane and VIP Lounge, with:
– Exclusive craft beer tastings
– VIP viewing area of the stage
– Private restrooms
– VIP cash bar
– One hour early entry for craft beer tastings (for those 21+), starting at 12:00 PM
Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival is pleased to welcome Rockstar Energy Drink, Wienerschnitzel, Stone Brewing and Cosmic Fog as sponsors and supporters in its inaugural year. Sponsor activations vary by market.
Look for details on the other Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival shows in the coming weeks. Visit www.PunkInDrublicFest.com for more information.
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How the Ice Maidens conquered Antarctica
Our first keynote address of the school year by Sophie Montagne - one of six intrepid Ice Maidens - presented the irrefutable truth that women have the mental and physical endurance to operate in the most hostile environment on earth.
A Lance Sergeant in the Honourable Artillery Company, Sophie recounted the record-breaking 1,700km trek she and her fellow female adventurers undertook over the uninhabited Antarctic landscape for 61 days earlier this year.
The six women became the first all-female team to do so using muscle power alone, battling temperatures of -50°C and wind speeds of over 60mph.
Following in the footsteps of Felicity Aston’s solo Antarctic crossing in 2012, all were either British Army or Army Reservists, described by Sophie as "ordinary women".
They were selected from 250 applicants, and underwent rigorous training in order to survive and succeed in the "coldest, highest, driest continent on earth".
Sophie explained that each day involved around 10 hours on the move, the women tethered in a line and unable to communicate verbally. They listened to podcasts and music to occupy themselves and while physical strength was needed, mental capability was of greater importance.
The aim of the expedition was to promote female leadership and inspire more women to embrace major challenges.
It was also to collect vital data into how the female body copes in extreme environments. At the end they were interviewed by a NASA scientist who, among other things, was keen to know what they felt was the main benefit of having taken part.
Sophie said: “We all gave the same answer – the huge sense of belonging, of knowing each other so well that we completely trusted our lives in each other’s’ hands. It was an amazing feeling that I will never forget.”
The talk was one of a number of events and concerts taking place at Redmaids' High which are open to members of the immediate school community and to the general public. Further information is available on our Special events page.
Date Posted: 23 September 2018
Extra-Curricular Infant/Junior Senior Sixth Form The World Beyond
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IB Diploma students head off to shape the world
Date Posted: 11 July 2019
Many of our IB Diploma students are set to build on their global studies through a range of internationally-themed degree courses
Explorative STEM Week at the Junior School
A week full of inspiration and invention
Redmaids' High alumna in the news
Date Posted: 24 June 2019
Hannah is cited by the Telegraph as one Management Today’s ‘top female business leaders.’
South West Prep Schools Athletics
Three girls make it through to the National Preparatory Schools' Athletics Championships.
Educational exchange to Sydney, Australia
Four Year 9 students are having the trip of a lifetime!
Bravo! Take a bow girls
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is deemed to be a huge success.
Empowering Bristol’s young women
Students from across Bristol visit Redmaids' High for a conference organised by the Bristol Women’s Commission.
Headteacher's blog: Nurturing the soul
Lisa Brown discusses the importance of a balanced curriculum which values creativity and nurtures the soul.
Student artwork to appear at Glastonbury Festival
Students design banners to 'change the hearts and minds of the festival goers.'
Students speak to the Bristol Zoological Society
Following months of data analysis, six students present their scientific findings to the Bristol Zoological Society and members of the public.
Student art and design on public display
Hundreds of people see our students’ art and design work thanks to the BS9 Arts Trail.
Active Travel Week at the Junior School
A walking bus, rewarding breakfast and happy shoes!
Redmaids' High alumna out in the world
Valued alumna reminds us of the wide-reaching benefit of an international education.
Miranda Krestovnikoff to speak at Redmaids' High
Date Posted: 24 May 2019
We are delighted to be welcoming Miranda Krestovnikoff to school on Tuesday 11 June, when she will speak to staff, students, parents and governors.
Record numbers attend medicine conference
Over 250 students, from 24 schools across the region attended our 2019 Women and Careers in Medicine Conference.
Drama at Redmaids’ High is thriving
We are seeing record numbers of students competing at local drama festivals and opting to take professional exams.
European Junior Squash Champion
Karina sporting and academic abilities are taking her around the world!
Headmistress' Blog: Young people can be a real force for good
Mrs Tobias describes how heartening it is to see young people making a difference.
A classical tour of Italy
Our classics students explore some of the Ancient sites of Italy
Maddie bowls into top photo competition
Year 12 student Maddie appears in the annual Wisden-MCC photo competition.
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All you need to know about the EU Copyright Directive. It isn't as bad as you think
Written by Erik Vlietinck
Shutterstock - Pe3k
The EU Parliament has given its blessing to the new Copyright Directive which aims to strengthen the position of EU-based creators – filmmakers, actors, musicians, journalists and writers – when negotiating with publishers and producers.
It should lead to fairer fees for the exploitation of their works and performances, but a lot of people seem to believe the directive will actually lead to less available content and more censorship within Europe.
“Web giants have been able to benefit from content created in Europe by paying derisory taxes, transferring huge profits to the US or China,” European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said. “Parliament has chosen to put an end to the existing digital Wild West.”
The "Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market" seeks to ensure that the online world and the internet are on par with the offline world when it comes to giving creatives, news publishers and journalists what they are entitled to. It applies to all for-profit online services, except marketplaces and cloud services like Dropbox.
Google, Facebook and such platforms often imply that artists, news publishers and journalists should be happy their work is circulating freely and when they actually pay a fee, it’s usually a tiny fraction of what the platform or aggregator is making. In short, and as many of us undoubtedly know, it’s very hard for artists and media professionals to earn a decent living off the internet.
In contrast to what lobbyists – this directive has been one of the most lobbied of all times – seem to suggest, the directive does not create any new rights for creatives and journalists, nor does it create new obligations for online platforms and news aggregators. It does, however, represent the first decent attempt to create a level playing field.
It has serious flaws as well. For example, after publication in the Official Journal of the EU and contrary to GDPR, Member States will have to transpose the directive into their national legislation within 24 months, creating uncertainty and non-uniform rules across the EU. As the directive sets out a minimal regime but leaves space for interpretation, we can already see some basic issues.
Producers to which creators have assigned their rights will have to share how and where a workpiece is used and which revenues are generated. A contract adjustment mechanism will need to be put in place that allows a creator to get a bigger share of their success if the originally agreed fee is clearly disproportionate to the generated revenues. This does not apply to marketplaces like eBay or stock image websites, for example, but it does to all creators, including, for example, screenwriters. It requires producers, publishers and platforms to negotiate contracts that are fair to the creator and allow them to revoke the work when it’s exploited.
The main targets of the directive are the producers, publishers, platforms and aggregators who benefit from your work and that is, of course, squarely in the face of the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Google News.
It is hoped that the rules will force them to strike fair licensing agreements with artists and media houses who have identified themselves beforehand as the owners of a piece of work. This, the EU legislator claims, is not censorship, as some have claimed, but the introduction of legal liability applying to the platforms.
If you create a video and post it on Youtube, you’ll have to be paid a fee that can increase with the number of hits – ad views – your video receives. If there’s no agreement, the platform will be directly liable if they host a piece of work with an unpaid licence fee and the right holder has the ability to sue them.
But imagine you’ve created a movie that uses a scene containing a song performed by one of Europe’s performers at one of our festivals. You haven’t asked permission to the singer/songwriter and you upload the video to Youtube.
