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Who's tatt? The Bachelorette's Angie Kent holds hands with a hunky male suitor who has an array of tattoos... as they enjoy a jet boat date in Sydney
By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia
She's trying to find love on The Bachelorette, which she's currently filming.
And it seems that Angie Kent is well on her way to finding the man of her dreams.
On Friday, the 29-year-old blonde enjoyed a speed boat date with a hunky tattooed contestant in Sydney's affluent Rose Bay.
Fast love? The Bachelorette's Angie Kent held hands with a hunky male suitor on a jet boat date in Sydney's Rose Bay on Friday
The former Gogglebox star looked stylish and edgy in beige high-waisted cargo pants, which she teamed with a striped crop top.
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She accessorised with a black leather jacket and white sneakers, and wore her locks out in braids.
Her mystery suitor meanwhile, cut a stylish figure in light-washed denim jeans, which showcased his leg tattoos, a white T-shirt and a brown jacket.
Casual: The former Gogglebox star looked stylish and edgy in beige high-waisted cargo pants, which she teamed with a striped crop top
Edgy: Her mystery suitor meanwhile, cut a stylish figure in light-washed denim jeans, which showcased his leg tattoos, a white T-shirt and a brown jacket
The pair appeared to be getting along well, with Angie and the blond smiling, laughing and holding hands as they walked around the waterside suburb.
At one point, they donned red jackets as they enjoyed a jet boat ride around the harbour.
At the Logie Awards on the Gold Coast at the end of last month, Angie meanwhile told Daily Mail Australia that she's happy with the batch of contestants who are vying for her heart.
Going well then? The pair appeared to be getting along well, with Angie and the blond smiling, laughing and holding hands as they walked around the waterside suburb
The bubbly star said her Bachelorette journey so far has been 'exciting and very fun.'
'Let's just say that I've got some good characters, they're very fun gents!'
'There's so much to choose from – I just don't know what to do with myself!' Angie added.
'They're very fun gents!' At the Logie Awards on the Gold Coast at the end of last month, Angie meanwhile told Daily Mail Australia that she's happy with the batch of contestants who are vying for her heart
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The Nuts And Bolts For Setting Up Shop Across The Globe: RegTech And Machine Learning
Manfred Esser, Vivek Gollapudi and Gert Eichberger
The revenue potential of globalization is too huge to ignore. Not to mention the added opportunities for foreign investments and joint ventures, access to diverse talent, and the expansion of your brand in new countries. It is all too clear that global markets form the backbone of our economy. This calls for global market leadership, which is typically determined by how successfully you have expanded into new countries.
Before entering a new country, international companies analyze the economical ecosystem of a country on parameters such as market size, strength, purchasing power, import-export capacity, and legislation complexity. Most of this data is freely available in databases of the World Bank, at least on a high level. Among these key criteria is the Economic Complexity Index (ECI), which is defined as a measure of a country’s production properties and serves as a measurable quantity to classify a country’s complexities and economic strength. In addition, local tax advisers and market experts provide a first glimpse of the required efforts to enter a new market. Dimensions of such an analysis can map revenue potential of the intended market segment vs business complexity.
In an ideal scenario, huge market returns and the ease of doing business, in any given country, go hand in hand. It might be tempting to conquer deregulated markets. However, competitors might already be ready to dominate such attractive markets. As a result, companies capable of running businesses in complex environments often become overall world market leaders. Their operational efficiency is optimized under tough conditions while conquering large markets, which helps them withstand competition (the upper-right quadrant in the graph above). And this is exactly where RegTech IT can help companies attempting to enter such complex yet profitable markets, ensuring a win in the magic quadrant in the upper-right.
The most important factors driving complexity in setting up businesses in new countries are local laws and regulations. They significantly influence the agility with which (global) companies can offer their products to local markets. The frequency of legal changes per year can become a key driver of complexity. In addition, branch-specific regulations may have to be followed. As part of digital transformation, several tax authorities have started asking for real-time tax reporting per transaction from taxpayers. Such legal requirements can impose significant upfront IT investments before an organization even enters a local market.
Country localization complexity
The decision of a global player to start doing business in a country is often influenced by a gut feeling rather than objective criteria and measurable figures. As part of an informed market-entry decision, an increasingly important parameter for global companies is the country localization complexity (CLC), which is defined by legislation complexity, regulation diversity, noncompliance penalties, and reporting obligations – all of which can change from year to year. For this reason, we need flexible tools, instead of static reports, to dynamically analyze these factors.
Harnessing machine learning to analyze country localization complexity
Machine learning (ML) can support us in analyzing CLC by learning from historical data like official publications and documentation. Typically, the sources of such data are local authority websites.
Supervised ML automatically keeps cross-country comparisons and detailed country-specific complexity rankings up to date, based on new data provided by ratings of expert users. In addition, ML algorithms can indicate which parts of an IT enterprise software landscape will most likely require enhancement due to new (or upcoming) legal requirements. Furthermore, ML can help determine the efforts required to introduce or maintain legally compliant IT infrastructure for a given country.
Today we have reached the tipping point of having large amounts of legal data (for example, from government websites) and of boosting IT performance to process this data. Machine learning is the ideal tool of choice to exploit these data mines.
Intelligent tools of the trade
Here is a small illustration of the techniques used to analyze CLC:
Algorithms like Naïve Bayes and Deep Learning can determine, for example, if new legal documents (such as decrees, software vendor notes, or consulting digests) require the attention of a company in a specific industry or not.
Going one level deeper, in technical terms, neural networks allow multiclassification or voting, as they handle nonlinearities by varying the number of hidden layers.
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is another important procedure of (legal) information retrieval, which is especially important for searching and structuring Big Data. The goal of LSI is to identify the principal components of (legal) documents. The principal components are general terms or classifications.
Alternatively, Word2Vec is a context-based method to keep semantically similar terms together. For example, the word “payment” comprises all terms like “postdated check,” “bank transfer,” or “bill of exchange.” This is useful to semantically group all words that are related to “payment,” even if the word “payment” does not appear in the text. LSI can also help distinguish between documents that, for example, talk about taxes from those in which the word “payment” is related to a lottery payout.
Machine learning: Guiding global customers in local decisions
In today’s global economy, local, country-specific regulations are still determining the rules of how business must be run. ML can analyze the legislation complexity for each country and compare legal differences across countries of interest. While tax advisory services still play a role in consulting for market investment decisions, we see ML as a rapidly expanding toolset to take over key parts of such advisory and alerting services.
ML algorithms learn from the diversity of country regulations and their changes, their frequency, and in comparison to changes in other countries. For example, Brazil would be rated “very complex” with respect to tax categories like ICMS, sales tax, and IPI taxes, while other countries have a simpler tax structure based only on VAT. ML can, for example, analyze tax reporting and alert companies when and what to consider for legal compliance and to avoid fines. Unbiased data of country localization complexity, analyzed by ML, enables executives to make effective investment decisions rather than relying on high-level presentations.
CLC not only helps reduce the cost of compliance for companies operating in established markets but also supports organizations during their market entry decisions.
Learn more about “Simplifying Complicated Tax Reporting And Compliance With Automation.”
Measuring Economic Complexity of Countries and Products: Which Metric to Use?
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity
McCulloch, Warren; Walter Pitts (1943). “A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity” Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics. 5 (4): 115–133
Scott Deerwester, Susan Dumais, George Furnas, Thomas Landauer, Richard Harshman: Indexing by Latent Semantic Analysis. In: Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 1990
Mikolov, Tomas; et al. “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space”
About Manfred Esser
Dr. Manfred Esser is a Localization Product Manager at SAP Globalization Services, supporting the Legal Change Maintenance and New Business processes in South East Europe. He started as a IT developer for Commercial Software in DCW, owned by Dr. Claus Wellenreuther, one of the co-founders of SAP. In 2004, he moved to SAP in the role of Country Advocate for Eastern Europe. Since 2017, he offers lectures in Machine Learning and Quantum Computing for innovation and new development at SAP.
About Vivek Gollapudi
Vivek Gollapudi is a Machine Learning Developer for SAP Globalization Services, working on SAP Law to Action, a solution that determines the relevance of incoming legal changes. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Warwick, England. His current research interests include recommender systems and Bayesian statistical methods in Natural Language Processing.
About Gert Eichberger
Gert Eichberger is the Director of SAP Localization Product Management for Eastern Europe and Africa. This group supports SAP customers in legal compliance and offers new innovations such as SAP Cloud solutions and other cutting-edge compliance platform offerings. In addition to this, he is a core member of the strategic Machine Learning offerings at SAP. Gert started his career at SAP 17 years ago. Prior to that he worked as a development engineer for management consulting at PwC.
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Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, September 1997
By David Haugland
... and now for a brief look back at the IDA summer of '97:
The summer began with the first public screening of the long repressed documentary Nuremberg (1946) by Pare Lorentz. With the cooperation of Elizabeth Lorentz, the Lorentz Panel, the documentary archive at the AMPAS Library, the California Council on Humanities and the Museum of Tolerance, IDA attracted an over-capacity audience at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles on June 2nd. With such strong interest in the film, IDA is now planning future screenings in Los Angeles, Washington and New York.
Shortly after that "first", IDA partnered with New York Women in Film and Television to present an evening with Jessica Yu at HBO in Manhattan. The evening of screenings, discussion and socializing was enthusiastically received by an overflow crowd. Our special thanks to trustee Sheila Nevins and HBO for creating another memorable evening that merits repeating.
By July, independent filmmakers were signing up in record numbers for an intensive one-day seminar to learn "everything you've always wanted to know about public television..." Presented in partnership with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and PBS, the seminar gathered every West Coast PBS affiliate from Seattle to San Diego, top PBS programming staff, the CPB and consortia funding organizations, and more than 400 filmmakers for a six-hour event in the ATAS Leonard Goldenson Theatre, in North Hollywood: it was a first and a great success! Board member Lance Webster did a yeoman 's job in coordinating the myriad of details, with ATAS, IDA, and PBS staff and volunteers. Our thanks to all of them!
While all of this was going on publicly, more than 40 volunteers were spending their evenings throughout the summer screening entries for the 13th Annual IDA Awards. Under the dedicated leadership of board members Lynne Littman, Rich Samuels, John Mason and past board member Ann Hassett, hundreds of films were screened, scrutinized, and discussed by juries fueled by dozens of pizzas, pounds of salad and gallons of soda! Our gratitude to you all for giving your time and expertise so generously.
And as the deadline for this issue loomed, summer '97 yields up even more bounty with the announcement of primetime Emmy® nominations: in the category of Informational Special, nominations were received by IDA past president Mel Stuart for his American Masters' Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde, and for members Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills; in the category of Informational Series, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century received a nomination, with producer Blaine Baggett and numerous IDA members involved. A record number of Emmy® nods also went to IDA trustees HBO, Turner, Discovery and A&E. Our congratulations to you all we'll be watching and cheering for you in September!
David Haugland
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CCA Texas Supports Dagger Island Project
$250,000 gift supports Ducks Unlimited's Gulf Coast Initiative
Breakwaters will protect existing land in Project Area 1. Project Area 2 will include a breakwater and beneficial use of dredged material.
ROCKPORT, Texas – July 9, 2019 – Coastal Conservation Association Texas (CCA Texas) and the Building Conservation Trust (BCT), the national habitat program of CCA, have committed $250,000 to support efforts by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Ducks Unlimited to restore Dagger Island and protect important seagrass beds in Redfish Bay.
“Partners like CCA and BCT make the wetland restoration work we do possible,” DU Director of Development Matt Bunn said. “Waterfowl and fisheries often share the same habitats and need the same resources and people who enjoy coastal areas like Redfish Bay appreciate it when organizations can come together and improve these areas for everyone.”
The partners are working together to enhance 557 acres of continuous seagrass beds, intertidal wetlands and coastal islands in the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area. Redfish Bay contains the northernmost extensive stands of seagrass on the Texas coast and is one of only three bays that contain all five species of native seagrass in Texas.
Dagger Island was once a nearly solid island separating Corpus Christi Bay and Redfish Bay. Erosion has decreased the size of the island and broken it into a chain of smaller islands. This decline altered the function and values provided to the Redfish Bay system, including protection of large stands of seagrasses, which are important for water quality in the bay. Ducks Unlimited will construct a half-mile breakwater and use dredged material to restore Dagger Island.
“This iconic island and its surrounding habitat are where generations of anglers have caught everything from their first fish to their biggest speckled trout,” said Patrick Murray, president of CCA National. “It has become a highly degraded area but is still fondly regarded as an important part of our Texas angling heritage, and we are truly fortunate that our partners in this project are just as dedicated as we are to restoring the vital habitat at this site. We are proud to work collaboratively with Ducks Unlimited and TPWD to create a habitat project that will benefit our coast and be enjoyed by anglers and their families for generations to come.”
Restoration and protection of remnant portions of Dagger Island will protect seagrasses from wave energy caused by winds and large vessel traffic on the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. These seagrass beds are important for waterfowl and fisheries resources, including finfish, shrimp, blue crab and sea turtles.
“Degradation and loss of these islands has been of concern to TPWD for several years. Because of the ecological and economical significance of this area, TPWD is also concerned about the shoreline erosion on Dagger and Ransom Islands and the subsequent impacts on nearby seagrass beds if these islands continue to erode,” Paul Silva, TPWD natural resource specialist, project manager said. “Ducks Unlimited’s wetland restoration expertise and ability to leverage funding makes them a tremendous partner for us in efforts like this one.”
Funding for this project is provided by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund, the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program, CCA Texas, BCT and Ducks Unlimited.
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Home2013 ECESA Championship - Report
Final Report After 8 Races
Having banked six races toward the scheduled eight, the PRO and Regatta Chair afforded the group a reprieve from the scheduled 7am "Harbor Gun". The prognosticators advanced conflicting theories as to winds but generally favored west in the 10 to 15 range. Westerly breezes run across Lake Keuka, and while the Keuka Yacht Club is situated opposite the widest part of this long and narrow lake, there can be difficulty obtaining a long first beat. The lee of the west shore can be extensive.
The predictions of breeze from the west didn't hold initially so the group awaited developments ashore for a while. Eventually things seemed to improve, so out we went.
While the breeze was indeed a westerly, as is the wont of Keuka, there were wide disparities of direction and intensity, and ever-patient PRO Bob Stevens awaited the arrival of something more reliable and fair. Things built up, but wide swings remained. Key was starting at a point on the long line with the best velocity and moving into the first shift after the start. It was easy to miss the first shift as the air was descending in small tight areas.
After an aborted attempt at race one, code flag P was replaced with I, and the group on the second try started more conservatively. The first shift seemed from the right, perhaps induced by "the bluff" a long promontory towering over the right side of the course. This was another opportunity for Russ Lucas who mastered the maze, connecting the dots for his second win of series. George Welch followed and Vincent rounded out the top three. Bobby Koar took it on the chin with a finish several more back. This sealed the series for Vincent.
Race eight of our series followed immediately in much the same conditions. Vincent retired to take a DNC as his throwout. Bobby went deep right the first time up this time, only to be a victim of timing of the swings - the right side did not pan out for the first shift and instead a big lefty covered the course for most of the first leg. Downwind the first time a long and narrow intense shot continued the southerly side of the course as the place to be. Those who extended their starboard tack past the offset were handsomely rewarded and were gone for good. Gate choice depended on the localized areas of breeze. The second time up, the right side was more favored. In the end, Chad Hillyer, Dick Wight and George Welch showing the way.
Series final results are Top Master Dick Turner CH-5, Top Rookie and Top Woman Leigh Kempton IH-101, Top older boat Peter Hurley MA-11, 10th Leigh Kempton IH-101, 9th Bob Cole KU-9 (tiebreaker), 8th George Welch KU-1, 7th Peter Hurley MA-11, 6th Dick Wight MA-10, 5th John Brown SS-1, 4th Russ Lucas (tiebreaker) BH-8, 3rd Bobby Koar BH-22, 2nd Chad Hillyer T-17, and 2013 Eastern Champion Vincent Porter I-2.
ECESA Championships - Day2 - Keuka
Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes of New York is a glacially formed deep cut into the surrounding plateau. Some areas covered by the race course are as much as 200 feet deep. The surrounding hills are as much as 700 feet above the water. For winds to reach down from the hilltops onto the lake can require a strong wind or the correct direction, or, the morning and afternoon thermals. At times the thermal and a weather system will coincide, making the best sailing conditions.
The Easterns second day was scheduled to sail during thermal time. Friday's "Harbor Gun" was set for 7am. The sun was just rising as the first of our group arrived to start the day. The usual southerly was already stirring and combined with the system built to a nice 12mph or so.
PRO Bob Stevens was timely and the group assembled for the 8am warning. First day leader Vincent Porter extended his lead in the first one. Working the west shore lift with many returns to the right over the 1 1/4 mile leg was key. Yet during the second beat an unusual extended left shift benefited a few and showed the way the afternoon would unfold. Race 4 to Vincent followed by Peter Hurley and Dick Wight to mix things up a bit.
The second contest was back to back, with air continuing from the south but initially diminished as expected. Upwind the first time the west side worked well again. The center and left were lighter and boats in those areas fell in behind those who worked the right. Downwind the same west side held the breeze. This pattern continued throughout - work the west shore up and down. In the end, Chad Hillyer took this one by a yard over Bob Cole, followed by John Brown.
The air seemed to dissipate during the lunch break only to return, not from the west as predicted but a renewed southerly with some wide swings to southeast and southwest. Several changes of course direction and length were use by a very fine race committee. Bobbie Koar, John Brown and Chad Hillyer scored top honors and won the race to the dock. Just as this race was ending the clouds grew thick and dark in the northwest and everybody scurried for the shore after another three race day.
At the end of day two, after six races, the leaders are VIncent Porter by two points over Bobbie Koar, followed by Chad Hillyer.
ECESA Championships - Day-1 at Keuka
Our competitors are from Wisconsin, New Jersey and New York, making a smallish (historically) fleet of 20. Our most senior competitor is Dick Turner, one of the founders of NCESA, still at it at 89.
Keuka Yacht Club, our venue, is on Lake Keuka, a Y shaped long (22 miles) and narrow (3/4-1 1/4 mile) member of the Finger Lakes Region of Western New York. To find Keuka, look for Rochester on the south shore of Lake Ontario, then look south to find the Finger Lakes.
Our first day dawned rainy with a light southerly running along the length of the lake We started at about 11am and by that time the breeze had built to about 12mph. PRO and Timer Bob and Sydney Stevens of Little Egg Harbor set a W5 with legs of about 1 1/4 mile. The breeze remained steady. Most found going to the right shore upwind and to the right downwind seemed to work best. After about 35 minutes six boats rounded the second upwind mark just about transom to transom. Boats with crews of three seemed faster downwind. The race took about an hour and in the end Chad Hillyer T-17, Bobbie Koar BH-22 and Vincent Porter I-2 came out on top.
The second stanza was in similar conditions. The breeze came left all of a sudden at the start. The whole fleet tacked to port soon after the start. Russ Lucas, Vincent Porter and William Hudson rounded in that order. Eventually things shook out with Russ Lucas BH-8, Vincent, Bobbie taking the race in that order.
After a patented Jane Russell luncheon (too nice to be simply lunch), we were out again into a westerly running across the lake.
Legs running east and west are necessarily short so PRO Bob moved us out to a W7. Westerlies typically have wide swings of direction and have short intense blasts, making them particularly challenging. This time Vincent was on top the first time up. As Vincent rounded a blaster came through giving him a quick ride on the layline and he seemed gone for good. The fleet seemed to separate a bit this time into A - a group of four, and B. Things stayed that way with a change of mix in fleet A, until the last time up as the breeze began to shut down for the day. Fleet A closed in and fleet B moved in closer. In the end Vincent held off John Brown SS-1 and Bobbie Koar in that order.
Going into day two, our leaders are Vincent, Bobbie, and Russ Lucas.
This second morning the harbor gun is scheduled for 7am and the goal is to catch the morning breeze and then the late afternoon breeze. The harbor gun has sounded. The air is stirring. It's time to go.
Bob Cole
Vincent Porter Shines in ECESA 8-Race Championship
The New-Yorkers of Keuka Lake were joined by ambitious sailors from all over the mid-west and northeast. According to Bob Cole, the E-Scow Fleet Captain at the Keuka Yacht Club who blogged updates on the series each day, the majority of wind that swept over the lake during the competition was predictably westerly, but not without a fair share of surprises.
Day one at Keuka proved to be a tale of two troops, with a minority of four leaders in front, including Vincent Porter I-2, John Brown SS-1, and Bobbie Koar BH-22. After a morning of light rain and steady, southerly winds, the afternoon brought with it a slew of wind that lacked predictability. Sudden blasts from the west came early and often, nearly leaving Porter behind indefinitely.
Day two included three races that were rich with intensity and erratic wind conditions. Vincent Porter managed to take one of the three races while maintaining a two-point lead at the end of the day, just as storms seemed to be looming over the deep lake.
Porter celebrating a well-earned victory with RJ Porter and Colin Rowe
The two races that took place during day three were navigated by Porter with just enough consistency that allowed him to edge out the other sailors. Bobbie Koar, who went into the day only two points down from Porter, was unable to conclude the series with a favorable performance in comparison.
Congratulations to the 2013 Eastern Champion Mr. Porter and crew, and to all of the other competitors that concluded the championship series last Sunday with class and remarkable effort!
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Cricket: Porter pleased to chip in for Essex
Jamie Porter of Essex celebrates taking the wicket of Tom Abell during Essex CCC vs Somerset CCC, Specsavers County Championship Division 1 Cricket at The Cloudfm County Ground on 24th June 2019
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Essex seam bowler Jamie Porter was pleased to play his part as they built a lead against Somerset in the County Championship.
Porter took 5-51 alongside Aaron Beard (4-23) as the leaders were dismissed for 131 at Chelmsford.
The home side then closed on 164-6 for an overall lead of 249 and Porter hopes they can make the most of it.
He said: "It was very nice to chip in and take a few wickets and we are nicely placed for a big day.
"'Beardy' has been very impressive this year. It has been a tough side to break into, but he has earned his right to play and he showed his quality.
Jack Brooks of Somerset is bowled out by Jamie Porter during Essex CCC vs Somerset CCC, Specsavers County Championship Division 1 Cricket at The Cloudfm County Ground on 24th June 2019
"Those weren't just four wickets but four big wickets. (James) Hildreth is a man who can hurt you, (Tom) Banton has a lot of talent and Steven Davies is someone I hate bowling to, so I was quite glad he got him out!
"Those were four huge wickets and the glue to our bowling performance."
Beard removed Tim Groenewald, James Hildreth and Tom Banton in the space of just eight balls in successive overs and Porter paid tribute to his team-mate, adding: "I think he has always had a yard of pace but he has learned a few things about himself and he is bowling beautifully now.
"He was unlucky not to have a crack at the five-for but I'm sure he will get a lot of five-fors for Essex."
Sir Alastair Cook fell three runs short of a second half-century in the match as Essex added to their lead, with Adam Wheater (22 not out) and Simon Harmer the not out batsmen overnight.
And Porter knows the importance of this fixture, adding: ""Hopefully we start by batting well and then the bowlers will do the rest.
"This is the biggest game for us this season and if we win this we will go 13 points behind Somerset and that is the position we want to be in going into the second half of the season."
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Sennheiser Announces the Digital 6000 Series
An Advanced Wireless Microphone System that Excels in Demanding Productions
Audio specialist Sennheiser has announced a new addition to its Professional Wireless Range: The upcoming Digital 6000 Series of radio microphones will bring outstanding audio quality and rock-solid RF wireless transmission to demanding live productions. The series uses the same long-range mode and proprietary Sennheiser Digital Audio Codec as the Digital 9000, Sennheiser’s top-of-the-range wireless series. Comprising a two-channel receiver in two different versions, a bodypack and a handheld transmitter as well as a rack-mount 19” charging unit, the Digital 6000 Series will be available from March 2017.
“With Digital 6000, we have brought the key benefits of our benchmark Digital 9000 system to a two-channel receiver and associated handheld and bodypack transmitters. The series is an ideal choice for touring and rental companies, theatre and musical productions, broadcasting, houses of worship and for high-profile corporate customers,” said Tom Vollmers, product manager at Sennheiser.
The digital two-channel receiver works across a switching bandwidth of 244 MHz (470 to 714 MHz), which is covered by three transmitter versions (470 – 558 MHz, 550 – 638 MHz, and 630 – 718 MHz). For larger systems, up to eight receiver units can simply be daisy-chained without the need for an additional antenna splitter; the multi-channel system will work with a single pair of antennas. The system latency is 3 milliseconds.
Superior reception, reliable audio
Reliability has always been a hallmark of Sennheiser wireless systems, and Digital 6000 fulfils this promise by employing true bit diversity, transmission error correction and additional intelligent error concealment.
True bit diversity ensures a far better reception quality than would be possible with other diversity techniques. While switching diversity and true diversity use the RF signal of a single antenna or the audio signal of a single reception path, respectively, true bit diversity uses both reception paths and combines their information content, thus creating the optimum signal.
The Digital 6000 receivers are fitted with a Link Quality Indicator that ensures that issues get seen before any drop-outs occur. If, as in difficult RF environments, the signal should get temporarily corrupted to such an extent that the transmission error correction can no longer repair it, the intelligent error concealment of Digital 6000 sets in. It employs intelligent learning algorithms to replace the corrupted signal, enabling Digital 6000 to still transmit flawlessly where other digital systems fail.
For data security, a feature that is particularly important for conference and corporate use, Digital 6000 features switchable AES 256 encryption.
Ease of use for the sound engineer and RF manager
A familiar user interface modelled on the EM 3732 receiver ensures simple, reliable operation for the sound engineer. Meanwhile, the Digital 6000’s automatic frequency set-up function and the Wireless Systems Manager (WSM) control and monitoring software makes the job of the monitor engineer or dedicated RF engineer much easier.
The Digital 6000 receiver is fitted with an eye-friendly white OLED display, which gives a quick overview of the RF signal, link quality, audio signal, battery status, frequency and encryption. Several home screens provide easy access to further information, without the user having to navigate through submenues. Critical operating conditions and error messages are directly indicated on the display.
Ready for use with existing infrastructures and equipment
Digital 6000 works with standard active and passive UHF antennas, as the frequency-selective antenna filters are contained in the EM 6000 receiver. Therefore, existing antenna infrastructures can continue to be used.
The Digital 6000 transmitters use the same high-performance rechargeable accupacks as the Digital 9000 units. The SKM 6000 handheld transmitter is fitted with Sennheiser’s standard capsule interface and can therefore be combined with all the classic microphone heads from the evolution wireless Series, the 2000 Series, and also the special 9000 Series heads.
The SK 6000 bodypack excels as a high-end solution for wireless instruments such as guitar and bass – or is ready for use with the Sennheiser clip-on microphones MKE 1 (omni-directional) as well as the digital-transmission versions of the MKE 2 (omni) and MKE 40 (cardioid).
Smart charting solution
The L 6000 charger is a 19”/1U device that can be fitted with up to four charging modules, each of which recharges two bodypack or two handheld batteries, respectively. Three-coloured LEDs on the front panel give a quick overview of the charging process. More detailed information as well as additional parameters such as battery runtime, charging cycles and remaining capacity can be accessed via the Wireless Systems Manager.
As the 6000 Series transmitters are compatible with the Digital 9000 transmitters, the L 6000 charging unit can also be used for Digital 9000.
Seamless workflows
Digital 6000 integrates seamlessly into digital or analogue system infrastructures. The EM 6000 receiver is fitted with a digital AES-3 output, high-quality transformer-balanced analogue XLR-3 outputs and ¼” (6.3 mm) jack outputs. The Dante version of the receiver offers an additional Amphenol RJ-45 connector for integration into a Dante network.
The Digital 6000 Series is compatible with Digital 9000 in long-range mode; also, the 6000 Series transmitters can be used with the EK 6042 camera receiver.
About Sennheiser
Audio specialist Sennheiser is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of headphones, microphones and wireless transmission systems. Based in Wedemark near Hanover, Germany, Sennheiser operates its own production facilities in Germany, Ireland and the USA and is active in more than 50 countries. With 19 sales subsidiaries and long-established trading partners, the company supplies innovative products and cutting-edge audio solutions that are optimally tailored to its customers’ needs. Sennheiser is a family-owned company that was founded in 1945 and which today has 2,750 employees around the world that share a passion for audio technology. Since 2013, Sennheiser has been managed by Daniel Sennheiser and Dr. Andreas Sennheiser, the third generation of the family to run the company. In 2015, the Sennheiser Group had sales totaling €682 million. www.sennheiser.com
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The Boeing Fortress Mk. II & Mk. III
By Phil H. Listemann
History : Military - General
Philedition
The Fortress Mk.II and Mk.III were the equivalent of the USAAF’s B-17E/F and G. The Fortress Mk.I was the B-17C as featured in ‘SQUADRONS! No. 4’. The Fortress Mk.I was only used in small numbers (20), but, for the British, it was the first step leading to the large scale introduction of the Fortress to Bomber Command. But that never happened and all the orders were consequently cancelled after the experiment of the Fortress Mk I. However, the RAF found a second interest in the Fortress while the Battle of the Atlantic was raging. Indeed in the meantime, trials of the Fortress in Coastal Command proved satisfactory and, as this Command was looking for long-range land-based patrol aircraft, the Fortress was requested to equiq some Coastal Command squadrons. Later in the war, the Fortress would return in the Bomber Command acting as an ECM aircraft from 1944 until the end of the war, while some others would be used by the Meteorological squadrons by 1945. The operational usage of the Fortress II and III in the RAF is here told in 70 pages, illustrated with 50 photographs and 6 colour profiles. The unexpected usage of the Fortress of the RCAF between 1944 and 1946 is also included in this study.
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Phil H. Listemann
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The Douglas Boston & Havoc: The Australians
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No.452 (RAAF) Squadron 1941 - 1945
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Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
By Joanne Wilkes
Digital Book format: PDF (DRM-Free)
Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontà and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics' own sense of themselves as women writers, reveal the distinctive character of nineteenth-century women's contributions to literary history. Wilkes explores the different choices these critics, writing when women had to grapple with limiting assumptions about female intellectual capacities, made about how to disseminate their own writing. While several publishing in periodicals wrote anonymously, others published books, articles and reviews under their own names. Wilkes teases out the distinctiveness of nineteenth-century women's often ignored contributions to the critical reception of canonical women authors, and also devotes space to the pioneering efforts of Lawrance, Kavanagh and Williams to draw attention to the long tradition of female literary activity up to the nineteenth century. She draws on commentary by male critics of the period as well, to provide context for this important contribution to the recuperation of women's critical discourse in nineteenth-century Britain.
Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot PDF can be read on any device that can open PDF files.
Other books by Joanne Wilkes
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 23: At His Gates
Joanne Wilkes
Routledge, July 2016
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Un peu plus de science pour tout le monde
Claude Allègre
Max Malikow
Abigail Adams: A Writing Life
Edith B. Gelles
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot
Rebecca Mead
A New Philosophy of Literature
Nicholas Hagger
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Wine, wine, wine
Tim Landis
Fifteen judges swished and swirled their way through more than 450 wines — each group of five judges sampled one-third of the entries — as part of the 10th annual Illinois Commercial and Amateur Wine Judging Competition, held Wednesday in Springfield.
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Judging wine
Wines are rated on a 20-point scoring system for clarity, color, aroma/bouquet, taste/palate, balance/structure and overall impression. A brilliant wine, for instance, is awarded 2 points, while a wine that is cloudy or contains sediment gets a zero.
A gold medal is awarded for a score of 17-20, silver for 15-17 and bronze for 12-14.
The Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association and the Illinois Department of Agriculture sponsor the annual Illinois Commercial and Amateur Wine Judging Competition.
Brilliant clarity, good. Cloudy sediment, bad.
The 339 commercial and 113 amateur entries for this year’s contest set a record at a time when Illinois has 70 wineries, 450 vineyards and growing. But for entrepreneurs and aficionados at the wine-tasting competition held at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel & Conference Center, it was about quality, not quantity.
“The competition has gotten a lot tougher,” said Paul Renzaglia, owner of Alto Pass Winery. The winery in southern Illinois is nearing its 20th year and is among the oldest in the state.
Alto Pass Winery was also among the prize-winners in the first wine-judging competition 10 years ago. However, Renzaglia recalled there were only 61 commercial entries that year and none in the amateur category.
Amateur wines typically are homegrown and not for retail sale.
Trial, error and research have begun to produce Illinois wines that rival their dominant California and French competition in quality, according to both judges and contestants at the competition in Springfield.
Illinois still has a long way to go in quantity, however. California production reached a record 449 million gallons in 2006, compared to about 500,000 gallons for Illinois. California still accounts for 90 percent of U.S. production.
It also has taken some time to develop quality grape hybrids adapted to the variety of climates in Illinois, said enology specialist Bradley Beam. Enology is the science of wines and vineyards.
“Illinois is unique in that it is such a long state. We have some varieties in southern Illinois that would not survive up north,” said Beam, who helped organize wines by variety for Wednesday’s competition.
The federal government late last year approved the Shawnee Hills American Viticultural Area in southern Illinois. That is the first AVA in Illinois, joining about 280 nationwide — perhaps the best known is Napa Valley in California. The Shawnee Hills AVA designation now can be used on labels if at least 85 percent of the wine was produced using the southern Illinois grapes.
Galena Cellars Vineyard & Winery in the northwest corner of the state won “Best of Show” Wednesday with a Traminette white table wine. Other top prizes won’t be announced for another couple of weeks.
This was the first year as a judge for Mary Lynn Gietl of Springfield, a sales and wine consultant for the Corkscrew Wine Emporium, 2613 Chatham Road. Illinois wines are now widely available at specialty shops, she said.
“We’ve vastly improved the quality of our wines (in Illinois),” said Gietl.
The steady growth in the state’s wine industry even convinced Mike and Judy Boegler of Ava, in southern Illinois, to phase out their livestock and grain farm after 25 years in favor of a full-time vineyard.
“It’s a lot more work, but I can make a better living off of grapes than by competing in the commodity markets,” said Mike Boegler.
Boegler said a ton of Illinois grapes will bring $600 to $1,600, depending on the quality. Both Boegler and Renzaglia said prices have held up well despite the steady growth in the number of vineyards in Illinois.
In fact, prices could edge higher this year, after about 40 percent of the Illinois grape crop was lost to a cold snap. Renzaglia said some wineries have had to import wine from other states to keep up production.
As the judging wound down Wednesday, Renzaglia speculated the crop loss could cut into the number of entries next year. But he said he has been encouraged that more contestants each year take their wines on to regional and even national competition, including against top wines from California.
“We are bringing the quality of our wines up, and people are feeling a little more confident about their winemaking skills,” he said.
Tim Landis can be reached at 788-1536 or tim.landis@sj-r.com.
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The Economics Network
Economic Data freely available online
Home » Learning & Teaching » Online sources
Compiled by John Sloman, Economics Network
Last updated 1st May 2019
Here are some links that you may find useful for accessing statistics and other information. Datasets that require you to pay or register are on a separate page along with pointers. (Note that some free datasets that require registration are also listed below.)
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If you print out this page, the URLs will appear alongside each individual link.
A. UK sites for data
1. National Statistics
2. Bank of England Statistical Interactive Database
3. The Treasury
4. Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)
5. Institute for Fiscal Studies
6. GOV.UK Statistics
B. International sites for data
7. European Central Bank Statistics
8. European Economy
9. OECD Statistics Portal (including OECD Economic Outlook)
10. World Bank data sets
11. IMF data sets
12. WTO international trade statistics
13. UNCTAD statistics
14. Bank for International Settlements
15. Principal Global Indicators
16. NationMaster
17. Gapminder
18. CIA World Factbook
19. IndexMundi
20. FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
21. EconStats from EconomyWatch
22. Penn World Table
23. DataMarket
24. Knoema
25. The Conference Board datasets
26. Vizala
27. Asian Development Bank: Data and Research
C. Market data
28. Yahoo Finance
29. Telegraph shares and markets
30. IndexMundi commodities
31. Energy Information Administration
32. The London Metal Exchange
33. The UK government's Debt Management Office
34. BBC Market Data
35. UK house prices
36. International property prices
37. UK labour market data from Adzuna
38. worldwide-tax.com
39. Mergers and Acquisitions Statistics from the IMAA
D. Portal sites with links to other sites
40. UK Data Service (incorporating the former ESDS)
41. Quandl
42. RFE Data Links
43. Development Gateway Foundation
44. Zanran
The following sites are the main ones for accessing free data (mainly macroeconomic) on the UK economy. The sites also contain some international data.
In February 2016, the ONS launched an extensively redesigned website. The objective was to make it easier to find data and publications under various headings and to have a simpler search feature.
"One of the key priorities during the development was to greatly improve the search function. This has been achieved by introducing a clearer filter function (to help users get to required information quicker), a specific topic search (spreadsheets, time series, articles etc), implementing the use of ‘Elasticsearch’ (recognised as one of the leading open-source search tools) and the simplification of terms used to make data easier to find.
The website now also includes 48,000+ time series that can be used to make customisable charts and a tool is available for selecting and downloading up to 50 of them to create bespoke datasets."
On the Home Page you can find the following:
At the top you can access data and publications under 5 broad categories (Business, industry and trade; Economy; Employment and labour market; People, population and community and Surveys) and 33 subcategories (e.g. Inflation and price indices and National accounts under Economy). In addition, there is an A to Z listing of statistical bulletins.
On the Home Page, you can also see the latest headline news, figures and publications.
Also on the Home page and throughout the site is a search box. This enables you to search by keyword for any topic and the results will be organised by 'Data', 'Publications' and 'Other'. Under each of these you can apply filters. So, under the 'Publications' category, you can filter by 'Statistical bulletins', 'Articles' or 'Compendium'.
Data can be downloaded as an Excel or CSV file. Statistical bulletins can be accessed on line or downloaded as a PDF file, with particular graphs or tables downloaded as an Excel or CSV file.
The search box also allows you to access a particular time series by its unique 4-digit identifier. Thus if you wanted to find 'Gross domestic product: expenditure at current market prices', which has the code YBHA, then simply put YBHA in the search box. Your series will be displayed as a graph and you can download it as an Excel or CSV file. You are also given a list of related series.
To find a 4-digit code, you can use the archived page at:
Key Economic Time Series Data
You can also find data by using the Time series explorer tool
Time series explorer
Using this tool you can search by keyword and then refine by topic and when last updated.
Finally there is a very easy-to-use clickable list of all the main ONS series, such as the United Kingdom Economic Accounts, Labour Market Statistics and Balance of Payments provided by UK Data Explorer.
List of ONS Releases
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The statistics area of the Bank's site contains a range of monetary and financial data:
This includes the monthly publication, Bankstats, available as a PDF document or as separate tables in Excel files:
Bankstats
There is also a large range of banking, monetary and financial statistics in the Statistical Interactive Database. There are two easy ways of accessing the statistics in the database. The first is by category of table using the following link:
Statistical Interactive Database: by Table
First you click on a category (e.g. Money and lending); then select a series (e.g. Monthly growth rates of M4 and M4 Lending) by clicking on the "+" sign to open up the options and then again with the selected option; then check the relevant series and click on 'show data' at the bottom of the screen; then select the date range and then the format in which to view the table (HTML, Excel, XML or CSV).
The second method is to use the A to Z listing using the following link:
Statistical Interactive Database: A to Z listing
First you choose which of four alphabetical lists to use. Then select a country or subject (e.g. M4); then a particular series (e.g. LPMAUYM); then, after clicking on 'show data' at the bottom of the screen, select the date range and the format to view the table. Again the available format are HTML, Excel (XLS), XML and CSV.
Search facility. As with the ONS site, each of the datasets has a unique identifying code, normally seven digits. Thus, the code for seasonally adjusted M4 (quarterly figures) is LPQAUYN. You can put this into the following search box to access the dataset.
Statistical Interactive Database - navigate by search
You can use the same search box for key words, such as 'money'.
The Treasury site (now on GOV.UK) is also a very useful source of UK data. The main site can be accessed via the following link. The Statistics and Budget sections are particularly useful.
In the Statistics section you will find Latest Economic Indicators.
There is also a section of the site which gives forecasts for the UK economy by between 20 and 40 independent organisations. It also gives averages of these forecasts. This section is updated monthly to take account of new forecasts.
There is also a separate section on the site for the Autumn Budget Report and the Spring Statement (use the links in the site's top right-hand navigation panel). The full reports, tables and charts can be downloaded.
The OBR was set up by the Coalition government in 2010 to provide forecasts and analysis of the UK's public finances.
The role of the OBR
It produces a number of publications.
These include the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, which is published twice per year in the Spring and Autumn and sets out forecasts for the economy and the public finances over a five-year horizon.
Economic and Fiscal Outlook
They also include the Fiscal Sustainability Report, which is published annually and presents long-term projections for public spending and tax revenue.
Fiscal Sustainability Report
The IFS is an independent research institute which publishes research, reports, news items and commentary relevant to fiscal policy, public finances, incomes and the UK economy. It conducts a detailed analysis of the Budget each year:
From the top navigation bar you will find access to a range of data, videos and analysis.
Resources and Videos
It also has a news section
This is the UK's site for official government statistics. The data can be searched by policy area (such as energy, employment, tax and revenue or UK economy). It can also be searched by keyword or by government department. You can select a date range for publication.
The following sites give access to international data. Some of the data are for individual countries; some are for groups of countries.
On the ECB site you will find a statistical section containing a number of series. The index can be accessed via the following link:
ECB Statistical Section
The Economic Bulletin and Annual Report are particularly useful
It has a section on monetary policy, with information on monetary policy decisions, the latest economic and monetary developments and the structure of the euro area economy.
The European Economy supplements, also available in hard-copy form, can be downloaded from the Europa portal site. They are contained in the Business, Economy, Euro (DG) site. The home page of the directorate is:
Business, Economy, Euro
Annual Macroeconomic Database (AMECO)
AMECO contains a large range of annual time-series data for the 28 EU countries, the EU candidates, the EEA countries and the other OECD countries. There are approximately 700 indicators in the dataset. Many of the indicators go back to 1960 and forecast ahead for two years. The data can be viewed online (using Java) and is accessed from:
AMECO
6-monthly forecasts
By clicking on the following link, you will arrive at the 6-monthly forecasts for each of the 28 EU countries, the euro area, the 28 EU countries as a whole and also the USA, Japan and China. Apart from containing a comprehensive verbal economic report (plus tables) of each country and the EU as a whole, there is a comprehensive statistical annex with 62 tables of time series data, plus forecasts for the next one or two years.
Index of Economic Forecasts
(Note that, with large PDF files such as this, it is often much quicker to save the file first and then to open it in the Adobe Acrobat Reader. To save the file, right click the link and go to Save Target As... and then choose your folder and file name.)
European Economy Statistical Annex
The Statistical Annex to European Economy is updated six-monthly. It contains 118 tables with macroeconomic data for each of the EU28 countries, the applicant countries (such as Turkey and the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia), the euro area (the current 19 and the previous 12), the 15 EU countries that were members prior to 2004 and also the USA and Japan. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the following:
Statistical Annex of the European Economy
First click on the year and then on the relevant Statistical Annex. Then either left click on the link to download the PDF file, or right click to save it.
It may be useful to know how to import a table from PDF into Excel. Also, with an Excel file containing many rows or columns, it may be useful to keep the header rows (or columns) of the spreadsheet static while the rest of the figures can be moved with the scroll bar or mouse wheel.
Business and Consumer Surveys
The European Economy site also contains monthly business and consumer surveys. These come in two separate sets: Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) and Business Climate Indicator (BCI). You can access the latest ones here:
Business and Consumer Surveys: Latest
You can also access longer time series. You can download these as eight sets of zipped Excel files, one for each type of indicator (economic sentiment, industry, services, consumers, retail trade, construction, financial services and investment) or as two complete sets (seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted). The series give monthly data from 1985 and, for some series, quarterly data too. See the Index in the first worksheet of each file for the meaning of the codes used in the tables. The tables give indicators for each of the 28/27 EU countries, for the eurozone and for the EU as a whole both with and without the UK. You will find all these at:
Business and Consumer Surveys: Time Series
On this site you will find a whole range of statistics for each of the 35 OECD countries, the euro area and the OECD as a whole. The statistics are arranged by topic group, including national Accounts, Finance, Agriculture, Development, International Trade, Labour, Prices, Public Management and Short-term Economic Statistics.
OECD Data
Catalogue of OECD databases
OECD Economic Outlook
From the catalogue you can also link to the OECD Economic Outlook. This six-monthly publication contains a large database, now accessible within OECD.Stat, with annual and quarterly macroeconomic data for each of the OECD countries plus selected other countries or groups. There are nearly 300 variables, which you can easily select from a pull-down menu. You can also customise them by country and year and export them to Excel or other formats. The data go back at least 20 years and in many cases back to 1960. There are also forecasts for at least one year ahead.
OECD Economic Outlook data and forecasts
The Statistical Annex contains 63 tables already in Excel format to download as eight separate files:
Statistical Annex
Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Shorter-term macroeconomic data on each of the OECD countries can be found in the OECD's Main Economic Indicators (MEI). Although the complete publication is available only by subscription, some of the key data can be found at:
Statistics related to the MEI
Also, publicly available data can be downloaded from the OECD iLibrary at:
OECD.Stat
This section of the site contains various datasets classified under a number of headings, such as Development, Economic Projections, Labour and National Accounts. You can customise the datasets by series, countries and years.
The World Bank site contains a vast database of economic, social and other development statistics for all countries of the world. Although much of the data on the site is available only by subscription, the following link takes you to quite a large selection of open-access data, which you can search by country, topic and indicator:
The World Bank also publishes its annual World Development Report. You can download the reports for each year from the following:
World Development Reports
The database of World Development Indicators can be found at:
The complete set of World Bank World Development Indicators and World Bank International Debt Statistics data are available free via the UK Data Service (incorporating the former Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)), which requires you to login through the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research. You will first need to register. This is free. (Details are given on the site). Then to login, you specify your university or college and then use your university/college username and password.
UK Data Service (International Macrodata section)
A useful set of publications by the World Bank are the Little Data Books. These give key indicators of the economy, environment, external debt, etc. for each of over 200 countries and for groups of countries organised by region and by income. There is a separate page for each country or group.
The Little Data Book 2016
The Little Data Book on Gender 2016
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2018
The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2016
The Little Green Data Book 2016
The Little Data Book on Climate Change 2011
The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2017/18
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2018
Another valuable set of international statistics that can be accessed from the World Bank site is Principal Global Indicators (see site 15). This gives country-by-country economic and financial data for the Group of 20 (G20) countries. The data can be downloaded as PDF, CSV or Excel files.
The World Bank provides a number of data portals which provide data dashboards on various topics as well as access to all the underlying data through visualization and sharing applications.
The World Bank has also developed a 'Visualizer' that can be used to compare indicators over time. Visualizers are available for a number of topics. For example, the following links to the visualizer on trade with some 150 available indicators.
World Bank Trade Visualizer
Country reports for all countries of the world can be found via the following link:
Four particularly useful publications are the World Economic Outlook (see also WEO databases), Global Financial Stability Report, Fiscal Monitor and Annual Report. Each of these has a large statistical annex and can be accessed via the following link.
The complete set of IMF Direction of Trade Statistics, International Finance Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics, Government Finance Statistics and World Economic Outlook are available free via the Economic and Social Data Service, which requires using your university/college username and password (you will have to register first: details are given on the site).
A number of additional IMF datasets are available for free access on the IMF Data site, including data on international reserves, investment, financial soundness and financial access. These can be searched by country, topic and data source.
The statistics section of the WTO site contains a number of databases and publications providing extensive access to trade and tariff data.
Trade and tariff data
There are several parts to the site. These include: data on Merchandise trade; Commercial services; Tariffs; and a relatively new section, Global value chains, which measures and analyses trade in value added.
These is also a searchable database for various time series data. These include data on merchandise and commercial services trade.
Time Series data
From this part of the site you can also access trade profiles of individual countries at:
Trade profiles
and tariff profiles at:
Tariff Profiles
An excellent annual publication, which you can download as PDF or Excel files, is World Trade Statistical Review. This "offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in world trade, covering the details of merchandise trade by product and trade in commercial service". For the latest volume see:
World Trade Statistical Review series
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) site has an online statistical database, UNCTADstat. This contains data on international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), commodity prices, economic trends, population and labour, external financial resources and maritime transport.
UNCTADstat
You can also download the annual World Investment Report in PDF files at:
World Investment Report
The above report contains many tables on global and regional FDI, cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and transnational corporations (TNCs).
The Annexes to the World Investment Report contain a range of additional FDI, M&A and TNC statistics that can be downloaded as 20 Excel files.
Annex Tables
The Bank for International Settlements is "an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks". From the hub part of the site you can access the websites of each of the world's central banks.
Central bank websites
...and working and research papers published by central banks.
Central Bank Research Hub
There is also a substantial statistical section. It is the best source for data on nominal and real exchange rate indices. It uses narrow indices (comprising 26 and 27 economies for the nominal and real indices, respectively) with data going back to 1964, and broad indices (comprising 61 economies) with data going back to 1994. In each case data are available in Excel format. Alternatively you can download all the files as a single CSV file. Recent exchange rate index data can be browsed with BIS Statistics Explorer or queried with BIS Statistics Warehouse.
BIS effective exchange rate indices
The statistical section also has data on cross-border lending and borrowing of banks:
Locational banking statistics
It also has data on securities and derivatives. Also, every three years BIS conducts a global central bank survey of activity in the foreign exchange market. The results of the April 2016 survey were released in December 2016.
Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity: updated May 2018
The statistical section also has a link to the joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt, see:
Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)
You can also find details of the payments systems in each country, including data on money supply, total bank notes and coin issued, data on banks and other financial institutions including branches and value of accounts, cards issued, ATMs, transactions per type of payment instrument, number and value of securities and derivatives trades and many other indicators:
Statistics on payment and settlement systems
This site gives data for the G-20 countries and twelve others plus the eurozone and Hong Kong. The site is hosted by the IMF and is a joint undertaking of the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics (IAG).
It provides macroeconomic and financial data in tabular form for the 34 economies. You can access data by indicator or by country.
There are also links to additional data sources for each of the 34 countries/economies. Use the pull-down menu to select an economy:
This is a compilation of more than five thousand data series, from sources including the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. As well as profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, you can browse the data by topic, including education, economy, crime, mortality or health. The site offers a facility to create correlation reports and scatter-plots on the fly.
NationMaster
From the left-hand column on the home page you can select profiles for individual countries and country groups or data under more than 5000 categories.
From the central column on the home page, under 'Tables, graphs, maps and pie charts', you can choose a category. Under 'Country facts and stats' you can choose both a country and a category. Under Compare any two, you can choose any two countries and compare them in terms of any selected indicator.
You can also access data from the pull-down categories in the top bar.
Gapminder allows you to chart three indicators (from a very large selection) over time for most countries simultaneously, with data going back decades, or even centuries for some indicators. The charts allow you to see very easily the differences between countries: hence the title of the site! The following link takes you to Gapminder World. (Note that you will need Flash installed on your computer to run Gapminder.)
