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Holidays In Luxembourg
If you’re north of the border it’s not much better and Northern Ireland gets a bit of a better deal. We only get eight bank holidays – Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday.
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Jan 26, 2018. Easter holidays are on the horizon, so grab a pen and start planning your stay with your family. Luxembourg has special attractions and events.
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This page contains a national calendar of all 2018 public holidays. These dates may be modified as official changes are announced, so please check back.
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This is a list of public holidays in Luxembourg. Public holidays[edit]. Holidays. Date, English name, Luxembourgish name, German name, French name, Notes.
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The official public holidays are New Year's Day, Easter Monday, 1 May (Labour Day), Ascension Day, Whit Monday, the Luxembourg National Day (public.
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Discover upcoming public holiday dates for Luxembourg and start planning to. The law simply provides that every employee shall receive 10 paid holidays per.
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Olalla couple's Kona Ice truck is making its debut at schools, festivals and more.
Shaved ice truck comes to Kitsap County Olalla couple's Kona Ice truck is making its debut at schools, festivals and more. Check out this story on kitsapsun.com: https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2019/06/30/shaved-ice-truck-comes-kitsap-county/1590057001/
Isabella Breda, Kitsap Sun Published 8:18 a.m. PT June 30, 2019 | Updated 8:18 a.m. PT June 30, 2019
The Novick family smiles and waves from their Kona Ice truck. (Photo: Isabella Breda)
SOUTH KITSAP — Summer is starting to heat up, but Olalla's Christine and Joe Novick are bringing their cool Kona Ice truck to the summer treat scene in Kitsap County.
"We just love looking out the window and seeing smiles, kids' faces just light up," Christine Novick said.
The Novicks purchased their Kona Ice truck franchise in the fall and attended the "Kona Kollege" in Kentucky before the tropical-themed truck started serving island flavors in May.
The couple was exploring the options of owning a small business for over a year. After learning about the Kona Ice mission, the choice was obvious, they said.
Kona Ice trucks are individually franchised and operated, but unified under one philanthropic vision.
"We learned the founder, Tony Lamb, just wants to give back, now we can too," Christine Novick said.
Twenty percent of gross sales from the truck go back into the community, she said, which made the business an attractive one.
"Plus, we need some tropical spirit around here," she said.
The Novicks host "Kona Days" at school campuses, partnering with administrators to serve Kona Ice, and at the end "we cut the check and give it back to the school." Their truck has already helped raise funds for school programs and initiatives at Valhalla Elementary in Auburn and Wolfle Elementary in Kingston.
"Our biggest causes are schools and animals," Christine Novick said. The couple hopes to connect with the Humane Society and South Kitsap School District as they grow their reach.
Owner/operator Joe Novick makes a shaved ice. (Photo: Isabella Breda)
Beyond giving back to the community, the couple is excited to make the truck into a family business and spend more time with their sons.
"We're making that move away from the scary old ice cream truck, with open windows, Christine Novick said. "You can see it's just our family in here."
The truck also offers neighborhood sales and can be booked for events like birthdays, sports tournaments and weddings.
"We try to be spontaneous, in the evenings we just will post on our Facebook: we're gonna be out in this area," Christine Novick said. "We haven't got a set schedule yet, but the people love it and we enjoy serving the community."
There are various other ways to help make a difference with your Kona Ice purchase. Kona Ice teamed with AdoptAClassroom.org so reusable color-changing cup purchases benefit secondary school classroom programs nationwide.
Kona Ice also offers six different fundraising platforms besides “Kona Days,” including a canned food exchange and promotional punch cards. Nationwide, Kona Ice has donated more than $60 million to community-based organizations since the launch in June 2007.
When it comes to flavors, they "have 'em all," Joe Novick said. Some of the more unexpected are "lavender lemonade," "moonflower" and "hibiscus lemon." Next summer, the couple hopes to add ice cream.
The Kona Ice truck plans a presence at Port Orchard's Fourth of July Fireworks, the Kingston Lavender Festival on July 6, and FitMINT Seattle 2019 at Tacoma's LeMay Car Museum on July 28-29. They are accepting bookings at their website, https://www.kona-ice.com/local-site/kona-ice-of-olalla/.
"It's been blowing up," Christine Novick said. "This summer we want to make a name for ourselves.
"it's all about treating our guests the way we want to be treated," she said. "The community should feel welcome."
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Palm Beach County deputy whose AR-15 was stolen faces reprimand
Suspect uploaded video of him dancing with gun
Posted: 6:18 AM, Sep 14, 2018
By: Michelle Quesada
A Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy faces a written reprimand after his AR-15 was stolen from his unlocked car while he worked an off-duty job at a shopping center.
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla.-- A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy whose AR-15 was stolen out of his unlocked deputy car received a written reprimand for a neglect of duty.
In August the deputy, while off duty, reported that his rifle and other police equipment were missing and believed stolen while his car was parked behind a business on N. Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach.
Boynton Beach police reviewed surveillance video from neighboring businesses, talked with witnesses, and found an Instagram video of one of the burglary suspect’s dancing and rapping with the stolen rifle. Detectives found the stolen high-powered rifle under the 17-year-old’s mattress in his Riviera Beach home.
An internal affairs investigation revealed Deputy Heriberto Santiago left his unmarked Palm Beach County Sheriff’s car unlocked.
“Negligence, that’s what it is,” said David Papas, whose neighbor just had his Glock stolen out of his car this week. “Left his car doors unlocked and I was out here all night, supposedly someone came between 11 and 3 in the morning and someone took his gun out of his car.”
Boynton Beach police tweeted a post saying since January this year more than 40 guns have been stolen from cars and in nearly half of the cases, the car doors were unlocked.
44 - the number of guns stolen from cars in the city since Jan. 1.
24 - the number of those cars that were left unlocked.
0 - the number of guns stolen from a safe inside the car.
Help us prevent gun thefts & potential gun violence. Always secure a firearm. #SaferBoyntonBeach pic.twitter.com/d777MUvP9S
— Boynton Beach Police (@BBPD) September 4, 2018
“If it happens to me, if it happened to them, it can happen to anybody,” said Anthony Andrepont, whose gun was stolen from his unlocked car in April.
Andrepont said it was an unfortunate mistake. Papas said there’s no excuse for anyone, especially for a deputy held to a higher standard.
‘It’s a huge deal,” said Papas. “You don’t leave your guns in your cars. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon for that.”
Boynton Beach police arrested the 17-year-old and there may be more arrests coming.
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La Marzocco Cafe News: Thank you Bonanza and ONIBUS, and welcome Verve Coffee Roasters
July 1, 2019 in Cafe
Happy 4th of July! The Cafe will be open from 8 AM to 5 PM on Thursday the fourth, but please note we will not be hosting our usual Friday Coffee Tasting on Friday the fifth.
With just a week left to experience coffee from both Bonanza Coffee Roasters and ONIBUS Coffee we hope to see you over the next several days! We’ve spent the past month serving one menu that highlights both company’s individual styles and approaches to coffee. It has been a treat for us to taste them side-by-side, and we hope you’ve had a chance to check it out. If not, we’ll be serving their menu through 3 PM on Monday, July 8.
We are grateful to both Bonanza and ONIBUS for sharing their coffees together here in Seattle. Their collaboration was only possible thanks to the passion and dedication of the teams we worked with in both countries. Special thanks goes to Adrian Antoniewicz of Bonanza and Hiroki Matsumiya, Jame Koji Hunt, Wataru Kambe and Shuhei Yasutake of ONIBUS. Along with La Marzocco’s Carolyn Reddy, this group worked across three time zones to connect and plan this residence and we thank you all!
We head next to the rugged west coast, where surf and sand meet espresso and flash brew in the laid back town of Santa Cruz, California. On Tuesday, July 9 we’ll welcome Verve Coffee Roasters to the La Marzocco Cafe as our Roaster in Residence through Monday, August 12.
In their words:
“Verve came to be through the serendipitous union of surf, sweat and a love of life and living.
While exploring the coffee scene in Seattle and Portland, Verve Co-founder Ryan O’Donovan honed his knowledge of the coffee process and his tasting palate by roasting and cupping new coffees as frequently as possible. Like a true aspiring craftsman, he purchased a sample roaster for his home. After tasting the best coffees in the region, he’d return to his workshop to try and replicate the flavor profiles. Before long, he was creating his own roasting profiles and sharing his home concoctions with friends and family.
Co-founder Colby Barr grew up farming pears and wine grapes with his family in Northern California. From an early age, Barr was immersed in the family business where he learned first hand about soil, responsible growing, and the relationship between farmers, processors, buyers, and ultimately, consumers. While in college, Barr developed a passion for coffee, and he often found himself visiting his favorite local coffee shop daily. When the opportunity to buy said shop arose, Barr could not deny his entrepreneurial spirit.
After a year successfully growing this business, Barr called his college pal and fellow coffee aficionado, Ryan O’Donovan, with the hare-brained idea to start their own coffee roasting company. The rest is history…”
In 2007 the first Verve cafe opened on 41st Ave in Santa Cruz and today the company has locations spanning Los Angeles, San Francisco and Japan. Their latest cafe build-out just opened it’s doors right in the middle of downtown Palo Alto, CA, with another incredibly exciting build-out near completion, we can’t wait to hear more from Verve!
We asked Verve how they felt about launching this new facility in the same month as their residence with La Marzocco. Here’s what they said:
“This summer is perhaps the most exciting in Verve history – Hot off the heels of opening our Palo Alto location, we take residency at La Marzocco Cafe. We hope to host an experience that brings the South to the North, and joins two of the west coast’s most prolific coffee communities.
La Marzocco has been and always will be a very special player in the specialty coffee industry. It is an honor to be highlighted at La Marzocco Cafe and to showcase the KB90, an exciting landmark in espresso machine history. Our role in the specialty coffee started back in 2007 when the industry was at its steepest upswing nationwide, and we were raised drinking espresso made on La Marzocco machines. We are excited to have this moment to celebrate La Marzocco’s success in the industry, our launch of a new cafe and roasting facility, as well as to celebrate with the specialty coffee industry as a whole, as we continue to refine, innovate and re-define our craft as we head into a more special, sustainable future.”
Verve plans to highlight their most exciting coffees in a menu that allows our baristas to facilitate an awesome guest experience.
Verve’s best-selling espresso blend Streetlevel will be in our hoppers and brewed on La Marzocco’s newest espresso machine, the KB90. To be enjoyed on its own or in your favorite milk-based beverage, this seasonal blend consists of beans from two different regions of Antigua, Guatemala and has notes of stone fruit, citrus and milk chocolate.
Enjoy Verve’s Honduras Miraflores Parainema as their single-origin espresso offering. It is a wet-process coffee with a sweet, verbena herbality and a dense, plum sweetness.
Batch Brew
For a quick cup of jo, order a mug of The 1950 blend. In Verve’s words, “Routinely ranked as a staff favorite, The 1950 blend pays homage to coffee’s journey around the globe and the spice traders who transported it. Profiled to highlight its dense, candy-like sweetness and complex spice profile.” Always on and always fresh – we brew a new batch at least every hour.
For a slower experience, order a pour over and take a seat while our barista precisely prepares. Two of the coffees Verve is highlighting are seasonal crops from Honduras and Ethiopia. The Honduran coffee is a returning favorite from producer Juan Benitez. It is a vibrant and light bodied coffee with notes of tropical fruit, honey and chocolate. Verve’s Ethiopia Hambela Estate – a favorite of ours from past roasters – comes from various smallholder farmers in the Buku region. It has pear-like sweetness and bright citrus notes that create a tropical and punchy coffee.
Nitro Flash Brew
On-tap all month long – it is summer, after all. Verve’s Nitro Flash Brew consists of their finest directly traded Ethiopian and Colombian coffees brewed hot through a precise process in an oxygen-free environment then immediately flash-chilled and infused with nitrogen. It’s ultra-fresh, free of oxygen, with a creamy mouthfeel.
Verve’s menu will have a selection of loose leaf teas from Rishi, a cascara tea and a special tea-based beverage called Bowl of Soul – a warm drink made with chamomile tea, oat milk, honey syrup and delightfully topped with sprinkles.
Coffee & Ice Cream with Verve Coffee Roasters
Wednesday, July 10, 7 – 9 PM
Celebrate the kick-off to Verve’s residence at the La Marzocco Cafe along with their brand new Palo Alto location with coffee and ice cream! Choose your own Affogato Adventure – we’ll have Verve’s flash brew and espresso available to be poured over Molly Moon’s Sweet Cream ice cream or Yeti ice cream (sweet cream ice cream that’s swirled with homemade vanilla bean caramel and tons of homemade yeti granola and Theo chocolate bits.)
Here from Verve will be Naida Lindberg, USBC semi-finalist and Verve’s cafe manager who will be serving up coffee to our Seattle guests – come say hello!
This is free and open to all, but an RSVP is required. Head here to RSVP!
Coffee Chat: Naida Lindberg of Verve
Thursday, July 11, 8:30 – 11:30 AM
Stop by to say hello, ask questions or chat about specialty coffee, barista competitions, customer service in coffee or life in Santa Cruz with USBC semi-finalist and Verve’s cafe manager, Naida Lindberg. Naida will be brewing a special Verve coffee from 8:30-11:30 am and giving out Adventure Packs (25g packs of whole bean Verve coffee) to all who come by. (While supplies last.)
Friday Coffee Tasting
Friday, July 12, 10 – 11 AM
Get to know Verve’s coffees at the first Friday Tasting during their residence. We’ll have up to eight coffees on the cupping table – a perfect way to taste your favorites before choosing a bag to brew at home! We are also working on having a live video chat with folks at Verve Headquarters during the tasting.
These events are all free and open to all. Head to our events page for more details and to let us know you’re coming!
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From left to right: Corinne Macasso, Jacqueline Parser, Isabella Ciocoiu, Maureen Barnes, Karen Smith, Wendy Ord, Donna Bergvinson, Henrietta Penney, Donna Good, and Lesley Ricci are featured in a CBC documentary about Team Okanagan’s dream of competing on a global scale. - Credit: Pinstripe Productions
Documentary featuring Lake Country skaters airs this week
To The Worlds, will be shown on CBC Friday at 9 p.m.
A CBC documentary following a Winfield skating club’s journey is set to air this week.
Documentary director Wendy Ord is from Lake Country and is part of the Team Okanagan skating club. She, along with skater Karen Smith, formed the club about seven years ago.
The team consists of members from West Kelowna, Kelowna and Lake Country who range from 46 to 76. They practice at The Nexus in Lake Country and trained hard to compete in the International Adult Figure Skating Competition last May in Oberstdorf, Germany. The documentary To The Worlds is about how figure skating empowered the older group of women and it airs Friday, Dec. 18 on CBC Docs POV at 9 p.m.
READ MORE: Central Okanagan skaters featured in CBC documentary
Being a part of the film industry since she was 19, Ord, now 59, said the film came together after encouragement from her partner. Usually, she keeps her skating and work worlds separate.
“When they decided to go to the worlds, it was just too great, I had to do it,” Ord said.
Her fear was the ending of the film.
“I didn’t know if anybody would medal, It was OK if they didn’t… I think there were four or five times in Germany where we said ‘there’s the ending to our movie.’ I think when we came home we had five endings.”
Each of the competitors shares a passion for skating, and the documentary details how they use the sport as a way to heal from a divorce, regain a childhood, and more.
It wasn’t the original intention of Ord to feature the skaters specifically, but that’s how it happened once the cameras were rolling.
“The audience knew them and loved them and wanted to see each of them. When we interviewed them in Germany, they each gave us sort of a beautiful bit of advice, when we layered over the skates,” she said.
And a few skaters earned medals.
“I was on the sidelines crying behind the camera,” Ord said.
“From the very beginning I aways said it was about a movie about the challenges with people our age face, that skating was perhaps something to help them get through it… as I interviewed them I realized actually how amazing they are.”
“It was super cool to have it unfold it through my eyes.”
But she’s still nervous to have the camera turned on her, while tells how she took up skating after a rocky divorce.
“I hope people love it and they find the heart that’s there,” she said.
Lake Country dog leads second life as escape artist
Lake Country council endorses nature park next to Okanagan Rail Trail
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Emergents: Genesis—A Superhero Deckbuilding Game
A PvP multi-player superhero themed deckbuilding game, set in the Emergents Universe created by Brian David-Marshall.
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What Is Emergents: Genesis?
Emergents: Genesis is a new PvP, multiplayer deckbuilding game where players take on the role of powerful superheroes—known in this world as Emergents—and battle against the other players in the game to be the last person standing. Players customize their decks based on four classes of superpowers in a fast-paced game that can be played by two to four players. Designed by Urban Island Games and Top8Magic, Emergents: Genesis introduces innovative, interactive mechanics to the deckbuilding game that will appeal to all fans of both the superhero genre and interactive card games.
Emergents: Genesis takes place in an original universe by game designer and comic creator, Brian David-Marshall and features art from a host of best-selling and award-winning comic book artists headlined by Steve Ellis.
Description of Gameplay
Watch Kyle and Anthony play a few rounds of Emergents: Genesis while they describe each mechanic in the game:
You can download the alpha version of the rules right here!
Emergents: Genesis is a 2-4 player deckbuilding game that any age can enjoy, and a game lasts generally between 30-60 minutes. Everything you will need to play the game with two to four players comes inside a box of Emergents: Genesis.
Players are dealt two Emergents face down and choose one of the heroes to start the game with. The object of the game is reduce all of the other players' heroes to zero health by attacking them while also building your deck and customizing your Emergent's superpowers.
Each player begins with a deck containing nine Skill cards and three Attack cards. Cards that generate Skill are used to purchase additional cards while cards that generate Attack are used to defeat your opponents.
Each player shuffles their deck and draws six cards. They can purchase basic cards that advance their Emergent's class strategy or purchase more expensive cards that are available dealt face-up from the deck. Cards that are purchased get put in the player's discard pile and whenever a player can't draw a card they shuffle their deck. At the end of each turn, a player discards their hand and draws six cards from their deck.
As the game progresses, players will ideally create a deck that showcases their heroes' unique abilities and allows them to be the last player standing. While many deckbuilding games are points races, where someone crosses a finish line and wins, Emergents: Genesis requires you to defeat your opponents, which means you can defend yourself if you have purchased the right cards along the way.
Emergents in the News!
"Emergents: Genesis is what you’d get if Dominion and Ascension had a baby that was adopted by M:tG and Sentinels of the Multiverse." --Pyro Frog, Independence Lane
"Emergents provides a fairly unique deck-building game that plays out somewhat as a cross between Super Smash Brothers and Dominion." --Rich Stein, Hipsters of the Coast
Brian's done a few interviews talking about the game! Check them out:
Limited Resources with Marshall Sutcliffe
Gathering Magic with Adam Styborski and Alex Ullman
The Blogadin with Alex Hamilton
Comical Podcast
Comic Book Chronicles
In Emergents: Genesis, there are four different “classes”: StrongHarms, Acolytes, Non-Stops, and Sculptors. Each “class” of Emergent has not only their own way of fighting, but also their own unique game mechanic.
StrongHarms don't wait around to ask questions—they just charge into battle, and hit hard while they're at it. Their fists do the talking, and if you're not careful, you'll get run over.
The unique mechanic StrongHarms have at their disposal is called Charge—if you play a card with Charge, the next attack that turn becomes more powerful. After all, what better way is there to learn from your opponents than by punching them as hard as you can?
For more on StrongHarms, click here.
Acolytes deal with information—not only the secrets in the world around them, but the secrets in the minds of their enemies, too. Nothing is safe from an Acolyte—their trade is information and they have it in spades. After all, if you know what your enemy is about to do, you can counter their every move.
The unique mechanic Acolytes have at their disposal is called Counter—when they are attacked, not only can they defend and prevent the damage about to be dealt to them, but they can also strike back!
For more information on Acolytes, click here.
Non-Stops love to go fast—and then go even faster. If they're not first, they're last. When fighting against a Non-Stop, you can expect a flurry of blows to come your way—and while any one hit won't hurt too hard, getting punched over and over and over again adds up quick.
The unique mechanic Non-Stops have at their disposal is called Flurry—by playing more cards, they can make their actions more powerful.
For more information on Non-Stops, click here.
Sculptors have the ability to manipulate and bend the situation at hand to their will—literally. Sculptors can use their power[s] to forge fire, ice, energy, or whatever else they can imagine into the form of their choice. Playing with fire has a whole new meaning when facing down a Sculptor.
The unique mechanic Sculptors have at their disposal is called Forge—if a card has been erased during the turn (by any player), their cards become more powerful.
For more information on Sculptors, click here.
All deckbuilding games need lots of cards, so it's a good thing every box of Emergents: Genesis has over 200 of them:
8 Emergents (Hero cards)
48 starting deck cards
60 cards for the stock row (a.k.a., The Panel)
100 cards for the center row (a.k.a., The Page)
Emergents: Genesis also comes with a rulebook—and not only will the rulebook include everything you need to play Emergents: Genesis, but also feature background content on the Genesis Squadron and the Emergents Universe written by its creator, Brian David-Marshall!
If we hit our stretch goals, we plan to add more cards to the game, including more Hero cards!
CITIZEN ($1): Every little bit helps! We really appreciate the support.
ENTHUSIAST ($5): Receive one digital wallpaper per hero in the game to show your love for Emergents! This also includes any wallpaper stretch goals that are unlocked.
ARTIST ($8): Receive one copy of the digital artbook, a fun-filled package filled with notes and essays from Brian David-Marshall, the creator of the Emergents Universe. You also will get your name in the rulebook credits and everything in the ENTHUSIAST reward level.
MAKER ($12): Receive one DOWNLOADABLE, PDF print & play copy of Emergents: Genesis, so you can print a copy of the game and play with your friends! Additionally, your name will be in the game's credits. You also will get your name in the rulebook credits and everything in the ENTHUSIAST reward level
ARTISTIC MAKER ($20): Receive one copy of the digital artbook and one print & play copy of Emergents: Genesis! You also will get everything in the MAKER reward level.
EARLY BIRD EMERGENT ($34): Receive one PHYSICAL copy of Emergents: Genesis for an early bird price shipped for free anywhere in the U.S.! You also will get your name in the rulebook credits.
EMERGENT ($39): Receive one PHYSICAL copy of Emergents: Genesis shipped for free anywhere in the U.S.! You also will get your name in the rulebook credits.
SQUADRON ($49): Receive one PHYSICAL copy of Emergents: Genesis shipped for free anywhere in the U.S., one print & play copy and one copy of the digital artbook! Basically all the rewards from the EMERGENT, ARTIST and MAKER levels.
RETAILER ($120): Receive six (6) copies of Emergents: Genesis shipped for free anywhere in the U.S. This level is available to RETAILERS ONLY. Also, includes your store’s name in the game’s credit and a packet of Emergents: Genesis promotional materials.
SKETCH ($150): Receive a sketch art card of your favorite Emegents: Genesis character. Please note that this card will be drawn after the game is released. You also will get everything in the SQUADRON reward level.
ORIGINAL ART ($250): Receive one piece of original card art from Emergents: Genesis. You also will get everything in the SQUADRON reward level.
PROFESSOR ZEROTH, PROFESSOR MOXIE, PROFESSOR ABYSS, PROFESSOR STOPLESS, PROFESSOR HELIOS ($399 each): Receive one of our custom-made Professor action figures crafted by Vernon Gibbs, one of the premiere action figure artists in the world! You also will get everything in the SQUADRON reward level. We're finishing up our custom figures, but for now, we can show you some pictures of an in progress version of Helios (we're waiting on a fire sword). Check them out!
URBAN ISLAND GAMES PARTY ($1,000): You and a friend will join the Urban Island Games team in New York City for dinner at a location of their choosing where we play Emergents: Genesis and grab some good food. You will be responsible for your own transportation and lodging in New York City. You also will get everything in the SQUADRON reward level.
TOP8MAGIC DINNER ($1,000): You and a friend will join the Top8Magic team in New York City for dinner at a location of their choosing where we play Emergents: Genesis and grab some good food. You will be responsible for your own transportation and lodging in New York City. You also will get everything in the SQUADRON reward level.
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The Origin of The Genesis Squadron
Emergents: Genesis focuses on The Genesis Squadron, the world's first superhero team, and the students of The Phaeton Project.
There were not always superheroes, but when Earth needed them most, a group that would come to be known as The Genesis Squadron came together to save the world from an alien invasion. The heroes' powers had been emerging in the post-nuclear era but out of fear of being ostracized—or worse—they had kept their abilities secret. Now that their unique skills were needed, summoned by military industrialist Aloysius Zeroth, they answered the call as Helios, Moxie, Billy Stopless, and The Abyss.
During the Cold War, Aloysius Zeroth made his vast fortune as a lynch-pin of the military industry in the United States. He was an avowed patriot dedicated to protecting the United States from communism and the threat of the Soviet Union and China. He was building a satellite weapon—known as ZEUS—that was capable of carpeting a targeted area with titanium rods dropped from space when he became aware of the threat of the alien invasion.
His sensors and equipment were being manipulated to erase the presence of an advance scouting party for the invasion. The erasure was too perfect and Zeroth intuited—through his emergent ability to communicate with machines—that the planet was under eminent alien threat. Working in space while looking down at the entirety of Earth he underwent a paradigm shift and dedicated himself and his vast resources to finding other Emergents and creating the superhero team that would become known as The Genesis Squadron.
After the Squadron helped fight back the invasion, Zeroth continued to seek out other Emergents and became aware of Professor Helios’ own son possessing formidable powers but did not share that information with anyone. Helios's son became the world's first Emergent villain and took on the name Phaeton.
Phaeton's powers presented a dire threat to the safety of the planet and Professor Helios and Zeroth had no choice but to join forces to destroy Phaeton and his island headquarters. There has been an irreparable rift between the two men ever since that tragic day but Helios extracted a promise—and sizable endowment—to recruit new Emergents and fund the academy for their education so that similar tragedy could be avoided in the future.
The academy was dubbed The Phaeton Project and it's faculty was made up from the remaining members of the Genesis Squadron. Helios hung up his costume and became Professor Helios.
The Members of The Genesis Squadron
Maureen “Mo” Xie was a Hong Kong beauty queen who did not come into her powers until she was kidnapped by gangsters looking to hold a national treasure for ransom. She discovered her emergent powers as one of the most physically dangerous people on—or off—the planet. The strength and recuperative powers she possesses have come to be known as the StrongHarm class. While she has beauty queen looks, Moxie is the hottest tempered of the faculty members and underestimating her is the easiest way for students to feel her wrath.
The Abyss was a shadowy counterintelligence agent who changed identity the way models change clothes. He made his military career out of being able to “read” people and could detect the minutest of untruths just by watching someone speak. As his powers emerged he developed the ability to shroud himself in shadow and render people incapable of rational thought with his gaze. He is cloaked in a—seemingly—simple hood and cloak of rough hewn cloth that shrouds all but his eyes in blackness. The cloak can seemingly take on different shapes and colors as The Abyss fights. He is a master of all forms of close combat but can also disable someone with just a look. Emergents who have pursued his path are known as Acolytes.
William Zaytsev was a Soviet test pilot and Cosmonaut who broke the sound barrier and unlocked his emergent ability to run through holes in time and space—the first of the Non-Stops. He took on the name Billy Stopless. He can travel almost anywhere in an instant and take vehicles and their passengers along for the ride if need be—powers critical in getting The Genesis Squadron past the defenses the aliens had set up around the Earth. He can also create the impression of detached limbs by punching through a wormhole to crack someone in the jaw from across the room—or to play a practical joke on them.
Professor Helios was the first Firesculptor and he has the the power to summon fire and shape it into anything he can imagine. Professor Helios is much less flamboyant than he was in his prime. He is a somber man in professorial garb. He has the utmost control over the fire but it is always burning. When he uses his powers he can make fire in his hands take on any shape and mass that he can imagine.
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About the Creators of Emergents: Genesis
Brian David-Marshall, a.k.a. BDM, is the creator of the Emergents Universe and co-Founder of Top8Magic, the home of a popular podcast and a number of upcoming comic and game projects. Affectionately known as BDM, Brian has spent his entire adult life making comics and games. After starting out as a comic book publisher and creator, Brian was sucked into the vortex of a little card game called Magic: The Gathering, which he has been playing, commentating, writing, organizing events and being generally excited about since the 90s. The Emergents are the culmination of his planned adolescence of creating comics and games.
Favorite Faction: Non-Stop
Favorite Emergent: Aloysius Zeroth
Favorite Card: Can't Stop
His Ideal Superpower Would Be: The power to turn people into living bread. It might seem silly until you consider using that power near a flock of pigeons or while walking along the shore. When your soggy legs collapse beneath you and a flock of filthy seagulls are tearing your stuffing out you will rue the day you laughed at The Loafer.
Favorite Comic: The Only Living Boy
When not playing Emergents: Genesis, he likes to play: Magic: the Gathering
Anthony Conta, a.k.a. Maverick, is the Lead Game Designer of Emergents: Genesis & Founder of Urban Island Games. Anthony has been playing games since he could hold a controller in his hands. His favorite gaming experiences are the ones that bring people together—either in front of a screen or around a kitchen table. He strives to make gaming experiences that promote interaction—his least favorite games are the ones where everyone's staring at their phones until it's their turn.
Favorite Faction: Acolyte
Favorite Emergent: The Abyss
Favorite Card: CTRL+ALT+DEL
His Ideal Superpower Would Be: Time Control
When not playing Emergents: Genesis, he likes to play: Super Smash Brothers Melee
Matt Ferrando is a Senior Game Designer of Emergents: Genesis. Matt has been designing games for almost as long as he's been playing them. He's spent over seven years making games for a variety of NYC game companies, including To Be Continued and 5th Planet Games. Matt is excellent at finding synergies and exploiting them to their fullest potential, burying his opposition in a flurry of hard to interrupt interactions.
Favorite Emergent: Billy Stopless
Favorite Card: Grind
His Ideal Superpower Would Be: Teleportation
Favorite Comic: The Watchmen
When not playing Emergents: Genesis, he likes to play Magic or complain how there's nothing to watch on Netflix.
Kyle Gallagher, a.k.a. Goose, is an Associate Game Designer of Emergents: Genesis & Director of Business Relations at Urban Island Games. Kyle has been playing games since early childhood, ranging from Candyland to D&D. He is a stickler and advocate for "flavor" in games, and has worked hard to instill that into Emergents: Genesis. Recently, he has been able to share his passion for games through his work at Urban Island and has loved every minute of it.
Favorite Faction: Sculptor
Favorite Emergent: Bantam
Favorite Card: Eradicate
His Ideal Superpower Would Be: Regeneration
When not playing Emergents: Genesis, he likes to play: Anything made by BioWare or Bungie.
Miles Rodriguez, a.k.a. Rampage, is an Associate Game Designer of Emergents: Genesis & Director of Tackling Repeatedly. Miles loves to punch his way to victory. Why ask questions when you can just fight? His impulsive nature is his greatest strength—he sets his sights on a goal and runs straight at it, charging into the fray without a second thought.
Favorite Faction: Strongharm
Favorite Emergent: Moxie
Favorite Card: Tackle
His Ideal Superpower Would Be: The ability to sleep at will (so he can rest from all that rampaging)
When not playing Emergents: Genesis, he likes to play: League of Legends
Matthew Wang, a.k.a. Wang Smash, The Networker, just Wang, is a co-founder of Top8Magic, the home of a popular podcast and a number of upcoming comic and game projects. His game credits include 5th Planet Games' Clash of the Dragons online collectible card game, Zenescope's Wonderland board game, Z-Man Games' The Walking Dead board game, 4Kids' Chaotic trading card game and a number of other offline and online games. Matt is a senior advisor at 5th Planet Games (the company that acquired his previous game company, To Be Continued) and a board member at Gamers Helping Gamers, a scholarship fund for gamers. Matt has been prowling the NYC comic and game stores since the 80s picking up issues of Dragon Magazine, Chris Claremont’s X-Men and Power Pack at Westside Comics or D&D modules at Wah Kue Hobby Shop.
Favorite Faction: The Students!
Favorite Emergent: The Southside Sentry (coming soon!)
His Ideal Superpower Would Be (and is): Networking
Favorite Comic: Suicide Squad
When not playing Emergents: Genesis, he likes to play: Junta
Jason Narvaez is a native New Yorker currently residing in the swamp lands of NJ. Thanks to a healthy dose of mythology books and art supplies in his youth, Jason's interest quickly gravitated towards comics. Eventually, his love of storytelling led him into the field of animation where he's created storyboards for a variety of animated shows such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Young Justice, Ultimate Spider-Man and others.
Bottled Lightning's Steve Ellis has worn many hats working as an illustrator, author art director and concept designer. Over his varied career he has created artwork and conceived projects for companies, such as Wizards of the Coast, Random House, Impact Books, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, AMC, Scholastic Books, Rogue Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment, and many others. Recently, he has developed the award winning comic series High Moon for DC Comics as well as acted the lead designer, storyboard artist and illustrator on AMC's Breaking Bad: The Cost of Doing Business and The Walking Dead: Dead Reckoning games.
Emergents: Genesis is based on a game engine that's been in development for over two years—it's been playtested over thousands of hours by hundreds of people. We're confident that this game is amazing based on our testing and the amount of due diligence we've done. However, just like many things in life, something could go wrong. A lot of Kickstarter projects have succumb to fulfillment delays--things like printer complications, getting the game from the printer into the U.S. through customs, overambitious promises, or some other unforeseen circumstance. We've structured this campaign to minimize the risks of any of these things occurring, but we can't predict the future—we can only do our best to make the things we can control as perfect as possible.
CITIZEN—Every little bit helps! We really appreciate the support.
ENTHUSIAST—In addition to our thanks, you will receive one digital wallpaper per hero in the game, plus any wallpaper stretch goals unlocked.
ARTIST—In addition to the ENTHUSIAST reward level, you will receive one copy of the digital artbook. You also will get your name in the rulebook credits.
MAKER—In addition to the ENTHUSIAST reward level, you will receive one DOWNLOADABLE PDF print & play copy of the game. Additionally, your name will be in the game's credits.
ARTISTIC MAKER—In addition to the MAKER reward level, you will receive one copy of the digital artbook and one print & play copy of the game.
EARLY BIRD EMERGENT—One PHYSICAL copy of Emergents: Genesis shipped for free anywhere in the U.S. You also will get your name in the rulebook credits.
EMERGENT—One PHYSICAL copy of Emergents: Genesis shipped for free anywhere in the U.S. You also will get your name in the rulebook credits.
SQUADRON—All rewards from the EMERGENT, ARTIST and MAKER reward levels.
RETAILER—Receive six (6) copies of Emergents: Genesis shipped for free anywhere in the U.S. This level is available to RETAILERS ONLY. Also, includes your store’s name in the game’s credit and a packet of Emergents: Genesis promotional materials.
SKETCH—All rewards from SQUADRON, and a sketch card of your
favorite Emegents: Genesis character. Please note that this card will be
drawn after the game is released.
ORIGINAL ART—All rewards from the SQUADRON reward level and one piece of original card art.
PROFESSOR HELIOS—All rewards from SQUADRON, plus a custom-made Helios action figure.
Ships to Only United States
PROFESSOR MOXIE—All rewards from SQUADRON, plus a custom-made Moxie action figure.
PROFESSOR STOPLESS—All rewards from SQUADRON, plus a custom-made Billy Stopless action figure.
PROFESSOR ABYSS—All rewards from SQUADRON, plus a custom-made Abyss action figure.
PROFESSOR ZEROTH—All rewards from SQUADRON, plus a custom-made Zeroth action figure.
URBAN ISLAND GAMES PARTY—All of the SQUADRON reward level, plus a dinner with the Urban Island Games team in New York City at a location of our choosing where we play the game and grab some good food. Bring a friend, too! You will be responsible for your own transportation and lodging to New York City.
TOP8MAGIC DINNER—All of the SQUADRON reward level, plus a dinner with the Top8Magic team in New York City at a location of our choosing where we play the game and grab some good food. Bring a friend, too! You will be responsible for your own transportation and lodging to New York City.
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I have been on a journey of unlearning for several years now.
This trek has taken me inward, on a search for the ancient language that connects me to the wind, the ocean, a tortoise and birds, the stars, humanity. This strange interior pilgrimage included the shedding of layers of learned fear, replaced by the embrace of inter-being, the extraordinary interconnectedness of all things in this universe of marvels and oddities, astonishments and magnificence.
I weave this ethos through my jewelry and object art using a magpie approach, composing antique imagery, text and figural toys, which pepper small theatre-like frameworks. My layered narratives in glass and metal extend a helping hand, an invitation to see the world with curious eyes, the eyes of a child.
You are often invited to turn a tiny crank handle which activates movement in the work, to become a magician for a moment, an alchemist in reverie, a shaman dreaming the world.
It is a very sacred game we are playing here on earth. Each of my pieces can function as a touchstone, a cairn, a talisman, for soul retrieval, for awakening, for the journey back to remembering. I think of each as a miniature navigational atlas to the world behind this world, the unseen, the unheard, the unknown.
One of my enameled automatons is featured in the recently published Jewelry and Metals Survey by the Society of North American Goldsmiths.
The Museum of Glass Tacoma, WA
Two of my automata will be included in Alchemy 5: Transformation in Contemporary Enamel, the 17th Biennial International Juried Enamel Exhibition sponsored by The Enamelist Society. The Exhibition highlights the best in contemporary enamels produced in the last two years, showcasing the work of enamelists that demonstrate aesthetic and technical expertise. The exhibition will be hosted at the University of Oregon in Eugene, from July 31 – August 7, 2019 and then will travel to other venues including the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA.
Several of my pieces are included in the gallery section of the upcoming enameling reference book, The Art of Fine Enameling by Karen Cohen.
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Emma Bogren
birth name: Francisco Canaro
artistry: violinist, director, composer
lived: 26 November 1888 - 14 December 1964
alias: Pirincho
Francisco Canaro was born in the city of San José de Mayo, Uruguay. Growing up very poor and without education, he faced a lifetime of menial labor. He opted to labor in music, however, and found widespread fame and enormous financial success. Canaro would go on to become the richest man in tango history so much so that a popular saying arose “he has more money than Canaro”. Being one of the driving factors in the creation of the wildly successful Buenos Aires based Tango Music Industry of the Golden Era of Tango, Canaro earned a place as a national icon of wealth and prosperity, along with the inevitably associated greed.
Canaro and his orchestra, c.1930.
El Pirincho
Francisco Canaro was called "Pirincho" from birth referring to the colorfully crested exotic bird native to the Rio Plata area.
Pirincho spent most of his childhood in the slums of Buenos Aires working as a newspaper boy and later as a house painter.
His first musical experience was learning a few guitar chords from the shoemaker next door.
He made his first violin out of a tin can and some plywood.
The first song he ever played was "El Lloron".
Canaro's first gig didn't work out due to frequent exchange of gunfire from the customers of the establishment as well as the murderous reputation of the local pimp.
Musical Success
Canaro's career finally started to gain some traction around 1908 when he teamed up with bandoneonist Vincente Greco and bolstered his professional reputation by playing in various nightclubs in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
In 1912, with the tangos "Pinta brava" and "Matasano", Canaro's long and prolific career as a composer made its debut. He was so prolific in fact, that he has historically been accused of plagiarism, or, in the very least, paying pennies for musicians to write songs for which he would have the rights and credit. The combination of his prowess in musical leadership and business networking led to his orchestra being the first to gain popularity in aristocratic circles, opening up the tango industry to a much needed wealthy demographic.
By 1925, Canaro was ready for the next phase in his conquest; he traveled to Paris and gained immediate popularity, winning him international prestige and great recognition back home. Upon his return to Argentina two years later, he toured the country extensively to further cement in his supremacy as the number one act in Tango's native homeland. He also capitalized perfectly on the uprise of a radical new media format: Radio.
After decades of one of the most highly successful recording and performing careers in music history, Canaro finally succumbed to the rare Paget's disease. His wealth was divided amongst his lovers and children, and while the city of Montevideo honors him with a name of a street, to this day no institution, nor street has been named in his honor in Buenos Aires.
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We are delighted to confirm that a new LDWA regional group, North West Grampian, is now set up and ready to take associate and primary members.Centred on the Moray Region of Scotland, but stretching…
Warrior Trail on Wednesday 12 August
A message from David Yates, Isle of Wight Group:Hi folks,The next IOW LDWA walk is a very special walk indeed, as we will be doing the recently-created Warrior Trail on Wednesday 12 August.We will be…
Parking for the Hanging Stone Leap – 8th August 2015
Unfortunately due to the re-seeding and ground work at the Club pitches at Guisborough Rugby Club, car parking for entrants will UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE ALLOWED AT THE RUGBY CLUB. The tarmac area…
Possible Moray Group?
The possibility of setting up a Moray Regional LDWA Group is currently being explored.The new group would cover those who live in IV (Inverness) and AB (Aberdeen) post code areas and it would…
New Bylaw for the LDWA NEC Election process
The National Executive Committee of the LDWA approved a new Bylaw on 11th July 2015, setting out a revised procedure for the election of officers to the NEC, which is available for inspection in the…
Ruthven Bridge over the Spey -Temporary Closed
Ruthven Bridge crosses the River Spey near Kingussie (NN75979978). The bridge is in a very poor condition and the bridge superstructure is about to be replaced. This will require that the bridge is…
The Dorset 100 - the website goes live
Dorset Group is delighted to be hosting the annual hundred mile challenge walk over the Bank Holiday weekend of 28th to 30th May 2016.Dorset is the county of Thomas Hardy, of his Egdon Heath, of…
Theresa Lee - Northumbria Group
Northumbria Group regret to report the death of Theresa Lee (née O'Sullivan) on Friday 15th May 2015 in Borders General Hospital following a short illness. She had previously been a member of…
8000 Members Up!
On 19th May 2015 the LDWA reached the membership milestone of 8000 current members in a single membership year. This is our biggest ever membership as 2014's membership year end total of 7992 has…
South Lancashire Group Dissolved
The committee of South Lancashire have recently regrettably taken the decision to dissolve the group because ‘The number of active members has fallen to a level where we cannot sustain a walks…
LDWA Hundreds and the UTMB
A message from David Morgan, National 100s Coordinator, and the 100s Sub-Committee: In recent years, the LDWA has worked with the organisers of the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) in order to…
Pennine Way TV Series marks 50 years of England's first National Trail.
A new TV series celebrates the 50th anniversary of Britain's first national trail, the Pennine Way, that is on 24 April 2015. The Pennine Way is broadcast weekly in four episodes from Friday 10 April…
Walk the Pennine Way in a Day
A news item from National Trails: Is it possible to walk the whole 268 miles of the Pennine Way in a day? Yes it is! But only if you have some help. Join in the most exciting day ever on the Pennine…
Woodhall Bridge Open
After a lengthy closure Woodhall Bridge, (near Wetherby, North Yorkshire) has now reopened restoring the Ebor Way, Tidewater Way and White Rose Way to the original routes. Image © Copyright Martin…
April Strider Delayed
Due to a mechanical breakdown at our printers which requires a spare part to be shipped in from overseas the completion of printing April 2015 Strider will be delayed a few days. This means rather…
National Committee changes
At the AGM on 15 March 2015 John Sparshatt, Paul Lawrence and Tim Glenn stepped down from the Executive Committee and the following new Committee was elected: Principal Officers:Gail Elrick…
Peter Cooper - Cornwall and Devon Group
PETER COOPER (LDWA No 3??) It is with the deepest regret that I report the death of another LDWA and Cornwall & Devon stalwart. Peter Cooper passed peacefully away on Thursday 5th March 2015 at…
The Sahara in October?
A North Yorkshire hospice is seeking intrepid trekkers with a taste for adventure to tackle their Sahara trek in October.The trek is fully supported, and promises to be the trek of a lifetime, as…
Geoff Saunders - Funeral Arrangements
It is with deep sadness that we record the death of Geoff Saunders, LDWA 347, on Saturday 14th February, after several months of deteriorating health. Geoff joined the LDWA in 1972, the year of its…
Satmap Offer & Red Rose
Satmap Systems have produced a map card for the Red Rose 100 for customers who already have an Active 10 or 12. Just click on the link https://satmap.com/ldwa-red-rose-100.html A special…
A Long Walk Round Britain
Catch up with round Britain walker Alexander Ellis-Roswell from Kent, currently in North Cornwall. He's done over 1000 miles so far to help raise funds for RNLI and could really do with some…
Bridge Closure at River bridge, East Keswick
Hopes that Wood Hall Bridge might be reopened before Christmas have been dashed by North Yorkshire County Council. Citing weather problems, a spokesman said engineers would not be back on site…
2015 LDWA AGM and Social Weekend - Revised Routes
Please note that walks on the Saturday morning have been changed. Distances of 22, 19, 17 and 9.5 miles are available. There is also a coach trip to Chawton and Winchester. See our AGM page for…
A researcher working on a Channel 5 documentary will take a sensitive look at alternative Christmases throughout the UK. This insightful programme will feature four to five stories of individuals or…
Stuck for a present? Give LDWA Membership!
Looking for the perfect gift for someone you know who loves walking? Why not buy them a year’s LDWA Membership? (Perhaps add a UK Trailwalker's Handbook at £14.95?).To keep the gift as a surprise,…
2018 LDWA Hundred awarded to Kent Group
The 2018 LDWA Hundred has been awarded to the Kent Group and will be named the Cinque Ports Hundred. The event will take place from 26 to 28 May 2018. More details may be found here
Ramblings - Clare Balding and John Sparshatt walk the Dales Way
The popular BBC Radio 4 weekly series, Ramblings, is running a six-part series featuring the Dales Way and these are on IPlayer Radio to listen again and as podcasts playable on most PCs, tablets and…
Announcement of the 2015 LDWA AGM, and Committee Nomination forms
The preliminary notice of our 2015 AGM can be found here.A form for the submission of nominations to the Committee can be found here.And here is a link to the AGM venue: Norton Park, Winchester
Kenneth Stocking
It is with sadness that the LDWA have learned of the passing of Kenneth Stocking. Ken passed away on Thursday 2 October after a long fight against leukaemia. Ken, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, was a…
Pennine Journey Update
Latest news of the recreation of Wainwright’s first long distance walk can be found on the following link:http://www.penninejourney.org.uk/downloads/PJSC-Newsletter-No-5.pdf Also on the newsletter,…
LDWA on Twitter
LDWA member Jane Williams is now in charge of our Twitter account @LDWA1. If you don't use Twitter but would like to pass on news about paths, walks, events or anything else to do with our…
The Valleys 100: Qualifying Points for UTMB®
Our 100s Coordinator Gail Elrick confirms that The Valleys 100 has achieved 4 qualifying points for those wanting to enter for The North Face® Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc® (UTMB®). The qualifying…
25th Hanging Stone Leap
The Hanging Stone Leap entry limit is 200 this year. If you intend entering on the day, please be aware that only 45 places are now left
Gran Canaria Walking Festival
Gran Canaria Walking Festival is pleased to offer a 15% discount for all LDWA members. The third edition of the Gran Canaria Walking Festival will take place from 3 to 12 October 2014 in Gran…
50km for 50 years
Western Beacons volunteer mountain rescuers carry a stretcher across a 50km route in the Brecon Beacons to mark their team’s half-century
A Double Hundred
South Wales Group's Facebook page features Rod Hollands' exceptional achievement - completing the Valleys Hundred twice in 96 hours - with pictures from various stages of his walk, and Merrian…
APRIL STRIDER - SLIGHT DELAY
Due to production problems at the printer April Strider, which was due to have been posted Friday March 21st, has been delayed 2 working days, and will now be posted Tuesday March 25th. This should…
LDWA AGM 14-16 March FreeCycle Bring along your old maps, walking books, compasses and other bits and pieces, which you no longer want. Remember your rubbish may be somebody else’s…
National Trails Website Launch
The official launch of the new National Trails website takes place today (Monday 13 January 2014). This site (www.nationaltrail.co.uk) is packed with practical information and new maps for the 15…
Sad death of Nev Tandy
It is with sadness that the LDWA have been informed of the passing of Nev Tandy. Nev was a very early LDWA member - founder of the Reservoir Roundabout and the Mid Wales Mountain Marathon - both of…
LDWA is now on Twitter
The LDWA now has a Twitter account - @LDWA1
LDWA Membership as a gift!
Looking for the perfect gift for someone you know who loves walking? Why not buy them a year’s LDWA Membership? (perhaps add a UK Trail Walkers Handbook at £13.95?). To do so you must pay by…
New Ordnance Survey Electronic Map Pricing
Several of the electronic maps providers have drastically reduced their prices... Ordnance Survey has made a significant change to its pricing structure for 25k Explorer Mapping. This has enabled…
Kilburn Kanter - 2nd Nov.
Please note the following checkpoint changes... Checkpoint 1 is near Shaw's Gate (SE 521 822) Checkpoint 2 is now at Cold Kirby Village Hall (SE 533 845) Revised Route Description can be found here
John O' Gaunt - 19th Oct
Please note that this will be the last John O' Gaunt challenge event. Next year West Yorkshire expect to host a new event from Gargrave
Treasurer Vacancy
Due to unforeseen circumstances Ian Beveridge the LDWA Treasurer will not be able to continue in 2014. In addition to the other vacancies on the National Committee we now request nominations from…
Walkers campaign for the England Coast Path
A BBC Newsnight report on the England Coast Path aired recently has shown that the Government’s enthusiasm for a continuous path around the English coast is waning. See more at:…
Parking for the Hanging Stone Leap – 10th August 2013
Unfortunately due to the re-seeding of one of the Rugby pitches at Guisborough Rugby Club, car parking for entrants will be severely restricted.The tarmac area at the club is only for the use of…
Camel Teign Ivor's Dream 100 - BBC Radio 4
Devon and Cornwall Group of the LDWA were approached by BBC Radio 4 just before the 100 and asked if they could interview walkers for their programme. We suggested they followed just two entrants…
Coldstream Guards Memorial March
We've been contacted by the York Branch Coldstream Guards Association about their Memorial March which is taking place on Sunday 8th September 2013 on the North Yorkshire Moors. The event is a…
Free Clothing from Universal Textiles
We have recently been contact by Hopwood P.R. who are organising a media photoshoot with a walking club in Lutterworth for their client, Universal Textiles and they were wondering if the LDWA would…
AGM Strider Report
The 2013 AGM Report is now online and can be found in the library in the AGM Minutes Section
Camel-Teign 100
Steve Clarke's photos from this year's Hundred can be viewed here
Walking Dartmoor: History and Heart Monday 24 – 28 June
Schumacher College have a course coming up which might be of interest to LDWA members. The course ‘Walking Dartmoor: History and Heart‘, is for people who love walking and who wish to…
Isle of Wight Group
At the previous NEC meeting it was agreed to let Dave Yates setup an Isle of Wight group. Anyone wishing to associate themselves with the IOW group will need to change their preferences. Please use…
Camel Teign 100
The Cornwall & Devon Membership, as the organiser of this years 100 event, are appalled to learn that yellow paint has been sprayed on parts of the route. Some are on ‘stones’ connected to…
Recky info. - Camel Teign 100
DEFRA will be closing East Moor in Cornwall from 12th April for 4 days in order to cull ponies on the moorland. East Moor is on the Bolventor to North Hill section (CP4 to CP5).
Irregulars' Lakeland Tarns Walk 30/03/13 cancelled
Regrettably due to continuing poor weather conditions tomorrow's walk has had to be cancelled
Grim and Gruesome - Cancelled (31/03/13)
Due to adverse conditions, the Grim and Gruesome, from Grimwith reservoir; for Nidderdale group to be held on the Sunday 31st March, has been cancelled
Black Brook Cancelled
Please note that the Black Brook Challenge Walk; due to take place on Saturday 23rd March 2013, has been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions
University of Cambridge Bird Survey
A research team at the University of Cambridge is running an online survey to better understand how people influence the distribution of certain bird species across gardens in the UK. As a group that…
AGM Information (2)
AGM walks are for members attending the AGM. Some walks are already oversubscribed. For attendees at the hotel please book in with Heart of England members to confirm your selection, and in the…
AGM Information
Heart of England is looking forward to welcoming all members attending the AGM weekend next week. Check-in from 3pm at the Abbey Hotel. Details regarding all walks and the tour will be available in…
Dogs On Walks
The following link gives details of the proposed LDWA policy on dogs: http://www.ldwa.org.uk/library/policy/dogs_on_walks_rev2.pdf
Sad death of John Forster
It is with sadness that the LDWA have been informed today of the passing of John Forster 27/1/2013. John never got over the loss of his beloved wife Shirley and both will be missed by so many LDWA…
Esk Valley Way 1 - Re-scheduled
Please Note that Cleveland's walk "Esk Valley Way - Leg 1" is now re-scheduled to Sunday 17th February, now parking at the car park at the top of Castleton Village - NZ680077
West of Trafalgar Square (20/1/13)
Note: London's walk 'West of Trafalgar Square' due to be held on Sunday, 20th Jan. 2013 has been cancelled due to the weather conditions
Mid Worcestershire Ring - Cancelled
Please Note that the Mid Worcestershire Ring - Heart of England walk - on 19th Jan has been Cancelled
Irregulars Walk - Lakeland Tarns 26 (18/01/2013)
Please note that the Irregulars Walk; Lakeland Tarns 26 walk due to take place on Saturday 19th January 2013, has been cancelled due to forecast extreme weather conditions
Wallking in the woods? Official Advice
The Forestry Commission has published Guidelines for visitors to woodland as a result of Ash Dieback disease: The risk of visitors spreading the disease is very small and we are not closing forests…
Funeral Arrangements - James Kasen
Jacob Morriswood has reported the death of his father James Kasen from Northampton who passed away very suddenly over the New Year at the age of 63. Jacob's mobile telephone number is 07739 297405…
Sad death of Steve Singleton
Funeral Arrangements, Thursday 17th January, 3pm at Dukinfield Crematorium, Hall Green Road, SK16 4EP and afterwards at Barton Villa, Crescent Road, SK16 4EY for a buffet. All welcome. His mother has…
Hazel Sillver is a freelance journalist writing for a new magazine called Women’s Walking, and she's looking for a case study and wonder if any of your members might be willing? You must be a…
Nowt to do with Adders and Stones!
Please Note: Northumbria's Nowt to do with Adders and Stones! walk will take place on Saturday 23 March 2013 and not Thursday 21st March 2013 as published in Strider
New BBN Group Secretary
At the Beds, Bucks & Northants AGM on the 25th November Norman Corrin stepped down as Group Secretary and Merrian Lancaster was elected to take over
National Trail Register: the Pennine Bridleway to be added to the list of National Trails
From 1st January 2013, the Pennine Bridleway, which was officially opened on 12th June 2012, will be added to the list of National Trails on the National Trails Register, and so completion of this…
Apology from Yorkshire Coast
Some of the more observant members of the LDWA will have noticed that the photo on the inside back cover of Strider actually shows Nigel Stephenson with Karen Scales on the Smugglers Trod and not…
Sad death of Chris Dawes
Funeral Arrangements Telford Crematorium Woodhouse Lane, Telford TF2 9NJ 1300 Tuesday 4th December 2012 followed by a walk and refreshments. We are very sad to report the sudden death at the age of…
Camel Teign Ivor's Dream Entries
With the deadline for members priority entries for the 100 approaching, the Entries Secretary (Annette Merchant) would like to remind you that if you think have entered the event but have not…
Rudolph's Romp (01/12/2012)
Note: The Rudolph's Romp is full and there is no entry on the day
The LDWA web site has just been moved to a new Web Host Provider
The LDWA web site has just been moved to a new Web Host Provider to ensure that we are able to cope with the continued growth in use we have seen over the last few years. This upgrade has now been…
2013 Hundred
Registration for 2013 opens on Monday 15 October and closes on Friday 30 November. If more than 550 entries are received by then there will be a ballot
Environment Matters Forum
Got a Dishwasher? Want to know if that is environmentally friendly. Check out the Environment Matters Forum, where these and other environmental issues can be discussed. Click here for further details
Camel-Teign Ivor's Dream 100 Webpages Now Online
The webpages for the 2013 Hundred, Camel-Teign Ivor's Dream are now online here
Games 100 Photos
The complete set of Games 100 photos are now online. See: here for further details.
