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Secure File Exchange (SFX) is used to exchange files with SIGRIST. The web-based tool allows the exchange of many files, or files that are very large. On request, the transmission is encrypted and thus only accessible to authorized recipients.
With SFX you upload the files to a bucket. The web address of this bucket can then be shared with the recipient. If you set a password, the bucket is encrypted. If you do not set a password, then the bucket is not encrypted and is accessible to everyone who is in possession of the web address.
Open SFX Download Manual
You need a compatible browser (Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or later).
What is SIGRIST Document Cloud?
SIGRIST Document Cloud is a network drive that contains all of our documentation. You can use the Document Cloud to browse our documentation or you can synchronize it for offline use.
How do I use SIGRIST Document Cloud?
Connect with your favorite WebDAV client to https://documents.photometer.com/ and provide your photometer.com login credentials (email and password) to log in.
How do I sync documents to my iPad/iPhone?
Download and install the GoodReader app.
Add a WebDAV server connection to https://documents.photometer.com/.
Provide your logon credentials (email and password) from photometer.com.
Highlight the root folder. You can also choose a subfolder if you want to synchronize partially.
Press the Sync button.
Select a target location, then press Download here & Synchronize.
Select Download-only sync.
Press Sync. The process will start immediately.
If you would like to sync later, press the Sync button near the bottom right corner of the screen.
Watch this video to see these steps in action.
How do I sync documents to my Windows device?
Download SIGRIST Document Cloud Synchronization Utility.
Install the apllication contained in the zip file.
Set an empty directory as target.
Start the synchronisation.
How do I sync documents to my Android device?
FolderSync Lite synchronizes our Document Cloud to your Android device. Use your favorite file manager to explore files and open them.
How do I sync the documents to my OS X device?
GoodSync For Mac (30$) synchronizes our Document Cloud to your Mac.
Or connect to our WebDAV server (https://documents.photometer.com/), and use an app like Sync Folders to synchronize with your local drive.
How can I select what documents are beeing synchronized to my device?
Visit https://documents.photometer.com and select the products, languages and file types that you want to be synchronized.
The settings made on this page will take effect when you next synchronize with the SIGRIST Document Cloud. Deselected files will be deleted and newly selected files will be downloaded.
You get the Error “Connection Failed” when you try to synchronize with the SIGRIST Document Cloud Synchronization Program?
Try to connect with a browser to documents.photometer.com and use your photometer.com credentials to log in.
Switch off any personal firewall installed on your computer
Make shure that the company firwall allows the connection to documents.photometer.com on the https-port (443)
Try installing the WinSCP Client and connect with WEBDAV to https://documents.photometer.com, using the same credentials as on the synchronisation program
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Privacy statement SIGRIST Newsletter
1. Legal basis
1.1. The EU General Data Protection Regulation provides protection of personal data. We exclusively process your data in accordance with the legal provisions (GDPR).
2. Basic information
2.1. Responsible party:
2.2. Data protection officer:
2.3. It is our particular concern that we protect and safely store all your personal data entrusted to us. This document provides more information on how we use and process personal data.
3. Purpose, legal basis, storage period and data recipient
3.1. The personal data collected by SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG are needed for the purposes of customer service and promotion. In addition, we analyse the usage patterns of visitors browsing the website for the purpose of personalisation and demand specific preparation of information. The data are collected, stored, processed and used for these purposes.
3.2. SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG collects, processes and uses your personal data on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) GDPR. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data are, on the one hand, legitimate interests in accordance with Art 6 (1) (f) GDPR and, on the other hand, your consent to the processing of your relevant personal data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) (newsletter, contact form and cookies). Not providing the data may have various consequences.
3.3. SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG processes your personal data, as far as necessary, for the duration of the entire business relationship (from initiation, handling until expiration of a contract) and, exceeding that, in accordance with the legal safekeeping and documentation obligations accruing from Swiss laws and until a possible legal dispute is ended, continual warranty and guarantee periods expire.
3.4. In the course of operating our website and analysing the usage patterns or visitors browsing our website, we assign processors, i.e. software and hosting service suppliers as well as agencies, which may access your personal data in the course of their work as far as these data are necessary for rendering their respective services. They have committed themselves to us to comply with the data protection provisions. Processing contracts in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR have been concluded. More detailed information concerning the processors can be requested at datenschutz@photometer.com.
4. Contact form (pending)
4.1. Your information and personal data given in our contact form is transmitted to us, processed and stored by us via our own mail server for the purpose of processing your enquiry. These data are not collected or passed on without your consent. However, without these data, your enquiry cannot be processed.
4.2. Data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements of Art. 6 (1) (a) (Consent) GDPR.
5.1. You can register for our newsletter on our website following a double opt-in process. After your registration, you will receive an e-mail requesting your confirmation of registration. Without your e-mail address, our newsletter cannot be transmitted. You can unsubscribe our newsletter at any time by activating the unsubscribe-link at the end of each newsletter.
5.2. For forwarding our newsletters, we assign a processor (newsletter service provider), who in turn committed themselves to us to comply with the relevant data protection provisions. A processor contract in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded. More detailed information concerning the processors can be requested at datenschutz@photometer.com.
5.3. Data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements of Art. 6 (1) (a) (Consent) GDPR. You can find detailed information on our newsletter privacy statement here.
6. Google Analytics and cookies
6.1. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis supplier of Google Inc. (»Google«), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses »cookies« which are text files that are saved on your computer to help t analyse how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP-address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. The IP-address transmitted by your browser within Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activities for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. If necessary, Google will transmit this information to third parties provided this is prescribed by law or if third parties process there data on behalf of Google. Our legitimate interest in the processing of data lies in these purposes. The use of Google Analytics is governed by § 15 (3) TMA or Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
6.2. By using our website, you consent to our using cookies. You may refuse the acceptance of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software. As to the details, please refer to the instructions provided by the supplier of your browser. The full functionality of this website may be restricted if you decide against certain technical and/or functional cookies. Some cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them.
6.3. We have concluded a corresponding contract for data processing with the web analysis provider (»Google«), who committed themselves to us to comply with the valid data protection regulations. Detailed information on the processor can be requested at datenschutz@photometer.com.
6.4. Your IP address will be recorded but immediately pseudonymized. By using the code extension, the last 8 bits of the IP addresses will be deleted and thus anonymized. Accordingly, only a rough localization is now possible.
6.5. Data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements of Art. 6 GDPR (in particular consent). You can find detailed data protection information on Google Analytics here.
7. Consent and withdrawal of consent
7.1. If your consent is necessary for processing your data, we will only process said data after your express consent.
7.2. We do not process data of minors and we are not entitled to do so. By giving your consent, you also acknowledge that you have reached the age of 14 or that your legal representatives have given their consent.
7.3. You can withdraw your consent at any time at the following e-mail address: datenschutz@photometer.com. In such a case, all your data stored will be anonymised and further used for statistical purposes only without personal references. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of data processing carried out as a result of the consent until said consent was withdrawn.
8.1. SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG will take technical and organisational safety measures for safeguarding stored personal data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss or destruction and against the access of unauthorised persons. Our safety measures are continually improved in accordance with technical progress.
9.1. 9.1. You have the right to be informed about your stored personal data at any time. Provided there is no legal retention period, you have the right to have your data deleted as well as to oppose its being processed. Moreover, you have the right to have your data corrected as well as to have its processing restricted, to the transferability of said data as well as to complain before the Swiss data protection authority (https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html).
9.2. As regards your rights, please contact us at datenschutz@photometer.com or write to us at:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (»Google«), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This use is governed by Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Google Analytics uses »cookies« which are text files that are saved on your computer to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA.
SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG activated the IP-anonymization of this website. Accordingly, Google will shorten your IP-address within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transmitted to the Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser within Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activities for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Our legitimate interest in the processing of data lies in these purposes. The use of Google Analytics is governed by § 15 (3) TMG or Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
The data transmitted by us and linked with cookies, user identification (e.g. user ID) or advertising ID are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data reaching the end of their storage period is carried out automatically once month. You can find further information on conditions of use and privacy on https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or on https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.
You may refuse the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB
As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can further prevent the collection by Google Analytics: an opt-out cookie is set preventing the futures collection of your data when visiting this website. This opt-out cookie works only in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you will have to re-set the opt-out cookies. Information on embedding the opt-out cookie can be found on: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/?hl=de#disable in the paragraph »Disabling Tracking«.
If necessary, SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG will implement other Google services to individualize advertisements (Google DoubleClick, Google Dynamic Re-Marketing, Google Tag Manager) or to compile conversion statistics (Google AdWords Conversion). If you do not want this, you can deactivate it with the following link: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Google privacy policy:
Data privacy and security of Google Analytics:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
Google advertising:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en
Google ads:
Conversion tracking:
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722022?hl=en
SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG, Hofurlistrasse 1, 6373 Ennetbürgen, Switzerland (hereafter referred to as »SIGRIST« or »we«) offer visitors browsing the SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG website (www.photometer.com, hereinafter referred to as »website«) a free subscription of the SIGRIST newsletter (hereinafter referred to as »newsletter«).
In the following we provide information on the processing of personal data within the newsletter subscription in accordance with Art. 13 and Art. 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (»GDPR«).
You can obtain further information on the processing of personal data within the website on the Privacy statement on the SIGRIST website.
A. Name and contact of responsible party
The party responsible for the newsletter:
B. Contact information of our data protection officer
You can reach our data protection officer under the following contact information:
C. Categories and sources of personal data
Categories of processed personal data
Types of personal data within the category
Sources of personal data
1 Data collected during the subscription process for the newsletter (»subscription data«) Step 1: E-mail address (obligatory)
Step 2: Title, first name, last name, company, country and language of correspondence (optional)
Step 3: Industry (optional)
During a newsletter registration on the SIGRIST website, we also collect the country specific version as language of correspondence. Newsletter subscribers
2 Log data collected during the registration and deregistration for the newsletter for technical reasons (»registration and deregistration data«) Date and time of confirmation of application (registration and confirmation) in double-opt-in process as well as the IP address of the terminal device used for confirmation, date and time of a possible deregistration of the newsletter Newsletter subscribers
3 Log data collected during opening our newsletter and newsletter articles via the hypertext transfer protocol (http) for technical reasons (»newsletter-http-data«) IP address, type and version of your internet browser and mail program, type of the terminal device used, date and time of access Newsletter subscribers
4 Data stored in cookies in the browser of our newsletter subscriber when opening our newsletter (»newsletter cookie data«) Unambiguous ID for (re-)identification of the newsletter subscriber Newsletter subscribers
5 Data in user profiles, that we generate by analysing the user behaviour in the newsletter (»newsletter user profile data«) Data on the usage of the newsletter, in particular opening, opening rate and clicking behaviour (number of clicks, clicking rate) in the newsletters opened and their articles, links and attachments Independently generated by the e-mail marketing tool used
6 Log data collected during opening of the SIGRIST website via the hypertext transfer protocol (http) for technical reasons (»website-http-data«) IP address, type and version of your internet browser, operating system used, website accessed, website priorly accessed (referrer URL), date and time of access Newsletter subscribers
7 Data stored in cookies1 in the browser of our newsletter subscriber when opening the SIGRIST website (»website cookie data«) Unambiguous ID for identification of the newsletter subscriber Newsletter subscribers
8 Data in user profiles, that we generate by analysing the user behaviour on our website (»website user profile data«) Data on the usage of the website. You can find further information on Google Analytics here. Independently generated by the Google Analytics tool
9 Subscriber segments which we generate by combining and analysing newsletter and website user profile data (»segment data«) Data of the interests of the newsletter subscribers relating to SIGRIST products and topics Independently generated
1 Cookies are small text files with information, which are saved on the terminal deviec of the user when they visit a website. In case of further accessing the website with the same terminal device, the cookie and the information stored therein can be accessed.
D. Purpose and legal basis of processing personal data
We process the categories of personal data listed in Chapter C on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) GDPR for the following purposes:
Purpose of processing
Categories (also see Chapter C) of personal data
Legal basis of processing in accordance with GDPR
Recipient (also see Chapter E)
1 Provision of web applications on our website enabling you transmit data to subscribe or unsubscribe our newsletter. Website-http-data, subscription data, registration and deregistration data Art. 6 (1) ( f)
(for step 1 of registration)
Art. 6 (1) (a)
(for step 2 and 3 of registration)
Art. 6 (1) (b)
(for SIGRIST agencies) SIGRIST, newsletter service provider
2 Double-opt-in process for confirming the newsletter subscription. For this, we send an e-mail requesting confirmation of the e-mail address provided at the registration. Subscription will only be active if the subscriber confirms the e-mail address with the confirmation link contained in said e-mail. Subscription data, registration and deregistration data Art. 6 (1) (f) Newsletter service provider
3 Forwarding of the newsletter to the newsletter subscribers. We use the title stated in your registration as well as your name (first name and last name) for addressing you personally in our newsletter. For determining the language and county-specific content of the newsletter, we use the language, the country and the country-specific version used for registration on the SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER website. The company and branch of industry is used for the preparation of company- / branch-specific contents. Subscription data, newsletter-http-data, newsletter cookie data, website-http-data, segment data Art. 6 (1) (a) SIGRIST, newsletter service provider
4 Analysis of the user behaviour of newsletter subscribers in our newsletter and on our website as well as the preparation of user profiles while using pseudonyms as well as subscriber segments based thereon for the purpose of personalization and needs oriented design of the newsletter. Subscription data, newsletter-http-data, newsletter cookie data, newsletter usage profile data, website-http-data, website cookie data, website usage profile data, segment data Art. 6 (1) (a) SIGRIST, newsletter service provider
5 Preparation of anonymised reports for analysing and determining the newsletter strategy Subscription data, segment data Art. 6 (1) (f) SIGRIST, newsletter service provider
E. Recipients obtaining personal data
For the purposes described in Chapter D, we disclose personal data to the following service providers or categories of service provider:
Newsletter service provider (simultaneously hosting service provider); for sending our newsletter, we assign a processor. They have committed themselves to us to comply with the valid data protection provisions. A processing contract in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR was concluded. More detailed information concerning the processors can be requested at datenschutz@photometer.com.
SIGRIST-PHOTOMETER AG (also see Chapter A).
F. The period for which the personal data will be stored
The period for which personal data are stored is shown in the following table:
Categories of personal data
(see Chapter C for details of the respective categories)
The period for which the personal data will be stored
Subscription data We comply with the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Thus, we will only store your personal data for such a period as is necessary for fulfilling the purposes mentioned here (see Chapter D) or as is required by the various statutory storage periods. After the respective purpose ceases to apply or after those storage periods expire, the corresponding data shall be locked or deleted routinely and in accordance with the statutory provisions.
Registration and deregistretion data
Newsletter-http-data,
newsletter cookie data,
newsletter usage profile data
Website-http-data,
website cookie data,
website usage profile data
Segment data
G. Necessity or obligation to provide personal data and possible consequences of failure to provide such data
Providing the following personal data are required / compulsory by law or contract or necessary for the conclusion of a contract:
Requirement / Obligation
Possible consequences of failure to provide such data
Subscription data To receive the newsletter, you have to state your e-mail address in the course of the registration. Failure to provide the e-mail address has as a consequence that we cannot send you the newsletter.
H. Rights of the data subject
Data access, correction, erasure, restriction and portability
As regards the processing of personal data, you have the following rights:
To obtain access to your personal data in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR,
To obtain corection of your personal data in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR,
To obtain erasure of your personal data in accordance whit Art. 17 GDPR,
To obtain restriction of processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR,
The right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR.
You have the right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6 (f) GDPR (see Chapter D).
If personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes (see Chapter D), you shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you her for such marketing.
Right to revoke consent
If the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (a) or Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR (see Chapter D), you have the right to revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out as a result of the consent until said consent was withdrawn.
Right of complaint at the supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint at a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 57 (1) (f) GDPR.
State: 24th May, 2018
Subject to change without notice
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Senior / Associate Property Management Surveyor Company Profile An excellent opportunity has arisen to join...
Kingsley, Manchester
Plans in for Appleton Thorn warehouse
15 Jul 2019, 08:34 Comments (1)
Chloé Vaughan
P4 Planning has submitted a full planning application for 50,500 sq ft of industrial warehouse accommodation at Appleton Thorn Industrial Estate in Warrington.
Clarkson takes over as Triton MD
Triton Construction has announced that Paul Clarkson has been appointed managing director, to head up the business based across the North West and Yorkshire.
Warrington’s New Town House to be demolished
The council is due to sign off the demolition of the 1970s building next week, opening up a prime site in the town centre for residential development once staff relocate to Muse’s £142m Time Square.
Warrington residential drive continues at Academy Street
3 May 2019, 14:16 Comments (7)
Working with housing group Torus, Lane End has started work on a block of 144 apartments on the site of a former Kwik Save in Warrington, near the £142m development at Time Square.
Priestley plots Warrington aparthotel
9 Apr 2019, 09:12 Comments (3)
The Leeds-based developer is bringing forward an aparthotel in a former post office at Palmyra Square, one of two schemes it has planned for the town centre.
Eddie Stobart resubmits plans for Appleton Thorn HQ
After a previous application was refused last year, the company has resubmitted plans for a 630,000 sq ft, £73m national distribution centre on Green Belt land off the M56.
Plans revealed for £50m Warrington motorway services
Extra MSA Group has outlined proposals to build a motorway services at Junction 11 of the M62 in a move that could create up to 250 permanent jobs.
Next phase of Birchwood warehouses set to begin
Caddick Construction is due to start work next month on five industrial units totalling 170,000 sq ft at Birchwood Park.
Nobles secures deal for £50m Warrington PRS project
16 Jan 2019, 10:17 Comments (2)
Work is set to start in the coming weeks on one of the largest private-rented schemes in Warrington, featuring 362 apartments alongside 6,400 sq ft of retail, with Liverpool-based Nobles on board as main contractor.
Land sale paves way for £50m Warrington PRS scheme
5 Dec 2018, 10:19 Comments (4)
Proposals to build 362 apartments alongside 6,400 sq ft of retail and a multi-storey car park are set to start on site after Ram Properties completed a £3m land sale to allow the project to go ahead.
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Paris Climate Agreement
No Good News for Climate Stabilization From a New Worldwide Energy Report
Last month, the Paris-based International Energy Agency released its annual "Global Energy & CO2 Status Report." Energy consumption grew 2.3 percent with fossil fuels accounting for 70 percent on the increase. CO2 emissions jumped 1.7 percent.
Royal Dutch Shell: Big Oil with a Conscience?
April 5, 2019, 7am PDT
Big Oil companies are not all alike. Royal Dutch Shell is the first one to part ways with a major oil industry trade group over differences on climate change. It's also linking executive pay to goals to reduce the company's carbon footprint.
Renewables Accelerator to Help Cities With Transition to Clean Energy
March 1, 2019, 2pm PST
Cities across the country have ambitious goals to move to renewable energy, but support at the federal level is lacking. A new program will assist cities with procurement and regulation of renewables.
Smart Cities Dive
The New World Leader in the Fight Against Climate Change
February 8, 2019, 12pm PST
With the Trump administration's abdication of its predecessor's position on fighting climate change, a void has been left in global climate change leadership. One expert believes that China may have already filled the leadership role.
When Red States Turn Blue
February 7, 2019, 5am PST
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has followed the path laid by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in joining the U.S. Climate Alliance. All three are new Democratic governors replacing Republican predecessors.
InsideClimate News
Road Tolls Considered to Replace Declining Fuel Tax Revenues as EV Sales Grow
Iceland is thinking ahead when it comes to revenue losses resulting from its newly adopted "Climate Strategy" that calls for ending petrol-powered, fuel tax-paying motor vehicles by 2030. Widespread electronic road tolls are being considered.
U.S. Carbon Emissions Increased Last Year After a Three-Year Decline
The sobering news comes from the Rhodium Group, a research firm that tracks CO2 emissions. The preliminary estimate is the third in two months to show an increase in 2018, attributing it to an improved economy and Trump's regulation rollbacks.
Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement in Katowice, Poland
December 17, 2018, 12pm PST
Representatives from nearly 200 nations have been attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Katowice since Dec. 2 to work on implementing the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Scheduled to end Friday, it will be extended two days due to discord.
State Gubernatorial Elections Have Environmental Consequences
November 1, 2018, 1pm PDT
The environment and climate change may not be top issues in the nation's hotly contested gubernatorial contests next Tuesday, but their outcomes can cause policy changes. Take North Carolina and the election of Roy Cooper, a Democrat, two years ago.
The Charlotte Observer
Phasing Out the Internal Combustion Engine No Easy Task
September 18, 2018, 11am PDT
A report from the Global Climate Action Summit on a looming deadline set by the Paris climate agreement: ending sales of new gas and diesel-powered light-duty vehicles by 2035.
New Tool Calculates the Carbon Footprint of Cities
Google's Environmental Insights Explorer multiplies the power of Google Maps for the benefit of the planet.
New York City Reports Progress on Sustainable Development Goals to the U.N.
New York is the first city in the world to report to the U.N. on SDGs in the arenas of clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, responsible consumption and production, and land conservation.
Bloomberg Launches Accelerator for Local Climate Action
The American Cities Climate Challenge seeks to green the carbon-heavy transportation and building sectors.
Metro Magazine
Getting the Politics of Cordon Tolling Right
April 20, 2018, 2pm PDT
With Mayor Jenny Durkan's announcement that Seattle will pursue cordon area congestion pricing coming five days after New York dropped its plan, a Washington State pro-business publication looks at the difficulties in getting the politics right.
Hawaii Cities Commit to Fully Renewable Ground Transportation by 2045
January 6, 2018, 11am PST
Mayors and civic leaders from across the Hawaiian islands signed a commitment to target 100 percent renewable ground transportation by 2045, both public and private.
Hawaii Reporter
Host Nation Reveals Embarrassment as Climate Talks End
November 21, 2017, 8am PST
It's not so easy weaning itself from dirty coal power, one reason why Germany likely won't meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction targets. But they will have plenty of company, though all targets are voluntary.
The New York Times - Climate
And Then There Was One
November 13, 2017, 11am PST
Donald Trump ran on an "America First" platform for president. The latest news from the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, though, shows that it is now "America Alone" in terms of nations who haven't adopted the Paris climate agreement.
Coastal Cities Setting the Sustainable Development Standard
August 14, 2017, 2pm PDT
Although no U.S. region has yet to even get halfway to sustainability goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement, certain U.S. cities are doing better than the rest.
Pressure on Trump Administration to Release Climate Report
Scientist are concerned that a congressionally mandated climate assessment, originally authorized under President George H.W. Bush, may not be released by the Trump Administration because it contradicts their rejection of climate science.
Another Nail in the Coffin of the Internal Combustion Engine?
Is the movement away from gasoline and diesel-powered cars unstoppable? In response to air pollution litigation, the British government announced on July 26 that sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles would be banned by 2040.
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Home Health & Safety News Roofing contractor sentenced for exposing workers to work at height risks
Roofing contractor sentenced for exposing workers to work at height risks
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A roofing contractor has been sentenced for failing to take adequate steps to prevent his workers from falling from height and for breaching a prohibition notice
Llandudno Magistrates’ Court heard how in April 2018 roofing contractor workers were observed working on the roof of a domestic two-storey house in Wrexham with no edge protection. A prohibition notice was issued preventing further work until control measures were put in place, but the contractor chose to ignore it and carried on working.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), found that Asa Hamilton allowed his roofing contractor workers to be exposed to a continuing risk of falling from height, with potential for fatal or major injury.
Asa Hamilton of Linthorpe Road, Buckley, Flintshire pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6 (3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 for failing to provide precautions to prevent falls from height and Sections 33 (1) (e) and 33 (1) g of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 for failing to comply with a prohibition notice.
Asa Hamilton was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, plus 200 hours unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay a contribution of £4,000 towards the costs.
Speaking after the case HSE principal inspector, Paul Harvey, said: “This was a serious incident and it is fortunate nobody was injured as a result of it. There are well-known standards in the construction industry for controlling risks from falls from height. Even when the duty holder was served a prohibition notice to stop the activity they failed to take the appropriate action.
“HSE will not hesitate to take enforcement action against those that disregard enforcement notices when served or fail to take appropriate measures to control well-known risks.”
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Penticton Vees
Living 55 Plus
Rotary in the Community
Event organizer Matthew Trapp holds his dog Max Pugsley and the dog’s prozac medication as the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association holds an event with pets on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
VIDEO: Vets lobby to expand medical cannabis laws to include dogs, cats
The law does not allow veterinarians to prescribe pot for pets
May. 16, 2019 8:15 a.m.
Parliament Hill went to the dogs Wednesday as veterinarians lobbied MPs to authorize the use of medical cannabis for critters.
The vets brought five dogs to the Hill to draw attention to what they see as glaring omissions in the legalized regimes for medical and recreational marijuana.
Among them was Max Pugsley, a pug rescue with such severe separation anxiety that he is on Prozac.
“It works really well but ideally we could have some kind of CBD (cannabidiol) product rather than some pharmaceutical like Prozac,” said Max’s owner, Matthew Trapp.
“CBD is shown to have great results but I can’t even talk to my vet about it.”
The law does not allow veterinarians to prescribe pot for pets, even though preliminary research and anecdotal evidence suggests it could be beneficial in treating pain, seizures, anxiety and other disorders — much as it is for humans.
Moreover, the law requires labels on cannabis products warning they be kept out of reach of children, but there’s no similar warning that they could be harmful to animals.
Dr. Sarah Silcox, president of the Canadian Association of Veterinary Cannabinoid Medicine, said her group has been told the omissions were likely “an oversight” that can be considered when the legalized cannabis regime is reviewed in three years.
But she wants more urgent action.
“For our patients, they age much faster than we do and this really isn’t an issue that can wait for a three-year review,” Silcox said in an interview.
Because vets can’t legally prescribe cannabinoids for animals, or even offer advice to pet owners on the most suitable products or dosages, Silcox said some people are taking it upon themselves to administer cannabis to their pets. They’re using products sold for human consumption or unregulated “black market” products marketed for animal use, but about which veterinarians have concerns about ”safety and purity.”
“Veterinarians are able to prescribe almost any other drug, including things like fentanyl and other opioids and … prescription drugs that contain cannabis derivatives and yet we’re not able to authorize the use of cannabis itself,” Silcox said.
The prohibition on veterinary use of cannabinoids has made research into the potential benefits “challenging,” but Silcox said preliminary studies suggest positive benefits for managing pain from arthritis and other conditions, epilepsy, anxiety and general inflammatory conditions.
It is particularly useful for treating cats, which are more sensitive than dogs to the other pain medications currently used for animals, she said.
Silcox’s group and the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association have lobbied the government to authorize veterinary use of cannabinoids. Silcox said they’ve been told by the policy adviser to Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor that it is not a priority at the moment, but could be considered when the Cannabis Act is reviewed in three years.
However, Silcox noted the government is reviewing cannabis regulations now in preparation for adding edibles and oils to the list of legal products this fall. It would take only a “few small changes” to add vets to the medical practitioners authorized to prescribe cannabinoids and to change references to people to patients, covering both the human and animal variety, she said.
Border Security Minister Bill Blair, who was the government’s point man on cannabis legalization, said the government is willing to talk to veterinarians about the issue but added: “I think the research needs to be perhaps more fully developed to make sure it can be done in a safe and healthy way.”
But Dr. Ian Sandler, a veterinarian who was among those lobbying MPs Wednesday, said cannabinoids are already being administered unsafely to pets, without veterinary guidance, and he predicted the problem will get worse once edibles are legalized for people.
“If that’s implemented, we know from the U.S. that we’re going to see a profound increase in inappropriate ingestion,” he said.
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Eileen Adler Joins PeopleFluent as CHRO
Eileen Adler Joins PeopleFluent as Chief Human Resources Officer
Former Senior HR Leader from Sun Life Financial and Boston Scientific to Drive High-Impact Programs that Maximize Employee Potential and Facilitate Growth
WALTHAM, Mass. – May 26, 2015 – PeopleFluent®, a leading cloud provider of social human capital management technology, today announced Eileen Adler has been appointed to the company’s executive leadership team as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Adler will be leading PeopleFluent’s human resources team where she will be responsible for driving high-impact HR programs that maximize employee potential, build engagement and facilitate growth.
“This is an incredibly exciting time of global growth for our business,” said Charles Jones, chairman and CEO, PeopleFluent. “We recognize the importance of Eileen’s expertise and background to maximize the potential of every employee and ensure we’re building the best solutions to serve our customers’ needs. She is a critical addition to the team and will play a key role in helping us build our talent pipeline and create global leadership and engagement programs that retain and reward our fantastic employees.”
Adler has a successful track record of developing strategies and plans to enhance staff performance, build engagement and deliver on rapidly changing organizational needs at leading organizations such as Sun Life Financial and Boston Scientific, where she has held senior roles in HR.
“My experience with PeopleFluent has been shaped through the benefits their products have delivered over the years,” said Adler. “I’m excited to use their innovative technology to contribute to the company’s impressive growth trajectory. I see enormous potential for PeopleFluent and look forward to influencing strategic direction that has an impact on their employee base and the industry.”
Prior to joining PeopleFluent, she served as Chief Human Resources Officer for ikaSystems, a private equity SaaS firm. At ikaSystems, Adler led transformational growth, strategic alignment and all human capital initiatives. She holds a Bachelor and Master of Science from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Super Saturday live
Live coverage of the counting for the Super Saturday by-elections (especially Braddon and Longman).
9.31pm. So much for the last entry. Patrick Gorman’s projected two-party vote is now 61.6%.
9.18pm. It’s only based on 1000 votes from Leederville and Northbridge, and suburbs further out might tell a different story, but the first two-party results in Perth suggest Patrick Gorman is headed for a fairly modest winning over the Greens. Conversely, Josh Wilson is outpolling the Greens two to one in Fremantle.
9.00pm. The Devonport PPVC result is also nothing special for the Liberals, so the door has closed on them in Braddon now.
8.55pm. First figures from Perth don’t bear out ReachTEL’s indication of a strong Liberal Democrats result, with more of the homeless Liberal vote going to independent Paul Collins.
8.53pm. Labor think they have Braddon in the bag, and the Burnie PPVC result that has just come through might explain why: the Liberals have copped an 8.7% hit on the primary vote there. Only Devonport and Queenstown PPVCs, plus postals, yet to come.
8.20pm. Labor still tracking for a winning margin approaching 5% in Longman.
8.13pm. The first PPVC in from Braddon is Ulvertstone, which has only 513 votes. It’s indeed a bit better for the Liberals than polling day votes, with their primary vote down by 2.1%, compared with 6.6% overall – although that’s still less than what they need.
8.10pm. So there has been no swing at all out of the polling day booths in Braddon, which have produced around 47,000 votes. That means the Liberals need to conjure a swing of around 7.5% out of probably 10,000 pre-polls and 7000 postals. Which doesn’t seem terribly likely.
8.02pm. Only the PPVCs to come from Braddon now. Polls have closed in Perth and Fremantle.
7.52pm. The projected Labor margin in Braddon is down to 2.0%. Two more polling day booths to report in Braddon, plus the four pre-poll voting centres, which could yet disgorge many thousands of votes. However, it seems to be agreed that it’s time to pull the plug on the LNP in Longman, and Georgina Downer is conceding defeat in Mayo.
7.40pm. A bit of dispute on the ABC as to whether the LNP is getting 70% or 60% of One Nation preferences in Longman. They will need for it to be very high indeed, and for something highly dramatic to happen in the pre-poll voting centres.
7.38pm. A very quick count in Braddon, where the momentum against Labor is levelling off. The AEC now projects a 2.6% Labor margin, but the potential for a different dynamic from the pre-poll voting centres means a measure of caution is still advised.
7.25pm. I’ve now got primary vote swings of 8.6% against Labor and 6.7% against Liberal in Braddon, with Craig Garland now barely into double figures. Labor’s projected two-party is continuing its slow decline, now at 2.2%. Given the trend as larger booths come in, and the unknown factor of the large pre-poll voting centres that will come in later in the evening, I wouldn’t be ready to call this.
7.24pm. We’ve now gone from around 7000 to around 14,000 primary votes counted in Longman, and the earlier trend is continuing: Labor holding steady, Liberal down around 14%, One Nation on around 15%. So looking like a surprisingly solid Labor win. No surprises in Mayo.
7.18pm. The situation is still a little elusive in Braddon: two-party projections point to a Labor win, but the primary count is well ahead of it, and the Labor primary vote there is beginning to sag. Bit of a lull in Longman counting, but the early indications are extremely strong for Labor.
7.12pm. Picture beginning to change in Braddon as larger centres do less well for Craig Garland. The ABC now has the Labor swing at 2.7%, which is down from over 4% earlier. The AEC computer is calling it for Labor, but given that trend, this should be treated with caution at the moment.
7.10pm. Count progressing a little quick than I’d figure in Longman, and here too Labor are doing quite a bit better than expected, holding their own on the primary vote while One Nation gouges double figures out of the LNP.
7.02pm. There are some reasonably serious primary vote numbers in now from Braddon, and that earlier picture is still holding: Craig Garland is on 16.3%, and Liberal are down more than Labor. The first two-party results suggest this is converting into a two-party swing to Labor.
6.50pm. Still only 1591 votes counted, but the early dynamic in Braddon is that Craig Garland is doing very strongly, coming in at the high teens, and he’s gouging the Liberals twice as heavily as Labor. If this kept up, Labor would win pretty handily on preferences from 35% of the primary vote.
6.40pm. The first two small booths in from Braddon are Moorleah (183 votes), where Craig Garland has a fairly spectacular 26.8%, and Waratah (139 votes), where he has a rather more modest 10.8%. For the time being though, he’s gouging double figures out of both major parties’ primary votes.
6pm. Polls have closed in Braddon and Longman, and will do so in half an hour in Mayo, and two hours in Perth and Adelaide. Results for small booths in Braddon should start coming in very shortly, but it will have to wait an hour or so for anything meaningful from Longman. For my own benefit more than anything, I have mocked up summarised booth results for Braddon and Longman which will, when there’s actual data to plug into them, will show booth-level primary vote totals, percentages and swings for the Labor, Liberal(-National), Greens, One Nation and Craig Garland (both the latter two are identified, wrongly, as “IND”). Other than that, the AEC publishes its own perfectly good booth-matched projected results (though not nearly enough besides), which can naturally be found at the official results page.
Author William BowePosted on Saturday, July 28, 2018 Saturday, July 28, 2018 Categories Federal By-Elections, Federal Politics 2016-2019
693 comments on “Super Saturday live”
Outside Left says:
Gilmore is a labor certainty, move on, Oh, and so is PM Bill
LU not logged in says:
Smashing.
Well done Labor.
More shiraz!
j341983 says:
I was at a dinner, so was keeping track here… but it’s been amazing to see the CPG having to eat crow. They tried to make Labor leadershit a thing. It became a circle-jerk where the people weren’t listened to.
I expected a kind of status quo result – but any swing to the ALP in Braddon is amazing and basically the whole deal in Longman shuts the entire CPG down.
d-money says:
Cheers O.L. The local member has not impressed generally, and the local hospital is potentially biting as an issue, so maybe Gilmore will swing hard enough to become safe for few terms…
ratsak says:
Ven,
Being better than Skynoos loons is not an achievement.
The ABC coverage was it’s usual competence. Probably better than usual. Antony didn’t suffer any computer glitches.
But the death of the narrative of the last three months between 7pm and 8:30 was obvious to watch. As you’d expect the imbecile Jennet was the slowest to catch on to what was happening, but even he picked up how the entire bootstrap about Shorten being in trouble fell apart a little more with each cross to Antony. Probes and La Tingle were a bit sharper, but they were all aboard the Kill Bill train at the start of proceedings.
So the point isn’t that they ended up in the right spot. Elections have a way of sorting bullshit from reality. Even the most ridiculous fools can’t keep up with pretending one side is going to lose once the votes are actually counted. (hence Wayne’s absence)
The point is that they all had absolutely no business starting out where they did. Labor losing a seat today was NEVER a realistic prospect. The entire artifice of Kill Bill was built on complete bullshit. EVERY member of the media that bought into it stands condemned. Cassidy at least had the decency to admit. Probyn and Tingle simply changed tack and hoped no one would notice.
Mr Ed says:
Wayne, well he lost the lot, he has to go! He started in the first polls with strong leads over Labor in Qld and Tas. The further it went the worse he got.
Bill asked the voters, do you want the company tax cuts, they said no. They want things like penalty rates, education pathways to decent full time work, an NBN that is not a disgrace, pensioner power cost relief and on and on.
Will the L/NP address any of these concerns or stick with the top end of town no matter what? Will they risk all for that 5%? Most of their beneficiaries are overseas companies or shareholders anyway. The only Aussies involved are the multi millionaires feeding the dollars into the conservative coffers in exchange for some kickback.
Replacing MT with more of the same won’t help. And its all done without Albanese attracting another few percent to Labor.
Ven says:
Where is mundo?
Late Riser says:
Hmm, at this point (11:31pm) the only party who lost primary votes in Longman was the LNP, who lost 9.85%. All others went up.
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-22694-302.htm
(Not counting those who did not stand a candidate.)
jenauthor says:
Late addition of votes for Braddon has Keay up .5 on last election
Mundo commented on previous pages
calumniousfox says:
Has counting finished in Longman or can we still expect an injection of pre-polls?
jen,
Antony’s projections factor in the usual better Lib results on postals. So he had Labor sitting with that gap up at end of counting of ordinary votes, but having that balanced by the postals.
I wouldn’t bet on Antony being too far wrong on that one.
Quasar says:
Congrats to the goodies!! So pleased with the emphasis on Labor’s emphasis on fairness.
Will sleep well tonight .
Millennial says:
Super-Saturday in a nutshell:
Psephologists, Bill Shorten, Cardboard Pauline: 1,
Seat-polling, Malcolm Turnbull, Punditry: I just can’t even
Well done Labor. Rumours of Bill’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The Libs must have known it was going to be bad when they refused to send anyone more senior than Zimmerman to the ABC panel.
This has implications for more than leadership. The LNP now has a mandate for nothing. Rejected in four out of six states. Yet Pyne still says this drivel:
“We will pass the tax cuts in the Spring session come hell or high water,” Mr Pyne told Sky News, referring to the resumption of parliament from August 13.”
Really? Labor should not give in to this. Labor should stick to its announced policy, and reject the tax cuts as promised. Further, Labor should now publically name the suspect Coalition MPs, and ask to see their citizenship papers. Sadly, I suspect Turnbull will now drag out the next election for as long as possible. November 2019?
boomy1 says:
Victoria (AnonBlock)
Saturday, July 28th, 2018 – 11:06 pm
Comment #660
[Mundo commented on previous pages]
Best comment ever,
Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 12:07 am
It feels like Christmas in here. I turned on the tv late to see the ABC, Jennet looked in shock and very depressed. Sad looking lot, as though their hearts were broken, I hope many in media reflect on this and genuinely think about the reality for ordinary people
And with thanks to Franki Valli,’Oh what a night’
Fulvio Sammut says:
Has Malcolm congratulated Bill yet?
Concession is good for the soul, as GG would probably say.
FS, it’s definitely a Catholic thing! Been there, done that.
So the Libs are not going OK Thank God
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-28/live-by-election-results-mayo-longman-braddon-perth-fremantle/10038200
Just logged in from N.Y. waiting in admirals lounge flying to Savannah .. Home next Wednesday this news made my day yeah
The Intellectual Bogan says:
Well, thank goodness that’s over. The coalition seemed to wheel out everything against Labor, including dragging JWH out of the glass case at Menzies House and it all added up to nowt. Bring on the Federal election now. All else is stalling the inevitable and just taking the opportunity to fuck up as much as possible before being booted.
Golly says:
For gods sake man I’m from the Adelaide Hills and will treat you with disdain as I see fit.
You haters you.
I spent my childhood in London as my father was practicing disdain and I’m recently back from a sojourn in London renewing my disdain and how dare you not allow my daughter to practice disdain.
I’ll pack up my disdain and not play, you haters.
Ill sit out my retirement(at your expense) and cast disdain from these hills.
You you you……………
God help the meals on wheels people.
Lynchpin says:
Fantastic results for Labor. The voters got it right. Journos got it wrong.
Shorten is as tough as nails.
Time for Turnbull to pi$$ off.
Puffytmd says:
I will not be missing Insiders. lol
And Shorten took Friday off. Roflpm
Need a good laugh?
Tune in to Bolt’s blog in the Herald Sun and check out the comments!
Every semi-literate loon in or around the Liberal Party is baying for Turnbull’s head on a pike.
Apparently there is a sub group within the Party known as The Black Hand which is controlled by Turnbull. Turnbull is part of a leftie conspiracy involving the ABC and Shorten. Pauline, Barnaby’s Nationals, Cory and David should coalesce with Abbott and the Monkey Pod to save Australia for the conservatives. The Liberal Party under Turnbull is doomed to oblivion at the next General Election. Pyne , Fiona, Birmingham, Julie and Marissa are class traitors. Julie the “Stick insect” is angling for a cushy job in the (quelle horreur) United Nations etc. etc. ad infinitum.
After reading all that, I’ve come to the conclusion that you lot are quite sane.
I do think this result deserves a few Hallelujahs.
https://youtu.be/u6_nJ11BgTE
golly . that was good
Fulvio
Thank you, kind sir. But I must either commend your bravery or question your state of mind for venturing into such a malaodorous nest of vipers.
No, Puffy, no.
I assure you that after a result like today’s, the squeals and wails of anguish, despondency and despair emanating from the rabid core of RWNJ’s on Bolt’s blog, has a soothing , calming and strangely euphoric effect on an old lefties psyche.
You must try it some day.
Fulvio,
I just tried Flambe of Right Goose Wing at Cafe de Bolta.
Fkn hilarious.
“Hastie is the man”
I thought the Black Hand was another name for the Mafia.
Pseudo Cud Chewer says:
Puffy there is also this version.. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWCycC0P5AM
Warrigal says:
Very happy 🙂 and particularly relieved about Longman, although Lamb should ever have had a worry there given the quality of the opposition.
Sorry … should never. Can’t edit for some odd reason.
BK says:
Good morning Dawn Patrollers. A GREAT morning actually!
David Crowe kicks over the coals of the rout.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/labor-wins-and-coalition-reels-in-super-saturday-byelections-20180728-p4zu7p.htmlCrowe says Bill Shorten can celebrate this victory.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-can-celebrate-this-victory-20180728-p4zu7m.html
Tony Wright on the Downer family whinge. Dolly is upset that the IPA kept on haunting Georgina. Funny that she was so proud of her association with it that she deleted it from her CV.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/downer-slams-abuse-and-hatred-aimed-at-aspiring-politician-daughter-20180728-p4zu7r.html
Katharine Murphy tells the LNP what went wrong in Longman.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/28/labors-ground-campaign-delivers-a-thumping-to-the-lnp-in-longman
The ABC’s Matt Abraham tells that one well-placed Liberal source from deep within the Mayo camp said he feared Georgina Downer might lose even more ground if she ran again. He said it was a big mistake for Downer to say yesterday that she would stand again as this was a decision for the party, not her.
https://outline.com/KgDNJ3
The Australian’s Simon Benson says Super Saturday has become a bloodbath for the LNP and a nightmare for Malcolm Turnbull and that the LNP has learned nothing.
https://outline.com/6A8BVJ
And its Ben Packham says Labor’s clean sweep of Super Saturday by-elections should silence talk of a challenge to Bill Shorten’s leadership.
https://outline.com/fUaANm
Michelle Grattan sums up Super Saturday by declaring it to be a major fillip for Shorten
https://theconversation.com/crucial-super-saturday-labor-victories-a-major-fillip-for-shorten-100734
Paula Matthewson says that the disastrous showing in Longman has sent a chilling signal to Turnbull.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/07/28/longman-by-election-disaster-coalition/
Dana McCauley writes that privacy experts have rejected the federal government’s reassurances that My Health Record patient data will not be accessed by third parties without a warrant, demanding that it redraft laws giving authorities broad powers of access.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/my-health-records-laws-need-to-be-scrapped-and-rewritten-warn-experts-20180727-p4zu3g.html
Ross Gittins says that with wage growth on the blink, it’s time to restore union bargaining power.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/with-wage-growth-on-the-blink-it-s-time-to-restore-union-bargaining-power-20180727-p4ztym.html
Come on Philip, what are you waiting for?
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/pope-accepts-resignation-of-us-cardinal-amid-widening-sex-abuse-scandal-20180729-p4zu84.html
Michael Pascoe taunts deniers with, “Don’t believe in climate change? Then come over to Europe”
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2018/07/27/climate-change-europe-heatwave/
The Washington Post says that Ivanka Trump “has no clothes”.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/ivanka-trump-the-heiress-has-no-clothes-20180727-p4zu17.html
Founder of The Conversation and former editor-in-chief of The Age, Andrew Jaspan, writes the Nine takeover of Fairfax is not only a blow for media diversity but the deal is also pitched too cheaply.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/cloud-nine-fairfax-deal-a-blow-to-media-diversity-says-jaspan/
Jessica Valenti writes that activists have already started preparing for the end of Roe v Wade in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/28/week-in-patriarchy-roe-v-wade-self-induced-abortion
Mett Golding sees Georgina off.
Mark Knight at the AFL colosseum.
Paul Zanetti and angry voters.
Just a few in here. Matt Golding in particular.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-july-29-2018-20180728-h139n6.html
No cartoon yet from Peter Broelman but he did tweet this. “BREAKING: Turnbull declares himself a victim of Sudanese gangs who masquerade as argumentative pensioners.”
DisplayName says:
These elections confirm what we* already knew. The irony is that if the government and the CPG** hadn’t made such a big story*** out of these elections, then Labor’s win would not have been that big a story either. Labor’s win being reported as some kind of table turning moment has less to do with reality, and more to do with the narrative that had been constructed up until that point, which the CPG**** now have to stay consistent with.
* Excepting the LNP, the CPG, and some bed wetters in the ALP.
** Who happily ran with the government narrative.
*** Albanese waiting to pounce, Shorten’s leadership being tested, the focus on PPM rather than 2PP, etc.
**** The LNP, on the other hand, will be furiously writing a whole new reality, Trump style.
meher baba says:
As I had predicted, Labor held both Braddon and Longman. The Braddon result was what I had expected, but the substantial swing to Labor in Longman was quite a surprise.
Whether you believe, like me, that there had been something in it or, like some posters on PB, it had been entirely concocted by the media, any challenge against Shorten is now kaput.
And things could get even better for Shorten and Labor if the results of last night embolden the conservative faction of the Libs to resume their destabilisation of Turnbull. A right-wing coup within the Libs would make Labor odds-on favourites to win the next election IMO.
So it was a triumphant night for Labor, except perhaps for the poor branch members and supporters in Mayo: has a Labor candidate ever recorded a lower vote in a Federal seat?
ajm says:
Brisbane Sunday Mail front page: “Lamb chops Big Trev”
Inside “Lamb in mint condition”
William Bowe says:
New thread.
John R says:
To the Australian that is ‘class war’, the voters however see it differently.
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The latest Essential Research poll turns up a mixed bag of views on the Israel Folau controversy. Also featured: prospects for an indigenous recognition referendum and yet more Section 44 eruptions.
The latest of Essential Research’s fortnightly polls, which continue to limit themselves to issue questions in the wake of the great pollster failure, focuses mostly on the Israel Folau controversy. Respondents registered high levels of recognition of the matter, with 22% saying they had been following it closely, 46% that they had “read or seen some news”, and another 17% saying they were at least “aware”.
Probing further, the poll records very strong support for what seem at first blush to be some rather illiberal propositions, including 64% agreement with the notion that people “should not be allowed to argue religious freedom to abuse others”. However, question wording would seem to be very important here, as other questions find an even split on whether Folau “has the right to voice his religious views, regardless of the hurt it could cause others” (34% agree, 36% disagree), and whether there should be “stronger laws to protect people who express their religious views in public” (38% agree, 38% disagree). Furthermore, 58% agreed that “employers should not have the right to dictate what their employees say outside work”, which would seem to encompass the Folau situation.
Respondents were also asked who would benefit and suffer from the federal government’s policies over the next three years, which, typically for a Coalition government, found large companies and corporations expected to do best (54% good, 11% bad). Other results were fairly evenly balanced, the most negative findings relating to the environment (26% good, 33% bad) and, funnily enough, “older Australians” (26% good, 38% bad). The economy came in at 33% good and 29% bad, and “Australia in general” at 36% good and 27% bad. The poll was conducted last Tuesday to Saturday from a sample of 1099.
Also of note:
• A referendum on indigenous recognition may be held before the next election, after Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt’s announcement on Wednesday that he would pursue a consensus option for a proposal to go before voters “during the current parliamentary term”. It is clear the government would not be willing to countenance anything that went further than recognition, contrary to the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s call for a “First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution” – a notion derided as a “third chamber of parliament” by critics, including Scott Morrison.
• A paper in the University of Western Australia Law Review keeps the Section 44 pot astir by suggesting 26 current members of federal parliament may fall foul by maintaining a “right of abode” in the United Kingdom – a status allowing “practically the same rights” as citizenship even where citizenship has been formally renounced. The status has only been available to British citizens since 1983, but is maintained by citizens of Commonwealth countries who held it before that time, which they could do through marriage or descent. This could potentially be interpreted as among “the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power”, as per the disqualifying clause in Section 44. Anyone concerned by this has until the end of the month to challenge an election result within the 40 day period that began with the return of the writs on June 21. Action beyond that point would require referral by the House of Representatives or the Senate, as appropriate.
Author William BowePosted on Friday, July 12, 2019 Friday, July 12, 2019 Categories Federal Politics 2019-2022
1,966 comments on “The tribes of Israel”
guytaur says:
The lived experience of survivors doesn’t matter if your a bigot. Applies to all the haters whatever the ism.
I am referring to the ACL Folau and all others ignoring the LGBTI community because of their “belief”.
Boerwar says:
‘Diogenes says:
Has there ever been an indigenous revolutionary/freedom-fighter/terrorist movement (you know what I mean) ?’
Scads in the Frontier Wars. But since then:
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-rise-of-redferns-black-power-movement-an-interview-with-professor-gary-foley/
http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/perkins/interview7.html
I would say that in recent years and at a higher level there has been a general tendency for Indigenous Leaders to try to work within the system to achieve significant outcomes. I am aware in a general way that that has never meant that they gave up their larger vision. I am not aware of a single singnificant Indigenous Leader who has placed him/herself at odds with the Uluru Call from the Heart. Not one. (Although Wyatt, if he sticks to Scott’s Law, is tacitly dropping two of the three important elements.)
At the same time, IMO, there is pervasive resistance at a personal level in rural and remote Indigenous communities. Some facets of this is highly susceptible to leadership at the local level. Example:
https://insidestory.org.au/breakthrough-at-bourke/
IMO the Apology was never going to be anything other than a waypoint, albeit a significant one, for Indigenous People. Whites who thought that it was the end of Indigenous-specific politics were engaging in Whitefella dreaming.
C@tmomma says:
zoomster @ #249 Friday, July 12th, 2019 – 5:17 pm
During the election campaign, Morrison visited a local trucking company. Today they’ve been ordered to pay their workers thousands of dollars in back wages…
The photo op for Morrison? Priceless!
Diogenes says:
Foley sounds a lot like one of our fellow bludgers when asked about the way forward.
“I don’t advocate anything. I’m an educator. I’m a professor of history. I was an activist for 30 years or so. I’m no longer that. I’m a pessimist.
I believe that the only hope for black Australians, probably for Australia itself, is within this younger generation who’ve emerged recently. The generation both in the Aboriginal community, and the broader Australian community, who followed my generation politically were a waste of space.
The younger generation today are the only real hope for the future of both black and white Australia.
If they don’t succeed in shaking the foundations sufficiently to bring about significant change then, among other things that will happen in 50 years time, there will be no Aboriginal people. The assimilation project will be complete. The genocide will be over.”
In terms of the links between policy and institutional racism, this is quite insightful and, IMO, quite a significant step forward. The key whitefella code word is ‘practices’.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/12/deeply-sorry-western-australia-police-chief-apologises-to-indigenous-people
clem attlee says:
Folau reckons I’m going to hell, cause I’m an atheist…. so what? he’s a fuck wit, I reckon that’s a nice balance, so no need for him to lose his job. Let him mouth his crap and people are free to ridicule him. It’s called free speech! Snow Flakes rule
clem Attlee
How long have you been alt right? Snowflake one of their favourite terms.
zoomster says:
He has rights, and his employer has rights. It’s equally unreasonable to insist that his employer continues to employ him against their will.
I have had to confront deep anguish and/or despair in Indigenous people many times.
The reported suicide rates are no surprise. Nor are all the self-harming behaviours.
I marvel at those Indigenous individuals who persist and make a go of their lives.
The Uluru Call from the Heart did not just happen. The very, very extensive Indigenous consultation that came up with the Call was paid for by the Coalition Government. When the Indigenous leaders tested the water with the Coalition Government from time to time with the leadership (Turnbull) they were encouraged to continue.
IMO the Call is a serious, considered and united attempt to work with whitefellas and within current Australian governance arrangements.
IMO the Call provides the basis for a capital R reconciliation and not the penny ante minor reconciliations here and there.
The Call was made. Within days one of its three core elements had been ditched by Turnbull on spurious grounds.
The reason was that Turnbull was busy protecting his job from the race hate merchants in his Party Room. Once again whitefellas have fucked up the response to a major peace offering by Indigenous people.