In that case and without considering it’s you who was illegally capturing the performance, Youtube will need to make a best effort to obtain an authorisation (either by having the songwriter to agree to free usage or pay her a fee) and, when that’s impossible and the necessary and relevant information proves the content is unauthorised, remove your video and also make a best effort to prevent future uploads (the so-called ‘stay down’ provision). In this example, it would apply to videos uploaded by both EU- and non-EU nationals as there’s an EU-artist involved.
Because this becomes unwieldy when dealing with millions of uploads a day, quite a few people oppose this directive as they fear it is likely the platforms will either leave the European market altogether or block users from uploading content by installing so-called AI-based upload filters. And we all know how accurate they are.
All of this becomes less stringent when you’re uploading to an online service provider which has been active less than three years in the EU, whose turnover is less than 10 million Euros with a visitor-base of less than 5 million monthly users.
Those smaller players will avoid liability for unauthorised works by proving they have made their best efforts to obtain an authorisation and have acted expeditiously to remove the unauthorised works notified by right-holders from their platform. The ‘stay-down’ provision applies to them if they have over 5 million users a month.
Luckily, the directive has few to no consequences for individual users. Member states are required to also protect the free uploading and sharing of works for the purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody or pastiche. The right to link, to use snippets in links – linking to your video containing a still frame of the festival or even a 5-second clip should be OK – and to share content with others has also been protected, thanks to the work of MEPs like Julia Reda.
Title picture: Shutterstock - Pe3k
EU Copyright Directive
Erik Vlietinck
Based in Holland and Belgium, Erik Vlietinck is the publisher of the IT Enquirer, a pan-European online publication covering multimedia content production.
He also regularly creates online textual and video content for websites of companies across Europe and writes for Photoshop User and occasionally contributes to Post Magazine. Erik has been a freelance writer for over a dozen IT-magazines in Great-Britain, Holland and Belgium.
He has written product reports on editorial systems, superwide format UV-curing inkjets, Postscript RIPs and DAM systems. From 1998 to 2004 Erik wrote the Administrator Guides for DMPartners’ linguistic search engine for publishers and WoodWing Software’s Enterprise 7 cross-media publishing system.
Up to 1990, Erik served as a solicitor at the Antwerp Bar Association and a lecturer at Vlekho, a university located in Brussels, where he bored post-graduate students with IT contracts law.
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MHA Members Donate More Than $16K To Local Homeless Shelter
Background Check, Lee Mikkelson, MHA, Minnesota Multi Housing Association, People Serving People, Rental Research Services, Resident Screening, Tenant Screening
BLOOMINGTON, MN, January 10, 2014 – The Minnesota Multi Housing Association (MHA) raised $16,632.43 – along with additional donations of children’s books, toys and blankets – for Minneapolis homeless shelter People Serving People.
MHA members celebrated their charitable partnership with a silent auction and raffle to benefit the organization on Friday, November 22nd at ElseWarehouse Apartments in the Minneapolis North Loop.
People Serving People CEO Daniel Gumnit attended the fundraiser to express his gratitude and to convey the importance of MHA’s contributions.
“Last year, more than 2,000 homeless children stayed at People Serving People. The new face of homelessness is that of a six-year-old child. If we are going to end the cycle, we have to focus on the kids. Partnerships like this one are instrumental in helping us accomplish our goals,” Gumnit said.
Just after Charitable Outreach Chair Colleen Wilson and MHA staff member Tina Gassman presented a $14,985 donation to Gumnit, MHA vendors in attendance added to the sum.
“The work Daniel and his team do at People Serving People is so very important,” Wilson said, “Every one of our members who has toured the shelter has been moved to help them succeed.”
About People Serving People:
People Serving People is the largest, most comprehensive, family-focused shelter in Minnesota. The mission of People Serving People is to serve homeless children and their families and provide new opportunities for healthy, stable family life. People Serving People achieves its mission and goals by providing emergency housing and community services that assist families experiencing homelessness in becoming self-sufficient and reconnected with the community. In a safe, secure and sober environment, PSP provides services which cultivate independence and accountability.
About Minnesota Multi Housing Association (MHA):
The Minnesota Multi Housing Association (MHA) is a state-wide nonprofit trade organization. With nearly 2,100 members representing more than 250,000 housing units throughout Minnesota, MHA is the voice of the state’s multi housing industry. Visit www.mmha.com for more information.
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HomeResearchResearch ExplorerResearchersProf Erica Burman
Prof Erica Burman
Professor of Education
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Erica Burman's first degree was in Developmental Psychology with Cognitive Studies, from Sussex University. She came to Manchester to take up an SSRC PhD linked award, graduating in 1990 (with a thesis entitled 'Time, Language and Power in Modern Developmental Psychology'). From September 1986 to March 2013 she taught developmental psychology, educational psychology, psychology of childhood, counselling and psychotherapy, human development, and qualitative and discursive research methods at Manchester Metropolitan University (formerly Manchester Polytechnic), becoming Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies in 1998. She is co-founder (with Ian Parker) of the Discourse Unit (transinstitutional and transdisciplinary centre for the study of the reproduction and transformation of language and subjectivity - www.discourseunit.com), and she co-convenes the Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix, and the Manchester Feminist Theory Network.
Membership of organisations
British Psychological Society - Associate Fellow (member of Developmental, Psychotherapy, Psychology of Women and Sexualities Sections); from 2016 elected Honorary Fellow
(Chair of Psychology of Women Section, 2008-10)
College of Psychoanalysis
Group Analysis North (Full Member)
Institute of Group Analysis (Full Member)
United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists (UKCP) - accredited
International Society for Theoretical Psychology
Iyengar Yoga Association (Introductory level teacher)
Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (2013-2015)
Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, UK (2013-2015)
Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2013-
Visiting Professor at Cibersomosaguas, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2013-
Adjunct Professor (0.2) , Oslo and Akershus Unversity College, Norway (2013-2017)
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Reus Tourist Information Guide -
One Of Many Charming Outdoor Terraces Where You Can Sit And Soak Up The Atmosphere In Reus Spain
Reus in Spain is a picturesque town that was once famous for the production of Brandy. Today it is a bustling town that spans 59km2 and has 100,537 inhabitants.
Reus Tourist Guide will help you find all the tourism information you need whether you're travelling through Reus or spending your holidays here.
Reus international airport is popular with budget airlines like RyanAir which fly in from destinations all over Europe. With a transfer time of around 1 hour 20 minutes to Barcelona, flying to Reus also offers you the possibility of obtaining a low cost flight if you can't find a cheap fare directly to Barcelona airport.
Map showing Reus in Relation to Barcelona, Salou and Tarragona.
Reus is near the east coast of Spain 10 kilometres from the coast of the Costa Dorada. (Also spelt Daurada) and 111 Km from Barcelona. The nearest town on the coast is Salou which is 12 kilometres south of Reus. Other coastal towns and resorts within a half hour drive include Cambrils and La Pineda.
How to drive to Barcelona from Reus
When traveling from Reus to Barcelona you'll pass through Tarragona. Tarragona has some stunning Roman architecture. It has been recognised by UNESCO and is worth a visit. I am reliably informed that it also has some excellent nightlife by a local resident of Reus. It's feasible to travel to Tarragona from Reus to sample the nightlife as the journey by car takes around 20 minutes.
Port Aventura Theme Park Near Reus
The Port Aventura theme park is approximately 8 kilometres from Reus, Spain. Reus makes a good place to stay if you want to visit the theme park, and you have a car.
How To Travel To Reus By Air
Ryanair offer frequent flights to Reus, Spain. Reus has its own small airport and the flights to Reus are generally very cheap.
