pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 75
951k
| source
stringlengths 39
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__cc
| 0.575768
| 0.424232
|
Sunstone and Orion Welders demo THE DADO at MJSA Expo
—$3,900 Laser Welder Steals the Show.
PAYSON, Utah—March 11, 2019—Sunstone and Orion Welders, reveal and demonstrate The Dado Laser Welder—the smallest & the most affordable laser welder in the world— at the MJSA Expo in New York City. The MJSA Expo is one of the most attended USA jewelry trade shows of the year.
The Dado Laser Welder “Stole the show!” said Jonathan Young, CEO of Sunstone and Orion Welders. “As we have seen here in New York City at the MJSA Expo, virtually anyone can use The Dado Laser Welder. It is so simple to set up and incredibly user friendly. We have had guests weld their jewelry in a matter of minutes after sitting down at The Dado Laser Welder.”
The Dado Laser Welder features a 0.2–1.5 mm adjustable spot size, 12 simple power settings, a small footprint (14x14in), 10x microscope, an easy to use system, a robust design that is built to last as long as any laser in the market, and a price tag that is manageable.
“We are so excited to be able to provide the market with a laser welder that anyone can afford. It has been really neat to see peoples faces light up at the realization that they can have a laser welder as part of their business. For all of us at Sunstone and Orion Welders, our goal has always been to help our customers be successful at what they do, and be able to make a living doing what they love. The Dado Laser Welder is one of those tools that does exactly this.” David Holloway, Product Manager
We are the Micro Welding Experts, dedicated to leading the industry with high-tech and affordable welding solutions.
Scott Peart
Orion and Sunstone Welders
press@nullsunstonewelders.com
Sunstone and Orion Welders reveal THE DADO – $3,900 Laser Welder
—Smallest & Most Affordable Laser Welder Ever.
PAYSON, Utah—February 13, 2019—Sunstone and Orion Welders, introduces THE DADO Laser Welder—the smallest & (at $3,900) the most affordable laser welder in the world— featuring similar functionality as our higher end laser welder models, but at less than a third of the price of most entry level laser welders currently in the market. THE DADO opens the door to new markets throughout the world, where laser welding technology was previously cost prohibitive. Priced below $4,000 USD, THE DADO can be used by almost anyone and has a power range that can take on thousands of uses. It’s perfect for those needing to make quick, small welds on a lighter duty cycle, including: hobbyists, research & development teams, dentists, orthodontists, optometrists, jewelers, and anyone working with metal.
“From a pricing stand point THE DADO is a real game changer!” said Jonathan Young, CEO of Sunstone and Orion Welders. “THE DADO brings laser welding technology, once only available to those with large budgets, to virtually anyone interested in or needing a laser welder for their application.”
“With the introduction of THE DADO, Sunstone and Orion Welders demonstrates how we are really distancing ourselves from our competition, and bringing new welding opportunities for people to utilize technology that was once out of reach for them.” Jonathan Young, CEO.
Features of THE DADO include:
Easy-to-use Touch Screen Interface (accessed from your smart phone or tablet)
Simple, plug-and-play system
0.2 – 1.5 mm weld spot size
10x microscope
Sunstone Engineering Reveals Orion mPulse 30
—Smallest & Most Affordable Micro Welder Available.
PAYSON, Utah—January 1, 2016—Sunstone Engineering, maker of the Orion line of welders,
released the Orion mPulse 30—the smallest & most affordable micro pulse arc welder in the world— featuring the same functionality as their higher end models at less than half the price of its previous entry-level welder. Designed and built in the United States of America, the Orion mPulse 30 opens the door to new markets throughout the world, where pulse arc welding technology was previously cost prohibitive. Priced below $2,000 USD, the Orion mPulse 30 can be used by almost anyone and has the power to take on thousands of uses. Whether used as a dedicated thermocouple welder or an additional tool for eyeglass repair, It’s perfect for those needing to make quick, small welds on a light duty cycle, including hobbyists, research & development teams, dentists, orthodontists, optometrists, jewelers, and anyone working with metal.
“Sunstone Engineering was born out of the desire to find an affordable micro welder in a market that only offered welders starting at $20,000+ USD.,” said Dr. Aaron Astle, Ph.D., Sunstone Engineering’s Founder and Lead Engineer. “The Orion mPulse 30 brings pulse arc welding technology, once only available to those with large budgets, to virtually anyone interested in or needing a micro welder for their application.”
“With the launch of the Orion mPulse 30, Sunstone Engineering demonstrates how we are really distancing ourselves from our competition, and bringing new opportunities for people to get a hold of technology that was once out of reach for them. While we revel in our own success as a company, there is no truer standard of measurement for success than the successes of our customers using our machines. Our products are literally changing lives and it’s wonderful to be part of something like that.” Jonathan Young, CEO of Sunstone Engineering.
Features of the Orion mPulse 30 include:
Simplified Touch Screen Interface
Easy, Plug-and-Play System
30 ws Power Potential Ranging from 0ws to 30ws in 2.5 Increments
Adjustable Shade Auto Darkening Lens
Portable Welding
Sunstone Engineering are Micro Welding Experts. Dedicated to leading the industry with high-tech and affordable welding solutions.
Joel Miller
Orion Welders by Sunstone Engineering
Sunstone Engineering Unveils Orion 200i2
—Most Advanced Micro Welder Ever.
PAYSON, Utah—January 1, 2015—Sunstone Engineering, maker of the Orion line of welders, unveiled the Orion 200i2—it’s most advanced micro welder ever—featuring industry advances in design and use that simplify all aspects of micro pulse arc welding. The Orion 200i2 introduces an all-in-one head unit containing the welder and touch screen user interface; mounted upon a single-point-attached articulating swing-arm. The Orion 200i2 ushers in a new level of user customization through simple click-and-weld settings to advanced control of every aspect of the welding process. Continuing with it’s commitment to value, and while the Orion 200i2 offers many new features, Sunstone Engineering released the Orion 200i2 below the price of competing products—making the Orion 200i2 an affordable micro welding option.
“Since its inception, Sunstone Engineering has brought the most innovative and affordable micro welding solutions to the market. Our products enrich people’s lives and businesses.” Said Dr. Aaron Astle, Ph.D., Sunstone Engineering’s Founder and Lead Engineer. “Once again, with the Orion 200i2, we introduce a welding product rich with features, created by our talented team of engineers. The space-saving, all-in-one arm mounted welding unit, welding waveforms that emulate laser-like welding, and seam mode—that produces up to 30 welds per second—are just a few of the Orion 200i2 features and just a small sample of what’s coming out of our R&D lab here at Sunstone Engineering.”
“With the unveiling of the Orion 200i2, and through additional upcoming product releases, Sunstone Engineering digs a deeper foothold in the Micro Welding market. Our competitors see it, and our users know that a Sunstone Engineering welder is designed with power, versatility, and efficiency. Add simplicity and affordability to the equation and there’s no one out there that can compete on all levels with the products we design, engineer, and manufacture.” Stated Jonathan Young, CEO of Sunstone Engineering.
Additional features of the Orion 200i2 include:
Save and load user based custom settings
Screen based feedback for default metal, advanced control and tack welding modes.
Touch-control dial, with number pad option, to set weld power levels from 0.01 to 200 joules.
Control over weld waveform, ignition type, and agitation levels.
Single, Rapid, and Seam modes of welding—up to 30 welds per second.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12706
|
__label__cc
| 0.522342
| 0.477658
|
iTunes U security and privacy overview
Apple takes data security and the privacy of personal information very seriously. iTunes U is built with industry-standard security practices and employs strict policies to protect user data.
This article explains how iTunes U keeps course information and data secure. In addition to this article, you should also review Apple’s Privacy Policy.
iTunes U secures homework hand-ins, private discussions, and grades. It encrypts data sent over the Internet, stores it in an encrypted format when kept on a server, and uses secure tokens for authentication. This means that user data is protected from unauthorized access when it's being transmitted and when it's stored on our servers. iTunes U uses a minimum of 128-bit AES encryption—the same level of security employed by major financial institutions.
Ownership of data stored in iTunes U
The institution, instructor, or student owns any data they provide and remains in control of it at all times. Apple’s only role is to process homework, grades, and other information provided in the course of using the service.
How long iTunes U keeps data
iTunes U maintains data as long as the course or collection exists. When a course or collection is deleted, all information associated with it will be deleted. Users will still have access to any local information on their devices.
How Apple deletes data
When an instructor removes a student from a course, Apple deletes all student-created course materials, discussions, and private discussions between the student and instructor from our systems.
Authentication with secure tokens
When users access iTunes U from the iTunes U app, secure tokens eliminate the need to store passwords on devices and computers. When accessing iTunes U from a web browser, usernames and passwords are sent over an encrypted TLS connection.
Strong passwords
Apple IDs used with iTunes U must have passwords with a minimum of 8 characters, including a number, an uppercase letter, and a lowercase letter. Using a strong password is the most important thing users can do to help keep their data secure. Learn more about creating a strong password.
Apple has a company-wide commitment to privacy. The Apple Privacy Policy covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store user information. In addition to adhering to this policy, iTunes U has these privacy features:
iTunes U data is stored in a separate database from other types of iTunes data.
iTunes U data is only used to provide the service.
iTunes U data is never used for advertising.
Account data stored in iTunes is subject to Apple’s standard data policies.
Access to user and instructor data is limited to Apple personnel who require such access to support the service.
Immediate deletion upon request
When a user requests that iTunes U data be deleted, the data is deleted immediately. Users will still have access to iTunes U information stored locally on their devices.
Meeting schools' privacy obligations
iTunes U also helps schools meet their privacy obligations to students under the age of 18. Apple never uses student information for marketing or targeted advertising, we never sell student information, and we never share student information with third parties.
Student Privacy Pledge
Apple has signed the Student Privacy Pledge, further underscoring our commitment to protecting the information students, parents, and teachers share in schools.
Apple, as a global company, has a number of legal entities in different jurisdictions which are responsible for the personal information which they collect and which is processed on their behalf by Apple Inc. Apple uses approved Model Contractual Clauses for the international transfer of personal information collected in the European Economic Area and Switzerland. Apple abides by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross Border Privacy Rules System. The APEC CBPR system provides a framework for organizations to ensure protection of personal information transferred among participating APEC economies.
Apple will not disclose iTunes U data to law enforcement unless required by law. If law enforcement contacts Apple for access to iTunes U data, Apple will attempt to redirect the law enforcement agency to request that information directly from the institution, instructor, or student associated with the request. If law enforcement compels Apple to disclose iTunes U data, Apple will promptly notify the impacted user and provide a copy of the order unless prohibited by law from doing so.
If Apple receives a request for iTunes U data from a third party (for example, requests for student records), Apple will promptly notify the institution, instructor, or student, unless prohibited by law. If Apple isn't required by law to disclose iTunes U data, Apple will reject the request.
If the request is valid and Apple could be compelled to disclose the requested information, Apple will attempt to redirect the third party to obtain the information directly from the institution, instructor, or student associated with the request. In support of this effort, Apple may provide basic contact information to the third party.
Government requests
Find more information on how Apple manages government information requests.
After the semester ends
Any information or data (like homework or grades) gathered while using iTunes U is controlled by the institution or instructor. They can delete it at the end of each semester or any time.
Once the data is deleted from our systems, it will no longer be available. Users will still have access to any local information stored on their devices.
Service issues or downtime
We know reliable service is important, and we will attempt to provide commercially reasonable notice for any downtime. You can monitor the iTunes U system status on the Apple System Status page.
Find information on using iTunes U and get support on the iTunes U support page.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12708
|
__label__cc
| 0.598751
| 0.401249
|
Home News Local news Page 361
WAPA Consultant Presents Integrated Resource Plan
Susan Ellis - May 23, 2016
Representatives from the Black and Veatch Management Consulting firm told a public forum Monday the territory will spend more on energy over the next 20 years by maintaining the status quo than by replacing outdated oil generating units with liquid propane gas.
Undercurrents: Nassau Grouper, Please Come Home
Bernetia Akin - May 23, 2016
People who have been watching and hoping for the return of the popular Nassau Grouper are seeing signs that the species is making a comeback. That would be good news for fishermen and consumers.
Senators Observe African Liberation Week
Source Staff - May 23, 2016
The red, black and green Pan-African flag was raised on the grounds of the Earle B. Ottley Legislature Building on Monday as senators and community members honored African Liberation Week.
One Of Two Warring V.I. GOP Delegations Endorses Trump
A majority of one of two warring U.S. Virgin Islands delegations, each planning to attend the Republican National Convention representing the territory, has endorsed real estate developer, heir and reality TV star Donald Trump for the party’s presidential nomination.
Growing Pains: Large-Scale Composting in the Virgin Islands
Kelsey Nowakowski - May 22, 2016
Compostables represent around two-thirds of the territory’s waste stream, but large-scale composting has yet to be implemented in the Virgin Islands despite the potential wide-ranging economic and environmental benefits some researchers see.
Not Guilty: Jury Clears Francis, Castor, Woods of All Charges
David Knight Jr. - May 14, 2016
A jury delivered verdicts of not guilty on all 13 counts in a federal court case against former Public Finance Authority Director Julito Francis, Balbo Construction Co. owner Gerard Castor and John Woods, co-principal of architecture firm Jaredian Design Group.
Sea View, CMS Extend Deadline to July 30
Lawyers representing the Sea View Nursing Home and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services agreed Wednesday to extend until July 30 the deadline for sale or lease of the St. Thomas facility.
Dutch Warship Calls on St. Thomas
James Gardner - May 14, 2016
Half covered by fog and rain when it pulled into port Friday, the Dutch warship de Zeven Provincien, with everything from an on-board helicopter to a guided missile system, cut an impressive figure across the Charlotte Amalie horizon.
Potter: Blue Cross Blue Shield Pull-Out Report ‘Premature’
Shaun A. Pennington - May 13, 2016
A day and a half after the Source reported Blue Cross Blue Shield was pulling out of the territory Aug.1 while currently owing health care providers massive amounts of money, Lt. Gov. Osbert Potter said he wasn’t going to approve the withdrawal until the company found another health insurance company to replace it.
Library Trial: Attorneys Dispute Significance of ‘Suspicious Timing’
U.S. attorneys in a bribery and conspiracy case revolving around construction of the Turnbull Library proposed that the timing of certain actions is sufficient proof of a corrupt agreement.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12719
|
__label__cc
| 0.553444
| 0.446556
|
Celebrities, Entertainment, Music
“There’s No Such Thing As An Ugly Billionaire…I’m Cute.” Following The Release Of 4:44, Jay Z And Beyonce’s Twins’ Names Are Revealed
June 30, 2017 sytonnia Leave a comment
(SL) – It’s been disclosed that Beyonce and S-dot-Carter named their twins Rumi Carter and Sir Carter. Part of the wait could’ve of been because the superstars couple’s company was filing trademark documents for the names on June 26.
According to the filing, they requested trademarks to be used for various merchandise, including baby teething rings, baby carriages and strollers.
Rumi and Sir join 5-year-old big sister Blue Ivy who was spotted entered the hospital shortly before the twins’ arrival was announced.
It’s been a day full of the Carters after Jay Z dropped his new album 4:44 at midnight and it’s streaming for free on select iHeartRadio stations for 24 hours. Take advantage while you can and it’s more than worth the listen! It’s Mr. Carter’s most poignant and indelible album to date and his first release since 2013 Magna Carter Holy Grail.
The rap God is back with a short (35 minutes) but powerful 10 tracks where he addressed everything from his mom potentially being a lesbian, generational wealth, investing in black communities, fixing your credit, society, infidelity rumors, Solange and the elevator, Kanye, and Bey getting pregnant with twins naturally after a number of miscarriages. Becky is even mentioned confirming what we already know…that a couple who markets together, stays together. It’s genius.
4:44beyonceBlue IvyBlue Ivy Carterjay zMusicRumi CarterSir Cartertwins
Previous PostVenus Williams Responsible For Car Crash That Killed 78-Year Old ManNext PostA Sucker For Fame And Success, Felon Turned Model Jeremy Meeks Cheats On Wife With Chloe Green
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12721
|
__label__wiki
| 0.858661
| 0.858661
|
HomeBoard - Europe Board Listed/Public Companies RIT Capital Partners appoints Andre Perold and Jeremy Sillem to its Board as Non-Executive Directors
RIT Capital Partners appoints Andre Perold and Jeremy Sillem to its Board as Non-Executive Directors
April 26, 2018 By operator Feed Up Comments are Off Board - Europe, Board Listed/Public Companies
– UK, London – RIT Capital Partners plc (LSE:RCP), today announced that following the passing of all resolutions by shareholders at its Annual General Meeting, André Perold and Jeremy Sillem have been appointed to the Board with immediate effect.
About André Perold
André Perold has been elected to the Board as a Non-Executive Director. Mr Perold is a Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston based investment firm. He is a board member of the Vanguard Group, the global investment company and also serves on the Investment Committee of the Partners Healthcare System.
Mr Perold will sit on the Audit & Risk Committee.
About Jeremy Sillem
Jeremy Sillem has been elected to the Board as a Non-Executive Director. Mr Sillem is Managing Partner and Founder of Spencer House Partners LLP, which provides corporate finance advice to asset and wealth management businesses. From 2000 to 2004 he was Executive Chairman of Bear Stearns International in London, prior to which he had a 28-year career with Lazard in London and New York.
Mr Sillem will sit on the Audit & Risk Committee.
Phillipe Costeletos has been appointed as a member of the Remuneration Committee of RIT, with immediate effect.
For more information : ritcap.co.uk
MSCI announces Jacques Perold to its Board of Directors
Omega Diagnostics appoints Jeremy Millard to its Board as Independent Director
Cenkos Securities announces Jeremy Miller to its Board as Independent Director
SHRM
CSS Industries
Nektar Therapeutics
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12723
|
__label__wiki
| 0.693335
| 0.693335
|
Ten-year Minecraft veteran Daniel Kaplan leaves Mojang for Goat Simulator
Coffee Stain Publishing have recruited Daniel Kaplan, an award-winning production director who’s worked in the industry for ten years, spending most of those years looking after Minecraft, shaping its business interests. He started out when Mojang was formed, getting money back from PayPal. Ten years later, he’s leaving for new pastures, possibly filled with goats.
If you still love creating blocks worlds, check out our list of the best Minecraft seeds.
Coffee Stain are the studio behind Goat Simulator and Tower Defense Sanctum. “With our ambitious plans for Coffee Stain Publishing, we had to find the right people, and that’s not always easy,” Anton Westbergh, CEO of Coffee Stain Studios and Publishing, says.
“I’ve known Kaplan for 10 years (we even shared a bed once at Gamescom!), and I’m excited to have him join us! Kaplan is great, and shares our core game philosophies; we can’t wait to have him apply his magic on our products.”
Kaplan says he’s a big fan of the studio and he’s excited to work with the team responsible for one of the “weirdest titles in the world” – that’ll be Goat Sim. Coffee Stain will be at Gamescom showing off their new game, Deep Rock Galactic. It looks like Minecraft in space, with dwarves.
Check out the announcement on the Coffee Stain blog.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12733
|
__label__wiki
| 0.66067
| 0.66067
|
Be the first to hear when we launch a new story!
In-Prison, Re-Entry, & Second Chance Programs
When the Changed Start Leading the Change
Written by Kate Schmidgall • 3 min read
After twenty years entangled in drug use, homelessness, crime, and incarceration, Justin Allen became part of the first cohort of participants in The Other Side Academy (TOSA) in Salt Lake City.
Here, intensely consistent feedback and immediate responsibility create a crucible of change for everyone and anyone serious enough to commit to the process.
Today, three years after his start, Justin is clean, honest, reconciled to his family, and playing a key role in expanding TOSA’s work to Denver where dozens of students are finding help, community, and the accountability they need to transform themselves.
Justin Allen, Staff, The Other Side Movers
Whether you’re late, cutting in line, or stealing socks, no one here gets away with anything. Instant feedback and intense twice-weekly ‘games’ create a culture of rigorous accountability and high expectations. The vast majority of transformative growth happens in these games, when students share direct and personal feedback in small groups.
“I wasn’t sure if he was going to make it,” remembers Dave Durocher, TOSA’s Managing Director. “At the beginning, you could see the veins in his neck and forehead bulging. It took him probably a year before he could sit in a game and listen to feedback.”
“I finally learned that I don’t need to explain myself,” says Justin. “I just need to listen and accept it and respect it and apply the changes. They don’t care about the explanation, they care that you own up to your mistakes and how you make people feel.”
Once that switch was flipped, Justin began to grow in responsibility and learn leadership.
Like most TOSA freshmen, he spent his first year doing custodial and housekeeping work, scrubbing toilets and doing laundry. Increasingly able to work with others and maintain a good attitude, he was promoted to Freshman Crew Boss, helping to guide other freshmen through their program experience. In his second year, Justin was hired by The Other Side Movers, where he began to learn customer service and leadership skills.
Now, just a few years later, Justin is one of the first graduates to be hired full-time and is taking a leadership role in The Other Side Academy’s recent expansion to Denver, Colorado.
Under the leadership of TOSA co-founders Lola and Steve Strong, Justin will now oversee The Other Side Movers—a social enterprise designed to create employment opportunities for participants and fully sustain the academy within just twenty-four months. The staff is further supported by a core of experienced students capable of leading others in journeys of transformation and recovery.
Support The Other Side Academy's Expansion to Denver
The wheels of this expansion began turning in 2016 when a delegation of business, community, and political leaders from Denver visited Salt Lake City to see ‘what was working’ in the way of social transformation. The visit concluded with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock stating that Denver needed the TOSA model and right there on the spot asking for community leaders to step up and lead the effort. Several in attendance rose to the challenge and with the strong support of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and the leadership of Andrew Schmidt, the Other Side Academy is now on the other side of the Rockies.
“We’re a non-governmental response to the incarceration, opioid, and homelessness crises—and it’s a self-sustaining model that works. Our goal is to expand it across the United States,” says CEO Tim Stay.
At the entrance to The Other Side Academy, in both Denver and Salt Lake City, is a bench. To get help, all anyone needs to do is sit on the bench. It’s available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and the only criterion for acceptance into the academy is, “Are you serious?”
“Until 2015, I missed my whole kids’ lives—about 10-12 years of their lives—choosing drugs over everybody, including myself,” says Justin. “I’d like people to know that change is hard, but if you put in the work, you can change for the better. I’m an example to my kids. I’m where and who I’m meant to be.”
Written by Kate Schmidgall
Editor in Chief at Bittersweet Monthly, Washington, DC
Be the first to hear about new stories of transformation.
Sign up for updates delivered right to your inbox.
Encounter a different kind of philanthropy.
See how Stand Together Foundation is doing things differently to change more lives.
Stand Together Stories
Stand Together Foundation Stories celebrates the innovative and effective solutions of individuals and communities around the country who are working to break the cycle of poverty.
Good things are coming to your inbox.
external email share twitter facebook instagram linkedin play-outline external-circle email-circle share-circle twitter-circle facebook-circle play-solid photo article podcast video feature photo-circle article-circle podcast-circle video-circle feature-circle donate volunteer event donate-circle volunteer-circle event-circle donate-lg volunteer-lg event-lg donate-lg-circle volunteer-lg-circle event-lg-circle re-entry reentry at-risk housing addiction financial workforce reentry-circle at-risk-circle housing-circle addiction-circle financial-circle workforce-circle fa-pause fa-plus chevron-down chevron-right fa-play external-link fa-mail fa-share fa-twitter fa-facebook
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12735
|
__label__wiki
| 0.724938
| 0.724938
|
Storyboard4
New archive
Lounger diaries, the new series
Paws4thought
Desford tales
Paul Wood, sculptor & print maker
About us/Sales talk
Tag Archives: green socialist democracy
• May 2015, British general election, British politics, Democracy, Democratic organisation
OUCH! That’s hot!
06/05/2015 storyboard4 2 Comments
Did you ever imagine Dougal and Zebedee would be ‘name-checked’ in a political blog? You’re obviously new round these parts
British politicsCurrent postsgreen socialist democracyThe British election campaign
• Decmber 2014, Economic alternatives, new left parties, Social movements
01/12/2014 storyboard4
This may have been published before but Roland and his cohorts don’t do ‘record-keeping’ very well. Ask Roland about records and he’ll probably start blathering on about the Buzzcocks first EP. Some changes have been made and there are additions. Nothing too sexy …
BritainCurrent postsgreen socialist democracyLeft UnityPolitical leftPolitics (international)Social movements
• November 2014, Banking, Economic alternatives, International (general), Politics (general)
Growing-up is difficult. Most of us don’t set out to destroy the planet as a result
Current postsEconmic alternativesG20green socialist democracyPolitics (international)
Best features …
Paws4thought. Two 'cool cats' who know where it's at! Follow the link above.
The Lounger diaries, new series is now under the editorial oversight of RM De la Mer, nephew of the late RS De la Mer. Follow the link above. Archives to be posted soon(ish).
Storyboard4 begins to publish short stories from AW Green written in the 1930s (see "Desford tales", menu above).
News shorts …
MANY EURO ZONE governments are having difficulties getting their tiny ideological, austerity driven, heads around the concept that Greece’s Syriza government is not too keen on being bound by the promises of the country’s former conservative-led administration.
Reuters have reported that Syriza prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has gone so far as to reaffirm his commitment to remaining within his government’s ‘anti-austerity’ mandate. ‘Like it or lump it’ you could say. There have, however, been assiduous moves to sideline Syriza finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who we are constantly reminded is a Marxist academic. Shocking!
Syriza are walking a tactical tightrope (don’t you just love that unorthodox alliteration). Storyboard4 are supporting them. We may not always agree with every tactical nuance they employ. When was the last time you agreed with a comrade 100%?
THE WEIRD and wonderful to start the week. Reuters have reported that a wild female Coyote was restrained and tranquillised (“contained, darted and secured”) outside a bijou Manhattan café. They will be “released into an appropriate wilderness area somewhere in New York City”. That shouldn’t be too difficult. Earlier this month a Coyote was discovered in the Chelsea neighbourhood although whether they were looking for the infamous Chelsea Hotel no-one is quite sure.
DWP stops answering questions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out its threat to stop answering any questions from the country’s only disability news agency.
The DWP’s chief press officer (disability) had previously warned that he and his staff would stop dealing with Disability News Service (DNS) if it refused to change its procedures.
DWP has repeatedly missed deadlines, but has begun insisting that if and when it finally produces a late comment – even if produced hours after stories have been sent out to subscribers and have been published – DNS should update its website to show the government’s response.
John Pring, the disabled editor of DNS, has pointed out that if he was to do so, he would also have to alert every one of the agency’s subscribers with updates every time a comment arrived after deadline, as well as offering the service demanded by DWP to every other organisation and individual that had been asked to comment on a story that week.
Pring has also told DWP that its habit of frequently missing deadlines and leaving it until the last possible moment to provide a comment has already had a negative impact on his mental health.
The DWPs chief press officer (disability) has said: “Thanks for the opportunity to comment on your forthcoming peer review story but, as discussed previously, we won’t be offering any responses to DNS articles until we can agree on working practices.
“That basic principle is that, if we are to have a working relationship, it should be one which is fair; in which standard conventions are observed; and in which the time and effort that you put into writing your stories and the time and effort that my staff put into answering your questions are given equal respect.”
He added: “I don’t find it particularly surprising that a self-selecting group of your Twitter followers, close contacts and subscribers who have chosen to comment would take your side over ours in this, or indeed any, disagreement.
Abridged from an article by John Pring, 17 April on the DNS site
Bizarre story to end of month
NO, WE’RE not talking about the British general election. Reuters have reported that a four-year old girl, in Pennsylvania (USA), got on a bus at 3am in the morning in search of a “slushy”. What the f**k is a “slushy”? Apparently, the bus driver was alarmed and contacted his office, who contacted the police and the girl was reunited with her parents. Is there something in these “slushys” that makes four-year olds creep out the back door in the middle of the night? A “slushy” is, apparently, very sugary. There’s a lesson for all off us in there.
Greece and the BBC
FAR LEFT? Radical left? Leftist? And … for the first time this evening (Sunday 25 January) “hard left”. Take your pick. BBC correspondents certainly do. We’re talking about SYRIZA (United Social Front or "Coalition of the Radical Left" [according to the BBC's UK website]) in Greece in case you were wondering. SYRIZA were two seats short of an overall majority and have gone into a coalition with one of the smaller election lists (Independent Greeks, centre-right nationalists, apparently also anti-austerity but not too keen on immigrants). Sounds 'dodgy' or tactical? SYRIZA are also in discussions with the 'centrist' To Potami and even the ultra-sectarian Stalinist KKE (communist party). No-one should be surprised about the BBC's coverage unless, of course, you’re a Tory party (UK) backbench MP who believes that, whatever the evidence, the BBC is run — from top-to-bottom — by a tightly knit cell of Trotskyists. Bullshit; and we have made this point on Storyboard4 before. Furthermore, LANGUAGE! BBC correspondents/reporters are generally a conservative, often with an uppercase ‘C’, bunch. They simply don’t know how to describe a ‘new’ broad left party such as SYRIZA, in its self a coalition (or Podemos in Spain) because they are stuck in an editorial rut. By Monday morning (26 January) they may find that they have to get used to the idea that left-wing parties can win elections.
Bizarre (?)
JAMES NAUGHTIE, a longstanding presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'breakfast' programme, Today, described this story as bizarre. Transsexuals, transgender ... gamblers (a difficult philosophical leap that one) are to be banned from driving in Russia. What do Russian authorities think is going to happen if a transsexual gambler is driving a car? Take a wrong turn? Bizarre? Must be the understatement of the year so far ...
Egypt: imprisoned journalists
PLEASE KEEP an eye on the case of three journalists, working for al Jazeera (English language), Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed, have been imprisoned since 2013. The Egyptian military government's allegation was that they were disseminating false news and belong[ed] to a “terrorist organization”. THERE WILL BE A RE-TRIAL; according to sources from Reuters and the BBC World Service. This may involve "deportation"; a difficult concept to explain to non-journalist/media workers. They had interviewed members/leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). English language journalists used to get a f**k of a lot trouble about interviewing members/leaders of Sinn Féin (SF) in Ireland. We don't suggest there is necessarily any genuine political comparison to be made between MB and SF. What is at stake is the freedom and ability for journalists to do their job. See Reporters Without Borders for updates.
OCCUPY WALL STREET have been busy over the last few days. Over the weekend 29-30 November they implored sympathisers to stop shopping. It was not a call to fast but a strike against commercialism and the destructive belief that ‘growth … growth …’ will solve everything. It is a theme that Storyboard4 has already taken up.
On 1 December OWS highlighted their ‘Activist Bail Fund’ following the protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
Russia 'clamps-down' on media ownership
Russia’s parliament (State Duma) has given preliminary approval to a bill limiting foreign ownership in Russian media to 20 percent. Ironic, I suppose, given the amount that Russian ‘oligarchs’ own of European media outlets. The proposal was passed by 434-1; to one. Piss-poor by North Korean standards but perhaps Putin wanted to show that he is a democrat after all. Earlier this year several websites/blogs, critical of Putin’s government were banned. ONE VOTE AGAINST! How magnanimous.
In a further bizarre move Reuters are reporting that Russians are handing in 'Western-branded' T-shirts in favour of pro-Kremlin wear. Politics and fashion? Who would have 'thunk' it.
Sri Lankan revolutionary dies
BALA TAMPOE, a revolutionary socialist Sri Lankan militant/trade union leader, has died. He may well have made ‘mistakes’; and who is going to hold up their hands and claim that they’ve never made a ‘political mistake’? Storyboard4 is certainly not; read this (although why it's still called Ceylon Times we're not sure).
REUTERS ARE reporting a build-up of up to 20,000 Russian troops on Ukraine’s eastern border. The pretext for an invasion, according to NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu, could be a so-called “humanitarian or peace-keeping mission”. Current reports are that Ukrainian government troops have pushed pro-Russian rebels back to the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk and Reuters reporters confirmed Ukrainian warplanes had carried out strikes.
Putin would appear to be attempting to work out ‘retaliatory sanctions’ which may include bans on Polish and Greek fruit!
Do 'Islamic State' (formerly ISIS) even hate themselves? You could be forgiven for thinking that they may well do. Following the capture of further northern Iraq cities they boasted that they had ‘conquered’ “more important areas which were controlled by the pesh merga and the secular militias.” (NYT World, 3 August 2014) Do these people ever share a joke or is that forbidden?
There can be little doubt that the ‘West’, principally the US and UK, bear an enormous responsibility for the mess that on other occasions is known as Iraq. Yet it is also difficult to ignore the fact ISIS represent a religious current that is not only uncomfortable with the 21st century but quite possibly uncomfortable with the 13th century — far too progressive. All those bloody European peasants milling around and demanding various rights. Is it any little wonder that they get a kick out of chopping people’s heads off.
Sexual harassment in Egypt
This is very, VERY interactive and you may have to 'refresh' your browser (no innuendo intended) or click on 'start over'. Click here to 'start'.
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS’ Lucie Morillon has written about how the Thai army cannot be allowed to “continue to trample freedom of information underfoot”. Two journalists, Thanapol Eawsakul and Pravit Rojanaphruk were detained on 23 and 24 May. They are still being held. Rojanaphruk, a journalist with the daily The Nation is well-known for his critical views on Thailand’s ‘lèse majesté’ law which forbids criticism of the country’s royalty.
Eawsakul, editor of political news magazine Fah Diew Gan, was arrested for taking part in a peaceful demonstration against the military coup. A number of television and community radio stations have not been allowed back on air since the coup unless they undertake not to disturb the "peace and public order" and must apply for new authorisation before being allowed to resume.
East Ukraine
INTERESTING REPORT from Feargal Keene on a recent Saturday edition of From our own correspondent (BBC Radio 4, 10 May, should be still on iPlayer Radio) about being stopped at a ‘pro-Russian militia’ checkpoint in east Ukraine. They were apparently flying the flag of the former USSR alongside pictures of the last imperial Russian Tsar, Nicholas Romanov. Keene noted that this seemed just a little contradictory.
Syria/Egypt
IT IS now two years since five journalists and rights activists from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) were jailed after their offices were raided by Syrian Air Force Intelligence (AFI). Three SCM workers, founder Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghrer, are still held and are facing terrorism charges. The AFI claim that they publicised “terrorism acts”.
Index on Censorship report on a new “anti-terrorism law” in Egypt that could “severely erode civil liberties” and “reinstate the old police state …”
No 'life of Riley'
IF ANY visitors to Storyboard4 are still of the view that journalists generally lead a ‘life of Riley’, passing anecdotal celebrity gossip off as news — here is the other news. In January 2013 the International Federation of Journalists reported that 121 journalists and media workers were killed in 2012 as a result of targeted killings, bomb attacks and crossfire. Syria and Somalia topped the league table of dangerous places to report from.
Little has changed with barely two months gone of this year; indeed the physical dangers are being exacerbated by an increasing clamp-down on journalists ability to work and report freely. Egypt is a particular case in point. Twenty journalists have been charged with “fabricating news and assisting or belonging to a terror cell”; eight of the defendants worked for Al Jazeera English (AJE). The trial has, for the moment, been adjourned until 5 March although the news that the current Cairo government has resigned (24.02.14) it would be probably be too speculative to say what may actually occur. Sites such as Index on Censorship and Reporters Without Borders are following events closely. Please try to share campaign appeals as widely as you can and if you can afford to donate even a small amount all the better. Unsurprisingly, these are not organisations drowning in ‘sugar-daddy’ corporate sponsorship.
Libel and privacy
INTERESTING PIECE on the Index on Censorship site about European Union attempts to "harmonise" libel and defamation laws in order to "defend [...] freedom of expression where the laws of member states fail to do so."
Storyboard4 feed
Recent posts Select Month June 2015 (2) May 2015 (4) April 2015 (5) March 2015 (4) February 2015 (5) January 2015 (3) December 2014 (6) November 2014 (3)
Subjects covered Select Category • April 2015 (4) • Decmber 2014 (6) • February 2015 (4) • January 2015 (3) • June 2015 (2) • March 2015 (4) • May 2015 (4) • November 2014 (3) Banking (1) BBC (1) Bipolar (1) British general election (4) British politics (11) Celebrations (1) Chartism (2) Civil/social rights (2) class independence (1) Culture (1) Daily Telegraph (UK) (1) Death of friends (1) Democracy (3) Democratic organisation (2) Disability rights (1) Economic alternatives (2) Ed Miliband MP (1) Epilepsy (3) Europe (3) Families (3) Free press (2) French poetry (1) government (2) Green party (2) International (general) (3) Internationalism (2) Journalism (1) Labour (1) Language (2) MS (1) new left (2) new left parties (2) Peter Oborne (1) Philosophy (1) Podemos (1) Political left (3) Politics (general) (11) radicalism (1) Repression (1) social media (1) Social movements (1) Song of Roland (1) SYRIZA (1) Television debates (1) UKIP (1)
Brit media
Disability News Service
Huffington Post UK
Brit politics
Left Unity (party)
Disability Rights UK
Disabled People Against Cuts
Epilepsy Action
Epilepsy Scotland
INQUEST
People's Assembly
UK Uncut
International Federation of Journalists
International News Safety Institute
Bufferzone, Cornwall
Network for Change, Leicester
Politics (international)
Europe Without Borders (international solidarity)
International Viewpoint
Blogs we currently like
Pride's Purge
an irreverent look at UK politics
jaynelinney
Flibbertigibbet News
The Truth about Goats
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12736
|
__label__wiki
| 0.512474
| 0.512474
|
>> DJ Mag review (February 2019) for “Mad Ting (Murder He Wrote Remix”
>> “Hometown Heroes” feature on MI4L.com, including one hour mix
http://www.musicis4lovers.com/hometown-heroes-terror-tone/
>> Insomniac.com, “Track of the day” for “U Already Know Remix”
>>“Tundra” featured on BBC Radio 1 Ibiza Special
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023x603
>>“Bunji Garlin – Differentology (Terror Tone Remix)” featured on COMPLEX magazine online
http://ca.complex.com/music/2014/07/bunji-garlin-differentology-terror-tone-remix
>>”No Doubt” on Pigeons and Planes, for “This Weeks Best EDM” feature.
http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2014/02/best-edm-week-32/
“This one surprised me, and took it back to the essence.”
>>”No Doubt” on Do Androids Dance as an Exclusive Download
http://doandroidsdance.com/audio/terror-tone-no-doubt/
“Deep vibes and Biggy vocal cuts are served up by Toronto’s Terror Tone on this cut. His style has always been oriented towards the dark, smokey corners of electronic dance music and if you peruse his library you’ll find a grip of superb house, UK funky and grime tracks. He’s got more than a few releases on the way this year along with a possible tour in Europe. Keep your eye on this guy for big things in 2014.”
>>Do Androids Dance, “5 under 5000” feature
http://doandroidsdance.com/features/50-more-under-5000/s/terror-tone/
“His basslines are what put him a cut above the rest. It’s bouncy and fun and gives otherwise deep tracks a party vibe that could rock any big room.”
>>“The top 5 under the radar electronic acts in Toronto” feature
http://www.blogto.com/music/2013/12/the_top_5_under_the_radar_electronic_acts_in_toronto_2013/
>>” Galaxies E.P” Review via JunoDownload
Despite being Canadian, Terror Tone (aka Luke D) has pretty much got the UK bass scene covered. His last single, Tundra, was featured on BBC Radio 1 Extra, so who knows where this one may go. Far, presumably, as the three tracks on offer here are mega-accessible – “Space Jam” is all moody and sensuous electro-house, almost like early Black Strobe or Tiefschwarz, “The Creeps” is more modern with a rolling UKF shuffle and some lovely retro house breakdowns and things finish with the schizophrenic bass mash-up of er, “Mash Up” which splices together a string of killer bass breaks.
>>”The Creeps” Featured on #Unknown Blog
>>“The Creeps” Featured on Devolution Fabriclive Promo Mix
>>“The Creeps” Featured BBC Radio 1xtra, Live From Global Gathering 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dft7b
>>”Tundra” featured on BBC Radio 1Xtra, played by Star One
>>Feature on “Silence No Good” Blog
“I think I’ve finally found something from England, and technically Toronto too, that’s got potential. And even though the Ragga Twins are nothing new to the scene, if anything quite the opposite, with Terror Tone’s garage edit, this puts a whole new spark to “UK rap”.”
http://silencenogood.net/terror-tone-ragga-twins-tundra/
>>The Grid TO Writeup and “Best Bets” Feature
“Before he heads off to play at set at WEMF this weekend, Toronto DJ/producer Luke D a.k.a. Terror Tone celebrates the release of his latest EP, Bad Love. The four-track bass monster is the second release on Stacked Records, a label and blog founded in May by Terror Tone and friends. With earlier slabs of dubstep, electro and breaks released on local label Intellegenix and a recent remix of Ursa Major for NYC’s Trouble and Bass label, Terror Tone has become a name to watch. “
http://www.thegridto.com/culture/music/dbs-best-bets-aug-11-
>> New Toronto Remix Feature
http://www.thenewtoronto.ca/2012/01/25/weekly-flavours-13/
>> Trouble and Bass Remix Contest Win
http://troubleandbass.com/blog/ursa-major-remix-contest-winners
>> Bass Music Blog Remix Contest Win
http://bassmusicblog.com/tongue-riddim-remixes
>> Now Magazine Feature
http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=172205
>> Dub Hub Interview
http://dubhubtoronto.com/hub-interview-with-dj-terror-tone/
>> Soundplate Features
http://soundplate.com/2012/12/terror-tone-tundra-feat-ragga-twins/
http://soundplate.com/2012/02/terror-tone-spazzy/
http://soundplate.com/2011/08/worldwide-funky-terror-tone-dreamer/
http://soundplate.com/2011/02/ukfunkycloud-big-remix-of-a-classic-terror-tone/
>> 2 Tracks from the Bad love E.P receiving Juno Recommendations
http://www.junodownload.com/charts/juno-recommends/668758-Juno_Recommends_UK_Funky_Garage/509301-Chart
>> One Hour mix and write up from Channel One
http://www.channelonestation.com/2011/12/guest-mix-terror-tone-can/
Mad Ting Reflections, DJ Mag Feature
In Studio Interview
Terror Tone Bootleg Pack II
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12749
|
__label__cc
| 0.624903
| 0.375097
|
Rolls-Royce Releases Design Sketches of Wraith Eagle VIII 5 hours ago
Aston Martin Continues V Car Tradition with the Valhalla 1 day ago
Home News Automotive Iran Khodro to Resume Manufacturing in in Syria and Lebanon
Iran Khodro to Resume Manufacturing in in Syria and Lebanon
Posted By: Manju Mathewon: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 In: AutomotiveNo Comments
With the conflict cooling in Syria and the withdrawal of anti-government forces from main cities, the Iranian auto manufacturer, Iran Khodro has announced plans to resume manufacturing operations in Syria and Lebanon.
The company’s Deputy CEO for Export, Saeed Tafazzoli said that Iran Khodro had recently exported about 100 vehicles to Syria and has finalized plans with its Syrian collaborator for resumption of manufacturing at their joint factory near Damascus. He added that according to the agreement, IKCO would stop producing the Samand model and instead focus on new models like the Runna, Soren and Dena.
The factory in Syriaa would be involved with the production and supply of components for 48 units of Dena, 24 units of Soren and 24 units of Runna.
Before the Syrian conflict led to the disruption of Iran Khodro’s operations in Syria, the company had its largest overseas manufacturing facility in Syria. The Siamco plant there was involved in the large scale production of a new model named “Sham”.
With a free trade agreement in place between Iran and Syria, IKCO will have a competitive advantage over locally based car manufacturers and IKCO is on track to export 600 vehicles to Syria by the end of the current Iranian calendar year.
IKCO is also planning an expansion into the Lebanese automotive market and recently Iran signed a memorandum of understanding with Lebanon. IKCO is all set to export about 500 vehicles including Dena, Runna, Soren and Arisan to Lebanon.
Kyocera Creates Innovative Sensing Element for Diesel Engines
Fadi Ghosn New Marketing Director of Nissan Middle East
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12768
|
__label__wiki
| 0.900066
| 0.900066
|
Usain Bolt tires quickly on football debut
- in Football, Sports
Comments Off on Usain Bolt tires quickly on football debut
Sprint king Usain Bolt fulfilled a boyhood dream Friday in making his much-anticipated football debut, exciting fans but tiring quickly in a 20-minute cameo for Australia’s Central Coast Mariners.
The Jamaican superstar, a huge Manchester United fan, has been handed a chance to train with the A-League side for an indefinite period in a bid to prove he has what it takes to earn a professional playing contract.
His arrival has generated a massive buzz at the club’s base in Gosford, 75 kilometres (47 miles) north of Sydney, and some 10,000 people packed the Central Coast Stadium — a virtually unprecedented turnout for a pre-season game.
It wasn’t quite Old Trafford but there was a lively atmosphere with a brass band on hand to get the crowd going.
Enjoyed getting some playing time tonight with the Central Coast Mariners FC. Thanks to all the fans who came out to support. #CCMFC #dontthinklimits #workinprogress pic.twitter.com/NM5pRMVLlf
— Usain St. Leo Bolt (@usainbolt) August 31, 2018
“It’s a wonderful moment to play at a high level, in professional football,” Bolt said after the Mariners beat an amateur side 6-1.
Starting on the left wing, he fluffed his first touch, making a run on the inside only for the through ball to hit him on the heel.He got himself in the box soon after but a cross whipped in from the left went over his head. Playing more centrally he didn’t get much of a look in, jumping for another cross that again sailed high.
“It was good, it was what I expected. The crowd gave me a big ovation which I really appreciated. I was a little bit nervous but as soon as I got on the field the nerves went.”
After only a handful of training sessions since arriving last week, the fastest man on earth watched avidly from the bench as the Mariners began dismantling the Central Coast select side.
He didn’t have long to wait to celebrate with his team getting on the scoresheet barely 20 seconds after kick off thanks to a sweet strike by Jack Clisby from the edge of the box.
They were 5-0 up at a half-time and a massacre seemed imminent, but the part-timers battled hard in the second half.
The eight-time Olympic champion wore gloves and appeared relaxed, despite his nerves, as he followed the match intently.
On a chilly night, he stayed warm on the sidelines by stretching and jogging with the 32-year-old happily giving the thumbs up and high-fives to fans.
Wearing the number 95 shirt in a nod to his 100m world record time, he finally made his entrance after 71 minutes to huge cheers from the crowd and fireworks.
Starting on the left wing, he fluffed his first touch, making a run on the inside only for the through ball to hit him on the heel.
He got himself in the box soon after but a cross whipped in from the left went over his head.
Playing more centrally he didn’t get much of a look in, jumping for another cross that again sailed high.
His best touch came 10 minutes after coming on when he controlled a bobbling ball with his right foot, rode a challenge and laid it off with his left foot.
Before the game Bolt admitted he was not match fit and pouring with sweat he tired quickly before a late flurry, narrowly failing to get on the end of a low cross after a sprint into the box, and then having a shot blocked.
“I wish I had more touches but I’m not fit yet,” he said. “I’ve just got to put in the work, get up to speed and I’m looking forward to a great season.”
Bolt, who retired from athletics last year, has previously tried out with clubs in Germany, South Africa and Norway to no avail, with the Mariners hoping to turn him into A-League material for when the season starts in late October.
Former Australian international Robbie Slater, who was watching the game, said he still had plenty of work to do.
“He was short of a gallop when it comes to match fitness,” he said.
“He made some nice little runs, but obviously he needs to learn some more about when he should make the runs and where. He should also have more confidence to go and get the ball.
“But look, it’s a special moment for him.”
TagsBoltfootballUsain
Previous article Ekiti APC elders beg Oni to withdraw suit against Fayemi
Next article Osinbajo honours late RCCG pastor, Adeloye
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12772
|
__label__cc
| 0.580277
| 0.419723
|
Bow Wow & Chris Brown
Number of songs: 1 | Total weeks on charts: 14
Appearing in a total number of: 2 charts | Total period running: 1812 days
Bow Wow & Chris Brown in the news
Martin Guitar To Introduce New Guitars And Strings At 2019 Summer NAMM (10/07/2019) Vitamin String Quartet To Release Bjork Remix EP June 7th (15/05/2019)
Ólafur Arnalds Releases Record Store Day Exclusive: Limited Edition Re:member Vinyl And Brand-New String Quartet Recordings On 7" (12/04/2019) The Infamous Stringdusters' "Exquisite Musicianship" (Relix) On 'Rise Sun' Out This Friday, April 5 (04/04/2019)
Skanners/Animae Silentes' Tomas Valentini Endorsed By Dr Strings! (14/03/2019) The Upside Down... The Aisle: Vitamin String Quartet's 'Geek Weeding Forever, Vol. 3' Out March 8, 2019 (22/02/2019)
Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Alexander String Quartet With Joyce Yang (20/02/2019) Banana Slug String Band Duet Opens Premiere Of Bumblebee Kids With Award-Winning, Fun And Interactive, Nature-Themed Songs On March 10, 2019 (05/02/2019)
Yamaha CG-TA Introduces Transacoustic Technology To CG Series Nylon String Guitars (24/01/2019) Yamaha Re-Thinks How Student Strings Are Made And Played (24/01/2019)
The Infamous Stringdusters Announce New Album 'Rise Sun' Due April 5, 2019 (19/01/2019) 2019 Marks 20th Anniversary For Vitamin String Quartet (16/01/2019)
Danish String Quartet Receives Grammy Nomination For Prism I (07/12/2018) Strung And The Namm Foundation Fight To Save Music With Guitar String Bracelets (04/12/2018)
Samuel Proffitt & Yoke Lore Releases "Stringsnoise" (01/12/2018)
Songs by Bow Wow & Chris Brown
Shortie Like Mine
(14|2|1812)
You might be interested also in...
Top songs from around the world today
Skepta & J Hus
(UK Singles Top 40, 06/Jul/2019)
Machete, Salmo & Lazza
(Italy Top 20, 04/Jul/2019)
Dalex, Nicky Jam, Sech, Justin Quiles & Lenny Tavarez
(Spain Top 20, 06/Jul/2019)
(USA Albums, 06/Jul/2019)
Kriss Kross Amsterdam, Kraantje Pappie & Tabitha
(Netherlands Top 20, 13/Jul/2019)
Please Me
Cardi B & Bruno Mars
(USA Singles Top 40, 06/Jul/2019)
Piece Of Your Heart
Meduza & Goodboys
(German Top 40, 29/Jun/2019)
Drake & Rick Ross
(Ireland Top 20, 06/Jul/2019)
(France Top 20, 12/Jul/2019)
(Australia Top 20, 01/Jul/2019)
(USA Singles Top 40, 29/Jun/2019)
Summer Cem & Capital Bra
Daddy Yankee & Snow
(Canada Top 20, 29/Jun/2019)
Escondido Dos Seus Pais
(Brazil Top 20, 08/Jul/2019)
Love Myself (On The Weekend)
(Bulgaria Top 20, 14/Jul/2019)
Wieder Lila
Samra & Capital Bra
(Switzerland Top 20, 14/Jul/2019)
Avicii & Aloe Blacc
(Belgium Top 20, 06/Jul/2019)
(UK Singles Top 40, 29/Jun/2019)
(Canada Top 20, 06/Jul/2019)
Ikuinen Vappu
(Finland Top 20, 01/Jul/2019)
(Greece Top 20, 08/Jul/2019)
Com Licenca
Deejay Telio & Bispo
(Portugal Top 20, 07/Jul/2019)
Okhrana Otmiena
(Ukraine Top 20, 29/Jun/2019)
(Belgium Top 20, 29/Jun/2019)
Hornstullsstrand
Hov1 & Veronica Maggio
(Sweden Top 20, 08/Jul/2019)
(Bulgaria Top 20, 30/Jun/2019)
Page gen. in 0.1791849 secs // 83 () queries in 0.15309977531433 secs
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12774
|
__label__wiki
| 0.537663
| 0.537663
|
Our news in your mail
News frequency *
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Winter NAMM, Booth 5602 -- C.F. Martin & Co. (Martin Guitar) will unveil the D-45 John Mayer Custom Signature Edition at Winter NAMM in Anaheim, California on January 25, 2018. The model honors both the artist and one of Martin's most prestigious models, the D-45. The model will be limited to just 45 guitars.
Mayer's collaborative relationship with Martin Guitar goes all the way back to 2003 with the release of his first signature edition, the OM-28 John Mayer, followed by the OMJM John Mayer (a staple in Martin's guitar line), the 00-45SC John Mayer, and the 00-42SC John Mayer.
The D-45 John Mayer is crafted with Guatemalan rosewood back and sides and an Engelmann spruce top with aging toner and forward shifted Adirondack X braces. This tonal masterpiece was designed by John Mayer and created by the master craftspeople in the Martin Custom Shop. Boasting a full thickness neck with hexagon inlays, bone nut and saddle, and gold open gear tuners, the D-45 John Mayer also features an interior label personally signed by the seven-time Grammy Award-winning artist.
"It's a tremendous honor to be John's acoustic guitar of choice for nearly 20 years," said Chris Thomas, Martin's Director of Marketing. "As in the past, John remained very involved with the design and creation of this guitar, his fifth collaboration with Martin. The D-45 John Mayer is the largest in John's collection of Custom Signature guitars, and is sure to be a hit. Considering the robust sound and level of appointments on this instrument, along with the limited run signed by John, I expect them to be completely spoken for before the close of the NAMM Show in January. The D-45 John Mayer model is exquisite, a very special guitar indeed. John is a song-writing, guitar-playing icon around the globe. It warms our hearts to know that we have been, in any way, a means by which his inspiration becomes a song."
For further details on the D-45 John Mayer Custom Signature Edition please visit www.martinguitar.com/guitars/custom-signature-editions/d-45-john-mayer.
About John Mayer
John Mayer is a Grammy Award-winning guitarist, singer-songwriter, author, and producer. Starting out as an acoustic rock performer, Mayer later turned his focus to blues, his first musical inspiration, and collaborated with blues legends B.B. King and Eric Clapton. Mayer went on to form the John Mayer Trio who's first two album releases received critical acclaim, as did his return to pop with the 2009 release of Battle Studies and its associated number one grossing tour. Mayer most recently developed an interest in The Grateful Dead and formed the band Dead & Company with three former members of The Grateful Dead. The band has been well received and touring since 2015.
Most read news of the week
Elevate Your Experience - 12 Days Of Free Tidal - No Strings Attached
Reggie Pittman/Loren Daniels Quartet - Smilessence
Monty Alexander At Bailey Hall January 20, 2018
Ceraphin Corporation CEO Werley Nortreus Want "Bon Dejeuner! Radio" In Haiti
Introducing Jodee Lewis "Buzzard's Bluff" Due Out April 2018
Chance The Rapper And Colin Kaepernick Are Among DoSomething's 2017 Celebs Gone Good List
MVB Records' Dancehall Artist Keywee Readies Two First Singles For 2018
Aaron Watson Wraps 2017 With Top 10 And Climbing Hit!
Ed Sheeran's 'Perfect' Is The New Year No 1 With Wham's 'Last Christmas 'At No 2 In The UK Singles Chart
Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Brandi Carlile & SZA Make Barack Obama's Favorite Songs Of 2017
Boston Fusionist Justin Piper Transcend's With His New Formable Second Offering Of Acid Jazz Discs
Ignacio Berroa Trio At The Fillmore On January 6, 2018
BrandSpins Acquires TONE Technology To Revolutionize Music For Advertising
Eminem's 'Revival' Makes Chart History With 8th Consecutive No 1 Debut On Billboard 200
Britney Spears To Perform In Las Vegas As Part Of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
Page gen. in 0.0344510 secs // 4 () queries in 0.008439302444458 secs
USA Singles Top 40
Canada Top 20
Greece Top 20
Valto Terma
Australia Top 20
Brazil Top 20
Estado Decadente
Ze Neto & Cristiano
Switzerland Top 20
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12775
|
__label__cc
| 0.565191
| 0.434809
|
It was at the end of 2007 that I first heard the original versions of a few songs by some band called MGMT. The recording quality wasn't great, but one song, 'Time To Pretend' was pretty ace. By that point this and the other songs had already been re-recorded and released in the US on their album 'Oracular Spectacular', its UK release the following year made them chart stars. To be fair to the duo, they never asked for this and have repeatedly said that the songs they wrote whilst at college weren't ever expected to be heard by the wider public, let alone become as omnipresent as 'Kids' and co.
It should therefore have been no shock that the follow-up didn't contain radio-ready pop hits, or that the album was aided by Spacemen 3 legend Sonic Boom (who's generally about as uncommercial as you can get). For their self-titled third the band have stayed true to their beliefs and made weird and wonderful music the way they want, not, perhaps, the way the public or record label want. One of the album's more accessible tracks is single 'Cool Song No. 2', and it's almost unrecognisable as being the same band. The song has depth, attention to detail, soul, and a good sprinkling of WTF, plus the production is of a high standard; this is no ramshackle indie nonsense. It's ace, but it's ace for fans of alternative music, so I guess they can kiss goodbye to a few more casual fans but see their reputation as a great band cemented further.