It’s all well and good until they come after you because you say something that is considered unacceptable. Free speech is free, it’s like you can’t be half pregnant. This is the sort of identity issue that drives people away from the left. Guytaur, didn’t I say he was a fuck wit. Jonathan Pie is on the left and he agrees with me re all this identity shit. Folau is a nut job. I’m happy to be able to say that. Now thanks to all this, the happy clappers are going to pass legislation restricting my right to say that. Thanks.
What if your employer doesn’t approve of you being a member of Labor..what then Zoomster? Talk about Pandora’s box. All because Folau said gays would not go to his happy place. WTF?
sprocket_ says:
Biggles Morrison now aping Biggles Abbott with this photo op today on the USS Ronald Reagan. But why is that smirk welded to his face?
Another fuck wit… this time in a flying suit.
Identity politics. The cry of the oppressors doing the oppressing. It’s no coincidence the right loves using it.
The same people who scream blue murder when their hate speech is called out. It’s not a free speech issue. It’s a hate speech issue. Not even in the US can you yell fire in a theatre
You choose your politics. You don’t choose your sexuality or race or eye colour
Maybe the chopper blade might start spinning and hit Biggles in the head? Why else would he keep the flying helmet on whilst the cameras are snapping?
poroti says:
guytaur
The RW totally love ‘Identity politics”, they would not want to see it go. It keeps everyone occupied with multiple ‘culture wars’ as they are being robbed of even more of their share of the economy.
The point is, there are conflicting rights in society which have to be balanced. Very few things are black and white.
There are jobs which are closed to me because I’m a member of the ALP. I can’t work for the electoral commission, for example.
And spotted today on the Sydney Metro, an apparently ‘tired and emotional’ former PM – housing the disabled seating..
Poroti
Yes. In fact calling it “identity politics” is a way to put down those advocating for equality of the oppressed. Just like the use of Snowflake.
Having empathy with others who are different from you means you are very likely to support civil rights movements
Labor’s whole economic policy just took a hit. Its official, Australia overtakes Luxembourg to have the highest minimum wage in the world according to the Australian.
Bushfire Bill says:
Elisabeth Farrelly is wrong.
So I guess you must be right? Phew! That was lucky!
Must be so nice to be able to condemn others, simply by stating they’re wrong, without having to worry about all that argument and evidence and stuff. “They’re wrong”. End of story.
If you could show that someone, anyone, self-harmed as a result of reading Folau’s message, that’d be a start down Evidence Lane.
What Farrelly is saying is that she fears it is not Folau’s statement as such that is doing (or may do) harm, but more the hue and cry from the Usual Suspects, ready to find offence, vilification and hatred where there may well be none at all, and certainly none with any practical adverse effect. In other words, make a song and dance about it and this will guarantee a reaction, even government action in support of Folau which (it looks like) we are seeing now.
This is similar to infection with some viruses, in that it’s not always the virus that kills people. It’s sometimes the violent over-reaction of immune systems responding too aggressively to the virus.
Whatever you (and others like you) may think, Folau has a perfect right to hold and express the opinion he holds and expresses. It wouldn’t be the first time someone has stated that sinners (sinners in their mind at least) are destined for hell. As I have stated before, millions of Catholic school children received a similar sentence, for “crimes” far more mundane than being queer. This is not Folau overtly acting, but merely holding and expressing a point of view. As much as you’d like to think so, there’s no crime in that. We don’t put people in the clink for holding and expressing opinions just yet (if we did, why hasn’t someone already charged Folau with such a crime?)
It’s not even established that Folau actually hates homosexuals (or any other if the other classes of sinners on his laundry list… I haven’t heard of any robbers, fornicators or blasphemers committing acts of self harm either). All that’s been established is that he seems to have been sacked because his comments were against the ARU Code Of Conduct, and maybe a specific clause in his employment contract. Whether Folau is homophobic or not is likewise un-actionable, unless he acts in a damaging way based on that belief, which he has not done.
It boils down to this: while disagreeing with Folau (I don’t believe in either God or Hell for a start, and in addition I have no particular dispute with homosexuality or homosexuals) I respect his right to hold and exress beliefs which are, to my mind, repugnant for several reasons. In claiming to want to protect young, impressionable gay people from all anti-gay statements, you’re probably doing them more harm than good, because you’re not allowing them to develop an immunity to religious claptrap like Folau’s.
How many young, gay, Rugby fans there are who idolize Folau and who are prepared to self-harm as a result of his opinion is unknown. But making more of a Federal case of it than it deserves is a guaranteed (and self-defeating) way to keep the issue alive, increasing the polarization of society, thus in my opinion risking more potential harm to impressionable young gay people, not less. For evidence of this look at the marshalling of forces on the Right, there to join battle for “Religious Freedom”. There’s hardly be an oubce of religion between the lot if them, but there they are taking up the Culture War cudgels with relish.
3z says:
Boerwar
Green former MP Lidia Thorpe opposes the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Zoidlord says:
Telstra & Libs blame everyone:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/consumer/2019/07/12/telstra-eftpos-outage/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PM%20Update%20-%2020190712
Facts are facts despite all your prose of denial. Belief has to take second place to fact. No matter what the Pope Folau Fred Nile or Lyle Shelton says.
Go look at the expert advice that formed the Hawke Keating government response to HIV/AIDS if you don’t want to listen to American experience and wonder why Stonewall happened and why the protest turned celebration is called Pride
Edit: the bigots used the same language and arguments to stigmatise those with HIV/Aids. The Hawke government unlike Reagan and Thatcher rejected hate. By doing so those Labor politicians saved millions of lives as their model was copied around the world.
So the reasonable Left should just let the Unreasonable Right walk all over them, for fear that by not standing up to them they’ll spark a Culture War.
Very few worthwhile changes in society have been won by either (a) not upsetting anyone; or (b) letting the other side walk all over you.
The Snowflakes slur applies equally to Folau squealing because he has to face the consequences of his actions as it does to those who think he needs to be protected from the outrage of those who object to his statements.
The Right see freedom of speech as the right to say what they want to without consequence. That’s just as dangerous an attitude.
Link ?
https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/6268779/bendigos-vision-australia-radio-service-in-doubt/?cs=142
‘3z says:
Oh. Thanks.
Greensborough Growler says:
You are a magnificent contributor.
More power to your pen!
‘sprocket_ says:
Was Bomber Beazely Parlaiment’s first military aeronaut?
What I am saying is that, generally speaking, over-reaction to anything risks a backlash.
Note I did not say any reaction. I was talking about over-reaction.
It’s getting so you can’t express a reasoned opinion here without being howled down by any number of people with particular axes to grind.
Their insults and condemnation remind me of nothing less than their diametrically opposed antagonists on the Right. The main distinguishing feature of bigotry is that bigots believe it’s only the other side that’s blind to reason.
A reminder what hate can do. A reminder that even with all the effort of Labor the religious were still able to keep discrimination in NSW so you can be fired for being gay.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-18/remembering-eve-van-grafhorst-after-hiv-diagnosis/10491934
Edit: Sorry the religious right. There were religions arguing for the end to discrimination
mikehilliard says:
I wonder IF Australia had won the world cup what Sam Kerr would have said if the gays burn in hell no indigenous recognition happy clapper had asked her to Parliament House.
This is an interesting read. It had not particularly occurred to me but there is effectively no British Prime Minister (or there is no effective British Prime Minister) while all this is going on:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/11/is-the-us-nudging-britain-into-dangerous-waters-with-iran
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She is a lame duck but May is Prime Minister. So hopefully she will not roll over for Trump. She has form with the Ambassador
Guytaur, I prepared to believe that the very fact people hate someone for what they are can tip the object of hatred over the edge. Rarely, but I’m sure it happens. And it’s a rotten thing indeed that it does.
But we can’t shield every vulnerable and sensitive person from every adverse comment (and certainly not thought) every time. They have to build up a certain level of toughness (for want of a better word) in order to survive in the real world.
It mightn’t be their homosexuality. It might be their body shape, their ethnicity, the way they speak, or the characteristics of their face, or a disability or disfigurement they have. It could be anything over which they have little or no control.
You can’t stop others from commenting, even unkindly, about other people. Legislating against hate is doomed to fail. That will only send the hate underground, full of resentment and perhaps amplified in ferocity. Education is the key.
Punishing Israel Folau has no hope of changing his mind. Persuasion and counter-argument, no matter how bleak the prospects may seem, are the only hopes.
Guytaur… of course the irony is that Folau is right, gays aren’t going to heaven.. nobody is because it only exists in his imagination. Oppression. What seriously? That must be some real wam bam first world oppression you’re referring to. Get real mate. All he said was that I would not be going to his special place in the sky. Get a grip.
Oakeshott Country says:
Australia officially has the highest minimum wage in the world following a series of increases well above inflation.
https://www.afr.com/leadership/workplace/australia-now-has-world-s-highest-minimum-wage-20190712-p526nv
You may hate it but the truth is it’s hate speech. It’s not about Religious Freedom. The very reason Ruddock and his report could not shoehorn it through pretending it’s free speech.
@clem attlee
How about church-up-their-asses keep their war mongering selfish attitude out of other people’s faith or sex.
Hey Zoomster a dissident is blindfolded in front of a firing squad, as he’s being given his last cigarette he says “you told me I had freedom of speech.” The Nazi replies “yes, but we said nothing about freedom from consequences.” That is your world.
I have a grip. It’s you being the snowflake pretending their are no consequences to what you say.
This notable Alt Right spokesperson doesn’t react well to women wanting equal pay and uses an advocates sexuality to smear her.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/427484/ben-shapiro-megan-rapinoe-world-cup/
The Tories just love all this identity crap, because it splits the left and the real issues (decent wages, security of work, decent health care and public education and care for the environment ) are getting smashed. All this is happening right in front of people’s noses, but all they’re worried about is whether gays and atheists are going to heaven. What a bunch of mugs.
Steve777 says:
Is Folau an “employee” of the ARU, as lots seem to be implying.
He’s probably on some sort of contract. Such contract would include things like not bringing the game into disrepute through his off-field behaviour. So if he had been caught drink driving, it may have terminated his contract. If he had publicly criticised fellow players, the game or the ARU / its officials, ditto. His prominence means that it would have been damaging.
Now if he had been a normal employee, say a functionary buried in the admin section of ARU head office, the chances are none of this would matter. Unless he was drunk at work or had to drive as part of his job, the drink driving conviction would be a personal matter. Likewise, his social media postings would not have mattered – no one would have seen them.
Someone like Folau cannot plea to be regarded as an employee when it suits him.
Hey Gutaur where is the money to pay these women going to come from. they play in a Mickey Mouse league? You reckon they should be on Ronaldo’s wages then? More irrational bull shit.
Gay teens are more likely to experience mental health struggles and self-harm and more likely to suicide than heterosexual teens. The reason is a culture of stigmatisation and rejection. It isn’t a matter of one specific statement by one person leading to a suicide. The problem is the climate of verbal abuse and bigotry and exclusion faced by gay people, especially young gay people.
Rugby Australia has a policy of not wanting its name and platform associated with contributing to that oppressive culture.
Some people are acting as though Folau was hard done by and that Rugby Australia was acting capriciously or out of the blue. They had anticipated this specific issue to the point of including a clause about it in his contract.
It ought to be acceptable for organizations to decide that they will not associate with people who choose to contribute to a culture of abuse that increases the rate of mental illness and suicide.
You just outed yourself. You are no equality advocate. You are all for misogyny.
Amazing you think you can get away with such a spurious argument after the US media has debunked it all with facts.
Players like Ronaldo, Kane amd Messi earn huge wages because they have a huge audience, so advertisers pay huge amount to sponsor their product, the women… not so much. When women’s football generates the same income, then they will get the same money.
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Port Testifies in Support of Clean Fuel Standard Legislation
OLYMPIA – On behalf of the Port of Seattle and Northwest Seaport Alliance, Commissioner and Managing Member Ryan Calkins today testified at the Washington Senate Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee in support of House Bill 1110, legislation that would create a Clean Fuel Standard for Washington state.
A clean fuel standard policy will help advance full-scale implementation of a Sustainable Aviation Fuel program for flights originating at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a central step towards reducing carbon emissions associated with Port operations and facilities.
Commissioner Calkins’ testimony follows.
Thank you, Chairman Carlyle, Ranking Member Ericksen, members of the Committee.
My name is Ryan Calkins, and I am a Commissioner at the Port of Seattle and a Managing Member of the Northwest Seaport Alliance.
I am here on behalf of the Northwest Seaport Alliance and the Port of Seattle to testify in support of House Bill 1110, that proposes enacting a Clean Fuel Standard in Washington state.
The Port of Seattle Commission and Seaport Alliance leadership have set aggressive goals for reducing the carbon emissions associated with our operations and facilities.
Central to those goals is our push for the full-scale implementation of Sustainable Aviation Fuels for flights originating at Sea-Tac Airport.
In December 2017, the Commission adopted the most forward-looking sustainable aviation fuel targets of any airport in the world, seeking to power every flight fueled at Sea-Tac Airport with sustainable aviation fuel by 2028.
Aviation accounts for roughly two percent of global GHG emissions, but is projected to increase as a percentage because of the technological challenges of powering airplanes with anything other than combustible fuels.
The adoption of a Clean Fuel Standard has been recommended to the Legislature by its Sustainable Aviation Biofuels Work Group as a key policy that is essential for our efforts.
But this is about more than just cleaner fuels for airplanes leaving Sea-Tac.
Enacting a clean fuel standard will improve air quality in some of our communities most burdened by air pollution, and as biofuel demand increases it can even become an affordable alternative to conventional transportation fuel. Studies have shown that these fuels reduce particulate and sulfur emissions by at least 30%. Sustainable aviation fuel has been shown to reduce particulate emissions by 40 to 70%, depending on how much jet fuel it’s blended with.
As you will hear from others today, the clean fuel demand generated by low carbon fuel standards in California and Oregon is helping to reduce emissions in those states but making it more difficult to secure renewable products in other states, including Washington.
Propel Fuels, originally a Seattle-based company, moved its operations to California because of increased demand for renewable fuels and a more lucrative market.
Passage of a statewide clean fuel standard will attract producers back to Washington, along with the jobs, energy security, and local air quality benefits that come with it.
For this reason, we urge you to support the bill before you today, House Bill 1110.
Thank you, I look forward to your questions.
Perry Cooper | Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
(206) 787-4923 | cooper.p@portseattle.org
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Awards & Exhibition
Awards & Exhibition 2018
Eamon Ward
Below is a small selection of my work to illustrate my experience & aesthetic.
Reportage - 2014
Josef Pavelka - Josef’s story gained attention through his appearance before a District Court Judge where it was discovered that he and his friend Piotr Baram were living in public toilets in Ennis, Co. Clare. They had come to Ireland for work during the boom, but the economic downturn coupled with chronic alcoholism left them homeless. They were not entitled to Social Welfare but relied on the kindness of strangers. After a brief time in emergency accommodation in Galway they returned to Ennis where, within a month, Josef died alone in a laneway. His friend Piotr is still homeless in Ennis.
St Bridget's Well - As Winter slowly gives way to Spring Pilgrims continue the ancient tradition of Celebrating the feast of St Bridget and visiting her Holy Well high above the Atlantic Shore on the Clare Coast. Traditional prayer rounds along a winding path through the trees to the stone Cross culminate with many leaving offerings and petitions as well as drinking the water from the Well.
Daily Life and People - 2013
Young Riders - Brothers Willie and Lee Heggarty, Charleville Co Cork with their Shetland pony at Ballinasloe horse fair, Co Galway.
Chernobyl's Human Cost as the 25th Anniversary approaches - In the days following the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, 99 % of the land of Belarus was contaminated to varying degrees by radioactive fallout. A quarter of a century on, the costs to those living in the region are widespread. A generation later, children are being born with birth defects, heart problems and thyroid cancer. High unemployment and poverty is putting pressure on family life. Social problems and domestic abuse are widespread. Today, there are about 7 million people living with the physical and psychological legacy of this man made disaster
Sports Feature - 2007
"Numbers Up" - Flan McNamara, scorekeeper, Cusack Park, Ennis, Co. Clare. Plans are underway to develop Cusack Park commercially and build a new GAA grounds outside the town
Features - 2007
The onlookers - Watching the action at a People in Need Telethon fundraising event in the village of Kilmihil, Co. Clare.
Country Gents - Gentlemen make use of the facilities at Muff Horse Fair,Co Cavan.
Picture Story - 2008
MY UNCLE’S HOUSE - " The week of my uncle’s passing and time seems to have stood still in his home "
Arts and Entertainment - 2014
Following The Master - James Landale (7), Dublin, following music teacher Vincent McMahon, at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
Life From The Sea - Four generations of the Talty family making their life on the family farm on the Atlantic Coast at Caherrush, Co. Clare. With Great-Grandfather Michael Talty’s vast experience of the seaweed industry they produce a range of handharvested, air and sun-dried sea vegetables from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Having started with traditional Irish Dillisk and Carrageen, they have expanded the range with several other vegetables such as Nori, Atlantic Wakame, Kombu among others. They have found a following, not just in Ireland, and now export as far-a-field as the Asian market.
The Reed Cutter - Brendan Stewart is one of the few remaining reed cutters still harvesting along the Bunratty reed beds on the Shannon Estuary. This backbreaking work involves the reed being harvested after the first frosts, which strip all the leaves off the reed leaving a golden stem five to seven feet in height. A roof thatched using water reed can last up to 40 years in Ireland. In recent years imported reed from Eastern Europe has taken its toll on the numbers keeping the tradition here alive.
Portrait - 2013
Marcus Of Limerick -
Saddled With You - Michael Tynan, Birr, Co Offaly awaiting a buyer as the day draws to an end at Spancilhill Horse Fair, Co Clare.
Tantrums and Tiaras - Megan Sweeney getting help with her earings before her first Holy Communion. She was being filmed for the TV series "A Travellers Life for Me".
Prize Possession - A Boy and his Pony at one of Europe's oldest Horse Fairs, Ballinasloe, Co Galway.
American Wake - In the small West Clare Village of Kilmurry McMahon, The "American Wake", a traditional send off for those emigrating, is revived for the first time in over 100 years. Emigration is once again a fact of lfe in rural communities and in this small region of West Clare over 60 young people have left in the last year. They are not going to America this time but are seeking other destinations, from Sydney and Melbourne to Toronto and Vancouver. These are just some of the estimated 50,000 young Irish people per year compelled to seek a better life abroad.
Nature and the Environment - 2011
Soltanovka Adult Mental Asylum, Chernobyl - Patients from the Mogilev region of Belarus who for a quarter of a Century have suffered the effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.
Floods Of Tears - Scenes from the unprecedented flooding that devastated the Country in 2009.
The Football Fan - An Elderly Lady watches the Clare V Tipperary U21 Football match through the gates of Cooraclare GAA pitch,Co Clare.
My little ponies - Tired after a day at Ballinasloe Horse Fair, Co. Galway.
The Matchmaker - Facilitating a bit of equine matchmaking, at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair, Co. Galway.
Battle of Bellanaboy - Shell to Sea protestors and Gardai clash on the "day of action", organised at the site of the proposed Shell plant, at Ballanaboy, Co. Mayo
Going Home - A man and his horse head home in the evening, from the Ballinasloe Horse Fair.
News - 2006
Road's Toll - Christmas Eve, 21st Birthday balloons fly over the grave of one of three young men killed in a car crash at Ballinrobe, Co Mayo in November.
Politics - 2006
The Political Game - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern contemplates his next move on the day allegations of the Manchester payments unfold
Profile - 2016
My Uncle's House - The week of my Uncle's passing and time seems to have stood still in his home.
Daily Life - 2007
- The scorekeeper Flan McNamara keeps tabs on the action during a hurling match at Cusack Park, Ennis, in January 2007
News and Politics - 2006
- Taoiseach Bertie Ahern contemplates his next move on the day that the Manchster Monev payments unfold.He was visiting Doonbeg Golf Club in Co Clare in September 2006. Eamon Ward FREELANCE/THE CLARE PEOPLE
- A man and his horse head home from the Great October Horse Fair in Ballinasloe in 2006
Daily Life -
- Nuns of the enclosed order of Poor Clare in Ennis, Co Clare, watch the funeral of Pope John Paul II on television in April 2005
- Children and their horse enjoy the August sunshine during Puck Fair, Killorglin, Co Kerry, in 2005
- Paddy Gleeson of O'Callaghan's-Mills, Co Clare, celebrates his 100th birthday in May 2004 with the distinction of having voted in every General Election since the foundation of the State in 1922
- Pilgrims perform barefoot rounds of the Penitential Beds at Lough Derg, Co Donegal, in 2004
- A pilgrim takes part in three days of prayer, penance and self-denial at St Patrick's Purgatorial Island, Lough Derg, Co Donegal, in 2004
- Nora Mongans and her son Jason peer out of the tent in which they and Jason's seven siblings slept when their caravan was destroyed by fire at Lahinch, Co Clare, in November 2003
- Greg and Tina Downey from California, USA, have their marriage blessed by the Church of Ireland rector Reverend Bob Hanna at the Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, in spring 1998
Arts and Culture -
- Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson perform at the University Concert Hall, Limerick, in February 1993
- Clare footballers, mentors and fans celebrate at the end of the Munster Championship final at the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick, in July 1992, their team having achieved a rare victory over the perennial champions Kerry
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Bern - Lausanne
Train Bern → Lausanne
Duration 1h06 - From Rs2,183
About this journey The average travel time between Bern and Lausanne is 1h06 minutes. The quickest route is 1h06 minutes. The first train leaving Bern is at 05:34, the last at 21:34. There is an average of 31 trains a day between Bern and Lausanne, leaving approximately every 51 minutes.
Arrival station : Lausanne (Lausanne station 1003 Lausanne)
Lausanne, the Olympic capital
Lausanne, the Olympic capital Lausanne, the Olympic capital and the second largest city in Switzerland, is located on the shore of Lake Geneva in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Sport and culture are an integral part of this Olympic capital making it a preferred tourist destination. A visit to the Lausanne will allow you to discover the exceptional setting of Lake Geneva and the surrounding Alps. Lausanne is also a centre for studies and research, and home to a large number of international companies. Discover its magnificent gothic cathedral dating from the 13th century and its city hall. Have a shopping splurge in the pedestrian city centre before relaxing on the lakeshore promenades at Ouchy. Learn more about Lausanne
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Should mainstream media outlets break news on their social media channels?
As the pace of journalism gets faster by the day, the ownership of a scoop becomes more and more difficult to achieve.
Katherine Goldstein, Innovations editor, Slate.com
Former green editor of The Huffington Post, she played a key role in Slate relaunching its news blog earlier this year.
As the pace of journalism gets faster by the day, the ownership of a scoop becomes more and more difficult to achieve. In turn, the window a reporter has to break news is smaller than it has ever been - and it's closing rapidly.
Twitter was made for breaking news stories - it's hard to even remember how people followed developing news before the site existed.
There are more than 200 million people using the service and there's simply no going back to more orderly times. As such, to forbid mainstream reporters from breaking news on Twitter - or other social media channels - cripples them when they are at their most valuable. It puts them at a serious competitive disadvantage.
No website can post a story faster than it takes to tweet something and the time it takes to get a story ready for publication can mean the difference between getting rightful credit for hard-won scoops and getting ignored.
Of course, the potential to misuse Twitter exists, but we should not limit the medium just because people need to be careful with it. Instead, we should train journalists about responsible best practices on the site.
All writers should treat breaking news on Twitter with the same seriousness they take breaking it on a website. Reporters should understand that the desire to be first on a story isn't an excuse for being impulsive or sloppy.
When a writer breaks news on Twitter it gives him or her authority. It is also certain to garner that reporter more followers and attract attention to their current and future stories - all of which will benefit not only that individual, but also the organization that employs them.
Instead of treating Twitter as a menace to their profession, news organizations should be embracing the site for its amazing abilities to spread news. And instead of worrying about their employees misusing it, they should empower writers and editors to use the site smartly to their competitive advantage.
Patrick Stiegman, VP and executive editor/producer, ESPN.com
The 20-plus-year journalism veteran joined the award-winning site in 2004.
The good things that come to those who wait? Turns out they are just leftovers from those who got there first. So it goes with social media, where speed rules, no fact is allowed to ripen, and no rumor is too raw to start. But while media outlets face an incongruous choice - be first or the most authoritative? - that's a false dichotomy. You can be both, presuming a commitment to credibility and transparency.
Social journalism is transformative, facilitating curation, distribution, and newsgathering. Twitter is fundamentally a real-time news feed and journalists are competitive. Most follow each other, creating a circular game of who-beat-whom. The temperature around a story rises if reporters sense competition, which can portend carelessness.
But accuracy, fairness, and updated details can weather the social storm. The danger in breaking news first on a site like Twitter is twofold: vetting and service. How many people does the Twittersphere have to pronounce dead before they actually, you know, die? And why should users be forced to leave media company sites or networks to get news first, especially when most viewers still gather on those core platforms?
News organizations employ checks and balances to protect against inaccuracy, agenda, or outside influence. There are limited safeguards in the often unedited, unmonitored hallways of Twitter. So we ask contributors to consider a few guidelines.
Think before tweeting and re- tweeting - disseminating others' tweets represents an endorsement. And don't "break" proprietary news on Twitter. Public news, such as news conferences, should be distributed immediately. Sourced news must be vetted by editors and producers, who verify sourcing and compare sometimes inconsistent information from multiple reporters. Once reported on our platforms, news can and should be distributed on social sites, often simultaneously (or moments thereafter).
This buttresses credibility. Reporters can get it both right and first, but every mistake is one too many. The key component of the right-and-first equation is the former - that's the foundation of trust and the reason users return.
PRWeek's View
With how news is now consumed, outlets have little choice but to break stories on their social media sites. But they must ensure that the desire to be first does not outweigh the accuracy and credibility expected of mainstream outlets
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Is a journalism background still a plus for an aspiring PR jobseeker?
Should there be separation between content creators and media buyers?
With Twitter feeds and a 24/7 news cycle, are embargoes still effective?
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Development, Governance
Modi praises digitalisation programme
A flagship policy to create a digital society in India has been praised by the country’s leader for significantly reducing corruption.
Prime minister Narendra Modi called the ambitious Digital India initiative on the fourth anniversary of its launch a “people’s movement” that has empowered the poor.
The latest initiative under the programme will see the government investing heavily in modernising classrooms by putting digital white boards in 150,000 schools and colleges.
“On this day four years ago Digital India was launched to leverage the power of technology and make technology more accessible,” Modi said in a series of tweets.
“Digital India has empowered people, significantly reduced corruption and improved public service delivery to benefit the poor.”
The initiative was a “people’s movement”, he added, powered by citizens willing to learn as well as innovate.
Digitalisation has been a key aspect of Modi’s modernising vision and is reflected in the campaign launched in 2015 to make government services available online.
At the heart of digitalisation has been has been the creation of a digital identity for every citizen based on their 12-digit ‘Aadhaar’ social security number and authenticated by biometric data and fingerprints.
The Aadhaar ID is required to open bank accounts and file tax returns, and now underpins an extensive payment system – a key reason why its champions believe it has helped reduce corruption and extend financial inclusion.
A principal motive of digitalisation was to enable the government to target subsidy payments while reducing fraudulent claims and corruption in how they are administered by public officials.
Digitalisation in India has built on the rapid uptake of mobile phones and has attracted global technology and social media firms into the online payments market
It has also been at the heart of wider efforts to modernise public finances by formalising an economy still heavily dependent on cash
In April India’s government was reported to be considering plans to ban the use of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in a bid to tackle fraud and money laundering.
Anti-fraud latest
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Vietnamese corruption crackdown sees former minister arrested
Brazil’s newly elected far-right president pledges to reform public finances
Brexit gives ‘unique opportunity for international co-operation on corruption’
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Jun 26 The latest strategy to undermine Obamacare: challenge the constitutionality of a mandate that doesn’t exist [from Philly.com]
Robert Field
Can a law be unconstitutional if it doesn’t exist? That may sound like an abstract riddle, like the proverbial tree falling in a forest, but it is central to a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The suit, brought by 20 Republican attorneys general, seeks to have the entire law thrown out, and the Trump administration recently announced its support.
Jun 19 SJC Rules in Correa v. Schoeck: Pharmacies Have a (Limited) Duty to Notify Physicians About the Need for Prior Authorization
On June 7, the SJC ruled in the plaintiff's favor, reversing the lower court's order of summary judgment for the defendant pharmacy. The court held that a pharmacy has a "limited legal duty to take reasonable steps to notify both the patient and her prescribing physician of the need for prior authorization each time [she] tried to fill her prescription."
Jun 15 Motivated by increasing numbers of "deaths of despair," the AMA adopts new policies aimed at reducing gun violence
Earlier this week the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates held their annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, during which delegates voted to adopt multiple policies related to firearms and gun violence. Some of these policies reinforce and enhance policy positions the AMA has supported for years, while other policies offer specific recommendations for legislation that is currently under consideration at the state and federal levels.
Jun 15 “Right-to-try” Means Right to Be Harmed by Unproven Treatments (from Philly.com)
Imagine that you have a life-threatening disease and have run out of available treatments. You discover that there is a promising new medication that might work, but it is still undergoing testing. Would you want the right to try it?
Jun 1 Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform and Public Health: Part 2, Drug Crimes and Mandatory Minimum Sentences
PHLW will be looking at various provisions of the bill and how they intersect with public health. In Part 1, we looked at the creation of “medical parole” in the Commonwealth. In today’s Part 2, we look at drug crimes and mandatory minimum sentences.
May 22 Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform and Public Health: Part 1, Medical Parole
PHLW will be looking at various provisions of the bill and how they intersect with public health. First, we look at the creation of “medical parole” in the Commonwealth.
May 21 Policy Pathways to Address Provider Workforce Barriers to Buprenorphine Treatment [from American Journal of Preventive Medicine]
George Consortium member Rebecca L. Haffajee has a new article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine focusing on some of the reasons why only 40% of people with opioid use disorder actually receive medication-assisted treatment. One major reason is that so few physicians are licensed to even prescribe buprenorphine (such as Suboxone). Numerous workplace barriers contribute to this lack of licensing, including insufficient training, lack of peer support, inadequate reimbursement, and regulatory hurdles.
We are thrilled to present some work from brand new George Consortium member Abraham Gutman! This piece from The Fix discusses the fact that we need to get creative, and uncomfortable, in addressing the opioid crisis. Be sure to follow Av's great Twitter feed at @abgutman.
Recently, George Consortium member and University of Michigan professor Rebecca Haffajee gave an interview to the Associated Press, addressing issues around opioid companies and litigation:
Mar 28 Public Health Law Watch Comments on HHS Regulation Proposal: Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights
Public Health Law Watch, joined by our friends at the Public Health Law Center, submitted official comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed amendments to 45 CFR 88, "Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights; Delegations of Authority." Based on our combined expertise in public health law and policy, we offered comments on five main issues: (1) the lack of evidence that these rule revisions are necessary; (2) the absence of consideration for patients who face refusal of care; (3) the potentially dangerous expansion of existing definitions around “conscience protections;” (4) the potential harm these rules will cause for the LGBTQ population; and (5) the detriment these proposals would cause to reproductive health and rights.
Mar 22 Legal Skills Through a Health Justice Lens: First-Year Northeastern Law Students Work Toward Health, Equity, and Justice for Two Oppressed Groups
We have a really special post today - George Consortium member Jason Potter describes his innovative work as a professor and also the work of his students here at Northeastern University School of Law. These first year law students studied legal skills through a lens of health justice, and turned health justice theory into practice by partnering with non-profit organizations and creating tangible guidance on issues of safe consumption facilities and barriers to health care for transgender individuals.
Mar 21 The PORTAL Literature Scan for March
Every month, our friends at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) - part of a collaboration between Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital - publish a great list of the best and most interesting studies, policy analyses, and editorials about regulation, therapeutics, and law.
Mar 14 Medicaid Work Requirements Would Put Very Few People to Work [from philly.com]
The Trump administration recently agreed to let states get tough on Medicaid recipients who don’t work. Kentucky was the first to win approval of a plan to kick those who can work but don’t off the roles, and at least ten other states would like to do the same. Under these plans, in order to maintain coverage, able-bodied adults would have to prove that they are either employed in some form or are actively trying to be.
Mar 7 The Promising Potential of Gun Violence Protection Orders
While mass shootings account for just a small fraction of the more than 36,000 lives lost to firearms in the United States every year, these devastating, large-scale events have become not only more frequent but also deadlier in recent years.
Feb 20 Fighting Fire With Lighter Fluid: Trump Administration Housing Policy Proposals Would Exacerbate the U.S. Affordable Housing Crisis, Heightening Health Inequities
Emerging policy proposals from the Trump administration would exacerbate the U.S. affordable housing crisis, heightening heath inequities.
Feb 14 A Response to "Unintended Consequences: Medicaid and the Opioid Crisis"
Today, Public Health Law Watch sent a letter (both electronically and on paper) to every member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs in response to a January hearing entitled "Unintended Consequences: Medicaid and the Opioid Epidemic." That hearing and its accompanying report presented a slew of misinformation, misleading statistics, and poorly informed conclusions that attempted to blame the current opioid crisis on the expansion of Medicaid. The George Consortium members mobilized to respond with facts and real potential solutions.
Jan 31 Let's Get Fewer People to Die (from Northeastern Law Magazine)
Guns were never a part of my life. In the Massachusetts suburb where I grew up, my family did not go target shooting for sport and did not keep guns in the home for protection.
Jan 25 Involuntary Treatment for Substance Use Disorder: A Misguided Response to the Opioid Crisis [from Harvard Health Blog]
PHLW's Leo Beletsky, Elisabeth Ryan, and Wendy Parmet authored a piece this week on the Harvard Health Blog about why involuntary commitment for substance use disorder should not be touted as a tool in the opioid crisis.
Jan 23 Threats to Medicaid and Community Integration for People with Disabilities
As we enter the second year of the Trump administration, Medicaid remains in the cross hairs of conservatives in Congress and the administration.
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F+W Media Acquires Interweave
F+W Media has acquired Aspire Media, the parent company of Interweave, in a move the unites two of the country’s largest publishers of niche content for particular communities. Best known for its crafts books and magazines, Interweave has a backlist of 350 craft books, publishes 15 consumer art and craft magazines and more than 30 special newsstand publications. In addition, the company operates 33 Web sites and 10 online communities, sells through 10 of its own e-commerce stores and conducts consumer events and video workshops. It also produces 3 PBS craft television programs. There is virtually no overlap in Interweave’s communities and those of F+W.
“The Interweave strategy mirrors the strategy set in place for each of our vertical communities. To provide an expertly curated portfolio of quality content, products and services, marketed and sold direct to our comprehensive database of core enthusiasts, through our robust e-commerce stores,” said F+W chairman David Nussbaum. Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed. Walter Florence, managing director of Frontenac Company, one of the private equity firms that backed Aspire, will join the F+W board. Clay Hall, Aspire and Interweave CEO since 2005 will leave the company as will CFO Troy Wells.
Nussbaum said Interweave will keep the Interweave name and bands intact. Its immediate plans for Interweave include increasing the number of digital magazine / content launches through the Interweave digital newsstand; expanding the e-commerce, e-book, and digital pattern business; and expanding the live and online education and event business.
F+W president Sara Domville will oversee the Interweave content team, while other departments such as e-commerce, e-media, and events will report to F+W’s current executive committee members. Nussbaum said F+W will “explore our options” about what to do with the Interweave offices which include a Loveland, Colo. headquarters and facilities in Malvern, Pa., Sudbury, Mass., and New York City. No decisions about book distribution have been reached either; Perseus has been Interweave’s distributor.
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Dancing with the Stars Season 9 – Week 4 News and Other Media
My favorite pro is very sick. 🙁 He tweeted this morning that his whole body hurt and he had chills and sweats and that he could barely stand up. Joanna is rehearsing tonight with Maks, which would be my pro of choice if Derek had to sit out for a few days. Anyway, according to Joanna and her manager, Derek has a 104 degree fever and has been to the doctor. Hopefully he was given Tamiflu and he’ll be back shortly. Hopefully VERY shortly. Much as I like Maks, Derek’s my boy. For anyone who might have forgotten that fact. 🙂
Derek and Joanna’s Lambada is one of TV’s Top 5 on AOL. Cool.
In the past I have been known to double post media here and at PureDerekHough – tonight I am very, very lazy and I’m just giving you several PDH links to LOTS of video which has Derek/Joanna content, but also has Donny, Melissa, Kelly and others.
Derek Hough and Joanna Krupa Interview Videos
This post has several print articles – I’ve quote the portions relevant to Derek, but links are included so you can read the whole articles, which are DWTS related.
The entertainment shows from Tuesday.
From MercuryNews.com:
Chuck Liddell lays into ‘Dancing With the Stars’ judges: ‘Screw those guys’
Former Ultimate Fighting champ Chuck Liddell isn’t pleased with the professional judges who helped give him the boot from “Dancing With the Stars”.
“Screw those guys,” he said. “They don’t know what they’re talking about half the time, anyway.”
While Liddell was ousted from the popular prime time show he simultaneously heard good news about his next gig — a role in an upcoming Mickey Rourke film.
“It’s a bigger movie,” Liddell said, adding that it was too early to reveal many details, but noting that the film had a strong cast.
Amid a flood of text messages from friends and family, Liddell spoke Wednesday about his experiences by telephone from Los Angeles, where he had been learning to dance since August. He survived into the fourth week of the show. But after he performed a two-step dance with partner Anna Trebunskaya on Monday night, the judges gave Liddell a low score of 17 out of 30 points. He was eliminated on Tuesday’s show.
Louie on TV.com – click the link to see Mark D., Natalie, and Joanna.
Oh Louis. I can see your point, but this isn’t a new issue. ABC Local LAhas a bunch of vids, click the link. I’ve put Kelly’s below cause I lurve her. 🙂
I think that’s all for now. I’ll have more tomorrow. 🙂
October 15, 2009 I Written By Princess Heidi
I'm a nerd and proud of it. Two degrees in geology also means I love BEER. :-) I'm also a Derek lover - proud of that too. So don't scream at those of us on this site and call us a bunch of "biased Derek-lovers" - it's just ME. :-) It may sound like I hate DWTS at times, but really, I'm just a snarky nitpicker from way back. And I'm cynical and jaded too. But I do love DWTS. :-)
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Ranger Firearms Training
We teach Canadian Firearms Safety Courses (Non Restricted and Restricted as well as Hunter Education)
Winnipeg and Surrounding Area
Frequenly Asked Questions
Minors Licence (PAL)
Q: What is a PAL?
A: “PAL” – or Possession Acquisition License – is a federal certification that is achieved by passing the Canadian Firearm Safety Course. The license allows an individual to possess and purchase new or used non-restricted firearms and ammunition.
Q: What is an RPAL and how is it different from a PAL?
A: An RPAL is another type of firearms license that includes the restricted classification of firearms. This licensed is achieved by passing the Restricted Canadian Firearms Safety Course and allows for the ability to posses and purchase restricted firearms such as handguns, AR15s, etc. This is a separate course from the PAL.
Q: How long are the PAL and RPAL courses?
A: The duration of the PAL course is approximately 8 hours of classroom time followed by a multiple choice test and practical exam. The RPAL is 6 hours if taken independently, or 4 hours if taken within seven days of the PAL course. The course will be offered at varying times, such as full-day weekend classes, or two 4-hour classes running weekday evenings.
Q: How old do I have to be to take the Canadian Firearms Safety Course?
A: To obtain a full PAL that allows you to possess and purchase/sell firearms you must be over 18 years of age. If you are between the ages of 12-17 you can take the Canadian Firearms Safety Course in order to obtain a Minors’ License. The Minors’ License allows individuals to borrow/use non-restricted firearms from a PAL license holder.
Q: How is PAL different from a Hunting License?
A: The PAL is a federally-regulated license that is achieved by passing the Canadian Firearms Safety Course. It is primarily focused around safe handling, storage, and use of firearms. A Hunters Safety certification is a provincially-regulated license organized in Manitoba by the Manitoba Wildlife Federation. The MWF curriculum has elements of firearm safety, but primarily focuses on hunting-specific regulations and ethics. This type of license only allows you to purchase game licenses. It does not allow an individual to possess and acquire firearms.
Q: Is the material covered in the course available in advance?
A: Hard copies are available online. The entire Canadian Firearms Safety Course guide is also available online for free as a PDF or as an eBook from the RCMP site.
Q: Are electronic devices such as translators or electronic dictionaries permitted in the course?
A: During the classroom portion of the course, electronic devices such as translators may be used to aid in understanding the content. Cell phones are to be turned off or set to silent during the duration of the course. For the exam portion of the Canadian Firearms Safety Course, absolutely no electronic devices of any kind will be permitted.
Q: Where will the classes be held?
A: The majority of my courses are held at Cabela’s Winnipeg located at 580 Sterling Lyon parkway. Winnipeg, MB, and Manitoba Wildlife Federation office at 70 Stevenson Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba. If your community or club is interested in having me hold a class in your area please feel free to contact me for details. I specialize in coming to rural areas
Q: How much does the Canadian Firearms Safety Course cost?
A: PAL = $100.00
RPAL = $100.00
If both firearms safety courses are taken through Ranger Firearms Training a discount will be applied to the second firearms course.
Q: How can I sign up for the CFSC/CRFSC class or have you teach a course in my community or shooting club?
A: You can reach use for course details by filling out my contact me and checking out my current schedule.
We CAN BE REACHED AT:
431-777-FIRE (3473)
Cabelas Retail Store
580 Sterling Lyon Parkway, Winnipeg, MB R3P 1E9
Manitoba Wildlife Federation
70 Stevenson Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Current: Medical Assisting
What to Expect in Your Medical Assistant Internship
By Megan Ruesink on 10/30/2014
You are curious about medical assisting (MA) and have heard some promising things about this growing field. But before you feel confident about going for this degree, you want to know the steps it takes to get there.
The obvious first step is to earn your MA degree. After that, you may go on to take a medical assisting certification exam. And then… that’s it, right? You’ll be ready to start your first MA job?
Actually, let’s back up a little first. Before certification, and while earning your degree, you’ll complete a medical assistant internship, which can also be known as an externship. Whether getting hands-on experience before you’re certified excites, scares or just plain annoys you, it’s important you know what the internship experience is like before making any decisions.
The MA internship: the basics
An internship is like a new job – both are a little scary on the first day, when you have no idea what’s going to happen. Knowing the experience of others can be helpful. We reached out to two people at Rasmussen College to get a good idea of what the experience is like both from those that help facilitate it and those who have recently experienced it.
When do MA internships take place?
Before you even start a degree program it’s important to know about the timing of the internship. Internships generally happen near the end of your coursework, after you’ve spent plenty of time in the classroom. At Rasmussen College, internships happen year-round because students are on different schedules, says Melissa Johnson, Rasmussen College MA program coordinator.
How do students prepare for the internship experience?
How will you know you’re prepared to tackle an internship? Easy – your coursework will help you. At Rasmussen College, Johnson says “PATH” is important in the classroom. PATH stands for professionalism, attitude, time-management, and hygiene. Students have to grade themselves every week on these four areas to mentally prepare themselves. The goal is that the classroom experience will mimic the clinical environment so that students are not only comfortable with their skills, but are professionally prepared as well.
Teachers are an important part of internship prep, too. Soon-to-be graduate Danielle Maggiolo said that her teachers really worked to help her be ready for the clinic experience.
How does internship placement work?
Students can be placed in any clinic that Rasmussen College has an affiliation agreement with, including specialty clinics, Johnson says. However, where a student is placed is not just left to chance. A quarter before the internship, students will fill out a form indicating their internship preferences.
“I became really close with my teachers,” says Maggiolo. “I felt like they knew what I needed. I was placed in a midwife clinic, which was one of my top three choices and within the geographical area where I was looking.”
How much responsibility are students given during their MA internship?
The responsibilities students are given depends on the clinic. Students will likely shadow other MAs, observing their work. Johnson says the MA-in-training will be probably be given responsibilities such as rooming a patient, answering phones or perhaps even drawing blood under supervision.
Maggiolo started with shadowing and then moved on to rooming patients, blood-draw and administrative work.
“With the responsibility I was given, I felt like I was part of the staff and that I was learning exactly what I needed to learn without being treated like I was just a student,” she says.
How do students balance an MA internship and classes?
Students will need to complete all of their core courses before they are eligible for the internship. The internship is a 240-hour of commitment along with a capstone course, and although it’s not easy, Johnson says most students find a way to balance everything.
“If you’re dedicated, you can do it,” agrees Maggiolo, mother of two. During her internship, she was also working a 20-hour-a-week job and still thrived. “I even got A’s in my courses that quarter! If I can do it, anybody can do it."
Will an internship result in a job offer?
Though there are no guarantees, Johnson says that if the student has done well in their internship and the clinic has an opening, students often will be offered a position. If there is no opening at that specific clinic, the supervisor will often help the student get a job at another clinic.
“I was offered as a job a week before I was done,” Maggiolo says. “I think if you put all your effort into it, keep a positive attitude and show them that this is what you really want, getting a job is attainable.”
Is MA the right career for you?
As you can see, a lot goes into a medical assistant internship, from timing and schedule juggling to the actual duties you’ll have at the clinic. If you’re interested in becoming an MA, an MA internship will certainly get you on the right path.
Now that you have had a peek into what a medical assistant internship looks like, you may be ready and excited to jump right into your education. But there’s also a chance you still have some lingering questions. If you need a better idea of what it takes to be an MA, read up on the skills you’ll need to succeed and feel confident in the career.
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Megan is a freelance writer for Collegis education who writes student-focused articles on behalf of Rasmussen College. She hopes to engage and intrigue current and potential students.
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The Haunting Song Patti Smith Wrote For Janis Joplin—Two Months Before Her Death
Amidst a sea of tequila bottles and drunken musicians, Janis Joplin and Patti Smith forge an unforgettable friendship.
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N ew York City: August 1969. Janis Joplin is hanging out with her band at El Quijote, the restaurant attached to the Chelsea Hotel. She is the toast of hippie America. She doesn’t seem to notice the girl who has just strolled in.
Patti Smith and her friend Robert Mapplethorpe have recently moved into room 1017, the smallest bedroom in the hotel. At 23, Smith is a bookstore assistant who yearns to be an artist of one kind or another. The Chelsea represents her aspirations. She enters it as a novice might enter a convent.
Dressed in a long rayon polka-dot dress and a straw hat, she puts her head round the door of the bar. The scene is almost absurdly characteristic of its era, scattered in roughly equal proportions with musicians and bottles of tequila. Jimi Hendrix is there in his big hat, slumped over a table at the far end; to his right, Grace Slick and the rest of Jefferson Airplane sit around a table; to his left, Joplin pals around with the guys in her backup band. They are all here for the Woodstock Festival.
Returning to her room, Smith feels “an inexplicable sense of kinship with these people,” and she continues to make inroads into bohemia. Recently, Bobby Neuwirth became top dog after he popped up as a friend of Bob Dylan in the documentary Don’t Look Back. Now Neuwirth takes Smith under his wing, introducing her to Kris Kristofferson and Roger McGuinn. One day, he introduces her to Janis Joplin with the words, “This is the poet Patti Smith.” From that moment, Joplin always calls her the Poet.
[pullquote] Smith sits at the feet of Kris Kristofferson as he and Joplin sing his new song, “Me and Bobby McGee.” This is later deemed a moment of rock history.[/pullquote]
Over the coming year, Patti Smith joins those drifting in and out of Joplin’s suite. Joplin rests on an easy chair in the center, brandishing a bottle of Southern Comfort, even in the afternoon. One day, Smith sits at the feet of Kris Kristofferson and Janis Joplin as Kristofferson sings his new song, “Me and Bobby McGee.” In her rasping, wailing voice, Joplin joins in the chorus. This is later deemed a moment of rock history, but Smith is preoccupied with the poem she is trying to write.
After attending one of Joplin’s concerts, the singer’s vast entourage tromps off to a party downtown. Smith notes that Joplin—in magenta and pink, with a purple feather boa—spends most of the evening with a handsome man to whom she is obviously attracted. But just before closing time, he leaves with someone else.
Joplin bursts into tears. “This always happens to me, man. Just another night alone.”
Neuwirth tells Smith to take Joplin back to the Chelsea Hotel and keep an eye on her. Smith sits with Joplin and listens while she talks about how unhappy she is. Smith has written a song for her and, never backward in coming forward, seizes the opportunity to sing it. It is on the theme of the star adored by the public but lonely offstage.
“That’s me, man! That’s my song!” says Joplin.
Before Smith sets off for her room, Joplin adjusts her boa in the mirror. “How do I look, man?” she asks. “Like a pearl,” replies Smith. “A pearl of a girl.”
From the book Hello Goodbye Hello, copyright 2011 by Craig Brown, Simonandschuster.com
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Dirks: Rhode Island salt ponds good place to catch stripers
It's a scene right out of your favorite TV fishing show, with water boiling with hungry fish gorging on the hatch.
You put a fly on your rod and begin to sight cast to any one of dozens of rising fish. The hatch is so thick that it sometimes seems impossible that a fish will find your fly. Where is this place? It's on a saltwater pond during the famous Rhode Island worm hatch for striped bass.
Never heard of the Rhode Island worm hatch? Neither had I before I ran into an energetic boat captain by the name of Jim Barr at an Orvis Pro Guide event in March. Barr, who guides primarily saltwater anglers, has been fishing the worm hatch for years on a few saltwater ponds in Rhode Island.
"We fish in salt ponds that are protected from the open ocean by barrier beaches," Barr said. "They have tidal exchanges during the course of the day, so you have a fresh supply of water coming in a couple times a day.
"We have aquatic worms that live in the mud that live on the bottom of these ponds. Almost every year like clockwork, at the beginning of May, the worms emerge in the late afternoon coming off the muddy bottom. These worms range in size from 1 to 4 inches, come off the bottom and swim their way to the surface of the water. The striped bass that are migrating north are in the ponds anticipating the release of these worms."
Barr said the typical emergence of the cinder worm is about 4 p.m.
"The telltale signs that the emergence is about to occur are when the gulls and terns start circling and then start to loop near the surface," he said. "They'll swoop down and take emerging worms."
The cinder worm can come in a variety of colors including red, brown, tan, pink and maroon when they hatch.
"Their head is black and the tail is red," Barr said. "They are very fragile and do not live long when removed from the water."
For anglers, this is sight fishing at its best. The striped bass can range in size from 12 to almost 40 inches in the shallow-water ponds. You just never know when you're going to run into a tackle busting fish.
For fly anglers, Barr recommends using an 8- or 9-weight rod rigged with floating line and tapered leaders, with at least 15-pound test tippet.
"Use monofilament rather than fluorocarbon as monofilament floats better," Barr said.
For information on fishing the worm hatch on saltwater ponds and the flies that imitate them, go to www.skinnywaterchartersRI.com.
Roscoe was about 6,000 votes behind Waddington late Monday afternoon in the race to win the Ultimate Fishing Town USA fisheries grant of $25,000. Voting ends at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Go to www.wfnfishingtown.com.
David Dirks' outdoors column appears weekly. Contact him through his website, www.dirksoutdoors.com, or write P.O. Box 87, Westtown, NY 10998.
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Topic: FC Barcelona
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Sons of pioneerS
are hungry men.
Re: FC Barcelona
« Reply #5240 on: July 6, 2019, 12:28:43 PM »
Quote from: DangerScouse on July 6, 2019, 11:53:13 AM
We are no angels ourselves but Barca appear to be the worst club going in that regard.
Football is a dirty business, and there are no squeaky clean clubs now, but Barcelona are on another level. They are the guy who swaggers into a bar in his sunglasses, hits on your wife right in front of your face then wonders why you might be a little upset by it.
At least we have the decency to whisk you off to Blackpool on your own before making a move.
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We've Seen Things You People Wouldn't Believe...
Rome. London. Paris. Rome. Istanbul. Madrid.
COUPE DES CLUBS CHAMPIONS EUROPÉENS VAINQUERS SIX FOIS.
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Yeah right..
Support the team,Trust & Believe.
The funny thing is that they kinda didn't turn up for Barca either... bar Neymar in his previous stint.
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Just up on the BEEB: Barcelona: Louie Barry signs from West Brom
Barcelona have signed England Under-16 striker Louie Barry on a three-year contract from West Bromwich Albion.
Birmingham-born Barry, 16, had been with the Baggies since he was six and turned down the offer of a professional contract with the Championship club.
West Brom will receive £235,000 in compensation from the Spanish champions, according to news agency Reuters.
Barcelona say Barry will play for their under-19 squad next season.
"For those of you watching in black and white, Liverpool are the team with the ball"
gerrardisgod
has all his sisters with him.
Anal Dirge Prat
They announced it without the deal actually being complete.
Never change.
Wants to sit in the Lobster Pot
Loan him to Everton in two years' time; year after that they'll pay £40m for him.
Jürgen Klopp does not adapt to English Football. English Football adapts to Jurgan Klopp.
I don't always visit Lobster Pot. But when I do, I sit.
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Signed Griezmann for 120m Euro's, which will make it even funnier when they do fuck all in Europe again next season.
Interesting to see what happens with Dembele and coutinho.
Absolutely terrible buy from Barca. He will defo flop, calling it now
How is 133 goals in 256 games at age 28 worth that much money? And they want Neymar back as well. With what money?
Quote from: Clayton Bigsby on July 12, 2019, 02:33:12 PM
The prices haven't made sense in a long time, but his goal-scoring record is fantastic.