Ryanair at the airport
Driving To Reus From Elsewhere In Spain
To drive to Reus from Madrid takes approximately 6 hours. The main motorways that you need are the A2 out of Madrid, and then the A7 in the direction from Barcelona to Valencia.
Driving From Reus from Barcelona
A Typical Bar In Reus
Things To See In Reus
Reus is the home town of Antoni Gaudi the famous Catalan modernist architect, although, ironically, there are no examples of his work here. Instead you'll see lots of Lluís Domènech i Montaner's work. He constructed several buildings throughout the city in a modernist style.
There's a Modernist Route through the town that you can walk which bypasses all the best buildings.
In June the town enjoys its biggest fiestas, and you'll see live music in all the town squares every night, and street entertainments. You'll also see the famous towers made of men (Castellers) - unless they tumble down that is!
There are quite a few bars and restaurants in Reus and the ones I tried had some really good tapas and menus of the day (Menu del dia) for reasonable prices. In the summer terrace bars spring up all over the place.
Reus is in an easily accessible location thanks to its airport and the motorways that near by. It has plenty of interesting sights and in addition it's only 10 km from the beaches of the Costa Dorada and 100km from Barcelona.
Guide to Transfers from Reus Airport to surrounding destinations
Reus Tourist Information and Tourism Office
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Podcast: Eyewitnesses Recall U.S.S.R.'s Dying Days, Plus St. Petersburg Surf Rock
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Summoned Belarus Journalist Disappears
An opposition activist has disappeared after reporting to police for questioning in eastern Belarus.
20 Years Since U.S.S.R. 'Ceased'
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EU Reaches Out To Belarus
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Belarusian 'Noodle Protesters' Arrested
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Bomb Attack Damages Montenegrin Newspaper Offices
A bomb has damaged the offices of the "Vijesti" daily in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica.
Transparency International Says Corruption Rampant In CIS
Transparency International is warning that the abuse of power, secret dealings, and bribery within the public sector continue to "ravage" countries around the world, including in the former Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States.
EU, Balkans Slammed On Migration
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Former Yugoslav First Lady Jovanka Broz Dies
Jovanka Broz, who spent three decades as Yugoslavia's first lady but was left stateless and forgotten as the socialist federation built by her husband Josip Broz Tito dissolved in war, died on Sunday (October 20) in a Belgrade hospital. She was 88 and had lived largely in isolation since the 1980 death of long-time Yugoslav leader Tito, squirreled away in a crumbling state-owned villa in the Serbian capital without a passport or ID.
First Gay-Rights March In Podgorica
The Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, saw its first-ever gay pride parade.
EU Makes Balkan Recommendations
A draft of the annual European Commission (EC) report on EU enlargement has outlined the progress and setbacks experienced by the six candidate and potential candidate countries from the Western Balkans as well as Iceland and Turkey.
Montenegro To Open New Chapters In EU Talks
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Energy Projects Eligible For EU Funds
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Azerbaijan Unveils Renovated Park In Podgorica
At a ceremony in Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Yalchin Efendiyev opened the renovated King's Park with a statue of Azeri poet Huseyn Cavid. The project, which also included renovation of an adjacent street renamed Baku Street, cost several million dollars. Azerbaijan has financed the erecting of statues of former President Heydar Aliyev in several friendly countries around the world, including Montenegro's bigger neighbor, Serbia. (Esad Krcic, RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
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Bankruptcy, Layoffs, And Lawsuits Plague Montenegrin Aluminum Plant
The Podgorica Aluminum Plant is a key part of the Montenegrin economy. Now it is the object of a life-or-death struggle between the government and the company's Russian shareholders, who have announced they are filing a billion-dollar lawsuit for breach of contract.
One Serb's Two-Wheeled Message Of Peace
For the last 10 summers, Rasko Tanasijevic has led a group of cyclists on the 470-kilometer journey from his hometown of Kragujevac, Serbia, to Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a message of peace and reconciliation.
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Dr Richard Bradbury
Head of Environmental Research, Conservation Science
I lead a small but dynamic team working on a diverse range of topics, largely at the interface between biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
Our work includes:
The assessment of climate change impacts on priority species and design of adaptation solutions to these impacts
Use of habitat network models to inform landscape scale conservation
The effect of different land use and management decisions on carbon stocks, greenhouse gas flows and other ecosystem services
Development of tools for ecosystem service appraisal
The impacts of energy generation technologies on birds
Providing the scientific support across our portfolio of site conservation concerns
Understanding the relationships between exposure and connection to nature and human well-being
How to influence pro-environmental behaviour change
We work in close collaboration with other teams in the Centre for Conservation Science, colleagues across RSPB and Birdlife International, and a wide range of other academic, statutory agency, government and NGO partners.
2015 to present: Honorary Research Fellow at Cambridge University
2012 to present: Living With Environmental Change Terrestrial Climate Impacts Report Card: Working Group
Partners and Collaboration
Dr James Pearce-Higgins, British Trust for Ornithology
Prof Chris Thomas, University of York
Dr Tom Oliver, University of Reading
Dr Andrew Balmford, Cambridge University
RSPB Centre of Conservation Science, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3QZ
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Climate change Ecosystem services Protected areas
A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change
Current national and international frameworks for assessing threats to species have not been developed in the context of climate change, and are not framed in a way that recognises new opportunities.
RSPB Authors
Thomas, C.D., Hill, J.K., Anderson, B.J., Bailey, S., Beale, C.M., Bradbury, R.B., Bulman, C.R., Crick, H.Q.P., Eigenbrod, F., Griffiths, H.M., Kunin, W.E., Oliver, T.H., Walmsley, C.A., Watts, K., Wordfold, N.T. & Yardley, T.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
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UK Climate change
Protected areas facilitate species' range expansions
The benefits of protected areas (PAs) for biodiversity have been questioned in the context of climate change because PAs are static, whereas the distributions of species are dynamic. Current PAs may...
Thomas, C.D., Gillingham, P.K., Bradbury, R.B., Roy, D.B., Anderson, B.J., Baxter, J.M., Bourn, N.A.D., Crick, H.Q.P., Findon, R.A., Fox, R., Hodgson, J.A., Holt, A.R., Morecroft, M.D., O'Hanlon, N.J., Oliver, T.H., Pearce-Higgins, J.W., Procter, D.A., Thomas, J.A., Walker, K.J., Walmsley, C.A. et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
UK Climate change Protected areas
Farmland birds and resource protection in the UK: Cross-cutting solutions for multi-functional farming?
Farmland bird declines in Europe are well documented. In the UK, agri-environment schemes are key mechanisms for reversing the declines of birds and other farmland biodiversity, but recent reviews...
Dr Richard Bradbury, Will Kirby
Bradbury, R.B. & Kirby, W.B.
Biological Conservation
UK Agriculture Identifying problems UK species
TESSA: A toolkit for rapid assessment of ecosystem services at sites of biodiversity conservation importance
Sites that are important for biodiversity conservation can also provide significant benefits (i.e. ecosystem services) to people. Decision-makers need to know how change to a site, whether development...
Peh, K.S.-H., Balmford, A., Bradbury, R.B., Brown, C., Butchart, S.H.M., Hughes, F.M.R., Stattersfield, A., Thomas, D.H.L., Walpole, M., Bayliss, J., Gowing, D., Jones, J.P.G., Lewis, S.L., Mulligan, M., Pandeya, B., Stratford, C., Thompson, J.R., Turner, K., Vira, B., Willcock, S. et al.
International UK Ecosystem services
UK National Ecosystem Assessment: understanding nature's value to society. Synthesis of key findings
The UK NEA represents a first attempt to assess our stocks of natural ecosystem resources, their state and the trends in their development.
