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KENYA The Indian Ocean Newsletter dated 12/10/2018
Joho and Musyoka, candidates without a backer…
The governor of Mombasa Ali Hassan Joho (Orange Democratic Movement, [...]
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KENYA 05/07/2019
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Kibutha Kibwana set to throw his hat in the ring
According to our sources, the governor of Makueni County, Kibutha Kibwana, has after much deliberation decided that he will stand [...]
The discreet overtures of Ali Hassan Joho
Contrary to the regular hints that he drops in the [...]
Will the opposition agree to join the government?
President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is still forming his government, has reserved nine ministerial portfolios for the three main parties that [...]
Spotlight KENYA 07/04/2017
Safran-Gemalto scuffle rattles electoral process
The organization of Kenya’s forthcoming election has not only led to a tug of war between French groups Safran and Gemalto but stirred tension between the ruling Jubilee Party and opposition National Super Alliance (NASA). [...]
Unity is fragile within the National Super Alliance
Barely off the ground, is the new opposition coalition already facing internal squabbles. [...]
Kenyatta and Odinga review their troops ahead of next elections
In preparation for the forthcoming general election in 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta and the opposition headed by Raila Odinga have begun their race to form political and clan alliances. But the level of funds raised by each of the two [. [...]
Political tension around Obama’s visit
The government is feverish ahead of the US President’s arrival on 24 July. [...]
The opposition is falling appart
Former Prime Minister and current leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (opposition) Raila Odinga is finding it tough to come to terms with losing the presidential election in 2013. His relations with his partner in the Coalition for Reforms and [. [...]
Raila Odinga out to woo Central Province
In an attempt to make up for his foreseeable fall in popularity among the Kalenjin and the coastal populations following the dispute with his former allies William Ruto and Najib Balala, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has set out to win [. [...]
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Agility to Invest $100M in ‘Shipa’ Digital Logistics Platform
Online & mobile service makes it easy to buy, sell, move goods locally and globally
DUBAI – Agility, one of the world’s largest logistics companies, said it will invest $100 million over three years to launch Shipa.com, a digital logistics platform that lets businesses, entrepreneurs and consumers manage their freight, e-commerce, and urban deliveries online.
“Shipa.com makes life easier through technology, whether you are a small business running your supply chain with a few clicks, or a consumer getting your shopping delivered with a few taps on your phone,” Agility Chairwoman Henadi Al-Saleh said. “Shipa.com makes logistics convenient, jargon-free, trackable, accountable and accessible.”
Shipa.com’s service lines:
Shipa Ecommerce gives online merchants access to some of the world’s fastest growing and most complex e-commerce markets. Shipa Ecommerce offers integrated freight, fulfilment, delivery and returns solutions across the Arabian Gulf with additional reach into the EU and Africa planned for the near future. Customers are cross-border retailers based in the US, EU and Asia, as well as regional merchants based in the Middle East. Shipa Ecommerce solutions are underpinned by easy-to-use digital integration: APIs and web interfaces such as checkout integration with customer portals, websites and apps.
Shipa Delivery offers businesses and consumers on-demand same-day, next-day or cross-border delivery across the Arabian Gulf. Intuitive and easy-to-use, the platform is accessible by mobile or directly integrated with its business customers’ systems, and provides solutions to optimize for speed, convenience, and affordability. Hassle-free delivery is now a reality.
Shipa Freight allows small businesses to get instant and transparent freight quotes, and to book, pay and track ocean and air shipments around the world on any digital or mobile device. It is the industry’s first and most advanced fully integrated online freight service, and is available in 100+countries.
“Logistics is the backbone of commerce. But it’s complex, and that complexity is disproportionately difficult for small businesses to navigate. Small businesses often lack access to the logistics resources, tools and solutions that larger businesses have,” Al-Saleh said. “No wonder then, that we interviewed 800 small and medium-sized businesses around the world, we found that 78% wanted to see their logistics move online. Shipa helps close that gap, empowering small businesses to take advantage of the opportunities being created by the global digital economy.”
Shipa.com is powered by Agility’s global network and infrastructure. Agility operates in more than 100 countries with 22,000 employees, and has warehouses in strategic locations around the world. It is the largest private owner of industrial real estate in the Middle East and Africa, and a leading developer of and investor in logistics technology.
Al-Saleh described Shipa.com as “Agility’s innovation arm,” accelerating the introduction of technology, development of new digital products, and the overall pace of change in both the parent company and the industry more broadly.
“Shipa.com is the marriage of Agility’s logistics expertise and resources and the digital-first capabilities of the Shipa platform. It offers enormous value for our customers and brings new value to our company,” Al-Saleh said.
About Shipa
Shipa is a digital logistics platform that helps businesses, entrepreneurs and consumers move goods across borders or across town with a few clicks. Shipa Freight helps small and medium-size businesses move freight around the world and tap into opportunities offered by the global economy. Shipa Ecommerce manages e-commerce fulfilment, delivery and returns across the Arabian Gulf for merchants based in the US, EU, Asia and the Middle East. Shipa Delivery provides hassle-free, same-day, next-day and on-demand urban delivery services across the GCC. Shipa is the innovation arm of Agility, one of the world’s largest logistics providers.
For more information about Shipa, visit www.shipa.com
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Nonstop flight route between Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil and Balikpapan, East Kalimantan:
Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB)
(2°50'29"N by 60°41'31"W)
Arrival Airport:
Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (BPN)
(1°16'5"S by 116°53'39"E)
Distance from BVB to BPN:
12,237.85 miles (19,694.86 km)
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About this route
BVB Airport Information
BPN Airport Information
Facts about BVB
Facts about BPN
Map of Nearest Airports to BVB
List of Nearest Airports to BVB
Map of Furthest Airports from BVB
List of Furthest Airports from BVB
Map of Nearest Airports to BPN
List of Nearest Airports to BPN
Map of Furthest Airports from BPN
List of Furthest Airports from BPN
About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB), Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil and Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (BPN), Balikpapan, East Kalimantan would travel a Great Circle distance of 12,238 miles (or 19,695 kilometers).
A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport and Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.
Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport and Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
The distance between BVB and BPN makes them almost exactly antipodal (the exact opposite side of the world) to each other. Nonstop flights between Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport and Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport would be very impractical for the airlines, because only a lightly loaded Boeing 777-200LR would be able to make the trip. Since airlines need to be able to take as many people and cargo as possible in order to make a profit, the odds of ever seeing a nonstop flight between BVB and BPN are slim to none. However, you'll still be able to get from Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil and Balikpapan, East Kalimantan by taking some connecting flights!
Did you know that one full circling of the Earth (measuring from the equator) is about 24,901.5 miles (or 40,075 kilometers), which means if you were 12,450 miles from any given point on the planet, the distance back to your starting point would be about the same -- in any direction! The same can be said for a nonstop flight between BVB and BPN!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: BVB / SBBV
Airport Names:
Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport
Aeroporto International de Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede
Location: Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil
GPS Coordinates: 2°50'29"N by 60°41'31"W
Area Served: Boa Vista
Operator/Owner: Infraero
Elevation: 276 feet (84 meters)
View all routes: Routes from BVB
More Information: BVB Maps & Info
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: BPN / WALL
Airport Name: Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport
Location: Balikpapan, East Kalimantan
GPS Coordinates: 1°16'5"S by 116°53'39"E
Area Served: Balikpapan
Operator/Owner: PT Angkasa Pura I
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More Information: BPN Maps & Info
Facts about Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB):
Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB) currently has only 1 runway.
The furthest airport from Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB) is Tampa Padang Airport (MJU), which is nearly antipodal to Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (meaning Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tampa Padang Airport), and is located 12,411 miles (19,973 kilometers) away in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia.
In addition to being known as "Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport", another name for BVB is "Aeroporto International de Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede".
It is operated by Infraero.
The airport is located 4 km from downtown Boa Vista.
Because of Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport's relatively low elevation of 276 feet, planes can take off or land at Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport handled 336,530 passengers last year.
The closest airport to Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB) is Lethem Airport (LTM), which is located 72 miles (116 kilometers) ENE of BVB.
Facts about Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (BPN):
The closest airport to Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (BPN) is Bontang Airport (BXT), which is located 104 miles (168 kilometers) NNE of BPN.
The furthest airport from Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (BPN) is Barcelos Airport (BAZ), which is nearly antipodal to Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (meaning Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Barcelos Airport), and is located 12,281 miles (19,764 kilometers) away in Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil.
More renovations will be completed in 2014, including the addition of an airport mall—the first such shopping area at any airport in Indonesia.
The construction of Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport started in the Dutch colonial era before Indonesian independence.
Because of Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport's relatively low elevation of 12 feet, planes can take off or land at Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport handled 5,680,961 passengers last year.
Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (BPN) currently has only 1 runway.
Map of Nearest Airports to Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport:
List of Nearest Airports to Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport:
1 72.31 miles (116.37 km) ENE Lethem Airport (LTM) Lethem, Guyana
2 275.21 miles (442.91 km) NNW El Dorado Airport (EOR) El Dorado, Venezuela
3 277.57 miles (446.71 km) NNW Canaima Airport (CAJ) Canaima, Venezuela
4 294.10 miles (473.30 km) NE Washabo Airstrip (WSO) Washabo, Suriname
5 303.36 miles (488.21 km) NNE Cheddi Jagan International Airport (GEO) Georgetown, Guyana
6 305.61 miles (491.83 km) SSW Barcelos Airport (BAZ) Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil
7 326.77 miles (525.88 km) NNE Ogle Airport (OGL) Georgetown, Guyana
8 331.06 miles (532.80 km) NE Majoor Henry Fernandes Airport (ICK) Nieuw-Nickerie, Suriname
9 343.95 miles (553.53 km) E Tepoe Airstrip (KCB) Kasikasima, Suriname
10 345.02 miles (555.25 km) NE Wageningen Airstrip (AGI) Wageningen, Suriname
11 360.24 miles (579.75 km) ENE Cayana Airstrip (AAJ) Awaradam, Suriname
12 363.92 miles (585.67 km) E Vincent Fayks Airport (OEM) Paloemeu, Suriname
13 366.15 miles (589.27 km) NE Totness Airstrip (TOT) Totness, Coronie, Suriname
14 368.26 miles (592.66 km) ENE Djoemoe Airstrip (DOE) Djumu (Djoemoe), Suriname
15 373.79 miles (601.56 km) ENE Botopasi Airstrip (BTO) Botopasi, Suriname
Map of Furthest Airports from Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport:
List of Furthest Airports from Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport:
1 12,410.73 miles (19,973.09 km) SE Tampa Padang Airport (MJU) Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia
2 12,363.58 miles (19,897.20 km) WSW Andi Jemma Airport (MXB) Masamba, Indonesia
3 12,293.71 miles (19,784.76 km) W Soroako Airport (SQR) Soroako, Indonesia
4 12,282.45 miles (19,766.65 km) S Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (SHIAM) (UPG) Makassar, Indonesia
5 12,237.85 miles (19,694.86 km) ESE Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport (BPN) Balikpapan, East Kalimantan
6 12,217.65 miles (19,662.35 km) E Gusti Syamsir Alam Airport (KBU) Kotabaru, Kalimantan, Indonesia
7 12,205.80 miles (19,643.28 km) WSW Haluoleo Airport (WMA) (KDI) Kendari, Indonesia
8 12,204.76 miles (19,641.60 km) E Batu Licin Airport (BTW) Batu Licin, Kalimantan, Indonesia
9 12,203.60 miles (19,639.74 km) SW Bolaang Airport (BJG) Bolaang, Indonesia
10 12,196.16 miles (19,627.76 km) SSE Bontang Airport (BXT) Bontang, Indonesia
11 12,167.18 miles (19,581.13 km) WSW Syukuran Aminuddin Amir Airport (LUW) Luwuk, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
12 12,147.13 miles (19,548.86 km) SW Betoambari Airport (BUW) Bau-Bau, Buton, Indonesia
13 12,127.93 miles (19,517.97 km) SSW Pogogul Airport (UOL) Buol, Indonesia
14 12,120.49 miles (19,505.99 km) E Syamsudin Noor International Airport (SNA) (BDJ) Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia
15 12,093.84 miles (19,463.10 km) SW Jalaluddin Airport (GTO) Gorontalo, Indonesia
Map of Nearest Airports to Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport:
List of Nearest Airports to Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport:
2 148.88 miles (239.60 km) SSW Gusti Syamsir Alam Airport (KBU) Kotabaru, Kalimantan, Indonesia
3 162.89 miles (262.15 km) SSW Batu Licin Airport (BTW) Batu Licin, Kalimantan, Indonesia
4 173.28 miles (278.87 km) ESE Tampa Padang Airport (MJU) Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia
5 210.28 miles (338.42 km) SW Syamsudin Noor International Airport (SNA) (BDJ) Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia
6 217.50 miles (350.03 km) NW Datadawai Airport (DTD) Long Pahangai, West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
7 239.45 miles (385.35 km) N Kalimarau Airport (BEJ) Tanjung Redeb, Berau, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
8 244.61 miles (393.67 km) NNW Long Apung Airport (LPU) Long Apung, Indonesia
9 253.50 miles (407.96 km) ESE Andi Jemma Airport (MXB) Masamba, Indonesia
10 283.70 miles (456.57 km) WSW H. Asan Airport (SMQ) Sampit, Central Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia
11 319.92 miles (514.86 km) SE Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (SHIAM) (UPG) Makassar, Indonesia
12 320.32 miles (515.50 km) ESE Soroako Airport (SQR) Soroako, Indonesia
13 320.85 miles (516.36 km) N Juwata Airport (TRK) Tarakan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
14 323.33 miles (520.35 km) NNW Long Banga Airport (LBP) Long Banga, Sarawak, Malaysia
15 333.25 miles (536.31 km) NNE Bunyu Airport (BYQ) Bunyu, Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia
Map of Furthest Airports from Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport:
List of Furthest Airports from Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman Airport:
1 12,280.86 miles (19,764.08 km) N Barcelos Airport (BAZ) Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil
2 12,237.85 miles (19,694.86 km) WNW Boa Vista-Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB) Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil
3 12,165.60 miles (19,578.58 km) WNW Lethem Airport (LTM) Lethem, Guyana
4 12,096.69 miles (19,467.68 km) SSE Tefé Airport (TFF) Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil
5 12,093.41 miles (19,462.41 km) N Canaima Airport (CAJ) Canaima, Venezuela
6 12,071.86 miles (19,427.73 km) SW Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes–Manaus International Airport (MAO) Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
7 12,063.54 miles (19,414.33 km) S Coari Airport (CIZ) Coari, Amazonas, Brazil
8 12,063.38 miles (19,414.08 km) SW Ponta Pelada Airport (PLL) Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
9 12,060.39 miles (19,409.27 km) ENE Obando Airport (PDA) Puerto Inírida, Colombia
10 12,046.63 miles (19,387.12 km) NNW El Dorado Airport (EOR) El Dorado, Venezuela
11 12,004.71 miles (19,319.66 km) NE Cacique Aramare Airport (PYH) Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
12 11,982.01 miles (19,283.13 km) NE Germán Olano Airport (PCR) Puerto Carreño, Colombia
13 11,962.31 miles (19,251.43 km) N Tomás de Heres Airport (CBL) Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
14 11,954.89 miles (19,239.48 km) ESE La Pedrera Airport (LPD) La Pedrera, Colombia
15 11,951.16 miles (19,233.48 km) N Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana International Airport (PZO) Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
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Misfits have one more reunion show to announce, according to settlement
If you missed out on seeing Misfits back to full strength with Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only reunited, don’t worry, you might get one more chance.
Fans had no idea how long the reunion would last after a home-run from Riot Fest in 2016 welcoming the original lineup back to the live stage. Now, documents say we should be getting at least one more set announcement from the band.
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To bring you up to speed, original Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig and bassist Jerry Only have been feuding over the band’s merchandising and name rights since the ’90s. The two had continuously clashed and voiced disgust for one another to the dismay of fans.
The most recent chapter in this saga began with Danzig suing Only in 2014, claiming he wasn’t getting a fair share of the Misfits merchandising fortune. Long story short, what started as a heated engagement ended as an agreement to bring back the original Misfits for a 40-year anniversary string of shows.
“It was turning into another court battle and it turned into a reunion,” Only told Rolling Stone. “We walked out the door knowing we were going to play together. It’s a very cool thing.”
So far, the band has played six shows including their return at Riot Fest, and have three more scheduled in Los Angeles, Denver and Seattle.
If you were paying attention, that means one more show is legally set to be announced at some point. If you can’t make the two upcoming dates, you’ll only have one more chance to catch the original lineup.
Colorado will descend into Green Hell & The Devil’s Rain will pour down on Seattle when The Original Misfits ride again! Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater 9/7 & White River Amphitheater 9/14. Presales begin TOMORROW 10AM local. Use code DEVILSRAIN. Details @ https://t.co/ZbS9SMXJml pic.twitter.com/gLQUCi151Q
— The Misfits (@themisfits) May 14, 2019
Tickets for the already-announced shows are on sale now, with dates and details below.
06/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Banc of CA Stadium
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Rachael Richey
Rachael Richey lives in Cornwall with her husband and children. She writes Women's Fiction, and Storm Rising is the first book in the NightHawk Series. She has been writing since she was a child, starting with stories about her teddy bears and dolls.
She lived in the Hebrides for nearly fourteen years, having originally gone there to work for the summer season. She met and married her husband David whilst there, and had two children, before moving to Cornwall at the end of 2000.
There are currently four titles in the NightHawk Series; Storm Rising, published in February 2015; Rhythm of Deceit, July 2015, Cobwebs in the Dark, February 2016, and The Girl in the Painting, July 2016.
Breaking All The Rules, a standalone romantic comedy, was released on 5th May, 2017, and Practising for Christmas, a seasonal romcom is due for publication on 12th November, 2018.
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City Commissioners look to prosecute harassment in Municipal Court
City Commissioners passed for first publication an ordinance that would adopt state harassment statutes as part of the City’s Code of Ordinances.
City Commissioners look to prosecute harassment in Municipal Court City Commissioners passed for first publication an ordinance that would adopt state harassment statutes as part of the City’s Code of Ordinances. Check out this story on AlamogordoNews.com: https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/news/local/2018/11/23/city-commissioners-look-prosecute-harassment-municipal-court/2082388002/
Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Alamogordo Daily News Published 12:25 p.m. MT Nov. 23, 2018
City Attorney Petria Schreiber told City Commissioners at the regular Commission meeting on Nov. 20 that being able to prosecute harassment charges in Municipal Court would save the City time and money.(Photo: Dylan Taylor-Lehman/Daily News)Buy Photo
ALAMOGORDO – Alamogordo City Commissioners approved for first publication at the regular commission meeting on Nov. 20 an ordinance that would adopt a section of the state statute on harassment as part of the City’s Code of Ordinances.
According to City Attorney Petria Schreiber, adopting harassment statutes as part of city law will allow harassment charges to be prosecuted in Municipal Court.
The City Attorney’s office already prosecutes harassment charges in Magistrate Court, and so pursuing harassment claims in Municipal Court would save the City time and money, Schreiber said.
“We’re not changing the way (harassment) is charged, we’re changing the venue the ticket goes into,” Schreiber said. “(Harassment is) being charged appropriately already by the Alamogordo Police Department. We are not giving them another power, it would just put it into the City’s code. It is only to make another court available for harassment.”
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Commissioners approved the ordinance for first publication by a vote of 5-1. Commissioner Josh Rardin was the dissenting vote, and Mayor Pro-tem Jason Baldwin was not at the meeting.
The ordinance approved for first publication as part of the City charter is taken directly from the New Mexico state statute specifically dealing with harassment and stalking.
If adopted, the City ordinance would define harassment as knowingly pursuing a pattern of conduct that is intended to annoy, seriously alarm or terrorize another person and that serves no lawful purpose. The conduct must be such that it would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, the ordinance states.
According to the ordinance, violating this ordinance would be a misdemeanor.
The prospective ordinance is not adopting stalking statutes because stalking is not something the City Attorney’s office is asked to prosecute, Assistant City Attorney Dustin Johnson said.
The Otero County Sherriff’s Office and APD handle some of their own cases in Magistrate Court because the Otero County District Attorney’s office lost some funding, Schreiber said.
Consequently, the City Attorney’s Office is spending a lot of time per week going through APD logs for crimes the City Attorney can prosecute so that the charges don’t fall through the cracks, she said.
Schreiber said that her office was approached by numerous APD officers about of the City prosecuting harassment claims.
“(APD officers) are interested in filing the charges in Municipal Court as much as possible since they’re already there so much. Sometimes we have conflicts between the two courts when officers are double-booked, so it’s much easier for them to be in one court at one time than it is for them to be running all over the city trying to get to different courts.”
Assistant City Attorney Dustin Johnson addresses Commissioner concerns about prosecuting harassment charges in Municipal Court at the regular Commission meeting on Nov. 20. (Photo: Dylan Taylor-Lehman/Daily News)
The City Attorney prosecuted 8 harassment cases in 2016, 3 cases in 2017, and 3 cases so far in 2018. This year’s cases are all jury trials, which will entail more City Attorney time in Magistrate Court, Schreiber said.
“This is not the most cited into magistrate court by any means, but of those that are not domestic violence charges and are not DWIs, this is the one I’m prosecuting the most at this point in time,” she said. “I don’t mind going to court, but any time I’m out of the office takes away time from things I should be doing in my office.”
However, once consequence of moving harassment prosecution to Municipal Court would mean that the sentences for harassment would be reduced, as Municipal Courts can only issue fines of up to $500 and jail sentences of up to 90 days, Johnson said.
Similar charges in Magistrate Court can result in fines up to $1000 and up to a year in jail, he said.
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City Attorneys also addressed speculation that the City would have newfound powers to go after people criticizing the city officials in Facebook groups as a result of the City adopting the harassment ordinance.
“Bringing forth the harassment statute has nothing to do with any news bloggers or specific citizens or city employees. This is only to bring the City ordinances in line with State ordinances,” Schreiber said. “It’s not changing anything the officers are already out there citing.”
Commissioner Rardin expressed concern that the extra case load would necessitate more attorneys and additional expenses to the City.
Schreiber said that she has no plans to ask for additional staff to handle these cases, and that she is waiting for the go-ahead to start a training program for APD officers that would allow them to prosecute some of their own cases in Municipal Court.
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Uganda troops told to leave Sudan
South Sudan government accuses Uganda troops of abducting and killing a civilian.
Peace talks between the Ugandan government and the LRA have stalled [EPA]
However, Major Paddy Ankunda, Uganda's military spokesman, said that his government had received no formal communication telling its soldiers to leave.
"We have troops in southern Sudan under an arrangement with the government there, because the threat by LRA rebels still exists," he told the Reuters news agency.
Uganda, which has had troops pursuing LRA forces in southern Sudan since 2002, said it would keep its soldiers there to stop the rebels returning to northern Uganda and threatening Ugandan security.
Village raided
Machar, who has been a mediator in stalled peace talks between the LRA and the Ugandan government, said he sent a team to investigate a raid on Nyongwa village on June 14 where about 30 armed men reportedly looted food and household goods.
"The rest of the evidence is there. Indeed, it didn't turn out to be the LRA, but they were UPDF," he said.
The body of 31-year-old Jino Moga Mandara was found three days later with a head injury and stab wound, seemingly from a bayonet, three kilometres away from the scene.
Police reportedly found a military pack containing green military uniforms a pair of military boots, two ponchos, three caps and a document, as well as a small bag carrying two saucepans, two plastic plates beans and cooking oil at the scene.
While investigators say that they discovered written evidence implicating the UPDF.
Machar wrote to the chief Ugandan negotiator - internal affairs minister Ruhakana Rugunda - expressing concern about the incident.
The ceasefire team, however, did confirm that another attack on June 5 on the Congo-Sudan border, which left 27 dead, was carried out by the LRA.
Uganda's two-decade civil war uprooted two million people and destabilised parts of oil-producing south Sudan and mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Ugandan military has forces at the border with Sudan, but it remains unclear if and how deeply they have penetrated the country.
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Smart bike technology is helping to reduce the risks associated with cycling, with a new generation of "smart bikes" featuring safety innovations, theft prevention measures and smartphone integration.
Advancements in bike technology and design are helping to turn cycling into a more viable method of transportationi. The integration of technology in smart bikes is not only helping cyclists keep safer on the road, but also helping them keep track of their riding habits and fitness outcomes.
Road cycling can be dangerous, especially when the roads are busy. Some bikes on the market now come with in-built blind spot detection. The technology alerts the cyclist if there is a car or other hazard in their blind spot by vibrating the handlebars when a car is close byii. It is even possible to purchase a smart bike that comes fitted with a rear-view camera that monitors cars as they approach from behindiii. Both of these new safety features have the potential to help cyclists ride with increased confidence.
Lane projection lasers
For additional safety, some smart bikes feature in-built lasers which project a virtual lane onto the roadiii. The virtual lane helps cars to keep a safe distance from the bike and can even automatically turn on when it gets darkiii. In certain models, an in-built GPS tracks the cyclist's daily routes and sends this information to local councils. This allows the local councils to see which popular roads could benefit from real bike lanes to keep cyclists safe on the roadiii.
Pedal-by-pedal playbook
Staying fit and healthy is a priority for many cyclists. There are plenty of smart bikes available that feature technology to help cyclists reach their fitness goals. Some smart bikes are fitted with on-board sensors that measure things such as total calories burned, distance travelled, speed and best timesii.
Many new bikes now come with cradles for smartphones, allowing cyclists to use their smartphone on the goiv . Apart from the basic speedometer and odometer, some smart bikes are also compatible with fitness apps that can monitor progress and help cyclists to achieve a healthier lifestyle. There are even smart bikes that are capable of charging a smartphone while ridingiv.
Theft prevention
Bike theft is always a worry, but Canadian bike manufacturer Vanhawks has developed a network that may help cyclists recover a stolen smart bike. When the stolen bike is near another Vanhawks Valour bike, an app can let other Vanhawk owners in the area know that the bike has been stolen. Once other bikes in the area detect the location of the stolen bike, the location is relayed back to the owner via the appii.
Another company making it difficult for thieves to do their dirty work is smart. The smart ebike (shown below) uses its so called "basic display" screen as a theft prevention devicevi. The basic display can be easily detached from the bike and, when removed, the bike's electric motor will not start, helping to prevent it from being stolenvi.
For long commutes, riding a bike can seem impractical. An electric bicycle, such as the smart ebike, allows cyclists to still get exercise without leaving them too exhausted. With a range of up to 100km on a single charge, daily bike commutes to work are now possible for many peopleiv. The ebike's battery is recharged through a power point and also when brakes are applied thanks to regenerative braking technologyiv.
iDeMaio, P.J 2003, 'Smart Bikes: Public Transportation for the 21st Century', Transportation Quarterly, viewed 19 July 2014,
http://www.metrobike.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Smart-Bikes.pdf
iianhawks 2014, Meet Valour, viewed 19 July 2014,
http://vanhawks.myshopify.com/
iiiZolfagharifard, E 2014, 'Want your own cycle lane?', The Daily Mail, 16 June, viewed 19 July 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2659240/Want-cycle-lane-Samsungs-smart-bike-uses-LASERS-project-lines-road-stop-motorists-getting-close.html
ivSmart 2014, Urban Mobility 2.0 smart electric bike, viewed 19 July 2014,
http://hr.smart.com/products-ebike/12bfd2a1-2244-566e-ac98-c890cbee8d09
vWinston, Anna 2014, "'Smart' bicycle by Vanhawks gives directions with flashing lights and vibrating safety alerts", viewed 24 July 2014,
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/06/vanhawks-valour-bicycle-connected-bluetooth-carbon-fibre-smart-bike/
viSmart 2014, Highlights, viewed 19 July 2014,
http://www.thesmart.ca/ca/en/index/smart-electric-bike.html
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Electric Carsharing Service Launches in Bulgaria
October 31, 2017 • by Staff
Downtown Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo via Boby Dimitrov/Wikimedia
An electric carsharing service called Spark has launched in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia.
On Oct. 30, an electric carsharing service called Spark launched in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, according to a report by novinite.com.
Customers can find the nearest electric vehicle, reserve it, and rent it through the service’s mobile app. The price is set per minute, with the first 12 minutes included in the initial fee, says the report.
The service started with 25 electric vehicles, and according to the company, the number of vehicles will increase to 50 within six months, says the report.
Click here to read the full novinite.com report.
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By Victoria February 12, 2013 10:33
MUSCAT — In implementation of the Council of Ministers’ resolution, the Ministry of Finance has issued a circular to all government institutions as well as those which are 50 per cent or more owned by the government to avail the services of Oman Air when issuing air tickets to or from the Sultanate for employees. These organisations should also deal with the national carrier in hotel bookings and the provision of logistic services and air cargo.
It came in the circular which was issued by Darwish bin Ismaeel al Balushi, Minister Responsible for Financial Affairs, that all government and semi-government institutions should deal with the national carrier in the cases of employees’ annual leaves, medical treatment and end of services or when sending affiliates abroad for the purposes of training or official tasks or any other purposes.
The circular also stated that tickets for employees should be availed from Oman Air in case it has direct flights to the required destination or to the nearest connection point if the carrier has no direct flights to the required destination.
Only in case that Oman Air has no flights on the set date can the government organisation transfer it to other carriers.
The decision also stated that the government institution should give priority to the national carrier when floating tenders for group travel tickets. In the case of non-availability of first class tickets at all aviation companies booking should be made on the business class and when the latter is not available booking should be made on the tourist class.
Oman Air recently expanded its fleet of Boeing 737-800s with the introduction of two additional aircraft, bringing the airline’s total fleet strength to 30. In addition to the two new aircraft, the fleet includes 15 B737-800s, two B737-700s, four Airbus A330-200s, three A330-300s, four Embraer E175 regional jests and two ATR 42s.
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Home Avionics EFB Dependence
EFB Dependence
What the typical electronic flight bag platform lacks in reliability is made up in utility. But this stuff does fail and can leave you without some important tools.
According to Apple, my iPad mini 2’s operating temperature range is from 32 degrees to 95 degrees F (0 to 35 C). The company recommends storing the device where the temperature is between -20 and 45 C (-4 to 113 degrees F) and specifically states, “Don’t leave the device in your car, because temperatures in parked cars can exceed this range.” Presumably, this caution includes parked airplanes, too.
There I was, all strapped in with the engine running, sitting on the ramp at Class B International. I’d flown in a few minutes earlier for a stop, drop and hop, and my passenger was well on his way to the airline terminal for his human mailing tube home. I was looking forward to getting back to my own home after a couple of days on the road. With the big, front-mounted fan cooling me off, I hit the home button on my yoke-mounted iPad mini 2 to pull up its ForeFlight installation and look up the ATIS. I was greeted by a BSD (black screen of death): My iPad had overheated, sitting in its mount on a warm September afternoon. Oh joy.
Over the last 10 years, electronic flight bag (EFB) software running on a portable device of some sort has revolutionized the way we fly. One device, often capable of slipping into a pants pocket, can contain and display every VFR and IFR chart, terminal procedure and speck of aeronautical information that used to require pounds of paper. Properly equipped, it can display slightly delayed Nexrad weather radar, nearby traffic and its own position on an electronic version of all those charts we used to carry. It can even show me where I am on an airport taxiway and the direction to turn toward the runway. If it didn’t already exist, someone would have to invent it, if for no other reason than to save some trees. But the EFB as it’s implemented in many cockpits—especially when based on a consumer-grade product with a relatively narrow operating temperature range—isn’t perfect.
Sitting on that ramp with the engine running, I twisted knobs on my panel’s Garmin GNS 530 to identify and load the correct ATIS frequency, then the one for clearance delivery, and jotted down the ground and tower frequencies I expected. With little further ado, I got my VFR clearance out of the Bravo, taxied, took off and flew home. By the time I was tucking the plane into its hangar—and probably well before, actually—the iPad had cooled down enough to power up without an error message. The episode wasn’t the end of the world, but it did force me to consider some things.
Item One on that list, of course, is to not leave the iPad in its mount where it can soak up the sun’s heat energy. That’s a simple solution, but it’s not always effective in the summer. Dismounting the iPad and stashing it somewhere in the cabin isn’t my first choice, and often it will get just as hot. Placing it on the floor is a proven recipe for damage. Carrying it into the FBO risks forgetting or misplacing it.
Item Two is to carry a backup. As it happens, I have a second, identical iPad mini 2 I usually carry when flying, but left it home on this milk run. The 530’s data was up to date and—as it did before the advent of EFBs—was ready to pull up the frequencies and aeronautical information I needed to get out of Dodge. It served as the backup I needed. But while the 530 will navigate me through any approach and to any navigational fix, it won’t display charts, fuel prices or any of the other goodies I’ve come to expect on a portable device. Yes, I can write a check to solve that, but buying even 20 iPads would be much cheaper.
Item Three is a fervent wish for a more robust hardware solution, one that doesn’t shut itself down in plausible situations. Yes, there are aviation-specific products offering similar functionality, for a premium, and I will look closely at some of those options going forward. But they, too, have their limitations and require learning a different application. Whatever choice I make may not play well with my ADS-B In receiver, however, an L3 Lynx 9000.
Item 4 is the cheapest and simplest solution to the challenge: Carry paper charts. It can’t hurt to have at least a relatively recent sectional, the local approach plates and a low altitude en route chart in my seat’s back pocket.
Remember paper charts? They’re cheap, light and portable, don’t overheat, can’t run out of power and don’t crash. There’s better technology, to be sure, but perhaps not a better cockpit backup.
Eggs And Baskets
At the end of the day, my overheated iPad was a minor glitch in an uneventful few days of flying. I had a backup to the charting and aeronautical data I needed, that backup worked flawlessly and the outcome was never in doubt. The backup system got me home with no additional fuss or bother. I love it when a plan comes together.
My temporary EFB outage had no operational impact, and I suffered no loss of situational awareness. In the plane’s panel, I already had a moving map, the traffic and weather of the FAA’s ADS-B data stream and current aeronautical data. But I can get by without that stuff, too, especially on a short flight in good visual conditions.
Without a backup, we can still get by in a pinch without the information charts supply and which I mostly lost when the iPad overheated. Over familiar routes in visual conditions, pilotage and ded reckoning don’t require batteries or software updates and work well. I can—and should!—look out the window for traffic avoidance and to assess the weather. Even when you’re having a really bad day and find yourself IFR without a chart, ATC can relay what you need to know. You won’t endear yourself to anyone on the frequency, but you’ll get down safely. I’ve had to ask for some of that data after a pre-tablet EFB experiment of mine failed miserably.
Losing the functionality and features of a modern EFB should not be an in-flight crisis. If you can’t safely complete the flight after sustaining an EFB failure, there’s something wrong with your planning and equipment choices. Reverting to VOR for navigation, for example, shouldn’t result in getting lost.
On the other hand, if you’re using your consumer-grade tablet and commercial EFB software as the sole reference to tactically circumnavigate a line or cluster of thunderstorms in IMC, you’re doing it wrong. Likewise, if you were depending on it to safely navigate around airspace or between canyon ridges at night. Losing the EFB in these situations can paint you into a corner, but you should have thought about that before agreeing to the decision chain that got you there.
A lot of the discussion about pilots becoming overdependent on EFBs that arose when they first became reliable and functional has subsided with time. Part of the reason for that is widespread acceptance of their inevitable utility, coupled with a clear-eyed training community that isn’t afraid to turn it off and see how the student reacts. That said, doing without an EFB’s functionality may place a relatively new pilot—one who grew up on moving maps and near-real-time Nexrad, for example—at a distinct disadvantage. Turning off the EFB and doing it old-school isn’t something a prepared pilot should fear.
Are pilots overdependent on their EFBs? Some probably are, and they won’t really understand how dependent they’ve become until it fails some dark and stormy night. They likely haven’t trained much lately, or had a thoughtful instructor. The punch line is the EFB’s information and functionality shouldn’t be the only arrow in our situational awareness quiver: We shouldn’t let our EFB lead us into situations where an untimely failure can jeopardize the flight.
If it does, that’s on you. There typically are enough options and backups present in modern panels to get you home. But it never hurts to carry a paper chart or two.
Which Part Of ‘Consumer-Grade’ Do You Not Understand?
Today’s popular EFB software predominately runs on hardware developed and sold worldwide as consumer items. That’s a good thing, overall, since competition allows us to have the latest and greatest display and communication devices far more often than is practical when considering installed equipment alone. But it’s not without downsides. Over my long-term use of portable devices in the cockpit, there’s always been at least one instance when they “fell down.”
We can’t forget that any consumer-grade device will not be as robust as an FAA-approved product. All things considered, a modern tablet running an EFB app is far preferable to many of the other options presently available for the same functionality. But it’s not bulletproof, and we all should have a plan for when it fails.
EFB Tips
Solid Mounting
This should be a no-brainer. Without some kind of mount, it won’t be where you expect it and can be damaged, rendering it useless.
Dedicated Power Source
Running an EFB on its internal battery alone is a bad idea since you never know when you might have to rely on it. Power bricks are handy backups.
Set It Up On The Ground
The most useless EFB is the one in your luggage. Pull it out, mount it, power it, boot it and program it before releasing the brakes to taxi.
Keep It Updated
Some platforms seem to have a constant update cycle. Between the OS, the publication update cycle and the EFB app itself, there’s always something to download and install.
Raw Data Is Always An Option
When trying and failing to use an EFB’s automation, the best choice might be to simply put it aside and fly the airplane as you did before EFBs.
Jeb Burnside is the editor-in-chief of Aviation Safety magazine. He’s an airline transport pilot who owns a Beechcraft Debonair, plus the expensive half of an Aeronca 7CCM Champ.
This article originally appeared in the January 2019 issue of Aviation Safety magazine.
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This is good reminder that the iPad is a consumer device never engineered for the harsh realities of the cockpit environment. The iPad will overheat when its internal temperature exceeds about 130f. Or, even in a 70f cockpit, if the sun hits its screen directly it will shut off in about 10 minutes.
This problem is going to get worse as the iPad becomes more powerful and thinner with the chance of running hotter, like the iPad Pro 11.
As Jeb mentions, keep your iPad out of the direct sun prior to launch. In flight, it gets harder.
Turns out that that you can circulate air across the back of the iPad to cool the iPad to eliminate the chance to overheat it in flight – either with the sun hitting the back or the front. MYGOFLIGHT has created aniPad Cooling Case for this purpose.
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BayWa r.e. has supported a consortium of wind farm developers to secure the development and a long term investor for a 23.4 MW wind farm, located in Slageryd in the municipality of Vetlanda, Southern Sweden.
BayWa r.e. secured planning permission for the wind farm last year after taking on the project in 2016, utilizing its 30 years of wind energy experience to coordinate the project. BayWa r.e. undertook a 12 month wind measurements campaign as part of its optimisation work, helping to secure planning approval and ensure its commercial success.
Axel Veeser, Head of Wind Energy Projects at BayWa r.e., commented: “With extensive experience of bringing more than 1400MW of wind power online across the world, our technical expertise combined with our strong local ability to secure planning approval on complex projects meant we were the perfect partner to take this project through to construction and secure its long term investor.”