I don't think they'll sign Neymar, not with Coutinho and Dembele both there. Both will have to be sold
Max_powers
That is definitely a good return of goals, for comparison its a lot better than Salah or Mane. Especially considering that he not an out and out striker and plays for a very defensively minded team.
I still think its a bad signing though, since it just papers over their cracks. They need quality in FB position and probably another CM.
He seems like an absolute bellend so he's going to fit right in there. Spent close to £200m this summer and still look to have the same issues, we'd hammer them again if we meet.
Quote from: deFacto on July 12, 2019, 02:32:07 PM
Just putting this out there: perhaps Dembele has more suitors in Europe than Coutinho, given Phil is 27 and hasn't set the world on fire recently. The Man United links most likely were pure fiction and I'm not sure PSG are actually interested either.
leftfooter
Quote from: Medellin on July 10, 2019, 12:29:39 PM
Més que un coincidence?
Seen some speculation that Barcelona are going to take the number 7 shirt of Coutinho and give it to Griezmann
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Seeing that (a) they were trying to negotiate with Atletico to pay the release fee in installments and (b) they were rumoured to have struggled to pay wages on time recently, it's fair to say that they are tight on cash. No way they'll be paying for Neymar without letting one of Dembele or Coutinho go.
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Pissing Manc "fans" off since 1999.
They've announced Griezmann's signing after activating a 120 million Euros clause. But Atletico are claiming they need to pay 200 because the player and Barcelona came to an agreement between themselves when the clause was still 200 million
"Jürgen Klopp is bringing Liverpool's 'fuck you' back. And I can't wait."
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Call me sensitive
I wonder which Fortnite dance he’ll do when he scores his first goal for them. I really don’t like that football club. I absolutely loved it when we chased them out of Europe. Entitled and arrogant.
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Quote from: dalarr on July 12, 2019, 03:44:47 PM
He's got a tattoo on his wrist that says "I hate blackie blackie blackie blacks, and I fucking love handballing it into the opponent's goal and away from my own goal, and biting people, and kicking young kids in the bollocks when they ask for autographs. And diving. I fucking love that."
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Quote from: Ziltoid on July 12, 2019, 03:48:40 PM
Alba could almost be looking at the camera there (instead of the referee's assistant) with a 'what the fuck just happened?' on his face.
We have to change from doubter to believer. Now.
Quote from: ScouserAtHeart on July 12, 2019, 03:15:14 PM
Remember Paul Ince holding up the United shirt when he was still a West Ham player? Imagine that times a hundred.
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that's a really good goal scoring record though! Anything better than 1 in 2 is top class.
But a 5 year deal for him, and yeah that fee is crazy, I guess he's their Suarez replacment? Now that Suarez is 32, and seemingly living off a diet of pies. And then they'll just buy another 28 year old in 3 or 4 years to replace Griezmann! Merry go round continues.
He's an absolute tit, so very well suited to Barcelona, he'll fit right in.
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"The amount deposited is insufficient to pay his release clause because it's obvious that the agreement between the club and Barcelona was done before his fee dropped from €200 to €120 million.
"Atletico Madrid understand that the contract was broken before the end of last season, on the basis of the facts, actions and statements of the player and the club has therefore started the proceedings it considers opportune to defend its legitimate rights and interests.
"Atletico are disgusted by the behavior of Barcelona and the player and particularly Barcelona, for inducing a player to break their contractual relationship with Atletico Madrid at a time in the season when the club was playing, not just a Champions League tie against Juventus, but also the League title against Barcelona itself."
Not on my watch.
Why did Atletico agree to a new contract with a much lower release clause, was his other one close to running down?
Sit down, shock is better taken with bent knees.
Quote from: tubby on July 12, 2019, 04:08:29 PM
No idea. The clause for 200 expired on July 1st, and went down to 120.
Sir Psycho Sexy
there has to be a release clause with la liga players. i guess when he signed the extension his agent would have negotiated for this
Quote from: Golden_Child on March 4, 2017, 07:32:17 PM
I would honestly let Wijnaldum jizz in my face right now
Not sure if this is the reason?
Quote from: Dim Glas on July 12, 2019, 04:02:17 PM
Fair enough. I think Messi and Ronaldo have confused matters for me. I still think its too much money though
how will Atletico prove that re the fee?
Quote from: Sir Psycho Sexy on July 12, 2019, 04:10:56 PM
Yeah I know that, but why would they have agreed to a lower release clause, that's the bit that makes no sense. Unless it was because his other contract was up in 2 years and he could've gone for nothing.
Rumours seem to be that Griezmann has been given Coutinho's shirt number!
Might have already been in the old/same 200mil contract, that it just reduces after x years. These seem to happen occasionally in Germany if I remember rightly.
Alternatively they just wanted him to sign to protect his value/years, or even just to ensure Barca cough up an acceptably huge 120mil and then see if they can shake Barca down for some more as an extra bonus given their actions
L8Craig
Is Griezmann the number 10 in the Barca side behind Suarez?
Dembele or Coutinho on the left with Messi on the right in his free role?
It just feels unbalanced. I know Barcelona are Barcelona and will whip majority of the La Liga teams but do they change their team when it comes to the CL like they did against us by putting Vidal in for more bite in midfield?
Actually, just remembered they signed De Jong. How does Busquets and Arthur fit in the midfield too?
Baffled by some of the Barca signings in recent years.
Is it because Messi has a free role in the team that they never never know what player to buy?
Quote from: L8Craig on July 12, 2019, 05:00:14 PM
Not all of them are playing at the same time. They'd be murdered in midfield.
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Never watched Griezmann and been impressed,just like Pogba for Juve and France before he signed for the mancs.
It's bizarre how some players carry a rep and their price doesn't seem to be anywhere near what they should be worth compared to other players.
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Quote from: Capon Debaser on July 12, 2019, 05:20:36 PM
I'm the same. He is not the complete myth that Pogba is but I don't see it with him to be honest
His goal-scoring record despite playing for Simeone speaks for himself.
He started out as a winger at Sociedad and even there he was sensational. For the last 6 seasons he's averaged about 25 goals in all competitions.
He plays for an incredibly dull side but he's a talented player who knows how to score and is extremely versatile.
Even for the French NT he hasnt impressed me. He doesnt seem any different a player in that set up than he is for Atleti.
PoetryInMotion
133 goals in 256 games in a defensive side, with him not always playing striker. That's a fantastic record, no idea how the post you responded to is trying to play that down. He's a top player. May or may not fit at Barca, several top players haven't fit there (I'm not looking at Coutinho, but more at the likes of Ibra), but that is no indication of his quality.
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God of thunder, lightning and so on
Coutinho fails to turn up for the first day of training.
"Well, you know, he has Scouse DNA," says Trent to the Liverpool Echo, a newspaper widely understood to be the mouthpiece of Liverpool Football Club. "His blood is literally made from lamb neck, onion, carrots and potatoes."
That's because he isn't their main striker, they played with a target man in Giroud with Mbappe lurking and he plays for Deschamps who again played a ridiculously safe defensive minded side even with loads of attacking talent. I mean people at RAWK have complained plenty of times (look in the World Cup threads - even for a World Cup that they actually won), that Deschamps was ridiculously defensive in his approach.
Despite all that, he was clearly their best player in the Euros and deservedly won the Player of the Tournament award. He was the 2016's Modric without actually winning the Ballon (random famous tournament winning player voting) d'Or.
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Anna Faris' Onscreen Mom Sends Love Post-Split
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Anna Faris' Onscreen Mom Sends Love After Her Split From Chris Pratt
Kaitlin Reilly
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Many fans were bummed out by the news that Anna Faris and Chris Pratt have decided to separate. While the transition is likely a difficult one for both parties, Faris has someone squarely in her corner: Allison Janney, who plays her television mother on their CBS sitcom Mom.
E! News caught up with the multiple Emmy-winner and asked about Faris' breakup news, which was delivered via a message on both Pratt and Faris' Instagram and Facebook accounts. Janney didn't skirt around the issue — instead, she made it clear that her co-star has been doing fantastic despite her big life change.
"She just is a trooper. She comes to work with a smile on her face," Janney told E! News. "She's a professional. I love her to death."
Of course, Janney didn't get too specific — she made it clear that whatever Faris is going through with her separation, it's something she prefers to keep out of the public eye.
"Her private life she keeps pretty much to herself. She comes to work and gets the job done," said the actress of her co-star and friend.
The Scary Movie actress addressed the end of her marriage publicly on her popular podcast Anna Faris is Unqualified. However, she kept the message short and sweet — without any mention of Pratt by name.
"Hey, dear listeners," she says on the podcast. "I just want to thank you all so much for all the love I’ve been receiving, and I truly love you."
Faris' upcoming book, which shares the same name as her podcast, is still scheduled to hit shelves on October 24, with a foreword by Pratt. It's just more evidence that Janney is totally right about her onscreen daughter: No matter what she's going through, Faris is still here to get her (multiple) jobs done with a smile on her face.
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Waggoner leads Wolverines’ win
GOODYEAR, Ariz. � Trent Waggoner drove in three runs and Ryan Concannon and Koleton Willams combined for eight strikeouts in Willamette�s 8-5 baseball victory over Fairview High of Boulder, Colo., at the Coach Bob Invitational on Tuesday.
Scott Kuvaas went 2-for-4 with an RBI double and Waggoner had a two-run double for the Wolverines (1-1), who finished with nine hits. Concannon pitched the first four innings to earn the win.
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St. Mary�s 9. Oakland 5: Ryan Comstock went 3-for-4, Dave Henry had a pair of hits and Austin Nix recorded an RBI triple for the Oakers in their loss at home.
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Developers receive invitation to help build next Samsung wearable prior to the product launch
Seoul, Korea – April 24, 2015 – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced that members of global developer community can get an early access to the Software Development Kit (SDK) of the company’s next generation of the Gear device. The new wearable device will be the 7th generation of Samsung Gear with a wrist watch type. This is the first time that Samsung has released its wearable SDK to third-party developers before the official product announcement.
“Samsung has actively adapted its approach to wearable device development as the leader of the rapidly developing category,” said JK Shin, CEO and Head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. “Through meaningful and progressive innovation, Samsung welcomes to developers and industry leaders to join this open collaboration effort to enrich and create unique user experiences for a new smart mobile life.”
To join the program, developers can become a member of the community by submitting an application at the Samsung Developer’s website. The applicants will be later notified through email along with the development resources. They will be among the first to get an up-close look into the SDK and build apps for the next Gear.
For more information, please visit http://developer.samsung.com/wearable
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies, redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, cameras, digital appliances, printers, medical equipment, network systems, and semiconductor and LED solutions. We are also leading in the Internet of Things space through, among others, our Smart Home and Digital Health initiatives. We employ 307,000 people across 84 countries with annual sales of US $196 billion. To discover more, please visit our official website at www.samsung.com and our official blog at global.samsungtomorrow.com
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Take Back Your Energy Bills — Energy-Efficiency Measures that Work for You
Posted on July 18, 2016 - 07:00 AM by Lucille Evans
5 simple (really!) things you can do to put a dent in energy bills.
You know that 10 or 20 pounds that you just can’t seem to lose? You do the right thing -- eat kale or log time on the StairMaster -- but the weight clings. You feel powerless.
It’s like that with our energy bills, too. Eighty-nine percent of us think we’re not using as much energy as we did five years ago, and almost one-half of us think our homes are energy efficient. But 59% also say our energy bills have gone up, according to consumer research by the Shelton Group, a marketing and advertising agency that specializes in energy-efficiency issues.
Call that the Snackwell’s effect, says Shelton Group CEO Suzanne Shelton. Basically, we’re saying, “I bought these CFLs so now I can leave the lights on and not pay more. I bought a high-efficiency washer and dryer because I want to do more laundry without paying more. I ate the salad, so I can have the chocolate cake.”
Unfortunately, that disconnect has led to defeat. We feel victimized by our energy bills and powerless to the point where we’re making fewer energy-efficient improvements. In fact, Shelton’s research shows consumers made only 2.6 improvements in 2012 compared with 4.6 in 2010.
Until the day we all get energy dashboards in our home, we’re here to help you understand why your energy costs are where they are and how you can take back your energy bills.
Hint: You need to do four or five energy-efficient things to see a difference; one or two won’t cut it. But — good news! — they don’t cost much to do.
Related: Are Smart Meters Dangerous?
Why Do We Feel Victimized?
We don’t know what we’re buying. Energy is the only product we buy on a daily basis for which we have no idea how much we pay until a month later, says Cliff Majersik, executive director of the Institute for Market Transformation, a research and policy-making nonprofit focused on improving buildings’ energy efficiency.
Energy costs are going up. Inflation is mainly to blame. Your bills are projected to rise on average 2% per year through 2040, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the research arm of the energy department. Expect about 3.4% per year if the economy gets sluggish.
Other trends pushing up our energy usage:
A growing population means more homes.
New homes are getting bigger, though our families are getting smaller, according to the Census Bureau.
We’re plugging in more devices (computers, smart phones, tablets, X-boxes, plasma TVs) per household — and not unplugging them. (More on behavior later.)
In fact, for the first time, energy use for appliances, electronics, water heating, and lighting accounts for more than heating and cooling, according to EIA.
Still, overall consumption is pretty flat through 2040, thanks in part to:
Appliance efficiencies.
Population migration to dryer, warmer climates in the South and West.
People living in multifamily rather than single-family situations.
We make assumptions.
Assumption #1. Unless a home is old — more than 30 years — we figure it was built to code, which requires a certain amount of energy efficiency. But building codes change pretty regularly, so even newer homes benefit from improvements, says Lee Ann Head, vice president of research and insights with the Shelton Group.
Assumption #2. We think utilities are out to get us: They’ll jack up prices no matter what we do. Shelton’s research shows consumers blame utilities above oil companies and the government. But keep this mind: To get rate changes, utilities must make a formal case to public utility commissions. They’re also on the hook to pay for such things as:
Infrastructure upgrades put off for years
Equipment repairs after bouts of nutty weather
Consumer rebates
Another reason rates seem stuck is because utilities bundle fuel, service, and delivery fees together.
Assumption #3. Our expectations for energy savings are out of whack. When the Shelton Group asked consumers what they would expect to recoup if they invested $4,000 in energy-efficient home improvements, they said about 75% to 80%.
Sorry, unless you invest in some kind of renewable energy source like geothermal andsolar, you won’t see that kind of savings. If you do all the right things (we’ll tell you about the best five later), you could expect a 20% to 30% reduction, Head says, particularly if you don’t succumb to the Snackwell’s effect.
What does 30% translate into? $660 in savings per year or $55 per month, based on the average household energy spend of $2,200 per year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Assumption #4. Many of us don’t know how to make the biggest impact on our homes. That’s why we sometimes replace our windows first, when that should probably be fifth or sixth on the list of energy-efficient improvements, Shelton says.
There’s nothing wrong with investing in new windows. They feel sturdier; look pretty; increase the value of your home; feel safer than old, crooked windows; and, yes, offer energy savings you can feel (no more draft).
But if you spend $9,000 to $12,000 on windows and save 7% to 15% on your energy bill, according to DOE data, when you could have spent around $1,000 for new insulation, caulking, and sealing, and saved 10% to 20% on your energy bill, you made the wrong choice if your only reason for the project was reducing energy costs.
The real reasons for getting new windows are “emotional rather than financial,” Shelton says.
The 5 Things You Should Do to Show Your Bills Who’s Boss
1. Caulk and seal air leaks. Buy a few cans of Great Stuff and knock yourself out over a weekend, sealing penetrations into your home from:
Plumbing lines
Electricity wires
Crawlspaces
Savings: Up to $220 per year, says EPA
Related: The Biggest Air Leak in Your Home You Don’t Know About
2. Hire an HVAC contractor to take a hard look at all your ductwork — are there anyducts leaking that need to be resealed? — and give you an HVAC tune-up.
Savings: Up to $330 per year, for duct sealing and tune up, says DOE
3. Program your thermostat. Shelton found that 40% of consumers in her survey admit to not programming their thermostat to energy-saving settings. She thinks it’s even higher.
Related: How to Program Your Thermostat to See Real Savings
4. Replace all your light bulbs with LEDs or CFLs. We suggest LEDs, which have fewer issues than CFLs (namely, no mercury), and although expensive are coming down in price. We’ve even seen a $10 model.
Savings: $75 per year by replacing your five most frequently-used bulbs with Energy Star-rated models, says EPA.
Related: Guide to Buying Light Bulbs and Which to Use Where
5. Reduce the temperature on your water heater. Set your tank heater to 120 degrees — not the 140 degrees most are set to out of the box. Dropping 20 degrees could save 6% to 10% on your annual water heating costs, which are 14% to 18% of your utility bills. Also wrap an older water heater and the hot water pipes in insulating material to save on heat loss.
Savings: $18 to $39 per year
Important note: Resist the urge to total these numbers for an annual savings. The estimated savings for each product or activity can’t be summed because of “interactive effects,” says DOE. If you first replace your central AC with a more efficient one, saving, say, 15% on energy consumption, and then seal ducts, you wouldn’t save as much total energy on duct sealing as you would have if you had first sealed them. There’s just less energy to save at that point.
But these practices can help you achieve the goal of shaving 20% to 30% of your annual bill ($440 to $660).
Energy Savings is Addictive. What Else Can We Do?
If you want to go further and spend more, especially if you’re not planning to sell your home soon:
Add insulation. Anything you can do to shore up your building envelope is good.
If major appliances like your HVAC and water heater are nearing the end of their useful life, research energy-efficient replacements and keep the info where you’ll remember. Otherwise, you’ll make a reactive purchase when the unit finally breaks.
Contact your utility about rebates for investing in improvements. Or visit DSIRE, a database of federal, state, local, and utility rebates searchable by state. Energy Star has a discount and rebate finder, too.
A Final Word: Oh, Behave!
Remember the Snackwell’s effect? If your behavior — unplugging chargeable devices from the socket when they’re done charging; putting computers, TVs, and media on smart strips and turning them off at once; reprogramming your thermostat at daylight savings time — doesn’t support your improvements, you’re letting energy, an invisible product, win.
Trying to convince someone you live with to be more energy efficient? Here's how towin the energy-savings argument.
Fun DIY Projects to Cut Energy Use
By: Christina Hoffmann
Visit houselogic.com for more articles like this. Reprinted from HouseLogic with permission of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
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Automotive Global Value Chain
The Rise of Mega Suppliers, 1st Edition
By Wilson Kia Onn Wong
294 pages | 32 B/W Illus.
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Today, some suppliers have grown increasingly powerful and in certain cases, earn revenues that rival or even exceed that of their automaker clients. In the pre-globalisation period, automakers wielded absolute power over their significantly smaller suppliers. This book reveals the upending of this relationship, with the gradual shift in the balance of power from automakers to their suppliers in this era of globalisation.
The book examines how suppliers in the global tyres, seats, constant velocity joints (hereafter 'CVJs'), braking systems and automotive semiconductor industries have evolved into powerful oligopolies through a mix of acquisition and organic growth strategies. It also highlights how joint ventures could be strategically deployed as springboards to acquisition, as they enable firms to familiarise themselves with their partners’ markets and operations. Moreover, the book analyses the disruption stirred by the entry of well-resourced technology titans into this industry and their inevitable clash with the traditional incumbents.
This book is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in learning more about the automakers’ and now their suppliers’ relentless quest to create market-dominating intelligent driving systems.
'This book offers a unique perspective into the shifting power balance of the automotive industry, driven by the rising oligopolistic might of suppliers who are now assuming control over the development of increasingly sophisticated high-tech components. Their growing concentration secured through ruthless consolidation, is spurred by an insatiable need for size, market share and technological breakthroughs. Despite their exalted status within the automotive value chain, many suppliers have little brand recognition with the general public. The writer may be the first to meticulously analyse the arrival and stunning rise of this new business model.' — Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, Former State-Secretary, Royal Danish Foreign Ministry and Adjunct Professor at Singapore Management University & Copenhagen Business School
'This lively account of recent industrial change in the greatest industry of the 20th century - automobiles - is a vivid reminder of how unrelenting are the battles to sustain global industry leadership in its second century. No single strategy - enhanced R&D, aggressive acquisitions, canny joint ventures, or developing market penetration - is enough to succeed and, as Wilson Wong describes, market power can subtly shift from demanding client to persistent supplier over the course of less than a decade. We may be surprised that such a mature industry can continue to fascinate us by its constant change and evolution, but it is an important lesson to remember, when we read of another start up with a new, disruptive technological breakthrough, that there are no "free lunches" and "easy wins" in global business.' — The Hon. Matthew Bullock, Master of St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge
2. The Global Automobile Industry
3. The Global Tyres Sector
4. The Global Automotive Seats Industry
5. The Global CVJs Industry
6. The Global Braking Systems Industry
7. The Global Automotive Semiconductor Business
8. Comparative Analysis of the five components subsectors
9. Conclusion and Further Research
Wilson Kia Onn Wong completed his PhD at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Peter Nolan, who holds the Chong Hua Chair in Chinese Development. His PhD research focused on the factors driving the formation of oligopolies in the global automotive components industry, specifically in the tyres, car seats, constant velocity joints, braking systems and automotive semiconductor subsectors. Moreover, his research interests span both quantitative and qualitative studies, with particular emphasis on the empirical analysis of the impact of corporate takeovers on acquirers’ stock returns and the economic history of the rise of key automotive manufacturers and their suppliers over the last five decades.
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Dolphin Watch Trophy Day – RESULTS – Final Results for 10/11/18
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Final Race Results: Dolphin Watch Trophy Day - RESULTS - Final Results for 10/11/18
DIVISION 1 Dolphin Watch Trophy Day - RESULTS - Final Results for 10/11/18 - 2018-11-10
R28 By & Large Denys Pearce .8570 02:39:51 02:16:59 2 1 FIN 00:00:00
R24 Waitipi Nigel Simpson .7890 02:58:51 02:21:07 3 3 FIN 00:04:08
AUS1 Boomer Colin Harrison .7071 02:38:08 01:51:49 3 1 FIN 00:00:00
R444 Perie Banou III Colin Sanders & Cameron Biddle .7332 02:37:03 01:55:09 2 2 FIN 00:03:20
R27 Free Spirits Frank Mulholland .7172 02:41:27 01:55:48 4 3 FIN 00:03:59
R42 Ragnar Graham White .7472 02:36:19 01:56:48 1 4 FIN 00:04:59
R45 Caviar Patrick Giles .8210 03:32:23 02:54:22 1 1 FIN 00:00:00
BW8 CLUB Dolphin Watch Trophy Day - RESULTS - Final Results for 10/11/18 - 2018-11-10
R804 Pi Derek Shellabear .7267 02:18:39 01:40:45 2 1 FIN 00:00:00
R801 Mad Hatter Mike Kinney .7300 02:20:42 01:42:43 4 2 FIN 00:01:58
R814 4 Chooks Beth Lord .7623 02:16:27 01:44:01 1 3 FIN 00:03:16
R805 The Fox Ross OBrien .7623 02:19:00 01:45:58 3 4 FIN 00:05:13
BW8 Dolphin Watch Trophy Day - RESULTS - Final Results for 10/11/18 - 2018-11-10
RF813 Vitalstatistix II David Spearman .7345 02:20:22 01:43:06 4 3 FIN 00:02:21
RF812 Hooked Phil Willis .7367 00:00:00 00:00:00 6= 6 DNF 00:00:00
S80 Dolphin Watch Trophy Day - RESULTS - Final Results for 10/11/18 - 2018-11-10
R769 Frakka Tony Strickland .8770 02:35:34 02:16:26 3 1 FIN 00:00:00
R580 Uncle Louis Jenny Richardson .8950 02:36:06 02:19:43 5 2 FIN 00:03:17
R600 Sweet Babs Dave Beresford .8860 02:38:51 02:20:44 7 3 FIN 00:04:18
SP285 Front Up Wally Phillipe .9130 02:35:27 02:21:56 2 5 FIN 00:05:30
R881 Fusion John Johnston .9290 02:35:47 02:24:43 4 6 FIN 00:08:17
SP1001 Shadowfax Mark Gooding .9370 02:36:53 02:27:00 6 7 FIN 00:10:34
R1101 Grand Piano John Carlson .9340 00:00:00 00:00:00 8= 8 DNF 00:00:00
S80 CLUB Dolphin Watch Trophy Day - RESULTS - Final Results for 10/11/18 - 2018-11-10
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R116 Vagabond Tony Finch .6220 03:25:50 02:08:02 1 1 FIN 00:00:00
R41 Mistral Mark Dymond .6268 03:25:54 02:09:03 2 2 FIN 00:01:01
R971 Jolie Breeze David Hepburn .5280 02:43:26 01:26:18 6 1 FIN 00:00:00
R64 Total Recall Max DAlesio .5427 02:41:10 01:27:28 2 2 FIN 00:01:10
R737 Polythene Pam John Hughes .5420 02:43:21 01:28:32 5 3 FIN 00:02:14
R297 Terra Simon Plunkett .5524 02:41:40 01:29:18 3 4 FIN 00:03:00
R970 Silver Fern Alistair McMichael & Don Rechichi .5566 02:41:00 01:29:37 1 5 FIN 00:03:19
F92 Dolphin Watch Trophy Day - RESULTS - Final Results for 10/11/18 - 2018-11-10
R100 Itinerant Mark Hansen .5998 02:37:11 01:34:17 2 1 FIN 00:00:00
R181 Farr Far Away James Baker .5868 02:41:25 01:34:43 8 2 FIN 00:00:26
R105 Farrlap Andrew Hossen .6115 02:36:51 01:35:55 1 4 FIN 00:01:38
R267 Elusive Richard Brisbane Cohen .6099 02:37:31 01:36:04 3 5 FIN 00:01:47
R1920 Lionheart Warren Westaway .6000 02:40:22 01:36:13 5 6 FIN 00:01:56
SP920 Igawa David Atkinson .5971 02:41:11 01:36:15 7 7 FIN 00:01:58
R242 Seahawk Pat Jones .6069 02:39:51 01:37:01 4 8 FIN 00:02:44
R192 Frenzy Murray Rowe .6000 02:42:03 01:37:14 9 9 FIN 00:02:57
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891 Metala Bruce Spencer .5750 01:38:18 00:56:31 7 1 FIN 00:00:00
R86 Adrenalin Rush Raul Madan .7350 01:16:59 00:56:35 1 2 FIN 00:00:04
R74 Green Flash Alistair Ritchie .5500 01:45:18 00:57:55 8 3 FIN 00:01:24
R110 Matros Matt Farrell & Ross Playle .5180 01:52:37 00:58:20 9 4 FIN 00:01:49
R166 Farr 4 Simon Haywood .6100 01:35:42 00:58:23 4 5 FIN 00:01:52
R1100 Fortuosity Janet Hornbuckle .7100 01:23:20 00:59:10 2 6 FIN 00:02:39
R1104 Olympia of Toronto Fons Berkhout .7080 01:24:37 00:59:55 3 7 FIN 00:03:24
AUS54 Ciao Bella Ian Smart .6500 01:36:14 01:02:33 5 8 FIN 00:06:02
R302 Reflections Wilna Cornelisse .6600 01:38:09 01:04:47 6 9 FIN 00:08:16
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January 25, 2019 / 7:53 PM / 6 months ago
Refiner Citgo prepares to fend off Venezuela's opposition government
Marianna Parraga, Corina Pons
* Maduro says to defend U.S. refiner Citgo as Venezuelan property
* Citgo board retreats to Bahamas to plan legal moves
* Citgo strategy to avoid U.S. attempts to divert revenues
* PDVSA unit Citgo is biggest U.S. importer of Venezuelan crude
By Marianna Parraga and Corina Pons
MEXICO CITY/CARACAS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s most important foreign asset, its $10 billion U.S. refining arm Citgo Petroleum, is hunkering down to arm itself with a legal strategy to block efforts for its board to be removed and its revenues diverted to an opposition government, sources close to the talks said.
Juan Guaido, the head of the opposition-controlled congress who proclaimed himself president this week, is considering naming a new team to lead Citgo, two sources told Reuters.
But President Nicolas Maduro said in Caracas on Friday that his government would seek to defend the refiner, raising the prospect that Citgo could become a battleground between the two claimants to the leadership of Venezuela.
“Citgo is the property of the Venezuelan state,” Maduro said, adding that the OPEC-member country plans to continue selling oil to the United States, its first destination for crude exports and state-run PDVSA’s largest source of cash.
The United States led numerous other Western Hemisphere nations in recognizing Guaido as president of Venezuela this week. The White House has been exploring ways to redirect oil revenues to the opposition, but the path to engineering such a move is unclear.
Citgo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, but it has not been able to send its revenues, in the form of dividends, to Venezuela due to U.S. sanctions. The company’s 750,000-barrel-per-day refining network is the biggest U.S. importer of Venezuelan crude.
Run by appointees of Maduro, Citgo’s board earlier this week traveled to the Bahamas, where a company office was installed last year. It will seek legal avenues for the team to continue leading the firm, two company sources said.
Citgo President Asdrubal Chavez has been called to meetings in Caracas, according to those sources. He is the cousin of late President Hugo Chavez, who preceded Maduro.
A Citgo vice president separately traveled to Washington this week for talks on the company’s future, the sources added.
“Citgo is registered in Delaware. It belongs to Venezuela, which now has two presidents. The United States only recognizes one, but that is not the one who appointed people at Citgo’s board,” one of the sources said, explaining the legal challenges.
A spokeswoman at Houston-based Citgo said executives were not being made available for interviews at this time.
A Venezuelan opposition source familiar with Guaido’s plans said the goal of the Citgo effort was to “raise funds,” adding that “we have to show that we’ve got resources. It’s a sign of the pressure that we’re putting on (Maduro).”
Guaido is also considering making a request for funds from international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, sources said.
Another source close to Guaido’s team said the group aims to minimize what they consider Maduro’s “usurpation of the Republic’s funds.”
The White House earlier this month resumed talks with U.S. oil firms to explore new sanctions on Venezuela, including an embargo on Venezuelan crude sales to the United States and a prohibition on U.S. firms exporting fuels to the South American country.
The White House has resisted imposing an embargo on imports from Venezuela, in part because of opposition from U.S. refiners strapped for supply of heavy crude oil.
U.S. refiners currently import about 500,000 barrels of oil daily from Venezuela. Much of the demand comes from complex refiners on the Gulf Coast that use the crude to make high-margin products like diesel.
Reporting by Marianna Parraga in Mexico City and Corina Pons in Caracas; additional reporting by Brian Ellsworth in Caracas, Gary McWilliams and Laila Kearney in Houston, and Luc Cohen in Bogota, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien
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The FDA is over-eager on battling the evils of…
The FDA is over-eager on battling the evils of vaping
In this April 23, 2014 file photo, a man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago.
By The Editorial Board | opinion@scng.com |
PUBLISHED: September 17, 2018 at 6:00 pm | UPDATED: September 17, 2018 at 6:00 pm
Teens — lots of them, anyway — vape. In response, the FDA has announced a surprisingly harsh new plan to change that.
If the vape companies do not demonstrate they can reduce youth vaping, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced, he will take punitive action, up to and including pulling all flavored vapes from the marketplace.
Calling the problem an “epidemic,” Gottlieb cast youth vaping in apocalyptic terms. “E-cigs have become an almost ubiquitous — and dangerous — trend among teens,” he said in a statement. “The disturbing and accelerating trajectory of use we’re seeing in youth, and the resulting path to addiction, must end. It’s simply not tolerable.”
While few parents would want their children to take up vaping — and perhaps even fewer would want them to adopt the new trend of showing off vapes and vape skills via social media — Gottlieb’s approach is oddly disproportionate and draconian in today’s culture. Vaping is so popular in significant part because it presents a much lower health risk profile than cigarette smoking or other tobacco product use.
And without question, vaping, which can deliver a potent dose of nicotine and a striking exhalation cloud without burning leaf, lacks the impairment effect on the brain and the lungs associated with traditional forms of marijuana smoking.
At a time when cigarettes are becoming more obsolete and weed is being normalized, the growing popularity of vaping is totally predictable. We live in a culture where the flashy and performative use of mildly intoxicating substances is considered one of life’s better pleasures — and attracts comparable economic activity. Expecting teens to opt out of that culture, and to avoid one of its trendiest but least harmful forms, is absurd.
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Of course, there is one clear problem with the teen craze for vaping, which is that nicotine use is known to be self-reinforcing, especially when taken to excess. Reveling in addictive behavior is not something we want companies to encourage in young men and women. While coffee, alcohol and sugary treats can also breed unhealthy habits, it is just not as easy to look cool on social media chugging liquor, slurping lattes or gorging on brownies as it is to display and use one of the dizzying array of sleek and glitzy vape products, which are marketed almost like cosmetics or affordable luxury products.
Vape critics fear that if vapes glamorize addiction, young users will hop over to more dangerous addicting substances, or just start piling them on. That’s not a crazy notion, but it cuts against the grain of our permissive popular culture, where all kinds of bingeing, pampering and self-indulgence is held up as a moral ideal.
The FDA is better served cracking down, as it has been doing, on retailers, too many of which are selling vapes and other associated products to underage buyers. Dealing with online sales is more difficult, but Gottlieb is right that sellers can’t continue indefinitely to turn a blind eye or plead ignorance to online underage purchases.
Vapes may be a relatively easy target, but crushing the business is not likely to set a countercultural example that will catch on amid the huge market for pleasurable and conspicuous consumption.
The editorial board and opinion section staff are independent of the news-gathering side of our organization. Through our staff-written editorials, we take positions on important issues affecting our readership, from pension reform to protecting our region’s unique natural resources to transportation. The editorials are unsigned because, while written by one or more members of our staff, they represent the point of view of our news organization’s management. In order to take informed positions, we meet frequently with government, community and business leaders on important issues affecting our cities, region and state. During elections, we meet with candidates for office and the proponents and opponents of ballot initiatives and then make recommendations to voters.
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Bands That Bind
6/9/2013 / In Jewelry and A. Jaffe
How does one make a relationship truly last a lifetime? Apart from exchanging vows, promises of devotion, and the ceremonial sealing of the matrimonial oath with a passionate kiss, weddings would not be complete without wedding bands. A practice believed to have originated in Europe, the wedding band eventually spread to other parts of the world.
In the United States, wearing such ring was originally limited to wives. It was only during the 20th century that wearing of wedding bands by both spouses came into prominence.
A. Jaffe is a leader in luxury wedding jewelry creation and specializes in melding traditional craftsmanship and modern style in its wedding band collections. The Princess Channel Wedding Band, a simple yet elegantly crafted wedding band is guaranteed to last beyond a lifetime. A majestic symbol of true love forged of art and beauty.
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The most potent pairs square off for a 0-100-0-mph grudge match.
By Patrick Hong
2003 Lamborghini Murciélago
2003 Saleen S7
mid engine/ all-wheel drive
mid engine/ rear drive
dohc 4-valve/ cyl V-12
ohv 2-valve/ cyl V-8
Horsepower (SAE)
580 bhp @ 7500 rpm
Curb weight
Test weight
Pounds per horsepower
7.22 lb/bhp
Pounds per torque
8.75 lb/lb-ft
Brakes, f/r
14.0-in. vented, cross-drilled discs/ 13.2-in. vented, cross-drilled discs; vac asst, ABS
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In the world of exotic cars, Ferrari and Lamborghini are the two carmakers that immediately come to mind. However, in terms of pure acceleration skills, only the latest Lamborghini Murciélago has earned entry to this 0-100-0 test. It is faster than the Ferrari 360 Modena, 456 GT and 575M Maranello. And after surveying our Road & Track Road Test Summary, the Ferrari Enzo and McLaren F1 are the only other formidable foes. The Enzo is hard to come by (see sidebar), and the McLaren is long out of production.
So enter the Saleen S7. Based on our road test of this all-American supercar in our June 2003 issue, its 0-60-mph acceleration time of 3.3 sec. equals that of the Enzo and beats the McLaren F1's old record of 3.4 sec.
On power output, the Lamborghini Murciélago and the Saleen S7 show similar numbers. The Murciélago sports a 6.2-liter V-12 mounted midships. The massive powerplant is ready to serve up 580 bhp at 7500 rpm and 479 lb.-ft. of torque at 5400, driving all four wheels. The S7's race-bred 7.0-liter V-8, also positioned aft of the driver, can send 550 bhp at 5900 rpm and 525 lb.-ft. of torque at 4000 rpm to its rear wheels. With horsepower and torque on a par with each other, the deciding factors may be the Saleen's weight advantage of nearly 1000 lb., or the Murciélago's ABS (the S7 has no anti-lock brakes).
As with other all-wheel-drive cars, getting the Lamborghini off the line quickly means holding the engine at 5000 rpm before dumping the clutch. Any lower revs would cause the car to bog at the start line. At launch, the Murciélago's tremendous grip from all four tires causes the clutch to slip a bit before full bite. Then with just the slightest wheelspin, the bull from Sant' Agata Bolognese rages forward. There is a deep-throated growl from the rear as the car builds speed rapidly. The gated shifter is heavy but provides absolute precision shifting gears. Keep your eyes on the tachometer because the engine will hit the rev limiter quickly. And before you know it, 100 mph is already showing on the radar gun and you are on the firm brake pedal to slow the car down with full ABS pulsation.
More akin to a race car than a road car, the Saleen S7's clutch engages quickly and leaves little room for a smooth takeup. Too little revs from the engine and the car stalls; too much and the rear wheels spool up and find no traction. For best standing starts, hold the powerplant at about 2000 rpm, then coordinate your feet carefully: smoothly and quickly use one foot to let the clutch out and the other to dip into the gas pedal. Once off the line, the S7 simply rockets forward. There is a lot of vibration felt through the seat bottom. You must fight the urge to go to full throttle immediately as the rear wheels will spin all the way up to 60 mph. The 1-2 shift is relatively simple. But unfortunately the S7 needs an extra shift at 99 mph to get to 100. So even though the 8.6 sec. run to 100 mph is already impressive, it could have been much better. Furthermore, because of the non-ABS brakes on the Saleen, the 100-0-mph stops are hindered by my non-computerized pedal modulations. While the brake feel and control on the car are exceptional, my right foot can never equal the lightning-quick pulsations of the ABS.
The Saleen accelerates much faster than the Lamborghini. But despite the S7's fantastic brake pedal feel, it is still no match for the Murciélago's ABS.
From the graph of the Lamborghini and the Saleen, it is easily seen that the Murciélago has better off-the-line scoot. But soon after, the S7 accelerates more quickly to the 100-mph mark. On braking, however, the ABS stopping prowess of the Lamborghini is apparent. When compared with the Lamborghini, the Saleen loses time again by taking more time to stop — but loses in the final results only by a scant 0.1 sec. In total distance, the S7 edges the Lamborghini by 1 foot.
Winner: Lamborghini Murciélago.
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California Penal Code Section 215: Carjacking
The regulations surrounding CA Penal Code Section 215: Carjacking can be complicated.
Carjacking involves taking a vehicle from another person with the use of force or fear. Individuals can be charged with carjacking for taking a vehicle from anyone, even someone who doesn’t own the vehicle. This criminal act is prosecuted under CA Penal Code Section 215: Carjacking in the state of California.
The Simmrin Law Group can help you go over the facts surrounding a carjacking charge. You can focus on:
The Legal Definition of Carjacking
The Penalties for a Carjacking Conviction
The Defenses for Carjacking Accusations
Start strengthening your understanding of PC 215 right here.
Review the Legal Definition of Carjacking in California
Carjacking is clearly defined under PC 215. Individuals in California may be convicted of carjacking if they:
Take a Vehicle from the Immediate Possession of Someone Else
Use Force or Fear to Take the Vehicle
Intend to Deprive the Other Individual of the Car
Carjacking only occurs if an individual takes a vehicle against another person’s will. You should also be aware that individuals may carjack:
The Car’s Owner
The Driver of the Car
A Passenger in the Car
Note that individuals may be charged with carjacking even if they only plan to keep the vehicle temporarily. The court system does not distinguish between carjacking for permanent possession of the car or for temporary use of the vehicle.
Examples of Carjacking Cases in California
Find out more about carjacking with these examples:
Man A sees a nice vehicle at the pump of a gas station. The owner is inside. Man A decides to hop into the car, hotwire it, and drive away. He should not be charged with carjacking since he did not use force or fear to steal the vehicle. However, he could be charged with grand theft auto.
Man B waits outside a movie theater for a crowd to come out. He waits for a woman to approach a very nice automobile and then approaches the woman. Man B draws a knife and forces the woman to open the vehicle and give him the keys. He could be charged with carjacking.
Consider the Penalties for a Carjacking Conviction
The court system throughout California prosecutes carjacking as a felony. A basic carjacking conviction can lead to:
Jail Time: Up to One Year
Prison Time: Up to Nine Years
Fines: Up to $10,000
Note that these penalties do not apply to each vehicle that is carjacked. Instead, these penalties are for each individual in the vehicle when it is carjacked. The court can also hand down sentencing enhancements in some carjacking cases. Individuals may face harsher penalties if:
Someone is Injured in a Carjacking
The Carjacking is Part of Gang Activity
The Carjacking Involves the Use of a Gun
Additionally, individuals may face criminal charges under California Penal Code Section 209.5: Kidnapping During Carjacking. This is a unique criminal charge that moves beyond PC 215. Note that the penalties will be the most severe if a carjacking victim ends up losing their life.
Go Over Some Legal Defenses for Carjacking Accusations
You can get help standing up to carjacking accusations by contacting a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer. Working with a legal professional can allow you to build a strong defense. Depending on the facts surrounding your case, a lawyer can work to show:
You Didn’t Take a Vehicle with Force or Fear
Carjacking charges only apply if you directly take a vehicle from someone using force or fear. If you took a vehicle while no one else was around, for example, you would not face carjacking charges. However, you could still be charged under:
California Penal Code Section 487(d)(1): Grand Theft Auto
California Vehicle Code Section 10851: Unlawful Taking of a Vehicle
You Had the Owner’s Consent to Take the Vehicle
Individuals should only be charged with carjacking if they take a vehicle against someone else’s will. If you were given permission to take a vehicle you should not be convicted under PC 215.
You Were Wrongfully Accused of Carjacking
Not all criminal charges in California are made legitimately. You could be accused of carjacking if someone misidentifies you for someone else. You might also be falsely accused intentionally in some cases. A lawyer can help you stand up to these false accusations.
Contact a Criminal Defense Lawyer About Carjacking Charges
A conviction under CA Penal Code Section 215: Carjacking can have serious impacts on your life. Make sure you take this accusation seriously by contacting the Simmrin Law Group’s criminal defense lawyers today. Our legal team can provide you with a FREE initial case evaluation.
Start constructing a defense by calling us at (310) 997-4688, or by filling out our online contact form.
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Ireland Special: Visit to The Pepper Pot Cafe, Meet the Ladies who Made a Cake for Lady Gaga
Satu Vänskä-Westgarth Destination Unknown, EUROPE, featured, Ireland, LIFESTYLE, SKIMBACO TRAVEL 2 Comments
September 17, 2013 Satu Vänskä-Westgarth
This post is part of the “Ireland Special Series” for Skimbaco to celebrate “The Gathering Ireland 2013”. See also the previous posts: Seeing Dublin in a day with a toddler, experiencing Ireland in three very different ways on a week-long vacation, ideas on where to have lunch in Dublin, where to start your shopping experience in Dublin and feeling good in Dublin. Want even more? Check all the Ireland posts in my personal blog To Destination Unknown.
Have you ever dreamed of doing something you didn’t think you could do? These ladies did.
It is one of Dublin’s many cafés. A very cozy one, I might add, with tastefully mismatched colorful tablecloths, teak-colored sturdy wooden chairs, hand-written menu on the prominent red-tiled wall as the cafe perches on the indoor terrace of the Powerscourt Townhouse. The location in one of Dublin’s more unique shopping centers is ideal really, as it goes so well hand in hand with the slightly quirky and warmly welcoming atmosphere of the café. Or so I thought, until I sat down with Marian Kilcoyne, one of the two owners, in the morning hours of one Monday in June to find out what is cooking in the Pepper Pot and what makes the café so special. I also wanted to find out how this small café, that both hosts midmorning knitting groups and has catered cakes for such stars as Lady Gaga and U2’s Bono on couple of hours notice, has been able to set themselves apart from rest of the city’s competitive lunch-time offering.
When you see the queue forming in front of café at lunch-time, it is hard to imagine how just over three years ago on some days there might have been barely ten people walking past the place where the Pepper Pot Café is now located. This is where Dervla James, Marian’s business partner and herself sat counting the passerbys day after day weighing the pros and cons of setting up their own cafeteria business in the midst of the recession. The Powerscourt Management was looking for fresh and innovative entrepreneurs to breath life into the food offering in the centre, and the ladies jumped into the challenge. Even the big fat no from the Dublin City Enterprise Board didn’t stop them.
Dervla, with whom I catched up with over the phone, never thought she could cook. But one summer job in a restaurant kitchen changed that, and over the years she worked her way through some of Ireland’s most prestigious culinary institutions. Marian, on the other hand, with business degree under her belt and years of experience from working in the restaurant business, wanted to change the course of her career from administrative jobs to something more meaningful, signed up for an intensive cooking course in Ballymaloe. After getting some valuable work experience, she found herself working full-time in the same cafe with Dervla in Dublin, who was then finishing her degree in Baking and Pastry Arts.
Four days after Dervla’s final exam, the ladies’ “when we have our own café” banter became reality when the Pepper Pot Café opened its doors.
When I ask what sets the Pepper Pot café apart from Dublin’s café offering both women hesitate.
“It’s hard to put it down to words. But by not taking the business too seriously, and doing what we love and is our passion, everything comes naturally and is not forced”, Dervla says. Marian also mentions that their friendly staff is in the core of the business, as noted by their loyal customers.
“We just want to make people happy. Our staff. Our customers. Our landlord. We are just two girls who love to bake and make good food, and have fun while doing it”, Dervla adds.
And the passion and warm-heartiness is evident when you step into the Pepper Pot. From the small design details to the business ethos of home-baked bread, quality local ingredients and seasonal menu, Marian and Dervla have not cut any corners holding on to their values. Everything is made from scratch at the cafe and for two years they even baked all the bread by hand without any use of machines. “It has been lot of hard work, but it was never so much about making money, but being able to do things our way while maintaining the lifestyles we want”, Marian mentions. The lifestyle for Marian meaning the possibility to travel for food inspiration and adventure, and for Dervla the chance to balance family and work.
What is Skimbaco lifestyle, living to the fullest, for these ladies then?
“By not letting opportunities pass by and being open to new opportunities, and even when its nerve-wracking just going for it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Excepting lot of challenges along the way and not being too afraid about it”, Marian explains. And as the Pepper Pot cafe is on a crest of a wave at the moment, everything is definitely possible for these entrepreneurs in the future.
Address: Powerscourt Townhouse
Phone: +353 (0) 1 707 1610
Website: www.thepepperpot.ie
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thepepperpot
Twitter: @pepperpotcafe
Still there wondering about those cakes for Lady Gaga and Bono? See Lady Gaga’s gory “wedding cake” from her production team and Bono’s birthday cake from Alicia Keys on The Pepper Pot’s Facebook page!
Ireland Special for Skimbaco
I landed in Ireland for the first time in 1998, fresh from school and ready for my university studies in Dublin. As I sat in the taxi from the airport to my hostel, I did not understand a word the taxi driver said with his thick northern Dublin accent. All I could think was “what have I done! I don’t even understand the language here…”. I quickly fell in love with the people, country and the “craic”, and after almost five years of living in Dublin, I still return to my old home at least once a year. This Ireland series for Skimbaco is here to celebrate “The Gathering Ireland 2013”, as throughout this year, Ireland is opening its arms to hundreds of thousands of friends and family from all over the world, calling them home to gatherings in villages, towns and cities.
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Satu Vänskä-Westgarth decided to take a year off from her nine to five marketing executive life in Finland early 2009 to travel with her kayak, bike or skis and sometimes without. "One year" turned into a new lifestyle as a travel writer, accompanied with a not-so-British entrepreneur husband from Britain, who seems to spend more time outside the borders of his homeland than within, and their baby, who has already spent more months outside Norway than at their home in Norway, where the family resides at the moment. For more stories from the road, visit Satu’s blog Destination Unknown and connect with Satu on Twitter @SatuVW. View all posts by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth
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A Day With Laia Sanz - Queen of Dakar
Martorell, 29/12/2015. – Manoeuvring a 170-kilo motorbike in the desert dunes for more than 10 hours a day is the challenge that Laia Sanz is intensely preparing for. We join the champion at a training session to witness how she prepares for one of the world’s toughest races – the Dakar.
It’s 9 in the morning and she welcomes us into her home in Seva, which is surrounded by nature - a perfect place to train and relax: “this is my kind of environment; I could never get used to working in a box-like office”, she says with a grin.
While eating breakfast she tells us how she got started in motor racing from a very early age: “I began when I was 4 years old because my father is a great enthusiast and my brother already had a motorbike. My family has always supported me and they never made any distinction between my brother and me”. Laia says that she was a very active child, and that’s exactly why she took so easily to motorbike riding and competing, leading her to a ninth place overall win and a first-place win in the female category at last year’s Dakar.
Laia performs the same routine every morning: she loads her motorbike onto the trailer of her SEAT Leon X-PERIENCE and drives down to the track. On the way, she admits to us that her dream would be to one day compete at the Dakar in a car: “I believe all bike racers are also big on cars. I’m a real junkie when it comes to anything powered by petrol”.
Laia trains a total of six hours daily, which she splits between the track and the gym. Her training sessions are geared towards “gaining aggressiveness and taking total control of the motorbike”. Nothing can be left to chance: stamina, intelligence and skill are required to be one of the best female riders in the world.
Constant dedication is essential if you want to be amongst the elite in any discipline. After racing for several hours on the track and landing with her bike from heights of over two metres, Laia looks forward to leading a normal life. When she gets out of her racing gear, her main goal is to spend as much time as possible with loved ones: “It isn’t easy to balance everything. I like to maintain a healthy lifestyle – practice sport, spend time with family and friends, and enjoy myself” she says while walking around Vic.
Laia and her team will be travelling to South America at the end of the month for a brand new challenge. She is under a lot of pressure after last year’s excellent result, but she is keeping a cool head. Ahead of her await 10 hours a day sitting on her bike in temperatures that range from 15 degrees below zero to 40 above. Another gruelling race for the queen of the desert.
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Ron Smith Care Centre leads the way
Events and News / By antoinette pombo
Rand Aid’s Ron Smith Care Centre remains an Eden Alternative pioneer in South Africa, two-and-a-half years after becoming the first organisation in Gauteng to become a member of the Eden Alternative South Africa registry.
Founded in America, the Eden Alternative is revolutionising the way in which elders are cared for. The core concept of the Eden Alternative is about teaching us to see places where elders live as habitats for human beings rather than facilities for the frail and elderly. Eden Alternative thus sees aging as a continued stage of development and growth and not as a period of decline.
Four milestones have to be reached in order to fully master the Eden Alternative philosophy. Ron Smith Care Centre began its Eden Alternative journey in 2012, when a presentation was made to the Rand Aid board. At the end of 2016, after a process of physical, cultural, organisational and personal transformation, the criteria for Milestone One was reached and the care centre became only the second in Africa to achieve Eden Registry membership.
In 2018, it achieved registry renewal, which is required every two years.
Today, there are five other organisations in South Africa which are in the process of completing Milestone One, which will entitle them to Eden Registry membership.
Ron Smith Care Centre, meanwhile, is working towards achieving Milestone Two, which reflects the leadership’s commitment to spreading culture change throughout the organisation and preparing everyone to take an active role in change initiatives.
It is hoped that Milestone Two will be achieved this year.
“Milestone Two recognises that wise leadership is the life blood of the struggle against the three plagues facing our elders – that of loneliness, helplessness and boredom,” says Debbie Christen, Rand Aid’s Manager: Recreational Programmes, who is part of the team managing the care centre’s Eden Alternative journey.
“It also emphasises that creating an elder-centred community is a never ending process, while focusing on restoring meaning to the lives of our elders. This is done by caring for the person and not the disease or disability that a resident is living with and bringing decision making closer to the resident.
“To achieve Milestone Two, personal, organisational and physical transformation is required,” she says.
“Residents, staff, families and volunteers are all getting to know each other better, beyond their positions, roles, medical conditions or outward appearances,” says Debbie of the care centre’s Eden Alternative experiences.
“Activities and events are geared towards learning individual’s identities, making them meaningful, and giving people opportunities to meet each other, socialise, connect and have fun,” she says, explaining that the care centre’s ‘Who Am I’ initiative has been particularly successful in allowing residents, staff and volunteers to learn about others beyond a superficial level.
“I have so enjoyed being able to contribute to human growth and have particularly enjoyed working with and empowering different levels of staff in the planning and implementing of events and activities. These events not only bring meaning and joy to our residents but allow our staff to use their own unique gifts and talents.
“Some examples which spring to mind are the Happy Hours hosted in turn by the staff of our six wings, the annual Heritage Day event and Christmas Celebration, at which the staff provide the entertainment by planning, preparing and rehearsing for a musical skit or other item that they present on the day.
“In other words, we are providing our own entertainment by developing and exploring the gifts and talents of our residents and staff and giving them the chance to shine. And the whole process is as valuable as the outcome.
“After the Christmas 2018 event, where the staff performed a care centre version of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, resident Jill Jones commented: ‘Very well done, particularly to you, but also to the cast, who thoroughly enjoyed it, and brought to the fore talents which I don’t think they were aware of. They had such fun performing and felt so good afterwards. What memories to keep for them. I just looked at the glowing faces as they took their bows. It was so lovely to see!”