Richard Aspinall, Mel Austen, Richard Bardgett, Ian Bateman, Pam Berry, William Bird, Claire Brown, James Bullock, Jacquie Burgess, Andrew Church, Sue Christie, Ian Crute, Linda Davies, Gareth Edwards-Jones, Bridget Emmett, Les Firbank, Alastair Fitter, Chris Gibson, Rosie Hails, Roy Haines-Young, Louise Heathwaite, John Hopkins, Martin Jenkins, Laurence Jones, Georgina Mace, Stephen Malcolm, Ed Maltby, Lindsay Maskell, Ken Norris, Steve Ormerod, Juliet Osborne, Jules Pretty, Chris Quine, Shaun Russell, Lucy Simpson, Pete Smith, Megan Tierney, Kerry Turner, René van der Wal, Bhaskar Vira, Matt Walpole, Andrew Watkinson, Tony Weighell, Jonathan Winn and Michael Winter.
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Maria Butina pleads guilty to US charge of conspiring to act as foreign agent
Published time: 13 Dec, 2018 16:24 Edited time: 14 Dec, 2018 17:57
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Maria Butina, the Russian woman arrested in July and accused of acting as a foreign agent within the United States has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
Butina was accused of acting as a Russian agent to infiltrate the National Rifle Association (NRA) lobby group which is closely linked to Republican politicians close to US President Donald Trump and to sway US foreign policy toward Moscow.
When asked by a judge whether the charges read by prosecutors were correct, Butina responded: "Yes."
Chutkan: "Does this statement of offense truly and accurately describe what you did in this case?"
Butina: "Yes."
— Charlie Gile (@CharlieGileNBC) December 13, 2018
By pleading guilty, Butina waived the right to a trial and appeal. Judge Tanya Chutkan said she found that Butina was "fully competent" to make the plea.
In a signed statement obtained by NBC News, Butina said that she had "sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over US politics" and that she did so on behalf of the Russian government.
Chutkan said she was satisfied that Butina was competent and accepted the plea. Depending on her level of cooperation with US investigators, Butina coud receive a lighter sentence before, probably, being deported to Russia. Acting as an unregistered foreign agent within the US can carry a sentence of up to five years in prison.
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Butina had been living in the US on a student visa and prosecutors alleged she had been working as an agent under the direction of a Russian banking official. Butina’s lawyers identified the man as Aleksandr Torshin, but he was not mentioned by name in the official plea document submitted to the court.
During the hearing, Butina said she understood that she could be deported following her conviction and sentencing, but Judge Chutkan told her that the decision on deportation would not be one made by her court. Chutkan said it would be up to her to determine a guideline sentencing range, even though both Butina's lawyers and the government had asked for no more than a five year sentence.
A sentencing date was not set yet, as Butina had cooperated with investigators, but a status hearing date was set for February 12.
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Ronaldo to Juventus: What we know about transfer rumors
5 Jul, 2018 14:23
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Real Madrid are reportedly considering a $116 million transfer bid for Cristiano Ronaldo from Italian giants Juventus, in a move that would see the player move on after nearly 10 years at the Spanish club.
Ronaldo has just returned home from the World Cup in Russia, where he scored four goals in four games but ultimately bowed out early as Portugal were defeated 2-1 by Uruguay in the last 16.
READ MORE: Uruguay 2-1 Portugal: Ronaldo & Portugal sent packing by coruscating Cavani brace
The attention has now very much switched to his club career, with rumors he could be on the way to Juventus.
Here’s what we know about the reports so far.
THE REAL DEAL?
There are contrasting reports about the stage of the discussions between Real Madrid and Juventus, with Portuguese outlet Record saying that a four-year deal is as good as done and could be expected “within a matter of hours.”
However, Sky Sports have reported that the Madrid club are currently weighing up the proposal and are yet to reach a decision.
Ronaldo has been at the Bernabeu since 2009, and has scored a record 451 goals for the club.
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He’s won four Champions League titles with the Madrid giants - and five in total - and although at 33 he is undoubtedly entering the twilight of his career, he was as instrumental as ever in Real’s most recent European triumph in May, scoring 15 goals in the team’s campaign.
However, Real may see the age factor as key, and could look to cash in now while looking to reshape the team.
They are said to be keen on bringing Neymar back to Spain, and Ronaldo’s move could pave the way for that – although it would be sensational news given the Brazil player’s Barcelona history and the astronomical fee required to prise him away from Paris Saint-Germain.
RONALDO UNREST
There are also issues away from the pitch for Ronaldo, such as his reported agreement with the Spanish tax authorities that is said to have involved him accepting a fine and suspended jail term over allegations of fraud.
'Perfect' timing award goes to...Spanish Treasury!
Ronaldo is set to play later today...https://t.co/vhaZ5XtfK9
— RT Sport (@RTSportNews) June 15, 2018
He has flirted with a departure from Madrid before, with similar tax issues last summer and reports he was unhappy with a lack of support from the hierarchy at the club.
This time it could be seen as the right time for a move from both sides.
CAN JUVE AFFORD IT?
Juventus have remained tight-lipped about a possible offer, but it would certainly involve paying more than the €90 million they spent on Gonzalo Higuain in 2016.
© Matteo Ciambelli © Global Look Press
That transfer was funded largely from the money the club received from Manchester United for the sale of midfielder Paul Pogba, and with no such sales made this summer, a Ronaldo arrival would no doubt mean some financial restructuring from a club that sits 10th in Deloitte’s football rich list.
Portuguese media state that wage demands would be around €30 million a year - estimated at four times higher than Higuain, who is Juve's current highest earner.
However, Juventus will no doubt have been impressed by what they saw from Ronaldo in the club’s meeting with Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final this year, when the striker scored a stunning overhead kick.
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Despite the cost, they would also consider the commercial revenues from one of sport’s biggest names a huge benefit.
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Putin presents Croatian president with flowers, gets football jersey in return (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin presented his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic with a bouquet of flowers ahead of their bilateral meeting at the Kremlin. She returned the favor by giving Putin a football jersey.
“This is for today’s match,” Grabar-Kitarovic said as she handed the red-and-white checkered jersey to Putin, with the Russian president’s name printed on the back.
"First of all I would like to congratulate you on the team’s successful performance at the World Cup. I’m sure we will see an interesting game today,” Putin said referring to the final between Croatia and France which will take place at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow.
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Earlier, Croatia’s first female president had confidently predicted at the NATO summit that her country would lift the World Cup trophy on Sunday.
READ MORE: ‘We will win the World Cup!’: Croatia president with final promise at NATO summit (VIDEO)
Croatia, with a population of just 4.17 million people, has become the smallest nation to contest the World Cup final since Uruguay, who won the tournament in 1950 when the nation had a population of around 2.4 million.
READ MORE: Croatia becomes smallest nation to reach World Cup final since 1950
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Ron Paul calls Gingrich a ‘serial hypocrite’ in campaign ad
Published time: 1 Dec, 2011 20:08 Edited time: 2 Dec, 2011 00:08
As Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich rises through the poll, Texas Congressman Ron Paul is trying to take the competition down a notch with a campaign video that labels the former House speaker as a serious hypocrite.
The Ron Paul campaign has released a two-and-a-half-minute clip condemning the fellow conservative candidate for his common flip-flopping of issues, and by Thursday afternoon, the ad has already accumulated nearly 200,000 views.
Through black-and-white and grainy stock clips, the Paul campaign introduces a series of statements from Gingrich throughout his tenure as a politician and lobbyist, which over the years have consistently contrasted against earlier ideologies that the former House speaker spoke of in earlier ties.