Håkan Wallin, CEO of BayWa r.e. Scandinavia AB, added: “This was a complicated project, to get the project ready to build we have solved permit issues, reworked land lease contracts and negotiated various stake holder agreements to name but a few elements. In parallel to this, we also identified and secured the long term owner and investor, Taaleri Energia, through its SolarWind I fund, as well as the wind turbine supplier Nordex – a well balanced match-making process.”
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In the Enderverse
Written by: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir, Amanda Karr, Stefan Rudnicki
The Second Formic War, Book 2
Written by: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
A coalition of Earth’s nations barely fought off the Formics’ first scout ship. Now, it’s clear there’s a mothership out on edge of the system and that the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth’s warring nations and corporations put aside their differences and mount an effective defense?
A perfect 2nd act
By Cyrus on 2019-07-06
Ender's Shadow
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters.
More in depth then the original Ender's Game
By Christopher Lemmon on 2019-04-08
The Swarm
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Stephen Hoye, and others
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the solar system's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system.
If you like the series you will enjoy this Book.
By Ryan Scoville on 2019-03-04
Shadow of the Hegemon
Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
Orson Scott Card tells a tale long awaited by millions of fans: the story of how Bean turned away from his first friend, Ender, and became the tactical genius who won the Earth for Ender's brother, Peter, who became the Hegemon.
great book, editing could be better.
Earth Awakens
The First Formic War, Book 3
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, and others
Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card’s best-selling novel Ender’s Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our sun.
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By Jesse1983 on 2018-08-23
Ender in Exile
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, David Birney, Cassandra Campbell, and others
Andrew Wiggin is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.
A War of Gifts
An Ender Story
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki
At Battle School, there is only one purpose, only one curriculum: the strategy and tactics of war. The children are drawn from all nations, all races, all religions. There is no room for cultural differences, no room for religious observances, and certainly no room for Santa Claus.
Children of the Mind
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: a large colony of humans; the Pequeninos; and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. Once again, the enemy (the Starways Congress) has gathered a fleet and is threatening to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest friend, Jane, an evolved computer intelligence, is trying to save the three sentient species of Lusitania, but the Starways Congress is destroying the computer world she lives in.
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Speaker for the Dead
Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. But again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Best Fictional Book I've Ever Read
By Joseph Gindo on 2019-01-25
Earth Afire
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki, and others
One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn’t believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame. And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet the threat.
Special 20th Anniversary Edition
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.
Probably a great story. But...
By Ben & Maggie McGrath on 2018-03-12
Shadows in Flight
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Scott Brick, and others
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth’s scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten - a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth’s history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.
Best selling SF author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth.
Shadow of the Giant
Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Full Cast
Bean, once the smallest student at the Battle School, and Ender Wiggin's right hand, has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he wishes for a safe place to build a family, something he has never known, but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies; old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth.
Xenocide
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, and others
Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults.
By Brandon on 2019-02-27
Earth Unaware
The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt.
Pretty Boy
Narrated by: Scott Brick
How do you systematically destroy a child with love? It's not something that any parent aspires to do, yet a surprising number come perilously close to achieving it.
Expeditionary Force, Book 7
Written by: Craig Alanson
The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again saved the world. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.
Just binged the whole series. MUST HAVE MORE *taps forearm*
By Justin on 2019-04-21
First Meetings is a collection of three novellas (plus the original "Ender's Game") that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin.
"The Polish Boy", a novella written especially for this collection, begins in the years between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender, they believe they may have found their man. Or boy.
In "Teacher's Pest", also written especially for this collection, a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown.
It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in "The Investment Counselor". Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, 20-year-old Ender Wiggin wanders incognito form planet to planet as a fugitive, until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide.
Also here is the original landmark "Ender's Game", which first appeared in 1977.
First Meetings is Orson Scott Card at the height of his considerable powers, featuring his most compelling character.
©2003 Orson Scott Card (P)2003, 2004 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC
"Character, setting, plot: Card does them all right, and makes it look effortless....For newcomers to Ender's universe and long-time fans, this book will hit the spot and whet the appetite for more." (School Library Journal)
"Even those who are intimately familiar with the concepts of the Game from later Ender books will be struck anew by Card's virtuosity. His powerful voice and startlingly clear vision will draw many new readers into a lifelong love of science fiction. This accessible collection will impress even non-sci-fi buffs, besides being a must-have for Ender saga devotees." (Publishers Weekly) "These stories demonstrate the assured scene setting, apparently effortlessly sustained suspense, and moral preoccupation with the responsibilities of kinship and friendship that distinguishes Ender's entire saga." (Booklist)
Audible.fr reviews
Erik N
Austin, TX United States
Great for fans (please stop the music)
Great stuff for fans, but definitely not a place to start with Ender (well, the original novella is a great place to start, but that's just a third of this download). Without knowing some details from the books, the resonance of these first meetings would probably be greatly diminished. Without an understanding of the larger structure, some listeners would likely not appreciate the full story.
I'm including an open plea to all audiobook producers: Please please please, if you must include music that overlaps the narration, LISTEN TO IT BEFORE FINALIZING THE PRODUCT! Often, this is a minor annoyance. In this book, it absolutely ruins the end of the Ender's Game novella. You can't hear half of what's being said. So a meaningful quiet moment is completely spoiled. I've never read a review where someone likes these musical overlays: I'm begging you to stop using them. It created a sad, sour experience at the end of an otherwise enjoyable listen.
Was good, but the music...
...in a few parts, the music was overpowering the voices, you could hardly hear the reader and when they spoke low, impossible. Who ever put this book and music to audible did a poor job.
If you (audible.com) want better reviews on this one, redo the sound or take the music out.
Other then that, I liked it. Gave an insight into a few areas I didn't know about. Such as where Jane came from, and Enders parents meeting.
Glyndon, MD, USA
First Meetings: Four Stories from the Enderverse
For those already immersed in the "Enderverse" this is a fun listen. Probably the weakest of the four stories was the "Ender's Game" novella, only because the novel completely eclipses it -- but for those who have not read the short story and like the book, it is interesting to see the evolution of the narrative.
For those like me, who have re-read these books over and over again, the two stories about Ender's parents might hold some very slight anachronisms, but nothing that keeps you from enjoying them.
I most particularly enjoyed "Investment Councilor". It was a neat little insight into Ender's world and travels in-between "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead".
Essential Backstory for Ender Fans!
Fans of <U>Ender's Game</U> and <U>Speaker for the Dead</U> will definitely want to hear <U><B>First Meetings: Four Stories from the Enderverse</B></U>. As I have stated with most of my short story reviews, audio books and short stories are made for each other and for fans of Ender, these four short stories construct a beautiful bridge between Ender's past before <U>Ender's Game</U> and between <U>Ender's Game</U> and <U>Speaker for the Dead</U>.
The original novelette format of <U>Ender's Game</U> is the third story in this four part collection and it is a great story, even in this pared down format. It just proves that <U>Ender's Game</U> is a terrific story that re-engages listeners everytime they play it. The remaining three stories are the best part of this collection though and my favorite is <U>Teacher's Pest</U>.
<U>Teacher's Pest</U> is the story of the meeting and very brief courtship of John Paul Wiggin and Theresa Brown. The very intriguing couple who become the parents of Peter, Valentine, and Andrew Wiggin.
<U>The Polish Boy</U> introduces us to the "non-compliant" Wieczorek family and the brilliant John Paul, whose genius will alter the course of the future, for both his family and the entire <B>Enderverse</B>. John Paul Wieczorek of course becomes John Paul Wiggin in <U>Teacher's Pest</U>.
This is a great collection of stories that is spectacularly narrated, as usual, by the Fantastic Audio crew. My only criticism of the audio production is the bumper music used at the beginning and ending of each story. I do believe my ears started bleeding at some point and the bumpers overlap the narration too far so that it is very hard to hear for several seconds at the beginning and ending of these stories.
Again, I can't recommend any group of short stories enough but these are terrific, especially for Ender fans. Enjoy!
Paulding, OH, USA
Not Bad Bsides the Music
I have to agree with the other reviews that the "music" at the end/beginning of a section is to much it overpowers the book and you can barely hear the book at that point all and all it is not a bad series, the Ender's Game novella was not needed though.
David Paulk
Good Stories, Horrible Distracting Music
If you're an Enderverse fan, this is a great collection of short background stories that fill in some gaps that had been left open in earlier books. Each story covers a couple big gaps in the series without getting bogged down by the development of too many characters.
My only complaint with the whole series is the use of music in the recordings. Orson Scott Card, if you are reading this review, PLEASE for the love of humanity don't let your producers put music in the recordings!!! It's terribly distracting and it almost completely drowns out the words. I could hardly hear the last conversation between Anderson and Graph due to the piercing music. At least I think that's who the conversation was between. Since I couldn't hear them, I just had to assume they were planning out how to live their golden years after the Bugger War.
Bottom Line: the music can ruin and otherwise great addition to the Enderverse.
Jay Vanderwood
Good Story; Bad Music
I enjoyed the stories themselves. It was kinda cool to see how Ender's parents got together. I also enjoyed the glimpse at Ender as a young man. The short story Ender's Game was fascinating to hear and compare to the book.
The one thing that I could not stand was the LOUD music playing over the storytellars at the begining and end of each story. Whoever it was at Audio Renaissance that thought this sounded good needs to have their head examined. Not only was it difficult to hear, but it was terrible music. Personally, I would prefer it if they never did this again, but if they had to, at the very least it should be set in the background and low enough so that it doesn't interfere.
Ft Worth, TX, United States
3 Good Short Stories
If you have read Ender's Game, this is a must read! I admit, there are a few things that do not exactly coincide with Ender's Game, but they are barely even noticable. I really enjoyed them and I hope you do to. If you have not read any of the Ender's Game series, do not start with this one.
Great addition to the saga.
Having been a long-time fan of the Ender series, it was really neat to listen to these stories as they filled in some of the details of the Enderverse. This book is highly recommended for anyone familiar with the series. The narration is top-notch, but the music that overlaps the beginning and end of each story almost drove me insane! The music was SO loud that it was almost impossible to hear what the narrator was saying. Please don't let this one flaw prevent you from listening to this otherwise fantastic audiobook. Great stuff!
Everett, WA, USA
Fun Background on the Enderverse
Al the stories were interesting, although, the background on Ender's father was a little incongruous with the book, Ender's Game. If you liked Ender's Game, this is worth listening to.
Nice 4 first stories but deceived by the last
Nice first stories without being great. Special mention for the first one, which was very good. The other three were good and fair to hear. I’m backed off by the last, which takes more than one hour, which is.... the chapters of battles at Battle School from Ender’s Game. Looks like it was put there just to add more minutes to the books. Not very good for the fans of the saga looking for new stories.
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John Cameron Mitchell The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig
2350 Robert Dedman Dr., Austin, TX 78712
Presented By: Bass Concert Hall - PAC (Performing Arts Center)
Dates: February 7, 2020
Location: Bass Concert Hall - PAC (Performing Arts Center)
Price: See Website
The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig
with special guest Amber Martin
featuring the songs of Hedwig by Stephen Trask
Presented in partnership with KLRU-TV
John Cameron Mitchell, the double Tony Award winning, Golden Globe-nominated co-creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, brings songs and stories from his history in a big, brash and bold rock spectacle, performing songs from his groundbreaking rock musical and regaling audiences with stories from 20 years of Hedwig with special guest Amber Martin.
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A.K. Jenkins is an Australian writer who spent many years working in West Africa and Europe before settling in Hobart, Tasmania.
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'Lagos has a reputation for being a tough city. Marius, ex-intelligence officer and amateur philosopher, isn't happy about travelling there with Ash, a man he barely knows, the head of an IB school in Lomé. But when things go badly wrong, Marius finds himself drawn into a search for answers. The Lagos police blame the 'Area Boys', but Marius isn't so sure. He knows Ash was worried about a phone call; a call that made him question if he could trust the men who run the school: Dave Gordon, friend and business partner, and George Barnes, registrar. Back in Lomé, it doesn't take Marius long to realize that charismatic, handsome Dave Gordon is not who he pretends to be, and definitely not someone who should be running a school. The problem is, how can Marius unmask a man so careful, so organized and so unscrupulous? And where does justice lie?'
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2019 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
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Inflatable Pools for Design Lovers—Just in Time for Summer!
Zoë Sessums
This Company Will Have You Rethinking What It Means to Invest in Art
Gabriela Ulloa
Everything Inside Erica Boginsky's 394-Square-Foot Apartment Is Art
Katja Vujić
12 Designs We Need From Wayfair’s Super Affordable New Collection
Sydney Wasserman
It's a Thing
We're Nuts About Knots
Don't get it twisted
We haven't been able to stop thinking about the potential of a knot since seeing Windy Chien's daily ritual of tying a new knot every day. From her large-scale works to her practiced studies, the transformation of a piece of rope is incredible. Suddenly, it's like the twists, ties, and curves are everywhere. Sometimes made of clay or porcelain and often made of a woven fabric, knots aren't just for sailing and securing your shoes. From an elegant design to a playful tchotchke, we're into the complications in cordage, whether they're useful or not.
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Roger Coll began his first ceramic studio and workshop after having spent years working in an architecture studio in Barcelona. Now, set up in Vic, Spain, the artist continues to make captivating ceramic objects and sculptures that inspire us with their colors and forms. The large, smooth pieces are both sophisticated and playful.
Roger says making a ceramic collection is similar to making an album or a menu, where every new piece of clay is like a song or a plate. What would you call this dish?
Photo: Joan Santaugini Puig
The bright, glossy knot keeps our eyes moving.
Made of porcelain, the simple form gives us a lot of feelings. An embrace or a tangle, pick your own interpretation.
We recently fell in love with this Sin terra-cotta knot, and there are more sizes and shapes available to fill our home. Virginia Sin, the Brooklyn-headquartered multidisciplinary designer behind the brand, has focused her recent attention on "redefining ceramic coils, translating her graphic designs into weave structures and challenging the limitations of clay in the lighting industry," so we're crossing our fingers for some knotted light fixtures in the future.
The clay Double Loop Knot is decorative and functional. Call it a modern-day paperweight or elegant bookend.
Photo: Courtesy of SIN
Fist pumps for the Fist Knot!
Icelandic product designer Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir was trying to make bear figures out of crocheted tubes when the idea of the Knot cushion was born. She likes the idea of someone seeing the pillow and not knowing exactly what it is at first (whew, that's what happened on our end). Made from a knitted cylinder, the Knot is compact enough to offer support but also just serve as an interesting design object.
Half wool and half acrylic, the pillows come in a variety of colors.
Photo: Jonas Lindstrom
Neta Tesler's Knots studio, which is located in Tel Aviv along the Mediterranean shore, makes home decor inspired by the aesthetics of the nautical world. From her first line of products, Neta found a special tying technique still seen in the work she makes today. From cushions to stools to pillows, the pieces are full of patterns and textures that really make them pop.
Swoon! Royal blue? Yes. Crushed velvet? Yes. Elegant beechwood? Yes. We're in love with this floor cushion.
Photo: Courtesy of Knots Studio
This stool feels extra nautical with its black-and-white stripes.
Much of the handmade work by Eloeil features sweet painted rainbows, seashells, and peace signs, but the knots add just a twist, literally, of something moodier. The ceramic pieces, called "It's Complicated," are all one of a kind and just the sort of thing we'd want lying around.
No two knots are alike, and we think the small imperfections are part of their charm.
Photo: Courtesy of Eloeil
A little squiggle, a lot of personality.
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What to see, hear and do this week, February 1–7
Andrew Alexander February 1, 2018
The Followers: A Retelling of the Bacchae. Michael Haverty directs a new adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae by Margaret Baldwin featuring music by Klimchak and choreography by Ofir Nahari. February 1–25. 7 Stages.
The Mystery of Love & Sex. Out Front Theatre presents the Atlanta premiere of playwright Bathsheba Doran’s drama about the romance that develops between two friends of different races who grew up together in the Deep South. February 1–18. Out Front Theatre.
Brave New Works. Theater Emory highlights new work and adaptations from leading playwrights with three weeks of readings and performances. February 3–25. Theater Emory.
Vagina Monologues. A one-night-only production of Eve Ensler’s 1997 play raises money for Camp Cadi, a Georgia summer camp for girls traumatized by childhood sexual abuse. February 6 at 7 p.m. City Winery.
A new theatrical version of the children’s book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane opens at Synchronicity Theatre this week. (Photo courtesy Bagram Ibatoulline)
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Synchronicity Theatre presents Dwayne Hartford’s new adaptation of the children’s book by Kate DiCamillo about a vain porcelain rabbit who learns how to love. February 2–25. Synchronicity Theatre.
The Magic of Adam Trent. The illusionist works his magic at Atlanta’s Fabulous Fox. February 3 at 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre.
Picnic. Stage Door presents a new production of William Inge’s classic 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Through February 18. Stage Door Players.
Big Apple Circus. The New York-based company, which seeks to recreate the intimacy and artistry of the early circus, celebrates its 40th anniversary with a touring big top of classic clowns, acrobats and animals. Through February 25. Verizon Amphitheater.
Clark Gable Slept Here. Stone Mountain’s ART Station presents a new production of Michael McKeever’s comedy about the scandal that looms when a corpse is found in a star’s hotel room during the Golden Globe Awards. Through February 11. ART Station.
Dearly Beloved. A new production of the contemporary comedy about a wedding in small-town Texas. Through February 4. Theatre in the Square.
Rainforest Adventures. The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a new kids’ production by Jon Ludwig, Stephanie Kaskel Bogle and Raylynn Hughes about the animals that inhabit the delicate ecosystem of the Amazonian rainforest. Through March 4. Center for Puppetry Arts.
January LaVoy and Neal A. Ghant in the Alliance Theatre’s Native Guard (Photo by Greg Mooney)
Native Guard. The Alliance Theatre reprises its 2014 adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry by former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, staged amidst the Atlanta History Center’s Civil War collection. ArtsATL critic Andrew Alexander reviewed the 2014 production at the Alliance. Through February 4. Atlanta History Center.
Angels in America. Actor’s Express presents a new production of Tony Kushner’s monumental 1992 play with a cast including Carolyn Cook, Joseph Sykes, Robert Bryan Davis and Parris Sarter. ArtsATL critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer reviewed Parts One and Two. Through February 17. Actor’s Express.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. A one-woman show about Billie Holiday’s final performance at a seedy bar in Philadelphia in 1959 features Atlanta actress Terry Burrell as the legendary singer. Through February 4. Theatrical Outfit.
The Ballad of Klook and Vinette. Horizon offers the American premiere of a new musical starring Amari Cheatom and Brittany Inge. Through February 18. Horizon Theatre.
Maytag Virgin. Courtney Patterson and Brad Brinkley star in Audrey Cefaly’s 2015 play about a year in the life of a recently widowed high school teacher and her mysterious new neighbor in rural Alabama. Through February 11. Aurora Theatre.
Dinosaur! The Alliance’s Theatre for the Very Young reprises its collaboration with the Fernbank Museum of Natural History for an interactive production introducing kids to the wonders of the prehistoric world. Through February 24. Alliance Theatre Black Box.
an arabesque in histories. Atlanta dance company glo unveils a new series of performance interventions beginning at downtown Atlanta’s Zero Mile Marker. Through February 3. Downtown Atlanta.
Don Quixote. The Atlanta Ballet presents a new production of the classic ballet featuring choreography by Yuri Possokhov. February 2–10. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
Mardi Gras Party. A concert and dance party features performances from Creole accordionist and fiddler Dennis Stroughtmatt and his band Creole Stomp. February 3 at 7 p.m. Dorothy Benson Center.
The Lady of the Camellias. The Bolshoi Ballet broadcasts its production of the classic ballet based on Alexandre Dumas’ famous novel featuring John Neumeier’s choreography set to music by Chopin. February 4. Area movie theaters.
Kendra Field, Growing Up with the Country. The author’s new family history chronicles the westward migration of black Americans in the first 50 years after emancipation out of the South to Indian Territory. February 1 at 7 p.m. Carter Library.
Morgan Jerkins, This Will Be My Undoing. The author reads from and discusses her new book of linked essays reflecting on pop culture, feminism and black history. February 7 at 7:30. Charis Books.
Cheryl Reid, As Good As True. The Atlanta-based author celebrates the release of her new novel about a woman dealing with a painful past as she fights to keep her home and family. February 1 at 7 p.m. Eagle Eye Bookshop.
Discrit. A new bi-weekly discussion group considers current trends in critical theory. February 5 at 7 p.m. Murmur.
Erica Dawson. The acclaimed poet reads from her work. February 7 at 6:30 p.m. Woodruff Library, Emory University.
Tomorrow We Disappear. A 2014 documentary considers Kathputli, India’s colony of artists, magicians, acrobats and puppeteers as they wrangle with approaching eviction. February 3 at 8 p.m. Center for Puppetry Arts.
Films for One to Eight Projectors. Film Love presents the work of filmmaker Roger Beebe consisting of multiple projector performances. February 7 at 7 p.m. Film Love.
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. The annual festival screens over 70 films including features, documentaries, classics and kids’ films plus panels, guest appearances and opening and closing night gala events. Through February 15. Various Atlanta venues.
The exhibition Artricana will include Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino and African American visual artists. (Art by Artist InUs)
Artricana. A new exhibition at East Atlanta’s Gill Gallery highlights emerging Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino and African American visual artists. February 3–4. Gill Gallery.
The Ashcan School and Their Circle. Oglethorpe offers an exhibition of works by early-20th-century artists depicting gritty scenes of old New York including John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, George Luks, Robert Henri and George Bellows culled from private collections within the Atlanta metro area, the High Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Through March 4. Oglethorpe Museum of Art.
Richard Downs and Charles Keiger. California artist Richard Downs shows new sculpture, and Atlanta’s Charles Keiger shows new paintings. February 2–March 3. Tew Galleries.
Atlanta Gallery Collective. A temporary pop-up gallery exhibiting a rotating selection of work from 10 top Atlanta galleries extends its run through March 31. ArtsATL previewed the project as it opened in October. Through March 31. Ponce City Market.
Printasm: Six Years on Press. West End print-shop I.S. Studio celebrates six years with a show of work by Atlanta artists including Joe King, Kris Pilcher, Leigh Ann Culver, Anna Jenson and Matthew Walker. February 3 at 7 p.m. Mammal Gallery.
Bruce Johnson: Exercise in Restraint. The Atlanta-based artist paints images of arrested civil rights leaders and advocates from the 1950s. February 1–March 29. Gallery 72.
Egyptian Lecture. Tasha Dobbin-Bennett, assistant professor of art history at Emory’s Oxford College, discusses the different approaches the ancient Egyptians took to recognizing and managing the natural deconstruction of the body. February 1 at 7:30 p.m. Carlos Museum.
Hannah Helton: For Your Pleasure. The Atlanta-based painter and mixed-media artist shows new works. February 3 at 7 p.m. Parlor.
Michele Schuff, Moone, encaustic and mixed media on wood panel, 72″ diameter x 3″ deep (Courtesy of the artist/Sandler Hudson)
Michele Schuff: On the Edge of Forever. The Atlanta-based artist shows new encaustic works inspired by photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope. Opening reception February 2 at 7 p.m. Exhibition through March 17. Sandler Hudson.
Carrie Mae Weems. The renowned artist visits Atlanta to speak about her work. February 4 at 2 p.m. Auburn Avenue Research Library.
Art Crush. Burnaway hosts its signature annual event featuring a silent auction and emcee Baton Bob. February 3 at 7 p.m. Atlanta Decorative Arts Center.
Erik Madigan Heck: Old Future. A new exhibition of the acclaimed fashion photographer’s work. Through March 17. Jackson Fine Art.
Andre Kertesz: Girl Before a Mirror. Jackson Fine Art shows work from the Hungarian-born photographer’s classic Distortions series. Through March 17. Jackson Fine Art.
Laura Wilson: That Day. An exhibition of more than 60 large-scale images of the American West by the former assistant to Richard Avedon. Through April 29. Booth Western Museum of Art.
Trevor Reese: And yet.*/the squid and the whale. The Savannah-based artist exhibits two bodies of work. Through February 17. Day & Night Projects.
Kosmo Vinyl: Cisco Kid vs. Donald Trump. The former manager of The Clash, now a visual artist, shows work from his ongoing series of images mocking the Trump candidacy and presidency. Through March 3. Different Trains Gallery.
Convergence. New abstract work from Joe Camoosa, Jason Kofke, Ashley L. Schick and Lucha Rodriguez. Artist talk February 10 at 4 p.m. Exhibition through March 2. Kai Lin Art.
(Courtesy John Williams/Brickworks)
Wood Turning Demonstration with John Williams. The artist demonstrates his techniques for selecting, turning and hollowing wood. February 3 at 2 p.m. Brickworks Gallery.
Terri Dilling: Blue. The Atlanta-based artist shows new cyanotypes. Through March 23. Stanley, Bearman & Sears.
Alli Royce Soble: When the Levee Breaks. The Atlanta-based artist shows new mixed-media works on paper. Through March 2. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.
Bill Orisich and Benita Carr: ground.loop. The Atlanta-based artists create a new video installation for Whitespace Gallery. Through February 10. Whitespace Gallery.
¡NUEVOlution! Latinos and the New South. A new exhibition considers the contributions and history of Latinos in the South. Through December 31. Atlanta History Center.
Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi. A new exhibition of the artist’s work features more than 50 collages, paintings and hand-painted serigraphs considering girlhood, self-image and the dysfunctional legacy of colorism. Through May 19. Spelman Museum of Art.
Corrine Colarusso: Light & Weather. The Atlanta-based painter shows new landscape paintings. Artist talk February 3 at 2 p.m. Exhibition through February 24. Poem 88.
Carrie Mae Weems: From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried. Hammonds House exhibits the artist’s 1996 work based on found archival photographs of enslaved people in the American South, alongside People of A Darker Hue, Weems’ 2016 film about police violence. Exhibition through April 29. Hammonds House Museum.
Lost Parts and Found Narratives. A new joint exhibition shows work by two Atlanta-based artists: dennis campay’s paintings and Steven Steinman’s found-material metalwork sculptures. Through March 25. Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art.
Reconstructions. Karen Tauches curates a group show of Atlanta artists including Joe Bigley, Evelyn Breit, Krista Clark, Meta Gary, Katie Hargrave, Rusty Miller, Martha Whittington and Zena Zakanycz. Through February 16. Swan Coach House Gallery.
Candice Greathouse: Ain’t No Party. Eyedrum unveils a new installation by the Atlanta-based artist that creates an atmospheric party-like environment. Through February 3. Eyedrum Gallery.
Robert Sagerman: Totalizations. The painter’s hypnotic, abstract canvases consist of tens of thousands of dabs of oil paint. Through February 3. Marcia Wood.
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Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At? The High Museum presents the first museum survey in the US to explore the career of American artist Al Taylor, with more than 150 sculptures, drawings and prints. In her review, ArtsATL critic Cathy Fox says the exhibition draws “overdue attention to this idiosyncratic artist.” Through March 18. High Museum.
“A Fire That No Water Could Put Out”: Civil Rights Photography. An installation of more than 40 photographs primarily drawn from the High’s permanent collection reflects on the 50th anniversary of a tumultuous year in Civil Rights history. Through April 29. High Museum.
Susan Graham. The famed mezzo-soprano performs a recital at Emory’s Schwartz Center. February 3 at 8 p.m. Emory’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Beethoven’s Second and Third Piano Concertos. Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio performs Beethoven’s Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of music director Robert Spano. February 1–3. Symphony Hall.
Aimee Mann. The singer-songwriter tours in support of her forthcoming 2018 album Mental Illness. February 1 at 8 p.m. Variety Playhouse.
Gianluca Sciarpelletti. The tenor gives a recital of popular opera arias as a fundraiser for Angels Among Us pet rescue service. February 3 at 4 p.m. First Baptist Church of Decatur.
Bilal. The singer-songwriter performs at Ponce City Market’s City Winery. February 2 at 8 p.m. City Winery.
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“If you have no solution, why did you reach out?”
Tweets, email, and phone call later … and customer’s still peeved
Written by Chris Skinner
Chris Skinner's bank went through an awful lot of customer service energy only to leave him mad enough to move his business. UNconventional Wisdom is a periodic guest blog where the conventional wisdom is held up for fresh inspection. If you have some "UNconventional Wisdom" to share, email [email protected]
A good example of big bank thinking I have referred to is Santander, and an incident that I fumed about the other day.
I usually make payments to E.U. companies via my business account, which pays no fees on E.U. payments as per PSD2 and SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) principles.
However, I paid a Polish company £86 the other day from my personal account and only noticed, once the payment was confirmed, that Santander had charged me a £25 fee.
£25!
£25 on an £86 payment is a 30% surcharge. Unbelievable.
I fumed about it, as SEPA demands that E.U. payments are treated the same as domestic payments but, when I looked up the relevant consumer rights, it currently only applies to E.U. payments in Euros and not between British pounds sterling and Polish Zloty.
Anyway, I shared my frustrations on Twitter and the nice Santander social media team decided to step in and help.
I was being the usual Mr. Angry and insisting that they remove the fee as it was illegal under E.U. law, which it would have been if I were sending GBP to EUR. They insisted the charge was justified, and pointed me to their terms and conditions, page 29.
Page 29 seems to say that any payments in the E.U. and E.E.A. are treated as international payments, and subject to fees and charges which are not clear, but inflated. SEPA payments I am told will be £10 and international payments £25, even though I’m thinking they’re all E.U. payments.
Twitter to email to phone
I continue to whinge, and the team ask me to email them.
I email them and they ask if they can call me.
I send them my telephone number and they call me.
“Hello”, says a cheery voice, “it’s Ian from the social media team but, before I can talk to you, can you tell me your name, ethnicity, mother’s maiden name, inside leg measurement, and blood type?”
I go through the security checks just because I want to hear what Ian has to say about a 30% surcharge fee on an E.U. payment.
“And finally, can you tell me a standing order or direct debit on your account please, and for how much you pay on that?”
This is tedious.
“Ok, now we can talk”, says Ian, and I think, yes, what are you going to say.
“Ok”, Ian says, “you made a payment to Poland which is an international payment”.
“No, it’s not,” I say. “It’s a payment to a European country and as we are still part of Europe should not be exposed to any additional charges.”
“I’m afraid that’s not the case”, says Ian. I fully expect him to tell me about Brexit.
“I can’t help you. Have a nice day”
“If you had made the payment via a SEPA transfer, we charge £10”, says Ian, “but you made an international payment and we have a flat fee for those of £25.”
“Well”, say I, “under E.U. law I think you’re wrong, and I’m going to report you to the Financial Ombudsman.”
“You go ahead and do that sir, and sorry I cannot help,” says Ian.
“You cannot help?” says I. “So why did you call me?”
“To explain the fee,” says Ian.
“Not to waive the fee,” says I.
“No, I’m not authorized to do that,” says Ian.
This typifies the anger that customers have with the big banks. Complete inflexibility, lack of customer focus, and wasting their time engaging in a conversation where the person who is trying to help can do feck all.
Rant over. Just saying why I’ve switched to Monzo.
This blog is taken with permission from The Finanser, Chris Skinner’s blog, where it appeared under the title, “Why big banks fail.”
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Chris Skinner has become known as an international independent commentator on fintech through his blog, the Finanser.com. He is the author of the bestselling book Digital Bank and its sequel ValueWeb. Both books have been reviewed on www.BankingExchange.com and a chapter excerpt of ValueWeb also appears on the site. Skinner chairs the European networking forum: the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand and has received similar honors from The Wall Street Journal and other organizations. Visit Skinner's professional website.
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USAA Leads Funding Round for Fintech Company
USAA is now the lead investor in the latest round of funding for BillGO
Written by Banking Exchange staff
USAA is probably best known as the leading financial services company for the military and their families. However, they are also investors, and have taken major positions in commercial real estate properties. USAA is expanding into fintech companies.
USAA is now the lead investor in the latest round of funding for Fintech company BillGO making a mark in the space. BillGo positions itself as a leader in providing real-time bill pay to consumers, check conversion to small and medium sized billers and having the largest eBills network. BillGO is connected to the banking industry because it is looking to change the future of bill pay. Chances are if you work at a bank or credit union, you may have used their technology.
It is possible that USAA could continue to invest in fintech given their enthusiasm and lead position. “USAA has a long history of using emerging technologies to develop innovative ways to serve members,” said Nathan McKinley, Vice President and head of Corporate Development for USAA. “That includes investing in innovative companies like BillGO that are exploring ways to better serve financial services consumers.”
BillGO’s bill pay solution reminds consumers when their bills are due and allows them to view, manage and pay all their bills from a consolidated location in real time. The company claims that its technology is currently being used by 30 million consumers and 8,000 banks and credit unions. Banking and credit unions are the primary users of their technology.
“Innovative solutions such as those developed by BillGO provide the industry with options and alternatives that leverage the capabilities of the ACH Network,” said Jane Larimer, chief operating officer at Nacha.
“USAA has a proven track record of working with leading financial technology companies to provide services and capabilities that make managing finances easier,” said Dan Holt, Co-Founder and CEO of BillGO.
USAA is not the only company that has invested in the BillGo. Pete Kight joined USAA in investing in the company. Kight is best known as the founder of Checkfree. Additionally, Commerce Ventures joined the financing in this round.
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Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
by Jack DannJack Dann
Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Kim Wilkins, Sara Douglass, A. Bertram Chandler, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Stephen Dedman, Trudi Canavan, John Birmingham, Margo Lanagan, Janeen Webb, Isobelle Carmody, and many others.
Jack Dann is a multiple award winning author who has written or edited over 60 books, including the groundbreaking novels Junction, Starhiker, The Man Who Melted, The Memory Cathedral which is an international bestseller, the Civil War novel The Silent, and Bad Medicine, which has been compared to the works of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson and called "the best road novel since the Easy Rider days."
Dann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J. G. Ballard, Mark Twain, and Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick, author of the stories from which the films Blade Runner and Total Recall were made, wrote that "Junction is where Ursula Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and Tony Boucher's 'The Quest for Saint Aquin' meet...and yet it's an entirely new novel.... I may very well be basing some of my future work on Junction." Best-selling author Marion Zimmer Bradley called Starhiker "a superb book... it will not give up all its delights, all its perfections, on one reading."
Library Journal has called Dann "...a true poet who can create pictures with a few perfect words." Roger Zelazny thought he was a reality magician and Best Sellers has said that "Jack Dann is a mind-warlock whose magicks will confound, disorient, shock, and delight." The Washington Post Book World compared his novel The Man Who Melted with Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal.
His short stories have appeared in Omni and Playboy and other major magazines and anthologies. He is the editor of the anthology Wandering Stars, one of the most acclaimed American anthologies of the 1970's, and several other well-known anthologies such as More Wandering Stars. Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars have just been reprinted in the U.S. Dann also edits the multi-volume Magic Tales series with Gardner Dozois and is a consulting editor TOR Books.
He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the Australian Aurealis Award (twice), the Ditmar Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award, and the Premios Gilgamés de Narrativa Fantastica award. Dann has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed Knight).
High Steel, a novel co-authored with Jack C. Haldeman II, was published in 1993. Critic John Clute called it "a predator...a cat with blazing eyes gorging on the good meat of genre. It is most highly recommended." A sequel entitled Ghost Dance is in progress.
Dann's major historical novel about Leonardo da Vinci entitled The Memory Cathedral was first published in December 1995 to rave reviews. It has been published in 10 languages to date. It won the Australian Aurealis Award in 1997, was #1 on The Age bestseller list, and a story based on the novel was awarded the Nebula Award. The Memory Cathedral was also shortlisted for the Audio Book of the Year, which was part of the 1998 Braille & Talking Book Library Awards.
Morgan Llwelyn called The Memory Cathedral "a book to cherish, a validation of the novelist's art and fully worthy of its extraordinary subject." The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a grand accomplishment," Kirkus Reviews thought it was "An impressive accomplishment," and True Review said, "Read this important novel, be challenged by it; you literally haven't seen anything like it."
Dann's next novel The Silent was chosen by Library Journal as one of their 'Hot Picks.' Library Journal wrote: "This is narrative storytelling at its best so highly charged emotionally as to constitute a kind of poetry from hell. Most emphatically recommended." Auhor Peter Straub said, "This tale of America's greatest trauma is full of mystery, wonder, and the kind of narrative inventiveness that makes other novelists want to hide under the bed." And The Australian called it "an extraordinary achievement."
His contemporary road novel Bad Medicine (titled Counting Coup in the U.S.) has been called "a vivid and compelling vision-quest through the dark back roads and blue highways of the American soul."
Dann is also the co-editor (with Janeen Webb) of the groundbreaking Australian anthology Dreaming Down-Under, which Peter Goldsworthy has called "the biggest, boldest, most controversial collection of original fiction ever published in Australia." It has won Australia's Ditmar Award and is the first Australian book ever to win the prestigious World Fantasy Award.
Dann is also the author of the retrospective short story collection Jubilee: the Essential Jack Dann. The West Australian said it was "Sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, erudite, inventive, beautifully written and always intriguing. Jubilee is a celebration of the talent of a remarkable storyteller."
As part of its Bibliographies of Modern Authors Series, The Borgo Press has published an annotated bibliography and guide entitled The Work of Jack Dann. An updated second edition is in progress. Dann is also listed in Contemporary Authors and the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series; The International Authors and Writers Who's Who; Personalities of America; Men of Achievement; Who's Who in Writers, Editors, and Poets, United States and Canada; Dictionary of International Biography; the Directory of Distinguished Americans; Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century; and Who's Who in the World.
Dann commutes between Melbourne and a farm overlooking the sea. He also 'commutes' back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.
Dreaming Again
Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
Garth Nix
I'd been living in the city for quite a while, lying low, recovering from an unfortunate jaunt that had turned, in the immortal words of my sometime comrade Hrasvelg, 'irredeemably shit-shape'.
Though I had almost completely recovered my sight, I still wore a bandage around my eyes. It was made from a rare stuff that I could see through, but it looked like dense black linen. Similarly, I had regrown my left foot, but I kept up the limp. It gave me an additional excuse to use the stick, which was, of course, much more than a length of bog oak carved with picaresque scenes of a pedlar's journey.
I had a short-lease apartment near the beach, an expensive but necessary accommodation, as I needed both the sunshine that fell into its small living room and the cool, wet wind from the sea that blew through every open window. Unfortunately, after the first month, that wind became laden with the smell of rotting weed and, as the weeks passed, the stench grew stronger, and the masses of weed that floated just past the breakers began to shift and knit together, despite the efforts of the lifesavers to break up the unsightly, stinking rafts of green.
I knew what was happening, of course. The weed was a manifestation of an old opponent of mine, a slow, cold foe who had finally caught up with me. 'Caught' being the operative word, as the weed was just the visible portion of my enemy's activities. A quick examination of almanac and lodestone revealed that all known pathways from this world were denied tome, shut tight by powerful bindings that I could not broach quickly, if at all.
I considered moving to the mountains or far inland, but that would merely delay matters. Only the true desert would be safe from my foe, but I could not go there.
So I watched the progress of the weed every morning as I drank my first coffee, usually leaning back in one white plastic chair as I elevated my supposedly injured leg on another. The two chairs were the only furniture in the apartment. I slept in the bath, which I had lined with sleeping moss, which was comfortable, sweet-smelling and also massaged out the cares of the day with its tiny rhizoids.