Gapminder World
The link takes you to the default view, which is Chart View, where you can choose which indicator to put on each axis by clicking on each axis in turn and selecting from the drop-down list. Each axis can be shown in linear or log mode. Each country is represented by a bubble, whose colour varies by continent. The size of the bubble gives the third indicator, whose default is the population size, but again you can use a drop-down menu (bottom right or right under 'Find', depending on your browser) to select this third indicator. The default is all countries, but you can select just one or more countries from a list on the right. The non-selected countries appear in faded colour. You can use a slider to fade them out completely if you prefer. You can also track the path of your selected countries over time if you choose.
A guide to Chart View is given at:
Gapminder World Guide
An alternative view is the Map view (click on Bubbles link at top left of screen). Each country bubble is positioned on a world map. The size of the bubble gives one indicator. A second indicator can be shown by colour gradation of the bubbles. Again, you can select individual countries from the menu on the right.
Other views include Income, Trends, Ranks, Ages and Spreadsheet (again click on the menu at top left of screen).
The site also has a range of videos which examine specific data.
Gapminder videos
If you don't mind that this information comes courtesy of the CIA, this is a very useful site, giving a host of economic and other data, country-by-country. Simply select a country from the drop-down menu near the top of the page: 'Select a country or location'.
Alternatively, you can compare countries by indicator. There are 76 indicators from which to choose, including more than 30 economic indicators. When you select an indicator, countries are arranged in descending order (except for inflation and unemployment rates, where countries are arranged in ascending order).
IndexMundi contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources. You can explore and analyse thousands of indicators organised by region, country, topic, industry sector, and type. (See also site 30 below).
The IndexMundi site has a powerful graphing feature which you can use for the following:
World and continent maps showing colour-coded information and data tables by country for 44 separate indicators (use the drop-down menus):
World maps by indicator
Bar charts with figures for ranking countries for a range of indicators:
Country comparison charts
Times series charts and tables that allow you to compare up to four countries using up to ten indicators:
Historical data graphs
Correlation scatter charts (plus table) that allow you to compare two indicators for all countries for a selected year:
Correlation charts
Economic data for the whole of the USA, updated daily from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Federal Reserve Economic Data
The EconomyWatch site includes news and country briefings under various headings:
A full list of topics can be found at the bottom of each page.
Penn World Table 9.1 by Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer is provided by the University of Groningen's Growth and Development Centre. It is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2017. Data may be opened in Excel or Stata.
Penn World Table 9.1 Database
There is also a comprehensive User Guide
The site, taken over by Qlik provides a consistent means of searching, comparing, visualising and downloading quantitative data from a wide variety of international sources. You can explore data by:
Data providers (such as the IMF, the UN, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Eurostat and the World Bank).
Any data that are open and free from the source site are still available free on the DataMarket site – some 125 million time-series from about 16 thousand data sets.
You can download data into various formats, including Excel, PDF, SVG, etc.
This site captures international data from a number of sources and presents them in a common space, visualizing figures, applying analytical functions, creating a set of dashboards and presenting the outcome.
For example, under Economics, you can access a range of economic indicators by country.
You can use the data atlas to search for data by date, name, topic or source.
Data atlas
The Conference Board, founded in 1916, is an independent non-profit global organisation. Its aim is 'to help leaders navigate the biggest issues impacting business and better serve society'. Amongst other activities, it provides a range of international data.
Economic Data & Analysis
Particularly useful datasets include:
Global Business Cycle Indicators
On the site you will also find a Total Economy Database, which provides annual data covering GDP, population, employment, hours, labour quality, capital services, labour productivity and total factor productivity for 123 countries in the world.
Total Economy Database
Vizala contains country-level data for 193 countries.
The data are organised into 20 broad categories, including: Banking/Lending, Economic Activity, Markets, Monetary/Inflation and Trade and FDI. Each of these is then divided into sub-categories, giving a total of more than 120 sub-categories. For example, Trade and FDI is divided into Exports, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Imports, Other Trade & FDI, Tariff Rates, Trade Flow and Trade Value. In each of the sub-categories you can select from a number of groups of indicators.
You can filter by country group and country. You can sort data across countries by value by clicking on the indicator.
Under Country Trends can also get time series data for individual countries over a chosen date range.
A useful feature is the ability to select all the time series data for a selected country (e.g. United Kingdom) from the Country Hubs list. Again you can choose indicators by category and date range.
You can also select topics from a large list.
The site also has projections for a number of indicators by country. You can select start and end date.
The site has two powerful search features
Metric Finder
Series Finder
The Asian Development Bank publishes a range of economic, financial, social, environmental and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) statistics on its 48 member countries from the Asia and Pacific region (there are 68 members in total). In the statistics section, you can search by country under the headings: Economic Indicators, Poverty Indicators and Statistical Reports.
Three useful annual statistical publications are:
Basic Statistics Series
Asian Development Review (ADR)
Key Indicators (KI) for Asia and the Pacific Series
Asian Development Outlook (ADO)
In each case data are available to download to Excel.
The following sites provide data on UK and international markets for individual commodities, shares or products.
The following link is to the home page, from which you can access the various sections of the site, including market data, industry news, personal finance and Brexit.
Yahoo Finance: home page
In the market data section you can access market information on currencies, cryptocurrencies, most active stocks and world stock market indices.
When you click on a particular stock or market, you get a real-time summary, including a small graph. If you click on 'Full screen' this gives you a full-page graph from which you can easily read prices on any day over any time period. You can also see additional stock or market prices on the same screen on the same dates by clicking on 'Comparison'. For example, the following shows the FTSE 100 graph, with comparison data for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).
This is a well presented and clearly navigable site for finding share and commodity prices and tailoring the data.
For example, you can see what is happening to each of the major stock market indices and all the individual shares in that particular index at:
Major Stock Market indices
You can draw time-series charts of any share for periods of 1 day to 10 years. These can be in different formats, such as line charts, candle charts or high-low charts. You can add overlays of moving averages and add charts at the bottom of the screen for a range of other indicators on that share, such as volume and moving average (VOLMA), moving average convergence/divergence (MACD), fast stochastic (Fast Stoch) and rate of change (ROC).
You can show 'heatmaps' which rank shares in indices by percentage change.
Also, you can build your own portfolio.
The IndexMundi site has an extensive set of commodity price data drawn from the IMF.
These can be charted for a 6-month, 1, 5, 10, 15, or 25-year range. The figures also appear in a table which can be downloaded to Excel. There are also links to recent news articles relevant to the selected commodity.
The site also contains country data, which can be found from the site's home page.
IndexMundi: home page
Details of the charting features of the country data can be found above at site 19
This is a US government site, but it gives international as well as US data on electricity, coal, gas, nuclear power and oil.
For individual country analyses, see:
International (Click "Select Country/Region")
You can download Excel files of daily, weekly, monthly and annual spot prices for various fuels.
Spot fuel Prices
For example, monthly historical prices for Brent crude are at:
Brent crude prices
Use the 'View history' panel at the top to toggle between annual, monthly, weekly and daily prices.
You can download Excel spreadsheets of prices, stocks and traded volumes for each month of the current year for each metal.
This UK government site has, amongst other things, market data on Gilt markets, Treasury Bill markets.
UK Debt Management Office (DMO)
The BBC news site has a section with market data.
BBC News: Market Data
You can find current prices and charts of movements over the past one day, one, three or twelve months, or five years of share prices, stock markets, currencies and commodities.
There are five excellent sites for UK house price data.
UK House Price Indices (ONS using Land Registry data)
The following link takes you to reports on the UK housing market and house prices.
UK House Price Index: reports
The reports contain summary data and charts. They also contain links to the underlying datasets. You can customise the datasets by topic, year, etc. and download your selection to Excel using the following link.
UK HPI tool
Click on search the UK house price index and then on Customise your search. You can then download your selected data to Excel or another spreadsheet.
Nationwide house prices site
This gives quarterly movements in national house prices since 1952. More detailed series distinguishing type of property, type of buyer and region are given from more recent years (1973, 1983 or 1991).
House Prices: Data Download
Halifax House Price Index (Lloyds Banking Group)
The Halifax House Price Index site shows the movements in UK house prices over the past 12 months. This is a free site. There is a much more extensive set of national, regional and housing-type data going back to 1983, which used to be free but has now been moved to the Markit site where a subscription is required to access the data.
Halifax House Price Index
House price forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility
The OBR forecasts two key housing variables: average house prices, as measured by the ONS house price index, and the number of transactions which take place, reported by HMRC.
See also the following paper on the house price forecasting methodology used by the OBR.
Forecasting house prices
The site gives real-time house price valuations by postcode, as well as house price trends by region.
There are five useful sites for international property prices.
The Bank for International Settlements
The BIS site (see site 14 above) has a section on residential and commercial property prices in a range of countries that can be downloaded as an Excel file.
Property price statistics from BIS
Global Property Guide
You may also find the following site useful, which is designed for residential property investors who are considering buying houses or apartments in other countries. It tracks official and semi-official house price indices in 57 countries. It also has data on gross rental yields, market structures, conveyancing costs, landlord and tenant law and effective tax rates for residential property in over 100 countries.
The IMF's Global Housing Watch tracks developments in housing markets across the world on a quarterly basis. It provides current data on house prices as well as metrics used to assess valuation in housing markets, such as house price‑to‑rent and house-price‑to‑income ratios.
Global Housing Watch
The following infographic from The Economist allows you to select, for up to 27 countries, House-price indices, House prices in real terms, House prices against average incomes, House prices against rents and the Percentage change in house prices. You can choose the date range and the specific countries to display.
The Economist house-price index
Knight Frank
Knight Frank publishes various reports on the housing market, including a quarterly global report. It contains a range of data, such as latest annual percentage house price changes in 56 countries and annual percentage changes in the global price index for the past 21 quarters
Global reports
Adzuna is a job search site, launched in 2011. It has a large database of jobs for the UK and for 10 other countries. You can search by job type and location.
UK job search site
A useful part of the site for finding salary data is:
Salary Stats
This again allows you search by job type and location. Monthly data are displayed for the past year.
There are also national data on salaries and vacancies available at:
UK Labour Market Stats
Also on this part of the site you can compare salaries for specific jobs or in specific locations with the national average.
This site has key data on world taxes, including income tax rates, a tax rates comparison table, a section on business & finance worldwide, a directory of world embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions, a link to general and economic news sites, links to tax news, links to world tax and revenue administrations, a directory of world stock exchanges and links to business opportunity sites arranged by country.
A useful section is:
Tax rates around the world
This is presented as a table, with the rates for each country with many of the countries clickable to give you more information.
The resources section of the Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) site provides extensive and regularly updated statistics on Mergers and Acquisitions worldwide. Much of the data is open access and is organised by the following: Region, Transaction type, Industry and Country.
Open-access M&A Statistics
By signing up as a free user you can also download M&A data and statistics with the actual numbers in spreadsheets (Google Sheets and Excel format).
Register as free user
These sites provide links to other sites with a range of economic data.
This is a new data service funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It incorporates the former Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) which gives access to a range of datasets from national and international organisations. In addition to these datasets, the UK Data Service includes data from Census.ac.uk, Secure Data Service (SDS) and Survey Question Bank (SQB).
To gain free access to the datasets linked from the site you will need to enter your UK university/college username and password in the login box on the Home Page. You will first need to register from the same page.
UK Data Service home page
Of particular interest to many economists are the following two sections:
International macrodata
This gives access to a huge range of international macroeconomic data from the World Bank, Eurostat, the IMF, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the ILO, the OECD and UNIDO.
To access the data, click on the databank (e.g. IMF International Finance Statistics (IFS)). If you haven't already accepted the conditions from that organisation you will first be redirected to a screen where you can do that.
Business microdata
This gives access to a large collection of business microdata, provided by the Office for National Statistics. The data are collected through a wide range of surveys (and some administrative sources), and cover: productivity, innovation, workforce skills, earnings, international trade, foreign direct investment, research and development, business demography and industrial relations.
Other categories of data include:
UK surveys
Cross-national surveys
Qualitative/mixed methods data
Quandl has indexed over 5 million time-series datasets from over 400 sources. Most of the data refer to financial data and asset prices, but there are also various economic datasets. To access some of the datasets, you have to be a subscriber, but many are open and free. You can download any Quandl dataset in any format that you want. You can also visualize, save, share, authenticate, validate, upload, index, merge and transform data.
You can use the search box to find data or you can scroll through datasets. You can also limit your search to free datasets by using the filter at the top of the left-hand navigation panel.
RFE is part of AEAWeb - information for economists provided by the American Economic Association. From the Data page on the Resources for Economists (RFE) part of the site, there are links to very many online data sources, categorised by region. Categories include US Macro and Regional Data, World and Non-USA Data, Finance and Financial Markets, Journal Data and Program Archives.
RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet
This is an online resources portal for development information and knowledge-sharing worldwide. Development Gateway is "an international nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology".
The following site allows you to access data on international aid by type of aid, donor, recipient, purpose or activity.
Aid Data
Zanran is a search site for data.
As the site says:
"Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a PDF report, or a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a barchart shown as an image in an HTML page. This huge amount of information can be difficult to find using conventional search engines, which are focused primarily on finding text rather than graphs, tables and bar charts.
Put more simply: Zanran is Google for data."
Zanran search engine
Zanran also includes a powerful engine for converting PDF tables to Excel files (.xls, .xlsx and .csv) and XLM files.
Excel tables from PDFs
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Trucking industry moving toward use of EOBRs
New regulations that limit the number of consecutive hours that a commercial truck driver can work took effect in the United States on July 1. Under the new Hours of Service rules (HOS), commercial truck drivers must now take mandatory rest breaks of 30 minutes every eight hours, and they must, as before, take a minimum of 34 hours off—the 34-hour restart, as it is known—every 60 or 70 hours, depending on what cycle they are on (60 hours in 7 days or 70 hours in 8 days). These rules apply to Canadian truckers driving in the US.
Electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs) will soon be required for all truckers in the US and Canada. They can cost several hundred dollars, though the Ontario Trucking Association is behind the move, saying that trucking companies will pay for them.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) was also mandated by the US Congress in July 2012 to write a rule, within one year, regarding the use of Electronic On-Board Recording devices (EORBs) in commercial trucking. The purpose of EORBs is to monitor drivers’ activity so that the HOS rule can be better enforced. Drivers currently have to log their hours manually. The new FMCSA rule has not been approved as of now, but is expected to be so approved by September. Drivers will then have two years to comply. It is likely that all commercial truck drivers will have to have an EOBR by January, 2016. Again, Canadian truckers driving in the US will have to comply with the US rules on EOBRs, once they are established.
An earlier version of an FMCSA rule was “vacated” by the US courts on grounds that constituted harassment of the drivers.
While not universally popular with drivers, at least one Canadian truckers group has come out in favour of using EOBRs. The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has been urging members to write to their MPs and lobby the government to “get with the program” and implement EOBRs in Canada.
The OTA-supported letter to MPs dismisses claims by “some drivers out there” who feel that EOBRs will make them less competitive, or cost too much, saying that the devices’ features, including routing, dispatch, communication and fleet management capabilities, will “make me a better business operator.”
The laws governing HOS are different in Canada and the US, a fact that will undoubtedly lead to some period of adjustment once the rules are in place. In Canada drivers are not permitted to drive more than 13 hours in a day. After driving 13 hours, the driver must take at least 8 hours off. Canadian drivers also work on different cycles than their US counterparts: 7-day cycle or 14-day cycle, compared to the US 60-hours, 7 days, 70 hours, 8 days.
One Canadian company, Webtech Wireless, has already updated its Quadrant Solution to bring it into compliance with the new US HOS rules, and released new 3G locator devices for tracking large fleets.
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Victory in Alasaad for Our Digital Privacy at the Border
By Adam Schwartz, Sophia Cope, and Aaron Mackey
Government searches of cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices without a warrant when we cross the U.S. border may violate the First and Fourth Amendments, according to a powerful ruling by a federal court last week in a civil rights lawsuit brought by EFF and the ACLU.
It is the latest and greatest of a growing wave of judicial opinions challenging the government’s claim that it can ransack and confiscate our electronic devices—just because we travel internationally. By allowing the EFF and ACLU case to proceed, the district court signaled that the government’s invasion of people’s digital privacy and free speech rights at the border raises significant constitutional concerns. This post analyzes the decision and explains what’s next for the case.
Our Lawsuit
In Alasaad v. Nielsen, we sued on behalf of 11 travelers, arguing that the First and Fourth Amendments require border officers to get a warrant before searching our electronic devices. We also argue that the Fourth Amendment requires border officers to have probable cause before confiscating our electronic devices for weeks or months. We seek an “injunction” against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, meaning a command from a judge to end these practices.
The government moved to dismiss on two grounds. First, they claimed our clients lacked “standing” to seek an injunction, because supposedly our clients could not prove a sufficient risk of being searched again. Second, on the merits, the government claimed that the First and Fourth Amendments do not require border officers to have any suspicion at all before searching and confiscating travelers’ electronic devices.
We filed an opposition brief refuting the government’s arguments. We were buoyed by three strong amicus briefs (a.k.a. friend-of-the-court briefs). The court held an oral argument to explore the issues.
The district court rejected the government’s arguments, denied their motion to dismiss, and allowed us to proceed with our case. In her opinion, the judge made a host of critical rulings about how the Constitution protects digital privacy and free speech at the border.
Fourth Amendment Limits on Device Searches at the Border
The Alasaad court’s analysis rested significantly on the Supreme Court’s holding in Riley v. California (2014) that the Fourth Amendment requires police officers to get a warrant before searching the cell phones of arrestees. In Riley, the Court balanced the privacy interests in cell phones against the government’s interests in conducting warrantless searches incident to arrest—specifically, officer safety and evidence preservation.
On the privacy side of the balance, the Alasaad court explained that “electronic devices implicate privacy interests in a fundamentally different manner than searches of typical containers or even searches of a person.” The court also extensively quoted the Supreme Court’s Riley decision, including how with digital devices, “The sum of an individual’s private life can be reconstructed through a thousand photographs labeled with dates, locations, and descriptions” dating back to the purchase of the phone. In the opinion, the court stated:
“a person’s internet browsing history, historic location information, and mobile application software (or ‘apps’) ‘can form a revealing montage of the user’s life.’ Indeed, the Court stated that “a cell phone search would typically expose to the government far more than the most exhaustive search of a house.’”
To illustrate the way that cell phone searches burden privacy, the Alasaad court highlighted that two of the plaintiffs are Muslim women with religious concerns about men viewing their hair: “Nadia Alasaad and Merchant object [to male border officers searching their phones] due to their photos on their phones of themselves without headscarves.”
Additionally, some cases as well as CBP’s 2018 policy provide more privacy protection from “forensic” searches (when border officers deploy their own digital tools to analyze travelers’ devices), and less privacy protection from “manual” searches” (when border officers simply tap or mouse around the device). Plaintiffs reject this dichotomy, because manual searches can access virtually all of the information that forensic searches can access, and manual searches can take advantage of the automatic search tools built into travelers’ own devices. Significantly, the Alasaad court acknowledged that manual searches can be intrusive, too.
On the government’s side of the scale, the Alasaad court relied on Riley to explain that warrantless searches of a “particular category of effects” such as cell phones must be sufficiently “tethered” to the government’s interests. At the border, the government’s interests in conducting warrantless searches are to collect duties and to prevent the entry of contraband and other harmful items. The question, then, is whether warrantless searches of electronic devices sufficiently advance these interests. The Alasaad court agreed with plaintiffs that there is an important difference between border officers conducting warrantless searches for “contraband” (where tethering is stronger), as opposed to conducting warrantless searches for “evidence” of contraband or other unlawful activity (where tethering is weaker).
“electronic devices implicate privacy interests in a fundamentally different manner than searches of typical containers or even searches of a person.”
To the degree that border officers are seeking digital contraband, the Alasaad court held that “it is unclear at this juncture the extent to which a warrant requirement would impede customs officers’ ability to ferret out such contraband.” The court explained, quoting Riley, that “recent technological advances make the process of obtaining a warrant more efficient.”
Moreover, the court was not persuaded by the government’s claim that child pornography is a form of digital contraband that justifies warrantless searches of electronic devices. The court explained that Riley requires the government to show that the problem it wants to solve with warrantless searches is “prevalent.” The Alasaad court cited government data showing that “the vast majority” of child pornography is accessed on the Internet, and thus found it “unclear” whether there is a prevalent problem with travelers carrying such contraband over the border.
Assuming that privacy interests outweigh government interests, the next question is what level of individualized suspicion a border officer must have before searching an electronic device. While the government asserts that the ceiling is “reasonable suspicion” (a lower level of protection), plaintiffs demand a warrant (the highest level of protection). The Alasaad court left this question open, but the judge suggested that a warrant might be preferable because the reasonable suspicion standard applied to border searches of electronic devices might provide “no practical limit at all.”
First Amendment Limits on Device Searches at the Border
The Alasaad court emphasized plaintiffs’ argument that when border officers search travelers’ electronic devices, they burden travelers’ First Amendment rights to free speech and association. Specifically, they expose membership in private advocacy organizations, unmask anonymous speech, and intrude on freedom of the press.
Given these burdens, the court held that border device searches are subject to a strong First Amendment test: government must prove a “substantial relation between the governmental interest and the information required to be disclosed.”
The court rejected an earlier judicial opinion suggesting that First Amendment scrutiny of border device searches would cause “headaches” for border officers. Quoting Riley, the Alasaad court explained that plaintiffs are not seeking a special or complicated rule; as with the Fourth Amendment claim, “what plaintiffs seek as a remedy here is ‘simple—get a warrant.’”
The court in its opinion also cited examples from plaintiffs’ complaint to illustrate how border device searches burden travelers’ First Amendment rights:
“While Dupin’s phone was being searched, he was questioned ‘about his work as a journalist, including the names of the organizations and specific individuals within those organizations for whom he had worked’; Gach was questioned ‘about his work as an artist’ prior to searching his phone; Kushkush was asked about ‘his reporting activities’; and Merchant was questioned at secondary inspection about her ‘religious affiliation’ and her blog.”
Fourth Amendment Limits on Device Confiscations at the Border
The Alasaad court held that plaintiffs plausibly alleged that border officers’ lengthy confiscations, without probable cause, of plaintiffs’ devices violated the Fourth Amendment. The court explained that seizures must be reasonable “not only at their inception but also for their duration.” The court emphasized plaintiffs’ allegations of a 10-month confiscation of Mr. Allababidi’s device, and a 56-day confiscation of Mr. Wright’s devices.
Plaintiffs Have Standing
The Alasaad court on two grounds held that plaintiffs sufficiently alleged standing to seek an injunction against the government for these First and Fourth Amendment violations.
First, the court held that plaintiffs pled a substantial risk of future border searches and confiscations of their electronic devices. The court emphasized plaintiffs’ allegations that all plaintiffs will continue to travel across the U.S. border with their devices; that when they do so, they will be exposed to the government’s device search policies; and that plaintiffs can only avoid this risk by foregoing their right to travel or by traveling without their devices, which is impractical. The court rejected the government’s argument that the odds of future search are too low (the government asserts that they search the devices of 0.008% of travelers crossing the border). The court reasoned that “even a small probability of injury is sufficient”; that the absolute number of searches is large (over 30,000 per year); and that plaintiffs may be more likely than other travelers to suffer future searches, given that four plaintiffs have already been searched on multiple occasions, and that officers are alerted to past searches.
Second, the court held that plaintiffs had standing to seek expungement of the information that the government seized from plaintiffs’ devices, to cure this ongoing harm resulting from the past unconstitutional searches of plaintiffs’ devices. The court emphasized plaintiffs’ allegation that government agencies “remain free to use and exploit [this seized information] and share it with other agencies that may do the same.”
EFF will continue to fight for digital privacy at the border, in Alasaad and other cases. The district court’s powerful new ruling puts a lot of wind in our sails.
If you want to strengthen the privacy of your own digital information when you cross the border, check out our guide on how to do so. If you want to take direct action, contact your federal legislators and ask them to support a pending bill to require border officers to get a warrant before searching digital devices.
The border is not a Constitution-free zone.
Alasaad v. Nielsen
Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 14, 2019
Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act
Under the bipartisan Protecting Data at the Border Act, border officers would be required to get a warrant before searching a traveler’s electronic device. Last month, the bill was re-introduced into the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). It is co-sponsored by...
Deeplinks Blog by Saira Hussain, Sophia Cope | May 17, 2019
Seventh Circuit Dodges an Opportunity to Protect Travelers from Invasive Border Searches of Electronic Devices
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in United States v. Wanjiku missed an opportunity to protect travelers’ privacy rights and check the government’s ability to conduct invasive border searches of electronic devices. EFF, along with the ACLU, filed an amicus brief in the case arguing...
Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | April 30, 2019
We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here’s What We Found Out
This is a guest post by Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project, Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and Esha Bhandari, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. It was originally posted on the ACLU Speak Freely...
Press Release | April 30, 2019
New Documents Reveal DHS Asserting Broad, Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops
BOSTON — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU today asked a federal court to rule without trial that the Department of Homeland Security violates the First and Fourth Amendments by searching travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry without a warrant.The request...
Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz | February 15, 2019
EFF to State Department: Respect Freedom of Speech of Chinese Students
EFF joined a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opposing a proposal to deploy stronger vetting procedures against Chinese students intending to study in the United States because the procedures would threaten the free speech interests of both Chinese students and their American associates. Reuters reported that...
Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | July 23, 2018
EFF Files Amicus Brief in Seventh Circuit Supporting Warrant for Border Searches of Electronic Devices
EFF, joined by ACLU, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit arguing that border agents need a probable cause warrant before searching personal electronic devices like cell phones and laptops. We filed our brief in a criminal case involving Donald Wanjiku, who...
Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | June 4, 2018
Federal Appeals Court Errs a Second Time on Device Privacy at the Border
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit got it wrong—again—ruling last week in U.S. v. Touset that border agents may forensically search, without any suspicion of wrongdoing, travelers’ electronic devices. The Eleventh Circuit ruled in March in U.S. v. Vergara that neither a warrant nor probable...
Deeplinks Blog by David Ruiz | May 30, 2018
EFF and Other Groups Fight State Department Collection of Social Media Information … Again
EFF and 54 civil liberties organizations joined comments this week written by the Brennan Center for Justice and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) standing up against the U.S. government’s plans to collect social media information from foreigners entering the United States. This is the fifth time we’ve fought this...
Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | May 16, 2018
EFF to New York Appellate Court: No Warrantless Searches of Devices at the Border
In a month of court victories for travelers' digital privacy, EFF continues its legal fight for Fourth Amendment rights at the border. We filed an ...
Press Release | May 10, 2018
EFF and ACLU Can Proceed With Legal Challenge Against Warrantless Searches of Travelers' Smartphones, Laptops
Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Massachusetts won a court ruling today allowing their groundbreaking lawsuit challenging unconstitutional searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border to proceed—a victory for the digital rights of all international travelers. EFF and ACLU...
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Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries releases half-year motorcycle sales figures
Data released today by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) revealed 42,457 motorcycles, ATVs and scooters were sold during the first six months of 2019, compared with 47,909 for the same period in 2018.
This represents an 11.4 per cent decline for the market in the first half, with all market categories except scooters affected by the downturn.
Tony Weber, chief executive of the FCAI, said the softer motorcycle sales reflected the current tough market environment.
“The first six months of 2019 have seen several events which have contributed to the sensitivity of the market, including environmental factors such as drought and flood, a tightening of financial lending, and the recent Federal election,” Mr Weber said.
Honda was the overall leader with a 24.2 per cent share of the national market, followed by Yamaha with 21.1 per cent and Kawasaki with 10.7 per cent.
Across the industry segments, Scooters defied the market trend, with an 18.8 per cent climb in sales during the first half. Honda held a 39 per cent share, followed by Vespa with 15.25 per cent and Piaggio and Suzuki equal on 15.1 per cent each in the segment.
The ATV/SSV category showed a decline of 13.9 per cent. Within this category, Polaris maintained market leadership with a 27.9 per cent share, followed by Honda with 24.7 per cent, and Yamaha with 18.8 per cent.
Off-road category sales fell 5.9 per cent compared with the first half of 2018. Honda now leads this segment with a 28.5 per cent share, followed by Yamaha with 28.2 per cent, and KTM with 16.7 per cent.
The Road segment fell by 17.7 per cent. Harley-Davidson was the market leader with an 18.7 per cent share, followed by Yamaha with a 17.5 per cent share and Honda with a share of 17.47 per cent.
Segment split
ATV/SSV – 22.7% (up from 17.5% last Q)
Off-Road – 34.5% (up from 32.9% last Q)
Road – 36.9% (down from 42.2% last Q)
Scooter – 5.9% (down from 7.4% last Q)
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PUBG Europe League week 3: who will make it to the FACEIT Global Summit?
Filip Kicurovski
The final week of the PEL 2019 Kick-off phase commences on Thursday April 4th at 18:00 CEST. This week will finalize the standings and decide which four out of the sixteen teams will make it to the FACEIT Global Summit: PUBG Classic coming up in two weeks.
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So far, the competition was fierce between the European squads; yet no team has developed a very significant edge over the other competitors. Since the first Phase of PEL 2019 is set as kick-off system for the entire league, no team faces relegations for bad performance and many use it to hone their skill and adapt to the new competitive environment. The real underperformers until now are the two CIS squads, CrowCrowd and M19, who are having the toughest time adapting. They have netted 0 wins so far in the past two weeks and have showed a relatively underwhelming performance.
On the other hand, the squads of G2 and ENCE stand out to me as the most tactically diverse and “get to the action” oriented, out of the whole bunch. ENCE is in fact the current standings leader with 306 total points ahead of Team Liquid who are trailing with 274. To those new to the competitive system, a team scores one point for each kill per match and between 0 and 10 points based on what place the team took during each match.
Nothing is set in stone so far in the League and theoretically every team can still make it to the Top 4 and land that Global Summit invite. If we are to guess or place bets on who gets to come out a winner in Week 3, my money are on teams ENCE, NiP, G2 and FaZe Clan.
Meanwhile, the PEL has a strong Contenders scene that seeks to wrestle their way into the main league following the initial kick-off phase. In fact, as soon as the Global Summit finishes, the 16 PEL teams and the 16 best (out of 32) from the PEL Contenders will clash at a standalone tournament called the Kick-off Cup between April 30th – May 5th, 2019.
This is shaping up to be a real month of competitive PUBG all across the globe, which comes as a refreshment after the dip in numbers of recurring players, cheating controversies and rampant abuse of hacking tools that plagued the game for the past 10 months. With things finally looking up for the game, the guys at PUBG Esports created a sweet review of the social media buzz around the league in the past week. Check it out here.
Finally, enjoy Match 40 VOD from the amazing PEL Studio in Berlin.
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CCAMS
Centralised code assignment and management system
Powering out efficient SSR code allocations service.
We optimise the efficiency of European Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) code management by centrally selecting code for each flight within its area of applicability using an intelligent algorithm and distributing it to the appropriate ATS unit. Our system is being implemented in 16 States.
Our collabroative Centralised Code Assignment & Management System (CCAMS) is the most efficient way to use Mode 3/A codes within the European network. It uses available flight plan data to assign Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) codes to flights at the time they are actually required, using an intelligent algorithm, rather than using the current inflexible and static code allocation to States.
CCAMS is a collaborative system for the most efficient use of Mode 3/A codes in the European network. It provides:
efficient management of SSR codes;
maximum retention of a code;
reduction of code conflicts;
flexibility to match future demands;
SSR codes for special events and military exercises.
CCAMS consists of a central server located at EUROCONTROL's premises. It provides a unique code for general air traffic operating in the region. This server:
automatically selects and sends a code to all the units along the flight’s route, based on the information available from other NM systems;
responds to code requests received from air traffic control (ATC) units;
ensures a code conflict-free trajectory for the flight, allowing the code to be retained in the CCAMS area;
monitors code use to ensure safe and efficient operations.
CCAMS User Manual
Network Manager CCAMS Contingency Plan
Since the mid-1990s, individual States have been forecasting potential shortages in their allocation of SSR codes to meet the forecast growth in air traffic.
Until now, changes to the ORCAM rules, FDPS (Flight Data Processing System) functionality upgrades, and close coordination between States, have ensured that no major safety or capacity issues would arise routinely.
Increasingly since 2000, ORCAM States have been raising serious concerns about their ability to meet future demand using the existing SSR code management methodology, for several reasons:
the basis of ORCAM are the traffic flows and Participating Areas (PA) structure, designed over 20 years ago;
the geo-political map of Europe changed;
new States needed to have SSR codes allotted to them;
the use of secondary radar in neighbouring ICAO regions, such as Africa and Mid-Asia, is leading to more limitations in code usage;
the levels of air traffic have risen considerably over the last decade and forecasts indicate that the level of traffic will continue to increase significantly;
the instances of SSR code conflicts are increasing and are suffered by many of the ORCAM States.
Implementation project
The Provisional Council of EUROCONTROL approved CCAMS at its 26th Session in November 2006. EUROCONTROL set up a project for the development and the implementation of CCAMS as a pan-European solution to overcome the shortages of the SSR codes used by air traffic control (ATC) for radar services. Currently, implementation is planned in 16 States.
ICAO Paris has recognised CCAMS as the short- to medium-term solution to code shortages, as have military aviation, industry and airspace user organisations in their respective high-level working arrangements.
CCAMS User Group (CUG) members, nominated by air navigation service providers (ANSPs), coordinate activities locally and ensure that local systems are adapted in time. They are also responsible for developing procedures for implementing CCAMS.
Learn about our Transponder code function (TCF)
The system is restricted to organisations actively engaged in ATFM operations, airline and airport operations, and related support services. The access to CCAMS is subject to eligibility conditions, to conditions of use and to the signing of a NM Agreement. To request access, please follow the steps below.
Fill out our service request form
This will help us determine what access to grant you.
Sign a service agreement
Once we have received your request, we will contact you to invite your organisation to sign an official agreement with EUROCONTROL for the provision of this access.
Benefit from our system
A CCAMS participating unit must be fully defined in the NM systems and be specifically activated on an agreed date.
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PEREZ, JOSEP
FC Barcelona Regal 31 Guard
Height: 1.83 Born: 11 May, 1994 Nationality: Spain
Index rating 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Points 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Offensive rebounds 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Defensive rebounds 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Total rebounds 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Assists 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Steals 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Blocks 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 3/29/2013
Minutes 4 FC Barcelona Lassa vs. Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv 2/29/2012
Grew up with FC Barcelona (SPain) youth teams.
Made his debut with FC Barcelona II, LEB Silver, during the 2010-11 season.
He's still playing there, and also made his debut with the main team.
Has been member of the Spanish U-16 and U-18 National Team.
Won the gold medal at the 2011 European U-18 Championships.
Played at the 2010 European U-16 Championships.
2011-12 FC Barcelona Regal 2 0 0 0/1 0 0/1 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
2010-11 IJT REGAL FC BARCELONA 8 107 13.4 22/47 46.8 13/41 31.7 24/28 85.7 18 20 22 0
2011-12 IJT FC BARCELONA REGAL 4 69 17.3 11/32 34.4 10/33 30.3 17/17 100 19 7 16 0
Totals 12 176 14.7 33/79 41.8 23/74 31.1 41/45 91.1 37 27 38 0
Averages 12 176 14.7 33/79 41.8 23/74 31.1 41/45 91.1 3.1 2.3 3.2 0
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FIFA eWorld Cup 2019™
The Grand Final
Global Series 2019
FeCWC
FeNC
FIFA eClub World Cup
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Five teams to watch at the FIFA eClub World Cup 2019
Spotlight on five teams from a top-class line-up
Former champions, Grand Finalists and FIFA 19 Global Series Ranking leaders feature
Five teams and the players to keep an eye on
The official FIFA eClub World Cup 2019 is a tournament where every team has a chance of winning, and while some participants wilt under the extreme pressure, others thrive on it to produce their best performances. Given the sheer number of top-quality players taking part, it is difficult to determine who the title favourites are, although a few teams stand out nevertheless. Allow us to introduce them:
The Dutch side, who we took a closer look at on FIFA.com at the beginning of the year, currently have four players under contract. The two that will represent them at the FIFA eClub World already have quite the successful back catalogue:
Joey Calabro's triumphs include winning the FIWC Regional Final in 2017, as well as reaching that year's Grand Final. Last year at the FIFA 18 Global Series Playoffs he only narrowly missed out on qualifying for the FIFA eWorld Cup. He has been in impressive form this season too and finished in the top 16 at the FUT Champions Cup in December 2018.
Dani Hagebeuk is a two-time eDivisie champion (2017 and 2018) and qualified for the FIFA eWorld Cup Grand Final in both of those years. He has followed that up this season with two top-four finishes at the FUT Champion Cups in December and January.
Ajax took part in the inaugural FIFA eClub World Cup competition in 2017 and are eager to take the title home with them this time.
Q U A L I F I E D! 🙌⚡️
We will go to the FIFA eClub World Cup as we managed a top 2 position in our group.
Good job team! 😎#FIFAeWorldCup pic.twitter.com/KEMMy8rCn9
— Ajax eSports (@AFCAjax_eSports) January 12, 2019
This team is home to two of the most consistent French players in recent years. 'MaestroSquad' won the eCopa France, among others, and was runner-up in the Orange E-ligue 1, which his team-mate has already won.
'Rafsou' was outstanding at the maiden FIFA eClub World Cup tournament in 2017, when he secured second place for Olympique Lyonnais. Both players already have experience of playing in the Grand Final, giving them the necessary tournament know-how to succeed at the FIFA eClub World Cup.
Brondby IF
The Danish outfit are the only side to have won the FIFA eClub World Cup to date – a trend they are naturally enough eager to continue. "That's now two in row," said Spencer Owen after their triumph last year. "Maybe it'll get to three, who knows? Somebody's got to stop them."
In Frederik Fredberg, Brondby have held on to one of the two players who brought the title home last year. Alongside his team-mate 'Dingo', he won the eSuperliga 2018 for the club, a clear demonstration that the duo can work well together on the big stage.
It will be intriguing to see if Brondy can maintain their grip on the tournament and win it for a third straight year. Click here for more information on the club.
Sådan stiller vi op til #fifaeclubworldcup 💙💛🎮
PS4: @Dingoknk
XBOX: @FIFA_Fredberg pic.twitter.com/Aopg3cWY3d
— Brøndby eSport (@brondbyesport) January 22, 2019
KiNG eSports
Arguably the most impressive team in this year's FIFA eClub World Cup, the two top-ranked players in the FIFA 19 Global Series Rankings join forces at the tournament, having already dominated in online qualification.
Following his sensational triumph at the FUT Champions Cup last season in Barcelona, England's 'Tekkz' has followed it up this term by winning the PGL FIFA 19 Cup and his second FUT Champions Cup, putting him at the summit of the FIFA 19 Global Series Rankings by a considerable margin. His Argentinian team-mate 'nicolas99fc' is also one of the best players in the Global Series 2019 and won the Gfinity FIFA Series January to seal top spot in the FIFA 19 Global Series PlayStation Rankings.
As individuals, their talent is undeniable, but how well can they play together, especially in a two-versus-two match?
NoFuchsGiven eSports
Mohamad Al-Bacha and Sean Allen went head-to-head in one of the most exciting Final Showdowns ever in 2016, when the Dane pulled off an incredible comeback to win the title in New York.
Former rivals, the two players became team-mates at the end of 2018 and impressed for Christian Fuchs' team in online qualifying. The former Austria international's side have their sights set on winning their first major title at the FIFA eClub World Cup 2019. Their tournament experience in particular could count in their favour, while the Danish-English combination could surprise more than a few people.
Click here for further information on the tournament: [fifa.com/fecwc](fifa.com/fecwc).
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Rottingdean, England: tourism, information and visitor reviews
Rottingdean is situated in England (part of Great Britain), in the Borough of Brighton and Hove region. It is also a local administrative centre.
Place name: Rottingdean
Main Region: Borough of Brighton and Hove
Longitude: -0.05939 West (0°3'33"W)
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The Marlipins Museum (Museum) (15 km)
Coastal highlights close to Rottingdean.
Cuckmere Haven (Cove) (16 km)
Selected monuments in or near Rottingdean (not a comprehensive list,
Mount Caburn Camp (Castle) (10 km)
Edburton Castle Ring (Castle) (15 km)
St Mary de Hora Shoreham (Church) (15 km)
Arlington Castle (Castle) (16 km)
Burghlow (Castle) (16 km)
St Nicholas Church Shoreham (Church) (16 km)
Old Erringham Ringwork (Castle) (17 km)
Long Man of Wilmington (Ancient site) (17 km)
Bramber Castle (Castle) (20 km)
Knepp Castle (Castle) (27 km)
Natural highlights such as lakes, forests and mountains close to Rottingdean.
Firle Beacon (Hill) (11 km)
Thundersbarrow Hill (Hill) (15 km)
Truleigh Hill (Hill) (17 km)
Lancing Ring (Hill) (19 km)
Steep Down (Hill) (21 km)
Golf courses and race tracks in the vicinity of Rottingdean.
Brighton Racecourse (Racecourse) (4 km)
Railway stations identified as being in or close to Rottingdean.
Moulsecoomb Railway Station (6 km)
Brighton Railway Station (6 km)
Falmer Railway Station (6 km)
London Road Railway Station (6 km)
Preston Park Railway Station (8 km)
Hove Railway Station (8 km)
Aldrington Railway Station (9 km)
Bishopstone Railway Station (11 km)
Glynde Railway Station (11 km)
Seaford Railway Station (12 km)
Southwick Railway Station (13 km)
Shoreham-by-Sea Railway Station (15 km)
Berwick Railway Station (16 km)
Lancing Railway Station (19 km)
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Debate Areas
Easter: The Holiday so many Christians get wrong
By Jojo, March 12 in The Lion's Den
Christforums 12
Fanatically Delusional
Doctrinally Sound Christian
Interests:Christian evangelism
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :Only one true God "ought" be acknowledged
1 hour ago, Lefty said:
I'll likely regret asking, but I'm curious as to how you define "unstained from the world" (ESV) or "unspotted from the world" (KJV)
In line with that exhortation, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,..."
James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
In the context the religious should deny their "self" and be charitable towards their neighbor. Having said that, "to keep oneself unstained from the world" is not to refrain from engaging in the world, or the unbelievers in the world which may be our neighbor. Other men may be lead astray by the world but in all our worldly engagements we are to seek what pleases God.
For example, on this subject of festival days which may or may not be dedicated to idols, some may celebrate pagan goddesses etc., but we may please God by bringing the message of the Resurrection on the same very Sunday in the festivities. I also find principles in other Scriptures which may apply to this subject matter. For example, meat etc that may be considered filthy or dedicated to idols. We are told not to worry about refraining from such meat but if it causes a weaker brother to stumble then we should refrain. Even applying the principle I may for example invite a new former Muslim convert to our Resurrection Sunday feast and offer him pork. Some are weak in the faith and may be bothered in conscience, likewise, the new convert may invite me to his house and it would be most inappropriate for me to bring pork and wine to his family table which may cause him much hardship. There's also Paul who preached at Mars Hill where many idols stood for many gods, but Paul still went to the place to preach the Gospel. He even used the idol which stood for an "unknown god" to bring knowledge to the true Lord. Likewise, Easter Sunday can be used in places to bring the Gospel message where pagans may indeed be worshiping another god.
What I do not find that the Scripture says, is that for me to be unstained from the world that I must beat everyone else down, criticize, and judge them but rather I am to keep "myself" unstained from the world, that is, to not lose my focus and be lead astray by the world but to keep in mind what is pleasing to the Lord.
After all, I can always "wash my hands" afterwards.
Hope you didn't regret my response.
Lefty 67
Interests:Truth
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :None
So no actual scriptural basis, just your personal interpretation of what is written?
It is one thing to give it in your own words, many a scholar have spoken straight out their backside on countless topics due to the constraints of their denomination's theology, but might I recommend that if you offer answer to a man, don't say "Be ye warmed and filled" without giving the so-called "Bread of Life".
I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.
19 minutes ago, Lefty said:
Do you know what exegesis and expository teaching is? Do you understand the difference between personal interpretation and application? When you say "interpretation" there are methods and principles of interpretation. Now if you're pushing for a fundamentalist approach to Scripture and going only by what Scriptures "say" rather than "mean" then I reject fundamentalism. I am Reformed and we are known to be systematic in our theology (using the entirety or totality of Scripture to answer a question rather than isolating a verse) and to infer or make inference (reason from Scriptures) in order to understand and convey what the author had in mind which utilizes both grammatical, historical, and a systematic principle and method of interpretation. For example, the Reformed principles and methods of interpretation which pertain to "reason" are Scripturally based:
Isaiah 1:18 - The Lord said, "Come now and let us reason together."
1 Peter 3:15 - Be ready to give an answer to every man who asks a reason for the hope within you.
Acts 17:2; 18:4; 19:8,9; 28:23 - Paul reasoned with the Jews from the Scriptures to prove to them that Jesus was the Christ. [17:17; 18:19; 24:25]
Hebrews 5:14 - We should have our sense exercised to discern good and evil.
However, I take what you say from a Scriptural basis seriously. Please take into account these Scriptures and the context surrounding the verses:
Besides James 1:27: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Colossians 2:16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
1 Corinthians 8:13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
Acts 17:16–34
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” 21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,[a] 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for
“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;
as even some of your own poets have said, "
‘For we are indeed his offspring.’[c]
29 Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.” 33 So Paul went out from their midst. 34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
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Just curious, but didn't you say that you were self-taught? I'm wondering on what basis you think your views about "correct doctrine" are more authoritative than his, or are less a "personal interpretation"? Note that I don't really care which views are "correct" and I don't really think there is any such thing as the correct view, per se, it's just interesting to me to see someone who identifies as atheist talk about interpretation in the way that you do. From a Christian perspective, it seems clear that the best criteria for settling disputes would be that the correct interpretation is the one that God would endorse, were He available to do so. But at least in his absence folks are doing their best to figure out what the answer is. But from an atheist perspective, what criteria are you using? I don't see how you can deride someone for relying on personal interpretation if your alternative is literally just your own reading of the text.
26 minutes ago, Christforums said:
I am Reformed and we are known to be systematic in our theology
I'm personally sympathetic to these attempts at systematization, because that's how I approach the collected works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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10 minutes ago, wellnamed said:
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant,[d] said by the Holy Spirit,
“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed’[e]—
I'm including Scriptural verses because I was asked to take giving such basis seriously here. On that note, a systematic approach to Scripture is not only held by Reformed but also by true Protestants. In the Protestant Reformation the first principle established is Sola Scriptura. The authority of Protestants is Scripture rather than another standard of authority held by Catholics ~ the Church magistrate.
While I understand you were probably joking about the collected works of J.R.R. Tolkien, I give it pause, because it's not the craziest thing I've heard. For example, the Cult Scientology is based on a fictional book and author.
That was a joke. I tell jokes. People tell me they love 'em
I'm not sure if you are aware of the epistemological problem involved with citing a passage from a book to try to establish the authority of that same book? I don't mind the citations but I don't see how they can possibly be persuasive except to co-religionists who already share some basic presuppositions about your faith. They're appropriate enough if you're arguing with Jojo for example. In any case I think I understand well enough where you're coming from (and we could argue about it but I might have to get a little more bored at work before I really wanted to get too deep into it :P), but I find Lefty's perspective rather intriguing.
Do you know what exegesis and expository teaching is?
As expected. Tossing around words that aren't even in verse is typical of what I call churchianity teaching. Articulate sounding, but it is a smoke screen in my opinion. A great many fancy-sounding words that only serve to confuse. That whole mentality developed out of men who had a need to justify their own interpretations of those things which clearly are not scriptural.
Surely you believe "...every word of god is pure..."?
You can lay claim that taking just a single verse is not how you and your denomination roll, that there must be more to it to "clarify" the meaning, but I consider that a copout at best. So when the verse says, "Jesus wept", are you saying that more verses are needed to clarify the meaning of that verse? Are you really saying that verse cannot stand on its own? Surely not.
The claim is that the bible is the inerrant word, and that to me means that through divine inspiration "...but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost...". It is insanity to claim that one cannot gain the correct understanding of a single verse, or a whole book of verses, considering the Holy Ghost that allegedly dwells within the believer is the one who interprets the meaning for the man. Man is not understanding it on his own intellect, and it is arrogance on a grand scale to claim such things. If you believe that you must have reference verses to complete the understanding, then you are the one that is lost, not me! What you "preach" is outright heresy, based on what it clearly says in your own bible, even though it is a screwed up tainted translation. I mean really, you can't even understand what the KJV says and instead go by some version invented not even 20 years ago? And you people wonder why the unbelieving mock you so much!
Clearly, you missed those classes on what faith is as defined within scripture. You and your little group of believers is part of the problem, and you sure as hell aren't saving anyone. "Not of works lest any man should boast".
"...I hear there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it..."
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2 hours ago, Christforums said:
Colossians 2:16 "Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath."
No matter what the "religious" are going to find fault with another celebrating a holiday etc. Every year around the holidays there are criticisms and judgment by both unbelievers and believers alike. It's like a broken record but yet we still listen.
Scripture defines religion as simply this:
Amazing how religion today brings with it all the connotations of "legalism".
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6 minutes ago, Lefty said:
I'm sorry you actually think that way.
Regarding the context of 1 Corinthians 11:18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
Let's not forget (excuse me for being Reformed) the very next verse which states:
1 Corinthians 11:19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
The very basis for denominations. Yet we are unified in Christendom and partake at the Lord's supper together.
Extremely valid question. I'm glad you asked actually. I sincerely wish I could say more but it is as simple as reading it for myself, over and freakin' over in a span of nearly 25 years. Based on churchianity's definitions, I tend to be more of what they call a fundamentalist, but as I have said, I have never followed any preachers or teachers. I truly came to my own understandings simply from reading the King James bible. Unfortunately, there is no way I can prove that. Every denomination I have ever encountered are running counter to what is written in their own book. They simply do not practice what they preach. If they claim that the bible is the true word of god, then that is exactly what it's supposed to be, right? I believed that at one time, and took it as that face value. I had no previous official teachings outside of the basics when I was a child. I started reading it for myself in 1988 with no real understanding of what a belief was supposed to be or what the bible actually said, seeing I had never read more than a verse here and there till then. I simply decided that if I was claiming a belief of being Christian, then I needed to learn what that book has written in it.
Touche'. I was curious to see which direction you would go with that. Yes, I baited you!
We have a completely different take on it all. I simply reject your form of Christianity (and all other versions as well), sorry. I see the whole denomination thing as a means for men to manipulate and justify, not point out false brethren. However, revealing the errors within the believing has resulted none the less.
34 minutes ago, LogicalFallacy said:
If Christforums has the One True doctrine and Jojo has the one true doctrine, shouldnt they be the 'same' doctrine? Can Jesus be God and not be God at the same time? Is one of these people with the 'wrong' doctrine going to end up in Hell? Why would Jesus allow people to follow the wrong doctrine? I mean if you have a loving heart for Jesus you would think he would eliminate incorrect belief.
And if following the wrong doctrine is not enough to send you to hell, then who really gives a shit which one you subscribe to?
I certainly don't have any issue with pointing out the failure of Christians to live up to their own values. Even when I was one I often said in all seriousness that I thought the best condemnation of a lot of Christians was in John: "by this they will know that you are my disciples, that you have love for one another."