Despite condemning Wall Street for bankrupting America during a recent televised GOP debate, segments in the Paul ad remind the audience that Gingrich took at least $1.6 million from Freddie Mac before the housing collapse. In the campaign commercial, the Paul campaign uses a quote from the National Review to perhaps best summarize Gingrich’s gain; the paper had equated the maneuver by writing that “Gingrich profited from one of the greatest scandals of our time.”
Paul’s clip even contains jabs at Gingrich by way of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Rep. Paul Ryan, two of the top names in right-wing politics — one, courtesy of the commentator, labels the former speaker as a supporter of the Obama administration.
“There is no explanation of it,” says Limbaugh.
Paul’s ad pulls quotes from Gingrich himself, further exploiting him as a flip-flopper. While Gingrich has discussed questions of policy, values and seriousness, the Paul office calls him out for not staying straight on any one of those. The result, says the campaign, is a candidate guilty of “serial hypocrisy.”
"Our campaign is making a bold move to debunk the myth that the Newt we are seeing on the 2012 campaign trail is the conservative he has been touted to be all along," Paul’s campaign chairman Jesse Benton said in an official statement on Wednesday.
“It’s pretty tough,” Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics adds to the Christian Science Monitor. “If he ever does air it [on TV], it’s bound to hurt Gingrich.”
“It revives a lot of things that voters have forgotten, maybe older voters too.”
Gingrich has labeled himself as of late as a solid alternative to frontrunner Mitt Romney, but to CNN on Thursday, Paul said the former speaker is a flip-flopper, “so he can hardly be the alternative to Mitt Romney.”
“What will you tell us next?” the video’s narrator asks Gingrich at the end of the clip.
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2019 NSW Sabre State Championships
25 Sabres battled it out on Wallagoot Lake for the NSW Sabre Titles, the best numbers for a championship regatta for 35 years in NSW. 8 capable Victorian Sailors supporting the event added to this success. It provided the critical mass and competitive edge we need in NSW to move our sailing to another level.
There were three outstanding stories. The first one was that our sailing in NSW has a way to go to meet the standards of the top Victorian sailors. The ‘Vics’ took out the first six places Murray O'Brien (McCYC) followed up his second in the recent Sabre Nationals, winning the event with three first placings. The battle for 2nd, 3rd and 4th was extremely close with only 0.5 of a point separating them! In the end Liam O'Brien (McCYC) scored 2nd on countback from Bruce Abbott 3rd (BRYC), with Barry Eastgate (MMYC) in 4th.
The second story was the dominance of our NSW women sailors, with Wendy Atkins the first NSW boat and Aurora Paterson the second, finishing 7th and 8th places overall. There was some exciting highlights. One of my favourites was Aurora Patterson (pictured below) and a few other NSW Sabres battling with Murray in the first run of the first leg, of the fourth and ‘windiest’ race.
The third story, perhaps most important, was the great spirit of the competition. There were great battles between the front, middle and back of the fleet, meaning everyone had something to fight for. Words of encouragement, openness to share ideas, and getting to know each other was a real highlight. This was helped by the support of Wallagoot Sailing Club’s friendly culture and professional management of the regatta. Thanks also to Jamie Simpson and Pete Whitton for all the background work in organising the event.
This event has given NSW sailors an appreciation of areas in need of improvement and quite a bit of motivation to be more competitive next time. The willingness of Victorian sailors to support us in this is a clear demonstration that the sabre sailing is in a good place nationally. We’d love to see more Victorian boats of all standards join us next time, yet we’d also love to provide some stiffer competition! We also hope to see this event build great interest in the Sabre class across NSW and the ACT. There was some good NSW sailors not at the event, hope they come next time!
Is that some NSW Sabres being a bit competitive with Murray and the other Vics? Go Aurora.
Murray deservedly and comprehensively takes home the trophies
Well done Wendy. First NSW Boat in the Championship
NSW States 2019
Sabre Sailing Association of NSW 2017/18 State Championships
Well, we may have discovered the best sailing venue in Australia at Lake Wallagoot. Midway between Bega and Merimbula on the NSW South Coast this pristine lake lies within the Bournda National Park. There is a local fleet of upto 11 boats and 9 travelled from Newcastle, Sydney and the ACT on the weekend of the 10/11 March. This is actually a return to the past when titles were held on different weekends and we found a fabulous group of very well organised people with a love for sailing and the beautiful surrounds in which they sail.
Read more: Sabre Sailing Association of NSW 2017/18 State Championships
NSW State Championships NOR
SSANSW State Titles Report
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Notice of Race - 2016 NSW Sabre State Championships
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Spring Preview: South Portland Red Riots
By The Forecaster
New coaches and excitement are the theme for South Portland spring sports. Three varsity teams welcome new coaches. Softball has been a strong contender in recent years and should be right there again. Girls’ lacrosse says hello to a familiar face as it makes a run for the playoffs. Boys’ tennis is hoping to get to the postseason as well. Baseball is always a contender and projects to be one again in 2009. Boys’ lacrosse fell short of the playoffs last spring, but should be in the mix this time around. Both track teams have some talent that will be heard from. Girls’ tennis is hoping to build on last year’s winning record and postseason berth.
Coach: Tony DiBiase (13th year)
2008 Record: 9-9 (Lost 11-3 to Deering in Western Class A quarterfinals)
Top returning players: Mike Dicenso (Senior), Chris Gorham (Senior), Ryan Curit (Junior), Jon DiBiase (Junior), Mike Foley (Junior)
Pivotal games: April 25 (H) PORTLAND, April 30 @ Bonny Eagle, May 5 @ Deering, May 12 @ Westbrook, May 16 (H) CHEVERUS, May 28 @ Portland, June 2 (H) SCARBOROUGH
Coach’s comment: “We lost three of our top four pitchers to injury. That hurts us. We have talent. It’s just a matter of getting experience. The position players are solid. We’ll have to go slow with the pitching. We’re so inexperienced. I’m sure somebody will step up. We’ll rely on the strength and depth of our program. We’d like to continue our streak of making the postseason.”
The Forecaster’s forecast: South Portland has been in the playoffs 14 of the past 15 years including 10 in succession. That streak should expand to 11 this spring. The Red Riots would have been right there with the top contenders, but seniors John Carey and Nick Folan and junior Matt Lee are all out with injury. As a result, Gorham is the lead returning pitcher. He was 1-1 with a 2.53 ERA in limited action a year ago. Junior Jon Medici, a lefty, also figures to be a force on the hill. Dicenso will catch. Jon DiBiase was a .250 hitter a year ago with a pair of doubles and eight RBI. He’ll play third. The outfield features Curit (an All-Rookie team selection in 2008 after hitting .326 with three triples, a home run, nine RBI and scoring 14 times) and Foley. South Portland has several other players eager to make a mark. By season’s end, a few of them should become household names. The Red Riots will get a good test right out of the gate when they meet Portland Saturday. An early victory against a contender would do wonders for confidence. South Portland won’t be viewed as a favorite this spring, but by season’s end, it should be pretty formidable. No one will want to draw the Red Riots in the playoffs.
Fun fact: Last year marked the first time the Red Riots finished .500 since 1995, when they were also 9-9.
Coach; Ralph Aceto (first year)
2008 Record: 14-5 (Lost 1-0 to Scarborough in Western Class A semifinals)
Top returning players: Melissa Thomes (Senior), Lauren Tuttle (Senior), Stephanie Thibeault (Junior), Alexis Bogdanovich (Sophomore), Danielle DiBiase (Sophomore), Katlin Norton (Sophomore)
Pivotal games: April 25 (H) PORTLAND, April 29 @ Cheverus, May 1 (H) BONNY EAGLE, May 11 (H) DEERING, May 22 @ Gorham, May 29 (H) SCARBOROUGH, June 1 @ Biddeford
Coach’s comment: “If the young kids can stay away from young mistakes, we’ll be in every game. I think we’ll be very solid defensively. We should be much improved. I’m a proponent of big-time defense. I think we’ll be a better hitting team. We have playoff experience. I think we’ll be a little better than middle-of-the-pack.”