MGMT's website
SEP 21 VIRGIN MOBILE FREE FEST, COLUMBIA, MD, US
SEP 26 LIVE MUSIC HALL, COLOGNE, GERMANY
SEP 27 AB, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
SEP 29 CIRKUS, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
SEP 30 SENTRUM SCENE, OSLO, NORWAY
OCT 1 VEGA MAIN HALL, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
OCT 3 ASTRA KULTURHAUS, BERLIN, GERMANY
OCT 4 GASOMETER, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
OCT 5 KESSELHAUS, MUNICH, GERMANY
OCT 6 KOMPLEX 457, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND
OCT 8 OLYMPIA, PARIS, FRANCE
OCT 9 DOCKS, HAMBURG, GERMANY
OCT 10 VREDENBURG LEIDSCHE RIJN, UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
OCT 12 O2 ABC, GLASGOW, UK
OCT 13 CIVIC HALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WEST MIDS, UK
OCT 14 O2 APOLLO MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, UK
OCT 16 FORUM, LONDON, UK
OCT 19 OLYMPIA THEATRE, DUBLIN, IRELAND
NOV 10 FUN FUN FUN FEST, AUSTIN, TX, US
NOV 12 PEABODY OPERA HOUSE, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, US
NOV 13 ORPHEUM THEATRE MADISON, MADISON, WI, US
NOV 14 LC PAVILION OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER, COLUMBUS, OH, US
NOV 15 EGYPTIAN ROOM AT OLD NATIONAL CENTRE, INDIANAPOLIS, IN, US
NOV 17 7 FLAGS EVENT CENTER, DES MOINES, IA, US
NOV 18 ROY WILKINS AUDITORIUM, ST. PAUL, MN, US
NOV 19 ARAGON BALLROOM, CHICAGO, IL, US
NOV 20 THE FILLMORE, DETROIT, MI, US
NOV 22 PALACE THEATRE, LOUISVILLE, KY, US
NOV 23 ORPHEUM THEATRE, MEMPHIS, TN, US
NOV 24 TABERNACLE, ATLANTA, GA, US
NOV 26 CONSTITUTION HALL, WASHINGTON, DC, US
NOV 27 GRADY COLE CENTER, CHARLOTTE, NC, US
NOV 29 DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM, NC, US
DEC 2 STAGE AE, PITTSBURGH, PA, US
DEC 3 ELECTRIC FACTORY, PHILADELPHIA, PA, US
DEC 5 ORPHEUM THEATRE, BOSTON, MA, US
DEC 7 SOUND ACADEMY, TORONTO, ON, CANADA
DEC 9 METROPOLIS, MONTREAL, QC, CANADA
DEC 13 BARCLAYS CENTER, BROOKLYN, NY, US
DEC 28 - JAN 1 THE FALLS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL,LORNE, AUSTRALIA
DEC 29 - JAN 1 THE FALLS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL, MARION BAY, TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA
DEC 31 - JAN 3 THE FALLS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL, BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA
JAN 3-4 SOUTHBOUND FESTIVAL,BUSSELTON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
JAN 8 OSAKA HATCH, OSAKA, JAPAN,
JAN 9 DIAMOND HALL, NAGOYA, JAPAN
JAN 11 STUDIO COAST,TOKYO, JAPAN
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12780
|
__label__cc
| 0.55992
| 0.44008
|
By nicolewritenow Recaps, Showtime, TV, tvdm picks
dexter recapping: once upon a time
“Until a few days ago, I was convinced there was nothing I believed in, but I was wrong. There is something I truly believe; everything is better after a bubble bath. Rituals are important.” – Dexter
Dexter feels most like himself when he’s with Harrison. As they enjoy their nightly bedtime ritual, he realizes his son knows about his box. Whether or not this is something a 2-yr. old will remember is something that haunts Dexter.
Most kids hear fairy tales as bedtime stories, but Dexter offers Harrison monster stories and not the kind where things go bump in the night, rather the very real monsters that Dexter hunts down. But will Harrison one day see him as a monster too?
Miami Homicide’s Newest Lieutenant
So far in this season, LaGuerta main role has been bumping heads with the Deputy Chief. Now that she has her newest position, she’s pushing for Batista’s promotion to lieutenant; however, he has eyes for Deb and hates LaGuerta…not a promising combination.
When presented with the opportunity, Deb initially laughs at the prospect, but begins to seriously consider what it would mean to become the head of the Miami Homicide Department. Just like Dexter, she sees Harry as a litmus test for her successes. Both siblings still need their father’s approval. Of course Dexter’s litmus test is guided by the Code of Harry while Deb is in a position where she could go farther than Harry ever did.
Deb lets Batista know what’s going on and originally it seems like he’s only pretending to be happy for her. It only seems this way if you’ve somehow forgotten how could a person Batista is, in a way that most people aren’t. Being a good person doesn’t stop him from directing any jealousy or anger he might be feeling at LaGuerta, which is understandable since if not for her, he might have had a shot at the position.
The Dexter Parallel
Travis and his mentor Professor Gellar are burying what look like bodies but turn out to be mannequin parts, which we know from the season preview will play a role in one of their upcoming murders. We’re still not clear on how Travis and Gellar’s relationship came to be, but from this episode we learn a little more about their dynamic.
Travis has a sister and when he missed an evening with Gellar to spend time with her, we saw the stronghold the mentor has over him. They believe it is the end of the world and Gellar has convinced him that he can’t be saved. Their conversations are a darker version of the one we hear between Harry and Dexter.
Just like Dexter, Travis appears to be ruled by the belief that he is somehow flawed, a belief that is fueled by his mentor (Harry for Dexter and Gellar for Travis). And also similar to Dexter, Travis has an anchor to normalcy (Deb for Dexter and Lisa for Travis). This won’t be the first time Dexter has seen parts of his world in those of the killers he hunts down.
Sam the Shepard
Brother Sam (Mos Def) is an ex-con who Dexter once planned to have on his table after he killed a hold-up victim. We learn that he’s connected to last’ week’s murder victim, Omar. Sam is haunted by his past and believes that man can change, something we’ve seen Dexter also believe in the past.
Dexter learns that Sam is still haunted by his “dark passenger” but he fights it every day. He’s not convinced of this, so he follows him and sees what looks like Sam killing a man and dumping the body in his trunk. Not at all what happened and Dexter finally understands that Sam just wants to protect his flock. He’s changed…as far as any of us know. Dexter’s substitute kill, Julio, doesn’t offer up any complexities, just a standard killing.
The Future Mrs. D.Q.
Poor Quinn. His first (technically second) attempt at proposing crashed and burned. As Quinn sees it, Deb turned him down because she doesn’t want to choose between him and Dexter. The reality is, Deb wants something more than “no drama”. She may be moving steadily along a great career path, but the girl has clearly defined issues. Her “best” relationship was with another serial killer and she sabotaged the last relatively normal relationship she was in before Quinn.
Quinn takes one last approach, complete with a romantic dinner and he’s shot down….again. He wants a more adult relationship, while Deb is content with how things have been. The conversation ends before Deb can tell him about her promotion, so once they’ve broken up, he naturally blames Dexter. In the end, she hasn’t chosen between her boyfriend and her brother, she’s decided to advance in her career. Something that’s not at all unexpected coming from Deb.
How It All Ends
So we end the evening exactly how we started…the bubble bath ritual. All his fears about Harrison have subsided because he’s decided that he can’t be himself around his son.
He’ll distract him with his own toy box and child-appropriate bed time stories and eventually, all will be forgotten. But how long can Dexter hide himself from someone who’s a part of him?
Through Sam we see more religious themes and it would be unrealistic to expect any of this to change Dexter’s opinion on religion, but what influence will all of this have on him by season’s end?
Dexter can drag out a story all season, but in the best way possible. So it’s not clear how long it’ll take before he eventually crosses paths with Travis. It will be interesting to see if Dexter identifies with him or if Travis and Gellar’s relationship reminds Dexter more of his future with Harrison.
Two minor notes:
Can they please name the newest serial killers already? Trinity Killer and Ice Truck Killer weren’t all that imaginative, but regardless, it’s a Dexter tradition.
Should I pay more attention to Masuka’s new intern? Outside of being hot and flirting with Masuka, she hasn’t really done anything…which makes me worry that she’s somehow of importance to the overall season.
Tagged dark passenger, debra morgan, dexter, mos def, recap, showtime
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12791
|
__label__cc
| 0.500113
| 0.499887
|
Thanks to Jam from OSP for sharing!
We sat down with Ronald Meeuwissen (Account Manager) and Richard Haeser (Development Lead) from MaxServ in their offices in The Netherlands. They shared with us how being an official TYPO3 GmbH partner gives them a roadmap which benefits their agency, their clients, and the TYPO3 CMS ecosystem as a whole.
MaxServ is a full-service TYPO3 agency (at Solution tier), and TYPO3 gold member. They are based in the Netherlands and have been involved with the TYPO3 community for many years.
TYPO3 GmbH offers products and services tailored to support professional agencies like MaxServ and enhance the success of the TYPO3 Project, including an official partner program.
Getting involved opens the roadmap to success
The concept of the TYPO3 GmbH partner program offering a roadmap for MaxServ came up early on and was a continuing theme in our discussion. When talking about the partnership, Ronald and Richard outlined the main benefits of the partnership as:
Access to people
Closeness to the TYPO3 CMS
One of the features of the partnership program is regular partner meetings conducted either in-person or via webinars. This is how partners get informed about the latest developments, find out what is happening, and network with other partners. For MaxServ, this access translates into a roadmap which facilitates planning, decision-making, and certainty—ultimately leading to sales opportunities, including access to pre-qualified leads.
Another aspect of the partnership program is that partners are encouraged to increase their event participation. By taking part in events such as Marketing Sprints, Review Fridays, and In-Sprint Reviews, MaxServ gets access to important information. “That’s the most valuable thing,” Richard explains, “so we can make decisions early.”
Ronald went on to explain that insight into “the roadmap also gives us the certainty that a product we implement today is still up and running for the next six years. And that, sales-wise, is a very, very positive thing.” Combined with ELTS (Extended Long Term Support available from TYPO3 GmbH) “There's no other open source project which can guarantee us exactly that.”
Ronald told us being part of community activities like a recent Marketing Sprint helps them help their customers. “During the sprint, we discussed the TYPO3 product roadmap. And that's very beneficial to planning ahead, to plan maintenance cycles, and to help our customers future-proof their platform.”
I asked if having that insight helps MaxServ plan client projects years in advance. Richard agreed “Definitely. This is our calendar. We know when we have to upgrade.”
Partners gain exclusive early access to new products that TYPO3 GmbH develops, like the TYPO3 Google Ads Integration Beta Program. They provide valuable feedback and this also gives them an idea of what is coming next. Having insight into the TYPO3 GmbH product roadmap helps agencies like MaxServ plan better, too. Taking part in Review Friday, Richard told us “We get technical information I can use to help make decisions for clients. So I can advise Ronald, for example, 'don't sell this' or 'you don't have to spend a lot of time on that,’ and it's easier to get that information because people are more accessible during these kinds of events.”
Starting off right with In-Sprint reviews
As part of the Partner Program, partners can enhance their offerings with TYPO3 GmbH products and services such as SLAs, Extended Support, and Project Reviews. These services were developed to help partners scale their businesses, as well as generate revenue. The services give clients peace of mind without burdening growing digital agencies with needing to provide 24/7 support. This gives partners more time and capacity to take on new business.
Richard liked the idea of a Project Review to ensure quality, but it didn’t suit their workflow. “We always had this problem: We really wanted project reviews but doing reviews at the end of a project wasn’t feasible.” The partnership program gives MaxServ access to In-Sprint Project Reviews, which means that “during the project, we can just ask the TYPO3 team to review a part of a project rather than a complete project.”
Ronald explained how In-Sprint Project Reviews work from the earliest stages. “Maybe after your basic setup, say after three sprints, they check on your starting point, whether it's good and it's efficient. They also check at the architecture level as well. Then you know you're good to go to finish the project.” They get feedback while work is ongoing, and they can continue to improve as they go, saving time in the end.
Inspiring people to contribute
On an essential level, the partnership fees agencies invest help the GmbH invest in improving TYPO3 by funding core development, running sprints, and developing industry partnerships which in turn improves TYPO3 for all. The partnership program helps TYPO3 in other ways, too, including encouraging members to take a more active role in the community.
The partnership program is such a positive experience that it makes partners want to give back to the TYPO3 Project open source community. Because of the help and support they get, Richard told us that MaxServ has started to get more involved in contribution."With the GmbH it is so much easier for us to get in contact with people that can help you. Because of that, we are doing more community stuff now.” Ronald agreed, “We get more involved, more actively contributing as well because we know where to go, where to find stuff, and also what's needed and what's being planned.”
This means that high-quality contributors are giving back more to the community and building a stronger ecosystem. They feel more invested in its success and are even more motivated to see it succeed and thrive.
Curious about a partnership?
If you are thinking about joining the TYPO3 GmbH partnership program, the TYPO3 GmbH services offer a great return on investment. Information sharing creates a transparent ecosystem giving you a clear roadmap and competitive edge.
TYPO3 GmbH is a unique selling point for the TYPO3 Platform. There’s nothing else like it out there, become a part of it.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12792
|
__label__wiki
| 0.506764
| 0.506764
|
A Simple, Powerful Tool for Better Social: Memes on Demand
December 21, 2017 / Deidre Sullivan
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, and a video is worth 1.8 million, then what’s a meme worth? In 2016, they surpassed Jesus Christ in Google search rankings, if that says anything. (This year they’re still about even.) Religion aside, we like them a lot.
At Don’t Think Productions, the content side of the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), we’ve launched Memes On Demand, a production service that creates memes for brands and ad agencies that need funny content, fast. What’s a meme worth? Ask UCB Comedy Creative Director Nate Russell and Chief Meme Maker Ben Marshall.
What is Memes on Demand?
Nate: We've been trying to find ways to activate UCB writers for digital opportunities in a lot of different ways. And, one of the things that keeps coming up is that agencies and brands have this audience that they need to engage with content on a regular basis via social media.
So, with this need to feed that social media beast, we put together a program that serves those brands and agencies with funny shareable content for their social platforms by using our network of UCB writers, who have got millions of funny jokes to get out there. Ben can speak to what he's been doing; he's been the conduit those jokes go through and the ones that get bought and distributed on the brands' feeds, where those two sides meet.
Ben: We basically serve as matchmaker between comedians and brands.
Why do you think companies are looking for more "fast" content?
Ben: Content in the moment is funnier and more relevant. Audiences expect it. So we provide rapid-response, quick-turnaround items like GIFs based off events or happenings, or new trends in pop culture. I think people are definitely looking for stuff like that. Sometimes it’s challenging for brands make this content themselves.
Nate: We also typically plan content based on future events like the Oscars, or holidays, or the World Series. This way we can work a couple of weeks or days ahead at all times with events that we know are going to happen.
Ben: We know, “This event is going to happen, let's have some jokes ready for that.” And then we also look to account for things like the outcome of an event, which is not controllable. The great part about having active groups of writers is that you can sort of turn quickly and go, "Are there pitches for this?" And so many of our writers have ideas, because we're all participants in that news cycle. We look for the pieces that we know a client wants, and then we are flexible enough to respond in real time.
Can you tell me more about how you work with UCB writers?
Ben: Based on those calendar events or client requests, we'll come up with joke prompts and send them out to our network of over 100 writers. They, in turn, come back with jokes and concepts. We pick the best ones and send them over to the client for feedback. The client then greenlights the jokes and approaches they want, and we create the GIFs or graphics to accompany them. It’s efficient.
Nate: And we tapped into a tool called Pitch, developed by Matt Klinman, who's a UCB writer and now works at Funny or Die. It enables us to reach our network quickly and for them to turn around jokes.
Ben: UCB stands for a certain brand of comedy and certain quality of comedy. There's so many people inside this community that we can always find a comedic voice that matches with the objective of a brand partner. We can tap mom comedians, comedians who know sports, comedians who cook. At UCB, we not only have the humor, but expertise with any given subject matter.
Is there a dream company that you would want to collaborate with?
Nate: We're really excited about building a slate of opportunities and a stable of brands that to really maximize that writers network. I think that for the writers, It’s exciting to work to with brands in home goods, movies, automotive and tech, etc. We’re a really good fit for any brand that wants to take some comedic risks.
December 21, 2017 / Deidre Sullivan/
Branded content, Memes, UCB Comedy Innovation Lab, GIFs, Memes on Demand
Boost Your Listening, ...
Scenes from the UCB Comedy ...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12796
|
__label__wiki
| 0.839636
| 0.839636
|
Information published on 8 December 2015 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 477.
UIC Regional Assembly Europe met on 30 November 2015 in Paris
SHIFT2RAIL
The 21st UIC Regional Assembly for Europe (RAE) – bringing together 119 members – and the European Management Committee (EMC) of UIC held their meetings on 30 December 2015 at UIC Paris headquarters prior to the UIC Executive Board and the General Assembly.
Mr Bernard Guillelmon, CEO of BLS, elected as Chairman of the European Region for 2016 – 2017
Due to the recent resignation of the entire board of Italian Railways FSI, Mr Michele Elia – CEO of FSI and European Region Chairman –could not be present on 30 November to chair the meeting. He nonetheless addressed a thankful message to UIC and all its European members reassessing the firm and continuous commitment of FSI to all its obligations and to the development of the future European railway system.
Because of these exceptional circumstances and in line with UIC Statutes, Mr. Bernard Guillelmon – CEO of BLS and Vice-Chairman of the UIC European region – chaired both the EMC and the RAE sessions in conjunction with UIC Director General Jean-Pierre Loubinoux assisted by Simon Fletcher, UIC Coordinator for Europe.
The new governance for 2016-2017 was an important item on the agenda. It was noted that the call for candidates to constitute the new EMC for the years 2016-2017 had resulted in a very representative list of active members of the European region being received. Based on those applications and taking account of last minute developments, the following composition of the EMC has been unanimously accepted by the RAE and will guarantee the necessary stability and consistency in the present context for European Regional developments:
Chairman: Mr Bernard Guillelmon (BLS), Switzerland
Vice-Chairman (UIC): Mr F. Cardoso dos Reis (IP), Portugal
Vice-Chairman (CER Chairman): Mr C. Kern (ÖBB), Austria
Vice-Chairman (EIM Chairman): Mr A. Vehviläinen (FTA), Finland
Members with dual CER/UIC membership: Mr R. Cobbe (ATOC), UK, Mr R. Grube (DB), Germany, Mr G. Pepy (SNCF) France, Mr M. Queiro (CP), Portugal, Mr D. Costescu (CFR), Romania, and Ms I. David (MÁV), Hungary
Mr Mazzoncini (FSI), Italy
Members with dual EIM/UIC membership: Mr F. Puiggari (ADIF), Spain, Mr L. Lallemand (Infrabel), Belgium, and Mr F. Cardoso dos Reis (IP), Portugal in his capacity as EIM Vice-Chair
Member (non-CER / EIM): Mr B. Belozerov (RZD), Russian Federation
4th Executive Board member (Central and Eastern Europe): Mr J. Karnowski (PKP), Poland (to note that in an even more recent development the Board of PKP Group is also about the change. A new name will be presented shortly)
It was also agreed that for the first time, the ERRAC Chairman – Mr A. Doherty (Network Rail), UK – would be invited to attend EMC meetings in an observer capacity.
A region developing together through the UIC
The UIC RAE approved the 2016 work programme of ongoing and new projects, voicing its commitment for successful results and further developments for the collective benefit of European railways.
Following a number of security events earlier this year, the European Management Committee had requested that some security developmental work be initiated. The UIC Security Platform had put together a short term high intensity programme that will be very collaborative and link security with interoperability. It was agreed that this 18 month programme will concentrate on EU issues but will be developed at global level so as to get maximum possible benefit for the wider rail community.
With a view to ensuring the highest quality for the work delivered at the UIC, the latest developments of the Quality Management System (QMS) procedures were presented to the members. Efforts concentrated on the opt-in process which has been improved with the addition of a new tool to smooth it through enhanced selection of ideas. Equally, the new project database should be functional from 2016 for a complete access to past and ongoing projects. Last but not least, UIC staff and members have and will continue to receive training in QMS codes and procedures. Europe is the pilot region for this programme with the plan to roll this out to the other regions in due course.
Reinforcing the regional strategy
Mr Simon Fletcher, UIC Coordinator for Europe, updated the members on the activities conducted with a small team of experts to actualise and strengthen a well-coordinated European strategy though a duo of key guideline documents.
Work on reviewing the 2014 Rail Technical Strategy Europe (RTSE) has just started. The new RTSE will be further developed to match recent developments within the European research and innovation fields and to integrate new elements such as digitalisation which were not on top of the agenda at its first publication.
Additionally, a new document – supporting the implementation of RTSE – which has been submitted to members’ approval is the new Rail Standardisation Strategy Europe (RSSE). Targeting publication for early next year, the RSSE seeks to further coordinate standardisation processes and ensures that the Railway Operating Community’s voice is heard and properly taken into account when dealing with the crucial issue of standardisation. Despite some concerns that this document is being perceived as pugilistic, the RAE acknowledged the supporting and complementary role that the ROC wishes to take and which is described through this strategy.
The new RAE Chairman emphasised the need for a clear coordination of the ROC actions in building the future European railway system – a message that was unanimously supported.
Being the forefront of rail research and innovation
Mr Bernard Guillelmon strongly emphasised the need for coordinated rail research and innovation as a key in developing and maintaining a sustainable and competitive transportation system where rail would be not only a cornerstone but the backbone. Members unanimously agreed this was a topic of core importance for the railway system. The EMC readily picked up the challenge to develop this as a key topic over the coming two years.
In light of all the changes that are happening in this important area, the RAE agreed to strengthen the coordination of research and innovation. The newly renamed Research and Innovation Coordination Group (RICG) will pick up not only the liaison with internal working bodies within the UIC but also with ERRAC and will act as the interface group for Shift2Rail and the open calls programme in particular. This body will boost opportunities in the identification and coordination capacities to deliver a consistent and ambitious vision of European rail research and innovation in line with the strategies.
Europe will be hosting the World Congress on Rail Research in May 2016 in Milan. The organisers, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane FSI, outlined the programme for the event that will bring together researchers from all over the world to Milan where the event will take place.
Europe is a dynamic region that is now starting to see some evolution following the more recent economic downturn. There are new infrastructure projects emerging as more confidence in the ability to grow the rail market share cautiously happens. The region is not yet back to pre-2008 days but the signs are positive and collaboratively the rail companies of the Rail Operating Community in Europe will be able to make rail the attractive transport option that the customer seeks.
The UIC’s Europe team is here to help achieve these objectives.
For further information please contact: europe@uic.org
Announcing new members to the U.N Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST) UN High Level Advisory Group Dinner (Paris, 7 December) Ban Ki-moon: “The world is expecting more from you than half-measures” UIC Director General Jean-Pierre Loubinoux participates in the United Nations Climate Change negotiations COP21 COP21 at Le Bourget: UIC participated in Fer de France morning debates UIC welcomed the “2015 Transport Day" (Paris, 6 December) “Train to Paris” campaign – focus on trains Key messages not to forget from the rail sector Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly held on 17 November 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia SPAD Symposium held on 18 November 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
e-News articles with keyword Research
7th International Symposium on Railways held on 4 October 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia (11 October 2016) REFINET (REthinking Future Infrastructure NETworks) (13 September 2016) 3rd edition of the UIC Global Rail Research & Innovation Awards (30 August 2016) UIC participated in the 14th edition of the Global Level Crossing Safety & Trespass Prevention Symposium 2016 (GLXS), Helsinki, Finland from 12 to 16 June 2016 (28 June 2016) UIC participates in International Scientific Conference of Railway Research Institutes from 7 – 9 June in Trzebnica, Poland (14 June 2016)
e-News articles with keyword Europe
Mercitalia fast new high-speed freight service presented (6 November 2018) Finland: Finnish Transport Agency signs the European Railway Safety Culture Declaration (30 October 2018) Germany: DB Schenker trains logistics personnel with 3D technology and virtual reality (30 October 2018) Czech Republic: Feasibility study assesses alternatives of new connection from Prague-Beroun (23 October 2018) The Deutsche Bahn Stiftung celebrates its five-year anniversary: celebratory tours on the traditional Trans-Europe Express (23 October 2018)
e-News articles with keyword Innovation
A few days left before closing date for call for applications of the UIC Innovation Awards 2014! (9 September 2014) 3 weeks left before closing date for call for applications of the UIC Innovation Awards 2014! (19 August 2014) Few weeks left before the closure of the call for applications of the UIC Innovation Awards 2014! (22 July 2014) UIC Innovation Awards 2014 (11 June 2014) Official launch of the UIC Innovation Awards website (3 December 2013)
e-News articles with keyword SHIFT2RAIL
ERRAC, the Technology Platform for the rail sector in Europe, will participate in InnoTrans 2018 (4 September 2018) UIC hosts the Shift2Rail JU Funded IP3 Projects IN2SMART, IN2TRACK and S-CODE Joint Mid-Term Conference in Paris (6 February 2018) UIC Regional Assembly Europe met on 30 November 2015 in Paris (8 December 2015) Council Regulation (EU) No 642/2014 of 16 June 2014 establishing the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (24 June 2014)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12798
|
__label__wiki
| 0.567734
| 0.567734
|
DAREBIN CITY (1)
GREATER GEELONG CITY (1)
MOONEE VALLEY CITY (1)
YARRA CITY (1)
Victorian Heritage Register (1)
Federation/Edwardian Period (1902-c.1918) Art-Nouveau (2)
Federation/Edwardian Period (1902-c.1918) Bungalow (1)
Interwar Period (c.1919-c.1940) Georgian Revival (1)
Federation/Edwardian Period (1902-c.1918) (1)
Interwar Period (c.1919-c.1940) (1)
Registered place (1)
Doctor's Surgery (4)
Results filtered by: 1910 - 1939 Doctor's Surgery
ST LEONARDS
262 LATROBE TERRACE NEWTOWN, Greater Geelong City
St Leonards was constructed in 1913 and 1914 for Geelong Timber merchant John Howard. The designer of the two storey brick and render Art Nouveau town house is not known. The asymmetrical…
Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1174
HOUSE & SURGERY
125 WELLINGTON STREET, FLEMINGTON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY
Architecturally, a skilfully designed and large example of the Bungalow concept which is near to original; of metropolitan importance. Historically for a long period the home of one of the…
Moonee Valley City
HOUSE & DOCTOR'S SURGERY (FORMER)
572 PLENTY ROAD, PRESTON, DAREBIN CITY
The former Lear House and Surgery, built for Dr Darcy C. Lear at 572 Plenty Road. It was designed by architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear and built 1932-33, just prior to the architect's death in…
Darebin City
Dr Chambers house & surgery
609-615 Lygon Street,PRINCES HILL, City of Yarra
Dr Chambers house and surgery, 609-615 Lygon Street, Princes Hill This site is subject to a Statement of Significance for the building, as well as a Statement of Significance for the Precinct…
Yarra City
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12802
|
__label__wiki
| 0.747481
| 0.747481
|
CARDINIA SHIRE (8)
Residential Precinct (2)
Forestry and Timber Industry (2)
Charcoal kiln (1)
Sawmill (1)
Park or Garden Precinct (1)
Utilities - Fire Control (1)
Cemeteries and Burial Sites (1)
Cemetery/Graveyard/Burial Ground (1)
Community Facilities (1)
Hall Public (1)
Urban Area (1)
Mixed Use Precinct (1)
Results filtered by: 1940 - 1969 Cardinia Shire
MARYKNOLL LAWN CEMETERY & POOLEY GRAVE
61 Koolbirra Road and Allot. 135A PARISH OF NAR-NAR-GOON MARYKNOLL, Cardinia Shire
2007 Heritage Study by: Context Pty Ltd Maryknoll Lawn Cemetery, opened in 1964, and the Father Pooley grave (died 13 April 1969 in Royal Melbourne Hospital). How is it significant? The…
Cardinia Shire
BUNYIP FIRE STATION
13 Pearson Street BUNYIP, Cardinia Shire
Bunyip Fire Station is significant to the Cardinia Shire as a 1958 utility building designed in the Modernist manner, being avant-garde for the period and the building type. The building also…
BUNYIP HALL
Main Street BUNYIP, Cardinia Shire
Bunyip Hall is of significance to the Cardinia Shire as a township landmark opened in 1942 on the site of the 1906 Mechanics Institute Public Hall. It has significance as an important…
CHARCOAL BURNING KILN
Gembrook Tonimbuk Road TONIMBUK, Cardinia Shire
Charcoal burning kiln,which may date from c1940, is of significance to the Cardinia Shire and potentially the State (subject to further investigation) because it provides evidence of the a…
6 KOOLBIRRA ROAD, MARYKNOLL, CARDINIA SHIRE
Holy Family Church, opened by Archbishop D. Mannix on 3 September 1950, and rebuilt and extended in 1953, is of significance in the Shire as a major Maryknoll public building. It is an…
RUSSELL `LITTLE MILL' (NUMBER 2)
Ash Landing Road TONIMBUK, Cardinia Shire
The lack of easy access has meant that the mill remains have been left relatively undisturbed. However the short period of time and the era the mill operated detract from its…
Maryknoll Residential & Civic Prec.
Koolbirra Road MARYKNOLL, Cardinia Shire
The township of Maryknoll, its layout, roads, road names, lanes, walking tracks, pedestrian lanes and reserves, early community and civic buidlings and landscaped spaces and their settings,…
Maryknoll Precinct
Maryknoll Precinct, founded in 1949 by Father Wilfred Pooley of the West Footscray Presbytery, is of significance to Victoria as a rare example of a planned rural community based on Christian…
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12803
|
__label__cc
| 0.708504
| 0.291496
|
Korean fund presents books to children in Ho Chi Minh City
The Hansae Yes24 Foundation and the Hansae Vietnam Co Ltd, presented 10,000 books to primary school students in Ho Chi Minh City at a ceremony on April 18.
This is the third time the foundation has presented books to children in HCM City (Source: congthuong.vn)
This is the third time the foundation has presented books to children in the southern metropolis.
The books will be divided among more than 100 primary schools in the city.
Head of the primary education division under the city’s Department of Education and Training Nguyen Quang Vinh said the gift of books has contributed to building and promoting the habit of reading among students.
The book presenting programme began in 2017, with 30,000 books donated so far. The organising board plans to expand the programme to other localities.
The Hansae Yes24 Foundation was endowed in 2014 by Kim Dong Nyung, Chairman of the Board of Hansae Yes24 Holdings Corporation. The foundation aims to help extend the economic cooperation that the Republic of Korea has established with foreign countries to the spheres of culture and human ties.-VNA
news Vietnam
vietnamnet news
Vietnam net news
vn news
reading culture in vietnam
Hansae Yes24 Foundation
Vietnam latest news
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12805
|
__label__wiki
| 0.577702
| 0.577702
|
Nestle Crunch
In 1867, infant mortality rates in Vevey, Switzerland, had been climbing and Henri Nestle was working hard on a concoction of concentrated milk, sugar, and cereal for babies who were refusing their mother's milk. Eventually he discovered a formula that helped infants stay strong and healthy. He called his new product Farine Lactee and merged with two American brothers, Charles and George Page, who came to Switzerland to capitalize on Swiss canned milk technology. Their new company was called Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, and quickly expanded into fifteen other countries. Seven years later, Nestle sold the company to three local businessmen for one million francs.
The new company kept the Nestle name and started selling chocolate in 1904. In 1929, the company acquired Cailler, the first company to mass-produce chocolate bars, and Swiss General, the company credited with inventing milk chocolate. This company was the core of the chocolate business as we know it today. The Nestle Crunch bar was introduced in 1928 and is now the company's top-selling candy bar.
Two 12-ounce bags milk chocolate chips (Nestle is best)
1 1/2 cups Rice Krispies
Restaurant/Brand
1. Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl in a microwave set on medium for 2 minutes. Stir halfway through the heating time. Melt thoroughly, but be careful not to overheat.
2. Gently mix the Rice Krispies into the chocolate and pour into a greased 9x13-inch pan.
3. Slam the pan on the counter or floor to level the chocolate.
4. Refrigerate until firm about 30 minutes.
5. Cut the candy in half widthwise and then cut it twice lengthwise, making 6 bars.
Makes 6 "king-size" bars
Rating of votes (1)
It is simple and it is yum. I made it with dark chocolate. Unbelievably good. The only thing I would change is I would put the warm chocolate on parchment paper. It stuck to my greased pan. I had to put the pan in warm water to loosen it to remove it.
List Reviews
Borden Cracker Jack
In 1871 a German immigrant named F. W. Rueckheim came to Chicago with $200 in his pocket. He used all of his money to open a small popcorn shop in the city and started selling a sweet caramel-and-molasses-coated popcorn confection. Rueckheim's big break came in 1893, when the treat was served at Chicago's first world's fair. From then on the popcorn's popularity grew enormously. In 1896 a salesman tasting the treat for the first time said, "That's a cracker jack," and the name stuck. Shortly after Cracker Jacks debut another customer commented, "The more you eat, the more you want," and that's still the slogan today.
In 1912 the Cracker Jack Company started adding toy surprises, ranging from small books to miniature metal toy trains. To date they have given away more than 17 billion toy surprises. In 1964 Borden, Inc. bought the Cracker Jack Company, and today the Cracker Jack division is the largest user of popcorn in the world, popping more than twenty tons of corn a day.
KFC Buttermilk Biscuits
In 1991 Kentucky Fried Chicken bigwigs decided to improve the image of America's third-largest fast-food chain. As a more health-conscious society began to affect sales of fried chicken, the company changed its name to KFC and introduced a lighter fare of skinless chicken.
In the last forty years KFC has experienced extraordinary growth. Five years after first franchising the business, Colonel Harland Sanders had 400 outlets in the United States and Canada. Four years later there were more than 600 franchises, including one in England, the first overseas outlet. In 1964 John Y. Brown, Jr., a young Louisville lawyer, and Jack Massey, a Nashville financier, bought the Colonel's business for $2 million. Only seven years later, in 1971 Heublein, Inc., bought the KFC Corporation for $275 million. Then in 1986, for a whopping $840 million, PepsiCo added KFC to its conglomerate, which now includes Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. That means PepsiCo owns more fast food outlets than any other company including McDonald's.
At each KFC restaurant, workers blend real buttermilk with a dry blend to create the well-known KFC buttermilk biscuits recipe that have made a popular menu item since their introduction in 1982.
Peter Paul Mounds and Almond Joy
At the train station in Naugatuck, Connecticut, candy and ice-cream shop owner Peter Paul Halajian used to meet the commuter trains carrying baskets full of fresh hand-made chocolates. The most popular of his candies was a blend of coconut, fruits, nuts, and chocolate that he called Konabar.
In 1919, when demand for his confections grew, Halajian and five associates, all of Armenian heritage, opened a business in New Haven to produce and sell his chocolates on a larger scale. Because there were no refrigerators, they made the chocolate by hand at night, when the air was the coolest, and sold the candy during the day. In 1920 the first Mounds bar was introduced.
Peter Paul merged with Cadbury U.S.A. in 1978, and in 1986 Cadbury U.S.A. merged with the Hershey Foods Corporation, now the world's largest candy conglomerate.
Today the recipes for Mounds and Almond Joy are the same as they were in the roaring twenties.
Girl Scout Cookies Thin Mints
If those cute little cookie peddlers aren't posted outside the market, it may be tough to get your hands on these—the most popular cookies sold by the Girl Scouts every spring. One out of every four boxes of cookies sold by the girls is Thin Mints. This hack Girl Scout cookie thin mint recipe uses an improved version of the chocolate wafers created for the Oreo cookie clone in the second TSR book More Top Secret Recipes. That recipe creates 108 cookie wafers, so when you're done dipping, you'll have the equivalent of three boxes of the Girl Scout Cookies favorite. That's why you bought those extra cookie sheets, right? You could, of course, reduce this thin mint recipe by baking only one-third of the cookie dough for the wafers and then reducing the coating ingredients by one-third, giving you a total of 36 cookies. But that may not be enough to last you until next spring.
Update 11/16/17: You can make an even better clone using a chocolate product that wasn't available when I created this recipe. Rather than using the semi-sweet chocolate chips combined with shortening and peppermint for coating the cookies, use Ghirardelli Dark Melting Wafers. You will need 2 10-ounce bags of the chips, mixed with 1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extract (and no shortening). Melt the chocolate the same way, and dip the cookies as instructed.
Cheesecake Factory White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake
Menu Description: "Our creamy cheesecake with chunks of white chocolate and swirls of imported seedless raspberries throughout. Baked in a chocolate crust and finished with white chocolate shavings and whipped cream."
Heres how to recreate a home version of the cheesecake that many claim is the best they've ever had. Raspberry preserves are the secret ingredient that is swirled into the cream cheese that's poured into a crumbled chocolate cookie crust. Yum. No wonder this cheesecake is the number one pick from the chain's massive list of cheesecake choices.
Red Lobster Parrot Bay Coconut Shrimp
Menu Description: "Jumbo butterflied shrimp hand-dipped in batter flavored with Captain Morgan Parrot Bay Rum & coconut flakes. Served with pina colada dipping sauce."
Fans of this dish say the best part is the pina colada dipping sauce. And it's true. That sauce is so good you could eat it with a spoon. But the coconut shrimp is pretty awesome too, just on its own. Red Lobster's secret formula includes Captain Morgan's Parrot Bay rum, which sweetens the batter and adds a great coconut flavor (plus you can whip up a nice cocktail with it while you're cooking). Panko breadcrumbs—which give a nice crunch to the shrimp—can be found in the aisle of your market where all the Asian foods are parked. This secret recipe makes two times the size of a serving you get at the Lobster, so there should be enough for everyone. The real thing comes with salsa on the side in addition to the pina colada sauce, but you may not even want to include it.
No Pudge! Original Fat Free Fudge Brownie Mix
In 1995 pediatric nurse Lindsay Frucci discovered a way to make chewy, fudgy brownies without any of fat. Today you can find her brownie mix boxes in thousands of grocery stores and specialty markets throughout the country. All you have to do is add some nonfat vanilla yogurt to the dry mix and bake. The brownies that emerge from your oven are good, but the mix can be pricey. One box of No Pudge! Fat Free Fudge Brownie Mix will set you back around four bucks, which seems like a lot when you consider that boxes of regular brownie mix from larger brands such as Pillsbury or Duncan Hines contain similar ingredients but sell for roughly half that. So I spent a week burning through gobs of cocoa, sugar, and flour in hopes of discovering an easy way to re-create that tasty mix at a fraction of the cost of even the cheapest brownie mix on the market. After much trial and error I finally nailed it.
I tried many batches with Hershey's and Nestle's cocoa, but eventually decided the best widely available unsweetened cocoa powder for the task is the stuff made by Ghirardelli. Before you assemble this clone recipe, you'll also want to track down baker's sugar, which is a superfine sugar, and some powdered egg whites (health foods stores or cake decorating suppliers carry this). Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl, and when you're ready to make the brownies, simply mix in 2/3 cup of nonfat vanilla yogurt, just like with the real thing. In 34 baking minutes (same as regular minutes, but they seem much longer) you'll have one plate of amazing fat free chocolate brownies ready to eat.
Drake's Devil Dogs
Here's a clone recipe for a favorite East Coast treat that could even fool Rosie O'Donnell. The snack food-loving talk show hostess professed her love for these tasty Drake's goodies on her daytime show. And who could blame her? It's hard not to relish the smooth, fluffy filling between two tender devil's food cake fingers. I'll take a Devil Dog over a Twinkie any day of the week. For this clone recipe, we'll make the cakes from scratch. This will create a cake similar to the original. You may also use a devil's food cake mix rather than the scratch recipe here. Just make the filling with the recipe below and assemble your cakes the same way.
Carrabba's Chicken Marsala
Menu Description: "Fire-roasted chicken breast topped with mushrooms, prosciutto and our Florio Marsala wine sauce."
To reverse-engineer this big-time favorite entree, I ordered the dish to go, with the sauce on the side, so that I could separately analyze each component. After some trial and error in the underground lab, I found that recreating the secret sauce from scratch is easy enough with a couple small cans of sliced mushrooms, a bit of prosciutto, some Marsala wine, shallots, garlic and a few other good things. Cooking the chicken requires a very hot grill. The restaurant chain grills chicken breasts over a blazing real wood fire, so crank your grill up high enough to get the flames nipping at your cluckers (not a euphemism) for this Carrabba's chicken marsala recipe. If your grill has a lid, keep it open so you can watch for nasty flare-ups.
Olive Garden Chocolate Lasagna
Menu Description: "Layers of rich chocolate cake and sweet buttercream icing."
The cake mix has cherry flavoring mixed in and the buttercream frosting between the layers is made from scratch, but the real secret to this Top Secret Recipe is how we put it all together. You've got to make two slices through the edge of the baked cake to create the three thin layers, so you'll want to use a long serrated knife. Lay down some wax paper under the cake to help you turn the cake while you slice. Slide the whole thing over near the edge of the counter so that you can more easily keep the knife parallel to the countertop. You can use your favorite chocolate cake mix for the recipe, but be sure not to use one with pudding in it or one that is "extra moist" (Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe is one such brand). These mixes make slicing and layering difficult because the baked cake falls apart so easily.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12808
|
__label__cc
| 0.619538
| 0.380462
|
Home ▸ Uncategorized ▸ New Downtown Tower Launches Teaser Site, New Details & Renderings
New Downtown Tower Launches Teaser Site, New Details & Renderings
March 27, 2019 November 1, 2018 by Trinity Place Holdings
Publicly held company Trinity Place Holdings Inc., a New York-based real estate holding, investment and asset management company, has gone vertical on a new mixed-use tower in the Financial District, 77 Greenwich, which will include prime retail space, the restoration of a neighboring landmark that will house a new public elementary school, and 90 luxury condominium residences beginning 150 feet above the ground.
Image Credit: Binyan Studios
Located at 77 Greenwich Street, the elegant and modern new tower will offer remarkable water views and a boutique approach to urban living, with interior design by AD100 firm Deborah Berke Partners and architecture by FXCollaborative. Following the recent completion of the tower’s foundation, the installation of superstructure concrete is now underway.
When finished, the 500-foot-tall, 42-story building will be home to 90 residences that begin 150 feet above street level, ensuring that each home is filled with natural light and spectacular views. Amenities include a penthouse club, a residents lounge, private dining room with catering kitchen, children’s playroom and fitness center, along with two outdoor spaces that include a rooftop garden with panoramic views and a 9th floor terrace.
77 Greenwich also includes the restoration of the neighboring Robert & Anne Dickey House, a historic landmark built in 1810. The Dickey House will be seamlessly incorporated into a new elementary school accessible via Trinity Place. In addition, 77 Greenwich is located just steps away from Battery Park and Battery Park City, the Hudson River Waterfront, the World Trade Center, transit hubs and all of the exciting retail and dining happening in evolving Lower Manhattan.
The Marketing Directors will launch sales at 77 Greenwich in Spring of 2019.
#LUXAPPROVED
https://luxexpose.com/new-downtown-tower-launches-teaser-site-new-details-renderings/
FXCollaborative reveals new renderings of slender Fidi condo tower
Trinity Place Holdings Brings a Florida State Agency to the Shoppes at Forest Hill in Palm Beach County, Florida
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12810
|
__label__cc
| 0.575677
| 0.424323
|
You have landed on our UK site.
Would you like to shop on our UK site?
Upgrades for Mac ® systems
Compatible with new iMac ® models!
About Crucial
Discover more about Crucial
Crucial — The memory and storage experts.™
As a brand of Micron, one of the largest memory manufacturers in the world, we bring you the quality and expertise that’s been built into new computers for 40-plus years. You’ll notice the difference.
Crucial Stories
View All Crucial Stories
Return of the E-die -- Ballistix strikes back with a new DDR4 record of 5758.8MT/s
Ballistix, Micron’s gaming memory brand, is back on top with the official overclocking high score ... for now. And as always, we’re having a blast working to push past our own score.
More Than a Decade of Crucial SSD Evolution
Crucial launched its first SSD in 2008, named quite simply the Crucial® SSD. As the only drive in our portfolio at the time, the Crucial SSD offered capacities from 32GB to 64GB, sequential reads up to a whopping 100 MB/s, and a price tag between $500 and $1,000.
How technology leveled up the music game
Music is nuance. It’s the soulful guitar soloist playing a little behind the beat. It’s the grace notes shaping melodies. It’s the 30th audio layer on an intricate dj mix, adding a hand clap or a piccolo or a bird song.But music, and all of its subtleties, is also data. FromFrom the small-time artists recording at home...
Is more memory or fast memory better?
Does “8GB 2666 MT/s RAM” make sense to you? If it looks like alphabet soup, you’re not the only one who feels that way.If you’ve never installed computer hardware and you’re considering a memory (RAM or DRAM) upgrade, you’re on the right track to fixing a slow desktop or laptop.
Connect with @CrucialMemory for videos, discussion, memes, and engage with a knowledgeable tech community.
Find how-to videos, installation tips, product info, and expert tech tips on the Crucial Memory YouTube channel.
Follow @CrucialMemory for the latest Crucial news, promotions, tech news, and fun!
Memory and storage never looked so good! Find @crucial_memory on Instagram for promotions, product news, and fun.
Quality is our top priority, and we’re honored when we receive recommendations and awards for our products and customer service.
Since 1996, we’ve focused on helping you make your computer systems faster and easier to use. Here are some of the milestones we’ve reached along the way.
Stay up-to-date with all the latest Crucial news.
View our directory to get in touch about press inquiries.
Download our brand guidelines, logo and images.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12813
|
__label__wiki
| 0.860821
| 0.860821
|
Ukraine sells Nord. It began with the aggravation
Ukraine was not able to sell the Nord
Kerch seiner again put up for sale and already discounted. Lawyers say it is unlikely to buy.
Arrested by Ukrainian border guards Kerch ship Nord again put up for sale after a failed shopping 7 Nov. Now at a discount of about ten percent.
Seiner detained at the end of March, which provoked a diplomatic conflict between Ukraine and Russia, as well as worsening in the sea of Azov. Корреспондент.net tells details.
Nord sell at a discount
In October, the Ukrainian authorities decided to auction the arrested North. The vessel was built in 1989 in the city of Azov, Rostov region. Its length is 23.6 meters, width 6.5 meters, the net capacity is 32 tons.
Nord belonged to the Kerch industrial cooperative Fishing collective farm named after 1 May in Kerch. The vessel was engaged in fishing for goby and sprat in the Azov sea.
The starting price of the Nord at the auction on 7 November was 1.6 million. However, they did not take place due to the rejection of applications of all 12 potential buyers.
The official reason for the rejection of applications was not called. He learned the Ukrainian service of DW, the auction failed as nobody made payment.
It again put up for sale discounted up to ten percent from the initial offer.
Thus the management of the farm considers the estimated cost of the seiner already too low.
The answer is sanctions. Kiev detained a ship loaded with “LC”
“The ship is at least three times more. Besides, ours is the only Navy no more,” complains the head of the company Sergey Leskov.
However, he is not going to challenge the arrest of the vessel and its sale, as the case of the Nord “political”.
The lawyer of the enterprise Dmitry Shcherbina from Kiev says that the boat is unlikely to buy, because the Nord will be a “toxic asset”.
“The Azov sea will delay the first boat of Russian border guards to return the owner,” he said.
The ship Kiev are expensive to maintain
Kherson city court arrested Nord in April at the request of the Prosecutor of Crimea, which is located in Kherson after the annexation.
In may, the ship was transferred to the National Agency for assets derived from corruption and other crimes, ARMA in temporary custody while the case is investigated against the captain of the Nord Vladimir Gorbenko.
“Was that your ship is no easy task. First, you have to pay for Parking at the port, and secondly, the ship, according to experts, in poor technical condition. So we decided that this way will not be able to keep its cost”, – explained the head of the legal Department ARMA Andrey Potyomkin DW.
ARMA decided to sell the confiscated ship.
“Most of the ship waiting for the conclusion of the case against the crew, however, a state may allow its implementation, for example, to offset the costs of his Parking space at the port,” – explains the lawyer.
The fate of the crew
Seven Russian sailors from the vessel Nord exchanged for seven Ukrainians in the framework of the agreement between Moscow and Kiev, said Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova 30 Oct.
According to her, the exchange took place according to the scheme of seven, and the sailors of the Nord returned to annexed Crimea. The captain of a vessel Vladimir Gorbenko continues to be on the mainland of Ukraine.
In the opposite direction from the Crimea went to the seamen of the Ukrainian vessel yamk-0041, who was detained off the coast of the Peninsula in may for illegal fishing.
In the state border service of Ukraine said that the Russian side released the detained Ukrainian sailors because “they are not to blame”.
“The messages disseminated by the Russian media is manipulative and does not correspond to reality speaking about the exchange, because all citizens are Ukrainians”, – stated in the message.
The assistant to the head of state frontier service Oleg Slobodyan said that the Kerch seamen of the vessel were held at the territory of mainland Ukraine, the Russian diplomats.
“We told them that they as citizens of Ukraine can every day to go to the place of permanent residence. They are any day could freely cross admingranitsu and go to their families. If you have to say about forcible confinement, it took place with representatives of the diplomatic corps of Russia, because sailors were constantly under their control, under their pressure,” – he said on 1 November on Radio Crimea.Realities
In turn, Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova has officially confirmed a return to the mainland Ukraine of the seven crew members of two vessels – NMR-0041 and at 21-05 who had been held by Russian security forces in Crimea.
According to the Ombudsman, the Ukrainians in the annexed Peninsula was illegally taken away passports, which made their return home possible.
“I want to emphasize: it was not an exchange. The sailors of the vessel Nord who have returned to Crimea, who moved freely through the territory of Ukraine. Them, unlike the Ukrainians in Crimea, no one held”, – said Denisov.
Aggravation in the sea of Azov
When Ukrainian border guards detained a Russian fishing vessel Nord, the situation in the Azov sea escalated. In August, the port of Kherson detained the tanker Mekhanik Pogodin.
Moscow has described Kiev’s actions as “Maritime terrorism” and intensified inspections of Ukrainian ships passing through the Kerch Strait toward Ukraine.
S-300 and Buk. As APU welayta near the Crimea
In response Kiev accused the Russian authorities in a “rigid policy of detention and inspection of ships”. The Ukrainian foreign Ministry said that Russia’s actions are legitimate.
As the assistant to the Chairman of the state border service of Ukraine Oleg Slobodyan, Russia examines the foreign trade vessels moving in the ports of Ukraine, although this has never been done before.
← In the Donbas mushroom pickers found half a kilogram of TNT
Under the Rada protesters threw eggs at MP media →
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12814
|
__label__wiki
| 0.768008
| 0.768008
|
Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
UNAC Home
Heroic resistance continues to Israel’s blockade of Gaza
May 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine
by Sam Ordóñez, originally published on Workers World
Heroic demonstrations against the Israeli occupation of Gaza continued on April 28 for the fifth week. Every Friday since March 30, the Great March of Return has brought thousands of demonstrators, armed only with their unbreakable resolve, to the militarized fence surrounding the Palestinian enclave.
The demonstrations are scheduled to continue until May 15, the day of the “Nakba” or “Catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee their homes in the 1948 war that established the state of Israel.
According to Reuters, three Palestinians were killed and another 600 wounded by the Israeli Defense Force on the last Friday. This brings the total casualties since the beginning of the Great March of Return to 42 Palestinians dead and over 5,000 wounded. Israel has deployed snipers and tear gas against the unarmed demonstrators since the demonstrations began.
Conditions in Gaza have been described as “the world’s largest open-air prison,” as Israeli occupation forces have blockaded the small strip by land and sea since 2007, restricting the supply of key necessities, including medicine. The territory, which depends on Israeli-controlled power plants for electricity, receives only about four hours of energy a day.
The Great March of Return has demanded not only an end to the siege conditions experienced in Gaza, but the right of all Palestinians to return to their homes and villages in what is now Israeli-controlled territory. The images of thousands of unarmed protesters confronting occupation soldiers week after week in defiance of the violence used against them is reminiscent of the struggle against South African apartheid.
Israeli authorities have attempted to lay the blame for the horrific scenes coming out of Gaza at the feet of Hamas, the Palestinian organization that controls the territory. But it was the Israeli state that ordered snipers to fire on unarmed demonstrators, authorized the use of live ammunitions and tear gas, and intentionally deprived the people of Gaza of electricity and medicine. It was also the Zionist project that forced Palestinians from their homes in the first place, and has continued to expand deeper and deeper into Palestinian territory.
Progressive people in the United State must unite not only to condemn the crimes of the Israeli government, but also to end the complicity of the U.S. government in those crimes. In addition to weapons sales and billions in yearly military aid, the U.S. has long protected Israel from international consequences, for example, by using its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block an investigation into Palestinian deaths, days after the Great March of Return began.
Israel returns the favor by acting as the Pentagon’s attack dog against countries in the area that refuse to surrender their sovereignty, like Syria, Iran and Yemen.
Through military aid, diplomatic support and economic ties, the U.S. has enabled the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Washington has dropped all pretenses of neutrality since the election of Donald Trump, who in February announced he would move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Thousands of Palestinians assemble along the Gaza-Israel border during the ‘Great March of Return’ on April 13.
On April 13, the same day the IDF gunned down unarmed protesters, the imperialist militaries of the U.S., Britain and France launched a total of 105 missiles at Damascus to “punish” the Syrian government for alleged chemical attacks. In truth, these missiles made it impossible for international investigators who arrived the next day to determine what had happened.
But the imperialists were silent when Israel used white phosphorus against Gaza in 2009, and of course, there has been no talk now from the capitalist politicians of any “humanitarian intervention” to protect the Palestinian people. The hypocrisy of the U.S. government is rarely so blatantly exposed as when it remains silent about the crimes of Israel.
As the Palestinian people continue their heroic resistance against Zionist occupation, it is the duty of progressives living in the belly of the beast not only to continue to draw attention to their struggle, but to demand an end to U.S. support for Israeli apartheid.
GazaGreat March of ReturnIsraelLand DayNakbaOppressionPalestine
Previous Post:Windrush and Britain’s Crimes Against Black People
Next Post:Spring antiwar actions protest U.S. bombing of Syria
Our Live Feed will place a drop-down listing of current Posts to End the Wars at Home and Abroad on your browser.
About UNAC
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is the largest and broadest antiwar and social justice coalition in the United States. Our purpose is to bring together the disparate organizations and issues representing people in struggle today and to unify in collective action in opposition to the major perpetrator of war and injustice in the world – the United States government along with its allies and proxies. Click here to see UNAC Statements and Activities.
Petition to Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
Sign the Call for a Palestine Liberation Movement
UNAC Twitter FeedFollow
UNAC@UNAC1·
Join an antiwar actions this weekend. Hands off #Iran & #Venezuela https://t.co/afev9c8j1t
All out this weekend. End the wars at home and abroad. #HandsOffIran #handsoffvenezuela https://t.co/07oqXrWVD3
Retweet on TwitterUNAC Retweeted
teleSUR English@telesurenglish·
Neoliberalism: The perfect disguise.
No war with #Iran or #Venezuela. End the #Sanctions. No Deportations. UNAC has call protests this weekend. Join us! https://t.co/afev9c8j1t
Sports bar fans chant "f--k Trump" on Fox news while celebrating women's soccer world cup victory. https://t.co/Zk750AZvth
#FreeAssange⏳@Millenial1706·
I fought for liberty and was deprived of all liberty.
I fought for freedom of speech and was denied all speech.
I fought for the truth and became subject of a thousand lies.
#IAmJulianAssange
Popular Resistance@PopResistance·
Rage Against the War Machine and Cindy Sheehan will be at the White House Monday at 11 am to protest US threats of war on #Iran. We'll be there too! Will you?
https://t.co/Eu3bLOH3y7
@VFPNational @answercoalition @codepink @WorldBeyondWar @UNAC1
Support the #Venezuelan Protection Collective defense https://t.co/7nCpLV2hee
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12815
|
__label__cc
| 0.639362
| 0.360638
|
Carol Berens
About Carol Berens
Carol Berens is an architect and author in New York City. She has been writing for UrbDeZine since 2011.
The germ of the idea for her most recent book, Redeveloping Industrial Sites, started with a short article on the new Paris parks way back in 1998 for the now-defunct TWA Ambassador. Through visits to these parks and interviews with the architects and city planners, she saw how Paris’ industrial past was being transformed into not only into new parks, but new neighborhoods. Of course, Paris isn’t the only city that is confronted with the ruins of its earlier industry. The exploration into how other countries and cities including New York are continuing to reinvent themselves has been an interesting and fun journey.
She is the author of Hotel Bars and Lobbies (Mc-Graw Hill, 1996), articles on design and urban issues for various magazines as well as the Associate Editor for The Paris Times, a former English-language monthly newspaper published in Paris.
A former vice president at the Empire State Development Corporation, she led efforts in the land development of several upstate mixed-use communities as well as the sale and development of surplus state-owned land. Carol received M. Arch from Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and worked as an architect at Marcel Breuer Architect in Paris, France, and at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates in New York City.
Carol can be reached at carol_berens@yahoo.com, through her website,www.carolberens.com, and via Facebook at Carol Berens NYC Real Estate.
Book Review: RE-USA 20 american stories of adaptive reuse
Adding to the literature of industrial redevelopment
September 15, 2018 By Carol Berens
RE–USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse A Toolkit for Post-Industrial Cities by Matteo Robiglio, JOVIS Verlag GmbH, 2017
Redevelopment of abandoned post-industrial buildings and neighborhoods has been transforming American cities over the past decades. Visits to successful projects make an interesting road trip. Matteo Robiglio, an architecture professor at the Politecnico di Torino’s Design and Architecture Department (Italy), did just that and recorded his findings in his new book. RE-USE documents his expedition and reviews projects with respect of their success in adaptive reuse as well as urban revival. Continue Reading Book Review: RE-USA 20 american stories of adaptive reuse
Filed Under: Environment, Feature Posts, Historic, New York City, Review, Revitalization Tagged With: Civic, Environment, Historic, Planning, Projects, revitalization, Uncategorized
Cornell Tech moves into its Roosevelt Island Home
June 15, 2018 By Carol Berens
Aloof institution. Catalyst for Change. Environmental poster child. Architectural theme park. Government-initiated economic development. Digital new world. Boondoggle.