I do think though that your approach to interpreting scripture seems flawed, or at least you're applying it inconsistently. You said it yourself: "I truly came to my own understandings simply from reading the King James bible." You seem to treat that understanding as authoritative. I don't see how you can coherently criticize Christforums for merely offering his own interpretation. He could respond with exactly the same words. He can claim that while he can't prove it to your satisfaction he knows his interpretation is correct because of the level of effort he's made to come to his understanding. One thing I think is clear: he's also spent a lot of time reading the Bible.
My interest was mostly just curiosity, but I do think there's some value, from a secular/atheist perspective, to revisiting one's approach to the whole question of authority and epistemology. It seems a lot more coherent from a secular perspective to approach religious texts first as just plain old cultural artifacts where you would treat questions of meaning and intent no differently than you might treat questions about Shakespeare's plays. There's a place for scholarship -- especially with regard to placing works in historical context. There's also of course a place for individual interpretation and appreciation, but not with the same kind of emphasis on authority. And I think when you're dealing with human texts in general it's almost inescapable that "meaning" is not singular, nor fixed. It's normal for authors to mean one thing and readers to get something else. And if a text lives on in a culture for a long time then new generations will read it differently, almost necessarily. In practice it's not been any different with biblical texts.
Excellent points.
Indeed, who really gives a shit in the end. They are all wrong. Showing the craziness might help the brainwashed come out of their stupor.
It also serves to show that those buildings are full of people who actually are not really true believers but playing church. Their own book warns of those scoundrels. It's a difficult thing for a person to honestly look in a mirror and admit they themselves are the problem.
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-JRR Tolkien, Preface to Fellowship of the Ring
7 minutes ago, wellnamed said:
I understand your point. To be clear, please forgive me if I present my position as "authoritative", it's merely my personal understanding presented with confidence. Dare I say, one is more than free to read the bible and decide for themselves. If I am wrong, I try to own it and admit it. If you can show how these various versions of Christianity are not correct, then you have a good start at showing how the whole religion is a fraud. Maybe I'm naive, but I try!
As for Christforums, it's not personal. But the reality is that what I do believe now can be quite offensive to classically trained Christians, I was in his shoes at one time, though I didn't get the brainwashing of a denomination as he has. The challenge is to his doctrine, not his person. Unfortunately, it takes A LOT of explanations and referencing verses to explain what is sound doctrine, a task I keep telling myself not to go there.
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33 minutes ago, midniterider said:
What if.... hold onto your seats... I'm about to suggest something radical, but what if it's all bullshit made up by humans who are very good at bullshitting - especially to themselves?
3 minutes ago, TheRedneckProfessor said:
No help to you, perhaps because I'm more relaxed after having made a friend here.
I come dressed casually.
Personally, I don't like engaging you. You're the epitome of a redneck in character and ironically in name. As a non white I've had very tragic dealings with ignorant trailer trash in the past. You'll have to work past my prejudices in order to reach me. I won't try.
If that means nothing to you it means nothing to me.
Serious question, though, if the bible really is the perfect revelation of a god who is both omniscient and omnipotent, how could two people come up with two such radically different revelations from it? I could see something small, such as disagreement on whether Adam had a bellybutton or not; but whether jesus is god or not? That's a pretty big deal. And not being able to find an agreeable answer when both parties are reading the exact same text, as well as being (supposedly) guided by the same holy spirit, seriously undermines the credibility of both the book and the god who inspired it.
Lurkers, note this disparity and ask yourselves if this really is the best your religion can offer.
"...ignorant trailer trash..."?
Now now, that is a rather offensive comment. You as a loving Christian is supposed to love those who speak all manner of evil against you, right? What happened to turn the other cheek?
For the record, I, in fact, live in a mobile home in the southwestern desert, my family is from the heart of the southeast and more than one also live in a mobile home, and I know for a fact more than one have a confederate flag in their home and drive a pickup.
While some do have moments of ignorance, all that I know of past my grandparents not only went to high school but graduated and a few went on to college, including myself having served in the US Navy and got my degree with a BA in Multimedia/Digital Animation. My first cousin is actually a politician having been a state representative and is currently Register of Deeds in a major southern city.
"...You'll have to work past my prejudices..."? Nope, I sure don't, no one should. How about a much more reasonable option of you dropping your prejudiced stereotypes.
Jesus tells Christforums that the trinity is correct and that Jojo is incorrect.
Jesus also tells Jojo that the trinity is false and that Christforums is incorrect.
Why does Jesus tell each of these Christians that the other is wrong?
Jesus tells Jojo that the trinity is false and that Christforums is incorrect.
You are wrong there Brother Midnite - it is the holy spirit that tells the chosen of god the revelations.
However you are missing a third possibility - That its not the HS nor JC that are telling these guys anything. They could be false teachers spewing false teachings from satan.
For thusly Peter doth warn us of such:
1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2 Peter 2:1
9 minutes ago, LogicalFallacy said:
So you're telling me that either Christforums or Jojo is an agent of Satan .... yes , yes, but which one?
And thank you for remembering 2 Peter 2:1 in our time of need here.
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Pickford the hero as England’s penalty curse ends
England's goalkeeper Jordan Pickford saves a penalty kicked by Colombia's forward Carlos Bacca during the penalty shootouts during the Russia 2018 World Cup round of 16 football match between Colombia and England at the Spartak Stadium in Moscow on July 3, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Mladen ANTONOV / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MOBILE PUSH ALERTS/DOWNLOADS
Moscow : The research paid off for Jordan Pickford. When Carlos Bacca stepped up to take Colombia’s fifth and final penalty, Pickford knew he was likely to shoot to the left.
The 24-year-old goalkeeper, in just his seventh England appearance, trusted his research and leaped. Research wasn’t enough on its own – he also needed lightning reactions to shoot his left arm up to paw away Bacca’s high shot.
The save gave England’s Eric Dier a chance to win the shootout , and he converted. England moved on 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.
“I did a whole bunch of research,” Pickford said, his confidence sky-high.
“(Radamel) Falcao is the only one who didn’t go his way. I don’t care if I’m not the biggest keeper in the world. I have the power and agility.” Pickford was just two years old when England last won a penalty shootout, a few days older when the now-England coach Gareth Southgate missed the deciding penalty in a European Championship semifinal loss to Germany.
That defeat at home was treated almost as a national trauma, as was the penalty loss to Argentina two years later.
At 6 foot 1 inch (1.85 meters), Pickford is small for a World Cup goalkeeper. “A top-class save. I’m surprised he could reach it, given his height,” Southgate said of the save from Bacca’s penalty.
“His athleticism around goal is excellent and again he executed the planning in the penalty shootout. We’d studied all their penalty takers. Great credit to a collective of staff and him for taking on that information and preparing in the right way. You don’t always get what you deserve in life, but I think tonight we did.”
On an evening that ended with such frenetic energy, Pickford had little to do earlier.
England took the lead on a Harry Kane penalty in the 57th and Colombia came charging back.
In stoppage time Mateus Uribe fired a stinging shot from long range and Pickford leaped to keep it out with one outstretched hand, sending it wide of the goal and cannoning into the advertising boards.
Pickford could do nothing about the subsequent corner. Colombia defender Yerry Mina rose above Harry Maguire and headed the ball off the turf and in despite Kieran Trippier’s headed clearance attempt. Extra time and penalties loomed, and fans felt the weight of those 22 years without a shootout win.
After the 90 minutes were up, “we just reset. And just go ‘Bang, we’re going again and however long it takes.’ Like the gaffer said, ‘If it takes extra time, if it takes penalties, we are going to win this game,’” Pickford said.
“It’s a bit of a lottery, but you can do your research.” It wasn’t just England’s miserable record which seemed to stack the odds against the team. Its penalty takers lacked experience of major tournaments – though none of the penalty takers had been involved in any of those shootout losses – and had to stare down a stand packed with raucous Colombian fans.
While Colombia’s David Ospina stood taciturn, Pickford was a ball of energy. He jumped and jiggled on the line.
Falcao sent Pickford diving headlong before placing the ball through the unguarded center. Juan Cuadrado put the ball high and left, far beyond Pickford’s reach. Luis Muriel sent him diving the wrong way.
With England 3-2 down and facing elimination, Pickford leaped to touch the crossbar as Mateus Uribe stepped up, and the Colombian blasted the ball into the bar.
Trippier made it 3-3, and Pickford was up again to face Bacca. After saving from the AC Milan forward, he squatted to the side of the penalty area, frog-like in his green uniform.
Dier hit the winning penalty low and left for England and Pickford’s teammates charged toward him to celebrate in a group hug.
The joy of victory was built on self-belief, Pickford said.
“Our mindset and mentality, we never stopped,” he said. “We knew we had this game even if it went to penalties.”
Bacca’s high shot
European Championship semifinal
Jordan Pickford
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SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays release dates announced
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Dust 514 goes open beta January 22
By Connor Sheridan 2013-01-14T19:48:35.13Z News
Free-to-play PS3 shooter linked with EVE Online
CCP Games' ambitious crossover shooter Dust 514 will enter open beta on January 22 today, the EVE Online developer announced today. As a free-to-play download-only title on PlayStation 3, that means the game is more or less released to everyone aside from the CCP employees slaving away on inevitable piles of bug reports.
The multiplayer shooter, which puts mercenary boots on the ground of EVE's inhabitable planets, uplinked with the space sim's servers for the first time on January 10, allowing players in either title to interact with and influence each other's corporations and conflicts.
While Dust 514 is a PS3 exclusive right now, PC Gamer reports CCP has previously affirmed it intends for the game to long outlast the current generation of consoles--meaning a PC release is all but assured at some point.
“Our plan is that we want in another ten years to be having ‘EVE is 20′ and ‘Dust is 10′ [events],” said EVE Online executive producer Jonathan Lander. “The whole way that we’re doing our development process is so that we can push out expansions on a regular basis. We’re not going to ship a unit and then in six months it’s off the shelves and people have stopped playing it.”
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Promising move by Rangers board as club look to finalise agreement with meeting imminent
By Jonny Gorrie
As the Rangers fans here in the Transfer Tavern excited about the Florida Cup the club are soon set to take part in, they are also hoping for a nice and busy time of things in the January market. Indeed, after a strange summer of recruitment, there is certainly work to be done.
So, it’s promising for our resident Gers to read reports emanating out of the Scottish Sun. They claim those behind the scenes at the club are set to offer academy prospect David Bates a new deal at Ibrox. While it’s not quite a new signing, it’s a promising move none the less.
With another exciting duo – Rob and Ross McCrorie – having penned new deals of late, these are exciting times at Ibrox. According to the report, the Light Blues are expected to open talks with the 21-year-old next week about the notion of an extended stay in Glasgow.
The manner in which he helped marshal Moussa Dembele and Leigh Griffiths in the Old Firm of late is understood to have prompted caretaker boss Graeme Murty to accept Bates deserves new terms. With that in mind, the player’s agent is believed to have been invited to Ibrox next week.
Landlord’s Verdict:
Another promising move by the Rangers board. It’s a big show of intent from those atop the marble staircase, considering the fact they have also secured the futures of Rob and Ross McCrorie. Though the board at Ibrox aren’t at all perfect. this is a very clever move indeed.
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Solar Power at Deception Valley Lodge
Deception Valley Lodge will rely fully on solar power for the operation of the lodge from the end of November 2015. The generators will provide back up in case of many overcast days.
Deception Valley Lodge to use Footsteps in Africa Exclusively for Sales and Reservations
It is with great pride that we announce, after 8 years of working together with Deception Valley Lodge, Footsteps in Africa are now the exclusive representation, taking care of all of the Sales, Marketing and central reservations.
The Footsteps in Africa team across the globe are delighted to continue to tell the Deception Valley Lodge story.
With immediate effect, all reservations will be handled by Footsteps in Africa.
Important Notice: Okavango Water Levels
We at Lodges of Botswana and Footsteps In Africa are well aware of the fact that our marketing material creates certain expectations and that the fulfilment of expectations is the key to a happy client. We seek therefore to ensure that our client’s expectations are met at all times and that our marketing material accurately represents a level of service and a wildlife experience that we are able to offer.
With regard to water levels in the Okavango, these are directly affected by meteorological conditions, which produce different environmental circumstances, each and every year. Of the many unpredictable forces that we have to contend with, meteorological conditions, are for most. You might think that after being in the Okavango for 35 years we would be able to predict the exact course of each flood and rainy season, however these things are simply not predictable. This makes it very difficult, and at certain times of the year, downright impossible, to predict water levels. The level of the water in the area of our operation can remain static for months and then drop suddenly and dramatically without warning. A short, but violent, thunderstorm, can likewise, raise water levels for several weeks at a time. Each of these changes can affect our access to channels and floodplains by mokoro and make a difference to the activities that are available to our clients. In addition to this, we have to contend with a large hippo population that can move, after being in one place for months at a time, overnight to a new location, which can likewise effect our access to floodplains and channels. The bottom line is that while we fully appreciate the importance of mokoro activities to our client’s experience, our concern for their safety is paramount and it is the unenviable task of our guides and managers to make decisions on a daily basis as to what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable risks.
We attempt to bring some certainty to these equations by terminating our overnight mokoro trails from end of October to April. However, it is almost always the case that throughout this period we are able to do shortened daily mokoro excursions and use mokoro to access Chief’s Island for our guided walking. However, at the risk of repeating ourselves, we cannot allow a decision concerning our client’s safety to be overridden by a marketing decision.
Watch this space for some new photo's!
Our Okavango Camps are very excited to have Russell MacLaughlin - Wildlife Photography and Shannon Wild arriving on Saturday to do a full photo shoot of the 3 Camps. We are so excited to see the brand new images....watch this space!
Family Safaris webpage now live on our website!
Let their imaginations run wild, use all of their five senses and learn through fun. There is nothing better than running barefoot in the Kalahari sand, playing with elephant dung ‘soccer balls’ and going on an bug hunt. See a safari through your child’s eyes, listen to tales around the camp fire and learn about the ‘Little Five’. These are memories and experiences that will last a lifetime. Let Botswana inspire your family with its raw beauty, wild open spaces and abundant wildlife.
There is simply no better family holiday than one in the African bush.
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Deception Valley Lodge Lions having some Fun!
Deception Valley Lodge - This young lioness somehow got hold of a shoe sole, and she had lots of fun with it. She was the envy of her brothers and sisters.
Please note: No tourists were harmed in the making of these images
The Spectacular flood of 2009 as experienced by Peter Sandenbergh
The annual pulse of Angolan floodwaters is the principal annual recurrence here, on which absolutely everything depends. The timing and the extent of the flooding means everything to us – what areas become accessible by mekoro, the dug-out canoes that are our traditional means of transport, where the game will move, what the extremes of temperature are likely to be, and what sort of breeding season the fish, on which so much other life depends, will enjoy. News of the flood is, as you may imagine, eagerly awaited if skeptically received. Somehow one never knows what the reports portend for one’s own patch of swamp – will the water flow this year to the East? The West? Will it be evenly distributed or will some unheralded event – a minor shift in the earth’s temperamental crust, or the creation of a new hippo path, direct and divert the flow in unpredictable directions? Are the water-flow meters maintained by the Dept of Water Affairs accurate? Are they being read properly? Can we believe the anecdotal reports of famously mischievous local characters? The proof, as always, is in the pudding.
This year delivered what all reports were indicating – the biggest flood in 20 years. It is at times like these that being old-timers works to our advantage – our camps and our airstrip were built when floodwaters were characteristically much higher than they have been in the past couple of decades – decades which have also seen a massive increase in the numbers of camps and airstrips, many of which are now under water. Whilst sympathizing with our colleagues, we are rejoicing in the high water, which is providing a badly needed flush of the Okavango system, inundating old river-courses and floodplains long colonized by acacias, pushing water into ancient fish-breeding areas, raising the water table far inland, replenishing aquifers and constricting the reach of the annual fires that sweep the country during the dry winter months.
In particular, our activities in the central Okavango centre around the use of traditional mekoro, and high water opens vast areas to us for safe use, allowing us to utilize shallow floodplains where hippo can’t surprise us, and giving us ready access to areas we haven’t visited, but on foot, for many years. Our camping trails are getting into pristine areas, and we are looking forward to an explosion in the fish and water-fowl populations later in the year. As the waters recede from late-August onwards we expect wonderful game and bird sightings on the fringes of the floodplains and forests. With any luck we are entering a new cycle of high water, the very raison d’ etre of the Okavango swamps.
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Grassland Bushman Lodge welcomes Rhino's onto the Reserve
The white rhinos were delivered to us on the 10th of July. They arrived quite late in the evening and that made the release quite tricky but the team did a great job and the two rhinos wandered off into the Kalahari bush on the night of the 10th of July. They are about 7 years and 5 years old. They were relocated from another game farm in Botswana. They seem to be settling in very well, still quite shy and elusive but happily walking the farm and getting to know their new territory. We have had a few sightings of them now and they can be viewed quite well and they are fairly relaxed. We have also had the one come and drink at the pan right in front of the lodge the other evening!
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Digital Ecosystems And Pseudomorphosis
John Rethans Forbes Councils Member
Forbes Technology Council COUNCIL POST
John Rethans
Global digital transformation strategist at Apigee, acquired by Google in 2016.
In his 1928 tome, The Decline of the West, German historian Oswald Spengler coined the term "historical pseudomorphosis" to describe the tension that occurs when a new culture is forced to fit inside the ossified traditions of an incumbent culture. He argued the new culture will feel increasingly stifled as old ways are imposed, eventually leading to conflicts so severe that one culture must be stamped out for the other to remain.
All over the world, we see this dynamic play out again and again in enterprises that are undergoing digital transformation. Transformation isn’t as simple as buying new technologies and inserting them into existing processes. If a business's entire operating model isn’t overhauled, the new tech ends up suffocated by antiquated methods and legacy mindsets. In other words, it falls victim to its own digital pseudomorphosis.
To escape, leaders need to harness shifts in mobility, cloud and machine learning -- each a paradigm-altering development in its own right -- to drive a change in their business models. The focus shouldn’t be on any single technology shift but rather on blending all of them together -- usually with other companies and sometimes even with competitors -- to form digital ecosystems.
Savvy ecosystem participation can be transformative. Last year, for example, 60-year-old Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza (a customer of my employer, Google) leveraged ecosystems to achieve breakout growth. It was one of Brazil's hottest stocks in 2016, gaining over 400% in value.
The potential rewards are enticing, but because ecosystems involve so many moving and interrelated pieces, both the threat of pseudomorphosis and the penalty for lost opportunity are magnified. Enterprise leaders shouldn’t hear “digital ecosystem” and think, “IT challenges.” They should think, “This will change my whole business, and it starts with me.”
Understanding Ecosystems
If you’re new to digital ecosystems, here’s the basic idea. Companies are increasingly breaking their business functions into software that can be frictionlessly reassembled into new products and services. Ecosystems emerge when companies make their software easily interoperable with software from others, generally via APIs.
As more participants join ecosystems, new supply-demand dynamics emerge. Not so long ago, most companies attempted to regulate supply and demand through a limited set of channels, such as a finite set of physical stores, a single company website or a specific supplier-distributor agreement that took months to consummate.
Today’s ecosystem companies conduct business by licensing and incorporating software capabilities from other businesses into their own, allowing each company to leverage its particular strengths while distributing the rest of the work across other participants. In optimal scenarios, interdependencies throughout the ecosystem create network effects, like a rising tide lifting all ships.
Given the potential rewards, it’s easy to see why many business leaders would be intrigued by ecosystem strategies, but digital pseudomorphosis remains a threat. To avoid conflict and stagnation, enterprises should recognize that digital change isn’t just about investments or technologies -- it’s about a top-down executive vision for how those investments and technologies will change the company’s business model.
Digital Transformation Is Driven From The Top
Pseudomorphosis encourages people to cling to what they know and what they've been rewarded for doing. So to achieve true change, a company shouldn't hope that innovation will somehow organically spread from teams and projects to the organization at large. Rather, digital transformation typically requires strong executive vision and a deliberate process of organizational reform driven from the C-suite down. As Harvard Business Review contributing editor Abbie Lundberg said earlier this year at the “Digital Difference” conference in New York, “For a wholesale transformation, it’s got to be top-down.”
From algorithmic recommendation engines to interactive digital articles to participation in ecosystems such as Facebook, the New York Times leadership team’s embrace of software has helped the paper navigate disruption in the publishing and media industries, for example. Similarly, Capital One’s investment in voice interfaces and other new customer interaction channels springs from leadership’s belief that to win in the banking industry a company has to, as CIO Rob Alexander recently said, “recognize that technology is really going to play a central role in how consumers want to bank."
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In my personal experience as a digital consultant, I've worked with few companies that illustrate this point as clearly as Magazine Luiza, the aforementioned Brazilian retailer. Just four years ago, the company was struggling to compete with larger, more digitally advanced competition. Luiza turned the corner with a concerted C-suite effort to avoid digital pseudomorphosis -- a point the executive team made explicit in its Q4 2016 earnings statement: “Part of the DNA of internet-age companies [involves] technology [moving] from the background to center stage and [being] seen as the brain of the business. ... Hierarchal structures -- paralyzed by excessive bureaucracy, the fear of change and attachment to past successes -- usually strongly reject the digital culture.”
Use The Pull Of Ecosystems To Escape Digital Pseudomorphosis
When a company participates in digital ecosystems, it’s not merely an IT challenge -- it’s a challenge to the business's entire operating model.
Executive vision is essential to this undertaking. Companies that attempt to fit new processes into existing models risk pseudomorphosis, tension and stagnation. But as examples such as the New York Times, Capital One and Magazine Luiza demonstrate, when businesses pair new technology with a top-down, organization-wide change in process, the rewards can be tremendous.
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Published September 14
FEMA launches 'Hurricane Florence Rumor Control' as storm makes landfall
By Ryan Gaydos, | Fox News
Hurricane Florence makes landfall in Wrightsville Beach, NC
Category 1 hurricane makes landfall at 7:15 a.m. ET with 90 mph winds; Janice Dean reports on the latest storm track.
Hurricane Florence brought with it catastrophic floods, wind gusts of about 90 mph...and plenty of rumors.
In an effort to head off the speculation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency launched a rapid response webpage Wednesday to debunk some of the more pervasive falsehoods.
FEMA said the page, titled “Hurricane Florence Rumor Control,” would be updated regularly.
“During disasters, it’s critical to avoid spreading false information. Always check with official sources before sharing,” FEMA tweeted.
Speculation about pets, service animals in shelters and budgetary items were among the rumors FEMA clarified on the page.
The agency had seven rumors "debunked" as of Friday morning.
Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @Gaydos_.
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Kilauea’s Erupting—How Do We Help Families Who Are Losing Their Homes?
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Kilauea’s Erupting—How Can I Help? It’s June 4, 2018 and people around the globe are watching the activity of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii island, which, as one person who was losing their home to advancing lava
Kilauea’s Erupting—How Do We Help Families Who Are Losing Their Homes?Deborah Griffiths2019-02-28T16:59:34-07:00
Well Rounded Discussion About Philanthropy in Hawai`i
If you'd like to learn more about the history of philanthropy in Hawai'i, about who gives--and how people give, Moderator, Daryl Huff of Hawaii News Now asks questions of three people well versed in the
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Apple iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are official – Specs, Features
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At the new place, The Steve Jobs Theater, the Cupertino giant Apple Inc. has finally made the new iPhones official. It isn’t the regular launch here because Apple’s iPhone celebrates its 10th anniversary and there was a lot expected from the company to celebrate this. The new auditorium is located in the new Apple campus.
So here they are, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and the iPhone X.
The iPhone X is the show-stopper, of course!
Coming with the Super Retina display, the iPhone X (pronounced as iPhone Ten) comes with 2436 x 1135 pixels with 458 PPI pixel density, the highest for any iPhone. It is a 5.8-inch display if the size is concerned. As was leaked, there is no Touch ID and the iPhone X has Face ID to recognize the face and then unlock the screen. There is a set of sensors that work together to read the face in any condition and then make the IR image to match it with the one stored while the setup of Face ID was done. The camera system is called TrueDepth camera system.
Face ID works even with Apple Pay.
With the iPhone X, comes the Animoji. These are animated emojis that replicate the expression on your face.
The iPhone X has dual-lens camera with 12MP cameras, one having F/1.8 aperture and the other having F/2.4 aperture and both the cameras have OIS support, Quad-LED true-tone flash is also included, and there are new filters and deeper pixels.
It is the Bionic A11 processor that will power the iPhone X and there is wireless charging support. Apple claims that the iPhone X will last two hours more than the iPhone 7, which rather seems disappointing. The iPhone X is water and dust resistant, it has stereo speakers, and there is fast charge support for the battery.
As for the connectivity, there is a lot offered with the support for LTE Advanced, Bluetooth 5.0, and others.
Apple iPhone X Pricing and Availability
The iPhone X comes in 64GB and 256GB versions and price begins at $999. While you can pre-order the phone from October 27th, it will ship on November 3rd. The color options are silver and space gray.
In India, the iPhone X is priced at Rs. 89000 for the 64GB version.
Customers will be able to order iPhone X beginning Friday, October 27, with availability beginning Friday, November 3, in Andorra, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UAE, the UK, the US and US Virgin Islands.
iPhone 8 and 8 Plus
As expected, these are the standard upgrades from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
The phones come with the glass and aluminum bodies, and there is Retina HD display with the True Tone colors. The new iPhones are coming with the A11 Bionic chipset and while the iPhone 8 has a 12-megapixel camera on the back, the iPhone 8 Plus has the dual-lens camera combination with the 12-megapixel + 12-megapixel cameras supporting Portrait mode and Portrait lighting. There is a Quad-LED True tone flash supporting the cameras on both the devices.
The iPhone 8 can shoot 4K videos with 60fps and 1080p slow-mo with 240fps.
Touch ID is there as usual and for the connectivity, the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have LTE Advanced, Bluetooth 5.0, and the other standard options. The new iPhones support wireless charging, and they are fast-charge capable. The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are water and dust resistant devices. They come powered with the stereo speakers.
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus Price and Availability
The iPhone 8 will start at $699 while the iPhone 8 Plus starts at $799, both at 64GB configuration. They will both be upgradeable to a 256GB model. They will be available from September 22nd. The phones will be available in black, silver, and gold. The pre-orders start from September 15th.
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Saving our Dark Skies
Light Pollution is an Important Probem.
YOU can make a difference in solving it.
It's about the stars, but it's not just about the stars! Light pollution impacts your health and safety, as well as wildlife, beauty, and our cultural heritage. GLAS seeks to continue and grow the initiatives in the Geneva Lakes area target towards combatting light pollution, making the area a healthier, safer, more beautiful place for us all.
You can join us! Read below for more information about light pollution, and visit our Get Involved page to learn how you can donate time and resources to further this valuable mission.
Here's How to Donate
Health
Artificial light -- especially the blue light common in LED screens and outdoor lighting -- disrupts human sleep-wake cycles. But the effects are more than making you a little more tired when the alarm goes off: these disruptions interact your hormones and genetic code, putting you at higher risk for cancers and other dangerous ailments.
"Many species, including humans, need darkness to survive and thrive"
"...Glare from nighttime lighting can create hazards ranging from discomfort to frank visual disability"
--American Medical Association
Can too much lighting actually make it less safe at night? That sounds crazy! However, it's true.
The city of Chicago found that brightly lit alleyways actually had increased crime. Glare from bright lights temporarily blinds motorists and pedestrians, and creates deep shadows where criminals can hide.
The best strategy? Direct moderate light down. Keep the environment dark, and only direct the light where we actually need it, reducing glare and limiting confusing shadows.
Humans aren't the only ones with sleep-wake cycles: they're also programmed into the DNA of all plants and animals on our planet. Many species are harmed by the artificial light we're shining on them day and night. From sea turtle hatchlings to nocturnal mammals, insects and plants to migratory birds, many species are dying due to our bright skies.
Where would we be without the inspiration of the night sky? How many priceless works of art would never have been created, and scientific discoveries never made? How would we have navigated the globe or discovered the vast universe around us? Our skies must be protected for the generations that come after us, so that they, too, can look up in awe at the starry heavens.
Outdoor lighting uses about 120 terawatt-hours of energy each year, mostly for streets and parking lots. That's enough energy to power New York City for 2 years!
At least 30% of that is wasted. That's $3.3 billion, and 21 million tons of CO2, every year. Let's build a more sustainable future!
Shine lights down, and put them on timers so that they only turn on when they're needed!
Use blackout curtains and other covers to keep your room dark at night, protecting your sleep-wake cycle.
Talk to your neighbors, and spread the word!
Become a part of the change! Visit the resources below to see how you can make an impact.
International Dark Sky Association
Donate to Glas' Dark Sky Initiatives
Geneva Lake Dark Sky Initiative
GLAS thanks the International Dark Sky Association for the information contained on this webpage.
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Mission ABOUT 2019 Exhibition Past Artists Impact Contact
MissionABOUT2019 Exhibition
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GLEAN:
to collect gradually and bit by bit
GLEAN is a juried art program that taps into the creativity of artists to inspire people to think about their consumption habits, the waste they generate and the resources they throw away.
Every year, five local artists chosen by a jury of arts and environmental professionals are given access to the Metro Central transfer station for five months to glean discarded materials to make art. The program culminates with an exhibition of their works in the summer at a local gallery.
Launched in 2010, GLEAN is a partnership between Recology Oregon Recovery Inc., an employee-owned company that manages a variety of resource recovery facilities, Metro, the regional government that manages the Portland area’s garbage and recycling system and crackedpots, a nonprofit environmental arts organization.
“My hope is to truly translate those materials”
Carolyn Drake | 2018 artist
In the fall of 2010, Recology, an employee-owned company that manages a variety of resource recovery facilities, Metro, the regional government that manages the Portland metropolitan area’s garbage and recycling system, and Crackedpots, an environmental arts organization, got together to create GLEAN.
The GLEAN program’s goals are to prompt people to think about their consumption habits, initiate larger conversations about the waste we generate, and inspire creative reuse. GLEAN takes its inspiration from Recology San Francisco’s renowned Artist In Residence program. Over the years, GLEAN too has flourished and has received critical acclaim for the creativity of its artists. Many of its artists have seen their careers blossom and been deeply impacted as a result of their experience.
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Make sure it's in a place where it can be watered.
In a strawberry patch next to an apple orchard, technicians David Roys (left) and Cathy Peters and entomologist Tom Unruh inspect plants for strawberry leafrollers.
A rose garden to help the leafroller parasite Colpoclypeus florus survive the winter should be close to the orchard, but not so close that pesticides will drift on it. It should be in a place that is easy to irrigate.
Dr. Tom Unruh, entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Yakima, Washington, recommends planting a strip or two of roses about 30 to 60 feet long. Wild roses, such as Rosa woodsii or Rosa nutkana (the Nootka rose) are available from nurseries that specialize in habitat restoration. Alternatively, they can be dug from wild patches in approved locations. It is best to dig them in the early spring, before bud break.
To prepare the bed, lay down a black weed cloth to cover emerging weeds. Cut openings to plant the roses two to three feet apart. Bring water to the site, using black tubing spliced into the irrigation lines. Keep the soil around the plants damp, especially during the first year. Within a couple of years, with plenty of water and fertilizer, the roses will grow aggressively and keep the weeds down.
Roses and strawberries
Unruh said the rose bed can be a more effective overwintering site for the parasite if it includes strawberry plants, which are a preferred host of the strawberry leafroller. Studies have shown that although Colpoclypeus is twice as likely to parasitize a strawberry leafroller when it’s on a rose plant, there are ten to twenty times more strawberry leafrollers on strawberry plants.
A mixed planting of roses and strawberries can be difficult to manage, as the roses will eventually shade out the strawberries and kill them. The ideal is to establish separate gardens of roses and strawberries with a dry patch between so that they don’t grow into each other, Unruh said.
Strawberry leafrollers will need to be released into the roses and strawberries. They can be found in wild roses on hillsides and along ditch banks in the upper Yakima Valley, and along roadsides near Ellensburg.
There is also a large patch on the hillside below WSU’s Columbia View research orchard north of Wenatchee. In early to mid-June, the leaves of infested roses will be folded in half, taco-like, with the yellow larva inside. Infested terminals can be cut from the bushes and tucked into the plants you want to infest.
For more information on planting wild roses and strawberries to enhance biological control of leafrollers, check the Web site at www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs. htm?docid=14646.
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I Love You Too Much
by Alicia Drake
I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent.
Alicia Drake, author of the critically acclaimed biography The Beautiful Fall, evokes contemporary life in the City of Lights lavishness of Edward St. Aubyn and the sophistication of Julia Pierpont’s Among Ten Thousand Things. I Love You Too Much is a novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a devastating coming of age story told from the sidelines of Parisian perfection.
In the sixth arrondissement everything is perfect and everyone is lonely. This is the Paris of thirteen-year-old Paul. Shy and unloved, he quietly observes the lives of the self-involved grown-ups around him: his glamorous Maman, Séverine, her younger musician lover, Gabriel, and his fitness-obsessed Papa, Philippe. Always overlooked, it’s only a matter of time before Paul witnesses something that he’s not supposed to see…
Seeking solace in an unlikely friendship with rebellious classmate Scarlett and succumbing to the temptation of the numerous patisseries in his elegant neighborhood, Paul searches for unconditional love. But what will he do if he can’t find it?
Genre: Fiction / Fiction / Coming Of Age
On Sale: January 23rd 2018
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"An astute and poignant portrait of adolescence".—People
'Memorable, heartfelt...poignant and uplifting'—Publisher's Weekly
"a dark coming-of-age story that will break your heart - and not let you forget it."—Hello Giggles
"In her compelling fiction debut, Drake, a formerly longtime Paris resident... crafts Paul's hometown with a true insider's care, and she believably narrates as a boy resisting the confining forces of his self-involved parents' narrow paths and stingily shared love for him."—Booklist
"Not often do you come across a protagonist who you want to hug and shield from the world. Drake creates a character who is sure to bring out the maternal instinct in every reader."—Janice MacLeod, author of the New York Times bestseller Paris Letters
"I Love You Too Much is an atmospheric deep dive into longing, betrayal, and the shattered illusions of youth. Alicia Drake's Paris is haunting, and her writing soars."
—Charlotte Rogan, author of Now and Again
"Alicia Drake's beautifully written tale of an adolescent French boy adrift between divorced, narcissistic parents feels like the enfant naturel of Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Deborah Levy's Swimming Home. Her depiction of contemporary well-heeled Parisian life is so spot on, you might be in the sixth arrondissement watching kids spill out of school, lighting their cigarettes and lining up to buy pain au chocolat at the corner boulangerie. I couldn't put it down."—Anne Korkeakivi, author of Shining Sea
"A timely look at the carnage caused by parental narcissism. Funny, waspish, astute, l Love You Too Much is a heart breaking tale from the tubby sidelines of Parisian perfection."—Denise Mina, author of The Long Drop
Meet The Author: Alicia Drake
Brought up in Liverpool, Alicia Drake was educated at Cambridge University. She went to Paris for six months and stayed for eighteen years. There she worked as a writer and fashion journalist and had five children. She is the author of The Beautiful Fall, a book of narrative nonfiction about Paris fashion and creativity in the 1970s. She returned to the UK recently and now lives in the countryside with her husband and children. I Love You Too Much is her first novel.
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Why It’s Difficult to Develop a Roadside Test for Marijuana
Written by Matthew Berger on January 25, 2018
Police in Colorado and California are using tests to see if drivers are high on marijuana. But more exact testing is needed as more states legalize the drug.
As marijuana becomes more available to Californians and additional efforts to legalize it move forward in other states, law enforcement may face a challenge in identifying drivers who are high.
Alcohol is simple. A higher concentration in the bloodstream means more impairment and a higher likelihood of accidents.
But the level of intoxication associated with a given THC blood concentration depends on many variables — how marijuana’s ingested, whether someone is a regular user, the level of THC in the dose, and whether they’ve ingested other drugs or alcohol.
That makes it infeasible to set a single blood alcohol content (BAC) level as is set for alcohol, according to a new research paper.
And, the paper says, because THC can spike and leave the bloodstream in less than three hours — despite impairment potentially lasting six to eight hours — a blood test taken an hour or more after a traffic stop may fail to identify impairment due to marijuana use.
“There is no one blood or oral fluid concentration that can differentiate impaired and not impaired,” Marilyn Huestis, PhD, the paper’s co-author and former head of cannabinoid-related research projects at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in a statement.
“If someone is driving impaired, by the time you get their blood sample, you’ve lost 90 percent or more of the drug. So, we have to change what we do at the roadside,” she said.
Some tests already in use
Overcoming these obstacles will likely require new innovations.
Huestis would like to see further refinement of tests that rely on analyzing suspects’ behavior as well as the development of marijuana-specific breathalyzers and other new ways of detecting impairment.
Some of those methods are already in use.
In Colorado, the first state to legalize marijuana use, the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) includes specialized drug recognition officers. Any driver arrested after a trooper observes signs of impairment is given a blood test.
“When driving a motor vehicle in Colorado, any driver has given their consent to submitting to a chemical test if they are presumed to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol,” Sgt. Rob Madden, a CSP representative, told Healthline. “Drivers can refuse a test, but that leads to an immediate revocation of their driving privileges.”
Madden also noted that the CSP is entering the final phase of testing of new “oral fluid” devices.
California, where the recreational use of pot became legal on January 1, also has specialized drug recognition officers and rules stipulating drivers arrested for driving under the influence are required to take a blood test if marijuana is the suspected intoxicant.
That suspicion is formed during a 12-step roadside evaluation process that includes some familiar elements — walking in a straight line, standing on one foot, touching fingers to nose — as well as checking pulse rates at three different points in the process and checking pupil size in ambient light, near total darkness, and direct light.
Based on their observations, officers then “render an opinion on what they’re under the influence of in which of the seven categories of drugs, or a combination of them,” Oscar Chavez, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer who trains other officers in drug recognition, told Healthline.
The suspect then takes a blood test, which is analyzed by a crime lab. Lt. Eric Jones of the CHP called the blood test the “gold standard.”
“When you use cannabis, there’s certain metabolites that appear in your blood, and some of those can linger… but the ones that are associated with impairment spike pretty quickly, so blood tests work pretty well” in determining if someone is impaired while driving, he said.
Problems with the tests
Researchers, however, cite several problems with relying on these tests.
THC can remain detectable in your blood for as long as seven days, depending on how frequently you use marijuana. Someone who smokes marijuana daily will likely carry marijuana metabolites for longer than someone who smokes infrequently.
THC also builds up in the fat tissue of frequent users and can slowly spread into the blood from there.
Consequently, plasma and blood predictive models weren’t considered reliable in determining time of last use in chronic frequent cannabis users, according to the new paper.
Compare that to alcohol. Alcohol is metabolized on average at 20 milligrams per deciliter per hour. That rate can vary depending on age, weight, liver health, and recent meals, but there is a consistent relationship between a given blood alcohol concentration and impairment.
Seeking new tests
But as marijuana becomes more widely available, more reliable tests may be needed.
That will likely include oral fluid tests, which analyze saliva for marijuana and its metabolites.
For oral fluids, there is an accepted concentration of THC associated with ingesting cannabis in the previous 24 hours, even for frequent users, according to the new paper. That measurement is 2 milligrams per liter.
Jones calls oral fluid testing an “emerging technology.”
“We haven’t deployed them yet, but we are looking into them. They’re probably the new forefront of drug-impaired driving right now,” he said.
In Colorado, a pilot testing of oral fluid devices is under way, according to Madden. That test is in its final phase.
Better technology is needed soon.
An investigation by the Denver Post last year found the number of drivers in fatal crashes who have tested positive for marijuana has more than doubled since legalization in Colorado in 2013.
However, given the limitations of testing for impairment, not all of those drivers were necessarily high at the time of the crashes.
In California, it’s too soon to tell whether there has been any spike, said CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader.
“It’s clearly a concern we have,” Clader told Healthline.
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A Dumb Tweet About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Jacket Inspired A Meme & Some Real Talk About Class
By Xandie Kuenning • News November 16, 2018 at 3:00pm
On Thursday, Eddie Scarry, a Washington Examiner writer who covers media and politics tweeted a since-deleted photograph of Democratic congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, commenting on the contrast between her clothes and her social status.
(As though people who "struggle" with money in various ways are not allowed to own clothes that look nice at a glance.)
Oh, does @eScarry think he can delete his misogyny without an apology?
I don’t think so. You’re a journalist - readers should know your bias. pic.twitter.com/2KJuiPsUR2
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 16, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez was quick to respond, having been the target of other such scrutiny throughout her campaign.
If I walked into Congress wearing a sack, they would laugh & take a picture of my backside.
If I walk in with my best sale-rack clothes, they laugh & take a picture of my backside.
Dark hates light - that’s why you tune it out.
Shine bright & keep it pushing.✨ https://t.co/mRq5wn0v9A
This comes shortly after it was reported that Ocasio-Cortez and her partner need to wait until she starts receiving her congressional paychecks before re-locating to D.C. (after all, moving is expensive).
Earlier this year, John Cardillo, a host of Newsmax's "America Talks Live," shared an image of Ocasio-Cortez’s childhood home in Yorktown Heights.
“This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University,” Cardillo tweeted. “A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.”
Ocasio-Cortez was also called out by Fox News for wearing a $3,000 outfit for a photo shoot with Interview Magazine.
The whole exchange with Scarry inspired other Twitter users to get involved, mostly through the creation of memes based around Scarry's tweet:
Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles. pic.twitter.com/TidcIgEm79
— Julia Moser (@juliamoserrrr) November 15, 2018
that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles pic.twitter.com/EcWKOATfxC
— Christopher Sebela (@xtop) November 16, 2018
Leftist, Democratic Socialist and Socialist politicians historically have been scrutinized by Conservatives for owning the same things as everyone else, whether it be luxury clothing or vacation homes. Yet as Ocasio-Cortez pointed out in her tweet, they would have something to say about her no matter what she wore.
Hopefully everyone will start paying attention to Ocasio-Cortez for being the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and the work she does with that history-making win— rather than for what clothes she wears.
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Xandie Kuenning is currently an International Affairs major with Journalism and Psychology minors at Northeastern University (Class of 2019). She is an avid traveler and spends every other semester abroad. When not traveling, she can be found exploring Boston, reading about fairytales, or watching dangerous amounts of Netflix. Follow her on Instagram @AKing1917.
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Duncan Greenhalgh is a partner in Goodwin's nationally recognized Life Sciences and Technology Companies practice group. His practice focuses on developing and implementing complex intellectual property and market exclusivity strategies for life sciences companies and research institutions. Dr. Greenhalgh also represents venture capital firms on intellectual property matters relating to their portfolio company investments, and investment banks in connection with capital market transactions.
Dr. Greenhalgh has been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2009-2019), LMG Life Sciences (2012-2014, 2017) and Intellectual Asset Management’s Patent 1000 (2015-2017) as an industry leader for his intellectual property expertise in life sciences.
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Dr. Greenhalgh has extensive experience counseling biotechnology, pharmaceutical, diagnostics and medical device companies, research institutions and hospitals on intellectual property matters, with particular emphasis on the procurement and enforcement of patent rights. He specializes in developing and managing domestic and foreign patent portfolios, including developing, implementing and expediting complex prosecution strategies in the United States and abroad, and has handled numerous post grant proceedings, including reissue, ex parte and inter partes reexamination, and interference proceedings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and foreign patent opposition proceedings. Dr. Greenhalgh has obtained patent protection for various FDA-approved therapeutics and diagnostics, and advises clients on life cycle management issues.
Dr. Greenhalgh conducts intellectual property due diligence investigations in connection with various transactions, including investments in public and privately held companies, public offerings, licensing transactions, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions.
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Allena Pharmaceuticals in the development of its global patent estate and its $75 million initial public offering
AVEO Pharmaceuticals on patent matters relating to its product candidates, initial public offering and follow-on offerings, and strategic partnerships
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals in the development of its global patent estate and its $60 million public offering and follow-on offerings
Esperion Pharmaceuticals in its patent matters and its $70 million initial public offering and follow-on offerings
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Full life cycle patent strategy on behalf of global pharmaceutical company with approved product, including expedited patent prosecution, patent term extension, and related Orange Book listings
Ongoing representation of various privately held and public companies and research institutions including Altus Formulation, BioAnalytix, Inc., Cadila Healthcare, Charles River Laboratories, CytoPherx, Endomedix, EpicentRx, GliaCure, Inc., LumiraDx, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Melinta Therapeutics, NeoTx, Paladin Labs, Palleon Pharmaceuticals, Pierian Biosciences, and VisEn Medical, in intellectual property matters
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Bessemer Venture Partners and General Catalyst in connection with multiple rounds of venture investment in OvaScience
Xeraya Capital in connection with its investments in Acutus Medical, Chrono Therapeutics, Iconic Therapeutics, Inc., Liquidia Technologies, Mitralign Inc., OptiScan Biomedical Corporation, ViewRay, and Vittamed
Dr. Greenhalgh is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the Boston Patent Law Association.
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2005, Dr. Greenhalgh was a member of the Patent and Intellectual Property Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP in Boston from 1993 until 2005.
Dr. Greenhalgh has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2009 - 2019, LMG Life Sciences, 2012 - 2014 and 2017 and IP Stars, 2017.
Dr. Greenhalgh is a frequent speaker on intellectual property matters both in industry settings and at Boston-area universities.
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Smart Glass Market Size Worth $9.98 Billion By 2025 | CAGR 15.2%
June 2019 | Report Format: Electronic (PDF)
The global smart glass market size is expected to reach USD 9.98 billion by 2025 registering a CAGR of 15.2%, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Rising product demand in residential and commercial buildings for better aesthetics is expected to boost the market growth over the next six years. Architects are widely using smart technology in new buildings, which is further expected to have a positive impact on the product demand in the architectural application sector. As smart glass is gradually replacing its conventional counterpart in the manufacturing of automobiles, aircraft, and trains, significant growth opportunities exist for manufacturers in the transportation sector.
Four prominent companies involved in the development and production of smart glass, namely Research Frontiers Inc., Vision Systems, Hitachi Chemical, and Gauzy, jointly invested for producing Suspended Particle Device (SPD)-Smart light-control film used in Electronically Dimmable Windows (EDWs) manufactured by Vision Systems. EDWs are widely used in automobiles and aircrafts. Favorable growth prospects in the construction industry, increased production of automobiles, and growing investments in infrastructure projects are factors that are propelling market growth.
Residential and commercial buildings are also getting restored and renovated to make them more energy-efficient, thereby further widening the application scope for smart glass. Electrochromic glass has proved to be an appropriate solution for buildings, such as healthcare facilities, retail spaces, and classrooms, where sunlight control is a challenge. It helps maintain access to daylight and outdoor views, which aids in quicker recovery of patients, improves emotional wellness, and increases employee productivity. Moreover, retaining daylight access can reduce a building’s reliance on artificial lighting.
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Electrochromic smart glass is projected to expand at the highest CAGR during the forecast period owing to its increased usage in commercial buildings and transportation application
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Asia Pacific is projected to be the fastest-growing market registering a CAGR of 17.7% from 2019 to 2025 as it’s a relatively untapped region for manufacturers
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January 1, 2019 -- Holographic virtual avatars representing Swedish pop legends ABBA – dubbed “Abbatars” – are to be revealed in a global TV special in 2019, to be followed by a world tour.
Virtual avatars representing all four ABBA members will be revealed for the first time in a two-hour TV special being put together by NBC in the U.S. and the BBC in the UK.
The bandmates have been 3D scanned and digitally reproduced by graphic artists to look exactly as they did in their 1970s heyday. During the TV event, famous acts will perform ABBA tributes before the Abbatars take to the stage to sing a new song, “I Still Have Faith in You”. An Abbatar world tour is planned for 2019-20, which could rake in millions of dollars for the ageing pop quartet.
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“With equal measures of sympathy and satire, [Erasure] craftily addresses the highly charged issue of being ‘black enough’ in America.”—The New York Times Book Review
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison’s writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We’s Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies—his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer’s, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father’s suicide seven years before.
In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins’s bestseller. He doesn’t intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is—under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh—and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.
Percival Everett’s blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback
Percival Everett is the author of thirty books, including So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles.
“[A] remarkable novel. . . . [Everett] knows that trying to deny racial classification is hopeless; his awareness charges Erasure with both quixotic idealism and mordant resignation.”—The Wall Street Journal
“[Erasure is] hilarious, absurd, profound, and disturbing, in ways that couldn’t be more relevant to today’s nominally post-racial cultural moment.”—Very Short List
“An over-the-top masterpiece. . . . Percival’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Wright and Ellison as he skewers the conventions of racial and political correctness.”—Publishers Weekly
“The sharp satire on American publishers and American readers that Everett puts forward is delicious.”—Chicago Tribune
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Grindr Unveils New Options For Trans And Gender Non-Conforming Users
Grindr addressed one of its common criticisms Tuesday by unveiling new options for users who identify as transgender and gender non-conforming.
The dating and social networking app, which previously focused on gay men, now offers customizable gender identity and pronoun fields. Users can now pick from a list of commonly used terms like “trans man,” “woman,” “cis man,” “non-binary,” “non-conforming” and “queer.”
Pronouns can also be included on the updated profiles, too, with “He/Him/His,” “She/Her/Hers” and “They/Them/Theirs” now available.
Grindr users now have their choice of pronouns, with “He/Him/His,” “She/Her/Hers” and “They/Them/Theirs” now available.
Grindr users also have the option to write in their gender identity if it doesn’t already appear on the list, and the app also launched a Gender Identity Help Center that will help visitors “get woke” on how to respectfully message a transgender person.
The trans community has never been fully excluded from Grindr. In 2013, the app introduced “Trans” as a self-descriptor within its “Tribes” feature. Peter Sloterdyk, Grindr’s vice president of marketing, told HuffPost that the new batch of updates was part of the company’s “overall goal to recognize the depth and diversity of our user base.”
“Grindr takes our role as global leaders very seriously and strives to make every user feel welcome, safe and understood,” he said in an email. “We have a daily responsibility to grow with and learn from our users, including everyone in our growing and evolving LGBTQ community.”
The updates are part of Grindr's mission “to recognize the depth and diversity of our user base.”
Jack Harrison-Quintana, director of Grindr for Equality, the app’s platform for health and human rights advocacy, echoed those sentiments. “One thing we heard over and over again from trans people using Grindr was that they felt unwelcome as other users would often only want to ask them about what it means to be trans or approached without knowing how to speak respectfully about trans issues,” he said in a statement. “That’s why we created written resources linked from the gender identity fields in the profile to answer users’ questions and decrease that burden on trans people.”
Grindr has spent much of 2017 working on expanding its brand into new, though still LGBTQ-inclusive, territory. In March, the company launched Into, which is billed as “a digital magazine for the modern queer world” and edited by Zach Stafford, a former editor-at-large for Out magazine.
Earlier this month, the app announced plans to distribute the second season of “Food 4 Thot” as part of a new partnership with the queer-themed podcast, which explores sex, relationships and race, among other topics.
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Applications open for Screen Queensland’s attachment scheme
22 January, 2017 by Staff Writer
SQ CEO Tracey Vieira.
Screen Queensland is seeking expressions of interest from early to mid-career practitioners for its attachment scheme, SQattach.
The scheme is designed to create on-the-job skills and career development for QLD-based screen professionals. Producers commit to providing the attachments when applying for the SQ Production Fund.