White Rose Walk Badges
North Yorkshire LDWA have a limited number of White Rose Walk badges for sale at £2 plus p&p, Contact Roger Wandless at rogerwandless@btinternet.com for further details
Games 100 Photos & Detailed Results
Games 100 photos are here and detailed results are here
Ann Hearne Memorial Walk
On the 21st July, the West Lancs group are walking the short route of the Anglezarke Amble in memory of Ann Hearn who Sadly passed away recently. Please contact Doreen Viney if you intend coming on…
Not the Ridgeway from Nettlebed Cancelled
Please note that the Surrey Group Walk: "Not the Ridgeway from Nettlebed" on Saturday 30th June has had to be cancelled as it clashes with Henley Regatta week and travel through the town to get to…
Malvern Midsummer Marathon Full
Entry for the Malvern Midsummer Marathon, to be held on Saturday, 23rd June 2012, is now full
Games 100 Summary Results
Summary results of the Games 100 are available here
Games 100 Marshals' Walk Results
This page has the results of the Marshals' Walk that took place over the weekend of 5-7 May 2012, in sometimes difficult conditions underfoot after the wettest April on record, though those finishing…
Issac’s Tea Trail
The Northumbria group are Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the LDWA with a weekend away at Alston YHA on Friday 14th through Sunday 16th September 2012 and will be completing the 38 mile long…
Games 100 start times
There have been 3 updates sent out to entrants for this years’ Games 100. On each update along with the information released we have reminded entrants to tell us their planned start time even if it…
Satmap 10, Games 100 Offer
SatMap have produced an offer for entrants to the Games 100. The offer is not exclusive to that group and any LDWA member may take advantage of the special discount to purchase an Active 10 with the…
Black Brook - Date Change
Please note that the Irregular's Black Brook Challenge walk is now being held on the 31st March 2012
Bath Beat Full
The Bath Beat, to be held on Saturday 14th April, is full and no more entries can be accepted
Anyone want to walk 2012km?
The 'Gold Challenge', organised in conjunction with the British Olympic Association, is a challenge to walk/run/cycle/hop... 2012km, 201.2km or 20.12km, with a chance of winning a place in the first…
Games 100 Route Description Available
The Route Description for the LDWA Games 100, together with trackfiles for the route, is now available here
Winter Poppyline Full
Entry for the Winter Poppyline, to be held on Sat 25th - Sun 26th Feb 2012, is now full
New Forum Topic
A new Forum topic called 'Notice Board' has been created to display Items for Sale or Lost Property
Blacks/Millets Discount Scheme
Due to the recent change in ownership of Blacks and Millets stores the Specialist Group Discount Card is no longer valid. This is with immediate effect. Blacks/Millets apologise for any inconvenience…
Winter Tanners Full
Entry for the Winter Tanners, to be held on Sunday, 15th Jan 2012, is now full. For those of you lucky enough to have secured a place on the Winter Tanners remember to download your Route Description…
Punchbowl Marathon Full
Entry for the Punchbowl Marathon, to be held on Sunday, 12th Feb 2012, is now full
West Yorkshire Group walk on Saturday 31st December
Details of the West Yorkshire Group Walk on Saturday 31st December have now been announced and it will start at 8.30am from Ilkley Bridge, New Bridge Street, Ilkley. See website for details:…
New Mapping
Over the past two years it has become apparent that the OS Openspace mapping was being used to the limit of the existing free availability on our website. Use of the website and in particular the…
Wye Forest 50 Full
Entry for the Wye Forest 50, to be held on 28-29th April 2012, is now full
No draw required for the LDWA Games 100 and entries re-open
The Games 100 registration period is now closed and there was no need for a draw. All those entrants who have met the qualifying criteria have been offered a place. Offers and requests for payment…
Wensleydale Wedge Full
Entry for the Wensleydale Wedge, to be held on 20th November, is now full
Shillington Shuffle Full
Entry for the Shillington Shuffle, to be held on 13th November, is now full
Kilburn Kanter Full
Entry for the Kilburn Kanter, to be held on 5th November, is now full
LDWA Games 100 Entries Open
Registration of entries for the LDWA Games 100 in 2012 is now open here
Wenlock Olympian Walk
Marches LDWA Group are organising walks of 50 & 100 miles in Shropshire on 21-22 July 2012 as part of the Wenlock Olympian Games. The website for the walk is now live, giving details and background…
Outdoor Activity Survey
A team at Queen’s University Management School in Belfast are conducting a study that looks at the kind of outdoor activities people take part in. They are asking members of associations such as…
East Yorkshire Website Down
Please note that the East Yorkshire local website hosted by Beehive is temporarily down. Check the following website (hosted by the LDWA) for upcoming Social walks http://www.ldwa.org.uk/EastYorkshire
2012 Hundred Qualifying Events
The website for the Games Hundred to be held in 2012 now includes a list of qualifying events. Further information will be added to the site as time progresses
Blank Letter to Events Secretary
LDWA Events Secretary, Madeleine Watson, received an envelope this morning (24th August) which had nothing in it. The postmark is unreadable but does have the words in Welsh as well as English. If…
Tree-felling on the Southern Upland Way
We are advised by Forestry Commission Scotland that there will be tree harvesting by Loch Dee on the Southern Upland Way starting Friday 26th August, lasting for two weeks or so. The trail will be…
2012 Hundred Details - Correction
Groups or individuals would would like to volunteer to help with the Games 100 to be held on 2-4 June 2012, are asked to contact Neil Higham. Unfortunately Neil's email address was given incorrectly…
Filey Flyer - Date Change
The Filey Flyer event, organised by East Yorks LDWA Group will be held on Saturday 7th January 2012, NOT 21st January as listed in August Strider. Details of the event may be found at this link
Margaret Steer
It is with great sadness we report that Margaret Steer died peacefully at her home in Porthleven in Cornwall in the morning of Tuesday 28th June. Margaret was the widow of Chris Steer, cofounder of…
The LDWA Web Server has been Upgraded
The server that hosts the LDWA web site has just been upgraded to ensure that we are able to cope with the continued growth in use we have seen over the last few years. This upgrade has now been…
Website Temporarily Unavailable on June 28th
It has become necessary to upgrade to the server that hosts the LDWA website to use the latest software packages. For users of the LDWA website it will mean that the website will be temporarily…
Malvern Marathon Full
Entry for the Malvern Marathon, to be held on 25th June, is now full
East Lancs Walk Change - Saturday 18th June
East Lancs LDWA Group have cancelled their Welsh 3000 walk on Saturday 18th June and replaced it with 'A Bit of this and a Bit of That'. Saturday, 18th June 2011 at 08.00am prompt. From - the…
LDWA Member on Countdown
The LDWA gets a mention on the Channel 4 programme 'Countdown' to be shown at 3.10pm on April 29th when Roger Edwards, known to Strider readers as 'Backmarker', takes part in the programme. The…
Cornwall & Devon LDWA are very sorry to report that Betty Cooper passed away on Saturday 9th April after having been unwell for some time. Betty will be remembered for the checkpoints she manned on…
Blacks and Milletts Discount
Blacks and Milletts are starting a scheme where they will offer LDWA members’ discounts of 15% on all items including those reduced in sales. The cards are valid in all stores. However for LDWA…
Durham Dales & Malvern Marathon
Although challenge walkers will be disappointed to hear the Tranquility Trail, scheduled for 25th June, has been cancelled, allow us to remind you of two other excellent events up and down the…
Tranquility Trail cancelled
The Tranquility Trail, due to be held on Saturday June 25th, has been cancelled. Unfortunately, the Buddhists of Kilnwick Percy, who in the past have organised the walk in partnership with East Yorks…
Proposed Heart of Scotland Group
The LDWA hopes to set up an LDWA local group to cover roughly the area around Perth & Kinross, Fife, Tayside, Stirling and Angus. The very successful 'Heart of Scotland 100' was held in the area last…
Chiltern Kanter Parking
Please note that for the Chiltern Kanter this weekend the only car parking available is in the 3 public car parks in the town. (They are all close to the event venue the British Red Cross Hall) 2 of…
Government Withdraws Forestry Proposals
Following the widespread public opposition to Government proposals in the Public Bodies Bill that would have enabled the sale of the public forest estate without preserving some rights of access, the…
Forestry Sales Consultation
DEFRA is currently running a public consultation about the future ownership and management of the public forest estate in England – land managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of the DEFRA.…
Concerns over the Public Bodies Bill
The LDWA has, along with 11 other outdoor organisations, added its name to a statement of concern over those parts of the Public Bodies Bill, currently before the House of Lords, that may affect…
The Hebden Challenge Event is Full
The entry list for The Hebden Challenge Event due to be held on Saturday 22nd January 2011 is now full with 400 entrants. Consequently we regret that no further postal entries, entries on line nor…
East Yorks Group walk cancelled
Twelve Dales to Christmas, the annual walk over the Yorkshire Wolds due to take place from Langtoft, near Driffield next Sunday (December 19) has been cancelled. The East Yorkshire Group of the Long…
December Strider - Message from Membership Secretary
December Strider has been dispatched, however they went out in batches. I won't bore you with the technicalities but I had to produce 10 separate mailing lists. One went out first and one went out…
Booking is now open for the 2011 AGM Weekend, to be held for Friday 4th to Sunday 6th March in Axbridge, Somerset. Details and a booking form may be found on the AGM Webpage or in the booklet…
Rudolph's Romp Cancelled
Rudolph's Romp, the annual challenge walk over the Yorkshire Wolds due to take place this coming Saturday 4th December, has been cancelled because of the severe weather conditions. More than 400…
Reg Chapman Funeral
The funeral of Reg Chapman will take place at 1pm on Wednesday 17th November at Guildford Crematorium, New Pond Road, Godalming, Surrey GU7 3DB. Friends from the LDWA are most welcome. Afterwards all…
Reg Chapman
It is with great sadness that we report that Reg Chapman, LDWA Internet Officer and National Committee member, passed away on Friday evening. Our condolences go to Jan and their family. Reg has…
Could You be LDWA General Secretary?
The LDWA National Committee requires a new General/Company Secretary from the AGM in March 2011. The job involves preparing agendas/minutes/AGM Booklets etc. You would also need to deal with general…
Norman Thomas on Radio Lancashire
LDWA member Norman Thomas will be a guest on Radio Lancashire on Thursday 28 October 11.00 - 13.00. The main topic for discussion will be the 22 mile long distance route 'A Breath of Fresh Air' which…
East Lancs Group Walk - Date Correction
Please note that the East Lancs LDWA Group Walk 'West Pennine Moor Boundary Walk' will take place on Sunday 19th September (NOT 19th October as listed in August Strider) . West Pennine Moor…
East Lancs Walk - Date Correction
Ken Andrews
Members will be sad to learn that Ken Andrews, former Treasurer of the LDWA, died on Friday 27th August aged 77. He had been fighting cancer for sometime
Heart of Scotland 100 DVD
A DVD covering all facets of the Heart of Scotland 100 has been produced and is available for purchase. Those who entered the event will have received an order form with the Report and Results which…
Julie Welch on Feet & Walking on Radio 4
Keen LDWA member, former Strider editor and author of the book 'Out on Your Feet' on doing the LDWA 100, is presenting one of the regular Radio 4 programmes 'With Great Pleasure' on Tuesday, 27…
Heart of Scotland 100 Merchandise
All outstanding Heart of Scotland 100 merchandise has now been dispatched and no further orders for merchandise can be accepted
New Online Tick-Risk Tool
An online device that helps walkers find out whether they might be at risk of potentially fatal Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE) when travelling across Europe is now available at the Tick Alert website.…
100 Lost Property and Certificates
Below is a list along with a picture of lost property that was handed in at the Heart of Scotland 100. To claim any item please email Paul. Also, if you did not collect your certificate at the end…
Heart of Scotland 100 Photos
There is now a range of photographs of the Heart of Scotland 100 on the web, including those by Steve Clark, Merrian Lancaster 1 and 2, Peter Greyson, Nick Ham, and there are some videos by John…
New Eastern Triple Challenge
A new Eastern Triple Challenge will be created with the Herts Stroller taking place on 14-15th August 2010 followed by the Poppyline 50 in August 2011 and the Shotley 50 on 10-11th September 2011. …
2011 Housman Hundred Website
The website for the Housman Hundred, to be held on 28-30 May 2011, is now available here where further information on the event may be found
100 Photo Gallery Available
Heart Of Scotland photos (supplied by Steve Clark) are now available directly via the website main menu or from Heart Of Scotland Photo Galleries
Tom Sinclair
It is with deep regret we record that Tom Sinclair, past Chairman of the LDWA, passed away on 9th June. Tom suffered a stroke on Easter Sunday, from which he never recovered. After several weeks in…
Heart of Scotland 100 Results Available
Provisional results for the Heart of Scotland 100 are now available under 'Latest News' on the Heart of Scotland 100 website
Scottish Hundred - Any Withdrawals?
Please would anyone who has a confirmed entry in the Heart of Scotland 100 but knows that they won't be able to take it up for some reason let the Entires Secretary know as soon as possible (email…
Apology for Strider Omission
The list of National Committee changes on page 3 of April Strider omitted to thank Nicky Wood who has retired as Local Groups Secretary. She should of course have been included and we are very…
LDWA Website Upgraded
Welcome to the upgraded LDWA website! We have made a number of improvements: Mapping from Ordnance Survey is now available to: help you visualise locations for events and walks select and follow…
Kipling Kaper - 27 March - Change of Start
Please note that there has been a late change to the start venue for the Kipling Kaper, to be held on Saturday 27 March. It will now start from the Swythamley & Heaton Centre, SK11 0SJ (GR SJ965631).…
Members' Discounted Tickets for The Outdoors Show
The Outdoors Show takes place at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham from 26th to 28th March 2010 with a wide range of stands, displays and speakers relating to outdoor activities. LDWA…
Lunsdale Walks Cancelled
Morecambe Bay and Bowland LDWA Group regret that the Lunsdale Walks, due to be held on Saturday March 13, have been cancelled because of lack of entrants
Tandem Cancellation - 20th February
Unfortunately due to the overnight deterioration in the weather conditions, i.e. heavy snow and extreme low temperatures making driving conditions hazardous, the Tandem event was unable to go ahead.…
Heart of Scotland 100 Full
The entry limit of 530 for the Heart of Scotland 100 has now been reached. Any further entries received by 1 May will be put on the waiting list. Entries on the waiting list with an appropriate…
Wessex 100 Video on YouTube
The video that was made of the Wessex 100 last year may now be viewed on YouTube through the following links: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
Dorset Giant Full
The Dorset Giant, to be held on 24-25 April and organised by Dorset LDWA Group, is now full. No more entries will be accepted nor will a waiting / reserve list be operated as the Group has allowed …
Filey Flyer Postponed
Heavy snowfalls over the high ground have led to the postponement of the Filey Flyer, the long distance challenge walk due to be held at the East Coast resort this coming Saturday, January 16. A new…
LDWA Members in the Guardian
Today's (Saturday 9th January) Guardian carries a 'Walk Yourself Fit' Guide that includes the thoughts of several well-known LDWA members including John Walker, Betty Lewis, Garfield Southall, Julie…
Re-scheduled Tandem
Due to the postponement and rescheduling of the 2010 Tandem a small number of teams will be unable to attend the new date of the 20th February set for the event. Those teams unable to attend the…
Reservoir Roundabout II STILL ON
The Reservoir Roundabout II event is still on as the weather forecast is good and all main roads are clear. The route has been modified to take account of the snow and distances are now 20 and 16…
Winter Tanners - Postponed to Sunday 24 January
Due to the weather conditions and forecast for the next few days, the Surrey Group has decided to postpone the Winter Tanners from this Sunday 10 January to Sunday 24 January 2010. All entrants will…
UK Trailwalker’s Handbook is a Bestseller!
The UK Trailwalker’s Handbook, the new LDWA Directory of Long Distance Paths, recently published by Cicerone Press, has reached top rank in several catgories in Amazon's listings of bestselling…
The Hebden - Full
The Hebden, to be held on Saturday 23rd January, has now reached the maximum entry number and, with regret, the entry list has been closed. No further entries can be accepted and there will be no…
Stansted Stagger Postponed
Due to the weather conitions we had to postpone the Stansted Stagger which was due to take place on Sunday 20th December.The event is now scheduled to take place on Sunday 3rd January 2010. Entrants…
bc ring Guidebook - price correction
The bc ring, a 62mile trail around Bishop's Castle in Shropshire, is a new trail that was described on page 28 of December Strider. Unfortunately the price details in Strider are incorrect. The…
No ballot needed for the Heart of Scotland 100
The limit of 530 entries for the Heart of Scotland 100 was not reached by 5th December, and therefore a draw for places is unnecessary. All those who entered by this date with an acceptable…
Correction to Puzzlers’ Plod Competition
There is an unfortunate error in the “Puzzlers’ Plod” competition on page 11 of December Strider. The first sentence should read: “This year’s Puzzlers’ Plod event had two routes, both…
Henry Bridge
Members will be sorry to learn of the death of Henry Bridge in late October at the age of 99. Henry is a legend in LDWA circles, well-known to longer standing members. He joined the LDWA when 68 and…
Heart of England - Walk on Sunday November 22nd - Programme Correction
Note that the Heart of England Group walk 'From Sauce to Source - Stage 1' will take place on Sunday November 22nd (not Saturday November 22nd as it was listed in Strider). See the Heart of England…
Hundreds Featured in the 'Independent' Newspaper
Five pages of the 'Life' section of today's (20 October) 'Independent' newspaper are devoted to extracts from Julie Welch's book 'Out on Your Feet' on walking Hundreds. There is also brief…
Julie Welch's Woman's Hour Interview Available for Streaming
Anyone who missed the interview with Julie Welch about the LDWA and Hundreds this morning (Thursday 8 October) can listen to it on this page of the BBC Website. 'Out on Your Feet: The Hallucinatory…
Heart of Scotland 100 entry now open
Entry for the Heart of Scotland 100 is now open. An entry form, along with the event rules and further information, may be downloaded from the event webpage. Alternatively, online entry through…
Julie Welch's book 'Out on Your Feet' has now been published
Out on Your Feet', the new book about Hundred Walking by former Strider Editor, Julie Welch, has now been published. The book describes how, from her first encounters with long distance walking and…
Archive of 100 Results and Routes is now complete
Electronic archiving of the route descriptions, results, certificates and badges for all the LDWA 100s, spanning the years 1973-2009, has now been completed. The material may be found in the Library…
The Hebden - Change of Date
The Hebden will be run next year on Saturday 23rd January rather than Saturday 9th January so as to enable participants to enter The Tandem which is being held on the earlier date. The Hebden 2010…
Heart of Scotland 100 Webpages Now Online
The webpages for the 2010 Heart of Scotland 100 are now online at this link The webpages include general information on the event, event rules, pictures of the route, etc. There is also a…
New Book on Hundreds by Julie Welch
In a new 250 page book, 'Out on Your Feet', sports writer and former Strider Editor, Julie Welch, describes how from her first encounters with long distance walking and the LDWA she was enthused to…
BBN Founders Memorial Bench
BBN have installed a Memorial Bench in memory of their 2 founder members Chris Meredith MBE and Chris Goodman who passed away in 2008 which was the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the group The…
Heart of Scotland 100
The Heart of Scotland 100 will be held over the weekend of 29th-31st May 2010. There is no local group and the organisation is being undertaken by members of Cumbria, Cleveland, Northumbria and…
LDWA Donations for Projects
Members are reminded that if they would like the National Committee to consider a donation in 2009 from LDWA funds to a project or cause relevant to the aims of the Association, in line with the LDWA…
Shirley Foster
It is with deep sadness that we record the death of Shirley Ann Forster who died on 9th June 2009. Shirley, wife of John Forster, had been a member of the East Yorkshire LDWA since 1981
Wessex 100 Results
The results of the Wessex 100 are now on the Wessex 100 Website. Results of the Marshals' Walk may be found here
Wessex 100 Photographs on Web
Photographs taken by Steve Clark, 'Official' 100 Photographer, are now on the BBN website
Eileen Knopfel Memorial Walks
Well-known walker and member of Westmorland and North Lancs LDWA Group Eileen Knopfel died earlier this year. Rosemary Webster, a close friend of Eileen, will be walking 60 miles over 3 days in June…
Wessex 100 Marshals' Walk Results
The results for the Wessex 100 Marshals' Walk, held on 2nd-4th May, may be found on the Marshals' Walk web site
Live Cam Coverage of Wessex 100
There will be live camera coverage of both the Marshals Walk and the Main Event streamed from Petersfield. A mobile camera will be installed outside the Good Intent (or through the window if…
National Trail Walkers Certificates Now Available
Attractive certificates for those on the LDWA Register of National Trail Walkers are now available! As mentioned in April Strider the Register records anyone who has completed 5, 10, 15 or all 18…
Opening of the 'Around Corby' Long Distance Path
The new 35 mile Around Corby Long Distance Path will be officially opened as part of the Around Corby Walking Festival over the weekend of 2nd-4th May. The route, which connects the 7 parishes of…
Extension of the Cowal Way in Southwest Scotland
The Cowal Way in southwest Scotland now runs all the way from Portavadie to Inveruglas, Loch Lomond, making it 57miles (92km) in all. This makes it possible to walk all the way from the Mull of…
Walk to remember Dave Green and unveil a seat
On Friday 24th April 2009 there will be a 6 mile walk from South Kenton Underground Station to Hendon Central Underground Station to remember Dave Green and to unveil a seat in his memory at Barn…
New Series on Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk
LDWA members may be interested to know that the new series on Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk will be shown on BBC4 starting on Thursday 9th April at 8.30 pm, repeated at 2 am the next morning. See…
LDWA Establish National Trails Register
As mentioned in April Strider, the LDWA has set up a Register of National Trail Walkers. The Register will record those who have completed 5, 10, 15 or all 18 'Official' National Trails in England…
LDWA AGM Weekend - Change of Chair
The LDWA AGM weekend took place in Llandrindod Wells over the first weekend in March. There were four walks of various lengths on the Saturday as well as alternative activities. The Annual Dinner was…
Eileen Knopfel
Westmorland and North Lancs group are very sad to announce the death of a dear friend, Eileen Knopfel (nee Sedgwick), who passed away quietly at home on Monday 2 March after a short illness. The…
No draw necessary for places on the Wessex 100
The entry limit for the Wessex 100s had not been exceeded by 21st February and hence a draw for places on the event was unnecessary. All entries received before this date have been accepted and…
Calendar of Irish Challenge Walks
For those interested in walking in the Emerald Isle, the Walkers Association of Ireland have an attractive list of challenge walks organised by various bodies during 2009. These include the famous…
Oxfam Trailtrekker and Trailwalker
For those of you looking for a longer route, perhaps as preparation for the 2010 Hundred, Oxfam is organising two different 100 km routes this year, Trailwalker and Trailtrekker. These events are…
Entry forms available for the Wessex 100
Entries are now open for the Wessex 100 to be held on Saturday 23rd - Monday 25th May 2009. Entry forms may be downloaded from the Wessex 100 Website where further details may be found
Lots of new items in the new look LDWA shop
Tim Glenn has stocked the LDWA shop with lots of new clothing items just in time for Christmas. The shop layout has been improved and now includes photographs of the new ranges, which are all…
Tommy Rainford
We are very sorry to report that Tommy Rainford died in hospital on 16th October. Tommy had been an enthusiastic member of the LDWA for almost 20 years, walking and checkpointing with several…
It is with great sadness we report that Dave Green, husband of Jill, died suddenly on Sunday 28th September while he was leading a walk in London. The funeral will be on Tuesday 14th October at…
The 2009 Wessex Hundred website is live.
You can now view the website for the 2009 Wessex Hundred on www.wessex100.org.uk . The website includes outline route details, checkpoint locations, event rules, a forum, contact information and…
Plot of time taken against age on the Yoredale 100
Peter Russell has done a fascinating plot of time taken against age of finishers in the Yoredale 100. He has plotted a regression line so that you can see whether you are slow or fast for your age!
Challenge Walks - Advance Notice of Dates
In an attempt to avoid some clashes in the events calendar, events organisers are invited to update the web calendar with the provisional date of their event(s) at the earliest opportunity - all that…
Completer lists can be viewed online
The lists of completers of the Hillwalkers Registers maintained by Alan Castle can now be viewed online. From the Services menu on the LDWA Homepage click on Hillwalkers Register, then select one…
Online Entry for Events
It is now possible to enter the Trollers Trot directly online from the Trollers Trot event page on the LDWA website . Any walk organiser who wishes to have a similar system in place should contact…
Steve Clark's 100 Photos on Web
Steve Clark's photo sequence of the Cant Canolbath 100 is now up on the Beds, Bucks & Northants web site
Plot of time taken against age of 100 finishers
Peter Russell has plotted a table comparing the age of those completing the recent hundred with the time taken and performed a liner regression that identifies some slight correlation. Perhaps the…
Tick Alert campaign aimed at walkers
The Tick Alert campaign aims to raise awareness of tick born diseases in Britain and abroad, particularly amongst walkers and those who participate in outdoor activities. Tick Borne Encephalitis and…
Reduced subsecription rate to TGO magazine
The Great Outdoors (TGO) magazine offer a reduced subscription rate to walking associations and the LDWA is one of them. This is advertised on page 3 of TGO magazine every month. The current cover…
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WAITING TO INHALE
You might take Phenix City nightclub Broad Street Blues for granted — but your lungs certainly don't.
The club, which celebrates its one-year anniversary this weekend, is one of the few smoke-free bars in the area. Friday and Saturday, you can get in on the anniversary festivities with giveaways, specials and live music. House band Peggy Jenkins and the Rhythm Roosters will perform beginning 9:30 p.m. both nights.
Cover is $5, and the club's at 913 Broad Street in Phenix City.
Don't worry if you're too young to enjoy the blues club's signature Texas margaritas, though. Friday also marks the start of Indie Wars, the multi-week battle of the bands at the Core, an all-ages nightclub at 1819 Midtown Drive.
It's a night of indie rock acts, but don't be surprised if some of the bands' names remind you of video games (This Sky on Fire) or Lifetime originals (Sacred Justice).
Friday's show starts at 7 p.m. Cover is $7.
If a night at the Core leaves you with a Kool-Aid hangover, avoid the club scene Saturday night and opt for a night of ice skating. The Columbus Civic Center hosts four public skating sessions Saturday, the last of which is 8:30-10 p.m.
Admission is $7, skate rental is $3.
— Sonya Sorich
ROMEO IN PLEATHER JEANS
You’ve made it past New Year’s, the MLK holiday and Super Tuesday and all you have to show for it is a plastic cup you lifted from Dailey’s as you stumbled outside.
You need excitement, adventure, a reason to crawl away from the television and into the burning light of day. And for some reason you came here to read our weekend picks.
Well, there’s worse you could do. First of all, why not struggle down to After 5 at 6 p.m. Friday for some poker? Even if you despise the game, you can still hang around for the, um, hot ladies that are sure to make an appearance later that night at Caliente, which is just across the parking lot at 3709 Gentian Blvd. I mean, really, you still need to find a Valentine’s date and you’re not going to do it playing World of Warcraft in your mom’s basement. I’m talking to you, Sonya. Secondly, prepare for the big day (that’s Feb. 14 to those of you not paying attention) by buying something pleasing to wear. Sure, you could hit Peachtree Mall, but don’t forget the seductive lure of Plato’s Closet at Columbus Park Crossing. And yes, they do have men’s clothes. Finally, wrap up your preparations by picking up that perfect bottle of red. Swing by the Columbus Beverage Super Store for a delicious blend named “Beeyotch” (that’s the phonetic spelling). Pop that baby open on Thursday and we’ll see just how long those new pleather jeans stay on.
— Alan Riquelmy
Take these steps to keep your pet safe during the loud July 4 holiday
National Infantry Museum celebrates its three-millionth visitor
Can Sweetie Pie, a stray cat, become a house cat again?
By JOAN MORRIS The Mercury News
Dear Joan: I have read about – and occasionally heard of – domestic cats who became feral and then returned to domestic life. Do you think it can happen to Sweetie Pie and if so, what is my next step?
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Father Divine's Bikes | Steve Bassett
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FATHER DIVINE'S BIKES exposes the dark underbelly of 1945 Newark, New Jersey; a city that boomed during World War II but finds itself unable to cope with the peace that brings joblessness, despair and crime. As deeply-entrenched white enclaves are squeezed by the mass migration of blacks, escape routes for poor ethnic whites rapidly close. Two Catholic altar boys living in a world ripe for grifters, like Father Divine, soon learn that his promise of heaven on earth has hellish consequences. In the autumn of 1945, a battle erupts when the city's competing mobs end their truce. When it gets bloody, other criminal forces poise to move in. Black bookies, using Father Divine's controversial International Peace Mission Movement as a front, recruit Joey Bancik and Richie Maxwell to run numbers under the guise of newspaper routes. The boys' families welcome the few bucks they can put on the table. Meanwhile, their parish priest and two homicide detectives fear the numbers racket will entrap the boys in a world of crime. Turf wars, murders, and a corrupt police department in bed with the mob form a dark and gritty backdrop against a story of post-war Newark and the violence that permeated it.
I didn‘t care for ‘Father Divine‘s Bikes,‘ but introduced me to a historical figure I had never heard of, Father Divine (though Father Divine is more of a character in spirit). Father Divine was an African-American religious figure who rose to prominence in the 1930s. PBS calls his International Peace Mission Movement, “one of the most unorthodox religious movements in America.” Learn more: https://pickingbooks.com/blog/father-divine
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On Friday, several students from different schools were recognized as outstanding attorneys and outstanding witnesses during the 2018 High School Mock Trial competition in Logan.
Beth Lanning/The Logan Daily News
The 2018 High School Mock Trial competition winners were Logan High School (LHS Purple) and Pickerington Central High School (Pickerington Trailblazers) as the teams both won their trials on Friday and will advance to the regionals.
LHS Mock Trial team preparing to go to regionals
By BETH LANNING Logan Daily News Reporter
LOGAN — A sense of pride and accomplishment is still being felt as the Logan High School Mock Trial team was one of two teams that advanced to regionals after winning Friday’s 2018 High School Mock Trial competition in Logan. Now it’s time to prepare for regionals.
The LHS mock trial team members included SadieJane Hill, Ainsleigh Beckett, Max Burns, Daniel Cappuzi, Cameron Jordan, Carmen Shuttleworth, Delaney Kelch, Pamela Martinez Ibarra, and Heavenly Zaayer-Nichols.
The team was under the direction of English teacher Ben Taulbee with Hocking County Common Pleas Court Judge John Wallace serving as the advisor.
Taulbee communicated that he was very proud of his team for winning the competition. He said they have been preparing for the mock trial since November; however, other club schedules and weather made it more difficult to prepare as a team.
The teacher explained that this is also the first time he hasn’t had to assign double duty to a team member to play more than one role, which allowed students to better focus on the part at hand.
“I think the team was more successful this year because of three main reasons — three returning members, a committed legal advisor and this is my third year advising the Mock Trial process,” Taulbee expressed. “Due to our experience this year and how much we had prepared, I felt confident going in and I think we did a good job presenting our side of the case.”
Taulbee also noted that last year he was allowed to take the mock trial team to watch the regional competition at the Franklin County Common Pleas Courthouse. He explained that the purpose of the trip was to see what it takes to get to that level.
Wallace stated that the mock trials went very well for the LHS team and it was a lot of fun being the advisor.
“It was fun to work with these fine young people and I hope and expect that they’ll do well in the upcoming competition. I saw some very good performances out of the attorneys,” Wallace stated. “I met with the students every chance I got — unfortunately, I have been pretty busy with trials but I made it to a good number of practices after school and gave them some practical advice.”
The schools represented at Friday’s mock trial competition were: Logan High School, Trimble High School, Pickerington Central High School, Circleville High School, and two teams from Teays Valley High School.
Jamie Green, Court Administrator for the Hocking County Juvenile Court explained that the winners for outstanding attorneys and outstanding witnesses were:
Outstanding witnesses:
• Kayleigh Jones, Pickerington High School
• Chayse Witt, Teays Valley High School (won twice)
• Carmen Shuttleworth, Logan High School
• Mercedes Seaman, Pickerington Central High School
• Logan Wolfe, Circleville High School
Outstanding attorneys:
• Grace Lange, Pickerington Central High School
• Courtney Pangmore, Teays Valley High School
• Dalton Herron, Circleville High School
• Christopher Shimp, Pickerington Central High School
• Ainsley Beckett, Logan High School
• Christian McGowan, Teays Valley High School
“It went very well. The judges and lawyers were very willing to participate in the mock trial,” Green commented.
Taulbee acknowledged Hill, a senior, who has been a part of the Mock Trial team all three years he has been advisor. During Hill’s first two years she was the bailiff/timekeeper, but this year she stepped up to be a main witness.
One of the reasons students initially joined the mock trial team was to have a chance at the Mock Trial scholarship that was provided by the Hocking County Bar Association, according to Taulbee.
“We have only been able to make this happen my first year and then the bar association cancelled the scholarship without telling us,” he said. “I’m hoping that with us moving on to the regional competition, and showing that this club benefits their profession, that they take refunding the scholarship under review.”
Pickerington Central High School also advanced to regionals.
The Mock Trial Regional Competition is set for Friday, Feb. 16, but the location is unknown at this time.
“The second round of competition still retains the district case file, so we will be refining our legal arguments and sharpening our witness roles to compete with another team that won their two trials,” Taulbee concluded.
Ruby M. Hixenbaugh
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National Muscat’s cheekiest claim ever? ‘Malta’s quality of life has improved greatly’
Food Fig and walnut salad
Updated | David-Maria Sassoli elected European Parliament president
Italian lawmaker David-Maria Sassoli with the centre-left Socialists and Democrats has been elected president of the European Parliament for the next two and a half years with 345 votes
3 July 2019, 12:01pm
by Laura Calleja
David-Maria Sassoli with the centre-left Socialists and Democrats has been elected the president of the European Parliament for the next two and half years
Updated at 1:20pm
Italian lawmaker David-Maria Sassoli with the centre-left Socialists and Democrats has been elected president of the European Parliament for the next two and half years.
Sassoli obtained 345 votes, gaining 25 votes during the second ballet, securing the absolute majority needed.
Czech lawmaker Jan Zahradil, with the eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists bloc, came in second with 160 votes, while German Greens candidate Ska Keller came in third with 119 votes. Spain's Sira Rego with the United Left who got 43 votes placed fourth.
Newly sworn-in MEPs have begun the process of electing the president of the European Parliament for the next two and a half years.
Socialists and Democrats candidate David-Maria Sassoli obtained 325 votes, in the first round of voting, by far the largest amount, and just seven short of the absolute majority required to be elected.
Czech lawmaker Jan Zahradil, with the eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists bloc, came in second with 162 votes, while German Greens candidate Ska Keller came in third with 133. Spain's Sira Rego with the United Left who got 42 votes placed fourth.
The second ballot vote will take place at 11:40am, with results announced later on, if no candidate is elected with a majority, the parliament will proceed to vote for the third time.
The vote comes a day after an agreement reached by the EU's 28 national leaders on filling the bloc's top jobs that saw German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen nominated as the next European Commission president, despite not being a lead candidate picked by one of the blocs in Parliament.
Von der Leyen the new head of the bloc's executive, is expected to travel to the French city of Strasbourg, where the European Parliament sits, in the afternoon on Wednesday to attend the session and likely try to win over support for her nomination as the head of the EU's executive arm.
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From East Atlanta With Love Tour
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Dazed slow jams are the primary mode of Atlanta-based contemporary R&B/rap artist Ricardo Valentine, a singer-slash-MC who goes by the name 6LACK ("black"). Prior to connecting with LVRN (Love Renaissance), the creative agency that has supported fellow Georgia native Raury, Valentine was signed to a label that he felt restricted his creativity. After a few years of being held back, he made significant gains -- across 2015 and 2016 -- with contributions to the Spillage Village compilation Bears Like This Too, as well as singles such as "Bless Me" and "Loyal." Once he was linked with Interscope, "Prblms" was officially released in September 2016 as his first major-label-affiliated track. The following month, it entered Billboard's Twitter Emerging Artists chart at number five. That single set up the release of FREE 6LACK, his debut album, which arrived the following month. The effort peaked in the Billboard Top 40 and climbed to number five on the rap chart. The following year, 6lack released a series of singles, including "That Far," "Grab the Wheel" with Timbaland, and "First Fuck" with Jhene Aiko. In early 2018, he issued "Cutting Ties."
- From AllMusic.com
Summer Walker - Girls Need Love (Audio) Summer Walker - Deep Summer Walker - CPR Fake Love, Black Beatles, Pony, Yes. Cover/ Visual
Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Summer Walker gained notoriety by uploading cover videos on Vine and YouTube dating back to 2013.
Since then, the R&B crooner has released several original records, showcasing her stellar song writing skills and memorizing vocals. The state of R&B is looking very promising with artist like Elle Mai, H.E.R., Kehlani, Sza and Teyana at the forefront, and it’s even more exciting to see someone like Summer on the rise.
Her music reflects the classic sounds of rhythm and blues -- always passionate and engaging. Although Summer doesn’t have many songs out at the moment, her recent releases captivates listeners with her angelic vocals, leaving them wanting more. Walker is represented by Atlanta’s creative hub called Love Renaissance, better known as LVRN. LVRN’s roster is filled with powerhouses such as 6LACK, Raury, DRAM and Boogie. Rumor has it, Boogie and Summer has a collaborative record on the way.
- From RareRadar.com
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Superdrug’s marketing director on championing Zoella and why vloggers are ‘not a fad’
Social media influencers and vloggers are “not a fad” and will remain an integral part of Superdrug’s future marketing efforts, according to its marketing director Matt Walburn.
By Thomas Hobbs 27 Jul 2015 8:04 am
Last September, the health and beauty retailer aligned itself with perhaps the biggest vlogger of them all, Zoella, with her exclusive make-up range subsequently breaking Superdrug’s internal sales records.
And Walburn says the tie-up with the YouTube star has had a transformative impact.
Speaking at an event previewing Superdrug’s Christmas range, Walburn told Marketing Week: “I think what we’ve done with Zoella has shown the brand at its very best as our competitors did not react to the movement as quickly as we did.
“Identifying the vlogger trend and putting it into product form has helped to significantly boost both online and in-store sales. I think the work we’ve done with Zoella has transformed the business in a way. Vloggers will be an important part of our marketing mix for the future, I’m certain of that.”
Superdrug, which is owned by the A.S. Watson Group, announced a 31.3% rise (to £38m) in its pre tax profits for the year ending December 2014. The health and beauty retailer, which also saw group sales rise 4.8% to £1.06bn, is aiming to open up to 100 new stores over the next three years to add to its current total of 800.
Going for a broader market
Acknowledging that Superdrug still has an image of being primarily aimed at teenage girls, Walburn said the brand is now aiming to use marketing to communicate its broader appeal.
“We are proud that the brand is attractive to younger girls and that cosmetics is a big part of what we do but 30% of our shoppers are over 50 and 15% of our shoppers are men,” he explains.
“We want to communicate that Superdrug is aiming to sell products to the broadest range of people possible.”
Superdrug, which currently has five stores in Ireland, is soon to launch an ecommerce website in the country and Walburn says online is becoming a crucial part of the business.
“We have seen nearly triple digit growth on online sales in the UK over the last three years. We think online can peak to be around 15% of all sales,” he adds.
“At the moment, 30% of all online orders go on to be picked up in-store – it isn’t about separating shoppers into brackets but making sure that each part of our business compliments the other. I think the fact that we managed to refresh our entire estate during the recession has also helped our brand.”
Walburn is also proud of Superdrug’s health and beauty card. He said the loyalty card now has 6 million registered users and that Superdrug is tracking 8,000 products a week to ensure its prices remain competitive and see off competition from the supermarkets.
He rejected recent claims from Les Binet of renowned ad agency adam&eveDDB. Binet said that all price and loyalty based marketing is “nonsense”, and that brands should focus on emotive messaging like John Lewis instead.
Walburn countered: “I disagree with those comments. I think the majority of retail brands need a mix of price-led positioning, which can simultaneously layer in emotion. It shouldn’t be that price or loyalty is treated separately to emotional messaging – you need to combine all, that’s what has worked best for us.”
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Tesco will utilise Google + Hangouts to launch what it claims is the ‘UK’s first’ one-to-one live online video beauty consultations as part of a wider drive to increase customer engagement and build brand loyalty.
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Brands have welcomed plans for new vlogging guidelines from the Advertising Standards Authority but it is up to advertisers and vloggers to be transparent and authentic or risk losing their audience.
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Mitchells & Butlers plc (Mitchells & Butlers) is an operator of restaurants and pubs. It offers starters, shares, grazers, steaks, mains, salads, sides, sandwiches, grills, craft beers, cask ales, soft tails, beers, ciders, gin, and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. It operates pubs and restaurants under various brands, including Harvester, Toby Carvery, Sizzling Pubs, Vintage Inns, Crown Carveries, Oak Tree, Orchid Pubs, All Bar One, Browns, Premium Country Pubs, Miller & Carter, Castle, Alex, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery, Nicholson's, O'Neill's and Ember Inns. It also provides accommodation facilities under Innkeeper's Lodge brand. Furthermore, it operates in leisure retailing, property leasing, and property management and development businesses. The company operates leased and franchised sites in the UK and Germany. Mitchells & Butlers is headquartered in Birmingham, the UK.
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Mitchells & Butlers plc: Company Overview
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Overview and Key Facts
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Mitchells & Butlers plc: Key Employees
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Mitchells & Butlers plc: Opportunities
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Threats
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Corporate Financial Deals Activity
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Financial Deals Overview
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Top Deals 2015 - 2019YTD*
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Divestments
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Recent Developments
Mitchells & Butlers plc: News and Events Summary
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Business Expansion
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Corporate Governance
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Financial Performance
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Regulatory and Legal Events
Mitchells & Butlers plc: Strategy and Operations
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Table 5: Mitchells & Butlers plc: Deal Activity by Deal Type - Volume (2015 - YTD*2019)
Table 6: Mitchells & Butlers plc: Top Deals 2015 - 2019YTD*
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Table 8: Mitchells & Butlers plc: News and Events Summary
Table 9: Mitchells & Butlers plc: Business Expansion
Table 10: Mitchells & Butlers plc: Corporate Governance
Table 11: Mitchells & Butlers plc: Financial Performance
Table 12: Mitchells & Butlers plc: Regulatory and Legal Events
Table 13: Mitchells & Butlers plc: Strategy and Operations
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Pertemps and Peters & May Share Honours in Hull
Ray Bulman
Curetons stay ahead in the P1 150 Class
Hull winner
Round three of the 2011 P1 SuperStock Championship series in Hull came to an exciting conclusion over the weekend in the P1 250 Panther Class for the championship.
The second race provided plenty of excitement with Pertemps driver John Wilson, born and bred in the nearby town of Beverley, taking line honours. Along with navigator Neil Scarborough the pair also secured second place in Saturday’s opening round so increasing their lead in the overall championship standings by 15 points.
Wilson says: “It doesn’t come much better than that. The conditions suited us and we’ve always performed well in the rough.
“We’re a heavier crew which gives the boat added balance when it’s choppy. It was a bit congested at the start but we knew where we had a chance as everything worked perfectly.”
More local success in race two came with the second placed Panther crew Rough Cut Racing, driven by Hull-born Ian Brusby and navigator Dan Whapples.
The podium was rounded-out by Peters & May after competing in much choppier conditions than experienced in the earlier contest.
Kim Collins took over Peters & May on Sunday but couldn’t quite match the winning performance of team mate Daniel Cramphorn on Saturday.
“Once you get clean water you can take the turns how you want to and that’s what we managed to do from the halfway mark”, said Cramphorn after Saturday’s encounter. “When we started to come up to lap the 150s we saw our opportunity, ducked up the inside and pulled out a bit of distance.”
Behind second-placed Pertemps on Saturday came Edox driven by Rupert Pugh and Anthony Crossley. Unfortunately, the duo weren’t able to add another podium on Sunday, dropping down the fleet midway through after Pugh hit a large wave disconnecting his jack plug.
“It’s not the result we were looking for if I’m really honest”, commented Pugh, “Saturday was really good racing, very close, and it was the equivalent of wheel-to-wheel racing in cars, great fun and very nice in the flat conditions. Today was completely different, very bumpy…”
Shelley Jory-Leigh and Dan Smith endured a disappointing weekend aboard Helvetia Wealth, running out of fuel on Saturday (blamed on a slight miscalculation from Shelley’s husband) and then another non-finish on Sunday.
Husband and wife crew Stuart and Sara Cureton continued their domination of the P1 150 class with their fourth and fifth victories from the six rounds already held.
“It’s been a good weekend, really enjoyed it”, said Stuart, “Racing in estuaries isn’t my favourite as it throws up all sorts of funny different water, as shown this afternoon (Sunday), but it’s been good. There was some really tight racing, we had a good fight with Team Fox and Eclipse.
“I was slightly injured while racing a few weeks ago so the smoother the better although we do tend to go well in the rough. Everything went well in the calm on Saturday so we can’t complain, it’s been a great event for us.”
Second place during race one on Saturday evening went to Rose Lores and Tom Hunter in Eclipse, just three seconds shy of the winners, although Sunday’s race didn’t work quite in their favour in the rougher conditions.
“I was pleased with Saturday’s race”, said Rose, “The thing that was quite frustrating was that we felt quite evenly matched with Team Purple but as soon as they got ahead at the first turn that really did it as we were then in the dirty water and it was really hard to catch-up!”
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A Tea Party Republican’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Scott Eckert
I went to sleep with a Muslim President and when I woke up I still had a Muslim President, and when I got out of bed Gretchen wasn’t on Fox and Friends, and God made my girlfriend pregnant again, and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
In traffic I wanted to drive in the carpool lane. Rideshares got to drive in the carpool lane. Electric buses and hybrid cars too. But the nanny state wouldn’t let me drive in the carpool lane. I said it was unconstitutional. I said it was socialism. I said if I don’t get to drive in the carpool lane I’m going to use my Second Amendment rights. No one even listened.
It was shaping up to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
At work Paul found a debt-financed Keynesian stimulus check in his W-2 Tax Statement, and Miguel found an Illegal Alien Amnesty voucher in his W-2 Tax Statement, but in my W-2 Tax Statement all I found were taxes.
I think I’ll move to Communist China.
At my daughter’s parent-teacher conference Mrs. Dickens liked science’s proof of anthropogenic climate change better than my faith in Young Earth creationism. At Pledge of Allegiance time she said I screamed “Under God” too loud. At Phys Ed she said I was morbidly obese. And at counting time I left out sixteen. Who needs sixteen?
I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
I could tell because the RNC Chairman said I wasn’t his best friend anymore. He said that undecided women are his best friend, and that Hispanics and gays are his next best friend, and that red-blooded Americans are only his third best friend. “I hope you lose a bunch of Governorships,” I said.
There were low-interest student loans for Barney in the budget deal, and Ted got affordable health insurance, and Andrew’s Congressmen got his state disaster relief funding to rebuild their crumbling infrastructure. Guess who’s Congressman wants a balanced budget and sponsored an anti-earmark amendment? It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Next week, I said, I’m going to Communist China.
Then I voted in the Republican primary. Dick got his neoconservative candidate elected, and Donald got his pro-Wall Street candidate elected, but all I got was a candidate willing to compromise his conservative values. And he’s probably a serial adulterer too.
There was a calorie count on my Chick-fil-A dinner menu and I hate calorie counts.
There was sex on TV and I hate sex.
At bedtime the price of gold plummeted, my water was too fluoridated, my weed was too legal, and I had to listen to Chris Christie on Hannity. He didn’t even bring up Solyndra, Benghazi, or the IRS scandal once. I hate Chris Christie.
It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day!
My mom says some days are like this.
Rush says they all are.
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Google Advertiser Sues Over Alleged Overbilling
by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, April 17, 2019
A Google advertiser who sells massage chairs is suing the company for allegedly overcharging him by more than $375,000 after he agreed to link his ad account to the Express platform.
Nashua, New Hampshire resident Scott Philo, owner of MassageChairsForLess.com, says in his complaint he had purchased pay-per-click ads on Google for “several years” prior to 2017. In the spring of 2017, Philo linked his existing ad account to Google Express, after a sales rep allegedly promised that Express would “integrate seamlessly” with the platform then called AdWords. (Google recently rebranded AdWords as Ads.)
Philo alleges he was told that Express and AdWords “mirrored each other,” and that cancelling a campaign on AdWords would result in cancellation of the same campaign on Express.
Philo says in his complaint that he realized in early 2018 that Google was now charging his credit card significantly more than before he linked his account to Express. When he complained to Google, he learned it had “created erroneous advertising” that resulted in unauthorized charges, he says.
Specifically, he says the Express app was incorrectly advertising a massage chair that had been discontinued. What's more, the chair was being advertised for $2,599.99 -- $600 more than he actually sold it for, according to the complaint.
“The Express application was premised upon completely useless advertising,” he alleges in a complaint that includes claims of breach of contract and fraud.
Philo alleges that he was overcharged by $375,583, and that Google only offered to reimburse him $58,000.
The lawsuit, filed last month in state court in Hillsborough Superior Court in New Hampshire, was transferred this week to U.S. District Court in Concord.
Google hasn't yet responded to MediaPost's request for comment.
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Series Premiere Date: Jan 12, 2014
Season #: 3, 2, 1
The Lincoln Journal Star
Reviewed by: Jeff Korbelik
The drama is quite riveting.
All this critic's reviews
Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
HBO's program is not just an actor's showcase for two greats. It is dense, complex, rewarding storytelling, heightened by a sense of location from its writer and director that is mesmerizing and a character-driven storytelling aesthetic that brings to mind great films like David Fincher's "Zodiac" and Bong Joon-ho's "Memories of Murder."
Newark Star-Ledger
Reviewed by: Vicki Hyman
True Detective keeps you on your toes, and will keep you glued to the screen.
Reviewed by: Jeanne Jakle
Though the investigation is absorbing, it's the meticulous fleshing out of the obsessive and frequently conflicting lead characters that makes this drama seem so much fresher than the umpteen crime procedurals on television.
Reviewed by: Andrew Romano
Judging by the initial installments, it's not only one of the most riveting and provocative series I've seen in the last few years; it's one of the most riveting and provocative series I've ever seen. Period.
Kansas City Star
Reviewed by: Sara Smith
After True Detective, all the other TV cops hunting serial killers are going to look like copycats. It’s that the taut script and spot-on dialogue takes us on a ’90s noir roller coaster ride of Shakespearean tragedy with fearless literary aspirations, delivered by two actors at the top of their game.
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Reviewed by: Terri Schwartz
True Detective proves to be everything the HBO marketing has promised it to be: a gorgeous, stylized and dark exploration into the worst parts of the human psyche.
Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
Very little happens in the first three hours of this anthology crime series, yet it's absolutely riveting. [20 Jan 2014]
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Reviewed by: Ed Bark
True Detective is a marvel of craftsmanship, storytelling and performances through these first three hours made available for review.
Reviewed by: Joanne Ostrow
While it's not fun entertainment (lacking the tragicomic notes of, say, "The Sopranos"), it is an amazing dramatic entry. It's only January, and only four episodes were available for review, but True Detective sets the bar for 2014's TV newcomers.
Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
True Detective runs slow and steady without ever seeming to drag. Even minor characters get room to breathe, and seem independently alive; the briefest scenes seem to imply life beyond the frame.... The dance [Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson] do together here is work of a very high order, and all the reason you need to watch.
Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
If you think of it less as a mystery and more as a two-person character study, odds are you'll be more patient with it. And trust me, that patience will be rewarded.
Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
The drama unfolds in a series of flashbacks separated by many years. Hart and Cohle, no longer young, end up reporting on the past in separate interviews—a formula carried off with subtlety and high intelligence, like everything else in this detective story.
Reviewed by: David Wiegand
The dialogue is rich, colorful and provocative, adding to the gothic sensibilities of the series. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga makes great use of the Louisiana location, giving it as much importance to the story as the characters of Cohle and Hart. All the performances are superb, but those of McConaughey and Harrelson are in a class by themselves.
Reviewed by: Curt Wagner
[Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey's] riveting work would be worth the admission alone, but the hauntingly beautiful True Detective excels in every way.
Reviewed by: Willa Paskin
Creepy, gorgeous, unsettling, and searching, it has--for lack of a better word--a literary quality, an accretion of meaningful detail. You can push on any aspect of the show--every line, every shot, every bruise--and it bears up.
Reviewed by: Lori Rackl
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson should star in everything, always--that’s how mesmerizing they are as Louisiana criminal investigators in HBO’s new anthology True Detective.
Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
The two central performances are so powerful, the dialogue so evocative, the look so intense, that they speak to the value of the hybrid anthology format Pizzolatto is using here--which, along with FX’s “American Horror Story,” points to a potentially fascinating shift in dramatic series television.
Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
Rich and absorbing, this eight-part drama quickly vaults into elite company, offering a singular voice that’s unlike almost anything else on TV.
Reviewed by: Jeff Jensen
Each season of this anthology drama tells a new story with a new cast, but McConaughey and Harrelson are so good, you immediately begin grieving the prospect of getting only eight episodes with them. [10 Jan 2013, p.67]
Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
The acting--by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson--is off the charts. The writing and the concept, by series creator and novelist Nic Pizzolatto, undulates from effectively brash soliloquies to penetratingly nuanced moments carried by sparse prose. Lastly, director Cary Joji Fukunaga has created a beautiful, sprawling sense of place (the series is shot and set in Louisiana).
Reviewed by: Tim Molloy
Nic Pizzolatto’s script and Cary Fukunaga’s direction slowly, methodically earn every big moment. And when those moments arrive in the third episode, they’re legitimately terrifying.
Sioux City Journal
Reviewed by: Bruce Miller
At times, True Detective just seems like an overlong episode of a standard television series. But the flashbacks and flash forwards give it heft and let Fukunaga push the actors.
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
The first four episodes sent out for review become stranger and less “realistic” by the hour, not to mention more stereotypically HBO-like (artfully arranged corpses; drug-thug posturing and handgun-waving; gratuitous T&A) and less concerned with the case that Cohle and Hart are allegedly trying to solve. But the show’s time-shifting structure is so painstaking that even when True Detective spirals into lurid madness there still seems to be purpose behind it.
Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
McConaughey and Harrelson are terrific together and intriguing apart, and whatever went on or is going on between them, and in the sadly complicated community they serve, is more interesting than the murder mystery that's meant to drive the story.
Reviewed by: Matt Roush
The crime they're investigating often takes such a back seat to the show's tricky structure and the all-pervasive angst you may once again wonder what exactly HBO has against the notion of narrative urgency. But be patient with this slow-burner of a disturbing, demanding drama. These detectives are truly fascinating.
Reviewed by: Sarah Rodman
Even though True Detective can feel very heavy at times, and as often as we’ve seen serial killer story lines, Harrelson and McConaughey were compelling enough that I powered through the first four episodes HBO sent for review.
Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
[Novelist Joe Pizzolatto and director Cary Joji Fukunaga's] cohesive viewpoint helped me to forgive True Detective for some of its rougher spots, and the poetic visuals undoubtedly strengthened the most effective aspects of the drama.
Reviewed by: Todd VanDerWerff
True Detective might be finding itself in the first half of its first season, but few processes of discovery are so enthralling to watch.
Reviewed by: Verne Gay
The real pleasure of this series is watching them peel away the layers to this particular onion, often on long car drives across a vast, wet, undifferentiated Louisiana landscape.... The real problem with True Detective are those flash-forwards to the present day: Younger Cohle, at least, is interesting. The older version is gaseous and his maunderings often stop the show cold.
Reviewed by: David Hinckley
Happily, Harrelson and McConaughey play the characters well enough, and the script is crafted ingeniously enough, that we want to know where it all goes next--and don't focus on the likelihood it will be no place good.
Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
True Detective will linger with you long after the credits roll, a grim journey into night.
Reviewed by: Tom Long
Relentlessly dark and slow boiling, True Detective may promise more than it can deliver. But it still delivers quite a bit.
Reviewed by: Chris Cabin
At its wildest moments, the series feels as frighteningly nervy and furious in its delivery and intent as prime David Lynch. More times than not, however, it defers to an earnest, rote view of bad religion, only marginally enlivened by the appearance of Shea Whigham as a big-tent preacher.