The recently-opened Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island is all of the above, or perhaps none of them. How it develops and if it succeeds are questions to be answered in the future. Today, however, it exemplifies multiple trends in American architecture and urban/economic development.Continue Reading Cornell Tech moves into its Roosevelt Island Home
Filed Under: Civic, Design, Environment, Feature Posts Tagged With: Cornell, Roosevelt Island, Tata Innovation Center, The Bridge
Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead – NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/nyregion/diller-hudson-river-pier.html?
After six years and numerous lawsuits, and with the cost now estimated at 0 million, Barry Diller says it’s “no longer viable for us to proceed.”
Take a Train: The Q – NYC’s new subway extension is airy and full of art
April 8, 2017 By Carol Berens
70th St. entrance art: Vic Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers” portray riders you are likely to come across on your travels.
New York City’s new math: 100 years, $4.5 billion, 3 subway stops.
New Year’s Day 2017 saw the ribbon cut on the first phase of the Second Avenue subway, the locally-mythic train touted to alleviate the overburdened east side subways since the late 1920s. A Great Depression, a world war and a City bankruptcy interfered with its execution. After nearly 10 years of actual construction and neighborhood misery, three airy, clean and art-filled stations opened for business.Continue Reading Take a Train: The Q – NYC’s new subway extension is airy and full of art
Filed Under: Civic, Design, Feature Posts, Revitalization, Transportation Tagged With: Q Subway, Second Avenue subway
Vertical Urban Factory — A Review
December 21, 2016 By Carol Berens
Cover: Van Nelle factory, ca. 1960, Courtesy Collectie Gemeentearchief Rotterdam
The role that industry played and continues to play in molding American society was a hotly contested topic this political season. While talk mostly centered on workers and the economic forces that engulf them, little was mentioned about the actual factories where they work and how these structures shape our cities. The interconnection of factory buildings with urban landscapes and the position they hold in the lives of cities are topics that Nina Rappaport, an architectural historian, curator and educator tackles in her latest book, Vertical Urban Factory (2015, Actar Publishers, New York). In nearly 500 pages and 400 photographs and illustrations, she investigates the history of the factory building, manufacturing processes and the integration of industry within cities.Continue Reading Vertical Urban Factory — A Review
Filed Under: Design, Feature Posts, Review, Revitalization Tagged With: BOOK REVIEW, factories, gentrification, industrial, Industrial architecture, Retaining industry
Day Tripping on Governors Island
August 25, 2016 By Carol Berens
Ferry Landing –A few minutes from downtown Manhattan and a world away. Getting ready for biking and strolling on Governors Island
The latest phase of the park on Governors Island opened to the public this July—20 years after planners voiced vague ideas for its development and 20 years before future visitors assumed the landscape had been there forever.Continue Reading Day Tripping on Governors Island
Filed Under: Environment, Feature Posts, Historic, Parks Tagged With: Governors Island, National Park Service, New York
Quick peek at the Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub
May 2, 2016 By Carol Berens
So near and yet so far . . .
The long-anticipated WTC Transportation Hub designed by Santiago Calatrava had a “soft” opening at the beginning of March. Shoe-horned next to the WTC Memorial, the Hub’s steel wingspan has loomed over the active construction site for years, promising big things to come. In fact, the opening was so low-keyed that the main entrance was still unfinished and signs showing how to enter were non-existent. The building itself is surrounded by cyclone fencing with no obvious way of getting inside. Ask a stranger how to enter, and the only response was “I don’t know, but I know it cost $4 billion!”Continue Reading Quick peek at the Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub
Filed Under: Civic, Design, Feature Posts, Transportation Tagged With: Oculus, Santiago Calatrava, World Trade Center
The High Line? No, The High Bridge!
View towards Manhattan. The tower was needed to equalize water pressure.
The oldest river crossing in New York City is now the newest. The 1848 High Bridge that spans the Harlem River and links upper Manhattan to The Bronx has recently emerged from a multi-year, $61.8 million renovation. It re-opened to the public on June 9th. Whether the initial enthusiasm of using this restored public space can reenergize a neighborhood will take years to find out, however, for the moment this project is bringing tourists and residents to an area that was previously known only to locals and intrepid urban explorers. Will it spur new economic activity to an ungentrified area? Is that indeed what is wanted or needed? Questions to be answered later.Continue Reading The High Line? No, The High Bridge!
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Civic, Culture, Feature Posts, Parks Tagged With: East Harlem, High Bridge, The High Line
Photo: View of Pier 55 in the Context of the West Side/Heatherwick Studio
One of my former bosses would gleefully proclaim that “life is change” as if that phrase answered all our issues. Although I thought it a bit flippant at the time, I’ve come to realize that it embodies more truth than we wished to acknowledge. Nowhere is this axiom more accurate than the waterfronts of New York City, where change continues to engender theoretical confusion and unusual alliances.Continue Reading West Side Story
Filed Under: Feature Posts, Planning Tagged With: Central Park, Hudson River Park, park funding, Parks, Pier 55
The New Eldorado?
November 2, 2014 By Carol Berens
505 West 19th at High Line Park
Everyone loves parks. The dirty little secret is that no one loves them more than real estate developers. As a way to get someone else to invest capital to create development opportunities, parks, once assumed to be drains on city coffers, are now seen as a way to jump start property values and create chic new neighborhoods.Continue Reading The New Eldorado?
Filed Under: Civic, Feature Posts, Planning, Revitalization
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12822
|
__label__cc
| 0.712034
| 0.287966
|
Citrix XenDesktop 7.x License Server Security Technical Implementation Guide
U_Citrix_XenDesktop_7-x_License_Server_STIG_V1R2_Manual-xccdf.xml
Vulnerabilities (7)
XenDesktop License Server must implement DoD-approved encryption to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.
CXEN-LS-000030
Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session. Remote access is access to DoD nonpublic information systems by an authorized user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network. Remote access methods include, for example, dial-up, broadband, and wireless. Encryption provides a means to secure the remote connection to prevent unauthorized access to the data traversing the remote access connection, thereby providing a degree of confidentiality. The encryption strength of the mechanism is selected based on the security categorization of the information.
1. Copy a valid server certificate file and server certificate key file to the \\Citrix\Licensing\LS\conf\ folder of the License Server installation directory. 2. Click “Administration” and select the "Server Configuration" tab. 3. Click the "Secure Web Server Configuration" bar. 4. Select "Enable HTTPS (Default 443)". 5. Enter a port for the HTTPS communication. 6. Enter the location of the server certificate file and the server certificate key file. 7. Stop and restart the Citrix Licensing service from the services control panel of the machine running the license server. NOTE: You may be prompted to log in after "Administration". Port should be 8082 (or desired port from PPSM group).
Open the License Management Console, click "Administration", and select the "Server Configuration" tab. Click the "Secure Web Server Configuration" bar and verify "Select Enable HTTPS (Default 443)" is selected. If "Select Enable HTTPS (Default 443)" is not selected, this is a finding.
XenDesktop License Server must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.
Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events. Misconfigured audits may degrade the system's performance by overwhelming the audit log. Misconfigured audits may also make it more difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records.
Identify all License Server administrators as the appropriate Active Directory domain/user or domain/group account. To change the default License Server Administrator Account, complete the following steps: 1. Log on to the License Server with an administrator account. 2. Open the command line. 3. Stop the Citrix Licensing Service: net stop "citrix licensing" 4. Go to C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\LS or C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Licensing\LS and type: Lmadmin.exe –defaultAdminUser domain\user Or Lmadmin.exe –defaultAdminGroup domain\adminGroup 5. Start the Citrix Licensing Service: net start "citrix licensing" 6. Log on to the License Management Console using the specified account.
Identify all License Server administrators as the appropriate Active Directory domain/user or domain/group account. 1. Log on to the License Server with an administrator account. 2. Open the command line. 3. Go to C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\LS or C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Licensing\LS and type: udadmin -list If the desired License Server administrator account is not returned, this is a finding.
XenDesktop License Server must protect the authenticity of communications sessions.
Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions. Application communication sessions are protected using transport encryption protocols, such as SSL or TLS. SSL/TLS provide web applications with a way to authenticate user sessions and encrypt application traffic. Session authentication can be single (one-way) or mutual (two-way) in nature. Single authentication authenticates the server for the client, whereas mutual authentication provides a means for both the client and the server to authenticate each other. This requirement applies to applications that use communications sessions. This includes but is not limited to web-based applications and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). This requirement addresses communications protection at the application session, versus the network packet, and establishes grounds for confidence at both ends of communications sessions in ongoing identities of other parties and in the validity of information transmitted. Depending on the required degree of confidentiality and integrity, web services/SOA will require the use of SSL/TLS mutual authentication (two-way/bidirectional).
1. Copy a valid server certificate file and server certificate key file into the \\Citrix\Licensing\LS\conf\ folder of the License Server installation directory. 2. Click "Administration" and select the "Server Configuration" tab. 3. Click the "Secure Web Server Configuration" bar. 4. Select "Enable HTTPS (Default 443)". 5. Enter a port for the HTTPS communication. 6. Enter the location of the server certificate file and the server certificate key file. 7. Stop and restart the Citrix Licensing service from the services control panel of the machine running the license server.
Look in \\Citrix\Licensing\LS\conf\ folder of the License Server installation directory for cert file/cert key file. Open the License Management Console, click "Administration", and select the "Server Configuration" tab. Click the "Secure Web Server Configuration" bar and verify "Select Enable HTTPS (Default 443)" is selected. If "Select Enable HTTPS (Default 443)" is not selected, this is a finding. NOTE: You may be prompted to log in after "Administration".
XenDesktop License Server must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.
If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.
1. Click "Administration" and select the "Server Configuration" tab. 2. Click the Web Server Configuration bar. 3. For Session Timeout, enter the value of “10” (minutes).
1. Click "Administration" and select the "Server Configuration" tab. 2. Click the "Web Server Configuration" bar and "Session Timeout". 3. Verify Session Timeout is set to “10”. If Session Timeout is not set to “10”, this is a finding.
XenDesktop License Server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information.
Without protection of the transmitted information, confidentiality and integrity may be compromised since unprotected communications can be intercepted and read or altered. This requirement applies only to applications that are distributed or can allow access to data non-locally. Use of this requirement will be limited to situations where the data owner has a strict requirement for ensuring data integrity and confidentiality is maintained at every step of the data transfer and handling process. When transmitting data, applications need to leverage transmission protection mechanisms, such as TLS, SSL VPNs, or IPsec. Communication paths outside the physical protection of a controlled boundary are exposed to the possibility of interception and modification. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity of organizational information can be accomplished by physical means (e.g., employing physical distribution systems) or by logical means (e.g., employing cryptographic techniques). If physical means of protection are employed, logical means (cryptography) do not have to be employed, and vice versa.
XenDesktop License Server must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information and/or detect changes to information during transmission unless otherwise protected by alternative physical safeguards, such as, at a minimum, a Protected Distribution Systems (PDS).
Encrypting information for transmission protects information from unauthorized disclosure and modification. Cryptographic mechanisms implemented to protect information integrity include, for example, cryptographic hash functions that have common application in digital signatures, checksums, and message authentication codes. This requirement applies only to applications that are distributed or can allow access to data non-locally. Use of this requirement will be limited to situations where the data owner has a strict requirement for ensuring data integrity and confidentiality is maintained at every step of the data transfer and handling process. When transmitting data, applications need to leverage transmission protection mechanisms, such as TLS, SSL VPNs, or IPsec. Alternative physical protection measures include PDS. PDSs are used to transmit unencrypted classified National Security Information (NSI) through an area of lesser classification or control. Since the classified NSI is unencrypted, the PDS must provide adequate electrical, electromagnetic, and physical safeguards to deter exploitation.
XenDesktop License Server must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during reception.
Information can be unintentionally or maliciously disclosed or modified during reception including, for example, during aggregation, at protocol transformation points, and during packing/unpacking. These unauthorized disclosures or modifications compromise the confidentiality or integrity of the information. This requirement applies only to applications that are distributed or can allow access to data non-locally. Use of this requirement will be limited to situations where the data owner has a strict requirement for ensuring data integrity and confidentiality is maintained at every step of the data transfer and handling process. When receiving data, applications need to leverage protection mechanisms, such as TLS, SSL VPNs, or IPsec.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12826
|
__label__cc
| 0.710982
| 0.289018
|
The Best VR Party Game Out There
Game Nights are fun, right? Inviting some friends over, having a few drinks and snacks. Before long someone suggests you break out a game. In the (hopefully) not too distant future, those of you that have splurged on a VR headset might want to break that out. Now, you could just take turns playing Resident Evil 7, but that isn’t a party game. To show that Virtual Reality can be a social experience, here are some of the best VR Party Games currently out there. Please note, a VR headset is required for all of these games.
1. VR Party Game (Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR)
The first pick is amusingly enough a clear description of what the experience is. Users put on the Google Cardboard headset and the VR messes with your mind. This could be considered more of an AR experience because it uses a camera to function, but it is still a lot of laughs. Bonus points for being cheap, easy to use and widely available in Singapore.
2. Ruckus Ridge (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive)
Remember Evolve, that asynchronous multiplayer game that had a lot of hype and they disappeared? Well, this is sort of like that, but in VR. Using 1 VR player and the rest playing more traditionally, this is game players in a similar manner to the recent Mario games. Up to three players try to complete a challenge, while the VR player tries to disrupt them. Imagine trying this while drinking along the way. Be prepared for many broken friendships, the sign of a great party game.
3. The Lab (HTC Vive)
The HTC Vive could very well be the successor to the Wii regarding party games. The lab, the first game made specifically for the Vive by Valve, is a collection of fun mini-games, ranging from archery defense to full-body Angry Birds-like catapult gameplay. This is a great game to quickly swap between players and see who gets the best score. Then, you have bragging rights for the rest of the evening.
4. Funhouse (HTC Vive)
Nvidia is showing off its graphics and physics in their first ever game. Just like the Lab, this is a collection of minigames, but with a circus focus. I had the chance to play a shooting range game, and before long I was aiming down the sights like I was actually in a shooting gallery. Once more like Valve’s party game, this is the perfect opportunity to settle between your friends who is the better shot.
5. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift)
Ever wanted to test how patient your friends are? Want an excuse to get that divorce you’ve always wanted? Well this is the perfect game for you. This is a two player experience, with the VR players faced with a bomb, while the player in the real world relays instructions on how to solve the various puzzles that will disarm the bomb. Communication here is key, as is patience. The video will show however that this is not a simple task.
Bonus Mention: Werewolves Within (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Playstation VR)
Players will have to wait until December to get their hands on this title, but it’s shaping up to be a great party game. Similar to the card game Mafia, a group of players is randomly assigned roles in a village, and then have to deduce who the werewolf is before everyone dies. This has a multiplayer element so friends can play together, but you might have to enfore a ‘buy your own headset’ rule to make sure they’re enough to go around.
Epic Bringing Robo Recall To VRLA Conference
Twisted Arrow Debuts On Vive, Rift
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12827
|
__label__wiki
| 0.754816
| 0.754816
|
Lychnidos – History of Ohrid
Ohrid | 0 comments
Ohrid is one of the rare cities in the Balkans, such as Thessalonika, Odessa and Dyrachion that had thrived uninterruptedly throughout the classical period. These cities survived the decline of the classical civilization and continued to live under their new names till the present time. The soil of this ancient city has seen numerous changes of civilization achievements followed by the inevitable falls and rises.
The contemporary city of Ohrid is a descendant of the antique town of Lychnidos. This was confirmed by several Byzantine sources in which it was written “the town is situated on a high hill near the large lake of Lychnidos, by which also the town was named Lychnis, previously known as Dyassarites”. The existence of this town is also evident from numerous Roman documents. According to them, Lychnidos was located by the Via Egnatia, the oldest and most important Roman roadway in the Balkans. It started with two routes from Apollonia and Dyrachia and reached to Lychnidos through Candavian Mountains. Long before the Romans came into the region this route had been used as a communication link between the coast and the internal parts of Illyria and Macedonia. Via Egnatia was the shortest route from Rome to the Eastern Empire.
Via Egnatia, Radozda, Macedonia
The earliest inhabitants of the widest Lake Ohrid region that can be identified by name were Brigians and Enhelians. Brigians are the same as Phrygians. According to Herodotus, the Phrygians from Asia Minor used to live in Europe in the vicinity of the Macedonians and were called Brigians. After the Troy War they migrated to Asia Minor and changed their name into Phrygians.
Historically, Enhelians have been identified as Illyrians. However, it should be underlined that Herodotus, and some other historians, distinguish them from the Illyrians.
The origin of their name, Enhelians, derives from encheleus -“eel”, “serpent”, and connects this people with the Lychnidos Lake since it is rich in eel. During the Roman conquests, towards the end of III and the beginning of II century BC, Desaretes and the region Desaretia were mentioned, as well as the town of Lychnidos, Lychnidus and the region Lychnis. Desaretia was a vast region that stretched from Devol in the west to the Macedonian regions of Orestidia and Lynkestidia to the east. Lychnitidia, the region around Lake Ohrid, in the beginning emerged as a separate region outside the borders of Desaretia.
After the Roman conquest, the name Desarets appeared as the joint name of all tribes that lived in the mountainous region inside the area of Macedonia and South Illyria, stretching from the border with Epirus in the south to the Parthynes and Phenestes in the north and Lynkestes in the east.
Lychnidos then became the capital of Desaretia.
Data on the political development of the Lychnidos region in the classical period is scarce and comes from preserved written documents. The first indicators of the political character of the region relate to the V century BC when during the Pelophonnesus War in Greece on the northern border of Macedonia, a political community emerged. This community, named “Illyrians” by the classical writers, seriously threatened the safety of the Macedonian State at times.
Lychnidos Old Map
It is said that the Illyrians held Macedonia enslaved before Philip II of Macedonia come to power. With the arrival of Philip II the power shifted. This happened after the battle that most probably took place in Lynchestidis, today the Bitola Plain. The victorious party was the Macedonians. This battle was crucial for the further development of the relations between Illyria and Macedonia. It marked the end of the Illyrian domination over Macedonia. The Illyrians had to leave the region east of the northern shore of Lychnidos Lake.
In the year 335 BC, while Alexander III of Macedonia was on the river Danube, the Illyrian king Klit organized an insurrection against Macedonia. The sources do not mention the consequences of Alexander’s victory over Klit. Several indirect data have shown that as a result Illyria was annexed to Macedonia, probably as a province under the administration of a strategist, as was the case with Trachia ever since the rule of Philip II.
During this period the region of Lychnidos was part of the Hellenic civilization and did not belong to the Latin speaking regions.
In the III century BC Rome expressed its aspiration towards the Balkans. Military actions begun and the Illyrian territories were used as starting bases in the war against the mighty Macedonian State. The Roman Empire lead three wars against Macedonia where the Macedonians, during the rules of Philip V and Perseus, tasted defeat for the first time. The whereabouts of these defeats are not precisely known. Perhaps they even happened in the region of Lychnidos. After the Third Macedonian War against King Perseus, Lychnidos became the main Roman base in the northern regions of Macedonia. It was at this exact time that the name was frequently heard.
In 148 BC Macedonia became a Roman colony that stretched to the Adriatic Sea to the west. The situation remained unchanged throughout the Early Roman Empire. Within the province, Dasaretia together with Lychnidos retained its status of a free community – one chronicle writer described Dasaretians as libera gens.
As a main centre of Dasaretians, Lychnidos had a great significance during the period of Roman Republic. The importance of Lychnidos is evident from numerous epigraphic monuments found in Ohrid. These monuments were erected by Dasaretians and their governmental bodies and are amongst the most important remnants of ancient Ohrid.
During the Late classical period Lychnidos was mentioned as an episcopal centre. The exact date of the foundation of the Lychnidos Episcopacy is not known. It was first mentioned in the acts of the church conclave in Serdika (343 AD) where Dionysius de Macedonia de Lychnido appears as one of the signatories. In fact, Dionysius is the only known bishop in Lychnidos in IV century.
Lychnidos was last mentioned on the occasion of its destruction. Among all the rest of heavy disasters that struck the Roman Empire during the reign of Ustinian (wars, floods, plague), earthquakes were also noted. According to the historical sources, in the earthquake that occurred on 29th and 30th May 526 AD, several thousand people from Lychnidos were killed. There are no further records of Lychnidos in historical documents. It also remains unclear whether or not Justinian rebuilt the town?
Virtual Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia Home Page
Here at Virtual Macedonia, we love everything about our country, Republic of Macedonia. We focus on topics relating to travel to Macedonia, Macedonian history, Macedonian Language, Macedonian Culture. Our goal is to help people learn more about the "Jewel of the Balkans- Macedonia" - See more at our About Us page.
Leave a comment || Signup for email || Facebook || Twitter
History || Culture || Travel || Politics
Support Virtual Macedonia
We at the Virtual Macedonia are grateful for your generosity as we continue to pursue our mission. Your donation will help us to continue to work on this website and to promote Macedonia. Thank you!
Before The Rain, A chronology of a success
The Macedonian Language
Citations from authors about the Macedonian Language
Ohrid Framework Agreement
Subscribe to VM via Email
Enter your email address to subscribe to Virtual Macedonia and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Learn Macedonian: Letter B
St. Athanasius Cave Church
Learn Macedonian: Letter A
Holy Virgin Of Pestani Cave Church
Other Posts In OHRID
Abolition of Ohrid Archepiscopate – History of Ohrid
Architecture and art prior to the XX century – History of Ohrid
Arrival of the Slavs – History of Ohrid
Art painting in Ohrid between XI and XIV centuries- History of Ohrid
Early medieval culture in Ohrid – History of Ohrid
Fishing industry and wood-carving – History of Ohrid
Macedonian Autocephalous Orthodox church – History Of Ohrid
Monuments of Culture – History of Ohrid
Musical culture – History of Ohrid
Explore Macedonia
Explore Macedonia Select CategoryCuisine Appetizers SoupsCulture Film Fine Art Folk Art Folk Tales Folk Music Music Pecko Poetry ProseEconomyEducationHistory Ancient Macedonia Sources Byzantine Macedonia Independent Macedonia Macedonians in Greece Videos Ottoman Macedonia Partitioned MacedoniaInformation National TreasuresLanguageNature Lakes National ParksPolitics Documents National Heroes Opinions Presidents SymbolsReligion ChurchesTravel Cities Ohrid
Help others LEARN about MACEDONIA!
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12838
|
__label__cc
| 0.612002
| 0.387998
|
Shire’s Partnership with SeriousFun Children’s Network Enabled Nearly 1,000 Children with Serious Illnesses to Attend Life-Changing Camps
Shire employee Heather Harris, Immunology Business Lead, spent a week volunteering at Camp Boggy Creek, the SeriousFun camp in Florida.
Shigeyuki Matsui (right), Japan Senior Communications Lead, volunteered at Solaputi Kids’ Camp, the SeriousFun camp in Japan (pictured with another volunteer).
Shire employees in Japan made mascot dolls for Solaputi Kids’ Camp during their Global Days of Service event, Shire’s annual global initiative to give back to local communities.
A Shire volunteer was inspired by a sign while at The Painted Turtle, the SeriousFun camp in California.
After three years of partnership, @Shireplc has enabled nearly 1,000 children with serious illnesses and #rarediseases to experience @SeriousFunCamps and programs for free: http://bit.ly/2A6rugp #CSR #volunteering #employeeengagement
NEWSROOM: Shire Pharmaceuticals
SeriousFun Children’s Network, founded by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, provides fun, life-changing camp experiences to children living with serious illnesses and their families throughout the world—totally free of charge. These medically safe, inclusive experiences allow campers to connect with peers and build confidence, empowering them to value the possibility and potential of their lives beyond camp—and beyond their illnesses.
With Shire’s annual gift of $1 million to SeriousFun for three years, commencing in 2016 ($3 million total), Shire enabled nearly 1,000 children with serious illnesses, many living with rare diseases, to experience these transformative camps and programs for free.
Over the course of Shire’s 3-Year partnership with SeriousFun Children’s Network:
77 Shire employees volunteered as camp counselors at nearly every SeriousFun camp
110 families were served at 6 family weekends for children with rare diseases
12,505 hours of employee volunteer time were carried out at SeriousFun camps
757 employees volunteered at 7 camps during Shire’s Global Days of Service
“Our partnership with SeriousFun Children’s Network has been a high-impact investment in the lives of children with rare diseases and other serious conditions and their families,” said Linn Parrish, Shire’s Head of Corporate Responsibility. “SeriousFun has become part of who we are. The campers inspire the work we do, keep us grounded in our mission, and continue to remind us why we come to work each day.”
People with rare diseases and their families around the world are part of a growing network of communities where they can find information, support and common ground. Shire’s partnership with SeriousFun is one of several programs through which Shire supports patient and family communities by extending social and educational opportunities for children and young adults. The SeriousFun partnership, in particular, offers the opportunity for children living with serious and rare conditions, and their families, to learn and have fun, feel less isolated and rediscover the joys of childhood. With intentional programming delivered through SeriousFun’s camp and outreach programs, children are empowered to reach beyond the barriers of their conditions to build connections and foster resilience.
“As a global network of camps focused on supporting children living with serious illnesses and their families, you hope for a partner like Shire who not only commits the resources needed to support this very special community, but one whose dedication and commitment shapes a better future for these children,” said Blake Maher, CEO of SeriousFun Children’s Network.
Shire employees who volunteer have returned to work with a better understanding of what it means to live with a serious illness. In turn, employee volunteers share their experiences with other employees, which builds the culture and commitment within the company.
“My work has been influenced by having seen how our efforts can impact the lives of children and their families,” said Thomas Ravasini, Shire Plant Engineer, who volunteered at Dynamo Camp, the SeriousFun camp in Italy. “What I do every day has more meaning having seen directly what we work towards.”
Shire will continue to support SeriousFun in 2019, working together to maximize the partnership and its positive impact on children and families.
More From Shire Pharmaceuticals
Shire and SeriousFun Camps Help Children with Rare Diseases Discover Hope
Shire Recognized for Environmental Leadership
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 5:05pm
Shire’s Fourth Annual Global Days of Service Delivers Impact Around the Globe
Videos from Shire Pharmaceuticals
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12841
|
__label__wiki
| 0.974529
| 0.974529
|
Twitter might hide your 'likes' and 'retweets' soon
For a brief moment on Wednesday, Twitter users revolted when it appeared that the social media network could be changing one of the most fundamental parts of the social media network.
However, by late Wednesday, it appeared those fears were .unfounded.
On Wednesday afternoon, NBC News reported that in order to promote "healthier" conversations, Twitter was teasing a new feature that would stop showing the amount of "likes" and "retweets" a message receives.
The reported changes were a part of a prototype update that the social media service was showcasing at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. Numerous outlets — including this one — spread the news of test.
Twitter users were not happy, and shared their thoughts directly with the company's executives on the site.
Twitter removing number counts on retweets and likes is an asisine move. Eliminates a lot of the energy that makes this platform go, the meritocracy it is from a content perspective and compromises the ability to pick out the value of what’s important in the moment.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 13, 2019
Twitter removing Retweet and Like counts. They’ve officially realized the people they don’t like are getting all the traction and that mainstream media bought too many accounts.
Bad move, @jack . Retweets and Likes generally are ‘friendly.’
https://t.co/eoOBRE0qUZ pic.twitter.com/oGYiOAKrC6
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 13, 2019
Later, NBC News issued a correction that said the prototype update would still count retweets and likes — but they would be hidden until the user tapped to reveal them.
Among the other changes being weighed by Twitter is an update that would allow users to swipe directly into the timeline and into the app's camera function. Users could then customize multimedia tweets with colored text and location-generated hashtags in the same screen.
It's unclear if and when the changes would be rolled out to the public.
The potential change to the "like" and "retweet" count comes months after Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey hinted that Twitter might do away with the "like" button entirely . In October at an event for Wired magazine, Dorsey said he felt that the "like" button incentivized users to create tweets to garner more likes, instead of creating tweets to spark conversation.
Later, Twitter said that it was "rethinking everything about the service" to create more health conversations — including the "like button."
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12842
|
__label__wiki
| 0.730657
| 0.730657
|
Abby Martin Barred from Gaza Due to Israel’s ‘Enemy State’ Claims.
Posted by Aaron Kesel | Sep 8, 2016 |
Abby Martin holds up a tear gas canister in the Occupied Territories. | Photo: teleSUR
Israeli officials told the teleSUR host her application for a press pass to enter the Gaza Strip was being probed due to teleSUR’s alleged ties to Iran.
According to Abby’s parent company TeleSur English released on their website.
Abby Martin, the host of teleSUR’s “The Empire Files” was not given a press pass to enter the Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities due to what officials claimed was “some sort of collaboration between the Iranian state-run channel HispanTV and teleSUR.”
“All the U.S. journalists we have talked to here said they received their press credentials within hours—so the claim by the Israeli press office that they cannot honor our request in a timely manner is an obvious diversion,” the teleSUR host said.
TeleSUR English issued a letter to Israeli authorities highlighting the fact that our channel is not associated with any other government in a manner that goes beyond the types of relations typical of other press outlets.
Abby Martin and her team have been in Israel, as well as the occupied West Bank, since late August and have been attempting to enter Gaza in order to continue work for an upcoming episode of her teleSUR program.
“I believe this is part of a larger effort by the Israeli state to hide the grim reality of their illegal occupation and expansion. We hope that the Israeli government will reconsider and allow teleSUR journalists to report on the urgent situation in the Gaza Strip,” she added.
Gaza has has witnessed three separate wars with Israeli occupation forces that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
While some media outlets have been able to access the strip, Israel has been known to place many restrictions on representatives from critical media organizations wishing to enter Gaza to report on the hardships currently being faced by the 1.5 million Gazans as a result of beening under an Israeli blockade since 2008.
Follow WE ARE CHANGE on SOCIAL MEDIA
SnapChat: LukeWeAreChange
fbook: https://facebook.com/LukeWeAreChange
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange
Instagram: https://instagram.com/lukewearechange
Sign up become a patron and Show your support for alternative news
for Just 1$ a month you can help Grow We are change
We use Bitcoin Too !
12HdLgeeuA87t2JU8m4tbRo247Yj5u2TVP
Join and Up Vote Our STEEMIT
PreviousMy Time in the Desert – A Human Experience at Burning Man
NextHillary Clinton Claims “I Take Classification Very Seriously, Always Have”
Aaron Kesel
I am an Activist a writer, blogger and an investigative journalist writing for We Are Change.My Sources are everywhere, enemy of the New World Order.
Why did they turn me into an old lady that's not what it was supposed to do, wtf?Also I look almost exactly like… https://t.co/B0P5nvrfxc, 1 hour ago
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12844
|
__label__cc
| 0.507948
| 0.492052
|
I Annotate
AAK
Paste a Link
Code review in remote teams
By Sean Hammond|2016-11-18T19:21:59+00:00November 18th, 2016|
This is a write-up of some research that I did for a session with our dev team at Hypothesis about how to make our code reviews a more pleasant and empowering experience for everyone. Links to sources are sprinkled throughout the text, and you can also find links to all of the sources I used (and more) in my code review links on Pinboard. Also thanks to our engineering manager Lena for suggestions.
Originally published at seanh.cc/posts/code-review
We’re a fully remote team at Hypothesis, so all communication goes over the Internet and a lot of it happens asynchronously. We use Trello cards to specify features, we write code alone, we send GitHub pull requests, and we use GitHub’s pull request review feature to send written code reviews. This can be very different from face-to-face code reviews in an office, or even from remote code reviews over video chat.
If taken lightly, this kind of written, asynchronous code review can be a recipe for disaster where negative communication and collaboration patterns are concerned. But if the team takes an active interest in doing it well, then I think it can work very effectively.
What are code reviews for?
Before discussing how and how not to do code reviews it’ll be useful to think about what code reviews are for in your organization so that the do’s and don’ts that follow can be assessed against these aims. I think it’s also good to remember that code reviews aren’t just about finding bugs and code design issues.
The point that I want to make here is that code reviews are for improving code quality and morale.
Code review is one of the main ways that developers interact with each other during a normal working day, so it needs to be an uplifting experience that developers look forward to and that all participants actively want to take part in. If code review is often an unpleasant experience morale will suffer.
Here are some aims to consider when doing a code review:
Create your team’s internal culture. Code reviews are one of the main places in which your team culture is enacted, and unpleasant code reviews are a side-effect of a lack of deliberate team culture. Use code reviews to deliberately foster a positive, patient and friendly culture.
Improve your working relationships by having a chance to talk to your fellow developers.
Relieve tension by giving people positive feedback.
Learn. A reviewer can learn new things from the code they’re reviewing, and an author can learn from the feedback they receive.
Break down code silos by having everyone on the team review changes to different parts of the code, gaining familiarity the whole codebase.
Mentoring and education. Code review is a chance for more experienced developers to mentor and teach others. But be aware that code review, after time has already been spent and code written, isn’t always the best time for mentoring and education. Developers should already have collaborated on the technical design before and during the code writing itself.
Code quality. Finally, yes, code quality (including bugs, maintainability, documentation, organization, architecture, usability, …) is one of the aims of code review.
This long list of bad behaviours may feel a bit negative, but honestly, this is meant to be a positive post, and when you get through this section there’s a long list of do’s to follow! There are many ways to make a code review unpleasant by doing the wrong things, so I think knowing what not to do is a good place to start. Combative, unkind and unpredictable code reviews can make developers unhappy and can make the job emotionally difficult to do.
“Understanding what to avoid in code review can mean the difference between your review being a valuable part of your team’s delivery and your review simply being cruel and unusual punishment.” Erik Dietrich: What To Avoid When Doing Code Reviews
Don’t just do the direct and minimal code review
(a.k.a. find out how much you suck)
Don’t just be straight and minimal, simply pointing out the things that are wrong with the code, saying what you want to be changed, and nothing more.
Developers spend a lot of time on and take pride in their code, and code review is the chance for them to showcase that. With this kind of direct and minimal code review the best result that the author can hope for is no comments: “LGTM, merged.” The code review might as well be titled find out how badly people think you suck.
Blunt and unfiltered communication carries a long-term cost. It can poison the team’s communication culture and hit developer productivity. The developer on the receiving end of lots of code reviews like this “often feels like it’s a bashing session designed to beat out their will”, and code reviews can become “mental jousting matches where people take shots at a target … the developer that wrote the code”.
Don’t think that “criticize the code, not the coder” is enough
“Criticize the code, not the coder” is probably the most well known advice about how to do code reviews. It’s good advice (if you’re criticizing your teammates as people, rather than talking about the code, you’ve got a problem). But it’s not enough. Code is creative work that developers put their heart and soul into and harshly or bluntly criticizing someone’s code is tantamount to criticizing them. You have to do better, and find a more positive way to deconstruct and make suggestions about code.
Watch your tone
Don’t use personal tone when criticizing. Phrases like “Why have you … ?” etc feel like attacks. Instead of saying “The way you’ve written this function makes it hard to read, add more code comments” (which is quite personal and implies that the person has done something wrong), say “Do you think that adding more code comments would make this function easier to read?” (which gives the author back their agency, and focuses on what they can do to improve the code).
Don’t use demanding or challenging language. Avoid phrases whose meaning comes across as “you are wrong.” Don’t tell people that they’re wrong, or that what they’ve said is invalid, because it can make them feel under attack. If they feel under attack, people can become defensive, can’t engage creatively any longer, and stop learning. Avoid phrases like:
“That is simply false”
“This is completely wrong”
“Why didn’t you just … ?”
Don’t use hyperbole when making criticisms. You don’t want the coder to feel offended because they feel that your criticisms of their code are unjustified or exaggerated. Avoid unnecessary words like “always”, “never”, “endlessly”, and “nothing” in criticisms.
Don’t use insulting language. Avoid “accidental insults” by not using words like “dumb” or “stupid” in code reviews, even though you don’t intend them as insults. This kind of language carries contexts and associations and can set the frame of mind of the person receiving it.
Don’t use impatient or passive-aggressive language. Always keep it patient and friendly, avoid unpleasant phrases that show irritability and make people feel like they’re not doing good enough:
“Once again, this should be…”
“As I’ve already said…”
Don’t pile on. It can make someone feel attacked if they’re given a critical comment by one colleague, and then one or more further colleagues +1 the comment or jump in with critical comments of their own. Multiple critics can also be confusing and create a “too many chefs” problem.
Don’t be a back-seat coder
This means holding off, and not requesting many of the code changes that you may be tempted to request. Feedback that asks for too many changes and feels like a rewrite can be demoralizing, so consider your suggestions carefully and pick the best ones.
Yes, one of the aims of code review is to find and correct bugs and design issues with the code. But don’t use code review to try to get the author to rewrite the code to the way you would have written it yourself. Remember that many things in software are a matter of opinion, multiple solutions that each have their pros and cons. For each “correction” that you want to suggest ask yourself whether it might be just a difference of opinion? In cases where the author has considered different solutions and chosen one solution for a reason, consider empowering the coder and respecting their right to make that decision.
“Although the developer might have coded something differently from how you would have, it isn’t necessarily wrong. The goal is quality, maintainable code. If it meets those goals and follows the coding standards, that’s all you can ask for.” Robert Bogue: Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain
“You’re never going to beat someone into writing the exact code that you would have, and it’s counterproductive to try. (Honestly, you should have just written the code yourself in the first place if that’s your attitude.)” Erik Dietrich: What To Avoid When Doing Code Reviews
Don’t break the rule of no surprises
Do not violate the rule of no surprises. Have a shared, documented agreement up front about pull request expectations and standards, and make reviews evidence-based not opinion-based.
Don’t say things just to hear the sound of your own voice
Before giving feedback think about what you’re aiming to achieve by doing so and think about whether each comment is necessary. Remember that you’re trying to constructively help, not trying to make a point. When writing a code review I go back and review my comments before posting them, asking myself whether each comment is really helpful or necessary, and end up deleting many of my comments before posting the review. Reviewing your comments post hoc can make this easier. While you’re deep in the code, working to understand it and to develop your thoughts on it, you can write down as many comments as you please. After, you can decide what you actually want to send to the coder.
“Well-actually-ing just for the sake of being right isn’t always helpful (or appreciated), and sometimes keeping that kind of feedback to yourself can be beneficial for the sake of your long-term relationship with a person.” Katherine Daniels: On Giving and Receiving Feedback
Don’t think that you have to find a problem in every code review
If the code is good and can be merged without any changes, that’s fine!
It doesn’t have to be this way! Below are some of my favourite suggestions, collected from around the Internet, about how to turn code reviews around and make them into a positive, collaborative experience.
Praise good code
Remember to spend plenty of time praising what is good about the code, before pointing out problems and making suggestions.
“Human nature is such that we want and need to be acknowledged for our successes, not just shown our faults. Because development is necessarily a creative work that developers pour their soul into, it often can be close to their hearts. This makes the need for praise even more critical.” Robert Bogue: Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain
You want people to look forward to code review as a positive and constructive experience and not fear it as pure criticism. Positive feedback also relieves interpersonal tensions and helps people to respond better to any critical feedback.
The hard part is to find a way to give positive comments without making them seem like fluff or fake praise, or obvious shit sandwich constructions.
Avoid the backhanded compliment, phrases like “Great job, but…” (followed by all the changes that you want to be made) can seem insincere.
Some ways to give more natural, sincere and concrete praise:
Appreciate lots of the specific parts or aspects of the code that are good, and try to say why you like them.
Leave a “running monologue” of your thoughts as you read and understand the code. “Ok, I see what that does.. Good it connects to this and calls that, alright.. and that piece depends on both of those alright.”
Seeing another programmer show comprehension of you work is itself a form of validation of the work, and when you run into parts of the code that you don’t understand you can ask for an explanation.
Put a positive summary at the top
Set the mood by indicating, in a positive summary statement at the top of your review, that you’re happy and thankful for the code. GitHub’s new code review features make this a lot easier by letting you write multiple line comments and then post them all at once (rather than each comment being posted as soon as you save it), and by letting you add a summary (which appears the top of your review) before posting the comments.
Avoid inherent accusations
Ask, don’t tell. Ask questions rather than making statements:
“A statement is accusatory. “You didn’t follow the standard here” is an attack—whether intentional or not. The question, “What was the reasoning behind the approach you used?” is seeking more information.” Robert Bogue: Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain
Asking questions instead will improve the mood, change the tone of the following conversation by opening the door for dialogue and learning, and encourage the developer to explain their reasoning or ask themselves whether there’s a better way.
Ideally, if there is a bug in the code then it will be found by the author themselves in response to prompting by question asking, or if there is an improvement to be made to the code, it will be suggested by the author.
“If you see things that could be errors, you don’t need to tell people they’re wrong, usually a “what do you think would happen if I passed null into this method” would suffice because the person will probably say, “oh, I didn’t think of that — I’ll fix it when we’re done here.” Allowing them to solve the problem and propose the improvement is empowering and so, so much better than giving them orders to fix their deficient code.” Erik Dietrich: How to Use a Code Review to Execute Someone’s Soul
“You didn’t follow the standard here”
“This is wrong, use B instead.”
“This code is confusing.”
“You didn’t initialize these variables”
“What was the reasoning behind the approached you used?”
“What was your thinking in using A instead of B?”
“I didn’t understand this bit. Can you clarify that for me?”
“I didn’t see where these variables were initialized”
Avoid the accusatory why. Like statements, “why” questions can also be accusatory as well, and avoiding them can improve the mood.
“Why didn’t you follow the standards here?”
“Why didn’t you just …?”
“What was the reasoning behind the deviation from the standards here?”
“What did you have in mind when you …?”
Ask questions, don’t make demands. Rather than just telling the code author to make a change that you want, ask them a question about their code or make a suggestion and ask them whether they think it would be an improvement. This puts the ball in their court and respects the author’s agency, giving them a chance to explain their decisions or to decide whether they think a suggestion is an improvement.
“Instead of saying “Let’s call that variable userName because it’s unclear”, phrase your suggestion as a question, like so:
“What do you think about naming this userName? The current name felt unclear to me because it’s also used in another context in someotherfile.js.” Daniel Bader: 7 ways to avoid aggravation in code reviews
When making a suggestion, also give the reason why you think this change might be an improvement.
Use personal examples. Let the code author know that they’re not the only person ever to make this mistake. This can be a great way to make criticism more comfortable: “I learned this the hard way…”, or “I used to do the same thing…”
Agree that not every question needs to be responded to. Make an upfront agreement that not every question needs to be responded to. This lets you include thought-provoking questions in your review that don’t necessarily need to be resolved or even responded to in order to get the code merged, but that can nonetheless get developers thinking and improve the quality of the entire codebase in the long run.
Use checklists:
“It’s very likely that each person on your team makes the same 10 mistakes over and over. Omissions in particular are the hardest defects to find because it’s difficult to review something that isn’t there. Checklists are the most effective way to eliminate frequently made errors and to combat the challenges of omission finding.” SmartBear: Best Practices for Code Review
Even though it can’t cover everything, a good checklist of what a pull request should have before it can be merged / what a reviewer should be looking for when reviewing a pull request is a useful tool for both the coder and the reviewer. A checklist can mean better and more consistent code quality and can help to avoid breaking the rule of no surprises. Documenting what’s expected is particularly useful for new team members sending their first pull requests and doing their first code reviews.
Here’s an example to get you started:
Your branch should contain one logically separate piece of work and not any unrelated changes.
You should have good commit messages, see <link to commit messages guide>.
Your branch should contain new or changed tests for any new or changed code, and all the tests should pass on your branch, see <link to test writing guide>.
Your branch should contain new or updated documentation for any new or updated code, see <link to writing documentation guide>.
Your branch should be up to date with the master branch and mergeable without conflicts, so rebase your branch on top of master before submitting your pull request.
Any new code should follow our code architecture and Python, JavaScript, HTML and CSS style guides. See <link to architecture and style guides>.
If the new code contains changes to the database schema, it should include a database migration. See <link to DB migrations guide>.
If the code contains any changes that break backwards-incompatibility for plugins, API clients or themes, is the breakage necessary or do the benefits of the change justify the breakage? Have the breaking changes been added to the changelog?
Does the new code add any dependencies (e.g. new third-party Python modules imported)? If so, is the new dependency justified and has it been added following the right process? See <link to upgrading dependencies guide>.
Has the code been tested using production data? See <link to getting production data in development guide>.
If there are UI changes, have they been tested on different screen sizes and in different browsers? See <link to responsive design guide>.
If there are UI changes, do they meet our accessibility standards? See <link to accessibility guide>.
If there are new user-visible strings, are they internationalized? See <link to internationalization guide>.
Have comprehensive documented coding standards:
Coding standards are a “shared agreement that the developers have with one another”, a shared set of guidelines with buy-in from everyone, about what makes quality, maintainable code in this organization. Coding standards are the foundation of code review (the coding standards are the standards that you’re reviewing the code against). Rather than bringing up requirements that aren’t in your coding standards, send a pull request to get them added to the standards instead.
Without the shared project of coding standards as a reference, developers can find themselves not knowing where the next problem will come from in code review. This doesn’t empower developers to contribute effectively.
The coding standards should be comprehensive. PEP 8 is a code formatting style, it’s not a complete enough standard for code review.
Review the right things and let tools do the rest
Code formatting issues should almost never come up during a code review. Code reviews should provoke productive thoughts and discussions, and spending too much time on code style and formatting won’t help with that. Use tools such as linters and code formatters instead.
This post has been about how to give positive feedback as well as making criticisms, and about how to make suggestions successfully when doing code reviews. My suggestion for what to do with this for our dev team at Hypothesis, and any other team interested in doing more effective code reviews, is to make a concise, bullet point version of this guide and adopt it as the team’s “how to do a code review”. Put it in a git repo that team members can open issues on and send pull requests to, so that the how-to becomes a shared collaboration.
Beyond what happens at code review time, I think it’s also worth thinking about how the code that’s being reviewed gets created in the first place. I think you want the coder and the reviewer to be largely synchronized on what the technical design for a feature is going to be before any code makes it into review. Know who the coder and reviewer for a feature are going to be beforehand, and encourage them to work as a team of two to deliver the feature, discussing code designs and intermediate versions of the code before it makes it to the final review. The aim is to get better code designs (two heads are better than one), but also to avoid having a debate at review time between two completely different solutions (one of which would require a rewrite of the already written code).
If there has already been plenty of collaboration between the coder and the reviewer before code review time then there’ll likely be fewer issues that need to be raised in review, so you’re already off to a good start.
Blog Categories Select Category Advisors AnnotatED Board of Directors Community Education Events Funding Government Journalism Membership Partnership Product Updates Publishing Research Science Team Technology Tips Uncategorized
Talk with us about adopting open annotation at your organization.
Community, Privacy and Accessibility at Hypothesis
Annotating All Knowledge
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12846
|
__label__wiki
| 0.89268
| 0.89268
|
Westlake Legal Group > fox-news/odd-news (Page 6)
Ben Sasse reacts to ‘Jeopardy!’ champ James Holzhauer, other contestants not knowing who he is
in article, fnc, fnc/entertainment, fox news, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/politics/senate/republicans, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Uncategorized
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb, took it on the chin on Wednesday when he learned reigning ‘Jeopardy!‘ super-champion James Holzhauer and two competitors did not know who he was.
On last Friday’s episode of the syndicated game show, contestant Robin Falco selected the “Social Studies” category $2,000, where Sasse’s image quickly appeared.
“He’s a senator from Nebraska and the author of “Them: Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal,” host Alex Trebek told the contestants.
Sadly, none of the trio, including the record-breaking 37-year-old professional sports gambler, asked, “Who is Ben Sasse?”
That caught the attention of the prominent GOP lawmaker on Wednesday.
“I’ll take “uncomfortable awkward silences” for a thousand dollars, Alex…,” Sasse joked on Twitter.
“Jeopardy!” contestants have a history of not being current with politics. In 2018, three contestants failed to correctly identify Gen. Michael Flynn in a clue related to a Russia investigation.
Holzhauer has continued his winning streak, clinching his 20th consecutive victory on Wednesday and collecting a total of a whopping $1,528,012. He almost lost his title as champion this week, winning his 18th game by only $18.
‘Mummified’ human torso found in Detroit basement, reports say
in article, fnc, fnc/us, fox news, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/us/us-regions/midwest/michigan, Frank Miles, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Uncategorized
Detroit police say a mummified human torso has been found in the basement of a home on the city’s west side. (Google)
Police who were called to a home on the west side of Detroit said they made a frightening find in the basement: a mummified human torso.
It turned up Wednesday afternoon while the homeowner was working on the home, Fox 2 reported.
Police said it was unclear what gender the person was; the torso was found in the basement near a bar area, the Detroit Free Press noted.
It’s difficult to tell how long the torso has been in the house because of decomposition, but police said it probably had been in the basement since the current homeowner bought the property.
The homeowner bought the property two years ago as an investment, and nobody has lived there since.
Frank Miles is a reporter and editor covering geopolitics, military, crime, technology and sports for FoxNews.com. His email is Frank.Miles@foxnews.com.
Bounce house goes airborne in Washington, injuring multiple students: reports
in article, fnc, fnc/us, fox news, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/us/education/high-school, fox-news/us/us-regions/west/washington, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Nicole Darrah, Uncategorized
Five students were injured in Washington state on Wednesday after a strong gust of wind lifted the bounce house they were in high into the air.
The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. local time at an event at Zillah High School, according to a statement from the Zillah School District.
2 CHILDREN KILLED AFTER DUST DEVIL BLOWS AWAY BOUNCE HOUSE IN CHINA
The students were inside the structure when wind lifted it around 10- to 20-feet high at the school in Zillah, a city roughly 20 miles south of Yakima, the Yakima Herald reported.
Four students sustained minor injuries, including a possible concussion, Fire Chief Paul Stonemetz told the news outlet. He said that one other student received CPR and shock treatment and was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.
Several local and state agencies responded to the scene. Stonemetz said it was not immediately clear whether the bounce house was secured to the ground when the students were playing on it.
‘Chevy or Ford’ argument reportedly sparks Virginia shooting
in article, fnc, fnc/us, fox news, fox-news/auto, fox-news/auto/make/chevrolet, fox-news/auto/make/ford, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/us/crime, fox-news/us/us-regions/southeast/virginia, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Nicole Darrah, Uncategorized
A Virginia man was arrested last week after he allegedly shot two people because they seemingly disagreed on a topic: which is better, a Chevy or a Ford?
Mark Turner, 56, was taken into custody on April 23 after the incident, which took place the night before. Turner, his girlfriend, his girlfriend’s son and the son’s girlfriend were eating dinner at a home in Bedford, a city roughly 28 miles east of Roanoke, when the group went out to the front yard.
<img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2019/05/640/320/download.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" alt="Mark Turner, 56, was arrested after he allegedly shot two people and left another injured after a fight over whether Chevys or Fords were better.
Mark Turner, 56, was arrested after he allegedly shot two people and left another injured after a fight over whether Chevys or Fords were better.<br data-cke-eol=”1″> (Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority)
Soon, an argument broke out between Turner and his girlfriend’s son, WSET reported. The two couldn’t agree on whether Chevrolet or Ford vehicles were better.
Turner allegedly whipped out a knife during his argument, a situation which Turner’s girlfriend tried to deescalate. According to the Bedford County Commonwealth’s Attorney Wes Nance, Turner’s girlfriend was stabbed with the knife in her lower back, sustaining a six-inch wound.
WYOMING MAN ALLEGEDLY STOLE FROM STORE, APPLIED FOR JOB THERE HOURS LATER
The man then retrieved a gun from inside the home. When his girlfriend again put herself between Turner and her son, Turner allegedly shot her in the leg five times, and shot her son in the arm.
Two of Turner’s bullets that ricocheted ended up hitting the son’s girlfriend in the back and in her cheek.
Prosecutors alleged that Turner then barricaded himself inside the home, continually leaving to shout at police. Investigators ultimately shot Turner with a bean bag round and took him into custody.
Nance said that alcohol might’ve been involved. Search warrants reportedly indicated that “there was possible drug activity at the residence.”
Turner was charged with felony malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a felon following the shooting, according to online records.
‘Suspicious’ Chef Boyardee can on wheels leads Chicago cops to shut down street
in article, fnc, fnc/us, fox news, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/us/education, fox-news/us/education/college, fox-news/us/us-regions/midwest/illinois, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Nicole Darrah, Uncategorized
A Chicago street was shut down on Tuesday after cops spotted a “suspicious package” that turned out to be an educational — and tasty — school project.
The package that spooked police officers turned out to be an odd contraption: a can of beef Chef Boyardee ravioli and a thin green wire taped to a set of wheels.
Investigators briefly shut down both State Street and Chicago Transit Authority’s Red Line train, which ran underground, WBBM-TV reported.
A spokesperson for DePaul University, which is located in Chicago, told the news outlet that a design student was responsible for the can-on-wheels, served as a prototype of a vehicle created for a class assignment.
Birds caught on London traffic cam, named ‘Graeme and Steve’ by officials
in article, Elizabeth Zwirz, fnc, fnc/world, fox news, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/science/wild-nature/birds, fox-news/world/world-regions/united-kingdom, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Uncategorized
A few birds in London got some serious face time with a traffic camera this week.
Transport for London shared a few snapshots of the avian duo on their Traffic News Twitter account Wednesday.
SEAGULL APPEARS TO SNATCH BABY SEA TURTLE DURING LIVE BBC PROGRAM
Not only did the office name the birds Graeme and Steve, but they also joked that the pair had joined their ranks.
“Our cameras usually give us a bird’s eye view of traffic across London, but we’d like to thank our new colleagues Graeme and Steve for helping out at beak times,” TfL Traffic News tweeted.
Earlier in the week, the office shared more sightings of birds stationed at their camera, including a video from their “reporter” who they said was situated near the Blackwall Tunnel.
New Jersey ‘pooperintendent’ who defecated on another high school’s field sues police over mug shot release
in article, fnc, fnc/us, fox news, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/us/us-regions/northeast/new-jersey, Katherine Lam, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Uncategorized
A former New Jersey superintendent who pleaded guilty to defecating on another high school’s track field last May sued the police department for releasing his mug shot, claiming the agency’s actions smeared his reputation and “altered his life forever.”
Thomas Tramaglini, who resigned as superintendent of the Kenilworth schools in July, filed a lawsuit Tuesday stating Holmdel police violated his constitutional rights when officers took the mug shot and released it to media outlets following the summonses that were issued against him in May.
At the time, Holmdel police announced in a Facebook post that Tramaglini faced lewdness, littering and defecating in public charges after human feces were found on the Holmdel High School’s track and football field “on a daily basis.” The former superintendent was unmasked as the “mystery pooper” when surveillance video captured him relieving himself on the track.
Thomas Tramaglini has sued the local police department for releasing his mug shot to the news media. (AP)
SCHOOL ‘POOPERINTENDENT’ TO RECEIVE $100G FROM DISTRICT, REPORTS SAY
Tramaglini’s case received national attention and earned him the unfortunate nickname of “pooperintendent.” He said in the lawsuit Tuesday that the police department’s “unauthorized, intentional, reckless, malicious, and unlawful conduct” led to the negative publicity that damaged his reputation.
“Nearly a year after his ordeal began, today Dr. Tramaglini fights back against the police misconduct that has altered his life forever,” attorney Matthew Adams said Wednesday. “He is severely underemployed and is fighting for any semblance of normalcy he can create for himself and his family.”
NJ EX-SUPERINTENDENT ADMITS TO POOPING ON A NEARBY HIGH SCHOOL’S GROUNDS
Tramaglini eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of defecating in public and paid a $500 fine. The two other charges were dismissed.
Tramaglini, who reportedly received more than $100,000 after negotiating a separation agreement with Kenilworth Public Schools, now works outside the education field, his attorney said.
Adams argued that state law prevents police from taking and releasing mug shots of people charged with low-level offenses, liked the one Tramaglini pleaded guilty to. In a letter he sent to the state attorney general’s office in February seeking a probe, Adams wrote that a review of township arrest reports involving similar municipal ordinances violations since 2007 revealed no instances in which mug shots were released.
Dog with expensive taste eats over $200 in cash, ends up costing owner nearly $170 in vet bills
in article, fnc, fnc/world, fox news, fox-news/lifestyle/pets, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/world/world-regions/united-kingdom, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Travis Fedschun, Uncategorized
This good boy ended up costing his owners hundreds of dollars after literally eating the dough.
Ozzie, a 9-year-old labradoodle, ended up having to be rushed the vet on Monday after his owners in the United Kingdom discovered he helped himself to an envelope full of cash that was pushed through their letterbox.
“Someone had owed us money and popped it through the letterbox for us, that’s how Ozzie got hold of it,” Judith Wright told Sky News.
MAN HITS BARTENDER WITH CAR AFTER HIS DOG WAS NOT ALLOWED INSIDE
After eating 8 £20 notes worth over $200, Ozzie’s owners took him from their home in Llandudno, North Wales to Murphy & Co Veterinary Practice where they had to induce vomiting.
Ozzie, a 9-year-old labradoodle, can be seen next to the cash he ate after a letter came in through his owner’s letterbox on Monday. (Murphy & Co Veterinary Practice)
A spokesperson for the vet told Sky News that owners can expect to pay £130, or around $170, to induce vomiting in a dog.
“It’s been an expensive Monday for Ozzie’s owners,” the group posted to Facebook on Monday along with a photo of Ozzie and the thrown-up cash. Besides the money, Ozzie also tossed up a plastic money bag and clip.