The day before I adjudged the weed would reach its catalytic potential and spawn servitors, I bought not just my usual black coffee from the café downstairs, but also a triple macchiato that came in a heavy, heat-resistant glass. Because I lived upstairs they always gave me proper cups. The barista who served me, a Japanese guy who worked the espresso machine mornings and surfed all afternoon, put the coffees in a cardboard holder meant for takeaways and said, 'Got a visitor today?'
'Not yet,' I said. 'But I will have shortly. By the way, I wouldn't go surfing here this afternoon . . . or tomorrow.'
'Why not?'
'That weed,' I replied. 'It's toxic. Try another beach.'
'How do you know?' he asked as he slid the tray into my waiting fingers. 'I mean, you can't . . .'
'I can't see it,' I said, as I backed away, turned and started tapping towards the door. 'But I can smell it. It's toxic all right. Stay clear.'
'Okay, thanks. Uh, enjoy the coffee.'
I slowly made my way upstairs, and set the coffees down on the floor. My own cup in front of one white chair, and the macchiato at the foot of the other. I wouldn't be resting my limb on the spare chair today.
I had to wait a little while for the breeze to come up, but as it streamed through the room and teased at the hair I should have had cut several weeks before, I spoke.
'Hey, Anax. I bought you a coffee.'
The wind swirled around my head, changing direction 270 degrees, blowing out the window it had come in by and in by the window it had been going out. I felt the floor tremble under my feet and experienced a brief dizziness.
Anax, proper name Anaxarte, was one of my oldest friends. We'd grown up together and had served together in two cosmically fucked-up wars, one of which was still slowly bleeding its way to exhaustion in fits and starts, though the original two sides were long out of it.
I hadn't seen Anax for more than thirty years, but we scribbled notes to each other occasionally, and had spoken twice in that time. We talked a lot about meeting up, maybe organising a fishing expedition with some of the old lads, but it had never come together.
I knew that if he were able to, he would always answer my call. So as the coffee cooled, and the white plastic chair lay vacant, my heart chilled, and I began to grieve. Not for the loss of Anax's help against the enemy, but because another friend had fallen.
I sat in the sunshine for an hour, the warmth a slight comfort against the melancholy that had crept upon me. At the hour's end, the wind shifted again, roiling around me counter-clockwise till it ebbed to a total calm.
Even without the breeze, I could smell the weed. It had a malignant, invasive odour, the kind that creeps through sealed plastic bags and airtight lids, the smell of decay and corruption.
My options were becoming limited. I took up my stick and went downstairs once more to the café. The afternoon barista did not know me, though I had seen her often enough through my expansive windows. She did not comment on my order, though I doubt she was often asked for a soy latte with half poured out after it was made, to be topped up again with cold regular milk.
Upstairs, I repeated the summoning, this time with the chill already present, a cold presence of sombre expectation lodged somewhere between my heart and ribs.
Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction. Copyright © by Jack Dann. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
Dreaming Again: Thirty-Five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction 3.5 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 6 reviews.
RuthiesBookReviews on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I usually don't read anthologies like this because I find it hard to get used to the way one author writes then have to go onto the next story and get used to that author's writing. But I gave it my best shot and I'd have to say that I throughly enjoyed having a chance at reading this book. I am a full blown fan of horror writing, amongst other things and this book was great! Thank you Eos Books/ Harpercollins for extending this opportunity to me!I really don't want to place an spoilers here, but here goes. I'm going to list my absolute favorite stories out of the book.This is My Blood by Ben Francisco and Chris Lynch - I loved the way the authors placed the dates in between the paragraphs. It kind of reminded me of Star trek or perhaps like reading someone's diary (well, I guess it kind of was). The writing was fanastic and it was very easy to follow.The Fooly by Terry Dowling - A small town ghostly tale. Gotta love the ghost stories. Of course they always seem to happen where you wouldn't even think of it. This is something that I'd like to tell around a camp fire and get everyone spooked!Empire by Simon Brown - Now I really am not a huge fan of alien stories, but I liked this one because in the story the aliens have conquered Earth and the POV is from two teenagers. Did give you some pretty interesting images as you read! I give this two thumbs up just because I'm not an alien fan!Trolls Night Out by Jenny Blackford - Her characters were well thought out. Her antagonist was David, pain in the butt and a little mouthy. But where would the story go if he wasn't in it? But this story was pretty good. I love werewolves and I remember Trolls from the movie Troll. So this one had me hooked right from the get go!The Rest is Silence by Aaron Sterns - Another ghost story, but will a lot more substance! As i stated before I am a huge horror fan and this story had it all! If I had three thumbs I give this story just that!Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh by Jason Fischer - I don't know if the author wanted readers to take the story this way, but I thought it was funny! Zombie camels, I never would have thought of that!Heere Be Monsters by John Birmingham - Yet another of my absolute favorites. Zombies! I'm not a big fan of futuristic stories, but I had to give this one a try because it had the zombie factor. The wording took me a little time to get used to, but at the end, I realized that I had really enjoyed this story.The New Deal by Trent Jamieson - The title really didn't do much for me, but his twist on zombie dolls made of wood was nice. Nicely written and my favorite sentence that hooked me right from the get go was and I quote, "These blokes been dead a while." Good read!The Last Great House of Isla Tortuga by Peter M. Ball - I don't like sea stories or pirates, but this one I thought was funny. Maybe that is just my morbid sense of humor, but who would have thought that the zombies had their own prostitutes. That's all I'm going to say about this story, you'll have to read it for yourself!As you'll notice I enjoyed the zombie stories, but after reading the likes of Stephen King and David Moody, this book was great. Some of the stories I just couldn't get into but overall I am really glad I was given the opportunity to read this book! I definately recommend it to friends!I've been reading this while reading Devour, which I'm still reading, but soon I will be posting my review for that too! I really don't like to read more than one book at a time, but this one I just couldn't resist. A story here, a story there!
melydia on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
A surprisingly consistent collection of quality fantasy stories by Australian authors. I haven't read much Australian lit - and indeed had only heard of one of the authors (Garth Nix) - but this was marvelous. Only a couple of the stories were boring and/or needlessly unpleasant to read. (I don't object to unpleasant reading as a general rule, but when it's unpleasant for no reason I feel manipulated.) The range is broad, from angels to zombies, humor to tragedy, modern Australia to the Garden of Eden. All in all a great sampler.
hydrolith on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I shouldn't really review a book that I appear in; suffice to say that I enjoyed reading a bunch of well-crafted genre stories, and am happy to see my second published story among such good company. The anthology has been nominated for an Aurealis Award, as have a number of the stories within it, and has just gone into a second printing. Good motivation: I'm aiming to finish a short story every month next year, and have already sent off my first submission for 2009.
krau0098 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
The stories in this collection are all over the place; some are horror, many are sci-fi, and many just explore other alternate realities. As a whole the collection was an enjoyable read. There is a lot here so it was not the quickest read for me; I also had a little bit of trouble reading the stories consecutively because their subject matter was so varied and disjointed. I have found that with very different short stories I sometimes need a break between them so that I can think about and process what I have read before jumping into something completely new.All in all it was a decent collections of stories; there were only a couple stories I disliked.For me some of the highlight stories were:- Nightship by Kim WestwoodShip boy escapes the dismal confines of the fogged out island area. This was a dismal and dark story, but had a very interesting world and culture. The imagery was great too!- Neverland Blues by Adam BrowneIn future earth Michael Jackson is a spaceship and he needs a friend to travel with. Okay I thought the storyline was a bit hokey, but I really liked this guy's writing style. He used great imagery, with many fast-paced observations. Writing style reminded me a little of the Nightside series by Simon Green.- The Forest by Kim WilkinsThis is retelling of Hansel and Gretel in near future earth. I love retelling of classic fairytales and I thought this was a great story. I really want to check out more of her writings.- The Lost Property Room by Trudi CaravanCute story about a lady who retrieves an item from the train property room that's not hers and ends up paying a steep price for it. I liked this story.- The Lanes of Camberhill by Cecilia Dart-ThorntonThis was about a woman and a man seeking secret ways in the Lanes of Camberhill. It was a beautiful story with lush description and interesting thoughts on the philosophy behind geography, I really liked it!- Purgatory by Rowena Cory DaniellsA virus has infected all of humanity and it invokes religious fanaticism. The main character finds a cure and administers it but at a great cost. This was a very creative and very interesting story. I love the idea of fanaticism being a disease.- Perchance to Dream by Isobelle CarmodyAbout a girl who is stuck in a dream trying to figure out what went wrong with her life. I really liked this story; it reminded me a little of some of the Charles deLint stories I have read.I was debating if adding a list of the stories would make the review too long. Since I already have it written, figure I might as well include it. So...Below is a list of the stories with a short synopsis and thoughts.Old Friends by Garth NixOld tree warrior fights long time enemy to the death. Very short and sad, yet hopeful, good imagery.A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead by Richard HarlandEager tourist tells a PhD of his journey through the kingdom of the dead. Interesting topic and idea, done with a little humor.This is my Blood by Ben Francisco and Chris LynchTells of missionary Mother Rena on plant Stark dealing with the Duvari. Engaging story, I think about it a lot, done in a diary-type style. Very science fiction.Nightship by Kim WestwoodShip boy escapes the dismal confines of the fogged out island area (maybe future Japan?). Dismal and dark story, interesting world and culture.The Fooly by Terry DowlingA ghost is haunted by a ghost. Well-written, unexpected ending. Paranormal genre.Neverland Blues by Adam BrowneIn future earth Michael Jackson is a spaceship and he needs a friend to travel with. Great imagery, fast-paced observations like Nightside.The Jacaranda Wife by Angela SlatterFolktale about a woman that is a tree. Written in a very historian/literature type of style.The Constant Past by Sean McMullenTime traveling serial killer foisted by a librarian. Was okay.The Forest by Kim WilkinsRetelling of Hansil and Gretel in near future earth. I really liked this one.Robots & Zombies, Inc. by Lucy SussexFragmented interview with a robot in
shelleyraec on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
This is a pretty solid collection - a little too heavy on Sci Fi for me which is not really my thing. I love that there is such a quality Australian collection out there though and really appreciated a chance to read Australian writers in the genre.
Christy_M3 More than 1 year ago
This was an excellent book. I enjoyed the short stories by these fine authors that I am currently finding some of their novels as well as the first Dreaming collection. Very recommended for fantasy/ scifi readers.
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Spider-Man: Free Falling
by Brian Smith (Text by), Mario del Pennino (Illustrator)Brian Smith
It's everybody's favorite wall-crawler in a collection of high-flying action and adventure stories! The Ultimate Spider-Man teams up with some mighty friends, from Black Panther to Captain Marvel and even Rocket & Groot, to fight threats both large and small. Spidey ventures into space to help stop Ronin the Conqueror, tangles with the Lizard and Vermin in the sewers, fights the Hulk and more!
Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna are the owners of Ample Hills Creamery. They live in Brooklyn with their two children, Nonna Kai and Kaleo. Lauren Kaelin, coauthor and illustrator, is the director of marketing at Ample Hills, the author of When Parents Text, and the creator of the popular blog Benjameme.
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The Unforgotten Coat
by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Carl Hunter (Photographer), Clare Heney (Photographer)Frank Cottrell Boyce
From the best-selling author of Cosmic and Millions comes an evocative immigration tale about two brothers trying to survive— a daring story that miraculously defies belief.
When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in Julie’s sixth grade class, no one, least of all Julie, knows what to do with them. But when Chingis, the older of the two brothers, proclaims Julie as their “Good Guide” — a nomadic tradition of welcoming strangers to a new land — Julie must somehow navigate them through soccer, school uniforms, and British slang, all while trying to win Shocky’s attention and perhaps also an invitation to her friend Mimi’s house. At times funny, this moving and simply told novella tugs at the heart — a unique story of immigration both fierce in its telling and magical in its characters.
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Frank Cottrell Boyce has written several children's books, including Millions, winner of the Carnegie Medal, and Cosmic, both of which have been turned into films. This is his first book with Candlewick Press. He lives in England with his family.
Carl Hunter and Clare Heney are both filmmakers who have partnered on a number of short films, including an adaptation of Frank Cottrell Boyce's short story Accelerate. They live in England.
Boyce follows Cosmic with a tight, powerful story—brimming with humor, mystery, and pathos—about illegal immigration and the price it exacts on children. Two Mongolian brothers, Chingis and Nergui, arrive at a British school wearing fur coats and refusing to follow the teacher’s instructions that Nergui remove his hat that’s low on his face: “When you need your eagle to be calm,” Chingis says, “you cover its eyes with a hood. When you want the eagle to fly and kill, you take off the hood.” The class is enthralled, and when Chingis singles our sixth-year Julie to be their “Good Guide,” things that had previously fascinated her (makeup, boys) fall away as she bones up on Genghis Khan and helps the boys learn Liverpudlian slang and the rules of football—“learning themselves ordinary,” she terms it. They tell her they are hiding from a demon, punctuating their tall tales with Polaroids, taken by Hunter and Heney (Boyce’s filmmaker collaborators), which deepen the mystery. In an author’s note Boyce explains his inspiration, making an already moving story even more so. Ages 8–12. (Sept.)
Funny, sad, haunting and original...A tricky, magical delight.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A tight, powerful story-brimming with humor, mystery, and pathos.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Gr 5–7—It's the end of sixth grade, and all Julie can think about is makeup and boys. Things change when two oddly dressed brothers show up at school. Even though it's hot outside, they wear identical fur-lined coats and claim to be Mongolian nomads. Chingis is cheeky to the teacher, demanding in no uncertain terms that his younger brother, Nergui, stay in the class with him for protection. The boys single out Julie to be their Good Guide. She takes her title seriously-she shows them how to dress and act and researches Mongolian history to share with the class. She's hoping that all this helpfulness will translate into an invitation to their home-she is sure it is filled with exotic silks and samovars. As Julie gets to know the brothers, she discovers that their life isn't as romantic as she imagined. They are fearful and evasive, believing that a demon is trying to make them vanish. Nergui isn't even the younger boy's real name-it means "no one," and he uses it to confuse the demon. When the boys disappear from school, Julie decides to follow them, using the images in Chingis's photos to guide her to their whereabouts. This story stems from the author's encounter with a young deportee, a Mongolian girl. Although the novel deals with the serious subject of illegal immigration, Boyce's dialogue is warm and humorous, keeping the book engaging. Chingis's mysterious Polaroids, displayed throughout the book, make for an intriguing format. Julie narrates the story as an adult, looking back, but an unusual ending gives it a contemporary, touching twist.—Diane McCabe, Loyola Village Elementary School, Los Angeles
Treading water in her last term of elementary school, Julie figures she's learned all there is to learn, when two Mongolian brothers in fur-lined coats (it's summer) arrive: Chingis and Nergui.
Chingis explains to their teacher that little Nergui's hat must stay on, like a hunting eagle's hood. Such casual references to wonders far from their Liverpool suburb, documented in the text with eerie Polaroid snapshots, enthrall the children, especially Julie. She's elated when Chingis appoints her the brothers' "good guide." Despite her title, Julie can't discover where they live; street-smart Chingis foils her attempts to follow them, taking a different route each day. Thwarted curiosity prompts her to research Mongolia online, succumbing to the mystery and fascination of far-off places and people. As her persistence pays off, she awakens to the fear the brothers carry. Funny, sad, haunting and original, Cottrell Boyce's story leaves important elements unexpressed. As with lace, these holes are part of the design, echoed in the unadorned photos: a path through a dark forest; wagon tracks across a field that meet the lowering sky; shadows on a yurt wall. To complete the narrative, readers must actively participate. They'll find myriad paths to follow—immigration, demons, social networking, the mystery of cultural difference and the nature of enchantment.
A tricky, magical delight. (author's note) (Fiction. 8-12)
Unforgotten Coat 3.8 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 5 reviews.
cay250 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
Treading water in her last term of elementary school, Julie figures she¿s learned all there is to learn, when two Mongolian brothers in fur-lined coats (it¿s summer) arrive: Chingis and Nergui.Chingis explains to their teacher that little Nergui¿s hat must stay on, like a hunting eagle¿s hood. Such casual references to wonders far from their Liverpool suburb, documented in the text with eerie Polaroid snapshots, enthrall the children, especially Julie. She¿s elated when Chingis appoints her the brothers¿ ¿good guide.¿ Despite her title, Julie can¿t discover where they live; street-smart Chingis foils her attempts to follow them, taking a different route each day. Thwarted curiosity prompts her to research Mongolia online, succumbing to the mystery and fascination of far-off places and people. As her persistence pays off, she awakens to the fear the brothers carry. Reminds me of Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes.
ChristianR on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
I have read Frank Cottrell Boyce's other three books and I think he's a terrific author. This book is an interesting switch for him. Julie lives a normal existence, thinking mostly about the boy she likes and getting to play with her friend's makeup, until a new boy arrives at school with his brother. They are from Mongolia, and are quite different than anyone she has ever known. They assign her the role of Good Guide, which she willingly takes on. She learns interesting things about Mongolia and hopes to be invited to their home. But she also learns that they are frightened, and doesn't understand why until after they have suddenly disappeared, taken by immigration authorities to be returned to their homeland. The boys are really intriguing characters, and Cottrell Boyce succeeds in demonstrating how people from other cultures can enrich a community.
abbylibrarian on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
It's a short little book and kids will dig the format and the photos. It's an important story and one that's obviously dear to Mr. Boyce's heart, but for me I didn't really connect with any of the characters. I don't know if that's a cultural thing (by which I mean the story's set in England) or if maybe the photos and notebook paper distracted from the story...
callielou on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
This is an unusual story from Frank Cottrell Boyce. I love his work, even though I'm not always sure kids enjoy them as much as adults. As a librarian, I often recommend the audio versions for family road trips. But this one really resonated with me, especially after reading the afterward. I think it's an important story to tell and maybe it will impact some children as well. I loved the book's layout, but I also loved the audio version as well--his books always have great readers.
Sunday44 More than 1 year ago
What is real and what is imaginary? How can the imaginary be useful? How can we hide ourselves inside a language? How can we "learn ourselves ordinary"? What happens when the ordinary experiences the extraordinary? There are so many thought-provoking questions for our students to think about and discuss as we read this aloud or as they read it in small groups or on their own. I've listened to the audio and read the book and been moved by both. The experiences of Chingis and Nergui, two refugee brothers and the sixth-year girl they meet at school who becomes their "Good Guide" and tells their story will stay in your heart.
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Published June 23, 2018 at 10:56PM / Updated July 26, 2018 at 02:25PM
Olympians train at Bachelor Butte in 1968
Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at Deschutes County Historical Society.
For the week ending
New gymnasium is open today
Today was the commencement of the formal opening of the new Bend Amateur Athletic club gymnasium. This afternoon at 2 o’clock the doors were thrown open to the public and tonight the opening exercises, consisting of a musical program and addresses, will be held. The attendance this afternoon was not great, due to the unsettled weather conditions, but it is expected that a large number will be in attendance at the program this evening. A quartet under the direction of O.A. Thorson will give several selections, together with a solo by Mrs. Thordarson. Opening addresses will also be made by Carl Johnson and H.A. Miller, officers of the club. There is no admission charge.
Tomorrow evening will see the opening of the carnival and dance depicting the days when everything goes and the roof is the limit. This will be continued on Friday night.
On Saturday night occurs the big double feature smoker, when Billie George of this city will meet Frank Street of Portland, and Fred Gilbert, another Bend man, will dispute honors with Billie Williams of Portland.
These will be preceded by two fast preliminaries, and the entire event gives promise of being one of the best attractions put on here for many months.
The building has been completed with the exception of some few minor details which are to be looked after as soon as material can be secured.
Million yanks in France by first of July
Shipments of troops to France have passed the 800,000 mark according to an announcement made by General March, who added that all four offensives of the Huns against the allied troops had been stopped.
The rushing of troops to France now is most important, the general declared, the offensive of the Huns having lengthened the fighting line 66 miles, and additional troops are needed to fill in the gaps, and to still keep the reserves of the French and British intact in case of an emergency.
The 800,000 troops now there include men in the fighting line, medical corps and the service at the rear.
The number of troops being sent Franceward at the present time is limited only by the capacity of the boats to carry them. More than one million men will be in France or on their way by the first of July. This announcement has been made by Senator Kirby of Arkansas, and issued by the council of war information.
General March declined to predict when the allied forces would have the numerical superiority, only making the statement that the objective of the Huns now was the channel ports with Paris as a secondary consideration. According to his ideas, the last advances made by the enemy were more military moves in an endeavor to straighten their lines than as an objective to reach Paris.
According to the report, the American forces are being put into the front lines in greater forces every week, and the mileage held by the American units independent of the allies is being lengthened each day.
Bombing volcanoes (Editorial)
While the battle of Attu was in progress, news reached the outside world that the Kiska volcano was threatening to erupt and that American fliers had seen a plume of black smoke curling up from the crater of the snow-patched mountain. Jittery Japanese on the northern island were said to be worried by the volcano, and laymen wondered why the American airmen had not dropped a few bombs on the fire mountain to speed up the impending eruption.
Fireside generals have also suggested that Fujiyama be bombed, and that explosives be dropped on the smoking volcanoes of Italy and Sicily. Persons who make such suggestions have ignored what makes volcanoes “tick” and flyers who keep their bombs in place in circling fire mountains in enemy territory act wisely.
Volcanic eruptions just can’t be made to order. Forces that tear off the tops of volcanoes or blow away their sides are world shaking. Man-made bombs, even block busters are puny compared with these forces.
Generally the forces that start and continue a volcanic eruption have their origins deep in the earth — miles down, in some cases. The melted rock, or lava, that is such an important part of eruptions also starts from plutonic depths. Generally, the molten rock is pushed up in the pipe of the volcano to the crater.
When the eruption ends, this pipe of lava “freezes,” forming a vast plug. Then the volcano becomes inactive. If a trickle of lava escapes, or if hot gases come out of the partly closed vents, the volcano remains slightly active.
All the bombs Jimmy Doolittle’s airmen carried to Japan would have not aroused sleeping Fujiyama if they had been released on top of that gigantic cone. Even a block buster dropped on the Kiska volcano would have done little more than to splash lava around the crater.
Active volcanoes in enemy countries do, however, hold one major danger for nearby cities. They are beacons to guide night fliers to vital targets in nearby areas. These great fire mountains not only refuse to be bombed into activity, but they refuse to be blacked out.
Skiers report heavy snow on Bachelor
Snow on Bachelor Butte is the deepest in many years according to Olaf Skjersaa, Herb Riley and Merle Blann, who made a ski trip to the top last weekend.
The three men were able to take their car to within half a mile of Dutchman flat, and from there made it to the top in three hours. The descent was made in a mere matter of six minutes.
Olympians, hopefuls training at Bachelor Butte
More than 120 Olympic and national caliber skiers are presently in training at Bachelor Butte in hopes of making the U.S. Olympic team at a future date.
Some of the prospective greats are being housed at the Mt. Bachelor Lodge while others are staying at the COCC dorm.
The practice sessions are rigorous. The mornings are devoted to skiing, either running a slalom or giant slalom course, and the afternoon to playing soccer and doing exercises at Harmon Field or Drake Park.
Skiers are selected for the camp on basis of ability. All Olympic and National team members plus the best expert skiers from all of the ski associations have been selected for this year’s camp. The women are training at Mammoth Mountain, California.
Five prospective skiers from Bend have been training with the team. They were selected by being the best expert skiers in the Pacific Northwest Ski Association.
They are Mark Ford, 17, Chris Wetle, 15, Larry Kite, 15, Mike Ward, 17 and Fred Duberow, 18.
“This is quite an experience,” Kite said. “I have always wanted to be a competitive skier and now I can ski against the best.”
Kite also said that the training has been tough, but it “has been worth it. It will help improve my skiing.”
The skiers are scheduled to train at Bachelor Butte until June 23.
Planner suggests possible need for Highway 97 Bypass
The growing need for a Highway 97 bypass to run east of Bend was described last night by Robert Grunwald, Crawford and Associates, the California-based planning firm hired to develop a comprehensive plan for Deschutes County.
His comments were made last night to representatives of Bend, Redmond and Sisters at the county courthouse.
The bypass envisioned by Grunwald would run approximately one mile east of Pilot Butte and northward to Redmond. This would curtail through traffic passing needlessly through Bend and would avoid traffic congestion.
“There should be little doubt,” he said “but that there would be a pressing need for the bypass in the next five to seven years.”
But getting such a project started is a much longer range process, he quickly added. The planning consultant said organized political pressure from the Central Oregon area must be put on the State Highway Commission to bring attention to the local need.
Grunwald denied the bypass would have an adverse effect upon tourist business located along Third Street. He pointed to the growing high level development on the present travel route as capable of drawing the serious tourist from the bypass.
Switching to land use in Deschutes County, he urged “reasonable standards” to be set for land development to reflect the real value of the land.
He called for plat requirements sensitive to both the short and long range public interest.
But there is danger in “pendulum action” he said, which would swing too far the other way creating unrealistic regulations.
“It is better to have no zoning ordinance at all,” he added, “than land regulations which regulate for their own sake regardless of the needs of a particular place at a particular time.
Don’t look for ol’ T. rex
No one will laugh if you come here looking for the ancient remains of the brontosaurus or tyrannosaurus.
The National Park Service rangers have heard it all before, especially lately.
So for the record, the John Day Fossil Beds are not strewn with dinosaur bones. This national monument is, however, a treasure trove of plants and animals trapped in time millions of years ago when jungles and savannas and forests defined the landscape.
It’s here where scientists discovered the oldest true rhinoceros, the first evidence of elephants in North America and the last primate known to have existed on the continent.
And long before Spaniards brought back horses to the Americas, the hoofed mammals flourished here, leaving their most complete evolutionary record.
There’s enough here to amaze visitors of any age, even those fresh from a showing of a certain dinosaur flick, which needs no additional promotion here.
“A place like this is a view into the past, a spectacular view,” park paleontologist Ted Fremd said.
“This is not just a photograph of the past. This is a whole movie, a changing sequence of events over a long period of time.”
The fossil beds in Grant and Wheeler counties, represent one of the world’s greatest records of the imprints and remains of life from another time. Nearly 50 million years are documented by fossils uncovered by water and wind.
The dusty canyons and desert terrain conceal the tale of the Cenozoic period — the age of mammals — 15 million years after dinosaurs went extinct. It’s a story in serial format, with the characters battling for survival amid dramatic forces of change.
“There aren’t many places in the world where you can go to see such a remarkable sequence,” Fremd said. “It’s just lucky all those volcanoes were going off depositing ash that all these animals were trotting on and were later entombed in.”
The area’s rich diversity of preserved species has attracted worldwide attention for more than a century. In the 1860s, frontier minister and naturalist Thomas Condon was the first to recognize the significance of fossilized teeth and bones littering the John Day Valley as the world first debated Darwin’s theories of evolution.
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Facebook, Twitter and Google played a far deeper role in Donald Trump's presidential campaign than has previously been disclosed, with company employees taking on the kind of political strategizing that campaigns typically entrust to their own staff or paid consultants, according to a new study released Oct 26. The peer-reviewed paper, based on more than a dozen interviews with both tech company staffers who worked inside several 2016 presidential campaigns and campaign officials, sheds new light on Silicon Valley's assistance to Trump before his surprise win last November.
While the companies call it standard practice to work hand-in-hand with high-spending advertisers like political campaigns, the new research details how the staffers assigned to the 2016 candidates frequently acted more like political operatives, doing things like suggesting methods to target difficult-to-reach voters online, helping to tee up responses to likely lines of attack during debates, and scanning candidate calendars to recommend ad pushes around upcoming speeches. Such support was critical for the Trump campaign, which didn’t invest heavily in its own digital operations during the primary season and made extensive use of Facebook, Twitter and Google "embeds" for the general election, says the study, conducted by communications professors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Utah.
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Sex with Strangers at LA's Geffen Playhouse
Talky Two-hander by Laura Eason
By: Jack Lyons - Mar 24, 2016
Stephen Louis Grush plays Ethan, photo Michael Lamont
Rebecca Pidgeon as Olivia, Photo Michael Lamont
In the past, one could usually rely upon the Geffen Playhouse to present new and/or edgy plays that captured the attention of audiences. This was a recipe that resonated with their wide age demographic. Toss into the season a couple quality plays, and the Geffen had another successful season.
I’m not quite sure what’s going on with their play selections of late. But the current offering at the intimate (114 seats) Audrey Skirball Kenis stage of the two theatre complex in Westwood, comes off as flaccid as the on-stage story it’s trying hype with the provocative and sexy title of “Sex with Strangers”.
Known for her acclaimed direction of multiple productions of playwright Ayad Akhar’s “Disgraced”, a searing satire of New York City mores, director Kimberly Senior this time stages a talky two-hander of screenwriter-playwright Laura Eason’s script.
In “Sex with Strangers, the plot revolves around Olivia (Rebecca Pidgeon), an intelligent, mid-career, one-book novelist who is having second thoughts about her ability is a writer, and Ethan (Stephen Louis Grush), a wildly successful, young, hyper-energetic stud/blogger with an ego to match, who meet in a mutual friend’s borrowed cabin on a snowy winter night in Michigan.
Apparently, the friend has neglected to inform Olivia of the cabin arrangements. The wary Olivia is not too thrilled with the coarse and boorish behavior of the younger Ethan who is oblivious to his manner. As the ice begins to thaw between them over glasses of wine, conversation and ‘writer talk’ about the state of a changing literary world, young hormones win the day over the resistance of older hormones being awakened in Olivia. Echoes of ‘summer romance’ novels begin to appear in the plot.
It’s natural to expect, in literature at least, for opposites to attract. It’s a staple plot device that has served authors, readers, and audiences alike for centuries. However, in ‘Sex with Strangers’ it’s hard to become engaged in a banal two character play that is nowhere even near the zip code of reality and believability. Yes, sex is how we all got here; it’s an intoxicating experience, an addicted activity (thank God) that keeps us all on the treadmill of life. But sex is not a spectator sport, “Oh, Calcutta!” notwithstanding. And, we’re still capable of following plot points without actually seeing them. To her credit, director Senior does a tasteful orchestration of the sex scenes.
If we are to become engaged in Olivia and Ethan’s story, in order to root for either, somethings would have to change. He’s tattooed all over his upper body, and looks as if he’s just one speeding ticket away from landing a month’s stay in the city lock-up. Olivia, as played by Pidgeon, is just too low key and one dimensional, with a very expressionless face. I kept wondering what the females in the audience were thinking about her choices in men. I expect the males in the audience were thinking ‘what’s the matter with her? He’s a loser, dump him and go back to reading a good book instead!’. Of course, if that were to happen then we wouldn’t be spending an evening in the theatre, eh?
Yes Ethan, as played by Grush, does comes across as a con man at first, and later not so much but as just another of society’s flawed, youthful young man of promise who never reached his full potential despite his early success in a blogging career. Even in my rant…no spoiler alerts here.
Senior’s creative team has scenic designer Sibyl Wickersheimer providing a cozy cabin set which then doubles for a Chicago apartment in the second act. Lighting designer Joshua Epstein’s warm and mood inducing low key lighting provides just the right amount of light to see and appreciate the costumes of Olivia as designed by Elisa Benzoni. Sound design is provided by Cricket S. Myers.
“Sex with Strangers” performs on the Geffen Playhouse’s Kenis Stage, and runs through April 10, 2016.
Reposted by Jack Lyons and Desert Local News.
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Do a little dance, make a little luck: Successful lottery rituals in Scotland revealed
Published: 09:08 Sunday 10 September 2017
An analysis of good luck rituals and superstitions has revealed that nearly three in 10 (28%) Scots are more likely to pick-up a penny in order to take home a lottery win, followed by a quarter (25%) admitting to touching wood and 15% using a wishbone.
However, the survey conducted by online lottery platform Jackpot.com showed that across the nation, those who performed a special good luck dance claimed the highest average prize (£25,000), compared to £370 for those who pick-up a penny.
Despite the chance to win all of this money, Scots are split on whether they believe their rituals help.
Some 48% of Scots believe their rituals brought good luck, whereas 52% were less sure. However, this does rank Scotland as the third most superstitious region in the UK.
This makes them less skeptical than the national average (58%) but far more than Londoners; three-fifths (60%) of those in the capital believe good luck rituals work.
The most superstitious region:
2 Northern Ireland
3 Scotland
4 South East
5 South West
6 North West
7 Wales
8 Yorkshire
9= North East
9= East Anglia
10 Midlands
Across Britain, for those who are superstitious, doing a special dance before entering the lottery has resulted in prizes of over £25,000 on average, with 7% of dancing queens claiming a whopping £100k+ windfall.
This is compared to a paltry average of £41.75 for those who cross themselves for good luck.
The survey also found that a huge 61% of Brits interviewed admit to putting stock in rituals and superstitions, with 42% stating they have experienced good luck from doing so. Better still, 34% claimed to have won money following this practice.
The most effective rituals and superstitions for lottery wins:
1 Doing a special dance = average win of £25,501
2 Tapping/clapping/clicking body part(s) a certain number of times/sequence = average win of £17,705
3 Saying “white rabbit” before getting out of bed on 1st of month = average win of £948
4 Having a model elephant (e.g. Ganesh) = average win of £737
5 Throwing salt over your shoulder = average win of £648
6 Hanging up a horseshoe = average win of £617
7 Rubbing a lucky item = average win of £617
8 Having a black cat cross your path = average win of £552
9 Making a wish on a wishbone = average win of £546
10 Using a lucky number = average win of £518
Outside of our national lotteries, Brits are increasingly looking abroad and placing their bets on the biggest and most popular games globally – including US Powerball and Irish Lotto.
To enter the mindset of the now global competition, Jackpot.com has unearthed some of the weird and wonderful rituals and superstitions beyond our British Isles.
France: Oh merde! The French believe stepping in poo is good luck - but ONLY with your left foot. If you use your right, expect bad luck.
China: As far as good luck goes, it doesn’t get better than the colour red in China. Decorate your home, wear it and always give money in a red envelope.
Spain: Want luck for the whole year? Spanish people eat 12 grapes when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve - one for each month of luck.
India: The elephant is seen as a good luck charm in a lot of Asia especially India. Hindu mythology has a deity known as ‘Ganesha’ - half man half elephant and the bringer of good luck, something Brits have already embraced featuring fourth in our list.
Australia: Stop bugging me! Across the pond, if a ladybug lands on your hand, make three wishes then blow it off - wishes are then said to come true.
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Jim Robeson
Jim joined Bias in 1980, as an accomplished bassist, singer and studio owner. He has added to his repertoire every year, expanding the services he offers clients to include arranger, composer, producer, and video director. He recently produced Renee McCullough’s cd Cool Me which brought her both recording and publishing contracts.
He’s been busy these last 30-something years acting as engineer or producer on hundreds of releases, with some nice accolades along the way:
GRAMMY Nominee for Best Engineered Record - Mary Chapin Carpenter – Time*Sex*Love
GRAMMY Award for Bon Appetit – Cathy Fink and Mary Marxer
GRAMMY Award for Scat Like Tthat – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer
Best Recording Engineer – 4 YEARS – WAMA
Gold sales – Mary Chapin Carpenter – Party Doll and Other Favorites
Video of the Year - WAMA for Afro Blue's "Nature Boy"
During the process of taking our music to the next level, he somehow manages to be part mentor, confidant, comedian and serious coffee maker! He listens intently to my suggestions. . . always respecting me as an artist. As a musician himself, he has a great sensibility to what the artist is trying to achieve and goes above and beyond the call of duty to move a project to a fantastic end. Thanks, Jim. . . can’t wait until the next go round.
— Nitanju Casel Bolade of Sweet Honey in the Rock
As a newcomer to the studio recording process, I certainly hit the jackpot with Jim. He has to be one of the most talented people I have ever met in my life. He is a tireless worker and his professional ethic is amazing. What I appreciate the most about Jim, however, is his unbelievable patience and enthusiasm. He truly loves what he does and it shows. I have recently signed with a record label in Nashville and am now getting airplay. I have Jimmy to thank for that. I could not have done it without him.
— Renee McCullough
A session with Jim is as comfortable as sitting on your favorite couch (in my case, Bias Studio B’s) because you’re sharing that couch with some of the best ears on the planet. Jim is such a talent, both technically and musically... and is always a treat to work with.
— Peter Bonta
Videos by Jim Robeson
From Renee's CD "Cool Me" musicians:Renee McCullough-acoustic guitar/vocals, Antoine Sanfuentes-drums, Rickie Simpkins-fiddle/mandolin, Paul Bell-dobro, Jim Robeson-bass/backing vocals, video by Jim Robeson (mrmrjim@me.com)
Howard University's Jazz Vocal Ensemble performing Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy". Arranged by Ross Burford and Connaitre Miller
A beautiful song and performance from my favorite duo, The Braeded Chord. Doris MacDonald and Sharon Dennis. This video was Inspired and includes video clips from their trip to Kenya. Photos by Alan MacDonald and Emily Elgin
Mynoni and Friends at Bias Studios
2011 WAMA "Song of the Year". Words and Music by Bill Starks. Mystery lady - Allison Starks. Musicians: Bill Starks vocal & keys, Paul Bell - guitars, Antoine Sanfuentes - drums, Jim Robeson - bass and background vocals, Mike Cotter and Bob Garrison - background vocals.
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shared-possession
Shared Possession (MFMM)
by Berengaria Brown
Possessive Passions 1
Heat Rating: Sextreme
22 Ratings (2.9)
BDSM Contemporary Menage a Trois/Quatre
[Ménage Amour: Erotic Capture Ménage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, light bondage]
Chevaunne is abducted by three brothers who take her to a new world where brothers share one wife, who is their treasured possession. Jim, Sam, and Paul have waited years to find the perfect woman, and when they see Chevaunne, they know immediately she is the one for them.
After a mind-blowing night with the three men, Chevaunne marries them the next day in front of the entire community. Now she has to learn a totally new life—a new culture, new ways of doing everything. But the sex is amazing, her men are considerate and loving, and Chevaunne is making friends and settling in.
Soon, though, she begins to wonder if she’s losing her mind. No matter how happy she is, she was kidnapped, after all! What was she thinking when she agreed to stay?
Note: This book contains forced seduction. There is no sexual relationship or touching for titillation between or among siblings.
This is an odd book - it is based around and abduction but you never learn about it - what happened, how did it go down, was she hurt, was she terrified?? They just jump straight into the happily ever after... talk about confusing, why even bother to abduct her if you aren't going to use it as part of the story?
Wish I could get my money back or even better, I wish I could get the time back I wasted reading this book.
AussieGirl
Horrible book. Total waste of money. It is a five chapter book that was written like a two year could have done a better job.
I am not sure if the book was translated from another language or what but that really is not excuse. Putting the terrible grammar and syntax
Aside there was not conflict or dramma. If you are kidnapped and forced to have sex with three men and then forced into marriage I think that there would be some conflicting emotions. Like I don't know anger, fear etc. Don't waste your money! Terri le terrible book
jenbrown
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Chevaunne became aware she was aching deliciously in all sorts of places that had been neglected for far too long. Both her previous boyfriends had been fellow workers at the hospital, one a doctor, the other an admin assistant. The relationship with the doctor had gradually fizzled out when their schedules never seemed to have them off work at the same time, and she’d decided she wanted a lot more than the occasional fuck against the supply room wall. The other relationship had ended in a blaze of anger when she’d discovered he was only dating her “because nurses know how to give good head.”