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Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
As brilliant as many of the storytelling flourishes are, the narrative frequently suffers from awkward construction, clumsily bouncing among three time periods.... It's a brainy drama, to be sure, and it's a challenging one. The riveting lead performances are what keep you engaged when the going gets static--something more than engaged, actually.
Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
Often True Detective is too much about the performances–there’s something very actorly about it, setting up McConaughey in particular with set pieces and monologues that, while exquisitely written on the page and probably potent Emmy-bait, would be twice as effective if there were half as many.
Reviewed by: Michael Starr
Both McConaughey and Harrelson turn in first-rate performances--you wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they disliked each other in real life, such is the animosity between them. But the writing is a bit overblown and the pacing static--at times downright glacial.
Reviewed by: Matthew Wollin
As a prestige show, it’s so serious, portentous, and polished, it’s not very much fun at all, so intent on wrapping its package in money and style that it forgets to put anything inside.
Reviewed by: Mike Hale
The flashback structure, which could have been cumbersome and distracting, is impressively seamless. But, despite these positives, things start to go off track as early as the second episode.... [Director Cary Joji Fukunaga] doesn’t show much ability here to animate Mr. Pizzolatto’s dialogue-heavy encounters.... There are some nice moments in the later episodes, and they’re the ones with the fewest words.
Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
It fixates on the familiar, sullen murkiness similar to recent procedurals (“The Killing” and “Broadchurch,” for example) and adds several more layers of its own artistic yet unfulfilling murk.
Reviewed by: Emily Nussbaum
Whatever the length of the show’s much admired tracking shot (six minutes, uncut!), it feels less hardboiled than softheaded. Which might be O.K. if True Detective were dumb fun, but, good God, it’s not: it’s got so much gravitas it could run for President.
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BogKid
Just another lover of "True Detective". Yes, it does remind me of several other detective/procedural series on TV but it is so much moreJust another lover of "True Detective". Yes, it does remind me of several other detective/procedural series on TV but it is so much more subtle, so much better acted. Harrelson and McConneghy are far from being among my favorite actors but on "True Detective", they simply show how it is done. Excellent!… Full Review »
Could be a good show; unfortunately it pitifully degrades the subject matter by hacking better writers and taking itself way too seriously.Could be a good show; unfortunately it pitifully degrades the subject matter by hacking better writers and taking itself way too seriously. The women (including a dead woman) are propped around as decor and are solely defined by what they do with their 'girl parts'. People think that makes the show 'deep', 'dark' ,' grim' and profound. Nothing profound or fun about male brutality and female victimization except writer and director indulged a little too much in their own porn, fetish and power fantasies.… Full Review »
Leiland82
I wanted to like this show, but as the episodes went on I became extremely disappointed. There is nothing particularly original about it. TwoI wanted to like this show, but as the episodes went on I became extremely disappointed. There is nothing particularly original about it. Two macho detectives who drink and have sex with women are on the hunt for a serial killer with weird fetishes. That's it. Besides the two main characters, everyone else are film noir clichés. Moreover, the women in the show are paper-thin characters who are mainly there for the obligatory boob shot. The pacing of the show is a problem as well. I don't mind slow-moving story lines, but True Detective really pushes it. I guess I will be one of those few people who will go to my grave trying to understand why this show is getting high praises.… Full Review »
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Brian Bruney
Minor Moves: Podsednik, Evans, Pena, Astros, Ray
By Ben Nicholson-Smith | November 29, 2011 at 5:57pm CDT
Here's where we'll keep track of today's minor moves…
The Phillies have signed outfielder Scott Podsednik to a minor league deal with an invite to Spring Training reports Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (on Twitter). The 35-year-old did not appear in the big leagues last year, instead hitting .254/.340/.396 in the Phillies' and Blue Jays' farm systems.
The Pirates have signed Nick Evans to a minor league deal with an invite to Spring Training, reports Andy Martino of The New York Daily News. The 25-year-old hit .256/.314/.403 line in 194 plate appearances with the Mets last season, playing all four corner positions
The Red Sox re-signed Tony Pena to a minor league deal with an invitation to Spring Training, according to Stark. The converted shortstop would earn $625K if he makes the big league team.
The Astros signed catcher Carlos Corporan to a minor league deal and invited him to Major League Spring Training, according to Alyson Footer of the Astros (on Twitter).
The White Sox signed Brian Bruney to a minor league deal, according to ESPN.com's Jayson Stark. The right-hander would earn $600K for making the big league team.
Robert Ray signed a minor league deal with the Marlins, according to Crasnick.
The Phillies signed left-hander Pat Misch and infielder Kevin Frandsen to minor league contracts, according to ESPN.com's Jayson Stark (Twitter links). Misch, 30, appeared in six games for the Mets this past season, spending most of the year with Triple-A Buffalo. He posted a 4.00 ERA with 6.0 K/9 and 2.6 BB/9 in 141 2/3 innings as a starter for the Bisons. Frandsen, who last appeared in the Major Leagues in 2010, spent the 2011 season in the Phillies' minor league system and posted a .309/.361/.430 line in 338 plate appearances.
The Diamondbacks signed right-handed reliever Jensen Lewis to a minor league deal, MLBTR's Tim Dierkes has learned (Stark originally reported the Rangers signed him). Lewis, 27, would earn $675K in the Major Leagues, according to Stark. Lewis spent the 2011 season at Triple-A, but has a career ERA of 3.68 with 8.0 K/9 and 3.9 BB/9 in parts of four MLB seasons.
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White Sox Release Brian Bruney
By Mike Axisa | August 15, 2011 at 11:05am CDT
AUGUST 15th: The White Sox released Bruney, tweets Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports.
AUGUST 6th: The White Sox have designated Brian Bruney for assignment according to Mark Gonzales of The Chicago Tribune (on Twitter). The move frees up a roster spot for Zach Stewart, who will start tomorrow and push Jake Peavy back to Sunday.
Bruney, 29, pitched to a 6.86 ERA with 7.3 K/9 and 5.5 BB/9 in 19 2/3 innings for Chicago this year. Stewart will be making his ChiSox debut after being acquired from the Blue Jays in the Edwin Jackson–Mark Teahen trade last weekend. Peavy appears to be getting an extra day of rest after throwing 115 pitches on Monday, his most since last May.
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Quick Hits: Romero, Melky, Michael, Mondesi, Bailey
By Zach Links | July 16, 2011 at 10:44pm CDT
Saturday evening linkage..
The Mets have signed infielder Niuman Romero to a minor league contract, reports Adam Rubin of ESPN New York (on Twitter). Romero appeared in two games for the Red Sox last season and hit .222/.294/.244 in 159 plate appearances in the Phillies' and Blue Jays' farm systems this year.
Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports report that the Giants, Angels, and Phillies are among the teams with some level of interest in Melky Cabrera. The Melkman has delivered a .293/.332/.452 line for the Royals this season.
The Twins are making progress in talks with first round pick Levi Michael, tweets LaVelle E. Neal III of The Star Tribune. Michael was the 30th overall pick, which carries a slot recommendation of $1.1MM or so.
Adalberto Mondesi, the 16-year-old son of Raul Mondesi, is expected to sign for $1MM when eligible in two weeks according to Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes (link in Spanish). Rojas says the Royals have the inside track, but the Yankees, Mets, Giants, and Athletics are also interested. Make sure you tell your friends about our Spanish-language sister site Rumores de Beisbol.
Yesterday we learned that the Athletics have received calls on closer Andrew Bailey. Two sources tell Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News that the Rangers are among those teams and the A's have at started looking more in-depth at Texas' farm system.
The Braves are in search of a bat, but Athletics outfielder Josh Willingham isn’t high on their list, a source told Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports (via Twitter). Earlier today, ESPN's Buster Olney wrote that Willingham "is going to be traded at some point".
With their payroll already at an all-time high, the White Sox might be better off making in-house moves rather than deals, writes MLB.com's Scott Merkin. If GM Ken Williams & Co. do make a deal they may look to land a right-handed reliever, despite the emergence of Brian Bruney.
Rival evaluators say that the degree of separation in the standings could impact the the aggressiveness of the Phillies, Braves, and Giants before the deadline, tweets Buster Olney of ESPN.com.
The Cardinals have been one of the most aggressive teams in baseball as far as looking at starters, a source tells Morosi (via Twitter).
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White Sox Sign Brian Bruney
By Tim Dierkes | December 13, 2010 at 1:41pm CDT
The White Sox signed reliever Brian Bruney to a minor league deal, reports Baseball America's Matt Eddy. Bruney, 29 in February, struggled mightily in 17 2/3 innings for the Nationals this year after coming over from the Yankees in a trade. After a May release he hooked on with the Brewers and Mets, but did not return to the Majors. The Sox also re-signed 28-year-old minor league catcher Donny Lucy, according to Eddy.
Mets Sign Brian Bruney
By Luke Adams | July 2, 2010 at 6:35pm CDT
Well-traveled right-hander Brian Bruney will join his third team so far this season. Newsday's David Lennon reports (via Twitter) that the Mets have signed Bruney to a minor league deal.
The Nationals acquired the 28-year-old over the winter from the Yankees, but released him in May after 19 unimpressive appearances. Bruney then signed with the Brewers, but failed to crack their big league roster during his three weeks in the organization, and was released ten days ago. In 21 IP between the majors and minors for the Nats and Brewers this season, the righty has walked exactly a batter per inning.
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Brewers Release Brian Bruney
By Ben Nicholson-Smith | June 22, 2010 at 3:39pm CDT
The Brewers released Brian Bruney, according to Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (via Twitter). Bruney signed with the Brewers earlier in the month, after the Nationals released him.
Bruney pitched 3.1 scoreless innings at Triple A Nashville after signing with Milwaukee. The right-hander's control evaded him at the big league level this year; he walked more than a batter per inning in 19 appearances with the Nationals. Bruney, who has struck out nearly a batter per inning in his major league career, had an acceptable walk rate as recently as 2008.
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Brewers Sign Brian Bruney
By Ben Nicholson-Smith | June 1, 2010 at 8:41pm CDT
The Brewers signed Brian Bruney to a minor league deal, according to Jen Royle of MASN.com (via Twitter). The deal has an opt-out in a month, so Bruney could be a free agent again before long. The Brewers seemed like a natural landing spot for Bruney when the Nationals released him last week. The righty refused a minor league assignment after being designated for assignment.
Bruney, 28, walked more than a batter per inning in 19 appearances for the Nationals this year. Though he has never been a control pitcher, he had an acceptable walk rate as recently as 2008, when he posted a sub-2.00 ERA for the Yankees. For what it's worth, Bruney's fastball hasn't had as much pep as usual this year; he's averaging 92 mph, down from 94 mph last year.
Cafardo’s Latest: Oswalt, Bruney, Pedro
By Luke Adams | May 30, 2010 at 9:52am CDT
Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe examines the state of the designated hitter in his latest column, wondering if the game is better off with or without it. He also shares a few hot stove notes:
Roy Oswalt would want to play for the Cardinals, but the Astros are unlikely to trade their ace to a division rival.
Members of the Astros organization feel like Oswalt would prefer not to be dealt to an American League club, though he may be open to playing with his friend Jake Peavy in Chicago.
There are a few clubs interested in Brian Bruney, who was released by the Nationals last week.
Pedro Martinez is still mulling whether or not to make a comeback, and is staying in shape in the meantime. Cafardo says that the right-hander enjoyed pitching for the Phillies last year, but that it appears Pedro "has one foot under the mango tree."
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Nationals Release Brian Bruney
By Ben Nicholson-Smith | May 25, 2010 at 4:07pm CDT
The Nationals released Brian Bruney, according to a team press release. They called catcher Carlos Maldonado up in a corresponding move. The Nationals designated Bruney for assignment last week and the reliever refused a minor league assignment after clearing waivers. The Nationals are responsible for Bruney's $1.5MM salary unless another team signs him, in which case the Nats will save about $300K.
Bruney, 28, had serious control problems in his 19 appearances this year, walking more than a batter per inning. He has never been a control pitcher, but had an acceptable walk rate as recently as 2008, when he posted a sub-2.00 ERA for the Yankees.
The hard-throwing right-hander could sign with a team looking for minor league depth. The Brewers, who signed Jeff Bennett earlier today, would make some sense. Bruney still considers himself a major leaguer and hopes his time in pinstripes will help him find a big league job, according to MLB.com's Bill Ladson (via Twitter).
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Brian Bruney Clears Waivers
By Zach Links | May 21, 2010 at 7:04pm CDT
FRIDAY, 7:04pm: Kilgore reports that Bruney has refused his minor league assignment. The Nats now have a week to deal the reliever, and will probably release him if they can't find a trade partner. Until Bruney signs with another club, Washington still owes Bruney his $1.5MM salary for 2010.
FRIDAY, 1:35pm: Bruney cleared waivers and now has 24 hours to accept or refuse a minor league assignment, according to Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post (via Twitter). Bruney told MLB.com's Bill Ladson that he isn't sure if he'll accept the assignment.
SUNDAY: The Nationals have designated reliever Brian Bruney for assignment, according to MLB.com's William Ladson (via Twitter). The move was made to create room for right-hander Drew Storen.
Bruney, 28, has a 7.64 ERA with 16 Ks and 20 walks in 17.2 innings for the Nats this season. Washington manager Jim Riggleman indicated yesterday that the club might make a roster move involving Bruney. While the limited sample size should not be overlooked, it is worth noting that the velocity on Bruney's fastball has dipped from 94.6 mph last season to 92.8 mph in 2010.
Meanwhile, Storen has been outstanding this year in both Double-A Harrisburg and Triple-A Syracuse. Between the two stops, Storen has a 1.12 ERA with 15 Ks and just three walks in 16 innings of work. Baseball America's Prospect Handbook predicts that the 22-year-old – ranked third in the Nats' farm system – could be closing games in Washington by the end of the season.
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MNN.com > Earth Matters > Animals
Meet the millipede that uses cyanide as self-defense
Jaymi Heimbuch
Photo: Jaymi Heimbuch
This resident of forests in the Pacific Northwest is dainty, dotted and dangerous. Well, dangerous to small predators anyway.
The fancy yellow dots decorating the keels of this little millipede are more than just interesting coloration. Like many animals that use bright colors as a warning to potential predators, the yellow-spotted millipede is also doing a favor to hungry birds, shrews or other hungry insectivores. It's telling them in no uncertain terms that trying to eat it would be a mistake of lethal proportions.
If you were to pick up and handle this little critter, you'll likely notice the scent of toasted almonds. That's because the poison-packing millipede uses hydrogen cyanide, which smells of almonds, as self-defense. When threatened, it releases the poison in quantities large enough to be deadly to birds and rodents (but not strong enough to harm humans). All you'll likely feel is a mild stinging sensation on the skin of your hand, or if your skin is more sensitive, a burning and blistering sensation.
This millipede is an important part of the forest ecosystem, and a common resident. In some areas, there can be as many as 20 to 90 individuals per square meter, and, according to the Los Angeles Times, "in some studies, they comprise more than 30% of the total invertebrate biomass." That's a lot of millipedes! But each of them is necessary.
Consuming more than a third of all the needles that fall from conifer trees, the yellow-spotted millipede, "expedites the leaf litter's decay, breaking down cellulose and lignin in its gut and excreting ready-to-use fertilizer in its wake," says U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. "Like earthworms, the millipedes provide an immeasurable benefit to the health of the forest, aerating soil, cycling nutrients, and generally keeping plant waste at a manageable level."
Beautiful, industrious and packed to the keels with poison — who could ask for a more intriguing arthropod to encounter on a hike in the woods of the Pacific Northwest!
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RWB Porsche 964
Miguel Da Silva June 5, 2017
The first time I listened about RWB Porsche, I was in France some years ago. I had seen images floating on the web prior to seeing one in person and always thought "that's a huge work and job!", but after seeing a couple of them, seeing videos of different variations, and reading about Akira Nakai (the founder/creator of RWB) this build has made its way to the top of my list of dream cars.
RWB Porsche 964 in front of W Amsterdam Hotel
There's a lot of controversy around these cars, much like most tuning scenes there are always going to be people that just hate the idea of taking a very well-engineered performance car and cutting the fenders, putting a wide-body, and lowering the car on some aggressive looking wheels.
RWB Porsche 964 by Akira Nakai
Stanced cars get shitted on all the time by people. I personally wouldn't "stance" my car but I do have respect for people that want to enjoy their car and be creative with it. Yes, some builds go too far, but I don't think this is the case with RWBs.
RWB Porsche Akira Nakai signature
Some purists, like Jack from the Truth About Cars, argue that it's pretty much garbage to do this to a Porsche, especially with a limited supply of air cooled engines (see his take here). I see both sides of the coin, that of the purists and that of the tuners.
RWB Porsche 964 Wheel details
Honestly, I think Jack's fear of losing all air-cooled Porsches to Nakai's RWB is unrealistic. I think RWB tuning is desired by a small population of Porsche enthusiasts and owners. I don't have any data to back this up, unfortunately, but from an anecdotal standpoint I see more stock/original 993s and other Porsches than I do RWB modified ones. I only see RWB Porsches at shows or shops. I wish I had some stats on how many RWB 964s or 993s there are, but I would suspect that the percentage is really low given that Nakai works on every car himself, hardly scalable by any means.
RWB Porsche 964 built by Akira Nakai
I would argue the vast majority of Porsche owners probably don't want to go to that extreme of tuning for many reasons. First, not every Porsche owner wants to tune their car, they're perfectly happy with their car being stock, after all Porsche engineering is impressive right off the dealer lot. Second, if they do want to tune their cars it's probably not to the extreme of going with the RWB approach, perhaps new rims, ECU flash, or some other basic mods. With that said I don't think we'll ever come to a point where we rarely see the original air-cooled Porsches. In fact, I argue that it will be more likely we hardly see RWB Porsches in person, which is a different reality than seeing "many" of them online or in magazines.
RWB Porsche 964 back
Now in regards to it being considered hideous, this just comes down to preference and you can't really argue on this. One person thinks a piece of art looks like shit while another considers it a master piece, you can't win a debate on what someone prefers. So with that said I'm going to move on from the controversy and go into what is RWB.
RWB Porsche 964 in front of Hotel W Amsterdam
What is RWB?
RWB stands for RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF which in German means "Rough World Concept". RWB started in the mid-to-late 1990s by Akira Nakai in Japan, and is still based in Japan.. He started tuning cars when he began driving them. Originally starting as "Rauh-Welt" he eventually started driving and tuning German cars and ended up as RAUH-Weld BEGRIFF. This video by Fatlace gives you a peek into who the man behind RWB is, kind of like a mini-documentary.
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Trump ups trade pressure on Canada, Mexico; senior Republicans urge rethink
Reuters | March 5, 2018 | 10:28 am Base Metals Canada Latin America Aluminum
Trump’s determination to push ahead with a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent duty on aluminum has prompted threats of retaliation from the European Union, Canada, China and Brazil among others. (Image Evan El-Amin | Shutterstock )
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, March 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump increased pressure on Canada and Mexico over trade on Monday, saying the two could avoid being caught in his planned hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum if they ceded ground in talks on a new NAFTA trade deal.
Trump also said, after a weekend of tweets in which he threatened to hit German automakers with tariffs, that Mexico needed to do more to stem the flow illegal drugs to the United States, something not encompassed by the talks over the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Trump’s determination to push ahead with a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent duty on aluminum has prompted threats of retaliation from the European Union, Canada, China and Brazil among others. It has roiled world stockmarkets as investors worry about the prospect for an ever-escalating trade war that would derail global economic growth.
His plan, announced on Thursday, has also hit resistance from some senior figures in his own Republican Party.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican whose state of Wisconsin would be hit by proposed European counter-tariffs on Harley Davidson motorcycles, urged the White House on Monday not to push ahead with the action.
Fellow Republican Kevin Brady, the top House legislator on trade, said American consumers should not be forced to pay more for goods.
Trump has been unmoved by lobbying from lawmakers, leading companies and industry groups since he first announced the measure. If anything, he has repeatedly upped the ante.
“We’re not backing down,” Trump said during a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I don’t think you’re going to have a trade war,” he added, without elaborating.
U.S. stocks reversed early losses to trade in positive territory after falls last week that were triggered in part by Trump’s tariff plans. Treasuries rallied as investors sought out safe-haven securities.
In Europe, German car giants Volkswagen AG and BMW also recovered from earlier losses. German car companies urged policymakers on Monday to avoid a trade war with the United States “at all costs.”
Trump was expected to finalize the planned tariffs later in the week, posing a tough challenge for U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo. They were meeting in Mexico City on Monday to wrap up the latest round of discussions on revamping the 1994 NAFTA deal.
“Mexico shouldn’t be included in steel & aluminum tariffs. It’s the wrong way to incentivize the creation of a new & modern NAFTA,” Guajardo said on Twitter.
Trump has touted the tariffs as a way to revive the U.S. steel and aluminum industries, in keeping with his promises both on the campaign trail and in the White House that he will seek deals that better favor American workers.
That has included the threat that Washington will withdraw from NAFTA if it is not satisfactorily renegotiated. He withdrew from a proposed Pacific trade pact on his first day in office in January last year.
Nafta talks
In another comment on the NAFTA talks on Monday, Trump reprised two running criticisms of Canada and Mexico. Last year Trump came close to withdrawing from NAFTA after he visited American dairy farmers in Wisconsin who say they have been hit by Canadian rules that discriminate against U.S. milk exports.
“Also, Canada must treat our farmers much better. Highly restrictive. Mexico must do much more on stopping drugs from pouring into the U.S. They have not done what needs to be done. Millions of people addicted and dying,” Trump tweeted.
The Mexican and Canadian ministers were likely to press Trump’s trade envoy for more details on how their countries could be excluded from the blanket tariffs.
Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Monday the country was negotiating on NAFTA with a partner that has “changed the terms of the discussion.”
In Washington, aides scrambled to meet Trump’s demand for the paperwork to be completed for a formal announcement this week. The exact timing was still unclear as the tariff documentation had to be drafted and go through a variety of reviews, a process that takes days, an administration official said.
Trump remained adamant about signing the tariffs, according to officials in and out of the White House. The president “sees this as a base issue for him,” one Trump outside adviser said.
There was always a chance that Trump ”could amend his initial announcement” to take account of the concerns expressed about it, said a source familiar with the internal debate at the White House.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Adriana Barrrera; Additional reporting by Steve Holland, Eric Walsh, Sharay Angulo, Lesley Wroughton, David Ljunggren, Sujata Rao, Ilona Wissenbach, Michael Nienaber, Fergal Smith; Writing by David Chance; Editing by Andrea Ricci and Frances Kerry)
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SMILF Season 2
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This season finds Bridgette trying to move forward and focus on her future, while attempting to exorcise old ghosts and atone for past misdeeds. She's still toiling away in her day job working for narcissistic boss Ally (guest star Connie Britton). Meanwhile, Bridgette's mother Tutu (O'Donnell) rallies from a heartbreaking setback punctuated by the presence of her co-dependent younger sister Jackie (guest star Sherie Rene Scott). Ex-boyfriend Rafi (Miguel Gomez) and his girlfriend Nelson Rose (Samara Weaving) grow closer, while Eliza (Raven Goodwin, now a series regular) deals with her own family drama. Viewers will also go back in time to witness the highly unconventional birth of Bridgette's beloved son, Larry (Alexandra and Anna Reimer).
Created by: Frankie Shaw
Producer(s): Frankie Shaw, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg, Michael London, Scott King
Production company(s): ABC Signature Studios, Groundswell Productions, Quantity Entertainment
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Home / Features / Farewell to Camaro and Firebird
Farewell to Camaro and Firebird
After 35 years, Camaro and Firebird quietly depart from the dance
Chevrolet Camaro Coupe Features
by photographers: Motor Trend archives writers: Joe Schulte October 23, 2002
In April 1964, Ford's sporty Mustang hit town and created a whole new category of American car. After 22,000 were sold the first day, the Mustang's success took everyone--including GM management--by surprise. They were hoping the redesigned '65 Corvairs, particularly the turbocharged Monza or drop-top Spyder versions, would give Chevrolet competitive entries in the emerging ponycar segment. But it took just three more months and another 100,000 Mustang sales to demonstrate to corporate decision-makers the market potential and to underscore GM's urgent need for a competitive response.
Fortunately, the corporation was already developing a new type of construction for a planned small car, the Nova. Combining unitized chassis/body structure from the firewall back, this approach added a bolt-on stub frame carrying the front suspension and engine. With this head start, Chevrolet brought the first F-body car, the Camaro, to market in September 1966. Pontiac's sibling, the Firebird, debuted five months later.
Performance was the hallmark of F-body cars from the start. Even the stub- frame rails were specifically designed in 1965 to accommodate big-block engines. Speaking of engines, the Camaro and Firebird had them aplenty over the years: Chevy and Pontiac 350s, plus those 396 and 400-cu-in. big blocks. High-winding Z/28 302s and Pontiac Super Duty 455s . They all gave F-cars the performance that still carries forth to today's lion-hearted LS1s.
There were four generations of F-bodies: the first built from 1966 through 1969. Second-generation cars, notably the lithe, split-bumper RS Camaros and aggressive 400-cu-in. Ram Air IV Trans Ams, were arguably the era's most beautiful domestic automobiles. The single sideglass styling theme they introduced became a signature trait of all F-bodies to follow. With over three million second-generation cars produced during their 12-year run, many enthusiasts claim these are the best of the breed.
Delayed by wrangling over the FWD/RWD platform issue, third-generation F-bodies didn't appear until 1982. Rear-drive advocates prevailed, and the new cars, featuring slightly smaller dimensions and that single sideglass treatment, further extended the Camaro and Firebird success, with nearly 400,000 units produced in 1984 alone.
The current fourth-generation Camaros and Firebirds arrived for the '93 model year. As with the previous generation, drivetrain configuration was debated, but once again--and fortunately--rear drive was chosen for performance reasons.
The new cars' styling themes could be described as evolutionary, but their shapes were almost radical. The windshield was laid back at an aggressive 68o, and extended overhangs created a sleek, aerodynamic look. Overall length, height, and width increased from previous models, while the same 101.1-in. wheelbase was retained. Performance continued to be the dominant influence in the product line with new engines, like the LT-1 and LS1 V-8s.
While the decisions that created the fourth-generation cars were satisfying to long-time Camaro and Firebird enthusiasts, it appears these tenets put the long-term future of the cars in jeopardy.
In 1996, the Camaro and Firebird became the only front-engine/rear-drive passenger cars in the entire GM lineup, besides the Corvette. The F-bodies had to be built at a dedicated assembly facility (GM's Ste. Therese, Quebec, plant), ensuring the platform's future as long as sales volumes--estimated at 150,000 cars--justified keeping the factory open.
In 1994, production totaled over 170,000. By 1996, that number dropped to under 100,000 units, and, five years later, fewer than 60,000 were built. Considering the declining numbers, we can see why the last of these storied American ponycars rolled off the line on August 29, 2002.
Why did sales drop so far and so fast? For one thing, the cars lost their original market. In 1991, over 33 percent of six-cylinder Camaro buyers were under the age of 30; by 2001, only half as many were that young. During the same decade, the median age for F-body buyers increased by 10 years. The cars weren't attracting new buyers; they were going to same buyers in diminishing numbers.
Price, for younger enthusiasts, was also a contributor. Z28 models represented well over 50 percent of the Camaros built this final year, and over half of them were equipped with the SLP Super Sport package, a combination carrying a sticker price exceeding $30,000. A fully dressed Trans Am convertible reached almost $40,000.
Competition also had a hand in the sales drop. New entries, like the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Toyota Celica, and, to a lesser extent, the Supra, provided new competition at the top and bottom of the line. Honda Civic hatchbacks capture young buyers with their affordability, economy, proven reliability, and outstanding quality. In smaller numbers, cars like VW's New Beetle and GTI skimmed their share, too.
Then there's the F-body's original rival, the Mustang. Styled in a less rakish, more upright fashion, Mustangs are sporty four-passenger cars with similar performance at price points consistently below comparable Camaros and Firebirds. Though, less aggressive and not as quick, the Mustang offers more refinement in an easier-to-live-with package than the GM entries.
Product reviews on these pages and others also identified issues that turned off some prospects. Simply stated, fourth-generation F-bodies weren't accommodating cars. Though sleek to the eye, they were less friendly to the user. The steep windshield angle and a decision to make the nearly uninhabitable rear seat more accessible led to doors that reached into the next zip code when fully opened. The cabin was cramped with visibility hampered by the low seating position, high beltline, and thick C-pillars. The front-seat-passenger's footwell had an ungainly lump to clear the catalytic converter, and overriding cheapness of the switchgear and touch zones was consistently noted.
If those were the downsides, the upside was the traditional F-body strength: tire-melting bang for your buck. Even in their final years, the Z28s and Trans Ams easily outran competition from Ford and the imports.
GM saw the writing on the wall--or put it there. Either way, the corporation didn't see fit to invest in new, scratch-built F-cars that could compete with the best of the imports and an upcoming all-new Mustang. It was a curious decision made during GM's era of Brand Management: consciously killing off two of its most legendary brands.
In the final analysis, the F-body cars went away because they were too reminiscent of cars from the '70s--booming engines and not a lot of subtlety. They leave the market as testimony to the reality of cohort theory: They attract a diminishing number of buyers because the cars remain true to their original appeals, but these appeals aren't attractive to younger buyers in the new millennium.
Will the F-cars reappear? Spokespersons for Chevrolet and Pontiac point to the renaissance of other, once-retired nameplates like GTO and Impala, making the point that there could be new Camaros or Firebirds in the future. If and when there are, both divisions make it clear the cars would be consistent with the heritage of performance. It's a noble goal, but flawed if the executions aren't competitively consistent in modern terms.
Future or no, the Camaro and Firebird's passing is a loss, nonetheless.
F-Car Yearbook Notes1967--Camaro debuts on Sept. 29, 1966, as '67 model. Firebird comes to market about five months later.
1968--Motor Trend's Jerry Titus campaigns a Firebird in the SCCA Trans Am series. Hmmm: Firebird. Trans Am. Sounds catchy...
1969--Pontiac Trans Am introduced. Pontiac pays the SCCA $5 per car to license use of the name, producing $4+ million in licensing fees over the next 35 years.
1970--Second-generation F-cars debut.
1971--Pontiac 455 H.O. big-block finds its way into Firebird, remains largest engine ever factory-offered in F-body car.
1972--Increasing insurance rates and gas prices cause near-50-percent sales drop-off.
1973--Firebird ignores the above; introduces 455 Super Duty.
1974--Last year for Z-28--for now.
1976--Last year for Firebird's 455 V-8.
1977--"Smokey and the Bandit," with Burt Reynolds flailing around in a black Trans Am, is second only to "Star Wars" as 1977's highest-grossing film. Z-28 returns to Camaro lineup.
1978--Firebird sets its all-time model-year sales record at 175,607 units.
1979--10th Anniversary Trans Am paces Indy 500. Camaro sees its best sales year, moving 282,582 cars, 84,877 of them Z-28s.
1980--One-year wonder, 4.9L Turbo Trans Am is the only turbocharged, V-8- powered F-car ever built. Wingspan of "screaming-chicken" hood decal tops 70 in.
1982--Third-generation F-body debuts, with more focus on handling and balanced performance. Trans Am wins SCCA Trans Am championship. Camaro (again) paces Indy 500.
1984--Big news for Camaro Berlinetta is "video-game" dash.
1987--Convertible body style returns for Camaro. Z28 and Trans Am get 245-hp V-8.
1989--Surprisingly fast turbocharged V-6 20th-Anniversary Trans Am paces Indy 500 and instantly becomes among the most collectible F-body cars.
1991--First new Firebird convertible since 1969.
1992--SLP offers first factory-blessed Firehawk model. Last year for third-gen bodystyle.
1993--Fourth-generation Camaro and Firebird come to market, with 275-hp LT1 V-8 and six-speed manual for Z and Trans Am.
1996--Camaro SS returns, also by SLP, with extra horsepower and 17-in. wheels. Firebird gets WS6 performance option package.
1997--Last year for LT1 power. Camaro interior gets freshening.
1998--Midlife update includes new 305-320-hp LS1 powerplants, among many engineering improvements. New front-end design for Camaro.
2001--GM makes corporate decision to kill off Firebird and Camaro.
2002--35th-Anniversary Camaro SS and Anniversary Collector Edition Trans Am mark the end of F-car production, August 2002.
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Home / News / R Plan: Volkswagen Says No Polo R, But Jetta R, Audi S1 Are in the Works
R Plan: Volkswagen Says No Polo R, But Jetta R, Audi S1 Are in the Works
Volkswagen GTI Hatchback News
by writer: Andrew Peterson May 20, 2010
If you'd argue the new Volkswagen Polo GTI is the pinnacle of Polo performance, Volkswagen executives would likely agree with you. Although the company recently founded the R GmbH tuning subsidiary to craft all sorts of performance models from its existing vehicles, VW officials say a Polo R would interfere with the Audi S1 already in development.
"I would say there have been some ideas about [Polo R], but more in the press than the company itself because we have our [Polo] GTI and within our company Audi has an S 1," Dr. Ernst Linder, technical chief of the new Polo, told Drive.com.au. "The S1 topped our [Polo] GTI and to put a car above both, we think we'll not have the same volume to make it interesting."
Although we've only seen Audi's A1, Linder confirmed the S1 variant will utilize the same supercharged and turbocharged 1.4-liter I-4 as the Polo GTI (good for roughly 182 horsepower), mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. A Polo R designed to outperform the S1 wouldn't necessarily make financial sense, as extra power would require other features -- notably all-wheel-drive -- that could make the VW more expensive than the Audi.
"From the technical point of view, of course we can do something," Linder said. "From the financial point of view it doesn't make so much sense. It would be too expensive and we have the S1. The S1 will have 182 horsepower and it's a very sporty car. If we put much more power in the [Polo], we need something like four-wheel-drive. This is a technical feature that is very expensive."
In order to attain more power, a Polo R would also need to adopt a different engine, which could prove expensive. Linder says the twincharged 1.4-liter I-4 is already close to its maximum power output, and can only be tuned for an additional 10-20 more horsepower.
While Linder crushed the idea of a Polo R, he did confirm a Jetta R will work its way into VW's European lineup shortly after a new Jetta launches next year. Linder didn't indicate what will power the Jetta R, but we wouldn't be surprised if it cribbed the 267-horsepower, 2.0-liter I-4 from the Golf R. We'd love to see a Jetta hotter than the GLI in our market, but seeing as cost and pricing are threatening the Golf R's arrival in the U.S. , we wouldn't be surprised if this remains a forbidden fruit.
Source: Drive.com
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"Climate change does exist, and if you don't believe it now, then by the time you do it will be too late." So say two outspoken 10-year-olds who are determined to get civic leaders in South Australia's Murraylands thinking about the issue - and acting to prevent it. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activist who led an international strike by 1.4 million school students in March, Casey Taylor and Amity Bailey delivered their message to two local councils this week. They pulled precisely no punches. "Your generation is not looking after the world like you should," Casey said on Monday night, frowning at a circle of councillors mostly four or five times her age. "You don't need to worry - you won't be around when the world is destroyed. "But your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be." Their demands: that their local governments declare a climate emergency, symbolically recognising the urgency with which we all must act to limit the effects of climate change; and that councils encourage recycling, composting, tree-planting, renewable energy, and the use of reuseable containers for takeaway food - "all simple strategies that don't cost much but could save a lot". "I'm trying my best - are you?" Amity asked. "I'm scared for my very existence and you should be, too. "When you go home tonight, think about what you will do to help us stay alive. "We need out-of-the-box ideas to keep us going, and more importantly, to keep Earth going." As an agricultural district at the bottom end of the River Murray, the Murraylands will likely be a very different place by the time the girls grow old unless the world turns away from its present trajectory. The regional centre, Murray Bridge, will experience twice as many days above 35 degrees by 2090 if global carbon emissions cannot be brought under control, the Australia Institute found in March. On average, rainfall would reduce by 22 per cent and the temperature would increase by 3.6 degrees by 2100, SA Climate Ready researchers warned last month. Murray Bridge Councillor Mat O'Brien gave his unqualified support to the idea of a climate emergency declaration. "I'm sorry we're at the point now, in this country, that we have to rely on our youth bringing this issue to the attention of our lawmakers," he said. "I've got kids your age, and I worry about their futures. "I'm really proud of you - keep going and we'll get there together." Amity's mother Simone, a Mid Murray councillor, said her daughter's activism had made her examine her own priorities. "I thought about my candidate profile; I said I cared about the environment," she said. "I hear from ratepayers about rate rises and debts ... but it wouldn't cost a lot to do some of these things." Other councillors defended their organisations' records in terms of installing solar panels, planting trees and so on. If there were any climate change deniers present, they did not speak up. Yet both the Murray Bridge and Mid Murray councils opted not to act too rashly, and to seek more information from staff about what an emergency declaration would mean in practical terms. Hundreds of local governments around the world have already declared a state of climate emergency, including three others in SA. Casey said any action could not come soon enough. "Lots of people think that I am just a child who runs around with no worries," she said. "Well, they're wrong. "I have worries, lots of worries, about what the world is coming to."
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Climate change: 10-year-old activists Casey Taylor, Amity Bailey seek emergency declaration by Murraylands councils
Peri Strathearn
Ten-year-old activists seek 'climate emergency' declaration
"Your generation is not looking after the world like you should," say Casey Taylor and Amity Bailey.
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"Climate change does exist, and if you don't believe it now, then by the time you do it will be too late."
So say two outspoken 10-year-olds who are determined to get civic leaders in South Australia's Murraylands thinking about the issue - and acting to prevent it.
Inspired by Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activist who led an international strike by 1.4 million school students in March, Casey Taylor and Amity Bailey delivered their message to two local councils this week.
They pulled precisely no punches.
"Your generation is not looking after the world like you should," Casey said on Monday night, frowning at a circle of councillors mostly four or five times her age.
"You don't need to worry - you won't be around when the world is destroyed.
"But your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be."
Their demands: that their local governments declare a climate emergency, symbolically recognising the urgency with which we all must act to limit the effects of climate change; and that councils encourage recycling, composting, tree-planting, renewable energy, and the use of reuseable containers for takeaway food - "all simple strategies that don't cost much but could save a lot".
"I'm trying my best - are you?" Amity asked.
"I'm scared for my very existence and you should be, too.
"When you go home tonight, think about what you will do to help us stay alive.
"We need out-of-the-box ideas to keep us going, and more importantly, to keep Earth going."
Casey Taylor and Amity Bailey, both aged 10, say climate change needs to be stopped.
Casey and Amity speak at a Murray Bridge council meeting on Monday night.
The pair speak at a Mid Murray Council meeting at Cambrai on Tuesday.
Photos: Peri Strathearn.
As an agricultural district at the bottom end of the River Murray, the Murraylands will likely be a very different place by the time the girls grow old unless the world turns away from its present trajectory.
The regional centre, Murray Bridge, will experience twice as many days above 35 degrees by 2090 if global carbon emissions cannot be brought under control, the Australia Institute found in March.
On average, rainfall would reduce by 22 per cent and the temperature would increase by 3.6 degrees by 2100, SA Climate Ready researchers warned last month.
Murray Bridge Councillor Mat O'Brien gave his unqualified support to the idea of a climate emergency declaration.
"I'm sorry we're at the point now, in this country, that we have to rely on our youth bringing this issue to the attention of our lawmakers," he said.
"I've got kids your age, and I worry about their futures.
"I'm really proud of you - keep going and we'll get there together."
Amity's mother Simone, a Mid Murray councillor, said her daughter's activism had made her examine her own priorities.
"I thought about my candidate profile; I said I cared about the environment," she said.
"I hear from ratepayers about rate rises and debts ... but it wouldn't cost a lot to do some of these things."
Other councillors defended their organisations' records in terms of installing solar panels, planting trees and so on.
If there were any climate change deniers present, they did not speak up.
Yet both the Murray Bridge and Mid Murray councils opted not to act too rashly, and to seek more information from staff about what an emergency declaration would mean in practical terms.
Hundreds of local governments around the world have already declared a state of climate emergency, including three others in SA.
Casey said any action could not come soon enough.
"Lots of people think that I am just a child who runs around with no worries," she said.
"Well, they're wrong.
"I have worries, lots of worries, about what the world is coming to."
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This Striking San Francisco Café Is a Design Lover's Paradise
When you give celebrity interior designer Kelly Wearstler the task of designing a petite café in San Francisco, you get so much more than your average coffee shop décor. Case in point, Wearstler recently designed La Bande, an intimate coffee bar and market café in the city, and the finished space looks more like a glamorous dining enclave than any old coffee shop. One step inside and you'll think you've been transported to a Parisian café from the past.
It's equal parts retro and European, creating a striking atmosphere located in the San Francisco Proper, a luxury hotel that's taken over a 100-year-old restored historic flatiron building. With nods to a variety of modern artists and designers, it's so much more than a place to stop in for a cup of joe. Although, if you're in the city, it's certainly worth popping in for a nitro cold brew, perhaps an artisanal sandwich, and a front row seat to both an architectural feat and the streets of San Francisco.
Keep scrolling to take a look inside the heart-stoppingly chic café. You'll never look at a Starbucks the same way again.
La Bande translates to the word stripe in French, so it's only fitting that the shop emulates many characteristics of a European café. Looking at it from the street, you could just as easily be standing in Paris rather than San Francisco. There's plenty of outdoor seating primed for people watching and the unassuming exterior leaves much to the imagination until you go inside and take in the luxe décor.
Inspired by French conceptual artist Daniel Buren and the Secession Era—a time when modernist artists separated their ties from academic art—the interior is bursting with eye-catching details, striking designs, and bold colors, all of which contain hints that design and art lovers will catch onto. Rich, glossy green tiles create a moody vibe inside the café while warmer elements like brass, cerused wood, and natural stonework to create an inviting space filled with timeless charm. Have you ever seen a more dreamy combination than this green tile with that gray and white marble bar?
Not only is the café simply gorgeous, but it also serves up local Northern California food and drinks to sustain you while you take in the design and architecture of the space. The menu includes items like hand pies filled with homemade jams, homemade yogurt, artisanal sandwiches, and, of course, a variety of coffee and tea offerings. You can get everything from Counter Culture coffee and nitro cold brew on tap to tea from Leaves and Flowers Teas in Berkeley.
Upon closer examination, you'll note that the green tiles that cover both the floors and the walls are hand-glazed and feature graphic white and black stripes, a nod to the café's name, of course, as well as Buren's art which often featured linework. Natural light spills in from the blind-covered windows that face the street—another striped element—while tables meant to be shared add to the community feel of the space.
The Cipollino marble bar offers a stunning backdrop for food and drinks to be served. This material made of swirls of gray and white veining contrasts beautifully with the black plates and gold flatware. It's simply begging for you to post an Instagram of your meal.
The metal stools that surround the communal tables and the coffee bar were custom made and designed to appeal to the industrial aesthetic of the 1980s, as well as pay homage to French architect and designer Pierre Chareau. Overall, they work alongside the striking tile, marble, and orb pendant lighting to create a distinctly European atmosphere with hints of the past.
Although the café, of course, serves breakfast bites and other market essentials, it also embraces the Europea lifestyle by offering up craft beer, wine, and petite aperitifs in the late afternoon and evening for any lingering patrons. Just imagine taking a seat at a communal table inside or opting for a street side spot next to a heater to allow the day to turn into night with a glass of wine in hand. Next time you're in San Fransico, it's certainly worth a visit, whether you come for the interior design or the coffee.
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Original Article | Published: 26 October 1999
Inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase 2 expression in colon cells by the chemopreventive agent curcumin involves inhibition of NF-κB activation via the NIK/IKK signalling complex
Simon M Plummer1,
Karen A Holloway2,
Margaret M Manson1,
Rebecca JL Munks1 nAff4,
Allard Kaptein3,
Stuart Farrow3 &
Lynne Howells1
Oncogenevolume 18, pages6013–6020 (1999) | Download Citation
Colorectal cancer is a major cause of cancer deaths in Western countries, but epidemiological data suggest that dietary modification might reduce these by as much as 90%. Cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX2), an inducible isoform of prostaglandin H synthase, which mediates prostaglandin synthesis during inflammation, and which is selectively overexpressed in colon tumours, is thought to play an important role in colon carcinogenesis. Curcumin, a constituent of turmeric, possesses potent anti-inflammatory activity and prevents colon cancer in animal models. However, its mechanism of action is not fully understood. We found that in human colon epithelial cells, curcumin inhibits COX2 induction by the colon tumour promoters, tumour necrosis factor α or fecapentaene-12. Induction of COX2 by inflammatory cytokines or hypoxia-induced oxidative stress can be mediated by nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB). Since curcumin inhibits NF-κB activation, we examined whether its chemopreventive activity is related to modulation of the signalling pathway which regulates the stability of the NF-κB-sequestering protein, IκB. Recently components of this pathway, NF-κB-inducing kinase and IκB kinases, IKKα and β, which phosphorylate IκB to release NF-κB, have been characterised. Curcumin prevents phosphorylation of IκB by inhibiting the activity of the IKKs. This property, together with a long history of consumption without adverse health effects, makes curcumin an important candidate for consideration in colon cancer prevention.
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Cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX2), an inducible isoform of prostaglandin H synthase (PGHS) which mediates prostaglandin synthesis during inflammation, is selectively overexpressed in colon tumours and is thought to play an important role in colon carcinogenesis (Kargman et al., 1995). Genetic knock-out or pharmacological inhibition of COX2 has been shown to protect against development of colonic tumours in mice which harbour a germline knock-out mutation of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumour suppressor gene, or in rats exposed to the colon carcinogen azoxymethane (Oshima et al., 1996; Kawamori et al., 1998). Germline and somatic mutations in the APC gene are important early events in human colon carcinogenesis (Nishisho et al., 1991; Powell et al., 1992). Overexpression of COX2 in colonic epithelial cells may promote tumour development by causing resistance to apoptosis and facilitating alterations in cell adhesion properties (Tsujii and Dubois, 1995). Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), which directly inhibit COX2 activity (Vane and Botting, 1995), cause regression of adenomatous polyps in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) patients (Giardiello et al., 1995), and may reduce the risk for sporadic colon cancer (Rosenberg et al., 1991; Thun et al., 1991). It has therefore been suggested that COX2 is an important target for the chemopreventive effects of these agents (Dubois and Smalley, 1996; Gardiello et al., 1997). However, the chronic administration of NSAIDs causes serious side-effects, thought to be due to concomitant inhibition of COX1 (Eberhart and DuBois, 1995), a constitutively expressed isoform of PGHS, making the development of selective COX2 inhibitors highly desirable. Such agents could act either by direct inhibition of the cyclo-oxygenase or peroxidase component of COX2 and/or by inhibition of COX2 gene expression (Subbaramaiah et al., 1997).
Curcumin, like NSAIDS, is a potent anti-inflammatory agent due to inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis (Huang et al., 1992). However, it has been shown to be only a very weak direct inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenase enzyme activity (Srivastava and Srimal, 1985). It also has chemopreventive activity in animal models of colon cancer (Rao et al., 1993; Pereira et al., 1996), but its mechanism of action is not well understood. It has been shown to inhibit COX2 expression (Kelley et al., 1996), and in separate studies to be a potent inhibitor of NF-κB activation (Sanjaya and Aggarwal, 1995; Bierhaus et al., 1997; Kumar et al., 1998), but not of its binding to DNA (Bierhaus et al., 1997).
To investigate the mechanisms of colon cancer chemoprevention by curcumin we tested the hypothesis that it acts through inhibition of COX2 gene induction by the model colon tumour promotors, tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) and fecapentaene-12. The lumenal concentration of TNFα is increased in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (Braegger et al., 1992), a condition which predisposes to colorectal cancer (Gyde et al., 1998). Fecapentaene-12, the most abundant form of a group of mutagenic chemicals found in the faeces of individuals who consume a Western diet high in fat and meat (Schiffman et al., 1989), has been shown to be a tumour promotor in a rat model of colorectal cancer (Zarcovic et al., 1993).
The overexpression of COX2 in colon tumour cells is thought to be due to alterations in transcriptional control (Kutchera et al., 1996). Several transcription factors have been implicated, but their precise roles have yet to be elucidated. The COX2 gene is induced by a wide variety of stimuli including oncogenic viruses, growth factors, cytokines, and tumour promoters (Hershman, 1994). Overexpression in response to the viral oncogene v-src is mediated in part by the ras-MAP kinase signalling pathway via an AP1 transcription factor which binds to a cyclic AMP response element (CRE) in the human gene promoter (Xie and Herschman, 1995). However, overexpression caused by hypoxia in human umbilical vein endothelial cells and by IL-1 in rheumatoid synoviocytes has been shown to be mediated by NF-κB (Crofford et al., 1997; Schmedtje et al., 1997). We investigated whether the chemopreventive activity of curcumin in colon cells is related to inhibition of COX2 expression via modulation of signalling pathways that regulate the stability of the NF-κB-sequestering protein IκB. Serine/threonine and tyrosine kinases that mediate activation of NF-κB by the TNF receptor 1 (TNFR1) via phosphorylation of the inhibitory protein IκB, have recently been cloned (Malinin et al., 1997; DiDonato et al., 1997). They form a complex which includes NF-κB inducing kinase (NIK) and two isoforms of the IκB kinase (IKKα and IKKβ) (Woronicz et al., 1997; Cohen et al., 1998). We present data showing that curcumin does indeed inhibit COX2 expression and NF-κB DNA binding induced by physiologically relevant concentrations of TNFα and fecapentaene-12 in human colon epithelial cells, and show that curcumin achieves this by inhibiting phosphorylation of IκB by the NIK/IKK signalling complex.
The ability of curcumin to inhibit tumour promotor-induced COX2 protein expression was first examined. Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) (50 ng/ml) was the most powerful inducer of COX2 protein in human colon epithelial (HCEC) cells, causing a 25-fold induction after 6 h of treatment, which was completely inhibited by curcumin (20 μM) (Figure 1a, lanes 2 and 3). TNFα (10 ng/ml) and fecapentaene-12 (40 μM) caused smaller three and tenfold inductions, respectively, which were also inhibited by curcumin (Figure 1a, lanes 4 – 7).
Effects of curcumin (CUR) on COX2 expression by PMA, TNFα or fecapentaene-12 (FEC) in HCEC cells. (a) Western blot of COX2 in control (vehicle treated) HCEC cells or cells treated as indicated with 50 ng/ml PMA, 50 ng/ml PMA +20 μM curcumin, 10 ng/ml TNFα, 10 ng/ml TNFα +20 μM curcumin, 40 μM fecapentaene-12 +20 μM curcumin for 6 h. Western blot data are representative of three separate experiments. Arbitrary units represent the sum of the pixel values in the band minus the background. (b) Effect of TNFα on expression of COX2 mRNA in control (vehicle treated) HCEC cells and cells treated as indicated with TNFα (0.1 – 10 ng/ml) for 2 h. Levels of mRNA were determined by RT – PCR. *Significantly higher than untreated cells as determined by Student's t-test, p>0.05. (c) Effect of curcumin on induction of COX2 mRNA by TNFα in control (vehicle treated) HCEC cells and cells treated as indicated with curcumin (40 μM), TNFα (1 ng/ml) or TNFα+curcumin (10 – 40 μM). Results are means±s.d. of three measurements performed in three separate experiments. *,**Significantly lower than TNFα alone as determined by Student's t-test, P<0.05, P<0.001
We next examined the effects of TNFα (0.1 – 10 ng/ml) and fecapentaene-12 (1 – 40 μM) on COX2 mRNA levels by RT – PCR. TNFα caused a dose dependent induction (Figure 1b), which was maximal after 2 – 3 h, returning to baseline after 12 h (data not shown). Curcumin (10 – 40 μM) inhibited the induction of COX2 mRNA by TNFα, also in a dose dependent manner (Figure 1c, samples 4 – 6). Similar induction was evident after treatment with fecapentaene-12, which was inhibited by 75% in the presence of 40 μM curcumin (data not shown). The viability of cells after 4 h of treatment was greater than 90%, as determined by the MTT assay. Curcumin alone at concentrations of 25 μM and above had a marked (60 – 95%) inhibitory effect on HCEC cell growth, whereas 10 μM had little or no inhibitory effect (data not shown).
Since the promoter region of COX2 contains two NF-κB binding sites, and since TNFα is a potent activator of NF-κB in many cell types, and fecapentaene-12 has been shown to act as a cofactor for protein kinase C (Hoshina et al., 1991), which is known to activate NF-κB (Diaz-Meco et al., 1993), we used electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) to examine the ability of curcumin to block NF-κB activation by these agents. After treatment of cells with either TNFα (1 ng/ml) or fecapentaene-12 (20 μM), there was a marked induction of nuclear protein binding to an oligonucleotide containing the `consensus' NF-κB binding sequence (Figure 2a, lane 2; Figure 2b, lane 14). Pretreatment of cells with curcumin (10 – 40 μM) caused an inhibition of protein-DNA binding induced by either TNFα (Figure 2a, lanes 3 – 5) or fecapentaene-12 (Figure 2b, lane 15). To eliminate the possibility that the inhibitory effects of curcumin on NF-κB-DNA binding could be attributed to its antioxidant properties, we tested the ability of caffeic acid phenyl ester (CAPE), an antioxidant which is structurally related to curcumin, to inhibit binding. CAPE (10 – 40 μM) had no significant inhibitory effect on the induction of protein-DNA binding induced by TNFα (Figure 2a, lanes 6 – 8), nor did it affect the induction of COX2 mRNA levels by either tumour promoter (Figure 3a). Similar results were obtained when N-acetyl cysteine (5 mM), a classical antioxidant, was substituted for CAPE (Figure 3b). These results suggest that curcumin inhibited activation and translocation of NF-κB to the nucleus in a manner unrelated to its antioxidant capacity.
Effects of curcumin on NF-κB DNA binding to `consensus' NF-κB oligonucleotides. Nuclear proteins were extracted from HCEC cells and incubated for 40 min on ice with end-labelled oligonucleotides prior to electrophoresis. (a) EMSAs with NF-κB `consensus' oligonuleotide in HCEC cells treated as indicated with vehicle (control), 1 ng/ml TNFα, TNFα +curcumin (10 μM – 40 μM), TNFα+CAPE (10 – 40 μM), 40 μM curcumin alone or 40 μM CAPE alone; (b) vehicle (control), 20 μM fecapentaene-12, fecapentaene-12+20 μM curcumin, or 20 μM curcumin alone
Effect of CAPE or N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) on COX2 mRNA levels following exposure of HCEC cells to TNFα or fecapentaene-12 (FEC). (a) Lack of inhibition of COX-2 mRNA induction by CAPE in HCEC cells treated as indicated with vehicle (control), CAPE 20 μM, TNFα (1 ng/ml), TNFα+CAPE (20 μM), fecapentaene-12 (20 μM), fecapentaene-12 (20 μM)+CAPE (20 μM); (b) Lack of inhibition of COX-2 mRNA induction by N-acetylcysteine (NAC) in HCEC cells treated as indicated with vehicle (control), NAC (5 mM), TNFα (1 ng/ml), TNFα (1 ng/ml)+NAC (5 mM), fecapentaene-12 (20 μM), fecapentaene-12 (20 μM)+NAC (5 mM). Results are means (±range) of measurements performed in two different experiments. For TNFα exposures results are from a single experiment. Similar results were obtained with TNFα at 10 ng/ml (data not shown). *Significantly higher than control (P<0.05), **not significantly different from fecapentaene alone, as analysed by Student's t-test
To assess the ability of curcumin to inhibit NF-κB transactivation, we performed transient transfection assays with an NF-κB-luciferase reporter construct (p6NF-κB), containing 6 NF-κB consensus sequences. As HCEC cells displayed poor transfection efficiency, we used the colon carcinoma cell line SW480 for these studies. Exposure of these cells, transiently transfected with p6NF-κB and a β-galactosidase plasmid pCMVgal, to TNFα (10 ng/ml) caused a threefold induction of p6NF-κB luciferase activity (Figure 4, column 6). Curcumin (20 μM) blocked this induction of luciferase activity (column 8), indicating that it inhibits the transactivating potential of NF-κB.