NEW JERSEY DOG IMPALED ON LAMPPOST EXPECTED TO MAKE FULL RECOVERY: REPORT
The entire incident ended up costing Ozzie’s owners nearly $400, but owner Neil Wright said the couple may be able to claim some of the money back by taking the damaged cash to the Bank of England.
To prevent a repeat incident, the couple is planning to put a cage around their letterbox so Ozzie doesn’t try to make a snack of any more incoming parcels, according to Sky News.
Arizona mom attacked by bees after beehive falls on her: ‘I heard it explode on my head’
in article, fnc, fnc/us, fox news, fox-news/odd-news, fox-news/us/us-regions/southwest/arizona, Katherine Lam, News, News and News Media, News Corporation, News Media, News Releases, Uncategorized
Call it a freak accident or pure bad luck.
An Arizona mother suffered more than 30 bee stings Monday after a gust of wind blew a beehive off a tree, causing it to land on her head.
The woman, who was not identified, told AZFamily.com she was walking to Carminati Elementary School in Tempe to pick up her son when the beehive fell on her head.
ARIZONA MAN DIES AFTER LOCATED ‘COVERED WITH BEES’ IN FRONT YARD, POLICE SAY
“Walking up to the house and with my wonderful luck, the second I got out of my car and walk under it, it falls on my head,” she said. “Yes, it fell directly on my head. I heard it explode on my head.”
NORE DAME CATHEDRAL BEES SURVIVE DEVASTATING FIRE: ‘OUR LADY’S BEES ARE STILL ALIVE’
The mother said she was stung on her head, shoulders, arms and fingers. She rushed into her house to take a Benadryl and shower before being taken to the hospital to have her injuries checked out.
“I’m happy that I’m not allergic, I’m glad it didn’t happen to somebody who was [or my son], so I’m OK with it happening to me,” the woman told AZFamily.com.
Firefighters responded to the scene and sprayed the beehive with foam to get rid of the bees. No one else was injured in the incident.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12852
|
__label__cc
| 0.681973
| 0.318027
|
2019 US Open Cup Round 2: San Antonio FC’s youth movement earns win over Laredo Heat
Posted by Scott Barowsky | May 16, 2019
Laredo Heat SC plays San Antonio FC during a US Open Cup soccer match, Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at Toyota Field in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio won 2-0. (Darren Abate/USL)
It was a historic night for San Antonio FC as it faced its first Open Cup opponent, Laredo Heat. It was the first time San Antonio and Laredo faced off in club history, but that wouldn’t be the only firsts of the night in Round 2 of the 2019 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup.
It was a wave of young talent on the field for San Antonio FC as three of the club’s academy prospects took the pitch for the first time, and 21-year-old Pascal Eboussi scored one of the team’s two goals in a 2-0 win. 31-year-old veteran Ever Guzman scored the other goal as San Antonio advanced to Round 3.
Leo Torres, Jose Gallegos and Carson Price each saw their first action as San Antonio FC started getting chances early and often as Billy Forbes and Cheno Guzman had a strong connection.
Laredo Heat goalkeeper Carlos Herrera did a great job at keeping the match scoreless. Laredo had a great chance in the 12th minute off a corner kick, but San Antonio FC would be the first to get on the board.
Jack Barmby placed a great corner at the top of the six-yard box in the 17th minute and Eboussi, a defender, was able to head the ball into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead.
Catch the highlights from @SanAntonioFC taking care of business 2-0 against @LaredoHeatSC in the 2nd round of #USOC2019 pic.twitter.com/VbjfBgaq53
— U.S. Open Cup (@opencup) May 15, 2019
That wouldn’t be Barmby’s only assist as he followed that up with a short pass from a corner kick that found the foot of Guzman, who ripped it in just under the post.
“It was always going to be a scrappy game,” Barmby said. “Credit to them. They played well, but we got the win and we’re through, which is what we wanted.”
Laredo Heat would receive a total of four yellow cards — three in the second half — and were unable to slip one past San Antonio FC keeper Jonathan Viscosi who had a clean sheet.
San Antonio FC will face the Austin Bold in Round 3 of the Open Cup at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday May 29.
Three professional debuts last night. Five local boys playing for our city! 2️⃣1️⃣0️⃣ #Defend210 pic.twitter.com/AZyTK4Nj7G
— San Antonio FC (@SanAntonioFC) May 15, 2019
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12859
|
__label__wiki
| 0.983065
| 0.983065
|
‘It’s a King Kong vs. Godzilla kind of race’
By Scott Wong - 05/03/16 06:00 AM EDT
© Greg Nash
Ask outgoing House GOP campaign chief Greg Walden about his next move, and he’ll insist he’s not looking past the November elections.
But with no obvious path to move up the leadership ladder, the Oregon Republican made clear to The Hill that he’s seriously considering a bid this fall to succeed Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) as chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.
Such a move would pit Walden against a good friend and well-connected colleague, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who carries more seniority on the panel and has already signaled he’s running for the gavel.
“It’s a King Kong vs. Godzilla kind of race,” said one senior member of the House GOP Steering Committee, which will pick the next chairman. “Both are very credible candidates for the job. Both smart. Both leaders. Both have great relationships. And both are strong supporters of the team.”
Former Energy Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas) also has said he may seek the gavel again this year, and Energy and Commerce Vice Chairwoman Marsha Blackburn Marsha BlackburnSocial media summit highlights partisan approaches on tech Trump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Hillicon Valley: Trump rails against 'terrible bias' at White House social media summit | Twitter hit by hour-long outage | Google admits workers listen to smart device recordings MORE (R-Tenn.) is frequently thrown in the mix, though she’s more junior than the others.
“I’m focused on 2016. I’ve heard of jobs I’m taking, that I’m retiring, that I’m running for chairman of this and of that. Honest to God, I am focused on this [election],” Walden, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in an exclusive interview at GOP headquarters on Capitol Hill.
But he went on to volunteer: “I’m second in seniority on Energy and Commerce. Would I like to be chairman someday, this day, tomorrow? Yeah. It’s a great committee. I love that committee. I’m chairman of the subcommittee on communications and technology.”
“That would be a very interesting and important and fulfilling job to take on. I think I’d be good at it. I think I’ve had good success at our subcommittee,” he added. “But I’m not out campaigning to be chairman of Energy and Commerce at the moment.”
The remarks from the nine-term congressman are his most extensive to date about his interest in leading the Energy and Commerce panel, whose broad portfolio includes energy and the environment, technology and healthcare.
But they don’t come as a surprise to Shimkus. Several months ago, he asked to meet with Walden after he started getting questions from reporters and lawmakers about the committee job. The two colleagues met in a room in the Capitol, and Shimkus told Walden he was planning to run. Walden replied that he hadn’t made any decisions but was keeping his options open.
“He’s a senior member of the committee, he’s worked hard, he has great credentials, he’s a great friend. You would expect someone like that to look at it,” Shimkus said of Walden in a phone interview Monday.
“I think I have good credentials and good relationships with my colleagues. It will be a decision for the Steering Committee and full conference, and I hope they will give me a fair look.”
While the race is still shaping up, GOP lawmakers and leadership sources were divided when asked whether Shimkus or Walden had the edge to replace the term-limited Upton. Shimkus, a 10-term Illinois Republican, is housemates in D.C. with Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady Kevin Patrick BradyLawmakers join Nats Park fundraiser for DC kids charity On The Money: Fed chief hints strongly at rate cut | Powell lays out 'serious concerns' over Facebook crypto project | Trump official to investigate French tech tax | Acosta defends Epstein deal Trump administration launches investigation into French plan for tax on tech giants MORE (R-Texas); Scalise’s vote-counting operation came in handy in Brady’s successful chairman’s race last year and probably would be deployed for Shimkus as well.
But as NRCC chairman, Walden has spent the past two election cycles raising millions of dollars for colleagues, putting him in a position to call in a few favors after the November elections. In the 2014 cycle, he helped lead House Republicans to 247 seats — their largest majority since before the Great Depression.
With the volatile Donald Trump Donald John TrumpPompeo changes staff for Russia meeting after concerns raised about top negotiator's ties: report House unravels with rise of 'Les Enfants Terrible' Ben Carson: Trump is not a racist and his comments were not racist MORE closing in on the GOP nomination, it’s unclear how Republicans down-ballot might be impacted. An ugly GOP defeat at the polls this fall could put Walden in a weakened position against Shimkus.
A telecommunications industry source said Walden appeared reluctant to make a formal announcement about the chairman’s race until his campaign role had wrapped up.
If he announced before then, it could give the impression that he was focused on his own ambitions rather than the party, the source said.
On paper, Walden, 59, and Shimkus, 58, match up well. Both are Energy and Commerce subcommittee chairmen and hold seats on the influential Steering panel that will vote on committee chairmen shortly after the general election. The roughly 30-member panel is made up of regional and class representatives, as well as all members of the leadership team, including Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanOcasio-Cortez top aide emerges as lightning rod amid Democratic feud Juan Williams: GOP in a panic over Mueller House Republicans dismissive of Paul Ryan's take on Trump MORE (R-Wis.), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Scalise and Chief Deputy Whip Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.).
A big question is how much seniority will matter in the race.
Technically, Barton, the Energy and Commerce chairman emeritus and dean of the Texas delegation, is the most senior member of the committee after Upton. He last held the gavel about a decade ago and will make his case for another chance to lead. But there is no recent precedent for a former chairman to win back the gavel after a prolonged absence, and there’s a strong desire from some colleagues for new blood.
Both Barton and Shimkus ran for chairman of the panel after the GOP took back the majority in 2010, but Upton beat them both.
“Congressman Barton is certainly interested in chairing the full committee. Since he has held the position in the past, he would be the most qualified candidate,” said Barton spokesman Daniel Rhea. “No other member of the House has near Congressman Barton’s level of experience or body of work within the E&C portfolio.”
Shimkus is next in line after Barton. Since two other senior panel members — Reps. Ed Whitfield Wayne (Ed) Edward WhitfieldWhy Republicans took aim at an ethics watchdog What Azerbaijan wants from Israel? Overnight Energy: Green group sues Exxon over climate science MORE (R-Ky.) and Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) — are retiring this year, Walden follows directly behind Shimkus when it comes to longevity serving on the committee.
Blackburn would be the sixth most senior committee member.
The slight seniority Shimkus holds over Walden could make all the difference in a tight race. After Ryan, the former Ways and Means chairman, ascended to the Speaker’s office last fall, Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) tried to leapfrog the more senior Brady in the race to replace him.
But Brady prevailed, backed by both Ryan and Shimkus. This fall, Brady could return the favor and cast a vote for his fellow roommate.
“Seniority does still mean something,” Shimkus said as he was driving home from an event in his district along Illinois’s Interstate 70. “Everything being equal, seniority should play some role in the process.”
David McCabe contributed to this report.
Tags Marsha Blackburn Donald Trump Ed Whitfield Kevin Brady Paul Ryan
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12865
|
__label__wiki
| 0.635725
| 0.635725
|
‘People are struggling’: Living standards at lowest point in 20 years
Man with knife shuts Brisbane tunnel
‘Likes’ to be hidden on Instagram in Australia
Jobless rate steady at 5.2% for June
Money Your Budget ‘People are struggling’: Living standards at lowest point in 20 years
7:47pm, Mar 5, 2019 Updated: 10:10am, Mar 6
ACTU secretary Sally McManus said Australians' living standards have fallen. Photo: AAP
Killian Plastow
Tweet Share Reddit Pin Email
Australia’s standard of living has fallen to levels not seen since the 1991-92 recession, despite labour productivity increasing “dramatically” and the nation producing more billionaires than ever before.
A report by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) confirms living costs outstripped household incomes “by 2.9 per cent over the last three years”, and Australia is at risk of becoming “a fully Americanised society of high inequality and dead-end jobs” if changes aren’t made.
“Working people in Australia need fair pay and good, secure jobs so that we can maintain good living standards,” ACTU secretary Sally McManus said.
“Right now people are struggling to maintain their living standards, while corporations make bumper profits and CEOs take sickeningly large salaries and bonuses.”
Ms McManus said a “re-balance” of the current system is needed “so that people can negotiate fair pay rises and get a fair share of the wealth their work produces”, and recommended several policy initiatives intended to improve living standards.
“The Morrison government has overseen multinationals and the very wealthy taking more than their fair share of the nation’s wealth at the expense of the living standards of millions of working people,” Ms McManus said.
“Working people in Australia are ready to take action to restore our living standards.”
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, however, said government is already “working hard to tackle cost of living pressures”, with particular regard to health, energy, housing and child care costs.
“The most recent Consumer Price Index shows the price of pharmaceutical products down 1.9 per cent in the quarter. This follows the listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme of more than 1900 new life-changing medicines worth over $10 billion since the Coalition came to government,” he said.
“Further, health insurance premiums are now growing at their lowest rate since before 2006. The CPI also shows child care prices remain down 8.3 per cent through the year, following the introduction of the Child Care Subsidy from 2 July 2018 which saw the largest quarterly fall in child care prices in a decade.”
Newstart recommendation welcomed
Dr Peter Davidson, a senior adviser with the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), said the Newstart rate has been stagnant for several years. A push to have it increased is a logical step, he said.
“The ACTU’s report rightly points out that increasing Newstart is critical to reducing income inequality in Australia. Lifting Newstart makes sense both economically and socially,” he said.
“Newstart is not working because the rate has not been increased in real terms in 25 years and at $40 a day ($15,000 a year) is too low to give people the support they need to get through tough times and into suitable employment”.
Dr Davidson also made a number of recommendations, not included on the ACTU’s list, which he said would lift living standards.
Those included “improved minimum wages, support for collective bargaining (including at industry level), tax reform (to remove shelters and loopholes used by people with high incomes to avoid their obligations) and decent, universal services from schools to primary health care and the NDIS”.
Lower than ’91 recession
The ACTU used modelling compiled by Australian National University associate professor Ben Phillips, who is also principal research fellow at the university’s Centre for Social Research and Methods, to assess living standards.
The modelling used ABS disposable household income data from the National Accounts, CPI and population growth to track changes in the standard of living, with 0 per cent representing no change, percentages above zero representing improvements, and those below zero representing declines.
A graph showing Australian living standards, based of modelling done by Australian National University associate professor Ben Phillips.
“Living standards peaked in 2011. There was no improvement for the next four years, but incomes started falling behind rising living costs from late 2015 onwards,” the ACTU report said.
“The clear driver for the fall in living standards has been low wages growth. The fall in living standards in the past three years was greater than during the last recession in 1991-92. It is clear Australia is currently facing an ‘income recession’.”
Fraud probe: Former NAB executive to face 50 charges
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12871
|
__label__cc
| 0.614957
| 0.385043
|
The People Skills Group
Founder and President
Why Choose The People Skills Group?
MBTI® Workshops
Jungian Psychological Type
Our Tool Box
Conversational Intelligence®
EQ-i 2.0® Emotional Intelligence Assessment
MBTI® Assessment
Five Dysfunctions of a Team™
Practitioner Resources
Practitioner Testimonials
Purchase Our Products
Home » HOME » Individual Development
Published on April 29, 2014 Full size of 275 × 183 pixels
Download a User's Guide here
Shipping rates are for Continental U.S. orders only. For shipping to Canada or other International locations, please contact us.
Visit our Shipping & Handling page to see our rates.
"Cindy’s cards are excellent tools for facilitating best-fit type conversations. The focus on cognitive processes and the function that leads the personality frequently allows clients to let go of feeling boxed in by being forced to choose between the dichotomies. The cards help clients break through the “should’s, ought’s, and can’s” to focus on what they prefer. And, the bullet points on effective and ineffective use jump-start coaching conversations." - Jane Kise, Ed.D.
Read Product Testimonials
“Together, the functions and orientations influence how a person perceives a situation and decides on a course of action. All of these choices are like forks in the road of human development, offering different paths that lead toward different kinds of excellence.”
— The MBTI Manual, 3rd Edition
“In ignoring the dynamic interactions critical to the Jung-Myers theory, both laypeople and professionals miss out on the theory’s greatest contribution to the explanation of healthy personality.”
— Naomi Quenk , Was That Really Me?
“Each of the 16 Types is a dynamic system between the flow of psychic energy from mental process to mental process and from our conscious to our unconscious mind. In essence, Type is personality in motion; …moving in and out of the mental processes that are required and appropriate for the situation.”
— Katharine Myers and Linda Kirby, Introduction to Type Dynamics and Development
“If the person with whom you want to communicate has preferences different from yours, that person may stay engaged for a while, [but] over time the person may… feel drained of energy and lose interest…”
— Carolyn Zeisset, The Art of Dialog
“We naturally tend to understand everything in terms of our own type.”
— Carl Jung, Psychological Types
“Type is personality in motion… using what is needed and appropriate for the situation.”
— Katharine Downing Myers
“The amount and direction of the flow of psychological energy lies at the heart of the typological understanding of personality.”
— Naomi Quenk, In the Grip
“Jung’s theory and the 16 MBTI types do not define static boxes: Instead they describe dynamic energy systems with interacting processes.”
— Isabel Myers, Introduction to Type
“Together, perception and Judgment which make up a large portion of people’s total mental activity, govern much of their outer behavior, because perception – by definition – determines what people see in a situation, and their judgment determines what they decide to do about it. Thus, it is reasonable that basic differences in perception and judgment should result in corresponding differences in behavior.”
— Isabel Myers, Gifts Differing
“Leadership is a psychological process – and to get to the heart of leadership, we must understand the habits of mind that make up our interpretation of our day-to-day experiences and influence our choices.”
— Roger Pearman, HardWired Leadership
“Jung’s theory of psychological types is about patterns of conscious mental activity; at the most basic level, it is about perception and judgment.”
— Gordon Lawrence, People Types & Tiger Stripes
“Jung’s model is concerned with the movement of psychic energy and the way in which one habitually or preferentially orients oneself to the world.”
— Daryl Sharp, Personality Types
“Whatever the circumstances of your life the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgments sounder and your life closer to your heart’s desire.”
— Isabel Briggs Myers, Gifts Differing
“Personality type is a system with constant energy flow and constant interaction between the mental functions. It is not stagnant or rigid. It moves; it is dynamic.”
— Hartzler, McAlpine and Haas, Introduction to Type and the 8 Jungian Functions
“Perception and judgment are basic in the human condition. Our troubles come from faulty perceptions and poor judgments, and our progress comes from clear perceptions and sound judgments.”
“…the dynamic nature of the human personality and the developmental model underlying Psychological Type are the elements that keep types from being static boxes into which individuals are fitted.”
“The dynamic character of type theory is commonly overlooked by people new to typology and the MBTI personality inventory. This leads to an often simplistic, categorical approach to the sixteen types.”
“The dynamic character of each personality type depends on how energy is typically used by a person of that type.”
Copyright© 2019 The People Skills Group. All Rights Reserved. | Website design by A Mix of Pixels.
MBTI®, Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the MBTI® logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the MBTI Trust, Inc., in the United States and other countries.Back to top
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12872
|
__label__wiki
| 0.837832
| 0.837832
|
bring back the women's centre
UVic Womyn's Centre
Taking back our centre
Why we are calling for safe space for women at UVic
Third Space advocacy group allegedly misused funds, harassed feminists
October 4, 2016 October 5, 2016 by XX, posted in Uncategorized
UVic Womyn is calling for financial disclosure and an end to harassment of feminists at the former Womens’ Centre in the wake of a “take-over” of women’s space.
The feminist group is demanding the University re-open space for women only. In 1981, the UVic Women’s Centre was established as a women’s lounge and meeting space. In 2016, the collective re-branded it “Third Space” for gender-variant people, and adopted new policies that require members to subscribe to its theory of gender identity.
UVic Womyn is also challenging the Third Space collective’s decision to “donate” $3200 of its budget to former financial coordinator Daphne Shaed, a trans person who identifies as a Hindu woman.
In September, Nadia Hamdon, the new financial coordinator, quit her position without explanation and the centre is now unstaffed, according to an email from Erin Ewart, the executive director of the UVic Student Society.
“This raises a lot of questions,” said Tara Prema, researcher for UVic Womyn. “The space is for women. Student fees are collected for programs for women. Students did not vote to give thousands of dollars to an individual staffer who ‘identifies’ as a woman.”
“We are going to insist on holding Third Space and UVic Student Society accountable for these decisions.,” Prema said.
The Third Space website has not advertised any programs or services for students since May.
In summer 2016, a Third Space coordinator confronted a UVic student about her support for women’s space, and the student says the collective banned her from the centre for that reason.
“It’s no crime to have a different opinion,” says the student. “Students did not consent to converting the Women’s Centre to Third Space.”
“Both women and trans people deserve to be safe. But we have different issues. So why can’t each group have a place to meet and organize?”
UVic Womyn claim the atmosphere in the Student Union Building has become “openly hostile” toward feminists. The student points to an incident in early September during an event sponsored by the UVSS. Organizers for the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair distributed copies of a poster with names and photos of three women alleged to be part of UVic Womyn, which they called a “hate group.”
Students watched in shock as a group of bookfair organizers confronted and verbally abused a student who resembled one of the women on the poster. A bystander intervened and the student was able to get away from the group who tried to chase them down the hall of the SUB.
UVic Womyn tweeted that they are not connected to the women on the poster. Regardless, a bookfair presenter from Vancouver posted the women’s names and faces on Facebook. A second bookfair volunteer bragged about confronting the student and complained that organizers should have prevented feminists from attending the public event.
One of the women named on the poster is Erin Wallace, a UVic grad now living and teaching in Germany. Wallace had no connection with UVic Womyn at the time of the Anarchist Bookfair. She has filed a complaint with Saanich police, who are now investigating.
“It’s anti-feminist,” said Erin Wallace. “They’re trying to scare us into silence. To go to the extreme of harassing and threatening women who want to organize in the absence of men clearly represents a backlash against feminism.”
“The censoring and exclusion of feminists from the campus Women’s Centre by males and their supporters is an alarming symptom of this backlash,” Wallace said.
Previous postNo staff, no programs at UVic’s Third Space
Next postAttention legal eagles: Females have human rights
5 thoughts on “Third Space advocacy group allegedly misused funds, harassed feminists”
donesoverydone says:
Reblogged this on stop trans chauvinism.
FeistyAmazon says:
Reblogged this on FeistyAmazon and commented:
This happened with other womens groups like at the local LGBT Center in Hayward CA. They eliminated ALL womens groups, whether Lesbian or for Lesbians and bi women, while they had groups for gay men, 12 step, queer youth and trans.
They were going to have a new executive director who was a woman, and we were all excited!!!
Then we found out she was an MTF, so “she” was cold to.my suggestion of creating a Lesbian centred group. Meanwhile the Board of Directors were twisting their hands WHY Lesbians didnt attend their events. I told them.yiu have NOTHING for Lesbians or for women so of course they won’t. We ARE NOT REPRESENTED, SO WE WILL GO ELSEWHERE!!!
Lesbians and womyn NEED to take back OUR SPACES!!!
I’m so incredibly in awe of what you are doing for women at UVIC. It’s really inspirational to see women fighting against the current anti-feminist backlash. I go to university in the UK where we have a very similar kind of atmosphere – lots and lots of feminist solidarity ❤
Burrito says:
The bookfair wasn’t sponsered by the UVSS.
Women Deserve Safe Space on Campus
Contact us with questions or comments.
THE DISCOURSE
The new, male-free, Uvic Womyn's Centre.
Email: uvicwomyn@gmail.com
Twitter: @uvicwomyn
FB: UVic Womyn Page
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12875
|
__label__wiki
| 0.997056
| 0.997056
|
Home » Washington, DC News » Latest: Georgetown: Only discussed…
Latest: Georgetown: Only discussed athletic record with URI
Georgetown University says it commented only on its former tennis coach's athletic record when asked by another school about Gordon Ernst.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a college admissions bribery scandal that has led to charges against coaches and celebrities (all times local):
Georgetown University says it commented only on its former tennis coach’s athletic record when asked by another school about Gordon Ernst.
The University of Rhode Island says its athletic director called Georgetown University’s athletic director before hiring Ernst and received a positive recommendation.
Court documents allege Ernst was paid more than $2.7 million and designated at least 12 applicants as recruits, facilitating their admission to Georgetown.
Georgetown spokeswoman Meghan Dubyak said this week that Ernst has not coached there since 2017 after an investigation found he violated university admissions rules.
URI said in a statement Thursday that its athletic director contacted Georgetown in July. URI spokesman Dave Lavalee says the university was not told about the 2017 admission rules violations.
Ernst was hired in Rhode Island in August. He has been placed on administrative leave.
Actress Lori Loughlin’s daughter has been dropped by another company that advertises on her popular social media accounts as the fallout from a college-admission bribery case continues.
Hair products company TRESemme (TREH’-suh-mae) said in a statement Thursday that it is no longer working with Olivia Jade Giannulli.
Earlier in the day, the cosmetics company Sephora made the same move.
Giannulli, a 19-year-old student at the University of Southern California, had promoted TRESemme products on her social-media accounts, which include a popular YouTube channel. Her parents are among 50 people arrested in a nationwide college bribery scandal.
Prosecutors allege Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli paid $500,000 to have their two daughters labeled as crew-team recruits at USC, even though neither is a rower.
An attorney representing her parents didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
The University of Rhode Island says its athletic director called Georgetown University’s athletic director before hiring a tennis coach now implicated in a college admissions scheme and received a positive recommendation.
Court documents allege Gordon Ernst was paid more than $2.7 million and designated at least 12 applicants as recruits, facilitating their admission to Georgetown.
The statement also says URI also reached three out of four of Ernst’s references, who gave him positive recommendations, and a background check showed no criminal history.
A Brown University spokesman says the Ivy League school has completed “a case-by-case review” of its athletes, which “generated zero concerns” related to the college admissions scandal.
Brian Clark said Thursday that the review looked at every varsity athlete admitted and enrolled as part of the athletic recruitment process over the last four years.
He says it’s part of an effort to verify the integrity of the admissions process.
Golfer Phil Mickelson on Thursday said his family hired the man at the center of the alleged scheme, William “Rick” Singer, but emphasized they were not involved in any fraud.
Mickelson’s daughter attends Brown.
Asked about her, Clark declined to disclose student names but said university officials reviewed a student’s application material and academic credentials and that the review “raised no concerns at all.”
Cosmetics company Sephora says it’s dropping its social-media relationship with actress Lori Loughlin’s daughter after her parents were charged in a bribery scheme to get her into college.
Paris-based Sephora says in a statement Thursday that after reviewing the developments, the company has ended its partnership with 19-year-old Olivia Jade Giannulli “effective immediately.”
Giannulli is a social media star with millions of followers and frequently pushes products online.
Her father is fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, and her parents are among 50 people arrested in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.
Prosecutors allege the couple paid $500,000 to have their two daughters labeled as crew-team recruits at the University of Southern California, even though neither is a rower.
Golfer Phil Mickelson says he is among “thousands” who used a college consulting company accused of orchestrating a massive bribery scheme.
Mickelson said on Twitter Thursday that his family was “shocked” by the recent revelations about William “Rick” Singer. Mickelson emphasized that his family was not involved in any fraud.
The golfer has not been charged with a crime or implicated in the bribery scandal.
Federal prosecutors say Singer led a scheme in which wealthy parents bribed sports coaches and other officials to get their children into elite universities. More than 50 people have been charged.
Mickelson’s daughter attends Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
The university did not respond to a request for comment.
Lawyers suing universities in a college admissions scandal have revised their lawsuit to include plaintiffs from less prestigious schools.
The attorneys filed an amended lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco on Thursday.
The original suit was filed on behalf of two Stanford University students who claimed they were harmed because they were denied a fair opportunity for admission to schools to which they applied.
Legal experts said that was a hard argument to make since the two students, Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods, got into the elite college.
The revised lawsuit drops Olsen and includes students from Tulane University, an unnamed community college and Rutgers University.
More than 50 people were charged earlier this week in the scandal.
Prosecutors have said wealthy parents paid to rig standardized scores and bribed sports coaches to get their children into elite universities.
Hallmark says it is cutting ties with actress Lori Loughlin following her arrest in a sprawling college admissions scam case.
In a statement Thursday, the parent company of the Hallmark Channel says it was “saddened” by the recent allegations.
Hallmark Cards Inc. says it will no longer working with Loughlin and has stopped development of all productions involving her.
Loughlin is a big presence for Hallmark and its Crown Media Family Networks channels that include the flagship Hallmark Channel.
She’s been a longtime star of the channel’s Christmas movies and is also is in its “Garage Sale Mysteries” movies and the series “When Calls the Heart.”
Loughlin’s lawyer Perry Visconti did not immediately reply to an email requesting comment.
Legal experts say a lawsuit against universities in a college admissions scandal is unlikely to succeed in part because the plaintiffs who were named are currently students at Stanford University.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco says the two students were harmed because they were denied a fair opportunity for admission to schools to which they applied.
But legal experts say that’s a hard argument to make since the two students, Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods, got into the elite Stanford University. The experts say they still expect additional lawsuits to be filed.
Prosecutors have said wealthy parents paid to rig standardized scores and bribed sports coaches to get their children into elite universities
The Hallmark Channel is known for holidays and shows with happy endings.
But the arrest of actress Lori Loughlin in a college admissions bribery scheme has created a challenge for the family-friendly cable channel. Loughlin’s career and the channel are deeply intertwined.
She’s among the so-called “Christmas queens” who topline a slate of popular holiday movies. Loughlin also stars in Hallmark’s ongoing “Garage Sale Mysteries” movies and the series “When Calls the Heart.”
Market strategist Laura Ries says it’s an open question of whether audiences can separate Loughlin from the characters she plays.
Hallmark says it’s “monitoring developments.”
Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, are among dozens of parents accused of securing their children’s college admission with bribes and falsified exams. Their lawyer has declined comment.
The University of Texas at Austin is defending itself against a lawsuit alleging it played a role in a wide-ranging college bribery scheme.
University officials issued a statement Wednesday saying they’re “outraged” over the scheme and that any alleged wrongdoing at the school was carried out by “one UT employee.”
The school was one of several named in a federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco saying students were denied a fair opportunity for admission. Others targeted in the suit include the University of Southern California and Yale University.
Federal prosecutors charged more than 50 people earlier this week in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed sports coaches and other officials to get their children into elite colleges.
University of Texas officials say the allegations “do not reflect our admissions process.”
Two college students have filed a lawsuit against the University of Southern California, Yale University and other colleges where prosecutors say parents paid bribes to ensure their children’s admission.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco and alleges the students were denied a fair opportunity for admission.
Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods say they were denied a fair opportunity to apply to Yale and USC.
They say the alleged scheme gave “unqualified students” admission to “highly selective universities.”
The lawsuit also named the University of California, Los Angeles, Wake Forest, Georgetown University and others.
More than 50 people were charged earlier this week.
Off-duty firefighters charged with assaulting DC police officers at pizza shop
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ light show on Washington Monument to mark Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit on display for first time in more than a decade
Education News Local News National News Washington, DC News
college admission felicity huffman georgetown lori loughlin scandal
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12883
|
__label__cc
| 0.674492
| 0.325508
|
Telstra’s phone plan film, tv, sport and music inclusions explained
Telstra’s mobile phone content 60 second overview
‘Content’ is a telco industry term describing when they give you access to TV shows, Movies and music on your phone.
Content is the new way the phone companies are trying to win and keep your business.
Telstra especially are undertaking a huge marketing push to back their investments in content.
Telstra have been offering content for viewers who have Telstra phone plans for quite a while now.
Telstra aren’t shy about their ambitions. They have a stated aim of being first for sport – a goal that’s been somewhat undermind by Optus’ news of a 3 year exclusive rights deal with the EPL – English Premier League.
For all the good, this has made an existing process of finding a provider even harder
Telstra and Optus are focused on early adopters now – they’re the only people who would consider watching streamed video on their phones. However, with time, could everyone soon be doing it ?
But 2016 has defined in many ways for the company by network outages and senior management changes which resulted. Is the network load created by hundreds of thousands of people using streamed video a further risk to the already shaky perception of Telstra’s network?
The real basics of getting music, films and TV on your phone
There is no downtime any more and there’s certainly no such thing as primetime TV. Papers been affected by the digital revolution, TV has been crushed by Netflix. Now it’s time for telco to get in on the act.
Telstra say Video streaming grew at 30% per year. With the number of streaming offers in market this year, from Telstra and others 30% growth will be eclipsed pretty soon.
Overall data consumption on a handset has been growing at 100% year on year for a long time. Video streaming is just a part of it. Telstra are using this to their advantage and spending big on content.
“Australians have embraced streaming video services like Netflix in their lounge rooms and we are now seeing that appetite translate to phones and tablets outside the home. As an example, network traffic surges during the morning and afternoon commute suggesting two new prime-time periods are emerging, as people discover how easy it to continue watching their favourite shows on the go.” Michele Garra, Executive Director Media at Telstra as reported in EFTM.
Telstra’s streaming video offer: What you need to know first
What is streaming?
Streaming is a way of watching TV, movies, sport and listening to music on your phone. The program you want to watch or listen to is broken down in to lots of little data chunks and sent in a continual drip feed to your phone. On your phone, the content is reconstituted from the little blocks in to a video or audio file so you can watch it. The technical gubbins is something you don’t have to worry about. Just remember that if you lose your network connection, you’ll lose your ability to watch or listen to the program you want. You may also hear Streamed Video described as SVOD.
How much data do these services use?
As usual, it all depends! In very rough numbers, an hour of video watched on your phone might use around 1GB of data. 8 hours of audio might use about the same. These are big numbers. Even if you only watched half an hour of streamed video during your bus commute to and from work each day, you could still burn through 10 GB of data. That’s more than most people have in their plans. Which Is why it’s important that you check that whatever content you are being provided is ‘unmetered.’
What does unmetered mean?
Again, avoiding all the technical jargon, ‘unmetered’ means the phone company does not charge you for the content being streamed to your device. If they say ‘unmetered Netflix’, and you use 10GB that month streaming Netflix to your phone, that won’t count against your plan. One thing to be aware of: Even if the content is free, the data involved in sending adverts (placed in to the streamed content) to you may not be. This is a small overhead but it is dealt with slightly differently.
Prepaid vs postpaid inclusions:
Prepaid agreements often represent less commitment to the phone company. Both Optus and Telstra provide their prepaid customers with access to streamed Audio services. With Telstra, you’ll get free Apple iTunes music for 6 months. Postpaid customers tend to get better / more free content. See blow for Telstra’s offering. It involves free streamed sports and free streamed movies / TV from providers like Netflix.
Telstra customers like the rest of us live in an increasingly on demand, time shifted, streamed world of convenient access to the TV shows and movies we love. At a basic level, what Telstra and Optus are doing is trying to get us used to the idea of using our phones to get hold of this sort of entertainment.
Other relevant information on this subject:
Australian content:
This article outlines data usage by streamed service type, industry trends which have led to where we are now and an overview of the types of content provided by each telco.
Optus vs Telstra – Content Types Compared:
This article compares Optus’ content and Telstra’s content head to head.
What is Streaming Video On Demand?:
SVOD is the technology behind these new customer offerings. We explain what it is, why it’s important and how it can help you.
Prepaid or postpaid ?:
The content you’ll get gratis depends on whether your Optus service is prepaid or postpaid. We explain prepaid vs postpaid vs month to month in this article.
How to make your decision
Do you want fries with that?
Maybe, but maybe not. Just because the phone companies are offering you this content doesn’t mean you want it. It is entirely up to you whether streamed video and audio is something you want to add in to your life. Remember, even when they imply it’s ‘free’, it’s not. At least, the charge is included in your plan.
Do you want this streamed TV and movies on your phone?
It’s OK to try the service and see if it works for you. It’s also OK to not want it. Personally, I tried Netflix and they had a couple of good shows on there and then not a lot else worth watching in my view. Overseas, in the USA, there is a broader variety of content available in Netflix and it could be that, in time, the same comes to Australia. For now, that’s not the case.
Are you a sports addict?
Sport can be a bit different to the Netflix situation. The fact that the sport is Australian and restricted to these shores actually improves how much people would want it. Telstra’s range of sport is actually pretty good. They already have the most popular two codes on their books and have recently added two more sports with very broad appeal. See below for details.
If sport, movies and TV on your phone is not for you, consider alternatives:
Yes, you do have some alternatives. There are other phone companies which resell part of Telstra’s service (you won’t get everything with them that you do with Telstra – for example, the content.)
Telstra’s content in a nutshell
All of these unmetered content deals from Telstra are provided to new and re-contracting Telstra plan users. We explain the plans you need to be on to benefit from them in the infographic below.
Stuff you get free with Telstra whatever plan you sign up to
6 months free Apple music:
If you take out or re contract to even a Telstra prepaid SIM, you’ll get 6 months free Apple Music. This is a consumer focused offer. It is not available on business plans. Just to be clear, if you’re on a postpaid plan, you will get 6 months free Apple music too.
A ‘season pass’ to the NRL & AFL:
Before the latest round of content competition kicked off, Telstra already had the rights to the NRL and the AFL. A season pass to either service (the user gets to pick which they prefer) is now included, for free, in any prepaid or postpaid plan from Telstra. This is a great deal if you are in to the NRL or AFL. Buying a season pass without Telstra giving it away free could have cost another $150+. Telstra show the games and offer a significant back catalogue of previous games, too on either code. Access to these services is through
Video you’ll get if you sign up / recontract
NBL & Netball:
When Optus bought the rights to the English Premier League (EPL). Telstra saw the threat. Since, Bit T have invested in two new sports ‘properties’, the National Basketball league and Australian Netball. This content will likely be rolled in to the app which is used to provide the NRL and AFL to users. It is not clear whether it is being charged for.
TV and Films
Stan, Netflix and Presto:
There are three main video content streaming services in Australia – Presto, Netflix and Stan. Optus provide access to owners of existing accounts for Netflix and Presto for $10 per month unmetered. Telstra’s deal is better, at least during the trial. Telstra offers access not to one of these services, they offer access to all 3. They include the price of the subscription for the period of the trial. And we anticipate that they will match Optus’ $10 per month offer towards the end of the trial period.
3 new releases from Bigpond:
As if all of those video content libraries were not enough, Telstra are also using their own Bigpond Movies service to entice you in. You’ll get 3 of the latest releases to watch ‘unmetered’ on your phone.
What you need to be careful of
Unlike Telstra, Optus really have their content approach covered. Optus have a considered and thought through approach considered primarily from a customer point of view. While Optus doesn’t give you a free trial of the services involved, (Telstra, as we’ve seen provides 3 months access to Stan, Presto and Netflix) Optus does offer ongoing support. Optus customers can stream unmetered Presto and Netflix to their phones over the Optus 4G network for $10 a month. At this stage, it is unclear what Telstra customers will be able to do when their trial runs out.
The usual ‘Fair play’ (fair go) policy applies.
If you remember one thing about Telstra’s content, remember this
They give you an account with Stan, Presto and Netflix:
The key difference between Telstra’s TV / Movie offer and Optus’ is that Telstra are giving you free access to the services which provide the content. You’d usually get a 30 day trial with each of these companies if you wanted to test their service. If you sign up through your Telstra phone / account, you’ll be given three months to dip your toe in the water. And remember, that’s not three months access to one of the services, it’s three months access to all of them, in parallel.
Optus do not offer you a free subscription to these services.
You need to have an account with Presto or Netflix already to watch them on your Optus device.
What are your alternatives ?
As we’ve said, the key question is really, “Do you really need the content ?” Telstra have invested in a heavy marketing push to convince you that the answer to that is yes. You know the deal. They are trying to get you to try this content stuff and get hooked. That’s the nature and purpose of the 3 months free deal.
You don’t have to play their game. Here are your alternatives. We have included price plans which use the Telstra 4G network and the full Vodafone 3G / Optus 4G networks too.
Boost Mobile | Best Prepaid Data Rates On The Full Telstra Network
Prepaid | 28 day expiry | On The Telstra Mobile Network 3G+4G
Boost Mobile are a reliable brand. They are the only phone company other than Telstra to resell the full Telstra ‘Retail’ Network. With Boost you’ll get:
The full Telstra Mobile Network
Other phone companies resell part of the Telstra Mobile Network. Only Boost and Telstra plans allow you access the whole thing.
Free streamed audio:
Data free streaming of Apple Music (requires subscription) on top of the data included in your plan.
A range that includes 7 day and 28 day plans:
Boost offer a selection of plans including 7 and 28 day variants.
Recharge options from $10 to $50:
Boost have a total of 5 recharge options for their prepaid plans, ranging between $10 and $50.
Boost Mobile Plans For Your Mobile
Boost Prepaid $20 = Unlimited calls & SMS in Oz + 5GB data.
Boost Prepaid $30 = Unlimited†calls & SMS in Oz +35GB (includes 15GB bonus data on first 5 recharges) data.†
Boost Prepaid $40 = Unlimited calls & SMS in Oz + 45GB (includes 15GB bonus data on first 5 recharges) data. Now $25! Ends on 05.08.19.
Boost Prepaid $50 = Unlimited calls & SMS in Oz + 55GB (includes 15GB bonus data on first 5 recharges) data.
Boost Prepaid $70 = Unlimited calls & SMS in Oz + 80GB †(includes 15GB bonus data on first 5 recharges) data.
All talk time and SMS for use in Australia to Australian numbers. All data is for use in Australia. You can learn more about this company in our Boost Mobile review.
CHECK BOOST MOBILE PLANS
OVO – Free Video & Radio Content
Prepaid | 30 day expiry | On the Full Optus 3G and 4G Network
OVO’s offer a totally new way of looking at a phone company – they’re one of our best selling partners. Their plans are, pretty much on a par for data inclusions with the best in the industry. In addition to talk time, SMS and data, OVO’s plans include exclusive access to exclusive video content. All of OVO’s plans come with ‘OVO Play’ an app which lets you watch their free content on your plan. With OVO, you’ll get:
Free Video Content – Motorsport, Sailing, Gymnastics & Water Polo :
OVO offer a growing list of free video and audio content. Motorsport fans might like the 400 Thunder Professional Drag Racing Series, Australian GT, Formula Drift and other petrol head live streaming. OVO Play also includes other sports like sailing and gymnastics. The price of the content is included in the monthly line rental charge you pay OVO for your prepaid plan. So, importantly: You won’t see your data balance decline while you’re watching them, the streamed content is free.
OVO’s plans also offer FREE radio streaming, also included in your plan offers access to the Tripple M network and other selected stations.
OVO for Kids:
OVO’s plans come with the offer of free access to Parental Lock software. Buy your child the $9.95 plan from OVO and you’ll be able to monitor what they access on their phone and set times for it to turn off and turn on it’s own connection to the internet.
OVO Plans for your mobile
Picking an OVO plan is simple. All of OVO’s plans include Unlimited talk and SMS in Australia to Australian numbers plus superfast 4G data.
$9.95 Unlimited = 500 minutes of standard calls and unlimited SMS in Oz + 2GB.
$14.95 Unlimited = Unlimited calls and SMS in Oz + 4GB.
$19.95 Unlimited =Unlimited calls and SMS in Oz + 8GB.
$29.95 Unlimited = Unlimited calls and SMS in Oz + 20GB.
You can learn more about them and their unique content in our OVO review.
CHECK OVO MOBILE SIM PLANS
Summing up Telstra’s content services
Beautiful screens are standard on phones now. Even the low end of the market for hardware, let’s say sub $200 will give you an adequate color screen. Being lost in your phone’s contents is an aspect of Australian culture we now take for granted. Streamed video is just another reason for us to love our device.
OVO Mobile were the first phone company in Australia to figure all of this out. Content, (as they pointed out to us when they launched a few months ago) is becoming the first decision people make when they consider a phone company, not the last. We take coverage, speed, reliability for granted from phone companies. Most people can’t tell the difference between one phone company and another. In some ways, it’s ONLY the content which differentiates between them.
Telstra’s content is better for prepaid customers. Telstra prepaid customers can access the AFL or NRL season pass and get 6 months instead of 3 months free music streaming.
One of the unsettling things about the content that Optus and Telstra are putting in place is that this is a segment approach. They are targeting specific groups of customers with the content they’re offering. The NRL will appeal to some. The AFL to others. Basketball and netball have all been added. The problem is that it’s hard to be a tier 1 like Telstra and effectively cover EVERY niche market.
Optus’ content offering, while confused, is currently the best in market. They charge $10 per month for access to streamed Netflix and presto. The music / audio offering they have is all but the same.
Then again, Telstra have provided an extremely fast reaction to Optus’ announcements (for a huge bureaucratic telco.) And Telstra do have the scale and media experience to keep coming back to this and filing their libraries with content until they have covered all the niches. They will be able to nicely transition in to a similar $10 a month charge for unmetered access to streaming video services on the postpaid side of things. (If they want to – it hasn’t been announced yet.)
The worst aspect of all of this is that the addition of content, with the extremely hard to understand pricing approach from both Optus and Telstra has made the choice of a phone plan which has always been a hard decision, harder. The question for us is how many people will not bother and just got with a smaller phone company which gives them what they want – minutes, SMS and data – and doesn’t confuse the issue more than is necessary.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12884
|
__label__wiki
| 0.689853
| 0.689853
|
WHNT News 19 TV Schedule CBS All Access
There’s a good reason why these tiny robots are taking pictures of cats
Posted 5:18 am, December 22, 2018, by CNN Wire
At a photo shoot inside a cozy San Francisco coffee shop, models struck playful poses. Some sprawled out on shaggy pillows, limbs unfurling languidly.
Across the room, one stood, statuesque, on the top of a small white table as another strutted playfully down a wooden walkway.
Photographers captured their moves, clicking quickly from different directions and vantage points. The photos were sultry, moody, and, occasionally, featured furry paws.
This wasn’t an ordinary photo shoot. The subjects were cats with names like Passion, Shiloh, Buffy, and Blinx, who live at a café called KitTea, where visitors can pay to sip drinks and eat snacks while hanging out with resident and adoptable felines.
The photographers were engineers from consumer robotics company Anki, who captured these fuzzy critters on a trio of tiny Vector robots set up especially for this task.
The mission was to take as many pictures as possible to help Vector learn to detect the felines that live in people’s homes.
Data — like, say, cute cat photos — is crucial to building artificial intelligence. The collection process is becoming increasingly important as we rely on AI to do an ever-increasing number of things, from helping self-driving cars navigate streets to getting virtual assistants like Alexa to respond to voices. That’s because in order for AI to work well, it generally needs to be trained first on a lot of data — and not just any kind of data, but information that reflects the kinds of tasks the AI will be working on.
But it’s not always easy to gather that data. One might even say the process can be like, well, herding cats.
The robot
Vector, which costs $250 and began shipping in October, is a cross between a companion and a pint-sized helper. It can give you a weather update, answer questions, take a picture of you, and play with the small, light-up cube that comes with it. It’s the latest model of robot from Anki, which has sold 2 million robots thus far.
Vector looks like a tiny black bulldozer with an itty-bitty lift, and brightly colored, slightly askew eyes. The robot — its creators invariably refer to it as a “he” — chitters and chatters, whether or not anyone is playing with it, and sounds like a cross between WALL-E, a guinea pig and a fart.
Vector relies on data to figure out how to do all kinds of things. That includes using its front-facing camera to recognize people and avoid bumping into objects, or its microphones to listen to human commands that start with the words “Hey Vector” and then respond appropriately.
One thing Vector can’t do right now is spot pets. Andrew Stein, Anki’s lead computer vision engineer and a cat owner himself, sees this as a problem for a robot that’s meant to engage with the world around it, which in many homes will include cats or dogs.
“If he’s smart about his environment and responds to a cat differently than a coffee mug sitting on his table, then he knows what a cat is, and that feels different,” Stein said as, nearby, a Vector photographed cats lounging on a rug.
Anki’s engineers are using artificial intelligence to teach Vector how to do this. A key (and sometimes tricky) part of making this work involves collecting data — in this case, that data includes photos of cats sitting, swiping, scratching and sniffing.
The company, which is also working on dog detection, hopes to roll out a feature that lets Vector perceive cats and dogs early next year. At first, Stein said, Vector will simply be able to detect a cat or a dog in the home, and the company is considering a range of simple reactions it could have, like taking an image owners can view in an accompanying smartphone app, or somehow interacting with the pet.
But getting Vector to notice a cat roving around your living room is not as simple as just showing the robot thousands of pictures of cats from existing online databases. Anki engineers have already used tens of thousands of these pictures to train a neural network — a kind of machine-learning algorithm loosely modeled after the way neurons function in the brain — on basic cat detection.
But Stein said the images in these databases are quite different from what cats look like from Vector’s viewpoint, which could be high above an animal or right in front of its paws, and most likely indoors.
“The key is getting data that is representative of what he will actually see when we deploy him into people’s homes,” he said.
Stein believes these images will “tune” Anki’s neural network, which Vector can then use to better spot detect furry friends.
The approach makes a lot of sense to Jason Corso, an associate professor at the University of Michigan who studies computer vision and video understanding. If Anki only used existing data sets on the web, or YouTube videos or Flickr photos of cats, its data would have all the biases of how humans typically take photos of their cats, he said.
For instance, if Corso took a photo of his cat, a tuxedo named Harry Potter, it would be from Corso’s height of about 5’6″. Chances are Vector won’t typically be looking at cats from that high up.
“Indeed, the robot needs to understand what a cat is from its own perspective,” he said.
To shoot the photos at KitTea, Anki employees placed Vectors on the floor, on tables and on a skinny wall-mounted catwalk. They pressed a button on Vector’s back, which captured five images in succession. A tiny, front-facing display showed the cat what the robot was shooting.
Over several hours, the team gathered more than 1,500 photos of the cats at the cafe.
Anki wants Vector to recognize that an animal is nearby without necessarily seeing the animal’s face, similar to how the robot can currently determine that a person is nearby by just seeing part of their body.
Eventually, Stein aims to have Vector identifying specific pets rather than just determining that a cat or dog is nearby. Then, perhaps, it could react differently to different animals — which would make sense, since some animals may want to look at it while others may be more skittish or just disinterested.
This was true of the cats at the cafe. Some stared quizzically at the robot, while a few pawed, pounced on, or shoved it. Many of them didn’t seem to notice the robot at all; they just wanted to snooze on shaggy round pillows or sit in a kitty-sized replica of the Golden Gate Bridge and stare wistfully out the window.
A photographer went to cover a trial but he came face to face with a gunman instead
Moose crashes wedding at Rocky Mountain National Park
Virginia bride-to-be cancels engagement shoot, opts for ‘first dance’ photos with dying father
“Because you can do it all” Photo shoot inspires girls across the world
Indiana photographer shooting fireworks accidentally captured a proposal. Now, he wants to find the couple
Colbert County Animal Shelter strapped for cash and running low on food
A new species of ‘cat fox’ may be prowling French island
Engineers built a robot fish that powers itself with ‘fake blood’
This cat got stuck in the washing machine for a full cycle, and lived to tell the tale
Authorities remove 178 cats from suburban Detroit home
It’s a boy! Birth photo showing mother’s surprised reaction goes viral
Outdoor Alabama hosting photo contest
Accused cat killer to appear in court for mental health update
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12885
|
__label__cc
| 0.597448
| 0.402552
|
Learn About Wine Updated November 15th, 2018
The Guide to Finding Great Cognac
Cognac is a brandy made from the white wine grapes grown in the Cognac region of France. Learn how to find great Cognac by understanding the region, the aging classifications, the major brands, and what to look for on the label.
A room for a very lucky few. The Cognac Embassy in Kosice, Slovakia with thousands of different Cognac brandies.
What is Cognac?
All Cognac is brandy, but not all brandy is Cognac.
Cognac is a wine grape brandy from the Cognac region of France (a region just North of world-famous Bordeaux!). This region is a controlled designation of origin, or AOP (Appellation d’Origine Protégée), with many rules and regulations regulating the quality of all the styles of Cognac.
It means every Cognac you drink comes with a stamp of authenticity. Let’s take a closer look at Cognac and the details of the grapes at the core of the production of this world-renowned brandy.
The Grapes of Cognac
There are three main white wine grape varieties used in the production of Cognac:
Trebbiano Toscano (known as Ugni Blanc “ooo-nee blonk” in France)
Ugni Blanc makes up 98% of the region’s 196,000 acres (79,600 hectares – 4x the size of Napa Valley!) and is blended occasionally with Folle Blanche or Colombard. Winegrowers also have the possibility of using up to 10% of other grape varieties too, which include the rare varieties of Folignan, Jurançon blanc, Meslier St-François, Montils, or Semillon.
Before Brandy, Cognac is Wine
Prior to becoming Cognac the brandy, the white grapes are fermented into wine. Because the region is so cool, Trebbiano grapes produce very acidic grapes with low levels of sweetness, which means the wines are very tart with low levels of alcohol (7–9% ABV).
One peculiarity of this type of winemaking is that Cognac producers are forbidden to chaptalize (add sugar) or add sulfur to their wines; this ensures that the base wine is pure, without additives that may affect the distillation.
After the alcoholic fermentation is complete, the wines also undergo a process called malolactic fermentation. Malolactic fermentation is a process where tart malic acid in wine is converted to creamier tasting lactic acid. The process also slightly reduces the acidity of Cognac based wines.
Cognac is often enjoyed in a round, almost globe-shaped glass to better collect the spirit’s complex aromas. The most proper glass for Cognac is a tulip-shaped glass. by Johan Larsson
Cognac is Distilled in Special Charentais Pot Stills
Continuous distillation (how gin and vodka are made) is prohibited in the production of Cognac. Instead, producers abide by the long-established method of double-distillation with a special kind of alembic pot still called a “Charentais” copper still.
The distillation starts the 1st of November and is required to be completed before the 31st of March. Cognac’s aging then begins on the 1st of April following the harvest. From this date we count the age of the Cognac (save for vintage Cognac, which is labeled the date of the harvest).
The spirit that then emerges is referred to by the French as eau-de-vie (“oh duh vee”), or “water of life,” and has a maximum alcohol content of 72.4% ABV (148.4 proof). At this stage, Cognac is completely transparent (clear) with very concentrated fruity peach-like aromas.
The “Cognac Color” Comes from Aging
Cognac gets its color and the rich aromas of caramel, toffee, leather, coconut, and spice from oak aging. Oak barrels traditionally come from the Limousin and Tronçais forests, although today they may come from elsewhere.
There are two types of oak used for Cognac: sessile and pedunculate oak. Sessile oak is known to release less tannin (which can make Cognac astringent) and more methyloctalactones (aka “whiskey lactone,” which are impact compounds that give off aromas of wood, cola, and coconut). Here are some facts about aging Cognac:
Eaux de vie must age at least two years to be called Cognac.
The color can become darker as Cognac ages (although there are cases of very old Cognacs aged in old wood that have a very pale color!)
The different types of Cognac, including VS, VSOP, and XO, specify different aging requirements.
A portion of eaux-de-vie evaporates during aging (about 2% of total inventory–the equivalent of 22 million bottles per year!).
Pure, distilled or demineralized water is added to Cognac to make a finished product that is 40% ABV (although some producers sell aged “cask strength” Cognacs at around 50%–60% where evaporation has reduced ABV naturally–check out Cognac Grosperrin)
Alcohol evaporation is poetically called the “Angel’s Share.”
The use of caramel color, boisé, and sugar is allowed to adjust the taste/look of Cognac before release. Boisé is created by boiling wood chips in water, then removing the chips and slowly reducing the remaining liquid. By the way, these methods are seriously frowned upon in fine Cognac but are quite prevalent large production VS where darker color is associated with quality.
Cognac Types are Created With Blending
Most of the Cognac brandies we know are blends. That is the magical job of the cellar master: to combine and blend hundreds of different eaux-de-vie and to create perfectly balanced blends with the typical character of each producer. There are three primary types of Cognac in the market today:
Types of Cognac
V.S. Very Special (minimum of two years of cask aging)
V.S.O.P. Very Superior Old Pale (minimum of four years of cask aging)
X.O. Extra Old (minimum of six years of cask aging, but the law will change, and from 2018 it is going to be 10 years)
Beyond the primary three types of Cognac there are several other names and titles used on Cognac bottles, such as: Premium (VS), Extra (essentially VSOP– with at least six years aging), Napoleon (between VSOP and XO), Vintage (a single vintage Cognac), Réserve Familiale (Family Reserve), Très Vieille Réserve (Very Old Reserve), Extra, Hors d’Âge, and Heritage (which can have 40, 50, 60 or more years of aging!). These aforementioned specifications are closely monitored by the appellation board of France.
Other names like “black” or “double oaked” or “very fine Cognac” are used by brands to market their Cognac brandies to signify a special batch (which might even be a recipe that includes the addition of caramel color or sugar!).
So, if you want an official designation of quality, look at the official classification and get the producer’s notes for that bottle.
Cognac Brands
When we start to know the Cognac world better, we find out there are four big brothers– they are the biggest known Cognac brands. These four brands rule over 90% of the market in the world. The fifth biggest, Cognac Camus, is still run by a single family.
Biggest Cognac Brands:
Rémy Martin
In the region there are 4,451 winegrowers, but only few (around 350) created a brand label, and sell Cognac under their name. Around 300 from these “few” are small producers.
Most producers sell their base wines and eaux-de-vie to the bigger brands, keeping a small part for themselves. Some sell only a few thousands or few hundred bottles per year, and most do not export!
If you visit the region, you will uncover very interesting organic, and even biodynamic producers! Cognac is truly a wonderful and big industry made up of about 16,800 active individuals, and more than 50,000 people live off the production of Cognac. It is a symbiosis between the big and small producers. One would not exist without another.