The Forecaster’s forecast: The always-interesting Red Riots should be in for another strong season. South Portland welcomes a familiar face as its new coach. Aceto’s oldest daughter Amanda was a third baseman on the 2005 regional champion. Middle daughter Christina was a standout as well. Aceto played softball in the military, started coaching when his kids were at the youth level and formed the Coastal Maine Diamonds ASA squad. He also coaches AAU basketball and is a South Portland native. Marc Sandora remains the hitting coach and Rick Fournier is back working with the pitchers. The group has a young, but promising squad to work with. Bogdanovich (a first-team all-star in 2008) saw limited time behind Julie DiMatteo last year and could be one of the better pitchers in the league. Tuttle will also see her share of innings. Both girls will be in the outfield when they’re not pitching. Norton will catch with occasional help from Thibeault (an all-star honorable mention last year). Thibeault normally plays shortstop. She and Thomes (second base) make up one of the best middle infields around. DiBiase (an outfielder), Bogdanovich and Thibeault figure to lead the offensive charge. This young team will take a little while to hit its stride, but it’s fortunate in that it won’t face powerhouses Scarborough and Biddeford until the end of the regular season. By then, Aceto should have this group clicking on all cylinders. South Portland will be heard from in the weeks and years to come.
Fun fact: The last time South Portland changed coaches (2005), the Red Riots won their only regional championship the following season.
Coach: Tom Fiorini (second year)
2008 Record: 5-7 (no postseason)
Top returning players: Tyler Bickford (Senior), Joe Connolly (Senior), Ben Linscott (Senior), Greg Roberts (Senior), Adam Burpee (Junior)
Pivotal games: May 6 (H) GREELY, May 12 (H) DEERING, May 15 @ Scarborough, May 18 (H) CAPE ELIZABETH, May 22 @ Waynflete
Coach’s comment: “We have a good mix. Only a few seniors. We have kids with great attitudes. They’re working hard and having fun. We have some winnable games. If the kids do what they should do, we’ll be alright. We’re looking to get into the playoffs and go deep in them.”
The Forecaster’s forecast: After consecutive seasons which ended in the semifinals, South Portland fell short of the postseason in 2008. The Red Riots are confident they can get back this spring. This year, the offense is will be paced by Linscott (the team’s leading scorer last season), Roberts (who handles faceoffs), Burpee and new sophomore Harrison Keithly. Connolly, a second-team all-star in 2008, will anchor the defense. Bickford returns in goal. South Portland’s schedule is favorable until the midway point when the Red Riots draw defending Class A state champion Scarborough and defending Western B champ Cape Elizabeth back-to-back. Other than that, most of the games are winnable and South Portland should be able to make a run at the playoffs. If a few other sources step up on offense and if the defense can hold the opposition in check, the Red Riots will end their one-year drought and return to the postseason. They might do some damage once they get there.
Fun fact: Last year was just the third time in the program’s nine-year varsity history it failed to make the playoffs.
Coach: Bill Fenton (first year)
Top returning players: Amber Cresswell (Senior), Annie King (Senior), Kim Loeffel (Senior), Cassie Lyons (Senior), Anna Rerrick (Senior), Samantha Viola (Senior), Erika Waterhouse (Senior)
Pivotal games: April 28 (H) WESTBROOK, May 1 @ Gorham, May 12 (H) FREEPORT, May 19 @ Portland, June 1 (H) MCAULEY
Coach’s comment: “It’s an exciting group with a lot of talent. We have some good athletes. I want to have a winning season and I’d like to make the playoffs. I’d really like to see the girls come together as a team. We’re looking forward to it.”
The Forecaster’s forecast: The Red Riots will unleash an abundance of athletes this spring as they look to return to contention. Fenton replaces his daughter, Bethany, who coached the prior three seasons. He played in prep school in Massachusetts (no truth to the rumor he was a teammate of Jim Brown’s!) and served as the Red Riots assistant coach in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Fenton also played football and basketball in his day. He was part of a New England championship team on the hardwood. He’s also done his share of coaching baseball and basketball. He’ll be assisted by Blaik Watson and Leslie Perrault. This year’s team has several players who can score. Lyons, a returning honorable mention all-star, leads the group. She’s joined by King, Rerrick, Viola and Waterhouse. New sophomore Victoria Brookings will handle draw controls. Loeffel is the anchor on defense in front of Cresswell. New sophomore Abby Hasson (best known for her basketball exploits) will also see some time in the cage. The new scheduling tier will help and hurt South Portland this year. The Red Riots have a great chance to post their first winning record since 2004, but there might not be enough Heal Points for the team to earn a postseason berth. Regardless, look for a positive season of growth from this squad. They should be a lot of fun to watch and by year’s end, could be very dangerous.
Fun fact: After making the playoffs every year from 2001 through 2004, South Portland’s fallen short the past four. The Red Riots hope to start a new trend this spring.
(Boys) Dave Kahill (second year)
(Girl) Bob Zinchuk (22nd year)
2008 Results:
(Boys) 18th @ Class A State Meet
(Girls) 24th @ Class A State Meet
Top returning athletes:
(Boys) Kevin Campbell (Senior), Brandon Emerson (Senior), Sean Feely (Senior), Tony Haeuser (Senior), John Johnston (Senior), Ryan Skillings (Senior), Jake Viola (Senior), Brian Arsenault (Junior), Jon Clement (Junior), J.C. Esquibel (Junior)
(Girls) Melissa Bodwell (Senior), Abbey Cook (Senior), Caitlin Ferriera (Senior), Aleesa Larson (Senior), Kaylee Newcomb (Senior), Annelise Donahue (Sophomore)
Top foes: Bonny Eagle, Gorham, Scarborough
Coach Kahill’s comment: “The exceptional character, work ethic and competitiveness of the upperclassmen should enable the team to be very competitive during the regular season and conference championship meets. We have a rapidly developing group of young distance runners. Developing pole vaulters and jumpers will be a welcome challenge to an eager group of seniors and underclassmen.”
Coach Zinchuk’s comment: “We’re very excited with a large turnout of athletes. Our main goals are to build team unity, improve each week and qualify a lot of girls for the state meet. We will have to outwork the other teams by performing well. What we lack in first place talent, will be compensated with effort and determination.”
The Forecaster’s forecast: Both South Portland outdoor track teams boast a lot of strong athletes.
The boys’ squad returns two scorers from last year. Haeuser came in fourth in the 110 hurdles (he was third in the 55 hurdles indoors) and Johnston was sixth in the racewalk in 2008. Skillings came in sixth in the shot put during the indoor season. The distance team will include Jon Clement, sophomore Matt Clement, Esquibel, and sophomores Sam and Tom Redstone. Haeuser, along with Arsenault, Emerson, Feely, junior Joey Michaud, sophomore Adrian Reid, and new seniors David Hardison (fourth in the 55 hurdles indoors) and Terry Ho, junior Jeff O’Connor, sophomore Cal Skillings and freshman Jalen Diffin will compete in the sprints. Ryan Skillings and Viola are top throwers. Jumpers include Haeuser, Diffin, Hardison, Ho, O’Connor and new sophomore Jarren Parris. Esquibel and Diffin will pole vault. The Red Riots depth and ability to cover events will serve them well during the regular season. South Portland hopes a few top athletes will emerge to produce points in the postseason. The Red Riots are certainly capable of moving up at states.