Practitioners who are interested in an attachment position on a feature film, broadcast series, single or game are invited to apply. The list of these practitioners will then be provided to projects and producers who offer the attachment.
The call-out ends March 10.
Register your interest: https://screenqueensland.smartygrants.com.au/sqattachjan2017
Guidelines: http://screenqueensland.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SQAttach_guidelines-V1.pdf
Attachments to projects can be in two forms:
For these attachments, productions/games should make an allowance of at least AUD $5,000 per attachment which will cover a period approximately five (5) weeks.
Projects applying for over AUD$100,000 through the Production Fund should allow for at least one attachment.
Productions applying for over AUD$500,000 through the Production Fund should allow for at least two attachments.
Projects applying for any amount of funding through the Production Fund where there is no IP held by a Queensland-based company (outside of SQ or a post house) or a bona-fide Queenslander, should allow for at least two attachments.
Attachments Plus
In certain areas where SQ has identified the need to build the skills of practitioners, SQ will look to match funding with the production company for the attachment to make a combined maximum of AUD$10,000.
The areas where SQ has currently identified a need to build practitioner skills are: directors, writers, editors, post-production supervisors, animators, VFX Supervisors, or any other key role where the applicant can demonstrate the need for state-wide skills development.
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Kannapolis Intimidators
Healthy Happenings
Concord, NC (28025)
Mainly sunny to start, then a few afternoon clouds. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High around 95F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph..
Workers are scrambling to get the new Krispy Kreme built at Concord Mills and expect to have work complete within the next few days. Mark Plemmons/Independent Tribune
After work is complete, training is expected to take two to three weeks before the Krispy Kreme can open to the public. Mark Plemmons/Independent Tribune
Concrete Supply is one of the businesses that is affected by the changes to the Concord Parkway intersection at McGill Avenue/Poplar Tent. Mark Plemmons/Independent Tribune
Demolition of the old Philip Morris plant is progressing. Gone are the stacks of metal and other materials that were there when we last peeked through the back gate. Mark Plemmons/Independent Tribune
Friday Five: Hot doughnuts soon in Concord
Mark Plemmons mplemmons@independenttribune.com
Mark Plemmons
Journalists Adam Thompson and Erin Kidd have been filling up the paper with stories, coupled with my laziness, I put the Friday Five on the shelf.
Never fear, the Friday Five is back. This week we have restaurants, traffic and a few snide remarks.
Krispy Kreme is opening soon. It’s not urban legend any more. Krispy Kreme is really coming to Concord.
Workers were busy Wednesday trying to get the final pieces of construction complete on the new doughnut shop on Concord Mills Boulevard (site where Applebee’s used to be). Only a few days’ work is left.
Most of the signs are up and much of the equipment is inside, so it’s close to opening.
But as my mom always told me and Luke, “hold your horses.”
Workers and managers will be training two to three weeks in the new building before the “Hot doughnuts now” sign can be turned on.
If you can’t wait and you’re in the Concord Mills area, try OMG Donuts & Bakery on the other side of I-85. The address is 10005 Weddington Road, just off O. Bruton Smith Boulevard. The donuts (not sure why there are two different spellings) are good – really good – fitting the exclamation of “OMG!”
I had my first donuts from OMG last Sunday thanks to Martha Day. It was “Donuts for Dads” to celebrate Fathers’ Day at McGill Baptist and Martha bought the donuts in memory of her husband, Larry Day.
Many of you knew Larry. He worked at Ben Mynatt for many years and was an active member of McGill along with his family. Larry is certainly missed and it was great to remember him on Fathers’ Day.
Hats off to the McGill Family Life Committee for coming up with “Donuts for Dad” and “Muffins for Moms” on Mothers’ Day. It was great fellowship.
“I went over there, but they weren’t open.” We all know that Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sunday and it seems to be a growing trend. Showmar’s is also closed on Sunday as are Tacos4Life and the Maple Street Biscuit Company. Dang! Maple Street also closes at 2 p.m. That’s not even bankers’ hour.
The CEO of Famous Toastery Robert Maynard said not having evening hours allows his company’s employees to have a life outside the restaurant. It’s funny, he’s a former banker.
With the labor shortage, it’s bound to help restaurants, making it more attractive to workers. It’s also one less day you have to staff and everyone knows for sure one day they would be off.
Decades ago, I worked as an assistant manager for Bojangles’. I loved the food but hated the work, primarily because of the work schedule. The manager in charge of scheduling killed us.
The restaurant where I worked in Charlotte was open 24 hours a day. Often my schedule would be third shift (beginning at 11 p.m.), then the next day second shift (beginning at 3 p.m.) and the third day first shift (beginning at 5:30 a.m.). Essentially this guy had me doubling back on three of the five shifts I worked each week. That’s the main reason I quit.
Bad managers will kill a business. Constant turnover will too.
Lots of local restaurants, whose owner/managers work long hours, realize this and will close one day a week or shorten some of their hours. You’ll notice that their workers stay with them and they don’t have the turnover and constant grind of some of the franchises. The McDonald’s of the world could take a lesson.
If you’ve lived in the area very long, you know Mr. C’s closes on Mondays. Many a time I have thought ‘Let me get supper from Mr. C’s,’ only to get there and it’s Monday. But it is open on Sundays.
44 Mills Kitchen & Tap also closes on Monday but is open on Sunday.
Most of the locally-owned restaurants are closed on Sunday.
Troutman’s Barbecue (across Church Street from our office) is taking a different approach. It’s closed on Thursday. That’s seems pretty random.
A new Troutman venture. The Thursday closings are not the only changes for Troutman’s.
Troutman’s once had several restaurant scattered across the area and has gotten down to just the Church Street location. That’s changed.
Mama T’s of Gold Hill is open on St. Stevens Church Road (Why is the road named Stevens? Pretty sure St. Stephen isn’t spelled that way).
Mama T’s has even more unique hours. It’s closed on Monday and Tuesday. It’s open from 5 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
It’s different than Troutman’s on Church Street. Mama T’s has special events including recent Sunday evenings which featured karaoke. Alcohol is also available.
It’s not the only change for Troutman Enterprises.
The car lot and offices moved a few months ago to South Cannon Boulevard.
Much of the property that Troutman owned at the corner of Rock Hill Church Road and Concord Parkway has been developed for other uses: Dunkin’ Donuts, Firehouse Subs, Sam’s Car Wash, State Employees Credit Union and Bojangles’.
The remaining back corner is partially leased and being offered for sale.
The old Philip Morris Plant demolition continues. I keep peeking into the old Philip Morris property and getting glimpses of the progress. It looks like most of the buildings are still standing, but a lot of materials have been stripped away and hauled off (recycled).
In March, I looked through the back gate off Roberta Road and saw stacks of metal and other materials. When I sneaked up to the gate Wednesday, I could see that most of the metal was gone but there are large piles of gravel or possibly crushed concrete.
The owner’s representative told us the plan is to use some of that to fill in the basement hole that will be left when the main building comes down.
We’re all anxiously waiting for more news to come on that property. JLL Carolinas is marketing the property as The Grounds at Concord.
The DOT-apalooza continues. After months of surveying and seeing little progress on the intersection of Concord Parkway (U.S. 29) and McGill/ Poplar Tent Road, the work is now in earnest and taking shape.
Our Advertising Director Bruce Barker came into my office last week and asked me, “How long do you think it will be before a car comes plowing into Punchy’s over there?”
Never I hope, but that turnout sure comes deep into Punchy’s parking lot. The turnout cuts deep into Prestige Motorworks too.
It appears NCDOT’s intentions are to have the intersection much like the Derita/Odell School Road and Poplar Tent intersection, straight across and right turns, with any left turns coming farther down the road.
Maybe it will work. The big difference is there is less room and a lot more businesses with traffic.
How do you reckon those cement trucks are going to get in and out too?
Let’s hope it’s not a DOT-apalooza. Merriam-Webster says lollapalooza is a gambling term dating back to the 1890s referring to a made-up hand aimed at deceiving an inexperienced player. It’s used like humdinger and doozy.
That intersection is definitely going to be a humdinger. Let’s see if it really works to eliminate traffic issues. We definitely ought to be concerned for inexperienced drivers coming through there.
If you’ve got a Friday Five, a story idea or something I can rant about email mplemmons@independenttribune.com.
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First Look at Don Julio's
Katharine Shilcutt
Katharine Shilcutt | July 25, 2011 | 11:16am
As often as I feel exhilarated with the state of the food scene in Houston, I feel exasperated just as frequently. Such is life in our city, and you take the good with the bad.
And such is life at Don Julio's, the suburban import Tex-Mex restaurant that just opened last week at Westheimer and Taft, where Tony Vallone's Caffe Bello was unable to break the curse of the La Strada that was there before it. Despite those two restaurants failing miserably in the same locations, early indications are that Don Julio's just might succeed.
I am both happy and sad about this. Happy because it thrilled me to see so many neighborhood residents -- it was mostly Gay Date Night and My Two Dads night this past Friday -- enjoying a meal in a space that was so rarely well-occupied when it was Caffe Bello. And sad because, while Don Julio's is otherwise lovely and inviting, the food is Tex-Mex on mute.
Every dish we ordered that night, with the sole exception of the Texas Mud (more on that in a second), was unremittingly bland and boring. And although the margaritas were good, Houston should expect -- if not demand -- more in its Tex-Mex restaurants. How can we stand for such a dumbing-down of one of our core cuisines?
I don't have many positive things to say about Don Julio's food, so I'll be brief. The pork tamal's masa was overly thick, its pork in rough cubes instead of shredded. The beef taco had no flavor at all, neither shell nor meat. The cheese enchiladas tasted like the ones I used to make in college, all bags of shredded cheese and Walmart-brand tortillas and a can of cheap hot sauce. The chile gravy didn't show any signs meat, let alone of cumin, that most basic of pulses when you're looking for signs of life in Tex-Mex food that seems DOA.
And yet everywhere we looked, people around us were happily inhaling their plates of food and Los Tios-style two-plate dinners. While I might bemoan the loss of those bold, heady flavors in our definitive regional cuisine, who am I to deny these people the enjoyment of what they deem a good meal, whether I find it subjectively "good" or not?
In that sense, it's frustratingly difficult to dislike Don Julio's. It's clearly filling a niche, even after only a week, of providing simple food in a beguilingly semi-upscale setting. It's inoffensive and an easy place to pass the time over chips and salsa and margaritas on the rocks.
And that Texas Mud, a most unattractively named dish, ended up surprising my dining companion and me despite all the other dismal food. Refried black beans, pico de gallo, garlic-laced guacamole, white queso and taco meat all somehow blended together into a dip that I had never had before in my life, yet somehow reminded me of childhood. It was composed of the kind of foods you grow up eating in Texas before your tastebuds mature and develop into discerning little individuals. It gave a flickering, fleeting sense of home.
Maybe that's why Don Julio's other three locations in the far-out suburbs are always packed, and maybe that's why this one will be too. And I suppose that's fine with me; not every restaurant can be exhilarating. Sometimes, it seems, folks just settle.
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BORN Boulder, Colorado
Lives in Los Angeles, California
1990 MFA, Painting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1988 BFA, Summa Cum Laude, Painting and Art History, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grant Award recipient Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award recipient
2004-07 Residency, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California
2004 Residency, The Ballinglen Foundation, Ballycastle, North County Mayo, Ireland
2003 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grant Award recipient
2002 Featured Artist, New American Paintings: 2002 Pacific Coast Edition, Jessica Morgan (curator, ICA, Boston), juror
2000 Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
"Lexicon", Nettie Horn Gallery, London, England
New Work, Galerie Kuckei/Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
2006 New Works on Paper, Goff + Rosenthal Gallery, New York City, New York.
New Work, Kuckei/Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
2005 Captain Ill, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
New Work, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2004 Lightness, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003 Works on Paper, Kuckei/Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Drawings, Mixture Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002 Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
New Work, Galerie Katia Rid, Munich, Germany
2001 New Works on Paper, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
2000 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
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2008 The Unruly and the Humorous, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, Callifornia
Looky-See, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
Ashes for Breakfast, Goff and Rosenthal Gallery, New York, New York
2007 World Receiver, Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Rogue Wave, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, California
It Figures, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California
2006 The O-Scene: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Talking Heads, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California
2005 Paradise Lost, Goff + Rosenthal Gallery, New York City, New York
Contemporary Erotic Drawing, Part One: DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas; Part 2: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalogue)
2004 Frame of Mind, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, California
Drawn Fictions, Marylhurst University, Portland, Oregon
2003 Not Always the Same, Part One: Hammer/Sidi Gallery, London, England; Part Two: Mjellby Art Center, Halmstad, Sweden
Little Disasters, Red Dot Gallery, Scope Art Fair, New York City, New York
What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina (catalogue)
1997 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
2007 Ollman, Leah. “The good type of ‘Rogue’,” Los Angeles Times, July 6: E22.
2006 Campbell, Clayton. "Joe Biel," Contemporary 21, Issue 83, July: 24-27(illustrated, cover image).
Morris, Tom. "Bedtime Fairy Tales These Are Not," Artreview, Issue 01, July: 70-71 (illustrated).
2005 Horodner, Stuart, ed. Contemporary Erotic Drawing (Ridgefield, CT: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), 64-65 (illustrated).
2004 Boas, Pat. “The Un-Storyteller,” Art Papers, January/February: 20-21 (illustrated).
Ollman, Leah. “Packing a Heavy Metaphoric Punch,” Los Angeles Times, March 5: E-19 (illustrated).
Taylor, Sue. “Joseph Biel at Mark Woolley,” Art in America, February: 132-133 (illustrated).
2003 Row, D.K. “Dark Star of Humor,” The Oregonian, September 12: AE-56.
2002 Doll, Nancy and Ron Platt. Art on Paper 2002 (Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum), 5 (illustrated).
2001 Myers, Holly. “Delicate and Inquisitive,” Los Angeles Times, December 7: F-26.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26–SATURDAY, APRIL 28
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We’re excited to announce Keyfest 2018!
Hang out with, learn from, and share ideas with Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater and special guests Tom Brislin (Yes) and Bill Laurance (Snarky Puppy).
It’s a place for keyboardists to gather and share their music, sounds, technique, and technology. Learn from, listen to, and jam with Jordan Rudess, Tom Brislin, and Bill Laurance!
Jordan Rudess, best known as a member of the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated progressive metal/rock band Dream Theater, is a virtuoso keyboardist, composer, music app developer, and champion of new keyboard technologies. KeyFest welcomes keyboardists of all skill levels to gather together April 26–28, 2018, at the Sweetwater campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
KeyFest includes classes, jamming, and exclusive performances every day. Activities and meals are included in your package.
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Discovery: The Beverleys
By Hannah Ghorashi
ABOVE: THE BEVERLEYS
For those looking to wash down their punk/grunge/shred with a stylistic flavor reminiscent of ’60s girl groups—which should be everyone, naturally—look to the Toronto-based trio The Beverleys, and find something even better. The band, comprised of Joanna Lund (guitar, vocals) and sisters Susan (guitar, vocals) and Steph Burke (drums), evinces a playful personality that embodies both strong sisterly affection and a traditional punk audacity without distinction. Together, the three band members wrap each others’ sentences with interruptions and giggles just as frequently as they might answer a question about lyrical inspiration with the deadpan, “Pain.” But don’t mistake the Beverleys as coquettish—their brand of humor is their cozy intimacy oxidizing in front of an audience, and that audience is fast growing.
Their music belongs to Toronto’s rich tradition of offbeat sonic excellence, a link of a magnitude the band both understands and embraces comfortably. Three years ago they began a steady but low-key presence in friends’ basements and art galleries alike, only recently venturing into New York for the CMJ scene and slots at Brooklyn locales like Death by Audio and garnering a wider following beyond the familial circle of friends and fellow Toronto bands—a fact they consider more surprising than satisfying, as well as an incidental opportunity to release a self-titled EP this past February 11 and finally put together an album in the near future. But in their music, The Beverleys produce songs of a martial vigor, with disheveled lo-fi wails flicking their wisdom above furiously and fluently shredding guitar chords that must require Olympic endurance. The track “Dreams” exemplifies this duality: the vehemently metronomic lyrics “I’m not right / In this light” punch a grave vulnerability into a song titled with an inside joke—the band’s original, forgivably bad name.
We spoke to the Beverleys about matching jumpsuits, Instagram identities, and how depression pays for itself.
BAND MEMBERS: Joanna Lund (guitar), Susan Burke (guitar, vocals), Steph Burke (drums)
HOMETOWN: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Toronto, Canada
THE SUBURBS: Susan Burke: We all kind of knew each other from mutual friends and going downtown. But there wasn’t really a grunge scene in St. Catharines when we were growing up.
Joanna Lund: I’m not that much older than Steph and Susan, and I was into a lot of Britpop and shoe gaze. I never really got into grunge, but Susan really did.
Steph Burke: Everyone else in St. Catharines was into your main indie bands, and whatever was on the radio. Radio shit.
LIFE-CHANGING DISCOVERIES: Susan Burke: I’m sure we were listening to what our parents were listening to and we played instruments growing up, so when we had a bit more of a say in our own tastes—for me it was always heavier stuff, like Nirvana and The Nerves.
Joanna Lund: Yeah, it was always Britpop and shoegaze. I didn’t really get into prog stuff until I was much older, when I discovered the Constantines and my life was never the same.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS: Susan Burke: Our first shows were really tiny, like in an art gallery or in a friend’s basement. We rented a little space and started playing a few nights a week, just plugging and getting loud, and being a bit ridiculous. It kind of took off from there.
BAND LOVE: Steph Burke: Susan and I are sisters, so it would be strange if we didn’t get along. [laughs]
Susan Burke: It feels like a strong, solid bond. We help each other and have each other’s back, and we get closer to one another, and if someone needs help we’re there.
Joanna Lund: Especially before shows—it makes us play better. I think it would be different if we didn’t like each other, but we love each other.
NOMENCLATURE: Joanna Lund: We had a really shitty, awful band name before. It didn’t fit with our sound at all. It was so bad, I don’t even know if we’re going to mention it. There are maybe 10 people who know. [laughs]
Susan Burke: We were called Dreams.
Steph Burke: But there are also a lot of other bands with that name.
Joanna Lund: We gave ourselves that name before we even started playing music. We didn’t even know what music we were going to play.
Steph Burke: We got a jumpsuit at a vintage store, and our plan was to each get one. [laughs] One of them said Dreams…
Joanna Lund: One of them said Ideas, and so on. We thought that was going to be our thing.
HEY, STRANGERS: Susan Burke: Our first interview was actually last year, when we did a couple of interviews for North by Northeast [music and arts festival in Toronto].
Joanna Lund: The more people we play to the better, whether or not they like us. I’m not worried about expanding the fan base.
Steph Burke: Obviously you want people to like you, but it seems only recently that people we don’t know have started “liking” us, or whatever it’s called. It’s interesting seeing people you don’t know show up.
Joanna Lund: Usually it’s a big circle of friends and other bands and we all support each other. It’s still kind of like a family, in a way.
OTHER TORONTO BANDS TO WATCH: Steph Burke: We’re all friends—Greys, The Dirty Nil, Pink Wine, Beliefs. Oh my god, there’s so many.
Susan Burke: The Toronto music community is getting bigger, and just better.
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR BEVERLEYS: Joanna Lund: We all take care of social media, but…
Steph Burke: If we put a picture on Instagram, we’ll have people try to guess who posted it based on the comments. [laughs]
Joanna Lund: You can usually tell which one of us posted something. Only if you know us.
HOW TO CURE WRITER’S BLOCK: Joanna Lund: Pain.
Steph Burke: I don’t think there’s a theme in our lyrics, but—
Joanna Lund: It’s much easier to write lyrics when you’re miserable, and it’s cathartic. Depression is just kind of easy to write about. I feel like there’s constantly this energy of anxiety or—
Susan Burke: Worry, or panic.
TO HEAR THE BEVERLEYS’ SELF-TITLED EP, PLEASE VISIT THEIR BANDCAMP.
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Luxury superyacht market in Suffolk goes from strength to strength
PUBLISHED: 14:45 18 September 2018 | UPDATED: 14:45 18 September 2018
Jessica Hill
New company SSCo - L-R Josh Richardson, Luke Porter, Claire Richardson and Peter Emmons. Picture: SSCo
Increased demand for superyacht deck equipment has led an Ipswich-based superyachts specialist to launch a new company specialising in just that.
The founders of Superyacht Tenders and Toys (SYTT) Josh and Claire Richardson, have launched specialist deck hardware company Shipyard Supply Co (SSCo).
Located in Harkstead, near Ipswich, the new business will be headed up by Luke Porter, formerly of Oyster Yachts, and will allow each company to focus on its respective market sectors.
Mr Porter claims that it’s an exciting time in the superyacht sector, with increasing demand for bigger, better and more customised projects. “As a former bosun on a superyacht I know how frustrating it can be spending time searching for quality products or finding local suppliers to work on custom projects, so it makes perfect sense to have a one stop shop for all deck equipment.
“Being based in Suffolk means we are perfectly placed to take advantage of the rich manufacturing expertise we have in this area and we aim to support local businesses whenever we can.”
Since its launch in 2011, Ipswich based and Queen’s Award winning SYTT has seen year-on-year growth in all aspects of its business, particularly in its deck equipment division.
Mr Richardson commented: “By launching Shipyard Supply Co, we are evolving with the superyacht market and meeting the rapid growth in the demand for deck hardware. The new business will operate as a separate entity handling the manufacture and supply of everything from tender whips and fenders to custom stainless steel and carbon projects. This allows SSCo to go beyond the scope of SYTT products and form new relationships and distributorships within the industry and we are very excited to have Luke onboard to manage all of this.”
Day-to-day operations at SSCo will be overseen by Mr Porter, while Mr and Mrs Richardson will focus on SYTT.
Peter Emmons, Technical Sales at SYTT, will join Luke at SSCo as Technical Manager, handling all deck equipment enquiries. However, Mr Emmons will continue to work closely with current SYTT clients, assuming a dual role in order to bridge the gap between the two companies in the early days.
SYTT will continue to provide deck equipment from across the range of suppliers.
SSCo will be attending Monaco Yacht Show from September 26 to 29.
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MPs warn against government stepping in over mental health services
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Health secretary and West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock has promised action over the failing NSFT Photo: PA / Stefan Rousseau
MPs have urged caution amid calls for the government to seize control of the region's failing mental health trust.
Former health minister Dr Dan Poulter has warned against putting NSFT in special administration Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
Last month Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was placed into special measures for the third time by the Care Quality Commission.
Investigations into services in Suffolk found a litany of failings including some patients being forced to wait years for appointments.
Some people were waiting so long it was discovered they were harming themselves and even attempting suicide.
England’s chief inspector of hospitals, Dr Paul Lelliott, said patients “deserve better”.
The failings raised the possibility of the trust being placed in a special administration, effectively meaning the government would step in to improve services.
But our MPs have advised against rushing into special administration although they all agree immediate action is vital to improve services.
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Dan Poulter is a doctor who still works in the NHS. He was a health minister when the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust was placed in special administration.
“I can say from experience that doing that is a very extreme measure,” he said. “It is a not quick fix and can take as long as two years to work up a full report.
“A major worry I would have is that process would take staff time up. With Mid Staffs operations, for example, could be done at neighbouring hospitals. But with mental health issues it is often community-led care. It is not feasible.
“Politicians often want to push the nuclear button but I don’t believe that is the best option. Other trusts have turned around with the right leadership and by sharing best practice with other high-performing trusts.”
And Bury St Edmunds MP Jo Churchill also advised against a “knee-jerk” reaction: “In my view the maintaining the status quo won’t improve outcomes for the local population, attempts over five years have been made to try and improve the situation and failed. The report was damning on the treatment of staff and it is vital we support our caring and hardworking staff.
“I support fully, the vision to develop place-based services but would like to see a more broad reaching model that includes schools, the police and other partners. This needs to be a planned and managed transition avoiding a knee-jerk reaction to finally deliver sustainable results. We need to work in partnership with Norfolk and with assurance from local NHS leaders to ensure that increased investment in Suffolk, particularly West Suffolk.”
Waveney MP Peter Aldous added: “There is understandable upset and worry that NSFT remain in special measures and have received another disappointing CQC report. I am advised that the safety issues that the report identified are being addressed.
“There is a need for a more local service, for much earlier intervention and for NSFT to work closely with local surgeries, as well as reviewing the structure of the organisation. I’m assured that this work is now in hand and so at this stage there is not a need to place NSFT in special administration.”
And Suffolk Coastal MP Therese Coffey also urged against major reorganisation instead hoping the focus would now be on improvements.
“I would expect people experienced in running this sort of operation to make a judgement on this,” she said. “NHS Improvement specifically said to us that this special administration process is not particularly effective. I would rather they focus on the rapid improvement plan for vulnerable patients than get into reorganisation at the moment.”
And South Suffolk MP James Cartlidge added: “I think it’s important that NHS Improvement take every possible step to ensure we have a sustainable solution for this vital but troubled trust. We have to be careful not to be predetermined on any particular course of action but what we cannot have is more years of poor standards.”
Health secretary and West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock has promised action and speaking to this newspaper he said: “It’s clear that significant action is needed as services need significant improvement.”
Previously he said: “The first priority must always be the welfare and safety of patients. This situation cannot continue and I am determined to sort it out.”
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Could advertisers help real journalism defeat fake news?
Joe Dermody interviews Paul Moran, managing director of Mediaworks marketing and advertising.
ADVERTISERS could yet prove to be a driving force in creating a sustainable online environment for quality investigative journalism, suggests a leading figure in Irish advertising.
Paul Moran, MD of marketing and advertising company Mediaworks, says companies are becoming increasingly conscious of not placing their online promotions alongside fake news. Many companies are also mindful not to have their brand associated with online publishers who carry content which is either racist or discriminatory against minority groups.
One standout global example was food producer Kellog Co's decision to stop advertising online with Breibart News. Kellog deemed the site, which is owned by Donald Trump's advisor Stephen Bannon, to be an unfit platform for its adverts due to its support of 'white nationalism' and 'alt right' groups.
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Back in November, the digital ad platform AppNexus banned Breitbart from using its ad tools because the site promoted racism and content that might incite violence, which was against the firm's rules. Brexit has also raised challenges for UK advertisers.
“The Co-op group in the UK decided to pull their advertising from certain media because they felt that their news content contradicted what the supermarket chain stood for,” said Paul Moran. “This raises important questions about the need for quality journalistic content going forward.
“Advertisers want to be associated with content that is responsible, open and honest. What I can say about our clients is that I don't know of any company operating in Ireland which would be happy to be associated with content that would be viewed as offensive or hurtful towards minority groups. Our commercial clients certainly don't want to be associated with offensive content.”
This view carries some weight. Mediaworks is one of nine agencies who come under the Core Media umbrella, along with Mediavest, Starcom, ZenithOptimedia, Core Knowledge, Engage Communications, Livewire, Ignite and Radical.
Core Media's recent 'Outlook 2017' report projects a 3.3% increase in an overall Irish advertising spend of €915m this year. TV is to rise 2.5% to €243m, radio to drop 3.5% to €123m, print to drop 9.5% to €138m, and online investment to rise 13.5% to €328m.
In a wide-ranging report, Core Media proposed that Irish news organisations could set a global example by gathering under a shared paywall, the proceeds of which would fund quality journalism. If 10% of Irish adults subscribed €5 per month or €50 per year, the fund could generate more than €17m in revenue.
Naturally enough, Paul Moran admits that the idea is intended more as a starter for a debate rather than a workable proposal. Nonetheless, he says the explosion of 'fake news' is fueling a growing need for a debate about credible news content.
“Of course, this is not just about online content,” he said. “Radio music stations are devoting more time to celebrity gossip than real news. There's also a dumbing down across the print and broadcast media that people are consuming.
“This starts with people making personal media choices; too many of us are choosing simplistic soundbites over quality content. Fake news has been a growing problem for the past decade, and quality journalism is being diluted as a direct consequence of the choices people make about what they want to consume.
“In the past, people would come in and take turns sifting through a newspaper sitting on a coffee table. They shared quality content, managed and verified by quality journalists and editors.”
Mr Moran paints a clear path linking the shift towards people making their own media choices, the general dumbing down of content, the dilution of investigative journalism and the demise of both public discourse and informed debate.
“We see the product of this culture of simplistic soundbites in the US presidential elections and in the Brexit vote result,” he said.
However, it remains to be seen how a shared paywall would work, and not just due to the challenge of bringing competing Irish media companies into one room. Irish print and broadcast media companies realise that their real competitors are global digital content producers rather than their neighbouring journalists.
Indeed, outside of conflict over who would manage the resulting fund, and how to split it, and any debate about what constitutes 'quality' journalism, the bigger problem is that the any advertising revenue aligned to digital content is currently being hoovered up by the likes of Facebook and Google.
That was the experience with an attempt by 'rear guard' traditional media producers in Slovenia to gather behind a shared paywall, managed by Piano Media. Despite the added language barrier against global media competition, Piano's paywall generated just €65,000 in 2012.
Poynter.org writer Rick Edmonds estimates that Facebook alone sucked around €1 billion out of US print advertising budgets in 2016. US newspapers that once generated €40bn a year are now down below €15bn and sliding.
The advertising budgets have migrated, a lot of it to online spend. For those fans of old style reliable content, there must at least be some encouragement in Paul Moran's informed industry view that many advertisers would be much happier aligning their brand to guaranteed real news outlets.
“Of course, people will be able to pick holes in the paywall idea, but at least then they might push themselves to come up with a better idea,” said Paul Moran. “I do know that if 10% of people were to pay for that news service, then they'd most likely be educated, probably people with a good income.
“They're the kind of people that our advertisers would be willing to pay a premium to access. Supermarkets sell to families. The actions taken by the Co-op group in the UK and Kellogs in the States also show that companies want to be aligned to trusted sites, with quality content.
“Perhaps the shared paywall is not the whole answer, but it can feed the debate. As a small market, there is an opportunity here for Irish news organisations to set an example for other markets and demonstrate true innovation in their medium.”
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JOHN DIVILLY: Long and hard road to All-Star fame
By John Divilly
Over 1,000 senior inter-county football players set their personal and team goals at the start of each season.
Will I keep my place on the extended panel? Will I make the match day 26? Will I get game-time? A lot of pressure on young men’s shoulders. They train hard, they sacrifice a lot.
Nobody forces them to train or commit. Their own personal choice. The good managers encourage their participation, coach, and educate them to be better and praise them when they achieve their realistic and achievable goals.
The lucky players are the ones who get regular league and championship football. We forget that sometimes. We are blessed and privileged to witness so many committed young men willing to entertain us for nine months of the year.
One team claims the big prize, but so many individuals claim personal accolades, especially an All-Star.
The 2017 bunch are no different. Consistent delivery of skilful performances. With stadiums erupting with noise levels at the higher end of the Richter scale, they think and play with ice in their veins. There is no perfect All-Star team.
Ten counties were nominated this year, yet 34 teams participated in the championship. Has there ever been agreement with the chosen 15 in the PJ Carroll, BOI, Powerscreen, Eircell, Vodafone, or Opel-sponsored teams? I doubt it.
This year is no different. Personally, I agree with 13 of this year’s PwCs. The two unlucky ones? Stephen Cluxton and Tom Parsons.
David Clarke and Colm Cavanagh had good seasons and were leaders for their teams. Colm Cavanagh made hundreds of shuttle runs back into his rearguard throughout the season, shoring up his defence and always offering himself as an outlet.
If he can sprint in the opposite direction next season, Tyrone could be more successful. Clarke made the saves on the road to keep Mayo in the championship.
But Cluxton and Parsons had excellent seasons for their teams and were consistent when their teams needed them. I know Stephen Cluxton doesn’t need an All-Star to prove he’s had a super season.
Leaving all his records aside, he made the big saves, was the master of his defence and kicked unerringly for the majority of the season. Are the All-Star selectors penalising him for not finding his men in the first half of the final?
I hope not, or we need new All-Star selectors! I thought Tom Parsons, like James McCarthy, put in trojan shifts in every game that he played. He worked quietly and unselfishly, rolled up his sleeves and contributed on the scoreboard.
If Mayo are to reach the last four in 2018, Tom Parsons will be one of the main reasons. What about the Mayo men who were honoured?
Five thirtysomethings plus our International Rules captain, wee Aidan at 27. Clarke (34), Boyle (31), Barrett (30), Higgins (32) and Moran (34). Thankfully, no age discrimination with PwC. What ferocious warriors they all are.
Their appetite for success is unquestionable and their conquest has not been yet conquered.
Their individual skills and spirit make them the darlings of the Green n Red army. Boyle, Barrett and Higgins were tremendous at the back.
While Andy captured the scoring headlines in 2017, I think Aidan was the bravest of all the Mayo lads. What tripe and manure was fired at him all year.
He took more twitter crap than Donald Trump earlier in the season and unlike Trump, Aidan held his counsel and dignity.
The Dubs. Three pairs and a single. Two Croke’s, two Kickhams, two Cuala’s and one Clontarf.
First ever All-Stars, hurling or football, for the Cuala club. Mick Fitz has been a rock for Dublin over the years. Whether starting or introduced, he’s been a linchpin for the Dublin defence in their recent All Ireland hauls. Con produced the Georgie Best wonder goal moments of the summer.
I have no doubt that Con O’Callagha would also win an All-Star in hurling, if he ever decides to combine both intercounty hurling and football. Rock nailed the frees and McCarthy provided the nails. Cian O’Sullivan was the king on the chessboard and Paul Mannion showed how determination and perseverance can reward you.
When King Brian Boru won The Battle of Clontarf, it lasted from sunrise to sunset in April 1014. I’m sure Clontarf’s Jack McCaffrey will battle from sunrise to sunset every day, to get back in a Dublin jersey soon.
The Dingle shooter, Paul Geaney kept Kerry’s hopes alive throughout the summer after annexing the National League.
All good forwards can win their own ball, whether in space or in a 50-50 situation. Great forwards can then use their possession wisely and class forwards can rack up big scores with either foot. Geaney has hese attributes.
Congratulations one and all. What joy and pride the townlands of Ballina, Belmullet, Dalkey, Ballyhaunis, Ballindine, Stillorgan, Clontarf, Moy, Ballymun, Breaffy, Dingle, and Ballaghaderreen feel today.
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Would the USA Freedom Act End All Authorities for Bulk Collection?
by Kate Martin
When the House passed the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 3361) in May, both Members and the administration announced that it would end bulk collection of metadata about Americans’ communications. The administration is now urging Congress to pass the bill as soon as it can and Senators are now considering revisions to specific language in the House-passed bill.
But the administration is still withholding key information that is needed before any Member of Congress or the public can have confidence that the USA Freedom Act would in fact limit all the authorities that the Department of Justice claims can be used for the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata.
The bill passed by the House amends section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (sometimes called section 215) to prohibit the bulk collection of telephone metadata and require instead the use of a “specific selection term” to identify metadata sought by the government. The Senate is currently working on revisions to the definition of “specific selection term.” (The House bill would also amend the FBI’s authority to use National Security Letters to obtain “toll billing records information.”)
But we don’t know whether the Justice Department has opined that other statutory authorities – not now addressed in the USA Freedom Act – could authorize the NSA’s bulk collection. Without this knowledge, we can’t be certain whether the proposed amendments to section 501 (215) will in fact be sufficient to prohibit the NSA from engaging in bulk collection of metadata using some other hitherto unidentified authority.
This is not a fanciful concern. There is in fact a still partly secret OLC opinion by the Justice Department that may address precisely this question. As readers know, the bulk metadata collection program started before the FISA court issued its first 2006 order authorizing the program under section 501. The Justice Department has disclosed that in May 2004, the OLC issued anopinion entitled: “Memorandum Regarding Review of the Legality of the [President’s Surveillance] Program.” Parts of that 2004 Memorandum discussing the warrantless acquisition of the contents of Americans’ communications were declassified and released in 2011. But at the time, the government had refused to acknowledge the existence of the bulk metadata surveillance and much of OLC memo, which apparently discussed authority for bulk collection, was blacked out.
Since the December 2013 official declassification of the fact that the bulk metadata collection pre-dated the court’s 2006 orders under section 501(215), Members of the Senate and the Center for National Security Studies have pressed for a new review and release of the 2004 OLC Memo that discusses any other potential authorities for bulk metadata collection. At her nomination hearing to be CIA General Counsel, Senator Wyden asked (see p. 5-6 in link) the then Principal Deputy Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel whether the opinion addressed bulk telephone metadata collection and if so, whether the OLC relied “at that time on a statutory basis other than the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for the authority to conduct bulk telephony metadata collection?” Wyden was told that the opinion was still classified but that further classification review of the opinion would be appropriate.
The Center for National Security Studies has also sought declassification or at a minimum, pending further review, that the Justice Department simply identify what statute or statutes, if any, it identified as authority for bulk collection before the first FISC order in 2006.
The administration’s claim that the provisions of the USA Freedom Act would end bulk collection cannot be meaningfully assessed without this information.
Twice before, this administration has asked Congress to extend the sunset on section 501(215) without informing the public of its secret interpretation that the section could be and was being used to authorize the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ metadata. Surely the President, in ordering an end to such bulk collection, did not envision that his administration would again ask for statutory enactments while keeping secret key interpretations which could be used by this or a future administration to reinstate bulk collection, even if the USA Freedom Act is enacted.
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Best Sites To Read Your Favourite Manga Comic Online
TV- series are fun but there is no end to the imagination and fun when it comes to reading manga comics. Although it is a Japanese style of comic yet it is appreciated all around the world and if you have no clue about it and happens to see an adult reading a comic with a lot of anime characters in form of sketches don’t be shocked because the charm of these comics is passed down through the generations.
If you are one of those people who long to read Manga comics but it’s not available near you in hardcover, then this article is surely meant for you because I am going to list down a few best sites to read manga but don’t get impatient after reading the first name, rather read till the end and discover what is best for you.
List of Top Sites To Read Manga Comic Online
1. Mangafox.me
It is the most popular site to read Manga because it was the first site to introduce free manga and that is the reason why it caught the attention of many people. The site consists of a huge number of categories through which you can easily browse even if you are not sure which comic you are looking for. You can even sign up to this site so that you have a smooth reading experience. You can even interact with several other Manga friends by the chat option on the site. This will surely add on to your experience.
You can even sign up to this site so that you have a smooth reading experience. You can even interact with several other Manga friends by the chat option on the site. This will surely add on to your experience.
www.mangafox.me
2. Anymanga
This site is best for you if you have not much clue about what you want to read. There is a brief description the beginning so that you do not have to scroll through the whole comic to discover whether this was something that you were looking for. It has a wide number of categories. From finding a new mystery till discovering the love in crime, you can find everything here with a click of a button. This site is very amazing when it comes to exploring different Manga because of its huge number of collection.
From finding a new mystery till discovering the love in crime, you can find everything here with a click of a button. This site is very amazing when it comes to exploring different Manga because of its huge number of collection.
www.anymanga.com
3. Onemanga
If you are unable to locate your favourite Manga in any of the sites then don’t be disappointed because you still have this site. This site contains several more categories and has a huge collection than any other site. You can now ease your pain of being focused while scrolling down because all the manga in these sites is arranged alphabetically. Even when you are not sure about the name of the comic, this site is very handy because you can easily see the list coming under the first alphabet of the name.
Even when you are not sure about the name of the comic, this site is very handy because you can easily see the list coming under the first alphabet of the name.
www.onemanga.com
4. Mangapanda
This site is quite famous among the people and people often tend to suggest this to read the best Manga series and the reason can be the vast number of Manga series it consists. If you are looking for a cost-free site to read Manga then you should surely go through this site, at least once.
www.mangapanda.com
5. Boxmanga
This site is another most popular site to read Manga. The site consists of several categories from which you can easily locate what you want. The special feature about these sites that you can discover whether a particular Manga comic is something which people are reading. This feature helps when you are unsure about what you are looking for. The site can be really useful if you have recently started reading Manga Comics and are looking forward to the best experience.
This feature helps when you are unsure about what you are looking for. The site can be really useful if you have recently started reading Manga Comics and are looking forward to the best experience.
www.boxmanga.com
6. Kissmanga
If you don’t like browsing through the random unorganized sites, this site is the best for you because it is organized in such a neat manner that you won’t have any issue locating your favourite Manga. There is also a report button which comes very handy when the site doesn’t work. KISSMANGA are making all the efforts to provide their reader with the best experience at free of cost.
www.kissmanga.com
7. Mangareader
This is a free site to read online Manga and there could be no better reason why you should try this site. This is reviewed as the most reliable site when it comes to reading Manga Comics. You may ask what is so unique about this site but don’t be amazed when I have no answer because few experiences are better when they are first hand. So at least try this site once to know more.
www.mangareader.net
8. Mangastream
This is the best site to read High-Quality Manga Comics. As this site is updated on a regular basis, it won’t be much difficult for you to find all the new Manga comics here. They even inform the readers about the updates so that they do not miss anything new. Despite being free, this site provides better feature then the premium sites.
www.mangastream.com
9. Mangahere
This site has a huge number of Manga comics and you can possibly find any comic here. The site is updated very frequently so that the Manga fans have to wait no longer to read the most awaited comics. You should surely visit this site once.
www.mangahere.co
10. Mangafox.eu
The site is completely free of cost and has an enormous collection of Manga comics but you cannot download the comics from this site but you can read unlimited Manga comics online. Due to its frequent updates, you can always rely on finding the latest and the best material to read.
www.mangafox.eu
Manga has always been one of the best means of entertainment among the people. Apart from being fun, they are also very creative. Many people use it as a source of inspiration, especially the graphic designers or the people related to that field.
Despite being all about fantasy, this comic has successfully been able to win many hearts. If this article has been of any use you then you should surely pass forward this to your friends so that even they can discover something new today. Let’s not break the chain of Manga unity worldwide and continue reading them.
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Adobe Acrobat Tech Tip — Inserting Scanned Signature Page(s) into an Agreement — a Low-Tech eSignatures Regime
By Robert Brownstone on September 29, 2014
Posted in Acrobat, Electronic Information Management (EIM), eSignatures, Tuesday Tech Tips
Of course, if you can implement a more high tech eSignatures regime, do so.
For examples of available platforms, see the “Vendors” links in my eSignatures Bibliography.
In any event, here is a lower tech method . . .
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Records Retention Projects: ‘Clean That ESI Garage!’
By Robert Brownstone on July 18, 2014
Posted in Backups, eDiscovery Law & Process, Electronic Information Management (EIM), Information Security, Records Retention/Destruction
In this colorful 6-minute Records Retention video, I provide an overview of how a well-organized Electronic Information Management (“EIM”) environment can help a company of any shape or size:
improve efficiency;
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reduce risk; and
prepare for litigation and eDiscovery.
Fenwick & West’s EIM Practice Group, which I lead, is now in its second decade. In at least 50 matters, my EIM teammates and I have provided practical and economical hybrid legal / IT / information-security advice.
Heartbleed: It’s 10 PM; Do You Know Where Your Data is?
By Robert Brownstone on May 6, 2014
Posted in Cloud, Data Privacy, Electronic Information Management (EIM), Encryption, Information Security
Heartbleed — The “Data Map” Lesson — Intro
The Heartbleed vulnerability is, by now, an item about which we have all assuredly heard a lot. To get caught up on your reading on the technology aspects of this issue, see the linked articles I have compiled in the “To Learn More” section at the end of this post. Note, though, that one key lesson is much more of a common-sense, communication and organizational one. Most every organization could readily beef up its information-security by creating and then maintaining an up-to-date chart or “ data map” of the who/what/when/why/where of its electronically stored information (ESI).
Where’s Your Organization’s Data?
In the 1960’s, a local New York City TV station came up with the phrase “It’s 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?” In the 21st century, any organization would do itself a favor by asking the same question about its electronically stored information (ESI). No matter its shape or size, many a company diffuses its information-management and information-security among various people, systems and locations. So, generating a chart listing every key vat inside and outside the company’s physical and virtual walls is a must.
A simple spreadsheet is better than nothing and also better than having a disparate set of protocols/lists. There should be a row for each key repository, e.g., each:
Cloud environment
And the columns (some of which would entail YES/NO) could include:
System Name
In-House or Cloud
Owner Name (point of contact)
Owner Contact Info.
Encrypted at Rest
Encrypted in Transit
Retention/Deletion Rule(s)
Back-up Schedules
DR/BC Status (Disaster-Recovery/Business-Continuity)
For Cloud-stored data, additional columns could be:
Segregation from Others’ Data
Notice-of-Breach Duty Shifted
Finally, to paraphrase George Orwell in “Animal Farm,” some data is more private than other data. Several categories of information thus warrant special in-the-trenches attention once their locations have been idenitfied:
Personally identiable information (PII)
Protected health information (PHI)
Payment card industry information (PCI)
Now, it’s time to begin charting . . . and to start mapping . . .
Some resources as to ESI data-mapping:
— Brownstone, Electronic Records Retention, Nat’l Const. Confs. Webinar Slides, at 25 (Mar. 20, 2014)
— Stephenson, Streamline electronic discovery using a data map, Lawyers USA (Jan. 12, 2012) [quoting me 🙂 ]
— Brownstone, Data-Mapping & Electronic Information Management, Lorman Webinar Slides (Nov. 4, 2009)
And even more as to “Heartbleed”:
— Codenomicon, The Heartbleed Bug (last visited 5/6/14)
— Qualys, SSL Server Test (last visited 5/6/14)
— Valsorda, Heartbleed test (last visited 5/6/14)
— Goodin, Confirmed: Nasty Heartbleed bug exposes OpenVPN private keys, too, ars technica (4/16/14)
— Lee, Here’s why it took 2 years for anyone to notice the Heartbleed bug, Vox (4/12/14)
— Geuss, Private crypto keys are accessible to Heartbleed hackers, new data shows, ars technica (4/12/14)
— Schneier, Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL, Schneier on Security (4/11/14)
— Felten, How to protect yourself from Heartbleed, Freedom to Tinker (4/11/14)
— Grant, The Bleeding Hearts Club: Heartbleed Recovery for System Administrators, EFF (4/10/14)
— Cipriani, Heartbleed bug: Check which sites have been patched, CNET (4/9/14)
— Shankland, ‘Heartbleed’ bug undoes Web encryption, reveals Yahoo passwords, CNET (4/8/14)
— Kumparak, Massive Security Bug In OpenSSL Could Affect A Huge Chunk Of The Internet, TechCrunch (4/7/14)
— Timson, Who is Robin Seggelmann and did his Heartbleed break the internet? Sidney Morning Herald (4/11/14)
European (EU) Data Protection Law Handbook now live (REVISED 6/12/15)
By Robert Brownstone on February 18, 2014
Posted in Cross-Border (International) Privacy Issues, Data Privacy, European Union (EU), International Law and Cross-Border Data Transfers
This 214-page document, “Handbook on European data protection law,” looks incredibly comprehensive. It ends with 13 pages of citations to European case law on various issues.
The resource was “jointly prepared by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and the Council of Europe together with the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights.”
Note also that, since 2012, the Euriopean Union has been working on major proposed amendments to the “Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995″. A revised EU Directive was “adopted” in January 2012, and ostensibly implementation in 2015 is still the goal. See this home page for the EU Directive amendments.
For some pertinent developments last fall, including backlash from Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations, see:
EU Parliament Q&A, European Parliament/News (“E P/N”) (10/22/13)
Civil Liberties MEPs pave the way for stronger data protection in the EU, E P/N (10/21/13)
MEPs tighten up draft data privacy rules after Snowden revelations, Guardian (10/22/13)
To learn about the inherent conflicts between: on the one hand, U.S. discovery rules/scope; and, ont the other hand, data-privacy laws promulgated by the EU Parliament as well as by various individual countries in the EU (e.g., France, Germany, Italy and the UK . . . check out these resources:
“Cross-Border/International” slide deck (5/18/12)
Blackstone eDiscovery video of “eDiscovery 3.0” panel discussion (10/24/12)
And also these excellent compilations:
Baker & McKenzie, Global Privacy Handbook 2014 (Mar. 2014)
DLA Piper, Data Protection Laws of the World (last visited 6/12/15)
Privacy International, Reports (last visited 6/12/15)
WorldLII Databases (last visited 6/12/15)
While You Are Gorging — FRCP 45 (Non-Party Subpoenas) Changes Take Effect 12/1/13
By Robert Brownstone on November 27, 2013
Posted in eDiscovery Law & Process, Electronic Information Management (EIM), Federal Rules Changes, FRCP 45, Non-Party Subpoenas, Third-Party Subpoenas
Amended Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45 to take effect
When we all return to work from Thanksgivukkah weekend, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 45, governing non-party subpoenas, will have changed, effective December 1, 2013. To review the new content, follow one or both of these links:
Redline version of amendments to Rule 45 (new material underlined; deleted material lined out)
Clean version of new Rule 45 (eff. 12/1/13) (submitted by the U.S. Sup. Ct. to Congress 4/16/13)
A set of accompanying changes will also have been made to FRCP 37(b)(1), as reflected at these other links:
Redline version of amendment to Rule 37(b)(1)-(2) (new material underlined)
Clean version of new Rule 37(b)(1) (eff. 12/1/13) (and the new heading for Rule 37(b)(2))
Rest of Rule 37 (that remains unchanged; still reflecting old subsection (b)(1) as of 11/27/13)
And, the all important Advisory Committee Notes can be accessed here:
Rule 45 Advisory Commitee Note (8 pages of thorough discussion)
Rule 37 (b)(1) Advisory Commitee Note (1 very short paragaph)
Overview of Several of the Key Changes
1. Issuance from Court Handling Underlying Case
Now a subpoena not only can but “must be issued from the court where the action is pending.” (emphasis added)
FRCP 45(a)(2)
No longer must it issue from a court located in the geographical area for compliance.
2. Nationwide-Service and Compliance-Location Clarification
Now “[a] subpoena may be served at any place within the United States,” even though the compliance location must be tethered to the recipient’s place of residence, work or business.
FRCP 45(b)(2)
FRCP 45(c)(1)-(2) [NEW subsection]
No longer does one ever need to refer to state law — as to, e.g., compliance location.
3. Forum for Subpoena-Related Motions/Disputes — a Change but With Some Flexibility
Now, subpoena-related disputes will typically be resolved in the district court in the compliance location; however, there is a possibility of transfer of a pertinent motion to the issuing court.
FRCP 45(d)(3) [formerly (c)(3)]
FRCP 45(f) [NEW subsection]
Advisory Committee Note to 45(f)
“In some circumstances . . . transfer may be warranted in order to avoid disrupting the issuing court’s management of the underlying litigation, as when that court has already ruled on issues presented by the motion or the same issues are likely to arise in discovery in many districts[; t]ransfer is appropriate only if such interests outweigh the interests of the nonparty served with the subpoena in obtaining local resolution of the motion.”
No longer does one have to bring such a motion before the issuing court; however, “the court where compliance is required . . . may transfer a motion . . . if the person subject to the subpoena consents or if the court finds exceptional circumstances.”