The Region of Cognac
Cognac can be produced only in the small region of France, around 100 km north of Bordeaux – the department of Charente and Charente-Maritime, mainly. It is produced on the left side surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the right side by Massif Central foothills.
In the mid 19th Century, a gentleman named Henri Coquand, a professor of geology, studied the region’s soils and developed a soil classification based on the quality of eau-de-vie (water of life-transparent spirit we get from the second distillation) that each soil could produce. This is what initiated the identification of different sub-regions of Cognac.
The Crus of Cognac
Grande Champagne (about 17% of production)
Light eaux-de-vie with the predominant floral bouquet. They require long aging in oak to achieve full maturity. The soils have soft chalk, with outlying areas of more hard limestone, sand, and clay.
Petite Champagne (about 22% of production)
Similar to Grande Champagne, but without the exceptional finesse. The soils here are similar to Grande Champagne, but the soft chalky areas are deeper and less porous, which changes the way the plants receive nutrients.
Borderies (about 5% of production)
The smallest cru, which produces fine and round eaux-de-vie, with the very smooth aroma of violets.
Fins Bois (about 43% of production)
Round, supple eaux-de-vie that ages fairly quickly with an aroma of freshly pressed grapes.
Bons Bois (about 12% of production)
These eaux-de-vie age quickly.
Bois Ordinaires (about 1% of production)
Similar to Bons Bois, but with more rustic character.
Each cru (region) has a specific character, and gives different aromas to wines and eau-de-vie. If you do not see any of these names on the label, it is almost for sure a blend of different aged eaux-de-vie from different areas. Although, we can also find single varietal Cognac brandies from each cru. Exciting! If there is “1er Cru” written on the label, it is a Cognac solely from Grande Champagne.
Fine Champagne on the label indicates a blend of Grande and Petite Champagne, with a minimum of 50% Grande Champagne.
Vineyards of Ugni Blanc (aka Trebbiano Toscano) in Cognac winter. photo courtesy Cognac Embassy.
Cognac’s Heritage and Terroir
Merchants from Scandinavia, United Kingdom, or Ireland fell in love with the region, and created companies in the region. This is the reason why many of the brand names in Cognac are not French (e.g. Richard Hennessy–Irish, Jean Martell was from Jersey, Larsen, Braastad, Bache-Gabrielsen, Birkedal Hartmann–all Norwegian names!). This also explains why the quality levels of VS, VSOP, and XO are in English.
Interestingly enough, only 2–3% of Cognac is sold in France and almost all of the Cognac production is exported. The largest market is the US (with a strong community of African Americans, such as those drinking VS quality in clubs), then the next largest markets are Singapore and China.
In the region you’ll note the use of word Champagne is not a coincidence. The soils are very similar to that region in the northeast of France – clayey, chalky, thin, and full of limestone. In French, Grande means big and in this area we find bigger hills. In Petite Champagne there are smaller hills.
The Bois or the Woods are translated as follows: fine, good, and ordinary woods. A simple explanation is that there were lots of dense woods before the vineyards were planted in the region and the adjectives don’t necessarily pertain to the quality. Although to be fair, a great deal less fine Cognac is sourced from these regions due to classifications, market presence, and the prestige of Champagne and Borderies areas.
Finally, here are a few dates to show the progression and history of Cognac:
The delimited region for the production of Cognac was established in 1909
The decree from 1936 mentioned the allowed grape varieties to use for the elaboration of wine
In 1938, Cognac started to use the six districts of production
Join The Endless Pursuit For Great Wine
Join Wine Folly - the free weekly newsletter that educates and entertains. Your trusted wine resource.
Special thanks to Renata Mytnikova, for putting together all the facts in this article and allowing us to edit it. Check out her family’s Cognac cellar here next time you’re in Slovakia! If you spot any errors, please cite your correction source and email us at: info@winefolly.com
Advanced, Cognac, France, Spirits, Wine Regions
About Renata Mytnikova
I help my family-run Cognac cellar in Slovakia. My work is to create The Alphabetical Encyclopedia of Cognac while enjoying all kinds of wines as my favorite hobby.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12891
|
__label__cc
| 0.713866
| 0.286134
|
→ Parents
Private lessons or junior conservatoire?
Started by Olivia , Feb 08 2019 09:26
#1 Olivia
Just that really!
My daughter plays the violin and piano. Her main instrument is the violin and she is about grade 7 standard. As well as having lessons she plays in a youth orchestra and in the school orchestra.
Last year her teacher retired and after a small break we started with a new teacher. Now this new teacher is moving (her partner has a new job) and we find ourselves looking for a new teacher yet again. It's difficult in our area to find good music teachers especially for the high grades. Last time I conducted an extensive search and asked all my musical contacts before deciding on her current teacher.
Several people have suggested that we apply to junior conservatoire and consolidate all our musical activities into one place. We have visited two and are not convinced but I want to give her the best opportunity she can to develop her skills.
Has anyone else been through this dilemma?
#2 Cyrilla
Cyrilla
Member: 99
Croydon, South London/Surrey
Sorry, not a parent but I teach at a JD where the children do get an amazing musical education. They also get the chance to mix with like-minded peers.
Anything you'd like to ask, just please send me a PM.
#3 Banjogirl
Banjogirl
My son's cello teacher (very generously) suggested JD when he was at a similar level to your daughter's when he auditioned (he's a cellist). I honestly didn't think he'd want to, then I didn't think he'd get in, and then I didn't think he'd stick it! But he did, and had five brilliant years there. The musical education is so valuable. We live in something of a musical desert, so it was great for him to mix with like-minded people. At home he'd always stood out as being better than everyone else, so it gave him a dose of realism to socialise and play with people who were often better than him. How old is your daughter? Our son was 13 when he started and I wouldn't have wanted him to go much younger, not because it would have been bad for him, but it's just such a commitment.
I wasn't so keen on not being able to choose his teachers, and the contact with teachers is much reduced, but the children are forced to be much more independent and take responsibility for themselves. It's a big financial commitment too, though we got a bursary that covered a portion of the fees, and we had to drive our son which meant five years of having no weeeknds in term time. It was a one and half hour drive, with lessons sometimes starting at 8.30. It was alright for our son - he just slept all the way there and all the way back! He carried on with some other musical things outside JD, but for him it was largely enough, so at least everything was done with on a Satuday and we weren't having to make lots of other trips out to things in the week. He is also our youngest, and when he started his older brothers had all left home, so we didn't have their needs to consider in quite the same way as if they had still been at home.
I don't regret our decision to let him go. It was definitely the right thing for him, though I wasn't always sure at the time. My husband and I got to quite like our Saturdays - he'd go walking, I went shopping! And we made some supportive friends among the other parents. Our son has just started his degree at a different conservatoire, and the musical education he had at juniors has given him a confidence he wouldn't have had if he'd just had lessons and played in an orchestra. He's got a much more rounded m usical education, and has had some great experiences along the way.
#4 meadowblythe
meadowblythe
Would be curious to know what it was you didn't like about the Conservatoires you visited?
Positives of Conservatoire: Everything Banjogirl said, plus your daughter will start to build the network of people she runs into at many other musical events/orchestras/summer courses/conservatoire. The whole process breeds independence - our daughter mixed car and train travel, but wasn't at all fazed by a 2.5 hour train journey unaccompanied including a walk across the city when she was in year 8. She has gone on to be quite the world traveller.
Negatives: definite negative is lack of contact and choice with teacher - it's a different way of learning. Having said that, you will have access to amazing teachers and they generally know what they are doing!
No solution is ever perfect, it's getting the best fit for you and your family. How old is your daughter?
Thank you all for your replies.
Banjogirl - I can completely relate to all you have said. We too live in something of a musical desert and like your son did, our daughter lacks like minded peers. Fortunately, she receives some sponsorship that will go towards paying a proportion of the fees, although this does put extra pressure on us to spend the money wisely.
Our daughter is coming up to 12 years old. If it wasn't for our teacher issues then we would not have considered JD for another year or more. She's the eldest of our 3 children so it will be a big commitment for us to take her and manage other family activities on Saturdays. For us it will be a 1.5 hour drive each way with no good public transport options. She has a local piano teacher who is excellent and she is approaching Grade 8 on the piano so the plan is to stick with her existing teacher but give up youth orchestra to make more time in the week.
Travelling and time aside, the main negative for me is the choice of teacher. All 3 of our children learn instruments (although the other two do not have nearly the same level of interest / enthusiasm) and I am used to having weekly contact with their teachers. I have also seen how my daughter has thrived when she has had the right teacher. I'm also concerned about how she balances her two instruments given the reduced level of communication an the fact that we have decided (initially at least) to stick with her current piano teacher.
For now, we have applied for a place while we continue with the thought process and we'll find out some more at her audition.
Sounds like an excellent plan.
My daughter started JC in year 8 and that worked well. She decided during year 9 that she couldn't balance the travelling (she also joined a youth orchestra requiring Sunday rehearsals so had a minimum of 10 hours travelling per weekend), and applied late but successfully to a vocational boarding school on an MDS. JC gave her the grounding she needed to make the move successfully.
I think that everyone has concerns about loosing contact with the teacher, but the staff at JC are experts at this, and it's not as if there is no way to make contact. The choices made for my daughter regarding teacher were absolutely spot on, and took a more impartial view of her needs as well as her strengths than I would have made.
#7 annet
If your daughter is even remotely thinking of applying to a Conservatoire for a degree then a Junior Conservatoire is essential, particularly if she's not at a specialist music school. At audition, who you know matters almost as much as what you know. Knowing the right person gives you a huge advantage and attendance at a Junior Conservatoire will give that advantage. Also, Junior Conservatoires teach advanced Aural skills - far higher than ABRSM Grade 8 - which are needed for the Royal College of Music etc. It also helps with the essay writing skills needed for A Level music. I'd also think about a music school for A Levels - the teachers there have far more experience in preparing students for Conservatoires.
I have to disagree. Lots of people go to conservatoire who've not been to juniors.
I would hate to think I had "persauded" any of my children down a certain route at the age 12, or suggested they consider conservatoire at that age. Indeed, the more serious the music got, the more I felt the need to tell them they didn't need to take it up as a career, I wouldn't be disappointed, think I had wasted my money ... I felt they gained life skills through their contacts with the arts.
If there's one thing I do think gets you contacts and known, it's NYO, but even then you can get extremely gratifying offers without having taken part.
There are many paths to Rome ..
#10 Banjogirl
My bad boy didn't get an offer from the consevatoire where he was at juniors!
#11 meadowblythe
I'm told that many orchestra auditions these days are now blind autions - behind a screen, with no details of who is playing, at least for the first round. I wonder how long before conservatoires etc follow this course?
My boy was expecting this at one conservatoire audition but in the end it didn't happen. It would eliminate to some degree the suggestion that there is favouritism. It must be tempting to go for the people you know (or reject the lazy toerag you also know...) because it might be safer than an unknown quantity. Who knows. How's your daughter getting on, MB?
Haha forgot about the blind audition that wasn't - how quickly time flies ..
Daughter took a long while to settle - all very different from what she was expecting. Less like university than she expected, experiences were more similar to a close relative's time at a top ballet school - an underpinning strand of competition at all times. She's in London and an awful lot of students go home at weekends, or don't even live in halls to start.
Having said that, things are going well, and the pastoral care from her department is first class. Loads more performance opportunities than she expected so early in the course.
#14 kenm
Longer term considerations.
Orchestral playing is an extremely competitive profession,* and even those fortunate enough to establish a position in a good orchestra sometimes become discontented with a life executing the ideas of conductors whom they do not respect, so make sure that your offspring's education is an adequate preparation for other employments. The conducting course that has been part of Canford Summer School of Music since c. 1960 is attended every year by professional instrumentalists hoping that conducting will give them an escape route to a career in which they will be able to realise their own musical ideas.
* Somewhat easier for string players than others.
JD would be complementary to school education in preparing for a music degree, and a good university department* would instill habits of punctuality and preparedness that are welcomed by all employers. One of my fellow graduates at Reading (she plays the flute much better than I have ever played anything) has worked in computer software since she graduated, initially as a programmer, now in management.
* I thought the now-defunct Music Department at Reading was rather lacking in this respect, but the Professor of Music nevertheless claimed, c. 1990, that a music degree gave better that average figures for employment immediately upon graduating.
Back to Parents
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12897
|
__label__cc
| 0.513457
| 0.486543
|
In Norway
Accenture in Norway
Accenture Analytics
Championing the new public service technology leader
LEAD IN THE NEW
Technology disruption is at the heart of the business changes impacting our world. Governments at every level are being challenged to keep pace and use disruption by attracting business and talent to grow their economic and social prosperity. In this unique era of change, the role of technology leaders (chief information officers, chief innovation officers, chief digital officers or chief ecosystem officers) is changing—it will support a more agile business, enable the ecosystem, improve customer service and drive operational efficiency.
INNOVATE OR FADE
Innovation is the most significant driver of economic growth at local, city, state and national levels and is highly visible on the global playing field. We are witnessing a struggle for working taxpayers given aging populations, increased citizen expectations, and significant cost and sustainability pressures. The most successful organizations, cities, states and countries will be those that embrace innovation and address the effects geo-socio-political dynamics have on society, their organizations and their business ecosystem. We are clearly at risk of innovation overtaking our ability to govern, yet slowing down innovation will challenge sustainability and restrict growth. Technology leaders within the organization have the mandate to demonstrate how new technologies can disrupt existing operating models and thinking.
In the Digital Government Review of Norway, published by OECD, both Norway and the other Nordic countries, score on the top of Digital Economy and Society Index (Desi) ranking. This shows that there is significant room for opportunities to use technology to power innovation that allows government to successfully protect our safety and welfare, while providing an environment to grow and sustain our cities and nations. But how? Creating an innovation agenda means rethinking the structure and approach to innovation—it is not the accountability of one person or group, but a process of discovering insight and co-creating future ideas by solving fundamental challenges in creative ways. The best ideas will emerge from a group of passionate, diverse people from all areas who have an entrepreneurial mindset about public service. Technology leaders can convene creative thinkers and digital champions to push the innovation agenda forward.
FIND OUT HOW TO NAVIGATE THE NEW [PDF]
GOVERNMENT AS A PLATFORM
Technology-enabled business models are disrupting business as we know it, and they have the similar potential to reshape government services. In fact, 68 percent of public service executives believe digital ecosystems are already having a noticeable impact on, or will dramatically transform, the industry. By adopting an ecosystem partnership approach, governments can cost effectively bring in the innovation through leveraging cutting-edge talent and technologies, while retaining sovereignty. Technology leaders play a fundamental role in supporting this evolution by engaging the ecosystem. Leading change calls for a shift in philosophy—rather than just thinking about the organization, those responsible for technology must think about the entire ecosystem of organizations participating in the value chain.
As technology leaders rethink service delivery in the new ecosystem, they must look at how technology can allow greater connectivity and integration. All areas of the IT organization should be viewed through the ecosystem lens: How will the enterprise architecture enable collaboration? How can the current services expand beyond the boundaries of the government to include business and new digital service providers to enhance the service level and coverage? Such ecosystem thinking in government requires a multi-faceted platform to support it. Government platforms (such as education or welfare) involve multiple stakeholders and a more complex model of engagement. Technology leaders can navigate these challenges by bringing to bear design thinking, agile delivery and analytic insight to help reshape government service.
AGILITY WITH PURPOSE
Perhaps the most complex challenge facing technology leaders today is managing and isolating core technology while enabling a digital future powered by innovation. Many core systems lack the business agility to respond to the changing policy demands from government. Legacy technology deteriorates over time, leading to “technical debt” that hinders organizations from being able to react to change. Technology leaders must tackle technical debt before systems deteriorate even more and starve the business of new IT capabilities. It is cost prohibitive and high risk to replace legacy systems overnight; therefore modernization strategies should progressively make the core more agile, and reduce operating and maintenance costs. Digital decoupling allows organizations to decouple new digital business strategy execution from the timeframes necessary for renewal of the core. Organizations can escape the cycle of creating technical debt by running core modernization in parallel with new digital technologies.
New digitally enabled experiences augmented by artificial intelligence provide intuitive, helpful and personalized services to citizens. Data captured through digital systems can be analyzed to create insight and drive improved outcomes for society and the economy. Inside the organization, new digital approaches can optimize workforce effectiveness using collaboration, artificial intelligence and digital learning technologies. The new IT organization is infused with innovation, enabled by automation, agile in delivery and resilient in operations. Transforming to the new IT organization will require IT leaders to drive and manage organizational change.
NAVIGATING THE NEW
We are in a period of unprecedented disruption. We have multiple technology innovations enabling new business models that challenge the very fabric of our society and governance. New platform business models disrupt our tax, education and social benefit systems. Citizen demands are higher than ever, as they expect the same levels of convenience and service from government as they receive from their banks and other service providers. These are challenging times, but they are exciting times in which multi-faceted technology leaders can guide the organization to a future of economic strength and prosperity.
Putting users first in service design
Accenture helped the Finnish Immigration Service to develop EnterFinland, a new electronic case management system designed to put the user first. The eService aims to enable a user to finish the application in one sitting, without being overwhelmed by information. Using a simple step-by-step structure, the service suggests the next logical step. There are also safeguards to prevent users from accidentally sending an incomplete application. EnterFinland helps the Finnish Immigration Service to provide a better, more efficient user-oriented service to immigrants and their families. And since the applications are mainly processed by the immigrants themselves, there are significantly shortened time lines and less processing work for the officials.
READ MORE ABOUT ENTERFINLAND
Digital transformation enables agility and cost savings
The French Human Services Agency “Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales” (CNAF) supports families through a number of services and benefits. The agency comprises 103 different subsidiaries that manage the budgets provided by the government. CNAF committed to significantly reduce its operating costs (-10 to -15 M€/year). Working with Accenture, the agency pursued a digital transformation of its legacy applications. The team successfully migrated applications to a new digital platform sized to manage 130M transactions/day (15M/hour at peak) and 140,000 jobs/day. Now, all subsidiaries are on the platform and the agency is achieving recurrent savings on hardware and software maintenance.
Roger Østvold
Managing Director, Norway Health & Public Service
Mark Jennings
Managing Director, Europe Health & Public Service, Technology Consulting
Government-as-a-Platform: Coming soon to a government near you
Imagine government agencies facilitating collaboration, connecting people and providers and coordinating groundbreaking public service delivery models.
Emerging technologies make their mark on public service
Among the foremost missions of government is to improve the delivery of public services and meet the rising expectations of citizens.
Five ways for government to increase security, privacy and confidence
Accenture's survey on preventing cybersecurity threats and incidents; and what governments can do to improve data protection for citizens
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12899
|
__label__cc
| 0.727541
| 0.272459
|
DropSpot: 2-Way Remote File Transfer Between Android & PC Over Wi-Fi
Just last week, we covered an Android app called EZ Drop that allowed users to remotely/wirelessly transfer files from a desktop browser (computer) to an Android device over the internet without involving any connectivity cables or remote desktop clients in between. Quite a useful concept, but certainly with a significant restriction; it only lets you send files from the computer to Android, and not in the opposite direction. Fresh to the Android Market, DropSpot is an app that fills said void quite nicely. DropSpot sports two-way wireless file sharing between computer and Android device, and vice versa, over a shared Wi-Fi network. All you need to do in order to start sharing data is open the app on your device, feed in the IP address provided on the app’s homescreen in any contemporary web browser on your desktop, log in using the passcode (if any), and you’re good to go. The web interface of the app supports sending files in batch from computer to device via simple drag-and-drop. Similarly, you can use said feature to move your device’s locally stored files to required directories with utmost ease. Using the DropSpot mobile client, you can configure and even remove the authentication code.
DropSpot’s mobile app as well as the web interface sport minimalistic looks. As mentioned earlier, the mobile app, when launched, displays an IP address that you need to feed in to your computer’s web browser (address bar) to establish a connection. Tapping Menu > Preferences on the app’s homescreen takes you to another screen from where you can enable/disable Authentication, choose the Authentication Type (user-specified code or a randomly generated one), and specify a desired Login Code.
Remember that your computer and mobile device should be hooked to the same Wi-Fi network for the app to work effectively.
Provided you’re using the app under some authentication code, the desktop browser would prompt you to feed in the exact code to proceed. Once past that, you can see your device’s local storage listed on the browser interface in the form of directory structure. The right side of the interface displays your device’s free storage space, and the Choose files button that you can click to send as many files as you like from computer to your device. You can also drag and drop files from the computer into the the box provided on the browser interface to share file(s).
Directly Transfer Files Between Two Desktops From Your Web Browser
10 Best Managed File Transfer (MFT) Tools and Software
To transfer files from device to computer, all you need to do is navigate to the required directory using the browser’s file explorer interface, and click on the file that you wish to download to your computer. Unlike the uploading mechanism, you can download only one file at a time. Hovering on a file displays a couple of controls on the left hand side that let you delete or rename that particular file. From the same browser interface, you can also create a new folder on your device’s SD card (or within a parent directory). The web interface of DropSpot also sports a good-looking native image explorer using which you can view and download photos stored on your SD card’s directories.
All in all, a very handy tool to have, especially if you don’t like carrying your USB cable, or relying on remote desktop clients in order to transfer data back and forth your computer and Android device.
Now, to the relatively bitter part(s). The maximum size of an individual file that can be transferred via DropSpot is 5MB. To lift this restriction, you can upgrade the app for a mere $1.99, and enjoy limitless file sharing without involving any cords or hectic desktop server installations in between. Users interested in upgrading the app can press Menu > Upgrade from the app’s homescreen. On this note, we would also like to suggest a few improvements for the mobile app’s interface. As of now, there is way to see from the app’s interface as to what files have been transferred. So, a native file explorer, and some sort of indication for file transfer (via status bar notification, may be) would be welcome addition. Moreover, there is currently no way to quit or log out of the app, which simply means that your device’s content will be accessible via the browser for as long as the device remains connected to the network.
Download DropSpot for Android
How To Transfer Photos Over WiFi From Your Phone To Windows 10
How To Upload & Share Files From The Linux Terminal With Transfer.sh
How to transfer files from Linux to iOS wirelessly
How To Download An IPA File On Your PC Or Mac
How to convert a CSV file to VCF to transfer contacts
How To Easily Back Up & Transfer Data Between iPhones For Free
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12901
|
__label__wiki
| 0.547507
| 0.547507
|
Home Tags Android update
android update
AT&T is releasing the Android 5.0.1 update for the Samsung Galaxy S4
Rejoice, Galaxy S4 owners! AT&T is giving your device it's first Lollipop update today. Going directly to version 5.0.1, this update should bring new...
AT&T Nexus 6 starts to receive Android Lollipop 5.1 – Here’s how to get...
I have been using a Nexus 6 for the past four weeks, and I can tell you the bugs are getting old. Luckily for...
Lollipop is now coming to the Moto G in India and the US
On Google+, Motorola stated that an Android 5.0 Lollipop update is coming to the Moto G in India and the US. While it's only...
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and The Galaxy Edge to bypass the Android 5.0 upgrade
Since the Galaxy S5 LTE-A's update to Android 5.0.1 was successful, Samsung is going to be updating two of its premier phablets and skipping...
Google News and Weather update
Just when many of Google’s app services are merging or shutting down, one of their not-so-out there almost forgotten apps receives an update! Google...
Samsung Galaxy S4 to get Android 5.0 Lollipop
The Samsung S4 may not be the company's top dog phone anyone but that isn't stopping it getting a lick of Android 5.0 aka...
Intel Reference Design aims to deliver Android updates within two weeks of release
Intel wants to make it much easier for Android users to stay up to date with the latest platform releases. To do so, it has created...
T-Mobile updates Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to Android 4.4.2
Back in January, Samsung released Android 4.4.2 for the international version of the Galaxy Note 3. And today, T-Mobile decided to release the update...
T-Mobile now rolling out Android 4.4.2 update for LG G2
A few days ago we told you that in March, LG will start rolling Android 4.4.2 update for LG G2 owners in UK, but...
Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.3 update now rolling out
Back in July, we came to know that Samsung is planning to skip Android 4.2.2 and in return, they will release Android 4.3. And...
AT&T HTC One X now receiving Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update
AT&T finally decided to release Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the HTC One X, HTC's 2012 flagship device. The global version of HTC...
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 WiFi gettiing Android 4.1.2 in US
Samsung announced back in August that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 will receive the Jelly Bean treatment 'very soon', and today is the day...
Rhapsody Android app gets an update
The new update for Rhapsody brings it to 3.0.1. With this update we get some new features:The ability to download individual albums and tracks...
Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 now receiving Ice Cream Sandwich
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is around from a long time now, and it's one of the finest Android tablets Samsung is offering at the...
ASUS Transformer 3.2 Update Rolling Out Tomorrow!
Tomorrow, ASUS Transformer users will be able to update to Android 3.2. The image above is obviously a tweet from the official ASUS Twitter...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12913
|
__label__cc
| 0.619494
| 0.380506
|
Tiny Turbines
Ever seen a radio-controlled model aircraft do 300 mph? Visit Metropolis, Missouri, this fall.
By Ed Regis
“God, that was ugly!” Fuller adds. “What is your saying, Jack? ‘Run out of airspeed…’?”
“You run out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas, all at the same time. That’s what causes accidents.” Much laughter.
Later, Mathias sent the engine back to the manufacturer, SWB Turbines of Neenah, Wisconsin, where technicians found the combustion chamber clogged with grass clippings but otherwise undamaged.
Earlier that day, Dave “Stick” Valdez, who drove a van from his home in Orlando, Florida, was admiring his fiberglass BVM Maverick Pro as it performed a split-S, a maneuver he’d done at least a hundred times. Five other aircraft were aloft simultaneously, including a balsa model flown by Kevin McLeod, a Canadian from Burlington, Ontario. Both pilots had their eyes glued to their aircraft, Valdez watching his come straight down from the top of a loop, McLeod monitoring his as it turned from crosswind to upwind, when suddenly both saw that the two models had merged. Fragments fluttered into the nearby acreage, whereupon Jerry Caudle trundled off in his golf cart to pick up the pieces.
“It happens,” Valdez says later. “It’s nobody’s fault. You can do whatever you want here, as long as you maintain that oval pattern. And we were both doing it.”
“This was my third flight of the day,” McLeod says. “And everything was going real good until…I speared him from behind.
“The engine’s come out quite well,” he adds, eyeing his SimJet 1200 turbine as it cooled on the ground. “I haven’t run it up yet. It looks like it might have ingested a little bit of dirt, but there’s no damage to the compressor blade and it spins over smoothly, so that’s usually a good sign.”
Indeed, a little FOD (foreign object damage) is nothing insurmountable here, not with the presence of the Repair Technology International trailer and turbine mechanic Carlos Villarreal. Based in Miami, Villarreal travels from one jet rally to another with his mobile repair shop, in which he can rectify practically any engine failure short of a major burnup in just a few hours.
“I have a balancing machine in the trailer, I’ve got a lathe, I’ve got all kinds of welding equipment—everything I need.” His workbench is covered with what seems like hundreds of wrenches, screwdrivers, drills, pliers, torches, and so on, all neatly stowed in their allotted spots. He has an endless supply of ceramic ball bearings, bearing housings, combustion chambers, turbine wheels, compressor wheels, glow plugs—the works. Jet engine repairs are not cheap—a simple bearing change, the most common fix, is $295—but at least you’re flying again.
Spend some time on the rally grounds and you realize that the emblem of BVM Jets is omnipresent. The trademark appears on hats, jackets, T-shirts, coolers, and the wings and fuselages of the models. BVM stands for Bob Violett Models, a top manufacturer of radio-controlled jets. “Probably 40 percent of the aircraft out here are Bob Violett’s kits,” says Vernon Montgomery, a modeler from Mississippi who is flying a BVM F-4 Phantom II.
Single Page Previous Page 3 of 5 Next 1 2 3 4 5
First Church of Combustion
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12924
|
__label__cc
| 0.684582
| 0.315418
|
ABC News on your iPhone and iPad
To get ABC News content on your iPhone & iPad there are 4 different options. You can download an iPhone app, a couple of different iPad apps, or view the iPhone optimized website for ABC News. You’ll find a slew of other ABC News apps for your local city in the App Store as well, if you prefer a local experience including weather and traffic updates.
By: Disney
ABC News is an iPhone app for reading news on your iPhone from ABC. There are sections in the Top News tab which can be easily swiped on the top of the screen. Tap to read a story and go back. Shows lists articles from various ABC shows like Good Morning America & Nightline. Local contains video content for cities around the US including Chicago, Flint, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. There’s also a video section if you prefer to watch the news on your iPhone. 4/5
ABC News for iPad
By: ABC Digital
AppSafari Rating: 3/5
ABC News for iPad is a native app optimized for the larger tablet screen with a few additional interactive features like the Globe. Using the 3D globe, you can drag a sphere with various news photos and tap to get to each story. You can filter what shows up on the globe by category or ABC program from a drop down menu. If you prefer the classic style, there is also a newspaper style section provided. The app has intermittent banner ads that appear on the bottom of the screen, which can be a bit distracting. 3/5
ABC Player
ABC Player for iPad (Free) is a dedicated video streaming app with TV shows and News programming. You can use this app for watching pre-recorded news shows and news specials. Read our full review of the ABC Player here.
ABC News Website
By: ABC News
And finally, if you don’t want to install any apps, you can just go to the iPhone optimized version of the ABC News website from Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch. The URL to use is http://abcnews.go.com/m/. You get the same type of content as you would using the iPhone app and you can easily bookmark it for quick access. The mobile site doesn’t work flawlessly however and can use some fine tuning.
There are also a ton of individual local iPhone apps you can try which focus on delivering ABC news for your local city. Some of these apps include ABC7 Los Angeles, 6abc Philadelphia, ABC7 News Bay Area, ABC 13 Houston, 7News Denver, and ABC 3340 Alabama, and many more.
AppSafari review of ABC News on your iPhone and iPad was written by Joe Seifi on December 26th, 2011 and categorized under App List, News, Reading. Page viewed 5666 times, 1 so far today. Need help on using these apps? Please read the Help Page.
ZenNews
FilmOn TV
iPhone apps for Award Shows (Oscars, Grammys, Emmys)
Wunder Radio
NPR Mobile iPhone
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12926
|
__label__wiki
| 0.522506
| 0.522506
|
Home News Will Saudi Prince, PAK sponsored terrorism reach India today on a two-day...
Will Saudi Prince, PAK sponsored terrorism reach India today on a two-day tour?
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is coming to India on a two-day visit In a time when there has been a major terrorist attack in India recently, such a visit to Saudi Prince is very important. Because he has visited Pakistan before coming to India and is coming straight from there. In this bilateral talks, India can raise the issue of terrorism in front of the Saudi Prince.
Saudi Prince will stay in India for two days, during this time he will have bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During this same conversation, India can raise the issue of terrorism being spread over the land of Pakistan by India in front of them. The latest evidence of which is a terrorist attack in Pulwama, which was executed by Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Apart from this, there are many agreements in the field of defense sector, joint naval exercise, trade in both countries. In addition to meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will also meet President Ramnath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu.
Let us tell you that Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman went to Pakistan before India, where there was a $ 20 billion deal between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In the welcome of the Saudi Prince, Pakistan had laid wings and pillars.
Significantly, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are considered to be a good friend, this is the reason that Saudi is ready to help whenever there is criticism of Pakistan all over the world. In such a scenario, what will the Prince of Saudi Arabia tell about the issue of terrorism?
Even before coming to India, the Saudi Arab government condemned the Pulwama attack. It was said last week by the Saudi government that he was with him in the battle of terrorism and extremism in India and he described the terrorist attack in Kashmir’s Pulwama as a “coward” attack.
Mohammed bin Salman's
Previous articleInternal bleeding due to injury or trauma
Next articleKnow More About Finding the Finest Homes In Sarasota
Are You Going To Jail Because Of Injustice? Re-appeal Your Case!
Programming Languages Used For Developing PUBG
Biography of Rebecca King-Crews/ Parents / Net Worth / Family & Kids
Tips For Selecting The Best Rifle For Deer Hunting
A Modern White Side Table Collection That's Ideal for Every Room
Games Like Roblox – Best 8 Alternatives To Play Today
Your Accomplice Need To Be Understanding For Better Life In Future
Who Are The Famous Designers In Overall Tollywood Industry? Let Us Know
Buy Sammie Puffs E-Liquid Online At Smax E-Liquid
4 Reasons to Make a WW2 US Army Uniform Your Biggest...
Replacement iPhone 5 Parts Make Your Phone Good as New
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12927
|
__label__wiki
| 0.531
| 0.531
|
Thu, Jan 18, 2018
Anniversary 'Ovation' for Seabourn
Seabourn, an ultra-luxury cruise line, will celebrate its 30th anniversary throughout the year with unique events and amenities created just for the occasion for guests, Seabourn team members and travel professional partners to enjoy around the world.
"Our 30th Anniversary is a wonderful occasion to celebrate the reputation we've earned as the world's finest ultra-luxury cruise line by providing guests with opportunities to experience the most intriguing destinations around the globe on the most desirable ships at sea," said Richard Meadows, president of Seabourn.
"As we continue to grow, those opportunities will grow as well. For now, though, we invite guests to sit back and soak up the ultra-luxury innovations we've pioneered and special touches we've created in celebration of our third decade at sea."
The anniversary celebration highlights include:
A New Vessel: Seabourn Ovation: Seabourn will expand its highly acclaimed fleet from four ships to five with the addition of Seabourn Ovation, launching in spring 2018. Like all Odyssey-class ships, which revolutionised ultra-luxury cruising upon their introduction in 2009, Seabourn Ovation will maintain the line's high ratio of space per guest, enabling highly personalised service by a dedicated, thoughtful crew.
The addition of Seabourn Ovation will further reinforce Seabourn's position as the youngest and most modern ultra-luxury fleet in the industry. Designed by hospitality design icon Adam D Tihany, the ship will feature modern design elements and innovations in keeping with the line's reputation for understated elegance, and it will be configured with one additional deck, expanded public areas, and unique offerings such as Seabourn's new signature dining experience The Grill by Thomas Keller, and the new mindful living program Spa & Wellness with Dr Andrew Weil.
Following the ship's delivery, Seabourn Ovation will embark on an 11-day inaugural voyage departing May 5, 2018, from Venice, Italy, to Barcelona, Spain. The ship will go on to spend the majority of her maiden season cruising the waters of Northern Europe, offering a series of seven-day Baltic and Scandinavian cruises between Copenhagen and Stockholm, which will include the line's signature three-day stay in St. Petersburg, Russia. Seabourn Ovation will also sail on longer 14-day voyages, visiting the majestic Norwegian fjords and British Isles.
Vibrant offerings
Whatever the vessel, guests can anticipate a variety of vibrant offerings over the 30th Anniversary year ahead. Start with a toast to three decades of cruising excellence with an exclusive Passion Pearls cocktail created by world-renowned mixologist Brian van Flandern.
The celebration began in earnest on New Year's Eve across the Seabourn fleet. Additional 30th anniversary-inspired enticements await guests throughout 2018 on their Seabourn cruise, where special touches will be seen in suites and at special events and dinners. While guests always enjoy a wide variety of complimentary fine wines and spirits onboard, a special 30th Anniversary Wine Package, featuring a selection of top quality wine and champagne, will also be available for purchase during the celebration. Additionally, The Shops will feature a special collection of pearls this spring along with commemorative 30th anniversary merchandise. Guests will even be challenged on their knowledge of Seabourn during onboard trivia matches.
A History of Innovation at Sea
Seabourn was born in 1987 out of a belief that travellers would appreciate a cruise experience intensely focused on providing personalised, anticipatory service; a relaxed, club-like atmosphere; and a place that encourages easy, carefree sociability. The line noted that its success depended on travellers recognising and valuing those attributes and returning to experience them again and again.
Among the line's early innovations: The creation of an onboard experience that felt like something experienced on a private yacht, where virtually everything required for a guest's onboard enjoyment was included in the fare, including all-suite accommodation, dining and complimentary drinks. The idea was to create a relaxed social atmosphere like the one people enjoyed at private clubs. From the earliest days, service was intended to be the finest yet tipping was neither required nor expected by onboard staff.
By 2009, Seabourn responded to evolving guest expectations by revolutionizing the luxury cruise segment with the introduction of 32,000 ton, 458-guest Seabourn Odyssey. Larger than Seabourn's original ships, the Odyssey-class vessels further enhanced a spacious, welcoming environment guests desired. The added space allowed the one of the largest spa facilities in the category, a variety of alternative dining and entertainment venues, plenty of open deck space, and more.
Launched to unanimous acclaim in 2009, Seabourn Odyssey was declared "a game-changer" by the media. Two additional sister ships, Seabourn Sojourn and Seabourn Quest, followed in 2010 and 2011, while Seabourn sold its original ships to enable a more consistent fleet profile. The fourth new vessel, Seabourn Encore, was launched in December 2016. The fleet will expand again with Seabourn Ovation in spring 2018, reinforcing the brand's position as the newest ultra-luxury fleet in the industry.
Seabourn continues to raise the bar. The ships travel to many of the world's most desirable destinations, including marquee cities, more than 170 Unesco World Heritage Sites, and lesser known ports and hideaways. Ventures by Seabourn invites guests to participate in active optional, for-charge excursions in kayaks and Zodiacs on select voyages. Partnerships with select companies and individuals whose dedication to superior quality, exceptional service and consistent customer satisfaction mirrors Seabourn's has resulted in programs such as 'An Evening with Tim Rice', a new evening entertainment experience created exclusively for the line in association with Belinda King Creative Productions; Spa and Wellness with Dr Andrew Weil, offering a holistic spa and wellness experience that integrates physical, social, environmental and spiritual well-being; and The Grill by Thomas Keller, reminiscent of the classic American restaurant from the 50's and 60's.
Seabourn continues to innovate its offerings to the luxury traveler with the launch of several new programs and initiatives in 2018, including two Wellness Cruises with Dr Andrew Weil, and a selection of land-based immersive Seabourn Journeys that will elevate the cruise experience in remarkable destinations around the world.
Gulf Craft delivers 7th Majesty
Knud E Hansen launches adventure cruise vessel
Lürssen brings Madsummer to MYS
Power-packed Sunreef
Explore with Esquel
Dynamiq's new explorer yacht
Thu, Jun 6, 2019
Fraser sells nine yachts in three weeks
Mon, May 13, 2019
Suprema 36 to debut at Kuwait show
Mon, Mar 25, 2019
Spectacular Kuwait Yacht Show set
‘Golden Year’ for Azimut
Going Giga Again
Making a Superyachts Wave
DIBS Makes a Splash
Oceanco reveals an explorer
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12928
|
__label__cc
| 0.584573
| 0.415427
|
Alfonso Architects
Streamsong Resort / Alfonso Architects
01:00 - 15 July, 2014
© Albert Hurley
Streamsong Drive, Bowling Green, FL 33834, USA
Alberto Alfonso, AIA
Albert Hurley
PCL Construction
The Mosaic Company
More Specs Less Specs
Text description provided by the architects. The history of Streamsong started about 15 million years ago. What is now land in central Florida was submerged in warm waters sheltering prehistoric marine life. Hornless rhinos and humpless camels wandered the shores. Their bones settled into deeply layered sediments, creating massive phosphate rock deposits that were discovered in the 19th century. The Mosaic company mined the phosphates, a critical natural resource and crop nutrient used by farmers. The 16,000 acres replete with natural lakes and 100-foot dunes were reclaimed in 2007 to build Streamsong, a luxury resort where even mastodons once roamed.
The beginning of life in the “Bone Valley” became the beginning of Alberto Alfonso's design process. Walking the terrain with watercolors and Caran d’arche pencil he explored the landscape in the way his father, a modernist Cuban architect taught him, by sketching and painting. It is through the process of putting line and color to paper that Alberto opens his mind to questions of perspective, scale and light. It is the way he moves from meditative ambiguity to architectural precision. It was the history of the land that inspired a vertical stacking program for the lodge that is reflected in four layers: Submersion (under water), Bank (where water meets land), Canopy (a sheltered aviary home at the top of the trees), and Sky.
Submersion is the first level that houses the AcquaPietra spa, SottoTerra fine dining and the Breezeway. Massive concrete “petrified” tree columns emerge in all three spaces, providing the continuum of the deeply rooted landscape. The 7,000 sq. ft. grotto spa is defined by water with 7 intertwining therapeutic pools. The breezeway captures the east/west gentle winds and provides shaded passage to escape torrential heat and rain. The columns function as dividers in the formal restaurant, separating lounging and dining. Each of the 3 areas offers environments of compressed intimacy, texture and discovery.
The Bank houses all the public spaces and Main lobby. Compositionally and metaphorically the lobby is tethered to the rest of the building, like a boat to a dock. The Leaf lobby with reclaimed materials captures the land’s flora with a ribbed ceiling, suggesting veined leaves within a context of monumental scale.
The Canopy is the private space comprised of 216 guest rooms and suites. The developer gave Alberto full rein to develop implosive design, creating extensive custom components from the floor to ceiling walnut louvers to light fixtures, couches, and carpets. Alberto, an exhibiting artist, created paintings for each room following a schematic of the four seasons. Each room has cabinetry sized to fit 10 books, primarily devoted to Southern authors. One book resides at the end of the shelf in an isolated niche. It is A Land Remembered, the comprehensive history of the settlement of Florida.
The Sky is the patio and roof lounge named “Fragmentary Blue” from the Robert Frost poem. Streamsong exists under a brilliant celestial sky, an hour from any major city. Each evening the Milky Way puts on an extravagant display. However there is also the Icarus effect, being closer to the sun meant that Alberto needed to shield guests from the beast that is Florida’s heat. A protective light scrim of stainless steel hovers over the square glass lounge to diffuse light. By combining geometries Alberto provided an unencumbered 360-degree view of the horizon. An oculus has been carved into the lounge ceiling, acknowledging both the heavens and the light that has nurtured this land since the beginning of time.
Wood Stone Concrete
Projects Built Projects Selected Projects Hospitality Architecture Hotels Bowling GreenUnited States
Cite: "Streamsong Resort / Alfonso Architects" 15 Jul 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/524708/streamsong-resort-alfonso-architects/> ISSN 0719-8884
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12929
|
__label__cc
| 0.688459
| 0.311541
|
Elections And Endorsements
The Power Of Ordinary Citizens To Change Their Government And Their World.
Current Elections And Endorsements Process
The American Muslim Democratic Caucus’s vision is rooted in the aspirations of all people for liberty, economic opportunity, guarantees of civil and human rights, peace, and social justice. Electing democrats to offices at every level in State of Florida is critical to ensuring we develop and implement progressive democratic policy solutions in the Florida.
The American Muslim Democratic Caucus believes it is important to evaluate a candidate’s record and get every candidate on record with respect to our issues. We want candidates to tell us that they support our values. That they have experience fighting against injustice. That they will commit, in writing, to championing policies that serve the broad public interest, not just private interests.
Thank you for your interest in seeking the endorsement of the American Muslim Democratic Caucus of Florida (AMDC FL). In order to earn the endorsement of AMDC FL , candidates must satisfy the following requirements.
Be a registered Democrat running for office at the federal, state or local levels in Florida.
Complete the endorsement questionnaire.
Receive 60% of total votes cast by dues-paying members of the AMDC FL.
The questionnaire is based on the principles of the Democratic Party and issues pertaining to the American Muslim community at the federal, state and local levels. Our Endorsement committee will review responses, ask clarifying questions and follow-up questions, and develop recommendations for dues-paying members of the AMDC FL.
OUR PROCEDURE
AMDC_endorsement_application
AMDC FL will hold an endorsement vote for every race for which we receive a completed candidate questionnaire. If our members are divided on an endorsement, we will not endorse but will encourage members to volunteer for Democrats they believe in.
Please complete all questions in the questionnaire, sign, date, and email the completed form to info@amdcfl.org . Within 48 hours of receiving your application via email, we will confirm receipt.
Please note that you must answer all questions. Provide as much information as possible or you will be disqualified.
amdcfl_membership_form_.pdf
@2014 American Muslim Democratic Caucus
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12934
|
__label__cc
| 0.662834
| 0.337166
|
Jim’s Blog: What’s In Store for Modern Muscle?
Every year, Detroit pumps out more and more nasty modern muscle cars, from ZL1 Camaros through Hellcats, Demons, and GT500s. But how will these cars’ values stack up to the values of their vintage counterparts in the future?
That’s a tough question. There’s no good answer. But how they’re treated now is a pretty good indication of how they’ll be treated later. These cars are already bringing good money at auction, and a bunch of them have been stored away by careful owners who are unwilling to even pull the plastic from their seats. I imagine that owners have seven-figure Hemi Cuda convertible prices swirling in their heads while they lovingly polishing that on-MSO plastic-wrapped Demon, waiting for the payoff.
But here’s the thing about original muscle — it was only available for a short time, say from 1964 through 1972. That’s just eight years before the door slammed shut on fun due to oil prices, emissions, and rising insurance rates. In turn, that made these cars rare, and the years following the fun highlighted how special the cars really were.
You can argue that the dawn of the new performance era started in the 1990s with GM’s Jon Moss and Ford’s John Coletti, when the Boss Mustang faced off the ZL1 Camaro. But even if you figure the rebirth was as late as 2005, when the first retro Mustangs came out, we’re still looking at a 13 year run of muscle as of today. And with the most recent machines, it’s become a crazy numbers game of high horsepower figures combined with respectable mileage. Who would have assumed back in the 1980s that you’d be able to purchase 800 horsepower from your local dealership?
These modern cars are already collectible, but are they going to be viewed the same way the original cars are today? I don’t think so, as comparing a Demon to a Hemi Cuda is comparing an apple to an orange: same basic shape, but a totally different experience. These modern, faster, numerous cars have their own collectible path to take — a different one than 1960s muscle — but there’s room for both in your garage, because you’re not duplicating an experience by owning both at the same time.
Agree with me? Think I’m way off track? Let’s talk about it in the comments below.
← Video of the Week: Vintage 1955 Hudson Hornet Commercial
One Hauler of a Jeep →
Bob Ricewasser says:
I agree with the author’s conclusion that driving 1960’s muscle is a different experience then driving modern muscle. I have a 69 Dodge Charger and an 18 Challenger R/T Scat Pack. The driving dynamics of the Challenger is totally different from the Charger as one would expect.
Larry Hoover says:
I have my original
67 Camaro ss/rs 350 w/ 4:10 gears driving it compared to my 15 Z06 is quite a dramatic difference.It all depends what mood your in to which one you pull out and RIP on.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12937
|
__label__wiki
| 0.636193
| 0.636193
|
Posted by Shahjahan Khan | 29 Apr, 2019 | Australia, Other News | 0 |
Caption: Muslims at the St Anthony’s Church with representatives of the Church.
On Tuesday 23 April 2019 members of Toowoomba Masjid visited St Anthony’s Church with flowers led by President of Islamic Society of Toowoomba, Professor Shahjahan Khan and Imam Abdul Kader.
The team felt a bit relieved to be able to reciprocate some of the humanity shown to the Muslim community by their Christian friends after the Christchurch mosques attacks.
Non-Muslims and Muslims at the Prayers for Sri Lanka in Toowoomba Mosque.
Professor Khan said, “Unfortunately we have to do this again to stand together against the evil acts of some coward criminals. Let us send the strongest possible message to the forces of division and hate that we are all united to live in peace and harmony with mutual respect and care.”
Toowoomba Mosque organised a “Prayers for Sri Lanka” gathering after Maghrib prayers in the evening on Wednesday 24 April at the Garden City Mosque.
Imam Abdul Kader leading prayers with non-Muslims and Muslims at the Prayers for Sri Lanka in Toowoomba Mosque.
Muslims and Non-Muslims joined the prayers led by Imam Abdul Kader.
Mr Ahamed Muneer, a Sri Lankan Australian living in Toowoomba shared his feeling about the massacre and how Sri Lankan Muslims have been living peacefully with fellow Christians for centuries. He appreciated the united stand of the Toowoomba community in support of his country of origin.
Dr David Tutty of the Social Justice Commission of Catholic Dioceses of Toowoomba asked everyone to remember God all the time and that the one who sincerely remembers God can’t do any evil.
Prayers for Sri Lanka in Toowoomba Mosque.
Imam Abdul Kader said that every one of us is created by Allah (God) and are descendants of Adam and Eve and brothers and sisters.
Islam is a religion of peace and Muslims must protect the religious freedom of people of other faiths, especially sacred places of worship, even at the time of wars.
PreviousDemand for an ‘Australian Human Rights Act’
NextBWWProject: Be a part of change!
Shahjahan Khan
Professor Shahjahan Khan is a Professor of Statistics, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland. He is a former Vice President of Islamic Council of Queensland, Director of MCCA and Queensland Cultural Diversity Ambassador. He is the Founding Chief Editor of Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics (JAPS), and former President of Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS).
Does charitable action change poverty?
Jews and Muslims celebrate Sukkot
Media Statement on Orlando Shooting
15 minutes fish kebabs
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12939
|
__label__cc
| 0.573451
| 0.426549
|
12/14/2018 | 1 MINUTE READ
Bosch Showcases Tech in Autonomous Shuttle
Robert Bosch GmbH has developed a self-driving shuttle concept that the supplier will publicly unveil at next month’s CES electronics show in Las Vegas.
The fully electric model features a variety of technologies that Bosch is readying for next-generation Level 4/5 autonomous vehicles. Earlier this year the company announced plans to partner with Daimler AG to test a self-driving shuttle service next year on public roads in Silicon Valley.
The new concept features an array of sensors, advanced software and other technologies to enable autonomous driving, connectivity and shared services. Bosch’s smartphone app can be used to book and pay for rides and to gain keyless access to the vehicle.
The open interior can accommodate four passengers with facing seats. Onboard wi-fi allows the vehicle to serve as digital assistant to riders and enables streaming content to be viewed on display screens.
An advanced camera system is designed to monitor the interior and alert exiting passengers if they leave any belongings behind. The system also can determine when the vehicle needs to be cleaned and alert a maintenance crew.
An intelligent management system calculates the vehicle’s driving range based on the battery charge, how much energy the heating and air-conditioning systems are consuming and real-time traffic congestion for the planned route. Other features include predictive diagnostics, vehicle-to-everything communication and the capability to make over-the-air software updates.
There have been more than 20 reported attacks against Waymo’s self-driving fleet in Chandler, Ariz., since the company began testing the technology on public roads there two years ago.
Report Predicts Limited Impact of Autonomous Tech on Professional Drivers
A new study says autonomous vehicles will displace some taxi drivers but have only a modest impact on the number of truck driver jobs over the next 10 years.
Aptiv, Hertz Partner on Robotic Car Fleet
Aptiv plc and Hertz Corp. have partnered to introduce a fleet of self-driving vehicles, beginning with 75 cars in Las Vegas this autumn.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12948
|
__label__cc
| 0.67224
| 0.32776
|
Home General Franchise Creator John Carpenter Will Score Blumhouse’s ‘Halloween’
Franchise Creator John Carpenter Will Score Blumhouse’s ‘Halloween’
Joey Magidson
If you can take over a franchise and gain the support of said franchise’s creator, that’s usually a good sign. In the case of the “Halloween” series, John Carpenter started things off with a classic. Before long, however, things devolved into generic slasher territory. Mediocre (at best) sequel after sequel diluted the brand, until Rob Zombie rebooted things, to mixed success. Since then, the brand has been dormant. Now, with a new entry coming to us from Blumhouse Productions later this year, there’s something cool to report. After not having been involved with “Halloween” for years, and after a bunch of rumors over the past couple of months, Carpenter is finally involved once again with his signature achievement in an official capacity.
According to a Tweet by Jason Blum himself, Carpenter will be composing the new “Halloween” score. David Gordon Green is directing and co-writing with Danny McBride, and Jamie Lee Curtis is starring once again, so there’s some very nice talent on hand here. Curtis is also obviously playing Laurie Strode again, so the classic story is getting a new chapter. Also starring Judy Greer and Will Patton, as well as Nick Castle in the Michael Myers part, this has some interesting potential. The movie was always intriguing, giving Green’s eclectic taste, but having Carpenter composing the score is a real coup. If nothing else, the music will be on par with the classic.
Here is the Tweet from Blum confirming Carpenter’s involvement:
Confirm!
— Jason Blum (@jason_blum) April 19, 2018
Scheduled to be released on October 19th, “Halloween” is one of the more notable 2018 horror titles to look out for. With Carpenter’s blessing and musical talents, Michael Myers will once again hunt Laurie Strode in about six months, so stay tuned on more in regards to the film.
THOUGHTS ON CARPENTER AGAIN BEING INVOLVED WITH THE “HALLOWEEN” FRANCHISE? DISCUSS IN THE COMMENTS!
2018 release
Blumhouse
David Gordon Green
Previous articleInterview: Kenneth Carlson Discusses Saints, Sudan, and His Documentary ‘The Heart of Nuba’
Next articleUniversal Pictures to Adapt Stephen King’s ‘The Tommyknockers’
http://www.awardscircuit.com/author/joey-magidson/
When he’s not obsessing over new Oscar predictions on a weekly basis, Joey is seeing between 300 and 350 movies a year. He views the best in order to properly analyze the awards race/season each year, but he also watches the worst for reasons he mostly sums up as "so you all don't have to". In his spare time, you can usually find him complaining about the Jets or the Mets. Still, he lives and dies by film. Joey's a voting member of Indiewire's Criticwire Network as well as the Internet Film Critics Association.
Top 10: Best Pets in Film and TV
Circuit Q&A – Time Traveling With Michael J. Fox
Emmy Circuit: Can ‘Game of Thrones’ Snag Supporting Actress Wins in Drama?
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12949
|
__label__wiki
| 0.937922
| 0.937922
|
Welcome to the British TV and Radio Links page at www.astra2sat.com. Listed below are links to broadcasters, equipment manufacturers, Publications & TV Listings, Reception Information, Satellites, Frequencies & Channels, Media Information, HDTV, Television & Radio Nostalgia, Irish TV & Radio, British Soaps, expatriate Links and links to US broadcasters.
If you know of any relevant links not listed, please email this site to have them included.
BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation.
BBC America Entertainment channel, only available in the United States.
BBC Canada Entertainment channel, only available in Canada.
BBC Entertainment The BBC’s international entertainment channel.
BBC HD BBC HD is the BBC’s international HD channel.
BBC Lifestyle Lifestyle programming, currently available in Singapore.
BBC Knowledge Factual and documentary channel, currently available in Asia.
BBC World News The BBC’s international news channel.
BBC Worldwide The commercial arm of the BBC.
CBeebies International version of the BBC’s pre-school channel.
Channel 4 Britain’s fourth national TV channel.
Channel 5 Britain’s fifth national TV channel.
ITV Britain’s first commercial TV channel.
S4C – Sianel Pedwar Cymru Welsh language Channel Four for Wales.
Sky Broadcaster and platform operator.
Channelmaster Channelmaster dishes and equipment.
Gibertini Italian dish manufacturer dishes up to 150cm.
Best Manufacturers of the lowest noise LNB on the market (0.1dB).
Humax Foxsat HDR Custom Firmware Custom Firmware for the Humax Foxsat HDR, including Web Interface, Channel Editor, Non-Freesat channels – add them to the EPG using the Channel Editor.
Humax UK Beta Portal The aim of this area is to provide a single source for the latest software for consumers of our products and as such the software may not yet be fit for long-term use.
Humax Foxsat HDR Upgrade Problems The Humax Foxsat HDR is a popular Freesat HD recorder which (like most set-top boxes) has some annoying software bugs, due to the company’s ongoing lack of Quality Assurance.
Unfortunately, the Foxsat also has a poor manual software update process which often fails. Problems seem to arise when the Foxsat can’t recognise the Memory Stick, due to formatting issues or when the box doesn’t find the firmware update (.hdf file), due to it being in the wrong place on the drive or having the wrong file naming convention.
hummy.tv Humax Forum.
Invacom LNB manufacturer.
My Humax Forum A community supporting Humax PVR and STB owners.
MTI LNB manufacturer based in Taiwan.
Smart Titanium German LNB manufacturer.
Freesat Freesat is a Public Service digital satellite platform, from the BBC and ITV.
Freesat from Sky Sky’s Freesat service.
Freeview Free-To-Air digital terrestrial platform in the UK.
Radioplayer Radioplayer, the online platform bringing together all of the BBC and commercial radio stations in the UK.
Virgin Media Largest cable operator in the UK.
YouView YouView brings you all the plug-in-and-watch simplicity of Freeview, plus the UK’s leading Internet catch-up and video-on-demand services.
Publications & TV Listings
Radio Times British TV and radio listings.
TV Guide TV listings.
What’s on TV TV listings and gossip.
Satellites, Frequencies & Channels
Flysat Satellites, frequencies and channel listings.
KingOfSat Satellites, frequencies and channel listings.
Lyngsat Satellites, frequencies and channel listings.
List of channels on Sky This list details the current channels available on Sky in the United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland (TV Channel Lists).
WILDSAT Wild Pete’s Sky Channel Guide.
DSP-worx This site is about creating and working with digital audio effects in Borland Delphi and its inline Assembler (BASM) with optimizations for current CPU extensions like SSE and 3DNow as well as digital signal processing under the Java platform.
EPG Collector EPG Collector is a Windows package for collecting the EPG data from DVB or ATSC streams in EIT, MHEG5, OpenTV, MediaHighway, FreeSat and PSIP formats and creating an XMLTV file. It can also import the data to 7MC or DVBViewer.
a516digital News reports, blog posts and information from the world of UK digital terrestrial TV (Freeview), Freesat and DAB digital radio. From technical digests to general interest articles.