So why was she feeling so well-used and relaxed when she had no current boyfriend?
Chevaunne wriggled down a little deeper under the covers and felt the hard bodies lying on either side of her. Suddenly, she was wide-awake. Oh, shit! That hadn’t been a dream. I really was kidnapped by three brothers, and I agreed to marry them, then had my brains fucked out over and over again.
Her eyes flew open, and she sat up in the bed. Yep, three men. Jim, Sam, and Paul. And she’d agreed to marry them. She needed to see a psychiatrist right now and get her head examined!
Two gentle hands pulled her over onto a hard body. “Morning, beautiful lady.”
That was Paul. He’d called her that last night.
All three of them kissed her, and hands slid over her body, teasing her breasts, cupping her mound, touching her gently along her ribs and down her side. Lust exploded in her, and cream dripped onto her inner thighs. I can’t possibly have sex again. I’ve never had so many orgasms in one night in my life before! There’s no way I could do it again so soon. Or is there?
Regret sounded strongly in his voice as Jim said, “We would enjoy making love to you again, but we don’t want you to be too sore. This morning we must say our vows to the Justice of the Peace and our monk, Father Yeshe. Come and shower now, then we need to have breakfast and get dressed.”
Jim took her to the bathroom and showed her where the shampoo and soaps were kept and pointed out the pile of towels to her, and then he left her alone.
Chevaunne shut the door and sank onto the commode. Actually, one of the two commodes. There were two sinks as well, plus the biggest tub she’d ever seen. Dazedly, Chevaunne shook her head. Her brain was still trying to grasp what she’d done. Had she really agreed to marry three men? How did that work? I’m pretty sure that’s not legal, but then neither is kidnapping. So who is this JP we’re seeing? Why see a JP when one woman marrying three men isn’t legal?
It was all too much to think about, and her tummy was rumbling. She hadn’t eaten supper, and she’d burned off a lot of calories last night. She grinned as she remembered the fantastic sex and stepped into the shower.
"Say yes, Chevaunne. Say we can fuck you. Say yes now, please.”
That was Jim, the oldest brother. They all looked so similar. All tanned, all with black hair and dark eyes so deep a brown they were almost black. But Jim had much broader shoulders than the others and was more muscular everywhere. And hell yeah, she did mean everywhere. They were all naked. As was she.
“Come on, Chevaunne. You want us. I can feel how much.”
That was Sam, the middle brother. His fingers were deep in her cunt, doing incredible things inside her. His long, educated, talented fingers. He was the tallest of the three, and his cock was the longest, too. Not that they’d lined their cocks up for her to measure or anything, and not that the other two were lacking in that department either. But oh yeah, Sam had length to spare.
Paul, the youngest brother, lifted his mouth off her breasts. “This will be the best sex of your life. We’ll make you come again and again and again. Say the words, beautiful lady. Say we can fuck you now.”
Chevaunne’s hormones and libido were in overdrive. She’d never been so aroused in her life. Sam’s fingers tormented her pussy. Jim’s were teasing her anus, slipping inside every now and then to rub the tissues of her walls, softening and loosening her muscles there. She knew what he had in mind and wanted him in there. And Paul’s mouth was doing amazing things to her breasts and belly.
If it wasn’t for the fact they still had her wrists bound and tied to the headboard of the bed, she might have forgotten that they’d kidnapped her. She had no idea where she was, as she’d been brought here inside a delivery truck with no windows. Paul had been the driver, and Jim and Sam had explained a few things about them and that they all wanted to marry her. But hell, she had no way of knowing this wasn’t some weird cult, and she was agreeing to be a sex slave. How could one woman marry three men? Those religions where one man had several wives weren’t actually legal here, were they?
Jim held her face between his two strong, tanned hands. He tilted her chin up and possessed her mouth. It was the hottest kiss she’d ever had. He seemed to draw her entire mind and spirit out with his teasing, probing tongue. He stroked the insides of her cheeks as his tongue danced with hers. He rimmed her teeth, and then he thrust his tongue hard and deep into her mouth, pulling all her air, her breath, her life force from her.
When they broke apart, she struggled to draw oxygen into her lungs. “Say yes,” he whispered into her ear as he licked and nibbled on the rim of it.
“Say yes,” added Paul after he licked a line around the undersides of both breasts.
“Say yes,” said Sam, curling his fingers up to stroke over her sweet spot then biting her clit gently.
“Yes!” she screamed as she orgasmed hard over his fingers and harder still as Jim thrust a second finger into her ass, stroking the walls drawing her climax out harder and longer.
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Should Mass. pass legislation to allow physician-assisted suicide?
Molly Walsh(Handout)
Molly Walsh
Framingham resident; hospice volunteer
I have been a hospice volunteer for four years, visiting hospice patients and sitting with actively dying veterans. I believe in hospice care but even excellent hospice care cannot ensure a peaceful death.
One of the veterans I met went to Vietnam when he was 17 and served three years. At age 69, he was diagnosed with ALS and later admitted to our hospice. He was on high doses of narcotics but still suffered unremitting pain. Often he would sob uncontrollably. His death was prolonged and agonizing.
In Massachusetts it would have been illegal for him to avoid suffering at the end of life with prescription medication. This is not so for residents of Oregon, six other states, and Washington, D.C. (and shortly in two other states). Medical aid in dying has been an option there for a combined 40 years without a single documented case of it being used for any reason other than allowing terminally ill people to choose a peaceful, pain-free death.
Proposed medical aid-in-dying legislation in Massachusetts, the End of Life Options Act, requires two physicians to agree the requesting patient has less than six months to live, and a mental health professional to confirm the patient has sound judgment.
An oral request has to be followed by a 15-day waiting period and a written request witnessed by two people. The patient must be able to take the medications on their own. These safeguards would ensure the dying patient chooses medical aid in dying voluntarily to avoid an agonizing death. This legislation should meet with wide support; 70 percent of Massachusetts residents favor medical aid in dying, according to a 2014 survey.
Many would not wish to use this option, but our laws should not deny it to those who would find comfort in knowing we could opt for a peaceful end when death is near. The veteran I cared for had already faced death as a teenager; he deserved a choice over how he faced death as an old man. I want the same choice — the option of dying quickly and peacefully, surrounded by my family and friends — for myself. I pray our legislators enact this law.
Ruthie Poole(Handout)
Ruthie Poole
Malden resident; certified peer specialist; longtime disability rights activist; board president of M-power, a mental health advocacy organization
At first I thought I supported assisted suicide. As a member of a peer community of people with lived experience of mental health diagnosis, trauma, and addiction, I passionately believe in self-determination regarding treatment for our physical and mental health. But when I looked more closely, I found that assisted suicide prevents choice as it threatens everyone with premature death.
We have learned a “terminal diagnosis” of six months or less to live is guesswork; 12 to 15 perrcent of people admitted to hospices survive six months or longer. A significant few will live years, even decades longer. Their lives would be lost by way of excessive trust in their doctors’ diagnoses. People can become “terminally ill,” meanwhile, if denied potentially curative and life-extending treatment by health insurance companies.
Last year, 54 percent of those taking their lives through Oregon’s medically assisted suicide program felt they were a burden. Feeling one’s very existence is burdensome to others ruins the possibility of individual choice.
Under the Massachusetts legalization bill, a mental health professional must determine “the patient is not suffering from a psychiatric or psychological disorder or depression causing impaired judgment.” Many in the peer community have received harmful psychiatric care, so we have a healthy mistrust that our best interests will be upheld.
Moreover, well-meaning counselors may miss clear signs of distress. Even severely depressed people can usually present as “unimpaired” for a single meeting with an unknown psychologist or psychiatrist.
My community knows that depression is insidious. We know depression does impair judgment. Absolute hopelessness and seeing no way out are common feelings for those of us who have experienced severe depression. Personally, as someone who has been suicidal in the past, I can relate to the desire for “a painless and easy way out.” However, depression is treatable and reversible. Suicide is not.
Assisted suicide programs send the message to people in emotional distress — old, young, physically ill or not — that suicide is a reasonable answer to life’s problems. It isn’t.
The reasonable approach is to provide people the supports and health care they need and deserve so that they will experience real options, not a push toward suicide.
This is an informal poll, not a scientific survey. Please vote only once.
As told to Globe correspondent John Laidler. To suggest a topic, please contact laidler@globe.com.
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2019 marks 120 years since an entertainment venue was first built on Birmingham Hippodrome’s site. Starting as a circus, then followed by variety, Birmingham Hippodrome is now one of the UK’s busiest theatres.
As part of the celebrations for our 120th year, Birmingham Hippodrome is working in partnership with Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre (PSC) to commission a temporary, site-specific sculpture for a void space in our four-storey foyer, around which the building’s primary public staircase ascends. Footfall in the foyer exceeds half a million visitors each year.
Founded in 2013, Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre (PSC) is a not-for-profit arts organisation that offers resources that bring together the production of sculpture with critical, cultural and educational programming on this art form. Providing essential opportunities, technical support and facilities, PSC supports the advancement of sculptural practice in the UK, critical engagement and innovation in this field.
We are interested in receiving expressions of interest from early and mid-career artists whose artistic practices demonstrate an engagement with sculpture and/or work in three dimensions, for a bold, new site-specific art work to be suspended in this void space, which is approximately 10 metres high.
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The 2018 Honda Accord also saw lots of upgrades to the interior. It offers seating for five, and with ample headroom and legroom in both the front and the rear, you really can take family and friends out on the town. The new, longer wheelbase means that the rear legroom is not only satisfying but generous. The Accord also keeps you toasty or cool with heated and ventilated seating. On select trims, there’s even heated rear outboard seating, so your rear passengers will be kept warm as well.
With the 2018 model, Honda focused on blending the Accord’s past simplicity with modern sophistication. The result is a beautifully minimalist instrument panel that gives the driver crisp, clear information. The materials Honda used in the cabin are premium quality and put together with care and attention to detail. The EX-L trim’s leather appointments are soft and durable. There’s also smooth, tasteful faux-wood trim decorating the cabin.
The infotainment center has also seen an upgrade for the 2018 year. The Accord’s new interface is clean and easy to use, with a combination of touchscreen and physical controls. A seven-inch screen comes standard, while an eight-inch screen is available. The menu remains configurable, so you can move the apps and buttons you use most to the front. Once you’re all set up, using the infotainment is quick and intuitive.
The 2018 Honda Accord comes packed with standard safety features. It offers Vehicle Stability Assist with the traction control, as well as electronic brake distribution and ABS. Each new Accord also has a multi-angle rearview camera with dynamic guidelines, daytime running lights, and more. There’s also a tire pressure monitoring system, seat-belt reminders, and child-proof rear door locks. Multiple standard airbags and Honda’s ACE body structure help keep you safe in the event of a crash.
Each 2018 Honda Accord now comes with the Honda Sensing safety suite as standard equipment, as well. Honda Sensing is a suite of advanced safety and driver assist features that helps keep you and your passengers safe on the road. The 2018 Honda Accord gives you a forward collision warning feature and a lane departure warning. If the warnings don’t fully avoid an accident, Honda Sensing also has collision mitigation braking and road departure mitigation. To make your drive easier, Honda Sensing also has Lane Keep Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control with Low-Speed Follow, and Traffic Sign Recognition. Although the driver must remain aware and responsible at all times, Honda Sensing makes your task easier and your drive safer.
Safety Ratings
Overall Safety
Side Crash
Honda offers five trims so that you can choose the features and amenities you want. The basic LX trim already comes with Honda Sensing, dual-zone automatic climate control, push-button start, and the rearview camera. It starts at just $23,570* with the 1.5L turbocharged engine and CVT transmission. You’ll have your choice of eight exterior colors and either black or gray premium cloth interior trim.
The next step up includes integrated Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The Sport trim offers a more aggressive ride and a six-speed manual transmission. If you want a little more sophistication, the EX trim has a one-touch power moonroof, heated front seats, and an eight-inch infotainment touchscreen display. It also has a blind spot information system in addition to the Honda Sensing safety features. For a leather interior, go with the EX-L trim. It offers additional perks like an upgraded audio system, driver seat memory, and available navigation. The top-of-the-line Touring trim includes a head-up display, ventilated front seats, wireless phone charging, the adaptive damper system, and more amenities. Later in 2017, the Touring trim will become available with the 2.0L turbo engine and a ten-speed automatic transmission. At the initial release, all of the 2018 Honda Accord models are powered by the 1.5L turbocharged engine with 192 horsepower.
LX is built with a host of great standard features, including:
Push Button Start
Multi-Angle Rearview Camera
Sport includes all features available on LX, plus the following:
Apple CarPlay Integration
Android Auto Integration
12-Way Power Driver Seat
EX includes all features available on Sport, plus the following:
One-Touch Power Moonroof
8-Inch Display Audio Touchscreen
Blind Spot Information System
EX-L includes all features available on EX, plus the following:
Leather-Trimmed Interior
Available Navigation
450-Watt Premium Audio System
Touring includes all features available on EX-L, plus the following:
Wireless Phone Charging
Adaptive Damper System
Need help choosing the right 2018 Honda Accord Sedan?
Your new 2018 Honda Accord comes with a great warranty package that will ensure that it remains in the excellent condition it came in. If you’d like even more protection, Honda Care is available to add as well. Plus, when you purchase your Accord from our dealership, you’ll also be eligible for our Buerkle Rewards Plus program at no additional cost. Here are the basic warranties that are included with your Honda Limited Warranty:
3-Year 36,000-Mile Limited Vehicle Warranty
5-Year/60,000-Mile Powertrain Limited Warranty
Accessory Limited Warranty
Replacement Parts Limited Warranty
Remanufactured Parts Limited Warranty
5-Year Unlimited-Miles Corrosion Limited Warranty
Available Roadside Assistance
Exterior Measurements
3131 - 3294 lbs.
Interior Measurements
Headroom (front)
Headroom (rear)
Legroom (front)
Legroom (rear)
Passenger Volume
105.6 cu.ft.
16.7 cu.ft.
Fuel Economy**
If you think this all-new, all-around great 2018 Honda Accord is right for you, stop by and check one out! We have a great selection of Accords for you to choose from, loaded up with features you’ll love. Check out our inventory online to see which trims, colors, and options we have in stock. If you have any questions, feel free to give us a call or stop by in person! If you buy a new 2018 Honda Accord from us, you’ll be eligible for our Buerkle Rewards Plus program. This program is no additional cost to you and will give you access to 5% back on service and parts purchases, a 3-day, 300-mile exchange policy, 2 free oil changes, and much more. So come and see us soon at our dealership here in St. Paul, MN.
*MSRP excluding tax, license, registration, $890.00 destination charge and options. Dealers set own prices.
**30 city/38 highway/33 combined mpg rating for 1.5T LX, EX, EX-L and Touring models with CVT. 26 city/35 highway/30 combined mpg rating for 1.5T Sport models with 6-speed manual transmission. 29 city/35 highway/31 combined mpg rating for 1.5T Sport models with CVT. Based on 2018 EPA mileage ratings. Use for comparison purposes only. Your mileage will vary depending on how you drive and maintain your vehicle, driving conditions and other factors.
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Slashed for 2nd straight day, petrol falls below Rs 88-mark in Mumbai
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Sabarimala temple: 2 women attempt entry, protestors send them back
Devotees, who have come to the temple from various parts of the country, said they would not allow the women to go to the shrine
Press Trust of India | Pamba (Ker) Last Updated at October 19, 2018 11:36 IST
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Devotees, mostly women, take part in the 'namajapa' (chanting the name of Lord Ayyappa ) in Ernakulam against the SC verdict on the entry of women of all ages into the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa Temple. (Photo:PTI)
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An entry point near the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala on Friday virtually turned into an area of confrontation.
A large number of devotees opposing the entry of women of the menstrual age group blocked two women -- a reporter from Hyderabad and another said to be an activist from Kerala -- at the Valiya Nadappandhal near Sabarimala Sannidhanam.
Inspector General S Sreejith heading a team of police personnel providing security cover to the women assured the protesting devotees chanting Ayyappa mantra that they would not like to move forward to the Sannidhanam with the women, hurting the sentiments of devotees.
Amid mounting pressure, Devaswom Minster Kadakampally Surendran said in Thiruvananthapuram the activists should not try to make holy land of Lord Ayyappa a place to prove their strength.
Police is holding discussions with the women who still insist they should reach the shrine.
Devotees, who have come to the temple from various parts of the country, said they would not allow the women to go to the shrine.
Their attempt to reach the shrine came a day after a New Delhi-based woman reporter of a foreign media outlet made a bid to visit the temple.
Police led by IG Sreejith have thrown a security ring around the women who had requested security to go to Sabarimala Sannidhanam.
There have been strong protests by devotees opposing the entry of girls and women of menstrual age into the Lord Ayyappa temple.
The woman reporter is in her late 20s while the details of the second woman was not immediately known.
If they climbed the hills, they would be the first women from the menstruating age group to visit the Sabarimala temple of Lord Ayyappa after the Supreme Court order permitting women of all age groups to enter the shrine.
On Thursday, the New Delhi-based woman journalist was stopped midway by devotees opposing the entry of women of menstrual age into the hill shrine.
The journalist accompanied by a male colleague, a foreigner, descended the hills from Marakkoottam area in the face of mounting protests.
A case has been registered against devotees who allegedly prevented her from trekking and forced her to climb down the hills.
First Published: Fri, October 19 2018. 10:35 IST
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World markets calm as US-China trade hopes lift shares
Asian stocks bounce and Europe starts higher on trade hopes; the Turkish lira is in focus as Turkey’s central bank expected to raise rates
13 September 2018 - 12:58 Marc Jones
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London — World markets calmed after signs of movement in the US-China trade stand-off and ahead of major central bank meetings on Thursday, including emerging-market trouble spot Turkey.
News that US President Donald Trump’s administration had reached out to Beijing for a new round of trade talks had helped Asia rally after several torrid weeks, which has included the region’s longest losing streak since 2000.
Shanghai, Tokyo, Jakarta stocks all gained about 1% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng finished up 1.8%, while China’s yuan also edged higher in the currency markets. Washington’s invitation follows threats from Trump to impose tariffs on practically all imports from China in the absence of key concessions from Beijing.
Europe moved higher too, with 0.2% to 0.6% gains for German, French, Italian and Spanish shares offsetting a weaker FTSE in London, which was hit by weaker oil and tobacco stocks.
For MSCI’s All World stocks index, which tracks 47 countries, it looked set to be a fourth straight day of gains. "There have been a lot of obvious headwinds to risk appetite over the summer," said State Street Global Markets’ head of global macro-strategy Michael Metcalfe. "I just get the sense this week that we are beginning to see some light through the clouds."
In the currency market, the dollar began to nudge higher again having been dampened by Wednesday’s soft US wholesale price data, which has undermined the case for a faster pace of policy tightening by the Federal Reserve. US producer prices unexpectedly fell in August, recording their first drop in one-and-a-half years and denting talk of accelerating inflation following Friday’s strong wage data.
The euro hovered around $1.1624, having gained about 0.6% so far this week. The yen weakened 0.2% to ¥111.47 to the dollar on the soothing trade noises. Sterling held near a six-week high of $1.3087 as Brexit-supporting lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s party publicly pledged support for her to stay in power.
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BOE) hold policy meetings on Thursday, but both are widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged, though the ECB could confirm when exactly it will end its stimulus programme.
Talking Turkey
A policy meeting by the Turkish central bank is expected to raise its interest rates sharply to shore up its battered lira, which has lost more than 40% of its value against the dollar this year, hit by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan’s grip on monetary policy and by a diplomatic spat between Ankara and Washington.
The lira crisis has spread to some other emerging-market countries with weak economic fundamentals such as sizable current account deficits.
"In theory, what the Turkish central bank does shouldn’t impact other markets. However, if it [is] an example of an emerging-market central bank reaffirming its credibility, then you could get some positive contagion from it," Metcalfe said. The lira traded at 6.3700 to the dollar, up about 0.7% on the week and well off its record low of 7.240 reached one month ago.
Among commodities, oil prices fell, reversing some of the strong gains from the previous session, as economic concerns raised doubts about fuel demand growth. Brent futures hit $80 a barrel on Wednesday but eased in early London trading to $79.00, down 0.8% on the day.
Most eurozone government bond yields were little changed, meanwhile, with the market largely sidelined ahead of the ECB meeting. Italy’s debt market was the outlier, with yields there rising ahead of a sale of up to €7.75bn worth of bonds.
Said Dean Turner, an economist at UBS Wealth Management in London, "Our sense is that we will get a dovish press conference from Draghi."
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The 'Call The Midwife' Season 6 Premiere Date Leaves Enough Time To Catch Up With The Cast
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Hallelujah, the ladies of Nonnatus House are coming back for a sixth season on PBS relatively soon. PBS announced in a press release that Call The Midwife Season 6 will premiere on April 2, 2017 as part of the Masterpiece Sunday lineup at 8 p.m. ET. Fans are excited that the show will go on, as the march of time and revolving door of cast members has made season finales feel like precarious ends. But, April is still pretty far away, so fans will need something else to watch until Call The Midwife returns.
The sixth season will run on PBS from April 2 to May 21, 2017. Season 6 will pick up in 1962, and as usual on this socially conscious show, times are changing. The setting may not sound like a recipe for a feminist TV show, but Call The Midwife is an intelligent drama that looks at women's health and sisterhood. The series will continue to tell the stories of women, families, disabilities, disease, and prejudice in Season 6.
As excited as fans are to see what Season 6 has in store, we're also jonesing for more Call The Midwife episodes, like right now. So how can we get our Call The Midwife fix while waiting for more episodes? Here's where you can watch your favorite Call The Midwife stars while you wait for Season 6 to hit PBS.
'Fresh Meat'
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She may be hard to recognize outside of her retro nurse uniform, but Charlotte Ritchie starred in the UK series Fresh Meat. The two-season university-set comedy is streaming on Netflix.
'Miranda'
Miranda is a semi-autobiographical sitcom based on the life of comedian Miranda Hart. The show chronicles awkwardness and misadventures with classic British humor. All four seasons are available on Hulu.
'Spy'
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Melissa McCarthy + Plus Chummy (I mean, Miranda) = Delightful.
'Wolf Hall'
Jessica Raine plays Anne Boleyn's sister-in-law in this Masterpiece series, based on the historical fiction novel of the same name. The series is available on Amazon.
'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'
Y'all, Sister Evangelina played Aunt Marge!
'Little Dorrit'
Two Nonnatus House sisters, Pam Ferris and Judy Parfitt, starred in BBC drama Little Dorrit, based on the Charles Dickens novel. The series is available to buy on Amazon Video.
'The Buccaneers'
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Jenny Agutter played "Idina Hatton" on the 1995 BBC miniseries The Buccaneers, available on Netflix.
'Rosemary & Thyme'
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Pam Ferris is apparently in everything. But, she starred as Laura Thyme on British mystery series Rosemary & Thyme.
Hopefully, seeing the Call The Midwife cast in these projects will make the wait for April 2 a little easier.
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October 22, 2014: 2014, Issue 42
October 22, 2014 / News / Morris Heights
Speed limit drops to 25 miles per hour
By Steven Goodstein
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The NYPD and NYC DOT have taken the next step towards making streets in New York City safer for drivers and pedestrians.
As of Friday, November 7, the speed limit on all New York City streets will be 25 mph unless otherwise posted, including 14 arterial slow zones in all five boroughs.
This newly enforced speed limit by the NYPD forces drivers to slow down in such zones, preventing further automobile crashes and pedestrian injuries – part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero Action Plan to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries.
According to NYC DOT, a New Yorker is killed or seriously injured in a traffic crash every two hours, on average. Decreasing the speed limit by five mph can only make the roads safer, eliminating the chances of a driver facing the unexpected, such as a collision.
The new speed limit scenario will also eliminate the chances, by half, that a pedestrian will die after being struck by a vehicle, as opposed to a pedestrian that has been struck by a vehicle driving 30 mph.
It’s not rocket science – a crash at a higher speed is more deadly than a crash at a lower speed.
“Anything that slows drivers down is a good thing,” said Bronx resident George Zulch, who lives in Indian Village, a section of Morris Park including numerous one-way streets that speeders and reckless drivers abuse regularly.
“Cars will speed backwards, speed the wrong way down a one-way street and even get close to the curb to avoid speed bumps near schools. The decreased speed limit will create safer streets, but not if there isn’t consistent enforcement.”
The 14 arterial slow zones in New York City will include two in the Bronx – Jerome Avenue from East 161st Street to Bainbridge Avenue and 3rd Avenue from East 138th Street to East 183rd Street.
The city has also announced that it would implement slow zones on Grand Concourse from East 140th Street to Mosholu Parkway, on Southern Boulevard from East Fordham Road to Bruckner Boulevard and on East Gun Hill Road from Jerome Avenue to the I-95 Thruway.
All arterial slow zones will include distinctive blue and white 25 mph signs complementing the DOT’s already existing Neighborhood Slow Zone program, along with speed board installations to alert drivers of the new change in speed limit. These zones will also be equipped with security cameras to catch speeders, even if they’re driving five mph’s over the limit.
The 25-day countdown to NYC’s new speed limit of 25 mph has officially begun, so to every motorist traveling through a slow zone – take a good listen to track #6 on Kanye West’s 2005 album ‘Late Registration’ – and drive slow, homie.
Reach Reporter Steven Goodstein at (718) 742–3384. E-mail him at sgoodstein@cnglocal.com.
Updated 4:58 pm, July 9, 2018
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FIXING THE TEENAGE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS MEANS HELPING MARRIAGES TO WORK
Last week saw one of the most concerning poll findings of recent years. A huge survey of British 14 year-olds, published by the Children’s Society and based on the Millennium Cohort Study found that:
One in six (16%) of more than 11,000 children surveyed reported self-harming at this age, including nearly one in 10 boys (9%).
These figures are themselves dire, but there is one group in which the figures are particularly bad:
Almost half of 14-year-olds who said they had been attracted to people of the same gender or both genders said they had self-harmed (46%), analysis of the Millennium Cohort Survey revealed. Four in ten of these children had shown signs of depression (38%) and three in ten had low well-being (30%) – both compared with one in ten (11 per cent) of all children.
So it appears that there is at least a correlation between underage children identifying as either homosexual or bisexual and having poor mental welfare.
Of course one argument put forward in explanation is that a lack of social acceptance for these lifestyles is the root cause. But as the liberal journalist David Aaronovitch wrote in The Times (£):
Some of this is, on the face of it, very hard to explain. For example, the figures for non-heterosexual kids come not at a time of homophobia, but at a pinnacle of liberalism about sexual orientation. In 1987 only 11 per cent of adults taking part in the British Social Attitudes Survey said same-sex relationships were “not wrong at all”. Seventy-four per cent said they were always or mostly wrong. Thirty years later those figures were 64 per cent and 19 per cent respectively.
Cause for thought
The Coalition for Marriage has argued consistently that the Government’s plans to introduce children to complex adult living arrangements from the age of five are irresponsible.
These figures would seem to support this case. Encouraging children to identify with alternative adult sexual lifestyles before the age of consent appears to correlate with them being unhappier than their peers. Correlation is not causation, but the relationship between these states does deserve closer scrutiny to determine why this link is so strong.
In the meantime we believe the Government must think again about its proposed Relationships and Sex Education guidelines which state that:
“Schools are free to determine how they address LGBT specific content, but the Department [for Education] recommends that it is integral throughout the programmes of study.”
In light of these figures, making such content integral to study does not look like a policy which is wise, compassionate or primarily interested in the welfare of the children concerned.
We know that making marriage more attractive and helping individual marriages endure would benefit children, given that those from broken homes are three times more likely to suffer mental health problems.
We invite the Government to put children first, not the wishes of vocal adult campaign groups. That means backing marriage, not more ideology in the classroom.
This is an extract from one of the Coalition for Marriage’s regular communications with its supporters. If you would like to register as a marriage supporter and receive these updates, you may do so here.
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37 pictures of people in Cambridge celebrating the Royal Wedding
Thousands were out in the city enjoying the sunshine and royal-tastic festivities outside Guildhall today (May 19)
Samar Maguire
The people of Cambridge were out celebrating the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today (May 19).
Thousands were out in the city enjoying the sunshine and royal-tastic festivities outside Guildhall, where the ceremony at St George's Chapel, Windsor, was projected on a big screen to the whole of Market Square.
What a turnout
People wore masks of the royals and held flags aloft in support of the festivities.
The city watched as the pair became husband and wife after exchanging their wedding vows before an alter that has sealed royal unions for centuries, and a global television audience of millions.
Markle, 36, a former actor, exchanged her Ms prefix for the HRH and title Duchess of Sussex as her marriage to the 33-year-old prince made her a member of the royal family.
The couple came out of the chapel after the wedding - which had a congregation of 600, into the sunshine, and kissed in front of a cheering crowd.
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Then the new Her Royal Highness Princess Henry, Duchess of Sussex, Countess of Dumbarton and Baroness Kilkeel, and her husband, were driven through Windsor and up the Long Walk back towards the castle.
The couple will have their wedding reception later tonight, followed by their honeymoon.
The event in Market Square was organised by the Cambridge BID, in association with the city council.
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IFSCC 2014: The cosmetics industry takes to "omics" sciences
From the genome to anti-aging creams, “omics” sciences invited themselves at the 28th congress of the International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists (IFSCC) held last October 27-30 in Paris.
Following in the footsteps of genomics, the study of all genes, “omics” sciences are developing and imposing themselves both in medical research and in cosmetics manufacturers’ R&D departments. “These technologies give access to the different components of living organisms, from the DNA to the metabolite, the small molecule produced due to the cell’s activity”, Dominique Bernard, Omics Platform Manager at L’Oréal Research & Innovation, told the AFP.
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In practice, cosmetology resorts to omics sciences to understand the skin’s cellular mechanisms and identify action “targets” to develop new products.
The use of omics boomed with the development of powerful analysis techniques such as DNA microarrays. These molecular biology tools are based on a holistic approach. Transcriptomics analyses how a genome is transcribed into proteins via messenger RNAs (messenger ribonucleic acid). Proteomics explores all the proteins produced by a genome. Metabolomics is dedicated to all the metabolites in a cell. “It gets more complex each time: we start with 21,000 genes, but we end up with several hundreds of thousands of proteins”, the biologist underlines.
Identifying "targets"
Omics can thus generate masses of information on the skin and hair biology. For manufacturers, the difficulty is to manage to pick out the relevant elements to be able to market a product that meets consumers’ expectations.
“We need to set up bioinformatics systems to extract the most useful information from these big data in order to, for example, analyse the different skin types and subtypes all around the world,” Dominique Bernard explains. “We are also trying to find what we call ‘targets’, because once you have identified a target, you can develop new molecules capable of modulating that target, and therefore develop new cosmetic products”, he adds - like new anti-aging actives.
Omics technologies will also help determine “signatures” specific to certain types of aging, chronoaging or photoaging, and then select actives to try and “offset” these signatures. “What is wonderful with the skin is that it is very easily accessible”, notes the biologist. “We have access to its surface and we can already get a lot of information without having to get invasive”.
Perspiration is another valuable source of information for cosmetics manufacturers. “If you know the composition of perspiration, you can develop makeup that will last long on the skin”, explains Claudie Willemin, President of the Société française de cosmétologie (the French Society of Cosmetology), which held the congress. “You can develop products that prevent the skin from shining, for example in countries with high humidity levels”, she adds.
Scientists are also increasingly interested in the microbiome, these hundreds of millions of microorganisms, such as bacteria or fungi, that are present on the skin’s surface and with which human cells permanently “interact”.
Awards for researchers
Three scientific prizes are also awarded at the IFSCC congress. This year the jury rewarded:
Haruka Goto, of Pola, who received the Basic Research Award for her work on the hBD-3, an antimicrobial peptide which plays a key role in the acne flare-up during the premenstrual stage
Alban Muller, who won the Applied Research Award for his collaboration with the Université of Rouen, France, and the Payan Bertrand SA perfume company on the development of a new strategy to protect the skin against fragrance allergens. The consortium identified and implemented an ingredient of the protein group of prolamins which forms an imperceptible, odorless, colorless film on the skin and protects against the allergens present in a perfume when it is sprayed.
Ezure Tomonobu, of Shiseido, who won the Best Poster Award for a novel approach to anti-aging facial skincare based on the reconstruction of dermal anchoring structures for a toning effect on the face.
For its comeback edition in France, the IFSCC congress gathered about 1,500 participants from 40 countries. “We wanted to show that cosmetology involves expertise and knowledge beyond the sole cosmetics sector’s boundaries”, Mrs Willemin highlighted.
The next IFSCC congress will be held from September 20 to 23, 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Grunion
Alternative Titles: California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis
Grunion, also called California grunion, (species Leuresthes tenuis), small Pacific fish of the family Atherinidae (order Atheriniformes). The species is found in the Pacific Ocean along the western coast of the United States. A unique feature of the grunion’s breeding biology results in its spawning on particular nights during the warm months, just after the highest tide. The eggs are actually laid in the sand on the beach during a full or new moon when the tide cycle is at its peak (spring tide). The young hatch out and enter the ocean following inundation during the subsequent spring tide, which occurs two weeks later. Grunion are small fish, attaining a length of about 20 cm (8 inches), and are highly edible.
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On December 5, 1988 - with a population of less than 5,000 - the Town of View Royal was incorporated and became its own distinct municipality comprising approximately 2,500 hectares of land. Since that time, the community has experienced significant growth and development while still maintaining much of its small town character. As a gateway between Victoria's urban core and the growing West... Read More
On December 5, 1988 - with a population of less than 5,000 - the Town of View Royal was incorporated and became its own distinct municipality comprising approximately 2,500 hectares of land. Since that time, the community has experienced significant growth and development while still maintaining much of its small town character. As a gateway between Victoria's urban core and the growing West Shore municipalities, View Royal today is a thriving community of approximately 10,800 residents located in Vancouver Island's Capital Regional District (CRD).
In 2006, there were almost 3,350 housing units in the Town with half of those being detached homes. There is a high rate of home ownership in the Town (75% compared to 66% for the CRD) and 40% of the housing stock is thirty years of age or newer. With respect to population, the median age of View Royal's population is 43.5 years of age which compares to the CRD's of 43.6. In British Columbia, the median age is 40.8 (information from Statistics Canada, 2006 Census).
For land use planning purposes, View Royal has been divided into eight distinct neighbourhoods based on such factors as topography, major transportation corridors, natural environment and the age of housing stock. Each neighbourhood also has unique characteristics pertaining to the number and type of residential dwellings and the presence of commercial or retail shops.
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Expensive extras ‘lose value in used car market’
Used car sellers have been advised that costly extras and gadgets may not necessarily bring the best return when sold with a second-hand vehicle.
Car value expert Glass’s has revealed that the expensive, hi-tech extras included in prestige vehicles, such as radar cruise control or night vision, are the most likely to see their value depreciate.
Both of these devices are estimated to lose more than 80 per cent of their trade value after just 12 months.
The information provider therefore advised emphasising those features which improve the aesthetic of a vehicle, such as larger wheels or a panoramic sunroof.
Richard Crosthwaite, prestige car editor at GlassGuide.co.uk, said that doing so will allow sellers of such vehicles to retain a much larger percentage of the car’s original cost.
Last month, the company released a guide to the vehicles likely to retain the smallest percentage of their original sale price, with the Alfa Romeo 166 performing worst in the survey.
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Carl Donnelly: The Nutter on the Bus
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
Carl Donnelly could easily be selling out decent-sized rooms in the Pleasance, doing relatable, anecdotal comedy about everyday life. He did just that for years, picking up some award nominations and a fanbase along the way.
Not so this year, when his chosen venue is the upper deck of a bus, whose capacity is about 25 people. Not only that, Donnelly is talking about subjects that are at the very fringes of mainstream society. And this makes him a rather delicious prospect as a comedian: a mainstream, accessible voice bringing us dispatches from the edge.
The thrust of Nutter On The Bus is that Donnelly has been taking ever-more extreme steps to addressing his mental health issues, which he has been open about in previous shows. The latest method was to try ayahuasca, a pretty bloody hardcore ‘spirit tea’ – which is admittedly quite fashionable in certain circles, but probably not among those who like a beer and a burger down the Pleasance Courtyard.
The tea – which Simon Amstell has spoken about before – is supposed to have a cleansing effect on its user. In the short term, you vomit yourself inside-out; in the long term, it can alter your outlook and even change your life, so the manual tells us.
Donnelly has a natural gift for storytelling comedy, and sure enough his tales of taking ayahuasca on two separate occasions are evocative and amusing. One of those occasions would look to a casual observer like a fucked-up East 17 video, he says – an image that will stay with me for a while. He seems sheepish about sharing these experiences with us – perhaps this is why he’s confined himself to bus-sized audiences this year – but his easy, amiable delivery remains, as if he’s telling stories about consuming too much Kronenburg, not shamanic poison.
Comedically he protects himself from appearing pretentious by taking the piss out of almost everything he does –his veganism, the crystal he wears around his neck even though he doesn’t believe in it, the hard drugs.
His experiences of ayahuasca and the hallucinogen DMT experiences aren’t just cheap bragging, either. Instead, Nutter On The Bus is a pretty thorough investigation of one man’s issues with his poor, emotionally stunted upbringing, and how he’s taken the slow road to dealing with that. Further to that, Donnelly has re-evaluated his attitude towards his brother, who has dealt with the same problems by becoming a conspiracy theorist. Carl was always the "normal" one, or so the theory went.
Nutter On The Bus is smart, thoughtful, and funny. As ever with Donnelly’s style of comedy, though, I find there is a limit to how good it can get. His shows are so chatty and easy-going, and probably lack a few killer punchlines, that they lack a bit of rhetorical oomph.
Reviewing NotB almost feels like reviewing going for a drink with a mate. Still, with one foot in the mainstream and one foot out of it, Donnelly is entering perhaps a fruitful new chapter of his career.
Review date: 8 Aug 2017
Reviewed by: Paul Fleckney
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“I help our amazing fundraisers raise the money that keeps the hospice doors open.”
Fundraiser Dan’s journey to working for Claire House began in 2008, when he completed a charity walk up Mount Toubkal in Morocco.
It was a life-changing trip – not only did he meet his future wife up Mount Toubkal, but the hike persuaded Dan to leave his private sector marketing job and move into the charity sector.
He has now been with Claire House for over 5 years, travelling around the region working with high street shops, businesses and groups who want to help Claire House.
He says: “No two days are ever the same in my job and I love that but what I love most about working for Claire House is really knowing you are making a difference to people’s lives.
“One of the parts of my job is supporting families with children at Claire House when they are fundraising and I love getting to know the families and what it means to them.
“I feel honoured that the families are willing to tell me their most personal things about their children, and it means I can go out and tell people ‘this is how your support affects local families and what it means to them’.”
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Beautiful wheels at the 2016 Beijing Motor Show
Nissan IDS concept
People sit inside the Nissan IDS concept car during the Beijing Motor Show - Auto China 2016 in Beijing on April 25, 2016. The Beijing Motor Show runs through May 4, 2016.