As to a range of eDiscovery issues related to non-party subpoenas, see:
— eDiscovery: Subpoenas and Non-Party Production Issues (lengthy slide deck from a webinar I did for Lorman Education Services 5/20/13)
— Obligations When Third Parties Control Data, by Barry M. Kazan & Emily J. Mathieu of Thompson Hine, N.Y.L.J. (10/7/13)
As to the brand new FRCP changes (including ones not touched on in this post), see these excellent resources:
— Changes to [FRCP] 45 . . . Promise To Simplify Federal Subpoena Practive, by Christopher Tompkins & Ethan E. Kent, Jenner & Block (11/14/13)
— Rule 45 Changes in Motion, by Richard Marcus, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law, Recorder (8/8/11) (LEXIS ID & Password required)
— Rule 45 Third‐Party Subpoenas and Upcoming Amendments, by Jonathan E. Goldberg of SNR Denton and Darren A. Craig of Frost Brown Todd, Strafford Publications (7/11/13)
— Report of the Civil Rules Advisory Committee (6/6/11)
— Survey of Issues Regarding [FRCP] 45, by Prof. Richard Marcus, Associate Reporter to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. (3/14/09)
Redaction Redux — Be a Do-Bee, Not a Don’t-Bee UPDATED 3/3/14
By Robert Brownstone on October 10, 2013
Posted in Electronic Information Management (EIM), Information Security, Metadata, Redaction
Despite many well-publicized gaffes in legal, political and business arenas, many folks do not properly electronically redact sensitive information before letting a document loose into the wild. Supposedly blacked-out or whited-out text can remain in a document. A mere overlay can be readily removed, uncovering the text one intended to hide. And secret content can still be text-searchable and thus also copy-able/paste-able.
This overview is meant to help you become — in the terminology of the old children’s show Romper Room — a “do-bee” and not a “don’t-bee”. If your interest gets piqued in redaction or in related “metadata” issues in our era of National Security Administration (NSA)/PRISM and Petraeus/Broadwell, sign up for an upcoming Lorman webinar (October 24, 2013) by the “Guru of Metadata” (yours truly). That presentation — chock full of live streaming demos — will be my 41st external metadata presentation over the past seven years.
Reasons to Redact
The portion(s) of a document’s contents containing highly confidential and/or sensitive information of any sort is not meant to be exposed. Such concerns can arise in the political and diplomatic spheres. They can also be present in the corporate world where no loyal executive or staff member wants to disclose his or her company’s proprietary secrets.
In a lawsuit, depending on the context, there can be one to many substantive and/or procedural legal rules that forbid disclosure (yes; this is a “law” sentence; so I felt compelled to sprinkle in an “and/or) . Examples of categories that can be subject to a protective order include:
an individual’s personally identifiable information, e.g., details of a financial, health, medical or insurance nature;
a child’s or victim’s identity
trade secret information that could lose its value or protected nature if not properly handled;
attorney work-product; and
information covered by various privileges, such as:
“state secrets;”
marital/spousal;
physician-patient;
counselor-client;
clergy-penitent; and
the one often invoked in the Nixonian and Clintonian eras — “executive privilege.”
Since its enactment on December 1, 2007, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 has, with certain enumerated exceptions, required the redaction of any “filing that contains an individual’s social-security number, taxpayer-identification number, or birth date, the name of an individual known to be a minor, or a financial-account number.”
In the lawsuit context, on many an occasion a litigant’s counsel’s mishandled electronic redaction has exposed information on an adversary, co-defendant or other type of party. Examples include: the Federal Trade Commission that exposed information on Whole Foods; a federal court that exposed some of Facebook’s confidential numbers; the federal prosecutors in the BALCO/Bonds case; ATT’s counsel’s exposure of the NSA’s “secret room” information in a brief filed in a telecom case that ultimately included the NSA as a defendant; Plaintiffs’ counsel in an employment case against GE; and Zynga’s counsel in a lawsuit with Electronic Arts (EA). After a redaction snafu, it can be difficult to settle a case or have a cohesive relationship with the other side — or regain credibility with a judge.
Outside of the lawsuit realm, perhaps the most famous redaction gaffe of all occurred in December 2009, when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) apparently used outdated software tools that did nothing to actually keep from exposure various Department of Homeland Security (DHS) parameters as to airport security screenings.
Panning out to the other threat of non-scrubbed metadata (such as improperly handled Tracked Changes), many powerful entities and individuals have been laid low. Among others, the metadata cobra has struck the UN Secretary General, the British Prime Minister’s Office (in the “Downing Street Memo”), the Republican Social Security Administration, the Democratic National Committee, the California Attorney General’s Office, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and SCO Group.
If you are as [sadistic] [curious] [educational] as I, then you will find links to all these tales in this Metadata slide deck (5/2/13) by me and well known eDiscovery attorney and blogger Perry Segal.” Drum roll, please . . . .
Redaction Do’s and Don’ts
In eDiscovery, make sure: you or your trusted tech person knows how to use the appropriate software and that, before you send data to the other side, some Quality Control (QC) has occurred, including as to the stipulated specs as to format(s) of exchange. As to day-to-day ad hoc redactions, consider these guidelines:
Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0, 9.0, X or XI.
For great textual and video how-to’s, see the Acrobat for Legal Professionals site by the great Rick Borstein <@acrolaw>.
CodePlex’s open source Word 2007/2010 Redaction Tool
DON’T’s*
Microsoft Word’s borders/shading
Microsoft Word’s highlighter
Adobe Acrobat’s Rectangle tool
Adobe Acrobat’s Text Box tool
* UNLESS YOU’RE GOING TO GO “LOW-TECH” BY PRINTING TO PAPER, SCANNING AND OCR’ING]:
Conclusion; To Learn More . . .
As noted throughout this post, you can: sign up for the upcoming Lorman webinar (10/24/13) — full of live s demos and my 41st external Metadata presentation; and check out this Metadata slide deck (5/2/13). That deck also links to a Metadata Bibliography. Let’s “bee” careful out there . . . .
PS (3/3/14) — Check out this great how-to-redact click-capture-video
See this June 2012 Tutorial I found the other day.
It was skillfully done by Joshua Poje (@poje), who is the Director of the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center.
Although this tutorial is geared toward Adobe Acrobat Professional X, it also reflects how to redact in Acrobat Pro XI.
Additional Resources Now Live on ITLawToday
Posted in Culling and T.A.R., eDiscovery Law & Process, Electronic Information Management (EIM), Records Retention/Destruction
Just a quick note to remind (?or first-mind?) everyone that this site’s Resources page is an ever-expanding universe.
Some highlights of recent additions and changes include:
New/replacement Litigation-Holds slide deck — from a webinar I did for National Constitution Conferences (NCC) on 9/12/13
Brand new eSignatures Bibliography posted on 9/11/13
New/replacement Records-Retention slide deck from a webinar I did for NCC on 9/10/13
Revised/updated Predictive Coding & T-A-R slide deck — as revised 5/11/13
Keep visiting ITLawToday’s Resources page and the rest of this site to stay up to date on the intersection of law and IT.
PowerPoint Handouts Not Needing a Magnifying Glass — Tuesday Tech Tip # 002
By Robert Brownstone on September 3, 2013
Posted in Tuesday Tech Tips
Over the past dozen years, having done almost 400 presentations (almost 500 including eDiscovery law school class sessions) within my firm and out in the world I have learned a number of tricks of the trade.
Though generally I am function paperlessly, a reality is that many an attendee still likes a hardcopy slides handout on which he/she can take notes. I do generate same and have them printed in color, double-sided.
More importantly, from a technical perspective, I’ve never been happy with Microsoft PowerPoint’s default Handout Creation modes, at least up through the 2007 version.
Even assuming one doesn’t put too much text on each slide, neither out-of-the-box approach is very satisfying. Either there are 3 slides to a page so the attendees can barely see the miniscule text. Or there are 2 slides to a page but no note lines.
So, many moons ago, my former assistant (she’s still a tech-savvy secretary here at Fenwick & West) Berta Lopez helped me come up with a better way. The end result, as coined by me, is . . . drum roll please . . . . “Display-One-Readable-Slide-And-Lines” (“DORSAL”) handout version.
Maybe Microsoft or a handshake-software programmer can come up with an automated approach to generate my favored version. Until that day, here’s a “how-to” if you or your assistant would like to give it a try:
Open the .ppt version and from the Office button, choose “Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word”:
Then, in the ensuing window, choose “Blank lines below slides”:
Click on OK or press the Enter key.
Once it all goes into Word, save the file
Then, for each slide/image, right click, then choose Format Object:
Click on the Size tab
In the Height field input 4.8 over the default height
[You can copy the 4.8 for pasting into this filed for each of the other slides/objects.]
Then click on OK or press the Enter key.
Repeat for each slide.
Once you get through all the slides/images, save the file
Then convert it to Acrobat (File . . . Print . . . . AdobePDF)
In the .pdf version in Adobe Acrobat, click on the Pages tab (on the left).
Via Ctrl+Click, select all the pages that have only blank lines (every other page).
Right click on one of them and choose Delete Pages.
Click OK as to each of the next two prompts.
Save the file, which should now only have slides (one per page).
Remove the Metadata.
Save the file again.
Your attendees will thank you. . . .
New Jersey 13th State to Protect Social Media Passwords
By Robert Brownstone on August 29, 2013
Posted in Applicant/Employee Online Privacy, Electronic Workplace, Employee/Applicant Online Privacy, Social Media Rewards and Risks
The Just-Signed New Jersey Law
On Thursday August 29, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed revised legislation, namely A.B. 2878, which, among other restrictions, forbids employers to ask applicants or employees for their social-media or other online logins/passwords. A few months back, on May 6, Gov. Christie had conditionally vetoed a prior iteration of the bill, asking that it not rein in employers so much.
For example, the Governor sought — and ultimately obtained by an August 19 unanimous vote — amednments that would allow employers to conduct various types of investigations and not prohibit “an employer interviewing a candidate for a marketing job . . . from asking about the candidate’s use of social networking so as to gauge the candidate’s technological skills and media savvy.”
Similar Laws in Force in a Dozen Other States
New Jersey joins the following 12 other states that have enacted similar bans during since May 2, 2012:
— Already in force:
Arkansas; California; Colorado; Illinois; Maryland;
Michigan; New Mexico; Utah; Vermont; and Washington
— Taking effect soon:
Nevada (10/1/13); and Oregon (1/1/14)
Some of those states’ statutes contain very broad prohibitions. Others, like Michigan’s and New Jersey’s, grant employers some exceptions, usually encompassing workplace investigations.
Delaware has also enacted an analogous ban, which, although not directed at employers, focuses on universities vis-a-vis students.
For a very good recent article on the various approaches the states have taken, see Philip L. Gordon and Joon Hwang, Making Sense of the Complex Patchwork Created by Nearly One Dozen New Social Media Password Protection Laws, Workplace Privacy Counsel (July 2, 2013).
Controversy re: These Login/Password Bans
The wave of state legislation in this context is a privacy victory for employees, job seekers and/or students. But, from the management perspective, many have criticized the stricter of these laws as addressing a discrete (non-)issue with a blunt instrument approach. See, e.g., Molly DiBianca, Michigan Enacts Social-Media Privacy Law, Delaware Employment Law Blog (Dec. 30, 2012).
Others have noted that a greater priority should be a modernization of the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”). Behnam Dayanim, Employee Privacy Forces Legislation, Recorder (Aug. 8, 2012) (“these ‘bullet bills’ … represent a missed opportunity both to update the SCA to reflect today’s technology and to re-engage . . . over the broader policy questions.”) (LEXIS ID and password needed).
Indeed, the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) — Title II of the ECPA — of is sorely in need of an update as its outdated provisions do not come close to addressing modern technology and 21st century methods of electronic communications. The SCA was passed in 1986 to try to address that new-fangled technology known as voicemail.
The only amendment to the SCA since its 1986 inception was via the USA PATRIOT Act, hastily passed just weeks after 9-11 to make it easier for prosecutors to obtain from Internet Service Providers the missives of potential terrorists. The SCA’s sister provision, the Wiretap Act — now Title I of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) — has barely been changed since way back in 1968, when wiretapping on phone calls was the primary concern.
Note, though, that the SCA has been interepreted many times by various federal courts to criminalize and provide civil damages for anyone who illictly obtains an individual’s login credentials and then accesses a password-protected online environment. See Robert D.Brownstone, eWorkplace II White Paper (Apr. 3, 2012), at 19-20 (.pdf pp. 24-25).
But see also this brand new piece, Philip L. Gordon, New Jersey Court’s Decision Provides Roadmap For Access To Employees’ Restricted Social Media Content, Workplace Privacy Counsel (Aug. 27, 2013), which addresses a recent decision in a case whose prior opinion was discussed in Venkat Balasubramani, Accessing an Employee’s Facebook Posts by “Shoulder Surfing” a Coworker’s Page States Privacy Claim — Ehling v. Monmouth Ocean Hosp., Eric Goldman Blog (June 4, 2012).
As to a reboot of the ECPA for the 21st century, of course none of us — including our state legislators — can force Congress’ hand.
Congress Asleep at the Switch with SNOPA (why didn’t they call it “SNOOPA”?)
Speaking of Congress, don’t hold you breadth for the oft-threatened ECPA reboot. As in the notice-of-data-breach
context, the states have jumped in to fill the void in this arena because of Congress’ inaction. On the federal level, the
“Social Networking Online Protection Act” (SNOPA) was introduced in the House as H.R. 5050 on April 27, 2012 and
reintroduced on February 6, 2013. But the bill has languished with no activity since then.
Two Dozen More State Bills Pending
Approximately two dozen states have pertinent pending 2013 legislation (linking to 2012 legislation compilation).
Some of those states are considering entering the fray for the first time. Others — California, Delaware, Illinois and Maryland —
are contemplating beefing up or expanding their current provisions.
Open Issue = “Shoulder-Surfing”
Banning forced disclosure of logins/passwords has been the thrust of the pertinent statutes so far. Thus, some of the enacted and pending bills have been silent as to the related practice of “shoulder-surfing” — namely, having an interviewee log into, e.g., her/his Facebook while the interviewer stands or sits behind the prospect so as to see all the private content to which the applicant is instructed to surf.
At first blush, conceptually shoulder-surfing seems quite similar to login/password access. But maybe there are differences, such as that the element of surprise might not allow an applicant the chance to “clean up” his or her social-media possts and friends/followers lists. And maybe, some ban exceptions should exist in certain public sector situations.
Apparently, cities and counties like to be able to try to sniff out whether prospective cops have relatives or friends who are gang members. On the other hand, government action intruding into individual privacy is a constitutional law concern for public agency employers.
As to the various sides and aspects of the shoulder-surfing issue, see generally: Bob Sullivan, Govt. Agencies, colleges demand applicants’ Facebook passwords, NBC News (Mar. 6, 2012). And the above-linked Gordon/Hwang piece sheds some light on which of the first 12 password-bans bans ostensibly did and did not address in-person shoulder-surfing — and on some do’s and don’ts (mostly don’ts).
Stay tuned for developments in this area, as one state after another takes the plunge.
Two Defaults to Change in MS Word — Tuesday Tech Tip # 001
Posted in Microsoft Word, Tuesday Tech Tips
First in a Weekly Series of Tuesday Tech Tips
Each week, ITLawToday will bring you a “techology tip.” Welcome to the inaugural Tuesday Tech Tip. Some will focus on legal compliance.
Others will focus on the nitty-gritty of day-today workflow and information-management.
As we say in California, “Enjoy.” As they say in my hometown NYC, “Knock yourself out ‘hon.”
Out of the box, Microsoft Word traditionally has a number of default settings that hinder efficiency. For better day-to-day information-management, I suggest you make these two changes that I routinely implement each time I first use a new version or uprade of MS Office.
Hyperlink Followable WITHOUT Ctrl+Click
My propensity is to embed as many hyperlinks as possible in documents I generate. Each such link should be readily followable IMHO.
So that you or any user of the file can readily click to follow a hyperlink, disable the need to hit Ctrl+Click as follows, per Microsoft’s instructions:
Click the File tab.
Click Options.
Click Advanced.
Under Editing Options, clear the Use CTRL + Click to follow hyperlink check box.
Spell Check to Address ALL UPPERCASE Words Too
Nothing against inserted Comments. . . .
But when I send a client an annotated draft of a compliance policy, I prefer to input directly into the text — in all UPPERCASE — a bold, yellow-highlighted question in each respective spot where the client needs to provide more facts or make a philosophical decision.
By trial and error, I realized Spell Check was not catching typos in those annotations. ASAP, I re-configured Spell Check to be more thorough. You can do the same as follows:
Click on the flying-windows icon in the upper left.
Click on Word Options.
Click on Proofing.
Click to uncheck the box to the left of Ignore words in UPPERCASE
To learn more, visit Microsoft’s “Choose how spell check and grammar check work“.
Comments? Questions? Other Word defaults that make you cringe?
Anyway, each of us have different peeves and desires.
So, your suggestions for future tips of all sorts are more than welcome . . . .
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GUIDE Ginza Shopping Guide Visit Tokyo's shopping mecca for the latest in fashion
Find luxury brands and chic eateries in Ginza and Yurakucho — areas brimming with trendy shops and restaurants
Ginza and Yurakucho, two of the busiest shopping districts in Japan, are lined with world-renowned department stores and name-brand shops catering to those with sophisticated tastes. There are also many upmarket, long-established restaurants and bars nearby. On Sundays, the main streets are closed to cars, making the area a relaxing place to shop and stroll.
Yurakucho Station area
The huge commercial complex Yurakucho ITOCiA was built in front of Yurakucho Station in 2007. It houses fashion boutiques, specialty dining venues, and movie theaters. Nearby is the Tokyo International Forum , a multi-purpose exhibition center. Drop by the Tourist Information Center at Kotsu Kaikan (Traffic Hall) situated in front of Yurakucho Station for tips on where to go and what to do in the area.
Bic Camera, Yurakucho Branch
Bic Camera, an electronics megastore, has a major store just in front of Yurakucho Station. Stop by to understand why this electronics wonderland has become a Japanese institution. It sells every household device you could imagine, from washing machines to hair curlers and a wide range of special, only-in-Japan technology. They even sell snacks and alcohol. An annex selling games and audio equipment is located on the other side of the station. Many staff are bilingual, making finding the right product much easier for those who don't understand Japanese.
Ginza's famous department stores
Ginza is home to two historic department stores — Mitsukoshi, founded in 1673, and Matsuya, founded in 1925. They remain today and are great places to visit if you're seeking a quintessential Japanese shopping experience. Both feature a range of Japanese goods and brands, making them the perfect place to find chic souvenirs. They both focus particular attention on their basement food courts where you will find an exclusive collection of international delicacies.
Apple Store, Ginza
This was the first Apple store to open in Japan, and remains the country's largest. The six-floor structure of stainless steel and glass is easy to spot among the neighboring designer stores. Come try Apple's latest innovative products or get tips from the expert staff, most of whom speak English.
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In the Ginza and Yurakucho districts, there are 15 shops that sell local products from each region in Japan. They cater to a Japanese clientele as much as tourists — it's almost like taking a mini-tour of Japan. The Kotsu Kaikan in front of Yurakucho Station houses seven shops including Hokkaido Dosanko Plaza, which sells specialties from Hokkaido . On Ginza's main street, the Washita Shop is known for its rare Okinawan food and cosmetics.
Mujirushi Ryohin (MUJI)
Mujirushi Ryohin, or MUJI, as it is known to the outside world, is famous for its monochromatic simplistic designs and cheap yet high-quality home goods. Stop here to find items not available at its international branches. Its flagship Yurakucho store has 3500 meters of floor space, the largest in Eastern Japan. It includes a cafeteria-like restaurant where you can enjoy a quick drink or bite to eat.
Ginza Hakuhinkan Toy Park
This toy emporium has an impressive inventory of hundreds of thousands of toys as well as a duty-free section. The basement floor, or Fashion Doll Park, is dedicated entirely to dolls and doll accessories. The floors are arranged by type. On the first floor, you can find inexpensive and unique souvenirs, like quirky smartphone cases and flavored Kit-Kats. The second floor has stuffed toys, the third educational toys, and the fourth games, hobby goods and puzzles.
Marronnier Gate
This trendy commercial complex houses a multitude of Japanese and international fashion and home brands. The fifth through ninth floors are home to the Tokyu Hands department store, a shop that sells basically everything you could ever imagine, from Japanese designed stationery and electronics to imported cleaning products and cosmetics. You can find a variety of restaurants on the 10th through 12th floors.
Those looking for something a little more wallet-friendly should stop by Ginza's outpost of GU, Uniqlo's cheaper sister store. This is one of the largest GUs in Japan. The first three floors are dedicated to women's clothes, with children's clothes on the third floor, sportswear on the fourth and menswear on the fifth.
Ginza 6
If you're looking to splash out on some true luxury shopping, put aside an afternoon to visit Ginza 6, a state-of-the-art shopping mall opened in 2017. It is home to flagship stores of such luxury brands as Kenzo, Yves Saint Laurent and Fendi. There are also 24 restaurants and cafes, a Noh theater and a large garden on the rooftop. It is very foreign-friendly, with a tourist information center, duty-free services and a currency exchange kiosk.
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NRSE Projects Worth Rs.100 Crore To Come Up In Punjab
2018-07-26 Announcements Construction Northern India
The Project Allotment Committee for New and Renewable Sources of Energy has approved the allocation of major NRSE projects worth Rs. 100 crore for the State, informed Mr Gurpreet Singh Kangar, Minister for Power, New and Renewable Energy Sources, Punjab. He said that nine small Hydro projects of 5.55 MW total capacity which would entail an investment of Rs.60 crore, one Bio-CNG project involving Rs. 17.50 crore and one Bio-Coal Plant with an investment of Rs. 26.75 crore would be set up by the private players.
The Hydro projects shall tap low/ultra low head sites for generation of power on the canal falls mainly on upper Bari Doab Canal (UBDC) branch canals apart from Sidhwan branch & Bathinda canal branch. They will be completed and commissioned in financial year 2020-21. The total installed capacity of Small / Mini Hydel projects in the State will reach to about 180 MW with installation of these projects.
The project for generation of Bio-CNG from Agriculture waste including Paddy straw is to be set up by M/s. Mahindra Waste to Energy Solutions Limited, Mumbai (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited) on Build Operate & Own (BOO) basis under State NRSE Policy-2012. This project is proposed to be set up in SAS Nagar (Mohali). The project shall be completed and set up within 15 months by the company and shall generate 6000 CUM raw biogas per day which will be purified to get about 2.5 tons Bio-CNG per day(approximately 800 ton per annum and Bio-manure 10 to12 ton per day(3300 ton per annum). The project shall utilize 8000 ton per annum of paddy straw apart from wheat and cattle dung.
The Bio-Coal Plant project based on the processing of Paddy Straw will be set up at Village Mehma Sarja in Bathinda, by M/s. Neway Renewable Energy (Bathinda) Private Limited, also on Build Operate & Own (BOO) basis. The project shall produce Bio Coal (Briquettes) about 225 ton per day (75000 ton per annum) from using paddy straw about 300 ton per day (1 Lac ton per annum).
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By Serdar Yegulalp, Senior Writer, InfoWorld |
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8 projects that give WebAssembly a lift
Waiting for WebAssembly to hit the big time in your browser? These related projects are worth checking out ahead of the rush
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WebAssembly, the portable code format positioned as an option to run any language in the browser, is poised to move from lab toy to production tool.
But there's still a lot standing between now and a Utopian future of language-neutral browser scripting. For one, the WebAssembly toolchain is fairly scant, aside from the compilation tools used to generate WebAssembly images from C applications.
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Here are a few third-party tools we've seen springing up for WebAssembly, organized by category and concept, that are worth keeping an eye on as WebAssembly becomes more of a reality.
Decoding/dissassembly
WebAssembly was designed to be parsed by existing JavaScript engines as a bridge to the future. But the binary format used by WebAssembly won't be familiar territory, especially if you're interested in building a compiler for it or generating WebAssembly code on-demand.
A couple of projects have sprung up to provide disassembly utilities. For Python users, there's wasm; for C# users, WasmLib. The former is far more developed than the latter and is showing more activity (sorry, C# fans!). Rust users can check out rust-wasm, although its functionality right now is very limited.
The most polished tools for WebAssembly right now are in -- what else? -- JavaScript, and among them is Daniel Wirtz's toolset for working with WebAssembly by way of JavaScript applications. It includes assembly and disassembly tools, plus convenience classes to represent the structure and contents of WebAssembly binaries.
Right now, WebAssembly's toolchain is indirect. Language support mainly consists of compiling items to JavaScript via Emscripten, then generating WebAssembly code. As yet, there's no way to directly translate, say, Ruby or Python source code into WebAssembly binaries.
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What is possible: Translating the interpreters for those languages, which are typically written in C, then run scripts on top of that. The CPython interpreter, for instance, can be compiled with Emscripten, and the mruby project can do the same for the Ruby interpreter. But this is a bulky, interim solution, and the overhead needed by the interpreter renders it undesirable for anything but experimental use right now.
Nifty and useful
In theory, it's possible to compile WebAssembly to standalone, native executables. WebAssembly Ahead-Of-Time Prototype (WASM-AOT) does exactly that. Its author hasn't intended it to be for production use -- not when WebAssembly is so primordial -- but in the long run, it could serve as a guide for how WebAssembly could work as a true cross-platform compilation system outside the context of the browser.
One problem that emerges with any new technology stack is introspection -- lifting the lid and figuring out what's going on under the hood while operations are running. One project, wasm-metering, injects code directly into WebAssembly applications to measure memory usage and the costs of specific instructions.
Serdar Yegulalp is a senior writer at InfoWorld, focused on machine learning, containerization, devops, the Python ecosystem, and periodic reviews.
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US To Demand Social Media History Of Visitors
By libresist | June 6, 2019
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Radio Marti, the official US media operation originally developed to broadcast news and information into Cuba, has become embroiled in a serious scandal. In recent months, the TV, Radio, and Internet outlet has broadcast propaganda attacking George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and prominent critic of Donald Trump. According to the Washington Post, Soros was described…
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Okay, this is seriously creepy. The online magazine, The HillReporter, says that “A comedian who worked on the set of Celebrity Apprentice and at beauty contests with Donald Trump says that the president used to snort crushed Adderall pills and invite female beauty pageant contestants up to his room in exchange for a win.” The…
45’s Inauguration Committee Investigated
Newsweek is reporting that Donald Trump’s inauguration committee is being investigated for possible corruption. It seems there are reports that the Committee traded favors for money. Is there anyone out there who is even remotely surprised? No. We didn’t think so. Anyway, according to Newsweek, the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office is investigating the committee at…
Chris Christie’s Got More Sense Than We Thought
Photo Credit: Bob Jagendorf from Manalapan, NJ, USA [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons We know that Trump has picked Mick Mulvaney to be his acting Chief of Staff. But, there’s more to the story. Before Mulvaney was offered the job (at least for the moment) Trump seems to have approached Chris Christie,…
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APCON receives patent for electronically controllable fiber optic patch panel
July 20, 2001--APCON, Inc., a provider of intelligent crosspoint switches for the Fibre Channel and telecommunications markets, announced that the company has earned a patent for its fiber optic patch panel system.
APCON, Inc., a provider of intelligent crosspoint switches for the Fibre Channel and telecommunications markets, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent (U.S. patent no. 6,243,510) for its fiber optic patch panel system, which enables users to wire once and then remotely re-configure network connections through control software.
APCON's patented IntellaPatch Panel technology enhances the operational functionality of the traditional patch panel, transforming it from a simple termination block to a smart network management tool ideally suited to the demands of testing and compatibility labs, Storage Area Networks (SANs), and high-value telecommunications management.
With the patented APCON IntellaPatch Panel solution, network administrators can remotely connect and disconnect the fiber lines of multiple devices from any other computer on the network, gaining centralized control of a widely distributed fiber optic network. Using the device's graphical user interface (GUI) software or command line utilities, administrators can remotely operate and control patch panel configurations, monitor network or device status, automate processes, and set parameters. Since all ports are labeled on screen, connections can be quickly and easily switched, routed and shared. The system supports Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and OC-3/OC-12 applications.
The APCON IntellaPatch Panel solution supports point-to-point connections (both one-to-one and one-to-many) or connections in Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) mode. Point-to-point connectivity enables data and resources to be isolated and protected from other nodes on the networks. FC-AL mode is ideal for interconnecting peripheral devices and systems/subsystems in server storage connectivity in SAN environments. The patch panels can be used in configurations that mix both fabric switches and loop hubs in a single SAN. Using fabric switches for high-speed backbones with fan-out of Electronic Patch Panels in FC-AL mode allows hundreds of storage devices to be supported at a reasonable price.
Dual serial ports allow users to remotely control the Electronic Patch Panel from two independent computers. The serial ports can be configured to operate as separate communications channels or in a daisy chain configuration controlled from a single device connected to one of the patch panels. In this configuration, each patch panel is assigned a unique address. Instructions pass from one patch panel to another, but are ignored by all but the addressed patch panel. Consequently, multiple panels may be grouped and controlled together to provide interconnections for large numbers of fiber optic communications devices.
The patented APCON IntellaPatch Panel also maximizes network resources. Since it allows connections between network devices to be dynamically controlled, it reduces the number of signal routing devices needed in a network and prevents congestion. In addition, it increases the distance capability of each fiber optic connection by regenerating the optical signal through the patch panel. With the APCON IntellaPatch Panel, standard Fibre Channel connections can be extended up to 10 kilometers.
About APCON:
APCON is a manufacturer of products designed to enhance and increase the functionality of computer networks and interoperability labs. The company's solutions support Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN), Gigabit Ethernet Networks, Fast Ethernet Networks, iSCSI and SCSI switching and bus extension technologies. For more information, visit www.apcon.com.
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The film is a not too bad watch in general, with warmth in its heart
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Miscommunication unites Vijay and Pournami, however trustworthiness happened in the couple of minutes they addressed one another. As life tossed more chances to get together, they likewise discovered some normal factors that connect them. And after that?
A laidback, jobless individual who has no guts to pursue his energy and a valiant young lady who doesn't surrender in spite of her marketable strategies neglecting to take off. In Jis Joy's Vijay Superum Pournamiyum, the lead match is that combo of alternate extremes that we have seen in numerous movies. Notwithstanding, the manner in which life works out for them is very not the same as anything we have seen so far on screen, and the creators have portrayed the story in a setting as contemporary as could reasonably be expected. How far do they all meet up to make a drawing in the story?
Vijay is a building graduate who is the same as the many 'constrained into-it' adolescents of our occasions. Pournami, then again, is hell-bent on turning into a representative. Both of their families barely have faith in them, however, there is a great deal of adoration in the midst of all that. Their ways cross unprepared, however, the couple of minutes together help in finding each sufficiently other, to distinguish an interface notwithstanding their conspicuous contrasts.
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The soul of the film is very youthful. Comfortable beginning, acquiring the voice of the natural craftsman who names for the notorious 'pukayila ningale rogiyakkum' advertisement to begin with the movie's portrayal, executive Jis has had a go at something new. Aishwarya Lekshmi is as normal as conceivable as Pournami, and radiates both her excitement and irritation in the right dose for the character. Balu Varghese, particularly in his 'music structure' scenes, brings out a lot of giggling with his silliness and mark exchange conveyance. The film's music is agreeable as are its young casings that have an influence in keeping us stuck to them. It additionally gives guardians, who are quick to 'simply offer' their young ladies in the 'right age' to somebody at the soonest, an opportunity to contemplate over adjusting their needs in the issue. The characters have a true surface about them. Additionally, the introduce of the film is not really unsurprising.
Concerning the imperfections, the motion picture runs very moderate in the main half and furthermore somewhat unpleasant around the edges in the second. The specific first scene of the motion picture verges on recovering the opening grouping of Ohm Shanti Oshana, which again includes a similar performing artist, and he is even anguished for a similar reason! Once more, one can't resist feeling a parallel between the scene in which Asif Ali and Siddique's characters have an argument about in business, with that of a scene from Ustad Hotel. Like in a significant number of his past movies, Asif Ali has contributed ideal the job of a dufferish good-for-nothing who is hanging tight to be 'set straight' when he gets into the correct organization of a young lady. The discoursed are to a great extent emotional and now and again, excessively long-winded too. The radio show grouping is very unlikely and separating. The move arrangements are additionally not up to the check, particularly a specific development that is rehashed in a tedious way.
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Exploring Greener(?) Pastures; Reflecting on European Study
Andreas Ottensamer & Alex Raineri on BBC Radio 3
Having recently returned from a months travel in Europe on study scholarships, I'm left with many wonderful experiences and memories to reflect upon. I was very fortunate to have received generous funding from the Theme & Variations Foundation and the Joyce Campbell Lloyd Scholarship (University of Southern Queensland). My sincere thanks go to these organisations for making this endeavour a possibility!
These scholarship funds allowed me to pursue a number of private piano lessons with sixteen different teachers in Brussels, London, Paris, Manchester & Graz. Also, I was able to spend time in Brussels with Kupka's composer Liam Flenady workshopping our new work for piano & tape Si el clima fuera un banco which I will be premiering in 'Outer Sounds' on June 19th (at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts).
In addition to working with these inspiring musicians/teachers, I also gave my first UK performance, a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 of the Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor with Andreas Ottensamer (pictured above). Andreas and I had worked together numerous times in Australia and it was so fortunate that our schedules collided, allowing us to perform together again!
Reflecting on the benefits of the trip, it was extremely useful at this point in time to have the opportunity to work with so many great teachers and start to build overseas networks. It was enlightening to notice how often advice was contradicted from teacher to teacher. I felt like I gained many useful things from each lesson individually but perhaps the greatest learning experience of the trip was, in studying with so many different people, to realise just how much ideas about interpretation and pianism differ (sometimes quite radically!).
This might seem like a rather obvious realisation but for me it was quite confronting to face on a day-to-day basis within the context of an intensive study trip. The actuality of discussing my own thoughts and ideas about the repertoire I was working on, whilst also soaking up all kinds of new ideas and approaches became something of a blur and overload of information.
Thankfully I recorded my lessons so am able to slowly go back through the files and incorporate new ideas into my practice. Speaking more broadly, I feel now that in approaching whatever music I'm playing, more of a need to have formulated a very thoroughly structured approach to every facet of the interpretation. This was already how I approached repertoire prior to the trip but I hadn't ever had to so consistently validate, justify and discuss whether the ideas I had worked into my interpretations were as successful as they could be.
Within the Australian music scene and my generation of colleagues in particular, there is a common conception that 'the grass is greener' on the other side of the world and that furthering studies in Europe or America is a logical progression for a serious young musician. I found it was really useful to have this taster (albeit brief) of overseas study to begin to explore this notion.
It was very interesting to catch up with some very talented and entrepreneurial colleagues and friends to discuss how they have facilitated working professionally in a new country, having come from Australia. Without coming to any real conclusion or concrete opinion on this matter, it was good to scope out future possibilities. I'm certainly not planning on leaving Australia on a permanent basis anytime soon!!
Whilst overseas I saw some really fantastic concerts. Some highlights were; Anna D'Errico & Ian Pace performing Enno Poppe's Thema mit 840 Variationen and Lost by Richard Barrett, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra & Leonidas Kavakos playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto, Klangforum Wien presenting new works by young composers at the IMPULS Academy (particularly interesting were the pieces by Wojtek Blecharz and Ashley Fure), Louie Lortie performing Preludes of Faure & Scriabin, the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy and Belle Chen in 'Kiss of the Earth'.
I would like to conclude by acknowledging the numerous people that made the trip such a stimulating and maturing experience, and for being excellent people! There wasn't a dull moment! Whether we worked together or simply hung out in new and exciting places, many thanks to; Andreas Ottensamer, Ute Pinter and the team at the IMPULS Academy, Liam Flenady, Hannah Reardon-Smith, Bethany Shepherd, Katherine Philp, Gian Ponte, Anna D'Errico, Christophe Matthias, Ian Pace, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Leslie Howard, Murray Maclachlan, Vanessa Latarche, Joanna Macgregor, Mark Knoop, Charles Owen, Alexsandar Madsar, Rolf Hind, Christopher Elton, Peter Hill, Pascal Nemirovski, Francoise Thinat, Ian Jones and Graham Scott.
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Music Beyond Borders: An interview with clarinettist Jason Noble
Alex Raineri took some time out post-performance to find out a little more about the brilliant Jason Noble from Ensemble Offspring, whom Kupka's Piano had the pleasure of performing with for the second time, at our recent performance in Sydney.
Alex Raineri: You've just recently come out of a huge national tour with Ensemble Offspring (EO) and Ironwood. Tell us about your experiences!
Jason Noble: The project was "Broken Consorts", a collaboration between early music group Ironwood and EO, performing at the Sydney Opera House, Fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne, Newcastle Museum, Bahai Centre Hobart and Burnie Art Gallery. A few firsts in this project - first EO gig in Tassie, first gig at Fortyfivedownstairs (a great venue!), and first time performing alongside Ironwood, our early music colleagues. At the centre of this program was a new work written by Felicity Wilcox, alongside Mary Finsterer's Silva, and Damien Ricketson's Trace Elements - both seeking inspiration from early music. Throw in a prepared piano and percussion version of Locke's The Tempest (1674) and you get a varied and very well received show.
AR: As a relatively young ensemble, Kupka's Piano is constantly in a state of flux in relation to how we function on a musical, professional, organisational and logistical level. I'm really interested to know more about how Ensemble Offspring operates. Are certain jobs within the organisation of the group delegated to members and how are programs and projects conceived?
JN: It really takes perseverance to keep a new music group existing, and to have some continuity with personnel. The nature of freelance musical work and players leaving the country can cause headaches for planning.
To be honest, the most important thing is having people who get along throughout the rehearsal process and who are prepared to make the group a priority in the pecking order of work commitments. This doesn't mean we don't disagree from time to time, but more relates to dealing with differing views or opinions on how things should be interpreted or performed.
EO has always had artistic directors leading the way with project conception and I think you do need some structure or hierarchy to get things done. Having said that, there has always been a forum for the input of the core players, both in terms of the direction and repertoire of the group or whom to work and collaborate with.
These days EO is fortunate to have Australia Council funding that contributes to the provision of a general manager. There is always an endless amount of work though, and the players meet every few months for meetings to discuss previous and forthcoming shows.
AR: I read online that you've done some teaching and mentoring in Afghanistan. How did this come about and your what were your experiences with it?
JN: Yes, I have travelled to Kabul, Afghanistan for two of the past three years to teach and perform as part of the Winter Academy at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. This opportunity came about quite by chance. I was getting my fix of documentaries at the Sydney Film Festival in 2012 and attended the screening of "Dr Sarmast's Music School", (it was also screened on ABC television). An inspiring teacher of mine, Mark Walton, had attended the school previously and asked in December of that year whether I would attend in his place. I knew immediately that I wanted to help out, and so three weeks later I was on a plane to Kabul.
The school itself is an amazing place. Firstly that it is able to exist, given that music in Kabul was banned under Taliban rule. The school has a Western music focus running alongside the traditional Afghani music and general studies. Visiting musicians are instructed to teach what they can, in a volunteer capacity. I had a class of about 8 clarinet students from ages 8 to 20 , but also helped out with the flutes, oboes, harmonium, triangle player, yoga, theory, whoever needed help really. The interesting thing is once you are inside the school, you could be at any musical institution in the world . The students needed the same help as ones I instruct in Australia, the only difference perhaps being the desire or eagerness to absorb knowledge. There are both boys and girls at the school, and special emphasis is given to orphans and to underprivileged children, some of whom have a background selling plastic bags on the chaotic Kabul streets.
There are weekly concerts at the school, where visiting musicians from across the world perform alongside each other and with students. There are many wonderful Afghani string instruments to listen to, such as the rubab and dilruba.
I still keep in touch with some North-Indian musicians I met there. We gave a premiere of a work for two sitars, tabla , clarinets, and piano. I just returned in February 2015 from one of these musicians wedding in Assam, India. Together, we managed to record a track for television the day after the wedding, the cross cultural experience lives on.
Unfortunately a suicide blast in late 2014 upset my plans to return in January 2015. The blast at a French Cultural Centre injured the principal of the school. A timely reminder what Afghani's experience on a regular basis.
Most importantly though, the regular trips to Afghanistan remind me why I ended up in this profession in the first place: the power of music to go beyond borders and to communicate hope and humanity in unimaginable circumstances.
AR: What are some upcoming projects? You mentioned a Dance collaboration in Germany?
JN: I have been involved in a project with Nick Wales and dance group "Shaun Parker and Company" called "Am I". This show toured the Australian festival circuit last year and this year goes international with tours to Germany, Luxembourg, Sweden and Malaysia. The music is a new score which is difficult to define or categorise - but at its premise seeks to find a new music that represents all humanity - part acoustic and part electro, lots of drumming and Armenian music at its core. Great to work with a band who have skills across a broad range of areas too, from Indian drumming, opera, contemporary classical, electronic, jazz and pop.
Another project I will revisit this year is Ngarukuruwala, a return visit to the Tiwi Islands. There is an incredible group of "Strong Women" who sing the traditional songs and play an important role in preserving the traditional culture of the Islands. We will be working on a new disc of collaborations, and reworking old field recordings of Tiwi women singing.
AR: What are your current top 5 desert island pieces?
JN: Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians", Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No.1" (my first ever CD), any track from Anouar Brahem's Astrakan Café, "Raga Parameshwari" the amazing sitar playing of Abhishek Adhikary, and a new Finnish clarinet piece I have been working on, "Eliangelis" by Antti Auvinen.
Uncategorizedanguswilsonpercussion 23 March 2015 Afghanistan National Institute of Music, Alex Raineri Piano, bass clarinet, clarinet, Ensemble Offspring, Heidrun Lohr, Jason Noble, Kupka's Piano, new music, surface tension, SydneyComment
In the dream of another: An interview with Benjamin Marks
Benjamin Marks took some tim e out from composing, performing and teaching this week to speak to Kupka's Piano percussionist Angus Wilson. Angus performed his new work 'The Circular Ruins' with guest saxophonist Sami Mason last Friday night at Absent, Almost Absent. Angus Wilson: You are a regular audience member and follower of Kupkas Piano, what excited you the most about writing for Kupkas Piano on this occasion?
Benjamin Marks: Writing music to be included in a Kupka programme is a big challenge. The music programmed (Lim, Ablinger etc.) is exceptional so I feel pretty daunted. Coupled with that I feel like I can write with a great deal of freedom, knowing that so much repertoire has been digested by the ensemble over the last few years. I feel like this is an ensemble which can locate the aesthetic or musical concerns a new piece has and articulate that understanding with intelligent and sensitive performances.
AW: Sami and I are very excited to play your new work.... Can you tell us a little bit about the project? Where did it draw it's inspiration from? Does it have a life beyond it's current format?
BM: Best to quote my programme note here:
Two (The Circular Ruins)
This piece takes as its raw material the sound of water running under a bridge. The sound was recorded and slowed down sixty times to reveal intense rhythmic and pitch activity. This was transcribed and became one of the primary means of organizing the piece.
Two explores the problems of creating an evolving musical landscape from a static sound source. Different notions of flow are explored within static constructs, and different notions of stasis are explored in more flexible, expressive constructs. The expressive capacity of the music lies in the movement between these various states.
In the context of the larger scale outdoor piece, The Circular Ruins, this duo constitutes part two. The piece, when removed from the outdoor context, is accompanied by a tape part that draws directly from sounds found in Southbank, Brisbane, the intended location of the four part work The Circular Ruins.
Jorge Louis Borges' story The Circular Ruins tells of a dreamer who dreams another man into existence only to find himself the dream of another. In the outdoor work for Southbank my goal is to bring to life often ignored environmental sounds, or, more generally, to bring about active engagement with our sounding environment. The composed pieces, including Two, engage with specific environmental sounds and acoustics creating an intense listening experience which is gradually expanded to include the limits of the acoustic horizon.
AW: You have an interesting little setup of percussion in the piece, ceramic bowls, temple blocks, woodblocks and a bass drum. Can you tell us what you were envisaging when you selected these instruments?
BM: I was thinking of sounds that most resembled my idea of water noise slowed down, other than the usual wash of white noise. This is purely imaginary, and these sounds also link into quite a ritualistic sound space. There is a naturalness to these sounds (wood, ceramic and skin) that I feel drawn to and a quiet complexity of timbre. The bass drum has a slightly different function to the other instruments in that it articulates a large scale pulse, which runs through all four pieces that makes up The Circular Ruins. Only a fragment of the pulse exists in Two.
AW: I first met you as a trombonist, playing Pines of Rome in a brass band. Can you tell us a little bit about your activities other than composing? How do you find living and working in Brisbane?
BM: I moved to Brisbane (from Melbourne) in 1998 to do my masters in performance at the QLD Conservatorium. My undergraduate was in composition from the University of Melbourne. I've always moved between composition and performance in some way or other, although my professional life has been mostly as a performer with ELISION. When I moved to Brisbane ELISION was also based here so it helped kick off a wonderful time of learning and recording new repertoire and broadening my improvisational experience which has carried through to the present day. I studied with Simone de Haan at the time and this experience changed me in many fundamental ways and brought me, through various activities, into contact with the Brisbane cultural scene. Since that initial period of study I've developed a strong low brass teaching base (which I love) and I continue to strive to play a creative role in the cultural life of my home city.
AW: Finally, what other interesting projects do you have coming up, where can our audience hear you play, or hear other compositions by you?
BM: I'm currently working my way into a Doctorate of Musical Arts in which I'm exploring multilayered spatial composition and performance in an outdoor context. By developing musical strategies that engage with environmental sound (some of which you'll hear in Two) I hope to create, for a listener, a shifting network of perceptual frames. My research should result in various performances, the first being early next year in Southbank. This is the project alluded to above The Circular Ruins. I'll be giving a trombone recital on February 25th next year, at 6:30pm, at the QLD Conservatorium, partnering with my wife Ysolt Clark on French Horn. We haven't quite settled on repertoire yet although Scelsi and Richard Barrett are likely starting points.
Uncategorizedanguswilsonpercussion 27 November 2014 Ben Marks, composing, Judith Wright Centre, Kupka's Piano, Liza Lim, new music, percussion, saxophone, tromboneComment
Pregnant nothingness: An interview with Chikako Morishita
This Friday, Kupka's Piano clarinetist Macarthur Clough gives the Australian premiere of Chikako Morishita's solo clarinet work Lizard (shadow). Chikako has kindly taken a moment of her time between composition deadlines and premieres at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to give us a quick intro to her life, music, and guilty pleasures.
Liam Flenady: Let's start at the start. Tell us a bit about yourself. What's your story?
Chikako Morishita: I’m a Japanese composer, occasionally a pianist. I was awarded a BA and an MA from Tokyo University of Arts, and an MA (research) with distinction from University of Huddersfield. I’ve been based in Berlin since 2011. At the same time I’m doing a PhD at Huddersfield under Liza Lim and Aaron Cassidy.
LF: You say in your program notes in fact that Lizard (shadow) is a work about silence. You mention that one of the ways of writing 'lizard' in Kanji is with the characters of 'shade' and 'gate'. How do you draw upon this compositionally?
CM: For me, silence is not just a soundingly absent space, it is a space fully filled by one’s imagination even if materially empty. We call it 'pregnant nothingness' in Japan and I wanted silence in my composition to be like that. As for the title... The score of lizard (shadow) contains various degrees of determinacy and indeterminacy -determinate musical materials function as a framework to illustrate something unstable or indeterminate as if the gate (a fixed object) lets shadows exist.
LF: Lizard (shadow) has something of a 'moment'-like structure, How did you come up with the different sections - were they planned in advance, or did you find the structure intuitively?
CM: Firstly I made variations of some original materials (all passages in this work were derived from a single starting material), and then I made fragmentary moments by combining them. I then shuffled the order, added and removed notes or fragments, and so on.
LF: You've dedicated this piece to the works original performer, Heather Roche, and say in your notes that the layered material 'frames the performer's own interpretative sensibilities'. What do you feel the role of the performer is in your music?
CM: I hope my music to be a device to frame performer’s heightened sense of presence, and also to reveal their unique being.
LF: In Kupka's, we have a running joke that we'll do a 'guilty pleasures' concert at some point, playing pieces or songs that each of us hate to admit that we love. My song is Toto's Africa, a sophisticated, but thoroughly corny piece of early 80s pop. What is your musical guilty pleasure?
CM: Easy. AKB48, the Japanese idol group.
LF: Well I look forward to your modernist arrangement of this classic hit: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFf4AgBNR1E]
Concerts, Repertoire, Uncategorizedliamflenady 26 November 2014 Brisbane new music, Chikako Morishita, guilty pleasures, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Macarthur Clough ClarinetComment
‘Embracing unclear connections with the past’; an interview with guest artist Tristram Williams
Our upcoming concert ‘Absent, almost absent‘ at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts on Friday November 28th features guest artist Tristram Williams (trumpet – ELISION Ensemble). Kupka pianist Alex Raineri catches up with Tristram amidst rehearsals to chat about Liza Lim, ELISION Ensemble and the Australian music scene.
This performance is almost sold out so be sure to book tickets now to avoid being absent!!
ALEX RAINERI: We're really excited to be welcoming you as guest artist in our upcoming concert where the centrepiece is Veil by Liza Lim. You've had the opportunity to work with Liza personally before, I wonder whether you could tell us a bit about her character and her manner of composer/performer interaction?
TRISTRAM WILLIAMS: I've been friends and colleagues with Liza for about 15 years now and worked with her on around 6 new pieces, including the solo wild winged-one and the tpt-perc duo, Ehwaz.
She is a fun composer to work with, she is always intensely interested in new things one is figuring out on the instrument then she uses them in ways you never imagined possible! I can honestly say I have learnt a lot about the trumpet from her. In so much of her work I've encountered things I thought were not possible, then in finding a solution extended my own playing.
She is also an intently spiritual person. I think this is what I most enjoy about her music, the sense of striving for some kind of spiritual transcendence or transformation. It's powerful stuff.
AR: Having had experience performing contemporary music all over the world, I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the new music culture in Australia. There's certainly a very vibrant scene in this country for exploring challenging and rarely performed works but this music is largely absent within tertiary music institutions and the programming of major concert series (eg. orchestras and established ensembles). In your opinion, how do Australian audiences react comparatively to European or American audiences who might feel more of an association or stronger affinity with the history of contemporary repertoire?
TW: I think Australian audiences are different from the Europeans in positive and negative ways. We don't have the same connection to the culture as Europe in the sense we can't say Brahms lived in our city, or Stravinsky wrote Sacre where we take holidays. (We could have said Ravel taught at Sydney Con, but for the incredible prejudice and stupidity of the administration there in the 1920's. My how universities have changed...).
In my experience many Euro composers relate themselves directly to Brahms, Wagner et al. And the audiences see it that way too. New music as merely an extension of the existing tradition.
The negative side of this (and the positive for Aussies) is a conservativism and reluctance to embrace something whose connection to the past is not clear. I think Aussie audiences are open minded and don't mind hearing something whose provenance is unclear!
AR: Also in this concert we're featuring a new work by Benjamin Marks whom you've worked with on numerous occasions, both being members of the ELISION Ensemble. Kupka's Piano has a really nice link to Elision through the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts who are currently hosting us as ensemble in residence and for a number of years was home of the Elision ensemble. Having been an active member of Elision (among other groups) for a number of years, in your opinion, what kind of role do arts organisations like the Judy play in supporting ambitions young ensembles? How did the residency at the Judy affect and influence the development of the Elision ensemble?
TW: It's fantastic that KP is at the Judy now. Elision certainly had many important years there and it's great that such important music making is still going on there. The Judy will make the history books!