On the girls’ side, depth and promise are in abundance. The distance crew is led by Cook, Donahue, and sophomore Maria Letourneau. Bodwell, along with sophomore Sarah Johnston, competes in the racewalk. Ferriera and Newcomb lead the sprinters. Juniors Faith Abraham and Bobielyn Fisher could also be factors. Larson is a thrower. Eight freshmen are on the roster suggesting the future is bright. South Portland will contend during the regular season and hopes to be at its best for the postseason. Look for the Red Riots to score some points at the state meet.
Coach: Tom Hyland (first year)
2008 Results: 6-8 (Lost 5-0 to Windham in Western Class A quarterfinals)
Top returning players: Tanner Burgdorf (Senior), Corey Doucette (Senior), Mark O’Donnell (Senior), Adian Boyce (Junior), Keegan Hyland (Junior)
Pivotal matches: April 27 @ Cheverus, May 11 @ Deering, May 15 @ Scarborough, May 22 @ Portland, May 26 @ Westbrook
Coach’s comment: “It’s a great group. We’re having a ball. We have some solid returning players. We should compete. This guys are working hard. We could be middle-of-the-pack and make the playoffs.”
The Forecaster’s forecast: A year after getting to the postseason for the first time since 2004, the Red Riots would like to go again. Tom Hyland, a former South Portland assistant and recreational player who teaches at the high school, replaces Cory Snow as coach. Of course, the new coach is best known as the father of Keegan, the basketball standout who will play first doubles this spring along with Boyce, who was an all-star a year ago. The first singles spot will go to Doucette. Burgdorf plays No. 2 singles. O’Donnell (another all-star from last year) moves from doubles to No. 3 singles. The second doubles squad will likely consist of new senior Ryan Chapin and junior Brian McHugh, who was on the JV team last season. South Portland is one of several teams in Western A that could make a run at one of the top spots. There isn’t a favorite in the league this season and the Red Riots will have a great chance to win most of their matches. A triumphant season and another trip to the postseason are distinct possibilities.
Coach: Elizabeth Scifres (11th year)
2008 Results: 8-6 (Lost 5-0 to Deering in Western Class A quarterfinals)
Top returning players: Meg Bagley (Senior), Kaycee Hendricks (Senior), Megan Lundgren (Senior), Patricia Lusty (Senior), Alison Dolbow (Junior), Savannah King (Junior), Courtney Perruzzi (Junior), Amanda Junkins (Sophomore)
Pivotal matches: April 27 (H) CHEVERUS, May 1 (H) MCAULEY, May 8 (H) WINDHAM, May 11 (H) DEERING, May 22 (H) PORTLAND
Coach’s comment: “We have a strong group of returning players who are very competitive, athletic and assertive. Our team goals include having a winning season again, making the playoffs, as well as being known as a team which puts sportsmanship first.”
The Forecaster’s forecast: South Portland is coming off its ninth straight trip to the postseason, where it made a little noise. The Red Riots should be right back in the mix again in 2009. The ladder wasn’t complete at press time, but it appears Lusty will move up from the third singles spot to No. 1. She had the best record on the team in 2008. Junkins moves up from JV to play No. 2. Lundgren could be at the third singles position. She was a doubles player a year ago. Bagley teamed with Lundgren a year ago and will probably be first doubles again, likely with Perruzzi. Dolbow, King and Hendricks are in the running for the other doubles spots. South Portland should score its share of points in singles and doubles play and will be able to match up well with just about every opponent. There isn’t a heavy favorite in the league this year meaning most matches will be up for grabs. If this team can build on last year’s success, it should post another winning record and might be capable of going even deeper in the postseason.
Catcher Stephanie Thibeault is a returning all-star for the South Portland softball team. (File photo)
Senior Ben Linscott is the top returning scorer for a dangerous South Portland boys’ lacrosse team. (File photo)
Senior Brandon Emerson will look to score points in the sprints and hurdles this spring. (File photo)
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Uncle Ebo Whyte to thrill audience on the 6th & 7th of July with new play 'I Want Your Wife'
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Ebo Whyte to thrill audience in July with new play 'I Want Your Wife'
Uncle Ebo Whyte, the award-winning playwright will be staging his next play titled ‘I Want Your Wife’ on the 6, 7, 13, and 14 of this month at the National Theater in Accra.
'I Want Your Wife' is a play which fuses drama with poetry and rib-cracking satire and tickets are going for GHC 80.
According to Uncle Ebo Whyte, the play is about how failure to be decisive on issues can create monsters which later come and cause harm.
There is a reason why everyone needs to be at the National Theatre to witness the latest stage play put together by Roverman Productions.
Who does not know that Uncle Ebo Whyte will always have a surprise for his audiences?
And it’s no coincidence that no one has been able to figure out the trick with his stage plays. He simply delivers, and you can bet his next theatre will be better than the previous one you watched.
In the play, the couple could have dealt with a situation in its infancy but allowed it to fester scaling to huge proportions with Uncle Ebo noting the party involved then felt emboldened laying claim to the woman stating “I want your wife.”
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Bone to Pick
Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge
By Ellis Cose
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In a world riven by conflict, reconciliation is not always possible -- but it offers one of the few paths to peace for a troubled nation or a troubled soul. In Bone to Pick, bestselling author and Newsweek editor Ellis Cose offers a provocative and wide-ranging discussion of the power of reconciliation, the efficacy of revenge, and the possibility of forgiveness.
People increasingly are searching for ways to put the demons of the past to rest. That search has led parents to seek out the murderers of their children and torture victims to confront their former tormentors. In a narrative drawing on the personal and dramatic stories of people from Texas to East Timor, Cose explores the limits and the promise of those encounters.
Bone to Pick is not only the story of victims who have found peace through confronting the source of their pain; it is also a profound meditation on how the past shapes the present, and how history's wounds, left unattended, can fester for generations. Time does not heal all, Cose points out. Memories and anger can linger long beyond a human lifespan. The descendants of Holocaust survivors and African slaves alike feel the effects of their forebears' pain -- and in some cases are still demanding restitution.
What is behind the movement for reparations? Why are truth-and-reconciliation commissions sprouting all over the world? Why are old wars being refought and old wounds being reopened? In Bone to Pick, Ellis Cose provides a moving and nuanced guide to such questions as he points the way toward a more harmonious world.
Ellis Cose
Ellis Cose, author of seven books, including the bestselling The Envy of the World, Color-Blind, and The Rage of a Privileged Class, is a columnist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. He has appeared on Nightline, Dateline, Good Morning America, PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR, and other national television and radio programs. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
Publisher: Pocket Books (April 2004)
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Peter D. Bell President and CEO of CARE USA Ellis Cose explores complex, painful, yet crucial issues of historical memory. Without succumbing to easy answers, he seeks resolutions that will break us free from the shackles of hate, fear and shame. Cose points toward a more just and harmonious world.
James Hoge Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine Atrocities by individuals and by states occur with dismaying frequency, leaving in their wake abiding memories of wounds that cripple lives and whole societies. How to disarm those memories and thereby find peace and, where possible, reconciliation is the moving theme of this powerful and insightful study of man's inhumanity to man.
Anthony D. Romero Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Bone to Pick provides an eloquent and engaging analysis of the process of forgiveness and reconciliation that is central to the human experience. Cose analyzes Jim Crow racism, apartheid, sexual abuse, the caste system, and genocide -- drawing conclusions about hurt, forgiveness, revenge, and reconciliation that are as relevant for individuals as for entire societies. The well-researched and poignant examples elucidate how our past is intimately connected to our future, and Cose pays tribute to the indefatigable perseverance of the human spirit.