Global automakers are gathered in Beijing to show off their wares as competition intensifies and growth slows in the world's biggest auto market, with the key SUV and new energy vehicle sectors the focus of attention.
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A woman sites inside the Nissan IDS concept car during the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
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The Nissan IDS concept car is presented during the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
Roewe Vision R concept
A man looks at a Roewe Vision R concept car at the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 26, 2016.
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Porsche 718 Cayman S
A visitor takes pictures of a new Porsche 718 Cayman S presented during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
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A model stands by a KIA vehicle at the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
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Peugeot Fractal
Visitors gather around a Peugeot Fractal electric coupe car during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
A Peugeot Fractal, an electric urban coupe, is displayed at the Beijing Motor Showon April 25, 2016.
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Karlmann King
A customized version of a Karlmann King is displayed at the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
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LeSEE concept
A member of staff brushes off dust from all-electric battery concept car called LeSEE during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Visitors look at all-electric battery concept car called LeSEE during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Hongqi L5
Children stand near an L5 sedan by Chinese luxury automaker Hongqi on display at the Beijing Motor Show on April 26, 2016.
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Zotye Auto's T300 SUV
Visitors stand near Zotye Auto's T300 SUV at the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
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A man takes photographs of a Ferrari 488 Spider at the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 26, 2016.
Volkswagen's T-Prime Concept GTE hybrid SUV
People gather around the Volkswagen's T-Prime Concept GTE hybrid SUV after it was presented during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Visitors look at an Audi R8 V10 Plus at the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
An MG 3 is displayed at the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
Visitors look at a Tesla Model X on display at the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
Toyota FCV PLUS
Toyota Motor Corp's hydrogen fuel-cell concept car Toyota FCV PLUS is displayed during the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
Hakan Samuelsson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Volvo presents the new Volvo S90 during the Beijing Motor Show in Beijing on April 25, 2016.
Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC)
Visitors gather around vehicles presented at Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) booth during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Faraday Future FFZERO1
Visitors gather around the Faraday Future FFZERO1 electric concept car during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
A Faraday Future FFZero1 is displayed at the Beijing Motor Show on April 26, 2016.
A Faraday Future FFZero1 is displayed at the Beijing Motor Showon April 26, 2016.
Lamborghini Huracan LP 580-2
Visitors look at a Lamborghini Huracan LP 580-2 at the Beijing Motor Show on April 26, 2016.
Jaguar XFL
People gather around the newly unveiled Jaguar XFL during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Hyundai's virtual reality driving machine
A visitor tries Hyundai's virtual reality driving machine during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
BMW X1 xDrive25Li
People gather around a long wheelbase BMW X1 xDrive25Li after it was presented during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
A visitor takes a "selfie" in a new BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports car during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
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A model displays the charging plug of a BMW i3 electric car during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Mercedes-Benz S500 eL
A visitor looks at a Mercedes-Benz S500 eL plug-in hybrid car during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Honda Avancier SUV
A security agent guards an Honda Avancier SUV after it was presented during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Visitors gather at the Peugeot booth during Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Changan CS95 SUV
Changan's CS95 SUV is presented at the company's booth during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Qiantu K50
A man takes a picture of a Qiantu motor's K50 during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
SAIC Motor Corp's MAXUS Concept SUV D90
A man takes a picture of SAIC Motor Corp's MAXUS Concept SUV D90 during the Beijing Motor Show on April 25 2016.
Changan driverless car
People pose for photos near a Changan driverless car displayed at the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Chinese guests and journalists look at a Lincoln Continental on display at the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Senova X35
A man looks at his mobile phone beside a Senova X35 on display at the Beijing Motor Show on April 25, 2016.
Skoda Vision S
Visitors gather around a Skoda Vision S presented at the Beijing Auto Show on April 25, 2016.
Chery FV concept
A man looks at a Chery FV concept car at the Beijing Motor Show on April 26, 2016.
A woman explains details about the Chery FV concept car at the Beijing Motor Show on April 26, 2016.
Luxgen S3
Singers perform next to a Luxgen S3 sedan presented at the company's booth during the Beijing Motor Show on April 26, 2016.
Haima S5 SUV
A model poses by a Haima S5 SUV at the Haima Automobile Group booth during the Beijing Motor Show on April 26, 2016.
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End of an era: The Pokataroo Branch
June 11, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Adventures, History, Photographs, Photography, Trains
These are the last photos I took on film, with a craptacular Kodak camera. The old Pokataroo Branch of the north western railway in New South Wales terminated about five kilometres from where I used to live. The old railway station was opened in 1906 as Collarendabri, before being renamed to Collarendebri East, then finally Pokataroo in 1919. The line leading to Pokataroo station closed in 1974, after flood damage.
At the time these were taken, which I believe was 1998, the terminus was still visible. The buffer stop at the end of the line was still standing, the rural station platform rotted and leaning to one side. At the far end of the platform, the base of an old crane.
Close up of some rails and sleepers.
If you like, click "read more" for a couple of newer photos of the railroad remants around Pokataroo, including the crane base and the old rail bridge.
The old crane base near the Poktaroo platform.
Looking back toward Pokataroo township (approximately four houses) from the station's location.
The old Pokataroo rail bridge.
Looking toward Pokataroo atop the old rail bridge.
If you're into this kind of thing, you can find some information about the Pokataroo Branch on NSWrail.net. There're some cool photos if you click on the "photographs" tab, including some of the platform, and one from the '70s of the station building when it was still in-tact.
Also, I'm a nerd. Don't judge me.
June 11, 2013 /Russell Gawthorpe
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Map of the history of Sydney's railways
January 21, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Art, Trains
This is a project that I started -- and kind of abandoned -- several years ago. The story is this: Once, during a trip to Melbourne, I picked up a cool poster showing the entire railway network of the city, complete with all of the stations and lines that had closed down over the years. I quite liked it. I decided to make one for Sydney. I stupidly underestimated the magnitude of this task.
So, I edited it, on-again-off-again, until I ended up with the final version, which I display here. Is it 100% accurate? Probably not. Is it educational? Undoubtedly. Should you always do further research when presented with information on the internet? Of course you should.
Thanks to all the folks at railpage.com.au's forums who helped all those years ago, without your assistance, I would never have had the impetus to continue with this thing. Thanks also to nswrail.net for being such a ludicrously awesome resource for New South Wales railway history, and a fantastic tool for clarifying a lot of the details that went into this map.
If you find any glaring errors, by all means, let me know. I probably won't make any changes, though, because this project has very much been and gone, and it's a huge undertaking to edit it.
Click here for the full, high-res (but heavily compressed) version if you want to read the text. (Warning: is gigantic, won't work in full-resolution on an iPad or iPhone without special software.)
'tis but a preview image. Click for big. (Really big.)
January 21, 2013 /Russell Gawthorpe
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Art, Trains
Various old "artworks", if you will
Most of these are terrifying, but I was young, so I'll forgive that. Most of these lack a certain level of contrast that I've come to apply to images, but I'll forgive that, too. I hardly touch 3D images any more. Not sure if that's a good thing, or not. Hit the jump for the gallery, 15 pics.
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Anorak behaviour: Can you name Sydney's railway stations?
December 05, 2009 by Russell Gawthorpe in Trains
I've contributed a puzzle to Sporcle's database of quizzes. It's a bit nerdy. It's a lot nerdy. Sorry. Can you name all of the railway stations on Sydney's CityRail network? (Hint: I can't. And I made the quiz.)
December 05, 2009 /Russell Gawthorpe
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Sydney's "Tangara" train in Lego, kind of
July 17, 2008 by Russell Gawthorpe in Nostalgia, Trains
Here's an attempt at designing Sydney's "Tangara" train as a Lego model, using some wing-ding Lego modelling software for the Mac. The colours are based on the current (2008) trend for all of the trains to be represented in yellow.
In hindsight, I could probably have made it eight studs wide, rather than six, to give a bit more detail. I tried to stick with Lego's standard of six studs for a train, though.
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Tiny trains: HO scale Sydney railway station
December 12, 2007 by Russell Gawthorpe in Adventures, Graphic design, Nostalgia, Trains
I, uh, don't have a model railroad. But that didn't stop me from undertaking a weekend project to make a tiny railway station. I've made them in 3D before, but the real world is another story.
The various bits are cut from thick card, the kind that photographic prints are delivered with, to keep them from bending in the post.
Hit the "Read More" linky-dinky to, uh, read more. There're a heap more pictures.
Here's the superstructure of the building. The corners are reinforced with extra card to give them the illusion of columns of brickwork, to match the brick columns along each side. It was sheer luck that the card was the right thickness to look like added brickwork.
I cheated with the exterior. The brick pattern is "texture mapped" by creating a brick pattern in Photoshop to the correct scale (HO, in this case, which is around 88:1). The folds are all scored so the thick photo paper bends nicely.
All "textured". The pale blue wheelchair ramp box is popped out on a piece of card to give it depth. I built some fake shadows and staining into the texture map to give it some age and interest around the brick columns, doorways and windows. The network map and station signage is all to scale.
The platform is not exactly long enough to be true to scale, but as I don't have a model railroad to put it in, that's kind of a moot point. The surface of the platform was a fluke -- it's very fine grit wet-and-dry sandpaper which was used to sand some items that had been painted in black paint. The glossy black paint had worn into the paper, making darker, shiny patches. It looks exactly like a gravel-on-tar surface that's been in the hot sun, allowing the shiny black tar to seep through the gravel. If I was to ever make platforms for a model railroad, I'd deliberately use this approach.
"Aerial" view, showing how remarkably decent the accidental platform surface turned out. The yellow lines are just strips of yellow paper cut very fine. The platform trim is white fine-grit sandpaper (no tricks, straight out of the packet) to give the illusion of texture, and the markings along the platform edge are made to scale in Photoshop and printed on photo paper. If I was to do this seriously, I'd have used matte photo paper for the things that really shouldn't be shiny.
Daylight! The station is sitting on the roof of my car. The porch is made from matchsticks for support and some more of the same card I built the structure from. It's not beautiful, but it gets the job done. The lights are bits of bent wire with tiny blocks of card on the ends, painted silver. They don't light up, obviously.
More detail from the platform edge. A lesson learned from this is that it'd probably be best, if I made another, to "inlay" the paper layers, rather than just gluing them on top of each other. It'd reduce the buckling and generally look better. The "2" in the yellow block is a car marker, to indicate to the train driver where to stop the train, and a bit of a joke on my part, as it's only scaled to be a two-car platform. (Ordinarily, a station of this kind would have room for at least six cars, more likely eight.)
I guess this would be the view from the "other" platform, but -- of course -- there isn't one.
As an added bonus, here's a tiny tiny tiny version of the old manual timetable displays that appeared on the station platforms. The real ones have a dozen or so rotating blocks with station names, this one only has four. Usually it's Strathfield marked in red, as it's a big interchange for several lines. As a joke no one will get, I've marked it as "Redmyre", which was the original name of Strathfield's station. As another joke no one will get, I've named my station "Bresnahan".
Here it is, with a coin. It's very small.
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Silent Circle targets the enterprise with new Blackphone
Alongside the Blackphone 2 secure smartphone and a tablet, the company is introducing a new enterprise conference-calling service
Silent Circle's Blackphone 2
Martyn Williams (IDG News Service) 02 March, 2015 22:18
Silent Circle, producer of the privacy-centric Blackphone, is turning its attention to enterprise customers with a new range of hardware and software due out later this year.
The Swiss company plans to launch a new smartphone and tablet along with enterprise messaging software as it seeks to take advantage of increased awareness of security and privacy at corporations. It cited a string of high-profile attacks, including last year's hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, as reason enough for companies to adopt its encrypted communications platform.
"Never before have businesses been under attack as they are today for their intellectual property," said Mike Janke, co-founder of Silent Circle during a news conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The cornerstone of the offering will be two new hardware devices.
Blackphone 2 will be available in July and cost about the same as its first-generation phone, which costs US$629. Packing an eight-core processor and 32GB of memory, the phone has a 5.5-inch screen and MicroSD card slot, and runs the company's PrivatOS.
The Blackphone+ tablet will launch in the second half of the year and has a 7-inch screen and Qualcomm processor. Few other details were announced regarding the device and Silent Circle didn't give its price.
The devices will be accompanied by Silent Meeting, a new secure conference-calling system. The system will ensure that only authorized participants can join meetings and all communications are private and encrypted. Silent Meeting joins the company's encrypted text messaging and address book software as the third app in its software line-up.
On the services side, the company will offer a privacy-focused app store with apps vetted by the company, an encrypted calling plan that offers private communications with users who don't have the company's devices, and a web-based manager for enterprises to control their devices and plans.
Silent Circle's current plans run from $12.95 per month for 100 minutes of calling to 120 countries to $39.95 per month for 1,000 minutes.
Silent Circle says it had unexpected success in the enterprise market with its first hardware product, the Blackphone. Of the $750 million it has booked in sales of the device and associated services, about three quarters is with business users.
Companies have traditionally relied on BlackBerry products for secure messaging, but as that company falters, Silent Circle is hoping to step in. It claims to already be winning customers from BlackBerry and sees its products in use at 32 of the Fortune 50 companies, although it didn't provide any details.
But a big missing piece of enterprise communications remains: email.
Janke said that Silent Circle has been working on an encrypted, peer-to-peer email system but it's still in development.
"We have that and we will launch it," he said, but didn't say when that might be.
Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is martyn_williams@idg.com
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China, RCMP ink deal to battle flow of deadly fentanyl
RCMP Commisioner Bob Paulson met with Chinese vice-minister Chen Zhimin this week in Ottawa.
Nov. 24, 2016 10:00 a.m.
The RCMP and China’s public security ministry have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to fight the illegal trafficking of fentanyl into Canada.
RCMP Commisioner Bob Paulson met with Chinese vice-minister Chen Zhimin this week in Ottawa, where both sides agreed to strengthen coordinated law-enforcement to “disrupt the supply of fentanyl and synthetic opioids.”
Further discussions will take place next week.
“Fentanyl and other opioids pose a grave threat to the safety of Canadian communities,” Paulson said, who called the meeting “an important step forward and highlights the commitment between our two organizations to enhance operational collaboration, identify key areas of concern, and work towards a coordinated approach to combat fentanyl trafficking.”
B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Morris and Minister of Health Terry Lake issued a statement, saying collaboration between the countries will allow enforcement to “be stronger across all our provincial and international borders.”
On Nov. 3, a package of Furanyl-fentanyl from China was intercepted at the Vancouver International Mail Centre, the RCMP said. In June, a kilogram of carfentanil from China was seized by the Canada Border Services Agency in Vancouver.
This week, the Vancouver Police Department announced it detected carfentanil in drugs seized during an arrest in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside from back in September.
The agreement with China follows Premier Christy Clark call out to the federal government last week, asking them “to assert diplomatic pressure on China to stem the production and export of fentanyl and other highly dangerous synthetic opioids.”
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Mozilla reassurance: Firefox new-tab page won't be plastered with logos
Nonprofit clarifies plans for how it'll test sponsored content on pages that show when users open new browser tabs.
Stephen Shankland
May 10, 2014 12:28 AM PDT
Note: This story originally reported that Mozilla is dropping its plan for sponsored content altogether. That's not the case. The headline and the story have been corrected to clarify.
Mozilla is updating a plan to put ads on the windows that show when Firefox users launch a new browser tab, reassuring users that they won't lose control or be overwhelmed with ads.
Mozilla announced the Firefox new-tab page advertisements idea in February, saying it wanted to feature "directory tiles" that would be useful to users. The plan has caused some worries, though.
"A lot of our community found the language hard to decipher, and worried that we were going to turn Firefox into a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder; without user control, without user benefit," said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's vice president of Firefox, in a blog post. "That's not going to happen. That's not who we are at Mozilla."
But the new-tab page still could carry sponsored content from "hand-picked partners," and Mozilla plans to experiment with that in the future.
Mozilla hadn't actually shown any ads thus far, said Darren Herman, vice president of content services, in a statement. "None of the tiles are sponsored at this time because the goal of initial experiments is to measure user interest and value of recommended content. Sponsorship would be the next stage once we are confident that we can deliver user value."
The new-tab page has been a source of revenue for browser rival Opera Software. Partners have paid it for years for access to the "speed dial" page that grants quick access to Web pages. Getting people to discover new services and apps is always tough, as seen by the existence of the search-engine optimization industry and the jockeying to get good placement in app stores, and money can help bring things to consumers' attention.
For Mozilla, sponsored content on the new-tab page could also help diversify revenue from its primary source, Google, which pays Mozilla a portion of search-ad revenue that Firefox sends to the search engine.
Tests are in the works, Nightingale said.
"In the coming weeks, we'll be landing tests on our prerelease channels to see whether we can make things like the new-tab page more useful, particularly for fresh installs of Firefox, where we don't yet have any recommendations to make from your history," Nightingale said. "We'll test a mix of our own sites and other useful sites on the Web. We'll mess with the layout. These tests are purely to understand what our users find helpful and what our users ignore or disable -- these tests are not about revenue and none will be collected."
The ad model has been an interesting development for Mozilla, which has been sharply at odds with online advertisers about the Do Not Track technology. DNT is designed to let people tell Web publishers and advertisers they don't want their behavior on Web sites tracked, despite advertisers' claims that such tracking leads to ads that better match the interests of the audience who sees them.
Mozilla, though, has privacy and user control at the center of its mission. The DNT effort, however, has stalled over thus-far irreconcilable differences between privacy advocates and the advertising industry.
Correction, 1:06 p.m. PT: This story originally reported that Mozilla is dropping its plan for sponsored content altogether. That's not the case. The headline and the story have been corrected to clarify.
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The Nikon Coolpix L810 offers a lot of specs at a low price. If you need fast shooting performance, though, you'll need to spend more money.
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Nikon offers a little bit of everything in this update to its pro full-frame camera series.
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A new sensor, autofocus and metering system may make this an action-shooting master.
The Nikon D5300 is a great choice as a general-purpose dSLR.
Nikon Coolpix S8200
The S8200 will easily slide into a pocket despite its 14x zoom lens, and will deliver photos that are worthy of the family album — most times.
Nikon Coolpix S51C Black
We're primed to get excited about the camera that cracks Wi-Fi, but the Nikon Coolpix S51c sadly isn't it. An average point-and-shoot with some lens issues, the S51c has some well-implemented wireless features but is let down by the fact that it can't connect very often
The D300s is a fast, reliable workhorse for the semi-professional or amateur photographer, and it feels great to use and makes picture taking a real pleasure. But if you don't need HD video, you might want to try the plain old D300 instead.
Nikon 1 V1
The Nikon 1 V1 is more capable than the J1, but the body lacks its sibling's finesse and we're not sure the extra features justify the higher price. Nonetheless, the V1 produces some of the sharpest, most detailed shots we have seen.
While it's too large to fit inside a pocket, the P7100 provides all of the functionality and quality that you could need. It's a shame that its performance is not class beating, otherwise it would easily make a great companion to an SLR or ILC.
Nikon Coolpix S1000pj
A lot of cameras get called "unique", but the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj aptly lives up to this tag as it hosts a built-in projector. It's definitely a novelty and fun to use, we just wish image quality was better.
If specifications were all that counted, the Nikon Coolpix S8000 would be right up there with the best compact superzooms, but its 14.2-megapixel sensor produces mushy, over-processed detail, and its 10x zoom is second-division at best. It's not that expensive for a compact superzoom, but it's not that good either
The S2500 is a respectable cheap compact that loses marks for its basic feature set and standard images.
Considering the length of the zoom, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ62 is a very inexpensive camera. It's fast and produces output that's very good on the whole, but close examination reveals compression in images and there's a fair amount of grain at high sensitivities. But if you can accept some small compromises, the FZ62 will likely do all you need.
Nikon Coolpix L26
Point the compact Nikon Coolpix L26 at a well-lit scene and it'll reward you with bright, realistic colours and plenty of detail. We noticed a few imperfections and we'd like to see the price cut, but it's a good buy for the less experienced photographer.
The Nikon Coolpix S9100 is a solid compact camera that's easy to use, fast and good in low light. But if you want the extra reach its 18x zoom provides, be prepared to stretch your budget -- if not your pocket -- accordingly.
The Nikon Coolpix L19 is very similar to the Coolpix L20, but about £30 cheaper, which really changes the equation. The lower specs don't matter in a camera designed for budget-conscious beginners. The L20 looks expensive for what it does, but the L19 is spot-on
The Nikon Coolpix S3100 is easy to carry, use and look at. But its image quality is pretty average, and you don't have to look hard to find other cameras that offer more features for less money.
Nikon Coolpix S100
The Nikon Coolpix S100's performance doesn't quite live up to its looks, and, while this compact camera is packed with features, its price is too high for our liking.
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Chinese firms continue to dominate KPMG global leading fintechs list
02 November 2018 Consultancy.asia
KPMG has revealed its 2018 list of the world’s leading fintech pioneers, with Chinese companies continuing to dominate – taking three of the top five spots.
Now into its fifth year, the annual Fintech100 list compiled by global Big Four professional services firm KPMG together with fintech capital investors H2 Ventures celebrates the world’s leading innovators in the fintech domain; those companies ‘creating products and services at the juncture of technology and financial services who are seeking to disrupt the existing processes and products that dominate the marketplace.'
Continuing the trend from previous years, fintech firms from China have once again dominated the pointy end of the list, claiming three of the top five places, with the world’s largest third-party payments platform Ant Financial backing up on last year’s crown. Altogether, China achieved 11 entries across the list – which is divided into established and emerging players – with 30 Asian firms appearing in total.
While Ant Financial retained its number one ranking from last year’s Chinese trifecta, its fellow 2017 top three place-getters ZhongAn and Qudian have been displaced by new top-four Chinese entries JD Finance (9th last year) and Du Xiaoman Financial (which didn’t feature last year) with the two firm’s split by Singapore’s Grab in third. Lufax from China, sixth on last year’s list, also held on to a top-ten placing, while six Chinese companies altogether were among the top dozen.
Charting a path of rapid growth, the three top featured Chinese fintech companies have all been spun out of Chinese retail and internet giants including Alibaba (Ant Financial), JD.com (JD Finance), and Baidu (Du Xiaoman Financial), with the top-end ‘tech-fin’ players – financial services offerings from the tech behemoths – continuing to gather steam in an ominous warning to traditional financial services providers.
Of note over the past year has been the sky-rocketing investment into fintech firms, with the top four featured companies each pulling in over $1 billion in capital over the past twelve months alone, and more than $20 billion over the period combined. Overall, the top 50 firms attracted an aggregated $26 billion during the past year – up 366 percent on the previous twelve months – while 26 of the listed companies drew over $100 million each.
As a segment breakdown, the payments field was the primary focus area for a third of the featured firms (34), followed by 22 operating in the lending domain and 14 and 12 in wealth management and insurance respectively. The top of the list however was dominated by fintechs such as Ant Financial which have developed a broad range of financial service offerings. As noted by the report, the Chinese incumbents have been scaling with a heavy emphasis on payments and insurance.
Asian fintechs
With cities and countries across the globe battling it out to become the world’s premiere fintech hubs, the growing predominance of Asia Pacific firms on KPMG’s Fintech100 list is striking. Altogether, 38 of the established and emerging companies on this year’s list are based in the APAC region – up from 31 last year and 22 on the inaugural list from 2014. Firms from Singapore (6), Korea, Japan (2), Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar all made this year’s list.
Global Co-Lead of KPMG Fintech, Ian Pollari, said: “The 2018 Fintech100 showcases the increasing diversity and scale of the global fintech market. Payments and lending continue to be the dominant sectors, however wealth management is taking off, with 14 companies on the list and insurtech remains strong with 12 companies. Notable this year is the emergence of neo-banks, with ten on the list – which is the beginning of what we believe will be accelerated growth of digital banking models globally.”
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Raben Tire announces relocation to former Evansville Sears store
Raben Tire announced its East Side store is relocating, but it is not moving far.
Raben Tire announces relocation to former Evansville Sears store Raben Tire announced its East Side store is relocating, but it is not moving far. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2019/03/13/raben-tire-announces-east-side-evansville-store-moving/3150825002/
John T. Martin, Evansville Courier & Press Published 11:15 a.m. CT March 13, 2019 | Updated 11:33 a.m. CT March 15, 2019
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Raben Tire announced its East Side store is relocating, but it is not moving far.
Currently at 1167 S. Green River Road, the store is moving less than a block to the former Sears Auto Center building, 1100 S. Green River Road, in front of Washington Square Mall.
The move is expected to start in early May.
Raben Tire officials said the former Sears facility is much larger than their current one.
The space will be remodeled with state-of-the art equipment, according to the company.
“We are proud to be revitalizing this building into the new larger East Side location," James Raben, one of Raben Tire's founders, said in a news release. "Evansville is where our company began, and to step up and fill the historic Sears auto service building and enhance the community at the same time, it is an awesome opportunity.”
Scott Cisney, CEO of Raben Tire, said: "With the expansion into this larger facility, we have a greater ability to expand and enhance the overall customer experience. So much can be done here when it comes to automotive care.”
Raben Tire was founded in Evansville by Butch Raben in 1952. Today, the company operates more than 30 tire and service locations in six states, multiple retread production plants and wholesale distribution centers.
Raben Tire carries a product portfolio including auto, truck, farm, off-road, motorcycle, ATV, specialty tires and all mechanical and tire services.
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The Airy disk
Optical Efficiency and Resolution
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Course 1 of 3 in the Optical Engineering Specialization
Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. This course will teach you how to design such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques. The first order optical system design covered in the previous course is useful for the initial design of an optical imaging system but does not predict the energy and resolution of the system. This course discusses the propagation of intensity for Gaussian beams and incoherent sources. It also introduces the mathematical background required to design an optical system with the required field of view and resolution. You will also learn how to analyze these characteristics of your optical system using an industry-standard design tool, OpticStudio by Zemax.
Impulse Responses and Transfer Functions
This module provides an introduction to the basics of Fourier Optics, which are used to determine the resolution of an imaging system. We will discuss a few Fourier Transforms that show up in standard optical systems in the first subsection and use these to determine the system resolution, and then discuss the differences between coherent and incoherent systems and impulse responses and transfer functions in the second subsection. We will wrap up with a discussion of these concepts using OpticStudio.
Lenses take Fourier transforms9:06
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The Airy disk6:34
Amy Sullivan
So if we can Fourier transform a Gaussian beam at the front focal
point of the lens and find that we get the correct focus to Gaussian
beam at the back focal point of the lens, the next obvious function to
try would be a square wave at the front focal point of the lens.
So this is something you might make by illuminating an iris or
some sort of aperture.
Which is zero transmission and then unity, it's a whole, and then zero again.
And so that makes a function that's zero, 1, zero.
What does that look like when we focus it though a lens?
And this is what's called the Airy disk.
It is the classic focus that you get at the back of a lens, and
it's very representative of if you look at a star, for example.
The star is sending a spherical wave at us, but by the time it gets to us,
it's pretty much a plane because the stars are very far away.
The aperture there is the front of your telescope.
You let some light in, you focus the light through the object of the telescope,
this is what that star will look like.
So this is a pretty important equation and function to understand
because it really is the common focal shape that you get behind lenses.
And we now have the tools to direct that.
So at the front lens, I'm going to do this first for the one-dimensional case,
that is, I have no variation out of this plane.
And then we'll come back and do it for
the two-dimensional case where it's a circular hole instead of a slit.
But right now, we'll first do the slit.
And it's almost exactly the same solution, they're only slightly different.
So at the front focal point of the lens, I have a rectangle function.
If you're not familiar with this function, it simply means something that's zero, 1,
zero, with a total diameter or width, D.
This is an extremely common function in electrical engineering to know how to take
the Fourier transform of.
And the Fourier transform is something called sinc function, S-I-N-C,
which is sine x over x.
And so the, when we do the Fourier transform of this rect,
the D here shows up there.
Notice again, we have units of distance, units of 1 over distance.
So this is the Fourier transform of the rect, but
it's in spatial frequency of this function over here.
We can't see spatial frequency in real space because it's got units of 1
over distance, and I don't understand what that means.
So the only way to understand how it's really painted in x prime and
real space here is we have to make the scaling substitution.
Fx equals the spacial coordinate behind the lens x prime,
over the focal length of the lens and the wavelength that we're in.
And that is units of 1 over distance.
Yay, that's cool, but now we have x prime here with units of distance.
So this is the Airy disk.
That's actually a slice, or very close to it, along this function right here.
Sine x over x has a peak at the origin, and then bumps off to infinity.
It's probably nice to have some measure of how big this is.
And the common measure is to go from the center to the first null.
That's arbitrary.
You could go center to half way down the peak, full width, half max,
or half width half max.
The Gaussian beam, we want the radius of the 1 over e point
of the field, because it was convenient.
The point is, there's a little bit of ambiguity here in
how big is this function, that's dependent on how you choose to measure it.
And you should hope be sure you know what that measure is.
But for a function that's got nulls,
as this one does, it's really common to measure the radius to the first null.
Well, that's really easy.
We set this function right here equal to pi.
And that tells us where that r naught is, that first radius, coordinate x prime.
And that's simply FD over lambda.
That bit right there.
We'll notice focal length over diameter is a quantity we've already run into.
That's called the F number of this lens.
Or we've also run into this and described it as numerical aperture.
That's just basically the diameter, sorry, radius of the lens, over the focal length.
So in the paraxial approximation, it's this angle right there.
Or, the sine of it in the non-paraxial approximation.
So, both of these expressions are really useful to remember.
The spot size measures radius to first null is F number times lambda.
This is why F number is an important and useful quantity.
It tells you the resolving power.
The size of your focal spot given in units of the wavelength.
So if you have an F1 lens, it's a powerful well corrective lens,
it's tiny foci that decides the wavelength.
If you have an F10 lens, your spots in radius to first null are 10 wavelengths.
Since F number is NA related directly to NA with a factor of 2 in it right here,
this expression is also handy to have.
So expressed as a numerical aperture,
the radius of the first null is 0.5 lambda over NA.
Notice as we've been talking about through this whole course now, light has a shape.
As you take the angle of this cone of light up, that's what the NA is,
then the spot size r naught goes down.
So that's this concept that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
The angle of the cone of light is the uncertainty and
momentum, r naught is the uncertainty in position, and they're inversely related.
If you want a tiny little spot, you need a large numerical aperture, and vice versa.
We'll come back to the two dimensional solution in just a minute, but
the point is, it's almost exactly the same.
This is formally an infinitely long slit, and this is a cylindrical lens.
That solution we did here.
If you solve this for a round lens with a round hole,
you get slightly different Fourier transform.
Has the same shape, and the answer is 0.6 lambda over NA instead of 0.5.
So pretty darn close.
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The Fascinating Story Of How Those Explosive Princess Diana Tapes Were Made
The Princess did everything she could to get her story told.
When Princess Diana found herself embroiled in tabloid scandal surrounding her marriage — and subsequent divorce — she was itching to tell her side of the story. So she recorded her thoughts on tape, and sent them to a journalist. People reports that the author of that subsequent biography is now revealing the super-secret way he got his hands on her story.
Andrew Morton is issuing a new edition of his blockbuster biography, DIANA: Her True Story — In Her Own Words, and has added some reflections of how the book came together. According to the new foreword, which was excerpted by People, Princess Diana wanted to make sure the British public heard her side of the story. So she recorded her thoughts and secrets on audiotapes — and then had her friend, Dr. James Colthurst, deliver the tapes to Morton by bicycle. She also allowed her closest confidantes to talk to Morton for the book.
Morton would then go to a café and listen to the tapes, in which the seemingly perfect royal opened up about her heartbreak and even issues with eating disorders. Initially, it was a secret that Diana even participated in the book, but Morton revealed it after her untimely death. "It was like being transported into a parallel universe, the Princess talking about her unhappiness, her sense of betrayal, her suicide attempts and two things I had never previously heard of: bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder, and a woman called Camilla," Morton writes.
Six months before the book was to come out, Diana reached out to Morton and said she knew it would be controversial, but was relieved to have her story told. "Obviously we are preparing for the volcano to erupt and I do feel better equipped to cope with whatever comes our way," she wrote him in a letter. "Thank you for your belief in me and for taking the trouble to understand this mind — it's such a relief not to be on my own anymore and that it's okay to be me."
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All that’s new in Siemens PLM’s NX12
Introduced at PLM Connections 2018, Siemens PLM’s latest high-end release continues to innovate despite a maturing CAD software market.
0 September 14, 2018
by Ralph Grabowski
Figure 1: Siemens PLM Software CEO Tony Hemmelgarn speaking at the opening keynote session at the company’s annual PLM Connection Americas 2018 Conference.
Many MCAD software programs were incubated in the 1970s and 1980s by the colossi of manufacturing, but were later spun off when those players no longer wanted to be in the software business.
CoCreate, for example, was created by HP but is now known as Creo by PTC. Catia was developed by Dassault Aviation, and now is the flagship MCAD program for Dassault Systemes. Unigraphics was enhanced by aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas, and now is known as NX at Siemens PLM Software.
Today, no significant CAD software is owned by a manufacturer, although some manufacturers run in-house CAD systems strictly for internal use. There is one exception.
Manufacturing giant Siemens AG of Germany owns NX, Solid Edge and a host of supporting CAM, CAE, ECAD, and PLM programs – plus the crucial kernel and constraints programs Parasolid and D-Cubed. As one Siemens PLM employee muttered during the recent PLM Connections user group event, the company now has “so much software that we don’t necessarily know what all we have.”
When a manufacturing company has its own line of design and analysis software, it gets to eat its own cooking. A decade after Siemens AG purchased UGS, NX is now pervasive and symbiotic. Siemens AG tells Siemens PLM Systems what it needs to design its lines of medical devices, electricity-producing windmills and high-speed bullet-style locomotives. In response, the PLM division comes up with software that also works well for external customers.
When you have all this software at your disposal, what might be the primary function you would want? “Integration,” says Siemens PLM Software CEO Tony Hemmelgarn (Figure 1). It all needs to work together. In fact, all of the software that works with NX runs in NX, emphasizes Bob Haubrock, whose official title is Senior Vice President, Product Engineering Software but he prefers to introduce himself as “the guy in charge of NX.”
Siemens AG says it has 15.3 million users. When measuring the size of the Siemens PLM Software division in revenues, it’s running at US$3.5 billion a year, a very close second to CAD vendor leader, Dassault Systemes. Siemens AG itself pulled in approximately $100 billion in revenues, last year. The PLM division got a nice bump in revenues following last year’s acquisition of Mentor, a $1.2-billion/year company that specializes in electrical CAD.
What’s New in NX 12
During last June’s PLM Connection Americas conference in stinking-hot Phoenix (it was 42C the entire time), we in the CAD media were given a mind-numbing, 45-minute overview of how all of the PLM division’s software works together, from CAD design to operating the manufacturing floor.
The real star of the PLM Connections show, given it’s high profile at the event, was the release of NX 12. CEO Hemmelgarn claimed that, for the last six years, NX has outgrown its competitors by 4% a year.
“We are now in a replacement market, so we grow by taking business away from competitors,” he said. But unlike a mature market like SAP, where there is little left to innovate, he said that CAD is a mature market that still innovates due to the strong competition. Just when you think CAD is settled, he said, something new comes along, like composite modeling.
Composite modeling tackles a tricky problem that, just a handful of years ago, few thought could be solved – or even needed solving: How to edit 3D meshes as if they were solids. Meshes are commonly the result of scanning real objects, whether a knee bone or an industrial plant, to create 3D wireframes. In NX 11, meshes could coexist with solids, but this year’s NX 12 performs about a half-dozen editing commands on meshes.
Typically, solid-only modeling operations – like selecting areas, removing features, filling in areas and adding fillets, are now possible with meshes. Composite modeling came from Siemens AG’s need to reverse engineer existing construction sites and then edit and add on to them. It also came about because arch-competitor Dassault Systemes’s Spatial division had already been working on its Polyhedra version of composite modeling.
Figure 2: The frame of a car reduced in weight through generative modeling or “topology optimization” as Siemens PLM calls it.
Sexier than composite modeling is generative modeling, where software repeatedly analyzes a part to minimize its volume while maintaining its strength. Sexy because the result often looks creepily organic like a bone (Figure 2). NX 12 calls its “topology optimization” and it can work with meshes, surfaces and solids at the same time. Generative modeling came from Siemens AG’s need to minimize the weight of aircraft and vehicle components. Also because everyone else in the MCAD industry is doing it.
To prove that generative modeling is sexy, Siemens showcased the new and ridiculously expensive (starting at US$3 million) Chiron sports car from Volkswagen subsidiary Bugatti. The car, which travels at up to 420kph, needs to keep its tires on the road and not lift off like an aircraft, as cars tend to do at high speeds. The spoiler keeps things battened down, and Bugatti used generative design in NX to lighten the weight of the spoiler’s lifter mechanism, then 3D-printed it in titanium.
The fact that Bugatti and many other manufacturers are increasingly turning to additive manufacturing isn’t lost on Siemens PLM. Historically, CAD software commands have mirrored subtrative manufacturing operations (e.g. lathe, chamfer, hollow, etc) to minimize the amount of material removed. The more material retained to achieve a particular design, the faster and less expensive a part can be made.
Additive manufacturing is the opposite situation—the more material removed from the design, the faster and cheaper the part is to make. Therefore, filling part regions with latices, rather than solid material, means speedier (and cheaper) production. Also, additive manufacturing can make hollow objects, which subtractive processes (e.g. milling and lathing) can’t.
Figure 3: In NX 12, a selected body can be filled with 3D lattice thereby minimizing weight and reducing additive manufacturing print time and cost.
To reflect this, NX 12 allows lattices to be applied inside selected volumes of solid bodies and on top of faces (Figure 3). A lattice type and its parameters are chosen so that it is patterned (3D arrayed) throughout the selected portion of the part body. When working with a face, you can specify the number of layers—one is the default—however, this function requires a separate license.
Beyond 3D printing, NX 12’s new Combine command takes several sheet metal bodies and turns them into a single one, with a defined volume; any bits of sheet metal outside the volume are trimmed automatically. With six sheet metals pieces, a watertight volume is found from which a solid is created.
Variable offset of faces is also enhanced in NX 12. Users can now offset one or more regions of a single part, instead of the entire part, with bridges that transition between the different offset heights. A pad can be defined inside a region to offset separately, such as for creating bulges.
There many other new features, such as variable blends now being associative so that you can move them around the edges of parts, but the new function the Siemens folks were proudest was continuous updates. As of January, users who are on subscriptions and maintenance contracts will get updates as they are released, as frequently as daily, if needed.
Siemens implemented this after discovering that, on average, users were on releases five years old, and that at very large customers deploying updates could cost one or two million dollars. Their biggest customer, Daimler, typically needs four months to install an update, doing it every 2-3 years.
What’s New in Solid Edge 2019
Step-sibling Solid Edge also showed up the PLM Connections show, as the stand-alone Solid Edge University was canceled last year, replaced by city-specific events. For the second time in its history, Solid Edge has changed its name, this time by dropping the ST suffix, which had been appended a decade ago to emphasize Synchronous Technology. This year’s release is simply named Solid Edge 2019.