AR: Lastly, what are your top 5 favourite pieces?
TW: Very difficult! At the moment, I'd say;
1 - Schubert die Winterreise
2 - Richard Barret World-line (premiered by Elision in Oct, for tpt, perc lap, steel guitar and electronics)
3 - Enno Poppe Speicher
4 - Messiaen Visions de l'amen
5 - Tippett 4th Piano Sonata
Find out more about Tristram on his website and book tickets to 'Absent, almost absent' before time runs out and we're sold out!
Uncategorizedalexraineripianist 18 November 2014 #kupkaspiano #judithwrightcentre #tristramwilliams #lizalim #ELISIONensembleComment
Teasing out the subtleties: Thoughts on our upcoming 'Tempi Espressivi'
Hannah Reardon-Smith writes about our upcoming concert Tempi Espressivi, which will take place this Friday night at the Judith Wright Centre.
This coming Friday we're presenting a special performance by Kupka's Piano "sub-trio", consisting of Angus Wilson (percussionist), Alex Raineri (pianist), and myself (flautist). I guess it comes as no surprise that it is an ambitious program! And each of the works has a special significance for the performers.
One of the great pleasures for me has been revisiting 'Presto con Fuoco' for flute and piano by Swiss-Austrian composer Beat Furrer. Alex and I first played this work in 2011, giving its Australian premiere at the Campbelltown Arts Centre in Sydney. We performed it several more times that year, and the result is that as we return to it now we find its hockets and breathless drive are written into our bones. What took us a good many weeks to learn the first time through now requires only the fine tuning of extra details and communications. We're very much looking forward to performing this, and our security gives us the freedom to take it at a cracking speed.
Those among our audience at the last concert would have noticed that the lovely Jodie Rottle had taken my place on the stage. This is because I was spending several months over in Cologne, Germany thanks to an Australia Council ArtStart grant, studying privately with Helen Bledsoe (flautist with musikFabrik) and Dr Camilla Hoitenga (the flautist who worked with Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho on the vast majority of her works for the instrument). It was an incredible time for me, and I worked closely with these teachers on a large amount of repertoire - in particular Stockhausen's 'In Freundschaft' and Gérard Grisey's 'Talea'. With Helen I also worked on a piece that has been on my to-do pile for several years: 'Cassandra's Dream Song' by English new complexity composer Brian Ferneyhough. A piece like this requires intense commitment and patience. Ferneyhough packs an enormous amount of detail into every gesture and line. A flautist himself, he wrote the work with flute in hand, finding ways to cross the established 'limits' of the instrument. There is also work for the musician on the level of interpretation, as some of the ordering of parts of the work is left up to the performer. This work is now one of the new 'standard repertoire' pieces for the flute, and single-handedly expanded our knowledge of what the flute can do. It was written in 1970 but not performed until 1975! For many flautists it is the kind of piece that you keep on working on throughout your career. I am just starting that process, and this Friday will be my first performance of 'Cassandra'.
In this concert we will giving the premiere of Liam Flenady's trio 'Quite Early Morning No. 2'. Liam has written about it here, and Angus has weighed in on the process of preparing Liam's music. I'm not sure we've rehearsed anything so intensively as we have this piece over the last few weeks. Liam does not write especially easy music, and realising the complexities, particularly those of the communication between members of the ensemble, presents many challenges. The opportunity to work so intensively together on a work like this is, however, extremely rewarding. Liam has been sitting in on every rehearsal, which brings a very different process into play - one where we can negotiate solutions to instrumental and ensemble issues with the composer at hand, and receive insight into the process and ideas behind the music. It's always both terrifying and exhilarating to premiere new music, and this piece will be no exception.
Angus and Alex have also been preparing 'Quatre pièces fébriles' ('Four feverish pieces') by Georges Aperghis. The three of us (along with composers Liam and Michael Mathieson-Sandars) will actually be heading to the Darmstadt Summer Festival of new music a few short weeks after this concert, and there we will have the opportunity to play these works for the composers: Furrer, Ferneyhough and Aperghis are all tutors at this year's festival!
In short, we hope you can join us on Friday for Tempi Espressivi, a concert that teases out the many subtleties that exist between 'fast' and 'slow'.
UncategorizedHannah Reardon-Smith 17 July 2014 Comment
Always something violent with something fragile. Rune Glerup in interview
With our 'Modern Music in Exile' concert coming up this Friday, our violinist Adam Cadell speaks to young Danish composer Rune Glerup (b. 1981) whose work La Rose Pulverisée we will be giving the Australian premiere of. We're pretty chuffed to be presenting the first ever performance of a work of Rune's in Australia. Come along and hear his amazing music!
Adam Cadell: Rune, since you are a Danish composer living far away from Australian shores, I fear few people would know much about your work here. Indeed I believe our performance of your piece La Rose Pulverisée is an Australian premiere. Could you please give us a brief introduction of yourself and your compositional endeavours up until this time?
Rune Glerup: My first impressions of contemporary music was of Danish contemporary music. 10-15 years ago, almost all contemporary music performed in Denmark was Danish. Fortunately this has changed since then, but at the time I felt a need to get to know what was happening elsewhere, and as old-fashioned it might sound, the internet was not what it is today, so it was more difficult to orientate oneself. That's why I left for Berlin when I was twenty-one, and later to Paris. I felt I had to leave Denmark to get a wider horizon. I think living abroad so much has made an impact on how I consider many things, and of course especially my music.
AC: You speak of your music as being minimalist in a way. To me, rehearsing your piece La Rose Pulverisée, it seems that in this piece you start with a larger idea, a more complex idea, and gradually pull it apart until the final movement is like the thematic material has been pulverised into dust. It’s almost as though the minimalism is a literal process within the piece, a minimising of the material during performance. Would you say this description represents well the process behind the piece? What would you say is the essence of your compositional process?
RG: Yes, in a certain way you can say my music is minimalistic, but it has very little to do with the American minimalism. It is minimalistic in the sense that I often tend to use a reduced and static material. I almost never use these large organic forms. Usually I define some elements that I can combine in different ways. I should say though, that La Rose Pulverisée is an earlier piece, and I'm not sure that the term "minimalistic" applies very well to it. It's a piece closer to the modernistic idiom influenced by surrealism, and you are right in your analysis that the piece begins with a large idea that gradually gets pulled apart. I was also interested in some contradictions, or a certain kind of inertia: The lyrical and violent in the image of a rose that gets pulverised, and the predominantly violent style of the writing, but for two very classical instruments that cannot produce that much sound. Always something violent with something fragile. You can find these oppositions in many aspects of the piece.
AC: Would you call your desire to “short-circuit” the known a subversive act? And is the known you are conducting a frontal attack on the traditions of Western classical music or a broader metaphorical notion of the known?
RG: I think the idea of short-circuiting interest me because if it's successful, it can reveal something new about what we thought we knew already. I think this is what happens when you invent something. You have all the known in front of you, and short-circuiting it - doing something you are not supposed to do with the material - can be a way to create this new aspect that was impossible to think before. You can apply this to musical thinking, but you can also apply it to everything else.
AC: You talk of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock being an influence on your work. How important do you think the legacy of the post-war avant-garde is to contemporary composition?
RG: Pollock was an inspiration for one work in particular: a piece for cello and live-electronics. I think the avant-garde of the 1950's and 60's has been extremely important for the development of the musical thinking up until today because those composers - Stockhausen, Boulez, Cage among others - opened up a new world of possibilities. However, the world we are living in is post-modern, and we don't just have one singular development to focus on, but a multitude of things to take into consideration. We cannot say that there is only one true way. Therefore I would say that the legacy of the post-war avant-garde is very important, but there are many other things that are equally important.
AC: This upcoming Kupka’s Piano concert, at which we will perform the Australian premiere of your work La Rose Pulverisée, is themed around exile. Exile has been a potent state in which artists have produced great work throughout history – indeed some artists of the abstract expressionist era (Burroughs in Tangiers, Nancarrow in Mexico for example) are a good example of this. How relevant do you feel the theme of exile is to art in our current time in which millions of people live in forced exile, and is it something that you have or would like to address in your composition?
RG: I don't really think the theme of exile is so relevant to art itself in general, but only in particular situations where artists are living in exile. Of course, if an artist is isolated from the rest of the world, I'm certain the art he/she produces will be different from what others, who can always be updated on the latest development, produces. In that way exile can make a very big impact on the artistic result. In another way, I don't consider art as a kind of commentary to politics, and therefore I will say that I don't address political questions in my works, and I doubt that music is even capable of doing so.
AC: And lastly, other than yourself of course, which Danish composers should we be keeping our eyes and ears on?
RG: Well, I think there are actually many interesting composers in Denmak right now. Christian Winther Christensen, Nicolai Worsaae and Simon Løffler among others in the younger generation. And I would especially like to mention Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen from the older generation, who has enjoyed a growing reputation the last few years. I think his music and ideas deserve to be more known, also outside of Denmark.
Uncategorizedliamflenady 21 May 2014 danish music, denmark, minimalism, new music, Rune Glerup, surrealismComment
"A physical, bodily approach to the way I compose": Michael Mathieson-Sandars discusses his latest work
Kupka's Piano composer, Michael Mathieson-Sandars, will have his first piece for 2014, Character Motions, premiered by Kupka's Piano at our concert 'The Machine and the Rank Weeds' at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. Here are some of his thoughts!
Hélène Cixous, in her 1975 essay The Laugh of Medusa, calls for a feminine writing (écriture féminine) which combats and reframes what she argues to be a masculine discourse inscribed into writing and language (and thinking). She offers the following advice: “Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.”
While I believe similarities between language and music to be much more complicated than a clear parallel, there is a clear masculine discourse within western classical composition. It goes without saying that this should be challenged here as it should be challenged in other appearances of patriarchy and phallogocentrism. (I should probably also note that, for Cixous, a feminine writer need not necessarily be female “there are some men (all too few) who aren't afraid of femininity”). There are lessons to be learned from Cixous for any artist, let alone composer – and there is even more at stake here because to write “from the body” concerns the subject and the subject's relationship to music.
The subject's relationship to music is, of course, something about which I have very little understanding and I imagine it will continue to escape me for some time yet (probably indefinitely). Nonetheless, I feel, largely intuitively (physically? Pre-intellectually?), that a physical, bodily approach to the way I compose will increase the possibility of creating music which carves its form from its own material – which represents, at least partially, the complexity of the modern subject in its multiplicity of relations.
Which I guess brings me to my new piece, Character Motions. My musical implementation of this thinking is, of course, quite naïve, but, at the same time, quite exciting. (It's also quite an interesting experience to attempt to write in a less conscious, more physical way which can only be achieved by becoming conscious of physicality!). In many ways, it is not such a grand or radical departure (Rome not built in a day, climbing to stand on the shoulders of giants, etc.), but I feel the material of the music in this piece contains a vibrancy and depth beyond what has appeared in my music previously. The piece itself is quite short, and moves very rapidly. This, in part, is for future plans to expand the piece for performance by the ensemble later in the year, but more broadly to build material which will allow me to create more expansive works in the future.
As always, it's a great pleasure to work with the musicians in Kupka's Piano, and I'm looking forward to kicking off our series ‘Il faut être’ next Friday. Feel free to come along to the concert and let me know what you think!
UncategorizedMichael Mathieson-Sandars 14 March 2014 Comment
'The shadow of a fundamental sound...': An interview with Clara Iannotta
Michael Mathieson-Sandars and Alethea Coombe were fortunate enough to chat in person with featured composer Clara Iannotta. Conversation meandered through topics diverse as train rides, contemporary art, housing prices in Berlin, and the supremacy of Australian vs. Italian coffee. Here is a more formal follow-up with Clara about her broader musical ideas as well as her trio 'il colore dell'ombra' (the colour of the shadow), which will be featured in our upcoming concert 'To Roam with Love'
Alethea Coombe: Could we have a brief biographical sketch - where have you lived? Who have you studied with?
Clara Iannotta: Born in Rome in 1983, I spent my whole childhood studying to become a flautist. After my harmony teacher more or less forced me, I started taking composition classes in 2003, and after one year I realised that composing was the art that represented me the most. Looking for a good teacher, I travelled around Italy and I stopped for three years in Milan to study with Alessandro Solbiati, to whom I have dedicated my pieces Clangs and D’après.
Since then, I have had inspiring discussions with many composers: I talked about material with Franck Bedrossian, about form with Chaya Czernowin, and about silence with Steven Takasugi. I am particularly interested in music as an existential, physical experience – music should be seen as well as heard. This is one of the reasons why I sometimes prefer to talk about the choreography of the sound rather than about orchestration.
A lover of the cultures, I have had the chance to work with amazing musicians in many countries, including France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia and the United States. I lived and studied in Paris for five years, and since January this year, I have been living in Berlin as a guest of the Artist-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
AC: In the next installment of "Where in the World is Kupka's Piano", we are focusing on works from Italy. In your opinion, who have been the most important Italian composers writing in the last 20 years, and why?
CI: Pierluigi Billone is definitely the composer who marked me the most. I am fascinated by his sounds, his way of dealing with time, and also what he thinks about composing. Once I had a lesson with him, and he told me we have already too many pieces, we don't need more music, so, we should try to be as personal as possible.
Other Italian contemporary composers who marked me in the last years are Francesco Filidei and Mauro Lanza. I really like the incredible sense of humor and 'lightness' you can find in their works.
AC: Tell us a bit more about the piece that we're playing - il colore dell’ombra (the colour of the shadow). What were your intentions with this work?
CI: It took me several months to start composing this piece.
Every contemporary composer has written at least a string quartet, but there are a only few contemporary piano trios. I think the reason is because this instrumentation no longer has a good balance — the sound of the piano we have nowadays is way more powerful, compared to the one Brahms used, and to balance it we would need a string quartet, instead of just a violin and a cello.
Writing this piece, I was influenced by Ravel's piano trio. You can feel, in the whole piece, the shadow of a fundamental sound, A, and in the third movement the material I used comes completely from Ravel's Passacaille.
AC: What has changed for you since you wrote this piece? Are you moving in new directions?
CI: I always had a strong interest in sound, as a living, complex organism in which you cannot distinguish between pitch, tone-colour and harmony.
Luciano Berio used to say that we should look at the music and listen to the theatre. In my opinion, this sentence does not mean just that musicians have to do extra-musical gestures on stage; I really think that there is theatricality in the sound itself.
Nowadays, I am looking for a sound that can represent me, through which the audience might enter inside it almost physically, within its nuances.
AC: Certainly some food for thought! Thanks Clara!
UncategorizedMichael Mathieson-Sandars 12 September 2013 Comment
'Islands of context': An interview with Gerald Resch
As part of our upcoming concert on May 10, Giants Behind Us, focussing on the next generation of German and Austrian music, our clarinetist-extraordinaire Macarthur Clough and brilliant guest soprano Tabatha McFadyen will perform Gerald Resch's composition Splitter. The next in our series of interviews, composer Liam Flenady has a chat with him about being a composer today, the contemporary music police, and Arabic Pop music. Check out his music here: http://www.geraldresch.at/
Liam Flenady: Firstly, a bit of background. Where are you from and where did you get your musical and compositional education?
Gerald Resch: I was born 1975 in Linz/Austria and consider myself educated in a quite Central European way, with a mix of traditions and influences. My teachers in composition, with whom I studied at various times between 1993-2001, were the Swiss-American Michael Jarrell and the Hungarian Iván Eröd in Vienna, the German York Höller in Cologne and the Swiss Beat Furrer in Graz. Because of quite long stays in France and Italy, I feel a certain affinity to these cultures as well.
LF: In these interviews for our concert, we’re asking our featured composers what a 'day in the life' looks like, to give a sense of what it’s like to be a young composer today. Would you care to indulge us?
GR: In my opinion, the profession of a composer has changed a lot over the last few decades. Nowadays, all the composers I know are very busy not only with composing, but also with organising concerts, writing articles, teaching, etc.
For example, my average 'day in the life' consists of bringing the kids to school, then going home to compose for a few hours, then answering emails, writing letters, contacting ensembles, etc, preparing my lessons for the students at the music university, going to teach, afterwards going to 'Kunstverein Alte Schmiede Wien' where I organise concerts with contemporary music, coming home at night to talk with my wife. If possible, I’ll then try to continue to compose for some more hours at night (or falling into bed instead).
LF: Sounds exhausting - I can relate. But let’s turn to the inside of the musical practice. What are you currently composing? What kinds of ideas or musical questions are you looking at?
GR: At the moment, I am writing some 'Madrigals' for solo voices and accordion on contemporary German love poems. The main question for this piece is how it is possible to transport the content of the poems in such a way that the pieces have on the one hand a specific 'Resch-sound' (e.g. use sonorities I like), but on the other give the singers the opportunity to shape my composition in a way that allows them to really express themselves while singing - so that my music can become their own music.
LF: One of the main themes of this concert is how the next generation of Germanic composers deals with its traditions and its history. From the Australian vantage point, it seems that composers from Germany and Austria have a heavy weight of tradition bearing down on them. Does this impact on what you do? Do you feel you have to grapple with your tradition?
GR: I think that it is a very special situation in Central Europe (and especially in Austria, and even more especially in Vienna), where these 'old traditions' still are quite alive, in a certain way. For example, here in Vienna it is quite easy to hear the Brahms Symphonies in live concerts several times a year. Me personally, I find it interesting to draw upon music of several traditions in order to develop a personal musical voice that is contemporary - one that tries to find a musical tone that is somehow relevant for today.
For example, I had a challenging commission by the Wiener Musikverein to write an orchestral piece, "Cantus Firmus", which would be the first part of a concert that would have as its second part a performance of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Symphony "Lobgesang": I tried to understand the Mendelssohn piece (even its weaknesses) in order to find a personal solution which has nothing to do with Mendelssohn but nevertheless matches with it. A kind of reflection – and contradiction. I think that nowadays the interest for such 'permeabilities' of old and contemporary is indeed an important issue.
LF: Over the years we've seen different 'schools' emerge in Europe, associated with different regions (spectralism in France, Lachenmann-influenced music in Germany, etc). Do you think this is still the case in Europe? What would be the major dividing lines now, if any?
GR: In general, I think that this idea of belonging to 'schools' is no longer as strict as it used to be some decades ago. For example, it is possible – and quite common today – to be influenced both by spectralism and by Lachenmann. I feel (or wish?) that the authority of a self-appointed 'contemporary music police' is being doubted more and more.
LF: But while these schools may be in decline (or hopefully), do you still feel there are key musical concerns facing the new generations of composers in Germany and Austria?
GR: Difficult to say… For me, one of the most central questions while composing is to be able to build a consistent individual and distinctive work, but stay at the same time open for unexpected influences, surprising detours, etc.
LF: What about your piece Splitter that we're performing in our May 10 concert. What is behind the choice of text? What ideas informed your composing?
GR: The template for Splitter is a text by the Austrian avant-garde poet Waltraud Seidlhofer. She composes texts in such a way that the words on the paper are distributed in a very well calculated manner: it makes a big difference whether a word is at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a line. Although the text does not ‘tell a story’, it is instead the case that groups of particles build little ‘islands of context’ that are multi-layered: it is quite difficult to explain...
Anyway, the text inspired me to use it as a very rigid pattern for organising the rhythms of my piece. Although this was very helpful for me while composing the piece, I hope the listener will not perceive the strict skeleton of the construction which appears in the background of the piece, but will simply feel that the musical things that happen have a certain logical alliance that he or she doesn’t need to figure out, but will be touched by.
LF: Just finally, what music are you currently listening to? Any tips for our audience in Australia?
GR: I have recently been to Jordan in the Middle East and am at the moment fascinated by contemporary Arabic Pop Music. Perhaps I will write an orchestra piece in which I try to merge some Arabic idioms with a kind of abstracted Bossa-Nova-feeling, brought together with my own harmonic, melodic and rhythmic idiom...
LF: Sounds fascinating. Thanks for the chat Gerald. Looking forward to hearing your work performed at the concert!
Interview, Uncategorizedliamflenady 8 May 2013 Austria, composer, contemporary music, Gerald Resch Comment
Introducing Tabatha McFadyen
Tonight we'll be joined in performance by the lovely Tabatha McFadyen, a talented lyric soprano and a regular guest with the ensemble. She'll be premiering Liam Flenady's new song-cycle, Stars, Not Far Off.
Tabatha is completing a Bachelor of Music (Advanced Performance) with Honours at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, and is currently a pupil of Prof. Lisa Gasteen. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Muir Memorial Undergraduate Award, a member of Griffith Honours College, and has been a recipient of the Griffith Award for Academic Excellence for each year of her study.
In 2012, she has competed as a semi-finalist in the McDonald's Operatic Aria, and has been a finalist in the Opera & Arts Support Group Scholarship and the Italian Opera Foundation Award. As part of the 2012 Australian Singing Competition, she was the recipient of the Mozart Opera Institute Award and the Nelly Apt Scholarship. In 2011, she was the winner of the South East Queensland Aria & Concerto Competition and the Margaret Nickson Prize (with pianist Alex Raineri), a finalist in the 2011 Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Vocal Scholarship, and performed as part of the New Music Network’s ‘Generation Next’ project.
Her operatic roles have included Zerlina (Don Giovanni – Mozart), Titania (The Fairy Queen – Purcell), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica – Puccini), all for QCGU, and Prilepa in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy.
She regularly performs as a guest artist with contemporary music ensemble Kupka's Piano, and is a founding member of The Sydney Opera Co., playing the role of Suor Genovieffa in their upcoming production of Suor Angelica.
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New app to help combat spread of invasive species in Limerick
Public urged to assist local authority
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A screengrab from the app which shows the location of invasive species across Limerick
THE war against invasive species in Limerick has intensified, thanks to the involvement of the public and a piece of smart-phone technology.
A new app, Report Invasive Species, which was launched by Limerick City and County Council in February, has seen hundreds of reports submitted about giant hogweed, Japanese knotweed, Himalayan Balsam and winter heliotrope growing profusely in locations all over the city and county.
And this information is now being mapped to provide the most comprehensive picture ever of the extent of the invasion in Limerick.
As Anne Goggin, who is leading the effort for the council, explains: “There is a lot of talk about invasives but nobody can actually say this is the extent of it and until we understand that, it is very hard to plan a management strategy.”
The reports however, she says, suggest the problem is more widespread than was thought.
The giant hogweed is of particular concern because it is as much a public health issue as an environmental one. The hogweed if touched causes skin to blister and to lose its sun-protection ability. Riverbanks have been closed off in places where there is a continuous run because it is too dangerous. Also because it dies back in winter, erosion problems can develop.
“We knew we had a lot of it around Bruree and Adare but we didn’t know what it was really like in between,” Ann explained.
But last year, a member of the Maigue River Trust paddled the river discovered there was a huge amount between Croom and Adare.
As a first step to begin combating it, a 10-strong team of trained Rural Social Scheme workers began working on the Loobagh, an upstream tributary of the Maigue, as part of a pilot programme.
In the spring of last year, they sprayed 12km on both sides of the river from Ballingaddy to the confluence with the Maigue at Garoose Bridge, south of Bruree.
“They were out in April again and reported less giant hogweed this year than last,” Ms Goggin explains.
“We feel this is a model that could be rolled out elsewhere,” she continues and plans are now being drawn up by the Maigue Rivers Trust to get four community groups along the river involved. However, it will be next spring at the earliest before any work could begin and that depends on getting Leader fund approval.
But the Maigue is not the only river system with a problem. In the 1990s, spraying was done for four years on the Mulkear and the Newport tributary but the hogweed recolonised very quickly.
In 2015, Labour’s Cllr Elena Secas again drew attention to the problem at Annacotty where it was growing close to pathways and to where children played.
“If this is not gotten under control it will just get worse as each mature plant can produce 50,000 seeds, so urgent action at council level needs to be taken,” she said.
The dreaded weed has also appeared on the Shannon river path from the city to UL and along the canal.
Anneke Verling, who lives in Abbeyfeale, reports that there is extensive Japanese knotweed and Himalayan Balsam along the banks of the Feale and two of its tributaries, the Allaughaun and the Caher.
“By the time you get to Listowel, there are hardly any native plants left,” she explains.
Anneke has been working, very often single-handed, to eradicate the Himalayan balsam in particular. The balsam can be relatively easily dealt with, Anneke adds, if pulled before seed sets.
And her hope is that communities upstream will get involved in the campaign to eradicate it.
But both she and Ms Goggin acknowledge that the giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed are far more difficult to eradicate.
Spot-spraying has been the solution for the giant hogweed when it is young, Ms Goggin explains.
It involves three to five years of continuous spraying and then continuous management over a ten year period, she continues.
And spraying is prohibited at a distance of less than 200m from a water extraction point.
The use of chemicals is not ideal, she acknowledges, and extreme care must be taken.
But she adds that they are used in a way “that minimises damage and are used for a finite project”.
She emphasises that it is spot-spraying rather than broadcast spraying and a special sticking agent is used to ensure it sticks to the plant and doesn’t splash anywhere else.
But under no circumstances should the Japanese knotweed be pulled up.
“It is recommended you do not cut the stems,” she warns.
“You don’t try and dig it unless you use somebody who understands the risks and controls that are needed to make sure fragments aren’t spread and that it is properly disposed of.” Even tiny bits in mud on a boot can spread it.
“Disposal could be either incineration, properly done, or deep burial at up to 12 feet.” Injecting weedkiller into the stems has also been used, she adds. “But it takes several years to exhaust the root.”
The other invasive species on the council’s app is the winter heliotrope, a ground-spreading plant.
“People may not recognise it as a threat because it flowers in winter,, and has a delicate smell,” Ms Goggin explains. But she adds: “ It taked over completely from the native flora and it is very hard to get rid of. But there is research being done in Trinity College looking at means of trying to control it. It seems to be everywhere.”
At the moment in law, there is no obligation on landowners to eliminate invasive species but there is an obligation to prevent their spreading.
The beauty of the council’s app is that it allows people to first identify the invasive species and then report it. It also allows for the inclusion of other invasive species.
“The idea behind the app was to develop something simple that wasn’t overwhelming. Other apps are either too specialist or not user-friendly. We wanted it to be suitable for general interest, not specialist groups,” Anne explains.
And she urges everybody to download it and to use it.
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“Persistence” – #LiNo17 participant Karen...
“Persistence” – #LiNo17 participant Karen Stroobants’ key to success
Posted on 08/05/2017 23/05/2017 by Ulrike Böhm
Interview with young scientist Karen Stroobants
This is the beginning of a new series of interviews of the “Women in Research” blog that will feature young female scientists participating in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, to increase the visibility of women in research (more information for and about women in science by “Women in Research” on Facebook and Twitter). Enjoy the interview with Karen and get inspired.
Photo: Courtesy of Karen Stroobants
Karen Stroobants, 29, from Belgium is a Postdoc at the University of Cambridge, UK and one of the young scientists that will participate in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Chemistry. Karen’s current group has established that membrane proteins of mitochondria, the powerhouses of our cells, are likely to play a role in the pathways of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. She is investigating the misfolding behaviour of such proteins, and the way the cell responds to it, with the goal to identify potential new targets for therapeutic purposes.
What inspired you to pursue a career in science/chemistry?
I always had an interest in science, and biology in particular as it was more accessible as a kid (I had a toy microscope and ‘devised’ a cardboard box to take ‘röntgen’ scans of my stuffed toys). I however only realised I would pursue a career in science when I had my first lessons in chemistry, in the third year of secondary school. Studying chemistry throughout high school was very playful and enjoyable for me, and I noticed it wasn’t for everyone. I helped out several classmates with revising before tests, and I felt I had identified a strength that could well be worth further pursuing. Four years later, I started my bachelor in chemistry with the same enthusiasm and I have never regretted that choice since.
Who are your role models?
One of the key moments in high school that without doubt has further supported my interest and enthusiasm in chemistry was the class that thought us about the discoveries of Marie Skłodowska-Curie. I have been intrigued by her life path and accomplishments from the first time I heard about her, and she remains my most important role model today.
I further have encountered amazing women along the way. Important role models to me are Professor Tatjana Parac-Vogt, my PhD supervisor, who is an amazing chemist and has shown me that there is no need to adapt to male behavior to pursue a career in science, Professor Dame Athene Donald, the Master of Churchill College (where I am a By-fellow), who is not only a brilliant physicist but also has a profound interest in science policy and Professor Dame Carol Robinson, who became the first female chemistry Professor both in Cambridge and Oxford, after having taken an eight year career break to take care of her children.
How did you get to where you are in your career path?
The key word in my career so far is ‘persistence’. I have always had goals in mind, and I have worked very hard to reach them. I knew that I wanted to go for a Master in chemistry from the third year of secondary school, that I wanted to do a PhD from the second year at university and that I wanted to do a post-doc in the lab of Professor Chris Dobson at the University of Cambridge from the third year of my PhD. Once my mind is set on something, I work towards that goal.
I have been very lucky to always receive the full support of my parents, who have financed my full education, from primary school all the way to university. When I decided to do a PhD, I immediately received support from Professor Tatjana Parac-Vogt, who also was the supervisor of my master thesis. Tanja encouraged me to write a proposal for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and, with her help, I received a fellowship before even finishing my master. During the PhD, I collaborated with a group at ULB in Brussels, where I met a former post-doc of the Dobson group. She gave me the support I needed to grasp this potential opportunity. I sent at least five e-mails to Chris before I received an invitation for an interview in Cambridge. When I pointed this out to him later, his response was to the point: ‘Persistence is a good quality in a scientist.’ Fair enough :-).
What is the coolest project you have worked on and why?
I would say it is my current one. Over the past seven years, I have worked in the fields of cardiovascular disease detection (during my Bachelor), artificial enzyme development (during my Master and PhD) and neurodegeneration (now, as a post-doc). The common denominator has been my expertise in spectroscopy and other biophysical techniques, whereas the topics and applications have spanned fundamental chemistry as well as the life sciences. My current project is on the role of mitochondria, mitochondrial proteins in particular in neurodegenerative diseases. One could say that I have moved away somewhat from the basic chemistry I studied towards biochemistry and the border with biology even. Maybe I have touched ground again with the science that had initially sparked my enthusiasm as a kid? My drive for this project surely further is related to the stories my mum used to bring home. She works with people with dementia; some of the situations she encounters are devastating. I aspire to contribute to the establishment of effective therapies for these conditions in some way.
When have you felt immense pride in yourself/your work?
There are two moments of extreme pride that I can point out without hesitation. The first one is my public PhD defence. This final presentation in Belgium goes hand in hand with a public event where family and friends are invited and it was one of the best days in my career so far. One of the reasons is without doubt the festive element to it, but, more importantly, it marks the successful finalisation of several years of, sometimes very exciting, sometimes quite frustrating, hard work.
The second moment was the day I was informed by the European Commission that I had successfully secured a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral Fellowship. I had compiled my first application for this prestigious fellowship that is associated with the legacy of my ultimate role model, two years earlier, but had failed to secure it in this round. I tried again one year later, taking on board the feedback I received, and my persistence allowed me to reach another goal. The research proposal I had put forward to secure the grant has meanwhile brought me to Warsaw in Poland, the birthplace of Marie Skłodowska-Curie.
What is a “day in the life” of Karen like?
I try to be at the department around 8.30 (although I probably arrive at 9.00 as often), and usually know what to start on in the lab. At the moment I am working with S. cerevisiae or baker’s yeast cells, and their growth and needs in part define my schedule. Today I got in and immediately checked how they had been growing overnight. It was a good day, they had behaved as expected and I could start my experiment. I added a compound in their nutrient solution to initiate the production of a specific protein, and let them grow for another few hours. In the meantime, I prepared a discussion on model organisms in neurodegeneration for the day after, and skimmed through my e-mails. At this point, I was the one craving nutrients, so I texted my colleagues to go for lunch.
After lunch, my yeast cells were ready to be harvested, by spinning them down at a high speed. The procedure to do so, and collect them in batches relevant to my experiment, took me most of the afternoon. In between, I planned out the experimental work for the next day, and prepared the necessary solutions and yeast cell cultures to get going again in the morning. Before going home, I usually have another look at my inbox and take time to answer e-mails that I had just skimmed over earlier in the day. In the evening, I either spend most of my time in the kitchen, or go for a gym session or run along the river Cam (in which case my lovely housemate Lily Chan provides dinner). My runs are not entirely science free, as they usually allow my mind to drift and come up with new ideas, some better than others admittedly.
What are you seeking to accomplish in your career?
While my current project has again sparked my enthusiasm for the science itself, and is at a stage where new ideas pop up during every run, I have for a while now played with the idea of leaving the path of an academic for a full-time career in science policy. Where I have in every previous step known well in advance what I wanted to do, this is probably the first time that I am not so sure…
As a scientist, my research has brought me to the study of our energy production pathways and the organelles related to it in the context of neurodegeneration. Would I be happy to further expand my knowledge in this direction, and push the border of our understanding through my own ideas? I certainly would, and I know I enjoy supervising students, editing articles, writing grant proposals and teaching as well.
As a science communicator, I feel the science community has a lot to learn in terms of effective communication, with policy makers, industry as well as the general public. Would I find as much satisfaction in taking up a role either as policy advisor, in a learned society, or supporting researchers in their communication strategy? I probably would, in fact there is only one way to find out…
And there are even more careers to consider. With the right balance between science and policy initiatives, I keep my options open for now. The future will tell.
What do you like to do when you’re not doing research?
I have already mentioned my pleasure in cooking and exercising on week evenings. Whereas my runs often stimulate my brain to wonder about new ideas, cooking for me is the ultimate form of relaxation. While I work with my hands, my mind is completely distracted, or rather fully occupied with assessing the type of pasta to go with a specific sauce or the quality of the seasoning.
One evening a week, and part of my weekends, is devoted to extracurricular endeavours, mostly related to science communication and science policy. I am currently Head of workshops for the Cambridge University Science Policy Exchange initiative, an organization that aims to provide insight into the process of policy design and portray the communication difficulties commonly experienced during science-policy exchanges to fellow University staff. I further am involved in the Global Shapers Hub in Cambridge, the policy work group of the Marie Curie Alumni Association, and the policy challenges initiative of the Cambridgeshire County Council. These initiatives indeed take up some of the time that I could otherwise further spend on my science. I however hope that these efforts will be as valuable as they might contribute to re-installing the importance of evidence-advised policy in a world currently ruled by ‘alternative facts’.
What advice do you have for other women interested in science/chemistry?
My most important piece of advice to anyone pursuing a career in science would be: ‘Be persistent’. This probably is applicable much broader, for reaching life goals in general. I do believe this characteristic has brought me where I am now, and where I anticipated being a few years ago.
For women more specifically, I have two more pieces of advice. First, do not underestimate yourself. There are plenty of studies showing that while men tend to overestimate themselves, women tend to do the opposite. Just remembering this basic fact does encourage me to present myself more confidently and I am sure this has made the difference at a number of occasions.
Second, define your own work-life balance and communicate clearly about it to superiors. Scientists are in general very passionate about what they do, which can result in a seemingly endless enthusiasm to work long hours, weekends and bank holidays. If one enjoys this, that is perfectly fine, however, I felt very early in my career that I need time to go for a run, meet with a friend, go on a weekend away, all on a regular basis. In addition, I have committed to spend part of my time to science policy initiatives. Of course I have an occasional late night or weekend in the lab, but I make a point of taking very conscious decisions on how I want to spend my ‘out-of-office-hours’ time, as I realise how precious it is.
In your opinion, what will be the next great breakthrough in science/chemistry?
The hardest question last :-). I imagine I would answer this question differently on a day-to-day basis depending on what I just read, or what occupies me at the moment. I think very generally in science, we, the human race, have a number of huge issues to address, including growing inequality, climate change, and healthcare. I believe breakthroughs can be expected in the fields of renewable energy and antibiotic resistance fairly soon. The fight against inequality is a different matter. Social scientists are certainly delivering evidence for the expected success of a basic income for everyone, but I fear we will have to wait longer for the practical implementation of such solutions.
In my own field, I feel great progress is being made as an accumulation of a vast amount of ‘small steps’. The brain remains one of, if not the most complex organ to understand. I always feel entertained by this irony: ‘Will the human brain ever be able to fully understand its own complexity?’ Although I obviously cannot answer this question, I do feel we are answering one small question at a time, and continuously move closer to that anticipated understanding. Both in terms of fundamental processes, and disease mechanisms, great work is being done, and I expect this to lead to breakthroughs in the field within the next decade.
What should be done to increase the number of female scientists and female professors?
Although a lot of programs have been set up within institutions and universities to address the gender imbalance in academia specifically, I believe more general societal changes will have a larger impact. First, I believe most governments still underestimate the key role of teachers, from kinder garden to university, in shaping individuals and with it the next generation and its thinking. Good teachers, that share their interest in the world around them and are accessible for all children, are of vital importance to motivate youngsters to take up studies in the sciences. Female teachers, as role models, in addition can further stimulate girls in particular to see the feasibility of pursuing a STEM career.
Second, changes that contribute to a more gender balanced society more generally will result in an increased number of female scientists. The girl – boy mentality gets fed to our children from a very early age, with gender specific toys, activities and behaviour. I believe there are huge opportunities for behavioural scientists to address many of these issues. One example I immediately think of in later life is the issue of parental leave. It has been proven that allocating part of this leave to the male parent by default would have profound effects on the work-life balance of both parents in the long-term. Many more recommendations in this respect are out there already, waiting to be implemented.
About Ulrike Böhm
Ulrike Boehm is a physicist and science enthusiast. She works as a research specialist at the Advanced Imaging Center at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus in the United States. She did her PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen in the Department of NanoBiophotonics of Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell. She loves to develop and build tools to image, probe and manipulate biological structures. Furthermore, she is passionate about science communication and open science and is a huge advocate for women in science.
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The purpose of the Lindenwood University Department of Paramedicine is to develop individuals to be qualified, competent, and prepared paramedics. Whether you are a traditional student, a licensed paramedic, or a military medic transitioning to civilian paramedicine, Lindenwood University has the tools and resources to give you the most up-to-date and advanced paramedic training and education available today, making your goal to become a paramedic a reality.
The Bachelor of Science in Paramedicine curriculum is designed so that you select a specialized emphasis or minor that gives you the expertise needed to earn a four year paramedic degree, be marketable, and a leader in the profession.
Contact the Department of Paramedicine
For more information about the Department of Paramedicine at Lindenwood University, contact Nick Miller, Paramedicine program director, at (636) 949-4156 or by email at nmiller@lindenwood.edu.
Nicholas Miller, M.S., N.R.P.
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Ambulance Demonstration by St. Charles County Ambulance District
The St. Charles County Ambulance District brought an ambulance to Lindenwood University on June 13, 2017 to give Paramedicine students an up-close demonstration of the capabilities of an ambulance.
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Emilie Junge
Network 49 Community Safety Task Force
The Network 49 Safe Communities Task Force takes a holistic view towards what makes our community safe. Safety to go about one's business freely. Safety from illegal harassment over one's race or ethnic identity. Safety to enforce the city's laws without infringing on someone's rights, or being subject to unnecessary risks or hostility, simply because of the job you do. Safety is something means different things to different people, so our work is grounded in dialogue, discussion, and deliberate action. In 2016, our city was rocked by the release of the Department of Justice report on conditions at the Chicago Police Department.
John Russick speaks about their new exhibit, Amplified Chicago Blues! About the exhibition: Southern black migrants brought the blues to Chicago, where the music helped them forge connections and transform an unfamiliar, often inhospitable city into a new home. The music was also transformed—electrified and amplified to compete with urban noise. The photography of Raeburn Flerlage captures the streets, clubs, homes, and studios where a community of musicians defined the Chicago blues sound. Immerse yourself in the Chicago scene of the 1960s through Flerlage’s images, and experience the blues by playing guitar, designing an album cover, writing lyrics, and singing karaoke.
Rob Stone
Blues Harmonica Player
Deeply rooted in traditional blues, yet delivering high-energy performances with a thoroughly contemporary impact, harp-playing vocalist Rob Stone is one of the busiest bandleaders on the blues scene today. His skin-tight band is comprised of blues blues veterans of the highest caliber. His wide-bodied harmonica attack (his primary influences are Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Junior Wells, James Cotton, and Sonny Boy Williamson I and II) and cool, streetwise vocals display an unshakable foundation in Chicago blues tradition, and his penchant for high-energy house rocking tempos makes his concerts an exhilarating experience.
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In Development... ROCKETBOY
Teenage Connor lives on a remote Scottish Island, a community whose male population has all but been wiped out in a tragic boating accident. His only escape from this world is through the amateur rockets he sends streaking up into the stratosphere.
Into this world comes a stranger, a writer, with a daughter Becky, who due to a bizarre skin condition cannot go into sunlight - both Connor and Becky have lived lonely, nocturnal lives - and it’s only a matter of time before they meet...
Semi Finalist in the Academy Nicholl Felowship Award in 2016
In Development... TRANSPLANT
Set in the near future, where cloning simple organs has become legal and affordable, surgeon Rebecca Goode has a decision to make when her son develops a disease which requires a heart transplant. Does she follow her Hippocratic oath as a physician, or does she follow her instincts as a mother... We follow as Rebecca undergoes a modern Frankenstein like journey into the hell of genetic engineering gone wrong... very, very, wrong...
Join the newsgroup for updates on Transplant and to listen to an exclusive clip from the screenplay.
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Knitters’ network bans Trump support on its website
by: LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press
FILE – This April 30, 2018 file photo shows a woman knitting in Silverdale Wash. A free, 8-million strong social network for knitters, crocheters and others in the fiber arts has banned any talk of President Donald Trump and his administration. The new policy on Ravelry.com was posted Sunday, June 23, 2019. The post says the site took the action because it can’t provide a space “inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy.” (Larry Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — A free, 8-million strong social network for knitters, crocheters and others in the fiber arts has banned any mention of support for President Donald Trump and his administration.
The new policy on Ravelry.com was posted Sunday. The post says the site took the action because it can’t provide a space “inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy.” The post went on to say that support of the Trump administration is “undeniably support for white supremacy.”
The site, founded in 2007, said the idea was not to ban Republicans or conservative politics but to distinguish them from “hate groups and intolerance.” The policy makes no mention of similar treatment for registered users who criticize Trump or the administration.
One of Ravelry’s co-founders, Jessica Forbes, did not immediately return a message for comment Monday. The White House declined comment Monday.
Activism among knitters was demonstrated in pink, cat-eared “pussyhats” made and worn by thousands of women and others for the women’s marches of January 2017 after Trump took office. Some so-called “yarn bombers,” or knitters who create public installations, have used the practice to support the Time’s Up and abortion rights movements, along with other causes.
More than 16,000 Twitter users weighed in after Ravelry posted the new policy there, including those who both supported and opposed the change. Others simply chatted about knitting.
This version corrects the year of Ravelry’s founding to 2007, instead of 2017.
Commerce chief Ross calls contempt vote ‘political theater’
by MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press / Jul 17, 2019
Ross tells the Fox Business Network that his department has supplied more than 14,000 pages of documents related to the 2020 census and excluded only about 15 pages that the administration believes are protected under executive privilege.
by LAURIE KELLMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press / Jul 17, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner had reeled in a big political fish.
A major government agency, the Bureau of Land Management, was moving to his state and marking a victory years in the making for one of the Senate's most vulnerable Republicans. But Gardner's moment of triumph rolled out Monday in the shadow of President Donald Trump's racist tweets calling for four congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from. Republicans, perhaps Gardner most of all, struggled to respond.
Rep. Cleaver, civility ally, abandons House gavel amid fight
by LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press / Jul 16, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mr. Civility had had enough.
"We don't ever, ever want to pass up, it seems, an opportunity to escalate," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., said from the House speaker's chair Tuesday afternoon after a fight broke out over a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist tweets."
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Greenwich News
Three men in court after fatal house fire kills Sierra Leonean mother of two in Woolwich
16th October 2018 16th October 2018 Toby Porter 0 Comments
BY CALUM FRASER
calum@slpmedia.co.uk
Police have charged three men with conspiracy to murder following a house fire that killed a mother-of-two.
On Wednesday, October 10 three men were charged with conspiracy to murder Memunatu Warne.
All three were arrested the previous day.
Kurtis Freeman, 21, of Steyning Grove, Mottingham, Matthew John, 19, of Ankerdine Crescent, Woolwich, and Martin McArdle, 28, of Dittisham Road, Mottingham were due to appear at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, October 11.
A 22-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman have both been bailed to return on a date in November.
Ms Warne, 46, from Sierra Leone, was visiting family in Woolwich when the terraced house she was sleeping in was allegedly firebombed.
Police were called at around 1.30am on September 6 to Centurion Square, Berber Parade. Officers, paramedics and firefighters attended and found Ms Warne found dead.
A post-mortem took place on September 7 at Greenwich Mortuary and gave the cause of death as smoke inhalation.
Two other people from the house, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s, were injured after jumping out of a first floor window to escape the fire.
Both were taken to hospital for treatment and have been discharged.
A murder investigation was launched by officers from the Homicide and Major Crime Command.
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Blog.com.au > Buyer's Guides - Page 5
How to Style Your Pubic Hair
by Lovehoney on 30 June 2016 0 comments | Add a comment
Just as with the hair on our heads, eyebrows, and faces, pubic hairstyles come in a wide array of shapes and colours. Some people like it balder than a US Congressman; some people like it neatly trimmed; and others prefer to follow the spirit of Woodstock, and let it run wild and free.
So, should you shave your short 'n' curlies? The truth is, there's no right or wrong answer to that question. Those who advocate for the full Hollywood (that is, to say, entirely bare) say that it feels cleaner, is less hassle for their sexual partners, and increases sensation.
The Full-Bush-Administration, however, would counter that pubic hair is there to protect your sensitive areas, makes you less prone to catching STIs, and also helps to retain libido-boosting pheromones that make you even more sexually appealing.
Many also find their partner's personal preference often influences their own choice, but when it comes down to it, the decision (and the razor) are entirely in your hands. If you are, however, in the staggering 92% of women and 83% of men who primp their pubes in some way, then just read on for our finest styling tips.
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How to Choose the Perfect Role Play Costume
For some of us, the words, ‘role play’ send a shiver of excitement down our spines; for others, it’s more a chill of fear that reminds us of uncomfortable team-building exercises.
But using role play in the bedroom is about much more than indulging your long-held and unspoken fantasy about that traffic warden who once fined you.
By adopting a different persona, many people find it easier to open up and explore situations and practises that they would never normally broach, allowing them to experience greater fulfillment and also bringing them closer to their partner.
But how do you get into it without feeling a little, well, ridiculous? Well, just read on below to see not only how you can choose the scenario (and outfit) that's right for you, but how to fully enjoy your foray into the world of character play.
Above: Want to know how role play can increase your sexual confidence? Lovehoney's lingerie expert, Sammi Cole, explains in this video.
How To Buy Sexy Underwear For Men
by Lovehoney on 4 June 2016 0 comments | Add a comment
For years, it's been the way of the world that ladies have had a huge range of different bedroom lingerie and clothing to tease and titillate their lovers, whilst the gents have had to make do with a trusty pair of black boxers or designer briefs. Hardly fair, is it?
But if you (like us) think that it was high time this was changed, why not grab your man some sensual underwear as an extra-special gift? If you don't know where to start, we've come up with our top tips to help you choose the perfect briefs or boxers to keep him feeling sexy, happy, and confident in (and out) of the bedroom.
Above: Not sure where to begin when it comes to underwear shopping? Watch resident lingerie pro, Sammi Cole, tell you everything you need to know in this video.
How to Choose and Use a Bathmate Penis Pump
by Lovehoney on 23 September 2015 0 comments | Add a comment
Lots of men decide to try using a penis pump to achieve a larger manhood in minutes. Bathmate penis pumps use the power of water to help you achieve a bigger length and girth. Frequent use of a Bathmate pump in the bath or shower leads to bigger penis, and many men report enhanced erections and increased stamina to boot.
This guide explains how Bathmate penis enlargers work and help you choose the best pump for your needs.
How to Use a Feather Tickler
by Lovehoney on 3 February 2015 0 comments | Add a comment
Lots of couples want to explore new ways to excite their partner and stimulate each other's senses to their full potential during foreplay, but when you've already exhausted the tools Mother Nature gave you, it can be difficult to know what to move on to next.
Experimenting with sensory play such as erotic massage, temperature play and light spanking is a great way to instantly turn up the heat on your pleasure. If you're brand new to this kind of play, you might like to start with something a little less intimidating, like a feather tickler.
Unlike other types of sensory exploration which can require a certain level of skill or confidence, feather ticklers are the perfect balance between invitingly soft and excitingly new, whilst still being wonderfully easy to use.
Above: Not sure why you should try a feather tickler? Our resident bondage-expert, Jess Wilde, runs through her top 5 reasons to tickle as you tease in this video.
Beginner's Guide to Urethral Sounding
What is urethral sounding? Originally a medical procedure, you may have heard the term but wonder why anyone would do it for pleasure. Many people are exploring their bodies in new ways, and discovering the arousing sensations associated with urethral play.
At Lovehoney, we encourage you to explore your body fully and get to know what you like but, as always, there are safety measures to consider. This guide takes you through everything you need to know about urethral probing, and how to make sure you do it safely.
Above: Still not really sure what urethral sounding is, or why people want to do it? Let Jess Wilde give you the facts in this video guide.
Top 10 Sexy Valentine's Gifts for Women
Flowers, chocolates and cards are all very well and good, but if you're looking for a Valentine's gift to really impress your wife or girlfriend, you've come to the right place.
Whether she’s a confident sex-toy user or you’re looking to treat her to her first pleasure product, we’ve got a whole host of toys in every size, shape and colour she could possibly desire.
If you're looking for something small to start off with, a bullet vibrator could be perfect. They fit neatly into purses, handbags and travel cases, and are ideal for solo play whilst being incredibly easy to slip between you in moments of passion for some extra thrills.
If she’s looking for something a little more substantial to add to her toybox we’ve got a fabulous selection of rabbit vibrators and luxury rechargeable vibrators to satisfy her every need.
Read on for our top 10 Valentine's picks for her:
Top 10 Sexy Valentine's Day Gifts for Men
by Lovehoney on 31 January 2015 0 comments | Add a comment
It's easy to get caught up in the frenzy of Valentine's Day cards, teddies and cupcakes, but remember to plan a little something for Valentine's night too.
After all, anyone can get your man socks or a new tie, but you're the only one who can treat him to that sex toy he's had his eye on.
If he's already a toy veteran, then treating him to a luxury male sex toy he can enjoy for years to come is a perfect way to show your love! Whether it's his first toy or his hundredth, he's bound to thank you in kind.
Luckily for you, here at Lovehoney we have an insight on what makes him tick year round, and so we've come up with the 10 best sexy Valentine's Day presents for him.
Delight your partner with one of our thoughtful presents and create the perfect atmosphere for a romantic Valentine's night you won't forget!
Read on for our favourites, or visit the Valentine's Shop for even more suggestions:
Top 10 Plus Size Lingerie Gifts for Valentine's Day
Everyone likes to feel sexy on Valentine's Day, and that's what makes lingerie the best gift - whether you're the one giving or receiving.
"Help! How do I buy Plus Size lingerie for Valentine's Day?" It's true - a lot of people get confused by the term "Plus Size", but all it means is dress sizes 18 and above. The only way it differs from non-plus size lingerie is that it's a bit more flattering for curvier girls.