Inhibition of TNFα-induced NF-κB dependent transactivation by curcumin. SW480 cells were transfected with the plasmid tk-36-LUC (`empty' cassette), columns 1 – 4, or p6NF-κB-tk-LUC, columns 5 – 8 and treated as indicated with vehicle (control), TNFα (10 ng/ml), curcumin alone (20 μM) or TNFα (10 ng/ml)+curcumin (20 μM) prior to measuring luciferase reporter gene activity. Values represent the means±s.d. of three separate transfections carried out in duplicate. *Significantly higher than untreated sample as analysed by Student's t-test, P<0.01
To determine whether curcumin would inhibit the phosphorylation and degradation of the NF-κB sequestering protein IκB, we performed Western blot analyses with IκB-specific antibody. Curcumin completely blocked the degradation of IκB caused by TNFα (10 ng/ml) in HCEC cells (Figure 5, lanes 3 – 5). Instability of IκB is thought to be controlled by phosphorylation via the NIK/IKK signalling complex (Woronicz et al., 1997). To test the possibility that curcumin acts through inhibition of this complex, we measured its ability to inhibit NF-κB-mediated alkaline phosphatase reporter gene activity (p4NF-κB), induced either by exposure to TNFα (10 ng/ml) or by overexpression of the NIK kinase, following transfection of a NIK expression construct (pcDNA3-NIK). These experiments were carried out in HEK293 human embryonic kidney cells, to circumvent the very poor transfection efficiency in HCEC cells. Curcumin (20 μM) inhibited TNFα-mediated induction of p4NF-κB alkaline phosphatase activity by ∼60% (Figure 6a) and a similar inhibition (∼40%) was observed following overexpression of NIK (Figure 6b), suggesting that curcumin acts via inhibiting NIK or kinases downstream of NIK, namely IKKα or β. Inhibition in this system was less pronounced than the inhibition of IκB degradation observed in Western blot experiments with pNF-κB6 (see above), because curcumin was added after transfection and overexpression of NIK in order to prevent it from interfering with the transfection per se. When we performed the same transfection experiments in SW480 colon carcinoma cells, which had been pretreated with curcumin for 1 h prior to exposure to TNFα, the induction of p6NF-κB reporter gene activity was inhibited by greater that 90% (Figure 4).
Effect of curcumin on TNFα-induced IκB degradation. HCEC cells were treated as indicated with 10 ng/ml TNFα for various times (5 min-1 h) in the absence or presence of 20 μM curcumin which was added to the media 1 h prior to TNFα. Cytosolic proteins were subjected to analysis by Western blotting using an IκBα specific antibody (Santa Cruz)
Effect of curcumin or salicylate on the activity of components of the NIK/IKK complex. HEK293 cells were transfected with NIK, IKKα or IKKβ expression constructs in combination with an NF-κB reporter construct or with the reporter construct alone. Following the dual transfections (b,c,d) cells were exposed to curcumin (20 μM), salicylate (10 mM) or vehicle control prior to measuring alkaline phosphatase reporter gene activity at 2, 4 and 6 h after the addition of inhibitor to the medium. Cells transfected with the reporter construct alone (a) were exposed to TNFα (10 ng/ml), after a 1 h pretreatment with curcumin (20 μM) and alkaline phosphatase reporter gene activity was measured at 2, 4 and 6 h after the addition of TNFα. Results represent the mean±s.e.m. and are representative of at least three separate experiments. *Significantly different from reporter gene activity measured in the absence of curcumin or salicylate as determined by balanced ANOVA analysis, P<0.05
In a similar transfection experiment using a construct, pFLAG-IKKα, to overexpress IKKα, or pFLAG-IKKβ to overexpress IKKβ, curcumin was again able to inhibit the reporter gene activity of the NF-κB co-transfected reporter constructs by ∼45 and ∼60% respectively (Figure 6c). Salicylate (10 mM) also inhibited the IKKα and IKKβ overexpression mediated activation of the NF-κB reporter by ∼45 and ∼70%, respectively (Figure 6d).
Our results demonstrate that the dietary constituent curcumin inhibits activation of NF-κB which in turn inhibits expression of the COX2 gene induced by the tumour promoters PMA, TNFα or fecapentaene-12 in human colon epithelial cells. The data suggest that curcumin blocks tumour promoter-mediated NF-κB transactivation by inhibiting the NIK/IKK signalling complex, probably at the level of IKKα/β. These data are consistent with the recent observations of Morteau et al. (1998) who have shown that NF-κB is critical for the induction of COX-2 gene expression by TNFα in human colon tumour cells. Overexpression of COX2 in colon epithelial cells, which occurs during colon carcinogenesis, causes resistance to apoptosis (Tsujii and Dubois, 1995), suggesting that treatment with curcumin might reinstate susceptibility to apoptosis. This interpretation is consistent with the observation that curcumin increases the percentage of apoptotic cells in colon tumours of rats exposed to azoxymethane, while decreasing tumour incidence by 50% (Samaha et al., 1997). NF-κB activation prevents TNFα-induced cell death by blocking apoptosis (Beg and Baltimore, 1996). It is therefore possible that COX2 is one of the downstream mediators of this effect as previously suggested (Zeng-gang et al., 1996).
The magnitude of inhibition of p4NF-κB reporter gene activity by curcumin was similar whether the reporter gene induction was driven by overexpression of NIK, IKKα or IKKβ or by addition of TNFα, suggesting that curcumin has little or no inhibitory effect at the level of the TNF receptor. It is unlikely that the inhibitory effects of curcumin on the NIK/IKK complex are due to non-specific antioxidant activity, since neither CAPE nor N-acetyl cysteine had any effect on NF-κB (p65)-DNA binding induced by the tumour promoters. Higher concentrations of CAPE than those used in this study have been shown to inhibit TNFα-mediated NF-κB-DNA binding in U937 cells, but probably through blocking DNA binding directly, since there was no inhibition of IκB degradation (Natarajan et al., 1996).
It is unlikely that fecapentaene-12 activates the NIK/IKK pathway at the level of the TNF receptor, but we have shown previously that it induces oxidative stress in cells (Plummer and Faux, 1994). As reactive oxygen intermediates are a common denominator in NF-κB activating signals, they may be involved with the effects of fecapentaene-12 on the NIK/IKK pathway. However, as already mentioned, fecapentaene-12 can act as a cofactor for protein kinase C (Hoshina et al., 1991), which is also known to activate NF-κB (Diaz-Meco et al., 1993). A similar mechanism may be operated by PMA (Ghosh and Baltimore, 1990). Both TNF and fecapentaene-12 activate AP1 (Zeng-gang et al., 1996; Holloway et al., 1998), which is important in the induction of COX2 transcription by v-Src (Xie and Herschman, 1995) and PMA (Subbaramaiah et al., 1998). Since curcumin inhibits AP1 dependent transactivation (Huang et al., 1991), some of the inhibitory effects of curcumin on COX2 gene induction by the tumour promoters may also be mediated by inhibition of AP-1 (Kelley et al., 1996).
The ability to inhibit the NIK/IKK signalling complex may be common to the action of other anti-inflammatory chemopreventive agents. Aspirin and salicylate, shown previously to inhibit IκB phosphorylation and degradation (Kopp and Ghosh, 1994), have recently been shown to inhibit the phosphorylation of IκB by specifically reducing ATP binding to IKKβ (Yin et al., 1998). Salicylate was also shown to inhibit COX2 induction by LPS in macrophages (Tordman et al., 1995) and endothelial cells (Du et al., 1998) and our unpublished immunofluorescence data is consistent with this observation. Yin et al. (1998) have shown that salicylate inhibits IKKβ selectively in in vitro kinase assays. In contrast our studies show that salicylate can inhibit NF-κB activation by IKKα overexpression in addition to its inhibition of IKKβ-mediated NF-κB activation, albeit to a lesser extent. The reason for this apparent discrepency may reflect the fact that in our overexpression system the ability of IKKα to activate NF-κB is in some way dependent on IKKβ and that the effects of both inhibitors are mediated through inhibition of this latter kinase.
Whether or not to use aspirin as a cancer chemopreventive agent in large numbers of individuals at risk of developing colon cancer is currently hotly debated (Vainio, 1997; Trujillo et al., 1994), in view of the possible toxicity associated with chronic aspirin administration. If curcumin can be shown to have chemopreventive activity against colon carcinogenesis in human clinical trials, comparable to that already demonstrated unequivocally in animal models of this disease, its long history of dietary consumption without adverse health effects might make it an important alternative to aspirin for chemoprevention of this disease. It is difficult to assess the potential biological relevance of the concentrations of curcumin used in this study since the bioavailability of curcumin in the colonic epithelium is not known, and since access to the colon does not necessarily require systemic absorption, a comparison with plasma concentrations may be misleading. Studies to assess the bioavailability of curcumin in humans are ongoing.
In this study we have shown that curcumin inhibits the induction of COX2 in human colonic cells by tumour promoters that occur in the human colon. Since overexpression of this enzyme is probably important in the pathogenesis of human colon cancer, our data also suggest that measurement of the effects of curcumin on COX2 gene expression may be a useful surrogate biomarker for the assessment of its biological activity in chemoprevention trials. Finally, our finding that curcumin acts in part through inhibition of the NIK/IKK signalling cascade provides a focus for the rational development of novel chemopreventive agents.
Human colon epithelial cells (HCEC) and SW480 colon carcinoma cells were kindly provided by Dr Andrea Pfeifer (Nestec Ltd. Research Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland) and Professor Christos Paraskeva (Bristol University), respectively. Cells were grown in Dulbecco's minimal essential medium (DMEM) (Gibco – BRL Ltd.), supplemented with 10% foetal calf serum (FCS). For HCEC cells tissue culture vessels were precoated with medium containing 10 μl/ml Vitrogen 100 (Collagen Corp.), 2.5 μg/ml human fibronectin (Sigma) and 50 μg/ml BSA (Gibco – BRL) prior to plating. Fecapentaene-12 (SR1 International, Menlo Park, CA, USA), TNFα (Sigma), curcumin (Sigma) and sodium salicylate (Sigma) were diluted to concentrations of 10 – 40 μM, 0.1 – 10 ng/ml, 10 – 40 μM and 1 mM, respectively, in DMEM. In incubations containing curcumin or salicylate, cells were pretreated for 1 h with these agents prior to the addition of the tumour promoters. Curcumin stock solutions were made up in dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO) immediately before each experiment in light-impervious tubes. The handling and storage of fecapentaene-12 was carried out according to a previously described procedure (Plummer and Faux, 1994). The viability of cells was determined by the MTT assay (Scudiero et al., 1988). Protein assays were performed using the Bradford reagent (Biorad) or the Lowry method (Sigma).
Western blot analysis
Cells were washed with buffer (20 mM Tris base, 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM glucose, 2 μg/ml leupeptin and 20 μg/ml aprotinin, pH 7.4), lysed in homogenisation buffer (20 mM Tris HCl, 2 mM EDTA, 2 mM EGTA, 6 mM β-mercaptoethanol, 2 μg/ml leupeptin and 2 μg/ml aprotinin, pH 7.5), sonicated for 20 – 30 s and centrifuged at 12 000 g for 35 min at 4°C. After electrophoresis, proteins were electroblotted to nitrocellulose, the membrane was blocked with 10% Marvel and 0.1% Tween 20 for 2 h at room temperature, incubated with primary antibody in blocking buffer (10 mM Tris, 0.14 M NaCl, 5% milk powder (Marvel) pH 7.6) overnight at room temperature and then horseradish peroxidase secondary antibody diluted 1 : 1500 (v/v) in blocking buffer for 1.5 h at room temperature, before visualisation by the ECL method (Amersham). Rabbit polyclonal antibodies raised against COX2 and IκBα (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc.) were used at 1 : 1000 dilution (v/v) in blocking buffer. Visualisation and quantitation of bands was carried out by a scanning densitometer (Molecular Dynamics) using Imagequant software.
RT – PCR
Semi-quantitative RT – PCR analysis of COX2 mRNA levels was performed according to the method of Hla and Maciag (1991). Briefly, 1 μg of RNA, extracted from cells using TRIzol reagent (Gibco – BRL), according to the manufacturer's instructions, was reverse transcribed in 10 μl RT buffer containing MMLV reverse transcriptase (10 u/μl), RNasin (Gibco – BRL) (1 u/μl), dATP, dGTP, dTTP and dCTP (1 mM), random hexamers (Boeringer Mannheim) (15 pmoles/μl), MgCl2 (5 mM) and dithiothreitol (DTT) (1 mM). The reaction product was diluted 1 in 10 with distilled water and 10 μl of this subjected to PCR by adding 40 μl PCR buffer containing COX2 or GAPDH primers (1.25 pmoles/μl), MgCl2 (2.5 mM), dATP, dGTP, dCTP, dTTP (1 mM) and Taq DNA polymerase (Gibco/BRL) (0.2 u/μl) and heating for 4 min at 94°C followed by 22 (GAPDH primers) or 25 (COX2 primers) cycles of 94°C 1 min, 58°C 1 min and 72°C 1 min. PCR reaction products were subjected to electrophoresis on 1.5% agarose gels, stained with ethidium bromide and photographed prior to densitometric measurements using a Molecular Dynamics computing densitometer. The amount of amplified product was confirmed by this method to be linear with respect to the input RNA for both COX2 and GAPDH primers. The densities of the COX2 bands were normalised with respect to the GAPDH bands in parallel PCR reactions.
Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA)
Nuclear extracts were made according to the method of Staal et al. (1990) from 5×106 HCEC cells. EMSA were performed using the NF-κB `consensus' oligonucleotide- 5′-AGTTGAGGGGACTTTCCCAGGC-3′. Nuclear protein extract (4 μg) was incubated with 0.25 pmoles 32P-end-labelled oligonucleotide in binding buffer containing 20 mM Hepes (pH 7.5), 4% ficol, 0.5 μg/ml poly DIDC, 0.1 mM MgCl2 and 0.1 mM DTT, on ice for 40 min. The DNA: protein complex formed was separated from free oligonucleotide on a 4% non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel. Following electrophoresis, the gel was dried and visualization and quantitation of radioactive bands performed by a PhosphorImager (Molecular Dynamics) using image-quantTM software. Specificity of binding was checked by incubating in the presence of an excess of `cold' NF-κB oligo or an unrelated oligo containing an AP1 `consensus' DNA binding sequence – 5′-GCTTGATGAGTCAGCCGGAA-3′ (Promega).
DNA transfections
SW480 cells (1.6×107) were transfected in serum free DMEM with 1.25 pmoles of the plasmid p6NF-κB-tk-LUC (p6NF-κB) (kindly provided by Dr Patrick Baeuerle, University of Freiburg) and 0.1 pmoles pCMVB (Promega) by electroporation. The `empty' cassette (tk-36-LUC) was used as a negative control. The plasmid pCMVB was cotransfected with the other constructs to enable normalisation of luciferase activity to β-galactosidase activity, thus controlling for differences in transfection efficiency. Following transfection, cells were resuspended in DMEM containing 10% FCS and allowed to recover for 5 h. Cells were then switched to DMEM containing 1% FCS for 24 h prior to exposure to TNFα or fecapentaene-12 at final concentrations of 10 ng/ml or 20 μM, respectively, for 2 h in the absence or presence of 20 μM curcumin. Curcumin was added in DMEM with 2% FCS 1 h prior to the TNF/fecapentaene-12 exposures. Luciferase and β-galactosidase enzyme activities were measured using Promega assay kits with a Wallach MicroBeta 1450 plate reader or Labsystems iEMS reader, respectively. Luciferase activity was expressed in relative units after normalisation to β-galactosidase
HEK 293 cells were transfected with NIK (pcDNA3-NIK), IKKα (pFlag-IKKα) or IKKβ (pFlag-IKKβ) expression constructs (IκB kinase constructs were kindly provided by David Goeddel) together with an NF-κB alkaline phosphatase reporter construct (p(NF-κB)4-tk-sPAP) or with p(NF-κB)4-tk-sPAP alone using Fugene (Boeringer) according to the manufacturer's instructions. After 18 h cells were incubated in the absence or presence of curcumin (20 μM). pNF-κB4-tk-sPAP transfectants were incubated with TNFα (10 ng/ml) 1 h prior to the addition of the curcumin-containing medium. All transfections included either the β-lactamase expression construct pRSV-lactamase or the β-galactosidase expression construct pRSVβ-Gal to assess transfection efficiency. Measurements of alkaline phosphatase reporter gene activity were made at various times after addition of curcumin to the medium.
RT – PCR data were analysed using the Student's t-test. Transfection data were analysed by Student's t-test or balanced ANOVA combined with Fisher's test.
NF-κB:
nuclear factor kappa B
COX-2:
cyclo-oxygenase-2
TNFα:
tumour necrosis factor alpha
FEC:
fecapentaene-12
PMA:
phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate
CUR:
SAL:
salicylate
CAPE:
caffeic acid phenyl ester
NAC:
NIK:
NF-κB inducing kinase
IKK:
I kappa B kinase
EMSA:
electrophoretic mobility gel shift assay
ANOVA:
analysis of variance
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Anti-vaccination campaigns and misinformation are a pernicious threat to public health. Outbreaks of measles — a serious disease that vaccination should have nearly eliminated — are rising around the world, for example. In this climate, it’s heartening to see any effort to combat misinformation about vaccine safety. Over the past few months, tech giants such as Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram have announced that they are taking at least small steps to reduce the spread of such content on their platforms.
But some scientists who publicly call out ‘anti-vaxxers’ are still under pressure. One of them is Japanese physician and writer Riko Muranaka, who now lives in Germany and lectures part-time at the Kyoto University School of Medicine in Japan. Muranaka has written extensively about the safety of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), a major cause of cervical and other cancers — despite experiencing attacks on her integrity, and even threats of violence. Her persistence won her the 2017 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science, awarded by the UK charity Sense About Science and Nature.
On 26 March, a court in Tokyo ruled that Muranaka had defamed a medical scientist who claimed that the HPV vaccine could cause brain damage. Although the case against Muranaka was confined to a single charge of libel and did not address the underlying science, the repercussions of the ruling are cause for concern.
The World Health Organization recommends that teenaged girls be vaccinated against HPV (some countries extend this to boys). The Japanese government endorsed this recommendation in April 2013, but only two months later — after unconfirmed media reports of adverse reactions — it suspended all active promotion of the vaccine. It investigated the reports and, in 2014, announced them to be unsubstantiated. Still, it did not lift the suspension, with devastating effects: although overall vaccination rates are not publicly available in Japan, a study in Sapporo showed that uptake fell from around 70% before the suspension to 0.6% after (S. J. B. Hanley et al. Lancet 385, 2571; 2015). The affair has also contributed to declines in HPV vaccination elsewhere in the world.
Muranaka’s case centred on work by neurologist Shuichi Ikeda, who at the time was dean of medicine at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Japan. In March 2016, Ikeda declared in a televised research presentation that the HPV vaccine had caused brain damage in mouse experiments. In June, Muranaka criticized the work in the Japanese-language business magazine Wedge, calling his presentation a fabrication.
The university subsequently investigated Ikeda’s research and concluded that Ikeda did not commit scientific misconduct, but did overstate the conclusions of tentative results. Given this, the ministry wrote on its website that Ikeda’s research had “proved nothing” about whether the side effects were caused by the HPV vaccine, and that Ikeda bears responsibility for misleading the public with an inappropriate presentation. But Ikeda, who left the university after the accusations and is now a physician in a general hospital, sued Muranaka for defamation. She lost, and she and Wedge were ordered to pay a fine of ¥3.3 million (US$29,700). Wedge was told to delete mention of data fabrication from the article, and to publish an apology. Muranaka says that she will appeal.
Still, the wider damage is done. Misinformation about the vaccine has left thousands of people at unnecessarily high risk of cancer. Despite mounting evidence of the vaccine’s safety, the ministry is still debating whether to fully endorse it again. It should, as most countries do. And it should not let the ruling be wrongly used as fodder for anti-vaxxers.
If there is a silver lining for those who support Muranaka, it is this: the investigation that led Ikeda’s university and the health ministry to censure him for misrepresenting his research was triggered by Muranaka’s remarks, and the issue has since won global attention. She may have lost a battle, but the bigger war against vaccine misinformation goes on.
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Senior U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz approved the agreement after Carnival CEO Arnold Donald stood up in open court and admitted the company's responsibility for probation violations stemming from the previous environmental case.
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"We acknowledge the shortcomings. I am here today to formulate a plan to fix them," Donald added.
"The proof will be in the pudding, won't it?" the judge replied. "If you all did not have the environment, you would have nothing to sell."
Carnival admitted violating terms of probation from a 2016 criminal conviction for discharging oily waste from its Princess Cruise Lines ships and covering it up. Carnival paid a $40 million fine and was put on five years' probation in that case, which affected all nine of its cruise brands that boast more than 100 ships.
Now Carnival has acknowledged that in the years since its ships have committed environmental crimes such as dumping "gray water" in prohibited places such Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park and knowingly allowing plastic to be discharged along with food waste in the Bahamas, which poses a severe threat to marine life.
The company also admitted falsifying compliance documents and other administrative violations such as having cleanup teams visit its ships just before scheduled inspections.
Seitz at an earlier hearing threatened to bar Carnival from docking at U.S. ports because of the violations and said she might hold executives individually liable for the probation violations.
"The concern I have is that senior management has no skin in the game," Seitz said, adding that future violations might be met with prison time and criminal fines for individuals. "My goal is to have the defendant change its behavior."
Under the settlement, Carnival promised there will be additional audits to check for violations, a restructuring of the company's compliance and training programs, a better system for reporting environmental violations to state and federal agencies and improved waste management practices.
The agreement also would set Sept. 13 and Oct. 9 deadlines to create an improved compliance plan and make other changes, subject to fines of $1 million per day if those deadlines are not met. If a second round of deadlines are not met, the fines could go up to $10 million a day.
Other proposed changes include a reduction by Carnival in the use of single-use plastic items across its entire fleet and creation of "tiger teams" meant to make improvements in the ships' food and beverage systems and how waste is handled at sea.
Seitz is retiring later this year and is turning over the case to U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro, who jointly presided over Monday's hearing.
Three people who claimed they were victims of Carnival's environmental violations attended the hearing. Their attorney, Knoll Lowney, expressed skepticism that Carnival will keep its word this time.
"Time and time again, Carnival has shown its contempt of environmental laws and the rule of law," he said. "Here we are again."
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Screengrab from a video posted by Wake Up Surrey on Facebook.
Video captures violence and chaos in Surrey neighbourhood
Wake Up Surrey group posted footage of the incident on Facebook. Police believe it ‘may be linked’ to gangs.
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A dramatic video showing violence and chaos in a Surrey neighbourhood has been getting attention on social media.
Grassroots anti-gang violence lobbying group Wake Up Surrey shared the video on its Facebook page, calling on police and politicians to “control the situation of law and order.”
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The Now-Leader contacted Surrey RCMP for more details about the incident.
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Sturko said two police seized a Nissan Maxima and a Ford Taurus at the scene. She said investigators believe the people involved “are known to each other and this may be linked to the Lower Mainland gang conflict.”
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“Although some initial reports indicated shots had been fired in this incident, police can confirm that no shots were fired.Investigators are aware of videos of this incident that are circulating on social media and ask if anyone has video of the incident or has information about this event or the individuals involved to please contact them.”
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Illegal drug use may account for one million visits a year to accident and emergency (A&E) departments in England, a new study reveals.
As many as 400,000 annual admissions to hospital in England could be directly or indirectly related to illegal drug use, the joint study by the University of the West of England and the United Bristol Healthcare Trust indicates.
The report, Prevalence and Healthcare Burden of Illegal Drug use Among Emergency Department Patients, is based on anonymous interviews with patients visiting an inner city hospital emergency care department in south-west England during a typical week.
Treating doctors were also asked to assess whether the patient's need for treatment was indirectly or directly related to illicit drug use.
Published in the Emergency Medicine Journal, the research indicates that the treating doctors judged seven per cent of cases surveyed were directly or indirectly related to illicit drug use.
Of the 1070 patients who sought emergency care during the week, 801 were interviewed and 36 per cent admitted to illicit drug use at some time during their lives, while 16 per cent said they had used illegal drugs within the past month. A shocking one in ten respondents said that they had used an illegal substance within the previous 24 hours.
Just under three per cent of those interviewed (23) were admitted to hospital, with the most common reasons for named as self-harm, skin infections, chest pain and deep vein thrombosis.
The report's authors suggest that the findings support figures in the British Crime Survey, but the figures for drug use within the preceding month are nearly three times as high, indicating that drug use greatly increases the risk of requiring emergency care.
Annual emergency department attendances in England currently exceed 14 million in England and the study suggests that one million of these could be directly or indirectly related to illegal drug use.
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Samuel Marsden and the Church Missionary Society
Samuel Marsden
A key figure in the establishment of the first Christian mission in New Zealand was Samuel Marsden. During his time in Australia as chaplain to the penal colony, he met many visiting Maori and developed a close association with the Rangihoua chief Ruatara.
Marsden returned to England in 1807 to secure support from the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS) and to recruit lay settlers to prepare the way for ordained ministers. He was convinced that 'commerce and the arts have a natural tendency to inculcate industrious and moral habits. The attention of the heathen can be gained and their vagrant habits corrected.' It was not until 1809 that he was able to return to Sydney with the first lay missionaries or 'mechanics' – William Hall, a joiner, and John King, a rope maker. Ruatara, befriended by Marsden in Britain, was also on board the ship.
Rangihoua
When news of the attack on the Boyd reached the Colonial Office, any settlement in New Zealand was vetoed. It was not until June 1814 that Hall and Thomas Kendall finally arrived in the Bay of Islands as the first missionary mechanics. Marsden arrived on 22 December at Rangihoua, Ruatara's home, where, on Christmas Day, he gave the first Christian service in New Zealand.
Marsden believed Maori were perfect candidates for conversion as they had grasped the benefits of trade, a key aspect in terms of accepting European ideals and beliefs. Trade would make them dependent on Europeans and thus open the way to salvation.
The natives of New Zealand are far advanced in Civilization, and apparently prepared for receiving the Knowledge of Christianity more than any Savage nations I have seen … The more I see of these people, the more I am pleased with … They appear like a superior Race of men.
Claudia Orange, The story of a treaty, p. 9
'Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy'
Marsden's first service
The theme of Marsden's first sermon on Christmas Day 1814 largely fell on deaf ears. Maori were clearly in a position of strength, so there seemed little reason for them to heed the new message. Some aspects of the Old Testament might have been seen as incorporating Maori values such as utu, but, as historian Gavin McLean noted, while men such as Ruatara and Hongi Hika 'listened politely and let children attend the stations' schools', they 'rejected the low-church mechanic missionaries' gloomy emphasis on an angry God' looking to damn their souls to eternal fires. Furthermore, conversion to Christianity was considered to be a blow to the mana of a chief – and to convert the people, the chiefs had to be won over.
Despite increased missionary activity during the 1820s, there were no Maori baptisms before 1830. Maori had their own beliefs and customs, and from a spiritual perspective the missionaries had little to offer. The missionaries were seen largely as another trade opportunity to be manipulated. Missionaries could do little about this as their economic and physical welfare were dependent on the goodwill and patience of Maori.
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UCT students in Oxford for global challenge
07 June 2019 | Story Carla Bernardo. Photo Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read time 5 min.
The five UCT students who are at Oxford University this weekend representing the university at a global competition. They are (back from left) Prashant Venkat, Phalo Maurice-Mopp and Thuba Mzila, and (front from left) Mabothe Maleka and Tlhogi Dube.
Five students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) are in Oxford this weekend to compete against over 1 000 teams from across the globe as they all seek to understand and resolve challenges plaguing their home countries and the world at large.
Tlhogi Dube, Prashant Venkat, Mabothe Maleka, Phalo Maurice-Mopp and Thuba Mzila travelled to the University of Oxford, where they will represent UCT at the Oxford Global Challenge, Map the System 2019. They are one of 1 146 teams competing, from 33 universities internationally.
Map the System is a global competition that challenges participants to think differently – and deeply – about social and environmental change. It is hosted by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
Participants must choose a social or an environmental challenge to explore and research in depth. They must find out about the existing suggested solutions, and get familiar with the relevant role players. They are then required to present their understanding of the challenge in an accessible way.
“We have put a lot of work into an area we believe is going to be crucial for the future success of our country.”
The UCT team, called Mas’Funde, all completed BBusSc degrees in finance with accounting in 2018 and are now pursuing their postgraduate diplomas in accounting.
They chose South Africa’s basic education crisis as their challenge and their trip to the United Kingdom was made possible by a R50 000 donation from Investec.
Venkat said they are passionate about the challenge they chose because of its importance in South Africa.
“The consequences that the crisis … has on inclusive socio-economic growth are massive. If systems thinking and social entrepreneurship can be applied effectively to any of the problems presented, I doubt [other teams] will have as large an impact on a community as this,” he said.
Mzila agreed, adding that the team committed to researching the problem in depth.
“We have taken time to thoroughly engage with [many] of the stakeholders within the education system and feel that our findings have the potential to add real value to current literature.
“We have put a lot of work into an area we believe is going to be crucial for the future success of our country,” he said.
Opportunities and excitement
The competition takes place over two days from today.
While they have many reasons to be excited, the team members listed a few of the experiences to which they are most looking forward.
For Mzila, it is his first trip abroad: “I have never been overseas. I am from the Midlands in KwaZulu-Natal and so the furthest I have been from home is probably to Cape Town – even though I have been to Swaziland.”
Being able to present their findings at Oxford is “an incredible opportunity”, said Venkat.
“I really believe there is an enormous amount that we can achieve as a human race through collaboration, and this event will spark some very important conversations.”
“I look forward to seeing the work we’ve done throughout the year culminate at the event.”
Dube is eager to meet and work with the rest of the participants, a sentiment echoed by Maurice-Mopp.
“I really believe there is an enormous amount that we can achieve as a human race through collaboration, and this event will spark some very important conversations, which I believe will further this cause,” said Maurice-Mopp.
He added that the people the team have met and spoken to along the way have been “very generous in how they have helped us”.
They include the group’s mentors Rowan Spazzoli and Ncedisa Nkoyeni, as well as UCT’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
In addition to providing assistance to Mas’Funde, the Bertha Centre also hosted the regional round of the competition and offered support to the 49 other local teams that registered to compete. Ultimately, Mas’Funde emerged as the unanimous winners from that round.
Spazzoli, who is the project manager at the Bertha Centre for Map the System, is no stranger to the competition. In 2017, the research start-up he co-founded, AllSafe, placed fourth overall.
“We’re incredibly proud and excited for the team,” he said.
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Centre Has Right to Advise Mamata Banerjee to Stop Political Killings in Bengal, Says Amit Shah
Shah countered TMC's Derek O'Brien on Bihar, where over 100 children died due to acute encephalitis, saying the Home Ministry does not issue health advisories. He also defended BJP-ruled UP saying there were no political killings in the state since his party came to power.
File photo of Chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Union Home minister Amit Shah.
New Delhi: The BJP-TMC sparring over violence in West Bengal continued with Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday saying the Centre has a right to advise Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to "immediately stop" the spate of political killings.
Rejecting TMC's charge of being selective in issuing advisories to West Bengal while ignoring Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Shah said the advisory to the TMC-ruled state was not for local law and order situation but for political killings.
He countered TMC's Derek O'Brien on Bihar, where over 100 children died due to acute encephalitis, saying the Home Ministry does not issue health advisories.
Shah also defended BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh saying there were no political killings in the state since his party came to power.
He said it is Banerjee's "constitutional responsibility" to stop the political killings in West Bengal as these are not good for a healthy democracy and he has a right to advise the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal CM.
"Derek O' Brien is a respected member who has a regret against my department that it issued two advisories in one week for West Bengal. He asked me why an advisory was not issued for Bihar even though several children died," Shah said, adding that Home Ministry issues advisories related to internal security and not for health reasons.
O' Brien retorted that he had sought to know why an advisory was not issued to Uttar Pradesh by the Home Ministry.
To this, Shah said the Home Ministry had not issued an advisory to West Bengal over any law and order problem but for the killing of political party workers as it is a serious threat to democracy.
"Instead of raising this issue in Parliament, I would appeal to Mamata Banerjee to restore peace in the state as it is her constitutional responsibility. She should do it immediately and I have a right to advise her. These political killings are not good for a healthy democracy. They should be stopped immediately," Shah, who is the BJP chief, said.
He made the remarks while replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha on a statutory resolution to extend President's rule in Jammu and Kashmir by six months.
Derek O'Brien
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When Your Adult Child Has a Mental Health Issue
How to offer support and connection in times of struggle
By Elizabeth Fishel and Jeffrey ArnettOctober 21, 2014
By Elizabeth Fishel and Jeffrey Arnett
Credit: Grace Birnstengel
Emerging adulthood is a high-risk life stage in many ways, and many internal obstacles can block a young person’s departure from home or undermine a successful, long-term separation afterwards.
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Seventy-five percent of adult mental health issues show up by age 24, including diverse disorders such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or other psychological problems. Adult children may also have to cope with ongoing learning disabilities, ADHD or other disabilities that make going to college or living independently more difficult. And there are all-too common problems such as alcohol or drug abuse and eating disorders.
Parents of young people with mental health disorders often need to stay more connected, for longer, than other parents do, because their grown-up kids need more help in order to make progress toward building an adult life. We’ll talk about several mental health issues and red-flag warnings in this post and address others in future posts.
Digging Out of Depression
The twenties decade is a time of high hopes, but it’s also a time of struggle for most young people. The result is this paradox: Overall, self-esteem and life satisfaction rises, but at the same time, rates of depression rise, too. Out on their own, most young people swim successfully and contentedly, but more sink than when they had mom’s and dad’s daily support to hold them up.
(MORE: Off to College: How to Step Back But Stay Connected)
The college transition can be a rocky one, and the first year or two of college is sometimes when depression first appears. Gloria Saito, a clinical psychologist who runs the counseling service at the University of California-Berkeley, sees students with a range of issues from homesickness and roommate problems to eating disorders and bipolar disorder.
Depression is one of the most common problems.
“We often see students who can’t focus, because they feel hopeless and they’re having suicidal thoughts,” she says.
Her first priority is to reduce their current distress. “We help them make a structured plan for how to relieve stress that day: eat a good meal, talk to a friend outside of the counseling center, come back in a couple days,” says Saito.
If major depression is diagnosed, often the approach is a combination of counseling and anti-depressant medications. Research has consistently found that this combination works better than either counseling or anti-depressants alone.
One issue that complicates parents’ involvement is that for students who are age 18 or older, college counseling services may not inform parents of the student’s counseling visit or the nature of the student’s problem. The only way this confidentiality can be breached is if the student signs a release form or if the student is believed to be suicidal. If students decline to sign the release, parents may not know that their college kids are having serious problems.
So it’s crucially important for parents to keep in touch — texting, phoning, emailing, Skyping — especially during that first year of college when risks are highest. If you notice a change in your grown child’s mood over the course of two weeks, especially sadness or a loss of pleasure or interest in activities, it would be wise to urge your college student to see a mental health professional for a full evaluation.
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Severe Mental Health Disorders
Among the most serious and challenging problems of the emerging adulthood years are the severe mental health disorders, especially bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depression, is part of a class of mental disorders called mood disorders. It involves swings of mood from a manic extreme to a depressed extreme. Sometimes, people go directly from one extreme to the other; sometimes, the extremes are separated by periods of relatively normal moods.
Schizophrenia is another severe mental disorder that affects thought processes, emotional responsiveness and social behavior. It may include hallucinations, disorganized thinking, emotional difficulties like sudden bursts of anger and hostility, and delusions, like a belief that someone is trying to poison your food or that the television is broadcasting your thoughts.
Both disorders have genetic origins and run strongly in biological families. The genetic triggers appear to be timed to go off in the late teens or the 20s for most people. Fortunately, there are a variety of effective drug treatments for bipolar disorder, but unfortunately, many of the medications have unpleasant side effects, such as weight gain, hair loss, acne and hand tremors. These side effects often lead people with bipolar disorder to stop taking the medications. The complete list of symptoms of major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia as specified by the American Psychiatric Association can be found here.
Although parents’ influence diminishes once their children reach emerging adulthood, they can still provide essential help by offering emotional support and connecting their emerging adults to mental health services. An excellent clearinghouse for finding mental health resources is the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI’s website contains a wealth of information on a wide range of mental health disorders, including medication and treatments available for each disorder and contact information for programs and services pertaining to specific issues. In addition, parents can connect to local and state NAMI chapters, where they can make direct contact with other parents whose children have faced similar problems.
Therapists experienced with working with twentysomethings, like Jane Malkiewich, a clinical social worker in Massachusetts, caution parents to be prepared for changes of direction in emerging adults with mental health problems.
“I see a lot of flipping back and forth between dependence on parents and independence,” Malkiewich says. “They want their parents to be there when they need them, and leave them alone otherwise.”
The challenge of stepping back while staying connected and offering support is even more acute for parents of emerging adults with mental health problems than for other parents. It’s especially difficult to step back when you’ve seen your child struggle, stumble and fall so many times before. It’s also challenging to stay connected when doing so often brings pain and frustration.
The improvement over the twenties decade may be intermittent, and there may be steps backward as well as forward. Yet for nearly all, progress is possible with parents’ support and with access to mental health treatment.
Elizabeth Fishel and Jeffrey Arnett are co-authors of Getting to 30: A Parent's Guide to the 20-Something Years. Fishel is the author of four other books on families, including Sisters and Reunion. Arnett is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University.
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These are usually single-word keywords with insane amounts of search volume and competition (for example, “insurance” or “vitamins”). Because searcher intent is all over the place (someone searching for “insurance” might be looking for a car insurance quote, a list of life insurance companies or a definition of the word), Head Terms usually don’t convert very well.
We hope you found some of these tools useful. It's worth noting that if you don't have any content that suits a particular keyword, you can always create it. Just remember to make sure that the content answers the search query that you're trying to target. For example, somebody searching for the term 'Log Cabins Phoenix' is not going to be satisfied with a page that offers log cabins for sale in New York.
We’re not here to dwell on the good and the bad of Google’s decision. I personally am elated that this debate has brought the crucial SEO function of Keyword Research into the limelight once again. There’s more to it than taking the first 10 results from the Google Keyword Tool and scattering them left, right and center in your content. Savvy keyword research is what separates strategists from headless chickens.
Because someone who is looking for something that specific is probably a much more qualified searcher for your product or service (presuming you're in the blogging space) than someone looking for something really generic. And because long-tail keywords tend to be more specific, it's usually easier to tell what people who search for those keywords are really looking for. Someone searching for the head term "blogging," on the other hand, could be searching it for a whole host of reasons unrelated to your business.
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It's important to check that you have a mix of head terms and long-tail terms because it'll give you a keyword strategy that's well balanced with long-term goals and short-term wins. That's because head terms are generally searched more frequently, making them often (not always, but often) much more competitive and harder to rank for than long-tail terms. Think about it: Without even looking up search volume or difficulty, which of the following terms do you think would be harder to rank for?
This isn’t the only tool that mines Google Autocomplete. There’s also KeywordTool.io, but this tool restricts results to ~700 keywords (more are available for “pro” members). Infinite Suggest is another alternative, but despite the name, I’ve found that it still doesn’t find anywhere near the number of keywords that Keyword Shitter finds. And there are tons of other Google Autocomplete miners too. Just Google “google auto suggest tool” for more. There’s also this tool from SEOChat which mines autocomplete suggestions from Google, Bing, Amazon, and YouTube.
All you would have to do is write a decent review and use some Long Tail marketing keywords scattered inside of it. Do it in a way that the reader doesn’t even know you’ve slipped in 20 long tail keywords. Let the article flow naturally with a clear tone of honesty…as if you were talking to a friend. People who read your review want to feel a connection or a solution or a even a need to buy that product. This is where you use those Long Tail Keywords.
Creating a psychologically alluring title is important--because search engines will rank our document (in part) based on how many clicks the title is getting--relative to other articles on Google's Search Results Page (SERP). Hence, a title that has some stylistic panache, will (in theory) ultimately rank higher than a title that doesn't have anything eye-catching about it.
Keyword Discovery is a paid subscription service that offers marketers the ability to see keyword data across multiple search engines. They maintain one of the largest databases of searches, (nearly 38 billion) which are compiled from over 50 different search engines. The search data shown is a record of the number of times the exact keyword or phrase has been searched over the last 12 months across all 50+ search engines. You would assume that the search volumes would be much larger than any other tool because of Keyword Discovery’s access to data from over 50 search engines, but the fact that the keyword matching option is set to exact, greatly reduces the total volume. Unlike Google’s tools, Keyword Discovery does not collect or show data relating to paid search, such as Suggested Bid, Cost per Click, and Competition. Data is collected daily, but updated monthly. Although you must pay the subscription to have access to all the features, Keyword Discovery does provide a free alternative.
I also want to emphasize that Microsoft Excel and Google Docs perhaps play an equal, if not more important role in keyword research than any of these tools, because at the end of the day, the mountain of data you end up with is of no use if you can’t perform calculations, sort, filter, present or store it in a way that’s best suits the task at hand. Head over to Distilled for a comprehensive Excel for SEOs guide. Alternatively, bug this guy—he’s the Sensei who trains Excel ninjas in the dark of the night.
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3. Ninja Outreach: Full disclosure this is my own tool, and it is actually an outreach tool, so you may be wondering how it plays into Keyword Research. The fact is there are quite a few data points that NinjaOutreach gets for me that I find useful in keyword research, such as the articles that are ranking for the keyword in Google, their domain authority, their page authority, the number of backlinks they have, and other social and contact data. It's pretty valuable stuff, especially if there is going to be an outreach campaign tied into the keyword research. I wrote a great article with Jake from LTP showing the combination of the two tools.
Google Webmaster SEO Starter Guide - Originally written for Google Employees to improve website performance with users and search engines. Related Terms: SERP - Search Engine Rank Position | PageRank (PR) - Named for Google Co-founder, Larry Page. The PR Scale of 0-10 rates a web page. In the past, rank was based on the number of high ranking links pointing to the website. Recently factors like relevance and quality have gained importance. This website's current PR rating:
Can't go wrong with the Google Keyword tool, SEMRush and Google Trends. The Keyword tool for volume estimates, SEMRush to see what keywords competitors are ranking for/targeting, and Google Trends to make sure the traffic is actually coming from countries I'm trying to target. Gives a relatively accurate picture of when to expect traffic spikes and seasonality insight.
1) Google Keyword Planner: This tools is fantastic because it can help me to identify long tail keywords for my niche. It is official Google’s tool and it has the recent trends and keyword variations. For example you may think that this keyword is great “buy ipad air in liverpool” but Google may suggest “iPad air sale Liverpool”. Yes, not often it is accurate but when I’m using it alongside the other tools – I can get clear idea.
I came across Longtail Pro this morning, downloaded the trial version and was about to buy the $97 program…seems like a good buy. But the more research I’ve done today, it seems the KC score is an absolute must for anyone who is serious about making money with niche sites. I hate to spend the bucks, but hate even more leaving money and possibly niche site success. Any advice?
Basically, Google shows the autocomplete suggestions whenever you start typing anything into Google search box. It is in Google's best interest to show the most relevant keywords in the autocomplete suggestions. Keywords that would help Google to retrieve the most relevant websites and help users find the most relevant content for their search query.
This is one of the best articles on Keyword research tool that I have encountered. However, To add more to this, I just wanna point out a tool (LSI Graph) for an outstanding long tail & semantic keyword research. After the recent Google algorithm, Google is now, however focussing more on context & semantics than keyword alone. What do you think about it?
Bing Webmaster Toolbox: Oh yeah, remember that other search engine? Yes that’s right Bing has a whole collection of tools of their own, including keyword tools. The data will be taken from Bing itself, which means that you should be able to make relative assumptions about keyword popularity. because lets face it, Bing users aren’t that different than Google’s.
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Here is the part of this post that we’ve all been waiting for. How to make Long Tail Pro pay for itself! I can tell you with absolute certainty that all of this isn’t just fluff designed to try to get you to buy the product. I’ve actually done all 4 of these things – and I continue to do the top 3 to this day! This stuff really works and I make WAY more than enough money, as a result of using Long Tail Pro, to pay for itself.
Well, if you haven’t heard the news yet, the word on the street is Google has shut down their widely popular keyword tool for public use. Now if you want access to Google sanctioned keyword data you have to sign up for an Adwords account. Of course there are a ton of theories surrounding why Google would make this decision, some are more obvious than others. But to many of us Google’s motivations seem pointless when we still have work to do! Luckly we exist in a vibrant industry where innovation is at the core of most of what we do. As such we have a slew of different tools available to replace Google’s tool.
How do I access my download for Long Tail Pro after I purchase? There actually IS NOT a download available for Long Tail Pro anymore – now that they switched over to a cloud-based platform! No more software download means that you can use your Long Tail Pro subscription from any web browser anywhere! Just watch your email inbox for the email address you used when you made the purchase. All instructions will be sent there. Make sure you put those initial emails in a Save folder so you can access them later if you need to.
Quick question… in your review you mentioned focusing on some products like ProductNamethat are spelled as Product Name and are low competition. My question is how would you tackle a review using a keyword like that? Would you make that the primary one that is misspelled? Would you mix them with the spaced spelling and correct spelling? I’ve found some good ones and would appreciate some direction on how you’d handle writing a post to rank for the spaced keyword?
1) Ahrefs to quickly see “the big picture” when it comes to any keyword I'm researching. I can instantly see the top holders in the SERPs. I then immediately take the top holders list and go check out their sites. I need to make sure I can beat them content-wise, otherwise I will search for another keyword to try and rank for, or perhaps go down the long-tail route. The Ahrefs tool and data quality get better and better every year. It's one of my favorite tools.
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5134 - Doctor Bear
Image taken from p.27 of the 1985 House of Nisbet Dolls & Bears catalogue
5134 - Doctor Bear was issued as the second in the series of five "Endangered Species" bears.
He is 12" tall, and was issued in 1985, as a Worldwide Limited Edition of 1000 bears, priced at £24.95. Each bear was numbered and certified
He does not appear in catalogues after 1987, when we must assume that his edition had sold out
5133 - Chimney Sweep Bear
5135 - Artist Bear
5137 - Scribe Bear
5138 - General Store Proprietor Bear
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WestJet hosted almost 1
A Christmas miracle for Fort Mac
For the fifth year in row, WestJet released its annual tear-jerker Christmas video and this year they stayed close to home.
Carmen Weld
An Albertan community in desperate need of a little magic, got a well-deserved Christmas miracle – thanks to WestJet.
WestJet went into the community for Fort McMurray and concocted a special surprise for families devastated by the May 2016 wildfire that saw the entire city evacuated.
“This year, we wanted Christmas to mean just a little bit more for the residents of Fort McMurray,” said Richard Bartrem, WestJet vice-president of marketing communications.
“WestJet is deeply connected to the community, which is why we wanted to show them how much we care. We were at the airport the day the fire hit town, and several WestJetters also lost their homes. This year’s Christmas miracle was an opportunity for WestJet to do what we do best – help connect a community, celebrate the season and bring a smile to peoples’ faces.”
WestJet hosted almost 1,000 local residents at a Snowflake Soiree at the end of November for a night they would never forget.
The party was full of surprises for families, including a variety of crafting activities, a performance by Canadian music superstar Johnny Reid and the of course the biggest surprise of all – special white boxes that floated down from the sky.
Each gift box contained personalized family portraits in a Christmas ornament and – WestJet flight vouchers for the entire family.
“I think it’s important for myself, all the people here, for the rest of the world, to show Fort McMurray that we care,” said Reid. “And that even in our darkest times, there are people out there that are going to show up and show them light, love and support.”
Among the Snowflake Soiree guests were seven families who received special gifts from WestJetters who heard the families’ stories and wanted to help by giving their own irreplaceable items.
These included an heirloom watch from the Second World War, a special snowboard and a childhood book with an encouraging message. View the families’ stories here.
“We know this will be a difficult Christmas for the community,” said Bartrem. “It’s important for us to show the people of Fort McMurray they are not forgotten.”
If you need a good cry today, Christmas Miracle: Fort McMurray Strong may be just for you.
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Browns hoping Little evolves into reliable receiver
Greg Little played multiple positions at the University of North Carolina and sat out his entire senior season, so the Browns knew developing him into a reliable NFL wide receiver would be a project when they drafted him last year.
Through the first four games this season, it has become painfully obvious that Little remains a work in progress. His athletic ability is undeniable, but he continues to routinely drop passes.
�There�s a lot that you don�t see that we work on, everything from philosophically how you approach catching the football to putting in the practice,� Browns coach Pat Shurmur said. �We go through it all the time. I�ve seen it before where young players work through this and become legitimate catchers in this league.�
Shurmur cited Brandon Gibson as an example of a wide receiver who overcame his problems with drops. The Philadelphia Eagles traded Gibson, a sixth-round pick in the 2009 draft, to the St. Louis Rams during his rookie season. Shurmur spent the majority of his two-year stint as the Rams� offensive coordinator with Gibson.
�He�s doing a good job for them now,� Shurmur said of Gibson, who has 131 career receptions. �He was forced to play early and he had a little bit of a problem with [drops], and now it�s not a problem. It happens and you hope that�s the case in Greg�s case.�
Little, who missed his senior season at UNC because the NCAA suspended him for accepting impermissible benefits from an agent, failed to secure three passes he could have caught Thursday in the Browns� 23-16 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. His most glaring drop cost Cleveland a chance to cut its deficit to three points with 4:38 left in the fourth quarter.
On third-and-14 from the Ravens� 34-yard line, rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden�s deep pass slipped through the hands of Little in the front of the end zone as he leapt, bent backward and extended his arms while Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb dived at him. The Browns trailed 23-13 at the time.
�In order to be just great you have to make a great play and that would have been a great play that people would always remember and tell their kids about,� Little said. �You just remember where you were when a play like that was made.
�Great receivers make great catches. It could have ignited our defense. We would have needed only a field goal at the end, or maybe we would have stayed aggressive and gone for the touchdown to win it.�
Instead, the Browns (0-4) suffered their 10th consecutive defeat dating to last season as Weeden�s desperation pass intended for Little sailed out of the back of the end zone with no time left. Their next game is on the road Oct. 7 against the New York Giants (2-1), and their chances of pulling off an upset will only decrease if miscues like drops continue to haunt them.
The Browns lead the league with 11 drops this season, according to STATS LLC. And by STATS� count, Little is tied for second with four drops.
�We can�t give away gimmes,� Shurmur said. �We had some drops, not acceptable. There�s a zero tolerance for that. I will say this � we have some tough guys out there playing that are not catching the ball efficiently enough, and we just need to keep working with them. That�s the reality of it.�
Little, who played receiver and running back in college, led the Browns with 61 catches for 709 yards and two touchdowns as a rookie. But he also finished last season tied for second with 12 drops, according to STATS.
After Little dropped a crucial third-down pass late in the first half of the Browns� 24-14 loss to the Buffalo Bills in Week 3, Shurmur issued warnings during a Monday afternoon news conference. He made it clear he wanted Little to stop posing like Olympic track star Usain Bolt to signal first downs. More important, Shurmur said, �We can�t play a guy that�s going to drop footballs.�
But benching Little against the Ravens never seemed to be realistic. Fellow starting wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi was sidelined with an injured hamstring. Josh Cribbs replaced Massaquoi in the starting lineup, and Cribbs was knocked out of the game in the first quarter with a concussion he suffered during a punt return.
Little quit the posing and proved he can make plays with his 43-yard reception from Weeden in the second quarter. As he ran a fade route along the Ravens� sideline, Little turned, jumped and grabbed the ball over cornerback Cary Williams, sparking the Browns� 94-yard touchdown drive that was capped by rookie Trent Richardson�s 1-yard touchdown run with 2:32 left before halftime.
�As I make plays like that, [Weeden] feels more confident putting the ball in the air and knowing I�m going to come down with it,� Little said.
But consistency is the main problem for Little. He was targeted 10 times against the Ravens and caught four passes for 77 yards. He has been targeted 25 times this season, and he has 11 catches for 151 yards and a touchdown.
In other words, Little he has a lot of ground to gain before he can evolve into the go-to receiver the Browns need. They�re just hoping he catches on sooner than later.
Nate Ulrich can be reached at nulrich@thebeaconjournal.com. Read the Browns blog at https://ohio.com/browns. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NateUlrichABJ and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/browns.abj.
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Midway Through Its Final Season, Every Damn Character in ‘The Americans’ Seems Destined for Inevitable Tragedy
By Roxana Hadadi | TV | April 26, 2018 |
Elizabeth Jennings isn’t happy, Philip Jennings isn’t happy, and Paige Jennings is being manipulated by both her mother and her father. Here we are, midway through the sixth and final season of The Americans! (Spoilers for the first half of the sixth season follow.)
When we looked back on season five a few weeks ago, I pondered what this three-year time jump could mean for the Jennings family, especially as the Cold War has begun to wind down and their mission—once that of married partners Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip (Matthew Rhys), and now more that of Elizabeth and Paige (Holly Taylor), the daughter she is molding in her own image—is, as we know, for naught. The USSR did not win the Cold War. The USSR did not stay intact. The Pizza Hut opening in Moscow, a development that causes Elizabeth to rant about how much she hates the American way of life, was not an anomaly, but the first sign of an onslaught of change.
With last night’s fifth episode, “The Great Patriotic War,” we reached halfway to endgame, and holy shit, those 83 minutes marked a point of no return. Every single main character in “The Great Patriotic War” is reminded of how their actions never involve only themselves, how their choices reverberate outward and don’t dissipate but lay in wait until the exact right time to remind their creators of how tragedies happen suddenly but also inevitably.
The fissure between Elizabeth and Philip is now a chasm. She murders Stan’s (Noah Emmerich) informants in the same CIA safe house where their child is watching TV; it is one of the most brutal scenes I have seen on The Americans—I can’t stop thinking about all that blood—which keeps redefining just how much its characters and we as viewers can take. Meanwhile, the only affection she has shown to Philip all season is a precursor to a request: that he help the KGB set up the teenager he’s been working for years, Kimmy (Julia Garner), as a way to get to her father, the head of the CIA Soviet division. Elizabeth wants Philip to help ensnare the girl—who, of course, she doesn’t see as “just a kid,” unlike Philip—and when she asks him later if the plan worked, she doesn’t ask for details. She doesn’t want to know, nor care to know, what Philip did to secure Kimmy’s trust—which was sleep with her, a young woman the same age as his daughter, the daughter that Elizabeth has claimed entirely as her own.
The pressures on Elizabeth in this sixth season are, even for her, seemingly overwhelmingly daunting. With Philip out of the spy game, Elizabeth has drawn closer to Claudia (character actress Margo Martindale) (despite their relationship once involving snarkiness, blank-faced glares, and oh yeah, torture) and is even more committed to her belief in the Soviet cause and her hatred of the American government. In the three years we don’t see because of the time jump, she’s grown more unyielding and more brittle — we rarely see her eat, she’s constantly smoking cigarettes, and it’s clear that the only reason she comes home is to have somewhere to sleep. The disconnect between her and Philip is obvious to both of them, but only Philip seems to care. Think of how often Philip looks at Elizabeth this season through windows (he can see her, but the distance is impenetrable) or how often she turns away from him when they are together — there is an opacity to her interactions with her husband that is a directive from the KGB, but also her own intentional choice.
Performing alone the work that they both used to do, Elizabeth is leaving a trail of bodies as she pursues two different directives in the weeks before the summit involving President Ronald Reagan and USSR General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1987. The first task involves a Soviet negotiator who has been meeting with the U.S. government; this leads Elizabeth to pose as a night nurse for the ailing wife of U.S. negotiator Glenn Haskard (Scott Cohen, the underrated Max Medina from Gilmore Girls!), hoping to gather intel from his home. The second task is to retrieve information about the doomsday device the Dead Hand, specifically a radiation sensor that would equal the playing field between the United States and the USSR.