Ban Power Line Technology If you are you suffering from inter fence to your FM radio, DAB radio, Taxi radio, Business radio (inc. shopping centre radio), Amateur radio, Citizens’ Band radio, and Shortwave radio you are in the right place. The aim of this website is to help you understand the deliberate interference caused by Power Line Technology and what you can do about it.
BBC iPlayer Radio BBC iPlayer Radio – listen to live BBC Radio or catch up on the last 7 days of BBC programmes from across the UK and World Service.
BFI Screen Online Definitive guide to British film and TV history, with analysis, information and multimedia.
Brand Republic Advertising, Marketing, Media and PR site.
Broadband TV News Broadband TV News covers The Business of Multiscreen Television bringing news, analysis and comment on the delivery of digital television, around Europe and the World.
Broadcast Now TV and Radio website.
Digital Spy For the latest news and gossip from the world of entertainment and television and radio.
Digital Television Group The Digital TV Group (DTG) is the industry association for Digital Television in the UK: an independent body facilitating the rapid rollout of digital television and convergence across the communications industry.
Digital UK Digital UK is the independent, not-for-profit organisation, supporting Freeview viewers and channel providers.
DTV Kit DTVKit’s philosophy is to shape the future of the Digital TV industry, by enabling the joint development of a shared pool of software components. It operates a collaborative royalty free business model and is supported by membership subscriptions.
EPG Collector Forum Information and discussions about EPG Collector.
Freedom House Freedom House supports frontline activists in their efforts to defend fundamental rights, including to document abuses, advocate for justice, end impunity, and fortify the self-protection of human rights defenders.
Join Freesat A guide to the Freesat satellite TV service.
Media UK The critically-acclaimed independent media directory for the UK.
mb21 Site by Mike Brown, Teletext then & now, UK transmitters information and gallery, Technostalgia and much more.
On Astra Information and advice about all things Astra.
Plusworld – Sky+ Information about Sky+.
Radio & Television Investigation Service The Radio and Television Investigation Service has been set up to help viewers and listeners investigate whether problems with receiving domestic radio and television services are due to interference from an external source, poor reception or problems with their receiving equipment.
Radio and Telly UK The Radio and Telly team has been providing information and advice since 2002.
RedButton MHEG Engine RedButton MHEG EngineRedButton allows you to use the interactive MHEG applications broadcast with DVB digital TV services.
Satellites.co.uk British satellite Forum.
SatExpat Listings for channels available for expats from all over the world including the UK, the site is also available in French and German.
SES Official SES site.
TV Forum A UK based active website discussing television presentation and related topics. This site has no connection with and is not endorsed by any broadcaster.
UK Free TV Information on the reception of free television services on satellite and terrestrial, including channel lineup and FAQ.
Watch Online TV – Which? Learn how services such as BBC iPlayer and ITV Player allow you to catch up on your favourite shows, or stream live channels, over the internet.
About BBC Radio Each week, nearly 35 million people listen to BBC Radio. The BBC offers a portfolio of services aimed at offering listeners the highest quality programmes, whatever their interest or mood.
BBC iPlayer Radio Listen to live BBC Radio or catch up on the last 7 days of BBC programmes from across the UK and World Service.
British DX Club Welcome to the British DX Club (BDXC-UK) Web site. This page contains information about the club and its services.
Community Radio Toolkit The Community Radio Toolkit is an attempt to make life easier for people setting up and running community radio stations by publishing and discussing the things that we have in common – making life easier to allow you to spend more time on the things that make you unique.
DAB Ensembles Worldwide Information about DAB transmissions around the world.
DAB Digital Radio A consumer website on national and local DAB digital radio services and digital radios.
DX Radio DX Radio is the hobby of listening to distant radio stations, typically from locations well outside their intended coverage area. Sometimes the weakness of the signal is the challenge, sometimes the amount of interference, and other times the infrequent or irregular schedule of the station.
Typically most dx-ing is achieved on the Mediumwave Band (AM band) and the shortwave Tropical Bands between 2 and 6 MHz. The higher shortwave bands 6 to 30 MHz are generally used for true international broadcasting.
Interval Signals Online Interval Signals Online is a collection of audio clips of radio stations throughout the world, featuring airchecks, identification announcements, jingles, signature tunes and of course interval signals. The site is a strictly non-commercial research project aimed at press and broadcast editors, media researchers, educational institutions and devoted radio listeners, to facilitate the identification of radio stations.
London Radio Stations This site is a guide to stations in frequency order (within each waveband), so you can tune along the dial and instantly decode what you’re listening to. It’s in an easy-to-print format. There is a short review of most stations along with details such as address and phone numbers and links to station web sites, including live audio links where available.
North West Radio The North West Radio site is a guide to some of the radio stations you can receive in the area surrounding Manchester and North West England. The stations are listed in frequency order. Most of the stations can generally be heard with varying quality across the North West of England.
RadioCentre Shaping commercial radio’s future RadioCentre formed in July 2006 from the merger of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA). Its members consist of the overwhelming majority of UK Commercial Radio stations who fund the organisation.
RadioFeeds Listen live to UK and RoI radio from the internet’s most comprehensive and up-to-date directory of stations streaming on the web.
Radio Days There were three main BBC Radio stations broadcasting in Britain in the 1950s. The most widely listened-to service, the “Light Programme”, brought us popular music as well as mainstream light entertainment in the form of variety shows, comedy, and drama. The “Home Service”, whilst it also had its share of general entertainment programmes, was the main channel for news, features, and drama of a more demanding kind – and was the home too of regional programming. The “Third Programme” meanwhile was unashamedly highbrow in character: broadcasting in the evenings only, its output consisted of classical music concerts and recitals, talks on matters scientific, philosophical, and cultural, together with poetry readings and classic or experimental plays.
Radioplayer UK Radio in one place. Discover your perfect radio on your computer, mobile or tablet. Listen live or catch up with tens of thousands of programmes and podcasts.
Radio Rewind Unofficial History of BBC Radio 1.
RadioToday Industry News.
Sound Digital The Sound Digital national DAB multiplex network, the UK’s second national commercial DAB mux.
The Radio Academy The Radio Academy is a registered charity dedicated to the development, promotion and recognition of excellence in UK radio and audio, we are a member organisation that operates under the direction of a board of Trustees.
This is ILR The unofficial Independent Local Radio Nostalgia site.
UK Digital Radio (Digital One) Digital One is a leader in DAB digital radio. It launched in November 1999 and has held the only digital radio licence for national commercial radio in the UK ever since. It broadcasts a broad range of content including traffic data services and some of the UK’s most profitable radio stations.
UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum.
HDTV UK News and information on HD.
Super Hivision – NHK Japan Super Hi-vision (Ultrahigh-Definition Wide-Screen System with 4000 Scanning Lines) is the technology developed by NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories (PDF).
Television Nostalgia
405 Alive An engaging rag-bag of old television facts and features, embracing technostalgia, technicalities, some classic programming, television-era culture, TV trivia, music, test cards, how to enjoy old television today, where to find further information and how to meet other crazy people. The emphasis is on British 405-line television but not to the exclusion of other countries’ television lore and additional interesting features.
Andrew Wiseman/625 Room Information on Idents, DOGs and other aspects of TV from the past.
Baird Television This site is about John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scotsman who was the first person in the world to demonstrate a working television system.
British Vintage Wireless Society The British Vintage Wireless Society (BVWS) is a society of approximately 1700 Worldwide members sharing a common interest in the preservation and communication of technical and historical data, and the preservation and restoration of Vintage radio and related equipment.
BSB, Squarials and all that! The life and times of BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting), the Squarial and DMAC.
MHP – Home of the Test Card Gallery Dedicated to television – particularly the bits before, in between and after the actual programmes.
Mikey’s old technology page On this site you will find pictures and information about some of the electronic, electrical and mechanical relics that the museum has accumulated over the years.
Incorporating the South West England Vintage Television Museum.
Pember’s Ponderings British TV nostalgia, Teletext, transmitters, Testcards, the 405-Line Television System, and much more.
The following pages were saved from oblivion when Alan Pemberton’s web site closed down. The content contained within these following pages are all his own work and have nothing to do with Radios-TV. Our only involvement is providing a place for them to be saved so others may continue to enjoy his work. The content of the pages are static and will not be updated.
Political Television 1936-55 When BBC TV began regular high-definition television on 2nd November 1936, politics was not high on the list of priorities for television.
Radios-TV Do you remember when a telly looked like a telly? When it was a piece of furniture that you lavished love on, even polished from time to time? If you’re over 40yrs old, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Teletext Preservation Project With the great analogue switch off now complete, teletext (with a small t) as we know it, is all but extinct. The current generation of kids will grow up never knowing how creative you can be with low-resolution graphics in primary colours.
Television Heaven Information, reviews, histories and biographies on British and American TV.
Teletronic The history and development of British Television.
The Goodies Rule – OK! Fan site to help show the BBC and other UKTV networks, that fans and comedy lovers really want to watch The Goodies again on TV and DVD.
The Teletext Museum This site celebrates the development of a very British invention. Here you will find information about the development of teletext from its faltering beginnings to a system which has gained worldwide acceptance and which we now take for granted. Teletext was launched in the UK on 23 September 1974.
The Transdiffusion Archive Run on a not-for-profit basis and staffed entirely by volunteers, Transdiffusion is dedicated to using modern methods of communication to educate and inform on broadcasting history. They do this by making available Transdiffusion’s broadcasting archive for research and educational purposes.
The Valve Page Information on TV & radio from the past.
thisisfive.co.uk thisisfive has the largest collection of idents for the Channel 5 family of channels.
Transdiffusion Broadcasting System Transdiffusion Broadcasting System (TBS), a not-for-profit historical society dedicated to documenting and preserving broadcasting history.
Whirligig Everyone feels some nostalgia for the TV programmes that they watched when very young, so here we attempt to bring back to you some of the flavours of television in the Fifties.
British Soaps
Coronation Street The official site featuring news, story updates, preview movies, quiz, activities and a message board.
Corrie.net The Coronation Street Fans website.
EastEnders The official site featuring news and story updates.
Emmerdale The official site featuring news, story updates, preview movies, quiz, activities and a message board.
Hollyoaks The official site at Channel Four.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12953
|
__label__wiki
| 0.968225
| 0.968225
|
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun holds a mobile phone in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Alqunun, the 18-year old Saudi woman who fled her family to seek asylum, remains in Thailand under the care of the U.N. refugee agency as she awaits a decision by a third country to accept her as a refugee. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Canada helping young Saudi refugee won’t hurt Raif Badawi’s case, wife says
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun was fleeing her abusive family
Jan. 13, 2019 3:30 p.m.
The Canadian wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi said she isn’t worried Ottawa’s decision to take in teen refugee Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun will hurt her husband’s case, despite speculation that the incident could further strain Canada-Saudi relations.
Ensaf Haidar said the Canadian government did the right thing in granting refugee status to the 18-year-old woman who drew global attention after fleeing her allegedly abusive family.
“I’m happy for her,” Haidar said in a phone interview. “I’m very proud of Canada, too. That’s what a democratic country is.”
A day I won’t soon forget…
So happy to see Rahaf walking through the doors at Toronto’s Pearson airport embarking on her new life in Canada. 🇨🇦
So proud to work in support of @Refugees in Canada and everywhere. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/hpETiiFa23
— Lauren La Rose (@lauren_larose) January 12, 2019
Haidar, who lives in Quebec with her three children, said she didn’t believe Canada’s acceptance of Alqunun would hurt her husband’s chances of release, because the two cases are “very different.”
Alqunun landed in Toronto on Saturday, after gaining international prominence after she fled her family on a trip to Kuwait and flew to Bangkok, where she barricaded herself in an airport hotel and launched a Twitter campaign outlining allegations of abuse against her relatives.
Alqunun said her father physically abused her and tried to force her into an arranged marriage.
The young woman landed in Canada on what was a symbolic week for Badawi, who was arrested on June 17, 2012, and was later sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for his criticism of Saudi clerics.
Sunday was the blogger’s 35th birthday, and last week marked three years since he received 50 lashes in January 2015 during a public flogging.
He is not believed to have received any more corporal punishment since then.
Some have suggested Canada’s decision to accept Alqunun could heighten tensions that peaked over the summer when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expelled Canada’s ambassador and withdrew his own envoy after Canada’s foreign affairs minister used Twitter to call for the release of arrested women’s rights activists.
But other experts, such as University of Waterloo professor Bessma Momani, have said the relationship with the Saudi government has deteriorated to the point where the decision to accept Alqunun no longer poses much risk.
VIDEO: Foreign affairs minister welcomes ‘brave new Canadian’ as Saudi teen arrives in Toronto
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada would stand up for human rights regardless of diplomatic consequences.
Haidar said she hasn’t met Alqunun, but she’s followed her case on social media and advocated for Canada to accept her.
Haidar is also one of three people who started a GoFundMe page to help raise money to help Alqunun begin her new life.
Haidar, now a prominent human rights activist, says she’s not giving up on her husband’s release either.
Later this week she is scheduled to meet with Trudeau, where she’ll once again press him to grant Badawi Canadian citizenship.
Roxanne Ocampo, The Canadian Press
Young professionals leaving Vancouver over high cost of housing
Study shows black bears need a variety of salmon species to be healthy
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12958
|
__label__wiki
| 0.746785
| 0.746785
|
Politics selected
Filling in the Brexit blanks
Laura Kuenssberg Political editor @bbclaurak on Twitter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37536289
Eighty one days ago she was on the steps of Downing Street as prime minister for the first time.
One hundred days ago the country made the decision that led to her moving in.
Theresa May has appeared dozens of times on Tory conference platforms before, but before she uttered a word, this afternoon marked an occasion that will matter to the party's history.
She may not have been elected as prime minister, but with four years until the next general election, far from sticking to David Cameron's plan she plans not to waste a minute implementing her agenda.
It will be far from easy - former ministers are already muttering about her direction. She has a tiny majority, and no individual mandate for her reforms.
But on the biggest challenge before her, taking the UK out of the European Union, Theresa May still is characteristically reticent.
Image caption Theresa May yet to confirm the government position on the single market
She filled in some of the blanks about the timing of the process that will take us out of the European Union - giving the promise of a grandly-titled act of Parliament that in truth, is largely an expected piece of admin.
But there is still no clear position evident from government about our position inside or outside the free trade area, the single market - just the holding pattern that's been articulated by different ministers many times, albeit with different emphases.
Today the prime minister made it clear that the UK would no longer be under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, another hint perhaps underlining the expectation that we won't be in the single market.
Hard to give
However, ministers have told me escaping the ECJ rules don't preclude trading inside the single market.
Sources point to Norway, which trades freely but is not a member of the court. The broad principle is all that we can be sure of - simply, ministers will make it as easy as possible for businesses to keep trading in the EU, but there will have to be new immigration controls too.
And many EU countries will find that combination hard to give.
Yet today was about the moment, not the meaning. Theresa May made it clear she'll resist any attempts by politicians to unpick the referendum result, or attempts by Eurosceptics to speed ahead with a rapid exit, and indeed any effort by the SNP to use Brexit as a way of accelerating the case for Scottish independence.
But on what precisely she wants to achieve in the negotiation? It may only be day one in Birmingham, but don't expect that much will be given away.
It's clear now the legal niceties - or nasties - of leaving the EU will begin within six months. We do now know more about when, but still not quite what.
Politics Sections
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12962
|
__label__wiki
| 0.939905
| 0.939905
|
Man dies after being found in street with serious injuries near NCP car park
Paramedics raced to the scene to reports of a man lying on the floor in the street close to the multi-storey car park
James RodgerHead of Trends
A man found with serious injuries in a city centre street has died.
West Midlands Ambulance Service had multiple calls to Dale End at 8.41am today.
Paramedics raced to the scene to reports of a man lying on the floor in the street close to the multi-storey car park.
Pictures from the scene showed a number of police cars and an ambulance in attendance.
Diversions were put in place while police deal with the incident .
(Image: Birmingham Live)
Pictures showed three patrol cars and a number of officers at the scene.
Updates: Police cordon off part of Dale End near NCP car park after incident
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: "Police were called to reports of a man falling from a car park on Dalton Street, Birmingham, at 8.40am this morning (25 June).
"The road and surrounding roads are currently closed while emergency services are at the scene."
The force later confirmed the man had died from his injuries.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We had multiple calls to Dale End at 8.41am this morning to reports of a man lying on the floor in the street close to the multi-storey car park.
“The Midlands Air Ambulance Critical Care Car has been sent to the scene as well and the Midlands Air Ambulance car with doctor on board is also on route to the scene.
“We also have a paramedic officer at the scene. An off duty doctor and nurse is also at the scene.
“The man has got very serious injuries and is currently receiving treatment at the scene.”
Midlands Air Ambulance
West Midlands Ambulance Service
CrimeKevin Spacey sex assault case dropped by prosecutorsSpacey denied the allegations
Midlands NewsFormer PC Christopher Dunn collected sick photo collection of police cadets as young as 12Christopher Dunn, 33, of Swinton, Greater Manchester, manipulated some of the collected images
National LotteryLotto results: Winning National Lottery numbers for Wednesday July 17The numbers have been revealed by National Lottery Lotto operator Camelot for tonight's draw on Wednesday, July 17
universal creditAmber Rudd has change of heart over Universal Credit five-week wait and says it could be cutThe Work and Pensions Secretary explained why the delay was introduced but says people should get their funds earlier
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12969
|
__label__cc
| 0.564741
| 0.435259
|
2019 AFL: Round 4 Sydney vs Melbourne Preview & Betting Tips
April 11th 2019, 11:32am, By: PuntingInDanger
Round 4 in the 2019 AFL season is set to be an exciting one with some massive clashes on the cards. The round gets underway on Thursday night as Sydney host Melbourne, who are still searching for their first win of the season after being an early premiership contender.
There is a bunch of great AFL content and resources available at Before You Bet this week, so hit the links below if you want to check any of it out!
- AFL Rolling Premiership Odds Comparison (BetEasy, Ladbrokes, Sportsbet, TAB)
- AFL Round 4 Odds
- AFL Friday Night: Collingwood vs Western Bulldogs Betting Tips (Coming Soon)
- AFL Saturday Slate Betting Tips (Coming Soon)
- AFL Sunday Slate Betting Tips (Coming Soon)
AFL Round 4 Sydney vs Melbourne Betting Tips
Thursday 11th of April, 7.20pm AEST, SCG
Will the Swans make it two in a row in Sydney this Thursday night or can the Demons finally get their season rolling with a win?
After disappointing losses in the first two rounds of the season, the Swans finally got on the board in 2019 with a hard fought win over Carlton in Round 3. The win might set more worry in the hearts of Swans fans than relief, however, as they stumbled over the line against a Blues side that has to be thought of a real bottom four contender this season.
Reigning best and fairest winner Jake Lloyd was resolute in defence, racking up 32 disposals while Josh Kennedy dominated the midfield battle with 31 touches and a goal. It was young star Isaac Heeney who proved to be the difference for the Swans though, racking up 26 touches, 8 marks and 4 goals in the win.
Full back Heath Grundy could be a big addition after missing the clash with Carlton on the weekend while key players Daniel Menzel and Nick Smith are still without a return timetable. Other than that, the Swans injury list is actually one of best in the league at the moment and although they are just 1-2, probably deserve to be favourites on Thursday night.
Melbourne has been without doubt the disappointment of the 2019 AFL season so far. After many pundits had them winning the premiership this season, they have suffered losses to the Power, Cats and Bombers by an average margin of just over 41 points. The road doesn’t get much easier for the Demons, with games against the Swans, Tigers, Hawks, Eagles, Giants, Crows and Magpies in their next nine games.
Angus Brayshaw was a shining light for the Demons against the Bombers. The 23-year-old racked up 34 touches and a goal to claim best on ground honours for the Demons. Melbourne’s offence also looked a lot better than it did in the first two rounds. They managed to put up a combined 107 points against Port Adelaide and Geelong but kicked 18.4 against the Bombers as JamesHarmes and Jayden Hunt booted three each.
The Demons injury list is a real issue at the moment. Jeff Garlett could return to the line-up this weekend but the Demons will still be without Jake Lever, Jordan Lewis, Steven May, Mitch Hannan and Charlie Spargo.
2018 Round 21 – Melbourne (10.18.78) lost to Sydney (13.9.87)
2017 Round 15 – Melbourne (7.8.50) lost to Sydney (11.19.85)
2016 Round 13 – Sydney (12.14.86) defeated Melbourne (4.7.31)
2015 Round 6 – Melbourne (7.8.50) lost to Sydney (12.16.88)
2014 Round 6 – Melbourne (5.8.38) lost to Sydney (9.15.69)
2013 Round 15 – Melbourne (13.7.85) lost to Sydney (16.20.116)
2012 Round 8 – Sydney (21.12.138) defeated Melbourne (5.7.37)
Amazingly, the Swans have won their last seven games against the Demons dating all the way back to 2011. Their most recent matchup came in Round 21 last season where Sydney ran slaimed a tight 9 point win at the MCG. The game will be played on Sydney’s turf this time around, although the Swans were comfortably beaten at the SCG by the Adelaide Crows in Round 2.
Tough to side with the Demons with their form at the moment, but Sydney could just as easily be 0-3 if it weren’t for the schedule tossing up a game against Carlton on the weekend in which they barely managed a win. Sydney’s offence has been a major concern, they put up just 63.5 points per game in their first two matches and struggled to score consistently against the Blues on the weekend as well.
In a battle of two majorly out of form teams, we are going to take the home side to get the job done.
TIP: Sydney -5.5 - $1.90 at Sportsbet
Where to bet on AFL in Australia
The best Australian sportsbooks are providing a great range of AFL betting promotions this season. Take full advantage of these promos while they are on offer to give you the best chance of a profitable season!
Over at BetEasy, if you place a 4+ leg Head-to-Head multi on AFL Round 18 matches and miss by one leg, you'll get your stake back as a Bonus Bet up to $50! Click here for more info!
For any Round 18 AFL matches on Friday and Saturday, place a Head-to-Head bet & if your team is 12 POINTS UP OR MORE at ANY BREAK, Sportsbet pay you out as a winner straight away!
TopBetta
Proudly 100% Australian owned, TopBetta are a great sportsbook to try out if you're looking to bet on AFL this season. Featuring quality markets and competitive odds, TopBetta also run tournaments where you can compete against other punters in real money contests. Recommended!
Always read the terms and conditions of any promotion carefully. Promotions may not be available to all states.
Warwick Farm Racing Tips: Wednesday, July 17th
We're back at Warwick Farm this Wednesday for the midweek racing preview and we'll hopefully be on a drier surface than previous weeks! Check out our race-by-race preview and tips here read more
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12980
|
__label__cc
| 0.584904
| 0.415096
|
Sherri Hill Prom Dresses
Sherri Hill Prom Dresses - Style 51755
Sherri Hill Prom Dresses, Spring 2018.
Sherri Hill's vision, talent and attention to every last detail brought her tremendous success as an evening wear designer, and in 2008 Sherri and her family founded the Sherri Hill label, which she still leads today ensuring that every Sherri Hill design is made to the highest standards. With a corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas and design studios/showrooms in New York City and Atlanta, Sherri Hill serves a global market with a strong following in more than 30 countries worldwide. Sherri Hill's stunning and fashion-forward dresses have made a serious impression in Hollywood, with big name celebs like Selena Gomez, Bella Thorne, Renee Olmstead, Diana Argon, Miranda Lambert, Laura Bell Bundy, Martina McBride, and Carrie Underwood - just to name a few -- wearing her designs onstage and on the red carpet. The exciting thing about Sherri Hill designs, however, is that the luxe fabrics, chic cuts and gorgeous glittering embellishments are offered at price points to suit nearly every girl -- meaning you don't have to be a celebrity to look like one.
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 December, 2017.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12982
|
__label__wiki
| 0.518629
| 0.518629
|
About Bett
Bett Awards
Exhibit at Bett
Apply for a stand
Bett Futures
BESA Pavilion
Visit Bett
Accommodation offer
Call for Content 2020
Bett Arena
Schools Theatre
Higher & Further Education Theatre
Tech in Action
2019 Suppliers
Worldwide partner Microsoft
Bett & Learnit
Lin Education
London ExCel
Quick links (trigger)
Bett press releases GROUNDBREAKING AI LEARNING PLATFORM LAUNCHED IN LEBANON
GROUNDBREAKING AI LEARNING PLATFORM LAUNCHED IN LEBANON
20 Sep 2018 by: CENTURY Tech CENTURY
The Ministry of Education, Lebanon, and U.K. AI-Education company, CENTURY-tech, announce an exciting launch of artificial intelligence technology in schools in Lebanon.
On September 7th and 8th, 2018, CENTURY Tech joined eleven other British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) members in Lebanon on the largest education mission since 2012. The delegates visited local schools and met with officials and ministers. The mission sought to explore use of UK Edtech in Lebanese education systems.
During the course of the visit, members of London-based CENTURY Tech’s team and it’s Founder and CEO Priya Lakhani launched the groundbreaking AI-driven learning platform in a group of public schools as a pilot after months of planning with the Ministry of Education. Lakhani noted ‘concerted, strategic effort went into planning this pilot. It’s thanks to the dedication of all in the partnership that we launch the programme today; confident we’re providing the schools a powerful, timely means to effective education.’
This new partnership builds on the platform’s established success in the United Kingdom and across international schools globally. CENTURY Tech’s growing international profile speaks to the platform’s versatility in providing effective personalised education to students in any context. CENTURY’s mission is to deliver exceptional education for every child regardless of background or experience, and now the team have proved location is no barrier to the breadth of their vision. His Excellency, Minister Hamade, Ministry of Education in Lebanon enthused, 'this exciting opportunity to use artificial intelligence in four of our schools is very timely from our perspective, as the effective use of technology is a common element across every theme that the Ministry of Education and Higher Education is working on.'
Over the last few years, Lebanon has proved itself as a country actively using technology for rapid social and structural growth and is addressing the need for accessible, effective education for the country’s population of Syrian and Palestinian refugee children. Lebanon has more refugees per capita than any country in the world. It’s integral solutions are found to ensure that all children in Lebanon are secured an exceptional education.
This new pilot project will provide Lebanese public schools access to CENTURY Tech’s innovative personalised learning platform, ensuring a top-tier education is accessible to all children.
Mr. Yarak, Director General of the Ministry of Education, Lebanon noted the project’s particular aptitude to 'combine two of the tenets of the Ministry’s 2030 Strategy: evidence-based decision-making and the integration of technology into education to improve learning outcomes. Through real-time data, educators will be able to identify student’s learning needs, monitor their performance, and adjust teaching accordingly.'
View all Bett press releases
Show Publication Partner
Wed 22 Jan: 10:00 - 18:00
Thu 23 Jan: 10:00 - 18:00
Fri 24 Jan: 10:00 - 18:00
Sat 25 Jan: 10:00 - 15:00
ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock
1 Western Gateway,
London E16 1XL,
About ITE Group
Fairguide warning
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12986
|
__label__wiki
| 0.644179
| 0.644179
|
Urbanski named PGCBL's top pro prospect by Perfect Game
By Ari Kramer - September 26, 2013
A prestigious baseball organization known for exposing players to major league clubs, Perfect Game said Urbanski displayed the best velocity, breaking ball and command in the PGCBL and ranked him ahead of ...
Baseball head coach reviews season's successes
By Erik Bacharach - June 5, 2013
Binghamton overcame a 4-4 start to conference play en route to its second America East tournament championship in five years. ...
No. 23 Ole Miss eliminates baseball from NCAA tourney
By Ari Kramer - June 1, 2013
Binghamton’s eighth-inning rally fell short, and the Bearcats lost to No. 23 Ole Miss on Saturday at North Carolina State’s Doak Field in an NCAA Regional elimination game. With the defeat, Binghamton,...
Baseball captures America East title, advances to NCAA tournament
By Ari Kramer - May 26, 2013
For the first time since 2009, the Binghamton baseball team earned the America East's bid to the NCAA tournament. ...
Baseball clinches No. 2 seed for AE tourney
Sophomore left fielder Jake Thomas belted two two-run homers, and the Binghamton baseball team took Saturday’s series finale against Albany, 10-3, at Varsity Field. With the victory, the Bearcats (27-22, 16-13 America...
Baseball drops series to Maine
By Erik Bacharach - May 12, 2013
Maine spoiled the Binghamton baseball team’s hopes of clinching a playoff spot this weekend, taking two of three from the Bearcats (25-21, 14-12 America East) at the Bearcats Sports Complex. ...
Binghamton drops last two non-conference games
By Ashley Purdy - May 3, 2013
The Binghamton baseball team squared off for two final non-conference matchups against Marist and Siena at the Bearcats Sports Complex on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, losing each game by seven runs. ...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12989
|
__label__wiki
| 0.970803
| 0.970803
|
Water crisis could worsen India's bad loan problem, says WWF report
NIA court shouldn't have accepted photocopies as proof in Malegaon case: HC
Final hearing on pleas against 16% Maratha quota from Feb 6: Bombay HC
The state government shall till then not make any appointment in any of its departments under the new legislation, the court said
Press Trust of India | Mumbai Last Updated at January 23, 2019 18:11 IST
https://mybs.in/2X32qPJ
Marathas to get reservation in jobs, education institutes: Maharashtra CM
State scan: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis up against Maratha challenge
Maratha quota stir: Internet blocked in Navi Mumbai after clashes, arson
Maratha quota stir: Mumbai bandh today; Navi Mumbai, Panvel to also be shut
Maratha quota stir makes Mumbai tense; buses attacked, slogans against CM
The Bombay High Court Wednesday said it would commence final hearing from February 6 into a bunch of petitions challenging the Maharashtra government's decision of granting 16 per cent quota to Maratha community in state-run jobs and education.
The state government shall till then not make any appointment in any of its departments under the new legislation, the court said.
A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Bharati Dangre said it would decide on January 28 whether the petitioners should be given the entire copy of the report on Maratha quota submitted by the Backward Classes Commission or a truncated version.
Government counsel V A Thorat and state Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni had expressed apprehensions over giving the entire report to the petitioners.
"We are ready to submit the entire report, running into 4,000 pages to the court. However, there are some 20 pages in the report pertaining to Maratha community's history which we do not wish to put in public domain. We fear it would create communal tension and law and order problem," Kumbhakoni said.
The bench directed the state to submit the whole report to the court on Wednesday.
"We will peruse it and then decide on January 28 whether the petitioners should get the whole report or a truncated version," Justice More said.
"We will start the final hearing into the petitions from February 6. The state government shall till that date continue its statement that no appointments would be made," the court said.
On the last date of hearing on December 19, 2018, Thorat had made a statement on behalf of the government that no appointments shall be made till January 23.
Thorat Wednesday told the court that the government was not willing to continue with this statement.
"There is a massive backlog of vacancies in government jobs which needs to be filled immediately. We will make appointments, but they shall be subject to final orders of this court," he said.
The bench, however, rebuked Thorat and said if the government was not willing to continue its statement, the court would be compelled to pass orders.
Thorat then agreed to continue the statement till February 6.
The bench was hearing a bunch of petitions on the Maratha quota issue.
While few of the petitions challenged the government's decision to provide 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and educational institutions to the Maratha community, several others were filed in support of it.
On November 30, 2018, the Maharashtra legislature had passed a Bill proposing 16 per cent reservation in education and government jobs for the Marathas, declared as socially and educationally backward class by the government.
The government had last week filed its affidavit in the petitions and justified its decision by saying that it was meant to alleviate the community from its social and economic backwardness.
Marathas, a politically-influential community constituting around 30 per cent of the state's population, have been demanding reservation in jobs and education.
Maratha Quota
Backward Classes Commission
Quota Reservation
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12990
|
__label__wiki
| 0.710966
| 0.710966
|
A 78-year-old German man was hiding a 44-ton Nazi tank in his basement
Paul Szoldra,
A Nazi Panther tank on display in Panzermuseum Munster, Germany
baku13 via Wikimedia Commons
Plenty of people collect World War II memorabilia and small trinkets, but a 78-year-old man in Germany was found with something much bigger: A 44-ton tank.
Acting on a tip, police in northern Germany raided the man's house on Thursday and found a treasure trove of Nazi military gear inside the man's cellar, including a Panther tank, a torpedo, and an anti-aircraft gun. How he got it down into his cellar was not clear, but it took 20 soldiers nearly nine hours to haul everything out, according to the BBC.
In the nearby city of Kiel, prosecutors were still trying to figure out whether the weapons violate the country's War Weapons Control Act, which requires military weaponry to be licensed.
Interestingly enough, a guy having a tank as a personal vehicle was somewhat of an open secret in the town.
"He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978," Heikendorf Mayor Alexander Orth told local media. "Some people like steam trains, others like tanks."
Read the original article on We Are The Mighty. Copyright 2019. Follow We Are The Mighty on Twitter.
SEE ALSO: Meet the 5 Russian generals already fighting the new Cold War
NOW WATCH: Russia reveals new high-tech weapon vehicles in a rehearsal for the country's biggest military parade
More: We Are The Mighty Germany Military Defense
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12991
|
__label__cc
| 0.650755
| 0.349245
|
Bella & Dani Thorn Have Fabulous, Laid Back Style
By Kali Borovic
Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
Two is always better than one, isn't it? Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and Elle and Dakota Fanning are just some of the many stylish sister duos that come to mind, but Bella and Dani Thorne are on underrated pairing. Their fashion sensibilities seem to have rubbed off on each other over the years, so much so that you might think they're twins if you don't look closely.
Although the two have their own separate careers, they have sister telepathy when it comes to their clothing. With a laid back vibe to all their outfits, the two stay comfy while looking gorgeous at the same time. Dani even runs her own fashion blog called Dani Thorne's World, where she shares some of her favorite images of herself along with other pop culture photos from around the web. The 22-year-old has shown off her styles in Teen Vogue and the cover of Bello , and I can only imagine that she's inspired some of her sister's looks as well.
The two might not be seen together often, but their Instagrams are almost identical to each other in style. From fabulous accessories to quirky tees, they have a ton in common when it comes to styling outfits. You'll have to take a close look to be able to tell this stylish duo apart.
1. Rocking Stripes
Bella opted for a matching two piece in red, white, and blue.
Dani picked the same color scheme, but a brighter print.
2. All-Black Styling
The younger of the two rocked head to toe black, from her shades to her boots.
It looks like sleek and sophisticated runs in the family, because Dani's all-black look was on-point.
3. Matching White Tees
A white tee and jeans doesn't get any simpler, but the styling amped up Bella's airport look.
Swapping stilettos for converse, this big sis looked causal and cool in her white tee.
4. Stylish Shades
Bella opted for a pair of oversized sunnies in a bright red color.
Dani's shades might be a lighter color, but they're just as over-the-top as her little sister's.
5. Lots Of Denim
Denim-on-denim is nothing new for this queen of laid-back style.
Also known for her comfy-cool style, Dani's Instagram is filled with different denim looks.
These two could be twins from, their accessories to their clothing!
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12992
|
__label__cc
| 0.607615
| 0.392385
|
Logistics/Transportation
Messenger in Oklahoma City, OK at Brink's
Inside every iconic Brink’s truck is a team working for each other, their customers and our historic legacy. Every stop, every customer, every day—matters. We’re working on the front lines of commerce. It’s a responsibility we gladly embrace with independence and empowerment. We do it because it makes us proud. Brink’s Proud.
As a Messenger at Brink’s, you’ll partner with another team member in the safe pick-up and delivery of cash and valuables. You’ll work to ensure every stop runs with precision and professionalism.
Your Role as a Messenger
We’re the backbone of modern finance, transporting high-value goods to banks and businesses with a significant level of responsibility. Our Messengers work in a performance-oriented environment and take ownership of vital work that protects cash liabilities and helps businesses run.
Additional responsibilities include:
•Deliver or pick up valuables at customer locations
•Dispatch personnel to ensure successful transactions
•Remain alert and prepared at all times, not only protecting the crew or premises against attack, but also watching for accidents that could result in a loss
•Reconcile customer deposits and receipts of all valuables handled during daily business
•Other duties as directed
The Skills You Need
We’re looking for professionals who fulfill the promise of our brand. A promise to uphold the integrity of our legacy and embrace our future. A promise to work with authority and confidence. A promise to respect the trust we’ve earned and pay it forward with the work we do. Messengers operate in an armed environment with armored vehicles. A valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record are required.
Additional requirements include:
•At least 21 years of age
•Completion of all Department of Transportation requirements
•Guard card OR ability to obtain a guard card or any other required licenses
•Chauffeur’s license OR ability to obtain one (Indiana, Louisiana and Michigan residents only)
•Ability to lift at least 50 pounds and all other essential job functions as measured by the Brink’s Human Performance Evaluation.
Are you cut from the Brink’s cloth? We prefer candidates with either messenger or professional driving experience. Preference is also given to candidates with protective service or military background.
A Career Worth Building
At Brink’s, we value our team members and offer our Messengers local routes that allow them to spend more time at home. We invest in growth and opportunity by providing world-class training opportunities both locally and globally, such as Brink’s University. We also believe in cross-training our team members in order to ensure diverse skillsets.
Other benefits of building your career at Brink’s include:
•Insurance, including health, dental and life
•401(k) with company match
•Paid vacation
•A strong, team-oriented culture
•The strength and stability of our 150+ year history
About Brink’s
Brink’s is the global leader in security and logistics services, trusted by banks, financial institutions and businesses in both public and private sectors. We deliver the currency of the world to businesses in our communities. We do it because we’re needed. We do it because we’re trusted and valued. We do it because it makes us proud. Brink’s Proud.
Upon completion of the application process, you will receive an email confirming that we have received your application. We will review all candidates and notify all qualified candidates of their status. Thank you again for your interest in a career at Brink’s U.S. For more information about future career opportunities, join our talent network, like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter.
Brink’s is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or history or any other characteristic protected by law. Brink’s is also committed to providing a drug-free workplace.
Courier Jobs
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12994
|
__label__wiki
| 0.962025
| 0.962025
|
Gigi Hadid and Khloé Kardashian Are Bringing Back Carrie Bradshaw’s Nameplate
Arielle Tschinkel · Aug 16, 2018
When it comes to style trends, it’s not a secret that the ’90s are back in a big way. But one celebrity jeweler explains why we’re all about to take a page directly out of Carrie Bradshaw’s jewelry book. Her beloved nameplate necklace is making a comeback, and it has already been given a 2018 twist thanks to cool girls like Gigi Hadid, Khloé Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and even Beyoncé.
I’m feeling the diamond nameplate with the Cuban link! DM me for pricing #14k #gold #necklace #baller #bling #gigihadid #diamond #diamonds #georgethejeweler
A post shared by George Khalife (@georgethejeweler) on Mar 29, 2018 at 2:10pm PDT
George ‘the Jeweler’ Khalife told Us Weekly that so many of his A-list clients are coveting personalized jewelry these days, explaining that “Gigi and Khloe both love my gold chokers and Virgin Mary medals,” he says, adding, “Both of them are such iconic women and I think all women love to have something that no other woman has. The thing I love most about this trend is that I’m able to create something unique for each person.”
And while Hadid has been known to sport a Zayn necklace in honor of her on-again, off-again beau, she’s also worn a matching nameplate necklace with her bestie Jenner. Kardashian has rocked several variations of the nameplate necklace, wearing a Koko necklace honoring her nickname, as well as a Tristan necklace for boyfriend Tristan Thompson and a True necklace for her daughter.
DMV Vibes
Kardashian also famously wore her Koko necklace in her driver’s license pic, because what better way to pose for an ID photo?
Of course, the nameplate necklace is not a new trend, as nameplate necklaces were made popular by women of color in the ’80s and brought to mainstream pop culture first on MTV and then by Carrie Bradshaw in the late ’90s. Sex and the City fans will no doubt remember the horrifying moment in the series finale when Bradshaw lost her iconic necklace, devastated because, “It costs, like, nothing, but it’s priceless.”
Costume designer Patricia Field revealed that she had no idea how iconic Carrie’s gold necklace would become, telling InStyle in 2015, “I have a shop in New York City, and a lot of the kids in the neighborhood wore them. I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll show it to Sarah Jessica and she’ll like the idea.’ She did, and she made it happen. It became a universal, long-lasting thing,” adding, “I think there’s a trend now toward smaller pieces, and the name necklace fits within that genre. Names are timeless. Every woman has one: young, old, short, or tall.”
Some things just never go out of style.
Would you rock a nameplate necklace in 2018? Sound off over @BritandCo.
(Photos via Tom Kingston + JB Lacroix/WireImage)
Arielle Tschinkel is a pop culture junkie who went to NYU because the Olsen twins went to NYU (really). She is a freelance writer whose work has also been featured on HelloGiggles, Refinery29, SheKnows, Bustle, Hollywood.com, and many others; and she's living her dream one Britney Spears GIF at a time. Follow her on Twitter @mrstschinkel or visit her website at arielletschinkel.com.
Trends and Inspo, Fashion
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12995
|
__label__wiki
| 0.939239
| 0.939239
|
Mythic (Original London Cast Recording) [MP3]
Hear the original London cast recording of the musical critics called “energetically infectious” and “a success of divine proportion.” MYTHIC, a new pop/rock musical comedy by Marcus Stevens (Book and Lyrics) and Oran Eldor (Music and Orchestrations), turns the ancient Greek story of Persephone on it’s side, with the gods as chart-topping rock stars, power-hungry politicians and professional VIPs.
In a world of Olympian celebrity, teenage Persephone struggles between her mother Demeter’s expectations and a desire to find her own path. But her wish for independence comes back to bite her when she gets trapped in the Hell with Greece’s perennial bad boy, Hades. The journey that follows is an offbeat, emotionally-charged tale for ancient and modern times.
"Each song could be a hit single in its own right.” — The Stage
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line12996
|
__label__wiki
| 0.757606
| 0.757606
|
Biography: Sport
Walking, Hiking, Trekking
46 Days : Keeping Up With Jennifer Pharr Davis on the Appalachian Trail
3.53 (296 ratings by Goodreads)
By (author) Jennifer Pharr Davis , By (author) Brew Davis
US$9.37 US$12.95 You save US$3.58
Available. Dispatched from the UK in 2 business days
46 Days chronicles the trials, successes, joys, and frustrations of Jennifer Pharr Davis's record-winning Appalachian Trail thru-hike through the eyes of her husband, Brew Davis. Brew lead her pit crew, the group of generous, loving hikers who supported Jen along the way, providing company along the epic trail and as much food as Jen could stomach. Experience the trek with Jen and Brew as they battle shin splints and a stomach scare that threatens to end the attempt early, encounter wildlife at every turn, and meet the colorful cast of characters that help Jen complete her journey. 46 Days also includes an introduction and afterword by Jennifer with first-hand reflections on her life-changing voyage.
Dimensions 139 x 208 x 28mm | 290g
Publisher Beaufort Books
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Edition Statement First Edition
Bestsellers rank 1,176,037
About Jennifer Pharr Davis
Jennifer Pharr Davis grew up in the North Carolina Mountains, where she developed a love for hiking at a young age. At age twenty-one, Jennifer hiked the entire Appalachian Trail as a solo female and fell in love with long-distance backpacking. Jennifer holds endurance records including the women's Appalachian Trail record, completing the trail in fifty-seven days.Brew Davis is Jennifer Pharr Davis's husband and the head of her support team during her record-winning Appalachian Trail thru-hike. He is a teacher, and continues to hike with Jen as much as possible. Brew lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, who is the owner and founder of Blue Ridge Hiking Co.
5 20% (59)
3 34% (100)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13003
|
__label__wiki
| 0.69721
| 0.69721
|
All posts by Jacob Dressler
Home / Articles posted by Jacob Dressler (Page 8)
Full Moon Features is Releasing Oasis of the Lost Girls
By Jacob Dressler on May 18, 2018
Most horror fans are already familiar with Charles Band’s Full Moon Features; a production company notable for the Puppet Master franchise, Subspecies series, and plenty...
Why Ash vs Evil Dead Has a Great Ending
By Jacob Dressler on May 2, 2018
While most fans are disappointed with the ending for Ash vs Evil Dead, I’d argue that it is more appropriate for the franchise than most...
By Jacob Dressler on March 30, 2018
It’s been a long time, Brain Mutant fans. But fear not – for this website’s journey has only just begun. My mission with Brain Mutant...
Brain Mutant’s New Look and the Risky Future Ahead
By Jacob Dressler on December 13, 2017
As some of you may know, I’ve been struggling to build Brain Mutant as a brand over the past year. My work hasn’t quite paid...
Joe Hill’s TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE Reboot Should’ve Been Made
By Jacob Dressler on November 6, 2017
As a kid I would consume any horror movie or series I’d be able to get my hands on. By the time I saw Tales...
George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead DEMANDS New Release
This has been on my mind almost endlessly since before George Romero died, and even more so since. The man created the modern zombie and...
You Can’t Kill Brain Mutant: A Horror Blogger’s Return
It’s been almost a year since I’ve posted an article on this, my official Brain Mutant website. This is about to change – and not...
PARENTS Comes to Blu-Ray With Vestron Video Collector’s Series… Full Specs and Features Announced!
By Jacob Dressler on November 22, 2016
I think it’s safe to say that my first time watching Parents was one of the strangest moments in my life. It happened late at...
[Review] ‘Phantasm V: Ravager’ is Far Out, Man!
By Jacob Dressler on October 4, 2016
There are few franchises like the Phantasm series. Despite their incoherent nature, the films possess a strong continuity – something that continues to be present...
Leatherface and His Family Return in Full Length Fan Film ‘Dog Will Hunt’!
By Jacob Dressler on September 28, 2016
I’ve always loved the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. There was something about the rural landscapes, Leatherface’s creepy personality, and his zany family which always...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13008
|
__label__cc
| 0.596633
| 0.403367
|
Judicial Council Cool to Open Meetings Proposal
Posted by Terry Francke, General Counsel | Dec 17, 2013 | Awareness Area: Justice, Legal Issue: Open Courts, Legal Issue: Open Government, News | 0 |
The California Judicial Council, governing body of the state court system, has shown itself reluctant to adopt a proposed rule that would open meetings of its standing and other advisory committees—where most court policy development takes place—to public phone monitoring or attendance. The Council was asked by the Legislature to report progress toward such a rule on January 1. The Legislative Analyst’s Office encouraged the Council to take the initiative when Governor Brown this fall vetoed a budget rider that would have required open advisory meetings. But, as reported by Maria Dinzeo for Courthouse News Service and lamented by the Alliance of California Judges, the Council was cool toward the recommended access rules outlined in the when it met last Thursday in San Francisco. Californians Aware commented on the first draft of the proposed rules in November but expressed encouragement that they were even being considered.
PreviousGreetings and Gratitude for However Much You Give
NextRemembering Old Acquaintances—and New
Terry Francke, General Counsel
Terry Francke has a 38-year history of helping journalists, citizens and public officials understand and use their First Amendment and open government rights. With CalAware, Francke has authored comprehensive and authoritative guidebooks to California law on access to government meetings and public records and the news gathering and publication rights of journalists. Focusing on these issues in public forum law, he supervises CalAware's legislative and litigation initiatives; conducts workshops on legal compliance; helps design public records audits; supports local sunshine ordinance drafting efforts; writes CalAware Today, a blog on current developments and proposals in the law and best practices; and answers countless queries by phone and e-mail from citizens, journalists, public officials and employees, and lawyers. Francke previously served 14 years as executive director and general counsel to the California First Amendment Coalition, after a 10-year post as legal counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association. He has served as an advisory panel member to the National Center on Courts and the Media; taught journalism law at the Department of Communication at Stanford University; and served as an expert contributor to the 1994 major revisions to the Ralph M. Brown Act and the 2004 ballot proposition making open government a basic right of citizens under the California Constitution. Francke is a 1967 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a 1979 graduate of McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. Prior to his legal career, Francke worked as a weekly newspaper editor and in military and local government public affairs positions.
High Court: Property Rights Decide Base Protester’s Fate
Public Information Barriers Small and Large
Covering Candidates' Paper Trails
Judge Closes Entire Civil Trial in Los Angeles
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13010
|
__label__cc
| 0.613895
| 0.386105
|
Risk Factors for Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancers
What Causes Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancers?
Can Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancers Be Prevented?
Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer
We don’t know what causes each case of laryngeal or hypopharyngeal cancer. But we do know many of the risk factors for these cancers (see Risk Factors for Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancers) and how some of them cause normal cells to become cancer.
Scientists believe that some risk factors, such as tobacco or heavy alcohol use, cause these cancers by damaging the DNA of the cells that line the inside of the larynx and hypopharynx.
DNA is the chemical in each of our cells that makes up our genes – the instructions for how our cells function. We usually look like our parents because they are the source of our DNA. But DNA affects more than how we look. Some genes have instructions for controlling when cells grow and divide into new cells. Genes that help cells grow and divide are called oncogenes. Genes that slow down cell division or cause cells to die at the right time are called tumor suppressor genes. Cancers can be caused by DNA changes that turn on oncogenes or turn off tumor suppressor genes.
Some people inherit DNA mutations (changes) from their parents that greatly increase their risk for developing certain cancers. But inherited gene mutations are not believed to cause very many cancers of the larynx or hypopharynx.
Gene changes related to these cancers usually happen during life, rather than being inherited. These acquired mutations often result from exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, like those found in tobacco smoke. An acquired change in the p16 tumor suppressor gene seems to be important in laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers, although not all these cancers have this change. Several different gene changes are probably needed for cancer to develop, and not all of these changes are understood at this time.
Inherited mutations of oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes rarely cause these cancers, but some people seem to inherit a reduced ability to detoxify (break down) certain types of cancer-causing chemicals. These people are more sensitive to the cancer-causing effects of tobacco smoke, alcohol, and certain industrial chemicals. Researchers are developing tests that may help identify such people, but these tests are not yet reliable enough for routine use.
Some forms of human papillomavirus (HPV) are important causes of some throat cancers (including cancers of the hypopharynx). The outlook for people with these cancers appears to be better than for people whose cancers are the result of tobacco or alcohol use.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. Head and Neck Cancers. Version 2.2017 -- May 8, 2017.
See all references for Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer
Last Medical Review: November 27, 2017 Last Revised: November 27, 2017
More In Laryngeal And Hypopharyngeal Cancer
About Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13017
|
__label__cc
| 0.50728
| 0.49272
|
Food, sex, and us
George F. Will calls Mary Eberstadt "intimidatingly intelligent." George must be easily intimidated these days, because Mary is one of the nicest (and funniest) people I know.
She's also our premier analyst of American cultural foibles and follies, with a keen eye for oddities that illuminate just how strange the country's moral culture has become.
In mid-2008, Mary penned the "The Vindication of Humanae Vitae," the best defense of the encyclical written on its 40th anniversary. (If you missed it, you can retrieve it at firstthings.com). Now, in Policy Review, she's written "Is Food the New Sex?" - a brilliant dissection of culinary puritanism and bedroom libertinism that includes the greatest subhead in recent magazine history: "Broccoli, Pornography and Kant." But don't let the invocation of the Sage of Koenigsberg put you off your feed, so to speak; the article is quite accessible to those who last encountered The Critique of Pure Reason via Cliff Notes.
Mary Eberstadt's argument is neatly conveyed by her fictitious, but telling, tale of two women.
Betty is 30-year-old Jennifer's grandmother. Imagine Betty when she was 30 - in, say, 1958. Betty didn't think about food a lot. She cooked and served her family lots of red meat, baked cookies and pies using refined sugar, gave the kids whole milk, got many of her vegetables out of tin cans, snuck in the occasional Swanson's TV dinner, and imagined that the only critical judgment involved in eating centered on the question, "Does it taste good?"
By contrast, her granddaughter Jennifer has settled opinions about food - lots of settled opinions, which she thinks of as moral judgments engaging serious questions of good and evil. She wouldn't ingest a bacon cheeseburger if she were starving. Swordfish steaks are forbidden, because swordfish are an endangered species. Frozen foods are for cannibals and Republicans; "organic" is in, refined sugar is out; tinned anything is yuck, because of both the food and the tin can.
On the other hand, if Betty imagined judgments about food to involve relatively trivial questions of taste, she knew that there was an area of domestic life in which grave questions of right and wrong really were involved - and they had to do with sex: sex outside marriage was bad, period. Jennifer, despite her moralizing about food and her censoriousness about lardbellies watching the Super Bowl while scarfing down potato chips and California dip, is unprepared to make moral judgments about sex the way Betty was. In fact, Jennifer believes that there are no serious moral judgments involved in sex (of whatever declination) "so long as no one else gets hurt."
Sex once involved taboos, transmitted by culture and powerfully enforced by society. Food is now taboo-ridden among upscale young people, while life for many American 30-somethings is a sexual free-fire zone. In that zone, moral judgments are not only eliminated but actively proscribed by strong taboos: "Why are you so judgmental?" "Why are you imposing your values on others?" Violate those taboos, and you risk the kind of ostracism once visited upon Hester Prynne.
What's going on here? Mary Eberstadt suggests that a weird inversion is underway, driven by unfocused but slightly guilty consciences: "The rules being drawn around food receive some force from the fact that people are uncomfortable with how far the sexual revolution has gone - and not knowing what to do about it, they turn for increasing consolation to mining morality out of what they eat."
When I was a teenager, one of the reasons Americans went to Europe was to eat, it being assumed that American cuisine was inferior. Which it was, in the main. Today, there are very, very few wonderfully edible things that you can't find in American stores and restaurants. Indeed, one of the signal improvements in American culture over the past two generations is its new respect for food. But better cooking and a deepened respect for the culinary arts are one thing; misplaced moral judgments are another. If Whole Foods is a culture's answer to the demise of the Sixth Commandment, that culture is suffering from moral indigestion.
Weigel is a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Pick a patron saint for the New Year
Three cheers for Lucas
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13026
|
__label__cc
| 0.516927
| 0.483073
|
Archives: December 2018
Top Programming Memes of 2019
Memes have turned into a global trend so we decided to do a special post on this issue and have selected some of the most beautiful memes of 2019 around the programming, we’ve collected these memes from the Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc…
We divided it into two sections, the first section is the best memes photos and the second section the best funny videos about programming.
Filed under: EntertainmentTagged with: fun, meme, memes, Programming
Best programming movies you wouldn’t want to miss
If you are a programmer and you are looking for movies then you are on the right page. When we choose movies, we all have our own tastes. When it comes to programmers, they prefer movies with the latest technology updates or the life stories of their favorite programmers. Here we have listed some of the most popular films by programmers and we have divided them into 4 different categories.
Computer Genuis
Computer Genius
We’ve devoted this category especially to people who pushed the technology up a bit, changing the way we think about life.
In this category we have listed movies that talk about the life or career of the most well-known people in the field of computer technology and programming.
1. The Imitation Game
During World War II. The mathematician Alan Turing joins a team of code-breakers at top-secret facilit to crack the code of the German enigma machine. With help from fellow mathematicians, in 2 years they invent a machine to decipher the enigma.
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi
Duration:114 min
2. Jobs
Jobs is a 2013 American biographical film inspired by Steve Jobs’s life. Steve is one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. He never let any obstacles preventing him from stepping on the way to the top.
Genres: Drama, Comedy
3. The Social Network
This film is about the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, createt by Mark Zuckerberg. Mark sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later forced out of the business.
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Costume
The virtual reality nowadays is very similar to real life and sometimes it is difficult to break the real life from the virtual one so this category is especially for this part.
In this category we have listed all the movies that have to do with virtual reality
1. The Call Up
The movie follows a group of gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game but things take a turn for the sinister when these masters of the shoot ’em up discover they will be fighting for their lives. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life.
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi
Duration:90 min
2. Gamer
The billionaire Ken Castle launches a mind-controlling shooter game “Slayers” in which humans controls real prisoners as avatars to fight the death. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free and therefor save mankind from Castle’s ruthless technology.
3. Avatar
Revolving around the adventure of Jake Sully, a paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, to collect information about moon Pandora for an invasion. In this planet, he falls in love with a girl, Neytiri from Pandora.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Hackers are a real threat they have the potential to do more damage than a whole army and can steal more money than a group of thieves.
In this category we have listed the best films with hackers.
1. Snowden
This movie is about an American computer professional, Edward Snowden. Edward work in National Security Agency. Who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
Genres: Action, Drama, Biography
2. I.T.
Mike Regan, a self-proclaimed millionaire. Owner of a successful company, a gorgeous wife and a beautiful teenage daughter but his life turned upside down after firing his information tegnology consultant. High-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant use his skills against Mike.
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
3. Hacker
Alex Danyliuk is from a small immigrant family and in a bad economy. With the help of his new friends, Alex Danyliuk turns to a life of crime and identity theft. They manage to make a legendary theft with a huge amount but how much is enough.
Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama
4. Blackhat
Set within the world of global cybercrime, a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners help hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. It becomes evident that the terrorist group of hacker have a sinister motive for their actions.
Genres: Action, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
5. The Fifth Estate
This movie is about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Wikileaks website expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
Genres: Biography, Drama, Thrille
With technological developments, artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly and it is not a long day where we will have a robot that will be similar to humans.
In this category are listed the best films with artificial intelligence.
1. Upgrade
In the near-future, technology controls almost all aspects of life. Grey’s wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed. His only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
2. Ex Machina
A young programmer working for one of the biggest internet companies, wins a competition to spend a week at the private estate of the company’s CEO, Nathan Bateman. Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that his is selected to participate in a strange experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of humanoid A.I. That experiment is Ava , a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more deceptive , seductive and more sophisticated than the two men could have imagined.
3. Chappie
In the near future in South Africa, humen police force will replace with mechanized police force.Deon Wilson is the creator of these robots and he wanted more than that, he wanted robots to think and feel like humans. Deon takes a robot illegally from his company, Chappie, to install his program but unfortunately Chappie falls into the hands of a group of criminals who learn him how to become a gangster and furthermore this robot had only a few days to live because his battery was broken.