Many men fret about buying lingerie for their Valentines, worrying that it won't fit or she won't like it. Luckily, we've hand-picked 10 gorgeous options for this Valentine's Day that we're sure she'll love. It's worth noting that you can shop in confidence with our incredible 365 day return policy.
Need more help? Check out our How to Buy Sexy Lingerie Guide for Men for tips on figuring out her size and what she likes.
Top 10 Lingerie Gifts for Valentine's Day
Lingerie is the classic Valentine's Day gift for a reason: sexy and seductive, there's nothing like a new bedroom outfit to set the mood for romance this February 14th.
Whether you're shopping for your lover or picking something out yourself, there's that added excitement of seeing their face when all is revealed.
Don't know a bustier from a basque? Check out our Lingerie Guides which are packed with advice on body shape, sizing and buying lingerie as a gift.
But that's not all! This Valentine's Day, Team Lovehoney have handpicked 10 of our most delectable lingerie sets to have you looking and feeling your sexy finest for the big night.
Whether you prefer the flirty look of a cute babydoll or prefer to sizzle in a raunchy bra set, we have the perfect outfit for your night of passion:
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Chronic fraud in Australia's aid program? Think again
Jonathan Pryke
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On Monday, The Australian published an exposé on Australian aid that would lead the layperson to believe fraud was endemic and chronic within the now defunct AusAID. That was followed on Tuesday by an editorial justifying the merger of AusAID into DFAT on grounds of rampant fraud.
This line of criticism is nothing new for the aid program, which has been subjected to years of criticism from the media on the issue. It also completely misses the mark for the public discussion we need in order to improve the delivery of Australian aid.
Clearly, fraud should never be tolerated, and the government should strive to take all reasonable attempts to minimise fraud. But is fraud as rampant in the aid program as The Australian implies? The answer is a resounding 'no'. In 2012-13 the Australian aid program (then AusAID) reported net losses of $865,730 to fraud, equating to about 0.017% of annual aid expenditure. The Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness found that fraud in AusAID over the 2004-10 period averaged 0.017%. So not only are levels of fraud extremely low, they are also consistently low.
The fact that fraud accounts for one tenth of a percent of our aid expenditure should be grounds enough to argue that it garners too much public attention, but let's dig a little deeper.
First, how does Australia compare to other donors? Comparable data across countries is limited; it seems Australia is unique in its fixation on this issue. This 2012 University of Portsmouth study identifies rates of fraud in the US aid program in 2008 at 0.85% of total expenditure, and 1.13% of the EU's aid program in 2009. By international comparison, then, 0.017% looks like it should earn Australia a gold star.
The singling out of Australia's aid program from all government spending might be justified if it is an outlier or poor performer when it comes to fraud. But this is hardly the case. Take Centrelink, for example. Of the $86.6 billion spent on welfare in 2008-09, over 0.13% was reclaimed through fraud investigations, 13 times higher than the rate of all identified fraud in the Australian aid program. In another recent case, the Defence Department was scandalised when a single case of fraud was only discovered after $585,000 was racked up on a fuel card.
So it's remarkable that The Australian justifies the merging of AusAID into DFAT based on a tiny amount of fraud in the aid program. By all accounts AusAID was managing fraud exceptionally and consistently well, and there has been no proof that DFAT can or will do any better. In fact, with the aid program suffering its largest ever single-year budget cut, a major cultural shift occurring after the merger of departments, the loss of experienced aid program managers, and development spending decisions now being made by an agency with foreign, security and consular policy priorities, it's hard to see how DFAT will improve the already excellent rate of fraud minimisation.* It will be interesting to see if DFAT is as transparent about the rate of fraud in the aid program in the future.
With all of this in mind, it's worth asking why the media keeps pursuing the issue of fraud in the aid program.
A simple answer is that it's easy. Because AusAID had sound fraud policies, the documents are easy to access through an FOI request and are bound to lead to a headline (I have to admit, it would be hard to walk away from a story on fraud that includes contracts paid to 'Joke Shipping Services'). Another reason is that stories like this appeal to those that don't support aid. Without mentioning how isolated and infinitesimal these individual cases are, it would be easy for a reader to infer that all aid is wasted (a quick look at the comments section of the exposé illustrates this point).
But if we really want to talk about improving Australia's aid program, this conversation is a distraction. Fraud will never be completely removed from any aid program; aid is delivered in some of the harshest environments in the world and some degree of (and indeed appetite for) risk must be accepted. This is particularly the case if the focus on innovation Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has been encouraging in the aid program is to be realised. There are instead a myriad of topics that investigative journalists could address, such as what impact the merger has had on the effectiveness of Australia's aid projects, how transparency of the aid program has changed under DFAT, and how the 20% cut to the aid program has affected relations with our aid partners.
It's time for The Australian to start asking the right questions.
UPDATE: DFAT Secretary Peter Varghese sent a letter to The Australian in response to its story; the letter has now been published on the DFAT website.
Photo by Flickr user Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
*The DFAT website published this report in June claiming fraud in the aid program had jumped to 0.029% in 2013-14, almost double the rate of fraud in AusAID’s final year of operation.
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Links and stories from the aid and development sector.
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What the world thinks is at stake in Australia’s election campaign
Four overseas views from near neighbours to distant friends on whether Australia’s contest much matters.
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Digital Asia links: India's WiFi bin, Tibet, Baidu, Xi & US tech executives, Fiji flag and more
Danielle Cave
Published 11 Sep 2015 09:00 0 Comments
e-diplomacy
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The Asia Pacific is the most dynamic digital landscape in the world, home to the fastest adopters of new technologies and the largest concentration of mobile and social media users. An escalation in online activism, changing cyber dynamics, developments in digital diplomacy and the exploitation of big data are shaping the region's engagement with the world.
Downloads of off-grid mobile chat app FireChat (which now has an encrypted texting feature) spiked during Malaysia's anti-government Bersih 4.0 rally after organisers promoted use of the app and set up chat rooms.
China's anti-graft campaign has expanded its use of anti-corruption crowdsourcing, and it has the Mid-Autumn Festival & excessive gift-giving in its sights.
Mumbai developers have come up with a way to incentivise garbage collection – the WiFi Trash Bin – and it's coming to a festival near you.
Baidu may have failed in Vietnam but it plans to boost investment in India and Indonesia.
Twitter's Indonesia strategy (and new office in Jakarta) is taking shape.
An analysis from ANU shows that on its proposal to change the country's flag, the Fijian Government wants to use social media to win support. However, it doesn't want it to be used to express opposition to Government policy.
How to brilliantly undermine the US Government's stern line on cyber attacks? By giving top US tech executives an offer they can't refuse – an invitation to an exclusive 'technology forum' and a likely audience with President Xi.
Is Google ready to return to China?
Following a series of controversial arrests related to Facebook posts, Cambodia's Interior Ministry has revealed plans to establish a new 'anti-cybercrime' department.
Patriotism and mockery dominated Chinese social media during the country's military parade commemorating the end of World War II.
Chinese websites were allowed to cover the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region but were allegedly given a directive to 'tidy up negative and harmful information' and to close the comments section on major stories.
Singapore, whose press freedom ranks alongside the likes of Libya, Belarus and Iraq, has enjoyed a surprisingly vibrant debate – thanks largely to social media – ahead of the city-state's general election being held today:
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Euan Moyle, an intern with the Lowy Institute's Pacific Island Program, with links on developments across the Pacific.
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This week in Jakarta: Evictions and predictions
Catriona Croft-Cusworth
Jakarta this week watched the rupiah slide to its lowest point since 1998, recalling the trauma of financial crisis. Meanwhile, it was business as usual in the capital as the governor set about making friends and enemies with work on large-scale infrastructure projects.
Indonesia surpassed Malaysia for having the worst-performing currency in the region as the rupiah this week fell past 14,000 per dollar, its weakest performance since the 1998 crisis. As economies across Southeast Asia suffered losses in recent days as a result of China's devaluation of the yuan, Indonesia's finance minister and newly installed trade minister both suggested that the use of Chinese yuan for trade among ASEAN nations could help lessen the impact of regional currencies dropping in value against the US dollar.
President Jokowi called a meeting with business representatives at his residence in Bogor to discuss further strategies for overcoming Indonesia's economic challenges. Yet the finance minister was positive that Indonesia's currency slide did not signal impending crisis for the nation's economy. Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said that despite the downturn, Indonesia's economy was still growing and that other indicators, such as inflation, growth and the trade balance, showed a much better situation to that faced in 1998.
In Jakarta, Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama came under fire this week for his approach to various infrastructure projects in the capital. Loved and loathed for his brusque approach to governance, Ahok made one of his least sensitive moves yet by forcibly evicting residents of a neighbourhood called Kampung Pulo to make way for a revitalisation project along the banks of the Ciliwung River, with the aim of prevent flooding in the city.
A 2000-strong security force armed with tear gas, water cannons and riot gear forced the alleged squatters from their homes this week as civil society groups prepared a legal case proving residents' ownership of the land. Several residents reportedly held Dutch-era deeds to the area where hundreds of houses had been established for generations. Evictees received no compensation from the city government after a plan to build an 'elevated village' (kampung susun) near the river was scrapped. Low-cost apartments (rusunawa) were provided for about half of the 1000-plus families evicted.
Despite criticism over the way the eviction was handled, including from the Jakarta Police, Ahok reportedly plans to push ahead with further evictions in Bukit Duri and Bidara Cina in the near future.
The governor nonetheless retains a strong support base in Jakarta, where he plans to run for re-election on an independent ticket. A group called Teman Ahok ('Friends of Ahok') is aiming to collect the required 1 million copies of supporters' identity cards to allow Ahok to run as an independent in the next local election since he quit Prabowo's Gerindra party last year.
Support for Ahok over Gerindra was demonstrated on social media this week when a Gerindra-affiliated singer publicly criticised the governor. Rock singer Ahmad Dhani, best known outside Indonesia for his Nazi-themed contribution to presidential contender Prabowo's losing campaign last year, took to Twitter this week to question Ahok's commitment to overcoming traffic congestion on one of the city's toll roads. From his account @AHMADDHANIPRAST, the singer tweeted '(Ahok)...If you can't overcome congestion on the TB Simatupang toll road...just call me...I'm waiting'.
The singer's comments caused a stir online, particularly in light of the involvement of his underage son in a fatal traffic accident on a Jakarta toll road last year. Netizens rushed to the defence of the governor, who later responded by saying that with the amount of work he was putting into Jakarta's roads and transport, things would get worse in the short term, but would bring long-term results.
Photo by Flickr user Dino Adyansyah.
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Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon during the British colonial rule, is an island country in South Asia, specifically near south-east India, having maritime borders has maritime borders to the northwest with India and to the southwest with Maldives.
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You can visit its awe-inspiring cultural sites, travel on a Ramayana trail and explore UNESCO recognized architectural sites. There are also the cities and town, wildlife parks and bird sanctuaries, tea plantations, some of the best beaches in the world and casinos that will certainly add up to the excitement of your trip.
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During your vacation make sure you visit the country’s main tourist areas to get the best experience. In the Central Province, you will find highlands with beautiful tea plantations, valleys, waterfalls, and streams.
It is also here that the famous Worlds End and the highest mountain of Piduruthalagala are located. You can go to North Central Province, where you will find the ancient kingdoms of Sri Lanka that date back more than two centuries ago.
Rich in history, this region is known as the “cultural triangle”. The Northern Province is also an important tourist destination, as well as the Western Province, which is the administrative capital and is popular for its beach resorts.
Diving and Surfing - You can enjoy this activity in the south and east coasts of the country, where you will find several diving schools and stations offering lessons and equipment. You will be able to explore many dive sites coral caves and gardens, colorful marine life and shipwrecks. As for surfing, you can do it in the western and southern coasts, with the best places for the beginners being Hikkaduwa and Weligama.
Dolphin and Whale Watching - Sri Lanka is one of the major spots for this activity in the world, as it is located within the International Whaling Commission’s protected zone in the Indian Ocean. Among the best spots to see these animals include Alankuda, Dondra Point and Trincomalee.
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Sigiriya - This is basically the remains of King Kasyapa’s 5th-century fortress, which is situated on top of a rock plateau that overlooks a vast plain and verdant jungle. This is regarded as the most unique of the ancient sites in the country.
Polonnaruwa - This ancient and compact city shows the glory of medieval Sri Lanka, with 12th-century stone sculptures and the Gal Vihara, which is a sacred monument that is known for its enormous Buddha figures.
Kandy - This hill city, which is set around a beautiful man-made lake, is said to be the final bastion of the Sinhala kings. It is also the place where the great Esala Perahera Festival is celebrated every year. However, the main attraction in this city is the ornate Dalada Maligawa, which is home to a sacred relic that is placed inside a well-guarded casket.
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Libby Woodchips: Asbestos-Mesothelioma Concern?
September 8, 2011, 10:30AM . By Jane Mundy
Libby, MTAccording to Mike Crill, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) "screwed up big time" by covering up potentially asbestos-contaminated wood chips in Libby. "I know that millions of dollars have been spent cleaning up this town but that doesn't resolve the issue of people being exposed to asbestos," says Mike. "Government officials have downplayed asbestos mesothelioma since they came to Libby."
Mike has good reason to be concerned. "From 2001–2003 my family worked at the former Stimson Lumber site and in 2004 the EPA told the people of Libby that they took 16,000 soil samples from all over the area," he says, "but they said the tests didn't warrant any concern." However, just one fiber of deadly tremolite asbestos is potentially enough to cause concern.
"After the EPA said they didn't find anything to be concerned about, I requested the University of Montana to test the bark and in one sample they found millions of fibers—in just one gram of bark," says Mike. "That more or less blew the EPA out of the water. When the university made these results public, that opened up the Asbestos Pandora's Box. If that amount of asbestos was in one gram of bark, what does one tree contain? And what had my family been exposed to?"
Mike's next concern was where this alleged contaminated bark went to. He says that wood chips were shipped all over the country as recreational and playground bark. KPAX News reported that some of the woodchips were used in public places such as parks. And if it couldn't get any worse for the people of Libby, some of the residents used large piles of woodchips and mulch in their gardens.
Why didn't the EPA make public its results of asbestos wood chips back in 2007 when it found out the contaminated wood chips were being sold by a local economic development official? And why has it come to light now?
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus called for an investigation into the wood chips after The Associated Press reported how the alleged asbestos-contaminated wood chips and bark had been sold and widely used as landscaping material by government officials and residents of Libby. In July, the EPA went back to Libby for another round of testing, in an attempt to gauge the health risk.
"EPA needs to understand it has a responsibility to earn Libby's trust and that means going above and beyond to keep folks informed," Baucus said. "Priority number one is making sure folks are safe, and these new tests will help us figure out if the wood chips are dangerous and whether more steps need to be taken to protect the community." According to Mike Crill, not much protection has ever been done…
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"My understanding is that the EPA is not in the process of cleaning up Libby," Mike adds. "I believe the Corps of Engineers has taken over the cleanup—but what do they know about cleaning up a town? I know that millions of dollars have been spent but there is no concern about the children and their future, and that the fibers in these wood chips are the cause of mesothelioma—a horrible death."
On August 31, 2011, KAJ News reported that EPA officials received results for six out of the nine bulk samples of wood chips they tested, two of which tested positive for asbestos. "It's a single fiber sample result that we've gotten from those samples, which is in the .0002 range, and is very low levels," said Mike Cirian, an EPA official. Questions still need to be answered, namely this: Is asbestos safe at any level? Not according to the World Health Organization and health officials worldwide. And not according to Mike Crill.
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mike crill
June 25, 2013 and no one has done a thing to warn,inform and protect those being exposed to the asbestos bark that is in childrens playgrounds and yards all over this country. WHY there is no concern to locate where this deadly Tremolite asbestos went or hold anyone accountable for this screw up...the exposure continues and so does killing children. This drives me crazy so many are ignorant to this concern for the sake of those we leave behind. In Libby Mt we only kill them. Someone please stop this.
Hi Jane and hope this finds you doin well. I want to than you for the awesome story on the bark issue. And I want to thank you for also being concerned about this deadly issue that has become a nitemare for millions today.It may be too late for millions exposed today but it is what we do today that I hope will better tomarrow...for those we leave behind...our kids and theirs. One person can make a difference and saving one life from this deadly exposure...is just Gods will for his children. I have one grandson and my only 4th generation Crill and he will never breath the deadly air of Libby Mt. Will he ever breath Tremolite asbestos?? I don't know and maybe yes but I can and will go to my grave knowing that Libby killed three generations of my family tree...Libby will not kill mt 4th. I guess I can live/die, with that and if I can stop one children from moving to Libby...this is what I do...while EPA sells Libby as safe. Its like I said...when you find 530 million asbestos fibers in one gram of bark...what is in that one tree and then the forest and then, who is being exposed. The Forest Service in Libby has a "warning info" for anyone using the forest, like lay plastic down and use wood that has no bark,etc etc...I would expect them to say stay away since they too know how deadly the forest is.never ending huh.Again Jane, thank you for doing what you are doing and for whom and why...saving lives/children by telling the truth and getting the truth out their..is the best we can do to educate/warn We the People from something that kills them. God Bless and take care. Got more stories...lets keep in touch.
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Aspiring barrister jailed for grooming over 140 children online
By Legal Cheek on Jul 8 2019 8:54am
Aberystwyth Uni law grad handed 10 year sentence
An Aberystwyth University law graduate who used online gaming platforms to incite children to commit sexual acts on camera has been jailed for ten years.
Owain Thomas, 29, was found to have used various Skype usernames, nine Facebook profiles, and three gaming accounts to abuse over 140 children online.
Thomas, who was working as a paralegal with a view to pursuing a career at the bar, was arrested after he asked two eight-year-old boys to expose themselves at a playground, BBC News reports.
He later pleaded guilty to 158 sex offences, including causing or inciting children to engage in sexual activity and distributing indecent images.
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Jailing him for ten years at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday, Judge Richard Twomlow described the law grad as a “persistent” and “dangerous offender” who posed “a significant risk to the public”. He will serve a further five years on licence following his release.
The court heard how Thomas used special software to adopt the persona of children and bribed some of his young victims with online gaming currency in return for sexual acts to be performed on camera. He would then share the footage with other paedophiles online.
Commenting on the shocking case, detective inspector Lianne Rees said: “What was so alarming was the high percentage of parents who had no clue whatsoever what their children were doing online, and that should be a warning for others.”
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Aberystwyth University Barristers Students
Our justice system is broken. He should have received a life sentence. He’ll be out after 3 years on “good behaviour”.
Looney left wing judges are to blame for very soft sentencing. If it was their son or daughter sexually abused they would wake up.
Lol mate judges aren’t left wing. If anything it’s because the right wing loony Tories have completely trashed our prison system and there isn’t enough space to keep people like this locked up.
You honestly can’t be that stupid to think that judges just ‘make up’ sentences can you?
Didn’t you read the article? The offences do not carry life. The maximum penalty is 14 years. These were Catagory 2A offences with a starting point of 3 years (two years on the a plea as the Judge is required as a matter of law to reduce the sentence by one third).
The Judge was satified that the offender was dangerous, but a life sentence was not available for the offences and therefore the Judge was required to impose an extended sentence with an extended sentence, which the Judge did. As this was an extended sentence two thirds must be served before being considered for parole. The parole board may (not must) authorise release at that point, but only if it is proved that the offender is no longer dangerous. If not so satisfied the full 10 years must be served. Two thirds of ten is not three.
Broken system
I think the point the commenters are trying to make is that the penalties available for the crime are inadequate and need an overhaul.
Liberalism on steroids + HRA = pathetic UK sentencing guidelines (thats if the police actually do their job and apprehend people in the first place).
The sentence for murder, rape and paedophilia should be the death penalty.
What about mistakes of the justice system? There are quite a few real stories of people being executed / committing suicide in prison after being convicted for a murder committed by other person etc. Obviously, these are extreme and not widespread cases (especially with better DNA testing recently), but the chance of a mistake is real.
There have been mistakes in the justice system but these are mostly cases from the 80s/90s. With advanced technology, it’s quite rare for someone to be wrongly convicted. In this case, where clear evidence he was a pedo, he should have been executed this morning.
So naive! Mistakes from the 80s/90s happened “quite rare for someone to be wrongly convicted.” Wrongful convictions happen daily. Is only the most high profile that get reported. The system is far from perfect.
It’s because of snowflakes like you that this country is broken and criminals are getting light sentencing.
Daily Mail comments —->
I remember reading an article whilst I was doing a criminal justice elective about a study, I think in Germany, were paedophiles could be voluntarily castrated in return for the remainder of their sentence being reduced/waived. It turned out that the re-offending rate was 0, so the problem was solved. Always wandered why this was never explored further.
Agreed! Judges should have power to castrate. We need to be tough on pedos and grooming gangs.
“Power to castrate” sounds like something Henry VIII would enjoy.
And your mum.
Can this power to castrate be extended to other offences? And be carried out by the judge personally in court immediately after sentencing? That would be bantz
LSE LLB
“Aberystwyth University”…..I’m not even taking the piss here but never heard of this university. Is it in the UK?
Ranked reasonably well in some areas.
By whom? Their lecturers and their families?
Your geography is appalling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48880997
Shocking how many working parents (barristers included) leave their children to be raised by iPads.
No, it isn’t ‘normal’ to let children have social media accounts and message anyone freely online.
I can’t understand how parents think hours of gaming and chatting is nothing more than an ‘innocent’ hobby. What happened to sport/board games/hiking/music/make-believe games/cooking/reading stories/camping/sitting down and teaching your kids something?
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Exclusive interview: Man who brought private prosecution against Boris Johnson faces ‘financial ruin’ over £200,000 debt
By Adam Mawardi on Jul 9 2019 8:56am
Uncertainty over Marcus Ball’s future comes despite crowdfunding over £500,000
Marcus Ball
The man who brought a private prosecution against prime minister hopeful Boris Johnson has told Legal Cheek he faces an uncertain financial future after racking up debts of around £200,000.
Despite crowdfunding over £500,000 over three years to bring the case, Marcus Ball has told this website in an exclusive interview that “in terms of the overall balance sheet, money owed and money left, we’re in the negatives.” When asked if he’s in debt, the director of Brexit Justice Limited responded: “Oh, massive debt, of approximately about £200,000, roundabout.”
Ball’s candid comments come after he attempted to prosecute Johnson for alleged misconduct in public office, specifically his claim that the NHS could receive £350 million extra a week following Brexit. The High Court reversed a decision to issue a summons against the prominent Brexiteer last month.
Sipping a glass of apple juice in a café in London’s trendy Shoreditch, Ball spoke openly about his cashflow situation. His openness was to be expected. After all, he maintains that “if you’re prosecuting someone for [allegedly] lying about money, you cannot be in a position where you’re seen to be lying about money”.
Despite facing a potential hefty costs order, Ball believed that, going forward, he can crowdfund more cash. “If I did not believe in this case and the evidence we’ve got, I would be terrified. I would be fucking panicking,’ he explained. Asked if he intends to take proceedings against Johnson further, Ball told us:
“It is highly likely we will appeal. However, the legal team and I have to define exactly what the appeal is going to be before I confidently announce it. Because I don’t want to be in a position where I’m saying, ‘Oh, I’m definitely appealing, I’m definitely appealing’, and then in two weeks my legal team, finding something, are saying, ‘Marcus we can’t appeal because of this’. I have to be 100% sure otherwise it’s not responsible to say it.”
And yet, Ball admits he’s “totally fucked” if his campaign against Johnson is unsuccessful. “Financially, I’m ruined if this doesn’t happen”, he said. As if to prove his entrepreneurial mentality, he stressed his willingness to bear this costly burden to achieve his ulterior aim: eradicating dishonesty from politics which, he believes, kills democracy. Ball continued:
“I understood this from the beginning, you have to be willing to take that and absorb that risk otherwise nobody else will. This is the advantage I’m in: I’m young, I don’t have a wife or kids to be responsible for, or a mortgage or a car. I don’t have things that rely upon me.”
Such self-sacrifice fits well with his campaign’s narrative, which relies on familiar imagery of an outsider fighting against the establishment, as illustrated by Ball’s widely used hashtag, #BallVJohnson. Indeed, as he was told early on into his campaign, people (and, more importantly, financial backers) respond better to a story if there’s a clear protagonist and an antagonist. Ball didn’t say which one he was in this scenario.
Legal Cheek’s Adam Mawardi with Marcus Ball
Despite his new-found public platform, the Canterbury Christ Church University history grad expressed no interest in pursuing politics, nor legal practice. Rather, providing he can successfully prosecute Johnson, Ball revealed plans to take other politicians to task over their misconduct in public office. Without naming names, Ball cites “obvious cases” including the US elections, MEP expenses scandals and the Iraq War.
Predicting he would crowdfund these endeavours too, Ball appeared inspired by the ‘move fast and break things’ mantra previously popular among the tech start-up community. “Why don’t we use that same way of thinking when it comes to older systems? Why don’t we reform the law and the way democracy works with small, fast-moving teams that are funded in unusual ways?” he questioned.
That said, the sustainability of this crowdfunding model is unclear and depends on first building a track record of success, starting with Johnson. “If I get to the point where I feel that absolutely nothing can be achieved, I cannot justify raising more money from people.”
Barristers Boris Johnson Crowdfunding High Court Solicitors
I MAKE 200K AS AN NQ HAHAHAHAHAHA
CMS brah they upped pay last night
FAKKK WHY DID I NOT APPLY TO CMS!!!!1
Kirkland NQ
Do they make lateral hires?
Finally a good one from you.
Aw, that’s cute.
Dr. Evil, PhD
Boo frickety hoo!
Good. Private prosecutions should not be brought for blatantly political reasons. Those who do so should expect to be punished with hefty cost orders.
To be fair this is exactly the form in which private prosecution first appeared in ancient Rome – as a way to advance politically by attacking your opponent (Cicero, Caesar and many others used it only for this). But the guy here is clearly shady.
In times of war, the law falls silent.
And for GOD’S SAKE LET US BE FAIR… else we are no better than the damn animals.
Fair enough
All prosecutions in Rome were private prosecutions.
This is just code for “guys give me more money.” Surprised LC didn’t include a bank account.
Gtfo wit this labour supporter
If you come at the king, you best not miss.
feasel
Given how much Legal Cheek has prattled on about this case, I was surprised you didn’t publish an article when the judgment came out: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2019/1709.html.
Now you’re giving fawning “Exclusive Interview” publicity to the prosecutor in circumstances where the High Court said it would have quashed the district judge’s decision that the prosecution was not vexatious: para 46.
Wants to be taken seriously…
Wears a creased grey t-shirt to conduct an interview…
All the best journalists have a picture taken with their interveiwee, right?
They’re interviewing a CCCU grad. It was never going to be taken seriously in any event.
Is the CCCU like the CCP? The Chinese communist collective union?
Nope, just a decent teaching college/poly that got a uni charter and added some super-shet courses.
They have a law school, but no one knows why: CCCU LLBs have the worst/2nd worst job prospects of all QLD providers, depending on which year of the rankings you look at.
So it IS like the CCP?
Can anyone set out how the 500k might have been spent?
As far as I know a District Judge issued a summons, and then there was a 1 ( or 2 day) review in the High Court of the issuing of the summons.
Even if costs follow the event etc, the HC hearing hardly swallowed 500k or (700k if he is a further 200k in debt?)
Indeed. Some-fin fishy going on here…
Since Section 19 of the Prosecution of Offences Act protects a prosecutor, public or private from a costs order and LAPO allows an prosecutor to recover his costs from central funds even if the prosecution is unsucessful, but prevents an aquitted defendant doing so how can he possibly be out of pocket to the tune of £700k?
Even more absurd is his claim that he will be ruined if Boris is not prosecuted. How so? Suspending disbelief for a moment and just assuming that an appeal was allowed, a summons issued and Boris convicted, then no money would be payable to the prosecutor. A convicted defended can be fined (and the money goes to the state) or imprisioned, but this isn’t a civil action where he wins damages if successful. His reasonable costs could be recovered from a convicted defendant, but he can recover them from the tax payer even if Boris is never prosecuted.
Why no challenge to what are false claims?
He clearly states “legal team” on a few occasions. There’s obviously a number of solicitors that have been time recording like mad. They saw this mark coming a mile away and are greasing him for every pound they can.
It’s a civil claim, it’s in the civil courts.
And he said he’s ruined if he doesn’t succeed in his claim because in the civil proceedings he will get costs.
(1) (17)
No it isn’t. It is a criminal case, commenced in the Magistrates Court. The decsion was JRed. It is still a JR of a criminal case not a civil case. If it goes to the Court of Appeal, it is still an appeal in a criminal case. Section 19 applies. Assuming Borris submitted a CRM14 and was rejected for Legal Aid on his means, he can recover costs limited to the legal aid rate from central funds. However, Section 19 of the Prosecution of Offences Act limits the Courts power in relation to costs to Wasted Costs only. Costs do not follow the event as they do in a civil case. To recover any costs at all it has to be shown that the party has to be shown to have acted improperly, not just that they have lost.
Even if an application for costs was sucessful S19(2) gave the LC of the day the power to make regulations to “… make provision as to the account to be taken, in making such an order, of any other order as to costs . . . which has been made in respect of the proceedings of whether, for the purposes of the proceedings, representation has been provided under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012].” The LC did so limiting the costs that can be awarded to a defendant to the legal aid rate.
No LGF or AGF would be payable at legal aid rates as the case was never sent to the Crown Court under Section 51. The Legal Aid rate for preparation and attendance in the Magistartes Court for an indictable only offence (which this was) is zero. JRs and appeals arrising from criminal proceedings are assoicated work for the purpose of the Standard Criminal Contract and costs which can be recovered for defending these proceedings are limited to the legal aid rate.
Administration of Justice Act 1960
You can’t appeal a decision of the High Court in a criminal cause or matter to the Court of Appeal anyway. It has to go to the Supreme Court pursuant to s. 1 of the AJA 1960, which is only possible if the administrative court certify that a point of law of general public importance is involved.
Hopefully this gentleman’s hotshot legal team have advised him of that fact before he wastes another £500,000 on an appeal to the Court of Appeal which it will have no jurisdiction to hear.
Now I see that someone else made the same point before me!
Stand corrected. But my point was regardless of what Boris may do or the Prosecutor may do, Borris is a defendant in Criminal Proceedings and so may only recover his costs by way of of Defendant’s Costs Order and can only recover his costs against central funds (the tax payer) if aquitted not the prosecotor.
As with any prosecution, however absurd and whether brought by a private individual or the CPS as a result of LASPO, no costs can be claimed against the prosecutor and recovery of costs is limited to the legal aid rate from central funds. A point Michael Howard and the former speaker of the HofC found to their cost, as having like Boris being lobby fodder who walked through whichever lobby his party told him to and voted for LASPO found that when he had to defend himself from a speeding charge wrongly brought or a rape charge wrongly brought found themselves £100k out of pocket as they could only recover their costs at the legal aid rate (having being refused legal aid).
Good, people who engage in lawfare for political reasons deserve to be crushed.
As is the case all too often, the pertinent questions are raised by the commenters, not by the “interview”. What’s a man who is £200k down doing in a Shoreditch stripped pine café? As for his “openness”, you can afford to be open when no serious questions are being asked.
Oooops LC, shouldn’t have sent a boy to do a mans job!
Can’t quite fathom how a preliminary hearing in the mags and a short JR racked up £700k in costs. However, if it did, I’m in the wrong area of law.
Right?!? I’m sitting here with a decent chunk of my billable target outstanding and I’m just salivating at that figure.
If the numbers are true, the kid is getting fleeced. If he can crowdfund more and pays the full bill, he will officially be the best client any firm could hope for – one that doesn’t scrutinize a time sheet.
Should be an inquiry on the bent lawyers charging that.
Those fees don’t add up in my mind.
Dusty Wig
I seem to remember reading elsewhere that some of this gentleman’s costs included the cost of renting a central London apartment from which to pursue his vexatious prosecution. Perhaps tens of thousands of pounds of gullible donors’ income will now be necessary to keep him in comfort during a hopeless appeal.
Of course! Because it would be quite impossible to commute in, wouldn’t it?
Paul the other one
Cock me thinks
Appeal in a criminal cause or matter is to the Supreme Court. He needs the Divisional Court to certify that there is a point of law of general public importance. It won’t. Ergo, no appeal.
I’m familiar with the works of Mr. Ball. For whatever reason, he’s got himself involved with all sorts of things he has no expertise in – running a start-up incubator for students without any experience of setting up and running a business. That failed when the local authority and university grants ran out. There was the app development that came to nothing, not surprising when he had no experience of development or coding. I seem to remember he ran a coupe of campaigns around education reform which didn’t seem to go anywhere, again, no experience in the education sector apart from reading history at a meh university. Now there’s this nonsense. Ball styles himself as a “private prosecutor” which is highly deceptive as he has no legal qualifications or experience – something his crowdfunding backers might not be aware of.
Something else that his latest backers may also not be aware of was the original crowdfunding that he started in 2016 was completely wasted after he ignored the advice of his silk (David Perry) who told him the case had no chance, thought he knew better, fired him and found someone else to take his backer’s money (after rent and cupcake deductions).
I feel for the poor sobs who funded this scammer because he gave them false hope
References to David Perry QC in this comment piqued my interest. Have a look at pp82-88 (internal) on the link below for Marcus Ball’s interesting take on that episode…
https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3902ffb3-31e2-43b2-8be0-563aad9df9e8/Brexit%20Justice%20Case%20Overview%20Document%20(44,000%20words).pdf
Lady Skimmington
Very interesting point Benny. Thanks for sharing
Mr Ball does seem to think he knows better than David Perry but his ramblings about conflicts of interest is just bizarre
Is a detailed breakdown of expenses available?
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"Facebook for Stoners" Will Become One of the First Marijuana Companies to Go Public
MassRoots plans its IPO.
By Megan Friedman
Whether medical or recreational, legal marijuana is spreading like wildfire across the country. So it's no surprise that businesses are attempting to cash in. One stoner-specific social network is even about to hit the stock market.
According to The Daily Beast, MassRoots, an app that is known as "Facebook for stoners," is going public, allowing anyone a chance to buy shares in their company. It's reportedly one of the first marijuana businesses to be publicly traded.
The stock will begin trading on April 9 under the ticker symbol MSRT. Though it must be said: They really missed an opportunity to start trading on 4/20.
MassRoots was dreamed up almost exactly two years ago, when co-founders Isaac Dietrich and Tyler Knight were smoking in a college apartment. They put tens of thousands of dollars on credit cards to get the business started, and it's now grown to have 275,000 regular users, all in states that have legalized medical cannabis.
On the app, you can share photos, connect with dispensaries, and chat with other smokers. They're aiming to get one million users, and have recently developed a version of their app for dispensaries.
MassRoots hit a stumbling block in November, though, when Apple banned it from the App Store, along with any other marijuana social networks. But in January, they encouraged users to send emails to Apple asking to reverse the ban—and it worked.
They now predict the cannabis industry could be a $10 billion business by 2018, if initiatives keep passing across the country to legalize the drug. And they think they'll have a business model strong enough to last—because even if weed becomes legal, you don't want everyone to see you using it. CEO Isaac Dietrich put it this way: "I don't want my mom to see a picture of me taking a bong rip every time she logs on to Facebook, you know?"
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The Dow Rises 75 Points Because the Fed Is Still Hinting at a Cut to Interest Rates
Updated June 19, 2019 at 3:35 p.m. ET
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The Federal Reserve chose to leave interest rates unchanged at the conclusion of its two-day June meeting on Wednesday, a widely expected outcome that nevertheless left the door open for a rate cut if the economy weakens.
Following the news, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 75 points, or 0.3%, while the S&P 500 was up 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite had gained 0.2%. Stocks had driven higher in the days leading up to the meeting, partly because of hopes for a rate cut.
In its statement, the Federal Open Market Committee removed the word “patient” from its outlook, a key change that investors were watching closely for as they try to anticipate future moves. In recent months, investors have cheered a seemingly more dovish stance by the Fed, and many were anticipating a rate cut that could come as soon as next month.
While FOMC members may not be united in agreeing on the timing or necessity of lower interest rates, many of those who weren’t expecting a rate cut this year nonetheless agree that there’s now a stronger case for one, given recent uncertainty.
“We will use our tools as appropriate to sustain the expansion,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said during his news conference.
Ryan Sweet, head of monetary policy research at Moody’s Analytics, said that not cutting rates now “was a slam dunk.”
“The probability of them cutting rates was extremely low,” he said. “But behind closed doors, they are clearly debating what the next action is. The jury is still out on whether the Fed will need to cut rates. The key will be the G-20 meeting next week. If there’s a trade deal [with China], the economy will really take off. But the Fed is ready to act if they need to—it does not want to kill the economic expansion.”
“It would have been shocking to lower rates right now,” said Tony Scherrer, director of research and portfolio manager at Smead Capital. “The economy is quite strong.”
Scherrer said he was encouraged by the Fed’s economic update.
“For one thing, it shows the Fed remains independent,” he said, noting that the Fed, and Powell, are facing intense pressure from President Donald Trump to cut rates.
The decision to remove “patient” leaves the door open to future cuts, and the statement as a whole “signals the committee’s near-term flexibility and intention to ‘act appropriately’ to sustain the economic expansion,” said Jason Pride, chief investment officer of private wealth at Glenmede. A cut, if it did happen, would be an “insurance” cut, Pride said, justified not by slowing economic growth, but as a preemptive move against rising risk—a category that includes risks from tariffs.
However, Pride said the FOMC’s internal survey is muddying the waters. “While the FOMC members’ expectations for rates have been trending lower, the survey fails to clearly signal a rate cut this year,” he said. “It appears many members of the FOMC are waiting to signal changes in policy until more information is on hand.”
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New Research Finds Business Use of Zipcar Reduces Personal Car Ownership
Published: July 28, 2015 10:54 a.m. ET
About 40 Percent of Zipcar for Business Members Report Selling or Avoiding Buying a Car
BOSTON, Jul 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --
Zipcar, the world's leading car sharing network, and the University of California, Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), today announced that two in five corporate Zipcar members – people who join a car sharing program through an affiliation with an employer – sell or avoid buying a vehicle after joining Zipcar. This was the key finding from TSRC's case study on the impact of car sharing programs used by businesses, the first and only study to be conducted on this subject.
Twenty percent of all Zipcar for Business members reported that they sold a personally owned car after becoming a member, and another 20 percent avoided buying a car as a result of joining Zipcar through an employer-sponsored account. In total, the Zipcar for Business program has eliminated the need for roughly 33,000 vehicles across North America. The study also found that of those Zipcar members who became zero-car households after joining a car sharing business program, 41 percent take public transit more often, 22 percent bike more often and 41 percent walk more.
This study supports the growing trend toward businesses embracing the sharing economy for transportation and travel. Companies report significant cost savings from the Zipcar for Business program and their employees benefit from quick and easy reservations, locations convenient to work or travel, and the ability to choose from a wide variety of vehicle makes and models. Zipcar for Business is a smart alternative to the high costs of fleet vehicles, fuel and insurance. Customers include companies of all sizes as well as non-profit organizations and government agencies.
"Zipcar's mission is to enable simple and responsible urban living," said Zipcar President Kaye Ceille. "Businesses are increasingly conscious of their environmental footprint, and we're proud that this research supports what we've long believed – that Zipcar for Business has many significant environmental benefits for companies, including reducing vehicles on the road."
The behavioral changes resulting from car sharing among consumer members have been well-documented throughout the years, with consensus that individuals who join car sharing programs sell or avoid buying cars and reduce their overall personal carbon footprint. This is the first time behavioral changes by corporate members have been studied.
"The business and corporate market for car sharing – until now – has not been well researched," said Susan Shaheen, Ph.D., co-director of the TSRC and adjunct professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. "Applying our team and research expertise to Zipcar's raw data gives us the first look into how business car sharing members change behavior, and we found that this service yielded reduced car ownership and increased multi-modal behavior, particularly among corporate members that became zero-car households due to business car sharing."
The findings should be of interest for anyone involved with employee transportation or sustainability initiatives within companies. As employers increasingly look for ways to reduce single-occupancy commutes, either to reduce costs for parking or to comply with commute trip reduction goals set by cities, Zipcar is a key enabler. The Zipcar for Business program gives employees access to a car at the office, without having to drive one to the office. For employers seeking ways to reduce emissions, parking demand or meet sustainability goals, the research shows that offering Zipcar can help. More information about Zipcar for Business is available online at zipcar.com/business.
TSRC independently funded this research study. Zipcar supported the project by sharing data and research instruments with the TSRC/IMR research team. Susan Shaheen, Ph.D. and Adam Stocker led the analysis for UC Berkeley. Elliot Martin, Ph.D. and Isabel Hemerly Viegas de Lima of TSRC/IMR also provided notable support for this research.
Link to "Information Brief: Car sharing for Business - Zipcar Case Study & Impact Analysis:" http://innovativemobility.org/?project=information-brief-carsharing-for-business-zipcar-case-study-impact-analysis
About Zipcar
Zipcar, the world's leading car sharing network, has operations in urban areas and college campuses throughout Austria, Canada, France, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Zipcar offers more than 50 makes and models of self-service vehicles by the hour or day to residents and businesses looking for smart, simple and convenient solutions to their urban and campus transportation needs. Zipcar is a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, Inc. CAR, -0.93% a global leader in vehicle rental services. More information is available at www.zipcar.com.
About Transportation Sustainability Research Center
The Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) was formed in 2006 to combine the research forces of six campus groups at UC Berkeley: the University of California Transportation Center, the University of California Energy Institute, the Institute of Transportation Studies, the Energy and Resources Group, the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, and the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.
About Innovative Mobility Research
Innovative Mobility Research (IMR) is a group of researchers whose projects explore innovative mobility technologies and services that could improve transportation options, while reducing their negative societal and environmental impacts. IMR contributes critical data and analysis to help mobility providers give consumers optimal solutions to meet their transportation needs. IMR is housed at TSRC and directed by Susan Shaheen.
CONTACT: Media Contact: Katelyn Chesley Public Relations Specialist, Zipcar 617.678.7206
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Uber’s IPO was the 5th worst over the past quarter-century, by this measure
Published: May 13, 2019 10:23 a.m. ET
Uber shares ended sharply lower in their debut
MarkDeCambre
Uber Technologies Inc. — one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs of 2019 — produced an unusual woeful stock performance on Friday for a company of its magnitude.
By at least one measure, the initial public offering was the fifth weakest one-day return of a company with a value of at least $10 billion of the past 24 years, according to data from Dealogic.
Uber’s stock UBER, -1.01% finished Friday trade off 7.6% at $41.57, giving it a valuation of $69.71 billion, according to FactSet data, after pricing its shares the day before its official public debut at $45. The company’s stock, on Monday, in its second day of trade, was down 7.1% at $38.57, off about 14% from its initial pricing.
Read more: 5 things you need to know about the Uber IPO
The first-day skid puts Uber’s return better than only four other companies sized at least $10 billion: ADT Inc. ADT, -3.33% which raised about $1.5 billion on January of 2018 but booked a first-day slide of 11.5%; and U.S. listed shares of Chinese company IQIYI Inc. IQ, -0.53% described as the Netflix Inc. NFLX, -0.15% of China — which saw its shares close off 13.6% in its debut.
Here’s a brief list of the one-day return of companies with a valuation of at least $10 billion since 1995:
Source: Dealogic
Notable is that of the companies of Uber’s ilk in terms of size, Facebook Inc.’s FB, -0.57% notoriously glitch-stricken IPO, resulted in a better one-day return, gaining 0.6% on May 17, 2012.
Uber’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange came against the backdrop of heightened tariff tensions between China and the Trump administration, which helped to unravel a recent updraft in stocks that had pushed the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.07% and S&P 500 index SPX, -0.28% to records just last Friday.
Some viewed the timing of Uber’s offering as inopportune.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told the Wall Street Journal that the ride-hailing giant had expected chop in the market. “We knew we’d have a volatile day ahead of us.”
Still, even as the U.S. market recovered, on perceived improvement in Sino-American trade negotiations throughout the session, share performance of the ride-hailing giant founded in 2009 foundered.
For example, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.16% finished the session up 114 points, or 0.4%, at 25,942.37, after hitting an intraday low at 25,469.86, shedding as many as 358.5 points at its nadir. It was one of the worst weeks for equity markets of the year.
Matthew Kennedy, senior IPO market strategist at Renaissance Capital, said the average return for IPOs recently has been a gain of 14%.
WSJ said at its IPO price, Uber was valued at roughly $82 billion on a fully diluted basis, below indications of a $90 billion to $100 billion valuation. Last year, the company’s bankers Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs estimated its value at $120 billion.
Many investors have been impressed by the scale of Uber’s business, which includes Uber Eats and other ventures, compared against that of rivals Lyft Inc. LYFT, -0.71%
Read: Uber Jackpot: Inside One of the Greatest Startup Investments of All Time
However, neither company appears to have a clear path toward profitability. In 2018, Uber reported an operating loss of $3 billion on revenue of $11.3 billion, and its accumulated deficit reached nearly $8 billion at the end of last year.
See also: Lyft stops providing key data after IPO, then insults investors’ intelligence
That said, one-day performance isn’t the only factor in grading an IPO. Uber sold some 180 million shares, amid a market rocked by uncertainty, which is commendable in that context.
Moreover, even companies that have seen some early snags in listing publicly have managed to stage a turnaround over time. Facebook, for example, is up 392% since its IPO, despite the social-medial platform’s more recent stumbles.
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Sandown Racecourse is one of the major horse racing venues in Melbourne; located 25kms south-east of the Melbourne CBD.
If you’re driving, take the Princes Highway for approximately 20 minutes – there are plenty of signs to guide you along the way.
Sandown Racecourse / Park Events & Map, Melbourne
This popular racing venue is blessed with some of the finest turns in Australia and boasts a dual-circuit course; including two individual tracks known as ‘Hillside’ and ‘Lakeside’.
The premier racing event held at Sandown is known as the ‘Sandown Classic’. This event is a full day of racing where thousands of people flock to the course to place a bet and join in on the festivities. The Sandown Classic meet also features the ‘Sandown Guineas’, which is a famous race which concludes the race meet.
Sandown Racecourse is not used exclusively for horseracing but is also utilised for Motorsport throughout the year.
Sandown Racecourse also includes function rooms, a quarantine station, and a motor racing circuit. The motorsport circuit features 13 turns and is 3.1km in length, and hosts six major motorsport events in Australia every year – including the Sandown 500, Historic Sandown and the Easternats.
The racecourse also offers a multi-purpose room for hire; catering for private events or trade shows.
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“I’d like to encourage the administration to keep the focus on deporting dangerous criminals,” said Curbelo, the son of Cuban immigrants. “Also, I would encourage the administration to try to keep families together as much as possible.”
The congressman did thank President Donald Trump for not pushing — at least for now — to undo the protections offered to people brought into the country illegally as children by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
“We’re going to try and take care of the DREAMers very, very much,” Trump told MSNBC on Tuesday.
“My hope is that we can find in the near future a legislative solution for these young people — those who are contributing to our country, going to school, serving in the military,” Curbelo said. “It’s important to highlight that that protection was preserved because many had feared that these young people would be subject to deportation.”
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday the administration will first target criminals, though the Homeland Security guidance calls for more aggressive across-the-board enforcement.
“The No. 1 priority is that people who pose a threat to this country are immediately dealt with,” Spicer said, while noting that “everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time.”
Both Miami lawmakers represent districts that lean slightly Democratic, though the two Republicans easily won reelection last November. Neither voted for Trump; Curbelo has said he voted for a third-party candidate, and Ros-Lehtinen has said she wrote in Jeb Bush.
Aides to Curbelo and Ros-Lehtinen said their offices have been deluged with calls from immigrants, both legal and illegal, concerned about deportations or their immigration status otherwise being threatened.
In a bit of serendipitous timing with the release of Homeland Security’s rules Tuesday, Ros-Lehtinen and Curbelo — along with Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez — spent the morning at downtown Miami’s Venture Hive, an entrepreneurship accelerator that was showcasing start-up companies created by immigrants.
The topic of immigration has had segments of multicultural Miami on edge since Trump’s inauguration, particularly after he issued a pair of executive orders targeting “sanctuary” municipalities and banning certain travel and refugee admissions. Last week, the Miami-Dade County Commission backed Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s move to effectively end the county’s sanctuary status by complying with inmate detention requests from federal immigration authorities.
“If I were the mayor, I wouldn’t have taken that immediate action,” Curbelo said, calling Miami-Dade’s decision a consequence of Congress’ inability to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
“We understand the positive impact that immigrants can make,” Ros-Lehtinen said. “We understand that we’re a nation of laws as well. But the emphasis was going to be that we deport violent criminals, and nobody is against that. But for somebody who is here and wants a better life for her family and is struggling in a job where she’s probably being exploited … she wants to be a valuable member of society.”
Andrea Macario, co-founder and CMO of Kweak, a digital start-up, talks about his company during the press conference. Mr. Macario is an immigrant from Italy. José A. Iglesias jiglesias@elnuevoherald.com
Etienne Gillard, an immigrant from France and co-founder of Walter's, a digital start-up, speaks about his company during the press conference. José A. Iglesias jiglesias@elnuevoherald.com
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U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo speaks during the press conference José A. Iglesias jiglesias@elnuevoherald.com
City of Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez (center) flanked by Congressman Carlos Curbelo (left), and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (right) addresses reporters during the press conference on Tuesday. José A. Iglesias jiglesias@elnuevoherald.com
Labor Secretary Acosta resigns amid Epstein plea deal controversy
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British police say a key suspect in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing that killed 22 people has been arrested at a London airport after being extradited from Libya.
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There were also patent applications on May 18, 2018 for variations of "Miami Futbol Club" and "Miami Mundial Futbol Club". Those listings included the same items as the Miami Freedom listing, and the attorney on those was Pittsburgh-based George Dickos. They were filed by an entity called MIPH, LLC.
David Beckham and Miami partner Jorge Mas on March 2, 2018, toured the nine acres in Overtown where they announced plans for a 25,000-seat Major League Soccer stadium.
It has been nearly four months since Beckham and his partners – who include MasTec executives Jorge and Jose Mas and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure – were awarded an MLS expansion team in a glitzy ceremony at the Adrienne Arsht Center. The plan is for the team to begin play in a temporary site in 2020 and move into its own stadium in 2021. On the day of that ceremony, a giant banner was unfurled at the theater that read: "We Are One. We Are Miami Futbol.." It had a giant photo of the Miami Freedom Tower.
The group has been in discussions to not build the 25,000-seat stadium at the Overtown site where Beckham bought land, and instead to place the stadium at the much larger city-owned Melreese Golf Course next to the Miami Airport. Voter approval would be needed, and the delays could mean it would have to wait until the November ballot.
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This LG Commerical Shows Just How Bad Millennial Oversharing is
By Erin Lowry
The scene opens on a decorated apartment and a nervous man eyeing the door. A woman walks in looking confused and the man drops onto bended knee. The camera zooms in to show him pulling out a ring box as he asks, “will you marry me?”
It’s your standard Hallmark moment. A cliché until the woman says, “hold on” and proceeds to pull out her LG Optimus G Pro phone to record the moment with the new “FabShare” capability. A part of every sane human watching this commercial proceeds to die a little inside.