Debbie says that the care centre’s volunteers also make an immense contribution to the well being of the care centre residents. “They all contribute in different ways – some of them run activities, some assist with OT activities, some do very special work with our residents living with dementia, some visit individuals and all volunteers add energy, warmth, caring, communication and connection to and with our elders.
“They make connections and build relationships.”
Debbie explains that globally, there is an elder loneliness epidemic. She says that as a society, we are lonelier than we have ever been.
“In terms of our residents here, many of them receive few visitors. They are at an age where their friends and spouses are no longer with them, children may live overseas and many of them long for deep and engaging communication and connection with another human being.”
She says that the care centre’s staff and volunteers have helped combat loneliness by building precious relationships with residents.
“Our nursing staff reach out to residents beyond standard nursing duties,” says Zabeth Zühlsdorff, Rand Aid’s GM Services and Advance Division. “They offer hand massages, read to residents from a favourite book, participate in building or doing puzzles and know what the favourite foods are of the residents in their care. They even know which clothes they like wearing for different occasions.”
Filtering Eden Alternative throughout the organisation
Rand Aid runs a number of retirement villages and two care centres and although Ron Smith Care Centre has pioneered Rand Aid’s Eden Alternative journey, the philosophy of people-centred care is being spread throughout the organisation.
To date, 64 staff members across various levels have become Eden Associates after undergoing training and completing formal courses. Of these, 37 are from Ron Smith Care Centre.
“Most of our staff members understand, embrace and support the Eden Alternative philosophy, but do find it quite a challenge to put it into practice in their very busy days. It is truly an ongoing process to apply aspects of the philosophy to daily life at the care centre,” explains Debbie.
She says that an education plan is in place to impart knowledge of the Eden Alternative to residents, staff, volunteers and families. “Families and visitors to the care centre can actually see and experience what makes the Ron Smith Care Centre an Eden home.”
“We have received an increased number of both written and verbal thanks from families. In these letters, they mention the warm and caring relationships between their loved one and the care staff. They say it is such a comfort to them to know that their loved one is cared for with warmth and in ways that respect their identity and dignity,” says Zabeth.
Nothing sterile here
Beautiful grounds with gardens, flowers, plants and trees, a lake with ducks and other bird life, walking paths, outdoor recreation and hospitality areas with braais where one can socialise or be entertained, a croquet and golf or putt-putt area, swimming pool and jungle gyms for visiting grandchildren make Ron Smith Care Centre a place people are happy to call home.
“We have a herb garden, resident cats Candy and Stripe, a chicken coop and with permission, some residents have brought along their own cats or birds.
“Since the huge renovations done prior to us achieving Milestone One, our bathrooms have been upgraded and are now custom-designed to suit the needs of the elderly frail.
“Upgraded dining areas help improve the meal time experience and those residents wanting a break from our dining hall, can visit our pretty, on-site coffee shop.”
The care centre’s multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, social workers, occupational therapist, occupational therapist technician, lifestyle assistant and recreation manager ensure the physical and emotional wellbeing of residents.
Debbie adds that nursing care is no longer based on hospital routines, but is based upon person-directed care, with the residents having more autonomy in terms of when they wish to bathe, shower, dress and have their meals.
“Our friendly, caring staff uphold the Eden Alternative way of living out the motto: Warm hearts and caring hands.
“In short, we have made it our mission to create a better world for the people who live and work here; to promote wellbeing and a quality of life where they can live life to the fullest as part of a loving, caring and supportive community.”
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Ron Smith Care Centre volunteer Helen Dix with resident Louise Newman at a Valentine’s Day function.
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Through the last two editions, the Young Subcontinent (YS) project attempted to chart the contours and sightlines of South Asian art imagination and art practice, illustrating and celebrating the lines of convergence, the commonalities in historical experiences, the entanglements of its cultural roots, and most crucially, its shared aspirations and dreams. These tapestries of art practices from across the continent meditated upon and mediated the complex social, religious and political spheres of life in the Subcontinent. While, the first edition triggered dialogue and exchange between the artists from the region, the second edition probed further the socio-cultural and political tensions and struggles that animate and also in many ways, restrict imagination and art-making in the region. YS opened up contemporary aesthetic parallels to the much-trodden trade routes of yore, tracing common lineages of art history and practices, shared traditions of faith and ideas and ideologies of the sacred and the secular. The experiences of sharing a common space/platform at YS and the exchanges it provoked and pursued, brought to the surface the need to reinvent and reassert vital connections and traditions of exchange, to strengthen arts infrastructure and the urgency of developing vibrant platforms for intercultural dialogues and synergies.
These interfaces invariably pointed to the potential of art in excavation and celebration, assertion and redirection of tools and techniques, resources and efforts towards rediscovering and reasserting the cosmopolitan roots and global imagination of the region. In the present global art, economic, and political context, such articulation of creative discourses and fresh sightlines are essential to foresee and forge new, exciting common futures through art-making, art-thinking and art-organising.
The geopolitical dynamics of South Asia is subject to several local, regional, national and global factors. On the one side is a kind of globalisation imagined and imposed by capital, aggressively moulding the structure and direction of economics and politics of nation states in the region. On the other are the menacing forces of fundamentalism and totalitarianism that threaten the democratic fabric and ways of living in this region. So an art project like YS is necessarily a struggle against monolithic culturalism and narrow nationalism based on othering, and one that argues vehemently for the coexistence and celebration of pluralities that constitute South Asia, its societies, identities, politics, economy and culture.
With this in view, the YS project ought now expand points of contact, explore sightlines of common struggles and aspirations, look at reassertion and reinvention of geographies, facilitate conversations and narratives of peaceful coexistence and democratic aspirations. YS aspires to imagine and develop into a free platform of art-making and theorizing, storytelling and mentoring, that will draw, and draw from, new sightlines for inter-cultural and political diplomacy.
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Horse poop takes center stage in Redstone
By Lynn Burton
Sopris Sun Staff Writer
It’s the Code of the West:
• Never try on another man’s hat;
• Never pass anyone on the trail without saying “howdy;”
• Remove your guns before sitting down at the dinner table;
• Cuss all you want, but only around men, cows and horses.
There are other important provisions in the unwritten Code of the West, but they broadly encourage hospitality, fair play, loyalty and respect for the land.
Yep, ma’am, we all live in the west, including Redstoners, so we’re all subject to the Code of the West to one degree or the other. That’s one reason the issue of horse poop on the road (aka “road apples”) has surfaced in Redstone.
Word has it, someone recently put a flyer on everyone’s front door who lives on Redstone Boulevard, urging them to attend the Aug. 5 Redstone Community Association to discuss:
• “Banning horses without bun bags from The Redstone Blvd. because of the horse manure not being picked up by Riders;” and
• “Banning gun shots in or within hearing range of the Village of Redstone.”
Come to find out, the Redstone Community Association’s Aug. 5 meeting has been rescheduled to Aug. 12, “ … but it (horse poop) isn’t an issue we can do anything about,” said RCA vice-chair Cathy Montgomery.
The two-page flyer asks Redstone residents to “please bring ideas” on how to help with the issues and that “Cowboys & villagers can be friends.”
Redstone apparently isn’t a one-horse town, but it is pretty much a one-road village. Redstone Boulevard runs north and south through the village, lined by houses, shops and a restaurant or two before dead-ending at the Redstone Inn – where horse-drawn sleighs have been known to park in the winter.
Besides proposing a ban on undiapered horses and gun shots within hearing range, the flyer also includes helpful information about horse poop, including: it should age for about six months before being used on gardens; and, horse manure is unlikely to spread disease to people, with human dog waste far more likely to spread disease and parasites to humans.
Still, horse poop and gunfire is still a topic of conversation in Redstone these days, so The Sopris Sun called the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Department to inquire whether anything can be done about either alleged problem.
Redstone is in an unincorporated part of Pitkin County (ie: it’s not a town such as Aspen or Basalt) so its residents cannot pass ordinances that are specific to Redstone. Pitkin County Animal Safety Director Re Re Baker told The Sopris Sun that Pitkin County does not have an ordinance that requires diapers for horses or that horse owners clean up after their steeds. “We don’t even have an ordinance (like that) for dogs,” she said.
As for shooting guns in Pitkin County, deputy Levi Borst said the county does not have an ordinance that relates to when and where it’s OK to discharge a firearm, but does enforce state statutes. Those statutes mostly address safety.
Which brings us back to the Code of the West. The code does not say anything about cleaning up after your horse, but implies that consideration for others is a central component, such as “don’t stir up dust around the chuck wagon.”
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Good Grocer opens cafe
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Updated: January 20, 2017 - 8:49 am
Although a highway project will soon force it to relocate, Good Grocer is moving ahead on plans to open a cafe in its Lake Street store. Photo by Sheila Regan
As construction for the new Interstate 35W ramp on Lake Street looms in the distance, The Good Grocer, whose building will be the only one torn down as part of the project, still hasn’t found a new home. But that’s not stopping them from continuing with their plan to open a new cafe in the store, which will open sometime in February.
Founder Kurt Vickman says the organization, which sells low-cost healthy foods and is partially supported by donations, is working with Hennepin County to find a new home. Moving locations will have an effect on the people the Good Grocer serves, as many walk or take public transportation to get to the store, Vickman said.
He said there’s a tremendous need for low-cost healthy groceries in the area they are currently located.
“People struggle to afford healthy food,” he said.
While they wait to figure out what comes next, the Good Grocer continues to improve their services.
Right now they have 3,500 different everyday healthy essentials for families, Vickman said. They also launched grocery store delivery through Instacart a month ago, and they are partnering with Whittier Clinic to offer a discount punch card for the clinic’s clients.
Through donations, they’ve also raised money to open a cafe, which will serve free coffee.
“We want it to be a place where the community can gather,” Vickman said.
The cafe will have free wifi, as well as a breakfast bar.
“It’ll be a spot where they can be known and connect to folks, and we can connect to the neighborhood,” he said.
He said the store, located at 122 E. Lake St., aims for opening the cafe on Feb. 17, though that might change, depending on when their move date is.
“We don’t want to put our vision on hold to grow the store,” he said.
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Juno Spacecraft Captures 1st Photo from Jupiter Orbit
By Mike Wall 2016-07-12T23:44:17Z Science & Astronomy
NASA's Juno Jupiter probe captured this image on July 10, 2016, less than a week after entering orbit around the giant planet. Juno was about 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) from Jupiter when it took the picture.
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NASA's Juno probe has snapped its first image of Jupiter since going into orbit around the giant planet last week.
Juno captured the photo — which show Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, some of its cloud belts and the three big Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede and Io — with its visible-light JunoCam instrument on Sunday (July 10).
At the time, Juno was about 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) from Jupiter, NASA officials said. [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]
"This scene from JunoCam indicates it survived its first pass through Jupiter's extreme radiation environment without any degradation and is ready to take on Jupiter," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement today (July 12). "We can't wait to see the first view of Jupiter's poles."
Juno reached Jupiter on July 4 after a nearly five-year journey through deep space. The probe's science instruments were off at the time of arrival, to reduce complications during a crucial, 35-minute-long orbital-insertion burn. The Juno team began turning some instruments on July 6; JunoCam was powered up on Sunday, NASA officials said.
Juno is currently cruising away from the planet, toward the more distant parts of a highly elliptical, 53-day orbit.
"JunoCam will continue to take images as we go around in this first orbit," Juno co-investigator Candy Hansen, of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, said in the same statement. "The first high-resolution images of the planet will be taken on Aug. 27, when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter."
The $1.1 billion Juno mission aims to study the magnetic and gravitational fields of Jupiter, as well as the gas giant's composition and internal structure. The probe's observations should help scientists understand how Jupiter, and the solar system in general, formed and evolved, mission team members have said.
Over the course of its mission, Juno will zip around Jupiter 37 times, scrutinizing the solar system's largest planet with nine different science instruments from as little as 2,600 miles (4,100 km) away. The vast majority of these loops will take 14, not 53 days; Juno will perform a 22-minute engine burn on Oct. 19 to shift into the two-week orbit.
Though scientists will study JunoCam's photos, the camera is not one of the probe's core science instruments; mission team members put it onboard to increase public engagement. All of JunoCam's images will be available on the mission's website, NASA officials said.
Juno's mission is currently scheduled to end in February 2018, with an intentional death dive into Jupiter's thick atmosphere.
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Why Recruitment?
So, you’ve just graduated from university and have begun the meticulous task of surfing the Internet for a job. More so, you are eager to kick-start your career but don’t know where to begin. When faced with such a challenge, most people forget to ask themselves what industry can support their unique skill set. Perhaps you’re tenacious and thrive in a competitive environment, or find enjoyment when tasked with autonomous projects. Maybe you’re articulate and find it easy communicating your ideas to others, or simply confident when speaking over the telephone. No matter what context, all of these skills are valuable to an employer. In fact, these same skills are most attractive to the recruitment industry.
Recruit What?
Forget the notion that recruitment is only open graduates with sales experience or a business degree - it just isn't that kind of role. Even without pre-existing sector knowledge, trainee recruitment consultants have enormous potential to excel. In fact, consultants have a multifaceted role that goes beyond recruitment. Recruiters are also effective networkers, business consultants, marketers, interviewers, strategists, and problem-solvers - often all on the same day - as they aim to deliver staffing solutions to companies and job seekers.
Generally speaking, recruitment consultants must be, driven, confident and persuasive. They must also communicate and engage with clients, colleagues, and candidates. It’s an active role, which enables people to form new relationships while building their profile across the market by making calls, setting up appointments, conducting interviews, and ultimately making placements.
For those graduates who have the determination and a burning desire to succeed, recruitment can be highly fruitful. The industry offers an impressive commission structure, which can reward individuals who can successfully match vacant roles with skilled professionals, and there is plenty of room to progress up the career ladder.
Across all industries, high salaries always attracts top talent and recruitment is no exception.
From day one, you are given the opportunity to earn commission. Realistically, a trainee consultant can earn in excess £35K in their first year; however, this is of course entirely dependant on performance and your ability to hit targets.
More than anything, you will find that recruitment will not keep you chained to your desk. Other trainee office roles, by comparison, will offer minimal freedom to venture outside the walls of your office during core hours. As the world’s leading energy, engineering, and infrastructure recruitment specialist, Spencer Ogden allows its consultants to work with some of the largest engineering corporations across the globe. Client visits to understand your client’s needs can be exciting because face-to-face interaction often leads to strong business relationships.
Like any job, there will be highs and lows and its imperative that you are able to keep your cool and remain focused. There will be rejection and it will test your resilience but this is why the financial rewards are so impressive. It’s not easy money because it’s tough, but it’s worth it.
Eat, Sleep, Rave, Recruit
In the world of recruitment, the rewards and perks are immense. It's crucial that recruitment consultants remain motivated to perform and eager to dedicate the time and effort needed to achieve success. In order to enhance motivation, higher incentives are offered, beyond a base salary.
At Spencer Ogden, performance is always rewarded. This is often demonstrated when the company holds dress-up days, quarterly lunch clubs, weekend city trips, Summer parties and global incentive holidays. This year, the company will be taking its global top performers to Costa Rica, Miami, and Bali.
The reality is, if you’re a strong performer, there will be good promotion prospects for you to help you progress to the top. With high-quality training, effective learning and development programmes coupled with consistent management support, becoming a top performer is achievable.
There is no doubt that the potential to earn attractive salaries in recruitment acts as a major pull factor, but it's not the sole reason you should work in the industry. Successful recruitment firms are now investing significant sums of money on training, coaching and mentoring - aiming to build up their consultants' skill sets and also encourage their best people to stay for the long-term.
As a person who has just graduated from university, you also want a company that understands millennial recruitment; a firm that can identify how to correctly fast-track your career in an office environment that will maintain your interest and enhance your productivity. Spencer Ogden is one of those recruitment firms. The company provides a variety of career development programs tailored specifically for graduates who want to progress quickly, including graduate academies, one-to-one coaching, leadership master classes, and a global mentoring initiative.
With training support, you are shown how to work smarter, not harder. Most importantly, you are given to tools to help you think clearly, but also turn theory into practice. Planning is key when achieving sales-driven recruitment objectives and all managers at Spencer Ogden help construct a day, week and monthly plan.
Many of those working in senior roles within the industry kick-started their career as a trainee consultant - gaining the foundation they needed to develop a skill set for directorial decision-making roles. Tom Reid, Spencer Ogden’s APAC Director, was one of these people. Tom started his career as a trainee consultant at the company’s London office, and immediately excelled, taking advantage of every development opportunity. However, Tom is not alone, many people who started as trainee recruitment consultants are now Team Leaders, Managers, and Directors across the company’s 15 global offices.
The industry is now worth over 35 billion pounds per year!
Recruitment is not for everyone, however, for the right people, it can quickly build confidence, competency, and careers for life. For those graduates who have a strong work ethic, grit, and able to sell a solution, recruitment is certainly the job for you.
If you are determined with a strong work ethic and want to work in an award-winning business that supports individual career growth, then Spencer Ogden is the place for you.
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See below for a full list of the nominations.
Best Musical
Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations
Best Play
Choir Boy by Tarell
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
What the Constitution Means to Me
Best Revival of a Play
Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
The Boys in the Band
The Waverly Gallery
Best Revival of a Musical
Kiss Me, Kate
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Paddy Considine, The Ferryman
Bryan Cranston, Network
Jeff Daniels, To Kill a Mockingbird
Adam Driver, Burn This
Jeremy Pope, Choir Boy
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Annette Bening, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
Laura Donnelly, The Ferryman
Elaine May, The Waverly Gallery
Janet McTeer, Bernhardt/Hamlet
Laurie Metcalf, Hillary and Clinton
Heidi Schreck, What the Constitution Means to Me
Brooks Ashmanskas, The Prom
Derrick Baskin, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Alex Brightman, Beetlejuice
Damon Daunno, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Santino Fontana, Tootsie
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Stephanie J. Block, The Cher Show
Caitlin Kinnunen, The Prom
Beth Leavel, The Prom
Eva Noblezada, Hadestown
Kelli O’Hara, Kiss Me, Kate
Best Book of a Musical
Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations, Dominique Morisseau
Beetlejuice, Scott Brown and Anthony King
Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell
The Prom, Bob Martin & Chad Beguelin
Tootsie, Robert Horn
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Be More Chill, Joe Iconis
Beetlejuice, Eddie Perfect
The Prom, Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin
To Kill a Mockingbird, Adam Guettel
Tootsie, David Yazbek
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Bertie Carvel, Ink
Robin De Jesús, The Boys in the Band
Gideon Glick, To Kill a Mockingbird
Brandon Uranowitz, Burn This
Benjamin Walker, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Fionnula Flanagan, The Ferryman
Celia Keenan-Bolger, To Kill a Mockingbird
Kristine Nielsen, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Julie White, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Ruth Wilson, King Lear
André De Shields, Hadestown
Andy Grotelueschen, Tootsie
Patrick Page, Hadestown
Jeremy Pope, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Ephraim Sykes, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Lilli Cooper, Tootsie
Amber Gray, Hadestown
Sarah Stiles, Tootsie
Ali Stroker, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Mary Testa, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Miriam Buether, To Kill a Mockingbird
Bunny Christie, Ink
Rob Howell, The Ferryman
Santo Loquasto, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Jan Versweyveld, Network
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Peter England, King Kong
Rachel Hauck, Hadestown
Laura Jellinek, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
David Korins, Beetlejuice
Best Costume Design of a Play
Toni-Leslie James, Bernhardt/Hamlet
Clint Ramos, Torch Song
Ann Roth, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Ann Roth, To Kill a Mockingbird
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Michael Krass, Hadestown
William Ivey Long, Beetlejuice
William Ivey Long, Tootsie
Bob Mackie, The Cher Show
Paul Tazewell, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Neil Austin, Ink
Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Peter Mumford, The Ferryman
Jennifer Tipton, To Kill a Mockingbird
Jan Versweyveld and Tal Yarden, Network
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams, The Cher Show
Howell Binkley, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Bradley King, Hadestown
Peter Mumford, King Kong
Kenneth Posner and Peter Nigrini, Beetlejuice
Best Sound Design of a Play
Adam Cork, Ink
Scott Lehrer, To Kill a Mockingbird
Fitz Patton, Choir Boy
Nick Powell, The Ferryman
Eric Sleichim, Network
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Peter Hylenski, Beetlejuice
Peter Hylenski, King Kong
Steve Canyon Kennedy, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Drew Levy, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz, Hadestown
Best Direction of a Play
Rupert Goold, Ink
Sam Mendes, The Ferryman
Bartlett Sher, To Kill a Mockingbird
Ivo van Hove, Network
George C. Wolfe, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Best Direction of a Musical
Rachel Chavkin, Hadestown
Scott Ellis, Tootsie
Daniel Fish, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Des McAnuff, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Casey Nicholaw, The Prom
Best Choreography
Camille A. Brown, Choir Boy
Warren Carlyle, Kiss Me, Kate
Denis Jones, Tootsie
David Neumann, Hadestown
Sergio Trujillo, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Best Orchestrations
Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose, Hadestown
Simon Hale, Tootsie
Larry Hochman, Kiss Me, Kate
Daniel Kluger, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Harold Wheeler, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-competitive Categories
Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Terrence McNally
Harold Wheeler
Special Tony Awards
Jason Michael Webb
Sonny Tilders
Marin Mazzie
Regional Theatre Tony Award
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
Broadway Inspirational Voices
Peter Entin
Joseph Blakely Forbes
FDNY Engine 54
Tony Nominations by Production
Hadestown – 14
Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations – 12
Tootsie – 11
The Ferryman – 9
To Kill a Mockingbird – 9
Beetlejuice – 8
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! – 8
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus – 7
The Prom – 7
Ink – 6
Network – 5
Choir Boy – 4
Kiss Me, Kate – 4
Arthur Miller’s All My Sons – 3
Burn This – 3
The Cher Show – 3
King Kong – 3
Bernhardt/Hamlet – 2
The Boys in the Band – 2
Torch Song – 2
The Waverly Gallery – 2
What the Constitution Means to Me – 2
Be More Chill – 1
Hillary and Clinton – 1
King Lear – 1
The 91st Academy Awards are now behind us, and the telecast told us just about nothing that we don’t already know about AMPAS.
Photo: Universal Pictures
The 91st Academy Awards are now behind us, and the telecast told us just about nothing that we don’t already know about AMPAS. Which isn’t to say that the ceremony wasn’t without its surprises. For one, whoever decided to capture Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s performance of “Shallow” from A Star Is Born in one single take that would end with the pair sitting side by side, rapt in each other and framed in Bergman-esque repose, should hereby be responsible for every Oscar ceremony moving forward.
For some, though not us, Green Book’s victory for best picture came as surprise. As our own Eric Henderson put it in his prediction: “Those attacking the film from every conceivable angle have also ignored the one that matters to most people: the pleasure principle. Can anyone blame Hollywood for getting its back up on behalf of a laughably old-fashioned but seamlessly mounted road movie-cum-buddy pic that reassures people that the world they’re leaving is better than the one they found? That’s, as they say, the future that liberals and Oscar want.”
In the end, the awards went down more or less as expected, with the only real shock of the evening being Oliva Colman’s stunning upset over Glenn Close in the best actress race. (Glenn, we hope you are on the phone right now trying to get that Sunset Boulevard remake to finally happen.) Black Panther proved more indomitable than expected, winning in three categories (none of which we predicted), and Free Solo pulling a victory over RBG that was the first big sign of the evening that, then and now, AMPAS members vote above all else with their guts.
See below for the full list of winners from the 2019 Oscars.
Green Book (WINNER)
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (WINNER)
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody (WINNER)
Olivia Colman, The Favourite (WINNER)
Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Green Book (WINNER)
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Supporting Actress
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk (WINNER)
Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee (WINNER)
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born, Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, and Will Fetters
Original Screenplay
The Favourite, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed, Paul Schrader
Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, and Peter Farrelly (WINNER)
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Vice, Adam McKay
Foreign Language Film
Roma (Mexico) (WINNER)
Documentary Feature
Free Solo, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (WINNER)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross
Minding the Gap, Bing Liu
Of Fathers and Sons, Talal Derki
RBG, Betsy West and Julie Cohen
Animated Feature
Incredibles 2, Brad Bird
Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson
Mirai, Mamoru Hosoda
Ralph Breaks the Internet, Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman (WINNER)
Cold War, Lukasz Zal
The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón (WINNER)
A Star Is Born, Matthew Libatique
BlacKkKlansman, Barry Alexander Brown
Bohemian Rhapsody, John Ottman (WINNER)
Green Book, Patrick J. Don Vito
The Favourite, Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Vice, Hank Corwin
Black Panther, Hannah Beachler (WINNER)
First Man, Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas
The Favourite, Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
Mary Poppins Returns, John Myhre and Gordon Sim
Roma, Eugenio Caballero and Bárbara Enrı́quez
Original Score
BlacKkKlansman, Terence Blanchard
Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson (WINNER)
If Beale Street Could Talk, Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs, Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
All The Stars from Black Panther by Kendrick Lamar, SZA
I’ll Fight from RBG by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson
The Place Where Lost Things Go from Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
Shallow from A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice (WINNER)
When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Mary Zophres
Black Panther, Ruth E. Carter (WINNER)
The Favourite, Sandy Powell
Mary Poppins Returns, Sandy Powell
Mary Queen of Scots, Alexandra Byrne
Avengers: Infinity War, Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl, and Daniel Sudick
Christopher Robin, Chris Lawrence, Mike Eames, Theo Jones, and Chris Corbould
First Man, Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, and J.D. Schwalm (WINNER)
Ready Player One, Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler, and David Shirk
Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Dominic Tuohy
Black Panther, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, and Peter Devlin
Bohemian Rhapsody, Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and John Casali (WINNER)
First Man, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee, and Mary H. Ellis
Roma, Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan, and José Antonio García
A Star Is Born, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder, and Steve Morrow
Sound Editing
Black Panther, Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
Bohemian Rhapsody, John Warhurst (WINNER)
First Man, Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
A Quiet Place, Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
Roma, Sergio Diaz and Skip Lievsay
Makeup and Hairstyling
Border, Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
Mary Queen of Scots, Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher, and Jessica Brooks
Vice, Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe, and Patricia Dehaney (WINNER)
Live Action Short Film
Detainment, Vincent Lambe
Fauve, Jeremy Comte
Marguerite, Marianne Farley
Mother, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Skin, Guy Nattiv (WINNER)
Documentary Short Subject
Black Sheep, Ed Perkins
End Game, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Lifeboat, Skye Fitzgerald
A Night at the Garden, Marshall Curry
Period. End of Sentence., Rayka Zehtabchi (WINNER)
Animal Behaviour, Alison Snowden and David Fine
Bao, Domee Shi (WINNER)
Late Afternoon, Louise Bagnall
One Small Step, Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
Weekends, Trevor Jimenez
No one is okay with the Academy Awards the way they are, and everyone seems sure that they know how to fix them.
Eric Henderson and Ed Gonzalez
Photo: Netflix
No one is okay with the Academy Awards the way they are, and everyone seems sure that they know how to fix them. Cut out the montages, bring back honorary award presentations, give stunt performers their own category, let ranked-choice voting determine every category and not just best picture, overhaul the membership ranks, hold the event before the guilds spoil the surprise, find a host with the magic demographic-spanning mojo necessary to double the show’s recent audience pools, nominate bigger hits, nominate only hits. Across the last 24 days, Ed Gonzalez and I have mulled over the academy’s existential crisis and how it’s polluted this year’s Oscar race so thoroughly that it feels eerily similar to the 2016 election cycle all over again. We’re spent, and while we don’t know if we have it in us to do this next year, we just might give it another go if Oscar proves us wrong on Sunday in more than just one category.
Below are our final Oscar predictions. Want more? Click on the individual articles for our justifications and more, including who we think should win in all 24 categories.
Picture: Green Book
Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Actor: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Actress: Glenn Close, The Wife
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Supporting Actress: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Original Screenplay: Green Book
Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
Foreign Language: Roma
Documentary Feature: RBG
Animated Feature Film: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Documentary Short: Period. End of Sentence
Animated Short: Weekends
Live Action Short: Skin
Film Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Production Design: The Favourite
Cinematography: Cold War
Costume Design: The Favourite
Makeup and Hairstyling: Vice
Score: If Beale Street Could Talk
Song: “Shallow,” A Star Is Born
Sound Editing: First Man
Sound Mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Visual Effects: First Man
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Picture
The industry’s existential crisis has polluted this race so thoroughly that it feels eerily similar to the 2016 election cycle all over again.
Eric Henderson
“I’m hyperventilating a little. If I fall over pick me up because I’ve got something to say,” deadpanned Frances McDormand upon winning her best actress Oscar last year. From her lips to Hollywood’s ears. No one is okay with the Academy Awards the way they are, and everyone seems sure that they know how to fix them. Cut out the montages, bring back honorary award presentations, give stunt performers their own category, let ranked-choice voting determine every category and not just best picture, overhaul the membership ranks, hold the event before the guilds spoil the surprise, find a host with the magic demographic-spanning mojo necessary to double the show’s recent audience pools, nominate bigger hits, nominate only hits.
But first, as McDormand herself called for during her speech, “a moment of perspective.” A crop of articles have popped up over the last two weeks looking back at the brutal showdown between Saving Private Ryan and Shakespeare In Love at the 1999 Academy Awards, when Harvey Weinstein was at the height of his nefarious powers. Every retrospective piece accepts as common wisdom that it was probably the most obnoxious awards season in history, one that indeed set the stage for every grinding assault we’ve paid witness to ever since. But did anyone two decades ago have to endure dozens of weekly Oscar podcasters and hundreds of underpaid web writers musing, “What do the Academy Awards want to be moving forward, exactly? Who should voters represent in this fractured media environment, exactly?” How much whiskey we can safely use to wash down our Lexapro, exactly?
Amid the fox-in-a-henhouse milieu of ceaseless moral outrage serving as this awards season’s backdrop, and amid the self-obsessed entertainers now wrestling with the idea that they now have to be “content providers,” all anyone seems concerned about is what an Oscar means in the future, and whether next year’s versions of Black Panther and Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody have a seat at the table. What everyone’s forgetting is what the Oscars have always been. In other words, the industry’s existential crisis has polluted this race so thoroughly that it feels eerily similar to the 2016 election cycle all over again, and Oscar’s clearly splintered voting blocs may become ground zero for a Make the Academy Great Again watershed.
In 1956, the Oscars took a turn toward small, quotidian, neo-realish movies, awarding Marty the top prize. The correction was swift and sure the following year, with a full slate of elephantine epics underlining the movie industry’s intimidation at the new threat of television. Moonlight’s shocking triumph two years ago was similarly answered by the safe, whimsical The Shape of Water, a choice that reaffirmed the academy’s commitment to politically innocuous liberalism in artistically conservative digs. Call us cynical, but we know which of the last couple go-arounds feels like the real academy. Which is why so many are banking on the formally dazzling humanism of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma and so few on the vital, merciless fury of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman.
And even if we give the benefit of the doubt to the academy’s new members, there’s that righteous, reactionary fervor in the air against those attempting to “cancel” Green Book. Those attacking the film from every conceivable angle have also ignored the one that matters to most people: the pleasure principle. Can anyone blame Hollywood for getting its back up on behalf of a laughably old-fashioned but seamlessly mounted road movie-cum-buddy pic that reassures people that the world they’re leaving is better than the one they found? That’s, as they say, the future that liberals and Oscar want.
Will Win: Green Book
Could Win: Roma or BlacKkKlansman
Should Win: BlacKkKlansman
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
After walking back almost all of its bad decisions ahead of this year’s Oscars, there’s no way AMPAS isn’t going to do the right thing here.
Ed Gonzalez
Photo: Focus Features
Eric and I have done a good job this year of only selectively stealing each other’s behind-the-scenes jokes. We have, though, not been polite about stepping on each other’s toes in other ways. Okay, maybe just Eric, who in his impeccable take on the original screenplay free-for-all detailed how the guilds this year have almost willfully gone out of their way to “not tip the Oscar race too clearly toward any one film.” Case in point: Can You Ever Forgive Me? winning the WGA’s adapted screenplay trophy over presumed Oscar frontrunner BlacKkKlansman. A glitch in the matrix? We think so. Eric and I are still in agreement that the race for best picture this year is pretty wide open, though maybe a little less so in the wake of what seemed like an easy win for the Spike Lee joint. Nevertheless, we all know that there’s no Oscar narrative more powerful than “it’s about goddamn time,” and it was so powerful this year that even the diversity-challenged BAFTAs got the memo, giving their adapted screenplay prize to Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, and Kevin Willmott. To bamboozle Lee at this point would, admittedly, be so very 2019, but given that it’s walked back almost all of its bad decisions ahead of this year’s Oscars, there’s no way AMPAS isn’t going to do the right thing.
Will Win: BlacKkKlansman
Could Win: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Original Screenplay
This season, Hollywood is invested in celebrating the films they love while dodging the cultural bullets coming at them from every angle.
You know, if it weren’t for the show’s producers effectively and repeatedly saying everything about the Academy Awards is terrible and needs to be changed, and the year’s top-tier contenders inadvertently confirming their claims, this would’ve been a comparatively fun and suspenseful Oscar season. None of us who follow the Academy Awards expect great films to win; we just hope the marathon of precursors don’t turn into a Groundhog Day-style rinse and repeat for the same film, ad nauseam.
On that score, mission accomplished. The guilds have been handing their awards out this season as though they met beforehand and assigned each voting body a different title from Oscar’s best picture list so as not to tip the Oscar race too clearly toward any one film. SAG? Black Panther. PGA? Green Book. DGA? Roma. ASC? Cold War. ACE? Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Even awards-season kryptonite A Star Is Born got an award for contemporary makeup from the MUAHS. (That’s the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, not the sound Lady Gaga fans have been making ever since A Star Is Born’s teaser trailer dropped last year.)
Not to be outdone, the Writers Guild of America announced their winners last weekend, and not only did presumed adapted screenplay frontrunner BlacKkKlansman wind up stymied by Can You Ever Forgive Me?, but the original screenplay prize went to Eighth Grade, which wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar. Bo Burnham twisted the knife into AMPAS during his acceptance speech: “To the other nominees in the category, have fun at the Oscars, losers!” In both his sarcasm and his surprise, it’s safe to say he speaks on behalf of us all.
As is always the case, WGA’s narrow eligibility rules kept a presumed favorite, The Favourite, out of this crucial trial heat. But as the balloting period comes to a close, the question remains just how much enthusiasm or affection voters have for either of the two films with the most nominations (Roma being the other). As a recent “can’t we all just get along” appeal by Time’s Stephanie Zacharek illustrates, the thing Hollywood is most invested in this season involves bending over backward, Matrix-style, to celebrate the films they love and still dodge the cultural bullets coming at them from every angle.
Maybe it’s just tunnel vision from the cultural vacuum Oscar voters all-too-understandably would prefer to live in this year, but doesn’t it seem like The Favourite’s tastefully ribald peppering of posh-accented C-words would be no match for the steady litany of neo-Archie Bunkerisms spewing from Viggo Mortensen’s crooked mouth? Especially with First Reformed’s Paul Schrader siphoning votes from among the academy’s presumably more vanguard new recruits? We’ll fold our words in half and eat them whole if we’re wrong, but Oscar’s old guard, unlike John Wayne, is still alive and, well, pissed.
Could Win: The Favourite
Should Win: First Reformed
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Sound Mixing
For appealing to voters’ nostalgia for drunken karaoke nights of yore, one film has the upper hand here.
Photo: 20th Century Fox
Given what Eric wrote about the sound editing category yesterday, it now behooves me to not beat around the bush here. Also, it’s my birthday, and there are better things for me to do today than count all the ways that Eric and I talk ourselves out of correct guesses in the two sound categories, as well as step on each other’s toes throughout the entirety of our Oscar-prediction cycle. In short, it’s very noisy. Which is how Oscar likes it when it comes to sound, though maybe not as much the case with sound mixing, where the spoils quite often go to best picture nominees that also happen to be musicals (Les Misérables) or musical-adjacent (Whiplash). Only two films fit that bill this year, and since 2019 is already making a concerted effort to top 2018 as the worst year ever, there’s no reason to believe that the scarcely fat-bottomed mixing of Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody will take this in a walk, for appealing to voters’ nostalgia for drunken karaoke nights of yore.
Will Win: Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody
Could Win: A Star Is Born
Should Win: First Man
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Sound Editing
If it were biologically possible to do so, both Ed and I would happily switch places with A Quiet Place’s Emily Blunt.
If it were biologically possible to do so, both Ed and I would happily switch places with A Quiet Place’s Emily Blunt, because we’d much rather give birth in a tub while surrounded by murderous blind creatures than have to once again write our predictions for the sound categories. As adamant as we’ve been that the Academy owes it to the nominees to air every category, which they agreed to after an extended “just kidding,” it might have given us pause had the sound categories been among the four demoted by Oscar. But no, we must now endure our annual bout of penance, aware of the fact that actually knowing what the difference is between sound editing and sound mixing is almost a liability. In other words, we’ve talked ourselves out of correct guesses too many times, doubled down on the same movie taking both categories to hedge our bets too many times, and watched as the two categories split in the opposite way we expected too many times. So, as in A Quiet Place, the less said, the better. And while that film’s soundscapes are as unique and noisy as this category seems to prefer, First Man’s real-word gravitas and cacophonous Agena spin sequence should prevail.
Will Win: First Man
Could Win: A Quiet Place
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Actress
Sometimes it’s important to just step back and pay your respects to a remarkable actress.
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics
Sometimes it’s important to just step back and pay your respects to a remarkable actress for having given a performance that, while not your, um, favourite nominated one, is still deserving of an Oscar victory lap. Now, if only others felt the same. Very early on in the awards season, there was already a sense that this award could become a career-achievement coronation for the six-time losing Glenn Close—and that people were going to have a problem squaring that with the fact that her Oscar would be tied to a film perceived to be a piffle. That’s not an inaccurate perception, but it’s difficult to remember a time when critics have used that as an excuse to not do their homework.
In short, have you seen The Wife? Indeed, until the awards-media system’s attention shifted full time into covering AMPAS’s A Series of Unfortunate Oscar Decisions, it seemed as if every day brought us a new article by some pundit about the Oscar race in which it strangely sounded as if the The Wife was still a blind spot for the writer. Which is shame, because Close gives good face throughout the film. Certainly, few Oscar-nominated films this year are as absurd as The Wife, but I’ll do battle with anyone who thinks Close is getting by on her legend alone. Close’s triumph is recognizing The Wife’s inherent ludicrousness and elevating it, and without condescension, with a kabuki-like verve that seeks to speak to the experiences of all women who’ve been oppressed by their men. It’s a turn worthy of Norma Desmond.
Today, the most reliable Oscar narrative is the overdue performer. And if you take stock in that narrative, then you’ll understand why I texted Eric, my fellow Oscar guru, the following on the morning of November 29: “I think Close is going to Still Alice at the Oscars.” After that morning, when the New York Film Critics Circle officially kick-started the Oscar season (and gave their award for best actress to Regina Hall in Support the Girls), no actress ran the table with the critics and guilds, but most of the cards that matter did fall into place for Close, and much as they did for Julianne Moore ahead of her winning the Oscar for Still Alice.
This was a done deal when Close won the Golden Globe, received a standing ovation, and gave the night’s most impassioned speech, immediately after which Eric conceded that my instincts had been right. Of course, that was no doubt easy for him to admit given that, by that point, the oxygen had already seeped out of A Star Is Born’s awards campaign, leaving only Olivia Colman in Close’s way. Colman has worked the campaign trail in spectacular ways, giving speeches that have been every bit as droll as this, but in the end, she doesn’t have the SAG, and as bold and subversive as her performance certainly is, it isn’t sufficiently big enough to convince enough AMPAS members that Close should continue waiting for Oscar.
Will Win: Glenn Close, The Wife
Could Win: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Should Win: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Oscar 2019 Winner Predictions: Film Editing
Sigh, can we just edit this whole Oscar season from our memories?
Sigh, can we just edit this whole Oscar season from our memories? AMPAS has officially brought more queens back from the brink than this year’s season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars. Now that the academy has reneged on its plans to snip four categories from the live Oscar telecast, after first attempting damage control and assuring members that it will still run those four awards as not-so-instant replays in edited-down form later on in the show, we can once again turn our attention to the other editing that’s so vexed Film Twitter this Oscar season. We yield the floor to Twitter user Pramit Chatterjee:
People, actual fucking people, are watching scene after scene like this and are saying “bruuuh! best. movie. of. the. year”?
This is objectively bad. Someone with no idea about editing will notice it. My brain is on fire thinking that this is an OSCAR NOMINATED MOVIE! FUCK! pic.twitter.com/QVDCxe2iaf
— Pramit Chatterjee 🌈 (@pramitheus) January 26, 2019
Very fuck! The academy would’ve been shooting itself in the foot by not airing what’s starting to feel like one of this year’s most competitive Oscar categories—a category that seems like it’s at the center of ground zero for the voters who, as a fresh New York Times survey of anonymous Oscar ballots confirms, are as unashamedly entertained by a blockbuster that critics called utterly worthless as they are feeling vengeful against those who would dare call a film they loved racist. Interestingly enough, the New York Times’s panel of voters seems palpably aware that Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman is the nominee this year that’s going to go down in history as the “right thing” they’ll be embarrassed for not “doing.” No arguments from this corner. Lee’s film is narratively propulsive and knotty in ways that ought to translate into a no-brainer win here. (My cohort Ed recently mused that he’d give the film the Oscar just for the energy it displays cutting back and forth during phone conversations.)
We’re glad that the academy walked back its decision to not honor two of the most crucial elements of the medium (editing and cinematography) on the live Oscar telecast, but what we’re left with is the dawning horror that the formless flailing exemplified by the clip above might actually win this damned award. Guy Lodge sarcastically mused on the upside of Pramit’s incredulous tweet, “I’ve never seen so many people on Twitter discussing the art of film editing before,” and honestly, it does feel like Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody getting publicly dog-walked like this stands to teach baby cinephiles-in-training the language of the cut as well as any of the myriad montages the show producers intended on airing in lieu of, you know, actually awarding craftspeople. But only a fraction of the voting body has to feel sympathy for John Ottman (whose career, for the record, goes all the way back with Bryan Singer), or express admiration that he managed to assemble the raw materials from a legendarily chaotic project into an international blockbuster. The rest of the academy has their ostrich heads plunged far enough into the sand to take care of the rest.
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This Made Our Day: Watch This Dad's Reaction when He Finds Out He's Going to be a Grandparent
It takes him a couple of tries to understand what his son-in-law is telling him but when he does, the look on his face is priceless
Video from Alexa Goolsby/Youtube
Creative pregnancy announcements are always fun to watch. The things that couples can come up with are amazing. Plus, it's always a blast to see the look of complete bewilderment and joy on someone's face when they're told there's going to be a new addition to the family.
Alexa and Drew Goolsby also went with a creative pregnancy announcement. They decided to announce their pregnancy to Alexa's parents with a game called the "Whisper Challenge". Alexa's parents will be wearing noise-cancelling headphones while the Goolsbys relay their message. The grandparents will have to resort to lip-reading to find out what the couple is saying.
The grandpa has a little bit of trouble before he finally gets the message right. It's a riot watching him try. When he does though, his reaction is priceless.
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Writing for Animals: New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire
By John Yunker
Writers face many questions and choices in their work, from how to educate without being didactic to how to develop animals as characters for an audience that still views them as ingredients. In this book, writers will find myriad voices to assist them in writing about animals, from tips about craft to understanding the responsibility of writing about animals. More
A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing
Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely at how we depict animals and ask ourselves difficult questions. For example, are we using animals for our writing in a way that is authentic and fair? Or are we using them for our own purposes, leading to further misconceptions and abuses?
As our awareness awakens about animals’ intelligence, sensitivity, and social and emotional lives, literature is beginning to reflect this change in awareness. Yet little has been written about the process of writing about animals, from crafting point of view to giving animals realistic voices.
Writers face many questions and choices in their work, from how to educate without being didactic to how to develop animals as characters for an audience that still views them as ingredients. In this book, writers will find myriad voices to assist them in writing about animals, from tips about craft to understanding the responsibility of writing about animals.
Available ebook formats: epub
Category: Essay » Literature
Category: Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Animals
Published by Ashland Creek Press
Published: Jan. 28, 2019
Tags: writing authors animals activism animal rights vegan animal books animal writing
About John Yunker
John Yunker is a writer of plays, short stories and novels focused on human/animal relationships.
He is co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a vegan-owned publisher devoted to environmental and animal rights literature. He is also author of the novel The Tourist Trail and the children's book Bird Words.
His full-length play Meat the Parents was a finalist at the Centre Stage New Play Festival (South Carolina) and semi-finalist in the AACT new play contest. Species of Least Concern was a finalist in the 2016 Mountain Playhouse Comedy Festival. His short play, Little Red House, was published in the literary journal Mason's Road, and produced by the Studio Players Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2017, the short play Of Mice and Marines was workshopped and given a staged reading at the ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) conference in Las Vegas.
His short stories have been published by literary journals such as Phoebe, Qu, Flyway, and Antennae.
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'Woefully inadequate': Morrison government to use Paris climate short-cut
By Peter Hannam
February 18, 2019 — 6.21pm
The use of carbon credits to meet Australia's Paris climate targets would be "consistent" with the current Kyoto Protocol, the Morrison government said in the strongest signal yet it plans to exploit accounting ambiguities to meet its international commitments.
Senator Simon Birmingham told estimates on Monday the application of so-called carryover credits was "an existing feature of the Kyoto framework" that runs to 2020.
The Morrison government has made its clearest signal yet that it plans to use Kyoto period credits to count against Australia's Paris climate goals. Credit:Andrew Taylor
To deploy a similar treatment for carbon credits to help Australia meet its abatement target for the 2021-30 Paris climate period "appears to be a consistent application of the rules and definitions", Senator Birmingham said.
By overachieving on the Kyoto Protocol period, Australia will have a surplus, measured in tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. The government wants to do what no other nation has indicated it will do.
The government revealed just prior to Christmas Australia was on course to over-achieve its 2020 target by 367 million tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent.
On current projections, Australia's abatement task is 695 million tonnes of CO-e, meaning the carryover credits reduce the country's emissions reduction effort by more than half.
Figures obtained by the Australian Conservation Foundation under freedom of information laws show Australia's emissions are still on a rising trend.
By 2030, emissions will be 570 million tonnes of CO-e, up from 534 million tonnes in 2018, the Environment Department projections show.
That tally is also well above the 440 million tonnes implied by Australia's pledge to cut carbon pollution 26 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030.
The latest projections show Australia's emissions are expect to rise to 570 million tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent by 2030 from about 534 million tonnes in 2018. To meet the Paris goal of a 26 per cent reduction on 2005 levels, the emissions total would need to be 442 million tonnes. Credit:Environment department, via ACF FOI request
Suzanne Harter, ACF's climate change campaigner, said the Morrison government was pre-empting global negotiations on the Paris Rule book by assuming Kyoto credits could be counted for Paris goals.
“This arrogant approach will not be appreciated by countries like New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and the UK, which have said they will not use carry-over credits to meet climate targets," Ms Harter said.
“The Australian Government is already starting from a woefully inadequate pollution reduction target that is not in line with a safe future."
The Ichthys Explorer offshore LNG production platform - part of Australia's fastest growing emissions source.
'Fiddles'
While a federal Labor government would need to take advice on how to account for any Kyoto carbon surplus, the ALP remains opposed to their use.
Labor’s position "has been clear for some time," Mark Butler, Labor's climate spokesman, said. "We are very strongly against accounting tricks, cop-outs and other fiddles used to dodge the obligation we have to start to reduce our carbon pollution levels seriously."
"Labor is committed to reducing carbon emissions by 45 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030, and [to reach] net zero emissions by 2050," he said.
Richie Merzian, director of the climate and energy program at The Australia Institute, said Senator Birmingham's comments were the "strongest commitment" yet that it intends to bank Kyoto credits and use them for the Paris targets.
To do so, though, would single out Australia among OECD nations attempting to take advantage of "loopholes of the past", Mr Merzian said.
Tim Baxter, a researcher at Melbourne University's Australian-German Climate and Energy College, said the Morrison government was gambling that other nations will be wary of pressing Australia too hard when they too may be seeking shortcuts to meet their Paris goals.
"There are not any rules on this and there are unlikely to be any rules," Mr Baxter said.
Still, "it certainly wasn't the spirit" of Paris to accept carryovers from the Kyoto period, he said.
Peter Hannam
Peter Hannam writes on environment issues for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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Pollen app will track hayfever in the ACT
By Fleta Page
September 25, 2014 — 10.00pm
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A mobile app tracking and forecasting pollen levels has been issued by the Australian National University, designed to help hayfever and asthma sufferers, who can in turn contribute to national research.
The free Canberra Pollen app has been developed by the ANU's Department of Archaeology and Natural History, which has used its expertise in pre-historic pollen to study pollen in the modern atmosphere.
Hayfever alert: the new app will let Canberrans know pollen levels.
Department head Simon Haberle said it had the "biggest pollen collection in the southern hemisphere pretty much".
"There's 15,000 plant species from Australia and the region in our collection, and as a result we have people who are quite well trained and skilled in palynology or the study of pollen," Professor Haberle said.
"For about four years we've been monitoring pollen in Canberra as a research-driven project, but now we believe we're beginning to understand enough about why or how pollen is changing through the pollen seasons and we've got the equipment to track it and monitor it.
"We're using that as a way of providing daily pollen counts to the Canberra community and we've got a lot of positive responses."
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While it can be dowloaded now, it will officially start posting data on October 1, including the level of pollen, updated about 4pm each day, what the pollen levels were over the past 24 hours and a forecast page predicting pollen levels for six days ahead.
Unlike other pollen indices, the app also has a survey designed to study the affects of pollen on users, who can rate their hayfever symptoms each day on a five-point scale of none to severe.
"We're collaborating with medical people and people interested in the allergic responses of different pollen, as well as people looking at landscape and climate change," Professor Haberle said.
"It's an Australia-wide network but it's really only Canberra and Melbourne that have this app and the capacity to do this kind of monitoring.
"Hopefully people will engage with this public-good facility."
Canberra "is top of the pops in terms of hayfever sufferers" by population within Australia - estimates say one in five are affected - something Professor Haberle said came from geography, as well as local ecology.
"It's because of where we sit regionally, surrounded by land; whereas places like Melbourne and Sydney have an ocean border which obviously reduces the direction from which pollen can be derived from, we've got 360 degrees of land which can bring pollen from any direction," he said.
"Canberra and Sydney [also] have a double season because of the early flowering of certain grass species and then in January/February there's a secondary flowering event which potentially can affect people as well."
The app - as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts - will keep Canberrans up-to-date on pollen until the end of December.
Professor Haberle said funding would determine whether it could continue through the second pollen season in January and February.
Fleta Page
Fleta Page is a federal politics desk editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House.
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All issues Volume 8 (2018) J. Space Weather Space Clim., 8 (2018) A05 Abstract
Space weather effects on GNSS and their mitigation
This article has an erratum: [erratum]
J. Space Weather Space Clim.
https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2017047
Feasibility of precise navigation in high and low latitude regions under scintillation conditions
José Miguel Juan1*, Jaume Sanz1, Guillermo González-Casado1, Adrià Rovira-Garcia1, Adriano Camps1,2, Jaume Riba1, José Barbosa3, Estefania Blanch4, David Altadill4 and Raul Orus5
1 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & IEEC/CTE-UPC, UPC Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
2 Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya IEEC/UPC, Edifici Nexus-201, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
3 RDA - Research and Development in Aerospace GmbH, Rigiplatz 5, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland
4 Observatori de l'Ebre, CSIC – Universitat Ramon Llull, 43520 Roquetes, Spain
5 European Space Agency (ESA ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands
* Corresponding author: jose.miguel.juan@upc.edu
Scintillation is one of the most challenging problems in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) navigation. This phenomenon appears when the radio signal passes through ionospheric irregularities. These irregularities represent rapid changes on the refraction index and, depending on their size, they can produce also diffractive effects affecting the signal amplitude and, eventually producing cycle slips. In this work, we show that the scintillation effects on the GNSS signal are quite different in low and high latitudes.
For low latitude receivers, the main effects, from the point of view of precise navigation, are the increase of the carrier phase noise (measured by σϕ) and the fade on the signal intensity (measured by S4) that can produce cycle slips in the GNSS signal. With several examples, we show that the detection of these cycle slips is the most challenging problem for precise navigation, in such a way that, if these cycle slips are detected, precise navigation can be achieved in these regions under scintillation conditions.
For high-latitude receivers the situation differs. In this region the size of the irregularities is typically larger than the Fresnel length, so the main effects are related with the fast change on the refractive index associated to the fast movement of the irregularities (which can reach velocities up to several km/s). Consequently, the main effect on the GNSS signals is a fast fluctuation of the carrier phase (large σϕ), but with a moderate fade in the amplitude (moderate S4). Therefore, as shown through several examples, fluctuations at high-latitude usually do not produce cycle slips, being the effect quite limited on the ionosphere-free combination and, in general, precise navigation can be achieved also during strong scintillation conditions.