Figure 4: The new P&ID design module running inside Solid Edge 2019.
I won’t detail all the new functions here, except to point out that Solid Edge’s third-party developer network was always a fraction of Solidworks’ and AutoCAD’s. It’s not too surprising, then, to see Solid Edge launch a few of its own (Figure 4). The first two are based on ECAD technology from Mentor:
Solid Edge Harness Design: Wiring design, circuit simulation and verification with error highlighting.
Solid Edge PCB Design: Schematic capture and PCB (printed circuit board) layout.
Solid Edge P&ID: Isometric drawings of piping and instrumentation designs.
Solid Edge Piping Design: 3D plant design.
The company will continue to support its third-party program, vice president of Solid Edge development Dan Staples told me, giving customers the choice between its own add-ons and those programmed by other.
Siemens PLM Software takes directions from its users’ wishlists and from its corporate parent’s needs. This makes it pro-integration, pro-backwards compatibility, and not particularly interested in the cloud — except for reasonable areas like collaboration. (NX reads files all the way back to the very first release of Unigraphics from 1984).
Siemens PLM, and competitors like Dassault Systemes, offer an overwhelming menu of software to solve just about any design, analysis and manufacturing problem we might face—or not yet realizing we are facing. Overwhelming choice isn’t, however, something humans are particularly good at dealing with. But for those of us who stick with “just CAD”, the good news is that competition is forcing vendors to keep adding new functions, as we saw with NX12 and Solid Edge 2019. Some are esoteric, others are very useful indeed.
https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com
Ralph Grabowski writes on the business of CAD on his WorldCAD Access blog (www.worldcadaccess.com) and weekly upFront.eZine newsletter. He has authored many articles and books on AutoCAD, BricsCAD, Visio and other design software.
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Breach Notification , Data Loss Prevention (DLP) , Governance
Equifax Disputes Report of Undisclosed Breach From March
Equifax Claims Bloomberg Has Facts Mixed Up Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • September 19, 2017
Equifax is disputing a report that it suffered an undisclosed data breach in March, separate from and predating the massive breach that exposed personal details for 143 million U.S. consumers.
See Also: 10 Incredible Ways You Can Be Hacked Through Email & How To Stop The Bad Guys
Citing three anonymous sources, Bloomberg on Monday reported that Equifax did not publicly disclose the March breach. The report does not describe what kind of information was exposed or how many people were allegedly affected.
But one source told Bloomberg that investigators believe that the same group of attackers that struck Equifax in March returned to hack the data broker again, beginning in May. Equifax disclosed that latter attack on Sept. 7.
After the March breach, Equifax notified "a small number of outsiders" and some of its banking customers, Bloomberg reports. The credit reporting agency's law firm, King & Partners of Atlanta, also retained FireEye's Mandiant digital forensics consulting branch, on which it called again on Aug. 2 to investigate the later breach, according to Bloomberg.
Equifax tells Information Security Media Group in a statement that the Bloomberg story is "attempting to connect two separate cybersecurity events and suggesting the earlier event went unreported."
Instead, Equifax says the breach described by Bloomberg was a "security incident involving a payroll-related service." The incident, which Equifax refers to as the "March event," was reported to customers, affected individuals and regulators, as well as covered by the media, it says. "Mandiant has investigated both events and found no evidence that these two separate events or the attackers were related."
Equifax appears to be referring to unauthorized access to data held by TALX, pronounced "talks," which is its payroll, HR and tax services subsidiary that is formally known as Equifax Workforce Solutions. ISMG asked Equifax if it was indeed referring to TALX, but officials did not immediately respond. Bloomberg does not mention TALX or Equifax Workforce Solutions in its report.
TALX Leak
In early March, Equifax began notifying individuals whose employers use TALX for payroll services that it had detected unauthorized access to its web-based portal.
Employees use the TALX portal to access their W-2, which is the annual income reporting form that U.S. employees need to file their federal tax return. That's also a key document for fraudsters, because it puts them one step closer to being able to fraudulently file and claim a tax refund in someone else's name.
In the March attack, hackers had luck accessing TALX accounts by guessing registered users' personal questions, according to Equifax's breach notifications. By answering the questions correctly, fraudsters were able to reset a PIN needed to access an account. With the fresh PIN, they were able to obtain an electronic copy of victims' W-2. The unauthorized access incidents occurred between April 17, 2016, and March 29, 2017, Equifax says.
After the breach, Equifax notified victims as well as attorneys general - in states requiring such notificaitons - including Maryland and New Hampshire, which published breach notifications about TALX. The breach received modest press coverage, including by cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs.
Later, Massive Breach
If Bloomberg's report is accurate, however, it will further complicate matters for Equifax, which holds vast troves of financial data for consumers worldwide. Equifax is facing an array of worldwide probes, lawsuits and regulator scrutiny after it disclosed, on Sept. 7, that it suffered a massive breach that affects U.S., U.K. and Canadian consumers (see Top Democrat Likens Equifax to Enron as FTC Launches Probe).
The personal details of 143 million U.S. consumers were exposed after hackers exploited a known vulnerability in the Apache Struts web application framework used by Equifax to manage credit-related disputes filed by consumers. Equifax says information was exposed between May 13 and July 30, when its security team blocked the breach (see More Questions Raised After Equifax CIO, CSO 'Retire').
For U.S. consumers, the details include names, addresses, Social Security numbers and sometimes driver's license numbers. Also exposed were the credit card numbers for 209,000 consumers and additional personal information relating to credit disputes for 182,000 people.
In a statement released earlier this week, Equifax said that about 400,000 U.K. consumers were affected, and that exposed information included their names, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers. The U.K. consumer data ended up in the U.S. due to a "process failure" that led to a limited amount of the British data being stored in the U.S. between 2011 and 2016, at which point Equifax says it fixed the problem.
Equifax's Sept. 19 breach assessment for Canadian residents.
An unknown number of Canadians were also affected by the breach discovered in late July. On its Canadian website, as of Tuesday morning, Equifax says "only a limited number" of people may be affected but notes that it is still identifying how many. The information exposed includes name, address and Social Insurance number. The company has promised to release more information soon.
API Credentials
One further potential wrinkle from Bloomberg's report is that the Equifax breach discovered in March may have been attackers attempting to use Equifax as a stepping stone for hacking into major bank' systems, according a single, anonymous source cited by Bloomberg. Equifax supplies data on consumer creditworthiness to lenders.
A large, unnamed bank in Canada discovered that hackers stole the username and password for an API that links the bank's systems with Equifax, the source told Bloomberg. The hackers are also selling supposed celebrity profiles stolen from Equifax on darknet sites, but the source says the information appears to either be fraudulent or compiled from other breaches.
Bloomberg says it also reviewed an internal memo from the bank, dated Sept. 14, which noted that the bank's wealth and management division had linked a test and development site to Equifax in order to share information.
Addressing Application Security Vulnerabilities
Visa on Growth of Card-Not-Present Fraud
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FashionRise
25August 2011
TextSue-Wen Quek
Marques’Almeida
With less than a month to go, the pair behind grungy label Marques’Almeida preps us for their first show with Fashion East
Marques’Almeida5
Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida are obsessed with youth. Not in the surgical and the age-defying; rather, a youth that might evoke your moody teenage sister. Oh, how you wanted to shake her but envied her devil-may-care ways. Graduating from the MA at Central Saint Martins in February, the Portuguese couple behind Marques’Almeida joins Lulu Kennedy’s force to offer a season with abundance of attitude. Fashion East hasn’t seen petulance so desirable yet.
Dazed Digital: What drew you two together?
Marta & Paulo: We met on our BA in Portugal. We’ve always worked on separate projects but were so close, we ended up being each other’s consultants. Initially we used the MA to understand our own identity and to find where our respective strengths lie. When it came to pre-collections, we figured it was the right time to try working together and it felt very natural. It was always in the horizon that we would do a label together, anyway.
DD: What can we expect for S/S12?
Marta & Paulo: It’s a clear continuation as we wanted to confirm what we started saying with our graduate (a/w 11) collection, so that people understand our identity. So it’s still inspired by 90s street style, we’ve looked at the same things again and more, but always in the same spirit. For the MA show, you’re limited to such few outfits because you’re showing with 20 others, thus we couldn’t do too much. We’ve plumped up for s/s 12 so it now feels more complete, and adapted it to summer. For example we worked with cheesecloth for a/w but didn’t really get to develop it, so we’re taking that further, also to give our show a lighter feel.
DD: Is it more important for Marques’Almeida to offer wearable clothes or to experiment with design?
Marta & Paulo: We want our designs to be really wearable but also cool and often, to be really cool it needs to be new and sometimes weird; it’s a tricky, fine line that we want to walk with our label. We want to keep people interested by pushing ourselves creatively. But our main concern is to make it wearable and desirable in a way that is fresh and young. For s/s at least, we are making sure whatever we did before is easier to wear.
DD: Describe your aesthetic.
Marta & Paulo: We want to make basics exciting. The old i-D magazines were full of people always in jeans, a t-shirt and a leather jacket or shoes – it’s that youth code we are obsessed with. Basically; raw, effortless, young.
DD: So being very much based on youth culture, how do you guys keep fresh?
Marta & Paulo: Probably by being aware of things. We often go into the 90s, but we also do a lot of Internet research. Loads of shitty things on there, but there are some good street-style blogs. We do love to go around, people spotting. Our work is not about what’s happening now in street culture; we don’t draw inspiration from trends – we see it to know what’s going on. Mostly we go after that unfashionable girl who’s wearing a weird sweatshirt with average fit jeans… we are inspired by personalities; it’s the basic idea of designing based on a mood. We like to think, ‘We’ve got this really moody girl, what would she wear, what is she doing.’
DD: Is it possible to wear denim at a formal occasion?
Marta & Paulo: Definitely! We think it would look more amazing at a formal event, but again, it depends on who’s wearing it. Just don’t talk about Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in their full denim… [laughs] We would love for our collection to be worn in a formal context.
DD: Where do you hope to bring Marques’Almeida?
Marta & Paulo: Our whole goal is to obviously, build a brand and keep growing; to make sure that the mood and attitude that we try to reflect through our clothes is identifiable in the future.
Text by Sue-Wen Q
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Nicole Sullivan on the value of optimising code
By Creative Bloq Staff (netmag) 2014-06-13T19:01:14.163Z Web design
The creator of Object-Oriented CSS explains why bubblegum, carpentry and pianos hold lessons for performance-conscious coders.
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Nicole Sullivan, the creator of Object-Oriented CSS, is one of the speakers at net magazine's upcoming Generate New York conference, which will take place Friday, 20 June.
Settling in front of her uncooperative Mac, she smiles broadly as we ask about her Twitter handle and web page name, Stubbornella.
With her webcam finally cooperating, she says: "That was a gift from a friend, for my birthday maybe 15 years ago." There is a certain lilting emphasis on the word 'gift'. "I wasn’t very much of a nerd at the time. I looked it and thought, 'Stubbornella? I'll take that as a compliment and take it to mean persistent - not stubborn.' I never thought I would start a speaking career and run a business under that name."
And thus far, it's been quite a career: one carved out at the astrophysics end of the CSS business. Sullivan spends her life helping big corporations like Facebook shave seconds off their sites' performance.
Nicole Sullivan has a speaking career and runs a business under the name Stubbornella
Explaining her fascination with hunting for tiny efficiencies in code, Sullivan says: "Hard problems get even harder when you add scale. It makes them all the more interesting. The tiniest decisions you make may have a big impact: things like whether you use div.classname or just .classname can make a difference of several KB. You don’t think that's much, but when you're serving [the file] to billions of people, those little differences are very important."
Hard problems get harder when you add scale. The tiniest decisions you make may have a big impact
The fruit of that research is a list of web products that includes Object Orientated CSS (OOCSS), CSS Lint, image-optimisation tool Smush.it - and the delightfully Wallace-and-Gromit-sounding Type-o-matic, which counts fonts on a page. Sullivan also organises CSSConf. As she puts it, she is "crazy busy".
Last carpenter in Paris
Despite her long list of accomplishments, Sullivan didn't start out as a developer. "I had an undergraduate degree in economics and the jobs you can get with that are pretty terrible," she says. "So I decided to go and become a carpenter. I called everyone in the newspaper and said, 'Hey, give me a chance!'"
Sullivan’s carpentry career was cut short when she hurt her hands. "I lost sensation in my fingers, and the doctors said, 'You’re not that big - you really need to find something else to do.'"
Sullivan didn't start out as a developer, instead she turned her hands to carpentry but was forced to quit after losing the sensation in her fingers
When in France, that something else hove into view. "I had the opportunity to move to Paris, and I took it. Technically, I think I was [a legal immigrant], because I did leave every six months and I didn't work, [but] I had no papers; I had no documentation.
"In my boredom, I started reading W3C specifications. I read XML Schema first - which I didn't really understand - and then the CSS specification. [That sounded more interesting], but I thought it was describing how CSS actually worked. At that phase - it was 2002 - the specification was just a pipe dream."
Having accidentally enrolled in an engineering school - "My French was so bad, I thought I was signing up for a little night class in Java!" - Sullivan began working for French agency FullSIX. "They dealt with some of the biggest websites in Europe - things like the train system and big hotel networks - and built sites for most of the major cellphone providers. I got interested in scale and ended up managing the team."
Sullivan later moved back to the US and began working for Yahoo's web performance team, where she began researching best practices - at which point, chance took a hand in her career once more.
"I got laid off," she explains. "At the time I was very upset. I had done a lot of work to deploy their performance-measurement system worldwide and felt like I wasn't quite done with it. But it turned out to be fantastic, as it allowed me time to polish up OOCSS."
The time off also enabled Sullivan to begin a pivotal parallel career as a conference speaker - something that jokingly attributes to her prowess at classic rhythm-based arcade games.
Sullivan first began researching best practices when she joined Yahoo's web performance team
"I got a speaking part at Web Directions North because I'd played Dance Dance Revolution with [conference co-founder] John Allsopp in Japan 10 years earlier," she says. "I feel that life is a lot of random things: you have this grand plan and then you play Dance Dance Revolution, and it changes everything!"
Chance also played its part in that crucial conference talk. "I was going to do a basic overview of performance, but I was also thinking about what really mattered to me," says Sullivan. "The organisers were like, 'Hey, why don’t you do that tomorrow?' So I stayed up all night doing the OOCSS slides, and putting those ideas into words as opposed to just code. It was crazy after that. The slide show has near to half a million views."
So what’s the deal with OOCSS? "It's about applying engineering best practices when we're writing CSS," explains Sullivan. "Those best practices really do hold true in the CSS world. That said, I didn’t come up with OOCSS through pure theory. What I did was try building a whole lot of sites and making mistakes, and over time I kept eliminating techniques that kept failing."
OOCSS is about applying engineering best practices when we're writing CSS
"One time, I named all of my class names very presentationally; stuff like 'Big Red Heading'," she continues. When she came back to the same company on a new contract, Sullivan found, to her horror, that everyone had a translation chart pinned to their workspace walls. "It said things like, 'Big Red Heading actually gives you a tiny blue heading'. I thought, 'I’ll never do that again,'"
"Basically, [OOCSS is about finding a] good, solid core that works and is maintainable," she says. "It's about making things that are easier to understand."
Practical benefits
Making life easier for developers is one thing, but clients care about their bottom lines. What practical advantages does OOCSS hold?
"Lots of companies have me come and work with them because of the performance benefits," says Sullivan. "I had a client who had about 100,000 lines of CSS. We were able to rewrite it in about 1,500, so [there can be] huge differences. But what people really get out of it is their teams work better together. They start delivering features faster."
I had a client who had about 100,000 lines of CSS. We were able to rewrite it in about 1,500
Sullivan compares this approach to coding to building models out of Lego. "You don’t know how the Lego bricks are formed; you just stack them on top of each other. And though you don't realise it, you're learning what makes a good component, too."
"What people really get out of OOCSS is their teams work better together. They start delivering features faster," Sullivan comments
CSS isn't the only part of your code that you can optimise. But, as Sullivan points out, it’s a good place to start, since nothing is rendered until it is loaded and parsed.
"It's [responsible for] that blank white screen before the page even shows up," she says. "That's a really important thing to eliminate, because it changes user behaviour. Leave users waiting too long and it makes a bad first impression. People tend to shop less and friend less."
The gum ball wall
So how do you diagnose where the problems with a site actually lie? "It's really difficult, because rendering is mixed in with all the other things that a browser does," admits Sullivan. "It may seem like your JavaScript is slow, but it could be that you're causing a bunch of repaints of your entire page. Or you may have so many unused selectors that your browser has to parse through a bunch of extra stuff that you don't need it to worry about. CSS performance gets hidden in the cracks around other problems."
To troubleshoot her clients' sites, Sullivan uses Chrome DevTools in conjunction with the grep command-line utility. "I grep my style sheets for different property-value pairs to see how many times they’re used," she says. "I had a client that had margin and padding declarations used ten thousand times! Three or four hundred is more typical, but that’s still too high."
But surely Sass is the magic wand to wave over all our styling problems? "You’d think so. But if you apply Sass without any architecture, you wind up with a crazy mess, like you would if you did any language with no architecture."
As an analogy, Sullivan points to the infamous Bubblegum Alley, a tourist landmark in San Luis Obispo, California, that she has visited - although not contributed to.
"Everyone that has passed by sticks their gum on the wall. It's disgusting!" she says. "If you write your CSS like [she mimics thumbing wads of gum onto a wall], you wind up with code that looks like the gum ball wall - and at that point, teams get stuck."
San Luis Obispo’s Bubblegum Alley. Adding CSS to a site without a good underlying strategy results in equally messy code, says Sullivan
To conclude the interview, we couldn't resist asking Sullivan if there are any parallels between CSS and carpentry.
"You know, I was thinking about doing a talk about the things I learned from being a carpenter," she says. "If you build a roof, you have to stand on it the next day. If you've made some horrible mistake, you might take a ride off it, and that changes your perception of [what it means to do] quality work."
Sullivan’s best- known contribution to the dev community, OOCSS applies engineering best practices to code
"At the other end of the scale, it makes you think about the right level of quality. When you're using class names, does it matter if they're perfectly semantic? Users of the site don't care about them. There are no accessibility devices that read out class names to people on screen readers. It turns out that the primary consumers of my class names are other developers, and that makes it easier to decide on the quality I need."
As Sullivan points out, you only need to make it obvious what each class is for, so that other developers can maintain the code over time. Anything else is overkill. At this point, she breaks into another huge smile. "Once, I was framing a basement. I was cutting the wood to be so precise, and being really meticulous about it. One of the carpenters turned to me and said: 'Nicole, you're not building a fucking piano!'"
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As a result, a growing number of these schemes include with all solicitation materials the paperwork needed to establish or transfer existing retirement savings.
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In one case, a promoter put members of an investment club into "notes", the proceeds of which he then turned around and "loaned" to himself.
When the club members contacted the bank serving as custodian for the IRA accounts, they were not only told that the bank was not responsible for the investment but that it would continue to collect custodial fees on their worthless IRA accounts.
Never transfer or roll-over your retirement funds directly to any investment promoter. Your funds first have to go through a pension fund administrator or trust department.
If your money is sent directly to the promoter it is not going into a recognized plan. In addition to being fully taxed as income for that year, it may be gone for good.
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Fraudulent retirement plan promoters also take advantage of investors who may be confused about the role of the taxman when it comes to IRAs.
The IRS does issue letters to IRA sponsors, trustees and custodians certifying that they are complying with requirements concerning investor rights, account administration, and standards that allow contributions to be deductible.
But they do not review or approve investments; advise people on how to invest; or issue statements that an investment is protected because they have approved a particular trustee or custodian.
An investigation of one radio airwave scheme found that its' salespeople were saying:
"I've been encouraged to call you by the IRS because you have some form of self-contributory, self-directed retirement program like an IRA."
"The problem is that you may be like the millions of Americans who are merely using their retirement fund as an income shelter only and not as an equity growth vehicle directed for comfortable retirement living. … The IRS feels that's not saving for retirement."
"You can use your IRA for this investment by filling out the forms in the attached information package. Our agent will take care of the rest."
"This has been reviewed by the IRS and is deemed so safe you can use it for your IRA. Only certain investments are approved."
"You can remove money from your IRA account and put it into this IRA without any penalties or taxation whatsoever, so that certainly lets you know that it must be solid because the government would not allow anything like that to happen if it was not something for you to get into."
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Many of our current customers took substantial positions with us after comparing their actual IRA return of 3 to 5% to our 400% projected return. They simply did their homework, looked at all the facts and decided that the investment was as safe as any around. It just happens to have a higher return!"
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The Indiana Securities Division took action against a firm purporting to be raising money for the construction of a wireless cable television facility in Southern Florida.
Claiming to already have been involved in 3,040 successful wireless cable television projects, the promoters promised 500% in short-term profits for those who invested through IRAs.
Investors were told that there were few risks, and little or no chance of failure outside of an "act of God" or "invasion by Cuba."
Investors were also told that one of the principals in the scheme was a member of the National Society of Certified Fraud Examiners (NSCFE).
As one salesperson described him: "He's a licensed fiduciary who prevents, you know, the company from ripping off funds."
The promoters also said that as the offering was a "general partnership" it was not required to register under federal and state securities laws.
It was discovered that the firm held no FCC licenses whatsoever for wireless cable in south Florida and had no track record of success.
Additionally, the principal touted as a "fraud examiner" had dropped out of NSCFE membership and yet another promoter was the subject of a FTC injunction involving more than $100,000 in restitution and penalties for deceptive activities in conjunction with an earlier wireless cable television lottery application mill.
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Helen Robinson
City leaders unveiled a 32-page draft Bike Master Plan this week, offering an outline for building biking infrastructure and support for cycling in Colorado Springs.
The plan, called COS Bikes!, aims to design more bicycle-friendly streets, promote a stronger bicycle identity for the city, and build a better on-street bike network.
“Though there is a favorable landscape for biking and an enthusiastic recreational focus, relatively few people bike for transportation in Colorado Springs,” the city’s web site notes. “The bikeway network has large gaps, both in coverage and in types of facilities.”
The plan aims to shift the perception of biking from a purely recreational activity to a safe, convenient everyday transportation option for a large segment of the population.
“The hope and the purpose is to have more people riding to get to places,” said Kate Brady, the city’s senior bike planner. “The city wants to give people choices of how to get around our community and how to do that safely.”
According to the draft plan, U.S. Census data shows only 0.7 percent of the population cycled to work in 2014.
“While there will always be people who are not interested or physically able to bike, there are many others who do not currently ride because they feel unsafe … interacting with motor vehicle traffic,” the plan said. “This Interested but Concerned group accounts for as much as 60 percent of the adult population.”
Brady said the draft plan includes a ‘toolbox’ for matching the right kinds of biking facilities with the characteristics of various roadways, “meaning the busier and scarier that a street is, the more protection we should give bicycle riders so they still feel comfortable riding on it.”
It also includes a map of corridors for focused planning to create a connected network of bicycle infrastructure. The plan envisions expanding biking corridors as far south as Broadmoor Oaks and Cheyenne Mountain State Park, as far north as Northgate, as far west as Mountain Shadows and as far east as Falcon.
“To a certain extent this is an aspirational plan,” Brady said. “It’s nowhere near the level of detail to say, ‘These are the projects that we will be doing in these locations, this is what it’ll look like and this is how much it will cost.’ This has a longer horizon than that and is really looking at … programs that’ll make it easier for us and more welcome for us to put in facilities in the future…
“The plan covers the entire city, and it also recommends some higher priority geographies where we can start, because it’s more helpful to start with good connectivity in a couple of places and connect those and move out from there, rather than … a piece of bike lane here, piece of bike lane there.
“We also looked at destinations — places where you have a good concentration of density, places where you have a gridded street network that helps people get around by bike, and then places where people have lower income or fewer cars per household.”
The city invited public comment at the Active Transportation Advisory Committee meeting Nov. 14, and the Bike Master Plan will be presented before several committees and boards before final presentation to City Council for approval in early 2018.
The next presentation is at the Active Transportation Advisory Committee Dec. 19. Residents can also provide feedback on the draft plan in an online survey.
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Traders can become addicted to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin as their volatile price fluctuations can be as thrilling but potentially costly as gambling, according to therapists at Castle Craig clinic near Edinburgh. (© KAREN BLEIER / AFP)
FRANKFURT -- An international financial monitor warned world leaders Tuesday that wider use by retail shoppers of cryptocurrencies like Libra, unveiled last week by Facebook, would need "close scrutiny" by regulators.
The chief of the Financial Stability Board made the statement in a letter to the heads of state and government who will gather at the Group of 20 summit on June 28-29 in Osaka, Japan.
Finance officials are debating how to regulate cryptocurrencies after Facebook unveiled Libra, a digital form of cash linked to existing currencies. Cryptocurrency is a form of digital money that uses encryption technology to make it secure. Cryptocurrencies exist not as physical bills or coins but rather as lines of digitally signed computer code.
FSB chair Randal K. Quarles, whose letter doesn't mention Libra by name, said technological innovation could make the financial sector more efficient and inclusive and that cryptocurrencies do not at the moment pose a risk to global financial stability.
He warned, however, that "a wider use of new types of crypto-assets for retail payment purposes would warrant close scrutiny by authorities to ensure that that they are subject to high standards of regulation."
"Though crypto-assets do not currently pose a risk to global financial stability, gaps may occur where crypto-assets fall outside the scope of regulators' authority or from the absence of international standards," he wrote in the letter.
Leaders of the G-20, whose countries represent more than 80% of the global economy, only made a one-sentence mention of cryptocurrencies at their 2018 summit in Buenos Aires.
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Kristy Kirkup, The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to a major international summit in Japan, hoping to make progress -- or at least find allies -- in Canada's multi-front dispute with China.
The G20 leaders' summit in Osaka comes at a critical moment for Trudeau, with a fall election in the offing and Canada having had no luck so far in its efforts to secure the release of two Canadians in China's custody -- Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
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China detained the pair, a former diplomat and an entrepreneur, days after Canada arrested Chinese high-tech executive Meng Wanzhou in December on a U.S. extradition warrant. They've been arrested on allegations of undermining China's national security.
As Trudeau set out for Osaka, the two countries dug in. In a regular daily news conference at China's foreign ministry in Beijing, spokesman Geng Shuang again pressured Canada to free Meng, who is currently out on bail in Vancouver, awaiting an extradition proceeding that could last years.
"Our position is very clear," said Geng. "We urge the Canadian side to take our solemn concerns seriously, immediately release Ms. Meng Wanzhou and ensure that she returns to China safe and sound."
Canada, for its part, insists it is merely following the rule of law.
"There has been no political interference in this case," said Adam Austen, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. "It has been entirely about officials taking decisions according to Canada's commitments."
On Tuesday, China appeared to up the ante, seeking to suspend imports of Canadian meat on the grounds that its authorities don't trust Canadian assurances about the quality of its exports. China has previously obstructed shipments of Canadian canola, peas and soybeans.
Canadian ministers and officials have had little luck getting to speak to their opposite numbers in China about any of it. International Trade Minister Jim Carr said Wednesday he's not concerned about damage to Canada's brand at this point.
"Someone is going to have to come up with some proof that there's something wrong with the product and that the product originates from Canada," Carr said following a speech in Toronto. "We don't know where the product originated so there are unanswered questions here and (we will) seek to answer them quickly."
A government spokesperson confirmed that the government has called in the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency to investigate an inauthentic certificate.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault, whose province generates about 40 per cent of Canada's pork, called Beijing's latest move "draconian" and urged the federal government to come up with help for hog farmers. He also left the door open to possible retaliatory measures.
"Trade has to be fair, it has to be possible in both directions," Legault said. "At this time, we can't rule anything out."
To get a message across in Osaka, Trudeau will lean on the power and influence of the mercurial Donald Trump, who has committed to raising the issue of the two detained Canadians when the U.S. president meets one-on-one with China's president Xi Jinping. A Canadian government official says Canada is "unlikely" to request such a meeting of its own.
The G20 includes countries with large economies from all over the world, with much more divergent interests than the smaller G7. Its members include Russia, China, Turkey, Indonesia, Brazil and South Korea.
During last week's meeting with Trudeau in the Oval Office, Trump pledged his support for Canada's detainees in China and committed to raising the issue with Xi. "Anything I can do to help Canada, I will be doing," he said.
It should come as no surprise that China doesn't want to entertain a meeting with the prime minister, which is why Trump remains Canada's best hope, said David Mulroney, a former Canadian ambassador to China.
"That would be the strongest card that could be played in our interests," he said. "It would be an American card played to say ... 'If you want a normal relationship with us, you'll leave our allies alone."'
Currying favour with other leaders who face similar challenges from China would also be helpful, Mulroney added.
"If we can build this sense of shared purpose in pushing back against China, in not allowing ourselves to be isolated like this, that's a big step forward," he said.
"It is in America's interest and it is in the interest of a lot of other countries to see China pull back from hostage diplomacy and bullying ... The only way to counter that is through collective action and that is a long, hard slog."
Canada doesn't play offence very much, but should make an exception in this case and talk to other leaders about the detained Canadians, said Christopher Sands, the director of the Center for Canadian Studies at John Hopkins University.
Beyond asking for Trump's support, countries like Japan, South Korea and perhaps India might be willing to do the same, helping to strengthen the U.S. president's commitment to the cause, Sands said.
An official confirmed Trudeau is expected to sit down with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the summit -- a conversation where the detentions are likely to be raised.
To date, a list of countries including Australia, France, German, Spain, the U.S. and the U.K. have spoken in support of the detained Canadians.
Rohinton Medhora, the president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, said he will be watching to see who else Xi meets in bilateral one-on-one sessions. The G20 is an opportunity to showcase Canada as a major diplomatic player -- particularly with Canadians poised to go to the polls in October, he said.
"I would say the pressure (is on), especially going into an election when you have to demonstrate that Canada is better and different than four years ago."
Conservative foreign-affairs critic Erin O'Toole echoed that point, saying it is critical Canada not let the opportunity afforded by the G20 pass, especially given the upcoming election campaign.
"As of September, the writ will drop," he said. "This is really the last major time to really shake up and try to stop the spiral of the China relationship."
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The world's oldest dog has died at the age of 203 (in canine years).
Bella was bought by David Richardson from the RSPCA 26 years ago when she was three years old.
Since then, the Labrador cross enjoyed a comfy life at the Derbyshire home of 76-year-old Mr Richardson and his partner Daisy Cooper, 81.
It's a dog's life: Bella with her owner David Richardson. The Labrador cross lived to the grand old age of 203 years
Although Mr Richardson, from Clay Cross, has no official documentation to prove Bella's age, he insists the aged pooch was 29.
Bella died of a heart attack on Saturday in Lincolnshire where the couple had gone on holiday.
'We had just come up to Mablethorpe - we always go to the same place on holiday because we can take the dogs,' said Mr Richardson.
'We had barely been here for an hour when Bella started panting and yelping and collapsed in front of the sofa.
'We took Bella to the vet but she was so ill she had to be put to sleep.It was very upsetting. We will miss her a lot.
'Lots of people came to see us and to wish Bella goodbye. Our friends and neighbours were very fond of her,' he added.
The Guinness World Records say the most recent record for the oldest dog was held by Butch, a 28-year-old from America who died in 2003. The oldest ever dog was Bluey, a sheepdog from Australia, who also lived to 29.
Mr Richardson's claim could never be proved because the RSPCA don't hold detailed records stretching back to when he bought Bella and the Guinness World Records say Bella could not have been included because their was no documentation.
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By Andrew Lawrence | on May 02, 2019
Helvetica has been revamped for the digital age, in recognition of the fact that changing times demand distinctive brand design, writes Andrew Lawrence, executive creative director of Elmwood.
Helvetica may have had a facelift, but designers can still spot the classic font a mile off - and that’s a good thing.
As arguably the world’s most universally recognised font, Helvetica’s digital makeover was perhaps long overdue. The font was conceived over 60 years ago, long before people started to read on a variety of digital devices.
The new version, Helvetica Now, looks universally good in print and online. It looks modern and works effectively on a variety of screens whilst adding some new options, making it more customisable.
Other brands would do well to emulate this type of ‘agile long-termism’, given that the power of design is more relevant than ever in a world of accelerated change. This ability to be flexible and responsive without losing sight of long-term vision is the key to standing the test of time. Because whilst brands can’t consider redefining themselves every couple of years, an ‘always new’ mindset is key: an ability to embrace evolution without introducing needless, wholesale changes.
Fortunately the redesign of arguably the world’s most ubiquitous font has introduced a range of useful alternates to aid branding challenges, rather than a series of redundant tweaks. It offers a fresh, contemporary character and addresses some of the previous, awkward nuances. Available in three optical sizes, offering easy legibility whatever the device, it has reduced the need for resizing, manual adjustment and repositioning. This allows for clearer communication in today’s varied and demanding design environments.
Rather than appearing significantly different, it feels reinvigorated and ready for any type of screen, browser or interface. This extra adaptability is an exciting possibility because the ability to customise is increasingly important in an era in which brands have to strive for greater ‘ownability’ of assets.
And, all the while, the Helvetica font remains a classic piece of Swiss cool. It’s like buying Scandinavian furniture: There is a precision to it and, despite being old, it looks modern. It has an edge. Effective typography, like good furniture design, tends to boast a simple, understated beauty. There is a quiet confidence about Helvetica.
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But being distinctive is not the same as having timeless appeal. And, when it comes to fonts, there are classics and those that are in vogue, which may last only a couple of years before they end up looking worryingly like ‘Dad dancing’. Helvetica, on the other hand, has aged well, managing to avoid looking terribly dated.
As designers, we talk about doing more with less, about creating assets which are recognisable and which maintain flexibility. Extraordinary design is meaningful, memorable and iconic but it also boasts this type of agility and long-term vision. Simple and distinctive, it works in the blink of an eye.
In the same way as the Apple icon serves as an instant quality kitemark in consumers’ minds, the Nike ‘tick’is a unique part of its identity system and one that shoppers recognise instantly. In this way, it plays into our 'System 1 thinking' – ensuring subconscious recognition with next to no effort.
Similarly, Adidas has created a selection of brand assets that you could put in a blender and splatter across the wall. You would still recognise the individual components, the shapes, the typography, when scattered, because it has successfully created brand icons.
Coca Cola, too: If you put its long-standing brand assets into a blender, you’d still see the red background, the swirly ‘c’, the white swoosh and immediately think of the fizzy drink. This is all about brand assets that are iconic, distinctive and recognisable – because we humans are not as rational as we may like to think. It’s about aiming for brand design which is out of the ordinary and which leverages the System 1 thinking that drives the often instantaneous decisions that govern much our lives, whether we know it or not.
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By investing in iconic design assets, whether typography, graphics, colour, platforms or interfaces, brands can leverage canvases that can build emotive interactions which are memorable. What’s more, technological innovations allow brands to dimensionalise their stories and experiences in a way that was never before possible.
Of course, if everyone used Helvetica in the same way you wouldn’t be able to tell one brand from another. But design thinking is not just about the font. It’s about everything else that forms your brand’s suite of iconic assets, and layering up those assets of which typography forms just one part.
When we put these together it’s that blend that creates a unique sense of distinctiveness.
This new, customisable cut, Helvetica Now, gives us an exciting opportunity to put our own spin on a timeless classic, creating brand assets that work in the blink of an eye, with design fit for the digital world.
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EE Publishers Home» Articles: Energize»The gas turbines/battery hybrid: Ideal partner for wind and solar
The gas turbines/battery hybrid: Ideal partner for wind and solar
June 26th, 2019, Published in Articles: Energize
by Mike Rycroft, EE Publishers
The increasing amount of renewable energy in networks has led to challenging situations which require flexible balancing generation plant that can respond rapidly to changes in generation and demand. Open-cycle gas turbines (OCGTs) have been used successfully in this function, but the growth of renewable energy (RE) in some networks has outstripped the ability of OCGTs to respond quickly to changes, so additional flexible resource capabilities are required to stabilise networks.
Because of their rapid response to demand changes, gas turbines play a crucial role in electricity supply systems by matching supply to demand. The growth of variable, renewable-generating resources, particularly wind and solar power, has changed the operating and economic constraints on gas-fired generation. Many systems are adding high-flexibility, open-cycle gas turbines to provide a wide range of necessary functions for successful grid operation. Technologically advanced, open-cycle gas turbines provide fast-starting and rapid power-ramping functions necessary to accommodate high penetrations of power from wind and solar sources.
Gas turbines also provide essential reliability services, including adding system inertia and accepting secondary frequency control. However, delivery of these essential services requires a continuous, committed gas turbine for power generation. When the cost of the power produced by the unit exceeds the marginal value of electricity, there is a significant economic penalty to operation, even at minimum load [1].
Fig. 1: Operation of a HOB system [3].
Challenges and changes to the way the system operates, make the need for greater flexibility and adaptability paramount. Large amounts of wind and solar generation will ultimately prove more cost effective, and will lessen the need for fossil power generation, and renewables will become become the preferred power supply. With less power demand from fossil fuels during the intervals of wind and solar production, synchronous power generation will be displaced. This will take two forms: units will either be:
Decommitted (stopped), or
Dispatched down, often to the minimum allowable level
Many of the economic challenges facing the industry derive from these operational constraints in conjunction with other competitive forces. Operators are faced with an environment of [1]:
Flat systemic load energy growth
Requirements for faster ramps and higher peaks
Multiple starts per day
Frequent dispatch to minimum
Close scrutiny to primary frequency response, and frequency response obligation
Increased need for spinning and other short-term reserves
System synchronous inertia and fast-frequency response requirements
Tighter emissions requirements
It would be ideal if it were possible to have all benefits of having the gas turbine committed without burning any fuel and producing unwanted electricity, but there are limits to the capability of the turbine on its own to meet this requirement. Some of these limitations are described in the following:
Turbine start-up capability
This is the time taken to reach full operational speed and power from a cold or hot start. Current models available can achieve start-up times of ten minutes from cold start and five minutes from hot start. This is still not fast enough to respond to sudden changes in load, and for this reason gas turbines are kept at a low power spinning reserve state.
Turbine ramping capability
This is the rate at which the gas turbine (GT) can increase or decrease generation. The rate for a GE LM6000 50 MW turbine is 50 MW/min. Ramping rate governs the speed with which the GT can follow load variations.
Spinning reserve requirements
Spinning reserve can be defined generally as additional or unused generating capacity that is on line, synchronised and available to meet demand when activated. GTs used as partners to RE must be running and synchronised to be used as spinning reserve. Running the GT during times of high RE production means that some of the RE or other generating capacity needs to be curtailed, with an associated increase in cost. The GT needs to be run at the lowest level possible in spinning reserve mode, and this means operating at low efficiency. GTs have minimum dispatch levels as dictated by firing stability, emissions control and other practical limitations. Common GT can run down to power levels of 25% but operating at a level below this has problems, and GTs simply cannot be run at zero power.
The drop in the cost of storage and the development of smart battery energy storage systems (BESS) makes the OCGT/BESS hybrid a possible solution to the problem. BESS are used extensively at various places in the grid to stabilise load, load demand response, peak shaving and to smooth out the output of solar PV and wind generators. They have recently been used to complement and improve the operation of auxiliary service generators such as open and closed cycle gas turbines.