Millennials get a bad rap for being “lazy, entitled, and narcissistic.” Researchers even gave us a moniker for it, “Generation Me.” Some people blame our Boomer parents for all the participation trophies or for hugging us too often. Others wag their fingers at social media and millennials being reared in the time of selfies and status updates. Whichever theory you elect to believe, the millennial in this commercial proves we’re on the verge of becoming completely detached from reality.
Gender stereotypes of this ad aside, it’s bothersome we’ve reached a place in society where pressing pause on a major life event to record it has become so commonplace, it's used as a sales pitch. The reason it’s even thought of as a sales pitch is because it’s becoming our new reality. Generation Me is getting so attached to screens it’s becoming hard to step away and just live life.
When something exciting happens, a job promotion or an engagement or the birth of a child, it doesn’t really count until it’s on Facebook, or tweeted, or Instagrammed or texted. The expression, “is it Facebook official” is no longer an ironic commentary, it’s the truth about the direction we’re headed.
Technology, social media and the ability to experience interconnectedness on a global scale are gifts. However, these gifts of are keeping us from experiencing life because we’re too busy recording and snapping and tweeting away for posterity. Wouldn’t it be better to remember an intimate moment because you were present for it and not because you have to re-watch it later to recall what happened?
(Watch full commercial here.)
The alternate ending of this commercial should feature the man snapping the ring box shut and storming out the door as the woman continues her fake hysterics into the camera. When she looked up from her phone and he was gone, at least she’d have the moment recorded.
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8 Photos That Perfectly Depict Summer in the American Heartland
By Rachel Redfern
Within the United States, summer is more than just a season. For many people, it holds something of a mythic status. Despite your age, it embodies a time, a nostalgia for fireworks and freedom and days at the lake.
There’s a place most readily associated with summer as well, it’s the season of the everyman and the heartland, Midwestern America, seems to hold all the promise of the American dream. Here, summer is an idea, one that takes us through the rest of the year.
Here are eight pictures that perfectly depict the idea of summer in the American Heartland.
1. Watermelon
Watermelon is big, it’s full of bold, unrepentant colors, and it’s in-your-face full of seeds. There is no fork when one eats a watermelon. There is only pink juice on your white t-shirt and a raggedy lawn to spit your seeds into.
2. Funky Free Festivals
Could one get half-naked, place a paper bag shaped like a chicken head and do a sexy dance in January? Well, of course you could, but the security guard at the fairgrounds would just think you were insane. And he’d be right. Such wild celebrations of poultry can only happen in the joyful abandon of a heat stroke.
In the summer sun, festivals became louder, more intense, and infinitely more interesting; that's why groups like the Chickendales are enticing, hilarious, and exactly what I want to see in July.
3. Fireworks
We’ve all had that moment: a perfect moment. A moment when dad lit the fuse and bounced away from the plumage that spouted from the sidewalk. He didn’t seem to notice that you were too close to the sparks because he was absorbed himself: everyone’s concentration pulled into one bright center of pyromania and the Star Spangled Banner.
Regulations against open flames and explosives are canceled out for the week and everyone is out on their streets. Entire blocks that never see each other suddenly become communities united in the overwhelming celebration of fire.
4. Sparklers
Sparklers deserve their own section because who hasn’t ignored the warnings of their mother, left the sneakers at the door (and their shirt) and lit up a combustible stick? Invariably, your little sister burned her small fingers, or the neighbors kid was stabbed in the arm, and everyone was ordered back into the house for more clothing and band aids.
But that didn’t seem to matter, because you were holding fire. You were the master commander and the world seemed small enough for you to be dangerous without getting really hurt. Any damage caused would ultimately be superficial, impermanent: just like your name brightly carved into the air.
5. Food and the Great Outdoors
The days of summer go on and on, because even when it's dark, it doesn't feel like the day is over yet. Winter demands hibernation. Strict bedtimes. But everything is flexible during summer, even time slows down and it seems like nothing will ever change.
Which is why, sitting outside, dipping salty, crisp fries into melting milkshakes, lasts a whole lifetime, but the consequences of staying out late and over-eating look to be as far away as sunrise.
Sitting outside, it feels convivial; even if you know no one sitting at the tables nearby, you know everyone. You’re compatriots, partaking in the same small lamplight and brushing away the same greedy mosquitoes.
When your dog’s legs twitch while he sleeps, he’s thinking of one thing: summer. He knows it’s going to mean days at the beach, chasing energetic squirrels, and pillaging bits of your hamburger from your plate while you’re not looking. He knows that he’s going to get to stick his head out the window of the car, and jump into the lake when you go camping. He knows that finally, the leash is coming off and you and he are going to throw a thousand tennis balls and Frisbees and sticks and that when it’s all over, you’ll lay outside in the grass and watch the stars come out.
And in the morning, you’ll do it all again.
7. Danger
Summer is an invincible place. Everyone gets hurt, but they also survive. So when normally, jumping off the roof and into a pool or trying to do a triple back flip on the trampoline might seem like a bad idea, it’s not if the month is July or August. The laws of physics take a vacation and gravity is too sweaty to really care, so instead, the impossible is attempted, and occasionally, achieved.
8. Road Trips
Clear skies, thunderstorms, sunsets, open prairies, and a road that stretches forever. Summer road trips are a rite of passage; a journey, a liberation, they are a part of the American psyche that we never tire of retelling. In all of our stories, the quest of the highway seems daunting and empowering and we know that when we reach our destination, it won’t be the end, just a change from who we were into who we are becoming. Thelma and Louise rushed off the edge of a cliff, knowing they could never go back because the journey wasn't over yet.
On the freeways of America, there is no reverse (literally, don’t do it, it’s dangerous), there is only forward, to a horizon that never fades.
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Yemen: Deadly cholera outbreak may worsen, Oxfam warns
If epidemic continues growing at current rate, charity says this year could surpass 2017 levels, with almost 40,000 people suspected of having the disease
This week at the cholera treatment centre in Taiz City's Republican Hospital (MEE)
MEE correspondent
Published date: 18 April 2019 13:50 UTC | Last update: 3 months ago
Mohammed Nagi was in his 50s when he first learned what cholera was.
It was 2016 when the disease first appeared in the city of Taiz, he said. With the war raging across the country, basic services like electricity and sewage treatment were sporadic in the city of around 2.6 million people.
'I lost hope that I would live, but I was lucky to recover'
- Mohammed Nagi, cholera survivor in Yemen
When the rainy season started in March, contaminated water spread everywhere, flooding streets covered in trash. Without access to clean drinking water, some thirsty residents bottled up the water and drank it.
So for three straight years, each rainy season has brought the spread of the disease to Taiz and other Yemeni cities. Yet despite watching the infection spread around him, Nagi had no idea that he, too, had also fallen victim this week.
On Monday, he started to have diarrhoea and vomiting. By Tuesday, a neighbour in the outskirts of Taiz urged him to seek help at a cholera treatment centre.
“I was about to die from diarrhoea and vomiting,” he told Middle East Eye on Wednesday, laying in a bed in the centre at the Republican Hospital in Taiz, alert after falling unconscious hours earlier. “I lost hope that I would live, but I was lucky to recover.”
Mohammed Nagi recovers from cholera at Taiz City's Republican Hospital this week (MEE)
Nagi was, in fact, lucky. At the hospital, dozens of patients arrive daily suffering from cholera and receive free medicine. But many Yemenis cannot afford to pay for transportation to centres like this – and others are simply unaware of the dangers.
And as Yemenis struggle to reach hospitals and clinics, aid workers are also facing challenges – from fighting, to checkpoints, to permits required by warring parties – to get to almost 40,000 people suspected of having the disease, Oxfam warned on Thursday.
The restrictions on access come just ahead of this year’s rainy season and as Oxfam says cases in the last two weeks of March were up from 1,000 a day in February to 2,500 in suspected cases being reported each day.
If suspected new cases continue to be identified at the current rates for the rest of the year, says Oxfam, the cholera outbreak will surpass levels seen in 2017 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) described the spread in Yemen as the worst in human history.
“With jobs destroyed and salaries unpaid, the role of aid agencies operating in Yemen providing people with clean water, food and medical help is more vital than ever,” said Muhsin Siddiquey, Oxfam’s Yemen country director, in a statement.
“Imposed delays on the delivery of aid threaten the lives of over a million Yemenis already exhausted by four years of war.”
The health warnings come as US President Donald Trump vetoed on Tuesday a congressional resolution that sought to end US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
Malnourished children most vulnerable
According to Oxfam, more than 3,000 people have died of cholera since the outbreak – currently the world’s largest - began in Yemen in 2016.
'Nearly one-third of the reported cases are children under the age of five years old'
- Geert Cappelaere, Unicef, and Dr Ahmed al-Mandhari, WHO
The disease is one of inequity, according to the WHO’s Global Task Force on Cholera, striking the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people even while it is preventable with modern medicine.
Since January, cholera has spread to 22 out of 23 of Yemeni governorates with new victims each day, according to the WHO's Yemen Health Cluster.
Nearly 200 people have died this year of conditions associated with cholera and around 195,000 people are suspected of having contracted the disease - at least 38,000 of whom are in districts that are hard for aid agencies to reach, according to Oxfam.
Meanwhile, fighting continues in Hodeidah, Taiz and Hajjah, three of the governorates where the majority of deaths associated with cholera have been reported.
The outbreak comes at a time when Yemen’s healthcare system is almost totally collapsed after four years of war. Health services are limited and there is a severe shortage of medications as well as cholera diagnostic tests.
Anyone can be infected by cholera which kills rapidly, but children with severe acute malnutrition – estimated to number over three million in Yemen under the age of five right now according to UN humanitarian agency OCHA – are particularly vulnerable.
A Yemeni child suspected of being infected with cholera is checked by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a makeshift hospital in Hajjah in July 2017 (AFP)
A malnourished child is 6.3 times more likely than others to die from diarrhoea, according to Save the Children.
“Nearly one-third of the reported cases are children under the age of five years old,” according to a statement last month from Geert Cappelaere, Unicef regional director in the Middle East and North Africa and Dr Ahmed al-Mandhari, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean.
“We fear that the number of suspected cholera cases will continue to increase with the early arrival of the rainy season, and as basic services, including lifesaving water systems and networks, have collapsed.”
Saved by a generous man
At the same treatment centre with Nagi is wide-eyed four-year-old Abdurrahman Thabet.
“My wife suffered from severe fever when she was pregnant with Abdurrahman and I could not take her to hospital so she did not breastfeed the child well,” Abdurrahman’s father, Ahmed, told MEE.
This is how it feels to raise a child in war-torn Yemen
Many children from the Gabal Habashi district in Taiz province where the Thabets are from suffer from malnutrition and also from symptoms of cholera, Ahmed said.
Some recover without medicine, but others live with difficult symptoms. A rare few die.
“It is difficult to find work nowadays so I am struggling to feed my family and cannot pay for medicines. Medicine is not a priority for needy people like us,” he said.
Abdurrahman was, in fact, only able to get treatment when a stranger saw the child suffering and offered to pay for the family to travel the 50 kilometres to Taiz City, his father said.
“The generous man helped us to save our son and now doctors want us to go to a nutritionist, but that costs so much and we cannot pay,” he said. “If there is another generous man who can help us to stay in the city and will pay for treatment of malnutrition, we will stay.”
Suad Kamel, one of the doctors who treats cholera at the Republican Hospital, said most of the patients she sees are from poor families living in rural areas.
“People were deprived from basic services like clean water and they try to collect the rainwater in open containers and they can’t buy soap. All this leads to carelessness with personal hygiene,” Kamel told MEE.
A municipal worker in Sanaa sprays cholera antiseptics in June 2018 (AFP)
“There are also displaced people living in makeshift camps and this is aggravating the problem as usually people do not care about personal hygiene in those camps.”
Despite the challenges facing international aid organisations, she said they are the best hope to stop the spread of the disease.
Mohammed, still recovering in his bed with an IV drip in his hand, said his biggest worry was the country’s future.
“I am not worried about myself and the old people. I am worried about the children who represent most of the patients in this centre,” he said. “I hope they will all recover from cholera and they will be the men of the future.”
- With additional reporting from Taiz
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Facebook in China
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Prepare to debate what counts as meat
The most popular authors are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year
The Senate Banking Committee stuffed Facebook’s blockchain head David Marcus in a crypto locker
Facebook hired William Shuai, a former Chinese government official and corporate executive, as its new Senior Manager of Government Relations in China. The appointment will help Facebook make a comeback in a country where it’s been banned since 2009 (so are Google, Twitter, and YouTube).
This hire makes clear that Facebook (-1.30%) remains aggressive in its pursuit of the Chinese market. Zuckerberg admitted in 2015, "You can’t have a mission of wanting to connect everyone in the world and leave out the biggest country" (1.38 billion people).
Enter William Shuai—one look at his resume and it’s obvious why he was brought in:
Experience: Shuai managed government relations for LinkedIn’s China operation. Before that, he did the same thing for search giant Baidu.
Skills: Shuai is an expert at building relationships between corporate leaders and government officials in China.
Impressive, no doubt. But he’ll need to be all that experience and more to get Facebook up and running in China.
Let’s review how this year’s shopping marathon stacked up to the past five years’.
As the world commemorates 50 years since the first moon landing, retail sales took their own small step forward
At its annual meeting yesterday, Zara owner Inditex said it’s taken a long, hard look in the mirror.
“Made in America” stickers weren’t worth the cost for Ikea.
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Players react to win over St Mirren
Manager hails another ‘terrific performance’
Motherwell win at St Mirren
Listen to live commentary from St Mirren
Previewing St Mirren v Motherwell
Manager: We will not be complacent
David Turnbull is January player of the month
Mark Gillespie says balance is key to form
Steelman backs Safer Internet Day 2019
Story of the Match from win over Livingston
Jake Hastie, Allan Campbell and Elliott Frear speak as Motherwell hit five-in-a-row with another league win at St Mirren.
Stephen Robinson saluted the lack of fear in his young Motherwell side, as they showed character to record their fifth straight league win in victory at St Mirren.
Motherwell showed grit and character to grind out a fifth straight Ladbrokes Premiership victory at St Mirren.
Jake Hastie and Allan Campbell goals in either half got the win for the men in claret, as they recovered from a potentially morale-sapping equaliser to roar up the park and grab the winner.
Stephen Robinson elected to remain unchanged for the third successive match, with his substitute bench also remaining the same from the weekend win over Livingston.
After scrappy opening exchanges, the game immediately exploded into life through Hastie.
Challenging the full back Muzek, he cut inside from the right, beat another and then rocketed a left-footed effort into the top right corner of the net, via the crossbar, past a stunned goalkeeper.
St Mirren, in truth, had the better chances in the first half thereafter. Nazon was denied a goal through an incredible point blank save from Gillespie, and substitute McAllister curled over shortly after.
Motherwell’s first half was a succession of set plays which failed to create any further serious chances, while the hosts had plenty possession but mainly in their own half.
St Mirren again enjoyed possession in the second period, but the best chances fell to the Steelmen.
The second arguably should have came. A three versus two situation saw link up play between Campbell, Ariyibi and Hastie. The latter finally squared to Main for a tap in, but he just made his run too early and the ball was cleared.
With 17 minutes left, the hosts were level. At the second bite after a corner, Dreyer got the ball into the area for Paul McGinn to loop a brilliant header over Gillespie.
Motherwell’s heads could have went down, but they roared back to life shortly after to claim the winner. Elliott Frear’s outstanding cross from the left met the run of Campbell brilliantly, leaving the midfielder no option but to power an excellent header home to send the travelling crowd wild.
If you can’t make the Ladbrokes Premiership match at St Mirren on Wednesday night, we’ve got you covered.
Our live streaming service is unfortunately not available for the trip to face St Mirren. But users can get live audio commentary via our service at tv.motherwellfc.co.uk.
Packages start at £6 for subscribers in the UK/Ireland, and £12 for international fans.
Fear not, all of our other remaining home and away Ladbrokes Premiership games before the split will be available outside of the UK/Ireland via our live streaming service.
St Mirren host Motherwell on Wednesday night, as Stephen Robinson’s men seek a fifth league win on the bounce.
Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the match.
Motherwell and St Mirren have met twice so far in the Ladbrokes Premiership in the 2018/19 season, recording a win apiece.
David Turnbull and Chris Cadden netted as the Steelmen picked up a 2-0 win in October, while the Buddies returned the favour at Fir Park in a 1-0 victory in December.
Craig Tanner, Trevor Carson and Chris Cadden remain out long term for Motherwell. Christian Mbulu is sidelined with a hamstring strain.
Save time and buy your tickets in advance
Tickets are available online now to collect from the Fir Park ticket office before 4pm on Wednesday. Buy your tickets in advance to avoid queuing at the ground.
At the ground, ticket booths are available next to the stand. Motherwell supporters will be situated in the North Stand.
Over 65s / Under 18s / Student £12
Under 12s £6
Listen to live commentary
Our live streaming service is not available for the trip to face St Mirren. Instead, users can get live audio commentary via our service at tv.motherwellfc.co.uk.
Stephen Robinson says he has no doubt his Motherwell players will avoid complacency against St Mirren.
The Steelmen travel to Paisley on Wednesday night on the back of four straight league wins, but the manager says doing the simple things first will always be the team’s priority.
After another excellent month, youngster David Turnbull is the Tullibardine Motherwell FC player of the month for January.
Having also picked up the award in November and December, the midfielder’s goals against Hibernian and Dundee contributed to him winning the public vote.
Well Society member Drew Nelson came along to Fir Park to present David with his award.
Mark Gillespie says a solid defence and strong attacking options have been the catalyst to Motherwell’s recent upturn in form.
The goalkeeper has contributed to the team’s four consecutive league wins, keeping three clean sheets in the process.
Steelman and his sidekick Raven Steel have been brought to life in cartoon form to back North Lanarkshire Council’s programme around Safer Internet Day.
The club mascots teach a short lesson on the concept of consent online for our younger fans, answering typical questions and giving a simple guide to understanding.
Based around a theme of “Together for a better internet”, North Lanarkshire Child Protection Committee are committed to helping keep children safe online and they are encouraging parents to make use of the resources available online to engage with children’s digital lives.
The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community.
With Motherwell seeking a fourth straight league win, Livingston were the visitors to Fir Park.
This is the Story of the Match from our win over the Lions.
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JD Wetherspoon Pubs to open on motorways
Drink Driving Campaigners Outraged
Drink Driving Campaigners have become outraged at the latest news that JD Wetherspoon will be the first motorway pub after being given the go-ahead at services on the M40. The firm said the bar and restaurant will open at Extra in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, after a successful application to the local council.
Carol Whittingham, the founder of Campaign Against Drink Driving, told the Daily Mail she was “absolutely astounded” that the licence had been granted. “People will be tempted to drink and drive and I can't understand how the local authority has allowed this. It is just not necessary; you can buy alcohol on every street corner so why tempt people by having it at motorways as well?”
A spokeswoman Road Safety charity Brake said "the opening of a pub on the motorway could be of real concern unless safeguards are put in place with strong messages to warn about the dangers of drink-driving. As it is putting temptation there in front of drivers, it is doubly important the messages are extra clear. Our advice to drivers is if you are driving; don't drink any amount of alcohol."
Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said "the company has always been innovative and this is an exciting new development for us. Hopefully it will be the first of many Wetherspoon's on the motorway." A spokesman for Wetherspoons said much of Wetherspoon's sales came from food and that it also served non-alcoholic and hot drinks. "We believe the majority of people that use the pub to drink will be people that aren't driving, coach parties or people travelling with others. We won't be asking them whether they are driving. It's up to them." He also pointed out that motorway drivers were already able to purchase alcohol easily if they wanted.
The question is will drivers be safe rather than sorry or will they be tempted? Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said "most drivers are sensible, but you have to question a policy that encourages drivers to pull off to take a break and then offers them up a pint." Geraldine Ashton-Green from Motoring.co.uk said “most people using the motorway to drive would probably not stop to have a pint, commuters or business motorists surely would not consider it due to work commitments and time deadlines.” Coach parties with holidaymakers and perhaps football fans maybe the clientele that would consider a drink on a journey and obviously they are not driving.
JD Wetherspoon said it had received no objections to the plans after meeting representatives from Thames Valley Police and South Buckinghamshire District Council. In its application to the council, the firm said "materials to remind customers of the dangers of the requirement not to drive whilst under the influence of alcohol will be displayed in the premises."
It is also reported that the £2million development with service area operator Extra would create fifty jobs.
Article Author Geraldine Ashton Green
posted Mon, 10 Jun 2013
Sorry but I disagree with this decision about opening a pub near the motorway. The temptation to drink and drive is too great. If I was on the council I would definitely have opposed this planning application.
The decision to allow Wetherspoons to open a motorway pub is utterly and completely irresponsible. And Wetherspoon's comments that drivers will be mainly sensible in what they drink is pie-in-the-sky ideology - and they know it! They are interested only in making more money and the probable risks of more drink driving accidents has no concern for them. Once they have opened the first pub many will follow, to the further detriment of road safety. The proposal is sheer madness and the powers- that- be should stamp on this NOW!
No problem for me, good idea
The plod will have a field day, they will have spotters watching for people coming out, and pull them up, so J D's will end up catering for coach parties only
This is the stupidest decision I have heard in years by a local council. When someone is killed by a driver that has purchased alcohol from this shop, I hope the councillors remember their decision.
This service station is not actually on the motorway ... so it serves local people too. Surely drivers can make up their own minds about whether to drink or not? As long as we have a "limit" some people will drink and drive. I imagine most people can do this sensibly.
Welcome to the real world as it is here on the continent of Europe. Slovakia has a zero alcohol level for driving and having alcohol sales at service areas and petrol stations does not cause a problem. CADD should feign less outrage and think why - if at all- this will cause problems in the UK.
Think its time for this to be allowed. I prefer to come off the motorway have a pint/meal in a country pub [within a mile] and rejoin the motorway. Have been doing this for over 25 years.
My first thought is no to a pub on a motorway, however stopping for an alcoholic drink doesn't really appeal to me when on a long journey! Lets hope many travellers feel the same!
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May 29, 1865 - Testimony of Robert F. Martin.
ROBERT F. MARTIN, a witness called for the accused, Samuel F. Mudd, being duly sworn, testified as follows:
By MR. EWING;
Q. Are you acquainted with the prisoner, Samuel A. Mudd?
Q. Are you acquainted with Henry L. Mudd?
Q. And with Dr. Blanford?
Q. Did you see them together at your house at any time within the past two or three months?
A. Yes, sir. Dr. Mudd was at my house: came there on the 23d day of March, got his dinner, and left his horse, he and Mr. Lewellyn Gardiner, and went over the river; and came back the next day to dinner and got their horses.
Q. What other time did you see him?
A. I think it was the 4th of April he was at my house.
Q. Who was with him?
A. Henry Mudd, his brother.
Q. Was Dr. Blanford there with him?
A. I do not think Dr. Blanford came in with them; but I do not know that. I know they all went off together somewhere from my place.
Q. Do you know where they had been?
A. When they came there they said they were going to Giesboro Point to buy horses.
Q. How long were Henry L. Mudd and Dr. Samuel A. Mudd together at your house then?
A. I cannot recollect precisely now. I think an hour, or two hours. I know they had their horses put away, and they had their dinners.
Q. From which direction did they come when they came to your house?
A. That I cannot tell.
Q. About what time did Dr. Blanford join them?
A. I think it was between three and four o’clock, though I cannot be positive.
Q. Have you any means of fixing the date?
A. I have not, except that some gentlemen stopped there from the county that day, and registered their names. It was the 4th of April, I am satisfied.
Q. Was Dr. Mudd there afterwards, between that time and the assassination of the President?
Q. Was Henry L. Mudd there afterwards?
A. No, sir.
Q. Was Dr. Blanford there between that time and the assassination of the President?
A. No, sir: I do not recollect his being there during that time.
Q. Where is your book?
A. At home.
By ASSISTANT JUDGE ADVOCATE BINGHAM:
Q. You say it was the 4th of April?
A. I did not register his name at all that day; but there was a man named Stewart there who had just sold a horse up town to somebody, and his name was registered.
Q. What other man was there?
A. I cannot tell. The book will tell if there were any more.
A. I think so.
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Taarab music: a coastal music with flair
By In-house East Africa
By Mariah Nene
The distinctive melodious sound that announces to a visitor that they have arrived at the East African coast, Taarab music helps give the region’s coastal towns their distinct identity and has been evolving ever since the first seafaring traders and explorers landed on these shores.
Culture Musical Club performing at the 2015 Sauti za Busara Fest. Photo by Link Reuben.
Taarab (also known astarabu or tarab) is a type of music that borrowsheavily from genres across the world. It has Indian, Persian, European and Arab influences with Swahili lyrics. According to Gilbert Rougetin the book Music And Trance(1985), the word taarab is a deviation of an Arabic verb “tariba”. This music is synonymous with the East African coast and is closely associated with Swahili culture and way of life.
Taarab music is akin to sung poetry. Its lyrics typically talkof love and relationships, often witha creative subtlety known as “Lugha ya majazi” (imagery language), which is used to avoid conflict or fights in the community. It also serves as a means of learning “proper” Swahili. One of the key elements of Taarab instrumentation is the qanun (orkanun), a 72-string zither that lies flat and is plucked like a harp.The beat of the coastal music is driven by African drums.Tambourines and the accordion add to the melody and give it a Western feel.
History of Taarab
Taarab music has deep roots and is believed to have started in the Zanzibar Town off the East African coast. The many influences of this music reflect the various cultures that have passed through this trading area overmany years. As a regional art-form Taarab incorporates Swahili, Arabic and Egyptian cultures.
Taarab musicians play specific instruments, which help to give the music its unique sound and feel. The qanunis one such instrument. This is a string instrument played in the Middle East, Central Asia and South-eastern Europe. It is made of a narrow trapezoidal soundboard. Nylon or PVC strings are stretched over a single bridge poised on fish skins on one end, attached to tuning pegs on the other end. Theinstrument is placed in the lap and played by plucking the strings with twopicks carved out of tortoise shells. Fingers can also be used to play it. Other popular instruments in Taarab include the Middle Eastern oud and dumbek (drum), Indian tabla, Western electric keyboards and Japanese taishakoto (banjo).Its rhythms are a mixture of local chakacha grooves, Indian film music, Cuban and Congolese Rumba and other East African influences.Song lyrics - Swahili poetry -are considered a literary tradition in their own right.
According to popular understanding of the genre, Taarabwas brought to the Zanzibar coast by Sultan Said Barghash, who ruled Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888. The sultan, who loved music, brought a group of Egyptian musicians, who started teaching the local musicians Taarab. Due to the influence of the Swahili lyrics and traditional chakacha beats, the music received a facelift - it was no longer the same music that the sultan had imported from Egypt. The ruler then sent a Zanzibari musician named Ibrahim Muhammed to study music in Cairo. When he returned, he formed the Zanzibar Taarab Orchestra. The first band members of the group were Subeti Ambari (oud),Buda Swedi (gambusi and violin), Mwalimu Shaaban (tari and vocals),Buda bin Mwendo (violin) and Mbaruku Effandi (violin).In 1905, the second Taarab group, Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club, was formed. A branch of this group, Ikhwani Safaa and Culture Musical Club, continues to thrive today.It has around 35 active members and remains the top Taarab group in Zanzibar.
The Swahili coast stretched from Kismayu, Lamu, Malindi, Mvita (Mombasa), Zanzibar, Pemba, Tanga and Kilwa, all the way to the Seychelles. Taarab penetrated all these areas due to the presence of Arab traders. It even went beyond – inland to Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. It was well received because it went hand in hand with the Muslim culture which similarly spread to these areas. Later,in 1964, in a political bid to remove the Arab influence in the region, all Taarab singers switched to Swahili, which became the lingua franca of the island, and clubs shed their Arab names for Swahili ones.
In Zanzibar, Taarab is closely associated with politics. This is because the first musicians of this genre were trained by Sultan Barghash to perform only in the palace. Groups like the Culture Musical Club started as part of the youth group of the Afro Shirazi party during the revolutionary struggle. Thereafter they became part of the Ministry of Culture in 1964. The Sanaa Taarab group is also under the control of the Zanzibar government. Some Taarab groups are permanently employed by political parties to promote their ideologies. For example, groups like Saniyyat Hubb, GoodLuck Coronation, Boomba Kusema and Lele Mama have been used in the past to mobilize support for one of Tanzania’s biggest political parties, theTanganyika African National Union (TANU).This is because political leaders have long recognized the social power of this music.
Siti binti Saad
Singer Siti binti Saad is a trailblazer who revolutionized Taarab music in a way that is still felt today in Zanzibar and all the other regions along the Indian Ocean coast where Taarab is popular. She was born in 1880 in Zanzibar,during the era of the Arab slave traders. Her family’s living conditions were deplorable and they engaged inpottery and agriculture to make ends meet.When she came of age, Siti left her home village for the city. Lacking any formal education, it wasn’t long before she met Ali Muhsin of NadiIkhwani Safa, a Taarab group indebted to the Sultan at that time. Muhsin recognized Siti’s gift and decided to teach her to sing along to the group’s Taarab instrumentals. She also played the tari or rika.
Siti’s contribution to Taarab should not be underestimated. Whereas her predecessors were all male and sang predominantly in Arabic, she was the first woman to perform in Swahili - a novelty at the time. The talented singer performed in Kenyan coastal towns, Tanzania (then called Tanganyika) and Zanzibar, her home. During this time it was considered immoral for women to join Taarab groups and to sing in public. Siti thus paved the way for female musicians in this genre. She helped to demystify women’s involvement in music within a culture where it was frowned upon and often ridiculed. She helped change people’s mindsets and transformed Taarab to the point where women are now usually the lead singers in Taarab bands, with men providing back-up vocals and playing the instruments. And by singing in Swahili, she ensured that Taarab music penetrated mainland East Africa because more people could now understand the lyrics.
In time, Siti’s singing prowess spilled beyond the borders of East Africa. Between 1928 and 1950, she recorded over 150 records at the Columbia Music Recording Company, based in Mumbai, India. Her music sold fast, withcompany executives hardly believing that over 72 000 recordshad sold in 1931 alone. Siti’s name continued to grow far and wide. She became both a tourist and cultural attraction as people flocked to Zanzibar just to see her. Columbia even established a branch in Zanzibar to enhance her music and tap into other local talent inspired by her sound.While recording in Bombay, Sitimet Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum. This meeting further developed the Taarab sound because she introduced an Indian dance style into it called natiki, derived from the Hindi natak. It is through her recordings and performances with musicians and poets from Mombasa and Lamu that Taarab became widely accessible throughout the region.Later, further Egyptian influence was incorporated into the genre, with many Taarab orchestras mimicking their Egyptian counterparts byincluding full string sections of violin, cello and bass, as well as the accordion, oud, qanun, keyboard and ney flute.
Throughout the world, Siti binti Saad’s name is synonymous with Taarab. Her music prowess was immortalized in her biography Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad, written by Shaaban bin Roberts. The book is still being used as coursework in Tanzanian secondary schools. Although she passed away in 1950, Siti is still remembered as the first womanin East Africa to record an entire album of her music.The Association of Women journalist’s ofTanzania (TAMWA) named their party newspaper Voice of Siti after her.
Bi Kidude
Another female pioneer of Taarab was Bi Kidude, born Fatuma binti Baraka in the 1910s (her exact birthdate is unknown) in Mfagimaringo Village, also in Zanzibar. By the 1920s, Bi Kidude had already started singing with local Taarab groups. At the tender age of 13,the talented singer fled Zanzibar to Tanzania to escape a forced marriage. She joined a Tanzanian Taarab group that travelled and performed all over East Africa.In 1930, she fled from another unhappy marriage to Dar es Salaam, where she joined an Egyptian Taarab group and remained for some time before returning to Zanzibar in the 1940s.
Bi Kidude is known for her role in the Unyago movement, which is a rite of passage that prepares young women for marriage.This cultural practice uses traditional rhythms to teach women how to relate to their husbands.The legendary singer is also famed as one of the greatest composers of African music. In 2005 she was awarded by the World Music Expo (WOMEX) for her contribution to music. Her life is documented in As Old As My Tongue: The Myth and Life of Bi Kidude,the 2006 documentary by Andy Jones.
Other legends of Taarab include Zuhura Swaleh, Bi Malika (real name Asha Abdow Saleeban),Ustadh Bakari Abeid, Ustadh Ali Mkali, the late Ustadh Seif Salim Saleh, and Zein L’ Abdin from Lamu, a master of the oud, which was first introduced by Kuwaiti traders when they sailed the Kenyan coastline during the 1920s and 1930s.
Taarab’s Influence On Music Today
Taarab has left a lasting impression on the music of East Africa, particularly genres such as Kidumbak, Beni and Modern Taarab. Kidumbak is a less refined and more upbeat genre than Taarab. Musically it falls in between Taarab and the traditional Zanzibar music known as Ngoma. Just like Taarab, it is performed during celebrations. Contemporary Kidumbak is often referred to us Kitaarab. Kidumbak is typically played in accompaniment with two small clay drums,a violin played in a frantic fiddle style, a sanduku or tea chest for the bass, and the cherewa, a kind of shaker made from coconut shells filled with seeds or mkwasa, short wooden sticks, played like claves. As opposed to Taarab, Kidumbak is more rhythmic and its lyrics more spontaneous than poetic. The songs often criticize social behavior. The singer should be able to string together various Ngoma songs into a medley accompanying the tune. The dancing and chorus is provided by the wedding guests. This music focuses less on Arabic instruments and more on local ones. Many musicians in Zanzibar, such as Makame Faki, for example, perform in both Kidumbak and Taarab bands.
Another genre influenced by Taarab is Beni, derived from the English word ‘band’. The genre emergedat the end of the 19th century as a mockery of British military bands.It focuses on rhythm and dance,with a strong emphasis on audience participation, and thrives on humour or mockery. The main idea is to have fun! Usually in Beni performances, a series of the latest Taarab hits are arranged in a medley, with females in the audience joining in the chorusand dance. It is also commonly performed during street paradesor wedding dances. The popular band Beni ya Kingi usually kicks off the opening parade of the annual Festival of the Dhow Countries.
Modern Taarab evolved from the traditional Taarab sound but has many notable differences.It is also known as RushaRoho (to let loose, or literally ‘make your spirit fly’).Modern Taarab can be classified as pop music andlacks much of the subtlety of the original Taarab sound – largely because its lyrics are direct and meant to annoy or openly criticize. For example, whereas traditional Taarab lyrics might compare a woman to a theatre chair, which anyone can sit on if they pay, Modern Taarab will instead refer to her directly as a kirukanjia (prostitute). Modern Taarab’s lyrics proved so controversial in Tanzania that in July 2005, the then Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Haroun Ali Suleiman, demanded that female singers stop singing offensive lyrics that promoted disunity.
The main focus of Modern Taarab is dance and entertainment. This music is typically composed and performed on keyboards, which reduces the size of bands and allows musicians to be moremobile and flexible. Band members usually dress far less formally than their predecessors. Some critics dismiss Modern Taarabas an inferior reproduction of the original form. The evolution from original Taarab music to Modern Taarab was mainly due to the commercialization of the genre, the influence of the mainstream mediaand musicians and producers’ adoption to modern technology. Modern Taarab also draws on international influences. There is even a Modern Taarab version of American R&B singers Monica and Brandy’s hit ‘The Boy is Mine’.Another musician, Yusuf Mohammed (aka Tenge) translates the soundtracks of Indian films into Kiswahili and reproduces the melody on an electric keyboard. Another popular Modern Taarab group is Maulidi Musical Party from Kisauni, headed by Maulidi Juma.
The emergence of Taarab and its subsequent evolution offers a fascinating example of the variety and diversity of culture in East Africa. That it has survived for over a century says a lot about the genre’s popularity, although sceptics may fear that the future of this genregrows increasingly uncertain as the region’s musical tastes shift from the traditional to the commercial.
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By Robin Esrock
In the Inuktitut language, Auyuittuq means "the land that never melts" and Sirmilik translates as the "place of glaciers." These remote national parks in the high Arctic of Nunavut's Baffin Island feature jagged, frosted mountain ranges, traditional Inuit villages, glacier-carved fjords, and vast, uninhabited tundra.
"It's like going back to the dawn of creation," says artist and Arctic filmmaker Cory Trépanier. Adds tour director Thomas Lennartz: "People who come here are looking for something different. Once someone comes once, they usually end up returning two or three times."
When to Go: Early season is March to May, when snow machines, dogsleds, and skis can cross the frozen fjords. When the ice breaks up, typically June to July, both parks are inaccessible. By mid-July, the midnight sun is beaming and the ocean is ice-free. Outfitters will bring visitors as late as September. The October/November freeze-up once again makes the park inaccessible. Due to extreme weather, Parks Canada advises against visiting over the dark winter months.
How to Get Around: Unless you have extensive Arctic wilderness experience, the services of a local outfitter, tour company, or expedition cruise are essential. "We camp on the floe edge on the outskirts of the park," says Lennartz, expedition director of Arctic Kingdom. "Imagine an African safari camp put on the ice." Among Arctic Kingdom's offerings is a weeklong, ice-camping narwhal and polar bear safari to Sirmilik in May and June, with opportunities to hike, snowmobile, and snorkel. Black Feather's hiking trips into Auyuittuq explore tundra, lakes, waterfalls, and glaciers. Adventure Canada Cruise North and Polar Cruises get you into the high Arctic with Baffin Island expedition cruises. For local dogsledding, boating, or kayaking outfitters, contact Parks Canada's offices in Sirmilik or Auyuittuq.
Where to Stay: Camping is the widespread option, although Arctic Kingdom's seasonal heated camps can add a touch of comfort. Soften the wilderness edge with an expedition cruise with hot meals and comfortable cabins. Visitors to Sirmilik can stay in Pond Inlet's two hotels, Inns North Sauniq Hotel or Black Point Lodge Hotel. The Angmarlik Interpretive Center located in Pangnirtung can assist with Auyuittuq outfitters and local homestays.
What to Eat or Drink: Tundra campers typically bring homemade or purchased dehydrated meal packs. Only local Inuit are allowed to hunt, but not while guiding. A treat for visitors is the abundance of Arctic char, a particularly tasty fish closely related to salmon and trout.
What to Buy: For local Inuit art, Pond Inlet's Tununiq Sauniq Co-op has a range of soapstone, whalebone, and marble sculptures, along with drawings.
What to Watch: Trépanier's Into the Arctic films are outstanding documentaries about his adventures in these and other Canadian Arctic parks.
Helpful Links: Nunavut Tourism, Parks Canada
Fun Fact: Nunavut's 34,000 people live in a land area bigger than Mexico (population 116 million). Formerly part of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut was only formalized as a distinct Canadian territory in 1999.
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Evidence points to Bitcoin being an NSA-engineered psyop to roll out one-world digital currency
Sunday, December 10, 2017 by: Mike Adams
Tags: bitcoin, cryptocurency, cryptography, NSA, one-world currency, Trojan Horse
(Natural News) I’m going to assume the readers who make it to this article are well informed enough that I don’t have to go into the history of the global money changers and their desire for a one world currency. (If you don’t yet understand the goal of the globalist banking empire and the coming engineered collapse of the fiat currency system, you’re already about 5,000 posts behind the curve.)
With that as a starting point, it’s now becoming increasingly evident that Bitcoin may be a creation of the NSA and was rolled out as a “normalization” experiment to get the public familiar with digital currency. Once this is established, the world’s fiat currencies will be obliterated in an engineered debt collapse (see below for the sequence of events), then replaced with a government approved cryptocurrency with tracking of all transactions and digital wallets by the world’s western governments.
NSA mathematicians detailed “digital cash” two decades ago
What evidence supports this notion? First, take a look at this document entitled, “How to make a mint: The cryptography of anonymous electronic cash.” This document, released in 1997 — yes, twenty years ago — detailed the overall structure and function of Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Who authored the document? Try not to be shocked when you learn it was authored by “mathematical cryptographers at the National Security Agency’s Office of Information Security Research and Technology.”
The NSA, in other words, detailed key elements of Bitcoin long before Bitcoin ever came into existence. Much of the Bitcoin protocol is detailed in this document, including signature authentication techniques, eliminating cryptocoin counterfeits through transaction authentication and several features that support anonymity and untraceability of transactions. The document even outlines the heightened risk of money laundering that’s easily accomplished with cryptocurrencies. It also describes “secure hashing” to be “both one-way and collision-free.”
Although Bitcoin adds mining and a shared, peer-to-peer blockchain transaction authentication system to this structure, it’s clear that the NSA was researching cryptocurrencies long before everyday users had ever heard of the term. Note, too, that the name of the person credited with founding Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto, who is reputed to have reserved one million Bitcoins for himself. Millions of posts and online threads discuss the possible identity of Satishi Nakamoto, and some posts even claim the NSA has identified Satoshi. However, another likely explanation is that Satoshi Nakamoto is the NSA, which means he is either working for the NSA is is a sock puppet character created by the NSA for the purpose of this whole grand experiment.
The NSA also wrote the crypto hash used by Bitcoin to secure all transactions
On top of the fact that the NSA authored a technical paper on cryptocurrency long before the arrival of Bitcoin, the agency is also the creator of the SHA-256 hash upon which every Bitcoin transaction in the world depends. As The Hacker News explains. “The integrity of Bitcoin depends on a hash function called SHA-256, which was designed by the NSA and published by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).” THN also adds:
“If you assume that the NSA did something to SHA-256, which no outside researcher has detected, what you get is the ability, with credible and detectable action, they would be able to forge transactions. The really scary thing is somebody finds a way to find collisions in SHA-256 really fast without brute-forcing it or using lots of hardware and then they take control of the network.” Cryptography researcher Matthew D. Green of Johns Hopkins University said.
In other words, if the SHA-256 hash, which was created by the NSA, actually has a backdoor method for cracking the encryption, it would mean the NSA could steal everybody’s Bitcoins whenever it wants. (Call it “Zero Day.”) That same article, written by Mohit Kumar, mysteriously concludes, “Even today it’s too early to come to conclusions about Bitcoin. Possibly it was designed from day one as a tool to help maintain control of the money supplies of the world.”
And with that statement, Kumar has indeed stumbled upon the bigger goal in all this: To seize control over the world money supply as the fiat currency system crumbles and is replaced with a one-world digital currency controlled by globalists.
Think cryptography is bulletproof? Think again…
Lest you think that the cryptography of cryptocurrency is secure and bulletproof, consider this article from The Hacker News: Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library, which states, “The attack allows an attacker to extract the secret crypto key from a system by analyzing the pattern of memory utilization or the electromagnetic outputs of the device that are emitted during the decryption process.”
Note, importantly, that this is a 1024-bit encryption system. The same technique is also said to be able to crack 2048-bit encryption. In fact, encryption layers are cracked on a daily basis by clever hackers. Some of those encryption layers are powering various cryptocurrencies right now. Unless you are an extremely high-level mathematician, there’s no way you can know for sure whether any crypto currency is truly non-hackable.
In fact, every cryptocurrency becomes obsolete with the invention of large-scale quantum computing. Once China manages to build a working 256-bit quantum computer, it can effectively steal all the Bitcoins in the world (plus steal most national secrets and commit other global mayhem at will).
Ten steps to crypto-tyranny: The “big plan” by the globalists (and how it involves Bitcoin)
In summary, here’s one possible plan by the globalists to seize total control over the world’s money supply, savings, taxation and financial transactions while enslaving humanity. (And it all starts with Bitcoin.)
1) Roll out the NSA-created Bitcoin to get the public excited about a digital currency.
2) Quietly prepare a globalist-controlled cryptocurrency to take its place. (JP Morgan, anyone?)
3) Initiate a massive, global-scale false flag operation that crashes the global debt markets and sends fiat currencies down in flames. (Hoax alien invasion, hoax North Korean EMP attack, mass distributed power grid terrorism network, etc.)
4) Blame whatever convenient enemy is politically acceptable (North Korea, “the Russians,” Little Green Men or whatever it takes…).
5) Allow the fiat currency debt pyramid to collapse and smolder until the sheeple get desperate (i.e. Venezuela-style desperation with people eating out of dumpsters).
6) With great fanfare, announce a government-backed cryptocurrency replacement for all fiat currencies, and position world governments as the SAVIOR of humanity. Allow the desperate public to trade in their fiat currencies for official crypto currencies.
7) Outlaw cash and criminalize gold and silver ownership by private citizens. All in the name of “security,” of course.
8) Criminalize all non-official cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, crashing their value virtually overnight and funneling everyone into the one world government crypto, where the NSA controls the blockchain. This can easily be achieved by blaming the false flag event (see above) on some nation or group that is said to have been “funded by Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency used by terrorists.”
9) Require embedded RFID or biometric identifiers for all transactions in order to “authenticate” the one-world digital crypto currency activities. Mark of the Beast becomes reality. No one is allowed to eat, travel or earn a wage without being marked.
10) Once absolute control over the new one-world digital currency is achieved, weaponize the government-tracked blockchain to track all transactions, investments and commercial activities. Confiscate a portion of all crypto under the guise of “automated taxation.” In an emergency, the government can even announce negative interest rates where your holdings automatically decrease each day.
With all this accomplished, globalists can now roll out absolute totalitarian control over every aspect of private lives by enforcing financial “blackouts” for those individuals who criticize the government. They can put in place automatic deductions for traffic violations, vehicle license plate taxes, internet taxes and a thousand other oppressive taxes invented by the bureaucracy. With automatic deductions run by the government, citizens have no means to halt the endless confiscation of their “money” by totalitarian bureaucrats and their deep state lackeys.
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Sports Paper Talk Around Europe And Transfer Rumours
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SCHWEINSTEIGER EXIT TO HIT MAN UTD IN THE POCKET
Bastian Schweinsteiger is being eyed by PSG, but Man Utd may have to pay out his contract to get him to leave, while Borussia Dortmund are targeting moves for two Premier League player
Manchester United will have to fork out £14m to axe flop midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger – after the player dug his claws in and refused to quit the club.
The German midfielder had a disappointing first season at Old Trafford and barely featured after a spate of injuries. He has been mentioned as one of the four high-profile stars Jose Mourinho wants to axe as he bids to cut his first-team squad down to just 24 names.
Paris Saint-Germain are reportedly keen to sign the former Bayern Munich midfielder, but it seems United will have to pay the remaining two years left on his contract to get him to leave, according to reports in The Sun.
He has also told officials at the club’s Carrington training complex he is happy in Manchester and wants to stay and fight for his place.
Schweinsteiger has spoken with new boss Jose Mourinho but talks were brief over his future at Old Trafford.
A United source told The Sun: “Bastian will cost every penny of the £14million still owed to him on his two-years left.
“He has had talks with Jose over his future but it is still uncertain at this stage. The new few weeks will reveal more.
“He will not be pushed out and will sit tight for pay-off.”
DORTMUND EYE SISSOKO AND SHAQIRI
Borussia Dortmund are leading the race to sign Moussa Sissoko from Newcastle hell – and look set to beat Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal to his signature, according to L’Equipe.
The German giants are interested in the Newcastle star, 26, after he impressed at Euro 2016 with France.
But a bid is yet to be lodged for the wantaway central midfielder.
Dortmund will have to cough up an eye-watering £35million on the wantaway midfielder to meet the Magpies’ evaluation.
Although the player’s agent has hit out at Newcastle’s demands, Toon boss Rafa Benitez has defended the asking price and insisted the club want to keep the Frenchman, whotopped our player ratings in the Euro 2016 final.
Meanwhile, Dortmund are also on the trail of Stoke winger Xherdan Shaqiri, according to the Stoke Sentinel.
The Germans want the Swiss star, known as the Alpine Messi, as a replacement for Ilkay Gundogan, who has moved to Manchester City.
Stoke are obviously determined to keep one of their star performers, but the player might find it hard to resist the lure of a return to Germany and Champions League football, having previously starred with Bayern Munich.
AND THE REST
Manchester City have agreed terms with their main target Leroy Sane (Dail Mirror)
Leeds have been ordered to pay £290,000 in damages to former employee Lucy Ward (The Guardian)
Christian Benteke is willing to stay at Liverpool and fight for his place despite interest from other clubs (The Guardian)
Juventus will compete with Arsenal for Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain, 28, and could meet his release clause of almost £80m (Gazetta dello Sport)
Paul Pogba has hinted that he is open to moving to Manchester United this summer,describing his former club as “my first family” and refusing to commit his future to current club, Juventus
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has had dinner with Paul Pogba in a restaurant in California (Daily Mail)
Georginio Wijnaldum’s preference is to join Tottenham if he leaves Newcastle but the Magpies want more than £25m (Daily Mail)
Middlesbrough have agreed an £8m fee with Borussia Dortmund for Neven Subotic (Daily Mail)
Hull City manager Steve Bruce has warned Italian sides Fiorentina and Sampdoria away from striker Abel Hernandez, 25 (Hull Daily Mail)
Eintracht Frankfurt want to take Manchester United youngster Guillermo Varela on loan (Daily Mail)
Leicester star Jamie Vardy has had successful surgery on his long-term wrist injury (Daily Mail)
England managerial candidate Sam Allardyce’s hopes of landing his dream job have been strengthened after the FA received worrying feedback about Jurgen Klinsmann (Daily Mail)
Liverpool could need a new centre-back after Joe Gomez suffered an Achilles injury (Daily Mirror)
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has reportedly told forward Joel Campbell, 24, to look for a new club, with some interest from Spanish side Valencia (Estadio Deportivo)
Nottingham Forest are one of 10 clubs hoping to sign Manchester United goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, 23 (Nottingham Post)
Burnley are interested in Crystal Palace midfielder Lee Chung-yong, 28 (The Guardian)
Antonio Conte will call on Chelsea’s ex-Italians for advice on managing the club (Daily Mirror)
Stoke City have made enquiries about Everton midfielder James McCarthy, 25 (Daily Mail)
Sunderland’s players have arrived back in the UK braced for Sam Allardyce’s exit to take over England (The Sun)
Chelsea target Joao Mario has decided to move to Inter Milan instead (The Sun)
Leonardo Bonucci’s move to Manchester City could move closer with Mehdi Benatia joining Juventus (The Sun)
Celtic will become the first UK club to have rail seating in use for the first time this weekend (The Sun)
Hull are lining up a £6m bid for Cardiff keeper David Marshall (The Sun)
Southampton are to offer Dusan Tadic a new contract to keep him at the club (Daily Star)
Newcastle target Peter Crouch has begged Mark Hughes for more game-time at Stoke (Daily Star)
Claudio Ranieri has told N’Golo Kante to hurry up and decide whether or not he wants to leave Leicester for Chelsea (Daily Star)
Bournemouth striker Tokelo Rantie is wanted by Leeds and he has refused to go on the Cherries’ pre-season tour (Daily Star)
Ryan Giggs was pushed towards the Manchester United exit door after Jose Mourinho refused to speak to him (Daily Star)
Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli, 25, could head to the Chinese Super League – if a deal is completed before the Chinese transfer window shuts on Friday (Corriere Della Sera)
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri is set to sign a new four-year contract (Leicester Mercury)
The Foxes have submitted a third and final £15m offer for Burnley defender Michael Keane, 23 (Metro)
CREDIT: Teamtalk
Sports Paper Talk Around Europe And Transfer Rumours Reviewed by Brainiack on 10:06:00 Rating: 5
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