Key words: ionosphere (aurora) / ionosphere (equatorial) / positioning system / irregularities / algorithm
© J.M. Juan et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2018
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Get to Know: 8 Italian Artists Performing at SXSW 2018
In less than two weeks, 2000 bands will converge on Austin to perform in dives, concert halls, rock venues, clubs, and even churches to an audience of industry pros, musicians, fans, and media at the SXSW Music Festival. With so much musical talent on display, many of which are international and regional artists, you’ll find lots of new favorites if you’re on the lookout. To help you on the journey of musical discovery, we are highlighting a selection of Italian artists performing at SXSW 2018.
Italian Artists Spotlight
Italian duo Massimo De Vita and Michelangelo Bencivenga incorporate their knowledge of traditional Italian songwriting with modern approaches to create the fresh musical compositions of Blindur. The unique sound and rich texture created by Electro-Psych Duo Sonars earned them the title of “Best Band in Italy” in 2016 by the nationally acclaimed Arezzo Wave competition. Italian wit meets Canadian perfectionism to create the funky sound of Bruno Belissimo (above). The music project of Italian native Luca Di Cataldo, Weird Bloom encapsulates all that is strange in his psychedelic beats.
Wrongonyou is the moniker of singer-songwriter Marco Zitelli, who began writing music in 2013 and quickly established himself as a significant member of the Italian music scene. The avant-garde sound of pop-artist Joan Theiele’s earned her a nomination for Best New Artist at the MTV Awards in 2016. The music of Christaux is all about creating a sense of liberation through different hyped-up beats that are reminiscent of the 80s pop-era. Folk artist Violetta Zironi (pictured) derives influence from her years spent traveling around the world to create her own unique sound, while still embracing her Mediterranean roots.
Need some assistance digging through the 1500+ artists we’ve announced so far? We’ve got you! Jam our SXSW Spotify Channel to hear new playlists, check out our Get to Know features on Scandinavian, Japanese, German, Mexican, UK, Canadian, and Australian Artists, and surf the SXSW 2018 Showcasing Artists Music Videos playlist. There are still artists to announce for SXSW 2018 so keep an eye on the SXSW Schedule for additions, and don’t forget to mark your favorites to make planning your SXSW experience even better.
Attend SXSW 2018
Interested in getting a sneak peek at the next generation of musical talent by attending SXSW 2018? Learn more about attending SXSW 2018 here. The best way to experience SXSW Music Festival events is with a Music Badge: not only will you have access to all nighttime showcases, but you’ll also receive entry into daytime Conference sessions, networking events, and parties.
Book your hotel through SXSW Housing & Travel for the best rates and availability. We hope to see you in March!
Top to bottom: Bruno Belissimo – Photo courtesy of the Artist
Violetta Zironi – Photo courtesy of the Artist
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Aperi Supports Eagle Brook Church Simulcasts With Network Services
Friday, September 7, 2018 - 11:07 am
Aperi announced that Eagle Brook Church in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota has expanded its Aperi-based live contribution network, investing in additional solutions and service support for its growing church broadcasts.
With Aperi’s software-based live media processing platform, Eagle Brook Church is able to efficiently and flexibly broadcast services over an optical transport network from its main campus in Lino Lakes, MN to its six satellite locations via simulcast.
“Before we adopted Aperi’s technology, we encountered significant connection challenges when broadcasting services to our remote locations,” says Nick Jones, Director of Technology at Eagle Brook Church. “When we were looking at other solutions in the market, we were sold on Aperi’s software-driven solution as we can easily switch between apps as needed for simple yet highly flexible and cost-effective transport. Plus, we can easily scale up when needed.”
Experiencing explosive growth over the past several years, Eagle Brook Church selected the Aperi system about a year ago, choosing Aperi’s SMPTE 2022-6 compliant uncompressed video transport app for transport from its primary location to satellite churches. Aperi’s VSF TR-01 compliant JPEG 2000 encoder and decoder apps, which support rates from 20Mb/s to 450Mb/s, are used for transport from satellites back to the home base.
“Worship facilities are facing more challenges as the need to broadcast services and events across distances and locations is becoming more imperative,” says Joop Janssen, Aperi’s CEO. “The high-bandwidth network Eagle Brook Church has deployed is evidence that the move towards software-based live production through ultra-low latency contribution networks is both necessary and viable in the worship industry.”
Standards-based IP flows allow critical scalability and makes hand-offs to long distance networks simple and reliable.
“We look forward to working alongside Eagle Brook Church and continuing to provide a full slate of live production tools and technology to support their vision and their needs as they grow,” Janssen concludes.
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Making Sense of the “Power” and “Point” and “Pivot” Apps
I know I’m not the only one who stumbles over my words sometimes and says Power View when I meant to say PowerPivot, or maybe PowerPoint. And, especially for those folks who don’t focus on BI full-time, the jargon can get a bit confusing. Here’s a quick summary of the applications with “Power” or “Point” or “Pivot” in the name:
PowerPivot
PowerPivot is an in-memory data modeling tool which allows data analysts to combine (or mashup) different sources of data. For example, perhaps the corporate BI environment has sales data, but the data analyst needs to perform an analysis of sales fluctuations based on weather – a tool like PowerPivot makes it pretty straightforward to extract the sales data and relate it to the weather data needed for the analysis. This is, of course, assuming the data can be logically related.
PowerPivot is an add-in to Excel which is able to handle more volume of data than Excel normally does. This is because it’s based on xVelocity column-store indexes which compress the data based on uniqueness of values in each column.
The data in PowerPivot is embedded within the Excel workbook (i.e., the xlsx file). This is convenient for the business user, but the reality is it does create multiple copies of the data. These copies of the data have the potential for creating many versions of the truth – good processes & procedures for managing Self-Service BI tools such as PowerPivot mitigate the chaos that can ensue if not managed well.
More Info on PowerPivot: PowerPivot
PowerPivot Gallery
The PowerPivot Gallery is a specialized document library in SharePoint which facilitates Self-Service BI. It primarily stores PowerPivot models and Power View reports. Because it’s Silverlight-based, this library displays thumbnail previews of what’s contained inside the file – this is really helpful for making sure it’s what you want before you open it.
When a PowerPivot model has been published to SharePoint, additional features are available such as scheduled data refreshes. The SharePoint environment also facilitates other applications, besides Excel, using the PowerPivot model as a data source – tools like Power View, Report Builder, and PerformancePoint all support the creation of reports using data in PowerPivot.
The PowerPivot Gallery can store whatever document types you allow it to, but it’ll only display the thumbnail for PowerPivot models and Power View reports.
More Info on the PowerPivot Gallery: TechNet
Yup, this one has a space in its name and the rest don’t. Sigh. Now that I got that off my chest…
Power View is a visual reporting tool which strives for interactivity and data exploration. It’s a Self-Service BI tool, so the primary users will be business people who develop reports, dashboards, presentations, and data analysis projects. This tool introduces some new features not previously available in the Microsoft BI stack such as cross-filtering, highlighting, and a playable time axis. It’s considered a complementary tool to Report Builder.
As of now (late Nov. 2012), the data source for a Power View report must be an Analysis Services Tabular Model, or a PowerPivot Model. Support for Analysis Services Multi-Dimensional Models is currently in CTP; an actual release data isn’t known to the public at this time.
With the combination of SQL Server 2012, Office 2010, and SharePoint 2010, Power View has a dependency on SharePoint as it’s a shared service running under the Reporting Services umbrella. However, with SQL Server 2012 SP1, Office 2013, and SharePoint 2013, you get an additional choice & that’s to use Power View as an add-in to Excel. This removes the absolute dependency on SharePoint, and allows you to choose if you want to initially generate the Power View report inside of Excel (in which case the Power View report is embedded as part of the .xlsx file), or generate the Power View report from within SharePoint (in which case it’s an independent .rdlx file).
More Info on Power View: Power View
PerformancePoint
PerformancePoint is the Microsoft BI tool typically known for developing dashboards and scorecards. This tool isn’t always called by its formal name; if you hear SharePoint Insights, it’s very possible that it’s PerformancePoint being referred to.
Although the Dashboard Designer tool can be given to a sophisticated business user, PerformancePoint is not considered a Self-Service BI tool. One of the PerformancePoint strengths is its ability to define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within the Dashboard Designer – that leaves a big decision to the BI team as to whether KPIs should be defined within PerformancePoint, or within the Analysis Services cube where other reporting tools can also take advantage of the common definitions.
Although it can use relational and tabular data sources, PerformancePoint is really meant to use an Analysis Services database as its data source, so it can deliver all of the right-click interactivity and drill-down features. Because it’s a service in SharePoint (as of the 2010 version), there is a SharePoint dependency to use PerformancePoint.
More Info on PerformancePoint: SharePoint
PivotViewer
PivotViewer is a very visually-oriented feature of Silverlight. Its strength is the display of large sets of data known as collections – which could easily include thousands of images – and allowing the user of the report to interactively zoom in, zoom out, filter, regroup, reorganize and so on to interpret and find patterns in the data. It associates the data itself to the images (ex: clickthrough data for advertising programs could display an image of the actual advertisement, or athletic statistics could display images of each player).
There is a PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services available, although it’s not clear to me if it ever made it out of CTP2.
More Info on PivotViewer: Microsoft PivotViewer
Pivot is extremely similar to PivotViewer (above). However, Pivot is not dependent upon Silverlight; rather, it’s built upon Internet Explorer.
Unlike PivotViewer, the Pivot tool is an unsupported tool still in the experimentation phase. It’s currently released as a CTP from Microsoft Research; it was formerly released from LiveLabs. The functionality is the same from what I’ve been able to tell, just without the Silverlight component.
More Info on Pivot: Microsoft Research
Visual Studio has Power Tools available for download, which are intended to improve developer productivity. Power Tools includes all kinds of utilities and goodies.
More Info on Power Tools: Productivity Power Tools | Team Foundation Server Power Tools
Good old PowerPoint. It, of course, is the tool we all know and love for developing slides to accompany presentations. It’s part of the Office suite of products, and has been around over 20 years now. And it’s here in this list because sometimes this comes out of my mouth when I actually meant to say PowerPivot!
Power View (above) actually has a design environment a bit similar to PowerPoint – both are considered “presentation ready” because you don’t have to worry about setting page sizes, margins, and so on. Also, Power View is able to export its “views” to PowerPoint “slides.” These exported views even retain their interactivity if you’re still connected to the company server.
More Info on PowerPoint: Office PowerPoint 2010
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Heritage: Beans delayed start of Salem schools in 1953
Faced with an imminent labor shortage, anxious packers petitioned the school board at their July 15th meeting to delay the start of school by one week.
Heritage: Beans delayed start of Salem schools in 1953 Faced with an imminent labor shortage, anxious packers petitioned the school board at their July 15th meeting to delay the start of school by one week. Check out this story on statesmanjournal.com: https://stjr.nl/2wwxL24
Kylie Pine, Special to the Statesman Journal Published 8:00 a.m. PT Sept. 1, 2018
Picking beans was a Mid-Valley tradition for people of all ages. This photo likely dates to the 1930s.(Photo: Willamette Heritage Center 2012.049.0068)
Beans? Yes. Beans. The hot topic at the Salem School Board meetings in July of 1953 centered around the humble snap bean. A wet spring and unseasonably cold night temperatures during the summer were slowing the growth of bean vines.
The good news for growers and packers were that the beans were growing, just 3 weeks later than anticipated. All estimates were that the peak harvest and packing time would extend past the start of the new school year.
With high schoolers making up 25-35 percent of the food processors’ labor force, and many growers depending on grade-school aged children to help pick, a crisis was looming.
Faced with an imminent labor shortage, anxious packers petitioned the school board at their July 15th meeting to delay the start of school by one week. The issue was tabled until the next meeting.
It may seem a bit incredible now, but beans and their processing were a big economic deal for the region. George Paulus of Paulus Brothers Cannery, in testimony before the school board, estimated that “a million and half dollar loss” would result if school was not delayed.
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After hearing the petition of the cannerymen, the superintendent stated that the delay could only be considered if the school board was “convinced that the economy of the district would be seriously affected by the lack of children to harvest and process the bean crop.”
Delaying the school start time was not without its consequences. Teacher contracts would have to be altered. State school funds were apportioned based on number of days of instruction.
The board estimated that delaying the start of school could cost the district as much as $9,000. In order to minimize the economic impact, the school board considered several alternative plans to make up school days. Extending the school year in the spring was balked at because holding kids later in June might affect the strawberry harvest.
Ultimately, the district decided to shorten the length of spring break from 5 days to 2 days. The decision was a difficult one, and opponents argued that shortening spring break was bad for kids’ health and would conflict with things regularly scheduled during this time like the state basketball tournament and teacher meetings.
In the end the economic realities of the situation became the deciding factor. “It appeared to the Board from discussion with the canneries and with others in the community,” the minutes recorded, “that the failure of the Board to delay the opening of school by one week would cause a loss of as much as $1 million to the growers, canners and workers and that a possible loss of $9,000 in district funds would be a small investment to prevent the loss of a much greater sum.”
Students Vernon Meighen, June Henry and John Gallagher get their beans weighed by June Nolan at Oak Crest Farm, two miles north of Salem on Wallace Road. School was delayed to allow students like these to help with the bean harvest. (Photo: Oregon Statesman article, Sept. 18 1953.)
It wasn’t just about the economic impacts for the canneries, but for the community as a whole. School Board Member Gus Moore argued that “family participation in harvest and cannery work is a unique Salem custom and opening of school means that many mothers as well as children must leave this temporary employment.”
On September 14, 1953, the originally scheduled first day of school, 34 school aged workers left from the employment offices of the Farm Labor Council for the bean fields. The number is small, the paper reported, because most of the workers went with their families. By the end of the day, 5000 people, including students, had picked 500 tons of beans and delivered them to Salem processing plants.
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The headline in the next day’s paper? “Delay in the School Opening Saved the Bean Industry.” The industry was grateful. Local packing plants (Cal-Pack, Blue Lake Packers, Birds Eye Division of General Foods, Stayton Canning Company, United Growers,, Inc. Paulus Bros. Packing Company and Pictsweet), took out huge advertisements in both the Salem-area papers thanking the citizens of Salem for assisting them in their time of need.
Not everything was saved. Blue Lake Packers out of West Salem reported that there still wasn’t enough labor to get the end of the season beans harvested and tons (literally) of beans were left on the vine. It was enough, however, to get most of the crop in. One canneryman was reported to say: “But we aren’t kicking…the youngsters have to go to school.”
Advertisement taken out in the Oregon Statesman on September 17, 1953 by the major bean growers and processors. (Photo: Oregon Statesman)
Charles Sprague (former governor and editor of the Oregon Statesman) may have summed it up best: “From what I have been able to learn I think it is true that the postponement of school opening has been of substantial economic help in this community. I wasn’t in favor of it at the time it was proposed; but we have to live together in this community and a two-million-dollar bean crop isn’t something to be ignored. The outlook for this segment of local agriculture and industry was very bleak for a while. It is far brighter now, and whatever sacrifice the school people have made can be considered worthwhile—an investment in community goodwill as well as in economic gain. On one point there is unanimity, and that is in the hope that the weatherman will not dish out as unseasonable weather as he did through June this year. Then we’ll have no recurrence of this harvest jam.”
Kylie Pine is the curator at the Willamette Heritage Center, a 5-acre historical museum in downtown Salem dedicated to connecting generations by preserving and interpreting the history of the Mid-Willamette Valley.
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Ford, Heinz Collaborating On Sustainable Auto Materials
DEARBORN — Ford Motor Co. has been interested in sustainable materials going all the way back to Henry Ford’s pioneering experiments with soy-based auto parts.
Now, researchers at Ford say they’re working with H.J. Heinz Co. on using tomato fibers to develop sustainable composite materials for use in vehicles.
Specifically, dried tomato skins could become materials for wiring brackets or storage bins on future Ford vehciles.
“We are exploring whether this food processing byproduct makes sense for an automotive application,” said Ellen Lee, plastics research technical specialist for Ford. “Our goal is to develop a strong, lightweight material that meets our vehicle requirements, while at the same time reducing our overall environmental impact.”
Nearly two years ago, Ford began collaborating with Heinz, The Coca-Cola Co., Nike Inc. and Procter & Gamble to accelerate development of a 100 percent plant-based plastic to be used to make everything from fabric to packaging and with a lower environmental impact than petroleum-based packaging materials currently in use.
At Heinz, researchers were looking for innovative ways to recycle and repurpose peels, stems and seeds from the more than two million tons of tomatoes the company uses annually to produce its best-selling product, Heinz ketchup. Heinz turned to Ford.
Said Vidhu Nagpal, associate director of packaging research and development at Heinz: “Although we are in the very early stages of research, and many questions remain, we are excited about the possibilities this could produce for both Heinz and Ford, and the advancement of sustainable 100 percent plant-based plastics.”
Ford said it has increased its use of recycled nonmental and bio-based materials in recent years, including cellulose fiber-reinforced console components and rice hull-filled electrical cowl brackets introduced in the last year, Ford’s bio-based portfolio now includes eight materials in production. Other examples are coconut-based composite materials, recycled cotton material for carpeting and seat fabrics, and soy foam seat cushions and head restraints.
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'Baby boomers' struggle to quit smoking
By Nic Fleming, Medical Correspondent
12:01AM BST 25 May 2007
Smoking rates are expected to rise in future because those born after the Second World War are finding it particularly hard to quit.
While most people born in the first half of the 20th century who have smoked at some stage have given up, the proportion of those in the “baby boomer” generation who have successfully given up is much lower.
The most recent figures from 2005 show that 24 per cent of adults smoke – 25 per cent of men and 23 per cent of women.
Ministers have a target of reducing the adult smoking rate to 21 per cent or less by 2010.
Researchers from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said yesterday that while fewer young people are taking up the habit, the approximately 35 per cent of people aged 50 who smoke is not falling.
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G8: Britain and Japan to fight terrorism together, David Cameron says
Britain and Japan will work closely together to fight terrorism, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
David Cameron holds a meeting with the Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) during the G8 Summit in Eniskillen, Northern Ireland Photo: Reuters
By Christopher Hope, at the G8 in Lough Erne
1:32PM BST 17 Jun 2013
Ahead of the formal opening of the G8, Mr Cameron met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for bilateral talks.
Flanked by advisers including chief of staff Ed Llewellyn and national security adviser Kim Darroch, Mr Cameron said: “I am very grateful for the engagement of Japan in the G8 agenda of tax, trade and transparency.
“Our economic relations are excellent. I welcome the co-operation we have had on security and terrorism, because the people of our two countries both suffered so badly from the terrible attack at In Amenas.
“The issue of how we fight terrorism and find further security for our people is firmly on the agenda for this G8.”
Mr Cameron offered a “warm welcome” to the Japanese Prime Minister, who he last met as leader of the opposition in 2007, and said he hoped to further develop “the very good state of bilateral relations between Britain and Japan”.
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He recalled the close co-operation between the UK and Japan when their nationals were among hostages held captive by militants in the In Amenas gas field in Algeria earlier this year, and welcomed Japanese support for his proposals for G8 nations to share the burden of responding to extremism and terror in North Africa.
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Best hotels in Hong Kong
The best hotels in Hong Kong, chosen by our expert, including luxury hotels, boutique hotels, budget hotels and Hong Kong hotel deals. Read the reviews and book.
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The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
Hotel + Flight Hong Kong
9 /10 Telegraph expert rating
An 'urban sanctuary' is how this supremely metropolitan hotel likes to describe itself. Unlike its nearby big sister – the Mandarin Oriental – the Landmark is boutique-sized, with just 113 guestrooms, but it packs a major punch in both style and food. Read expert review
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If you want to feast – in every sense – on the iconic view of Hong Kong island’s spectacular skyline from Kowloon-side, this is the place to do it. All the InterContinental’s restaurants and suites, and two-thirds of its rooms, have harbour views. Read expert review
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong
When this hotel opened, a feng shui fountain was placed outside to keep the money flowing in. It’s obviously working because this award-winning hotel has had no problems attracting visitors with enough cash to enjoy its Michelin-starred restaurants, spectacular views and general aura of monied exclusivity. Read expert review
Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong
The Mandarin Oriental has been at the heart of Hong Kong, both socially and geographically, since 1963. With its faultless service, fantastic location, effervescent atmosphere, superb spa and some of the most gorgeous dining rooms in Asia, it channels the city's glamorous past and present like no other. Read expert review
Grand Hyatt Hong Kong
The Grand Hyatt is where you can pretend you’re not in Hong Kong whilst sleeping next door to the city’s Convention and Exhibition Centre. It’s grandly spacious, with enough room to have a large, heated swimming-pool, jogging-track, children’s play area, garden and separate spa area. Read expert review
This sleek, 117-room stopover is adored by international road-warriors. It was the first ‘paperless’ hotel in Hong Kong and although such technology has caught on elsewhere in the city, it still manages to be both cutting-edge and an exceptionally comfy residence. Read expert review
Although the Pen, established in 1928, is the Grand Old Lady of Hong Kong’s hotels there’s nothing fusty about her. With a helipad on the roof and a tea-time orchestra in the lobby, it stylishly combine the city’s past and its high-speed present. Read expert review
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The Hotel ICON is what Hong Kong needs more of — a well-designed, well-run, well-located hotel at a decent price. It’s owned by Hong Kong Polytechnic University; and benefits the local hotel industry by providing training for a school of hotel and tourism management. Read expert review
The T Hotel
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The ‘T’ stands for training: this unusual hotel consists of one floor within the Vocational Training Council’s complex in Pokfulam, on the western side of Hong Kong island, overlooking the South China Sea. It’s such a bargain that guests beg visiting journalists to keep it a secret... Read expert review
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A short hop away from the heart of Causeway Bay, TUVE is a highly stylised hotel that feels like a destination for frequent travellers in the know. Minimalist, with a slightly futuristic, slightly industrial feel, it’s a very cool place in a neighbourhood with a distinctly local feel. Read expert review
Eaton Hotel Hong Kong
A 1990 skyscraper opposite Temple Street Night Market has emerged from a major makeover as a pulsing creative hub of media. Part of a growing trend of hotels with a social conscience, facilities include reiki rooms, a vegan cake shop and art displays, as well as tip-top restaurants and a rooftop pool. Read expert review
A good, conveniently-located hotel that’s been in Hong Kong since 1990. More luxurious hotels have arrived in the city since then, but the Conrad has a loyal business clientele that values its reliability, great views and executive lounge. Read expert review
Island Shangri-La Hong Kong
When the Island Shangri-La opened in 1991, with 531 rooms and 34 suites, it was one of the most cutting-edge hotels in town. Hong Kong’s moved on but the hotel still offers high-end reliability. You won’t find a lot of new-fangled gizmos here but that’s a relief to guests who like that it remains both glitzy and cosy. Read expert review
The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong
The Ritz-Carlton once held the title of the highest hotel in the world. It offers a stupendous panorama of Hong Kong island, Kowloon and the loop of the harbour that separates the two. You won’t see as astonishing a vista as this anywhere else in Hong Kong. Read expert review
Ovolo Central
The Ovolo, located in the hilly heart of Central, is urban, design savvy and youthful – a boutique hotel suited to both trendy business types and discerning tourists. Rooms are contemporary and come with complimentary minibars, breakfast, laundry facilities and free happy hour booze. Read expert review
JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong
This large, well-run luxury hotel offers some greenery amid Hong Kong’s skyscrapers. It still remains close to the main sights, all rooms feature good 270-degree views from clever corner windows, and there is a swimming pool tucked into the hillside. Read expert review
Hotel Indigo Hong Kong Island
Hotel Indigo helps to fill a gap that’s long existed in this city between the fabulous (and fabulously expensive) hotels right at the top end, and the tour-group hostelries much further down the chain. Its location, size and undeniable style (it has won a major architectural award) make it an excellent choice. Read expert review
The Pottinger Hong Kong
This 68-room boutique hotel is in the heart of Central. For some, the inevitable Hong Kong construction noise and crowds on the doorstep might be off-putting but it’s a lovely haven inside, and it’s been elegantly designed. Read expert review
The Mira describes itself as an ‘urban retreat’ from the perpetually crowded streets of Tsim Sha Tsui. Everything’s relative in Hong Kong, however, and the lobby and restaurants can be pretty busy, but the rooms do have a pleasant, almost Scandinavian, minimalism. Read expert review
Kowloon Shangri-La
When the Kowloon Shangri-La opened in 1981, Tsim Sha Tsui East was an outpost requiring plenty of bling to lure in the five-star punters. Now there’s an MTR exit by the entrance and the hotel’s looking a little...vintage. But it’s still got reliably good service, and excellent views across the harbour. Read expert review
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The Beaumont
Mayfair, London, England
9 out of 10 Telegraph expert rating
A luxury five-star hotel in the heart of Mayfair combining Art Deco-style interiors with Twenties panache. This is the first hotel by Corbin & King, masterminds behind The Delaunay, Brasserie Zedel and The Wolseley. Enjoy immaculate service, a luxurious spa and commissioned public art-cum-suite, ROOM.
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Charlotte Johnstone, Travel Writer
On a quiet road in Mayfair perpendicular to Selfridges on Oxford Street: a dream for devoted shoppers and gallery lovers. Overlooking Brown Hart gardens, the location offers a wonderful combination of being in the hub of the action but away from the throng of tourists. According to the British History website, it’s actually forbidden by law to quarrel in these gardens. It's close to many bus routes and is a four-minute walk from Bond Street Underground.
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It’s the Roaring Twenties, an era of jazz, prohibition and scandal. Fictitious Jimmy Beaumont has left America to set up his eponymous hotel in pre-war Mayfair. You can almost see the Fitzgeralds gliding through the Art Deco-inspired interiors. Polished walnuts and muted upholstery offset an enviable collection of new and vintage furniture, rare books, objets d’arts and over 1,500 pieces of original artwork. The grade II-listed building’s real history is less exciting. Built in 1926, it was formerly known as Macy’s, a service and parking station. To the left of the utilitarian façade, you’ll notice a three-storey high Lego-like figure, squatting. This commissioned piece of public art by Turner Prize-winner Antony Gormley is an exclusive suite called ROOM.
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Immaculately-dressed staff are sublimely courteous and greet you by name as you pass.
Adding to its location, there’s an abundance of things to keep you busy. Relax in the luxurious hammam and spa, with a steam room, sauna and plunge pool. Upstyle in the hair and beauty salons. De-stress with a massage – or work it out in the state-of-the-art gymnasium. Guests can even travel around Mayfair in the complimentary chauffeur-driven Vintage Daimler. Or simply enjoy a cocktail or afternoon tea in one of the bars. For functions and parties, there’s the Lotos Room. Unsurprisingly, they’ve been awarded AA’s London hotel of the year 2016/17.
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The 73 luxurious bedrooms behold a uniform décor of grey carpets, smoke-mirrored walls and polished wood furniture. Amenities are squirrelled away in purpose-made cabinets meaning each drawer encloses something fun. Minibars (aside from alcoholic beverages) are complimentary and little touches such as homemade confectionary, fruit on arrival and turn-down are wholly welcoming. Superior rooms have large terraced balconies overlooking Mayfair. Art Deco bathrooms are large and brilliantly white; some baths even have televisions.
Taking centre stage is presidential suite, The Roosevelt, in which one can take over the entire fifth floor with interconnecting rooms. But the pièce de résistance is Gormley’s ROOM in the belly of the sculpture.
Kick the evening off with a whisky sour and a game of cards in The Cub Room before heading to The Colony Grill Room for dinner. Corbin & King have again mastered the art of creating a destination appropriate for any occasion – from casual brunch to formal dinner. The grill-based menu offers 1920s-American classics such as hot dogs, steak and fish. Highlights included the cajun-spiced swordfish and the Knickerbocker Glory with as many accoutrements as we could possibly stuff into our sundae glasses. If you’re not feeling like the size of Gormley’s sculpture, retire to The American Bar next door for more cards (you’ll win this time).
Each morning, guests can enjoy a complimentary continental breakfast in The Cub Room, while The Colony Grill Room offers cooked breakfasts including a superb full English.
Double rooms from £395 year-round. Breakfast included. Free Wi-Fi. ROOM is from £1,375 per night.
Access for guests with disabilities?
The hotel is fully accessible. There are four adapted rooms for guests with reduced mobility.
Family-friendly?
A selection of rooms and suites interconnect. Extra beds can be requested at £80. Cots are free. There’s also a kids’ menu and extras such as mini robes.
8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens, London, W1K 6TF, England.
020 7499 1001 thebeaumont.com
Rooms from £ 420
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BSE Cow carcasses dumped in Telford
July 11, 2019 Telford Live 12 Comments BSE, carcasses, Cow, dumped, telford
You may have seen the report on BBC2 about the BSE or Mad Cow Disease crisis in the late 80s and the 90s.
Over 4 million cows were culled in the UK to try and prevent the spread of disease, but what happened to all those dead cows?
Many were incinerated but the facilities just could not keep up. Some infected carcasses were buried in landfill sites around the country and up to 1000 found their way to a landfill site in Telford.
Stoney Hill landfill in Horsehay was the chosen site. According to Hansard records, between 500 and 1000 cows were dumped between 1988 and 1991, when the landfill site was closed.
Could seepage on the site contaminate water and infect people? The evidence suggests not. A 2017 report on CJD (the human equivalent of BSE) confirms the 3 people in Telford died of the disease, with 10 more in Shropshire. Compare that to 34 in Staffordshire and it seems Telford is a relatively safe place to live as far as CJD goes.
The mad cow carcasses were not the only hazardous substances that ended up in Stoney Hill, just meters away from the new Lightmoor development.
To summarise from a council document at the time, Stoney Hill Landfill is a former open-cast coal working site which was issued a waste disposal licence in 1984 to accept controlled waste. The site was operated by Shropshire County Council in the period 1985 to 1991 when it was finally closed.
The types of controlled waste dumped here included domestic, commercial, industrial, medical/surgical/ veterinary wastes, and “difficult wastes.” Between 501 and 1000 BSE carcasses (with heads/spinal columns removed) were deposited.
Monsanto chemicals company tipped industrial chemical wastes under license, however there are also unsubstantiated allegations of illegal tipping of “unclassified chemicals sludge” by Monsanto.
The council invested £800k in securing the site content to keep locals safe.
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12 thoughts on “BSE Cow carcasses dumped in Telford”
Kizzie Coles Leon Coles Dan Bryant
That’s old news
I thought they were buried further up nearer the roundabout.
Antonio Vendone
Read about the BSE outbreak just the other day, there has been a few cases of people dying more recently from the same outbreak, apparently some strains of CJD have a long incubation period, of 20 or 30 years or more, so potentially some could have the disease but no symptoms yet.
Charlie Pryce
Interesting use of the term “invested”.
Kelly Robinson
Plenty of mad cows still roaming around these parts!
I never knew this
Janine Marie Jones Grundy
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Donato Dozzy releases new album composed entirely on EMS Synthi AKS synth
"All the tracks released by One Instrument are recorded with one instrument only, mainly in one take, with no samples and no effects other than the reverb."
The acclaimed producer is set to appear as part of a new series of conceptual albums on One Instrument who have announced forthcoming releases from Fahmi Mursyid, Alessandro Di Puccio and Donato Dozzy.
The forthcoming album from Donato Dozzy is described as his most abstract and experimental to date channeling elements of psychedelic electronica amidst ambient textures and noise. The label is keen to reiterate the policy behind the imprint:
"All the tracks released by One Instrument are recorded with one instrument only, in one take, with no samples and no effects other than the reverb."
The producer draws for the EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer, a revered piece of equipment and the record comes in at 38 minutes in total across two sides.
The release will be available towards the tail end of 2019 in December.
Find the label on Soundcloud HERE.
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The Great Outdoors Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
October 10, 2017 | Posted by Victor Romero | The Great OutdoorsThe Night Life | 694 views |
There is NOTHING like witnessing the grandeur, the excitement, the colorful creative surprises happening at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta! This year isn’t going to disappoint so here is a list of all things happening at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
2017 Daily Event Schedule
Saturday October 7
6:00 Laser Light Show
Dawn Patrol Show, presented by
Route 66 Casino Hotel & RV Resort, more…
6:30 Krispy Kreme Morning Glow
6:45 Opening Ceremonies
8:30-11:30am Mass Ascension, presented by Canon, more…
AIBF Chainsaw Carving Invitational
6:00 AIBF Chainsaw Carving Invitational
America’s Challenge Gas Balloon Race Inflation
Twilight Twinkle Glow™
6:00 America’s Challenge Gas Balloon Race Launch
8:00 AfterGlow™ Fireworks Show, presented in part by
the Albuquerque Journal
Sunday October 8
6:00 Dawn Patrol Show, presented by
8:30-11:30 Mass Ascension, more…
9:00 Fiesta of Wheels Car Show, located on Launch Field
11:00 Balloon Fiesta Pin Trading (Group Tour Tent north end of Main Street)
Balloon Glow
Monday October 9 – Propane day presented by
Airgas, an Air Liquide Company
6:00 Dawn Patrol, more…
7:00 Balloons Launch
8:00-11:00 Competition Flying Begins
AIBF Chainsaw Carving Demonstrations
Tuesday October 10 – Coca-Cola Day
Wednesday October 11
7:00 Flight of the Nations Mass Ascension
Thursday October 12 – Kids’ Day presented by KOB-TV
7:00 Special Shape Rodeo™ presented by
Special Shape Glowdeo™
8:00 AfterGlowTM Fireworks Show, presented in part by
Friday October 13
7:00 Special Shape Rodeo™
Saturday October 14
8:30-11:30 Mass Ascension
1:30-5:00 Music Fiesta™
6:00 Night Magic™ Glow presented by Canon
8:00 AfterGlow™Fireworks Show, presented in part by
Sunday October 15
8:30-11:00 Farewell Mass Ascension
AIBF Chainsaw Carving Q & A
*AfterGlow™ times may change due to field/weather conditions
** North end of Launch Field for the pin trading
ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE FOR BALLOON FIESTA:
Sandia Resort and Casino Main Stage
7:00a
National Anthem – The New Mexico Peace Choir
9:00a The New Mexico Peace Choir was founded in December 2015 as an inclusive, mixed voice choir.
We sing inspiring songs about nature, social awareness, the human spirit and peace.
We are filling a need and bridging the gap between head and heart.
The ripple effect of the energy we give and receive while singing is palpable and we believe this energy will help transform our world.
5:00p Wild Blue Country is the United States Air Force Academy’s commercial band of active duty musicians whose mission is to support the Air Force, and its Academy, both stateside and abroad.
8:15p Entourage Jazz specializes in performing standards to classic jazz favorites.
Adored by audiences, Entourage Jazz is a favorite at such venues as clubs, restaurants,
corporate events, private parties and wedding receptions
National Anthem – Albuquerque Academy “Unaccompanied Minors”
9:00a Wild Blue Country
Wild Blue Country
8:15p Pop-country band Two Way Crossing, comprised of Jenny and Blake Marvin (lead vocals), Kevin Smith (guitar), Jaron Mossman (drums), Jacob Garner (guitar) and Will Martin (bass), will reel you in with their high-energy stage presence and leave you chanting “encore” after the final drum beat. Their electric vibes, flawless harmonies and catchy lyrics have undeniably made them a fan favorite with a live show that can’t be missed!
7:00a National Anthem – Brittany Graham is a worship band leader, a teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and an American Sign Language interpreter in her home state of Montana. She is married to Colin Graham, one of the special shape balloon pilots for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, and loves being the Bud E. Beaver team’s crew chief.
7:00a National Anthem – UNM’s Concert Choir is a highly select SATB ensemble of approximately 40 singers, directed by Juan Hernández, Interim Director of Choral Activities at the University of New Mexico. The ensemble specializes in the study, preparation, and performance of the outstanding choral literature from all periods of music history.
7:00a National Anthem – The Cole Sisters
Thursday,October 12
National Anthem – “Key of A” are a local group from Albuquerque, NM. Their day jobs are at Sandia National Laboratories, and the members include Soprano Mellisa Heller, Alto Tammy Brown, Tenor Todd Ritterbush, and Bass Mike Furnish.
9:00a Key of A
Charanga del Valle is a salsa band with a traditional flavor and flair that combines the acoustic sounds of violins and flute, along with a driving rhythm section and horns to create a sound that’s both elegant and dynamic.The band’s varied repertoire of rhythms includes traditional salsa, bolero, charanga, cha-cha, and merengue as well as contemporary Cuban timba–wonderful for dancing!
8:15p Ivon Ulibarri & Café Mocha: New Mexico Latin music Pioneers perform SALSA, CUMBIA,and CHA-CHA, infused with New Mexico passion.
National Anthem – The Albuquerque Boy Choir gives young men a chance to develop good vocal technique as well as stage presence, polish, and responsibility. For over 80 years now, the Albuquerque Boy Choir has been “Making music, magic, and men!”
Ryan Montano & Friends
8:15p Ryan Montano & Friends
Saturday,October 14
National Anthem – Ymelda Erin Coriz
2017 MUSIC FIESTA
1:00p The Bus Tapes
2:30p Phil Vassar
4:00p Billy Currington
National Anthem – Reanna Molinaro
Visit our new North Stage at Balloon Fiesta, located at the north end of Main Street in front of the Balloon Discovery Center, and enjoy the following talent. A variety of talented groups will also be strolling on Main Street – so have your cameras ready!
MARIACHI TENAMPA AND MARIACHI SAN JOSE
Mariachi Tenampa’s history begins in Santa Fe, New Mexico, located in the Southwest part of the United States. In 1971, Don Miguel Ojeda Sr.– originally from Carachéo Munícipio de Los Leónes, Mexico– settled in Santa Fe along with members of his group in hopes of finding better work opportunities. Don Miguel Ojeda Sr. formed and directed this group along with his brothers Elias Ojeda and Antonio Ojeda, his two sons Raul Ojeda and Miguel Ojeda Jr., and 4 additional members. It wasn’t long before the local New Mexicans discovered and appreciated this talented group. Mariachi Tenampa quickly gained popularity throughout the state and quickly became known as the best mariachi in the region. The members of this new group had found a new home and were welcomed with open arms into the state of New Mexico, the beautiful “Land of Enchantment.”
JEMEZ PUEBLO SEASONAL DANCE GROUP
We are the Seasonal Dance Group from the Pueblo of Jemez (Walatowa) in north central New Mexico. The Seasonal Dance Group was formed in 1990 to promote our cultures and languages of the Jemez and Zuni Pueblo’s and is comprised of members from both tribes. Aside from participating in Tribal obligations throughout the year, the Seasonal Dance Group also sing and dance at many functions throughout the United States. Dances include: The Buffalo Dance, Corn Dance, Rainbow Dance and the Eagle Dance.
SKY CITY BUFFALO/RAM DANCE GROUP
The Sky City Buffalo Ram Dance Group is comprised of children, teenagers and young adult’s ages 7yrs old – 22yrs old and are from the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. Acoma Pueblo, located 70 miles (112 km) west of Albuquerque, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States and also known worldwide as the “Sky City” . The dances we share represent prayer, all the wildlife and to bring peace and good spirits to mankind. May the songs that are created and danced, bring you happiness, peace in your heart & souls and may you live a long healthy & happy life.
SPIRIT WIND POWWOW DANCERS
The Spirit Wind Powwow Dance group features champion dancers and singers from throughout New Mexico. Founded in the late 1990’s, Spirit Wind Powwow dance group members are multi-generational, sometimes parents and their children, and have performed at various private events & conferences for people from all over the world. Additionally, Spirit Wind features singers from the multiple Grammy award winning Powwow Drum Group – the Black Eagle Singers from the Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico. Audiences will feel the spirit, beauty and strength of Native American culture through Powwow songs and dances and marvel at their amazing regalia!
NEW MEXICO GUNFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
Offering a visually appealing step into the past, the New Mexico Gunfighters put on quite a performance. This ensemble of gun-slinging actors is part of an award-winning theatrical group who has been performing free public comedic Old West skits in Albuquerque for over 38 years. The themes range from thrilling bank robberies to dramatic shoot outs and other scenes typical of the Wild West days of lore.
CHRIS ZACCARA, Magician and Illusionist
Chris has been interested in magic for most of his life. Growing up in rural Louisiana in the days before the internet however, his exposure to the art was limited to yearly David Copperfield specials and occasional trips into New Orleans or Baton Rouge to visit the magic shops there. It wasn’t until moving to Albuquerque in 96′ that Chris really had a chance to explore magic. Since then he has worked behind the counter of two magic shops here in Albuquerque NM, and spent time as a restaurant magician. Chris believes in magic very strongly and loves to share it with others. In addition to performing in Max’s Magic Theatre he is also one of our key demonstrators and teachers in the Shop. Chris is also an alumni of The Magic and Mystery School in Las Vegas, NV.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO
The mission of the National Institute of Flamenco is to preserve and promote flamenco’s artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the American family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on family and community.
DON’T FORGET TO VISIT THE BALLOON GLOWS:
Balloon Glows
Twilight Twinkle Glow™ / Balloon Glow / Night Magic Glow™
The events now known as balloon glows were invented in Albuquerque in 1979, when local pilots inflated balloons on Christmas Eve night as a thank you to local residents. The sight of balloons lit from within at night like giant holiday ornaments is breathtaking, and glow events are now held all over the world. Balloon Fiesta launched its Balloon Glow the world’s biggest in 1987. Fiesta Glow all burns when all the balloons fire their burners and light up at the same time are perhaps the most spectacular single moment in all of Balloon Fiesta. The Balloon Glows followed by New Mexico’s most spectacular fireworks displays – are now among Balloon Fiesta’s most popular events.
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IMI Systems Quote of the Day: Shall-Issue Concealed Carry In D.C. Clears Another Hurdle
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“We are bound to leave the District as much space to regulate as the Constitution allows—but no more. Just so, our opinion does little more than trace the boundaries laid in 1791 and flagged in Heller I. And the resulting decision rests on a rule so narrow that [may-issue] laws seem almost uniquely designed to defy it: that the law-abiding citizen’s right to bear common arms must enable the typical citizen to carry a gun.” – Judge Thomas Griffith in Appeals Court Denies D.C.’s Request for Full Court Hearing on Gun-Carry Law Struck Down in July [via freebeacon.com]
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Chip Bennett says:
Huh. I guess the DC DCA finally got tired of getting smacked down by SCOTUS on this issue? Wonders never cease…
“I guess the DC DCA finally got tired of getting smacked down by SCOTUS on this issue?”
I’m having trouble wrapping my head around why *none* of the judges on that panel voted for en banc.
It makes no sense to me. The Progs are welded to the party plank of gun control with a blind passion.
Could it be they are finally waking up to the fact that it’s pure political poison to middle America, who they *must* have to win elections?
“Could it be [Progressives] are finally waking up to the fact …”
I have always said that the outcome of court cases is almost entirely a function if which judge hears the case. In other words, whether or not you prevail is basically a lottery. In this particular case, gun rights supporters in D.C. have thus far hit the judicial lottery. Unfortunately, that could all change at the next hearing/ruling if a gun-grabber judge hears the case.
JasonM says:
This was every judge saying there’s no need for an en banc hearing.
Maybe they’re actually good judges who realize being a judge is about applying the law as written, not an they’d prefer it.
TX_Lawyer says:
It just occurred to me that they might be worried that what we hope for is about to happen. Kennedy retiring or a liberal vacating the court by some means. They are in DC and probably all go to the same parties, restaurants, etc.
If they did a rehearing, that would take time. Then the case gets appealed to the SC. More time. The balance shifts. The SC hears it. The SC decides strongly in favor of the 2A elucidating a specific 2A test that will result in the striking down of most gun laws if applied with any degree rationality. If lower courts don’t follow such a test faithfully, then the SC just issues an opinion or order without even having oral argument.
It’s just a thought.
Mark N. says:
Eh, not particularly logical. The court can expedite anything it wants to, and the issue was already briefed: it is not required to allow additional briefing for an en banc proceeding, and orals could be heard by the end of the year or in the spring. It could conceivably issue an opinion affirming or reversing before the end of the current Supreme Court session.
Moreover, a party seeking certiorari in the Supreme court faces an extremely high burden,as the Court takes so few cases to begin with; the odds are that almost all cases will be denied, and that the winner in the court of Appeals will thus prevail.True, a public entity has a greater chance than an individual, but the odds still are not good.
I think that these justices were well aware that no matter who won, the case would be moving on to the Supreme Court, so why bother? Denying review accelerates the cert process by a few months any way.
“Denying review accelerates the cert process by a few months.” Maybe those few months are more important than we would expect. I honestly cannot think of a reason a court with judges that far left wouldn’t at least have a close vote on rehearing this case. If cert is denied, D.C. is shall issue. If it is granted, then they run the risk of the U.S. being shall issue.
Proceeding from the premise that these liberal judges ignore the law, I can’t think of a good reason as to why they would do this.
Armchair Command'oh says:
Mark, here’s why its logical:
As the case stands now, there is a clear circuit split. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 9th Circuits have all ruled that “may issue” is legit. The D.C. Cir said it’s not. This is the kind of situation where the Supreme Court grants cert. Also, when a law is overturned as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court is more likely to grant cert, which is the case here. By letting the decision stand, it is almost certain that the Supreme Court will take the case, and there is a decent chance Kennedy will say “may issue” is good enough.
If the court granted en banc review, the liberals would have certainly won given how liberal the bench is. If that happened, there would no longer have been a circuit split. (Some people claim the 6th Cir has split from the rest, but that is not true. The 6th said states have to allow concealed carry if open carry is banned, but it didn’t opine on may vs shall issue). Plus, you would no longer have the situation where a law had been overturned. In that scenario, the Supreme Court would probably not grant cert. The case is over. Later, however, after Trump replaces either Kennedy, Ginsberg, or Breyer (ages 81, 84, and 79), the conservatives would be able to take up the next gun case and adopt strict scrutiny and any other broad protection for gun rights they wanted.
They are taking a small gamble on Kennedy now versus risking it all against the next Trump appointment.
Ogre says:
I fully expect the lib-prog DC government to drag its feet and try to tapdance around this decision, as they have in the past (getting slapped down by the courts each time). It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
This ^^^
Any why shouldn’t local D.C. government dance around the ruling? They never face any sanctions.
Jonathan-Houston says:
That’s so frustrating. At some point, a matter is no longer just a difference of constitutional opinion to be decided by the courts. It’s a flagrant civil rights violation and abuse of the courts through frivolous litigation. There ought to be personal legal civil and criminal consequences for that conduct.
State and local governments who continuously deny 2A rights should be treated like southern states have been on many racial issues. They should have to seek pre-approval for their laws before they become effective.
I notice that the Washington Post (aka Pravda-on-the-Potomac) hasn’t included this story in their online edition today (although other local news agencies have done so). Could it be that this decision is so onerous to those anti-gun prog-heads that they just can’t bring themselves to let anybody know that their belief system got slapped down by the court? Either that, or WaPo’s editorial board is hard at work on a scintilating and devastating editorial blasting the decision (which will convince nobody who is not already a true believer), and is delaying the news story until then.
The Post published the story last night.
“I fully expect the lib-prog DC government to drag its feet and try to tapdance around this decision, ”
What is there to “expect”. If you read the linked article you see that the DC DA told the police to “carry on” until “the court orders otherwise”. This means yet another suit must be brought seeking enforcement of the first appeals court decision.
There is no “dancing”. What we have here, is abject defiance.
Nope nope nope. Unless the City petitions for certiorari AND obtains a stay from either the court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, shall issue goes into effect in one week when the Court of Appeals issues a permanent injunction against the may issue law and orders the City to process carry applications. I do not see the City defying that order. Its ONLY remedy at this point is a stay pending a cert petition (the processing of which by the Supreme court could take several months).
The DC DA instructed the metro police to ignore the ruling until the court issues a specific order. Assuming that an order to desist is a routine attachment to the ruling, an attachment that will be formally issued at a date subsequent to the date of the decision, the metro police are to continue the “may issue for good cause” policy in existence. There will likely be no court order for police to revisit the existing applications. Coppers will delight in making everyone apply and pay again.
Just for informational purposes, in a civil matter, one can be awarded a judgement for compensation, yet not collect….UNTIL, you receive a second court order directing the constabulary to deliver a compliance order to the loser. Even then, if the loser does not comply, another court order is required to direct the local constabulary to compel compliance, or arrest the loser for contempt of court. Thinking the federal courts operate similarly. Since there is no penalty (jail or money) for defying the appeals court ruling, I would expect DC to continue denying carry permits until the SC takes up the case. If the supremes do not grant cert, “may issue” will remain in effect (legally or not) until the SC does address the matter. Courts are not about “justice”, they are about law and procedure.
EL 4 says:
They are allowed to “carry on” until this coming Thursday when the en banc denial becomes a mandate. At that point only Roberts can issue a stay to allow to continue to deny based on good reason test.
“They are allowed to “carry on” until this coming Thursday when the en banc denial becomes a mandate. ”
The DC DA has more authority inside DC than the appeals courts. We have seen so many instances of defiance of Heller and McDonald go unpunished (not even sure there is a a mechanism for “punishment” of judges or government officials who defy federal court orders.), it is difficult to seriously entertain the notion that another ruling against gun control will change anything. The game is not over in DC.
million says:
I look forward to SCOTUS denying cert on Wren.
Alan Gura FTW!
Actually, I hope SCOTUS takes it, rules properly, and makes California and the rest of the Iron Curtain states cry.
(I’ve heard some say that they suspect that this was the case SCOTUS was waiting for, when denying Peruta cert.)
Do you mean Justice Kennedy may be hinting he’s good with carry outside the home?
If so, what was wrong with Peruta being granted cert?
To be blunt, a denial of cert is not as good as it sounds. Yes, it means shall issue for D.C. residents–but not necessarily any visitors–but it also means that it stays a Circuit Court decision that applies ONLY in D.C. and NOT to the jurisdictions that maintain “may issue” systems. For example, if cert is denied, Peruta v., Gore, holding that there is NO right to concealed carry, remains good law in the Ninth Circus. ONLY if the Supreme Court grants review and affirms does the decision apply nationally.
I read on another forum a very interesting question: will the :may issue” states lean on D.C. to NOT petition for cert to avoid the possibility that the decision goes national?
Aaron M. Walker says:
….Until Politicians, and “other Government agency” become fearful of the citizenry once again ! THERE WILL be accountability, and severe repercussions for INFRINGEMENTS on any specified Constitutional Rights !
Just win baby.
DC is just going to play games. They always do.
Rusty Chains says:
Now we get to see if the four progtards on the Court want to risk another round of freedom being expanded. I suspect not.
Green Mtn. Boy says:
They will never give up on their beloved Communism.
This might be a strategic move on the part of the liberal judges. If they granted en banc review, they would have more than enough votes to reverse (the D.C. Circuit is very liberal). The problem for them is that by the time they’re finished, Justice Kennedy may have retired (or one of the liberal justices may have passed) with a much more conservative Justice serving as the replacement.
By denying en banc review, there is a very high likelihood that the Supreme Court will take the case. There is now a direct split on the “may issue” language, and when a law is overturned (like D.C.’s was) there is a much greater chance the Court will take the case. With it going up to the Supreme Court now, Kennedy will be the deciding vote, and it’s not at all clear how he will rule. The concern has long been that he would support “may issue” and that’s why the Court has not taken up any of the other past concealed carry cases.
That’s a possibility; good observation. One of Trump’s few smart moves has been judicial nominations. This week’s selection of Willett and Ho for the 5th circuit appellate court is hard to out do. I know he’s going by a known list for the SC, but still, it’ll be exciting to see who he picks for the next opening. That excitement could grow frenzied, depending on whom he’s replacing.
We should not be surprised that the DC Circuit Court ruled the way it did.
Most people have lost sight of the fact that in the Heller case, it was the DC Circuit Court that ruled in favor of Dick Heller’s right to have a functional gun, rejecting DC’s onerous laws. It was the DC Circuit Court that reversed an unfavorable ruling by the lower court, and it was the DC Circuit Court’s ruling that was upheld by SCOTUS.
The DC Circuit made its ruling in Heller, and I guess they meant it.
Heller was in 2007 (in the DC Circuit). That was before Harry Reid nuked the judicial filibuster and Obama packed the court. It’s a very different bench today.
BierceAmbrose says:
“And the resulting decision rests on a rule so narrow that [may-issue] laws seem almost uniquely designed to defy it:”
If it legislates like a duck…
RMS1911 says:
Congress could fix this in an half a day.
Congress is the only ones to make laws in the district of Columbia why they allow those hacks to pretend to make “laws”
Is beyond me.
“At certain times, and presently since 1973, Congress has allowed certain powers of government to be carried out by locally elected officials. However, Congress maintains the power to overturn local laws and exercises greater oversight of the city than exists for any U.S. state. Furthermore, the District’s elected government exists at the pleasure of Congress and could theoretically be revoked at any time.”
Congress needs to do their job and make the laws for the district of Columbia .
They could fix this in half of a day.
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Lord Inge
Crossbench Peer
A selection of Lord Inge's votes
Has never voted on university tuition fees
Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
Voted against more EU integration Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, 12 absences, between 2008–2011
Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency
We have lots more plain English analysis of Lord Inge’s voting record on issues like health, welfare, taxation and more. Visit Lord Inge’s full vote analysis page for more.
Nato — Debate 10 Feb 2011
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Addington, for achieving this debate. I also rather share with him the question: what is the threat? Let me tell your Lordships that I moved jobs in Germany as the wall came down. I went from being the corps commander to being the commander-in-chief. The first thing I did was to go and see the intelligence brigadier. I asked, "What is the threat"?...