But despite her success in murdering Stan’s informants, Gennadi (Yuri Kolokolnikov) and Sofia (Darya Ekamasova), neither of Elizabeth’s main missions is going particularly well. With no one watching her back with the attention and focus that Philip used to, Elizabeth is resorting to murder, over and over again, more regularly — and more casually, I think — then we’ve seen in preceding seasons. She stabs a guard in the neck in the middle of the street; she chokes out an employee from the warehouse holding the radiation sensor when she realizes that his girlfriend, who works in security at the same facility, will be a loose end; she’s involved in a scuffle that leaves an uncooperative general dead, with his blood and brains splattered on her face; she tries to break into the warehouse where the guy she killed worked, but then kills even more people when the mission goes sideways. Even for Elizabeth, this is a lot, and the cyanide pill she was given in the beginning of the season seems more and more viable with each episode. Elizabeth rarely wears jewelry, but she slides the necklace where the pill is hidden over her head as soon as she realizes what it is. This isn’t superficial vanity; this is a willing acceptance of suicidal sacrifice.
While Elizabeth is toiling away to fulfill the Soviet dream she signed up to advance as a KGB operative, Philip is realizing that the American dream he coveted for so long is all smoke and mirrors — not that different, really, from the types of lies he told to Martha (Alison Wright) as Clarke before she was sent to the USSR, or those his alias Jim Baxter once told to the now college-aged Kimmy before he warns her away from visiting Communist countries and removes himself from her life. His responsibilities as Jim—the older dude committed to his dated look of middle-part hair, oversized aviators, and beat-up leather jacket, even as ’80s fashions keep on changing—are the only KGB work that Philip retained. Otherwise, it’s full time at Dupont Circle Travel, which he expanded recently with a large loan. But the work isn’t coming in, the industry is changing around him, and even the motivational self-help language that Philip doles out to his employees isn’t turning anything around. The trappings of success for which Philip longed for years are now, well, a trap: the fancy car with the sunroof, the cowboy boots at the line-dancing bar, the posh new offices, everywhere renovated but the wood-paneled room where Philip and Elizabeth used to whisper together. That small enclosure is trapped in time, whereas everything else Philip longed for has flittered into and out of his grasp—proving as ephemeral as the American dream itself.
Emotionally, Philip and Elizabeth are detached enough already, and they pull their children into it, too. Think of the deadpan way Elizabeth asks “Are you rich yet?” in the fourth episode, “Mr. and Mrs. Teacup,” as Philip pores over bills, realizing that he can’t keep paying for Henry’s (Keidrich Sellati) private school tuition; her disinterested tone signifies very clearly that nothing about his business plan was her idea, and it doesn’t affect her, anyway. Henry is Philip’s “department”; that was their “deal.” Philip’s phone calls to Henry seem like a secret; he doesn’t mention his wife, and his son doesn’t mention his mother. The familial fissure is passing down a generation, and the “Everything’s fine” Philip tries to reassure Henry with in the promo for next week’s “Rififi” couldn’t sound more false.
Inversely, Philip seems set apart from Paige, who Elizabeth has been training for a career as a spy within the U.S. government; when he encourages the two to talk about the failures of a recent mission, they each rebuff his appeal to discuss their feelings. Much like Elizabeth has no time for Philip anymore, no longer does Paige—she’s committed to a cause that he abandoned, as she patronizingly tells him in “The Great Patriotic War.” Think of Philip’s smirking face when his daughter said to him, “I don’t think I’m the same as you, Dad. I know you’re not into what me and Mom do, but I am”—it’s disgust with her naiveté, yes, but also acceptance that she is truly Elizabeth’s daughter, and that she’ll need to be a lot tougher to survive this life. The sneering way Rhys delivers “There aren’t really pads in the real world” should nab him another Emmy nomination, but it’s a sign of ugliness that we haven’t seen from Philip in years—in contrast to his final words to Paige, his whispered “Not bad,” before he leaves her apartment and waits for the elevator, totally and utterly alone.
The choice Philip made to let Elizabeth train Paige is coming back to haunt him; the choices Stan made in extracting Gennadi and Sofia and failing to protect them are coming back to haunt him; the choice Oleg made years ago to inform Arkady (Lev Gorn) about his suspicions regarding Rezidentura colleague Tatiana (Vera Cherny) and leak information to Stan about her biological warfare operation are coming back to haunt him. Oleg tries to pull a Don Draper on Tatiana when she confronts him on the George Mason University campus (“The only thing that’s done any good for me … is moving on”), but she’s not having it; as committed to the cause as Elizabeth and Claudia, she tells the new Rezident to cable back to the USSR about Oleg, “He’s not here for us. He’s not loyal.” Oleg came to the United States to secure a better future for his child, but the machinations of the past are putting everyone—from his father to his wife to his son—in danger.
Tatiana says to Oleg during their exchange, “Maybe you should look behind you sometime,” but that sort of self-awareness requires also a sense of doubt—of questioning what you could have done wrong to create the situation in which you’re now ensnared. That’s what is plaguing Philip—and what, I think, fuels the fan theories that he will eventually flip on the USSR and turn into an informant for Stan against Elizabeth—but when you’re committed to the cause, even the worst situations you experience as an individual are meaningless if they further the mission. How else to explain Claudia, drunk off vodka shots as a way to train Paige to hold her liquor, telling her faux granddaughter about trading her body for food? Or the matter-of-fact way Elizabeth shares that they used to eat rats, before launching into a story about a sexual experience in which the boy thought he was losing his virginity to the already-experienced Elizabeth, who let him believe the lie? When Paige goes wild on the dudes who put their hands on her at the bar, those are the women she’s channeling. Remember what Elizabeth said to her about Philip in “Mr. and Mrs. Teacup”: “He loves me, he loves you, but somewhere … something got lost. This work can get to be too much for people. Even the best ones. I’m so proud of you, Paige. Really proud.”
These are oppositional sides. These are people talking at each other, not to each other. This is the dissolution of not only a marriage but a whole way of a life, and I can’t think of any way in which both Philip and Elizabeth make it out alive.
Roxana Hadadi is a Staff Contributor for Pajiba. You can follow her on Twitter.
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Testifying before Congress: Randy Pausch, PhD
Dr. Pausch, author of the bestseller “The Last Lecture” and a beloved Carnegie Melon University professor, testified before the National Labor, Health & Human Services Subcommittee in 2008 shortly before his passing to share his personal story as a pancreatic cancer survivor and to urge Congress to make pancreatic cancer research a national priority.
(March 2008 -- 8 minutes, 20 seconds)
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Randy Pausch, PhD: Every day matters
Shortly before his passing from pancreatic cancer in 2008, Dr. Pausch recorded this public service announcement to encourage more support for research into the disease.
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Randy Pausch, PhD: A hero’s perspective
Dr. Pausch, a devoted advocate for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network as well as a husband and father of three, lost his fight with pancreatic cancer at age 47. Here, he shares the story of his battle with the disease and his belief in the potential of the scientific community to find the answers to its origins.
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Here’s your chance to take part in the Desperados 3 beta
Mimimi Games and THQ Nordic are looking for beta testers to try out Desperados 3 as it enters the final stage of production; out of all applications, 500 lucky players will be selected.
by Chris Brand
The modern real-time tactics game, nominated as the Best Strategy Game of E3, stars a ragtag band of unlikely heroes and heroines, hunted by ruthless bandits and corrupt lawmen. Strong personalities clash, at first, but ultimately they join forces to "combine their distinctive specialties and challenge a seemingly superior foe."
Command up to five Desperados and use their lethal skills to stealthily thin out the enemy rows
Approach each mission with a big variety of different solutions and paths
Resolve seemingly impossible large enemy setups with careful planning and perfectly timed executions
Witness the glory of classic Wild West scenarios like frontier towns, desert canyons, Mississippi swamps, sprawling modern cities and many more by day and night
Defeat your foes choosing between deadly and non-lethal options, stealth and blazing guns and further adjust the game to your playstyle with various difficulty settings and special replayability challenges
The beta runs from 9 - 21 July and you can sign up here.
"This is not a "pre order now to play the game before anyone - but we don't really need your feedback because release is in just two weeks" closed beta, [which] people might be used to nowadays. We really want to invite the community to play the game while it’s still under construction and share their thoughts and wishes with us. And we want to have the time to react to the players’ input and to optimize the game together." said Dennis Huszak, Narrative Director at Mimimi Games.
Are you a fan of the Desperados series? Fancy signing up for the beta? Let us know below or over in the forums.
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The population of Texas is growing at an almost astonishing rate. The state adds an estimated 1,000 people each day. Many of those newcomers are trading the Sunshine State for the Lone Star State. In a recent five-year period, Texas received a net gain of 100,000 people from California. And a steady stream of California businesses are also trading…Read More
D-FW tops the U.S. in new home starts
Dallas-Fort Worth is still the country’s top homebuilding market. But analysts aren’t expecting an increase in North Texas house production this year. At the end of the first quarter, the D-FW area ranked just ahead of Houston as the country’s busiest housing market. Home construction in the area totaled more than 34,500 units on an…Read More
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Homebuilders in North Texas reported increased local revenue in 2018 with a number of new home developments that began construction last year. The Dallas Business Journal surveyed home builders with a presence in the North Texas area beginning Feb. 6. On average, local divisions of the homebuilders on The List reported revenue of more than $456.5 million…Read More
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How WASD became the standard PC control scheme
By Tyler Wilde 2016-06-24T19:17:25.175Z
Had history gone differently, it might have been EDSF or even ASXC.
Image via defunct gaming site Freakygaming.
WASD feels inevitable today. Once mouselook became standard in 3D games, it made little sense (at least for right-handed players) to hold your left arm across your chest to reach the arrow keys. The WASD keys were more comfortable, and offered easy access to Shift and Space. But even though WASD seems like the obvious choice now, far fewer players used it 20 years ago.
Our favorite four letter word was never a foregone conclusion, and didn't become standard through some gaseous enlightening that spread to every PC gamer simultaneously. The new movement scheme took several years to catch on, and while we can’t know whose fingers found their way to WASD first, we do have a good idea of who popularized the style: the greatest Quake player in the universe, Dennis “Thresh” Fong.
Fong made history when he took home John Carmack's Ferrari 328 after winning the first-ever nationwide Quake tournament in 1997. And when he won that tournament, defeating Tom "Entropy" Kimzey on Castle of the Damned, his right hand was on a mouse, and his left hand was perched over the four keys we now consider synonymous with PC gaming. But even then, not everyone played that way.
His brother was playing with a keyboard and trackball, and he was winning.
In the early days of first-person shooters, Fong says the keymappings were all over the place, and even the great Thresh had only just started to play with a mouse at all. Imagine him just a few years before, sometime around 1993, as a teenager losing a match of Doom against his brother Lyle. Like many Doom players, Fong used only the keyboard. Without the need to look up or down, it was a natural choice—so much that using a mouse was even considered weird. His brother, however, was playing with a keyboard and trackball, and he was winning. It wasn’t every game—both were excellent players—but Lyle won enough that one summer Fong decided he had to learn to play with a mouse. After that, he was unbeatable.
“Right after I made that switch, my skill improved exponentially,” says Fong. “Pretty much, from then on, I never lost.”
It took some experimentation—including a strange attempt to move with WADX—but Fong settled on WASD and has been using it since Doom. Did he invent the scheme? No, probably not. Others were also gravitating to the left side of the keyboard for Doom at the same time. But without Fong's influence, the default could have ended up different. It might have been EDSF, or stranger configurations like ZXC to strafe and move backwards, and the right mouse button to move forwards. Some early shooters bound movement to the arrow keys. In 1994, System Shock used ASDX, while Descent used AZ for forward/reverse and QE for banking (if you didn't happen to have a joystick).
Fong tells us he even knew a player who used ZXCV to move.
“I’m certainly not going to take credit for the creation of [WASD],” says Fong. “I stumbled across it. I’m sure other people started using it as well just based on what was comfortable for them. I definitely think I helped popularize it with a certain set of gamers, particularly the ones that played first person shooters."
Quake wasn't the first game to introduce mouselook (Marathon came before it), but it was the most influential.
It’s likely that he did. The very concept of a professional gamer was new at the time, and Fong was well-known on the west coast as the best player around. As Fong’s celebrity grew, the one question everyone asked him was: “What’s your config?” His answer could be most readily found in Thresh’s Quake Bible, which describes the WASD formation as an “inverted T.” And his guide carried weight. Even before his success as a Quake player, Fong was a Doom champion, and so people imitated him, just as the kids at the basketball court by my house spend far too much time trying to hit Steph Curry’s 30-foot shots.
The evidence can be found on old bulletin board systems. In one thread from 1997, a poster recommends using Q and E to strafe and A and D to turn. Another suggests using the keypad for movement, and someone else says they use A, Shift, Z, X. It wasn't the case that everyone simply gravitated to the 'obvious' choice of WASD or ESDF, and in another thread, we see how Thresh's performance in the Quake tournament spread his style. His play was so impressive, the poster looking for his config speculates that it was impossible for him to turn so fast with a mouse.
Another legend, Quake programmer John Carmack, took note. “Even when I was hanging out with Carmack, wherever, at E3, random people would come up and he would hear them asking me what my configuration was,” says Fong. “So he ended up building a Thresh stock config into Quake 2.”
It was a relief. Not only could Fong sit down at any computer with Quake 2 and instantly load his configuration, every time he got the question, all he had to say was “type exec thresh.cfg.”
Half-Life was one of the first games to bind WASD to movement by default.
Convenient as it was, Fong doesn’t think the inclusion of his config was the main factor in the rise of WASD, and I’d agree. By the time Quake 2 was out, WASD was starting to feel like common knowledge. I used it, and I don’t remember hearing Thresh’s name associated with it at the time, though it’s possible his configuration entered my consciousness two or three people removed.
And yet games, strangely, took a while to catch up. Carmack may have bundled Thresh’s config with Quake 2, but when it released in 1997 the default controls were still arrow keys. A year later, though, that changed. If Thresh's Quake tournament win was WASD's first watershed moment, the second came in 1998 with the release of Half-Life. The Quake and Doom players at Valve—perhaps influenced directly or indirectly by Carmack, Thresh, and other top Doom and Quake players—included WASD in Half-Life’s default keyboard and mouse config, which helped solidify it as the first-person shooter standard.
Valve engineer Yahn Bernier checked Half-Life's original config file for us and confirmed it included WASD. "I remember finalizing this file (maybe with Steve Bond) during the lead up to shipping HL1 but don’t recall specifics about when WASD was settled on or really why. We probably carried it forward from Quake1…" he wrote in an email.
The same year, and less than a month after Half-Life, Starsiege Tribes also made WASD default. Quake 3 followed suit in 1999, and WASD's popularity grew even more. It was also the default binding in 2000's Daikatana, but Half-Life, Tribes, and Quake 3 probably had a bit more to do with its popularity.
In a period of a year, Half-Life, Tribes, and Quake 3 set the standard we use today.
I always rebind to ESDF.
Gabe Newell
There were still plenty of heretical control schemes in 1999—like System Shock 2's, which defaulted to WADX (and S for crouch). But WASD had momentum. If it wasn’t already ubiquitous by 2004, World of Warcraft defaulting to WASD codified it for millions of PC gamers. Now it’s in RPGs and MOBAs and even strategy games, controlling camera movement over maps.
Interestingly, Valve boss Gabe Newell doesn’t use WASD. “I personally don't like WASD as it takes your hand away from your typing home keys,” he wrote in an email to PC Gamer. “I always rebind to ESDF.” Newell's not alone there. Do a little Googling and you'll find plenty of people arguing that ESDF is the more natural configuration.
More surprisingly, another Half-Life developer, level designer Dario Casali, also rejects WASD. Instead, he prefers ASXC. “It feels natural to me, where WASD feels odd,” wrote Casali. “But lots of people scoff at my config.”
What would PC gaming be like had EDSF or ASXC been Half-Life’s default? No offense intended to Newell or Casali, but I shudder to think of it. ASXC just sounds bonkers to me. Newell's fairly commonplace ESDF is more palatable, but as Thresh echoes, it feels harder to hit Shift and Control while easier to mispress one of the surrounding keys. For me, Thresh, and millions of PC gamers, it’s WASD for life.
You can read more about the history of Quake in our retrospective celebrating Quake's 20th anniversary. We're also celebrating by running a Quake server through the weekend, and Thresh himself will be playing on our US-West server today, Friday, from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Pacific time.
Wes Fenlon also contributed to this article.
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See your city up close with this Cities: Skylines mod
By Christopher Livingston 2015-03-15T09:00:00.73Z
Not even a week has gone by and the Steam Workshop for Cities: Skylines is already bursting at the seams with player-made content. Along with maps and buildings created using the game's editors, mods have begun to appear, most notably one that lets you unlock all 25 map tiles. The vanilla game lets you use nine, which is still pretty roomy, but why limit yourself?
The tile unlocking mod is hard to make a full column out of, however, so here's one you might also want to check out: the free camera mod.
One of the few corners in my city without a traffic jam.
It's described as a first-person camera mod, but it's really more of a noclip mode, allowing you to fly through the city unrestrained, drop down to street level, zip between buildings (or through them), and basically check out your creation from any spot you like.
Got a problem in your city? Don't be an aloof mayor, coldly sitting in your office in the sky. Go check it out in person. It's the least you can do when your citizens start complaining about traffic or taxes or garbage collection or, I dunno, that their houses are submerged in sixty feet of water. You know, the kinda stuff people just have to gripe about.
I think you're right, grampa. The new dam is causing a little flooding.
Once you subscribe to the mod, you'll need to activate it in Content Manager menu. In the game, you'll now see a button in the top right corner of your screen. Click it to bring up a settings window, which lets you set the speed you want to move at and how close to the ground you want to get. Move around with WASD. Tab returns you to normal mode, or you can configure it to another key.
Obviously, your city wasn't meant to be seen from quite so close up, so it's not exactly pretty, but it's still a neat tool and useful for getting a closer look at things. For instance, what's going on at that bus stop? Clearly, there's just too much novelty food truck traffic to let the bus through. Get on it, mayor!
Junk food and smokestacks. I'm gonna need a dozen hospitals.
I think the game's regular camera is fine for the most part, but it can occasionally be tricky seeing things up close since it bounces over buildings, trees, and hills, so the new camera is a nice addition. I even loaded up a save from the diary I did this week, to get a close look at one of the more disturbing events that took place.
Sorry to make you go through that twice, Oscar.
You can find the mod here in the Steam Workshop.
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Making a Big Splash
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Marcissus fell in love with his watery reflection and turned into a flower. Pinocchio escaped the whale but still drowned in the ocean. Jack and Jill tumbled down a hill after fetching a pail.
Adults have certainly written enough of these poignant and tragic tales about the dangers of water for children to get the message: “Don’t go near the water!” But for some years psychologists have been telling us that interaction with water is essential for a child’s development and an entire field of child psychology called Sandplay is based on children using a small table-sized sandbox, representative figures, and water to act out their imaginations. Sure the children create a bit of a mess, but by offering children articles with which to mold and model their worlds, they learn valuable problem-solving skills that can later be applied to real life. Parents seem to be getting the message too. Letting kids interact more frequently with water may be messy, but a little mess may be worthwhile in the long run.
Of course, playground designers who are given the enviable task of providing water-soaked environments may find it easy to open up the nearest supply catalog and pick from a list of great-looking equipment. Such catalogs offer a variety of zero-depth aquatic toys that will fit nicely into a water playground: from water cannons to waterslides, from bucket drops to spray pools, and from splash pads to sprinklers. Any of these items can provide big fun for children who are in the mood to romp and splash.
But remember that such equipment does require more installation and maintenance costs. So select carefully. On the other hand, if you’re a designer looking for cost-conscious ways to incorporate water elements into your designs, ways that may even complement one or two of these larger elements, here are a few suggestions from people who have already taken the plunge.
Vicki L. Stoecklin, a designer with the White and Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group (www.whitehutchinson.com/children) in Kansas City, Mo., says she has designed recirculating streams, multi-level water tables, spraygrounds and multiple ponds within the same play area. “It need not be expensive, however,” she says, “we talk to people about using dishpans, wading pools, milk gallon jugs, sprinklers, pails of water and hoses.”
Stoecklin also finds that one of the more successful elements has much akin to Sandplay. “We oftentimes use sand and water and put the water source in another location so that children have to transport the water.” Other than the fun children get from making sand forms and the occasional mud pie, how the children develop ways to carry water from place to place also becomes part of the problem-solving process.
Another designer who adds simple water elements to his projects is Ron King with the Natural Playgrounds Co. (www.naturalplaygrounds.com) in Concord, New Hampshire. King’s miniature landscapes often incorporate ponds and streams that are about an inch deep with perforated steel grates that allow the children to walk through the water. Along either edge of the stream, he may place boulders or smaller rocks so that children can hang out and get their feet wet. King has even converted an old macadam parking lot into a play area by cutting channels into the macadam surface to create a system of streams.
After surveying over 3,000 kids about how they play, King admits that the first things they talk about in reference to water play are squirt guns and water balloon fights. But as they keep talking he often finds that they also describe their interest in simple activities, “stepping on rocks in a river, playing on a bridge, playing in the mud.” Since they often want to create their own play areas, King suggests that children be allowed to dig water channels or use wooden planks to divert water and create dams. “They want to know what it’s like out there,” he says. “They want to feel the earth and dig in the sand, and look under a log, and put things together, and be creative in their play choices, and understand what nature is all about.”
If you’re interested in helping children to understand what nature is all about, especially in its aquatic form, few design elements can add more to the site than a rain garden. By installing a few inches of gravel, lying down some fabric, topping this with dirt, and choosing native plant species, you can create a rain garden that filters and cleanses stormwater and pollutants. Rain gardens make sense anywhere, but they can be extremely beneficial in urban areas where designers need to handle drainage from adjacent rooftops or parking lots.
Jan Berg Kruse, a real estate broker and avid gardener in Des Moines, Iowa, found out about rain gardens from personal experience. After witnessing the play area at the local Greenwood Elementary School become cluttered with debris by runoff from a nearby parking lot, she realized that the quality of play for the children was seriously compromised. “I began to see the soil erosion around the school and the mulch and river rock from the play areas was washing onto the grass playfield,” says Berg. “There are 450 students at Greenwood and a limited site for the playground. We needed to improve what we have so there is a place to play during recess.” Determined to do something about the situation, Berg asked her county conservationist and other members of her community for help. The result was a rain garden that provides a buffer between the car and tot lots and takes care of the runoff problem. With an entire ecosystem of plants, insects, and water developing only yards away, the children have the chance to learn about nature as well.
Concerned citizens like Berg and designers like King and Stoecklin should give other playground designers pause for reflection. Using water in the playground can have multiple benefits—from solving local environmental problems to helping children gain an appreciation for nature, and from cutting down on the cost of the playground to providing opportunities for children to engage in creative, developmental play.
It’s true that adults may wish to avoid such situations and stick with more controlled environments, situations where water play happens only when children are well prepared with swimsuits and rain gear. But when designers give parents and clients good reason to think about how much simple water elements can add to the play experience, a pair of muddy hands and a pair of squishy tennis shoes seem like a small price to pay.
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Harvest moving slow, need some heat
Harvest work is slowly grinding along throughout the region and province-wide.
Oct. 5, 2016 11:00 a.m.
Harry Brook, a crop information specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, explained that cooler, wet weather followed up with some dry days in the past week has seen farmers be able to get slightly more than half the overall crop into the bin.
“Provincially, the average harvest that’s been completed is between 50 and 60 per cent, with that being right around where central Alberta is laying as well,” he stated in a phone interview.
“What is needed is for the rain to stay away and some warmer temperatures to come our way in order to get more progress on the harvest.”
Across the central region, about 38 per cent of the crop is in the bin — compared to 39 per cent at this time last year — well behind the five-year average of 64 per cent.
With the highs just reaching double digits recently, Brook said the heat needed to help crops get to that ideal moisture levels just isn’t there.
“If the rain comes, it’s just going to take that much longer for crops to dry out. With the forecast not looking favourable for an increase in temperature, farmers are just continuing to gradually pick away at getting the crops combined,” he said.
“We’ve also been getting a number of calls about how wet crops can be stored at while still being about to maintain the quality. It really depends on how they deal with the moisture levels and temperature the crop goes into the bin at that determines how long it can be stored.”
Brook explained, as an example, if a crop goes in at 10 degrees Celsius and its fairly damp, it can be stored upwards of four to five months. Though, he added, any crop stored needs to be checked on regularly because even if it’s at the right moisture level, if the heat level rises the risk increases that quality will fall. That risk also goes up as the moisture level percentage rises when it’s stored.
And the continued rain is contributing to soil moisture conditions that are excellent across the region, with 81 per cent of fields rating high in surface soil moisture while sub-soil moisture is rated at 77 per cent with both categories reaching two to three per cent ratings for excessive moisture levels.
Meanwhile, yields around the region remain really good, according to reports Brook has heard, though the quality of some cereals has him concerned.
“We’ve heard about some phenomenal canola yields and some great ones for a lot of cereals,” he said.
“However, many farmers are stating some of their wheat could see downgrades to feed grain, which is a concern considering areas in the U.S. are experiencing record or near-record corn yields. So, that could mean a not-so great need for feed wheat, which would mean it could be slow to move to market.”
He added there have also been reports from the Canadian Grain Commission about export shipments seeing damage and disease among some crops.
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Grandad's War - The First World War Diary of Horace Reginald Stanley
Thomas Bilney, the Norwich Martyr: "The Father of the English Reformation"
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Scholars, Saints and Sinners: the stories of some of Norfolk’s more idiosyncratic clergy of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Women in the Archaeology & History of West Norfolk
The West Norfolk Archaeological Society was founded in November 1967. To celebrate the 50th anniversary and to acknowledge how society has become more inclusive since that date, a conference in November 2017 was addressed by women speakers. A local cohort of heritage professionals and amateur researchers were invited to speak on their own inspirations, about famous women in the history of west Norfolk and of archaeological projects in which they had been involved.
Women in the Archaeology & History of West Norfolk is a collection of the presentations made at that conference, giving all a chance to share in the research and the presentations of the day. With brief biographies of all the speakers and a short history of the Society, it serves as both a record of the day and an introduction to many areas of further interest.
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Seroogy's chocolate Easter bunnies are a Wisconsin tradition
When one of the co-owners of one of the oldest chocolate shops in Wisconsin offers to give you a tour, you turn it into a story. This story.
Seroogy's chocolate Easter bunnies are a Wisconsin tradition When one of the co-owners of one of the oldest chocolate shops in Wisconsin offers to give you a tour, you turn it into a story. This story. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: https://post.cr/2Gbwaq5
Daniel Higgins, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 4:46 p.m. CT March 27, 2018 | Updated 4:47 p.m. CT March 27, 2018
Seroogy's Chocolates makes more molded chocolates at Easter than any other holiday. And the De Pere-based company has chocolate bunnies in dozens of sizes, including one weighing about 25 pounds. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Chocolate bunnies weighing about 25 pounds at Seroogy's Chocolates.(Photo: Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
DE PERE - There are traditional profile rabbits. There's a floppy-eared bunny. A bent-eared bunny. Bunnies that weigh 25 pounds. Bunnies with bow ties. Bunnies with bow ties and Easter baskets. Well, you get the idea.
Chocolates molded into shapes of all sorts — crosses, angels, lambs, butterflies, trout, cows, cheese wedges, the state of Wisconsin, football helmets — are gaining sales momentum at Seroogy's Chocolates, 144 N. Wisconsin St. in De Pere. But Easter shapes lead the way.
"People just like chocolate, you know," says Joe Seroogy, third generation co-owner along with his brother Jim. "Give them an Easter bunny, they snatch it up and eat it. End of story."
Dozens of different sizes and styles of chocolate bunnies are made before Easter at Seroogy's Chocolates. (Photo: Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Easter is the candy maker's second biggest holiday for chocolate demand, Joe said. Christmas and the other December holidays hold down the top spot.
Not too long ago, Easter was just a short hop away from the annual shutdown of chocolate production following Mother's Day, says Joe, before resuming in the fall. There would be a few weeks of equipment cleaning and repairs.
"Then you'd have about a two-month stretch where there was nothing to do because your first holiday didn't come until colder weather," says Joe.
Enter the meltaway candy bar — a Seroogy's calling card — that created a season unto itself.
Meltaway success
Founded by brothers Jim, Joe and Sol in 1899, Seroogy's is the second oldest family-owned and operated chocolate maker in the state.
When Joe and Jim took over from their parents, Al and Hilda, in 1980, Joe says they had about eight employees. Everything was done by hand. Chocolate was melted for dipping in their mother's Nesco roaster oven.
That all changed by the end of the decade. Sometime in the late '80s, following requests for groups wanting to sell candy for fundraisers, says Joe, Seroogy's took its bite-sized meltaway and cut them into bar sizes and individually wrapped them.
Sure, a solid milk chocolate candy bar would be a big seller. But a meltaway, with its thin layer of solid chocolate surrounding a silky semi-soft chocolate center, increases the indulgence factor — provided you're patient enough to let it all melt in your mouth before the next bite.
What started with the original chocolate meltaway quickly grew to include mint, mocha, almond, chocolate crisp, peanut butter crisp, shock rock (tiny nuggets of popping candy embedded in the chocolate) and the just-released toffee almond.
It's also grown to fill the usual downtime during the summer months. Last August through mid-November, Seroogy's director of marketing, Marjorie Hitchcock, says the fundraising portion of the business sold a million meltaways with 75 cents of each sale going to the nonprofit.
Seroogy's sells about another million meltaways through its two retail shops and online orders.
When it comes to flavor popularity, mint and peanut butter crisp are top sellers for fundraisers, while the original chocolate tops the remaining sales.
It takes more than a single Nesco to handle that level of business. Though, if you know where to look, you can still find chocolates around the shop made the old way.
Chocolate creams on a conveyer belt are coated in milk chocolate and marked by an employee at Seroogy's Chocolates. (Photo: Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Chocolate boom
Hand dipping is still part of the business, mostly for clusters with nuts and fruit. Think turtles and chocolate-covered cherries.
Slow cookers of melted chocolate are kept at the perfect temperature by a hand-selected crew.
"They've been with us for a long time," Joe says of the women trusted to deftly dip clusters, set them on a tray and give a final quick swirl of melted chocolate before moving onto the next piece. "Best in the business. I mean look how perfect these are."
Dipping stations occupy a small fraction of the production area that's largely filled by conveyor belts and wrapping machinery needed to keep up with demand.
While methods have changed, says Joe, the ingredients remain the same, and they've paid attention to the details to ensure that a box of candy produced today looks like it did 100 years ago.
Right down to the layout of the candy in each box of assorted chocolates.
When assembling a box of assorted chocolates, Joe says their mother insisted they be aesthetically pleasing.
"Every one was like a work of art."
Unfortunately, the nuts in the turtles would pulverize during the shipping process, creating a sawdust-like texture coating of nuts inside. To solve this problem, Seroogy's began wholly dipping their turtles in chocolate.
To speed up the box assembly process, Seroogy's created a plastic tray with a footprint has been the same for years.
With candy secured in its proper place and each box shrink wrapped, Joe says "the result is, someone in New Jersey gets a box of candy and it looks exactly like it did when it left here."
Taking an "if ain't broke, we don't fix it," approach to everything else in the box, each assortment includes three turtles just like it did back in 1901.
With those efficiencies in place, Seroogy's employees can assemble about 2,000 boxes per day. And they need to be efficient, especially around the Christmas holidays.
Seroogy's gets orders for about 100,000 pounds of gift boxes, says Joe, a considerable jump in demand from the roughly 800 boxes they were selling when he and his brother took over.
Though during Joe's high school days — when he had the job of driving the Edsel station wagon to the post office — an order for 30 boxes was enough to have his dad "on cloud nine. He thought we were going to take over the world."
Days of standing in line at the post office to ship chocolate are in Seroogy's rearview mirror. Instead, employees go no farther than the in-house loading bay to ship chocolates from New York to California. The coasts and plenty of destinations in between, says Hitchcock, are satisfying their sweet tooth with Seroogy's chocolate.
Overall, Joe feels Seroogy's is in a good place.
"I don't want to get much bigger because then you have to mess with the quality," says Joe. "And I'm not about to make that concession."
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Kwik Trip's 'big news'? Glazers-flavored potato chips
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The Buzz: Adding beer to party bike doubles business
Social Station, Appleton's only party bike, sees bookings soar now that beer is allowed on board.
The Buzz: Adding beer to party bike doubles business Social Station, Appleton's only party bike, sees bookings soar now that beer is allowed on board. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: https://post.cr/2E0Z2LW
Maureen Wallenfang, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 10:19 a.m. CT March 28, 2018 | Updated 4:28 p.m. CT March 28, 2018
These Grand Chute businesses are poised to open from April through early summer. (Maureen Wallenfang/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin) Wochit
Social Station is a pedal-powered quadricycle in downtown Appleton.(Photo: Courtesy of The Social Station)
This will surprise absolutely no one.
Now that Social Station, a 15-passenger party bike in downtown Appleton, can allow beer on board, bookings are expected to double or even triple this summer.
The quadricycle is powered by pedaling, and it had its first season last summer on the streets of downtown Appleton.
“People have been saying ‘well, it’s about time. Now I’m interested,’” said Chris Burns, Social Station’s owner with wife Tina Seashore.
“We’re on track to double our business from last year. As the weather warms up, I wouldn’t be surprised if we exceed that substantially," he said. "We had 70 tours last year. We’ll have at least 140 tours this year, and I’m confident we’ll surpass that.”
The bike hits the road next week.
The majority of Social Station's first season bookings were pub crawls, but people couldn’t drink on board because of a local ordinance.
Appleton’s Common Council eliminated the quadricycle no-booze rule in January.
While the bike allows alcohol, it cannot sell alcohol on board by state law.
So it’s a BYOB bike.
State law says passengers can each bring up to 36 ounces of a fermented malt beverage on board. That means someone can bring three 12-ounce cans of beer or hard cider with them. State laws do not allow wine, hard liquor or glass bottles. Tours must end by 10:30 p.m.
Besides pub crawls, the bike also offers coffee and tea tours, family-oriented tours that stop at parks, team-building tours, scavenger hunts and exercise excursions. It partnered with the History Museum at the Castle for new narrated history tours this summer.
The bike has 10 pedaling seats, five non-pedaling seats and a driver. It starts and stops at the Appleton Street Sports Bar and Grill. Info: socialstationwi.com, Facebook or 920-968-3232.
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African Journals From Sabinet to be Indexed in the Summon Service
Serials Solutions is working with SA ePublications, a service of Sabinet Online, to index The African Electronic Journals in the Summon service. Aggregating the works of multiple publishers, this collection of nearly 400 journals represents the most comprehensive, searchable collection of South- and Southern-African journals in the world.
While the content is not restricted to Africa, the journals are devoted to research carried out in Africa and encompass six separate subject collections:
Science, Technology and Agriculture
Some of these journals are available through an Open Access model. The Open Access works are included in the related subject indexes, but are also indexed as a separate collection for the convenience of libraries.
Launched a decade ago with 40 titles, the SA ePublications service has experienced a tenfold increase, reflecting phenomenal interest from South African publishers and editors in sharing their scholarly output with the world. Summon service indexing provides visibility to these resources for researchers within Africa and around the globe.
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What are share dividends?
Dividends are a return of company profits to shareholders. Basically, if you own shares of a company and it is making a consistent profit, the board of directors may choose to return some of that profit to you as cash. You will receive cash in your bank or stockbroking account, or via a cheque in the mail.
Common Questions about Dividends
Are dividends guaranteed?
No. No-one is holding a gun to the board of directors telling them to pay dividends (well, at least, we hope there isn't!). Sometimes, a board of directors will think the money is better off being used by them and reinvested in the company.
How often are dividends paid?
Dividends are often paid half-yearly. These two dividends are called the 'interim' and 'final' dividends. However, dividends can also be paid quarterly.
What is a DRP?
Often, your company will give you the choice to receive the dividend as new shares in the company. This is known as a dividend reinvestment plan or DRP. In this case, the company keeps the cash for investment and just credits your stockbroking account with more shares. To entice you to do this they will sometimes issue the shares at a discount to market prices.
Why do companies pay dividends?
Companies pay dividends to keep their shareholders happy. Generally, larger and more stable companies pay a regular dividend to compensate for slower growth.
What is the ex-dividend date?
If you own shares on the day BEFORE the ex-dividend date, you will get the next dividend. The ex-dividend date is typically one day before the record date, which is the date the company determines who is a shareholder and how much they will get.
For example, if the ex-dividend date is tomorrow and you are a shareholder you will get the next dividend paid to you, even though the company may take a day to determine who is entitled to the dividend (the record date).
What is a 'cum dividend' share?
When a share is 'cum dividend' it means the shareholders of those shares will receive the next dividend. Once it passes the ex-dividend date the shares become 'ex-dividend'. The shares will be EXcluding dividends.
What is a dividend payment date?
It is the day the dividend money is sent to you.
Why do share prices fall when a share goes ex-dividend?
Typically, companies pay dividends out of their cash reserves. As a part-owner of the company via your shares, the amount of cash in your company will be reduced. Therefore, if your company pays out $1 per share in dividends, it should be worth $1 per share less after it has paid the dividend, right? That's why it falls.
What are franking credits?
Franking credits are a tax credit paid by companies on behalf of Australian residents. We have made an entire video dedicated to franking credits. (Hint: if you are eligible, franking credits can be tax-effective).
Can private companies pay dividends?
Absolutely. You might be the only shareholder in your own private company. You can still pay yourself a dividend. Talk to your accountant first.
What are preference share dividends?
Generally, when you buy shares on the sharemarket you get 'ordinary' shares. However, there are other types of shares called 'preference shares' that entitle those shareholders to something before ordinary shareholders. Usually, it means they get a fixed rate of dividends and must get paid before you do. Not all companies have preference shares.
What are the rules about paying dividends in Australia?
In Australia, a company's directors can declare a dividend only if¹:
The company's assets are greater than its liabilities
The dividend is fair and reasonable to all shareholders
The company could still pay its creditors after it pays the dividend
Sources: ¹Corporations Act Cth (2001), Section 254T 1-2
Jill tells Stacey, "I loathe my ex-husband, but I got some bank shares in our divorce and they go ex-dividend tomorrow." Will Jill receive the dividend on the payment date?
The ex-dividend date is BEFORE the record date, which is the day the company determines who will be paid a dividend. Therefore, Jill will receive the dividend.
Jill's bank shares paid $1 in dividends this year, the price of her bank shares is $10. What's the dividend yield?
10% ($1 / $10)
1,000% (because maths isn't real)
Dividend yield is calculated as: annual dividends / share price.
Why do share prices fall when a company's shares go from 'cum-dividend' to 'ex-dividend'?
Because the company pays cash to all shareholders, so the share price adjusts for the lower cash balance
Because sharemarkets are risky
Share prices fall after the ex-dividend to reflect that money has been paid out from the company to shareholders.
QUIZ: What are dividends?
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Perfect score!
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RCH Mental Health is a service you can turn to when there are serious concerns about an infant’s, child’s or adolescent’s mental health and wellbeing.
We provide a range of hospital inpatient, specialist, consultation and community mental health services for infants, children and adolescents/young people. Our teams are generally interdisciplinary (a mix of mental health care professionals of different backgrounds). They have extensive child, youth and family expertise. We assess young people and offer a range of ways to help in recovery from a mental illness.
Our mental health professionals include:
Child Psychotherapists
Paediatricians (doctors)
Psychiatrists (doctors)
Speech Pathologists.
Choice, partnership and participation by young people and their families/carers are central to how we work. In addition to our direct clinical work, we support organisations and professionals working with infants, children, adolescents and families through:
Providing information and advice on mental health issues and resources
Training and education activities
Working closely with our hospital and community based services and community partners to improve how we work together to help young people.
For more information see our brochure What to expect at our mental health service in English, an Arabic translation of this brochure, and a Vietnamese translation of this brochure .
Mental Health Act 2014
The new Mental Health Act started from 1st July 2014.
About the Act
It is an exciting era in the history of mental health. This legislation has been created to empower the consumer and their families, carers and Nominated Persons to have a voice, and active participation in their journey to recovery.
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, is a designated mental health facility and is regulated under the new Act.
We look forward to collaboratively working together with young people and their families in making their experience a positive one.
The principles of the Act are that:
Assessment and treatment provided in the least restrictive way possible
People are supported to make or participate in decisions about assessment, treatment and recovery including decisions that involve a degree of risk
Rights, dignity and autonomy to be respected and promoted
Holistic care (mental and physical health needs including alcohol and other drugs) that is responsive to individual needs
Best interests of children and young people receiving mental health services to be promoted
Needs, wellbeing and safety of children, young persons and other dependents to be protected
Carers to be involved in decisions about assessment, treatment and recovery whenever possible
To read the Act and Regulations click the following links:
Mental Health Regulations 2014
Advance Statement - Practice Guide
Nominated Persons, Families and Carers - Practice Guide
MHA 2014 forms
Links to the forms used under the Act are below.
Please remember to use colour copies for original documents.
MH Act Forms
Advance statement
Advance statement revocation
Nomination of nominated person
Revocation of nominated person who made the nomination
Mental Health Tribunal Forms
About the Orders
Specific information including flowcharts:
Assessment Order
Temporary Treatment Order
Treatment Order
Young person and parent/carer information
Link to 'Statement of Rights' which must be provided to the consumer and relevant people when any order is made out:
Statement of Rights (12 available)
Advanced Statements - Carers and Consumers Guide
Nominated Person - A Guide for Consumers, Carers and Families
Nominated Person - A Guide for People in the role of the Nominated Person
Note: As of 29 September 2014, no translations of documents are available. The RCH understands this is being developed by the Department of Health.
A useful link with information in other languages about the Mental Health Act 2014 can be found at the Victoria Legal Aid website.
Other useful links and resources
Victorian Department of Health
Victoria's Mental Health Services
Office for the Chief Psychiatrist
Community Visitors (Office of the Public Advocate)
Ambulance Services in Victoria
Training, queries and feedback
Resources used for training are available through the links below:
RCH MHA training slides
Department of Health MHA overview
MHA Presentation to Emergency Department staff
Please contact us if you:
Have specific questions
Would like to know about what training support we can provide
Our services are mainly for young people aged 0-15 years and their families who live in the Western and Northwestern metropolitan regions of Melbourne. See our map on this page . We generally see infants, children and adolescents with the most severe and complex mental illnesses. There are a range of other places you can access for mild to moderate difficulties and illnesses. See our community resources sections for children, adolescents and parents and carers more details. We also have a range of statewide services that young people up to the age of 18 may be able to use too. It is best to check with our Intake (Triage) Team to be sure. A general rule is if you need our help:
our hospital-based services (at the Emergency Department; on a ward; or as regular psychology outpatient where you may or may not have another medical condition) are available to you if you live anywhere in Victoria, Tasmania or southern New South Wales
our outpatient services are generally available to you if you live in our metropolitan areas listed above.
Here is a link from the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services that should tell you if you live in a suburb we generally provide community-based outpatient services to.
Our services are generally free of charge or Medicare bulk-billed. A few psychology clinics may charge a gap fee for their work; and if your child/adolescent is an inpatient, you may be asked about the option of using your private health insurance at no cost to you.
If you are unsure about whether your child would benefit from mental health care or our service, you may wish to talk to someone about whether a referral is appropriate. Please see details of how to contact us. Self referrals (by the young person or their parent or carer) can be made, although generally it is good to have seen your local doctor (a GP), specialist doctor (e.g. Paediatrician) or other health care worker or School Welfare Coordinator.
Everyone seeking or receiving care at RCH Mental Health has certain rights and responsibilities with regard to access, safety, respect, information, participation, privacy and complaints. Our service is committed to ensure that these rights and responsibilities are recognised and upheld at all times
It is important that families accessing and using our service know and understand their rights and responsibilities
The following short video was developed to give parents and carers an overview of such rights and responsibilities
Speakers of Vietnamese can view a translated version of this video below.
Bệhn Viện Tâm Thần Nhi Ðồng – Thông tin dành cho gia dình: Quyền lợi và trách nhiệm
Vietnamese version
Turkish version
For detailed information about your rights and responsibilities please refer to our brochure “Your rights and responsibilities. Charter for parents and carers”. Click here to access this information
We have also produced a Rights and Responsibilities Checklist to help you make sure you are receiving all the information about your rights and responsibilities, and that they are being taken seriously throughout your involvement with our service. Click here to access the checklist.
Mental Health believes in the vision and values of The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. We strive for better mental health and wellbeing for infants, children and adolescents with their families, carers and communities.
We are committed to achieving our goals and improving mental health outcomes through
delivering great care in partnership with consumers, families, carers and colleagues
promoting a culture of enquiry in its staff and provides an ideal setting for staff to develop clinical and research skills
leading the development of a system of care that enhances mental health and wellbeing
actively seeking to engage and assist vulnerable children, young people and their families in their own health and wellbeing
advocating for the development of research with campus partners to support existing campus strengths, address service design and implementation of evidence-based practice.
Festival for Healthy Living
Read about the Festival for Health Living.
If there is an urgent concern about an infant, child or adolescent’s mental health and wellbeing:
Call 000 and ask for an ambulance
If it is safe to drive, attend your nearest emergency department for assessment.
For all other times, please see details of how to contact us.
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An Intimate Look at Sea Creatures Large and Tiny
Daryl Chen
“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected” to the sea, writes eminent oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle in a new book, capturing the poetry of life swimming under the waves.
Indian Ocean: the Seychelles
Norbert Wu/Minden Picture/National Geographic Creative
A pair of spotted porcelain crabs perch on the slippery edge of a giant anemone. They have a mutualistic relationship: The crabs keep the anemone clean, while the anemone and its poisonous tentacles act as deadly bouncers to keep predators away from the petite, 1.4-inch-long crustaceans. Check out these rare photos of ocean’s invertebrates.
North Pacific Ocean: Honshu, Japan
Brian Skerry
The yellow goby fish, also known as an Okinawa goby, likes to live in coral reefs, but here it has taken shelter in a discarded soda can. The teeny, 1.5-inch-long fish is endowed with a powerful biological defense against attackers: It makes itself unpleasant to eat by secreting a bitter, poisonous mucus. Ever wonder how much sleep each animals needs. Here are the numbers for the cutest ones.
Arctic Ocean: Nunavut, Canada
Paul Nicklen/National Geographic Creative
Drifting pack ice enables a walrus to remain near a favored foraging area, a clam bed in Foxe Basin. North of Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin is home to Canada’s largest walrus population: around 6,000. These unexpected animal heroes saved the day.
South Pacific Ocean: Shark Reef, Fiji
Mattias Klum/National Geographic Creative
Clinging to its fast-moving host, a remora finds safe transport aboard a whitetip reef shark. Not considered dangerous to humans, the shark is relatively small, maxing out at five feet. The relationship between the two creatures is one that’s win-win: Remoras feed on parasites and keep the sharks clean; the sharks provide a swift ride, protection, and leftover food. These animals are a lot smarter than you may think.
Arctic Ocean: Spitsbergen, Norway
Ralph Lee Hopkins/NGC
A polar bear and her cubs walk along the pack ice near the coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard Archipelago—and in Norway. Polar bears are the beloved symbol of the island, which has a human population of 2,642. If you want a good laugh read up on these funny animal jokes.
South Pacific Ocean: Great Barrier Reef, Australia
David Doubilet/National Geographic Creative
A marine scientist dives above a garden of corals of the Great Detached Reef, the far northern section of the Great Barrier Reef. Since the 1950s, nearly half of the world’s coral reefs have disappeared or are in a state of sharp decline.
See the splendors of the sea
“Every cubic mile [of the ocean] is a thriving metropolis of large, medium, and exquisitely small lives interacting in ways that make Earth more hospitable for life as we know it,” writes pioneering oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle in the new National Geographic book, Blue Hope: Exploring and Caring for Earth’s Magnificent Ocean. In the book, you can find all of the preceding photos, discover more fascinating, fantastical creatures, and learn about the state of our seas.
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US MDOT to deploy smart traffic signals on 14 corridors in Maryland
Umesh 27 October 2017
The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) in the US is set to invest $50.3m to deploy Smart Traffic Signals on 14 major corridors across the state.
The signals, which use real-time traffic conditions and computer software, will improve traffic operation and ease congestion for around 700,000 drivers a day.
Adjusting the timing of traffic signals, the software synchronises the entire corridor and deploys artificial intelligence to keep traffic moving.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said: “Last month, our administration introduced a bold Traffic Relief Plan beginning with three massive, unprecedented projects to widen the Capital Beltway, I-270, and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
“By replacing 20-year-old existing controls with Smart Traffic Signals, we will have the ability to respond to changes in traffic flow, as well as traffic conditions immediately; benefitting nearly 700,000 Maryland citizens across the state.”
“Last month, our administration introduced a bold Traffic Relief Plan beginning with three massive, unprecedented projects to widen the Capital Beltway, I-270, and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.”
An adaptive signal control system integrated with Smart Signals uses improved detection to monitor traffic conditions and alter the timing of traffic signals.
Set to replace existing controls that are more than 20 years old, the smart signals are unresponsive to the constant changes in traffic flow.
With the new technology in place, factors such as crashes, construction, and special events that contribute to congestion are quickly considered, and the software adjusts the timing to the signals accordingly.
Traffic engineers will select intersections to upgrade to Smart Signals based on factors such as traffic volume, intersection capacity, and traffic patterns.
The Smart Signal Network is the second phase of Hogan’s Traffic Relief Plan.
Hogan announced the first phase to invest $9bn last month to add four new lanes to I-270, the Capital Beltway (I-495), and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD 295).
TRB Lightweight Structures
TRB designs and manufactures lightweight composite structures, which include carbon-fibre...
TRB designs and manufactures lightweight composite structures, which include carbon-fibre battery enclosures for the electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid road vehicle markets.
CKC Equipment
CKC Equipment designs, develops and sources products for the global...
CKC Equipment designs, develops and sources products for the global civil construction and mining industries.
JES Elektrotechnik
JES Elektrotechnik (JES) is a leading provider of environmental monitoring...
JES Elektrotechnik (JES) is a leading provider of environmental monitoring solutions for transport infrastructure applications.
t/FL-DP Air Flow Monitoring System
t/FL-DP is positioned at two points in a tunnel cross section and measures the longitudinal air flow.
t/FL-US Ultrasonic Air Flow Monitoring System
Measurement of air speed and direction to control the tunnel ventilation.
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March 30 2016 Edition
News Digest March 30 2016
Issue March 30, 2016
SLC Fashion Show travels the globe
Champlain–St. Lawrence (SLC) students held a fashion show at the Musée de la Civilisation on March 25. Together, the audience and the models took “flights of fashion” to cities all around the globe. At each new city, students modeled clothing and accessories inspired by the city’s distinct culture.
John Neilson exhibit visited by doppelgänger
By Shirley Nadeau [email protected]
Photo: Shirley Nadeau
Good Friday Ecumenical Walk with the Cross
By Catherine Musgrove [email protected]
Photo: Catherine Musgrove
The story behind Rue Luxembourg
By Bill Cox [email protected]
Photo: Bill Cox
Rue Luxembourg, a short street in the Sillery district of Quebec City, was named after a famous group of refugees – the Imperial family of Austria and the family of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg – who came to Canada during the Second World War.
Register NOW for Quebec High School’s 8th annual TRIVIA NIGHT!
By Ed Sweeney
You are invited to join us for Quebec High School’s 8th annual Trivia Night showdown, which will be held on Friday, April 22, starting at 6:30 p.m.
St. Lawrence Lions move on to league finals
By Mike Labadie
Photo: Christian Brosseau
The St. Lawrence Lions Division 1 regular season hockey champions took their playoff crusade to Sainte-Thérèse, just north of Montreal, on Good Friday and closed the semi-final series with a 6-5 win against Cégep Lionel-Groulx.