The hybrid OCGT/BESS (HOB) system consists of an open cycle gas turbine operated in parallel with a BESS system. The BESS can be either a custom built unit or a multipurpose unit such as the Siemens Siesstart [4] which is designed for use in such a hybrid system. The unit will consist of the battery, power converters, one or more control units and switchgear and transformers for interconnection with the grid and the GT. The heart of the system is the smart controller, which regulates the operation of both the BESS and the GT.
To meet operating requirements the battery must retain sufficient charge to meet immediate demands (both to supply energy and to absorb energy) under all situations .This means that the battery must be recharged in a controlled manner. This function is carried out by the battery controller or storage management system.
Operation of the HOB
The operation of the system is illustrated Fig. 1.
This is the ability of a generating unit to start without an outside electrical supply. In the case of the hybrid unit, black start is the capability of the battery to supply the necessary electrical power and possibly the frequency reference to enable the GT to start up. The battery needs to have the capacity to power the turbine start-up motor as well as the various pumps,valves, ignitors and controls associated with the GT. When the GT starts up, the BESS absorbs the energy produced until customers can be re-connected to their supply from the grid.
Grid support
The battery needs to be able to supply the additional demand from the grid instantaneously. The Bess can ramp up to full capacity within milliseconds and continue to do so until the GT has reached full capacity. The battery capacity may equal that of the GT or be set at a lower figure as shown in Fig. 1.
Frequency response (primary and secondary)
The bi-directional nature of BESS means that they can both absorb energy from the grid as well as feed energy back into the grid. Grid frequency is an indicator of grid stability and, under ideal conditions, will be 50 Hz. Primary reserves are the fastest services and are first in line to stabilise frequency deviations. The fast response times of BESS technology can provide both upward and downward regulation, and can allow the GT to maintain a stable output while the hybrid provides frequency regulation to the grid.
The BESS/GT hybrid is capable of providing PFS and SFS while the turbine is running, by either injecting energy into the grid in addition to the GT output, or absorbing energy from the GT, thus reducing its contribution to the grid. The battery assumes the task of fast response (both positive and negative), while the gas turbine only supplies the energy to deliver extended service requirements and balance the battery charge level. Such an optimized operating mode significantly reduces the stress on the gas turbine. The BESS is also capable of providing frequency response services when the GT is not operational.
Ramp up and ramp down support
The battery provides ramp up/down support by either injecting additional power into the grid or absorbing power from the GT during ramp down. The BESS stabilises the GT during sudden drops in load such as disconnection by absorbing power and providing a soft shutdown.
Spinning reserve
The BESS is capable of providing additional spinning reserve power while the GT is operational, depending on the state of charge.
Minimum environmental load management
The technical minimum environmental load (MEL) is defined as the minimum condition at which the GT is able to operate, while still meeting the environmental limits, in particular NOX and CO emissions. When the grid demand drops below the MEL, the BESS can absorb energy from the GT, allowing continued operation. Without the BESS, the GT would have to shut down.
Stabilisation of turbine during grid outages
In the event of a grid outage, rotating power-generating machines tend to speed up very quickly because the kinetic rotational energy is no longer balanced by a sufficiently high generator load. The most important objective in stabilising the GT on grid outages is to limit the speed increase as well as to maintain turbine operation at the auxiliary power requirement or in island mode. On disconnection from the grid, the excess energy in the rotating system is removed through the generator as electrical energy and input to and stored in the BESS. The residual energy is removed from the process through controlled instantaneous charge of the BESS for a specific time. This significantly reduces the acceleration and thus the speed increase. Battery charge power is gradually reduced again after the speed has stabilised.
Hybrid configurations
In a network hybrid the generator can be decommited while the BESS remains synchronised and provides the equivalent of spinning reserve. The system can operate without the turbine being operational and without the generation of power.
Gas turbine primary
In this configuration the GT is the main source of power and the battery is used to assist with start up, ramp rates and low level output . A prime example is the Stanton energy reliability centre reserve power plant [2]. The constituents of the plant are an aero-derivative gas turbine (GE LM60001 – nominal 50 MW rating), and a 10 MW/4,3 MWh packaged battery energy storage system. The gas turbine features state-of-the-art controls with 5 min fast start, fast synchronisation, and improved NOx controls at ultra-low output. The battery system is fully integrated controls, with 4-quadrant self-commutating inverters, and complementary balance-of-plant. The annual number of starts is expected to decrease by approximately 50% and run hours by 60% [2].
Battery primary
In this configuration the battery is the primary source of power and the GT is used to provide additional power when the capacity of the battery is exceeded. This configuration is claimed to be useful for extending the useful life of older gas turbines. An example the would be combined gas and battery grid services power plant by Technische Werke Ludwigshafen and Younicos [7]. The system consists of a 4 MW gas turbine with a 6,5 MWh battery.
[1] NW Millar, et al: “Hybridizing Gas Turbine with Battery Energy Storage: Performance and Economics” Cigre, Paris session 2018, Paper A1-101.
[2] GE: “Gas turbines and batteries : A perfect pairing”, Power engineering international, March 2018.
[3] U Fuchs: “Battery energy storage solution: Enhancing the operational flexibility of combined cycle gas turbines”, Third International Hybrid Power Systems workshop, May 2018.
[4] C Miekowski: “Battery gas turbine combination provides power plant flexibility”, Siemens Power, February 2018.
[5] U Fuchs: “Energy storage on the grid: Supporting energy transition”, SA Energy Storage conference, 2017.
[6] S Hoffman: “Investigating battery storage in combination with gas turbine generation for frequency regulation”, University of Sheffield.
[7] M Fuhs: “Combined gas and battery grid services power plant by Technische Werke Ludwigshafen and Younicos”, PV magazine, March 2018.
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Nipsey Hussle Shot and Killed in Los Angeles
Hip Hop is mourning the loss of the Crenshaw rapper.
by Justin Richards
Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed right outside his L.A. store late Sunday evening. Two other men were shot, with the suspect still at large.
According to NBC News, Nipsey was shot multiple times in the parking lot at Marathon Clothing in South Los Angeles at about 3:25 p.m. and pronounced dead at a hospital.
The Grammy-nominated artist was known for his business teaching cascading with his bombastic gangster rap music. His style resonated with fans to the point where the hashtag RIPNipsey trending across Twitter. Celebrities including, The Game, Lebron James, Stephen Curry, J.Cole, and others showed their respects to the Los Angles-based rapper.
With his last project, Victory Lap, nominated for rap album of the year, Nipsey Hussle career began to cross over to mainstream success, recently gracing the cover of GQ with longtime girlfriend Lauren London. The 33-year-old rapper is survived by his girlfriend London and his two children.
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EcoVadis Supports Due Diligence Efforts Conducted By The Foundation For The Global Compact And Seven United Nations Agencies
The three year partnership offers all eight UN organizations increased visibility into their key business partners’ sustainability risk and performance
PARIS (October 30, 2018) – EcoVadis, the leader in business sustainability ratings for global supply chains, has announced today a three-year partnership with the Foundation for the Global Compact. The Foundation will leverage EcoVadis’ platform to evaluate the risk and performance of business participants of the UN Global Compact.
“Since its founding over 10 years ago, EcoVadis has aligned its sustainability assessment methodology with the the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact. Thus, our new partnership is a perfect fit with the Foundation for the Global Compact and the United Nations Global Compact’s mission to mobilize a global sustainability movement,” said Pierre-Francois Thaler, co-CEO and co-founder at EcoVadis. “We look forward to working closely with the Foundation and the UN agencies to drive responsible business practices.
Through its relationship with the Foundation for the Global Compact, EcoVadis will also provide services to seven United Nations agencies.
For more information on how EcoVadis aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and provides deeper insights into organizations’ sustainability and CSR performance, visit our website at www.ecovadis.com.
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EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. Backed by a powerful technology platform and a global team of domain experts, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards provide detailed insight into environmental, social and ethical risks across 190 purchasing categories and 150 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, Schneider Electric, Michelin and BASF are among the more than 50,000 businesses on the EcoVadis network, all working with a single methodology to evaluate, collaborate and improve sustainability performance in order to protect their brands, foster transparency and innovation, and accelerate growth. Learn more at ecovadis.com.
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New York Mogul Used a Billboard to Celebrate His Post-Divorce Relationship
By R. Eric Thomas
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While some people can't even make it on to their significant other's Insta grid, Harry Macklowe, the 81-year-old starting forward on Team Extra, is proclaiming his love with a 42-foot-high photo of his new wife, Patricia Landeau, on the side of a New York building. There's Facebook official and then there's real estate official. You know it's true when he has to hire of a team of workers to scale a skyscraper for you, Spiderman-style.
The Park Avenue Cube
As reported in the New York Times, Macklowe, a real estate developer who built 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential building in the world, recently emerged from a "contentious 14-week divorce" and remarried last week. To celebrate, he made the subtle gesture of installing his face and his wife's face on the side of the adjacent Park Avenue Cube using black-and-white photos the size of a T-Rex standing on the tiny shoulders of another T-Rex. Approximately.
432 Park Avenue. She chonk.
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When asked to explain his reasoning, Macklowe told the Times, "Since I wasn’t getting married during the summer in the Hamptons, I wasn’t able to hire an airplane with a banner to go up and down the shoreline. I thought: ‘I own a building. Why don’t I just hang a banner from my own building?’" Ah, yes. Very relatable. I do so hate it when I'm not going to be married in the summer in the Hamptons and must find a substitute for hiring an airplane with a banner. Who amongst us, really?
A normal thing to do.
Linda Macklowe was married to Harry for 50 years before a public split in 2016 prompted a rough-and-tumble trial to divvy up their $2 billion fortune. Once again, who amongst us hasn't been there? In an interesting and definitely not coincidental twist, Linda was under contract to purchase an apartment in 432 Park Avenue but was permitted to exit the deal by the judge in the case. Can you imagine having the windows of your multi-million dollar apartment covered with your ex’s new spouse, blown up to the size of a brachiosaurus? You wake up every morning staring into a giant nostril like, "What even is this? Why am I so rich and yet involved in such relatable petty drama? Iyanla, fix my life!"
Fortunately, that awkward interaction was avoided. Harry's John Cusack-in-Say Anything-style gesture stays just to the left of petty by not directly facing his ex and instead towering over the teeming streets below, greeting innocent bystanders with the sight of the most relatable and drama-free one-percenter lovebirds in all the land.
R. Eric Thomas R Eric Thomas is a Senior Staff Writer at ELLE.com, home of his daily humor column "Eric Reads the News," which skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity shade, and schadenfreude.
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There Will No Longer Be Shirtless Lifeguards to Welcome You to Abercrombie & Fitch
Also, no more naked ab bags.
By Sally Holmes
Gone are the days when you can walk down the street and expect to see pairs of well-oiled abs flanking the doors to the store of your teenage dreams, each abdominal welcoming you into the pop-music blasting, offensively-perfumed clothing mecca within. Let's pause, for a moment of silence, because, ladies and gentlemen, Abercrombie & Fitch is finally doing away with their half-naked model sales associates.
*Taylor Swift Abercrombie Tear*
In a press release this morning, two of our go-to tweenage brands, Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister, shared the news that as they continue "to evolve," they're overhauling some of their store policies—which includes doing away with some of their signature shirtlessness.
Some of these updated policies include changing the store associate titles from "Model" to "Brand Representative" (nice), a dress code that takes a more open-minded approach (presumably more shirts), and the fact that "store associates will not be hired based on body type or physical attractiveness" (which, 2015!).
An Ode to the Shirtless Abercrombie & Fitch Models
As for those tasteful bags that display Kellan Lutz-level abs and alert people within a 50 yard radius that yes! you have been shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch (FOR MY 13-YEAR-OLD NIECE, OKAY?), welp, GONE: "By the end of July, there will no longer be sexualized marketing used in marketing materials, including in-store photos, gift cards, and shopping bags," reads the press release. Also, "Hollister will no longer use shirtless lifeguards for store openings and events" and "A&F will no longer use shirtless models for store openings and events."
Truly the end of an era.
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Aliens of the Deep (review)
Fri Jan 28 2005, 02:40pm | comments off
Sea to Believe
There’s lots of scientists who study neat-o things like marine seismology and astrobiology in Aliens of the Deep, James Cameron’s new 3-D IMAX movie, and they all say things like “Cool!” and “Wow!” and “Awesome!” a lot. Not that it’s not justified, cuz they’re like two and a half miles down in the ocean in science-fictiony mini submarines checking out landscapes that look downright lunar, and any geek worth her telescope has dreamed about walking on the moon or Mars or Somewhere Else other than Earth.
So it is very cool, and the scientists are all very passionate about their work, which I love seeing: people excited about geeky science stuff. Cameron’s idea (he directed with Steven Quale, and produced, and shot stuff, too) was to put researchers and theorists who don’t normally visit the ocean floor but whose work could benefit from it into those subs, and their excitement is contagious. I started thinking the film’s title was metaphorical — you know, we are the aliens of the deep, fragile humans in a hostile environment, et cetera — and then: Wow! Aliens! No, I mean really, creatures like nothing you’ve ever seen before: an achingly beautiful diaphanous thing waving in the water that makes one scientist wonder how something like that can even be alive; a blobby critter that you can’t tell which side is up on, that looks like a squishy plush toy or some pal of Pokemon’s; an octopus that, okay, doesn’t look all the alien but is clearly demonstrating some real smarts, genuine intelligent curiosity about the little robot camera called Jake that’s exploring away from the subs. It’s enough to give you chills, seeing how amazing these animals are and realizing that most of the surface of the Earth is two miles down under water and who knows what the hell else is down there that we don’t know about.
It’s all so…neat. I love IMAX movies anyway — there’s something extra movieish about the enormous screen and the big big sound — and this one just immerses you in its exotic environment in a way that makes you wish it would never end.
“I love this stuff,” says Cameron (Ghosts of the Abyss, Titanic) — he’s right there in the subs, too, and wouldn’t you be if you had the chance? Cool toys and real exploration in the only place left on Earth that hasn’t been completely explored: “This is way more exciting than any made-up Hollywood special effects,” Cameron drools, and he’s right. Aliens of the Deep later invokes Cameron’s own film The Abyss, but this is a lot more thrilling, knowing it’s real — the black smokers, nutrient chimneys venting energy from the magma below the ocean floor, feeding a world without sunlight, and the mostly colorless but beautiful creatures that live there, like the vent worms with their vaguely naughty-looking red plumes, and the vent shrimp (mmmm, vent shrimp…).
It couldn’t have been planned, of course, but some of those vistas of the seafloor bring to mind the new images we’re seeing from the surface of Titan. But there is a deliberate connection made by the film between outer space and the remote reaches of the ocean, adding another dimension to engage the geeky imagination. As astrobiologist Kevin Hand points out in the film — he’s practically the star, after all the marvelous animals, with his infectious enthusiasm — we’re pretty sure there’s a liquid-water ocean under the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, and exploring our own oceans will help us plan for the eventual exploration of Europa’s. And whether the possibility of alien life on that distant moon is news to you or not, you’ll leave Aliens of the Deep fired up for us to get going off this rock already.
It may seem like a strange juxtaposition to some, looking at weird fish and making a plea for new deep-space missions, but that’s precisely why we need more visionaries like Cameron pointing out that they’re not all that different, that it’s merely expanding the radius of the circle of life a bit, and that in the end, it’ll only help us understand ourselves all the better.
MPAA: rated G
viewed at a semipublic screening with an audience of critics and ordinary moviegoers
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Brexit coins to be DELAYED due to confusion over when the UK will leave EU
COINS specially minted to commemorate Brexit will not be put into circulation on March 29, as previously expected, due to confusion over when the UK will leave the EU.
By Laura O'Callaghan
PUBLISHED: 14:32, Mon, Mar 18, 2019 | UPDATED: 15:32, Mon, Mar 18, 2019
The 50p coins, which will be engraved with the date of Brexit and the motto ‘Friendship with all nations’, will be released “following our departure”, the Treasury has said. Yesterday the chancellor Philip Hammond brushed off embarrassment when asked about a batch of the commemorative coins which were produced with the date March 29 - despite MPs voting to delay Brexit - saying they would become “collectors’ pieces”. The campaign for the seven-sided coin was led by Tory MP Craig Mackinlay.
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Speaking after news of the delay in the release of the coins came to light, the ardent Brexiteer said he had received “promises” that the celebratory coin would be struck to mark Brexit and the Royal Mint should already have produced batches of the coin ahead of March 29.
He said: “Others may be prepared to go back on their promises to deliver Brexit as the public demanded but I am not, and look forward to seeing and using this significant coin, the campaign for which I have played a significant role.”
Mr Hammond told BBC 1’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday the botched coins, engraved with the original Brexit date, were in fact never intended to go into circulation.
He said: “They were always collectors’ coin of which the Royal Mint issues quite a number.”
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Russian arms deliveries to Serbia worry both EU and NATO
Photo: Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Copyright profimedia.cz
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The delivery of six Russian MiG-29 fighter jets including armaments to Serbia from Friday 6 October triggered concerns in the EU and NATO. The general tightening Russian-Serbian cooperation includes more frequent joint Russian-Serbian military exercises in addition to the supplies of military technology and has been causing similar reactions since 2016.
The Serbian Army uses largely Soviet or Russian technology and is therefore dependent on Russia for spare parts. In January 2016, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dimitrij Rogozin announced plans to supply modern military equipment to Serbia, including S-300 anti-aircraft systems. Serbia has also expressed interest in Russia's modernised T-90AM tanks. The Kosovo issue also links Serbia and Russia, since Moscow has long supported Belgrade's stance on Kosovo‘s illegitimacy. Russia skillfully uses the topic of Kosovo to strengthen its influence in the Balkans and, on the contrary, reduce NATO's credibility in the eyes of Serbs. Serbia is also dependent on Russia in regards to energy security since Russia makes up 80 % of Serbia's total gas import. On the other hand, Serbia is also cooperating with the Alliance and is among EU candidate countries which could be greatly complicated by the country's relations with Russia.
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HomeLeague of LegendsLCS - NA[League of Legends] TDK, Renegades, and Team Impulse Banned from LCS
[League of Legends] TDK, Renegades, and Team Impulse Banned from LCS
Strong rulings from Riot Games today as they announced in two separate statements that three North American League of Legends organizations would be banned from competing in the LCS.
TDK and Renegades Ruling
Team Impulse Ruling
In the first statement, TDK (Team Dragon Knights) and Renegades are both banned and given a 9 day grace period to sell off their LCS spot. Renegades team owner Chris Badawi has been permanently banned from associating with any Riot-sanctioned team, co-owner Christopher Mykles has been banned until Summer Split 2017 (though he can still work as a caster), and Chris Shim and Sean Shim, the TDK owners have been “indefinitely banned” from associating with a Riot-sanctioned team, but can apply for reinstatement on January 1st, 2019.
The charges leveled against the teams are major, with suspicious player trades between the two organizations, the financial dealings of Chris Badawi that included Mykles granting him a 50 percent stake in the Renegades organization once his previous suspension concluded, and even more troubling, allegations of players living in an “unsafe environment”:
These allegations, corroborated to Riot by multiple sources who have had close contact or affiliation with the team, included confrontations between management and players, refusal to honor payment and contract provisions, and failure to maintain a safe environment for all team members.
-Riot Games
Riot stressed that the players, coaches, and other team managers on both TDK and Renegades were not being charged, and thus would be allowed to continue in the league. Again, both organizations have until May 18th at 11:59pm PST to find a buyer for their league spot.
The charges against Team Impulse are quite straightforward:
Team Impulse management has repeatedly failed to pay their players on time and to provide valid contracts for their players, as required by the LCS Rules and Team Agreement. League officials have, on multiple occasions, clarified requirements and even directly intervened in team operations to ensure payments, and have determined that Team Impulse does not meet League standards for a professional organization. As such, they will not be permitted to continue participating in Riot-sanctioned leagues.
Team Impulse is charged with not providing contracts for their players, and providing late payments between 2015 and 2016. Several team members are believed to still be owed money from past competitions.
TIP has until May 18th to sell their league spot, and they are also being fined $20,000.
The players who claim they are still owed money may never receive payment because there were no TIP contracts in place.
In all instances of League spot sales, Riot says they have provisions in place if the organizations cannot find buyers within the time frame provided, but they have not publicly disclosed what those plans may be.
It’s quite the show of force: strong stance, strong statements, and strong player protection from Riot Games.
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These Are the Most Divisive Movies Ever, According to Science
Who knew people liked The Dark Knight Rises?
By Rosie Fletcher | Nov 25, 2017
IMAGE Paramount Pictures
Which movies split audiences more than any other? Which films can't the critics agree on?
Gizmodo has done some research using reviews aggregator Metacritic to work out which are the truly Vegemite-type movies (you know, polarizing), those that some people claim are a five-star masterpiece and that others dismiss as utter trash.
Utilizing Metacritic's database of titles, which had been reviewed at least 40 times, Gizmodo ascertained and analyzed the standard deviant of review score to find out which films had divided people the most.
Perhaps not surprisingly, you'll find plenty of arthouse movies in the top 50. Lars von Trier's Melancholia tops the list (what??? It's clearly brilliant!) with The Neon Demon, Under The Skin and mother! lingering around the top.
Cult hits Sin City and The Hateful Eight also make the top 10, though perhaps more surprisingly Christopher Nolan's Inception comes in at number 5.
Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises also scores surprisingly high for divisiveness – it's number 39 on the top 50 list, while Star Wars episode III: Revenge of the Sith clocks in at number 27.
At the other end of the spectrum—the movies everyone agrees about—are widely loved films like Moonlight and Boyhood.
And there are several films that critics all agreed were just ok...
Mission Impossible III and 22 Jump Street both get the consensus that they're, yeah, pretty good, but not great.
From: Digital Spy
This story originally appeared on Esquire.co.uk.
* Minor edits have been made by the Esquiremag.ph editors.
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City Lights N/A 3.3/4
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Ex Machina N/A 3.2/4
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Finding Nemo N/A 3.2/4
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Is Gum Disease the Cause of Alzheimer’s? Well, Maybe
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that affects nearly six million people in the United States. Researchers have been trying for decades to gain a deeper understanding of this condition and what causes it, but most of their efforts have yielded little success. A recent breakthrough, however, is shedding light on the potential cause of Alzheimer’s. It may be directly related to gum disease. Let’s take a closer look at the research and what it may mean for you.
Alzheimer’s and Gum Disease
For many years, scientists have known about the correlation between gum disease and Alzheimer’s. They knew that many people with dementia had a specific type of bacteria in their brain, P. gingivalis, which is one of the main microbes involved in gum disease. However, they could not definitively say whether the bacteria led to Alzheimer’s or simply made the symptoms worse. Recent studies have offered some clarification on that point.
One study involving mice that were genetically engineered to have Alzheimer’s found that P. gingivalis could actually cause Alzheimer’s-like brain inflammation. In a separate study that looked at samples of human brains that suffered from Alzheimer’s, almost all of the brains were found to have toxic enzymes in them that are related to P. gingivalis. When the scientists looked at non-Alzheimer’s brain samples, they found low levels of P. gingivalis and the accumulation of Alzheimer’s-related proteins. Since these proteins can accumulate in the brain for years before the onset of Alzheimer’s symptoms, it seems possible that P. gingivalis may actually cause the disease rather than just be associated with it.
It remains unclear how the bacteria may lead to Alzheimer’s. It could be that it triggers the release of Alzheimer’s-related proteins, which then damage the brain. Or, it is possible that P. gingivalis attacks the brain directly. In either case, the research indicates that fighting P. gingivalis could prevent Alzheimer’s or even pave the way for finding a cure.
What It Means for You
The intimate link between gum disease and Alzheimer’s provides a compelling reason for everyone to pay careful attention to their oral health. Although some people are genetically predisposed to periodontal problems, there are things that everyone can due to reduce their risk of developing gum disease — and thereby perhaps decrease their risk of suffering from Alzheimer’s. For example, you should maintain excellent oral hygiene habits and regularly visit your dentist in Creve Coeur. A healthful diet, full of fibrous foods and antioxidants, can also help.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of your oral health! By protecting your gums, you may just preserve your smile and your mind.
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Achieving Gender Parity through the Yher Program
When a girl has access to education, the rate of child marriage decreases, early motherhood is avoided, maternal health improves along with the health of entire families, and the gaps in pay narrow as gender equality improves, according to the UN. Girls, and the women they become, have the power to drive positive social change around the world and yet, two-thirds of girls are denied education globally and just three per cent of venture capital funding goes to female entrepreneurs worldwide. It will take as many as 108 years to reach gender parity at this rate.
yher is an Australian-born campaign working to change that. It is part of ygap, a not-for-profit based in Melbourne but operating in Africa, the Pacific and South Asia, that strives to close the gap in unequally distributed opportunities, specifically for women.
The yher campaign, which was launched in 2017, is entirely led by and for women. yher assisted 63 emerging female entrepreneurs and leaders to make sustainable changes in their communities and countries. Some of the innovative, hard-working women the campaign supported with funding, access to training and mentorship include: Lebo who started an initiative to provide shelter and counselling to women and girls who face gender-based violence in South Africa; tech-savvy Jonina in the Asia Pacific who uses drones to provide water and survey infrastructure; and Azwa who is improving the quality of education in Bangladesh by training teachers.
Nearly 850 women have applied to yher seeking support to achieve their dreams of social impact over the last 18 months. That means yher must grow to match their ambition. The campaign aims to draw $500,000 AUD in funding by 30 June to help support more female leaders change the world. Any donations made before or on that date will be tripled, and all are tax-deductible.
Interview with Manita Ray, CEO, ygap
Question: What is yher?
Manita Ray: yher is a female-focused program which is specifically designed to empower emerging female leaders in emerging markets. It is a program designed by women for women. Female founders often do not have the same oppoprtunities provided to them as their male counterparts. yher creates an equal platform so female founders can grow and scale their businesses.
Question: What inspired ygap to create the yher campaign?
Manita Ray: We began yher with the aim of creating a more feminine approach to accelerating businesses in emerging markets. One that provides a welcoming space for women to come together, inspire each other, and address the unique challenges female entrepreneurs face. The global ecosystem has been dominated by male-run programs that often fail to attract women and accommodate their needs - of 131 corporate accelerator programs, 87% are run by men. This is just one of the many reasons that globally, female founders only receive 3% of venture capital funding.
We provide an alternative and in doing so, we are shining a light on the outstanding female led social businesses around the world and will continue to shift more support and capital towards helping them grow. Despite raising less, female founders are likely to produce more revenue than their male counterparts. Women are also more likely to invest three times more of their profits back into their family and community.
The yher program has a proven curriculum to help women refine and scale their business. We ensure that yher provides the psychological safety needed to discuss the barriers that are holding them back and develop the strategies, confidence and business acumen they need to grow their ventures. We do this because in the countries where we work, women have often faced violence or are subject to cultural or religious practices that make it difficult for them to let their guard down, share honestly, or learn effectively in the presence of men.
It is our mission to create an equal platform for female founders to launch and grow their social impact businesses. The program is designed to increase confidence, competence and acumen needed to validate and scale a social business and ultimately improve the lives of people in their communities, countries and regions.
We aim to play a significant role in getting more capital to women led social businesses and foster a strong network of female entrepreneurs and people who support them. More broadly, we hope that we can contribute to a thriving ecosystem that creates inspiring female role models for the next generation to aspire to and that the ecosystem is empowered and equipped to provide female entrepreneurs with the support they need to thrive.
Question: What do you hope to achieve with the yher campaign?
Manita Ray: We have two goals, one is short term and the other is long term.
The short term goal:
We have the generous support of a long term benefactor who has offered to triple any donations to reach the gap in our total funding needed to roll out the yher global program for the three regions we will be working in.
We have until June 30th to raise our goal of $500K, with each donation being tripled we believe is achievable.
The long term goal:
We would like to see a global audience recognises that gender is a human issue and backs yher - until it no longer needs to exist.
Question: Can you tell us about some of the women who are seeking support through the yher campaign?
Manita Ray: Muzalema Mwanza was one of the 63 female social impact entrepreneurs who came through ygap's the yher Africa Pilot accelerator in 2018.
Through her venture, Safe Motherhood Alliance, she has developed an innovative baby delivery kit which ensures safe conditions at the time of childbirth. Through the development of this kit Muzalema has not only offered training and employment opportunities, she has also assisted in delivering over 1,000 babies. That's one woman impacting over 1000 mothers and their babies, and she has only just began her social impact journey towards a world free of avoidable deaths related to childbirth. Muzalema had a solution to a local problem, all she needed was someone to believe in her and back her.
This is just one entrepreneur's story of the success that comes with backing local change, there are 453 more stories at ygap.
Question: How can Australians support the yher campaign?
Manita Ray: We would love to see women, men and people of all gender recognising the need to "Support her to create a better us".
They can do this:
By going to ygap.org/yhercampaign and making a donation, their donation will be tripled for the yher Appeal.
By spreading the word saying that "I back her #yher" and sharing the campaign with their community.
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Stranger Things Refresher: Where the Show Left Off in Season 2
by Lauren Piester | Wed., Jun. 19, 2019 6:07 PM
Get ready to head back to Hawkins!
Stranger Things 3 debuts in just a couple of weeks, and you might be forgiven if you've forgotten a little bit of what happened the last time we were there. The second season premiered in October 2017, so it's definitely been a while, but that's why we're here--to discuss in depth what happened at the end of season two.
At the start of the season, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) was in hiding, being looked after by Hopper (David Harbour) but not allowed to communicate with any of her friends. She eventually ran off and connected with her birth mother and meet another psychic teen, but returned to Hawkins just in time to help with a major crisis.
Stranger Things Cast Teases Intensified Season 3
Will (Noah Schnapp) had spent the season being manipulated/possessed by the shadow monster and he nearly died, but a determined Joyce (Winona Ryder) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) managed to communicate with Will enough to save him, which they were able to do with Eleven's help, though Joyce's boyfriend Bob (Sean Astin) died during their attempts.
Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) had to come to terms with the fact that the new girl in town, Max (Sadie Sink), was more interested in Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and his new pet Dart was actually a terrifying monster, but he made a new friend in Steve (Joe Keery). Steve also made a new enemy in Billy (Dacre Montgomery), and lost his girlfriend Nancy (Natalia Dyer), who then turned to Jonathan, but it wasn't all bad, because he found a new calling in life.
Meanwhile, Mike mourned what he thought was the loss of Eleven and was overjoyed (though mad at Hopper) when she returned, and the shadow monster is still looming over the school in the Upside Down.
Now, scroll on down to see exactly how everybody was doing at the very end of the season two finale, which might give us some hints about where they're headed next.
Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven
After finally showing back up in Hawkins post-adventure, Eleven just shared her first kiss with Mike at the Snow Ball, and Hopper just officially adopted her, while the people chasing after her are no more. She also had to reopen the gate to the Upside Down but that seems to have cooled down...for now.
David Harbour as Chief Hopper
Hopper just adopted Eleven, meaning he's officially dad to a teenager, and he's kinda got his flirt on with Joyce, making #Jopper a real possibility.
Noah Schnapp as Will
Will seems to have gotten rid of the monster who was possessing him, and the lab that had been testing him has closed down, and now he can be a normal kid! Hopefully!
Finn Wolfhard as Mike
Mike was finally reunited with Eleven and they shared a first kiss at the dance, which seemed to be the beginning/continuation of a beautiful, blossoming teen romance.
Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin
Dustin made up with his friends over what he believed was a breaking of the rules, and still had his buddy Steven to give him some (questionable) hair/life advice, while Nancy advised him to be patient while the girls came to their senses. So could we be in for a romance for Dustin? That remains to be seen.
Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas
Lucas and Max shared their first kiss at the snow ball in the finale, and he made up with his friends over his decision to bring Max in on the quest to save the day. We'll have to see if this couple is still together in season three.
Sadie Sink as Max
Max had been finally welcomed fully as a part of the group, after Dustin got over his hesitation to let her in on their secrets. She and Lucas also shared a quick kiss at the dance, and it looks like she and Eleven may just become the best of friends.
Winona Ryder as Joyce
Though she's mourning the death of her boyfriend Bob, Joyce finally has her son back, and he no longer appears to be possessed by the mindflayer. That means she's now got time to smoke and flirt with Hopper, and #Jopper may just be real after all.
Natalia Dyer as Nancy
Nancy finally got some closure on the death of Barb, and seemed happy with Jonathan. We last saw her bonding with Dustin and helping him look a little cooler in front of the eighth grade girls.
Joe Keery as Steve
Steve had only just discovered his powers as a babysitter, which were far superior to his powers as a boyfriend. But at the end of season two, he had come to terms with losing Nancy and was enjoying time with his new friend Dustin.
Charlie Heaton as Jonathan
Jonathan's got his brother back and he and Nancy seem to be going strong.
Dacre Montgomery as Billy
Billy had a rough time with his dad and with everyone, pretty much, but by the end of the finale he seemed to be softening a bit. He also had a flirtatious moment with Mrs. Wheeler so that could make for some interesting trouble in season three.
Priah Ferguson as Erica
Erica will be making a bigger splash in season three, but we last saw her teasing her brother Lucas at the end of season two. We can't imagine she won't also be teasing her brother in season three!
Maya Hawke as Robin
We've not yet met Robin, who's a new character in season three, but who can say what kind of secrets she'll hold?
Stranger Things returns to Netflix on July 4.
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Princess Holy Aura – Chapter 06
Posted on September 1, 2017 by Drak Bibliophile
Silvertail watched tensely as the pact was fulfilled and Princess Holy Aura was finally reborn. Let it work, he prayed. In the name of all we have sacrificed, in the name of all that was and could be, let this not be a failure.
With eyes that could see what ordinary mortals could not, he watched as Stephen Russ’ mortal frame dissolved in light, a core of brilliance forming into a new shape both delicate and strong as a steel blade, head suddenly thrown back, midnight-purple tresses arching up, sparkling with power, coming down in a waterfall of indigo silk, even as the armor formed, different yet exactly as it had always been. Princess Holy Aura’s crown materialized in blessed light and sealed itself to her brow, and eyes the color of amethysts and dreams opened for the first time.
Within the small figure, Silvertail Heartseeker could sense confusion and conflict, and for a moment the girl’s form trembled. But she straightened as the dhole renewed its attack and threatened innocents, and called it to confront her: “. . . this Apocalypse Maiden says that you are going down!”
That was somewhat different from the usual, but that was also good. Stephen must be accepting his mission! He began to dare to hope, and once more felt his own powers beginning to be unlocked. If she can triumph . . .
A jump, evasion, and he suddenly remembered that Stephen — Holy Aura — did not yet understand her powers, or the desperate urgency of this combat. He shouted his warning, saw her shift her stance.
The immense weapon formed without warning in her hands, and for a moment he was taken aback. Why in the name of the Sunken Lands would that be the shape of the Silverlight Weapon? But that was a minor concern. The important thing would be to guide her in how to use it. The channeling of power through the blade was not a trivial —
Princess Holy Aura, however, did not even seem to hear his attempt to instruct her, but lunged to meet the gigantic armored worm head-on. No! Such a creature cannot be defeated by brute strength, not as you are now! You need to —
His mind went blank with complete shock as Holy Aura’s bisento very nearly bisected the eldritch creature in a single blow. By the Powers Beyond . . . He felt a tiny smile stretching his furry features. She is even more powerful than I had expected. This is wonderful!
But then he saw the girl follow her victorious bow with a leap away . . . and sensed the rising turmoil, the confusion and fear. “Oh, dear,” he heard himself murmur. With the threat of the monster now gone, Stephen’s mind was now realizing the changes, the aspects that he had only contemplated in the abstract before, and Silvertail realized he had to catch up with Holy Aura — or Steve — very, very fast.
That was not, however, so simple when you were a small white rat. And even if he could change that aspect of himself, he could not even approach the speed or strength of the fleeing Apocalypse Maiden.
But a fleeing animal — man or woman or otherwise — will in the end seek a refuge. And Stephen has only one refuge.
It took him some time to make his way back to the apartment — not merely because a rat has, relatively speaking, short legs, but because the last thing Silvertail needed was to draw attention to himself or Steve’s neighborhood. More than two hours had passed before he made his way up the stairs, hopping up them one at a time and occasionally pausing to make sure that a creak from below didn’t indicate someone coming up behind him.
The door was open a crack. He sniffed; the scents told him Steve was inside, and further emphasized the confusion, fear, and anger he had sensed before. Silvertail slipped inside and, with some effort, nudged the door completely shut.
Steve sat unmoving on the battered brownish couch, staring at empty space. His hands were dirty — covered with black and gray smears of some sort — and one lay on his jeans without regard for the stains it might transfer. Two empty beer bottles were on the stand next to him, and the other hand gripped a third tightly.
“Stephen,” Silvertail said quietly.
The big man started violently, spilling beer over his T-shirt. “Dammit. Silvertail?”
“Yes. I am sorry for startling you. I see you made it home, in any event.”
“Yeah,” he agreed, and rose, putting the bottle down on the table. His attempt to look casual about it was belied by the way his hand shook and knocked over one of the others. He started, tried to catch it, and only succeeded in knocking all three down, the remaining liquid fanning out across the carpet and almost instantly sinking in. “Dammit!” Convulsively Steve threw himself across the room, ripped the roll of paper towels from the holder, and started trying to blot up the mess with a fevered focus on the mundane task.
“Enough, please. Stephen, stop.”
“Can’t stop, this will stink if I don’t get it out, and my landlady — ”
“Please, Stephen, stop.”
Stephen Russ froze in midscrub, then slowly sat back, his massive frame collapsing like a deflated balloon as he sagged against the wall, eyes closed, hands shaking and clenching.
Silvertail sighed, smelling the stench of fear and anger mixed with the hops and alcohol. “Eleitai, halama, meritami,” he muttered, and light streamed from his outstretched paw; the broad brown stain faded away, leaving the carpet clean and dry.
That roused Steve slightly. “That’d be real handy on laundry day.”
“No doubt.” Silvertail still wasn’t sure how to approach the current — very delicate — situation. “But in my current state it is not, I am afraid, something to do casually. Why not wash your hands, at least, in the more usual way?”
The man looked down at his hands as though he had never seen them before. “Oh. Yeah, they’re pretty filthy.”
Unsteadily, Steve got up and made his way to the sink, scrubbing away at them. “At least the transformation doesn’t, like, disintegrate my clothes or anything. When I turned back, I even had the backpack with me. Good thing; I just got the toilet repaired, works like a charm now. But that’s how I got all dirty, you know, even when you try to keep things clean, things get a little dirt on ’em, then you’re working with water, and — ”
“WHY THE HELL DIDN’T YOU WARN ME?”
The bellow was so loud and unexpected that Silvertail jumped back in alarm before the furious, blotchily terrified face of Stephen Russ. “We had discussed the changes, Stephen,” he said finally.
The outburst had exhausted Steve; he sank into the couch and put his face in his hands. Finally he swallowed audibly, looked up. “You didn’t tell me that she . . . she had an identity. I thought it would be . . . well . . . sort of like playing dress-up, a cosplay where I had real powers and had to deal with really having a different body.”