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
4. Transcendence
Dr.Will Caster is scientist in the fild of Artificial Inteligence so his goal is to create an artificial intelligence with full range of humane emotion and collective intelligence of every person in the history of the world. Anti-technology extremists group “Rift” will do whatever to stop him. However, in their attempt to stop Caster they inadvertently become the impetus for him to succeed-to be a participant in his own transcendenc.
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
5. Blade Runner 2049
A young blade runner named K, who discovers the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. His discovery leads him to track down ex-blade runner Rick Deckard, a ex-blade runner who’s been missing for a long time.
6. Iron Man 3
After the remarkable battle in The Avengers, Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, Tony starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution with help of his friend James Rhodes. Will the evil Mandarin forces win?
7. Eagle Eye
Jerry Shaw has a twin brother. After his brother died in an accident , he gets a phone from a woman he has ever met. She pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations. Using the technology she control their every move.
8. Automata
In 2044 the world’s population is only 21 million people therefor a robot must protect human life but when a robot overrides a key protocol put in place to protect human life, this has unimaginable consequences for mankind. Jacq Vaucan investigates these cases.
9. The Matrix Revolutions
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo is trapped between the real world and the Matrix. Meanwhile, Agent Smith makes the situation more difficult , he continues to grow out of control and threatening to destroy both worlds.
Genres: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
10. I, Robot
In 2035, In a world runned by robotic technology, a robot-hating cop named Del Spooner investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, raising the question of a visible threat to humanity.
Filed under: EntertainmentTagged with: movies
Best apps to learn Coding
What is Coding?
java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException
© 2019 - Coders Magazine. All rights reserved.Beans theme for WordPress.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13029
|
__label__cc
| 0.599034
| 0.400966
|
Grammar peculiarities: "Mose well"
May 14, 2013 by Russell Gawthorpe in Language, Rants
I find it kind of satisfying when I Google the crap out of something and don't ultimately come up with a decent result. It means a couple of things:
it means I'm looking for something incredibly obscure, which is always satisfying
it means there's an opportunity to fill a gap in the internet, even if I'm filling it with my own opinion
Case in point, the phrase (or fragment of a phrase), mose well.
It means, rather obviously, "might as well". "I might as well eat an apple" could be contracted to "I mose well eat an apple".
Some examples, trawled from the results of a Google search:
It's more of a verbal slur than a contraction, and its something that has found its way into writing by purely descriptive means -- people writing they way they speak.
A brief aside on prescriptive versus descriptive recording of language, if I may --
When the words and usage of a language are recorded in the way they should be used, the recording is prescriptive. It's giving an instruction (a prescription, if you will) for how to use the language. A dictionary, usually, is prescriptive.
Descriptive recording is the recording of a language as it is spoken, with all its flaws, with the kind of "bad grammar" that evolves over time through a culture of people who use the language as a tool for communicating efficiently with one another. Historically, this kind of record is found in the writings of authors who mimic the voice of characters, inflections and pronunciations exaggerated or enhanced. Today, you'll find it everywhere, from Facebook status updates to "txt speak" and SMS messages.
There's some discord among scholars and pedagogues about which of these methods of recording is right or good, and at the end of the day the answer is always both and neither.
I digress.
Mose well is an informal contraction of "might as well". The closest similar terms I can think of are informal abbreviations like should of, would of and could of. These three examples are descriptive recordings of pronunciation, where the "ov" sound of the contracted "have" in should have, would have and could have has been replaced with its homonym: the word of. In my opinion -- for what that's worth -- should of, could of and would of are wrong. It's entirely possible they're going to worm their way into the English language anyway.
They mose well.
English, grammar, language, mose well, words
Language, Rants
Educational arcs
September 12, 2012 by Russell Gawthorpe in Generalia, Language, Rants
I have a new annoyance. It's another one of those pieces of English that no one seems to know how to use. It's deeply misunderstood. It's the term "learning curve". I'm continually, it seems, encountering people who believe that because something involves learning, that the entire project can be described as a "learning curve". "It's a learning curve." "This is difficult. It's a learning curve."
This is not correct.
It may have a learning curve. In fact, I guarantee it has one.
A learning curve is not the mere existance of learning. A learning curve is a way of describing the increasing (or decreasing) difficulty in the learning process for a given activity. A steep learning curve exists when a task is difficult to master, a more gentle curve when the job is easier.
You can read about learning curves in far more detail than I care to go into over at Wikipedia, the bastion of opinion-disguised-as-fact and the bane of high school paper graders world-wide.
If you have a new skill to learn, remember that it has a learning curve, and if you want to complain about it, it's probably a steep one.
English, learning curve, STOP BEING SO STUPID, stupid things people say
Generalia, Language, Rants
Bill Bryson: What the hell?
August 17, 2008 by Russell Gawthorpe in Books, Rants
I’ve just finished reading Bill Bryson’s “Mother Tongue”, a reasonably amusing edutainment book exploring the history, complexity and potential future of the English language. All in all, it’s a suitably entertaining read, but I find it’s somewhat flawed by the small issue that factually, it’s probably wildly innacurate. I base this assumption on the various passages devoted to the Australian dialect of the English language, most of which are fundamentally, well, wrong. While I’d like nothing less than to simply reproduce these passages verbatim for your own edification, I have a moral aversion to plagiarism, and shall instead address the various “examples” of Australian speech/grammar/spelling, and then we’ll discuss whether or not anyone ever actually uses them.
Another temptation I shall avoid is the urge to address Mr. Bryson’s quoting from “Lets Talk Strine”, a comedic parody of a book written in 1965 by this bloke, and not representing anything realistic whatsoever about the way anyone did, does, or likely ever will speak.
Anyhow, the actual examples that annoy me:
“Tucker”. This word means “food”. It’s commonly used as part of the term “bush tucker”, and by Australia’s version of rednecks. It’s very quickly disappearing from the language. (And good riddance, say I.)
“Slygrogging.” I have never ever heard this word spoken, nor have I read it prior to seeing it in this book. Apparently (and somewhat evidently, I admit), it defines the act of sneaking out to have a drink. Where I come from, we call that “sneaking out to have a drink”.
“Nong.” A nong is an idiot. No one has used this word since 1987.
“Don’t come the raw prawn with me.” Oh, god. How I both love and loathe this phrase. This alleged common element of Australian parlance, along with various others (”technicolour yawn” for vomit, as cited in this very book is another) survive thrivingly on tea towels and in useless Australian language phrase books. No one ever says them.
Furthermore, the next paragraph in the book proposes a few additional facts that are entirely debatable:
“In Australia, people eat cookies, not biscuits.” No, we don’t. We eat biscuits. Americans eat cookies. If you want to be thoroughly pedantic, we eat cookies when we buy them from Subway.
“They spell many words the American way - labor rather than labour, for instance.” To hell we do. If I’d have spelled the word “labor” in school, I’d have been sorely reprimanded for it, and rightly so. The Australian Labor Party is a vestige of some idiot’s idea of modernising the image of the political party (well, as modernised as it could get in 1912), and is the only time we spell the word without the “u”. As a rule, we follow British spelling conventions, not American conventions. No “-ize” endings, no “-or” endings. And no nukular.
It’s inconsistencies like these that make me doubt the other “facts” presented in the book, particularly when I’m unable to verify them myself and am forced to take them at face value.
I also dislike the easy-to-digest approach when it’s used to present incorrect information, because, frankly, people are more likely to remember rubbish when it’s presented in an amusing format.
I’ve had my whinge. You can all go home now.
August 17, 2008 /Russell Gawthorpe
Bill Bryson, Books, English, stupid things people say
Books, Rants
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13032
|
__label__wiki
| 0.772392
| 0.772392
|
Not very good: Thoughts on Wolf Creek 2
February 28, 2014 by Russell Gawthorpe in Movies
No. Redeeming. Qualities.
This movie has no redeeming qualities.
I shall summarise in point form my various opinions, because it's all I can be bothered to do. This will be pretty much entirely spoilers, but given that the movie's already spoiled by virtue of being terrible, there's not much to lose.
The character of Mick Taylor, such as he is, isn't really strong enough to warrant an appearance in a sequel. He was cool in the original Wolf Creek, because he was new and interesting, but he hasn't changed since then, and he's still just a stereotype. He's essentially Jason Voorhees with an Australian accent.
There were numerous moments throughout the film where I expected something to happen, but it didn't, and the outcome was not as interesting as I was expecting. Case in point: When Ryan Corr's might-as-well-be-nameless character is trouncing about in a paddock in his orange Jeep, relatively free and unscathed after having removed the dead backpacker from his car, I expected the story was going to shift to a vendetta story as Paul (evidently that was his name) becomes the hunter, and Mick the hunted. This did not happen.
The whole "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" scene goes on far, far too long, and nothing useful comes of it. This was a perfect opportunity for some character development for Mick (something he desperately needs), but instead we spend twenty minutes singing drinking songs and playing trivia.
Actually, speaking of character development for Mick: He's basically the personification of the Alf Stewart internet meme. Except the Alf meme has had more character development.
How many times did the writers get to the end of a scene, realise there's not really much they could do to actually end the scene, so they just knock one of them unconscious and change locations? (Four, if you're curious.)
Another scene that disappointed: I had expected the old couple in the farm house to turn out to be Mick's parents, or something. Another opportunity for character development, and an awkward situation, to boot. Didn't happen.
There's a really nice shot early in the film, during the blue-truck vs. orange-Jeep chase, where the dust from the Jeep is illuminated by the spotlights on the truck as they speed through the empty landscape.
Why does Mick have catacombs beneath his dwelling? Wait, was that where he lives? Didn't he live in a junkyard in the original Wolf Creek? Still, why are there catacombs in the Northern Territory? Did Mick build them himself?
Was it truly necessary to have the first twenty minutes of the film in German with subtitles? Does the expected demographic for this kind of film appreciate subtitles? Did I just generalise horribly? Yes. Yes, I did.
On the up side: nice use of animal sounds for Mick's various vehicles.
Kangaroos. Why?
February 28, 2014 /Russell Gawthorpe
horror, Mick Taylor, Movies, slasher, Wolf Creek
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13033
|
__label__wiki
| 0.749598
| 0.749598
|
Performance Plan
Legislative Liaison
Civil Rights & Non-Discrimination
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Colorado State Patrol
Division of Criminal Justice
Division of Fire Prevention and Control
Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
CICJIS
Executive Director's Office
Complete Firefighter Training/Certification
Complete a Background Check
Transfer/Buy/Sell a Firearm
Get or Renew CO Driver's License
Seek Help in Fraud or ID Theft Case
Locate or Report a Sex Offender
Submit or Request Accident Information
I Want Info About...
High Capacity Gun Magazines
Current Disasters/Emergencies
Colorado Crime Stats
Active Shooters
Victim Rights & Programs
CDPS Careers
CDPS Culture
Division of Criminal Justice is Accepting Applications for Crime Victim Services Funds
The Office for Victims Programs within the Division of Criminal Justice is now accepting applications for federal Crime Victim Services Funds. The deadline to submit applications is 11:59 p.m., March 9, 2018.
The Office for Victims Programs administers several state and federal grant programs that provide support for services to victims of crime. Grant funds are awarded through a competitive application process. The Crime Victim Services (CVS) Advisory Board reviews submitted applications and then provides their recommendations to the Executive Director of the Department of Public Safety for review and approval.
The following grants are included in the competitive application process:
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA)
S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
State Victim Assistance and Law Enforcement (State VALE)
Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP)
A total of approximately $52,000,000 from all four funding sources (VOCA, VAWA, SASP and State VALE) is estimated to be available for this funding process. The vast majority of available funds are federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds.
Applications must be submitted online through Zoomgrants. For more information and application instructions, visit the Crime Victim Services Funds page.
Contact CDPS |
https://twitter.com/COPublicSafety
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13034
|
__label__cc
| 0.663722
| 0.336278
|
Home » Topics » HIV/AIDS Information Center
Publish Date April 3, 2018
Daily dose of PrEP raises coverage, protective drug concentrations
Pulmonology Advisor Contributing Writer
Both daily and nondaily regiments resulted in better outcomes for the Bangkok cohort.
Daily dosing of emtricitabine (FTC)/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) leads to protective drug concentrations for most men and transgender women who have sex with men, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The HIV Prevention Trials Network 067 study was a randomized, open-label, behavioral equivalence, phase 2, pharmacokinetic study of daily and nondaily FTC/TDF PrEP in men and transgender women who have sex with men. Participants were enrolled from a clinical research site in Harlem in New York City and from a clinic and clinical research site in Bangkok, Thailand. Eligibility was based on the following criteria: HIV-antibody negative, assigned male at birth, at least 18 years old, normal renal function, hepatitis B negative, literate in Thai or English, able to give written informed consent, and reported anal or neovaginal sex with a man in the previous 6 months.
Participants were required to have at least 1 of the following risk factors for HIV: history of an acute sexually transmitted disease, sex with more than 1 man or transgender woman, intercourse without a condom with HIV-infected partner or partner with unknown HIV status, and sex in exchange for money, goods, or favors.
The study began with directly observed dosing at enrollment, then one directly observed FTC/TDF dosing per week for the first 4 weeks, to facilitate the interpretation of drug concentration data. Participants were then randomly assigned a dosing regimen: 1 daily FTC/TDF tablet, 1 twice-weekly tablet with post-sex dose (time-driven arm), or 1 tablet taken before and after sex (event-driven arm). Participants self-administered medication from week 5 through 34. An additional 30 tablets of FTC/TDF were provided every 4 weeks, and participants received an electronic drug monitoring device and weekly interviews to determine if an electronically recorded “opening” event reflected an ingested dose or other factors such as device refill.
Of the 431 individuals enrolled in the study, 357 underwent randomization and were included in the analysis. These 357 participants reported 7734 sex events during the self-administered phase, averaging 0.9 sex events per individual per week. Coverage of sex events for participants in Bangkok was 74% for the event-driven arm, 84% for the time-driven arm, and 85% for the daily arm. For Harlem participants, coverage was 52% for the event-driven arm, 47% for the time-driven arm, and 66% for the daily arm. Higher PrEP use in Bangkok may reflect greater familiarity with PrEP, more identification with gay communities, less stigma, more general health literacy, and greater trust in medical services.
FDA OKs new medication for individuals with resistant HIV
Newer HIV testing options underused in Black MSM and transgender women
Bacterial vaginosis may alter links between contraception, HIV acquisition
Study limitations include the fact that participants were randomly assigned treatment arms rather than choosing a regimen based on their sexual habits and personal preferences, causing a minority of participants to switch regimens during the study. Still, data gathered were sufficient to confirm the importance of offering PrEP to populations at substantial risk for HIV infection and the recommendation of daily dosing, which resulted in protective drug concentrations for the majority of study participants in two very different settings.
Grant RM, Mannheimer S, Hughes JP, et al. Daily and nondaily oral preexposure prophylaxis in men and transgender women who have sex with men: the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention Trials Network 067/ADAPT study [published online February 6, 2018]. Clin Infect Dis. doi:10.1093/cid/cix1086
This article originally appeared on Infectious Disease Advisor
HIV/AIDS Infectious Disease Medications Preventive Medicine
Next post in HIV/AIDS Information Center
Fatigue, muscle aches more common in women with HIV than men
Close more info about Daily dose of PrEP raises coverage, protective drug concentrations
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13038
|
__label__wiki
| 0.782655
| 0.782655
|
Elseworlds: 7 Arrowverse Characters Making Their First Appearance (& 3 We're Hoping To See)
Ian Candish Nov 27, 2018
2016 Top 100 Comic Book Runs: #15-11
Brian Cronin Dec 29, 2016
CSBG nears the end of the countdown as we continue to count down YOUR picks for the greatest comic book creator runs of all-time!
How DC's "Teen Titans" Negotiated "The Judas Contract"
Tom Bondurant Jul 30, 2016
Following the announcement of the long-discussed animated adaptation, we take a look back at the classic "New Teen Titans" storyline.
SDCC: DC Comics Makes the Jump from Page to Screen in Behind-the-Scenes Panel
Meagan Damore Jul 22, 2016
At Comic-Con International, John Barrowman, Carole Barrowman, Marv Wolfman and more discussed how DC Comics characters land screen adaptations.
Marv Wolfman Returns to "Cyborg" with April's Issue #10
Albert Ching Mar 11, 2016
Writer Marv Wolfman will join DC Comics' "Cyborg," starring a character he co-created in 1980, a month earlier than originally solicited.
Grumpy Old Fan | ‘Crisis’ at 30, Part 10
Tom Bondurant Sep 3, 2015
ROBOT 6's Grumpy Old Fan peers 30 years into the past with a look at "Crisis on Infinite Earths" #10, release in September 1985.
Grumpy Old Fan | The long and winding roads (of DC's event arcs)
Tom Bondurant Aug 27, 2015
ROBOT 6's Tom Bondurant looks back at some long, dramatic DC Comics storylines that upended the status quo and tested the limits of readers' tolerance for change.
Grumpy Old Fan | 'Crisis' at 30, Part 9
Tom Bondurant Aug 6, 2015
ROBOT 6's Grumpy Old Fan turns back the clock 30 years to the August 1985 release of "Crisis on Infinite Earths" #9 and its heralded Villain War.
SDCC INTERVIEW: Marv Wolfman Gets Emotional in "Raven"
Kevin Mahadeo Jul 23, 2015
The veteran writer discusses returning to the Teen Titan he co-created with George Perez, and the importance of maintaining her core character.
SDCC: Jack Kirby's Contemporaries Pay Tribute to "The King"
Marc Buxton Jul 17, 2015
Mark Evanier, Rob Liefeld, Marv Wolfman and more joined forces at Comic-Con to discuss the enduring legacy of the legendary Jack Kirby.
Grumpy Old Fan | Raven still has daddy issues
DC Announces New Limited Series For Swamp Thing, Poison Ivy, Firestorm And More
Brett White Jul 6, 2015
Metamorpho, Raven and Katana are among the characters that will return to the spotlight in 2016.
Grumpy Old Fan | ‘Crisis’ at 30, Part 8
Tom Bondurant Jul 2, 2015
ROBOT 6's Grumpy Old Fan turns back the clock 30 years to "Crisis on Infinite Earths" #8, and "The Final Fate of The Flash."
Tom Bondurant Jun 4, 2015
CONVERSATIONS OF CONVERGENCE: DiDio & Wolfman on "Teen Titans," "Crisis," 1980s DC & More
Jeffrey Renaud Apr 15, 2015
DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio discusses the major changes brought about by "Crisis on Infinite Earths" in the 1980s with its writer, Marv Wolfman.
Fark Founder Auctions "Crisis on Infinite Earths" Original Art
Albert Ching Feb 18, 2015
Fark founder Drew Curtis, who is running for governor of Kentucky, is selling art from the DC Comics classic by George Perez & Dick Giordano.
Tom Bondurant Jan 15, 2015
Comics A.M. | Store suffers reported $300,000 loss in burglary
Brigid Alverson Dec 10, 2014
Tom Bondurant Dec 4, 2014
Comics A.M. | Books-A-Million sees growth in manga sales
Brigid Alverson Nov 26, 2014
Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5
DC Announces New Birds of Prey Series From Azzarello, Lupacchino This Fall
Lex Luthor Achieves His Final Form at the Cost of a Justice Leaguer's Life
Scream: Resurrection's Killers Are the Franchise's Most Underwhelming
Boruto Surprisingly Gets the Ninja Sibling He Always Wanted
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13043
|
__label__wiki
| 0.52321
| 0.52321
|
Can Folic Acid Slow Brain Drain?
By Joel Arak
June 20, 2005 / 10:07 PM / AP
Taking large amounts of folic acid improved the memory of older adults, Dutch scientists reported Monday in the first study to show a vitamin pill might slow the mental decline of aging.
The research adds to mounting evidence that a diet higher in folate - a B vitamin found in grains and certain dark-colored fruits and vegetables - is important for a variety of diseases. It's proven to lower women's risk of devastating birth defects of the brain and spinal cord, and research suggests it helps ward off heart disease and strokes, too.
As people age, some decline in brain function is inevitable. The Dutch study tested whether otherwise healthy people could slow that brain drain by taking double the recommended daily U.S. dose of folic acid, the amount in 2.5 pounds of strawberries.
The study divided 818 people ages 50 to 75 to take either a vitamin containing 800 micrograms of folic acid a day, or a dummy pill, for three years.
The folic acid protected users' brains, lead researcher Jane Durga of Wageningen University reported Monday at a meeting of the Alzheimer's Association.
On memory tests, the supplement users had scores comparable to people 5.5 years younger, Durga said. On tests of cognitive speed, the folic acid helped users perform as well as people 1.9 years younger.
The study involved healthy older people, not those with Alzheimer's symptoms, so it doesn't show if folic acid might ward off that disease.
"That's the key question," Durga said.
Still, folic acid offered significant brain protection, said Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Marilyn Albert, who chairs the Alzheimer's Association's science advisory council.
Scientists have long thought that folic acid might play a role in dementia. Previous studies have shown people with low folate levels are more at risk for both heart disease and diminished cognitive function; clogged arteries slow blood flow in the brain.
"I think I would take folic acid, assuming my doctor said it was OK," Albert said, noting that long study of folic acid shows these levels are safe.
"We know Alzheimer's disease, the pathology, begins many, many years before the symptoms. We ought to be thinking about the health of our brain the same way we think about the health of our heart," she added.
Folate is found in such foods as oranges and strawberries, dark green leafy vegetables and beans. In the United States, it also is added to cereal and flour products. The recommended daily dose is 400 micrograms; doctors advise women of childbearing age to take a supplement to ensure they get that much.
Durga said it's not clear how folic acid might work to protect the brain. Some studies suggest folate lowers inflammation; others suggest it may play a role in expression of dementia-related genes.
First published on June 20, 2005 / 10:07 PM
© 2005 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13044
|
__label__wiki
| 0.717711
| 0.717711
|
What We Believe?
Messianic Congregations >
Beit HaMashiach
Brit Chadashah
Hineh Yeshua
Volunteer >
Short-Term Ministry
Full-Time Ministry
Outreach to Far East Russia
Ministry News from Around the World
Messianic Calendar
Media – Videos & Audio
Celebrate Messiah Presentations
Rom. 1:16 Partnership
Chris Heeb
JOIN CHRIS’S SUPPORT TEAM
Chris Heeb was born near Lake Constance in Switzerland, just 2 hours away from Munich Germany and the Dachau concentration camp. His uncle was a Swiss border guard during WW2 and had a big impact on Chris’ interest in the events leading up to the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Chris moved with his parents to America in 1960, and his first exposure to personal antisemitism came in late grade school when some of his classmates began calling him a “Christ Killer.” His Jewish-sounding surname “Hebe” is also slang for Hebrew/Jew, and having been raised as a Lutheran, he was challenged to understand this seemingly bizarre aggression directed at him, as well as his Jewish classmates. He learned that being a “Hebe” definitely had its issues.
In the late 1970s, Chris attended the University of Minnesota where he pursued a political science/history major. In 1979, his secular agnostic lifestyle was changed forever by the outreach of a Christian couple and through scripture study, he came to the realization that the God of Israel was also Yeshua/Jesus of Nazareth, God Incarnate. Twenty years later, the Lord greatly blessed his life when he met and married YWAM missionary and nurse, Regina Johnson. They currently home school their three children.
Pastor Chris Heeb has spent over 30 years studying the Bible from a Hebraic/Jewish perspective primarily through the teachings of Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Zola Levitt and Derek Prince. In 1997, he joined with Good News for Israel to continue the outreach into the Jewish and Christian communities, and he has also been at the forefront of end-time’s prophecy awareness.
Chris’s Topics
The Messiah in the Passover
Messiah in the Feasts: Jesus Purpose Driven Life
Messiah Hidden in the Ten Names of Genesis 5
Gods 911- Romans 9-11
The Family Feud of Abraham’s sons, Isaac and Ishmael
Invite Chris to your Church
Centurion’s Legacy Appeal
© Celebrate Messiah 2018
Larry and Fran Feldman Friendship Leads to New Life for Jewish Man in Toronto
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13046
|
__label__wiki
| 0.663105
| 0.663105
|
Gary Conkling
CFM Research, Polls, Research, Surveys
Why Representative Samples Really Matter
If you want market research that matters, make sure the sample of people in your survey matches the audience you want to reach with your product or message.
A favorite story involves meeting with a client interested in promoting first-time homeownership. I mentioned the need for market research. No problem, the client said, we have that covered. I was handed the research summary and, as a matter of habit, jumped to the page about the telephone survey sample. It was very revealing.
More than 50 percent of the respondents were 65 years or older. They were the majority of people who answered the phone and were willing to spend 15 or 20 minutes talking to a stranger about owning a home. Unfortunately, they weren’t the people the client had in mind as first-time homebuyers.
Survey data is worthless unless the sample of who you interview reflects the audience you seek to reach. The sample in my client’s survey would have been terrific if the subject was reverse mortgages. It stunk as a reflection of who to address potential first-time homebuyers.
Conversations between clients and research professionals must start with who to interview. If you have the wrong sample, the answers you get from the questions you pore over won’t matter a lick.
Too often, the question of who to interview is glossed over. Sometimes the most obvious sample goes overlooked. When I was a lobbyist, a client hired me to “fix” his message that wasn’t gaining any traction with legislators. I started by interviewing about a third of the legislature, including virtually all of the lawmakers on the committees that were most engaged on my client’s issue.
The interviews produced a wealth of insight. My client’s issue had latent support, but needed to be explained and demonstrated in a far different way. Lawmakers basically wrote the script my client and I used to lobby them. And it worked.
Representative samples are harder to achieve for a mix of reasons. For example, increasing numbers of people don’t have landline phones and, if they do, they shield themselves from unsolicited calls with Caller ID. It takes a lot more calls, at greater expense, to collect a representative sample. Market research must cope with growing segmentation, which adds extra layers of complexity in selecting the right group of people to survey.
The value of representative samples goes beyond quantitative research. Focus groups must be representative, too. And why would you do a customer satisfaction intercept survey for Nordstrom by interviewing people coming out of a rival department store? Representative samples matter in public opinion polling. A poll of New York voters wouldn’t be all that useful in projecting election results in Indiana.
Despite the difficulty, solid research is grounded on good samples. Who you talk to matters if you want findings that mean something for your marketing.
Gary Conkling is president and co-founder of CFM Strategic Communications, and he leads the firm's PR practice, specializing in crisis communications. He is a former journalist, who later worked on Capitol Hill and represented a major Oregon company. But most importantly, he’s a die-hard Ducks fan. You can reach Gary at garyc@cfmpdx.com and you can follow him on Twitter at @GaryConkling.
Tagged: representative samples, market research, telephone surveys, qualitative research, segmentation, public opinion research, reflect target audience, CFM Research
Political Polling Validity Becomes Shaky
Political polling is getting less reliable in predicting actual election outcomes. Reasons include the growing use of cell phones, reluctance to participate in telephone surveys and the rising cost of representative research samples.
Political polling doesn't seem to be as spot on as it used to be. Greater use of cell phones, wariness to participate in surveys and unrepresentative samples are among the reasons that political polls and election results turn out differently.
Cliff Zukin, a Rutgers political science professor and past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, writes in the New York Times that "polls and pollsters are going to be less reliable," so voters and the news media should beware.
"We are less rue how to conduct good survey research now than we were four years ago, and much less than eight years ago," says Zukin. "Don't look for too much help in what the polling aggregation sites may be offering. They, too, have been falling further off the track of late. It's not their fault. They are only as good as the raw material they have to work with."
Polling failures have been exposed in the most undetected 2014 mid-term election sweep in which Republicans captures both houses of Congress, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's solid victory in Israel and British Prime Minister David Cameron's relatively easy re-election win.
Cell phones are everywhere and increasingly have replaced landline telephones. Pollsters can find cell phone numbers, but federal law prevents calling them with automatic dialers. According to Zukin, "To complete a 1,000-person survey, it's not unusual to have to dial more than 20,000 random numbers, most of which do not go to working telephone numbers." That adds budget-busting cost to telephone surveys, which in turn lead to "compromises in sampling and interviewing."
Response rates to surveys have declined precipitously. In the 1970s, Zukin says an 80 percent response rate was considered acceptable. Now response rates have dipped below 10 percent. It is hard to draw a representative sample when large chunks of the population refuse to participate. Some cohorts, such as lower income household members, are more unlikely to participate than others, which can skew results. And it takes more calls to achieve a representative sample, which encourages corner-skipping.
Internet polling has emerged as a strong alternative. It is cheaper than telephone surveys and, at least or the moment, people seem more willing to participate, in part because they have more choice in when and how to respond.
But Internet use has built-in biases, too, Zukin notes. While 97 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 29 use the Internet, 40 percent of adults older than age 65 don't. "Almost all online election polling is done with non probability samples," Zukin says, which makes it impossible to calculate a margin of error.
The most vexing polling problem is not a new one – determining who will actually vote. Public opinion polling is one thing; trying to predict the outcome of an actual election is another. Pollsters recognize that respondents will overstate their likelihood of actually voting, but have limited ability to identify who will and who won't cast ballots.
Non voting can occur for a mix of reasons – bad weather, lack of interest or political protest. Some registered voters simply forget to vote, especially in non-presidential elections. Less motivated voters vote in top-line races and leave the rest of their ballots blank, making it hard to predict the "turnout" for so-called down-ballot candidates and ballot measures.
Scott Keeter, who directs survey research at Pew Research, says the combination of these factors is shifting political polling "from science to art."
Political polls will continue to be magnets for media coverage, but readers should be aware that the results may not have as much validity as polling in the past.
Tagged: political polling, telephone surveys, unrepresentative samples, cell phones, Online research, likely voters, voter turnout, Cliff Zukin, public opinion research, CFM Research
Finding Messages That Are Persuasive and Believable
A message that is persuasive but not believable can undermine your investment in marketing or public affairs communications.
A message that is persuasive but not believable can undermine your investment in marketing or public affairs communications.Arguments can be persuasive without being believable. Good research will help you determine whether your argument is both.
The worst trap you can wander into is betting the farm on an argument that research shows is persuasive, but fails to probe deeper to see whether it is believable.
Several years ago, we conducted quantitative research to test the best arguments for a state transportation funding package. The argument that proved most persuasive was the list of transportation projects contained in the legislation to be funded. People liked knowing what the increased gas tax money would pay for.
However, probing deeper revealed that many of the people who liked the idea of a specific list of transportation projects believed that they never would be built. The list was persuasive, but they doubted the credibility of the state agency to follow through.
When the transportation funding bill went to the voters, it was soundly thrashed. Exit polling underscored the problem — a persuasive argument wasn't credible enough to carry the day.
The questions of persuasiveness and believability don't just apply to public policy issues and campaigns. They also are meaningful in a marketing context. A product feature may appeal to potential customers, but unless it convinces them to buy, it is just a nice feature — appealing, but not put-it-in-my-shopping-cart convincing.
For those who like to skimp on research, the persuasive-believable conundrum can become another excuse not to do any research. For people interested in getting a return on their investment in communications and marketing, more nuanced research that digs deeper than superficial appeal is a money-saver.
In reality, a deeper research dive isn't always a lot more expensive. It is more dependent on using a research instrument that enables more careful exploration of views. That is one of the built-in values for online research tools. You can ask more questions because people will answer them, if they get to choose the time and place to respond.
Sifting through rival messages to see which one has the most appeal is an important first step. To make sure it isn't a misstep, find out whether the appeal is real. You could be sorely disappointed if you don't.
Tagged: CFM Research, Persuasive arguments, believable arguments, full-service research firm, market research, public opinion research, quality research
Kitzhaber, Merkley Retain Double-Digit Leads
Senator Jeff Merkley and embattled Governor John Kitzhaber are still on track to win re-election over GOP challengers.
Senator Jeff Merkley and embattled Governor John Kitzhaber are still on track to win re-election over GOP challengers.The word "corruption" and Oregon politics don't usually go together and GOP gubernatorial candidate Dennis Richardson's efforts to couple them haven't appeared to narrow Governor John Kitzhaber's double-digit lead.
Survey USA conducted a statewide poll for KATU-TV that shows Kitzhaber clinging to a 51 percent to 38 percent lead over Richardson, with only 6 percent of the electorate still undecided. The survey was conducted between October 16-19 with 561 likely voters, interviewed by both landline and cell phones.
If only men voted, the race would be tighter, as Kitzhaber holds a narrow 48 percent to 46 percent lead. But the governor seeking an unprecedented fourth term wallops Richardson among women voters by 54 percent to 30 percent.
Kitzhaber tops Richardson in the 18-34, 50-64 and 65+ categories and ties him at 45 percent each in the 35-49 cohort.
People who blame Cover Oregon on Kitzhaber typically say they will vote for Richardson' those who don't signal a vote for the incumbent governor.
The survey indicates Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley retains a commanding lead over his GOP challenger, Monica Wehby, at 53 percent to 32 percent. The race is closer among men, but a romp among women who favor Merkley by 60 percent over Wehby at 24 percent.
Survey results show Measure 91 to legalize marijuana and Measure 92 to require labeling for GMO food both have a shot at passing, with nearly identical percentages heading down the stretch. Measure 91 enjoys a 48 percent to 37 percent lead, while Measure 92 maintains a slimmer margin at 44 percent to 37 percent. More than 15 percent of likely voters said they were undecided on the measures, which could tip the final results either way. A major factor for the positive margin is the overwhelming support for both measures among younger voters, which ranges from around 70 percent for to 15 percent against.
The Richardson and Wehby candidacies reflect two more wrong turns for GOP efforts to win statewide office in Oregon. Richardson has tried to downplay social issues, without success, and Wehby has played up her moderacy on those issues, also without success among likely women and younger voters.
GOP operatives are wringing their hands over the absence of a more commanding figure in the gubernatorial race who could have capitalized on scandals that have rocked Kitzhaber and his fiancé Cylvia Hayes just as ballots were heading to mailboxes.
While earlier polls suggested Kitzhaber was vulnerable or at least may have worn out his political welcome, his polling numbers still point to a relatively comfortable re-election margin.
More scandals could still affect the final outcome, but that prospect grows slimmer by the day as Oregonians, especially those who have already made up their minds, cast ballots early.
Tagged: CFM Research, Dennis Richardson, Jeff Merkley, John Kitzhaber, Measure 91, Measure 92, Monica Wehby, Oregon elections, Survey USA, political poll, public opinion research
Scottish Attitudes on Independence Don't Seem Foreign
Scottish voters will cast ballots this September to decide whether they want to separate from the United Kingdom. Given that voting on national independence is a pretty big deal, a Scottish research firm says more than half of eligible voters remain undecided.
The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey is conducted annually and examines a wide range of questions, including ones about national identity and constitutional preference. The survey is more than a snapshot political poll. Conducted since 1999, it provides invaluable trend analysis about Scottish attitudes.
Political analysts have assumed that the strong showing of the Scottish National Party in 2011 elections signaled a shift in support for independence. However, the SSA survey indicates attitudes about breaking away from the United Kingdom have changed much in the last decade. The survey instead showed were pleased the SNP had done a good job in sticking up for Scotland inside the UK, which is something they wanted.
Tagged: CFM Research, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Social Attitudes survey, Scottish independence, United Kingdom, partial independence, public opinion research, trend analysis, undecided bloc of voters, voter attitudes
Research: Creativity's Best Friend
You are working as part of a creative team. Everyone has lots of bright ideas. So how do you decide what idea will work? In a word: research.
Survey research doesn't need to squash creativity, but research can direct creativity to its most useful ends. A concept that looks great on paper or sounds perfect in a brainstorming session may fall flat when it reaches its intended audience. It is better to know that earlier than later.
Some creative directors view research as the enemy, when in fact research can be a trusted guide to connect with the people you are trying to reach with a TV ad, an op-ed or a piece of direct mail.
Quality research is a must for strategic communications in both the marketing and public affairs spaces. Here's why:
People only can absorb so much information, so it makes sense to lead with your best feature or most compelling fact. Research can establish what sells best.
A lot of decision-making rests on trust. That puts a premium on messengers. Research can test different people or types of people to see who your target audience trusts the most.
Some facts or arguments prompt positive responses, but a positive response doesn't equate automatically to a sale. Research can probe whether a feature has enough value to earn a purchase or whether an argument is believable enough to earn support.
Tagged: CFM Research, Creativity, Research, believable fact, best fact, best feature, market research, public opinion research, quality research, successful call to action
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13048
|
__label__cc
| 0.591324
| 0.408676
|
ChessBanter » Chess Newsgroups » rec.games.chess.politics (Chess Politics) > Waltz into Darkness
July 22nd 11, 08:42 PM posted to rec.arts.movies.current-films,alt.cult-movies,rec.arts.movies.past-films,alt.video.dvd,rec.games.chess.politics
Waltz into Darkness
by William Irish pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich
made into movies as Mississippi Mermaid Starring Catherine Deneuve and
Jean-Paul Belmondo (1993)
and Original Sin Starring Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas
Jane, et al. (2002)
Introduction by Sam Sloan
Waltz into Darkness enjoys the rare distinction of having been made
into two different movies. More than that, the plot is so timely into
today's times that it could easily be made into several more movies.
This is because the plot involves two people who met in 1880 through a
mail order bride agency. They know nothing about each other when they
first met and yet were married to each other on the same day. They
fall in love and have a passionate but ill fated romance filled with
murder and intrigue.
Nowadays, through the wonders of the Internet more and more people are
meeting exactly like that. They become involved in romance while
knowing nothing about each other. They also fall victim to Internet
scams similar to those in the movie. Fortunately, it does not often
happen that our new found partner is a murderer.
My own case I believe is not unusual. I met my last three girlfriends
over the Internet. Not only did I know nothing about them then, but I
still know very little about them now even after having lived with
them for months or years, other than what they told me about
The book and both of the two movies all start in the same way,
although they veer in different directions half way through. In the
book, Waltz into Darkness set in 1880, the male is a successful
businessman in New Orleans. He is 36 years old and has never been
married. He feels the urgent need to get married now or else it will
be too late. A marriage agency arranges a bride for him in St. Louis.
She is to come by boat down to the Mississippi River and he is to meet
her at the boat dock. He very excitedly goes to the boat dock to greet
her but when the passengers get off the boat she is not there.
He returns to his carriage and there a woman is waiting for him. She
introduces herself as Julia Russell, the woman he is supposed to
marry. However, she looks nothing like the picture of the woman that
has been sent to him. The woman in the picture appears to be in her
30s and a plain woman of average appearance. However, the woman he
meets is a stunning beauty, small, about 5 feet 1 inches tall, with
long curly golden locks and fair skin.
He asks her about this and she explains that she had sent the picture
of a friend. She did this because she did not want a man to marry her
for her beauty. She wanted a man who would marry her for her inner
qualities. So, she had sent a false picture of herself. She apologizes
and says that if he rejects her she will understand and go back to St.
Louis.
He says that to the contrary he is happy about his good fortunate to
have a beautiful wife when he was only expecting a woman of average
appearance. However, he too has misled her. In his letters to her he
had portrayed himself as just an average working man of modest means.
In reality, he is an extremely wealthy man. He has $100,000 in the
bank (a lot of money in 1880 when this is taking place). He did not
tell her about this because he did not want a woman who would marry
him for his money. So, he now offers to withdraw from his agreement,
as he too has deceived her.
In spite of this difficult start, he agrees to marry her even though
she is beautiful and she agrees to marry him even though he is rich.
They proceed straight away to the church where the wedding has already
been scheduled and they get married the same day.
As you can see, this is how so many people are meeting on the Internet
nowadays. That is why the book fits in so well with today's times.
Nowadays we meet online and sometimes do a simple Google search and
then go straight to bed and go at it.
In Mississippi Mermaid, the same things happen, only the time and the
place are different. Mississippi Mermaid takes place on the island of
Réunion, a French island located in the Indian Ocean. The girl comes
from Paris by boat. The male is the owner of a tobacco plantation and
cigarette factory.
In Original Sin the same things happen. This time the man is in the
Island of Cuba in the 19th Century and the woman arrives by boat from
Philadelphia.
In all of these different versions, the man falls deeply in love with
the woman, who provides him with great sex. However, he notices
strange things about her. She has brought a pet canary with her. She
does not feed the canary properly and when it dies she does not seem
concerned. She has brought a large trunk with her, but she refuses to
open it, saying that it just contains old things she does not want any
Because of his great love for his wife, he takes her to the bank and
gives her joint signing authority over all of his bank accounts.
He is concerned when she receives a letter from her sister complaining
that she has not written since leaving St. Louis. She wants to sluff
this off, but her husband is concerned about this and insists that she
write her sister back. He even stands over her while she writes this
letter to her sister, making sure that the letter gets written. He
insists that he take the letter to the post office himself, in spite
of her protests that she wants to do it, so the letter gets mailed.
He is shocked when, a few days later, he receives a letter directly
from the sister. The letter says that the letter his wife has written
is a forgery. The handwriting is completely different from the
handwriting of the real Julia Russell. The sister demands to know what
has happened to Julia.
He rushes home and learns that his wife has left earlier in the day
and has not returned. He rushes to the bank and learns that his wife
withdrew all the money from both bank accounts and has absconded. He
rushes back home and breaks opens the trunk of his wife's things which
has been sitting mysteriously unopened since his wife arrived from St.
Louis. The trunk has the initials J.R. on it standing for Julia
Russell. What he finds inside the trunk are the clothing for a much
larger woman. His own wife is a small, petite woman standing not more
than 5 feet one inch tall. The clothing in the trunk is for a large
sized large breasted woman standing at least 5 feet 6 inches high.
He becomes aware that he has been the victim of a scam. The woman he
married was not Julia Russell but another woman impersonating her.
He goes to the police. The Chief of Police, after studying this case,
finds there is nothing he can do. There is no proof that any crime has
been committed. It was not a crime for another woman to call herself
Julia Russell and impersonate her. Also, he took the woman, by
whatever name, to the church and married her there. That woman is now
his wife, even though she used a false name. As far as taking the
money, she had every right to do that. He had given her signing
authority over his bank accounts. She did not forge a signature. That
was her own real signature. Thus, she had the right to take the money
and she is still married to him!!!!!!
The husband says that he thinks that the real Julia Russell must have
been killed. The Chief of Police replies that if he can find any
evidence of that, then come back, but as of now there is no evidence
that a crime has been committed.
The husband now goes to St. Louis and meets the sister. The sister
confirms that she took the real Julia Russell to the boat dock and saw
her off. Thus, the real Julia got on the boat in St. Louis. However,
she did not get off the boat in New Orleans. Something must have
happened to her in between.
The two of them go and hire a detective to investigate. The detective
promises that he will solve this case. He says that, no matter what,
he will continue with this case until it is solved. Both the husband
and Julia's sister pay him a substantial sum of money.
Having hired the detective, the husband goes home which, in the case
of the book, is New Orleans. He continues to search for Julia, while
going about his regular business.
Up to this point, the three versions, the book and the two movie
versions, have all followed the same outline, with only minor
differences in the details. However, now the three versions go off in
different directions.
In the book, the husband visits houses of prostitution in New Orleans,
searching for Julia. He finds many beautiful young women these houses
of prostitution, but none of them are Julia.
More than one year later, while in Biloxi, Mississippi on business, he
meets a man aged 46who is raving about this fabulously beautiful girl
aged 22 that he is about to marry. He tells the husband that he will
not believe how beautiful this girl is. He even invites the husband to
go on a double-date with his future wife and her friend.
When the husband is approaching and can see her from a distance, he
realizes that the wife-to-be of this man is none other than his Julia.
Rather than approach her in public, he hides himself. He then sneaks
into her hotel room and hides behind a curtain, waiting for her there
with a gun, planning to kill her when she arrives.
In the Mississippi Mermaid version of the movie, the husband goes to
France and searches for her there. This part of the movie is weak, as
France is such a large country that it would be highly unlikely that
he could find her. Nevertheless, he sees an advertisement for a dance
hall, and a picture of his wife is in the advertisement. He goes to
the dance hall and finds that his wife is working as a common
prostitute there, available to any man for a price. He goes to her
hotel room, hides behind the curtains and waits for her there.
In the book version, she arrives in her hotel room and is seated,
taking off her jewelry. He approaches her from behind and puts his
hands on her neck. She does not seem startled or surprised. It is
almost as though she knows who this must be, as only one man would
approach her like that, and that is her husband.
She turns around and they confront each other. She does not scream and
run away as a woman in this situation normally would. Instead, she
acknowledges that he is her husband and she recognizes that they got
legally married, even though she used a false name. Finally, he shows
her his gun and says that he is going to kill her. She removes most of
her clothing and tells him to go ahead and shoot, saying that she
accepts that as her fate.
He says that before he kills her, he wants to know the truth. Why did
she do this? Did she ever really love him, or was she faking it?
She tells him the story of her life. She was a foundling, a baby left
on the steps of a church. She has no idea who her parents were, nor
does she know when or where she was born. She was raised in a
foundling home in the Philadelphia area. At age 15, she escaped from
the foundling home with the help of the other girls who helped her
climb the wall but were not brave enough to escape themselves. After
that she worked as a petty thief, a washer woman and a seamstress.
Finally she reached the Mississippi river where she fell in with a
riverboat gambler and hustler. They traveled up and down the
Mississippi together, robbing the passengers or performing various
scams. For example, her accomplice would play poker. She would sit
behind his opponents at the poker table where she could see the hands.
If the opponent had a certain kind of hand, she would touch her
necklace. If it was as different kind of hand, she would touch her
finger ring.
She had met Julia Russell as a passenger on the riverboat. Julia had
told her story. She was engaged to be married to a very wealthy man.
Although he had pretended to be a common working man, Julia had
researched him and had found out that he was very rich. After telling
her all about this, they had both gone to their rooms.
The next morning, her accomplice had woken her. The Real Julia Roberts
had suffered a terrible accident. She had fallen off the river boat
and drowned. Therefore, the accomplice had told her to go to Julia's
room and occupy it and say from then on that she was the real Julia
Russell. Meanwhile, the accomplice would remove her real belongings
from the other room and, as many passengers were entering or leaving
the boat, nobody would notice anything wrong.
While she was explaining all this to the husband, she was slowly
removing her clothing. When a man is in trouble, he has his strength
and his muscles to protect him. A woman does not have that, but
instead she has her beauty. So, while telling him all this, she
removed all of her clothing above her waist. Her husband was still
standing before her with a gun in his hand, but he could see that he
had before him a woman of outstanding beauty, with her fair skin, her
ample breasts, her beautiful curly golden hair, and so he started
remembering what had caused him to love her so much in the first
place. While still not giving up the plan to kill her, he decided to
have sexual intercourse with her first.
This role in the French movie, Mississippi Mermaid, is played by the
most beautiful French actress, Catherine Deneuve. In the American
version, Original Sin, the female lead is played by Angelina Jolie,
who received the prestigious “Golden Raspberry” award for her
performance here.
Faced with the beauty of this woman, the husband puts down his gun and
proceeds to the next scene of hard core sex. They have endless
intercourse, going on forever. These sex scenes were cut out of the
movie theater version of these films, but happily have been restored
to the DVD versions.
Now, the husband is compromised. He is involved. He cannot escape. So
they must quickly leave together. They must go to some other place,
far away, where nobody knows them.
Now they are stuck together. She cannot leave him because he knows
that she was involved in the presumed murder of the real Julia Russell
and will inform the police. He also can not leave her, for much the
same reasons. In addition, they are sexually addicted to each other,
as a result of having intercourse with each other all the time.
Everything seems OK. They spend months, possibly years like this,
always moving from place to place, running and hiding. They must keep
running, because she is so beautiful that she attracts attention.
Because of his wealth, they always have money, so they have no need to
However, there is one person they have forgotten about in this
equation. The Detective !!!! Remember: He promised that once having
started on this case, he will never quit. He will continue
investigating this case until he has solved it.
One day, he finds the husband. The husband runs away and tries to
evade him, but the Detective finds him again. The Detective says that
it is no use to run. He has solved the case. He knows everything. He
found the dead body of the real Julia Russell, washed up on the shore
of the Mississippi River. She had no air in her lungs. This proves
that she did not fall in the river and drown. Instead, she was
murdered and then her dead body was dumped in the river.
The Detective tells the husband that he has nothing to fear. He was
not involved in the actual murder. He did not meet his wife until
later. So, the detective is only going to arrest the wife and turn her
over to the police. He is not going to bother the husband.
The husband does not want to lose his wife whom he now loves very
much. So he tries to bribe the detective. He offers him first $20,000
and then $50,000 cash to drop the case. But, the detective refuses to
be bribed. He says that, no matter what, he must arrest the wife and
turn her into the police.
So, left with no other choice, the husband pulls out his gun and
shoots and kills the detective.
Now, they are both murderers. The wife is implicated in the murder of
the Real Julia Russell and the husband has killed the detective. They
find a loose floorboard in the house where they are staying and they
bury the detective under the house.
Now the story goes off in three directions: The book in one direction,
the movies in two other directions. I will not further ruin the story
by providing the outcomes here except to say that there are many
possibilities, which is the reason why I think that more movies will
be made based on this plot. I hope to do one myself. I only need to
find the right actress.
One ending is that the detective and the accomplice turn out to be the
same person. When the husband shoots the detective, the detective just
pretends to be dead. This is also part of the scam. However, the wife
herself finally shoots and kills the detective. Then the husband and
wife escape to Morocco where they make their living by scamming
tourists just as the wife did on the riverboats, sitting behind the
players in a poker game signaling what is in the hands of the other
players by touching her ring or necklace to signal what kind of hand
they are holding.
In the François Truffaut version of this movie, the story never really
ends. They just keep running, probably forever out of a combination of
both addiction to sex and to each other and fear of the police.
As a project in creative writing, you should write your own version of
the ending. The possibilities are almost infinite. Perhaps the sister
was involved in the plot. Perhaps the chief of police too. Perhaps the
real Julia is not dead after all. A prize should be offered to whom
ever comes up with the best ending.
San Rafael California
July 23rd 11, 02:26 AM posted to rec.arts.movies.current-films,soc.culture.usa,rec.arts.movies.past-films,rec.games.chess.misc,rec.games.chess.politics
I wish I could understand why "None" a/k/a Stan Booz does this.
What does he feel he is accomplishing?
On Jul 22, 12:42*pm, samsloan wrote:
hands on her neck. She ...
On Jul 22, 9:26*pm, samsloan wrote:
Perhaps there is some way to put an end to whatever it is that Mr.
is doing to you. Have you consulted the Spammer's Rights
Organization?
As a long time spammer in good standing, you may be entitled to file
against your persecutor and obtain recompence for the harm doen to
good name as a well-loved spammer of rgc for many years. I for one
vouch that you are in fact one of rgc's most longstanding, upright
highly respectable spammers, who posts mainly about things which have
no bearing whatsoever on chess and therefore you are entitled to
any such spammer has a right to expect.
Dave in Toronto
First recorded activity by ChessBanter: Jul 2011
On Jul 22, 12:42*pm, samsloan wrote:http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871876101h...SBN=4871876101
France is such a large country that it would be highly
read more »- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Well Sam I tried both your links - From the Amazon one I got the reply
- "Looking for something?
We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on
our site". For the Barnes and Noble one I got - "Sorry, we could not
find what you were looking for."
Dave M
"Mississippi Mermaid" was released in 1969. Considering the
birthdates of the two stars (1943 and 1933, respectively), it should
have been obvious that 1993 was an improbable date.
Close, but still wrong. "Original Sin" was released in 2001,
according to imdb.com.
Like saying "Visual effects by Blind Lemon Jefferson."
July 23rd 11, 04:05 PM posted to rec.arts.movies.current-films,soc.culture.usa,rec.arts.movies.past-films,rec.games.chess.misc,rec.games.chess.politics
On Jul 22, 9:16*pm, Dave in Toronto wrote:
our site". *For the Barnes and Noble one I got - "Sorry, we could not
The links will start working in a few days or about a week.
I always put the links up a few days before I publish or reprint a
As an example, here are links for four of my most recent reprinted
books. The links did not work when I first posted them last week, but
they do work now.
Thank you for asking.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/487187883X
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=487187883X
Here are links to my next two books. (These do not work yet.)
On Jul 22, 9:45*pm, Taylor Kingston wrote:
* "Mississippi Mermaid" was released in 1969. Considering the
* Close, but still wrong. "Original Sin" was released in 2001,
* Like saying "Visual effects by Blind Lemon Jefferson."
Thank you so much for pointing this out.
I really do appreciate it when perpetual critic Taylor Kingston points
out my (rare) legitimate errors.
On Jul 23, 12:45*am, Taylor Kingston wrote:
Yes, he used to do Blind Mellon Chitlin's shows.
July 23rd 11, 05:03 PM posted to rec.arts.movies.current-films,alt.cult-movies,rec.arts.movies.past-films,alt.video.dvd,rec.games.chess.politics
http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871876101h...SBN=4871876101
I wonder whether Birthday Girl (2001) with Nicole Kidman was partly
inspired by the book or movie....
On Jul 23, 9:00*am, None wrote:
Goin' downtown, gonna see mah gal.
Odds On Sloan Being Caste Into The Outer Darkness BL[_3_] rec.games.chess.politics (Chess Politics) 2 July 7th 11 07:50 PM
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13050
|
__label__wiki
| 0.767411
| 0.767411
|
Media releases are provided as is by companies and have not been edited or checked for accuracy. Any queries should be directed to the company itself.
Firetrust joins the campaign to fight spam in Australia
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND — Firetrust Limited has announced today in conjunction with the Intenet Industry Association’s (IIA) Spam Initiative an offering of MailWasher Pro at a special price for Australian residents. MailWasher Pro is available as a 30-day free download and at a special price to Australian residents of USD19.95 until 30th August 2003, that’s a saving of more than AUD15.00.
MailWasher Pro is designed to provide PC users with an effective and easy solution to getting rid of spam, viruses and unwanted e-mail. MailWasher Pro works extraordinarily quickly because it simply downloads the header information of an e-mail, leaving the body of a message on the ISP server. By filtering spam from a user’s inbox, MailWasher Pro saves both time and resources as it only allows legitimate e-mails to reach users. Users can also protect their computers from viruses by detecting infected e-mails before they are downloaded.
Featured on CNN and BBC World and named by Steve Bass of PCWorld as his “favourite spam fighter,” MailWasher Pro offers superior ability to combat spam and unwanted attachments from e-mail by allowing messages to be previewed before they are downloaded or deleted. MailWasher Pro also has a unique “bounce” feature that returns messages to spammers informing them that the recipient’s address is invalid.
“We are delighted that all over the world, associations and legislative authorities are taking steps to curb the proliferation of spam,“ said Nick Bolton, MailWasher Pro’s creator. “The ever increasing problem is expected to get worse before it gets better, detracting from the value e-mail offers and being a nuisance for home users, to robing businesses of productivity and network bandwidth,” he said.
Since the launch of MailWasher in August 2001, Firetrust has generated many loyal users with their unique and highly effective products. To date more than 2,500,000 users experience the benefits MailWasher offers.
MailWasher Pro looks similar to Outlook Express, is user friendly and takes only minutes to learn to use. The product has the added advantage of working well on all major e-mail servers because it supports the POP3 protocol— the most common way to access e-mail, and Hotmail. Thorough and prompt support is provided via e-mail, with the support team providing individualised responses to each query.
Those interested in taking up this offer should visit www.firetrust.com.
About Firetrust Limited Firetrust was established in 2000 to provide world-class e-mail security products for business and home users. Firetrust provide solutions across the spectrum of inbox protection, including MailWasher® Pro for unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and Benign® to neutralise harmful e-mail which can contain viruses, worms, scripts and web bugs. --end--
MailWasher® and Benign® are registered trademarks of Firetrust Limited.
Submit a media release
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13052
|
__label__cc
| 0.640174
| 0.359826
|
A Belief in a Radical Spirit
Posted by Carlin Soos on November 4, 2015
The Citibank logo is a familiar sight to every New Yorker. On the average ten minute walk through midtown Manhattan you might encounter the iconic red umbrella logotype half a dozen times, the friendly san serif letters decorating bank buildings, ATMs, and rentable bikes. The current Citi logo was designed in 1998 by Paula Scher, a principal at Pentagram, when Traveler’s Group merged with Citicorp, prompting the independent corporations to seek a unifying brand identity. By evoking the Traveler’s umbrella within the shortened name, Scher smoothly harmonized aspects of both companies into one visual.
This current fusion replaced a Citibank logo created in 1975 by Dan Friedman for the New York design agency Anspach Grossman Portugal. A collection of sketches housed in the Cooper Hewitt’s Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department reveals the various iterations produced by Friedman as he worked towards his final concept. Nearly the complete design, the bottom of the two marks display an oblique san serif typeface with a compass rose, a graphic holdover from the old identity. Prior to 1975 all official identities used the company’s retired name, The First National City Bank of New York, as seen in a 1962 bronze medal found in the collection of the New York Historical Society. Having long been referred to by both employees and clients as the short and sweet “Citibank,” Friedman’s redesign marks the official institutional switch. The use of simple, straightforward geometric shapes and the removal of excess visual noise draws on Modernist foundations acquired by the designer during his time at the Ulms School and Basel School of Design.