“Thank you” to the cast and crew of Grosse Île: Une histoire chorale
By Hubert “UB” Radoux, co-author, Grosse Île: Une histoire chorale
ImagiNation 2016 nourishes more than your mind
By Elizabeth Perreault
Memorials and Things of Fame
By Researched and compiled by Catherine Mills-Rouleau
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QSC Enhances Cinema Automation with New Q-SYS Plugin
Costa Mesa, Calif. (July 11, 2019) – QSC announces a plugin that allows users to discover and control any JNIOR models 410, 412, or 414 automation controller, manufactured by INTEG Process Group, Inc. within the Q-SYS Ecosystem. JNIOR automation devices are commonly used in cinemas around the world for easy and reliable control of masking motors, lighting controllers and auxiliary content sources that can accept or send commands to GPIO interfaces, serial interfaces or relays. This new plugin enables automated theatre functionality within Q-SYS, allows direct interface with a JNIOR controller, and supports the ability to build the JNIORs into the overall automation schemes for a movie theatre. The Q-SYS JNIOR plugin is available via Q-SYS Designer Asset Manager within Q-SYS Designer Software. Asset Manager is a cloud-based feature that allows system designers to…
QSC Powers Jordan Rudess’ KeyFest at Sweetwater
FORT WAYNE, IN (July 9, 2019) – Jordan Rudess may be best known as the fleet-fingered synth shredder in prog-metal phenomenon Dream Theater, but he’s also an educator, sound designer, virtual instrument app developer, and tireless evangelist of the joys of learning to play. Yearly, he puts on KeyFest, an intensive three-day clinic for keyboardists of all levels of ability, at the expansive facilities of acclaimed retailer, Sweetwater. This year’s co-instructors included David Rosenthal (Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper) and Latin jazz star Otmaro Ruiz. To hear and capture it all, KeyFest 2019’s live sound equipment was QSC—which, given the vast array of options available on the Sweetwater campus, is a testament to the brand’s performance and fidelity. Two clinician rooms were each outfitted with K12.2 powered loudspeakers for mains, K8.2 loudspeakers as monitors, and a…
Singer Songwriter Raquel Lily using QSC
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QSC Launches Firmware v2.0 for its acclaimed TouchMix-30 Pro Digital Mixer
Costa Mesa, CA (June 18th, 2019) – [De, Es, Fr] – QSC, LLC is pleased to introduce a major firmware v2.0 update to its highly acclaimed TouchMix-30 Pro compact digital mixer. Quickly becoming the new standard for performance in a compact digital mixer, the TouchMix-30 Pro with firmware v2.0 now further satisfies the needs of the most demanding professionals with a comprehensive list of the most-requested feature enhancements including: New Custom Fader Banks function supporting three fader bank assignments, each with eight channels, that are saved as part of a Mixer Scene Capability to interface with third-party external control surfaces with motorized faders (QSC has verified operation with iCon Platform M+, Behringer XTouch Compact and PreSonus FaderPort 8 control surfaces) 28 New Instruments Presets (Cajon, Accordion, Harmonica, Ukulele, Cello, Clarinet,…
QSC Releases DPM Manager™ Software 3.0
Costa Mesa, Calif. (June 17, 2019) – QSC announces the addition of DPM Director as part of the latest release of DPM Manager™ Software 3.0. The iPhone application, available first with an Android version to follow, allows technicians to control and monitor with ease. Further enhancements to the software include improved workflow and new Intrinsic Correction settings. “We developed the software with theatre managers and technicians in mind, from the challenges they face to everyday theatre operations. One of the priorities was to enhance the control and monitoring features, and DPM Director was the solution,” says Laura Mercs, Senior Technical Director. “Theatre management and technicians are now able to view the status of their DPM processor/monitor or DCM crossover/monitor and control volume, and mute or preset directly from their laptop, tablet, or mobile device…
QSC Celebrates 10 Years of the Q-SYS Ecosystem
Costa Mesa, Calif. (June 12, 2019) – [De, Es] – QSC is proud to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Q-SYS Ecosystem. Introduced at InfoComm in 2009, today’s milestone represents a decade of continuous development and innovation of the industry’s only software-based audio, video and control ecosystem built from day one with standard IT technology. “We had a vision to create a software-based system that incorporated not only audio, but also made video and control more accessible, which is why we originally called the project ‘INTEVAC 3000’ for ‘integrated video, audio and control’”, says John Britton, Chief Architect, Installed Systems and one of the original architects of Q-SYS. “We focused the first stages of Q-SYS development on large, complex and demanding projects like stadiums, cruise ships and airports, all of which could truly benefit from a networked…
QSC Expands AcousticDesign Series with New Column Surface-Mount Loudspeakers
Costa Mesa, Calif. (June 12, 2019) – [De] – QSC introduces an exciting line extension of the AcousticDesign™ Series column surface-mount loudspeaker with the new AD-S402T. It consists of four weather-treated 2.5-inch transducers and is capable of 70 V / 100 V or 8 ohm bypass loads, making it highly optimized for delivering high quality sound performance within challenging acoustic environments. “Column loudspeakers are ideal for highly reverberant rooms or rooms with high ceilings that need a narrow vertical beam directed toward the ear of the listener,” says Travis Nie, Product Manager, Installed Loudspeakers, QSC. “In addition, they provide a more aesthetically pleasing look and blend with any environment. We designed the AcousticDesign Series column loudspeakers to address these needs while providing a more consistent listening experience with improved speech…
QSC Introduces Several New Control Plugins including Zoom Rooms
Costa Mesa, Calif. (June 11, 2019) – [De, Es, Fr] – QSC announces the availability of several new control plugins, allowing for faster integration of Zoom Rooms, Roku devices, PJLink-capable projectors, Mersive Solstice Pods, and Global Cache iTach devices with the Q-SYS Ecosystem. Programmers can quickly and easily download and install any of these new plugins through the Q-SYS Asset Manager portal within Q-SYS Designer Software. “With the flexibility of the Q-SYS Ecosystem and the Asset Manager, we are now able to expedite new plugin development without waiting for a new Q-SYS Designer Software release,” says Greg Mattson, Product Manager, Q-SYS Control, QSC. “This allows integrators to take advantage of custom plugins for some of the most commonly used devices and platforms in today’s meeting rooms, and expedite the integration process while taking advantage of the…
QSC Introduces Software-based Dante for the Q-SYS Ecosystem
Costa Mesa, Calif. and Portland, Ore. (June 5, 2019) – QSC today announces Software-based Dante® for the Q-SYS™ Ecosystem. As part of its strategic technology partnership with Audinate, Q-SYS feature licenses will enable native Dante networked audio integration without the need for additional hardware I/O or external configuration software. Integrators can easily add Dante audio natively as an extension of the Q-SYS integrated audio, video & control workflow. They can also take full advantage of robust functionality—such as device discovery, synchronization, control and management for Dante—directly within Q-SYS Designer Software environment (or within an external instance of Dante Controller if desired). Because Q-SYS operates over standard IT network infrastructure, Dante audio data works seamlessly with Q-SYS AV&C data, eliminating the need for challenging…
Deconstructing Network Video Distribution
QSC Opens its new SAARC Headquarters in Bengaluru, India
Costa Mesa, Calif. (May 23, 2019) – [De, Es, Fr] – QSC today celebrates the inauguration of its new SAARC headquarters in Bengaluru, India. The new office is 9,270 sq. ft. and serves as a business development, management and support hub for QSC Systems, Live Sound and Cinema businesses in the region. It also serves as a dedicated training and demonstration area and includes a 13,760 sq. ft. terrace space for customer events. “Over the last few years, QSC has been dedicated to growing its international presence, and this new entity is a crucial piece of that strategy,” says Markus Winkler, SVP, EMEA South Asia, & Managing Director QSC EMEA GmbH. “As we continue to experience tremendous growth in SAARC year-over-year in all our business units, this dedicated facility will allows us to accelerate our growth trajectory in the coming years.” “Our business partners in…
QSC Announces New Distribution Partner for Iberia
Sinsheim, Germany (May 16, 2019) – [De, Fr, Es] QSC announces the appointment of Earpro, S.A. as a new distribution partner for the Iberian region, effective June 1, 2019. As a leading global AV Pro solutions distributor (audio, lighting, video and control), Earpro will represent both QSC Live Sound and Systems solutions in Spain, Portugal and Andorra. “We are excited to partner with such an experienced and highly professional distribution partner to expand the QSC brand for both the Live Sound and Systems businesses in the Iberian region,” says Ron Marchant, Senior Director Distribution Management QSC EMEA. “As part of this transition, we would also like to thank SoundLight for their commitment and partnership during the last years.” Miguel Mezquita, Managing Director of Earpro says, "After leading the professional audio distribution for the last 30 years in Iberia,…
QSC K.2 Loudspeakers Delight Musicians and Audiences Alike at Arizona’s Low Key Piano Bar
Glendale, AZ (May 14, 2019) – There’s nothing quite like the phenomenon of dueling pianos to get people out to enjoy live music together. Located in the popular Westgate sports and entertainment district of Glendale, Arizona, Low Key Piano Bar needed a sound system with ample punch to deliver all the humor and emotion of their high impact performances, along with the finesse to reproduce all the musical detail. Following the recommendations of a number of their pianists, they chose QSC K.2 Series powered loudspeakers and KS212C cardioid powered subwoofers. Designed by Adolfo Acevedo of regional QSC reps ProTech Marketing and sold by Sal Davi of Guitar Center Pro, the system comprises four K12.2 at front of house, two K12.2 plus one K10.2 as stage monitors, a dozen K8.2 units distributed throughout back bars and other ancillary spaces, and two KS212C cardioid…
QSC Expands North America Sales Team
Costa Mesa, Calif. (May 9, 2019) – QSC is excited to announce an expansion of its North American sales team with two new members - Jason Baez, Business Development Manager for the Central Region, and Jake Corlett, Director, Consultant Liaison and Canadian National Sales Manager. “We are very excited to add these two seasoned AV professionals to our North America sales roster,” says Frank West, Senior Director Sales, QSC Systems. “As the Q-SYS Ecosystem continues to build momentum in the AV market as the new standard for audio, video and control, QSC continues to invest in expanding regional field talent to provide best-in-class sales and system support. We look forward to introducing more customers to Jason and Jake, each of whom have already made an immediate impact to our business in their respective regions.” Jason joins QSC from Harman where he served as the…
QSC Brings ‘Avengers: Endgame’ to Life for World Premiere in Los Angeles
Costa Mesa, Calif. (April 30, 2019) – [Es, De] – QSC is proud to announce it provided sound for the spectacular world premiere of Avengers: Endgame on April 22 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Premiere guests enjoyed a stunning presentation of film in DolbyVision and ATMOS using QSC loudspeakers, amplifiers, and signal processing featuring Q-SYS in a custom-built movie theater. Altogether, the system used ten WideLine 10 line array loudspeakers and three WL218-sw subwoofers per screen channel, totaling thirty WideLine 10’s, and nine WL 218-sw’s suspended behind the 30 by 70-foot screen. Twelve SB-7218 double 18-inch subwoofers handled the extended low frequencies of the subwoofer channel. The overhead speakers for Dolby Atmos immersive sound required sixteen SR-5152 loudspeakers. An additional sixteen SR-5152 loudspeakers provided coverage on the left and right…
QSC expands AcousticDesign™ Series with new Transformer-less Surface-Mount Loudspeaker Option
Costa Mesa, Calif. (April 29, 2019) – [De, Es, Fr] – QSC today introduces the new AD-S6, a transformer-less surface mount 6.5-inch two-way loudspeaker. As part of the AcousticDesign™ Series, this new loudspeaker is ideal for foreground and background music (BGM/FGM) applications, as well as installations specifically requiring higher SPL foreground sound reinforcement. “The AD-S6 is an ideal addition to our Premium Business Music solutions that were specifically designed to meet the high-performance needs of foreground applications,” said Travis Nie, Product Manager, Installed Loudspeakers, QSC. “We are excited to expand our popular AcousticDesign Series with a loudspeaker that is nearly identical to AD-S6T, but with the AD-S6 we lowered the cost by removing the transformer and providing 16 ohm nominal impedance, making it ideal for use in low impedance distributed…
Dweezil Zappa Chooses QSC as Reference for Classic Guitar Tones
Los Angeles, CA (April 23, 2019) — Dweezil Zappa knows a thing or two about guitar. Steeped in music since early childhood thanks to his father — virtuoso rock guitarist and maverick composer Frank Zappa — Dweezil’s own illustrious career has become the poster for an encyclopedic knowledge of technique, tone, and gear, bolstered by the perfectionism and work ethic that famously runs in the family. From his solo work to his tribute project encompassing his father, Frank Zappa’s Astounding Compositions, to his upcoming tenure on the 2019 Experience Hendrix tour, Dweezil has relied on QSC powered loudspeakers to recreate iconic guitar tones and craft entirely new ones. In his latest stage rigs, these include multiple K12.2 and K10.2 cabinets. “I first discovered QSC close to 11 years ago,” recalls Zappa. “I had started using and the Axe Effects digital modeling devices…
Flight of Voices Journeys Far And Wide with QSC
Los Angeles, CA (April 8, 2019) — If great music is like fine wine, then Los Angeles-based collective Flight of Voices is music’s sommelier. Calling on an extensive stock of artists, their tastings offer a diverse musical palate for audiences to savor. These ensembles perform in a wide variety of unique indoor and outdoor venues from Malibu’s Saddlerock Gardens to the legendary Village Studios to a room in Beverly Hills made entirely of pink salt. Needing a powerful but lightweight and easy-to-use P.A. system, they found QSC to be the perfect pairing. Everything is mixed and recorded with a TouchMix-30 Pro compact digital mixer. Two K12.2 powered loudspeakers serve as mains, supplemented by a KS112 powered subwoofer and three K10.2 powered loudspeakers handle monitor duties. “We do gigs in all different kinds of locations,” says co-owner Alex Nimier. “Mountains,…
Drummer Kaz Rodriguez Using TouchMix
QSC Expands the Q-SYS Ecosystem for Cinema Applications
Costa Mesa, Calif. (March 27, 2019) – QSC announces additions to the Q-SYS Ecosystem, including new DPA-Q Series network power amplifiers, Q-SYS NS Series network switches, and the Q-SYS NV Series network video endpoint. DPA-Q SeriesThe new DPA-Q Series amplifiers are four- and eight-channel network amplifiers uniting the QSC legacy of robust power amplifiers, advancements in high-efficiency output devices and native network transport, and the control and monitoring capabilities of the Q-SYS Ecosystem. DPA-Q Series amplifiers are fully native components of the Q-SYS audio, video and control (AV&C) Ecosystem. Like all Q-SYS peripherals, DPA-Q Series amplifiers offer simple drag-and-drop integration into a Q-SYS design, enabling network routing, advanced processing (including Intrinsic Correction™ custom voicings for QSC loudspeakers) and control. This expedites the…
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Here’s What Michael Keaton Thinks About Spider-Man Homecoming
by Amy Fanai
Spider-Man: Homecoming released its first official trailer last weekend to positive reviews from both fans and critics alike. Not only did Spider-Man finally seem to get the movie fans had been waiting decades for, the trailer also introduced the super villain of the film- The Vulture.
Michael Keaton, the actor who plays The Vulture portrayed the villain as a menacing character who seemed dangerous because he had nothing to lose. Maybe Keaton’s channeled a bit of Batman (Keaton played the Dark Knight in 1989’s Batman) for the role, as he put the fear of God into viewer’s hearts with his cold stare and harsh, gravelly voice. Keaton for his part seemed to be the perfect actor to play the role, and if history is correct, MCU has never miscast their actors.
In his interview with Deadline, Michael Keaton had nothing but praise for Homecoming and Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor revealed his favorite part of being in the MCU:
“That is one well-oiled machine. It is remarkable how they have got that whole thing covered in a really qualitative way. Just how efficient it is, in the best sense, and how it operates on a practical level. How organized they are about what they make and how conscientious they are about what they have. They’ve got really wonderful actors for one thing, but I guess that has always been the case. Batman always had great actors surrounding that character. We had Pat Hingle and all these terrific actors. They really get that script is important, and they really protect their lore and that culture and they see the enormity of it, on a capitalistic level.”
Given Keaton’s past experience working on the Batman movie, prior to Cinematic Universes, movies, it seems like the actor is more than ready to take on more of what Marvel has to offer. Sony had toyed with the idea of making a Sinister Six movie during the Andrew Garfield age of Spider-Man, so would the studio still have consideration for it with Marvel? Keaton and his Vulture character seem like prime candidates for the first member even if he has never seen any of the movies,” I just haven’t. It’s not a judgment.”
Amy Fanai
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Breeder Gerry Callanan will discover tomorrow if his case against Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) over the Foal Levy is to be referred to the Supreme Court, in a case that could have profound implications for the Irish bloodstock industry.
At a hearing in Naas Circuit Court last month, Judge James O’Donohoe allowed HRI’s appeal against a 2016 Small Claims Court judgment which found in favour of Callanan who owns Nanallac Stud near Monasterevin, County Kildare.
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Your Reaction: What did you think of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?
Kasper Holten makes his farewell with a performance of Wagner's comic opera, conducted by Antonio Pappano and starring Bryn Terfel.
By Mel Spencer (Senior Editor (Social Media))
13 March 2017 at 11.38am | 49 Comments
Bryn Terfel in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, The Royal Opera © 2017 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda
Loved the satirical undertones at #ROHmeistersinger and how much it says about the importance of being open-minded - always @RoyalOperaHouse
— Petra Seipp (@RetraRetro) March 12, 2017
#ROHmeistersinger the production missed all the tingle factors I usually experience in this, my favourite opera
— Michael Llewellyn (@michael456789) March 12, 2017
Can't get over #ROHmeistersinger. Just sumptuous & soaring, w @Bryn_Terfel, Kränzle, Pappano & orchestra (omg horns!!!) on FIRE tonight.
— Shiru Lim (@halbsoschlimm) March 12, 2017
@Bryn_Terfel is an amazing Sachs (such a demanding role...)
He's really the Meryl Streep of the Opera world. #ROHmeistersinger
— Stef... who? (@magicfingers72) March 12, 2017
Bryn Terfel and Royal Opera Chorus in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, The Royal Opera © 2017 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda
Fab performance by singers & orchestra tonight led by Pappano. Production had some good points, not convinced by all. #rohmeistersinger
— Maria Thomas (@mariarthomas) March 11, 2017
@TheRoyalOpera #ROHmeistersinger Great singing and orchestra. But the production's sledgehammer message is as fatuous as it is tedious.
— Paul Murray (@paul_a_murray) March 11, 2017
#ROHmeistersinger is a wonderful company achievement, with great performers and a @ROHChorus and orchestra giving us their best — Sebastian (@Sebastian_G_A) March 11, 2017
Can't possibly sleep. Far too excited after the dazzling but also very moving #ROHmeistersinger. Five hours flew by...
— Jane Lawrence (@eucalyptus44) March 11, 2017
Bryn Terfel, Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Gwyn Hughes Jones in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, The Royal Opera © 2017 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda
What an unforgettable, festive, thought-provoking #ROHmeistersinger congrats @kasperholten
— Tess Somervell (@tesssomervell) March 12, 2017
I can't stop thinking about #ROHmeistersinger. @kasperholten has made me feel very uncomfortable and utterly beguiled me.
— Benjamin Poore (@Benjamin_Poore) March 12, 2017
#rohmeistersinger wonderful performance and production this evening. Thanks to all. Underlines European culture and its celebration
— Adrian Hill (@adrianhealth) March 11, 2017
Wonderful. Superb performances by Bryn Terfel & Gwyn Hughes Jones. Ardderchog. #ROHmeistersinger
— Gerallt Jones (@ogeralltjones) March 12, 2017
Press reviews:
City AM ★★★★★
Express ★★★★
Music OMH ★★★½
Evening Standard ★★★
Broadway World ★★★
Guardian ★★★
The Stage ★★★
Telegraph ★★★
Times (£) ★★★
Daily Mail ★★★
Bachtrack ★★★
Financial Times ★★★
Arts Desk ★★
WhatsOnStage ★★
What did you think of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?
Share your thoughts via the comments below.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg runs until 31 March 2017. Tickets are still available, and more tickets at a range of prices are released each Friday at 1pm for performances in the following week as part of Friday Rush.
The production is a co-production with National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing, and Opera Australia, and is given with generous philanthropic support from Mrs Susan A. Olde OBE, Dr Genevieve Davies, Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet, Maggie Copus, Peter and Fiona Espenhahn, Malcolm Herring, The Metherell Family, Die Meistersinger Production Syndicate and the Wagner Circle.
13 March 2017 at 11.38am
This article has been categorised Exhibition, Opera and tagged Bryn Terfel, by Kasper Holten, Die Meistersinger, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Kasper Holten, Production, Rachel Willis-sorensen, reivew, twitter, Wagner, your reaction
This article has 49 comments
Peter Lewis responded on 13 March 2017 at 12:31pm Reply
The performance was exceptionally good from all the principles and chorus. Exquisite playing coaxed out by Pappano. I liked the set though the revolving nature was a bit distracting. The overal production and direction supposedly had a modern political message but it didn't occur to me until others started mentioning it later. Sorry, I just didn't get it. I'd give it 4 stars for a brave final effort from KH.
Robert Garbolinski responded on 13 March 2017 at 1:02pm Reply
The production is a mess (must have cost a fortune) and hopefully will not be seen again. Good musically.
Charles Briggs responded on 13 March 2017 at 4:55pm Reply
It was a marvellous day (8th March) and the production and music remain with me as a lasting memory.
Mark Gilbert responded on 13 March 2017 at 7:14pm Reply
I saw the production on Saturday 11th.
Though I found the prelude a bit underwhelming (though always dangerous to compare the CD blasting out at home vs amphi) Act 1 was very enjoyable. The set was a bit claustrophobic for this Act, but was a lot better than I expected it to be.
I'm not sure what to say about Act 2 other than the production was a complete mess. It just didn't work for me, and though well choreographed, did not make sense nor fit in with the supposed setting or storyline.
I thought the production was ok for the main part of Act 3, and the costumes were good.
The singing was well performed by everyone and the chorus, only picky negative was the applause by the chorus during Act 3 was a bit loud compared with the orchestra.
Having trumpets up in the amphi was good (not sure if they were elsewhere outside of the pit), and certainly gave a few people a real surprise.
I was pleased I'd been, but hope that we don't get to see this production again and something more respectful to the setting is done next time.
Kevin Grainger responded on 13 March 2017 at 9:26pm Reply
Musically excellent but what a dire production! With previous productions, both here and at ENO, I have found the opera a totally life enhancing experience - this was anything but. I left the theatre feeling quite depressed.
Helen Anderson responded on 13 March 2017 at 9:28pm Reply
I was thrilled to manage to get a ticket and go to Die Meistersinger- as a fairly new opera goer I had no preconceptions. I loved the orchestra, conductor, singers and the production. I sort of understood in my own way what Kasper Holton was getting at in his production and staging. What a wonderful opera and thanks to everyone at ROH who contributed to a great day.
Giulia Breakwell responded on 13 March 2017 at 11:10pm Reply
I'm so looking forward to my visit on 22nd March, then I can make up my own mind.....!!
Jane Garratt responded on 14 March 2017 at 7:31am Reply
Generally I thought this production worked well. I particularly liked the staging of the first act and the second half of the third act. I wasn't convinced by the rotating set which was really distracting. I would be engrossed in the singing and look up to find the set had moved and that was uncomfortable, I found I was watching the set not the singers. And I didn't like the riot, whatever was going on on stage (and I wasn't sure what was happening) wasn't a riot. I really missed the energy of the absolutely beautiful riot from the last production.
However, the performances were stunning particularly Bryn as Hans Sachs and Johannes Martin Kranzle as Beckmesser, I thought he was the best interpreter of the role I've ever seen. The quintet made me cry, it was so beautiful.
I'd go and see this production again without hesitation. 3.5 stars from me!
Jon responded on 14 March 2017 at 12:02pm Reply
I think this production demonstrates why Kaspar Holten is a very competent regie but unsuitable to be the director of an opera house. Just this season I've already seen two ROH productions (Cosi and Adriana) set backstage at a revolving theatre. The act 2 finale looked like a return to the Gotz Friedrich 'time tunnel' Ring. Walter looked like an import from the old Jonathan Miller Cosi (or was he supposed to look like Jo Nesbo?). And Act I took us back to the Wagner in evening dress cliche which so blights the recent Tristan and Tannhauser. Shouldn't a Director of Opera as opposed to a mere opera director have a purchase on what the audience in his House has already seen? There was so little originality in this production - we had the usual Holten tics (rewritten ending, centre stage populated and sides ignored, was Pan a revisiting of Krol Roger?) and everything else looked fatally like what we've seen before, time and again over the past 3 years on the ROH stage. For a prestigious new production it would be nice to have something so original it makes us gasp in amazement (the Carsen Rosenkavalier was more like it). Sorry to belabour the point, but if we're ever to escape from the 'international' style towards something closer to a realisation based (however divirgent the aesthetic) in the tinta and dramaturgy of each individual opera, it would help to have a Director of Opera who has immersed him/herself in their House's past productions and familiarised themselves with what's overly familiar to their core audiences. As a previous poster said, this production really lacked the 'tingle' factor and vapourised the Midsummer Magic. Rechauffes are all very well, but operagoers are largely cultural gourmands, and our jaded palettes need rather more than this.
nigel Ashton responded on 15 March 2017 at 8:39am
Perhaps the most pompous comment yet on this site?
Speak for yourself mate,
Edmond Clement responded on 14 March 2017 at 3:52pm Reply
Can anyone enlighten me as to the date the production was supposed to represent? References to the Reich suggest pre-WWI; but I-phones etc. would indicate otherwise. Were the mediaeval guilds masonic, or is that another historical mess? The production, which Wagner placed in the late Middle Ages, seems to have an unspecific but wholly anachronistic setting which makes complete nonsense of the text. But this is par for the course for Holten, who is apparently illiterate (nobody who can read a libretto would so consistently make such ghastly mistakes).
Musically, Pappano did very well, but did not eclipse previous conductors at Covent Garden; and the singers struggled bravely against the appalling mess that the director and set designer made of Wagner's directions. Yet another travesty - when will Covent Garden be obliged to offer refunds for misrepresentation under Trades Descriptions, Advertising Standards, and other legislation? Above all, when will respect for the score be equalled by respect for the composer's stage directions?
amac responded on 15 March 2017 at 1:10pm Reply
Never seen so many reviews saying more or less the same thing ! Musically pretty good - production pretty poor.
Four and half hours of people saying one thing but acting differently in contradictory settings.
Much has been of the "last" production - so I am guessing we have been spared the co-prod "Das Liebesverbot" that was outed in Madrid last year.
Stephen Phillips responded on 15 March 2017 at 3:41pm Reply
Does the ROH plan to broadcast Die Meistersinger internationally in cinemas? I certainly hope so. I very much enjoyed the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of this opera in 2015, starring the late Johan Botha as Walther.
Rose Slavin (Former Assistant Content Producer) responded on 15 March 2017 at 5:31pm
No plans at the moment to broadcast Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, but thanks for getting in touch. We always like to hear what the audience want to see in cinemas. More details about our upcoming Cinema Season will be released shortly, so do keep an eye on our social channels.
James Gordon responded on 16 March 2017 at 12:33am Reply
What a missed opportunity! Here we have an opera which: 1) takes place on 23-24 June, 2) has a subtext suggesting the people sometimes know better than their leaders, 3) celebrates the transformative potential of art, and 4) has at times been perverted into propaganda for the worst excesses of populist nationalism. To be fair, the new production does not shy away from all this, and no doubt it was well advanced before 23-24 June 2016, but I have rarely seen a production that deals so ineptly with the agenda it purports to address. Probably not since Eugene Onegin.
As always with Holten, this feels like watching an essay, and a verbose, opaque essay at that. OK, Wagner wrote plenty such stuff, so it's more in keeping than for Onegin, but I'm interested in the Wagner who created Hans Sachs rather than the one who wrote Judentum in Musik or Eine Kapitulation.
So where to begin? The slate was full long before the end of Act 1...
Positives first. Performance-wise, Kraenzle stole the show as Beckmesser, which was surely not the intention. Alone among the cast, he established a character and maintained it throughout, probably aided by his being almost the only native German speaker. Willis-Sorensen floated a lead to the quintet as sublime as she did in the Rosenkavalier trio in January. Most of the others, for most of the time, seemed imprisoned by the setting. The apprentices, reduced to mere flunkies, suffered badly. Even more so did Walther, no longer a knight fallen on hard times but a hobo from nowhere with a backpack.
A lot of care has gone into this production. There is usually something to enjoy in details of the costumes, actions or lighting, even when the whole fails to cohere. I have never before seen singers consume a full meal on stage, complete with four different wines! (Beckmesser was the only teetotaller.) But, for me at least, the overall conception did not work.
Secularising the first act by taking it out of church destroys the central metaphor of the piece, which is Reformation - of a whole society, not a closed club. Hans Sachs is a John the Baptist figure pointing the way to Wa**er, as the historical Sachs's Wach auf! poem hymned Luther pointing the way to Christ. This entails the replacement of a self-appointed priestly elite by a priesthood of all believers which is open to the Volk.
In Act 2, the street riot is not a nightmare, it is real. I have seen it played as a nightmare scene before, never effectively, but this version is surpassingly silly and must have wasted a fortune on costumes and machinery. The first part of Act 3 was better, initially because it was possible to ignore the setting and concentrate on the principals, who seemed free-er to act, then later because the backstage setting made sense - this IS where art is created. But rising hopes were soon dashed. There was no festival meadow for the final scene, just another indoor space. Worse, there was no Volk - the onstage audience was even more exclusively ABC1s than that in the auditorium. So of course there was no future, no hope of transformation, let alone Reformation. A momentary coming together for Wach auf! (surely the most wonderful moment in all opera, even here when deracinated by the staging), but then everything unravelled. Holten's novel final twist is not so much uncomfortable as simply bleak, and completely at odds with the music.
The Wagner who wrote Die Meistersinger (the only Wagner that matters) would try to thank Kasper Holten for his time as Intendant here, and for bringing in so many insightful directors. But I'm afraid the Wagner who wrote those turgid essays and the Kapitulation would, in 1868, have more likely made some crass remark about Schleswig-Holstein.
Peter responded on 16 March 2017 at 12:48pm Reply
Having seen the 2nd performance having seen the early reviews, I felt that it was better than some of critics had described the production.
Yes the singing was very good, musically it was also excellent the trumpets in act 3 placed in the amphitheater were impressive.
However while the set worked well in act 1, it seemed out of place for act 2 and scene 1 of act 3 where attention wandered in trying to work out if the revolve was revolving, and did little to place the action, it only cam back into play in scene 2 which was very effective.
But why did the ending need to be changed?
Please can we have some new good productions rather than what seem to be very expensive concept productions which are unlikely to be revived.
Paolo responded on 16 March 2017 at 4:59pm Reply
A wonderful and mature Terfel and a great interpretation by the orchestra. They did not need the paraphernalia of this pretentious production. ROH seems unable to stick to Wagner's intention and instructions.
anthony Tibber responded on 16 March 2017 at 5:04pm Reply
Singers & orchestra magical
Production should be pulverised asap
Ken Worthy responded on 16 March 2017 at 5:04pm Reply
Kasper Holten doesn't really do humour. Both the audition and the riot at the end of the second act are normally hilarious, but were just a muddle. The set was strange - it seemed nothing whatever to do with the opera. The music as always was wonderful.
Brian Lees responded on 16 March 2017 at 5:29pm Reply
This production is the worst of 14 performances I have seen. It defies belief that it should be updated to modern times because the whole ethos is of the period Wagner realised. I'm not sure that Eva would be offered as a prize in the 21st Century. The setting of the gentleman's club was crass and the fussy business with waiters and waitresses distracted from the main business. Continuing the setting into act 2 was even more crass. Mr Lobb setting up business in Boodle's? Come off it! I have to say that Walther was miscast and, as a knight, not really properly dressed. I doubt whether Pogner would ever have allowed him anywhere near his daughter. The last act was a mess.
Given Mr Holten's track record with William Tell, Il trovatore, Der Rosenkavalier I'm surprised that anyone should be sorry to see him go.
Thank God the orchestra, chorus and soloists compensate for an expensive disastrous staging.
N.J. Forman Hardy responded on 16 March 2017 at 5:30pm Reply
This was my first experience of Die Miestersinger and I loved the music and the quality of the singing. To have Bryn singing with a great cast and Maestro Pappano conducting a very long and exacting opera was exceptional. The quintet in act 3 was sublime and hit the spot - it was charming and brought tears to the fore, The set and the riot scene was a bit difficult to follow and the fornication scene I thought was a bit over the top but I loved the opera and Pappano's treatment of the music and the Quality of Bryn, Gwyn H-J and Rachel W-S's performances. Thank you
Juliet Chaplin responded on 16 March 2017 at 5:49pm Reply
Wonderful musically, but all the above criticisms of the production are valid. Yes, let's have respect for the composer's stage directions - he knew what he was doing! To spend so much money and time on a production and still get it appallingly wrong.....I wish Kasper Holten well in the future but I'm glad he's leaving ROH! And he really should stop rewriting the ends of operas.
But musically - soloists, orchestra and chorus all so good, and I enjoyed seeing the chorus director at work. The trumpets in the amphitheatre were thrilling, and that was a really lovely unexpected touch.
Richard Berry responded on 16 March 2017 at 5:55pm Reply
THANK YOU ROH !!
I was lucky enough to get a ticket for the rehearsal and had not been up in the amphitheater since I was a student BUT what a day The production was thought provoking and very relevant to today.
The singing was slow to warm up but that was probably because it was in the morning!! But when everyone got going what a wonderful day and the quintet in Act three was another Covent Garden "tingle time" Thank you
I am very sad for those who missed the relevance and messages from this innovative production if all they want is the normal pantomime production then please go elsewhere THankyou ROH for a great production and please keep it on the stocks as I am sure it will be relavent for many years to come PS WHAT can you say for the orchestra but fantastic for your five hours hard work.
Dennis Benton responded on 16 March 2017 at 6:37pm Reply
What a muddled production of a
llfe-affirming opera. A disaster except for the cast and orchestra. Why don't the producers pay more attention to what the composer proposed?
Alan Brown responded on 16 March 2017 at 6:54pm Reply
Musically well done, but those sets! The use of the same set for act 2 was totally inappropriate. How can a cobbler make shoes in that environment? And what happened to the 'lime' tree? In the finale of that act, the stage is so cramped that the chorus almost fall into the orchestra pit. Frankly, the previous production was not that wonderful but at least followed some of Wagner's stage directions and that's a miracle these days. The ROH is always short of money, especially needed for essential repairs, so why on earth do we need yet another 2nd rate production. Less Starbucks coffee and computers would help, too.
Clive Talbot responded on 16 March 2017 at 7:13pm Reply
At the performance on the 15th Was it just me who thought the orchestra overwhelmed chorus and soloists on too many occasion, but were otherwise musically excellent?
The production as whole failed to elicit the qualities of comedy to be found in the work, and the sets, costumes and scenography were sombre and irrelevant to the action.
And when will the text translators start to translate meister as craftsman, or master-craftsman, instead of the more evocative master?
A rather disappointing production, and it takes a lot to spoil Die Meistersinger.
Allan Lee responded on 16 March 2017 at 7:25pm Reply
Pleased I delayed buying a ticket for Meistersinger until after the reviews. Thank goodness Mr. Holten is going back home to Denmark or where ever.
Jill Reeves responded on 17 March 2017 at 12:33am Reply
Brilliant production, Terfel was excellent. But why depart from the proper ending? Bad move.
Bernard Silverman responded on 17 March 2017 at 9:15am Reply
A most interesting and thought-provoking production. I didn't like the "back stage" scene---too much of a feeling of old junk everywhere. But the rest was great. Taking the whole thing "out of time" is just the way to handle the otherwise somewhat ambiguous issues around the dark side of the piece's nationalism. The person next to me didn't come back after the orgy/riot --- which is their loss---and my own feeling was that the orgy was a really impressive piece of theatre, and worked very well. (I also rather liked the way that the very first scene was done as a choral society rehearsal...).
This production will make a lasting impression on me. Well done!
Christopher Cole responded on 17 March 2017 at 11:42am Reply
As Usual the Orchestra was fantastic and Maestro Pappano gave such a sensitive reading of this magnificent score.
Hopefully the trend to try to modernise every thing and distort the composers instructions will end quite soon and we will get back to exactly what Wagner and other composers intended.
Why on earth does Holten have to change the ending to send off Eva in distress then the score directs quite the opposite.
Holten did the same to the ending of Mozart's Don Giovanni and spoilt the whole opera
Kenneth Leadbeater responded on 17 March 2017 at 12:29pm Reply
On the night, I did not understand the production, which is muddled and confusing - with eclectic costuming. What were those Venetian carnival revellers and crusader knights doing in the riot scene? How much did their costumes cost?
All became clear when I saw the explanation on Newsnight (BBC2). The ruling elite control the city (? modern-day London) in Act One, but Sachs intervenes and promotes the will of the people.
In the final scene, the people make a populist decision, characterised by the ugly booing of Beckmesser. This recalls the audience reception at the premiere of William Tell, which clearly made a deep psychological impact on Caspar Holten. I would venture to suggest that it was this moment, which finally convinced Caspar he was incompatible with the London audience and persuaded him to spend more time with his family.
Eva rejects both factions - the ruling elite and the people - "a plague on both your houses" - and heads out of Nuremberg alone into the brave new world.
This is completely at odds with Wagner, who characterised Nuremberg as paradise. Sachs sings directly in his Act 2 cobbling song of Eva leaving paradise, when she is about to elope.
The warm-hearted community of Nuremberg would not have stripped the chain and cloak of office brutally from Beckmesser, leaving him humiliated in public in his vest. The Wahnmonolog makes it clear that paradise is restored, after the evening riot.
However, Eva's departure does represent Caspar (as identified by the review in What's On Stage) as departing the Royal Opera House and its audience with a two-fingered farewell salute.
As he suggested on Newsnight, Caspar may deplore the Brexit vote and have chosen to leave the tainted shores of Britain and return to eurofile Denmark. He was earning a substantial six-figure sum and had the option to do so. Other Brexit voters, who exercised their democratic right at the polling stations, do not have the resources and options to follow suit. Their lack of options and consequent frustration explains in part why they voted for Brexit.
This is where Caspar's vision of an alternative paradise to Brexit fails.
Gareth Robertson responded on 17 March 2017 at 2:35pm Reply
Musically superb, both from the performance of Pappano and the band, and most of the singing. But I don't want to have to close my eyes through a production at the Opera House to be able to enjoy it. The sets were risible - Wagner must be turning in his grave - and they must have cost a fortune. Finale, with Eva rushing off-stage was one of the most embarrassingly wrong-headed pieces of direction I have ever seen at the opera. On the whole, I am glad that Holten is leaving. His worst decision (up to this point) was hiring Michielotti (who I hope will never return). But his Meistersinger ruined whatever reputation he had for direction.
Clare Cheney responded on 17 March 2017 at 3:03pm Reply
The singers, orchestra and conductor gave a wonderful performance but the direction and scenery was not in the same league. Too many liberties were taken, particularly with the ending which did not make any sense. The riot scene was not a riot at all and there were far too many people crammed into the space available. I could go on. Suffice it to say that next time the ROH want to perform Meistersinger, bring back the wonderful Graham Vick production.
Ann O'Shaughnessy responded on 17 March 2017 at 8:11pm Reply
So many comments, so much dissatisfaction. As we have come to expect of ROH the singers, chorus and orchestra excelled. March 15, there was loud booing at curtain call from a sedate group of people in the back rows of the stalls. I am not sure what prompted their reaction - it could have been a dozen things. For myself, I am glad I am familiar with this work because it must have been difficult to follow the action on stage plus the sur-titles in Act 1 with so many people scurrying about. The comic element of the marking was swamped. Act 2 was equally confusing - text at odds with set location and as for the 'riot' - words fail me. Act 3 was interesting and the setting for the song contest was really good along with the trumpeters and drummers among the audience. Overall an enjoyable evening. Finally, I do wish Mr Holten would not change composer's storylines. I wish him well but will not miss his productions.
Jill de Sayrah responded on 18 March 2017 at 8:10am Reply
I attended the DR and the opening night of this production and I have to say that I agree with most of the posts I have seen. The singing, (all of it - principals and chorus) was truly sublime. The orchestra were brilliant. But those sets - what was going on - who knows?
Everything on that subject has been mentioned elsewhere - except that I liked the changed ending, It seemed to show an empowered Eva rejecting patriarchal control and instead seemingly being liberated as a result. Seeing new ideas is always good, even if they don't enrich in themselves and even strange productions like this one never spoil superb musical performances such as this for me, so no real damage was done. Best wishes to Kasper H - after all, he has tried!
Stephen Diviani responded on 18 March 2017 at 9:44am Reply
Interesting reading many of the comments here: UKIP goes to the opera. Personally, I enjoyed Mr Holten's time as Director of Opera, & had many enjoyable evenings in the house watching emotionally rewarding, well-staged and intellectually challenging productions. I loved both 'Andrea Chenier' and 'Guglielmo Tell', so I guess that puts me in a minority of ROH goers, but I do want it made new & I don't want to turn the clock back. I hope the new Director, Oliver Mears, isn't disheartened and does his own thing fearlessly. Anyway, although he has now left the UK, I wish Mr Holten and his family the very best for the future. (One thing that does irritate me is the level of disruptive coughing at the ROH, which I have never experienced elsewhere in Europe. It's time for the management not only to advise audiences about recordings & mobiles being switched off, but to ask them to keep quiet.)
Peter Lewis responded on 19 March 2017 at 1:05pm Reply
For anyone still thinking of getting a ticket, don't let the grumblers put you off. The singing and playing is superb and, whilst not everyone (including me) will appreciate the finer details of the production, it is to your loss if you don't go imo.
David Glynn responded on 19 March 2017 at 11:59pm Reply
Of the new productions at the ROH in recent years, Onegin, Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, Tell and Cosi fan Tutte have been disasters. Die Meistersinger was not quite a disaster - but about the production, there is very little positive to say. I found it unconvincing, charmless and cold - crushed by directorial conception and the overbearing set. I survived the five and a half hours by imagining in my head what I should be seeing on stage.
Our hero seemed unattractive and unattractively dressed. I cannot imagine what Eva saw in him. Or, for that matter, he in her - unfortunately for the very attractive Rachel WS, her costume in Act 1 was simply appalling. The critics seem not to have been kind to her - but given her fine Marschallin just a few weeks ago, I think she has suffered in Die Meistersinger at the hands of the director and the costume designer.
Her flouncing out at the end is simply ridiculous - it is in contradiction to the musical climax. Although one might say that it is feminist and therefore fashionable, it makes nonsense of her desperation for her beloved to become a Mastersinger in Act 1.
The scene in Hans Sachs’s room/house at the beginning of Act 3 gives the director an opportunity to flesh out Sachs’s character by showing us his domestic surroundings. This was done very effectively in the recent productions at the ENO and at Glyndebourne. Here the opportunity was simply thrown away.
A good production of Die Meistersinger presents Nuremburg as a community of real people, and draws the principal characters in considerable depth. Getting to know and understand these people and their relationships is part of the joy of watching Die Meistersinger. In this production I felt that I neither understood, nor indeed cared about, any of these people.
John Rose responded on 20 March 2017 at 9:08am Reply
Yesterday evening,during Sach's Act 3 "Wahn" monologue,I,too, was also suffering moments of sad reflection. Sad, in that after more than 50 years of opera going I cannot recall a greater feeling of disconnect between the magnificence of the musical performance,led by Pappano and Terfel and the sheer ugliness of the set in both Acts 2 and Act 3 (scene 1) . I understand, (I think) the sense of alienation and claustrophobia that Kasper Holten was aiming to achieve, but to enclose it in such a brutal way denied the production of all sense of place and pyschological luminosity and made the "open meadows" of Act 3 Scene 2 an utter irrelevance,let alone an impossibility..
Ah well! My only hope is that this production will be quickly abandoned and not revived here; which means that there is just a chance of my seeing one more new prodction of this wonderful opera in my remaining years!
So farewell to Kasper Holten. I've much enjoyed his youthful puppyish,enthusiasm and for taking the opera to other venues such as "Orfeo" at the Roundhouse. But three "misses" and one "hit" on the mainstage is not a good return. Perhaps Copenhagen and "The Book of "Mormon" will be more his cup of tea. And are we still going to get his "Das Liebesverbot", from Madrid,...to very mixed reviews?
I just hope the equally youthful Oliver Mears will take his time...get his feet under the table ,,,and ensure we get productions, not necessarily traditional,but at least honest to music and text.
William Falk responded on 20 March 2017 at 11:42am Reply
I have been coming to the ROH for over 55 years now, principally to see Wagner productions. The comments above have summarised my thoughts in many ways, and I would just say that the wonderful playing and singing by all concerned was not supported by what is really a dire production. So many directors these days seem to take the view that the composer's stage directions are not relevant. In this case it appears that Kaspar Holten's main thrust of upsetting the old standards have pushed everything else that Wagner wished to say completely into the background. Because we had the ridiculous permanent set, the comedy inherent in Act 2 with its original street scene setting was completely lost and also as a previous correspondent has said the setting for the first scene of Act 3 the characterisations that develop in the original setting were completely unrealised. In the case of Die Meistersinger, I do not feel that updating works unless it remains true to the composer/librettist's original intentions. Wagner's Mantra "Kinder Schafft Neues" is just not appropriate here.
This production should be scrapped and either the previous one brought back or another new one by a thoughtful director such as David McVicar should be commissioned in about 3 or 4 years time.
Stephen Ratcliffe responded on 20 March 2017 at 3:21pm Reply
It wasn't as bad as the reviews and wasn't Mr Holten's worst production but it was still the least enjoyable Meistersingers I have seen. Singing was on the whole good though mr Terfel did not hit his stride until Act 2 last night. Eva could have done with some acting lessons too. I will not want to see this production again
Kenneth Leadbeater responded on 23 March 2017 at 2:57am Reply
John Rose and William Falk sum it up for me as well. During the Fliedermonolog and Wahnmonolog, my thoughts were on Norman Bailey and John Tomlinson. Bryn Terfel made a strong impact in Cardiff, but his performance here was muted, overwhelmed by the ugly sets, which destroyed any suggestion of intimacy.
There is no need for the ROH to wait four years for a new production (or maybe ten years, given the high cost of mounting Die Meistersinger). Why not borrow the Richard Jones production from WNO/ENO? It was a marvellous vehicle for Bryn Terfel and Ian Paterson. The ROH borrowed the ENO production of Werther in the past.
Let the ROH have the courage to scrap a failed production and restore this glorious work to the ROH stage as soon as possible in a tried and tested production. Richard Jones at WNO/ENO confronted the German Reich issues directly and produced a final scene of overwhelming emotion, bringing the arts old and new into harmonious balance.
Paul Findlay, Nicholas Payne and Elaine Padmore all developed the opera programme effectively, without straying into the directors' territory. With George Osborne in mind, please may we revert to an arrangement, where one man does one job and does it well.
Brian Lofts responded on 23 March 2017 at 5:13pm Reply
I thought I was beginning to understand what Kasper was getting at until the so called riot scene and from then on I was mystified and disillusioned with this weird production.
As a pervious writer said they like to watch the action and not close their eyes during a performance but I found I was repeatedly doing this to enjoy the sublime orchestra and singing and NOT be distracted by the action on stage! Sad really.
My feeling is that so many opera directors these days are deliberately outlandish so they get talked about more than their production.
Apart from Bryn, the outstanding singers for me were Rachel Willis-Sorensen and Gwyn Hughes Jones. Finally Johannes Martin Kranzle was the best Beckmesser I have seen in 35 years.
charles draper responded on 23 March 2017 at 8:38pm Reply
I saw the 22 March performance. Musically wonderful. Production less obstructive than usual for this Director, and quite fun in places. But the variable time setting added nothing but confusion, and the actions at complete variance with what is being sung at the beginning of Act 2, and the end of Act 3, are just irritating.
Brendan Quinn responded on 23 March 2017 at 10:34pm Reply
Hard luck on the cast (wonderful) and the orchestra (as ever great), Kasper Holten's swansong of a production is quite simply dreadful. Not going to waste anymore time on it. Simply dreadful.
Anthony Ashworth responded on 29 March 2017 at 4:08pm Reply
This the 7th production I have seen of the Meistersingers and without doubt the worst! I can accept acts 1 & 3 but Act 2 is a disaster and for me bore no relation the storyline! Musically I enjoyed it but yet again Mr Pappano did something with the prelude, why can't he just leave it be!
The best of my 7 productions Gelsenkirchen!
Michel Devillers responded on 9 April 2017 at 9:05am Reply
Could you please tell who replaced Bryn Terfel as Sachs during the final scene on 31st March ?
Rachel Beaumont (Product Manager) responded on 10 April 2017 at 5:00pm
James Rutherford stood in to sing Hans Sachs for the final scene of Die Meistersinger on 31 March.
John Willman responded on 16 April 2017 at 12:02pm Reply
Reading these comments should be compulsory for the ROH management. I would like them to account for this awful production and what it must have cost.
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‘PM who takes things personally’: Erdogan to demolish park despite protests
A man sleeps on Taksim square near a poster showing Turkey's Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan portrayed as "Hitler" in Istanbul on June 5, 2013.(AFP Photo / Aris Messinis) © AFP
Turkey’s PM has vowed that development of Taksim Square will go ahead, despite ongoing protests. Tayyip Erdogan made the remark in Tunisia on his way back to Turkey. Erdogan is also under scrutiny, with opponents blasting him as authoritarian.
As the protests entered their seventh day, casualties have risen, with three people dead and more than 4,000 injured. What began as an environmental protest against the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul to build a mall has turned into Turkey’s biggest wave of anti-government protest in years.
"There is a problem called Twitter right now and you can find every kind of lie there. The thing that is called social media is the biggest trouble for society right now," Erdogan said before leaving for North Africa. The Turkish prime minister also slammed the protests as undemocratic, and dismissed them as being organized by extremists.
In their list of demands issued to Erdogan, activists are calling for the firing of the chiefs responsible for the violent police crackdown, the release of protesters detained by police, and for a ban on the use of teargas. If these demands are fulfilled, protesters said they would end the riots.
The period of time after Erdogan returns Thursday from his three-day tour of North Africa is vital for Turkey, as public pressure may force the prime minister to reverse several of his own policies.
So far, Erdogan has only singled out scapegoats in the unrest, RT’s Irina Galushko reported from Istanbul.
He assailed the social networks used by demonstrators to organize protests and post updates; many demonstrators turned to Twitter and Facebook as a mobilization tool, as local media were largely silent during the initial stages of the protests.
However, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who is formally in charge while Erdogan is abroad, apologized on Tuesday for the police brutality against demonstrators. Turkish police have been roundly criticized for their widespread use of teargas and water cannons to disperse crowds of protesters.
Prime minister of a protesting nation
Erdogan has been described as a man who rarely bows to opposition, and cannot handle criticism.
“He completely dislikes opposition to his ideas. He takes it as a personal offense. He's used to having agreement from the country after having gained 50 percent of the votes. This time he didn't assume the protest would be so big”, columnist and TV host Mutlu Tonbekci told RT.
Journalists Cengiz Candar told Reuters that "Erdogan takes things very personally and has developed a very authoritarian style."
“Everybody here was being gassed, and people here were trying to resist and trying to keep this park, and he was telling that we are looters and there's no project going on, and then he changed his mind, saying there's of course a project and I will do what I want to do,” activist Nazan Ustundag said to RT.
“Our intelligence work is ongoing [to determine the foreign actors behind the protests],” Erdogan said on Monday. “It’s not possible to reveal their names. But we will have meetings with their bosses.”
Conservative Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reported that foreign mercenaries were among the protesters, according to authorities: “750 to 1,000 people, agents, many of whom are foreign nationals, infiltrated the ranks of the demonstrators, and who are being paid by foreign intelligence."
As clashes continue, some believe that Erdogan will go to great lengths to avoid embarrassment, as any sign of weakness could break up his party."Erdogan cannot backtrack now. It would mean defeat,"car dealer Ali Aydin told Reuters."Weakness would destroy the party."
The prime minister may also be ill-equipped to dealing with the recent developments. "This is an unprecedented situation for Erdogan. Some people in [the ruling AKP party] think that his policies have to soften, but they remain loyal to party discipline and to Erdogan himself," Reuters quoted a source close to the AKP as saying.
Many protesters believe that the prime minister has lost touched with reality, and is inflexible and unwilling to compromise.
Erdogan has alleged that hundreds of foreign agents are working to create unrest in the country. He maintains that these agents instigated the protests and are continuing to lurk among the crowds, encouraging dissent and turmoil.
Authorities have arrested some 15 foreign nationals across the country in connection with the protests, Today's Zamaan newspaper quoted an unnamed governmental source as saying. Many were reportedly Iranian nationals, a country on Erdogan's blacklist.
Despite the widespread protests, Erdogan remains a popular politician. He is known for his assertive leadership style, and his AK Party holds around two-thirds of the seats in parliament. But a key question remains: How will he handle the protests that are continuing to rock Turkey?
Erdogan is famous for his concrete human rights reforms, including granting rights to the country’s Kurdish minority, the opening of European Union entry talks, and a separation of the government and military. He has lately faced criticism for pressuring the media and for restrictions on alcohol sales.
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Effingham County cross country fields full team
Emily Goldman
The Rebel cross country team is fielding a full team for the 2007 season. Last year the Rebels had only four runners.
Through the recruiting efforts of head coach Mick Danielson and the returning runners, the Rebels have come up with the numbers they need to compete as a team. Cross country teams need five girls and five boys to compete as a team.
Danielson charged his returners with recruiting runners. He also recruited athletes from other sports who weren't already participating in a fall sport.
Danielson recruited athletes who were working out in the weight room, playing basketball in the gym and playing tennis among other things.
"I'd bug anybody who was trying to exercise," Danielson said.
Danielson will be looking at his three returning runners, Kristin Burgstiner, Chris West and Tiras Thompson for leadership and as the core of his new team.
One disadvantage to recruiting for the upcoming season has been the heat.
"It's kind of hard to glorify running in the 100 degree heat," Danielson said.
Despite the struggle, Danielson managed to find enough runners to fill his roster.
The heat has also slowed the Rebels' training. The team will have had only eight practices before their first meet, and the intensity of those practices has had to be curbed.
"I couldn't push them like I wanted," Danielson said.
Danielson's goals for this year's team extend beyond this season. He is trying to build a base for seasons to come.
"My intention is to build a team that will stick together over the summer and hit the ground running next year," Danielson said.
Danielson reports five of his guys are already running in the mid-20s, and he expects them to steadily improve.
"As far as the boys go, it's looking like we're going to have a very consistent group," Danielson said.
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Victoria group exercising green tongues, as well as thumbs
Medicinal garden giving people tools to heal themselves
Roszan Holmen
Mar. 20, 2012 10:00 a.m.
Krista Poulton
A new community garden is launching in Victoria, but instead of growing the standard mix of edibles, this one has a focus on medicinal plants.
The Green Tongue Collective got permission from the Vancouver Island School of Art to start a garden on its property near Quadra Village in October.
“Our collective is a conglomeration of artists, and healers and community organizers and gardeners,” said member Leila Darwish.
Last Sunday, volunteers came together for their first major planting session, after several work parties were held to prepare the land.
The project is called the People’s Apothecary.
“We have all the regular things that people are used to, like lavender, and nettles, and sage and comfrey, which are all really powerful medicinals,” Darwish said.
“But we also want to grow the harder-to-find things … things that are good for the immune system, things that are good for helping people cope with stress; for different kinds of infections. It’s good to have that knowledge, and I think everyone should have it. We live in a world where we put that in the hands of experts all the time, which makes people largely unable to respond to each other.”
The goal is to eventually put up interpretive signs to help people understand how to use the plants.
The collective also plans to put on community workshops to teach people about different herbs, how to harvest them and how to use them to make tinctures and teas, Darwish said.
Green Tongue Collective has about 10 members, but the group welcomes newcomers and volunteers.
To read more, visit greentonguesapothecary.wordpress.com.
rholmen@vicnews.com
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Door-to-door scammer targeting elderly victims
If the Saanich police department had its way, door-to-door salespeople – except Girl Guides – would be a thing of the past.
Kyle Slavin
A fraudster offering handyman work at the door has scammed a handful of elderly victims around the region out of tens of thousands of dollars.
Saanich police Sgt. Dean Jantzen says there have been four incidents since March involving a man going door-to-door and offering to power-washing, painting or driveway resealing services.
In all incidents, which have taken place in Saanich, Central Saanich and Oak Bay, the victims have been at least 80 years old, and have been convinced to pay upfront – but then little to no work is ever done.
Among the victims is an 88-year-old Saanich man, whose credit and debit cards were stolen by the Mr. Fixit suspect, and upwards of $15,000 worth of unauthorized transactions were recorded on his cards.
Most of the victims paid in the range of $1,000 upfront for the unfinished odd jobs.
“Don’t accept solicitations at your door. Period,” Jantzen advised, acknowledging that elderly residents are likely targeted due to being accustomed to the days of trusty door-to-door salespeople. “Now people coming to your door to sell you something is not a good thing.”
Police are concerned that in two of the incidents, the suspect escorted their elderly victims, via taxi, to the bank to withdraw money.
Jantzen said there are similarities among all victims’ reports, including the suspect’s description, and the name and business name he uses. The suspect goes by the name Kevin Gordon from James Bay Power Washing.
He is described as a slim, white man in his mid-30s, approximately 6 feet tall. He has tattoos on his arms and neck, and may be missing teeth.
Jantzen said police are continuing to investigate these frauds. Although there are multiple Kevin Gordons living in Victoria, there is one who has criminal history consistent with these recent incidents.
Police are advising family members of elderly individuals to speak with their parents about the potential dangers of door-to-door solicitations, and not seeking out the services of a reputable businesses.