“That was — to an extent — rather what I expected as well, Stephen. What are you saying was different?”
Silvertail could smell some of the immediate anger fading as Steve realized that Silvertail honestly did not understand the problem. “Well . . . when I became . . . Holy Aura, it was like . . . like I already knew I was a woman. Except that I still knew I was a man. But in that body, it was . . . real. I felt this . . . this impression of memory, I guess, of self, knowing how to move and run and everything, and it was all filled with the absolute . . . not even thought, just knowledge, assumption, that I was a woman. Not even a woman, a girl, a teenage girl. I . . .”
Understanding burst in. “Oh. Oh, by the stars and the Light itself, Stephen, I am sorry. There is the basic template of Holy Aura, yes, and it has been . . . well, affected, refined one might say, over the many centuries by those who wore the title. None of their souls, or their memories truly remain, but something of their essence must linger. For another girl who takes up the mantle, of course, this is not an issue at all; it merely helps make them more certain of themselves, of their role as Holy Aura. But for you . . . Stephen, I do apologize, completely and abjectly I beg your pardon. That certainty and knowledge permeating the template would be in direct conflict with your own personal self-knowledge. You did extraordinarily well, then, to push it aside — as you must have — in order to deal with the threat at hand.”
Steve extended one shaking hand and stared at it. “And . . . and that’s not going away, is it?” he said finally. “Whenever I . . . change, that remnant, whatever, is going to be there. It’s not disappearing as I, well, get used to it?”
“No. I am sorry, but now that I have thought on it, no, it is an essential part of the magic. In a sense, it can of course help you in your mission, give you some understanding of a body so utterly different from your own, but in other senses it will be a great trial.”
“I’m not sure I can do this.”
Silvertail closed his eyes and sighed. “Stephen –”
“I know,” he said, and his voice shook. “I know, I accepted it, it’s not reversible, I don’t have any choice. I made the choice. To save people.” His voice lightened for a moment. “To . . . save people.” He looked up. “I did, didn’t I?”
“You did indeed, Stephen Russ. As Holy Aura, you confronted a monster that would most certainly have destroyed that entire shopping mall and killed many of those there, and continued to do so until stopped.”
“And nothing except Princess Holy Aura — or one of these other Apocalypse Maidens — could have stopped it.”
“In this case that is not entirely true. It was an extremely dangerous and powerful creature, but the more formidable mundane weapons available to your civilization could deal with it. But many would have died, and much destruction would have ensued, before those weapons could have been brought to bear. It is true, however, that many of the foes to come will be ones beyond the power of mortal weapons to affect, and some will be ones on which your powers, even when you have learned to wield them, will not be very effectual without the assistance of the other Apocalypse Maidens.”
“Right.” The dark-haired man looked at his hands for another long moment, then clenched them into fists and stood up abruptly. “I’ll have to deal with it. Somehow. It’s not going to be easy, Silvertail. I’m going to need help from someone, and there’s no way I can talk about this to a shrink. Not without getting locked up. And maybe I’m paranoid, but I kinda think it could be a bad idea to just go to the agents that’ll be investigating this afternoon’s freakshow and tell them what’s going on. Though it’d be really nice to have the National Guard on standby.”
Silvertail allowed himself to relax a tiny bit. He is a strong-willed man, and his focus is still on helping people. That may just allow us to get past this. “I am afraid your instincts are correct. Besides the obvious mundane issues of their reaction to the sudden appearance of the supernatural, the fact is that at least some of the authorities will undoubtedly be under the influence of our adversaries. You . . . no, we, for you are correct, we must be a team, and I must help you as best I can . . . must for the most part perform this work alone, with only the other Maidens as our support.”
“Okay. Kinda goes with the whole meme anyway, right? You don’t generally see your magical girl or sentai team running over to the feds and asking them for help. Or when they do, it turns out the officer’s another eldritch horror out to eat their souls.” The humor was forced and Steve’s voice was still strained . . . but he was trying, and Silvertail felt a twinge of admiration. Would I have done so well in his place? I have to wonder. I might well be trying to run away even though I knew I had committed myself to the cause. “So, next step is to start finding the other Maidens, right?”
And we start on the next delicate part of this problem. “Yes, that would be our main goal. The sooner we can gather the full Five, the sooner we will be able to prepare to confront our adversaries, and the more practiced and skilled all of you will be with your powers. This will of course vastly increase our chances of victory when the time comes.”
“You didn’t specify when, exactly, the time will come — that is, when the Stars will be Right. Do you know?”
“Not exactly. The conditions that make it happen are tied to events here and in that other realm. The appearance of certain agents, and their activities, tells me the cycle has begun anew, and I can estimate it; no less than six months, no more than one year from now. As time draws onward, I will gain a better estimate. For now, of course, it is best that we assume it will be sooner rather than later.”
“Right. Assume it’ll be a very Cthulhu Christmas, then.” Steve’s voice had steadied. “Well, I guess it’s about time to have some leftover pizza. And I’ve got work tomorrow.” He went and got one piece out of the refrigerator. “So, how do we go about finding these others. You said it wasn’t going to be as ‘easy,’ if you can use that word, as finding four more guys willing to do the job.”
“Alas, no. While I am permitted the latitude — with, I should add, not inconsiderable personal effort — to shift the choice from a girl of the appropriate age to any other person I find satisfactory, the rest of the spell proceeds once triggered without any control by myself or anyone else, and the other four will follow the ancient pattern set by Holy Aura herself.”
Steve froze in the middle of punching in the heating time on the microwave. “Oh, Christ. You mean that the other four actually have to be teenage girls?”
“I am afraid so, Stephen.”
Steve closed his eyes, and Silvertail could hear him counting quietly to himself; the count reached sixty before the man’s eyes opened. “Let me get this clear. There are four other Apocalypse Maidens to be found.”
“They’re particular individuals out there somewhere. That is, I can’t just find some teenage girl I think would make a good choice and say ‘Hey, you’re going to be Apocalypse Maiden number two’ or whatever.”
“Also correct. The magic is already at work. In the original spell, we had the opportunity to select the Maidens ahead of time, place them within the circle, and so on. Ever afterward, the spell, upon being triggered, seeks out . . . well, appropriate vessels for the power and links them to the destiny of the Apocalypse Maidens. But I cannot actually see these links until they are close to manifestation.”
Steve rolled his eyes. “Do we have any idea of where these girls might be, or am I supposed to just start wandering the world, hoping I’ll bump into the right ones somewhere between here and Cairo or something?”
Silvertail managed a laugh at that. “It is not quite that bad, Stephen. They must be within a relatively short distance of your initial manifestation, and in fact will be found regularly in relatively close proximity in locations where children of their ages gather.”
Steve’s eyes narrowed. “Just what locations?”
“Well . . .” Silvertail found himself very hesitant, yet there was no help for it but to simply move forward. “In prior eras they might be regularly gathered to perform work of some sort, or gather for church, or . . .”
“Christ on a pogo stick. A school. They’ll all be going to the same goddamned high school, won’t they?”
“If there is one such near the area of your first transformation — ”
“Yes, there is, dammit, about half a mile off is Whitney High.” Steve stared at him accusingly. “You knew this from the start.”
“Well . . . yes. But it did not matter until now.” He could not quite restrain a whisker-twitching smile. “And you should have, given that I mentioned how your world’s memes strongly direct these events and phenomena.”
Steve grimaced. “Okay, you got me there. I should have known. So . . . I have to somehow winnow out four girls from an entire high school. You know, a thirty-five-year-old guy hanging around a high school watching the fourteen-year-old girls closely is gonna end up spending a lot of time behind bars, not saving the universe.”
“I understand the implications.”
“So . . . oh, my god. That’s why you mentioned high-school students before. You knew I’d have to — ”
Silvertail nodded. “I see no alternative. You, Stephen Russ, will have to enter the high school in the only acceptable guise — that of a fourteen-year-old girl — to locate, befriend, and ultimately activate, the other four Apocalypse Maidens.”
“Son of a — ” Stephen stopped, frozen.
When Steve turned back to face Silvertail finally, he wore a smile so cold that it made Silvertail shiver involuntarily. “All right, Silvertail. I remember you saying something else — that you couldn’t do much to help me until I committed. That means you can help me now, right?”
“That is true — ”
“And you know something, I got a different view of you when I changed. Now that I have committed, I’ll bet that you also have another form you can take. A human form. Am I right?”
His perceptions must be astonishingly acute as Holy Aura. He would have been seeing my spirit — and remembering what he saw, even during a most emotionally straining moment. “You are.”
He concentrated, and felt the familiar rush of power, the triggering of the remnant of the ancient pact in the manner that directly related to him. The light gathered about him, drew him upward, built him up. Silvertail opened his eyes, and for the first time in centuries looked down upon the world around him, even upon Steve. “This is my true, original form, Stephen Russ,” he said, hearing his own deep voice again. “Varatraine Aylnell, at your service.”
“At my service? That’s great, Varatraine,” Steve said, and slapped him on the shoulder, still wearing that disquieting grin. “Because you’re just what a fourteen-year-old girl is going to need . . . DAD.”
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32 Responses to Princess Holy Aura – Chapter 06
Um … this is kind of walking close to the line here. I mean, I know it’s all being played as being on the up and up, but he still is going to be an adult guy going into the high school to pick up four teen age girls. (Who he might be leading to their deaths, by the way.)
Ryk E. Spoor says:
Yes, and I knew I was walking into a large collection of minefields when I wrote it. The general issues were in the outline I submitted to Baen, so they knew what I was potentially going into. (And I was gobsmacked that they chose this one out of the three choices I submitted to them).
It was a hell of a ride writing it.
Terranovan says:
This makes me wonder…What were the two books that Baen picked this over? Are they in any current series/universe?
One was a series/book titled “Players of Worlds” which would sorta be “What if your entire fantasy planet was a LARP… and it wasn’t popular enough so they were going to re-terraform your world?”
And the other was The Spirit Warriors trilogy, which follows Xavier Ross and his four friends that we met in the Phoenix books on their own adventures.
Jess Mahler says:
I’m lucky enough to be part of Ryk’s beta group. I swear I spent half the book going, “I don’t know if you are going to pull this off, you’re dancing on a frigging minefield here.” He pulled it off. Hella impressed.
Tapdancing on landmines while juggling hand grenades and surrounded by discount waterbeds filled with gasoline.
Wyman Cooke says:
No pressure!
Stephen M. St. Onge says:
I had more faith in Ryk than you, but yes, we all saw lots and lots and _lots_ and _*LOTS*_ of potential disasters.
Honestly, when they sent me the thumbs-up on this one I almost had a heart attack seriously thinking through what I was going to have to write.
I wonder how he’s going to explain to his gaming friends that he (a 35-year-old man) has four teenage girls hanging around him. Not to mention how he’s going to explain the whole Apocalypse Maiden drag thing. :-)
Ahh, the assumptions the readers make.
Drak Bibliophile says:
Yep. [Very Big Grin]
Randomiser says:
I think Russ should have made the wizard go into the school as a teacher or counsellor. No reason he still couldn’t of course.
“Dad” will be more than a sufficient challenge for a white rat that can’t assume human form for really extended periods of time yet.
Ah. That limitation is not yet apparent to the rest of us.
Takes time to bring out all the relevant information without simply giving you a 50-page infodump.
Women in close combat roles anyone?😁
Required by the meme. You can’t do Mahou Shoujo if you don’t have Shoujo.
Robert A. Woodward says:
I am rather curious on where the money somebody will need to make living expenses for a year will come from. What with the time our apocalypse maiden will need to attend classes at the school (and doing homework), Steve will have no time to work.
Someone’s thinking ahead!
Next chapter!
Indeed. I was just thinking about another minefield you were dancing on and a large number of readers unfamiliar with the meme. Still, if people will buy a female mid-teen Marine 2LT zombie-killing whirlwind, why not Mahou Shoujo?
A lot of people are familiar with Supergirl and such, so I don’t think “Superpowered teenage girls fighting bad things” is much of a minefield.
Well, clearly, one of the apocalypse maidens will be hacker in civilian life and extracting money from the banking system won’t be a problem! LOL. Alternatively Silvertail is a powerful wizard, who could magic up all sorts of stuff.
Yes, very clear. Also completely wrong.
Wouldn’t be surprised
Courtenay says:
Is this book a stand-alone?
It’s a standalone the way Grand Central Arena was. I.e., the principal challenge/plot will be resolved, but there will be plenty of opportunity for more volumes later if it’s popular enough. The series would be titled “The Ethical Magical Girl”.
I hope the book sells well. I will certainly be buying it.
I have the impression from earlier works (Polychrome, Phoenix Rising) of He Who Writes that the 5 Maidens correspond (in power, at least) with Spirit and the four classical elements (Earth, Water, Air, and Fire). If Spirit is central, then it goes to Holy Aura, as first among equals.
Correct. In this case the Five-Team was sort of explicitly part of the original subgenre. I have another organization of powers in a couple other projected works, but that’s correct for this one (plus the five girls also represent specific virtues).
Nguyen Gia Thai says:
Heh. heheh. Hahahahahahahahaha
Ryk, This is going to be one of those harem novel, isnt it?
I know as author you have considerable latitude in directing events. Still I am looking forward to see you struggle to get that away from such an inevitable form. One mature male, 4 teenage female. Together through thicks and thins of a terrible war. Such things has roots in the most basic foundation of homo sapiens. Such. Tales. are what our dreams made of.
The difficulty of reading a gender bender novel will be rewarded!
I remind you upfront that Rowling’s effort in tearing apart Hermione and Harry fall flat and explode on her face.
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4 Hot-Button Issues in Saudi Arabia all Project Owners and Contractors Should Know
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FTI Consulting’s Construction Solutions team and V&E’s International Construction team outline four critical construction issues, which all owners and contractors with projects in Saudi Arabia should know.
Certain contractors struggle to meet contractual notice provisions. In Saudi Arabia, there are several principles in Shari’ah law, which could allow a claim to proceed, even if the contractual notice has not been met, including among others, prevention, unfairness, good faith, and the principle that generally, rights are not lost due to the passage of time.
Construction projects generally experience delays, contracts contemplate it and generally contain clauses that identify the party that is responsible for them. In most contracts, delay events would typically fall into three categories 1) employer / excusable events, 2) neutral events and 3) contractor / culpable events. When assessing delays, analysts need to establish who is responsible as well as the effect on the completion date. Records are key to demonstrating what caused delay and contracts will typically include a mechanism for extending time for excusable and neutral events, which will negate any liability for liquidated and ascertained damages. Excusable delays may often lead to a contractor being entitled to payment of costs associated with the delay. Delays will happen to all sorts of activities but it is important to focus on those that are on the critical path, as these affect completion of the project. There is a variety of well-known methods available to assist in the determination of the effects of delaying events and the type of analysis will depend on whether the analysis is to be prospective or retrospective, the records that have been kept and the availability of the programmes amongst other things. Understanding which method to use in the circumstances is therefore key.
Contract administration and in particular record keeping is becoming more crucial than ever in particular when a project is complex and of high value. The production of accurate records is fundamental to the successful preparation and / or defence of claims for time and money. With contract conditions across the Middle East becoming increasingly rigorous on the level of detail to be included in monthly reports, and non-compliance having onerous consequences, including the potential loss of entitlement for extra time and / or costs, it is paramount that records are prepared, kept and maintained. Successful time claims require analysts to recreate events that caused delay and apply the event to the construction programme. With events having usually occurred in the past, records are key to demonstrating what was happening at the time. The absence of records generally leads to more assumptions and increases the likelihood of claims failing and / or escalating into a dispute. The same principles regarding contemporaneous records also apply to claims for additional payment.
In Saudi Arabia, generally, an employer may not exercise a termination right unless expressly provided for under the contract. That said, pursuant to Shari’ah law, the termination may be deemed to be for a legitimate reason, such as fraud. The corollary under Shari’ah law is that, if the employer terminates the contract without a legitimate reason, the contractor will be entitled to damages. There are also certain statutory rights of termination, including under the Procurement Law 2006, which allows public authorities to terminate (whilst retaining a right to claim damages), for example, when there is: bribery, unrectified delay, unapproved subcontracting, bankruptcy, or death.
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Exclusive Interview: Insane Clown Posse is Suing the FBI!
After Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope tweeted a mysterious message earlier this week talking about "the biggest announcement of Insane Clown Posse's career," we've now got an answer: ICP is suing the FBI.
The problem is that the FBI considers Juggalos—what ICP fans call themselves—a real-deal criminal gang. According to the FBI's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, Juggalos are considered an official "concern to law enforcement." The members of Insane Clown Posse think that's pretty... insane.
When we spoke with Insane Clown Posse earlier this week, they explained why the FBI targeting Juggalos isn't as funny as some people think.
"[This is] an open attempt to kill us off, for the FBI to do that," Violent J tells Fuse. "It gets laughs out of people but think about it—that's insane. To name our fanbase a gang with Crips and Bloods and MS-13s.... I don't know where to begin with that sh*t. Does that mean our concerts are gang rallies now? Does that mean our merchandise is gang apparel? What if you were a Juggalo 15 years ago and you got a Hatchetman [the group's logo] on your arm? Now you're a real estate agent raising a family and you get pulled over, [suddenly] you're in the police file as a gang member because you have your favorite band's logo on your arm. That's crazy."
The duo believes the music industry hasn't given this situation the outcry it deserves. "If it would have happened to anybody else the whole industry would have been up in arms [talking about] freedom of speech," J says. "[But when] it happens to ICP, [people think] 'Oh, they're just crazy.' I remember when N.W.A got a letter because of the 'F**k Tha Police' song and it was all over the news. [That was just] a letter. We'll take a letter! Give us a f**king letter! What we're saying is, this sh*t has never happened in the history of rock n' roll. Period."
To coincide with their lawsuit, ICP have launched the website Juggalos Fight Back ("A place for 'los and 'lettes to be heard"), where Juggalos who feel like they've been discrminated for their affiliation with the band can fill out a legal action questionnaire to have their incident reviewed by the band's legal team.
What do you think? Is the FBI's lawsuit absurd? Should the music industry and media have raised more hell when the FBI declared Juggalos to be a criminal gang? Let us know in the comments below. And check out the video above for ICP's full comments on the FBI.
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Buy This 1 Weed Stock Instead of Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED)
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Buy This Beaten-Down REIT’s 5.5% Yield for Capital Gains
Brian Paradza, CFA | November 30, 2018 | More on: AX.UN
Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:AX.UN) is one troubled REIT trading near its 52-week lows after recently announcing a 50% distribution cut effective November 2018 to realign its pay-out to the obtaining internal economic fundamentals, but its new strategic plan and improving business conditions could soon eliminate the deep discount on its equity units, offering investors significant capital gains potential.
Artis REIT holds a well-diversified portfolio of 234 properties in the office, retail and industrial property segments spread across the United States (45%) and Canada (55%). The trust targets increasing its U.S. exposure to 60% of the portfolio over the next three years as it implements a new strategic plan announced on November 01.
The REIT’s units trade at a deep discount of 35% to net asset value today, with a price to net book value multiple of 0.65 times and the new $0.045 monthly distribution offers an annualized yield of 5.45% for new investors.
The slower than desired recovery in Alberta’s economy has been blamed for Artis’ continued low office segment occupancy rates, which were reported at 81.7% for Calgary office, dragging down overall in-place portfolio occupancy rate to 91.2% by September 30, 2018.
To boost its unit holders’ fortunes going forward, the REIT announced new strategic initiatives to deliver improved value to its unit holders on November 01.
The new strategic plan
Artis announced a massive distribution cut by 50% in November that will save about $83 million annually in retained cash flow. The REIT reported an increasingly unsustainable Adjusted Funds From Operations (AFFO) pay-out rate of 112.5% for the third quarter that was much worse than the 103% reported for the same quarter last year. With the new $0.045 a unit monthly distribution, 2019 AFFO pay-out is estimated at an amazingly safe 53%.
Further, Artis is intensifying its repurchases of outstanding units through a current normal course issuer bid (NCIB) which would be funded, first from in place liquidity, then later from net proceeds from retained cash flow and asset disposals.
Most noteworthy, the REIT aims to dispose between $800 and $1 billion worth of non-core assets over the next three years. Non-core assets represent 17% of Artis’ current property portfolio. Non-core asset sales are expected to generate net proceeds of $600 million to the REIT. The remaining portfolio will be of much better quality and could deliver better earnings and cash flow growth prospects.
I like Artis REIT’s new focus on further reducing the trust’s total debt ratio during this rising rate environment. Artis’ debt to gross book value ratio stood at 48.6% by the end of last quarter, down from 49.3% by year-end 2017. The REIT targets a debt ratio of just 46% in the medium term and this can be easily achieved considering the new cash flow savings and planned asset disposal proceeds.
More gains from U.S. Fed signal
The unit price on Artis REIT rose more than 2% on Thursday as the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell seemingly reversed course on interest rate hikes by commenting that the Fed’s policy interest rate is “just below” the targeted neutral level, which was a significant climb-down from his prior stance that rates needed to rise higher to reach a neutral level.
The neutral rate is the target interest rate that would sustain stable economic growth and employment while at the same time keeping price inflation in check. The signal for fewer interest rate increases over 2019 is a great boon for the REIT sector, even in Canada, as U.S. Fed’s rate policy usually has significant influence on the local economy, and in turn, on Bank of Canada policy rates too.
Lower rate increases will keep financing costs relatively low and stable, offering great relief to highly leveraged firms, especially real estate operators.
Other strong positives
Artis returned to positive same property net operating income growth during the third quarter of 2018 after three consecutive quarters of negative growth and I expect a sustained improvement in this measure as the REIT increasingly focuses on its more profitable and stronger core portfolio.
Further, the REIT has a robust new property development program that could deliver strong cash flow and earnings growth into the future at a much lower cost than out-right acquisitions.
Artis REIT’s new strategic refocus seems to have low execution risk, while the deep discount on the units’ net asset value offers new investors a valuable margin of safety. As the new strategic plan rolls out, I would expect the valuation discount to disappear, and capital gains to be realized. Insiders are of likely of the same view too.
Fool contributor Brian Paradza has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.
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China becomes world's fifth largest arms exporter, bypassing Britain
By | Associated Press
STOCKHOLM – China has bypassed Britain as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, a Swedish think tank said Monday.
The volume of Chinese weapons exports rose by 162 percent in the five years 2008-2012, compared to the previous five-year period, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in its report. That means China's share of all international arms exports increased to 5 percent from 2 percent, and the country climbed to fifth from eighth in the rankings.
The largest buyer of Chinese weapons was Pakistan, which accounted for 55 percent of the country's exports, followed by Myanmar with 8 percent and Bangladesh with 7 percent, SIPRI said.
"China's rise has been driven primarily by large-scale arms acquisitions by Pakistan," said Paul Holtom, director of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. "However, a number of recent deals indicate that China is establishing itself as a significant arms supplier to a growing number of important recipient states."
Such deals include the sale of three frigates to Algeria, eight transport aircraft to Venezuela and 54 tanks to Morocco, SIPRI said.
The U.S. remains the world's top arms exporter during the 2008-2012 period, with 30 percent of the global volume. Russia is second with 26 percent, Germany third with 7 percent, and France fourth with 6 percent, SIPRI said.
China's move into the top-five means Britain (now in sixth place) dropped off the list of the top five for the first time since at least 1950, the earliest year covered by SIPRI data.
The institute said Asia dominated the global imports of weapons, with the top five importers all located in that region.
Here's SIPRI's list of the top 5 arms exporters in 2008-2012 (share of international exports in parenthesis):
1. United States (30 percent).
2. Russia (26).
3. Germany (7).
4. France (6).
5. China (5).
The top 5 arms importers in 2008-2012 (share of international imports in parenthesis):
1. India (12 percent).
3. Pakistan (5).
4. South Korea (5).
5. Singapore (4).
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Woodland drains putt to win dramatic US Open
Gary Woodland with the US Open trophy.
17th Jun 2019 12:37 PM
Gary Woodland held off world number one Brooks Koepka down the stretch to win the 119th US Open at Pebble Beach on a day Adam Scott's challenge collapsed disastrously.
Woodland finished in style. He holed a 30-foot birdie putt for a 2-under 69, giving him the lowest 72-hole score in six US Opens at Pebble Beach and a three-shot victory over Koepka, who was going for a third straight US Open.
Koepka had to settle for a footnote in history as the first player with all four rounds in the 60s at the US Open without winning. But he made Woodland earn every bit of his first major championship.
Clinging to a one-shot lead with more pressure than he has ever felt, Woodland seized control by going for the green on the par-5 14th hole with a 3-wood from 263 yards, narrowly clearing a cavernous bunker and setting up a simple up-and- down for a two-shot lead.
Even more significant was a shot from 90 feet.
Woodland hit the edge of the green on the par-3 17th all the way to the right, with the pin on the hourglass green on the other side.
Gary Woodland posses with the trophy after winning the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament. Picture: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Ahead on the 18th, Koepka's 3-iron went just over the back of the green, leaving him a chip for eagle to tie, with a birdie likely to do the trick considering what Woodland faced.
Koepka chipped to just inside 10 feet and missed the putt.
Woodland delivered again. Unable to use putter to get it close, he perfectly clipped a pitch over the mound, and it checked about 12 feet short of the hole and trickled down to tap-in range.
That effectively ended the U.S. Open. Woodland played conservatively down the 18th and made one last birdie that only mattered in the record book. He finished at 13-under 271, one shot better than Tiger Woods' historic rout in 2000.
Koepka closed with a 68 for his second runner-up in the majors this year, along with his second straight PGA Championship title.
Justin Rose was the only one who caught Woodland, with a birdie on the opening hole.
Rose bogeyed from the bunker on No. 2, and fell out of the race with three bogeys in a four-hole stretch on the back nine. He shot 74 and shared third with Xander Schauffele (67), Jon Rahm (68) and Chez Reavie (71).
DOUBLE BOGEY ENDS SCOTT'S BOLD US OPEN BID
Adam Scott got to within four shots of the lead after a hot start to his final round at Pebble Beach.
Then it all fell apart.
The Aussie star hit four birdies and an eagle in his first 13 holes to look a potential threat to long-time leader Gary Woodland.
But on the par four 14th he hit a shot out of bounds and had to settle for a double bogey six. He picked up another birdie on the par five 14th but his chances ended with back-to-back bogeys on 16 and 17.
Woodland, chasing his maiden major championship victory, currently leads by one shot after a bogey at 13 as the title threatens to go right down to the line.
Adam Scott is not out of contention at the US Open.
Woodland is playing in the final group with 2013 US Open winner Justin Rose, who is two shots back with six holes to play.
Defending champion Brooks Koepka looks the biggest threat. He is -3 for the round and sits just one shot off the pace.
Meanwhile, Jason Day is next best of the Australians at two under having picked up two shots to finish with a round of 69.
Marc Leishman dropped a shot to finish one over while playing with Tiger Woods (two under for the round two under for the tournament).
Cameron Smith rounded out the Australian tilt and his 72 left him with a 72-hole score of eight over.
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Insider threats, human error, ransomware are healthcare's biggest risks, Verizon report says
Healthcare is the only industry where inside threats outnumber outside threat actors, according to Verizon’s most recent breach report.
Ransomware is the most prevalent malicious software in all sectors, found in 39 percent of all malware-related breaches or twice as much as 2017, according to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
It moves from fourth place last year and up from 22nd place in 2014. Hackers are now leveraging the virus to disrupt critical systems instead of a single device to make more in ransoms.
But while ransomware is still a prevalent threat to the industry, healthcare has the most dubious title: The only industry where inside threats outnumber outside threat actors.
[Also: Europe's GDPR privacy law is coming: Here's what US health orgs need to know]
More than half of the sector’s breaches (56 percent) were caused by internal threat actors, while 43 percent were caused by external risks. And 24 percent of those internal breaches were caused by misuse. Thirty-five percent were caused by user error.
The report also found a sharp increase in breaches since 2015, with 536 breaches and 750 incidents. Human error was a major factor in these incidents, as well as employees abusing access to systems.
Financial pretexting and phishing incidents cause the majority of these events, with email as the main point of entry. Fortunately, 78 percent of employees on average didn’t fail a phishing test last year, but 4 percent did. And it only takes one to enable a breach.
Also notable was that 87 percent of breaches took minutes or less to achieve; and more than two-thirds of breaches went undiscovered for months or longer.
“[Cybercriminals] don’t need much time to extract valuable data – they usually have much more than they need as it typically takes organizations weeks or months to discover a breach,” the report authors wrote. “In many cases, it’s not even the organization itself that spots the breach, it’s often a third party like law enforcement or a partner. Worst of all, many breaches are spotted by customers.”
The report authors’ recommendations for improving security posture echo the sentiments of most security leaders: defense and response. It’s not just important to build strong defenses that dissuade hackers from continued attacks: organizations also need to be prepared to launch a swift response.
Organizations need to routinely monitor log files and change management systems to detect a security compromise, while training employees to spot signs of an attack, according to the report. Further, organizations need to limit who has access to sensitive data only to those who need it.
“What’s interesting to us is that businesses are still not investing in appropriate security strategies to combat ransomware, meaning they end up with no option but to pay the ransom,” Bryan Sartin, Verizon’s executive director of security professional services, said in a statement.
Organizations need a more proactive approach to security, he explained. And they need to better understand the threats, while putting in place solutions to protect themselves.
Twitter: @JessieFDavis
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Solar-Powered Bench Maker Raises $2.5M in Seed Round
The makers of Soofa are growing.
by Ben Miller / May 9, 2017
Changing Environments, the company behind the solar-powered bench Soofa, has closed on a $2.5 million seed round that it plans to use to add staff and further develop a secondary product.
The funding came largely from firms in the Boston area, where the company is headquartered — the main backers in the round were Underscore VC, Pillar and Accomplice, according to CEO Sandra Richter. And with that backing, Richter said, the company is particularly interested in expanding its “communication platform,” which powers its digital street sign.
The sign uses E Ink — the same display used in Kindle e-readers — to show custom content, including advertising, transit schedules and announcements. This year, Richter said, the company plans on launching a way for people to submit messages for the signs through a dedicated mobile app.
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“This round is really geared at extending the platform, and there’s a lot of things we want to go improve now where we already have a lot of data points,” she said.
The data she’s talking about comes from the infrastructure itself. Soofa’s products can pick up on smartphones and other Wi-Fi-connected mobile devices in order to count people in the area. It’s an approach Richter said is noninvasive and tends to steer clear of pulling in the kind of information people want to keep private.
“[Devices] basically chatter,” she said. “And it doesn’t have any kind of content.”
Still, people are concerned about cities collecting information and using it. So part of what the people behind Soofa do when they sell to a local government — and they’ve deployed in about 75 cities so far, including Las Cruces, N.M., and Boston — is work with various departments on issues such as Internet of Things guidelines and data privacy standards.
“I think it’s very clear when you’re working on smart city [projects], one of the big roles we need to play is informing across departments, keeping all the stakeholders aligned and [working on] everything from the approval process all the way to privacy guidelines,” Richter said.
The data can be important to cities, she said, for multiple reasons. Take the solar-powered bench deployed in a park. The bench could provide a baseline count of visitors to the park on each day of the week, allowing the city to compare between parks. That could influence things such as maintenance schedules and budget allocation. The benches could also count the number of people who showed up for an event, or track how the number of people visiting a place changes as the city makes renovations.
“Parks budgets are often the first budgets to be cut, so how can a park leader fight for their budgets and say, ‘Hey, people are moving to our cities, parks are basically like our gardens. Where are people supposed to go and interact, mingle, experience city life?’” she said.
The seed round, which Richter described as “seed one,” brings the company up to a total $3.4 million in equity funding, according to Xconomy. Richter said the company hopes to finish a Series A round sometime in 2018.
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Key ally of Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard faces ousting from top role
By Alistair Grant and Paul Hutcheon
Mary Fee and Jackie Baillie
A KEY ally of Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard faces being ousted from a coveted position on the party’s ruling body.
Mary Fee, who sits on Labour’s Scottish Executive Committee as chair of its group of MSPs, is being challenged for the role by Jackie Baillie.
Ms Baillie, who is seen as a key figure on the party’s moderate wing, was sacked as Scottish Labour’s economy spokeswoman last year as part of a chaotic reshuffle by Mr Leonard.
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Now she is being backed as a challenger to Ms Fee, with supporters expected to make a move at today’s annual general meeting of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Group.
A party source said the vote was expected to be “very tight”.
It comes amid an ongoing power struggle in Labour between its moderate and left-wing factions, with Ms Fee seen as a political ally of left-wing leader Mr Leonard.
Ms Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, declined to comment. She was removed from Labour’s front bench in October, amid reports she had been told of the move over the phone just five minutes before it was announced in a statement.
Anas Sarwar, who was also sacked in the reshuffle, claimed he learned he was to be replaced as health spokesman on Twitter while leading for the party in a Holyrood debate.
At the time, a supporter of the pair accused Mr Leonard of putting “factionalism ahead of competence”.
They added: “When you’re in trouble you don’t take your two best players off the pitch.”
Ms Baillie supported Mr Sarwar during the 2017 leadership election, and is close to former leader Kezia Dugdale.
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The latest move comes just weeks after Scottish Labour suffered a disastrous defeat in the European elections.
The party came fifth in Scotland, slumping from 26 to 9 per cent of the vote and losing both its MEPs, including the UK’s longest serving MEP, David Martin.
It was Labour’s worst result north of the border since 1910, and immediately led to calls for Mr Leonard to consider his position.
He has since committed Scottish Labour to backing a second EU referendum in all circumstances, and regardless of the party’s position down south. Critics have branded the move “too little, too late”.
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H5G and ORYX GAMING Finalize Agreement for Content Distribution
New York, N.Y., February 26, 2019 – High 5 Games (H5G) and ORYX Gaming, a leading turnkey solutions provider with a large portfolio of world-class, multi-channel content, announce they have agreed to an online content partnership. The New York City-based video slots creator sought a seasoned gaming solutions provider to distribute H5G games, including its land-based hits as well newer, innovative content, to its key European markets.
High 5 Games is a renowned international premium content creator for the land-based, online, social, and mobile casino industries, known for its engaging gameplay and innovative art style for over 20 years. This new partnership will focus on delivering a wide range of premium slot game titles by H5G as it continues to launch its content portfolio live into regulated gaming markets. Integrating to the High 5 VAULT offers operators the ability to expand their unique content portfolio to more players worldwide. The highly optimized HTML5 pipeline will provide proven hits to all associated operating platforms with ORYX Gaming.
“Our games will align the ORYX portfolio superbly as they seek to work with established content providers who know how to deliver consistent hits around the world like High 5 Games”, as stated by Anthony Singer CEO and Founder of High 5 Games.
Matevz Mazij, CEO of Oryx Gaming, added, “High 5 Games’ products are highly entertaining and engaging, with an added social element and land-based presence that makes them unique in the market. We are confident that introducing High 5 Games will be a great success throughout our network and we look forward to a prosperous relationship together.”
High 5 Games continues to actively develop market opportunities and to work with governing bodies throughout Europe and the United States, as well as to continue its aim of content distribution for all regulated territories from its global headquarters at 1 World Trade Center in New York.
For further information about High 5 Games’ B2B offerings, please contact BD@H5G.com.
About ORYX Gaming
ORYX Gaming is a turnkey solutions provider and a member of Bragg Gaming Group (TSXV: BRAG). ORYX’s omnichannel, cross-product platform contains a mix of proprietary and third party games for Casino, Slots, Live dealer content, Lottery, Virtual Sports and Instant games. The casino offering is the perfect blend of localized and exclusive content from the likes of ORYX, Gamomat, Kalamba Games, Golden Hero, Givme Games and several other integrations such as Quickfire, Greentube, Red Tiger, Netent, Play’n GO, NYX, EGT, Evolution, Realistic, Kiron, Amatic and Isoftbet to collate 6.000+ aggregated world-class games.
About High 5 Games
Developing for the land-based, online, social, and mobile markets, High 5 Games has created hundreds of games that are played on six continents and in more than 150 countries. High 5 Games operates High 5 Casino, the premier destination for the most robust slot content library in the casino category with nearly 17 million players worldwide, as well as several niche social casino apps. The company’s premier remote game server, High 5 VAULT, integrates with online casinos around the world and features a selection of the company’s top brands for real money play. High 5 Games is aimed at becoming the world leader in casino content production and distribution and has offices in New York City, New Jersey, Kansas City, and London.
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Russell Simmons Initially Threw Public Enemy’s Demo Out the Window
Nov 9, 2017 at 3:53 pm | By Alex
Russell wasn't a fan
Doctor Dre — no, the other one — revealed that legendary hip-hop mogul Russel Simmons initially had the wrong idea about Public Enemy. The MTV VJ and Yo! MTV Raps host said that Simmons was so strongly against the sound of Public Enemy’s first demo that he chucked it out the window.
First, a little backstory on how Dre came to have the demo… As the touring DJ for the Beastie Boys, Dre got his hands on a lot of radio promos. He’d play the ones that he thought were decent for Beastie’s producer and guru Rick Rubin as well as Simmons.
In Dre’s own words:
“I was the first DJ for the Beastie Boys after Rick Rubin…I got my group signed to Def Jam and after I did that, while on the road, I used to play tapes we made on the bus with everybody. They eventually heard ‘Public Enemy #1’ because the song was a radio promo.”
To hear Dre tell it, Rubin was on-board with the harsh, political sound of the hip-hop legend’s from jump, but Simmons thought that there was no market for the upstart group.
“When I first played it, Russell [Simmons] was sleeping on Rick’s bed at NYU and Rick [Rubin] heard it and said, ‘Yo, this is a’ight. This is cool,’” he said. “But me being with the Beasties for so long, they kept telling Rick about it, so I played it for ’em. Russell got up, walked to the tape deck and threw the cassette out the window. I said, ‘What are you doing?’ He said, ‘This is garbage, man. Nobody’s ever going to listen to that.’”
Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
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Dre claimed he was instrumental in changing Russel’s mind and the course of hip-hop history.
“Months later — Chuck, myself and [former Def Jam exec] Bill Stephney were in the same music class with Harry Allen — after going back and forth with everyone, I basically brought Public Enemy over there,” he shared.
We all know what happened next. Public Enemy signed to Def Jam and became the political yin to Gangsta Rap’s yang. Both served as “the black CNN” (in the immortal words of Chuck D), with Public Enemy reporting on the system’s that lead to poverty and mass incarceration while groups like N.W.A. shared its effects.
Since those heady days, things have changed for the members of P.E. After releasing several classic albums and parting ways for a bit , the group have gone down wildly disparate paths. Flavor Flav used his outsized personality to become a staple in early reality TV. Chuck D joined the world’s most famous cover band and now performs old Rage Against The Machine songs alongside some original material.
But the story about P.E. is far from the only one that Dre has to tell. Dre is working on a book about his time as a nexus point in rap music. The VJ says he has plenty of stories packed away about the personalities that shaped the genre in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.
“There’s a big story to tell,” he continued. “For example, when Ice Cube wanted to work with The Bomb Squad [Public Enemy’s production team], who did he come speak to about that? Me. Cube met me at Yo! MTV Raps and asked if I could reach Chuck D, so I spent the rest of the day tracking down everybody and got it together. Never got credit for it.”
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