Strategic Defence and Security Review — Motion to Take Note 12 Nov 2010
My Lords, may I, a bit belatedly, welcome the Minister to his job and say how grateful we are for the way in which he keeps us in touch with some of the issues being discussed? However, he will recognise from the tone of this debate all around the Chamber that there are deep concerns about the capabilities of our Armed Forces and about re-equipping them. I hope that he will take back the...
Piracy: Operation Atalanta (EUC Report): Motion to Take Note 10 Nov 2010
My Lords, first, I should say how much I enjoyed being a member of this sub-committee, unlike the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton. I learnt a great deal, although what I learnt rather depressed me. There is no doubt that the piracy problem in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean remains a significant threat to international shipping. We have to recognise that we are in this for the long haul;...
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Entered the House of Lords in 1997
Member, EU Sub Committee C - External Affairs (17 May 2012 to 21 May 2013)
Member, EU Sub-Committee C - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy (9 Dec 2008 to 16 May 2012)
Member, EU Sub-Committee C - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy (26 Nov 2003 to 18 Apr 2004)
Member, EU Sub-Committee C (6 Dec 1999 to 20 Nov 2003)
Has spoken in 0 debates in the last year — below average amongst Lords. See all Lord Inge’s speeches
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Understanding Plant Tropisms
Science, Tech, Math › Science
Phototropism is the bending growth movement of parts of plants in response to a light stimulus. Cathlyn Melloan/Stone/Getty Images
by Regina Bailey
Regina Bailey is a science writer and educator who has covered biology for ThoughtCo since 1997. Her writing is featured in Kaplan AP Biology 2016.
Plants, like animals and other organisms, must adapt to their constantly-changing environments. While animals are able to relocate from one place to another when environmental conditions become unfavorable, plants are unable to do the same. Being sessile (unable to move), plants must find other ways of handling unfavorable environmental conditions. Plant tropisms are mechanisms by which plants adapt to environmental changes. A tropism is a growth toward or away from a stimulus. Common stimuli that influence plant growth include light, gravity, water, and touch. Plant tropisms differ from other stimulus generated movements, such as nastic movements, in that the direction of the response depends on the direction of the stimulus. Nastic movements, such as leaf movement in carnivorous plants, are initiated by a stimulus, but the direction of the stimulus is not a factor in the response.
Plant tropisms are the result of differential growth. This type of growth occurs when the cells in one area of a plant organ, such as a stem or root, grow more quickly than the cells in the opposite area. The differential growth of the cells directs the growth of the organ (stem, root, etc.) and determines the directional growth of the entire plant. Plant hormones, like auxins, are thought to help regulate the differential growth of a plant organ, causing the plant to curve or bend in response to a stimulus. Growth in the direction of a stimulus is known as positive tropism, while growth away from a stimulus is known as a negative tropism. Common tropic responses in plants include phototropism, gravitropism, thigmotropism, hydrotropism, thermotropism, and chemotropism.
Phototropism
Plant hormones direct plant body development in response to a stimulus, like light. ttsz/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Phototropism is the directional growth of an organism in response to light. Growth toward light, or positive tropism is demonstrated in many vascular plant, such as angiosperms, gymnosperms, and ferns. Stems in these plants exhibit positive phototropism and grow in the direction of a light source. Photoreceptors in plant cells detect light, and plant hormones, such as auxins, are directed to the side of the stem that is furtherest from the light. The accumulation of auxins on the shaded side of the stem causes the cells in this area to elongate at a greater rate than those on the opposite side of the stem. As a result, the stem curves in the direction away from the side of the accumulated auxins and toward the direction of the light. Plant stems and leaves demonstrate positive phototropism, while roots (mostly influenced by gravity) tend to demonstrate negative phototropism. Since photosynthesis conducting organelles, known as chloroplasts, are most concentrated in leaves, it is important that these structures have access to sunlight. Conversely, roots function to absorb water and mineral nutrients, which are more likely to be obtained underground. A plant's response to light helps to ensure that life preserving resources are obtained.
Heliotropism is a type of phototropism in which certain plant structures, typically stems and flowers, follow the path of the sun from east to west as it moves across the sky. Some helotropic plants are also able to turn their flowers back toward the east during the night to ensure that they are facing the direction of the sun when it rises. This ability to track the sun's movement is observed in young sunflower plants. As they become mature, these plants lose their heliotropic ability and remain in an eastward-facing position. Heliotropism promotes plant growth and increases the temperature of eastward-facing flowers. This makes heliotropic plants more attractive to pollinators.
Thigmotropism
Tendrils are modified leaves that wrap around objects giving support to the plant. They are examples of thigmotropism. Ed Reschke/Stockbyte/Getty Images
Thigmotropism describes plant growth in response to touch or contact with a solid object. Positive thigmostropism is demonstrated by climbing plants or vines, which have specialized structures called tendrils. A tendril is a thread-like appendage used for twinning around solid structures. A modified plant leaf, stem, or petiole may be a tendril. When a tendril grows, it does so in a revolving pattern. The tip bends in various directions forming spirals and irregular circles. The motion of the growing tendril almost appears as if the plant is searching for contact. When the tendril makes contact with an object, sensory epidermal cells on the surface of the tendril are stimulated. These cells signal the tendril to coil around the object.
Tendril coiling is a result of differential growth as cells not in contact with the stimulus elongate faster than the cells that make contact with the stimulus. As with phototropism, auxins are involved in the differential growth of tendrils. A greater concentration of the hormone accumulates on the side of the tendril not in contact with the object. The twining of the tendril secures the plant to the object providing support for the plant. The activity of climbing plants provides better light exposure for photosynthesis and also increases the visibility of their flowers to pollinators.
While tendrils demonstrate positive thigmotropism, roots can exhibit negative thigmotropism at times. As roots extend into the ground, they often grow in the direction away from an object. Root growth is primarily influenced by gravity and roots tend to grow below ground and away from the surface. When roots make contact with an object, they often change their downward direction in response to the contact stimulus. Avoiding objects allows roots to grow unimpeded through the soil and increases their chances of obtaining nutrients.
Gravitropism
This image shows the main stages in the germination of a plant seed. In the third image, the root grows downwards in response to gravity, while in the fourth image the embryonic shoot (plumule) grows up against gravity. Power and Syred/Science Photo Library/Getty Images
Gravitropism or geotropism is growth in response to gravity. Gravitropism is very important in plants as it directs root growth toward the pull of gravity (positive gravitropism) and stem growth in the opposite direction (negative gravitropism). The orientation of a plant's root and shoot system to gravity can be observed in the stages of germination in a seedling. As the embryonic root emerges from the seed, it grows downward in the direction of gravity. Should the seed be turned in such a way that the root points upward away from the soil, the root will curve and reorient itself back toward the direction of the gravitational pull. Conversely, the developing shoot orients itself against gravity for upward growth.
The root cap is what orients the root tip toward the pull of gravity. Specialized cells in the root cap called statocytes are thought to be responsible for gravity sensing. Statocytes are also found in plant stems, and they contain organelles called amyloplasts. Amyloplasts function as starch storehouses. The dense starch grains cause amyloplasts to sediment in plant roots in response to gravity. Amyloplast sedimentation induces the root cap to send signals to an area of the root called the elongation zone. Cells in the elongation zone are responsible for root growth. Activity in this area leads to differential growth and curvature in the root directing growth downward toward gravity. Should a root be moved in such a manner as to change the orientation of the statocytes, amyloplasts will resettle to the lowest point of the cells. Changes in position of amyloplasts are sensed by statocytes, which then signal the elongation zone of the root to adjust the direction of curvature.
Auxins also plays a role in plant directional growth in response to gravity. The accumulation of auxins in roots slows growth. If a plant is placed horizontally on its side with no exposure to light, auxins will accumulate on the lower side of the roots resulting in slower growth on that side and downward curvature of the root. Under these same conditions, the plant stem will exhibit negative gravitropism. Gravity will cause auxins to accumulate on the lower side of the stem, which will induce the cells on that side to elongate at a faster rate than the cells on the opposite side. As a result, the shoot will bend upward.
Hydrotropism
This image shows mangrove roots near water in the Iriomote National Park of the Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Ippei Naoi/Moment/Getty Images
Hydrotropism is directional growth in response to water concentrations. This tropism is important in plants for protection against drought conditions through positive hydrotropism and against water over-saturation through negative hydrotropism. It is especially important for plants in arid biomes to be able to respond to water concentrations. Moisture gradients are sensed in plant roots. The cells on the side of the root closest to the water source experience slower growth than those on the opposite side. The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays an important role in inducing differential growth in the root elongation zone. This differential growth causes roots to grow toward the direction of water.
Before plant roots can exhibit hydrotropism, they must overcome their gravitrophic tendencies. This means that the roots must become less sensitive to gravity. Studies conducted on the interaction between gravitropism and hydrotropism in plants indicate that exposure to a water gradient or lack of water can induce roots to exhibit hydrotropism over gravitropism. Under these conditions, amyloplasts in root statocytes decrease in number. Fewer amyloplasts means that the roots are not as influenced by amyloplast sedimentation. Amyloplast reduction in root caps helps to enable roots to overcome the pull of gravity and move in response to moisture. Roots in well-hydrated soil have more amyloplasts in their root caps and have a much greater response to gravity than to water.
More Plant Tropisms
Eight pollen grains are seen, clustered around a finger-like projection, part of the opium flowers stigma. Several pollen tubes are visible. Dr. Jeremy Burgess/Science Photo Library/Getty Images
Two other types of plant tropisms include thermotropism and chemotropism. Thermotropism is growth or movement in response to heat or temperature changes, while chemotropism is growth in response to chemicals. Plant roots may exhibit positive thermotropism in one temperature range and negative thermotropism in another temperature range.
Plant roots are also highly chemotropic organs as they may respond either positively or negatively to the presence of certain chemicals in the soil. Root chemotropism helps a plant to access nutrient-rich soil to enhance growth and development. Pollination in flowering plants is another example of positive chemotropism. When a pollen grain lands on the female reproductive structure called the stigma, the pollen grain germinates forming a pollen tube. The growth of the pollen tube is directed toward the ovary by the release of chemical signals from the ovary.
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New Bentley CEO Isn't Interested in Building Sports Cars
Is Bentley slowly becoming a crossover brand?
By Eric BrandtAugust 24, 2018
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Two trends that are defining the car industry in 2018 are crossovers and electrification. In all, those two sectors appear to be big parts of what Adrian Hallmark, the new CEO of Bentley, is planning for the future of the brand.
In a recent interview with Autocar, Hallmark pointed out that Bentley has been falling behind in China which has become an increasingly important market for the luxury segment.
According to the interview, there are currently about 2,500 billionaires in the world compared to just 574 of them in 2000. Hallmark knows that and as the billionaire pool grows, he wants them to drive Bentleys.
So how is he going to get the attention of the upper crust of discerning car buyers? The high-echelon luxury car market consisting of Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Aston Martin is expected to grow by about 50 percent between now and 2025, primarily because of the growing number of customers that can afford them.
Hallmark talked about expanding on plug-ins and we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see another Bentley crossover slotted below the Bentayga. Of course, Hallmark wouldn’t talk about any specific new models that were in the pipeline, but he did drop one saddening nugget of information. “I won’t talk about our decisions on future models,” Hallmark told Autocar, “but I’ll tell you what we won’t be building, and that’s sports cars.”
But, why? This is upsetting news at first, but Hallmark goes on to explain why sports cars just don’t make sense for Bentley right now.
“The sports car sector—like our own—is highly volatile in a recession. It can drop 50 percent or 60 percent. Only this time, the sports car sector forgot to recover. And if you look at their history, and the average age of their buyers, you’ll see the age goes up by one every year. It means the cars are being bought by the same old enthusiasts. When owners are in arts or sports, either their contract says they’re not allowed to drive because of the risk, or publications like The Sun publish pictures of them driving, which they don’t enjoy. That doesn’t help sales, either.”
“In China, it’s the opposite. There are plenty of 30 to 40-year- old millionaires, but they tend not to play tennis, football or sing," Hallmark continued to Autocar. "And they drive SUVs or limousines, so the sports car sector has not benefited from the Chinese expansion.”
Hallmark went on to say that “some manufacturers have tried to change this, but so far the market hasn’t responded.” In other words, Bentley is going to continue building high-end crossovers and ultra-luxurious cars while leaving the exotic sports cars to the likes of Ferrari and Aston.
Yet another reason for Bentley to decide against sports cars is that there are already a couple of brands that know a thing or two about them that also fall under the Volkswagen corporate umbrella: Porsche and Lamborghini. If Bentley were to make high-end sports cars, there would be a risk of cannibalization between the brands. The further Bentley can differentiate itself from other premium VW brands, the better.
While surely we can still expect high-performance variants of whatever Bentley does build, and we don’t foresee the British brand making any slow or boring cars anytime soon, it’s still a bummer to hear about a car maker with such a rich history of performance making a commitment against sports cars.
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Primark to pay £6m more to victims of Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh
Retailer agrees payout weeks before anniversary of tragedy, in move that raises hopes of spurring donations from other firms
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Sun 16 Mar 2014 16.27 EDT First published on Sun 16 Mar 2014 16.27 EDT
Primark's payout will go directly to 581 workers, or their families, employed by its supplier based at the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Dhaka. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images
Primark is to pay out a further $10m (£6m) in compensation to victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh weeks before the anniversary of the disaster in which more than 1,100 garment workers lost their lives.
The British retailer has agreed to pay $9m to the 581 workers, or their families, from New Wave Bottoms, Primark's supplier, which was based on the second floor of the building in Dhaka. A further $1m will go into a communal compensation pot to be shared among all the 3,600 workers who suffered when the eight-floor Rana Plaza complex collapsed in April last year.
Both payments should be made under the auspices of a compensation scheme backed by UN agency the International Labour Organisation (ILO), under a deal agreed over the weekend.
Campaigners hope Primark's payment will help persuade other retailers linked to the Rana Plaza building to pay up. The latest round of payouts will bring Primark's total compensation bill to $12m after it paid out $2m in short-term support for all workers within the Rana Plaza building, including those working for other brands.
The new compensation agreement will not be finalised formally until the compensation fund's co-ordinating committee – which also includes the Bangladeshi government, factory representatives and workers' rights groups including the Clean Clothes Campaign and IndustriALL – meets on Tuesday .
Primark's desire to make its payments as soon as possible is being weighed against the ILO's battle to ensure that compensation to all those affected by the disaster comes via the communal process so that no victims are short-changed.
There are concerns that variations in the timing or amount of payments to different groups of victims might lead to unrest in Bangladesh, which has already seen widespread protests over treatment of workers.
However, before Primark's donation, the communal pot contained less than $5m of the total $40m thought to be needed to compensate all the Rana Plaza victims, potentially affecting its ability to pay out to those in need.
Gilbert Houngbo, deputy director general of the ILO, said: "We hope that Primark's payment will bring the debate out so that people will ask other brands 'What are you doing?' We urge other retailers to show good faith and make a donation."
Paul Lister, company secretary of Primark's owner, ABF, said: "With the first anniversary of Rana Plaza fast approaching, we are determined to meet this responsibility to workers in our supply chain. We are therefore pleased to be in a position to now press ahead with payments.
"We support the ILO in urging other retailers sourcing from Rana Plaza to donate to the trust fund, so that it can pay out in full to the remaining victims."
Primark is only the eighth brand to publicly confirm it has paid into the ILO-backed scheme and its support will considerably boost efforts to raise $40m to help injured factory workers and the families of those who died.
Donations from Bonmarché, El Corte Inglés, Inditex, Mango, Mascot, Premier Clothing and Loblaw have been publicly confirmed, but make up less than a quarter of the total needed.
The Guardian has learned that at least three other brands linked to the Rana Plaza have now paid into the compensation fund.
C&A, the Dutch retailer that had sourced from within the factory until about 18 months before it collapsed, said it had donated $500,000 while KiK, the German discount clothing retailer, and Cropp, a Polish brand, also said they had donated to the fund. This is not confirmed on the ILO website.
Retailers including Benetton, which stopped sourcing from the Rana Plaza some months before it collapsed, and Matalan have paid into separate schemes to support some workers disabled by the accident. However, it is not known how much they have put into these schemes and they have yet to donate anything to the communal fund. Some companies, including US retailer Walmart which has been shown to have worked with a factory in Rana Plaza about a year before the building collapsed, have yet to confirm any compensation payments.
Primark said its payments to New Wave Bottoms workers would be based on detailed medical and vulnerability assessments, similar to those used in accident insurance schemes, that have already been carried out. Smaller compensation payments will be paid out within weeks. Primark said it wanted to ensure those set to receive larger payments had support in managing the money before making a lump sum payment. This might take longer, but less than its target of a year to finalise all payments.
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Damon Albarn is already thinking about the next Gorillaz album
By Cerys Kenneally / 27 August 2018, 12:22 BST
Photo by David McAndrew
It's only been a matter of weeks since Gorillaz dropped their latest album The Now Now, and Damon Albarn is already ahead of the game thinking about the next one.
Damon Albarn has had a surge of productivity this year as he reveals in an interview with Austrian radio station Radio FM4 that he's already thinking about the next Gorillaz album.
Gorillaz only dropped their most recent album The Now Now in June, and now Albarn has revealed he already has another in the pipeline," I have another one [Gorillaz record] as well, but I know I’m not gonna be allowed to even think about recording or putting it out this year."
With a monumentally busy schedule amongst his band hopping and collaborations, Albarn explained, "I don’t know. It’s there. If I get the time, or if anyone wants it, it’s there."
Albarn reveals his plans for the next Gorillaz album around 6:40.
The Gorillaz frontman also revealed he'll be picking up The Good, The Bad & The Queen in October after Gorillaz's US tour dates. In May Albarn revealed their forthcoming album was nearly finished.
The latest album by the Gorillaz The Now Now is out now. Find more information on their remaining live dates.
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Soccer Is the Art of the Unforseeable
Professional soccer does everything to castrate its own energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.
By Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano. (Photo courtesy of Mariela De Marchi Moyano)
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. The following passages are excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Nation Books, Open Road Media ebooks).
Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands bereft of spectators.
At Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953 when England fell to the Hungarians. Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the glory days of Uruguayan soccer. Maracanã is still crying over Brazil’s 1950 World Cup defeat. At Bombonera in Buenos Aires, drums boom from half a century ago. From the depths of Azteca Stadium, you can hear the ceremonial chants of the ancient Mexican ball game. The concrete terraces of Camp Nou in Barcelona speak Catalan, and the stands of San Mamés in Bilbao talk in Basque. In Milan, the ghost of Giuseppe Meazza scores goals that shake the stadium bearing his name. The final match of the 1974 World Cup, won by Germany, is played day after day and night after night at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. King Fahd Stadium in Saudi Arabia has marble and gold boxes and carpeted stands, but it has no memory or much of anything to say.
The English Invasions
Outside a madhouse, in an empty lot in Buenos Aires, several blond boys were kicking a ball around.
“Who are they?” asked a child.
“Crazy people,” answered his father. “Crazy English.”
Journalist Juan José de Soiza Reilly remembers this from his childhood. At first, soccer seemed like a crazy man’s game in the River Plate. But as the empire expanded, soccer became an export as typically British as Manchester cloth, railroads, loans from Barings, or the doctrine of free trade. It arrived on the feet of sailors who played by the dikes of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, while Her Majesty’s ships unloaded blankets, boots, and flour, and took on wool, hides, and wheat to make more blankets, boots, and flour on the other side of the world. English citizens — diplomats, and managers of railroad and gas companies — formed the first local teams. The English of Montevideo and Buenos Aires staged Uruguay’s first international competition in 1889, under a gigantic portrait of Queen Victoria, her eyes lowered in a mask of disdain. Another portrait of the queen of the seas watched over the first Brazilian soccer match in 1895, played between the British subjects of the Gas Company and the São Paulo Railway.
Old photographs show these pioneers in sepia tones. They were warriors trained for battle. Cotton and wool armor covered their entire bodies so as not to offend the ladies in attendance, who unfurled silk parasols and waved lace handkerchiefs. The only flesh the players exposed were their serious faces peering out from behind wax-twirled mustaches below caps or hats. Their feet were shod with heavy Mansfield shoes.
It did not take long for the contagion to spread. Sooner rather than later, the native-born gentlemen of local society started playing that crazy English game. From London they imported the shirts, shoes, thick ankle socks, and pants that reached from the chest to below the knee. Balls no longer confounded customs officers, who at first had not known how to classify the species. Ships also brought rulebooks to these far-off coasts of southern America, and with them came words that remained for many years to come: field, score, goal, goalkeeper, back, half, forward, out ball, penalty, offside. A “foul” merited punishment by the “referee,” but the aggrieved player could accept an apology from the guilty party “as long as his apology was sincere and was expressed in proper English,” according to the first soccer rulebook that circulated in the River Plate.
Meanwhile, other English words were being incorporated into the speech of Latin American countries in the Caribbean: pitcher, catcher, innings. Having fallen under U.S. influence, these countries learned to hit a ball with a round wooden bat. The Marines shouldered bats next to their rifles when they imposed imperial order on the region by blood and by fire. Baseball became for the people of the Caribbean what soccer is for us.
Choreographed War
In soccer, ritual sublimation of war, 11 men in shorts are the sword of the neighborhood, the city, or the nation. These warriors without weapons or armor exorcize the demons of the crowd and reaffirm its faith: in each confrontation between two sides, old hatreds and old loves passed from father to son enter into combat.
The stadium has towers and banners like a castle, as well as a deep and wide moat around the field. In the middle, a white line separates the territories in dispute. At each end stand the goals to be bombed with flying balls. The area directly in front of the goals is called the “danger zone.”
In the center circle, the captains exchange pennants and shake hands as the ritual demands. The referee blows his whistle and the ball, another whistling wind, is set in motion. The ball travels back and forth, a player traps her and takes her for a ride until he gets pummeled in a tackle and falls spread-eagled. The victim does not rise. In the immensity of the green expanse, the player lies prostrate. From the immensity of the stands, voices thunder. The enemy crowd emits a friendly roar:
“¡Que se muera!”
“Devi morire!”
“Tuez-le!”
“Mach ihn nieder!”
“Let him die!”
“Kill, kill, kill!”
Tears Do Not Flow from a Handkerchief
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war. Then “sudden death” is no longer just a name for a dramatic way of deciding a tied match. These days, soccer fanaticism has come to occupy the place formerly reserved for religious fervor, patriotic ardor, and political passion. As often occurs with religion, patriotism, and politics, soccer can bring tensions to a boil, and many horrors are committed in its name.
Some believe men possessed by the demon of the ball foam at the mouth, and frankly that image presents a fairly accurate picture of the frenzied fan. But even the most indignant of critics would concede that in most cases violence does not originate in soccer, any more than tears flow from a handkerchief.
In 1969 war broke out between Honduras and El Salvador, two small and very poor Central American countries that for more than a century had been accumulating reasons to distrust one another. Each had always served as the magical explanation for the other’s problems. Hondurans have no work? Because Salvadorans come and take their jobs. Salvadorans are hungry? Because Hondurans mistreat them. Both countries believed their neighbor was the enemy, and the relentless military dictatorships of each did all they could to perpetuate the error.
This war was called the Soccer War because the sparks that set off the conflagration were struck in the stadiums of Tegucigalpa and San Salvador. The trouble began during the qualifying rounds for the 1970 World Cup. There were tussles, a few injuries, several deaths. A week later, the two countries broke off relations. Honduras expelled a hundred thousand Salvadoran peasants who had always worked in that country’s plantings and harvests; Salvadoran tanks crossed the border.
The war lasted a week and killed four thousand people. The two governments, dictatorships forged at a U.S. factory called the School of the Americas, fanned the fires of mutual hatred. In Tegucigalpa the slogan was “Honduran, don’t sit still, grab a stick and a Salvadoran kill.” In San Salvador: “Teach those barbarians a lesson.” The lords of land and war did not lose a drop of blood, while two barefoot peoples avenged their identical misfortunes by killing each other with abandon.
The End of the Match
The ball turns, the world turns. People suspect the sun is a burning ball that works all day and spends the night bouncing around the heavens while the moon does its shift, though science is somewhat doubtful. There is absolutely no question, however, that the world turns around a spinning ball: the final of the '94 World Cup was watched by more than two billion people, the largest crowd ever of the many that have assembled in this planet’s history. It is the passion most widely shared: many admirers of the ball play with her on fields and pastures, and many more have box seats in front of the TV and bite their nails as 22 men in shorts chase a ball and kick her to prove their love.
At the end of the ’94 Cup every child born in Brazil was named Romário, and the turf of the stadium in Los Angeles was sold off like pizza, at twenty dollars a slice. A bit of insanity worthy of a better cause? A primitive and vulgar business? A bag of tricks manipulated by the owners? I’m one of those who believe that soccer might be all that, but it is also much more: a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it. A reporter once asked German theologian Dorothee Sölle, “How would you explain happiness to a child?”
“I wouldn’t explain it,” she answered. “I’d toss him a ball and let him play.”
Professional soccer does everything to castrate that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites. And maybe that’s why soccer never stops being astonishing. As my friend Ángel Ruocco says, that’s the best thing about it — its stubborn capacity for surprise. The more the technocrats program it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, soccer continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs, the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a runty, bowlegged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.
An astonishing void: official history ignores soccer. Contemporary history texts fail to mention it, even in passing, in countries where soccer has been and continues to be a primordial symbol of collective identity. I play therefore I am: a style of play is a way of being that reveals the unique profile of each community and affirms its right to be different. Tell me how you play and I’ll tell you who you are. For many years soccer has been played in different styles, unique expressions of the personality of each people, and the preservation of that diversity seems to me more necessary today than ever before. These are days of obligatory uniformity, in soccer and everything else. Never has the world been so unequal in the opportunities it offers and so equalizing in the habits it imposes. In this end-of-century world, whoever does not die of hunger dies of boredom.
For years I have felt challenged by the memory and reality of soccer, and I have tried to write something worthy of this great pagan mass able to speak such different languages and unleash such universal passion. By writing, I was going to do with my hands what I never could accomplish with my feet: irredeemable klutz, disgrace of the playing fields, I had no choice but to ask of words what the ball I so desired denied me.
From that challenge, and from that need for expiation, this book was born. Homage to soccer, celebration of its lights, denunciation of its shadows. I don’t know if it has turned out the way soccer would have liked, but I know it grew within me and has reached the final page, and now that it is born it is yours. And I feel that irreparable melancholy we all feel after making love and at the end of the match.
Excerpted from Soccer in Sun and Shadow. Copyright © 1997 by Eduardo Galeano and Mark Fried, translation. Published in paperback by Nation Books, 2013. Published in ebook by Open Road Media, 2014; available wherever ebooks are sold. By permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York City and Lamy, New Mexico. All rights reserved.
Eduardo GaleanoEduardo Galeano was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. These excerpts are taken from his final book, Hunter of Stories, translated by Mark Fried.
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Kashmir, Palestine movements can’t be suppressed by force: President
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi Sunday said both Kashmir and Palestine would win freedom one day as no community or religion could be suppressed by force.
“My heart beats with Palestine. My heart beats with Kashmir Pakistan will continue extending moral and political support to Kashmiri people,” the president said while addressing ‘Paigham-e-Islam (Message of Islam) Conference’ held by Pakistan Ulema Council here.
The event was attended by visiting Imam-e-Kaaba Dr Sheikh Abdullah Awad Al Juhany, Minister for Religious Affairs, Pir Noorul Haq Qadri, Chief Justice of Palestinian Shariat Council, Mustafa Al-Tawil, Saudi Ambassador in Pakistan, Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki, Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Allama Tahir Ashrafi, representatives of Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs and religious scholars from across the country.
The conference started with the mesmerising recitation of Surah Rahman by Imam-e-Kaaba, who had also led Friday prayer at Faisal Mosque.
Wearing the Palestinian-flag themed scarf, the president said the Jews must remind that use of force could not eliminate them in the 20th century. Similarly, the freedom movements in Kashmir and Palestine could not be ended forcefully. He advised the religious scholars to spread the message of social revolution from the pulpit that had been the platform for social messaging since the early days of Islam.
He said the clerics must guide the people on social issues like cleanliness, water conservation and tree plantation for being the urgent needs of the country.
Condoling over the loss of lives in terror attack took place in Quetta on Friday, the president said Pakistan had successfully fought out terrorism and the residues would also be eliminated.
Recalling Pakistan’s generous hosting of 3.5 million Afghan refugees, he said, the world must learn compassion and humanity from Islam and Muslims as currently, some western countries were resisting to host even few dozen refugees with others erecting walls to bar them letting them die in the sea.
The president said the journey of social change would accomplish only after the introduction of uniform education system in the country.
Thanking the Saudi leadership for further strengthening ties with Pakistan, he said he believed that no force in the world could harm Muslims if Pakistan and Saudi Arabia stood united for any cause.
Earlier, the president also gave away shields and souvenirs to the visiting dignitaries and also received the same from Imam-e-Kaaba.
Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri said the clerics owed responsibility to create unity among the Muslims and sensitize them on country’s rules and regulations.
Allama Tahir Ashrafi said Pakistan Ulema Council had the distinction of issuing decree against suicide attack terming it as ‘haram’ for the first time in year 2000. The body was also the first to give edict against Daesh, he added.
Chief Judge of Palestine Shariat Council Mustafa Al-Tawil, Dr Abdullah of Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Saudi Ambassador in Pakistan also addressed the gathering.
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Addicks Seal Premier League Cup Victory
Charlton claim away victory.
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Lee Tomlin in action against Charlton
Posh beaten by Charlton Athletic at the ABAX Stadium in the Premier League Cup.
First half goals from Mikhail Kennedy and Ben Dempsey, and a late effort from Jamie Mascoll, were enough to consign a youthful Posh team to defeat in the Premier League Cup.
Charlton had the games’ first good chance, but Posh keeper Aaron Chapman got down well to tip Mascoll’s free kick around the post after four minutes. Kennedy threatened 15 minutes later for the Addicks, but his attempted lob landed just wide of the post.
Darren Lyon had Posh’s first decent chance on the half hour mark, but his left footed shot from the edge of the box was comfortably saved by Henry Newcombe in the Charlton goal. The visitors took the lead after 40 minutes, when Kennedy found himself in the right place at the right time to score a tap in from six yards.
Dempsey extended the advantage four minutes later, when he capitalised on indecisive defending before placing his shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the box. The Posh began the second half on the front foot and started to create chances. Harrison Burrows had the first of those, finding a yard to turn and shoot from the edge of box, but the effort was gathered by Newcombe.
Posh thought they had pulled a goal back just after the hour mark, when Morgan Penfold found the bottom corner, only to see his effort disallowed for offside. Penfold threatened again as the game approached the final 15 minutes, but his shot flew high and wide of the Addicks goal.
Alfie Doughty then had the chance to further extend the Addicks lead, but he fired his shot narrowly wide. They did eventually put the game beyond doubt through left back Mascoll, inside the final ten minutes of the game.
Posh almost pulled a goal back in stoppage time through Isaac Buckley-Ricketts, but he saw his volley fly wide of the Charlton goal.
Posh: Aaron Chapman, Darren Lyon (C), Sam Cartwright, Aaron Smith, Lewis Freestone (Jack Gurney, 45 mins), Kyle Barker, Morgan Penfold, Harrison Burrows, Lee Tomlin, Matty Stevens (Ricky-Jade Jones, 65 mins), Isaac Buckley-Ricketts.
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Tonia Dee is a surface pattern designer and illustrator observing the world through rose-colored glasses. Much of her work starts with an old-school analog approach and is then mixed with modern digital magic. She's quite brilliant at making messes (but a bit below average at cleaning them up) and has an affinity for the playful and quirky.
Tonia was raised in the Midwest, has lived as a Cali-Girl in Los Angeles, and currently lives abroad in Prague with illustrator husband and daughter/muse/picnic partner.
Her work is largely influenced by her travels and adventures, daily life with her young daughter, and her lifelong dream of discovering the land of fairies and mermaids.
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Home > Events > Digital value add: alpha from IT
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Digital value add: alpha from IT
Amanda WhiteApril 4, 2017
Traditional asset managers are in a serious crisis of relevance, William Blair portfolio manager Ken McAtamney said during a panel discussion on digital disruption at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at INSEAD, in France.
“Managers who are stock pickers are at risk of being disrupted,” McAtamney warned. “The move from active to passive has picked up pace, and as an industry we may have been guilty of under-delivering on performance net of fees. There is more on that but we can also focus on improving those things if we are more forward thinking on how we employ technologies in our industry.”
In his presentation, he said the asset-management industry spends about 8-9 per cent of revenue and about 14-15 per cent of total operating costs on IT. This in an industry that generates 40 per cent net operating margins.
The breakdown of IT spending shows the majority is on the back office and operations (50-70 per cent), investment process (10-30 per cent), and client engagement (10-30 per cent).
“IT spending has been focused more on reducing risks and costs than on enhancing alpha,” McAtamney said. “We think there is no replacement for judgement and decision-making, but, at the same time, we need to begrudgingly adopt technology in the front of the house. We’ve invested a lot in the back office, in trading and settlement, because we have to – that’s more defensive spending. Now can we move to using IT to [enhance] fundamental investing and decision-making?
“The focus is on how to process information and how we can come to investment conclusions more efficiently or quickly. That’s where the value add is.”
Ultimately, technology can add more science to the art of investing, but not replace art completely, the panel stated.
Speaking alongside McAtamney was Accenture head of digital strategy Bruno Berthon, who said no matter what’s happening in your market, there’s a lot of ‘digital inside’ that needs to happen.
“It seems the investment industry is investing that 70 per cent into non-discretionary [costs], to keep things running and respond to regulation,” Berthon said. “The big challenge is to find space for discretionary investing, to be innovative. I think the industry needs to be more efficient in the non-discretionary space to make way for that. What is new today will be legacy tomorrow. There is such speed at which technology is changing, you have to be present in the now.”
Keep internal technology in sync
Panellist David Long, senior vice-president and co-chief investment officer at the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), said the biggest lesson the fund has learned in building its internal technology has been to manage the value chain of analytics, execution and workflow in sync.
“We want to make sure idea generation and the ability to execute and manage the workflow from transactions can operate at the same speed,” Long said. “What we want to do with technology is not treat each new investment challenge as a new problem and have to build everything from scratch again.
“We have a 600-person organisation and about half work on investment-related stuff, so we are trying to build platforms everyone can use and synchronise our activity across the organisation. In practice, this is difficult, because there are a lot of different users with different demands and priorities.”
HOOPP has built a number of internal platforms, including an exchange-trading app called octopus, and a repo collateral app called Flash.
Deputy dean of INSEAD Peter Zemsky, a professor of digital transformation who is also responsible for INSEAD’s digital transformation, called digital strategy a big issue for executives.
“Why now? Why is digital shooting up the CEO agenda? It’s absurdly cheap, but also the infrastructure is in place, such as the cloud, and companies that have packaged up data, storage and communication so you can scale it up. A start-up doesn’t need an IT department,” he said.
Zemsky argued that investors need to look at picking the players to take advantage of the digital revolution.
McAtamney added that managers are constantly analysing who the future winners are, but he said “we also feel like we are being disrupted as value adders”.
Accenture, asset managers, Bruno Berthon, David Long, Digital disruption, ealthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, innovation, Ken McAtamney, William Blair
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How Bands Get Booked for Music Festivals
Being a Musician
Gigs & Touring
Being a Musician Gigs & Touring
By Heather McDonald
Festivals - long a favorite summer pastime in Europe - have now taken firm hold among US music fans as the places to see new music. Naturally, that leaves even more bands asking how to get on the bill. Getting booked to play a music festival is extremely competitive, so taking the right approach is the only way to get a foot in the door. Now, I'm not going to kid you and say it's going to be easy - if it was, well, everyone would be doing it - but you can get yourself on stage in front of festival crowds. Get your band booked for a music festival with these tips.
Be Ready For It
Robert Daly/Getty Images
I know, I know - you're ready! But, are you REALLY? This isn't an affront to your music - in fact, at this point, we're really not talking about how good your music is at all. We're talking about - are you ready for the unique demands of playing a music festival?
If you aren't so experienced yet on the live circuit, then you're probably not. Playing a festival is a different beast than playing your local club, so promoters usually look for bands who have a proven track record of commanding a crowd and putting on a solid show. Remember, you're competing with a lot more when you're playing to a massive crowd of people outdoors than you are when you play for your friends at your favorite bar, so you need to have your stage presence on lock - something that only comes with practice.
You'll have the best chances of succeeding at getting booked - and slaying your set - if you do the groundwork of building your stage show first.
Know Your Targets
No, you don't want to play just any old music festival that will have you. That's akin to sending your music to every promoter, label, agent, and so on in town, regardless of the kind of music they work in. Instead, narrow your search and settle on a few target festivals that you would like to play.
Of course, the festivals in question should welcome your genre of music, but make sure they tick other boxes, too. For instance, are there stages suited to bands of your audience size? Would you be able to travel to the festival if your expenses weren't covered by your booking fee or as part of your deal? If you don't have an agent, does the festival welcome submissions directly from musicians? Don't waste energy chasing festivals that aren't a good fit for you, even if they happen to be festivals you enjoy as a music fan. Get in where you fit in, and you'll get booked much easier.
Set a Calendar
Believe it or not, one of the biggest obstacles musicians always face when applying for festivals or other events is simply getting the application, so to speak, in on time. Do not apply to things late. Do not miss deadlines. Create a calendar of submission deadlines to all of the festivals you want to play so the opportunity doesn't pass you by.
No, if you missed the deadline, you can't apply anywhere. Well, you might technically be able to find a way to do so, but don't expect it to get you booked.
Prepare Your Submission Materials
Every festival will have its own submission requirements, but be prepared to need an artist bio and some music, at the very least. It is also a good idea to have a video of you performing ready to be viewed and to have some professional press photos ready to go. You will also need some decent quality recordings to show off your sounds in the best possible light.
When it comes to submitting your music, bio, and so on - submit exactly what is requested - no more and no less. No, sending three songs when two were asked for is not better. No, your bio shouldn't book lengthened. If they're not giving you an opportunity to tell how many shows you've played, don't cram the information in there. Their formula is in place for a reason, and deviating from it is a good way to ensure your music doesn't get listened to at all.
Get Your Social Media Ready
You know, I hate the notion of promoters looking at how many social media followers a musician has as an indication of whether or not to book them so much that I hate to suggest you care. However - that DOES happen and you DO have to care.
And, to be fair, there IS a point there. Having a large number of social media followers isn't the same thing as having a large number of bums in seats, but it does say something about you as a musician. It means you engage your fans and that you're committed enough to promote yourself, which hints that you'll work hard to promote your show and give your fans a good set.
So, with that said, before your apply for a music festival, get your social media numbers up as much as you can and most importantly, get active on your pages. If your last post was two years ago, get a flurry of activity going before you apply.
Don't Be Afraid to Start Small
Does your town have a festival that hosts live music? Sometimes, the best festival to start your festival career at is right in your backyard. Now, sure, it may not be Glastonbury or Bonnaroo, but that's OK. What it is is a chance to put a festival appearance on your resume and get used to that style of playing live. The more you can make a name for yourself, the more interested festival promoters will be about adding you to the bill.
More Dos and Dont's For Getting Booked at Festivals
DO look out for special booking opportunities, like contests in which the prize is an appearance at the festival
DON'T pay to play a festival. This includes festivals that want you to buy tickets to resell to fans yourself. Nope, no way, no how. PLEASE.
DO keep the faith. It's competitive out there! That doesn't mean that you don't belong on the stage. Keep gigging and making music as you keep working on getting a festival slot. Every show, every song, every new fan is a step closer to your goal.
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Thoughts From The Young Actors of The Good Dinosaur #GoodDinoEvent
I was invited by Disney on an all expenses paid trip for my coverage of the #GoodDinoEvent, #ABCTVEvent, & #LionGuardEvent. All opinions are my own.
I had the privilege of being able to be a part of a Q&A with the young men actors who play Arlo, Spot, and Buck in Disney·Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur. Raymond Ochoa (voice of Arlo), Jack Bright (voice of Spot), and Marcus Scribner (voice of Buck). Let me start by saying they are such adorable and smart kids. I was so impressed by how they were all very level headed and down to Earth.
photo credit Louise Bishop / MomStart.com
How did each of you get into character?
Raymond: I did a lot of research on the Apatosaurus. First off, I had no idea what he looked like. After I looked it up, I saw the long neck, he was kind-looking and sweet in the front of it. It’s a Pixar movie so you know it has to be kid-friendly obviously, so it was pretty difficult to make him sound that way. But I think Pete [Director] trusted my voice and making it sound like I was good.
Marcus: It definitely worked. I saw the movie and Raymond’s voice definitely fit the Apatosaurus. I agree with Raymond, it was definitely research, because like he said I had no clue what an Apatosaurus was. What I saw in The Good Dinosaur was like, ‘oh that’s a Brontosaurus’ and then I was like ‘oh, nope, it’s called an Apatosaurus’. So, I did research and definitely getting into character really helped because Buck is really gruff and he’s really tough of a character. He’s very rambunctious. So to play a character like that, I really had to just let all my emotions through and just really give it my all, and play it towards the mic. And doing voice over is very different from live-action so I was really able to release the character.
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Jack: Playing Spot, it was just fun. You would get to make all his noises, you go all-out, you just make noise. Like going around the house annoying my brother, they’re like, “oh how did being so annoying, making all those noises get you to be in a movie?” You make like growling, yelling, it’s very fun.
Raymond: I think he had the toughest character to do. He doesn’t have to talk. You know, you have to bring out emotion just within these howls and growls, all these things, but I think you did an amazing job, amazing.
How long did you guys work on this film?
Raymond: Well it was about a year I had been working on this movie, the past year. But many people have many different answers for this one. I know fellow actors in the movie, they were like, ‘I did a day and it was over’. But, for me, they would call me back, I would do the entire script, then go back home. And they would fly me back up to Pixar, and it was literally just like that. And it was about a six-hour session every time. Every minute I was there I enjoyed it so much, ‘cause literally just people that I was working with, like the director Pete, he is so amazing and he’s so helpful to you by providing you what the scenario was around you. I didn’t have anyone to play with. But, it felt like I was acting with Jack and I was acting with Marcus because he did all those characters. I want to thank Pete because he is such an amazing director.
Marcus: I did close to the amount of time that Raymond did. I was there for about a day (He smiles and laughs) wow, a whole day (he laughs). I agree with Raymond. Working with Peter Sohn was amazing because he really brings the characters to life. He lets you know how he wants the character to be portrayed and it really allowed me to get into the character that was Buck. Because he’s definitely different from the character that I play on television. So getting into a new character was a fun experience Peter has a lot to do with it.
How do you balance being celebrities and the girls and your moms and your dads, how do you balance everything?
Raymond: Well let’s just say it’s the good part of being in the industry. It’s definitely a plus. But, I have three older brothers and they’re all in the entertainment business. Me and my brothers are also actually in a music group together. So I’ve been acting in this business for a pretty long time now. I kind of grew up knowing nothing but being in the entertainment business. Being grounded. I have such amazing parents that help me stay grounded. And I have amazing brothers that guide me throughout my life and help me whenever. So it’s just so amazing. That’s how I really handle it because family is my main key. Right now my main focus is not really on the entire girls’ thing but it’s mainly on my career and being successful at a young age.
Was there a particular scene that you all enjoyed voicing, and then seeing come to life?
Jack: I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I’m looking forward to it. But I’ve watched the trailer a lot to see what’s like. And my favorite part is when Arlo is trying to get the berries from the tree and he falls.
Raymond: I like the scene where me and Spot are in that sand and we start sharing our family. That actually was really touching to me because it was actually really difficult to film that scene. Because Pete, he’s such an amazing director, he knows what he wants. He has his own vision so, I think that was the scene that probably took the longest to film. Because he knew that was gonna be really impactful to the audience.
Marcus: Well, my favorite part is where I get to scare Arlo. That scene took a while to film because my voice is very weird right now. So laughing is a little difficult. But to actually see it on the big screen was really nice and I was like ‘oh wow, I actually sound like I’m laughing’. But Raymond was definitely right, working with Peter is what really got me to that place because he really gives you the direction that he wants you to go in, and you just act it out for him and it translated well onto the big screen.
What traits do you have in common with your characters, and what traits would you like to incorporate from them?
Raymond: With Arlo, I think one of his biggest things and one of his biggest goals is to make his parents proud. His main one is his papa. He really looks up to his papa and I think that’s one of my biggest characteristics. I try to be the best son I can to my parents ‘cause I do respect them a lot. So to be a great son to them, that’s all I really want in life. They do so much for me so I just want to pay them back for all they do. I feel like Arlo is so helpful. So I want to be as helpful as he is to the family. I’m gonna try and be more helpful around the house just like Arlo is on his farm.
Marcus: I really aspire to be like Buck, my character, who’s really self-confident and he’s a real leader. I hope that I have those traits and hopefully I’ll develop them in the future. But Buck is a really cool character and it was really cool to get to play him, he’s very different from my personality in real life.
How does it feel to be a part of Disney Pixar history now?
Marcus: It’s a mind-blowing experience. I grew up watching movies like Toy Story, The Incredibles, all those movies, so working on a Disney Pixar movie is like my dream come true. And for it to be my first voiceover work, it’s really just mind-boggling. It’s amazing.
Jack: Like Marcus said, I grew up watching Cars, like all those movies, I love Disney Pixar. It’s like he said, a dream come true to actually be in one of their movies. I never thought I would be in it.
Raymond: I think my first ever Pixar movie I saw was Monsters Inc. and that’s my personal favorite Pixar movie. And I love Pixar. My other favorite movie in the world is The Incredibles, I love that movie. So being the title character of one, I’m just so grateful that I was given this opportunity because it’s just so incredible. I don’t know how it happened, someone’s looking down on me right now and he’s just like, ‘you know what, I think you should have that opportunity’ and it is such an amazing thing. To be a part of the history now, it’s amazing and I want to thank everyone that gave me that opportunity.
If there’s one thing that you would want people your age to take away from the movie, what would it be?
Marcus: Self-discovery, family and friendship are the three most important things that I took away from the movie. Arlo goes on this whole journey to get back home but, really throughout the whole thing he’s finding himself. So that’s one of the biggest points. And also developing a friendship with Spot. And throughout the entire movie he really has a connection to his family, so I think that’s one of the main points. I think self-discovery is probably what I took away and what I hope that other kids take away from the movie.
Raymond: Don’t judge a book by its cover, because Arlo judges spot to be this mean and evil person but, later on in the film he realizes how caring and loving he really is. I think everyone should take away the fact, don’t judge someone, because you really don’t know who they are. You don’t know them, you don’t know about them. They could be the most caring person and you see something else.
It was great to talk with these young men. They were so adorable and we grabbed a quick group photo with them at the end.
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Reading: Revisiting Maine’s lobster commons: rescaling political subjects
Revisiting Maine’s lobster commons: rescaling political subjects
Jennifer F. Brewer
East Carolina University, US
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy East Carolina University
Calls for cross-scalar theoretical and methodological approaches are not new to commons scholarship. Such efforts might be hastened by channelling poststructuralist and critical theory perspectives through the geographic subfield of political ecology, including attention to political scales and subjects. Toward this end, this paper reconsiders Maine’s lobster fishery. This case has provided rich material for watershed commons scholarship, demonstrating the ability of social groups to conserve resources independent of government or markets, and it continues to offer new findings. Recent fieldwork shows that as lobster boat captains advance collective interests through state-supported co-management governance arrangements, concerns of crew and non-fishing community members may be marginalized. Regulatory exclusion prevents broader distribution of resource benefits at a time when employment alternatives are scarce. More pluralistic approaches to commons theory and its policy application have utility well beyond the lobster case.
Keywords: Co-management , fisheries , Homarus americanus , lobster , privatization , United States
How to Cite: Brewer, J.F., 2012. Revisiting Maine’s lobster commons: rescaling political subjects. International Journal of the Commons, 6(2), pp.319–343. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.336
Published on 29 Aug 2012
Over almost a quarter century, anthropologist Jim Acheson’s seminal monograph The Lobster Gangs of Maine (1988) has introduced thousands of readers to common property theory. Urbanites and suburbanites are often fascinated with the book’s description of a lobsterfisherman’s1 workday, and conflicts over access to fishing grounds. Some perceive for the first time that society can organize beyond the reach of government and markets to encourage collectively beneficial human behaviours. If we follow the case through Acheson’s more recent work, that of economist Jim Wilson, and references in the writings of Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom and fellow travelers, we see more clearly how the fishery sheds new light on theories of institutions, games, and complex systems (Berkes et al. 1989; Acheson and Knight 2000; Ostrom 2005, 2009; Wilson 2007; Wilson et al. 2007; Acheson and Gardner 2011). We also learn that the jurisdictional environment in which Maine lobstermen operate has evolved into co-management, a sharing of resource decision making between government and resource users (Acheson 2003). This arrangement of nested informal and formal institutions opens new possibilities to investigate cross-scalar dynamics, phenomena less thoroughly considered by commons scholars thus far (Agrawal 2002; Dietz et al. 2003; Young 2006; Berkes 2008).
Provided with this solid empirical and conceptual platform comprising three decades of data adeptly theorized by leading commons theorists, the present paper re-examines the Maine lobster case through a somewhat different lens, and offers complimentary findings. Its approach is rooted in the discipline of geography, entraining intersecting perspectives of political ecology, poststructuralism, and feminist critical theory, all of which play central roles in contemporary geographic scholarship. Specifically, this paper focuses on political scales, and associated understandings of the political subject. In doing so, it revisits collective action solutions to common pool resource management dilemmas in nested institutional contexts, with a geographic appreciation for scale as both causal and contingent (Sayre 2005; Stallins 2012). Data collection and analysis explicitly consider multiple scales and subjectivities, including the strategic formation of collective identities, and corresponding mobilization of local or supra-local political resources. In addition to assessing the capacity of lobster license holders to collectively advance shared interests, this synthesis facilitates understanding of the extent to which those apparent solutions address, aggravate, or marginalize present and future concerns of more diverse publics. It investigates multiple junctures at which political subjects are constituted and re-constituted, including arenas in which access to fishery-related resources is determined. Like any scholarship fully informed by poststructuralist feminism, it claims only a partial perspective, exposing a reality that persists in tandem with other narratives, including the important work by Acheson and others. Rules of resource use that seem rational or desirable at one unit of analysis, may entail tradeoffs at another. This recognition leverages questions about the evolution of commons scholarship, and about co-management, which has become a normative natural resource policy model, especially in less developed and indigenous contexts (Agrawal and Gibson 1999; Dongier et al. 2002; Wilson et al. 2003; Mansuri and Rao 2004; Feit and Spaeder 2005; Young 2006; Armitage et al. 2008; Nelson and Agrawal 2008; Rasul et al. 2011). It echoes prior work in other fisheries, demonstrating how management changes can inadvertently exacerbate conservation or equity concerns (Copes 1986; Munk-Madsen 1998; National Research Council 1999; Eythórsson 2000; Mansfield 2004; Degnbol et al. 2006; Pinkerton and Edwards 2009; Gibbs 2010; Carothers 2011).
1.1. The geographic lens of political ecology
Roughly simultaneous with the emergence of interdisciplinary common property theory in the 1980s and 1990s, which was strongly informed by ecological anthropology (e.g. Netting 1976; McCay and Acheson 1987; Wade 1988) and of which a central strain tended toward rational choice theory (e.g. Ostrom et al. 1991; Baland and Platteau 1996; Acheson 1998), anthropologists and geographers cultivated a shared literature on political ecology. This emerged directly out of cultural ecology (Blaikie and Brookfield 1987; Ellen 1988; Turner 1989; Rappaport 1990; Robbins 2004), the latter having already borrowed systems theory from the relatively young biological subfield of ecology (Moran 1990; Zimmerer 1996). While anthropologists adopted systems frameworks within the Stewardian ethnographic tradition of ecological anthropology, geographers introduced it to the Sauerian tradition of landscape morphology, or historical narratives of land use and resource management (Sauer 1941; Steward 1955; Brookfield 1964; Orlove 1980; Bebbington and Carney 1990). These two variants of political ecology increasingly inform one another, yet the anthropological retains its more ethnographic and deeply discursive focus, while the geographic remains more intent on material outcomes and cross-scalar analyses. Both rely on mainly qualitative methods of field data collection and analysis at local scales to raise questions about differential access to ecological goods and services as a causal driver in dynamic human-environment systems. Political ecology has thus arisen as a central movement within the scholarship of human-environment relations alongside common property theory, and many political ecologists and common property theorists are familiar with the other literature. Since few scholars publish routinely for both audiences, however, it would seem that deeper exchange is overdue. In particular, political ecology gains traction from tenets of poststructural and critical theory, which commons theory has not generally embraced.
The importance of political scale to geographers should be obvious, especially to those understanding the discipline as the study of spatial relations more than the study of human-environment relationships (e.g. Brenner 2001; Cox 2003; cf. Turner 2002). Central to the present paper, poststructuralist theory replaces deterministic tendencies of hierarchical and binary structuralist frameworks that fix dependent and independent variables at particular scales. Scalar fixity can expose certain phenomena and obscure others, lending an aura of completeness and finality to politico-theoretical constructs. By contrast, a poststructuralist proclivity for scalar pluralism encourages competing analyses at alternate scales, and can more easily cross the boundaries between public and private spheres presumed by pre-feminist liberalism (e.g. Marston 2000; Gal 2002; Popke 2003). We might think of poststructuralism as the humanistic strain of complexity theory, reaching commons theory by a parallel but epistemologically distinct route (cf.Cox 2011). Explicitly or not, most political ecologists accept general precepts of poststructuralism, recognizing the fluidity and emergent nature of relationships between mutually constitutive social constructions, such as hegemon and subaltern, knowledge and power, local and global, and symbolic and socio-material (e.g. Escobar 1996; Rocheleau et al. 1996; Mosse 2003).