Jantzen says investigators also believe there are more victims in the region who have not yet reported being defrauded.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact investigators at 250-475-4321.
kslavin@saanichnews.com
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N 24°35', W 081°44' tide Key Haven - Stock Island Channel, Florida
N 24°36', W 081°28' tide Key Lois, southeast end, Florida
N 24°33', W 081°49' current Key West, 0.3 mi. W of Ft. Taylor, Florida Current
N 24°33', W 081°48' tide Key West, Florida
N 24°33', W 081°47' tide Key West, south side, White Street Pier, Florida
N 24°42', W 081°08' tide Knight Key Channel, Knight Key, Florida Bay, Florida
N 24°43', W 081°29' tide Knockemdown Key, north end, Florida
N 24°41', W 081°14' tide Little Duck Key, east end, Hawk Channel, Florida
N 24°45', W 081°20' tide Little Pine Key, north end, Florida
N 24°43', W 081°18' tide Little Pine Key, south end, Florida
N 24°46', W 081°22' tide Little Spanish Key, Spanish Banks, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°23' tide Little Torch Key, Pine Channel Bridge, south side, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°24' tide Little Torch Key, Torch Channel, Florida
N 24°28', W 081°48' current Main Ship Channel entrance, Key West, Florida Current
N 24°44', W 081°22' tide Mayo Key, Big Spanish Channel, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°24' tide Middle Torch Key, Torch Ramrod Channel, Florida
N 24°41', W 081°14' tide Missouri Key-Little Duck Key Channel, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°15' tide Missouri Key-Ohio Key Channel, west side, Florida
N 24°41', W 081°12' tide Molasses Key Channel, Molasses Keys, Florida
N 24°41', W 081°13' tide Money Key, Florida
N 24°42', W 081°10' current Moser Channel, swingbridge, Florida Current
N 24°37', W 081°24' tide Munson Island, Newfound Harbor Channel, Florida
N 24°39', W 082°25' current New Ground, Florida Current
N 24°42', W 081°19' tide No Name Key, east side, Bahia Honda Channel, Florida
N 24°42', W 081°19' current No Name Key, northeast of, Florida Current
N 24°39', W 081°33' tide North Harris Channel, Upper Sugarloaf Sound, Florida
N 24°35', W 081°51' current Northwest Channel, Key West, Florida Current
N 24°37', W 081°53' current Northwest Channel, Key West, Florida Current (2)
N 24°37', W 081°39' tide O'Hara Key, north end, Waltz Key Basin, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°15' tide Ohio Key-Bahia Honda Key Channel, west side, Florida
N 24°39', W 081°32' tide Park Channel Bridge, Upper Sugarloaf Sound, Florida
N 24°39', W 081°34' tide Perky, Upper Sugarloaf Sound, Florida
N 24°42', W 081°09' tide Pigeon Key, north side, Florida Bay, Florida
N 24°42', W 081°09' tide Pigeon Key, south side, Hawk Channel, Florida
N 24°43', W 081°21' tide Porpoise Key, Big Spanish Channel, Florida
N 24°43', W 081°34' tide Pumpkin Key, Bow Channel, Florida
N 24°45', W 081°29' tide Raccoon Key, east side, Florida
N 24°39', W 081°24' tide Ramrod Key, Newfound Harbor, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°25' tide Ramrod Key, Niles Channel Bridge, Florida
N 24°34', W 081°45' tide Riviera Canal, Key West, Florida
N 24°36', W 081°40' tide Rockland Key, Rockland Channel Bridge, Florida
N 24°37', W 081°36' tide Saddlebunch Keys, Channel No. 3, Florida
N 24°36', W 081°37' tide Saddlebunch Keys, Similar Sound, Florida
N 24°27', W 081°53' tide Sand Key Lighthouse, Sand Key Channel, Florida
N 24°27', W 081°53' tide Sand Key Lighthouse, Sand Key Channel, Florida (sub)
N 24°45', W 081°34' tide Sawyer Key, inside, Cudjoe Channel, Florida
N 24°45', W 081°34' tide Sawyer Key, outside, Cudjoe Channel, Florida
N 24°36', W 081°39' tide Shark Key, southeast end, Similar Sound, Florida
N 24°35', W 081°47' tide Sigsbee Park, Garrison Bight Channel, Florida
N 24°43', W 081°55' tide Smith Shoal Light, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°38' tide Snipe Keys, Middle Narrows, Florida
N 24°42', W 081°40' tide Snipe Keys, Snipe Point, Florida
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N 24°38', W 081°07' tide Sombrero Key, Hawk Channel, Florida
N 24°38', W 081°31' tide Sugarloaf Key, east side, Tarpon Creek, Florida
N 24°42', W 081°33' tide Sugarloaf Key, north end, Bow Channel, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°32' tide Sugarloaf Key, northeast side, Bow Channel, Florida
N 24°39', W 081°31' tide Sugarloaf Key, Pirates Cove, Florida
N 24°40', W 081°26' tide Summerland Key, Niles Channel Bridge, Florida
N 24°39', W 081°26' tide Summerland Key, Niles Channel South, Florida
N 24°39', W 081°27' tide Summerland Key, southwest side, Kemp Channel, Florida
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N 24°43', W 081°06' tide Vaca Key, Florida Bay, Florida
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12/26/14 Faulconer Announces Locations Across San Diego to Recycle Christmas Trees for Free
12/19/14 Mayor Dresses as Jolly Ol' Saint Nick for Children at Logan Heights School
12/17/14 Faulconer, Verizon Ring in the Holiday Giving Spirit
12/17/14 Mayor Faulconer Applauds Federal Funding to Expand San Ysidro Port of Entry
12/16/14 San Diego Takes Major Step to Share More Data and Information with the Public
12/16/14 Faulconer, County Supervisors Announce Agreement to Improve Region's Emergency and Fire Preparedness
12/12/14 Faulconer Opens Doors at Growing San Diego Startup
12/11/14 Faulconer Announces $3.4M Federal Grant to Improve Health and Safety for Young Children
12/10/14 Mayor Faulconer's Statement on Lightner Being Elected City Council President
12/9/14 What's So Smart About San Diego?
12/9/14 Mayor Faulconer Announces $25,000 Award for Winning Startups at Plug and Play San Diego
12/8/14 Faulconer Invites San Diegans to State of the City Address
12/5/14 Faulconer Kicks Off the Balboa Park Centennial at December Nights
12/5/14 Faulconer Celebrates, Swears-In Board of Directors for National Latina Business Women Association
12/4/14 Mayor Introduces San Diego's Newest & Most Innovative Products to the World
12/2/14 Mayor Faulconer Announced Plan for a Permanent, Year-Round Shelter to Help Homeless Individuals and Veterans
12/1/14 Faulconer, Gloria "Light the Park" for Balboa Park's 2015 Centennial and Beyond
11/29/14 Mayor and Council President Shop Local for Small Business Saturday
11/27/14 Mayor Faulconer Serves Holiday Meals to San Diegans on Thanksgiving
11/21/14 Faulconer, National University Announce Higher Education Opportunities for 10,000 City Employees
11/21/14 Faulconer Highlights Moody's Rating Report Dubbing San Diego as a "Successful City"
11/20/14 Mayor Appoints Chief Data Officer
11/19/14 Mayor Faulconer Joins the San Diego Black Police Officer's Association in Providing Thanksgiving Dinners for San Diego Families
11/18/14 San Diego & Tijuana Mayors Forge Shared Vision for Creating Opportunities
11/18/14 Faulconer Lauds Vote to Move Forward on Pure Water
11/17/14 Mayor Introduces Non-Profit Inspired by One San Diego Platform
11/14/14 City's 5-Year Financial Outlook Shows Modest Surpluses, Need for Continued Fiscal Responsibility
11/13/14 Faulconer Holds Pep Rally at City Hall for Aztecs Football Ahead of Clash with Air Force
11/13/14 Faulconer, Environmental Leaders Urge City Council to Advance Innovative Project to Boost Local Water Supply
11/11/14 Mayor Faulconer Introduces New UberMILITARY Initiatives to Support San Diego Veterans & Their Families
11/10/14 Faulconer Releases Public Service Announcement Regarding New Water Use Restrictions
11/7/14 Mayor Celebrates New Library Hours in San Diego
11/6/14 Mayor, SDPD and POA Jointly Release Compensation Report
11/5/14 Mayor Faulconer's $120 Million Neighborhood Repair Plan Moves Forward Due to Legal Victory
10/31/14 Mayor Touts Ebola, HIV Advances at The Scripps Research Institute
10/31/14 Mayor Appoints Director for New Communications Department
10/29/14 Mayor Faulconer Praises U.S. News & World Report Ranking UC San Diego as 18th Best University in the World
10/29/14 Elevation of Balboa Park Continues with $1 Million Grant from James Irvine Foundation
10/27/14 Mayor Faulconer, Councilmember Cole & Chief Zimmerman Unveil Monument and Rename Park in Honor of Fallen Officer
10/26/14 Surfrider Foundation Recognizes Mayor Faulconer for Combating Beach Pollution
10/20/14 Mayor Faulconer, City Leaders Offer Solution to Keep State Funds Flowing to San Diego
10/20/14 City Enters Drought Alert Status
10/17/14 Faulconer, City Officials Promote Awareness & Opportunities for San Diegans with Disabilities
10/16/14 Faulconer Kicks Off Binational Innovation Event
10/15/14 Faulconer Welcomes White House National Security Council and Security Experts to National Cyber Security Event in San Diego
10/13/14 Faulconer, Gloria Release Plans for 2015 Centennial to Elevate, Celebrate and Promote Balboa Park
10/13/14 2015 BALBOA PARK CENTENNIAL FACT SHEET
10/9/14 Faulconer Releases New "Waste No Water" App for San Diegans to Report Water Waste
10/9/14 Faulconer Jumpstarts Service for SANDAG's Mid-City RAPID 215 Transit Line
10/8/14 Mayor Turns San Diego Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
10/7/14 City Takes New Steps to Fight Police Recruitment & Retention Issues
10/7/14 DROUGHT ALERT FACT SHEET
10/2/14 Faulconer Joins Casa Familiar to Present $244,000 Wells Fargo Grant to Rebuild San Ysidro Children's Playground
10/1/14 Faulconer Announces Online Access to Permits, Contracts & Other Data
9/30/14 Mayor Faulconer's Statement on Governor Signing Statewide Plastic Bag Ban Into Law
9/30/14 Faulconer Releases Climate Action Plan to Create Green Jobs, Significantly Reduce Greenhouse Gases
9/29/14 Mayor Faulconer Promotes the Nexus of Opportunities & Innovation in New CONNECT Report
9/29/14 Mayor, CONNECT & San Diego's Best & Brightest New Startups Showcase How #SanDiegoInnovates
9/26/14 Faulconer Addresses the San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
9/26/14 Faulconer Welcomes SDSU's New Business College Dean
9/26/14 Faulconer, Gloria Push for Technology Upgrade to Better Connect Homeless to Housing Opportunities
9/25/14 Faulconer, Lightner Back Plan to Protect Canyon Park, Start Community Process to End Regents Road Bridge Controversy
9/24/14 San Diego and Tijuana officials announce first-ever binational joint Economic Development Committee meeting in San Diego
9/23/14 Faulconer, Speaker Atkins & Other Leaders Unveil the Military's Impact on San Diego's Economy & Jobs
9/15/14 City Council Confirms Key Mayoral Appointment for Revitalizing Urban Communities
9/11/14 August 2014 Water Usage Down 4.2% from 2013 Among City of San Diego Residents
9/7/14 Mayor Faulconer Guest Stars on CNN's State of the Union 9/11 Special
9/5/14 Faulconer Travels to Washington to Advocate on Critical Water Issues for San Diego
9/4/14 Faulconer, Sherman Tour Site of Major Water Main Break in Serra Mesa
8/26/14 Faulconer Unveils New Initiative to Redesign the City's Website via Google Hangout
8/26/14 Faulconer, Gloria Break Ground on Major Street Project in Heart of Historic Old Town
8/26/14 Mayor Faulconer Releases Statement on the Future of the Convention Center Expansion Project
8/19/14 Faulconer Surprises Singer-Songwriter Jason Mraz with Proclamation in His Honor
8/8/14 Mayor Vetoes City Council Wage Proposal
8/7/14 Faulconer, Alvarez Bring Summer Fun Back to Barrio Logan
8/5/14 Faulconer, Labor Leaders Announce Deal to Start Mayor's "San Diego Works" Initiative
7/28/14 Faulconer Will Veto City Council's Wage Ordinance
7/25/14 Faulconer Appoints Reese Anthony Jarrett to Role Critical to Revitalizing Southeastern San Diego
7/24/14 San Diego Mayor Faulconer Swings into Action & Kicks Off Comic-Con Over Gotham City
7/24/14 Mayor's Office Statement on Climate Action Plan
7/19/14 Mayor Launches "Stand Down 2014"
7/16/14 Faulconer Joins Water Leaders to Dedicate the San Vicente Dam Raise Project
7/15/14 Mayor Faulconer Announces "World's Smartest Company" Will Stay, Expand in San Diego
7/9/14 Mayor Faulconer Hoists Rainbow Pride Flags Above Gaslamp Quarter and Kicks Off Pride Month
7/2/14 Faulconer Praises San Diego's Affordable Housing Efforts in Securing Nearly $4.5 Million for Skate Parks
7/2/14 Over The Line to Continue 61-Year Tradition
6/27/14 Mayor Faulconer Addresses the 2014 National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Political Convention
6/25/14 Mayor, Meb & Marten Serve BBQ Lunch to More Than 1,000 San Diego Children
6/25/14 Mayor Welcomes Innovative Minds to TEDxSanDiego
6/24/14 Mayor Faulconer Speaks at World's Largest Biotech Exhibition
6/24/14 Faulconer Announces Director of New Performance and Analytics Department
6/23/14 Mayor Faulconer Hosts Pen & Pad with Community Newspapers at City Hall
6/18/14 Faulconer Encourages San Diegans to Wear Padres Gear on Thursday to Honor Tony Gwynn
6/16/14 Faulconer Cancels Events, Orders Flags Flown at Half-Mast in Honor of Tony Gwynn
6/16/14 Faulconer, Kersey Urge San Diegans to Prepare for Coming Fire Season by Protecting Their Homes
6/12/14 Faulconer's One San Diego Transition Advisory Committee Presents Governing Blueprint
6/11/14 Mayor Faulconer Announces "San Diego Works" Initiative
6/10/14 Faulconer Supports Plan for Smart Parking Meters
6/10/14 Faulconer Commemorates 100 Days in Office by Signing 'One San Diego' Budget
6/4/14 Michelle Obama Announces Mayor Faulconer Selected to Join Strategic Initiative to End Veteran Homelessness
6/4/14 Faulconer, Alvarez Tout Improved Emergency Response Times in South Bay Neighborhoods
6/2/14 Faulconer, Gloria Reopen Cabrillo Bridge
5/28/14 Mayor Faulconer Hails U.S. Commerce Department Program Designating Southern California as a Manufacturing Leader
5/27/14 Faulconer, Gloria Unveil San Diego Bike Loop
5/20/14 More Parks, Street Lights and Fire-Rescue Funding in Mayor Faulconer's Budget Update
5/20/14 Faulconer, Lightner Call on San Diegans to Continue Leading the Way on Water Conservation During Historic Drought
5/16/14 Mayor Faulconer Statement on the City & MTS Taxicab Agreement
5/15/14 Mayor Faulconer & Councilmember Alvarez Announce Otay Mesa Southbound Truck Working Group
5/15/14 Mayor Faulconer, Councilmember Kersey Tour Site of Extinguished Scripps Ranch Fire
5/10/14 Mayor Awards Key to the City of San Diego to Mebrahtom "Meb" Keflezighi
5/1/14 Faulconer Announces Changes to City's Executive Team
4/29/14 Faulconer Enhances Pothole Repair Crews in "One San Diego" Budget Proposal
4/25/14 Faulconer Hails Passage of 'One San Diego' Proposals
4/24/14 Faulconer Serves and Supports San Diego HIV/AIDS Services and Programs at Harvey Milk's Diner
4/23/14 Faulconer Calls for Voluntary Water Conservation Measures
4/22/14 Mayor Aligns Broad Coalition to Support Expanded Library Hours & Afterschool Program in One San Diego Budget
4/16/14 Faulconer Holds "Meet the Mayor" Event in District 7
4/15/14 Mayor Faulconer, Councilmember Emerald Declare April 15th as "SDSU Men's Basketball Day"
4/14/14 Mayor Faulconer puts "One San Diego" Plan to Work in New Budget Proposal
4/14/14 Faulconer: We Have to Change the Way We Do Business
4/12/14 Mayor Faulconer Kicks Off & Gives Keynote At Summit For Southeastern San Diego Youth
4/9/14 Faulconer Previews Infrastructure Spending in Budget Plan
4/4/14 City Council Vote is a Victory for Jobs and Economy
4/2/14 Faulconer Appoints New Park & Rec Director
4/1/14 Faulconer Heads to Mexico City for Annual Trade Initiative with San Diego Regional Chamber to Give a Boost to Jobs and Local Economy
3/28/14 Faulconer Announces He Will Chair National Mayors for the Freedom to Marry Organization
3/28/14 Faulconer Applauds Creation of Circulate San Diego
3/28/14 Faulconer, Gloria Announce Plans for Balboa Park
3/27/14 San Diego's Ranking in Solar Energy Revealed
3/26/14 Faulconer Delivers First Video Message to City Workers
3/25/14 Mayor Faulconer & Councilmember Emerald Call for Infrastructure Improvements through CDBG Funding
3/21/14 Faulconer Celebrates Mission Beach Centennial
3/21/14 Faulconer Places Friendly Wager on SDSU/NDSU Game
3/20/14 Faulconer Introduces Mayoral Staff
3/20/14 City to Sever Ties with Balboa Park Celebration Inc.
3/19/14 City Outlines Actions Taken Since Employee Theft
3/18/14 Faulconer & USGA Internationally Announce San Diego as Host of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines
3/18/14 Faulconer Ends Proposed Email Purge
3/13/14 Mayor Faulconer Highlights Forbes Report Ranking San Diego as the Top Place to Launch a Startup in 2014
3/11/14 Faulconer Appoints Director of Transportation & Storm Water Department
3/10/14 Mayor Faulconer Announces San Diego to Host the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines
3/6/14 Faulconer Makes First Trip to Tijuana as Mayor
3/6/14 Faulconer Introduces Communications Team
3/3/14 Faulconer Sworn in as 36th Mayor of San Diego
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Elusive truths are in the spotlight as Backyard Renaissance gets ready to stage local premiere of ‘Mr. & Mrs. Fitch’
Sandy Campbell and Andrew Oswald star in Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s “Mr. & Mrs. Fitch.”
(Courtesy photo)
By James Hebert
In some ways, “Mr. & Mrs. Fitch” is of another era. Maybe even two.
The Douglas Beane play, which is about to get its local premiere with Backyard Renaissance Theatre, is set in 2010 — when Kindle readers, Powerbook laptops and blogs were still something like the cutting edge in tech.
Meanwhile, the husband-and-wife gossip columnists at the story’s center are like throwbacks to the elegant and fizzily witty world of a Noël Coward comedy.
And yet when it comes to such cultural fixations as “fake news,” say actors Sandy Campbell and Andrew Oswald, the piece feels as though it was just waiting for our own moment to arrive.
“When I read the script, it seemed so current that I actually had to check the year it was written,” says Oswald of the piece, which premiered off-Broadway nine years ago.
“I feel as if it’s a little bit of fortune-telling on (Beane’s) part. The thing has become more current as it has aged.”
The play centers on the two high-powered New York columnists’ attempts to stay relevant in a time of media upheaval and consolidation; the pressure of the biz leads them to a dicey act of invention that has all kinds of unforeseen consequences.
On top of that, the pair’s own relationship involves some matters of illusion, somewhere beneath all the snappy repartee.
“It’s light and zippy but it has some deeper things going on in it, too,” as Campbell puts it. “It can’t just be light and saucy. There are some interesting themes that go through it.”
Beane has a bit of a San Diego connection: He wrote the book to the musical “Dancing in the Dark” (based on the movie “The Band Wagon”), which had its world premiere at the Old Globe in 2008. Around the same time, he was collaborating with director and now La Jolla Playhouse artistic chief Christopher Ashley on the movie-inspired, Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical “Xanadu.”
Beane’s plays “The Little Dog Laughed” and “As Bees in Honey Drown” also have been staged locally. This will be the first Beane piece, though, for Backyard Renaissance, which is in the second year of its stint as the Playhouse’s resident theater company. (“Fitch” is going up at Moxie Theatre’s space in the Rolando District). The company’s artistic chief, Francis Gercke, is directing.
Oswald says the fast-pitched dialogue in “Mr. & Mrs. Fitch,” which takes some cues from the old Cole Porter tune of that title, poses an actorly challenge.
“They think so quickly, and they talk so much on the fly, that making sure you have it exact enough to be comfortable with — and making it sound as though it rolls off your tongue at the spur of the moment — is really tricky,” he says.
And while “fake news” makes for kind of an easy tagline for the play, “it’s not the whole thing,” says Campbell.
“There’s also material about the importance of art and creating, and that we can’t stop doing that. And that if we need to use art to tell the truth, then that’s what we need to do.
“There’s just a need to tell the truth. Somehow.”
“Mr. and Mrs. Fitch”
When: Previews begin today. Opens March 30. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Through April 14.
Where: Backyard Renaissance Theatre Co. at Moxie Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd., Rolando District.
Online: backyardrenaissance.com
jim.hebert@sduniontribune.com
Twitter: @jimhebert
James Hebert
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MISSION STATEMENT AND PURPOSE
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
SCOUT OATH
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
SCOUT LAW
A Scout is
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Purpose of the BSA
The purpose of this corporation shall be to promote, through organization, and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in Scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues, using the methods which are now in common use by Boy Scouts.
—Federal Charter, sec. 3.
One of the goals of the Boy Scouts of America is to provide, through chartered organizations, a program for boys, young men, and young women designed to encourage them to be faithful in their religious duties, build desirable qualities of character, train and involve them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and develop in them personal fitness.
Special emphasis will be placed in assisting the home, religious groups, and schools in achieving success in the development of abiding values in the lives of young people.
All programs will be directed toward helping to develop the full potential of each member.
The Council’s Purpose
The purpose of the council is to guide and support its districts for the achievement of the movement’s purpose. (A successful district meets Quality District requirements.) The end result of effective district support is continued growth in membership, with those members receiving a quality program.
The Function of the Districts
All districts are responsible for carrying out functions in four areas:
Camp promotion
Activities and civic service
Advancement and recognition
Unit service (commissioner service)
The order in which the functions are listed is not meant to suggest the order of their importance, but the natural interrelationship and flow of the functions. The movement cannot achieve its purpose without first organizing units and enrolling members. The district cannot support its units without the funds to do it. Unit programs are supported by the district through its program functions and unit service. All four functions are equally important and necessary. If one suffers from lack of attention, all the work of the district suffers.
The functions of the district include
Extending opportunities for youth to join a pack, troop, team, or crew
Helping existing units provide a quality program for their youth
Marshaling the resources of the territory in terms of volunteers and money
Its specific duties are selling the use of Scouting and providing the essential services. The district committee sells the use of the program to community organizations and helps to organize new units. It provides those things essential to successful Scouting that the chartered organization cannot easily provide, including
Guidance in the selection of unit leadership
Training for unit personnel in the techniques of good program
Interunit activities that stimulate good unit program through participation and competition
Promotion of the BSA camping and outdoor program
Promotion of the BSA advancement program by providing merit badge counselors and coaching unit committees on advancement procedures
Giving guidance to units through effective commissioner service
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Officials Unveil 'Heli-Tanker' That Can Fight Wildfires At Night
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The Aftermath Of A 7.1 Magnitude 'Main Shock' Shakes Southern California Desert All Night
Thomas Fire rages, could become fifth largest in state's history, as UC Santa Barbara cancels finals
Elina Shatkin | December 10, 2017
Update: This story is no longer being updated. For the latest information, go here.
Strong winds fueled the massive and erratic Thomas Fire as it continued to flare up, moving west into Santa Barbara County and triggering new evacuations in Carpineteria and Montecito on Sunday afternoon.
By late Sunday afternoon, the fire had burned 200,00 acres and was 15 percent contained — but authorities expect that number to rise.
During a town hall meeting at San Marcos High School, fire behavior analyst Brendan Ripley said he expects the Thomas Fire to grow to at least 220,000 acres and surpass the Matilija Fire of 1932. That fire, the fifth largest in California's history, burned 343 square miles in Ventura County.
Firefighting helicopters try to save a house from the Thomas Fire in Carpinteria, California on December 10, 2017.
At the Sunday afternoon press conference, one fire incident commander cited erratic winds and rough terrain as the main problems for crews. "Those challenges are tremendously difficult to overcome on a good day and we haven't had a good day yet," he said. "The fire just outpaced us today."
Sheriff Bill Brown said, "This is going to be a multi-day event. This is not going to end tonight or tomorrow."
Fire behavior expert Ripley estimates that crews will be lucky if they can get a handle on the fire by this Thursday.
The Thomas Fire has destroyed 754 structures and damaged another 162. It has also left more than 85,000 customers without power. The blaze began near Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula on Monday evening, the first day of these Santa Ana winds.
A home burns off Gobernador Canyon Road in Carpinteria during the Thomas Fire, early on Sunday morning, Dec. 10, 2017.
Santa Barbara County Fire Department via Twitter
The devastation came with relief for some students.
On Sunday afternoon, UC Santa Barbara officials announced they would cancel finals week and postpone it until January 8, according to the Daily Nexus. Students were informed in an email from chancellor Henry T. Yang.
In the email, Yang said the the campus, including residence halls and apartments, would remain open as scheduled. He also encouraged all students who want to leave campus to do so:
"Though there is no need to evacuate campus, again, we are recommending that students make arrangements to leave."
The revised final exam schedule will be posted online on Tuesday, December 12. Some faculty had already made alternate arrangements for their exams, and those arrangements will remain in effect. The winter quarter will now begin on Tuesday, January 16 and will be shortened by one week.
Flames advance on a two story home off Shepard Mesa Road at 5:45 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017 during the Thomas Fire.
As unpredictable winds pushed the flames closer to Carpinteria and Montecito, crews worked to protect homes — but they couldn't save them all.
The Santa Barbara Fire Department posted dramatic images of a home burning off Gobernador Canyon Road in Carpinteria. They also posted video of firefighters trying to knock down flames as they advanced toward a home on Shepherd Mesa Road in Carpinteria.
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Carpinteria city manager Dave Durflinger told KPCC via email, "Early this morning the fire came through the foothills of Carpinteria, which continue to burn. Winds are light, which has been helpful. The fire front is moving west. Power is intermittent."
Durflinger said it's still too early to know about losses. The city of Carpinteria is supporting fire and emergency operations by closing streets, disseminating evacuation information and distributing masks.
More than 4,000 firefighters are working to extinguish the Thomas Fire. The estimated cost of the fire is currently $25 million.
Forecasters predict the Santa Ana winds raking Southern California this past week will die down later Sunday.
Sunday afternoon, Ventura County officials lifted evacuations for the unincorporated areas of Santa Paula while Santa Barbara County officials expanded evacuations.
The mandatory evacuation area has been expanded to the area between Hot Springs Road and Buena Vista Drive. Evacuation warnings have been issued Mission Canyon Road to Cold Springs Road, above Alameda Padre Serra and from Alameda Padre Serra to Hot Springs Road between S. Salinas Road and Highway 192.
The new mandatory evacuation zone includes Westmont College, a small Christian liberal arts college in Montecito.
Earlier Sunday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office issued a mandatory evacuation order for the area north of Highway 192 to E.Camino Cielo between Toro Canyon Road and Linden Ave. They issued an evacuation warning for the area south of Highway 192 to the 101 from Toro Canyon Road to Linden Avenue; south of the 101 to the Pacific Ocean from Padaro Lane to Linden Ave.; of Highway 192 to East Camino Cielo between Toro Canyon Road and Ladera Lane.
Before that, mandatory orders had been expanded in Montecito, covering the area from Buena Vista Drive to Toro Canyon Road and from Highway 192 north to Camino Cielo.
In Carpinteria, mandatory evacuation orders were also issued for the areas of Shepherd Mesa, Gobernador Canyon and Rincon Point.
You can see an updated list of evacuations as CountyofSB.org or ReadyVenturaCounty.org.
An evacuation shelter has been established at the UCSB Recreation Center at 516 Ocean Road. For animal evacuations, residents in Santa Barbara County should call 805-681-4332.
A map of the Thomas Fire's progression in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, midday Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017.
Courtesy of Cal Fire
Thomas Fire grows slightly; now at 15 percent containment
Firefighters had to step aside as winds powered SoCal infernos
Southern California is burning. Is climate change to blame?
Frustrated with official sources, Ojai residents crowdsource Thomas Fire updates
KPCC's Local coverage is a Southern California resource provided by member-supported public radio. We can't do it without you.
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Viokyt - Dunapack
• Machines • Industry • South-East European INDUSTRIAL Мarket - issue 3/2018 • 25.09.2018
The company under the name Viokyt was founded in 1973 for the purpose of making corrugated cardboard cartons. In 1980 it was transferred to different premises in Acharnes, Attica, and in 2000 started operating from in its new state-of-the-art facilities in Schimatari, Viotia. Significant investments in equipment and know-how contributed to the creation of an advanced production unit, following several milestones: New five-color boxing unit with the possibility of water coating or UV lamination; New seven-color boxing unit with the possibility of water coatings or UV lamination; New six-color sheet digital printer.
Smart city infrastructure in Croatia
Robotics industry in Slovenia
Manufacturing execution systems market in Bulgaria
Textile industry in North Macedonia
Chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Serbia
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VEKTA LIGHTING
Later in 2016 Dunapack Packaging, a subsidiary of Austrian Prinzhorn Holding with 6600 employees, and with a leading position and presence in 16 Central and Eastern European countries, acquired 100% of the shares of Viokyt.
In the second half of 2017, a new investment plan was set to be completed by the end of the first half of 2018. It included the expansion of the building facilities, the installation of a new carton making machine and new production units capable of water coatings or UV lamination.
“Viokyt, with its existing equipment, continuous investment and human resources, is now considered a leading corporation in the corrugated packaging industry in Europe, and is now able to meet the packaging needs of the majority of its customers,” comments the company.
Keywords: Viokyt - Dunapack, water coating, UV lamination, Dunapak Packaging
Herz Armaturen focusing on its production near Ljubljana
LiSEC to present several product innovations at glasstec 2018
German trailer maker opened a modern facility in Turkey
Litens sets up its second European plant in Romania
Hidria awarded as best supplier of PSA Peugeot Citroen
The International Exhibition of Packaging, Machines, Printing & Logistics Syskevasia in Greece returns this year with new exhibit categories in the fields of winery/distillery, logistics and labeling, as well as a parallel event - Plastica 2018.
The "Metal Processing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia" explores the countries` metal processing industries and reviews their long-standing tradition. Presented are also some of the current biggest players on the market.
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Bluebird Barbecue
October 23, 2013 News + Opinion » Letters to the Editor
By Seven Days Readers
Protesters are Ignorant
The fact that people are protesting the methadone clinic in South Burlington indicates the level of ignorance and intolerance in our society today [“South Burlington Methadone Clinic Attracts Patients — and Opposition,” September 25]. Perhaps some of those protesters and the good folks who have signed the petition could learn a little about recovery from addiction instead of blindly objecting to a clinic that is, in fact, a tremendous community asset. If those same folks would take off their blinders, they might learn that their precious “honor students” at the school can procure cocaine and other illegal drugs more easily than they can alcohol. Cocaine is readily available in most schools — you just gotta know who to ask. Anyone who is seeking such things would probably be more likely to find discarded syringes in the school than on the grounds of the clinic. Denial is wonderful, isn’t it?
Ernie Amsden
Different Plans
Paul Heintz’s “The Undertaker’s Daughter: Darcie Johnston Wants to Kill Vermont Health Care Reform” [October 2] refers alternately to the recently opened health insurance exchange required by the Affordable Care Act and the universal health care plan that Vermont has enacted but not yet implemented — without clarifying that the two things are, in fact, very different. It’s something that many writers do, unfortunately.
The exchange is a requirement of current federal law, relies on insurance to cover the cost of health care and does not cover everyone. The universal care plan that Vermont is slated to institute in 2017 is a product of our state’s lawmakers, is publicly funded rather than relying on insurance and covers everyone. I am sure that many opponents of universal health care will attempt to confuse the two systems, hoping to deflect any displeasure with the exchange onto the coming universal care system. ?
In an effort to keep the facts and the programs straight, the Vermont Workers’ Center is sponsoring a series of public forums around the state on how Vermont can stay on track toward a health care system that really is universal and really does emphasize health care rather than health insurance. The first of these forums is at Burlington’s Union Station on Thursday, October 24, from 5 to 8 p.m. The second is in the Fox Room of the Rutland Free Library on Monday, October 28, also from 5 to 8.
Lee Russ
Good, Cheap Food
[Re Side Dishes: “Guilty Plate Diner Opens in Colchester,” October 16]: I am lucky to live around the corner from the Pine Street Deli. Over the past few years, I have gotten to know the Alvanos family and consider them friends and a tremendous asset to the neighborhood. Now the people of Colchester can enjoy their tasty yet completely unpretentious food. We have enough expensive restaurants in Burlington, where ego and the ability to suck a wallet dry in an hour are the rule, so it’s wonderful to see a place where the food is great, the people are kind, generous and genuine, and the atmosphere, thanks in great part to Michael Alvanos, is homey yet elegant. P.S. The eggs Benedict are awesome!
Christopher Hill
Not Going!
[Re “Devil in the Details,” October 16]: I planned to attend Lost Nation Theatre’s production of The Crucible until I read this: “After the performance on Thursday, October 17, Allen Gilbert, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, will host a discussion of issues in the play, such as false imprisonment, that remain relevant today.” We don’t need the ACLU to become involved in a great Miller play! Not going!
Jim Dudley
Chilly Reception
In an interview with Paul Heintz, ice-cream maker and self-proclaimed celebrity public policy spokesman Ben Cohen has taken a broad-brush swipe at Gov. Shumlin, Sen. Leahy, Sen. Sanders, Rep. Peter Welch and Mayor Miro Weinberger [Fair Game, October 9]. I have known and worked alongside these individuals on behalf of Vermont for over 50 years, except for the recently elected and highly competent Miro Weinberger. Cohen has identified himself with the small group of people who seem willing to jump ship for any single issue at any moment in time.??
Shumlin worked tirelessly for Vermont in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene and is strongly committed to health care for all Vermonters. Leahy’s accomplishments are legion — in the thousands of jobs he has been able to sponsor, in defense of civil liberties, in passing the Violence Against Women Act, in his tireless work against the use of landmines, and on behalf of organic farmers. The list goes on. ?
Sanders has never wavered on any issue and is the most consistent voice for organized labor and for the rights of working people in the entire Congress. Welch, whose style epitomizes the way Congress is supposed to work, labors tirelessly to find common ground with the opposition — an opposition more interested in fouling the nest with a level of selfishness unmatched in American history.?
I defend any person, including Cohen, to voice his or her opinions. But in this case, I would be just as likely to honor the opinion of the person at the window of the local Dairy Queen as I was served a tasty, lower-calorie treat than to depend on the “now and then” support of the ice-cream man.
Thomas Davis
Can’t Afford the Rents
Rent in Chittenden County is extremely high [“Demand for Urban Housing Brings Building Projects to Burlington’s Old North End,” October 16]. The issue is that people are living paycheck to paycheck. Most of us are paying over 50 percent of our incomes for rent! I understand that the landlords want to make money, but, at the same time, the influx of college students and tax rates on rental properties are making it extremely difficult to live here. I understand that a mortgage would be much cheaper than what we pay for rent, but because we pay so much to the landlords, we cannot save up a down payment. It’s a vicious cycle. And many landlords look for tenants with rental assistance only. I found a place that is $200 less a month than where we currently reside, but the landlord is holding out for someone who receives Section 8. It’s really hard for many people like us.
Star Gay
There were several errors in the PocketWizard writeup in last week’s feature “Only in Vermont”: The original founder, who is still involved in the company, is Stephen Padnos, not James Clark, and the technology associated with the more advanced triggers is called TTL, short for Through the Lens, not TTi.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #163 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
Monday, June 4, 2012 Jesse Willis 1 Comment
The SFFaudio Podcast #163 – Jesse, Tamahome, and Jenny (from Reading Envy) talk about newly released and recently arrived audiobooks.
Talked about on today’s show:
please send Jenny audiobooks for review, a lack of a listing of the short stories on audiobooks, kudos to Welcome To Bordertown, George R.R. Martin’s Warriors II and Down These Strange Streets (urban fantasy), Jenny is reading around the world in 52 books, Tigana is sort of Italian, future releases, Happy Audiobook Month, audiobook sale at Tantor, Nick wants Redshirts by John Scalzi, coming soon on Audible, Audible Modern Vanguard, Colin Firth narrated the Graham Greene novel The End Of The Affair, Redshirts has three codas (short stories), Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s The Long Earth, Flood, Discworld has giant turtles, Good Omens is great in audio, Stephen Baxter is doing a Doctor Who (The Wheel Of Ice), Gregory Benford’s free audio novelette The Hunger For The Infinite is part of the Galactic Center series, sort of like I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, sheer amount of David Brin audiobooks, Jenny might read Kiln People, how do Scott and Jesse truly feel about David Brin? (Jesse’s review of Startide Rising), the value of awards, The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of The 20th Century has a good Brin and others, (Ben Bova was in the news not David Brin), The Postman book and movie, “if you build it they will come”, Heinlein’s Glory Road narrated by Pinchot, it’s one of Jo Walton’s least favorites, How To Build An Android also narrated by Pinchot, Alastair Reynolds’s Blue Remembered Earth, reviewed by Luke, Heinlein’s The Number Of The Beast (666?), Moonwar by Ben Bova, 21st Century Dead (zombies), Jenny’s collecting subgenres, Daniel Wilson’s Amped (1st three chapters on io9), someone stole that title, Energized by Edward M. Lerner sounds like Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, separate chapters like the Nova tv show, Red Mars, super science!, Jonathan Maberry, Robert Bloch’s Psycho series, “did he escape?”, H.G. Wells stuff added, Etsy 101: Sell Your Crafts On Etsy, Jenny wants N.K. Jemisin’s The Killing Moon in audio, Liz Williams’s Worldsoul has librarian heroes, “X-men meets The Breakfast Club”, Sfsignal’s book cover gallery for June, is body horror the same as splatterpunk?, Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination looks like a Jenny book, The Islanders by Christopher Priest (author of The Prestige), waiting for international books, Paul McCauley’s In The Mouth Of The Whale is not in America, “I would buy the ebook”, small fonts, William Gibson is only in mass market paperback, many Philip K. Dick novels with plain covers, the value of book covers, “it’s like a good looking person”, “that screams I am a literary miracle”, Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland, get the annotated one, Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! A Very Grimm Tale by Yuri Rasovsky (audiodrama), so many fairy tales, a superficial interest in Further: Beyond The Threshold by Chris Roberson, a law that a bookcover should be honest, “that’s enough on that”, C.S. Friedman?, Adam-Troy Castro is not always super creepy, Paul Krugman’s End This Depression!, he was just on Geek’s Guide, “oh that kind of depression”, Justinian’s Flea, The Most Powerful Idea In The World, The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, author on The Bookworm podcast, Chuck Wendig’s Blackbirds, “I’m sensing a pattern with your reading, Tam”, Delany interview, Delany’s Nova, Tigana is the Sword and Laser pick for June
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A half-vampire’s work is never done…
At Grave’s End (Book 3 in the Night Huntress series)
By Jeaniene Frost; Read by Tavia Gilbert
8 CDs – Approx. 9.3 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Some things won’t stay buried … at grave’s end. It should be the best time of half-vampire Cat Crawfield’s life. With her undead lover Bones at her side, she’s successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But though Cat’s worn disguise after disguise to keep her true identity a secret from the brazen bloodsuckers, her cover’s finally been blown, placing her in terrible danger. As if that wasn’t enough, a woman from Bones’ past is determined to bury him once and for all. Caught in the crosshairs of a vengeful vamp, yet determined to help Bones stop a lethal magic from being unleashed, Cat’s about to learn the true meaning of bad blood. And the tricks she’s learned as a special agent won’t help her. She will need to fully embrace her vampire instincts in order to save herself—and Bones—from a fate worse than the grave.
Look no further for unknowable, inimical insectiles than…
The Lair of Bones (Book 4 of The Runelords series)
By David Farland; Read by Ray Porter
13 CDs – Approx. 15.4 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Prince Gaborn, the Earth King, has defeated the forces arrayed against him each time before: the magical and human forces marshaled by Raj Ahten, who seeks immortality at any cost and has given up his humanity in trade; and the inhuman, innumerable, insectile hordes of the giant Reavers from under the Earth, whose unknowable motives are inimical to human life. Now there must be final confrontations, both on the field of battle, with the supernatural creature that Raj Ahten has become, and underground, in the cavernous homeland of the Reavers, where the sorcerous One True Master who rules them all lies in wait—in the Lair of Bones. The survival of the human race on Earth is at stake.
Like a few other titles in this list this one was discussed at the beginning of SFFaudio Podcast #088…
By Tim Powers; Read by Bronson Pinchot
Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card. Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, this World Fantasy Award–winning novel is a masterpiece of magic realism set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas.
To me, the word UFO illustrates both the magic and the deficiency of language. The gap between the “U” (UNKNOWN) and “alien spacecraft” is the slippage between word, reality, and fantasy in the black box of the brain. There’s a website for the book |HERE|…
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record
By Leslie Kean; Read by Heather Henderson
11 CDs – Approx. 13 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of a secret report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. In Belgium, an Air Force colonel investigates a series of widespread sightings of unidentified triangular objects, sending F-16s to attempt a closer look. Hundreds of eyewitnesses, including on-duty police officers, file reports about the incident, and a spectacular photograph of an unidentifiable craft is retrieved and analyzed. Here at home, a retired chief of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Accidents and Investigations Division reveals the agency’s response to a thirty-minute encounter between an aircraft and a gigantic UFO over Alaska, which occurred during his watch and is documented on radar. Now all three of these distinguished men have written breathtaking, firsthand accounts about these extraordinary incidents. They are joined by Air Force generals and a host of high-level sources who have agreed to write their own detailed, personal stories about UFO encounters and investigations for the first time. They are coming forward now because of Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter who has spent the last ten years studying the still unexplained UFO phenomenon. Kean reviewed hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, radar data, and case studies with corroborating physical evidence. With the support of former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, Kean draws on her research to separate fact from fiction and to lift the veil on decades of U.S. government misinformation. Throughout, she presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects—metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to maneuver in ways that defy the laws of physics—actually exist.
Dare you learn the lost secrets of the meow’in Mauan civilization?
Catacombs: A Tale of the Barque Cats
By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; Read by Laural Merlington
7 CDs – Approx. 8 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
In Catalyst, award-winning authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough introduced listeners to the beguiling Barque Cats: spacefaring felines who serve aboard starships as full-fledged members of the crew. Highly evolved, the cats share an almost telepathic bond with their minders, or Cat Persons — until, suddenly, there is no “almost” about it, and a particular Barque Cat, Chester, learns to ex- change thoughts with his human friend, Jubal. Other cats soon gain the same ability. Behind the seeming miracle is a mysterious cat named Pshaw-Ra, who possesses knowledge and technology far beyond anything the Barque Cats — or their humans — have ever seen. When fear of a virulent plague leads the government first to quarantine and then to kill all animals suspected of infection, Pshaw-Ra—with the help of Chester, Jubal, and the crew of the starship Ranzo — activates a “mousehole” in space that carries the refugees to a place of safety: Pshaw-Ra’s home planet of Mau, where godlike cats are worshiped by human slaves. But Pshaw-Ra’s actions are less noble than they appear. The scheming cat plans to mate the Barque Cats with his own feline stock, creating a hybrid race of superior cats — a race destined to conquer the universe. Yet right from the start, his plans go awry. For one thing, there’s a new queen on Mau: Pshaw-Ra’s daughter Nefure, a spoiled brat — er, cat — with a temper as short as her attention span. Pshaw-Ra’s other daughter, the rightful queen Renpet, is exiled, running for her life in the only direction available to her — down into the vast catacombs beneath the Mauan desert. Far from receiving the hero’s welcome he expected, Pshaw-Ra must use every bit of his considerable cleverness just to survive. Meanwhile, as usual, Chester and Jubal stumble right into the middle of things, in the process uncovering the lost secrets of the Mauan civilization. But that’s not all they uncover. In the forgotten catacombs deep below the Mauan capital, something has awakened. Something as old as the universe. Something that hungers to devour all light and life — and that bears an undying hatred for cats.
An Epic Fantasy that’s only 4 hours long? That’s an epic I can get behind!
Debt Of Bones (a book in the Sword Of Truth series)
By Terry Goodkind; Read by Sam Tsoutsouvas
A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword Of Truth, Debt Of Bones is the story of young Abby’s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby’s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to save the life of a child…but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal. With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world – for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone – will never again be the same.
I feel kind of bad that I haven’t read any Bacigalupi other than The Fluted Girl. Is this my chance to atone?
Pump Six and Other Stories
By Paolo Bacigalupi; Read by Jonathan Davis, James Chen, and Eileen Stevens
The eleven stories in Pump Six chart the evolution of Paolo Bacigalupi’s work, including the Hugo nominated “Yellow Card Man,” and the Sturgeon Award-winning story “The Calorie Man,” both set in the world of his novel The Windup Girl. This collection also demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Bacigalupi’s work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience.
This audiobook is getting very mixed reviews over on Amazon.com, many high, many low, but it’s length means I think it’ll be reviewed here soon…
The God Engines
By John Scalzi; Read by Christopher Lane
Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this — and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given. Tephe knows from the start that his mission will be a test of his skill as a leader of men and as a devout follower of his god. It’s what he doesn’t know that matters: to what ends his faith and his ship will ultimately be put — and that the tests he will face will come not only from his god and the Bishopry Militant, but from another, more malevolent source entirely… Author John Scalzi has ascended to the top ranks of modern science fiction with the best-selling, Hugo-nominated novels Old Man’s War and Zoe’s Tale. Now he tries his hand at fantasy, with a dark and different novella that takes your expectations of what fantasy is and does, and sends them tumbling. Say your prayers… and behold The God Engines.
I am sooo looking forward to hearing this…
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You (book 4 in the Stainless Steel Rat series)
By Harry Harrison; Read by Phil Gigante
After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin’ sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort, when the humans-only galaxy of the League is invaded by all manner of hideous aliens. The Rat, disguised in the most hideous combination of alien physical features, is sent into the centre of the aliens’ stronghold, where he finds himself the object of desire among the aliens. His task is to stop the aliens, who plan to wipe out every human in the universe.
John DeNardo, over on SFSignal.com, thought this audiobook worthy of 4/5 stars…
Starship Vectors
Edited by Allan Kaster; Read by Nicola Barber and Tom Dheere
Publisher: Infinivox
Starships come in many shapes and sizes. Their crews and passengers are an eclectic lot. They venture into the deep voids of space on their assigned missions. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they do not. This collection tells the stories of the crews and passengers aboard six of these starships. Those aboard the Mayflower II are determined to be the first generation ship to successfully reach another galaxy in a story (Mayflower II ) by Stephen Baxter that takes place in the Xeelee universe. In Boojum, by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, space pirates are on the prowl for booty aboard the living starship, Lavinia Whateley. In The Political Officer, by Charles Coleman Finlay, the crew aboard a military starship must contend with both the enemy and a political officer. In The Tomb Wife, by Gwyneth Jones, the navigator of the interstellar freighter, Pirate Jenny, hears a ghost from an alien tomb in its cargo hold. Two competitive physicists aboard the Kepler use uploads of themselves to probe the scientific mysteries of radiation-rich space in Shiva in Shadow by Nancy Kress. A wealthy woman explores the lives of the less fortunate aboard a starship larger than Earth in Robert Reed s The Remoras, part of the author s ongoing Marrow series.
The first book in a new “epic fantasy” trilogy about a war between men and griffins…
Lord Of The Changing Winds (book 1 in the Griffin Mage series)
By Rachel Neumeier; Read by Emily Durante
9 CDs – Approx. 11 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tantor Media
Griffins lounged all around them, inscrutable as cats, brazen as summer. They turned their heads to look at Kes out of fierce, inhuman eyes. Their feathers, ruffled by the wind that came down the mountain, looked like they had been poured out of light; their lion haunches like they had been fashioned out of gold. A white griffin, close at hand, looked like it had been made of alabaster and white marble and then lit from within by white fire. Its eyes were the pitiless blue-white of the desert sky. Little ever happens in the quiet villages of peaceful Feierabiand. The course of Kes’s life seems set: she’ll grow up to be an herb-woman and healer for the village of Minas Ford, never quite fitting in but always more or less accepted. And she’s content with that path—or she thinks she is. Until the day the griffins come down from the mountains, bringing with them the fiery wind of their desert and a desperate need for a healer. But what the griffins need is a healer who is not quite human…or a healer who can be made into something not quite human.
Described as “‘Buck Rogers‘ meets ‘Barbarella‘ meets ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‘”…
Based on the comic series and the play by Elaine Lee and Mike Kaluta; Adapted by Elaine Lee, Susan Norfleet and Dale Place; Performed by a full cast
2 CDs – Approx. 2 Hours 11 Minutes
Publisher: The Audio Comics Company
The basis for the critically acclaimed comic book series, Starstruck was first presented off-off-Broadway in 1980, and again off-Broadway in 1983. In a far-flung and very alternative future, Captain Galatia 9 and the crew of the Harpy and on a mission for the United Federation of Female Freedom Fighters. When the Harpy runs into a living ship inhabited by a team of galactic evildoers, including Galatia’s insidious sister Verloona Ti, the outcome of the battle may well decide the fate of the free universe. The AudioComics Company is proud to present the audio adaptation of the play script as its inaugural production! Often hilarious, always surprising, Starstruck is a spine-tingling joy-ride to the far side of the spiral arm!
The Incomparable Podcast
Monday, August 23, 2010 Jesse Willis 1 Comment
Here is the first episode |MP3| of The Incomparable Podcast. It appears to be all about SFF books! Huzzah! Here’s the description:
Climb in your Zeppelin, grab a self-burning book, and prepare for the first Incomparable Podcast, in which we discuss “The City and The City,” “The Windup Girl,” “For The Win,” and more. Plus we mispronounce the names of writers.
The Incomparable Participants: Glenn Fleishman, Scott McNulty, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell. The Incomparable Theme Song composed by Christopher Breen.
Prominently mentioned in this Incomparable episode:
* “The City & The City” by China Miéville
* “The Windup Girl” by Paolo Bacigalupi
* “For the Win” by Cory Doctorow
Also mentioned:
* “Perdido Street Station” by China Miéville
* “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow
* “Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom” by Cory Doctorow
* “Boneshaker” by Cherie Priest
* “The Gone-Away World” by Nick Harkaway
* “Ship Breaker” by Paolo Bacigalupi
* “Tongues Of Serpents” by Naomi Novik
* “The Dream Of Perpetual Motion” by Dexter Palmer
* “A Storm Of Swords” by George R.R. Martin
* “Oryx And Crake” by Margaret Atwood
* “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” by Michael Chabon
* “Bitter Seeds” by Ian Tregillis
* “The Adamantine Palace” by Stephen Deas
* “Shades Of Grey” by Jasper Fforde
* “Fables” by Bill Willingham and Lan Medina
Podcast feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/incomparablepodcast
[via Jeremy Keith of Huffduffer.com]
The SFFaudio Podcast #040
Monday, October 26, 2009 Jesse Willis 2 Comments
The SFFaudio Podcast #040 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Steve Feldberg of Audible.com to talk about Audible Frontiers and other Audible.com projects. We talk audiobooks the whole show, giving particular attention to those produced by Audible.com itself. Steve tells us all about a bunch of the upcoming Science Fiction, Fantasy, espionage, and crime audiobooks we can expect to see showing up in the Audible catalgoue this year and next!
Audible.com, Audible Frontiers, Gateway by Frederik Pohl, Robert J. Sawyer, Frederik Pohl, how to translate font and textual changes to audio, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis, METAtropolis |READ OUR REVIEW|, Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer |READ OUR REVIEW|, narrator performance, The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, how do you pick stuff?, Battlestar Galactica, Mike Resnick‘s Starship series, space opera, dialogue driven audiobooks, David Weber‘s Honor Harrington series, female protagonists, Mike Shepherd‘s Kris Longknife series, military SF, Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s War series, novella and novelette length audiobooks, METAtropolis, Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer, Stefan Rudnicki, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card |READ OUR REVIEW|, Scott Brick, Hopscotch by Brian Garfield, espionage novels, Death Wish by Brian Garfield, Hopscotch (1980) starring Walter Matthau, Six Days Of The Condor by James Grady, mystery and thriller audiobooks, Jim Thompson, copyright disambiguation, Hard Case Crime, BBC Audiobooks America, Christa Faust, The Ghosts Of Belfast by Stuart Neville, Gerard Doyle, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Jeremy Gage, Lawrence Block, pseudonymous narrators, Grover Gardner (aka Tom Parker), Mercedes Lackey‘s Elemental Masters series, fairy tales, Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer |READ OUR REVIEW|, Golden Fleece by Robert J. Sawyer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch‘s Retrieval Artist series, William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero, All Tomorrow’s Parties are all coming to audiobook, wouldn’t a multi-voiced version of Neuromancer be great? Yes it would!, Stanisław Lem, audiobooks are coming, Gene Wolfe‘s The Book Of The New Sun is coming to audio, epic fantasy is hard to turn into audiobooks, David Eddings, Subterranean Press, how the audiobook experience is different than the paperbook experience, Harlan Ellison as a narrator, we need some Jack Vance audiobooks, Brilliance Audiobooks, On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, Seeing Ear Theatre, audio drama, James Patrick Kelly, copyright disambiguation part II, the Bradbury 13, J. Michael Straczynski‘s City Of Dreams, Mary Burkey’s Audiobooker Blog, audiobook reading groups, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Audible.com’s internal book club.
SFFaudio Podcast #040 [ 56:49 | 52.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Monday, September 28, 2009 Jesse Willis Leave a comment
The SFFaudio Podcast #037 – Jesse and Scott talk about the latest audiobook releases, audiobook narrators and plenty more. It’s a show full of “stage-actory goodness” in which we learn the ultimate truth:
“the monster frozen in the ice is definitely alive”
Scott is living the sequel to High Plains Drifter, Hercules by Geraldine McCaughrean, Full Cast Audio, Who was the greatest Greek hero?, Perseus, Odysseus by Geraldine McCaughrean, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Achilles, Guest Law by John C. Wright, Infinivox, Aliens Rule edited by Allan Kaster, “How Music Begins” by James Van Pelt, Listening Library, the Becka Cooper series, Terrier by Tamora Peirce, Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce, Random House Audio, The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood, Audible addiction, Audible Frontiers, The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, Jonathan Davis, Infinivox’s The Fluted Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, Recorded Books, Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross, Wild Voices Audio, The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke, Blind Lake, Bridge Of Years, Darwinia, Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson, Hachette Audio, Transition by Iain M. Banks (UNABRIDGED), also the podcast version, Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks, Dune: House Atredies by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Blackstone Audio, Treason by Orson Scott Card, Audible.com’s latest sale includes: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Ringworld by Larry Niven, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Stalking The Vampire by Mike Resnick, Waystation by Clifford Simak, Grover Gardner, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, The Jerk, Macmillan Audio, The Box: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson, The Twilight Zone (1985), “Button Button” by Richard Matheson, (the collection also includes: Girl Of My Dreams, Dying Room Only, A Flourish Of Strumpets, No Such Thing As A Vampire, Pattern For Survival, Mute, Creeping Terror, Shock Wave, Clothes Make The Man, The Jazz Machine, ‘Tis The Season To Be Jelly, The Mystery Of Grace by Charles de Lint, Slings & Arrows – Series 1, Podkayne Of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein, Armor by John Steakley, John Carpenter’s Vampires
FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer, Star Trek by Alan Dean Foster, FlashForward (the TV series), revealing or realizing the solution to a mystery in fiction, Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child, Zachary Quinto, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Shed Skin by Robert J. Sawyer, Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe, Sword Edged Blond, Blood Groove, Escape From Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, The Mote In God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first contact, gender, feminism, The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, iPhone, audiobook functionality, CBC Radio and NPR apps.
SFFaudio Podcast #037 [ 1:13:58 | 67.77 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
New Release from Audible Frontiers: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Thursday, September 17, 2009 Jesse Willis Leave a comment
Steve Feldberg, the spearhead behind the thrust that is Audible Frontiers, writes in to say:
“I wanted to draw your attention to our production of Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WINDUP GIRL, which just went in the store this week.
Every review of this book is a rave – and it’s being called one of the best if not THE best SF books of the year.
Our production is especially great since it’s narrated by Jonathan Davis; you might recall that his narration of Robert J. Sawyer’s CALCULATING GOD won the 2009 Audie Award for Sci-Fi.
This one’s definitely worth a listen.”
Cool! Davis is also the narrator for the praiseworthy “Starship” series by Mike Resnick!
By Paolo Bacigalupi; Read by Jonathan Davis
Audible Download – Approx. [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible Frontiers
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko…Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism’s genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of The Calorie Man (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and Yellow Card Man (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.
The novel’s title seemed familiar, so I looked on my bookshelf and spotted Infinivox’s The Fluted Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (it’s also available via Audible.com).
[Thanks Steve!]
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BONOMINI LEADS SHASTA TO PAIR OF VICTORIES
Hartnell
Shasta (4-1) 18 19 15 22 74
Hartnell (1-2) 6 9 9 15 39
Shasta 22 19 16 11 68
Modesto 12 18 10 14 54
Kayla Bonomini
Pts: Kayla Bonomini - 25
Reb: Justyse Cooper - 12
Ast: Jordan Martinez - 10
Pts: 2 Players (#21, #33) - 8
Reb: Team - 21
Reb: Keeley Tuggle - 9
Pts: Dominique Lewis - 17
Reb: 2 Players (#11, #25) - 10
Ast: Kianna Vaught - 4
REDDING, Calif. – Sophomore Kayla Bonomini dropped a pair of 20-point games to lead the Shasta College women's basketball team to a 74-39 win over Hartnell and a 68-54 win over Modesto last week.
The Knights improve to 4-1 with all four wins coming in double digits, an average margin of victory of 23 points.
On Tuesday, Shasta blew out to a 37-15 lead at half and only allowed nine points in the third quarter to pull away. Bonomini poured in 25 points on 10 of 13 shooting while freshman Justyse Cooper recorded a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds. Sophomore Mari Fernandez scored nine points and had four blocks, Alex McIntosh scored nine points, Terra Crawford chipped in with eight points and sophomore Jordan Martinez dished 10 assists.