After leaving Anspach Grossman, Friedman accepted a position at the newly founded Pentagram studio. Although the work environment of Pentagram differed strongly from traditional Mad Men-style New York agencies, Friedman found the dialogue between designers frustratingly limited, leading him to critically reflect on contemporary corporate design culture. He admits in a 1994 interview with Eye magazine, “In the 1960s I saw graphic design as a noble endeavour, integral to larger planning, architectural and social issues. What I realised in the 1970s, when I was doing a major corporate identity projects [sic], is that design had become a preoccupation with what things look like rather than with what they mean. […] And we have deceived ourselves into thinking that the modernisation service we supply has the same integrity as service to the public good.” He declared in a manifesto-like manner, “Modernism forfeited its claim to a moral authority when designers sold it away as corporate style.”[1]
Poster, Art Against Aids. lithograph on paper. Gift of Ken Friedman. 1997-19-232.
Leaving Pentagram in 1984 after five years as an associate, Friedman became increasingly more and more involved in New York City’s vibrant art and music scenes. The substantial HIV/AIDS activism centered around New York City during the 80s offered for Friedman, who himself was living with the virus, an opportunity to align his design with activist causes through projects such as Art Against AIDS. In 1994, a year before his death, Friedman published Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist, in which the designer grapples with his modernist roots and progressive values. As a guide, he offered twelve tenants for whom he labels the radical modernist, including, “Try to express personal, spiritual, and domestic values even if our culture continues to be dominated by corporate, marketing, and institutional values.”[2] Friedman’s activism had not replaced his Modernist roots, rather it questioned their use and challenged their capabilities.
Until his death, Friedman strongly believed that Modernism could be rescued from capitalist corporate confines and applied to social causes. “We should try once again to be fun-loving visionaries; we should return to a belief in a radical spirit – the idea that design is something that can help improve society and people’s condition.”[3] The evolution of Friedman’s work and theory acts as a reminder that, in many cases, the reduction of a designer’s practice down to a “before” and “after” is dangerous; Friedman did not simply start as a Modernist and end as a Postmodernist, but fused values and approaches from both camps as his career evolved. Friedman demonstrates how designers may deviate from types of simplistic, progressive linear narratives, returning to and adjusting previously held beliefs during their lifetime, ebbing and flowing throughout their careers.
Carlin Soos is a Master’s student at the Bard Graduate Center and a graduate intern in the Department of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design.
[1] Peter Rea, “Reputations: Dan Friedman,” Eye Magazine, http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-dan-friedman
[2] “”Be Radical:” Dan Friedman’s 12-point Modernist Agenda Still Utterly Relevant After All These Years,” AIGA, http://www.aiga.org/Be-Radical–Dan-Friedman-s-12-point-Modernist-Agenda-Still-Utterly-Relevant-After-All-These-Years/
← The Horizontal Line in American Design
Color Play →
Drawing, Designs for Citibank/Citicorp Logo, ca. 1975. black marker, graphite on white tracing paper. Gift of Ken Friedman. 1997-19-40.
citibank graphic design identity design logo logo design New York City
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13055
|
__label__wiki
| 0.7785
| 0.7785
|
East Kilbride News
East Kilbride Morrisons store to introduce autism friendly hour
The idea of a "quieter hour" in store has been developed in association with the National Autistic Society.
Colin Paterson
Morrisons in Stewartfield are adopting a quieter hour in-store (Image: East Kilbride News)
An East Kilbride supermarket is to turn down the volume in a bid to help people affected by autism.
Morrisons Stewartfield will hold a “Quieter Hour” every Saturday from 9am until 10am – using a range of different ideas to help create a calmer experience for people who suffer from autism or other conditions that mean they might get anxious while shopping.
The idea has been developed in association with the National Autistic Society.
Daniel Cadey from the National Autistic Society said: “Around 700,000 people are on the autism spectrum in the UK.
“This means they see, hear and feel the world differently to other people, often in a more intense way. Morrisons ‘Quieter Hour’ is a step in the right direction for autistic people who find supermarket shopping a real struggle.”
The move follows a trial carried out in three Morrisons supermarkets earlier this year, which looked at ways of improving shopping for people with autism.
East Kilbride woman is now a prisoner in her home after contracting rare flesh-eating disease
Among the differences during the quieter hour initiative at the MacNeish Way store will be no music and radio playing, dimmed lights, no Tannoy announcements, and checkout beeps and other electronic noises turned down.
There will also be an attempt to reduce movement of trolleys and baskets, while posters outside will advise other customers that the quiet hour is taking place.
Morrisons will also work to improve awareness among colleagues in-store of the issues autistic customers face in store.
The East Kilbride News told last week how Morrisons Lindsayfield is one of only two of the company’s stores to trial a plastic bottles return scheme.
Morrisons is testing a reverse vending machine for customers to insert empty plastic bottles and receive points back
A reverse vending machine has been installed for six months which will provide cash for charity or money-off vouchers in return for empty plastic bottles.
Police probe fraud allegation at East Kilbride medical practice
WildlifeFears for local wildlife in East Kilbride woodland regenerationGreen campaigner and resident Alistair Hendry fears habitats for nesting birds and other wildlife were being destroyed – right in the middle of breeding season.
CharityFamily take on Tough Mudder in honour of East Kilbride primary school teacherMaggie Kennedy was cared for by Kilbryde Hospice before she died and her family wanted to show their gratitude by fundraising for the charity.
CharityWhat every charity wants: Fashion discount icon Vera Weisfeld to auction off luxury items for East Kilbride hospiceThe businesswoman will put 150 of her favourite things under the hammer at McTears Works of Art Auction in Glasgow on Friday.
Domestic violence'My life will never be the same': East Kilbride domestic abuse victim was stalked by violent ex who torched carBarry Palmer was given a two year non-harassment order but his victim says he is still trying to get close to her by contacting her son and starting a new job in the town.
FarmingPopular East Kilbride Cattle Show to make welcome return home to Show ParkA new committee has taken over the reins and are promising to make this year's event bigger and better than ever with fun for all the family.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13063
|
__label__wiki
| 0.862459
| 0.862459
|
Multiple media outlets now investigating Ilhan Omar
June 24, 2019 Joe Newby Politics 0
It seems that multiple media outlets are now investigating serious questions raised about the marital history of Ilhan Omar, the treasonous, America-hating, anti-Semitic Democrat from Minnesota who seems more ready to stand up for Iran than the United States.
On Saturday, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, a paper which an Omar “fixer” once said scrubbed negative stories about the radical Democrat, reported:
New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.
Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as “baseless rumors” first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House. But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.
The questions surfaced again this month in a state probe of campaign finance violations showing that Omar filed federal taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, while she was still legally married to but separated from Elmi.
The Star-Tribune, a paper that tends to lean left, said that Omar “has legally corrected the discrepancy,” but “has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.”
But it seems there’s quite a bit more to this story, according to the Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe and John Gage.
Both outlets posted a basic timeline of Omar’s life. The Star-Tribune noted:
2002: Omar, now 19, marries Ahmed Hirsi, 22, in their “faith tradition” in Minnesota, but they don’t legally marry.
2008: Omar and Hirsi, now the parents of two children, reach an “impasse in our life together” and divorce in their faith tradition.
2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a “British citizen.” School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University.
2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017.
2012: Omar and Hirsi reconcile and have a third child together.
2014-15: Omar files joint tax returns with Hirsi, though they are not yet legally married; she remains legally married to Elmi.
2016: Omar, endorsed by the DFL over longtime incumbent Phyllis Kahn, is elected to the Minnesota House, becoming the first Somali-American, Muslim legislator in the United States. But her campaign is rocked by allegations in a Somali news forum and the conservative Power Line blog suggesting that Elmi is her brother and they married for unspecified immigration benefits.
2017: Omar is granted a legal divorce from Elmi.
2018: Omar legally marries Hirsi and is elected to Congress.
The Examiner report states:
A paper trail of legal documents, however, undermines Omar’s claim that her marriage to Elmi, a British citizen, came during a split from Hirsi. All available evidence suggests that her legal marriage to Elmi notwithstanding, Omar has always been in marital relationship with Hirsi.
Public documents, for instance, place Hirsi and Omar living in a home together in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis in 2009, the year Elmi and Omar married, and two years before Omar claims she reconciled with Hirsi.
In legal documents, including 24 traffic violations and misdemeanor charges against Hirsi obtained by the Washington Examiner, Hirsi listed his address at a single Cedar Riverside address consistently in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Four minor cases against Omar show that in 2007, 2009, and 2012, she listed her address at the same Cedar Riverside address.
And, the report adds, the same address was listed for “both Omar and Hirsi in separate traffic violations in mid-2009, the year Omar and Elmi married.” How does that work?
And, the Examiner said:
Under penalty of perjury, Omar wrote during divorce proceedings that she had not contacted or known the whereabouts of Elmi since the summer of 2011. She also said that she had no means of contacting him, and the district court judge wrote in the divorce decree that Elmi “has not signed a declaration of non-paternity as [Omar] has had no contact with him since before the child was conceived.” Thus the court granted her request to serve Elmi with divorce papers “by alternate means.” Once a week, for three weeks in a row during August and September of 2017, Omar published public summons to Elmi in a local newspaper, Finance and Commerce.
Contradicting this claim are images from Elmi’s social media account published by a Minnesota web outlet called Alpha News, which show Elmi with Ilwad on her day of birth. Elmi’s Instagram account was deleted before the Examiner could independently verify its authenticity.
Both outlets posted a great deal of information that should raise a number of questions. The Star-Triubune said that Omar could simply let her family clear the air, but so far she has refused to make her family available. Why?
And why won’t Omar herself address the issue?
Lowe noted:
In legal documents, including 24 traffic violations and misdemeanor charges, Hirsi listed his address in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, & 2011 at the same address listed by Omar in 2007, 2009, & 2012.
Omar says she was married to Elmi from 2009 to 2011. https://t.co/PrQDwbauZT
— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) June 23, 2019
Omar & Elmi both listed their address in their marriage application as a home in Columbia Heights. Hirsi, though registered a business to the Minnesota Secretary of State using that as his home address just three months after Omar’s legal marriage to Elmi. https://t.co/PrQDwbauZT
And then there’s this, which raises the question: Did Omar commit perjury?
Under penalty of perjury, Omar wrote during divorce proceedings that she had not contacted or known the whereabouts of Elmi since the summer of 2011. Elmi’s social media account published by Alpha News show Elmi with Omar's daughter in 2012. https://t.co/PrQDwbauZT
Lowe even invited Omar to email her:
BTW, @IlhanMN @Ilhan, feel free to email me and explain why you & your supposed ex-husband reported living together for 2.5 years when you were supposedly married by law and in faith to someone else. tlowe [at] washingtonexaminer [dot] com. https://t.co/PrQDwbauZT
Twitchy correctly notes: “Seems like a pretty easy thing to clean up, if, of course, she didn’t marry her brother.”
We agree…
Courtesy of Conservative Firing Line
When did the Republic become a Homocracy?
MSM Goes After Omar: Minneapolis Star Tribune Suggests She May Have Married Her Brother To Gain Citizenship
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13067
|
__label__cc
| 0.618233
| 0.381767
|
The Subscription Economy
by Debitsuccess on April 11, 2014
Direct Debit Articles
There’s a new kid on the block in the business world; one that’s driving growth, cultivating long-term customer relationships, and providing a win-win-win for consumers, businesses and society. That new kid is the subscription economy and it’s here to stay.
Driven by customer demand for convenience and flexibility, recurring models are being embraced by businesses of all genres to grow sales and deepen customer loyalty. Everything from music and education to healthcare, beauty treatments and even airlines are now offering subscription payment models.
Birchbox, a three year old New York City start up, is a pioneer for how recurring revenue models can transform retail sales. For $10 a month, subscribers receive a box of sample cosmetics and beauty products. The company generated $40 million in sales in 2012, compared to $5.6 million a year earlier.
Dollarshaveclub is delivering a new shaver every month and experiencing meteoric growth, and BlackSocks.com has amassed 70,000 subscribers paying by installment for three pairs of socks delivered four times a year.
The examples don’t stop there. United Airlines has added a subscription billing service for frequent fliers, with a fixed monthly fee for privileges such as checked baggage and extra legroom, and Toyota in Europe is selling updates to its on-board navigation system to new car buyers through annual subscriptions.
A growing list of tech companies is also jumping into the fray. Adobe has moved from packaged software sales to subscriptions, and Microsoft has adopted a recurring model for selling selected products. Leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat, has also had success, reporting first quarter revenue of $363 million, of which $316 million (87 percent) came from subscription services.
Recurring revenue models have exploded over recent years, estimated to be a $300 billion market in America alone.
It seems the new kid is making a difference on our shores too. Otago-based student start-up business MeatMail is now delivering 1000 kilos of meat per week through its subscriber based home delivery service. At the other end of the spectrum, Luxottica, a large luxury retail brand, responded to low cost and online retail pressure by introducing its VisionPlan subscription approach.
The subscription economy is rewriting the rules of business. Managing permutations and combinations of different pricing tiers, charging models, billing frequencies and product bundles is complex – that’s where technology partners make the systems work seamlessly and profitably.
One technology partner leading the charge as the engine of the subscription economy is New Zealand based Debitsuccess. Craig Marshall, Debitsuccess Chief Executive Officer says the subscription economy is transforming the business landscape.
“People have less time, more purchasing options, and increased pressure placed on their spending dollar so subscriptions are more convenient than large, one-off payments, provide reliable cash flow and ultimately increase business,” says Craig.
“Our unique service model for managing recurring payment adds value to any business or industry entering the subscription economy and successfully translates into many countries.”
Debitsuccess specialises in end-to-end management of recurring payments via direct debiting customers’ bank accounts or credit cards. Initiating over 22 million transactions, worth more than $1 billion annually, it has forged an enviable reputation as the leader in recurring revenue management.
There’s no doubt the new kid on the block is here to stay – and as more businesses embrace the subscription economy, its worth considering if it makes sense to offer customers a payment plan model for your product or service.
For more information visit www.debitsuccess.com
Compliance Customer Service Lay-by Outsourcing PCI DSS Retention Security Subscriptions
Systemising payments for your facility
Choice, choice and more choice. Options are fundamental when it comes to making payments regular for your health & fitness facility and simple for your mem...
By Debitsuccess
Making childcare payments child’s play
Caring for little ones, running a business, keeping up with day-to-day operations, ensuring required paperwork is completed – running a childcare business is...
Missing members?
Latest fitness industry statistics show nearly a quarter of all members aren’t actively using their gym memberships. So, do you work to bring these members ba...
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13070
|
__label__cc
| 0.528482
| 0.471518
|
Dog Health & Care
Dog Ailments & Diseases
Dog Seasonal Advice
Dog Dangers & Warnings
Dog Behaviour & Training
Getting a Dog & Adoption
Bereavement & Life End
Dogs & News
Dog Funnies
Dog Events
Home > Dog Blog > Dogs & News
England Moves Towards Shock Collar Ban
5 CommentsWednesday, 14 March 2018 | D for Dog
Did you know that electric shock collars are still legal in England. But hopefully not for much longer. This week brought the fantastic news that the Government has announced a consultation on banning the use of electronic shock collars.
With electric shock collars already banned in Wales and with Scotland poised to follow suit (see Scotland Shock Collar Ban) the Government has now also announced a consultation regarding a ban on the sale and use of shock collars across the UK.
A UK wide ban on these devices is essential in stopping their purchase and use. Harry Huyton, director of animal charity OneKind said:
"With the use of electric shock collars banned in Wales and now Scotland, our attention must turn to Westminster. Even with these bans, anyone can still buy an electric shock collar in the UK for as little as £20 and break the law by using it to abuse animals. If we are to end their use for good, then Westminster needs to legislate against them too."
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is launching the six week consultation amid growing public concern and campaigns from high profile organistations such as Dog's Trust and RSPCA. The consultation will run until 20 April.
Dogs Trust's #shockinglylegal campaign highlighted to MP's the wealth of scientific evidence and professional expertise demonstrating the serious negative effects shock collars can have on dogs.
Dr Rachel Casey, Director of Canine Behaviour and Research at Dogs Trust says:
"We are delighted that the Government has announced a consultation on banning the use of electronic shock collars. This decision is a major step towards improving dog welfare. Dogs Trust has long campaigned on this issue, and we very much hope this will lead to a ban on the use of these devices, as well as evidence the need to ban their sale. Research has shown that the use of shock collars is associated with signs of distress in dogs, but also that positive reward based methods of training are more effective. We look forward to working with the Government on this important issue."
BVA President John Fishwick said:
"We welcome the Government's launch of a consultation on banning the use of shock collars in England and would like to see it result in an effective ban soon."
As it is just at the consultation stage, public support is still needed. Dogs Trust are calling on supporters to tweet their MP on this important issue. They will be sharing this information with the Government in its response to the consultation. So do it today - ask your MP to #banshockcollars.
Defra has launched a consultation on the proposals, which you can take part in here:
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/animal-health-and-welfare/ban-on-electronic-training-collars-cats-and-dogs/
Closes 27th Apr 2018.
Shock Collars: Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
Electric shock collars are fitted around a dog's neck and deliver an electric shock via a remote control or automatic trigger. They train dogs out of fear of further punishment by administering shocks to the dog when they do not perform what is asked of them.
In our blog in 2013 we looked at why people use these devices and the effects they can have on dogs.
For more info about shock collars, please see Shock Collars: Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
Lynda Teale
Friday, 23 March 2018 | 15:07
I'm delighted to hear this news.....................It's about time.......... This needs dealing with ASAP, prob is Westminster is slow with everything....I hope that Westminter agrees and does it and also introduces severe punishment to anyone found using one
B Patch
Let's not forget the use of electricity to restrict the movement of livestock,Horses Cattle and Pigs are routinely receiving electric shocks from fences around fields. Electric prods are routinly used to ensure that cattle are easily managed when moving them into the transport vehicles. Deer are kept within the boundary of private estates using electric fences. Poultry farmers use electric systems to protect their chicken from foxes and other preditory animals. If we are to restrict the use of electrical products on cats and dogs we must also include other uses of electrical devices on all other animals. Why are cats and dogs seen as special cases? If dogs and cats are regarded as domesticated animals then so are all animals that are kept as livestock on farms. The government needs to consider a uses of electrical restraint on all animals if considering a ban on electric collars and electric boundry fences for cats and dogs. We have to be better than having a one off knee jerk reaction and there is the need to look at the bigger picture. I have used remote collars on dogs that would have been euthanused without using this type of technology in a humane manner in the dogs best interest. Like any tool if used innapropriatly it will cause harm and distress to an animal. However if used appropriately in a humane manner, a remote collar can be of benefit to the animal. If a ban is implemented I will continue to use my remote if I consider it necessary and if I am questioned about its use I will inform the person questioning it's use to contact the police, knowing full well that the chances of being questioned by the police are negligible as it takes the police three days to come out to a burglary these days if they come at all. Good luck in enforcing an unenforceable law. Currently there has only been one conviction in Wales since the introduction of this law in Wales and that was only as a result of a dog escaping from a garden where there was a perimiter remote fence and when it was taken to the dog pound it was found to have a remote collar on it. So much for the law bring effective. People will continue to use remote collars and fences and take there chances on being caught as these changces are slim indeed.
Wednesday, 28 March 2018 | 19:42
What IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? There is no need to use electric shocks on animals in the 21st century. We are all supposed to be civilised and educated. We are not allowed to use such treatments on people so why use them on animals. It is cruel, barbaric and sick. I am so glad I live in Wales where it is banned and let me assure you, if I ever saw someone using this treatment on animals, I would make sure they got the same in return.
Monday, 9 April 2018 | 19:54
I have and will continue to use my remote collar if I deem it neccassary. I do not live in Wales however I have used it on my dog when I have visited Wales. I will if I feel the need to, use the remote collar in the best interests of my dogs welfare. whether I am in Wales or not.
Richard Browning
Friday, 3 August 2018 | 10:03
So it’s fine to use electric fences then for god sake a couple of shocks in a dogs life against being shot for worrying live stock and killing animals and you can ask any dog behavior expert that dog will not be able to be controlled by command so can’t see there being much of an argument.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13071
|
__label__cc
| 0.726999
| 0.273001
|
home / News & events / News / Developing Friendships and German Language Skills
Developing Friendships and German Language Skills
Posted on: 10th October 2018
Seventeen Year 8 and 10 Derby Grammar School pupils travelled to Lüneburg in Germany in September as part of their German course to take part in a week’s exchange visit. Each pupil was hosted by a German family during their time there, and they are looking forward to welcoming their new friend back to the UK in March next year.
The week started with a ‘getting to know you’ quiz night for pupils and families before our pupils embarked upon a week of visits and activities. This included a tour of the £270m Volkswagen Autostadt centre next to VW HQ in Wolfsburg. The Autostadt is a fascinating voyage of discovery which explains the technology behind VW, and shares the VW vision of the future. It proved a very popular part of the trip amongst our DGS boys as they tried out cars we could be driving in the future!
Other activities during the week included a visit to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp, aswell as the Kletterwald climbing centre, which pupils tackled alongside their exchange partners. They also visited to the Scharnebeck twin ship lift which is a 38 metre boat lift connecting the Elbe Lateral Canal and the Mittellandkanal. When built in 1974, it was the largest ship lift in the world.
The week also included language lessons. All pupils agreed that taking part in the trip had improved their language skills. Year 10 pupil, Rohan Singh, said: “the trip has really helped me develop my speaking accent and my understanding of the language in general.
The favourite part of the trip for me was the Autostadt. I’m addicted to fast cars and I felt like I was in heaven. My favourite was the Bugatti Veyron.”
Ian Watson, German teacher at Derby Grammar School and tour leader for the trip added: “the exchange is all about bringing the subject to life and making it much more than something written down in a text book. It’s much more real and exciting to learn something from a young person who really speaks it than from a teacher like me.
I find that pupils who go on the exchange are much more likely to show an interest in the subject in future, perhaps choosing it for as a GCSE or A-Level, and they often keep up with their exchange partner.
Last summer one of our old pupils who has now started at university spent three weeks with his exchange partner. They originally met on the exchange five years ago. He then went on to achieve over 80% in his A-Level German speaking exam.”
We are looking forward to welcoming our German friends back to the UK in March and reciprocating the excellent hospitality we received whilst in Lüneburg.
(Thank you to Rohan for capturing pictures during the week!)
Lueneburg
Quix night
Boat ride to Autostadt
At Neuengamme
Kletterweld Climbing Park
Shiplift
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13081
|
__label__wiki
| 0.940715
| 0.940715
|
Prison inmates deserve rehabilitation, education, and voting rights — not porn
Unless porn can be thoroughly vetted against violent, coercive imagery and kept from sex offenders, it shouldn't be allowed in prisons.
Prison inmates deserve rehabilitation, education, and voting rights — not porn Unless porn can be thoroughly vetted against violent, coercive imagery and kept from sex offenders, it shouldn't be allowed in prisons. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2018/12/04/rekha-basu-iowa-prison-inmates-right-view-porn/2194830002/
Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register Published 12:49 p.m. CT Dec. 4, 2018 | Updated 3:00 p.m. CT Dec. 5, 2018
Michael Savala, general counsel for the Iowa Department of Corrections, discusses bill introduced in the Iowa Senate to ban "porn reading rooms" used by inmates in state correctional facilities. Bill Petroski/The Register
Men need porn as urgently as women need knitting needles: They don't.
Iowa Department of Corrections/Special to the Register Inmates are shown arriving at the new Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison in 2015.(Photo: Iowa Department of Corrections photo)
Do prison inmates have a constitutional right to have and peruse pornography in a private reading space? Fifty-eight men doing time at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility contend in a lawsuit that they do, and that a new state law limiting access amounts to religious tyranny hiding behind "the mantle of righteousness."
The suit was filed in federal court against Iowa state legislators who passed a law to shut down so-called "pornography reading rooms" and ban sexually explicit materials. It seeks $25,000 per plaintiff in damages. But 57 of them failed to meet last week's deadline set by U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt to pay $350 filing fees apiece and resubmit the papers. The other, inmate Michael Lindgren, sought and has been granted an extension by U.S. Magistrate Judge Ross Walters.
But whether or not the case proceeds, the suit raises key issues involving prisoners’ rights and the climate and culture inside a correctional facility that houses convicted sex offenders and murderers. It also touches on the rights and safety of corrections officers, especially female ones, working in men’s prisons. And it forces us to ask whether denying men in a confined environment access to sexually explicit materials interferes with some inherently male need for sexual release, as Sen. Rich Taylor, D-Mount Pleasant, claimed during Senate debate on the bill.
The retired Iowa State Penitentiary employee claimed the changes ignored the fact that male inmates have a sexual drive, saying, "You have to have some way to relieve that. This gives the inmates no release point except another offender, and don’t think that it doesn’t happen. This will make it worse. They will have no other alternatives for their relief.”
It seems appropriate to ask then, do women not have the same drive and if so, why aren’t female inmates complaining? The ruling on access to materials applies to the women’s prison as well, but it wasn’t commonly requested, says Cord Overton, spokesman for the Iowa Department of Corrections. He didn’t say if the women’s prison also had designated reading spaces.
The new law limiting access was introduced at the department’s request, according to Overton. Partly it was to save money because they had to dedicate “significant amounts of staff resources” to “screening, maintaining, and supervising the use of this material” when corrections officers were needed elsewhere. He also noted that with a significantly larger percentage of inmates now classified as sex offenders, it became a challenge to “keep the material separate from those that should not have access.”
The inmates have had this access to the materials and special spaces to view them ever since a 1988 ruling by a former chief U.S. district judge that the state’s rules on prison pornography were unconstitutionally vague and broad.
The lawsuit makes sweeping claims against the state, including of bribery, treason and a conspiracy to extort by state agents. It also brings in racial prejudice, Nazism, Stalinism, Puritanism and dictatorship. It includes assertions like, "If God wanted us clothed, he would have adorned unborn with linens prior to birth," and contends the law was "driven by prejudice and hatred toward those confined."
But as Beth Barnhill, executive director of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault rightly points out, pornography includes a wide range of materials, including some sexual images that are violent and coercive, involve children and/or were filmed or shot without a participant’s consent. “Some I wouldn’t have concerns about and some I would,” she said. “Who’s going to screen?”
As to men having particular sexual needs women don’t, or that they can only be fulfilled with porn, Barnhill said, “I don’t think that necessarily makes sense.”
But she does worry if the law were used as another way to punish the prison population.
Overton says no, that the Department of Corrections wants a rehabilitative climate inside the institution, and a focus on education and developing “pro-social behaviors.” He also made reference to a lawsuit filed against the state by a female corrections officer, Kristine Sink, alleging harassment by male inmates viewing hard-core, violent porn. She lost the case, appealed and won, and now a retrial is scheduled for Jan. 7.
In a Sept. 26, 2017 column, I described some of the bloody and brutal porn films screened as evidence in Sink’s court hearing that she alleged had led to the harassment against her. The column asked: “What conceivable benefit could prison officials have believed would come of showing mentally ill and disturbed inmates movies celebrating violence and degradation, including, according to Sink's claim, pedophilia and gang rapes?”
The Fort Dodge inmates’ lawsuit claims if female correctional officers employed in Iowa's prisons for men can't handle an environment that includes photographic matter featuring female nudity and related matters, "they should find employment elsewhere."
Wrong, if it becomes a hostile workplace inhospitable to female employees. There are 251 female officers employed in Iowa prisons.
Prison inmates should get good therapy, medical treatment and educational opportunities. They should have access to meditation and other calming activities and they should get to vote. The lawsuit makes a valid point that state lawmakers’ religious or moral beliefs should not factor into whether or not inmates get to see sexually explicit materials. But until these critical questions — what kind of porn, how it was produced and how guards are protected from the impact violent, hard-core images may have on inmates — are satisfactorily answered, the state is right to keep it out.
More: 58 inmates suing over pornography ban in Iowa's prisons, asking for $25,000 each
More: 'Porn reading rooms' in Iowa's prisons would close under legislative proposal
More: Ban on prison 'porn reading rooms' advances in Iowa Senate
Rekha Basu is an opinion columnist for The Des Moines Register. Contact: rbasu@dmreg.com Follow her on Twitter @rekhabasu and at Facebook.com/rekha.basu1106. Her book, "Finding Her Voice: A collection of Des Moines Register columns about women's struggles and triumphs in the Midwest," is available at ShopDMRegister.com/FindingHerVoice.
Read or Share this story: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2018/12/04/rekha-basu-iowa-prison-inmates-right-view-porn/2194830002/
Watch: John Hickenlooper meets with Register editorial board
Trump embarrasses America by praising dictators
We can't wait for calmer times to address mental healthcare
What used to be virtue has become liability
Iowa should prioritize climate crisis, clean energy
Opinion: America isn't perfect, but it is exceptional
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13083
|
__label__wiki
| 0.964082
| 0.964082
|
With Stephen Pruitt out, some worry Kentucky is returning to the bad old days of politics
Stephen Pruitt was pushed out by Matt Bevin's education board, leaving some to worry that political influence has returned to Kentucky schools
With Stephen Pruitt out, some worry Kentucky is returning to the bad old days of politics Stephen Pruitt was pushed out by Matt Bevin's education board, leaving some to worry that political influence has returned to Kentucky schools Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/18/kentucky-education-commissioner-stephen-pruitt-resigns-bevin-politics/524663002/
Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier Journal Published 8:29 a.m. ET April 18, 2018 | Updated 5:40 p.m. ET April 18, 2018
Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt was forced to resign by a newly constituted board, all appointed by Gov. Matt Bevin.
Stephen Pruitt, Kentucky Commissioner of Education, spoke to the media about the audit of Jefferson County Public Schools. Feb. 14, 2017(Photo: Sam Upshaw Jr./CJ)Buy Photo
Kentucky's sweeping educational reforms of nearly three decades ago had two major aims — to upgrade the quality of public school education and to reduce political influence in a system riddled with nepotism, patronage and partisan politics.
Tuesday's action to remove state Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt by a newly constituted board, with all members appointed by Gov. Matt Bevin, comes as some education advocates worry the bad old days of political influence have returned.
"I thought we had this behind us," said former state education board Chairman Roger Marcum, who oversaw the hiring of Pruitt in 2015. "I'm proud of the fact we got past that. I hope we're not going back to it."
Pruitt, who had said he hoped to keep his job, resigned Tuesday, a decision announced at the end of a lengthy closed session of the new board members. Seven of the 11 members were appointed by Bevin just the day before.
Breakdown: What Stephen Pruitt's resignation and JCPS audit means for your child
Marcum, who attended Tuesday's board meeting, said he attended his final meeting as a board member last week and talked with Pruitt, who told him how happy he had been to come to Kentucky after working as an education official in Georgia and Washington.
“He told me it was the best professional and personal decision he and his family had ever made,” Marcum said. “He told me how much he loved the state of Kentucky and that he hoped he could finish his career here. He hasn’t done anything to deserve this — in fact, just the opposite. It’s going to be a real loss to the state of Kentucky to lose someone like Stephen Pruitt.”
David Karem, a former education board member who served in the Senate when the legislature adopted the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act, or KERA, said the law was designed to "give the commissioner some insulation so he or she could do their job as a professional educator free of the political winds that might be whipping across our commonwealth."
"That was very clearly the aim of the whole education reform," Karem said. "It was part of the whole plan to give the Department of Education a professional leader."
And Mary Gwen Wheeler of Louisville, who served as education board chair until last week when her term expired, agreed the intent of the 1990 reform was to give the education commissioner protection from political pressure in order "to drive change, to be the best in class for commissioners outside of politics and outside of partisanship."
Pruitt's ouster "does raise that concern" of outside pressure, she said.
Marcum, a retired school superintendent who lives in Nelson County, said the reform was designed to limit political influence by abolishing the role of an elected state school superintendent and giving an independent board the power to select the commissioner.
"It seems that now folks are maybe trying to find a way around that," he said.
Related: Who is interim Kentucky Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis?
But the governor is within his rights in appointing new members to the education board, said people familiar with education law.
On Monday, Bevin announced he was filling seven vacancies on the board, adding to the four members he had previously appointed. Two of the new members are former top political appointees in his Republican administration – Hal Heiner, the former secretary of Education and Workforce Development, and Amanda Stamper, Bevin's former communications director.
Pruitt was hired as commissioner in 2015 under a board dominated by appointees of former Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat. The hiring came two months before Bevin was elected.
On Tuesday the new board held a special meeting and, after a lengthy executive session, announced Pruitt had resigned midway into his four-year contract, with the new chairman, Milton Seymore, saying the board is seeking a new direction.
Become a Courier Journal subscriber today to support stories like this one. Get unlimited digital access here!
Seymore thanked Pruitt, who was not present, for his service.
On Tuesday prior to the board meeting, Bevin held a press conference critical of achievement levels of public schools, in particular gaps in achievement by students not considered proficient in skills such as reading or math.
Pruitt's ouster comes as federal education officials are considering an ambitious proposal by Pruitt to reduce the student achievement gaps by half by 2030, said Brigitte Blom Ramsey, executive director of the Prichard Committee on Academic Excellence, a non-partisan advocacy group for public education.
Pruitt, she said, "has led that effort."
Bevin and Heiner have been highly critical of Jefferson County Public Schools and both are advocates of charter schools, which though authorized last year by the legislature have yet to open in Kentucky.
About charter schools: When will charter schools open in Ky? What we know
Bevin also has criticized the hundreds and thousands of public school teachers who flooded the state Capitol to protest in the final days of the recent legislative session, going so far on Friday as to claim students were sexually abused, poisoned or took drugs because school districts closed and children may have been left unattended.
Ramsey said Bevin has acted within the "governance model" established under KERA in replacing education board members with new ones as staggered terms expired.
"The governor is following the process," she said.
But Ramsey said the "fast nature" of Tuesday's meeting, a day after the new members were announced, "does seem to be a little bit out of the ordinary."
Whatever path the new board chooses, Ramsey said she hopes it's in the best interests of students as intended by the education reform law.
"It's served us well for the last 30 years," she said. "I hope it will continue to serve us well with this new board of education."
Marcum said he believes the Bevin administration has broader plans for public schools than just charter schools and private school vouchers the governor supports.
"I'm really concerned about whether this is an assault on public education as whole," Marcum said. "Not just privatizing, but really doing away with public education as we know it today."
Deborah Yetter: 502-582-4228; dyetter@courierjournal.com; Twitter: @d_yetter. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: www.courier-journal.com/deborahy.
Charter schools are now an option in Kentucky. So, what is a charter school? Let's take a look. Wochit
Read or Share this story: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/18/kentucky-education-commissioner-stephen-pruitt-resigns-bevin-politics/524663002/
Louisville lawyer hit attorney with bottle in courthouse fight, police say
Truck carrying pigs overturns on I-65 South ramp at Spaghetti Junction
Matt Jones pulled from TV show amid US Senate speculation
'America's Day as the Racist': Trump's 'go back' tweet spurs graffiti
Wall Street firms boost McConnell's reelection campaign coffers
McConnell: President Trump 'is not a racist'
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13087
|
__label__wiki
| 0.891122
| 0.891122
|
In 'beyond the pale' move, Vectren promotes energy efficiency while making others pay
Vectren encourages energy conservation as a benefit to customers, but some feel Vectren benefits even more than customers do.
In 'beyond the pale' move, Vectren promotes energy efficiency while making others pay Vectren encourages energy conservation as a benefit to customers, but some feel Vectren benefits even more than customers do. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2018/04/20/vectren-promotes-energy-efficiency-while-making-others-foot-bill-evansville-indiana/404563002/
This story is part of the series Courier Press Top Stories
UE grad Rami Malek in final deals to play next Bond villain, industry pub reports
Hemp is legal; Can I grow it in Indiana?
Forecasting winter weather a slippery task
John T. Martin, Courier & Press Published 2:27 p.m. CT April 20, 2018 | Updated 4:22 p.m. CT April 20, 2018
At right is the "smart meter" Vectren will be installing for customers across its service area in 2018. At right is an encoder receiver transmitter, which those with natural gas meters also will receive.(Photo: John Martin, Courier & Press)Buy Photo
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Whenever a Vectren customer gets new windows or installs an energy-efficient appliance in their home, their electric bill goes down.
But what the utility doesn't tell you is that it makes up for that lost money by making sure everyone else's bills go up.
The way it recoups the money is complicated, but it certainly is getting it back. And the dollars at play are significant, even for such a large public corporation as Vectren.
The practice is allowed by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, which oversees the state's five electric utilities. But the amount utilities can hike customers' bills to recoup the money it loses from more energy-efficient customers is capped.
While four of those utilities accepted the commission's caps, Vectren was the only one that didn't. It appealed the cap to the Indiana Court of Appeals, which kicked it back to the IURC, which ruled in Vectren's favor.
Now, Vectren's customers — many of whom are the utility's lowest-income customers — are paying tens of millions of dollars to, in effect, compensate the company for electricity that wasn't used.
"It's pretty disgusting, actually," said Kerwin Olson, executive director of the Citizens Action Coalition, which advocates for Indiana residents in energy policy matters. "It really is beyond the pale in terms of what Vectren asked for in terms of cost recovery, and what the commission granted them."
Recouping the revenue
How is Vectren allowed to do this?
To understand the process, you'll have to walk a mile in Vectren's shoes.
On one hand, Vectren is pushing its customers to make smarter decisions about their energy use; it's part of the mission. Through rebates and other incentives, including lower monthly bills, Vectren has been proactive about getting customers to, in essence, use less of its product.
On the other hand, that sort of business model is bad for, well, business. The less of its product is used, the less money Vectren brings in.
Plugging the gap between what the utility would have made — had its customers not been so energy-efficient — and what the utility actually makes billing customers for the energy they used is known as a "lost revenue adjustment mechanism," or LRAM.
Vectren made its case before the IURC that it needs that process to pay for its fixed costs.
"We are able to go in and say, 'Our customers last year saved 8 million kilowatt hours. Had we delivered those 8 million kilowatt hours, we would have recovered X,'" said Vectren spokeswoman Chase Kelley. "We now go back and get to recover X among all customers."
The value of X is determined through a formal and rigorous evaluation conducted by a third party, Kelley said. If a homeowner installs a high-efficiency air conditioner, for example, the evaluation will show how much the homeowner actually saved.
Olson views the process as a gain for Vectren.
"They get reimbursed for the cost of the program, and they are allowed cost recovery of the energy they did not sell that customer," Olson said. "And the sums of money are extraordinary."
(Photo: Nest)
Vectren annually provides IURC the cost of operating its energy savings program (roughly $9 million a year, Vectren says), as well as revenues lost to homeowners’ savings measures.
A board of representatives from Vectren, the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and Olson's CAC oversees rebate offerings and the LRAM process. Vectren says LRAM is a common process among utilities in many states, and in Indiana, it is established by law.
Vectren's goal for this year is to save 40 million kilowatt hours. Since 2010, the company says it's helped electric customers save 330 million kilowatt hours, enough to power 30,000 homes for a year.
The company says somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of residential customers participate in rebates. Far fewer industrial customers do.
How much recovery is 'reasonable'?
Indiana law requires the IURC to allow energy suppliers to recover "reasonable" lost revenues associated with these energy efficiency plans.
Vectren and the CAC have vastly different views of how “reasonable” is defined.
In March 2016, the IURC placed a four-year cap on Vectren's recovery for 2016-17. That's what Vectren challenged in court. The utility thus far has prevailed, and the IURC recently removed a cap on the company's cost recovery, Vectren officials said.
Representatives of other Indiana utilities declined to comment on why they didn't fight the cap as Vectren has.
Kelley said Vectren needs to recover its lost revenue to maintain its operations.
"We have to be able to recover our fixed costs as a utility," she said. "We have proven that case, and the commission ruled in our favor.”
Citing IURC testimony, Olson said Vectren originally requested nearly $106 million from the IURC related to energy efficiency for 2018-21. Of that, about $73.6 million (69.5 percent) is for "lost revenues." This amount was calculated based on "lifetime" recovery.
The remaining percentage of the cost is for operating the rebate programs.
Vectren then filed a tweaked proposal of $87 million, with $54.7 million (63 percent) being lost revenues. The amount was not based on lifetime recovery, but rather a new metric called Weighted Average Measure Life.
The CAC appealed the request, as well as one for 2016-17 in which Vectren sought $44.8 million, including $25.8 million in lost revenues.
Which raises the question: Is there any real benefit to energy efficiency when the "savings" are really just higher bills for other customers?
Vectren says yes.
Greater conservation means Vectren won't have to spend as much in the future on power generation, Kelley said, and "the benefit to customers is, I use less and that’s going to translate to our bill."
She said energy efficiency is a big factor in Vectren's multi-year planning, and the utility is committed to the concept.
To criticism that the cost of energy efficiency is being footed by low-income customers, Kelley noted assistance programs Vectren offers those customers. A weatherization program has more than 600 annual participants and involves home-based inspection of insulation and appliances.
But Olson, while stressing the CAC also wants energy conservation, argues the cost-recovery system in place is weighted in Vectren's favor.
"Vectren claims that they care about their customers, yet felt the need to fight in the courts for extraordinary sums of customer money via so-called lost revenues," he said. "This despite having the highest (residential) rates in the state."
More: New Downtown Evansville medical complex name is less of a tongue-twister
More: Could hackers be stealing your Netflix? Yeah
Read or Share this story: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2018/04/20/vectren-promotes-energy-efficiency-while-making-others-foot-bill-evansville-indiana/404563002/
Courier Press Top Stories
Abbey Doyle
Noah Stubbs
Jeffrey Walker
The son could rise to Congress — if Matt Hostettler wants
Thomas B. Langhorne
End of the rainbow: Newburgh family welcomes rare twins after journey of loss, hope
Teacher of Week: Etienne still writes in cursive
Megan Erbacher
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13088
|
__label__wiki
| 0.876938
| 0.876938
|
$3.2M Baker’s Row Condos Get City Council Approval
Baker’s Row, the eight-unit condominium complex proposed on the former site of Hubig’s Pies, has cleared its next-to-last hurdle, with the New Orleans City Council approving redevelopment plans
Eliza Theiss
Baker’s Row
Baker’s Row, the eight-unit condominium complex proposed on the former site of Hubig’s Pies, has cleared its next-to-last hurdle, with the New Orleans City Council approving redevelopment plans, reported The Times-Picayune. Following the council’s unanimous vote allowing a higher-density use, the developers now only need the approval of the Historic District Landmarks Commission.
Set to rise at 2413-2417 Dauphine St. in the historic Fabourg Marigny neighborhood, the project is being developed by Michael Bosie and Kyle Resmondo of MK RED at a cost of $3.2 million, reported The Times-Picayune. The project will consist of two two-story, four-unit buildings. The 1,500-square-foot units are expected to sell for $500,000. Amenities will include a 40-foot, single-lane lap pool; eight off-street parking spaces; a communal outdoor kitchen; private courtyards and balconies; and contemporary finishes, according to multiple sources. According to Canal Street Beat, the developers have closed on the site, purchasing it for $770,000 from Pie Dauphine LLC.
The development team also includes Titan of LA Inc. as general contractor, David O’Riley of O’Riley Engineering as project engineer and John Dalton as architect, according to papers filed with the city.
Rendering via One Stop App
Virgin Hotels Breaks Ground on New Orleans Property
Baywood Hotels Opens New Orleans Property
Mechanical, Electrical Contractor Relocates HQ Near New Orleans
Easterly Government Properties Buys FBI’s New Orleans Office
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13091
|
__label__cc
| 0.737797
| 0.262203
|
Dive Fiji
Fiji is an ideal holiday destination for divers with a non-diving partner. Fiji is known for its palm-fringed beaches, lush rainforests, cascading waterfalls and spectacular underwater world, teeming with fish and corals. The Fijian people welcome visitors with a smile and friendly greeting “BULA” (meaning "life" or "good health") heard throughout the islands.
The range of accommodation varies throughout the islands and caters for all tastes and budgets, including “eco-friendly" hideaways, small family hotels, large resorts & romantic, exclusive retreats.
The tropical climate is ideal for a wide range of water sports. These magical islands offer some of the best snorkelling and diving in the South Pacific, as well as the opportunity to experience the traditional culture of this tropical wonderland.
Geographical Information
When to Travel
Diving in Fiji
The volcanic islands of Fiji lie in the South Pacific Ocean approximately 4 hours by plane east of Australia in between New Caledonia and Western Samoa, east of Vanuatu and west of Tonga. The island group consists of some 333 islands, of which only 110 are inhabited, and 522 smaller islets. The two largest islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu make up 87% of Fiji’s total land mass and houses about 90% of the population.
Fiji is a very hospitable land of blue-green lagoons, lush tropical rainforests, pine forests, mountains formed by dormant or extinct volcanoes or from limestone and coral islets and 1,666 kilometres of white sand beaches scattered across 709,660 square kilometres of ocean.
The international airport is located in Nadi on Viti Levu, Fiji’s largest island. The capital of Suva is also located here along with Fiji’s other main town of Lautoka. Major tourist areas on Viti Levu are Denarau, the Coral Coast and Pacific Harbour.
Other major islands and island groups include:
Mamanuca Group (located just off Nadi) and Yasawa Group (an island chain to the north of the Mamanucas) which are both major tourist destinations.
Beqa Island and Kadavu Island off the south coast of Viti Levu.
Lomaiviti Group to the east of Suva.
Taveuni (also known as the Garden Island and Fiji’s third largest island) located southeast of Vanua Levu.
Fiji Activities
Your holiday in Fiji can be as relaxing or as active as you would like it to be.
From pampering yourself at your resort’s spa and wellness centre, relaxing with a cocktail by the pool with a good book, or watching the peaceful sunsets to snorkeling off the resort, diving on coral gardens, pinnacles and walls with sharks and manta rays, kayaking, zip lining, wind surfing, standup paddle boarding, playing a round of golf, hiking, island hopping, fishing and cultural shows – Fiji has it all.
When to Travel to Fiji
Fiji has a tropical climate with two seasons. The dry season, or Fiji winter, extends from May to October when there is low rainfall, low humidity and less chance of cyclones. Temperatures in the dry season hover around 25˚C during the day, dropping to a pleasant 19˚C - 20˚C at night. Southerly trade winds bring a cool breeze off the sea and stronger winds can occur on the south and east coasts. Water temperature is between 24˚C - 27˚C.
The wet season, or Fiji summer, is between November to April when rainfall and humidity is substantially higher. Most rain falls in sudden tropical downpours, normally during the mid-afternoon. The seas are generally calm, however tropical cyclones can develop between December and April. Temperatures range between 22˚C at night and a constant 31˚C during the day. Water temperature is between 27˚C - 29˚C.
High season is during Australian and New Zealand school holidays particularly December and January and June and July
Scuba Diving in Fiji
The coral reefs surrounding the Fiji Islands abound with a wide variety of marine life. The world's second largest coral reef is located in these waters. Brightly coloured soft corals, yellow and red gorgonian fans, a myriad of small tropical fish, tunnels, caves and spectacular drop-offs await the visiting diver.
Dive sites vary from shallow lagoons, suitable for newcomers to the sport, to sheer walls and pinnacles for the more experienced divers.
Fiji enjoys the tag “Soft Coral Capital of the World”, and is deservedly rated as one of the top 10 dive destinations in the world. The coral formations attract a wide variety of marine life, including large schools of small tropical fish, making Fiji a great location for underwater photography.
Fiji Liveaboards
The outer barrier reefs of the central region of Fiji are remote and vast and offer some of the best diving in Fiji. A liveaboard dive trip is a good option to explore the dive sites in the Bligh Water and around the islands and barrier reefs of Lomaiviti, Namena, Wakaya and Gau as they are situated a long distance from shore based dive operations. Much of these areas remain unchartered and untouched providing more prolific big fish action and rich soft coral encounters in the nutrient rich, current fed waters and passages. The underwater topography also varies from coral covered bommies, to channels and passages, sea mounts and swim throughs.
Nai'a
7 and 10 night trips ex Lautoka
Budget: $$$
Length: 36.5 metres
Max. No. Guests: 18
No. Cabins: 9
Approx dives per day: 4-5 dives
Nitrox: Yes (extra cost)
Tech Dive: Rebreather friendly
S/Y Fiji Siren
7 and 10 night trips ex Volivoli Beach Resort, Viti Levu
Length: 40 metres
Approx dives per day: up to 4 dives
Nitrox: Yes (included)
Fiji Aggressor
7 night trips ex Suva, Viti Levu
Tech Dive: No
Guide to Fiji
Entry & Visa Requirements
Medical & Health Requirements
Departure Tax
Fiji is located in the South Pacific approximately 3000km east of Australia. The Fijian Islands consist of more than 300 volcanic and coral islands, 105 of which are inhabited. The three largest islands in Fiji are the volcanic islands of Viti Levu ‘Great Fiji’ and Vanua Levu ‘Great Land of the People’, and the island of Taveuni.
The international country code for Fiji is 679.
Fiji is 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Entry and Visa Requirements
Most visitors may obtain an entry visa on arrival for stays of up to 4 months. Please check the latest entry requirements with the appropriate authorities.
Medical and Health Requirements
Most small towns and built up areas have government clinics, with hospitals located throughout Fiji. There is a recompression chamber in Suva. Fiji is free from most tropical diseases, however vaccinations against Hepatitis, Tetanus and Typhoid are recommended. Remember that some medications can make you sun sensitive, so extra care must be taken to ensure that skin is protected from sun burn. Please check with your physician for the best precautions to be taken. (For further details please contact Travel Vax on 1300 360 164).
Local currency is the Fijian Dollar. Major international credit cards are accepted at most tourist facilities.
1 AUD = approximately 1.50 Fijian Dollars (June 2017)
Baggage (International flights Ex Australia)
Fiji Airways-23kg
Virgin Australia -23kg (except Saver Lite fares - Nil baggage).
Domestic carriers in Fiji are often restricted to 16kg.
The allowance is 250 cigarettes or 250g of tobacco, 2.25 litres of spirits or 4.5 litres of wine or beer.
The Fijian islands enjoy a year-round warm tropical climate .The Summer wet season is from December through to March with an average temperature of 30˚C, whilst April to November is the drier cooler season with an average temperature of 26ºC.
The emphasis is on light and casual clothing but too brief in public places. Swimwear is not permitted in the public areas including visiting villages or shopping in town. Remember to cover up with light cotton clothing at dusk and dawn to prevent mosquito bites. Sun protection is absolutely essential.
240 volts AC, Plug I – same as Australia.
(for further details refer to http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm).
Trading banks are ANZ, Westpac, National Bank of Fiji and Bank of Hawaii. Nadi Airport offers ATM services throughout Fiji. Services may be limited on outer islands. Banking hours are 9.30am to 3.00pm Monday to Thursday and to 4pm on Fridays.
There are three main languages in Fiji. English is the official language used for government, commerce and education. Fijian and Hindustani is widely spoken by the locals.
Fiji is a multi cultural country with around 50% of the population Fijian, 47% Indians and 3% other races. The primary religions are Methodist and Hinduism with Roman Catholic and Muslim minorities.
Tap water is safe to drink in hotel, resorts and main towns. Bottled water is sold everywhere. In the tropics it is important to drink plenty of non-alcoholic fluids to avoid dehydration.
Fiji has the most developed duty free shopping of the South Pacific islands. Fijian artifacts are available from all the large retail shops to the small roadside stalls throughout Fiji. Shopping centres have fixed prices however bargaining is acceptable at markets or small Indo-Fijian shops. Shops are open from 8.00 am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday, and Saturday mornings 08.00 am to 1.00 pm. Some shops close for lunch between 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm. Times may vary from island to island.
Although tipping is not necessary in Fiji, special services can be rewarded with small amounts.
Fiji offers a number of soft coral reefs, such as Beqa Lagoon, Rainbow Reef or the Somosomo Straits with the famous Great White Wall to the hard coral reefs and manta rays of Kadavu and the Great Astralobe Reef , the world’s third largest barrier reef system. The Shark Dives in Beqa Lagoon are also popular where up to nine different species of sharks can be encountered. Water temperature ranges between 23-30˚C. A 3-5mm suit is recommended. Dive operators supply tanks, weight belts and dive guide services. There will be an extra charge if equipment hire is required.
A dive permit costing USD30 is required in Chuuk. Dive operators supply tanks, weight belts and dive guide services. There will be an extra charge if equipment hire is required.
There is currently no locally paid departure taxes for Fiji.
Fiji Destinations
Nadi and Denarau
Mamanucas
Fiji Dive Specials
Lalati Resort & Spa, Beqa Island "June and July Super Special"
Stay 5 Nights Pay 3 Nights and Stay 7 Nights Pay 4 Nights Plus 2-for-1 Diving
Wananavu Beach Resort "Wananavu Deal"
Stay 5 Nights and Save 30% on accommodation Plus Bonuses
Wananavu Beach Resort " Fiji Holiday Offer"
Stay and Save 20% on accommodation
Qamea Resort and Spa "2019 Stay Pay Offer Extended to 2020 "
Stay 7 Nights, Pay 5 Nights OR Stay 4 Nights, Pay 3 Nights PLUS extra Bonuses
Lalati Resort & Spa, Beqa Island "New Green Deal"
Stay 7 Nights Pay 5 Nights, Stay 6 Nights Pay 4 Nights, Stay 5 Nights Pay 3 Nights Plus Free Upgrade GREEN inclusions
The Pearl Resort & Spa "2019-20 Dive Special"
Special 5 Night Dive Package
Paradise Taveuni "5 Night DEMA 2018 Special"
5 Night DEMA 2018 Specials from FJ $2,385 per diver twin share plus 25% taxes
Paradise Taveuni "10 Night DEMA 2018 Special"
10 Nights 50% OFF Special from FJ $3,565 per Diver twin share plus 25% taxes
7 Night DEMA 2018 Special from FJ $3,727 per Diver twin share plus 25% tax
Wananavu Beach Resort "2020-21 Year Round Special"
Stay 7 Nights, Pay 5 Nights with $200 Resort Credit
Uprising Beach Resort, Pacific Harbour "Year Round Specials"
Stay 5 Nights, Pay 4 Nights and Stay 7 Nights, Pay 5 Nights
Uprising Beach Resort, Pacific Harbour "Stay 3 Nights Pay 2 Nights"
For travel 10 January to 30 April (in 2019, 2020, 2021)
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13097
|
__label__wiki
| 0.569892
| 0.569892
|
Building Alaska
#BuildingAlaska Consult Program Guide
Building Alaska Episodes
Building Alaska, the New Generation
A new generation of builders tackles the Alaskan wilds to build off-the-grid cabins. First-time builder Nick faces some harsh realities when he can't use the trees on his build site for lumber. Brannon's team develops a unique foundation system to build on permafrost, but they must fight nature every step of the way. Father and son team Jere and Ben take on a massive 5,000-square-foot floating lodge project, the most challenging and dangerous build ever attempted on Building Alaska!
Hard Work Beats Talent
Reality sets in for first-time extreme cabin builder Nick Blanco in Alaska as he fights the tides trying to retrieve pylons for his foundation and realizes he doesn't have the right equipment to dig postholes. Then Brannon's team gets stuck on the muddy trail bringing in more build materials, but eventually makes good progress on the front porch before an unexpected rainstorm shuts them down. Jere and Ben continue to build the massive aluminum barge one weld at a time, but when signs of fall creep in, the colder temperatures start to cause problems.
Noah's Barge
Jere, Ben and Tim put the finishing touches on the biggest project they've undertaken: building a 112-foot floating barge. They struggle with figuring out how to get a 40-foot trailer underneath it so they can transport it to the water, and hurricane-force winds change their plans and delay the launch. Nick gets help from his family and friends, but the group struggles trying to install the 27 pilings needed to build his dream fishing lodge and warehouse. In the end they solve the problem using some Alaskan ingenuity. Finally, Brannon's cabin starts taking shape as the crew does some heavy lifting putting up the gable end walls.
Stuck in Shelikof
Nick experiences firsthand just how dangerous living in Alaska can be while hunting for driftwood to build his fishing lodge and warehouse. Jere and Ben's 112-foot barge starts its half-mile journey to the water, but nobody knows if they will make high tide so the barge can float the 13 miles to its new home at Alaska Sea Otter Sound Lodge. Brannon's team fights the rain and the remote building conditions to finally lift the ridge beam into place, hitting a major milestone in his cabin build.
Rain and a muddy trail continue to slow down Brannon's cabin build, but despite their dampened spirits, the gang is able to haul the windows across the two-mile trail. Nick makes a roof design change, and a family fundraiser collects enough money to provide him with some help. Jere and Ben finally get the barge launched and tugged to its new home in Sea Otter Sound so that work on the second story of the lodge can begin.
Honey Bucket
Nick races to finish his cabin before his mom visits again. Bears are still a threat, so Nick makes sure the electric fence is working. Nick and Kent design and build a "honey bucket," also known as an Alaskan toilet. Brannon and his team finish the front of the cabin, giving it a unique look, and they haul a heavy wooden stove over the trail to install in the cabin. Jere and Ben's crew struggles to get the roof on the guest rooms and the main lodge.
All the builders are in the home stretch in Alaska as they try to finish their cabins and floating lodge. Jere and Ben install interior and exterior siding, but their progress comes to a halt when they run out of stain and nails. So they switch to Plan B, installing the upstairs stove and chimney. Nick's roof is dried in, so he turns to finishing the sleeping loft, building a bathroom and adding outside trim. Brannon's team finishes the exterior siding and interior insulation and installs lights.
Nick's dad, Paul, returns to help put the finishing touches on the cabin, including a unique find that they polish and hang. Nick's mom and stepdad arrive, and Nick's mom is amazed by the finished cabin. Brannon's team builds countertops and railings for the cabin, and his client, Dick, arrives with his family to admire their newly finished lodge. Jere and Ben put in hard work finishing the new Sea Otter Sound Lodge, and the first guests arrive at the 5,000-square-foot floating lodge.
|
cc/2019-30/en_middle_0028.json.gz/line13098
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.