In turn, poststructuralism has close linkages to feminism, especially in the French psychoanalytic tradition, and feminists are largely responsible for introducing poststructuralism to geography and political ecology (e.g. Gibson-Graham 1995; Massey 1995; Katz 2001; Rocheleau and Roth 2007; Elmhirst 2011; Nightingale 2011). Research informed by feminist perspectives, whether structuralist or poststructuralist, tends to accommodate phenomena at the scales of households and individuals, recognizing that pre-feminist scholarship often ignores variables relating to unpaid domestic labour, and lived experiences of women and other household members perceived by researchers or informants as marginal to the central concerns of adult men. Moving forward the ethical projects of critical theory, more committed feminist analyses trace causal linkages that cross from household and individual scales to larger spatial scales such as village, state, and markets. They note both the influence of larger scales on smaller ones, and the extent to which resistance strategies at smaller scales, including interpersonal, knowledge, and cultural-symbolic struggles often excluded from pre-feminist conceptions of the political realm, can influence larger scale phenomena (e.g. Enloe 2000; Harding 2008).
Though more so in anthropology than in geography, some political ecologists have actively engaged in the cultural turn among social sciences, including understandings of multivalent personal identities as social constructions (e.g. Biersack and Greenberg 2006; Rocheleau and Roth 2007; Elmhirst 2011). Some with poststructural inclinations explore subjectivity more deeply, rejecting dualistic taxonomies of structure and agency that undergird some structuralist work. Poststructuralism instead finds analytic purchase in conceptions of multiple human experiences and symbolic-representational domains as mutually constitutive, and therefore existing in states of constant plurality, flux, and transformation (e.g. Kristeva 1986 [1973]; Cixous and Clément 1986 [1975]). Merged with critical theory, this opens opportunities to theorize emergent subjectivities, simultaneous subjugation and resistance, and embodied relations shaped by a multiplicity of motivations, rationalities, allegiances, and materialities. Unlike the structuralism of conventional Marxist political economy, poststructural critical theory recognizes that social status or positionality is relative and contextual, not absolute.
2. Retelling the familiar tale of Maine’s lobster commons
Amply documented, the Maine lobster fishery offers classic collective action solutions to free rider challenges in natural resource management (Acheson 1988, 1997; Berkes et al. 1989; Feeny et al. 1990; Acheson and Knight 2000; Ostrom 2005; Wilson et al. 2007). The most repeated stories revolve around lobster boat captains, their daily lobster chase, and related events on the water. Lobstermen create rules that constrain lobstering effort, some enforced through local custom, others codified as law or regulation. Longstanding legal rules maintain reproductive capacity, including harvest protections for egg-bearing female lobsters, and for small and large lobsters (Acheson 1997). Lobstermen both compete and cooperate beyond the scope of law, forming harbour-based groups to claim areas of ocean bottom for the setting of lobster traps, and using social and physical sanctions to enforce those area boundaries. Physical sanctions can include damaging or destroying fishing gear, equipment, or other property, or spoken or unspoken threats of violence to person or property. Social sanctions can include gossip, slander, or shunning, all of which can have significant consequences in the dense economic networks of fishing villages (Acheson 1988; Brewer 2012). Lobstermen use similar sanctions to prevent newcomers from lobstering unless they have strong local ties, usually premised on kinship. More recently, they also use regulatory means to prevent newcomers from lobstering, restricting entry primarily to teenagers with a multi-year commitment to lobstering. The state of Maine has enabled a sharing of co-management responsibility between fishermen and government, with outcomes that are widely praised (Acheson and Brewer 2000; Acheson and Taylor 2001; Acheson 2003; Wilson et al. 2007; Steneck and Wilson 2010). State government now largely supports the customary management regime, though gross violations of the law are penalized more vigorously than in the past.
Less often told by scholars are narratives about fishing crew and non-fishing members of fishing-dependent towns. Also less explored are relationships between the fishery and government agencies, and between the lobster fishery and other fisheries that share overlapping fishing group memberships, fishing grounds, and habitat and trophic variables linking lobster to other fished species (Brewer 2010, 2012). These broader narratives raise new questions about politico-lobstering identities and scales of analysis as understood by commons scholars. In fact, if we adopt an analytical lens informed by the geographic variant of political ecology, a more mixed assessment of social and material outcomes somewhat dampens optimism about co-management of the lobster commons. As some lobster fishery interests advance, gaining unprecedented management influence, more broadly defined interests of coastal villages recede from those decision arenas. These changes take place against a backdrop of larger social changes, but can nonetheless be partly traced to co-management mechanisms and associated shifts in salient political scales and subjectivities. As described following, one cluster of changes is most readily framed in terms of policy and regulation, and includes associated shifts in fishing practices and the parameters of fishery membership. A second cluster pertains to individual and household livelihood strategies within the context of local economies. Evidence integrates prior empirical work with my own field data conducted between 1989 and 2012 (Acheson and Brewer 2000; Brewer 2010, 2011, 2012).
2.1. Fishing practices and policies
Existing case literature documents a causal chain by which federal lobster management preferences at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration influenced the New England Fishery Management Council, which was the lead regional regulatory body in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which was the lead regional regulatory body from the 1990s onward. In turn, Maine’s executive and legislative decision makers found themselves cornered between federal pressures, state commitments to represent the interests of its fishing communities, and limited logistical ability to enforce unpopular regulations on thousands of boats from dozens of harbours (Acheson and Taylor 2001; Acheson 2003; Brewer 2012). Of these regulatory challenges, the most immediately relevant to our discussion involved federal efforts in the early 1990s to set a uniform, region-wide maximum number of lobster traps per lobstering boat. Opposition to a federally-mandated trap limit arose in Maine, partly among a few locally-described “hogs” who were setting unprecedented numbers of traps, but also among less greedy fishermen who had always been free to tailor individualized fishing strategies, including trap numbers. Lobstermen normally make strategic capital and labour investment decisions in response to considerations such as the spatial and temporal availability of harvestable lobsters; local tidal and seafloor characteristics; fluctuations in dockside lobster prices; prices of variable inputs such as fuel, bait, and labour; capital investments in boat and engine; personal physical health; desire for shoreside time with family; crew availability; and peer norms (Acheson 1998, 2003; Brewer 2012). Regulatory interference in such decisions was rare before the 1990s.
Caught between federal pressure and industry resistance, leadership at Maine Department of Marine Resources averted a jurisdictional showdown on trap limits by devolving decision authority. They created seven state lobster co-management zones with elected councils, each including several harbours (see Figure 1). They granted lobster license holders the power to vote by majority rule for or against a trap limit in their zone, and on the maximum number of traps allowed under such a limit. Because a majority of license holders supported the general concept of a trap limit, but varied in views about the locally appropriate maximum number of traps, each zone eventually passed its own limit (Acheson 1998, 2003; Acheson and Taylor 2001). Initially, trap limit supporters wished to constrain hogs, and reduce trap tangles caused by excessive, hastily set, and infrequently tended gear. A majority soon concluded that trap limits also reallocate an aggregate lobster harvest that is relatively constant in the overall percentage of available lobsters trapped. With a smaller number of better-tended traps, average catch per trap haul increased. Trap limits thereby introduced new incentives for boats fishing fewer traps to set more, reducing some of the most exaggerated income disparities among boats previously fishing vary large or very small numbers of traps, and now fishing more equal amounts of gear. As a result, it is likely that trap limits slowed the statewide rate of trap increase, but they did not reduce the total number of traps (Acheson and Brewer 2000; Brewer 2012). In the view of Maine’s state lobster biologist, after observing the fishery closely for more than a decade, trap limits may not be very effective as a lobster conservation tool unless set at levels about half what most zones established (field notes, 2008). More revealing of problems intrinsic to the co-management governance arrangement, however, questions arise as to the socio-ecological value of a large lobster population. The population has repeatedly broken records over the last two decades, supporting record profits that compensate for low dockside prices caused by the global economic recession. While the large lobster population is often attributed to careful state management, including local norms and co-management (Acheson 1988, 2003; Acheson and Taylor 2001), it is likely that water temperatures, declines in predator populations, and the availability of bait in lobster traps are also causal drivers (Steneck and Wilson 2001; Saila et al. 2002; Chang et al. 2010).
Much of the federal pressure to maintain high lobster populations, with trap limits and other means, comes from mandates in the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976, and amendments in the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. Law requires that all managed fish species maintain maximum sustainable yield, a standard derived by fisheries scientists in the early and mid 20th century from agricultural and industrial production models (Larkin 1977; Pahl-Wostl 1995; St. Martin 2001; Finley 2009). The impossibility of maintaining multiple species at maximum levels is obvious, especially with datasets on species abundance that vary in spatial and temporal extent, and therefore generate different historical and spatial baselines. The Congressional mandates, as interpreted by environmental organizations, courts, and government lawyers, make it difficult for stock assessments to address spatial and temporal heterogeneity, such as variables relating to benthic habitat, oceanographic conditions, trophic relations, fishing gear usage, or species cycles of migration, growth, and reproduction. Assessment scientists generally assume that their datasets have sufficient spatial and temporal coverage to incorporate these variables, despite extensive evidence to the contrary (Ludwig et al. 1993; Wilson et al. 1999; Jackson et al. 2001; Ames 2004; Walters et al. 2005). More concerning, “limited access” and “catch share” policies promoted increasingly by federal managers since the 1980s, and intended to maintain maximum sustainable yield, discourage fishermen from adapting to dynamic marine systems by shifting fishing effort among a number of target species (Wilson et al. 1991; Brewer 2011). Regulatory mechanisms reflecting these policies prevent the entry of new fishermen, locking holders of permits into maximal usage of each existing permit, to avoid losing it in the likelihood of future regulatory restrictions on purportedly “underutilized” permits or harvest allocations. In many fisheries, catch share mechanisms make limited access permits and associated harvest allocations saleable, further increasing the incentive to maximize species harvests, lest the resale value of the permit decline.
Despite efforts by Maine decision makers to avoid observed problems with regulatory entry limits and catch shares, lobster co-management followed the same pattern (Brewer 2012). Shortly after the zones limited trap numbers, most requested, and were granted, permission to reduce the number of lobstering licenses issued by the state, first at moderate rates of decrease, then more drastically. This has effectively closed the fishery, except to young people who can still gain access if they hold a student license for three years before turning 18. Most zones have accumulated license waiting lists years long. Only one zone remains open, with no regulatory entry limit. Few license holders now retire their licenses, knowing they can never be replaced, and anticipating the possibility that license transfer or sale might be legalized in the future. Transferable licenses for some other New England fisheries, especially scallops, have brought windfall profits of one or two million US dollars. An effect of near closure in the lobster fishery has been to concentrate lobster earnings among a small number of coastal residents at a time when lobstering profits hit record highs, while other jobs and earnings endure recession-induced lows. This has been accomplished in the zones through anonymous, mail-in ballot voting for low ratios of license issues to license non-renewals, so that lobstermen have excluded neighbours and kin without public scrutiny or participation (Brewer 2012). Anonymous voting mechanisms and entry limits effectively removed lobster fishery decision making from its broader social context. In the past, lobster politics were enmeshed with the interests of other fisheries, shoreside businesses, kinship, and household economies. Many fishermen participated in a number of fisheries (Acheson 1988; Wilson 1990; Brewer 2010). Each also contributed to, and benefitted from, a diversity of paid and unpaid labour in household, kin, and village economies. While lobster license holders always played dominating roles in lobster fishery decisions, they were somewhat constrained by dense social networks. They relied heavily on non-lobstermen for essential shoreside goods and services, and for access to other fisheries (Acheson 1988; Wilson 1990; Brewer 2012). Since zone creation, state lobster politics are now under more exclusive purview of lobster license holders.
Concurrently, state legislative oversight has lessened on many fishery agency and zone decisions. This was one rationale for co-management zone creation, since the potential for jurisdictional conflicts was rising. Prior to the 1990s, Maine’s legislature played a central role in lobster management (Acheson 1988, 2003). Under new federal policies promoting limited access and catch shares to satisfy simplistic species yield models, pressures on the state legislature increased from federal, regional, and state fishery management agencies, and from the fishing industry (Brewer 2012). In cases of state non-compliance with regional mandates, federal agencies can withhold funds otherwise destined for state coffers. Further, increasingly computational stock assessments raise the level of statistical and biological knowledge required for management decisions. The lobster industry has held a special place in Maine’s identity and political life for several decades, but since zone creation, lobster license holders have become more organized, more politically adept, more confident in promoting their interests, and more bold in obstructing others. Under zone co-management, the state fisheries agency retains lobster fishery jurisdiction, but political incentives are high to oblige any vote of a zone majority. Knowing this, most zones have discussed the possibility of further restricting licenses for those under the age of 18. Non-license-holding crew are unable to cast zone votes, though most boats employ one crew member, and many crew are highly lobster-dependent, with few marketable skills outside the fishing industry. Even as other fisheries struggle to maintain viable businesses due to fish migratory changes, fish population declines, and regulatory constraints, when lobstermen accidentally catch those species in traps, they routinely spear them as bait instead of releasing them to grow and reproduce. Some lobstermen use new zone boundaries and membership to legitimize setting traps on bottom once exclusively controlled by neighbouring harbour groups (Brewer 2012). More open conflicts between lobstermen and other fishermen have increased, with more lobstermen accusing otter trawlers2 of wrecking traps, and more trawlers accusing lobstermen of setting traps on grounds previously dedicated to trawling.
Engineers of the lobster zones, including state agency personnel, academics, industry members, and legislative representatives, wished to avoid precisely this kind of species specialization and commodification (Brewer 2012). Given federal trends toward entry barriers and catch shares, in the absence of state intervention, they anticipated shifts in the industry’s diversified and adaptive thinking about multiple ecological relationships and overlapping management interests toward a narrower set of fishery-specific interests as understood in the more exclusive and utilitarian calculus of individual license holders. They hoped, however, that industry participation in the new zone co-management arenas would prevent such shifts, given the more communitarian ethic of Maine’s rural fishing communities, with an interest in providing sustainable livelihoods to their children and grandchildren. Instead, license holders seized on the unprecedented opportunity to advance their immediate interests, modelling exclusionary proposals after trends in fisheries such as scallops and groundfish, where federal pressure for entry closure and catch shares has made faster progress. They felt particularly justified in doing so since most lobstermen had been closed out of scalloping and groundfishing by federal regulations supported by some scallop and groundfish permit holders. Interestingly, those closures were accomplished through the New England Fishery Management Council, which is itself a co-management entity, albeit a regional one with little opportunity for local input (Butler et al. 2001; Brewer 2011). These cascading changes in fisheries policy and regulatory frameworks, initiated at the federal level, but advanced at the state and local level, have reconfigured the political subjectivities of lobster license holders. Where they were once constrained by local relationships among household members, kin, and neighbours, license holders are now more free to advance personal interests and consolidate economic and political power.
2.2. Livelihoods, households, and villages
Beyond the relatively formalized context of policy and state-enabled rulemaking, subtler changes have taken hold. These are deeply embedded in the personal identities of lobster fishermen and fellow villagers, affecting livelihood strategies and the terms of interpersonal relationships. Some of these changes are woven into larger social trends, partially driven by forces distant from lobstering villages. Nonetheless, new rationalities are also inspired by the unprecedented capacities for political autonomy among lobster license holders under the new co-management regime.
For at least a half century, and likely since European settlement, multi-generational families in coastal villages have maintained deep and pervasive kin ties, including economic interdependencies. Many live close to immediate family, often on land that is given, inherited, or purchased below market value, in houses built by kin and neighbours. In addition to fishing for cash income, subsistence and barter activities have been essential components of diversified livelihood strategies. Family and friends assist with activities such as maintaining fishing boats and gear, providing wood for heat, hunting and gathering, vegetable gardens, vehicle and mechanical repairs, home and property maintenance projects, childcare, eldercare, and domestic chores (Brewer 2012). Kin relationships also carry symbolic meanings, and influence social and political standing (Acheson 1988; Brewer 2012). Surname-based reputations, allegiances, quarrels, prejudices, and power often endure for decades.
Prior to the introduction of co-management zones, and especially secret ballot voting, lobster fishery decisions were made by individuals embedded deeply within this dense and complex social milieu of local kin and neighbours. Coastal villages have long held boat captains in high esteem, but historically lobster boat captains fell lower on the hierarchy than captains of larger fishing and freight vessels. The status of crew has always been low, though in the past, the more hardworking and capable among them had reasonable aspirations to captain their own boats in the future. Wives and other family members of lobstermen rarely voiced opinions on lobstering activities per se, and those doing so were easily overruled by boat captains. Most fishermen were nonetheless reliant on wives and family for shoreside labour, and therefore somewhat cognizant of their concerns and interests. Virtually all wives relayed messages for fishermen, and timed meals, laundry, and other household activities to accommodate fishing schedules. Many kept all financial records for the household and business, ran business-related errands, and provided food and additional support to crew.
The last two decades brought major changes to southern Maine coastal communities, and less dramatic changes to more northeastern coastal villages, which are farther removed from suburbanization trends. An influx of relatively wealthy seasonal visitors and year-round residents from more urban parts of the northeastern U.S. to the gentrifying coast spurred growth in services and construction, offering new employment options for both women and men, in jobs that increase exposure to non-fishing and non-local interests. These include the building trades, landscaping, retail, and provision of food, beverages, accommodations, recreational activities, financial and legal services, health care and personal services. The new jobs are less physically demanding than fishing, and, prior to the recession, seemed to offer more reliable incomes, with more predictable advancement opportunities. Many such jobs are not located in peninsular fishing villages, but in towns a few miles inland, with larger populations, more diversified economies, and closer access to major roads. They help women join the paid economy and become less reliant on the fishing incomes of men. Less household labour is devoted to barter and natural resource economies. Non-fishing men and women are less apt to claim a stake in fishing futures as family, neighbours, or providers of fishery-related goods and services, and are unlikely to object to the exclusion of new license holders from lobstering.
Given this context, fishing villages were already changing prior to lobster co-management. The recession interrupted these trends by dramatically reducing non-fishing employment options, however. Many of the new income streams have slowed dramatically. Small construction-related businesses that employed three to five people in 2007 were scarcely employing one or two by 2011 (field interviews, 2007, 2009, 2011). Available jobs in health care, hospitality, and professional services require skill sets unfamiliar to most would-be lobstermen, and most casualties of the construction bust. Most available jobs are in urban areas, requiring unmanageable commutes from fishing villages. For Mainers without jobs, and without job prospects, lobstering is no longer the fallback option it always was in the past. It is now only a realistic choice for those who have held a license and renewed it annually for more than a decade, for those willing to crew with no hope of ever running a boat themselves, and for those younger than 15 with the foresight to get and renew a license. This exclusivity affects not only would-be lobsterfishermen, but their partners, families, and neighbours. In addition to providing the unpaid labour described above, some villagers, especially those without full time paid jobs, would have helped increase and circulate household lobstering income by painting buoys, stuffing bait bags, or crewing, especially since the presence of women on lobster boats and wharves has become more socially accepted in recent years.
In other respects, zone letters have replaced more traditional identities. For most of the twentieth century, new fishermen were often prevented from establishing a viable lobstering business, or setting traps in certain areas, due to absent or tenuous kin relationships, a relatively short period of local residence, or some unusual personal history. They might be warned or ostracized, their traps might be cut off, other personal property might be damaged, or they might experience personal threats (Acheson 1988; Brewer 2012). There were sometimes openings for negotiation, however, such as moving traps to different bottom, talking it out, seeking and mobilizing allies within the fishery to retaliate or lobby on one’s behalf, or patiently waiting out the opposition (Brewer 2012). Under regulatory entry limits, negotiation is impossible. Zone-affiliated lobstering identities are thus more permanent and exclusive than their pre-zone incarnations. Now, if someone stops lobstering, such as to retire, do other work, or recover from illness or injury, the license is usually renewed, since it can never be regained, once lost. In the past, lobstering was perceived as something more like a repeated choice, even if one made every day for an entire lifetime. Some people never did any other kind of paid work, but there was always other work to be done for subsistence and barter. One often had the option of leaving the boat ashore to do something else for a few months or longer, such as building a house or recovering from an injury. Some went on longer and more distant fishing trips for scallops, groundfish, or tuna, on their own boats or larger ones.
Given the security of a limited entry license that excludes many prospective competitors, plus a recent history of record lobster harvests and profits, many lobstermen took on large loans and mortgages in the 1990s and 2000s. While a used lobster skiff and gear can be found for less than US$15,000, a big new boat, engine, and traps can easily amount to more than US$100,000. As global markets continue to reel from the 2008 economic crisis, ex-vessel lobster prices have fallen to multi-decade lows. In some eastern Maine harbours, where landings have been exceptionally high, gross profits are still recordbreaking (field notes, January 2010). In westerly harbours, however, where landings have levelled off, lobstermen with large debt can barely break even (Acheson and Acheson 2010: field notes, March, 2012). They now have no choice but to go lobstering, and go hard, because there are no other jobs available that could pay those loans. Further, some fear that present lobstering histories may be used to qualify for future lobstering access, if lobster populations decline and fleet consolidation emerges as a proposed regulatory response. Such a scenario would closely mimic other limited entry fisheries, especially federally managed ones, where landings histories determine catch quota allocations. While some of the impetus to incur unprecedented lobster business debt arises from record lobstering profits, state-supported entry restrictions lend a sense of economic entitlement and political confidence to license holders.
Identities of lobster-reliant villagers thereby reify as the state and fellow lobstermen grant apparently permanent lobstering privileges. Concurrently, non-lobstering identities of villagers denied those privileges also become entrenched. Especially in more eastern towns, boat captains as young as their early 20s proudly command shiny new trucks and boats, while non-lobstering peers and elders choose between paying for home repairs and health care. Some lobstermen now grappling with low lobster prices more loudly lament their exclusion from other fisheries, and use the argument to advance license transfer proposals. One said publicly to state legislators, “Ever since you put us in a box…. It used to all connect. Now you’ve got us all boxed in or divided and conquered or whatever it is… I lost my scallop license. I lost numerous licenses… It’s always been a family thing.” He then asserted that kids with trust funds are fishing in his zone, and argued that he should be allowed to sell his license. His rhetorical strategy posits lobster license sale as the solution to inter-species flexibility lost through consolidation of access to scallops and other fisheries. Inviting accusations of ethical fallacy, and shirking any personal liability by establishing that government and the idle rich are responsible for precipitating wrongs, he offers privatization as appropriate redress for the errors of privatization, since this time he would end up on the winning end of the deal.
Legal exclusivity has cultivated a more governmentalized rationality among license holders. Lobstermen previously perceived government and law as marginal to lobstering activities. They generally accepted the few existing regulations, including bans on the taking of productive females and undersize and oversize lobsters, as means to protect the industry from lobster population declines experienced in the 1920s and 1930s (Acheson and Steneck 1997). In sharp contrast, day-to-day determination of who got to fish and where was centred around harbour-based concerns. Kin and neighbours served as fishery gatekeepers. Local relationships comprised the primary means of personal influence on access opportunities, whether through combative or cooperative strategies. Now, state government is the central ally in decisions and constraints concerning access. This effectively segregates license holder interests from the more complex interdependencies of coastal villages. State administration of voting enables aggregated license holder preferences to supersede discussion that might have taken place at the local level.
Judgment as to the desirability or undesirability of this governmentalization depends partly on whether one focuses on moments of local, extra-governmental discussion that might be characterized as pluralistic, communitarian, or fraught with prejudice and discrimination. Indeed, all such moments can be observed, at different times, in different places. One can argue that the lobster zones opened more neutral spaces for public deliberation that are transparent to state oversight, in which lobster license holders can consider the merits of any change in the allocation of resource access, and cast a vote in without fear of reprisals for dissent. Minority interests might thereby be better protected, even while the majority rules. In this liberal perspective, the politico-lobstering subject might be seen as modernized, removed from the archaic pressures of nepotism and prejudice. In newly administrative fishery decisions arenas, reason is expected to overcome emotion, yielding more rational outcomes. From a more communitarian perspective, however, the zones shift the scale of lobstering activities, lobstering identities, and the political leverage of lobstering interests in ways that incur long-term costs to collective interests of coastal communities. The state and license holders allied to accomplish regulatory exclusion, veiled in conservation rhetoric, and largely without visible opposition. They removed resource management decision making from local publics, where ideals of equal opportunity, justice, and pluralist identities might be voiced, and where debate might compare these lofty ideas to lived realities. In this time of economic uncertainty, without legal entry limits, villagers might have exerted sufficient pressure on lobstermen to allow more new boat captains among kin and neighbours, distributing lobstering profits more equitably, not just among the anointed few. This paper cannot aspire to resolve those debates, though they are relevant to the broader development of common property theory, and its relationship to longstanding tensions in democratic theory. Less ambitiously, the following returns to the aforementioned geographic traditions in poststructural political ecology and critical theory, with the more modest intent to leverage additional analytic purchase on issues of scale and subjectivity as they may impinge on the margins of these democratic debates, and on associated policy implications of commons scholarship.
3. Political scales and subjectivities
Recognition of political scales as multiple and interactive reveals important insights in the lobster case. Assessed from the perspective of lobster license holders, lobster co-management seems to be a success. License holders have agreed to constrain fishing effort through trap limits and entry limits. Lobster populations are abundant and trap increases have slowed, increasing or stabilizing average catch per unit of fishing effort, as measured in labour and monetary inputs. It is not clear, however, that the lobster population would have declined without these constraints. Discrepancies in scalar assumptions about lobster population dynamics linger between federal and state scientists. Further, at village to statewide scales, questions arise about the public value of large lobster populations, the distribution of benefits and costs of lobster conservation, and the status of other ecological goods and services co-located with lobster. Distribution of lobstering income is now restricted to a narrower group of direct beneficiaries. This narrowing will continue unless some action is taken to reverse it, as a disproportionate number of older license holders age into retirement, and the state issues few new licenses. In western harbours, teenagers have little financial incentive to maintain a license now, unless they anticipate that lobster prices will rise as the economy improves. While rebounding profits are quite possible, from global economic recovery or reduced fishing input costs with lower trap limit proposals, teenagers tend to pursue immediate rewards, with less interest in possible futures. Those without three-year license histories when they turn 18 face 12–20 year waiting lists.
From the perspective of non-lobstering fishermen and their households, the increasingly powerful lobster lobby can overwhelm other fishing interests, both locally and in formal management. Groundfishermen increasingly encounter gear conflicts with lobster traps, and local groundfish population recovery is hindered by lobstermen spearing live fish as bait. Diversified fishermen who also set lobster traps are particularly vulnerable if they protest, risking trap losses. Paradoxically, the older management regime accommodated flexibility and pluralism at the local level in ways that the present co-management regime does not. Formal and informal rulemaking activities were conducted in dual spheres, one state controlled, one locally controlled. Regulation focused on how to fish, such as by what size and reproductive criteria to select marketable catch, not what species to fish for. Fishermen could switch target species on an annual or interannual basis, depending on species abundance, markets, fishing or non-fishing labour availability, or physical capabilities related to age or health. Since zone co-management merged local and state management roles, pluralism is less in these respects. Zone entry limits, and the prospect of further fleet consolidation, draw legal boundaries between dedicated lobster boat captains and other villagers (Brewer 2012). The latter group includes non-fishing would-be-lobstermen, non-lobstering fishermen for other species, casual or dedicated lobstering crew who don’t hold licenses, members of lobstering families who play shore support roles, and other residents of coastal villages. Formerly diversified fishermen are now pressured to specialize in lobster or another species. The zones are not simply mediators between local and state-regional regimes; they disaggregate lobster license holder interests from diversified fishing and non-fishing publics. This affects not only management outcomes, but micro-scale institutions of household and village life. Zone meetings erode the centrality of informal, iterated conversations in such places as kitchens and workshops, where local non-lobstering interests might also be heard. Ecological and economic implications of increased lobstering specialization are significant. If the lobster population ever falters, many lobstermen will be locked out of other fisheries for lack of landings history, and will have no viable employment option. In this event, political pressure to permit continued levels of lobstering activity would likely be acute, even at risk of further lobster population declines.
While these changes manifest at the local level, they emerge from a multi-layered jurisdictional context. Co-management arose as a state strategy to deter federal usurpation of local, informal management. Though beyond the scope of this article, that manoeuvre required executive and legislative coordination, regional alliances with other state agencies, and support or tolerance from trade groups representing portions of the lobster industry (Brewer 2012). In this newly expanded political setting, encompassing villages, zones, state, region, and nation, identities and subjectivities become central to the evolving politics of co-management. When informal, local management persisted principally beyond the optic of government, lobstermen weighed multiple loyalties and beliefs in each decision about fishery entry and access (Brewer 2012). Pervasive and multilayered webs of economic and symbolic relationships including kinship, class,3 gender, and age all impinged on daily actions that supported, undermined, or avoided conflicts over lobstering grounds, markets, information, wharf space, labour, and other lobstering inputs. Each lobsterman’s words and actions confirmed or contradicted village perceptions, affirming or attenuating innumerable social ties and allegiances, and shaping personal identities. Under this regime, most lobstermen rarely went to lobster management meetings organized by government. On rare occasion, perceiving some grave impact from a proposed regulatory change, some number of them would appear at a legislative or agency hearing in the state capitol. Such an adventure would generally be undertaken as a group, to support a unified majority position. Many travellers would not even speak up to the room as a whole, but intended their presence to indicate support for bolder speakers from their harbour. In this atmosphere, it was difficult to express dissenting or minority opinions without substantial support from some faction and a willingness to take on considerable financial risk, with lobstering gear and other property vulnerable to vandalism back home.
Co-management does not obviate intensive village bonds, or censorship of minority opinions, but it overlays a very different decision arena, in which identities and political subjects are substantially reconstituted (Brewer 2012). In the effectively segregated setting of zone meetings, kin, class, gender, and age relations persist, but they compete with unprecedented legal identities of license holders who presume more permanent resource access, ensured by the state. Boat captains legally exclude new lobstermen with state support and enforcement, and leverage state support to trump many non-lobstering coastal interests. On the other hand, they are somewhat less free to persecute dissenting fishermen with gear destruction because of greater scrutiny from the state as management partner, and more frequent communication between industry members and public officials. With many of the most controversial regulatory decisions made by secret mail-in ballot, as in the instances of entry limits and trap limits, minority opinions gain some traction, as do majority opinions that might otherwise be vulnerable to retaliation from a powerful minority. Spatial and temporal segregation of the voting act suspends interpersonal and moral commitments that might otherwise maintain broadly negotiated resource access. Voting in the isolation of one’s home excuses license holders from public scrutiny. A decade ago, many of the lobstermen now voting to exclude neighbours from lobstering couldn’t imagine supporting such a position. For the vast majority, a first instinct was to voice the near-universal moral abhorrence in their villages to the idea of privatizing a common property resource. A second gut response was to note the centrality of lobstering income to their village. The prospect of personal gain from regulatory privatization was rarely discussed before zone creation. This changed rapidly, however. By 2011, individual license holder income had become a driving discursive force, often couched as resource stewardship to mask the injustice of privatization: the lobster population must be conserved, therefore increasingly restrictive entry limits are necessary to control lobstering effort. Comments about village reliance on lobster-related jobs are also heard, but less often than in the past, and with weaker moral claims. Objections to entry limits as privatization are now rare, except in conversation beyond the earshot of license holders. One lobsterman who could likely sell his boat for tens of thousands of dollars upon retirement angrily asked a public panel of state legislators, “Why can’t [licenses] be transferable or sellable? Because your business isn’t really worth something unless you can sell it… I’d like to think that would be a retirement… not have a dead thing sitting on top of you.”
License holder concerns do persist about the prospect of industry consolidation if licenses are made transferable, despite windfall profits that could be made by selling them. In spring 2012, a lifelong lobsterman with two decades of leadership experience in the Maine Lobstermen’s Association estimated that 75% of license holders oppose making licenses sellable. Similarly, a state legislator recalls hearing from one zone representative, “If we ever get to a point where a kid getting out of high school can’t get a license, we should all be taken out and shot.” Further, one lobster zone still bucks the trend, with no entry limit as late as early 2012. In that highly fishery-dependent zone, debates continue over the relative importance of employment options in isolated villages and islands, compared to the higher future profits that might be made with entry limits. So while the state lobster industry has not embraced privatization wholesale, it has substantially reordered the balance between the priorities of individuals and collectivities. Hoping to scale up the communitarian political subjectivities of the fishery, co-management inadvertently scaled down the logic of capital accumulation through state-sanctioned regulatory exclusion. Even as lobstering subjects have succeeded in constraining the greediest among them, they consolidated fishery control, partially sidelining other village interests. Witnessing an increasing number of entry-related legislative proposals, and with public debate mounting, the balance between individual profits and collective well-being will continue to evolve, in rhetoric and policy. With it evolves a tension within fishing subjectivities between dense local affinities that argue for broader distribution of ecological goods and services, and instrumental motives more comfortably supported at supra-local scales, which would concentrate resource profits in the shorter and longer terms.
4. Toward plural commons
Limited to the particular instance of Maine lobster, these observations may seem less than precipitous. The economic woes and deliberative claims of a few thousand people living in a relatively developed and resource-rich locale are not the most pressing of global policy concerns. Nor are these outcomes unduly surprising to political ecologists. The case raises questions, however, about the trend toward decentralized co-management in fisheries, forests, water, wildlife, and other resources. Commons scholars have rightly won wide acclaim for distilling elegant rules that enable successful resource conservation beyond government or markets. Nonetheless, as Ostrom herself points out, most commons are nested in dense institutional landscapes. The target resource and the target resource users are never the only variables in play. Resource users and other community members have interests, capabilities, and burdens that reach across scales of analysis. Further, the parameters and relative salience of those scales change over time. While we might laud the interest of governments, non-governmental organizations, and parastatal organizations in policy innovation to empower decision making at more local scales, those interventions inevitably reconstitute any number of political subjects, in ways that can trigger a perpetual cascade of changes throughout the human-environment system.
Put in more practical terms, policies purporting to conserve resources can alter resource access patterns in ways that are ultimately more or less desirable for different segments of society. Not only do we each maintain multiple rationalities simultaneously, but the predominance of one rationale over others depends partly on which scalar frame of reference prevails at any given moment. Re-aligning collective identities by bolstering them in one decision arena or another affects not only how each person understands her social position, but how each perceives capacities for collective action, and which inevitably divergent loyalties adhere. This is as true of researchers and policymakers as it is of resource users. The scales we choose in the course of inquiry, explanation, and decision making result in different epistemologies, assessments, and policy outcomes. Governments, industry, NGOs, and other groups are co-creating new management institutions in both more and less developed contexts worldwide. If we fail to consider appropriate scales of analysis and ensure opportunities for public deliberation prior to policy implementation, some populations will bear socio-ecological costs without prior consent or knowledge.
Other papers in this journal have pointed to related concerns about institutional complexity, and have offered plausible means by which to cope (Berkes 2008; Cox 2011; Stern 2011). The present paper offers no systematic solution, but presents one example of a well-documented commons that we might assess differently by adopting more deeply theorized notions of political scale and subjectivity. While scholars and decision makers are inevitably limited in capabilities and resources, if we do not maintain broadly critical perspectives on our own assumptions, if we do not allow analysis and deliberation to inform one another before initiating social experiments, we run the risk of creating new policy problems, even if we resolve existing ones. As demonstrated by the interplay of theoretical frameworks to re-examine the lobster case, deep empirical research and persistent interaction among epistemic communities in scholarship and practice can help to identify and explore decision tradeoffs. Such work is not always rewarded by academic audiences or in polarized decision arenas, but it may produce knowledge and practice that better accommodate socio-ecological pluralism.
1Most Maine women who fish commercially voluntarily self-identify as “fishermen,” so the term “lobsterman” is used here to include both men and women. The vast majority of lobster license holders are male (97% in a 2002 random mail survey, n=29), but numbers of female crew and captains are increasing (Brewer 2012).
2Otter trawls are net gear that are heavily weighted to capture finfish on or near the ocean bottom. The word trawler usually refers to a boat that is built and rigged to fish with a trawl. It is sometimes used to refer to a fisherman who regularly fishes using a trawl.
3The term “class” arises directly from field data collection, referring not only to differences between fishing and non-fishing work, but to differences within and among fisheries.
I owe sincere thanks to innumerable fishing industry members, civil servants, and others who gave generously of their time to provide data for this work. Thanks also for the support of mentors and colleagues, including Jim Acheson, Jim Wilson, Dianne Rocheleau, Bill Turner, Jody Emel, Holly Hapke, and three anonymous reviewers. Financial and other resources were provided by the US National Science Foundation, Clark University, University of Maine, and East Carolina University. I am particularly aware that my daily work, including this research, has been deeply enriched by the remarkable rigor, grace, and generosity of Elinor Ostrom, especially her commitment to institutionalizing the human relationships that can link theory with practice.
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Hotel pick up from most hotels of Downtown Foz do Iguaçu or Puerto Iguazu
Hotel drop off
This activity is non-refundable Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.
Get dazzled by the energy coming out of the huge turbines in the dam lighting, illuminated by 747 spotlights and 112 fixtures. A soundtrack created specially for this presentation, goes in perfect sync with the lighting of lights.
Romantic experience, perfect for couples
The energy generated by Itaipu also produces another show. At the plant itself, become enchanted with the energy that comes out of the huge turbines in the dam's enlightenment.
Before firing of lights, two presenters and a video shown on big screens tell the story of hydro-power and translate into significant numbers.
Suddenly, in the darkness, the concrete dam is illuminated by 747 floodlights and 112 light fixtures. A soundtrack created specially for this presentation, goes in perfect sync with the lighting of lights.
The tourist follows the presentation of the central gazebo, from where you can see the operation of the plant during the day. To give you an idea of the beauty and grandeur of this scenario, the energy consumed in the show would be enough to light a city with 15,000 inhabitants. The lighting is even more charming on full moon nights.
Round trip transfer to most hotels of Downtown and Puerto Iguazu
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Tickets to the Itaipu Dam
The specific departure time for this tour will be determined upon reconfirmation
It is necessary to bring along your passport and pay close attention to visa restrictions.
A current valid passport is required on the day of travel.
If you are being picked up in Puerto Iguazu to cross to Brazil, you will need to pay a fee of $20,00 pesos for for an Eco touristic tax in Puerto Iguazu. Please make sure to keep your receipt in order to avoid being charged twice.
Please verify your hotel address and pick up time before confirming your purchase.
Please check if you require a Visa or a similar document to enter Brazil. You are responsible for obtaining these documents.
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Ingrid C 22-Aug-2016
Not worth. I guess it would have been better to do this during the day and being able to see the dam better at your own pace.
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Shiji Group Announces Hyatt Has Selected Infrasys Cloud for Restaurant Enterprise Solutions
Home Hotel & Lodging Shiji Group Announces Hyatt Has Selected Infrasys Cloud for Restaurant Enterprise Solutions
Atlanta, Shiji Group announced today that Hyatt has selected Infrasys Cloud, a hardware agnostic and cloud-based Restaurant Enterprise Solution, as a solution to enable many of its food and beverage outlets.
Infrasys Cloud is a leading restaurant point of sale system used by hotels and restaurants in Asia Pacific, Europe, and the United States and was built from the ground up by the Shiji Group. With this solution, Hyatt aims to enhance guest and colleague experiences across its food and beverage outlets. Infrasys Cloud seamlessly integrates with Hyatt’s technology ecosystem, and Shiji Payment Solutions and Business Intelligence.
Infrasys Cloud was built based on over 20 years of experience on food and beverage systems and market input from an extensive client roster.
“Infrasys Cloud provides a robust administrative feature set; is user-friendly, easy to learn, and hardware agnostic; and supports a diverse set of experiences. We have been working with Shiji for many years as a system integrator in the Asia Pacific region and are excited to extend our relationship to include their solutions on a global scale. With Hyatt’s custom applications now available, we are working with Shiji to enhance food and beverage experiences for both guests and colleagues.” said Jeff Bzdawka, SVP Global Hotel Technology at Hyatt.
The Infrasys team is dedicated to bringing Shiji level of service and support to Hyatt for years to come.
“We’re honored to have been selected by Hyatt for our Infrasys Cloud solution. It has been an exceptional experience working with leading industry professionals. We look forward to continuing to work with Hyatt to provide the latest in technology to enhance business process and guest engagement.” said Kevin King, COO of Shiji Group.
The term “Hyatt” is used in this release to refer to Hyatt Hotels Corporation and/or one or more of its affiliates.
About Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, headquartered in Chicago, is a leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 14 premier brands. As of September 30, 2018, the Company’s portfolio included more than 750 properties in more than 55 countries across six continents. The Company’s purpose to care for people so they can be their best informs its business decisions and growth strategy and is intended to attract and retain top colleagues, build relationships with guests and create value for shareholders. The Company’s subsidiaries develop, own, operate, manage, franchise, license or provide services to hotels, resorts, branded residences, vacation ownership properties, and fitness and spa locations, including under the Park Hyatt®, Miraval®, Grand Hyatt®, Hyatt Regency®, Hyatt®, Andaz®, Hyatt Centric®, The Unbound Collection by Hyatt®, Hyatt Place®, Hyatt House®, Hyatt Ziva™, Hyatt Zilara™, Hyatt Residence Club® and Exhale® brand names. On November 30, 2018, the Company expanded its hotel and resort portfolio with the inclusion of the Alila®, Destination®, Joie de Vivre®, Thompson Hotels® and tommie™ brands. For more information, please visit www.hyatt.com.
About Shiji Group
Shiji Group provides software solutions and services for the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hotel management solutions to food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more.
Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, Shiji Group today comprises 4,000 employees in 70+ subsidiaries and brands, serving over 60,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants, and 400,000 retail outlets.
With the benefit of investment partners such as Alibaba, Shiji develops a network of cloud technology platforms that facilitate data exchange by connecting businesses vertically and horizontally across related industries. The importance of cross-industry integration to connect all levels of the supply chain, from guests to distributors and suppliers of all types is a critical part of our mission. Our goal is to facilitate the transition to fully integrated systems for our clients through a network of platforms that communicate securely and easily so our clients can focus on their core competencies of serving their customers and guests.
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Well Rehabilitation Program Brings Clean Water and Escape From Arranged Marriages in Rural India
Driving sustainability mainstream
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Photo: Esther Havens
Ram Rati has been overcoming obstacles since she was a child. Married off at age 11, she escaped and made ends meet grinding wheat. But today Rati is a hero in her community. She was tired of the wells in her village breaking down so she decided to fix them herself. Now she's a trained well mechanic, bringing her Northern India village fresh water and offering hope to struggling women.It's a win-win for Rati, who uses the extra income to invest in her wheat grinding shop and pay two women laborers to farm her 15 acres of land. At 40 years of age, Rati wants the girls in her community to go to school so that they can do even better than she has.
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Rati's rural community first criticized her for doing a job that women weren't initially considered capable of, but today she's garnered respect from her peers in a country where broken fresh water wells are a real and growing issue. In the Indian district of Mahoba, 4,000 drinking water wells are broken. That's one third of the hand pumps installed in the last 20 years.
The non-profit organization WaterAid has developed a thoughtful solution to the broken well problem by training micro-entrepreneurs to establish well maintenance businesses. These trained mechanics are showing results, having already fixed 300 hand pumps in 2 years, bringing water to 30,000 people. WaterAid hopes to increase well repairs by 50 percent, bringing clean water to 700 more people every month. The program has a two-fold benefit by providing employment and bringing clean water to those that need it most.
The organization also runs women's groups that discuss empowerment, the importance of education, and women's rights.
The Adventure Project, a New York non-profit that focuses on one issue per quarter is working on the "Keep It Clean Campaign" to raise money for the program. Make a donation to the program or buy a $20 bar of organic, handmade soap with all the proceeds going to the program.
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Rush Limbaugh Celebrates Earth Day — By Saluting Coal and Overconsumption
Rush Limbaugh Celebrates Earth Day — By Saluting Coal and Overconsumption
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Rush Limbaugh—a man about as far from an environmentalist hero as could possibly be imagined—nonetheless set out to celebrate Earth Day on his radio show today. Of course, he did so by extolling the virtues of coal, plastic bags, and overconsumption. He began by saluting the "pioneers who have contributed to the well-being of the planet," according to the CS Monitor. And who might those be? Topping the list was Gordon Dancy. And what great environmental contribution? I'd best let Rush explain:
"He invented the first high-density plastic grocery bag, which can handle up to 40 pounds of stuff. That singular invention has benefited our daily life on earth in multitudinous ways."
Indeed. How forward-thinking of you, Mr. Limbaugh—paying respects to overconsumption at this most prosperous of times. And whom else, pray tell, should be recognized on this day where we seek to move the earth towards a more sustainable future? What's that--the coal industry?
"Their efforts grew into an industry that fuels America's energy needs. To the coal miners of America, past and present: Happy Earf [sic] Day."
Of course, he's attempting to be satirical (and I assume he meant to say "Earth" Day), but his attempted barbs are putting him more and more in line with the likes of laughable relics like Patrick McHenry, who feels that riding a bike is a "ridiculous" 19th Century pastime.
What does Limbaugh have against Earth Day, anyways?
"Normally, those of us with sanity sit Earth Day out, while schools frighten kids with apocalyptic tales of the earth being destroyed, because we enjoy a high standard of living."
Ah--it's that "awareness" thing.
As the de facto "head of the Republican Party", ol' Limbaugh certainly isn't doing the GOP any favors. Even though some other visible GOPers are way behind the times on Republican Leader Michael Steele is a Climate Change Denier">issues like climate change, there are plenty of greener Republicans that get overshadowed by such unproductive antics.
But such short-sighted remarks actually do favors to the green movement—as more and more mainstream Americans recognize the importance of environmental issues, the more embarrassingly off base Mr. Limbaugh's insults sound. Instead of people nodding or raising their fists and proclaiming "Yeah! Let's keep buyin' stuff and polluting!" (an especially absurd sentiment in the midst of this recession) along with Limbaugh, more and more are apt to be put off by his backwards buffoonery.
Granted, there are still millions of Americans that prescribe to his ideas—put the longer he clings to his sinking ship, the faster that number will dwindle.
Happy Earf Day, Rush.
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Vogue International Editor Suzy Menkes is the best-known fashion journalist in the world. After 25 years commenting on fashion for the International Herald Tribune (rebranded recently as The International New York Times), Suzy Menkes now writes exclusively for Vogue online, covering fashion worldwide.
#SuzyNYFW: Diane von Furstenberg goes back to the future
Von Furstenberg has chosen her granddaughter as muse and re-instated a familiar designer
Keeping it in the family — actual and ‘adopted’ — Diane von Furstenberg has started a new passage in her long career.
Together in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District was the founder, her granddaughter Talita as new muse, and comeback kid Nathan Jenden. Jenden, the British-born designer who worked with DVF from 2001 to 2011, is once again in charge of fashion.
The result? A convincing rebranding of the label built on what Jenden planted during his previous period. There were no surprises — but also no shocks, meaning that this was a coherent return to what the brand stands for.
Into a half-circle of screens showing the clothes in motion stepped models in easy pieces created from lightweight patterned fabrics — a 21st-century vision of that famous body-conscious wrap dress founded 44 years ago.
While the designer had left to work in China and learn Mandarin, he retained his memories of the DVF dictates.
“He was 29 years old when he joined us and in 10 years the company sales went from $2 million to $250 million,” von Furstenberg said. ‘’He is Edward Scissorhands. I have never seen anyone like that at a fitting. He does everything with scissors and pins. Now he has come back saying things I had said that I thought he had not taken in — like ‘a DVF print is supposed to move’.”
On the ‘runway’ — a circular display space — were softer versions of the famous wrap dress, with one ankle-length version coming off to reveal a narrow evening creation underneath.
“And there is no difference between runway and life,” said von Furstenberg, meaning that what was shown would go on sale and that there is no alternative ‘commercial line’.
It was a wise move to have the designer talk through the outfits, explaining a new lightness to a familiar shape or how he had chosen to put pieces together.
“What is different is that there are attributes of being effortless and for every woman to be cross generational – more relevant than it ever was,” said Jenden. “Today DVF is more Instagrammable, more of the moment, embracing the Pop Art thing, the graphic, the cube, the vintage. It’s all ours.”
Smart too is the idea of making Talita von Furstenberg the muse, with Jenden describing “DVF and TVF as both inspirational women across generations”.
Talita von Furstenberg
Talita recalled her ‘first memorable moment’ in fashion at nine years old when she worked with Jenden at the Pitti fashion fair in Florence.
Yellow chiffon, with waterfall ruffles, birds embroidered on a pleated silk dress and a green turtleneck sweater with a cube print were all chosen by Talita for a photo shoot.
This ‘keep it in the family’ spirit invaded the mini show — and the founder herself seemed the most pleased.
“When Nathan came to DVF, they were the biggest, most important, most productive of the brand’s second generation,” said the founder. “He was gone for seven years. And to have him back is just wonderful - like a second marriage. I did the same with my husband, you know - he left and then he came back better! Nathan is so into the brand. He knows so much. He chose Talita to be the muse and he understands of the brand so much.”
So, what is the essence of the brand? I asked its founder.
“Well I think the DVF woman is in charge,” she replied. “She is in charge of her life and she wants to be. The DVF brand is about giving her the tools to be the woman she wants to be.”
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A South Africa-based self-lubricated polymer bearings and bushings manufacturer, Vesconite Bearings, is proud that lost packages are becoming a thing of the past.
This is following the introduction three years ago of shocking pink packaging colours for all its outbound shipments.
Chairperson Dr Jean-Patrick Leger had found that parcels were frequently lost after hand-over from the courier company to the airlines.
“It was unbelievable: sometimes shipments weighing tons would just disappear, only to be found months later in an airport warehouse hundreds of thousands of miles away from the original routing,” he says.
Parcels in nondescript brown packaging were typically found later, but after considerable frustration felt by irate customers as well as Vesconite Bearings staff, Leger adds.
With the introduction of bright pink packaging, with diagonally-worded text with website and telephone details, as well as a bullet-point invitation to contact the company for fitting and machining instructions and technical information, lost packaging has become a rare occurrence.
Leger notes that he was advised to choose packaging that stood out from the crowd, and considered pink, since this was a favourite colour of his late mother.
Various people tried to dissuade him of this colour choice, largely because the colour is strongly associated with women, who have traditionally not been a large market for the company.
However, the deeper pink hues of the Vesconite Bearings packaging seem to have resonated well with clientele, perhaps because analysts now suggest that fuchsias and magentas, as well as other deeper pinks, are considered vibrant and youthful, and are also associated with a sense of confidence.
Such seems to have been the thinking of other brands, such as T-Mobile, which has also chosen a similar colour for its brand to help it stand out among other mobile communication providers while adding life and energy.
Vesconite Bearings’ packaging colour seems to have had a similar effect.
The company ships rods, tubes, plates as well as finished items globally, and its packaging comes in various sizes, with a liner, corrugated medium, another liner, another corrugated medium and then a final liner of pink.
“It feels as if my late mother is watching over each package and ensuring that it does not get lost,” says Leger, reinforcing how the colour choice was initially inspired by his mother and is an ongoing tribute to her.
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The Menopause, Cardigans And Me
by Tina Gaudoin
For most women three things are certain: Taxes, death, and the menopause. At the moment I know which one I would give almost anything to avoid.
When I was young and foolish (I’m still one of those two things) I used to say that when I no longer needed my womb I’d get rid of it. I always assumed this would be straightforward. Particularly in Manhattan where I was living,when I determined that I was definitely ready to be rid of the thing that was facilitating my gruesome, long term menorrhagia. Read More…
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Kevyn Aucoin: The Face Painter
‘I need you to go to Paris and shoot some beauty with Christy Turlington, Berry Smithers and a new girl we’re trying out called Kate Moss,’ said my Editor-in Chief, Liz Tilberis of Harper’s Bazaar US. I was up against it, having turned in some dud pictures from LA, where it had uncharacteristically rained buckets, the photographer had turned out to be a drug addict and the models, having sat in the Winnebago for two days eating donuts, had all broken out in spots. With that black mark against me I wasn’t exactly about to say no.
And besides, the chance to work with the legendary team of the world’s number one make-up artist Kevyn Aucoin, hair god Sam McKnight and photographic star Steven Klein was a thrill. The pictures and words from that two day shoot in Paris remain one of my favourite pieces of work. Read More…
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Why Wild Swimming Is Worth Your Consideration
There comes a time in every woman’s life where she needs to take her clothes off and get into the water. I’m not talking about taking a bath, I’m talking about the invigorating thrill of slipping into the cool, dark water of a pond, a river or even, in my case at the moment, the icy grey North Sea.