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Eagle Scout shows how gift comes full circle
Lifestyle // Travel
Tom Stienstra Dec. 17, 2018 Updated: Jan. 28, 2019 3:24 p.m.
Petra (mom), Simon, sister Selina and dad Harold Herrmann at Simon's Eagle Award ceremony
Photo: Tom Stienstra, Dough Laughlin / Special to The Chronicle
A small event on the Peninsula last week showed how one small, personal gift has the chance to change a life and, in turn, change the world.
The Boy Scouts’ Eagle Court of Honor presented Simon Herrmann with the Eagle Scout award. But before the event, Doug Laughlin, a mentor and Eagle Scout 50 years ago, pulled Simon aside and gave him the Eagle Scout ring he received in the 1960s.
“I told him that 50 years from now, maybe he can pass the ring down to another new Eagle Scout,” Laughlin said. “You know, we need to pass it down, the outdoors, making things better.”
For his Eagle Scout project, Simon, 15, said he used social media to raise money for Operation Dignity, which provides care packages for displaced veterans and homeless. Some 50 years ago, Doug, for his project, collected outgrown uniforms from Boy Scouts on the Peninsula and then distributed them to lower-income Scout councils in the East Bay.
When I was in Little League, my baseball coach, Ed Dunckel, gave me a handmade lure from Redwood City called a Met-L Fly, and then took me fishing in the Sierra to show me how to use it in trout streams and wilderness lakes. Over the years, I caught hundreds of trout on that lure. That little lure now sits on my writing desk, a symbol of how one small gift opened doors for a little boy with wild hair.
“Mr. Dunckel,” as we called him, then gave my brother Bob, at 18, a three-piece Eagle Claw pack rod. Bob took it with him everywhere. Then, when he was in Vietnam, that rod was one of the symbols of the life waiting for him back home when he returned.
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Many have a story like this. A parent, mentor or friend gives you something he or she cherishes that represents a pathway to something good in the outdoors. These are the best Christmas gifts. A gift from the heart is something that lasts.
At the Eagle Court of Honor, Simon then stunned Doug by presenting him with an emblem of the Eagle Scout award.
Give something you love to the right person, Doug said, and that gift can come back full circle.
Tom Stienstra is The San Francisco Chronicle’s outdoors writer. Email: tstienstra@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @StienstraTom
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Tom Stienstra is the outdoors writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is America’s first Back Country Sportsman of the Year and the only two-time National Outdoor Writer of the year. In 2008, he won first place for best outdoors column in America. As a photographer with The Chronicle, he won first place in America for best outdoors feature image in 2011. That year he was also awarded as Far West Ski Writer of the Year. His books have sold more than 1 million copies. His first novel, "The Sweet Redemption, An Inspector Korg Mystery," was released for 2013. His television show on CBS/CW won first place as America’s best outdoor recreation show, and his radio show on CBS won first place in 2010 for best environmental feature show in America. Tom has hiked 25,000 miles, caught world-record fish, led dozens of expeditions and taken part in all phases of the outdoor experience. He was the fourth living member inducted into the California Outdoors Hall of Fame.
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Kimly to focus on core biz of running coffeeshops
By Tay Peck Gek
The number of coffeeshops and food courts Kimly operates is expected to rise from 67 to 70 by next financial year ending September 2019.
AFTER aborting the acquisition of a drinks manufacturer, Kimly Ltd will be focusing on its core business of operating coffeeshops by serving up more outlets as well as diversifying its product offerings.
It would improve its operational efficiency as well, incorporating technology to streamline the processes at its central kitchen and outlets.
In a press briefing held on Tuesday, the operator listed last year on the Catalist unveiled its business plans that would see the expansion of its bread and butter of operating food outlets. The number of coffeeshops and food courts it operates is expected to rise from 67 to 70 by next financial year ending September 2019.
Kimly's chief financial officer Karen Wong Kok Yoong said that the company has on average been able to add three to five outlets a year to its stable.
Its financials have shown that the main growth in revenue has been fed by additional outlets and food stalls.
The company believes the new evaluation system adopted by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) this year for coffeeshop bidding would help its expansion plan. According to Kimly, HDB is currently building over 30 sites with completion in next five years.
Roy Tan, head of special projects and human resource (HR) at Kimly, pointed out that the company's past performance, operating efficiencies and wide range of food offerings stand it in good stead for HDB's latest assessment scheme, which also considers food affordability, productivity and operating processes.
Besides managing food outlets, Kimly's other key business is retailing that includes selling drinks and food like dim sum, mixed vegetable rice and seafood zi char at its own outlets.
Food retailing now includes Japanese restaurant Tonkichi and Japanese-French confectioner Rive Gauche, with three and 10 outlets respectively - both acquired in July - to diversify its offerings and customer base.
And Kimly is strengthening its online orders and food delivery service as well, after seeing a three-fold increase in sales through this platform between 2017 and 2018.
Business development manager Ronnie Yeo said: "Online business has great potential. Combination of brick-and-mortar (and online sales) is the way to go, even for coffeeshops."
As for the product offerings at its food outlets, Kimly is going to launching by March 2019 its own brand of iced tea and coffee in a move to leverage the growing preference of its customers for healthier drinks with less sugar.
This follows the company's rescission in November or just four months after its purchase of beverage maker Asian Story Corporation in July.
The acquisition, though aborted, is now under probe by the authorities, and Kimly's executive chairman Lim Hee Liat and executive director Chia Cher Khiang had been arrested and later released on bail.
Mr Lim and Mr Chia, who had attended the media briefing for Kimly's initial public offering in March 2017, were conspicuously absent from yesterday's media session.
HR head Mr Tan told The Business Times that Kimly's succession plan will kick in should the two directors be unable to run the company. Ms Wong's swift appointment as finance director was one of the measures to manage Kimly's key man risk.
Kimly's counter traded at its lowest on Dec 6 - two days after the arrest of its two directors - at 22.5 Singapore cents, or less than half of the record high of 51 Singapore cents on March 22 last year.
And it has been on a share buyback spree, with the latest on Dec 12, bringing the purchase since the mandate was given in January to a total of 2.6 million shares, or 0.22 per cent of its issued shares excluding treasury shares.
Kimly closed flat at 24 Singapore cents on Tuesday.
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Your First Real Gig 91st 3744th
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European Invasion 42nd 1979th
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The Hottest Band on Earth 49th 2393rd
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Modern Advocacy - Perspectives from Singapore
2: 6.12, 1: 0.00, 2: 21.05, 4: 28.78, 1: 0.00, 2: 24.90, 4: 33.96, 4: 34.17, 2: 16.38, 2: 13.05
Article Type Id: f677dfa7-3852-dd11-9b63-00145e301892
Shipping Rate To Singapore: FREE
Modern Advocacy - Perspectives from Singapore (softcover edition)
Modern Advocacy is a book on trial advocacy written by Singapore practitioners for Singapore practitioners. The book is an illuminating insight into what Singapore advocates do and how they go about doing it. It is a singularly unique piece of work, not only for making inroads into the market (which until now survived on general primers from other jurisdictions) by providing a locally-flavoured book on advocacy, but also for its stellar list of contributors and General Editors. No less than 17 Senior Counsel, a retired Judge of Appeal, two High Court Judges, and a former best oralist (championship round) winner of the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition collaborated to bring this publication to fruition.
Author(s)/Editor(s)/Contributor(s): Eleanor Wong, Lok Vi Ming SC and Vinodh Coomaraswamy SC (general editors)
Date of Publication: Jun 2008
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