The Knights traveled to Modesto the next day and Bonomini turned in another career night with 29 points on 11 of 18 shooting, nailing four of Shasta's six 3-pointers. Shasta went ahead 22-12 in the opening quarter and never looked back.
Fernandez scored 12 points, Martinez scored 10 points and had five assists, Crawford scored eight points off the bench and sophomore Keeley Tuggle scored six points, had five assists and led the Knights with nine rebounds.
Shasta (4-1) plays at Umpqua Community College on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. before hosting the Shasta Invitational Tournament Nov. 29.
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January reading round up...
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
'It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn't repeat a phrase 5 times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. It's caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. And Bryony is sick of it. Keeping silent about her illness has given it a cachet it simply does not deserve, so here she shares her story with trademark wit and dazzling honesty.'
I absolutely loved this book. An honest look at mental illness that was hugely relateable and written in a warm and friendly tone. I loved the way Bryony explained her illness whilst insisting that it is possible to lead a normal life and also including some intersting stats and important points about the stigma of mental illness. 4/5
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
'Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, Guylain Vignolles has but one pleasure in life. Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. Guylain discovers the diary of a lonely young woman: Julie. Julie feels as lost in the world as he does. As he reads from these pages to a rapt audience, Guylain finds himself falling hopelessly in love with their enchanting author. This is a tale bursting with larger-than-life characters, each of whom touches Guylain's life for the better.'
If it wasn't for the fact this was a fairly short book I'd have probably given up on it. Everything about this book was meh for me. The characters were two dimensional and impossible to connect with and the story was predictable and summed up in the blurb. Maybe if the book would have been longer we could have got more insight and depth into the characters but this just left me feeling nothing. 2/5
The Playdate by Louise Millar (Audiobook read by Clare Corbett)
'When Callie moved into her new neighbourhood, she thought it would be easy to fit in. The other parents have been strangely hostile, though, and her frail daughter Rae is finding it impossible to make friends. Suzy, with her rich husband and her three energetic children, has been the only one to reach out, although their friendship has recently felt inexplicably strained. Now the police have suggested that someone dangerous may be living in their neighbourhood, and the atmosphere feels even more toxic. Then there’s the matter of Callie’s ex-husband, and the shocking truth behind their divorce . . . a truth that she would do anything to hide.'
Louise Millar books read by Clare Corbett are the perfect combination. Whilst I enjoyed this it wasn't as good as The Hidden Girl which I listened to in November. This one was still a great suspenseful thriller that left you questioning which characters were trustworthy or not. Millar is really good at slowly building up the tension and creating interestingly flawed female characters. 3.5/5
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Full review here. 3/5
Exits by Daryl Seitchik
'Claire Kim hates herself and the world she lives in. Working at a mirror store, she shows customers their reflections and daydreams about erasing her own. One night, on her way home, she gets her wish. Follow Claire as she wanders invisibly through the city and her own psyche.'
This was a beautiful graphic novel that mixed humour with a dark look at isolation and loneliness. It looked at the idea of invisibility as an illness and a young woman who is desperate to disappear, but when she does she realises it is not as she'd hoped. 4/5
Snotgirl Vol.1 by Brian Lee O'Malley & Leslie Hung
'Who is Lottie Person? Is she a gorgeous, fun-loving social media star with a perfect life or a gross, allergy-ridden mess? '
The first issue of this started out really strong but then I found it kind of went dowhill, not much happened and the whole thing seemed a little shallow. I LOVE the artwork and colours for this but the story didn't give me enough to want to continue it in a hurry. 3/5
Catwoman Vol.1 The Trial of Cawoman by Ed Brubaker & Darwyn Cooke
'For years, Selina Kyle has prowled the skyline of Gotham City as its most famous thief, Catwoman. But when word spreads of Catwoman's demise, Selina decides to leave the costumed world behind and continue her trade cloaked in the shadows. Unable to enjoy her newfound anonymity for too long though, Selina decides that she must return to her infamous persona. Donning a new costume and attitude, Catwoman returns to the streets and sets her sights on the serial killer that has been preying upon the streetwalkers she calls friends.'
I'm finally getting round to catching up with the older Catwoman series and this one is a huge omnibus edition which includes the graphic novel Selina's Big Score, some Detective Comics stuff and the first few trades of the rebooted Catwoman. I LOVED it and especially enjoyed Cooke's (with Allred) artwork. I think this catwoman suit is possibly my favourite, I really enjoyed the way Brubaker in particular wrote her and the stories were really strong. Selina is a badass and this book really showcased that. 4/5
Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu
'Instead of battling the Dark Knight, Dr. Pamela Isley, a.k.a. Poison Ivy finds herself as a researcher at the Gotham Botanical Gardens, studying the possibility of creating plant-human hybrids. But when her fellow scientists start turning up dead, she's both the natural leading suspect and the only person (or plant) who can crack the case. To solve the mystery, Poison Ivy must team up or throw down with her oldest friends and closest frenemies, from Harley Quinn to Catwoman to the Swamp Thing. Can she keep things under control, or will she be responsible for a deadly new harvest?'
It was exiting to see Ivy in her first solo series as well as seeing a different side to her character. I especially loved the issues where she teamed up with Catwoman and thought this was a well written story that focused on exploring the characters as well as giving and interesting and fun story. Hopefully we see more of solo Ivy! 4/5
Giant Days Vol.2 by John Allison
'Continuing their first semester at university, fast friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy want to find their footing in life. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, holiday balls, hometown rivals, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.'
I really loved the first volume of this series but unfortunately found this one disappointing. Not that much happened and I found it all a little immature considering the characters are at university. 3/5
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Derek Fisher: Knicks 'will turn around quickly'
Derek Fisher says Knicks can rebuild quickly, go from worst to first
New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher says he believes his team can improve next year and possibly go from worst to first.
[daily_cut.nba]
The Knicks have the league’s worst record at 15-63, and when asked if his team can make a dramatic improvement, he said he thinks they can.
"I guess that's possible, but we are not here trying to squeeze in, we are not here trying to go from 15 to 36," Fisher said, according to the New York Post. “It will turn around quickly.”
"But we don't really have to put a number on it," Fisher added. "We are 6-21 in games [decided] by six points or less this year. So we lost 21 games on two possessions. So we don't have go from 15 to 36 next year. We can go from 15 to 63 if we really want to. But that is up to us."
The league record for improvement from one season to the next belongs to the Boston Celtics, who won 24 games in 2006-07 and then traded for Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, won 66 games and the NBA Championship the next season.
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Peter Read Miller
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Heinz Kluetmeier
Tony Triolo
Jeffery A. Salter
Darren Carroll
Hy Peskin
Andy Hayt
John G. Zimmerman
Daymon Gardner/SI
Lane Stewart
Gerard Rancinan
New York will have at least $25 million to spend in free agency and will have All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony back in the fold. Anthony is out for the remainder of the season after having surgery on his left knee. The team also will have at least a top-four pick in June’s NBA draft.
• NBA playoff race: Projected matchups
"Things change so quickly in the game now that it is hard to predict that far ahead," said Fisher, who is in his first season as a head coach. "A team in the playoffs could trade three guys and start rebuilding next year, and you have been planning all summer to face these three guys and they are not there anymore.
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By Graham Swift
eBook Unabridged Audio Download
LIST PRICE £8.99
Booksellers.org
WH Smith
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MOTHERING SUNDAY AND LAST ORDERS, and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, this is an intensely moving novel about a night that will change one family beyond recognition.
On a June night Paula, a successful art dealer, lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her. In nearby rooms their twin teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleep too. The next day, Paula knows, will define all their lives.
As dawn approaches, Paula recalls the years before and after her children were born. Her story is both a celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, of the fragilities on which even our most inward sense of who we are can rest.
Graham Swift’s apparently most domestic book is that rare thing in fiction, a novel about happiness, though a happiness that is not all that it seems. An intimate and tender tale of a marriage, a family and a home, it begins to embrace big themes: nature and nurture, the illusory and the real.
Praise for Mothering Sunday:
‘Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’Guardian
'Alive with sensuousness and sensuality … wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement’ Sunday Times
‘From start to finish Swift’s is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game’ Evening Standard
‘Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know … It may just be Swift’s best novel yet’Observer
© Janus van den Eijnden
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, two collections of short stories, including the highly acclaimed England and Other Stories, and of Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. His most recent novel, Mothering Sunday, became an international bestseller and won The Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels were made into films. His work has appeared in over thirty languages.
Publisher: Scribner UK (February 2018)
Book Cover Image (jpg): Tomorrow
Paperback 9781471162022
Author Photo (jpg): Graham Swift
Any use of an author photo must include its respective photo credit
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Resources Agile and Scrum
How To Build A Successful Career In Agile And Scrum
Roadmap to CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Certification
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Agile Scrum Master (ASM) Certification Training – What our Learners are saying
The Story of Success – How Mandla Mahlangu Conquered the World of Agile
By Mandla MahlanguLast updated on Oct 4, 20187426
Mandla – the silent hero who worked his way through life to get to the top. He isn’t one to believe in fate. His motto is hard work and perseverance.
Mandla Mahlangu’s story dates back to early 2000s. Coming from a poor family, he had very little exposure to what was happening around the world. He dreamed of being an engineer. But little did he know that it wasn’t going to be as easy as he thought.
Surrounded by friends who had a vision to succeed, he was motivated to work hard and completed his secondary schooling. With his scores in hand, he went to a tertiary institution to get registered. Enthusiastic and excited, he was ready to begin his journey to success. An advisor was assigned to him.
However, his dreams were about to be shattered. The course advisor went through his grades. He was told that he qualified for a number of degrees, but the one he wanted was out of his reach. Registrations were closed, and the batch for that year was already full. There was no way he could do an engineering course.
His advisor recommended that instead of taking a year off, he should consider other options, especially the courses that could get him jobs in the IT industry.
Mandla didn’t have much idea about the information technology industry. His advisor explained to him how important IT was to the world and the career opportunities available in the field. This inspired Mandla and he decided to register for the Bachelor’s degree in IT.
A few years into the industry, Mandla began working in a team that used Agile. But he had only a limited knowledge of the framework. He could not follow the terminology that his team used. It left him confused.
He knew that he needed to upskill to be on par with his teammates. So he decided to take up a certification course. He researched on certifications and the various training providers that would help him skill up.
After careful considerations, he took up the Agile and Scrum certification program from Simplilearn and he was happy with his choice. He found that the program was clear, up-to-date, and the course instructor explained the concepts well. The course introduced him to the astounding world of Agile methodology.
Once he completed this program, he felt like a different person. With his new-found knowledge, he was able to challenge and correct his team members whenever they were drifting away from the Agile principles.
Today, he is at the top of his game. He plans to acquire most of the IT certifications and vows never to stop studying.
Ambitious as he is, Mandla’s next step is to pursue his one true goal – PhD.
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Snowflake Introduces Snowpipe – Continuous, Automated and Cost-effective Data Loading
Customers can now automate and continuously load data for faster and more accurate data-driven business decisions.
SAN MATEO, Calif. – Nov 28, 2017 – Snowflake Computing, a data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced the public preview of Snowpipe – a continuous, straightforward and cost-effective service to load data into Snowflake. Snowpipe is an automated service built using Amazon SQS and other Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions that asynchronously listen for new data as it arrives to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and regularly loads that data into Snowflake.
New data-generating applications emerge nearly every day, creating continuous streams of data in many structured and semi-structured formats. Organizations need to analyze this data as quickly as possible to support rapid decision-making. Unfortunately, traditional data warehouses batch load data at off-peak times to avoid contention with other workloads.
Snowpipe overcomes the barriers of legacy solutions by providing the following benefits to enable data-driven organizations:
Real-time insights – Snowpipe promptly provides fresh data to all your business users without workload contention.
Cost-effective – Pay only for the per-second compute utilized to load data instead of running a warehouse continuously or by the hour.
Ease-of-use – Simply point Snowpipe at an Amazon S3 bucket and data will automatically load asynchronously as it arrives.
Flexibility – Technical resources can interface directly with the programmatic REST API, using Java and Python SDKs to enable highly customized loading use cases.
Zero management – Snowpipe automatically provisions the correct capacity for the data being loaded. No servers or management to worry about.
Snowflake provides seamless automated data loading with Snowpipe. Leveraging Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and other AWS services, Snowflake also separates storage, compute and services into three separate layers. This helps customers overcome the following traditional data warehousing challenges:
Legacy architecture – Tightly coupled storage and compute create contention with queries as data is loaded.
Stale data – Batch loading prevents organizations from acquiring instant, data-driven insights.
Limited data support – Lack of support for semi-structured data requires users to transform data and define a schema before loading.
High-maintenance – Traditional data warehouse tools require additional overhead in the form of constant indexing, tuning, sorting and vacuuming.
Spireon, a vehicle intelligence company and a Snowflake customer, has nearly four million vehicles on its platform that gathers billions of events about its customers’ vehicle activity. “We have a constant stream of data we need to analyze in real time, and Snowpipe enables us to do just that,” Spireon’s Director of Information Architecture, Dave Withers said. ”Spireon is a data-driven company, and Snowpipe is a part of our platform that provides valuable insights to help our customers be more efficient, better protected and more profitable.”
Snowflake’s VP of Alliances, Walter Aldana said: “Snowpipe capitalizes on Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 and Amazon SQS to continuously load an organization’s data into Snowflake. Many of our customers, and the industries in which they compete, demand fresh and accurate data be delivered in seconds or minutes, not hours or days. Snowpipe helps make that possible. With Snowpipe, Snowflake continues to remove the barriers that prevent organizations from acquiring relevant insight from all their data for all their business users.”
Ken Chestnut, AWS Global Segment Lead, said: “Companies are taking advantage of the cloud to manage their modern data workloads and make better, faster decisions. Snowpipe built on AWS makes it easier for customers to process, analyze and consume data in real time.”
Snowpipe is available immediately for public preview on request and will be available in open public preview starting December 8. To find out more about Snowpipe, click here. To read a Snowpipe blog, which details the technical attributes of Snowpipe, click here.
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Úvodní stránka » GREAT BOOK TAIS AWARDS » Gemma Ray — The Exodus Suite
Gemma Ray — The Exodus Suite (May 20th, 2016)
Gemma Ray — The Exodus Suite (May 20th, 2016) ♠°♠ The LP includes the tracks ‘Come Caldera’ and ‘Caldera, Caldera!’ on a separate bonus 7” single. CD — Digipack.
♠°♠ Versatile British singer/songwriter with an elegant, noirish retro rock style. “This record was all about love and compassion: Compassion for fellow man, compassion for animals, and the earth itself. These songs celebrate being a citizen of the world.” — Gemma Ray © PHOTO CREDIT: ALISA RESNIK
Born: Basildon, Essex, England
Album release: May 20th, 2016
Record Label: Bronzerat Records
01 Come Caldera 2:43
02 There Must Be More Than This 4:42
03 The Original One 4:05
04 We Do War 3:17
05 Ifs & Buts 6:33
06 We Are All Wandering 4:30
07 Acta Non Verba 1:46
08 Hail Animal 5:05
09 The Switch 3:52
10 The Machine 4:33
11 Shimmering 6:54
12 Caldera, Caldera! 4:19 ♠★■ GEMMA RAY: “I didn’t really listen to music in an album format as a child as I didn’t come from a musical household. The only song I can remember my mum playing was Ob–La–Di, Ob–La–Da by the Beatles which successfully put me off them for life. I do remember the theme tune for the TV series Tales of The Unexpected scaring and exciting me in equal measures as a child, and with hindsight I think that’s been my biggest formative musical influence. As an adult, composers such as John Barry (RIP), Krzysztof Komeda and some 60’s Italian composers conjure up that same magic feeling for me — they have something so sublime, otherworldly and unique that transports me into a different world – Their records are like portals into a better place.”
♠★■ Gemma Ray releases her new record The Exodus Suite, an epic 52 minute odyssey of torch song psychedelia. Recorded live in seven days at the infamous Candy Bomber Studios (situated in the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin) by Ingo Krauss, the album’s title reflects the personal−political themes of the songs within.
♠★■ An unexpected yet inescapable influence on The Exodus Suite sessions was the presence of 8,000 Syrian refugees housed in the hangar beneath the studio during the recording. The stark reality of the refugees’ circumstances (they are still housed there to this day) and the experience of these sights, sounds and smells right within spitting distance, lent a profoundly immediate dimension to Gemma Ray’s lyrical explorations of love for all life, exile and relocation, nature’s sovereignty, technology, class and most of all the need for human empathy.
♠★■ The Exodus Suite is set in two parts, starting with a hymn−like paean to nature’s forces, ‘Come Caldera’, a prelude that then kicks into the soulful grit of ‘There Must Be More Than This’, an Afro−Beat meets Krautrock gambol with a sprinkling of Ethiopiques courtesy of guest pianist Carwyn Ellis (who has previously worked with Edwyn Collins, Roddy Frame and Shane MacGowan, among others). After a monumental journey, the esoteric, skulking ‘Shimmering’ rounds off the album.
♠★■ http://www.roughtrade.com/
Website: http://gemmaray.tv/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gemmaraymusic
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Interview: http://wonderlancer.com/music/gemma-ray/
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■ 2010 Lights Out Zoltar!
■ 2010 It’s A Shame About Gemma Ray
■ 2012 Island Fire
■ 2013 Down Baby Down
■ 2014 Milk For Your Motors
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Not just a fad: the dangerous reality of 'clean eating'
The trendy nutritional advice that's more likely to make you ill than healthy
Isabel Hardman and Lara Prendergast
http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thecleaneatingcult/media.mp3
The supermarket aisle has become a confusing place. It used to be full of recognisable items like cheese and butter; now you find yourself bamboozled by all manner of odd alternatives such as ‘raw’ hummus, wheat-free bread and murky juices. You have to stay pretty alert to make sure you pick up a pint of proper milk, rather than a soy-based alternative or one free from lactose. Supermarkets have become shrines to ‘clean eating’, a faith that promises happiness, healthiness and energy. Food is to be worshipped — and feared.
As with all growing religions, you know it by its disciples. On The Great British Bake Off, one contestant, Ugne Bubnaityte, has denounced cake as a ‘nutritional sin’ and she hopes to win with low-fat, vegan and gluten-free recipes. Commercially, she’s on to a winner: the market for gluten-free food is soaring and is forecast to grow by 46 per cent, to £560 million, within two years. For those who can’t wait, there’s always the NHS, which wrote 211,200 prescriptions for low-protein or gluten-free food last year (including cakes and pizza). As Dr James Cave, editor of the Drugs & Therapeutics Bulletin, puts it, the NHS is ‘acting as bakers and grocers’.
The high priestesses of this new religion are a group of young, attractive women who amass hundreds of thousands of followers online as more and more people turn to them for guidance. Essentially recipe bloggers, they are becoming revered for telling us what to eat and what not to eat. In an age of confusion, they seem to offer a path.
There’s 25-year-old Madeleine Shaw, a ‘holistic nutritional health coach’ who believes in ‘enlivening the hottest, happiest and healthiest you’ and offers a ‘chia seed egg substitute’ to use in recipes. Ella Woodward, 23, bounced back from a rare illness after adopting a new plant-based diet and entices her followers with sweet potato brownies. Tess Ward, 23, has written a cookbook called The Naked Diet which replaces the conventional chapter headings — ‘Breakfasts’, ‘Starters’, ‘Mains’, ‘Puddings’ —with ‘Pure’, ‘Raw’, ‘Stripped’, ‘Clean’ and ‘Detox’. And there’s the Hemsley sisters, Jasmine and Melissa, whose bestselling cookbook The Art of Eating Well contains no recipes with grains, gluten or refined sugar.
Woodward recommends raw, rather than pasteurised, coconut water, which is tinted pink ‘because of all those antioxidants’ and warns about the dangers of dairy. Milk, she says, ‘can actually cause calcium loss in our bones! This is because milk causes the pH of our bodies to become acidic which triggers a natural reaction in our bodies to bring the pH of our blood back to neutral’. When we drink milk, she says, calcium is drawn from our bones in order to rebalance the acidity it causes, which can result in a calcium deficit.
This is news to nutritionists. Milk can, if consumed in absurdly excessive quantities, lead to a condition called milk-alkali syndrome — but this is more commonly caused by over-consumption of calcium supplements than by guzzling milk. More common is calcium deficiency, which the NHS says can be caused by cutting out dairy products.
Sian Porter, a consultant dietitian, warns that ‘if people do not plan really carefully for substitutes for food groups then you can end up malnourishing yourself.’ So these diets are not simply a silly fad that might leave you a little skinnier. The pursuit of wellness and ‘clean eating’ could, in the long-term, make you unwell. ‘Often, these people have found that an approach works for them, and that’s great,’ says Porter. ‘But it doesn’t mean that it will work for anyone else.’
The Hemsley sisters write on their site that gluten ‘breaks down the microvilli in your small intestine, eventually letting particles of your food leach into your bloodstream, which is referred to as “leaky gut syndrome”’. This can be the case, but only for those suffering from coeliac disease. It is not the case for those who do not have this autoimmune condition. Ian Marber, a nutrition expert who is a coeliac, says that many of the wellness gurus have ‘little understanding of the responsibility that comes with discussing food. Everyone eats, so everyone thinks they are an expert, but these people are injecting an unwelcome degree of paranoia into society, without any scientific backing.’ If you drank too much wine and have a hangover, he says, you blame too much alcohol. ‘But if people eat too much bread, they would rather say they have some sort of intolerance than admit they over-indulged.’
It’s not entirely clear why ‘eating clean’, by avoiding gluten and certain carbohydrates, would keep people healthy. As the British Dietetic Association puts it, carbohydrates are crucial; they represent the body’s main energy supply and should make up half of each meal. They are not inherently fattening; any unneeded energy ‘will be converted into fat no matter what the source’. Those low-carb diets? Research suggests they ‘don’t seem to help people lose weight and keep it off’. But the overwhelming message from the plethora of people urging us to eat cauliflower couscous and gluten-free loaves is a simple one: carbs are bad.
The fear of gluten, milk and other newly unfashionable foods could also damage children whose parents foist their fads on the whole family. ‘Muesli-belt malnutrition’ was first identified by doctors in the late 1990s, when they found children were suffering as a result of the excessively restrictive diets that their health-conscious middle-class parents had developed. Now, with the internet so readily at hand to offer quick diagnoses, the new obsession seems to be with allergies and intolerances, and cutting out all sorts of foods in order to deal with them.
It ties into a similar mantra espoused by those who pursue wellness — that you can heal yourself — and your family — by cutting out entire food groups. Earlier this year, the charity Sense About Science warned that parents were risking leaving their children malnourished by restricting their diets in order to deal with perceived health problems. A decade ago, a study of 969 children in the Isle of Wight found that a third of them were thought by their parents to have food allergies; in fact, only 5 per cent did.
It’s not often that science intrudes into the world of ‘wellness’ fads. To become a clean eating guru, a cheery demeanour seems to matter far more than proper qualifications. Ella Woodward, Madeleine Shaw and Tess Ward all studied History of Art. The latter two then studied an online course with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. This course, based in America, claims to be a ‘movement’ working to reverse the health crisis by promoting the concept of ‘bio–individuality’ — a concept coined by its founder Joshua Rosenthal (who eats a gluten-free diet). It hinges on the idea that one person’s food is another person’s poison.
The institute claims that the qualification it offers is ‘rooted in science’ — a claim which puzzles Dr Max Pemberton, Spectator Health editor and an eating disorders specialist. ‘The minute you scratch beneath the surface,’ he says, ‘you realise it isn’t.’
It is certainly rooted in commercial logic: the surging demand for wellness gurus means that those brandishing credentials are welcomed by an audience often mistrustful of mainstream medicine. The institute is happy to boast about this on its website, quoting a student who says that ‘with the ability to see clients before graduation, my education was paid for before it was completed’.
Successful gurus are cashing in: the Hemsley sisters sell their own brand of ‘spiraliser’, a gadget for turning courgettes into ‘courgetti’, a gluten-free pasta substitute. Supermarket sales of courgettes are soaring thanks to health-conscious consumers embracing the vegetable, which is presented as having near-miraculous powers.
The avocado, once considered an enemy because of its high fat content, has been forgiven; and in America, where many of these trends originate, sales of the fruit have quadrupled since 2000. It is a good time to grow avocados, a bad time to herd cows.
The pursuit of wellness is a dream, and every dream has a darker side. On a number of pro-anorexia websites, there are discussions about many of the topics favoured by the wellness brigade. On a popular clean eating website, one girl writes that the ‘spring rolls are easy to take to work and look like you’re actually eating proper food, lol’. On a thread devoted to the topic of chia seeds, a user comments that they are ‘really helping with hunger’ because ‘when they get into your stomach they absorb the water and expand, making you feel full’.
While the wellness gurus deliberately avoid any discussion of eating disorders and diets, their attitude to food is often worrying. Madeleine Shaw admits that she ‘wasn’t always this healthy’ and that as a young girl she had ‘quite a torturous relationship with food and my body’. She suffered cycles of ‘depriving and bingeing’, which led to her hair falling out and her periods stopping. At one point, she reportedly ate only rice cakes and fruit. She is careful not to refer explicitly to an eating disorder, but it certainly sounds as if she had a disordered way of eating. Phrases used by devotees of the religion, such as ‘eat clean’ or ‘it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle’, feature frequently on pro-anorexia chat rooms. In a blog on the Anorexic Angels website, which has since been taken down, ‘Ima_Be_Thin’ referred to gluten-free as the ‘best diet trick ever’ because ‘it’s just such a common allergy no one 2nd guesses me’. Dr Bijal Chheda-Varma, a consultant at the Nightingale Hospital in London who specialises in eating disorders, says that she is seeing more and more patients who have eschewed certain food groups based on advice they have read online. ‘Clean eating’ is a term she is used to hearing as a way of justifying a particular diet. ‘Apps and social media do not necessarily cause obsessive behaviour, but can increase obsession over food,’ she says.
Social media websites are wary about being associated with eating disorders; Instagram’s privacy and safety centre has a whole section dedicated to the topic. A search for the phrase ‘anorexia’ brings up a warning about ‘graphic content’. But type in ‘orthorexia’ — the term associated with obsessive healthy eating — and no such warning appears. More than 80,000 images pop up, tagged with those increasingly familiar incantations: #wellness #eatclean #nourish.
The sentiment underlying this new cult isn’t a bad one. Most of us would like to be healthier. But we can’t expect the supermarkets to let us know what healthy is — their job is to flog us food, and they do it very well. The overwhelming advice from the people who know a lot about nutrition and dietary health doesn’t seem to have changed much over the years: everything in moderation.
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Bahrain Trophy report: Spanish Mission wins under Jamie Spencer
Spanish Mission
Sporting Life · Columnist
Spanish Mission ran out a clear-cut winner of the Bahrain Trophy at Newmarket for David Simcock.
Winner of just one of his previous four outings, the son of Noble Mission was last seen pushing Private Secretary close at Goodwood.
Mick Channon's Severance set a very stiff pace under Kerrin McEvoy in this one-mile-five-furlong affair, with the rest happy to gift him a 15-length lead.
As the field closed in on him, Jamie Spencer could be noted making stealthy headway on Spanish Mission, with Nayef Road for company.
Favourite Eagles By Day found disappointingly little, as did Aidan O'Brien's Barbados, and as the two began to pull clear, Spanish Mission relished the rising ground and the 13/2 chance triumphed by four lengths. Nate The Great was third.
"I don't think anyone wants to see a scenario like that when the field gets so fragmented," said Simcock.
"I was happy with the way he travelled and the way he went and put the race to bed.
"We had been aiming him at a $1million race at Belmont (in September) as he's got two American owners, but the way he's done that, you'd have to start thinking about the St Leger. I didn't put him in it as we were thinking of America.
"Everything he does at home he does quietly. He is a laid-back horse that tracks his lead horse and only does what is in front of him. He needed to step up on what he did at Goodwood.
"I'd say the race in America is still the main objective I think. The owners might change their mind. Earle Mack has a big thing about English racing, while Team Valor might want to stick to the other side of the pond. It is a nice problem to have.
"We would have to supplement him for the St Leger, but I'm not the first to make that mistake and I won't be the last."
🏇🇪🇸 Spanish Mission (13/2) wins the Bahrain Trophy at Newmarket under Jamie Spencer...pic.twitter.com/mU255cXd72
— Sporting Life (@SportingLife) July 11, 2019
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Kempton Park is the place to be for an afternoon of jumps racing at this historic course just 16 miles from central London. Gates open at 12 noon and tickets are available.
What better way to start the week than an afternoon at the Sport of Kings? Kempton Park bring their 2018/2019 National Hunt season to a close today with six races over fences and hurdles.
Nicky Henderson and Dan Skelton are just two of the UK’s top trainers who have entered a string of horses from their stables and you can expect to see many of the best jumps jockeys to be in attendance looking for late-season winners.
The afternoon gets underway Inspire Foundation Freddy Tylicki Novices’ Hurdle over two miles, while the feature race is at 3.10pm, the Matchbook Best Value Exchange Novices Handicap over fences with a prize pot of £10,000 at stake.
Gates open at 12.40pm, first race at 2.10pm.
Tickets in advance are available via the ‘Get Tickets’ link. Advance purchases attract a discount.
Tickets on the day at Kempton Park Racecourse are available. Under 18s (maximum of 2) are free when accompanied by an adult.
Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Rd E, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 5AQ
Tickets in advance are available via the 'Get Tickets' link. Advance purchases attract a discount.
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The Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2018 - Day Seven
In the longest, almost evenly contested and arguably the biggest rivalry in modern tennis, eight-time champion Rafael Nadal takes on the four-time champion, and top seed Novak Djokovic at the Rome Masters Final.
This will be an unprecedented fifty fourth match between the two, which is edged by Djokovic 28 to 25. In fact this will be the fifth time the two meet in the Rome final. Of the four previous encounters, they have won two each, and this final will also decide who has the bragging rights going into the all-important French Open. Will Nadal win a record-extending twelfth title at Rolland Garros or will Djokovic be the only male tennis player after Rod Laver to win each Grand Slam at least twice?
A win at Rome will make Djokovic possibly the strongest favourite to lift the French Open, a departure from the norm where Nadal, the King of Clay, has almost always been the favourite. But this clay season has remarkably seen Nadal fail to lift a single title on clay, even after three attempts. This, in fact, is the first time he has managed to reach the finals. However, all that will be forgotten if he can somehow conjure the magic hitherto unseen this season, and defeat his biggest rival on one of the biggest stages.
His form so far has been nothing sort of magical in Rome. He has won all his matches in straight sets. After the demolition act in his first two matches, where he gave away just one game in each match, he faced a little bit of resistance against Fernando Verdasco in the first set. After that, he dominated Verdasco in the second set and won a relatively comfortable match in the semi-final against Stefanos Tsitsipas, thus exacting the revenge of his Madrid loss.
He was especially impressive on his second serve, and that was a major difference between him and Tsitsipas on the day. But he will not have that luxury against Djokovic. The Serbian may not have had a smooth-sailing thus far, unlike Nadal, and has won his last two matches against del Potro and Schwartzman in three sets, he is almost certain to raise his level against Nadal, just the way he did at the Australian Open earlier this year.
But on his favourite court, after an uncharacteristically poor season, Nadal has a point to prove. Djokovic is not going to have it easy the way he did at the Australian Open.
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Has soccer gotten ahead of..
Has soccer gotten ahead of themselves? Matt Thompson believes so…
The FFA Cup for 2018 has been run and won.
Adelaide United 2 defeated Sydney FC 1 last night at Hindmarsh Stadium.
Craig Goodwin scored twice for United and gave them their 2nd FFA Cup title after winning the inaugural championship in 2014.
Speaking on Fox Sports after the game former coach of Adelaide and Sydney FC John Kosmina said “This has got to be your flagship domestic competition out of all the football codes. This is getting into AFL Grand Final territory.”
Macquarie Sports Breakfast show host Matt Thompson responded this morning with his own thoughts.
“John Kosmina please!
To compare it to the AFL Grand Final, it just shows that they have an inferiority complex in the soccer world and everybody wants to be like the AFL.
The AFL dominates sports in this country and for good reason. I’m sorry. That’s just a ludicrous argument.
I just think soccer fans really need to get a grip and realize that you’ve got your place in Australian sport and that’s where it sits.”
100,022 people attended the MCG for the 2018 Grand Final which saw West Coast defeat Collingwood by 5 points in an all time classic. As opposed to last night’s FFA Cup crowd of 14,448.
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Colorado cannabis: Exploring the mad science of marijuana
Marijuana | May 30, 2017
Phil Lindeman
plindeman@summtidaily.com
Sativa plants are known for being tall with long leafs. When smoked, they produce a cerebral high thanks to dozens of compounds called terpenes (see sidebar). Indica plants are known for being stout and short with dense, compact buds. These are known for a stoned high, also due to terpenes.
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Modern cannabis
Not sure about the difference between terpenes and cannabinoids? Cannabis expert Max Montrose from Denver’s Trichome Institute explains some of the essentials.
Cannabinoids: One of three compounds found in cannabis, these chemicals determine the intensity of any psychoactive high. The two most common are THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (Cannabidiol). There are 60 to 100 different cannabinoids in any single cannabis strain.
Terpenes: These might not be the most well-known compounds in cannabis, but they’re easily the most psychoactively important. Terpenes largely determine the type of high users experience, from stoned to euphoric. There are 30,000 known terpenes in the world, with 200+ that are common in cannabis. These also help determine the smell, like D-Lemonene in fresh, citrusy strains.
Flavonoids: The final compound in cannabis is found in almost every fruit and vegetable on the planet. These chemicals give plants color. Unlike terpenes and cannabinoids, there are only about 12 flavonoids.
Shatter: A concentrated THC extract from cannabis plants with a clear appearance and thin, brittle texture. Most manufacturers use the “sugar trim” (trichome-rich leafs trimmed off the bud) and extract the THC by processing it with butane or other chemical or non-chemical solvents, like butane and carbon dioxide. The end result is a powerful marijuana product of up to 80-96 percent THC, compared to 20-25 percent for most raw flower.
Wax: Another concentrated THC extract from cannabis plants, this one with an opaque color and sticky texture. Wax is a combination of THC and plant waxes, such as paraphin and cutin. At Bolder Extracts in Boulder, wax is made by “whipping” batches of shatter.
Live resin: A relatively new extracting process that replaces dried and cured bud with “fresh frozen” bud, meaning manufacturers freeze the plant and then process it as usual. The idea, according to Spencer Uniss of Bolder Extracts, is to protect terpenes typically lost when drying and curing for a smoother, brighter high.
Terp juice: Also known as terp sauce, these extracts are high in terpenes and can produce a different, more intense high than traditional shatter or wax (which are pretty intense in the first place).
Sources: Trichome Institute; Bolder Extracts.
Ask Max Montrose why a classic sativa strain like Sour Diesel really isn’t a sativa, and the longtime cannabis advocate starts talking agriculture, genetics and poodles.
“Dogs and cannabis are two things that our species has cultivated in a really serious way for tens of thousands of years,” began Montrose, cofounder of Denver’s Trichome Institute, when we spoke just two weeks shy of 4/20. The former budtender, who now hosts “weed sommelier” courses to train dispensary employees from across the state, is an avid proponent of cannabis education. His Trichome sommelier courses cover everything a pot expert needs to actually be an expert, from the dangers of bud rot to the difference between terpenes and cannabinoids. And like any good teacher, his metaphor for the reason why sativas aren’t sativas is pretty convincing.
“Indica and sativa are like the gray wolf and coyote: They exist in nature and they come from nature,” Montrose continued. “But when you go to a pet store, you can’t buy a wolf or a coyote, and instead you get a boxer or a poodle. But where on earth, in nature, do those come from?”
I saw where he was going.
“They don’t, because they come from people, and that’s what we have in a dispensary,” Montrose said. “It is so domesticated and so hybridized and so far removed from their original genes that we really should stop calling them indica and sativa, especially since all of them are a mixture of these two species types today.”
I’d never considered how millennia of pot cultivation shaped the modern cannabis industry’s two staple strains, but as Montrose told me before anything else, there is plenty of misinformation about the plant and its effects. That’s just the nature of a previously illegal drug.
“People just aren’t hip to the fact that cannabis is way more complex than most people give it credit for,” Montrose said. “I’m seriously passionate about knowing everything I can about this important and sophisticated plant, and within that I want to study it in a legitimate way.”
‘Product of the future’
Misinformation might be the norm right now, but the cannabis industry is slowly maturing after four years of legalization in Colorado. Following the 2016 election, 29 states had legalized cannabis in one form or another and seven had fully decriminalized it, opening the doors for dozens of products: wax, shatter, tinctures and edibles, all of which require very serious, very expensive equipment to safely produce. And manufacturers are willing to front the cash.
“That’s the big talk in the industry, is that concentrates are the product of the future,” said Spencer Uniss, co-founder of Breckenridge Organic Therapy on Airport Road and its sister company, Bolder Cannabis and Extracts. “In these states where marijuana is new, concentrates are more popular than flower. … I think older people enjoy concentrates more. When the rules changed, you had this older group of past users that now has a more discreet option than smoking flower.”
At the same time legal users are demanding more (and more interesting) ways to consume; legitimate analysis of cannabis by grant-funded scientists has taken off. The marijuana research lab at the University of Mississippi — once the only American university to study cannabis — is now joined by institutions across the world, including Oxford University and the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, both of which are looking at medical marijuana. Testing labs like RM3 Labs of Boulder, Agricor Laboratories in Denver and TEQ Analytical Labs (located on the Anschutz Campus) have long analyzed dispensary strains for required information like THC and CBD content, while Montrose at Trichome wants to bring a more elegant and less clinical understanding to the plant.
“It’s something that I’m extremely passionate about,” Montrose said. “What’s unfortunately true in the cannabis industry is that even people who have been around it — people who have been working in the industry for decades — even they haven’t cracked open a text book written by scientists about what cannabis is.”
Not a sativa
Why, then, does Montrose claim Sour Diesel isn’t a sativa? It comes down to the species name.
In general, according to most off-the-Internet guidebooks, cannabis is split into two species: sativa and indica. Sativa plants are known for being tall with long leafs. When smoked, they produce a cerebral high thanks to dozens of compounds called terpenes. Indica plants are known for being stout and short with dense, compact buds. These are known for a stoned high, also due to terpenes.
True, Montrose said, but it’s only a half-truth. Every cannabis strain sold at a recreational dispensary is actually indica, he continued, while true sativas genotypically and chemotypically “hemp” — a member of the cannabis family with no psychoactive properties. Recent science is showing us that both narrow-leaf drug types (“NLDs”) and broad-leaf drug types (“BLDs”) have way more indica DNA than the narrow-leaf hemp types. They come in two forms: indica Afghanica, which looks like a layman’s indica, and indica indica, which looks deceptively similar to sativa.
“There is a genetic code from a different species of cannabis that looks identical to sativa, but it’s not because it’s subspecies indica,” Montrose said, describing how centuries of marijuana homegrowers might have been muddled the cannabis gene pool. “This is painfully complex and most people don’t spend time reading technical textbooks on these plants.”
Dabbing and THC
Montrose is one of the few who doesn’t just read the technical textbooks — he writes them. Trichome’s multi-part educational series, known as the National Cannabis Industry Textbook, takes what the cofounder has learned about the plant and puts it together in one place. His goal: to bring respectability and reliability to a young, previously illegal industry.
“The number one problem the cannabis industry faces, more than taxation and prohibition, is education,” Montrose said. Trichome’s textbook series is also the framework for its sommelier courses, which Montrose hopes will one day be taken as seriously as becoming a wine sommelier.
But where does something like dabbing fit into a connoisseur experience? Dabbing is the overarching term for smoking wax or shatter, two of the most popular cannabis concentrates. These substances can be 85 percent THC or higher, with some from Breck Organic testing as high as 96 percent THC.
That concentration makes for an intense high — waxes and shatters are melted and smoked with special devices — but it can also be dangerous, Montrose said. As he explained to a sommelier group in a 2016 Westword magazine article, any pesticide or other contaminant left on a plant when it’s processed is magnified, just like the concentrated THC.
It’s a problem manufacturers like Uniss at Bolder Extracts solved early on. The company grows all of the raw plant material that goes into its extracts, meaning Uniss and his partners know the age, potency and grow cycle of all genetics (aka strains) used for Bolder Extracts shatter.
“We start everything through a shatter model, the reason being that when you have shatter, if something isn’t clear — if it hasn’t stabilized — that’s a prime candidate for wax,” Uniss said. “We do this as a quality-control procedure… In this industry, there is a lot of trust on the producer’s side to be doing the right thing.”
Where does science take the industry next? Uniss is seeing more R&D with terpenes and cannabinoids, while Montrose wants to keep bringing legitimacy through education.
“My hopes and dreams — what I wish the industry would become — is something as normal as every other industry,” Montrose said. “Whether it’s a doctor, a lawyer, a plumber or even your nail salon lady, they’re all trained and licensed to do what they’re doing. When you get help from those people, you get what you need because they’re qualified.”
This article originally appeared in the Rocky Mountain Marijuana magazine.
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Tournament director wins United States Tennis Association state award
By Gary Curreri
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Lew Wolfe, left, is presented the 2018 USTA Florida Tournament Director of the Year by the USTA Florida’s Ann Brown. (Gary Curreri/Correspondent)
Lew Wolfe said he was humbled upon being named the 2018 United States Tennis Association Florida Tournament Director of the Year.
“It was really nice,” said Wolfe, of Delray Beach. “It is a lot of hard yards, a lot of long hours, a lot of dedication from a lot of people.”
He was presented the award at the Lemongrass Asian Bistro in Delray Beach by Ann Brown, youth individual play coordinator for the USTA Florida. Wolfe credited Brown and her husband Dave Brown for their help after hiring him 20 years ago to work with them when he moved to Florida from New Jersey.
“I’ve known him for a long time,” Ann Brown said. “He claims we taught him what to do, but he obviously has expounded on tournaments and things like that.
“He was chosen for this award because of the tremendous participation and what he brings to USTA of Florida as far as a tournament event and how it is run, how he markets it and the amenities he brings for the players and how he works. He does a great job.”
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Wolfe said he was happy that Ann Brown presented him with the award.
“Nothing could have made me happier than having her present me with the trophy,” he said. “They hired me from New Jersey in 1999 and they were my contact people. They just opened doors for me and Ann is the MVP of USTA Florida. I can text her 24 hours a day and she will help me.”
Wolfe estimates he will run between 50 and 55 tournaments this year ranging from juniors to adults.
“He runs real high-level sectional tournaments all the way down to entry level juniors,” Ann Brown said. “We have over 200 providers here in Florida and we go by surveys that we receive because we as staff can’t be out in the field to look at everything. We get personal recommendations from people and we put that all together and Lew far excels everybody we’ve had this year definitely. He has far more players in his events than other providers.”
Wolfe said he shares the award with his team, including Carolina Small, lead referee; Yana Dmitrieva, who is his event publicity person and co-site director, as well as all the referees and volunteers that help.
He also cited Kevin McCarthy and the staff at the Tennis Center of Coral Springs along with Lorenzo Cava and Antonio Torri at ProWorld Tennis Academy in Delray Beach for the use of their courts for many events.
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“I probably do 80 percent of my events at the Tennis Center of Coral Springs, probably 40 events there this year,” Wolfe said. “They have been amazing and very accommodating. I started doing events at ProWorld about five years ago and this year I have about 15 there. They are also extremely accommodating.”
Wolfe started doing local tennis events in Sunrise in 2001 and went to Woodmont for a few years before finding a home in both Coral Springs and Delray Beach.
“I would say about 25 percent of them are large adult events with 150-plus players now," Wolfe said, "and many junior events, Levels 6, 7 and 8 also have some very high numbers.
“I think one of the things that makes me and my team successful is that we don’t differentiate between doing a rookie event for junior beginners or adult NTRP (National Tennis Rating Program) beginners to advanced players,” he said. “I treat everyone the same. I think they see that and I think that is why they want to come back to my events.”
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Home Articles NCL Magazine Hilltop: Diane Golden’s Studio without Walls
Hilltop: Diane Golden’s Studio without Walls
by Persis Granger
Diane Golden’s work requires not only artistic talent but also muscle and tenacity to attain structural integrity.
As the Adirondack winter sweeps autumn aside, its cold grip tightening, many North Country residents heave a sigh of relief. The last weed has been wrested from the flower bed, the final quart of tomatoes has been canned, and the last biting fly is gone.
For artist Diane Golden, seeing her grape arbors and perennial plants frosted white by this October’s snowstorm served notice on her 2016 gardens: the season had ended. She could then turn her attention from labor-intensive perennial beds and woodland trails to her beloved garage-loft studio for the coming few months. It meant more precious hours to lose herself amid the treasures secreted there, the products of a lifetime of collecting objects.
Golden came to collecting as a child in Illinois, influenced by a family of collectors of items ranging from dog figurines, fancy cups and saucers, and porcelain birds to beer mugs.
“My favorite,” she says, “was miniature tea sets - tiny china cups, saucers and teapots on delicate trays.”
Golden’s studio holds a lifetime of treasures collected, waiting for inclusion in just the right piece.
Piece by Diane M. Golden
(Mother and Child)
And then, there was her father, who catalogued his inventory of 25 cent garage sale finds on shelves in his barn. He took her on trips to the local store, where a basket labeled “Secret Sales” held a quantity of enticing little packages wrapped in brown paper, and her thrill of anticipation and discovery upon buying and opening one.
The landscape of Golden’s life has been framed by art. She earned an undergraduate degree in fine arts and a graduate degree as a psychotherapist and started a private practice while serving as director of the Office of Publication and Design at Western Connecticut State University and raising kids. Throughout this time she continued to paint, make prints, create collages and collect objects. She was intrigued and inspired by the work of 20th century assemblage artist Joseph Cornell, whose masterful works with small things in boxes validated her own love of unique objects. As she approached her 70s, those cartons and baskets of collected pieces amassed over a lifetime called to her. She began seeking out old wooden boxes at yard sales and antique shops, looking especially for those whose history was evidenced by rich patina, factory lettering and, perhaps, hand-scrawled clues labels, such as, “SCREWS.” She began creating her own assemblage art, at first making boxes only for herself and friends. She read calls for submissions to shows, but put off the idea of showing and/or selling. Eventually advancing age engendered a “now or never” gutsiness that prompted her to submit a successful application to show her work at the prestigious Lake George Arts Project in 2012. Since then she has shown and sold work in ten galleries across six New York counties.
(Rabbit Ladder)
(Metal Head)
Each work begins with a single selected item, and Golden takes days, even weeks, to decide what to do with it, as she carries it around in her pocket and handles it. Over time decisions are made, and the work begins, arranging the items together into one whole. Golden admits that often the pieces are assembled and disassembled more than once, either for aesthetic or structural reasons. Making the boxes structurally sound without compromising the aesthetics always challenges her creativity and physical strength, as many different materials need to be cut, bent and bonded to one another, and all support needs to be unobtrusive.
The artist’s intention is not to create something playful, cute or pretty. The words she uses are “beautiful,” “disturbing” and “thoughtful.” Sometimes these very works that resurrect materials previously destined for destruction seem to have a dark or ominous tone or hint at decay or death. Materials she has incorporated in her works include, but are not limited to, dried twigs and plant materials, bones, antlers, armadillo shell, Japanese beetles, dragonflies, rusted and tarnished metal, string, wire, parts and pieces of larger objects which she has laboriously deconstructed, and some antique items -- all destined to be elements in some future assemblage that will be one aesthetically-pleasing whole. Golden deliberately refrains from naming the finished works, thus encouraging individuals to bring their own ideas to the works, and their own interpretation.
“Some people won’t like a piece at all, and that’s okay,” she says.
When winter cedes to spring in the Adirondacks, the garage loft will have to share Golden with the gardens once more. Blow-down from winter’s worst will need to be dragged from trails, and plantings attended to. All is changing, yet all is the same. Little Mountain stands sentinel above this creation set beside the mirrored surface of a pond by the same name. Now and again the haunting cry of a loon or staccato slap of a beaver tail echoes off its face. The first daffodils and bloodroot poke through decaying vegetation that nurtures the new life.
Golden’s gardens, she says, are being pared back these days, requiring less care, another effect of her own aging and realizing the finite nature of time, which inspires decisions about how to spend time based on her own personal wants.
“My perennial flower beds are being converted to more carefree shrub borders. There is definitely an urge to streamline, to simplify. The surprise has been that in doing so, I’m finding pleasure and satisfaction in cleaner designs, less visual clutter, soothingly soft colors.”
Her gardens were among those featured in Janet Loughrey’s Gardens Adirondack Style, (2005, Down East Books).
(Fire)
(Crusaders)
The change of seasons highlights the seemingly disparate nature of the two passions that have driven this Thurman resident for much of her life. Closely considered, Golden’s gardening and art are just two sides of the same coin. Her Adirondack studio is not confined to the four walls of the cozy garage loft. Rather, it stretches out across the deceptively simple but expansive gardens and reaches its fingers into her beloved forestland, along trails that twist around trees, flank an arbor, bridge brooks, linger beneath a teahouse and cradle massive stones. Little Mountain stands sentinel above this creation set beside the mirror surface of a pond by the same name.
She and her husband Tom fell in love with the Adirondacks in the 1990s, as they anticipated retirement, and in 1998 they discovered on a back road in Thurman, Hilltop, the place they knew would be home for the rest of their lives. Shuttling back and forth between jobs in Connecticut and their passions in Thurman, the couple gradually eased into their Adirondack retirement. Longtime old house people, they dug into the badly-needed structural and cosmetic restoration that Hilltop required. Its location off the grid created special challenges for the couple, but the beauty of their 250-acre retreat on Little Pond more than compensated.
For Diane, Hilltop was a giant living canvas awaiting artistic touches that blended with and accentuated the natural beauty already there. She left the mountain view open, with little planting in the foreground.
“I think it’s sort of arrogant to assume you can compete with what nature provides,” she explains.
She focuses on the installations such as walls built of boulders, an old sugarhouse, a bridge, teahouse, cairns and arbors as the bones of this gracious and gentle garden that seems to emerge organically from the fields and forests. The man-made accents provide small elements of surprise for the woodland walker who finds them simultaneously unexpected, yet inherently fitting to the site. Years have been spent cleaning up the destruction of bygone logging and creating a sense of naturally-occurring growth that belongs where it is. The ebb and flow of the seasons bring sprouting, budding, fruiting, dormancy or death to the plants. Death and decay, as every gardener knows, is just one more part of the natural cycle, at once a loss and a gift, as it promises rebirth, resurrection for the next season. And sometimes the woods, having once served as the farmer’s dump, yield up bits of the past – a rusted hinge or key, some piece of mostly unidentifiable metal, glass or wood that had once been not worth saving, but beneath Golden’s fingers, becomes a treasure to be brushed free of dirt and stored for reuse in her boxes.
That, too, promises rebirth, at the hands of one of the Adirondacks’ gifted artists.
See Golden’s work online at www.dianemgolden.com
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Volunteers work to bring trees back to Point Park in Grand Lake
News | March 27, 2009
Tonya Bina
Grand Lake, Colorado
The daughter of the couple who once owned Point Park land has spearheaded a fundraising campaign to return the Park to its former woodland.
“When I saw the devastation of what had happened, it absolutely broke my heart,” said Barbara Leutwiler of Grand Lake and Boulder.
Because of safety concerns that beetle-affected trees could topple during strong winds, a tree-removal company contracted by the U.S. Forest Service removed 200 lodgepole pine trees in early winter.
The project transformed the park from a shady retreat to a denuded, stump-littered landscape.
Leutwiler and her husband Robert’s cabin, which formerly belonged to her parents R.J. and Joan MacCornack, is one of Point Park’s immediate neighbors.
The Point Park tree work damaged the Leutwilers’ fence.
While asking forest officials to repair the fence, Leutwiler said she promised to help the agency reforest the park in any way she could.
From there “Friends of Point Park” sprouted in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, she said, a fundraiser to procure “large specimen trees” 5 to 7 feet-tall such as Engelmann and Colorado blue spruces for a Point Park replanting ” scheduled May 9.
The channel-side of the land belonged to Leutwiler’s family before her father traded it to the U.S. Forest Service in exchange for the privilege of dredging the canal for access to the family’s boathouse. The exchange took place about 30 years ago.
“Over the years, we felt very protective of Point Park,” she said. For this reason, the family stayed involved with the town, ensuring that improvements were made for those who visited the point to enjoy the area’s most direct Mt. Craig view.
Over the years, the park has gained in popularity and grown in the hearts of Grand Lakers. Many weddings have taken place at the park.
Leutwiler said she fears the moose who often visited and felt protected in the small park will no longer visit unless trees are returned to the environment.
Foresters who attended Grand Lake’s town hall meeting on Monday outlined their plans to improve the park, which comprises of planting 50-60 3-foot lodgepole pine seedlings this spring, trees that fare well in the park’s ground conditions in addition to willows and few other species. Park officials told the town they would work with it on landscaping plans, improving the park’s walkway and reducing remaining stumps.
The town of Grand Lake offered to contribute Lodgepole pine trees, in-kind digging and compost material.
“Reforesting Point Park means each of us has the opportunity to contribute back to a small patch of earth that has given so much to us: beauty, calmness, serenity, laughter, happy memories, new beginnings (like weddings), great fishing, and friendly gatherings,” Leutwiler said. “I started this project out of complete love and devotion,”
” Tonya Bina can be reached at 887-3334 ext. 19603 or e-mail tbina@skyhidailynews.com.
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'Material weaknesses': APRA mulls capital lift over risk failings
May 22, 2019 — 3.19pm
The banking regulator may force some financial institutions to hold more capital because they are failing to properly manage risks around culture, after finding scandal-plagued Commonwealth Bank's governance problems were not unique.
After a scathing inquiry into the CBA's fall from grace" last year found the bank's senses were "dulled" by its high profitability, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on Wednesday released a report on how the wider financial sector was dealing with these issues.
Financial businesses are grappling with how to deal with non-financial risks, says APRA's John Lonsdale. Credit:Christopher Pearce
Over the last year, APRA has forced 36 of the country's biggest banks, insurance companies, and super funds to conduct similar "self-assessments," and on Wednesday APRA said problems at CBA also occurred at other big financial businesses.
Recurring findings of the reviews were that financial risks received insufficient attention; lines of accountability often lacked clarity; and the weaknesses were well-known and in some cases, long-standing.
APRA said that while most of the organisations had critically examined themselves, a small group "took a lighter touch approach and viewed it as an exercise for APRA rather than an opportunity to drive improvement."
In response, APRA is considering forcing some of the institutions to self aside more capital - which would detract from profits - to guard against "operational risk." It said this was in response to "material weaknesses in the governance and management of non-financial risks."
APRA did not release the names of the companies where it is considering raising capital requirements.
“Although the self-assessments raised no concerns about financial soundness, they confirmed our observation that industry is grappling to manage non-financial risks, such as culture and accountability,” deputy APRA chairman John Lonsdale said.
He added that while the exercise was valuable, boards and management tended to give themselves "generally positive" assessments, "even when they had identified serious weaknesses in their institutions."
His comments underline the mounting pressure on boards of financial businesses - and indeed all big corporations - to consider other goals aside from maximising profits, following the Hayne royal commission into financial misconduct.
The chairman of Insurance Australia Group and Virgin Australia, Elizabeth Bryan, underlined the importance of boards having other considerations, aside from shareholders' profits, because society was demanding firms had a "higher purpose."
She said businesses should have a purpose that tightly linked to the business - such as protecting customers against risks, in the case of IAG - and it did not need to come at the expense of profit.
“You do focus on profit, but you focus on long-term profit, not short-term profit,” she said at the Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association conference in Sydney.
Ms Bryan said the Hayne royal commission was a "really good wake up call." The more assertive regulation of business was the result of firms' priorities getting out of whack and focusing too much on short-term profits, she said.
“There’s close and continuous monitoring going on for companies everywhere, and it’s a result of this getting out of kilter. The royal commission showed us all how it had got our of kilter. Our community and our society and our political masters and everyone is saying “fix it’. So that’s what’s going to go on over the next few years,” she said.
Clancy Yeates
Clancy Yeates is a business reporter.
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