There’s nothing more freeing than swimming in a place that was meant for ducks, seagulls, fish and in the case of Hampstead ponds where I often swim, the odd Heron. It probably helps that I was brought up in the land of the broads (Norfolk) where I spent a lot of my childhood falling out of boats into the river or off horses into the sea. Both venues had one thing in common: they were bloody cold. They both also had the desired effect of waking me up and making me look at the world differently, more calmly and with a better perspective. Even aged ten I could see and feel the benefits – albeit that the dingy had sailed off without me or the horse had cantered back to the stable. Read More…
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Why Gardening Might Just Save You, Mentally and Physically
Gardens frequently make me cry – with joy, in sorrow and often, on my own patch, with utter frustration at my shortcomings (horticulturally related or not). It’s a rare thing though to be moved to tears by a garden presenter (and even rarer for me to be watching TV). But Rachel de Thame’s fleeting presence at The Chelsea Flower show, being interviewed about her breast cancer diagnosis, had me in floods. Here was a woman, clearly somewhat off her game, admitting firstly that she had been having a tough time, and secondly that her garden had been her solace. It was a dignified, sympathetic handling of what could otherwise have just been social media fodder and a headline in a red-top. But most importantly, de Thame’s message of grace and hope in the face of adversity reinforced what we have known all along – gardens are good for us. Read More…
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The NHS says 65 percent of consultants are male. If that’s the case I feel sure that I must have seen at least 50 percent of them. I’m exaggerating, and perhaps the area of medicine I fall under, or into – rheumatology, is not that interesting for women (frankly, it’s not even that interesting to me). Either way, in three years (the last month or two withstanding) I have seen precisely one woman in a consultation about my condition and she was a default because the incumbent had ‘a rush on’ that day. Read More…
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How I Pull Myself Together
A dear friend, lets call her B, has just suffered a bereavement. We agree to meet for a coffee and a shared piece of cake (let’s not push the boat out too far) at one of our favourite places. If you have read me before you’ll know that I’m wrestling with a chronic illness which leaves me exhausted and often at times struggling to make the simplest of decisions – for example, jeans or Zara striped pants? Today I’m in the jeans which are clean and a sweater which is un-pilled cashmere, so I’m ahead of the game.
Especially since I’m expecting B, who is the most exquisitely turned out person I know, to be somewhat diminished in appearance, given her trauma. When she walks into the café I barely recognise her, so entirely soigne does she appear. The details: a new haircut (thanks to the inimitable Joel at Nicola Clarke, John Frieda) great hair colour – Nicola Clarke herself, a fabulous new pair of shoes (Celine) and a beautifully crafted Yves Saint Laurent spring coat. Read More…
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Jim Parrott: Clarifying the Choices in Housing Finance Reform
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The housing finance reform debate has often foundered under the weight of its complexity. Not only is it a complicated topic, both in its substance and its politics, but the way that we talk about it makes the issues involved indecipherable to all but a few. Each proponent brings a different nomenclature, a different frame of reference, often an entirely different language, making it enormously difficult to sort through where there is agreement and where there is not.
As a case in point, three prominent proposals for reform have been put on the table in recent months: one offered by Lew Ranieri, Gene Sperling, Mark Zandi, Barry Zigas, and me (Promising Road Proposal); one offered by Ed DeMarco and Michael Bright (Milken Proposal); and one offered by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA Proposal). These proposals have been discussed and debated in many forums, each assessed for its respective merits, risks, and likelihood of passage in Congress, but each largely in isolation from one another. That is, they are not compared in any intelligible way, forcing those hoping to come to an informed view to choose among what appear to be entirely different visions of reform, without any easy way to make sense of the choice.
In this brief essay, I thus bring these three proposals together into a single framework, making it clearer what they share and where they differ. Once the explanatory fog is lifted, one can see that they actually share a great deal and that deciding among them is not prohibitively complex, but a matter of assessing two or three key differences.
Figure 1 shows how the system supported by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs) looked before conservatorship, which is a helpful place to start.
The problem with this system was its dependence on a privately owned duopoly. Fannie and Freddie handled almost all of the securitization in this segment of the market and took almost all of its credit risk. Given our reliance on them, everyone in the market knew that we would bail them out if they ever stumbled. Their shareholders were thus incented to take excessive risk to chase greater profits, knowing that if their bets did not pay off, the taxpayer would step in to cover them.
And that, of course, is precisely what happened.
Coming out of the crisis, there was thus almost universal agreement that we should reduce our reliance on this duopoly and shift more risk into a competitive private market.
And that is what policymakers have done in the years since. In figure 2, you can see that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is taking steps to pull both the securitization infrastructure and much of the credit risk out of the GSEs, with the former going into a common securitization platform (CSP) and the latter being dispersed to credit risk investors through credit risk transfers (CRT). Once these processes are completed, the housing finance system will be much less reliant on the duopoly, reducing the risk that they pose to the system.
Helpful as this transition will be, there is a relatively broad consensus that it is not enough. The system needs to be pulled out of the limbo of conservatorship, with the roles of the private market, the government, and the taxpayer better defined.
There are a great many ideas out there for how to do this, ranging from simply reprivatizing the enterprises with a modest increase in their oversight to winding them down without replacing them with any form of government support at all. Despite the range of views, however, there is a strong majority view that the best course is to further wean the system off of its dependence on Fannie and Freddie and more explicitly limit the role of the government to providing a catastrophic backstop and managing the secondary market infrastructure.
The three proposals mentioned are the dominant versions of that majority view and are thus worthy of some comparison.
Each begins from a common set of principles that drive their design:
To attract the interest rate investors critical to broad access to long-term, fixed-rate lending, the government should remove the catastrophic credit risk from securities backed by qualifying mortgages.
To minimize the chances that taxpayers are ever forced to bail this system out again, their risk should be insulated behind significant private capital from institutions whose viability the system does not depend on and a mortgage insurance fund paid for through mortgage premiums.
To ensure systemic stability and broad lender access to the secondary market, a government corporation should operate the securitization infrastructure.
To minimize disruption to the market, as much of the current system’s infrastructure and processes should be used as possible.
To design a system consistent with those principles, the MBA builds off of the transition already under way. It mandates that Fannie and Freddie continue to share most of the non-catastrophic credit risk on the mortgages they guarantee. It checks their inclination to take on excessive risk by turning them into privately owned utilities with regulated rates of return and opening them up to the threat of competition from newly chartered guarantors. And it turns the CSP into a government corporation that issues the securities of Fannie, Freddie, and any other chartered guarantors and guarantees the interest rate investors the timely payment of principal and interest on their investments.
In figure 3, you can see how the system to which we are already migrating with the CSP and CRT is taken one step further in the MBA’s proposal.
In the proposal that my coauthors and I have offered, the path of reform imagined by the MBA is taken another step. The CSP, Fannie, and Freddie are combined into a single government corporation that issues government-backed securities, sells off all the non-catastrophic credit risk on those securities, and guarantees interest rate investors the timely payment of principal and interest on their investments.
To see how our proposal is simply a step further down the path laid out by the MBA, take a look at figure 4 and then look back at figure 3.
Bright and DeMarco choose a slightly different path to meet the common principles outlined above. Rather than build on the CSP and CRT processes being developed by the FHFA and the GSEs, they choose instead to build on the Ginnie Mae infrastructure and processes. So Ginnie Mae–approved issuers get credit enhancement from private institutions along with the Federal Housing Administration, US Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and issue securities through Ginnie Mae, which guarantees interest rate investors the timely payment of principal and interest on their investments.
As in the MBA model, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac compete over the management of non-catastrophic credit risk. Here, however, their inclination to take on excessive risk is checked by converting them to mutuals owned by the nation’s lenders, as lenders can be expected to be careful in the management of an infrastructure on which they will be so reliant for their own survival.
Despite their different route, as you can see in figure 5, Bright and DeMarco arrive in a very similar place as the first two proposals: the government corporation manages the securitization and guarantees the mortgage-backed securities, and the private market basically does the rest.
There are thus two critical differences between the three proposals.
Ginnie versus CSP. For the securitization infrastructure in the new system, Milken uses the Ginnie Mae infrastructure, while the MBA and our proposal both use the CSP.
What to do with Fannie and Freddie. The MBA would turn them into privately owned utilities that compete with other market participants over the distribution of the system’s non-catastrophic credit risk, Milken would turn them into lender-owned mutuals that do the same, and we would combine them with the CSP to distribute that risk and manage the system’s securitization.
With these distinctions in mind, the proposals can be much more easily compared across the criteria that should ultimately drive our decisions on housing finance reform:
Access to sustainable credit. Which best maintains broad access to mortgage loans for those in a financial position to be a homeowner at the lowest rates?
Protecting the taxpayer. Which best insulates taxpayers behind private capital, aligns incentives systemwide and addresses the too-big-to-fail risk that undermined the prior system?
Promoting healthy competition. Which best maximizes the kinds of competition that will improve options and services for consumers, lenders, and investors?
Ease of transition. Which provides the least disruptive, least costly path of reform?
Stay up to date on Jim Parrott and his latest work here.
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Date published: July 9, 2019
Major Update for America’s Inventory of Parks and Other Protected Areas: Protected Areas Database of the United States
A new version of the Protected Areas Database of the U.S., or PAD-US, has major federal, state and easement updates, an easier-to-use data structure, new web services, national-scale printable maps, and more.
Attribution: Core Science Systems, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS)
Date published: May 28, 2019
GAP Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness Maps Released for the Conterminous U.S.
The USGS Gap Analysis Project, part of Core Science System's Science Analytics and Synthesis, has released terrestrial vertebrate species richness maps for the Conterminous U.S.
Attribution: Gap Analysis Project, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS)
Date published: March 30, 2019
From Big Data to Smart Data: 2019 CDI Workshop Registration is Open
Registration is open for our 2019 Community for Data Integration Workshop, "From Big Data to Smart Data."
Attribution: Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS), Community for Data Integration (CDI)
Date published: March 6, 2019
New Species Habitat Distribution Maps Now Support Conservation Planning at a National Scale
A new dataset of habitat distribution for terrestrial vertebrate species in the conterminous United States is now available from the USGS.
Date published: February 21, 2019
Twenty Community for Data Integration Proposals Advance to Phase 2
Thank you to all community members who submitted, commented on, or voted for the Statements of Interest!
Date published: April 19, 2018
CDI FY18 Funded Projects Announced
The FY18 CDI Funded Projects are posted on the 2018 Projects page. Congratulations to the project teams!
The FY18 CDI Request for Proposals is open.
Date published: October 25, 2017
New Database available: USGS Releases "Species of Greatest Conservation Need” Lists
The USGS announces the release of the Species of Greatest Conservation Need national database. The SGCN lists are part of the State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) process and identify the species most in need of conservation action in that state or territory. In total, 16,420 species have been included in the SGCN national list.
Date published: July 31, 2017
Mapping Public Lands in the United States
The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official inventory of public parks and other protected areas in all U.S. states and territories.
Attribution: Core Science Systems, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS), Environments Program, National Geospatial Program, Wildlife Program
Date published: June 6, 2017
USGS Bridging Generations with WWII Technology
On June 6, 1944, thousands of men rained down from the skies onto the battlegrounds of Normandy. After five grueling years of war that shook the globe, D-Day’s victory swept the Allied nations into a wave of celebration.
Attribution: Ecosystems, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS), Midwest, Southwest, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Fort Collins Science Center, Great Lakes Science Center
Date published: August 4, 2016
New Protected Area Database (PAD-US) Released
Updated national geospatial inventory of public parks and open space lands features greater coverage and accuracy
More Science at Your Fingertips
The USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) recently completed and launched a new and improved interface, making USGS data more accessible and discoverable for users. The USGS SDC is a searchable public data catalog for more than 7,000 USGS data assets and 20 USGS collections.
Attribution: Core Science Systems, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS), USGS Library
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Home > Classic Cars For Sale > Jaguar > XK 120 > 1951 Jaguar XK 120
1951 Jaguar XK 120
The sensational Jaguar XK120 first appeared at the 1948 London Motor Show to astonished audiences. This svelte and sexy show car was originally intended to be a styling exercise used to highlight Jaguars upcoming and advanced new XK twin-cam inline six-cylinder engine but response from the press and public was so positive that it took little persuasion to convince Jaguar boss Sir William Lyons to develop the car for production. Thankfully the road going car lost none of the impact of the original show car when it hit the market.Aside from the headline-grabbing engine the XK120 featured independent front suspension sprung by torsion bars with a Salisbury limited-slip live rear axle riding on leaf springs out back. Large four wheel drum brakes were adequate though could fade when pushed too hard on track. But the star of the show was indeed the iron block alloy head XK twin cam six good for 160 horsepower in standard form upwards of 210hp in later models and 300 or more on the race track. The 120 part of the XK120 name came courtesy of the top speed it reached on a pre-production test making it the fastest production road car of its day. The earliest cars were hand-built with alloy bodies which later changed to more cost effective and durable steel construction once the tooling was ready. The XK120 earned its legendary status thanks to its incredible performance and unmistakable beauty creating one of the most iconic sports cars of all time.This fine 1951 XK120 OTS roadster is an early production example that has had just three owners from new. It is presented in beautifully maintained order since receiving a high-quality nut-and bolt restoration to concours standards by its second owner. According to the Jaguar Heritage Certificate chassis number 670662 is a numbers-matching car that was built on the 4th of September 1950 coincidentally Sir William Lyons birthday. An early steel-bodied left-hand drive car it was first finished in pastel blue over a duo-tone blue interior and delivered new to D. S. Gross of San Francisco California in the opening days of 1951. Mr. Gross used the car sparingly through his tenure but he retained it for 33 years only selling it as a complete rust-free but non-driving project in 1984.The second owner Vincent Weatherby of Costa Mesa California was a well-known area car enthusiast who purchased the car for himself recognizing the importance of such a low mileage and original XK120 roadster. In the late 1990s he embarked on a multi-year concours-quality restoration returning the Jaguar to its former glory. Those who witnessed the project state that no bolt was left unturned and every finish and detail was brought back to factory-correct standards. Shortly after the restoration was completed in 2000 Mr. Weatherby sold the Jaguar to its 3rd and most recent owner an enthusiast and collector from Wisconsin. Over the past 18 years the XK120 was meticulously cared for and maintained with much of the maintenance and detailing handled by the renowned John Kies at Motion Products in Wisconsin.Now presented in the striking but seldom-seen original Jaguar shade of Squadron Blue this XK120 remains in exceptional condition today. In the years since the restoration was completed this car has benefitted from light and careful use as well as extensive maintenance to ensure it is in top running order. The body exhibits excellent panel gaps and fit and the paint work remains in very fine order revealing the outstanding quality of the original restoration as well as the care it has received since. The beautiful blue paintwork is set off by sparkling chrome knock-off wire wheels wrapped in Firestone whitewall tires appropriate for a US delivered car such as this and the rest of the brightwork also presents very well showing only slight mellowing.Trimmed in gray leather the cockpit is beautifully finished to a high standard with properly upholstered seats appearing in fine order and with minimal creasing from use. Likewise gray carpets leather-wrapped dash and gray hardura door cards are in excellent condition. This car wears the correct early-style convertible top which is noted for its more pronounced teardrop shape. When the top was restored the original French gray fabric topping was not available so this high-quality salt-and-pepper material was sourced and is a very attractive alternative. For the purist a light gray vinyl soft top will also be included.The original numbers-matching 3.4 liter 160 horsepower twin-cam XK inline six rests under the hood. It is of course clean tidy and well detailed showing signs of regular maintenance despite the limited use. It runs very well breathing through original twin S.U. carburetors. The four-speed manual gearbox feels tight and precise as it should and the road manners are quite good.The most recent owners went to great lengths to document the remarkable history of this fine Jaguar. A large file includes receipts from the work performed while in their care as well as a multi-page account of the previous ownership the restoration work a Jaguar heritage certificate and numerous period articles and adverts. The sale will also include a full set of tools (including the jack Thor hammer and pouch) restored by expert Tom Buckus as well as a custom tonneau in gray canvas and a French gray soft top in vinyl. Maintained with little regard to cost and used sparingly this lovely XK120 was not shown during the last owners time with it and as such it would be a very welcome appearance at any Jaguar club concours regional show or tour.
This 1951 Jaguar XK 120 was listed for sale on 4-15-18 08:21:20. The vehicle color is Blue and VIN is not available . Kindly check ad for seller's location. Seller`s stock ID is hyman6189. There are 85 other Jaguar cars currently listed for sale on our website. You may desire to see what other Jaguar cars are selling for by visiting our Sales Data page.
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Location: St Louis, MO, United States
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30 Persei
30 Persei Facts
30 Persei's star type is main sequence star that can be located in the constellation of Perseus. The description is based on the spectral class.
30 Persei is not part of the constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation.
Based on the spectral type (B8V...) of the star, the star's colour is blue .
The star can be seen with the naked eye, that is, you don't need a telescope/binoculars to see it.
30 Persei's Alternative Names
The Id of the star in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue is HR982. HIP15338 is the reference name for the star in the Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The Id of the star in the Henry Draper catalogue is HD20315.
Flamsteed designations are named after the creator, Sir John Flamsteed. Sir John numbered the stars in the constellation with a number and the latin name, this star's Flamsteed designation is 30 Persei with it shortened to 30 Per.
BD number is the number that the star was filed under in the Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung, a star catalogue that was put together by the Bonn Observatory between 1859 to 1903. The star's BD Number is BD+43 674.
Location of 30 Persei
The location of the main sequence star in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. The Right Ascension is how far expressed in time (hh:mm:ss) the star is along the celestial equator. If the R.A. is positive then its eastwards. The Declination is how far north or south the object is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For 30 Persei, the location is 03h 17m 47.33 and +44° 01` 30.3 .
Radial Velocity and Proper Motion of 30 Persei
The Radial Velocity, that is the speed at which the star is moving away/towards the Sun is 4.00 km/s with an error of about 2.00 km/s . When the value is negative then the star and the Sun are getting closer to one another, likewise, a positive number means that two stars are moving away. Its nothing to fear as the stars are so far apart, they won't collide in our life-time, if ever.
30 Persei Luminosity
Physical Properties (Colour, Temperature) of 30 Persei
30 Persei Colour and Temperature
30 Persei has a spectral type of B8V.... This means the star is a blue main sequence star. The star has a B-V Colour Index of -0.06 which means the star's temperature has been calculated using information from Morgans @ Uni.edu at being 10,611 Kelvin.
30 Persei Radius
Radius has been calculated as being 4.36 times bigger than the Sun. The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 3,033,087.37.km. If you need the diameter of the star, you just need to multiple the radius by 2. However with the 2007 release of updated Hipparcos files, the radius is now calculated at being round 4.94. The figure is derived at by using the formula from SDSS and has been known to produce widely incorrect figures.
30 Persei Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes
30 Persei has an apparent magnitude of 5.49 which is how bright we see the star from Earth. Apparent Magnitude is also known as Visual Magnitude. If you used the 1997 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of -0.99 If you used the 2007 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of -1.26. Magnitude, whether it be apparent/visual or absolute magnitude is measured by a number, the smaller the number, the brighter the Star is. Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, -26.74. A faint star will have a high number.
Distance to 30 Persei
Using the original Hipparcos data that was released in 1997, the parallax to the star was given as 5.06 which gave the calculated distance to 30 Persei as 644.59 light years away from Earth or 197.63 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 644.59 years to get there. We don't have the technology or spaceship that can carry people over that distance yet.
In 2007, Hipparcos data was revised with a new parallax of 4.46 which put 30 Persei at a distance of 731.31 light years or 224.22 parsecs. It should not be taken as though the star is moving closer or further away from us. It is purely that the distance was recalculated.
Additional 30 Persei Facts and Figures
Primary / Proper / Traditional Name 30 Persei
Alternative Names HD 20315, HIP 15338, HR 982, 30 Per, BD+43 674
Spectral Type B8V...
Star Type Main Sequence Dwarf Star
Constellation Perseus
Absolute Magnitude -0.99 / -1.26
Naked Eye Visible Yes - Magnitudes
B-V Index -0.06
Radial Velocity 4.00 ± 2.00 km/s
Radius (x the Sun) 4.94
Effective Temperature 10,611 Kelvin
Mirfak (Alpha Persei)
Algol (Beta Persei)
Gamma Persei (Gamma Persei)
Delta Persei (Delta Persei)
Epsilon Persei (Epsilon Persei)
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Dona all'Univpm > App e Mobile > Orientamento > Offerta formativa > Offerta formativa internazionale
International students may enroll to the field of studies of their interest or to international exchange programmes at UNIVPM.
NON-EU citizens residing abroad (requiring a Visa), who wish to enrol for any University degree programmes must sit an Italian language test to prove that they have a CEFR B2 level knowledge of Italian.
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Exemption is granted to:
Students who intend to enrol for a degree programme run entirely in English;
Students holding a certificate which exempts them from the Italian Language Test and from the admission quotas set for non-EU citizens residing abroad, as specified in Part III of the current Ministerial Procedures (Paragraph 1.3 ) http://www.studiare-in-italia.it/studentistranieri/ ;
Students holding a certificate which exempts them from the Italian Language Test but not from the admissions quotas set for non-EU citizens, as specified in Part III of the current Ministerial Procedures (Paragraph 1.2 ) http://www.studiare-in-italia.it/studentistranieri/;
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For the Academic Year 2019/2020 the Italian Language Test can be taken remotely or at the University.
Remote Italian Language Test: 30 August 2019 (approximate timetable: from 9.00 to 13.00 – from 14.00 – 18.00).
The Test consists of a conversation organised in three parts:
Introducing yourself;
Reading and summarising a passage;
Answering questions and discussing the content of the passage.
In order to take part in the remote Italian Language Test candidates must fill in and send the application form(304 KB) to the following address dirittoallostudio@univpm.it il by the 21st August, 13.00h at the latest. On the form you must indicate the Skype account that you can be contacted at for the test. You must also attach a copy of your passport. You must also have your passport with you on the day of the test and show it before the test starts.
It will only be possible to accept 24 candidates for the remote test, so applications will be accepted in order of arrival.
If the application arrives after the maximum capacity has been reached or if :
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Italian Language Test at the University: 2 September 2019.
In order to take part in the test you must pre-register at the Italian Embassy/Consulate of reference. Your application will then be sent to this University by the Embassy/Consulate.
Test content: reading and listening comprehension, grammar and vocabulary exercises.
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Guangdong Firms Take Action to Counter Rising US Trade Tariffs
Wang Yufeng
(Yicai Global) Oct. 11 -- Foreign firms in China's major trade hub Guangdong are having to find creative ways to keep costs down as American tariffs against the country keep rising.
The two economic powerhouses have been hitting it out over trade tariffs for the majority of this year, with the latest blows coming on Sept. 24. On that day, the United States implemented the third wave of tariffs between the two, slapping 10 percent duty on USD200 billion worth of Chinese goods with plans to increase that to 25 percent on Jan. 1.
China retaliated by putting a 5 percent or 10 percent rate on USD60 billion worth of American goods. It now has tariffs worth USD110 billion targeting the US exclusively, while American tariffs against China tally USD250 billion.
Quick to Action
"Our products were one of the first to be hit by US tariffs at a 25 percent rate, which has had an adverse impact on the firm," the head of a medical equipment company in Guangdong, who had just returned from a business trip in the States, told Yicai Global. His firm researches and produces ultrasonic Doppler products and entered the American market 12 years ago.
"Most of the US dealers and agents we've spoken to dislike the additional tariffs as they weaken the agencies' competitiveness," he added. "They all hope the trade frictions end as soon as possible."
The company was quick to act when the threat of tariffs loomed, and advised American agencies to stock up as early as April. But the solution is not permanent, the firm plans to register its trademark in the US and start assembling products there, so it will only need to export parts.
"Import tariffs on parts like circuit boards have also increased to 25 percent, but the total amount due is much less because the value of the parts is much lower than the finished products," the firm's chief said. "Our clients need to make an additional payment for the copyright after we register a trademark for the software in the US, so our income probably won't decrease much."
Staying Strong
3D sensor maker Orbbec technology tripled its sales last year and is not at all concerned about the higher tariffs, its founder Huang Yuanhao said. The firm generates more value for its products and has few competitors and a huge market, he added, saying the firm's products are basically irreplaceable. Any additional tariffs from the US would harm the interests of American consumers more than anything else, Huang said.
Many other Chinese firms are developing 3D sensors, but Orbbec is the only one to have achieved mass production. Only one overseas rival, Intel, has also achieved the feat.
Several foreign trading firms working with a particular service platform in Guangdong have also been unfazed so far, according to the platform's business leader.
"The impact has not been too great, as the lower exchange rate has offset part of the losses from the higher tariffs," he told Yicai Global.
Cutting the Middleman
Most traditional manufacturers are not quite so confident, and plan to cut costs by reducing their agency links with small- and medium-sized enterprises in the US.
"Retail sales of Chinese furniture in the US are much higher than the import turnover," a seasons exporter in Shenzhen who chose to remain anonymous told Yicai Global. "Furniture is not a luxury, so even if you remove the premium that big brands can add on, there is still a lot of room for the makers to increase their profits."
Margins on apparel, textiles, mechanical and electrical products and industrial components could all be increased, too, he added, saying the margins are too small because Chinese manufacturers are too reliant on overseas sellers and brand owners.
Producers could directly get in touch with more small American businesses to strike up direct trades, which would help US companies reduce their procurement prices while also allowing Chinese firms to bolster their profit margins to tackle the increased tariffs, he said.
"Big firms are the largest beneficiary of globalization driven by traditional capital, while the small businesses and consumers in the US and other importing countries gain very little," he added.
Keywords: Trade Dispute , Guangdong , US
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New Student and Family Programs
EFC November 2012
Eagle Family Connection
Eagle Families 101
248 DiGiorgio Campus Center
November 2012 Edition
Winthrop Homecoming 2012: Livin' la Vida Winthrop
Winthrop University is going to celebrate Homecoming November 5-11 with events for everyone! Join us as we celebrate how the Winthrop Experience has shaped our lives! All events are FREE to the public unless otherwise noted.
Events will begin on Monday, November 5 with our annual Spirit Banner competition. Student groups will create and display their school spirit as we prepare to face the Knights of St. Andrews University at Saturday's big game!
The week will continue on Wednesday, November 7 with the Student Talent Show at 8 p.m. in Tillman Auditorium and is an annual Homecoming favorite. Winthrop students will take the stage and show off their skills. During the show, our 2012 Homecoming Court will be announced and voting will begin immediately after the show!
A Pep Rally sponsored by the Council of Student Leaders and a Casino Night sponsored by the Winthrop Recreational Advisory Council will be held Thursday night to get students prepared for the weekend!
Friday, November 9 is Garnet & Gold Friday. Display your school spirit by wearing Winthrop gear! Student Alumni Council members will be looking for who is displaying the most school spirit and awarding prizes. Trolley Tours will be departing from Tillman between 1 p.m. — 5 p.m. and will provide riders with a tour of campus in a comfortable, quaint trolley. That night, enjoy live music by Miami group Xperimento, a photo booth, photo koozies, caricatures by Bruce Stevenson, food, and cash bar beginning at 9 p.m.
Saturday is going to be a busy day starting in the morning with the Tailgate & Alumni Cookout at 11 a.m. complete with a Kid's Zone where children will be able to find games, activities and inflatables. The Men's Basketball game vs. the Knights of St. Andrews University is at 4 p.m. (Don't forget to get your tickets!) That night in Dina's Place will be two free showings of The Adventures of TinTin at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
We will close out the week on Sunday with the Women's Basketball game against the Troy University Trojans at 2 p.m.!
This year's Homecoming is going to be amazing as we celebrate Livin' la Vida Winthrop. We cannot wait to see you there!
If you would like more information about Homecoming, or a full schedule, please visit us online. Please direct any questions to Prescott May at 803/323-4757 or by email.
Residence Halls Closed for Thanksgiving Break
As with every extended break, residence halls will close for the Thanksgiving holiday promptly at 9 a.m. Wednesday, November 21 and will reopen at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 25. Students will not be able to get into their residence hall room after the 9 a.m. closing.
After students depart, residence hall staff will check every room for general health and safety. These inspections are plain view searches. Staff will be checking for prohibited items including fire hazards (extension cords, candles, etc) and will also check the general cleanliness of the room and suite bathrooms. Residence hall contracts state that health and safety inspections can occasionally occur.
Special arrangements for students to stay can be made for those students who are student teachers, participating in an internship, athletes whose names have been submitted by the Athletic Department, students with Rock Hill area jobs, and students that live more than 300 miles from the Winthrop campus.
A permission slip, which is passed out to all students with more instructions, must be turned into Residence Life. Students who are staying for the holiday break must make their own arrangements to stay in Lee Wicker, Phelps, Richardson, Roddey or The Courtyard. All other halls will be closed.
All students will receive a break notice with more information. Students can also call their Residential Learning Coordinator (RLC) or Residence Life at 803/323-2223 with further questions.
Winthrop Men Voted 4th In South Division Big South Basketball Preseason Poll
The Big South Conference held its annual Basketball Media Day in Charlotte at the Renaissance Suites Hotel releasing its preseason polls as the Winthrop men's basketball team was picked to finish fourth in the South Division.
The Eagles graduated four senior starters from a squad that was 12-20 in 2011-12 and enter the upcoming season with a new head coach for just the sixth time in school history. Pat Kelsey took over the reins of the program in March and looks to restore the winning tradition at Winthrop.
The annual preseason poll is voted on by the league's head coaches and media panel as Campbell University was voted first in the North Division and Charleston Southern was picked to capture the South Division. The Camels received the most votes and 21 total first place votes while Charleston Southern received 16 first-place votes and had the second highest total points.
Following Charleston Southern in the South Division is Coastal Carolina (8 first-place votes), UNC Asheville (5 first-place votes), Winthrop, Gardner-Webb and Presbyterian College. Rounding out the North Division is Virginia Military Institute (5 first-place votes), High Point (3 first-place votes), Liberty, Radford and conference newcomer Longwood.
Winthrop graduated a group of players that combined for 115 starts and 1,455 points (71 percent of total offense) and a Big South Championship in 2010.
Winthrop opens the season on Nov. 10 at home as it takes on St. Andrews University in its annual Homecoming game.
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Winthrop University's December 2012 Undergraduate Commencement exercises is scheduled for Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 11 a.m. at the Winthrop Coliseum. All August 2012 and December 2012 graduates are invited to participate! The procession will begin promptly at 10:50 a.m.
Degree candidates should report to the check-in area, located just inside the north entrance of the coliseum, in academic cap and gown by no later than 9:30 a.m. Please note that all students must be in proper graduation attire: black robes, black caps with garnet and gold tassel. (Ladies do not have to wear the white collar which may come with the gown.) Caps may not be decorated and only Winthrop-issued honor cords may be worn. Sorority/fraternity stoles may not be worn over the gown during the ceremony. You may purchase your cap, gown and tassel at the Winthrop Bookstore.
Family and guests of the degree candidates are invited to enter the Coliseum through the upper concourse level and be seated by 10:40 a.m. Parking for the ceremony is available on University property only. Those who park off of University property may be towed. Guests are asked not to bring balloons into the Coliseum. Balloons obstruct views and make it difficult to see the graduates.
The Commencement Ceremony will be video streamed on the web. There will be a link on the Winthrop University homepage on the day of Commencement with the link to the stream and instructions for optimal viewing.
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Undersea tunnel for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train to conclude by 2022: Top official
MD of National High speed rail corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) Achal Khare said the target was to complete the tunnel until August 15, 2022. Photograph:( ANI )
ANI Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Dec 20, 2017, 01.44 AM (IST)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream project, a bullet train, is underway in Mumbai's Thane, and the under the sea tunnel may finish completion by August 15, 2022, the MD of National High speed rail corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) Achal Khare said.
"Our mission is to complete tunnel till 15th August, 2022. Currently we are doing static refraction survey on the sea with Japanese. We are facing challenges like high tide; this survey is possible on high tide. Our survey says total sea bed is 10-15 meter depth and our tunnel will construct 25 to 40 meters depth from sea bed," Khare told ANI during the work inspection for the project.
"We are hoping to start our tunnel work next year," he added.
The data acquisition work on the tunnel project started from December 11 and is expected to be finished by December 24.
Presently both the Japanese and Indian professionals are working diligently on ensuring to build a tunnel inside the creek near Thane.The Japanese professionals from Kawasaki Geological Engineering co ltd are to submit report on the data acquisition to their lab in Japan and final report will be submitted in January 2018.The bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai will run a total length of 508 km, of which 21 km will be covered in the tunnel under sea.The cost of the tunnel is estimated at Rs 3,500 crores.The cost of the total train project is Rs 1.10 trillion, and Japan is giving a loan of Rs. 88,000 crores for the same at a minimal interest of 0.1 per cent, which has to be repaid over 50 years.
PM Modi's dream project, a bullet train, is underway in Mumbai||The bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai will run a total length of 508 km, of which 21 km will be covered in the tunnel under sea
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Don't Turn Earth Into Venus, Warns NASA Ex-Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan
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Unlike many of her colleagues at NASA, Ellen Stofan never wanted to be an astronaut. She saw her first rocket launch at age four. It didn't go well.
Stofan, who recently left her position as the space agency's chief scientist, dimly recollects traveling from Ohio to Cape Canaveral to watch the fifth flight of the uncrewed Atlas-Centaur launch system, a project of her NASA engineer father's. In the 51 years since, Stofan has thought a lot about the strain her father would have been under, launching rockets in 1965. But as a small child, she focused on the blast: "The rocket exploded on the launchpad," she says. "According to my mother, my sister and I went hysterical. But all I remember is this giant fireball." That's not a distorted, child's-eye view—the explosion was probably the largest the launchpad had seen.
But to Stofan today, even spectacular failure is a sign of science at work, pressure an opportunity to innovate. Which is why she made a good chief scientist, a role that has more in common with a White House policy advisor's than a NASA principal investigator's. From 2013 until the end of December, Stofan took a 3 million-foot view of NASA's science programs. And though she leaves her post at (and perhaps, because of) an uncertain time for her field, Stofan advocates for optimism.
Not about climate change, though. There she thinks everyone should take a look at Venus' runaway greenhouse effect and get their shit together.
"The planet I care most about is the one I live on," says Stofan. But while that's true, she's spent most of her life looking anywhere else. When Stofan was a teen, her father managed the rockets for Viking 1 and 2, the first successful Mars landers. She hung out in Florida for the launches, and was an unimpressed audience for the science programing NASA put on for their scientists' families. "I was fourteen," Stofan says. "Carl Sagan? What-ever." Except not really: Over the course of Sagan's speech on why humans should go to Mars, Stofan had a career epiphany. "That was it. I knew I wanted to be a planetary geologist," she says.
One PhD later, she was one. And after a career that pinged her from Venus to Earth to Titan, in 2013 NASA tapped her for chief scientist. "I worked on Earth science, planetary science, human space flight, technology," Stofan says. "That made me start looking at the big picture: How do you make the future happen?" Diverse experience is key when your purview runs from black holes to budgets, and according Stofan, the future depends on three things: making STEM fields more inclusive, doing good science, and finding a way to work within political realities.
As Chief Scientist
Stofan is the first to say that her experience is "weirder than most." As a self-described NASA brat, she spent summer internships mapping Mars and wrote her thesis using Soviet data. (She traveled between the US and the USSR even during the particularly tense Andropov years.)
For a female scientist coming up in the '80s, she faced relatively few barriers. "I got occasional snide remarks," she says. "But what happened to me more often—what still happens to me—is I'd look around the room and ask myself, 'Do I belong here?'" As chief scientist, she's worked to make sure that fewer people have to ask that question, and under her direction NASA began collecting demographic data on their grantees for the first time.
Her other major beef with NASA's status quo? The budget. "We could accomplish things a lot faster if we had a different budget, but we don’t. And we’re not going to," Stofan says. NASA has a bit of a culture of planning first and budgeting later—which just doesn't work when your budget inevitably inches down. She also prioritized funding long-term technical advancements. "If you only put dollars where you need them now, or in two years from now, you can run out of tech," she says.
After all that, in some ways the science was the easy part. With the ISS due to be retired in about ten years, Stofan worked to build it out as a research platform. (And lo, a glutof ISS-based research projects.)
She's leaving NASA with slightly less-complete plans for Mars. "There's the stuff we have our arms around—better EVA suits because ours are too bulky for walking around Mars, and better propulsion systems like the Space Launch System," Stofan says. "But we have to come up with a realistic plan like we did when we explored the moon. We have to do it in stepwise fashion."
Before planning a Martian hail Mary, she wants to see improvements combating cosmic radiation ("How cool is it going to be when we get to work with tissues and sequence DNA in a cislunar habitat?"), advancements in water recycling and life support technology ("We have those systems on the ISS, but they break a lot."), and practice getting humans to enter Mars' orbit, descend, and land. Slow and incremental, sure, but Stofan's plan still sees humans orbiting Mars in 20 years, and on the surface in 30.
What Comes After
So, why would someone with such long-term plans leave NASA? "A lot of people have been asking that," Stofan says, laughing a little. The chief scientist role typically changes hands every few years, but leaving the space agency outright is kind of different. Especially since Stofan doesn't seem to have much concrete planned for her future. She's polished and reticent, but part of the reason seems to be political: "After having worked on so many things, to come in and start over again wasn’t something I was interested in doing," she says.
Which, she's careful to point out, isn't really a knock against the incoming Trump administration. "New presidents of either party want to make their mark. But when you have an agency like NASA that doesn’t work on that four or eight-year time scale, resets are detrimental," Stofan says. "It’s a waste of money." Still, she praises the Obama administration's decision to bring in the private sector, refocus NASA onto Mars (President George W. Bush had sights set on the moon), and encourage Earth observation. "I'd hate to see that all overturned," she says.
Potential changes to climate research, which NASA’s Earth observations contribute to, concern her most. Stofan has been contrasting Earth with Venus, a planet with a runaway greenhouse effect, her entire career. To Stofan, the habitable zone isn’t just a region, it’s a moment in time: She points out that Venus, which is now 900 degrees at the surface, used to have an ocean. “Do we really want to mess with the planet when the stakes are so high?” she says.
But she’s an optimist, and a scientist. So she thinks of Venus as less a cautionary tale than a helpful data set. “It really sets climate change deniers back for a minute when they realize we’ve studied this happening on multiple planets,” Stofan says. Which is why space science is so vital. No matter how far-flung the target, the data always comes back around to tell scientists more about Stofan’s favorite planet: Earth. Thing is, those big steps only happen with proper leadership, latitude, and funding. “We can be the NASA that accomplishes great things,” Stofan says. “But only if we’re allowed to.”
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Boris Johnson fails to answer questions on private quarrel
By: DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press
LONDON (AP) - Boris Johnson failed to shut down questions about his private life Tuesday as a round of media appearances served only to bog him down further in questions about character and trust.
Johnson, who is running to be the next leader for both the Conservative Party and the nation, has refused to address personal questions despite an ongoing clamor to face public scrutiny after a reported quarrel with his girlfriend last week prompted a police visit.
In break from his previous strategy, the front-runner took part in three interviews in less than 24 hours, responding to challenger Jeremy Hunt's criticism that he was a "coward" and needed to face greater public scrutiny if he is to become prime minister.
Johnson toughened his stance on Britain's pending departure from the European Union, promising he would take the country out of the bloc by Halloween "do or die." He challenged Hunt to do the same.
But the personal issues were never far away. Speaking on LBC radio, Johnson was questioned over a picture showing him and girlfriend Carrie Symonds in the leafy Sussex countryside amid speculation that it was staged and released by his campaign. Symonds, a former Conservative Party press officer, has remained firmly out of the public eye since the reported quarrel Friday when a neighbor hear shouting, screaming and banging at the home the couple shares.
"The difficulty is that the minute you say one thing, you obviously are bringing people, your loved ones, your family, into the public domain in a way that is not fair," Johnson said.
Asked where the photograph had come from and when it was taken, Johnson said "the longer we spend on things extraneous to what I want to do ... the bigger the waste of time."
LBC host Nick Ferrari pressed on. He said the picture showed Johnson with a hairstyle he no longer wears and suggested it was an old image. Johnson simply refused to answer.
"This conversation is now descending into farce," Johnson declared.
Johnson is the favorite in the runoff against Hunt but has refused to appear at some debates and shunned the media before changing tack. He granted the BBC an interview that was broadcast Monday evening and took on two other appearances by midmorning Tuesday.
In all the interviews, the former mayor of London sought to turn the conversation back to his wish to bring Britain out of the EU by Oct. 31 - with or without a deal. He told talkRADIO that he would succeed where Prime Minister Theresa May had failed.
"I think a bit of positive energy would help, frankly. I've never seen such morosity and gloom from a government," he said. "For three years, we've been sitting around wrapped in defeatism, telling the British public that they can't do this or that. It is pathetic. It's absolutely pathetic."
The winner of the contest will replace May, who stepped down as party leader after failing to secure Parliament's approval for her Brexit deal.
What the public makes of the Johnson's personal life remains unclear. While chatting with supporters during a campaign visit Tuesday to the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley, one supporter was caught by a BBC camera telling Johnson "we thought you were the best from the word go" before adding jokingly: "Just don't have any more rows."
Johnson replied: "No more rows. No, no, no. All quiet, all quiet."
Follow AP's full coverage of Brexit and the Conservative Party leadership race at: https://www.apnews.com/Brexit
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FARNBOROUGH, UK. – August 15, 2018 –– Continuing its commitment to promoting shared responsibility for safe and secure IoT deployments, PTC(NASDAQ: PTC) today has unveiled a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) Program. The new program is designed to support the reporting and remediation of security vulnerabilities that could potentially affect the environments in which PTC products operate, including industrial and safety-critical industries.
The CVD Program is an essential component of PTC’s Shared Responsibility Model, which defines a framework for cybersecurity collaboration with customers, partners, and others within the industry. PTC’s CEO Jim Heppelmann highlighted this thought-leadership during his keynote presentation at the recent LiveWorx industry event, inviting partners and customers to work together with PTC to improve security by taking responsibility – and embracing speed – for the security responsibilities under their control.
As an extension to its Shared Responsibility Model, PTC’s CVD Program seeks contributions from external researchers who detect vulnerabilities in PTC’s ThingWorx-branded products. PTC invites both private individuals and organizations to report security vulnerabilities following a well-defined process, which aligns with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Safety Working Group’s template. This program ensures that researchers can count on PTC to cooperate to protect its customers and the safety/privacy of the public.
The IoT market is at a tipping point, with IoT spending expected to reach $1.2 trillion in 2022, according to a recent IDC guide. “As organizations continue to invest in IoT, it is equally important that efforts are made across the entire IoT ecosystem to secure these end points and environments,” said Stacy Crook, research director, IoT, IDC.
“Sophisticated software and hyper-connectivity are fueling innovation at an unprecedented pace,” said Joshua Corman, SVP and chief security officer, PTC. “Those conditions can potentially introduce new classes of accidents and adversaries. In this new world order, cyber safety and security must become everyone’s responsibility, and we must work together to address such threats. PTC’s CVD Program is one significant step toward such collaboration, inviting private individuals and organizations to identify and communicate security vulnerabilities in a way that we can quickly assess, mitigate, and take corrective action to help further secure our products and customer implementations.”
More information, including reporting guidelines, can be found online here: https://www.ptc.com/en/documents/security/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure.
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Energy Transfer and Shell sign agreement
Published by Lydia Woellwarth, Assistant Editor
World Pipelines, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:35
Energy Transfer LP (ET) and Shell US LNG, LLC (Shell) have signed a Project Framework Agreement (PFA) that provides the framework to further develop a large-scale LNG export facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana toward a potential final investment decision (FID). In addition, the parties have started actively engaging with LNG engineering, procurement and contracting (EPC) companies with a plan to issue an Invitation to Tender (ITT) in the weeks ahead.
The Lake Charles LNG project brings together two leading entities – Shell as a worldwide leader in gas and LNG, and Energy Transfer as one of the largest pipeline operators in the US – to advance a project to monetise abundant, low-cost US gas for export to global customers.
“We are pleased to be moving forward with Shell in progressing this major LNG export project,” said Tom Mason, President, Lake Charles LNG, an Energy Transfer subsidiary. “We believe the combination of our assets and Shell’s LNG experience will create a platform for exporting natural gas from the US Gulf Coast to the global marketplace that is unmatched.”
“Lake Charles presents a material, competitive liquefaction project with the potential to provide Shell with an operated LNG export position on the US Gulf Coast by the time global supply is expected to tighten in the mid 2020’s,” said Frederic Phipps, Shell’s Vice President, Lake Charles LNG. “Our partnership with Energy Transfer plays to our respective strengths. Together, we are expertly positioned to advance a project that could provide customers in Asia, Europe and the Americas with cleaner, reliable energy for decades to come.”
The PFA defines the commercial terms by which the two companies will work toward delivering an LNG export facility on the US Gulf Coast. Shell will act as the Project Lead prior to the companies reaching an FID, and if sanctioned, as construction manager and operator of the facility. Energy Transfer will act as Site Manager and Project Co-ordinator prior to FID. The decision to make an affirmative FID to proceed with construction of the project will be subject to both companies’ assessment of the outcome of the EPC bidding process, overall project competitiveness and global LNG market conditions at the time of such decision.
The Lake Charles project is a 50/50 venture between Energy Transfer and Shell. The project, if sanctioned through an affirmative FID, would convert Energy Transfer’s existing Lake Charles LNG import and regasification terminal to an LNG export facility with a liquefaction capacity of 16.45 million tpy to export US natural gas to global customers. The project is fully permitted, uses existing infrastructure and benefits from abundant natural gas supply and proximity to major pipeline infrastructure, including Energy Transfer’s vast pipeline network. If built, the project is estimated to create up to 5000 local jobs during construction and 200 full-time positions when fully operational.
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ET owns and operates one of the largest and most diversified portfolios of energy assets in the US, with a strategic footprint in all of the major US production basins, ET is a publicly traded limited partnership with core operations that include complementary natural gas midstream, intrastate and interstate transportation and storage assets; crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL) and refined product transportation and terminalling assets; NGL fractionation; and various acquisition and marketing assets. ET, through its ownership of Energy Transfer Operating, L.P., formerly known as Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., also owns the general partner interests, the incentive distribution rights and 28.5 million common units of Sunoco LP, and the general partner interests and 39.7 million common units of USA Compression Partners.
Shell has been a pioneer in LNG for more than 50 years and is involved in every stage of the LNG value chain: from finding the fields, extracting the gas and liquefying it; to shipping LNG and turning it back into gas; to distributing it to customers. Shell has LNG supply projects around the world, as well as interests in and long-term capacity access to regasification plants. Shell US LNG, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
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2019 WSIA Leadership Awards
– March 6, 2019Posted in: Events, Leadership Awards, News, Summit
On March 1st, the 2019 Summit came to a close after the annual Leadership Awards, a ceremony that recognizes industry leaders and top performers for the year. The awards ceremony was well-attended, with over 200 guests in the audience, and was a memorable part of this year’s Summit.
For the 2019 Leadership Awards, voting ballots were sent to all 2018 WSIA members (635), and input was strong. The awards honored the best in the towed water sports industry, and we thank both the winners and nominees for their dedication and service.
Wake Park of the Year
Wake parks help eliminate barriers to entry and are introducing an exponential amount of new people to the sports of wakeboarding, water skiing and more each year. The honor for Wake Park of the Year was presented to the wake park which had the best community outreach programs, followed safe practices at all times, and did the most to grow water sports in their area.
The WSIA was pleased to announce that Texas Ski Ranch was the recipient for 2019. Morgen Burchell from TSR accepted the award saying, “Keep supporting the people that are within [our industry] because that’s how we’re going to continue going far.”
2019 Wake Park of the Year: Texas Ski Ranch
Camp/School of the Year
This next award recognized the water sports school or camp that has shown excellence in training their students and offers excellent amenities and support for events, competitions, and clinics. Special consideration was taken for organizations who have reached out to new and beginner riders in their community by working with Wake the World, In His Wakes, local youth groups, YMCA, etc. as well as promoting #PassTheHandle.
This year, Freedom Wake Park took home the top honor for their commitment to their students, offering training to beginners and pros alike. Their world-class private boat lake and two-tower cable system in Orlando, Florida is a highly reputable facility, with state-of-the-art boats from Malibu and equipment from O’Brien. Cobe and Tarah Mikacich own and operate Freedom, and are some of the best water sports coaches worldwide.
2019 Camp/School of the Year: Freedom Wake Park
Retail Shop of the Year
This honor was presented to the specialty retailer that has distinguished themselves through outstanding product knowledge, creative displays, consumer enthusiasm and promotional ingenuity. This pro shop offered the best selection, product mix and merchandising throughout the past 365 days and has gone out of their way to support the contest scene, facilitate water sports clinics, work with community leadership groups, and grow the sport.
For 2019, the winner was narrowed down to Wake Effects by Big Thunder, who were humbled to be honored. “Without boat and gear manufacturers, a pro shop would be nothing. It takes everyone in the room to come together to even make retail a thing, so I appreciate it.”
2019 Retail Shop of the Year: Wake Effects
Marine Dealership of the Year
Consideration for this award focused on the dealership that went above and beyond in promoting and protecting towed water sports in their area. This leading dealership has a strong service department, an accommodating showroom for consumers, and merchandising that connects the consumer with what it’s really like to be a part of the towed water sports lifestyle. This dealer also participated in educating customers on Wake Responsibly and hosted #PassTheHandle opportunities.
The very deserving award winner this year was SouthTown Watersports, and the recipient expressed gratitude to the industry. “Over the years, we’ve seen so many fans come through the dealership and enjoy boating, and I can say this industry has given my family, my friends, and my employees a great life.” He continued, “We’ve gotten to work with some great brands as our dealership has continued to grow, and we couldn’t be more thankful.” SouthTown left us with this piece of advice, “I hope you realize the influence you [in the industry] have on people. Pour into the people in your community, and it will only make your business better.”
2019 Marine Dealership of the Year: SouthTown Watersports
Sales Rep of the Year
This honor was presented to a rep who worked tirelessly to educate both consumers and retailers, promote and represent their brands with the utmost enthusiasm, and make a strong impression on everyone they met. This award, also known as the 110% Award, honors nominees who go above and beyond expectations, those who are doing it because they not only love the towed water sports community but also respect the opportunity to connect with partners.
This year’s award went to Andrew Adkison, who reps for Connelly. Adkison began his relationship with Connelly back in 2003 when the company sponsored him as a professional wakeboarder, and now he has won Sales Rep of the Year with the same team. “I certainly have to thank Connelly. They took a chance on me back in October 2003 as a rider, and then again when I threw my name in a hat and transitioned in 2014.” Also giving credit to the other nominees, he continued, “What’s interesting is that a lot of those other reps’ names who were up here have helped me a tremendous amount through the years, including this year. It’s really a group effort, so thank you to all you guys.”
2019 Sales Rep of the Year: Andrew Adkison
Larry Meddock Award
The Larry Meddock Award honors a person or charitable group who has gone above and beyond to promote or grow the water sports community, not for their own financial gain, by volunteering, helping underprivileged groups, or starting an organization that grows or promotes the sport.
This year’s recipient has served many years with Wake the World, has hosted nine events in his region annually since 2012, volunteers his time hosting a huge retreat on Lake Shasta called Big Kahuna, hosts lake days for his local church, and the list continues. He’s also on the Oregon State Marine Board, working on wake issues and helping to resolve conflicts to keep our rivers and lakes open for all users. “Everything he’s done for our sport has come with absolutely no compensation. He does it because he cares, he loves water sports, and he loves people,” says WSIA executive director Kevin Michael.
Vince Castronovo walked on stage to accept his award, and told us that his life changed when he saw a video online from Wake the World Texas. Vince contacted them, and they put him in contact with Greg Hodgins. Vince and Greg talked for an hour, and soon after, Vince was hosting his first event. This was back in 2012. “At the first event, we had 24 boats and 120 kids. This year, we had 42 boats and over 170 kids. It’s been a challenge, but there’s been a lot of motivation. I never would have thought that I could organize or be a part of something this big. It’s amazing, and I’m proud to represent the boaters, the manufacturers, and everyone that’s involved with boating.”
2019 Larry Meddock Award: Vince Castronovo
The Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor and recognizes an individual whose career has been dedicated to the progression and promotion of towed water sports.
President of the World Wake Association, Shannon Starling, was last year’s recipient, but was unable to attend the ceremony in 2018. This year, however, he was in attendance and was called to stage to give a late acceptance speech. “I believe a person can measure their achievements by all the faces that they remember and by all the people that have helped pick them up. Those are the people that I want to thank. I’m thankful that today, 30 years later, I’m still talking to these people. I still call them partners, I call them mentors, and I call them friends.”
The 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award was presented by Kevin Michael and Larry Meddock, who both spoke highly of this year’s recipient. “This man commands respect of every room he goes into. He has great intellect, great advice, and great wisdom.”
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to Thom Dammrich, president of the NMMA. “We are all better, we are all stronger, we are all more successful when we work together. I can assure you that the NMMA will be your partner to address these [current issues] moving forward.”
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award: Thom Dammrich
Water Sports Innovation Awards
This accolade recognized industry leaders and their products that have push the towed water sports marketplace to new heights over the past year. These honors were presented to manufacturers (boat, hard good, or soft good) who produced a new product having innovative distinction from other products currently manufactured in the towed water sports industry. Congratulations to all deserving recipients.
Centurion Fi25 Sweet Surf Spectrum
Ski Nautique MicroTuners®
Drop N Fill version 2
Malibu Monsoon M6Di Engine
Roswell DropZone Auto Tower
Spotyride
Supreme Boats ZS Series Tapered-V Hull
Slingshot Hover Glide Foil Wake Package
Liquid Force Wakesurf Edge
Ronix RXT
Supra and Moomba AutoWake
SeaDek Designer Laser Patterning
VIEW ALL PHOTOS FROM 2019 SUMMIT AND LEADERSHIP AWARDS >>
Words: Emily Dale | Photos: Bill Doster
Tags: leadership awards, summit, summit 2019, WSIA Leadership Awards
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